The Statesman.
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FRENCH PAPERS.
PAters, Ocr. 17.—Their Imperial Majesties the
Emperor and Empress are not expected 'here till the
end of this month.
M. Gandofi, painter and engraver, a Member of
the '{ova! Academy of Boulogne, is occupied, at thii
time, in Wile-donee (stroke engraving) one of the
most beautiful pictures of Guido, in the Gallery of -
Tanari, of that towq, of which there has never yet
been an engraving, nor even a copy. This picture
represents the Virgin, with the infant Jesus and the
little St John.
At Munich, Stutguard, and in other towns in tites
south of Germany, where there are Observatoriev,
the remarks which have been made upon the Comet
are publi,bed ; those of M. Seyffer, Director of the
Observatory at Munich,are accounts the most curious
Sand interesting. We are informed from Augsburgh,
that M. Art r.Stark, a distinguished Astronomer, who
has determined with great accuracy all the moN'..ments
of the Comet, has not seen one of such brilliancy and
beauty, and that its tail has never been so long as on
the 7th of October. He has estimated its length at.
800000 German miles (fifteen miles Gertnan are
equal to 25 leagues French). The diameter of the
Comet is 860 miles, and its distance from the earth
36,000,000. According to his aecbunt, the Comet
was to spin oach thp earth till the 16th of October,
and its distance then would be 32,000,000‘0f miles.

from the Continent, was, of neces
change the destinies of Holland. 1\
had remained shut up between the sea
and the line of French Citstom-honses

she would have but a precarious indepet..ance,
cempanied with the total ruia of ;individuals, and
evett with' a general famine.' Onitetrto thigreat ens-
pire, Holland suffers; undoubtedly; alithatacommer-
cial house must suffer which loses heratiCientrelations;
but; at least, she does not setter without hope. She
must foresee, that a Power so formidable as Francs
cannot,. in the end, be deprived of the benefit of a safe,
and honour ablemaritime peace"; a peace which, thence•
forward, will guarantee to the Dutch a new sphere of
activity, tint less extensive, and flinch less precarious,
than that of Which they were master's in the last cen-
tury. Situated at the mouth of the Rhine, the finest
river of France and Germany, Holland is the natural
i port and the c.orne..e.ti market of those vast and rich
co.lnt ries 'hat' arc watered by so many rivers, the tri-
butaries of the Rhine : the Alps of Switzerland the
vineyards and corn-fields washed by the Moselle and
the Meuse, the Neckar and tie Mein ; the woods
and mines of the Vosges, the Aideunes, the Black
Forest, and the Odenwald ; the manufactures of Ap-
p-nzell, &rich, Wirtemburgh, Frankfort, Ilanauf
&c.: such are the objects to which the speculatlas
spirit of the Dutch, become Frenchmen, will be di..
rected. They will be the agents of all the northern
part of the great Empire. The Dutch, who are the
most attached to the old commercial reputation of
their country, feel these troths, profess and circulatp
them amongst the least enlightened classes. That}
the Dutch people have every where, during the Etn-
peror's tour, eithibited the most perfect confidence in
the genius and fortune of this great Monarch. His
Majesty arrived among us while we were raising the
second year's conscription., and he cart judgge himself
with what facility this law; was executed, which unites
under the same standard the warriors of old and new
France. TheDut seatr.ca feel, with some pride, that
theyform one of the most essential breeches pf the
French Empire ; and it is partly oil their talents, amil,
and courage, that the Continent relies for the arrival of
the happy epoch of the freedom of the seas. The Flo-
mish, German, and Danish seamen. speaking almoit
the same language as the Dutch, having the same man-
ners, fraternise, on board the Sc;teldt fleet, with the
countrymen of Roy ter and Tromp..is it to be believed,
that, among so many seamen, there will not arise*.
lents capable of fighting, and even of conquering, the
English ? All classes are convinced that the present ills
of Holland proceed solely from her having been a co-
lony of England ; and that her future hopes are
founded solely upon being a province of the French
Empire. This positive and evident fact strikes
minds, whatever be their dispositions. Hence the
English influence if, become almost With the mass
of the nation ; and when we are told that the Ens,
lisp have still much friendship for us, we feel that it
is the interested friendship of a merchant; who, by
his folly, has lost a skilful and intelligent clerk.—.
Moreover, the Emperor is visiting our cities, ports,.
and dykes—he inquires into our 'Wants, studies our
resources, and will leave here; as every where else,
memorable marks of his visit.

PARIS, OCT. Ig.—Ws are assured that Genera'
Decaen has set out for Spain, where he will have a
command in Ca'alonia.
Amman su, Oct. 1-I.—Yesterday the Emperor
gave audience to the Court of Accounts, to the
Beads of ,religious worship, to the Institute of
Holland, to the Professors of the Atheneum,
to the Commis.;oners of the Bank, as well as
to a number of distinguished persons of this cite.
His Majesty condescended to receive at the same time
all the Functionaries is no have already had the ho-
nour of being presented to him. His Majesty then
went to business with his Ministers, and with the
dittereet Councils of Commerce and of Customs.
We are assured, that his Majesty Las decreed the
establishment of a great rope-work for the naval ser-
vie , at Amsterdam. Barracks of brick, for lodg-
ing troops, are also, it is said, *to be built at Zeist,
near Ctreeht. His Majesty, who was tp have set
out this morning for the Helder, appears to have put
off his journey.
VIENNA, Ocr. s.—His Royal Highness Prince
.Antony of Saxony, and the Archduchess, his wife,
after passing slack days in this capital, hare returned
to Shlossof.—Yesterday morning. at fifty minutes
past nine, a slight shock of an earthquaks was felt
at the Observatory of the University, which lasted
three seconds. The motion of pendulums Rao net
stopped ; but a lantern suspended in the Observa-
tory Hall was slightly shaken. This phenomenon was
felt at the same time in other pails of this capital.
The hope of seeing the improveMent of our cburse of
exchange was realized 3esterday. It was then it 7;
and we expert soon to see it at 209. It is,betieved
that the revenues of the Archbishopric*. of Olmutz
will he considerably diminished s but a fine property
will still remain attached to it. The Count de Trout-
mansderf, at present Bishop of Kenigsgmtz, is named
as successor to this 4e, since the Archduke Rodolph
has declined accepting it.
C tssz (Wesvauxtrs.), Ocr. 2.—His Majesty has
issued a Decree, order lug that the regiment of Light
horse of his rind shall be armed with lances, and
shall take the name of the Light Horse Lanciers of the
Guards ; and also that the Ist regime* of Light -.LONDON: •
florse of the Line shall be similarly armed, and THURSDAY, ("mem 24.
take the tame of the Ist Regiment of Light Home —"et"—
. - •
Lanciers. The fahricaters of the late disgraceful reports of
Touxots, OCT. 2,—General Lariboissiere, Inspec.
supposed victories obtained by our Armies in Portu-
tor-General of Artillery, has been in our city fora
gal over the French, are again at work with their idle
month past. He has caused batteries to be erected on
the isles of Porquerolles, Porteros, and Begat', and rumours. Lord Wer.mocron, it is said, upon the
at the point of Bregaseon, on the peninsula of Gien, authority of the Lisbon Papers, and private letters
and at several other points of the main land, mounted from Oporto, has again advanced in the direction of
with artillery of a new invention: In cons'equence Ciudad Rodrigo ; tied by a vessel in eight days from
of these batteries, whatever anchorage ground off the . .
Cadiz, ietelligence is reported to have arrived of
llyeres Isles the enemy may choose to take, be will
find himself reached on all sides. An English ship General BALLASTEROS'having been successful in two
hai just made the experiment. This chip having en- attacks upon the French, and that BLAKE had also
tared Hyeres Roads, and anchored where the English I been victorious in Valentia. We really do not know
sqUadron had been accustomed to come to an anchor whether those individuals, who thus' persist in their
without being reached, was immediately fired at and to gull the t'
attempts
hit: She at once cut her cables, and made off, keep-
ing the middle of the passage between the isles of or of ouecontempt. Can it for a moment be be-
ing
and Porteros. It was unfortutate that I lieved, that Lord WELLINGTON, after having so re-
fifteen pieces of artillery, destined for the defence of cently been convinced of the impracticability of pre-
this passer, could not be fired off, on account of the I venting the advances of the French, should again
thickness of the weather ; this ship would not have think of investing Ciudad Rodrigo ?s---Impossible.--
otherwise got off so well. Ills Lordship's last approach °to that place, ac-
ST. PETER4BURGH, SEPT. 21.—According to letters
from Odessa, dated the 13th, commerce, both by sea cording to his. own account of the matter, had "no
and laud, becomes there every day more flourishing. ' object" but merely to gratify curiosity, by obtaining
On the suggestion of the Duke de Richelieu, govern- a sight of the enemy, That sight nearly cost him
mein is taking measures for removing the obstadei eery dear, and taught him a lesson which we suppose
which have hitherto incommoded the navigation of the, he would not like to have again repeated; for it now.
Dneister and the Bag. By thts means the export of
appears undeni e, abl that the army under his command
the produce of the fertile Ppdolia has become more
use resistance to the
easy, as welt as the communication with Combed was totally inadequate to opp
and Brody. Several new silk and woollen manufac-roverwhelming numbeq of the enemy. In the General
tures have this year been established at Odessa. The Orders of the army, published since the appearance of I
improved breeds of sheep in the southern provinCes the &men' leatau Gauge, it is stated, that " the
Of the Empire furnish wool of the greatest fineness I • °
enemy's cavalry charged three faces of the square of
the raw silk is brought from Peraia, and the Russian
Governments on the borders of the Black Sea and the , the ikiti6.l4 infantry," Which proms beyond contra-
Caspian. The navigation of the former of thpse ° dictioe, the'vest superiority of Psis description of the
seas has been secure all the summer ; the flotilla eta- French force over the Allied 4rmy. In every re-_
tioned at Sebastopol has protected it from the enemy's sped indeed were the Allies inferior itt point of
ships of ear. At the beginning of this month, they , numbers. It is only it few days since it wikt admits
had heard nothing of the sailing of the Turkish fleet, 'led by the Ministerial Journals, that Lord 'EL-
or of the great expedition which the Cipitan Nelms,
LTNCTPIS had not more than 33,000 effective men
was to have attempted against the Crimea ; they
were lie,ides completely tranquillised by the metmui es pnder his command. We are now informed, by pri-
which the Duke de ltichelieu bad taken against every sate letters from Officers under the immediate
event. command of his Lordship, that not one half of
UTRICIIT, OCT'. B.—The march of events had that number were engaged in the late efrairts with
brought Holland to the situation of being no longer I
the eaemy. In ene of these letters, dated Argenhals
an independent nation, but a simple commercial lac-I
tort' between Enslard and the Continent. • France; near Almeida, Oct. 5, an Officer states, " I under
forced to exclude her blind and implacable enemies stood from the best information I could collect, that

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THE STATESMAN.

. 15,000 men, ceding General
6th division,. which aced under
on the left fiat
this airountstance,
lied dom our
of sickness in the ranks
ral.-1-In a letter from Oporto,
as

.i.z,!-•..4".1%,,,5;.•,:. •
*fih 'and' 29th ultimo, Jri* Beth pf which aetiong
he had been successful, taps % aboy,g.. 460 prisoner!.
—The French under the above Getter:4 were 5000.
Gentlemen, wh?6:tfii.:elire seen, have
hejleffi7g,fliei.say. that BL EE
ettliCk Met by hist on. the

the 13th instuts, «je 'am* Vest. aeconnts•
from , Head-quarters 44, ep tha 11th say, that the
British army was rather sickly. The number of the
sick in the Anglo!Portnitaeas forces, amounts to
15,090, .but it will decrease as the season advances."
Whatever may be said in defence of Lord WELL 1110••
TON'S recent advance to Ciudad Rodrigo, it is im-
passible, now that he has seen the enemy, and ascer-
tained his strength, to justify a second movement in
that direction. The report of his having again ad-
vanced is indeed contradicted, first by the above let-
ter from Oporto of the 13th, in which it is said,,that
64 neither army is preparing to do any thing at pre-
sent, and the head.quarters remain in the same
situation ;" and by the following letter, dhted
Plymouth, October 111 :l el The Saratioro,
MA-
TISEWS, has arrived here in seven days from Oporto,
and I have seen the Captain, who says, that at the
time of his sailing, there was nothing known of im-
portance frotn‘the British army. Tile French .had
gone into cantonments as well as the English. The
vessel sailed on the 14th inst. and brings later ac.
counts than any others from that quarter." There
is here, therefore, an end put to the rumour in the
Lisbon Papers, and in the Oporto letters, of the
Allied Army having again proceeded to the North of
Portugal. With regard to the reports of BLAKE and
BALLASTEEOS' victories, we regard them of no conse
quence, even• supposing they should turn out to be
correct, because, unless the Spanish and Portuguese
people make head against the common enemy,
it in vain to expect he he driven from
the Peninsula, by all the force which Great Bri-
tain can send thither, or by all the hireling
troops in the pay of the Junta of Cadiz, or of Lis.
bon. The inferior numbers of the British in Portu-
g4l, and their repeatedly retiring before the French,
has, in fact, effectually extinguished the small per.
tign of spirit which remained among the Portuguese
people. Referring to this subject, and to the late
Operations of the Mlles, an Officer in our army
Wiles as follows :—" Lord NVELpuornu, 4111
threatening Ciudad Rodrigo, obliged the enemy to
assemble a large force; said to be from 50 to 60,000
men, to relieve the place; 'while his Lordship easedl
Portugal for the time, by drawing supplies frogs,
and reducing the enemy's resources bp
Bring upon their country. NIARMONT age*,
wed this greet army to relieve Ciudad, and, having
effected that object, adianaid upon us, probably, from,
a mere motive of etiquette, to retaliate our menaces
against the place, and to show the inhabitants on the
Spanish frontier, that when collected and drawn out
in force we cpeid not 9tand before them. Those im-
press:ens, lam sorry to say, are likely to follow, and
to prove disadvantageous to. our cause, and to the spt-'
rit which we are endeavouring to keep
_up. lam coll.!'
vineed, from what I have seen in the villages I have
frequented, thit this spirit has much subsided; and as
the people gradually perceive the French to be the
strongest, and therefore likely in the end to prove suck
cesspit, they will become indiffemst throughhopeless-
ncss, and perhaps even wish the success of tke French;
in orthr to get rid of the, burthens of the contest;
for, besides the exactions of the French, they are
obliged to furnish bread, meat, wine, corn, straw,
&c. to their own Guerillidwithout any paymeut,and
they feel it more irksome to supply then] than even
the French on such terms, as they think it less natu-
ral in the ordinary and proper course of human af-
fairs. I have been at Almeida to see if any progress
had been made iu restoring the fortifications destroyed
by BRENNIER previous to his retreat. A regiment of
Portuguese militia has been for some time quartered
in the place, with a view to this work; but as every
man has a wife, perhaps children, baggage, and one or
two asses, their time is chiefly taken up with domestic
occupations, and they havoiccordingly made little pro-
gress in the repairs• I'steeit: few of them in a ditch re-
moving stones and clearing, }way rubbish ; but no pal i•
sad ing has been fixed, nor anyapparent effective repairs
performed." When we have this information from a per 7
son on the spot,who cannot be supposed to be influenced
by any ether motive, than a desire ''to promote the
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welfare of his count►,. ii!would be folly in the ex.
.•
treme to expect, apy,egectual co-operation on the
part of the Portuguese. Of course, our persisting
in the war with unequal numbers, is equally.foolish
and impolitic.

Since writing the above, the following letter has
been !received as I.4ove's, which merely repeats the
Report that had previeu,sly reached us, respecting
the success of BALL4fruttot, and which, as we have
already 'said, can have tta itifinence upon the general
aspect of affairs in Spain, even sltheufh the advan-
tage gainpd had heen greater:thins whit is reported.-7
We were alio appriSed by our Correspenclent at
Portsmouth, that the French were bombarding
Cadiz, heroic wq received the felloWing
4* POIITSMOTITII, (AFT. 23,
•
"Arrived the ship Henri, DONOVAN) Master, in
eight days from Cadiz. She passed this port this
morning: she is a running ship. By her we learn
the Vrench were, at het departhreffiring en the gar-
rison, but with little effect. fl,l.t..jarcaos had en-
gaged the French, -under tklnerel o.ousugeTi en*

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'FILE STATESMAN.
iity, Bi!fjgid to the.g4ctire force a
if thfi tetintrY dons did not ezceed
ea on .one side, c
•ASIRRELL S, the 8i
PS on the other,
ac- General GRAHAM 0
dependence,
iiNdiriciaaial and indeed surprtsed at I
'to thigreat etn- counts _lately receit

1
ank." Weannot' Some .Spanish Gentles
.nce, because all sae= landed here from tbe
army, represent the , has been sacCeoful in 1
iks to be very gene- " French in Valencia."-
rto, dated so late , '
5........ L.... Pen/bra in