The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-09-08 00:00:00

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to her present hostile.
patriotic Meeting; and the decision of an upright which she has been impelled
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and honest Jury will, we trust, give a death-blow to ties against Russia .- Is it then our best policy
Soldiers 401, horses 8 : prisoners, principal officers, Sento Goer to supported two Commission.
three, officers 67, cadets eight, serjeants 102, Senor Pummels proposed—
such cruel and infamous proceedings. Good GOD 1 further the desi
soldiers 268 e, horses 10. Ile also give lei a state.enemy, even though pots
iment of the positions occupied in Castella by Valencia
66 'W. That the Cortes order the Commission. of
the' !elle, name a Commission, wheel, joined. to are we in England, or Algiers? Have we law, to mode different from that which he projected? Is it
enemy and our troops, and a copy r.f the bistruce A the.aprtointel by the Regency, shall assist at the
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protect the innocent against thesi'hachinations of a not reasonable to imagine that BONA PARTE Is enter.
time given by the General, with sue of the number vestigatinte as the mnst certain means of "luring cabal, and the hired information of one of those ing into this war, might anticipate a double
of which the corps e• tisisesl, as atso tne (federation Hie confidence of the nation. 01 advano
wn•telies called a spy, or have we not ? The thirty. tage—an advantage to result from 1
of an officer taken preemies wlin hed escaped, ibises i e .44 est Thai the proceetlings he printed. success n the ex.
WI ~ that there hail here but few dispersed, almost ... «
..3e.. Teat Use t ietter ills, whose military conduct eight can answer these questions, -tribe Confusion of tension of the continental system to Russia---an ad.
the „hole loss consisting in killed, wounded, and is dyeing eivelfigi'eds he not hull% Wats of the Court- some persons in authority. Thirty-eight respectable vantage to result from the struggle, independent either
prisms.; a. • - . oils of War, and the Countrymen he also estatained as characters to be it/ileum' three months in a gloomy of its ultimate failure or in success— • tlie avoun f •
tesoh.
The Regency) s appointed Field Marshal Don to the facts." . dengeots, with the halter Rwti exeestrapended• Osier Wising system of Eits,dand ? Shall e w eagerly ranee
Xa • vier Elio, Cmm oonder in Chief of the second and • Sensor A Retteetirt—There' Is no erhilltteffee tn 'tee ,
Allied Remy, Mill ordered him to nominate an officer es ssoyerneent. I entioely approveof every thine said their heads—themselves ranked as traitors, and treat- hi, hopes? Shall we •place him in a situation in •
which
'saf e harneter to inquire into this motion. by senor Calatrava. Whet -eorifidence ran the tinssuch—their wives, their children and other ' a lan *tild'or vigorous
ed as
• -"lliarPsitetillerViiks," what deellnatien hat been 'eon hare ie a GaTenitifeit %little& has hiser.edittd it? relatives and friends, having their inieds rent with equally favourable to his views? Shall we ourselves
• .sgtiven to thaera I O'Donnell? , • - 1 The 'Ministers retired, and'the Report of the Com- the ropes painful anguish, and all this, too, on the assume a position in sr hich a protracted through sae.
°'The hismiefea—" The orgenizetion of an ern.), ! mission was confirmed kti all its pests. - unsupported testimony of an hired spy ! Blush, Bri- cessful contest will be more fetal to us, than the most
'elf yeaerve ; tOsownerelieuz Alsounzenn, 'slid in his Setter Peewit:4'a 'propositions were then put to
f the state to which - • pert "real liberty • or - termination to hostilities? These.
--absence to Senor toegete, -thecomtnane of the Isla. the vote, when the Ist and 3d were rejected,end the tonss
• '. - Seettr riA,Ewaritimi the attentionof •the Cortes .11 a pprevett.—[aiiicisee•:/fur; 1.9.] reduced--a state which you justly merit, if you do are questions which ought, at any time, to be deli.
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&stint appliratiott. of theedepotition feels Valencia . net use the constitutional' means still remaining in berately weighed ; but when the system of our foe is
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-.gri.thir • ittlffley .of Spaity to avoid this catastrophe Are ' Melts. . . , . Due, ,i your heeds, oi petitioning the Throne for the resto. avowedly a system of (festruction to- our reseurces
leifirl, they,enolhontarily-fearetl, and thought that this • t ' Detain ' ' 2 ! 1 - I
o • Watersont s . ration of Peace, whits!), it is tOte hoped, would re. . when in the prosecution of thi; system he has already
was a caseershtth required responsibility, wit from Ges i
• ,., . Lisbon ~..... ... ...... .... •• I i move from the presence of the Sovereign those men made rapid strides towards complete success;
merle Ot Donnell; bet the Regency of Spain. He I u
'artitementroned the-ordee(which in his anterior dis. i 0 • • ,.. testienhargh - 10 whose councils have brought se many evils upon the surely no Government sal be so senseless as to neg.
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• cowrie-he-quoted) selative to Geri. Ballasteros, not- e Iletigotane - restrain us from entering upon
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Zvi hstandiug which the Regency appointed D. Joseph PRICE OF STOCKS TIIIS DAY AT ttrk O'CLOCK. many of the topics connected with this subject; we
O'Donnell, who came dying from Valencia, General Rank India Bends 75 6 dia, The system of .granting subsidieeto any state that ; havesaid nothing of the doubts which may select:.
of the Iti end 3d Armies, which the nuthorkzation of •
ci her Cent. Cons. 600-0 - Exchequer Milo Std. par 1p
can be prevailed on to make a show of resistance to the .
sper Cent. .Led. Dino $Ol. 54 5 p . ably be entertained cf the fidelity of our Ally, er
the Cortes atone gave to General Ballasteros. lie I er Cents. • • Onsnium Ise pr, painter of France, pursued as it has been, and as we
read the applications made to the' Regency and the 5 per Cent. Navy 9' 112 a . Consuls for. Arm. II 601 of the still greater doubts to which his firmness is
Long. Ann. Lottery t ;skew . •• - fear it will continue to be, without discrimination •
Cortes by the deputations from Valencia. They ►pre. • •..•
•espesed ; to these topics we may probably take some
I . • • i and without limit, is one of the chief causes to whiche
•ferred charges against O'Donnell, who was rewarded. ;-- --- . ••'future opportunity of callinthe • g attention of our
At present no complaint is preferred against O'Don- i
THE STATE SIVIT:1 N. the present alarming and exhausted state of our Readers; at present we shall conclude with the re.
roll, it is againit the Regency of Spain that charges' - _e_____ finances is to he ascribed. It is rerticularly erne- mark, that by whatever reason, a conviction is pro-
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• .are preferred. The Government. is bound to bring - , dieut, therefore, at the present ntontent, candislty • (bleed, that to subsidize Russia in our precept cite
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forward O'Donnell ;—the honour of his brother, the ! bet strictly to weigh the genernl argoments by widen
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1812. • - cumstances is unreasonable and impolitic: the same
iflegent,. lit compromised. It is necessary that this I
this pernicious system is defeuled, as well as those
+— ;this will apply with still greater force to the case
- inoestigatfois should be made by some individuals of 1
1 We have this day the pleasure to lay before our which are especially urged in fsvour of a recurrence
'the Cortes—among the Military men there are none of Sweden, a country entirely under the dominion
who.can Investigate it—all are under the ianuence of , Readers, an account of the dinner given bya tic:Tiber to it, in the present circumennces if letrope. It is of a former dependant and minion of our implacable
the Regency.—What will the astonished Cortes say iof respectable Gentlemen, at Liverpool, tot Mr. i said, that when several powers combine for the at- and artful foe. We address ourselves p'aiitly and
to the contlu.l of the. Regency in employing O'Den- BROUGHAM, as an acknowledgment for the serivices I tainment of one common (sheet, to avert some cola. honestly to the candid minds of our readers—that
nel, in oppo•itien to the judgment of the nation ? ,
which he has rendered the country b- his great -.tiny to which they aneequally enposiel. or to resist
s s our observations will produce any practical effect,
Lot the investigation take place in Alicare, a:ftl not '
In Cecile, as in the case of General Blake, and lit exertions in Parliament to procure a Repeal of the some enemy by whom they are equally menaced, we despair ; from what has passed we can have little
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'late obnoxious Orders in Council. The modest and nothing can he sno race re sonable and just than that
be made by Deputies from the Cortes. doubt, that immense MDR, wrung from the distresses
Senor TeavEß supported the proposition, recom. unassuming manner in which Mr. BRouGuAst re- ± each should coutribet , its. share of the necessary , and misery of the English people, are already in the
mended energy to the Cortes, and said, it was re-' ceived the high compliments paid him by tile intelligent means of war, in such manner and in such pro. hands of AttlesteEn s and when we consider the fre.
spolisible to the nation. ! and patriotic Chairman, Mr. Roscoe, must haveraised portions as may feet suit their respective con- quent misapplication of our resources, by Ministers
CADIZ, Ave.S.—The papers come down from . . .
ll hither in the estimation of his 'and hest - . ore the suer of their
him, if possible, sit
Murcia to the 9th inst. bringing accounts of three
action's fought by the Empecenado, in the last lie re- friends; and there is little doubt of his receiving the united enterprise ; sa • •in tr.-steal is has been situation would be pregnant with the most fatal com
ceived a ball in his breast, which, according to the highest reward at the next Election, which it is in the more convenient to Esiglawl, and better calcu- 4e‘iuenccs to the country.
latest intelligence, will not prove mortal. ! power of the respectable inhabitants of Liver.
In consequence of notice received from Cartha- pool to bestow upon him. The picture drawn by
gems, dated the 28th tilt. of an individual having Mr. BROUGHAM, of the folly and wickedness of our
died in Mazarron, six leagues from that city, of the
Ministers in persevering with the Orders in Council,
yellow fever, all communication between this garri-
son by lane avid the neighbourhood has been stopped, and the evil effects which they have produced
all vessels proceeding from the East, the ports of throughout the country, was most affecting arid ins-
Malta, Sicily, and Cerdetta excepted, are to perform . pressive. We cannot do so much justice to the sub-
quarantine fur 14 days. Those from the West, as far ject in any other way, as by quoting the animated
as Ayamoute, including the Bay of Gibraltar, Ceuta of the Hon. Gent. if lf • " The '
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and the Straits, only 10 days. ! which we and the country have gained, is to he
The Order of the Day to the French troops, dated
Port St. Mary's (in the vicinity of Cadiz), the 18th of ascribed to you, Gentlemen of Liverpool, who be.
August, was to the following effect:— ! gen the battle, and to Manchester, Birmingham,
t " Soustana—lt is intespensilay necessary to march, in order Sheffield Staffordshire, and the other great mate--
to revenr• the misfortune* whirls have befallen the imperial s
Eagles in another Province, ruing rid of what can be vold,and facturing and commercial places, who supported you
Caning in the persons attached to the army."
in the contest. It is, indeed, the victory of truth,
' justice, and sound policy, over fraud, falsehood,
and error. 'But whether this stairs of the national
honour and disgrace of the illitils came has peen'
abandoned rum a sense of its wickedness, or a fear
of its conseqaences, whether it has perished by the
hand of justice, or died by a natural decoy, it is at
length defunct—and not all the daemons of mischief,
assisted by conjurers far greater even than our pre-
sent Ministers, can ever restore it to life!"
We cordially. agree with the sentiments of Mr.
BROUGHAM, respecting the victory at Salamanca,
that it should be employed by this country as the
means of obtaining an honourable` Pil AC E ; without
which all the sacrifices which we have made in blond
and treasure, can produce verylittle benefit to this
Country ; and it ought to be recollected, that the
fate of war is, at best, uncertain.
We have also given an account of a respectable
body of Gentlemen meeting at Manchester, for the
promotion of PARLIAMENTARY REFORM, at which
the venerable Major CARTWRIGHT attended, and the
staunch patriot THOMAS KERSHAW, Esq. was in the
Chair. It is a truth rendered as clear as the "-sun
at noon-day, that the first effective effort towards
restitution, which the Government of this country can
make to the people, is PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—
The accumulating mass of misery that, like a pesti-
lential cloud, surrounds the manufacturing towns,
though not allowed to approach the atmosphere of St.
James's, or,sentimentally speaking, comes not within
the range of the preriotiefeetings of our Ministers, is
still like a gravitating power, forcing its way to the
heart of every friend to suffering humanity, and. the
Constitutional Rights of the People. But while
Lord CASTLEREAGH is permitted to wave the magic ,
wand of Ministerial' influence in the House of Com-
mons, and Lord LreEeeoor. to flourish with equal
auCcess the talisman of his power in the House of
*Lords, we confess we cannot entertain even a soli-
tary hope of obtaining that redress which our goaded
and distracted country has so often and so justly de-
manded. If, indeed, the present system be obsti-
' nately persevered in, we are fearful it will only tend
to accelerate the period when oppression, arriving at
its point of excess, mast produce,' by a destructive
convulson, those changes which the Friends to Re.
form are .humanely endeavouring to aceomplish by
more seletery measures. - .
We are happy to find that the case of the SS indi-
viduals who were committed to Lancaster Gaolebout
' three meneks its,o, %sou the evidence of a 10,74 ipy,
1 ilid not escape the attention of this respectable end

lated to promote the ganeral sucress
.that her ,
lnurteistleorsidgaYiiiiiti:riviteigivilisiveirt.h tlLeoprduklVeltor.fatßtßzr at the
contingent should he sopp!ieti in money, and *those
articles which money can perch/is,. flat ti in men. To Admiralty..
this general reasoning we Mins:lke no OhiPetloll ; but It is *ha the most poignant grief weir:in), that the
let us see how it is epprill-- Eagland has been long disturbances In the North art. renewed. The follow.
at war with France, she has put frit di all her energies inis au extract of a letter from a party very nearly
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. Interested tt.- " lIALIIAB, gars. b.— We are sorry to
in the enntlicf,—t he-whole of her -ilititii.i.ahTiTerve ts
say the Luddites get very active again, and very near
employ ed, as she t hinks, in the way that is moat like, a* too.. • rimy have been seiziag arms all up the
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ly to ensure a successful ituni.. to :i .1. atriktife iat this tit' Mer Valles., and on Thursday night broke a glg
motrunit Russia, who fen•me-ly deaerteti its. allindce •of Me. W.'s. They have plundered arms at Mr. P.'s,
of Fialand, and has since been the All%. of France, at tireenroyd, and we are in nightly expectation of a
visit at the Milt. At Halifax there was a regiment of
thinks proper, for some object puree Ilitssian,-to itti.
Militia, a company -of which was at one of those
to war with France: here then comes the applica . places half an hour before the &predations were corn'
tints of the principle. Russia will probably hold witted."
something like this langiiiege, "I am about to join , The accounts from every part of the kingdom
you in the contest with France, our common object' Speak of the luxuriance of thc. Harvest, and in many
%ill he her humiliation, let our exertions therefore be
Flares it is completely housed, the eilect of which has
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common, you cannot send men to join my armies, been felt at Sherborne, by a reduction of 4d. in the
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, peck loaf, this week, and a similar depression is c*,
iastead of sending man send money, it will be at ; pected i u the beginning of the ensuing week,
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once more convenient to you mid mere 'awful to me." i The wheat harvest in the neighbourhood of Susses
Bit iu reply to this, ii it not sufficient for England i is nearly completed, and a more abundant crop was
to say," The object of botli is indeed the humiliation I nver known by the oldest person living.
of France, my efforts to attain that object have ' Wheat fell in Nottingham market, on Saturda7
never been remitted ; my contingent is now in actual I ; last
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? ore guinea per quarter.
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Ine oaciso of the 19th ult, says, that -LAVAL,
operation against her, and has been in actual opera. !who was opposed to BALT-PoTTROs, his followed the
Lion against her ever since the period of our last alli. , example of Gootscr, and shot himself,
ance, which you so unexpectedly and so abruptly ' Five hundred prisoners have volunteered this week,
abandoned. As well might I demaiid of you to from the prison ships at Portsmouth, to serve in his
Majesty'a Navy. None are excluded but French.
send me money to assist in maintaining the great i
- and Italians.
naval force by which I restrain her from all ma. ,men Yesterday the gilt battalion of the First Regi.
ritime operations, either 4 Warfare or of corn- ment of Guards, destined for foreign service, were
merce; as well might I expect you to send money inspected in Hyde Park, preparatory to their leas,
to compensate for the total absence of Russian ing sewn this morning, to embark for Portugal.
auxiliaries in the Peninsula, where lam making a SLAVE Titaer..—ln the Sixth Annual Report of
powerful but gratuitous diversion in your favour."— . the Directors of the African Society, there is sent`!
singular and important infoimation respecting the
This answer seems fully to meet any argument instils.; Yet existing traffic in human beings. It will bi
port of a subsidy to Russia, which can be grounded on sure* credited by the public, that dui imr, the yea;
the principle of justice towards that Fewer. There [ 1810, not less than between 70 and 80,000 Negroes
are, however, certain individuals, who probably
either 1: of Africa to the opposite shores of the Atlantic
feeling the pressure of taxation, so sensibly, not I,Wgre fargesported as Slaves from _the Western Coast
This etiormous traffic (says the Report) was chiCtif
for themselves or others, as we are ready, and, in..
confined to that part of xhe African coast which lipsdeed, proud to confess that we do, contend that !aostween Cape
Palmas and Bengulla. The !lasts.'
whatever may be the decision of justice en this sub. force statimied in that quarter had succeeded in near.
ject, the dictates of policy are clear and unequivocal ; Ilt destroying the trade to the northward of Cape
that Russia being by no means a rich State, cannot
maintain a contest with France with anyprospect of Palmas, and it wad' the °pillion of a late Engiish
commander (Captain Columbine) that it would ham
. been in his power to have delivered the whole of that
success,unless we brace and strengthen her with wealth
9 district from its ravages, had not the Portuguese sett
the most essential sinew of war; that by multiplying _ Element of atimo jotervenetl.and furnished the slave
the enemies of Bostaraaaa, we increase the probability traders with a point from which they could carry
of his downfall; that Russia can be made one of his: slaves without the risk of capture. It sill be recall
effective enemies only by our pecuniary assistance; '. lacteal f
and that for these reasons policy demands of tui that Brazil, the Portuguefe
wbyiththethelOtchouArtrt.iocfle of the late Treaty c
that assistance should not be withheld. That reason-i •
like tit' * ing is trill make any impression on a people belonging to their Sovereign. Though the Portu-
' wAenireityrestricted in carrying on this traffic to places
geese take a share in this traffic, yet it appears that
groaning under their burdens, we really do not 211)•• the greater proportion is tither British or American
prebend ; but as it unfortunately happens, that the
trade, conducted under the flags of Spain and For.
opinion of the people has not so much influence as it tugal. A great number of the coasters are Americas!
vessels and manned by the subjects of the United
ought unquestionably to have in the decision of such - 1
States, who avail thrtiselves of the Spanish and
questions, and as it is, for various reasons, desirablern
ertognese flags, An abstract has been transmitted
'that these delosio
ns, palpable as they are, should not however, to the American Secretary of State, ot
remain unexposed, we beg leave to . ask these po. the Captains' and vessels' names, tonnage, &c. in
:filleal gentlemen a few plaimand simple questious,— order that. a
Has it not been long • man• Vest that the wer the offimows, The Directors say that they haovn
is made frequent representations -to Government
which France wages
.agalast this eointry proseeution may be instituted again!:
Alder-
clear that to enforce a late"
directed chiefly to
.00r paliejarrao Is It ' not • this siikjeet.
. kto.a4p,—To-tiay there wOs no Court of
our Amara for Ito object, Is this my. Motive by threes, cdcred the preseut prices to poutinue.
Pm, P
*bleb bps, OP VIII of [meg. The Loan Maltase, after inspecting the Be'

[VURTUER EXTRACTS RECEIVED THIS MORNING.]
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The Secretary of War presented himself and took
his seat. 'fire Commission of War inculcated
the neeessiiy of lort.stigating the Also-aro of the
341 Army, in Castella,aneording to the established
remit. it (lid not approve of the propositions passed,
and therefore proposed ;

4t 0. Flint the Regency should immediately ap-
point a person of acknowledged impartiality, who
should investigate and repwt upon this action within
lb days.
66 id. That a copy of it should he transmitted to
-the Cortes, who would examine its legality, and that
when entirely conceded, it should he printed.
" 3d. That it ril.aonroved of the Regency having
appol•lted General O'D ,nnell General of an Ar:ny
of Reierve. prior to his heiag tried and quitted."
Sc for Gut \L DO stiongly opposed the first of these
popos:tions, glinting the succe-s of a similar Com-
unsion given to the Governor of Poili,cola, Garcia
Na,:irro (who subsequently surrendered that for-
tre,,) :o investigate the excesses of the 3d Army in
La .slanr!:a, a commission which no agent of Napo-
leon could have di•charged more to his sati'factiou;
awl silted, that two of the Regents had two brothers
in that army.

•;en CAPM Y enti rely disapproved of every thing
contsined in the report of the Commission of IVar,
ur:zed that strong measures should be adopted,
in such critical circumstances. What, he exclaimed,
route upon rotate, no rare; excess upon excess, no
justice; who has the power of remedying this? Your
M akwy alone, who is the father of the country
fortnosl to save the nation ; it is time to think of re.
veining the country, badly defended in some pnrte.
hat, said Luculo, vanquished by the Parthians, to
his soldiers, who wished to disperse, in presenting to
them the head of his son? " The grief is mine, the
iresseeanee is your's." The Commission wishes th 6
investigation to be limited to the General's conduct,
a,.<l I wish that it should extend to the time when he
(nek the command. I wish the Ministers to inform us
of the General's dipositions, whether he attacked,
tor was .attaciterl, what were his forces, and what
were those of his oppon.ws. •
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DP! .NliNtsrea raid, that the General's Report,
see* yes'enlay, contained all the information de..
ora,teed. which coold again be read, if required.
• Kemtr Mount Ft. disapproved the propositions of the
Conts•.!ssiou of War.
titsnor Car...toms* supported the Commission.—
gg God I'm bid," ha said, " that the functions of Go.
Neriwatoot till la be exercised by IRO persons ;if the
IR.osory is blameable, render its responsibility ef.

fertire.4
• Senor Tueves.—Yes, if I offered to prove that
the Rearivey liras culpable, I had &manumits in my
hoods for this purpose. Year Majesty either has,
or has• not, coolldeare is the Regeney ; if you hasp
proceed; if
not, act. I oppose the Commission,