The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-08-02 00:00:00

v T. Mail. 0 ... . Coils 1• :: ......... flaimaiga A , . One 1 0 Han ---- pgcF.THIS Mi . STOCKS k 219 i s ;.^r Cent. Nei. Mi S iter Cent. CRAP. &if 4 per Genic 7311 b per CeM. Navy gib Aen. 14i 9-1 S RAN AT ONR O'CLOCK. India Bun& 11 ells. Exchequer •1111 M 91d. Ditto Id 2 p Omnitom 71 Consols for Acct. 6(i11 • Lottery Tickets THE STATESMAN. LO NDON: MONDAY, ArGUST 2, igl3• The Geneftc of Saturday contains Dispatches to Government from the Marquis of WELLINGTON, the pa rticularvbf which we gave in a Second Edition, on Saturday evening ; it also contains a Letter, ad. aressed to his Lordship from Sir THOM 1,8 GRAHAM, With an account of tho storming of a fortified con. vont near St. Sebastian's. These Dispatches are not of so mach importance as might have expected, evil in the garbled state in which they are sup. .pasnd to have been published by Government ; and titer* are private letters received by the same con. •verance, which state, that upon General GRAHAM'. sending •a tumtnons to St. Sebastian; the French would nettls ir. admit the Office 4 nor receive his mesas sue.. .Themost important intelligence from Spain, however, is,:the appearance of Marshal SOULT in the South of France, who has taken the command of the army lately under JOURDAN and JOSEPH 80. naPARTE, augmented by the junction of CIAUSEL'S corps, which hadetfected its escape into France. The united French force now under the command of SOUL?, amounts to 86,000 men. The progress of Lord Nr'eta.ixGrox had, of course, been checked by this formidable and unexpected concentration of the enemy's force. It had also been found necessary to . withdraw two divisions from the siege of Pamplona, , in order to reinforce the main army in front of Mar- shal Secr.v. •By this diminution of the besieging army, the fall of Pamplona will probably be considerably retarded'. This 'new situation of atfaits will at once remove Strom from any apprehensions -which he may have entertained of being intercepted by Lord WELLINGTON. His un dh attention will now be engaged by the move ments of Lord Wu. BENTINCE., and the Allied forces under his command ; and it will be at his option to keep the field against his Lordship, or to retire to the strong fortress of Tortosa, where he might main tain himself for a considerable period. It appears from this statement of affairs, that the immediate and complete expulsion of the French from Spain is an event which call no longer be expected•with the same confidence, which the people of this country lasso to" tome time past been disposed . anti eucou. raged to indulge. The vicissliudcs of war are fre quently. so Tapia and incalculable, that moderation should never be separated from success—nor firmness from disaster. It is remarkable, that the appearance of Soult in the south of France, and the formidable; aspect of his army, should not have been included- 1 in that part of lord Wrf.t.INGTON'i dispatch, which' it was thought fit to publish in the Gaseitc, as on-1 doubtedly this information is more important thaw 'l any thing that the Gazette now contains.. A packet from Heligoland. arrived on Saturday, ., bringing Letters to the 23d ult. from uhich we have selected the following • 44 lITLICOLAND, JI:LY 21—Intelligence has just' arrived from the opposite shore; and it is stated, that previous to the final arrangement for -the pro jongatiou of the Armistice, a basis was Weed upon for the restoration of tranquillity between France and the Powers of the North, should Great Britain persevere in hostile designs against the former power." Ministers-hare at length thought proper to com municate to the Public, through the regular medium of the Gazette, the official dispatches relative to the capture of Fort George, in America. The tardiness of this publicatiou is in the highest degree disgrace- ful to our Government. Let us not henceforth vilify, by every opprgbrious term which our languagecan sup ply, the Nulerof France, for endeavouring to conceal from the people of that country any disaster by which he happens to be overtaken,for we now see that even out own free and magnanimous Government disdains not, upon occasion, to resort to the same contemptible arts of concealment and delusion. And let us remember also, that %hen concealment is attempted by the French, it is only on occasions when dismay might really be excited in their country by the publication of the un disguised and onmntilated fact. It rarely, we ima gine, happens to them to have orcasiou to conceal an unfavourable event, in itself of no very considerable importance, merely because i's publication must in fellibly give rise to a universal conviction, that the misconductOt the Government is the true and only cause of the disaster. Yet this is obviously the mo tive by which .our intelligent Ministers have been ac tuated in the instance new under consideration ! The capture of Fort George could lot create dismay in this country, we are not yet sunk to. so low a pitch of degradation but though it was impossible that it should excite dismay—it was impossible, the Ministry well knew jt was impos sible,. but that it must excite indignation. Llndig. nation, that with the immense nerd power of this country, 'we should hive to lament ilisastersciliat the p roper a pplicatien Ofeiitietta sighince ut proportion 'THE -STATESMAN; r • of that power could not have failed to prevent. 'Ve have already expressed our sentiments on this .erfo jeet. The naval force of Britain on tlie . /tmericati waters ought to have been a decided overmatch far. Hthat of America. If it had been' so, the disasters• that have taken place in Canada would have been ,preveuted, and all the distress endured by the loyal inhabitants of that country would have been spared them. Our Ministers are themselves conscious of this : and it is this consciousness alone which fully explains their reluctance to lay before the public ally account of occurrences which redound so much to their disgrace, as defeats and losses which the most moderate portion of good sense on their' pert.would have prevented. How fully the opinion of the peo ple of Canada coincides with our own• upon this sub ject is rendered manifest by the following extract FROM TILE QUEBEC GAZETTE, OF THE JUNE. " The greatest fault of the English Government has been the want of sufficient exertion to preserve her superiority on the lAkes, without which it is is impossible to preserve a chain of settlements ex 'tending six or seven hundred miles along these Lakes and the River St. Lawrence, and through which ;.there is no communication for military purposes by land. Tke fOrce of the Americans now acting against tipper Canada; is. at least quadruple to ours ; but with till 'Wien., and a decided superiority on the bakeartlAqueonld-have bee* linable to acquire any important advantage in that quarter." 1 New York Papers to the 20th ult. have been re ceived in Dublin ; the accounts rendered of their contents by the Irish . Journals is as follow ; they are stated to be extremely important but are vo luminous:— " It appears that General DEARBORN had carried into immediate effect the orders of the Secretary of War, under the act which empowered the President to have recourse to a system of retaliation, in case the naturalized citizens of Atnerica should be subjected,. when made prisoners, to the laws of a State which had exiled them, or which they had voluntarily abandoned for ever. General DEARBORN had committed, in pursuance of those orders, twenty-seven British sub-' jects to close custody, on whom it was provisionally determined to inflict the severest retaliation ! Those phpers likewise contain the official account of the capture of Fort George. They also communicate some official intelligence respecting the attack made on the American army, on the 6th of June, by Gen. VINCENT. They say, that the American advanced guard had been surprised, and that after a severe conflict, during which their artillery had been taken and retaken several times, they retired to the main body at Fort George." If the Americans should really carry into act, the determination here spoken of, it will be productive !of conseqUences at which humanity shudders. Be -I.oreen nations at war' Ob. - nth other, any dispute as to the laws of war is deeply to be deplored, as the I cm:sequences of such dispute is too likely to be that one violation of them, will give rise to another, till I at length the ,hostile scene loses every feature of hu manity and refinement, and is transformed into a ruth i• less' conflict of brutal savages, and becomes a horrid spectacle of indiscriminate and unrelenting massacre land slai:ghter. The law of nations we believe fully to '; recognise the principle that allegiance is indelible. 'And upon this principle, the natives of England are 1 at every period of their existence forbidden to carry i arms against their natire country. • The Americans will probabli, therefore, not suffer this dispute to • proceed to the dreadful extremity to . which it would 4 lead. We cannot, however,, but remark, that the principle cannot he worth contending for in the esti : oration of any good Government. Because the ad ! vantages which every good Government must bestow upon its subjects, is, without the interventioe of any 1 positive law, a sufficient security for . the stability . of their voluntary allegiance. At any rate, it must be obvious that severity ought to be employed, to punish any infraction of this law, only in a degree hu inanely and justly apportioned to the circumstances -gaf aggravation or extenuation which accompany the commission of the crime. Letterchave been received from llamburgh to the 17th -tilt. by the way of GOttenburgh. It appears from them, that upon the payment of a certain por- 1 lion Of the contribution of 40 millions of francs, the merchants had, at the recommendation of DAvousr, sent three of the most respectable of their body to I BoxApAn - re, in the hopelof obtaining a remission of the remaining instalments. They had returned, how- ' ever, without having been admitted (lien to an audi ence ; and previous to their departure, it was intimat ed to them, that it was only upon the full and prompt payment of the contribution, that they could hope to obtain their own pardon and that of their con stituents. This answer plunged the unfortunate Bamburghers into• the deepest despair; as their con- I forming to the mandate of theio tyrant would reduce them to the most abject state of poverty. — The wholes of the male population, without distinc- I tion, continued to be employed in constructing mili tary works round the city, and in forming a bridge from Ilamburgh, across the Elbe to 'llarburgh. The. same measures of sweeping severity were exercised against the inhabitants of Bremen and Lubeck ; and the sons of the most opulent merchants were forced.! to enrol themselves in the Imperial garde d' Elite; ' to equip themselves at their own istpence, and to contrikute yearly WO francs towards the support of the corps. , Mr:Mts.; our late Minister at the Court of Sar- Ada, and ISMAiti GinitALTAR, charged on a Mission froM the Podia of I , :oyeir, landed from the Lenia- Mots at Portsmouth ou Friday evening. It is rumoured that the Bishop of LINCOLN rill be translated to the vacant See of London. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. General ANSON, having obtained' leave to return to England, from the Peninsula, the cavalry belong ing to Sir THOMAS GRAHAM'S corps, is now coo-1 Drat, Ave. I.—Arrived and sailed for the River mantled by Gen. VANDELEUR. the John Friih, Summers, from the Brazils.—Sailed Letters of the 23d ult. from Heligoland state, that a Gentleman had arrived there f r om Altona, his Majesty's ship Christian life Seventh, for Chatham, who to be paid off; and his Majesty's ship Colossus, for informed the merchants that the Dritish Government off Flushing.—Came dovvit from the River the Pint meant •to take no steps whatever to prevent their sea,. for Bengal, and about a dozen sill of outward. trading with the Island. bound:Merchantmen , and remain.—Also arrived se- Dy the last accounts front Constantinople, we veral ships from the Baltic, particulars not known. learn that the Turkish Government had imposed au ad- PORTSMOUTH, Xvo. I.—Arrived his Majesty 'a ditional duty on the importatinn of cotton twist. The ship Dexterous, from a cruise. merchants hatimemorialed the British Minister, Mr. PLYmount, JULY 31.—Came in yesterday the Ltsive, upon the subject, and he accordingly re- Sabrina, froth the coast of Spain, with dispatches ; monstratedin their behalf ; but the answer of the and the American privateer Matilda, taken by the Turkish Ministry was . ; that if the British Merchants Lion letter of marque, of London, retaken by tha insisted upon the st tict letter of the Tariff of ISOS, ac- Argue brig, of war, and now sent. in by his Majesty's cotding to which their imports and exports are subject ship Itecollitionaire.—Sailed , his Majesty's ship Mot to a rate of only 3 per cent. the Officers of the Cus- nflicent, fir the Channel fleet.—Arrived to.day• hie joins should be directed to levy the duty in kind, Majesty's - .ship Cossack, from Bermuda, with the which alternative is stipulated by the existing Treaties. j Mail of the:Lady Emily packet, from Jamaica.— With regard to another complaint of the merchants, Sailed his Majesty's ship Sabrina, with a fleet to the namely, the inequality of the duties imposed by the Eastward, and the Co4questedite, for flap coast of I French and English Tariffs, the Turkish Ministry France. professed a disposition to remedy that grievance as t FALmotrrn, JULY 29.—Arrivedth6- - Cleaners speedily as possible, and as a proof of it stated, that t schooner, from St. Andero, in four days.—The the di f f erence, though not at present exacted, conti- sloop of war, gives instructions to the ships bound 'o nued to be placed Co the debit of the Fronch mer. Portugal and the Mediterranean.—Sailed the Deana chants in the Custom-house books, a circumstance packet, for Cadiz ; Prince Ernest and Dike of so disagreeable to several of the latter, that they Kent pickets,. for Lisbon ; Eliza packet, for St. preferred paying the same duties as the English. I • And. o • Duke of Montrose packet , for the Brazils ; r The American frigate United States (Commodore PecAtna), a n d the Macedonian, attempted to put to. lea from the hatbour of • New London, on the Ist ult. but were chased back by the Ramillies, Valiant; Aaasta, and Orpheus.—The Americans were thrown into considerable consternation by the event, as it was apprehended Sir THOMAS HARDY world make an attempt to burn the vessels : two Regiments were ordered out to-man the batteries. The Superb, of 74 - guns, the Hon. Capt. PAGET, with the Ittenelaus and kis under his orders, were seen'on.the 15th inst. in lat. 48. and long. #3O: they are supposed to be going in quest of Commodore Ronoanc and the American frigates. The Oundle New Bank stopped payment on Tues day. Speedy 'packet, for Malta and Gih rajtqr ; and the 4 fleet for pTsswfoundland and qufbei. : "FlAkiticit; AUG. I.—Arrived We - itCrrifig, de -1 Wised bytke Aggrittior gun-brig.— Sailed the Beau ' fog packet, for lleli..oland ; and the King George packet, for Gotten burgh, both with Mails and pas. • sen'ers. Poor.; AUG, I.—On Thursday, four fishing smacks of this port, viz. Lord Nelsot4 Hope, Friends Goodwill, and the Robert and Sallg, sailed to dredge for oysters on the French coast, just within Jersey, which they have been accustomed to do without mo lestation. On the following morning, however, they were chased by a son g - bolt full of hands ; on which the Lord Nelson an d Hope crowded all sail and made off; but the Friends, Goodwill, and the Ru- The harvest has commenced in Huntingdonshire.—! One of the finest crops of barley ever seen was mowed.' at Water Newton, on Tuesday last. Lord GEORGE CAVEND/Sll has lowered the rents of the estate which lie lately bought at Gretford. . I A funeral oration, tributary to the memory of the late Bishop of LONDON, was performed yesterday, throught the churches in the metropolis. Mr. JOHN KE3IIII,E is reported to have collected to the amount of nearly 70001. iii his theatrical tour, the greatest part of which was picked up ili Ireland: Thursday night, about half past ten o'clock, as Mr. Torre, of Smith-square, ‘Vastminster, was,. on his way home; passing Parliament-square, a man suddenly seized his watch, and ran off with it. Mr. Torre followed him along Parliament-street, ' stop thief, till he Came. near Privy Gardens, where he lost sight of him, and the fellow escaped. A notification in Saturday's Gracile, states the ap pointment of Lord CATIICART, FRANCIS TOWNSENA,. Esq. Windsor Herald .(Deputr to Garter King at, bert and Sallp were captured and carried into a French pOrt. rhe crews of these two boats are com posed of six men and six boys; among them were two fathers and their five children. YARMOUTH, AUG. I.—Arrived the Brilornarl, from off the 'l'exel to replenish water rod stores. LIViRPOOL,JULY3I.—Arrived the Adeona, Max well, from Quebec, from whence she sailed on the 21stinst. A fleet for England was to sail the fol lowing day, under convoy of the Kiobe frigate and Plover sloop of war. On the 10th inst. the Adeona was boarded by the Borer sloop of war s and inform. ed that she had retaken ten British vessels which had been taken by the Mazer American privateer, and that the privateer had been burnt by a sloop of war. The Bedford sloop of war, which sailed from Cork oti the 3d of April, with a fleet, arrived at Ja maica on the 3d of June all well ; and the Asia mast of war, which sailed from Cork 22d of April also, with a fleet, arrived at Jamaica, 13th June, all well. - Arms, ter this special service); ati4 Sir TtiostATTiti• wiirra, 'Knislit, his Majesty's Plenipotentiaries for investing the Emperor of ItessiA -with the insignia of the Order of the garter. . ! • • The following Form Of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the repeated successes obtained over the French .. Ar . in'y in Spain by the Allied I?Orces ; and especially for the signal Victory of the 31st of June ; was read in all Churches and Chapels yesterday,:— . .. " 0 Lord God of Hosts, who chiefly declarest thy Almighty. power, by protecting the oppressed, and smiting to the ground the proud oppressor, and who, in the defence of injured mations, teachest thy servants to war, and girdest them with strength far battle, we yield Thee praise and thanksgiving for the continued. suctesses in Spain. with which Thou . bast been pleased to crown the conduct of our General, and the valour of our soldiers; hut more especially for the signal and decisive victory which, under the same Commander, Thon halt recently vouchsafed to the Al lied Armies in the battle of Vittoria. Continue, we pray Thee, thy blessing upOn the counsels of our General; maintain and support the courage and strength of the Allied Armies ; sanctify the cause in which they are united ; and as it 'lath pleased Thee to put back, w ith contusion of face, the proud invader of Spain and Portugal, let the Allied Armies and Allied Kingdoms pros , brute themselves with one consent before Thee, and acknowledge iv ttli humility of heart the victory to be thine. These prayers and thanksgivings we humbly offer to thy Divine Majesty, in the name and through the mediation of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.—Atnen." A CARL-Mr. Lows DES, who has taken his 'Ba chelor's degree in the University of Oxford, and is a Moderi in Politics and Religion, has taken the earliest opportunity of desiring the Editor of the STATESMAN will have the goodness to contradict the following violent and ungentlemanly expression in serted In Friday's paper among the East India de bates :—" As soon as he saw a Bishop in the Bill, by G—d, he thought it was gone to the devil."— What he said was this—" As soon as he (Mr. -I.owxocs) saw Bishop in the Bill, he was alarmed, as lie thought it might be intended to degenerate the Proprietors of India Stock into hackney coach horses of 51. value."—Bishop is a famous horse-dealer in St.. Giles's, of low-priced hackney-coach horses front 51. to 301. ; it was from making use of this hack simile, that Mr. L. was called to order ; and such was the clamour and noise the moment the word . alarmed was mentioned, that from this circumstance. has probably originated the mistake of the Reporters in the East India Gallery. When the different Edi tors of Newspapers, who have inserted a similar ex pression to the . one alluded to, see the above state. A new first-rate of the line, to be christened the ! ment, they will, of course , from a proper sense of Lord Nelson, is nearly ready for launching in Wool- 'justice, have the goodness also to correct what they wich-yard : she is to mount I'2o guns, besides 24- have said, by inserting the simile made use of by carronades, and is the Jargest ship ever built in the Mr. L. exactly as he expressed it. British navy. She is to be launched on the Anniver- July ' 239 1811 - THOMAS LOWNDES. sary of the Victory of Trafalgar, in October next. Mr. howl:isms candidly confesses that ) though not New York Papers to the 20th ult. have been re- so bad as represented, the simile was a St. Giles's calved in Dublin, and one of the Dublin Papers, in I simile, and therefore not so genteel as if coming i announcing their arrival, says, it appears that Ge- from St. James's. neral DEARBORN had carried into immediate effect i The workmen at Vauxhall having on Saturday the orders of the Secretary of War, under the Act-1 afternoon completely taken down sad removed all which empowered the : President to have recourse to a ; the decorations of the late Grind National Festival, system of retaliation, in case the tudaralised citizens 1 they were regaled by the proprietor of the gardens of America should be subjected - , when made prison- i With a large baron of beef, a number orplumb-pud ers, to the laws of a State which had exiled them, or I dings, vegetables, &c. and a quantity of the best which they bad voltmtarily abandoned for ever.— London porter, to drink the health of Field-Mar- General DEARBORN had committed, in pursuance of shal the Marquis of WELLINGTON, and the brave those orders, twenty-seven British subjects to dose army under his command,—which they did with custody, on whom it was provisionally determiued three times three, as truly natural British cheers at to inflict the severest retaliation ! . i ever swelled the bosom of an Englishman ; the same as highly gratifying and whimsical in the eltreme,.; On Wednesday night, a little before eleven o'clock, ( when we recollected the gorgeous 7Royall Banquei Mr. Batty, who has lately arrived in • London from t so recently n been c h i e s: l a d cpte o r n o. o ti t i: 4l. 7 ai m isno e rev sp ol o ro t :. Yorkshire, was In a public-house, and, during the 1 whieb htd after ts Csaw Zxcitavo i l a t, k Aeo. at 2.— r W , heat io sold at 2s. lower, b at absence of .the landlord from the room where he was sitting, he was surrounded by. a gang of villains, ja the eland who pretended to push against hi m by accident; they, lilqr . I *Outlaw acimia7 Malt rather cheaper. In other ar: 4g u rterotita. to however, contrived to rob him of his watch and all -t w in" his money, which he did not ascertain till they ' Ditto ( orgtga) 9O 135 had left the house. . , Rye • • •60 63 , • --‘. i hurley —.- ..... . 46 53 Late on Friday night, o' before two o'clomell 1 Fineditio • Ditto (boilers) llO 115 Saturday morning, the house of Mr. Juitice MIAs, - Malt ...'.... " SI 99 White a. a 9O 95 in . ftussell.square, was broke open and robbed of several articles of plate, and other property. There - New ditto .... ... . ... 00 00 is no doubt that there were several robbers. They :WM real * 74 76 . entered 'by the' kitchen Wiado*,. by breaking two 1' SikIiFIRLD MARK sT.—Ana. 2. iron bars that were cast. The' insitle`*as fastened To sulk the WIWI, per moose of Hit.. by a wooden bar, the noise.ssf which awoke the Mn f •"*.t. 04 to 1 6 : ? i t Ben.u / 14161 , 6f Cattle Os 413 Y.1 footman, who slept in the pantiy ; he got up, and veal ....7g. Ott. to Hs. mt. Sheep, - was in the krea just time enough ti? see the last matt: ' Pork ....6s. 04. to 7s. 04. Cake I . atinb **-79. " to 1 88 111 Y t4. -MA P lt ilis kti . : ...... • get over the rails. The principal part of the.plate ' had been taken to the banker's. Sig ViCary was i Hay out of to*n. • " ' • . Straw New ditto 00 On Beans 74 70 Tick ' 70. 7r Fin do. :0... Ye:4lP • ' Ono Fine ditto ..... .....00 On Poland do 52 da Feed ditto. St 90 Fine Flour .........106 110 Seconds lOO 105 ~~ 0 1 .1., ,, '4 __ ____ ___. 1,950 15070 NO I i , Oi. ~ ... .;;~