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ONDON. >EITTEMBEIt 1, 1813. HB FUNDS. DAY AT TWILVE O'CLO:K Cons. 73.11 —for Acc. 7311. —I per Cent. 94i. Bonds 78 79 pre. -Exchequer Bills 17 20}prern. Seeke Shut and Open: *pt. ' • in Ortniwn, as a payment is to This Stock has.been at a pre since its coming out (about three I , %Eting it has been done at 6 per a fall of upwards of 9 per cent. ned for the Account at 73i, but itv of Stock thrown upon the l them to 7Si, with an appear iira'ule to their recovery. The 74 for Reduced, and were served rally. portant Extract of a Letter from x's at the Cape of Good Hope, rday afternoon. The Letter is 34, fnrn Madras, arrived here the 2d ,nd 05ters report, that his Majesty'e Madr-s from Ceylon, for troops, for the no;c ar.d 114 St-if, who were surrounded erior, and winded from all eommuniea. A detachment of the 83d Regiment had TALBOT, of the Lord Cathcart, ar , reports that his Majesty's ship MINDEN de for Columbc, with troops fur the re- . eo.' Ceylon have for some time been It the present accounts hare not o are best acquainted with the at quarter, and the general cha- The present event will bring f many cf our Readers the fate e -fears ago, who. with SOO men, :es very s'.rnilrs to those in which was placed when these accounts result was, that the whole were he Ma:;cr, and one private. The ri,oner, and died in captivity : :1 - .e general massacre of the hospi 7wards found, was spare(' by the )e that he would be able to teach , ceder--a process •'•hich he could c•agh every stimulus that floggings rployed to whet his ingenuity. the native candians are not of :er that attaches to the Hindoos. 7.tell:gent race, and possess con- In general they are mild in their "red in their ad dress ; nut easily and bloc..l,hed, cc, proceeding tiet?rmination in tile presecuticn . _ on acting :under the impulse of Inc: t,f . the I ...tter ca..t is generally arc conbtol!rnate masters r:ating thert..f;lves Litt) the goo.: and pu:sticss a wonticiu. degree of address in working upon the feelings of others, while they can keep thensselves tree fro every emotion. It must be self-evident that the task of superin tending the affairs of such a people by a distant Go vernment is not an easy one ; and that this is ren dered the more difficult by the impossibility of the Governor, when a new one is appointed; speedily ac quiring a thorough knowledge of the dispositions of the people and the best means of managing them; ' for this is a species of knowledge only to be acquired by experience. From all that we have been able to learn, we feel much inclined to subscribe to an opinion erpresse4 in the Times of this morning that Ceylon ought long ago to have been.placed under the direct controul of the Governor-General of India. The good old cause of Ministerial patronage might, to be sure, have suf fered a little by the change ; bnt on its expediency and projriety there is not amongst well-informed men au adverse or second opinion. We have received, this morning, Papers from Up per and Lower Canada to the 3d of August. His Grace the Duke of RICHMOND, who has gone out with the new appointment of Governor-General of British North America, accompanied by Sir Ps- REURINE MAITLAND, the new Governor of Upper Canada, arrived in the IPmessit.e., at Quebec, on the 29th ultimo. From the party discussions with which the Upper Canadian Papers are filled, it would appear that his Grace is likely to have an early and very proper op portunity of putting the efficacy of his new appoint ment to the test. The inhabitants of Upper Canada have had another meeting, undef the title of a Con vention at York, when they came to the following ,Resolutions, RICHARD Benstsy, Esq. in the Chair:. " Ilasotvao--1. That whilst this Convention holds it one of the most sacred rights of British subjects, a all times directly to petition the Throne of their Sovereign relative to their griev ances, yet nevertheless, under the present peculiar existing cir cumstances of this country, the Members of this Convention, as well out of respect to that Honourable Body the Commons House of Assembly of Upper Canada, as for other causes, deem it their most indispensable duty, on this important occasion, to recommend in the strongest terms to their Fellow Subjects resident in this Province, a spirited, formal and respectful agpll - to that Honourable House, for an Enquiry boo the State of the Province. " 2. Tn a John Clark Cyrua Sumner, and Roderick Drake, Esquires, be a permanent Committee, for the mir.aitment of the aff.drs of the Convention, and that they, as soon as may be practicable, prepare a respectful Petition, praying for enquiry and expressive of grievances (for the sanction of this Cnovesr tion), to be by them circulated for Subscribers, and presented at the liar of the House of Assembly at their ,next ensuing Session. e ‘ 3. Thu the said Gastonia*e be farther authorised - to frame Addres to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, en the subject of grievances believed to vast In Upper Canada ; which, when approved Al by this Convention, shall 5: submitted hi the Committee, together with the Petition aboveMen'tiOne4, to the Honourable the House of Assembly, at their rest meeting, far their alteration and amendment." Mr. Gouni.f.y, who has had so instrumental a haad in instigating these proceedings, is stated to have been arrested and held to bail, at Kingston, for distributing a printed account of the state of griev ances of the people of the Niagara District; and this by direction of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL of the Pro. vince, who is reported, but we have no doubt very erroneously, to have influenced the Justice who signed the warrant, by certain threats of vengeance if he refused. Another report is mentioned as being in circulation, namely, that official instructions have sent to particular Magistrates, to take notice of, and transmit to Government, the names of all per sons holding Commissions, civil or military, who en gage in the measure of petitioning the PRINCE RE GENT, as recommended by Mr. GOURLAY, in order that they may be removed from their offices. Whe ther this report has crept into circulation from acci dent, or has been propagated to intimidate persons from petitioning, or has been maliciously designed to cast reproach upon the Administration, we have no hesitation in regarding it as alike slanderous and, foolish. It is at once a folly and a slander, to repre sent that the Administration could stoop to the em ployment of a set of official informers and spies, tb watch and inform against his MAJESTY S svbjects, for any purpose whatever; and most of all for so base a purpose as that of wreaking vengeance upon them for exercising their acknowledged and unques tionable right of petitioning. Extract of a Letter from the Agent to Ltovp's at Buenos Ayres, dated 6th June :—" The Lautaro (late' the Windham) which sailed for Valparaiso the end of April in search of the Emeralda Spanish frigate, fell in with and took her by hoarding ; but from the con fusion on board the Lautaro, the ships were allowed Ito separate, and the boarders, about 30 in number, including Captain O'Bitiv.i4, were overpowered and killed. The Lautaro had returned to Valparaiso, and expected to sail soon for Talcahuana, in Lima." . We give to-day some farther interesting extracts from the American Papers, received yesterday. General JACKSON, it will be observed, has been, received on his return from his war of pillage and extermination in the south, with all the pomp and circumstance of a Great Conqueror. The Republican General-4in Hannibal of the West—actually tra vels through his own country with a body of Life Gaon: II The F . :each Ern!grants who were lately travelling :n a body through the United States, in order to Antit tittiitheet, have leiied, it ifpiari, Upi3ii territory in the river Trinity; in the province of Texasi and set about establishing a sort of military republic of their own. The country tliey have Occupied is' part of a territory which has been lonz in dispute be tween Spain and the United States—the latter claim ing it as part of Louisiana, and the former denying that it was included in the cession of that province. Haytian Gazettes have been received to the 12th of June, from which we have given in a preceding column an interesting Address by King Hmtv to the Haytians, of the south and west. His Majesty denies a report, circulated in the American Papers, that he was approaching the territory of the late rrrioar with any military views, but proposes cer tain terms of union to the people of that 'division of that Island, which will strongly try their fidelity to the new President, BOYER. A Dutch Mail arrived this morning and brought Letters and Journals to the 29th August. The in telligence from Holland presents nothing new, and the German news in these Papers has been mostly anticipated by former arrivals: FRANKFORT, AUGUST 23. The first division of the equipages of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, consisting of 15 carriages and 76 fine horses, have passed through this city on the way to Aix-la-Chapelle. The hope of a fine vintage has caused a great f4ll in the price of wines, even of the mine of 1811. We learn from Vienna, that it appears from an official Report of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund s that the 208 millions of Redemption Bonds created in 1811, were reduced to 171 millions at the, beginning of January, 1818. Since that time it,is stated that 20 millions of Redemption Bonds have been destroyed, so that the remaining sum will hardly amount to 151 millions at the next annual settlement. —This shews how earnestly and successfully the Go• vernment exerts itself to restore the credit of the paper currency. The 250 millions of Anticipation Bonds will be redeemed by the outstanding and cur rent taxes (the first amount to above 50 millions), and by the purchase of Bank Shares. We learn from Carlibad that the Austrian Aulic. Counsellor Gina will go to Aix-la-Chapelle, to be present there dtiring the Congress. It is said that the Diet will adjourn for four weeks, in the course of next month, and that the Ministers will go in the mean time to Aix-la-Chapelle. The .Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this fore noon, hdt contain nothing important. The Duke of Wect.INGTOX, as was expected, left Paris on Ftiday morning for Colmar.--Five per Cenci. Friday; . 72 francs 75 cents. The letters . from Manchester, received by the Wail this morning, state, that there is every; probability of the C6mbination among the Cotton Spinners being forthwith dissolved. On Saturday morning the High Constable seized upon the Committee who have had the direction of the business ; five of them were car ried before the Magistrates, and have been commit ted to stand trial for a Conspiracy.—This seizure appears to have had an intimidating effect on the great body of the refractory, many of whom express ed their determination on Sunday, previous to the starting of the Mail, to return to work next day at their old rate of wages. Yesterday the Report of her MAJEsTy's health was, a The QUEFN has not had so good a night, and is not so well.—Kew Palace, August SI." The Duke and Duchess of KENT (intending to leave this country on the sth instant) have already Reven orders to prepare for their doparture. Their oyal Highnesses' absence will probably not exceed four months. The Bahama - Royal Gazette of Juni 13, states, that the yellow Ewe' had broken out at the Havannah, and r as making extenive ravages. The intelligence was brought to the port of Nassau by the Primrose sloop of war, Captain PIIILLOTT, Commander. According to tellers from Bencoolen to the 23d of March, that place has been visited by an earthquake. The shock was felt on the 18th of March, not only on diore, but to a considerable distance at sea • but we do not learn that any considerable mischief was occasioned by this sudden and awful visitation. Among the military trophies now displayed in the Chapel Royal, at Whitehall, are the colours taken in, the conquest of Candia, now the theatre of Religion, as the struggle of tie native inhabitants of Ceylon fi r the restoration of the Legitimate KING, is called. It is understood that the Hon. the Court of Direc tors of the East-India Company have it in contem plation to sanction the establishment of a regular course of Lectures on the Hindostanee language, in London, at which all the Gentlemen proceeding to India, under their patronage (who have not access to other Oriental institutions), will be expected to attend at least two months. The Lectures will commence early in October. The Commissioners of the Northern Lights arrived at Portsmouth in their yacht, on Thursday, having visited the Breakwater at Plymouth, and the new wo*Jcs at Cherburg. They sailed again on the fol lowing day, on their return to Leith. Mr. KNIGHT continues a Member of the Drury lane Company, nor has Mr. DOWTON been engaged by Mr. Ettuirou, for the Olympic Theatre. At a General Committee of the Proprietors of Drury-lane Theatre, held on Friday, the Report of the Special Committee with reduction of prices, and other matters, was agreed to. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of of ICZNT and his Royal Highnessthe Duke of Susan honoured the Lyceum Theatre last night,.. to. see the new Farce, called Amateuriiridaktors, and the MeIo &ATM of Two Words. . • • io favourer the Royal and rr_nn• and property. any manner disturbed on account of Tesler. to civil disAentions. f rank, and employe to all tlu civil 'teen elan. tost splendid honours and rewards to , and of Unir own motion, recognize rid shall display the greatest seal and ect the prompt union of the Harians. kw shall be maintained, clothed and their respective garrisons, in order to r the protection of their Fellow till- sir respective commands shall remain 1r Orlin/ to the Generals command- I Arcabwe and Mirbalais, not in any tians who shall return to their homes, tlyes under their torotection ; but to s, good temper and humanity, spe to treat them as Brethren and Fel- yal Palace of St. Marc, the 9th fteenth year of Independence, eighth. (Signed) 4 , HENRY. crttary of State, Minister for Foreign The COUNT de LIMONADL." AZETTk'., JULY ?,O. IPHIGENIA, HYDE rATIFER, anchor in this port, yesterday bnard his Grace the Duke of or-General of British North :DINE MAITLAND, Lieutenant- Canada, and their respective a little before seven o'clock, e frigate and the grand battery, i* the people assembixd on the he military honours due to his to the Castle of Saint Louis, .aicd fur liis reception. Ir e, me understand. the principal .anied Grace from England: two younger daughters. icatir, 7.lllitary Secretary. 01, .1. D. C. 'twos, 'ovine Maitland, K. C. a A. D. C" TENLNO STAR. fife AttifVl • Thursday that find Corps, the 05th Regimcni; itl garrison in Chester, had a tield-day, and went through a variety df mantels's-es *ltli great piecision : the firing was excellent. A detachment of this Regiment is on duty in Manchester. A Troop of Lancer', equipped in the French style) are now doing tht orderly duty at the Horse Guards' A Ttiaop belonging to the squadron of the 2d Royal North British Dragoons, stationed at Belfast, has re ceived a route to march from thence to Enniskillen where they are to teplace a detachment belonging to the 14th Light Dragoons, which was lately furnished from that station. The detachment belonging to the 96th Regiment consisting of one serjeant and 18 rank and file, which was doing duty at Kantutk, has received a route to march from thence, and juin the head=q:iarters of the Regiment at Limerick. NA VAL .INTELaG:Lvek FALMOUTH, AUGUSf Wind W.—Arrived the Chesterfield packet, with Mails froth Malta, last from Gibraltar, in 14 tyin The Duke of Kent packet (2) did not sail last even ing as reported, for Lisbon, being detained by coa+ trary winds. PORTSVOCTII, AUGUST 11. Witid Easterly.—Sailed the Regtilas and garaga transports, for Gibraltar ; Galen, TRACEY, for Bos ton ;•Venus, PeCIC, for Nei, York : William, No-ice, for ditto; and Isabella, —, for Ci-arleston. DEAL, AUGUST it. Wind E.S.E. light airs.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Friendship, WinTwELL, from Oporto; Zephyr, BROWN, from Messina for Grimsby. Carile down from the River, the Esther, Jonas, for l'slapies, and sailed with the whole of the outward-bound, for their different destinations. DOVER, AUGUST 29. Sailed this day the . Lord Duncan packet, Captain HamttroN, and the Cumberland, Capt. llNetstoso, for Calais, with passengers. Passed by this afternoon the Northumberland, East India ship, from Bengal," bound to London. Arrived this afternoon the King George, Captain KING, Industry, Captain Aachen, and le Desire, French packet, from Calais, with pas , sengers. Sailed this evening the Lord Duncan pac ket, for Ostend, with a Nlail and passengers. AUG L 7 ST 30.—Sailed this day the Prince Leopold, Captain ROGERS, and the Lark, Captain MoYcE, for Calais, with passengers. Came in this morning his Majesty's yacht ROYAL SOVEREIGN, Captain Sir F W. C. R. OWEN, to wait for their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of KENT. Atrived this afte • noon the Princess Charlotte packet, Car....ain FIAL•• LANDS, from Ostend, with a Mail and passengers also the Chichester packet, Captain Iit7:TER, and the Princess Augusta, Captain BLAKE, Pram Calais, with pacsgngOrs. AEGUST g. —Arrived off this port the Caledonia, ROBERTS, of Sunderland, from Calcutta. ' PENZANCE, ALIGUST 29. • The Endeavour, DARLIN9 9 50 days from Live:-. piol - for Prince Edward's Island, was spoke with a 1'441141y L b.14. 40. 3.3. N. long. 55. 4S. W. all wcll. NORTU SHIELDS, AUGUST . Imo.. Yestercl . ttpyntrig, white . leis blowing StiNkirt the Jas;iii - Za,sscitx,7OT Lynn, lying oft South Sjclds . without any. ballast in, upset and filled with water with-the assistance of a number of keels she was this flood weighoi, and hauled on shore; the next flood - she will be afloat—it is expecied she has received no damage except in her stores. DUNDEE, AUGUST 28. . 4" Arrived the-Mary Ann, from Davis' Straits, with 2 fish; Estridge, -- from ditto, with 2 fi sh. -- GRAVIISEND, AUGUST 30:. "• Arrived the Cora, —, from Cuba ; London, lindsop, frorp Seville ; Betsey, Earl, from Dublin ; Lord Cathcart, .Tel4ss from Calcutta; Perceval, Livingston, from Grenada; 3W, out Maid, Glenrig, from Jamaica •' and a Env otbers.--Sailed Alb Nesbitt, Gray, for Madeira and Jamaica ; and Alderney, keen, for Memel. • CUSTOM-HOUSE, LONDON, AUGUST 31. SUITS ENTERLD DO!.:1111Ca, CEA. from Jarnalca( Erasmus; Hearden ' from Jersey ; Fox, 'Fox, from Ostentlf Flying nib, Smith, from ditto; Liverpool, Ellis, from dam; Wellington, Evans, from Limerick; the Thistle, Wallar, from Cephalonia; Kantilas, Dodd, front Miramichi; tan David:- Wrens,. from Dieppe; Betsey, Ryder, from Archangel; 11'a s Cray, from Antwerp ; Henry, Stranack, from St. Vincere's; Charming Molly, Farrier, from Calais; Success, Perry, from Waterford ; Louisa, Boyle, from Malta ; Carolina, A,pplegrli, • front Norkoplng ; Sally, Markham, from Ostend; Specelatirzt, Taylor, frvm Doris; Deux &runs, Gobert, from Dieppe; many, Dislop, from Stettin; :tip, Kenny, from the Minh See ; - row Anna, Tenbruin, from Antwerp ; Elizabeth, Rees, from Cork ; William and Mary, Wilson, front Dantzic ; the liord.is, Browell, from St. Domingo; Etoile 1e Matin, C. Lc Rokfrem Caen; Sincerity, Smith, front Guernsey ; Heart of Qak, Ist:hot. son, from Miramichi ; arid the Sirene, Preager, from Calais. OUTWARDS.—Les Deux &curs, Colbert, for Havre; Felicity, Pritchard, for Rouen; Harmony, Dedwith, for Antwerp; Opt Arundel, Iti , lntosb, for Grenada; the London, Turner, for Ja maica; Commerce, Spence. for Antigua and St. Christopher's ; Burt, Hatfield, for Harnburgh; Prince Regent, Hammond, fcr Gibraltar; Rebecca, Pritchard, fur Newfoundland; and Olive Bunch, Patterson, for Rio Janeire. . The licattp,thire Telegraph asserts, that out of the 435 seamen on• board the American frigate le Guerrier SOO are British. born subjects. His Majesty's store-ship }MINA, commanded by FL L. Hzcits, Master R.N. was to sail from St. He lena to the Cape of Good Hope, about the 6th July. The Vigilante privateer, of Buenos Ayres. Capt. Ross, arrived at Burhaven on the ‘26th ult. She had been cruizing since March, principally off Cadiz, Cape St. Vincent's, Cape Finisterre, and St. Andero, and has a considerable quantity of plunder on board. The Independence and Fortitude Increased, from St. Thomas's and St. Kitt's, with cargoes of West In dia produce, passed by Portsmouth on Monday, for the River, having landed several passengers...-The' report that Colonel MACDONALD, who had shortly joined the Independent forces from England, had been massacred, with many other British Officers, through mistake, by a body of Indians : they hap pened-to fall in with the British Officers whilst they were at dinner, and supposing them tq be Spaniards, they attacked them with such savage ferocity, that they were all either killed instantly, or died of their wounds. The Independent naval force, under Ad miral BRION, is of so formidable a description, that the Spanish ships of war (though often in sight of each other) dare not attempt a meeting. 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