The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-12-09 00:00:00

LONDOIV:
WZMIUDAY,

A Malta Mail arrived HAI lattruisql by "'Leh we
have received the following

Mtssl:4l, OCT. 17.—Yesterdays Council of War
mat assiquhled in the Citadel, for the trial of some
!ties who had been arrested ; when, th they pro-
tekdid to any trial, two persons were brought be-
fore them, of the names of Don Bexuritaro COR-
L%:101 and Don FLI.IrPO CourEsr, natives of Si-
rn: former had been arrested in the canal, en.
dravouri,,g to pass to the enemy in Calabria; and
t!ke other ii_cused of assisting him to carry his bi-
te:nil:sat into execution ; m hen, after an admonition
frma the President relative to their conduct in fu-
t Ire, they were informed that LoritrW. BENTINCII
Wholes pirated to order, that they should beset
4' 141Prti, es giving shpirity for their future good
t'sluniour, both because they were least culpable of
mut of the persons arrested, and to give a proof of
itiv clemency and of his high esteem for the Sicilian
oation.

PALeasso,OcT. a Royal Edict, published
here, all possessors el grain are requested to give
in a statement of the quantity they posses', and the
place where it is deposited ; and those who shall be
found neglecting to comply with this order, are to
be subject to a fine, according to the quantity that
may be concealed.

There has never been a perletAllice the eounteneel.
merit 'of the northern c.ampnigneliti* with n.
parts, u the present. The Gottesiliirgh-Sfails
which arrived yesterday, bring nothing new from
Russia, being of uo late( dire than the intelligence

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Which we had 'already received from that quarter;
but the letters brought by them have given rise to a
variety of ruftiodrh all of which appear conclusive
and decided, with reaped to the disastrous state. of.
the French army. The dispatches from Lord CAIN-
CART, published In an Reiraordinary Giaate yes-
terday, contain a recapitulation of former intelli-
gence of considerable importance; bat the inter-
cepted letters from BeAvnA astots to BERTUIER, if
genuine, form the most interesting part of his
commueication. It is well known that the in-
, generally prover!
to reepred letters in Spain
to be forgeries ; and the language of those from
BE.tunattwois renders them suspicious. It has
uniformly been too much the practice with the
Belligerents to keep up a regular system of delusion
upon the public, respecting the actual state of the
contending armies. Pnrers, dispatches, and butte-
, tins, have been issued, pregnant with exaggerated
and deceptive accounts, to keep alive the fallacious
hopes of success, and blind the public mind to the
fatal consequences of continuing the war, in order
to induce the people to bear, with less reluctance, the
burdens which their rulers find it convenient to
place upon them. It appears, however, that
the Itussians, by a stretch of military frenzy, for
it might be deemed barbarous to call it policy, have,
if not completely defeated, given a fatal blow to the
military prowess of the French army ; and by one
desperate project, the object of Naeoceow, dextrous
as he is in military skill, was manifestedly over-
turned, and he in his turn has been compelled to re-
verse his usual system of tactics, and adopt the Bus.
sian plan of retreating and destroying. During his,
destructive retreat from Moscow to Smolensk, it ap-
pears that the hardy Russians, inspired bythe auspiciow
change which the burning of Moscow had made in the
features of the campaign, brought all their collective
force into action, and hovered on the rear with
desperate fury, sending detachments to annoy the
enemy in their retreat, destroying the roads, and
pulling down the bridges, in order to retard their
progress till the frost set in, which they have accom-
plished; and, by a train of successful skirmishes and
attacks, made by the skilful and united efforts of
their Generals, are said to have completely foiled
BON AP Attn: in his retreat.

The following reports are in circulation :—That
BONAPARTE and MURAT, accompanied by 15,000
men, i►nd •sepatated from the French Grand Army,
at Smolensk°, and taken the direction of Mohilow,
whither TSCIIITCIIOKOPP had pursued him, and, ac-
cording to some accouts from Stockholm, had
overtaken him ; that F-UGEN Bc.tvuaaxois,
with 50.000 men, was surrounded completely by
the Russians at Smolensk° ; that the Imam Guards.
having lost their cannon, had to a man laid down
their arms; and, lastly, that BONAPARTE had been
actually made prisoner by Tscurrcuottorf, after all
the French escort had bk co cut to pieces.

This morning came on trial of Messrs. nowt,
the Proprietors of the Examiner, in the Court of
King's Bench, for a Libel on time Pasmcs Rin:ENT,
whet; they were found •
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The EXPENDITURE of the year IRA as,strea by
Mr. T HANEY, is accurate as far as it goes; but are
there nut other enormous items to be added to it ?-,-
And which too, probably, must inflame the reckon-
big to eight or ten millions more, viz. :—ltt the Ex.
Iluxountxxtuss of the Ordnauce, of the Navy and
' Army I And yet more, by our loss on the Couise of
Exchange; for the Course has been, and is against
England '25 and 30 per cent. and this upon most of
the money lavished by us on the Continent. As for.
the Poott itxTss, they slow exceed .the wbOle esta.
blishments of (VEEN ANNE: they cost the country
above sic MILLIONS.
The Hon. ,Ir. %YARD iv gone ever from OpPo-
Fition
to AiNtlitsiS WELLEALEY nod Mr. CANNING,
whose alli.d force in the Ilatiseof Commons, is said
now. to amoent to 38 effective men.

We have Ivand a few more ptirtleulars of the ac-
lion in Canaria, wherein fieneraf Kantw Mt :—The :
nature of the reinfoicemento n kick had arrived, was
not such as to answer the expectations, or satisfy the
confidence of the militia, which had been built upon
them : they cotisisted of but one.'oflicer, with a few
1 recruits for the regiments, and 30 artillery-men. The
militia are, in a great degree, ineffective for the want
of arms; some of them, indeed, have armed them-
selves with muskets taken from the Americans,' and
Several have been armed nith exportation fowling-
pieces, thnt burst continually; the rest cannot be
embodied ; but the winter is 100 far advanced, to
admit of the arrival of additional supplies or rein-
forcements. The Americans are unquestionably in
earnest ; and, notwithstanding their past disasters,
much might still be done during the four winter
miustlis. 1
DnuaT-Thus Tuarritr..—tast night Mr. R.
performed the character of Yount Norval, and Miss
SMITH the character of Lady Randolph. Both the,
representations were high in merit. The air, the'
speech, the action of Mr. RAS, were In perfect ac-
cord with the spirit of the part—modest, simple, and I
easy In the 'petting scenes—teutler and impre,.ive
with his Mother—spirited and lofty with Glenal..on.
We rejoice in the fair promise that this young Actor
gives of talents, that with study will entitle him to 1
diqiuction. Of Miss Skim we have to speak with I
still higher praiser shah an artist—and has @agues- '
tionabiy no rival in tregedy at either House... There
were traits.of passion in some of the ',origin' of her 1
bosom purely in instant, mid yet quite original. In-
deed,
through the whole part her persona cation was ;
perfecti and she isseeliqd universal applause in the
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evidence of suppiatlietic esifiiinn....ii.kp was well sup-
ported ia. her, scae3.wlth B9eca, who
gave to that gentle , ,efficleitcy that* it
seldom acquires. •iiptstif . fa
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