own security and defence requiring that when a prince, who lately governed Swethe said army should be abundantly sup- den, but whose claim to the Swedish crown plied with whatever it requires for its sub- has been solemnly cancelled by the unasistence and operations, chiefly our gene- nimous resolution of the States of the rous allies, who, fighting for our liberty Realm, must absent himself from this coun and independence with the same enthu- try. His own spontaneous wish agrees, on siasm as they would defend their own, ren- this point, with what the public tranquilder themselves creditors, both by gratitude lity and security require. His Royal Ma and justice, to every consideration and jesty has taken the advice of the Secret sacrifice of the nation and government. Committee on a matter of so much importYour Excellencies will use every possible ance, which, however, the state of public and conceivable effort, in order that the affairs does not yet permit His Majesty to said army may want nothing; co-operat- communicate to the Diet, and he, thereing with the commission which his Ma- fore, confines himself, at present, to the jesty has given to the Member Don Lo-question- What pension or yearly allowrenzo Calvo, and with the intentions of the government, which are directed exclusively toward the welfare and salvation of the country. I communicate this by Royal Order to your Excellencies, for your information, direction, and fulfilment. May God preserve your Excellencies many Fears! MARTIN DE GARAY. Answer. ance, are the States of the Realm willing to grant to their late King, his Queen, and children? Which question being answered, another will occur relative to the country which it will be most proper to assign for the residence of Gustavus Adolphus and his family.-His Majesty does not deem it superfluous to add some observations for the States to bear in mind in their deliberations on this subject. The States cannot but be aware, that their decision must bear that stamp of dignified ge nerosity, which becomes a noble-minded nation; that misfortune craves respect; giveness and oblivion of the past. and that humanity itself commands forRoyal Majesty is anxiously desirous that the States of the Realm, by deciding the ples, should meet his wishes, and thus give subject under discussion on these princia pledge to Europe of the purity of the motives which induced Sweden to revise her structure of the State. CHARLES. Sire; With the greatest pleasure we have received the Royal Order of your majesty, of the date of the 15th, enjoining us to redouble our exertions for the supply of the English auxiliary troops. We have the satisfaction to inform your majesty, that the inhabitants here supply every thing with the greatest alacrity, and this town contributes 1,000 rations daily, and meal and oats more than could be expect ed from a country so ravaged by the enemy. We have used every means to collect all the grain belonging to the government of Garrovillas, which is daily grind-system of government, and renew the ing in the mills of Talaban. The flour is afterwards deposited on the two bridges in the said town of Garrovias, in order that it may be in readiness whenever the intendant may apply for provisions. The oats are deposited in St. Jago del Campo, all within the distance of four leagues. If Senhor Don Lorenzo Calvo will send an order, it shall immediately be executed. We request your majesty to be convinced that our patriotism cannot be exceeded. Provisions are daily arriving, even more, in the opinion of almost every one, than are necessary, this province being as frank and liberal as any other, if not more so. SWEDEN.-Message relative to the Pension which the States, are to allow to the late King, Gustavus Adolphus, les Queen and children. Dated Stockholm, Aug. 15. The period is now fast approaching, AMERICA-Proclamation of the President to the United States of America. Dated Washington City, Thursday, August 10, 1809. Whereas, in consequence of a communication from his Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, declaring that the British Orders in Council, of January and November, 1807, would be withdrawn on the 10th of June last, (and by virtue of which an Act of Congress was passed, entitled « An Act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes,") I, James Madison, President, &c. did issue a proclamation, on the 19th of April last, declaring that the Orders in Council aforesaid would be withdrawn on the 10th of June, after which the trade might be renewed, FROM THE SPANISH PAPERS.--Minutes of Dispatches, dated August 14th, and taken on a peasant going to Avilu, at Fomescus, by a detachment under Sir Robert Wilson's orders.--(The original sent on to General Cuesta.) this corps.-Wilson's corps is cut off. It Spaniards! Catalans! I am come in the midst of you. His majesty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy has given me the command of his armies in Catalonia. Spaniards, I know you and love you. Seduced by perfidious insinua tions, unhappy victims and blind instru A Monsieur le Colonel Hays, Governeur d'Avila.-You will directions that give this letter shall be forwarded with the utmost expedition to his majesty, and you will send me your receipt.-Wilson's corpsments of a Cabinet, the enemy of France is cut off About five days ago it was between Candelario and Villa Nueva. If from your town you move a column of 1,000 men, and attack them, they will be compelled to surrender.-I communicate to you the brilliant action of the 8th inst. at P. Arzobispo. We took from the enemy 30 pieces of cannon, 40 tumbrils, with baggage, and 600 prisoners, besides a great number killed. The Royal Carbineers and Corps de Garde were cut to pieces.-Send me from your province, wine, vinegar, and brandy, which shall be paid for in ready money, and also send me news from Burgos, Salamanca, Valladolid, &c.-(Signed.)--DUKE of DALMATIA. and humanity, many and many of your brethren are obstinate in prolonging a war, the issue of which could never be doubtful. They deny and reject the benefits and favours which an august Sovereign provides for, and is anxious to shower upon them: an hero whom heaven created, its beneficence, for the felicity and glory of Spain and the world.-Spaniards, the hero of France loves and esteems you; his virtuous heart requires and needs your felicity. God, who granted to Napoleon his invincible valour, gave him at the same time his goodness and tender humanityNapoleon sighs over your afflictions; he has a paterual heart, and as such suffers over the terrible blows which are inflicted upon you, and which will be inflicted still more upon you, by his formidable armies, if you delay long in listening to the voice of truth, and continue in your fatal blind Sire; the orders that you sent me are executed. The duke of Elchingen will arrive to-morrow at his destination, and the parties which have come out of Ciudad Rodrigo will be beaten.-I have the inten-ness-Lay aside useless hopes; a false tion of besieging Ciudad Rodrigo. If love and a criminal honour, which, arming your majesty sends me five corps com- against a king who is truly paternal, the auplete, and if the duke of Elchingen comes gust brother of the great Napoleon, irritates this way, I will attack marshal Beresford's Heaven against you, which gave him to army, which is now between Almeida and you in his mercy. Abandon vain illusions. Ciudad Rodrigo, and, by news now receiv- God protects France, a God walks with ed, between Perales and Gette, and com- Napoleon, covers and shades him with his posed of 8,000 English, the same number wings, and enchains victory to his triumof Portuguese, and 4,000 Spaniards: but phal car.-Brave Spaniards, submit. Euif this is to be executed, it must be done rope is submitting and surrendering herwith the greatest expedition, because self.-Spaniards, I know you, and you otherwise the effect of the victories at Ta-have to know me. I have long esteemed lavera and Arzobispo will be lost. -It is you; and when you submit you will probable Vanegas has already passed the find in me a true friend. Yourselves, and Sierra Morena; and, in this case, the seyour property, shall be sacred for me.cond corps may fall upon Cuesta, keep the To be continued.) Tagus, and open the communication with LONDON:-Printed by T. C. HANSARD, Peterborough - Court, Fleet - Street; Published by R. BAGSHAW, Brydges-Street, Covent Garden :-Sold also by J. BUDD, Pall-Mall. VOL. XVI. No. 12.] LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1809. [Price 1s. "Twas at the feast for Talavera won, By Well'sley's wadike son: "The swelling hero sat "On his l'iscountal Throne; "The Jews and Speculato, plac'd around, "Their brows with Loans, with Jobs, and Contracts bound, LITICS. STATESMAN. -[386 merous sick and wounded, under the care of the Spanish General Cuesta, but, before he sets out, having reason to fear that Cuesta me non be cine to maintain himself at Talavera against Victor (the SUMMARY OF POLITICS. sistance from the Spaniards, "vanquished" (to use the language of the King's "GENETALAVERA'S CAMPAIGN and the JUBILEE. "RAL ORDERS'); yes, "vanquished” the -The combination of these transactions French, under Marshal Victor (Duke of has been admirably delineated, in several Belluno), at Talavera.-SECOND,--Our articles in that excellent evening news-Baron, owing to the fatigue of his army paper, the STATESMAN, from one of which and want of provisions, did not pursue the articles I have selected my motto. I do" vanquished" enemy one inch; and, the not believe, that the boasting, the bragg-Spaniards, though they had not been ening, the inflated self-gratulation and com-gaged, did not make the smallest attempt mendation, of the Talavera Campaign, to pursue that enemy. Tutko,—Our were equalled by any thing of the sort Baron, on the 3d of August, resolves to that ever took place in consequence of the quit Talavera, to take the road towards campaigns of Alexander the Great.---It | Portugal, and to leave at Talavera his nuof great consequence to us, that we should have the history of this Campaign Very complete. At page 373 of the preseur Volume, we brought this history down to the 21st of August, when our Baron of the Douro wrote, from Truxillo, quished" Victor), our Baron has a conthat letter, of which our ministers gave us versation (which he puts into writing) an extract, and which extract was inserted with a Spanish General second or third in. at page 363.It will be remembered, command, whom he presses, in case of that, on the sd of August, our Baron danger, to get all the carts he can, ready quitted Talavera, in order to go in search of to carry away the English sick and somebody to fight with; in order to do "the wounded.-FOURTH,Our Baron has "business" of Soult 66 effectually" and the choice given him by Cuesta, to go or "without a contest? We have seen, that, to stay, and he chooses to go, though he some how or other, he did not do any states, that he had reason to fear, that Cu "business" at all with Soult; but left Soultesta would be unable to maintain his posi on one side of the Tagus, while he went tion at the place where he was leaving across to the other in order to "take up a him.-FIFTH,-The reason our Paron "position." We have now some accounts, gives for leaving Talvera at all, and for, through the Moniteur, touching this mat- choosing to go while Cuesta remained, is, ter; and, if we are determined not to be- that Soult was advancing from Placentia ieve any thing circulated through that towards the right bank of the Tagus; and channel; that is to say, if we are deter-that, as it was of great importance to go mined not to believe any thing, which and do his "business" as qui, kly as pos does not flatter our vanity or disguise our sible, our Baron chose to go on that shame, it may not be amiss for us just to errand, because he and his army were take a look at what the rest of the world will more likely "to do the business effectubelieve.Let us, however, before we ally" and without a contest.—IXTH, make this extract from the Moniteur, go--Cuesta, finding the vanquished" Vioback a little into the history of the Cam-tor in movement upon his flank and front, paign.FIRST,--On the 28th and 20th did not remain many hours at Talavera, after of July our Baron, with scarcely any as- the departure of our Baron; but, in fact, N overtook him before he was able to get at the sought-after Soult.- SEVENTH, Our Baron now, when one would have expected to hear of his "doing the business effectual"ly," finds that, for various weighty reasons, arising from sundry unforeseen occurrences, it will be better not to go on to meet Soult, and to "do the business effectually," upon the right bank of the Tagus, but, on the contrary, to go across to the left bank of the Tagus, at the first bridge he can come at, and then to get on towards Portugal, where he hopes to be supplied with whatever he shall want.- EIGHTH, Our Baron informs us, that he did get across the said Tagus; that he was immediately followed by Cuesta; and that, on the 7th of August, Cuesta's advanced guard was attacked by the French, who drove that guard off and took all its cannon.- -NINTH, We find him at Truxillo, on the 21st of August, • falling back upon the frontiers of Portugal, "where he hopes to be supplied with every "thing he wants," never having met Soult, in search of whom he quitted Talavera, leaving his sick and wounded behind him; never having made any attack upon the enemy; and, of course, never having "done "the business effectually;" nor, indeed, ever having even begun to do it at all.Now, then, let us hear the Moniteur, of the 30th of August; let us now hear what others say about this latter part of the Talavera Campaign, and what it is possible, at least, the world will be so ill-natured as to believe. 66 "While the English, after exposing "their allies to all the disadvantages of a pursuit, placed themselves in security against " events, the Spaniards imagined that they "could cover their retreat if they took a "position at the bridge of Arzobispo. The "fifth corps passed the Tagus, partly by a "ford, and partly by the bridge, overthrew "all before them, and took 30 pieces of "cannon, with the powder waggons. "When the Marshal the Duke of Treviso "saw the enemy's army fly before him, "he was satisfied with sending some de"tachments after it, who every moment bring in stragglers, deserters, and priso This "all who fall into their hands."conduct of the peasants is but too much like what was reported of them during the retreat of Sir John Moore's army, when, as the reader will recollect, the French hanged some of them for having murdered our people.- -The truth is, that, during a hasty retreat, it is next to impossible, if not completely impossible, to prevent plunder and other provoking conduct on the part of the troops; and, the natural consequence is, acts of vengeance on the part of the unfortunate, the ruined, and half-maddened people, who, when they come athwart defenceless plunderers, cannot be expected to spare them, however imperious the necessity, which has made these latter do injury to the enraged parties. "Hunger," says the proverb, " will break through "stone walls;" but, hunger is as potent with the wretch, who is robbed of his dinner, as it is with those who rob him. Both are objects of pity, while blame, in fact, if it alight justly any where, settles upon the heads of those only, who have made them the robbers and murderers of each other. -It is truly lamentable, however, to contemplate the probability, and, indeed (if we believe this statement of the Moni teur), the fact, of our army's dropping of its baggage, its artillery, and its sick, on the way; leaving these latter, at best, to the mercy of a people, who, there is every reason to suppose, must feel enraged at our army, and that, too, from causes for which, in this immediate case, no blame can be attached, probably, to either the army or its commander. Our Baron tells us, that he is in distress for provisions; and we know what must be the consequence of that. He had told us before, that he took with him some thousands of sick and wounded. We know, that a retreat so encumbered must be terrible in its exactions upon the people of the country. It is not difficult to imagine how such a retreat would be felt across the counties of Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall, from Alton to Penzance. What, then, must be the effect of a similar retreat in a country, like that, over which our unfortu nate army had to pass? Here it would inevitably produce general distress and a good deal of ruin; but, there, where the wretched people have scarcely ever any store of provisions to draw upon, and where the population is so thin as to render the whole stock of the country so trifling in amount, the retreat of a considerable army, unsupplied with provisions, must, if we in " in Chief." Sir; The fate of war has placed in your hands a number of Eng"lish officers and soldiers. They are "brave, and merit the attention and regard "of those by whom courage is valued. I "have the honour to recommend them to "you, and to request that you will permit "me to send to Talavera, for the purpose "of taking care of them, some officers, "who shall not be considered prisoners of war, but be permitted to return when the "wounded have somewhat recovered.-I "also request your permission to transmit "the wounded officers small sums of mo"ney, of which they must be very much " in want. It is in the name of humanity I address these requests to you, and I "have even a right to make them, since I "have always paid particular attention to "the French soldiers whom the chance of "war has rendered my prisoners, and have "even supplied the officers with money." This letter was delivered to Marshal Mortier (the Duke of Treviso) who sent the following Answer, dated on the 10th of August.- Sir; I have received the 66 clude the unavoidable waste, produce general famine and despair. Away it sweeps not only all the human sustenance, but the hay, the straw, the horses, the mules, every animal, (whether for its flesh or its labour) at all useful; and, in short, it yields, in its destructive effects, to nothing short of one of those tornadoes, which sweep away every substance standing upon the face of the earth.-Of the desertion of the Hanoverians my readers will form their own opinions; but, if the fact be correct, I am not at all surprized, that we had only an extract from Douro's dispatch of the 21st of August. Upon the subject of desertion we must observe, that, as yet, nothing in the way of contradiction has been said of the two paragraphs, which I inserted in my last, which were very worthy of the attention of the government; for, surely, it was of importance to do away the effect of statements so outrageously degrading to the character of the army, and of the nation.But, the great point in this article from the Moniteur is, that it accuses our Commander of first "exposing our allies," and then of " placing himself and his army in security against " events." That is to say, of taking the lead in the flight, and leaving the Spaniards to bear the attacks of the pursuing French. This is the charge which the Moniteur prefers against us; and, certain it is, that our army, according to my Lord Talavera's dispatches, are in front upon the retreat; or, if you will, in the advance towards Portugal. This is not to be denied. We marched from Talavera for the purpose of meeting Soult; we did not meet him; we turned off over the river; we made away for Portugal; and the Spaniards came in our rear; they kept the post nearest the enemy. Say that our Viscount was compelled" to do this. I hope it will appear so; but, then, I answer, let me not be told of the "military resource" of the man, who, not being compelled to advance into Spain, did so advance as to expose himself to this compulsion. Besides the above article, the Moniteur contains two letters, one that of our Baron to the French Commander in behalf of his poor sick and wounded left behind at Talavera, and the other, the Duke of Treviso's answer to that letter.They ought to be preserved here, especially as there is a passage in the latter, which, in his dispatches home, our Baron appears to have omitted.The first has no date. It appears to have been sent open, addressed to the French Commander 66 open letter addressed by you to the Com"mander in Chief, and requesting his at"tention to the sick and wounded whom you have been under the necessity of leaving behind you. They are treated "as our own sick and wounded are, and I "have studied to give all possible assist"ance to those that have fallen into my "hands. These, General, are debts which "two brave nations owe to each other.-"I shall forward your letter to the Com"mander in Chief, who alone can answer "your request to send officers to Talavera, "until the sick and wounded be somewhat "recovered. In the mean time I shall do myself the pleasure to supply them with what money they may want.' -Now, without any desire to impute to the Baron a wilful omission, it is just to observe, that he did not (in the dispatch given to us) make any mention of the last sentence of this letter, and which sentence was, as the reader will see, a most important one. He says, " I re"ceived a very civil answer from Marshal "Mortier, promising that every possible "care should be taken, and every atten"tion paid to the British officers and sol"diers who were wounded; but stating, "that he could not answer upon the other "demands contained in my letter, having "been obliged to refer them to the Com"mander in Chief." This is all true, but it is not all the truth; for Mortier says, though he cannot answer about the suffer |