The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-09-26 00:00:00

British Government with 12,000 tons, and about an
equal quantity for private consumption. In the
neighbourhood, are established three or four grand
receptacles for this, and every other description of
puttye merchandise, and one of these is Ghjat, from
whence the French Bulletin of the 3d inst. is dated.
In the same busy and opulent vicinity are also spa-
cious and costly edifices for the preparation of hemp
and flax, which are not cut and dried like hay, but
which undergo a curious and difficult process, be-
fore they are fitted for transport,
Such Is the territory, and such are the establish-
ments which the Russians have abandoned tr, tl.e
avarice and ambition of their enemy. St. Petersbutgh
being a mere dependence, supplied from hence, all
1 its importance Is lost, and the Usurper will be en-
abled to avail himself of those ample facilities to
transmit the property to ltiga or Memel, or to any
! other convenient situation south of the Gulph of Fin-
, land. The consequence would be, in many respects,
11 beneficial to the Empire ; all the rigorous laws which
have compelled the transit of these abundant stores to
the Imperial City, contrary to the genuine interests
1
1 of the country, would be rendered nugatory ; oom-
merce, restored to its fit and natural channel, would
flourish, and Petersburgh alone would do penance
for the exertions it has required from •a reluctant
i people, to support its unwieldy bulk ; 'and if it
should sink beneath the' bog it surmounts, the pa-
tion would lose nothing by its.fall.
It will have been obviotis, that in our examination
of the state of Russia, under the terrible conflict in
which she is engaged, we have not taken into our
view its consequences with respect to ourselves.—
This is a part of the subject remote from our pre,
sent consideration, although involving our naval and
commercial preponderance, and'all the mighty con-
cerns of the British Empire.

Some letters from Corium, received yesterday, are
written under very different impressions from those
we have been long accustomed to obtain from the
same quarter,. Taught by the tardiness, of the native
Commanders, they at last acknowledge, that 46 the
truth must be made 'known, the Spaniards cannot act
by thettoelves against the French, grery sensible
man is anxious to unite our forces with the army
under Lord WELLINGTON."
By Command of the PRINCE REGENT, the Earl of
HARRINGTON and General STANLEY have been di-
rected to meet and consult on the Accoutrements and
Equipments fur the Heavy Cavalry under orders for
foreign service, and to report, without delay, the
result to his Royal Highness the Commander is
Chief.
A detachment of ten Officers and four hundred
and fifty.men, were embarked last week, In three
transports, from Tilbury Fort, to be forwarded on
foreign service from the army dept is the Isle of
Wight.
Dispatches were yesterday morning received at the
Admiralty, from Admiral SAWYER, of the American
station. In the evening an order was sent from the
Admiralty to Plymouth, for the release of several
American vessels which have been detained there by
order of Government. When taken, they were
bound for Lisbon, to which port they will now pro-
, cecd. . .

The French Eagles 'that were taken lit the battle
of Salamanca will be deposited in Whitehall Chapel,
on Wednesday morning, with the usual ceremonies.
The Gold Eagle Brooches are becoming very fash-
ionable, but the Ladies wear them with the head
downwards.
The &Mine FUND, designed and instituted by
Sir RICHARD PuaLLlrs, 1807, is happily rendered
permanent by the legacy of 1001. per annum fiir ever,
lately bequeathed to it by Mrs. A. M. STAFFORD.—.-
It amounts in the present year to nearly 5001. by
which upwards of forty debtors have been liberated,
nearly two hundred naked prisoners clothed, and
several hundreds essentially relieved in moments of
pinching distress. The Sheriff of every county in
the Kingdom ought to establish a similar Fund.
Private letters from Valladolid state, that the
Marquis of _ WELLINGTON left three divisions and
some cavalry at Madrid.
On the 3d instant, a convoy of transports arrived
at Lisbon, and on the following day, detachments
to the amount of 3000 men were disembarked.

His Majesty's ship Growler, arrived at Falmouth,
brings intelligence, that g French squadron, of file
sail of • the line, three• frigates, two gun-boats, and
three schooners, were lying in Brest harbour, ready
to slip out the first opportunity. The boats of the
Growler, Martial, and Insolent, had made an at-
tack on a convoy, and cut off two rhassewarties, but
were obliged to relinquish them by the heavy fire
from the batteries. The boats sustained no loss.

The following letter, which might, under some cir-
cumstances, bear a very conciliatory construction
with regard to our relations with the United States,
was received yesterday morning
:
Sr. Jour's (Nirnevirm.tvro), AUG. 31.—His Majesty's
ship Alert returned here yesterday as snag of truce, having been
captured on the I3th August, by the American frigate Essex,
which, after having her four or five days in posse.sioo, put the
Captain, Officers, and crew, with a Lieutenant of the &sex on
board, and sent her In here as a cartel. The Governor sends of
all the Americans in her to-morrow. We have not yet beard the
precise latitude and longitude in which she was taken, bat tut-
derstand that it was a few days after she parted from the convoy,
which site left 10 latitude 41. longitude 3d."
It seems to have been an ingenious expedient of the
Captain of the Essex, to employ the Alert as a cartel,
by which she was secure against recapture before she
reached an American port. It is highly probable,
under other circumstances, that she would have been
re-taken.
Persons who receive game from the country should
ascertain that their parcels are not divided, to pre-
vent themselves from being charged double porterage.
A shocking accident happened on Saturday last to
Mr. Fawn, stone-mason, of Spalding, while at work
in the yard belonging to the White Lion Inn, of
that town, by a large stone falling on him, whereby
his breast, and other parts of his body, were greatly
injured, and he now litta dangeroaslf ill,•