The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-29 00:00:00

SPANISH PAPERS.

Serrra.s, SEPT. 11.—The satisfactory late'''.
gence has been officially announced, that a division
of Blake'; army, commanded by Don JaymeGara,
has suceeealed in breaking the enemy's line► and
entered Gerona, with provisions and warlike
stores for that admirable place. The generous
inurenients of the inhabitants of the Pyrennees
continue with unabated vigour and perseverance;
and had not the important fortress of Jars,
through cowardice, fallen into the enemy's hands,
those gallant mountaineers, supported in their
movements by that important place► and led on
by the worthy chief who commands them, would,
perhaps, by this time, have carried their victorious
banners to the banks of the Ebro, and Navarre
and Arragon would have been a second time in.
debted to them for their liberty.—(Government
Gazelle, Sept. It)
A LICANTI Aug. 29.—8 y a ship which arrived
here on the 27th of this month from Tarragona,
intelligence has been received, that on the 13th
and 14th of that month 5000 hone passed through
that place for Gerona ; and that positive Informa.
tioa had reached Tarragona, that provisions arc
very scarce in Barcelona ; that the enemy sustains
great losses in his inroads into the country ; and
that the French troops are in great distress. On
the 23d inst. entered this port, his Majesty's sloop
Carolina, Don Joaquim Molida, commander, of
eight guns and eighty men, and the hrig Pesionso,
Don Diego Qucvedo, Commander, of 16 guns,
and 100 men, which bring from Cadiz a million
of rials for this kingdom, and another million for
Tarragona. On the 26th arrived here, from Car.
thagena, his Majesty polacre N. S. del Coymen,
Dolt Juan Navarete, Comn.ander, of 10 guns and
70 men, with gvo.powder, balls of every calibre,
bombs, grapeshot, and' other warlike stores and
provisions, for Gerona and Tarragona ; they have
all sailed for their places of destination.
Szrittu, Si.PT 6...1t appears, by reports trans.
witted by the Supreme Provincial Ju tea of Arra.
gun, that the battalion commanded by Dow
Raman Gayan lately attacked the enemy. who
occupied Paneza with a force of 300 men. Our
gallant Countrymen o!►cncJ their fire upon the
French, who withstood it fur half an hour, and
then took to a disgracJui flight, leaving the con.
querors in pJssZssion of th.; greaUst part of their
baggage.
The Supreme Committee of the royal and dis.
tingnished Spanish Order of Charles 111. have
unanimously voted 10,000 ducats of the money
la:ely received from America, to be applied to
the support of the wid.b.ors and orphans of that
unconquerable place.

On the 2lth of last month, his Excellency Mr.
Frere, who, with such ardent zeal for our nati-
chial glory and independence, performed the func-
tions of his Britannic 'Majesty's 111iniscer with the
Soprenie Junta of Government, had his audience
of leave.

The Junta of the province of Gallicia has
been provisionally established ha Siracusa, to or.
ganize the patriotic iusurrection and general arms.
ment in that province. The people conform
themselves with ebthusiasm to every measure which
'the Junta thinks proper to adopt. All the young
men assemble in Sirens& and Willis, in which
places a fine corps of 250 horse has already been
formed. In Upper and Lower . Rioja, the same
patriotic zeal prevails, although the latter is
completely surrounded by the enemy. General
D'Agount, French Governor of Navarra, having
condemned four Spaniards to sulrer death, ou a
charge of their having murdered a French Serjeant
and Merchant, and given public notice of the ewe-
eution of his sanguinary order, Don Mariano Ito.
maler, Commander in Chief of the Spanish troops
in the mountains of Arragon, for his Majesty Fee.
dililUid V iI. has Weed a Preefamatten, In answer
to the former, which contain the following Ar.
ticks :---

1. Manuel A lanais Grayer, names Periehe, Jaw Bear
bier, Francois Deseis, and Amuse, de la Ceiombiese, all
agents of the rrenck, shall be eardseted by ay troops to the
camp of Erigorria, and being placed in a ragtime facing
Mslrid. looking to their King, Peps Bo!Saks (Jae-Bottle),
they shall bear the sesame at death preeminent, and being
afterwards ordered to face Pamplona, they shall be be:beaded,
and their bndir, smpeaded from gibbets on the rood which
kale to Madrid, with the following inseriptioa ea their
barb, " Agasisof lAs Fronk knutitti poached ky Spanish
jug„
Should the intruded King, Generals D'Agirdt and Le-
mma ( who command in lamb or any other person, abase
his aialusrby, to sake away the lib of any Spaaiard, we Anil
order double the masker of Frenchmen, who arc in our
power, to be bebembed.—(Serille GOStiie.)

A WA Liu vo MATCR.—Yesterday a shoemaker,
twine] Thompson, who resides iet the Borough,
and is nearly 60 cars old, undertook to walk 15
miles in three !lours, for a wager of lee guineas.
'Lie place he chose for deciding the tut, was on
the road betwJen Kennington and Clapham. He
started at *is o'clock in the morning, walking one
mile out and one mile in, till Ise perforated his
task, which he did with ease, IN minutes Otitis
the time allowed him.
Advice has been received he lows of Its death
of Idieatenauta Sreas aa4 livaumart at 40 Oith
regiment. Thvest arson van sar* ortiliked
i‘i boAkut !Outs,.

THE STATESMAN.

HANTS AND WILTS.

The triumphant Meetings of the respectable
Freeholders of Hampshire and Wiltshire, have
excited the animosity of the whole tribe of what
are called the "friends of Government," that ia,
in plain English, the friends and abettors of the
present system of taxation, profusion, inquisi.
curial oppression, and corruption. The in-
creasing influence of Mr. Conners., had na-
totally long been the object of the serious
apprehensions of the " Robbers;" but it
was quite beyond their comprehension, that
an individual, by the mere force of arguments
dictated by sound sense and manly independence,
could break asunder the chains of dependence in
which the County of Hants had, from time imme.
morial, been held. To influence the Freeholders
of a whole County—and such a County—men
who had been accbstomeal to vote and hence
just as they were ordered by the Treasury
agents, appeared to the " Robbers"...vermin,
whose only arguments are tangible bribery,
and palpable corruption,...absolotely miracu-
lous—bat when the detested mangiest of in-
dependence spread itself to the adjacent and
equally important County of Wilts, the astonish.
meet of the '• Robbers" was surpassed only by
' their rage. No time was to be lost, and they
entered on what they, easy souls, looked upon
to be as easy a task as the march to Paris of
Lord IIAWKESBIALT, or, that of the ViScoent
of TALAVERA to Madrid—the pulling down
of Mr. CORBETT. God help them !—Every sen.
tence of falsehood, fully, ignorance, and ab-
surdity, with which the pages of The Post and
Courier were daily ornamented, were bet pro-
clamations of the influence and independence of
that character which they to childishly were hop.
ing to destroy. Whilst The Past figured daily,
as a duercpid slippered pantaloon in this puppet.
show—The Courier gravely matted !hi' a tweeter
of Harlequin...we say walked,...-for that very
lively, amusing, and constant, never.chunging
Print...we really think could by no possible ethic
get out of the pace of a waggon horse. To
those who doubt the consistency of this constant,
never-changing Courier, we need ouly refer its
readers to the ale of this month, when &II Gatir
and Lord GatNTILLE were mentioned as a part of
the intended Ministry. The oracular Courier
informed the Public, that the " retir•easent of
those Noblemen weak/ not be disturbed." Within
a very few days Harlequin informed his retitle's,
that Earl GREY and Lord GRENVILLE had ere.
tainly been sent for. And on Wednesday, ex-
pecting that these Noblemen would as certainly
come into office,..." True as the Needle to the
Pule,"---Ifuriequin says—

" We said oollooday, and we repeat It to-day, tea!
measures, nod aot gam, ere as objects see shall congtisr—
Give as bat Wog etsesares. and we we est by wheat they Amps
bees atlebed ar adopted. Not bet that are shall regret the
absence of such see from the Cabinet, as Mr. CAN "gam
the Marquis WELLast.ar. and Lord Altsirtt.t.t —eget but
that we shall always look back with sathLactioa apes the
conductor the presage hiltdotry."

This truly Ingenions Ilarlsoria, always secures
a retreat..." Giro us but wise measurer, and we
" care not AN .mAem they have been advised or
66 adopted !" But whore shall we look for the wise
measures which Harlequin has been so strenuously
supporting—the Expeditiun to Co penhagrn—tuPor.
togal--to Spaits--to Sicily...and the appointment
of Sir Hew DALRYMPLII ?...these, we presume,are
66 amongst the wise measures"....by whom advised
or adopted, Harlequin cares n0t...50 that he can
but curry favour. harlequin seems to be perpetu.
ally humming the well.kaown tuneof 66 The Vicar
of Hs ay." It is •difileult to conceive a por-
tion of vanity and folly so great as that of these
hirelings, in even hoping that their abusive trash
could operate in any single instance to the de.
triment of Mr. Consm.---The result of their
united labours has been, precisely what was
anticipated, by the discerning part of the nation—
ea increased circulation of Mr. COIIIIVIT'S Re.
ester, whose merit they have thus unwitting.
1 ly been proclaiming, and a declining rirctslation of
their own venal trash. All the efforts of the
" Banditti" to traduce and defame the cha.
racter of Mr, Consist (which that Gentle-
Man mnst ui,ely treated with merited contempt),
have fallen harmless. The rancour and animosity
of" these friends of Government" in the counties
of Hants and Wilts--that is thefriendr of any Mi.
sister from whom place, pension,. or jub, can
be obtained, have not been confined to Mr. Con.
airs alone—the admirable speech of Mr. lirmav
HUNT, at the Salisbury Meeting, was as unpar.
dutiable and as ineapiable as that of Mr. Conarrr
at-Winchester, which convinced the understand-
ings of the respectable Freeholders of Hampshire.
Every petty artifice of persecution has. been re.
sorted to for the purpose of annoying Mr. RUNT.
The attachment of this gentleman to thi sports of
the held is known to be great ; gnd on this point
these 66 friends of Goventipent" were childish
enough to belieTe him to be particitlarly vater's.
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