The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-01-20 00:00:00

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Q. Did (l:e %entre recollect h:: ving been sent al:out the shipping off the coast 2—A. I should rather think Arr. mans. Due ly ratified, had put things to rest? Could he tell
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If 1 them lie advocated the cause of national and indivi.
II:di-m iald ist ein the evening of the 11th to General not easily. - 0
11' .ket:zie %,i•h (elections for storming the Fusee? Q. Might they npt during tl:e night have ar- 0
R.l? A. II- I.ad many communications in the rived at Tarragona without-any interruption from 0 - ,
•to millious, who were now blessing his lame in
ceurse of II at day, both with General Mackenzie and our gun-boats?—A. Yes, I should think it possible, I
Crews-al Clinton, respecting the intended attack of as gun-boats are of very little consequence or use in i PRICK OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT O\ I. O'CLOCK connection with that of the philanthropic WiLanie,
- bole 238 Long. Ann. 16 7-166 PONCE, and in obedience to the expressed wishes of
Fuvrte Reale. Ile could not recollect pal tiro- the dal k. S per Cent Red. 65i 6 India Booth 17 in p
ler!) the 'moire of the communication at the time •Q. What is the shortest time that it would require 3 per Cent. t:,,ns. GNI F.:chequer tint, 25 p British Parliament and people ? Could he say our
mentioned. , to march from Villafranca with field artillery, if the 4, P'r cents, 85,i ni titanium le d finances, and the whale of the British Empire, were
Consols tar Acc. 65i;
Q. Was not this cnmmtinication by orders from enemy was unmolested by our gun-boats ?—A. I ap- 5 per ent. •- 4 in such a flourishing state that we could war with
Fir Jni.., al urray,and was it not a direction to storm prebend the distance is too great for one march, I be. - • . - ._
the whole of Chart for twenty veers longer, wOotit
that fort ? i lieve it is nearly 30 miles. THE STI T E S 2`11,1 N. feeling the pressure ; and that the peopie of this
The witness not appearing to recollect the na- ! Q. Row much of the road from Varilla to Terra-
tu.e of the communication at the particular time gotta is exposed to the fire of the shipping ?—A. The -,.._-,-,.....;;;,.............-- .;...;......-...----i:—...n. co eery cared as little about the Property 'Tan as
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mentioned, road is very irregular; in some places approaching LONDON: they (lid about the 500,000 Russians now ready fat
Sir J. Mere's. said, that he had riot the least objec- very near, and in others receding from the sea. In the old ni oil: of cutting throats in Poland ? The lan.
FRIDAY, JANUAR y 20, 1815.
Lion to admit, that up tie calf-psis eight, he had been some pasts it is so open as to be impassable, if shipsperi.,l Yoeth nt ho drank g.og with our sai:ors, and
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reseing every ar r•reement for the storming of Fuerte were to anchor with springs on their cables. I 'Hisao
Reale, and :hat about nine those arrangements were seen the dead bodies of men and horses above a mile It is now confidently asserted, that the Congress kissed our pub:item,' daughters, and the stai.l ale_
countermanded. Ili, admission of these facts might from the sea; and the trees very much cut up; which . et. 'Vienna is suddenly broken up, or-at least that all tiara, who saw in is hat manner the voice of the
save some time. Ile also admitted, that in the night I understood to have afterwards happened from the further discussion respecting the seizure of Poland British nation is expressed, could not, perhaps,
of the 10th, officers were employed in making mor- fire of the Invincible upon Marshal Suchet's army. and Saxony is at an end; and that Lord CASTLE- pay mach regard to any moral or political preach.
ta r-batteries. i Q. Do so not know that Marshal Suchet's army
IIEAGH is actually on his way home. ings of this sort.--And hence we erfer, that
These admissions having been received in evi- passed this road, notwithstanding the fire of the in.
&ere, vincible:?- A. Yes, I do. The
I information we possess is not sufficient to en- being bent on their interested balances, and
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Tie witness preceeded to state, that on the night Q Would not General Decaen then have been able us to pronounce pos.iiively in confirmation of my Lerd CAsTLERLinIt seeing them iatcoreei.
of the liaii some lotto-ries had been completed, which able to march from Villafranca, on the high road, this statement; but such a result to our high sound. ble, gave up his sermonizing in a pet, arid is
lind '•ectil...L.tni 011 (Li litil ; anti the °lira battery. was notwithstanding the five of the gun-boats?—A- Yes, I in hopes, and the proceedings at the Congress of now coming hones to tell us what heatlu.is he
e illr,-(1, so as to cootabi six guns instead of four. do not think he could be prevented. It must be a Vienna, have we been prepared to expect ; anti for has diScovered our Allies to IL.; whilst the motley as.
Ile 1.-id no notice to prepare for a retreat previous very heavy fire to prevent the march of an army.
such a confirmation of the accuracy of our views of sembly, whom the French are astonished to hear,
to the sudden older %%Lich was given for raising the Q. When in a former part of your evidence yen
siege, spoke of detachments being kept out, did you mean the generosity, wisdom, and justice, of 'this famous have preserved good manners so long, seeing toe (la-
ne ens then asked, whether from the knowledge detachments to give information of the approach of Cowlick have we endeavoured to prepare the minds parture of their 'preacher " broke the good rout-
of the mirror; about Tarragona which he must have the enemy, or to keep the enemy in check ?—A. To of oursinders. i pany with most admired disorder," and as Mr.
derived fret; reconnoitring it, he could say how long give information by proper signals. On one side the We apprehend there can be little doubt that the CANNING would say, were 64 scattered into (rag.
it would !alse air army of 80u0 men to march from firing might be heard from the Col do Balaguer, ant Congress has in some way adjourned, or disposed of merits" and atoms again. Anotiiiir day [1,1) amble)
.Vii liars ilea to Tarragona, supposing the march by on the Villafranca road the signal might be received
1 us to speak with more accurate information on this
the h.gh road to he intercepted by the position of from the shipping. I
Abe armed vessels i—A. Ile thought that it would , Re-examined by Admiral Ilallcneeil. 1 TIAREAGLI is on his way home. His Colleagues can- subject.
be trio long days' marches. lie conceived the dis- - Q. Do you recollect an arch near Torre de Barra, not again show their faces in Parliament without ; The Russian troops have not yet left Hambuegh,
gorse front Tarragona to Vanilla, and from thence to and for what distance the road near it is within the him ; or without something like feasible information I One reason is given for their stay, which is so Wire.
Villaftanca, was each of them a long day's march. range of Rho. from; lite sea ?—A. I recollect an an- on the momentous affairs which have kept the public 1 rive of the insolent and tyrannical conduct of the
but if the road to Villafranca was covered by the.fire slept Roman arch, but not precisely the extent of Mind in a state of anxiety and suspense so long. If ° Russian military, and so like what may be expected
of the ships, and the other road being secured by our , roa I exposed to the Are of shipping. tit be admitted that his Lordship is on his return, the ° from them, that we will lay the communication its
possession of the pass and fort of Balagner, he con- i Q. Wes not the ~rmy. with its stores, mules, and
ceived that the French would have so great a tireuit field-pieces, disembarked in a few hours on the morn- - question will be " has he succeeded in his mission ? . which it is stated in this place before use Readers.
to make, in order to find a road that an army could ing of the 3d of June ?—A. I cannot exactly state Are the important points settled for which he went 'ltis as follows :
move on, that it must have considerably increased in how short it time. to Vienna ?" If he has gone to the Council of Eu. " Ilassetincu, JAN. 11.—On the evening of the
the distanee of the march. Ile did not drink that it 1 Q. In point of fact, did not the cavalry and ar- I ropean Princes, charged with the preservation of the : 9th, some Russian Officers having indulged rather
cou:4l have been made in less than two days. I tillers, proceed to the Col de Balaguer, and remain . honour and interests of Great Britain and humanity, I freely in their. wine, thought proper to interrupt the
Q. Was it, in your judgment, possible for the . there several days after Sir J. Murray's retreat, with..
. and spoken in the name of the British Empire in i performances and the music at the Ilamburgh
eilulny to have prevented the army from carrying off ; out any molestation from the enemy ?—A. Yes, they
their guns and stores F—A. Ile thought not. 'filet ' went by land,aind were embarked there without hay vain, or not spoken a word until all was irrevocably ' Theatre. Some persons in the pit, disgusted at this
Avis ili.. opinion he formed at the time, and saw no ' in; any affair with the euemy except some little • settled to the disgrace and disadvantage of the Em. conduct, reproached them for it. This so enraged
i gibed s'.i.ef-r rhatigii g it. lie stated that opinion skirmishing. . , pire he represented, what are the causes that have : tire Russians, that tieo of the Officers who considered
to Sir .1. Murray at the time. ...,
I Q. Was their entharketion interrupted?—A. No. ' prevented Great Britain from asserting her dignity I themselves insulted went down to the pit, and had a
Q. Do you knees ;Iry t ause that could have made Q. Do you recollect seeing the road which Mar-
and right, and the rights and liberties of matilnind I Hanoverian arres!ecl, whom they considered as the
it two star, to rake the singe in the precipitate man- I steal Suchet was obliged to cut in consequence of the
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ire, that it was raised?—A• I know of no cause that fire of the Invincible?—A. Yes, I uuderstood it to
in general, for which her blood and treasure have
been lavished so long? What is the satisfac,ory, tire I principal offender. It was intended he should have
twit brought before General Bennigsen next morn.. marls it necessary. . be cut in consequence.•
‘:ir Jun iil ui ray objected to the mere opinion : Q. Do you know that when the army was ordered consoling information, the returning Minister of; ing, but he made his escape the same evening.--
of !he witness being received as evitieuce aciainst to embark, we held a fort which commanded the the dictator or nations has to communicate to his 1 The Russian General feeling much disappointed sad
him, road to Villafranca, and that the Invincible and constituents ?—Not ste•ely that he has been doped 1 reertilied at the circumstiorce sent word to the
The .Tec ne. A nv,:•l.i.re replied, that it was usual ''!'homes were at the Col de Balaguer on the other? ,
for :nil Ceorts of Jostice to receive in esidence the , —A. Yes, I knew there was shipping there. by our brave end generous Allies, amid has to teal , Serrate that the :: aops, which had already been on
opiiti us of i•arsons eeletiglc •to airy trade or pro.l Lieutenant-General John Mackenzie morn I the people of this countr, that they have bee,. duped i their march and returned, should not finally depart
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ft..sion, in matters resrpoitig the trade or profession. ' Q. Did you command a division of the firma ..4%1U ; that the most Interim: points which he was sent ; until ti.' offender was found and punished. Hence
The wits,ess being the Conlin:m(l(r of (fie Err i'•.•. r,, array in Catalonia under Sir John Murray, hi the, to watch were sett'. ' mithont er f.. P' ••'.ll:e of him. it is that We still enjoy the company of visitant
inimbt therefore I;., .1-I.t d his opinion 01 jud,onent iii I:J.)l,th of June, i el 3 ?—A. Yes, I did. ;We have as little e,,,sht that the chiet points in dis. i whom we .could be lei :1 cottlinted to see leaving.us
this instance. Whether this opinion was well or ill- • Q. Did you receive any orders for spiking the •
cession have been vettled in a way that will not aj I never more to return."
founded, mould subsequently ho determined on by : ',els on the 12th, from whom, and at what period
mil. of much just exultation on the part of our Ali- I
the Court. ( 't. the day ?—A. Yes; Lieutenant Drewe, Acting
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;Fitness war then cross-examined by Sir John
ilia 'Tog.
Q. Do you know the cart period of the arrival of
the /vetch troops at Villafranca and Vanilla ?-1.
N.., I do lint.
Q. Can you then t.i!:e te:on you to say, that the
enemy creed not has arrived at Tarragona, befoie
titee had te•cit gained for the embarkation of the
bolt` attar, %%11'41 all the eutis and stot. ?—A. No,
I caottot Lke epon on to say so.
c%er, >,uel;osing the enemy to have adeatie; d,
cur p;:rtlys could always Lye given such
informati.in of their approach, that the oat •r to
stop the embarkation .of guns and stores might be
given at any time, and the troops embarked in
si:fety.
Q. II 7.‘c much time (lid the witness calculate as
sullicient .ft r embarking the whole of the army, in-
cl editig the cavalry as well as the infantry, the artil-
lery evil their horses ?-- A. Ile could make no cake-
Intion, as he hail no are runt of the number of boats
which were ili.posalie f,ir that purpose.
Q. What did the witeess Mean by his P't prossion
of the troops belie; embarked. Did he include the
ravish) as well ;is hit:nifty, the field artiil,,ry and the
infat.try t.rs ? —A. lie certainly did hot mean to
include the Cominiss•lries' metes. Ile conceived that
some of the hor'ts might be lost. lie ceaceived,
bower.•r, that Capt. ll niters arid the naval officers
rP best qualified to speak upon this .ebject.
Q. Do y on mean to say th IG7 bones and
mule, (which was the number ise had re; shore) ;.....hi
bare been melt rked, if we had been pressed uy the
?-- .X. Certainly rot, if the army was pressed
by the emry. I think, howernr, that it mould be
teat riskiug tha lu,s of s,ene in older te.
save our •_:1111f.
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A paper wss then Lindell to him by Sir .'oh,,
Atilt ray, and he admicte,l it to b: his hand-writing.
It v..as transhition made by the witne,f of a memoir
sent by. General Capons. lie e e.4t elite rat
of the Spatii•li lauguai;e, but could positively ay,
that in his tra;:,latiori, he had giteu tee sense and
meaning of the memoir.
The witness was then ticked,--from his !time ledge
of the country aboat Tartago, a. c;iald be say bowl
much of the need from that city to Viiiafraec.l was

Brigade-finarter-Master, brought me an order to
that effect, about a quarter before ten o'clock, lir
the mime of General Donkin.
Q. As you are acquainted with the roads both to
tln, east and westward of Tarragona, will you state
3 our opinion whether it was possible for an enemy ,
to prevent our taking off the guns and stores in the
event of raising the siege ?—A. No, I do not think,
ililSt our army remained there, that there was any
chance of the enern, interrupting the embarkation of
the gusts and stores.
Q. Did the enemy appear in any force to the east.
ward of Tirragoita before the 16th of June 2--A.
Ctiderstanditig that there was a division of the
enemy at Valtlilos, Sir John Murray sent me with
a body of infantry against them. They retired, and
I entered the town of Valdilos, I believe on the
night of the 15th.
Q. Do you know any cause whatever that could
niake. it necessary to raise the siege of Tarragona in
the manner it was raised by the British army before
Tan agona ?—A. I know of no other cause than that ,
assigned by Sir John Murray, that the French were
at Villafranca.
Q. Do you know whether a great quantity of
beef, pork, corn, flour, spirits, and forage, was
left behind at Tarragona ?—A. I Saw a considerable
q.enititi of pros isiiiiis lying on the beach, and found
fault with the Commissary for refusing to take charge
of it.
Q. Supposing an army of 8000 men to have been
at Villafranca, could they have marched in oi.e
to 'Tarragona, so as to have attacked the
army withe any prospect of success?—A. With re-
spect to the question of distance, I consider U pot;
sad,. ''or an army to make the march in one .daf ;
but i,t the case of their making an attack, their roc-
cesi must have been very tioubtfts!. I should ra.i,rr
have eadei.ted .:••cess on our pest, the equip.
!rent of our foice was c.,mplete.
Adjourned till ten o'clock

nister, as that we are now writing in the month
of January, 1815, with disappointment In our
hearts, when we ought to have hail to an-
nounce " glad tidings of great joy " to man-
kind. How then comes this to pass ?—What has
occasioned a British negociator to he so disregarded !
What the settlement is that has doubtless token place
in regard to the two principal objects in contention,
namely, Poland
.and Saxuay, the public already.
pretty well knew.
„Russia has, by the late events,
been enabled to arlvance her already enormous power
Into the most fruitful provinces of Furope, and to
overawe the whole of the Continent, perhaps, a. no
distant period, to give the world such another speci-
men of regard for freedom, science, and civilized in-
stitutions, as the Goths and ':medals did of old; and
Prussia, who, for the mere norpose of gain, could
lay an enormnus impost.opon cie 'corn in her ports,
when the inhabitants of this copittry were nearly iu
a state of famine, has added all &army, from the
Elbe to Lusatia, to her poksessions ; Saxony, hitherto
the constant ally of linglaild, and though lately
pnserished by the immenne armies who have preyed
upon her, naturally so rich that one city, Liepsic,
s without being entirely exhausted, the
burtlicn of a seven years' war. Is this settling the
balance of power? Have our energetic exertions,
o.:r •oemis and our strength been strained for 'so
1—.4 a tine merely to transfer the seat of empire
f:oni Paris to St. Peterburgh, and lay all the inferior
I:!at,sti of Germany, who have cried to us for freedom
and protection against the overwhelming night of
arLitrary power, prostrate at the feet of Kingly
and Imperial despots? And m by is it that time
voice of Great Btitain has not been hcard in
defence of the rights she pretended to guard, and
striking terrorinto the hearts of their invaders?--'
Why has a British Minister, from whose torgue the
assembled Councils of Europe, who owe to England
their safety, should have taken lessons of law and

If a•ar should be renewed, u we fervently hope
• it will not, well knowing there are othor and better
H method, of securint, a nation's happiness pros-
perity, if nu r Ministers could only find them out, thap
I eternal warfare, nisi the Property Tax be continued
in despite all the petitions against that obnoxious
measure ? Perhaps Lord Castr.enzAc.n will tell os,
Iby way of reconciling us to a farther exertion
• der its pressure, that Austria has been so struck
with the policy and wisdom of the measure, and the
benefits it has conferred upon this country, that she
has adopted it. If so, she is welcome to all its bless-
! legs. 46 What is Hausa to as or we to Hearne,"
Ithat we who have so many taxes already should fa*
!emits in this sad book of taxation frovn a country
that till now has had none.
As we are on this subject, we shall observe,
that we experience satisfaction in perceiving at
this critical period, when it is so necessary
the 'sense of this country should be expressed on
the momentous topic of its burdens and dick-
; culties, that those who were deluded, aid at-
tempted to be deluded, Kith the expectation that this
tax would be relinquished by Ministers, are now
recovering from the influence of this impression ;
aria that Meetings continue to be held and called ge-
nerally throughout the kingdom. In addition to
those we have stated at different times, we give the
interesting particulars (,f Meetings at Nom ich and
Liverpool; and we also lay before our faders the
Resolutions adopted at the Meeting of the inhabitants
of the parish of Lanthe:ll, the proceedings tit which
we detailed yesterday. It will be observell that the
. strongest feeling is universally and justly expressed
against thi: pernicious and debasing impost. The
expression of the same feeling is now only waisted
to extend to a project equally inimical to the p•ib!ic
• interests. We allude to the measure still likej
be resorted to of keeping up the price of Corn, anti
cousin ' -

'arrow (this da,

Ile late Nabob of OUDL has left 17f millious
sterling of specie in his Treasury. It was his parts-
cub,: wish that his second son should succeed him,.tA
Ow exclusion of his eldest, and he was in negocia.
hot' with the East India Conioany on the subject.—
Thew:: two sons are now rivals for she throne. Lord
MOIRA, in ~.eAt stare, is gone up the country to
settle the dispute. The money, it is reported, will
be offered to the Compan s, -those debts it would al-
most pay off.

expo•Pelto the fire of gun-boats -Lisw,.e,l that

veneration for human right, been lessened down to a

luiteg the onerous cause or the general pressure•

i!e could form no calculation.

reed imes

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In sore 1 f :he counoies the landed interest have aura
" moral Preacher" sent out like a Missioanly to t
1 mist • .
. a..rii;l y eliti:ll-red to alleviate the• severe pres-
sing Psalms to savages and talk to the idle w : ind . sure thq feel its promoting Petitions-for a Corn ilill,
Did he talk in " the energetic and decided" tone of
.instead of Pit.; et-onv against the Property Tax—that
*the ()curler, end make " arm and unentharrassed iv, instead if reliev:,..4 thetns-lres from an impost Of
' In per ccet. and freeing the community at large
attitudes" at last, baying his opposer about t..e ,at the same time from tuts ' obnoxious butthen.,
weight which he and his Colleagues possessed at 'lmes': they have. thereby eadenvot d
ire: to relieve themselves
and the ittfluence his country had, nuder their admhis- : h
-)' tercmmending another tax upres the public, and
(ration, obtained abroad ; their maritime triumphs in that upon the most necessary art ic!., of sustenance. lt
America, and cleverness in dispatching business at is Ilopied they hare seen the folly of
such attempts,
Ghent, till his unbelieving auditory laughed at hint ? and_ t at.they will cordially woe tt it.the .of the
' ' h rest
country in Petitioliing against the Inconie Tax as one
' • is with the
Could he say we had carried all our.pont . 1
great means, at least, oft weting-the pressure they
Americans, and show the royal. and princely Personages ! feel flout the reduction iu the price of the d• -
pre v..) of
how well the Treaty) so long in frantiog and EO prompt. land.

approached very vicar ;he beach, and ;vas conse-
quently exposed the tire of wini-boats. At ether
places it receded from the beach, and was conse-
quently less exposed. lie did not suppose, howeier,
that there was any part of it which was so exposed
for two miles together. Ile thought, however, the,
Lids was a (ov:ion upon which the Niival Wicers cool-
Mending the gun-boats were better qualified to speak.
:Those who had often fired from their gun-ves-eis
ppm' th:s itSt have had better means of ob.
tsPrwatiot!. tr.; tulmw much of the road exposed
to their lire.

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IND, A POSTAGE Act.--BOOTOII the passing of this
Act, No.bspapers were rer•tarlt put into the box at
the India-house, and transmitted free of postage;
they cannot now be forwarded to any part of India,
unless a fee of four guineas per annum for a Daily
Paper, or one guinea per annum for a Weekly Pa-
per, is paid t,. the Post-office. A like grievance is
felt by the charge of postage on India Newspapers.
Besides the diminution to the revenue, this exaction
imposes, in many ii..‘anees, an enormous lax on se-
veral houses whir)/ have India correspondents.

Q. I::4ht not the enemy by a short deeper from
C 4: tn.,io rt;ad have easily avoided the frte from

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