The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-14 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

4141111ING7Vti, J•sT 28.

[TM fallowing is considered as Tam official. &nil
de:)
There are features in thi late Order of the loth
of May, that it may be of soma service distinctly,
he metier.
I. Thwarrangements made by Mr. Erskine, it
is said, are not such as wereauthorised by his Ma.
jesty's instructions, "or such as his Mirj.sty can
approve." Here is an avowal by the British Go.
vernmeut of an indelible purpose, unlimited by
time or circumstance, either not to make a proper
reparation for the outrage committed on the Che-
sapeake, or not to rescind the principle of her Or-
den of the 7th January and lltleof November.
S. The temporary eclantions of the old Orders
in Council ate all coupled with one sweeping con.
ditiou, to wit, a withdrawal of protection from
any vessel that shall attempt to enter any port
" actually blockaded by any of his Majesty's
ships of war." Is there not reason to fear that
the whole of the enemy's ports will in this way be
hi Jckaded by a naval force alt ogeth cr insuHiicient for
the complete investment requisite to a legal block.
ade, and that vessels leaving ports thus " block.
ailed," will, on their return reptile, be seised on
the high seas by British cruizers, and carried
into British ports fur adjudication, for a_ nub'.
don of thu blockade r There Is the more rea.
son to apprehend that the species of blockade
here referred to is not that recognised by the law
of nations, as, if it were, there would have been
no reason for such a provision.
3. The Order professes to indemnify Antedate
merchaists, indeed to avoid any interference with
their adventures under the arrangements made with
Mr. Erskiesi. Bat this wilt be found, on laves.
ligation; to be an idle pretest. The larger num.
ber of American vends were destined for, and
will have entered, British ports, with cominodi.
ties, in part meant for consumption in England,
in part for consumption on the Continent. The
value of these commodities must materially depend
en a sale fur them on the Coutineut. This being
almost totally cut off by the Order of the 16th
of Aprili substituted in the room of the previous
Orders, the prim of those commod.ties in Bri.
tish ports have actually sunk, and may be es.
pedal to fall much more; and the American mer.
chant, instead of making a profit, will incur a
ruinous luau. A large portion of these shipments
to Euglaed were, dutibtless, meant to be depo-
sited iu that country, with a view to future trans.
venation to the Continent. This resource being
now almost entirely cut off, a great anti steady
depression of prices will he inevitable.
By the disavowal of the British Ministry, the
Order of April last conies into operation in lieu of
the Orders of January and November, 1807.
Now the Order of April, although otherwise so.
presented in most of the public prints, will be
found evils more rigorous and oppressive to oar
trade than the preceding Orders. Under thane
Orders, the direct trade between the Utsitial
States and the Coloeics of the enemies of Britain,
sod from the United States to the Continent of
luvn'm through a British port, and the treas.
portAtcan of American preduce, cotton esesptod,
*rough a British port, to enemies' ports, Eider
certain conditions, were allowed. By the Or4kr of
April they arc, with trifling exceptions, interdict.
Ital. Thu principal trade authorised with the Coo.
tinent by this Order is to the ports of the Baltic,
allowed, no doubt by Britain, for the express pur.
pose of obtaining naval supplies through American
bottema, a track which will be likely to beinbibited,
as soon as it is seen to have this effect, and which,
independently of this circumstance, would be of
very little value to us, but a small portion of our
produce would there find a market. Besides this
trade, the Order allows a trade to the southern
pans of Italy, comprising Naples, and a part of
the territory of the Church, the whole of 'but in.'
considerable importance, compared with the ports
of Genoa and Leghorn, in the northern pert of
Italy, with which all trade is interdicted. To
this may be added a qualified trade to certain parts
of Spain and Portugal, dependent epos their
possession by England, which arc, however, toe
trilling and precarious to be of much value to ea.
Under this view of the subject, the arraiigeenelMs
made with Mr. Erskine, attended by their recent
disavowal, will be forted to operate as a mere
decoy, the emollient leuitives of the order of May
21th to the contrary notwithstanding.— IVe.;
tea Inlelligencsr.
HERBY MARTINI ESQ. and S. WHITBREAD,
Esq. M. P's. were a few days ago admitted to the
freedom of Nottingham, pursuant toe vote of
that Corporation, fur their patriotic conduct in
Par linnet.
A letter from our squadron in Basque Roads
conveys the following deformation :•••••44 As for
the Rochefort squadron being wholly destroyed,
there arc eight sail of the tine now afloat up the
river. The three-decker has been fresh cuppered.
They have only their lower masts standing, and
have neither men nor stores aboard. The Captain
of a vessel we have just detained and sent in says,
that they are marchieg every man they east find in
the country into Spain ; they march them with
their hands tied behind.
A letter from Cadiz, of the 28th ult. contains the
fallowing particulars, which will be interesting to
our mercantile readers
" Several alterations have taken place in the
Spanish custom-house department, favourable to I
the British commerce. Besides the admission of
all cotton manufactured goods (hitherto rigorous.
ly prohibited), a great reduction has taken place
in the duties nu woollem and other goods. New.
foundland fish only pays27' reals.of vellum, instead
of 43 Am.:riots; and Norway fish are excluded
from those iadelgencies. These cessions, se highly
favourable to British trade, it is presumed, will
irSducc the Government to put the products of
Spy, en an tine footing with the most favoured
murices, particularly in the ankle of Spanish red
wises, which pay the enormous duty of 12t. pet
toe mere than wise from Portugal. With respect
to tarter:en trial's to South America, no relate.
time has takes piece, or alteration wk, in the
former regolatiou."

Tile 1,47,11 EXPIDITION.
;
1111011 11111 ARGUS (ritaxen PAPILIt.)
.(this was written before the intelligence et the
surrender of Flushing had reached the French
capital.]
66 The saws of the armistice, which arrived at
London on the 26th of .Inly, has spread a eon-
iternation over the Ministerial party, which the
hope of thu success of the Flashing Expedition
could not efface.
'6 At London, as at Paris, the issue of this Ex.
*idea may now be foreseen. The letters which
are every moment received from the North of
Festive, the seal which is manifested every where
against the English, who fancied its coast with-
out spy means pf defence, have already caused
their speedy tight to be presaged. The delay
alone of their first attacks was a defeat. They
could only hope to succeed by a surprise, or by
treaeon. They have lost the first by their timid
procrastination pies lenteurs ihnider). They
have seduced bet one traitor, and soon found
thousands of heroes. Flushing, and the Fete*
Beet' might possibly have been taken, by au ewe.
pectedcoup-de-esoini hut all the vessels are now in
i safety n the Scheldt. Flushing is vigorously de-
fended : succours have been sent irs under the
cannon of the lingllsh ships ; and, if this fortress
had yielded titan unforeseen attark, It would hay.
beeo a short conquest, and produced only imam
disasters. The glorious epoch 2t which we live,
is fas distant from the days whoa the enerey held a
garrison in Cahill. If they have now the power
to destroy, they have net to occupy. Their whole
marine could not prevent Flushing trues sorsa fall-
ing again into the power of France.
-46 It is Polarities, that the British Government
witnessed, with profound regret, the opening of
the Scheldt, and the cession of Flushing to
France. Mr. Pitt said, in the House of Com-
mons, s that if France %%ere permitted to retain
that maritime and commercial position, they weight
even abandon to her also the mouth of the i halms,
to which a favuuralde wind might in It hours
transport a French expedition, prepared with se.
curity in a vast base'', so well protected by art
and nature.' Bet victory has, nevertheless, se.
cured this fine cenqnest to France; which the po-
Alliesl faults of Mr. Pitt contributed to, and
which atl the genius of his successors will never
tike away. Thus the expence of their immense
'expedition will be loft. The Island of Welch*.
ten will be one of the bulwarks of France; the
Scheldt will he free fur the felicity of her rich
northern provinces, and to the perpetual terror
of the Mistress ref the Sews. •
" Already national hiniour calls Frenchmen to
the defence of their insulted coast/. Those of the
neighbouring departments have nut waited thoeura.
mons of the Prince and Senate to fly thither. The
tempest thickens round the English: they will
stay on the shore with their sails unfurled, if they
do not wish to pay dearly for the temptation to
which they have yielded, of setting their feet on.
the French territory.
" We did not wait for events in order to jud4e
conceruing this expedition. It has been ill coo.
lashed and ill executed. As an ally of Austria, it
is not possible that England should nut have lat.
tend her with this diversion. Why then has it
been so tardy ? But if Fleshing ken been always
the object of this enterprise, we may infer from
it, that the greatest disasters will never cure the
British Government of its incurable selfishness and
jealous cupidity, since the desire et catching a few
ships has been more powerful than the possibility
of steeling a diversion more useful to her ally,
either in Spain or the North of Germany, in aid
of the robbers whom it has in pay there. On the
other hand, if it be true that the knowledge of the
Armistice has deranged the first plan of the Eng-
fish Ministers, the precipitation was imprudent,
and the change may be fatal.
" Certainly it is an affront to the British arms,
that an Expedition, prepared at so enormous an
',teepee, composed of numerous and select troops,
trumpeted Curtis as une that was to elect a revo-
lution in European affairs, should terminate In
the bombardment of a town, leaving the field of
battle to a few garrison troops and nationalguardr,
without experience in war. Is it not matter of
scandal, that in opposition to so mighty and costly
an effort, France should not (in spite of the asser-
tions of the English papers) be undei the neces-
sity of detaching a single man from her own armies,
and that the conquerors of the Danube should, at
the same time, hear of the insolent attempt of the
English and their defeat 2 It is thus we may judge
of the relative power of the two nations, and see
at what price England purchases that maritime
superiority, which is raised on the calamities and
divisions of Europe."

It is said that Lord WetAttroron has born
forced to destroyed his ammunition, in order to
make the waggons carriages for his sick and
wounded, which it is said exceed ten thousand.
Captain Cocteau, of the Buffs, son of Mr.
Colman, one of the Proprietors of the Hay.
market Theatre, is among the prisoners taken by
the French is the retreat from Talevers. He had
effected his escape, but his jaw having been free.
tared in the battle of the 28111, he was enable to
cooties° his flight, and thus fell into the hands of
the enemy.
We have been informed that vessels sail from
France-with English licences, under any colours
except French or Dutch.... They are easily forged.
Ali meta of war have nut got the list from Go.
verament of what are granted, sad if the French.
merchant sends half a dosee with the same, except
the same man of war meets with two of rhea,' the
faeiy is not detected, and they pass safely.
y bring nothing bet French produce,
es, Stc.
On Friday last S. JACLAIIIAN and Si.. TI101:11.
Witt Esqrs. were ammo Bailiffs or Chief Mails.
traces of Ipswich Welty year ensuing.
Daring divine service last week at Chokes.
ford Church, the nose, cireatnetancts occurred of
a woman standing up and forbidding the banes of
a marriage in which herself was a party, they
baring, as it appeared, beep gebilatied, without her
AWOL

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THE COMAIISSAIiti't.
There is no public department has so mach
engaged the anxiety, as well as notice of the
public, as that Ahich belongs to the Commissariat
of the Army ; yet none which most unhappily
Sois given less satisfaction—ne4robably from any
will et rapacious machinations of its agents, bitt
'from some infatuity or ignorance that have coml.
ly prevailed, in point of fatality, to midst
abortive some of the oFt expensive and formida-
ble armaments that ever left the British shores.
In Spain, the defects of this department were de.
plored by the army ; tho officers and men under
Sit John Moore, and that • General himself, enu.
morated it under the heads ',6f other complaints "
that he so forcibly urged. `jlin Spain again, tooter
Lord Wellington, disastert, wore than defeat) .0
are imputed to it in his Lordship's dispatches. It
ought not to be endured, that those concerned
should set up the apology, that we were to lo ,k
up to the Government of Spain for commissariat
supplies for our forces. The indolmee,
city, or apathy of the persons whose agency was
to edict that object, had already given proofs
so co evincing of their disinclination or imbecility,
I tat no reasonable hope could have been Collided
'ea their exertions. It is therefore plain that no
dependence being to be placed in (bens, we should
hese been prepared against the worst, and have
provided such a Commissariat as if our troops
Iltod ben, not in an ally's, but an enemy's Come.
lg. This would have been sound policy, and
'wird have amply repaid the contingent charge
esproze, by the preservation of many a good
and brave solltre. It is reported that Mr. Golan,
the Gentleman at the hyoid of that department in
'England, means to resign, ream bodily infixed.
ties. Ile has been a useful and honourable man,
aud, it is understood, has done Ms dot,' to the
public. It Is now, therefore, cordially to be
wished, if that Gentleman shnuUr resign, that his
place will by fillet! by one whose competence to
the station will be supported by integrity, omit
and assirl pity ; and that uo man will be appointed
who, as a Commissary or otherwise, ever elicited
the breath of suspicion, or created trouble in the
iurestigation of his public accounts. In that case
public coofidence will be given to him, and it will
extend itself to the department.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

—mew—
An inquest was taken yesterday at the Angel
Inn, behind St. Clement's Church, before ANTIC.
Goa., Esq. Coroner for the City and Liberties ut.
Westminster, on the body of the unfortunate Gee.
tieman who shot himself oe Monday, in the wa.
ter.closet .of the Inn.
The waiter and ostler of the inn were examined
—the former to sbew the apparent state of mind
•in which the unfortunate Geotlemas appeared pre.
rives to committing the rash set. He stated, that
he came into the Cofee.room about one o'clock,
about the room much agitated, looked in
the glass, and then turned towards one of the ta.
biles where a Gentleman was sitting, at what he
stared a consitkrablo lime, then returned to the
glass, at which be stood fur a short tinsel thee
quitted the room, and in a minute or two after.
wards the report of pistols was heard, as if pro.
needing from the water.closet in the inn.yard,
where the ostler and himself went, and fogad the
unhappy gentleman had shot himself. On search.
ing his pockets, a pocket-book, containing a let.
tter, was found, addressed to a near relative, seve-
ral bullets, and about five shillings in silver. Ho
lingered for twelve hours without speaking, and
then died.
Mr. James Young, Surgeon, stated, that he wen
called is to the assistance of the deceased, who
then lay in the water-closet. Upon examining
him he discovcrdd that he had discharged • brace of
pistols at his head, the bullet from one of which
Iliad entered the left cheek, and lodged in the bask
part of his head ; the other bullet had fallen on
the ground. The unfortunate Gentleman's skull
was so mangled, that hid brains were scattered
over his person, notwithstanding which he lived fur
twelve hours.
The Person with whom the deceased had lodged
for upwards of two years, was examined as to the
state of mind of the deceased, previous to this me.
choty affair. He described him as having been
• widower with three children, the eldest about
eight years old; that his age was twcnty.eine; that
his wife had died in child-bed nearly two year*
and a half ago, since which time his mind bad
been in a low desponding state. Tho witness
declared that he had nu doubt in his own mind
that the unhappy gentleman's malady had inereas.
ed considerably ; he had been to Margate, mid re.
turned to town on the Sunday evening previous to
the death.
A Gentleman to whom the letter found was ad.
dressed, stated the substance of that letter, which
recommended his children to his kind protectiun
when the writer should be no more, and declare.
tote of his determinatiun not to exist any longer,
as life was becomes burthco.
Another witness stated, that on several occasions
the deceased had exhibited symptoms of a disor.
dered mind ; that his melancholy was so great it
was impossible to rouse him, or to read his recol-
lective faculties.
The Coroner (Mr. Grit.) observed to the Jury,
that if they were satisfied with the evidence, they
must find a verdict of Lunacy.
Several of the Jurymen were of a different
opinion, and thee it became necessary for Mr.
Gets. to collect each one's opinion, when oat of
Astern persons imperiled, else of them consider-
ed that the unfortunate Gentleman had committed
etifonarder, and seven that he was in • state of
as
la deratigement when be put an end to his
salaam. The majority of ewe therefore made it
imperativieu the Coroner to record a Verdict of
Frio di se.
omenewnowlitelmolat
On Ilatetds7 and Sunday last shout 90 soldiers
were brought up from Harwich to Ipswich in tie
wherries, excessively 111, several of whom have
shies died. More are daily espeoisd, but the
wind brio oentrary, keeps them from ipills4
to tla