The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-08-20 00:00:00

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' KILKENNY CATHOLIC MEETING. nieoent a asseerstructure has been reared. - I would-
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' . fling such an intention with horror froin me.
[The following eloquent Speech, which we co
Who would not value those honours, that a Nelson, Majesty
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a Wellington, and your own Hutchinson received as , day, Aug. 4, at nine in the morning. .He paned'
' .. trom the Kilkenny Chronicle, is the only one yet
meet rewords for achievements so glorious, that they !through Wurtiburg, Bamberg,. fiareuth; Hoff, sod
pliblished of those delivered on this occasion.]
.., will be Teed of by a grateful posterity with such un- !Mopped at all points where there were troop., to 1r..,
Grottec Liowsee Esq. amidst a thunder of ap.
qualified admiration 9 that all the accompanying sir- ! view them.
plause, rose and addressed the Chairman, as fol. cumstances will be overlooked in tke splendour of PAk/a; ARM 9.—llse Majesty the EmpretisQouta
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loos :es- those actions whereby thqse, honqurs were woo?—. and Reek' to-day returned from her Joann)? to
• Sie,—l shall not say one word on the subject ofe Who would net respect those possessions, which a Mayence at seven in the evening, to the Palau at
your Petition. I would feel it to be an unnecessi-
Devonshire disposes of, with such a prodigal gene- St. Clued.
•ry trespass on your time, to offer even one observe. rosity, with such exemplary benevolence, that his Attune, Ave. 7.—His Majesty the Emperor
lion, to impress the magnitude of the existing neces- conduct resembles more that of n trustee for all the and Kist has not gone out during the days of the
pity, for those of your body assembletl here, to cons purposesof humanity, cheering industry, encouraging sth and 6th.
tinue those firm and temperate efforts, which have ingenuity, rewarding integrity, and nearly effacing Ills Majesty has been very much occupied with the
brunet your important question to the present poverty, wherever it before' existed within his reach, Duke of Bassano, with the Major-General Count
stage of its progress. Still less would I be inclined than that of a modern proprietor of great estates ? Darey, and the principals of the different branches of
...•,:to urge those of my own persuasion, to persevere Who would not respect that rank, and that wealth, the Administration of the Army.
•in that cordial co-operation with you, by which where the inheritor of both, by the sterling vir- His Majesty has been engaged with the Ordina-
they have hitherto been-so honourably distinguished. tue of his single conduct, nearly reconciles you tear Daure about provisions, with the Ordivateur
No exertions of either kind are requisite at present, to the unequal dispensations of Providence in the Merchant respecting hospitals, and with the Ordi-
The advantages that those of every religion shall distribution of property ? No, my contempt is nateur Lamartelliere concerning transports and do..
derive, by the happy termination of this struggle, only levelled at those who strut in honours they thing.
arc too obvious to require any elucidation at this have never deserved, and who do not sustain As the armistice may he denounced before the
period. Were k otherwise, you have friends, who, the glory of those ancestors, by whose merits 15th of August, the troops are preparing to cele-
though not more settees, are far more competent to they were acquired.. Together with that great dif- brats the Fete of the Emperor ou the 10th of Au-
advise and to inform you ; and to those friends, for fusion of general: information, and the exposure of , gust.
the present, I would resign the task of so doing. But political transgreuions that we derive from the free-I FRANKFORT, Atm. B.—lt is generally said that
a circumstance has occurred within those few days, dom of the Press, we are also indebted to it for that the armistice is prolonged to the first of September,
so connected with your cause, so affecting the in- knowledge of private character, by which the conduct , but nothing positive is known. on this subject.
teresfs of every Irishman, and so bearing on that of each is as well understoad by the entire commu- ' Beetle, 'hest 24.—The King set out yeterday,
best privilege of the Constitution, the Freedom of nity as it is known in those districts, which have at six in the morning, from Charlottenberg for head.
the Peeve that if we de not take it into our most been the more immediate scenes of their vices and quarters. His Majesty, on the 22d, reviewed all the
serious consideration, we could not atone for present I their virtues. At this day no one wants to be in- troops who. were in Berlin. The Duks of cal Ise
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supineness, by cur Most vigorous and eteenua . formed of the good a country derives from the free.- land has set out for Streik:.
ous nudists, hereafter... T am certain 'you antic!. 'dom. of the Press. It has beseitwell and amply de. 1 TimeefrOvia,Atto.9.—Privateletterafrouvrie'nnit
Pate, that I allude to the recent trial and comic- ; scribed in one sentence by a distinguished orator.— ; confirm the account that the armistice has been prow
tion of, the Proprietor of the Dublin Evening Pbst, • c Preserve but the liberty of the -Press (he said), longed to the Ist of September.
Mr. Magee. I • consider this event so connected ' and though Rulers shall be forgetful of their sacred . PRAGUE, JULY 3l.—Hitherto nothing has pub-
• with• your emancipation—el look •on the persecu- defies--though Parliaments shall be profligate and tidy transpired relative to the state of proceedings
lion of the individual,; as so interwoven with that' ...venal, yet with this one weapon unimpaired, I will between the Plenipotentiaries at the Congress. We
opposition youlinve experienced from the Irish. Ad- : attasik the aggressors in their stronk holds, and I ' only know that every thing is at present confined to
miiiistration, in all your efforts to reinstate your-.I will thstdalipaii. of the liberty and prosperity of the the exchanging of notes. There is in the suite of
selves in the enjoyment of those rights, which are „maw I the two French Plenipotentiaries a numerous
denied' only by the bigoted and intolerant, that I ". . chancery. His Majesty often comes here from
I "Every man must admit the justice and troth of this
caunot resist the impulse I feel, to urge you to adopt , . be- Branders ;It is pretended, that his Majesty will
admirable observation. But while lie feels the
e'nee. measure suitable to the circumstance here ,: shortly establish his residence near this capital.
nefits, he must make efforts to preserve the sources
• alluded to. I call upon you to do it now; because Ave. 2.—The Archduke Maximilian arrived here
from which he draws them. He must interpose with I
you a rt. the first portion of the Catholic Body who . on the 28th July, from Vienna.
have been assembled since the conviction of Mr. i'manlY/ energetic, and sympathizing language. He 1
to support those - I His Majesty arrived here from Branders on the
Magee has taken place. I call upon you to adopt must extend a generous hand pa
30th of the same month.
triotic,men, who, in your cause, are obliged to en- ; ...
some measure that will sustain the individual, suf.
• BREMEN, Ave. 3.—For some time there have
counter the vindictive and expensive prosecutions of.;
feline iii your cause—some measure that will be ex. . passed through here large convoys of artillery and
the Court, and may be doomed to -suffer, by the .
pressive of your abhorrence at the efforts so cons ammunition of every description.
rigorous severity of venal and prejudiced Judges, ,
stoutly made to put down the Liberty of the Press. '
•••41 urge you to adopt sonie, measure that will hold -and the servile pliancy of managed Juries. You have I
now an opportunity, in the case of the Proprietor of
eat en honourable-extunple to your Catholic Bre-
the Dublin Evening Post, which calls so loudly for
three throughoutahe kingtiomN to use every effort
to countefact. the resentment, which every man who your protection, that you cannot withhold it, with-
out being branded with the moot marked guilt of un-
has exerted himself in-your behalf blip not failed to
quelifledingratititude. The Press has effected more
experieaee since a Noble Mike,' to the misfortune-
`!or your body than all your advocates within or
of Ireland, yam pieced at the 'head of the govern-
went of this country. It you act a manly and without the doors of Parliament. Mr. Magee
generous part en this occasion, and that your con-
stands more conspictiously prominent amongst your
benefactors than any other individual. No bribe
duct shall be well followed up by your body at
their respective meetings, the result will be glorious could allure him—no threat discourage him—no ex-
pence dishearten him,
to you, and attendee with the most happy cense- nor disappointments slacken
his efforts iu your service. He has proclaimed the
quenceete all. It will not only tend to counteract
importance .of your wealth and your numbers—he
oppression, hut will go far to stem that deluge of
has excited a feeling for yout sufferings and misfor-
corruption, which sweeps through every class, from
the peer to the peasant, and confounds the Bench, tunes, not only throughout this Empire and Eu.
but froia f of Niagara to the burn
the Clergy, and the Magistracy, in one common, • "Pe',
the
odious, and contemptible estimation." - I sands of Africa. Hadalls he never contributed morello
sustain your cause thanhe has dune by the exposure
fibre the Patriot Orator 'cited many cases in
• of those infamous machinations in the management
point, to show that, of lite, honours have been '
of the Anti-Catholic Petition lately manufactured
heaped on the worthless and the profligate, whilst' i • n Dublin he would have an unquestionable claim
they were studiously withheld from the good and , e
on the lasting gratitude of every Catholic in Ireland.
virtuous. lie cited one in particular, which made
' But in my opinion, he is entitled to the warmest
a deep impression on the minds of all present. H .
support of every honest Irishman, from his unceas.
said, that the ',nine of Major Bryan, whom liee • . .
it exposure of every wickeu attempt which has
called " Kilkenny's pride and boast," " the people's
been of late too successfully made to create divisions
• Mend," eac. did not appear in the list of the Grand its this country. Yes ! divisions have been created—
Jury of the County at the present Assizes.—We and is there a spot in the land, whereon I could
snakethis regret much, that, through want of space, we can- ..
assertion with less danger of being contra-
, iite follow him in this interesting part of h dieted than that on which I stand ? Heretofore
But, adverting again to the situation of the amiable '
, you weathered every storm—you were firm in duty,
Magee, he says—
I united in affection—your city was the Athens of
ii You submit to a heavy taxation to support a . Ireland, to which the rank and fashion, and libe-
ruinous war, that is wasting the treasure, and drain- .
rainy
and benevolence of the whole kingdom flocked
ing the country of its best blood.—You submit to a
annually for recreation. You were proclaimed
more grievous taxation (and hard is your lot, that
throughout the Empire and Europe as a happy,
you should be compelled so to do) that your enemies
united, benevolent people. But how are you now ?
may be enabled thereby to fasten the chains, by . Why
he most striking woof I could give of the dis-
which you are kept back from the Constitution, '
tractions occasioned by the odious policy of Admi-
mid are refused admission into that citadel, around ;
1 nistration, would be to describe the divisiens that
which you form a rampart with your bodies,.,
now unhappily prevell amongseyou.',
and which you defend with your very lives. I say, 1
to this taxation you must submit. Will you 'then [The Orator here concluded his most excellent
hesitate to lay a voluntary impost on yourselves, : speech in the following words, which he pronounced
that you may discharge a sound duty, in cheering ; most impressively :—] .
the mail, who prefers your interests and a prison, " Mr. Magee has long been an object of terror to
to the favours of a misguided Court, and to a share ' the vile herd by which the Viceroy is surrounded.—
of those contributions, that are wrung from the ill- I Joy sparkles in the eye of each jaundiced visage
stored pockets of struggling industry, and levied . about the court, at the prospect of his punishment.
from the squalid brow of a rugged peasantry ? '
II am certain, that y_bether Jon priazaaasaseelsas- en
• There is no man whose heart beats warm lathe Caaile ' 'this eeclislon,. Gibe grateful and deserving of friends,
- -- of hersonietry but will - lid himself elevated, nay ! or heartless and contemptible, that he will persevere
enriched, in the truest sense of the word, by any i its that manly and virtuous course so congenial to
privation he may suffer, or sacrifice he shall make, ; his feelings, and so consistent with his past conduct.
on such an occasion. In addition to the conscious- But if ungrateful, you will be for ever lost. The
mess you will feel, in fulfilling the most binding of days of chivalry are gone. Mari; and Decii will not
nil obligations, that of standing by those who suffer 1 spring up to -rush unencoumged upon destruction ;
for you, see what a rich remuneration shall await,
and though one Giulio, shall plunge in the gulph,
yet in the people's love. Let those laugh at this' unsupported by the great body of the people, the
most precious of all rewards, who have never felt its example will be ineffectual !! !"
delighting touch. Give me but the people's love, -
and I will not envy the man who inherits titles, that •
possibly were the recompense for meritorious con.
duct, but have been much more frequently con-
ferred as the price of some actions, better deserving
disgrace and punishment. Give me but the people's
love, and an approving conscience, and I will look
with indifference on the glossy badge, that glitters
on the heartless breast of the gaudy coxcomb. Nor
will I covet that wealth I see so frequently misap-
plied, which, instead of being a source of happiness
to the individual, and of blessings to the community,
fully tends to make the possessor avaricious and
venal, and which often so debases the owner,
Ant he becomes the scourge and oppressor of those
lie is bunud by every tie to cherish and protect.—
Let me not he misuuderstood. I do not deny those
orders in society, that form so prominent a fee-
tore of the constitution. Let no MEN suppose I
a ould touch a stone of that arch, on which so stag-

ARMIES OF SPAIN.
LETTER FRAM GENERAL RET, COMMANDING KT ST.
SEBASTIAN, TO HIS EXCELLENCY TIM DUKE OF
FELTRE, MININER AT WAR, DATED THE 26T11
JULY, 1813.

" MoNsmorrzult,—An Officer, bearing a flag of
truce, presented himself this afternoon, to request
Information respecting several missing Officers. He
appeared very Uneasy respecting the fate of the
Colonel of the Royal Regiment, who was killed
upon the breach. It is certain, that the assault
the English lost a Colonel, four Lieutenant-Colonels
or Majors, and 4 Officers; that the number of stab-
officers and soldiers is about 1000 killed, wounded,
or prisoners, all English, and near 300 Portuguese.
The English speak of their Allied with' contempt.—
This Officer confirmed what their prisoners had be-
fore said, that their eight best companies of Grena--
diers were totally destroyed on the day the assaidt
tool place. In the morning the enemy embarked 36
boats of wounded ; he fired during the day a great
number of shells; he only directed some howitzers
against the houses set on fire, which made me pre-
same be had commenced embarking his troops. The
Officer bearing the flag of truce thanked us in the
name of his General, for the care which he had seen
us take of his wounded.

66 Half of the town is completely destroyed by fire,
the greater part of the remaining houses are extreme-
ly damaged ; we have not yet succeeded in extinguish-
ing the fire; should the wind increase the remainder
of the town would be lost. The quantity of ammu-
nition which the English with their 45 pieces of artil-
lery, constantly in action, consumed, is astonishing ;
the proximity of the sea and fleet could alone have
supplied this consumption.
66 I continue to cause the streets of the town to be
barricadoed by traverses, which I reckon upon de-
fending foot by foot ; if at any time I shoyd be
obliged to quit my first line, your Excellency may
rely that the garrison of St. Sebastian will do its duty,
and continue to give proofs of its, devotion for our
august Emperor.—l pray, &c.
(signed) " REY.
" P. S. I forgot to mention to your Excellency
respecting the ladders with which the enemy's troops'
were furnished on their assault on the covered way ;
we are in possession of them."

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LONDON: -
FRIDAT **Vat* 20, Se It.

IThough the' Piris Papers do not make the least
mention of the battle of the Pyrenees, yet do they
nevertheless possess considerable interest. The dif.
Ificelty of adjusting the basis on which the proposed
Congress should treat, is evident from the various
and contradictory' reports concerning the Armisti e
and its continuance. The Frankfort article,, of the
date Aug. 9, asserts that private letters from VPlitia
confirm the account of its being prolonged to the ht
of September. We have no doubt of the fact, nor
that the renewal of the Armistice rests with the Ca-
binet of Vienna. The Russians and Prussians would
most certainly have tried the effect of another cam-
paign, if the Em...eror of Awsrera had mani-
fested a disposit;oe to countenance ,uch a measure:
but we have strong reason to feel convinced, that
his Majesty has been prevailed upon to fa!! in with
the great design of hi, son-in-law, in the assurance
that he shall fiud an indemnincation for all his former
losses by the war with him. hese p litical aberra-
tions from what might apaenr the strait road of
Cabinets, ought to impress the Ministers of our own
' country, that while we are so ready to risk all in
the defence of the people of the Peninsula, we can-
not be sure that we may not hereafter want that
very force we now exhaust there, in protecting that
which is of more consequence to us !Lan all the Rorie!
.beside. In tbientiMemtion, and nominations of the
personages at Prague, exchan,ing notes preparatory
to their entering upon the proceedings of Congress,
we hear nothing of the British Plenipotentiaries.—
Can any circumstance exhibit in a more contemptible
light the character of our Ministers abroad ? It is,
we are afraid, net forgotten, that the Earl of Livra-
root threatened the French some time ago to march
a British army to Paris ! ! Now, although it was
thought necessary to give this Nobleman a new title
(before he succeeded to his present one), that he
might not be known from that grotesque Quixotism,
yet is it remembered every where that he is the self.
same hero oho proposed that heroic expedition.
The French account of the failure of our attempt
against St. Sebastian makes our hearts ach. We had
previously believed it to be nearly as disastrous to
our brave troops. Gen. REY signifies that half the
town was completely destroyed by the fire from our
howitzers, and that it was still burning: adding that
should the wind increase, the remainder would be
consumed. How pitiable must be the condition of
the inhabitants. Is it not natural that these people
would be contented with any master who should be
able to put an end to their sufferings and apprehen-
sions. In the second letter of the above General
to the French Secretary at War, he gives an af-
:letting account of the manner by which num-
bers of our men were surprised in the trenches
tip a sortie the garrison. We trust this
part of his dispatches is exaggerated : espechliy
where he se; s that 140 English, who attempted
to pass the river, were &owned ; and that
in less than an hour we lost more than 1200 men !!!
They expatiate largely on this affair, which they con-
sider throws so much honour on the garrison of St.
Sebastian ; but the Papers are totally silent on the
battle which so soon followed it. The !otter con-
cludes by observing, that the wind had increased, by
which it may be understood that the contlagiation
was carried to its utmost pitch of destruction.

eta Cliii-IliteKE, svren. sure V. -
64 MONsMoNtUit,—This-morning at four o'clock;
visiting the advanced posts'on the left with Colonel
Sousson, who commands them, I perceived that se-
veral boats were leaving the sand batteries to join
those cruising, and I was immediately convinced that
the batteries which had been battering in breach had
been disarmed. I went to the land advanced posts
where the enemy had discontinued his works. The
enemy no longer fired. I immediately decided upon
reconnoitring his trenches, and by a brisk movement
made him deploy and inform myself of what he was
, doing. I therefore gave orders to two companies of
Seery TAKEn's.—Every professed, inveterate, and I the mountain ehasseurs of the 3d battalion, to the
incurable snuff taker, at a moderate computation, I voltigeurs of the 62d regiment, and to .the sappers I ---
takes one pinch in 10 minutes; ever pinch, with 1 who were in the works, to rapidly advance to the, We this day insert the admirable speech of Geoece
the agreeable ceremony of blowing and wiping the I trenches, and destroy or take all they encountered ; LtowEr.r., Esq. a Protestant Gentleman of the Coon-
nose, and other incidental ciriumstances, consumes the artillery at the same time received orders to pro- :ty of Kilkenny, delivered at a meeti 1g of the Catho-
one minute and a half; one minute and a half out tect the retreat of these detachments, and play upon ! lic Inhabitants of t` at County. The aesolutions is ill
of every ten, allowing 16 hours to a snuff-taker's whatever the enemy should send to succour the
day amounts to two hours and twenty-four minutes trenches. Thus, as I expected, the enemy did not ; also be found high's,- hinge/Sting. Wi.i:st the present
I
out of every natural day, and one day out of every expect to be attacked at this hour: the trenches unhappy disagreement esis's between the Irish peo-
ton. One day out of every ten amounts to 36 days were surprised, and all who were in them destroyed. ple and the Covernment which titles over th •,:,,,
mid a half a year. Hence if we suppose the prac- I The column which took the direction of the suburb every thing that comes troin Ireland, or that affer.'4
,
lice to be persisted in for 40 years, two entire years of St. Catharine, advanced to the burned bridge, an meeneoVestiventiir,
of a snuff taker's life, *ill 'be dedicated to tickling 1 and the 24 to the burned houses in St. Martin. The y ' ~., .. :.country, must be deeply the nature or the feeling a
his nose, and two more to blowing or It ! I Prevalent in mat
I And ! result of this' operntioh, which was conducted by •
i; t Testing.
if the expense of snuff, snuff-boxes, and handker- i the Chef de Battalion Blanchard with Undemanding That things are fast drawing to a crisis—that the
chiefs were considered, it would be found that this and distinction, was cornplete; We look 381 En_ reign of trawl and persecution, on the one hand,
luxury encroaches as much on the income of the 'buff- {dish and Portuguese prisoners, Air whom nine are or the infinenco of hing-suffering al'egiance on the
taker, as it does on his time. Officers ; "140 English, who ottopipted to pen the
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other are on the point of ezllaction-4hai the do

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Damns, Attu. 4.—Rh Modesty arrhtd here to