The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-16 00:00:00

INDIA.

PARTICULARS OF TIM UNY,)RTUNATE AFFAIR UNDER
‘JOR-GENFIAL GILLESPIE.
You will proi. Oily have heard, before this reaches
you, of the oatlike operations carrying on at our
north-east frontier. The irruptions which the Na-
paulese have made for some time past upon the bar.
tier tent:, the villages that have been plundered, &c.
&c. are the reasons why war bas been declared.
Cotertitnent attempted to put a check to ipjuries ofi
sacs magnitude, by negociation and mild measures,
he, the endeavour was unsuccessful.
Two grand divisions of the army were formed, the
or • to enter Napaul Proper, by the east, cud the
other to act in its north-west provinces ; ether de-
tacaosents were assembled to assist the two grand at.
tacks. Major-General Marley commanded one of
the grand divNions, consisting of about 6000 men, I
and Major•Geueral Gillespie, of his Majesty's 25th
Light Dragoons, led on the other, who was unfor-
tunately killed on the 31st October, in an attempt to
storm the fort of Kullingah, or Nalapance, iu the
Debra!' Dhoon. The army was formed into four
columns of attack, with a column of reserve.—The
columns under Lieuteuaitt.Colonel Carpenter and
Major Ludlow, were repulsed, after au obstinate
and murderous struggle. With three companies of
his Majesty's 53d regiment, and two six-pounders, I
the gallant General Gillespie moved on to the attack,
and after making two unsuccessful assaults on the
tort, in the third, while in the act of cheering on his
!lien, within 30 yards of the gateway, he received a',
mortal wound.
Colonel Ma wby, of his Majesty's 53d regiment,
at the head of the advanced guard. made an attack
. on the fort the 24th of October. He had fired about
100 rounds, when he discovered that the place was
too strong to be taken by assault with the force he
'4;autelailed. This, with the three attacks subse-
tineL;ly by General Gil espies make altogether four

altrtnvis to carry this impregnable fortress ; in the
course of which fire Officers have been killed and
fifteen wounded, two of whom hnve ,since died of
their wounds, and 245 rank• and file killed, wounded,
and missing.

WHIT Tv MOAT .—floliday at the Pilafs Ojtesik.

THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:
TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1815.

Mr. Roamsem, one of his Majesty's Messengers,
arrived this mnrning at Lord Castlereagh's Office for
Foreign Affairs, with Dispatches from his Excellency
Field-Marshal the Duke of WELLINGTON, the con-
tents of which are said to relate to the degree
of co.nperation to be expected on the part of the
Allied Forces with the troops of his BRITANNIC MA..
JW.STY under his Lordship's command. The infor.
nation on this head is reported to be not very en-
couraging.

We need no further proofs of the stability of the
new French Government, and of the falsehood of
the assertions so impudently put forth in this country
by the hired railers, regarding the state of public
confidence in France, than what are offered in the
Paris papers which have reached us since yesterday's
publication, namely, the Journals of Friday and
Saturday last. It will be seen from the extracts we
make from these that the French funds have risen
greatly and rapidly. In one day, at the very moment
we were told that all was dissatisfaction, inconfis
deuce, disorder, and alarm in France, the funds rose
three per cents. On Wednesday they were quoted at
59, on Thursday they were 62. Though on Friday
they left off at 61 f. 30 c., the public intelligence
of that day was calculated to inspire a still greater de.
gree of confidence, by strengthening the hopes of
peace and national safety. It is generally believed, say
the French Papers that Austria has determined to
remain neutral in the case of a war. The accounts
received on this subject have greatly contributed to
raise the funds. " This is certain that the Austrian
Government has determined provisionally to leave
free the passage to and from France of letters and
unsuspected travellers," and certainly this does not
lonk very much like war. It is added in the Papers
of Friday, that 44 it was reported on the Exchange
yesterday that an Envoy Extraordinary had arrived
from the Emperor of AUSTRIA, bringing communi- •,
cations favourable to peace." if such be the line of
conduct which Austria has resolved to pursue, the i
Allies may well pause on the brink of that dread- !
fel precipice which they have sworn in their fury tol
overleap. Whether this be the case, and what-
ever may be the cause of the Allies slumbering
over their declarations of hostility, it appears
certain that NAPOLEON conceives there is yet
no great necessity for his presence on the fron.
tier. It is announced that the journey of the
Emitzeon is deferred, and that his equipages
have been ordered to retrograde. No cause is ass
signed fur this ; but all the accounts and specu!s-
-i
lions favour the conclusion that NAPOLEON has sa.
tisfied himself that his enemies cannot be on the
frontier in the strength and at the time announced,
and that, in fact, there are at least some of them
onwil:ing to hazard (he danger of an attack upon
jFrauce. IVe perceive) however, by t! e Monitcur

THE STATESMAN.

of Saturday, that McieTtrit (Duke of Treviso) has
been dispatched to " fulfil an extraordinary military
commission in the Departments of the North."
4 This commission, we' are given to understand, re-
lates to the provisioning and putting in a proper con-
dition of defence all the fortresses ; but there is some
reason to believe that the fortresses have been pretty
! well provisioned and strengthened already, other-
I wise the Allies, who have set themselves the task of
taking possession of all these strong holds, have,
i by their inactivity, been pursuing a policy more
!complimentary than wise in their situation, by not
! taking them when weak, provided they themselves have
had the means of doing so. But they have evidently
!been reckoning without their hosts, cud now they
must wait for the appearance of these, before they
can felicitate themselves on being the masters of
events, and the destinies of great nations. We
cannot but hare the warmest wish that the enemies
! of human liberty and right may be put down ; but
! who are these enemies? and who are overleaping the
bounds of their countries, and seeking to belts
masters of others ? We do believe the Allied
Powers are in a rt.torlary as to the poiicy of the
course tube adopted,•and we would fain believe that
the justice of it, as well in a moral as a political
sense, forms a part of their consideration. The
French say, they are now in a very ditterent'AiH
position of miiid from that in which they issued their
first Declaration. " All their embarraisments,"
add they, " is how to get decently out of the di-
lemma in which that Declaration placed them." On
the subject of die power and willingness of the re-
spective proscribers to carry their Declarations into
effect, the Paris Papers contain some observations
which appear to us be perfectly correct.—They
tell us that " Russia is uneasy with respect to
Poland and Turkey. Austria is at least as much !
afraid of the Emperor ALEX OIDEP. as of the Emperor
NAPOLEON. The Prussian Monarch seems quite
tranquil respecting his possessions; but the Nobi- '
lity and Capitalists-of Prussia are ruined ; a number
of young people have no other hopes or resources'.
.but in war. The Government has only found Mali'
of maintaining A sort of public credit at the expense
-
of private fortunes; it is therefore by no means
master of events." •

These latter remarks we know to be founded
opon facts. The exertions which Prussia has made
to cbtain the ascendency hi Germany and to humi-
liate France, who humiliated her, sild'eve her Mo•
narch back his cross n, have impoverished het; surd
she has no other means of recruiting tier resooseei
but by foreign acquisition, subsidies, and ag-
gression.--In truth, there are too many of the
Continental States in the same situation ; and
though France is represented as wiehing only
to subsist by war, there Is not a Stele on the
Continent but herself that requires not esternal
and artificial aid to sopport it; end hence If she
coalition of partitionists shall be deceived in the fate
of the war,and their hopes of new aggrandisement. and
partitions from the French territory shall be distill-
pointed, we may expect to see those States which
.could thus repair their strength, and attempt to es-
tablish their security by aggression rather than time
and the arts of peace and honourable industry,
crumbling under the stroke of retiihutive justice,
and France again the mistress of the Continent. We
have spoken of meditated partitions from the
French territory. We believe such contemplations
are indulged by some of the Allied Powers, notwith-
standing Louis XVIII. says they are to fight purely
for the purpose of restoring him his kingdom entire
as the Treaty of Paris and the arms of the Allies gave it
to him. The Allies do not say this, whatever they in
their liberality intend or may do. Lord CssmEnzaou
and the paper which he laid on the table of the
House of Commons, from the pen of the father of
his school, NVILLIAM Parr, assert that the States of
the Continent never fight without the hopes of being
well paid for it, that they have particularly an eye on
one another's territory, and likes to be paid as much in
the shupe of kingdoms as possible. Hence the parti-
tionings, and squarings, and rounding!, and king-
dom-makings, at the late adjustment of accounts
at the Congress of Vienna ; and hence we are
told "the pleasing hope, the fund desire, the longings
after" a cut at the French territory, which those
Powers appear to be indulging, who hate advanced
their borders so close to France, and want " securi-
ty," and those wish to be realized who have rather
been sliced down themselves, and left to the mercy of
chance, rather than rewarded with any extraordinary
qnantity of " indemnity," or pay, for their exertions.
Hence also we hear of the usual divisions of opinion
prevailing as to the conditions of co-operation, said
by King Louis to have been settled entirely in bis fa.
tour, and of such assertions as that we, even 4.e, are
not to fight this time for nothing ; for rumour ten.
tore; to say, that the British Cabinet are supposed
to have already cast a longing eye on Lisle and Va-
lenciennes " as a frontier for the kingdom of the
Netherlands! !" —for British objects truly !
Be this as it may, the Powers menacing France
with subjugation, if not partition, do not seem to
advance. There are some retrograde movements
among the forward Prussians. What means this ?
Must they retrograde because NAPOLEON'S carriages
have done so?

A Telegraphic dispatch from Marshal GitOUCHY,
at Lyons, stales, that the King of NApLEs has ob-
tained a great success; and that the Austrian troops,
whose arrival in Pied:pont was announc:.(l, have not
appeared.