The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-11-18 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

ditiow aguiust fr foreign enmity, it is absolutely requisite that
the planners of that expedition should be acquainted with the
number and species of the enemy's forces, that they should
provide their troops whh the means of transporting artillery
and ammunition ; that they should secure an adequate supply
of provisinas ; and, though it may not he absolutely neces-
sary. yet I should think it highly expedient that the conduct
of the expedition should be entrusted to a Cieneml, well ap-
Trlsed of its objects and plan, and who is intruded to prose-
ute it to its tertnimlinn. Now, Gentlemen, let us try the ex-
pedition to Portugal by these rules. On the 12th Jane, 1808,
Sir Arthur IVellesley set sail from Cork, with between eight
and nine thotisand men, under assurances from Ministers, that
the disposable force of the French in Lisbon amounted to no
more than four thcmsand.

In point of fact, Gentlemen, the numbers of French troops
in Pat tugal at that time, amounted to four and twenty thou-
sand. Two days after Sir Arthur sailed, they received more
correct information, in consequence of which, they seal after
him reinforcements. These hiving, more by good lack than
good management, arrived in time, Sir Arthur was enabled to
meet the enemy ; he did inert them at Bolds and V imiera—
his soldiers did, what I trust (allow me to correct my ex-
pression, what I au confident), British soldiers always will
do, when they contend with the foe—they covered them-
selves with glory. [Loud applauses). They repulsed and
defeated the enemy. But their Commander was unable to

follow up his victory. And why? On erection of the supe-
rior number of the enemy's horse. For, be it lumen to you,
Gentlemen, that to a British army of eighteen thousand
men, there were attached no more than two hundred and ten
cavalry.
At the outset of this expedition, great inconvenience was
experienced, from the want of horses to convey the artillery
and ammunition. And for this, Sir Arthur accounted to the
Board of Inquiry in a very singular manner. Fur he stated,
that thinking that the horses of the artillery (which we must
presume to be sound and good) would safer from the hard-
ships of the service, he substituted, in their place, a number of
Irish cast cavalry horses, worth about twelve or thirteen
pounds each. LA laugh]. Why, Gentlemen, with the gond
leave of my worthy friend, Mr. Casey, I most my that this
was a most Irish mode of fitting out an expedition, and that
Sir Arthur's plan would have been consistent and complete,
had he, instead of able bodied men, tilled his battalions with
tottering Myelitis and Chelsea pensiotters.--CLoad laughing.]
When, Gentlemen, Sir Arthur took his departure front
Cork, be was instructed principally to depend upon the coun-
try to which he was going for supplies of provisions. {then
he arrived in Portugal, which supplies itself with bread for
only seven months iu Ise year, provisions were so scarce, that
he was earnestly solicited to victual the Portuguese troops
who jained him, from the stores which he had brought with
his in his ships. Aud as to the permanency of the Commander-
' IlbsChief, it is, I believe, an unparalleled circumstance, that
the course of twenty-four hours the British army was un-
dor the orders of three different Generals.
Geetlensen, you well remember the outcry that was raised
aphat Sir Hugh Dalrymple. You remember the Newspa-
per edged with black; and the protest of various towns
against the odium of having given him birth. This outcry
was eagerly encouraged by Ministers, at it tended to divert
the attention of the country from their own iusufficiency. It
ie highly probable that some of us here present joined in this
outcry; if so, let us make Sir Hugh the aniende honorable;
let us acknowledge that no blame is attachable to the Mili-
tary Commanders of the Portuguese Expedition ; let us be-
stow our esecrations where they are due; namely, upon those
Ministers who pleated that Expedition, and whose ignorance
and ineopa...ity rendered necessary a Convention which made
Britain the laughing-stock of Europe—[4oplairses]. By
Ode can. emion, however, Portugal being cleared of the
enemy, Mitaisiers, resolved to expel the French from Spain.
With this view, they sent into that country an army under
the command of Sir John Moore, who was most pointedly
instriteted to pay great attention and deference to the com-
munications which he might, thus time to time, receive fr
Mr. Itooisham Frere, who was residing in Spain, in quality
at Minister Plenipotentiary on the part of his tiriomnic Ma-
jesty. Ou this second occasion Ministers betrayed their ig-
norance of the numbers and resaurees of the enemy. fled
they sent double the force which they did send, it would have
been hardly sufficient to secure the object of the Expedition.
I And as to the vigilance anti superior intelligence of the highly
accredited Mr. Ilspoishain l'rere, one fact w ill settle your
opiniun upon that puke', •rile was so singularly vigilant that
be contrived to aperitif Sir John Moore of the capture of
Madrid by the grench, three days after the news of that
event hail been published in'the London Papers LA 1 ,ugh].
In fiat, this vain ayul foolish man was led by the nose by a
ample of traitors, at whose instigation he, in a most olletisive
sad insoket summer, pressed Sir John Moore to make a for-
ward movement, which would have infallibly insured the
eapture of Sir Join and his whole army. sagacity of the
British (:ivilunander, however, preserved him from the snare.
He ere( fed his retreat to Corunna. Under the walk of that
town, he fought the enemy—he conquered—and be fell.—He
fell bravely fighting at the head of his gallant troops.—
[Load applauses.]-11ad I the honour of being of the kin-
dred of Sir John Moore. I should haee rejoiced at that
event. For truly honourable was his death ; and it saved
him the extreme severitrof mortification. For, to the eter-
nal disgrace of Ministers be it said, that while the generosity
of the enemy was gracing the tailless Nero with the honnurs
of the tomb, the mnlignhy of ministerial hirelings was whis-
perm.; away his fair fame, and attempting to tarnish his re •
potation. A foresight of this seems to have embittered his
last ranments. For in his dying agonies he said, " I hope
my country will do me justice. Yes, Gentlemen, his country
will do him justice ; and whilst she consigns his calumniators
to the eomempt w hieh they merit, she will inscribe his tome
in the list of her most illustrious heroes.—[Load Applause/1.
With the same pen ton will she record the disgrace of those
-Ministers, whose incapacity occasioned the sacrifice of him,
and of his gallant folio wen.—[.lppfinisa.]
The failure of the first Spanish Expedition was, however,
imputed to.the want of zeal, or to the ()vermillion of Sir
John Moore. To remedy this deficiency, Ministers entrusted
a second Expedition to a Getteral, who was stated to be of a
difkreet description; who was trumpeted forth as being all
spirit, activity, and vigour : and who had reaped a rich her-
vcst of laurels on the plains of 'Undone's. You are all
aware, Gentlemen, that I allude to Sir Arthur Wellesley,
now Lord Wellington. Wel!, n hat was the result of all this
enterprise and activity ? Ile rashly advanced, without intel-
ligence, and unprovided with magazines of provisions, into
the heart of the country. In consequence of the customary
negligence of Ministers, when he met the enemy, he Ruud
their number double his own. By astonishing eforts of va-
lour, his soldiers earned for hint the title of Baron Talavera
—in return for w bid. his improvidence left them sick and
wounded 'ln the hrispltals of that town. Gentlemen, if Lord
Wellington belhe high-spirited individual which he is repre-
sented to be, ifbeliave'ibat nice sense of honour which he is
reported to hives thistille of Talavera Gill be a perpetual
torment to MM.' 'He Will regard it as a blot upon his escut-
'tbedo-L-as the of his disgrace.—e.4pylauses.],
Before• I Mode the melancholy list of our experli-
'lions, briefly to notice the Expedition to the
Coast of Holland. While the Emperor of Austria was
struggling with Bonaparte, Ministers determibed to make

what they call a grand diversion. For this yorpore
they equipped a force of na hundred thommad
But, according to inveterate custom, they were too late in
their preparations ; uad when Lord Chatham arrived at the
Mouth of the Scheldt, he learnt, to his nstooishment, that
Antwerp was a fortified town: that the approaches to it
could be laid under water ; and that the Scheldt was bristled
with batteries and forts. In short, the upshot of this Grand
Expedition was the horning of Flushing, and the capture of
the Islaad of Walcheren, which has proved to he the grave
of our gallant countrymen.
" "

But we are seriously told, that though the ulterior objects
of this expedition are not accomplished, much has been done,
since Walcheren is a capital situation fur the carrying on a
contraband trade. A contraband trade, Gentlemen ! An hun-
dred thousand men employed in establishing a contraband
trade ! Oh, that we should have lived to hear the potent and
pious Sovereign of the British Isles represented by his own
servants at the head of u gang of smugglers Cloud applause],
or to see the Genius of British Commerce, who wAs wont
proudly to spread her wings from one extremity of the ocean
to the other, metamorphosed into an eel vs rigeling her dirty
way through the mud bunks of Holland.— [Loyd applauses.]
And yet I doubt tan, Gentlemen, that when Parliament
assembles, as it will snood's to our cost, this Expedition to
Walt-kerns, and Lord Wellington's Expedition to Spa in.
will be vindicated by great majorities, as being planed ;mil
Conducted with the most consummate wisdom. I argue this
from aconsideration of the last Session, which stns occupied
by the varnishing and defence of every species of abuse.
Need I on this head remind you of the affair of the Mike
of York, of which I will say no more than that a aniline-
rial majority was prepared, in spite of the disgraceful situ-
ation in which his Royal Highness appeared to the eyes of
the nation at large, not only to encourage, but to s Aicit hint
to retain the office of Commander in Chief. Need 1 to re-
mind you of the conviction of Lord Castlereagh, or his own
confession of offering to barter East-India Patronage for a
seat in the House of Commons ? Who can think, nigh pa-
tience, of the conduct of the House on that occasion, or• rend
without indignation, its resolution not to proceed against his
Lordship, because the bargain had not been actually con-
chided? Good God, Gemlemen. what doctrine is this? I
once beard at the Lancaster Assizes the question gravely ar-
gued, whether a man who was caught in trantilu io a
chimney, had broke into a house, [a laugh] and where
the life of a poor wretch was at stake, It was lit and proper
to raise an argument upon such a cause. But Lord Castle-
reagh was a sermon of the King and of the Public ; and I.
appeal to yea all, (iestlesueo, whether, if you had caught
one of your servants picking the lock of your iron cite-t. you
wouldnot have dismissed him from your service, though he
had not actually carried of a single guinea, or a single awls.
On the trite principle I maintain that such a mass of awn*.
lino as Lord Castlereagh, should no longer have beet' per.
milted to approach the person of his Majesty, and that II
was fitting that he should have been expelled the House of
Commons.—[ Applauses.)
Gentlemen, such was the public feeling ; hut upon this, as
on a thousand other occasions, the public feeling was, by the
House of Commons, held be contempt. And how happened
this ? Gentlemen, I will tell you. Because i5l individuals
return a majority of that House. This certainly ought nit
to be. [Loud applauses.] Till this evil is remedied, we
shall see no good times for Old England. [.lpplarses.] We
o have lately heard a great deal of the strenuous endeavours of
the inhabitants of the Metropolis to put down the Private
Boxes of Covent-Garden Theatre—would to (leaven that I
could see the same spirit rising in the country at large to pet
' down the Private Boxes in Mt. Stephen's Chapel. [Loud
Plaudits.] Till placemen, pensiotiers, and jobbers, arc
swept from the Bemire: of the S.sonte, how call use expect
prudence in the granting, or croupy%) io the e speouliturc of
the Public Money ?
I have seen a good housewife raise water from a pump
that is out of order, on pouring a quantity of water down
the pump-stock ; this refreshment causes the sticker to play,
and produces a copious stream. I leave it to your consider-
ation, Gentleinen, whether some such process does not occa-
%homily produce a copiers stream of public money.
It is doubtful, Gentlemen, whether we shall soon be able
to do any thing on a large scale respecting Parliamentary
Reform. We shalt, however, in all probability, soon have
an opportunity of doing snmethine in the retail way. In is
well known that dissension and mutual recrimination have
shaken the foundation of ministerial power. When Parlia-
ment meet., things will be found, to adopt General Gas-
coyne's celebrated expression. " to be at sixes and sevens."
[.l laugh.] So much so, indeed, that io all probability the
gallant Genera! may nice more vote according to his consci-
ence. r. I laugh .?'This phenomenon must forbode some great
event. which evert I take to ben dissolution of Parliament.
[.lppiyasts.] In that case, I trust, Gentlemen, that the
Town of Liverpool will second utturendeavours, and that in
lieu of our present Representatives, we shall return two men,
why. without any selfish views of private emolument, will
dedicate their talents to the promotion of their Country's
good.

The Lords of the Admiralty have directed that
the sum of ten po►►nds, as a gratuity, he given to
each of the petty officers an,l seamen who were on
board fire ships at the attack lu Basque Roads on
the 11th April.

When Sir Timm is Atomic was Lord Chancel-
lor, he decreed that a Gentleman restore to a
Lady property of which he had wronged her.—
" I hope)" saidsthe Defendant, in the technical
language of the law, " your Lordship will grant
me a lung day."..." I will," replied the Chancel-
lor...." Next Monday is ST. BARNA is Day,
whkb is the longest in the year."
At a trial iu the Court of Common Pleas, on
Thursday, somedifficulty occurred in ascertaining
the date and the testing of the writ whereon the
Defendant was arrested. Sir Jamt:s MANSFIELD
directed the date and testing of every writ to be in
future entered upon the record.
On Monday se'nnight there was a numerous
meeting of Governors rid Magistrates of the
county of Tipperary in Clonancl, according to
the requisition of the High Sheriff, for the pur-
pose if considering the disturbances that have
recently continued to take place in that county,
and the best method of checking the spirit of out-
rage ; when it appeared, from the accounts of re.
spectahle Magistrates and Gentlemen, that a con-
siderable ntopher of those persona had possessed
themselves of arms, which they had obtained by
breaking open houses by. day and night through-
out the country, and that numerous ach of out-
rage had been committed by armed bodies of men,
and that at the fair of Lowe's-green, on the 19th
October, an outrageous attack had been made
upon the Magistrates in the execution of their
duty, who were fired upon, and a prisoner rec.
cued from them. A subscription to a large
amount was entered into upon the occasion, and
rewards offered for the apprehensiun of ,the riot-.
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Barley, per yo art:r 4ls. —d. to .14. —d.
(Las
Items
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Kew, 51. IK. to 61. IN.
41. 10s. to 51. is.
1:5,.• %, 41. Os. to 51. IS.

PRICES OF RAY AND
ST. JAIIIVeII.
Hay. 41. 4s. W. to O. 11e.
Straw, 21. es. to 11. 14s. Oil.

NEVVGATE AND LI:1A

03) the I
Beef 31. Od. to 4.. 4.1.
Mutton 3.. Od. to 4.. ttd. I

POCK ITS.
Kest, 41. 10s. to 61. 101.
s.isses. 41. 01. to 31. 13,
1' :trobea,lll. Os. to IUI. Us.

STRAW YRSTERD‘Y.

WIIITGAIA
hay, M. Os. tl 61. 61.
61. as. to 71.
Straw, 11. Y's. to 21. 10..

PRICE OF 1
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Veal 4s. 01. to sr. 4d.
Posk S. tnt. to 64. 44.

Wh;technpel Market 54 Ud
per It. of Bib.
Od
Average 3s Od

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Town Tallow Bfes Od Ole Od
volo% Russia Sim 04 Ms Od
White ditto 9tie Od MIA
Soup dim) .... 95s od 00s odi
Keting Stur 75s Od 78* IM
Donn rough Od 314 Orl
Grme,

I Good I)rets 1.31 Od
Yellow Snap, 109.4—Mottled. 114 s Od—Nieces lab—Cord,
11 —Gas~ik ‘7. 7b a ,ER.
Price of handle,, per doses. 146 ild—lloolds, 151 Od
RAW IIII)F.S.

Br" Wirer- and Sfrenper 76rdinory is. Od. to its. 4d.
ittrr I nJ. to Nittrket Calf 14s. 01. each.
klid‘ll nA, oil. to 2.2 t. Md. I Us,. Horse lls. Od. to 16s.
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Butts, 50 to labs. each - TM to 1.3 d per lb.
Ditto, 56 to Whs. earl Y3tt to 26d
Merchants' Backs - None.
I)n...slur Hi t.y - 1114 to 190
Fine Coaen Hides - 1911 to 141
Crop Hides 43 to 401113 for cutting 194 to 44d
Ditto 90 to CAIN. -18 d to 1961
Calf Skins 90 to IMO-. - 2.itt to 904
Ditto £d) to 7311t5. -91 d to 401
Woo 70 to 801bs. - ald to 39d
Antall Seals (Greenland) 31 Od to 3,
Large ditto 100 s to 1401 per dozen.
Tamed Horse Hides —d to —d per lb.

1) ED.
On Saturday, the 11th instant, at his lodgincs in Goodge-
street, Totten iani-court-road, Mr. Jame, 11 ih.on, watch-
maker, late of Lombard-street. This lamented Gentleman
was a Lithe of Kelso, in Scotland, and, when living, wa. ho-
noured by the intimacy of many of the learned and wise, of
alt nations, who might reside in this empire. His force of
intellect was far superior Li the statian lu which fortune had
placed him.
On Tuebilay last, after a short M0e..., the Only daaghter of
George Walker, Esq. of liaclumy Terrace.
On Wednesday the 25th tilt. at Knatstord, Mary younger
daughter of Hugo Aram, Esq. of lialrornitN Fifeshire.

TO TILE NERVOUS, DEBILITATED, AND
IT having ever been considered laudable in those
who hase bees the meaty of alleviating the sufferings „t-
-()then.. Medical Men, therefore, who dedicate their time to
the treatment of a few prevalent Diseases, making them ob-
jects of particular Investigation, and having bad a series of
sneers; ro-ult therefrom, it is presumed such endeavours not
wdy rearm merit on themselves, hut the reputation they ac-
quire sanctions their mode of practice.
Aram% the variety of I)iseases to which the human frame
is incident, none are more distressing, or claim a moor serio-s
attention, than the folios% log, vii. a CERTAIN DIMORD I:it
(regionaly contracted in a moment of intoxiimtion, and whirls
calls for our speedy eadeavoars to subdue, for it nut mitre-
quently has happened that a simple tionorrhtra through neg-
lect of the Patient, er treattneut itT the unskilful Prat Intoner,
has been succeeded Ay
srmicrukrs or OBSTRUCTIONS
in the Urethra, which has.- to the sufferer a lasting
source of future misery.
TIM various classes of Debility, whether occasioned by in-
temperince, long residence in r. warm climate, or a secret in-
sidious hahit of youth, are al-r• sub;ects of serious cousidem-
lion. So eurrvating i.the frequent indulgence in this soi,ary
Vice. that a train of Nervous Disi...see is Indoced. by which
the mind beCOIlleS weakened, its nell its the holy emaciated,
a hide I mpot.lice in the OM sex, nod Sterility in the other, arc
the consequences w hich follow.
Pitiable are the situations of thoss who, through such de-
structis e habits, have induced that distressing state of 1/eloi-
lity ; and, being ashamed to seek relief. brood over their In-
drmities in silence.
To those labouring under say of the above Complaints, it
may be a consolation to know, the removal of such, by the
gradual restoration of health, is the result of Mr. tiOSS's
! experience. also, in recent Venereal Cases where as early
application i- matte on discos ery of the Infection, generally
' completes a perfect care in two days. After having been re-
gularly edu.ated ass Member of tse Rota! College (eertili-
rates of which, from different Hospitals. be has Go convince
every inquirer). he made the cure of such the object of his
principal study, au I is enabled to perform the same, is ithout
subjectiwg the Patient to the least restraint in Diet, or Exer-
cise; and Salters hiovielf the reputation he hst4 acquired in tl's
course of twelve years practice, is a proof of his supei.or
mode of treatment. The uniform success for so !lowa period
(dories( whirls many hair been cared, after severe end injuricam
method, had berm pursued without %greet), induced Mr. G. to
thus publicly oiler his advice.
Ile may be consulted daily, bs persons of either Sex, with
strict secrecy. delicac% , tied honour. Applications by hater
cannot be attended t.., usileoe a Bank-note is eneinged.
T (1088, Surgeon Boeverie-street, Fleet-street.