The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-02-23 00:00:00

TI lto STA'J

EXTRACT nir A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER /11(
QUARTER-YASTER-OENERAL'Y DEPARTMENT.

STit,—Yesterday morning the city of Rochester i
and this town was in a great bustle in consequence I t' The positions mottled byLa
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the British and the Government ban taken op the enquiry into the
nefarious deception which was practised on thd pub-
of a Foreign Messenger said to have arrived at the enemyi are very roughly and hastily, though ea
u- tic on Monday, and both on Monday night and yes-
Crown Inn, Rochester, at half-past five o'clock that . rately, described in the sketch given herewith. terday, the Frenchmen who were instrumental in
morning. Ile arrived in a chaise and four, wearing ; 44 For several days past, there have been constant the business, vrkh ass Englishman who assisted in
the Ruisian uniform ; said be was Aid-de-Camp to the communications between the Commanders in Chief their coureyatteOr were examined before -the Privy
Rossini' Emperor, and was bearer of important news. of the hostile Armies, but theii contents are, of Council. The result of the enquiry has Oat been
The French army was completely beaten, and Bo- course, unknown to any one. Colonel Bursaunv, made known. It will be `recollected that when an
NAPARTILI being overtaken by the Cossacks, was ' the Under-Secretary of State, arrived here a few imposition, by means of a forged letter was' prac-
killed, and torn to pieces limb by limb. Mr. days ago, with. important ' instructions' for Lord tised in the Mayoralty of Sir C. Price, caused an
Wei m er, the master of the Crown Inn, lost no WELLINGTON; but not a syllable has transpired of 'advance in the stocks, all the bargains were declared
time in calling op a patriotic Alderman, to impart', their purport. No doubt they are of very consider- raid by a Committee selected from the Proprietors.
the great news I who immediately wrote to the Com- able importance. Every thing here bears the most and Subscribers of the Stock Exchange. The ordinary
missioner of Chatham Dock-yard, the Poll AdMi- pacific appearance. The outposts are extremely pr. Committee met yesterday, and we learn that it has'
rid, and the Mayor.--Messrs. TowsisoN' the prin-',lite to each other, but no sort of intercourse is per- come to no resolution on the subject, and further
tee; of the Chatham Courier, printed a large paper, witted. Not a shot has been fired for the last three !that it is not the intention of the Committee at all to
and Ittung it at their door, to impart the great news weeks. The French have completely finished their •
interfere, leaving the parties injured to such legal
to every passenger ! Messrs. TRIBE and Son, of the intrenched camp in front of Bayonne, which is er. I
P iremedies as the disclosure of the fraud may admit of.
Mitre Inn, Chatham, did the same—in fact, the fectly covered by the guns of the place ; and Ii It has been ascertained, that one broker purchased
u hole town was in an uproar. Nor did it stop here ; should not be at all surprisedl if, in the course of a ifor his employers in the early part of Monday fore-
the proprietor of the coach to Maidstone, from this few days, SOULT was to send to the North a very noon, the enormous sum of six hundred and fifty
town, was the hearer of the great news there. Im- considerable part of his army, leaving only a strong : thousand in Omnium, which purchase it is estimatedv
meoliately a party-of gentlemen met•—a dinner ter was garrison in Bayonne, and corps d'observation Conl on a moderate calculation, produced a net profit of
provided—tin effigy of BONAPARTE in pastry was the Adour and Aran, w it isto flow absurdrfoil,, 'stxteeletttousand pounds. The whole amount of the,
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served up, and disjointed in similar manner to in the English Newspapers, anticipations of Lord trnnefers, le the cburie of the day, it is said, exceeded'
the Cossacks' treatment of their victim. The bells WELLINGTON'S advance towards Bourdeaux. How ' a million and a half.
ring in the steeple a merry peal—but, alas ! by little can the writers know'of the geography or sta- i'•
lver4ll be seen by the letter we have inserted from
• night, the news wanting better confirmation, many tistics of this part of France. From hnce to• flour. :111)ea• ,in what mintier the fraud was commenced on•
countenances were changed; and those who were •deaui Is a barren and uncultivated country ; atat'' the coast by the 'pretended arrival of au officer from
s not so trettulotts. in The 'morning, . were not thought universally sandy, and producing little or nothing'
France.
quite so dislovyal.—l, forgot to mention, at Eno- —certainly nothing in the way of supplies for an 4 . ..: 74- EiS D ' , ra p
. 21,-Arrival of the soi.disant Col.,
cheater, the City Cryer was employed to proclaim the army. In a part of the country,' vines of different' De Beer h 7 Hitt-de-Camp 'to Lord• Cat l tieart with
great news aloud in the city, the whole force of war- sorts are grown ; but speaking generally, nothing most important intelligence of the defeat and death of
mongers knew not which way to exult the most. is to be obtained by an army commissariat. Tinos,.' Bonaparte, and the entry of the Allied Monarchs
Mr. CHAPLIN, one of the proprietors of the Dover then, all oar supplies must come from the rear-1:64o Paris - '
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coaches, took• a pigeon te London with him, which that is, either from Spain or England ; and if from'
" This morning, between two and three o'clock,.
was to bring the earliest news.; about the time cacti- England, must be landed at Passages or St. Jean de an express arrived at Admiral Foley's? from Dover,
latest on for his return, a party met at the Crown Luz) for from that port to Bourtitetus there with a letter, purporting to be from Colonel de
Inn, anxiously waiting forisim ; a wag of the party ; can be no communication held with the sea, the Booirgh; Aid-de-Camp to Lord Cathcart, announc-
steppe(i °tit, anti produced a note, signed CHAPLIN, . coast being universally dangerous, and without ing his arrival from France with Dispatches of the
confirming the whole report of the morning, which harbour. But in either case, to leave such a garri- most infinite importance, namely, the defeat and
Das the cause of many an extra bumper being drank. ' son, as Bayonne wilt no doubt contain, in the rear, death qf
Bonaparte, and entry of the Allied Sove-
If will be kind enough to give iesertion to the ' would be a measure litfinitely too absurd to suppose reigns Into Paris, In order that the Admiral might
above, you will oblige some of your friends and for a moment that Lord WcstANGToN could adopt make the necessary Communication, by telegraph, to
well-wishers itt this town. it. In every view 0f the subject, it appears proba London
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, as soon as day -light appeared. The
Chatham, Feb. 22. A CONSTANT READER. 1 ble we have reached our ne plus ultra. Indeed I Admiral, however, with his usual foresight, dis- i
should rather think that Sour.T is so convinced patched one of his domestics to Dover to, as- I
of it, tha.t he %%di, if occasion requires it, detach certain the correctness of this statement, when it was I
probably 50,000 of the 75,000 men he has under. found that a person in the military garb, with '.
his orders, to reinforce his Master's Northern a star and medal of merit, arrived at the Ship
Armies. And even glen I do not think it likely Ina this morning about ten o'clock, and stated,l
that we shall cross the Adour, for the reasons I have that he was from France, and was the bearer
already given• of the intelligence above *alluded to, and or-
" Lord WELLINGTON is certainly extremely un- . dered a chaise and four for London immediately • s
popular with the whole Spanish nation. The prideof he sported a hag of Napoleons-cPor ; but recollected •
a Spaniard is too proverbial that it can be otherwise he had a Bank of England Note or two in his pocket, '
than grieveuSly motlifying to him to see a foreigner where they had been laying some months, and with
and a Protestant (for depend on it, religion is. of them he paid his bill at the inn, and then departed
primary importance in this country) at the head of in style for London; but upon a stir being made by
the Spanish army, ruling it with absolute sway, and the Admiral and Collector at Dover, a reference was
the most sovereign though indispensible authority.= had to the notes, and it was discovered they were in-
BALLASTER‘Os inflamed the spark, which, although ; dorsed by a mercantile firm in London, with the
dormant,! is still existitig—‘ Loteat Scintillula."flus: date, Isth February, 1814. Here the cloven foot
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tvern ! Regency have certainly paid him a very high come 1 itas visible, and the suspicions first excited fully ,
PrArsourra, Vas. 21.—Arrived the York, of 74 guos,
pliment in removing General O'DostaottoE from the .4miofirmed, and the pretended Colonel De Bourgh is
do eurrasal fleet ; Menelaus frigate, from a cruise; and the
Ministry at War, but his Port-feuille is given to as Mow set down as a gross impostor.
Arrow 'downer, with a fleet of tramrr
'fits, from Pateages. ' •
, inveterate en antimy of .lA4. Wr.I.S.INQUONAII litlll?4,_ -‘.‘ Ijiis-achtsie, .w,hick wink adi4whly laidaiblatifijk:_l.
lb. ani9.ll the- 11161" blitlr'hisaPti'tei ham Li" ; self, General MORENO. It is unnatural to suppose whii3/4 would have succedded, had it' taken the /M—lrloolvo sows ;" Uffit'sn the 120100, 1!) the 094,4",".
bound to Cadiz, with bullion and speele cm board, reported to 1 that a nation so high in the scale of Europe should miral off his guard, was doubtiess*ended for. the! form an adltdooistratio4 in the year 1811, aceorditst
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be worth two millions sterling,•the was captured the Id isetaetg,l
ehuse to submit its principal Administration (for its purpose of stock -jobbing ; settling "my I believe its' to the wishes of the Author's friends; on which il
agar Madeira, by the Malauk Mid Terpsichore French frigates, r army at present certainly so is) into the hands of any :at hand. It is to be hoped the pintetrator and- hist; was reported that-Mery were sited by an illustrime
The .'very words in the wriatest show,
and while exchanging prisoners, two British frigates hove la ' man, how high soever he may be, but a native concern will be discovered, and held up.,
sight, and went ice pnrseit of the enemy i•c2t) Frenchmen were Spaniard ; and the best informed here are most de- ;infamy." . i verses to he confined to that one circumstauce, .
to public ;female.
tiocy are in the stugular toumbekoksgrace, foul ego
left on board; and , roceedee with the St. Juan Baptiste, for , cidedly of opinion, that Lord WELLINGTON would I Besides the principal plot at Deal and Dover,there
hove done well to have refused the command • when I was a sort of under one, connected with it; the scent :
ilki hat disgsioneti-eltiet fault ?L.-Those (says
Fiancee ; but on dm 14th inst. north L'Orient, she was re-cup-
; termed to him, and to have recommended a Spanish lof which lay at Northfieet . t verse) of riot' sot ' ' &Ling realm.- (and let...the,
\q/red by his Majesty's ships Rippon and Menelaus. The French This vs-as deemed ex
' • • ' • ' ' Pli.e be remembered, ' 18,12 i,) by taking the writ(
' General for that high office—of course one on whose ! client, it would seem, in cese the Dover scheme shoum : .
et had bad not dine to take ~ut any i.f the bullion. 1
co-operation he could have placed implicit reliance. I miscarry. About five o'clock on the Monda .
y more- :- i
i feienas to topPortit‘ .
.., ef was there e more
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'lt was precise! the blunder of BONAPARTE. Had ,
y I ing a party arrived at Northfleet in a six-oared potter. I pie poll heal sentiment e.xpressed.,lll thyme. 11-thie r
IN tamers, Fps. W.—Arrived the Thema. and Mary, 1
with several he been contented with the absolute dominion he iThey called up a Mr. Sandon, to request that' he Would ! ~ be libel,lf this be the undermining of filial affection, '
Amnia; Lads Cathcart, and R transpareeeco where shall we sum•a tens 'for the languitgefitten
pos.sessed over Spain—i.ts means, possessions, pope- accompany two of them to town, who rept
o;hini, naives unknown. being part ore Beet which sailed from• . .
lewd, and resources—it would have been now in 1 themselves to be Messengers from France, to timinwit
• ' ' eleint heard in both noises of Pirlialuent?
Paumages the Pith ine. under eon. ey of Arrow schooner. While I hope that I have said enough to ahem the
his power ; but preferring the shadow to the sub- ideate the death of Bonaparte, and theholsting of tie
I - Mss.—Tbe Arrow is arrived at Ptvirerattl• stance—the idle vanity of giving it a King, and that Reufben standard in: France. - They wvere decoreted-2-hasty 'misrepresentations of the Hntertft quAtinno lir ~
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.-. • Ati Holt ON Aerwear.—A letter from• the Hague . little part I take iii convening on politic* irmlittii;. •
' Peninsula (for Portugal must ever follow the for- tbid,foodon that they would first proceed to the 1 ..
of the pith suet. says—" I regret to communicatei known among my friends to differ comptetett. croft 1..
tunes of Spain), but has created a revolution in Lord Mayor, and as if with that intention,"they
tbe total failure of the late attack upou the city of the political sentiments which dictated thee verso. p::
• Europe, which wilt be very possibly fatal to him irt ' tookiheir route through the city. Their progress i
.Antwerp, and the fleet tying there. The whole', but knowing their author better than motr;vho 'pee..
every. way.. Thus it is with Lord WELLINGTON as was greedy impeded by the mob, who stopped them :
fors* under the command of Sir TIIOSIAS GRAHAM, t - '
with other ambitious men. ;tau ue cnosen to hale gat every short distance. Pretending to recollect
has been• obliged to retreat, and the French have : • • . he '
hastyand admiration, I am shocked to think that the
governed Spain, niatalo nonssaa, would have hnd themselves on a sudden, they said it might be deemed
istaken Merxham. This fullore is attributed partly • ' •with
the whole opinions of the people him, whirl, disrespectful by the Government, if they did not collecting of a few scattered poems, to be
to the precautions takenhy the French to secure the placed at the end of a volume, should have rates&
at this moment, are certainly in very much the con- first communicate with the Ministers; and then, as
shipping, and partly to the determination of Sir 1. .
. . trim, direction. ,if for that purpose', they ordered the
Gaanew..not to permit the rlestruction of. the city, I • ,I am, Sir, your obedient 'musket.
- " The inclosed very rough sketch of our position Downing-street. Before they reached this deities.: -
which. hecoold have effected with ease, and which 4 . .
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R. C. DALLAS.
u exactly how we -are situated. It is a toms however, they discharged the chaise, wed‘ got
the Prissians were anxious to accomplish. The fire will show yo . . i -
post-boys to t such a clamour.
, very extraordinary pomtron, and out of all rule and . rid_
... a( their companiou, supposing, no doubt, Sat)
of the British was directed exclusively towards
the ships. The -French had filled. all their decks order.; but it will be seen Hut the communications tbAir purpose had been already answered.
irith straw sod sand,' and the snow which had fallen are sit complete, and that if attacked either on our ;. •'' -
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right, occupied by Sir ROWLAND HILL, with Mu-
to A
melting, formed a kind of pulp, sate which shells
RILL°, on our centre, by Sir Srieterort COTTON 011
itiCE
felt, and burst without doing the slightest damage.— .
our left, by. Sir Join: Hors, the who.le. army could r./ of
The Prumiatis fired on the city, and at one period it
be at once in march for support or reintorcement.—
, tie
was on fire in three places; but this part of the at-
-IThe French. position is most perfect. It is a-line err
r this
tack wu trot continued. At length it was disco-
_ poience,anathrefttensequallv every part of our army ; I kg
rued that the fire oaf the British, altheugh well di
. but I have already said thatl do not apprehend it is reels
reeled, was quik•Ateffectual, and Sir THOMAS GRA-
intended to cont.inue in it._ For now. that the in- retina
Ds* determined to discontinue the attack allege-
trenched camp in front of Bayonne is completed, f ha)
ther. • The loss of the British amounts to 500. The .
which
. renders that place almost impregnable but by g far
army, Which- before the advance upon Antwerp !
killed,itite regular methods of siege by parallels, &c. it is ithre
amounted. to SOW, is flow reduced, by
to 7000 effective troops. That 1 m,,,omsitnpisrhoedba.tle that SOULT'S army will be materially of a f
woundid,' and sick, o sec
part of the Saxon corps which occupied Great Sun- u'
--owee- mg.
Bert has marched forward; it will occupy a conveni-
emit I
eat position, and, together with the British troops, The Russians are well stilled in levying contribr-
keep Antwerp in a state of blockade. The Saxons tions, yearsommitting ravages. Count Czeallocuew, Ater,
: hod
make a very fine military appeaniuce, but commit as in the
.1760, made himself master of Berlin !.
sad though it was for a short time only, he exacted Lintels
many excesses as the Cossacks."
Letters received . yesterday from St. Sebastian, a most engross contribution upou the inhabitanits,
itipEit
state that it was reed that the Spanish armies , His Russians destroyed all the magazines, arsena I,
lapppi
by order of the Cortes) would no longer acknow-• ' and founderiestand pillaged the Royal Palaces, The
no fe
ledge blprquit WELLINGTON at their Commander-in-i
h cotavye never suffered
been more
repa espec
andeiall uevern ornamecan bents, which
ir. His es Ai 0
Chief. IPS CO
'WEETORD, Fr.a. 14.—We were last night shown . Prtussian Majesty sustained
ma prodigious loss in fur-
rs Illau
as wat t ac ve h ceases to•
the following postscript of a letter from a gentleman ni ure•
in the neighbourhood of Ferns :-7_-" I am this in- •be torp'id. its a be.tttferocleim..ateLc.ould c
ootcarry away,
mat then may not the gagtll
slant sent for to hold an inquest on the body
Woodbrook : metropolitan seat of he French Government,
of a he completely ate yti
ref
young men, murdered last night near
and_ of 4legance,- expect by only a few hears
tI e seat of captain Blacker. lie was called to the' arts,
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door, not knowing for what purpose, and there in. visit from such indestrioeg guests? A hundred-
staeto e shat dead.,, •We trust we shah be enabled DAVIDS and Wens might paint their whole lives,and
, i,:e the result of the corolla's Inquest In oar norfully depict a siaginday's labour of such power-
t. g !' erful workmen.
ul % • . —( We .riforst Herald). .

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

DEAL. res. 92 —Arrived his hi ojest3's shipl Creny and
Tip kler nom the Roompot.—tlailed the Athol v,'Horriett. Sym-
metry. Vent,', Choke. and Uninn tia.oports for tiornichs
Amber gon•brig. with the outward-bound for Port:mut h.—
Arrived his Majesty's ship Sorveitlaitte with prisoners ekaped
from the Fiend' depots, by the way of Holland.

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Porrsuoterst, 41.—Sailed from St. kleten's roads his
'Majesty's ships I)i;uneusark, Alhicore, Murir, Aid+ the convoy
for the East ladies, Cape, Brazils, &e.; also the Persea4 pith
a teensy for I.i.hain, and the Wanderer fair Pll olouth.—Casse
into harbour his Majesty's ship Desiree (rascal Spithead.—The
'Re-sinuda lakes tonvoy the Downs.

'A letter from Brussels, dated February 81 lays,
" You cog scarcely form an idea of the high venera-
tion which is expressed by all classes here for OM-
character of England, and the ardent wishes. thilit
England might take them under her protection".
The Higher classes do not relish the prospect of in
union with Holland. But the Agents of Hollatik
are secretly preparing the Church to support them.
In ease of an onion with Holland, the Court would,
be traolferred hither. The French, when they quit..
ted Brussels last Tuesday, supposed there was a r
British force of 40,000 men on this side William+,
stadt, or they would not have walked 04. r-without 4;
struggle. They complain that this cot try people
deceive them; which is hi fact the cave. The ship-
ping at Antwerp have heeu end two men d'
war have been burnt. Tlroope ennttilue pouring iii
here and take the directiolt of (:haul Juni 13ruges.—
Ostend has no artillery, aii4- , expected to fall at
the first attack. The Prefect of Braise!',
CST PONLECOUTART4Pigerne to Audios. 'The Duke

.3.
lif "Gitllllo ALE, NSA& CARLIIILS.—.4 fey
days since the stables a.ad bay-loft belonging to Mr.
%loon", of Grinsdale, were discovered to be on. fire:'
Every. trurtion was used to open the dolor, but
before this could be effected (as one of the animals,
having fallen against the door, resisted for some time
the effirts of those who gave their assistance) five:
very valuable horses were suffocated. A large quan-
tity of hay, the property of Porter' White, the in-.
coati* farmer, was consumed ; to whom: also be-
in-
co
tai*
of the horses; the others were the pro- ,
pertrof a friend, who had that day kindly helped
him to remove his goods from the farm he was
quitting.
Lucien 134straraare, of Thorngrove House, near
Worcester, has become a favourite in his neighbour.
hood : be-drives *bogs in a neat one-horse chaise, on
the panstele elf which is incribed a plain and simple'
44 ;

Gist*Esemaxecp Fri. 43.—The
Mel/ supplied with all grain this '
being no fresh arrives since Mo
samples of Sae Wheat appeared met
the prices continue the same u lest
Barley, Peas, and Beans awe is •
Wheal kEirgli4) 44 n
Rni Y 36 43 owl.) 6O 76 rtitto
do.
Bari* r SI 411 01d...
New ditto Onts ...
Malt so 76 Floe ditto
White Peed 6O 6$ Pebaddie.
rr tiewoitto , reoil ditto.
1 0141 d Bolles' 46 70 Fine Floss
1 Oral reas .....44 OP Smell

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of CLAIIIIICE is j yet' attired." •
—The market was LIIIVIALITT.-411r. COUTTs, soon ofterthe flr‘t
his morning, there appearance of Mr. KEAN, in the c artAter of. ..
donday ; what few Richard the Third, sent a gold watch; chnio,• seal*,
met eater sale, but *c. and thirty guineas to him, with it very handsome,
ist market alt.
In letter; testifying his admiration of the talents which.
no alterdiee.' ' Mr. KIM' had displayed, and requesting his accept- ,
toe.. 00000 ••••• 4" ante of what accoVinied the letter, as a small fe.
s
b.tarn 41 ta for the pleaseilAkich his performance had af.•
.......-.. .Torded. This act of kindness most he the more gra.
• ' ftifying to the new performer, as Mr. Ceurrs is •
i •••t •••
0060,0 .O ......... wellAstown admirer of a timid', insomuch that , „I,
Me itaTnra Muaraelledicated to hiZn his Life of that
leo •••.. •••1
1 46111•41 • •• 0 • • unrivalled, lowing:l of the stage.
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