The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-08-03 00:00:00

110119 end in the estencaive plains of. Podolia, and The Ukraine, the joyful eeciansa‘iopi of 1 Long live N an d! Long live oaf Native Country., et .I.IIEItICS NEW YORK, 'mit Is. VIEiY TITE norot or EYRICSECE&TIV ES ON TOE quirATtOlt 4111 • WAR. nip following 19 said to be the Mate of the vote on the war t „, on, him h pas,rd tire [louse of itepresentutives Ike tiool States on the 3 Is inst. For War 79—Against it 49. Washington, June 19. HOUSE OF REPItESENTATIN ES, JUNE 10. hIESSACE I n TOE AYSATE AND TIOVIIE Or REPPESENTATITEO Tit usrrE9 ETATLIt. .. I lay before Congress copies of the le:ters which have pass e, wre n the secretary of stat e , and the Envo y Extraordinar y llinioer Plenipotentiary of Great Britain. J us t 8, 1811. JAMES MADISON." cOgitrWONDrNCEON THE ORDERS IN COUNCIL. The first Letter is from Mr. Forster to Mr. Monroe, M THE STATEgM AN. Arr. Mails. Dtte I ,1 O 1 - • 0 O 1 I 2 " WASIIINCTON, JUNE'S, 1812. ic Seal had the honour of seeing you at your °s e e, yesterday, I have perceived an article in the yahlic prints, stated to be extracted from an English N ews paper, and purporting to be an official declara tion of his Ito) al Highness the Prince Regent, that the Orders in Council nil be, and are, abso lutely revoked, from the period when the Berlin and Milan D.Cfeel shall, by some authentic act of the F r ench Coternment, publicly promulgated, be ex pressly and unconditionally repealed. " ton :airing the important nature 8f the above mentioned article, and the probability, that I shall lave soon to he the organ of some official tnmmunica tion to the American Government in relation to it, I cannot but trust, that no measure will, meanwhile, be adopted by the Congress, which would defeat the endeavour of procuring a complete reconciliation be tween oar two countries." PRICE OK STOCKS THIS Bank 9 per Cent. Cons. 5611 9 per Cent. Rest 564/ 4 per Cents. 73ii 5 per Cent. Navy 84 Lang. Ann, 15 5-16 DAY AT ONR O'CLOCK. India Bends 9 10 die. Exchequer Bills 30.3 4 dis. Ditto 30. 3 5 pr Omnitun ni Consols for Acct. 15611 Lottery Tickets THE 'STATESMAN. Tits Second, also from Mr. Foster to Mr. Monroe, dated wasenneretg, Jove 4, DIM Refers to a Note from the latter, which is not given, requiring some explanation as to an expression w :. , 41 by Mr. Foster, but which he declines giving, N3lN—" A reason paramount to every other for riv [tot committing myself to an explanation on any :in I' topic, without the discussions between us ware to continued, is the publication of the highly im portiut Dorlaration of•his Royal Highness the Prince Itrgent, to which I had thelionour to allude in my Ewe to you of this morning." - I!.c Thild and last Letter given, is from Mr. Monroe to Mr. Foster, dated DEPARTMENT or STATE, JUNE 6, 1812. LONDON: "11ONDA* Aireure 3, ISM We have this forenootTreceived an Anholt Mail, to the 26th 'ultimo, which brings accounts from Riga to the 14th. The following are .the only ex tracts worthy of notice : COTTENBURGH, Jot, 25. Nothing of importance has taken place between the hostile armies, according to accounts from Riga, dated July 14. The Russians persist in their system of falling tack. At Licbau a large quantity of grain was thrown into the sea, and nearly all the inhabi tants hare left the place : some letters say, that there are only three or four families remaining. Count 110HEN1.0; with about 40 man, has been taken prisoners, whilst reconnoitring. The first Baltic convoy for England is still in the Roads, having. put back six times. On the 21st 4 the Sheldrake was dispatched for England by. Sir JAMES SAussanEz, with information from Mr. THORNTON, that he had, on the part of . Great Britain, signed the Preliminaries of Peace with ltussia and Sweden. Erlich Papers down to the 22d ult. containing the ) 6th Bulletin, -dated at \Vilna, July li, and other important and interesting documents - ..-will-be found in our Paper of this day ; and while they state, that the Russians have retreated nearly to their ancient frontier, they convince us that, if the subjugation of Russia formed NAPOLEON'S object, he has undertaken a task of a most difficult nature, for his progress is not marked with the rapidity of his usual operations. The elements are unfriendly to his march, though this alone irsot the cause of his long stay at \Vilna. Harbrgithizing ancient Po land, from which he has driven-the Russians ; and if he stop there, and make the Poles what he says he will—a free people—he will have merited, in that re spect, the esteem of every friend of the human race. If his object be the subjugation of Russia, the war must be spun out to a length, the idea of which shocks humanity to contemplate. In the Austrian and Prussian ware he passed along with the speed of lightning ; unties fell before him like stubble, nor did an . immetise population anyways retard his pro gress. Here the case is different, because the ob jecits so : he intended ta make Austria and Prussia bend the knee to him, but it suited not his purpose to revolutionise those countries. But Poland he in tended to revolutionise, because he there could raise a powerful nation from the dust, that would act like the left hand of France against the powers of the North. The people, as well as the Government, will be his friend—they will recruit his old, and form now armies, in return for having restored them to political existence. • YARMOUTH, AdG.2. Arrived the Beaver sloop of war from Wingo Sound, with dispatches from "Sir JAMES SAUMAUEZ. The utmost exertion is using in the Swedish ports to equip all their transports and Small vessels, in order to embark a large force to act against the French. MOREAU is daily expected in Sweden. An immense quantity of corn is on its way from the Russian ports fer England. The Swedes are all alive, and very hearty in the cause. Yesterday a Cadiz Mail arrived, by which we have Grtzetas de la Regenria to the 17th ult. They con tain nothing respecting the operations of the Allied Army subsequent to the Ist of. last month, and our intelligence from the same quarter, through Oporto, is ten or twelve dayi-,later. Contributions were raising at Madrid, and in the five adjacent prefects, to which the authority of Jones only extends, to the amount of upwards of two millions sterling, and the country was reduced to a state of utter ruin by these exactions. The French were removing from La Mancha, and with them General BOCNOT, with the Members of the Criminal Court of Ciudad Real. Demerara Gazettes have been received to the mid die of May, which contradict a report of several vessels having been captured off the coast,, and of the Liberty gan-brig having had an action with a French squadron; and also state, that the long-existing differ ences between the Colonies of 'ltinerate and Ber bice had been finally adjusted by Commissioners ap pointed for that purpose. The Governments and Courts of Justice of both settlements have been con solidated, in consequence of the instructions carried out by Governor CARMICHAEL, and all legal pro ceedings are in future to be carried on in English lan. gunge. The C,-.lrt of Policy passed an Act, on the, 21)th April, for changing the name of the principal town in atmerara from Stabroek to George-Town. Accounts from Batavia mention, that upon the news of its reduction ariving at the Dutch settlement of Palembang, the Malays, instigated by the Rajah, rose and massacred the troops in garrison, consisting, with their families, of 200 souls. A detachment of British troops had previously sailed from Batavia to take possession of Palembang. A Colonial Corps was organizing in Java. The troops in Batavia, and the immediate environs, had suffered much from sick-1 ness; but those at other points of the coast, and in the interior, enjoyed excellent health. Letters from the Cape of Good Hope state, that the Caffres in the interior had lately assembled in considerable bodies, and attacking the Dutch farm- . ers, committed various depredations and cruelties. — in consequence of these outrages, the Cape Hotten tot Regiment, with a company of European artillery, and a squadron of dragoons, had been marrhed for the interior.. General CRAnOCK, the Governor, had remitted all duties npoti the export of articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of Southern Africa. A Me:aortal from some Merchants interested in' the trade of New South Wales, praying for leave to import direct from thence a considerable quantity of , mother of pearl, and pearl shells, the produce or a new fishery contiguous to Otaheite, was lately refer red from the Board of Trade to the First India Com pany. The Directors refused their permission, un less the pearl shall be Lades. on board vessels char-' During the came of Saturday evening and yester- tered by the Company from Botany Bay to China, day, rumours were afloat in the City, that a great and from thence to England with tea. battle had been fought in the neighbourhood of Riga, A report of a very singular nature has been corn: l between the French and Russians, in which the municated to us, which we in like manner communi former, ander the command of MACDOOkLDI ate to the public, but without in any degree pledg- Dake of Tarentum, bud been defeated with the ng ourselves for its truth. The statement is this that very recently, a Minister of State waited on an loss of fifteen thousand men, and were corn- illustrious Female, and, after expressing how much pelted to make a disorderly retreat. To this news he felt at being the bearer of the message he was no date was attached, nor did it obtain credit; but about to communicate to her, proceeded to inform the Morning Chronicle of this morning states, that her, that he came, by cemmand of her husband, to four letters were received in Town on Saturday fr om state to her 9 that he thought her visits to the issue of their marriage were too frequent, and to request they Paris, two of them dated the 26th, and two the 27th might be leas so in future, and -not too• long at one The 'labor frigate, just aerated from India, has time. T h e illustrious mother,then called one of her' brought a large q u a n tify o f specie. ult. one of the former of which adverts obscurely to unfavograblf .to ,in L Itt re oo t m received from the Grand attendants into the rooreesellofot her requesi, wrote • t „by a ret urn o bt a i ne d f rom th e C us t o m-house in Army, but y l/PM been promulgated; while down the substance of Shis i meisege, which sVes teed' Nslp to the bearer thereof, and acknowledged by him to L. , I N NOW England, it appears that the property the others state, that MACOOOALD had reached the utio • be correct. The attendant then, by his Mistress's Veg to the citizens of that town, at sea or in neighbourhood o f Riga, snd that hehad been engaged desire, signed the paper; after which, the Minister foreign parts, liable to capture, amounts to two by the Russians, and defeated. Since writing the ' f • grate, on the same request, aim signed it. millions four hundred thousand dollars. above we have received an Anholt Mail, which Is ' The Lowther. Tax, we ondersbnid, *in 'be thee- L _ is untrue that any of the Bow-street Officers • .""e tv'en twisted in, as it is called, with the rioters entirely silent on the so a- battle, which v i i. Aimed altogether, it appearing that nevernment *AI l ' a nea3hire aa has been stated in most of the pa- den the Ter* CO _A. I.„won to*tpaOlifittge to pay the greatsst portion of it in military Pets. • dubious. 1- - • sverplisr • • qpitii)ivi .k k Jilira aro i : .4, -4,rzweimer 0.0 . , • I . • ..or •• • Which says---" Lam not disposed to make any ! unnecessary difficulty on account of the informality of the document alluded to in the last letter. If the De7laration of the Prince Regent was such as to af- tad the satisfaction required, it would be received in an farm entitled to credit, with great interest, as a token of just and friendly sentiments in 3 our Go- %minima towards the United States. But nothing is seen in that act of the character which you impute to it. NVithout removing a single objection to the! principle on which the Orders in Council were issued, nil have been maintained, it affords a complete jus- Clration of the demand heretofore made on your Government for their repeal. "So far as the French Decrees violated the neutral commerce of the United States, we had a right to 'lnland the repeal, and obtained it. The repeal was ticlared by an authentic and formal act of the French %ailment, and communicated to this Government 1 . . rite Minister Plenipotentiary of the United states, le Pt is, and to the British Government by their Minis ter I lenipotentiary at London; and has, moreover been ofilrially published within the United States. The to:no.inicity of the repeal was placed beyond all con tr‘venir, and the official, manner in which it was r-tuniattirated to your Government, ought to have Lyn satisfactory to it. " lu reply to your insinuation, that the demand T":: , !' on your Government to repeal its Edicts, siolate the neutral rights of the United States, ni:,;le in concert with France, to obtain ftont Great an abandonment of her maritime rights ; it is suilitient to refer you to documents which have been lung 14.10 re the public,. and particularly to the let ter of Mr. Ptnkney to the Marquis 'Wellesley, of itt- I atisry 11, 1811, protesting in the most - solemn man- sier rpinsi looking to any other source for the opi nions and principles of the United States, than to the! taitetlStatus themselves. Let me repeat, with re spect to th e Ord e n in Councils, that all we demand it. that they cease to violate the neutral rights of the I . instal states, which they bare violated, and still lints:e on the high sea, should they be continued as to Prance in any form which may not violate those Lighl. or to any other neutral nation to which they Ina 3 h.. applicable, it would 'be for OSA -Nation, and 11 " 11. 0t the United Staten, to contend against them." 34 . Foster, in a note of Who Ist inst. (Ante) al atlas to the conduct of America, of enticing and har hourio; d eserters from the Brit i sh N ary; and en rlovs several letters from Admiral Sir R. Curtis and i Captain HA, of. the nord William, with the r a m`i and descriptions of 28 British seamen on hoarrltbe (Allied &ales, the Constitution, and Wasp P ; aid of others who • had deserted, after being iarrim d mau • ..., • ) led on 'board American vessels of war. I .le American Secretary, in a reply, evades any an rer on the fi rst ground of complaint, but says, the Miter null be 46 enquired into," and seems to think Elat the 2% seamen alluded to may have become na tualised Americans. In that case, 44 they must be Protected as such." The laws, he says, will compel 'erecter from the merchant service to return to their 3 4 1 , but others may be considered as malefactors, ICt t to be surrendered without a special stipulation. STETTIN, Jut.ir 4. We receive daily accounts of the excesses which have been, and still are, daily committed by the French troops. It is asserted, that in the neighbour hood of Konigsberg, they have forced the peasants to drag the ammunition-wriggons, there not being a sufficient number of horses obtainable for such pur pose; and they write from Insterburg, that two pea sants had been hung up by the feet, because that they did not give the French soldiers what they had not to give. Nor do the German soldiery receive greater praise.—(Stockholin, JuIN 20.) We have just received Corunna Papers to the 25th ult. from which we ettract the following: — ST. VINCENT DU LA BARQUEIIA, .7i:ix 19. BONNST has been completely routed in Tordesil las; he lost 3000 mu, and the remainder of his army was completely dispersed.—(Coranna Ga--ette, Ails 24.) a/MINNA, Jett' 19. Lord WeLuturrox will, no doubt, have already entered Valladolid ; 110 is expected in Burgos, Lo grano, and Madrid : at least, the situation of the brilliant English army leads us to expect this. One thousand eight hundred cavalry and 5000 infantry were in Cahlinmont, three leagues west of Vallado lid, with the order of march in the direction of Duenas. The siege of Astorga is reduced to a strict blockade. Our troops have taken, and will take, the road of Zamora and Toro ; others will proceed by Carrion and Valderas, to reinforce thost , who have passed through those places.' The 7th army has extended . itself near to Vittoria, to observe CAnArct.t.t, and support MI,,A, after having persecuted Bourn; who, it appears, entered Valladolid on the 6th, from whence he retired with MARMONT en the 7th, kering 4;000 sick.—(C.)rztß• *a Diary, July 19.) Yesterday being the first Sunday after. the first Saturday in the month, ogre( ably to the alteration ordered at the last Quarterly Meeting of the QuEEN'y . oOttikin 'the following Butietiu was. own at St. James's Palace " Windsnr Cfastle. A ngust I. " Soon after the last flfwnthly Report. Ids Masora had a se vere aece-sion of his disorder, which quickly subsided; and hie btu sery has since coatinued as wellas-before that attack." What must be the feelings of the PRINCE REGENT, with the lively interestwhich he takes in the cause of the Sovereigns of Europe, to see his Government left in the hands of a Cabinet who confess their im becility, and who yet chaffer for the loaves and fishes, when the means of strengtbiffing it is present ed to them ?-111ow can he venture on the relaxation which he promises to himself by his journey into Warwickshire, after this public avowal of their in adequacy to the situations which he has appointed thews to till; The Marchioness of Hmtrroan will leave Man chester-sqoare for Bagley Hall, Staffordshire.—Wili a distinguished Personage follow in her train ? In the cause for non-residence, HARDY V. Hon. and Rev. CATHCART, tried last week at York, before Baron Wools, a verdict was found for the Plaintiff with 9301. damages. We understand that an elevation of two Noble Lords in the British, and two in the Irish Peerage, is about to take place; but no creation bf new Peers is yet talked of. Extract of a letter, dated Madras, Feb. 2.8, 1812 : —" The Mabrattas would he troublesome if they could; but Lord Watt.Estry has left them neither the means nor the power : all that tbey can do, they sare ouw doing, 4o wit, tearing each other to pieceq. 1111oLlaa's death has made no alteration in Malwatta politics. There' is, indeed, a man named AMELR Ku . & who, at some distant period may give us tame trouble, bet at present he can do nothing ; for he has not any gold or silver, and they have not yet learned its this country to maintain armi, , s liy bits of paper,. All is quiet on both sides of the Peninsula, and our army tranquil and united in good faith and bar 'mony. All we have to fear it a want of,rice; as we bad not any monsoon, and rice being' scarce and dear in Bengal also, we are much alarmed. Our capture of Java, we apprehend, like the Isle of F i lature, will prove only an increase of our expenses, and a draining from all the Presidencies. Some of the Madras merchants have made speculations to Java, by which they have lost about 40 per cent. on their prime cost. The only domestic article I have to inform you of is, the failure of the house of HARRINGTON and Co. for about 22 lees of rigodas, which has ruined and made beggars of nearly 2000 families: they are indebted to a native to the south ward, nearly three lacs of pagodas. Many people who were going home in the shipsarhich sail to-mor row, are now destined to remain here far their lives. The sensation which this failure has caused is dread ful.—Of our squadron I have nothing to impart, ex cept that our Admiralty Court has taken tho prize money away from the captors of Amboyna, &c. making it a Droit to the King." It is stated in a Jamaica paper of the 15th of June, " that the Junta of Carthagena had sent a deputa tion to the Vice-Roy of Panama (who had marchei a large body of troops against them), requesting a cessation of hostilities until the arrival of the Com missioners expected from &Wald and Spin, to mediate between the Mother Country and her cola nies." ... NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. • PLYMOUTH, Avo. 1. Arrived the Reindeer brig of war, of 18 gone, from Jamaica. Sailed, on Thursday evening, biaMajesty's ship Ardent, of G 4 guns, with troops for Halifax: x' 9gLY, • Went up harbour, to relit, the Melpooseue frigate. Arrived the Resolute gon-brig, from Cork; also the !Men. • gent gun-brig, from Topsham, n ith Jae Wasp, a new sloop a war, built there. FALMOUTH, aux 91. Arrived the Sandwich packet, from Cadiz, with a Mail, in LT days. HARWICH, Atm.?. Arrived the Auckland packet, from Gottenburgb,*ith Mails. Passed the Princess Augusta cutter, with 4 mil e Ilebpi. land, off the Holman. The homeward-tumid Baltic let sailed 21st ult. from Wig* Sound, and got off the Sear, hot were driven hack by a gale of wind, loins of them with lota of yards, &c. but no other material damage. PORTSMOUTH, Attcnirr Y. Arrived his Majesty's ships Tyrian and l'orpoise, with a con voy from the Downs. His Majesty's ship Minden is tippointetreosrvoy for the East ladies, Cape of Good Hope, South Ainerica, and the Coast of Africa. Sailed the Misletoe, with a convoy for fleernsey and Jersey ; and Lis Majesty's ships Pique, Buzaard, and Tortoise, wiat a convoy for Spain, Portugal, and the Mediterranean. ATrived to-da/P his Majesty's ships Prince of Wales, iteguius, Dexterous, and Hyena, with a convoy frn,n the Dowas. Tar Julia if) appointed convoy fur the Demo. Sailed the Piedatontaise fur ditto. N. B. Arrived from the Down 4 three running ship 4 1h•1 haw proceeded to . Cowes to take troops for the West ladies. Mkt., Ac r;Err '2. Arrived his Majesty's ship Phoebe, with 5 sail of homeward hound, under convoy; they are sailed for the River ; and his hlajesty'b ship Christian V 11. from of Flashing. But back the Albion, Brooks, for.Oportr. TIIg,AOR TS. . --..5...--- CORN EXCHANGE, Atiqt,re 3. This day the arrivals of Wheat make a middling supply ; the In general, are quoted fully at Friday's increase in price. Barley, in short supply, and rather dearer. Malt and White Peas heavy sate. Beans, of each - sort, support the last quota tion. W?have again but short supplies of Oats, and, owlo iig . the demand, sales thereof are named somewhat higher., fully at late prices. . • . 4 Wheat Fineditto _. 155 160 Do. (Vise Old) Ryg ..,...t ...... •, .74 11.1: Oats 57 60 63 Barley,, 60 tll l Poland do. • 64 65 Malt 6O 98l Posatoedo. White Pais (boilers) VD ;6 Rapellbled ' • , £44 £154 Grey do. ......... . la- 7W i FinelF4Ohr ....s. 115 s. 12da, Beam .82 i . 1 W... 1W 116 BMITHEIAD MARKET.,-..Aus. 3. • - ' To sink s ite 0 5 4, pentane of Mb. 1 Beef ..-ss: .44 so (k.6d« Head of Cattle this day I m u m,. ...b.. 4d. to 6s. r 4d. heats Veal _as, .;od. to Bs. Od. 'Ahem .... ... ' 17,4•0 Pork ....6.: On. In 6 .- Bd. gawks . 20/ Lamb ....ds. 6.1. In 75. Rd. Ptip • • VIII ! /I Alr-MAItIICItT. F . .". IQty • - 41. 4s. Ild. tii IL 10s. Od. k - Cloffer .... Ilk Os. Otl. tis 71. 7 1)4. • i t , :•' Stray .... fn. 107. Ql. le -S. 16. Od. .- i ,~.a: -,~ 7 _ : .. s • . - - i r ' J. ,- 'it f. • k. • 4. I I: 0 'LO THE PUBLIC.. 3!,. Lartzt bring unfmlunalely jar deed in flit.- flier difficulties, in,consequence of the inattention of the Person who lately had the chief manage ment of the S farzsmay, has found it ncce.wary to make an alteration in his Establishment at the Office, which he is infer med has given rise to some malicious and unfounded reports. In justice to himself, lie therefore intends, in a few di:p i to lay before the Public some particulars of the circum stances relati4 is"tlic unpleasant situation into hich he has been thus precipitated; and in the mean time requests that those friends of the STATESMAN, who hare been imposed upon by any false misrepresentations, will suspend their opi nions until they are correctly made acquainted with the facts. State Side, Nevem,. July SI. t ,`~ -... yr• . $1 II "1 I