The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-12-26 00:00:00

STATESIVIAN.

' !MINOS OF TRH igTH.
A report of the Board of Health was read, by
which it appcsrs that Cadiz is in a healthy state.
SITTINO OF THE 19Tit.

• The Deputy PER EZ DE CASTRo called to the re.
collection of the Cortes all thesa crifices made bythe
British nation to assist the Spanish, in maintaining
the independence of their country, and the claims
which that nation and its illustrious chief possess on
the gratitude,' of the people of Spain, moved
that an eternal monument of gratitude be voted to
the worthy Monarch of that truly great nation.
The motion was acceded to by acclamation, and
the Decree proposed by Cptro passed without the
least alteration.—( El Grinds°. )

CADIZ, Nov. 23.—Renovales lot sail from Co.
runny fur Santona on the• 14th, with 19 transports
and sonic frigates and brigs, having on board 1200
Spanish and 890*English troops, with 27,000 mus-
kets, 10,000 tutiforms, and several ether stores.—
( 11l Consejo, Nov. 24.)

Mr. Lorst.h begs leave to inform his Friends
that he intends to Publish the Second Part of
his Address in the Sr.srismahr To-morrow, in
which he pill develope the whole System of Cor. '
ruption in regard to Newspapers, and the prin.
cipal Characters in this infamous traffic. Ile
will likewise shew the means which have been
taken by the present Ministry to destroy the.
Independence of the STATESMA.
The remaining Article respecting the present .con.
struction of the Law of Libel; together with
some Observations thereon) will appear in a
few days.
STATE GAOL, Nerrgnte,
December 26, 1810.

THE STATESMAN.

A letter from Lisbon has the following
4g aeneral DAVOUST has joined MASSENA, with
8,000 men.' A report' exists, that our army. is
falling back to their strong lines between Alhandra
and Torras Vedrast but I doubt it, as the country
where they are, is .full of forage of all kinds,
left by Me enemy. The report, perhaps, arose from
Lord W. and Marshal B. coming to examine Ole
heights on the South bank, oliposite Lisbon,
and ordering works to be constructed fur their de-
fence, and to secure the anchorage from-auy sudden
advance. Do all they cant however, we must ulti.
mately abandon this place, for want of means to
feed the enormous population of this city, which
alread.p.cries out fur bread ; Where can we get it ?
America and Barbary fare very uncertain Sounces.
All the Seamen that were on shore, on dtity,
were •rdered to rejoin their ships, except some
small detachments of Marines. This is fortu.
nate, fur they began to . fall ill daily ; and
Generals HILL, FANE, and CAMERON, are come
to Lisbon ill; poor Colonel BATHURST, Lord
W.'s Secretary, and brother to the last Minister
of that name, is come down in a melancholy slate
of derangement.• /fa was put on board the packet
last Tuesday ; but at the moment she was under
sail, with strong wind Ind ebb tide, he jumped into
`the boat, and came on shore again. 7

We have the mortifying task of communicating
to our Readers the distressing intelligecce, that his
MAJESTY'S situation is of th.lMost alarming 'nature.
The whole of the male brandies of the RostAt.
FAMILY have been summoned to Windsor. No-
thing can equal the anguish of 'Moil in which .the
confideatial Servants of the Rolic FAMILY de-
scribe the PitINCESiES to be. They know (shat is
withheld from the people) the violent tn.ea.
sures to which one of the KING'S Physicians it
raid, to have been been obliged t,l resort on Mon-
day night, to compel his MAJESTY to take the me-
dicines necessary, its the present severity of the
bodily disease he labours under. Delicacy prevents
our being more communicative—our Readers will
readily comprehend the lameutable situation of the
KING. All commiserate his sulferiogs. Will not
the public hold in abhorrence, the inhtensan
wretches, who, in defiance of the citmtnoo feelings
of humanity, have attempted to force public. busi-
ness *limn AC KING, to which, in a great measure,
is to be attributed the. present must severe relapse?
The Galatea, Malacca, and tno other frigates,
are under immediate .ailing order fur the Cape of
Good Hope, and from thence to proceed to replace
the sputtirtto of frigates su unfortunately lost on the
coast of India.

TREILIIAXI:11 who made so conspicuous a figure
during the French Revolotion, and was one of the
negoeiators at Lislewith Lord MA I.MESOUIt Y, lately
died at Paris, in the 59th year of his age. lie hatl
be,•nne one of gONA PA RICE'S satellites.
Lord GRENVILLE'S tnt.attestdance in the House
of Peers at the tlNcuslion of the question, whether
the Regency should he established by an Address,
or by a Bill, *as nut from indisposition, as is ge-
nerally suOposed, but.to avoid the awkward alter-
native of either voting with Ministers, or incon.
sistently departing front the opihiork which he had
so unequivocally declared on this qteStion, in 178 S.
Extract of a letter from an Officer belonging to
the Pallas frigatei .dated the 21st instant :—" 1
have just come from attending the funerals of the
men who have been 'drove on the beach, one be.
longing to the boat, and•twelve. of our men, ell
that have been found. We struck the rocks at ten
on the nLht of the 18th. In a quarter of au hour
afterwards, the ship's bottom was broken out, and
the water above the hatchway. IVe fired several
guns, rockets, and• blue slights, during the night ;
and soon after, to our great sioisfactiott, found a
* fire lighted un the beach abreast of as, and a life.
boat down, which we cheered from the ship. A
party of soldiers came down to protect all property.
washed on shore. Our masts were gone, and our
boats destroyed ; so that one life-boat was a long
time in getting the men on Shore. At last by sere.
rat heavy seas she was upset-. A small boat, and a
rope fastened from the shore to the ship., by which
we very expeditiously 'hauled (mi.., one to another,
landing six et a lime, and by the afternoon of the
19th all were got out of the ship." • •

The harbour at Holyhead is carrying on so spi.
ritedly, that it is expected to be in a state lit for
the protection of .vessels on that dangerous coast in
the course of the .ensuing year.
Mr. G 'mute has pot conceded to Government
any.part of his claim to the portion of land at Mil-
ford-Haven, adjoining the New Dock-yard, which
they conceive included in their original purchase
made of that Gentleman, and in consegnence'all the
frailtier works, intended there for the public set,-
vice, arc given up, and a new scite, for a more spa.
cious yard, is marked out un the other side of the
Haven.

the. Engraver, who has recently visited
Paris, by passports from England and France, on
professional business, is returned to London.
The extensive and bean tifu lestate of Mane/louse,
it is said, will be purchasee it trust, ,for the nisi.
deuce of LUCIF.N BONAPA UTE) who means to fix
his abode in Great Britain.

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The followinz singular accident occurred lately,
at Pond, near Chichester: —A man em-
ployed in the stables beJou g nit° the Swan Inn, in
that city, on the return o a tvrT.wheel chaise
from Aruciiijl, about two o'clock at night, took
it to the above Pond,' for the purpose of wa-
tering the horse, and washing, the carriage ; tint
haring neglected to• unhook the bearing-rein, he
found himself disappointed in his first .ohjevi,
and (s,ill nomintlful of the true cause) supposing
it proceeded from the horse's disinclinatiun to
drink, in a shallow situation, drove him further
into the pond, where, by means of the reins.in his
hand, he forced his nose into the water, 'rind incur.
(Mile as it 'bay appear, there kept it,. anti', the pour
animal was actually sahcaltut