The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-02-14 00:00:00

Comm:o4er in
AL the. Cape of
Winiam Wellekley

114ri Rood.
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of die '2Bth

'dined me to
K cat -
Ruderil4lC, to' C 4,
4n attack olp
acquaint you,
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Otter, anti

whole (0 368
Lieutenant-Colonel
we peiteetl-
20th, for t Isle
landed were
the Comps•
trines_ of the
seamen from
command of
tdoced him to
a.party. As
to the sueeeiii.
force, amount_
ye additional
,stain
with the coast,
tctivity, was in-

.of 'St Paul's;.

xtled the other
.he beach, the
hied with the
being given to
the b.ttteries,
I rude(' with
of the guns
in the mean
and accord,.
movements of
' their fire op
turned by' La
prizes, anti
lure from the
to • continue

carried, our
Sirius having
, a-head 9f, La
to suriendcr,

_ace, and by
(cries, town, and
Majesty's

Jc roads dolt
linediate er:rtions
and the rest of
, bad drifted
itbout 1113(Cfidi

diferent batteries
:bar earriqes

°town affs
liitAgobr by, • tthe
action wore

wick:ly
the

tart,

u'arthe'dilferent ii-iwiii—i Private Marises.—TotallS.
• utsstxd. ; . ..
y succeeded •
suttlys-1 ordionasemytin.
the capture • aims a acme's #lloliisOthe • .. 1
of all the Itatsoillati•L . toiort*(4l,lo; IT sew.
In
___. deli, toratsnaut of Worm&
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t the islaug4 BOADI C E A .; --------.• errs LAIWIFing Or 1111*Aiiiir . ...
shelter fur (Sigurd) ii, J.
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vented from ' it. "AO's, Isis Ouitigiim.. sips. NEW .
ace,- beside SIR—My ititer. Of .084111th ingot*" * Rs
'Mount out Inclosurcs from Cootie*** Rowley, • iser
Ali Goner . . - erepared the iiehitethiphit GOnilt+ -
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to, or rufte- cil fur,* degiefilklicooellt,of Rot •
'tale of the that &dud raid wl4 lallidirek
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nes+, oravery, and pod 'conduct
.of his Majes.
ty'•, and the ilinourable Company's troops, I
feel it my doty to enter into minutely ; trusting
Om the names of Ouse excellent officers, whom
h ha+ hien my particular good fortune to have
had the bun stir to command, may be noticed in
proportion to the great national service which they
byte performed, and the honour acquired by hiss
Majesty's and tht• Honourable Company's troops,
lo an attack upon the town, battesiess posts, and
shippinz of st: Paul's.
Na Majesty'. Mks La Nercide and Otter, and
fidetoorsPio Cutnpan)'s cruiser Wasp, with 368
olfeerwaall saes, who were embarked un the 16th
,loatiosto it -Fort Duncan, Island of ktodoriques,
arrived oLPort Louis, Isle of France, on Ow
latreahlg of the 18th, and juined his Majesty's ship
,Kaisoaable. Coe‘modure It'iwley, and Sirius; early
the seat morning, tbt 19th, the seamen alid.troops
-destioed for the attack, atnounting to 604, were,
et eur.ting to an arc:iti.;emetit made by Captain
C...rheit, and a pisr)ved i,y the Corumudore, put
.on board the Nei-ride, and towards evening the
squadron stood fur the Lilt of llotirbutt ; on the
morning of the '2otli .being off die East end of the

Island.
•
At awe A. M. on the twenty-third instant, the
troops were disemGarked to the Southward of
• Pient de Galutte, seven miles from St. Paul's, and
• immediately commenced a forced march, with a
view of crossing the causewaye that extend over
•the lakte before the enemy could discover
our debarkation er approach to the town,
which we were foltunate enough to effect ; nor
biel they lime to form in any force until we had
. passed the .trotigist position. By seven o'clock
we were in possession of the first and seconds bat.
Alma, Lambonsiere and La Centiere; when Cap.
tail Willoughby, of the Royal Navy, who toga?
mottled a detachment of sheet a hundred seamen
. on shore, and to whose seal, activity and exer-
tions I feel touch indebted, immediitely turned the
gwns upon the enemy's shipping, from whose
fire, which was chiefly grape, and well directed,
▪ within pistol shot of tho shore, we suffered
much, being necessarily exposed to it during
' tier Movi!ments upon the belch, and through the
tnwn. From the battery let Ccnticre, Captain
, . • halide was detached with the second column,
• e' composed of 142 of the second battati tttt of the 2d
regiment of Bombay Native Intuit y and twelve
liusopeens, to take possession of the 3de or bat-
' ; tcry uf i.a Neuf, deeerted by the enenry. On his
: way thither,•he fell et with and. was oeposed by
' • the entire force of tee Fienta, who hail concen-
• , *rated, and taken up a Ve:y strung positiou behind
. a stone wall, ni:h eight brass field-pieces, six-
t roomier's, upon their llanks. This post was in-
. seemly charged iii the most gallant manner by that
• (Aker aid his men.
•.% :The enemy, however, maintained their posi-
..ti m, and Captaiit Ilannur, uf the 56th regiment,
• was ordered to proceed with the third column to
• his suppi.rt, who charged, and took two of the
enemy's guns. The action now became warm,
, butinever doubtful. The enemy being reiuforeed
: from time hills, and having also received one hen-
. &id and ten troops of the tide fe•tm the French
frigete La Caroline, and the squadron not being
: able to stand in to support us, our movements
, being eitilatieered by their lite, except et notervall,,
which, they always took seivantagv of, Captain
!Willoughby was eireeted to spike the gusts of
leimbeustere and La Ceniiere, and with the sea-
- men to man the third battery IA Neuf, cun-
t eetuitig to lire upon their shipping. By this ar-
t entitlement Captain Forbes, who with the reserve
t bad covered those batteries, was enabled to ed.
• trance against the enemy, who, after an honour-1
able resistance, were compelle,l tit give way ; their,
• remaiitingegiette being caroled by that excellent of.:
ficer, a sufficient number of men were ordered to
► act as light troops, and to pursue the enemy,
whilst the third column, with part of the reserve,
;advanced against the 4th and sth batteries, Lx
illiere and La Ctsertte, which fell into our hands
• without opposition, and whose retire lire w;s int-
meiliately directed against the enemy's shipping.
By helf-past eight o'clock, the town, batteries,
: magazines, 8 brass lielff-pieces, 117 new and hea.
•y iron piss, of thiteretti calibres, and all the pub.
Tics uses, WCIV in our possession, with several pH-
stni:re. 'llte instant the stoweiron perceived that
the object its landitig hail succeeded, and that they
eauel, with safety to the troops, stand in .lice-
. tinily, they iminedutely auclioreti close to the ene-
sny'e shipping, which after a short firing, sorrel).
The entire of the batteries being destroyed,
an ► the town completely cummentied by our squa.
tdr wt, the troops wore re-emberked by eight
o' lock the smile evening.
Herewith I have the honour to annex a return,
of the shipping, guns, and sewed taken and des.
• treyetl.ueon ellis,Aestegeieueee I heel: els%) the hoe.
. o cur to inclose a return of the killed, wounded,
an I ipissing ; and though our loss has been severe,
• itaunt etpul to %%hut might have been expected
fram the nature of the attack. the position and
strength of the enemy, anti the iitinate:r of guns,
. t ) which out little force was exposed at different
' times decing the morning.'
To the judicious arrangements of Commodore
- Rowley. the cordial cu-opeiation and auppurt of
• the rest of the 011ioeis of his•Majeety's navy, and
petsonei exertione and assistance u( Captain Coe-
bat in landing the entire force (coin his Majeity's
ship I. a Nereids, I impute the hapFy tertnivatioe
ant ultimate soecees id' this enterpriee.
On the 424, late in the eteising4 the enemy apt
eared its sums force upon the faille, and a heavy to.
eres'ohiervedadvancing from $l. Danis, which
I since usulerstactil to have been melee the Immedi-
ate command of Gm Deb Bruslyes; the Commo-
dore and-myself how agreed Nom the propriety of
landing a sqffleient force to destrilyeell pit 'Pie pro.
p..rty ; amid accordingly the neirities, with' a' few
--sailor, ender Caplein Willoughby, were ordered
epee this service, when I had an epportnitity of
again St/Vote...in the steaffiness and genii etinduct
uf the at men a•id royal marines, who effectually
thriit 111 extensive gi•vernineitt store ut coneider.-
aisle veloe: the remaining stores were only saved
ems" souse doubt existing respecting their bejng
iitiblie property . •
.44(ke taw mueuing of the 434, the entire force was
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THE S'fATESMAN.

PSOPOSITI TEKAX.

LONDON:

wtmusvir, FZIRUART 14.

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Toe official dispatchco. from Admiral BERTIt
and LiottlessflabZeiso4l4‘easaahroaaisemibll 'be
snack on the Isle ut Bourbon, were yesterday
received at the Athniralty from the Cape
Good [lope, and appeared last' night in Thc
Gazette. In his lottce to Admiral BERTIE,
Captain ItowLey, of the Ruisonable, states'
the objects of the Expedition to hint: been " the
66 capture of the enemy's shipping, the destruction
" of all the defences of the only bide anchorage in
64 the island, which has always been a place of
46 shelter for French cruisers and their prizes,
46 when prevented from entering the ports of the
" irle of France,. bysides the rescue of property,
14 to immense amount, out of the hands of the
" enem7.l' These objects have been most gallantly
and successfully attained; but, we would psk,
by what possible fatality Franco. can have been
permitted, for so Many years, to tooth, pone,.
sion of the Islia.of France and Bourbon ? The
,'depredations committed upon our commerce, for
years, iu the Indian Seas, are
,imputable solely
to the possession of those islands by France.
It has been the favourite project of France,
during the revokstionary.ind the present war, to '
eithtde England from the Continent of Europe
—surely it is not less the policy Or Eniltods dur.

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initials a cofutest, to preemie France, and her
allies, from all exterrtatiOlniannieation.
A' biller Expeditions to the Peninsula and to Wal.
Arai, we, barn eipended more men, and iticalco-
,,
lablyAmOre winery, than would bare sufficed to ye.
knee th%fsfee of France, act.iirbon, and -Guada-
. loupe.. We hire nerer.yet heard an explanation
of that line of polity which has induced the Mi.
uisters of England 'to hesitate in lopting the
principle of cutting off the extremities 'ere
they attacked th 6 Body. Great Britain, de-
pending so essentially on her commerce, and
un the protection afforded it, to, enable her
to sustain the burdens of the, profuse con.
test in which we arc engaged, has most unac-
countably, to this moment, suffered the enemy to
hold those points, whence he has been enabled so
dreadfully to annoy our commerce, .while they

have at the same time served to keep alive his
nearly extinguished marine.

BY Letters from Holland, the French troops
appear to be entering the country in great numbers.

LETTERS have been received from Rio de Ja-
neiro—they are destitute of political intelligence.
Commerce :s extremely dull, on which subject
these letters are repleto with complaints..'

PRIVATE !CUM from Paris confirm the report
of the sequestration of American property in
France. It is also mentionetl,that all colonial pro.
duce and manufactured goods, that may be found in
Holland, of which certificates of origin cannot
be produced and proved, m ill share a similar fate.

Extract of a Letter from Buenos Ayres, dated
November 5.—," The trade here continues open.
In order to encourage the interior manufactures,
an additional ten per cent. is laid upon cloths, cot-
' tea goods, shoes, and some other articles ; but
stotwithstanding the incleased duties, we expect
that this market wilt be soon 'glutted as much as
that of Rio Janeiro. I have just been at the cele-
bratioit of high nix's, in honour of the victory of
Talavera:"
13y what is just stated, The tarif, lately publish-
ed on the import duties at Buenos Ayres, appears
to be erroneous.
Agietter from New York, of datd Stith Decemn.
her, received in Glasgow, on Thursday, says,
Tildre is scarcely a doubt that the hilt to allow
'American vessels to go
.where they pleana, and to
intporf gOods of the produce or manufacture of
any country from which American vessels are not
prohibited, will pass into a law, and fog time best
of re.vons. —The Tre.msury is empty, and they.
have no means of replenishing it, but by the
.dutiee on imports. By a temperate firmness, , I
have•no dotJht, the British Goverumcnt wilt ae.
complish everything they wish."
Major LEATII.T, ordered to England, frotta
Sinai, is. arrived, as we are given to understand,
tO act as the private agent of the officers of that
army, consisting of about 70,000 men in the
whole. •

Mt.. .Hearty ALEXANDER,. private Secretary
to his relation Lord CALEDON, •the Governor, has
taken large tracts of laird at the Cape of Good
Hope, which he had begun to cultivate aecording
to the Eng!kslt mode of agriculture, before the last
adrices' came from thence:
On enquiry we learn, that the report of in.
surances having been effected at Ir.oyo's on the
Cm:nen/ere French frigate, is without. the least
foundation.
It was incorrectly stated yesterday, that the
Pelitiotiers for a third Theatre have altered their
mode of proceeding. They have nut withdrawn
either of the petitions they presented to the Kt So
through the medium of the Privy Council, to
which answers have not yet been given ; nor has
the report of the ATTORNEY or SOLICITOR.GE.
NERAr. been officially communicated to the Privy
Council. In this uncertain state, therefore, it
has been thought proper by the Committee to prey
sent a Petition to Parliament previoes to the this
.of February, .the day limited by the House of
Commons fur receiving Petitions fur Private Bills,
in order that they might not be excluded from that
mode of application, should the Crown deem it
proper to refer them to it.
An incendiary at Auzonne, on the 19th of Dc.
comber last, deposited some eumbuitibles in an un.
inhabited hriase, which he fired, and by which 24
houses, with all the property contained in them,
were tea, ift to the ground. •
Pietro Goriole, an Italian dentists arrived lately
at East Grinstead, Sussek, where,•after staying
at an inn two or three days, he put a period to
his existence, by dividing the arteries of both his
arms near the elbows, 'with a razor. Distressed
circumstatices are suppoied to have becu the cause
of this act of desperation.
It is said thatihe foundation of the north- West
angle of the Tower of St. Nicholas, by the fall-
ing of which so many unfortunate persons hart
perished, was repairing by'the operation termed
pinning—that is, removing decayed and imperfect
parts, and replacing them with substantial materials.
As during this operation the basis of the superstruc-
ture must necessarily have been imperfect, it is be.
lieved that the motion of the bells, which were
insprulently used at that time, has been the cause
of so melancholy. a catastrophe. The spire of
George's Church, in Liverpool, has lately been
taken doss'', owing to the repeated aild urgent
representations of the neighbouring inhabitants.
A•Lady is dashing about Or. town in a yellow
bodied chariot and equipage to correspond, levy-
ing. contributions on jewellers, &c. She was a
short time since the chore awie of a Noble Lord,
and subsequently joined the Mary.le-bone corps
.61 Cypriaits.-
This morning No. 501. was drawn a Prize of
XBlOOO, whidi was sob! in Shares E ITON7I
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' The minus and unprecedented Motion we&
on Monday last, in the Court ,of King's gen:
on the behalf of Mr. CORSI no, the' late sotri:''s
for of Colonel WARDLE, is well worthy these
ous attention of the Public.
Mr. CoRhLELD, it appeared, had delivered,
Colonel %Yammers bill to, Law Charges, treeveu
'°
ing to 4791.—a refereuce was obtained t - Master. by nvhom this bill ‘vas taxed—the
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prise of our Readers will probably be ri t•I fl°4
to our owns at learning that the deductions
£479 the grosi amount of the bill—amounted,
the moderate sum of 17s. 6tl. kohl 1,7.
the master's taxation the imusiesse balance ;t
£l3 24. '6d......ab0ut one thirty.sizth pare of 411-.
demand—due to Mr. Corfiekl ! !!
That Mr. Corfield's dissatitfactios at the event
of this taxation should he comdderable, was nab;
ral —and •With the •hope •of obtaining fr'ese
Court some remission, a Motion was made;
his behalf for a rule directing the Master to eerie:
his Taxation—but the Court, seeing no ground
such an application, refused the Role. t
-7'o THE EDl7'O It OF TJIE STATESMIs •
SlR—Among the many abuses in the manage,
ment of the ditferent departments COOzernetl
the late Expedition to the 'Sehehlt, allow recto
-state a circumstatsee_Whith came to say knowleeit
as having, occurred at the hospital at Deal, low
the rkursi of some part of tte troops from Walt
cherco. A quantity of Port wine was imiskt4
for the use of, the sitk soldiers, and the sio,
acres who procured it •for Government, fearini
its too ra phi consumption, mixed with it a gm*
of eamphrrr.. The consequence was, that toe meal
disappointed in t heirsettiecoations of the gouoleesiti
the wine (to wl.ielt, by the bye, soldiers attach mon
value than to its medical qualities),refused t otaktiti
and as an elicuse for out ild:ne so, were induced it
tell many falsehoods, ascribing to it every cam,
plaint they could think of. Hoping that this yip
give rise to some kind of inver4atluu on the sot.
jest, I remain, yours, &c.
• ak
St. James's Park, Feb. 12, 1810. tm
ESSEX -E LEG77O
CHELMSFORD, TelJnay, Fuji. 13.
TWELFTH DAY. •
The Poll assumes to-day a brisker appeorseei
than it did yesterday. The respec:i se fricads
the two candidates went out this wonting at se
early hour, and (shout twelve brought in Cor;
fifty voters. - •
STATE: OF Teti; eel+ AT voisei (7'et.oes..
Mr. Houtoloo - 2517
Mr, Burgayne . 711 v
Majority in favour of Mr. Ilnublon - gist
.0* • CO A'STITUTIONA t, SONG,
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• UV fIOD SAIrg.TIIE KING'. •
outtaaee greet George out Kitiri • :•';.%•• t •
tong, live our noble Kingt.
...t.
Cod save theeXitt,'
nappy to hear lam tell, • " '•
He loves his People well, •
Let ue then sing wi.h teal,
God save the King, , • ••
Placeinen and Pensioners, •
Hungry and fawning curs, • v
Prey on the Loud; •
• They're all our enemies, • .•
Confound their knavish Bess;
God open George's eyes, ••
V.tad save the Laad.
•
Such rank. apastacy
Shall Erst•sh Liberty . •• • •
Patialy beer? •
How Inng shall they dcld4
the " Swinish Multitude ?N . .•
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• Ye grunting slavish brood
Learn to beware! •
Of millions, last par*, year*,
• Were draio'd, it Aloes sower,
N iA ETY-THItEli full!
Ought we not then to 14ow
Which way ti;e Taxer co/
Shull we be humbug'd la? •
Lind be:p JOHN BULL: •
Sedition we despise,
But will for ever prize • •
'Our right toeing, • •
Soon may Corruption ceaso; •
And bled with Freedoms ear,
May all the world have peace !
Grad save the Kin;. •
Britons then unite, •
lipidly demand your right,
But love your Kong ! • ,
State !Whets then we'll oat,
ki:l all their inns ism scout,
John ISO sal? " TUICS 'lllll
..copy •
". - I..onszityethe reg.- " •
•a The tli,btrotts tau, trying Ica of Ha
According to some letters from South.A.mcrino
t appears, that the late insurrection in Peru hal
other objects in view than those of getting 61
of some obnoxious Members or the' Gusto.
Rent, and of proving the attachment of the
leoPle to the Mother' Country. The SO.
in ;Art of Peru is said to have espreStd
csolution to throw off its dependenc.: upon Spin,
Lid to erect itself into an independent State. The
ullowing is an extract of a Proclamation of the
isankls Americans in favour of indepeneence:
" Decide !--Are you' so lost to reason as to
ehject yourselves to w Crown which does got et.
a; anti which, did it exist, would have as awl'
Ight over you as Pope A trxaolosa VI. had Id
takegrants of what belonged hot to him?
" Do your duty-:•-embracw Indepeodages "
sake known, and make kaown to the Inhat'l.
tuts of North America, that they will be 11
appy and, independent as they. That you 6."
either • ignorant nor forgetful of the adman°
(messed by free and enlightened nations."
This day, at 12 o'clock, the Lottery —O-
- ing, when 591 was the first Prise of 404.
theig :hick st as sold in two classes, the first
ito one Ualf, out: Quarter, one rightill abr.
isteentlis ; the other into one Quatlerk fr
and ten Sixteenths. Rom sold thAllr
t Corutoill, old 9, Charing-cross. •.