The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-10-17 00:00:00

FORCIED ORDERS.

Be W.STIt 1 w o young men, named Joseph
Fletcher and Juho Dale, apprehended at the pit
door of Covent Garden Theatre, on Saturday
night, fur attempting to obtain admission with a
forged order, purporting to be an order written
by Mr. Brandon, were brought up this morning for
n fnrther examination, when the/Housman, Henry
Hine, (rum whom they said they had received the
order, attended, and confessed that out of a frolic
he had written the order, merely for the purpose
of quizzag the young men nho went ; he de.
clued he had never seen Mr. Brandon's writing,
and had nut the must distant intention of defraud-
ing-the Managers, nor did he for one womeat con.
eeive that the ureter ho wrote would be attended
st ith any tither effect than that of having the two
young men sent back.
Mr. acAb observed, that many miarepresenta.
(ulna had goos forth respecting the circulation of
orders by Mr. Brandon, many of which erigi.
oatud, in all probability, from such forgeries as
the present; it therefore became necessary to take
sumo atop to stop iu future the recurrence of
such causes of complaint.
'the young man declared his regret, that he had
inadvertently been guilty of so foolish, but at the
saute time, on his part, so innocent a joke. It
ivas the only instance of the sort of which he had
a knowledge, sod he totally disavowed any coo.
nudism or participation with any occurrence of a
similar kind that might have happened before.
Mr. Rept, said, that even in that view of the
case, the young man had placed himself in a very
serious situation, as he became liable to a criminal
Inusecutioa fur a naisdenieanour.
The depositions of the two persons who were
apprehended on Saturday night were deli taken,
and the young man was held to bail, in order to
take his trial fur the offence. Not being of age,
two respectable men were bound in 1001. sureties
cash, to answer fur his appearance.
lie is a. ;refacel young fellow, and apprenticed
to his uncle, Mr. Allen, of Old Bond-street,
and the perbuus to whom he gave the order,
are in the employment of his uncle, who is a

Robert Catter and John Farncaar, appren.
ticca to sir. Reid, shoemaker, in Red Lion-street,
Holborn, were brought up for stealing an immense
quantity of shoes, leather, binding, and ether
things, the property ul their master.
Robertiatipky the father, and Robert Shipley
the son, were likewise brought up for receiving the
same, knowing them to be stolen.
It appeared that the last two.mentionoil psi.
sisters had encouraged the turater to commit the
depredation.
rhey were all committed for a further cut.
:ninetieth
SlARLioitoon-itlask.T.—,A person of the name
of Cane, formerly a gentleman's servant, was
ydstertlay charged at this Office, by Mr. Blake,
a gentleman yf fortune, in St. James's place,
St. .lanses's.street, with stealing a valuable gold
watch and appendages, his property. The pri.
sumer, it appeared, had been a servant in Ireland, I
and having got acquainted' there with other ser.
vents, be was in the habit of paying them visits in I
London. Tbo Prosecutor's watch was hanging
over the mantle-piece, in his drawing-room, at
four o'clock on Sunday ; and after having gone
out about two hours ho returned and missed it.—
It turned out that the Prisoner had called on the
Prosecutor's terv.int, and that be had been in U.
drawing.roont. The watch was found ou
and ho was fully committed for trial.
Another man, of the name of Howard, was
fully committed for trial, fur stealing a gold
watch from the shop of a watchmaker, in Castle.
stmt. 'llc Prisoner called at the Prosecutor's
shop at nine o'clock on Saturday night, with ano.
thor man, under the pretence of purchasing a
watch ; and whilst the shopkeeper was directed to
.mother part of the shop, the thieves decamped
hastily with the watch. The Prisoner only was
s. cured, with the property in his possession.
A young man, of high respectability, secretary
to a Nobleman, stands charged with a forgery to a
considerable extent, and be has absconded. lie
14 supposed to have carried on his depredations to
the tune of some hundreds of pounds.

In the return of the First kegimisnt of Guards,
from the I6th September to the Gth of October,
there appears a loss of 11 serjeants, 1 drummer,
and r Jek and file, besides 270 sick.
The harvest to these parts of Sweden not expos.
ed to the ra►ages of war, has been remarkably
produeti►e. A German Paper asserts, that the
present crops arc superior to soy produced for the
last ten years.

OPERATIONS Ob THE FRENCII4RMY
IN SPAIN.

[Continued front oar Paper of Saturday Wl.]
lo the night between the 314 July and the lst August,
Marshal the. Puke of Benue° informed your filalesty, that
he was apprised that the Fait i-hanny still remained at Tata-
sern, with that of Curata I and that a Portuguese cubism
had put itself in motion among the mountains, to tura the.'
right of the Isl carps; he added. that, in comequeuce ef this
intelligence, he should quit his .padtioa, mad 'retire epos
Magaeda. On the other kind, your Majesty a__ as iefurnied, i
that Venegas had withdrawn fawn before Tided° part of his
troop- who had attacked that piaci; that he waseemeatral4
in„ his forces span Al.:tepees, and that he maniNisted am in-
Mallon of marching towards Madrid. Your Majesty thee
thought lit to poet the 4th carps and the reserve Match a
nuuma. as in enable them 10 advance rapidly either epee the
1-t corps', to impede the moll of the combined and deme-
nted army; or upon Venegas, if his army attempted to
march towards Madrid.
Your hlajedy, in comesmence ordered that a garrison
should be tell at Toledo, antler the command of the Adj.-
mot-Cosnarteclant Moequerey, whnns you appointed Gover-
ner of that place, and that the restive, and the Ith corps
shuskl march, and take up a position, au the 14 Avast, at
Metres. General Nlilliaud received orders to send out
lirties of cavalry in the direction of Vehicular°, to etitZl3
i motions of the army of Venegqs. Ventre caused his
a visored posts to fail hark, and .str:.-yly kept an advanced
guard ex' the right hank of the Tagus, in front of A mnjeez.
Angus' the ild and id, the 4th corps and the reserve re-
mafied in their pasitious.
.Augost the '2d, the Duke of Bellew informed your Ma-
jesty by letter, that the enemy appeared is the direction of
Escalates'', on the right hank of the Alberche; that the par-
ti. .s which had been sent limn Escalate= to Numbella, had
been attacked by some troops of the enemy's cavalry. The
Marshal added, that he had sent two regiments of dragoon
with orders to observe w hat was passing there; and that if
he learned th it tne enemy was dtrecling his morsel* that
pone, he would retire upon Nlo-aillese; bet that, in thrt cos-
trues case, he should rens:Lin at 11aquede.
The report of the Duke de Delluno did ant anommee the I
march at the combined army : it related only to Wthion's
corps, which 'manifested an intention of rustioyiag the right
of the Ist corps. Your Majesty then thought that it w
not yet time to join the Ist corps a ith the 4th, and the
serve; bet with a view to facilitate their jimetioo,
should he found necessary. you proceeded with year reserve,
in the night between the 3d and ith of August, to Mostelese,
and the Ith corps remained at lliescm, to continue to watch
the tinny of Venegas.
Fresh reports, addressed to your Majesty oft the 41h, byi
Marshal the Duke of Deflates, stated, that the os
army had not vet advanced, th it it had only pushed INVISIar
cavalry toward Santa Olalla, and that the corps which was
at Numbella was not supported by a considerably body, as
it had been reported that it would. The Marshal added, that
he had made arrangements for attacking General IV thou at '
unihella, on the ruing of the sth.
Your Majesty left Mostelese hi the niAlst between (lie 4th
and sth, to proceed towards Yakiessuru. Gemeal Selma-
Omni received orders to advance likewise with the 4th caps,
from [llexes to Valdemure' where your Majesty I amedi-
ately directed it to pursue the read of Aniljuez, an ardor ha
attack the advanced guard of the army of Venegas, which
was no the right bunk of the Tagus, between that river and
the Tejon.. Your Majesty's orders were excreted. The
advatieedgeard of Veuegas, 10.000 strong, was reamed, and '
obliged to fall hack on the left bank of the Tage:. The 1
enemy destroyed his brides. On the dth, the 4th MP mad
the reserve remained in their position.
Marshal the Duke of Bellano, by letter of the sth August,
acquainted your Majesty, that V ilatte's division, which had
been directee to attack Geueral 11 ikon at Nunitsella, had
found no enemy these; that Geueral d dims had retired or
the 4th, and that the inhabitants of Nembeila stated his re-
- treat to have keen occasioned by the arrival ut a carps of
French troops at Plasencia.
Marshal the Duke of Heiken went on the Sub to Santa
(falls, frees which place he acquainted your Majesty, best
the Anglo-Spanish army had quitted Talavera ea the 4th,
priocceding towards Plaseacia t that the cavalry of the lsa
corps would that day reach Talavera, and that lseneral Wet-',
' Lesley had reeemmended le him 4000 wooded, whom he bad
bees obliged to leave behind him 111 that town.
Marshal the Dibe of Odium advanced oa the 7th to Ta-
' tavern, with his 'Miele col: led( the army. The mine day
the cavalry of the Id a junction ut Oropesu,
and at Puente de YArtAtt, with the troops of the Duke
of Dalasatia. . . .

... ._...._.
Marshal the flake of Dilkolo, by_ his jaaction with the
Duke of Ekrlasatia, al lorded your Majesty facility to act
agnimt l'esiegio. you jadeed that the rebuilding of the
bridges of Aranl nes would he a long and ditlicult work, nod
that tt would be lass daugerous to force the passage at the Ta-
, gus at Toledo, where we had remained masters of the bridges.
' You therefore gave orders that the 4th corps and the reserve
14 should set out on evening of the ith, and proceed to Olias
, and Vargas.. Oa lOC General Leval's di. isitin entered
Toledo. The diy of dragoon., under the command of
General Milhaud, ived orders to take past in front of the
I lord of Pitiover de . ajo. ,
I RATTLE OU TOLEDO.
‘is the plght Madero the Bth and 9th, all the troops of the
4th emirs, except the Di'v:sinit of General Milhaud, were
milted at Toledo.
_Before day-tight of the 9th, General Se-
lastinai passed the bridge of Toledo, with some battalion-.
took the lint posts of the (licitly, and obtained possesmou of
the saioniits of the tint eminences. The division of toe me-
i goy helium Toledo, which occupied the strong positiuneons-
miording the city, the riser. and bridges, syal ti or 7000
strung. It at ant attempted to prevent the 4th corps front
pusher ; but being soon attacked with the bayonet, it was
routed, and closely pursued as far as the plain : it retired '
upon Alivssio. 'fur 411 corps took a positi 111 l , with the
right at Ilargillos, and the lett at ?imbrued. Ou reaching
the latter s ilitige, Muslin's light cavalry met a party of the I
enemy's cavalry, almost the whale of which was taken; and
it teamed, from nu °Meer of Engineers, whoses one of the ,
prisoners. that the whole of the eiseney're_raty was on its ,
march, fur the purpose of uniting before Tsleb ; and that
the division to which he belonged was already at Altdimacid, 1
a league and a half from Nembruca.
As soon as General Sebastiani had made himself master of
the po.ition before Toledo, he seat orders to General Mil-
haud to force the find at Allover del Tajo; to descend the. I
Tagus, and to clear away all the cucmy s troops on the high
road from Araajoes to Toledo.
The ford was forced by Milhaud's division, with estrerae
intrepidity. At six in the evening of the thh, two battalions
and three squadrons which defended the ford, s: ;re cut iu
pieces, or taken; and Ibis division passed the is:,:tt at the
gates of Toledo, on the left bank of the 'ragas.
The save day (9th) your Majesty proceeded to Toledo,
with your reserve.
On the 10th, Milhami's division joined the 4th corps.
Your Majesty ordered Gowns* Denotes to conduct General
Gadinot's brigade and the Vith horse ehassmers, furring part
of the reserve, to the rear of the 4th corps. Voar Majesty
continued at Toledo with tour guard. Geoeral bets:Mani re-
connoitred the positiou stitch the enemy's army bad takes et
Almouacid.
RATTLE OF' ALAIONACID.
' On the istoraiu„t of the 11th, your Majesty set out from To-
ledo wish the gated, to joie the 4th corps. The report of
caisammatsi anuounced to your Majesty, that the metes had
resolved So stand an engagement. Your hlajesty quickly re-
' pained toilet 4th corps. On your arrival, the actiuu had al-
ready coastiehred. Yoe directed in perara the filbeetidelli
'pentanes. I caanot better describe the transactions of that
brilliant day, than by submitting to your Majesty General
Sebastioni'i report.
[Tisk morbid, d to-morrow.]
The statue of Lord NELSON) finished at Bir.
minghasn, will be erected in the market-Ipiece of
that tows., the 2tst inst. (the anniversary of tho
glorious victory of Trafalgar), and will be splen-
didly illuminated on the 23th.
Among the different corps which have been or.
gattill-Ni at Antwerp, is one consisting viptirely of
I firemen. .

Dr. Sens men, who honied the insurrection in
the Tyrol against the Bavarian Authorities, is an
eloquent and !carom! man, of a prepossessing fi-
gure, and proprietor of very considerable estate
in Vorarlia.
The camp at Krems was sold to the Jews for
17,000 florins. A battalion of French troops re.
mained in it till the purchasers had converted it ta-
to ready money.
The seart.:y of fuel is so granite Vienna, that
the inhabitants have obtained prismilmion to fell the
trees of that part of the menagerie park which
borders on Schuenbruno.

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THE STATESMAN.