The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-10-18 00:00:00

FR EXCH. PIPERS.

I.ll.tnato, Srrr. 17.—Franeisquet, a Chief di
ilauditti, was, ou flu: Ith of this month, at To-
memos°, with 100 meal, and two pieces of caiman.
A detachment of the regiment of Baden, which
was in that quarter, was ordered to make a retro-
grade movement, in order to attract the enemy to
Francis.quet fell into the snare, and
when he discovered his imprudence it was too late
to escape. Ile was brought to actiou by 4@U of the
Nassau infantry and 60 cavalry. The a flair lasted only
a quarter of an hour, but in that short period the
enemy lost ISO killed. 'and s umnber of wounded.
Among the latter is Vrancisioct himself. The two
cant n, and all the ammuoitioo, fell into our
haud•. M. de Kruse, Ito COMM inch the regiment
of Nassau, met its the highest praise.
LEY OEN, SEPT. 2ti Letters from the frontiers
of Spain, contain the follou :
The bombardment of Cadiz is nut vet commenced,
but a brisk cannonade is kept up against the forts
which surround it. Di, French continue to work
ith activity and ardour, in fitting out the gun-
vessds and small boats fur the embarkation of
troops. The wood is procured from the forts clear
Seville, and is conveyed down the Guadalquiver
to San.Lucar-de.Barramcda, where a yard is esta-
bliqhtd.
The different divisions of French seamen who
bay', lately passed thtrOttgil to Cadiz, serve on
board the gun-sloops and boats we have mentioned.
Several Andalusian seamen arc enrolled in the new
marine corps, which nill be composed entirely of

Si.aniards.
Piivateers continue to be equipped with great
zeal, and those which have already been on a critize
have mule considerable captures, which tends
gr vat!y to encourage the fitting out others.
The English and Spanish Officers appear to en.
Certain great hopes of the siege of Cadiz being
raised by the diversions made on several points, hot
which have hitherto all been fruitless. The troops of

General Sebastiatii's corps still occupy the kingdom
of Grenada, and are improving the (unifications of
Malaga and the town of Grenada. The parties
which hail introduced the:nselves from Ninnies into
the eastern part of Andalusia, have been driven
back by the French, with loss.
His Majesty is still at Madrid, where the fort of
tho Retiro has been completed.
Since the investment of Almeida a great battle
has been expected between the French and English
armies. Lord Wellington had taken a strong po-
sition with Ids left wing on the Douro, and his
right on Guardu. Since the retreat of the division
or the left wing, which occupied the environs of
Pinked, that position formed an oblique line, fur
the mt.st remote troops had fallen hack as far as
Villa Nueva de Foscia. In the mean time it was
believed that Almeida would not he obtotioned to
its fate, and that the English would make some at-
tempts for the succour of this fortress. This, how.
ever, did nut take place, for the English General
thought proper to withdraw his troops. A part of
the rig!it wing of the army of tln• Prince of Es.
ling h.is passed the Douro, near Hermosilla, and
has directed its march towards Torre de .Moticor-
yo ; the corps of General ftegnier, which had
come fruai Estremadura, has passed the Tagus near
Atcantara, and has proceeded by forced marches by
Juanita Veilha into Portugal, for the purpose of.
penetrating by Belinonte to Gnarda. This march
could not be prevented by the English.
General Regnier has joined the army of the
I'rit►cc of Esling, and threatens to outflank the
English army.
General Hill, who, with his division near Elvas,
had Observed the movements of the French in Es.

tremadttra, received orders to tako a position on tho
right bank of the river Zezara, fur the purpose of
preventing General Regnicr from penetrating far.
titer into Portugal. The position of the English
being in the mean time exposed to great dangers,
they threw themselves between Vizeu and the Ze.
ara, to cover the roads leading toCuimbra and Lis.
bun. A. detachment of English and Portuguese
troops had remained at Guarda to protect that place.
The French army is in the pursuit of the Eng-
lish army, and has made a number of prisoners, and
taken several pieces of cannon ; all the country
between Guarda and nutlet where the English

army was encamped during the siege of Gimbal Ito-

drigo, is now actually occupied by the French nr.
• try. A French corps, under the command of Ge
neral Clauzel, is marching on the right of the Dunn),
against Villa-real, anti makes great progress in that
direction. The corps of observation on the left of
the same river, is under the command of the Duke of
Abrantes.
Tunis, Srrr. 28.—The Intentiatit-General of
the Ciastoms at Trieste has notified to the nit na,utt,,
that Ottoman ships will henceforth be received in
that port as neutrals.
VIENNA, SEPT. 21.—A I etter from Bucharest
states, that itudschuck capitulated noun after the
defeat of the Turks on the 7th inst.

The Ilotspar frigate, of 26 gulls, was launched
on Saturday, at Parson's Yard, at Varash. She
will be commissioned by the Hun. Captain PERCY.
The fleet ss Inch sailed from the Nore the 27th tilt.
und,•r convoy of the Calypso sloop of war, for the
B ittie, put into the !lumber on Thursday last.
A speculation is in contemplation to have a breed
cf Turtles on the South Coast of England, by
elthing part of tl►e sea, over wide!, a hothouse is to
be erected. If it be a juillt stock company, there is
no doubt but the Corporation and Aldermen of the
City of London will have numerousshares in the
undertaking. _ _

A sliocking accident oecurre.l a few days since
at Wircliscombe:—.\ son of the HN. Walter 'Fre.
•elyaii, of Ileribury, near Bristol, fell from a elves.
nut tree, and so lacerated his lei; by a compound
fracture, that the arteries wercdivi:Lul in an estrum.
dinary manner. The united skill and immediate as-
Instance of M r. sully, M r. Cratimore, and Mr. Ling,
araih it no:hin; in their endeavours to save the limb,
and amputation was flerforinett by Mr. Sully, wills
hopes of success. 'flic young Gentleman, who is
grandson to Sir John Trevely iii, and nephew to
his Grace the Duke of Leeds, is jll,t past fourteen
Seal, of age. and was about to be into the
Artillery.

119 E

COUNTY OF GLO LreESTE IL MELTING.

We have been favoured with the following excel-
lent speech of the Rev. Dr. Husimte of Chel-
tenham, delivered at the late ALletitig of • the
Vivi:holders, held at the city of Gloucester,
far the purpose of returning Sir W. B. Guise,
Bart. to Parliament, as one of the Representatives
for that county
" Brother Freeholders of the County of Cd.oucester,
'' As it is the undoubted right of every Free.
holder, whether great or small his property, to de.
liver his sentiments at this Meeting, I make no apo...i
logy for addressing- you on the present occasion ;
though, at the same time, I will endeavour to be
as brief and explicit es the nature of the subject
will admit. In the first place, Gentlemen, I must
sincerely congratulate the county upon returning to
the good eld constitutional proceeding of calling a
Meeting of the Freeholders, to nominate a proper per.
son to represent them in Parliament —a practice
that has been uniformly diseentieued fur the last 30
years, ;chid' may be attributed, in a great Inca,
sure, to the degraded state of our Represeutation
Auring that period ; fur we have been assembled fur
the purpose of electing our Members as a mere
matter of form, without any previous nomination.:
but of this I shall speak more fully hereafter.
'' Gentlemen, the office of a Representative io
Parliament has been always esteetned of the greatest
importance; but, in the present eventful and itu pre-
cedenttalcrisis of public affairs, it involves in it du-
ties of the most serious consequences. It should
unite with the most irreproachable character in
private life, a thorough knowledge of the Laws and
Constitution of the Country, together with a manly
independence of mind, unawed 'by the frowns of
aristocracy, or the unprincipled clamours of a des-
perate faction. The worthy and respectable Baro-
net, who has this day been proposed for your
choke, possesses, in an eminent degree, all those ex-
cellent qualities which entitle him to become your
Representative, untainted with any of those vices
which disgrace the age and country we-live in. lie
possesses a noble independence of mind, combined
with a thorough knowledge of the Laos and Consti-
tution of his Country, w Welt he has made his peculiar
study. Firmly attached to those old genuiee Whig
principles which placed the present family on the
Throne—principles, which if they had been uniform.
ly supported, we should not have occasion to deplore
the present calamitous situation of 'the country, fur
it has been always observed, that England has never
flourished so well as under a Whig Administration ;
but it has been the mistaken - policy of the last 5U
years to discountenance them, with very few excep.
titans, from the time of that infamous Minister,
Lord Bute, down to the present weak and wicked
Administration of IValeheren notoriety. Gentle-
men, a ray of hope still breaks out through the
gloom occasioned by the imbecile measures of the
present men it, power, whet, we contemplate the
conduct of the illustrious Heir Apparent, who has
instilled, with every prospect of success, into the
mind of the future Queen of these Realms, the
principles of that great Statesman, who is, unfor-
tunately for the country, now no mare.
•ag Geetienieti, the present. times imperiously
require every Member of Parliament to promote
the greatest economy in all the public departments,
to procure the abulition of all sinecure places and
pensions, and to support a Parliamentary Reform :
let me be understood, fur I wish, Gentlemen, to
be particularly so upon this point; I du nut mean
that vain and tisionary plan of reform, fit only to
be indulged by wild theorists, but which can never
be reduced to practice, without the subversion of
our excellent Coustitution its Church and State, but
I mean that solid and substantial reform which will
effectually prevent bad Ministers in future from pro-
curing corrupt majorities in the House of Commons,
to enable them to plunge the nation into unjust and
Unnecessary wars, and to create idle and unfounded
alarms, merely fur the purpose of continuing them.
selves and their myrmidons in power.
" Now, Gentlemen, we wily take a view of the
Representation of our own County for the last
thirty years, which has very nearly resembled that
of a Cornish Borough, or even Old Sarum (and
here I am convinced that I am treading upon very
tender ground, and must necessarily offend many
most respectable persons in the opposite interest,
but the language of truth must be spoken). Upon
the death of Mr. Chester, the present Candidate's
father, Mr. James Dutton was brought forward to
succeed him, upon the Old Blue, or Tory Interest,
in this County, (however be may think it conve.
'tient fur his own selfish purposes to turn Whig;
but, as Mr. De Visme has very properly ob.
served, I must be allowed to suspect these sud-
den conversions) ; and, upon his elevation to
a Peerage, in the year 1784, the present
Duke of Beaufort not being of age, Mr. Miss.'.
ter, a most worthy and respectable character,
for whom, and fur whose family, I entertain
the highest esteem, succeeded him in the re-
presentation, which he held till some time after that
period arrived, when the present Duke came in. as
a matter of coarse; and upon his succeeding to his
title, about seven years ago, the county was turned
over to another brother ; and in all probability,
when the present Marquis conies of
.age, Lord Ed-
ward Somerset (who is now nobly engaged in the
service of his country abroad, and fur whom there
is au equal necessity of resigning his seat, as there
was for the worthy Admiral) acill jind 4.4 the
'absolute necessity 1 every person bring at lair
post at this important crisis ;" and if the war
should nut last so long, some pretext, equally idle
and frivelues,, and the county will be mo.st likely
turned ',over to the Nephew, if it has not spirit
enough to resist it*. Now, Gentlemen, for the
other family, as it is far from my intention to spare
the house of Berkeley at the exeence of the Duke
of Beaufort. Upon the death of Sir William Guise,
the worthy Admiral succeeded him in the represen.

* After delivering my speech ut the County Mersin:, I had
a conversation with ;note riends of the Duke ntllleaufwrt, who
remarked, that he had no intention of loingiog forn:tri the
Mat quit ; and runt if he had, it was lien,. enowili to mention
it, when that event nook place. Ti, which i reNtrii, I ttostwo
that NOW 10.2 S OM lime to put the county on their guard ; it would.
he too late upon the eve of an eleetion ; but my npiolon Wit!,
Ant after the complete manner in which I.
had iiriird the
e) es of tho Irechukturb, it would hardly be attealptekl.