The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-03-16 00:00:00

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sufficient title to the diadem ! I protest against i anti the seater part
the doctrine! So ought the Crowe Lawyers aud the leaf on,
though -
Judgai-Otthe 'realm, *here. theY and it Publidylpnfusion : it rallit,
pro paga tet in pamphlets and meWspapers, over whoa& i the streets with musket .
columns theyhava a vialchful vigilance, ever ready to . grape.shot and howitaer.s.,
sally 'forth *dint libellers of a less mischievous • drawn up, and preparadto fire by platoons,
char,:eter, 1rt,,,, in their mistakes; zeal to support they *eve ordered to titrnw out their prinling
the ilirderlis of the People, forgot the respect dee to „charge. They advanced, at the pas de charges
the Majesty iti the (tutees. On the score of capacity, ; they met nothing but showers of grape,
it will scarcely be contended, that the BOURBONS nee i shot, and bullets. Almost all the brigade
qualified for empire; and to claim it in virtue of prostrate; nor did the other brigade sot
birth alone, belongs alone to ideots to attempt, and ' though they out) gained the ramparts ; in
tolools to admit. It is said, that BONAPARTE hAi i was very like the Buenos Ayies businbraess,
Tyrant. If so, let his subjects, who are much ableri no blame can possibly attach to our vt
to midge of him than we are, and to whom alone 0
than the att ick, or more heroical
4, Commander ; in fact, nothing conld be better
right of punishing'. his tyrant's), belongs, decide.-ly.
rrett,
execut
If they are satisfied "with his Government, we have two leaders, General pore and .SICI
no right to iriterreri. They are alone interested 10,' rally p,ierced with balls—the first fell dead .
1-the delinquencies of his domestic arrangemeetsolll *slain, but General Skerrett has survived.
.to them alone belongs the right to render. him corps now began to retrest-; but here '
tresponsible for his conduct as their Sovereign.—lt is i feeling his strength and his vantage ground,
. unquestionably degrading to submit to despotism; and :•gates. Many threw themselves over. the
*lt will sorely be adndtted, that it is an aggro% ation 016 het the greater number remained in the tow
*the disgrace, when the despatises. 'so degrading to wounded, and prisoners. To intercept the
:humanity, is exercised by blockheads unequal to the ,Ithe French opened the sluices, which ft/
office they unworthily hold. Let bad subjects be i dykes over the ice. Three lines of wi
.: punished ; it is essenthif to the security of the State ; three courses of dykes had the retreaters
' bet thi roof IstlOWimponity to guilty Princes, for their under showers of round and grape, ate
•ri nishwient. iii•rilitoposseuthti tts the interests of the fore the could be safe ; yet wonderful to
onswingStyr, Sid tins': trappi iress of millions. ' 1 ben dl woueded men, with balls in their
. 'Th
7.4640.: AP*, gPsYbur humble serfaso, got over all ; numbers also were drowned
'-': . .v; ses4 . -
__ .•i . ibie bSOIOIIMAN. tempt. It was a moon-light night; but occasiom
clouded ; no blue lights, &c. were _exhibitr
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zt
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, ."• *. *via r 'states, `the aim was not less sure, nor the fire less
tbartnittifilipeslialetWil :teak ..In the • ads of :Jive. Of about 4,500 men engaged in
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ilhatcittintiy.'.3aitietlCO stung at every it is said, that not 1,500 eseaped. We trust,
mile, a scut. hors
ws tit* Is-Placed an la. ! lifer, the loss still tutu out not near
valid soldier, to whom a pension is given, with a plot i.ellemy will boast of having token tw:
of irciusul, which be cultivates, and maintains his' lebrs, but there was no honour lost—they
family in independence. The extent of his watch ' only when their gallant defenders ceased '
and labour is half a mile to the right and left of his ; The enemy's General, whose name I ha,
' learnt, behaved with urbanity. He sew..
house. This plan is adopted throughout the king- ,
Join of France. Itruce to propose giving up the worst wounded
• SURPRISINE, LzAr.—On the 9th instant, a fa. i
seven hundred were delivered tons at thewhich proposal was accepted, and betwr
vourite hooter e
er of Colonel Ham's, having got loose :
ve the last sacrifice to Moloch."
Such has been the result of what
about a mile from Clonattin, Wexford, immediately ,
gat-
tan home, and finding the gate of the lawn shut,' pro
trotted about an hundred yards up the road, and
turning abort, took the wall of the demesne in a
stand, which he cleared without the slightest touch ;
It measures six feet high of lime and stone, and
eighteen inches broad. The spot where the horse
took off to where he landed, is above eighteen feet;
the elect place, on the wall has been marked since by
a streak of whitewash. 1
On Sunday evening an audacious burglary was ,
committed in the house of Mr. Day, of Lambeth.
road. Between seven and eight o'clock, whilst Mr.
Day and his family were sitting in the back parlourti
the villains found means to get into the front parlour.
from the street, 'by pushing up the sash. They took
away a large pier-glass, several articles of plate from
the sidehoard,and other things, and then deliberately
walked bloat the front door, shutting It after them.„
Mr. Day heard the door shut, and immediately went 1
to 'see whdlneass bat was uot la tiros to stop the
thief,

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LETTER FROM AN OFFICER OF RAVIt.:.' • -Ai •., __,.... Keith
66 Rosentani. Maws e, .01.1‘ etwasorcr hi; tiatismitted to John Wit.
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I gave you an account, in a former Wes 4 sent ',II* a letter from Rear-ildiairal-Pen-
two unsuccessful attempts to take Antwerp by, Ili. ism., doipa on board his Majesty's ship Porcupine,
sault, and to capture or burn the fleet. 'We 941011 is. the Barr Of the Adour, the 25th of Feb
because our force was wholly inadequate, midi* r ' salary,
nag.thit the boats end small vessels destined to
cause our Allies, the Prussians, had attester- olio.'
ljects to pursue.
.A few days age we got a larsal'''
flee
supply of military stores, together with. a 4ttehmityl4WedlNitott, succeeded In evening the of the
of Cotigreve rockets, some of which .Vrefe played ; abets' rarer on the preceding diy. ' ..
off with very fine effect from the rampage& of - Wite 'A brele' Se, which sprang up in the ATHA of the 211 d
liamstadt, in presence of our gallant. Cesamander, •
cies I w
asthe.Atilt that had offered itself, since the' necessa.
Bade Sir Thomas Graham. All the formidable rtisrephiattiOns bad been la forwardness, to enable
of war moved on to the adviser* et ail army,'
and we received a recent reinforcement.' 0( two' 04.,aellseili to reach the mouth of the Adour; and
fine regiments, the .Ist Royals .and the' 9tsf, ;tertitaini the following morning the Rear-Admiral
from Stralsund. Every one supposed that another . was elate ' Bar with the Teasels and boats tit lected
attack on the fleet was immediately to take place, i et* ta,,senam,
and we were anticipating the most favourable results, I The boats of the vessels of war with trio gat-
when, this morning, thearrival of a number of wound- I . I
ed men gave us to understand that the attack was - d A. •
boats, were sent irectly to the Bar to endeavour to
made, not on Antwerp, but on Bergen-0p.Z00m....- find at; passage through the surf, the British troops
Bergen-op-Zoom is one of the strongest towns is being at that time seen from the ships crossing over
Europe. in former campaigns, the French (I think ' toalle north side of the riverl but greatly in want of
in 1746) attempted to carry it by assault; they were the boats intended for their assistance.
i repulsed, and left about a thousand of their men ..,1 :
rill O'Reilly, Ina Spanish-built boat, selected.
• dead on the glacis. Marshal Saxe, however, renew- . :..„. .
1 ed the attempt, and took it by atratageat. -We welt. 0 . ,YAr'it 463 for 1"1“4"94°4-haviag with him
encouraged to.eapect success, because it was known the principal pilot, was overset in his attempt to en-
-1 that the French garrison wished to evacuate it, and ter, but escaped on shore. Lieut. Debenbam, in a
to threw itself into Antwerp; and also that the siz-oared cutter, succeeded in reaching the beach;
i town's people were alt in our interest. The British the other boats returned to wait the result of the
' army, therefore, advanced from alt its cantonments i neat tide, it being scarcely possible that one in fifty
on the 6th and 7th, towards Antwerp, the head- ;lusold then have crossed.
quarters being at Kalmheut. On the Sth, it sudden- :.i...; A pilot was sent to land to the south-west 0 the
ly marched to Fort Lillo and Bergen-op-Zoom : all ewer, and walk (rem thence to the Adourvin order
these places being only a few hours march from iamb ; to make a concerted signal from within the Bar, to
other. The object proposed to be attacked wee : shale the vessels through the safest parts. Without
° given out to be Fort Lillo, which lies between Bene i the Bar there appeared no interval ; .a long and
° gen and Antwerp. The former, however) was only thisuivy line of surf alone presenting itself. Rewards
masked, and the real attack was made on Bergen ; ewe offered to the leading vessel, the second, third,
on the same night. Bergen is on a rising ground 1 tt.C.
or hill, the only one in the country, protected by t . lieutenant Collins, Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Ad-
a marsh on the S. E., and watered by the littlel44,ail Penrose, was dispatched also to endeavour to
river Zoom, which is divided . into dykes and I laud, and walk to the army ; and the Rear-Admiral
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canals. On the 'West it is washed by a branch off.:. Informed, about that time, by Sir John Hope,
1 the Scheldt. The assault was made by two brigades, , tiltii progress made by the troops, and the great
; simultaneously, on the North side, next Tholen,, u sty. of which the boats would prove, if they could
and on the South East. The brave Major-General la .?
1 Skerrett, the intrepid defender of Tariffa, com- - ' e tide being at length at a proper height, and all
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mended the attack. lie had some time before broke the vessels well up for. the attempt, several drew near
ihis leg by a fall from his horse, from which he was the 'Bar, but hauled off again, till at last Lieutenant
' not recovered. ••The other brigade was conducted Sheyne (of the Woodlark sloop), in a Spanish boat
by Major-General Gore. It consisted of the list With five British seamen, crossed the surf, and run
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Guards, lit Royals, and 44th, with a detachment ,ipahe river. The next was a prize boat, manned
'of the 91st. It traversed a frozen morass, cleared ' from a transport, closely followed by a. gun-boat,
the empalements and chevaux-de-('rise, and scaled tirsjunanded by Lieutenant Chesshyre, who was
the ramparts ;—they actually gpt into the tows "thlifirS that has hoisted the British colours in the
' undiscovered. The other brigade, consisting:. 4 i Adour. . .
the 55th, 69th, and 33d, and some of the Sled , The rest of the boats, sutd vessels followed in rapid
and 37th, also assaulted by escalade, but was' SUcceision, and with extreordinery success : the teal
vigorously opposed. The enemy raised tip the aid science of, the officers triumphing over all the
ladders from the ' Alike of the • • (iii`
esid deeited.4o,u,

top of the ramparts with hooks, . illitellties of the navigation.
way not yet enable
fitteL.4ll-10,111,4 1111141SillgrantiagosInSiWi 1, hol
)art o re,
f the assailants entered. Thai nearnesi of the shore -that they would ft
surprised was not thrown into . thst wolf, • A •
lied, lined the houses 04 rack side 4. 4444, -vl —4O.
lusketry, -and enfiladed thero with 1. c . MILITARIf PROMOTIONS.
towitter.shells. The Guards were I :t .
War-Olicce. March )5.