The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-05-23 00:00:00

PROITS OF THE ADMIRALTY.

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I.llr. TIERNEY said, there.were two (potions
stood for Thurs,lay, which he thought ct►uld not
be ropey discussed on the same evening, v 4. the
Plan of Finance, ond the Droits of the Admiralty.
He wished, therefore, the ►tight Hun. Gentleman.
would s:ty which ►hould come on first. •
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'
said he wished to lay before the House every I)9F,
Sible information on this subject, which he could
nut do by Thursday. IL hoped, therefore, the
proits of the Admiralty tni4ht be postponed to the
beginning of west seek. Tuesday being the Res-
toration of King Charles 11. and, of course a ho-,
liday, IWednesday in the neat week was fisci on
for that discussitin ; and it was agreed that the
Platt of F►uatncc should be proceeded with on
Thursday next. • •
INST_TRANCE;
The House' went into a Con►•nittee. urinn the
Report of the Marine Insurance Committee, which
was agreed to; and a Bill ordered to be broughtin
thereon.—Adjourned at one o'clock.

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• wE this morning retvired French ana'Spaotalt
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Papers, hi' the 15th inst. meitisive. Our Rea. i
diksi.Wili'sen'that the citratii we have made from ,
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these are more than usually interesting. 'line
Eltronott, in fact, ockisOwleilges his in.
Zop..teiti to conquer Spain. He is tryktiti, his taut re.
• licitirci, but it with net succeeil. The truth is, that 14
no‘power..noihing on earth canbeat
wbu hire ennte to a reiOlotii4 not to lie conquered,
and a itsilein.rnet: to the!" That is the 109 tit
whO coill.i.Wny' it,
.and let who will enikethe wipe.'
rihwititin frY the truth of it. As to the story of

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thu People of Spain not ieing the persons who
opposed the French—as to the tale of priests, and
friars, and nuns, and, selfish and wicked per. i
sans, being all that opposed France in Spain,
that is all vile nonsense, the same nousanse
as that which is said • here by Mr. JA.
cos, and other such CHANGELINGS. We know
that it has been a long time preached up; that the
Spanish Patriots were uo Patriots, and that they
were set on to fight France by Priests. I%re have
heard that, till we are sick of it ! They were set
on, as a People always is when it fights, by a sense
of oppression, that it not only feels, but detest:.
IVe are told, they were more oppressed by the old
Court, and the old -system of Corruption, than
they could be by the Freticii. Perhaps that
is true ; but if it be. sa, it is a singular
truth ; fur, if any thing can exceed French
oppression, and if that' thing is to exist any
where, it is hardly worth while arguing the
matter at all. But it was not a question of the
quantity of oppression with Spain ; it was the
circumstance of their feeling the Oppression, and
hating it, that made Spain take up arms against
• France. Thei were ill.used by their Old Govern.
meet, but that they wer4.; toutamted rith—they
were willing to bear ; for the people will bear
a great deal, and will do almost any thing, rather
than fight with their own Government. But pa.
tient as they are, they will not (for a moment
'scarcely) bear any thing they get really angry
With. And we would to God, that not only the
French Emperor, but all Governments, and all
advisers of Governments, knew this....We may
be mistake 4 about the result of the contest in
Spain ; but if unfortunately so, we at least will
have the consolation of feeling rightly respecting it.
Beside these extracts, there is a good deal of
news in the Foreign Papers ; but it is unimport.
ant, because contradictory, and, in fact, a story
told by two parties differently. The Spaniards
are winning, and the Freatet are winning, ac.
cording to their several accounts.

LISBON, MAY .13.—. The wholit of the French
force, tweet of the Doure, including that at Sa.
lamanca, is about 37,000 men. Marshal Ney hat
advanced from Salamanca towards Ciudad Rodri.
go, with about 20,000. Junot has about 13,000
at Astorga. Lord Wellington's head-quarters are
at Celeroo, in the neighbourhood of which place
our force consists of 22 battalions of infantry, and
5 of cavalry, English; and 12 battalions.of Portia.
gum infantry. General Cameron's biigatle is et
Linharis ; General Louis's at Frames° ; General
Picton's at Pinhel, and General Crawford's ttear
St. Felices.
LIfiIION, MAY 10.—Wu do not exactly know
what has been the result of the different insurrec.
tions in Andalusia, but we kuow'that the Opera.
tions of the French have been frustrated before
Cadiz ; that there are in that city 30,000 allies,
and that it is impregnable. The small division of
Replier wanders in Estremadura, where the army
of Marquis Romana likewise is ; and in Alentejo
is that of General Hill ; but the army of the
Marquis de Itotnatta has two divisions in the moun.
tains contiguous to Andalusia, under the orders of
Ballasteros, and another under the command of
Carreias, to the North of the Tagus.
Bet e eeen the Tagus and the Douro are the di.
visions of Ney, Kellerman, anti !Alison ; and he.
tester the sante rivers tho main body of the Eng.'
lish and Portuguese armies. To the North of the
Douro is the division of Junot, -to which is op.
posed the corps of Gallicia and Trazelos.Montes.
It is not easy to know what forces the French
have in Old Castle, New Casale, and the Ash:.
rias, but they must be inconsiderable, since we find
on the one side Don Juan Martin penetrating
towards Guadalaxara and Madrid, and on the
other Mina beating the French in the vicinity of
Pampeluna and Saragossa.
The French Gen.Suchet commands in Arragon,
where !kis opposed by Pcripa, Villacampa, Na.
varroi and the garrisons of Tartosa, Lerida, and,
Miquineeza. The Spaniards have about 15,000
melt: The kisitdiiin or Valencia Is perfectly flue;
and thetroops commanded by Don J. Caro may
give ald to that a Murcia or that Of Arragon.—
The reel*** Cuenca is likewise free from ene.
mica. '• There tie 20,000 patriots under the orders
of General BassecOurt, who make incursions into.
Mancha and New Castile. The corps of Sea',
tiani which was in Granada Las proceeded towards
the kingdom of Murcia. •
We learn tbat the bravo Don Juan Martin,
after having alarmed the garrison of Madrid, en.
tered Guadalaxara on the 13th, where, as in seve.
ral other to wits, the people proceeded to the else.
ti,,n of deputies to the approaching Cortes, in the
very face of their perfidious invaders. •
Listos, MAY 9.—We ore now able to coolant.
nicate at length the Decree of Napoleon, in which
he unites to France all the countries on that side of
the Ebro". Thii Decree resembles that of the
blockade of the British Isles; or that by which
he constituted his dear Brother King of the Two
Sicilia, without his ever having set foot in the one,
then. h he bad become the transitory King of the
other. Me is the first King who bei iironitigated

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Decrees for countries he never possessed; and
what is most amusing is, that at the verr time
when this Decree is dated, O'Donaelldefeated the
French in Catalonia. By the 6th title it appears,
that Bonaparte intends to exteed this Decree to the
whole of Spain. The Decree is dated from the
Palace of the Thuilleries, Feb. 8, 1810.
" Considering that the enormous sums which
our army of Spain costs us, impoverish our tree.
sury, and oblige our people to make sacrifices
which they cannot support : Considering, on the
other hand, that the Spanish Administration is
without energy, and in many provinces does not
even exist, and so far from being able to derive any
advantage from the resources of the country, leaves
them to be employed by the insurgents, wo have
decreed, and du decree as follows :

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by serpriso at the house of a aerate, a friend of
his, who gave the watchword to the Frenchmen,
whoserrounded the house. Nevertheless, he bad
sufficient courage to attempt the opening to himbelf
a passage on horseback, and he had the good fur.
tune to kill two soldiers, but was su desperately
wounded, as to be compelled to surrender. ffe
bas been conducted to Pampeluna, where he wits
received by the people with marks which mani.
felted the interest they took in so worthy 4 W.
triut, and which have induced the enemy tie ee.
specs his life.

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The following is an eatraet from the corns.
pondence of the French Generals with France:

The insurgents having completely united their
forces, the Spanish General on the 23d April at-
tacked the division of Lerida. Ile was complete/7
beaten. We have taken from 3 to 4000 pri.
loners from him, among whom are near 300 Ott.
cers, eight Colonels, and a Blajor.General ; many
cannon, four standards, and a great quantity of
muskets fell into our hands. During this attack,
the garrison of Lerida made a sortie by the bridge.
head, it was overthrown and driven back into the
place by Colonel Robert. Generals Llarespe mid
Bonnard, at the head of the 4th hussars and.l3th
cuirassiers, rendered essential services. colonels
Buhot and Aigrernent particularly distinguished
themselves. Whilst a part of the 3d corps, 041
mantled by Gen. Suchet, gained• thesoimportant ad.
vantages at Lerida, the Duko of Abrantes gave or.
den to storm the town of Astorga, into which the
English had thrown a corps of insurgents, a
took in that town 20 pieces of battering cannon,
some mortars, and the garrison of 3000 mea, ea.
tirely equipped with arms and clothes, fur.
nished by Englaorl."—The General of the
division of artillery, Fouche, who, with !very
few pieces of cannon, succeeded in making a
breach, particularly distinguished himself, as well
as Valazi, Chief of a Battalion ; Vivier, Captaia
in the same corps ; Montagnet, Aide.camp; and
many others. The Duke of Abrantes adds, that
the enemy, who had his principal force shut up
in Astorga, had,
.nevertheless, left some columns
to keep the field ; and that at the moment wo
Mounted the breach,, one of these columns, CM,
posed of 2000 infantry, and a regiment of cavalry,
coming to the succour of the place, attacked the
General of Brigade j3essieres, Guentauella,
Scarcely any of them escaped.
At the same time General Clausil attacked an.
other small cologne beyond Berebehre. The lose
of the Duke of Abrantes is about IQQ men
killed and 300 wounded. We estimate that the
enemy has lost more than 1500 men. Lord Wel-
lington remains with the English army, a 4pects.
tor of these events. Ile does not more frees hio
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camp; he hears the sound• of the MOOR of
Astorga, of Badajuz, of Cadiz, but contents
himself with fomenting insurrections, and furnish.
ing arms and clothing. lie remains tranquil, while
the Duke of Elchingen is making all the disposi-
tions fur the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo Will he
suffer him to take that place, without succouring
it ? Thus the French army, carrying on, under
the eyes of the English, four great sieges, rewires
every thing for that of Bodkins, and has, on all
sides, moving columns, to repress the planderiog
excited by England.—(Moniteurs NV IL)
A French brig and four cknamhisamma, laden
with wine and brandy, has bees apt* by the
squadron under the command of CoMmodoro
COCKBURN, consisting of the hosplacaikt latf
rieuse, and Pickle.
We have received Dutch Papers to the latill-•
The only article of importance with which they
tarnish us, is au abstract of the Imperial Decree
relative to the seizure and confiscation of Amt
.rican vessels. It is not, as was reported a few
bdayseen in ago,force a
fmoea
therer u of recent
last
twei
twelve
e m:adoption,th
sboa to
riltkas.
PARTZ reached Brussels on the 15th, in his way
back-to Paris. Of the fall of Astorga, we haves!.
ready been apprized by way of Corunus. The
, French, as naval, exaggerate the numbers of the
Spaniards who were in the
surrender.
place at the time of its

The Spanish Consul General in this country
has published a notice of the means adopted
by
the Spanish Government, for preventing emissaries
of Boxsexa•ra from proceeding from this coup.
try to South America, under the pretence of going
to the United States.
An account has been received at the East India
House, that the ship Wind/um had been recaptured
oA Lodirignes on the nth of December last, by
his Majesty's ship Magickane, and arrived at the
Cape of Good Hope the 6th of February. Cap:
Omit STEWART and his officers arrived at the Cape
in a cartel from the Isle of Franco on the 2.1 d of
Fehrooll. The Windham proceeded to India on
the 4th of March. • •
Yesterday a Gentleman was riding along the
Claph.tio road, when his horse took fright at
something in the hedge, and set off at such a Pact'
that the rider found it impossibi' to keep his seat,
and in falling, got his foot entangled in the stirrup,
so that he was dragged a 'loeg way. When the
horse was stopped, the face was so disfig;ired that
the (carafes could bardlytedistimaishrd.