The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-08-28 00:00:00

NAVAL MTELLIGEACE.

PORTMOOTH, Atvo. 96.—Sailed the frit frt.
gate, Captain Totter, with water on board fur
the fleet in the Scheldt ; and the Dapper, Lieut.
Tatham, on a cruise.

Arrived the Argo, of 44 guns, Captain Dishy,
from the Jamaica station. She conga last from the
Downs to be docked here.

Thc Hon. Captain King is aproloted to the
Jason; and the Desiree frigate is comrstiniosed
by Captain Farquhar, both its this harbour.

General Morrison, who iagoing oat to Jamaica,
as Lieutenant-Governor, takes his passage in the
Niobs, which Is detained by contrary winds, with
the Wrc.-Titdia convoy.

The Georgian,. Leigh. for India, expects to
bo dispatched on Tuesday.

Nine sell of the line, and two store-ships, are
expected here frotn the Scheldt, with 5900 priscn.
era on Iscratd, tit. Revenge, Marlborough, A'a-
+nor, Illustrious, IlsUona, Orion, Alfred, Here,
Resolution, Scarpis, and ll'eytnouth.

Came into harbour the Ratri:an, 741 Russian
ship of the lige, taken in the Tagus.

PLtwotTu, A Ug. 45. A trivet! tfie brig
Thomas, of and for London, from Jamaica,
with sugar and coffee; sailed the 911th of June,
with a feet consisting of about ninety sal!, und►•r
convoy cf his Majesty's ship Alfred, of 71 guns,
which are gone up Channel. Wilrani Bounesi,
the Master of the Thomas, died the 3J of July,
on the passage, in consequence of a wound rc.
(-cited in the back part of his head, by being
thrown from a n►ule, in Jamaica.

Sailed the Rolla, Springall, and ketch Maria,
for London.

Arrivcd tho Deily, Rogers, (rum Cork, with
prov6iuno.

AUG. 213.—Arrived the Roman ship Si. Peter,
with wine and oil, bound to London; •he came
from the Mediterranean ; the !lumber anucd ship
with a fleet from the Downs.

Yannton7o, Avo. 27.—Arrived the Mon.
',south, with 220 French prisoners un board fru*
Flushing.
S.lled the Gannett and Scorpion ; remaining in
the Roads the Roebuck and Monne moth.

The K rya has bc_rts pleated to grant the digul.
ties of Baron and Viscoant of thr United King.
dons, of Great Britain and Ir..land, unto the
Right Hun. Sir ARTOUR WELLESLEY, Knight of
the Most Honourable Order of the Both, and
Lieutenant-General of hi= Majesty's.Furces, and
to the heirs male of his body lawfully befallen,
by the names, styles and titles of Baron Duero
of Wellesley, hi rho county of Somerset, and
Viscount V,*tli:ogtoo of Talavera, and of Wel.
lington, In the said county.
The Knox; has been graciously pleated to give •
and grant unto HeWttlt VAUDRAK, of St. George's,
linnoter.square, In the county of hliddirser,
1 Doctor of Physic, and one of the Physic ions iii
Extraordinary to his MAJISTY, sun of JATIVI
VaLcoss, of Leicester, Doctor of Phjsic, by
Herren his wife, deceased, grand-danghter of sir
RICIIA1:11 ['ALFORD, and limit cousin of Sir
CRARLLI HALTWID, both of Wistow, in the
county of Leicester, Baronets, deceased, hig Royal
Licence and Authority, thAt he and hi., issue may
assamc and use the Surname, and bear the Arms of
Raiford only.
The statement which hat appeared in several
prints, that a quantity of tea, jewels, and veils.
ab:e oricntals, had been seized at Plymouth, and.
ed from the Cu/loden,
_is said to he uuttue,
and that means are taking to discover the authors
of this falsehood.

A hairiest ard.bound West Indianian was wreck.
ed a few days since at Selsea. Her cargo of rapt
was nearly all got ont without damage; some
perkheons drifted, and have not since been reco.
vered. The remainder of her cargo of sugar is
nearly all spoiled. She is gone to pieces.
The Vrotr Ethabeth, Ilona:vas, bourn! to tho
Battle, is e.aptu'red, and carried into Aalborg; ship
and cargo condemned.

The Francis and ;Vary, —, from Virginia fri
London, »as•raptured, and carried into Di►ppe,
on the 29t6 olt.

On Monday last was apprehended by Tows.
END, the Bow.street °Aker, John ll' ?ad, the
Clerk of 51r. Sat lin, of Chesterfield.street, and of
Carrington-place, for robbing his Master of money
to a consitierable amount. !L was examined be-
fore Mr. Justice Nattts, R tio committed hull fur
further examinaiiiin Prison.

Saturday morning two Gentlemen passing over
Nornood Co•nmon, in a ebaa'e, %ere stopped ley
three footpads, who robbed them of 501. in cash
and notes.

The Austrian General commanding In the Ty.
rot, addressed, nn the 2sth ult. the fullogaing Wt.
ter to the Deputation of Tyri,lians
Bniiii. doi.lr Q.
" The olikinl confirmation of the Armistice co eroded
the lYtb inst. by the Austrian neat.. has Acinstilly been re-
ceive by the undersigned, from an Au Irian Courier. scut
from the brad-quaners of tne Archduke unit, The weary
of military at.d prObabis poi., •al events commanded tub
step, so extremely painful to the r..itt of las Majesst the
Emperor, my mart gracious Setscrew,. But us tar Areli.
dyke John is gracinusly pleased to big Majesty
will cyrtaialy do all he can to •iike rare of the Tyrol.
" Mean time his Imperial Highness order. tranquillity and
surrender. His HLebness thus acknowledges the twerrsty
s:ising the country from the horrors and deva:tatosts which an
ill-judged resistance would bring upon it.
Agreeable be Article IV. f the Armistice. I must eva-
cuate Tyrol and Vomits. conartmealls both couittries call no
longer rely on my support. Thb is, what I am
obliged to communicate to 3on with a bleeditig heart, rind
it in, deep-felt gratitude for sour earlier ussistemer. In my
letter to the IThke of Duntaick, t bale recommended tat
Tir.iisns to his protection.
Vour lionourahle Itepuintia• h anally ed to
make knotty this letter to the Comassirder and is
Command, as aim to tbe Jurirdict funs and Co •
(Sigari) " Rams VaslreaCtl.
Oft.etai and cassmander et' a Corps to 'tyro'."

THE EXPEDITION.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDLNCL.

" MIDDLEBURG, AtT. Z.

" Intelligence has been ju,t received front the vicinity of
Lilln, stating that the flotilla under the command of Sir I!.
Porn t had been remelted by nearly 100 French mat-boats
and brigs, and that We rc-ult was, as usual, decidedly in fa-
vorer of our navy, akboagh possessing St 3reely half the
strength of the enemy. Our vessels have taken three of the
Fresh brigs and sunk one t the others sought safety in flight.
They have gone up abort. Lillis. near to where the French
fleet lie. '!'his was the boasted flotilla, e bids was, in eat-
;enctien with the fort of Lille, to have given protection to
the Freuch fleet. The Dumber of that tieet i, now accuratelv
ascertained—they amount to nine sail of the line and four fri-
gate.. Before they can he a pprrutelied. the imnietee chain mid'
boon which is acres the river must he broken. mid the fort
of Lillo mitt be passed. Cite chairs h, I under...mud. con•i-
deribly larger and more difteult to be broken than that
which remised Basque Roads. The attempt to break it was
to bare been made, and probably ha.,. before now, by.
the Couregrur, Captain PLAMPII/4. The distance be•
(trees Lila mei Fort de Lie kershneh is not halt
mile, but these coteries are not -taring. I arm told bs per.
seas of intelligence, on whom I ran rely, that the Freoch
elrips arty p.os Antwerp, and go up too high to be followed
Ly ocr fleet, if their toasts and pess be taken nut. It is still re-
united to :Mark Antwerp. It t, stated that Bo r 4PARTL has
ce :crud a stem.; farce. While oar army and navy were oc-
cupied been! Flitiiiittg, and Sir Jou,' !lora waited the re-
sult its Beteland, Doe aranres agents were actively en-
steed is providir.g this force—sarong those was King Louis
himself. Ile was at Antwerp and Lillo on Sunday lint, to
vview the froops and the fortificationt. The Royal salutes
upon hi, arrival at each of these places were heard by our
Yewels. Same deserters have since come over to to. who saw
his Majesty, awl who describe him as very cope to forward
the preparations of revise:nee for our attack. The report
of these deserters, however, as to the nature of the French
force, is Tory encourneing ; bat who ester beard any report
of a contrary maitre from a deserter ? Aninng thew desere
tees are •oar flanirweri in., who state that the it hole force as-
sembled in the vi' ini v of Aattverp does not eveced 0,000
men—that ee-t consist of persons of different notifies, who
were primorri fit war in France, and who sie-e rimed by ill
treatment (to escar starvation tittle, fl) to enter i to the
French service. This may be true. but I rememher tied we
had a similar dory about the garrison iif Flashes:, and It was
extraordinary with what eagerness these ill-treated prisoners
fought for the power which so forced them into service. The
garrison of Flushing, consisted of nearly 9.000 men, not one-
third of whom were French, mod yet being few of them de-
serted to ns—searcely any helped, hut our own cnuntry men,
who are, for the most pert, subject to the su-pieinn of having
before deserted from our awn army or navy. They state ge-
nerally, that they were taken prisoners at Copeirisageti or
Fpnin, or elsewhere, NO furred nut of pri,on to tight egoista
their country. But the evidence of the stepicien I have men-
tinned appears frost their having been beat with the French
prisoners to F.ogi.tod.
s. General llovw ernal mite, together with thirty or forty
prisoner., who have been cau,;ht its different hiding places
them :thorn the icl.tsJ since the surresider of Flushing. era-
b irked this d .r England—eve boats were filled with the
bargege of 11.)x ver's suite. 'lnsect is not considered at
a rola of ability—he I, a mere soldier, devoted to Nero.
j tans—bat he endeavours to write. I have rata some pa-
lters he aoldreseil to the inhabitants of Flashing in the course
of the siege, and tuey are perfect rbodonsontade—leite as
re.narktible fur vapour and inanimlty mutate of our paella-
ei:attary speechee Gar: teal Lunt: v, who was meson in
raminasd, is a clever man. Tine Geoerale do not disguise
Vie fact, Oat they had no hope fit holdirat net king at Flab-
i tr, after their cuinuannicatino with Cachand w ai• intercepted.
1:It that they were eitoitted to resist as long as possible, in
order that tee Unglish army should be so detained, that how
:night be affirJed for the enilectiou of a force at Aotwevp.—
howeser, the connisoniratiosi with Cadsand had net been
cut oil, they acre eol without hopes of receiving Resident
form to smelly them fur Hi/UV a general attnek upon
our army. Tic reinforcement they did 'recite from
Cad--and was about 41130 men. It therefire now appeart
euite evid• ut. that the Marquis of TIVNTLET was not only
Juaiiktble, in &riming to dietteha:k sr. t:aels:tml, jut that
he would have ten extremely culpable hid he attempted
to risk ais force under the circumstances in which he was
plated. on all hands it is confessed. that Commodore Owen
could not Tuntiah boats to land more titan 704 Men at a time,
while from the nature of the weather, it was impossible for
them to take more than one trip in a tide. Whet then, with
sorb a force en Ca4eini, was to become of 700 men before
they could he 1/enforced ? But the fact is, that the enemy
bail a force at Cadsand considerably outnunalo:•riog the whole
division under the coommod of Lord Ile TILL Y. It i, there.
Barr peculiarly fortunate, that what MU so mach regretted
some flats n4o, did happen to Like place. and in comegateete,
the conduct of a collate l's neer. which y. re. F..r some days the
'abject of much aiiimadversion, stands now perfectly vindi-
cated.

" Bat many persons very naturally ask, why was nest the
emnmanieatioa v.,: y mt ith Cadzand mother prevented
by the iaterposition of oar navy ? !lad the frigates, whose
gallantry I mentioaed in 3 former letter, made n sintilar dash
at the outset of the the comma .ication allutled to might
have been stopped at once. The result, however, is not to
he deplored, as the communication has served only to sag-
men; the number of prisoners.
" Lord Cu tTlr.tt sets nil to-morrow for!nude. Aeveland.
The Transports, kr. a hich arc to take our troops ap the
Scheldt are lying otr Pushing. Some of the troops are eat-
hArked. Central (;aos v axon's divi,ion embarked at Kam-
niuco,
to p over to South Revel.ind. The 44ithitb,
and l t regiateot, remain in this Hand.
" 'lttere is reason to suspect that a vast number of French
soldiers arc concealed at Flashing and throe7hout the island;
they are sail to arno tat to several hundretts--some art diAco-
'eyed every hour. .•.n order has been isst.-4 at Flushing, to
surrender all men vr a bore arms, aecturs:).,..licd with a threat
t'it.t, if envy da n..? ,Irreader within a crrtz.in period, they
will he treated as spies.
•• I ail inward 16 making inquiry to to the vitiate of this
i•land a a cooque-t to England, in a military, a commercial,
and a political point of view. Informatitio upon these polo*s
must be desi.-ahle to Englishmen, now that it determined to
retaiu the island. This determination is maniPest. Colonel

Naze, of the Engineers. has already received orders to
take everyneeessars measure fur insproviug tbe fortifications
1: Flashing."

" TERVEER. AUG.I9.

" A report bas been in eircohatini litre to-day, that our
-"el4 ham pawed 1.41 o; het arm iuquire among those who
r.unpeesot to indo. I do oat hod that this report is ere-
-4,1r- It is tint enorelved probable that that description of
*Jr naval foreo, hr whirls ouch a passage mould be attempted,
rata: h.i‘e reached TAM its time for the roma alluded to.

•• All oor twee rtrimartl for the operations up tbe Scheldt
have cnitnirkel. retiooest+ wkieb rensaio beer are the
*ith, Tith, ilst, Nth, 814, sad GU. It was
fillrort4.l that the troops to reasia wevialove bees General