The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-27 00:00:00

THE STATEgMAN.

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a year, pay in a doable proportion to him who has,
only 1001., and so on in the same ratio. [Ap.
pigsties.] Gentlemen, I shall now take my leave
of you for the present—confident of my ultimate
success in the honour of representing the Co-unty of
Lancaster. [Applanses.]. Gentlemen, I have now
only to express my regret, that I have not been
enabled to pay my respects to you individually, as
I could have wished: But as 1 have slow expressed
to you, collectively assembled, the principles which
will guide me in my political conduct, that you will
excuse me from canvassing the Cour.ty individually.
Gentlemen, I once more repeat to you, my confi-
dence of general support on the day of election--till
which time I bid ybu all respectfully farewel.

EXTRACT OP A LETTER BROM IT. PETERSBURGII)
DA-
TED:THE 23D SEPTEMBER.
g Bad news always spreads much faster than the
good. The enemy has not omitted publishing his-
t stry into Moscow, as a conquest, or a glorious
victory ; I therefore hasten to correct that fact, and
Inforancyou of it as it actually stands. Moscow was
Pleven up, after holding a Council of War, at which
only one General was of opinion that the capital
ought to be defendld; all the others were unani-
mous, that it could not hold out. From the 13th to
the 14th`September, the Prince KUTWSOW took his
position four wersts behind Moscow, for the purpose
of covering the roads to Riazan and Tula, and on the
15th the enemy mitered the city without any opposi•
tionl and must have been astonished at finding it quite
empty Ind deserted. Immediately after his entrance
he hastened to state proposals of peace: . Prince
Kterusow tepiied•i=" flitlierto_ithas beim your
shale to vr-olitthaTcely, itis now come to our torn to
do so." The enemy will find but few resources in
Moscow, numbers of the inhabitants having left the
city after the affair at Smolensk* ; and on the 9th,
10th, 11th, and -11th September, every thing was
carried off and gone from thence. The provisions
for the armed people in Moscow, were all is boats,
ready to depart at the first signal. As the enemy will
find no provisions there, he will in a very short time
be forced to depart from thence, and engage an army,
which has been, for some days past, drawn up in order
of battle. The Courier, who brought this intelligence,
met the Prince of SALANOTE'S corps on the 17th,
about 30 wcrsts from Moscow ; it would conse-
quently already, on the 18th, have joined another
large army. • Sereral other corps of troops either
have joined, or arc on the way to join Prince Kure-
iow, who, instead of exposing his army in the de-
fence of a city, which is unfortified, and is 45 worsts
in circumference, preferred taking an advantageous
position, in which he is daily strengthening himself.
His army is equal in strength to the enemy, with
I regard to numbers, but much superior to him, con-
sidering the courage wherewith it is animated. The
armed population of Moscow, 60,000 men strong,
marched out of that city with Count Rog-mecum i
—We may expect matters of the greatest cons,-
quenec, as Mscnos.u.o was called in the greatest
haste to the Grand Army. WITTGENSTEIN'S corps
stu(l •Essen's, which will be replaced at Riga by'
other corps, will depart to act by the way of Witepsk,.
egaiust Smolensk° ; and from another side, TGWU..
sow and IFNIITSCIIAGOFF have orders to act against
the same point ; whilst 30,000 men, under General
Sm a ry. nmi 21,000 men of the reserve, with the
risou of Bobrinsk, which is 26 battalions strong,
e.e to form another army, destined to act against
Moscow by the way of Smolensk°.

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THE STATESMAN,

LONDON:
TOZSDAT, OCTOSICR 27, lint

By the Cottenimrgh Mail which arrived last night,
letters and papers were received from St. Peters-
burgh to the 2d inst. statiug that Smolensk° had ben
retaken by the Russians, with several other ittivan-
tages gained over the French. The 'various reports
brought by they+ Mails on former occasions, having
generally proved fallacious, we are inclined to heel.
tate respecting their authenticity. The Emperor
ALEXANDER has issued another spirited Proclants-
tion to the inhabitants of St. Petersbargh, who, being
panic-struck at the unexpected progress of NAPOL£ON,
were preparing to evacuate that city. It appears that
the Autocrat is determined not to relax in his endea,
yours to preserve the wreck of his territories, should St.
Petersburgh fall iuto the hands of his enemy, which
is evinced by the following emphatical passage
Whatever may be the progress of the enemy, ra-
ther to drain the last drop of Lie cup of misery, than
by a scandalous peace, to subject Russia to a foreign 1
yoke."--If such be the deterteit,ation of the Czar,
and if his Nobles are resolved to s, Nand his energies,
NA POLVON will still have to wade t rough fields of
blood, and the populous part of thy Russian
pire may be destined to suffer what hemauity must
shudder to record.

We have this morning received Gorman Papers to
the 10th Inltant, and further extraCts froM the Got-
tenbargit Mail, of which the following are the moat
important:—

BEALJN, Ocr. 6.—Our official Gazette communi-
cates the following :—" According to the latest ac-
counts from Moscow, his Majesty the Emperor NA-
roLros occupied the Palace of Petrowitz, at three
worsts from that capital.

" The Grand Duke CONSTANTINE, it is said, has
retired to the Princess, his sister, who is married in
Russia."

3.—lt has been calculated that, from the 28th
March up to the Ist September, there have been
quartered and maintained in this city 240,000 men,
as *ell military persons as other individuals, attach.
ed t• the service of the Grand Army, and 130,000
horses.

STUTGARD, Styr. 30.—We are busily employed
here in taking preparatory measures for a new levy
of Conscripts. The sons of the ci-decant Princes
and Counts, who, by the establishment of the Confe-
deration of the Rhine, are become subjects of the
King, fill form a part ofsthis subscription.
POSEN, SEPT. 17.—Our Govertinr-General RlPrg,
has to-day set out for the grand army—Colonel
Memcwssi supplies his place. To-morrow, our
whole garrison, formerly called the Legion of the
Vistula, will march for Smolensko, under the corn-
matid of Major KOSINSKI. On the 10th instant, .a
division of French gens d'armes; on the 11th,
another of Saton dragoons and hussars; and on the
12th, a division of Austrian Rees d'armes, called
elites, passed through this city in their way to the
Grand Army.
Wtrma, SEPT. 12.—This whole week the cavalry
and infantry of the 9th corps of the Rench army,
under the command of the Marshal Duke of 13v:tru-
-Iro, has been passing through this city. With these
troops is the Polish corps which remained in Malag.,
for seven months.

STOCKHOLM, OCT. S.—According to submissive
Reports delivered to his Royal Majesty, the ships
of the line Gustavus 111. and Manligheten, together
with the armed transport Birger Jorl, arc arrived
at Cariscrona en the Ist and 2d of this month, with
the troops taken on board here and at Dalaro. The
armed transport Frio Segersall, had likewise come
to anchor off Calmar on the 29th of September, and
was to proceed with the first fair wind tu Carl-
scrona.
A letter from St. Petersburgh, of the 2/1 of Oc-
tober, contains as follows :—" The Emperor's Ma-
nifesto has had a magic influence on all classes;
every one takes up their arms, and marches off, and
this they do voluntarily; and although we bare the
beat !lopes of a happy result, yet preparations are

The Courier, since the dissolution of Parliament I
was first announced, has been very assiduous in its
endeavours to earn the wages of prostitution ; and
the Ministers cannot complain of the quantity, if the
quality of the matter be not teo gross for their deli-
cacy—" for they assuma a delicacy, if they have it
not ;"—that they have it notovith regard to the feeling
and understanding of the people, if the Courier be the
echo of their sentiments—even the Proprietor him-
self of that venal Journal, we have no doubt, must
be convinced. And while the present system con-
tinues, It appears to us unnecessary to urge any
palliative or oppose their proceedings.
Every sincere admirer of the Constitution mast
regret that the distinguished few of its frie:►ds,
' made the late attempts in L.sndon, L'verpool, and
Bristol, feeling convinzed that such insulated efforts
will always be in rail'. The Reformers, they say,
must console themselves under the certainty that the
present corrupt overcharged system is not,as the dra-
Marie poet says, 66 by its owe weighimade steed.
fast," but must soon give way of itself, as well from
the nature of its materials, as the inexperienced and
rash workmen employld about it. The sooner this
happens, the better may it be for the new and skit.
ful architects to raise another edifice on the venerable
scite chalked, out by one of the most sagacious
Constitutions ever devised for the government
of man in society.: Till the decayed parts are'
"effectually removed, it Will bo in vain to expect re.l
'turning prosperity, or accustomed safety to the State.
Your frErus%s may rave, and your Veterans may
fight, hut to little more 'than personal or temporary
gratifications. Neither new men in place, nor new
expedients in practice, will avail till the sine qua non
of Reformation in the Legislature has taken place.

MR IL POPlripki.
Some strictures which we introduced lately, in
which this Gentleman wsts noticed, were continued
in the Chronicle ; and a reply, ever ready when Sir
Hour is mentioned by the public Journals, followed,
in a long and laboured defence of the scouring sys-
tem, at which he is the head. It is pronounced to
be physically impossible, that Sir Hosts ran, himself,
be a party to such letter. In reply to the Chronick,
which merely echoed the spirit and substance of our I
own remarks, the writer alludes to us, as " another

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erery where made to meet that my happen; paragraph writer"—tnaking it. out that wd said SUe'
,and I believe, that should Icaret.zets-g4gossession Bons had only taken one gun. We were, In fact,
Poterstsurgh (which Gee prevent), he will not only instancing a single exertion ; and Sir SUB
thereby be a greats, gainer than he war by the taking :kns written dispatches on these single ealdt4
of lloscow, where he found nothing but mere arti- Xmas, in some of which he lost more prisoners)
des of household furniture ; all the inhabitants had than a park of such artillery was worth. This " ad-
left the piaea•—all merchant good* were long before vocate," or rather agent, "of the absent," is one
sent away---4,04 there was nothing mote left him to of those proofs to which we alluded of the self-
take." • puffed exploits of Sir norm The press groans with

his tedious communications. His letters from the
coast equal, in prolixity, al ready the dispatches ofLord
WELLINGTON himself. Indeed the principal object
and subject of one of them was to echo a bye com-
pliment of Lord WELLINGTON—the accidental flou-
rish probably of a private letter. This adeocete has
enumerated 100 guns, as taken by Sir HOME; with
the prisoners wounded, &c. MAnMONT was half'
beaten by Sir HOME; fOrCAFFARELLI would have
sent him 6000 men from Vittoria, had he net been
so hard pushed by the force under Sir HOME. This
is a very safe style of logic. Pray where did this advocate
learn the exact number of men which CAPPARELLI
Could or would spare ? It it not warranted by the
letter from Lord IVact.tworox. The advocate fins,
of course, his instructions—kis brief, from his client.
This is clear from the whole tenor of his letter ; for
the noble Captain's exploits are certaiply not of a
nature to impress themselves so circumstantially on ,
a mere observer of passing events. The advocate
has the detail of the Captain's progress, with the
bye.play of all the other forces, whose operations
could receive a colour from the motions of the floating
force. This Letter of the advocate is the precise thing
we aimed to establish; hut Sir Howa's friend's al-
ways over-played their parts. We knew that a re-
presentative of this Ministerial Captain was at his
post. It is a part of the quack system by which Sir
Home has made his way, from the practice of
a smuggler at Dungeness, to the Captaincy of
the fleet, which burst like a banditti upon the out-
s raged Danes. We cannot now follow Sir Holm
through the whole of his dark and unlustrious pro-
gress. He made his most public debut in the cele-
brated surprise at Buenos Ayres. To effect this, he
estmged the decorum of his commission, in the pur-
suit of booty : he pas!ed the boundaries and duties
of a Military Officer, and wrote a " Circular," in
his own name, to the principal towns of the Empire!
in which was one addressed to the Mayor and Corpo-
ration of Birmingham !—a town that had never
neither one nor the other. This is all of a chain with
the pamphleteering course of this Officer; who seems
much more expert in writing, than he has ever proved
himself in fighting.

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• DITION.
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rave ofccoar.
O. the 91Iislystbefore the accounts came away
from Riga, a Courier arrived from the Ens,Jeror of
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RUSSIA, at Peterbnrgh, bringing intelligence that
BONAPARTE HAD QUITTED Moscow, D THAT A
BATTLE WAS EXPECTED. I
RuTusow had compktely cut of all communica-
tion with Poland--and the peasants were every
where rising in a mass.
Smolensk° was certainly in the hands of the Roy•
sins, and WITTGENSTEIN has driven ST. Cva, late
OUDINOT'S corps; frO/D Polotsk.
In the expedition. from Riga, the retreating Prus-
sians were reinforaeil to 25,000 men by ATAGDO.
NAIAD. The Russians lost DO prisoners.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
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DEAL. Oct. 26.
Came down. from the River the Baron Nelson,
Wanderer, Dorcas, !lope, and Mau, merchant•
men, and remain with the outward-hound, cousist-
ing of nearly 300 sail.
Arrived his Majesty's ship Indefatigable, from off
the Teret. -•-
Sailed the Stag frigate, for Portsmouth.
FALMOUTH, Orr. 24.
No arrivals. Sailed hi; Majesty's ship Ruk on
a cruise; and Carteret packet, Davey,,with Mails for
Cadiz. The Watringham packet, for the Leeward
:Islands, and the Queen Charlotte packet, for Lisbon,
' are gone into the Roads. •
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His Serene Highness the Duke of BiltrOWlClL'i
corps now consists of nearly 9000 men ; the infantry
are in service in Portugal, the cavalry are statioued
at Cork. -
Quilon, the principal station of the suhskliary
force, was the place in Travancore at which the late
mutiny was detected. The Ilth,, 14th, Mk, and
9th battalions were stationed there, but the latter
was free from any participation in the plot. Two of
the implicated battalions have been sent to a distant
part of the country.
The Americans begin to be dissatisfied with the
inactivity of General DEAR.ORS, whose head.quar.
tore have been removed from Albany and Greenbush,
to Cumberland, without his undertaking any military
operation of moment.

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The punishment of the .conspirators at Buetios
Ayres is said to have revived the animosity of the
Government and inhabitants of Monte Video, against
theJuuta of the former city; and active preparations
were making for the recommencement Of hostilities.
The 73d Regiment is not to be mov-11 from the
Tower On the arrival• of the 55th ; but both batta.
liona...lteing..xery.weak4 ore to-be employed on that
duty,. under Col. Harlan.
BR VAD.—Therebeing no Court of Aldermen this
morning, the LORD MAYOR, after inspecting the
meal weighers returns, ordered the Peck Loaf to he
raised one-penny. The Quarters Loaf will be 11.6 d.
ou Titursday next.
!Iced, Mercury has published, with perfect
impartiality, Lists of the Freeholders who dined
, with Lord Mtr.Tom and Mr. LUC! cr.r.s, after the
Yorkshire election—and with the following re-
I masks:—The Lists of the Gentlemen who honoured
Lord Mirror; and Mr. Lascst.cts with their attend-
ance at York, which we give this week with all pos.
fable impartiality, present a very correct criterion of
the support enjoyed by our respective County Mem.
.bers at the election which has just terminated. The
former combines a gratifying union of the landed,
the commercial, and the manufanturiog interests : the
other is meagre in every thing, except Leeds names ;
"end Ike conclusion that every man must arrive at
from an examination of these Lists is—that Lord
Micron is the Representative of the County of York,
sad that Mr. LAU WM is the Reprecottative of the
Borough of Loads 1 Some irisa may be formed of the
kind of company that dined with Mr. Lascruti at
York, from the senseless, intolerant, pot-house toast
The land we live in, and they that don't like it
leave it," having been drank with three times three.
The English of this is, that every man who tines not
agree in political opinion with the wise, discreet,
calm, learned and profound personage, who proposed
this sentiment, is to be banished his country 1
THEArnicsa.s.---The adage tcmpora nauanfur, is
illustrated at present in the crowd of play-going folks
rushing to Drury-lane Theatre. Notwithstanding

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