The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-11-29 00:00:00


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Nt.r. 28.

Foreign-Ojite,. Nov. V.
A dispatch, of which the following is a cop..
was this (lay received by Carl Bathurst, his.,4o.
jesty's Principal Secretary of State fur Foreigt
Affairs, from. Col. Carrol, dated Army of I hetefi,
libed.qiiartersi Salaniancai, 0ct.16, 1809.
Styrd—J have rho honour to aciptaiiit yon, that
on the %Ist inst. the Duke dul Parque moved for-
ward with his army from Tamaines to Carta-ea
del Obispo, and having pushed on a column to-
wards Nlatills and Jejo, as if with an intention ut
approaching Salamanca by Nliiniguela, proceeded
to his left by a rapid lateral movement towards
Leans*, where A e crossed the Turmes on the
'23d. On the ¶24111 wu arrived at Amanara, and on
the morning of 'yesterday (the 25th) reacned the
liele,hts ishich command Salamanca to the north.
ward, where the Patriots had the mertitieatipu to
learn, that the enemy having had intimation of our
approach, evacuated the town the preceding night,
retreating precipitately to Torn, taking with hiin
aliiantity of church plate, and other articles of
pi u niter.
The entrance of our army into the town yester-
ay, Eresentml a most gratifying spectacle. The
different brig ides successively forming in the spa.
cious and be intiful square, proclaimed with loud
and reiterated viral, their beloved Fernando,
whilst the bands ur the different corps played se-
veral popular and patriotic airs ; nor did the zeal
if the patriots suffer t!tcan to omit the tribute of
their gratitiide ns their sincere and firm ally ; and
God save King George and Fernando, were alter.
'lately repeated during the entire of the day.
Amidst the universal joy which pervaded our
conks, e small portion of regret was discernable,
occasioned by the escape of the entuny, which
the soldiers had already considered as their cap.
tires.
'Fite advance of our column by Matilla, in-
duced the enemy to suppose that we should have
approae.hed Salamanca by Muniguela, and con-
syquottly drew their attention to that quarter,
which presented them many.favourable positions,
and from whence the passage of the Tormes is
So judicious, rapid, and masked was our march
by Ledcsma, that the enemy was totally ignorant
of our real point of attack, until our arrival at
Almanara, a village about three leagues from

hence.
It is a well ascertained fact, that the first iuti-
matiosi General Marchand bad of our approach
from Ledes:na, reached him at six o'clock on the
evening of the 14th ; at eight o'clock lies orders
for retreat were issued with the utmost secrecy to
the Commanders of brigades ; at ten o'clock the
tfantry, and at twelve the c.tvalry, commenced
their march ; sad su great was tt.eir apprehen-
sion of pursuit, that they did nut halt uutil they
reached Toro.
The enemy's loss in killed and prisowors, at the
battle of Taniautes, exceeds twelve liniodred ; and
from every information wo can. collect, from *sr
best authoritea here, their wounded amounts to
two thousand, of which number a great propos.
(ion are officers: one General, one Colonel, se.
veral subaltern officers, and seventy-five private.,
died of their wounds on the night of their retreat
from Tamames.
Illuminations will take place here this night,
and tu.morrau a solemn Tu Deem will be cede.
brated in thaiiks4iving for the signal victory gain-
ed' at T4LIII.IICS over the enemies of liberty and
religion.
Tile victory of Temanies, and our entrance to
Salamanca, will no doubt prove highly beneficial
to our cause. This army (which will daily in.
crease in hie 'ahem), now feels a degree of confi-
deace in its po scrs hitherto unknown to it.
1 have the honour to he, dpe.
WILLIANI PARKLIt C‘ItROL,
Major 11. S., Col. Sp. S.
Aboard!" Office) Nov. 28.
Vice-Admiral Holloway, Commander in Chief
at Newfoundland, has ttansmittcd to John Wil.
son Crdker, Esq. a letter from Captain Graham,
of the Vsistal, giving an account of the capture by
that ship, un the 19th instant, of the French phi.
vafeer brig L'lntrepide, pierced for twenty guns,
and having a complement of ode hundred and
twenty-five men, slim on her first cruise.
Tin Vestal had also recaptured the English brig
[idioms, from N. wfounolland to Jersey, and the
English ship Fortitude, from the Brazils to Liver-
. pool.
Captain Brace, of his Majesty's ship Virginic,
has tr .nsiiiitted to Jahn Wilson•Cruker, Esq. a
letier from Captain Sir NVm. Bolton, of the Druid,
sivissif an account of his having captured, on the
13th instant, the French National brig Le Basque,
of 16 gene and 112 mill, commanded by Mon.
&leer Liscourt, Lieutenant de Vaisseaux, bound
from Bayonne to Guadeloupe, with flour and
other stores.
And also .t letter from Captain Worth, of the
Helena sloop, stating the capture, on the same day,
of the It•svenge French privateer, of St. Makes,
pierced fur lb goons, and with 61 men on beard.
BANKRUPTS.
A. Liverpool. teeter, to surrender Dee.l9, 411,Jan.
0, at the (II .h • raven,. Liverp Attornies,Memrs. Macke-
ocit and blakiitaitn, Temple. Loathes.
J. barindall, Pendleton. Lancashire, shopkeeper, Dee. 11,
19, Jaa. 9, at the Palace lon, Manchester. Attorney, Mr. It.
Chancery-lade. Lamina.
W. Randall, Stockbrid4e. Southampton. wine-userebant,
Dec. Y, 16, Jan. 9, at Attorney, Mr. T.
Wallow ri ht. Peck's-buildings, 'Temple. ,
Wentnetioter Britlaezroad, stable-keeper,
Dee. 4,16, Jail. 9, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. J. Benton,
11)ton-street, Soot h war 4.
J. !/ Hanged ,rd-street, Strand, baker, Dec. 1, 19,
Jan. 9, at Gat.d tall. Anions:), Mr. vrad, jun. Castle-street,
Falcon-sr..
HiCsop,.Cheltentiam, haberdasher, Dee. 2, 9. Jan. 9,
at Guildhall, Loodun. Attoiney, Mr. Berry, Bucklers-
bury.- • • •
R.,. Whitman. Briglithelmstone, victualler, Dee. 26, 27.
Jan. 9. at toe 0111 Snip Timm, brrghtbelmstoae. Allot-
or, 4 Mr. W. LAM, Haden-garaeit,
j• Dinsdaiet S, aletrates, Yorkshire, grocer, Doe. 11, 9,
Jau.9, at the Neptune lan, Irtitoa-spon. fon. AUornies,
Messrs. Eintiatarls sod Sun,Lineuhis Inn, London.
.1. and J. 1301 and W. Harrop. Loagtown, Cumberland,
manutacturers.Dee. IS, 19, Jan. 9, at the Crean and Mitre,
Carlo Animates, Messrs. Wordsworth and Addison, Slit-
-pie lei, Biotin..
J. A• Southey. Bath, paper-banger, Nov. SO, Dee. 16,
Jan. 9. at (Weida .11, London. Attortnes, Messrs. Visard and
Motcoiasoo, Lincoln s lon.
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TAW STATESMAN.

MR. CINNING'h

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'ATEMENF.

TO THE E.tRL (AMORY(' &c. &c.

Gloucester Lodge, Nov. 11, 1809.
MY Loan-1 had written to yiiur Lordship
intioetLitely after the publiettion of yuur Lord-
ship's statement : but I delayed sending my letter,
in the hope of being able previously to submit It
the perusal of the Duke of l'ortiatitl.

Li this hoe I hare been disappointed by that
fatal event, which has deprived this country of one
of its most upright and disinterested patriots ; the
King, of one of his most faithful, devoted, and
ilfectionate subjects ; esNi the %orbd one of the
most blameless and most noble-minded of men.

Thus situatal, I have thought it right to revise
what I lied written, and scrupulously to expunge
every reference to the authority of the Duke of
Portland, which would now stand upon my sole
testimony ; retaining such wily as arc supported,
either by written documents which I shall be
happy to dilenlillinieate to your Lordship ; or by
facts which a►c well known to your Lordship, or
to your Colleagues, and in which, for the must
part, your Lordship is yourself concerned.
Neither, however, can l content myself with
this precaution ; but mast protest, at the same
time, in the most earnest manner, against any
possible misconstruction, by which any thing in
the following Letter can be strained to a meaning
unfavourable to the motives which actuated the
Duke of Portland's conduct.

It is impossible, indeed, not to regret the po-
licy, however well i►►tentioned, which dictated
the reserve practised towards Lord Castlereagh in
the beginning of this transaction ; or that prac-
tised towards myself in its conclusion. It is to
be regretted, that the Doke of Portland should
have imposed, and that your Lordship should have
accepted, the condition of silence, in the first
communications between you. It is also to be
regretted, that I should not have lehrnt in July,
that your Lordship was not party to the assu-
rances then given to no on behalf of Lord Ca%tle.
reagh's friends in general ; and that another Mem.
her of the Cabinet, comprehended in that des.
scription, had (as I have since heard) refused-to
concur in them.

Had I been made acquainted with these circum-
stances, I should then have resigned ; and my re-
signati.in would, at that time, have taken place
without inconvenience or embarrassment ; and
without stirring those questions (no way connect.
al with the causes of my retirement), or subjecting
me ti, those lei/interpretations a my conduct and
motives, which cave been produced by the coinci.
denee of my resignation with that of the Duke of
Portland. But, however this reserve may be to
be regretted, it is impossible to attribute the adop-
tion of it, on the part of the Duke of Portland, to
any other motives, than to that gentleness of na-
ture winch emniendy distinguished him; and which
led him to endeavour, above all things, to prevent
p .lineal differences from growing into lbersenal
theisentions ; and to aim at executing whatever ar-
rangement 'night be expedient for improving or
strengthening the Administration, with the concur-
rence, if possible, of all its existing bfembers.
And nu man who knows the affectionrte respect
and attachment, which the manly 'and generous
qualities of the Duke of Portland's mind were cal-
culated to command, and which I invariably bore
to him, will *aspect me of being willing to esta-
blish my own vindication, at the expence of the
slightest disrespect to his memory, or prejudice to
his fame.

I have the honour to be, my Lord,
Your Lordship's tnost obedient humble servant,

GEORGE CANNING.

TO THE EARL CAMDEN.

MY LORD—The statement, which has been
published in the newspapers, in your Lordship's
name, has decided a question on which I had he.
fore been hesitating, as to the necessity of an au.
then tic detail of the transactions, so far as I am
concerned in them, or am acquainted with them,
to which that statement refers. For that pnrpose,
I think a direct address to ) our Lordship more de-
corous, both towards your Lordship and for my.
self, than an anonymous paragraph in a newspaper.
It is with the most painful reluctance, that I recur
to a subject, which, so far as it concerns Lord
Castlereagh and myself, had been settled in a
manner, which is usually, I believe, considered as
final.

Discussions of the causes of dispute more com-
monly plecede, than follow the extreme appeal to
which Lord Castlereagh resorted : and when,
after rwataru consideration, his Lordship had de.
termiaed to resort to that appeal in the first in.
stance, I should have thought, that such a choke,
deliberately made, would have been felt by his
friends to be equally conclucive upon them, as
upon Minself. But your Lordship needs not to
be informed, how assiduoubly my character has
been assailed by writers in the newspapers, espous-
ing Lord Castlereagh's quarrel, and supposed (I
trust, must injuriously) to be his Lordship's par.
titular friends.

The perversions and misrepresentations of ano.
nymous writers, however, would not have extorted
(ruin me any reply. But to them succeeded the,
publication of Lord Castlereagh's letter to me of
the igth of September. I entirely disbelieve that
Lord Castlereagh, and I distinctly deny that I
myself; had any knowledge of this publication.
But, by what means it matters not, the letter is
before the world : and though the course original-
ly chosen by Lord Castlereagh precluded me from
offering auy explanation to him ;—the course
which has since been adopted on his behalf (though
undoubtedly without his privity), might perhaps
have beau considered as rendering such an 'split-
nation due to myself. It is, however, only since
your Lord4bip's publication that I have felt it to
be indispensably necessary.
The statement on my behalf, which has also
found its way (without my consent and against my
wish) into the public papers, was written under a
sense of delicacy and restraint as to the particu-
lars of the transaction, which, from the character
of the transaction itself, must ale sys continue to
I prevail io a great degree; but from which, until

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Wednesday, the 111 k et Petuber, the day on
which I gave ap the Seals, I had not an oppor-
tunity of soliciting any dispensation. Of the in-
dulgence which I then must humbly solicited, 1
trnst I shall be ;lee to avail myself sufficiently fur
any own vindication, without losing slept of those
considerations of duty and propriety; by which
the use of such an indulgeocc musernereelhaelly be
regulaseil and confined. '
It is stated in Lord ,Castlerelligh'i Letter,
" That I had demanded arid pr' euhd from the
Duke of Portland, before the rising of Parlia-
ment, a prosni-e fur Lord Castlereegh's remove.
from the War Department ; that, by this pro.
wise, Lord Castleregh's iituation, as a Minister
of the Crown, was made dependant upon thy plea-
sure ; and that this promise I afterwards thought
myself entitled to enforce ; that, after and not.
withstanding this virtual supersession of Lord
Castlereagh in his office, I allowed him to
originate and. conduct the Expedition to the
Scheldt; and that, during this whole period,
I knew that the agitation, and the decision, of the
question for his removal were coticeals:d from
him: and was party to this concealment." Lord
Castlereagh indeed admits, that " he has no right,
as a pubfic man, to resent my demanding, upon
public grounds, his removal from his office, or
even from the Administration, as a condition of
my tontinuing a Member of the Government."
But he contends, that a proposition " justifl chic
in itself," ought not to have been " executed in
an unjustifiabte manner ;" and he makes me re.-
sponsible for the manner iu which the " Head of
' the Administration," and some Members of the
Government, " supposed to be his (Lord Castle.
reagh's) friends," executed the proposition, which
he attributes to me.

He is ready to acknowledge, indeed, 66 that I
pressed for a disclosure, at the same time that I
pressed for a decision ; and that the disclosure was
resisted by the Duke of Portland, and his (Lord
Castlereagh's) supposed friend,." But in this
circumstance, Lori Castlereagh professes not to
see any justification of what he conceives to hare
been my conduct towards him:—hecause, by ac.
quiescing in the advice or entreaties of his " sup-
posed friends," I admitted " an authority" on
their part, " which I must have-known them
.not to possess ;"—beeause, by 46 • pmssing
for disclosure," I sheaved my own sense of the
" unfairness" of concealment ; —and beeeusc, with
that sense, I " ought" (as he conceives me not
to have done), "to have availed myself of the
sa..le alternative,—namely, my own ,resignation,
—to enforce disclosure, which I did to enforce de.
cissua."—Without offering a single word in the
way cif argument, I shall, by a distinct detail of
facts in the order of their date, substantiate my
contradiction of these charges. I Shall only pre-
mise.—

Ist.—That I bait (as is admitted by Lord Ces.
tlereagh) an unquestionable right to require, on
public grounds, a change in the War Department,
tendering, at the same dew, the alternative of my
own resignation.

2i11y.--(What no Mall at all acqtrtiottsd with
the course of public businPss will dispute), that
the regular, effoctual, and straight-forward course
for bringing that alternative to issue, was to state
it directly to the 66 Head of the Administration,"
the King's Chief Mitrister, to be laid by that Mi-
nister before the kitig.
I proceed to a detail of facts.
Aram 2.—ln thl beginning of April, I ad.
dressed a letter to the Duke of Portland, con.
wining a representation on the state of his Admi-
nistration ; and expressing any wish and ibtention,
unless some change were effected iii i to re-
sign.

vAPRIi.4 so B.—Upon the Duke of. Portland's
requiring a more detailed explanation, •as to the
motives of my proffered resignation, 1 stated,
among other things, that a cheislic either in my
own Departineut ur in Lord Castlereagh's, ap-
peared to me to be expedient for the public ser.
vice. I stated my perfect willingness that the
alternative shunt(' be derided for my retirement ;
and only requested that the d••r•isron might (if
possible) take place before the re.coinmencernetit
of business in Parliament after the Easter holi-
days. The Duke of Portland requested me to
suspend the execution of my intention to resign ;
wishing to hay, an opportunity of consulting with
some of our Colleagues, before he determined
what advice to lay before the King.
APRIL 16.--The Easter holidays thus passed
away. Qts the 16th of April, shortly after his
Grace's return to town from Bulstrode, the Duke
of Portland opened the subject to one of the Mern.
bets of the Cabinet, whose name (nut having Leen
hitherto brought forward), L do not think it new
cessary to mention.. Your Lordship is perfectly
acquainted with it. By the Duke of Portland's
desire, I had a communication with that Member
of the Cabinet, within a very few days after his
interview with the Duke of Portland. 11. strung.
ly represented the difficulty of making any new
arrangement, during the sitting of Partial:scut,.
and urged me to defer the pressing my own
nation till the end of the Session.... To this wont.
mendation I did not promise to accede; but we
agreed (whether upon his suggestion or upon mine
I am not coefident), that, at all events, no step
whatever could pruperly be taken, until after the
decision of the question upon the Writership ;...
which was about this time brooked forward in the
House of Commons.

APRIL 25.---That question was decided on
Tuesday the '2sth of April.
APRIL 28...-On Friday' the With, the Doke of
Portland communicated fully wittlyour Lordship;
and informed me, as the result of that communi-
cation, that your Lordship thourit a change in
Lord Castlereagh's situation iu ;the Governeseet,
desirable, provided it could be directed honours,.
bly for Lord Castlereagh, and that it " could be
reconciled to Lord Castlereagh's feelings." From
this period, I inderctoud that your Lordship was
constantly consulted by the Duke of Portland in
every step of the transaction. Other Members of
the Cabinet were also consulted by the Duke
of Portland ; but how many of them, or at

what preciasr periods, I neither knew at the time,
tun can now undertake to sty; Shortly Attu
your Lonlahip's first interview with thy Duke or
Portland (I am sure before the 6th of Ma)), that
alember of the Cabinet with whom his Grace had
first communicated, reporicil to me a augeration
of your Lordsliip's, of a chance of office fur
Lord 'Math:reser, evidently cliculatiel on the
prineiples'which your Lortkhip had stated asindis.
pensitile;to such a change. --Whether this commu.
oiration to ale was in the name of a dirrct nt..
sage from your Lordship, I du not exactly know.
Bo I understood distinctly that yon knew of its
'ming made to me ;—aud that whatever observe-
lion I might make upon it, was to be repotted to
your Lordship. What I observed upon it was io
substance, that it way not for me to presume to say
what change would he proper ; that I had done a!!
that I had thought myself either called epos or at
liberty to do, in stating to the Duke of Portland
my ,opinions, and toy intentions to resign ; that
the Duke of Portland alone could either propose
any ch;tngc or obtain the necea'ary authority for
carrying it into effect; and that I therefore reelm_
mended that your Lordship should state your lug.
gestion to the Doke of Portland.

Al s.—On the sth of May the D•ike of Putt-
land informed mu, that he had determined to
the uh.,le subject on the fOlowing ‘Vedtiosdsy
before his Maje Sty.
111.% lu,—on Wednesday EilUiOth of May, ho
informed me that he had done'hi ; and mat his
Mijesty hod been graciously pleasod to say, that
he Is uidd take the subject into hi: serious cousi-
deratiiin.

MA Y 31.—0 n Wednesday, the 31st of May,
apprehending it to be possible, that my intention
might nut have been fully esplained to his Majesty,
and thinking it tny duty to here no doubt upon it,
I huinhltrepeatill to his: Majesty the repiesenta-
tious whl bad before mule to the Duke of
Pottlkidl, tad humbly tendered my resignation.
reeeiied thereupon his Majeoy's 'ratios. cool_
weds to retain my situation until his Majesty
Ilsoold have considered the whole saliject.
Just B.—Some time in the course of the next
week, I think on the Bth of Juste, the Duke of
Portland stated to me, that he had received his
Majegitys commands to propose, and to carry
into effect, at the end of tie Session of Parliament,
an art:tugs:meat for a partial change in the War
Department.

particefars of this arrangement I do not
think it • proper to detail; feeling it my duty to
limit myself strictly to what Is absolutely notes-
awry for the explanation ef my own conduct. It
is sufficient its state, that the object of this Sr.
rangemeat was not the removal of Lord Castle.
reagh, but a new distribution of the twines of
the War Departmetit, whereby that part of it
which was connected with political corresponaletree
would have twee transferred to the Foreign Of-
fice ; and the business of another office, thon va-
cant, would have been trinsferved to Lord Cu..
thsreagh. It is only neeessary to add, that the
effect of this new distribution would not have been
to take out of Lord Cesilereagh's hands the su.
perititendene.. ,st. the Expedition to the Scheldt.
JUNE 13.• • -')t, the 13th of June, I wrote to
the Duke .4 P..% ilaud, signifying to him that, al-
though such an arrange emit had Arvier entered
into my contemplation, and although I did not
think it cAlcislated to remedy all the difficulties
which had induced nisi to hung the state of the
. Administration under his Grace's consideration, I
was ready, so far as I was concern. d, to under-
take and discharge, to the best of my ability. any
detrwhich his Maj sty might begracieusly i.leased
to devolve nisei. nie ; but I repres.ied al the is Ile
time great.‘44uubts, whether this arrangement
court beespeeted to be acceptable to Lord God...
reagh, or, inell its parts, satisfactory to the pub-
lic feeling. •
JUNE •18.—On Sunday, the 18th of June
(Parliament beill 7. Pi INC t..il to rise un the 20th or
slat), 1 wrote to the Duke ofPortland, to inquire
whether this arrangement, or any other, was to
take place ; stating to him, that " if things re-
mained the) then were, I was determined nut
to rt main in office."

Jura avower, the Dike of Portland
menti 41 to Inc a nen plan of arrangement, Akio-
gether. different from that which he hsd been au-
thorized to carry into effect ; and stated. that he
had sent fur your Lordship, and the other Member
of the Cabinet with whom your Lordship and thu
Dyke of Pas tland had been in constant communi.
colon, to co-opciate with him, in forwarding this
new plan, and to urge Lord Castlereagh- to con.
sent toil.

The particulars of this new plan I do not think
. it sieressiry to state, as I learut from the Doke of
Port land,'eftlierthe neat day, ur the day follow-
ing it, that to this plan Lord Castlereagh Certainly
could nut be brought to agree. Whether this was
*steno to tti Grace oily from your Lordship, or
' through your Lordship, from Lord Castlereagh
himself, L was not apprized.
JUN a 21.---On Wednesday, the 21st, the day
of the rising of Parliament, I was assured by the
Peke of Portland, that the specific arratlement
which he had in the first instance proposed, vir-
ijei new distribution of the business of the War
Department, 'should be carried Into effect; and
'that his Wits'', had directed *him to desire your
Lordship to communicate his decision to Lord
Castlereagh.
Joist Toestlay, the 27th, finding that
no communication o• I been yet made to Lord
Castlereagh, I wrote .o the Doke of Poetised,
sit terms of the strongest reitutistrattre, both
aping the concealment and the delay t amt intl.
rnated'lny derertbination to recur to soy ~riginal
intention,, lo press the acceptatxt olt ay re.signet um
tire 28.—Accordintly, on the following tlay,
Walnesday, the 28th ul June, 1 had in audience
..asf.' Ike King, in w hich I humbly and earnestly
kritpested to his Majesty, the tender of my resig-
Ration.

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