The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-10-23 00:00:00

1 0 ; \ S. Napoleon drew eontribut loos from Austria, from Prussia, and from Plyria. lie had the revenue of Al Italy, from the Confederacy of Germany, from .• Poland, and that of the French Empire, which antountA to nearly 6ne thousand millions. Notwith standing those resources, the deficiency for the year 1812 was doubled. U. Notwithstanding the battles of Aspen, and Ey lau, Napoleon had preserved the reputation of being tovincible • he enjoyed an opinion that nothing could rests\ him : it was sufficient for him to orders and every thing gAve way to his Will—to order and . it *es done—to direct, and every thing bended to hls whir —to aunoonceari . event. and the prediction was fir:Riled. Spam aiune . fornted un triceptiou ; which, Le %veva, bad aut diattipatod tits, Wet. - • • 4- , 4 • .. • auc.4141`,.' 1543. ' - Napelemi ha lost a part of the 311 intlitary di.i.. . oinn, a part of Illyria, all Main, and the Dalmatian .11alwids. • Natalia, Meeklealiwarg. and . the Grand Duchy sr Winslow are...sow or .111ltOer his dependencies ; Prussia and Meckletdaistsiire,' on the contrary, in arms aguioat him. 3, Austria has an army of upwards of 400,000 i to-n • she is no longer allied to France, but hike 0- 1 ceded to the now sdlinore Whist her. • 4. Rus.is has herond her frontiers 200,000 men ; shy recopies the t;rand Doche of Warsaw ; her ports are open ; she is united -*itll England, Prussia . Sweden, and Spain : she is, 0 peace with Turkey, hich considerably incressew ttyr, moral force, and. it has been proved by facts. that she cannot bo•eima*: . quereil. 5. Sweden havintentered inth the new war, fer mi-she,* more . than 30,0t1f0 men, who are acting on the Continent. , Tho..e 500,000 veterans of Napoleon have ilia iwured ; he has lost all his cavalry—several Mar . shals-80 Generals ;of this army only somelhou sands of officers remain to him. The cannon, arms, effects, the OM millions are lost, together with Pros .loa and Polish contingents. He has only of the latter 15,000 men ,With the . asaledictions of the country. 7. Itist monopeßk has almoit entirely disappear ed, since the ports ,of Refit and, rrussia hare been vite o ed. since the ' war tenninated'between the Rus sians and Turks, ant the occupied the Dal znotian islands. • , B.' The Austrian, Polish, and' Prussian contribu- . lions bsve teased. Illyria is, exhanited. The war and army expences have doubled. What, then, will, IP•th.2 deficit for the year 1813 There no longer rusts a Continental System against England : it is, i t fact, destroyed. 9.The battles of Smolensk and Borodino, of Krasnoi, of Lunen, and all the last campaign, prove, that with ilferior forces he can be resisted and beaten ; and that, consequently, he must he beaten with equal forces, and (Intro) ed with superior ones. • From this comparative statement ) it results, that prapotoon's power and glory have sensibly declined since the year 1811. ins• army had then besides 110,000 ausiliarios,—vii. 50,003 Poles, 30,0b0 Prussians, and 30,000 Austrians; his enemy nOw•` . lane in auxiliary force of 330,000, —viz. 200,0 ft, Austrians, 100,600 Prussians, and SO,OOO Swedes: . ' Nis revenues have decreased one hundred millions;. • and the diminution will be still much greater, if we take into consideration what he drew by requisitions • ' from Prussia, and the countries of the Confedera '4:Sion of the Rhine, and the war contributions of ' Prussia, Poland, and Austria. There was no -alliance against him, except that of England and Spain; no other Power that could :11liti war against him, mine other than Russia which Irwin able to resist him. A now alliance now subsists 4etwera . four Powers, which are in a condition to Oppose him with 500,000 combatants, —whole na elope will; should it be necessary, be under arms.— • 'Napoleon so fully feels the slifliculty of resisting them, that he almost abandons the Peninsula, which • espies the southern provinces of France to invasion. - s ibs army is no, longer composed of veterans; his • cedar,' is ne longer formidable, nor the 'most war like in Europe. Four-fifths .of his army are com • posed •of young 'men, - imperfectiy dibciplined, and • torn from the•arts and' agriCulture, which produces' , • an enormoui deficiency in the .total revenues of his States. • ' The allieS, or rather the Slaves of Napoleon/ P - i pecially Saxony and Bavaril, are np longer able to furnish the contingents he had imposed on them. Deprival of the greater part of his former resources,l he no longer'possesses either the, means or the right of dktatingliteeostlitittns or peace. Ile will not be , able to:procure new States; he :ean only Obtain it by sacrificing a part of those he pOs;esses, which will augment tin} relajive power of 61s oppo)tents. If b. continues the—war, the . chences are against him ; the loss of several States' Which he has already sustained, has not been counterbalanced by any new cooquest. In losing 600,000 of his troops, he ac quired new enemies, who will combat him with the same forces which have before supported his cause and his interests. Sic millions of Yressiatis, , 19 millions of Austrians, and four millions of the Duchy of Warsaw in all 29 millions of men, ielto were Under his controul, or his Allies, are how united against him. The deficit in his finances will augment without measure, and force him to ag- vacate the state Of constraint and the sufferings of his subjects, which he can no longer relieve by his foreign receipts. All those considerations should have induced him to make peace; but it now remains for the Allies to conclude it on such a basis as will render it solid and honourable. They will augment their physical and moral force ; draw closer their re. ciprocel ties ; whilst he, directed by the same ambi tion, the same deitructive objects, will be obliged to pay, with his own finances, those who serve him, and maintain at home au army which will increase the malady which is undermining his gigantic empire, and which will crush him wider its ruins. AHmecrxes, with the whore of its admirable Mu sic, is gating up at Drury-lane, with all the vocal strength of the house. Arbaces and Mundane, by .tat and Mrs. Dteaons. This friendly rival as it should be.• When Greek meets Greek then the "enchantment of sweet harmony." • liana? ' A M ) if. - * !WIWI LONDON Disiottelo.o. of day ovcrived • Chwiep Winum .10 Ltatl,t — A}ottibi df .'put to be-st _morn, icapogtanot r4matined t - and the Iletmin Prifr abitity•and pllentey 133. at exploit leer letny. corps 'fare Donnoetie, cavalry, the Polish nf light dragoons, Generals Keiseiski mend. .., The force consisted' , . , valry seven hundred sqoddron ' Memi rukes, and a Innen party. of Tartars of the guard, under the orders of Colonel Murot. The viliiile were attacked by Platow, and completely put to the route. . 1 General Keiseiski is reported by the prisoners to' have been killed. Fifteen hundred prisoners, five gsisis, and forty officers (three of the staff), are the fruits of this victory. --. The army has broken np from hence , 'and is In ;Movement to the left. The corps of Gee. Count Wittgenstein was yesterday at Kommatae and that of Gen. Kleist near Brux. The Austrians are marching upon Chemnitz.— There is a report from the enemy that Napoleon, at tended by the King of Saxony and famlthset out for Leipsic upon the 28th tat. ; the lifilel-qmjittirs are ts s: - f 7..., i said to be removed there. pee 1 The French corps, under Marshal At n, have . marched from Bamberg to Coburg, having left a t considerable force at Wurzburg. 1 I have reason to believe the Russi an and Prussian army exceed eighty thousand men, -which will now lke assembled on the Cheninitz* and Freyberg Vne ; to these. may be added the corps of Kleinau of ten, thou ' sand men, together with all tire Austrians. • - - Gess. Bennigsen's corps, which has been reviewed this day, is in a very efficient state. as to appearance ; but I have no exact information as to the numbers arriving. A reinforcement of seven thousand . Prussian corps of Gen. Kleist, is upon the I Prague.—l have the honour to be, &c. I (Signe d ) CHARLES . Licateasut'' Viscount Catlereagh, &c. &c. &c. ap f , arm • of the *ad from ST WART, rat. Zerbst, 00,4, 11113; MY LORD, —T have the honour to acqnsint your' Lordship, that Gen. Pozzo di Borgo has received in- telligence from the head-quarters of the armies in Ho- I hernia, under date of the e4th ultimo, stating that, the corps of Gen. Beunigsen having joined the Grand Army, the Allied Sovereigns had come to the resolu tion of making a movement by their left from Bolte.i mitt, and that this Movement should 14ristecuted on the Ist of the present month. This intelligence determined the Prince Royal to attempt the passage of the Elbe. The bridge at Rosslau had been already completed, while the works of the tcte-dc-pont on the left had been traced I I out, and were in a state of progress. Detachments of Swedish troops were in possession of Dessau, and' the town of Arkin, on the left bank a little lower': - down the river, was fortifying, under the direction of Count Woronzow, in such a manner as to remter it a place of considerable strength, while prepara tions were accelerating for constructing a bridge', there. In the mean time, the enemy, who appear to have [ had no idea of the passage of tile Elbe, at A c kett, sent strong detachments of troops to occupy Dessau and the line of the Mulda, and employed themselves' in throwing up works, as well before that town;as in front of the tete-depont, at Rosslau,*withintetit to impede the-passage there, and to obitruct the Move.' ments of the army after the passage. This gave occa sion to skirmishes between the enemy and the Swe dish advanced guard, which wal3 obliged to relinquish Dessau, and to retire to the neighbouthood of the tete-de-pont at Rosslau, and indeed to the right bank of the river. Under these circumstances, the Prince Royal re - ceiveri intelligence from General Blucher, on the Ist instant, informing his Royal Highness, that he should, on that Clay, make a movement with )11s Whole army on his right towards Hertzberg ; that on the following day he should be at aessen -, on the 3d at Elster, and on the following day (to -day) would effect the passage of the Elbe at Etter, proceeding Upon A erobe's *ping the French strps. Stationed I ere. • • The bridge it Acken hid last beta' iiVetd, and yesterday, toAtty, or perhaps to.mticrove;, was each spoken ()faiths probable day far patting tlt river. . • General Blocher crossed the t theet Welictater [slay with seine opposition, and attacket the- in rtrenehed village of Wareenbem• on thf,Oppoiite Ittanic, which he carried, after an obstinate resiiitance, 'snaking himself master of sixteen pie9ei 'of cannon. It is understood that this victory, which *lli atried against the corps commanded by itertrand;;Wai not obtained without considerable • loss, particularly among the troops commanded by Gen. D'Yo4 ; but the particulars have not been received. The Prince Royal received this intelligence yes- terddY evening; while he was at Rosslau, or immedi ately on his return here, and took the resolution of crossing the whole army" to-day over the Elbe, at Acken and at Rosslau the Russiaris at the foither and the Prussians and the Swedes at Rosslau, some-' what later or otherwise, according as It should be understood whether the French would make a stand at Dessari: This, however, was not tobe expected, • when once the passage of the Rossiaus was com pleted at Acken, particularly ander the position of General blucher's army, and in effect it was learnt this morning, that the French hdd retired from Ded sau, where, consequently, I learn' that, the head quarters of the Prince Royal will he established this evening. His Royal Highness left this place about nine o'clock this morning. YesterdaY evening Mr. AlderCreuts, a soli of the (Sired) • it. T, Hend•qttarters. Desna. Oct. 4, 1813, 'tge to reports veceived from Gen. Blocher, - -4 with the fourth French corps; he has -=---=---- _ .. . . Arr. ' Mail. . • One O 2 1 O O 1 . , PRICE 01.' STOCKS THIS DAY AT OWE O'CLOCK, Bank 91P; indio Bonds 1 db.' par , 3 per Cent. Red. 54 Excheoner 1111111 Std. 9 p-r Cent,. Cony, 58/j Ditto 30. 35 p , I per Cents. 71; 2 ()maim 1 pr. 5 per Cent. Nave WPM Consols for Acct. 5S Leug. Ann. 14 3-16 i • Lottery Tickets LONDON: SATURDAY, OCTOBER f231:•11P45. Lisbon Papers to the 12th instant arriVest this morning, bYwhich we have received the afflicting in telligence of an alarming few , ragging at Gibraltar, and from twelvirto,ilaiteau: l piesons dying daily. Cadie is said to be in a healthy condition. It is mentioned in. the Madrid Gatetie, of Oct. 2, that the army under Marshal SOULT is reduced to 40,000 men, and gone to Bayonne for winter-quarters, but we ap prehend he will find some employment with the allied forces under Lord WELLINGTON before the winter sets in.' The following are the extracts from 'this Mail : design. He is too vigilant ao '''lg t ' to discover th e ne a t which is weaving, or the bolt which is forging, t o dispossess him at once of that mighty power av'hich : he has been labouring night and day for 15 )c a rs to The titter was let reuched . in a village be- accumulate. By the open declarations of his chief tween Wartenberg and Blediu- I op ponent , who assumes to spcakit U a id tl t i t e ie n s a a m cr e ifi o e f e th . e f. Gen. D'Yorck's corps dislodged and overthrequ i ar - liole alliance ? in arrns,*be could am the enemy, taking: above one thousand prisoners sixteen pieces of cannon, and Seventy ttimbrits, witt'olli' fellow-creature's life, by retiring at once to his their train, were captured. A body of two thou: i 0 4 va rile of the Rhine : but is he a character of sue sand men throw themselves into Wittenbet ; the . l;at;ug a measure. Can the ma n who has mad e the a cast fw co n te m plate, f or a m o me n t, so se lf-t ianl i. .ramoinder of the enemy's troops fell back upon . Kemberg. Gen. Blucher pursued them, and his I lives of mil:jou,s of his fellow-creatures the bistro. bead-quarters Will be this evening at the latter place. His cavalry is at Duben, • menu of °pelting so much warlike fame, and se i vereign seas,, at once become the philanthropist By fi ve o'clock this morning , the enemy's troops, F under the orders .of Marshal Ney, which were in i and prevent the' erous designs of his antagonists thig town, amounting to 18,000 men, had begun their by, the-exercise, bat humanity, which is ever the retreat towards Leipzic. - 1 sleatiger -to s her* - -No I - His journey to Wit. Our advanced posts had, in the course of this 'even= —, . , . and - • teneerg, to unpile, eater neiglsboiring towns, ing, pushed'on as far as Reguhn and Jeseitz, and, of which we have slight and imperfect in to-morrow the junction with Gen. Blucher will take ; telligenct, . place. _. ' `have been to survey, to arrange, and, perhaps, to _......._. The van-guard of the Russian Army, under the i, determine to make the first firm stand in sig!lt of orders of Count Woronzoff, occupies Coethen.— I Dresden, where, if he fail, he may fall back upon irernbourg is garrisoned by Russian cavalry. To- , Erfar4. and there, should his quarters be beaten t:7 morrow the two armies of the Prince Royal and of 1 agai ' n, 'and the same adversity befal him, he witi Gen. Blucher, will make a combined movement in Ibetake himself to Frankfort, where his retreating advance, probably in the direction of Leipzie.-- They form together a total of 127,000 or 130,000 i army would he -sustained 'and relieved by whatever men. His Royal Highness will, without doubt, es- I veteran forces, he may have there, ioined to those tablish his head-quarters at Reguhn. . • newly-areited 'divisions which have no doubt been I have the honour to be; &c. . (Signed) •' ' DE WETT-F.RSTEDT. ponred _eagerly out of Franca during the last felt, weeks. These are all the conjectures we are able, or date, ' to make , in the present highly interestiii; crisis, If the defection of the Bavarians be as certain ,as itis confidently announced brone of the Minis sterial Papers, are feel no difficulty in concludioc, 'that tlia fetter part of our inveterate foe must give way ; that he will, like Maebeth,. upon discovery ef , the la Racy of a Zhaimed tifeyyFee the inefficacy of n flrilier struggle, at !emit for the.present, and say r r signify to his antagonist, " I will not fight with thee." ' We have looked in vain for this defection of the Saxons and Bavarians, and the news propagates yes. Jerday of the Cossack General, PLATurv, huh; -topped BONAPARTE and the King of SAxoNY, with an escort, ou the 28th ult. cf 20,000, from D. e;ecn, ind taking 6 or 8000 prisoners, with 26 pieces of cannon, it is plain was founded in mistake ; originat ing, as it should seem, from the real advantage gained I tik abet Russian General at a different place, oo the §azoia frontier, and against the corps of General iiEaletarrs, sore accurately described by our M. dispatches front Toplitz. The French Papers contain +try little positive matter relative to the ekigeocy - of -NAPO'LEON'S affairs. In speaking of the militAry propeeilings on the fron tier of Saxony, we find an asseitietsirreconcitiable with the flattering portraiture of our Ambassadors, viz. after noticing an important: advantage gained by the PrinOn of MOSKWA over'the army otßerlin, the French account ndds--" The enemy's corps in the :Ergzeiaig have been equally repulsed at all points :" adding, " It appears that the 'unfortunate termini tion of those operations has determined the einemy's Isrmy' of Bohemia to return into Out plaisil of Toe- Icliti, and not to make another offensive movement."-- This IS as we have observed, quite irreconcileab!e kiltwtth what we learn from our own dispatches. The inerfetich PapdefiiiraitiXitiiir making a sortie from Datitzic, and* that the gaiaison 'has been re victualled: this fact is highly improbable. The re is a Frankfort article of intelligence from Warsaw, at the . bolding out of the gkerirons of Zamosc aid Modlin, where the French Gen. Dassazu ti represented as refusing all proposals for tapitulations The diatribe against the Crown Prince of Swan for the ingratitude of his conduct towards the Da ,grev Or NAPOLEON, who is styled his august Bene factor, is a writing of too cold and contemplative a nature to produce any instantaneous effect, or in "ony wag weaken the force of the blow aimed by lhareecused. The hand is up, and the weapon Oil lite .. point of fatting ; the next. twenty-four hours laity even inform us of the injury it was doomed to produce. . . • -Lts RON; OCT.II . .—We have melancholy amounts 'from Gibraltar, a very bad fever rages there, by, which from 12 to 19 persons are said to die Cadiz is still healthy ; . antl as yet, we ere. free here. A brig of war, just arrived from Wiwi" tN the deaths at Gibraltar to be more nartiff . ol4 Atlas those mentioned. All well at Wit.. 'MAR AG OSS A ; SEPT. 27."•Sdater 111117; 40,000 Men, has retrograded, in order •to get into winter-quartets. His head-quarters, with KINO men, are in Bayonne. His cavalry have dispersed for want of forage, and are 'reduced . to, : 499o men. 'We gave, in a Second Edition of the STaTtsmax yesterday, the Bulletin issued by Government, con taining the substance of the official news received by the Gottenburgh Mail, which arrived yesterday. - - In the evening an Extraordinary Gazette was pub lished, as will be seen in another part of the. Paper. —Now it the ttig of war coming . on: Whoever takes the map of Germany in his band ? with tote re cent intelligence thence in his memory, wilt dis cover that the playing a military giui of chess with NAPOLEON ; " who' • Mast, per force, make a move of some' kind, oft which his -ene- Major STDENHAM (secretary to theMarq mies expect to check-mute him, and 'end the ilst.EY), leaves town in a few days on a mission into contest at once ! l---This picture of the . present German v. _ struggle, and its presumed conclusion, however, must yeste rday Lord Cumr. Sown:sic. attended at th e not be too confidently relied on. Such n cataStrophe Secretary of State's Office for the War aud,C ol4 ) lll ' l of the piece does not accord with the character 01. a I -Deportment, to make arrangements for his 4iportula soldier like BONAPAIITE. lie Will not give in • With- ;to the Cape of Good Rope. The Catholic Board met at Dublin on SsturillY out a deadly wound, and ip infliction. most be at-, c is Wrt.- tended with to:dreadful conflict. be knoWs he mu:t last. No other business, however, of any iinV"` ; % itance'was- Aransacted, except referring the .Gene fight or run : he has not been so accustomed 'Io th l Petition to a Committee, to ascattain whe ther" latter as the former; and probable it is ) that Should 'abet alteration''. ere necessary. I . .1 ~ ";!Fr1NV.,..'7.17, T• -. ' • " .. . . • 1 • • . ••. ' , r .. • , . .. ''''•/-:-".- '''' 4 • . ' l. 'l. ' . ° CI a "thee worlds he n a : I .. '10:10=*==.;taw,.......... --"'"'" • - ' . : -1: 111114; 9-I . G .l.A: ln tl era lF- 1 4S : 4 1 : 4 111 : 4144 .... c efer o f thi: '.. Prince ß.ofal r he be ow ce lni ropet t ta led nis to en a a d m o i p e t s a th n i d s e t found less a General in a retreat, than theusmtlaynwanh-uct GAZETTE EXTRAfORDIN , 41 .: ft , . Y . ! ., „ stinted here fib Imperial I m p er i a l heed.A7 o rters, to FRIDAY, MT. 241813. would wittingly . have been his rival. Th e —.„0.8.--- .. ..la 1. ... Is . ,hich he had been seat after the battle of nnewitz. is 0 ofnre buottiuhsuGalelynercalelarS:E:oAncitirfe,ana dlw F .. Office Oct ..' -. :; t : ~.1 ' ; 1. .1, : :,, , ,i - ':..- . 4 '•Wbrinip intelligedhe of the actual movement of he' • (1 an r. 1 TD et li r7c ia t t i Ne i th e :sN of the relative position of the C ombin e ores e n t • 4 i gi tot h il ., • rand Army, as was projected, on the Ist instant; wh o . • • ••• hie s i r and it wes calgilated that It would bsi • adwineet.... 4o , .a n s . .(1 (row Liestromil-Genrral itre' N ien.. peri ~_ i i i f tul hic s b t.:w he u F rt ' s , ll :l; v :;:fri+ ' iii . 1 - Ed ' 1/4 / I *!ardr s to . ni - ~,E..l!rlffavi?'"l, islet,Aitilkits26o.6 iteltdeboserallYloiti.‘ttet.*tair 44 , . es tr bo t A ia.aa D a wetsefstodt his e ' • lea i Armies of the Allies; and which may i , . • . .Topllta; Oct. it al& a Tr,,m wvilis evening for M. Da itehativen, I wt!' undoubtedly inspire sanguine hopes of . sr . ro,—Tile airitit'teoritioned . in my ins: to .ta...liketth.wie,„ nipr.tuttitL3 14 11 /ecelvs it , Ais- ; . the effect nac ho 2,oohisproutt!.,itaposkra.:Anntruinafri,..,hnit at t a n rs, ed t. .pa intt hilliilatett,!!itrai, tot neto;l4l.. to Di sto o ), o f so consentaneous a movement in a mass or mi li . att. lit thOttne - time, the same part!. : tary force amounting on the whole to more than .. ' [se m m ov i:cire n i t e;ou adra nd nee Dr i e n sri t e h n e ; di a r n ec d tio b i y a illentry,.fres accOmpliabed-a very brit.. -it'll' Of is of otttila ibis. I shall keep ..61+is 400,000 men!! Every drays march contracted and the Iretroin Plitow, with his usual ter tra ri nsinkte siltric , gthe )it against a considerable body . :4. the *Vetch open•hs,thent., , ..l . )y.e liare indirect *emote:Dr General. Czernite, . coman i pi i was under the orders of General Le, chaff having tikes possession, with his corps of dos. the p e l • : by of Lei zi P • General B ' ' Lucurn and the l'atscc ROY (tile 'Bl+d 'consisted of some French tight lick!, of the whole city Of:easel, 'from which:le. ; . . . .11., this lat. xa , e Polish uhlans or the guard, and a.j)rigadh rome Bonaparte had . ter place will nearl y be fled. But nothing has yet been • s yincluded within the periphery tgoons, under the orders of General rirot. ' received from himself. •••• - • . - . . 'of the composing circle. Such is the progress of :eiseiski and Krutecks were also in corn- I have.the honour to be, &c. I the plain of operations in our Allies • and as • . (Sired) FA THORNTOW. v it q•Ten honour of transmit- •of eight thousand cavalry and P. . ! P.. M. I have the .... , . is prncee4e4 . in, unluestionahly promises success, ,e cons is ted • ling 'to your Lordililii inclosed, a letter which . 1! We are in the dark, however, what the enemy is dyed Infantry one sqoddron of ,Rame. . 1. • ...i..11 . ,•,. rtv , of Tartars of the ;Ward, i have just received from Baron de Wetterstetit.. 4 _ I doing iu the view of frustrating so well -concerted a THE STATESMAN.