The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-10-18 00:00:00

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There was a report on the Etchanle this morn-
ing, that Lard \b ELLISGTC. had litrt'Att'd
a second tiaie, with still greater slaughter, than in
the battle of (he Sierra de Busaco. We lament
to say, that there does not appear to be the
Tiglttest foundation for this rumour ; and we
base reason to believe it was set on foot fur in-
terested purposes. The public anxiety, on this
subject, is so great, that attempts to play upon it
Ili!, be made by buso wretches, fur base purposes,
till the result in Portugal is announced from autho-
rity ; and it will be well for the public to guard
against these worse than pick-pockets.

Our Letter from Yarmouth, received this day,
states, that the Briscis p,un.brig, Lieut. BANTYM,
has bad a smart affair with a French privateer, of
14 guns, and full of men. The privateer ran the
Ilriseis alongside on Sunday night last, and at.
tempted to carry her by boardiag, but wag, repulsed;
4t length the Br/4cis boarded the privateer and car-
ried her. We have lost in this affair four men killed
and 10 wounded • the privateer 18 wounded.

The Es.Quecn of HOLLAND arrived at Fontein.
bleat' on the Bth inst.. The Queen 9f sr,tist was
shortly expected to arrive at the same place ; and
the repudiated Empress Josseuraz is wandering
through Switzerland.

It is said, AO it is the intention of Government
to send British Officers to Minorca, for the purpose
of training, disciplining, and organizing the de-
serters from the French armies, and other recruits
collected in that islancl, after which, it is said, they
are to be seat to Sicily. The folly of this need not
(w? should imagine) be pointed out !

We are extremely sorry to Mate, that it is gene.'
Tally believed, that the neguciation for an Uschenge
of Prisoners has terminated in a way painful to all
humane hearts. On that man, who tyrannizes over
the country he rules, and over every country be
can reach with his Power, on tie slain, the rc.
protte,l4 of the agc in which his crimes have devc.
loped tbemselvei, on him be the guilt! As we bc.
Into observed, our government made concessions
'quite unusual on such occasions. They not only

conceded to the caprice and cruelty of the ty.
rant, what it was almost ridiculous, on account of
'its extravagance, for any 011 C to ask ; but they were
reluctant to close the negociation while they deemed
that any thing remained which it was possible to
grant. th‘t 141CiPAVE did not mean, never did
peen to agree, on aoy terms, to the E;changc, is
vlain enough from his shifting of his ultimatum:, if
ire can use this apparently contradictory language.
At is plan too, froni the iiroposal which our Goverit.
3nette thought themselves bound to reject.' This pro.
posal of the French govornment is said to have
been—That for every 3000, French prisoners Jibe.
•
rated by us, we should receive only 1000 of our
own countrymen (the greater part of who, have
suffered u long and unjust captivity qf scp.c.nycars),
and 200:4 Spaniards and Portuguese, but recently
vaptured, whom we were likewise to have the cx.
ponce of shipping and supporting to their own coon.
try.--For tbeiake of those unfortunate persons who
were so Nriuliodsly, detained at the breaking out of
the war) we wish even this proposal had been com.
plied wilt'. N.i) sacrifice that could be made for
them could be' too great. Yet we are com.
pvlled to a' cktiowledgo, that the proposition of
the-Um:4lm I:meenott violates the principle of
evitable exchange, and Governments are hound
•
by with:inks (when they act justly), and cannot
give any latitukle they please to feeling. We really
eonclutic, therefore, whatever we may wish, or
bowevei much we may 14ment a great evil, that the
responsibility far the sufferings of the prison.
Lis, on both sides, rests upon the French Emperor ;
ar:d we believe the whole world will he of the same
opialon.—We shall be glad, however, to find that
the iirgociatiou is not entirely broken off ; and
vien, we recotameod Government to deviate from
all rommua ruin, and Brant even the you unjust
terms which are dCII,I3NdVd.

fo a subiequen,t part of the Paper, we have thin
in:keited the manly and independent speech of
• the mo, of cheltcnham, at the comas,
ileeting at Gloucester, which dues equal credit to
• •
Lis head rind his heart.

Sir SAMS SAUM‘itcz having understood, that the
Empresi of RusstA occasionally bathed ricer 4ige,
gave orders that nu rrniser should approach within
ocuty:Gre miles oL Air pisteg, and wrote the Fon.
irreas to that tOct. The guiperor f Ites4iA has
written Sir JAMS! SA UNA REX a Very
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totter on the occasion.

The report of the state of the Pringess
received in town this day at two o'clock, We la-
anent to S2y, is very unfavourable.
The Prineesti Aitcr.ta 'was on Monday night
se4ed with it violent tit of coughing, which con,
tinned for some time, and was the cansc of her
Royal Highness being so much wtor.e on Tuesday.
She had about two hun-ra sleep on l'ileaday night,
took some strengthening refreshment, and appear.
ed much easier yesterday morning ; hut upon the
n hole, we are sorry to say, she was only cett,i.
dered iu about the same state as on Tuesday. The
Put:sec Duke of Yottte have returned to
Windsor.

On account of the afflicted and uncertain state of
the Princess toiEL.I.I, his MAJLSTy has declined
consiog to town, to hold Courts as usual on Wed-
nes& v, at the gneen's;Palace; but the state of the
ptOlie business nut admitting any further delay, a
Council was ycsierd iy held at Windsor, which was
at,,:.(ied by theAt.-.lhishop of C. NTERBU Ry, the
Marquis WEt.r.istAv, Earls CAMDEN and I.tvER.
POOL, Lord Jlul.cnave, Messrs. Pr.licET A y:
pun, &c. 4t this mooing, we understand, the
further prorogation of rarliament was determined
on.

The Duke of GLOUCESTER quitted Cowes on
Friday se'nnight, crossed over to Southampton, and
proceeded to Welter Park, where he slept that
night, and on Saturday morning set off for Bagshot
Park, in his way to Tunbridge Wells, where the
Grove.house is taken for his residence.
Captain Burton, who brought the dispatches
from Portugal, was present when the battle was
fought and decided, and has imparted several parti-
culars. Lord WIiTAiNGTON, although perfectly
prepared, did not expect the enemy would coin-
mence the attack at that time. His Lordship's or.
tiers to On; army were, " Should the enemy ascend
the mountain, and commence kis attack, lel him
approach new enough for the reception of a few
vollies, and then follow hi, with the bayonet."
This order was strictly observed. Captain Bunco
says, tbat the most moderate computation of the •
French killed and wounded, which had been made
before his departure, very far exceeded 10,000.
It had been ascertained, that Al asseNA's army was
in want of every article of provision. The com-
bined army, on the contrary, were abundantly
supplied, and the troops M the highest state of
health and spirits.
A mistake, it appears, crept into the Gazelle
account of the Battle of Busaco, by which the
praise intended to be bestowed by the Commander
in Chief •ou the Forty-third Light Infantry Regi.
ment, was erroneously attached to the Forty.
eighth Regiment ; the Forty-eighth never having
been attached to the Light Brigade.
The skeleton of the 70th Regiment, under the
command of Captain CAMLUON, is on the march
to Tilbury Fort, where they are to embark for
Scotland, there to be recruited and tilled up fur ser.
vice again.
The 4th, or King's Own, is imuediately to cm.
bark for Portugal. A considerable quantity of the
spherical case snot also to be sent out by the same
convoy.
Major NArttg, 50th Regiment, is severely
wounded in the face, but we ar.• happy •to hear nut
dangerously ; he wrote to his family on the fourth
day after the action.
Yesterday a Baliot was taken at the East India
[louse, on the following; Question, which was de.
dared by the Scrutineas to have been Carried in the
affirmative, viz.—
" That Court confirm the unanimous Revolution of the
Court of Directors of the IA instant, whereby the Commander
ai! ()woe ri of toe ship A are fully to-mimed from all Im-
putation of neglect or unseeeduct respeit to the Jou of that
.Yesterday a court of Directors was held at use
Fast India House, when the undernientinned Cap.
tains were sworn into the command of their respec-
tive ships, viz. Captain R. 11. BnowN, Dorset..
shire; It. Nisac'rr, .Z.SSCX; T. 11. WitAlNsot,
Cumberland ; for Bombay and Cltina....l.Wonos.
WORTH (N. S.) Earl of ilbergavenny, for .China'
direct. The Court adjoUrned at six o'clock till
Wednesday next.

A French vessel, proceeding from Taranto with
soldiers, Won:4in,, the 11th battalion of tight i n_
Pantry, to reinforce the garriton of Coyn, has been
met by the Uniti frigate, and b.y her taken and sent
into Messina. •

A vessel called the Aratia Josephs arrived at
Lisbon, on the .7th ult. from Monte Video, from
whence slit; sailed about the 10th August. Adviecs
have been received by this opportunity, that on the
approach of the military expedition which lett Bue-
nos Ayres fur Cordova, to suppress the insurgents,
t.;euerat LINIEUS had abandoned his situation, and
was retiring into the interior with only about 200 or
300 men. It was presumed that he would kis over.
taken, as he could nut cross the Cordillera moun-
tains at that season of the year.
A learned author talking to an accomplished and
beautiful woman, held her hand between his dur.
ing the conversation ; when helot it go, a person
in company exclaimed, " That was the finest work
that ever came out of your hands.".
In a v,ry thin house an actress was speaking very
low in her communication s with her lover, when
the actor, with a face of woeful humour, exclaimed.—
" My dear you may speak out, you see there is,
no one to hear us.''

The project of making an archway through
Shooter's Bill it said to be again revived. What
with arch.t.wAs among the men, and' arqh-ways
among the women, honest John Bull Ail) not be
left a plain a ay to go by.
The last Stage Coach Act seems, not to have had
its effect, as from defects therein, and errors
.in the
informations filed against the violators of it, not
one of them is brought to conviction. Thcro should
he a clause in all Acts of this discription thaA no
conviction skull fail by reason of technical itfor-
mality.
LumAsr.oE FAl.R.—This great Agricultural.
and Grazing Mart of the West of Ireland, com-
menced on the 4th inst. The Earl of CLEvcAtery's
extensive park, at Garball7, was opened fur the
rcceptiOn of Ow Socks,. anti nearly 100,606 head, of
sheep were to•be seen collected. Otthtle-oo hwir
tuts 66)610 N ere sold on the first day. •

N.IVA L' I.VTE LIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH, Oct'. 16.—Aiti‘ed the French prig privateer
L 1 Contest de Nomlive, of I and :55 men, captured to
•the west of Si•illy by t!w Rhin fe igate, after n chase of 4 hours.
She had made three captures this cruise, rig. the brig iLuver,
front Loudon, botmd to Lish:m, wits ransomed; the
iirig Dragon, from Yak,.cio, bound to London; and the Pur-
tqAuese bark. 1.';•... ~ from Lisbon, bound to London.
Arrived the Cadmus hrig of war, from a cruise.
Came down out of harbour and anchored in the Sound, the
Fitt-hound brig of war. • •
Arrived the Cleaner armed ketch, frism Lisbon, having
landed Captain Burgh, Lard %Vellington's Aid•de-Catnp, un
the north of Cornwall.

FA Lasoutit, Ocr. 15.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Ar-
mide, J 6 guns, Capt. ifardytnan, from Plymouth, to take the
trade to the castuard, instead of his I.ll4jesty's ship Preside nt,
which is ordered on another len ice ; also, his Mjeity's satp
Fawn, liiguns, andillaw lii guns, front a cruise. Active,
Bartlett, from PoJle.
Sailed his Majesty's chip Martin, of IP gam, Captain Evans,
with convoy far Newfoundland ; Queen Charlotte packet,
Mudge, with mails tier A ir.rrica ; and his Majesty's schooner
Mullet, of 6 vim, Lieutenant :itandley, with snails for Surinam,
Demerara,

On Saturday last, his !Slajesty's ship pawn captured a large
French schooner privateer of the I,igard, after it long chnee,
in which the pr:vatecr threw all her guns overboard ; same
day re-captured ft large Spenisti ship which had been taken by
the privateer; the tut, prizes at sent for Scilly, it blowing w
hard from the eastward, that it was impossible for them to
work np Channel
%v,! are in anxious expectation of arrivals from Portugal, &c.
but must not expect them while the wind contimies frutu.the
present quarter.