The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-10-16 00:00:00

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who ware well aitaagh to follow his rapid move-
*tosstsk Vas, that one of the passes in the moon.
tignis that ought to have kept the enemy Lord
WELL' °Tole sib, fighting at Talavera,
„Awn,
milt tit! LAO of theseAllstlds s 'left open,
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t:Sipeo efO'stitifq, a rcetnents . ly list tn. All
mll4O Oil IV all military eolitared at
r it. Lord . WELLltsamouglit 'tot to tune futight
4gTrain o .id tilatcrat ifolvas lie had knorin 041'
LitsilAvaikshto, .*. Aitil liiiiN\ In this affair of the
LOleri

.ade.pesacol Lord Wal.worrust should
'jests sure of Sas.Okillbecaose be,expected that post
Ossetia hare eseeted.,ilia left flank from the moire.
meat aeinallrit‘q4 Miasexa. If he de.
pendeci Ott Colossal Ica NT, he should not have left
him tobc rand off to the North, by the command-
ing General there, pr by. any body else.--But,
*UPPt;eing COloncl otay to have been at Ser.
dao-'-wes it reesonabie to hare been cipeeted
that his division Austad stop the whole of MAs.
sFN A's vmy—yett 'it is to be remembered. that
MA9tett* moved his whole force to that place, tits
the road to Coimbra, turning the left tholt of thel
Vied Army, and compelling the latter to (II back
Not his position. Did my Lord Wect.toovon
littagista the French General would detach 'only a
division or two against Sardao, while he attacked
the front of the Allied Army, and that Colette!
TaAwr might do very well to check these D Then
he did not reason upon any just expect:Woe.; and
if ho will always• reason so, he may win. *Wes,
but ho will never gain, or sure a country l
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In the recent attack made upon the Allied Army
in the Sierra de Bunco, almost the whole of the
French arab consisting of the divisions of NEY,
Jusor, and VfneTnimi; to the amount of 70,000
oleo, wort "der &resit ;: 0,000 of whom were en.
gaged in the' attack. the Ailritish and Portuguese
endie arena ante:toted :50,000, of
which but cowaratirely 4401 pest stifp eugaged.
One IM...extended nnieentibn eight miles.
MASSZNA dieeciod the operations in person, and
was conspicuotis throughoetthe whole affair. The
different Marshali were at the head of their respec.
Use divisions. The French could not bring their
artillery to bear, and such of their guns as were
brought into action, were but indifferently served,
The British artillery did much execution.
From the 15th to the 27th there had been conti.
anal skirmishing, in which the British troops had
uniformly the advantage. The battle of the 27th
lasted four hours. After the battle, hlassriA sent
in a flag of trueelo request pertaisikus to bury his
dead. The request was-refused; but they were hu.
red by the British. Besides the prisoners which
we have already stated to hisrerintentakeii;,!," great
somber of the wounded havoldiesists osarhands.
A slag of truce, with artiitiee,
General ST. •SIMON, was seek to the British heado),
quarters shortly after the bettle.
During these operations, the Portuguese villattle"
were uniformly abandoned, and every thing that
could be serviceable to the enemy was destroyed..
The British army was abundantly. supplied
‘willt.
every necessary, and was* Steellont health sire!
spirits. r.tst ti'
Five thousand men in on their way to—re.
inform Lord WELLINGTON.

We have inserted a letter from an Fnglish Co.
tholic at Bath, which we think it our duty to do in
farness to the party requiring it, and also to put
the Irish Catholics on their guard against machine.
tions to carry any thing in the shape, .or to the
effect, of a Veto. As to the objection made by some
in Ireland to the introducing of this question at all,
namely, that it is meant by the enemies of the' RE-
PEAL to divert the Irish mind from that question,
surely that is to hate a very ill opinion of the un.
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derstanding,or patriotism, of the Irish Nation. The
Irish Catholics arc not called upon to make any
movement that may divert the attention of them.
selves, or their Protestant Brethren, from the first -
great remedy of the complicated evils of luscarin,
the REPBAL or the too—they are merely eau-
domed against the intrigues of corrupt or ill.
idvised men of their own Church. Surely, by an
obligation to fulfil a leading duty, they need uut be
balled off froin every other.
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The crineess AMELIA had a goced night's rest on
'Sunday", endues considered a little better yesterday
morning, but the aecoent of the state of her Royal
Highness in the evening was not se fairourable.
The Prince of Wat.Es arrived in town at one
o'clock yesterday. • flis Royal Highness ii not quite
`recovered from the gout.
• The Duke of Yoe' arrived io town yesterday at
half past three. Soon afteniarils the Earl of Li'vtilt-'
roor. waited upon his Royal Uiglinesk, at' York
House, to inform him of: the particulani of the dis.
patches 'received from Lord WELLINGTON; after
which his Royal Highness walked'acrOas tfurPark
with the Noble Eerl to his office.
• A very destructive fire look place, a few days
ago, in Admiratiy-street, Hamburgh, which nearly
consumed the whole of it'; 'about 40 persons, it is
said, have fallen Victims to the flames.'

The Emperor and Empress of AUSTRIA wore to
proceed frost Clagenfurthi to Grata, in Styria, on
the 27th ult. where titer were to remain 10 days.
It appears from MUKAT.ll3.account of thr invasion
(411,46411 W hie troop, went aloft*/ ovdt in a liar.
riCaue; Ara returned with griat celerity hi a dead
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PIA-moms, Oc.r. I I.—This morning, bet",
14ten awl eleven o'clock, in a gale of wind, at Ego
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Oho brig Maida, Captain Musson, ittely artoe4
ram Malta, bound to London, then lying betweet,
rake's Island and the Main; dragged her induct
and twilit op shore on the rocks at the entrance of
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Mill Bay ; Out .with great exertions was hove of
about four o'lbek this afternoon, and run up
ffamontsin safety. It is suppusiul that the dump
is but trilling.
The WhipCrityikm, lately arrived from the Ifs.
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'inns's, puled ter cables this morning in ih,
Sound, and ran to sea; a Plymouth boat put li
pilot on board, and it is supposed will bear up NI
Falmouth.

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,rOSTSMOUTU, OCT. 15.... Arrived the Phippi
schooners from the Downs. The Delphi,* sloop
a wile tikes a private convoy for Lisbon, luid
expected to sail to.morrow morning.

DEAL, OCT. M.—Arrived the number, with
pert of her convoys from Portsmouth, which are
oiled fur the River, The Humber has reNrat4
to toed the others.

FALMOUTH, Oct. 13.—Sailed the Wehingiam,
packet, Captain Roberti, with the Lisbon Mail ot
this week ; and the Pheasant privateer, C4taitt
00 a cruise,

A letter from Dover, of yesterday's date, earn.
municates the following melancholy intelligence:—
se The Ant, of Dover, arrived here last night Iron
the Westward, the Captain of which states, that
as he was lying at anchor last Tuesday, 9 leagues
distant from Beechy Bead, he obser►ed a three.
mast schooner, with several persons on board,
sink, supposed by having run herself under owe;
the Ant was too far off to render any assign;
and the Captain has no knowledge of her name."
Tim Ex•Ksno OF SwEnEar.—We have already
given an interesting account of an attempt of Gus.
TAPIA! ADOLPUQIII to escape on board an English
ship, at Pillau. We took it from 21110 Morning
Chronicle, and we apprehend it was i private
communication to that Paper. It Is confirmed by
the fallowing article, which appears in the Journal
du Suir (a Paris Paper.)
66 Knritnr a, SerT.l9.
" Count GOTTQRP went to for

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officer who has the command in
mlrobnar.
had orders to oppose his embarkation. Ceara Ger.
'rola then proceeded to a small port between Col.
berg and lioniugsberg, for the same purpose. As
officer, who had been sent from Berlin to watch
his motions, there informed him that his ordetscern
not to suffer him to embark. On mediae this se.
cond opposition, Count GOTTORP fee ueA that it
was his intention to go to Russia by lend, from
*hence he would proceed to England, alleging as a
reason fur this determination, that he was oat al.
lowed the means of living on the Continent."
We are sorry to hear, that letters have been re.
ceived in town from Bombay, communicating the,
melancholy kktelligence of two Of in the suits
of Gen. M A cent;, having been treacherously mut.
dered by a Turk, near ispahan. The Embassy,
which was only abouteighty miles from the capital
of Persia, on the 246 of may, wag expected to
make its entrrwith grea!pospAnd solemnity oa
or about the Ist of Jene:
Tligkset Messenger from Modals saw the Cartel.
return, as Was supposed, to -bring back Mr. MAC.
minute, in case the French should not think fit to
be more reasonable in their demands, one of which,
We understand, is, the monstrous proposition, that
17,090 Hanoverian!, who capitulated to the French
in Hanover, should be considered as Prisoners of
War, and exchanged against •17,QP0 Freed if
England. The British Government, it seems, are
willing to admit 2, or, we believe, even 3000 of
them to be exchanged, that being the esthestid
number of thOse troop; that may be supposed be
have entered the British service. Thus, far the
imMediate release of 12,000 British detain PA
prisoners in nonce, and 3000 Hanoverims, tho
French would obtain simultaneously DOW of tbar
. countrymen.
Lord CASTLEUZAOII has become a subscriber Is
the funds which have been appropriated 'for the
erection of a superb Roman Catholic Chapel IS
Donegal.street, Belfast.
. The Dolphin 'takes 150 of the Duke of Pant.
wick Ohm's corps, which are at the depot is the
Lk of Wight, to Lisbon.
There have been meetings in several parts of the
°Guidry, to consider of some measure necessary to
ebe ahopted, to curtail the issue of Country BOP
ens paper. The public surely have the mesas in
their own
,*pewer, which are extremely simple;
namely, not to take such notes.
BoNAP.ARTEI in addition to his various other
'evocation!, has become a speculative Banker, log
dealer in paper : he has taken in band to
Nage the Dutch finances, by the creation of!
'paper' currency, under the name of ec 801 l
elf the Syndicat of Holland ;" he has also are,•
tised for sale 1,920,3001bs of cloves, which he has
seized in the state warehouses of Holland. Tkhoof
proie a good hint to the East India Compaqs
whose warehouies are overstocked with tow'
spices, to keep up the spirit of monopoly. • _
to
Conjugal infidelity hag lately been punieb
the French Tribunals, in some of the department's
within unusual severity, though certainly not
the
adequate, to such a crime. Awoman who, during
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absence of 'her Mist/and oWI the army; had for
an illicit connection 'the fruits of which were Osroe
children; was not only divorced, bet sentencedti:
two years imprisonment in the liobse of Correc
by the Tribunal of Montauban.
was
ordered BREAD—Thiso re 1,1
aatt
parieesCen7 prirtoefes A. idersd:ctite:
We emigre, elate the Public pa a furthcr re. of
of the price of Wheat yesterday/oe~rltet,
iron§ 5. to per quarter.