The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-09-26 00:00:00

4 E 101( • ~. e 1 ' 0 I , I t . . . . - .1 '. l 0. 0 4 Mails. - Onc Arr . 1 ................ Dublin e b ............ 0 Haterlard 1 O O Cadiz 3 Gtirnaey 0 .......... .. ... 3erse2_____.__ L_ _____ .—.. Pltlai OE STOCKS THIS Bank 3 per Cent. Cons. 58 57* per Cent. Red. 4 per ('into. b per Ceta..Navy 118 Long. AM!. DAY AT ONK O'CLOCK, India Bonds 8 6 dis. d'Acchequer Billa3ld. ld Ditto SO. 3 5 p Orooiton -1/ Si pr. Gimels for Acct. 58i 71 Lottery Tickets . THE STATESMAN. • LONDON: -6,117010AY, SEPTUM& 26, 1812. . _ A Gottenburgh Mail arrived this morning, from which we make the following extract : GOTTENBURGII, 6EPT. On Wednesday test the Governor gave orders to prepare transports for 7000 men by the 24th inst. but a courier arrived last night from Stockholm, w ith orders for them to be ready for sea by the 20th Inst. The whole of the Swedish troops to be embarked will amount to 30,000, and they are to be joined by 85.000 Russians. • Letters from Riga, of the Ist inst. states, that the Prince of WITTGENSTEIN had a fourth time attacked and defeated, with very great less, the corps lately commanded by the Duke of Rcooto. Accounts from Copenhagen say, that the Duke of REGQIO has died of his wounds. The garrison 9f Riga has made a sally, and cut three Prussian regi mentscc to pie s. • An official eport from General WITTGENSTEIN, dated the 19th - of August, says, that on the 17th he drove Gen. Ocoluov back into his intrenchments.— The loss of the Russians is estimated at 2000 men, In killed and wounded ; that of the enemy is very coosiderable, in addition to 2000 prisoners. On the 18th, the French again attacked the Rus sia's uader WlTToEssvrts, and were repulsed with great loss. With respect to the progress of the campaign in the North,uothi►rg appears to us more insultingly ridieu lo3s, than to talk of the Runian victories and triumphs over Nwrocsp N. We often reminded Ministers of the wa►►ton impolicy of subsidizing ALTIANDER ; and we think experience ought to have convinced them of the frilly of supporting it poWer without money in Its treasury, without an able General in its army, without union ht its councils, and opposed to an ad versary of great abilities, with 200 millions of livrea In his treasury, and an army of 250,000 men, Cam.. mantled by the ablest Generals of the age, The con test with ALPLANDLR ►ill, 'therefore, most probably terminate mach in the same manner as that of FRE utitlicK and Faancts -; after. which I§Tairetzoo, having up enemy in his rear, will be at full liberty to direct the whole force of his genies and physical strength' to the Peninsula; and being once master of Portugal and Spain, he will be enabled again to 'dam us with all the horrors of an invasion, as he will have the means of establishing a navy, capable, at least of disputing, the empire of the sea. 'from the present aspect of things, we conceive it extremely fallacious and delusive to entertain a hope, that the brilliant achievements.of Lord WriAntemell will enable us to rescue Spain from the graspof NA TOLEON, while we see an apathy prevail throughout the country, which afford; an unequivocal proof that t9ajority of the Spaniards, - if not in favour, are perfectly indifferent as to being governed by that rower ; and seem inclined torpidly to stand by, while the two armies are contending for the dowi• •ion of their country, he following political and philosophical article on the present war in Russia, appeased in the Iturning Chrunick of this day, and is one of those productions that must curamand the admi,. ration of every Statesman possessed of capacity and principle msfilcient to appreciate is.s merits.] There is nothing perhaps in the history of mind so extraorfliwary, as the darkness and stopefactionj which prevails with regard to the present acquisitions, the future progress, and the ultimate designs of Bo- NAPARTE in the northern war, If there be any se ries of propositions o 1 political subjects capable, ' most obviously of redittlio rtd cbsurdet,n, it is these . which are applied in justilicttion of the councils of the feeble and unfortunate ALEXANDER. We ere told of ancientbations which tied before a mighty conqueror, and left behind them a barren waste, on ! which he might glut his rage, without sacrificing the victims of hie ambition ; we have read in modern "times of the prudence which admitted the lion to *scope, rather than drive him to despair, and even of , thg policy which would erect a bridge of gold to ac tolerate the retreat of a powerful enemy; but we have never yet seen in the annals of our race, that asolitumacious folly, by Which an invader was per mitted with impunity to take possession of a rich and fertile country, anti to occupy the fairest portion of spacious empire, shack,' with magnificent cities, Ind teeming with redundant population. It is from the indignation we feel at the imposition dimly praati* on the public credulity, that we are If sous to Atm the real posture of affairs, and by 10141 lan eXpolitiao tp prove, that the war which has , seen commencpd by the Russians with torpor, and lama/Wed lu with pusillanimity, must infallibly ter.' spinets in rain, It is vain to talk of recruiting it) the towa when the enemy is at the gate, it is idiato, papaw a Cvorlioa la Oa rear, when victory Is Ib 7 THE the van ; such experiments may distroy a defeated, but cannot injure a triumphant enemy ; he that sees his banners floating above the turrets of the capital, and has changed places with his foes, has nothing to apprehend five the second war they are waging on the margin of their own deserted and exhausted ter ritories, Let this be applied to the protracted pre parations of the Swedish court, and to all the lnven. 1 tions absurdity has contrived to draw a hair from the tail of the royal beast, When the son of Pmt.'s negotiated in the capital of Persia, and Lrwts in the capital of I)ritain, and when the Romans treated with the vanquished, in all the seats of government of the civilized world, they never lowered their terms, because a few discontented patriots tied from the warm heart to the cold extremities of their dominions, and uplifted their spears in the absence of the enemy, whose presence they recreantly tied. What is the present state of the war ? The Rus. sian empire, more extensive than that established in ancient Italy, is, on account of its magnitude, pro. i vided with two august capitals. Of these, the one is within the reack of the invader, the other is within his power. None will, in the present stage of the contest, doubt, that it is the intention of BON4PASTE to plant his eagles on the lofty battlements of Mos. I cow, and as few will doubt that it is within his ! means to accomplish this formidable design; boat 1 1 there are who suppose, that when he has proceeded thus far, Russia is yet entire. and that the =gni& I cent seat of empire founded by the great Nun, is 1 capable of sustaining the diadem of the Autocrat , whO will yet be enabled to preserve the exalted rank he has held among the potentates of Asia and Eu. rope. . - , A short explanation will remove this prejudice, The hearts' blood is not more necessary to the sup. port of animal life, than the country occupied by the enemy is indispensible to maintain the commerce and strength, the wealth and power of St. Petersburgh. This splendid capital was elevated above the surface of a marsh, because ;its founder was determined to force his way to the Baltic ; the White Sea, the Sea of Asoph, the Caspiap, and the Euxine, being in sufficient for the purposes of his inordinate am bition ; and this policy has led to those measures which have been directed throughout this vast etnpin, to throw commerce out of its natural and easy chan nel, to order to urge it into the most unfit and in cumbered, The lint attempt of this kind was by the war with Sweden, which termivated in 1721, by the treaty of Ilystadt, when Swedish Livonia, Cerelia, and I iigria, were ceded to the EMPEROR. Fifty long years elapsed, during which, little was obtained auxiliary to the same purposo ; but the compreben.. sive mind of CATUARINE seised a favourable oppor tunity of performing what her illustrious predeces sor bad attempted, 'and then was accomplished the first partition of Poland, nefarious in its cause, but most important in its effects. It began in 1772, under `the treaty with the Courts of Berlin and Vienna, when Polish Livonia, with Witepsk, Mohilow, Minsk, l and Peletsk, with all their dependencies, the present ' seat of war, g.atified the rapacity of the EMPRESS. This cession was only preparatory to other arrange ments, which gave ele whole of Lithuania to her suc cessors ; and such were the expedients resorted to, to supply the insatiate thirst of this monument of human pride, which having its base in a bog, seemed, for pearly a century, to absorb all that was drained from the country, to supply it, without producing any ob vious change in its proportions. The labour of an age was at length rewarded by succeas, and by external hostility and interior oppression, St. Peteresburgh alone engrossed half the trade of the Monarchy. It will scarcely be credited . that the vessels which de scended the Ladoga Canal, to arrive at this favoured emporium, even before the close of the year 1800, were to the number of 15,000 annually, all convey. ing the wealth of the land, through the copious ar teries with which it is provided, and some of them commencing their voyage amid the interminable forests of Siberia, at the distance of 4000 miles. On this review it will be easy to establish the pro. position, that these arteries being cut asunder by the i sword of France, the health and life of Petersburgh is destroyed, and that the occupation of the line of coun try, from the mouth of the Dwina to Moscow, in- : I teicepting the intercourse with the whole of Europe, south of this boundary, is the possession of the re sources of the whole empire. The nature and cha- ! meter of the trade of Petersburgh, have no features of resamblance in coenuan with any other; yet, al- though supported by commerce, in this splendid city, there is no appearance of low mechanism ; it is de graded by no humble occupations, no massive en gines 'disturb its repose, and no offensive furnaces darken the atmosphere; the porches of the wealthy merchant are not obstructed by cumbrous sales, or , defiled by filthy casks, as in Hamburgh and other depots of commerce; but all has the appearance' of an imperial residenee,• where wealth and luxury, as by a miracle, are alone discovered, without the : I laboripus and 'disgusting means by which they are necessarily acquired. But, althOugh nothing is per- I formed within the capital, much industry is employ ed elsewhere to support its maffeifieence. The three principal fsivers of Western Russia, the Dying, the Niemee, and the Borysthenes s originate in the same swamp near to .Sinsteasits, which Is per, lops the highest srotia4 h Rerepeee Russia. Ad jacent is a piece of ground, so compost, that it sight be included in a Ping Ante, whore all ilia hemp is , reduced, which; is the pretest yew ; Ovoids, the British Government with 12,000 tons, and about an equal quantity for private consumption. In the neighbourhood, are established three or four grand receptacles for this, and every other description of puttye merchandise, and one of these is Ghjat, from whence the French Bulletin of the 3d inst. is dated. In the same busy and opulent vicinity are also spa cious and costly edifices for the preparation of hemp and flax, which are not cut and dried like hay, but which undergo a curious and difficult process, be fore they are fitted for transport, Such Is the territory, and such are the establish ments which the Russians have abandoned tr, tl.e avarice and ambition of their enemy. St. Petersbutgh being a mere dependence, supplied from hence, all 1 i ts i mportance Is lost, and the Usurper will be en abled to avail himself of those ample facilities to transmit the property to ltiga or Memel, or to any ! other convenient situation south of the Gulph of Fin , land. The consequence would be, in many respects, 1 1 beneficial to the Empire ; all the rigorous laws which have compelled the transit of these abundant stores to the Imperial City, contrary to the genuine interests 1 1 of the country, would be rendered nugatory ; oom merce, restored to its fit and natural channel, would flourish, and Petersburgh alone would do penance for the exertions it has required from •a reluctant i people, to support its unwieldy bulk ; 'and if it should sink beneath the' bog it surmounts, the pa tion would lose nothing by its.fall. It will have been obviotis, that in our examination of the state of Russia, under the terrible conflict in which she is engaged, we have not taken into our view its consequences with respect to ourselves.— This is a part of the subject remote from our pre, sent consideration, although involving our naval and commercial preponderance, and'all the mighty con cerns of the British Empire. Some letters from Corium, received yesterday, are written under very different impressions from those we have been long accustomed to obtain from the same quarter,. Taught by the tardiness , of the native Commanders, they at last acknowledge, that 46 the truth must be made 'known, the Spaniards cannot act by thettoelves against the French, grery sensible man is anxious to unite our forces with the army under Lord WELLINGTON." By Command of the PRINCE REGENT, the Earl of HARRINGTON and General STANLEY have been di rected to meet and consult on the Accoutrements and Equipments fur the Heavy Cavalry under orders for foreign service, and to report, without delay, the result to his Royal Highness the Commander is Chief. A detachment of ten Officers and four hundred and fifty.men, were embarked last week, In three transports, from Tilbury Fort, to be forwarded on foreign service from the army dept is the Isle of Wight. Dispatches were yesterday morning received at the Admiralty, from Admiral SAWYER, of the American station. In the evening an order was sent from the Admiralty to Plymouth, for the release of several American vessels which have been detained there by order of Government. When taken, they were bound for Lisbon, to which port they will now pro , cecd. . . The French Eagles 'that were taken lit the battle of Salamanca will be deposited in Whitehall Chapel, on Wednesday morning, with the usual ceremonies. The Gold Eagle Brooches are becoming very fash ionable, but the Ladies wear them with the head downwards. The &Mine FUND, designed and instituted by Sir RICHARD PuaLLlrs, 1807, is happily rendered permanent by the legacy of 1001. per annum fiir ever, lately bequeathed to it by Mrs. A. M. STAFFORD. —.- It amounts in the present year to nearly 5001. by which upwards of forty debtors have been liberated, nearly two hundred naked prisoners clothed, and several hundreds essentially relieved in moments of pinching distress. The Sheriff of every county in the Kingdom ought to establish a similar Fund. Private letters from Valladolid state, that the Marquis of _ WELLINGTON left three divisions and some cavalry at Madrid. On the 3d instant, a convoy of transports arrived at Lisbon, and on the following day, detachments to the amount of 3000 men were disembarked. His Majesty's ship Growler, arrived at Falmouth, brings intelligence, that g French squadron, of file sail of • the line, three• frigates, two gun-boats, and three schooners, were lying in Brest harbour, ready to slip out the first opportunity. The boats of the Growler, Martial, and Insolent, had made an at tack on a convoy, and cut off two rhassewarties, but were obliged to relinquish them by the heavy fire from the batteries. The boats sustained no loss. The following letter, which might, under some cir cumstances, bear a very conciliatory construction with regard to our relations with the United States, was received yesterday morning : Sr. Jour's (Nirnevirm.tvro), AUG. 31.—His Majesty's ship Alert returned here yesterday as snag of truce, having been captured on the I3th August, by the American frigate Essex, which, after having her four or five days in posse.sioo, put the Captain, Officers, and crew, with a Lieutenant of the &sex on board, and sent her In here as a cartel. The Governor sends of all the Americans in her to-morrow. We have not yet beard the precise latitude and longitude in which she was taken, bat tut derstand that it was a few days after she parted from the convoy, which site left 10 latitude 41. longitude 3d." It seems to have been an ingenious expedient of the Captain of the Essex, to employ the Alert as a cartel, by which she was secure against recapture before she reached an American port. It is highly probable, under other circumstances, that she would have been re-taken. Persons who receive game from the country should ascertain that their parcels are not divided, to pre vent themselves from being charged double porterage. A shocking accident happened on Saturday last to Mr. Fawn, stone-mason, of Spalding, while at work in the yard belonging to the White Lion Inn, of that town, by a large stone falling on him, whereby his breast, and other parts of his body, were greatly injured, and he now litta dangeroaslf ill,• GENERA L ELECTION. The Proclamation for the Dissolution of Parris. meat, it is stated, wiU appear in the Gazette of Tuesday evening, Mr. Marryat does not stand for the City, The friends of Mr. Waithman are actively engaged, in making the necessary arrangements preparatory to a canvas, Sir Charles Price has come to the determination of (declining to offer himself as a candidate for the re presentation of the City of London ; and it trans pired yesterday, that the Lord Mayor, in consa (pence, intended to come forward on Sir Charles's interest and his own. It is said, Lord Barry - more and Mr. J enn i ngs will offer themselves for Westminster. The latter is the Gentleman who represeuted Sir Francis Bur. dott on the Hustings, at the time he was confined with the wound he received from Mr. Paull. Mr. Serjeant On-tow is to be retorned for Gail ford. Durham is likely to be strone,ly contested. The idea of setting up a Candidate in opposition to Mr. Mellish, for Middlesex, is abandoned. Stamford is again to be contested by Mr. Noeland Mr. Oddy. Several of the most distinguished persons possess• ing Parliamentary interc:t, have been taken quite unprepared, as they did not believe in the event. The following calculation demonstrates the fact, that Goverdlrent pays, according to the pre,:ent price of gold, pear eight per cent. interest for the money raised by the last loan ; it may, perhaps, cisnvince our Ministers of the absolute necessity there is, of recurring to some mode of direct taxation, either on capital- or otherwise, so as to avoid the heavy logs, not to say ruin, which must speedily 10113 w a perse. verance in .the present system of raisicg money by funding. For l'2ol. Reduced and 561 Consok. together 1761.9 ptTC'em.Stuck,(iovernmeut receised XlO9 0 a Lrs Di4count /2 9 0 Nearly 1 j per Cent. Dividend due on Consols. 0 16 9 un Reduced 0 ill 0 4 3 9 per in e purcha se h renderss L o 9 f 5 o g i n o l l y d 3 R u t h i t c h h e 9 p .r r d e . se l i 6 lt s. p 3 r d ic . e laid o f s ° l . 0 t l . 661, 1 Is. ; for which sum, the country pays 51. ss. 7d. interest per annum. being the amount of the dividends on the 1761. stock created,and 51. 55.7(1. interest on 661. 11s. makes 71. 18s. Bd. per cent per annum. A consideration of this fact, will, it is to be hoped, reconcile every enlightened person to the pay ment etf such a direct tax, as will preclude the neces sity of burthening the country by fresh loans; and there can be no doubt, but the stock-holders would gladly pay a direct tax, whereby their properly would be rescued from the great deterioration occasioned by the creation of new stock. On Tuesday last, James Hall, farmer, and Samuel Blow, miller, both of the parish of Holton Becker. ing, Lincolnshire, were, on the information of the Rev. John Hale, the Rector, charged before Richard Elmhirst, Esq. one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for ,that , county, with scandalously profaning the preceding Sabbath,—Hall having %limed tore( his labourers to devote the whole of that day to reap, ing corn; and Blow having suffered his mill to be at work, not only the greater part of the day, but dur. ing Divine Service. They were both convicted in the full penalties, agreeably to the statute, The money was laid out in bread, to be distributed amongst the poor people of the village. We are happy to learn, that the supply of hemp in this country is estimated to be equal to near 3 years' consumption. The exportation from St. Petersborgh during the present season has been immense. By letters of the 24th ult. we are informed, that up, wards of 18,000 tons had been shipped from the warehouses of that capital, independent of the ship. ments from Mg& and elsewhere. The shipments of tallow have been equally large. Ort the 12th inst. a most destructive fire took place in Crantock Church-town, Cornwall, on the pre., mises of Mr. William Johns, a rsspectable farmer; it was occasioned by a spark from a smith's forge, adjoining Mr. John's, which set on Me his mows, containing near 900 bushels of wheat and barley, and 50 tons of hay, which, together with the barns, out-houses, &c. and the smith's house and shop, were destroyed. The loss is estimated at 20001, no part insured. EaTaAOADINAIitY ACCIDIXT.--On Saturday laStt a boy, about six years of age, the son of a Mrs. Brown, who bad been left in care of Mr, Hoskise son's house, in Hertford-street, Piccadilly, haring ventured on the roof, while some workmen were em• pfd repairing the premises, fell through a sky- light, and was precipitated between fifty and sixty feet to. the pavement in the hall. Seven ribs were broken en his left side by the fall and, extraordil nary as it may appear, he was not killed. By skit- fel surgical assistance, he survived, and he is not/ pronounced out of danger. ROWING Mavce.--;Yesterrlay a Subscription Purse of considerable value, made up by the Gentle. men of the Funny Club,was rowed for by seven pairs of oars, in Funnies , by Watermens' Apprentices, un der the age of seventeen. The contest was tot hbe de: cided in one heat, and th e start took. place aat!. past three o'clock, to row from Westminster -bridge to Putney. It was m o s t abl y contended by the young candidates, who exhibited a display of and strength seldom witnessed. The Members or the Club rowed during the wager, to encourage the lads. Pall and 11'Fell came in first, closely fol. Mendiers of lowed by Howell and Ma sterman. The • • the Club, with a view to en coura g e deserving Wate r men, and promote a spirit of emulation among young men, projected the match, which, ou th e whole, afforded a very interes tin g spec tacle. The the Club dined together after the race, and passed day with great harmony and conviviality. PLYMOPTIII, Sem 24. W . : Attired the Eliza, Pitcher, from ttalifaa. Sailed 99 since with a fleet of about 60 snit, under convoy of his Najd!_y o n Friday last. oni ship Indian ; parted company from her 18 of the convoy havi n g se p arated in thick foggy weather M. --•IIis Majesty's ships Africa, Nautilus and Itingdorc. tlirl6ed to lielifea from a cruise or :Sew York. The bid ',septum(' the thip Osborne, and captured two Amerni.34 front this country with bale goods. T h e Bets Wen. SPhrlan'* Maidstone fugues, tailed& few d tys previous to tht wbove 1} on a waist, • R it 1 P t ~+ ko