The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-10-17 00:00:00

'l'o COILIIESPON DEN IS.

We have this day received a Communication from a Friend at
o Inch we are obliged to defer until to.tnurrow, for
unlit of roor4.

The Letter of X. F. from Liverpool, on the propriety of Re-
pe..ling the Prohibition of DiztiNation from Corn, shall ap-
pelr soon ns pos,itue.

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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:
WEDS ESDAy., VOISEIt 17, lalo.

A Guttenburgh Mail arrived thin morning,
bringing Gorman Papers to the 2d instant. Their
principal contents are in another Part of our Paper.
BERN noTre, it se ::ms, is • going forth With to
Stoekh.ilm, and a splendid deputation of Smcdir4
Noslcs, or rather Staves, is set off to meet him on
Nis road. The Diet is to proceed from Orebro
to Stockholm, to take the oaths of fealty to Ben-
000rrE, as Crown Prince. The imbecile old
King will be there too, to swell the triumph of his
anccessor. With all this sacrifice of theindelves,

the Swedes arc, at last, actually swindled by Bra.
riAoorre. Ile promised them a loan of eight Mil.
lions of dollars, or employed the venal press (for
Szzeden has its venal press as well as England) to
persuade the 'poor state and Diet that he would lend
Them 8 millions of dollars. :vow, however, it seems,
be talks of no such thinz, 'and the very promise
is treated as an unfounded rumour ! • IlEatiA-
porre may match, for ought we kifow, some
of our jugglers here. It appears, by an article
from Vienna, *that the Austrian Government is
seizing upon the ecclesiastic revenues: The Bishop.
ric of Goer, d, with a revenue of 300,CW Aus.
trian florins, is given to the Ccissr d'Antortissonent
(or Sinking Fund), and the present incumbent, the
Arclibish'ep Coent de SALM (Go& help him !) is to
have a pensien of 50,000 florins, fur his life. 'We do
not mention this, froM any very particular pity to the
Count Archbishop, but for the sake of a reflec-
tion which may as well be made. The sad effect of
ivar, is beggary ; and the effect of beggary is, first
of all borrowing, and when you can no longer
borrow, the 'necessary effect is stea!ing. We do
not blame Austria for the war in which she was
list involved. The French Emperor had re.'
solved upon her humiliation, acid she was to fall
i f she did nut light, and, therefore, she was
right in making at•least • a trial of lier strength.
\Vt., do nut much blame her seisere of the church,
property, for it is better the church should find
the Goverirnent money, than that the pUor should
find it all.' Bu it is tit to see what the result of.
expensive wars is necessary for all here, who

tqy in the 1,7,d suifer by it, to consider whe.
ther thed wilt give their support and influence
to the sTurin rassiox that will carry on a war as
much withoNt object, as its ev.pences are without
limits. We need not, indct•ti, ”lake this appeal
to the PEortx—dhey too z..;etl know what they
would dd, if they hail voice, or ihfilocticv, in the
ques!ion of l'E.t.ce, or WA R ! They need no mo.
alitur to tell them what thcji ought to do--their
d';uant heart t, Its them that, and their moaning fami-
jrcs echo the sound ! But, oar BENCH of Bisnors
may he betteli:ed by advice on this subject. Let them
know, that this Government, not only may, but
twist come to the necessity of seizing upon their re.
venues, if tois war is carried on very much longer.
Do th,y, the Ptrla eq of this laud, think our Mi.
sisters have more nr ab.tinence fo'r-
bearancep than NA poLEoN) or had as much as the

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AUSTUSAN &MIMI ? FitaNeiS is ►tot
but the STATZ must be supported, and his a pen.
sive wars have rcduccd him to the necebsityof plum-
tiding to support it 'The salad effects malt Pfg-
cced here from similar fauses7--but with this dis-
tinctioo, that the WO** of Aorrar.t at least was
necessary; and that that of ENGLAND is not only
unnecessary, but is of all STUND GitATiriCATlOns,
if it be one (and so it must be to some person),
the most insane and ideot.like in its motive. Well /
Will our, Prelates countenance such a war, till they
must pay for the folly, by the plunder of the Church.
We do not think they mean that. They will be
grateful to those who gave them something more
than bread to cat, for their tutorships, and accortt-
panying acts of tutorship ; but their gratitude they
wish to be at the expeuce of others. When it
touches self, it will melt away with the heat of the
love of self. We know all this I But we mean to
tell them, that they must come to the fate of the
Count Archbishop of S.st.m, if they give their
counte►►ance to this war much longer !—This is
natter for their reflexion.

We hear nothing forther.of my Lord Wttrasa.
Tom. The public pulse is more impatient than ever
it was on this subject ; and never had it so much
reason. Ministers should let the public know all
that has come to their ears; but, at least, we know
that they have uot done this. It is strange, too,
that no private letters from the army seem to have
been received by the Gle4ner. Ministers, we sup.
pose, expect that my Lord WELLINGTON Kill win
next time—that is, not only beat the enemy, but
beat him without the necessity of a retreat. In
the mean time, it is uot so well to let the public
into the secret of what hat passed.

We are concerned to say, that the account brought
to town this morning from Windsor is, that her
Royal Highness the Princess Asteua remains iu the
same bad stare she was yesterday.
The Mercurius and Alert sloops of war sailed
from the Nure yesterday, with about 100 sail of
vessels, for the Baltic.
The Crane stoup of war sailed from Cork the
11th inst. with four vessels, for the West Indies.
The Edward, !':t.ttiv.r, from Virginia, has ar.
rived at Itainsgatel whit the loss of two anchors and
cables.

The Latona frigate, lately arrived from Gibral.
tar, brought home 160 Germans, and 80 French.
n►en, deserters from the French armies. On her
passage a cunspiraq teas formed among the French.
men to murder the Captain and Officers of the Leo-
na, and carry the vessel into a French port. They
communicated their design to a German serjeant, by
whom it was dovelopcd and frustrated. The French.
men were put into confinement during the remain.
der of the voyage.
A lady of the name of LLOYD, who was sent to
Southampton from Jersey, by General Doti, under
suspicious circumstances, has been released by order
of d►e Secretary at AVar.
The Portuguese Government, from inability to
pay the sum of 514,283,840 reis, stipulated in the
late Treaty with the Dey of Algiers, as the ransom
of 615 of their countrymen, have appointed a com.
mittee of 10 merchants to receive voluntary dona-
tions, to be applied to this humane purpose.
The canvass fur Common Councilmen has already
commenced in the City, where the contest on St.
'ffiemis's D.'y is expected to be unusually warm.
Five LICW candidates aresaid to be already announced.

MASSEMA) it is said, was seen in every part of
the line in the late action, as well as all the other
Marshils ; they encouraged the advance of the
men. JUNOT and MORTIEtt headed some of the
columns as they marched towards the ridge where
Our troops were waiting for them. They had ar-
tillery, but few of their pieces could be brought
to bear, owing to the difficulty and acclivity of
the ground in &sac°, and the few that were,
were but indifferently served. Ours, on the con.
trary, planted on the ridge, did much execution.
Thu enemy, unable to profit by their numerous ca.
valry Or artillery, relied entirely epee numbers,
aided by their discipline and steadiness, which were
conspicuous in the order and firmness with which
they ascended the ridge; no opposition was made
to them till they got near the top of the ridge; they
were then charged, and driven back with immense
slaughter. Only one of the enemy's divisions reach.
ed the top of the ridge, and that was soon dispos-
sessed 'of if by the 88th, tie:: 45th British, and the
Bth Portuguese regiments.
Lord "%YELLIN ,TON, in the beginning of his dis-
pa,cli, refers to a ,evious dispatch of the 20th,
mentioning the meets,. red lie had tid.,pted to collect
the army near Coimbra, and if poesible to prevent
the enemy from obtaining possession'of it. That
dispatch was lost 'With the Other dispatches sunk
when the French p'rivateer • engaged, the Lisbon
packet ; hut it is said thht it mentioned some skir-
mislies to have taken place front the 15th, and added,
that as the French advanced', the Portuguese villages
were uniformly abandoned, and • every thing that
could be serviceable' to the enemy Destroyed.
There was nu smoke when our troops drove the
enemy from the ridge of the Sierra de Buiaco ;• bay-
oleos only glittered in the sun. Our troopi
rested such enthusiasm and lumness,&nd ptlehed their
advantages with such celerity and precision, that tho
whole presented one of the most magnificent scenes
that imagination could possibly conceive of a spec.
tack of this description.
Major SiLvea, who fell in the vigour of life,
while leading on the right wing of the 88th Regiment,
to repel the enemy's attack at liusico, on the 27th
tilt. which has been so favourably mentioned in
Lord WxLLINGToN's dispatch, was descended of a
respectable faintly in Wirichester. It is with extreme
concern that we'understand he has left an' amiable
wife, and four 'young children, to bewail the nn.
timely loss of a kind indulgent husband and father,
who had spent 17 years of his life in the active and
perilous duties of his profession. . . . . .

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GERMAN PAPERS,
attittyto pAlf•]
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Quint), Oct. 2.—lts Wiest' wills it Is said,
leave this place for Stockholm tomorrow ; at the
same time a deputation, composed of *larva Von
Essen (as Rix Marshal), Count Hamilton, the
Archbishop of Upsala,litc: will proceed to lied.
singburg, for the purpose of receiving the Crown
Prince, on his arrival in Sweden. It is also e*-
pected that the Members of the Diet will adjourn'
to the capital next week, in order to take the oath
of allegiance to his Royal Highness. The repot ts
in circulation some time since, respecting the gra-
cious intentions of his Highness, in advancing a
!Pin of eight millions of dollars for the service of
the states appear to have no foundation in truth.
Vienna, SEPT. 20.—M. Kouelgeb, Muter of
the Court Chapel, has received from her Majesty
the Empress of the French, a gold box, of the
greatest beauty, containing 100 ducats. Her Ma-
jesty added to this present the very dattering assur.
once, that when at her harpsichord she often
thought of her master, and that she was obliged to
him for being able to procure thn Emperor some
lagreeable moments by playing on that instrument.
plit :the same time her Majesty assured him, that
for life he should enjoy the income which he rc.
eeived when he gave her lessons.
It is said that Count Henry Bellegarde, at present
President of the Council of War, is to go to Paris
with the title of Ambassador, because his Majesty
bas given the military command of Austria to Prince
Sch wartzenberg.

The Committee of Dosignation for Ecclesiastical
Property, fur the redemption of Bank.nutcs, is
placed immediately under the Minister of Finances.
It is said that the revenues of the Bishopric of
Gourck, which aro of the annual amount of
300,000 Austrian florins, Kill be at;lniuistered by
commission, and on account of the Gaisse d'Amur.
tissemcnt, after paying a pension of 50,000 florins
per annum, for the life of the actual Archbishop,
Count de Salm, and 30,000 florins to his co.tiljutor.
It was yesterday said the Turks had been
beaten ; to.day it is asserted that they were victori.
ous, having totally defeated the Russians, with the
loss of 10,000 men, among whom weie seven Ge.
nerals, but all these reports arc without dates, and
do not mention the place of battle.—(Ateille du
Nord, Oct. 2).
EXTRACT Or A LETTER FROM AMSTERDAM, ,ECT. 24

" At the present time the must rigoroth scotches
are made after colonial merchandise, a gnat
tity of it has already been confiscated. Itiformer3
are ut) longer wanted, to whom a filth part 41 the
value of the goods discovered is given. Many
people. having assembled when the conve)arce of
these goods took place, some seditious persons
assailed the Douaniers with stones. One of then),
who came merely out of curiosity, was killed by a
blow of a Citizen's musket.

64 The Prince Arch-Chancellor has given to the
widow of this unfortunate man, the sum of 600
florins."...(Same Paper.)
WARSAW, SEPT. 3....Arcording to a Decree of
the Minister of Finance, all the almailacks,whether
national or foreign, as well as all the .fewish books,
are to be subject to a stamp.

SMYRNA, Aue. 2.—The resolution which the
Grand Seignior has taken, to place himself at the
head of the army and march against the grand ene-
my of the Prophet, has awoke in Turkish Asia all
the ardour of the first periods of Nlahometism.
Enthusiasm is at the highest pitch. The Paellas
have forgotten their rivalships, renounced their
pretensions, and abjured their individual animosities
in order to attend to nothing but the common data.
ger, and fight under the standard of their menaced
religion. All the proprietors, animated with the
same zeal, furnish more men and money than was
required of them. The islands of the Archipelago,
Chipre, Mitylene, Candia, Rhodes, &c. Ste. send
numeroas reinforcements to Constantinople. We
expect in this town a corps of Alamelukes, which
set out train Egypt iu the beginning of July....
(Souse Paper.) •
COPENHAGEN, SEPT. 4.—The Commander of a
privateer, which, on the 22d inst. arrived off the
Three Crown battery, states, that on the preceding
d.y, when he was laying off Ulfshale, he heard,
between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, a heavy
cannonade from the westward ; he supposes thataii
action must hate taken place in the Great 8e1t....
(Stockholm Posts Oct. 4.)
DRESDEN, SEPT. 20.—Prince GUSTAVUS, son of
COUIHPOTTORP, is to be educated at an academy
at Herrnhut, the principal seat of the sect of Mu.
eivians.—(Stockholos Post, 4th Oct.)
MILAN, SEPT. 13.—Our official paper containg a
long Iniperial Decree of the 14th of August, which
orders the confiscation of all English colonial coin.
modifies and minufacteres in the new department of
the Upper Adige, and contains directions and re.
gelation' to be observed with respect to the cornrao.l
ditics of other nations, neutral or friendly accord.
ing to the existing laws of the kingdom of Italy.
WESTRHALIAN TERRITORY, SEPT. 9.6.—Seven
thousand pounds of coffee, 1000 pounds of sugar,
and several hundred pounds of cocoa, pepper, and
several oither English colonial comnionitibSl seized
by the IVestphalian downier', and declared.contis.
cated, wore lately sold in Casst'l to the best bidder.
—(liamb. Correspondent, Oct. 2.)

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