The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-11 00:00:00

THR STATESMAN.

Igel." The precise nature of Gail
;plaittedg bet say be mkt, Gee:
and morealiti. ,

troops le Pertegal greasily Dishes-
efects'of the want of provisions--
bees sio freideuly employed on
me Islands at the months of the

ruing by Jhelum!". lo * stale of
wretchedness absolutely deplorable. It is confi.
dently stated, and by no one contradicted; that
no fewer than 10,000 men are already in the
Hospitals, and that this number is hourly in.
creasing. To the bad quality of the water
is principally imputed this calamity. Such,
indeed, is the rapidity with which the disorder
has communicated itself, that serious apprebe.n.
sions are already entertained for the safety of our
troops in. Walcheren
Certain crazy heads, who, like Marplot, in the
Busy Body, can never be at rest, have taken upon
thensselves to agitate the public mind by the satin.
ordinary suggestion of a Jubilee on the 25th Oc.
tober nest, on which day his MAJIITY will have
reigned the period of forty-trine ye ors.—New
jubilee, a season of rejoicing, at a crisis so
i:nminently awful to the people of this country,
must appear, to every man possessing the ordinary
powers of the human mind, one of the most incom.
prehensible acts of felly, that ever entered the con-
ception of a Beitiglgiftal with tha attribute of rca.
son. To his M ___AJZSTY, such a measure, at such •
moment, we are well convinced, must be ab-
solutely disgusting. In the first place, the
period is not arrived when such a Mehra-
titan could, under any circumstance, take
place—for until the conclusion of the fiftieth
year the period is nut accompl,shed—so that at
any rate the luminous dictate of these wiseacres
is premature by 12 months. But, passing ever this
Ciric Anachronism, what but indignation and con-
tempt ran be the feelings of our Sovereign and of the
people of England, when we adrerito the matchless
presumption with which " the Merchants and
Bankers" of the City of London have bad the
effrontery to dictate to the people of England.
This is, we believe, the first instance in which the
64 Mcrebants and Bankers" have assumed the
44 places of the 46 NOI/114, Gentry, Clergy,
66 and Yeomanry" of England, in whose names
all public measures were heretofore wont to be
announced as the voice of the country.—" At
64 a meeting of Merchants and Bankers, &c. re-
it solved, That in the opinion of this Meeting, it
cc is expedient to celebrate the fiftieth miniver-
" nary of our virtuous and beloved sovereign, &c."
(which these gentlemen seem to have forgotten
will not arrive until the 25th of October,
1810.)—" Re4olved, &c. That it is highly de-
" sit-able that agencral illumination should take
64

.11111CIS oil that occasion."
We hart loos se's the point to which the &VMS
of commerce and t commercial aristocracy is fist
&whit the nation ; but the arrogance and pre.
sueirlion of these 4:solutions are certainly unpa.
raUeSeii. What, is Enitlsii,l at leti4th so purely
easonserciut, that "amerchouts and bankers" shall
fnta►inate their order* froma tavern far a general
impolination ? Thu tl►ing will be perfectly in.
credible to posterit) !! Surely the good sense of the
people of England is uut yet completely extinct !!
They bare submittel to mock—but it is not pos.
siblc to believe that the" Nohiliti,Gentry,Clergy,
and Yeomanry" of England will ►ubmit to the pa.
ramouot influence of a commercial aristocracy,
which bas sprung up like *fungus out of the bot.
bed of PITT'S system of monopoly, war, and tax.
atlon. On this fruitful subject, our limits con.
(strain us to defer . our further observations.

We are sorry to announce the loss of his Ms.
jesty's ship, .4gamernnon, of 64 guns, in the river
P 14551 on the '4oth of June last.

A LETTER, dated Scilly, S..pt. 4, rigys—g4 A
Portuguese frigate, arrived from Itio.dianeiro in
thirty-three days, brings an account of a French
frigate having arrivid at that port to stegociato a
peace.

" A brig frOm llogadore to London was take*
this day by a French schooner privateer."

Dicpatelies were yesterday receive(' from Lord
CIIATII.t M. We do not understand that his Lord.
ship is yet arrived. He is said to be in the number
of the sick.

Ten sail of transports have arrived at Doe from
Walcheren, having on board about 500 sick aul.
dims, belonging to differvit regiments. Au O.
co, on board Imo of the above transports reports,
that when he Lit the Scheidt, Hurt were upwards
of ten thom4and sick in the differant Waal iq uar
possession.

The Ittirgais of fluwrticv and several other
offerers armed re Nero ycstcrday from the
Scheldt, and almost the whole of the wintery
Sorge embarked b the Expedition (with the es.
etipti.or of 15,000 left to garrison Flashing nail the
other towns of Waleheren) are now other ea.
tensed, or on their way hunse.

On Thursday last his Roy* ffifltnaN Oft
dierWat the Star !nir sa (Mad,
and afterwards progeded hi, rnettise 4,04 14tr7.
his of Otatroutstat itigie7l

111wae confidently reported yesterday, that Go-
vertigoes' had received accounts that the Supreme
Junta sees dissolved, and that the Archbishop of
Vellum was appoioted Regent of Spain. We
ran say nothings to the truth of this report. A
private letter from Cadiz states that seek a mature
was in agitation.
Of the Leader, Ramovames, who is at the
bead of a ,body of Patriots, and who occupies
some strong mountainous positions in Navarre,
we have heard the follewitsg particulars : —lle
was a mariner by profession, and pilot of a
merebenttuan at Monte Video, when that fortress
was taken. He distinguished himself by his cou-
rage. and activity in South America, against the
English. On his return to Europe, he displayed
the same energies against the Ftench, towards
whom he bears a deadly hatred. He had a coll•
spicuons post during the first defence of Saragossa. ,1
The Marquis ROMARA was originally in the sea I
service, and commanded a Spanish frigate.
Dr. Scunetina, the leader of the Voralberg
peasantry, who had surrendered himself on „a pro-1
wise of pardon, has been confined in the formats
of A sperg.
The insurrection in the valley of the Inn had
dreadful consequences. Besides Schwartz,_ 17
villages are In rules. From thence as far as Kul.
stein and the pus of Strubb, whole rows of dead
peasants are seen hanging.
The GalliciOus, on the suggestion of Count
STANIBLAUS SOLTYE, have opened • subscription
for defraying the expellee of raising a monument
in honour of BONAPARTE. The sum subscribed
amounted in a few days to 100,000 Polish florins.
Letters were on Saturday received from Phila.
delphia, dated the 29th July. They mention that
trade is in a state of stagnation in the United
States, on account of the diptumalic impediments
to Mr. Eassusx's negociatien. The Executive
Council had not met, but was expected soon to
be convened. The Secretary of State was on his
journey from Boston to Washington, to attend
his public duties at the call of the President.
There was a report on Saturday of some firing
having been beard on the French coast. Our
Dover letter, however, is silent.
The following is a statement of the loss of four
battalions of the King's German Legion, serving
in the army under Lieutenant. General Lurd
LINOTOM, and sustained is the late battle of Tala-
vera de la Reyna, in Spain :
Killed—l General °Seer. 2 Captain', 5 Lieetenano,
'aerie:us, 203 rank and Ile.
Woolided-4 Field Officers, I C•ptalos, 24 %battens. 47
Erik:inv. 816 rank and Gk.
!awing—Tout' camber of miming of the four battalions 17
rauk and We.

The brig Britannia, hound from Ireland to
London, in coming up Channel, was chased by a
French privateer, and finding that she could not
escape, the Master, before he struck, cut away
his foretop-mast, with a view to retard her pas-
sage to an intemy's port, and thus increase the
chance of recapture. This so enraged the
Frenchmen, on boarding the brig, that they mar.
tiered the Master. The Britannia has been since
retaken by the Christian VII. and carried into
Portsmouth • but she could not come up with the
privateers and thus the atrocious barbarians have
escaped for the present the punishment due to
their crime.

Though it Is determined to withdraw our troops
from Spain, a strung reinforcement is to be sent
out to support our army in Portugal, sad that
with the utmo‘t speed. At seven o'clock nn
Friday night the gates of the barracks at Knights.
bridge, in which the 3d regiment of Guards are
stationed, were locked, and double mean&
placed on them. The regiment was then mustered,
and about 600 of the ablest men were draughted,

who were ordered to be in readiness to march this
morning. At the barrack in Portman-street,
another draught was made at the same time, and
both detachments marched ou Saturday morning.
Another draught has been made from the Id regt.
meet, quartered in Westminster; the brigade of
Guards, on their return from Flushing, sad several
other corps, hire the same destination.
The Vorarlians had formed, in conjunction with

the Austrians, previous to the armistice, an eft.
tensile plan of military operations, the principal
feature of which was, to intercept the eommunica.
lion of the G rand Army on the Danube with France,
by the advance of an Austrian corps to Nurem.
berg, while their own communication with Austria
was by the Tyrol, Stiria, and Carinthia, where
Count GIULAY conk, co-operate with them. It
was in realisation of this plan that a body of Vo.
rarlians advanced within a few miles of Stutgardt
but the subsequent disasters of the Austrians com.
gelled the relinquishimmt of their design.
We present the public with the following pre.
cious morsel from a provincial Paper...merely to
•hew the extent to which absurdity and fal3ehood
can be carried ;... _ _

.4 Tour, July 1. 11410.

gg The shocking excesses that have been cons.
minted in Spain and l'ortugal appcar in their recital j
incredible, were they nut sanctioned by the yoke
of truth. A party of English Officers captured in
Spain, passed through Tours a few days ago, on
the road to Verdun. They witnessed repeated in. '
stances of the French troops having impaled no.
men in a state of nudity ; of crucifying ecelesias.
tics and monks Its a similar condition ; of inhu-
manly butcheeing helpless children ; and of va.
riot's other instances of savage barbarities. In Sa.
ragossa alone more than 00,000 unfortunate ob.
jects were victims of LAS:4ll's unrelenting and
merciless fury ; and these inhuman and dreadful
acts were sanctioned old encouraged by the Imp*.
rial sanguinary Tygrr, obese callous, cadaverous
soul has been habiteated for these lb years past to
glut and prey us the vitals or thousands.".—(BeM
*raid.)
The soak, Sir WILLIAU Corm is at the bead
' of tile Gentlemen who have-signed the requisition
to the Leas Pilaf/ea to trireme a Court of Cos.
moo Cooed; ot Ile early day, for the purpose of
taking iota antisidenstion the propriety of ado.
twetim, hi a Aral arid appropriate canner, the
istitifeleebiws eseisenery of his Msaastit's Ac-
cession to tic Throne, when his blaJarer will
eater the 60th rat qt foiss.....Vor nine
Poet.