The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-10-19 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

The Pinter of yesterday has an article to ehew, 15,000 men, tu cut off the French General with
th,tt nothing can be more promising them the situa. 60,000 ? If such conclusions are to be made from
tiun of the Allied Army, to Purtogal, nor any thing facts like these, we may hate hope when we will,
inure perilous than that of IsIASSENA. The Day and at us cheap a rate as we please! The nestthing
has a tong piece of reasoning which 0114 to the that is stated in' The times is, that MassertA, with
same paint ; that is to say, if its sense cans; made au inferior army, has nothing fat the ground it
outlatsd Vwe heveuut Isilittprelteaded itsmeaning. covers. Wally if this were reversed, there would be
T,lsis is a, ;subject of importstsee., It is .not, some truth in it ! My ford W. (at the time of his
only Mil Ili. public reelini is ireetly internistd to fast dispatch) had nothing, but the ground his army
it, but it ileo involves mattertlosely connected 'with-covered, 'and the road to the coast; and even how
the public welfare.. It may ;cells to many, that thare 'long we will freserve the latter, it is difficult to say.
is no gryat harm, if too satiriste cspectetiops of , Mosso*. bad very nearly reached Coimbra before
success be cached in the poblic Mied i indeed, souse the Allied Army.. end as it was, the result of his sod.

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do act es if they had fully tiomo to that tom:laden.
' But in the case 'f this war, st lc4st, thy harm
great. It is t tip itope and ferment in the public
mind, assidmoualy and faccfssfully kept np, how.
ewer Often disappointed, that has enabled Ministers
to drag the natloti•ons through a war more disas-
trous than any that England ever saw, and a war
that moist - end in the subjugation of England,
if long persisted in. It is .for, this reason, that
a. have ali along dissected the hopes held out
to the nation, by some of the Journals ; and
we believe, we have not been unsuccessful in
'sheaving, that these hopes were treaCherous, and
,that nothing but an almost miraculous combination
of chances conk", tr....passibility. realize them. We
beihtsie .we did this to the satisfietion of every
',candid mind; nod may we not add,
.that the facts
have borne qs out ?—With respect to the article in
The Times, to. %Aid we have, alluded, we aro
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soil, we cannot give it entire to our-Readers. In
the eztravegatice of hoPe, it 'exceeds a l things
that we ever .savr, it Ms • exceediugly

'in• the:impacting and facts that should have ac.
coaipinated and sanctioned that indulgence of pas.
sion. The canelpslon,' however, which the writer
conies to; is all that we .can now quote, and that

we feet it necessary to do so at some length.—" But
" now observe," says the writer, " what tower.
" ing hopes open to us, which the courtiay may
44 indulge, we may say, with the most perfett con.
44 fidence : 111ssserts is, at this moment, in a situa.
64 tion somewhat similar to, but much worse than
44 Lord WELLINGTON'S former ye; let us see
46 how he extricates himself Is on a remote
64 frontier; and with an ittreriokarmy, and**
" army wick pothing but the gr4nl it coveillivol
" Lurd IVrLLINGToN stated in his dispatches;
46 while his Lordship had an open and friessily
46 country to retire through. 'llia original 70,4100
44 French, exclusive of' all = ?ther &deed*, •
" sunk by the single battle of Busaco to 6NOOO ;
64 and supposing 'any fresh supplies tct, hate ar.
14 rived from France, yet these, and more, must be
"6 expendeti upon the garrisons of the captured
" towns, and in supplying the places of those who
" fell in thoitapture of them. Against theie SIXTY
4t Tssousssn, if there are in truth so many, the Bri.
" tiab Generalis able to bring into the field TUIRTY-
-4C s:x TIIOUSAN English, and rORTY-FIV!: THOU.
44 ss so Portegnskie troops of the line, the latter tried
" and' found worthy of contending in the ranks
4‘ with the former in all, lIIGUTY.O/111 TUOUSAND
64 men. 'there arc brisies these, the Portuguese Ali.
44 11113, 11 IT-POURIIIOII3ANDIa number, and the
" Ordenauza; whom: Lord 'VO. describes as ha,-
ing harassed the flanks and rear Or MASSENA'S
" army, (even) in his advance from Celorico to
" how will th 4 infest him in his retreat ?
" His communication with Almeida, too (as his
-" Lordship's dispatches likewise inform us), is
''" completely cut off.' To these circumstances
" must be added the natartl despondency created
44 in the minds of his men by, the Opal overthrow
8' at Busaco, wherein they lOstfnare than a seventh
if part, more than, half a quartkr, of their whole
46 belly. Lord WELLt Not ex rttreated before an
45 an army that had not defeatuti him, and that
4‘..eould not defeat him ; BilAssr,n will •have. to
" *wive front one by which he has' been afraid"
“eicaten."
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First of all, here are troops enkOklied against.
Al tsstNA, to an extent wc never Wore rd
in all eightpone thousand men.! Bet will bits
all these cue sound men and !fuel andltheo, we
hove only to say, that Lard WOLINVIYAN 111 a very
bad General if he does not place this immense force
between the Fnetscu and'Sratx, and drive iti(o the
sea the man who came to put him there. However,
plat sots
forces at my Lerd Witta.t.sottts's dispksi.
S,iss be what they may; and let us leave him, tit
thefts in positions, or come out and fall upon
. the beaten and reduced enemy, as he pleases, the
main thing we have to look at is—how comes
AlsssEss's situation to have suddenly reached that
state of deveratiun, after the battle of Bus' rico,
which is. above pictured? First, he is cat off from
.4toseida. whom ? Not by any part of my Lord
Wc.t.t.plovos's army ; fur they are on the prong
bank of the Mondego, on their progress towards the
Coact, and not towards Spain. IVell ! is it Col.
TRANT's division that hai cut mAisENA off from
Almeida ? Lord 1V EI.7;INGTON'S dispatch did not
even say where the Colonel was, after he returned
froni the North too laic to occupy Sardao, which
intended operation of oczupying that plaits was
meant by Lord W. to prevent MASSENA cutting him'
off from Cciimbra, instead of cutting the 'retiatt Of
from Spain. Lint if the Colonel could be found':
how are his levies; never stated at more than
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den niortnetit, by Sardao, will put hie ) itt poses-
lion of Cpinbref. Now, let these positions be looked
Kt, latimistan determine—w Ito it is, that has only
the ground his ermy covers? My 4ord WELitnp.
TO* berth* tor ong,Jfalsk of the Mondego (wrong, if
ho metus,todiryst MAsiteSto into any narrow straits),
and the road behind him to *coast, and Mats.
sgso has all the rest of Porto/ph soap, the small
spot that Colonel TRAM T may ocoupy, if he really
is found. Notwithstanding all this, The Times
comes at length to the following conclusion—Mas.
SENA will have to escape from an army by which he
has been already beaten ! We aced scarcely answer
that, after having taken a review, although a short
one, of the results, in position, of the battle of 80.
saco.—lt is stateby some Papers of to-day, that.the
Portuguese will destroy all their mills, and all pro.
11 visions they cannot carry off. But why do so, if
MASSENA wants to escaie? However, whatever
he wants, a whole people will never be persuaded
to destroy themselves and their families ; and, if they
leave themselves any thing to eat, we may well take

it for granted NlasseNA will have his soldier's share.
In a word, the picture of his distress, and the pic.
ture of our glorious prospects seem severally to be
very meretriciously coloured, and, like the arts of

harlots; may be very fatal to those who are capti.
vatetl:l4, them.

We have this day inserted a very able Letter from
an Old Officer, respecting the late battlein Portugal,
which claims particular attention. •

The accounts from Windsor this morning, seve.
ral having arrived, imtl all agree that the Yriticei
AMELIA had a very bad night ; and
.the last wh
arrived, at half-past one o'clock, stated that
Royal Highness was alive, but that all. •
It is said that Lord WELLINoTtis, in his lair'
dispatches, stated to Ministers, that it wa, his in.
teutien to Make labs principal stand at Torres Ve.
dras ; and that it Alpt, he cannot be
dislode,rdirom it. And ih the confidence that hit
army will remain forlhe.winteigin•Portugal, ortler.
were given on Monday last LT preparing and dis-
patching stores of every kind for their use.
Aloumouth Races were renewed on the 11th, af-
ter a cessation of 33 years. The sport was parti.
cularly gond. Mr. PEACM'S Barbara was winning
both the Members' Plates very easily, when shc
bolted each day at the same post,' and was distanced.
The company was very select, and the entertain.
moats, under the direction of Lord ARTUUR SO-
X Ensur and Sir C. MORGAN, Bart. the Stewara,
very grand.
On Friday evening, a Lady of the name of Sue.
LING (daughter of the late Admiral DICKSON), made
her first essay on the Bristol boards, in Janetta, in
False and True ; she sang in a very pleasing style,
and dues not appear deficient either in taste or exe-
cution.

BERLIN, SEPT. 24.—We learn from Memel, that
the Couni de Gottorp pas3ed through that place on
the 16th, and that he has arrived at the Russian
Custom-house at Polangen. The Officer of Police
who set out from thence to follow the route of this
Prince, had received orders to follow him closely
Owe place to place, and to watch him narrowly.
Ale had even particular orders and sufficient powers
.to prevent his embarkatiOn. It is said that Count
de Kalkreuth had informed a Foreign Legation of
the passage of Gustavus Adolphus, as soon as he was
informed of it, and that sumo hours afterwards
measures were taken to observe his proceedings.
Mira n., SEPT. lii..LThe Count de Getter!) ar.
rived here the day before yesterday, on hit way
from Koningsburg, having only a single domestic
accompanying Ilion. Ile :did not stop here, but
took the road which leads to Russia. Having ar-
rived at Polangen, he Was asked if he had a pass.
port from the Department for Foreign Affairs at
St. Petersburgh. lie had none, and he was nut per.
permitted to proceed. In.wai(ing the return of a
courier whom he had sent to St. Petersburgh, he re-
mains under the care of the Customs at Pulangen.
It is said that lie had gone. to Pilau, and that he
*as on board a vessel setting out from that port,
when a Prussian Commissary carne to oblige him to
diSembark. The Count then got into a passion,
and with a pistol in his hand charged him not to
interfere with his proceeding. But the Commis.
sary having observed to hint that he only acted from
'superior orders, the Count allowed hirntelf to be
fukett on shore. People here have no doubt that
114 wished to join the English cruizers, and that the
&Wish had formed a design of employing him as
an kiistrument to foment disturbances and anarchy
in the kingdom of Sweden, which they now see en-
tirely placed beyond the reach of their interests.

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Cotta EXCHANGE, OCT. 19.—Today there are;
Considerable remaining supplies of Wheat on handfl
chkfly foreign--anti this trade fully miantains laili
pricks ; Barley likewise, and in short supply ; voryfi
few Vitite Peas, and rather dearer; 'Grey, and
Beans orthe 'two. kinds, vary but little ; Oats arc
in short supply ; fine samples are quoted lonia.
what tletkri!r ; Flour at the late price.
Wheat, - -58 s. 74, 214. Tick Beam, - - 484. 5K Od.
Fine ditto -- - - .924. 98s. OAtY, • 41, 375. stie.
Rye. - 40, 45, Palisade -- - - 325. 3t1..
Barley, - ditto -- • - 411. el.
%fait, - -- - 714. Rape Si‘td -- - 446
w. Ptah (Boilers) 565. 61.. I Fine Flom. -- - tihe.
Grey 414. 5.1.. 18e:ote!.
Beata,
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