The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-01-02 00:00:00

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PA ittg, Dac. 43.--A Report was presented on
the Ist bison', ti his Majesty, relative to the
surrender of FeattehlGuyaste. The Board of in-
quiry, composed 0177f:rents de Cessac, II olio, and
Rosilly, bad to ermine if Victor _Hughes, the
Commissioner Commandant in Chief of French
Gitjane, employed all the means in
.his power for
tiro defence of the colony ; or, on the coetrary,
whether he had not surrendered to a handful or
troops, for the security of • his own plantations,
and his fortune. The Board of Iritieio‘ has, after
a long investigation, reported, that Victor Iltiglies
did not employ all the means in his power to de-
fend the colony, and that his conduct might to be
examined by the proper tribuhal.. As to the
question, whether he did not surrender for the
purpose of preserving his plantations and his for.
tune, the Board has reported that they have not
discovered any thing positive in that respec, but
that, nereriheless, thy arc of opinion the Coin.
missaiy should undergo the examination and deci-
sion of a Court. His Imperial and Royal Ma.
jesty has, pursuant to this opinion, remitted the
affair to the Minister of Marine, with orders to
cause the laws of the empire to be executed with
regard to the accused.
In consequence of a Report from the Grand
Judge, his Majesty iasued a decree: on the 17th,
postponiug until the Ist January, 1811, the prac-
tical execution of the new system of process in cri-
minal prosecutions, and affairs of correctional
and simple police.
On the 10th ult. Baron de Matireilliab, the
Governor of Delmatia, issued the following Pro-
clamation at Zara :
" PLOPLE or D tem arra —You are acquainted
" with the peace, which the victories of Napo.
"4 leon the Great have rendered glorious to the
'• people subject to his empire ; you know,
" therefure, the calamities which your insuhordi.
44 nation and disobedience may draw down upon
44 you. The General in command of the Aus.
Irian army has himself exhorted yots to sub.
gg mission and obedience. Reflect that there is no
44 safety fur you but in the clemency of your
64 sovereign. Make every effort to deserve it, in
" effacing by your better conduct the reinein.
• " brance of your past errors, and rejecting all
44 bad advice, which can only be gives' you by
44 persons übo have neither grace nor pardon to
• expect. If you obey the laws by which the
64 province is governed ; if, in short, by the pru.
" defiers of your couduct, you render yourselves
66 anew worthy of forming a part of the Dalma-
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" tian nation, which preserved its fidelity, I will
66 be the first to implore forgiveness for you from
46 his Majesty the Emperor and King ; and I dare
44 flatter myself, that his Imperial Majesty e ill
64 nut refuse me the pleasing consolation of an.
' nolliktilig to you the effects of his clemency, as
64 soon as I shalt be enabled to inform him that
66 you are became worthy thereof, by acktrw-
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hedging your errors and submitting to his
. • • 64 laws.''
•• ' The funeral of M. Fourcroy tout place on the
•'• !Ist at noon. The body was deposited in the cc.
metry of Aleut Louis. The funeral' was attended
by an ininteese concuurse of the personal friends
of the deceased, and the admirers of his great abi.
liti.s. Among them were Ministers of State,
Civil Magistrates, Military Officers, Members of
the Imperial University, the French Institute, &c.
Ills funeral Oration was pronounced by Count
•.
Kcinsud-de-Saint Jeart-CAngely. M. Delon.
taines also paid some compliments to his memory.
. B.ttr.ssx 7.—Whilst the bodies of
troops united in the environs of Toledo arc purse.
tag the remains of the insurgent army, defeated at
Ocana, the banditti who infested different pro:
winces of the kireAnit have been dispersed and de.
• •stroyed in all %panels.
A burly of 1200 of this description, availing
theaiseires of the absence of General Buget and
his troops, hail the audacity to attack Tudela,
Where there was only a garrison of 160 men ; but
this handful of Frenchmen, %ruder the command
of a brave Officer, after disputing with them inch
by inch every squaro and street in which they
strewed themselves, succeeded at leirgth •in repel.
Hag them wilt the loss of 45 killed. Thirty of
'eer men, who occupied a tower, def, ndcd it a-
gainst 300 of the insurgents. la the upper rallies
of Arragun, Sarrazar was, on the Ms ult. de-
Seated and expelled from Valtanie
(,• In Biscay, the Marquis de Balio Lizio's bawl
a of marauders, from S to 900 strolls:, having ap-
, preached Durango, a French column gave them a
courelete drubbing, and took from them a stand
,„e• of colours, and three pieces of caution. The
other bands have recrossed the Penns d'Ordunita.
:70'041*. Tissearenchioluors which severed the en sirens of
Durango brought in a great quantitY • a tritigititg'
led military stores. The yeutig men who were for.
cibly enlisted in Biscay and Alava are returning to
their homes.
MA some, Dec. 1;.-.Tile Duke del Parque, who
has by turns served and betrayed all parties, had
assembled a ceusidarable body of trinipt in the
environs of Salamanca. Ills intention seems to,
have been to support his colleague Ariesaga, as
soon as victory of which the Junta assured the
latter, should have opened to him the gates of
Madrid. No sooner, however, did the Duke
learn the impedimeats thrown its the way of this
plea by the battle of the 19thl than he took to.
flight. Ilis rear guard has nevertheless been over.
taken and destroyed. We expect the ulterior. de.
tails of this Adair. [This, of ceune alludes to the
battle of Alba del 'tonnes.] •
The lessuna of experituce are not equally throin
away upon ail the Spanish General's: If they do
not instructuoy of them how to beat, they at
leak teaeblerare.af thee') to avoid being beaten.
- • Hence Ece,ut, mtd Vsitegas also, who cannot for.
get Aluarnatirl, obstitiately refused the command of
the Owl of picked troops who are at this inutneut
marching from (tine to France. •
, - In this memorable battle whole regiments were
taken, that had not been able so mac;. as to burn
• priming. Starcaly was one battalion secured,
when another was in succession attacked, with
the rapidity of lightning, -surrotiordeil and clic.
armed by the self-same troops. now cueld the

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