The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-11-02 00:00:00

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;' otin the Jilt rent classes of conscripts, scarcely
, neap Ile-fourth of those w Ls) composed than
t.iken le field.
". luscuosidering the situation of s our Majes.
ies.."rmkr, and the result of the English Expo-
:Whisk', eau we, without a decee of a itisiarts•int
boholti England, in imitation of A .atria, to Ail;
.'forts disproportionate to her means, and the
wants of tier nav) ? Wnat can she expect from
his contest upon land, and 1.4:1 to min, with
France, that shall nut redound to h,•r own injury
and disgrace?
" Sire, the French people will have to thaok
your Majesti for the inexp.essible advant tge and
glory of a peace, compered without maritowe es.
peditions, from an enemy who, by his situAtiou,
thought himself free from all attack. Every serious
attempt noon the Contine"t, on the :fart of the
English, is a step toward. a general peace.
" The English Ministers who preceded the
Members of the present G:tversiment, a more
able set of men than Me latter, were well con.
vinced of this truth, and took onud care not to
commit thernselr s in an unequal contest. It did
not escape their observation, that to carry on a
long war, it was necessary that it should press
lightly upon the people who had to support it.
66 Within the test tweive months, the war has
cost England more blood than she had previously
shed from the period when she broke the peace of
Amiens. Committed in the battles of Spain and
Portugal, whence her duty and her interest fur.
bid her to recede, site will see those countries be.
come the tomb of her bravest warriors. Sorrow
fur their loss will at length produce in the minds
of the English people a wel'-fou 'del abhorrence
of thole cruel men, whose ambition and frautic
hatred dared to pronounce the expression of eter-
nal war. It will excite in that people Me wish
fur a general peace, which every man of good
sense may predict to be near at hand, if the
English persist in a continental contest.
44 1 am, with respect, &c.
" TAe Mihister nt War, Count HE HUNEBURGH."

To ritE EDITOR or THE bT4TESM-IN.

SIR—As it-appears to be the intention of Go-
vernineist to keep secret from the Public the sub.
stance of the dispatches brought by the Eclipse
from %Terri 'Cruz, I shall acquaint you with the
particulate-which led to them, thereby shoeing
how happily our affairs are conducted abroad as
well as ads hums.
The I/midis:tied frigate, Captain Maling (Lord
Nitilgrave's brother-in-law, who his already en.
j.,yed this soot of profitable employment before),
sailed fur Vela Cruz with Mr. Cochraue Johti,tune
on board, who had undertaken to go thither to
collect and ship off money on board the Un.
daunted, which was ultiwati•ly to reach this coun-
try to usist in reimbursing us for the supplies the
Spaniards had receir,•.l fruin lib. This frigate
called at Barltatioes (*here Admiral Coe.ratie
commands) on her way, nod here it is slid, the
Cochrane' fnroo-it their plan for gentile all the
profits to themselves. On the passage,Mr.o J
stone and Capt.Maling disagreed, *hith the A dini.
ral anticipating, sent the Ethelion, cominatithd by
his son, to Vera Crus, in readiness to take advsn.
tage of th, quarrel. Mr. C. Johnstone arrived and
collected the money, but refused to it off is
the Undautsied, Caplan) Mating, but intended to
zive the pronts of freight to his nephew, in the
Ethalion. This Captain Maliug objected to,
having urders from the Admiralty to be tile bearer
of the money, and consi (pettily to pocket the'
freight, and being the senior officer, he ordered
the Elhalion'hack to Barbadoet. The obstinacy
and animosity of Mr. Cochrane Johnstuue, how..
ever prevented him from cou,idering the honour
and advantage of his country, and the money was
shipped on board a Spanish 74 gun ship, which uc.
casioned a considerable ferment ansongst the par_
tics, and the consequence of all this jobbing,
jostling, and quarrelling is, the money has been
Mantled, the port shut against our ships, and all
supplies refused. Thus it would appear the Mut.
gravel (for so I consider his brother-in-lass) and
Cochranet were well matched, and we are to
look on with indifference to the honor and credit
of the country being compromised by it pack of
jobbers, saying nothing of its having kept ern-
ployed two Motes mail a sloop of war, *no I
should think might be better employed, than traf.
ficking and disgracing the flags they carry.
I send you these particulars, in the hope that
you will not let the subject sleep, for a more dis-
graceful transaction never passed unnoticed. Fur
myself, I am totally unknown and uncomiet red
with any of the parties, and in no way concerned
in the transaction, but the particulars having
reached the through the most impartial, but cor-
rect channel, I send it you.
I am, Sir, &c.
Plymouth, Oct. 49, 1909: - X.

Monday evening este of the Lietstenants and the
Captain's Clerk, of the Acleun siu.,,, of war,
were brought on shore in. cost .dy of the Civil
Power, for potting two ship.wriglos
of Plymouth-Duck) Mho were at work on liaa
the skip, in irons, and otherwise ill-treating the,
Their examination was to take place on the fol-
lowing illy.
There are four Can,litlites, it is 130, for the
Chancellorship of the 1' liversity of Oaforil, which
ka% 'meow vaeant by the Death of the Duke of
Poniard, viz. the Disko of Beaufort, the Earl of
Liverpool, Lord Grenville, and the Bis..up of
Durham.
On the night of the 21d alt. Thumrs Bi.supg
a soldier, at lgezhill barracks, nos awaked bi art
unusual motion in bed ; to 111-e .rer ihe cause
of which ha turnetiks his ri...ht ski., and caught
with hip left hand aitery large rat 1 ierimg
self npright, he felt another on left .id , and
caught that with hi; right 114 t but nut tol khe
latter anintel Alai bitten Airs t ugh the tlnorb
to this situation, with silhrgr rot struggling in
each hard, he called to kb comrades, and, with
their it,a I tiurct, confined to destroy them.
List seek, a sparrow-hawk killed two goIJ.
6nches, In their cavil, at the ArtilLry num. ks,
at Bexhill, one of which ho tore through the wire,
and carried cid.