The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-08-13 00:00:00

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1A wind-ewe wpt,
per moats to be stopped etr each males pay, seder pretence of„
Munich, or Stutgard, nor yet from Berlin or War- The latianweieva have 'l'lll7 Ways a reishig
saw • But when you are driven back' into Russia—. maid" "ear them ;The Cemamadallt permits 16 emelmeol
. drawing water the military Memos inform os, duo the Freseh
when you abandon Poland through inability to vie-
fend it, you then give up all honour an propriety maim., are
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centime,
persona,
and
useleopie
to such a degree as to .have recourse to the
.pen of ad- who dra'''wthe ;;latercaaryi
obey
dn.nnt
get
ame4bneth
of
nbat it
venturers and ruffians. No honourable man could , stopped. There are about 1400 of es.reeeifing pay—allowieg 11.
have brought himself to sitretioauch a Proclamation ; centimes, like the Fronds Military, thettereensinsadetkipser
it takes bat a smalleegi from
such language would; have suitable to England ; ; 153 francs per moth. immesh . .
your to make us uncomfortable. We vett that the Freed Qe,-.
but even the Minister of that country would not have ; each man, it Is too much ta give to peoples/deo we ewes.
dared to avow it. We shall conclude by imparting a •
to restom Si ear parole, and totem iv with the humanity sad
• of advice. • Dtead, that while you speak of "meat, "dial th'ismatemeeteillitr. will Muth, gOodoess'
piece
it may be imoartea'
" Indulgence that they have blthertaibee, caul oar arrival at this
depot. M. Cougar says kis his eaters to treat us like ostassee
berry to the people of. Germany,
to your slaves--to the people of Poland. In short,
Ibe assured, that the families which govern our coup- soldiers.
, tries, more ancient as they are than yours, are more Sir, we remain your obliged servants,
stedfast upon their ' thrones. The House of Russia The Depot of Loagwy.
may. be destroyed In a moment by similar catastrophes
to those which terminated the life of Peter by the
hand of Catharine, and of Paul by the hand of —.
But the Houses of Saxony, of Bavaria, of Wirtem-
burg, of Baden, of Hesse Darmstadt, will outlive
your empty menaces.
" It would be a much more easy process for Rus-
sia to fall back into the barbarous state from which
Peter raised her, than for those illustrious Rouses to
become extinct, and leave their palaces to be fired
by the torches of the ruffians whom Baron de 'lolly
would set in array against their Sovereigns and their
country, and of whom he has condescended to be-
come the organ."—(Journal do 1' E mpire. )
V IEN !I A JOLT 46:--Letters from Cantu, in
Upper Hungary, inform us, that the corps of troops
which was in this neighbourhood, has been consider-
, ably augmented. Major-General Stainauger dis-
charges the duties of Quarter-Master-General to this
corps of the army. It is intended to watch the me-
tions of the Russians in Wallachia. It is positively
stated, that it is General the Prince of Rosenberg
that has been nominated Imperial Commissary-Gene-
ral of Austria to the head-quarters of the French,
and that he will set out immediately. His Majesty
the Emperor of Austria has invested the Prince of
Schwartzetiberg with the most extensive powers. He
is authbrised to confer promoiion upon officers up to
the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel : he may confer the
military order of Maria Theresa, without holding
the usual chapter, and may deprive such persons as
may give him cause to complain. At this moment the
shocking intelligence has been received of a dreadful
tire at Baden. At the time when the courier set out
to give us information of the event a Considerable part
of the city had already been reduced to ashes.

Loagwy, Jame 4, 1811.•

(DUPLICATE.)
Lowry, Dee. 1811,

TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD HOLLAND.
Me Loao,—The Prisoners of War, whose signatures are sub-
scribed to the inclosed Petition, being highly grateful for the
very great interest your Lordship has ever ebewn in endeavour-
ing to obtain an Exchange of Prisoner', have been induced to
request your Lordship will do us the honour to present to his
Royal Highness the Parma RESIST, the inclosed Petition, and
continue your philanthropic exertions for your unfortunate
countrymen in France.
We beg leave to mention, for the information of your Lord.
ship, that our depot, and those d the Merebant Sailors, com-
prise the most unfortunate of any men, prisoners in France. It
may be said, that id war time we ought to consider that.we rut
the risk of being captured by the enemy; bat it never can be
said, that we should have expected to have remained so Mg II
captivity (=ay eight years and a half); therefore, after a ow..
tain period we think ourselves entitled to some relief from our
country, for whose cause we suffer, and which, if we moot be
exchanged, is our desire.
la former wars, merchant passengers were not detained. It
has been said that the French Government will not permit any
allowance to be paid us here; Watch is the case it might be paid
to our friends in England, on whom, these among us who have
thent able to make any allowance, cat always draw for it.
The officers and men in Government service receive pay freak
the French Government, according to their rank, as well asibeir
pay from the British Government; as for us and the amerebeat
sailors we only receive the pay from the French Govern■llt,
consequentky we are the most distressed.
We beg your Lordship will excuse our addressing you on the
envelope of the Petition, which we are obliged to do, owing to
the extreme difficulty we experience in the emausanicstion.
Should this be so fortunate as to reach your Lordship, wesWt
be greatly obliged by your coodescending to inform the Sects.
tary of the Patriotic Fund at Lloyd's of it, and deli hag MOW
let us know it through the Rev. Mr. Gordon, at Verdes.
We are, with the greatest respect,
Your Lordship's
Most obedient and obliged humble servants,
for the Prisoners of War in the depot of lastly,
ALEX. SMITH, Capt. of the London West WANDA&
JOHN MORTON, Merchant Passenger.

RUSSIAN BULLETINS'

POSTSCRIPT TO THE ST. PETERSBUfGH GAZETTE.
14aWS OR Tag WAIL /ROW ■LD-QUAtTI'IY, Tag 2.
0. s. (IVLY 14,) 1812. -
By every information it would appear, that the enemy is cot-,
letting his force en the right of the trmy of attack. Our• Com-
mander in Chief does not neglect the proper measures for ren-
dering the latentiens of the enemy unavailing.
Prince Begroties, on his side, continua his movements vs has
been prescribed ts him.
General Plater, lying In ambush, fell In with the enemy on
the 26th June, 0.11. (July 8), going from Nevogrodok to /Cure-1
I Hitch s his vsossad consisted of three columns of bone. which
were overthrown * the reed by oar Cossacks going out of
vogrodok. On soother day, 47th June (9th .duly), our supe-
riority was still we remarkable. The enemy haw iegstreagth-
erred his advanced guard, attacked General Pistol*, who °ems-
' pied a small plate called Mere. Three regiments of Polish Hu.
laws, commended by General Toorno, were completely routed
upon this occasion. We took prisoners two Colonels, several
other Olken, and two hundred rank and file. General Toorno
himself narrowly escaped the same fate with a very small num-
ber of bis Hulans.

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(DUPLICATE.)
TO MS ROYAL iIIOHNILIS
GEORGE PRINCE OF WAKES,
ac. ac.

REGENT OF
BRITAIN AND IBELA UNITED KINGDND. 014 OF GREAT

1111 e It ri.ZASt 'iovß ROYAL MIGUNCSIII
We, the undersigned Captains, Mates, and Pas.
osengers of British Merchant Ships, Prisoners of War,
st.present detained in the depot of Longwy, consi•
dering the present a proper epoch for addressing your
Royal Highness,' humbly beg leave to condole with
you, in the most sincere and affectionate manner, on
the unfortunate affliction of our most beloved Mo.
narch ; and, at the same time, to felicitate your Royal
_Highness, in the most sincere and humble terms, on
your accession to the Regency of the (Jolted King-
dom.
Being well convinced that we are writing to our
Prince and countryman, whose only study is the
happiness and welfare of his subjects, we humbly
presume to take this mode of acquainting your Royal
Highness of our present miserable situation, trusting
you will remonstrate with the French Government
for the harshness with which our class is treated.
The town of Longwy (as it is called by the French)
is nothing bit a strong, fortified citadel, surrounded
with ramparts, ditches, and sentinels, about 400
paces long, from north to south, and not quite so
much from east to west.
We are deprived of our parole, and not even per-
mitted to approach the ramparts. Daring the sum.
mer months we are obliged to muster three times a
day ; at present we muster twice, be the weather
ever so inclement, which is very inconvenient at this
____ season of the year, as most of us have not a change
TO THE EDITOR OP THE STATESMAN. - • of clothes, ihoula we get wet. We are at present
Sza,—We, the British Merchant Olken, Prisoners of War, obliged to be in the barracks or, our lodgings by half.
forming the Depot of Loagwy, take the liberty of sending in-
closed a Copy of a-Petition seat to the Right Hoo. Lord Hoc- past eight. o'clock in the evening ; should we had-
Lane, which we requested his Lordship to do US the hangar to vertently exceed that time, we are taken up and con.
present to his Royal Highaess the Panics REGINT 1 as we have fined in a cold damp jail, until after muster at eight
not received an amwer, we presume that, the Petition Wands-
o'clock next morning,, and sot liberated until' we
carried. We, your unfortunate Countrymen, will consider'it
as a particular favour, if you will have the goodness to publish pay six sole- jail fees. In case of sickness, we are
it in your Paper, with the Letter to his Lordship ; by so doing, 'twelve leagues from the Hospital at Metz, which is
we think it will, is all probability, meet with atteotiou from appointed to receive us ; and ihould any sudden ae-
hig Royal Higisams, and his Lordship will likewise see that we
vithritaia the highest esteem for himself, and that we are fully cident happen, we may perish before we can reach
immible of the value of his patriotic exertions in our favour: it, it being two days' journey for the corresponding
'aka Is publish this Letter, that the whole may be seen by the Ge' ns &Armes, into whose custody we are given.—
Preeeirenvernmeat. We beg leave to Warns you, that since
dtedite of the Petition, our ease is considerably altered for the We have an unfortunate case before us—Tousles
.worse; the price of bread is double, and all ;Om articles have THOMAS, Mate of a Merchant ship, in endeovooring
rises in proportion; the liberty of living in town iotakon from to desert, fell from one of the out-works, a place
us; and we are obliged to slap two in o bed, in the barracks; t fifty feet high, and twitted his uncle in such
hi a few words, we are treated with great severity, our cow about
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madam being governed by his Faigilsh Interpreters, and so is. a manner that the. resident -Medical Gentleman de-
d')/I"ee can be granted, exelPt through the°. At Pre' dared, it was highly imprudent to .send him to
seat, the few permit meeting with intulgesee are, tire'lto-..
zwetz.—lits bill, for medicine and attendance,'
terprtee, e, worried men who lave their wives with them,
Ithaw tint hive married French women, or peep nee* aim,: amount! at present to 1340 francs, 940 of which
"'""'• We 11" e 'keg intoned, by letter, *ow hike ihse has been paid: by the Committee for the Patriotic
the Minister a war i tatigped with bowie( emsplalats Fund, so the rema nng
nowt 0,; uweegeee, we sake this „me lad" of aap.irtag •'d 'i I 400 will be paid by. sub.
his Excellent'''. 905 any complaints. whatever that may have actiptiOn. 'We are sorry to say, that, notwithstand-
ing', seat apastill YRIIIICIbis &seat, an auslorroorstl,,mul wild- s Ing the attention' which has been paid him, we fear his
out fesedaties, If ba MU have the goodness to esquire of M. 1., mnit• luis ,Thisiod
14 V114.10n, asiensandasit d'Awits, the Civil Alithovitien, the -e' ---r— #.• •
Military Mee% or iney other person, wept as; COCIALT, 0010 T , We have pareyva. the French Government, le ,
j14.46.t or kik. lows; sat, will fed that we have always cam. art Taipeetfai manner, itatiog our cvait alio,
dieted ourselves will the greatest propriety atatregalwity (env '-i _ . 4111* ll, trofdifilk killildeelinjities'A
apt !be few desestittes), sad they must be plated to the rev* - I—"Y"—
weaves adopted by' td. C. I and these Mal been but Doe deatiß, , . 'win"'
L-------llMPAlNlggillei' OPP. With FrelilliPti Cof
poo fgoo.riok4 :1.100 was ofe."Mits Vila& qbg fASOSPOSSOL 114,1411.114 *WOW OEO4 ato . Amy Aelf• NQ.

POSTIIGNITT TO TIE ST. TETEPSIIEOGO t. ALBITE.

WfWll 7110 M TVS ■ZAD-QOARTIRS OF TIM AIINT TO TIM

7u JULY, 0.6. (JULY !9).

Nothing new of moment has takerkplace in oar army, except-
ing an attack made by the enemy, to the number of 7 or 8000
sea, upon a rear-guard under General Polintz, of e.OOO men.
The French were defeated, and their Commander, General Ge-
nies, taken, and 150 of hie men.

• Pursuant to the main design our army continues to withdraw
by degrees. On the 6th (July 18) some preparations were nr.
dered for the further ezeentioa of this plan, but no movement
was made. The affair of the 9d (15th July) is more decisive
than was at first imagined. We have taken 17 Officers of dis,
tinction ia that successful surprise.

'fhe enemy has been assembled is very great force on the
banks of the river, and the passage will probably be hazarded.
Preparations have been made at Wittespk for the Emperor of
all the Russia', to which plane the head-quartets will neat be
transferred.

On the sth (July 17), the Duke of Treviso and 30,000 men,
appeared in the vicinity of Olaubokoy, bat an attack was mad*
upon their advanced guard, which fell back about a mile, and
this successful movement stopped the eßemy for that day."

BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR IN FRANCE.

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