The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-08-19 00:00:00

SALE Or SIERIIO ,SidEget-
Ton Friday and Saturday, the •J'id and tit. dayrnf septi.talwr'
IM, by Order et the Lot's -biers. at BovrinowN
FARM, four from Telbar, and J miles finliihing%-
cane. I'llnuceirr-hirr .•
rilwo ••rilot7:ANO, :MERINO SIkEZEP,
Two. Three, Fiver, Ivid rive nip:. upnu,Ailsre Knuth
Drovits. Cris rd tis Ihn depth they wilt bear elate drifigtody tor
&Windt the asperity ortt iewere climate. nod duo (artificial
autotitteace of a werite soil: the Carrate waiter, net *mg dote-
rienitida. and by rarrfal arieetlinv it is elrarly i att tstritstd
that etreders may secure blindly, dispit,iti.in 10'fatietl, and
sem eight their laud will require; akar the•Waol. without
raktlattral upon adventitlba. I.peculailoskowaolioes a fourfold
irtereate in valise, and it equal to AM:, Sokaikh ,:visplot„
1/I,•This doirode Sin oriel:ly Chollls the atirMinn of
all librep-Fartners. awl is unquemlouanly the taint
pndltablr
whirls ran be placed 'no a Sheep Fawn.
The Sale al!1 begin precisely at tea 'o'clock each rooming.
Further particulars may be knows of the Auctioueer.
Tewkesbwry.

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Tlll4 STATESMAN.

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iITUR.I).IY, AVM:ST 19.
STILL without news frotn Flushimt.—Thst
fish Government is in as profound ignorance of
that is passing within a fez: let:pies of our coast,
,as it the Expedition were in the River Plate.
The last intelli4ence from IValcheren is the
" Letter from Midlleburgh," which firit ap-
peared in a Second Edition of The Times on
Thursday 14st. 'Of the authenticity of that
communication .u..e van entertain no doubt.—
A fabrication of intelligence, by antkipating that
which was considered inevitable, isteilkl be de-
tected by the first arrival of dispatches.. No pub-
lic ,•r
Print could have the temerity taTir so immi-
writ a risque...as detection would
.jar ever blast
the reputation of any Public Journal, however
well established. IVe. therefore wait with conli-
dence.....allhongh not zeithon f.;much anriely---for
the cnqfirotraium of the defiers announced in the
66 Letter from Misidleburgh.”
Reports have. been in circulation the whole
warning respecting the operations of the Expedi.

That Fla,lam. was • taken by storm on the
morning of Tuesday last.
That Fort Lillo is captured, with several sail of
the line.
That four sail of the line and several frigates
Were also burnt.
We have found it impossible to trace these ru.
11101.1.1 to any batiafactory source. The inforata-
tiun said to have been received by the vessel
which brought over the Heligoland Mail, which
arrived this morning with Getman Papers to the
sth inst. Our Readers will led that no credit can
with prudence be given it prtsot to these state.
seems.
The arrival of the Heligoland hail has given
rise to another ruinous —the re.commearcencnt of
Alitilitics on the Dunmire. There it'ato intelli-
lc)gence in the FUreign Papers thcat can ) Ira, to any
privet:tit on We subject. Peace between France
and Austria has been strongly reported in many
parts of the Continent, and the "delay that has
taken place in concluding a plaVl6 a arrangement
is imputed totally to the rigour of the Terms
Insisted upon by 11 Arotion. Other reports ap-
pear to be in circulation on the Continent of an
opposite tendency. lidt we hare, in truth, no
authentic intelligence from any quarter. It is at
present mere rumour, and nothing else.
We have too long been accustomed to impute
to the enemy every quality which can deserve the
*Most severity of censure; whilst, at the same
time, we can very calmly overlook our own de-
facts.--thus the levity of the French has bum the
theme of constant reprobation. But what would
have been the outcry against the unfeeling levity
of the French character, if a grave Magistrate
of Paris had accompanied the French Eape.
dition to Egypt, on a mere ports of pica.
rare. Yet we find a Magistrate of London,
whir, rather than forego the treat which
could be derived only from witnessing scenes of
blood anti cecaagr, actually consent to become a
rerfortner in this awful act of death.—ls there no
levity in the lusurious banquet of an Alderman of
the Ci'v of London, amidst these scenes of slaugh-
ter and devastation ?The worthy Baronet, itis true,
prudently withdrew Wore the must serious part of
that awful seene in %flitch hundreds oven of women
and children hare...probably perished;`-'blit we
feel that in this !i4 party of ptersseee'''jhere
is both levity and lade-entail; Whilst in London
we are amusing widget by cotting,jokes upon
the, really r:orifig Alderman, (for seek personally
we deem him)—the People of England, who de.
spire ale levity of ate FreviCA; neveiNist a thought
upon :lie horror.; felt by the innocent inhabitants
of Flashing—'That it is fortune of war we know—
whether ender politico/ axioms suck horrors may
become limitable, we will not now discuss—hut
that there is is what we have adverted tip some.