The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-12-21 00:00:00

THE grATESMAN.

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• The garrison of Riga haeingfot silese•timit alarmed
our advanced posts, and madi movements that
threatened our right wing, and took prisoner Lieute-
nant Ludern, with s srnall'perty, of 17 nit.,, of the
Battalion of Fusiliers, the Duke of Tamotsu' deter-
mined to drive the 'Seely back to his position before
Riga, and for that purpose seat the French General
of Brigade, Beckett', who, on the 12th, took the
command of an expedition for that purpose, which
completely licceeded. According to the report of
the Marshal, the enemy, by this expeditioo, which
scarcely cost us 30 men in killed and wounded, lost
from 12 to 1500 prisoners. Considerable reinforce-
ments have been ordered to the Prussian auxiliary
corps.
THE HOMEWARD BOUND FLEET FROM THE
BALTIC.
On the 7th or Sth inst. it was officially asserted,
that a convoy wai to sail, but as no ships had arrived
before the packet sailed, no accurate account can be
; given; nor can it be ascertained what number will
ir accompany it ; but it is said about 200 sail, out of
4110 in Carlsham and Carlscrona.

STATESMAN OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK.
Mr. MILLS, a King's Messenger, arrived this
Morning at the Secretary of State's Office, with Di.-
'patches from Lord CATIICART, containing the agree-1
able intelligence of the Russians having farther suc-
cesses
over the French army. A Bulletin is expect-
ed to be published in the course of the afternoon,
which we shall give in a Second Edition, if in time 1
for the Post.

Saturday, tt half-past one o'clock the Lodi) CHAN.
=LOB broke up the Sittings of Chancery in Lin-
coln's Inn Hill, and proceeded to the Council Office,
Whitehall, to attend a meeting of the Lords of the
Council at tco o'clock, which was attended by all
the Cabinet Ministers, the Judge of the Admiralty,
Sir JOIIN NiONOL, the Master of the Rolls, and
Mr. Ryoza. Their Lordships sat till about three
o'clock, when the Cabinet Ministers adjourned to
the Foreign Office, where they held a Cabinet Coun-
cil, which sat till past tive.
The Marquis CAmntx has resigned his seat in the
Cabinet. Hegave up his key of oicial boxes this
day so'nnight.
Yesterday tie Lean CHANCELLOR had an audience
of the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton House.

A letter from St. Petersburgh, of the 20th tilt.
says, that merchandise of all sorts had advanced ma-
terially in price; and several purchasers had arrived
from Austria. It was expected at St. Petersburgh,
that various gcods of British merchandise would be
admitted for exportation, on paying a transit duty.
A commercial treaty, containing this, among other
favourable stipulations, was expected to take place
between the two countries.

Marshal lityrusoer has been created Prince of
SmoLcrisso, in consequence of his late brilliint
achievements in the destruction dale corps of Nair
and DAVOUST.

General VERDIER, who passed through Frank-
fort, on the 2d instant, on his way to Paris, and is
said to have reached that capital on the 6th, is not
likely to have brought any dispatches direc.ly from
BONAPARTs, as he belonged to the 6th division, and i
was employed under Sr. CYR, on the Dwitta, where
he was so severely wounded, on the 17th of August,
as to be obliged to resign the commaud of his divi-
don to General MAlsoN.
Licences for a limited trade with France are ex-
pected to be issued in a few days. The Members of
the Board of Trade met on Saturday to prescribe the
form of them.
Ministers have received no answer to the pacific
overtures transmitted through Admiral Waattex to
the Government of the United States. From this
delay nothiug favourable can be inferred; for, as we
are informed, the period for an entree. was not li-
mited, and the Admiral declared, that he should
cruise off the American coast one month, in expec-
tation of a reply.
Letters from Bourdeaux, Coblents, Maestricht,
Nancy, and Chalons-upon-Marne, state, that the re-
maiming conscripts of the year 1813, have been
called out to join the corps to which they were at-
tached. Many of these young men are not more
than sixteen or seventeen years of age.
It appears by letters and journals from the United
States tote 9th November, that the Government had
determined to make a third attempt upon Canada,
the troops to be under the command of Gen. Da.ta-
lielta and Gee. flAanisox. Gen. DEARBORN was in
the beginning of last month, concentrating his forces
in the neighbourhood of Plattsburgh, a town situated
on the western margin of Lake Champlain,and about
one hundred miles south of Montreal. Gen. HAR-
RISON is supposed at the same date, to have been in
the neighbourhood of Detroit. The army under Gen.
DEARBORN, which has been so long stationary, and
daily receiving reinforcements, do not, however,
amount to more than 12,000 men. Gen. Muslims
is said to have demanded and obtained of the Govern-
ment the appointment of Commander of all the forces
on the western and north-western frontiers, with
powers to compel the Governors of Provinces to fur-
nish his army with necessaries. Gen. VAN HANS-
SALMa has resigned the command of the forces at
Niagara, and has been succeeded by Brigadier-Gene-
ral Sutra.
A letter from Albany says—" General BROCK'S
horse was killed in the late attack, by a private of
the name of WrtiLow; the hero did not remount,
and while cheering and encouraging his men to de-
fend their position against the superior numbers of
the enemy, was shot through the heart, within pistol
shot of the American troops."
Saturday dispatches for Lord CATIICART) at Pe-
' tersburgh, were sent by a Messenger from the Secre-
tary of State's Ace. They are understood to re-
late to the vote of Parliament on ,the preceding
night.
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On Saturday, the dispatches ty the Charles Graal,
Martuir of gig, Perseverance, Marquis
&nerd ILerrir, for Bombay anti Chios, asr
for St. Miens, Bencoolea, and China, were finally
closed at the Eliot Itt4ia Hoosloosl siolisupsit to
their respective Rumen,

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,NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. - •

DRURY-LANE THEATRE,
On Saturday evening, the love-inspiring and heart-I Drat Dec. 20 terdaysthe IVY mphen
yes
rending Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was repre- •
frigate T
tented at this Theatre, under some sent circum- s , om o. Fleshing.
stances, which render it, in a degree, interesting.
. Sailed the Plantagenet, frem Sheerness, and the
s AA all the round of that chequered species of Cretan, for the Scheldt.
•drillip, which now holds possession of the British Arrived to-day Ms Majesty's ships Cordelia, Bar.
WO, there is no play which premises to live longer barn, And Boxer, from a cruize.
in the general esteem thanthis. We have used the Sailed La Hogue, for Portsmouth.
term chequered species, to denominate the current PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 20.—Arrived yesterdayy
Majesty's ship Bermuda,
aspect of our drama, as there is no determinate fea his
-
ture by which they can be noted, or measured, In infrom off Cherburgh.
other civilized nations ; and this jumble of constis Sailed yesterday his Majesty's ships Derraent and
bent lineaments bath arisen from the unrestricted in- . Alert, en a cruize.
tlulgence of a wild composition in the infancy of I The Beagle takes convoy for the Downs, iattead
our stage, which, like the very genius of our free-
of the Countess of Elgin.
dontr om, seemed to
owe disdain the fetters
sort those of a foreigtin; Piestouru, DEC. 19.—Arrive. the Irisard sleep
coul, her c-
of war from a cruize, and th s Crescent frigate, from
tical manacles might have been presented to curb
the struggles of the imagination. The French stage the eastward.
is greatly bound down to the observance of the Sailed the Princess Caroline and I...envier men of
Greek institutes, in the formation of their Tragedy. war, for off Cherburgh ; Prometheus sloop of ear to
The Spanish stage (which owes so much to Lenz rats the eastward ; Surprise. frigate, for Cork, to take
Vice, who was the Iberian SIIAKSPCAItE) bath a dis-
tinct character,which is altogether national ; and many
to the eastward ; Intelligent gun-brig, on a cruise
of their most popular Comedies are but Seynetes, or
Farces, of a broader compass • nor doth their then. off Sally; and Andromeda sloop of war fer Gil.ral-
trical taste seem much amended now, as may be seen tar—she takes out Rear Admiral Liezce to relieve
from the following sketch of the Comma Theatre, Commodore Penrose. to
which we received from an Officer, who was on the F
ALMOUTIJ DEC. 18.—Arrived his Majesly's chip
Zephyr, and a frigate, having a signal fur the Aied;e
spot about three years since :—Then is a Theatre '
at Cornnua, but it is as miserable •an establishment
as ever disgraced the muses since the days of terranean convoy, supposed •to be his Majesty's ship
THESPIS ; it is a dirty, oblong building (the Pot- • Andromeda.
tuguese Theatres, for Comedy, art built in the same ; Sailed the Ramilies and Bold, for Cork, to join
awkward manner), badly lighted; the price for ad- the West India convoy, said to be destined there pro-
mission, to the Pit, was a pisturina, Officeren nce, .
nous to their final departure; Castilian, on a cruise ;
English money. While we (the British) re-1
Pickle schooner, for Guernsey ; Carfare( packet, for
ma fed, they had the political civility to represent a
spectacle, in which BeNAI,ARTE was introduced in , Corunna; and the Diana packet, fur the West Indies.
chains, while FERDINAND VII. was led on in triumph I YARMOUTH, Dec. 19.—0 n Thursday. night about
12 o'clock, the John and Mary, of Hull, Holcroft
by Britannia! In the course of the entertainments
they introduced a fandango, in which the gesticu-
Master, from Wisbech, bound to London, with
lation of the lovers was so much at odds with de-
cency as to bid defiance to the descriptive
pencil; potatoes Ons driven on shore at Corton ;--crew
for the facetious Mr. Punch, in the full blaze of his laved.
pleasantry at Bartholomew Fair, never ventured to This morning early the Bee, of Hull, Hewitt,
insult the Grams so much. i Master, hound from Hull to London, with potatoes,
The Italian Drama was more purely constructed, • was driven on shore near Yarmouth Pier ;—crew.
but not perfect ; and it sometimes embraced religious ' saved.
topics, which it represented in a way that bordered I s.
mewing, Dec. 20.—Arrived the Beaufoy packet
upon impiety. Among their best tragedies was La!
Pamphila, by Aserosto DI Pteroia, which was first with Mails and passengers from Gotteeburgh, sailed
played in 1508. It was fouudcd upon Boccasto's the 16th inst.
story of Gismonda and Guiscardo, but the scene is o The Heirkr frigate, with about 20 sail, came oat
shifted from Salerno to Thebes ; this author seems to •
tnst before her, and were collecting; they meat be
have followed the Greek model, by his attempt to
now near the laud.
preserve the unities, though he departs from it, by
dividing his drama into acts, which was not the prac- ' The Auckland packet arrived at Gottenbargh the
tice on the Greek. Stage, but invented by the same day the Beaufoy sailed.
Romans. ICaptain Wilkinson, of his Majesty's ship Coura.
It was in the century, immediately preceding the geux, had detained a guti-hiig for dispatches in can
first representation of La Pamphila, that the feast- ; the packet should not be able to proceed immediately.
cal event occurred at Verona, upon which our
of Romeo and The ice is about as low down as the sugar-house.
SHAKSPEARE bath erected his Play
Joliet, as may he• ascertained by a 'reference to Ban-1
dello's Anecdotes; and the history of Verona by
(=moister CORTE. But ee are going too far out to
sea in our researches, and must retara to Drury-laao
Theatre whiCh is the port of our departure.
The first object of our attention and attraction on
this night was Miss SNIIIII, who personated Juliet ;
but though she plays the character altogether better
perhaps than any other actress now living, she was,
notwithstanding, faulty and unsuitable in several
points. In the first place, her person is not precisely
of that sort which is required to aid the delusion of
the scene in the personification of Juliet, whose
beauty
" Tian w spun the cheek of night,
Like a .it•lt leavel in an Etiss,.p a ear."
Not that we are disposed to insist swots the actual
necessity of every Lady's being 33 perfect in contour
as the Medicean Venus, oho uedertekes to enact'
Juliet ; but it is absolutely necessary that she should
have au aspect fur the spectator that is young, charm-
ful, timid, and obedient. Now, wills Mil our respect
for Miss Sean, she did not seen, all this. Her eyes
were too decidedly expressive to convey the first
amorous emotions of an artless virgin, who feels a
rising rebellion in her heart which must be alarming
to her sensibilities, though it is congenial with na-
ture. Under such circumstances, if the rosy suffusion
of the cheeks, which will arise from feeling the ten-
derest and dearest chord of the bosom, first vibrat-
ing with the touch of love's necromantic linger, can-
not be openly assumed at will, an affectation of its
delicate operation should be manifested by the sym-
pathetic accordance of every lineameut towards the
furtherance of such a public supposition. But all
this, we will take the liberty of telling this merito-
rious Lady, cannot be effected by matronly gas.
tures, and an indulgence in smiles, which savoured:
more of the fond preconceptions of an idiot than the I
first symptoms of the heart's overthrow, especially
In such a morel and well bred spinster of condition as
Juliet is presumed to be.
Yet it is pleasing to us, when we are enabled to
acknowledge, that Miss SNITS'S excellence in the I
fourth and fifth Acts, made us forgot tier inaccuracies
in the three former; and if she was not so finely •i
natural as we could have wished her to have been,l
pending the overtures of her lover, she was emi-
nently great and illustrious in the sad consequences
of her passion. •
The Romeo of this evening was Mr. RAI; he per-
formed several portions of the character with 'due
feeling, and certainly gave a truer reading to the
part than we hareiseen recently accustomed to hear.
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He was very animated in the garden and tomb scenic,
and was, in toio, infinitely more entitled to the ptau.l
dits of the judicious than in either of his anteriar ex-
ertions at this Theatre.
We should notice that this Drama was morel
strongly cast than the Tragedies of this place usually
are. Putting Mrs. SPARKS in the Neese, Mr. Hot.-
VOID in Ressoolio, and Mr. DC CAMP In 7)6014 wu
doing rightly : as why should the nobility of 44,
scene be evermore consigned to the rit-raf of the
establishment ? Mr. R. Putman is not *Rhona Isis
claims upon a limited approval, yet the morel Obilos
iopby of Friar Lawrence would come• With more int-
president from Mr. Po weal, and
_the head of the Ca-
p:dots might 'be sustained by any sow witkapt 114
Mead 1-

. • Extctrrioss.— This'morning Charles M Palo and
Samuel Telling, for murder, of which -they were
cenvicted et the Admiralty Sessions, ost Friday list*
were, pursuant to their sentences, executed onrsterts.
porary platform, erected ori the o-casion, at Exec:l-
- tion-Dock, in presence of an immense crowd of
spectators, who had collected together during the
procession of these unhappy creatures from New.-
gate, from whence they were taken iu a cart at
nine o'clock, in which they were accompanied by the
executicher, and were dressed in blue jackets, blue
pantaloons, and wore red caps. They were escorted
by the Ifigh Pailiff and a number of City o.llcers.
I—During their pia session along the v: rious street-,
Palm appeared extremely dejected ; hut his frllner
sufferer, Telling, was quite the contrary, and kept
, continually conversing with their atseudant, the este.
entioner. flaring at last arrived at the fatal spet
they were taken from the cart, and were thelateach.
ed by two Clergymen, nith whom they remained a short
lime in prayer, and the remainder of the Li .13.:C.01y
ceretnuny being assigned to the execution:.r, who,
with his assistant, readily prepared them fur n.e aw-
ful moment, they were launched into eternity.—
, These wretched men appeared to meet their fate with,
out much stuggle ; their bodies, after having been
suspended the usual time, were cut down, aud de-
livered over for dissection.
John Bruce, who was to have suffered fur a simi-
lar offence on the person of James Donne, in the
harbour of Milford Haven, has been respites! for 14
days.
,In a late sale of curiosities at Paris, a r•stie, sail
to have belonged to Voltaire, was knocked does' at
1650 francs. It came into the family of M. Chu in
the following manner :—Voltaire, in his last journey
to Paris, was taken very ill, when a Monk insisted
upon seeing and attempting to convert him. The
Irascible poet, enraged at the officious zeal of this
importunate visiter, said to M.& Clos, " Take ray
cane and drive this fellow from my sight ;" M. cle4
vas preparing to execute the orders of his friend,
when the Monk took the alarm, and hastily re-
tired. M. Clos retained possession of the cane, and
bequeathed it to his family, for whose benefit it was
sold.

The Lacedernonian frigate (of a large class) will
be launched at Portsmouth Dock-yard this morning.
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but few buyers, was at a reduction of Br. per 9uarter Burley
supports. last Monday' prices, there being little at Marke..
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lower. No alteration In other grain.
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