The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-12-05 00:00:00

Accounts were yesterday received from Konints.
burgh to the 12th ult. stating that upwards of forty
fresh seizures had been made in the Prussian ports;
and that all the British goods which had been put
ender sequestration were confiscated. They also
,state, _that some reluetaace-having been manifested
by the Prusiian Goverareat to proceed te these
rigorous measures, it was signified to it, that a
foreign force and a legion of douaniers, in case of
refusal, would immediately eater the Prussian ter.
ritories, and cause them to be carried into elect.

Admiral SAUM.%REZ reached the Downs in the
Victory yesterday. Previous to his departure from
'Wing() Sound, the Admiral sent a confidential mes-
senger on shore, who obtained a copy of the decla-
ration of war, issued by the Swedish Government
against this country. This document has, we are
assured, been forwarded to Ministers. The latest
letters from the Same quarter describe it as rather of
a mild than irritating tone. Sir JAMES, it is said,
will not long remain in England. His present force
in the Baltic is to be augmented. According to the
latest letters from Gottenburgh, itseetas that many
ships were making preparations to leave their ports,
and put themselves under the protection of the armed
squadron iu the Baltic.

We yesterday glanced at the great difference
there was between the EXTRAORDINART GAZETTE
and the Bulletin previously issued
,by Government.
This (monist have escaped the notice of our Readers;
but it is worth while to trace the cause of this ;
or rather,to enquire—how such a circumstance could
happen ? Ministers can't do muds amiss, in issuing
their demi-official Bulletins, which cheer the pub-
lic offices, and the circle of their friends, with
hopes and expectations which at least are en.
joyed fur the moment. And we have the less
objection to this species of amusement, con.
trivcd for a circle decreasing every -day, and in
need of consolation, because it is of late chiefly
confined within the circle, and now rarely wastes
the time or credulity of the public at large. But
there was, heretofore, some degree of reason in
this roasting of eggs. The Bulletin was issued in
a transport of joy; and therefore did sometimes
exceed the dispatches in colouring success. There
used to be that kind of inconsistency ; but it was
a sort of consistent difference. The difference be.
tween the present Bulletin and Extraordinary Ga.
zette, is of quite another character. The Bulletin is
not of the same character as the Gazette. In Lord
WELLINGTON'S Dispatch, you find almost any thing,
but what he has dune in this pursuit of the enemy,
or what the enemy did in his flight ; any thing
but information that could give us either hopes 'or
fears. After a short paragraph or two, about the
enemy's going, and his fultouing, his Lordship ab.
raptly leaves this interesting part of the subject, to
talk about the positions in which be was enabled to
bring the enemy to a stand (that is, his late posi.:
Lion), and to oblige him to retire, without venter-
ing upon an attack, and to tell how finely the en-
gincers had strengthened that position. We have
no doubt of the ,kill of our engineers, and
must suppose the atnost of it was employed
in Lord IVELLINGTON'S late lines, and they deserve
praise for this. But that might have been given
while my Lord had leisure in his -pact lines;
and should not (having been neglected then) come
forth, to occupy his Lordship in the hurry of a
pursuit, aud disappoint the impatience of the coun.
try who did nut look for this double, when its eye
was eagerly bent upon a strait forward chase. But
his Lordship has another object also, in retracing
his steps to his old position ; and that is, to tell you
of the harmony that existed between all parts of
his army, composed as it was of troops of
various descriptions, and of different nations, and
to add his persuasion that the same cordiality would
prevail as lung as it may be expedient that the ar.
mica should continue united.—To digress one mo-
ment ; there is an awkwudness of symptom in vo-
lunteering this declaration, and in going out of
the way to express the hope of the continuance of
the eordiallity. It looks very like an excuse for
the pausing at the enenly4 rear guard, by pointittg
out the motley character of his troops ; or a kind ,
of view, given through the obscurity of the dis.
lance, of the disasters which may happen from
the want of uniformity of character, or views,
in the troops.—To return, however, this story of
haruiony might as well bare been told, as we said the
. other ought to have been told, and nut reserved for
the busy moment of pursuit. But the fact is, they
appear in this Dispatch, and are written in face of
a moving enemy ; aud the main character of the
Dispatch is, that it digresses to anything to get '
ant of the actual line of present operations. What
my Lord WELIaNGTON said besides, in this very
dispatch, we know not; but it is plain, that he did
say something more of the operations of the pursuit,
sunless it be confessed that Ministers make Bulie:
tins of any materials except the dispatch. Minis-
ters, in the present CAM, seem to have had a vast
deal of courage, of that vigour and hardihood of,
lime which GIANTS have when refreshed with
wine; fur they have told facts that, will dis,
mayt not only every military, but every ob-
serving man. They found these,. perhaps,
in the dilpatches; and did not calculate that forced
courage is apt to desert. If these were not iu the

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dispatches, where did they find diem ? In private ,
letters, it must be, for they would nut forge such
uneasy facts. To make Bulletins out of private'
letters is abominable, even when it is to raise our
hopes ; but it is worse when facts arc discloied which
are fit only to excite a panic that is inn-
nicely more dangerous than disappointed hopes
can bts. In this ase, we believe Ministers
did fintl the facts in the ntstsuuss ;
if so, proves two things,—first, that they gar-
ble the disPateises ; and secondly, that they
have no steadiness of mind to prevent a contradic-
tion between the two accounts they give, that is to
say, between the manufactured account and the
garbled account. They scan to act like our an-
cestors in the German Woods, w hodeli berated drunk
to inspire their counsels with courage; and then
sober, to instil a little prudence into them. As to
the facto stated In the Bulletin, and to which we
hate alluded, they are so recent in our Readers'
memory, that we shall not re-copy them. Thry
have excited an alarm in the public mind,. and that
generally, which requires very fortunate news to
ally ft !

We learn that the reinforcements for Lord War..
LINGTON are to be dispatched' with. the utmost
speed. His Lordship is sending home- all the sick'
and wounded which encumber his Army. In .the
most liberal manner the Royal Naval hospitals have
been opened for the reception of wounded officers
and soldiers, there being no military ones of the
same magnitude, and affording the same comfort,.
In addition to the regiments mentioned as likely
to be sent to Portugal immediately, is the Queen's,
or 24 Foot.

Among the Officers mentioned as likely to succeed
Gen. CRAIG Us the Cohowler of the 47th regiment;
which has two battalions, we hare heard the names
of SIP BRENT SPENCER, Gen. CAMPBELL (who
lately distinguished himself in Sicily), Gen. LEna,
and Lord DALHOUSIE.

It must be a singular gratification to the natives
of Ireland, that among the Officers who have dis.
tinguished themselves in Portugal, they can reckon
among their contrymen, Lord WELLINGTON, Mar.
Thal BEncsroxn, Sir B. SPENCER, Gen. Cot.r,
STEWART, Lord AYLMER, Gen. PACK, Gen. Cox,
Cols. PAKENIIAM, ROACII, DOYLE, 111'f. REAGII,SLC.

The following extract of a letter from an Officer
of distinguished rank in Lord Wct.s.toc.ron's army,
is worthy of notice, as shewing the dangerous fa.
brications by which not only the English at home
are amused, but by which their troops abroad are
misled into fatal errors :
"
AS= A‘S retreat (if so it is to he called) has afforded
as a serious lesson, that we must nut trust any longer to famine
as WI ally. In all the villages othrough which I have pitimed,
the enemy have left wheat, grain, and even cattle to a large
amount—suffisiest, from what I have casually seen, fur more
thanea week's consumption for the whole army."
COLONIAL PRODUCE IN SWEDEN.—Private
tin, by the last Anholt mail, contain tho following
itilelligenc.e :—The French Minister at Stockholm,
not only demanded of the Swedish Government the
immediate confiscation of all British property and
Colonial produce, but threatened, in case of
refusal, to quit Stockholm in five days. To
this detnaad, the Swedish government is stated
to have, in ,substance, replied, that a legal
examination of such Colonial produce as might
have been imported shire the 2ith of April,
should take place ; and if any—of ,jt ghoul('
be found to have come from England, it would be
proceeded avitist according to the laws •of the
country. Hopes (but we fear tootallacious hopes)
were entertained, that, by thus protracting the final
decisieni, all property of this kind would be saved.
The greater:, part of the English manufactured
goods, we understand, however, had been re-ship-
ped, under the expectation of soma strong measure
Of this kind.

BERNADOTTE, it is said, in some of the Swedish
letters, was ;decidedly againt complying with these
demands of die Court of France : we do not be.
lien it. It would be his interest, however,. to en.
courage such a rumour : it will rennin the odium
of this pernicious policy from him, tot it on the
niggling Sovereign, and thereby fatiltrate the ac.
cession of the former to that throne which he,, no
doubt) is eager enouglt to ascend.
When the last packet left Malta, on the 2tl ult.
Luctetv BONAPARTE and family continued at the
Palace of St. Antonio, which General OAKES had
appointed for him to reside in.
AU the troops at the Cape have gone on the Ex.
pedition, under General AIMRCROMBIE, except the
`23d Dragoons, 94th Regiment, and Hottentot Corps,'
the only troops which General Gitee has now un.
der him.
A volunteering from the Militia will, it is said,
take place in the course of the spring, land the bat.
talions of several. regiments are to .be increased.
The Scots Royal, Inniskillins'' 421, • and the
Rifle Corps, aro to have each luta:battalions ; the
7th, 43d, 52d, and 71st) to have each .three bat.
tenons.
We understand that the Board of, Tradeitas re.
fused to grant any.further licene.es, 4r thninten.
ductien, by neutral ships, int►► British; Wont bf any
articles from the Baltic, excepting grain,
So great has been the desperation produced
among the French prisoners, by ibe failure of the
negociations for a cartel, that, within these. few
days, three of them jumped overboard from the
Bienfaisant and Hector prison-ships at Plymouth,
and were drowned. One of them was an Of►cer.

A Decree has been issued at liiimburgh, which
prohibits all correspondence with this country.
gpyal Mint is completed by Messrs. WATts
and Rovror4, at 'Soho, for a new coinage for the.
Pitspreg REGCNT of Poatuom,.,, at the firs;ils) to
be shipped immediately.

Mr. Elias Loveday, Tide Surveyor at Harwich,
seized a few days slow on board a vessel at that
port, 22 bars of gold, weighing 2870 ounces. Mr.
Loveday found the gold concealed betwee the
timbers of the vessel, ;sailer about 30 tom of Ain.
gle Was!.

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THE dIt.IIIES IN POIMIG4

A private letter gives the fallowing detstift
new situation of the contending armies
, " es village of yelha, m
siar Santarem, k.v. On the 17th, the enemy stopped the light di,ake
tied miles is front of carinzo; an the 18th the; Miami
thepositinn they now migly pin the front of
This position is estretbely strong, and they have mkt,
oatural strength by various works. The bill is imitates ,
the left on the Tagus, the top alosof4 Oat ; the tau, of 's
rein in the rear is so situated that tt,e see the t„i„
the churches, itc. In the front are two mune, ci
one above the other ; and in front of the whale a
General to
'rims, which is sow seder water, and is to he •
only by a causeway, eight hundred yards long, am „,r_
straight, oa which. the eueini have. f iur piece, af.varree,r- 7
ladisat the causeway. The left it retired on the riter,spril
recommitrecl yesterday by General Ca so rvan'i dirisivri 01
Ise found the hill almost perpendicular, and of mina as
difficult of access. Ido um know the particitars of thetrno
ha, am informed that it is exceedingly strong. I have
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tttrate information af the di:btheatisiusii
pith,
st the 1,40,4:wie
item:
I have just beard that Jwitoe.'s corps is gone to Le)ica. G
net/ Ilit,s. crossoillie Tip.
avizi.• ()ur divisSiadd#tho light dioision are at Ibis pal
Sir c. Arco
ntilkibtiirauliaertariFilo,valaGnedypethnlelriellilig":tri4ofltlehthetareloatirb4iroeyiThriel'itLhe. road to We
mid in the poi‘itieti omit ealbiera. General Picrov ,
Turns Vedras."
'ff/RIBROFEEMINspesaire

FASBIONARLX (lAION.

It appears that the divorce saed for in the Coal
in Scotland by Lady Nom against her Ice kt
band, Lord Pa-mET, has been obtained, as the Edi
burgh Papers receircd yesterday euutain the
lowing notice:--

Married, on the °9ih of November, by the Ret flir first
muNcßiEr Witta wows, Dart. one et the Mashie:sof a
burgh, tis Grace the Duke of Atect I.L to the Right Halm,
able Lady PAGET. After the eertmooy, She Dote art n
cheh set out for itoseoeuth, his (irate% beat it Drab
shire.

We are extremely concerned to learn, that fro
the close confinement of the Princess MART, is
tending upon the late Princess Ausi.us, too.
with the grief fur .her deaths her l‘oyst
is new in a low and nervous state.
Yesterday morning Princesses AVGosTA ;milk
rasa took their usual ride for two buten, accorto
stied by Load WALunam.tm, Lady ELY, Gent*
MANNERS, Cs ttsr walnut, and Colonel TAL,OI,I
iu Windsor Park.
The QUEEN and Princesses ELiawsvin
I MAST, took an airing to Prfigmore.
The workmen belonging to Oleasrs, ELLeornii
FaANCIS, the King's upholsterers, begun Iln 31,
day tea fit up the private apartments in liuckin c,
House, preparatory to the arrival of the Ktso a.
ROYAL FAMILY. They are expected to ue coin
pletely fitted up. in less than a fortnight, Ito
rooms arc now being whitewashed and prepared i
tha¢ wing of the Palace, which is called the Prince
End, it being so named from the cireinnetanee
the Prince of %VALES having passed his earlier yea
in them. It is nut true that the Duke of Cwentstoc •
superintends the arrangements; his Royal HO.
ness will not interfere in any respect. Mr. Bon,
• the King's principal and confidential Page, smut
in town. (runs Windsor yeeiertfay, fur the to
purpose of-expediting the whole,.
In consequence •uf his MAJESTY'S illness, tb
Res. Ur. CAREY, the Head Master of Westminster

School, has ordered that the Latiu Play shuthlast
be' acted this year.
The .present King of SWEDEN mar be now coatis
tier in his dodge. When Duke or SIMEIMANIA it
was a great favourite with the people, havieg tea
a brave Admiral and a skilful Commainler.•
SIDNEY SlitTM served under him. 'Though opal
seaman, bit certainly is not •a the pilot that
thereat the. storm."
• His Grace the Doke of BEDFORD is build* t
mostsplendid cottage, for his occasional reside',
the romantic neighbourhood of Milton:Abbtrt,
very near thelamar, and nut far distant frotaTl.
vistock, to the no small gratification aids tenantrye
and the inhabitants around. • Ifia Grace has 111.17
presented as a gift to the parisk.of Tavistock, that
handsome and valuable organ, the late property of
T. BEWES, Esq.
• The Duchess of Metsiusoisousir is indisposed:l
Marlborough House.
We understand that Mr., FINNERTY conlini
dangerously ill, and is attended by D. Ltei.
comarand °STANTON.

The new Female Singer, lately arrived in Lon.
don, is nut Madam Bcartsew, but Madam UM
Morn, from the Theatre of Amsterdam.
A private Letter from Paris has the folleving:'
Among other Parisian on Wits, it is said, that, from
each anniversary of the birth of the first son of NA.
roLgorr, till his arrival at age, some great OWN
institution is to commence its date. The Would.
matt of the EMPRESS is expected to tale placcabot
cbristmas !!
The Medical Gentlemen in the service of the
Transport Board have been employed in srlcctitl
the egedand ipfirm prisoners, in order to their kis;
returned to France ; a circumstauce rellecting
highest credit on the humanity of its authors. Ott
Ilendred and Eighty-eight have been selected frev
the prison ships only at Plymouth.
The Dublin Theatre, under the management
Jonas, has recently made a most elegant appestat('
the interior abounds with gilding and beiatiful et.
namcnts. BRADBUnx, the Clown, is engaged,
lie possesses already a large share of public Woo
Several Jesuit Missionaries, in'Ciiins, havelatell
been accused by the Mandarins of conspiring, 101 l
some of the natives, against • the life of the Es.
rattan. At the date of the last accounts, five
the Holy Fathers were in custody) and *''n
speedily to be brought to trial.
As usuAL.—No. 15,588, yesterday, entitled to
the valuable Freehold Rouse, situate No. 139
Skinner-street, by the first day's drawing of Os_
Grand City Lottery, weesold in Sixteen Sixteen!!
Shares, at the truly fortunate Offices a Sir J
Bamtscomn and Co. conducted by the sole survint•
lug partner, J. Sty wninter, it Nos. 37, Condit
ill Holborn, and 38, Ilaymarkst, where the Pet
lie are most respectfully Wormed they may i"`
great variety Of Numbers, from No. 1 to go,'
'11!* C4llOOl slate 'and present City.Lniter.les•
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