The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-10-08 00:00:00

IMMONIMMInomi SMILE FIRE INSURANCE, CORNRILL.• PAYM..NT OF FAT Of PREst visa RENDERED UNTENANTABLE BY FIRE. nOLICIEi of INiURANCE expiring at M. ciuteinsas, should be renewed within FIFTEEN DAYS from that Period, i i prevent the Parties' interest cleaving FRCANTILE INS(' ft ANCF.Swileeted at mimed Pre miums. EAGLE. LIFE INSURANCE. Every description of Insurarr , s upoo Lives may he effected at thus Office, with toe utmost Leilily, upon Terms of peculiar advantage. W. 11 — .ETHAM, Secretary. N. B. The llalf-3early Dividends are now pa)iug at the offla: • Medea. t - . • m a n s . Dee. 0....._ . - .. .: W aterford 0 C•tdis : I • • . (11. • l'ewKß I I".t, k Y ATONi,OoLOCK 9 per Celt. Red. (slss t.) 3 per Con. C00n, 6641 . • Or lulu 561 dis. Ti I R I'AtESM A N. .LONI)MN: voriliwr 4 . MONDAY, errant& ft, 1810: Late on Wednesday night an . Admiralty &lessen. ger arrived at Plymouth, with orders for every ship of war at that port immediately to put to mi. The c act of Portugal was supposed to be their desti. n'ition. Indeed, it is new next to impossible for t y Lord WELLINGTON to remain in Portugal. Be. ' side the suprrlor force of the enemy, pressing hard upon cant in every direction,. he has the treachery of his allies to encounter. He hithself has made this confession, by arresting a great number of persons of rank and superior influence; and Mar. Shal BENEs WONG'S dispatch, concerning the fall of Al meida, i the Gazette of Saturday night, openly im peaches the conduct of the principal native officers under Gen. Cox, at Almeida. Had it not been for their treat' cry and cowardice, Gen. Cox would have obtained better terms for the garrison. It is even ;nape 'ted, that t':e explosiou of the magazines at that place was occasioned by design. Be that as it may, although ( teneral Cox could not hold long out, after t • it event, he might have obtained better terms, if some of the principal Portuguese officers had not informed thc enemy of his distressed condi tion 11 what situation, then, is my Lord I.Ver.- erscerue, ono of his posts, one link of that strong chain so much boasted of, being composed of natives. Would it be surprising, if the French had found means to gain persons of influence among the Portuguese, in the armies of the RE. GENCT ? But if the e'reucli have not gained them, by pue.hase, may not those persons be wearied of a contest that is so destructive to their country, and to w ch my Lord Weer.rectrox's generalship has given no very promising a face? Is this at all improbable ? May not the ' , come too be will ing to take any master that does not pull down and destroy their eerrn.mills, and compel them to leave their habitations, and wander with a retreating army ? We arc not making any com parisons between the conduct of- the' English and French Commanders to the disadvantage of the Englisl . But here is the point—by ending the con test, the peasants and artisans will be at rest from the ravages the English Commander deems himself compelled to make for his own safety; and if they are oppressed by their new masters, it will at least be in Peace, for which the people of all nations now sigh. Treachery, or the disinclination to tight any longer, may and probably have made the Portuguese wholly useless to the English Commander ; and, reasoning on this very probable supposition, we can suppose nothing else but that my Lord WELLINGTON is, af . last, preparing to bring his army home with as little loss as possible. We hope he is doing so. He will merit the thanks of his troops, and of their friends, and of the whole nation. If he hare . tarnished his glory a little among the mountains, he will add a brighter lustre to h:s name, by a safe anti bloodless retreat. lie may win fame, by bringing the niglise army off, by a sort of coup.de.tnuin, in face of a 'Opener. etee:.•y. And it is th best wisdom of a GENERAL. as well as of 4 STATINIMAN, t!t k 11.4 what can be dont., ana whit cantrot.—But it may be au, - pot. d that all seeding of ships to Portugal is to pr , ) vide for disaster morey ; to bring off the rem-ant of our army In cascepf defeat. Ws stiaii not argue very strenuously agiiinst this supposition. Ministers are infatuated enno4h for any thi•lg ; and they way be, and perhaps are, resolved upon one battle, at least, cost What it !nay. This is ire the very ►nude of 41tatinfa1u ation, which is leading. thc country down-hill to.hkr destructiote Evacuate Portugal, but be careful not toile so tilt you have as mortal/act/ the valour of your troops; that may be their language, for they do not know that this is in contradiction to their balm of renown in the army, gained &latest every-where, and a hundred times. Wei; tied, to esta'Aisli the character of your army for cahur by wane of blood, if you have bought it already ? Infatuated men ! will you blunder on, in ev ry corner ? Can net ;dace escape the ruthless hands of your folly Ca o no tlegeription of per. sons escape you ? Will you destroy the army, as you have undone the city ?* You wined the CITY, by mint of Learnt, when it would have been useful ; and you now arc busy in pulli•t,; down the Ina tsuttY4 by shezeing lenity, when it ran hay.: no other effect t han to pay private gambling debts at the pultlic expellee. When an eminent Banking-house wanted indulgence only for .50,0001. you put an extent into tho house•; and when your broker dies with more than 400,0001. of the Peones money, &tided to you, and by you to him, you will not avail yoirself of the preference in payment properly given to the public, by • issuing an extent. If you had applied a less sum than 400,0001. to the wants of the City, when the first eminent Bank ing-house went, you would have prevented much of the subsequent evil. The mischief was less then, and could have been more easily healed. But now, when no remedy will avail, you must try experi ments, to be paid for out of the public purse ! But, People of England ! let us turn to yon, and Call upon you to rise with one voice against these men. When the fate of a Katie!' is entrusted to MenDICANTa and ADVIZNTURZItS ) With as little capacity as principle, and whose arrogance is beyond all precedent, every mischief is to be ap. piehentled from the necessities of the one, and the presumption of the other. Patient submission to such substitutes for STATES/ISM, is a vice. Petition the throne, then, for their removal, and do it uni. venally, and speedily ! You see Mr. PsacevAL go on from one blunder to another, making each worse. lie obstinately presses the CouNTRY for loans which it cannot raise; he ruins his loan-factors ; and in the face of a falling market permits the Govern. ment Broker at that market, to hold more than four hundred thousand pounds of the public money, knowing that Broker's property was decreasing at the rate of thirty or forty thousand pounds per day—and finally, when the Broker retires from the scene, himself terrified at it, he, the Minister (oh ! how ate words used,) comes with lenity, no longer of service to any body, and declines' to! recover• the public money, which the wise provision of law had placed within his power to do ! Oct . rid_ of such men, or be for ever lost ! Ifamburgh and Altona Papers to the 27th have arrived. Their contents serve, in a very material degree, to strengthen the opinion of late so gni.' versally entertained of an approaching rupture be. tweco Russia and France. The former, in direct opposition to the policy of the latter, continues to afford additional facilities to trade with neutral powers, while the latter has caused every possible military precaution to be observed on the frontiers of Poland. Private accounts state, that the French have seized the crews of molt of the veAels in the ports of the Baltic DOW in their possession, and sent them off' to man the squadron fitting out in the Scheldt. In the 9091110 9f oge month they are stated to have obtained by them means upwards of 1400 seamen. A Paper of the tad of July has been received from [kenos Ayres, containing the formal pro. ceedings of the Cabildo, and other Authorities of the cities of Salta and Tucuman, acknowledging the superior Junta cf Buenos Ayres, and cordially uniting with them in their proceedingrin the name of FER9II.IIID VII. The most eziraoidinary circuinstasee in this intelligence is, that these cities, it appears, hail been chiefly induced to acknowledge the Junta by a Circular Letter of the late Viceroy CISNEROS, stating his reasons for resigning his an. thority, and recommending such measure, as he I thought (he provinces should adopt. MAMMA has permitted Governor Cox, .Major Iltwirr, and Captain Foccy, of the 24th regi mea, to return to this country by the way of France. The Bank of Messrs. RaM-row, MoRIIALL and Co. of Chester, was shut up on Wednesday. The Quebec, HOOD, of 12 guns and 10 men, from Liverpool to theßrazil3, was captured in. lat. 46.10. long. 16, by the Bagatelle, French privateer, of 16 guns, RS pounders, and 126 men, after au action of 3 hours; since plundered and given up s -and is ar rived at Plymouth. . Capt. BLACKWOOD, who so gallantly distinguished himself off Toulon, was First Lieutenant with Capt. T. PAILINHAM, in the Inrincible, 74, on the glo rious Ist of June. In that ship he distinguished himself by his humanity in jumping off the main chain, and resoling from a watery grave a poor seutiaikis,who had fallen oil the main-yard into the Water. A brigade of heavy dragoons, with the 6th, 36th, .37th, 4'2(1 and some other corps, are in daily exLectation of orders fur foreign service. is said that Sir 'mix Bon will succeed Gene ra RROMNIIIGGI as Quarter-Msster-General titans. British Army; buivilter'reports -mention Sir Joan Heirs •strYffetteW Commandcr.in.Chief of the. Army in the Mediterranean. A new Banking Establishment is about to be formed in Edinburgh—it .is to be composed of six teen members, with a capital of three millions stet:. The Milfpid, country ship, is arrived at Fat. mouth, froth Bombay; sailed from thence about the Ist June. Letters are expected to be received from ber this day. Tho French fituling that they cannot make any impreaSion on Cadiz from the land, are fitting out a flotilla to attack the town by water. Thu Bri. tish Admiral is preparing a"other, consisting of gis-brigs and gun-boats. When we consider the. acknowledged skill and courage of our seamen and marines, there can be no doubt of thesesult, when the enemy t►resumes to attack us on our favourito element.. The erection of a bridge over Foidyke Wash is in contemplation, which, besides obviating the dan. gerons conveyance over that estuary to the inhabi t4lllB of Boston, will shorten the distance between that town and the Illetropolik near ten Yestettlay morning his MAJESTY, the Dukes of CLARENCE, CAMDSIDOE, Princesses AvourrA and Seent.t, accompinied by Ladies ELY, SYDNEY, Miss GOLDSWORTHY, General FITZROY, Colonel DESIROW, and Major PRICE, want to St. George's Chapel, and heard a sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. Dway, from St. Matthew, chap. v. verse b. The Princess AMELIA, according to the latest ac. counts received yesterday from Windsor, was still living, but was frequently in so low a state that she could not be perceived to breathe. The Physi. clans communicated to the KING on Friday morn ing that they had no hopes of her Royal Highness's life, and no favourable change has occurred since. The Princess slept foran hour and a half on Friday night, and an hour on Saturday night, but did not appear in the least benefited. In addition to her former complaints, her Royal Highness has lately been afflicted with St. Anthony's fire. Doctors Sir itENRY HALFORD, BAILEY, DUNE," and POPE, l• are in constant attendance. The Patrice, and all the ROYAL DUKES remain at Windsor. His Serene Ilighuess Prince WILLIAM of *Hesse PH PSTAL died at the Castle of Plailipstal on the Bth of August, of a dropsy in the chest. Lord VALENTIA , Sir RICKARD FORD, ind some others ongoing to he Greek Wands. Their excur. sion is not solely with a view to scientific researches, but is, we understand, to embrace sonic objects of political nature. On Monday last, Sir. Wm. BERKELEY Gin% Bart. was sworn in Mayor or the City of Gloucester,. and DAVID %VALLI:ft and EDWARD W/LAYKS,.EO9II. Sheriffs. The Lords of the Treasury, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer at their head, have certified by . public ativertisement, that certain vonits'are every respect fit for the reception of spirits. Barbadoes papers to the 18th August mention the arrival there of the Savage sloop of war, with'.dis. patches from Engtand to the new Revolutionary Gp vernment in the Caracas. The 18th Light Dragoons, lately converted lobo. a Ilussar Corps, and under orders for Portugal, are composed entirely of Irish, and have hitherto been stationed in Irelsnd. This regiment has long been considered as the " crack" regiment of the Cavalry, and owes its high state of discipline and brilliant appearance to the care and attention of Its , venerable Colonel, the Marquis of DitocuLDA, now father of the army. Coimbra is a very ancient and considerable city. it is, according to PUNY, the Conemlirisei of ANTONIUS, built by the Romans 300 years before Christ. The Members of the Cortes, who have been col. lecting at Cadiz from all pets of Spain, amount now to 300, the number required by the Constitu. non to give validity to any deliberate acts. They are believed to be all animated with an ardent love for their county and hatred towards the French. One of thk.ir first acts it is conjectured will be the removal of the present Regency. The large Ilindoo Temple, seated on the road to Chi[pore (East Indies), fell to the ground in Sep tember, 1809, and has since remained a magnificent heap of ruins. The "spire and turrets had long been in a delapidated state. Only three natives lost their lives on this occasion, and two others received contusions. Ilocasu has not yet resigned the Mnsnud ; but according to the last accounts from India, such en event was daily expected. A favourite adopted son will, it is said, be appointed his successor. The Embassy from the Bengal Government to' the Court of Alia, is said to I. ive met with a very gracious and distinguished reception. The English Officers engaged therein hat.: been treated with the greatest deference, and in comi iiment to the British character, the King ordered some humiliating poiuts of etiquette peculiar to that C curt to be conceded. On Wednesday the Union Hunt, of Billinghurst, near Horsham, found Ili the neighbourhood a milk white hare, which, after a chace of two hours, was killed within fifty yards of the form where started. The new Bethlein Hospital in St. George's-fields, is intends..tl to be built sufficiently capacious to eon. taiir4oo patients, which is nearly double the num ber accommodated in the old Hospital. The esti. mated expence is 100,0001. Among inferiorohjects lately discovered al Pom. peii, is a large edifice, adorned with columns, sup posed to have been one of the chief public buildings of the town. • NEWPORT, (ISLE OF WIGHT) ) OcT. 50-1 hasten to inform you, that since my last a Coroner's Inquest has been held at the barracks, on the body of the unfortunate man who was killed on Sunday evening. And the Coroner's verdict was Wilful Mut-. der sgainst persons unknown. The deceased, it ap pears was nut in the least concerned in the affray, but was quietly going jute his barracks, as the N 4140. struck him in the neck. It dues nocippear that the guard were called .upon. to assist in quelling tho disturbance; but that one hundred and fifty ball cartridges was fird, ii . beyousl a &Supt.' Since this unfortunate bitsissess, the : lout ball cartridges' have been takeu away front edelhiiidiiidnal, a very ticcessaVY precantion t for it cannot be good Polk,' • surely, for privates ,who may ill4ollette themselves at the canteen at their pleasure, to have such things ln their own nowts/. This quarrel had begun as long.. ago as Wedsiesdny preceding the Sunday evening Ont.., this unfortunate event took place. The foreigners are ;sow sent into - the Country to the outposts, where tl ' le inhabitants do not feel themselves very secure. —For, it being under the eye of the Command. ing Officer could nut restrain their excesses,.the re stilt may be feared, whets at a distance of eight or nine miles from headquarters, near cottagers who cannot know their wants, not understanding their language. After the adoption of, glazing, varnishing, &c. to increase the bardttess• of tiles, tarring has been found completely to Stop• theirpures, and to render them impervious the-watet. . The process is Owl. cable, and not expensive. Lion and tar, whale oil, or dregs of oil, are equally, -adapted to the purpose, and still cheaper. Tarring is. particularly efficacious when tiles are cracked by , the frost. It is calculated, that the ezpence of coal tar fur a roof of a mitld,iug extent, and. supposing such a roof to require one huoilruVweight, would not exceed two guineas. t-.. ti -^"`e • *F7 - .1~• .1 I# l 4r4l* , ilianyi f NCR. 1 • • 4,4.—, FA LIKOUTH; var. 5 . --Arrived his M i e d ) •, Plower, Albicore, 4d: -Mritonstia cutter ru ! cruise ; Milford cape. Lam s ,: fromßombay,. hethyf and cutton; sailed f t ,„; thence, lit June, die:rapeditioa agaiast the Nla, ritius sailed from Madras on the 10th M 3 Milford made the island o f Rodrigo', y i O 4 of Mauritius on the passage home, bat perceive any shipping there; a few days lia r; fell in with his Majoity's ship La Rhin, *hid i c voyed her close to the Lizard, and then Irft go in chase of i Preach lugger privateer. Also arrived the ship Betsey, Capt. 1, 11 , 4 from Rio Janeiro ; Fide/i9, Williams, from 8. tol ; Cabedonir, Percival, from • Boston ; s'„ Treludder, and Four Friends, Iloikaig, Ir London. The Susan parted company p s i etail off this P. with the brig R oc k, Capt. Net, from London to Malta,• alt well. The Marlborough packet which arrived oral% day from Lisbon,. does not bring any news of N . sequence; with respectro the 'conspiracy, moll further has transpired. On Monday monfoq, sight of the halal's, s l ? she Was s it clacked by s Freip • ic:soikeker, of 14.gstrie, whiCl; she beat off et ql close actitria oT . 36intibutes.. Capt. Be I an d , wail; aed , dlisitakkc, lir tie Ansis k, as at oaf irri o i 4 the Action the ernOsy s44iyed *4404 po ut le Piairu•vitu t 06i . ...*-4trclitee real% 'the as , ward, his M a s t riuitjt:s "hips .llannibel and Venerrii4 of 74 gaps each,. anti' President frigate; W m •sailLAI from hence E few days since, in consulting of a Tellegraphic communication. that aa neap squadron was out of Cherburgh. Sailed, the American ship Ganges, Caleb Eel, master, for .Philadelphia, hawing ms board Mr, Ridgeway an American Messenger, charged sill dispatches. Sailed the Active, Letter of Marque of this port, Christopher Potts, master, for Gibraltar sod Milo. Arrived the Niobe frigate from Portsmouth. Sailed the Elivabeth of 74 gum, for Lithos. CORN EXCHANGE, Ocr. B. There are somewhat considciable supplies Wheat coastwise to-day, with part of last weal arrivals of foreign, ahuut 30.000 quarters; ab heavy, 4s. and Its, per quarter lower; Rye atle; Barley fully at last prices ; Malt, with Pon lei Bemis of the two kind, at little fluctualion ; are middling 'supplies of Oats, sales Whit' ' ad rather dearer; Flour hardly supports the pop quoted. 4C,. Tick Sews, 46c'$ 4. Fite ctio. 94. WU . Pats, . 41 1 , * Rye, - - - - 44 a. 04: - Harley, •'Wt. 4k. Potutoe dim •• • • 411. fig Malt. W; Pen. (PASO. 504. 564. Zr i e t Xour Gin ens, •- - .536. • • • aw, wa Deaf, • • 50 4 . .•,.„ Idwanitwrialmon•-: On Frisky 1414-lanlaretinent was f amid It tie East Kent Quarter Sessiova,ast Cauterhary,vitte Major Julia* mid Captain PATTOON, kUlk of tic 6th regiment of foot, for a very violent isoasltoa Mr. Rouen CAssisaw, of Whitfield, miller, os the 16th of July last, as the Defendants, with uthtt Officers, were returning to Duvet from the fat at Waldershare ; they wore, of course, bound use (having for that purpose coma from Ireland), to try their traverse to the indictment at the email/ Sessions, when, it ie understood, it will be remove into the King's Bench. A Court-Martial was lately held at Madras, os Lieut. Fort, of his Majesty's ship Klucepitelas, to making 'use of seditious language. He was sea. tamed to be dismissed the ship, sod put at the bat. Ws of the list. A French Officer on the Staff, and high in Ihl confidence of Sir JOUN STUART, has, we mule. I stanif, been detected in a correspondence eiri M MUT" It appears that he made regular comas• nication. of the force, positions, and purposes the army in Sicily, and afforded such intelligence as might have been fatal to our interests in that Island, bad not the arivity sad gallantry of out cruizers more than counteracted his treason. Be has, we hear, been ordered home for trial. iYout ever willing to admire and reward merit eithof suf f ering our estimation of it to be narrowed by tole sideration as to the country which'gave the Pet' sensor birth, but we have, at the same time, hall too frequent occasion to lament that imligunout talons has been left to pine uurcgardetl, while foreidtleo 4 less deserving has been obtruded into situatiotul o . betray us. In case of LordWaLI.INOTOIOS being herd pressed by •an overwhelmihg force, or in danger of turned, it was understood to be his intention to h back upon his fortified positions in the rteighbo l .a .,', hood of Lisbon, which. it was .experte a" be able to maintain fur a considerable time. TM necessary precautions, we arc informed, h a re had been taken to bring off the army, in ease of ' a t great disaster, or the impossibility of effectually to sisting the enemy, The Israelite: are beginning to rally in the City , iSeveral of the purchased an immense quanut of thanium when it went at 10 per cent. discoun t on account, and have gained by the late ris e wards of 200,0001. having commenced bulls in than turn. It was expected to have fallen to 1 5 P: cent. dicount, when the Christians intended to,p, 7, chase. For the present, however, they hoc Dim in their expectation. + c lot, Yesterday evening between six and seven()bro k e . u i a cheesemunger's shop, in Latobeth-road,was open during the absence of the family, sod l' oct olade -of nearly 161. Thu thieves on being alarme d lefts a precipitate retreat from th e premises, soe u : tini dark lanthorn, and a quantity of coppellt a ,, dap to between 20 and 301. ninth they hid p ac k ' ` to Carry oft 6 I