The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-07-31 00:00:00

jusw,------
At two o'cloels yesterday afternoon, no interrop-
had been Oven to the treating istialconceg awr
don
otiv, messed to tho Masi lis brtha Board of
Trld,•; and it wisest expected that aux retaliatory
boitile measures would be ado Wed by tiorrrnmeet„.
ou this side the Atlantic, in the hope that the rive.'
ration of the Orden its Council is multi soott.terniluato
tio war now unhappily commenced.
Mr. Fosztn was expired to retire to Halifax, un-
to he beard from his Goverment.
same of the most recent letters from Halifax, state,
cot Admiral Sswyza having received fresh proofs
of the hostile intentions of Amerirt against Great
Bsitein,bad sent endiz titter the three ships which
be hod eeteesed, which had been brought into
bass by the Beirillere, after her ren-ontre with.
the three American frigates and two sloops; and had
captured two of them. The following is an extract
of a letter, received from Halifax by the Julia:—
~ Itsttrax, Jots' 4, Wit
,1 osearodma is this moment proceeding out of the bersour,
os, the Africa, tit guns; Amnon, i
t' it
and
mbed to Ittirip ri saoo. ftr,_
.stra Thirty Anrerican prisoners are just nu.—
Me are like to have swum work, for our tars are all ripe for
sioNer
The Jamaica fleet, under the .convoy of oni Ivi: I
tete, and isting of MO sh, was to haro
oiled on then*boot Is but
30th of June. It just possible I.
that, previous to their departure, they could obtnin.
intelligence of the rupture with Amerca, and they 1
may, therefore, be esposed to imminent danger,
especially as twelve armed ships were iu readiness at
ihltimore to sail at an hour's notice. It is not ins- I
probable that numerous American vessels now ini
the ports of the Coliti tt en t ,ma y preens gun s,and under 1
yo.ich colours, commit deprnlations throughoukthol
cost of Europe from the Mediterranean to the Bal-
tic. This situation of Stairs might have bvett avoid- i
ed by vigour and promptitude, am. is to be attributed ;
only to the imbecility and proctasdnation of the '
Household Cabinet.
Letters of a r ~•ent date from Curacoa, state, that
intelligence had leached that islwid from the Caree-
ns, of Mut %ND.% having failed in his attack on Va-
lerc4, ids f ores. it was said, had been routed, by
the Government troops, and he himself made pri-

soner.
. Tie French Papers inform us, that, in conse.
gees, of the tt.ar in the North, a Loan. which Rus-
sia had raibrd in Holland some Fears ago, fell '2O per

GENERAL ORDEi, S.
Home Creirds, Jetty '24, 10119..
U Whig been I epreleated the Coma: suti..r-it •Chief. 'hat
Winsravisosters of Regiments eur .;ed ia eomosei*t And
et aprivatenatare, R"", al 17..,thnessjudges it -.-eet-
ary ro declare, that be topsiders all s : hor ocatintts
OW wig their regitheatal dots.; and 10 ccietivold
re l the.
or
weal ymasten shall, cm tin aunty , c:itag dictly in. ,
dirtily, in trellis or coinurtte of . y kind. -.set shall strictly
evert themselves eadroly to the dot: :s (..f +Le sea. sow they hold
eleir respective corps.
cmagsgad of ~is Royal Highness*. Ceernanderift-Chief, .1
H AlitY CALVERT, A lutes Aiwal.
His Royal iiighnesa the Cul time tide ii. Chief, it
is understood, will vtiake a rsititary aotrov Of the ;
ILentbh Oast in the COMMIS of the cissuins month.—
Preparatory to Na inspection, tip wotits oo the
Royal Military Canal, through Roes soy Marsh, ars,
to be completed, sad the careen monnted on the I,
fankt; SO pieces of ordnance (IS and 24-pounders)
ate destined for this p •
Lirefetleilt-GtII.IIII6ArIeTARD IS to be Commander '
%Wet of the fortroln Scotland, durinfthe nholuime
sf Lord CATHCART,
'the Durham Militia are to march to Fife, and till
to tocc.ecded sit Port 'iciaton barracks by the Cam-
bridgeshire Militia, now at Dunbar.
About 280 French prisoners were landed at Leith
as Tuesday seinnight, from the Regulus; 44 guns, I
and were tnarthed off to Pennicuik under a strong es-
cert. The,remainder, consisting of officers do parole,
was lauded on Wedhesday.
The following is a Copy of an extraordinary Ad-
dress said to have been delivered to the Passengers on j
beard of the American ship --, Capt. —, I
prenious to their departure from Calais, on Friday I
last, the 24th of July, 1812
Gurtswww,—You are leaving France to return to your
towary—into the bosoms( a mafiosi allied to ours. The French •
Gwasseat, peastrated with the motives w hich distiuguish ib
IlitElfhesit career, only wisow that you may repeat to our
imstrymen the exact recital or what you have seen. 1 NM
*Met by my Government to inform yous that it will enders- I
war to protect those who keep within the bouuds of reasup, is
Parma/to it will peaish those who, carried away by unruly
yartalie or the rage of oar enemies—spread alarming!
17100 a rniam--and by false cosjectores engender online-
-011. The eyes if France are tamed to the new world as well
111 a thi, t and the hers whogoveras her knows well how to dis-
tbe friellayest "we caste to sod comulafp°rd
11franyherrieglittemmusie..
If
Utst,,___ he Mt attrihate it to as unjust motive, but to the
uailler whisks Goveraineot, surrounded by rue- ,
win, has inarehte evilest their attacks, without suck rigo. I
cast neassmai but oar friendship for the United S.ates is •
sincere."
The subjoined Address was issued by the Emperor
AttlANota to his troops on the commencement of
vat by the attack on the Russians at owno
GENERAL ORDERS
f)?
RrsslAN IMPERIAL MAJESTY To TUE AR- I
?.IFS, time Al murk, JUNE 13 49., 1814.
" ForFora 115 time Past we had remarked the hostile co
"mport-
snot Ole resets Emperor tiwards Russia; but we Mill
ortu,latuilibmoderate end pacific -leasurcs, to avert hostili-
titt At last, notwithstanding all our wishes to maintain peace,
we *heeled an incessant re pi Ilion of own outrages, which
eastward us to arm, ari.!-lis ussemble our troops; thonFli still,
whilethe ennid Satter ourselvos with tbe hope of reconribatioo,
we remained within the confines of our empire; sea without 1
ltedaigt• lag peace, wire prepared for defence. Al these moderate 1:
Pacific. measures could not secure to 'is the tranquillity of
which we weredesiross. The French Emperor, brie attack upon I
'sat troop at Rowse, has already commenced war; sad copse- '
trimly nothing farther remains for as, but, while we invoke the
aid of the Sovereiga of the Universe, the Aothor sad Defender
Of Troth, to plate oar fagot. is opposition to the force of the
i "walk It s noneeessary to remind our Generals, our Chiefs,
;" "anion. of their duty, mid of their valour. la their veins"
2Vis the blood of tbeSelavomiaus, so 'aighly renowaed of old for
`"v" victories. Soldllers! you we the defraders of religion,
ethnliefs and indeopecience. lam with vow God
Oar tide. ALEXAMbEIf' ou
The following Proclamation has been hosed at
14a, declaring the city to be in a state of allege :
" Bicasaaf2ase issued by his Imperial Majesty 10 thr„Lecis-
blies it has been ordered, that trantter
Owpallamats aro in a Mate of war. they Up seder the
""""rtltatctioagliertedlie Commander in Otie AIL the district,
111111fteht ....119101wilst be Ouplicitly obeyed in the ealldeart ctirLiseel
innolutots, and civil and military authorities, ma uc
sy,a Court-martial appoiated by biro.
" blasting etretteamances having rendered U PEklihT7(l,-Ikit•
marls' Order declares the city of Riga in estate of war.
The cooldesce.plarad bythe subjects of Reign is the re- I
i" orderedby,lbrir beloved Sovereign,.aad (be zeal .1,
ts. often thews so falfilliegsach orders. costlier tie T.
4heuittlitliw:veivreinifirfenn.titra,haistad'ldealhAttlatAlt:"Akisheoutosse4:4lgmesiltalfiiileylitielS.Per"4"'
to
1/641" eejulat as mach as Iles In their powee;_;
„(, L. N.) " J DU RAWL, elsOilleointw.
- NAP Clair, 140), 111111'11'


THE srrATESMAN. • -*?•_

mum.
At Newbury, on Saturday last, Was held a Most. The trunks of two oak trees, one 19 feet in length,
ing, convened by the Bishop*? Salisba for the and twenty feet in circumferenste, and the other
pnrpme of forming a Society to establish fools for fifteen feet and a half long, by nine in circumfir-
the Education of Poor Children, in Hat town and once, were lately discovered in the sands of the
neighboorhood, on the plan of Dr. Bell. The meet- water of COI.* near the seat of SW J. Maxwell,
ing was very respectably attended, especially by the of Pollocke, Bart. Strong machinery was prepared,
Clergy, and the Rev. Mr. Boucher, of Bright Wal. and thetwo beautiful stems were heaved up from
ton, was in the Cair. The Resolutions proposed to the bed of the water,into whic • all probability,
ill la
he dopted, were those circulated by the National. they bad been precipitated by the axes of the Roe •
Society, the distinguishing feature of which is an ex-. mans.
elusive attention to the instruction of children A peasant, from Northumberland, has signalised
belonging to the Establishment. After the Resole- himself by several admirable swindling exploits .it
tions were read from the Cheir, the Committee' Edinburgh. lie assulned the dress and conversation
of the Newbury Laucasterian School offered to thelof a West Indian Gentleman, and occupied elegant •
meeting, through F. Page, Fag. to give up their 1 lodgings. Unluckily, he heppened to trespass on ,
School-room, which is capable accommodating two I the good nature of a dotter in hams, who procured •
hundred children. The right of alipointing a new for his worship a place on board one of his Majesty's
1
Master,—their peculiar system of Education,— ships. . .
thar name, property,and interest,—if the new Society 1 A foreigner was apprehended in the neighbour-
would only admit children of all denominations, and hood of Kelso, on Wednesday seinnight, under Ivry
not oblige those whose parents might object to it, to suspicions circumstances, and, after undergoing an
•
learn the Church Cathechism. A warm debate en- examination before the Magistrate, was committed to
sued, in which the proposition Mede by the Lances- 1 that gaol, from whence he was removed to Jedburgh
li terian Committee was strenuously supported hylthe night following. Ile is 'opposed to be a French
Charles Dundas, Esq. M. P. James Croft, Esq. Fre. : prisoner, who had broke his parole.
derick Page, Esq. Anthony Bacon, Esq. and Mr.l Last night, in consequence of the Insolvent Debts-
I. E. 13icheno ; and as zealously opposed by the ! ors Bill having received the Royal Assent, the,
Rev. Mr. Boucher, the Rev. Mr. Sawbrldge, thelKing's Bench and Fleet Prisons were illuminated,'
Rev. and Honourable Mr. Grey, and the Rev. Mr. and several appropriate transparencies displayed. ' •
Wy Id. Monsieur Petite 2 who lately made his escape from-
The Resolutions adopted by the Lantos. terian Corn- confinement at Montrose, by nnscrewiag the locks
mittee are conciliating and liberal in the greatest de- of three doors, was caught a few days ago, at Ruth.
gree ; and it is to be lamented that the Worthy yen Printfield, after a hard run over hedge and ditch,
Chairman% and those who supported him, should re- by some gentlemen who were viewing the field.—
ject them as inconsistent with the plan of the Greed Monsieur was brought in by the neck, and safely
National Society. These Resolutions are as fol. lodged in his old quarters in Perth gaol (he was,
'low : . there about a year ago). the little gentleman bat- '
Resolved unattip=e7, That the Committee of the lameaste- ing been ordered over to the depot at Peuicnik, a
clan School, in
pr
With the conviction of the great impor- I serjeant and seven or eight men were sent to escort
• lance of clifomiall as extensively as Peollbk the atirantaßes a him. On their arrival at Kirkcaldy, where thej-
Education ansimpt the Poor, are desirous' of malting with the 1
were to halt for the day, he was deposited for the
Nwtional Society.
That they. are most anxious to avoid and to prevent Manias , time in the prison there ; but Monsieur Petite did
and apposition, and to meet the Society on the most liberal prim. , not like the house, and left it quietly during the 1
ciples ; and to coacede ,i much of their own peculiar Plan as 4
consistent with the design of their Institution. , night. lie has not since been heard of.
1 'chat in order to demonstrate the sincerity of their intentions, ! At the last Carlow Assizes, Patrick Corcoran was
I they make a free and voluntaiy Direr to the Society of their •.
indicted for having, on the 28th of July last, in a l
. School-room. fitted up as it is with every necessary accommo- ;
dation, and capable of immediately receiving WO children c•' held near Moneybeg, committed a rape: also, an as-
together with the rcpt of appointing a Master educated in the , mutt/ with an intent to commit the offence on Miss
1 Principles, and according fir the .System of Dr. Bell. and the /,•., tutor B rne, who was produced and sworn; site
role and exelissive management of the School in all its branches. . ... y -
, That the only points on which they motet indulgence weer' stated that on the evening of the 28th July, 1811, i
1 that no Child" ft a9f .elitems aea'nolnatina shall be ex-' she was'met by the Prisoner, whom she had known I
eluded ; and that no cbjid, whose parents object to it, shall be 1
compelled to lean thiMburell Cateillishi. , beim; that he first wheedled her, and then forced
The badness of the Military College will be re= si het over a wall, poured spirits down her throat, and I
moved, on the 15th of August, from Marlow and . afterwards effected his purpose, and quitted the
'Wickham, to the building lately erected for that pur- : comfy till withiu that monthi—Patrick Kelly and
pose near Black Water. i , his wife were produced, .who wrote that they heard!
it is . tat..' *or Byrne on that night say,. " Oh, Corcoran, I,
! The House of KeNstworom and Co. will,
. Corcoran, don't ill use me l?'.--On their cross-exami- I
.1 said, pay nearer 20s. in the pound than ally Banking-
inottion they admitted that the accent: 'a which the I
!house that has failed 'within the last century : to
uitered . tbece words.. were .more of a love than an
their honour it should also be known, that unlike I
sound! —ln the Defence, Elizabeth M'Gee,,l
i many others, with immense securities in their hands,4 "STY with her the ni
plowed that.she ita in coaimuly ght
they never converted one to the relief of their own '
',laid is the indictment; that elmadvised.her to go home
exigencies, but rightfully surrendered them all to
sad not go towards Prisouer's house, which she refund 1
i their resuctive owners. to do. -Any ityland proved, that in a eonversadon I
! The Enclosure Affidavit Bill, the object of which 1 with E. s
. Byrne, she acquitted him of 'having violated
was to dispense with the Parliamentary farms of. "", 'hie person,seses- that she would not prosecute. huk•to
Ifidavits by witnesses, was thrown out in the Lordi
• oleasteber father -. and uncle. Lord Norbury charged
on Wednesday, upon a Motion for that purpose by.. th• e
"the Lonmectsczta.ua. Why was this Bill thtwWw. ~,.. •
out' Was it not done for'fcar the Clerks 9f Ace
. •
Jury by-saying, this case deemed their:cool and
, sospsestonate investigation with regard to the capital
eherge, If they had any doubt they should acquit ;
should lose their fees, and some part of the national'
] but there were gradations -of offencrs, and if they
Ibusilless be thereby expedited ? I believed the second count in the indictment proved,
1 The Farming Society of Ireland have postponed . the villagers of Moneybeg should be taught a chute
I their annual sales of fine wool until next month, ex- i observanceof the laws.—The Jury acquitted the
I pecting the Bill to be etutcled into tietaw, which will Prisoner of the capital offence, but guilty as to. the
! exempt wool, the growth of Ireland, from the aim- residue of the indiotment. After a suitable admoni-
!don' duty. tiou be was sentenced to an imprisonment of. twelen:
.
The Silver Arrow, given by the. town of Edia- calendar months. • ... •.• t : ~.I
burgh, was shot for or, tiatarday last by the Royal Yesterdayt as Sir George Ivisou Tapp', ht his vet-
-1 Company Hof Archers, and gained by ihMES Hors, ride, was driving out of Salisbury-square, the horses
Esq. W. S. ' took fright, in consequence of a man -messing them:
Iwctatoott's nm eeeleenent, at Covent-garden with a truck, when they set off at full speed; bat,.
ITheatre, is ascribed tq Ice firm friendship of Ma. fortunately, in turning round the corner of Salis-
• /news, his coadjetor in their late dramatic Mao- bury-court into Fleet.street, one of • the horses fell,
1 rancy : the latter refusing to engage, unless' the i which stopped their progress, though at the same
,• former was re-admitted with him on the same boards.. moment Sir George was thrdwa oat o f the curriele,
1 Mr. J. Busrst, of Dowgtte Wharf, has, by public: when the wheel went over his body. We are happy,
I advertisement, solemnly denied, upon his honour, the I however, to say, that he did not receive any material'.
l of seduction, which have been brought ageing I injury.
I Ma, and been so whimsically agitated in the Royall ROWING-MATCH.—The Annual Prize Wherry,
iEschange: concluding his curious notilication in these given by the Proprietors of yasuthall Gardens, was on
I terms :—" And (farther give notice, that if the sys.l Wednesday contended forty the following 7 water-
Itern of annoyance be persisted in, which has hitherto men, under 35 years of age, in gentlemens• funnies :
been adopted, it proceeds nut from the sentiments of , No. Names. • . . , Where belonging.
1 . George Hattlett .......1 VIM shall.
`honour, which are assumed, but from sinister me- 2 Henry Termer • Sinkskie.
tires. 9 • Thomas Dawson r. • Ditto.
" Dlivtgate Wharf, July 29, ISIS. , J. BU NN." 4 Thomas Wend .; ,14-.'! Ditto.
5 Robert Adonis
At the East-riding Sessions, held at Beverley, last' . 6 • Propels. ROW: I: I. ft ./14....i, 3 Val Mall.
weak, Afrr. Mille and her daughters, the noted 7 Joseph Gregory,. wits • ...;,. r Ditto.
swindlers, who had been confined free the preceding They started from. paickftwe's -laridge at six
Sessions, on a charge of conspiracy, were let at li•• , o'clock.. Turner, Weed,ised Bartlett being the first
! betty, the Prosecutor declining to premed against Itinle who arrived off Lambeth in the first hlat,
them: but Mrs. Mills,_ we understand wits arrested started for the second hest to Alettersea-bridge, and.
I
for debt and sent to York Castle. from thence te, Ventthall, when, after a well-con-
t . . " .
A rural jetc, surpassing any thing we hive o'er I testedrpatch, match, Bartlett was-declered the victor. •
witnessed of the kind, was given on Saturday last; by 1 Tho names of .the.six. yeuag Vlratrinen who are
• mi., Jona wecar,a, at his charming cottage, se , to row, to-morrow, ice the Livery and Badge give's,
I Willsdon-Greeu. A cold collation consisdwg desert i by Mr. Thomas Daggett, the late famous Comedien,l
' delicacy which the season afforded', with the chaitist in conunemoralion of the happy accession of the Fa-
mily of his, present Majesty to tha,Throtte of Great i
• wines, was salved up in a style of elegance and
simplicity, rarely displayed upon .stash, amalgam.— Britain. t•-• . • . .i
James Harmon, Bankside 1 Wai.°Reynolds,Vittert
The polite and hospitable attention of Mr.atsdMrs. • job. t 0,,,, Tower ' Jas. Faller, Mist 1,
IW. to their guests, .Consisting of-at •least one bun- - mod. Rothe/lathe itiabard May, bootidth. : T
deed Ladies and Gentlemen, was never. exceeded. The second and third Prises are the giftslef Also lath
,atee ea. gist.WateJoliiie t—ThesecopdPriae is 31. late 4400
The Lydia, from the elegatioeof their dress
quisite- beauty, formed the mint fascinating. group Third ditto. 21. se. 11d. • • ', . . ' ~:et
we ever beheld; and when they
_began the nimble Seaaatsc.—The last sparring exhibition
ur for the
dancb epos she velvet greed, ender Iltetiereese ca- gesso' took place yesterday at the Five, Cot,. for
nopy of 'Heaven, it brought et nor. rmeentiontat the benefit•of Power. The greatest eevelty on this
whatve have heard told eft iry' desdineniek. occasion was a match between a trial man 4. Greg.:
whith.was conducted frith at order Moony, son's), named Carter, from Lancashire, a candidate
eatiedwith the closingiiali wheathecoletemyletbratit of first rate weight for fighting fame, and Fuller, a
with their minds deeply inepressed with thohnsamy of scientific popifof Richmond's, which elforded meek
the smite, the liberality admit hostel widths' phase diestosioe. Power and ;Datch Sete, end iticlimonti
of thide y,.--Neet' morning; the resnalistnefathie4tee Mai Fuller also set to, aidid sevend etthe pupils of
whiak were very tomeiderablet werelbegatheatdr Power. at' :•-4.• .•--• ... • Ale iv.- 'l7l/ .-t;! , -
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to e. manner' per yratirortht.df • heirlibovoLloohodo quest woo hold before Arroos,v ,g,,E4,,„. AK. at 'the
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