The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-05-05 00:00:00

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sun for eight or ten bouts daily, and is truly dis-
tressing ,to the mew% In consequence of 114 tactic
on the' part of liteßieshate, General &Alt had
lodged 14,* pnik of ari IL t, alndwasathotat to asitack
the dnegsy 1100* deticlptsenfo with tattoperei thee
is with four-pounders and Shrapnel shot Mounted on
light carriages—a most destructive weapon, and
which the Indian army never can resist.
Sir Even Nepean had displayed great energy in
affording aid from Bombay to the Army in the Dec.
can. He also fitted out an expedition, and ,took Sa.
,endroog, a strong fortress belonging to the Peishwa

on the coast.
The following List of Officers kilted and wounded
in the battle between the British Forces, stationed
at Negpore, under the command of Colonel Hope.
town Scott; and the Rejsh of Berar's Forces, ou
the 2Gth of. November, 1817, has been published
in the Bombay Courier, of the 15th of December,
1817 :
Ku-Lats.—Mr. Sothetrby, First Assistant to the Resident at
Nagpore j Captain Stuldler, of the 24th Madras Native In-
fantry s Lieut. and Adjutant Grant, of the ditto ; Lieut. Clarke,
of thelOth ditto ; Assistant.Sorgeon Nivel', of the ditto.
• woos/pm—Capt. Charlesoorth. of the 24th Madras Native
Tufantry ; Captain Pew. of the `2oth ditto Capt. Lloyd, of the
Bengal cavalry commanding the escort ; Lieutenants Bayley,
Thuiltier, Smith, and Hearsay.
'1 he following List of Officers Killed and Wounded
in a Battle between a part of the British Army under
Sir Thomas Hislop and Holkar's Army on the 21st
December, 1817. has been received in a private letter
from the Right Hon. Sir Evan Nepean.
Km-ED.—Lieut. Coleman. of the Madras European Rezi-
swot ; Lieut Macleod, of the Royal Scots ; Lieut. Glen, of the
Ist Batt. 3d Poonttli Subsidiary Force.
Wotivoco.—Major Bowen, of the 'Gib; Capt. Hunter. of
the 3d ; Copt. Norton, of the 19th. doing duty with the Rifles ;
Lieut. NW), of the Clone Artillery ; Lirot. LA 011, of the 8411
Cavalry ; Lieut Gibbings, of the 111th ; Lieut. Gwynne, of the
Rides; Lieut. Drake, of the ditto ; Captain Elliott, .3isl•de.
Camp ; Lieut. Campbell. of the Royals ; Lire. Palmer, of the
16th ; Calder, of the Rifles ; Lieut. Ilancodne, of the
Madras European Regiment, since dead ; Lieut. Mackintosh,
of the 14th ; Captain Brown, of the 14th ; Lieut. Gun, of the
Rides; Lient..Shaonahna, of the ditto ; Lieut. Eastwell, ot the
ditto; Lieut. 3oi.es, of the ; Lieut. Clernons, or the ditto e
Lieut. Mathias, of the 6th; Doctor Steven-no, of the 16th ;
Lieut. Meckiutosh, of the ditto; Lieut. Gamage, of the Horse
Artillery ; Captain Evans, Deputy Paymaster.
All severely, as there was no musketry. all round and grape :
our loss is upwards of 630 killed and wounded, and the enemy
about 2,0tX1 killed and wounded.
The following List of Officers Killed and Wounded
in AttaCks made upon the 211 Battalion of the Ist Re-
giment of Native Infantry, by the whole of the
Peishwa's Army, on the Ist and 2d January, 1818,
has been published in the Bombay Courier, of the 6th
January
KILLED —Lieut. Chisholm, of the !tladrag Artiliesy ; Assist.
ant-Surgeon Wingate, of the Bombay Lstablishment.
WOUNDFD.—Captain SWODSIOII. of the Madras Establishment.
commanding a body of Auxiliary Horse; Lieutenatas Paulson
(Adjutant) and Connellon, of the Yd Battalion let Regiment.

chased very dearly.
The failure of the negociations with Hoursn,
which we early anticipated, produced a prompt and
vigorous movement on the part of our Army. Gen.
Sir Tiros. liptoe's division attacked without delay
the army of liotnAn, arid after a very sharp contest,
the enemy was totally defeated with the loss of the
whole of his artillery, camp equipage, &c. and up-
wards of :MO men killed and wounded. Our loss
was severe, amounting to thirty.four Officers, and
seven hundred rank and file, killed and woutided.
The action was fought on the 15th of December.—
The amount of the respective force of the contending
armies was not known at Bombay, at the date of
these accounts, the communications between that
place and the interior being completely intercepted
by the PEISHIVA.S troops, but it is understood that
110LHAR'S army was immensely superior in numbers.
The loss sustained in the engagement evinces the
spirit and obstinacy-with which the Mahrattas fought.
It is impossible to say how the above successes of
our arms may influence the ulteri3r operations of the
war. iCINDIAII, notwithstanding the flattering ac-
counts we have had, was suspected of shuffling, in
the teeth of his recent treaty, as lie had not furnish-
ed the stipulated body of five thousand horse; nor
had his Killedar surrendered the cautionary for-
tress of Asseerghur, when summoned by the or.
ders of Lord IlAsTricos. In the neighbourhood
of Poonah the campaign seems to languish, General
SMITH having effected nothing beyond his first march
in pursuit of the PEISUwA, and the troops of the latter
being dispirited by their encounter with Col. BURR.
If the Native Confederates can unite their force,
it may cost the Governor-General some bloody con-
flicts to restore amongst them the ascendancy of the
British arms, and the supremacy of the British name.
The details as they have reached us, with the list of
the killed and wounded, will be found in another part
of out Paper.

American Papers to the sth ult. hay
They tend illisgotirm a suspicion which,
fore expressed, - namely, that the Schnitth
, •
!GAherid MLitt's capflare'and death,
fabrications. The New York Papirs
March, contain the followipg article :
" The Baltimore Federal Repuilican of Friday
last says—' On the authority of two letters received
in this city, one from the Aid-de-Camp of -General
MINA, dated fourteen days since, the other from
Gen. MINA himself, dated only twenty days since,
wear. justified In asserting, that the 'moats pub.
lisbed of that Officer's being shot is without founds:.
tient" and that his affairs are now in a more prosper.
sus situation than ever they have been.' "
It is also stated, from New York, of the lst.
April, that the motion offered by the Hon. Mr.
CLAY, to make an appropriation for sending a Mi-
nister to the United Provntes of La Plats, in South
America, was decided in the negative, on Saturday
last, by an oveswhelming majority it( 70 votes.
Another day's French Papers have reached us.-.-
They have no political articles of interest. The af.
fair of FinaLoto, which goes on slowly, exhibits the
atrocious characters who have figured in that myste-
rious hatchery, in a strange light. Madame Man.'
son, who has appeared in so many shapes, is de.
posed to h, e been discovered in the closet at the
time of horrid transaction, in mews apparel.—
The following details are necessary to some ender
standing of this affair •
In the /Ph sitting, * complaint was made that
threats had been held nut against some of the wit.
OPSAPS for the prosecution, who were encouraged by
the Magistrates to disregard them, and told that
they were protected by them and the laws. Bat has
made another voluntary deposition, in which he.'
says, that Yence d'lstournet, Bessieres, Veynac,
Louis Bastide, and Rene, a tobacco.dealer, mien-
loured iu vein to induce him, by the promise of 12001
francs, to initt them, the day before that en which
Monsieur Ftratnes was murdered, in; robbing the
house of M. De FRANCE. The latter Gentleman
being in Court when this part of the deposition was
read, could not avoid exhibiting a sensation of hor-
ror at the danger which had hung over him. The,
nett day Bat saw the persons above named, with
Bastide, Gramont, Jausion, Dulcet, Colard, the
woman Bencal, and two other females, whom he did
not know, in [lancers house, surrounding
M.
Ftsauses, who was seated on a chair. Alter mak.
ing their victim sign twelve er fourteen papera,l
which Jausion put its his pocket.hook, Bead& told
him he must die, on which he exclaimed, 66 What I
can I believe I shall And my relations and friends
among the number of my II ssa4sins!" The only
reply Bastide made was to seize him, and with the
assistance of the others to extend him on a table.
—The unfortunate man then begged for: time to re-
concile himself to Gon ; to which the inhuman
ruffian replied, 66 Go along, you will reconcile your-
self to the Dovil." The deposition then described
the struggling of M. Foarams, the overturtriug of
the table, his being seized again, and uttimately put
to death; the discovery of Madame Manson. in
the closet, in men's apparel ; her being saved
from the brutal vengeance of Bastide, by Jau-
sion and Baa ; all which circumstances we have be-
fore amply detailed. Instead of being confounded
and overwhelmed et the reading of the horrid details
of his own cruelty, Bastide smiled at the most fright-
ful passages respecting the murder; Jausion, on the
contrary, exhibited nervous writhings. Madame
Manson confirmed Bas's testimony, that two men
saved her life. She had thought that &meal was one
of them • but it might have been Bas. Bastide ad.
ministert:d the oath to her over the dead body. Boos-
quier also confirmed part of Bat's deposition. In
the 27th Sitting, M. Taixe, the Advocate of M.
Fo*Loss, the son, was heard, and the nest day the
King's Attorney General ens to address the Court.

An important Decree of the Spanish Government
has been published, regulating the system of deposit
established for the ports of Santander, COMMIS,
Cadiz, and Alicant. The preamble of the Decree
encourages the expectation of the measure being ex-
tended to other ports. When the latest accounts
left Spain the vales bore an advance or rise in value
of sir per cent., and a farther rise Wig anticipated ou
the promulgation of the whole plan of finance.

The proceedings in the (lease of Commons; last
night, on the subject of the Land Tex Assessment
Bill, lets us a little more into the secret if' the policy
which Ministers and their Parliamentary supporters
are pursuing wills the view of." making their election,
sure." Some votes are not convenient for the Minis-
terial Candidates, and it is wished, of course, that
some plan could be devised for disfranchiOn
a number of real votes, that may be found in
any degree objectionable. In the Counties of
Cumberland and Westmorland, it appears, much in-
convenience has arisen in respect to the redemption
of the Land Tax, for want of a Register, and the
LOWTHERS, it would seem,wish to avail themselves of
the advantage of all objections. Lad night all the
LowTuens mustered on the subject of the provisions of
an Act, which it was feared might militate against them.
Lord CAstr.taxmatt assisted them, with Mr. B. BA.
THUM; and every emotion was made to throw
out a Bill, which it was supposed would have
facilitated the opposition to that family in Westmor-
land. All who understood the measure; Sir W.G msg.
1 who had undergone a severe contest iu Gloucestershire;
the Ilonoutable Mr. CAIMIELL, who brought in the
present Bill, stated distinctly, that the only effect of
!j throwing out the Bill was to disfranchise a number
lof real votes, or to put the party supporting them to
the erpence of redeeming the Land Tax on them