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Baworcva, DEC. I.—Two thousand English pri-
soners have passed through this town on their route
to France; among them is the English cavalry Gene-
ral, Paget. Ile appears in good health.
MILAN► Nov. `25.-13ye Decree of his Majesty
the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, it is
ordained :-
Ist, The Conscription of our Kingdom of Italy,
for the year 1813, shall consist, as in the preceding
year, of 15,000 men-9000 conscripts shall be call-
ed out immediately, and 6000 shall remain in re-
serve.
2d, The measures relating to this law, shall be
fittieed by the Ist of December, so that the Con.
scrit.ts may be. ettahled to arrive at their respective
dept to by the 15th of December.
Lunn, Nov. 10.—We are occupied in establish-
ing six hospitals for the Saxon soldiers who have
hems wounded and arriving from Courland.. Six
waggons have just arrived from Dresden, and others
are expected to follow.
SITRAOT OF A LETTI.R. FROM BERLIN OF TUE 20TII
NOVEMBER.
46 Our Sovereign very seldom visits his capital,
having for some time past fixed his residence at Pols-
dam. The Ministers transact all affairs. French
military and police agents swarm in this city ; and.,
such is their dictation and uncentrouled power, that
they may truly boast of having reduced Peessia to
the state of a province of their Empire. The ordi-
nary and extraordinary taxes have quite impove-
rished us.
" Several sharp engagements have lately talten
place in Courland ; twenty-six waggoni . with our
wounded countrymen have just arrived: they are
desperate cases, most of them have lot either legs
or arms : it is a deplorable sight, some of the 'poor
wretches are frozen to death ; a few of the survivors
are consoling themselves with a pipe. I understand
all the hospitals in Poland are titled:
" live hundred surgeons passed through Leipsic
on the St:i for Warsaw. They travelled with the
utmost expedition."

ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO OUR READERS.
In one of the leading articles of our but. we mentioned Shake-
sogeare Instead of Sour:anima, as the Author of the dramatic
visitation t which quotation we might have carried s:ill fur-
ther, and added " no, let the guilty blush," via. the Ministers
who have betrayed the people of these kingdoms into their
present deplorable condition.

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THE STATESMAN.

• • LONDON; .
•111011DATI DUMBER 28, 1811.

The Twenty-ninth Bulletin of the•Gread „Trench
Army has, from its importance, engrossed the pub.
lie attention ; and produced, as may be easily
imagined, a variety of clashing conjectures and eon.
tradictory opinions. The Ministerial writers, who,
from motives of hu.bitual venality, take, on all occa-
sions, their cue from their employers, thought proper,
in the first instance, to attribute the -retreat of the
French, and the success of the Russian arms, wholly
to Russian skill, courage, and patriotism. This
opinion, however, upon second thoughts, has under-
gone a revision, and Providence has since been ac-
knowledged as a Russian ally, and permitted to share
with the brave and hardy native, the honour of these
splendid victories. Not only have we been amused
with the cheering predictions of the certain death and
destruction of NAPOLEON and his whole army,' in
all the grave forms of sober prose, but the well-
known poet, FITZGERALD, has also invoked his pro-
lific end loyal Muse, and, in more animating strains,
gives us the following must consolatory and delec-
table assurance ;

46 Rut does be saw the end of fortune'• tide.
'' For URANUS RESOLVED to cacm the TYRANT'S PRIOR;

" And tan, tybe kept the TREMBLING WORLD 111-DRISADw

" Caa find on CORNER TO CONCEAL RIS.REA D." • I
The admirable use these Treasury poets, and their
prosaic fellow-labourers, al ways make of Providence,
is really astonishing. They are as well acquainted
with the resolves of Heaven, as with the secrets of a
Pllnfrtettut 'inattdate. Every battle fought, most
commonly terminates either in defeat or victory, on
ono side or the other—if in our defeat, why then,
according to these infallible oracles, that is for the
punishment of our sins : if in victory—" Ilearen has
resolved to crush the Tgrant's pride." Of the fat.
ter opinion, every one will judge for himself; but
when we recollect the delusions and falsehoods which
these mercenary scribblers are daily propagating, we
are quite sure, that for their own sins at least, no-
body (except themselves) will dispute the justice of
their punishment. To keep a trembling world in,
dread, is really a very firm flight of fancy. I} does
not, however, appear to be an extremely difficult
task: for if we are all :renal's:, we shall most pro-
bably keep ourselves in dread, without the assist.
ante of either BONAPARTE, or Lord C

Indeed, if we did not toow that
poet, by an overheated imagination,
takes of inssuity, lee 'tight expostulal
wholessis desist in rhyisesksrld r
record:ft, even with pestitdkittisn,
want of a '"
corner to itssieff kr,
known utmost of his isfikarrira3
in.st.inserted is thsvesy Paper, which contains
ciousandsublime effatiossi Bei
sate honesty in a pieli-pooket, es recommend
to truth tisither venal Nett ,
lint, while be lives, will Ovii uder
latter, cannot subsist, 4414 issk,

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T 1 1 E STATESMAN._

Woman
They are all employed alike in their respective vo- disastrous miscarriage will, at least, make BoNA-
cations. Speaking generally of the English Press,it fARTE in future less confident of victory, and less
is one of its greatest misfortunes, that its conductors dliposed to hazard his fortunes on the chances of
are too often more anxious to make political events war. fie must be conscious that his Allies, though
subservient to interested views, or to some precon. they may be constrained to supply their contingents
CaiTed prejudice, than to the real information of the of men, cannot relish a.war, the commencement of
' public, and to the sacred cause of truth. Under the which has been marked with so many misfortunes,
direction of such guides, it is no wonder their fol- and from the renewal of which they can expect to
lowers are confined and bewildered, and that party ' derive neither honour nor advantage. Us must be
zeal should so often triumph over the evidence of equally sensible, that his system of Military con-
' facts and the cleaiest deductions of reason. To en- scription, which sends the youth of France to perish
'
able others to judge, whether see have imbibed
; portion of this spirit—we shall here offer our un- any;
for themselves either fame or fortune, if it benotal-
idisguised opinion, on the origin of the Russian ' ready, must, in the very nature of things, soon become
i War. We deny the truth of the assertion, so odious and hateful to the French nation. This is in-
!often repeated by our Ministerial hirelings, that deed that view of the subject, which, of all others,
c" France, in commencing the Russian War, was .! Is the most interesting to the enlightened Statesman.
I guilty of a wanton and unprovoked aggression." it i Hewitt see in the character of the times the glimmer-
`is beyond all dispute—it is suseeptible of juridical ing dawn of a better day—he will see in the new and
proof, that* A LExa N nen and Naeor:EoN entered into ' extraordinary circumstances of Europe, something
1.
• a treaty at Tilsit, in which the total exclusion of Eng- : highly auspicious to peace, aid be will seize with
dish goods from the-pods of Russia, was distinctly ' avidity the fortunate opportunity, to heal the wounds
i
. and expressly stipulated, ind which stipulation the of a bleeding world. This is the grand lesson. which
Iformer avowedly violated, long before France had the times teach. We have already had t twenty.
irerourse to hostilitiete ...Now, though we do not years' sanguinary war, for what is called the sacred
I think that ten thouliturißich provocations will kettle cause of Kings—the most 'of whom* were worthless,
Ify the ruinendikehlation produced by forialdahle and not a. few of them weak.' It hides •time that.
linvasion, psi we assert, that, in the Diplomatic Mo- ', madness and murder shoulil ceasel entil hitt the hape
.ral Code, any violation of tubsisting Treaties, is pro- piness which the Father of Mercies deiiined for did
intercepted y
flounced to be a sound and legitimate cause of war : • enjoyment of should not be b
mankind,
• and therefore, however such doctrine may be re- , the ambition, the folly, or the crimes of CrowDed*,
puguant to our individual feelings, truth will not al- : Heads. .
low us to join in the whining cant of pensioned by,.i
--die.
There are various reports in town respecting dis-1
I pocrisy, by calling the invasion of Russia "is wanton
and unprovoked aggression." BoNAPAIITE, I rbauces in Paris, but they rest upon very slight;
kaveu • !"
in. i authority, and may originate wholly he the row' ate'
knows, is uo favourite of ours. We have' 'often,
i the Theatre, where it is said the bupt of BONAPARTE
I deed, admired his astonishing sagacity, displayed both
' was destroyed. The public must be prepared to hear
in the cabinet and in the field ; but his turbulent and
boundless ambition, combined with his severe and .
a variety of unfounded reports respecting the inter-
tyrannical restrictions on the French Press, are very
nal state of France, until we havefurther official in-
far from being to our taste, or likely to gain ;
him our : telligence, to show in what manner.the EaspEßoß
esteem. Yet, with equal sincerity, we must observe, , has been received, after the disasters of the Russian I
campaign are generally known throughout his Em- I
that we do not think his conduct and character would
appear to the greatest possible disadvantage by being pier. We have received the following Letter from
placed, side lei side, with his Imperial adversary : Dover this morning; which in some measure contra-
and, indeed, it is srercely two years ago, since the diets the above report:—
whole Ministerial part of the London Press, honour. "A report has been in general circulation the whole
ed ALEXANDER with as, varied a profusion of scurri- day, that the crew of a sloop of war, on the Dunge-
lous'epithets, as they now daily poor on Naeoezox: • hess station, have mutinied and carried her into Boy-
From every view we can take of the present criti-,;Jeghet
all state of Europe, we feel i convictions that the " A boat from France, said to be the bearer of a!
. .
passing 'newest is pregnant with events of high Flag 44 Truce, spoke one of our sloops of war off'
importance to mankind ; and which; under Provi- here this morning, and after a short conference, she
.deuce, will depend solely on the wisdom or folly of returned to the opposite coast, and the. sloop of war
Kings acid Cabinets, to render beneficial or injuriops stood to the Westward. Some conceive that the boat,
to the interests of a suffering world. The, vaqat,hrought overtures from BONAPARTE ; but others, that
States, .which have long. been compelled to yield she came with information of the above unpleasant'
prompt and implicit obedience to the will of 80NA...1 intelligence."
•
ram t, who must, at all times, have • cherished ' •
Yesterday the Loan CHANCELLOR had an audience
• wish to shake off a yoke painfully galling to their
. of the Parxce REOENT at Carlton House.
pride, will undoubtedly, in tones of no comentreex- ; On Saturday, at half--past twelve o'clock, her
ultation, rejoice,i(Qhe terrible discomfiture of his ' MAarsreT, and the Princesses ErazAscret and MARY,
army. They will see, that he who had ever been arrived at the Queen's Palace from Windsor. In a
familiar with victory—who had defeated so many , few minutes after, one of the Patrick Reozrer's care
powerful armies, led.'-on by the greatest Captains of riages arrived at the Palace and conveyed the
the age—and who had almost subdued civilized Eu- Qum; and PeaucEssa to Carlton House, where ,
, ' they were received by, the PRINCE, and the Duke of 4
rope, has been suddenly checked in his career, and
CumataLANo. After partaking of an early dinner, I
limits set to 'his ambition, by a nation scarcely ad- her ~.xe,,'
blurry and the PRINCEMES left Carlton House
vanced beyond semi-barbarism. This ,will excite for Windsor, about half-past four o'clock... , •
new hopes, and call forth new courage. The dread Saturday, the Earl of LlTes?°" gal"• grand
of defeat will have diminished, and the mere possi. dinner, at Fife Home, Whitehall, to the Russian
bility of victory', in the transports of their joy, will Ambassador, and other Foreign Ministers.
A letter from Plymouth, received on Saturday,
be taken as the sure pledge of its easy attainment, states, that no less than eight Atherican schooners
But let them not make too lightly of the difficulties from New York to Bourdeaux, with cargoes, each
that are still to be surmounted, before they can safe. worth 20,0001. and also from Charleston to L'Orient,
ly reckon on successful resistance. He has, la. • had been sent Into. that' port: The sea, it is oh-
deed, appeared for the first time oil th'e Ea- l served' to`ctUally siarming with them, and they
all hope escape by superior sailing. The Amer'.
ropean stage, in the character of the van- can merchants calculate, that if in their outfits for ,
quished ; and he has given as striking proofs of French ports, three out of five should be taken, yet
consummate skill in repairing defeat, as he has often from their close stowage and quick sailing they will
done in improving victory. • 'He 'has accomplished a gain a lair average profit.
retreat, which the best judges had thought to be im- The reported capture of the Macedonieageine cre-
possible, and which the same authorities 'new pro- dit. It Is even said, that such an account has been i
received at the Admiralty. She was cominauded by
pounce a chef d'ouvre In the military art. This r. ,
....aptantJoni SURDIAS 'CARDEN, who has been' a•
celebrated retreat, though It may not, as his -pare- Post-captain near seven years, and always considered
' rites proclaim, -throw-ifdtreisside that -immortel•vibe a good Office... Hoe vhotl
of the ten thousand Greeks; acid the ao less famous perhaps she had not go many on board. 'She cerriev
one of the French themselves, in oar own times, 30 guns, le and 9 pounders, and 14 carronades of
32- pounders; and is A new frigate, having beeti
under MoitEAU, in Germany, has nevertheless shed
launched about two yeast-sod a-half since, at Dept-
a new lustre on Ms name, and has, perhaps added ford_
more to his military reputation, than it has taken' -The subsequent is an extract of a letter received
from the force of his arms. It should also be retellected, on Saturday, dated Martinique, October 9:—" Se-.
that the immense population subject to his poweit viral American privateers continue in these seas, yet i
offer abundant resources for recruiting his lessmi, only one, a schooner of twelveguns, has been taken.
;•• • A,- - They run round every thing they have chiced. . The
and quickly supplying nett trines. OD the
-0 17"r"greatest part of the men of war on this station have i
aide, it has indeed been again and again esseeteekd_aat ngbeen out three or -four years their eoPper is sol
instead of following his Wars, the Frenchareini.. bad that they sail very slimly."' I
verbally ripe for revolt. If sO,''.ehis must certainly, be Mr. BENJAPIEVO,• who made so conspicuous a!
beyond comparison, the most' favourable moment figpre cg, the court of iting's eenchlast week, weal
Private frecretery.eq Lord Witivwoptyn when on his •
for making the experimeut, wiflt any 1'401.4 sue-
embassy to Paris, to which place Mr. BENJ Arleta)
cuss. Had this 00404 tktiltver, been 'wet *ad-
,, , . accompanied/4s loordsbip and the rluchess.of DoR-
et!, , shoitld before this has - it'"111"1011c• 14 -3J•-3J••'"- ',Arch gOnlidonOal p,ltlietton ha, was' ap. '
tetert4 01 , kis SelltV
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YRBLl—''....."6sopu at.
the dsels ra , ;ea
shoes the
lirweonhich
RITRAGTS roost &men LATELY
rclis 11.11fworpmTeltrEP°41emrE 'Lit"
Of Mr. REILTAMIN STALLVIOO4
44 We haveni
scapdalons Manner in which his '
dared; and the means by which hePr
was
wja i,!,111.
from his late farm at Becking hi the as at last d-ivett
Marlow, Bucki. The land' having parish of (heat
into the babds of the • been returned
Proprietor, J. j„
Esq. be appointed a person named CAR - •
Nur,/
• )
his crops against the rahbits which't° -tutees
issued '
numbers from the neighbouring b II" {teat
to the Lord of the Manor of GPreat- Merlons,e'-"igitig
constituted the-most•grievous part of th
e nuisaiiie. ,k,
gamekeeper belonging to the preserve
who is stated in Farmer STALtaroop', dimmed 11"st9
s eelarat ion
have been originally a poor labouringto
ma,,, and t I%
acquired se) much mo'hey by the sale ofrabbits,ulate
to put out 1001. at a time to interest, becomingafters
the Keeper of the Preserve above.menee
tivelyawore that CARR had fired at a pheasant,
, posi.
the other denied to be true, end offered to which
by oath; it appears also by his Master's to
tie
blagistrateA, that CAtut fired at something
i he killed, and which was immediate h else, ii tech
rcught to I,:c
said Master, and that the pheasant IC
! (who was at too great a distance to knowee" by 1101,5 i.,
what C
' shot et) rose upon the report-of the • "A"
9 gun. the lett,
Abele alluded to, is addressed to the public • E 'l.
i rat, and to the Marl of CARDMAN jo-in ' "n.r:.
I Esq. and the Rev. ISAAC Kure in a Joni
11"'
metes. %V
4 i'shisli confine our extract-4o Ike fiat partP ow'rt which
we consider as possessing a strong claim to
regasd; the other part particularly
to
'the
three Magistrates above-mentioned, relates
tire conviction of CARR, on the sole elidl4 t°
0 i lIOUSI ; who is said man
to have become a rich "°f
person in his line of life), by the sale of (fur a
rebus fed ut
other men's cost, and to have had an interest in disarm.
iing Caen, by means of the above prosecution, he trip;
tau impediment to a renewal of that spoliation which
4 drove the old tenant frem the farm. Having offered
these remarks, at the same time disclaiming any ins
tention of censure on the proceedings of the Ninii. 1
trates, the writer finishes what he has to say to them
I with the following truly excelleut sentiment : " Al-
, though justice will ever remain imperfect, so long a;
' it is administered by fallible man,
yet there can be no
question, that the way by which it will approximate
the nearest to perfection, is by sparieg no '
pains, ana
neglecting no means, whereby it is possible to attain
land discover the truth, What I bate now to add
regards the public at large. Nothing is more calcu:
:listed," continues the writer,-cf_to excite a virtuous
indignation, &c."--(This letter is signed J J. oils.
see, and dated Seymour-court, Oct. 21.) -
It is feared that Lord II eltexelet.D cannot recover.
His estates, at , his decease, go to a cousin.—
They are very large, particularly in Desonsr • t.res
where; 'from his mother's het sides Iso nherits all the pro-
: petty of Sir FRANCIS PRASE, the Admirali in the
? time of ELIE ABETS: so that leis also an inheritance
of a property in fame. .
I. Mr. SiIERIBAN is to be returned for the Borough
'of WOOkOil Basset ; Mr. Illoowsui for' that of St.
~ Mimes ; and Mr Ttaltwitr, for Appleby.'
Ilfr. nem, it deems, was tipake.his arst appear-
ance' at the Windsor Theatre on Saturday. " ,
Mr. Cassese has informed, the merchants at
,Lloyd's, that the Lords of the Admiralty, in cons '
sequence of the prevalence of 'easterly winds, have
countermanded the sailing of atiy convey from the
I Note to Gottenburgh till the opening of sprint,.
The Southampton frigate, that was reported to be
lost at New Orleanse_ arrived at Jimaice on the Cth
of October. The Brows sloop of war was dis-
masted in a gale of wind off New Orleans, on the
IWith of August, and has put into New Providence.
Amon the recent failures in Dublin are no less
than ten of the principal 'woollen manufacturers.
The Royal Care arton Militia have volunteered
their services to serve in Spain and Portugal. The
Cards:von were the first •that landed in Ireland since
the Act passed for the interchange of the Militia :
they have been formed into a rifle corps, and their
uniform changed from scarlet to greer`t.
Sir ROBERT WILsoN was in the last Gmette, not
' for any promotion, but for a mere regimental ex-
change. As King's Aidede-Camp he is candidate fur
a regiment, and according also to the routine of set-
vice.
The Duke of RicumoNo is, very wisely, about to
leave Irelassd, but it is not easy to find a successor.—
' The Duke of BEAUfoRT, we understand, has as wisely
decliued it.
On Thursday last, the anniversary of the birth-
day of the Emperor of RUSSIA, An entertainmett
was given by Rear-Admiral Sir Tnostas WILLIM,
ICommander in Chief at the Nore, to the several
Ylag-Officers and Captains of his Imperial Majesty's
fleet ia-the Medway. - -
. Intelligence, it is said, has been transmitted to
Government from the French Coast, that the enene's
Commanders in the Peninsula have received orders tu
send one half of their troops to France.
It has recently been discovered that iron, at a red
heat, may be sawed with a common saw, in the man-
, net of wood. In this way a block of iron ins► he
sawed into iron planks for numerous purposes. At
I trwhite heat it is found to clog the saw.
r Friday se'nnight, a Mr. Woodley, a farmer at
I,lLoynton, having perchased s quantity of gutiposider
4 it Ashburton, took it in a bag
Ito the shop of Mr.
Chalk, a blacksmith, awl 'e bile vs aiting.for his hope,
I untied the mouth of the !aorta put in a stone far!: of
m the
1 purpose of 'balancing the weight, when a stone
fire from the anvil communicating with the p.10(1^r1
.it blew up the home and another adjoining. C.iia.ll9k
i his apprentice, and three children, n
were bu 4 II
' the ruins, hut were dug out without susmining all
hey had en arm broken
..
Irouglmut the, town.
liberal. Christmas relief afforded
~, each prisoner in Newgate,
Ces*ers, bit Lordship has or-
among the poor freemen eon-
'one weight of meat weekly,
his Mayoralty.
' roof of St. Paul's chereki
dAiireeered to. be on lire, 0% dug?
10
-heated. It happened
lily was not known to the eon
the consequence:might hare
aztinrithed without ma-
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hat the frenzy of the ; tionary symp4inx‘;, big 00.brthi.,.fteenti' Tikkird.!! poititidie oottreipteitce of.* unties! to the Minis- material injury. Woodlo
ition, sometimes par- I lunatic conspiracy. ell', a few terbaleet inthviduele et try, 1111 thle•Meneill "el ..130 1014o:tattle and dtf-1 The shock was felt throui
expostulate with this I Paris, we have •aa yet neither heard (roma Suliseca dcalty•in trittilegPilk,m4.,Psl444lMy .of tvrittitg A-II In addition to the liter
d ask him, hew he can, nor soldiers ' a shigle expreadon .of d 4 Ilia
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his hradeiiith 'the or even of heilgi colviitillki .1141 eitbilt VFW prei -IA aof which
,ekklisittee. ' ;41-Stahcs was so' ill- Ideed.ia ,Ludgate, 10,stoei
:id in PariassiOns4Dth that the copse do ii*ofiduadippy..as we' Ittotteet. ' :N,d .te ' ' idewt.:aktiilo ' 'NO la'. cer, 4itiring.tbe. rems,inder yr h
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