The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-10-18 00:00:00

FR EXCH . PIPERS. I .ll.tnato, Srrr. 17.—Franeisquet, a Chief di ilauditti, was, ou flu: Ith of this month, at To memos°, with 100 meal, and two pieces of caiman. A detachment of the regiment of Baden, which was in that quarter, was ordered to make a retro grade movement, in order to attract the enemy to Francis . quet fell into the snare, and when he discovered his imprudence it was too late to escape. Ile was brought to actiou by 4@U of the Nassau infantry and 60 cavalry. The a flair lasted only a quarter of an hour, but in that short period the enemy lost ISO killed. 'and s umnber of wounded. Among the latter is Vrancisioct himself. The two cant n, and all the ammuoitioo, fell into our haud•. M. de Kruse, Ito COMM inch the regiment of Nassau, met its the highest praise. LEY OEN, SEPT. 2ti Letters from the frontiers of Spain, contain the follou : The bombardment of Cadiz is nut vet commenced, but a brisk cannonade is kept up against the forts which surround it. Di, French continue to work ith activity and ardour, in fitting out the gun vessds and small boats fur the embarkation of troops. The wood is procured from the forts clear Seville, and is conveyed down the Guadalquiver to San.Lucar-de.Barramcda, where a yard is esta bliqhtd. The different divisions of French seamen who bay' , lately passed thtrOttgil to Cadiz, serve on board the gun-sloops and boats we have mentioned. Several Andalusian seamen arc enrolled in the new marine corps, which nill be composed entirely of Si.aniards. Piivateers continue to be equipped with great zeal, and those which have already been on a critize have mule considerable captures, which tends gr vat!y to encourage the fitting out others. The English and Spanish Officers appear to en. Certain great hopes of the siege of Cadiz being raised by the diversions made on several points, hot which have hitherto all been fruitless. The troops of General Sebastiatii's corps still occupy the kingdom of Grenada, and are improving the (unifications of Malaga and the town of Grenada. The parties which hail introduced the:nselves from Ninnie s into the eastern part of Andalusia, have been driven back by the French, with loss. His Majesty is still at Madrid, where the fort of tho Retiro has been completed. Since the investment of Almeida a great battle has been expected between the French and English armies. Lord Wellington had taken a strong po sition with Ids left wing on the Douro, and his right on Guardu. Since the retreat of the division or the left wing, which occupied the environs of Pinked, that position formed an oblique line, fur the mt.st remote troops had fallen hack as far as Villa Nueva de Foscia. In the mean time it was believed that Almeida would not he obtotioned to its fate, and that the English would make some at tempts for the succour of this fortress. This, how. ever, did nut take place, for the English General thought proper to withdraw his troops. A part of the rig!it wing of the army of tln• Prince of Es. ling h.is passed the Douro, near Hermosilla, and has directed its march towards Torre de .Moticor yo ; the corps of General ftegnier, which had come fruai Estremadura, has passed the Tagus near Atcantara, and has proceeded by forced marches by Juanita Veilha into Portugal, for the purpose of. penetrating by Belinonte to Gnarda. This march could not be prevented by the English. General Regnier has joined the army of the I'rit►cc of Esling, and threatens to outflank the English army. General Hill, who, with his division near Elvas, had Observed the movements of the French in Es. tremadttra, received orders to tako a position on tho right bank of the river Zezara, fur the purpose of preventing General Regnicr from penetrating far. titer into Portugal. The position of the English being in the mean time exposed to great dangers, they threw themselves between Vizeu and the Ze. ara, to cover the roads leading toCuimbra and Lis. bun. A. detachment of English and Portuguese troops had remained at Guarda to protect that place. The French army is in the pursuit of the Eng lish army, and has made a number of prisoners, and taken several pieces of cannon ; all the country between Guarda and nutlet where the English army was encamped during the siege of Gimbal Ito- drigo, is now actually occupied by the French nr. • try. A French corps, under the command of Ge neral Clauzel, is marching on the right of the Dunn), against Villa-real, anti makes great progress in that direction. The corps of observation on the left of the same river, is under the command of the Duke of Abrantes. Tunis, Srrr. 28.—The Intentiatit-General of the Ciastoms at Trieste has notified to the nit na,utt,, that Ottoman ships will henceforth be received in that port as neutrals. VIENNA, SEPT. 21.—A I etter from Bucharest states, that itudschuck capitulated noun after the defeat of the Turks on the 7th inst. The Ilotspar frigate, of 26 gulls, was launched on Saturday, at Parson's Yard, at Varash. She will be commissioned by the Hun. Captain PERCY. The fleet ss Inch sailed from the Nore the 27th tilt. und , •r convoy of the Calypso sloop of war, for the B ittie, put into the !lumber on Thursday last. A speculation is in contemplation to have a breed cf Turtles on the South Coast of England, by elthing part of tl►e sea, over wide!, a hothouse is to be erected. If it be a juillt stock company, there is no doubt but the Corporation and Aldermen of the City of London will have numerousshares in the undertaking. _ _ A sliocking accident oecurre.l a few days since at Wircliscombe:—.\ son of the HN. Walter 'Fre. •elyaii, of Ileribury, near Bristol, fell from a elves. nut tree, and so lacerated his lei; by a compound fracture, that the arteries wercdivi:Lul in an estrum. dinary manner. The united skill and immediate as- Instance of M r. sully, M r. Cratimore, and Mr. Ling, araih it no:hin; in their endeavours to save the limb, and amputation was flerforinett by Mr. Sully, wills hopes of success. 'flic young Gentleman, who is grandson to Sir John Trevely iii, and nephew to his Grace the Duke of Leeds, is jll,t past fourteen Seal, of age. and was about to be into the Artillery. 119 E COUNTY OF GLO LreESTE IL MELTING . We have been favoured with the following excel lent speech of the Rev. Dr. Husimte of Chel tenham, delivered at the late ALletitig of • the Vivi:holders, held at the city of Gloucester, far the purpose of returning Sir W. B. Guise, Bart. to Parliament, as one of the Representatives for that county " Brother Freeholders of the County of Cd.oucester, '' As it is the undoubted right of every Free. holder, whether great or small his property, to de. liver his sentiments at this Meeting, I make no apo... i logy for addressing- you on the present occasion ; though, at the same time, I will endeavour to be as brief and explicit es the nature of the subject will admit. In the first place, Gentlemen, I must sincerely congratulate the county upon returning to the good eld constitutional proceeding of calling a Meeting of the Freeholders, to nominate a proper per. son to represent them in Parliament —a practice that has been uniformly diseentieued fur the last 30 years, ;chid' may be attributed, in a great Inca, sure, to the degraded state of our Represeutation Auring that period ; fur we have been assembled fur the purpose of electing our Members as a mere matter of form, without any previous nomination.: but of this I shall speak more fully hereafter. '' Gentlemen, the office of a Representative io Parliament has been always esteetned of the greatest importance; but, in the present eventful and itu pre cedenttalcrisis of public affairs, it involves in it du ties of the most serious consequences. It should unite with the most irreproachable character in private life, a thorough knowledge of the Laws and Constitution of the Country, together with a manly independence of mind, unawed 'by the frowns of aristocracy, or the unprincipled clamours of a des perate faction. The worthy and respectable Baro net, who has this day been proposed for your choke, possesses, in an eminent degree, all those ex cellent qualities which entitle him to become your Representative, untainted with any of those vices which disgrace the age and country we - live in. lie possesses a noble independence of mind, combined with a thorough knowledge of the Laos and Consti tution of his Country, w Welt he has made his peculiar study. Firmly attached to those old genuiee Whig principles which placed the present family on the Throne—principles, which if they had been uniform. ly supported, we should not have occasion to deplore the present calamitous situation of 'the country, fur it has been always observed, that England has never flourished so well as under a Whig Administration ; but it has been the mistaken - policy of the last 5U years to discountenance them, with very few excep. titans, from the time of that infamous Minister, Lord Bute, down to the present weak and wicked Administration of IValeheren notoriety. Gentle men, a ray of hope still breaks out through the gloom occasioned by the imbecile measures of the present men it, power, whet, we contemplate the conduct of the illustrious Heir Apparent, who has instilled, with every prospect of success, into the mind of the future Queen of these Realms, the principles of that great Statesman, who is, unfor tunately for the country, now no mare. •ag Geetienieti, the present . times imperiously require every Member of Parliament to promote th e grea test economy in all the public departments, to procure the abulition of all sinecure places and pensions, and to support a Parliamentary Reform : let me be understood, fur I wish, Gentlemen, to be particularly so upon this point; I du nut mean that vain and tisionary plan of reform, fit only to be indulged by wild theorists, but which can never be reduced to practice, without the subversion of our excellent Coustitution its Church and State, but I mean that solid and substantial reform which will effectually prevent bad Ministers in future from pro curing corrupt majorities in the House of Commons, to enable them to plunge the nation into unjust and Unnecessary wars, and to create idle and unfounded alarms, merely fur the purpose of continuing them. selves and their myrmidons in power. " Now, Gentlemen, we wily take a view of the Representation of our own County for the last thirty years, which has very nearly resembled that of a Cornish Borough, or even Old Sarum (and here I am convinced that I am treading upon very tender ground, and must necessarily offend many most respectable persons in the opposite interest, but the language of truth must be spoken). Upon the death of Mr. Chester, the present Candidate's father, Mr. James Dutton was brought forward to succeed him, upon the Old Blue, or Tory Interest, in this County, (however be may think it conve. 'tient fur his own selfish purposes to turn Whig; but, as Mr. De Visme has very properly ob. served, I must be allowed to suspect these sud den conversions) ; and, upon his elevation to a Peerage, in the year 1784, the present Duke of Beaufort not being of age, Mr. Miss. '. ter, a most worthy and respectable character, for whom, and fur whose family, I entertain the highest esteem, succeeded him in the re presentation, which he held till some time after that period arrived, when the present Duke came in . as a matter of coarse; and upon his succeeding to his title, about seven years ago, the county was turned over to another brother ; and in all probability, when the present Marquis conies of . age, Lord Ed ward Somerset (who is now nobly engaged in the service of his country abroad, and fur whom there is au equal necessity of resigning his seat, as there was for the worthy Admiral) acill jind 4.4 the 'absolute necessity 1 every person bring at lair post at this important crisis ;" and if the war should nut last s o long, some pretext, equally idle and frivelues,, and the county will be mo.st likely turned ' , over to the Nephew, if it has not spirit enough to resist it*. Now, Gentlemen, for the other family, as it is far from my intention to spare the house of Berkeley at the exeence of the Duke of Beaufort. Upon the death of Sir William Guise, the worthy Admiral succeeded him in the represen. * After delivering my speech ut the County Mersin:, I had a conversation with ;note riends of the Duke ntllleaufwrt, who remarked, that he had no intention of loingiog forn:tri the Mat quit ; and runt if he had, it was lien,. enowili to mention it, when that event nook place. Ti, which i reNtrii, I ttostwo that NOW 10.2 S OM lime to put the county on their guard ; it would . he too late upon the eve of an eleetion ; but my npiolon Wit!, Ant after the complete manner in which I. had iiriird the e) es of tho Irechukturb, it would hardly be attealptekl. M t' 1: I I . 1 11 I 44 ; t I 1 t 1 , STATEStIAN. ration of the county, which he held for '27 years, and upon his resignation the county was turned over to Lord Dorstey, who his not held it, more dm three months; and now, Gentlemen, mark the dreadful dilemma in which that party is placed, and which they little especttal would arrive so soon : ' they cannot bring the earthy Admiral foroard again, for he" fretv•the ab.‘olate necessiN of ez•crly person being at his post at this important crisis," and the next brother is not of age.— [Some of the Freeholders here observed thst he was of age.]— Then, I suepose, they thought it too soon to bi tug biut forward, and therefore support Mr. Dutton, as, in all probability, from the age of Lord Sherburne, at nu very distant period, the county will revert to ' the same channel again, if me. Dutton soce,th to the representation of it ; and so we are, for the present, to ring a change with the Peers. - Gentle men, it really strikes me, that after the great con. test, 31 years ago, the two great Peers of this county, heartily tired of the expence and trouble ,attending Contested Electioos, had a meeting to gether, and exclaimed, " Brother, Brother, ue are both in the lc rong, in thus opposing each other, it will save us a great deal of anxiety, and a great deal of expellee, if we keep it as a snug borough in our own families, and whichever family makes a vacaney 4 one of the same family shall suc ceed him ;" and it has been my Uncle; and my Nephew, and my Brother ever since. This, Gen. tlemen, has been submitted to for the last 2U years, Sander the idle and childish, the vain and frivolous pretence of preserving the peace of the county ; that things had much better remain as they are, than ' disturb the. peace of the county—expressions more lit for a company of timid old women than the Freeholders of such a, county as this (laughter). You may well laugh; Gentlemen, but such ex. presaions have actually been made use of by those who, front ,their rank mot education, ought to have been ashamed to have used them. But, Gentlemen, it seems the Duke was a little more grasping than the Earl, and attempted to bring in another Bro ther for the city ; though, " to be sure, the city :Jos not in the bond:" but the independent Free. men of this ancient city treated it with the contempt it deserved, and compelled my Brother Arthur to retire from the field, after three day's ineffectual contest. Here, Gentlemen, is a noble example, well worthy your imitation ; and I trust that these, and other considerations, will induce you to come forward to support the worthy and respectable Baronet, to whom the county is under the high. est obligations, for giving it an opportunity of asserting its long lost rights*. If you succeed, which I am fully convinced you must, if there is the last spark of independence in the county, I recommend you to keep the anniversary of it as a real Jubilee fur ever! that when your children grow t up, and ask you the occasion of it, you may inform them it was you who canto forward to rescue the county from the disgraceful. state of thraldom in which it had been so long retained ; at the same time, teach them to support our glorious constitu tion in church and state ; but above all, impress upon tneir minds, in the strongest manner, the ab solute necessity of respecting the purity and inde pendence of Elections, as the surest preservative of both. In the mean time, gentlemen, I recommend you to establish an Independent Club, in imits. thou of Staffordshire, and other counties, *ho l i have come forward to resist the aristocratical in fluence Of the Peen, I do not mean to oppose all Peers; only those who du not understand the Con. stitution, or if they do, act diametrically opposite to the principles of it ; for we have au it:stance well known in this place, of an illustrious Peer+, who considers it his highest gratification to come forward as an advocate for the tights of the people. Some Gentlemen misunderstand me in supposing that I meant a subscription, for that the worthy Baronet would be the first to discourage; but ['mean a club to collect the voters together, and convey them to the poll ourselves, without any expence to tha candidate. " Now, Gentlemen, I have done. You per. ceive I have made use of very plain language, fur, in my opinion, it suits the subject best, and I wish. to be understood by every Yeoman, as well as by those of more refined education. • I have only to observe, that if you support the worthy Baronet, you support yourselves and the cause of indepen dence; if not, you only rivet your own fetters the stronger, and deserve to wear them for ever." * : Since I spoke at the Ciinatv Meeting, I have seen a Red Book. wherein the county of Gloucester is classed under the list of Boroughs, in the hands of ten noble P . cer , ; surely, Gentlemen, it is it melaneholys reAection for any Freeholder, with the least spark of indepeudence, to bee his native county so degraded. + Duke of Norfolk. The suppression the Convents in the Dmar4- .ments of Genoa, &c. &c.• is one of those good things which lirmita.t wet occasirmally does, not from any just or honourable motive,. but purely be cause it happens to suit his selfish purposes. The suppression of the Inquisition iii Spain, together with the abolition of several feudal burthen: , , w ere so l e ly designed to break that opposition by an ap pearance of conciliation which he found it more difficult than he hid imagined to remove by arms. These proceedings, however, may be attended with vast advantages at a future 'period, when the state of the world shall have become inure settled. A great number of abuses will be destroyed, which had.they not been thus violently overthrown, might through the weakness and prejudices of old Co. vernments hive subsisted for centuries. It is thus, that even the bad passion of NirotEoN may in many respects prove of no little .bettetit to the [moan race. Yesterday morning, a Mr. Wilson, of No. 9, Lambeth-road, fell from a two.pair of stairs wilt_ duw, and was killed un the spo►. The Nubility, Gentry, Chills, and Societies, are respectfully informed by IfourtsßY and Co. that the State Lottery wilt be drawn TO-MOB ROW. lintoissv and Cu. solicit the faeours of the Public on the present occasion, un which Day they hope to dibble among those who honour thcui with their commands, a large proportion of the Twu Hundred Thousan►l Pounds Prize Money. The First-drawn 20,0001. Pr;ze, and the last drawn 20,0001. were shared and sold by 11011NSZY and CO. at No. 26, Curnl►ils anti St. Margaret's. hill : Borough. ' - , -.~,. '7lk. LloE.;zi-i., - ,151 • BO W. ST1,11; t Yesterday, Richariklarrou, • hay a il d st , salesman in St. Jacneti's • Mark e t, was bon f o re Mr. READ, th e Sitti ng Magistrate, te, mons, for Alin, on' the tit9th of September to James Gaunt, in Witoriort-stret.t, 5 4 tras,4l straw, 30 of wbiO•wittre of bad quality in the inside. George Kern., of the Cuck, its the Ilayrasrit, attended fur the lkfeutlatit, and pleaded t , Guilty." William Hale, Clerk to Jameq Gaunt, said ,n he was present on the 29:6 o f S eptember, ei„ , 4 1 4 Defendant so ld 54 trrissus of straw in St. ja w Haymarket, to James Gaunt, and he has hr, when the same straw was brought home I s Gaunt's yard, in Wigmore-street ; where, on„,„ ing some of the trusses and finding them badrs; the insides, the carter was desired to wait till ill Clerk of the Market was sent (or. 'William Stevens, Deputy Clerk of the Mi r k said, that on the t 9th of September he was Natl to Mr. Gaunt's yard, when he opened and tzi ined 4 trusses of straw, 30 of which were iu insides, of inferior goodness to what the °soi l appeared Itu be, being composed of short si n thistles, and ►weds ; that sonic of the Onset I more of it than others. He was convicted in the penalty of is, c u l t fi 30 trusses, amounting to 11. 10s. and 7, GA MA N SION HOUSE. Folkard was yesterday conveyed to th e House, before the usual time o f tra wling - I .); lice business, and privately examined. Th e do , Prisonerw B re u a it l G l i. c ‘A l v s, Ra s s e:L u , i l a i n ( t el l Ab: n uirty . oi l d d rui tnes u oloy i d i At l fts Ifti,etioul:s yesterday brought befure the :LORD MATOR entered the Ol S A P l iC t i 7A o h f lc h r a m v n a g stole thereout a large mahogany portable d. and a leather portfolio, containing a great wa t t of private papers of considerable importance. It appeared that the robbery was cunning( at the night of the lath of September, and that ad. mission was gained into the house by the mean if a back window, which communicated with tit leads of an oat-house, on which any peruse* base got by means of• a ladder, from a coast ills back of the street. When the robbery wars covered on the ensuing morning, bills were faits diately circulated, and every expedient resonsi for the detection of the offenders, but in Tajo; were any tidings heard of the property Ontario. day last,- when a man named James Brown * on the Alderman, and informed him that lei been at the Prisoners' lodgings in Braekleyatat i Golden-lane, on Mondiy evening, and theta* the fragments of a ntaliogany desk, %Ouch, lass told by the wife of the' Prisoner, had been An from a counting-house in Austin-fries, Mid brought there was full of papers, which, IN ' found useless, were destroyed. After *leg avoid detection, the deoi was broken up. Hal* heard of the robbety that had been committed st the house of Mr. Alderman Atkins, Jte condstled this was the desk which • was *gilded to in the bill that had beets published,. and went the next toot ing to give an account of what he had seen. Officers were immediately sent fur, who at. companies, Brown to the Prisoners' lodgings, an there found the articles described, which; toget with the Prisoners, they conveyed to the Cove, On the production of the fragments of (beds yesterday, and other articles which had bee hat the Piisoners' 'apartment, Mr. Alderman It kips, after a elm scrutiny, recognized them Iva his property. Lawrence, on being asked how he had obnisi possession of the pro o erty, told the old tail of having purchased it from a man in the street. li wife was prepared with a similar story. They an Committed fur further examination. The male Prisoner has already served ail appro. ticeship on board the hulks at Woolwich, Werth was confined fur an outrageous assault and robbery committed on a fishmonger in the city, absat eitit years since. • M ItbIIOI2OIMR- STRF.V.T. A NOTIISR MONSTER. Were:trot that the pats ment lately inflicted on offenders suns to hall had hut little effect in the preveution of a reel offence. A mail' of genteel appearance, of tht name of Richard Cambridge, was yestertiay chug. , ed at this Office, by Thotwai Mills, with a l tti(Diti assault in Hyde Park ; and the disgitslimurrittr si was such, that the Prisoner way committed. T i Prisoner, who was formerly boiler to Mr. sin e b 2, Harley-Meet, but who is now a Clerk oral a A e c u c g o e u r n a ts t , th w e as O c ffi o c ti e of veyed ?e Comptrolle r withdinicui,; (f A from James's Walch.house, amidst an infuriated saluted o w ff h e o nsive wea l i i ) i o m n t u li n s t l i i l r t, hisf sticks, eature fi s s n u , bernib!e. After his examination, a Gende r s :o Mary.le.botie-st reet, and another of (Flea An street, offered themselves - for hail ; but the t ic ' sought refuge in the office until a-late hoar , to an iietiseiatit mob waiting at the front an d , ileor of the office.e 4 re ni nut i °t MALMO, , On 'Werinesdny senniglit, Joules West, Esq. of EeneY'r 111.isue11, I.yonnigio7, Ilan's, I.ati.l), the Rem. ltnb rt Fountain Liiuin, in %ZI Murt lug Blake, eldest tiaitt:ltt.,.r of Thomas Bloke, Eml• George's 'lambi:sod. to Norwits' _ , DIED. • Oa Tuesday the 9th at-Weymatith: John Arbstt Cioveivorof Korth l'acsaottett, old oat of Ms lasioW Justices of the l'eare for the County of D9roei• Ow the 19th list. at ihe Lhder3.nitbri l tiitark e, Mrs. Catharine 'rreoseohrere. mixt of Mt. Tieuidelteli i ": okay of that town, 4:lliiiter. Tharsdtq I:tst, at LiltsvangitaniCardigiushirel Esq. Ationritf of the %intr. rst Oa Titursdny 104, ffnverfardwmt, Mn. 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