The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-10-27 00:00:00

I.l"i'EltCEri'EL) PAP.EII. , fhe h,t conc..% aucc brought the follov;ing paper, 5341 to it:ISC been a copy of, M4SSEN A'S or ror att.R.::: coon the British lines, intercepted 0 , it , ~ i v to one of the French Generals. The the c I.=st prigriphs love lit t l e reasou la doubt It is of Eng'isli manufacture. ;l()!AT I ATE (MI)US. p t ents. C•ievri:nitt:N. /.. 'To!' 1/1 .N'apot•un. I.r 171 , :n tie I.i<honne. ih t l;e of L 5.114 1:N is inforilled that the the enemy's f,rces is as follows:-- is stated to he at Allenguan, and the line of de 11e i• continued along On river to the left, at Torres r t., The foititicd heights near this town are strong r ltui - c, pecaliorly strong by art, as they were by French l•ln4iiieei•s, under the superintend ,•id the Duke of A nit ANTES, when he forced Lord :.1.15t.r0S to siga the capitulation of Cintra. _ 'itemised, the (dicers will feel the nece7;sity of etiergy,:tol inviriog the troops with the utmost l'aiis ol . •• • whole chain of the enemy's posts ts ill he attacked to tell; and the different divisions ss ill he so ma : to conceal the principal and real points of attack, will hr nn the right division of the enemy's left wing, 3.11 the frit dieisbn of his right wing. oOf the i9.1" - J0 men in the Emperor's Army, 35,000 will of ( looted to breaking the British line in the two points sped conk qui eoute. The right column, tinder General Loisox, 1 . v 1 ,1; the left, General 111 ca Li:, '2J,000. They are to be d,ussil Up hi Solid columns of attack, one platoon in front, the in the leading platoons. The G.Nwrals commanding co .o lb will elide tvoar to screen their troops from the enemy's Oit approaching the British line they will order the charge to tiounel, aad the Ist battalions to rush forwards; mast be followed by battalion after battalion, even to the tett! dearuction of the column, should the Allies stand firm so ton_, n:ach is impossible. u Of Cr remaining 43,000 troops ; all the infantry are to be dr.tirn up ,n as to attack the allied troops from Hank to flank, 0:1 dhn kill sn engage the attention of the army, and distract oe Generals, as to kinder their detaching reinforcements to the diusintrspart;eularly pressed. 0 The General; will take care that the Commissariat sup pile: a proper portion of brandy to the troops: if they ask for Lend, they are to he told that they will find enough within t ie English lines. The plunder of Lisbon is promised. o The wooncled are to he left on the field as they fall : the ruin are fo:Ukidcn, on pain of death, to quit their ranks to assist then. " 'The Generals will remember not to attack any particular r or noiese rerinient, as the English at the battle of Busaco elided s:aeral Lnglish and Scotch regiments in Portuguese Itifmr:, to entrap us. This ruse must not succeed twice. " RECAPITULATION. LITT COLUNIN• RIGHT COLUMN. v t:LL, '20,000 LoICIN, 15,000. 1,1.:FT WING. RIGHT WING. RE:INIER t 11,000. NE Y, 12,000. CENTR E. Duke of ESSLIN GEN, 10,001) ith the grand park. RESERT E. Duke of ADRANTICS, with all the Cavalry and fteserve of As.i,lcry. (Signed) " ESSLINGEN." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 26.—The Baltic fleet has began to leave that cheerless and inactive place. Admiral Reynolds arrived this morning in the St. George, 98, Captain Gwin; with the Formidable ) 9d, and Theban frigate. Arrived the Gannet, Captain Stevenson ; and the Charger, Lieutenant Blow, from a cruise. Sir Francis Lafoiey is gone to Plymouth, to hoist his flag in the Dragon, 74, Capt. Forest. On his arrival at the Leeward Islands, Sir A. Cochrane takes upon him the Government of Martinique. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 25.—Came iu the Royal Oak and Armada, of 74 guns each, from Torbay. Arrived the North Star sloop of war; the Peg ' cock and Goldfinch sloops of war, frum a cruise. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. „Dm_ The pleasing Opera of The Woodman was per. f)raied here last night. Mrs. Dtmoss sustained tic part of Emily with all her wonted ability ; she was in excellent voice, and was loudly and de- Emedly applauded. INCLEDON, in Wilford, sung sacommouly well, and was loudly encored in the Streamlet. BLANCHARD was a very respectable substitute for MUNDEN in Sir Waller. The other characters were as usual tolerably well sustained. la the last act some delay occurred in the ar. chery wen°. TAYLOR. and INCLEDON did not ap r•L• when they were expected, and this called forth laud hi..3es, which, on the entrance of the latter scale seconds after TAYtoit, increased to a tumult, aid " Off, off!" was fondly thundered forth from the pit nil galleries. On this, INCLEDON intre pilly advanced to the front of the Stage in the midst of the storm, bowed, and appeared to solicit a hearing. Silence being obtained, he addressed the audience in Cie following manner : " For tw ent y year,i, I am bold to my, the stage has never faiwri one flan; hi:' me.—Upon my soul I wus nut called. — I ran 5aV MI more, and I ask your pardon." His air all manner admirably corresponded with the words of this honest address. It was received with great good }Nu - war, and all again was harmony. The King of PRUSSIA has made application to the Emperor ALEXANDER to use his influence with flotsAp,tare for the preservation of the remnant of his dominions. The feeble ALEXANDER is not likely to interfere, as he will soon have enough to do to take care of own territories. _ ...... Lieutenant-Colonel KEATING, and the force !epilog under him, will share much prize-money by the capture of the Isle of Bourbon, as will Admi ral Itowtry also, as having the naval command on that station. Its chief produce is cotton of the best sort, and excellent colfee. The enemy's ships sometimes made a successful iskts with those articles, }Lit his supply from that quarte . r is now cut off. Sir GILBERT and Lady BEATIICOTE yesterday gave au elegant dinner at their house in Grosvenor- Hluare, to the Duke and Duchess of ST. ALBANS, Lady M.tay BEAUCLERK F Mr. and Mrs. DALRYM• Pr.r ) Mr. SHERIDAN, Mr. BERKELEY CRATEN ) and JOUN KEMBLE, &c. THE VETO. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. Sta,—l resume the observations on the let. to from Bath, signed, "AN ENGLISH CA. THOLIC," which I began in mine to you of the 19th current. This writer mentions it as a thing " well known," that the object of the intended A RR A NG EM ENT for a Ministerial controul over the appointment of our Bishops, &c. is to secure your Church, by putting a stop to controversy and proselyting on the part of ours. In effect, since my last landing in England, I have heard of no. thing so frequently as of the necessity there now is of a liberal, tolerating, and conciliatory spirit be. green the members of the two religions. But, let me ask, if this spirit is so necessary, ought not this to be reciprocal ? If so, I ask your Correspondent from Bath, whether he and his friends have stipu lated for any and what Arrangements for binding one party us well as the other ? Has he conditioned that no more Histories of the Inquisition (with which we have no more to do than you have with the burning of the Arians and Anabaptists, in ELI. ZABETII and JAMES'S reigns), of Foe's Book of Martyrs, and of the numerous other intolerant and inflammatory books against Catholics, which . have appeared in much greater numbers of late than heretofore, shall be published; or, at least, pa tronized by Ministry ? Has he covenanted that the blood.stirring sound of the glorious and immortal memory shall no more be echoed, at least with the approbation of Government, on our shores ; and. that no more worship shall be paid to a certain graven image on College Green ; and that the bon. fires shall no more blaze, nor the calumnies and un- charitable invectives contained in the Established Service, and the Anniversary Sermons of the sth of November, shall no longer be poured' forth to ignorant multitudes throughout the empire, to inspire them with hatred against us ?—llas he obtained a promise that the 30001. per annum, which, a little time ago, was taken off from Manooth, and added to the former enormous public fund for buying up our children, and edu eating them in sentiments of hostility towards their parents and relations, shall be given back ; and that the most violent of our enemies, Dr. DUIGENAN, who, about the same time, was made a Privy Councillor, and sent over to regulate the ecclesiastical concerns of Ireland (in which ca. pacity he will have the exercise of whatever VETO, or other religious ARRANGEMENT may chance to be established), shall be struck off the list, as our friend CHARLES Fox was ? Without. these and similar Arrangements, on your side, Mr. EDITOR, it will be all concession and sacrifice ou ours, and we shall continue to feel that your preachments to us about liberality, and toleration, and conciliation, are a mere mockery. But, Sir, we have to complain of heavier acts of increased intolerance on the part of those who claim a new power of confront over our religion, than those alluded to above; and such, as it concerns the ge, neral welfare, that they should be made known to the Legislature and the Public. It seems then as if Ministry were, at the present time, bent upon carrying on a Crusade for the extirpation of Po pery in all those countries in which, formerly, it most prevailed. It is a fact which falls within my certain knowledge, that our Catholic brethren, who form nearly half the British Army in Sicily, are not allowed by their Commanding Officers the exercise of their religion, even at the article of death ; no, not even when they are dying of wounds which they have suffered in fighting for their King and Country ; notwithstanding there is a respectable Clergyman, Father KENNY, and other Irish Priests, residing on the Island, who are willing and desirous to afford theta gratuitously their charitable as. sistance. This persecution exists in consequence, as it is alleged, of instructions from England.— It exists, I say, in the Catholic Island of Sicily, and it existed in Italy itself, till NIvRAT, who, like his master, NAPOLEON, tolerates all religions in order to render them all subservient to his political views, drove us out of that Peninsula. Such also was the case in Spain and Portugal, during the time that Sir JOHN MOORE commanded our army in the Western Peninsula. Dr. CROTTY, President of of the Irish College, in Lisbon, and other Catholic Priests (who, by-the-bye, bad refused a noble este. blishment in Paris, which the French Government had offered them), presented a Memorial to that brave and humane hero, requesting permission to attend gratuitously their sick and wounded Catholic countrymen of the army in its march into Spain, as they had done in the hospitals of Lisbon. Sir Joust admired their humanity and disinterestedness, but said that lie was obliged to submit the tlccLion of the question to his Staff and to the Chaplains, an unusual number of whom, under a Dean, had been sent out by Ministry with the Expedition. The answer was in the negative, in consequence of the well-known intentions of the said Ministry. We all know the melancholy fate of the Expedition, which might have been far otherwise, had there been a real exercise of that liberality and toleration of which such lofty professions are now made. For do you suppose, Sir, that the Spaniards, and Por tuguese, and Sicilians, and Italians,' whose good will and co-orration it was so essential to secure, were either ignorant or infeasible of the bigotry iu ques. • firm ? When this, to ether with the irreligious and immoral behaviour of the British officers and men, are taken into consideration, what wonder that 'those several Catholic inhabitants should have given us such a lame and equivocal support as they have done; and that, in some instances, they shook! , have appeared to hesitate between submitting to the English or to the French ? Now that I am upon this subject, I will go back to the affair of Buenos Ayres. It is well known that our troops, when they first landed there, were received as friends, and were allowed to occupy the city and neighbouring country without opposition ; and that afterwards they were expelled, and absolutely conquered, by these raw Creoles ; and that such was their anti. pathy to us, that they would have died to the last man, as one of our Generals testified, rather than permit us to exist amongst them. Though this change in the minds of the inhabitants surprised many, yet the cause of it did nut transpire, even upon General WIIITELOCKL'S ilial. However, it became sufficiently plain to the inhabitants of the Cove of Cork, when they saw the loads of chalices, crucifixes, and other church.plate, which the sol. diers, who had been upon the Expedition, offered for sale there ; and when they heard the account of the conduct of the army in general, with respect to the religion and moral habits of that Catholic country. One article, a large crucifix of gold, set with pearls, which belonged to the Cathedral, had been redeemed by the inhabitants, and the ransom. money paid, ia the presence of certain great Offi cers. Having been restored to its place, on the faith of this public convention, it was a few days afterwards again seized upon, and actually brought away to Europe. But what matters such a trifle, some great folks will say, it was only preventing Papists from exercising their idolatry ! I return to my subject, and assert that, till we see the genuine and substantial fruits of a uniform tolerance and liberality in our regard, it is mockery to preach these up to us. I will add, that if the question be to secure the Established Church, in Ire. land, from the inroads and depredations of other re. ligionists, there is much more reason to provide Vetos and Arrangements for controuling the li. ccnces of Methodist Preachers, than fur the copse. cration of Catholic Bishops. As matters stand, every enthusiast who fancies he has a call to preach the word of Gon, is entitled to a licence fur this purpose, on paying a shilling. On the other hand, it is notorious that for one proselyte drawn away from the Establishment by our Clergy, fifty arc alienated from it by the Methodists. The depre. datiuns o f these upon the Establishment are so enormous, that there is reason to believe that very soon hardly any serious Protestaats of the Estab. lishment will he left in IrelatA, except those imme diately connected with the Church or the State.— But I perceive that I most again break the thread of my argument, and that you inrnt be troubled with a third Letter, fur the purpose of finishing the subject taken by Your humble Servant, AN IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC. Bristol, Oct: 41 Mr. Br.tett, the late Governor of Botany Bay, and his family, have arrived at Portsmouth, from New South Wales. They came in the Ilindostan man of war. Sir CHARLES BRISRkI , IF, Governor of St. Vin cent's, is arrived in town front that island. Some vessels sailed on Thursday front Portsmouth, for Lisbon, but very few troops went out in them : from whence it is inferred, that Government consi. der that Lord WstustoTos's present force is ade. quate to its purpose ; or that reinforcements now sent out could not arrive in awe to be of use. Extract of a letter from Gibraltar, dated 29th September :--" I think that thO'French affairs are daily declining in Spain : the immense desertion must ruin any army. In a few months we have bad upwards of 5000 of the finest German deserters, en listed for our army, passing through this place alone; and Colonel It —, who arrived here from Carthagena, a few days ago, told me that 24 Officers and 700 men had come over from the French the night before he sailed." Lord Chief Justice DowNEs has signified his in. tention of retiring from the Court of Kiug's Bench, in Ireland, and the Solicitor-General,. Mr. BUSIIE, is nominated for his successor. The Archbishop of Punr:lF, we are concerned to state, continues so severely affected by his spas modic disorder, as to render his recovery extremely doubtful in the opinion of his Grace's Physicians. The Marquis of DOWNSHIRE has recently given a champetre entertainment to the whole neighbour. hood of Ililsborough Castle, in the County of pown, to celebrate his coming of age. Three immense oxen, and four times as many sheep, were roasted whole in the Park on this occasion. Nut less than five thousand persons partook of this repast, which was exhilarated by the full flow of 40 hogsheads of strong beer. All the principal families of the Coun ty became his Lurship's delighted guests at this joy ous festival. On Tharsday se'nnight, the friends of Sir Wm. Guru:, in the neighbour!lood of Chelteuluim, dined together at the George lon l .where the venerable and initEh-reSpeCIU: I Mr. DF. La lliie, presided. The party, uldeh was of great respectability, consisted of about seventy ; and the utmost harmony and con viviality prevailed, until the breaking up of the meet. ing. A sanguinary battle, which lasted an hour and a half in linsy combat, took pla , :e yesterday, on Putney Heath, betwixt two men of superior strength, of the names of BettlN an►l Gros;:enor, for ten guineas a side, in consequence of a quarrel. The combatant.: were both so severely beat, that Grosvenor died in a cart on his way to Chelsea. - NW r - THE HARVEST. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN. Old Wind.ur, Oct. `26, 1810. Strt,—With a latitude of thought, common to all men capable of thinking, I have always conii. tiered Te Deums and Public Thanksgivings for vic. tories obtained, as an indecency I:„llestren, by pre. soming to enlist the Divine Author of the Universe our dirty squabbles for an inch of territory, more or less, and supposing Him to be (he umpire in our sanguinary conflicts. This sort of devotion is much nearer allied to hypocrisy than to piety, and is, in point of fact, either blasphemy, or nonsense ; but the Hymn of Gladness offered to the GREAT CRE. ♦TOR, for what is a common benefit to all His crea tures, argues a commendable sense of gratitude, and is a tribute in which all men are bound to join. The Order of Council fur a prayer to the Divi. nity on grateful acknowledgement for the abundant harvest bestowed upon us this year, has piety for its basis; and in this prayer all, except those to whom scarcity, whether real or artificial, is alone a harvest, will, I am sure, most cordially join. This attention on the part of Government to our religious duties has its merit, and is doubly recommended to our notice by the protection it directly affords the country against the tricks and contrivances of 'Mark-lane. You may be aware, but I very much question whether the great bulk of the nation is aware, that the whole corn-trade of the country is concentrated in about twenty-four or twenty.six opulent houses, and that the Corn-factor 3 in the vicinity of the metropolis regulate the price of grain all over the kingdom. We have felt repeatedly the cruel effects of their cu pidity or avarice. We know that they have fre. quently combined to raise the price of bread-corn ; and when hunger has driven a famished peasantry, our mechanics, and manufacturers, to take summary justice on these worst of assassins, they have called out the Yeomanry and Volunteer Corps to dra. goon the beggared race into a submission to their merciless exactions, and impudently set the claims of humanity at defiance. In the years 1803 and 1804, when the crops of barley were so luxuriant and abundant, that the farmers, in many parts of England, declared that it would . be down to twelve shillings the quarter, recourse was had to feed their horses with barley ; nor was this the only abuse which was made of Heaven's bounty to the earth. This year we are told, by Royal Authority, that the harvest has been every where so richly abnndant, as to call for public thanksgiving to the ALMIGHTY—Iet us see, whether the Corn-factors arid Millers throughout England will dare, by their combinations, to give the lie direct to the Royal Proclamation, and with. hold, as they have frequently done, GOD'S good. ness front his creatures. Let us see whether they will dare to contradict the gracious assurances of their Sovereign, formally and officially announced by his Majesty in Council, of a plentiful harvest; and in defiance of these assurances under the sign Manual, make us feel the effects of a real scarcity by their tricks and contrivances. I am satisfied that this measure, founded in wisdom and benevolence, and appertaining to that piety in which hypocrisy can ' have no share, has struck terror into the whole ne. farious herd of Corn.tleaLrs, from the man who is said to have accumulated half a million sterling in that trade, to the body of Bakers, some of whom add to the afflictions of the poor, by cheating them in the weight as well as in the quality of the bread they sell to them.-1 am sure that this Order of Council, issued at Windsor, will have as good au effect as if the entire crops of the Ukraine had been imported from the Baltic in excellent condition ; and that the gentry who give the Meal weighers in London their lesson, will be 'careful not to fly in the face of that authority under which we may all contend, that no justifiable plea exists for keeping up the price of bread to its present stand. ard, much less to increase it. I am Sir, your humble servant, JASPER JONES. Lord IlinTuvuTox, who has passed the summer at the ancient family castle of Lismore, in Ireland, is so pleased with the delightful scenes which it affords, as to have pot the Castle into complete re. pair, intending to make it his regular summer rest. dekc in future. ---- - From the Police account, in our last page, we are very happy to pay the just tribute of praise to the-Officers in that department, by whose vigilance we find that almost thirty of those miscreants who had indisputably been hired fur the purpose of ex. citing disturbance, had been. taken into custody. Mr. TowNsteo, Bath King at Arms, was the first complainant at Bow-street ; and to his exertion much is owing, for the mob, however excited, seemed determined on mischief and riot. The custom of throwing squibs and letting off 1 crackers in the streets has become an intolerable nuisance. Wherever there are any idle illumina tions, a number of fellows assemble, and others at. tend with links. The latter retail crackers and fire. works, which call for the notice of the constables and the officers of Police. One fellow in Catha. rine-street, boasted that he sold four guineas worth of fireworks, on Thursday night, many of which were thrown into the neighbouring houses, and created perpetual alarm. Should the illuminations in Catharine-street be ever again repeated, we ad. vise the Insurance Offices to have fire-engines on the Ispot, to prevent the mischief chat otherwise is likely lia ensue. I. 7 ~~ I Pi __.:.y