The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-06-08 00:00:00

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AMERIGAN PAPERS.

BALTIMORR, APRIL 15..—We aro happy to have
It in our power to stale, that by arrangements made
by Major-General Smth, the Ci6nmal will be en-
abled to resider his system of defence commensurate
with the public zeal, activity, and patriotism. ,
RICHMOND, APRIL 13.--On Friday more troops
were under arms, than Richmond has seen since the
mar of the revolution. A large detachment is on its
way to Norfolk.
WASHINGTON. APRIL 17.—8 y letters from Nor-
folk, of the 12th instant, we learn, that the day be-
fore, a pretty severe gale• having, blown front .she
east, the Beltimore schooner Flight, Captain Kelly,
35 days Gcm• Bourdeaux, with a valuable cargo,
passed the British squadron about four o'clock in
the morning. One of the seventy-fours dispatched.
four boats after her, three with a Lieutenant •and 30
men each, one with a Midshipman and 14 men. The
pilot ran the vessel •on the Horse-shoe,• where she
went to pieces. They got out the irew and pasta-
sere, consisting of 35 persons; the gale bad in-
creased so much, that the boats could not got back
to the ship, and were obliged to put before the wind.
The smaller boat came up-to the frigate Constella-
tion, the crew almost perished. The revenue cutter
of NOT folk took'the other three barges, and sent the
prisoners to Hampton.
One the British tenders sank die other day off
Willoughtri's Volta on the Ripitips.

TO 4 ORRKSPONDENTS.
The Lettte to WinuAss ADAM, Esq. late M. P. promised for
this day, is again postponed till Iss-morrow.

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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:
TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1813.

A Mall from Heligoland arrived this morning,
bringing Hamburgh Papers to the 2d instant, and an
account of the possession of that city by the French,
under.the Prince of EcKMUHL, as Governor, who
foundin its Marine arsenal 150 pieces of cannon, and
80 upon the ramparts.. Lientenant-General VAR*
'IME renewed 35 battalions, the following morn-
ing (amounting perhaps to 30,000 men), when,
after providing a sufficient number,of troops for the
defencrof the place, the remainder filed off towards
Bqitzenberg. From this latter place it seems pro-
bable' that thli corps will subdivide, a part go-
ing to Nensladt, and the rest to Lenzen, there
to remain as a watch upon the further movement
of the CROWN PRINCE, shoold he move from

Stralsund. On this point, however, scarcely • two
politicians think alike. Prince BERNADOTTE'S
parentage has been differently given by different
biographers, hut unless he does something of a
marked character as deserving the money which our
Alinisters have, in their genero :s end good natures,
kindly forced upon him, we shall not be surprised if
it be said that his father was a stigit-of-hand-man!
At all events, we seriously wish him to take care
(if he really means us fairly and honestly) that the
French do not make a ball of him, and contrive to
euge:t- him" into one of Narocuoses conjuring cups.
We irm,t, that whenever he shall have reached Rus-
e
Faskr,or even Grimm, that he will not hurry from
those places, but have a good look out for his ci-
dsciant country folks, and not allow himself to be
•sarried, name voleas, to the capital of his birth.
pieoiV; where the satirical Parisians might be apt to
week their jokes on him. But, to be serious, we are
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ashamed of this crooked policy ; we think that a
straight for ward way of acting would have been better.
Our Ministers ought to have asked the Danes what
would induce them to forget the injuries we had done
them, and restore the two countries to their ancient
and natural intercourse and friendship. What could
par thoughtless rulers espect from a connexion, with
a man like the CROWN PRINCE,' so raised as he had i
been by our great enemy, and so abused as he had
been by our very friends !! Act whatever part he
would, he could not end it with eclat. He must be
either ii-i_lrateful or unfaithful. Fye upon such ,
Statesmen asAill our Cabinet at present.
With respcst to liambur4i4-4 gives Jo,4ordial
sati•fartion to see, as the unhappy tcase stands, that
the work s:f vengeance, which it was supposed would
romtreoCe on the French re-possessing the city, ii
nut ever' Token of, We expressed our hOpes that
the-fearful on that head would be pleasingly disap.
pointed. We I.i•ve reason to believe that the hive.
.itcrerry and venom o filch have been infused into this
creel war, are nearly exhausted. We could tell
our Beadcrs why, if necessary. No doubt, a great
mar) of the persons who had rendered themselves
olwrixinusi to the French retired first to Al.
omit and then further into- the interior. Many of
them sae hod have joined the Swedes at Stralsund,
and pours d their lamentations and their fears into the
it()) al eg rs of the FrancopSwedish end British Princes.
I'b, chief alteration the town'of Hamburgh has un-
gone consists in the change of the civic arms,and the
title of their Newspaper] unless we mention the tone
and terrour of the public sentiments of its Burgomas-
ters, Ac, who all speak of the superior pleasure they
derive from the society of so highly polished a people
es the French, over the company of 'Trude and boorish
rave like that of the Sifierian!: Now, our Ministers
aro thous to make the people, whom they have bad
She temerity to govern, feel the !facts of their,
haughty behaviour to Count Okartrroars. By ;dig,
oiled and meowing deportment to this itodtniendoe