The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-03-26 00:00:00

N4/AL INTICLLIGRYGg.

Dui., Mottos 45.—Cabe down from the River
yesterday and masts the BoasMy Merchant, Clark-
"Of for B•obs, P4lflBes. Divey, for elm South
Soso; and Gesersl Brock, its.. 'Borbs4oes.—Arrived
this morniss sad silted for the Rim the Cteties.
Joao, from Charleston, with loss of sot umber and
able, hulas bees on shove on the French coast, bat
Rot of by the sigistapco of same French fishermen,
sod brought into the 'Downs. Al.. arrived, the Ell.
&goose, Boyd, from Belfast; and several others,
nestesonknown.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 45.—Arrived the Sir S.
Lashington, frost tke Downs for Boa.
bay ; Charlotte, Peterson, sod Johannes. Kande,
frogs do. for Cadis ; aid Peter, Ilesdrieg, from Kos.
took, for Livetpool.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 23.--Seiled the Nodes
ictim, with Mails, for the Leeward blands, but has
kat back egais. The Neptune' Browning, host'
rimiest's for Liverpool, with China clay, which
tot In befit Inky a few days Mau, is discbarsing bet
RerßO Is repair.
Livanectot., Mast.. 24,—Tbo Mary, MsGooghy,
Iron Pert Ballasting for Liverpool, is totally lost;
vow and borer saved.—Arrived oho Atlantic, Mel-
lott, horn Nu r York, sailed Feb. 46, : en lite 6th
test. In I.' 3R. long. 60., spoke that Ann, Crockh,

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Irmo *wee for New York ; she had two struck by
• Ihiliteieg the day before ; the fad♦ Banks, from Cal.
mita far London, sailed Nov. 23, in company with
• the George Canning; the Hyperion of Whitby,
paused ep the River the same day, ender jury fore
end mein•topeuats.
A 'MADSEN, ?sham 21.—The Elise, Davidson,
trim Seaderland to this port, with lime, took fire at
sea on the -- inst. ; three of the crew wiffocsied ;
tha Master only alive, who got the vessel into Holy
• Island. twiny burnt doom in the water,. odic
N'ativrt, hit sot 2-f•—=ibe Eaglet, Holt, of this
pert, got on Whitby Rock last night ; but was got off
eyrie, and into harbour, supposed mock damaged.

Extract of • letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at
fatirnlinr.d.ited March ii—" Ow the 1.1 net. it Hut eery hard
and florally from the N. W.. sad at richt the sited Imitated,
when toe Ravine ship Al,,.te Clan, awl the Poneearie
ling San Joan B.tptista, Esnetn•, were Arises en ibex to
. she southward of the Deson-loacoe, add miser ceardendole
.tanner ht the werels s the Boy reaming Cnsi of
each tuber. The Sao Jews Saporta easier oIT yesterday. and
SRO Okscr On. OefriNC• het a rheas very apparent materna
inowne. nid they make no water. On the ea oar vientiser 'no.
Berated, hot yesterday emorning she wind rutted In the 3. W.,
rod Mew very hard and Awaits iturric tie while tit roil night.
.The AneftChlt ieirtrentri resitiin. TA LON, and SweliA sloop
Moira. chaos, with a sown heashord, wens /rives im shore
at taeSpots. no mad• growl, fosse shore Wier are easier ed
ao'he goo a wither. draw. His Majesty's oak. t eakbe•ter
Mom tier coats cable.'
A Miter front Jersey of tiro 13th inst. says :-
46 The sentence of the General Ceort•Mariial,which
was held here in Assiut last' en the seven soldiers of
the 55th Regiment, who had attempted to desert to
France, was read to them on Tuesday lest, at Fort
Revel, in presence of all the troops of the garrison,
who tam assembled there for that purpose. Col.
se Byres, Royal F.ogioeers, oometatided the wade.
Fite of the poisoners were found polity of attempt.
lug to steal the boot of the Mathew le Breton, for
the purpose of conveying them away from the Island.
Two of these are sentenced to traasportation fur life;
two rollers, to 14 years traosportatios to Botany
Bay ; two ethers to receive each 10001*Am; cod
the other, who was sentenced to receive 700, was
pardoned on aerostat of Ma youth. Two of those
who were to receive 1000 lashes each, were tied op.
they reeeised 250 lashes each, when the Sergeon de-
claring they could not sopped a greater peaishaseat,
they were taken down. It is sopposed that they will
be forgiven the rest of their sentence, probably or
accoont of their long confinement. The soldiers
seateaced to transportation were sent to the public
prison, and front thence conveyed to England."
SCOTS BCRCII RETO3OI.-.--At a very fall hireling,
recently held it the Rays! Bergh of Jedbargh, the
Magistrate', Deacoos' and the Members of the Town
Conseil, *greed, with linty one dissentieet voice, to
petition Parliament for the Repeal of the Scots Act,
1469, and,* the adoption of mesh other measures as
may bo necessary for restoring to the Bergeson; the
right of electing the Migistratee and Colwell of the
different Bergin by open poll. They at the same
time &elated their ledivitioal wishes that setts a Re.l
form shoed by adopted,!es they deemed it 'modally
vieeessaty to the prosperity and peace of Scotland.—
Kelimbitrgit Cermet.)
A play is in contemplation, as soon at regular
steers-packets are established at the Leith and Den-
sine Ferries, to carry the Aberdeen mail hem Edin.
bergh thsongh Fife, by Comm, so as to reach Don-
dem by too instead of rig oielock ; sod Aberdeen by
12. o'clock the same sight* in place of four nest
morning, es at present. The Edinburgh mail by
Mode* will then reach Inverness et nine o'clock et
night, the day after leaving Edinbergk. and .111
proceed withost delay to'l'harso, and ties complete;
she mail.coach ceoveyance.frona London to. John
o'Great's Hone; by sslach means letters. pos.
wagers. and parcels, from Loudon, will reach Thurso
wit the fifth day, end race verse.
Aritcan Insetrurion.—WeJoesday a Meeting

of the ►lembers of this hesitation wit; held at the

Freemasons' Tavern. The Annual Report of the
• Directors of the Institotioo was reed. Lord GAM.
aura moved the Thanks of the Meeting to the Di-
rectors of the Institution, for their conduct during
the last yeer. The stollen was unanimously agreed
en. Th. Marquis of Burs was elected one of the
Yiee-Prealdesta, is the room of the tato Sir S.
HOIIILLT.
Jinn IlpsrisAu—Wirdeesdy evening, the Ansi-
wersory Festival of this buil-folios. was held at tee
City of London TIMM iliShOpligite.4lfOßt, the'
Doke of Suuzz in the &sir. The sobscripOoos
amounted to upwards of 10001.
ELICTION FOR FOWRY.—Esd of the second dorsi

Shy 2 I %rol.wselay

• May 26

United Priming, msamillot telinilird 11,101 hell
mangiest', and conliosed of the goridneat of the die-
poddions Which were not follewed. delimit* toorpela
me to throw • veil titer the ill sacrist at this 411.-
1 will weer make aseetioe of it unless rodiphfled{ iu
order to deer op my owe conduct. As for tI rest, I
ought to do justice to the troops est/aged, add Sufi-
bite in ill tortoise the disippointinent is the Piero-
lion of • plan which ought to bate produced the
most decisive esstsetieenres. In the sotnintime
,lhe Kind's vessel blivirta, taken by hoe of Ihir
Independent pritateers, btonght intelligerice that
an iremors 'Emend** hod hailed from Lima for
Chill, messurili were idsowillately toted fnr repel-
ling ibis new attack. Crew. Sad M setts ordered the
Army of the South to retire en Tali., sod that alt
the other disposable forces abound march to tits Etat
to loom a corps of observation. Timm cot divisions
of the army remised grimly in Me politinn which
they took op until the end of the month of February.
On the Ist of March the Army of the Mast. under
the commend of Brigadier.Gess• VALCARCIL allateh•li
on join that of the South, which took place oti oho
fhb, at San F do. ths the Iltb the stay was
concentrated in Chinstssreogo, and on the 1:;th ad-
vanced towards the enemy. Ust the 11th Gimeral
Ss* Mantis gave tag, the tonemand of atm cavalry,
bet three days afterwards, without my having hell
any opportunity of acting id that llteetiue, whether
from ioresitancy or uprise, or a plait hM id order
to liftable to attriblot• to me, its the opinion of. the
army, the grand errors whi;lt bad been constafttell.
he deprived me of that command; and left me with
nothing more than the appearance of the entployntetit
of Chief of the Staff, nominally a most importatit
shootings, bet in the ramie. of the authority
attached to It merely apparent. since it is cull
kaolin that he who really exerts It is Ilse srcond per-
son in every welborginised army.
This is in conformity with the priociples which
regalste the service, sad which point out and tie the
ditties of all those Pb, compose an army. since the
General Stair is a service which insures the co-opera-
tioupfola. others, ciamiffet the various authorl.
tiegsrepp lifles the most complicated operations of
wearily: Hot in order shot this may be the case, it
Is amaissary for there to esist a perfect ciiiifldonee arid
intimacy between the General-hi-Chief and the Chief
of the Staff..in order that the latter may posSyss the
requisite billoencio,which he never coo enjoin unless
the army sees that person hie* yfed with its Chief;
bit it will Mien be pert:Mild that that was not the
case with es.

Doan the whole cempeigti Ate pannier] Ins
power than I did ? whose orders ►ate been treated
with greeter contempt ? whose alltborily has been
more despised, as well his advice, traperience, sal
the dignity of his character; ai,d what Were lb.
motives? Why, ea a sodden, was a General Oi•
Ler, distinguished amongst t►e troops for his ectivity,
providing whatever was necessary to them; and reodet
an army respectsble, dismissed? How can sick inj ureic*
be justified. which se clearly ;novo the weakness of
the author? Any enespected succest cannot justify
the relexation of the discipline of the troops, (hid
never proceeds except from vanity and igoorance. I
well knew that in some actions success is doe to se-
p►riority of number, but such victories are epheme-
ral and unimportant ; with these then grand resells
Cr. never obtained. which are acquired by sterling
'a'••ttt end skill. Thus also we have seen Generale
*oh less than even a middling share of sea sad merit
surreosfel ; bat these have ever left undecided the
grind object of the war, notwithstanding lb.
advantages they Mosier& This proceeds heel
their limited ideas, which keep their in dark-
nese, end do not allow them to petrels that in war-
fare nothing is dare whilst soy thing remains to big
done, when others often resolve the problem in one
single campaign. In • word, during the whole time
that I have reit:slued le the United Province",
what blame can be laid to me? Hove I •vet
disdsined to set an •sample of courser. and ve-
lour in the actions which hove taken piece? Hare
I not been seam in every danger in the midst of the
enskilfel tirsilleuro. whore I freqsently /sight how
to take aim, marching at their Amid, reconnoitring
the enemy, counteracting his schemes, making dia.
panitiona, carrying I RIM into execution, and attack-
ing the enemy whenever an opportunity occurred?—
Although a General cilkeer without a command, a
Chief of the Staff without setkority, have I been foe
a single es•msat 'active? Penetrated with grad-
lade towards the country which bed hospitably re.
mired me, fall of respect and regard for its Go.
vernment, have not my principles beers coincident
with my conduct ? Let us return to the "Teets of
the campaign in which I hate anted in ibis part of
Astarte'. On the 13th of Marti the troop, eider
the command of Geeer•l lee Mauna quitted lisle
encampment at Sea Fernando, and Molt ep a peels
lion on the broken ground celled Piettelers I kid
marked out • position en this side the drill% platting
that obstacle between es and the enemy; Wit General
SAN MARTINI, *II the contrary, chose that the army
should post itself wit► the broken ground in its test.
On the 14th we matched towards the river Tears,
which oar army crossed at four P. M., and ender
the orders of Gen. SAX MARTIII committed the grand
error of 'gain taking up a panties wit► the river fm
our rear. How often did l not point out lbe 'dna*
sages which • vigilant antagonist might o►tain over
os
is such • polities., were he centinoilly welching
our movements, and if his skill god boldness model-
ed an enespecteil smock front him dangerous.
On the 15th, before day-break, our troops march.
ed and halted, at length : lists once it was by the
right bank of the river Lorna, that is, en the hither
side, consequently the two armies were separated by
it. On the 16th, at II A M., nor tromps crossed
the river at • ford, and bolted at Qeecheregisava On
the 17th they again advanced, awl encamped one
league to the south of the Casturien. The enemy
ecropied a very fine position near thig place, ets that
the armies were in sight of each other. On the 15th
I went alms, an a reeerinnissance, in ord.r to ehserear
the enemy'. dignatitiono and strength. Whilst I was