The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-09-15 00:00:00

THE STATE MAN.

MADUTD. Atm. 16.—At last bans disappeared the opprnisofei
of our liberties. Those much talked of armies, which, Wherever
they passed, caused desolation, famine; death, and general &to.
lation, no longer exist; those Generals and their thief, the int-
trusive Joseph, remain terrified by the press ee of a military
genius, the Great Wellington; the apostate Spaniardi, who lent
themselves to he the vile organs of French maxims, are now
wandering, covered with opprobrium, Napoleon said, that he
came so reigenerate 4) hg acconvikbed it I, the Spanish slave
turin ti.laen, the sitplbrstillous free froni prejudices, the coward
;tallaat, t ecreduloastnistrustfhl, the egotist generous, the indo-
lentilioughtlid ; the Spanish genies penetrated the inigaitous
maxims of prance. hot neither this, nor its ESperor, nor its ar-
mies, can resin the light of that luosinoos star, who ploughed the
seas to hurl the eagles from the meal ofSpin,
, Spaniards, we are atiehdy tilisairs.liwpOshiltitution to which
we have sworn, with so ;ouch pleasure, is the best security of
our rights. Oh, fatherl of the cduntry, do not delay the moment
in which our arms may enclose you; and in which we may ex-
press to you our gratitude for the grand monument which you
have raised to the independence of the Spanish Maffei!
As this happy moment is not arrived, let ns divide with our
generous defenden the last remains of our ancient prosperity;
let us occupy ourselves in their comfort ; already we owe what-
ever we enjoy to their efforts,.and whatever we may in future
enjoy. Their subsistence, clothing, core in their sickness, and
promptitude in their conveyances are the objects which should
occupy us, under pain of renouncing the pompous title of Pa-
triots and grateful men. Let us restrain In our hearts the feel-
ings which the impudence of the French partisans, uho.animat-
ed with a vain and ill-founded hope, remain among us as amark
for our indignation, causes in them.

Let us not offend nor insult them; sor,by pretending to correct
one crime commit a greater, in usurping authorities of a right
which does not belong to us—exceeding the limits of that same
eonstituti.,n to which we have just sworn. Let us confide in the
impartial justice of Government, who will revenge our injuries,
and separate as from those who are unworthy of the Spanish
acme. They, of every description, will, even to the se-
pulchre, carry with them the public detestation.
The sad remains of Marmot's army—the march toetinaally
Interrupted of a fugitive King—the uncertain state of Dalmatia
—and the horrible loss of Imperial troops in the North, are not,
in tenth, events which can flatter their hopes. We, on de other
band, who contemplate the victories gained at Ciudad Rodrigo,
Badajos, Salamanca, Astorga, Valladolid, and Madrid; we,
who see Cie standard of independence wave over: t e proviIICCS
of Collie's, Asturias, the Two Castile*, Estretnadum, and
Mancha ; we, who enjoy the privilege of being guided to the
field of honour by the first General known in Lurrope, should
neither fear those deluded men, nor take advantage of ou supe-
riority over them. Let us be just in our resen.meets, praise-
worthy lathe prudence with wbieb we tolerate theta—the Go-
vernment 4 still jest.—(Liehon Gazette, Aug. tt,.)

The following important communication has been
made to us, through a respectable channel, and is
highly deser%•ing the notice of our Readers:—

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fr egillreauituteaLPeßthmaring poopraidin bingtedrminnitehnibrzeradu!hfi yesterday from Sir J
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....--Had. the PRINCE REGENT, on emerging from mitted to him by Admiral MARTIN, off Riga. *
I lt is
• understood that the • t •
Ministerial shackles, been animated with those , y con ain the details of several
affairs that had occurred between tine
sentiments that involentarily actuated the TIILN larench • Russians and
, in all of which the former claim
patriotic feelings of his early friend, Mr: •StlEs rrlority. The Dispatches are expe the supe-
cted to appear in
&JOAN, lie would long, ere this, havp expelled from j the Gazette of this evening.
his COuncils an avaricious and unprincipled Junta,'
I Lord CATIICART has had an audience of the Ent-
who, to gratify an interested and degenerate proper- peror ALEXANDER, by whom he was received in the
, most gracious manner.
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city to a system of unwise politics, have wantonly • -
.Dispatches were yesterday moral received
and Unfeelingly wasted The blood and treasure the! M •from
Marquis of Wrtaaeurox dated
Madrid, the
of the country. Had he done this, the nation 120th Wt.; but their co a t have'
4 t i. en s nettranspired.
would have hailed him as their august
deliverer, The letters l'etersburgh, of the 23d
from St. of
and the strong arm of authority, in iiiveplnefrotti August, •ttre rather Wren -of intelligence. It was
I reported there that the Greed D k C
his presence so unfortunate an attachment, would j . a e ONSTANT/SE
, was missing, and also that an Envoy f •
have kindly cleared the way for the nearer approach ! cm Denmark
i was expected there. The Estella:age was 'III.
of a EOTAL. and SUTVERING PEOPLE. Should MS j A letter from St. Ad n cro, of the 31st ult. states,
Royal highness's mind, rising from the tied of • that (he French had made another attacka• -
1 on dhoti,
luxury and indulgence, be inipresSed with the ne- 1 with 8000 men, and had succeeded in re-taking pos-
cessity of performiag so glorious a task, the !session' of it. The strength of the Spaniards core
i lists of 10,000 men, but it is widely dispersed among
greatest of alt earthly benedictions might yet 1 the mountains in the
I vicinity of l3ilboa, on which
crown his accession to the Throne—the gratitude they meditate a fresh attack, as soon as the differeee
of a great and generous people, whose oppres- corps can be assembled. " To marrow!' says the
sors, after having driven them, by their calami- I
tour measures, into the dark and meagre recesses of j
i letter, at we mean to land, in order to refresh our,
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selves after our voyage, but our stay will rot exceed
a week, after which we shall re-embark, to commerce
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starvation, have, by a mysterious policy, prevented operations at Santona i where the retail have a gar.
their cries from approaching the Royal Ear. We wish 1 rison of woo men. We are, at present, oily 1100
it was in our power, for the sake of bleeding humanity, I altogether, but the first battalion is on the coast,
to atakean impression on his Royal Highness's mind, • and will come here to-morrow, for the purpose of
that would produce a conviction of the imperative ne. Riding us (the 2d battalion, *lash arrived at it. An-
der() the 30th ult.) in the intended attack of Santora.
I cessity of immediately adopting such constitutional
1 The Marquis of Weemareeow has passed Madrid
I measures, as would put a stop to human carnage, and I his P
and is on way to Valencia."
I relieve the distresses and sufferings of the nation. I
A vessel arrived .at Cork, spoke another vessel at
sea, which sailed tell clays after the Pacific from
New York. The Captain states, that the revocation
of our Orders In Council had not proved satisfactory
to the Americans.
The Americans are already beginning to imitate
our European enemies in the accuracy of their Rat.
fatiOil a.
" Intelligence has just been received that the
United States brig of war Oneida, of 18 guns, has
captured, after a ,'esp Tate action of four hours, the
British.ship of war Royal Geirge, of '22 guns, on
Lake Ontario, and has sent her into Sachet's Her.
briut"—(Nem York Morning Star, July 16.)
Upon this article, the Quebec Mercury makes the
following observations :
" The Acne our Readers will perceive to be New
York.currency, than which nothing can be more spa-
rious. kriam unquessionable authority we pointedly
and flatly contradict the paragraph, by assuring our
Readers, that a letter has been received at a respect-
able quarter in Quebec, from Upper Canada, dated
the 21st inst. four days subsequent to the date of the
Nevi Toils labricatiert. ' The letter • sass, that the
Royal George had sailed in search of the Oneida,
and that the latter had, in consequence, taken shel.
ter in S'a.aket Harbour, where she landed her guns
and men, and formed a battery on shore, with her
guns, for her defence."
Captain DTNELY, who was taken in the skirmish
which took place immediately before the entrance of
the allied troops into Madrid, has written hem, to
acquaint his friends that lie is iu good health, and
that lie is treated with the greatest kindness by Jo-
SEM BONAPARTE, Whose army he accompanied in its
flight from Madrid. Captain Deena, has constant.
ly dined with JOSEPII BONAPARTE, who always placed
him at his right hand at sable.
Sir EDWARD BERRY, Bali. (LOrd NELSO'N'S Cap.
tain at the battle of the Nile), and who has for semi
years resided in Norfolk, unemployed, is appointed
to the command of the Beryleut, of 98 guns.
The report of Mr. W:EIIiRTORCI having expressed
his intention to retire from the representation of the
county of York, is contradicted on authority.
Notice *as yesterday Oven, that no person would
be allowed to embark at any of the ont-ports for
Sweden, without first having obtained a passport
far that purpose from the Swedish Ambassador la
London.
The passengers that came down to Harwich, to
embark for Gottenburgh by the last packet, could
not proceed, as they dint not apply for a passport to
the Swedish Ambassador. Alt passengers in future
must call on the Swedish Ambassador to obtain a
passport.
Ann Moore, of Tetbury, in Staffordshire, who has
lived upwards of five years without food of any kind,
, is still alive, and in all appearance in as good health
as she has been for three )cars past.. She is about 50
I
1 years old.
I SHEERNESS, SEPT. 14.7-There area great number
of small craft fitting out here, with the greatest Ix.
Ames
pedition ; it is said they are intended far the
ititan station. Fitting out in harbour—
! The Dublin, 74 gain, Ca, lain Duna; Nimrod, IS guns. Cap
tain Mitchel; Evirgle, ltl, Cant. Taylor; Beaver,
.10, Ca.l:C•_.
1 Drury 1. htercerina,-te, Cap'. Benwtek r ninlirto "Pt. izerr.
teas; Manly, 14,,Capt. Collier; Aeote gun-trig, Lieu t.
reit; and Wrangkr, guit-brig.
1 The llctrock and another gun-brig are in clock,
The Diomede and Su:-
un-
dergoing a complete repair. ~.1)n
tau are fitting out as troop-ships, at Chath I
fain Clay, of the Raisonabk, is doing port duty, i
, the absence of Sir Thomas Williams, who is on Ad-
miralty leave. it'
• The Old 13.1ileyllealenclar contains 181 corami
see
icr
meats, of which there are four for murder, five or Orli.
for forgery and uttering notes, six for aiding I: .
rS of warin their attempt to escape,
gone
highway robber many iess and grand larceilies.
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The trial of the 38 persons, at Lancaster, is, we
hear, to be published at length—in the meantime it
is important to the right understanding of this trial,
that it should be known, that the number apprehend-
ed at the Prince Regent public-house was only 37.—
The thirty-eighth man, Thomas Broughton, was
taken op a day or two afterwards in another .pir.t of
Manchester, and was thrust in amongst the 37. The
object of this may be guessed at from what follows :
Against Broughton much evidence was given by the
spy Fleming, respecting conversations had with him
about 44 nocturnal meetings of armed men"—" do.
struction of factories," ec.c. &c.—but not a single
syllable of this kind of matter was ever mentioned
in connexion with any of the 37. How then came
the cases of these men and that of Broughton to be
confounded? Simply because there was not against
the 37 enough of matter to make even the appear.
once of a case. It was probably feared, that what was
to be produced against them was too meagre to gain
the case even a bare hearing, unless it could be larded
or seasoned with the richer and high-flavoured matter
respecting Broughton. Who Broughton is, or how he
came there—whether he was an accomplice of Fleming,
or was only accidentally partaking of the free drink
dispensed by this spy—whether he really joined in
any conversation such as that imputed to .im by
Fleming, or was, like the others, theinnocent victim
of false swearing,—could not he known from what
transpired on the trial. It appeared clearly, how-
ever, that there was not the slightest connection be-
tween Broughton and the rest of the Prisoners ; he
was said to have been in the same house, but not in
the same room with any one of them. It seems
strange, therefore, and scarcely reconcilable to the
rules of evidence in onr Courts, that Fleming's ac-
count of improper conversation held between him-
self and Broughton (which by-the-bye constituted
three fourths of all the evidence Fleming gave),
should be allowed to be brought forward to tho pre-
judice of the other Prisoners, who had with Brough-
ton no connection whatever. When the whole truth
cotnes out, it will probably appear that the thirty.
seven were at first apprehended, not in consequence
of any positive information on oath of their having
committed any unlawful act, but solely on suspicion ;
and that, at that time, it was not intended to bring
forward against them either Fleming or Broughton.
Some one suspected that their meeting was an unlaw-
ful one, and it was expected that their papers, when
seized and examined, would justify the suspicion.—
It was a random experiment, expected to be justified
by the resole, similar to several dashing entries into
private houses in the night-time, in search of arms,
on suspicion only, which took place in another part
of the county, of which the public' may expect to
hear monk The immediate actors in this and those
affairs might, perhaps, have been luxuriating in
fancy on the powers about to be • ;posited them by,
Lord Castlereagh's new Bill, till they forgot, for the
moment, that these dashing peace-preserving powers
tfwhreoerenavnt,heetthyianettspecittirionedm.eesit.Wadd4iesinpad,'perhosweiveiezred, italeopppgeewriadii
their procsedings)eittlil s .
perfectly legal, and that these who had arreatedsbesii` /1477-LLIGENUE*
had (by thus prematurely exercising tha -dims K,l" •4"i.' !tam 14•
under co*
got into a scrape—then FlemiOg trastopiNrw,TrVit othstuern nil 3.
with
the
""ingships oteham.
as a scapegoat, to justify. his bettees.bri
them with an oath on which to ieomsoltaisd bibitstag tee'rltt Coot rorher!, rom rtga
m the Sosch
ploillioacca, hanger, ant Consod, from (14.---getiaMlll nray-y. Lint..*::fttliatinetan, Pitt, Retreat,
I.Providence,
denee,
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the risk, attd blame, and respousibiAfty hilt /yea; dr...kat kerktusaaasiled for ter River.
shoulders. The thirty.seven were 'skied on Theses -:1111110011,11‘0101,91kie flosinio 00 a erdile•
day night, they underwent •Itn egangontloo4oo4 _so „,, FACI4.OVIII, gurr. lt
the Magistrates on the Friday, when neither Fiore-LIM/6"P
•.• . tree_ days. •
ing nor _Broughton were heard si.--Ors dinistrklY
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sad the elkletefol oath. ', 1""r•s";‘ iroiltqf trek lial•iatariwwilhilli ft" 14 se it p
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