The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-04-21 00:00:00

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All the intelligence we rem -
present the situation of the French armies in such a
manner as to inspire us with confidence.
This news cannot surpii4e us, we, who two months
ago sent forth from the walls of l'ayissualchint troops
to form a formidable army, whether considered in re-
spect to discipline or skilfulness in roanieuvres. We
know that the divisions arrived from Italy lire full 'of'
ardour, and composed of soldiers tried in several cr.
paigns. Artillery, ammunition, provisions of peg'
sort, abound in the French armies, and when they
shall find the/melees electrified by the presence or
their Sovereign,.tbere is nothing which they cannotl
undertake—nothing which they cannot execute.
In the interior, abundance, tranquillity, an entire
submission from the citizens to the la**, whiaishei
can alone guarantee their persons and ptopertieci
with armies filled with honour and courage, cote-
mended by the first Captain of the age, fed by new
and numerous battalions, daily organised under our
eyes, how many reasons for hope, how. many for
security ! If our enemies have not been able to ac&.
complish their projects when a devouring climate'
rendered courage and skill unnecessary,. can they
now expect fresh 'success when the season is nbout to
allow our brave men to deploy their forces, and re-
sume their accustomed superiority ? We do not
seek by vain conjectures to anticipate events, but
every thing leads us to presume that their hopes
shall be deceived, their pride confounded.

AMERICAN PAPERS.
Herm°, Fes. 23.—1 t is rumoutied that General
Prevost has gone into Upper Canada to meet General
Harrison with a force of about 8000 men.
General Dearborn has taken the command in per-
son at ,acket's Harbour.
Letters have been received in this city, dated the
head-quarters of the North-Western Army, foot of
, the Miami Rapids, Feb. 20, 1813. These letters
state, that General Harrison was intrenching himself
at that place, and that all idea of invading Canada,
during the present season, was abandoned. They
add, that the army were in the daily consumption of
0500 rations, and that an additional force of front
.590 to 1000, were expected before the Ist of May.
Letters have been received from General Harrison
I we understand, at -the D...psi•tment of War, it .a
I date much later than the information we this day
copy from a Chilian Paper. It is said that he had
advanced with his army to the river Raisin, and as
late as the 20th had not met the enemy.

- SOUTH AMERICA.

PenNAmeuco, JAN. I3.—Yesterday the George
and the Gambier anchored off the harbour, after
having been engaged for four hours with an Ameri-
can scooner of 14 guns and 120 men, and they are
crippled in their masts and rigging. In the morning
and afternoon of the same day a considerable tiring
was heard in front of the harbour, from which we
feared further depredations on the trade ; awl we
have learnt from the Officer of the Libre Portuguese
ship of war, who boarded the American schooner,
that the latter had captured five days previous a Bri-
tish vessel of 20 guns and 43 men, a little to the
southward of Augustin:
PERNAMBUCO, Jan. 17.—The American schooner
I still hovers off this harbour. Yesterday a large ship,
supposed a frigate of the same nation, came from the
southward, and lays-to opposite Olinda.
1 134111 A, J'Ag. 26.—The brig Edward, with a va-
luable cargo from Liverpool, and the November
packet, have arrived. The former, on the 11th in.. ,
stant, was pursued by the .American sloop of war
Hornet, and the latter, on the 13th. A few days
!previous to the arrival of the Edreard, several boats
' were placed along the coast with the promise of re.
ward should they succeed in putting the letters given
to them on board any British vessel that should ap.,
peni; and two of these letter's being put on bOard
the Edward, the warning she received. was the mean
of ber escape. The Hornet was close in with thetand
on the 23d.
Admiral Dixon, in the Montague, arrived yester.
day from Rio Janeiro. An American schooner kept
i company with him for some time, sailing round him.

iTH„,
E STATESMAN.

LONDON:
WIDNESOCIN APRIL WI lft 13.

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' Paris IPapers to the 18th inst. arrived last night,
which contain the Imp Orient intelligence of BONA..
PARTS. having set out enThanday last to take the
isotnatand of his army. Astitement is also given of
:the situation of the French armies in the Nartfi; up'
; to the 10th instant) which is deserving of attention,
! If this statement be correct, the cnnfideitt anticipk.
i tlon of success expressed in the French Journalaf
would not appear to be altogether unfounded. Bf
Ithese accounts it seeing, that with the exception of
Pillau, the French have. retained posiesite‘Of all„thW,
strong places in the rear of the allied forces`, thos
upon the Vistula, as upon the Elbe and too Oderal
the latter have no point of support ; and the further
they advance, the more difficult and dangeroes will be
their retreat in case of disaster, the probability of ;
Which is cousiderably increased by such a division 'of '
their attention and strength, as those hostile plat is
their rear, must, of necessity, occasion. The intel-
ligence from Dautzic is stated to be satisfactory, and .
no apprehensions are entertained of its surrender.—
The possession of this city, we hive always consider-
ed as of the utmost importance to the ensuing cam-
paign, and, notwithstanding the flattering accounts •{
which at various times have been received,we never en. i
tertained any very sanguine hopes that the Russianil
4 would become masters of this strong fortress beforitl
; the cemmencetnent of the campaign. The great
difficulties experienced by the French Ruler in con-
sequence of the destruction of his former Grand Army,
appear in some degree to have been overcome, and the
work of slaughter is about to be renewed with greater
violence than ever. Of the Issue of the a peroachioe
!contest it might be deemed presumptuous to offer an
opinion—the only cirtuasstance that can be consi-
i dered as certain is, thalit will be long and sangui-
nary, and that a great portion of. Europe will be
again deluged with blood. The exertions made by
NAPOLION to take the field with a' numerous army,
appear to have been commensurate with the &geode,
of hi; situation. It is probable, that his military
fame does not stand so high; in the opinion -of the
world, as it did previous to his receut disasters, but,
at the same time, it should be recollected, that
the destruction of his mighty army was not
accomplished by the sword, tut by, one of those
visitations of Providence which no human fore-
sight could anticipate or prevent. , We are not dis-
posed to follow till example of some of our co-
temporaries, who affect to- treat the power of Bora-
PARTE with ridicule and contempt; on the contrary,
when we consider the immense disposable Military -
force of France, which has been called into 0te..1
tion, placed under the command of so consummate
a General, whose character and existence are at
stake—when we consider also that the fate of Eu-
rope depends, in a great measure, on the event of the
approaching struggle, we cannot dissemble, by con-
cealing our anxiety as to the result. BONAPANYI
;weed 'through Metz the day after his departure from
Tarts, and was expected to arrive at the bead;quer•
tors of the Viceroy. the following 'day, where he vita
,to be joined by his old companion hs armssirOli,.-*
TRIER, who has not been before mentioned fe4ll*On.
'Adorable time. • .1
'.` The French account of the defeat of MORANDI 1
r Luneburg, is included in those Papers, .but it
Will be found to differ materially from that which we
had previously received.' They state their loss, nu..
this occasion, not to eXceed 1000 altogether, 1700
of wham were Saxons. They hive also collected a
cossidertsble army at Bremen, and Gee. VANDAMME
had joined the divisions of ST. CYR and Du noun on
the bth inst. but on the 10th he wu about moving to
Magdeburgh, which is the wan position of the
'French army.

Some American Papers reached town yesterday, in
which, under the bead of New York, the Bth ult.
information is stated to hare been received of the cap-
ture of the !latish frigate Gator, by the United States
frigate Ewes, off the coast of America. The re-
port; however, cannot be true, as the Caster was
very, recently stationed in the Mediterranean. It has
been supposed that, by mistake, the Castor was put
for the Aeolis, but the rumour of the capture of the
:dcasta wit had ieree days ago, and it was ascertained
to be unfounded. There is every reason, therefore,
to hope, that there is nothing to *arrant the state-
ment given in the Amerioass Pavers.

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4 Coronae, we are intern-
demonstrate a gnat sang
war Heir whole country
considerable u an °tableau cir.
arduous tadt we lune un-
Spaniards by tbis.conduct
England has taken 'tawny
pay, pose ought to fight
without pay. It was once
Spanish: nation was up is
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night c,oataine Extracts of the
Jona MURRAY, OD which•the
our Paper of yesterday, was
account of the engagereeift
Constitutios and the Jean frigates it

of lad night. The *ter
of Lieut. CHADS conOrrns the accounts we before rt.
ceived of that sanguinary conflict, and clearly proves
that the success of the enemy is solely baattributel
to his great superiority in fora.' '

Yesterday morning; about eleven o'clock, the
PRINCE REGENT left town for Windsor.
. The 'Duke of CUMBERLAND . will certainly. leave
'Gown for Germany next weak,..
' tifestergy, abbot_ half-p_es(eleve, o'clock, ',Geri-
-1 his wide,' except hit spegre•HiAof
rtegsSerri:waGalt
ruciodallso:wwspdi
xtlerthilf CO the • WerNPUto arrive at that
with the.COnacie,' krlickneY •
coach, with
:nont:
c peoplet
oot
nhad
aAds
freirienuftt-vtaanttrati-eirediveirafhabitlliso u°mtffi: Leif.
(pence.
-The LORD MI:AVM has made an alteration •in the
day otiglire. Ifreplibinted for a Court of Common
.Couttell,Ao- Coiwider of an Address to her Royal
HighOess-the PAUCess of WA Les, and has summoned
the Cent forThersday (to-morrow), instead of Sa-
tuetltry:
A,Reqtadtlon has been presented to the Mayor of
Wortester, soliciting him to convene a Common Hall,.
for the purposia of voting an Address to the Princess
of Wstra,•oti the failure of the late atrocious at-
4tripts against her Royal highness's honour and life;
And arrangements are making for an application to
the-Mayor of Bristol for a similar object.—(Glou-
,trster Peer:)
• llttso A, 'Sham 26.—The French are still in pos-
session. -of this part of the country, and keep gar-
, risons as far as St. Andero. They are collecting
1 great:forces in the vicinity of Castro, probably with
the intention of rendering themselves masters of that
itiare.,. and we shall be in constant fear till we see
,
tue uitimate result.
M ARCH' 29. —I have great pleasure in informing
you; that the 'French troops have been completely
defeated in the neighbourhood of Castro. Oar
Chief (Longa), appeared with eight thousand men be-
fore that town, and has acquired that glory which
the enemy had vainly flattered themselves would have
beet conferretrupon theism The number of wounded
brought in here is considerable. •
A representation having been made by the Com•
mittee at LLOYD'S, of the unprotected state of the
coastof. Portugal, where-French and American pri-
vateers were cruizing without obstruction, their
Lordshipireplied, through Mr. CROKER, that they
were suepri•ed that any Muster of a vessel should
I presume to quit his convoy, and that they should
order the prosecution of Masters so offending under
I the Convoy Act.
1 MAssiost-Iloust.—The Bridewell and Christ
I Church Hospital bays were admitted, yesterday, to
the Mansion-Uouse, according to annual custom, to
see the Egyptian Hall, with the ornaments and de.
corations as fitted up for the dinner the day before.
I, They walked with their Beadles and Nurses through
•the grand saloon, where the Lord Mayor, the Recor-
: der, Sheriff's, and Aldermen were seated, with the
Lady Mayoress and several other Ladies. Each boy
! received a shilling, or a six-pence from the Lord
1 Mayor, according to their respective merits, with a
bun and a glass of nine. After this ceremony, the
Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, &c. went in state to arises
Church, where theyheard anexeellent sermon. They
then returned to the Mansion-house, where the Lord
Mayor entertained a large party to dinner. At night
the Lady Mayoress had a select party to cards and
supper.
Sittings appointed in Middlesex and London, be-
fore the Right Hon. EDWARD Lord Euxuaortooon,
Lord Chief Justice, &c. in and after Easter Term,

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Tuesday ...... .... . . ../une 1 I Wednesday June 2
Boxtaa.-4ingch has been made between Oliver,
the Batteisea gardener, who beats Ford a few months
'since, and cooper,. who beat Lancaster at Coombe
Warren. The battle will take place in a few days.—
, A match is also iit Contemplation between Harmer
and Fuller.
The race between Captain Barelay's.groom and
the Kentish man, the former of iihom receives as
r hour lit a hnuared miles, will take place in the middle
of May, for 400 guineas. The former is in close
training on the Barclay system, and the latter 14
improving in Lancashire, under the care of a c.e143-
heated trainer. Immense sums of money are depeud.
ing oit the event.
The Minister's New Plan to raise a Loan by De-
beutu res, does not seem' much approved by the Monied
Interest, as very few have been subscribed for.—
It was reported that one Gentleman had subscribed
for 500 Pebentures'.•but on enquiry at .the .B2nk,
we find be came to bespeak 500 select Tickets in the
present State Lottery, supposed is be for the Conll
tinent.• and as the increasing demand will require a
the Tickets to beissued in a few days, persons wish.
ing to secure favourite Numbers, should malte bootee
-diate application to some Lottery Otlice. esd
the
the
Drawing begins so early as the dth of May, an
Scheme females more Priaesthan Bloats, besides Sig
of 20,0001. and 10,00Cil, and every Ti, .drcira
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