The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-10-27 00:00:00

I.l"i'EltCEri'EL) PAP.EII.

,fheh,t conc..% aucc brought the follov;ing paper,
5341 to it:ISC been a copy of, M4SSEN A'S
or ror att.R.::: coon the British lines, intercepted
0, it, ~ iv to one of the French Generals. The
the c I.=st prigriphs love little reasou la doubt
It is of Eng'isli manufacture.

;l()!AT I ATE (MI)US.
ptents. C•ievri:nitt:N.
/.. 'To!' 1/1 .N'apot•un. I.r 171,:n tie I.i<honne.
ihtl;e of L 5.114 1:N is inforilled that the
the enemy's f,rces is as follows:--
is stated to he at Allenguan, and the line of de-
11e
i• continued along On river to the left, at Torres
rt., The foititicd heights near this town are strong
r ltui-c, pecaliorly strong by art, as they were
by French l•ln4iiieei•s, under the superintend-
,•id the Duke of A nit ANTES, when he forced Lord
:.1.15t.r0S to siga the capitulation of Cintra.
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'itemised, the (dicers will feel the nece7;sity of
etiergy,:tol inviriog the troops with the utmost

l'aiisol.
•• • whole chain of the enemy's posts ts ill he attacked
to tell; and the different divisions ss ill he so ma-
: to conceal the principal and real points of attack,
will hr nn the right division of the enemy's left wing,
3.11 the frit dieisbn of his right wing.
oOf the i9.1"-J0 men in the Emperor's Army, 35,000 will
of (looted to breaking the British line in the two points sped-
conk qui eoute. The right column, tinder General Loisox,
1. v 1,1; the left, General 111 ca Li:, '2J,000. They are to be
d,ussil Up hi Solid columns of attack, one platoon in front, the
in the leading platoons. The G.Nwrals commanding co-
.o lb will elide tvoar to screen their troops from the enemy's
Oit approaching the British line they will order the
charge to tiounel, aad the Ist battalions to rush forwards;
mast be followed by battalion after battalion, even to the
tett! dearuction of the column, should the Allies stand firm so
ton_, n:ach is impossible.
u Of Cr remaining 43,000 troops ; all the infantry are to be
dr.tirn up ,n as to attack the allied troops from Hank to flank,
0:1 dhn kill sn engage the attention of the army, and distract
oe Generals, as to kinder their detaching reinforcements to the
diusintrspart;eularly pressed.
0 The General; will take care that the Commissariat sup-
pile: a proper portion of brandy to the troops: if they ask for
Lend, they are to he told that they will find enough within
tie English lines. The plunder of Lisbon is promised.
o The wooncled are to he left on the field as they fall : the
ruin are fo:Ukidcn, on pain of death, to quit their ranks to assist
then.
" 'The Generals will remember not to attack any particular
rornoiese rerinient, as the English at the battle of Busaco
elided s:aeral Lnglish and Scotch regiments in Portuguese
Itifmr:, to entrap us. This ruse must not succeed twice.

" RECAPITULATION.
LITT COLUNIN• RIGHT COLUMN.
v t:LL, '20,000 LoICIN, 15,000.
1,1.:FT WING. RIGHT WING.
RE:INIERt 11,000. NE Y, 12,000.

CENTR E.
Duke of ESSLIN GEN, 10,001) ith the grand park.
RESERT E.

Duke of ADRANTICS, with all the Cavalry and fteserve of
As.i,lcry. (Signed) " ESSLINGEN."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 26.—The Baltic fleet has
began to leave that cheerless and inactive place.
Admiral Reynolds arrived this morning in the St.
George, 98, Captain Gwin; with the Formidable)
9d, and Theban frigate.
Arrived the Gannet, Captain Stevenson ; and
the Charger, Lieutenant Blow, from a cruise.
Sir Francis Lafoiey is gone to Plymouth, to hoist
his flag in the Dragon, 74, Capt. Forest. On his
arrival at the Leeward Islands, Sir A. Cochrane
takes upon him the Government of Martinique.

PLYMOUTH, OCT. 25.—Came iu the Royal Oak
and Armada, of 74 guns each, from Torbay.
Arrived the North Star sloop of war; the Peg-
' cock and Goldfinch sloops of war, frum a cruise.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.
„Dm_

The pleasing Opera of The Woodman was per.
f)raied here last night. Mrs. Dtmoss sustained
tic part of Emily with all her wonted ability ; she
was in excellent voice, and was loudly and de-
Emedly applauded. INCLEDON, in Wilford, sung
sacommouly well, and was loudly encored in the
Streamlet. BLANCHARD was a very respectable
substitute for MUNDEN in Sir Waller. The other
characters were as usual tolerably well sustained.
la the last act some delay occurred in the ar.
chery wen°. TAYLOR. and INCLEDON did not ap-
r•L• when they were expected, and this called forth
laud hi..3es, which, on the entrance of the latter
scale seconds after TAYtoit, increased to a tumult,
aid " Off, off!" was fondly thundered forth from
the pit nil galleries. On this, INCLEDON intre-
pilly advanced to the front of the Stage in the
midst of the storm, bowed, and appeared to solicit a
hearing. Silence being obtained, he addressed the
audience in Cie following manner :
" For twenty year,i, I am bold to my, the stage has never
faiwri one flan; hi:' me.—Upon my soul I wus nut called.—
I ran 5aV MI more, and I ask your pardon."

His air all manner admirably corresponded with
the words of this honest address. It was received
with great good }Nu-war, and all again was harmony.

The King of PRUSSIA has made application to
the Emperor ALEXANDER to use his influence with
flotsAp,tare for the preservation of the remnant of
his dominions. The feeble ALEXANDER is not
likely to interfere, as he will soon have enough to
do to take care of own territories.

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Lieutenant-Colonel KEATING, and the force
!epilog under him, will share much prize-money by
the capture of the Isle of Bourbon, as will Admi-
ral Itowtry also, as having the naval command on
that station. Its chief produce is cotton of the
best sort, and excellent colfee. The enemy's ships
sometimes made a successful iskts with those articles,
}Lit his supply from that quarte.r is now cut off.
Sir GILBERT and Lady BEATIICOTE yesterday
gave au elegant dinner at their house in Grosvenor-
Hluare, to the Duke and Duchess of ST. ALBANS,
Lady M.tay BEAUCLERKF Mr. and Mrs. DALRYM•
Pr.r) Mr. SHERIDAN, Mr. BERKELEY CRATEN)and
JOUN KEMBLE, &c.

THE VETO.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.
Sta,—l resume the observations on the let.
to from Bath, signed, "AN ENGLISH CA.
THOLIC," which I began in mine to you of the

19th current. This writer mentions it as a thing
" well known," that the object of the intended
A RR A NG EM ENT for a Ministerial controul over
the appointment of our Bishops, &c. is to secure
your Church, by putting a stop to controversy and
proselyting on the part of ours. In effect, since
my last landing in England, I have heard of no.

thing so frequently as of the necessity there now is
of a liberal, tolerating, and conciliatory spirit be.
green the members of the two religions. But, let
me ask, if this spirit is so necessary, ought not this
to be reciprocal ? If so, I ask your Correspondent
from Bath, whether he and his friends have stipu-
lated for any and what Arrangements for binding one
party us well as the other ? Has he conditioned
that no more Histories of the Inquisition (with
which we have no more to do than you have with
the burning of the Arians and Anabaptists, in ELI.
ZABETII and JAMES'S reigns), of Foe's Book of
Martyrs, and of the numerous other intolerant
and inflammatory books against Catholics, which.
have appeared in much greater numbers of late than
heretofore, shall be published; or, at least, pa-
tronized by Ministry ? Has he covenanted that the
blood.stirring sound of the glorious and immortal
memory shall no more be echoed, at least with the
approbation of Government, on our shores ; and.
that no more worship shall be paid to a certain
graven image on College Green ; and that the bon.
fires shall no more blaze, nor the calumnies and un-

charitable invectives contained in the Established
Service, and the Anniversary Sermons of the sth
of November, shall no longer be poured' forth
to ignorant multitudes throughout the empire,
to inspire them with hatred against us ?—llas
he obtained a promise that the 30001. per annum,
which, a little time ago, was taken off from
Manooth, and added to the former enormous
public fund for buying up our children, and edu-
eating them in sentiments of hostility towards their
parents and relations, shall be given back ; and
that the most violent of our enemies, Dr.
DUIGENAN, who, about the same time, was made
a Privy Councillor, and sent over to regulate
the ecclesiastical concerns of Ireland (in which ca.
pacity he will have the exercise of whatever
VETO, or other religious ARRANGEMENT may
chance to be established), shall be struck off the
list, as our friend CHARLES Fox was ? Without.
these and similar Arrangements, on your side, Mr.
EDITOR, it will be all concession and sacrifice ou
ours, and we shall continue to feel that your
preachments to us about liberality, and toleration,
and conciliation, are a mere mockery. But, Sir,
we have to complain of heavier acts of increased
intolerance on the part of those who claim a new
power of confront over our religion, than those
alluded to above; and such, as it concerns the ge,
neral welfare, that they should be made known to
the Legislature and the Public. It seems then as
if Ministry were, at the present time, bent upon
carrying on a Crusade for the extirpation of Po-
pery in all those countries in which, formerly, it
most prevailed. It is a fact which falls within my
certain knowledge, that our Catholic brethren,
who form nearly half the British Army in Sicily,
are not allowed by their Commanding Officers the
exercise of their religion, even at the article of death ;
no, not even when they are dying of wounds which
they have suffered in fighting for their King and
Country ; notwithstanding there is a respectable
Clergyman, Father KENNY, and other Irish Priests,
residing on the Island, who are willing and desirous
to afford theta gratuitously their charitable as.
sistance. This persecution exists in consequence,
as it is alleged, of instructions from England.—
It exists, I say, in the Catholic Island of Sicily, and
it existed in Italy itself, till NIvRAT, who, like his
master, NAPOLEON, tolerates all religions in order
to render them all subservient to his political views,
drove us out of that Peninsula. Such also was the
case in Spain and Portugal, during the time that
Sir JOHN MOORE commanded our army in the
Western Peninsula. Dr. CROTTY, President of
of the Irish College, in Lisbon, and other Catholic
Priests (who, by-the-bye, bad refused a noble este.
blishment in Paris, which the French Government
had offered them), presented a Memorial to that
brave and humane hero, requesting permission to
attend gratuitously their sick and wounded Catholic
countrymen of the army in its march into Spain, as
they had done in the hospitals of Lisbon. Sir
Joust admired their humanity and disinterestedness,
but said that lie was obliged to submit the tlccLion
of the question to his Staff and to the Chaplains, an
unusual number of whom, under a Dean, had been
sent out by Ministry with the Expedition. The
answer was in the negative, in consequence of the
well-known intentions of the said Ministry. We
all know the melancholy fate of the Expedition,
which might have been far otherwise, had there
been a real exercise of that liberality and toleration
of which such lofty professions are now made. For
do you suppose, Sir, that the Spaniards, and Por-
tuguese, and Sicilians, and Italians,' whose good will
and co-orration it was so essential to secure, were
either ignorant or infeasible of the bigotry iu ques.

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firm ? When this, to ether with the irreligious and
immoral behaviour of the British officers and men,
are taken into consideration, what wonder that
'those several Catholic inhabitants should have given
us such a lame and equivocal support as they have
done; and that, in some instances, they shook! ,
have appeared to hesitate between submitting to the
English or to the French ? Now that I am upon
this subject, I will go back to the affair of Buenos
Ayres. It is well known that our troops, when
they first landed there, were received as friends, and
were allowed to occupy the city and neighbouring
country without opposition ; and that afterwards
they were expelled, and absolutely conquered, by
these raw Creoles ; and that such was their anti.
pathy to us, that they would have died to the last
man, as one of our Generals testified, rather than
permit us to exist amongst them. Though this
change in the minds of the inhabitants surprised
many, yet the cause of it did nut transpire, even
upon General WIIITELOCKL'S ilial. However, it
became sufficiently plain to the inhabitants of the
Cove of Cork, when they saw the loads of chalices,
crucifixes, and other church.plate, which the sol.
diers, who had been upon the Expedition, offered
for sale there ; and when they heard the account
of the conduct of the army in general, with respect
to the religion and moral habits of that Catholic
country. One article, a large crucifix of gold, set
with pearls, which belonged to the Cathedral, had
been redeemed by the inhabitants, and the ransom.
money paid, ia the presence of certain great Offi-
cers. Having been restored to its place, on the
faith of this public convention, it was a few days
afterwards again seized upon, and actually brought
away to Europe. But what matters such a trifle,
some great folks will say, it was only preventing
Papists from exercising their idolatry !
I return to my subject, and assert that, till we
see the genuine and substantial fruits of a uniform
tolerance and liberality in our regard, it is mockery
to preach these up to us. I will add, that if the
question be to secure the Established Church, in Ire.
land, from the inroads and depredations of other re.
ligionists, there is much more reason to provide
Vetos and Arrangements for controuling the li.
ccnces of Methodist Preachers, than fur the copse.
cration of Catholic Bishops. As matters stand,
every enthusiast who fancies he has a call to preach
the word of Gon, is entitled to a licence fur this
purpose, on paying a shilling. On the other hand,
it is notorious that for one proselyte drawn away
from the Establishment by our Clergy, fifty arc
alienated from it by the Methodists. The depre.
datiuns of these upon the Establishment are so
enormous, that there is reason to believe that very
soon hardly any serious Protestaats of the Estab.
lishment will he left in IrelatA, except those imme-
diately connected with the Church or the State.—
But I perceive that I most again break the thread of
my argument, and that you inrnt be troubled with
a third Letter, fur the purpose of finishing the
subject taken by
Your humble Servant,
AN IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC.
Bristol, Oct: 41

Mr. Br.tett, the late Governor of Botany Bay,
and his family, have arrived at Portsmouth, from
New South Wales. They came in the Ilindostan
man of war.
Sir CHARLES BRISRkI,IF, Governor of St. Vin-
cent's, is arrived in town front that island.
Some vessels sailed on Thursday front Portsmouth,
for Lisbon, but very few troops went out in them :
from whence it is inferred, that Government consi.
der that Lord WstustoTos's present force is ade.
quate to its purpose ; or that reinforcements now
sent out could not arrive in awe to be of use.
Extract of a letter from Gibraltar, dated 29th
September :--" I think that thO'French affairs are
daily declining in Spain : the immense desertion
must ruin any army. In a few months we have bad
upwards of 5000 of the finest German deserters, en-
listed for our army, passing through this place
alone; and Colonel It —, who arrived here from
Carthagena, a few days ago, told me that 24 Officers
and 700 men had come over from the French the
night before he sailed."
Lord Chief Justice DowNEs has signified his in.
tention of retiring from the Court of Kiug's Bench,
in Ireland, and the Solicitor-General,. Mr. BUSIIE,
is nominated for his successor.
The Archbishop of Punr:lF, we are concerned
to state, continues so severely affected by his spas-
modic disorder, as to render his recovery extremely
doubtful in the opinion of his Grace's Physicians.
The Marquis of DOWNSHIRE has recently given
a champetre entertainment to the whole neighbour.
hood of Ililsborough Castle, in the County of pown,
to celebrate his coming of age. Three immense
oxen, and four times as many sheep, were roasted
whole in the Park on this occasion. Nut less than
five thousand persons partook of this repast, which
was exhilarated by the full flow of 40 hogsheads of
strong beer. All the principal families of the Coun-
ty became his Lurship's delighted guests at this joy-
ous festival.
On Tharsday se'nnight, the friends of Sir Wm.
Guru:, in the neighbour!lood of Chelteuluim, dined
together at the George lonl.where the venerable and
initEh-reSpeCIU:I Mr. DF. La lliie, presided. The
party, uldeh was of great respectability, consisted of
about seventy ; and the utmost harmony and con-
viviality prevailed, until the breaking up of the meet.

ing.
A sanguinary battle, which lasted an hour and
a half in linsy combat, took pla,:e yesterday, on
Putney Heath, betwixt two men of superior
strength, of the names of BettlN an►l Gros;:enor,
for ten guineas a side, in consequence of a quarrel.
The combatant.: were both so severely beat, that
Grosvenor died in a cart on his way to Chelsea.

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- THE HARVEST.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.
Old Wind.ur, Oct. `26, 1810.
Strt,—With a latitude of thought, common to
all men capable of thinking, I have always conii.
tiered Te Deums and Public Thanksgivings for vic.
tories obtained, as an indecency I:„llestren, by pre.

soming to enlist the Divine Author of the Universe

our dirty squabbles for an inch of territory, more

or less, and supposing Him to be (he umpire in our

sanguinary conflicts. This sort of devotion is much

nearer allied to hypocrisy than to piety, and is, in
point of fact, either blasphemy, or nonsense ; but

the Hymn of Gladness offered to the GREAT CRE.

♦TOR, for what is a common benefit to all His crea-
tures, argues a commendable sense of gratitude, and
is a tribute in which all men are bound to join.
The Order of Council fur a prayer to the Divi.
nity on grateful acknowledgement for the abundant
harvest bestowed upon us this year, has piety for
its basis; and in this prayer all, except those to
whom scarcity, whether real or artificial, is alone
a harvest, will, I am sure, most cordially join.
This attention on the part of Government to our
religious duties has its merit, and is doubly
recommended to our notice by the protection
it directly affords the country against the tricks
and contrivances of 'Mark-lane. You may be
aware, but I very much question whether the
great bulk of the nation is aware, that the whole
corn-trade of the country is concentrated in about
twenty-four or twenty.six opulent houses, and that
the Corn-factor 3 in the vicinity of the metropolis
regulate the price of grain all over the kingdom.
We have felt repeatedly the cruel effects of their cu-
pidity or avarice. We know that they have fre.
quently combined to raise the price of bread-corn ;
and when hunger has driven a famished peasantry,
our mechanics, and manufacturers, to take summary
justice on these worst of assassins, they have called
out the Yeomanry and Volunteer Corps to dra.
goon the beggared race into a submission to their
merciless exactions, and impudently set the claims of
humanity at defiance. In the years 1803 and 1804,
when the crops of barley were so luxuriant and
abundant, that the farmers, in many parts of
England, declared that it would. be down to
twelve shillings the quarter, recourse was had to
feed their horses with barley ; nor was this the only
abuse which was made of Heaven's bounty to the
earth. This year we are told, by Royal Authority,
that the harvest has been every where so richly
abnndant, as to call for public thanksgiving
to the ALMIGHTY—Iet us see, whether the
Corn-factors arid Millers throughout England
will dare, by their combinations, to give the
lie direct to the Royal Proclamation, and with.
hold, as they have frequently done, GOD'S good.
ness front his creatures. Let us see whether they will
dare to contradict the gracious assurances of their
Sovereign, formally and officially announced by his
Majesty in Council, of a plentiful harvest; and in
defiance of these assurances under the sign Manual,
make us feel the effects of a real scarcity by their
tricks and contrivances. I am satisfied that this
measure, founded in wisdom and benevolence, and
appertaining to that piety in which hypocrisy can
' have no share, has struck terror into the whole ne.
farious herd of Corn.tleaLrs, from the man who is
said to have accumulated half a million sterling in

that trade, to the body of Bakers, some of whom
add to the afflictions of the poor, by cheating
them in the weight as well as in the quality of the
bread they sell to them.-1 am sure that this Order
of Council, issued at Windsor, will have as good au
effect as if the entire crops of the Ukraine had been
imported from the Baltic in excellent condition ;
and that the gentry who give the Meal weighers in
London their lesson, will be 'careful not to fly
in the face of that authority under which we may
all contend, that no justifiable plea exists for
keeping up the price of bread to its present stand.
ard, much less to increase it.
I am Sir, your humble servant,
JASPER JONES.

Lord IlinTuvuTox, who has passed the summer
at the ancient family castle of Lismore, in Ireland,
is so pleased with the delightful scenes which it
affords, as to have pot the Castle into complete re.
pair, intending to make it his regular summer rest.
dekc in future.

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From the Police account, in our last page, we
are very happy to pay the just tribute of praise to
the-Officers in that department, by whose vigilance
we find that almost thirty of those miscreants who
had indisputably been hired fur the purpose of ex.
citing disturbance, had been. taken into custody.
Mr. TowNsteo, Bath King at Arms, was the first
complainant at Bow-street ; and to his exertion
much is owing, for the mob, however excited,
seemed determined on mischief and riot.
The custom of throwing squibs and letting off
1 crackers in the streets has become an intolerable
nuisance. Wherever there are any idle illumina-
tions, a number of fellows assemble, and others at.
tend with links. The latter retail crackers and fire.
works, which call for the notice of the constables
and the officers of Police. One fellow in Catha.
rine-street, boasted that he sold four guineas worth
of fireworks, on Thursday night, many of which
were thrown into the neighbouring houses, and
created perpetual alarm. Should the illuminations
in Catharine-street be ever again repeated, we ad.
vise the Insurance Offices to have fire-engines on the
Ispot, to prevent the mischief chat otherwise is likely
lia ensue.

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