The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-26 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

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• l'n ieus serjeants, 9 drummers, wo Taik.llolllßE -the Russians were repulsed and obliged to recross
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• -d-d; 7 raultand die, mis.ing. : the Aa, with the loss of five hundred prisoners.—
poirrent'e.r Captain, 1 Lientrnant, 94 rank ani
011 the 30th the enemy were pursued on both banks
1 Major, 9 Captains, 1 serjesnt, 65 rank sad
Ale, • • ,of the Aa. They *ere overtaken at Schlokhof,
yawed; 11 rank and tile, missing. • ;
Ervin AND Peareavasz Loss.-1 Majof, I Cap. where battle was given them. They were driven
TOTAL
Lulea/ems nts, 1 Ensign, 1 Staff, I serjrants, lltitank and, from
their position. The 3d regiment of Russian.
• :;if., Major, ittaPra
jfidiki",
and ire,
wounded;":4s.innbk Hussars, and a battalion of the 25th, laid. down
o,4ants. 3 ----nuners,their arms before the 3d Prussian regiment of Hussars.
,nd lie r3i*lng•
On the Ist Oct. were still further repulsed, and
all the regiments of Dragoons and Finland Cossacks
were sabred. The Russians decamped during the
night, and retired upon Peterhoff and Olae.
On the 2d we began to pursue them, but they has-
tened to re-enter Riga. We have taken from them
about twenty Cossacks and some stragglers. Al-
though these advantages have not been gained with-
out some loss on the Prussian side, nevertheless it is
not in proportion to that of the enemy, whose loss
may without exaggeration be calculated at from 4 to I
5,000 men. We have taken 2,600 men and a
cannon.
Such are the results of the battles which the Rus-
sian troops gave, from the, 27th September to the Id
October ; by means of which they not only succeed-
ed in saving the park of artillery destined for the
siege of Riga, but also to maintain and confirm all
the left wing of the Allied Army in its importitut po-
sition. The Prussian troops have entered into the
mkpital of Courland, and all the positions they ante-
'arty 6ccbpied: One may judge of the importance
of this victory, by the eagerness of the Governor of
Riga to run from Riga to Mittau, to organise a pro-
vince he already considered as reconquered.
Putts, OCT. 21.---According to commercial letters
received from the Grand Army, his Majesty is organ-
izing a Provisionary Administration, regulating the
employment of the great resources which the
city of Moscow still offers, so that the wants of

KILLED.
Adjuunt Dobson, 2d Battalion, Stlth Font.
Ann. C. Cocks, Ist Battalion, 79th ditto.
Safe, Ist Line llattalioa, K. G. L.
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Wiackler. Ath ditto ditto. •
Ensign Buckeridge, Ist Battalion Coldstream Guard&.
Captain H. Perry, sth Cacadorcs.
WOUNDED.
•Captain Stewart, Acting Engineer, Ist Royal Scots, slightly.
•Captain Macpherson, ditto, "tth Fool, ditto, since dead.
*Ensign lan more, ditto, :3:ith Foot, slightly.
•t,itsign ifwige. ditto. 31ith Foot, ditto.
Captain Clitherow, Ist Battalion, 3d Guards, severely.
Cup•,aln Latagrehr, Tal Line Battalion, K.G. L. ditto.
Lieutenant Cartien, sth ditto, ditto.
Lieutenunt I.lgir, Royal Artillery, slightly.
Captain rower. ditto, ditto.
Lieutenant Buntaresq, Assistant-Engineer, Ist Battalion, 9t-
Foot, severely.
Lieutenant Wytwelte, Line Battalion, K. G. L. ditto.
Captain I.nddrrs. sth ditto, ditto.
Major Arnott, 12th Portuguese Regiment,l
• 'fbrse Officers were wounded on the evening of the 4th
and morning of tin sth, but the Return was received too late
fur insertion.

It will alsobe seeit by our Falmenth letter, which
is suijoined, that these Dispatches were said to be of
great importance, and that Masspsi had taken the
command of the 'French army, which will,-fn all
probability, be the fore-runner of active operations
against the Allies ; and it is greatly to be feared
that the protracted siege of Bingos will
totally derange the plan of the campaign.—
The loss already gntemd as having been sus-
tained before this fortress, the whole garrison of
which scarcely exceeds €2,000 m: n, is no less than
1609; and the Conqueror of all the French Mar-
yhals, with the flower of his army, had been detained
at the date of leis dispatch, full three weeks from Ivor-
suing the career of victory. We hive been repeat-
edly disgu.;,,il with the impudent assertion that the
British at my in pain was as strong as was necessary,
Or as its General wished. Is it conceivable, that
Lord WLLLINGTON can wish to he prevented from
annihilaing Ccacsat.'s army by the Want of a force
Sufficient at one.. to carry on this wasting siege, and
to advance toward the Ebro ? Or. do we suppose,
that he ;s nu, sing the war, and keeping a pletvaut
little cam.mign against the southern army its pelt°,
for next year ?

Fm..vrivrn, Ocr. Whiffet Castle, Captain Strrrow,
arrived here thi, nvirnior with moils, &v. from Corona, 3 days
Avolata front Burgos nod brit received at Coruona
to the 11th inst. of Ahich time the Citadel Mill held out, al-
itiongh three mines bad been sprung under its walls, which hod
can i lurably Inland them. At the mi nein the packet was
caning tray, an express arrived at Coro nn , with dispatches
Fran the !ilaralis of Wctusocont, said to be of emu iinaors—•
wee t but whs.: news the Courier bmught is tot Lantro to any
person en board the packet. M users hal and taken
the command of the French %env ; hat had not braul.ht any
reinforcements of consequence with him.

We have this day inserted the farewel speeches of
Mr. BROUGHAM and Mr. CREETEY, to the Elmtors
of Ctverpool„ which must excite feelings of sympathy
a 94 Indignation, in the breast of every honest gng..
lishmaa. There is something so obnoxious to the Mi-
-1 nisterial mercenaries in the purity of Election, that
they cannot hear it mentioned without betraying the
most evident marks of unprincipled agitation.—.
They view the champions who have come forward
to oppose their avaricious and degenerated system, j
with the instinctive horror, that puts in motion a
I rat on viewing a terrier, and set all their engines at
work to protect the nest of corruption, in which
they find themselves reposing with impunity. To
these Journalists, whose principles and talents have
been purchased as weapons against the people, the
most conspicuous of which are, the Courier and
Morning Post, we may justly ascribe the cause of
the extensive misery and lingering calamity, that is
now spreading its corroding influence throughout
this once flourishing country ; and we should have
thought them very neglectful in their duty to their
Patrons, if they had omitted heaping their consist-
ent abuse upon such popular Candidates as Messrs.
I BROUGHAM and CREEr EY.

We have given some extracts in a preceding co.
lame from the Paris Papers received on Saturday, to
the 21st instant ; and have this morning received a
further supply of French Papers to the 23d, from
which we have made the followi►►i, selection. It ap-
pmrs by those accounts, that ooncral Esszm had
made a sortie from Riga, and had been def►'ated
with great loss. It is also mentioned in a letter
from Dresden, that the French had entered Twer,
which is 120 miles distant from Moscow, o►► the
road to St. Petersburgh.

W.tr.s.s.w, Oct. 3.—According to private letters I
from Moscow, the French troops are constructing
barracks there, which will be finished in fifteen days.
An age will scarcely repair the damage which the I
fire has caused to Moscow and the Russian Empire.
BERLIN, OCT. 10.—Major WRANCEL, Aid•de-
Camp to his MAJISTY, arrived here laseuight. He
brings intelligence of a brilliant victory which the
Prussian troops hare gained in Courland. '
The garrison of Rip having been, since the 19th I
of September, reinforced with from 20 to 30,000,1
men, Lieutenant-General Essex, Governor of that'
place, resolved to surprise the Prussian corps, label
occupied, in three daiiions, separated tram each
other by impenetrable marshes, a circuit of nine
German miles.

The ships spoke with on the 3d ult. by the Doris
frigate, have arrived in the Downs, under convoy of
his Majesty's ship La Loire :—Dorselshire and
Scalesb,y Castic,from China • Lord Eldon and Ba-
tavia, from Bengal and China;
and Cornwall
(country ship),_ from Bengal.
/ • Saturday a Heligoland mall arrived. The follow-
' lug is an extract of a letter of the 15th inst.-66 Ge.
neat SARRAZIN, who has peon some time here, has
obtained permission from Government to visit Swe-
' den, and has been endeavouring to procure a passage
direct to Gottenburgh, but seems undetermined
' how to proceed. It is supposed he intends return.
in. to Harwich, and thence pursuing his voyage to
Gottenburgh."'
Messrs. %Vo Lies and Donvitxx, largely concerned
in the trade of Denmark and Norway, stopped pay-
; ment on Saturday.
Failures to an alarming extent among several mer.
cantile firms in the City, will be announced in a few
I days.

On the 26th, the Ressians menaced Ike post of
Timone, repulsed Colonel Howl's Camp Guards,
and marched with considerable forces against Gen.
D'Yoacz. The General Officer, who had made a
reconnoissance upon -the high road from hlittau to
Riga, determined to abandon the post of Olae, join
Colonel Holes, and march upon Ekau. Scarcely
had this junction been effected, when the enemy, on
the 27th, appeared with suprior forces. It was evi-
dent that their inteution as to seize upon the be"
siegiog park of artillery, collected at Ruhenthal, and
oblige us to abandon, at least for the present, the
siege of Riga. (:oaeral n'Yottca fell back upon
Eausle, and on the ..i.mth marched behind the Aal to
Ruhenthal, to defend the artillery.
On the 29th, in the morning, Gen. lEtust's bri-
gade having arrived at Ituhenthal, General DE YORCK
was on the point of assuming the defiTnisive, when he
was informed that the Russians had passed the Aa,
not far from Graventhal. He sent Gen. KLEIST'S left
sing upon tho left bank of the river Aa, where the
advanced guard, under tho orders of Colonel
steam had Oren!), successfully curimenced the at-
tack. From this moment a bloody at.tion commenced

A Cabinet Council has assembled this day, for the
discussion of various important topics, of an urgent
nature.
Great fears are entertained for the safety of the
Oxford Blues; the transports in which they sailed
were dispersed in the dreadful gales which occurred
last week, and no account has yet been received of
them. Hopes are, however, entertained, that they
may have weathered the storm, and proceeded for
Ireland.
The Amelia packet, Capt. Mooasostc, engaged
the Rossie privateer 50 minutes, during which him-
self, his mate, and a boy wete killed; and unmask
wounded,
YARMOUTH, OCT. 25.—The Arab sloop is arrived
at this port, to receive on board the Ambassador
from the Regency of Spain to the Court of St. Pe-
tersburgh.

bl. QUISBY TO LORD. BYit
Who energising" Subjects, verie or prose,
Wits nodertake, the Muse should never doze.
Your verses, my good Lord, the truth to teU,
Are, for a lord ling poet, pretty well;
At Astley's, or the t:ircus, they might pan,
Fit for no better place, or I'm an ass;
But for Old Drury ! pardon me, my Lord—
" my good Sir, should " *flame" in every word
For lack of this-Ltut pray don't think me bold—
Yuir verses ire, as Lapland Winter, cold.
'Twos "fire" and "flame" that burst old Drury down :
Perhaps your Lordship was not then in Town ;
You could not else have made so great a blunder.
Read my Address, my Lord, recd, read, and wonder ! I
Then, for my Son, George Fred, (ingenious youth I)
He " spools" ai well as writes—indeed 'di truth—
He shall (sweet boy 0 attend you at your leisure,
And teach your Lordship how to rhyme, at pleasure. -
Oh ! had you seen my Goorry on the stage,
You would have seen a deep one of his age:
When Mister lt.synotio came, with looks so
if Well, Sir," quoth George, " for you, who cares a fig."
Lord 1 how the How-street ollicers all star'd,
To see the lad, for self-defence prepar'd ;
And When those men of peace would force him of,
How well the little manakin did scoff!
There are vonte Sires, my Lord, who love to prate,
And their ?silt children's talent overrate ;
Thank Heaven, not like those—l'm George's dad,
And he's my son—a dev'lish clever lad.
Oh; dear! oh, dear !—what a sad head I've got,
To ovation my la:comes I've forgot ;
I hope, my Lord, it is nut yet too late—
(Though boasting, vain intruders, much I hate)—
iach.volume, bound in calf—and gilt—so nice!
For widat three guiaeas is the trifling price.
To publish by subscription who's to blame?—
Shall I be honotir'd with your Lordship's name ?
It is a d—d tine work—no common stuff:
1 writ the whole myself—and that's enough ;
You'll Sod in this translation nothing * risby—
'Tis mirte—your most obedient Doctor Qu &say.
• !Mkt, my Lord, is derived from risiblenest, or risibility.

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.
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the inhabitants are insured the army finds every j Ora a
night was revived Gen. BURGOYNE'S
thing requisite to refresh the soldier after his fatigue, Opera of 7'he Lord of the Manor, in which were in-
troduced many new Songs ; they added, indeed, con-
and to complete the magazines with all kinds of pro: .;
siderably to the length, but very little to the strength
visions. The greater part of the army is cantoned of the Opera. The original Music is by the late Mr.
in the city. The soldiers are covered with good JACKSON, of Exeter, the preceptor of DAVY, who has
pelisses. We can do every thing that my he composed the only original Song amongst the number
useful or commodious for the future. now introduced—the rest are obtiously such phi-
Whilst these cares occupy the Conqueror, the
giarisms, that very little credit can be given to their
slcp-falkert. INCLEDON sung the beautiful melodies
enemy have taken refuge between Tulle and :of JACKSON in that chaste and impressive sytle, which
Kalouga, and there with difficulty assemble their is always calculated to please—n sytle touching our
scattered bands, and appear to wait to see the direc- ' finer feelings by its simplicity, rather than exciting
tion which the Conqueror shall think proper to take, our astonishment by rapid execution. The following
to obey movements which they are no longer in a
Song is the one alluded to above, and as the produc-
condition to command. The French advanced posts lion of DAVY, it is by far the best piece of Music in the
Opera ; and was sung by Isctxuost in that soothing
towards the south, extend along the fertile banks of . strain of melancholy, which lulls the auditor into a
the Pakw a. state of tranquil delight, equally removed from torpid
indifference and noisy applause :
Can I forget the silent tears
Which I have shed for thee;
And at the pangs, the climb!' and feats,
" tiyhirlt seatteed o'er my blown
The blights of misery.
1 nev"r clMe my languid eye
Unless to dream of thee ;
My eery breath is but the sigh ;
My eery sound the broken cry
Of lasting misery.
The Overture, by Brow'', was well received; and
the Duct, ttith an accompanient for bells, was en-
cored. A beautiful little ballad, composed by
DOYLE, the bass-singer, in imitation of SW margins
(run Rio was sung by SINCLAIR, and deservedly en-
cored. A Glee by T. WE.LsH, and sung i.y Mrs.
StraLtNo, Messrs. SINCLAik, and iscLiusom, was
also encored. Miss liotcoN and Mri.-LT'.xost me-
rited the applause they received; and the comic
parts, sustained as they wore by FAWCETT, JoNzs,
and .4sTosi, were equally excellent. The Opel a was
announced for repetition, with mineral applause.

Bersos A.TRES.—Fresli adrices were received on
Saturday from Buenos Ayres, by which welearn,
t dint one European Spaniard more had been con-
t sided of being a principal in the conspiracy ; and
bad paid the forfeit of his life. In all, twenty-
' eight had been put to death. Upon the restoration
lof tranquillity, many of the Spaniards who had
been under arrest had been set at liberty, whilst
others were sent out of the country. Through the
interference of Lord STRANGPOAD, a perfect good
understanding was maintained between the Portu-
guese Government and the Junta. Information had
reached Buenos Ayres, that all the Peruvian mines,
and the mint at Potosi, were ht the potter of the
of
of Lima. in consequence of the deficiency
of specie, arising from this • cause, sales of goods
were very heavy. Produce was not plentiful, nor
likely to be so for a length of time •, as the ravages
of the civil war on the eastern side of the River
Plate, had ruined the Estancias, where hides and
tallow of the first qualities were prepared. The
punishment of the conspirators had revived the ani-
, mosity of the Government and inhabitants of Monte
Video, against the Junta of Buenos Ayres ; ,and ac-
tive preparations were making for the re-commence-
ment of hostilities. •
} A Mail from Corunna arrived- last night. The Pa-
-1 pers contain no later intelligence from Burgos than
• the Marquis of WELI ?I OTO disisatc.hes. They