The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-28 00:00:00

GUTTENBUIWII MAIL.

STOCRTIOLIE, SEPT. Rnyal Majesty
has received intelligence, by Reports made on Us.
lst and 2d of this month, by Admical Baron Puke
and Lieut.-General Count Wachtmeister, that the
latter, on the 28th of last mouth, made good a
descent near Rata, with a corps of MO men,
with which he arrived the following day at Unit',
where he occupies a position. Tha remainder of
the army of the coast arrived at Uni.s.

It appears, by authentic intelligence received
from different quarters, that G...neral Kamensky,
with his retreating army, reached SkLi!eftca ua
the ?nth ult. (ruin whence he pursued his march Cu
Piled.

His Royal Highness lias received the full9wicg
Report from Admiral Baron Puke:

" The Tarramas frigate arrived here yesterday, with the
six Rua-boat, which were near fired. Major Iluesuolf;
Captrin of a frigate, reports, that on the 15th be set siii with
the same frigate front Ratan, and arrived at five o'cleri. in
the afternoon at Pike Holm, at the south entrance of the nat.
bnur. He found that the enemy occupied there a stroi.g pe.
shims. but neverthekse resolved to push on with the gun-brats
to the bi idge, in order to destroy it, and by this means to cat
off the enemy's retreat. For this purpose the Major led on
the gue-huats, placing himself at their bead in an ar.ised b.mt,
aid nu this occasiva experienced the misfortune of being badly
wounded. Captain Jagerfell, who succeeded in the coca.
mend, now advanced against the bridge, the destrurtiun of
"'IOC; was, however, r niered impossible, h. vie enemy
having assembled rear it a very superim taro:, w.,ich
forced our flotilla to tweet. Our low in this acttua
coesists iu sin killed and seventeen wounded, amor.g n hum
.ire Major Hume olf and Lieutenant Aluok. The loss vt Vet
enemy, whose force consisted of 500 men, 6 far wore coml..
derable, the number of his wounded heitig (ruin 6J t
The Fitt Lieuteoant of the Jarramat frigate now commands
that ship. This Officer, xi hone name Is Melaiider, reports.
that on the c26tli of last month, at three o'clock to the after-
nom, be descried a flotilla of 13 Hessian harts chasing two
detached Swedish sloops, which retreated to the frigate..
The latter immediately cut the cable and c.learcd actiout
but when she CAMe in sight of the enents's gun hurts, the
latter :h: card off aid took shelter near the curs', as here it
aas not possible fur the frigate to attack them.
" On oho 19th hat. the fr gate received intelligence of llCa-
measky's retreat to the puriaward, which sees brought by
tae brig Delphion Captain Boy. On recommitting Lie coast,
foetid it occupied by the enemy in such force, that a ars im.
puoible to attempt a kurding.
" PUKE,
Admiral and Commander in Chief."
" flead-qoarten, Unia, Sept. 4, lttu9."

Count Essen and Baron Leserljelke, who 2 by
his Majesty's command, are going to Paris on a
particular mission, hare informed his Masity that
they set sal from Ystadt on the 45th ult. in the
evening; reached Stralsund on the 27th, at noon;
and intended to proceed the 2ath ou their journey
to the French capital,
General Count Wachtmeister, Commander in
Chief of our Army of the Coast, has sent a re.
port to his Majesty, bearing date the 25th of last
month, by which it appears, that 9Q the 17th,
19th, and 20th of last month, our army was on-
gaged. with the enemy near Djekneboda, Sainte,
and (titan. Our troops behaved with the utmost
gallantry in all these engagements, but sustained a
very considerable loss, and were at length com.
•pelled, by the enemy's vast superiority in numbers,
to ro.embark.

Of the state of oar negociationi fur peace, no-

thing transpires; but we hope that we shall SOOCI
he at peace not only with Russia, but also with
Denmark.—(Stockhelis Gazette.)

FRENCH BURR-STONES.

As many of oar Readers may he ignorant of
the uses to which tlirrr-stooes---(the importation
'of which is to be permitted for three months)
are applicable, it may not be wholly useless to
inform them, that they are the materials of
which-Niil-Sfesterare formed for grinilingWheat.
These are ebtained .from France exclusive'', as
no stone inns yet been discovered in this Island with
which Wheat can conveniently begroandolitheagh
a large premium has for many years lawn. offered
by the Society of Arts for the discovery. Formerly
lilac Stones from Spain were used fur grinding
W heat. These stogies appear to be of volcanic
are eat reinely hard, are quite honey-combed en the
surface %shit numerous small cavitiii, and when
struck, are almost as amorous as well. The
Spanish MUMS are in one solid piece, and by soma
Old millers are yet in use ; but the superiority of
French Burrs is now so generally admsttvd, that
they are almost the Golf stones in use. £he
mill-stories made from I. reach bi:rrs, are com-
posed of. a very considerable number of small
pieces, curiously united, and foi altug r.
ther the largo mass, which, to the eye of tim
common observer, appears to be one solid stone.
—The importatiou, out only of corn, but of
the materials by which it can be reduced to flour,
will, by posterity, be viewed as a curious fact,
when it is considered to what a pitch agriculture,
and the mechanic arts have been carried in Eng.
land. Circular iron plate., in the shape of mill-
stones, have repeatedly been tried, bet nothing
yet discovered comes near the perfection in grind.
tag übtained by the French stones.

. The new Viceroy of Buenos Ayres has been
inserted with more absolute authority than any
of his predecessors ; he has the power of We and
death.

Lord Gaexvit.t.E must laugh considerably
when lie returns to town, after living sent for by
his MAJESTY, at the suppleness of back olden
will be distinguishable in moony of his Lordship's
visitors. Those at the clue •f the lut Session
who were about to poss over from the Opposition
to the Ministerial batches, will be the first to 66 boo
and boo to the great Mou."

I

LICESCES TO 1111,01 IT FILO3f
FRANCE.

A sudden ilteration of commercial policy, with
respect to France and Holland, has taken place.
Yesterday the Board of Trade came to a resolu-
tion of granting licences to vessels to proceed to
France and Ilolland, with snannfoctures and co.
tinial produce, on the condition of loading buck
with corn and French burr stones. When we
consider the implacable, extervtinating nature of
the war between France and England, it appears
inexplicable that such an intercourse should be
tolerated by NAVOLEoN. if he permits England
to relieve the approaching =anis of her popula.
tiou by a supply of corn from France, his
policy inu3t, at least in one pond of view, be ad.
witted to be of a very different oast from that of
Mr. Pert ;Ind 163 übctiors, who so vainly elides.
roared to shwas France into sohniii,iun at the
cotaatenamiant of the late aa r. But the adsan.
tap is the protest instates is wholly on the side
of England ; for no possible event could so cer.
thinly promote the vieos of Napoleon, which we
continue to bdit wt., as we have never doubted, to
b:... peace with England—as the high price
eurn—To the embarrassment produced by that,
an I the inevitably accompanying high priers of
er2ry other description of human sustenance, was
in a great degree attributable the Peace of Amiens.
Now, whatever may be thegrumbling on the Con.
tomtit, by retson of an actual scarcity of sugar
and coff?e, those articles form no part of the
roll sustenance of the great mass of population of
the Continent, as corn must do ever!) where. The
policy Which induces Napoleon to permit the ex.
change, is incomprehensibly mysterious ; said, as
we think, can only be accounted fur by his deem.
in; it prudent, at the present important crisis on
the Danube, to //O'er his grand and conclusive
project of Aermeticully seatittg up the Continent
of Europe against all intercourse with England.
in En4l4nd we are incessantly boasting of our re.
conrces for war, but w hat are they in comparison
with those of France? We possess, it is true,
what is cottel wealth—bait France possesses that
wile:* as really such. We cannot, with all our
c,onmerce, now draw grail' from Poland—or
from Holland, the once grand deptit of Europe.
What signifies our money, if nobody will take
it ? Of what utility are the gold and silver a
Spanish galleon, when the crew are reduced to
assort alloxancc, I i Eoglaii,l, whilst wo are
1;1.14.1161N un•ler the accumulated weight of coin.
merci il product!, and an c.reess of maitufletured
goods—from an excess of manufacturing in.
11,1stry —the rue aiding price of the quad-tern
11,1 sf has produced this snider deterui.siatiou of
the Lords .1 Trade.

France, nit.' all the misery is hieh for seventeen
years we have beets taught to believe she lirs
endured, and is enduring—is weighed doen to
the very earth—and with *hat ? 1411 y, with the
weight of her harvests, which have been so
abundant, that the growers are literally at a less
to know what to do pith the redundant quantity
of corn, wine, awl ell, with which nature has
blessed tier sail. The contra.' bets eel' the situa.
ti of the two countries in this respect, may
serve as a concise reply to the tedious, inex-
li tustible eilitotorly of 1, srj C L Elt E.% oil, the an.
titbetical para.luxical arguments of Mr. Castel:so,
and the financial couclusions of Mr. Nutmeat..
But, referring the issue of the contest even to the
obj,!rt of our idolatry, reetsith—if it be made a
question of pounds, shillings, and pence, it may
lie easily answered : it is simply, who can carry
on the war at the least expenee ? France, whose
garners overflow with articles of human suste.
and where paper-stoney is unknown ;...or
klegland, not growing corn equal to her own con-
sumption, and hi which no ether sign of property
remains but paper—for which she camiut get a
ediAle bushel of wheat in any part of Europe ?
Mr. A LDERM 1N Swint ieforeted us, in the Com-
mon Council, on the 15th of September last—that
the language on the Continent was, " Gi;.:e me a
MI on London, and there's your money." Bui
is we madly persevere in the present sy.trin, we
would ask the worthy Alderman, what we shall
have to give in payment for these same bills ? The
moment will inevitably al last arrive (should the
war continue), when the Continent of Europe will
b r w!Jully inaccessible to our eummerce—there
silt then be nn exchange, no barter for this bill--
but geld. %till the worthy Able:ma:l tell us
i.we that curiosity is to be found ?

A di•tressiog event happene:l in America about
tau months ago. At Southwick, in Savannah,
were drowned four young ladies, three of them
from 15 to 16, and one 17 years old, viz. Julia,
daughter of Mr. John Stratton. jun. Mary, oitl)
daughter of Lieut. Roswell Langdou, and Char-
19tte and Orphi, daughters of Ifr. Clark C.au.
nun, all of Southwick. They had assembled near
a pond fur the purpose of pii:king cherries, but
hridtaig them scarce, enterod into a boat with a
•iew to culleet pond lilies ; by some means they
uverset the boat, and before assistance could be
s'iurded, they .ill perished; their bodies the next
thy, in separate coffins, were laid side by side in
the sane grave.