The Statesman.
London, England, 1811-10-01 00:00:00

far more dishonoursble connivance at regai v.
under a pretended respect for established
•ernments, made our Ministers deaf to all intreaties
Grid remonstrances, notwithstanding it was publicly
known that the Queen was intimately connected
1., a Frenchman, who was in the confidence.
of Bos APARTE,
.had been with Mm in Egypt,
to whm she told all her secrets. Through him
France knew all that she knew of oar measures, a,

unless we act with vigour, and well manage the

cilians, our gallant fellows will be betrayed,

the island treacherously delivered up to France,
Iler St ciLIAN MAJ CSTT is besides the most impudent
intri,;ning woman alive. Void of all principle as
all modesty, she favoured the Spaniards in the first
instance against us, by sending, in owe lour sere►tly-
fourr, her son to claim the Crown of Spain The
blockhead *rho suffered a King's ship tataTry Mich
freight to Arable, deserved to be clisritissed. • The
Governor of that place acted more wisely ; he

fused a passport into Spain to the Royal cub. It
known that In 1796, it was proposed to Ministers,
a means of obtaining Peace, to give the Royal
roily of Naples a kingdom in the Adriatic, or Dal-
matia, and a Minister was to have been Sent bn' pur.
pose, as Mr. ELLIOT declined doing it, to prevail
upon their SICILIAN MAJESTIES to submit to an
rangemeat which the times had rendered Japaratiee.
In fact, our Cabinet has been solicited, for the
tan years, by the Sicilians themselves, to take them
under its protection, andonnex to, ewe domi.

pions; but we want heroes, decision, and integrity,
as well as wisdom • and wanting these, we taunt fall
unless a spirit CAS be roused in the Nation that ma:
Once more restore It to Its former vigour, patriotism.,
lend glorious enthusiasm. Nothing but such a
neral feeling can " rescue us from a domestic or
reign despotisdi. 'But a Press, every where infected
with fella! ity -and employed to hunt down all publ:
virtue--n people curbed by petty tyrants, and borne
down by taxes rigorously and vexatiously exact
with the sad fact before our eyes, that those who re-
ceive, exceed in number those who contribute—al-
tnost forbid every hope of better times in our day's.

A Gentleman yesterday arrived from the coast,
who has been recently at Boulogne. Ile represents
that the Army of England, as it is denominated, en-
camped in the neighbourhood of Boulogne, consists
chiefly of conscripts, which are to be augmented to
the number of 80,006 troops for the purpose of
creating a diversion on the enemy's coast. The Em-
press Louisa having caught a severe cold, the day of
the affair of the Naiad, has set out on her return to
Paris, escorted by a vast retinue of military officers.
The 3onlogne flotilla consists of 33 gun-boats, 30
praama, and 37 brigs. Every exertion was made to
complete their equipment, and Ireland was generally.
said to be the object of their destination.
It is said, that the Duke of SUSSEX, having been ad-'
lised to repair to a wanner climate, for the recovery
of his health, has been offered the appointment of Go.
vernor of Jamaica, as successor to the Duke of MAN..
CHEST DR.

GAautu., Woo', Esq. Commissary General of
Accounts, has reached town from the West Indies.
At his dparture, we are happy to learn, that the
troops in the • Islands and Colonies in that quarter
were generally healthy, and things otherwise quiet.
Lienteeatit-tolohel the lion. BASIL COCHRAN E,
of the 30th regiment," has been tried by a Court-
Martial at Fuentes Guinado,.on a charge of writing
letters to MajoetzPencral CIDIPBLLL, of the 6th di-
aisionp charged in disrespectful and offensive terms;
and, being found OWN, was sentenced to be repri.„,
mantled, which sentence has been carried into effect.
Colonels MunititC,'HoLsx, and WKINNow, of
the Foot• Guards; Colonel PAGICZNIAN4 of the Royal
Fusiteers, anglscOppel Ross, of the 70th regiment,
ate promoted tu-Jhe. rank. of Brigadier7Geueralsin
the army serving in Spain and Portujnl. . •
This morning, between twelve and one
ire broke out in theinfrmary belonging ttiMeen.
wich Hospital, whicbi.-we•are concerned to Mate,
was entirely destroyed. - •
By the Toni:ant, 00y; "which • arrived at Plytetinih
on Thursday, from.theblockade of Brest, it is learnt
that the enemy still continue to. make the most twee,
ampled exertions, both at Brest and all. the.otl er.
ports on the coast, in the equipment of their navy ;
and that they are continually manoeuvring id the'
miter road of Brest, but shew no disposition to come
out at present ; nor will they'dare attempt to do so,
unless joined by the ships from Rochefort and'
L'Orient.
The Comet, it is said in a German paper, is esti.
mated will be nearest us on 'the 25th of October,
when its distance from the earth Will bo about one
and two-thirds et tbronarth's distance from the sun,
or about twenty-seven millions of (German) miles
(above one handfed and eight millions of English).
At its nearest approach to the Sun, which happens
on the 15th of September, its distance mill be about
twenty-three millions of (German) miles (above
• ninety-two millions English).
By a cartel from Mori*, which left that place on
Tuesday last, several bags of letters have been re
ceived from the British prisoners of war at Verdun,
Arras, Givet, and other French depots. Some or
them, which we have seen, are of a most melancholy
nature. Sickness and mortality rage to a consider-
able extent among our unfortunate captive fellow-
eountrymen—arising, not from any additional rigour
in their treatment, but chiefly from that disease of
the mibcl occasioned by" hope deferred," and a con-
'teflon of .endien captivity. Numbers' of them;
tired out with long confinement, had obtained their
liberty by marrying Fseach women, and engaging
to work in the arsenals and manufactories of France;
but before they were permitted to do this, they were
compelled to take an oath, and sign an engagement;
stover to quit the French territory.
Berxm—To.day there was no Court of Aldermen;
the Lord Mayor after inspecting the returns, ordered
thebiead to rise Id. per peck.
Lfwk smiths, in custody onsuspicion of robbing
the Queen's Palace, underwent another examination
this pinning at Marlborough-street Office. Mr. AL-
t.r.Y attended for th Prisoners.