The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-11-17 00:00:00

Malls. , 1. . AY?. 2 0 1 1 0 1 Gamma 0 1 0 PRICE OP STOCKS 'rum hank 215 ii 9 per Ceat. Red. 58 9 per Cent. Cons. 59/ 4 per Ceia.. 71 4 1111 b per Cent. Navy 9t14 Lang. Ann. 14 15-1612 I/AY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Kande par I. dig. Exchequer Bitlb 4d.13 p Vim! JO. 3 5 p Onoottm 5j pr. Cotooht fur Acct. 514 9 Lottery Tickets THE STATESMAN. LOIVDON: TUESDAY, NOVEMASII 17, lint. Br our Falmouth letter, it will be evident that our affairs in the Peninsula are in a very critical state indeed. The passage of the ship Mackerel, from Corunna, has been most extraordinary quick, it having been made in sixty hours.—Although the same backwardnes. in the Ministry to communicate to the public the intelligence which they receive from our Commander in Spain may still be complained of, yet we do not believe that they are in possession of any absolute facts from which we might rationally augur, whether the prospect beforri'ns be so gloomy as many reflecting persons represent them to be. —On the other hand, by this profound silence, those who have the greatest confidence in the skill of the leader of our brave army, and place a per fect reliance on the courage and discipline of his fol lowers to gloiy, are unusually dismayed by this official reserve, apprehending, as they thereby do, that the enemy's force, after the junction of SouLT and SucuET, was more considerable than, a short time ago, was calculated it might be. Our most recent intelligence carries the combined army under SOULr to be 70,000 strong. By public report and private information, this General has sheen an eager disposition to en gage Marquis WrAtirserott, thereby hoping, per haps, to anticipate Masscsra in the expected honour of a victory over an opponent who has gained sn may laurels in the field. If a battle were inevit able (e hich µ e are strongly inclined to believe), then we can see the propriety and necessity of General BILL retiring from Madrid, with the forces under his command, to strengthen the disproportionate numbers of the Commander-in-Chief, so as to raise and sustain that confidence throughout the army which they hate expressed, of the issue of the coming conflict. The leaving of Madrid, therefore, under these circumstaeces, is not of itself a matter of great import, but merely a momentarily relinquishment ; as, should the British General successfully repel the expected attack, the capital will again be possessed by the victor.. cc FALMOCTII I NOT. 14, SETEN, P. M.—His Ma jesty's ship Mackerel is just arrived from Corunna, 60 hours passage, has brought a King's Messenger Nvith Dispstches. It is reported that SOULI and SU• CULT'S armies had obliged General Him. to retire front Madrid, and retreat so as to join Marquis Wet, uneroo—and that a battle was considered as inevi table, accounts of which may be hourly expected to arrive—se SOULT, with near 70,000 men, was ra pidly advancing with the intention of fighting the Combined tirmy." We have this morning received Corunna Nam and Letters to the 12th instant, from which we have taken the following extracts. It appears by these accounts that Lord WELuseros had then arrived at Madrid with 20,0(X) infantry and 4,000 horse.— The news, however, through this channel, is not of so late a date as that contained in our Falmouth Letter. PRIVATE INTELLIt;ENCE. MADRID, OCT. 23.—Yesterday afternoon. we had the pleasure of seeing the French enter this city—not triumphant, as they threatened, • but prisoners, in !number more than 4000, taken by the celebrated tstEnos, on the frontiers of Murcia. VILLA Cairo (SEVEN LEAGOES FROM ZAMORA), Nov. 1. Tire -slay before yesterday, as bad been iously determined on, the English ble've up the bridge of the city of Toro, and yesterday, at 10 at night, that of Zamora. The French, in number 4000, had entered the former place; and at this hour (II at night) are, perhaps, in the second, from which all the Authorities have already departed, and collected in this place, and in the vicinity of Carbagales, haring been • sufficiently fortunate to get away the principal papers relative to the national funds, These two cities have almost entirely been desert. ed, and it is doubtful whether they can remain In them. Lcrd Wat.vaxa-rom has arrived at Madrid with 20,000 infantry and 4,000 horse. Our army is in Valladolid and Cabezon de la Sal. Iu Leon it was consideied as certain, that SO ULT bat been routed by Hsu.. PRIVATE LETTER. lictravverc, Nov. 4.—Though we are assured here that the French are cut eff, all the bridges, &c. having been destroyed, we are nevertheless not a lit. tie apprehensive of a new incursion. Nn courier has arrived from Madrid, bat Fame, who left that city on the 26th ult. has brought me letters more deserving credit than what I sent you by the former courier, which was all * fabrication . of the false De Naxraa, who having heard from $ll., persons iu Madrid, that on the evening of the 2titli there had entered French prisoners taken by 13 ALLAS Trues to the amouut of 4000 according to some, ezul 5000 according to others, deceived me by . ....-r~4~, .c~,t -,,. u ; • I ‘t,it. •i . THE STATESMAN telling me that he had • seen them enter.---(kor. friend, Don Lours Anoints, tails me, that there was nothing particular, but want and misery, and tha discontents of the imople t because. jellies is not • administered, and they are eager for the arrival of the Great Lord and his Mow. With respect to the prisoners, he adds no to the intelligence brought by the former courier, who said they had arrived ; and 1 wrote you word so, but you perceive I am not In fault, If I was deceived. mmo• pi•m• [INON TEE EXACTO CORM DI ESPANA. EN LA CORONA, NOT. 11.] By the last letters from Castile the Intelligence of 4,000 French prisoners, taken by Gen. BALLASTEMON having arrived at Madrid, and add that more are ex pected, taken by one of Gen. Htzt.'s divisions., The city of Madrid has now the pleasure of containing its I liberator, the celebrated WELLINGTON, and with his' aid and presence the utmost efforts of the proud ene lay are not to be feared. • The French are in a line from Palencia to S. , Isedvo de Duveas, on this side the river Carrion. The Allied Army, from Buenas to the bridge An guarin of Palencia, on the other side of the river, forming a line of battle. Daring the retroceding a very lively fire has been kept, but yesterday and to: day it has been suspended, by mutual agreement, as is said. It is believed the French are' about 50,000' men, and it is presumed SovzT and MAULN A are with this army. The day before yesterday the Eng-, lish were surprised while destroying the bridge of Tariago, and, as'is said, 150 of them taken. It is said the English have cut off and made prisoners 600 French. CASTANOS. drove back te#, columns, which attacked hint in Palencia, and preserved the line with the banks of Paramo Colmenar de Ramuez Real Canal to Villavauniel.—We are igno 'ant if he will there give battle. The French have extended themselves, robbed all the towns, &c. within a league and a half of the high road, and have committed some murders. We have this day received some extracts from the American Journals ; and, in addition, we have the painful information that the tribe of Albatu-se have declared in favour of the Americans, end, according to their murderoui system of warfare, have already committed horrible excesses' upon the British de. lachments in the vicinity of Montreal. Halifax Papers to the 17th Oct. and New York to the 9th, both of which are very barren of intelli- Bence. ~ [ram* the NEAP TORE PAPER, OF THE BTH OCT..' Extract of a letter from Suettel's Harbour, Septi. 2 4 2—" Last evening an engagement cook place liO+l tween our troops in this quarter, and the British., in which we took -10 prisoners, 70 stand of arms, and t four barrels of powder." ', I. , t [FROM Tut !FSLIC ADVERTISSR, OP Ilk?. 20.) An account of the arrival of Admiral Sirl. 8. WAnacv upon our coast, with 's. fleet of six skips lof ;he line and 12 frigates, is premature. Why, I let him come—when we were not quite so big, Ad miral Gasvzs did not frighten us. From Havannab,l a Spanish schooner, De Belem, arrived at Charles- ton on the 16th instant, with about twenty-Az i ' ' American Officers and liftmen; left the Havannab on the 7th instant: news bad been received at the i Havannah previous to the sailing of the De Beier*, from Mexico, that the Revolutionists had been cons ' pletely defeated, and that, in consequence, the in tercourse between Vera Cruz and the interior had ' ; been again reestablished, and several convoys of money had been received at Vera Cruz. In reviewing the political events which are daily crowding upon us, it is impossible not to be mere than ordinarily struck with the present state of Spain. An overstretched mannsuvre on the part of Mattison; the quickness of Lord lVtr.uxorou in taking advantage of that error, and the valour of our troops at the battle of Salamanca, brightened up the -prospect as ft) the-; final issue of the atrugple luthat interesting portion of the globe. the moment was. auspiciously important ; and why it was not taken advantage of to bring the contest to a happy terns'. nation is not less important to enquire. The progress of knowledge in Spain has, no doubt, , beau very slow; the clergy having an interest in stopping its course by every possible means in their power, because it is dangerous to their order. By 1 keeping the mental faculties of man in imer..ittary bondage, he is rendered more docile and submissire to the will of political tyranny. Thus Religion and State-craft have been invariable in their efforts to play into each ether's hands : yet it is fair to con clude, that the misfortunes to which Spain has of late been subject, have induced her inhabitants to reflect a little; and those who do think at all, Must reason also. This natural conclusion induces an enquiry, why they have ant taken advantage of the exer tions made by the British, *itt what' we are in the habit of terming—" the cause of Spain 1 1 °. Ts this question du Career will be found ift'eeetettt.! tinual endietroisrs to re.eetablish the old orikligt things—to re-establish the HOLY latuisiliox l isfill. its tormenting ensiles:, ar i d,the feudal end - settiAe. saiimbing donassotioss of the•Giemy and Nobles. Dues it is conteaded by the promoters of war, that the 'Spaniards are with us; that they are "proverbfaily brave; and that they have fought like men w ho have their emeitfryll welfare at beset. Let us enquire • little into this. We art constantly told of the first, , the second, the thirdithe fourths Oft fifth, the sixth, and the seventh Spanish armies. Where are they ? what have they been doing, and what are they doing now? They 'alit upon. paper, it is true; and if seven hordes of strollers constitute seen armies, why thee we must acknowledge that they exist in reality. Do not startle, Reader at these seven armies being designated seven hordes of strollers ; for if proof can be given of the fallacy of our position, letit come forth. We have had a puissant British army in the Penin sula upwards of four years, commanded by men equally tamed for bravery and military skill. We have seen that army traverse the Peninsula divers 'times, almost from one extremity to another; some times in pursuit of, and sometimes pursued by the euemy. Battle after battle has been fought, marked by every feature of courage arid slaughter-like de vastation. We have seen sieges commenced, and ended with varied success. Towns have been sacked, and villages and fields committed to the mercy of the all-devouring flames. And what have the Spaniards been doing all this time ?—They have been looking on, or fiying from the friendship of this or that party ! With lion-like courage we saw Lord War.- ' uncross pursue the retreating foe from Santerim, . whose compact columns were circumvented with in-1 struments of death. We saw him proceellOon his victorious and cautious career take renowned Saisi-i Dunce, where be gained a victory, which has placed Ms name among the first heroes of the age. We have followed him. and his brave companions iu arms I.to the capital of Spain, where he was welcomed with innumerable huzzas ; and if his army, whose j strength had been attenuated, partly by victory end partly by 'reverse of fortune, could have been re waited by hutztu, he would soon hare been in a power-1 fel condition ; bat shouting, and not, fighting, was the object of the good people of Madrid. We saw his I Lordship, with 25,000 victorious troops, pursue the shattered remains of MARZIONT'S once fine army to the walls of Burgos. We saw him commence the siege of that place, which was defended by 2000 men only; and, after having sacrificed thousands ofl his brave followers in a fruitless attempt to take it, we have seen him compelled to raise the siege, and to measure back his steps, for fear of being sure rounded by superior numbers, at an immense dis tance from his supplies. And what have the Spa niards been doing all this time? They have been looking on! ! And where have bee* the seven Spa. nish armies P They have been skulking among the mountains, or prowling in the plains!! Ansi,what have the Spanish Government been dieing? The' ' , rove the redoubtable Cortes ; 0, they hive {lean debating debating very gravely and very learnedly -about the re-establishrient of the Inquisition; who should ob. thin the meat lucrative places ; and km ss to preemie the British from trading &South 4n:erica! ! Mal --;, Another Gottenburgh Maii arrived lasi' night.— The mamas brought by it from the armies are not, • however 2 of so . recent a date as those already pub. Liebe& It ivas reported at Gottenburgh that the Russians had entered Warsaw. Lard Met = held a Levee this day at the Ad miralty, which was munerously attended by Naval Officers. Dispatches are making up, and Will be sent out this evening from the Government Offices, for the West India Islands. Captain Lesitcs, of the Navy, arrived this morn ing at the Admiralty, with dispatches from the Cape' of Good Hope. They contain no yews of Import ance. A regular dep6t has been established at the Isle of France for the purpose of refitting and .victu ailing our navy in that part of the Globe. The Adventure packet Is arrived from Halifax with a Mail. She sailed on the 21st ult. The let ters and papers brought by her have not yet been& , livered. By this conveyance, dispatches from Sir Joan WAILIUM were received at the Admiralty. The par. &whirs they contain are said to be not, very interest. rsts, smeept that informatiou had reached Ralik*, of the President frigate, with the notorious Commodore ; ROW/LW on board, having put to sea. Lthaalmen notified frem the Admiralty that Go. • vernment has, at iength signified, that from the peeu llar situation of afairs in the neighbourhood .of tho. `Baltic, the protection of his Majesty's- skips of afa r will be granted later than Wad Intended.: A French Officer of distinetien latdy.sailed frees Flyntoath In order to be hooded on the coast eh ;Trance. It has been reported that his object was to head an insurrectioa in favour of the Holmium fe.; mily. What troth there may be in this rumour no knew not, but the following is the manlier in which !-the departure of the Officer is alluded to in the Ply mouth Paper received yesterday :—" Conjecture has been very busy relative to the object of the French General, who sailed from hence ii, the:draft:el frigate, on Thursday se'astight. We apprehend that he has ben landed In Quiberoe Bay, where a strong force is organisingender the Bourbon banner against the Corsican. We understand, that in consequence of the great arrear which has been suffered to accumulate in the department for military accounts, a plan has been , reflood by Lord Yetmeritredlt, by which the cor respondent* and miscounts, relative to corps of regular infantry, have been placed ander the superiuteikdance of Jona STUART, 'Esq. Orders bare been received at - Woolwich for the ' @embarkation of a eompeny of artillery for Jamaica ; 'aid another company has received the route to em bark at Gravessed, for Barbadoes.' Detachments of the 9th r 11th, - 126, and 16th Light Dragoons, have embarked thieweek ; also of the Ist amid 2d Heavy, and Ist and 241 Light Dragoons King's German Legion. We understand that the Earl of Motea has ap pointed Mr. TirumesoN, an Irish Gentlersa, to be his Private Secretary iu Following the Laudable e xamp l e o f the Sister_ Uni. yersity, and hoping to assist those who are resolved to make the last pitiful stand against the late but Se. neral conviction in favour of our injured fellow. subjects, the Irish Roman Catholics; the enemies of religious liberty at Cambridge have given notice, that on Wednesday (to-morrow), at two o'clock, the Senate will be convoked, to move an Address against the Catholic Claims. The news of this illi. beral movement did not reach town until yesterday, and from the shortness of the notice there is every reason to believe, that a suspicion being entertained that the majority of resident voters from certain Colleges is inclined to intolerance, the wish of the agitators in this affair is to take the University by surprize. It is, therefore, most earnestly hoped, that every Master of Arts at present residing in Lo u . don t will, on the perusal of this intelligence, tint. withstanding the late period at which it is conveyed, contrive to present himself in the Senate House, at Cambridge, to-morrow, at the time appointed, and do his utmost to prevent the voice of th e i nterested few from being taken for the unanimous sentiment of the University at large. ' Petitions to the PRINCE REGENT for Peace, and to the House of Commons for Parliamentary Ry. form, have been opened at Barnsley, and have al. ready obtained a great number of signatures. The Right lion. I). B. Due, and J. DALY, Esq. were returned by large majorities, on Tuesday last, to serve id Parliament for the county of Galway. Thejoeroeymen watch-makers. at Literpool, held a meeting en Monday se'smight, for the purpose of entering into a resolution, to send an Add r e ss o f Thanks to the unsuccessful Candidates at the lat e lelection there, Mr. BROUGHAM and Mr. CRUSTY, ! for their exertions for the benefit of commerce.- 1 Resolutions to that effect were agreed to unani. I mouslv; and it was further resolved, to present `these two Gentlemen with each a gold watch of I the value of 'fifty guineas. It may not he generally known that Liverpool, Prescot, and the vicinity, contain more watch-makers than any other part of the kingdom of equal extent. These workmen are I not what in other towns go, ender the denomination I repairers toolsaud :s he , sbut theyw `which are put together and used by the . latter; and 7c I f ea w n a e t r c s h or wat ches h e make are the i y works rers. It is supposed that the fraire — was first este. are, properly speaking, watch_and tool manufactu. blished there by some persecuted foreigners, who hap. paned to settle there. Reat.Admirar K. J. Foovs Is appointed to a cont. mind in the Mediterranean, sad will shortly hoist his flag, and proceed to that station. Mr. SAMUEL HA,axirr f formerly of Ms Majesty's Peek - lard, at Plymouth, is appointed Master Ship. wrlght, at Melts, the roses of Mr. Baia, de. We are ferry to learn that the naive was raging :swet e e greiCt rits lelt hi tita en. t e cit t y. Camit The an d t ea in t a h Pl a ewwereiteltaptiturardse latest of t. ' As • • said to have been laid at Cornnna ie ; hosg rkets and ships of war. If It born t peeper to Saw a militate . good within the Castle, York, there being now con. that Two per.c i ty o o eihilf n nedt T r: e h edt u ilSe r e s 'air' d .eli a etl y irit.e4f la atserr st ilYt t irr t ieha o elMi ta 6n ie ni tiii:emarcoiraneb....._e:sceBh:eden:doiniAtitYto.of who detachmentare sons were last week committed, charged with acts of Luddism, and three with different felonies. A firs broke out . this morning, between three and four o'clock, at the Pantheon Opera-house, in Oa. ford-street, a considerable pert of which was de. stroyed. BoXIRO.—The great battle between Power sad Carter was wen yesterday, by Power, after as sans gulnary a conflict &sever was recorded, which lasted an hour and twenty minutes. Three other battles were fought on the same spot, near Rickmansworthr, and the sports had not concluded at dark. M as. JORDAN.---.lt has been stated that Mrs. Jon. DAN'S engagement with the Drury-Lane Committee Laid not take place, because she ores offered the terms given to Mrs. SIDDONS, and refused those granted to Mr. Brava. This, we are assured, is an erroneous statement. A carte blanch, was offered her by the Covent. Garden Proprietors, and afterwards, we un. derstaud, by the Drury-lane Committee,. both of which she declined. The terms given to Mt. Berri are exactly those granted to Mrs. SIDDONS ; at pre. sent It is a doubtful point which cf the two hare been Wit prodoctive to the Proprietors. Our liaddersfield Correspondent, in a letter, ,says t- 44 Ott 'Friday last, John Mini, rind on Sa itivolku..aark: ThartrOa t ,itere gstsunitted to York Crartle, by Josapu R A DC LI FFE, 1184,4 to take their trials at the ensuing Assises, 'charges of Luddism. Many of the infatuated people connected with these illeial societies, have abscouded, In order to avoid being brought to jqstice." Louis X.VIII. is ott a visit to the Marquis STAFFORD, at Trentham-hall, Stuffordshire. Miss 'WELLESLEY, the youngest daughter of the Marquis WF.LLESLET, 14 to be married to Mr. UT. Trirros, the Member for Statforvishire. The nup tials are to take place in a few days. By private letters from Spain, we hear of an object, which, though hardly believable, tiet is so well avouched to us as to compel tve to believe it; viz. That the French, when they la st left Madrid, left it without auil riolution qf prirtitc properts, arenigiurelw% am. ts B , 4le ZC ie . 4 !— iul lh W at as t t h e e a u l p ta o r n s a t n h d e tories, &c. &c. have still kept all t h e i r treasures iu safer, plate, jewellery, and other adornmen ts. Au extraordinary instance of chang e-rin g ing en a musical peal of ten hand - bell s, b y a select five of thr shrines, St. Peter's Independent Youths She ffi eld, York' s hire, consisting of 5000 changes , in the intricate am' scientific method of Oxford 'lrebie.bob-rolal, we_ y th most nobly brought round , a few days ago, in tha t town, in WI hours and 47 minutes, be under . mentioned artists:- I'4 We and iecomi —Me. William /Wilma. Third and '!'aura—elf. booth. prat awl Biltsb—Mr. Henry Mayen'. *Wells hind Ei.t—Mr. George itodsoa. • Niath and Te*at—.str. Wdliasa kowiu. The eondecter'ef the pent, Mr. !Ismer na r w o h m o o r e u t t e rg d G a , ri h b ;i nagnyth,onegierusty .te:t pefarmil“ York their Idism. these avoid uisJ Dr the . IT' nup- -Ihjert, ; tit. It.ft it t; ref; r• fres iu ir r on of tilt fork, ite el"' It ti l2 Und er• v rgOS. roler: 11 1 E~ I~ :~ i~ ' - • t .!4 1 . 4.