The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-12-08 00:00:00

TFIK STATESMAN..

Ma. COCHRANE JOHNSTONE.

TxTRACT or A LLITUR laws •=RA cars,
DATIL!) TUR 12TU or REPTRIARCIe.
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IC I duly received your valuable favor of the
10th or Alarch. —Your countryman the Honour-
able Coceaatra Jonerrosx, arrived here that
of July. We had been expecting him fur
some time before, as orders had been received
by the Viceroy from the Supreme Junta, to
slew him every respect and attention. • He staid
bete about ten days, and thee proceeded to
Mexico, at which place accommodations had
been prepared for him in the Royal Palace. Six
mile from Mexico he was met by a Deputation
from the Viceroy, and Cabildo of the city, at.
tended by a great number of the carriages
of the Nobility. The ensuing clay he was re-
ceived in great state by the Viceroy, at the
•relibishop's Palacd, he being at present the
Viceroy ; there all the principal inhabitants
met him, to hail the auspicious day of seeing, for
the first time, one of your countrymen in the
city of Mexico, which I can assure you afforded
universal satisfaction. In the evening, the Vice-
roy's box at the Theatre was prepared for him, to
which hews attended by a Dalutation from the
Cabildo, where he was received with the most en.
thusiastie applause; and an Address, wrote by
one of our distinguished Poets, wets delivered, ex-
pressive of the inestimable union between oar two
countries. During his stay at Mexico, which
was about a month, all descriptions of persons vied
in shewing your countryman every attention, and
I believe he returns to his country much delighted
with whet he has seen. While at Mexico he was
constantly upon the alert, and has seen every thing
worthy of notice. He was admitted, as a mark of
particular attention to your countryman, into a
Convent, where there are about four hundred 4 a.
men, the revenues of which exceed half a million
of dollars—there he went accompanied by the
Viceroy's nephew, and was received in the
Grant Hall by the Lady Abbess and all the
Nuns...a magnificent repast and concert of music'
was prepared for him, and they staid until a late
hour. At his departure from Mexico, the Vice-
roy gave a magnificent entertainment at his
country-house; cud after dinner, presented him
with the twelve celebrated pictures of the life of
the Bay Virgin, by MAIIRII.I.O, which have been
long celebested here, and are valued at a great
sum a money. They are very lug-, and have
arrived here, carried by two hundred Indians.
" Your countryman was to have visited the
mines, and preparations had been made by the
Viceroy for his journey ; but iu consequence of
the conduct of CoinmodoreMa el mo, of lois British
Majesty's ship, Undaunted, which has occationed
considerable uneasiness here, your countryman
has hastened his departure, and he leaves this the
day after to-morrow, having already embarked all
Ilse specie he has collected on board 2 British brigs
of war—fie refused to put any specie on board the
Undaunted, because Captain Mature) declined
complying, with his regime of receiving no money
on board his ship, without leave from the Coverts-
ment. Our laws hero are particularly severe
against any monies being carried off the country
without leave, and Mr. JOHNSTONE'S conduct has
been highly approved of by the Viceroy. Repre.
imitations have been sent to the Supreme Junta by
the Viceroy against Captain MALIN,' for having
established a guard-boat a few -days after his ar-
rival here, which marched all our ships coming in,
and goieg out of the harbour ; one of them made
resistances in consequence of which two shot were
fired at her to bring her to; this occasioned a con.
siderable ferment a-shore, and the next day all
the British ships quitted the port and anchored off
the bitted of Saerificios. Captain MALIN, sailed
front this on the sth instant. We do not know
here he is gone; he has been about two months
at anchor here, and has buried a great number of
his officers and men."

Last Term, JAMES FLoRANCE, of Chicestcr,
Sussex, E.g. was called to the Bar, by the Ho-
nourable Society of Gray's Inn.
On Tuesday, Captain !hots, of the Navy. a
native of Norfolk, dined at the house of Mr. VI.
HERS, in Southampton-street. Ile appeared in
perfect health and spirits. He left Mr. VIGER'S
in a _hackney-coach, accompanied by a Mr.
OWEN, who separated from him at the end of
Norfolk-street. lie appeared then to be in perfect
health. The coachman drove hint to Catherine.
street, in the city. On opening the door of the
carriage, he found that Captain Ilicss did out
move : thinking he was asleep, he attempted to
wake him, but without effect : a candle was then
brought from the hoes., and, on inspection, it
was found that he was dead.—Captain Hies, had,
the day before, been appointed to a ship.
The Memoirs of CHARLES MACKLIN, Come..
dian, with th• Dramatic Characters, Manners, &c.
of the age in which he lived, forming a History of
the Stage during almost the whole of the last Cen.
tury, is published in one large Volume octa►o,
with an elegant Portrait, Price Bs. in boards, by
J. Asrcn!t►, Cornhill, who has in his possession
letters in comr).-ndAtion of it from Messrs. Acts.
DIE, WRouGHTON, KING, LEWIS, POPR, HARRIS,
MATToCRS, SIDDONS, JORDAN, HULL, &C. &C.
—" The t uteri,. MOODY," says this book, 66 has,
(ruin the beginning to the end, the glowing finger
of thr master. His Digressions, by far the best
part of the Work, are the Digressions of a Gen.
tleman; and his Anecdotes and Stories are sup.
ported by truth, as faa.as oral chronicle will per.
mit me to say."

We have been favoured with a copy of Mr.
WAUD's letter to the Society, Craven-street, which
we think entitled to insertion
Gentlemen, to Me kleslant /tithe LORD CIII4IIIIIIIRLAIO •
in granting me a licence, also to the Proprietor of the Pan-
theon, in letting me have the me of their linear, for one-
half the meal ma it Is generally let for on those occasions,
and by mean of a liberal and grammes public (in sapporting
the MasweemtAa IS Wednesday evenin.l), I am totally in-
debted fee Whig able to send you the inclosed sem of seventy
petted*, for the general marrow of relieving prisoners coo-
Seed for smell debts.

I as. yenr obedient fumble Servant.
Bendennie% Doe. I. CHAS. WACD.

AMERICAN PAPERS.

TROUBLES WI'T'H WILKINSON.
EXTRACT FROIR GENERAL ORDILES.

" Ihetd Qiiarters, Camp Terre-au-I:ate, July 13, 1809.
" It is with extreme pain the General has
Altars' of mush., iicentions conversation in this
camp, subversive of every principle of siebnrilisia_
thin and discipline, of patriwism, and honour, and
tending to dissolve those high and solemn obliga-
tions by which every military mail is bound to the
service of his country.
" He is fully apprized of the arts which have
been employed to seduce the incautious and inno.
cent from their duty, to obtain their dig nrtu ris to
a bond of infamy, and to involve them in utter dis-
grace anikruin. He knows that his life has been
menaced by a traitor, but he is persuaded a great
majority of the troops he commands, Americans
by hirth and in principle, will sootier sutler mar-
tyrdom, than attach an ettrnal stigma to their
names isial families, or raise their hands against the
country that gave them birth. He knows also
that this camp, like all others of equal extent,
comprehends every species of human depravity,
and on strict scrutiny will exhibit thevarions traits
of character, frees the patriot and the herb to the
coward and the villain—men of profligate lives,
fugitives from justice, and deserters frum foreign
service.

46 But were the General assured, that every MU
of his camp had combined to violate their oaths,
to abandon their duty, and defy the Government
and the laws by an act of desperation, as foolish
as it would be cowardly, wicked, and perfidious,
they should march to the gibbet over his body,
because his life; compared to the faithful discharge
of the high trust confided to him, guild be but
a feather in the balance ; in such a disgraceful ex.
tremity, the Getizral would save his own honour
by showing thu fir3t man who resisted his orders,
in which he can have no doubt he would be gal.
truly secuinlA by every gentleman who wears a
eumai;ssion, and by every soldier of courage and
honour.

" The Officers of this army are commanded to
exact the most prompt obedience from their in.
feriors, and to punish, on the sputa any man sho
may pause over an order, or utter a seditious ex.
pression."

COPY OF A LETTER FROM GEN. ARMSTRONG, DATED
PARIS, JULY 4, 1809.
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" Sta—l have received your letter of the Ist
of June, stating the case of the Carolina, &c.
The fate of this brig and cargo will probably de-
pend upon the issue of a negociation now pending
betwixt' the United States and his Majesty the
Emperor and King, and which will, from thy pre.
sent viewi of the subject, be terminated within a
month or six weeks from the present time.
" I can only add, that appearances are now
more favourable than they have lately been. if
there are any of your rouutr.vmen at Naples, in
your situatiun, you will oblige me by ewmatuni.
citing to theta the contents of this letter.
" I am, Sir, very respectfully, &c.
(Sigurd) A JOHN ARNINfRONG."
" lir. R. Recir, supercargo of the American
brig Carulioe."

EITRACT OF A LITTER FROM • CELEBRATED PRY.
81CIAN IN MARSEILLES, DATED 115 MAY, To 1115
FRIEND IN CAMBRIDGE (11•51.).
" Pour Cti,tat.cs IV. forme, ly King of Spain
is still here; with feet, legs, knees, and hands,
swelled by a gouty rheumatic affection. Hu has
with him a Spanish Gentleman of the Faculty, but
be has called fur my opinion, -aid I have paid him
a few visits."