The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-01-07 00:00:00

TIIVASDAY, JANUARY 7, 1813. T'aris Papers were received last night to the 3d instant, and although they are perfectly silent re specting the French Grand Army in the North, their contents are not unimportant. By these accounts, it appears, that the late disasters in Russia have had no other effect upon the French people, "thinritriti crease their etertions for proseeGting . the war s both in the North and the South; and they treat with great contempt the language of our Treasury Journals upon that sulject, as writ as the mission of Lord WateoLe to Vienna, • for the purpose of seducing the Emperor of Atittua from his alliance with France. Lisbon and Coranna Mails arrived this morning, bringing letters and papers to the 31st ultimo, from which we have taken the following extracts.—lt will also be seen by our Falmouth letter, that Brigadier• General PACK came passenger in the Carteret, from Corunna, and that the English and French armies ere gone into wiater quarters. SZTRACV OF AN OFFICIAL DISPATCH FROM GENERAL TUE MARQUIS 01 WELLINGTON, DATED HEAD QUARTERi, PUENADA, DEMMER 9, TO HIS EX- CELLENCY DON MIGUEL PEREIRA TORJAZ. 66 Nothing of importance has occurred since I transmitted to your Excellency my official dispatch of the 2d instant. Some of Marshal Souit's troops ar rived in the •aUev of the Tagus o►► the 3d inst. " At the en►d of last month, the Spanish troops were still in Madrid." 1.400 N, DEc. 14.—The troops have come consi derably into the interior, for their better refitment; some towards Porto, others is the direction of Coim. bra. General Hill's division is at Coria. The first division, under Stewart, at Viceu ; meantime 'Lord Wellington goes to Badajoz, from whence it is sup posed be will proceed to Cadiz. General Hill is the next in command, and his si tuation at Coria is an excellent one for that purpose, being advanced sufficiently, and very central. The 6th and 20th regiments have received their routes for the sth. and 7th divisions, and leave Lisbon directly to join. Dec. 16.—Lord Wellington was to have been at Badajos yesterday; Seville, to-clay; and at Cadiz, on the 18th. It is confidently said, Cafarelli has marched for France with 4000 cavalry, and 10,000 infantry. DEC. 46.—We have not a words of news the army is dispersed throughout the kingdom, between the Tagus and the Douro, refitting: the cavalry head qu'arters are at Coimbra. The Prince of Orange and the remainder of Lord Wellington's staff are at Porto, ftom whence they are to proceed to Lisbon; this circumstance induces us to hope, we shall have the high gratification of shortly seeing our hero in this capital: On Saturday last we had a great gale of wind here; the greater part of the vessels in the river have suffered ; seven • or eight Americans were wrecked on the Bar and on the coasts. His Ma jesty's ship _Vonpariel, and the Prince Ernest, have suffered considerably. The total damage sustained is calculated at 600,0001. B kDAJOZ, Dtc. 16.—According to intelligence, dated the sth inst. we learn, that on the 3d, 21,000 infantry and 5500. French horse entered Madrid, and suddenly seized upon the magazines of bread:— Another division, of from 5 to 6000 infantry and 300 horse, descended from the port of Pico to Tala vera la Reyna ; and by Perino 10 or 12,000 in fantry are marching for Cadalso. Under date of the 10th, we are informed that the French remained in Madrid, having some divisiOns encamped in the neighbourhood ; other divisions had proceeded for Villatavai l and various places in Mamba. The French have abandoned Ledesma, Alba, and, Pe►iherenda, setting fire (as is .said) to the two lasi towns. In Salamanca, there are about 6000 Frencli The French, who occupied Valdepenhas, have red tired towards Valencia, and the Feorth Army has again taken post at Infantes. It is mentioned, but vaguely; that the Vandals have once more evacuated Madrid ; and likewise marched towards Valencia ; it is believed by many that they did this on account of the want of previsions. CORUNNA, DEC. 18.—Nothing can he said with cetainty, either of the nrmy of the enemy o the Allied Army—they both preserve.their positionsi; the former, however, is only employed in making ex cursions to procure provisions. Though a report has been current that they are taking the direction of Asturias it is not certain. The French are obliged to employ a great number of troops in their foraging parties, and send considerable reinforce ments where ever they wish to maintain a point, without which they would hifalfibly be - cut eft SANTIAGO, DEC. 15.—1 t was not true, that the French had approached Leon and Astorga : from both these places the last mail brought letters of a very recent date. This report originated in the threat of the enemy to proceed to Leon, and thence to Asturias, a design which, according to confiden tial advises, they have desisted from, and fell back upon Toro, which shows that they felt considerable anxiety with respect to the movements of Lord Wel lington, as it was not certain whether he would not advance upon Salamanca, as was, asserted. The greater part of our troops of the Sixth Army, have already arrived at Puebla de Sunabria ~nd its neigh bourhood, and stragglers are continually joining, so that it appears that the loss was not so great as it was thought, and as the violent rain and heavy dark- ness of these days made us suppose. The Fourth Army is advancing upon the Tagus, threatening to fall by Cuenca upon Valencia. Lord Wellington had his head-quarters, on the 30th, in Frenada ; and General Hill in Robleda. MADRID, Nov. 23. 7 -The intrusive King still remains at Salamanca, but he appears to be in motion. At Fuentes de Ano, three leagues from this capi tal, it is said, the enemy are making vinegar for the use of the Army of the intrusive King. PuEIILA DE SANADRIA, DEC. 16.—8 y advices that may be relied on, we learn, that the first French troops, who, to the number of 1500, were in Be neveute, with a Generalet their head, base marched for Zamora, taking with them the cattle they brought from the vicinity of Salamanca. They did not molest the inhabitants, and took great care to prevent the soldiers from straggling, that they might not be assassinated. They issued an order, that so tavern-keeper should sell wine after six in the even ing, and levied a fine on those who disobeyed. They have been relieved by 600 others, who preset; the same discipline among themselves, and the pate con duct towards the people. If some French have ad- On the 7th, they entered Toledo, having left 400 infantry at the bridge of Montanan. The national troops, who compose the Second and Third Armies, were is Albacete'; and those denominated the Fourth in Infaetes. Accordiug to the latest ac counts, the positions of the Freneh army on the line of the Tagus are as follow :.--Pontes, Oropesa, is. lavers, Cevolla, Porteilo, Cirpeo,'Fuensalida, No guess Torrejos, Puebla de Montalbin, and Toledo. la the last city, the French General Tambousson, had ordered 30,000 rations to be got greedy. rTZON THZ POITUOUZSZ TELncsaaro, OP DSC. 22 7 3 46 We are assured that Sault yes In Talavera is Reyna, with 6 ov 6000 men, employed in constreet.. it% boats; a contribution of 20 2 000,000 of. vielo has been levied upon Madrid. vanced to Leon and Astorga, as is said, they are not those who were at Benerente. tro, Gonzalo, and Santa Sagunta, . which the : are constructed. On the Sci of December 'General - - i commerce, and not unwiseiy, perhaps; but it must Ballasteros arrived at Cuts." I be, in part at least, stifled in the maturer days of Lissom, DEC. 25.—1 n the Egremadura Gazette , trade. Thi East Indic concerns, from ' the pru we read the f o llowing article :--44 Sunday, the 20th : dewy of their 'growth in a too rick soil, ,have Dec. entered in Badajoz its illustrious deliverer, on become an excrescence to the body politic, which, his road to Cadiz ;he immediately proceeded to ex- ' t amputate at once might, if= Aso; prove fatal' amine the state of the fortlfications." -4 ,- st g i ve such a Awl. to 4he • whale of *lf ... . By another way we know that the Great Lord British establishments -as might, spread traivend previous to arriving at Badajos, stopped in Alb 4 alarm. It requires then the ablest state physicians querque, on account of the heavy rains, from whence i and surgeons to manage this almost anomalous dis 'he set out on the same day, the 20th, on which be , ruder, so as to remove what by all is acknowledgedly 2 I entered Badajoz. •By what we have heard, his Ex- I morbid, and yet not open the a r t er i es o f th e state celleucy would reach Cadiz on the 21th. i too far, and thereby expose it to sadden decay.— It appears that Khig Joseph has returned to Ma- In this nice crisis of the di s te m p er , we ar e a s drift. Soult established his head-quarters in Toled o; pleased as we are astonished to -find th e Cabinet and the cavalry their's in Mora, and its neighbour- Is° firm/ so fixed to its purpose. W e ha v e seldom hood. i had occasion, to praise the acts of our Ministers; but if these Gentlemen were to demean themselves in all the subjects presented to their variance, In like manner as .in this, it would be impossible but that, nolens volens, we must commend them. To whom, among the men then who have so often evinced a want of talent, equal to the guidance, of the State under its multifarious difficulties, shall we look for such an energy in this instance, which so surprises us ? It cannot be to the head of the JENKINSONS that we must direct the eye, for the origin of this beam of intellect. The man who . talked of marching to Paris on the breaking out of the French revolution, can never aim his influence with judgment to the affairt of hither and nether In dia. Is it then the PRESIDENT of the BOARD of CONTROUL, who has thrown out these,unespected scintillations of political wisdom and firmness ? And shall the head of the HOBART'S be found the first to check the mischiefs threatened by the tail of the Prrrs ? A Resolution formed on the grand and leading rinciple of taloa p_opuli, suprema lax, can alone carry our men in authority through the dilemma in which the two _parties are placed. The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, however, if we may judge by the style of his letters to the Chairman of the India Company, and the strength of his argu ments, is qualified to aid in bringing this difficult negociation to that point which_may satisfy all but those political sophists,, whe presumingly declare that the territorial possessions in India are as much their freeholds as their lands in Eng land !---What ! has not the acquiring that territory cost England a great deal of blood and much treasure ? A .id what good has it done us ? Why, it has en tbled a particular interest to plant exotic I'Vleml:.l.rs in our House of Commons, to re p: esent Nabobs; and it has occasioned Gover nor-Generals to commit enormities shocking to humanity, and destructive to the British name and character, under the assurance of impunity, provided the treasury or wealth of these sovereign mo nopolists were increased in proportion to • the profits which the individual lundet•ers derived from their enormities. But monopolies like this we - are speaki►ig of, have, it is hoped, neariy had their day ; a reform in this will, next to that of the Bank, go far, far to revive the hope of the dejected British pa triot. A Government has no more right to sell the seeds of future prosperity of the country to a class of speculators for ever, than a man has to grant a lease of an entailed estate in perpetuity. .But we will re sume thif jusportant subject another time.. The following notice was this morning posted at LLOYD'S : " On enquiry at Portsmouth, it appears that the report in circulation there on,Monday, of the cap. ture of Commodore Rontan.s and his squadron, is without foundation." Some more American Papers arrived yesterday.— The proposed attack on the British fort at Niagara has not taken place, for want of ammunition; and it is now ascertained that the American forces on the Canadian London, 37 days passage ; has spoken but one yes. lel on her passage, which *as kis Majesty's , ship Forttniee, 36 guns, four days since, on a mil% all well. • Dem., Jsx. 6.—Arri?ed and salietfistAbe River, the Stegest, • Hall, from Surinam. Rowo!luta the outward-bound, detained by con trary winds, except the Thomer, who his lost her kowsprit. PoarswouTM; JAN. ti.—Arrived his Majesty's ships Baressa, Mutiny ; Illisrletoe l and Derdulus, from the Dawns. His Majesty's ship Hope is appointed convoy for the Downs. PLTIOOOIII,, JAN. s.—Came in the Francises, from the Havannah, bouud to Cadiz, retaken by the Sarrellante frigate. Arrived the Pheasant sloop of war, !tont a cruise. DRURY-LANE TRILITRE. Last night the Comedy of Twelfth Nightwas per , formed at this Theatre, in which Mr. Emmy, of the Covent-garden establishment, performed the part of Sir Toby Belch, and, in the drunken scenes, he was admirable.—Mr. DowToN's Malvolio was what might have been expected from his talents, wholly charac teristic : if it had any fault, it consisted in his co louring some of the points too broadly. Mr. Levy:move was not so felicitous in his man ner of playing Sir Andrew Ague Cheek, as we ex pected he would he : imiced, we never recollect the great ability which the late Mr. DODB displayed in this character, without despairing ever to see his like again. Under this head fells the consideration of tire and flippant manner in which Mr. VERNON performed the Clown, a manner which appears to have been in imitable, as we have,not seen any of his multifai successors who could approach towards an animals. , with it. M. ktitiGLlT , attempted •to play tim Fool last night, but he was totally unequal to the entiva - Tour; yet, according to appearances, there were some persons who were pleased even with him, but. In t his dearth of desert few his claims will evia.;%., Thus rats become dainties where God sends a Naia•• ! The character of Olivia is somewhat too senterti ous for Mrs. Cator - Ea, and the character of Viola •no melancholy and sombre, in its features for Mrs. I)%- v PON. This Play should be, iu apa rilaldegree, new east, as Mrs. DAyisort should perform Olivia, and Miss Slam the tender, the sympathetic Viola. We should be glad to know if she could not excite some thing like an electrical efikNet by her style of reciting the following charm-fraught description of a despair ing maid, sinking into decay, under the gradual and gnawing pressure of passion : " She never told her love, but let Cooceabnent, like a worm in the bud, Steal on her damask cheek. She pined in thought, And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat, like Patience on a monument, Smiling at Grief." Yesterday a Court of. Directors was held at the East India House, when the following Captains were sworn into the command of their tespoctive ships, viz. Captain J. COLLINS, to the Warky, for China direct ; Captain YouNnuusamce, to the Union, for Madeira, Madras, and Bengal. Dispatches from Gen. CLAY, commanding at An. tigna, were received net Monday, dated November 15. They mention the capture of the Princess Amelia packet, and state that the coast is much in. feteds with American privatee rs . Yesterday one hundred and one boys, and seventy girls, educated and clothed by voluntary. sabscrip. don, in the Wishes of St. _Giles in the 'Fields and St. George's, Bloomsbury, walked in procession to receive the annual bounty of the Earl. of Ports. • month, in Lincoln's-inn-fields. It has been the custom of that Noblerrian to entertain thit children of the above school on Easter Mentlat but this year the usual act of benevolence took place...yester day. After they had been regaled with twelfth cake and wine they returned to their school. The spectacle was highly interesting. The clean appear ance of the girls, in particular, was a subject of ad. miration. FASHIONABLE DIVISIONS OF THE DAT..--TWO o'clock (afternoon' s time—Eight o'clock . t ~• / . . .. , . • , ‘ % A . . . • . . • , . . • • ' . . .. • ... , ,•,:•4641 ,. .. : q i " i i ..., . . • •. . . , , . .. _ • . ~ ''•' • ' . • ' • . . . • • THE .:: STATESMA.N. ', ..*.: -'• - ..... . . , .». .. . .... ,—.1[11111.---t...—lLl—__. ____ -- -- - ——.--- -- --__ An, Mails. Ma •Cs The a i m ' ' , which was Salliateroes lately meveti . . . ~. EMIT itN.014.4111411 . 'Tilt. - -• ' , Nerd L INTEL LIG iiNCE. I - • 0 1 • lisboa 1 - leeetleir • be AIMS ' Hid) lie FALMOUTH, JAN..4.--Ilio Majesty ' s etch illowser, 0 0 . Brasil* • ; 1 • • • ' ,- 1 -' • • ' ' . • PrOnninit t from which if' Cal* . 014 wiz it wen up; and the Carteret packet, Dip . 'with Moils . 0 . , Keligolaad ~ .; • ~ . 1 . *llltling r But there are 'times _whoa th ose mat irom:Coreana, in four days , arriv . ~ , 'l . ! day. Bri- - ............. _ ~. , .a. ‘ [FROM THEISM* 714ettai•at'Ditc.,211. ] • . .. . prtict: OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT AN st It appear!) from the Concise th at th ere ere ma ny oppose Last-eMze rith rs t o . f . t ( t r Sta . G;T to..‘i_liodssieiths erre% esti s adist -general Pack plate piaangagArVaa Carteret. Rank India Hoods part 3 ass t • 111 • 'in r this a.' The Om:tending armies .in thr Peolteedibavitig gone rent. Red. 601 . Ezebever iiiilsail. 113 p conjectures respecting the coming of the Great Lord' 1 1 :, c ma. t:4115. 59 1 00 Ditto 31. b7'p • i tendon :it must , obsoletely commit a wrong to' late winter quarters, Marquis- lireilbsgfin bad pro- ; r e, Ct.lib. 71i _ • set itself right:ri--;-.Th e . hapetuous and heed- ceded to Cadiz, to confer with the *apish Goiera- -0 per Cmit, \ ;1‘ y NH ()Malin _. , . t o Cadiz. . Consols for Acct. Illii tt They write from Alicant, leder • date Of the ; ;km t.. iii: l„ :r , ri /.16 Lottery 'rickets ,`At h. 3d December, that treat 5 to 6000 Baglish,system which has se • long been pursued,. sheaf on the - means of opening the opt* campaign, N.. from i an d which .we have 'so uniformly condemned, with all the force possible to be collesteit General ••• THE STATE LOTTERY :• • Sicily,lad disembarked there. The Ruud* of French • •Isiii now broeght * . the wheels of GovernmentlO con- Hill remalised with the command' ot . the combined Will be Drawl, in TWO IIA ys, via. 14th of THIS MONTH. throughout the whole province of Vahmei does' tad iritO, an d i n a pp os iti ani a . a spa d e , a f. su b ee di- army, during.his Lordship's absence -The Okaner (Jib NUAIIY). and foiluointt Day. . • not exceed 13,000 infantry, and *gel le a, ' II" I Rate soversignti (arlimperiumin 2 . ) over which met k very severe gale on the passage**, in which -0-z--L-..- --- • - --' - -- r - -- - --- horse. Sucher has ordered the chattel of Valencia . THE STATESALIN. to be mined m and continues to dismantle the forti- they must absolutely pass , 44 for in their way it lies." she waif reduced to great distr ess , acid obliged to s, i The evil 'has long been foreseen, , end completely throw all her guns overboard. , • ... - fications, removing the materialt to Sagunto, where ! pourtroyed by Mr. Fox, and mon); other Statesmen Yesterday arrived the ship .1 1 114 1 ‘ 1 ,2;CaPt• Carr, LONDON: , he is repairing all the timber with which the batteries of lessaminence. It wu created I ts the infancy of from Nassau, N. P. with logweod. sod cotton, for __ _ .- .. are conateneted. On the 9.4 of. lisseornhoe •noneral ' . . , . • .• , • , • : I I • :' • • • Il• •4 • - - -. ---- , now ascertained that the American forces on the o'clock (afternoon) breakfast time—Eight o'clock I 1 rga, as is said, they are not is Canadian frontier are by no means so numerous as (evening) di nner time—Eleven o'clock (night) tea .. ii . . ute• In the posts of CU. they have been represented. ti me—Three o'clock (morning) supper time.-Six Cristina, there are oval they Letters were yesterday received from Bahia, to oclock (morning) bed time. i; the date of the Btlk November, supplying however no To-tnerrow the Diviibeek ere paid at the Beek, i out 14,000 French. Ave. political facts. The Primers Elizabeth packet, and um Thursday east tkr L o ttery w ill b e d raws . t. 7 datayud, Annuals * Dana, :mated since they have'with• from thence, may be daily expected ; and the pee. AssentoD.—We lissl that the paragraph In oar sent arrival at least removes the fears we had enter-, Paper (copied frau siether Jecrual), *high slated-.: 1 N talped for • her wet, • r . . that no persoo v iiithee Dative or forelner; would be 1 A letter was received yesterday treat Sheffield, permitted toasetnirk fOr America do ting tike continu• 17t h of November, was at with a quotation from another, obtained frok New &ace of hostilities * withootgernoo, itineorreck. No • York by the way of Liverpool, which states it as a such arongemestappeattO have- been adtptett lari under • jdth Army leedia In. report In that city, that the Presisieatirigete, Com- 'the direction of tie : Alien (Mee. tie ally thk lire present month. modes* Rowans, bad been captured by it. detach- sekbjects whams legally he preveetei frail ilanfaithe 1 ant, it appears, has finally mint from. the Meet under Sir 3. B. Wastaa)r. country, are these to whom the laws to Milani.s . .. His Majeity • 's armed transport, the Leicester ; gration apply. The law that forbad all letosopene ! *ere Sachet, after baring which parted convoy about three weeks ago, arrived with the enemy's country, without a Home feethet i lbrtilications, has scarcely safe at Crookbaveo, in Ireland, on the 29th pf, De- peones, was only a temporary enselmeet, aid wee atry end cavalry. . seober, sad was to sail for Portsmouth forthwith. not revived st the commencement of the posed any. . . - . • . - about 12 men in each. In Cuenca tkere are about gon is almost entirely evacuated , drawn tha garrisons of Caiatayud, Tarazona, and others. General Elio, on the 17th Albacete. The headiquartess *Oa faotes at the bylining •f the , The expedition for Afloat, ► . marched for Valium* where Sachet, destroyed the priadpal ibrtficatiene, left 8000 mei In both Infantry