The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-03-06 00:00:00

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. THE STATE-SMAN.

• Gemini Him. fail back hessasar Show hail. ea.
lected a very strong force. AlMares, auesrding to
the French acconnts, has been strongly fortified, hot
Lord Wawastovoe had hoped to find it within% eel
defence; but then he did, ea
kficni:nwt
divisiono4fronopsfer iti been left by Memoir: hi
the neighboerhood, or of the fall of Valencia, which
disengaged MONTRRUN with three more divisions,
and a great body° of critalry.
Letters have bemereceived from the French coast,
of a late date. They repeat,—what we have often
before declined noticing, from the conviction that
the writers are incompetent judges of such matters—
,that BONAPARTE is nowcertainly going to the North.
One of them says, " the EMPEROR will be off to the
North in a day or two; after which nothing will be
done in the licence way for some time to come. His
MAJEBrY will allow no one in his absence tosuperin-
I tend a business so dear to him as that in which com-
merce is concerned." We suspect this to be a mem
commercial fudge. A Decree has been published in that
,
evrao...erecey of Berg, in whish NAPOLEON, to the
exclusion of his nephew, the Gamin Dime, assunseal
to himself the sovereignty, by ordering the executiotal
of the same in his own sole name and under his ow;'
sole authority. ,„-,
His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT yeliMyo47
took his usual excursion to Manchester-squar‘and
returned to Carlton-House about six
I At length a Levee is appointed for Thursday tot,'
by which time a proper assortment of Lords,
white Staves, six. feethigh, will be provided.
The Earl of. Cnctintorrnsweic was yesterday tape".
pointed by theNtisce REGENT Lord Steward otthe
Household, and received the Staff of office accordingly.,),
The Marquis of liztertonn, we understand, will
be appointed Lord Chamberlain.
That Jesuitical Print, the Times Newspaper, con-,
ceives itself very ingenious in ascribing Mr. PERCE.
TA.L'S Majority in the House of Commons, on Tues-
day, to the popularity of his system—the popularity
of the Orders in Council!!! This indeed is a nota.
ble discovery: But where are we to find this pope-
larity ? is it in Nottinghamshire, In Staffordshire,
and Yorkshire? In which of our manufacturing
towns, and in what class of our distressed manufac-
turers does it reside ? and how comes it that Mr..
Pcactrat.'s Majority, composed principally of Vince-
men and Pensioners, alone can see this popularity;
and that tb the virtuous Minority, comprising the
Representative) of Counties, and men of greal.kte
lent and property in the country, it is invisible?,
GRAND FASIIIONAIILE th
times of great public distress, we know not wheth
to regret or rejoice at the vcry general and 1'
equivocal mania that prevails for the' institution of
grand and magnificent establishments. We haat
heard of many of different degrees of principle and
promise, but of none of a more eccentric, and, bei
cause eccentric, fashionable nature, than one which
we understand is in contemplation, to be called
" The Fashionable Mart ;" or, " The Commercial
Promenade." The plan is already far advanced,
and, it is said, that a rich Nobleman means to unite
his fortune with some ingenious speculators, and
would-be great men, in the purchase of extensive
premises in the neighbourhood of Pall-mall, for the
purpose of erecting thereon a spacious structure for
the establishment. Meetings of the projectors have
already been convened, and circulars distributed to
all who are likely to connect themselves with the
concern, inviting their attendance, particularly ma-
nicrf men. The Prospectus is irresistible, for it holds
out, um/ideally, a promise of large dividends and
unbounded pa trdnage.
Colonel C;;;.ORGE HANGER has published a hu-
mourous philippic against the Board of Military En-
quiry, for an allusion to his being allowed to retire
ou full pay from the Royal Corps of Artillery Dri-
vers. After defending himself with considerable in-
genuity, he thus doses his address :—" Now, Gen-
Almon, I take my leave of you, requesting yes, as
honest men, in lour next Report, to deliver to Per-
.tiarnent (on oath, -as you examine others,) a state-
ment of the savings:lton have made to the Public,
and to strike a betanee between those savings I
and the moneys you, as Commissioner, have cost
the Public. There are seven of you, each with !
a salary of 15001. per aunum ' • and, to the best
of, my recollection, you have been appointed six
years : this is exclusive of all your other emoluments.
With the avast zealous and equal expectations, Gen-
tlemeo, ie your unbiassed exertions, and in the
pious labours of the Society for the Suppression of
ice, I expect to see all undeserving military expel'.
ditures abolished, and this sinful 112byloti (London)
purged of •its wickedness, and the lost muttons re-
covered and folded, in the pious sheepfold of that
laudable society. Then will our country flourish'.
I remain, Gentlemen, with respect, your obedient,
humble servant, " GEORGE HANGER."
A Report by tpe Vicar-getioral of the Bishopric of
Coindiritlnfireenpottlisked, glen* aniaqesosi4 orthe
horrible atrocities cominitted by the Fretwlt:t4trin
their iaroad into Portugal. • Nothing can exceed the
barbarities which they wantonly committed, or which"
they perpetrated for the purpose of extortipcfrom
the wretched inhabitants the, seoret of their hoarded
property. The heart sickens at the recital of the
butcheries. But at the same time we have in this nar-
rative the lam plate refutet ion of all the statements nude
by our Ministers, and their adherents, as to the for-
lorn and destitute condition of the French inlaou-
gal.—T he Government papers were coa tin ually_alsert-
ing that the French were reduced to the necessity of
[eating horse and rule flesh, and enduring pribadous
of the most destructive kind. Ministers declared-that
I•they had foreseen the system of famine wadi be the
preservation of Portugal, and the ruin of tims in-
vaders; cosseqeently that they were coated, to the
applause of. the nation for the sneesures taken to
ks* that system efficacious, hlaeszsa. ressaiatur
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CHEMICAL DISCOVERY.
TO THE EDITOR.
Sia,—Tn your Paper you have mentioned, on
the authority of the Foreign Journals, that, in
France, Messieurs Clement and Desormes have late-
ly varied and extended my experiment for rendering
Incinded air excessively dry, and thence procuring
extreme cold; and that they have proposed to apply
the process, on a Large scale, to the drying of gun-
I powder, and the preserving of animal and vegetable
substances in a state of high desiccation, without the
aid of fire. I think it, therefore, right to state,
that both these projects were contemplated by me
1 from the beginning. The. same ideas might, no doubt,
I have spontaneously occurred to those eminent ehe-
mists ; but my notions respecting the subject, it is well
known, have, for more than a twelemouth past, been
very freely communicated, and widely spread. In a
visit to London last summer, I even took souse steps
for making an application to the Board of Ordnance,
but was induced, by particular reasons, to defer it
at that time. I will only add, that, in consequence
of a communication received from the Count Lap,
lace, I had, about the preceding month of February,
sent to this distinguished philosopher the fullest ac-
e-skint which has been yet given of my process of con-
gelation, of the theory ou which it appears to de-
pend, and of the new views of the phenomena of
nature, and the beneficial. applitation of art which
it suggests.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
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JOHN LULU!).
College of Edioburgh, March 12, 1811.

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NAl'di 1, INTELLIGENCE,.
L LIGE NCR.
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In Turkey, the Grand Seignor, every morning in -.. • PLYMOUTH, Macs 4.
Modals, bowleg brought
his progress from the apartments of his favourite Sul- Arrived dike morstiog the James cartel, Captain Beer, frz,-;
tana to his morning prayer, receives in person the Pe-
r Oporto 1r Expel!.
overran A melean Gentleman charyi
wShiethfeldinl IPlnehen'in with anillftochnnverCaulttnerherpraPanvatste.enrgyernestlerdbliaynglabonnntnmewid% titioos of the meanest of the faithful. In 'the year
astteMhorlaixaafFnrench schoonerf privateer ; the brig
.1695, Yamouse, the Grand Vizier of Mustapha IV. , cha
emptied, because he stood between his Sovereign and tion, Belot:Lev, fromPeTongbralml to London,Souia
the Petition of a poor shoemaker of the Crimea. In u Miami ; Louisa, J ones, both from Yon4ball.te Fair
Briton,etantn
Persia, the Schah, or King, sits three days in the' ton; and sloop Benloinond, LoekLud, front Greemocjtt, wit;
week upon his throne to give public Audience, and ; rams.
any Minister who prevents oven the rest
poo Persian.! A coaster which came in yesterday saw a brig captured by a
! French cutter privateer on the 9.d inst. of the Start.
from free access to his Royal Master, undergoes
:' fromi,iter, 4sosttor,.
intztle'h
;
Arrived the Britannia, from London to Limerick ;
a painful but ludicrous punishment. The hinder i wards, his, Ed-
part of his body is bereft of the skin, and ,
from .
ra Newport,
Liverpool, for the We of Wight ; Hargoretou,
under a burning sun, upon a saddle of yellow lea. ,
brig
of
. awart,hebelinanadlteo;Lvonedon ; I
pnantdius leaky t the °wan;
they, the criminal is forced to ride upon an ass both from Neath ; Eleanor and (Trace, up
through the streets of Teheran, with a label around and Providence, Coatswertb, from Sunderland, `
his neck proclaiming his offence. The Dey of Al- : Came iii the St. Carlos, , from Coronas.
giers, in the apartments of his Zenana, every ,i The Hyacinth sloop of war takes convoy to Oporto, nod will
. sail the first fair n ind.
morning administers justice to, and hears the coin-
plaints of, his people ; and Mohammed Mahadi, in j
Orders are PORTSMOUTH, MARCY( 5.
Sailed the Fisguard, Ferret, Ze. byr, 'loyalist and Ant.
the year 1478, put out, the eyes of his Sultana Za- ;
ii gatai, because she, in a fit of fondness, detained INo arrivals to-day. Convoy are wind boned.
limed to equip for service all the troop ships lying
I him in her chamber beyond the hour when his sub- here.
jects were accustomed to carry their petitions to the
Ifoot of his throne. The.- history of the times re- i m
I cords this as a singular proof of princely delusion, (A
. because the lady is described to have been large in ie
l person, Old, and not comely In her appearance. In ,
i China, the ranperor, though secluded from the MU
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world, is nerer fee= a, moment inaceessifile tb his
; people. Surrounded by ministers, by, mistresses,'
Ixt
and minions, degradation and death await even
i the most favourite who intercept the supplications e 6
%, Si,
of the.people in their passage to his footstool. in 'ay,
the Missionary History of China we read that, in . du
the year 1685, the Emperor Tchun4song bastina- t Pik
deed and. cut off the ears of his Grand Choulaa, or w 1
favourite, Yaa-Mo-Ut-Chic, a white eunuch, be- les, 4
cause he told a silk-Weaver of Canton that the Km- t tej
Gem
' peror had something else to do besides listening to
ut te
the catalogue of his grierances.—Even amongst the amen
Gallo, 'the most savage nation in Mike, we read in Lisa
! Bruce that every fifth day .the King dresses himself store
in fresh-drawn entrails, and seating himself upon FAL
thereeking hide of scow, killed newly for the oe- , f men
casket, listens to the simple complaints of his naked 1 to be
cod oily subjects. Wasili Ostro, Prime Mi- , (Ram
sister of thit nation, was flayed alive, because he .J %lathe,
plotted with Ozocnifert, the King's esistteesi for ,
the purpose of preventing Gorgi, the fourth sow*.
reign of the Gallo natiou,„from receiving- the peti-
tion of one of his slaves.. . •
In England the petitiookof, the people are some-.
times consigned to the ohicirity of the pocket of Mr.
Secretary Ryder.

Indus Eatt-Indianian, and
• DEAL, MAPCII 5.
Came down from the river the
three others,; and remake.
Arrived. the Griffin sloop of war from Portsmouth, with a
oesw9y which ;sic sailed for difirrent destinations.
Pat iack",, by contrary viisids;llis Elphinstone Eash-ladln•
smaat..oll,4 tivilliksa. • •
r - • -7-- COO, •
41Lestcrs
WIIT IKjA sip 14ssost FLairs.—Salled yesterday, with a
fine him-catboat thrapsthward; kit Majest,'3 ship fiyhelle. Cap.
taio Uptna, and Jalousie, Captain Morris, with the above Fleet
ender convoy, The Sylielle will see the Tmasperts with the dm
tacLuneat of the Royal Artillery Drivers' Corps, and the user
cluuditda boned to Lisbon, Into that port, and then proceed on
! a crate.—Thel4olll, goes with the ships and vessels bound to
the Wed ladies, consisting of nearly 93 sail. Several Offices
; hive One out to join our Army in Portugal, as "ell as la the
! west Indies. General Leeoute had taken his passage 64 the
West bike, but two days before their sailing an ordertrrited
freak the Commastienia-Chlef Changing his destleatitsafer Pe"
taialrotharend Lindsay has proceeded to the West Wiest"
one Of the merchantmen.
FALMOtiTa, Metes S.
A large • fleet of merchontmes appeared off this port to-day,
they des sapposed to be the Mediterranean convoy.
The Rimer iiipep et war, with the ships frees hence, belted is
Parasol and ib. Meditertaseatt, *idled yesterday te.jeln tM
• above.
Tie Bombay Indianian. Captain Natilltos, eiflzd *Ai
Gravesend yesterday for the Downs.
The Ellen packet from Neve York ban Wised t She talle4llo
11th uk. The Mail will not be deliriredwatil twasersow.

THE MARKETS.
CORN EXCRAYOE, MAus 6.

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The Market to-dey has again bat few freskiithalt of Whin.
and general sales of the supplies en band maiatain less pelves
quoted. Barley in short Supply, and rather dearer. Malt aid
White NM continue nearly to keep their prices. Beans of iamb
sort likewise named artiewhat higher. There are but short sup-
plies of (Vs.-waiting arrivals ; few sales hi this trade are effect-
ad, and Muse at a small eaerease in price. Flour at late quoted
*new.
Wheat...
Fine ditto l2O 136 ' 1/o. (Vise Old) .. 15 116
Rye
Barley . • 50 58 Poland do.
Malt B4 99. Potatoe do.
White Peas (boilers) 78 65 1 Rape Seed
Grey do. - 58 63 Fine Fled/
Beans
".-........
• SMITHFIELD. MARKET.—Maara 6.
To sink the HAW, per stone of ~,it,.
Beef ... ss. 2d. to 6s. 1141. I Head .d ('mils 1101 des) e
\lawn —54. 21. to 6... tit. f-Beitst. .. . 6BO
Veal ....7a. std. to ft*. 04. Sheet,' i
poet .„, se. 04. 10 ,71. 44. Calves . . ll2
is ....os. Ott. to Os: WI. Pim e
KA V.lli halt ET.-..
•• ' * Hay ...... 4t.-'4i. OA-. 0.-..1.- S.. Off.
. % &taw •.. . I. Pe.. Od. to,' ~:14... iM.
.. Ckyrer .... Si..' lc ' Od;. to . 4.. mi.

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Pdaysias-nousa.—A lad, a clerk in a Banking.
housein Lombard-street, was. yesterday taker/ before
the Loan *ova, charged with Wing srelen 501.
in- Bank of England notes privately in the dwellings
li
house of his employers. e Confessed his guilt,. pri
was committed for far t her,etominatioe.
Gront/patr..—A desperate looking fellow, named
Beard: hipley, was yesterday brae& to this otfise,
,ese a.charge of having assaulted Mr. W. Elfirrivortk
-of Silver-street, Wood-street, on the preceding
tight. and taken from his person a allies' watch
am est
The Hon. G_ pONS 0V BY left town yesteri Ebbsworth stated,nt• -
clay, on a shooting pirty, at Taplow, the seat of Lord. Mint .that, as he wits returning
his club tohis ostr house, :shoat half Past 12; in
Rivcasest.e. I going up Snow-hill, he was attacked by three men,
Mr. %ILENE, the Clerk of one of the Police Of- : one of whom seized hisri by the collar, while another
(ices, convicted the Sessions before last of forgery,
which
has, we understand, recei'ved the Royal Pardon. ;.geo,„
I, struck. hint sr sieerit blow on the knees with a Mud.
kan,ited,bito to the ground. As he fell,
Piccadilly was yesterday strewed again with the , he felt his notch taken from his folsii and his. hat was
wrecks of barouchsts, chariots, amid hackney coaches, i snatched from his head ; he also rikeived a deep in-
as si daily swath:Sego tins rlinoes pavement of t' - • • • ►"so st his fingers, froth a sharp ittstrumnt,
principal entranCiintetWillitish Capital. ,or which one of the regivits sitti"inned:" Ott dry-
We hear, that in , vacancy for Woot. besot .stop thief! the sir:sins ran off, one gain,/
{.
ilt e, iiiihi of • a
ten Basset, Mr. JohnSoti,isf this town, means to des.l.towards Fleet-market, and the other two towards
dare himself for the representation of that respect:. Mothers. The first mentioned (the Prisoner) was
able Borough.--(Chekenhnri Piroside.) • purseed by the watchmen, and was fortunately over-
, We are sorry to haTe hi' mention a reorder of ii , taken, knocked down, and secured. As he fell,
Tarr aggravated nattsre,'_
otisicli was committed in . something was heard to rattle on the stones, which
Roblin op Sunday night last. Thomas Fowler, a I was Ebb ked up, and proved to be the batch of Mr.
get 1 worth, who, on following the Prisoner to the
lacksmith, had been very importunate to
into the house of another person of the tame, watch-house, recognised him as one of the fellows
trade, of the name of Fagan, in Swan-alley, who,l who bad assaulted him.--Committed for taisi.
from some reason that we liave not learned, did i . Yesterday, Mr. STarrce Cow LEY Bac/mite, an
not wish to admit him and had the door shut !insolvent debtor, was summoned before the
Magi-
when he saw him comiog, to apply for entrance.-1
strates at Union Hall, by his assignees, Mr: Jamas
1
Fowler went away, and the door was immediately and Mr. Naar, and underwent a long esnaninetion,
opened, the people within resolving to send him touching several items contained in his schedule deli-
off by violence, if be troubled them more with his vered in upon his obtaining the benefit of. the It
importunities. -He was not ' long bi returning, 't Act.
..,
- Into -of the most daring robberies was cetemitjled
that we held VIII