The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-07-18 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

THE STATESMAN.

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Colonel iht.Low arrived yesterday in town
front Spain, and brought dispatches to Ministers;
when lie left the Poisinsulal, Ciudad Rodrigo
still held out, though it was thooglkt impossible
that it conld stand long.
Extract of a letter from kitten, dated July
—" A berry and incessant firing of musguetry in
the direction of Ciudad Ratirigo, has been dis-

tinctly heard by our outposts during the greater
part of the night. It gradually abated as the morn.
lug ad vaneml, and entirely ceased about six o'clock.
It is supposed by some, who have more enthusiasm
than prudence, that the garrison had made a sor-
tie; and by others, who calculated on the disparity
of the numbers and resources of the besiegers and
the garrison, that an assault bad been made by the
former, and gallantly.and resolutely resisted by
the latter. This opinion is corroborated- by the
breach, which, in a former letter, I stated, upon
good authority, to be eight yards in length and two
in depth, which, considering the WO of the para.
pet, and the facility which the enemy poseess of
procuring fascioes, is deemed practicable. The
result will be known in a few hours. It is a mat.
ter of surprise that the garrison, with such dilapi.
dated walls, and wretched outworks, should hare
held out so long against a force greatly superior '
in every respect. A ,division of the French army
has crossed the Agueda, below Ciudad Rodrigo,
which has rendered it prudent for General Cam:-
Folio to fall back from the position he occupied
on the left bank of that river, to Fort Comp.
tion. The French are concentrating their forces,
and, from the most correct information that can
be-procured, ire making every preparation for
the invasion of Portugal. We are daily receiving
reinforcements, and continue in good health, high
spirits, and in the best possible state of discipline."
On Sunday evening, between six and seven
o'clock, a French lugger privateer, with yellow
sides, black ports, and an English ensign, took
three collier brigs, within a short distance of the
North Foreland ; she was full of men. The lasi
of the three she captured
.was the Drake, of Whit.
. by. . The Captain seeing the other two taken, and
that the privateer was making for him, escaped
with his crew on board the Susannah brig, that
was in company, and afterwards landed at Mar.
gate. The time that the Frenchmen were employ.
ed in taking the above, gave opportunity to the
Susannah to escape. AbOut half past nine the
Beagle and cracker guu.brigs, which were at
anchor off Margate, were informed- and i,;nmedl.
ately sailed. The prizes were seen steering to the
Eastward, and the lugger N. E. in the direttion
towards five or six sail in that quarter.
The rcductiou of the Isle of France by a coup:
de-main, is, by all judiciuus military men, contd.
dered impracticable. The place is as strong mid
as inaccessible as Gibraltar. It is only by block.
ade that there is any chatice.yof reducing. it: and
the difficulty of effectually watching it at any sea.
son, and the total impossibility of keeping the
station at some, as the experience of the last two
years his prOved, render even that but a hopeless
design. Notwithstanding the taking of the Isle of
Bourbon, and the permanent-occupation of Ro.
driguez,. the French cruisers .get into and out of
the Isle of France with little molestation. •

A very respectable Banking.honso in the City,
on which a run was recently made, kept paying
the deMand upon them a full hour beyond the
usual lima of closing; and by this means they
soon recovered• the public confidence, of which
they bad been for a moment deprived by these.
ports which some malevolent persons had props"
gated against their unquestionable credit.

Fire houses in the Manchester trade stopped
payllielll on Monday in the City, to the smountsit
is said, of more than*" million.
The Marquis Marehlogien of DOUGLAS will:
set off in a few doys ftiellamittoo Police, scot.
land..
-
Mr. YORKE,. as First Lord of the Admiralty,
is expected to take a slimy. of Northlieet, and
the surrounding grounds, as..thit proposed scite for
the new Naval Arsenal. .He will he attended by
Mr.. RENNIE, and other practical 'Engineers.

Marquis Tow.touctao is now down 3t antwort.,
Castle, in Staffordshire, where his Lordship has
resoled, with his amiable daughters for nearly the
last twelve months.
SPORTING. —Colonel THORNTON'S going. to
Dow-street, and turning out a pack of Police 0111.
cars Its run down a couple of bag fox Lawyers;
who had his title-deeds in their hands, and had
joined deadly issue to fight a duel, was managed
in his'ulual sportsonan.like .styte. Having got a
lgood drug of John, Doe and Richard Roe at the
„grey of the morn, he. run a burst without a check
Hill he pressed .close to their brush with a breast:
high scent at the foot of Prirnrose-hill, where
they Akulked to earth in the garden of &little pub-
' lic.houser from whence they, however, were soon
driven by the terriers of the Police, and carried to
the Wotan 'herr iw Illoss.street, in the hope of
their skewing a better day's sport hereafter
The Lyceum was last nightelegautly filled. The
new Opera, aided by Knapschous proves very at.
tractive.
The Musical,Meeting at Salisbury was well at-
tended : upwards of 1400 persons being in the Ca.
thedral each day. At night the assembly rooms
were quite a squeeze. The receipts at the church
and assembly rooms were about 20001, Madame
CATALANI had 400 guineas for her three days'
performance.
Walla, the gravedigger, who was convicted on
Friday last of stealing a dead—body out of St.
George's burial.ground, .was sentenced, at the
conclusion of the Sessions, to three months int.
prisonment.
In the Court of Common Pleas on Saturday, a
straw.hat.manufacturer, of the name of Maw-
, Ltives, recovered fifty peends damages against
GILLER, the landlord-of the liald.facesl Stag, on
Fincbley Commun. The Plaintiff and i friend
were snipe...shouting in January last, oe the Com.
mon, and about eight o'clock at night applied
• at the Defendant's house for beds and sapper.—
This accommodettoo, due by law to all travellers,
• they were not only refused, hat sent to If ighgsks
Wolch.house fur the eight,

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SU.II3IEIt &MN.

--simisp—
. • BY MR. GRAHAM.
Soon let the husbandman arouse to toil,
- While yet the sky st'deep empurpled tan
Northward displays,' betas the corn-es:a%
In min-vell'd meads inakle the nestling lark
• To hail the dawn. Streit is the dubious bound
Of•aight and morn, When spray and plant
In dew. Street now the odour-breathing hi
The gaudy broom; the orchard's blushing boughs,
The milk while thorn on which the black bii -
'Till light be shakes his rung plumes, mad
His roundelay; and sweet the beau field roi
'Tween which the drilling plough is artful
• Striking the dew-drop gently from the Moos
Thence on their lingering wins the west sisi
A balmy odour. Struck with new•delight,
The tell-worn trav'Uer pauses on his way ;
Perhaps some veteran, whom
-Egypt's sands
Have reft of sight (01 when will warfare
Leans oa his skill, and wishes that but once.
'But only once, he could behold those bliimas
Which now recall Lis father's little field!

Nit Via IN7'ELLIGESC,

PORTSMOUTK, JULY IT.—Sailed the Implacabl
gum, Admiral Sir Richard Keats, for Cadiz •
Scylla, Captain Ateliiion, withm convoy far the
Arrived the Sarpedon, Captain Green, from r
Sailed the Protector on a cruiz.:.
The wind coming round in the night, there
doubt but the outward-bound Lisbon and bledit
took advantage of it, and got wider • weigh from
'Loads ; thciugh it is no better noir again than Iv'
N. B. We have beard that they did mil.
The Persian Ambassador is engaged in Looking
yard, &c. lie will sail in the Liao in a few da:

PLYMOUTH, JULY N.—Sailed the Dreadaougl
guns, for Basque Roads ; the Acteou brig,
ketch, on a cruize.

Arrived the Ocean, of Loudon, Captain Feary,
with masts and yards for the Dock-Y

DCA IL, Jo LY 17.—The outward-bound havi
to the Westward, wider convoy of the Kite blot),
also the Theseus and MarlborOugh men of war,
Flushing.

FALMOUTII,JULY 11—Sailed Primus Charlotte
for Liskun.

GRAVEMND, JULY 17.--Arrived the Hind,
Gibraltai; Wellington, .........., for St. Lucia
ma, Goodwin, for Malta.

Soiled the Governor Milne, Hayes, for Tam

MILITMLY INTELLIUEN(

A General Court-Martial assembled on Mi
CAnterhury, fur the trial of a private helongiug ,
temp Battalion, lately arrived at Sheerness from
on a charge of repeatedly urikiug, and after-
b6 superior Officer.

That excellent regimeat, the 18th Hussars, .
on Friday last by General Nightingale, at Deal,
seam of a number of General Officers, at which
expressed hi; entire approbation at the quicknew
with which they esteemed theirmaricennes.
two borseifell, and one of them had its'ieek

Instantly expired. The other hotre, and the ,
very luckily escaped without receiving an serious
A detachment of the Ean Norfolk Regiment
rived at Sheerness yesterday; -

con BXCH4I+I4_4IL

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• Wheat thin. 414* in consideraliist i
!Ellin of..".6rit Quality, which supports
inferior aliiiii, unsaleable. Very lit
Matt it kit. ....VOLle.Peas likewise.
two kind hardly: at the late reduction.
Illerablpisiip'rlies Of Pats, and this trade
cheaper. 'flunk ist.lkto prices.
'.' . ; •.. tEIR:t IiNT PRICt
, Wlsenf, e;• 74*. -91,. 1L24. Tick Beam,
Fine ditto - - - - 11;40. 111 s. ()ass, /.. . - -
Rye, - • - --• .. -48 i. 044. • rififtiodf - - -
Maley,
•Mali,?.. • ~. - -.-- 71s. 80.. Itnpe Seed •
W. Pen% (linilen) 70s. 75.. Fine Flour -
Grey Peas, • • • • 535. 565. Second. - - •
Beans, - ..- - ,-.- .56,. trii.

The Mince of Whtas Is expected
brigade of Life Guards, on Mond
Wimbledon Common. He Will be accompanied
on this. occasion by the Dukes of YORE and Cam.
Bianca. This Gne corps have had several addi-
tional held days, that they•may display their h,gh.
est discipline before his Kurd Highness, who is
esteemed by military men as one of Usti fiat Cavalry
Officers iu Europe. . . ,•
4 •
In the event of the death of die, DM of
BERERLEY, which is daily expected, the legiti.
macy of his eldest ion, Lord Dunst.xy, which has
been so long a question o(seriotis discussion, must
be more solemnly investigated in the House of
Peers, as one of privilege, and probably. before
any succeeding Earl of BERILRLEY may hts:admitted
to take his seat-as a Peer of Parliament.
Yesterday owning, for a,wager of fire guineas,
a man of the name of Daniel Grant 50 years of
-age, undertook to walk from Short:ditch to Ware,
;in Hertfordshire, In Cour hoer', and after resting
two hours, to walk back again in the same space
of time. He started at three o'clock, stopped
twice on the road,' and arrived at Ware ten mi.
notes before sem; after resting the time allowed,
be started afresh, and completed the whole by half
past twelve o'clock, winning Ids wager by half an
hour : several bets were depending upon the
The whole distance is 42 miles.
Early yesterday Morning, Mr. Gumbridge, of
Epsom, going up Holborn-till, had his pocket
picked of his book containing 301. in bank notes.
Early yesterday morning, as Mr. Gumbridge,
of Epping, was going up Holboris.hill, he was
hustled by a gang of villains who pretended to be
drunk, who picked his pocket of his book, coo.
taining 301. in banknotes, and made theii escape
with their booty towards -Field-lane; they are
supposed to belong to the Chick-line gang, who
infest thattquarter.
A woman of the name of Sable, was killed yes.
terdey by a kick from a led horse belOnging to
an Officer et Knightsbridge. She was wheeling
a barrow of linen) at which the horse took
fright.

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It
ound
are drenclid
birch,
bought,
bird roost:,
chams
ows,
sieved,
non:
clods war:
r,
ids
e cease !
cc.
oms
7E.
placable, of ;4
Win ; and the
he I)owns.
a a cruise.
e cannot be a
iterrancan deft
rout Yarmouth
vest.
ft.
ug at the dock.
"is.
•
duought, of 98
, and Gleaner
ry, from North
Yard.
re main sailed
sloop of war;
▪ (ma cruise td
larlatte packet,
d, Lumley, for
.1 and the Has.
NCE. •
Monday last at '
g to the ith Ve-
um the Tower,
swards Licking
were reviewed t
teal, in the pres
ich the General .
essutd precision
In the charge
dislocated, nod
to two human, :.
Tious is‘jury.
lit of Militia sr.
rsorPply, but
is last prices ;
little Barley.
Beanie( the
t. There are 11
side ii quoted
.4&1.54..
-02 s.
- - .34.. 970.
415. Ud.
▪ - - .BSc
- 956 1001.
• - • - 955. 9ts.
to review the
day next, on
accompanied
MIL and CAN.
I several addl. •
lay their. high.
Owen' who is
6 first Cavalry
r. of
td, 4he legiti.
ay, which has
scussion, must
the Boise of
sbably . before
ey ha:admitted
intr.
sf file guineas,
:,
0
rho
oscl
lame
after tmYo cearesting
orspace
a
Ware,of
luck, stopped
Ware ten mi.
thin allowed,
r whole by half
ger by half an
upon the Wig.
umbridge, of
ad his pocket
n bank notes.
r. Gumbridge,
he was
iretcoded to be
is book, coo-
ide their escape
sue; they are
sine gang, who
was killed yet.

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