The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-02-24 00:00:00

1 - `, - THE SrfATESMAN. . i Ase . Malik. Arr DebAn • 6 . 1 Waterfoyd . 1 • Lisbon ' . 6 0 Got robot* . 1 it .2 Guerasty .. 1 Jersey 0 ST. Muleitus.—lbliflay at the Public o:licss. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Tlie deviate filmed CATO if received, on which we would ob serve tint I..tvevev elegantly and wittily pennel, it is not suit.,• to to the deign of the STATESMAN, PI:ONA COIOMIIS are whon, drvoted fur news and political discussions. "r• STATES MAN. LONDO'V WILDVESDAY, rEBRUAILY 24, 1813. A Gottenburgh Mail arrived this morning, bring. ing the following intelligence : Ccvvvrar nun, FES. 13.—Colonel Grusenau, a Prussian Officer of great distinction, set off from this place to Cirlsham yesterday, and it is said is to have a command in the Prassiau army : he arrived a few days ago from England. REPORT PROM PIELD.MARSH f. PRINCE RETIMOW 07 otoLzirig, TO HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY, DATED READ-IWARTFIV; yYCu, 6TH (1S) JAN . IO.4.RY. 46 Admiral Tchichagoff reports to me, that on the 2d (14) January, the enemy was driven behind the River Nogat, and that Elbing, Marienburg, and Marlenwerder, were taken by your Imperial Ma. jesty's troops. 64 Count rlatoff still pursues the enemy, en the road from Marleuburg towards Dantzic. In the mean time Lieutenant-General Sitepeleff has crossed the Nagat, near Sommerau, and molests the enemy on that side. The enemy left behind him seven pieces of ordnance on the road froth Truentz to Da. merau. " As soon as I shall obtain a more particular Occousit of this, I shall have the honour to report it to your Imperial Majesty." DEPORT FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME, DATED 7TH (19TH) JANUARY. g' I leave the honour to report most humbly, that after the taking of Elbing, on the 31st December (12th January,) the enemy was driven from Marien. b org Near Doshau, he attempted to keep posses. sion of a tilte.de.pont, but being also defeated there, ' he commenced his retreat in two columns, in the direction of Dantzic and Stargard. Count Platoff continues to pursue him conjointly with the corps of Lieutenant-General Snepeleff. Near Marienburg we conk upwards of 300 prisoners, andin Dushau ahos.4 SOO, together with t considembri number of sul.l.;se , s. 64 :lie enemy left in the hospitals of Marienburg 40 officer-, end 726 rank and file. The first day of this year (0. S.) was crowned with a double success. The Adjutant-General of your Imperial Majesty, Cherneskoff, arrived on the 30th of December (11th January), in the neighbourhood of Marienwerder; the following day he attacked the enemy at day break, and drove him from his position with so much suceess,.that he took one General and some officers, sod upwards of goo rank and file; and also 15 pieces of ordnance, that were on the tete.de-pont. The enemy was obliged to leave in Marienwerder con siderable magazines and hospitals. After this sue cvs3, Adjutant-General Cherneskoff crossed the Vis tula, anti continued the pursuit of the enemy towards Neunburg, where the latter had a most advan tageous position; he therefore sent oat a corps of 'Cossacks, in ordor to get into his rear, and to occupy the roads fretn Neunburg to Graudenit, Bronberg, and by this movement he forced the Imperial Majesty's glorious troops the Ist (13th) Jan. Neunburg, the Arst bank of the Vistula." ACCOUNT FROM THE ARMIES. mkt. in Chief of the armies, Field. 'rince Kowtow of Smolensk hits, on seetwor -1. • Dints. FEB. 7 --That which pays the highest the 13th January (N. S.) of thilyear f transmitted to etdoeiom to the financial measares adopted by Go- his Imperial Majesty the following report, from his ye, nitwit is, that th..y have not iu the least suffered head-guarters,.at the village of Meretsck .I . by the late military events. 1 I tg In all accounts received from the army, state- Up to the present time, considerable sums have ! ments have been given of the extraordinary great been sent front all the provinces of the Monarchy, : fo'r the relief of sick or wounded Prus43:l soldiers. : losses sustained by the French army within the 'NAPLES, FEE. I.—Private accounts received from ' borders of Russia, in the course of the present am- Sid!y, represent that country as in the most *dePlo - I paign. Such publications may, at times, appear to rable state. Notwithr i tanding all the millions- which be exaggerated, or inserted through partiality ; but in England has spent during the last seven years, in de confirmation of them the original report on the con of.. t. at island, she has not a great number of i partisans ; two-thirds of the inhabitants would , dition of even the French Regiments of the Guard s ; willingly' dispense with haring English forces with which has lately fallen into the hands of the General them, or rather with seeing the• English meddle ,of Cavalry, Count 'Wittgenstein, since the expulsion with the affairs ' of the island. The convocation your of of the French over our borders is laid before borders, ,is a Patliament, only had the appearance of I Imperial I Majesty, from which it clearly appears, that a . bad farce; and the promulgation of a Consti. I by the confession of the enemy himself, shows his tution, eich was only promised, not to be en_ t euted, imposed urn no person. The manner in ; own ruin in a still more dreadful light, and serves as which they hare treated the Royal Family has greatly : a substantial proof of the total destruction of his au•- is mented the number of the disconteuttd. All the i l arm y, as likewise of every thing. else that has before clergy are Anti.Eitglisli, and evince the most lively • : been made public." _ resentment agai nst the measures which have been ° adopted. Fresh plots are daily organized at Messi na or elsewhere. A great number of respectable in habitants of that town have just been arrested on sespicimi of treason, and we are assured that they are going to be proceeded against. The sufferings and misery of the lower order has reached the greatest height. Public industry is entirely annilii• Wed, and half of the population is reduced to men dicitr. It is impossible that this state of things can last long. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armies, Mar i ' shal Prince Kutusoff of Smolensk, has reported as follows, to his Imperial Majesty, from hii head quarters, Orany, Dec. 28 (Jan. 9) :-- • " Konigsberg, the ancient capital of Prussia, is subject to your Imperial Majesty. This vast city I was occupied, on the 25th Dec. (6th Jan.), by the Count Wittgenstein's advanced guard, under the orders of Major-Gen. Shepelelf. " Marshal Macdonald occupied the town, with a corps d'armee, cotnposed of the old French Guards, and some troops - who had escaped the general de struction of the enemy's Grand Army. " The wreck of his particular corps, constituting part of this total, was reduced to 2500 men, after the Prussians separated from them ; there remained to him in all but about 7000 men. At the approach of the advanced guard, which briskly pursued, the enemy, without halting, passed by Koningsberg, and abandoned it to Major-General Shei3eleff, who entered it w it:tout meeting any resistance. This as tonishing facility, in giving up the possession of this city, is a consequence of the Nicteries with which the arms of your Imperial Majesty have •been crowned during the last two montl.s. 46 Macdonald's corps is pursued by Wittgenstein's and Adm. Tchichagod's army, by diagonal routes." The Commander in Chief of the Armies, Field. Marshal General Prince G. Kutusow of Smolensk, has transmitted to his Imperial Majosty the following Report, from head-quarters, at the villai;e of Meulsch, dated 29th Dec. (Jan. 10) : 64 I hale the happlueis of most submissively in forming your Imperial Majesty that, previously to our taking possession of the city of Konigsberg, thd vanguard of General (*ono. Wittgenstein, under the command of Major-GeLeral Shepeleff, whilst con tinuing to pursue the enemy from Tilsit, came p with him on the '23d instant (Jan. 4), near Lob , a. " The enemy had here taken a very advant'‘geous position, and the engagement, in which he I ,st three ! cannon, and about 300 men of the lower ranks,. continued half a day. After that the enemy was completely beaten ; he commenced his retreat to Koningsberg. Major-General Shepelefr seized on this opportunity, drove the enemy six German miles before him, and forced himself on their shoulders into Koningsberg, which was taken possession of by our troops at two o'clock after midnight on the 125th December (6th Jan.) :—I3OO men were made ' prisoners in the city itself. 1 44 The enemy retreated with such haste, that he threw 30 pieces of artillery, with the cartridge boxes, into the river; and left behind him 6000 men, who were wearied out, and who were made prisoners by oar troops. Very considerable quantities of provisions and forage have fallen into our hands at Koningsberg. The guns which were thrown into the water, are of the number of those which were in Courland, and are now drawn out again by the inhabitants. " This success, although of so much consequence, has nevertheless not detained Majer-Lienera.l4he..• peleff in the further pursuit of the enemy. General Count Wittgenstein attributes. it to the wise measures of General Shepeleff, his dispatch, and determined bravery." On the debate of last night, we have to congrttu. late our Readers, who must naturally think with us in a great measure ; and we have also to congratulate the country at large on the Prospect of seeing one of the sincerest, and as he will shortly be, one of the most powerful friends of the people, likely to ren der them that service which they so much stand in need of. We hive always maintained the opinion, that Sir FRANCIS BURDETT would ultimately succeed in his honourable and patriotic design. If, like the young warrior, impelled more by courage than'cau-, tion, he has advanced towards the enemy with. out observing that the main body of his friends could not follow him, pail passe, we have not admired and loved him the less; we saw him, to be sure, in more dander, but we took the more in terest in Mr preservation, and we prognosticated that, in every renco►itre with the foe, he would ac. quire a further confidence from those who enlisted with him in the arduous and honourable, though un profitable warfare. Yes, this flistinoished young Senator is ebout devetop those talents which en quiry, study, and reflection have so enviably en= dowed hise with. lie reminds us of the description one of our best and beloved Poets gives of himself, when be says 44 When I was yet a child, '• No childish play to me was pleasing, " All my mind pas seriously bent to learn N4VAL INTELLIGENCE. Pirmiewrn, Fes. 41.—Came in the D tblin, 71, from of the Western Isla n d s; an d the Conqucata. dor, from off Breqt. " And tors* what might he venue noes; • Char., Fee. 23.—Come down from the River the 4 ' Myself 1 thought born is unit mat, Pli S rti l c l u ed iars his not Al ijk(.sty's known. ships Asia,Sal se tt e ,Di tpatch Haddad, Nesbitt, for India, • and sev era l others; " Bora to prom o te a ll truth, alkightenas thlegs. In the discussion of ,the REGINCY BILL, which a the worthy and truly independent Member for and York; Cumberland, Hope, and Walmer Castle', mouth. The other East Indiamen and the convoy Westminster proposed last night ; running ships, for Ports. the House of ; East Indianten; and sevefal Commons, may be said to have made some degree of ; ' sti P li o r ft e •r m s a m in o . ovs, J.or. 23.—Arrived his Majesty' s reparation for the unjust opinion it may aforetime ship Escort from a cruise. have entertained of the views of this their promising ; v Member, whose whole fault it now turns out was the; Sailed the Panshian, with a convoy for the Dow ns . possessing a precocious understanding, and a firmness . the Spitfire, with staled orders, f or Li s b on ; his Ma: of mind where sech qualities appeared (though not so I iistra ship Slag, for off Cherb urg h ; an d the Ts. Zephyr is appoi n t e d convoy acknoWledged) as prodigies in the place where sub. I 1 risnand Camel, on a cruise. szrvience is expected on 'l. fi rst entrance. The very i His Majesty's sh ip for Guernsey and Jersey. opposers of his measure, if they can be called cip..l FALMOUTH, JAN. 21.—Arrived the Duke of Marl. borough packet, from Lisbo n , i n five days. O n t h e posers to it, who ground their objection on the as. sertion, that the adoption of it was not called for byl 15th i n st. his Majesty's ships La Pi que and Myrtle existing circumstances, did him honour. Although, r sailed from Lisbon, with a c o nvo y f or E ngland, in the division of the numbers, the Hon. Bart. is in a .consisting of about fifty sail, c hi e fl y transports.— considerable minority, yet we view the whole By the Marlborough we lea rn , th at hi s M a j esty's ship Magicienne has captured and sent for Gibr a l tar proceeding as • one of the completed triumphs of the American privateer Thrasher, of 12 guns ;a l so, reason over prejudice, or rather over precedent, that !that To ur s ch ooner pr i vateers, of 16 guns each, are in the Aerie , has been witnessed since the 'American war. Mini. !cruising off the coast of Portugal'. Caine sters*Ould naturally move heaven and earth to bring vicars brig hope, from N e w O r le ans , f or B oort l eaux, , p e ry the sloop erne n pri of war, vateer, left Monte ovrey Video, Tile onne for Rio would, one and all, have stood condemned for havinJaniero, 37 days before the St. A nse l mo , w hi c h ar . g' •so long carried on the Government as they did with- I rived here on the 19th inst. out an Executive Head. The argument of no necessity 1 . existing was certainly no trason for rejecting the measure ; for, as the /fon. Baronet observed, It was his wish to be prepared for any emergency, and not to wait till the necessity should come upon us. OLD BAILEY. Yesterday the Sessions coded, when Sentence of Death was passed on the following Prisoners, viz. Ilymey Franks, for a highway robbery—Eleanor Condon. Abraham Moses, and J M` Dowell, for stealing in a doelling house—John Main wright. for a burg] iry—Wm, Allen, alias Thos. Eldridge, for a Ilk Yesterday morning, as. we noticed in our Paper, ! offence—Antony Jtveph. Joseph Franks, Richard Rubel:sone Thomas Blade, Edward Staples, Samuel Smith, Wm. Thump son, illi..m Perkins, alid Mary Walker, alas Bond, aliit: the Cabinet Council met, agreeably to summons, at the Foreign Office. All the Members arrived at the Slni h, for privately stea l ing in a shop. Five were ordered to be Iran ported for fourteen years; Office by half past ten o'clock, and proceeded to for seven years; two were ordered to be imprisoned in the business. They continued their deliberations till loiteneovfesurraenciitnairt l:lerk•uMell. for s(v:Zrrisentochhe' len o f prisoned in year, for various per od ; tree to be privately near one, when they adjourned to the Secretary and one publicly whipped 8 18 m . s were respited; two State's Officfi for the Home Department, to meet a per , . tined each, and discharged; /3 w-r • cle,charged by proclarnatiou.—Sessions adjourned to the ith April nest. number of distinguished characters, and to proceed further on the subject of the Perseus! of WALES'S • This morning seve I Mails were due from Gotten. burgh, one of wide.' (the foit-th) has arrival. The Right lion. Tilust is G wax ri I.l.Eis a candidate for Buck•, 0 succeed E 4-1 Teem, now Marquis of BicKINGEIAM. Tee Vice-C iancellor's Bill, /is etwerfe•' in the Committee in the Commons, allots to that officer 50001. per annum out of the dead (dud in Chancery, and 25001. per annum out of the f..es of the Lone CHANCELLOR, making the whole salary 75001. a year. Out of the dead rued also, '2OOl. per annum, is to be paid to the Vice-Chancellor's S. , cretary ; 1001. to his Trainbearer ; and 801. to his Usher. • A Court of Common Council is summoned to be held at twelve o'clock, to-morrow. A Meeting of the Oeputies of the Protestant Dis. senters in and•near Landon, was held yesterday, %V. SMITH, Esq..M. P. in the Chair, when it was resole. ed to Petition the two Houses of Parliament, for the repeal of all laxs which impose penalties or disabi. lilies 'on persons rho dissent from the Established Church. L We rejoice to find the Dissenting aity thus concurring with their Ministers. A lamentable case of parricide Otcurred at Carn wath, the end of cast week. A young man, named Aiken, having returned home from an alehftse, and being reproved, on account of his 'dissipation, by his father, impiously lifted his hand against his parent, and with one blow killed him on the sent. It is said, that the wretched mu td- , r,•r of Mr. Sex, borne down by the weight of his atrocious crime, af. The lobby of the House of Commons, and all ter taking leave of his wife, drowned himself in the the avenues leading to it, were crowded early yes- river at Crroombridge, wherein his body seas found terries to a degree we hardly recollect to have wit- two days afterwards.—(Sussex Advertiser). nestled. The Members who were hurrying to attend An Edinburgh Paper of Saturday last says, " This two ballots for Election Committees, could hardly morning a troop of the 6th dragoon guards set cut make their way to the House, until an additional for Perth, in consequence, we understand, of seep number of Constables were procured, who had suffi. toms of insubordinatieu having appeared among Ate cient trouble to keep the way clear. Public ex- militia stationed at that place. We have also heard pectation, it seems,, had been raised to the- utmost that a correspondence has been detected, carried on pitch, by the various rumours of the discoveries between some of the regiments, relative to the late which were expected to be made respecting certain application to Government, on the subject of the li family quarrels. In this hope, however, they were mitation under. which some of the militiamen en . disapphinted. rolled themselves." EAST-INDIA Hoesz.—Yeiterday the adjourned( ' COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—The Tragedy of debate took place on the Petition to Parliament for Isabella was repeated last night, and Mrs. CAMPBELL the Renewal of-the Company's Charter. After a few ! again supported the principal character, from whence words from Sir -11. -firarmr,:-Ither ftstittern -was - rend; - 1 the piece' takes its name. The actress was more in and its merits discussed by Mr. CHAPMAN, Mr. t p o siession of herself on this her second, than on her HUME, Mr. Rom, Mr. T. M vrcALre, Mr. R. ; first appearance; and was, therefore, enabled to give Moats -ton, Mr. Cummes .GR ANT, Mr. Issee'v, and her powers the fuller play. She was received through. Mr. R. JACKSON. Various amendments were pro. out with great applause, but was particularly happy posed by Mr. Hesse, and rejected. In the .sequel ,in that scene, wherein she received the ring, which the Petition was agreed to, and also a second Petition I she supposes to have beetorattsmitted to her from her respecting the debt between the Company acrd the f dying husband. Government, after.which the Court ajourned. '-Lord Sostrevtu.e's Annual Spring Cattle show. A Morning Paper. of yesterday says, " l ln the i which commences next week, is expected to display present ,disastrous state of alfairs, t the people of a finer collection of stock, particularly of thet,Peven France begin to cast their eyes on the Bouaupn breed, than has been exhibited since the establish family," &c. Alas I DON QifIXOTTE never cherish- ment of this laudable Institution. ed a more romantic expectation than this. Even the I Coke EXCHANGE,' FER. 24.—We are still with► persons most attached to the remains of that dy- 1 out any arrivals, in consequence of the prevalence nasty, would bewail the dreadful explosion which d of adverse winds, but there is very little doing in the alone could open the road to their return to their Wheat trade, as none but necessitous buyers make ancient throne. I purchases, the Millers in general holding Of, in es: The number of Signatures to the Petition against pectation of large supplies very soon. The little the Catholics from this Borough, amount to 6,800 Wheat disposed of this morning obtained rather a very considerable masher to be sure, but much higher prices than on Monday. Having no Barley 'less than we anticipated.; for when the pains taken at"market, the price of that article, ae well as of to revive religious animosities in this place, and that Peas and Beans, continue nominally as in our last the means used to obtain signatures to this petition report. Oats sell freely, at an advance of Is. per are taken inte the account, we did expect that the quarter. signatures would far exceed 10,000. A number of When( (English) .... 100 196 cases have been mentioned to us of the expedients re- !Ilya,,' ( " re ig n) •'• 1 4: sorted to on this occasion, and we shall mention one narks' ..••• 56 72 as a specimen of the rest The Petition against the Fins ditto -.1 .04 Catholics was taken into a large &theel in this town,_ ; A t te ' is m 30 00 consisting of about 80 boys, from 10 to 1.1 years of Ditto (hailers) • • WO 103 age, every one of whom,. except two, axed their 00 OLI ter 1 • •• • , Orey Peas ...... N 4 names to this precious instrument.—Let the public judge if such a transaction does not vitiate the %civic • proceeding.—(Leads llietcur4t.) Letter. The Meeting was then attilided by the' Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the Archbishop of Yotty, the Bishop of LONDON, the Lord Primate of IRELAND, the Archbishop of DUBLIN, the Archbishop of CASHEL, the Dean of WESTMINSTER, the LORD CHtE*JusrtcEof the Court of King's Bench,the Lo RD CHIEF JUSTICE of the Court of Common fleas, the LORD Cutts BARON, the JUDGE of the Admiralty Court, thl JUDGE of the Court of Archives, the SPEAKER of the House of Commons, and the MASTER of the ROLLS. The altsembled in Lord SIDMOUTIfi room. The meeting continued in dose deliberation till about half past two o'clock, wl:en it *broke up much sooner than was expected ; and from this cir cumstance it is conjectured that some measure was decided upon. We are convinced that every Member of the Coun cil feels a difficulty how to give an opinion as to what measure (if any) ought to be adopted on this highly important occasion; and we are equally well per suaded, that the venal prints, the meddling Cou rier among them, have made that difficulty the greater : like a conceited over-prating advocate, they have erratell the necessity for cross-examination, or at least for cross-1 Viedion. New ditto am - 04 br 4 /te 7i 70 Tick do. (lld 11 SS Oats ' 00 — ripe ditto .........• 37 ei 570 Poland thi. Feed ditto . .38 i f F,ine Flew ..... i lg lo g Seconds . ON LION : inted and Pubttplted Ay I). 1411111.1 at Ike lir 3 air t>r &hymns.. 97 fled-it-ed. and .Gugel, and enemy to retreat 46 Thus your entered, .on the town on the left ni'FlCtet. Tho Cotnmatti , . Marshal Gen. Pi •