The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-07-19 00:00:00

PROPOIITI TEWAI.

LONDON: •
WIDNESDAY, JULY 19.
A REPORT has been confidently circulated du-
ring the whole of the morning, of Sir JAMES
SAUMAREZ having captured five sail of Russian
line of battle ships. From what source this re-
port has originated, we have not been able to
learn ; bat it has obtained considerable b!!ief.

Spanish Papers, to the 19th of Juno inclusive,
were received in town this morning.

Tits accounts fcom Spain continue to be of a
favourablyescription, and could we give full cre-
dit to all the intelligence that has been received,
King .105LP11 must be suppo. 11 to have commenced
his rrueat. Among other Reports from the Pe-
ninsula is one, that Ge,ieral BLAKE has obtaiticd
possession of Saragossa ; but from the French
-accounts of various engagements with his army,
we fear that it has v,iffored a kerions diminution.

The nest arrival will probably terminate all doubt
as to the lino of conduct which the French Troop.
in Spain mean to pursue.

NEW-You Papers to the 13th of last month
arrived in town this day ; the following Extracts,
although not highly important, are not destitute
of interest :

" By a passenger, who came up on Saturday moraine,
from the brig Argus, of Salem, bound to Philadelphia, which
be left off the Capes, we are informed that the brig left Porto
Rico oa the 21st of last month. The Master of an American
vessel, which arrived two days before he sailed, 'poke two
French ships of the line (that escaped from the SAinte:4), from
the City of St. Domingo, bound to France ; was informed
that :hese ships, after losing sight of the British Fleet,
steered directly for St. Domingo, where they landed 1Z.711
troops, with stores and ammunition. These ships rnadr no
stay at St. Domingo.
"A n•w Governor was daily expected at Porto Rico : all
kinds of American produce were very dull ; flour at 10 dol-
llats. coffee 15 to 16 dollar.

" Captain L kKE, of the ship Flora, from New Or:eam,
informs us, that the French Consul at that place had applied
to the Governor for the privilege of lauding about
French inhabitants, who had been ordered to leave Ctba,
which request we understood was grauted."
" The sloop of ;tar, the Enterprizo, ss ill sail without de-
lay from the port of New York for Holland, and will he
stationed off the Texcl, to afford information to Ow Com-
manders of the merchant vessels of the United States as to tr,r
parts of Holland and of the North of Europe to which they
may safely proceed with their cargoes."
" The third reading of the Bill from the Semite, authoris-
sing the appropriation of 750,000 dollars to the completion of
the fortifications of our sea-ports and harbours, and the erec-
tion of fortifications on our Northern and Western Frontiers,
was called for; and on the Question, Shall the pan) it
was decided in the affirmative, 77 to 19."--.! Val. befell.)

If, as it is confidently asserted, the object of
the Expedition is truly British, that is, in plain
English, a mere selfish object—having for its
view no consideration but the immediate interests
of this country, the infallible consequence will be,
that the Austrian Cabinet will instantly listen to
terms of accommodation. But that after s waggec.
ing for months about the value of British assist.
once, to undertake an expedition upon so short.
sighted principles than immediate self preservation,
at a crisis so momentous,, is a suspicion of uhich
we deem even the present Ministry unworthy.

It is reported that two officers of rank have
been sent home by Sir A. War-Lest.str.
Sir EDWItItD PELLEW ii arrived its town, and
had a loiig interview with the Board of Admiralty
yesterday.
The whole of the intended expedition, it is cx.
pected, will .have sailed before Friday next, in
which case the Court Martial on Admiral Lord
.GA3llllift will commence on Monday next, at
Portsmouth.

The transports and men of war, with the troops
ou board, from Portsmouth, are to proceed
rectly for the Downs.
Admiral °TWAY is to he Captaie of the 11... et.
Lord CHV'rH%sr and his Staff arc to take their
passage on board the Venerable.
In consequence of an intimation given by Lord
MULGRAYE to the Commander of the River Feu.
eibles, a muster of that body took place yesterday,
when near 300 of them volunteered their services
upon the Expedition now departing. The Fen.
cables of Deptford and Greenwich have also made
&tenderer their services, which has been accepted:
The same bounty of 50s. as well as the same
allowances which were granted to this valuable
body of men for their sere ices at Copenhagen, is
to be granted them on the present occasion.
Letters were yesterday received from Rotterdam
to the 13th instant. One of them mentions, that
General ARMSTRONG, on the part of the Govern.
ment of the United States, had arranged with the
Ministers at Paris a Commercial Treaty;the con.
dittoes of which were all agreed and determined;
and it remained only for the ratification of the
Ruler of France and the American President.
The letter adds, that one of the duplicates had
been forwarded to NAeor.zoS fur his approbation
and signature. _ _ _

• A letter from Prince Edward's Island, dated
May 24th, says— " The Concord brig, from
London, with the most valuable cargo of met.
chandize that ever came to this Island, arrived
here this day, with Mr. llTAtaza and Mr. Bra.
MIER, jun. who mean to make a settlement here
on a most extensive scale ; and this morning the
Prisicess of Wales put into Peynal Bay ; the
Stag, the Concord, and (he Princess of Wales,
are consigned to Mr. CAUBRIUGE, and will be
laden in a short time." .

Count STAHREMIERG, an ancestor of Prince
STIIIRIIEBERO, now the Austrian Ambassador
here, was Governor of Vienna, during the. fa.
mous siege of that place by the Turks, in
.1683.
Letter from an Officer on board his Majesty's
ship Herald, Captain HONEY, cruizing in the Me-
diterranean

" or Barcelona, May T 9.
" The Spanish Generals or Commanders on this cosist hase
frequeutle proposed to our Commodore (Captain Taylor, cf
the Apollo, that If he would attack the batteries, they isuubl
immediately commence an attack by land. Acctirdiney
every arrangement was made to attack them at two o'cloct.
in the looming of the 17th, at which time we got under weits.
accompanied by the Minstrel, Captain floltiagworth ;
Apollo; and n Spanish frigate.
" Vi nil's' half an hour we were within range of the
from their batteries, and began firing os their forts, whack
the enemy resumed in a very active monster.
" Our commencement was to he the sopa for the Spa-
niards to advance; hut after hammering away fur near tso
boars, in which time we silenced their forts, oar Allies di i
not oiler to advance; and it t'aess approaching fast it)Martl•
day-break, wish light airs, we &Tilled it p stse,a
or, fearing we might otherwise drift under Mount Jo%.
where there is a fort that would sink as in fire minutes, and
so high as to preclude us from bringing a single plc to be. r
upon it; lme‘ur we got of dear, and wish a has on boar
all the ship, nut exceeding ten as killed and wounded. '
board our snip, there were Only tau 611011 i, IS smutted.
" We killed a great number of the Freueli ; •
some of tue poor inhabitants also mWerrd, as a assis:••
houses near the finis were perceived in the mussing k
strayed.
" la the course of a slay or two we are to proceed •
tack a town near Ito, to ;Me, at present occupied by in.,
&JO Freudb troops, a' tin DAhaDiXd guard from It

CO I aVE L WARD LE.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE ST.4TES.V,Iti.

--moss.--
Magna est Veritas et proevalebit.

Sta,—lt has rarely in any country, and, I be-
lieve, never in this, where corruption, pervading
al,nost every department, rides paramount, fallen
to the lot of an individual either to expose public
delinquency, or to attempt to stem the torrent of
redignte and wanton expenditure, without en-
couetering both obloquy and persecution. Of
the truth of this position, the late remarkable
action tried ie the Court of King's Bench, nomi-
nally at the suit of an Upholder, but Ovally at
the instigation ul , ersenages of importance and
celebrity, greatly • • rtni.• to the ostensible pop-
pets of the exhibition. and supported by the v..
',finery and interested testimony of en avowed
,:,stitute and adulteress,. is a most irrefragable
ef. Whether the verdict of the Jury was, on
occasion, obtained by perjury, as has been
fl•Cs itftl, is a question on which I do nut at pre-
sent clene to offer a decided opinion, as the truth
or relsehuod of the witnesses will, at no great
distance of tim; be rendered abundantly mani-
fest—hut this I will maintain, that a more extra.
ordinary exhibition of ingenuity and invention
new: r was displayed in any Court of Justice than
upon that trial.
All human judgment is fallible, and liable to im.
position ; nor is it difficult fur a gang of abandoned
and unprincipled wretches to cutispire against the
reputation of any victim, on whose immolation at
the shrine of revenge or cupidity, they may have
resolved : but although successful they may at
first be, in attacking by surprise their unsuspect.
ing victim, Justice will at last infallibly bring to
light the machinations of the most secret and con.
tiingly-coutrived conspiracy. 1 apply these obser-
vation, Sir, in a general sense ; —whether the
transactions which mill form the subject of this
letter caw implicate the Upholder, his secret
andivulged employers, his coadjutor, and his
cutuUutrir, the public must alone decide.
I shill not however hesitate in saying, that there
were in the late trial some contradictions, in point
of probability, that would have constrained me
to draw a conclusion very, different from that of
the Jury, who gave a verdict in fevour of the
Upholder. The testimonies of the profligate,
flagitious harlot and adultress ; and of the bro-
ther of the Upholder, unAltpported as they
were by that of any clerk, workman, or do-
mc•tic servant, I should nut have hes tat d
one moment to reject, for I do believe them to
have been alike interested, in the emit of the
suit—the harlot, be casting the responsibility
from her own shoelders to those of the object of
their plunder; and the brother, by the interest
which I am confident lie will be h..reefter proved
to have had in the event of this suit. It is in
truth surpassing credibility, that witnesses so cir-
cumstanced should have obtained credit stith a jury;
that jury was however on oath, and it is far from my
intention to question the conscientiousness of the
verdict. Bit t, admitting the testimonies of the harlot
and the partner—l beg his portion, bro Mer—were
unobjectionable, both as to competence and credibi-
lity, it is to me astonishing, that the inconsistencyl
and disagreement in their statements on the sub-
ject of the goods delivered to her on hire, to the
amount of 2001. din! not operate at orce to the de-
struction of their evidence ! Mrs. Clarke first
tells the Jury that, owing 3001. or 6001. she knew
it was in vain to apply for further credit ; but it
afterwards comes out in evidence, that she had at
that +tie furniture, to the value of 2001. in her
house on hire from this " u ulder." " Colonel
" Wardle," says she, " knew the state of my
" and had seen the things previously sent
gg in on hire by Wright."—Se that, although she
knew it was in vain to apply to him for ere.
slit, he had tru•ted his goods in her house,
un hire, which, unless he had a man in possession,
and that dust nut appear, amounts to exactly the
same thing. The other witness disagrees in tete,
as to this 2001. worth of furniture, persisting in
its having been afterwards charged to Colonel
Wardle's account, which the harlot deoies, as-
serting it to have been returned. Granting, how.
ever, for the sake of argument, all these objet.
lions to have been surmounted, what shall we say
to the conclusive fad of the pretended vendor of
this furniture charging the sum of 91. 14s. for the
inqurance against fire of that property which had
ceased to be his, and with the value of which
h.: charges Colonel Wardle as his Debtor! !
Sir, I challenge the undirulged employers of the
Upholder to adduce even from those annals of
human turpitude, the Sessions Papers of the Old
Bailey, a precedent so conclusive, so pregnant, as
this charge, for the insurance of goods sold, deli-
vered, and absolutely out of the power and cos.
tody of the vender. Let os only suppose the
property to have been destroyed—upon what do.
cument could the value have been recovered ? I
believe that in such a case of misfortune, the oath
of the proprietor, if tiring, is a ceremony that
generally precedes the payment of the loss—a
sine qua non. Was this same Upholder then at once
the proprietor of the goods lent to Mrs. Clarke,
and the creditor of Col. Wardle ?--Sir, I am no
stranger to the common method of procedure of
that class of worthy upholders, who pick up an
honest livelihood by furnishing houses for dashing
t'yprians. The nature of this species of traffic is
sell known. The Cyprian upholder 611 s a house
with gaudy, tawdry furniture, fur which he mo-
destly caws about five-awl-twenty per cent. per
annum, by monthly payments, for the hire and
swear and tear of this Prrniture; but, as a preli-
r?:nary, he also takes from the female. cpadjutriz
a bill of sole—and as she must appear in style,
a ma.i in possession serves at once the double
purpose of protecting the property of the worthy
Upholder—and adding to the splendour of the es.
tabes;ment by a dashing livery. But, above all,
the-Cyprian Upholder insures the property against
,lire. Matters thus goon, until some inexperienced
Cull of property or e rpe lotion is hooked ; when
at the moment that he is supposed to be under the
irresistible influence of his Delilah, an execution
13 announced. The damsel faiuts—and lit Inc-

cccds to fit, until the d!pe satlsfite, by payment
or security, the worthy Upholder. The frequent
recurrence of this Dram has rendered the trick
absolutely stale—And in the western branch of
the metropolis—many very worthy Upholders
have contrived to pick up iii this Cyprian track
very pretty fortunes. Now, sir, had I been upon
that Jury—this same charge uf LI:. for insurance
from fire would hate been an insurmountable obsta-
cle to my joining in a verdict for the Upholder ; and
had that Jury known as much as I do of the
practices of Cypriot! Upholders, I believe the,
charge for insurance would of itself have knocked.
up the Plaintiff's case. To the character of as
Upholder it seems this worthy Gentleman added
that of Purveyor of White-washing, 'U0134461
' Kitchen Utensils, and the Lord knows what—fue
all of which Colonel Wardle is made responsible.
All this I know 19 the custom of the trade Iss
Goprion traesesctions—but as it certainly is net
the cuAtorn of reguhr and respectable Upholdeee
...charges so impudent would certainly have con.
vinced me of the real nature of the trans.
action. On this memorable trial, the " sar-
castic eloquence" of the Attorney.Geeeral was
greatly admired, and partieularly in the happy in-
troduction of the speech of Colonel lYardle at the
close of the last session of Parliament, on the sub-
ject of the income tax ; and it is only to he la-
mented that this Learned Officer of the Crown did
not, at the same time, introduce some few of the
many philippics of Mr. Burke and Mr. Fox, on
the subject of pensions, places, and profligate
expenditure; for they would have been fully as
relevant to the question at issue--as the mesth of
Cul. Wardle—the Attorney-General would thus
have had a happy opportunity of convincing the pub.
lie of his intense anxiety for the ease and welfare of
the People, and thu Refornsation of Abuses. But
the public in general are somewhat at a loss to
conceive upon what ptinciple the speech of Cul.
Wardle could possibly be introduced on the trial
with the upholder ; and there are, indeed, some
eu ignorant of the character, temper, awl conduct
a the Attorney.Geueral, ap to impute that " sat.
antic dissertation" to malignity or ill nature.
I have hitherto, Sir, confined myself to chew.
leg, and that I believe successfully, the Meets.
eistenry—absurdity—kand improbability of the
Charge of the Upholder. Bet admitting, for the
mike of argument, that all this were trite—ln the
same of God in what possible way can it affixt
I Col. Wardle iu the estimation of tho public ?---
Suppose that by the very same measures which
are imputed to Colonel IVarille, with regard
to the Upholder, he could relieve the nation
from the burtheo of the most odious of all
barthens —the Income Tax ?—Do you believe
that there would be found one man who pays
that grievous, unjust, oppressive, and cruel
imposition, who would withhold his gratitude
from Colonel Wardle, because, itt addition to the
labour, obloquy, and abuse, that he endured in the
undertaking, he sacrificed a part of his fortune to
accomplish a great national purpose I •Sir, the
question will not admit of argument.
The truth is simply this Colonel Wardle
has boldly applied the tee to the very root of
corruption, and the robbers, the abettors of pub-
lic corruption, the participators in the public
plunder, are one and all alarmed for what they
term their property—that is, the produce of the
taxes, squeezed out. of the very vitals of the suf-
fering•community, of which they appropriate to
themselves so enormous a portion. The very names
of such men as Col. Wardle, Mr. Whitbread, Sir
Francis Burdett, Lord Folkestone, and that real
lover of his country, Mr. Cobbett, are odious to
the ears of what that Gentleman has so happily
termed " Public Robbers ;" they tremble for the
security of their plunder, their places, their pen-
sions, their contracts, their jobs. During the
investigation of the Duke of York's case, the
public opinion was so thoroughly awakened,
that resistance at that moment was impossible—
reiterated attempts were made to put down Col.
Wardle at the very opening of the case—there
were niany tart and very cross examinations of
himself, and of the eitnesses produced by him, an'
some very long speeches in support of the Duke of
York : but all was ineffectual—out went the Duke.

But from that moment revenge was meditated,
and Colonel Wardle, the marked sacrifice.
Let it however be remembered, that every at-
tempt that was made in the (louse of Commons,
to crush Colonel %Yardle, terminated in giving new
force and vigour to his charges; and but for the
sage counsel of Mr. Wm. Adam, and Mr. Lowten
and his Clerk, innumerable letters had remained in
that obscurity, to which, by their intrinsic merit,
they ought ever to have been doomed, had not
public justice, and the safety of the nation, im-
periously demanded their exposure. I warn
those who are now so weakly and so child-
ishly endeavouring to put down Colonel War-
dle, against stirring thc mephitic pool of
public corruption...the turbidity was rapidly
subsiding...the people were again sinking into in.
difference...but if the abettors of public corruption
will madly raise contention, let them rest as-
sueed, that disclosures must eventually be made,
which it is not only the interest, but the never.ceas.
lag ohjoct of thc Robbers to conceal. I shall
not, Sir, trolhle you further at present than
to announce my intention of soliciting your
admission of a future communication on the
subjects of the Harlot, the Upholder, the
noted Mr. stokes his attorney, and a certain
inmate ;to the house of the " Harlot," whose
activity in disseminating calumnies the most abo.
minable—l shall think it necessary to reward by
laying before the public a history of his connec-
tion and association with a prostitute, to whose
bounty he is at this moment iudebted for his daily
subsistence.

VERITAS.

A letter receivull in Glasgow from Jamaica,
rimed 3d June, say, " An expedition of 1400
men sails to-murrow morning, under the command
of mit. Lieut..6o“.inur, for tho reduction of
Domingo it is thought it will not hold out
lung." _ _

Notwithstati.hog the great rains that have pro.
sailed throug'fout tho eoontryi the *ors looks
every whero try prumisiag.