The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-09-13 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

the Trocader.., where they entrenched themselves. Count
ESCUS follow ed them by a abort road,which conducted him
to their entrenclunents, bin, *as stopped by a roapereit
'd,tbe darkness did pet ire him to engage his 7

cadero and the Fort Saint Louis,, and ell the batteries, where
we found .53 pieces of artillery, and froM 1000 to 1100 prison-
W4O officers, amongst which are the superior commander al
the Trocadero, named Games, ill) killed, about 230 or 100
'"vm'o!joipided, • great quantity of powder. A great nunibm4.l
Leis jumped into the marshes, where they were drowned. 4.0
or 300ot mestwere saved in the boats. The 1700 men, erldel
composed the garrison of Trocadero, have been almost" an
.destroyed in this affair."
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BORDIBiOULLE.

:,I.llryit,n pipers *birds bete reacted us this morning,
wodsarr tbactbare ,bete been some warm discussions be,
likeepitlitiCeptitia.Pscha :and the English authorities. in
editer44l) sentient of Ileiteisture of tome English merchant'
men, by tiefTurks. e Ilydriot fleet, it is reported, his
taken ieyeral Turkish slpi pi "pr. * Greek fleet, it Is
understood, passed Navaviestiithedirection of Zante ; and
several actions* bed tOkeis.piricriln the southern part of
Thessaly;'bad the advantage.
There. bad been another fire. at Constantinople, on the
20th August in whiciTTlS stated, only some hunrkred.
)ounes were deetroyed., the communications between
L'enstautinople and Odessa have resumed tbeir usual activi.
Place between A'irkei ired Persia, it is said, wascon•
chided oa the 16th of July.. ''Fassioli, a Dative of one of
thellotitan islands, had Made...Ain' ~attempt on Syra; but,
tieing deemed a pirate, he easettacked and taken by Capt.
ilargous, commander of the Medea, French frigate, who
sent hint on board the Active, to be conveyed to Corfa for
trial, as a subject of the Anglo foniin Government.

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~-..t 'he exact quantity of glory'Atained by,tbe•Freneir in
dude• recent attack upon thwTiiirederm bah Veqtaired a
great deal of time to calculate; .a the plaiting of She
eibcial documents has Inquired ,so nuicli • discretion, that
cite victory bed well nigh been forgotten, before we obtained
any particulars. The private Accounts of yesterday were
in the twat Style of Vrench vapouring, and did great • credit
to their tale's is. tire arts of invention and embellishment.
' An officer, who visitett the whole line of the etitrenChments
otiitfie:lS't inst. says " the Dumber of dradis narcosis' der.
.tabie 3 there are places where they cove? thewholi bat-
ed Oery" The httackeA 'must thitiekte. .have met with
!PIO' ace which. readers their Joao .af, hair Ulla a: little
ridiculous. A remarkable cbengei hit liken Oteltild the
composition of the Pre nclt'irMijiVeeretethl than "the
".old grenadiers would suffer tbeasselvesio-he cat to pieces
"under the eyes of the Prince" (IVO; and that these who
" Wire presentin iluona?arte's ware, say they never found
"in any General the intrepidity therhave obleived In the 1
" Duke d'Angoulethe." These are such absurillalselitiiidi
,as [nerd}, to excite a latugh... at ..:hie • gullak HiirbslNs'i
expense. He is said to tem beestallthaye at ttrallatil otilair
troops, aid in the Itiitte4.:6ot."dWe.lseetosti4e4e that As
French saiai.aereeeletelalit With Shelf cartridges tied op fa'
handkercbiefl.'isktittA **Ws.' ginth ... els 't ilsei4ailied
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aatasai sad weredalyspiaalstiOlaiditte.ia.dia inter: • Bat.
we do Dot hear that the'rAaie.itlibee svraM, Tai itrAe Wier t.
but fiat he wsited.alkit .1 poet bad. :laid likeeyea' afsi'
apposite side, and libridige throllie iieirttsi;.• 4leit hi:W as
the first to,pass, when the roaditesemain, • aid after the
Spottier& were thiditt into disorder.., siote.os ;It le:
that " in ten adnoterdarfortnaluanta were carried, and

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the... enentY•Niltietit'lltiti:[tloe greatest disorder : ,
Wage that had hell got ready was then thrown across ;"
and "is coos as the 'Doke arrived, he ordered (not anode)
an attack oo ;he buildings of the fort of the Trocadero
which weiegjesAly carried, though defended by ditches
idled wills,initer, and by 'numerous entrenchment, which
*44Y:defended with obstinacy." A speedy reduction
ofoosoiaei obstiaately . defended,' if the phrase had occur.
is an Irish Bulletin, would have been called a Bnll.--
There is more pheamoloq of a similar description.—
Another acceeitt says "the Bpaniab cannoneer, died en
their gnus :"—then woo are told: •" the attack was
.
.wan sudden, and the Success AK decisive, that the
":enemy could neitber .ftriatt sorweiliagain." However,
it would appear 164 'did both ; for the statement
Gilds," our troops pursued them with vigour!" What
'med. of pursuit, is the same bid* that is wonderful.' if,
tboy;conld not retrons. Bat'" the combat recount/excel( ist
'the village of Tiociderol" • Tben the Spaniards did:both.
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!retreat and rally rbov. in the village " they were ell made;
so primittersor killel. ''';'Tite remit of all this/loess to bare
bees c0n644 togffilea 40 "11111011 lbs power,. when el,
have the stomach, to attack' thefetthiliko ib'S;fetii esiiht; I
not one of whiCh appearsiii have sien taken. The attack
has been simply open the entrenchments which defended
the Cet, so that the invaders are not yet so fur in advance ',,
as the
•Preoch were, in the lint war against Spanish inde-
peodonm; e!adif every step cost as mock es this has done,'
it will be some time before Cadiz is endangered. A Prince
Carigi*votei3Oftbe Spaniih traitors in the service of the
Fresch,.li 4440 as a snood Prince Hilt ; but the phra-
seology elleadsfel Is record his valour, his the effect of
ildictilikg-lb..!tiblisid be " wished to be the first to pass
•11 the fosse hipplassaing." Why did he merely wish ?
Wby not. throw Mosel( into the fosse? What prevented
itPrittee, , .frotn carrying hie geisha into effect? That be did
•I: 1 • k
• 410, Of is evidest; because if se effecting an inci-
...as a Primes eivallotii a deck is crossing of
le,dllth, had occarril4:„lll:,S644: have called forth at'
a opium of .IPeemb.:eyeapothy and admiration.
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`:ielw-itie 'held that 111.*M411400101141.kgrenidier seeing

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him in great danger, " pulled him back by his coat, and
" tlteew him into the water ; saying, my fiord, you isav,e
" taken my place !" to which the Prio vepßed,
in the water, Comrade, lam a Royal volunteer, vat.'
lug to the assault !" Their burlesques Winn the pi*
font of star. ...The French hams a-happy imaek of turning
every thing into farce. They have lost all the manly dm-
rider 'whiCh the Revolution confetred ,upoo them;
haire been remeasured by their Royal tailors for all the
vices and frivolities of " the old regime."
. In Catalonia, the French army must be in a waning con-
'ditlon, since they only venture to boast that they keep Mi-'
i in check. Now as they are the invaders, it would
seem rather his business to keep them in check ; only that,
he does more than this, and they do less. The-very last
accounts describe him as attacking them, assaulting their
bead-quarters, and bearing away all before him in a contest
of four hours duration. We wish that every other French
officer had been as wen matched as Marshal Moocey. We
regret to perceive that a tone of despair begins to pervade
our more liberal journals, and that the suontiasion of Ca-
die is spoken of as probable. To the eternal disgtite of
this country, we have done but little indeed to prevent
such a result. We have neither encouraged by our
applause, nor assisted by our means, to any adequate ex-
tent, the cause of the Spanish Revolutionists. The very
reasons whicb were assigned in excnse for our apathy,
were those which should have excited us to the greater ex-
ertion. It was said to be impossible that Spain should
succeed. Those wbo wished her success, should have been
the more anxious. to lessen the impediments in her way. It
was said that Spain was unworthy of freedom. At any
rate, it would have been a noble endeavour to teach her to
be worthy of -it. But there was no immediate paltry ad-
vantage to stimulate the cupidity of the richer order of
Englishmen- Ibis is a land of enterprixe ; but gain must
be its object. As Cowper says—" We travel far, indeed,
but not for nought." Policy, reason, and justice, have no
charms, unless they can find a ready and a profitable
market. Such feelings will be regretted, when it is too
late. When Spain and Portugal shall he placed at the
disposal of France,—an event which the soppression
of
the revolution in Spain, must necessarily produce, both
our no-rchants and our statesman will learn, that an early
interposition to preventmischief, would have been the bail
means of meeting it.

We have not before noticed the case of Mr. Swahili the
Magistrate of Union 'Mall, having committed a man and
woman to the Honew.lif Correction at Brixton, on the
charge of a watchman...if indecent exposure of their persona
on a dark sight in the vicinity of Waterloo-Bridge ; but
since Mr. Allen undertook, on Thursday, to justify Mr.
Swabey's conduct, and to state that be would have acted
in the same way, tinder the same circumstances, we must
ask Mr. Allen whether be would have acted legally,
or if Mr. Swabey has done so. The value of the testimony
:Oa watchman in such a case is well known ; and although
'the en7airy has brought forward another person to corobo-
rate the watchman's story, they do not make tent a case in
;sitiel the Magistrate was justified in applying the severest
(provisions of the Vagrant Act towards individuals against
whom no offence bas'
,'proved. To place any divert-
itions.ry power in the bands of the greatest ornaments of the
Bench is dang'ernns enough ; but to vest any in the hands
oisa Police Maeistrite, with such Police Magistrates as we
!are, blessed with, is siOnstritte indeed. • These persons were
committed under the Act whiett ordeinsench a pnnishment
for a public exposure of the person, with the design to in-
'soh. Now, at worst, this was the reverse of such an ex-
posure. Tire parties themselves, if they were about to coon
mit any offence, supposed themselves screened by the dark.
.floss. They did not intend to expose themselves to the watih-
men, or to anybody else) nalleat whatever other legal
penalty might attach to them; they were 'clearly eat of
the provisions of the Act under which they have been doomed
to the-penance of the tread mill. To patch tar ore Magis-
trate's ease, an officer is said to have heard the man
acknowledge that he intended to bare committed an
offence; hist this (if true) has sothing to do with the matter.
The offence for whieb,the:r tint •now suffering punishment.
was neither cointhineet nor Contemplated ; end the Mavis
trate has been guilty of ailing under a statute which dues
not apply to the case.
' While on this subject, ire may Mid that George Wilson,
the celebrated pedestrian, has been recently committed to
.the tread-mill for a month, on theshuge of leaving his'
wife and children. This offence was committed more than
'setettlears ago, sail long before the Ant was passed,und er
'which lie has liven committed. in the Memoirs of his Life
by himself, published after his walk on Blackheath, he
;gives an account oftlis separation from her, and abundaitt
seasons for the separation. Yet seven years afterwards toe
is committed to the treed-mill, under the provisions of a
statute recently enacted. Our Police Magistrates really
should keep clerks who can reed andwnderstand ordinary
Matters of law and equity,

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tetti4Trom Saitiage de Chili, received eesModne,state
shot General Brilivar,had arrived it Callao in eica..with
44100• Colombian troofs,'3ooo more Otte on their way from
gent ef 71100 for the• service if pegs.,', Three thousand
which would complcte toe Colombian condo-
UE'reopsnaYacihnsidi. sailed from Chili ISM the seine 'destination being
the nnmher agreed to be furnished by that country. The
Velso!e when nnited would form, with 4000 Peruvians,. a.
force of 14,000 men, with which, under the guidance of
General Bolivar, it was determined to effect the complete
annihilation of the Spanish force in Peru. The letters se:,
nothing as to the Government, front which it is interred
that every thing was going on quietly,•
By letters from Permgnan„Of the.7th irmant, it apprars
that the diversion made be Milan., whieli ball for ill °Mott
the withdrawal of part of the troops frousbefore Barcidona,
succeeded,
ha& ad fge that during the atenni near Tatra-
gon... the peasantry of the enviroris frees:matt y entered
Barcelona with provisions and fruit, and other articles of
which the garrison and inbabitenta were in want. Several
persons have been since arrested by the French authorities,
for the violation of the hisekadet and the Marshal, as the
surest meiniof causing it to be respected, had given orders
on the 7th for considerable reinforcements to i's marched
thither. Nothing instill said of Mina. The last accounts
of him stated that be was en Barcelona, and' that Rotten,''
sithoigh nominally Governor, adopted- aliwthe 'walnuts ',-
commended by the Commander in Chief,,-

DEATH OF Mit. RICARDo.

It was with great regret we perceived it stited in an
evening paper of yesterday, that Mr. Ricardo had paid the
.last debt of nature. We have often bad occasion to differ
with his political and financial conclusions; but to his ta-
lent and good intentions we have ever been anxious to do

&Nastier. As a member of the Senate, he has ef fate!
great public good by the manly stand which he has cooN.
.stautly same against persecution fbr opinion, in white,*
hieguise.it might mask itself, for the furtherance of its ob.
ject: In this sense be has been truly a public benefactor;
"All that trethwantsis the liberty of appearing;" and when
force is no longer armed against reason, the right will ea-
sily prevail. If Mr. Ricardo's merits be estimated by this
" standard of value," all the wayward opinions upon the
value of any other standard, will be overlooked ; and his
name will never be mentioned without esteem for his bene.
volenee, and respect for his

The following are the testimonies which our cotempora•
ties have been urged to pay to his memory:—

(From the Courier.)— An account reached the City
yesterday morning, by express. of the death of David
Ricardo, Esq.. M.P. for Partarlington. at his seat in Moo-
' cestershire. .He died, it is said, of meter on the brain,
We knew yesterday he as alarmingly ill, and teat several
of his brothers bad left London express to see him. if.
was a man of distinguished abilities, and as a political
economist he had the faculty of discussing the intrlcite
principles of that science with singular acuteness and per-
spicuity. His writings upon those sabjects, indeed, consti-
toted almost as marked an era as the celebrated work of
Adam Smith. His authority in the !loose of Commons
upon all.questions of trade and fioance was latterly very
great, from tne clear and logical manner in which he al-
ways urged his arguments. Hie death will be much re-
gretted as a public man, dud still more by those who knee►
him in private.

(From the 'lmes.)—We have to regret the death of Mr.
Ricardo, a man distiuguished among his cotemporaties f.e
the general spirit of curious and refined investigation with
which he prosecuted subjects in any manner connected
with finance. It is not, indeed, very clear to our jtvignieht,
that he succeeded in establishing env economical principles
of great importance which were betire undiscovered : but
Mr. Ricardo has this praise-Lhe has contributed heyon
most individual, of his time to raise and dignify the cite.
ratter of a smolt-chant; be has blended science with trade;
fie hacthrown a robe of intelligence and theoretic know.
ledge over the daily occupations of the counting-house ;
he has. again, both acted and reasoned in the two•fuld
relations of an agriculturist and a financier, and ra •y be
said to have so disposed the several lick, in the chain of
life with which hat was conversant. as to make them reflect,
when the occasion demanded it, a powerful light upon each
ether.
(Faost The Afornbig Chroitiek.)—The country and
his friends have to lament the loss of this enlightened,
amiable, and truly virtuous- Senator. An express arrived
in town yesterday morning, with an account of his death,
at his seat in Gloucestershire. The disease is said to hare
been water on the brain..
Political economy remained nearly in the state in which
it was left by -Smith, till the appearance of the writingsof
Mr. Ricardo. To him we are indebted for the discovery
of many important principles, and for the correction aid
modification of many of those laid down by his great pre-
decessor. But in the brief notice to which we most now
tonnes ourselves, we ran only allude generally to his merits
as a political economist. without attempting a specification
of them.
As a Senator he stood alone, sad we know not.whether be
will hews any successor. Before Mr. Ricardo, we had able,
practical ihatesmeo, great orators, and brilliant wits; but he
is the first alas who carried Seto the Horse of Commies a
clear philosophical head. and an Inflexible determination never
to deviate in NW slightest degree from any of those criaciples,
the troth of whieh he bed once ascertained. With such a de-
termination, he could not possess ertensive influence is the
Parliatasatery genes of the word, because in a popular assem-
bly inkeeneesen only he purchased by occasional sacrifices to
the opinions and even the prriudieet of others. But his disre-
gard of ell-the meows of otataininradventitioes consideration,
revs hientreet -weight with the well informed, poth le the
Rouse and throughout the country. Forty years ago. mitre
even Fhb's. with all his financial and brilliant deciametian,
could not obtain a !tearing Yoe any thieg beyond the routine of
every day polities. Mr. Rimed° would have been totaby
disre-
garded. The digesion of knowledge throughout all chases
of the country has MOW bee■ MO great, and the philosophi-
cal eltirfidetiosse of Mr. Ricardo ofpoints in political economy.
delivered in the most anpretendiag manner, and unrelieved by
any thing extraneous. were listened to by the Slothe with a
respectful attention. indicative: at sit eveuts of a due sense of
the velum. and importence of knowledge. He was the repre-
sentative of an age when the arts of tide/Age have lost mock
of their influence, through the general adieus:anent of intel-
lectual power.

In the House es in conversation Mr. Ricardo possessed
great presence of mind, and readiness in expressing his
sentiments on all the subjects with which he was comer-
sant. He was often extremely happy in his retorts on those
, who opposed themselves to his views ; and sums of his
'remarks on Sir Thomas Lethbridge, and ocher sons of the
soil, appreoached'ever wepigrammatic point.
The example of so 'mat+ simplicity and singleness of
purpose, so putt arid conyant a love of truth for her one
sake, would in time, we doubt not, have been still more
beneficially felt in the Assembly to which he belonged.
We regard therefore his death in the light of a great ra-
tional calamity. His talents, though of the first order,
may be sooner replaced than his virtues. Let us hope,
however, that some man of independent fortune, snot
endowed with high powers of intellect, which he considers
as a trust for the beneft of his species, will rise up among
its to tread in his footsteps.
Mr. Ricardo is supposed to have been worth npwards of
half a million when he retired from basin-ss. He was
reutarkably successful, hardly ever sustaining any loss.—
I ndeed the system on which he proceeded in some tn.-
secured him against heavy losses, though it al. -
him from pining much at any one time. '
to sell &twirl at the turn of the m- •
though small at any one tins-
became large in the end.
sad a tolerably large '
were lately (and
shies.

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..• 'Tepid
din practice w$
yatet, and his pita
by being ofteo repeated
.ie has left behind bum a wide'
..featiily, One, if not two, of his us
tittlaips still are) at one of oar Uniro.

nelllkWittPritte ETTIRAORDINART.-.4 rencoutrs Gemmed
yesterday. aboet seven o'clock, between Mr. Henry Abbott,
late or Alfrad.place, Bedford-square, and a gentleman. weal'
teratawl, of the name of Gilbert. Shortly after Mr. Abbott
came out of his lodgings in Thornhaugh-street, be was srtby
Mr. Gilbert, who, we auderstand, OM. lodged in the saw
house in Alfred-place, o hen he. without further eeremoay.
commenced horsewilopine Mr. Abbott as hard as be eould.—
After being attacked for some time, Mr. A. called out lustily
for the watch, but not finding them answer, sod being sill'
pressed by his adversary,he was obliged to continue the Wog-
gle in his own defenee. They closed, and after some Maw
*pat in•mutual attacks and parries. Mr. Gilbert fell. and in dm,
struggle. Mr. Abbott succeeded in d.prittiot Mr. 0. akin
whip. with width Mr. Abbott Made ofi On enquiry rue .^+`
informed that the cause of quarrel arose frost a letterirviden
by Air. Abbott to Mr. Gilbert, in which, after mud. sbasett-
Mr. Abbott, declined receiving any message from MP. O.
enderstaad.the business will come balms. the gentleiltf49l-
Wog robe In another form of action.