The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-04-14 00:00:00

. -. • • 4 - 1.4 . . • • • . . • t - 7' Itl , I porary seconddediare4Wits s Se4Aihi' for t & larger b o dy of horse, when occasion should rsvaire. Mr. WitriBILEATO %waled to the Committee s if there was a singleimanie the House who had had the smalleit Iftwef the tAltyrA'of this grant till now. Either the Right,llosioeablo Gentles** who spoke last knew mere sett* subject than the Seerectary of • the Treasury did, or the litter had act done his duty. He asked, wonld the Hoe. Secretary not now agree to postpone this grant? Or *mild not the Committee feel a jealousy how they acceded to the graatlag of money on such an estimate? Mr. PONSONBY said, the potion was not whether this sum should be voted at all or not; but whether or not time should be given to the Committee to understand what they were doing. All he should say, if it was true that France and England were new to be compared to two men up to the neck in water, and If in such circumstances, barracks for 350 soldiers were to mot England 133,0001. it was hot difficult to see which of the two must be choked first. Lord FOLKES'fONE strongly objected to a lar ger grant than was proved to be necessary; particu larly for the erection of barracks, which that House sad the country had been accustomed to regard with a jealous eye. The speech of the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Perceval), too, furnished additional ground for postponing the grant till the House was better informed. After a few words from Mr. CREEVEY, the House divided, when the numbers wate— rs*, sae Amendment Agetad it . Majority —4B When strangers were again admitted, the few re maining clauses were put and carried, without a di vision, after which the Report was brought up, and it was.ordered that it he received to-morrow. •t %.* - I - : Cog a 411 , 144 1 t#04tke - Q W 1 4: 1 4. 1 1 6 cli,tfidh- d L i airnystationed, in EitreMadisni,hal tooted' towards Ltersua, *a& that General is mid to have tone 'to renew the dap co Tttikl. Fre& all this it appeers, that :the French Marthala . are no way alarm2d as to , speedy fall of Ba 7 dajos, and ,that 'they .I:akat to on reducing Can ' dad Rodrigo - and Torii**, before ' their assistance will be necessary for the relief of the Ureter platy. The Lisbon Papers are up to the 31st of March, ant Government are said to have received dispatch& tiom Earl 'WELLINGTON to the 28th. If the CO,' tents of his Lordship's communication transpires in time, we shall give them in a Second Edition. The following are attracts from the Portuguese Pa pers : --1 s -s , I accommodated the hers% while the men were•clis , permed all coves "the, Metropolis., "'Now," conti- Rise Mr. ' j, 41 4 , " wit those, Gentlemen who• • 111111010111bered the , - isse distatbences in London, would think that ft was a thing very much to be desired, that the men should be accommo dated in the neighbourhood where their horses were; for if this were not the case, and another disturbsece should break out in the Metropolis, the men might, all be intercepted in their way to their horse bar nickel,' In speaking of other barracks proposed to be built at Bristol and Liverpool, he also assigned as a reason for these, that they were both " pope lona cities," which, of course, required to be kept In awe, should the difficulties of the times, at any fu ture period, incline them to lift their arm against their oppressors. Bristol too, he said, was a depot foir French prisoners, and one of the ports for the debark. ation- of troops between this CoUntry and Ireland, 1 which afforded additional reasons for the erection of barracks there. In answer to these observations, Mr. WHITBREAD explicitly stated, that the barrack system bad always been considered by the friends of 1 freedom as unconstitutional ; and directly charged 1 Ministers with having no other object in view, by this infringement of the Constitution, than to limit t the liberty of the people, and 'Reroute the oppres- Isions they were already labouring under, by sqqan dering immense sums of money at a period when two-, , thirds of the nation were starving from the want of employment to procure articles of the first necee• sity. The system which the Right lion. Gent. was pursuing, continued Mr. WHITBREAD', 44 was of a nature so profuse and extravagant, that it would, by destroying the resources of the country, in duce the necessity of peace by submissibu. The, expenses of the country amounted to nearly one hundred millions a-year,—en amount unknown and unheard-of in any age or country. Every week some new additions were made, while every retrenchment was syMetnallcally opposed; how, then, would it ever be possible to make our de creasing income meet our Increasing expenditure?--- As to the barracks in London, why was it so necessary that the soldiers and their horses should he always together ? Was it meant that there should be no mixture—no intercourse between the soldier and the people ? Were the barracks„to become fortresses for controuling the citizens I With regard to the Bris tol barracks, he knew that an enormous sum of money had been thrown away on the purchase of a number of ruinous h(uses at Clifton : the plan was afterwards given up; but now ft seems it was to be renewed ; and the ostensible reason assigned was the number of French prisoners in that district.— Would to God, he would add, that 011 the French prisoners were out of the country !"—This manly—this constitutiomil language was too much for the little-minded Mr. PERCEVAL. Truth is , at all times obnoxious to him. But, when coming from the mouth of a gentlemau of so much tried in tegrity as Mr. WHITIMEAD, it galled him to the quick; it called forth the exercise of those weapons which Ministers never feel any hesitation in employ ing when all 'other argument fails them. The vile abominable charge of traitor to his eon:Ary l whiCh lie aimed at bringing under the yoke of:NAPO- Lecos, was more than insinuated . by the CHAN. eutoe of the EXCHEQUER against , Mr. , WHIT. , BREAD. What man, possessed of the least spirit of an Englishman, could • sit incl_ bear himself so grossly vilified, without expressing bfir indignation against the individual who thus darid to I rob him of all that is worth possessing on -.earl—a ' good name? Who can blame Mr. WHITBREAD,. ist • these circumstances, for the warm ebullition of his honest feelings, when he stigmatised hit avowed enemy " An adventurer from the Bar, who was brought into that House to get into power, and to take a place when no other man could be round to accept of it?" It is true, Mr. WHITBREAD was called -1 to order, and readily a c k no wledged t hat th e warm th which he used in vindicating himself from the ! foul charge of his antagoaiit, was not altogether • consistent with the regulations of that Ilonoureble, " House; but, in any other situation, we are con. , winced, Mr. WHITBREAD would have been justified, had he resented the injury in a more pointed manner 1 than he did. The Morning Post, as we anticipated, ' has charged hf c,.Werrnazao with having now become 44 a pander to the worst of passions," and we ex pect to find the same language reiterated in the columns of the immaculate Courier. Let the Edi tors of these Journals, however, first clear them selves of the charge of being the " panders" of Mr.' PERCIVAL, before they claim credit for the part which they act. Let them also sliew, that they have a right to apply the epithets " Traitors,"" Dia ..oical Incendiaries," " Liars," " Low and rile illiegme," to their opponents, merely because they alter in opinion as to political subjects, ere they ar %gate to themselves the right of censuring the poli 'deal conduct of others, or of setting themselves up as ~the advocates even of• the pious, the philcottioropic, 1 and the tieeevoleist Mr. PERCEVAL. EWv '!ON LISBON, littacn 29. Letters from Badajos have just been received. Ow operations there go oo most prosperous ly. On the evening of the 25th alt. took by assault, after a most desperate eogagemeat, the strong redoubt, called Pickering, in front of Badajoa ; it was occapied by 150 picked m e n , With fire gnos and a howitzer, 180 were bayoneted, the remainder surreadered f the taking possession of this place enables as to carry out works to the west of tbe Glacis. It was not carried withont taw on our port ; the regiments were the 45th, 74ths 88th, and 11th Portuguese, under col. MARCH 90. Pattatertsre had let the water of the Guadiana halo the ditch,' so as to cut of the retreat from Pickering, the garrison of which received no injury till our men got in, they Shea called Ass quarter. 'MARI/oyez is at Salamanca, and we / would sat be suprized Isere at bearing he bad made biome at againstOa dad Rodrigo or Almeida as a set of against Ra jos MARC. SS. A battery of four guns having opened on Fa t Pickering, we carried it by assault on the night of the 24th. The los se either side is not yet known ; and at nine o'clock en the . morning of the 25th, 23 '2l-pounders opened on the town of fle dajos, sad this most amazing expedition was used ootwithstand ing our men worked six successive days up to their knees in mad in the trenches, and the rise of the Guadiana carried of sae two bridges; tine weather is returned for the last three days, and all is spin set-to Our lots has not as yet been of any come quence. General Sir T. Gasasst is still in advance towasds Zafra. General Ilit.t. has returned to Merida ; a party of 600 Febncli had taken their stand near the bridge of Merida, hat en perceiving our people they fled ; we took two or three Officers and a few men ; they went towards Horoaches. We do not hear of hlaamoscr ; he must come soon, and in great force, if be thiaks to do any thing. II It was further moved, that the Estimates for the St. Mary-le-Bone, Liverpool, and Bristol Barracks, be laid before the House.—Ordered. Mr. CALCRA FT moved that there be laid before the Reuse, accounts of Bank-notes in circulation on Saturday the 4th and II th instant, distinguishing those of and above the value of 51,--Ordered. .The like !Natio,' was made for the Notes of Ire laod.—Ordered. After some -remarks from Lord Folkestone and Mr. Poesonby, the Report of the Gold Coin Bill was brought op by Mr. Wharton, the Bill was re-com mitted, and it was ordered that the Report be re aired to..morrow. BANKS OF THE GUADIANA, Kiang V. In doe night of the 2lst. there was a movement in all the points which the French occupy in Estremadura ; it is announced that they cetired towards Llerena. On the 9d instant, Swats was in Xeres de Fronteira. There is no notice of the coming of a con voy or troops from Andalusia. On the 18th Inst. the French united in Villafranca, and from thence marched to ltebeira. On the same day Danorr set oat from Llerena for flornachos, and flora thence for Serena, to join Geis. Qum?, who is in 7.alamia de la Serena. The Spaniards in civil employments, and the re mainder of the French Army, are to march to Constantin, and thence to'beville. On the 19th, General Gummi, with the corps ander his command, entered Zafra. We hear nothing of the coming of troupe from Andalusia.—(Lisboa Gazette, March 28.) MARCH 12. Ott tie 17th. the first parallel against Badidos was finished, and part of the commuttication- for a second. In the night be tween the Ilith and 19th. the second parallel warassopletod, and two batteries commenced being erected, one of which, accord ing to appearances, will be directed against Fort Plearina. The Imakeepers' sa was read a third time, and passed. On the motion of Mr. W. POLE, the House went into a Committee on the Irish Spirit Qin, when the Report was brought up, and it was ordered, after a few words from Mr. Shaw, of Dublin, that it be re ceived tomorrow. Also, on the motion of Mr. W. POLE, the Irish Tobacco Dill was read a second time ; to be commit ted tomorrow. On the motion by the same it •+•as ordered, that the House to.morrow resolve itself into a Committee of the whole !louse, to consider of the Salaties of the Auditors of Public Accounts in Ireland. The Noose went into a Committee on the West Indi♦ Goads Bill, and it was ordered that the Re port be received to-morrow. On the rootlets of Mr. WIIABTON, the Com. mitten of Ways and Means was Be erred uutil Wed aesday neat. Leave was given to bring in a Bill for•eJteriug the allowances to certain superannuated annuitants. Mr. WALLACE moved, that a paper presented in 1801, respecting East India Freights, be reprinted. The other Orders ef the Bay were then disposed of, and the Ifousnedjourned. MARCH 11. Our works have been continued for the third parallel, and are considerably advanced. The rain has fallen in torrents. The vellies have been iuuudAtel, and the Guadiana cut. As soon as the weather nets a little bettcr, our batteries will open epee the place.—(Sane Paper.) BANKS OF T 111: OCADAT.QUIYER, Nissen 15. All the grain which arrives at Seville, from Cordoba, is imme diately forwarded to San Luau, in a hich city famine has rises to such an height, that people die in the streeb from absolute want. The actual force in Seville is 1000 infantry, and a few cavairy, SOUL? hall marched southward, and it Is positively as serted, for the purpose of attacking Tarifa.--(Some Paper.) FRONTIERS OF TILE NORTII OF PORTUGAL, Wilma 15. The reglimeat of Castile Cassadores, eontamoded by its chief, 3lsiszo, has made 200 of the enemy's dragoons prisoners, he tween Leoa and Villa blonha—this iatelligenee is official.— ' (Same Paper.) Letters from Eh as; of the 25th inst. state, that on that day the Are from our hatterics opened with great vigour upon Dada 'jos which replied with corresponding activity. This was the I first good day, and we hope that it will continue. They write from Porto. under date of the 241 h, that on the 99d, in tht even ing, Captain-tiener.o Castanos arrived there, and was received with the most lively acclamations by an innumerable concourse of people, who went out, accompanied by tbe t troops, to receive him; he was visited by all the authorities, and treated with that distinction die to the conqueror of Bayles—(Liskoss March 28.) VALENCIA D'ALCA.NTARA, Nimes 20. Arr. Mails. . Dee. 1 .. . flotilla .. 1 1 U 1 I I • Jeney PRICE Or STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK Rant Mk India Bonds 5 C pr. 3 par Cent. Coal. 601 Rleitegaer 5111.1 par 2 pr S per Cott. Red. 514* Ditto 4 per CentA, 74 Omni ani 5 per (*cut. Navy 94 1 Consols for Acct. lOU Lail. Ann. is. Lottery Tleketi £21: 18 i I . The works against &dojos are continued with activity, and a more brilliant success eves than that of Ciudad Rodrigo is expected. The eattnriastie joy of the inhabitants of this Pro vince, at seeing its capital likely to he rescued from the bands of the enemy is indescribable. The standard of liberty waving upon its walls, will he t►e ►ignaal for new exertions. The fee- bieness of the enemy, and his confusicia mast prinlacc a violent explosion, which will revive oar grandeur w ith that degree of , glory which Is due to ear love of iodepeadeoce ; our constancy is the struggle, and oar resolution not to submit to the haughty we my „—(Lishea Gentle, March 30.) VILLA FRANCA, Id4arn 14. Accamb have been received of two bellow, in which the Commutate( CA211111.14 has ebbtained considerable advantages at site village of Memel*, between Samosa and Santander. It is also said, that a Mail has been intercepted with various papers, and amung them some letters which iodinate the return of the French to Fraace.—(Lisbon Gets#is, March SO.) A most interesting anitiosiiinated Debate took place last night in the Monte of Commons, on the motion, in a Committee of Supply, for the 'Um 554,4411. to defray the expences of _the Barrack DIN pertinent only for the carrent year. M r.Psacevse tinctly admitted, what we have tong charged Mini with, that the establiihment of barracis within 'the country, was with toe view of °yenning the people, and rendering them more compliant with 'low; sores Goverument. I S . P.' • •.\ fu THE STATESMAN. LONDON: lIITESDAIf f APRIL 13, 1812. A Lisbon Mail arrived this forenoon, by which we have received accounts of the progress of the :lege of Badajos, to the 2fith March. It is already ..nown, that the first parallel was completed on the :7ch, and that the enemy were repulsed in a sortie which they attempted on the 19th. The second pa •allel was finished on the preceding night. The torka for completing the third parallel were in con ;derable progress on the 2.1 d, when it would appear hat they had somewhat relaxed, owing to the ,caTy mini, which are described to hare fallen rs torrents, and to the circumstance of the vie rs), hating cut the Guadiana with the view, no :oubt, of inundating the ground round Badajos. --On the evening of the 24th, however, the 'rang redoubt of Pickering, which was defended ly 250 men and six. pieces of artillery, was 'at acked by four Portuguese regitninsts, undq Colonel It Emir ) and taken by assault, 180 of the French xing killed, and the rest made prisooers. This enabled the besieging army to carry their works searor Badajos, and, on the morning of the 25th, •wenty-eight 24ponnders were opened upon that fortress. Earl WILLINGTON is said to be still be sore Badajoi. General GRAIIIAIt is at Zafr 7 /eneral BILL at Merida, with the corps of 'ration under their command. With regard tt. reach. Generals, MARIVONT, by the last aceounl was at Salamanca, making preparations, it limed, for the purpose of attacking Ciudad it CP Almeida,jva l w/sach abject; a large park . .4‹. k. •• - - / l " 6 " I "' minc"minilaut ine m ea - A Po which prevailed, that a Messenger had e still be- sores of Government. Referring to the now bar. arrived at the British Coort from St. Peteraburgb, is ara, and racks proposal tope erected in the Rusaitya Pad, now obaaged ; and it is from Austria that be Is said' of obser- for the accommodatiou meaty of the Id anima of bate arrived. rd to the Life Guards, and which are net. cipt' *I bee Russian ports of co l on ial produce, ai d es - Wo• dated, some time . ago, th a t . the Emperor m o t Assitaisot accounts, 1,11,0001, 011 the 414CELEGII of tbe macaw:a bad issued a Ukase, authorising the nn- was be- that this measure had Peaa"?rr,tPd to in waselliemis ollbet aerebasidise, direct from Enfiaad, in oett- thiftodrigo, of the former barraM iggisginsi.by s-regimgglia Wallas. We naderstaad. that npies of this tof ar.; Yung - sheet , lotting unfit or tlit purpose s as tier lbw *die secured by tke fast Mail from Anholt. SEC IMITSSMAN "FMB, POO* O'CLOCK. DISPATCHES from LORD WELLING7IOII. SURRENDER OF THE OUTWORKS OF HADA.T --- 0 WAR DEPARTMENT, 46 DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 14, 1812. " A Dispatch has been received from the Earl of WIILLINGrom, dated the 27th of March. " The works of 'liadajos had been carried on with great vigour, - notwithstanding the heavy - rains which had prevailed, and which had swolii the Guadiana to;snch a height, that one of the bridges thrown over that river, had been carried away, and the others I were damaged. " His Lordship opened his fire upon the place from 28 pieces of cannon, on the 23th March, and upon the same night the outwork called the Picorina was taken by storm by 500 men, formed into three detachments, led by Major SHAW,• 74th regiment; Major Runn, 77th, and Capt. Powvss, of thu 811. The whole under the immediate direction of Major- Gemara! Kwarr. This service was executed -in the most brilliant manner. The works were strong, and defended by Colonel GASPAR TIIIERRI:, with 450 men and seven pieces of cannon. Very few, if any,' of the garrison escaped. " The enemy made a sortie at the same time from the rarelin of St. Roque, but was immediately drivem in. This success has enauled Lord WELLINGTON to open his second parallel within 300 yards of the body of the place, against which place two batteries were open upon the 26th.—Daoc ET'S corps had con• tinued in the line between Medelia and Llerena. In the night of the 25th Sir Taos.--GaAn4st marched against the tatter place, but the French troops which occupied the town, had notice of his march, and retreated into the mountains. " Sir ROWLAND HILL was moving by De Guarina towards Medelin. The French army in Castile, wi der 111.11thIONT'S command, has not yet moved." GALLANT ACTION IN THE ADRIATIC. Accounts were this morning received at the Admi ralty, of a gallant action having been fought in the Adriatic between a British frigate and a gun-brig, and as enemy's flotilla, consisting of a . 74 gun-ship and seven praams. The whole of the praams were captured or destroyed, and the 74 wet beat off in a shattered condition. Letters from Cadiz, of the 24th March, from Mr. Turrets, late British Consul at Valencia, state, that he had arrived at Cadiz from Alicant, having been sent away by General Calyx, the Spanish Governor. On his arrival At Cadiz he made representations to the Regency regarding what had passed, asserting that he and a man belonging to a Guerilla party, watched the house of Catr, and oq seeing a person _leave it, they both followed the stranger to the adja cent mountains. On arriving there, Mr. Turna presenfetta plitelle the bluest of the stranger, and demamied-thit shre-shoqld give up any papers about his . person. The Man. tomplied, mid delivered to Mr. Tureen digpatckes froM Caez for. the French Commander, which removed all uncertainty as to the tcgichery- of the former. On this communication istsitig Made to the Regency, orders were sent out to Ceiv.x_to resigu his situation as Governor. of Aiicant. There was a report yesterday that the Scheldt fleet, consisting of sixteen sail of the line and some frigates, had made movement. which int:licit:ll 'an intention to put to sea, and that Sir litentrto *re tot Arr, who has the command oft that station, hnd collected his squadron in order to attack the enemy, in the-expectation that they would venture far eiuoughout to give him the opportueity of 'bring. ing them to attion. We are sorry .to announce the deith et Alderman W. ['Lonna, which took place yesterday morning, olthe gout in his stomach.. Ife was Aldetman of Coleman-street Ward, for which ollice several candi dates ate expected to present themselves. Among others Mr. WAITIIMAN is mentioned. The Directors of the East India Company hare, we understand, resolved to abstlin From nny exten sion of their establishment, during the present un certainty respecting the renewal of their Charter.— It is said, that they have even resolved not to fill up the civil offices that may become vacant during this state of suspence. _ -• A true we uederstaud, was found at Cleric en. well_ Sessions, on Friday, on behalf of the celebrated Mrs. CL.taus, against one of her old legal friends, charging Mm with defrauding her of several sums of money. lisonerrn Totsircr..—Between four and five o'cloFk yesterday morning the Highgate Tunnel fell in with a tremendous crash, and the labour of several months was, is a 'few moments, converted into a heap of ruins. Some of the workmen, wto were coming to resume their d4r,labour e desdthe the noise fist preceded it like that of distant thunder..-.. It was the Crown arch, near ifenisey-lane, that first gave way, and the lane, I's consequence, fell some -feet deep, and instantly becanie impassable. The Lhouseillf the vicinity felt the fall like the shock of an reartiatekke. The number of Persons whom : the fine. 'less 111 the weather attracted en Sandaymptp Inspect the works *ere not less than 300... Haw provide*. OM that Ito fall was, reserved for a *torment when no person was ou she spot, to safer by an accident which has reduced this Herculean task toe beep o~ ruins. OP A