The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-08-07 00:00:00

THN ST ATIESIVAN,

starch of the Ditch troops to Bremen—of those of
Westphalia to Hanover—the intended establish-
ment of the kearLquarters of the Duke of A brantes
at Hamburgh; the return of the Prince of Ponta
CORTI) to Paris, fur which place he set out on
the ?Id July--and the expectadon of NAPCSLION
Mowing him immediately, all tend to confirm our
apprehensions, repeatedly expressed, that those
who expect from the Expedition, under the com-
mand of Lord CHATUA74, that any serious ittrpres.
slots will be made on the enemy beyond that of the
possession of the Islands at the mouth of the
Scheldt, and the possible destruction of some
ships of war and naval arsenals, will be cer-
tainly disappointed. The critical moment in
which the power of France might have been
restraints!, has been suffered to pass away,
never to return, in the life of the present
generation. There is every reason to believe
that the Preliminaries of Peace have already
been signed at Vienna, and NAPOLZOK, released
frum his imminent situation on the Danube (for
such it was until the Austrian Army was beaten),
ern now deride the fatally procrastinated efforts
of England.
Every arrival from the Continent furnishes us
with fresh subject of regret. To the abandon-
ment of thu Tyrolese and Voralbarghers we have
the mortification to announce the utter ruin of the
Duke of Baurd,wica On.s.

The Nuremberg Ga:elte contains the follow-
ing article : " The King of PRUSSIA has segues-
" hated all the dominions and estates of the
" Duke of BXCNSWICK °ELS."
" Several Newspapers assert, that the condi.
" flans on which the Emperor Narottomgranted
" the armistice, are of the utmost importance,
" and will be productive of very momentous re-
', sults."

That the conditions on which the Armistice was
granted will be productive of " most momentous
results," will not be doubted-..-and we feel much
anxiety to see on what terms the ci-derant Em.
eror of AUSTRIA %ill be tolerated...-If any cir.
cumstance can tend to diminish our sorrow fur the
fallen state of the descendants of the House of
Hapsburg..-it is, that in the recent contest it is
impossible to deny that Austria was not the im.

mediate aggressor; but this unfortunately gives
NAPOLIoN the stronger claim to impose humiliat.
ins conditions on his vanquished rue.

nic contents of the dispatches to Prince
STANNEMBEIG, brought by the Austrian Mesas.
ger, whose arrival we mentioned on S.iturday,Go.
remount have not yet thought proper to an.
isounce.—lt is conjectured that they relate, mot
only to the late armistice, but to the terms of the
subsequent pacification between NAPOLEON and
the Emperor nun's.
_ _

The silly reports continued to be propagated by
the hireling Ministerial Prints, 64 that the Ar-
mistice was merely a truce—which has since been
successfully broken"—will naturally be treated
by the pablic with that contempt which they de-
mew, and have universally excited. The contest
in Germany is terminated—and the splendour of
the Imperial House of Austria is as completely
obscured as that of the H.,uso of Brandenburch,
under the imbecile descendant of the Gloat Fite-
DEKICIL.

Tniretreat from Sweden of the Russians, for
the purpose of reinforcing the Army in Gallicia, is i
now become unneeesary—and that array, releasetl
by the conclusion of the c,ostest in Germany, will
instantly turn its attention to Turkey, which will
again be forced into hostilities against England.
Sweden•also must eventually come into the Grand
Confedtracy—sad it may be expected as the na-
tural and inevitable consequence of the disastrous
conclusion of the contest in Germany—that within
six months—the entire Continent of Europe will
he absolutely dosed against the commerce of
Great Britain.

A Spanish Officer, named Captain &mime, ar-
rived at the Foreign Office on Friday, with dis-
patches from Sir A. WELLESLEY. They were
brought to Falmouth from Columns is four days,
by the .4rethaisa frigate. Wu understand that they
anuounce tho junction of the British and Spanish
armies, and also that Sir A. WELLESIAT boreal to
be able to bring VicrAtt to an engagement before
the arrival of the combined forces at Madrid, whi.
they they were resolved to advance.
A large body of Russian cavalry arrived at
, Lemberg, in Gallicia, early in July, under the or.
ders of General Mtmt.sa..

Prince STA !MEMOIR% Admiral APO DACA and
Don CevaLcos, had a conference of three hours
with Mr. CANNING, at the Furriers Office, on
Thu rtday.
A fleet is about to sail from Portsmouth with
reinforcements for Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY 'S
army in Spain; and another fleet, with many
Officers and men, for Sir Jolty STUART'S army in
Sicily. With the first, go Generals MADDRN and
MILLER, Colonel f.tatiw, and many Officers,
under a strong Medical Staff, for we regret to
hear by the kit arrivals that the army is lament-
ably sick.
A large detachment of the Royal Marines, now
in Stonehenge Barracks, are preparing fur em-
barkation otr board the Wombs/cis and Prevo.y.
ante store-ships.—A proportion of boys accom.
patty them.


The Bret sore frigate arrived from Comma on
Saturday, after the abort voyage of four days.
By this opportunity Government received dis.
patches ; and a Spanish Officer, of the rank of
Captain of Infantry, arrived with it fur
his EaceHaney Admiral APODACA. The Informa-
tion through this channel is satisfactory. Gene.
ral ROMANA had entered the %Junkier of Leon,
and bad his head.quarters at Astorga, at the close
of the last month. His force consisted of twenty
four thousand mini, completely armed and equip.
ed, and he had recruits to augment it to 40,000,
if the deficiency of muskets did not prevent
the accession to his army. He had actively,
but ineffectually pursued Marshal keel.? from
'Oronse to Munfurte, and from the bliiiho to Pon-
ferrada, from whence the French took the direc-
tion to the Douro, and were supposed to be in
the neighbourhood of Zamora, with the desigo-of
proceeding to reinforce the garrison of Madrid.—
It was toiderstood, that the troops in. the capital
had been greatly reduced, in order to supply the
ranks of the armies of VICTOR andSseaszt.s Pct.
The acquisition by the arrival of Sout.e would
not be very considerable, as the remains of his
corps consisted only of about 5000 men, of which,
however, a large proportion was cavalry.
Respecting the situation of the Allies West and
South of Madrid, nothing further was ktiowis than
what we before stated ; one additional fact only
we have learnt, namely, that in order to concert
operations against the enemy, the two Com-
manders, Sir ARTHUR Wer.t.ssLer and General
CuzsrA, had bad an iuterview, and had dined
together near the Tagus.
JoNov, who had advanced as far as Bayreuth,
has met with a defeat, and been forced to retire.
The Austrian General KIENMATER attacked him
unexpectedly near Bayreuth. His junction, there-
fore, with the army of JEROME BONAPARTE has
been prevented. JuNOT is retreating by Amberg
towards the Danube. The Austrians are again at
Maiden ; and the return of the King and Queen of
Saxony, from Frankfort on the Mame, to their
dominions, is adjunctied to an indefinite time, in
consequence of the dispatches which they received
from King JEROME on the 7th of July, when every
thing was ready fur their departure. The Rus-
sians, in Gallicia, leave every Austrian functionary
in his place; at Lemberg only they have established
a gouvernensent ankle, of which the former A us-
trian Governor of Gallicia, Count Weausett, is a
Member.
The eel ected arrival of our Expedition is said
to have kept alive the spirit of the North of Ger-
many, which the fatal Armistice of the Itth was
se well calculated to extinguish. The Austrians
are said to have re-entered Dresden, Leipsic, and
other parts of Saxony. J earn has been defeated
at Bayreuth, and the enemy has evacuted that city.
Fifteen hundred Poles are on their march to
garrison Haniburgh, and Jahomc BoNAv.tare:'
was proceeding with his army to cover and keep
'down lianovers
The Emperor of AUSTRIA, according to 'the
Dutch papers, viewed the battle of Wagram from
the top of the hill which commands the village of
Ebersbriton. Ile was incessantly sending to the
Archduke CHARLES to learn the state of affair.i.
When heat length saw the centre of his army de.
reeled, and the left wing almost totally destroyed
by the fire of the French artillery, be preeip:tately
quitted his station, and set off in a conch, corer.
lug his face with a handkerchief. In changing
horses at Hollabrunn, the rector of the parish ap.
preached the carriage to pay his respects to him ;
but the only answer the Emperor gate him was—
" It is all over."
Mr. SPENCER SMITH, with that patriotism which
characterizes every branch of his family, has lately
introduced that valuable plant, Smyrna madder,
into this country. Mr. SMITH furnished the Su-
ciety of Arts with some seed, from which Mr.
SALIssuRT, of the Botanic-Garden, Sloane-street,
has raised plants that have grown in the most pro.
nosing manner. He expects to obtain seed from
them, and there is every reason to hope that this
useful dye-rout will become naturalized in our soil.
A paragraph which appeared on Thursday in
several of the Morning Papers, announcing that
by order of the Treasury all the old halfpence in
circulation would be called in, and exchanged for
nem ones, stud that such imitations as geuerally
passed fur good would be taken, has occasioned
very considerable inconvenience to the labouring
part of the community, and was the cause of many
a poor family yesterday being deprived of their
Sunday's dinner. From a misunderstanding, or
wilful , aversion of this notice, the majority of
sli..pkeepers and publicans have indiscriminately
refused all old copper, which occasioned very
considerable bustle and confusion in the markets
on Saturday night, where many industrious me.
chanics, who bad been chiefly paid in clipper of
this description, had it refused ; it is to be. hoped,
if such refusal is persisted its, that the Magistrates
will be prompt its inflicting the 101 l pen .Ities
which the law authorises. We beg to impress it
on the minds of our Readers, that those who re-
fuse to take good halfpence are undoubtedly sub.
ject to penalty.
Among the whimsical undertakings of the age
may be classed that of a Colonel of Dragoons,
who for a bet to a considerable amount, is to walk
from Chichester to llarrowgate, a distance of 955
miles, and mot to expend more than three pounds.
Ile passed through Guildford last Friday.
Wefeel it our duty to caution the public against
an old trick daily practised by a young female in
the neighbourhood of St. Paul's Churchyard,
New Bridge.strcet, and that neighbourhood.
She knocks at the dour, and under pretence
of inquiring for some une of the family, who
she is well acquainted is fruits home, un being
shown into the parlour, stie takes an upper.
Wilily of secrelins any thing that is portable,
with which she inakti otr. Several 'bats of
tlits kind were effected during the last week.
Vessels arrived at Liverpool from the Ist of
June to the lit of August, 1809 :
From the Illoited Slate) or America 217—• Amelia islands
16—British Aini.rica it -141evslavisdland id—Puringai and
A sorrs 40—Mediterrasnean lu -.West Indies 71—Brasil,
3-11nliand ti—rrnuee I—Orre Awed s ?—Si'' 3
—Spain 4—lreland 110-Isletnan 10 —Cu:taloa), 103—total
vessels, NI