The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-18 00:00:00


TUE ARMY IN SPAIN.

" Jarllcijo (I'? ntile3 from Truxillo), Aug, 19, 1i199.
" My hit was d . d the day after the battle of Talavera,
at which time we expected at least to have kept the ground
we had gained t hat mi the montiag of the 3d into. when we
gllV't`ed, from the orders of the preceding night, that we
were to lash forward towards Madrid, and were according-
ly un-ter arm: at dav-tireak, we were marched back to ()ru-
pees (about mile::, our lietseral having received intelli-
gence at Tt:lavera, that Sot rr had reached Placentia in our
re-ir, so that we imagined we were about to dispose of Rita
a: we had already done M.L-ter VICTOIII. Ou the morning
of the 4th we were, as u•ual. under arms nt da)-hreak, when
e learnt that SOVLT was strongly posted in a wood be-
tween island Santa Oncila, our next stage; we remained ru-
der arms till eig,ht o'clock, and then moved In a direction to
our let . b% which we gained the bridge of Artobispo, about
twelve miles frogs Gropes*, and ott the titer Tilgw% which
we crossed. It was certainly a grog oversight In the canny
to have de:on-Dyed this bridge, as otherwise we should
have to tight 'Om at a seriito disadvantage, nr have fallen
back upto. Talavera, where it was most t4ass preillable thi
e
Spluiards would by that time have destroyed the bridge
lad abandoned tat town, by which ;re shout I have hem
placed without support bytween SOVir and Vit.:Tort, wh...
ur heariug of our goiug ours lit of Soui.r, had again a!-
yawed. •

" O r relura townrds A renbispo pre time to all the
grounded men and oleers who coati be innv..d. to come up
Front l'alnvery thringh I nut sorry to soy. that amongst
those necessarily. left behind, is Colonel Donellan, %%Ws in
leading the charge on the lotl:h, received a musket shot in the
knee.

" A strong diviiion of tb&Splaish army arrived at Arzo-
nu the eveiiiog Of ihr 4th, with intent to defend the
brifig whirl b certainly capithle .of being defended again t
a superior force; it was the strong position occupied by Cv -
tura before oar arrival.

" it sth, we marched along the Tanis 22 miles; 6th,
10 miless illnes ht!t, 3 miles; 9th, halted; 1J4,, to
this pl ire; 1 1 milei. .1S othin,z could he warye than the roads;
we were crosdo,; the mount is, which rn.i .iltnoit sine North
towards the Tagu4, and iu many places it was totally 'mimic:
ticalile for horses 11 draw thee mem. sn th it frequently they
were tal:en nit, all artillery dragged over the precipices by
the soldiers. We a.e now, hoary tr, in the na leo ruad, with-
out 13ss or inconvelitener from our f.aigoe.
" We do tustkiiow whether we are to retire or nilvassee ;
if the farmer, th^ road as ipso to Ili either to Cadiz or Li.-
hum

When in my last 3.141 we had 22,0 M) in the field of Ta-
yern, I believe I ever-stated our number' be the odd 2003
so that ouraaall army (as the .ipanio it, il,d little ar nothing)
krpt Ittigronnd agaitat more tha:i doulde its numbers. The
tart was, that Vic T.:in found that I►ntlt rieneral and men
Isere determin?ti cut to give- him an jar!' of ground, be their
leas what it 1401.1:4.1. Sir ARTHUR acknowledges he never
saw finer fighting in his life—and ne has had pretty gaod ex -
pe-ie
" 15th.—Westil: rernsia tete, walnut knosing an; thing
of our fui thrr oper.ti

"`Alt h.—Stift a! .Igracija.—Yesterday a Commissary, who
has been a prison r for some time, came to mar rams. on hill
was to I:l4,imid: h.• is to be on his p irole until lie sends a
French (:::mmissary b Lek ir. eri ha:l%e: he was allotted to
bring at:umber of lett.rs from our w m bled, which inform us
of the very klod treann mt they rveive from ele French ;
their ratioes a:s• served not before those of the French troops
—phases are ;iven tit the omens' servatrts to go for provisnwil
to the rwiehbouring to,vin: an order has been issued b.. Jo.
seen to dive them an: money they may require, and to say,
that he .1r wile he at all t;mesready to receive Flags of Truces
with letters or .is thing they tolAhe 'wish from oar lines.-. 6
This m,:. scvms t. ry imelligest t he sass the French marched
45410 men iota the field nu the 27th. arld reissued with less
Ann 3J.tXIOt th.tt on hearing of our having left Talavera, they
advaiteert to take pi ssessi in of the taw) with great cantim,
and that rot for three doss after our departure: the number
of our wounded pnnrinert in their bands is about 4203, whom
they are ieti. ;to Madrid as fast as they can procure carts
for their c mveyan:e. lie says the French confess that the
war carlied on by the Spaniards is very annin ing and harass-
ing. but the) cotaelain that they ~ever e.ui fiat them no fair
gr.) a id. VI::roa, he says, Is gone to Madrid; Sell.tit-
iTl tat. wire 0,0'3.1111V,, ill Iti Toletin; SOU LT, with 1304).
at limreotia ; Maarten, at Ornpesa. with Ill.oolt and an
ads iti.ced guard of 50,id at the bridge of Ars:OA:pa

" Tt, n divisions of oar army marrlts.d this morning for
besides the light brigade fr rn the bridge of Al-

aosteL, where it his beets watching a French brigade of rib•
terv.,•iiro; our other divirions march to-morrow. lilvas, in
Por:tig at, upon the river fituuliani. is said to lie star present
object. We have no incmobrance ha•ever all the men
who were like{i in fhil out in the atorch have been sent ma
the wagons provided for their conveyahz. this morning.
" have reached 'fruzi'lo, mice a good t•wn.
hut, like all the red, destroyed by the Freer.:l; it is but
I three month:. since they 1.. ft it : the inhabitants pride them-
!rives on its being the birth-place of Pt/ tano ; one of our
Cr.m:rals occupies fur this night the home is which that hero
, was born."

Ia consequence of the very grestt success of the
euemy's privateors, ucar 20 tnor• have lately bees.
fitted out at Calais, Boulogne, lac.
The house of Platner and Co. at Trieste, has
stopped payment.

Some very extraordinary intrigues have la:ely
been discovered at the Court of Oside, in which
some confidential servants of the Company are
said to hare been implicated. The Whole of the
transaction has been brought he10t...! the Bengal
Government.

The Fourth Class of the Royal Dutch Institute
of Sciences and Arts, has, amongst others, chosen
as correspondents Stotts. Denim, Dimtur of the
Museum at Park; Director of the Gal.
lery at Munich ; M. Muil:r, en.itrarer at Stat.
garilt ; M. Vitt Beerhoren, At Vienna; M. J.
Ftstler, at St. Petersburgh; the Maestro di Capella
Reieli,ir(lt, at Berlin ; Itnehlitz, at Leipzig;
and Nit.. Flisinaii, statuary of London, to conse-
quence, we presume, of his wonderfal t 4 obscuro"
on the walls of the new theatre.

A few days ago, as Bowers, Esq. son of
the late Manse! Bowen, of Gl.iss-house,
thee in
ty of Waterfor nJ‘ amusing hilnself is
a boat on the river Suir. ‘‘, e ► Pass tge and Wa.
teflon!, the vessel was t apse' by a
maim gust of win !, when :ill on hoard perisinsd,
including Mr. Bowers ty.l th.ee others.
• The pie,lic i' so strongly in hymnr of
the pri.p „ill() Lottery, that little dooin ji en.
ter hued of the sak: of almost all the 'rickets be-
fore the 20th of neat Month ; intlrrd, non cad
be sold after, for on that day the Drawing will
begin and

hi R STATW'.

AN.

.

LIVERPOOL, Sm. 14.

MEDITERRANEAN EYPEDITTOj

EXTRACT; FROM PRIVATE Larrtits.
" IscitiA. JULY 20.—We arc here is a state
of toial inactivity, and I am of opinion, that no.
thing farther will he attempted. An expedition to
the Roman coast was in contemplation, and some
persons converstutt With the country were brought
here from Sicily to lie engaged in it ; but the idea
has, for the present at least, beet(• abandoned.
Our operations appear to me to have been without
object or connection, and hitherto they have been
unattended with the slightest advantage. After
our experience at Capri, which, although infinitely
stronger than this island or Procida, was not ouly
incompetent to defence, but was a heavy incum.
!mince during the period of our occupancy, 1
think sonic fatality must have urged us to con.
quests which are trivial in their effects to the ene-
my, and of no further consideration to 114 than
from the magnitude of the dangers, the difficui.
lies, and the (sxpenee they will expose us to.• Both
Ischia and Prucida must be provisioned from Si.
cily, from 'their contiguity to the neighbouring
coast, and must be constantly subject to a coup
de main.
" whole force under the orders of Sir J.
Stuart amounts to about 28,000 men, including
15,000 Neapolitans and Sicilians who followed
him from Palermo."

" PALERMO, JULY '23....We have nn accounts
from Sir J. Stuart's Expedition subsequent to the
20th, at which period it appeared quite at 2 stand.
" General Acton, whn so hug held the reins
of this Government, his fur some lime been in
very declining health. He returned a few days
since from the baths of Termini, not in the least
benefited by their waters. The painful effects of
a,parai) tic stroke, and a severe fall last year,
ire olm aggravated by a nearly total deprivation
of sL;lit.
The IL v. Mr. Ilayter, who, through the pa.
trou3ge of the Prince of Wales, was about nine
vea:s .rho sent out at a considerable expenee to
the Briii.li Government to unrol the papyri found
iii the rubs of Herculaneum, and froin whose la_
bourn the most sanguine expectations had been
formed by the literary world, has, it is laid, so
far incurred the displeasure of his employers, that
Hunter, the King's Messenger, has been sent out
here to take him home."

The Mercurry, Capt. Sinclair, from Martinique
and St. Thomas's, arrived hero this dry ; sailed
fromSt.Thoinas's the 31st of July, with the fleet,
consisting of 41 sail, ceder convoy of the Caplaia
man of war, and a brig of war. On the 27th of
August, at half past one A. M. cante on a violent
storm, or rather hurricants which continued one
hour and a half. The Mercar,y, during part of
the tinny, was on her heart, ends, am, was obliged
to throw some a( her guns overboard to right her.
At 6 A. M. saw five sail, fonr of which were
&snowed. At noon; saw several tronits, wafer-
' casks, spars, and thays floating shout. On, the
ttlith, at 6 P. M. spoke the ship Hero, one of
'the fl •ct, hound to .London, main and mitten mast
tone. Join4d the Commodore, wits had a sloop
of war in company, which proved to be his Ma-
jesty's ship Favourite, convoying the homeward-
bound Jamaica fleet; she had carried away her
fore and niain.top.tnasts.

At 10, spoke the ship Marllvt, &tiro, pith
only her enz.oi.mast atanding. At uuun, spa^
the ship liar, let, from Junaica to London, with
only her mainmast standing. On the 29th,
counted 44 sail of both fleets, only 18 of which
were in want of lower-masts and top.masts. The
Commodore paid every attention in collecting the
ships, and supplying them with spars and people
from the Captain man of war, in order rig them
Kith jury-masts. Nothing can be said too fa.
vourable of the Cooltrodore.

On the 30th, at noon► went on board the Cap-
id*, to get permission to leave the c.oivoy ; she
lia4 the Ilenry, Jackson, from Martinique to
London, in tow, she being in a sinking %tate,
having lost her main and mizen-masts. Peupt.:
from the Captain were on board repairing the
damage. Got liberty to leak; then only four
sail in sight of both fleets.
-

When leasing the fleet, spoke the following
reigels : Askew, Lloyd, with loss of inaiu-top.
; Amelia, Craig, with the loss of main.
top-mast, and throe feet water in her hold ; the
.1 arse, M'Gccgor, all wall; and the Rosetta,
J ones.

A letter from Plymouth says:—" His Serene I
11!Aliiiess the Prince of ORANGE is la out on his
tour through Cornwall ,• he will first survey the i
magnificent remains of Trematun Castle, on the
Tamer, the ancient Baronial residence of the 1
Dukes of Coamw kid., where, in toe 14th cen-
tury, EOWARD, the Black Prince, as Duke of
CottprwALL, gave a grand tournament to the prin-
cipal Nubility and Gentry of the Duchy of Corn-
wall, previous to his leaving Plymouth, for his
expedition against. France."
The grand national Work of the Statistical and
A grieultiaral Surreys of the Counties, fur the fur.
thcrance of which Parliament voted six thousand
pounds on the list day of its Willi:, is proceeding
with great vigour and spirit. Dr. Dtccsoa is now
in Lancashire, making the survey of that county ;
Mr. FAREY in Derbyshire; Mr. STEVENSON in
Surrey; Mr. PITT in NurthimptOn.shire ; Sir
GEORGE MACKENZIE in Ross-shire; ale. STONE
in Canibridgefitilre and Huntingdonshire; Mr.
BAILwr in Durham ; Mr. Koarterso's in Kin.
cardineshire; and Mr. VAncoves:rt in Hampshire.
The snrveya of Leicestershire, Bedfordshire, Ber.:
wickshire, and Berkshire, have just been publish;
ed, 11,,,k;114 rhirty.six of the sixty-four volumes
of which this great work will probably consist.'
Although the materials are collected, and the sur-
veys made at the et pence of the public, outlet the
direction of the Board of Agriculture, yet the
work is the privite property of Sir RICRARD
l'ittwca, to whom its completion cannot cvst
less than forty thousand pounds.