The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-12-14 00:00:00

77 F' ri c 4 iii Y i I 'l DUTCH PAPERS. CO RUNNA PAPERS. . . tannin %VON PROM YIELD-MARSHAL TIM MARQUIS Of WSI LINOTON TO THE raamcn PEOPLE. I • • • Upon entering your country, learn that have given the most positive orders (a translation of which is subjoined to this) to prevent those evils which are Cie ordinary consequences of invasion, which you know is the result of that which your Government made into Spain, and of the triumphs of the allied army under my command. You may be eel tain that I will carry these °Meta into execution, and I request of you to cause to be arrested . and conveyed to my head-quarters, all. . thooollbo, contrary to those dispositions do You any . iojury. But it is requisite you should remain• in your 'muses, and take no part. whatever in the Operations of the war of which your country is going I° become s the theatre. (5 K nell) WELLINGTON. ORDERS. " Althomei the country which is in front of the army be an hostile one, the General in Chief anxi ously desires, that the inhabitants should be well treated, and property respected, as has hitherto been the case. 4 6- llie.efficers and soldiers must remember, that their nations are at war with Frtince,'only 'because he who is at the head of the Goverriettia. of the French nation V. ill not permit thew to be at. peace, and wishes to oblige th , m to submit to They mast not forget, that the greatest HI; sehich the enemy suffered in his shameful intaslit't pfSpain and Portugal, proceeded from the ditorders and cruelties which the soldiers, authorised, and even encouraged by their chiefs, committed spon'the on. fort If nate and peaceable inhabitants of the country._ " it would be inhuman, and. unstorthy . ofthf nations to w,hich the General in Chief alludes, to revenge that conduct upon the peaceable inhabitants of Prance ; and this vengeance Would in every case rause the fumy evils similar to, or even greater than those which die enemy has snffared in the Peninsula, and w nuld be very opposite to the public interests. " The .same regulations must, •therefore, be oh served in the cities and villages of France, as have hitherto been practised, in regard to the'requisitiotts awl receipts for provisions which may be drawst from the country ; and the Commiisaries belonging to elicit army of the different nations will receive from.their respective Generals-in-Chief orders relaiiie to the mode of pay meat for the provisions, and the time wit 'din w hick the payment must be.mide." VALENCIA, Nov. 2.—Nothing new has occurred in the blockades of Saguntum,Tortusa, and Peniscola. TILE Mane, Dec. o.—" We learn, that a vessel Is - to-rived herefrOm Harlingen. with HO well-armed `vrerriori t .whicli have been offered by the burghers of that city tor the defence of our native country. They are accompanied by three respectable burghers, who hare voluntiirily come forward to fight for their country out Orabge." • eut.uteoao, Dec. s.—". This day was a day of general joy foraH the inhabitants of this city. The arms of Orange displayed proved the double joy and attachment felt towards theiv.Sovereign: thtful•fil 'merit of their most heartfelt wishes was the Acted , - bus shout of Orange. . • Tiso f nurnber of burghers who were under arms, for the . •prott'etioto of peace and order. in the. town, In the tumult which is in some measure unavoidable oo.every great change of affairs, and contributed so greatly to the general tranquillity : the officers ha ving repaired in a body to his Excellency the Gen. Von Oppen, to pay their respects, and at the same time to offer their assistance, and request his Excel lency's co-operation in the foresaid duty, met with such a happy reception, that his Excellency not only expreited his, approbation thereof, but likewise de clared he Would honour the performance with his pi esence. . . _ 64 After a procession in state, and amidst the re. peated plaudits of all the inhabitants, the flag was placed on the gates. " The General, in an affecting speech, admonished the armed burghers, to proceed in their zealous ef forts for protecting peace and good order, and like vi i'e to show on their parts, that they would contri bute with their utmost power to keep this beloved aag always flying. • 44 This speech was attended with repeated buzzes ; and thecries of Long live the Prince of Orange, our lawful SOTerrign!—Long live the King of Prussia -; !- Loug live General Von Oppen!'—made - the air to resound, and which was affsctionately returned by• the General and his Officers, exclaiming, Long live the Bur4hers of Celenborg !' ." The whole train now moved forward to the great Church, and there received a suitable admonition:to gratitude towards she . Supreme Being for this Nippy occurrence ; after which they left the church, with the bells ringing, and ' , pent the remainder of the day in suitable and decent rejoicings." Tim Moo*, Doc. 9. = -The Government continues to receive from all sides the Most essential proofs of, the patriotic love of their-Officers, and of their at tachment to their Sovereign, his Royal Highness.— A laudable instant* of this has been given - a few, days Ow l - by Met Einurcourd, appointed Receiver of the Public Duties at Rotterdam, by his generous oiler made to the Depaetment of War, of sending to the army of .ivieb Royal Highness one man and horse, to be kept at his expence ; and which offer has been accepted by the Government, with thank.. to the patriotic zeal of the giver. • f [he same Paper contains a long Proclamation is- . , sned by the Prince of Orange, Sovereign Prince of the , ' . United Neverlands, abolishing all the French De- crees and prohibitions relative to the Customs ; and i Slii f t r estoring in their stead, the former constitutional dn. i ti es andsegulations ; dated at the Hague, Dec. 7.] ' i 1 , 1 1 It hi said to be the intention of Gover nmen t no t t o , i 0 commission any more ships of the line for the pre. rW Y sent. The (pion, 74, wanting repairs, is ordered to be r aid off at Plymouth, and the Dacus at , 11 Chatham: . Chatham: . . , I t ll . ' . .. . • • sent trout 64, •._ _ General Cooke is just arrived here from the The events now pee4esg under our observation s Brille, and will, it is expected, be followed by a re- and which excite so Minch astonishment throughout giment of the Guards in the course of the day. Europe, are not, however, from their nature, so UTRECHT, Dec. 7.—We are here in expectation much as fromthe rapidity of their succession, enti oath*. arrival of 20,000 more of the Allied troops thello that wonder which they have given rise to. ' who are to pass through this place. Thereare many politicia' ne, who, though they regard • According to intelligence this day received from ,them as uncommon, yet consider them. as by no the Hague, the youngest son of his Royal Highness means out of the order if things. kiiifory has exhi. our Sovereign, 17 years asp, arrived there yester- Diced numerous in:rimiest-Of as great changes, both day morning from Berlin. His Highness alighted with respect to individuitia as to states, as any which at the Hotel de Jurenne, and was immediately BONAPARTE and the Empire - of Germany have tin lodged hi the house of Mr. Baron Lamsem, at the dergone and are undergoing. We may be thought corner of the square. less surprised at their occurrence, than many of.• DORDRECHT, DEC. 7.—The Government of our our contemporaries, siuce we observed at the time city have this day by Proclamation, likewise declared 's the rumour was spread,, that the Emperor of Aux our beloved Prince William as Sovereign of the Nfis e vitta was about to break with his brother Emperor therlands. The Proclamation being followed bj ta of FRANCE, that should such an event take place, general approbation, a Committee is nominated to we could not conceive it possible for the French ar offer his Royal Highness the Sovereignty in the name _ mies to maintain -their footing without the limits of of this city likewise. . • , the Rhine. Upon the defection of the Saxons, and According to certain intelligence (already given by after them of the Bavarians, it is impassible that us) ; Heivoetslisys was evacuated by the French in any reasonable man could hare anticipated any other the night between the Sunday and Monday last.— vesalts than those which have accrued. Wo go to 1 The enemy's garrison retired on board the flotilla; the play, and are struck with the ambition and on which occasion, as we learn, a., boat overladen_ teak of Nacbelh although history affords us with men filled, and the men were all drowned.-I,olbanifold ,and undeniable instances of as great vice*' Admiral Kirk kert ' entered llelvoetsluys yesterday t ana eddies in every age, and in every part, of the world. evening. The French flotilla, which immediately 1 ttprari the death of the Emperor AllAatatiesati, hit, thereupon quitted the road of lielvoctsluys, arrived sous CSINIILES aild - FriAcis_involved European pet yesterday about noon, 17 sail strong, in sight of the ;penult hostilities, and kept the whole age in alarm Buitensluis, and last night took the way to Wil- and agitation. 'The maxims of CHARLES, the suc liamstadt, where the schooners and gun-boats are censor of the Emperor, were wise and beneficent, hauled into the harbour, whilst the larger vessels hut the passions of the man were soon allowed to were obliged to remain laying off the harbour. The domineer over them ; and when FREDBRICK, the. enemy, whose first intention was no doubt to retire Elector of Saxony, fell into his power, nothing was with the flotilla to Antwerp, therefore appears not so conspicuous in his behaviour as the rage of an to have dared to venture to the batteries of Oeltjens- incensed conqueror ; for he Made his humiliated an pleat, which is in our hands. According to accounts tagonist resign his electoral dignity, to admit the received, the enemy had caused ail the crews of the imperial troops • immediately to possess his capital, flotilla to be landed at Williamstadt. and to re:nein the Exertion's prisoner. No one of From another side we have the intelligence, that the last eight centuries ' could be . pointed out as not the Allies last Sunday crossed the Waal at Tiel, and furnishing materials for as much admiration as that have extended themselves in the country between which is now stirred up by the affairs of the Conti the Meese and Waal. On the same day, as is re- ; Dent. Their rise out of a revolution, almost unique ported, the French quitted Nimeguen. lin its kind, is the only distinction they are entitled The passage from Hard wicksvelci to Werkendam ' to. 14aporrores greatness took its rise from im- I had not been completed this afternoon ; but every pulses common enough in ordinary men, viz. va thing will, this evening, be ready for the purposes $ Ility and the love of applause. Ile was accidentally exclusive of the pontoons from this town, which i'commended in the French Journals for his conduct were already laying at Hardwicksveld. There are' as an artillerist at Torsion, when' Lieut.-Governor 1 others passed ahitherwards this afternoon. The !O'HARA was taken prisoner, and from that instant Russians have likewise throws up'a battery of four ;he laboured icessantly to obtain prominent situations. pieces of artillery at the ferry at Hardwiksveld, for An ardent mind, united with personal courage, were covering the passage; aud filially, a number of Bus- the foundations of Boseeisars's great character, and sian and Prussian troops of all descriptions, with a concurrence of fortunate events, seemed to profilist: much artillery, have this day passed by Papentirecht, , its consummation. A great chasm, however, iu this on their way to Amsterdam. The whole Dyke, be- moral edifice has been laid open to the world, or ni -1 • tween this town and 'Oririnchem, is full of Allied 1 ther a great cavity has been made in it, by a success ( troops; and exclusivirelf. ihiltv Gorinchem is on' the : flit coalition of power; and italepends upon the skit liand side, already entirety inclosed by a numerous , fulness of hostile architects to prevent it being artfully corps of several thousand men. ; filled up, so as to arrest the admiring eyes of mankind. iThe plan appears to be to effect the passage on I sTbe gr:eat object will, io our opinion, be to hold this Werkendatn, with a considerable force, who are conspicuous being as little as possible to the view of immediately to spread themselves thr o u g h the whole : the world. In peace he will be as a toy which children of Dutch ' Brabant, and likewise release those part _ : have played with 'till tired. War is tie only element of our native country from the enemy's yoke before3o;orhichisis buoyant nature Is likely to' float. In ?that he can have time to fix himself in the fortified ; the social arts of peace, the very recollection of his towns. ! exploits will be unseas ona ble and unsavoury. We l DORDRECHT, DEC. B•—Up to this moment the hope that our Government will duly reflect on what • passage at Werkendam is not effected, nor any thing s. ; we have said ; and, above all, consider on the im. undertaker against the town of Goritichem itself. l portahce of, and benefit to be derived from, PUBLIC According to report, both the one and the other have °moron at this period of the world, when the to wait for the arrival of the Russian Prince Na- intellect of man is rapidly growing and strop. rischkin, who is this day expected to arrive in the Oise to throw off the shackles of rejudice.— camp before Gorinchem. Meanwhile the force Public opinion, and' the reverence fpurided on it, st !rich threatens the fortress en the land side, and' are' indispensibly necessary to the sipped '4f all likewise that which is to cross the Maas at Worker,- Government : we hope the head of the British State dam, has received consideraide reinforcements; and '4l ieriously consider, whether the present Ministers. ,- 1. the good consequences of this last undertakh'ig iv cif the ,Grown have capacities to encounter the ap rendered certain, it being expected with impealeand preaching difeculties of public affairs, and maintain by the Hollauders on the left bank of the *es % that, opiniott. There never was a Period in the his , who are still under the French yoke. . -; , tpry of Great Britain when, a vigorous and wise Ad i . The French flotilla iii and off Williamstadt laving ministration was so much wanted as at present. received pilots from Astwerp, with orders to retire The Prince of GRANCIS brought with him, besides to that place s yesterday got und er s a il, an d en d e a- other papers, a Proclamation issued by the Marquis iloured to get over the Krammer ; a brisk can n onade of Watriewrox to the French, and spread as wide heconsequence took place between it and the forts ly as .possible in the neighbourhood of his Armies, 1 1 4 C: Buitensluis and Oultjerisplaat, oshich continued as we find, in both the 'French and English lan. if Several hours; aud as not the , learn damage guages. No date is affixed to it, and, therefore, wig thereby sustained on our pee, opelarief 'we cannot-judge of Re future probable effect from the i 4;1 aluCh 04 the euewy, that he wak,tetally prat jaat • • . We c.anaet hat • rye howeTer ) that unless ° I) , .• • , ~ ..oi potation of London. Af.er rereA int t e Address, Dr. PARSONII, the new Bishop of Peterborough, did homage before the PniNcr ItEraNr. The Hereditary Prince of Ou tNGP. had an audi enco.of ibe PRINCE REGENT, ithd, we u n d erstand, t001t,14, , of his Royal Highness prev%tou to ibis deperturetor Holland. The Prince afterwards held a Privy Council, which watatteadect by molt of the Cabinet Ministers.—Elii Royal Highness gave audience to Lords LivtarooL a ad 13,tvivisT. We understand the Petecz Itrovrr will hold COart on Friday, to receive the Address of the Uni. iessity of Otford. ' The Princess' CfiARLOTTE of WALES was press -t 'at the dinner, which the Patnce atmet.ur gave on Sunday to the Hereditary Prince of oa4mor. A Treasury Journal of yesterday, contained the folloWing paragraph : " The omission of the song lit Orange Bonen, reflecting on BONAPARTE, was in consequence of the well-known wish of Government not to give offence to the Emperor of AItiTRIA, through whom it was not unlikely the general recut 'ciliation of the 'BONAPARTE dynasty may be effect. ed."—This indeed is the opening of a new are in the Treasury Journals.—lf they are become this re. spectful towards BONAPARTE 4 we may presume hi; _wife and his child will cease to be the subjects of their vulgar and scurrilous abuse; that we shall t longer be disgusted with " the brat," and " urchin," as appellations of the one—nor of the " harlot" and "mistress," applied to other. „ • Drnietter - from the - 111editerrinean. we lean. :!..? liiii :Orbli tfaleSfy's sloop Goshawk, Capt. NArttir; ,it appears she stood in. close to Barcelona, after an I enemy's vessel, •when the wind dying away, and 4 heavy swell setting on the shore, • Capt, Nano:: judged it necessary, to prevent her Wing into tat hands of the. enemy, to destroy her, which was done, and the officers Efid men saved by the boSti. A very large . gpantity of Ordnastoe-steres • were shipped front Chatham fer Holland, during the la , t week, including nearly 10,000 stand of small arm:. Five hundred oithe Gnardeerehaelted at •Hare ich.. DiYnttAst Et.ncrtov..—:-' State-al -the, Noll on Wed. nesday :—Mr. ALLAN 402—Mr. BAECTI 3.13.—Mr. BilltLlt'S friends win.e, "howevrer; confident of .bit Success. The poll is fief expietea.to close groahl until Friday. • - In consequence of the hint given brae CHANcrr.. 'ton of the Fxcnteuee in the House` of Comment., on Friday last, a great number of tradesmen have already began to refuse taking Bad Copper, and it will soon become general throughout the Metropolis. None but Tower Half.pence and the Tokens, wilt be allot ed .by Government in-return for the New Coinage coming out. . It appears by our Yarmouth and Deal le:te. s that the whole of the troops, with their .Coreteandrr.in , Chief, Sir Thom is GRAHAM, sailed for Holland yes terday. LLOYDS, Dcc. 14.—The Lords CoMmissioners have been pleased to inform the Committee, in reply Ito a communication, relative to the True Blooded . Yankee privateer :—That two sloops of war were cruizing between Belfast and Holyhead, and haring. - I received information of the privateer, one has soiled in pursuit of it, while the other maintains it cruizing. ground. • , Haim', Dec. 13.—8 y a. Letter to the Regulating Officer. of this port, from the Captain of the Helena, sloop of war, dated Holyhead, 9th inst. it appears that the 7'rue Blooded Yunett, Americin privateer, i was cruising in St. George's Channel, having been seen off Camra, on the 6th, from whence it is sap ! posed she is gone off the Salteese. • The folkowilg Lines, sacred to the Memory of •'D•lein -Goalies, are offered by the Author, with great defereneei for the Bust which the Drury-13 , w 'Committee hilie cousecrated to the transceinlant in,... rits of the only Actor that ever did ample jti•tice to 'the !sublime productions of our immortal Bard : While rival Ban's, in pompons verve displ:ty The fleeting triumphs of the transient day ; While Heroes boast of battles bravely woo. 01- slaughtered millions, and of States undone r While milder manners to this impulse yield. And chaunt the glories of the well-fiight Held. The grateful Muse; 0 Clanasca 'hall praclaint Thy proud pretensions to Immortal fame. Enraptwr'd crowds encircling StiAgsrit BEI; shrine, To latest times shall hail his powers divine) Whilst thou,-0 GARRICK ! CACIOg to their source, Ills *arid talents, gave his genius courser Ti full perfection every beauty brought, • As chaste in action as sublime in thought. Around thy honour'd Bust, the sacred Nine, In laurel wreathes tArir lropkieg shall entwine, And sing the wonirous magic.of thy art, To seize, to charm., and subjugate the heart. When rage, despair, and woe, in frantic I.ga 1, ClainAl for his wrongs the tributary tear, Thy sympathetic soul, in grief's full tide, • Displayed the Poet's and the Actor's pride, From the " mind's eje" each trick of art trios'(, The flowing tears the sweet delusion prov'cl. • Bence from the heart, fond Nature's last appeal, The tavish'd senses deenedlithe fiction real, — To Britain's Bard decreed the laurel crowr, Ao+stampt day fame; triunceodaot as his OR2 - uoismoritip;wtor,i, vynitigiis .01 w.tivea,icrolft.iininet iteeirt:.serritceeliy.',f 'll Iti STATESMAN. - Ausanowir'r Willi - ---"' Arr. Got N"."'"' H " enb ail s . orgh - ..... - ...:44 ..4 " /. *';: i. ''' ..beg - we t" : 1111 Wil g li lidintik esstade lat an I d al t imegiit inund li e i rtin or. i the cower o . :edh°thwreoveerh' a • Heligoland dee to get out of the reach of our guns. The Are I. be allowed 11. 0 r i e y a in c s i s withnilemlthmeiairaknaethsotiinarkemisPlact';°l r".:1: Cadiz •••••• 00000 i the 0 Commis S _ --6-------•' that they had dearly attended all their amosualtlon i'l bit A l t h li e bO r"l' ut f h oe i r '° L t c h l:ct i ; g es i t l er li ri t t y :Pe af re te eP rno tibl iss e ,.asi ' p• 1 staarehnutinsaY fneewitn.l63l2mtt:Yanhqtot qualified d ut t t: largeof Saturdaysupply • Irma Bsinds'l 3 olis., ~ .. Kok 1348 _, mot oi STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOOII. tachtyner BMW. •J tier ' 1 :•Itro• tits 3 per t. , Cook , t ,... . Distil 30. 1 1 5p . , „ . ply of eight *woo, with ammuni pa tio u n sid , arrived . t off i an Th w e e lfa hi. fa te i per . ts- 7 6 i •1. ,:ilt :: , 1 . / (411 "7to hi p." - •• f , Yesterday, a ship ) laden with ~ arrov„ la s t n i pht 3 pev• •. . . nt. N '' ' .'" co e rwols i ror Acct. rip . • twag. un• N i 15 ..• 1...........••• 1 " 1 "*" — . ---- . - - - -7 ' ---- --- 77.- ' day detained by our un-boats on the Kil, and sent !no event of signal importanceLmmulwrenicait( the fool- w faff of Milliamstadt into the hands of.the Patrioi, g _._ ._ . _ ___ ___ _ _ ... u p At om s t T h ri sß ap l ta c m e , .Dsc. B._we.have veceived THEO. STAVIESVIA N-: these di:theta from the opposite 1 u ' - e shore , %mes s t , n lowing information from the Island of Tent 1-4: sof he $0 ion'sidered. The•llollanders hourly e :: r ~,I .TA. T E. S IIIhrN OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK. . . LONDON: " ~.A . .._.• The Company of Coast Artillery, on the Island of plied Foq of . As Allies to pass throu Emplanes were received this morning La TVESDA Ir t InCEMBER 14, 1813. g f h ro U rn t rechr: "lezel, under the,command of Captain Yon Bre- 4.- • • '' ' °?' • • ' .'- -., a a0..—. itthiecnuept itoef,:iveloabrlcoenonin4: Two Dutch Mails arrived this morhing, and the niugein, joined themselves to several lrrghers, and ' L ..-_. . intelligence will be found satisfactory and interest- being united, forced the French Cemmantlaut to a ing:— capitulation. The garrison, with theeaception of the intaictiAßT, hut the pa r ti cu l ars h ad not transpired UELVOETSLUYS I DEC.- 12.—Yesterday inform'. 'aforesaid Comola ntao t, an d twoothor Freockoffice r a, wjse n this Paper was put-to Press. lion was brought by a pilot, that the fortress of who are prisoners orwar, have joined the llutch.--i Williomstadt had the night before been evacuated by We were enabled to mate ourselves entirely masters 1 Yesterday the Parscc atom held' a Court at the French, and a body of marines was immediately of all the artillery and acomunition . on the island. Carlton-hou;e. A few the Add ress o f the Cot minutes after three o'cicrli: sent from hence to take possession of it. --..... his Royal Highness received ' nerestinn of I ~...,1,... . a e _ . . •