The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-10-08 00:00:00

~Iti: • , i 4 I ; • r 0 ..• ) , - 71 • I 7 FRBNCII PAPERS. NINETEENTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. MOQCOW. Sen. 16. After the battle of the Moskwa the French army d the enemy upon Moscow, by the three routes, Mojni-k, Svenizorod. and Katona. The King of Naples was on the 9th at Roubinskoe, the Vicerm at Rouza, and Prince Poniatowski at Feminsko.. The head-quarters were on the 12th transferred from Mojaisk to Pcselina ; on the 13th the) ws, ,e at the castle of Berwska ; on the 14th, at mid-day, we entered Moscow. The enemy had reised on the `4parrow ;Mountain, two wersts from the city. come riSirbUbts, which he abandoned. The city of Nloscow is as large RS Paris ; it is an extremes rich rit, full of palaces of all the Nobles of the Empire. The ROB9lllll Governor, Rostapcbin, wished to ruin this fine city whet, he saw It aban do•ted by the Russian army. He had armed 3,000 malefactors, whom he had taken from the dungeons ; be also semmonyd together 6,000 satellites, and clis. • •loss asz.ong them from the arsenal. _ _ Our atvanred guard, arrived in the centre of the cifv, was received by of musketry, which is sued from the Kremlin. The King of Naples or dered a battery of a few pieces of cannon to be opened, diversed this rabble, and took possession of the Kremlin. We have found in the arsenal 60,000 new muskets, and 120 pieces of cannon, on their carriages. The most complete anarchy reigned in the city ; some drunken madmen ran through its di,Yerent quarters, and every where set fire to them. The (Inventor, Rostapchin, had caused all the mer chants and shopkeepers to be carried off, through whose instrumentality order might have been re established. More than 400 French and Germans were arrested by his orders; in fine, he had taken the precaution of carrying off the firemen with the fire-eneines ; so that the most complete anarchy has desolated this great and fine city, and the flames are de% ouring it. We have found in it considerable re• sources of every kind. The Fmperor is lodged in the Kremlin, which kin the centre of the city, like a kind of citadel, sur rounded by high walls. Thirty thousand wounded or sick Russians are in the hospitals, abandoned, without succour, and without nourishment. The Rus.ians acknowledge that they lost fifty thonsand men in the battle of the Mos,kvia. Prince Bagration was moi tally wounded. A list has been made of the Russian Generals wounded or killed in the battle: it ainouuts to between forty-five and arty. MINISTRY OF WAR. ARMY OF PORTUGAL. While the army of Portugal was collected at Valladolid and its vicinity, in expectation of the reinforcements which have been sent to it from Bayonne, Gen. Claussell, who has commanded this 'fatly since the wound of the Marshal Duke of Ragusa, knowing that the garriso►► of Astorga was not sufficiently supplied with provisions, determined to send a detachment to revictual it. He destined for this purpose two divisio►►s of infantry, with one division of light cavalry, under the orders of Gen. Foy, who was, besides, directed to attack the Insurgent army of Gallicia, which, it was supposed, must have• assembled near Benevente; but with whatever rapidity General Foy marched, it was im possible for him to arrive in time at Astorga. The garrison having completely exhausted its means of subsis►ence, had been compelled to surrender, and had come out of the place on the 19th of August.— Get,. Foy arrived at Astorga on the night of the 20th, without being able to come up with the ene my's rear-guard, except near that place. The in. surgeuts, compelled to fly in haste into Gallicia, marched from ten to twelve leagues a-clay. In eva cuating Astorga, the) had left our sick and wound ed, who were brought back by Gen. Foy. That General [lacing learnt, on his return to Benevente, that General .iilveira was still to the vicinity of Za mora, marched against him by Tabora and Cam jale,. lie saw• him regaining in all haste the fron tiers of Portugal, but our cavalry could never come up with him. About the same time, General Claussell learnt, that the English General Anson, commanding from 1000 to 1200 horse, had maintained bis post in the valley of the Esqueva. His division, composed of the 11th, 12th, 14th, and 16th regiments of light dragoon*, and of a battery of light artillery, was at Villa Vanus and Tudela. On the 19th of August, Getier3l slaucune was charged to advance, for the purpose of reconnoitring on the side of Tudela. In order to compel this cavalry to pass to the other bank of the 'Douro. Same cannon and musketry shot yea eacharldred with the enemy ; the dragoons THE STATESMA N. of the 15th charged him at the entrance of Tedela, and compelled him to repass the river ; Gen. Anion retired upon Aldea Major, and the corps of observa tion of the English army retreated between the 20th and 24th to Olmedo, and then to Areralo. By an account received from the Mediterranean, it appears that Josuu BONAPARTE, with Soutar and Seca e, had effected a junction on the 9.oth of Sep. tember at Jumilla, and that the route they were then taking was in an easterly direction. Sir Sr.n say ,aura was at anchor off Carthagena, in the Tremendous, to lend every assistance, should it be requi red. The Royal Horse Guards are, it is said, in fu ture to be called the Royal Cuirassiers, their new uniform and equipments being nearly similar to those of BONAPARTE'S French forces under that dis tinction. 'BERLIN, Si'. 15.-IVe are assured the Duke of Belluno has joined the Grand Army. [The Moniteur, of the 29th of September, is al• most filled with details of the operations of the French army in the South of Spain, during the month of May, 18121 The Spanish Government has sent two of the my.. tars used by the French at the !liege of Cadiz, as a present to the PRINCE Rtotsv. These implements of war are said to weigh 20 tons, and carry a shell of one hundred weight to the amazing distance of three miles. _____ 1 1 1 .. 1 New York, &c. 1 The 10th Light Dragoons took the London duty on Saturday. They are to be reviewed in their new superb uniforms ; and they expect to receive an ad. wince of pay, is make them equal to the Life Guards. The report is, that they are to be called the First Royal Hussar Body Guard. Dispatches were on Tuesday received from Admi. ral LEGG; dated on board the Revenge, in Cadiz Bay, the Ibth ult. which were immediately forward. ed to Lord Mat,vir.i.z, at Wimbledon. THE STATESMAN. LONDON: THURSDAY, OCTOBEII. 8, 1812. Every political avenue in the metropolis was yes terday thrown into a state of joj ful agitation by the arrival of Lord CantcAnT's dispatches from St. Pe tershurgh, announcing a signal victory obtained by the Russians over the French, on the 7th of last month. Numerous letters were likewise received by the Got tenburgh Mail, confirming the glorious intelligence ; and the wise men on 'Change, like gravitating bodies towards a centre, choked the passage to their oracle of truth, Lloyd's, where they found a confirmation, marked with the mystic pencil of the sapient agents, issuing forth like paper currency. As a farce to this comedy of errors, a Gazette Extraordinary was published, and the cries of Lord CATHCART, VIC* ToaY,RusstAss,SEcosnandTirraziand FOURTiI EDT. TtoNs of the COURIER !!! were alternately echoed through our streets, accompanied by the joy-inspiring Ministerial music of the tin horns, till an early hour In the morning—when the ♦ociferating powers of these Government agents became inaudible; or, speak. log classically, " hushed by their own importunity," were dispersed in every direction in quest of re lief for their loyal lungs among the stationaryvenders of saloop, who reaped a tolerable harvest, by partici. pating in the fruits of this GR. EAT and GLORIOUS VICTORY. Thus ended the political FARCL—the plot, incident, and winding up of which appears to be a glaring plagiarism, from that which was perforated at the battle of Austerlitz. It will be seen by the 19th Thrtietie, which milked in town last night, long before the Gazette Ex traordinary was published, that the Fielich en tered Moscow on the 14th of last month, where they met with no other resistance than an in toxicated rabble, as the Russians had previously abandoned the city, leaving Governor Roivaecturr, at the head of 3000 armed malefactors, whom he had taken from the dungeons; and 6000 satellites, to whom he had distributed arms from the arsenal, which were dispersed by the King of NAPLZI, who ordered a few pieces of cannon to be opened upon them. The Emperor NAPOLEON is lodged in the Kremlin, which is a kind of citadel, surrounded by high walls, in the centre of the city. Thirty thousand wounded or sick Russians were found in the hospitals, abandoned, without succour or nourish ment. Between 40 and 50 Russian Generals were killed or wounded at the battle of Moskwa ; and BAcntaTtom is mortally wounded. So far we have traced this tragedy of Russian disasters, the ca tastrophe of which may shortly be expected, when, we trust, the eyes of our countrymen will be opened, and the miserable deceptions by which they have so long been duped, will be fully exeosed. la a Second Edition, yesterday, we published the Address of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT to the Elacto of Westminster, and wishing to give every facility to so important a document, we re-print it again this day. To eulogize this manly and spirited Address, would only deteriorate its merits, as it contains a clear and full statement of the abuses and corruption un der which this once happy country is nov► groaning; and the worthy Baronet has so little hopes of amend ment under the present system, that he begs to de cline the honour of becoming the Representative for the City of Westminster. In consequence of inserting the Address of Sir FRANCIS BuRDETT, in our Second Edition of yester day, we were obliged to take out the Lists of the Members who voted ou some of the most import ant questions during the last Session of Parliament; . it will, therefore, this day, be found in the last page. A Gottenburgh mail has just arrived, with Paper* to the 29th ult., which give a similar account of the battle at Moskwa, to that published In the Gazette Rstraordinary. One division of the Swedish expe dition had embarked at Stockholm. We have just received the American account of the engagement that took place between the Consti tution and Le Guersiere frigates, but are complied, for want of time ; to postpone its insertion tit to morrow. It is said that a great number of seamen have been taken Seas the French ships in the Scheldt, and marched in small bodies to the coasts of the Baltic ; others have been forwarded on the route to Russia, to assist, it is supposed, in the siege of Riga. The Regent's Canal Company have purchased 120 acres of Finchley Common, for the purpose of form ing a head of water, which is to feed their new canal. A property, some part of which was heath, in one of the most unimproved parts of the Stewartry of K;rkcudbright, purchased, twelve years ago, at 71. per acre, was sold last week at 1001. per acre. Six years out of seven there are twenty fine days in October, and from the favourahle termination of the equinox ) that number may be expected this au tumn. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Captain P. Moues was sworn into the command of the ship Bridgewater, consigned to Madras and China. In consequence of the wind blowing very fresh, Admiral "YOUNG has come into the Downs with the whole of the Teat.' blockading fleet, consisting of the following ships :—lmpregnable (liapship), Bellero phon, Chatham, Cornwall, Bellow:, Egmont, Cum berland, Pliphant, Clarence, La llogue, Theseus, Warrior, Warspite, Sceptre, and the York—all of 71 guns. TO THE EDIThle, OF THE STATES.II.4.\ Ste,—lt the Electen of the United Kingdom (1 0 not return Independent Members, and stupidly view with indifference the treasure-wasting projects of an. other self-interested Administration, they will deserve to be satirized in the following manner. TIIF. TRANSFORMATION. A Transformation, rather str Inge, In this queer age bas rape to pass) A serious, larner,t4ble change, What mas John Bull is cow Jack-au. Manchester, Oct. 3. J. a, RETURN OF COUNTRY MEMBER.S. SANDIVICTI —Sir S. SvdaeyYarke, Knight, and J.Marryatt,r.sq, BATR—Lleut.-Col. Pal.ner and Lord tleorge Tlvane. Illsotow—t)weu Williams and l'ascoeGrenfell, Esqr.. "Fsrluau:a —E. ft. Lar.on and W Loftus, E.Ars. SuottoßY —Sir J. C. II ip„i•ley and Capt. Chas. Wyatt. I.v.wev —Thos. H. Kemp and ticurp. liner, sqrv. BRA —3OhU irtin g du d W. Wilberforce, wg. 111.torrunis —.Sir A hr. Iluinv, Ban. and Jumps Dawkins, Esq. htsurost—Visc. Dancannuta and J. C. ita.laden. Esqrs. Rvo—Thov. P. Lambe, Esq. and Si 11 . Sullivan, Ban. CASTLE RISING—Hun. F. (i. llow-trd and Ilea. C. A.Bradshavr. SOUTIIWARIL arc rioN.—The state of the Poll for the Borough of !;outhwark, at twelve o'clock this day, was as h l ni t p ° 2 ( c eilr ' 1 r t 1825 Bears Thornton .... •• • •• . •1190 J. B. Burdett . ..... • • 413 ...samsns, OCT. B.—The following young Gen. tlemen passed their examinations for Liedmaids, this day, on board his Majt.sty'4 ship Rairortede : Mr. George Yeven, Midshipman. La Rogue; Mr. John Sri. bie, Acting-blaster, Prospero ; and Mr, Caaries Criker, Mid. shipman, late A leeste. Remain in harbour—Venus, to be docked 4 Tssed, to repair the damage she sustained by getting ashore in I:ie Baltic; Os prey, Capt. Wahl; Beaver, Capt. Drur) ; Itasca, ('apt. l e . nue ; kiannet, Capt. Porteous, to he paid off ; Hasty gvii-brig; Thrasher, Lieut. Doraford ; and Wrangler, Lieut. Craisforda This day being appointed for the election of two Members, for the City of Westminster, Sir FRANCIS BURRETT and Lord COCHRANE were put in nornins. tion by the High Bailiff, when there being no oppo. sition, they were duly returned as Members. A few days since a desperate battle was fought on Thorpe's Plot, near Battle, bet4een William Panit burst and Thomas Sintiock, two stone-diggers, which lasted all hour and-a-half ; and, at length, termi nated in favour of the latter, but neither of these thorough-plucked combatants uere able to calk off the ground. The most severe rounds were the 9th, 21st, 37th, 42d, and aiith. The sale of %fives is not confined to particular Si. tuations or seasons ; and whether we have a law to prevent this gentle traffic we know not, but this we are assured, it is practised in our market. A person The precautions taken relative to free-admissions ; named Cox, on Tuesday, disposed of his spouse for a to the New Drury-lane Theatre, appear to be Judi- guinea, to a native, named —, anti never apps. dons and effectual. No one will risk the writing a rently was the nuptial cord severed with greater see name not his own ; and the time occupied will not be tisfaction to both parties.—(Ch.lterzhate Chronicle). so long as in payment with the chaeg.• of a note. ! TUEATKE, Covest-Ganom—We were in hopes An Edinburgh Paper says, that upwards of thirty that tree public judgment, so unequivocally pro specimens of excellent home-made wines oad been noanced in the condemnation of mere spe ctacles, seat to the Caledonian Horticultural society, iii con- would have preserved us from more exhibitions of seeeesace of their advertising a prize -medal to the mummery and nonsense. We reckoned, however, beet, ) without our host. A pirre was brought nut at ibis The Magistrates of Glasgow have resolved to pe, Theatre on Tuesday night, entitled The 'Eat' lop, or titian Parliament against the exemption of carriages the Child of the Purest, founded on sorceiy, aad employed in the conveyance of the Mail from paying therefore totally inconsistent with common setise.— tolls. Upon a plot which depends on preternatural a` envy it The Earl of ILtatteeterov and Colonel O'Loucn- is impossible to erect dramatic interest. fine the I ltv held a private inspection at his Lordship's house, ' ..glhiop has the power of rendering persons invisi. Stable-yard, St. James's, on the marching dress of ble--and a sort of blindmait's buff is performed on the Life Guards, when they approved of every the stage, to the ridicule of every thing intellectual. thing except the helmets, which they conceive too : The audience at the first night of a representation is heavy, each weighing upon an average five pounds.: composed of persons who love the drama, and who It is expected that they will undergo an alteration. i have a liberal desire to cherish every essay of genius The Public have been informed that the Princess that appears. To their decision due regard ought to be of WA T .rs went to aVindsor on Sunday se'linight, paid; for we never knew them err in their jud g ment. with the intention of paying a visit to the Princess Last night it is not easy to say which predominated, CIL IRLOTTII.• her Royal highness drove to Augusta their derision or their disgust. They pronounced Lodge, wherg she understnoil the Princess to be, but their verdict almost universally against the piece, and she had not tee pleasure to see her daughter; in con- : yet it was given nut again as if universally applauded, sequence of the denial she requested an audience of and will no doubt he persevered in to the degratla the Qtteay. which immediately took place. But we tion of the legitimate drama. understand that her Royal nightie s% is not satisfied ! Lest night the ifthiop was performed at Covent. with the result of the interview ; and that she has Garden Theatre with more success than upon the first mtpressed her determination, upon legal advice, to night. There have been some curtailments, and the bring the matter of her situation to an immediate ; audience seemed to be pretty well pleased. question, which is to be done by moving the subject in 'On the 20th ult. the congregation assembled in Parliament on its meeting. Every loyitl Briton must Bridlington church in the afternoon, amidst divine be desirous of seeing this u n happy and most im. , worship, before the proper tribunal, were suddenly alarmed by a great noise and pnrtallt matter brought ' cotifusion in the church, which, the cause being un. whatever it may be ; as it is highly inconsistent with known, occasioned an alarm that the venerable and the moral interests of the kingdom, that it should ancient fabric was going to entomb them withits rest under the mystery which now hangs over it. h derives additional interest from the notoriety of the , ruins. Their fears soon subsided, on being informal that a fire had broken out in two bay stacks, belong. fact, that the Great 011icere who were the former ing to J creme, Esq. of Sewerby, containing sixty loads each : and as the (ire-engine was kept within most zealous friends of her Royal Highness (the pre the church, the disturb:. nee arose from the people en sent LORD CH fiNceLton. and the late Mr. PeacEv.t t.) did, from some unexplained cause, abstain from sup peeving her claims to a public investigation, This . deevourieg to get it away to suppress the fire. It i! fha G.terrkre wts originally a French f ri g ate, denial of access to the Princess CUARLOTTE is a new I . supposed teat ninety loa . ds of hay were consumed. substantive cause of complaint, and it is likely to p Lay's:, off the Ferroe Islands, alter a se v er e en g a g e. and ca bring the whole subject fairly to issue. tured by the Blanche frigate, Capt. Sir Til os. THOEIAS PROSSER, Esq. a Gentleman in much ment of three quarters of an hour, July 19, 1806. She Felotiged to a squadron of frigates which had esteem among the shipping interest, has begun an :lc- effecte d their escape from a French port, and gre atl y five canvass for Middlesex, in opposition to Mr. annoyed the ships employed inn the Greenland Mews's, and is supported by all the Whig interest fishery. The number of guns mouated at the time at the eastern part of the Metropolis. An American Paper gives the following account of mende d b y Nl ons i eur lieneav, a Member of the 1,, :- 6 Cv° the Conater_recolution in Caraccas : The re 1 i was 50, with a complement of 317 men, and corn. "" gion of lioneur. in that affair the enemy .liet tea tionary affairs of this unfortunate country have come men killed and 30 wounded, of which ten were duel• to a satisfactory settlement between the King's army, gerous l y . Th e n u m ber of guns mounted siiice her Ferdinand VII. c omman d e d by General Monteverde, accession to our navy, consisted of ' 2B 18-poutidere , and General Miranda; the first having conquered every town and village from Coro to Caraccas, and , ders ; total, 46 guns, with 300 men : though she joined with all the inhabitants. General Miranda 16 32-pounders carrounades, and two guns e-leeat• : had not by a great number so many on board whea was compelled to come in on terms, and, after an i i armistice between the two armies, he concluded to : to the late Admiral Dacass, who many years had submit to Ferdinand VII. and establish peace and ' • • fcommandthe Jamaica station. He is the cote on she struck to the Vonstitsaion. Capt. Deem ie son tranquillity, as was before the revolution took. giving three months time to all persons that thought i years a Post-Captain. Captain Dacees was recce proper to leave the country, unless they came under • wring from the wound lie had received, at the time the old Governreent;—A general pardon is granted place;' about 28 years of age, end has been upwards of sit when the dispatches were sent off. , fo all persons implicated in the revolution, by Gene- Th e sport i ng b e t between two personages of the tat Monteverde, in the name of the Spanish Govern- hi g h e st rank relative to game, and waich was CO meat." have been decided on Thursday las t, iN drawn, the • , The following was the state of the Poll for the City, 1 herds of the respective Manors not choosing to com mid leis day, at oats o'clock : Combo • - 4590 Atos - .Tr have disturbed every head of game on their pre l• Corns 2962 * au rora - . ell ply with the stipulations required,. Yaw • .am we suites. which their t PRICE OF STOCKS THIS l) AT ONE O'CLOCK. - --- - - Hank India Bonds 11 10 die. 9 per Cent. Cone. ma Exchequer Bills ad. 3 S d 3 per Cent. 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