The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-12-09 00:00:00

- t ons meddling. has been felt and deplored by every Officer in the Peninsula. 6th. To the charge of Lord Wellington being without artillery, sufficient for the capture of Bur.- r; yOu say, that there were three or four trains of artillery on the borders of Portugal, and at sea.— Why, your guns might as well have been deposited e t Woolwich. But your Lordship, wilfully shirks t h e complaint, which goes diitinctly to this single point —that the British General was left utterly d es titute o s r is t or mosey To TRAnsvoltT his can non. hat have you done with the me rorable five millions, given you expressly to pro- vide for the late grand crisis of the war ? 'rlt; Inte, I call it, for it is gone :—nhoot one third of that disappeared in the vortex of the Elections— i. jog war upon the Constitution of England,: 'ith the remainder yOu embarked in trade upon the Con.na. lit: but Beroadotte would neither aid yeti, pr , : accept your assistance—and in return for the ki t h which he gaits our Ambassador, yen saluted hi r e a Prince—and made England guarantee his do. To these few amongst your unnumbered glories as Olinister, I shall for the present content myself With one addition. You plead guilty to having fore- , pea the uorthern war—so long back as last December. Now vou must have been aware—nod you boast of h av ing been so—that no event within the range of human fortunes, could have proved so propitious s o o ur arms iu Spain, as this determination ef the strength of Bonaparte towi.rds Russia; — nay more—you know every man that could be mus, tried in Spin by the enemy, and the distribution of wry regiment. Here, then, were materials for a rrecise calculation as to what extent of force, on the part of Great Britain; would suffice for the expul sion of the French armies. Whets have you done ? There is no running away from this argument, my good Lord, and every man in England feels its power. With a crisis before your Cabinet, for which you boast of having been long prepared—with the accurate and fixed elements of a calculation in your hand, by which any clerk in the War office might have foretold, to a hair's breadth, What progress could be niade towards the Pyrennees in a given time—l say, in the presence of all mankind.-you ought to have secured the object—or, finding it, on investigation, to be unattainable, you ought to have saved the whole expence. We demand of you, why you (lid neither ? Why you have drained us f blood and treasure for nothing 7 You must either have believed that such exertions as we could wake daring ?Napoleon's absence in Wissia. would be sufficient to liberate the Yeilinsulti—or that they would not. If the former were your sopposPion•—• you have shown yourself a shallow speculator, unfit for the desk of a common' insurance office: if the lat'er—no words can describe your wickedness, in sot having withdrawn the British army, from n scene where it must be unsuccessful, to one where it might possibly succeed. The opportunity,—let our rcpeat,—was one which the whole world expected, ald which never could return. The calculation was easy ; the tables were before you. Yo u have dire. garded the first lesions of vulgar arithmetic, the proper science of a drudge : you have forfeited all claims to common hushanity, the legal inheritance of a saint: every life you have destroyed in this now fruitless contest, cries aloud for vengeance: every dollar wasted, is a debt on which we shall levy ess ential. • My Lord, I hare done. The British army starves; —is unpaid,—and defeated. The People starre,--1 qre disappointed,—and disgraced. The mind of ! your Sovereign has undergone a revolution. England I: roused ; and yoi are ruined. Dec. 5, 1812. V ETUP. • Are. Mails. Due 0 ••... Dublin . 1 9 . . Waterford .—i! 0 1 Was 0 . Q DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Bonds par 7 8 7 Ms. Ezcheytier thil.3o. par Ditto Ad. 2 5 p opusol, fn r Acct. 6115 1 i Lottery Tickets YRICU OF STOCKS TUFO Rank 3 per Cent. Red. 59fl 3 per Cent. Unna. 4 per Cent.. I per Cent. Navy Long. Ann. 15 3-11 THE BT4 TESMAN. LONDOIV: WZMIUDAY, A Malta Mail arrived HAI lattruisql by "'Leh we have received the following Mtssl:4l, OCT. 17.—Yesterdays Council of War mat assiquhled in the Citadel, for the trial of some !ties who had been arrested ; when, t h they pro tekdid to any trial, two persons were brought be fore them, of the names of Don Bexuritaro COR- L%:101 and Don FLI.IrPO CourEsr, natives of Si rn: former had been arrested in the canal, en. dravouri ,, g to pass to the enemy in Calabria; and t!ke other ii_cused of assisting him to carry his bi te:nil:sat into execution ; m hen, after an admonition frma the President relative to their conduct in fu t Ire, they were informed that LoritrW. BENTINCII Wholes pirated to order, that they should beset 4' 141 Prti, es giving shpirity for their future good t'sluniour, both because they were least culpable of mut of the persons arrested, and to give a proof of itiv clemency and of his high esteem for the Sicilian oation. PALeasso,OcT. a Royal Edict, published here, all possessors el grain are requested to give in a statement of the quantity they posses', and the place where it is deposited ; and those who shall be found neglecting to comply with this order, are to be subject to a fine, according to the quantity that may be concealed. There has never been a perletAllice the eounteneel. merit 'of the northern c.ampnigneliti* with n. parts, u the present. The Gottesiliirgh-Sfails which arrived yesterday, bring nothing new from Russia, being of uo late( dire than the intelligence i•,.'6'. c .• Which we had 'already received from that quarter; but the letters brought by them have given rise to a variety of ruftiodrh all of which appear conclusive and decided, with reaped to the disastrous state . of. the French army. The dispatches from Lord CAIN CART, published In an Reiraordinary Giaate yes terday, contain a recapitulation of former intelli gence of considerable importance; bat the inter cepted letters from BeAvnA astots to BERTUIER, if genuine, form the most interesting part of his commueication. It is well known that the in , generally prover! to reepred letters in Spain to be forgeries ; and the language of those from BE.tunattwois renders them suspicious. It has uniformly been too much the practice with the Belligerents to keep up a regular system of delusion upon the public, respecting the actual state of the contending armies. Pnrers, dispatches, and butte , tins, have been issued, pregnant with exaggerated and deceptive accounts, to keep alive the fallacious hopes of success, and blind the public mind to the fatal consequences of continuing the war, in order to induce the people to bear, with less reluctance, the burdens which their rulers find it convenient to place upon them. It appears, however, that the Itussians, by a stretch of military frenzy, for it might be deemed barbarous to call it policy, have, if not completely defeated, given a fatal blow to the military prowess of the French army ; and by one desperate project, the object of Naeoceow, dextrous as he is in military skill, was manifestedly over turned, and he in his turn has been compelled to re verse his usual system of tactics, and adopt the Bus. sian plan of retreating and destroying. During his, destructive retreat from Moscow to Smolensk, it ap pears that the hardy Russians, inspired bythe auspiciow change which the burning of Moscow had made in the features of the campaign, brought all their collective force into action, and hovered on the rear with desperate fury, sending detachments to annoy the enemy in their retreat, destroying the roads, and pulling down the bridges, in order to retard their progress till the frost set in, which they have accom plished; and, by a train of successful skirmishes and attacks, made by the skilful and united efforts of their Generals, are said to have completely foiled BON AP Attn: in his retreat. The following reports are in circulation :—That BONAPARTE and MURAT, accompanied by 15,000 men, i►nd •sepatated from the French Grand Army, at Smolensk°, and taken the direction of Mohilow, whither TSCIIITCIIOKOPP had pursued him, and, ac cording to some accouts from Stockholm, had overtaken him ; that F-UGEN Bc.tvuaaxois, with 50.000 men, was surrounded completely by the Russians at Smolensk° ; that the Imam Guards. having lost their cannon, had to a man laid down their arms; and, lastly, that BONAPARTE had been actually made prisoner by Tscurrcuottorf, after all the French escort had bk co cut to pieces. This morning came on trial of Messrs. nowt, the Proprietors of the Examiner, in the Court of King's Bench, for a Libel on time Pasmcs Rin:ENT, whet; they were found • „. The EXPENDITURE of the year IRA as,strea by Mr. T HANEY, is accurate as far as it goes; but are there nut other enormous items to be added to it ?-,- And which too, probably, must inflame the reckon big to eight or ten millions more, viz. :—ltt the Ex. Iluxountxxtuss of the Ordnauce, of the Navy and ' Army I And yet more, by our loss on the Couise of Exchange; for the Course has been, and is against England '25 and 30 per cent. and this upon most of the money lavished by us on the Continent. As for . the Poott itxTss, they slow exceed .the wbOle esta. blishments of (VEEN ANNE: they cost the country above sic MILLIONS. The Hon. ,Ir. %YARD iv gone ever from OpPo- Fition to AiNtlitsiS WELLEALEY nod Mr. CANNING, whose alli.d force in the Ilatiseof Commons, is said now . to amoent to 38 effective men. We have Ivand a few more ptirtleulars of the ac lion in Canaria, wherein fieneraf Kantw Mt :—The : nature of the reinfoicemento n kick had arrived, was not such as to answer the expectations, or satisfy the confidence of the militia, which had been built upon them : they cotisisted of but one.'oflicer, with a few 1 recruits for the regiments, and 30 artillery-men. The militia are, in a great degree, ineffective for the want of arms; some of them, indeed, have armed them selves with muskets taken from the Americans,' and Several have been armed nith exportation fowling pieces, thnt burst continually; the rest cannot be embodied ; but the winter is 100 far advanced, to admit of the arrival of additional supplies or rein forcements. The Americans are unquestionably in earnest ; and, notwithstanding their past disasters, much might still be done during the four winter miustlis. 1 DnuaT-Thus Tuarritr..—tast night Mr. R. performed the character of Yount Norval , an d Miss SMITH the character of Lady Randolph. Both the, representations were high in merit. The air, the' speech, the action of Mr. RAS, were In perfect ac cord with the spirit of the part—modest, simple, and I easy In the 'petting scenes—teutler and impre,.ive with his Mother—spirited and lofty with Glenal..on. We rejoice in the fair promise that this young Actor gives of talents, that with study will entitle him to 1 diqiuction. Of Miss Skim we have to speak with I still higher praise r shah an artist—and has @agues- ' tionabiy no rival in tregedy at either House... There were traits.of passion in some of the ',origin' of her 1 bosom purely in instant, mid yet quite original. In deed, through the whole part her persona cation was ; perfect i and she isseeliqd universal applause in the • evidence of suppiatlietic esifiiinn.... ii. kp was well sup ported ia. her, scae3. wlth B9eca, who gave to that gentle , ,efficleitcy that * it seldom acquires. •iiptstif . fa . otmed . ...., .., ilia superior • 00P... ',IA.:, :„., ..k . ~ -, • : . . . . --„ . •• • rrATEsmAN. Sir JAIMS Ms.cistosn has been disappointed oft sent in the New Parliament from retention of a trilling place under Government, which renders him, unexpectedly, ineligible. Tats ifica-CuAstclcLou.-6Before this new work can be done and the goods delivered, there ought to be, and no doubt will be, all the preliminary satin. faction. And might it not be much aided by Mo tions substantially like them :—i. The Nausea of CAusts—uxoun--and not yet heard.-4. The As. semis of CARSFR--specifying the periods, &c. of 'titer growth.-3. The Moults in Chancery—with into.-- . 4. The BANIRUPTCIII3 a*d ditto ) as to the Ott satott.t.oals Fem. I ,`1 'NA Y:--' '/Pa A \?: T. fits SWIM or rsz ST4TESM4I. Sta,—lt appears to me to be the duty of every in. dividual in the State, to contribute what he can is giving the public Ivreal statement of the sufferings of the labouring class of the community, especially at this trying and eventful period. I am, Sir, employdd in one of the most extensive manufactories in this large and once flourishing town, and have, therefore, a tolerable opportunity of being acquainted with the distress of my fellow. workmen; sad, perhaps, I cannot draw a better . _ picture of it than to state, tat oat of Ultll/110E1ISTItLD, Drc. 3.—Oar Correspondent,loo hands under the above date, says, that the spirit of Lud. , employed in this concern, at e time the Orders ita dism which his last letter, like the Prince Regent's i Council were revoked, whiek Orders have been the Speech, rePreseuted to be extinct, has again ap. muse of shutting the American market, u p on which peered and raged with more than usual violence. , Our trade depended, one-fourth of that number hare Last Sunday night, about a quarte r past ni n e o'clock, , a number of men armed with pistols or short guns, jest been discharged ; and th e re mai n der suffered to one of them with the lower part of his face covered work only three days a week, and that princi. with a black handkerchief, entered the house of ' Pally . for stock, which hai already accumulated to Mr. William Walker ; of New-hall, Fartown, .an stnexanyiled degree, and must (I tremble at the near Huddersfield ; cloth-manufacturer, and after idea) soots come to an end. What is to become of taking from him a gun, a pistol, and a powder-hOrn, . as when the capital of generous and feging Rtes. demanded his money, and obtained from him about fifteen pounds in notes, the whole of which tees is exhausted, we are utterly at a loss to con. they offered to return him except one, if he would ceive, as many of my shopmates, who have the mis. give them a guinea in gold; not being aware of fortune to hale large families, have been &hen this decoy, he took out a small pine, containing five by dire necissitstto apply to the parish 'for assist. guineas, which they immediately seized, and took ance , which enablesthem barely to exist, 10the gold, without retnrrtiag the notes, the chief . a.., then proceeded to ranee* his papers, while others ' Oh ! Sir, were the au hors and supporte r s of ti l e of the party presented their pieces at M r . Walker, ruinous ear we are engaged fit, to condescend to vi s it, and after cautioning the family, on pain of death , the abodes of many of our artisans, where their .yes not to quit the house for two hours after they de- would behold families once comfortaOle and homy, re. 1 - parted. ' (limed to want and wretchedness in all its hideous 'W. The same gang then procee d e d to the house of lodes. Mr. George Scl n a shopkeeper, at Fartown, We have not the most distant hope of nor condl from whom they took a gull, between 30 and 403. : In silver, one fire pound note, and nine or ten pro- tion being made belicr, but by a return of peace, vincial one pound,notes, together with a pair of which eloubtles.s would prove a specific to all our silver tea tongs, and two silver tett‘spoons; not privations and miseries. content with this booty, they went into the eel. , As you have, Sir, upon all occasions evinced vont lar, and seized and carried away a bottle of rum, ' self the friend of the oppressed in your imlependent and some provisions. On taking their leave, they told the family, that they should leave a guard about Journal, I trust you will not object giving this a the house to prevent any one quitting it for two Mice hi it, though it be a very imperfect sketch of hoer,. After their departure,it was found that they the present situation of the Birmingham mechanics. bad left behind them a sort of blunderbuss ; and a , I am, Sir, with esteem, hatchet. i I Your mast obedient servant, ' From thence they proceeded to the 110044 of Mr. Blrmitighata, Dec. 2, UN. J, F. i Josias Thornton, of Gilley Royd, near Fixity, farmer, where they arrived about half-past ten 1 . o'clock ; here•four men entered the hotter two of them armed with blunderbusses, a third with a i gin, and the other with a pistol ; their first de ; maud was for arms, but on being told that the fa. i mily had neither strati nor money, they ordered, 4 4 F,neels, Captain, Spleen!, and lintchet.men to enter," and two others entered the house, hot on Mrs. Thornton prnmising to endeavour to find them some money, they returned at the word of command ; , she then took a pocket.hook, containing five one pound notes from a drawer, which one of them snatched from her, while others were employed as I guards over Mr. Thornton : all this party wns dis guised, said one of these wretches struck Mrs Thorn : toe a violent blow over the head, and another 'of Ithem snapped a pistol, which did not explode, at her -husband. They next proceeded to the house of Mr. James Brook, of Bracken-half, in Fartown, where, after conducting themselves in the same outrageous man lier, they carried away his sneer watch, a one-pound note, ancl . 4l:in silver. ‘ From thence they proceed. eel to John Woods, where, after breaking the de or and`witivioilis'and runs:King the house without Wiwi 'an)' thing That answered their purpose, they railed over the numbers from one to nine a-el went away. From Johis NVuoil's they went to . the horse of Me. William Radcliffe, at Woodside, where they obtained IU. 10s. (id. itt notes, six gui neas iu gold, and between two and three pounds in silver and copper, besides a quantity of tea, some loaf sugar and liquors, and several articles of plate. Their last visit was to Moses Ball Gilly, ' Royd, which they pion:loved of about two pounds worth of silver ehauge. 'clic number of this desperate ; banditti is not precisely keown, but is supposed to be about nine or ten. Several persons have been ap ' prehended on Sti4p:CiOn of Navin, been concerned its ! the above robberies, but the result we have not heard. ° —( Leeds Mere:I:I:II) A new claimant to the D.icat title and estate of ' Roxburgh is in Mr. brat ms, an HA Gentleman, whose views are said to have the sanction of the pre sent Duke. 01.11 BAT LRY.—Tuesday Thomas Simmons was ca. pitally convicted for assaulting Wm. de Lobertauche, on the King's highway, putting him in fear, and taking ! from his person, against his wilt,.six 11. Bank-notes, :his property ; as also t : John Rowe, for feloniously killing a certain sheep, the property of Chetwood Jones, with intent to steal i the carcase of the same ; Arid George Ellis, Edrrard Lloyd, and Elizabeth liar :pee, for assaulting Henry Fitchherg, in a certain dwelling-hou:o, and taking from his person, against : his will, n silver watch, &e. hie property. 1 Rime day Seotenc of Death was passed on Martha Metes, for stealing privatels Ice asitop ; Ann Lock and Smaanah For . slur, for a like offence; John Lemere for torrcry; Thomas Simmons, for highway roliherl ; rosurge' Ellis, Elizabeth Ito& ' say, and Edward Lloyd, fur a robbery in a dwelling-boy*: John Rowe, for ,leafing a sheep; Henry Isamu. Sarah Butler, and Sarah Armstrong. for coining; James Kelly, fisr uttering counterfeit maucv t Andrew Tiffin for returning from trans pews)it'; William 11 , /tone aura Jo b., Doegerty. 14 a highway ' rohhery; John Maatiwell, for stealing in a dwelling-hoose ; William Taylor, coavicted at the last Session of stealing goods loa the River Thames. CORM rit CHANGE, DEC. V.—The trade of Wheat i was rather brisk this morning, and fine samples sold ' 4s. per quarter higher than on Monday ; but there was no increase in the price of ordinary qualities.— Oats and Barley are Is. per quarter dearer.—Beini sold freely at . Nlsitidarti prices. In other articled there was no alteration. WI WI ( Ealrllda) .... llki 140- Ile* ow 03 ett lillas (romp) .... lull 1.4* iiFalaw ' Ogio 16 60 fits kr r ew i litte... . ...es GI Oats ... .: . : •kJ •Uft • • , - , am' visas, 4.4 W/ 16 4 ...SW lk i tel l 14616 , ....."1 ' . P 1 103 i Pada, .neldo ! I . e . • ~_. .. - Vitto I imam) DO 121 1.1. m fluo.:,••••&-• _. Thelon -:; .. Me 00040Ne5..i..•..... 11 4104, Awass*,,..... . , r . 'ln ' i. At iti - . 1 1 10: ‘l , , . . NAVAL INTE L LiG EWE. YAnuovrts, Dv.c. S.—Arrived the schooner Ay live, of London, IVinlay, Master, from Teneritfe, with wines, last from Leith. The Active, of Hull, Lattimore, Master, froinWisbeck, bound to bondots wth potatoes, is on shore about two miles to thw northward of this place, and will he entirely lost. Ten . ".o3.r r--= .._ .~ _~. -_ ~.. -- .-•• . . _ HAnmtcn, Dec. B.—Arrived the Active cutter, Gregson, from Gottenburgh, and has brought his Excellency Pihsre Kosleaky, Envoy Extraordinary from the Emperor Alexander to the Court of Sar dinia. His Excellency confirms the acccounts al ready received, and states his Grin belief that not a Frenchman %ill get out of Russia. Fifteen Officers of the Italian Guards had offered their mortices to the Russians. ' Sailed the Auckland and Lady Frances packets, 1 . with Mails for Gottenburgh ; and the Lord Nelson ..packet, % ith a Mail for Heligoland. Dem., Dec. A.—Sailed his Majesty's ships R Tag Oak, 774cseus, lkllonn. and Valiani, for Ports . mouth, to refit; Sates:, Treya, and six trans ports, with French prisoners for Ipith. Pun mown, Dec. R.—Arrived the &Ilona, 74; kwal Oak, 74; reliant, 71; Theseus, 74 ; Belk rophos, 74, from the fleet which blockades the i Texel and Scheldt. Admiral Ferrier has shifted his flag to the Mon. i 'cister. V - Lord Amelius Besoclerc has struck his dig, dur lag the re-equipment of the Royal Oak. r Arrived the Rumilies, 74, Sir Thames Hardy, ; Hart. from anthem, to proceed to the North Ante d rican station ; the Venus frigate, Captain Mackenzie, • from kith ; and the Pyramus, from off Cherisurgh. Pc Yrsooyu,Dec. 7.—Arrived the Superb man-of war from Portsmouth; and the sharps/4.ohr gun. i brig from * cruise. I Came in the Prussian ship Pettus, from DelTrt, bound to lloortleaux, detained by Ms Majesty's ship Borer. FAt.storen, Drc. 6.:--Arrived the Lady Pelham packet, with a Mail from Malta, last from Gibraltar, l ip six days ; a man of tsar brig, and made signal of I convoy for Portugal aid the Mediterranean ; a ship '; sloop of war, supposed from a rolign statlun ; and la brig from Musics, for leindora, and is put nudes. ! quarantine. ' The Marlborough packet, for Lisboa, has gone • I linto the Ronda, and, with the Lady Eas6§s for .. Meta, and the Sandrsick, for Cadiz, still maims. Surtaxes', Dtc. B.—Selled his Majesty's ships Rdbfilies and Venue. Thd Olympia cutter haS the Baltic convoy ding flying. The wind being (air, thi Russ** fleet Is expected here leery hour. . ,stzSts=z=l=enx On Monday a *fart-Martial 'wits held on board the Ralsonabk, In Sheerness har'isour, Capt. E. 5. CLAY, President; Mr. Potosi, Ginner of his Ma jesty's 'ship Pembroke, was tried cram a eir -0 , of ,' drunkennoss, preformed by C a pt. ft g i s pjo ir , o f t h e itaisl ship; the *barge' was falls - probed, hut owing to his farmer gontiossilducr, and Ids having been nitveerly tst4Weifibl in iheenTaliewhe was only be:Winced !Abe .. dionsissed,u, i i i ipi ...;:i , • - , gg r ..wo l p al tcrht cikrader for ordsones hones t le Ow persbeett et Vianweli k'drk 1 :,,, ~ •., .- • , ; t tto .....t • ....4.1, ftmo,4o , • - c.- • +ono • s • --,0-""` `:.,