The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-04 00:00:00

FRENCII AND DUTCH PAPERS.

r Is, f 1 I• G . 23.-- HCT M aids ty the Empress
con:inuec siuce her return, It the Maths Of Mal-
anai<on, uml it is believed that she will not make
her appearance before the arrival or the Emperor,

whit 1., according to the last advices from Vienna, is
tot eNpeCteti to he long delayed. In fact, we learn
that the Homo of Austria, after many torgiversa-
tion:, and muck repugnance, seems at lenrth to ac-
quiesce in all the conditions on which the Emperor
Napoleon consents to giant peace.
The last obstalles to peace being thus removed,
the Pin i petrol tia ries reciprocally appointed to
ennelude the Treaty have repaired to Altenburg,
and net to Raab, as was at brat said, where they
Will open their conferences.
SANTA Or..u.LA, Ace. 9.—We receive this
moment intelligence that the enemy's artillery
which bombarded Toledo, has on a sodden ceased
Sting, and that the English and Insurgents are re-
treating in the utmost confusion to the left banks
of the Tays.. Thos a few days bare been sta.
cient to confound and disconcert the absurd pro-
-I:ets of people, who carried the suggestions of
insanity so far as to conceive that they shoved

speedily render themsel►es masters of the capitil,
and now deem it extremely prudent to place the
T. 141111 between them and the French army.—
(Royal Am•terdaas Gcnetle of 4:tg. 23.)
VIEVNI, AUtl. B.—Accordirut to a resolution
of the Prince Alajor.General (Prince of Nev
chatrl or Wagcam), every soldier id to receive'so
sons on the high-day of the Emperor Napoleon.
and every Officer 12 francs. The French army in
Ilornvia is nest plentifully supplied %%ill, all sorts
of provisions, while the Anstrians, in their pun
country, experience the utmost want, using to

the bad marrgenteut of those who are to procure
provisions for the troops. The utmost discontent
is said to pr..vail among them, and a congiderable
number of superior Officers have demanded their

It i 4 ',ow known, that the corps of the Prince
of Rusenimre, which consisted of about 43,000
mcii, has been so north minced by some late
events, that it has been found necessary to dis.
Lund it ati.l incorporate it with other corps.
'llw Counties in Hungary have refused to raise
their number of men for the ig,lirrection.

The Emper.tr of Austri4 is at im.seot in Mo.

ruin, at a cuuutry.seat of Count Cobentzei.—
Count Wrena is expected at licheenbrunti in the
course of this thy, or to-nifyrrow, with the aniwer
of the Emperor of Austria to the propositions of
reice made by the Emperor Napnlcon.
LrNrz, !duo. B. A n Austrian Newspaper
coutahis the following article:—

•s Within these last few ?days several engage
ments hare taken place is tote esni►ous of Ingo.
Lena and Deligrad, the remit of which has nut
been funerable le the ins. Caernl George
has been wounded, in a seem actions Bich was
fought near Tapolia; during his abience, hlelinke
Las taken the chief command of the Serrian army.
FRA%IVORT, Ana. 10.—No official account
has yet been received of the reperted prolonga.
lion of the Armistice, hut it is still asserted that
on the Sth instant it was prolonged absrie die.
However this may he, the negociations for peace
do not proceed as speedily as it was supposed they
would. Letters from Cutnorn state, Chit the
Emperor of Austria and all the persons by whom'
he is surrounded, appear extremely dejected, and
the Emperor is seldom seen in public.
Punts, Ago. 19.—0 n the 10th instant the
Prefect of the Seine, and Counsellor of the State,
Count Froshot, issaed a proclamation, stating,
that the present ciremustanees rendered it indis-

peusably necessary to re-orgaoke the National
Gnards of Paris, and aecordin;,!y ordered the

immediate re-organization thereof.
Awzrzno Ace. 2.6.—The surrender of
Flusbng is lui4s to be ascribed to the efforts of the
besieging army, then to the tire which was kept
up against the fortress, with uncommon vigour,
by 'envy English salt of the line. Au English brig
was sunk before the town.

G.•ncral Osten was at the bead of every sortie
which was made, and has deservedly obtained the
admiration, not only of his friends, but also of
the Enetsh. When he stepped in the boat which
was to take him on board an English transport,
Lord Chatham shook hands with him, and said,
" Farewell, brave General."

Dis Royal Majesty has ordered that no public
festivals shall take place in Holland until the
Dutch tcrtitory shall have been properly cleared
of the Eagliih, and that accordingly all public re.
joicings, with which it was intended to celebrate
his Majesty's birth.day, on the 4th of next month,
shall be postponed for the present.--(Royal Am-
sterdam:Ca:elk.)
Aecordi"g to advice, from Lintz, dated the
12th, the F:ench army still reniained in the same

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positions as at the conclusion of the Armistice.

The Duke of Aucrstadt has his head-quarters at
. Braun, the Duke of Rivoli at Znaiin,, the Dako of
Ragusa at Krms, Marshal Oudinot at Spitz, the
Pan Viceroy at Presburgh, and Marshal Mac.

&mold at Gratz. The Saxon troops are on the
side of Presburgh, those of Wirtemburgh in the
envirdns of Vienna, and those of Baden and Darm-
stadt on the frontiers of Moravia: Two Bavarian
divisions are in the Tyrol, and the third at Lintz.

LETTER FILOM GENERAL PAUCONNET TO Tilt MI

NISTER. AT WA It.

" Antwerp. Ang. 2, 1909.

" MoNSetromea—Yaur Eseelleocy has, no doubt.been
informed by Generals Mannet and Cluunbarlhac or, the de-
scent which the English hate effected on the Island of Wel-
cheren. and the progress they bate made in Zealand, since, as
I am assured, they have taken Middleburg. I have taken
the measures width appeared to me necessary immediately
to oppose any attempt which the enemy might make to land
on the right bank of the Scheldt; I have in consequence
consulted no the ground with the Commander of the
troops of the King of Holland. We agreed on our live
of defence, which I immediately ceased to be occupied,
and shall this mese* reinforce, a' I have receive advice
that the English have takes the fort of Bats ; 1 shall nut
allow myself to make any redcctiue an the hasty surrender of
this fort Shat I And setonishing is, that I was st it hin sight
of it with General Taragne. from ten in the morning till past
noon, and that we never h..ard a single enanon fired, nor n
musquet discharged. General Charbormier has this 111010`11i
arrived with a column arc isalry and infantry.

" The forts of I.illo and Ltelikensitneirk are in a state of
defence. The marine is landing pieces of artillery, which to-
IItOITOW, I tope, will be placed."

LETTER PROM THE MINISTER AT WAR TO EIIS MA•
JESTY TIIE EMPEROR AND NINO.
Seat:—it is live in the morning. I receive the incon-
ceivable intelligence that tha Laglish have taken the furt of
liatz.
" An equivoral phrase ink letter written to the Minister
of the Marine. made me suppose that Flushing wa bom-
barded, and I transmitted the same to your Majesty, but it
was only Tcrveer that was meant.
" I am with respect, Scr.
" COUNT lICNLIIOURO,
" The Minister :it War.'

LETTER !ROM GENERAI. CIIANDAILIIAC TO THE

MINTiTER AT WAR.

" Avywrar, Ave:. 4.-1 arrived at Antwerp thiG evening
with the eavilry under my conduct I the General of Brigade
Valetaux arrived r moment afire with his brigade. When
the lids serves to-morrow, 1 shall :zei to :14 e Admiral 51es-
sie7sy. and concert measures with him. .

" Our troops communicate with those of his Majesty the
Kali; of Holland by Bergen-op-Zoom, and we have agreed
n WI the (ien►ral who cummattard them, to art in concert.

" The abominable conduct of NE Brace, the Dutch Officer
who, w About waiting for the ciseniy, lied from 13312, is one
of tho e lastauccs of cowardice which mint proceed from in-
fatuation or treachery. This wretch is I;,e cause that the
English ads anted posts are not more than six leagues from
Antwerp, but onr troops observe them, and will be aide to
maintain their posts.
" The forts which defend the banks of the Scheldt are well
armed."

Tel N: MARKET s%

CORN-EXCHANGL—SarrucarR 4.

The Market this day has but an inconsiderable
supply of Wheat. Early in the forenoon fine
samples fetched a small advance, but the sales in
uneral were at little fluctuation. Barley and
Malt likewise. Rye is cheaper. White Poas
also. Beaus, of the two descriptions, nearly at
late prices. There are large supplies of Oatai.
and excepting fine, this article is quoted rather
lower. Prices or Flour at our lag .currency.
Fine American wholesale also.
CE OF GRAIN.
Tick Beans, - - - - 465. Ms.
Oafs,
Poland ditto - $4,.
Pavane ditto - - - - to 40v.
ItapeSeed- - - - £5O Xix 9.
Fine Flour - - - - BOP. $6•.
Seconds

cuaRENT PRI
Wheat, - - - - 756. lids. 916.
Fine ditto - - - 1011. 106•.
Rye,----- - -50 s. 544. ,
Barley,
Malt,
W. Peas (Roden) .
Grey Peas, 4811. 595.
limns - sis. 61..

SMITH Fl
T•v sink the thial,
Rrrf....4•. 1011. to .s. 4d.
Intink 04. to 30. 6d.

,LD—SEPT: 4.
, per stony of 81h.
ilrrol ur Cattle this day :
Remo.

eil .taik• Oct. to 7s. Of. Sheep and Lanali 17400
Turk Oil. to 7.. 4d. Galway
LA:att.-ss. 6d. to 63. 4d. Pigs
HAY-MARKET.
11.1 v
11. 16.4. 04. to 21. 54. (NI.
Claver 6l. 103. Od. to 71. 10s.

Friday afternoon, Captain Guaeiss and 100
recruits for the 24th, 83d, and Snth Regiments,
were embarked at C.'wes, on board the Lady
Carrington, for the Cape of Good Hope. She
was to sail yesterday.
The Special Court of Criminal Justice at Paris
has just applied the Imperial Decree of the 6th
of April last to Lours V. M. ne ROMAN, a son
of the former Prince of GLYEMENIE, convicted of
having carried arms against France, and of having
served in the armies of a hostile Power, snbse.
quest to the Ist of Sept. 1804. He was con.
demned for contumacy to the punishment oaf death,
and to that of the confiscation of his estat e an
'effects, in conformity to the Penal Code.
We are sorry to state a melancholy eircum-
staece, which took place on Friday last :—J. J.
TODD Esq. (brother to Colonel F. TODD, of the
Ist regiment of Guards) went out shooting in the,
neighbourhood of Handel's', Hampshire, whew
his grin accidentally went off, whilst he was taking
out the ramrod, and the contents of it being forced
through his body, he lingered fur twenty minutes,
anti then expired. The deceased was on a visit to
his sister, Mrs. ilautarr, the Lady of Captain
ff. of his Majesty's ship Ganges, who resides at
Catherington House. •
Among the attractions of that annual scene of
amusement, Bartholomew Fair, the most prom'.
nent is Mr. Potato's exhibition of Wild Beasts
and Birds.—This beautiful and extensive collec-
tion, which has been exhibited before his Majesty
and the Royal Family at Windsor, and which has
attracted the universal admiration of the Nobility,
Gentry, and the Public, may now be seen near
St. John-street, Bartholomew-Fair, where Mr.
POLITO has so provided for the accommodation of
his visitors, that these wonderful productions of
nature may be inspected without the slightest in
convenience or danger.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Szpr. 2.
Dor:mint-street, Sept. 2, 1809. ••'
•
A Dispatch, of which the following it a ropy, was, oil the
311th alt. received •t the office of Lord Viscount Castle-
reagh, one of bis linjestv's Principal Secretaries of Stair,
front licutenalit-General Lord Vienna Wellington, dated
Deleytosa, Aug. 8.

MY LORD—I apprised your Lordship on the
Ist instant, of the advance of 1 French corps to-
wards the Paertode Bands, and of the probable
embarrassments to the operations of the army,
which its arrival at Placentia would occasion ;
and these embarrassments having since existed
to a degree so considerable as to oblige us to
fall back, and to take up a defensive position on
the Tagus, I am induced to trouble you more at
length with au account of what has passed upon
this subject.
When I entered Spain, I had a communication
with General Cumta, through Sir Robert Wilson
and Colonel Roche, respecting the occupation of
the Puerto de Bands and the Puerto de Peralcs,
the former of which, it was at last settled, should
be held by a corps to be formed under the Mar-
quis Dc la Rcyna, to consist of two battalions
from General Cursta's army, and two from
Btjar ; and that the Puerto de Pcrales was to be
taken care of by the Duque del Parque, by de-
tachnients from the garrisou of Ciudad Rodrigo.
. I doubted of the capacity of the garrison of
Ciudad Rodrigo to make the detachment to the ,
latter, but so or the effectual occupation of
the forme!, that in writing to Marshal Beresford
on the I7th of July, 1 desired him to look to the
Puerto de Perales; but that I considered Banos as
secure, as appears by the extract of my letter
which I inclose.

On the 30th intelligence was received at Tala-
vera, that 12,000 rations had been ottlered at
Fucntc Duenos for the 28th, and 24,000 at Los
!iaottis for the same day, for a French corps,
which it was believed was on its march towards
the Puerto de Bands.

General Guests expressed some mixiety respect.
ins this post, and sent me a message, to propose
that Sir Robert Wilson should be sent there with
his corps.

Sir Robert was on that day at Talavera, but
his corps was in the mountains towards Esca.
lona • and as he had already made himself very
useful in that quarter, and had been near Madrid,
with which city he had had a communication,
which I was desirous of keeping up, I proposed
that a Spanish corps should be sent to Bands with.
out loss of time.

I could not prevail wit!, General Cnesta, al-
though he certainly admitted the necessity of a
reintorcement when he proposed that Sir Robert
should be sent to 8111439 j and he was equally
sensible with myself of Lie beadt to be derived
to the cause, from sending Sir Robert beck to
Escalona.

Ad this time we had no further intelligence of
the enemy's advance, than that the rations were
ordered; And I had hooqs that the enemy might
be deterred from advancing, by the intelligence
of our success on the 213th, and that the troops
in the Puerto might n►ake some defence; and that
uoder these circumstances it was not desirable to
divert Sir H. Wilson from Escalona.

o'. the ;;oth, however, I renewed my applies-
cion to General Chests, to send there a Spanish
division sufficient strength, in a letter to Gen.
O'Doonghue, of which l incluse a copy, but
without elect ; and he did not detach Geuenti Bas-
secoutt till the morning of the 2d, after we had
heard that the enemy had entered Ilejar, and it
was obvious that the troops in the Puerto would
make no defence.

On the 2d we received accounts that the enemy
had entered Plasencia in two columns.

The Marquis de la Reyna, whose two battalions
consisted of only 600 men, with only 20 round,
of ammunition each man, retired from the Puerto
and from Plasencia, without firing a shot, and
went to the bridge of Almeria, which he declared
that he intended to remove; the battalions of lie-
jar dispersed without making any ressistance.
The General called upon me on that day, and
proposed that half of the army should march to
the rear to oppose the enemy, whilst the other
half should maintain the post at Talavera.
My answer was, that if by half the army, he
meant half of each army, I could only answer
that I was ready either to go or to stay with the
whole British army, but that I could not separate
it. He then desired me to choose whether I would
go or stay, and I preferred to go, from thinking
that the British troops were most likely to do the
business effectually, sod without contest ; and
from being also of opinion, that it was more im-
portant to us than to the Spanish army, to
open the communication through Plasencia, al.
though very important to them. With this de.
cisiou , General Cuesta appeared perfectly sans.
fled.
Tie movements of the enemy in our front, since
the lit, had induced mu to be of opinion, that de-
spairing of forcing us at Talavera, they intended
to force a passage by Escalate, and thus open a
communication with the French corps coming
from Plasencia.

This suspicion was confirmed on the night of the
2d, by letters received from Sir Robert Wilson,
of which I enclose copies ; and before I quitted
Talavera on the 3d, I waited upon General O'Do.
nughue, and conversed with him upon the whole
of our situation, and pointed out to him the pos.
sibility that in the case of the enemy coming
through liscalona, General Comte might tied
himself obliged to quit Talavera, before I should
be able to return to him; and I urged him to col_
lect all the carts that could be gut, in order to re-
move our hospital. At his desire I put the put..
port of this conversation in writing, and seat him
a letter to be laid before General Cuesta, of which
I inclose a copy.
The British army marched on the 3d to Grope.
sa, General Bassecutirt's Spanish cur 1), being a►
Centhiello, where I desired that it might halt
next day, in order that I might be nearer it.
About five oclock in the evening, I heard that
the French had arrived from Plasencia at Naval.l
moral, whereby they were between tie and -the
bridge of Ahearn.

„.
. Akiefitillintentrtifthet.llollllt.4l.e•Pitet from Ge.
tttseal Oitliono. ghee. the leo* held itt in el oftere., of
Mich I incluse eopiesi enNencing to me the in.
felitiar, of Gen. Cuesta•to march. from 'relater* In
etch ng, and to leave there my hospital, etc.
cepting such mon atm cuitid he removed by Mu
tricans tic already had, on the ground of hi” ..ppre-
hension that I was not strong enough for the corps
coming from Plaseocia, sod that the enemy wee
moving upon his flank, and had returned to Santa
Olalla in his front.

I acknowledge that these reasons did not appear
to mu sufficient for giving up so important a post
as Talavera, for exposing the combined armies to
an attack in front and rear at thy same time, and
for abandoning toy hospital ; and I wrote the let-
ten of which I enclose a cnpy.

This inifortain.itely- reached the General after lob
had marched, and he arrived at Oropesa shortly
after day-light on the morning of the •Ith.
The question, what was to be done, was then to
be considered. The enemy, stated to be thirty
thousand mat, but at all events consisting of the
corps of Soult ond Neyi either united, or 1.0 ve..
ry distant from each other, and supposed, br
Marshal Jourdan and Joseph Bonaparte, to MC
sufficiently strong to attack the British army;'
stated to be twenty-five thousand men, wei• twt
one side, in possession of the high road to the
passage of the Tagus at Almaraz, the bridge at
which place we knew had been removed, al.
though the boats still necessarily remained in the
river.

On the other side,' we had reason to capeet the
advance of Victor's corps to Talavera, as soon as
General Cuesta's march should be known, and
after leaving twelve thousand men to watch
Va-
negas, and allowing from ten to eleven thousand
killed and wounded in the late action, this corps
would have amounted to tweoty.five thousand.—
We could extricate ourselves from this difficult's!.

tuation only by great celerity of movement, to
which the troops were unequal, as they had not
had their allowance of previsions for several days,
and by success in two battles. If unsueeesafel
in either, ne should have been without a retreat ;
and if Souk and Ney, avoiding an action, had re-
tireebefore us, and had waited the arrival of Vie..
tor, we should have been eapost•d to a general
Action with fifty thousand moo; equally without a
retreat.

We had reason to expect, that as the Marquis
de la Reyna could not remove tho boats from
the river Almaraz, Soult would have destroyed
them.
Our only retreat was, therefore, by the bridge
ofArco Bispo ; and if we had moved on, the enc.

my, by breaking that bridge while the army should
be engaged with Soult and Ncy, would have de.
prived us of that only resource.
We could oot take a portion at Oropesa, as we
thereby left open the road to the bridge of Arco
Bispo from Talavera by Calera ; and, after consi-
dering the whole subject maturely, I was of opi.
ni•n tbat it was advisable to retire to the bridge of
Arco Bispo, and to take up a defensive position
upon the Tagus.
I was induced to adopt this last opinion, be-
cause the French have now it least fifty thousand

men disposable to oppose to the combined armies,
and a corps of twelve thousand to watch Vitae,
gas ; and I was likewise of ()pinkie, that the

sooner the defensive line should be taken np, the
more likely were the troops to be able to de-
fend it.

Accordingly I marched on the 4th, and crossed
the Tagus by the bridge of Arco Pipe, and.
have continued my route to this place, in which
I am well situated to defend the passage at Al-
mares and the lower parts of the Tagus. Gen.
Cuesta crossed the river on the night of the sth,
and he is still at the bridge of Arco Bispo.
About two thousand of the wounded hate been
brought away from Talavera, the remaining V.
teen hundred are there; and I doub►, whether,
under any circumstances, it would have been pos.
Bible or consistent with humanity, to attempt to
remove any more of them.
From the treatment which some of the soldiers
wounded on the 17th, and who fell into the hands
of the enemy, esprit:l;mA from them, and from
the manner in which I hare always treated the
wounded who have fallen into my hands, I expect
that thete men will be well treated; and I have
only to lament, that a new concurrence of events,
over which, from circumstances Iliad and could
have no controul, should have placed the army
in a situation to be obliged to leave any of them
behind.
I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY.

A dispatch, of which the folluwing t a copy,
was yesterday morning received at the Office of
Lord Viscount Castlereagh, one of his Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State, from Lieutenant.
Gencr.'l the Earl of Chatham, dated Hcad.quar.
tors, Butz, August 29, IEO9.
MT Loan—Major Bradford delivered to me
your Lordship's dispatch of the 21st inst. signify.
ing to nie his Majesty's commands that I should
convey to Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote, the
General, and other officers and troops employed
before Flushing, and particularly to those of the
artillery and engineer departments, his Majesty's
most gracious approbation of their conduct ; and

which [ have obeyed with the most entire wiz..
faction.

I had the honour in my last dispatch, of ac-
quainting your Lordship with my intention cf
proceeding to this place, and I should have been
most happy to have been enabled to have an.
iviunced to your Lordship thefartner. progress of
this army. Unfortunately, however. it becomes
1.1 duty to state to your Lordship'that, from the
concurrent testimony from so many quarters as
information,
the lease no doubt of the truth of the
the enemy appears to have collected so formidable
a force as to convince me that the period was
rived, at which my iostractions mould have di.
rented too to withdraw the army under my cum.
stand, even if engaged in &etre! operations.
I had certainly early understood on my arrival
at Waicheren, that the enemy were assembling
in considerable torn on ail points; but I was