The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-12-16 00:00:00

-yr .•r ,1: 4 1 * whkh are fir more difficult to he endured by an hrwonrable mind than death itself, atid which the abhorrence the idea excites does not permit me to desc-ibe. These are the terrible misfortunes which thee/den vs, and which wo only cast maid by a go ne-ous sectifice. The North • has poured forth /its population, in ostler to bring us ender the yop. Let us oppose it mit!' the dower of ours, in order to avert the horri ble fttie‘which is preparing for us. We have for us thecooraxe el ear troops, and the ganius , of the; &teat Commatstiers wit* lead them. But it h not ens•u4ll. We ought not to expose our champlotti.to a struggle •1;io - ' unequal in point of numbers, anitiOdi there fore, put forth a force corresponding to that which attacks us. What nu eocouragelhent for oar veterans to see themselves reinforced by gallant 'youths, who, incorporated in their ranks, will enable thearageht to carry terror into else enem)'s camp,' to drive him back, to deliver France, and to conquer that peace which is the want of the whole wet ld. The high spiri:ed yomptha, fon .whom the voice of the country now Calls,' will be proud of their high destination. Welt they are convinced that the fate of'France is in their hands, they will render their .noble effor:s equal to the glorious task which they are called upon WNW.. The sacred flame of ho nour and of pataatism glows.' in their youthful breasts ;• enessumge kid stveurhen it, Gentlemen, by your esamplis; your distinguished reek in society, and the general r&pect and confidenca of tha veo pie, balk. given you influence ; he it your endeavour to exercise it in these most important and imperious circumstances. to all periods of N. monarchy, the Judicial Au flunkies of France have invariably disp!avod the most 'noble 'Recipient to their Prince and contstry. Yon, 1 doubt not, will prove that this respectli‘br body not degenerated ; and to the veneration ts hich you lave won by your honourable admini'.t ration of jus tice, you will add universal gratitude for nu anxious care bilowit for the interests of your country in her /day of peril. 'Receive, Gentlemen, the renewed assurance of my particular high regard and affection. . (siotea) The Duke of MASSA. •I Arr. MIL Due 0 0 v.; r, .'. Bel . 2 ....... ......... 4 0 • 0 ... .•. •:Cersona . F ICE 9 STOCKS THIS I!Bzik 294. .1 per Cent . Red SRI 9 per Cert. Gnus. . per Coati. 76 per Cent. NAT! :SatOise. 14i. 19.11 r• • ' DAT AT Or: O'CLIICK. India Bonds 2 9 dis lizehentler 131118 Ditto Sid. 3 5 p Osmium 141 New Ditto 9iiit p. Consols for Acci. 6`2}}i 'OvATESMA N. LONDONi TIreIiSDAT, DICEMBER 16, 1813: 11,pcirid &wife* to the Ist.instt,pt were received -thikiserising : . • VAIANCIA, Nowt . 23,—The 'enemy, who are' still in panweiiew of the •casite . of- Denia,•d'efeed it with :enWfrititurci, Which' appiettiltes to 'brutal tintetitl. Thele hopes, hewever, can continue' no longer than, .till the provisions, which they had collectedore ev pended ; and the Commandant of the French 'en :timers, On being summoned, had the audacity to re •plyottit he cannot be expected to surrender till Oat Semite shall fail him. The cattle has been battered 7 fer,eigitt days with 19 ideces of artillery; .and a breach has been effected, but it is not yet practi cable. Nothing new, of importance, hasoccurred, relative to the sieges of the other places, which 'the enemy still hold in this province; bat the ,sus advance of our triumphant armies 'into the into.. .rior of France, and the decisive success, in favour .01* Otegood cause, obtained in Germany, on the 19th :411 . Oitober, cannot but deprive the enemy who re 11r1aiQ in Spain 'of all hope, and who must now look upon it as their wpolchre.' hlAnatn, Nov.. 29.—We have receiied a letter from Yerta,-wf the date of the •19th inst. Which states, that the enemy, in Tortosa, begin to be in great•want, and have diminished the rations-of the soldiers, as their iirorislobs fail; and they are abso lutely:without sontetiltiCies. • . - . On the Mi.), they'made a sally, to gather straw 1 And forage on the,left bank .of the Ebro. The troops of Villacampa, from the right bank, kept up a lively Ire upon thins with cannon and musketry, to which 'the French replied; but the latter - tscrti, desisted :from Attic ittsistpt, and retivited t -. bit* 'the place,' after having had one ce Amounted and sustained other,loss.. On the' 17th, the two divisions of Villacampa and the Empecinado, having joined by the instruc tions . 4010 -General ill Chief, presented themselves before Terioia,.iit.ict Provoked the French in different ,ways, .tiltat le9gtilt 3 hey obtainedlehutthey wished, t,o,aorkuse them on one : side, while a re giment of Villacimpa's passed the• Ebro, •and took a considerable' quantity of theep,:imbontink to 5 or TOO, intended. exclativ'eti for.the use of the French nik ? • whi• ere VerY numerous. • v. • . No official comtnunications Aim." -.64lwir received I Irmo Holland since those we noticed; but there are ortioils 'of cutters or schuyts every day in some of our, - wittelti ports. •By these sev e ral pa.ssengirs have ar.,l ' ;:h ove 1 ,• o i nform 'us of whati if true, is of infi: A lio importance to us, viz. that the Brabitoters, are preparing to throw off the French domkaion,, wait- t , `ing only till the , Dutch have, by meant of tlie:Prus.. • sigins• and our aid, consolidated their own revolu tion. If this be the 'real fact, we may consider the -numerous mets,ef war at Autiverp as lost to BONA• l'AtteS for ever, pat es ) after ap ) we Gamut ~w. TII der that extraordinary man so coma in capacity and disposition, as to Hers that he is not at this moment, thought nea►en and earth to retrieve some part o foituue. In the present altered and critical situation of the enemy, it is natural to expect many surmises will be eir culated with respect to him, and the disposition ei the people of France towards him and his views. In the absynce of real news, these reports, more or less absurd, may be particularly expected ; of • this description is the follow in;, which was circulated at the East end of the Tow n and in the City yesterday, wiz. That the Citowe Pat NcEand Marshal D‘vousr, being ancient acquaintances, as well es brother Officers in camp,. garrison, and quarters, had entered into an amicable arrangement, under which. they had joined their forces, and were immediately to proceed to ac complish the liberation of the whole of Flanders, that an ulterior design was connected with this project r which was nothing less than the dethrone ment of NAPOLEON. So little of the semblance of truth inhere in this, ti.a t although these officers have served together, yet were they never good fiiends.— Wheuever . to Fteuch..do determine to throw off the subjection to DONAPAATZ, we doubt not but the work Will begin with the Gonenkisi something in this manner; 'but when we consider that, the change can not be etheitud without the hazard, and almost the cer tainty.of a civil war, we doubt whether the people of that country will be readily induced to the.attempt, though they may have exchanged their admiration for detestation of their chief. Upon the sehjeCt of the newly-assumed Sovereign title by the Prtnce of OR.tNsat to IlfWO 'We have every reason to believe .we called the attention of both Parliament,and people, wrcihill( ay hit Attie at present. Those who have taken It, Jo the great Council of the Nation, know its importance, iu se, veral points of view, better probably than* we, do. Thecircumstance is by no means a trivial one, either as appertaining to Holland or to England, since our SECRETARY . 0T STATE has admitted 111.11 arroiletion,. !and acted upon it, by the qualification gi!eil . 'to out • Amhascador accordingly. It may be said that the Pr incew is greeted with it hy ; the frooisionhl . men!. Now, with all the virtue the:Members of that, Provisional Government might possess, and withers no doubt but that they-are as virtuous as they are pa ; triotic, they could confer no.new tide lava,* upon I the Prince of 'ORANGE. Alf they:o6 . old do was to call him over, and place him where and skit he was, when expelled the countri. 'No one 'province, no, nor any six out of the Seven United, could confer a title, but-through the • States of each, and pronotulted in the States-General. The Provisional Govetn'rnent l could not form awl resolve on a .Constitutios and Caen invite the Prince ;of OaAvrot; to ratify it. This will in to call eP GROTTOS out of hitirsve hi. Aced, and to call up every people associated ii ties of polity, to examine anew what art thbliet of man. • 1 " _Qui—. CONTlNUktitait 'or THE HI§ToftIi.:OIADLCAID In onr former port of the Interesting Sketch' of -the rise of the klupublic of Holland, we left Prince ,liVis.t.sam, of Oitanct at the :bead of the Nascent i . Goierument. He continued so till the 10th of FJuly, 1584 5 :when he was assassinated by BaLvitann GERARD, a deperate enthusiast S at. Delft, in conse quence of the price which bad been set on his head Iby the barbarous PHILIP of SPAIN. MAURICE, his son, succeeded him, and, in addition to the title of 1 bias father, was declared Stadtholder of Holland, Zealand, and Utrecht., 11ls — brother, WILLIAM ; HENRY, succeeding- hint, obtained the three offices of Stadtholder, Captain,. and"Admiral-General, with a grant of the snit to his descendants for ever.— While PHILIP was contending for the Seven United Provinces, providentially for them, foitune threw in his way a new sovereignty, which engaged his ambi tion and cupidity, and diverted his resentmentagainst his new-revolted subjects. Dow %Weser., King of Portugal, grandson of the GitEAT I*ANHEL, smitten with the passion for* military, glory (si. inilar to what we have witnessed nearer home), ; dctermisted to . signalize himself by an • expedi tion e against the Moors in Africa, where his ancestors had required sa.ransi moan,. and wher , in sr **perste - ,contticti near Alcaelistniyeri_. the I Christians Were totally 'routed, and himself slain.— i That King of . PORTUGAL having no issue,. was. sue.. I ceeded by his uncle, Cardinal HENRY, who also I dying without children, a number of comPetitor . arose for the Crown; among whom was hie :King of SPAIN. PHILIP'S claim was not the'best, but he had I most power to support it. The old Duke of ALTA, of 1 whom we have had occasion to:say so much,ttnd who had been for some time in diagrace,, Was egaim, like a mastiff, Unchained for fighting, reeelleti tirtourt, I and put at the head of an 'army, but fortunately kr 'the Dutch, to assert the claims of his muter its ano ther . H e svu. ther (Mater. • This is the Putiur between whom and I , our Queen LIZABET, a project of marriage set on foot, and whose amorous dalliancesosefiepumai Isatisfactorily accounted, for`. • ~:•,., 4, We had brought the fowler -part .of.• down ;a the, teeth of Prince . WlLuteat t bit. sake of oerspiet!itzi *ad foritheadveetar:l4 th . Rada who may not hairs perused that . part, :we "ittliAlunti the history veg i i tioyloge that Period.," In Spahr,-it warr , imagined that the death - of 'the Prince bf`Ohairoi woultdepils*thiCofede rater, net only of .counsel, but e( courage, any longer to. resist the prawn it Nair. Bet; after the first etnotien! . qi, . . • produced very c, 1 of despair; and th, universally attributed , _- irritated people, that they deter mined to prosecute ' the war with unremitted vigour, and revenge the death of their deliverer. the United Provinces had again recourse to ELISABETH; who, although she continued to refuse the weltered So vereignty, for the reasons f or merly assigned, .agreed to yield b : emmetoretteaalTtecytuaaii them to that ltsiupporeSiiea effect ccordii:gliy Con a c th e e ns li er te n , ce F o l a f s h w i h a i g ? a s t h i d e twhaes Castle put a t r lt :e rn es: i a o k n i n a g s es a security for the payment of , her expellees. The King of S WEISER, when informed that the Queen of ENGLAND had openly embraced the defence of the revolted Flemings, declared " she had now, taken the diadem from her head, and placed it upon the. point of a sword." The Earl of LEICESTER Was sent over to Holland at the head of the English auxiliaries, consisting of 5000 foot and 1000 horse, while Sir F. Duxes was dispatched with a fleet of 20 sail, and a body. of. land forces, to attack the Spaniards in the West Indies. The English arms in the Low Countries were not successful. Let cEST EX wanted 'both ,courage and capacity equal to the trust ; iota' as the State§ knew his influ ence with Euzaserri, they loaded him with honours, and vested him with a power almost dicta torial, before they had found their confidence so misplaced. Intoxicated with his elevation, lie assumed Ilte - ili'ef a SOvereign Prince; refused the instruc thnie4 the Stites ; thrust into all vacant places lois min viorthleafaiourites. The Dutch even sus pected him of a design upon their liberties : and Euzesurzw, in order to quiet their fears, or lest an attempt should be made upon the life of her favou . Ate r commanded him to resign his, government, and return home. This was . the time that Prince Kau: nice was elected Govetner by the States, er the room of the Earl and Lord Wieeouettey was , by -the - . - -- a - - - ------- --- - - - • • • Queen, appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Eng- ! .Visa or THE Pauseless . CSAKieTTE TO TES lish tomes, 'This is the period too when PHILIP was Pittecess or Weees..--sYritetday . the Prism's preparing the faineant ,semathent against - Fciglaudi - ; CHARboTTE visitedthe Princess of Warm for ths denominated ifiets'ktuisscilrk zfrigada. -.Us' pro- , first time this season l anitheefirit vlsit to her Royal digio n ns force, *Welt ltethausted, the triestires -of • both: /Withal new honse, .....:The Princies.,CuAasiovultr. Indies infacceetitietbis, had'"fOit' iti - ,ettct '40)44 :laved oilise shiese, in . her cirri+, in Ceentaght. less iliati - the,a4lrteliWgpe . . it of Eakel:', ..bur be.if ea, ,ce I' . ""tia l aftt a rrnar b"crObk s . where stie was u - histbry ihfornilaelibes4oiFßiteCiff.thrkibpktisp.'!'eeiied hil l terAiiial. Mother in the most affectioluve ing, in the harbour ot CaBissi . .ati••lrandeed•, 'vessels, 'lllontier,' who conducted her ever the house. Re laden with ammunition and naval stores; atelUsiteitifii.O.,f4i.lliststiOr.iiiiesiceineff- admired the Chinese ,c: 4,. . F., . 4..ittuiiL,co_rtqu itest i rittit r til t p cp g At j a m si n ., o w ; ; 'foree,etteliellitiri, _although the . lattet -ie v tin enemy in the South sea,•retitvtl;d the sait4ng of:lisat teneens'finished. It is.fitting-upsiii a very /trivet. and mighty hostile flperfositessaily. titelvtiwionthai a Wel s pecutiai stite. • The Chinese . r .rom - is exactly' • eta which was to decide ther fate'of !inland- at ottristow: same as that,w.hich We in the Psincieri.liflVstes's The same history teacheius hew 14OrknOWA ED, Of : house, .at diackheatli, -the;Materlals Jot which have - • Vtiltigham (bc-ingo. - -46i:eted Admiral), with Ditaite,' been removed to Cs;npatight..place. At a quarter 1 HAWKI . :4S, and Faoptsisgst- ' the 'Most renowned past five o'clock. lie Printesses sat down to dinner. 'seaman in Europe, *Under Tins, baffled - the. ob. At seven the Princes! CeArtx.corrs took leave of her :het of this -formidable Invasion.- The purpose of Royal Mother,. and.rieertsedte•Warwick Home. the Armada being utterly frustrated by the get- s' ; The -Xiittinehlwn„ . .3lilitht - iti present deitigthe - Tower litntrrof tier . nayy, se& Ms labsecruent effeets' of a-- alatr,.:marcit in.litlxxitlay for Chatherni- and are to be violent storm, Ponte:hast • but little - hope of corn- replaced ay . thleWelsrltentMilitia."._ . ... . -pled lig Ai& deaigli.tpens - the - .7refyieWtly mat c h . tch. Yet ' SYti.Morday lastrelesAifroile•of tire Bach Officers his command of temper .reust have been equal to' kis teaCePtittg a C 404) left Thema/0 Holliod, tojoin east ambitiow; for upon t4e neivs.! Of eteliumbing, so'; their brethren in irmie -'-• ! ----- • • • .. fatal a disaster. having befalleti his expectedly l-riumpli; • . 4 1$1t:" EalAWk4.ltr.W.Tpx,' Of ilTewcastle, whilst g al - iii Mel - Be ant fleet , •he is reported tb,haab. retiiived. it. -with an ri rig ore y,- euellark mid blowipg night, air of traoquillite,, saylisg : .,-" f itAetkt. my fleet to was boarded bye Banish , boat full of men. She got j comliat the •English, not the ' elements: GQD be alongside\the, Eihret l d iindWirieeed,„ end. Wert of 'praised that the Cifiliiity is not ereater.o—The themectiftily reached the deck before the alitim was States of Holland began to be..afraid n of Fens. given. A conflict immediately' commenced (the Ed- BETH deserting them,and were willing to submit to any ward's crew using pars and harid-spikete), and part terms .required by her, and a new treaty seas e nter- ,of the assailants were drivets:into, their boat, which ed into. Thee agreed to remit' considerable sums ' sPParatie4s and the remaiadee. into the lea, and pe annually to England—to pay the Deified] troops , rimed.. • • ' . . serving with them—and to maintain, at their own 1 A shocking murder „was coevnitted en the'eveniag expence, -the garrisons of the cautionary towns as • of Thursday sennight, on a poor woman, of th e long as England should be at war with Plume.-- - name of Anne Coyle, at 13allyfelliott, within tire This negociation was scarcely finished, when the ; mile: of Strabane. On the:n:46lElg of' Friday, the Kutia_breathed his last at Madrid, leaving' behind ' body was discovered by a young men - in that•neign him the character of a gloomy, jealous, haughty, , bourhood, who was led to the spot by his dog brill vindictive, and inexorable tyrant. The condition of : stopped at the corpse. . . the ,United ,Provinces was in all respects the reverse! A. Gentleman, just arrived frqmll.amOurgh; which of Spain, from whose dominion they were extricating he left about the latter end of November, states, that themselves.. They owed.evety thing to-their inch's- it was understood not to be the intention of DATOUST try. By this,. a country, qaturally barreni was to give the CROWN Parece battle oat of Hambur4h, rendered' fertile, even during war. Manufactures . on with vigour, • and. commerce was ex- inasmuch as he could depend neither on t h e fidelit y were carried i nor on the courage of the Dienes. Tile city, he'uss, ' tended to all quarters of the globe. .The republic . h owever , was become powerful, and the people rich„in spite 'of tremity ; 350 pieces orca. were Mounted en the m rort,.. every effort to enslave and oppress them. Pu p tf,cati determined .to defend to the last ev iihrse sons, and the only accessible point WAS THE Timm, though a weak Prince, was not willing to give et the States ; large levies were I from Altaina. Upwards of 5000 bull o c ks had bee n ' driven into llamburgh, so that. them was little hope therefore made for, renewing the mar,. and Set- ' 1 ' NoLk placed at the head of the - army destined c a ne .. of starving out the enemy at least fot'some time t o , . to act against them. Alter *a :rein attempt On e of the last 'FrenchPaper, eCeived, - states, by ' -.: these new means, the Court of Madrid began . fie , shat accounts had `reached p a ir s fetai • wa s, - vo t i, c feet the necessity of an accommodation.' A 'cusped . - . lion of arms took ptace accordingly; conferences. 1 3 . 0 h o f O c t o b er,at - which period the fever at thAt i Island had entirely substerea.- seere opened, end after numberless delays by the ii , • • ''' Ati t any ratlespeople O p- Manerioaopati+STßEET ,er- .. party of the Prince of ORANGE, whose interest •it l; know how to act was to continue the war, as they were enriched ! plied at this O ffi ce, yesterday , t o • , 0 . every day by.•its continuence, ri truce of 12 Thi s. s rea s ynsecore d to ! with actions for . refusing some Tower halfpence ; ! years ewith respect to cppper coin, having been threa e s, ii i t i was concluded at the Hague. the United Provinces all the acquisitions they hid " not bad ones. The.answer was—that thet. w e '' ' made, freedom of commerce with the dominions rof-- not obliged to sell their goods .uilless, they chose : — Pei r•re and .the Archduke .of Axisrim, w h o h u rl The Act of Parliament on this subject Makes it chard; married Iseeer.te, the daughter of PHILIP It., to ' peratite in the case of articies.purchased, or ..,... whom were given the other •provinces of the Low 'Countries: They had , moreover, secured to them ,-I'n"; 4 9 on either side to. be liven, under the satue‘ef .1_ that old. ToWee . helf , pence *mil ~'ir ° , . :,' ; the fullenjoyment•of • those civil and religious fiber - rffSed) m' de ' .t ' el Pr i , a o( 4 ,!• " !!7:! °° - and 1-° a ' a Mists for which they had so gloriously struggled: •1 refo4ll, ~ .. . ....._., .. .. - i• MTI;ANOHOLY ACClSilltis.-7On Saturday en.eeing , . . r___ _ __. --, ,Yesterday morning Viscount Carreettereon ,had n bP • ; Dover , with the pW,t. The vessel beingender order s - :indience. of the •Ptunce atoms at Carlton-at,belenging to, th . e . Vistinc. tirig, carafe esticite a: ; after which, Mr. Dustiest, the.Ktng's Mes-*.for Portsmouth, to be paid, several of e at Deal, fall, rout d was sent of with Dispatches te Ake leen.... eple,' who had been left ashor e , , * - by land for the purpose of joining her, andltakine eearters of the Allies. ~ •• • Yesterday,-. at two o'clock, the Herodias*" *nee ' . its:shore the whole et advantage o f the boat •be , ... . . , . of ORANGE left his father's house, in Ilarley-teree r harbour to pro - s.‘ .these.o6 in number) left:. ve . 1, Coed to the brie; yet whether from the darkness o f to proceed on his way to Iloi n iand. the o ffi ce!. ,ti Yesterday a Court of Directors *as held at.the iktireight, o r soine other 'itiniiis.. old Fast India House, when lieut.-Gen. SW-1'1164s limsvessel, but was driven ea ella ryas at Cep P s Hiseoe was • sworn` in as Commander-In-Chief, tail l r aikesta." lo ,.. that the Parser, apt!, it i. reverted, , .... • t5v0.. 61 . 43, Second in Cooed! - at Tort St. George; and eft* •gurgeon, andieersieamen were dro wned, l s li .11 -ids with hi, Ott with the Directors at iiii : ' 41 "" 1 " t1 and i,, ; . s dined • , tethikoike. '.. ' l 'l l i - k t ' 4B.fr' e s ytor s "is sessio, weed thews! v... . * Alia bloat did not rei . n. ~ Tavern: . . . . 'l'l 1 l 4- 1, l'A' VESNIA N. pletely altered Old and surprise subsided, It made ourselves troy effects. Rage took piece anent, stirring horror of the ausamination, u ,art of hisiost to Panay, so irrit.tod the pea NAVAL INTELLIGENG.E. DEAL, Dec. 15.—Arrived the Growler gun-hrig, will; Woodman, M'Dnnald, with Spanish troops from th e Sailed the Brune man of war, with troops for Holland ; and the Venus, Hope, Mary, Albion, British Union, Achille., Harper, and four more transports, with bones, stores, and provisions, Fur the same destination. under convoy of the Decoy s a d It e . ria. tion cutter'.—Came down from the River the Neptone last la. diaman; Nancy, for Madeira; Caroline, for Jamaica ; B ro . then, for Gibraltar; Sterling, for the Cape; antLthe for 51alta. 11xavoica, Dec. thetb lintla;llllßpets fro nt Deptford, and mole ate hourly e xp ecte d, to fairy oit hoard the Dutch volunteers at;embled at thi s poet, viz. Llizabcth, H. .1.; hlizabeth, B. W. B. 14; a:d Portland, D. A.—Mailed the followittg packets, with Mit, : -, 1 4 passengers: Lord Nelson, fur Gottemburgb; Auckland, for aretnerlee ; Lady Nepeau, for Rolland, the I .tter.,lLL% log oa board Earl Gower and suite. Baron ilouvoich, Format/writ, Dee. 15.—ArrIved the Fervent gan-hrig, from the Mmes.—Sailed yesterday evening, the Chiew lotte man of war, for Plyaioadi ; the Primrose, with a coil ay for the north coast of .Spain; and his Majesty's ship Rosario, with a large fleet df transports, for Ramsote m d Harwich.— Also his Majesty's ships Archer and Destr4us, fur the Dimas. ratmorra, Dec. 11—Saited the Duke of Marlborough packet, II ith a Mail for rasaages; the ltichmond, Hearn, fur Cork and Jamaica; and the . Eagle, Bilkers, for Bristol. Ltroxits',•Dec. 15.—The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have been pleased to inform the Cam. mittee; that by a letter from Vice,Achnirat DOMETT, dated the 13th inst. his Majesty's sloops Challenger and Foxhound, had sailed from Plymouth, for the purpose of affording assistance to ail merchant vs. sets which may have been kept out of the Channel by the long continuance of easterly winds. is I r