The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-12-16 00:00:00

Tt I le. STATESMAN.

, . .
't(-401 hum TOMB 16 krasnoi. in which if completely ' The enemy's fleets In the Scheldt and Trutt have •
succeeded on the nth Sail 16th November. - moved up to their winter anchorage, and the viral , —....,-.-! . ,
The 16th November the army made a movement partof the crews '(it Was reported) have been wit
I DEAL, Dec. 15.-Sailed' his Majesty's ship, /me
by advancing five werete, as. far as the tonn of drawn sailors as ereti6ac soldiers, aud•soarched to '
Krasnoi. The advanced guard fell in with the ene- join thearmy in lite North. ' preguabk and Egmont to Portsinouth, to refit. The
myt wno were completely defeated by Lieut.-Gen. Fifty Licences for imports, and 32 for exports, ; former had Admiral Young's flag, which he shifted
Oliva:row. On this occasion we became masters of signed by BONAPARTE, have been received at Paris. Jest evening to the Warrior. • .
one standard, some cannon. and made a great nuns- The importations allowed consist chiefly of colonial' The'remone brig, detained by the Afars privateer,
her of prisoners, one of whom was a General. • produce and hides. lost an anchor and cable this morning.-
General Millarettloaitch, commanding the advanced Cif! Besteess.-Yesterday a Court of Aldermen Poarsstourn, Dec. 15.-Arrived his Majesty's
guard, with the ild light corps uf infantry, and the was held at Guildhall, at which were present the
2d uf 'cavalry, perceiving the corps commanded by Lord Mayor, 22 Aldermen and City Officers.- ships Impregnate and Egmont from the Downs;
Marshal Davoust advance near Crasnoi, detached The Court haviog investigated the Meal Weighers' i and Spitfire and Cordelia from a cruise..
thither Lieutenant-General Prince Gal/nein. The , kelsortv, ordered the.price of Bread to be continued 1
enemy, conceiving himself turned on all sides, be-it Is. hid. the quarters loaf of wheaten, and house.;PLYMOUTH, Drc. 14.-Arrived his Majesty's ship
Danemark: from the Downs. . . - ..
an to defend himself:Our artillery made a terri- ; hold at Is. bd. The Court of Common Council re-' Sailed the Sabelk frigate for Cork; and the Fslla
ble carnage in the enemy's ranks. Napoleon him- ! quested of the Court of Aldermen to prosecute the ' sloop
self was an eve-witness of the battle, and not wait-oop of war for Guernsey.
: to the King in Council, for a Charter, Con -
' ' FA LMOCIN, Dec. 13.-Arrived the E _ronontN,
. ing for the isstie, he fled with his whole anite to the .Petitionting all the Aldermen of the City to be Justices '
village of Liadam, and abandoned the (serfs of Da- .Sutton, frier Southampton ; and a gun-brig, name
of the Peace in the Town and. Borough of Southwark,
voust. i unknown. , .as they shall be advised. Precepts for the Election
The battle lasted the whole day; the enemy were •of Common Councilmen and other Ward Officers, The Seahorse frigate made a signal this morvieg
eunipletely defeated and dispersed in the .neigh- on St.Thomas's Day neat, were ordered to he issued. for the West-India fleet to unmoor, in consequence
botiring wood, for a distance of five wersts Courtalong'AC C'lt
of . Common outlet, is to be held o-mor- of his Majesty's ship Realities being hourly exe
the banks of' the Dniepere-thus the corps of Gen. ' row, at Guildhall, and a Court of Aldermen on
Davoust has beei, completely destroyed. The logs Friday • pected. They will, no doubt, sail in the morning.
in killed and wounded is immense. We have made! Th . M • 1
e General Marquis of Ely, Marquis
prisoners two generals, fifty-eight officers of different Camden, Gharks Grant,Harris,P
•
erseverance, ceasigned i " The garrulity of age" has ever been a Proverb ;
ranks, nine thousand one hundred and seventy pri-but now we may add to it the ", GARRCLITY of the
for Bombay and China ; and. the Ceres for St. Ile-
/ goners, seventy cannon, three standards, and taken . e. BIR " for since it has, unhappily, been the fate of
. Jena, Bombay, and China ; will be dispatched at the .- ' • the baton of Marshal Davuust. , Ltiglano to be lan-ridden, a raw praters of that
India on Saturday next, and will sail early
On the 17th November, being informed that the .. • House,
profession, who, althoagh using mere sc/L;0/-Pastes
in the ensuing week, wider the protection of the
corps of Marshal Nest, forming -he rear guard of the language, areas pleased with the echo of their ga;) es
Derdulus friasae. These ships are all of the largest
enemy, was moving inalls ruati)ssadio4 to Kreantits, a conceited coarse-featured woman at the iee.ecteit
oat troops
divas- and the five first-named will take - '
I made the fufluwiugdispositions: Ipicture of her face in the glass.
.. , . , sare-lkiabay. The trowdejase (country ship) is un-
SECOND Stroll.. • The rise Scotch estates appsV 41 nn
of resits on , ,e der orders to proceed.on Saturday from Portsmouth '
in order to obtain a certain tictery oVer,MarshalThe jcdnture of the ruches of Box-
every side.
foe Madras and Bengal, as a packet, with dispatches
Ney, and to rut of entirely hie etnnmunication with BURG'S., on tho They
of the Inst Duke, nay. tiler
to those Peesidencies. . ~
the rest of the army, 1 reinforced General Millers- , -
ho married Mr. M.% Ni NERS, Na 9 11,0001. a-
We now find that the troop-ship seen in distress when 6 - •
dovitch with she Bth corps, giving him orders to , resulting not from apeony resit but from a
year,
t one of the ships with the Life-Guards; being
prevent the .Marshal's advance, and to take a pod. was ",.,n super:or-ay. The rental is now about 16,0001.;
We Caledonia, with detachment, on board for
tion near the villages, Syroherettic and Tcherniska. ! and in some few years, probably, even that may Le
. Cadiz belonging to the 9th, 67th, and 87th regi-
Maio General Lourkonski perceived, about three, r doubled s
whit.a were. taken out at sea by his Majesty's in the afternoon, die enemy advancing. The thick. ments,
Seventeen licensed ostmasters have at the in.
ness of the fug prevented him from ascertaining his !ships Nemesis,
with the exception of a sufficient P 9
stance of the Collector of Post-horse Duties for next-
numbers, who kept marching forwards till they wcreinuul.....s *umber to aid the management of the vessel, which
land, been fitted 101. each, and costs, for various
close to our batteries. The enemy attempting ie , 'Arrived damaged at Falmouth on the sth instant.
species of fraud practised by them on the revenue.'
vain to pierce through our lines; received, at, theiThe l. e r ...i.e,suards are thus satisfactorily accounted ,
IN EW UNi PURIM-A Correspondent (who iS not
distance of two hundred and My paces, a general, for, the whole being now arrived, excepting four'
.
an Anne TAILOR, but who, we can discover, is as
discharge or musketry and of forty peices of cannon :i vessel!, one of which is still at Falmouth, and the
the effect of this fire upon the enemy was extremely; remaining three have already sailed from Plymouth, given to finery, and as fond of every fool's col a
• i which ,is foreign), most vehemently recommends
fatal. Finding be had no hope of escaping, he at # under the Alphea.
length sent a flag of INCE to General Millaraclovitch. I Within these few days past, 1149 prisoners of adopting the costume of the COSSACKS, especially
'the. their
At midnight the %%hole corps d'armee of the enemy.. war have arrived at the Perth depot, making ,,
their vast WIIIsKERS and long Benites !-Ile says,
• be has met withalieni, hi more places than one;
amounting to twelve thousand men, were. obliged : total number lodged there 4,826; 900 more are-ex-
. .aads after a lithe time, without startling the acoach-
to lay down their arms. All their artillery, in , pected.
ihorses,- oesending airy. patients prematurek to the
number twenty•seven pieces of cannon, all the ' Miss MELLON, whose generosity is proverbial, _ . ,
that is 4/ 'f " Yet, ' h - fib '
Christ. itqing-t.n . ospaa s. •st it cap— or
baggage :and military cheer, were the fruits of our has ordered a number of cloaks, intended as•
They-2
victory. In the number of prisoners are above one mas presents for her female theatrical friends.
rare in a traveller and enqmslest, silo'. therefore does
- .. . --- him inconceivable- koriour- "he does think there
hundre.'

N.21V.1L lATI.LLIGILNC .

.ed effieitiof different riniks. Marshal Ney was
wounded, but saved himself by flight, and was pur-
sued by the Cossacks beyond the Dnieper. The loss of
the enemy is enormous: according to the report of the
prisoners, four generals of division were wounded.
We have not loot above five hundred men in killed
awl wounectl.
The army is at present at Krasnoi, and the advan-
ced guard at Dowbrowna, from whence we shall fol-
low the movements of the enemy.
General Platuw informs me by a private letter an,
boned, that the enemy left behind him, seventeen
siersts from Smolensk°, a great quantity of artillery,
amounting to one hundred and twelve pieces,/
• - 0
LETTER OF GENERAL COUNT PLATOIT.To
GENERAL YIELD MAILSUAL, DATED 17.t11 No-'
VEMBER.
After the signature of my report to your Highnem,
Capt. Parkin arrived with the rations, ..and states
that at the distance of seventeen werats item Smo-
lensko, in the great road, he had el:tented 112 can-1
nun, besides a great number of tumbrils and car.
riages. I am not able to send youillighness a report,
in form, not haying received it from the tiuvernor
Smolensk°, I join the unaiiimouivoice of the troops
in pronouncing, Bourret! Oar' most soros MO-
mess! • •
MIA Mit.*
• -
Another nottenburgh man arrived this morning,
bringing a Proclamation of the
.Emperol.
Aiszett-
) oin dated the 15th of November, the soitstatice of
which we have already given.—The following is the
• only extract of importance :
" SToritiront, Dee. I.—The Adjutant-Gen. Mar-
quis l'set.txt; informs, from Itiga, under date of the
15th Nov. that having been informed that the Caemy
was strengthening his right wing against Jacobstadt
and Dunaburg, he gave directions to Col. Runt scra,l
who commands a part of the troops arrived from Flu-1
land, to march to Freilerickstadt ; and likewise or-
dered Geo. Lewis to make a strong reconnoissance
and disturb the enemy in his motioni towards Frede-
rickstadt and Jacobstadt. The consequence of this
reconnoissance was, that one Officer, two Subaltern
Officers, and 32 privates were made prisoners.
" On the 10th (22d) of November, Major FILA•
, ?Ow received orders to attack the town of Kreuz-.
. burgh, from whence it was very easy for the ene-
my to make an inrand into the interior of Livonia.
1 This was put in execution on. the night of the 13th,
I when Major Fl 4 rowA attacked, Kreuzburg, and af-
ter an action of three hours, compelled the enemy to,
retire is complete disorder ; one Officer, three Sub-
altero °Meer', and 23'meo, were made prisoners, and
three picas of artillery taken." ". ; 7 ;
•

are called Platoff Cossack-cloaks, in compile:teat to
; might be no harm, at fret, in blietterifor the saddle •
the fair Cossack Maid, Miss PL.%Torr.
Mr. Itgascuat., of St. John's College, Cambridge, ' horses, and LONG BONN rrs for the Ladies !"
eldest son of the celebrated Astronomer, has been ! A few days ago, some workmen, employed in a
honoured with the thanks of the Royal Society, for
quarry at, Byker-hil, on splitting a block of f cc-
some new and important discovery in Conic Sections. ' stone: about three loos weight, found a live toad is
.. • . .
Every man .with the feelings of an Englishman, the centre of it. - .
On the I Ith inst. as Matthew Quantock, Esq. Ms
!the must read with indignatitinon attempt to htigin disc '
skaiting on a small plent, in the'etiviymis orChicheg_
persons who may he professionally employed to
plead the cause, or assist in the defence of the prison- ' tee/ and jest'es he bad reached the centre, tne ice
ors now confined- in our county jail, on charges of broke, and he oink, newer to be seettagain, but a
1 Luddism. 'Are the prisoners to be-pot-vet Of thepate I if44"""410 I" fik ' "lir as expert slytenel'i knit in .
of the Constitution, and be debarred oh!, privilege of ' 'ltch a calentittitn gild-Oen, it ebuia.noi afford him
. a fair trial ? This is not a matter of favour, but of , ape "lief' -.• '.' • •
right ; and whoever endeavours to deprive then: of this f An" girl, abent • three m6nths 'WI &weir!, of
e, tinewariPer;of Lonteutton, died air
privilege,acts in contravention of the laws of his coon. I Mr. Witint
try, and endeavours to intro.:laces system better fitted- few daYaagnr*in cotgequente of asciiiatitity onnedauum
e .
to thetimes ofJellt haring been admieister lto her bye Servanitesit! out
ies than to the days of the righteous
Judges who now adorn the British Bench. . If the i the knowlekt*if her • thigyess,
.for the purposo, of •
prisoners, after a fair triad, with all the advantages causing sleep.'
c - i •' .
given to persons in their unfortunate situation by the 1 The following. extrionlinary circumstance took
law, be found guilty, every friend to the
Place on the entrance of the French into Moscow :--
petite and:
• ore! The Archbishep,. wl.a %; as ie advanced ago,
welq-being of society, will wish them to meet.whose
character wai held in the highest veneration, and who
punishment due to their crime; bur no man but a
lead compose-la prayer which was much admired, was
Jeffries orl Monk,, will wish, before their trial, to?
dam up against them the Avenues of justice, by de- .4n the act of performing,Divine Si vice, whea he aas
luforaned that tie. enemy had entered the city. • lie
prlving them Of the bestlegal assistance tbey can pro.;
care.—( Leeds Nereury.) ; o:opted fora moment, crossed himself, and itumedi-
ate yepited.:
At a Court Martial; held on board the Raisonable, lex ' •
'Marshal Soete, at the pre;entsmoment, ris'‘ s an
en Monday sennight, Lieutenant kg:4ll/am Malone;
of which he be-
illst) of the. Osprey, was tried for' his behaviour on I English bleecl hove %k lti,; Om ge ',
i came possessed •in the follow ini; pudgier:—On there-
he 18th orJai) last, at the capture! of the French
iltent of the British army, and their re-embarkation
privateer Lc &lc, oti the Island of Heligoland, be'
tat Cocoons, all the horses being ordered to be shot,
the boats of the Osprey, Lenard and !triter/wt .
The following Is - the purport of the sentence :--ilSir GODFAEY WEBSTEISN groom, rather than destroy
his master's favourite charger, shipped hit, of his
The Court are of opinion, that. no blame 'eau be at
tacked to Lieut. Malone on that occasion ; on the furniture and cloathing, and, turning him loose, Ire
contrary, that he upheld the high character of the ;Tan immediately into the French lines, end being
molt fully anted shewn to SoULT, he adopted him immediately. for his
British Navy; and he is accordingly
honourably acquitted; and the Court cannot sufllJ own charger. 'This horse was no other than the
ciently express their indignation at the foul asper- inoted horse Pedestrian, that won so many plates
sions that have been throws On Mr. Malone's cha- i and matcherat Newmarket.
ratter, by whose previous Arrangements and personal 1 MELANC,IIOiTCOLSCIDPICE.—A very remarkable
corsdnet, the capture of the privateer is chiefly to be : occnrrence: of Simile'. circutnstances signalized two
attributed. . • i melancholy accidents which happeneZl .on -Saturday •
last, one of which termiteeed fetalljet-,0:: that
"eon • Monday evening last, at half-past eight
o'clock, died, at his house, on Ham Common, aged ; night a )"n"g Lady, ll'h)g in Millhinit'streiti She
72, Lord Viscount Toanteelost. He is aocceeded! niece of the ndetress of the horse rose, it is supprsel
in his title and estate by his only brother the Ho- :in her sleep, anti threw herself from the window of
nburahle Joux BYN6, now Lnrci Viscount Toa-
the third' floor. When taken up, though much
atoerox.
bruised, it was found she had not a bone broken.
It is hoped, therefore, that she will speedily recover.
It is not in the feeding of horses attd cattle only
that it is proposed to use sugar; but Mr: Wtsson
At the same hoar, on the same night, another young
has taken out a patent for introducing
it as an in. i Lady, the niece-of the Gentleman to whom the house
gin:powder. He
gredient in the manufacture
I hi htillbenk-street belongs, hut residing with her me.
of
says, that when properly reduced to powder
by I then. in SloaneAoreet, threw herself from the one pair
re
trituration; it may 0 mixed et,kb.:ocifisinoo gonpow. of stairs window into an area ;her hack was broken,
Cdr, _in the proportion of one-foorth sugar to three.. and she died oa Sundhy morning. In this last I^.
mentable case, the safferer sea suke t,' in a certain.
'fintrths powder, without. dimiaisting its exploding
degree, to insauity, and rose from 'elide her mo.
We are
force. ,
sincerely glgst to learn that an effectual .
.. they, with whom she Slept, under the pretence that
Core has at length beets discovered, for that dread. she was going to drink aglasa of water.
, Con :Y.. EMAIL-U(01S) !he. 16.,,-Tho severity of the
Ohl disease ~the. Opthalutia, which has proved so
frost having in part stopped the navigation, we have
fatal in our brave army, since the memorable cam-
had no arrivals of any kind; trade is quite at a
paigu in Egypt. An Oculist of celebrity from the
West of England, having liberally offered to corn-
stand ; and it is expected, that if the weather-coati..
menicate his discovery, his Royal Highness the
Dues severe until Friday, there will be no buyers,
-
Commander in Chief immediately ordered a trial, ,not being able to wetk. 'Wheat, Barley, Oats,.
of the experiment to be made on one of. the Reins, and every other article, are nominally as lief...
-
ntergt inveterate eases, which has proved, so, satisfac- Monday's_ prices, nothing dolts. -.
tory, that., we understand;
,Orders lithe been gizen, ruin."( i...1."",g,ii'1))) • •." lU3co lgs, 1,1.,.... /too . -00, ill' • -
• :6 ift ,
diet the practice should be generally adopted through-. eve '- - -Cn. •• • 70 ig Tick 'do. on as.
bat the army._ . .. ark"'
53 0
' New ditto ' ' 11 01d.... 1 7
ICO 60 Oats . loli'
la 60
''' - win Grand and Peed- rs4,,it., `6 lull Firer ditto ' OO 011
• - White Ohl Poland do • 44 .4
126 Feed ditto.... .41) 51-
10 raw Floor
Septa&

Private letters•
received by the last arrival &oil
I.lsbets state, _that Lord Wr.r.s.rootcm, accompanied
'11), four Officers of his Staff, was, at the time Sir
&MARE. PAGET was taken prisoner, in the same
wood, and at a short distance from him. The firing
of the French piquet; was the firstintiniation of the
enemy's proximityy, and pia Lordrship Was saved by
the fleetness of his horse. .
Letters have been iately, received by some Officers
if he German Legioniin ipsvgictsleons their friends
'on the Continent, whic) glis_te464hebJeaoste -13osta..
TATITE,_Oe EinA of VKitstOlditt,
.Ate mot all Ms va-.
bauble slnd month!, Floparje, true etissel to Frani:4o'J!
It is mid to be in evviltetaPbvtiosta emend tha C 144
cense Trade with.Freute from the Ems le BottrdatvaL

DA _ SINTZUJETAI, 44 Rs
st-of the Central Consistory of tha Jowl of th.
irinch Empire, &c. died in Paris, oaths 9th of No-
, member, at a very ad►anced age.

vs
e Peas'
Dino (bailers) llll 126
New ditto 410 IX)
iitey Yeas 64 VS

.

,


i -~ ~..._

...

a ,_....fir

.

-I