The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-10-21 00:00:00

The Tunes and Post, having exhausted their pre en t stock of abuse on the• atrocity of the French Ruler in Rnssia, have now turned upon the Ameri cans, and instead of adopting that conciliatory tone which the interests of both countries require, they are wholly occupied in ridiculing the ill suc cess of the American armaments, and predicting their entire destruction. It is true, the former paper allows, that the loss of the Guerriere fri .ite is a most distressing occurrence, and more than overbalances the advantages obtained by the cap ture of Gen. Hutt. and his army. In this point we perfectly agree with him, convinced that a single check experienced at sea, is of more fatal import to this country, than can be outweighed by the acqui snion of twenty battles by land; but if our renegade putiCriaus mould recur to the history of the last '• ar, they would find no cause for exultation at any advantages obtained in the outset of the contest with America, ev?:t !‘y laud. The Americans have been so long inured to habits of peace, that we cannot wonder at their discomfiture in the first onsets with a power which has been engaged in perpetual .carfare for mare than half a century. But }vowing the resources of America, and the tried cou. r: re of her inhabitants, we repeat, that we see no cause for imitation at any temporary advantage over her ; and we consider as the worst enemies of our country, all tlio,e who, by their writings or actions, endeavour to prolong the unhappy and ruinous contest in which we are involved. If any thing could induce us to depart from the decorum of reason, and indulge for a moment in feel jugs of indignation, it would be the wretched at. tempts of the Ministerial Journals to vilify the cha racter of those who compose the Committee of the Westminster Election, for having, in the most rm.! triotic and inclopeedent manner, shewn to tile coun try that there still remains, unsubdued, a portion of national virtue in the Electors of Westminster that will be recorded in the history of the times we live in, as a memorable example of political integrity.— The late Address of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT to the Electors of Westmins.e:, has made an irapressioti in the country that will not be easily elfaced ; and the Letter of Lord Cocitaatee to his Constituents, which ' we have this day inserted, must be appreciated by them, as containing sentiments worthy of an holiest and indept•tident Representative. The unprincipled misapplcation of the public money pointed nut by the Noble Lull, must appear to every unprejudiced mind in the kingdom, as a melancholy picture of! the destructive operations of a corrupt Parliament.. --Notwithstandi ig the confidence and complacency with which the peopte in general regard our naval system, it cannot be much longer disguised, that despicable jobbing and favouritism has crone iwto practice, the deteriorating, ititloetice of which most he disgusting to our brive and skilful sailors. We have been put in possession of a variety of atter. dotes, illustrative of certain characters, whose offi cinusness and self-paragraphed merits have brought them frequently before the public eye. Our politi cal Charletans are tint sonfined to the Senate and the Ministry ; they have crept alike into the Army and the Navy, add we are dying of writing Gene rals and poetical Sailors. Who does not remember the important measures which a floating force effected on paper? and hence to insure this success to the very letter of the theory, Sir Home Portia's( was chosen, in order to give a fair trial in practical cape. riment. He was, himself, in a great measure, the author of that notable, or rather not-able enterprise, in which he is now frightening the long-shore old women and children of Spain. He lands a gun, tikes a village, and writes a dispatch to England— with, we presume, the circular paragraphs which follow is such combined and harmonious order, in the Treasury Prints. Dispatches were this morning received at the Ad miralty from Sic Sameaa Boon, Commander-in- Chief in the East Indies :—their contents have not transpired. Dispatches were last evening received from Sir James SALMARUI, dated on board the notorg, in Wingo Sound. They are stated to contain nothing of public importaire; one thing is certain, they do not contain any account of the sailing of the long-talked of Swedish Expedition Government have appointed a resident British Consol at Coronna. The Dispatches will be finally closed at the East India House on Friday, to be forwarded to the re spective Presidencies by the shoo frigate. The Oberon is ordered to be fittedat Sheerness for Channel service, and Capt. JAMES MI/RISAY is ap pointed to the command of her. The Nemesis, which had been ordered for Channel service, is now waiting at Spithead, to take out Gen. DOYLL, and several other Officers of distinction, ap pointed to commands in the Peninsula. - By the last accounts from Palermo we learn, that ennciderable agitation prevails in consequence of the arprehension entertained by the Queen's party, that she is to be invited to quit the island and take up her retiflei,ce elsewhere—in other words, that she is to, to withdrawn from the means et annoying the Go vernment of the Pat NCE her son. This was_formally communicated to her in May last, as the determina tion of the English Councils, if she should persist molesting the new order of things. bier MaJerrY i 3 seriously indisposed, and has had several fits, in consequence of which the litsa has made a repre sentation to the Government, stating, that her de parture from the island at this season would be dan gerous to her life, but agreeing to her removal to a distance from 1 4 4,1errno; with which proposal it is supposed the new Government will comply. _ • With respect to the intentions of the American Government, little with certainty is known, and that little is not of a pacific nature. Sir Joule Boa- LASE WARREN'S intended visit to America, with full powers to negotiate, was known at Washington, and is said to have produced a resolution on the part of the Government to make higher demands. The Fe deral Party is now running very high, the States of Virginia having declared themselves averse to the War. New YORK, SEPT. 19.—The Curfew, a famous ' privateer, that was to have performed wonders against the British, was captured by her enemies ' after a two days cruise. Most of the ships that hailed from Liverpool are eitherbonded or taken into ! fax, to secure the property, among which is the Mary and Susan, worth 50,0001. sterling. The English vessels of war have completely interrupted the American coasting trade, and the minds of the people have undergone an alarming change since the ' fatal expedition of General Huta., and the invasion is generally expected of their own territories. SURREY ELECTION. -- Sir THOMAS TURTON yester day gained a majority of twenty-three Votes on the day's Poll, and from every appearance, the event will ultimately be successful, if the Poll is kept open until the latest period. The intelligence must be gratifying to every Independent Freeholder of the County of Surrey. The following curious notice appeared in the Ga.' zette of last night. This is a mode of administering the affairs of England. after the Italian method' of State Book-keeping. The Venetian plan of opening a Lion's mouth for the reception of hints, is the proper device of Ministers who feel themselves un equal to the discharge of their duties : " R. W. A.'s letter has been received. Any intelligence he may give will be duly attended to, sad the remuneration which ma y tie made to hirn . w,li he in proportion to the importance and value of the intelligence he may furnish." GlattAuT‘o, Oct. 2.-13 y our last accounts from Alicant, of the'2sth ult. it appears, that SouLT was at (ara►aca on the 22d ; his army, when united to Sucures, and the troops %Midi JusaPH brought from Madrid, will amnia to full sixty thousand men. General MAiTLAND was fortifying his position at e ' Alicaot. Sir SIDNEY SmiTil was at Carthagena on the 2nd, where be had been for some days actively employed in putting the place in such a state of defence, as to guard against any sudden attempt of the ene.ny to take it. General Boss, who commands the British troops there, had been very ill of an inter mittent fever for some time. The yellow fever had nearly ceased at that place, and all our troops had hitherto escaped the disease, from the precautions which had been taken to avoid all communication with the town." We mentioned lately that the Sir Simon Clarke, of Leith, hod been captured by an American priva. teer, after a desperate engagement. This vessel, we have since learned, was suddenly attacked by a Bal timore privateer, called the Globe, commanded by Captain N• 1 1, aerie. The action was fierce and des perate, and the Scottish vessel, though of much in ferior force, relight with an 'alacrity and resolution that rendered ilie event doubtful. Young Rouser Imam D., Esq. c f Leith, and JAMES NIACICCNZIE, I:sq. tyro passengers, were slain upon the decks ; and Captain Unite, with his First Mate, and Mr. hi is- DOCK, a passenger, were disabled by his wounds, when the Simon Clarke struck her colours, and was carried like a wreck into Baltimore, on the 24th of August. The office for suppling the Public Departments with stationary ,&r. which was removed a few months since from l'al.toe-yard to Scotland-yard, has agniti been removed to the new buildings contiguous to the Earl of livettrooes residence, at Whitehall. On the 19th and 20th of August, a tremendous hurricane was experienced at New Orleans, which lasted with dreadful severity for four hours. Must of the houses were unroofed, and the shipping in the harbour driven ashore and sunk. It is to be feared the sugar crop will be mostly lost. We are happy to have to notice the regular decline in the price of grain and flour, which are now not more than two-thirds of the price they were sold at a few weeks ago. As the new corn is thrashed out, we hope to be able to continue our observance of de clining prices. —(-Manchester Herald.) • Eight French Officers, who were prisoners of war ' on their parole at Andover, having been taken at ' Hardie, near Lymington, in attempting to make their escape, are committed to the county gaol. i On Tu..sday two of the French prisoners at Perth were released from their confinement, to be restored to ' • their country and friends One of them, a Lieutenant, was exchanged for a British officer of equal rank ; the other, a humnne soldier, has obtained not only li berty, but the good-will and respect of every Briton who knows his story. Gen. %VALUER, while storming lMdajos, at the head of his brigade, was found by this young Frenchman, lying wounded and bleeding in the breach. He took our wounded General in his arms, tad carried him jute a French hospital, where he was taking care of by the medical department.— The General gave his address, with a promise to serve his deliverer, if ever in his power. The • Frenchman, at last a captive, accordingly applied to General Wm.xca, who lost no time in procuring for him the reward of liberty. A man's hat and coat were picked up yesterday in ' the Thames, near Westminster bridge, supposed tol `have belonged to some person drowned the preceding evening ; and a woman was, at nearly the same time, rescued from drowning, being driven to desperation by the most abject poverty ; she stated, that she had I four children at home, for whom she was unable to procure the necessaries of life, and unable to bear their cries for food, she had come to the rash resolu tion of destroying herself. Her statement was found to be correct ; and several humane persons immedi ately entered into a subscription for her relief. T. Bite' returns his most grateful thanks to the Public for their unbounded favours in the Lottery that finished yesterday, in which he sold the follow ing Capital Prizes, in Shares. The fortunate Holders may receive their Money on demand at either of his truly fortunate Offices, 4, Cornkill, or 9, Charing cross :- - 1.706 "000 4.766 ....... W 1,0.10 4,756 MO 1,017. 2,476 3OO e 1,478 ... Ste. at. &e. The Number of the 00,000 was 3,262, which was sold 'in Shares by his son-in-law, G. Wps, No. 17, Ludgate-street, in One Half and Eight Sixteenths. . 4 .0 • - TIIE STATESMAN ~~llrrrl • NAVAL INTELLIGLVJE. PORTSMOUTH, Ovr. SO. Arrived•the Dods frigate, Capt. Lye, from th- East Indies, with Dispatebe4 from our Naval and Military Commanders, and for the East India Company. She has been 19 weeks from Madras, and brings, among the Dispatches, Colonel Gillespie's account of the capture of a Dutch Island in the Straits of Baby, in which the gallant Colonel was wounded. The Expedition was lined out from Batavia, and the naval part was commanded by Captain Sayer, of the Leda. The Owen Glendower milled safe out with Sir S. Hood pre vious to the Doris's sailing. Arrived the Iphigenia frigate, Capt. Curtis, in 14 days from Lisbon, but brings no news; Racoon, Capt. Black; and the Teaser, from Plymouth ; Spitfire and Fervent, from Cork. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 19. The wind at S.S.W. blew almost a hurricane last night, at• tended with heavy rain, which has done a great deal of damage to the shipping at this port. The American Blip Horace, Cap tain Appleton, laden with brandy and wine, frum Naples, bound to London, parted her cables this morning, then lying at the mouth of Catwater, and went on the rocks under Queen Anne's battery, where she lies, and is expected to go to pieces when the tide rises; part of the cargo has been got out. —The brig Redness, of Hull, employed in his Majesty's Victualling De partment, parted her cables in Catwater, and went on the rocks in lhadman's Bay, and is gone to atoms—crew saved.— The tiers of vessels, of Taructiapple, in Catwater, broke adrift this morning in the gale, and the greater part of • the vessels went on shore in the upper part of Catwater, near theston ; one of them, a most beautiful American ship, called the General Gates, captured on ber voyage from Bipartite:tux to America, by the *elle Pottle and Dryad frigates, with a cargo consisting of about 500 pipes of brandy, and silks and other thy goods, to a large amount, together nearly thirty thousand pounds, is on ber beam ends uear Oreston, and bilged, and the brandy run ning out of her a stream t it is feared the ship w ill be lost and a pert of the cargo.—A new ship, called the Coventry (a West Indianian), built at Turnchapple, is also on shore outside of the General Gates, and beating upon her ; schooner Betsey, a prize is on shore, close to the Gates, and full of water, having been cut down to the water's edge by the former vessel ; the schooners Young Connecticut and Ilirondella are on shore, and on their beam end: ; and the Gascaigne (late a French pritateer) broke from her moorings with the &riser vessels, but got into Pomphlent Like without much damage; several other vessels drifted at the same time, but have received no material injury.— The sloop Providence, of Darmouth, Capt. Brown, is on shore in Millbay, and is bilged. The hinds ships iu the Sound rode very hard, as a most tremendous sea rolled in. The Rein Deer brig of war, parted u cattle and stranded another, but a pilot having got on board she was ran into Catw:tter, aid is nuts in safety. Several vessels have parted their cables in Ilamoaze and Stouelionse Pool, hut do not apprehend that any of them have received any material injury. The Racoon sloop of tsar sailed yesterday fur the Eastward, but none of the ►hips that were about to sail under hen convoy could get oust, the wind having blown strong. A frigate is anchored in Cast and flay. Flee o'CLocz— The gale rather increa-ess SWANSEA, OCT. 19. We have had a must tremendous gale of wind, and a very hizh tide, His Majesty's •hip Insolent, n ith the following mer chantmen, arc driven on shore oo the east side of this harbour ; the principal part. if not the whole of them, have received as'seh damage :—th .y are all afloat this evening, and it is hoped most of them will he got uti to-morrow. Our piers have received much damage. LIBT OW MERCIIANT VE.SALS AND OTHERS ON SNOB[ William, Bur; Joseph, Clark; Vine, Clark; Harmony, Lisbley; Lverington, Lahheti; Sally and William, 4yres; Fortitude, Jenkin4; lam, flareeoine; Jean, Swan; Bro thers, Naylor; Sophia Hughes; and the Jane and Mary, llus bi.es Tha Providence, Davies, is off the hair, with the loss of her main-mast, where she has been scuttled, to prevent her driving on shore ; the schooner Skylark, Williams, Master, is also as shore. RETURN OF COUNTRY MEMBERS. SURREY.—Ocr. 19. • Fassc—Jette Arrher llouhlon and Charles C. Western, Esqrs. COILNWALL—Sir W. Lemon, Linn. and J. H. Tresuayne, Big. Mr. Sumner 17.90 I Sir Thomas Sutton 1669 I Sir T. Turtoit 13 BERKSIIIRE.—Oar. 19. Dundas - 10531 Neville - 8,16 I Hallett - 173 Messrs. THEN t an and CLuz EL were lately sent by the French Government to Flushing, to direct the means of pre erring the health of the military.— These Gentlemen ordered earthen vessels, filled with oxymuriatic acid, greatly diluted with water, to be Oared in the apartments of the soldiers, as well as those where prisoners were confined, and obliged every man employed on the fortifications to dip his hand into one of the vessels every morning before be went to his work. They placed similar vessels in the ditches of stinking mud, so that, from these ancLjhe fumilption employed, the workmen were immersed day and night in an atmosphere of onymuriatic acid, and preserved their health.— Many persons severely infected with the itch, anon experienced the good effects of immersion in ozymu riatic acid. At an early hour on Tuesday morning, as a gen tleman, who resides in the London-road, St. George's- i fields, was passing over Blackfriar's.bridge, his at- 1 tention was aroused by the sight of a young female, standing on the top of the parapet, near the ceders arth: he immediately flew to the spot, accompanied by one of the Patrole, who happened to be near him; and caught the unhappy woman, just as she was in the act of springing off. She assigned no reason for so rash an attempt, but appeared in an advanced state of pregnancy, and evidently laboured under great anguish of mind. The Patrole promised to take her to the Poultry Compter, that she might be brought before the Sitting Aldermao, and sent to her place of settlement. tier appearance was ex tremely prepossessing; she is a native of the sister kingdom; and from what could be collected from her Incoherent account, she had followed some humane friend, who had seduced and afterwards basely de serted her. CORN Excitastor, Ocr. 41.—Not having any fresh arrivals of Wheat to-day, sales in this trade are I heavy, at little variation from Monday's prices; and I the same remark applies to most other articles, wigs ' the exception of Oats, of which we have a consider able supply, and a further reduction may be noted of Is. per quarter. Barley has had art advance of about is. White Peas continue a scarce article, but not much augmentation in price. Rape Seed, of which we have lately had a few samples, obtains 3 or 4s. more than our last quotation. Flour at late prices. Wheat Fuse diuo Rye b9 64 1 Oats 4B 61 55 Batley Ma1t...... - 9 O 9O 100; Pouts* do. White Peas (boars) 98 194 tippe Seed ...-- £lO. th e y do. - Boas . 41.0 - tall'' '4" WESTMINSTER ELECTION. --wain... - The following Letters have gamed between the Committee ry. pointed to conduct the F.lec.ion fin. this Lily 8,.(1 their t presentative,. Tue Itesolotion, of the General Alreting 611 bth lisst. at the Crown and Anchor, had been pirviuusly U... - milted to Sir Francis Burdett and Lard Cucaraite. I,' I- . F ~' ;, TO AIR FRANCIS KuRDETr. BART. M. P. FOR THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER. Stn,—lii announcing to you that you letve been again returned to Parliament for lite City of West minster, we cannot suppress the satisfaction we feel in observing the steady, though slow advance of public opinion, manifested in the dispruition of the Electors of We-tminster to do their duty to them selves and to their country—to the utter dismay of all Parties, and the destruction of the formerly over whelming influence of base, c , rrupf, am! iufamons Administrations, who have merely regarded the ruling, not the benefiting the nation :—n No hate considered power as every thing, the puttee, pro. sperily, and haypiness of the people as tti.thit.g. We would willingly " spare you the moit:ticatiou of passing a painful life in undignified efforts to stem the torrent of corruption." But when we cont :n. plate the effects produced in this great City, mom. plified as they now are, in the return of yourself and your late worthy colleague, without ripener, or personal troubk; without communication with either and without a struggle—when we hear front various places, that the People, rousing from their apathy, are endeavouring to imitate the example of Westminster, w:f cannot but indulge the how, that at the next Election, better informed by precept, by example, and by experience, they will so exert them selves, that the " torrent of corruption" may no longer be irresistible, nor your honourable and manly efforts be " unavailing" in promoting the happiness of your country. By Order of the Committee fur conductinx the Election for the City and Liberty of Westminster, appointed at . a Public Meeting of Electors, Ideals to Parity of /lemon, o I Moeda', the 6th Ortobec, 114, SAMUEL BROOKS, Chairman. Committee Room, 38, Kiupstreet, Covent-garden, 9th Oct. 1812. (A Letter to the same .Hitt was written to Lord Coebratte.) Oxford, Oct. 16, 1811 MAR StR,-I found your very dallying Letter on my return here from Tiverton. The noble be haviour of the Electors of Westminster towards me, makes it impossible for me to refuse any exertion in my power which they may think advantageous. Ttio inclosed Answer you will have the goodness to cau. municate. Your's, very sincerely. To Mr. 8 an. Brooks. F. BIM ntrrr. TO THE ELECTORS OF WESTIIIINS F.R. GENTLENVI,--1 I is impossible for me to be inset. tilde to the extraordinary mark of confidence witty which you have recently honoured me. A.til although f am thereby again placed in anarduous antl difficult si. tuation, from which I should gladly have Kithdrawn, I cannot, ender such auspices, refuse to uniiertakef the forlorn hope of combating that wide-spreading corruption, which seems almost to convert the se verity of satire, 66 that tint to be corrupted is the shame," into mere matter of fact ; or, at least, to give room to suppose such to be the prevailing opi. nion. Nothing, therefore, remains for the friends of, their country, but to stand it out as long as they can,. prepared, at all times, to mate as decent an exit as their enemies will permit. Gentlemen, the small portion which remain, of the real Representation of the Peril& (the sole Co iist it u tional Guardian of our Liberty and Property) is now confined to the Counties and great Towns ; and even in them, for the most part, Government patronage, . places, pensions, promises, threats, and the various, methods p actised at Elections, render an uneurrupt body of Electors no more to be expected than an un. corrupt Parliament. I may, however, Gentlemen, be allowed to say, without incurring the suspicion of flattery, that your conduct forms a shining exception. A conduct un paralleled in the annals of this, or perhaps, of any other country ; proving to demonstration the false , hood of those malignant assertions of unprincipled men for traitorous ends, that the great mass of the • nation is corrupt, and that Iti.form is, therefore, neither desirable nor attainable. This outrageous doctrine, invented by knavery to palliate plunder, you have nobly confuted, and furnished a practical and unanswerable argument in favour of freedom tf Election. Gentlemen, at the Revolution one honest line, se curing to the People freedom of Eke iao, would have been worth more than a!l that tedious and ostentatious display of principles add objects set forth, but never really provided for, by the Bill of Rights. I would fain hope, unit the example given by the Electors of Westminster, might encourage other places still to contend for that small portion Independence which yet remains in tin. country ; and thereby keep alive, at least in the reni , mbrance of their countrymen, their ancient constitutional right to 'fall, fair, and free Representalivn of the People in Parliament, their only quiet and peace able security at all times for their rights and pro perty, against the despotism and plunder of the few. .. For these purposes you shall always find me, either in or out of Parliatnent, READY To LAY DJWN MY LIFE. Gentlemen, I have received the highest honour I can receive, and the best reward—the approba tion of those who trusted me, on the expiration of the trust. That I should have, and that the Electors of Westminster should think, that I have conducted sure!: in it with honour and integrity, will be a never-failing source of satisfaction to me, as long as the powers of recollection shall remain to, Gentlemen, your most affectionate and devoted Servant, Oxford, Oct. 16, MY. F,ILANCIS DU RDF.TT. 12, Portman-square, Oct. It, lint DE4II Stn,—Yon will oblige in. by handing the iu. closed to the Contmitteee for conducting the Elec. tion for Westminster. ilellere me sincerely your's. -To Mr, Seal. Eiooki. COCHRANE. , TO - THE ELECTORS OF WEYTuINSTIEbR. • GUNTLEKILM,--Hbing uonble to rolvoy io words the sensations I explitiitice-in reflecting on the man. net ih which you here returned rat to Parliament, I 1 . ; / I I r • iJ ; ; It 1 t r i h h • , !,turned ed me Parliaraent I t•‘ : ihaltrire:iv!cit you ; j rirvi e lio - a u re n capable of such acts , 9/ ; Ito. . 183 mthosto my fooliugs. • )t I