The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-09-11 00:00:00

present, et Ramplehelm, a country seat belonging to his fsther!
in-law, Landgenve Frederick of Hesse (uncle of tho elector) si-
tuated between Frankfort and Henan.

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The particulars of the attack on Me Trocadero, have not
yet arrived. The New Time* of this morning, in an at•
tempt to explain the telegraphic despatch, says that '• the
" Trocadero is a peninsula., dividing the bay of Cadiz from
"the inner harbour, rather more than a mile broad ; and
" in length two miles and a half ;" and that" it is possible,
" (at least so far as yet appears) that though 'the lines are
" carried, one or more of the forts on this Peninsula may
"still hold out." U this be the case, the telegraphic de•
spatch is a falsehood ; for it states, not that the lines of the
Trocadero were carried, but that the Trocadero had been
carried. If the forts hold oat, the Trocadero is not carried
—any more ,than Spain is conquered because the French
army is in Spain. Again, forts are more difficult to carry
than lines.—The New Times admits that each defences
must cost lives to take them ; and sometimes they cost
more than they are worth : as Pyrrhui exclaimed after
one of hit successes—" One more such victory, and 1 am
" lost." If a fourth of the French army is disabled in the
attempt upon this peninsula of the Trocadero, in what con.
dition will the remainder be, to attack the ten times
more formidable bulwarks of Cadiz ? We mast
be prepared, in/ each a contest, to. admit of
occasional successes of the invaders. Though the
French cause is as infamous as ever disgraced a nation—
though every one voluntarily assisting it deserves the gib-
bet, or the hangman's scourge, rather than the fate of
soldiers, yet the valour of the French troops, and the
skill of many of theirofficers, are unquestionable; it Is not
always that right prevails, and when it does ultimately tri•
ninph, it must be through a series of reverses and disasters
that chequer all human affairs. Oar first wish is that the
invaders may be signally defeated, and as signally punish.
ed for their atrocious enterprise. it would glad our hearts
to hope that the historian would have to record, that not
one of the invaders ever returned to the homes they have
abandoned for this infamous expedition. Our second wish
is, that whenever they do succeed, they find the success
purchased at so dear a rate, as to be not worth the price.—
A report is in circulation that Sir W. A'Conrt has made
an overture to the Duke d'Angouleme, profferiug the me-
diation of England to terminate the contest ; but that the
son of St. Louis rejected it, and replied that he would treat
to the valour of his troops. This story is not very
likely. After the refusal of the Cortes to listen
to any negociatione,-•-it is not very probable that
England would volunteer her mediation;—and that the
Cortes should have requested it seems improbable.
,The Cortes hare only this rock to fear. If they negotiate,
they are lost, past all redemption. If they continue to
maintain their patriotic resistance, they may fall the victims
of their virtue; but they may also triumph. Sickness
begins to prevail in the. French army. The officers hays
beet; compelled to• publish orders regolitiog the dress of
theaoldiers, and forbidding them to enter the vineyards,
and to eat fruit, test a dysentery should thin their ranks.
The numbers of the French, where they have stations to
defend, are so small, that any sickness would place them in
the utmost jeopardy ; and autumn is proverbial fur its ra-
vages among an army in the field. It is singular that the
French 31inistry has not doubled the amount of the army
in Spain ; for the slightest re-action would annihilate their
power in a few days. We suspect time cause to be, that
t .ey have been employing the money which should have
supported the army, in the bribery of the worthless scoun-
drels they found at the head of certain Spanish divisions ;
and that they have too late discovered that they must fight
the soldiers after having bribed their commanders.
The Constitutionnel, French journal, gives us a curious
proof of what the French Ultras mean, when they say Mina
is " shut up in Barcelona." It says, that " the garrison
made a sortie On the 23rd ult. and attacked the head
tnarters of General Curial, commanding the blockade.—
They forced that post, the French fell back, and the con-
test lasted from ten to two o'clock, when the Spaniards
retired into the town, nnder the protection of a strong
reserve of artillery, which was not called upon to lire."—
It is truly •astonishing to reflect on what the capacity
and courage of Mina, and his coadjutors, Mi-
lan., Llobera, and Rouen, have been enabled to effect;
and one cannot think but with indignation of the little sup-
port these gallant men hare met with from the command-
ers in other districts. We have now hopes that Malaga and
Estremadura may become the scene of similar exploits; as
Riego has taken the command of the former place; and
Zayas has been appointed to the latter. Riego is de.
nouneed by the French papers as a " man of blood," and
is described as having made numerous arrests since
his arrival. They were probahly necessary; French
bribery having been equally active there as in other
places. They say he threatens to hang up all who
mention either negociation or two chambers ; if hi did,
he would have none in his halters, but fools, cowards, or
knaves ;and although folly and cowardice are not generally
capital offences, they become so, when they compromise
the liberty and independence of a nation. la Galicia. the
French have been too powerful for General Palarea, who
is represented asitaving capitulated with his whole force of
1200 men, with Gen. Vigo, and other partizan chiefs.—
The resistance in this province, however, Is not at an end.
A party of soldiers refused, to be bound by the capitula-
tion; and made a commotion, which the French say was
soon suppressed, part of the matinees being " massacred
by the peasantry ; ' a story not at all likely to be true. Other
commotion, will be shortly heard of in the neighbourhood.

A/

E ARL RO M ETIRIS

The Earl of Roden, we are informed, has now become the
eapsit primula of the Methodists of Ireland. We are told he
has erected chapels at his mansions at Dundalk and TuHamar.
Park; in which be preaches daily to his domestics, and the
other members of bis flock. For the last year. he has regularly
attended the Meetings tithe Bethesda, in Dublin ; and his soil
appears to be tilled with piety and devotion. Most onfortu-
natal'', however, for his tenants, he seems not to have disco-
vered in his religious researches, that excessive war-rents is
time of peace and plenty, should not be expected from them;
for he continues to enforce the payment of seven pounds per
acre from the inhabitants of Dundalk; although the average
price of Wheat, Barley, Oats, and Butter, is not equal to one
half of what was obtained in 1812, when his late father aug-
mented the rents of Dundalk from 41. 10s. to 71. per acre ; and
although all the landlords in the county of Louth have reduced
their rents 20 or 0 per cent. Yet the Earl of Roden, so
renowned forpiety and devotion, has not made any reduction
whatever to his tenantry; and in every case where he can ex-
act the payment of the war-rent of 1812, he takes care to de
so. One would almost imagine from this, that high rents (ore
a part of his Lordship's new religion ; and if it be so, it is to
be hoped, by all good people, that he may not convert any
landed proprietors to his faith. We have another curious tals
to tell of his Lordship at a convenient opportunity.

A letter from Gibraltar, of the 18th ult., states that the
fortress of Santa Petri bad been taken by the French forces.
This, from the date, is evide 'ly wrong, as the event would
certainly long since have been communicated in the French
Journals The supplies of provisions, especially floor, to
Cadiz, were very great, although the weather had enabled
the French fleet to keep its station much better than will be
the case upon a nearer approach of the winter season. The
transmission of advices from Gibraltar to this country
through the interior of Spain and France, load been (mei.
:Atonally interrupted since the commencement of the war,
but it is understood that some fresh arrangements Lave
been made to obviate the inconvenience, and that the Go.
vernor of San Roque sent word to the British fortress that
no delay would occur in future.
The Gazette of Tuesday night announces an intention
of applying to Parliament in the ensuing Session, for leave
to bring in a Bill to permit the constructing of a subterra.
nean double archway or tunnel, in and through the parish
of St. Mary, Rotherhlthe, and to be continued under the
bed of the river Thames, into and through St. John, 'Wap-
ping. It is intended for the use of carriages and foot p.a.
sengers, so that if this design be realised, a carriage may
travel, or a man walk immediately under the Thames.

The Board of Admiralty were pleased to shew their
mark of approbation to several Officers on Friday last, on
the ceremony of opening the New Docks at Slieerne%
—Lieutenant George Pierce, First Lieutenant to Vice Ad•
miral Sir Benjamin Commander in Chief cf the
Port, as well as two Midshipmen, were at the time pro.
moted. Other marks of condescension took place in the
minor regulations of ,the Dock-yard ; and the King's
pleasure was bestoweela -a several persons who had hers
for years sentenced to hard labour, by ordering their bin-
ration.

STEAM NAVIGATION.—The Steam Engine, it was wont to
be said, was, next to the ship, the noblest invention of man;
but it was not till combined with a floating vessel, that lite
wonderful extent of its utility was complete. Its ■ppliestioa
to na►igation is calculated t r make as. great a resolution is
maritime affairs, as its applicatica to machinery has accom-
plished in manufactures and trade. For soma time the use et
Steam Packets had been adopted on the east coast of the
Island; and such is the regularity and &Malty with welch they
perform their voyages, that parties are now formed as readily
to pass between the metropolis and Scotland, as they formerly
were between London and Margate. We had hence been pre-
pared to expect a great encrease of intercourse between the
various parte o f the island ; but what we have seen to day, we
confess. exceeds our expectation. It is an advertisement is a
Glasgow paper announcing the sailing of a Steam I from
that Port for Dublin, Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Brighten!!!
No person ever dreamt that any traffic could be tarried es
between such distant points; and trade, we suppose, is at pre-
sent not contemplated. All that appears in view is to accost•
roodate parties of pleasure, and afford them means to gratify
their curiosity. It is stated that the vessel will slop 3d hotel
at Dublin, and 23 at Plymouth, to give passengers an oppor•
tunity of seeing these placos.—After finding tme plodding ma-
nufacturers of Glasgow, with their wives and daughters, go-
ing round the Lands-end, merely to see the Pavilion, and wait
on the Steyne at btrighton, we must own with some of thu
Dublin papers of the day, that "miracles will never cease."
SALE AT FONTMILL.-.oa Tuesday, pursuant to notice,
the sale of the property at Foothill commenced. Tine
attendance was highly respectable, but not so numerous as
had heed expected. Mr. Phillips entered the sale room at
one o'clock. He briefly addressed the company, and morel
them that the whole of the property was to be sold without
the least reserve. It was the resolution of the proprietor
not to withdraw, clandestinely or otherwise, a sinele lot.
That the view might remain as complete as possible, be
expressed a hope that the articles (he did not speak of
small ones) would not be reoloved, but did not make, tins
absolutely one of the conditions, lie stated. in answer to
a question put by a gentleman, that the purchasers woutd
have nothing to do with the auction duly. The first lot,
"Memoirs of the Rev. Alex. tieddes," a single octavo vo-
lume, was knocked down for 12s.
We understand that the new Orange System has been
finally anal completely arranged and rendernl perfectly coo.
ionizable to tine existing laws.—(Cork Paper.)
Since the removal of the restrictions on the trade between
Great Britain and 'lreland, large quantities of Irish calicos
have been sold in Manchester.

Wan Exam—The compensation appointed for the Isle
Commissioners of Excise is. we understand. officially se-
jaded. Mr. Hawthorn is to have en annuity of 9301. for life:
Mr. Therry, the Chairman of the late Hoar., SW. and each
of
the other Members 4301. Mr. Weil has had the offer of a
place at the General Excise Hosed of the United Kingdom,—
(Dublin Morning Pod.)

THE AlMT.—The 57th Regiment, now at Kinsale, hat*
received orders countermanding• their embarkation to the
Mauritius till the Spring. The detachments of the above
Regiment are to be called in the latter end of Ortoher
Present quarters, Kinsale, Bandon, hfacromp, Clonakilt!,
Bantry, Skibbereen, Duntnanway, Inchigelia, and Bally-
vournie.

The detachment of the 79th Highlanders, stationed at
Athy, have been ordered to Naas, and are replaced by a
party of the 713th Highlanders from Wicklow.
Tea ContLave.—The number of Cardinals who will as•
sist at the Conclave is not known, becluse there are serer!'
who are Octogenaries, a•id a ho' will be prevented by their
great age andinfirmities from attending. At the last Conc:a%s
only 37 were present. Toe Conclave of the shortest (lure
tion in the last centuty, was that of 1721, which elected lie
nocent 3d, and it lasted only 40 days. The longest is that
of 1740, when Benedict 14th was mane Pope, and this lasted
16 months. Five cardinals died while it was sitting.

According to the chronological tallies of the succersios
of the Popes, published at Rome, there have been *251 heeds
of the church, commencing with the Apostolic Peter.--
Among these Popes, 14 have been Frenchmen, 5 German,
3 Spaniards and Portuguese, one Englishman, 11 Greeks,
2 Africans, 8 Thracians, Goths, and Dalmatians, the rest
Italians. _

Alexander Campbell and William Corstorphine. who were
indicted to stand trial at the timing Circuit. Glasgow. ow
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