The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-01-04 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

tieing stippOtted by the catalry: Y resolved to re;
treat by the mountains ; but I vtas obliged to aban-
don my three pieces of artillery. I ordered a move-
ment to the right, and threw myself on the heights
Which range towards Montauches. The enemy pu\r:
limed me briskly; and I every moment stopped to re-
pulse his attacks. My flanks were, in like measure,
assailed, my march being impeded by these attacks.
I had been anticipated on the passage of Montauches,
which position I caused to be carried. Leaving Mon-
tauches on my left, I followed the mountains which
range upon Sarza. The enemy already occupied this
defile. Gen DEMBROUSKI rallied the troops : I threw
myself into the plain, and charged with the bayonet
the enemy who attempted to stop me. A second flag
of truce came to General DEMBROUSKI and myself,
but was sent back with the same contempt as before.
I continued my retreat in the plain, without ceasing
to engage the enemy till I reached the height of
Ibahernando, where I took up a position, and the
enemy ceased his attack. I stopped some hours at
Ibaheruando. I afterwards proceeded to Zovita,
thence to Naval, Villar, and Orelland, where I
passed the Guadia. I lost a number of men in the
long combats in which I was engaged, during a
great part of the day with a superior force. The
enemy had more than 7000 infantry. I set at li-
berty, in one charge, a great number of prisoners
taken in the mountains. General DEMBROUSKI dis-
played great firmness of 'character ; he conducted the
troops with equal bravery and coolness. His beha-
viour merits a grateful reward. The Officers G c ILLOT,
VEETAN, MORVELLAND, and \TOMO!" gave proof of
valour. My chief of the staff, 11. ANDRY, hits been
made prisoner ; this is a loss which will be severely
felt. M. M. VEETre and VOIR IT are wounded, and
in the power of the enemy. Gen. DEMBROUSILI has
lost every thing ; his noble conduct and bravery
merit a recompense. I solicit for him advancement
in the Legion of Honour.
(Signed)

" Gen. GIRARD."
" LEGHORN, DEC. 19.
" A dreadful tempest was experienced last Tues-
day night upon our coasts. The resets which were
in port have suffered considerably ; some have been
shipwrecked. 'We continue to receive afflicting de-
tails respecting the consequences of this storm."—
(Journal de Paris, Jan. 1.)
The Moniteur of the 25th The. contains the Re-
port of General JANENS, Governor-General of Ba-
tavia, to the Minister of Marine, dated Tzikapen-
deng, upon the road of Cherihon, dated Aug. 29,1
giving an account of his unsuccessful resistance
against the English, and his operations from the 4th
to the 26th Aug. inclusive, and concludes as follows :
V. persuaded, Monseigneur, that I will maintain
myself in the island as long as possible; but, I must
not conceal from your Excellency, that it cannot be
expeeted that the Indians wiH long resist regular
European troops. The army is alma() consider-
'
ably weakened by disease ; I never was able to have
more than 8000 troops under arms, almost all
• Javanese.

Cabil

Yesterday, at h:slf-past ti;o o'clock, a net
Council was held at the Foreign Office, and was at-
tended by all the Cabinet Ministers iu town : they
continued sitting until six o'clock.
The PRINCE REGENT will hold a Council on Mon-
day next, when the Address of his Royal Highness,
with which the Session of Parliament is to be open-
ed on the following day, will, in its perfect form, be
submitted for his final approbation.
In consequence of the late Brevet Promotion,
Lord CHATHAM, Lord CATUCARX, and Generals
Vese, T. DUN nati, and FLovn, are put off the Staff.
It is understood to be finally settled, that Sir JOHN
llore is to be Commander in Chief in Ireland, in
place of Lord HA itatseToe, and Lord flutsrmee is
spoken of as successor to Lord CtTIICART, in the
command of the Forces in Scotland.
Mr. CorAtatt, wAI died recently abroad, though
only Serjeant at Arms in the House of Commons,
was a Brigadier-General in arms in Portugal. He
succeeded to his Parliamentary office on the resigna-
tion of his father, who is still living. The place is
n cork 2,0001. per annum : it is in the gift of the
&EARLS of the House of CostmoN9. Mr. CLEMEN
sow, Deputy Serjeant, is expected to succeed to this
valuable appointment.
SUICIDE.—Oa Tuesday evening, a man of the
name of Battell, who long had been in the service of
Mr. Trew, brewer, South-street, Chichester, hung
himself in his apartments on the Broyle-road, near
that place. He was a man of peaceable habits, and
had realized some property. He had been indisposed
for a few days, and had been let blood in the morn-
ing. The fillet from his arm was the means with
which he effected his dissolution.
A few days ago a child belonging to a bargessasf,
Arundel, incautiously took from the table a teapot
that had just been filled with boiling water and drank
frotn the spout. It died the following morning.
rA melancholy catastrophe happened on the even-
ing of Christmas-day. As Lieut. Damereque,
of
his Majesty's sloop Hawke, with seven seamen, were
returning to their ship off the mouth of Southampton
river, after spending the day with their friends, the
boil. was unfortunately owerset between Weston,
and Netley, while they were stepping
:the roast.—
' The Lieutenant and two men swam to the shot*
but could not make a landing owing to the vitit+
so returned to the boat, where they peeljed
with the cold, being found dead in the fore *MOW
Four men were instantly drowned, and pickeVeis
the. next day ; one only escaped by swimming to dui;
shore and clinging to some bushes ; he was disco-'
vered by a fisherman, almost speechless, but soeill
recovered to tell the sad tale of his officer and com-
panions' fate. The six men were interred at Pee..
tree chapel on Sunday last, with great aeletatkity.
Several depredations have been cosamitted in tists
neighbourhood of Chichester, since our last; d -
tion, we regret to state, has followed bat its few its:
stances.
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AIR; CHARLES KEMELE:
THB EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN: -
Slii,--Having this morning had two paragraphs
poi.t
ted out to me, in your Papers of December 31
and the following day, which, if uncontradicted, ate
calculated to injure both Mrs. C. Kemble and myself
very much in the Public. oplitioU, f beg leave to ac-
quaint you, that the InfOtthation which they contain
is utterly false; and I libpd that you Will allow me,
through the medium of vour valuable Paper, to warn
their author, that if be does not desist from his b4e
and cowardly attacks, I shall, though most unwil;
lingly be compelled, in self defence, to publish the
WHOLE correspondence between Mr. Harris, sen.
and myself, with a brief statement of the treatment
which Mrs. C. Kemble and I have experienced from
that Gentleman since, we have been engaged in Co-
vent Garden Theatre; or resort to such legal mea-
sures as will effectually protect our characters froth
the assaults of anonymous calumny.
1 am, Sir, with great respect,
• Your very obedient servant,
Westbourn Greta, Jan. 4 CHARLES KEMBLE.

A most audacious attempt m rob the house of Mr. Thomas,
grocer, at the coiner of Portman-street, Oxford-street, was
made on Thursday evening, and that, too, attended with the
violence of tbemost abandoned ruffian. The servant-maid was
spreading bread and butter for tea, about six o'clock, when a
ruffian-like fellow opened the back-yard door, and walked
forth into the kitchen. The servant, shocked at the moment,
asitedabe fellow hastily in a loud tone his .busiriess, when he
struck her twice with a bludgeon he bold id his hand, and
charged her to keep silence, or he would murder her. The
servautanaid then made a thrust at him with the knife she held
in her baud, and he felled her to the ground, where she lay
speechless, and was found in that state by another snvant.
Oh
coming to her reason, she related what had happened, and the
knife was found in the area, covered with blood to an inch and
a half from the end, which must have entered the villain's
breast, and which was got out in esefiping over the rails. A
rope was also found suspended from one of the rails, by which
the thief let himself doss a, as there is no area eat", or any other
communication that way into the street. Mr. Thomas immedi-
ately gave infunnation of a bat had liar. aned at Marlborough-
I sheet Police office, but no tidings has yet been had of the
odbader.
Stacina.—Mr. J. Pearson, Secretary of the Lottery Office,
Somerset-house, about five o'clock last evening, put an end to
hisexistenee, by shooting himself with a pistol through his body, I
at his apartment's ia that public building. The report cf the I
pistol alarmed ha; servants, who, on entering the office, found
him weltering in :tit blued. Application was immediately made
'to Mr. Stanton, is the Strand, who, on his atrival, (mind Mr.
Pearson quite dead. In addition to his office, Mr. Pearson held
a coal-wharf at the bottom of Water-lane. lie was about 60
years of age, and remarkable for a large wen upon his neck, the I
pain or debility produced by Shish, may prole, bly have -eased
this rash act. He was a man much respected, and has left a
family.
On Monday last, about five o'clock in the afternoon, a villain, '
labia five feet eight inches high, black coat and w aistcoat, blue
worsted striped pantaloons, aad Hessian bouts, with a gair of
white horse soldier's gloves on, and a black crape over his face,
with a horse-pistol in one hand, and a broad-sword stick in the
other, entered the chambers of Mr. Holship, solicitor, la, Cle-
ment's Inn, when he immediately forced the mouth of the pistol
against the head of a youth about 13 years of age (being at this
time the only person iii the chamber's), and threatened, in case
be gave the least alarm, that he would immediately blow out
!rains;flit he then compelled him to sit down in a chair, which
be placed in a particular part of the room (turning the youth's
face Dom the villain), when, after tying his hands behind him,
he bound ban securely to the chair. After be had done so, lie
proceeded to examine Mr. 11.'s desk for notes and cash ; at this
moment a person, in the chambers over Mr. 11.'s, in rcmos ing a
bax, made a considerable noise, and immediately walked a
quick pace across the room ; this, it is supposed, alarmed the
villain, ns he made a precipitate retreat without taking any
thing of material value.
Ills Royal Highness the Ddke of Sessex has been appointed
Deputy Grand Master bf the Fraternity of Masons, of which the
naves REGENT is Grand Master. The honour became vacant
by the death of Sir PETER PARKER.
Two beggars, one apparently blind, and the other having lost
the use of his arias, were sent to the notice of Correction at Be-
verley. When taken by the constables, the blind man imme-
diately recovered his sight, and endeavoured to make his escape;
and the man without t 4,4 e of his arms, made such use of them
as to knock down two of the constabi's.
By the investigation which has taken place, it has been found
that many certificates of servitude, Which entitle seamen to be
received into Greenwich Hospital, have been improperly filled
up, and in some instances the name of the Chief Clerk of the
Ticket Office were forged. All the Greenwich Pensioners lately
passed, are ordered to attend the Admiralty. The persons sus-
pected area Mr. bawler and a Mr. Needham.
It is related as a fact, that one of the most notorious traders
of one of the 'east daring gangs of pickpockets that infest this
metropoli, lodges in one of our principal jails; but not as
Falstaff has it, " What, upon compulsion, flats' nu, hot upon
compulsion, but as a voluntary inmate. Surely this circum-
stance will scarcely bear a comment; bat the fain is, that hit
favourite sultana 13 indisposed there, sad his Most Serene High-
ness is admitted nightly, to soothe the slumbers of ber downy
conch.
WINDSOR, JAN. 3.—This morning the Princesses' horses were
ordered for them to ride out ; and remained at the door of the
Castle upwardsof half an hour, when the orders were countet-
mended. Neither the ()vats nor any of the ROYAL FAMILY
have comeout of the Castle to-day the reason Is not known.
Sir Ilisai ',ALFORD'S carriage was ordered to bring him to
London; but It was put up again, and he remains here. l)octars
MORRO and litawass arrived to-day about twelve o'clock. After
their arrival, Maur R. %Thais set off for London; he is ex.
pectotto return here to-Hight.
Aaattempt was made on Thursday morning to break into a
Souse in Market-street, Newport-market.
Longs Hotel, in Bond-street, has lately been robbed of a num-
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ber of silver table spoons.
.Mondiy neat being Plow-Monday, an Especial Sessions will
be holJen at Guildhall, before the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR,
the Recommit, the SIIIGRI/PFS, Re. for the purpose of swearing
in the Common Com:climes, and other Ward Officers for the
City of London.
The body of a murdered man was found on the Cerise-hill road
of Soinerset.hire: he was much disfigured with wounds, but was
recognised as a Halwell labourer.—Wiffill murder is returned in
the Inquest against persons unknown.
We copy the following article from a Paper of yesterday :--
An anonymous Correspondent desires us to say, ' We are
happy to kern, that the Dube of CIARENCL is to be at Bushy ,
on the 15th instant, again to enjoy those ties of lore and affec-
tion, which, for twenty years, made his days pass ithe
sn happiness
and comfort: fatten to that effect having passed,
to atisfac-
tion of his Royal Highness and Mrs. J.' Of course we cannot
verify this statement."
T 9 wine great Heiress a Royal Hake try'd,
Receir'd as a Prince, bat his offer deniedi
He pass'dover Jordan, this prize to obtain,
The journey wait Long, yet be could not refrain.
66 Rehm:to your mistress," .the lady replied,
4' And do Met forsake bee to'make me your bride:
For rather than wed yea, et cme of the whole,
aly fortune and person I'll hang *a a Pok."