The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-12-05 00:00:00

they are not in general so great as may at first sight appear. These French left in many places the plunder which they had made in others ' • in this way soms persons are totally destitute of et% teas, while others have got more than they ever bad before. In the rear of the French armies it is always usual to sec some of the lowest class, who plunder what is left by the French. Much of this property will be restored again to its owners by the exertions of the magistrates, as happened last tear at Oporto. With regard to the loss of such furni ture as consisted of articles of luxury, we may per haps be pernitted to observe, that much cannot be said in favonr of luxury in a country where the na. Canal industry has hitherto been small, and where all such objects aro purchased with ready money from the foreign merchant. Tables and chairs may be always procured of the ordinary, or of au inferior quality. ti The toughy of money plundered by the Ereich is inconsiderable: it is true they found many families in the woods, whom they rubbed of all that they had ; but on the other hand, from the removal of the population, they could out impose Ouse pecuniary contributions w Ida they formerly hpred ie the North, and which they Dow exact In Spain. • as We now come to the great 'source. of our wealth—our Writoriel, property. 46 In Beira they huve trot destroyed the vines and olives ; but . in k,:slremadura many olive grounds have been ruined, .and this loss will require many .ears to repair - it, The harvest of this year has also been lust in' many districts of the two pro iinces; but this loss will not exceed that of some •other years, if the farmers have deed-core, and' . cattle to continue the cultivation of the soil. It .cannot be doubted ,that the resources of many are ,small, that some are wholly ruined by the invasion, and that assistance will be necessary to enable them to continue their labours, so important to the pub. lic gOod; but we doubt not that all diligence will be used to supply such assistance. Upon the whole, it may be said, that' he injuries of this in. vasion, at least the greater part of them, will admit pf being repaired in the course of a year. 46 On the other hand, let it be recollected that almost all public evils bring with them some benefits. The earthquake of Lisbon was the cause of that city being rebuilt in a manner more regular and mere perfect. Our present situation, by increasing our necessities, will better develops our industry ; and perhaps the time may arrive when our proprietors Oatl direst themselves of those capricious and ru. inous wants which consume so great a part of their stock ; and we shall begin to pursue with efficacy the best means fur augmenting the cultivation of corn in our country, so as not to be indebted to foreign nations for that necessary. " The whole nation has seen and estimated the wise provisions of our Government, with regard to the subsistence of Lisbon, the relief of the indigent who have taken refuge there, the public tranquillity, &c. end its paternal cares will nut be less bestowed an the means of repairing, as much as possible, O. losses of the farmers and proprietors of that part of the kingdom which has suffered from the invasion of the enemy. It is probable, that by means of subscriptioos, both within and without the kingdom, their unfortunate situation may be in part assisted or relieved ; and we have in the in habitants of the town of Cabs and of Evora a re cent example of what may be effected by generous Kn. LorEAL return, his best acknowledgments to his Friends and the Public in general, for their sympathy in his FATE ) and assures them it will _ not produce the smallest abatement in the exer. tions of Tin STATESMAN 10 expose abuses in the State, and to promote the wetfarc of his Country, should not the severity of his sentence, in the natural effect of continued incarceration, • and `its consequent destruction of a constitution already infinitely impaired, deprive him of .I.ife Ile intends, in a few dugs, to lay before the Public, through Me channel of Tice Sr.trxlm4n., an account of the nume. rows Prosecutions he has suffered during the kg no Years, by which they will be enabled to form a correct opinion of the merits, or de. merits of the case. lie will at the same time develops the corrupt system of the present .Idmi, nistraticm, in regard to the ',management of Newspapers, and time means -which have been used to suppress Tun StaTusm.4N. lie will I also prove, to the satisfaction of every im. partial man, the extreme DIFFICULTY, to say NOTIIING of the INUTILITY, of defending a prosecution for an alleged fagot., under the pressid ode*. SW's Pittspx, INSIVGATE, • nrcember 5. Air!. Mail; Due. I . . Dublin 0 Wit erfdrd .. • . 0 I v •'• • • T Cadiz & . slion II idta ' 1 PRIOR OF STOCK'S 1111111/NT At ON R O'CLOCK. 13 pee Cask Red. Mt I 3itst Coe. Cum shut. THE STATESMAN. LONDON: REDNESS:IAT, DECEMBER 5, 1810. ST4TE OF 1115 NIAJEsTri HEALTH. • " Windsor Castle, Der. 4, Erneing. " His MAJESTY COSItintICS the Tames hc was in the morning." ,` Dec. 5. His MAJC;TY has passed another good night ; and is still i littlo better this morning." (Sign's! as usual.) .1 , bft L Accounts were yesterday received from Konints. burgh to the 12th ult. stating that upwards of forty fresh seizures had been made in the Prussian ports; and that all the British goods which had been put ender sequestration were confiscated. They also , state, _that some reluetaace - having been manifested by the Prusiian Goverareat to proceed te these rigorous measures, it was sign i fied to it, that a foreign force and a legion of douaniers, in case of refusal, would immediately eater the Prussian ter. ritories, and cause them to be carried into elect. Admiral SAUM.%REZ reached the Downs in the Victory yesterday. Previous to his departure from 'Wing() Sound, the Admiral sent a confidential mes senger on shore, who obtained a copy of the decla ration of war, issued by the Swedish Government against this country. This document has, we are assured, been forwarded to Ministers. The latest letters from the Same quarter describe it as rather of a mild than irritating tone. Sir JAMES, it is said, will not long remain in England. His present force in the Baltic is to be augmented. According to the latest letters from Gottenburgh, itseetas that many ships were making preparations to leave their ports, and put themselves under the protection of the armed squadron iu the Baltic. We yesterday glanced at the great difference there was between the EXTRAORDINART GAZETTE and the Bulletin previously issued ,by Government. This (monist have escaped the notice of our Readers; but it is worth while to trace the cause of this ; or rather,to enquire—how such a circumstance could happen ? Ministers can't do muds amiss, in issuing their demi-official Bulletins, which cheer the pub lic offices, and the circle of their friends, with hopes and expectations which at least are en. joyed fur the moment. And we have the less objection to this species of amusement, con. trivcd for a circle decreasing every -day, and in need of consolation, because it is of late chiefly confined within the circle, and now rarely wastes the time or credulity of the public at large. But there was, heretofore, some degree of reason in this roasting of eggs. The Bulletin was issued in a transport of joy; and therefore did sometimes exceed the dispatches in colouring success. There used to be that kind of inconsistency ; but it was a sort of consistent difference. The difference be. tween the present Bulletin and Extraordinary Ga. zette, is of quite another character. The Bulletin is not of the same character as the Gazette. In Lord WELLINGTON'S Dispatch, you find almost any thing, but what he has dune in this pursuit of the enemy, or what the enemy did in his flight ; any thing but information that could give us either hopes 'or fears. After a short paragraph or two, about the enemy's going, and his fultouing, his Lordship ab. raptly leaves this interesting part of the subject, to talk about the positions in which be was enabled to bring the enemy to a stand (that is, his late posi.: Lion), and to oblige him to retire, without venter ing upon an attack, and to tell how finely the en gincers had strengthened that position. We have no doubt of the ,kill of our engineers, and must suppose the atnost of it was employed in Lord IVELLINGTON'S late lines, and they deserve praise for this. But that might have been given while my Lord had leisure in his - pact lines; and should not (having been neglected then) come forth, to occupy his Lordship in the hurry of a pursuit, aud disappoint the impatience of the coun. try who did nut look for this double, when its eye was eagerly bent upon a strait forward chase. But his Lordship has another object also, in retracing his steps to his old position ; and that is, to tell you of the harmony that existed between all parts of his army, composed as it was of troops of various descriptions, and of different nations, and to add his persuasion that the same cordiality would prevail as lung as it may be expedient that the ar. mica should continue united.—To digress one mo ment ; there is an awkwudness of symptom in vo lunteering this declaration, and in going out of the way to express the hope of the continuance of the eordiallity. It looks very like an excuse for the pausing at the enenly4 rear guard, by pointittg out the motley character of his troops ; or a kind , of view, given through the obscurity of the dis. lance, of the disasters which may happen from the want of uniformity of character, or views, in the troops.—To return, however, this story of haruiony might as well bare been told, as we said the . other ought to have been told, and nut reserved for the busy moment of pursuit. But the fact is, they appear in this Dispatch, and are written in face of a moving enemy ; aud the main character of the Dispatch is, that it digresses to anything to get ' ant of the actual line of present operations. What my Lord WELIaNGTON said besides, in this very dispatch, we know not; but it is plain, that he did say something more of the operations of the pursuit, sunless it be confessed that Ministers make Bulie: tins of any materials except the dispatch. Minis ters, in the present CAM, seem to have had a vast deal of courage, of that vigour and hardihood of, lime which GIANTS have when refreshed with wine; fur they have told facts that , will dis, may t not only every military, but every ob serving man. They found these,. perhaps, in the dilpatches; and did not calculate that forced courage is apt to desert. If these were not iu the • ` j.. /O"TATESMAtr._ dispatches, where did they find diem ? In private , letters, it must be, for they would nut forge such uneasy facts. To make Bulletins out of private' letters is abominable, even when it is to raise our hopes ; but it is worse when facts arc discloied which are fit only to excite a panic that is inn nicely more dangerous than disappointed hopes can bts. In this ase, we believe Ministers did fintl the facts in the ntstsuuss ; if so, proves two things,—first, that they gar ble the disPateises ; and secondly, that they have no steadiness of mind to prevent a contradic tion between the two accounts they give, that is to say, between the manufactured account and the garbled account. They scan to act like our an cestors in the German Woods, w hodeli berated drunk to inspire their counsels with courage; and then sober, to instil a little prudence into them. As to the facto stated In the Bulletin, and to which we hate alluded, they are so recent in our Readers' memory, that we shall not re-copy them. Thry have excited an alarm in the public mind,. and that generally, which requires very fortunate news to ally ft ! We learn that the reinforcements for Lord War.. LINGTON are to be dispatched' with . the utmost speed. His Lordship is sending home - all the sick' and wounded which encumber his Army. In . the most liberal manner the Royal Naval hospitals have been opened for the reception of wounded officers and soldiers, there being no military ones of the same magnitude, and affording the same comfort,. In addition to the regiments mentioned as likely to be sent to Portugal immediately, is the Queen's, or 24 Foot. Among the Officers mentioned as likely to succeed Gen. CRAIG Us the Cohowler of the 47th regiment; which has two battalions, we hare heard the names of SIP BRENT SPENCER, Gen. CAMPBELL (who lately distinguished himself in Sicily), Gen. LEna, and Lord DALHOUSIE. It must be a singular gratification to the natives of Ireland, that among the Officers who have dis. tinguished themselves in Portugal, they can reckon among their contrymen, Lord WELLINGTON, Mar. Thal BEncsroxn, Sir B. SPENCER, Gen. Cot.r, STEWART, Lord AYLMER, Gen. PACK, Gen. Cox, Cols. PAKENIIAM, ROACII, DOYLE, 111'f. REAGII,SLC. The following extract of a letter from an Officer of distinguished rank in Lord Wct.s.toc.ron's army, is worthy of notice, as shewing the dangerous fa. brications by which not only the English at home are amused, but by which their troops abroad are misled into fatal errors : " AS= A‘S retreat (if so it is to he called) has afforded as a serious lesson, that we must nut trust any longer to famine as WI ally. In all the villages othrough which I have pitimed, the enemy have left wheat, grain, and even cattle to a large amount—suffisiest, from what I have casually seen, fur more thanea week's consumption for the whole army." COLONIAL PRODUCE IN SWEDEN.—Private tin, by the last Anholt mail, contain tho following itilelligenc.e :—The French Minister at Stockholm, not only demanded of the Swedish Government the immediate confiscation of all British property and Colonial produce, but threatened, in case of refusal, to quit Stockholm in five days. To this detnaad, the Swedish government is stated to have, in ,substance, replied, that a legal examination of such Colonial produce as might have been imported shire the 2ith of April, should take place ; and if any — of ,jt ghoul(' be found to have come from England, it would be proceeded avitist according to the laws •of the country. Hopes (but we fear tootallacious hopes) were entertained, that, by thus protracting the final decisieni, all property of this kind would be saved. The greater:, part of the English manufactured goods, we understand, however, had been re-ship ped, under the expectation of soma strong measure Of this kind. BERNADOTTE, it is said, in some of the Swedish letters, was ;decidedly againt complying with these demands of die Court of France : we do not be. lien it. It would be his interest, however,. to en. courage such a rumour : it will rennin the odium of this pernicious policy from him, tot it on the niggling Sovereign, and thereby fatiltrate the ac. cession of the former to that throne which he,, no doubt ) is eager enouglt to ascend. When the last packet left Malta, on the 2tl ult. Luctetv BONAPARTE and family continued at the Palace of St. Antonio, which General OAKES had appointed for him to reside in. AU the troops at the Cape have gone on the Ex. pedition, under General AIMRCROMBIE, except the `23d Dragoons, 94th Regiment, and Hottentot Corps,' the only troops which General Gitee has now un. der him. A volunteering from the Militia will, it is said, take place in the course of the spring, land the bat. talions of several. regiments are to .be increased. The Scots Royal, Inniskillins'' 421, • and the Rifle Corps, aro to have each luta:battalions ; the 7th, 43d, 52d, and 71st ) to have each .three bat. tenons. We understand that the Board of, Tradeitas re. fused to grant any.further licene.es, 4r thninten. ductien, by neutral ships, int►► British; Wont bf any articles from the Baltic, excepting grain, So great has been the desperation produced among the French prisoners, by ibe failure of the negociations for a cartel, that, within these . few days, three of them jumped overboard from the Bienfaisant and Hector prison-ships at Plymouth, and were drowned. One of them was an Of►cer. A Decree has been issued at liiimburgh, which prohibits all correspondence with this country. gpyal Mint is completed by Messrs. WATts and Rovror4, at 'Soho, for a new coinage for the. Pitspreg REGCNT of Poatuom,.,, at the firs;ils ) to be shipped immediately. Mr. Elias Loveday, Tide Surveyor at Harwich, seized a few days slow on board a vessel at that port, 22 bars of gold, weighing 2870 ounces. Mr. Loveday found the gold concealed betwee the timbers of the vessel, ;sailer about 30 tom of Ain. gle Was!. , ••• v • • 7^•■ THE dIt.IIIES IN POIMIG4 A private letter gives the fallowing detstift new situation of the contending armies , " es vill age o f yelha, m siar Santarem, k.v. On the 17th, the enemy stopped the light di,a ke tied miles is front of carinzo ; an the 18th the; Miam i thepositinn they now migly pin the front of This position is estretbely strong, and they have mk t , oatural strength by various w or k s . Th e bill is imitates , the left on the Tagus, the top alosof4 Oat ; the tau, of 's rein in the rear is so situated that tt , e see the t„ i „ the churches, itc. In the fr ont are two mun e , ci one above the other ; and in fr on t o f th e whale a General to 'rims, which is sow seder water, and is to h e • only by a causeway, eight hundred yards long, am „, r _ straight, oa which. the eueini have. f iur pie ce , a f .varree, r - 7 ladisat the causeway. The left it retired on the riter,spril recommitrecl yesterday by General Ca so rvan'i dirisi vri 01 Ise found the hill almost perpendicular, and of mina as difficult of access. Ido um know the particitars of thetrn o h a , am informed that it is exceedingly stron g . I h ave 53 •_ tttrate information af the di:btheatisiusii pith, s t the 1, 40 , 4:wie item : I h ave just beard that Jwitoe . 's corps is gone to Le)ic a . G net/ Ilit,s. crossoillie Tip. avizi.• ()ur divisSiadd#tho light dioision are at Ibi s p a l Sir c. Arco ntilkibtiirauliaertariFilo,valaGnedypethnlelriellilig":tri4ofltlehthetareloatirb4iroeyiThriel'itLhe. road to We mid in the poi‘itieti omit ealbiera. General Picro v , Turns Vedras." 'ff/RIBROFEEMINspesaire FASBIONARLX (lAION. It appears that the divorce saed for in the Coal in Scotland by Lady Nom against her Ic e k t band, Lord Pa-mET, has been obtained, as th e Edi burgh Papers receircd yesterday euut a i n the lowing notice:-- Married, on the °9ih of November, by the Ret flir first m uNcßiEr Witta wows, Dart. one et the Mashie:sof a burgh, tis Grace the Duke of Atect I.L to the Right H alm , able Lady PAGET. After the eertmooy, She Dote art n cheh set out for itoseoeuth, his (irate% beat it Dr a b shire. We are extremely concerned to learn, that fro the close confinement of the Princess MART, i s tending upon the late Princess Ausi.us, too. with the grief fur .her death s her l‘oyst is new in a low and nervous state. Yesterday morning Princesses AVGosTA ;milk rasa took their usual ride for two buten, acco rto stied by Load WALunam.tm, Lady ELY, Gent* MANNERS, Cs ttsr walnut, and Colonel TAL, OI , I iu Windsor Park. The QUEEN and Princesses ELiawsvin I MAST, took an airing to Prfigmore. The workmen belonging to Oleasrs, ELLeornii FaANCIS, the King's upholsterers, begun Iln 31, day tea fit up the private apartments in liuckin c, House, preparatory to the arrival of the Ktso a. ROYAL FAMILY. They are expected to ue coin pletely fitted up . in less than a fortnight, Ito rooms arc now being whitewashed and prepared i tha¢ wing of the Palace, which is called the Prince End, it being so named from the cireinnetanee the Prince of %VALES having passed his earlier yea in them. It is nut true that the Duke of Cwentstoc • superintends the arrangements; his Royal HO. ness will not interfere in any respect. Mr. Bon, • the King's principal and confidential Page, smut in town. (runs Windsor yeeiertfay, fur the to purpose of - expediting the whole,. In consequence •uf his MAJESTY'S illness, tb Res. Ur. CAREY, the Head Master of Westminster School, has ordered that the Latiu Play shuthlast be' acted this year. The .present King of SWEDEN mar be now coati s tier in his dodge. When Duke or SIMEIMANIA it was a great favourite with the people, havieg tea a brave Admiral and a skilful Commainler.• SIDNEY SlitTM served under him. 'Though opal seaman, bit certainly is not •a the pilot that thereat the. storm." • His Grace the Doke of BEDFORD is build* t mostsplendid cottage, for his occasional reside', the romantic neighbourhood of Milton:Abbtrt, very near thelamar, and nut far distant frotaTl. vistock, to the no small gratification aids tenantrye and the inhabitants around. • Ifia Grace has 111.17 presented as a gift to the parisk.of Tavistock, that handsome and valuable organ, the late property of T. BEWES, Esq. • The Duchess of Metsiusoisousir is indisposed:l Marlborough House. We understand that Mr., FINNERTY conlini dangerously ill, and is attended by D. Ltei. comarand °STANTON. The new Female Singer, lately arrived in Lon. don, is nut Madam Bcartsew, but Madam UM Morn, from the Theatre of Amsterdam. A private Letter from Paris has the folleving:' Among other Parisian on Wits, it is said, that, from each anniversary of the birth of the first son of NA. roLgorr, till his arrival at age, some great OWN institution is to commence its date. The Would. matt of the EMPRESS is expected to tale placcabot cbristmas !! The Medical Gentlemen in the service of the Transport Board have been employed in srlcctitl the egedand ipfirm prisoners, in order to their kis; returned to France ; a circumstauce rellecting highest credit on the humanity of its authors. Ott Ilendred and Eighty-eight have been selected fr ev the prison ships only at Plymouth. The Dublin Theatre, under the management Jonas, has recently made a most elegant appestat ( ' the interior abounds with gilding and beiatiful et. namcnts. BRA DBUnx, the Clown, is engaged, lie possesses already a large share of public Woo Several Jesuit Missionaries, in'Ciiins, havelatell been accused by the Mandarins of conspiring, 101 l some of the natives, against • the life of the Es. rattan. At the date of the last accounts, five the Holy Fathers were in custody ) and *'' n speedily to be brought to trial. As usuAL.—No. 15,588, yesterday, entitled to the valuable Freehold Rouse, situate No. 1 3 9 Skinner-street, by the first day's drawing of Os_ Grand City Lottery, weesold in Sixteen Sixteen!! Shares, at the truly fortunate Offices a Sir J Bamtscomn and Co. conducted by the so le survint• lug partner, J. Sty wninter, it Nos. 3 7 , Co ndit il l Holborn, and 38, Ilaymarkst, where the Pet lie are most respectfully Wormed they may i"` great variety Of Numbers, from No . 1 to go, ' ' 11 !* C4 ll O O l slate 'and present City.Lniter.les• • • .1. ••1 0 : s . • " K • m~'' C' a 1 V 0 cc _ ,