Star. — London, England, 1820-08-12 00:00:00

111 Z Q UERY. 8111FFIRLD MEETING. SHEFFIELD, AUGUST 10. The lor g- projected Meeting for voting an Address to the QUPEN, took place yesterday, in our spacious Town-Hall, and was most numerously and respect• ably attended. • The Hall was, in fact, crowded almost to suffocation in every part, and many hun dreds were unable to obtain admittance. Yet all wa: conducted with the greatest order and decorum, and not the slightest accident occurred. THOMAS RawsoN, Esq..that veteran in the cause of Reform, and staunch asserter of the Rights of the People, was called to the Chair, by the unanimous ' yoke of the Assembly. He opened the business of the :Meeting in a most excellmt speech, and concluded by moving a series of spirited Resolutions, which were passed without a dissentient voice; and an Ad dress. founded on them, was unanimously adopted. The following is a copy : " TO it r% MA:KITT CABOLINZ, QKIDEN CONSORT OT VIM MAJZSTY TO , •GB IT. EMI OT TUE ONITID KINGDOM OT ORR V! BRITAIN AND IRELAND, &C. "The loyal and dutiful Address of the Inhabitants of the Town and Vicinity of Sh,ffield, in the County of York : " We, your Majesty's most faithful subjects, beg leave to ap proach your Majesty, with unfeigned professions of affection for your floynl person, and to congratulate your Majesty on your return to this country—a Country that now calls you Queen— am! wi , ich we regret that yonr Majesty should ever have left. " In addressing you on this occasion, permit us to assure your Itlajesty, that the many deprivations you have sustained have leached a chord in our hearts, and bound us to your Royal per son by the tenderest del of sympathy . . Since your first arrival to this country, :real and various afflictions have befallen you: the prop and stay of your illustrious House has been withdrawo by the hand of Death—his late Majesty, George tha Third, your most gracious friend and powerful protector, no.v slum bers in the grave,—and that mantid spirit who called you Mother —she on whom a Nation's hopes and highest expectations were Sxed, and whose untimely death filled every heart with mourn. it ;;., and evail eye with tears, can no longer solace you with her aiiect:on ! " Sincereiy lamenting those deprivations to which your Majesty bi:s been subjected, we offer you our condolence; and, under the new affliction that now assails ycu, we heartily and most unfeigrv:dly pray that your Majesty, aided by the affections of a loyal pelple, may finally triumph over your accusers, and ui b shame the fsolishness of evil men. We heartily disapprove of, and sincerely condemn, that spirit of hostility which has bet too evidently characterised the strange proceedings tutccl against your Majesty; and the mode is which they have hitherto heuil carried on we regard as harsh, oppressive, and repugnant to the liberal spirit of that Constitution under which we live. " In this tree expression of our condolence, our wishes, and opinions, permit us to assure your "Majesty of our admiration of the magnanimous conduct you have invariably displayed, under circumstances and charges revolting to your nature, and which, we arc fully persuaded, nothing but a feeling et con scious innocence could have enabled you so nobly to sustain." There are many hundreds of able-bodied men in this town at present receiving Parochial relief, being out of employment; a threat was held out to them, that if they attended the Meeting yesterday, their pay would be stopped, and their names struck off the Parish books. The Bailiffs of the city of Litchfield having declined to convene a Public Meeting, with a view to aer;ress the QUEEN. an Address was drawn up, representing the opinions of the Requisitionists and others, and is now in course of signature. " The number of the Requisitionists,".says the Litcifleld Mercury," is equal to the usual signatures of such documents in this city, where numbers are not the point looked at. We have authority to deny, that the name of one was added without his knowledge or consent.' There were not the names of any persons affixed to it of lower and very inferior stations in life: It is stated that the Bailiffs refused their assent, on account of the de s,-riction of persons' who signed the Requisii ion : and they were further of opinion, that it was t impro , per in any way to interfere in the proceedings now pend ing respecting the QuEEN. What perfect conjurors and heroes would this scribe make of the City Bai liffs ! If the latter objection had any weight with them, it were enough, without insulting the people with invidious comparisons of respectability : the Bai liffs were incapable of it : they are tradesmen them selves—highly respectable ones—who vec uld stern to taunt their neighbours with epithets of inferiority." GREENWICH MEETING. At half-past seven o'clock on Thursday evening, I Meeting of the inhabitants of Greenwich took place at the Vestry-roma and adjourned from thence to the National School, for the purpose of considering the propriety of presenting an Address to her MAJESTY. The Meeting —as convened in pursuance of a Requi sition very respectably signed, and addressed to the Churchwardens. The adjournment to the National School took place in consequence of the attendance of persons being greater than the Vestry-room was calculated to contain. There were nearly .500 per sons present. . Mr. Jon NI CRICK, Senior Churchwarden, took the Chair, and briefly stated to the Meeting the object for which they had assembled, in pursuance of the . terms of their Requisition, to which he trusted they would, in the course of their proceedings, strictly confine themselves. Mr. P. l'Ensiz then moved that an }lambic Address be presented to her Majesty, - expressive of the pleasure felt by the inhabitants of Greenwich upon her return to England, lamenting the proceedings which had been instituted against her, and confidently antici pating that she would establish her innocence. It also expressed the gratitude felt by the inhabitants of Creenwich, from the high and. benevolent example which had been set by her Majesty during her resi dence in their neighbourhood. Air. GILES seconded the motion in a short speech, in which he paid a warm tribute to the Queen's cha racter.—The Address was unanimously agreed to. A motion was then made, that the Address be laid on the table of the Vestry for signatures, prepa ratory to its presentation. To this motion Mr. PRATT moved, as an amendment, that the Governor, Chin ch wardens, and the other principal Parish Officers, sign the Address in the behalf of the Meeting. This Amendment was immediately adopted. The VICAR of the Parish, who had been invited to take thr! Chair, addressed a letter in reply to the invitation, which was read At the Meeting. In this letter he declined attending, and assigned as his rea son the incompatibility of his religious functions with an attendance at any political discussion. ' Thanks were then proposed to the Vicar, but the motion was rejected by the Meeting, there being only five hands held up for it. The CHAlttmAx was thanked for his conduct in the Chair. The Requisitors received a similar com pliment; and a letter wa; ordered to be addre-sed to Lady Ann Hamilton, for the purpose of taking her Majesty's corn inathis respecting the time of present ing the Address. An Address has been presented to the QUEEN from Norwich, to which her MAJESTY returned the follow ing most gracious Answer: " I gratefully acknowledge my obligations to his Majesty's fiithful subjects, the Inhabitants of the City of Norwich, for this affectionate Address. The voice of sympathy is always soothing to the ear, but it is hoard with double complacency when it is known to issue from the heart. lam convinced that in this sympathetic tribute of regard for my insulted honour arid my violated rights,. the Inhabitants of • Norwich have ex rressed only those sentinieuts which affection breathes from their generous hearts. " The accumulatvl indignities which I Skye experienced have had an effect quite contrary to the expectations of my enemies; they have rendered me aisohject of public regard, in a higher degree than I could otherwise have been. •Aly r-,ason approves and my piety reveres that instinctive propensity which there is in the human heart to succour the oppre4sed. Of this propen sity, no page in history furnishes a bnghter example than that which the British People have exhibited in favour of their persecuted Queen. In proportion as my enemies have endea voured to effect my abasement, they have contributed to my exaltation. They have degraded nobody but themselves. Their malice has been ow protection, and their obloquy has become riy panegyric. " When my adversaries had recourse to a Bill of Pains and Penalties, they offered an involumary testimony to my inno cence; for, if I b..1:1 been guilty, my guilt might have been esta blished by a mm: legal and a less circuitous process. But know ing that my integrity was my security as long as they remained wrhin the conti.tes of our constitutional sanctuary, they leaped with profane daring over that sacred boundary, and are now labouring to annihilate my honour as a woman, and my dignity as a Queen, by a procedure which must; in its consequences, be perilous to the vital interests of individual and general liberty. I am now, therefore, struggling not more for my own good than for that of the country. The question, at this moment, is not merely, whether the Queen shall have her rights ; but whether the rights of any individual in the kingdom shall be free from violation? " The maxims of English jurisprudence have always hitherto favourable to the accused. Perhaps my accusers, who are al::u to be my jidget, thought that they were acting in confor mity to those maxims, when, after spreading the accusations against me over a period of six years, and' a space almost equal to that of a whole Continent, thet refused any specification of the times when, and the places where, the charges were laid, after they had previously condescended not to grant any Est of the witnesses by whom these charges were to be supported. A generous enemy never commences the combat by previously wresting from his adversary every instrument of defende. But is not the conduct of. my, enemies a proof that they think their own cans weak and mine strong? Why else do they labour with a sort of item tiling cowardice to cripple my powers of re sistance? Is not this tacitly to tell the world that my integrity is their dread, and my accusation their shame?" The QUEEN is to receive the Address of the Free holders of Middlesex, at Brandeuhurgh House, on Tuesday. ►text, at one o'clock; that of the Artisans, at two; and that of the Inhabitants of Hammersmith at three. ' The Address of the married Ladies of the Metro polis and its vicinity will be received by her MA JESTY on Wednesday next, at two o'clock, at the house of Lady FRANCIS, in St. James's-square. A vast number of most respectable Ladies have signed, and are signing, this Address. The Address from the Inhabitants of the City of Worcester to her Majesty the QUEEN is signed by up wards of 200 I;ersons. Colonel DAVIES, one of the City Members, has undertaken to present it; Lord DEERIIUItST has declined to do so. It is remarkable that scarcely any. of what are called the-Radical Towns have voted Addresses to the QUEEN : they have been scut, in most instances, from the seats of the Clergy ; from York and Can terbury ; from Gloucester and Worcester; and from other borough towns, which never voted Petitions on Radical Reform. _ _ _ I ler MAJESTY will sleep at the house of Lady FaaNcis, in St. James's-sin:ire, on Tuesday night, and will proceed from thence daily to the house of Lords. The Q %EN made application to Ministers for several houses which she would have liked; but as objections were made to her occupying them, Lady Ifitatiets offered the use of the above house to her MAJESTY, as long as she voight require it. A handsome carriage is building for her MAJESTY, which will be ready by the 17th, with elegant brass , harness for six horses. New liveries are also prepar ing for her MAJESTY'S servants. AVe understand that the preparations made in the houses in Cotton-garden, are for the reception of not less than sixty or seventy Italian witnesses. They are to be conveyed to the place by the River, and pre-j cautions are taken, by stationing of gun-boats, against all annoyance in their passage, and to prevent-ail access to them after their arrival. The corps d'eliii of the Italian witnesses arrived this forenoon at Cotton-yard. Six of them reached Parliament-stairs, in a ship's boat with a pair of rowers. They appeared of the lower class of fo reigners. Two of them wore what are commonly called foraging-caps, the rest wore the ordinary. broad-brimmed hat, with dirty great-coats. These are the first occupiers of the Coronation-kitchens. They seemed as if after a journey, and the gate at Parliament-stairs was instantly on their arrival opened for their admission. The boatmen did not land, bu rowed uff immediately after disembarking their pas sengers. All the gates and avenues of both Houses of Parliament are kept quite close this day. ll= is no ingress except by an order from Sir nigOlltti . TYRRWIII TT. In the year 1814 or 1816, and when it was recorded in of the Newspapers, that, owing to thebadness of the wheat, the poor in some districts of the Netherlands were afflicted tea* a dreadful disorder resembling gangrene, the crops were not only' bad, but so scanty, that multitudes of the poor fed on grass and herbage, which was mainly productive of that afflicting disorden. It was at this period of scarcity that her Majesty the Quaint caused the starving peasantry of the adjacent villages, and num .ben of unemployed weavers and mechanics from the city of Como, to be employed in constructing a bridge, over which her Mossy , / gained access to her vineyard from the gardens of her villa, without having to pass the main road; and in forming an irregular toad on the rock, which was the southern object, op posed to the vineyard, which beautified the norther; acclivity from the lake. On this walk, which, through a series of fanciful curvatures and lines, formed a passage to the rock's summit, het MAJESTY indulged her taste in works of rude sculpture, such as the rude and inexperienced artists she employed could produce ; the subjects chosen being for the most part suggested by the na tural imagery of the cliffs, and which required the least aid of the chisel to complete. The rock was thus converted into tem ples and statuary, and fortifications, which, however rudely executed, presented objects of.majestic grandeur and wonder to those who amused themselves on the banks of the lake, or ven tured in barks for pleasure on its bosom. Among the cottager. who lived within a few miles of het Majesty's villa, were some poor widows and Candies of females, who could not be employed in works of this nature: to these money and provisions were given. But also among those who, attracted by the fame of her Alwastsra's charities in this afflicting season, did not fail to lay their petitions before her, w few British emigrants, whose appeals were always favoured with a ready and attentive ear, and whose wants were the subject of a more peculiar solicitude. The wife of an artisan of the name of Cogou, then in ail re sp:•cts, like a widow, living in a foreign country, her husband 'following his trade hi Sr. Mary's Wynd, Edinburgh, and occa sionally returning to visit his family, at this time engaged the notice of her Maarsrv. Her MAJESTY gave to Mrs. Comet a Napoleon, Valued at two louis-d'oe. or about .£2 British, and in vited her to come often to the l'alace. This pension was re. peated monthly for five months—until her Maissior set out for Pesaro.—Edinburgh Siar. THE ARMY. A statement has appeared in several Papers, of there having been some insubordination at Ipswich, among the men of the 10th Regiment of Dragoons. We have authority to state that it is quite unfounded. The ith Dragoons (Irish) are, it is said, to replace the 4th (now under marching orders), in the Shef field district. It is reported, in the military circles, that four camps are about to be formed, the two consisting of the greatest number of troops are to be, the one on Hounslow Heath, and the other on Blackhe.ith. ' Almost every town ani village at from ten to MI teen miles round the Metropolis, has at this time par ties of the military, horse and foot, quartered at the several inns-and public-houses. The River Fencibles are to be on duty during the approaching investigation in the House of Lords. The following is a copy of a letter addressed by the Adjutant-General to Lord EDWARD SOMERSET, the Inspecting-General of the Cavalry, who com manded the division of Light Cavalry which was reviewed by his MAJESTY yesterday se'nnight ; HORSE-GCARDS, Attest 5. " My Loso—l have the satisfaction to acquaint your Lord ship, that the CommanderAn-Chief has received the KING'S commands to communicate officially to your Lordship his Ma- IFSTIeII unqualified approbation of the appearance, equipment, and accuracy of movement, which distinguished the brigade, consisting of the 10th Hussars and the 12th and 19th Lancers, in the review of yesterday, at llounslow.heath. " It is very gratifying to his Royal Highness, that his Ma tarry should have had a renewed opportunity of witnessing the high state of discipline, and general good order of these highly distinguished regiments; and his Royal Highness desires that you will be pleased to make known to each of them his Mi- JISTIt'll gracious and approving sentiments. " I have the honour to be, my Lord, " Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, (Signed) " H. TORRENS, A.G. lc To Major-Gen. Lord Esarmuk SOMERSET, K.C.B. &c." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Duke of Wellington, Smut, was driven on shore at Ba tav i a during a gale, early in February, and would be sold. The Margaret, Castrsett, from Tobago, to the Clyde, was spoken with the 13th ult. by the Grenada, arrived in the. Clyde. The Harriet, arrived in the' River from the South Seas, was informed at California, the end of December, that a whaler, with 1,700 barrels of oil on board, was lost to the northward. The Wanderer sailed from California some time before in that direction, and had that quantity of oil on board. • The Fame, Pram, from London to Demerara, which was driven on shore near there in February, and afterwards in March, and sold, was got off in June, and carried into Deme rara river. The Burleigh, LAtmer.s, from Tobago for London, has put into Bristol, being kaky. The new ship Trafalgar was docked on Thursday at Chatham. An 84-gun ship of war is to be laid sown on the slip from which the Trafalgar wai launched, to be called the Powerful. FALMOUTH, AUGUST 9.—Wind W.—Arrived the Agenoria, Germs, from Bahia, sailed Gth June. Sailed the Friendship, BLAKE, for Cork. PLYMOUTH, Atuacter 10.—Sailed the Expedition, SIMMONS, for London ; Lynx, lizneszn, for Quebec ; Mint, PArzoN, for Fiume; and Caroline, TAYLOII, for New South Wales. POILTSHOUTH, AUGUST 11.--Wipd S.—Arrived the Sarah and Elizabeth, SMITHUS, from London for Sierra . Leone; and his Majesty's ship Calms, from a cruize. Sailed his Majesty's ships Rocuroar, for the hlediteranean; and Calms, for South America. DEAL, Access 11.—Wind calm.—Arrived the Juliana, Smut, from Quebec; Larkins, LOCKE; and Streatham Mammies, ' from China • Mary, FERGUSSON, from Jamaica ; and Atlas, from Trinidad. Came down front the River, the Success; Maarm; for Rio Janeiro, and remains in the D owns with the SEVERN guard-ship, Asia Turkish frigate, and the Eliza Ann, Powatt, for St. Andero.—Five o'clock—The 'Mary is at anchor off the South Foreland ; the Atlas is in the Downs, and the other three in the Gulls. Scwasoaouon, AUGUST 10.—Passed by the King George, PArrEasov, from Greenland, with 15 fish. Hutt, Auouvr 10.—Arrived the Brunswick, BLYTU, from Davis's Straits, with 15 fish, 550 butts, 190 tuns. illn.roan, Anoint 9.—Arrived the Resolution, DIAMOND, from Cork for London, leaky, and her pumps choaked with bar ley : she must discharge to repair. Mot:rune AUGUST B.—Arrived the Eliza, Swann, Bissre, from Greenl and, with four fish, GO tuns. Curtrom-Housr, Lannon, Almon 11.—Ships Entered 'ln wards : Arundel, froml;reoada ; Helen, front Virginia ; Coo delis, from St. Petersburgh ; Britannia, from Hamburgh ; Agpi lar, front Jamaica ; Warrens, from the South Seas ; Lord Wel llington, from Madras; Mercator, front St. Thomas's • and Sin gleton, from Stangate Creek.—Cleared Outwards : The Goede Hoop, for Dunkirk; Probity, for Lisbon; Midas, for the Cape of Good Hope; Perseverance, for Ilamburgh ; Regent Packet, for Limerick; Mary, for Petersburgh ; Garthland, for Mira tnichi • Sprightly and Pearl, for the South Sea Fishery ; Aurora, for O porto; and Sea Nymph, for Alleant. A aluvzs—At Mogadore, the Vrow Elizabeth, from Am sterdam. At Maranham, Amarente Felix, from Oporto. At Rio Janeiro, Lycurgus, Clover, from Liverpool. At Rio J,t..eiro, Ann, Potts ; and Moira, Hornblow, from London. At Halifax, Francis Freeling packet, from Falmouth. At Trieste ' Lord Cawdor, Brooks, from London ; • Helen, Kerr ; and Cal edonia, Watson, from the Clyde. At Ancona, 'Frolic, Forbes, from London. At Cuxhaven, Ann's Resolution, from London. At Malaga, Marianna, Cooper, from London. At St. Helena, Sarah, Norton from Bombay and the Cape; and Wakefield, Scott, hunt Rio Janeiro. At Antwerp, Warbler, front Boston ; and Emulation, Paddock, from New York. LAUNCH OF THE VENUS FR !GA TR.— At three 'o'clock on Thursday, a new 58 gun frigate was launched from the Government-yard, at Deptford, in the presence of an immense multitude of persons. She went , off the stocks in fine style into the basin, and was christened " the Venus," by the Chief Com missioner CUNNINGHAM, in the midst of the shouts of the people assembled, many of whom got a duck ing from the spray of the water as the vessel glided in, owing to their standing too near the frame-work 'from which the vessel was discharged. A number of town fashionables, in - splendid equipages, graced this ceremony. The whale went off, owing to the fineness of the weather and perfect state of the pre- Farads:4l4 with thf ,utmost iftut. • #4ll . * 44. r. ~~ ~ THE GREENOCK AFFRAY. The following are the names of the - sir soldiers who have been committed as guilty actors, or art and part, of the homicides in the fatal occii• rence of Saturday se'nnight :—John Dempsey, Robert Sur rage, Patrick Lynch, Joseph Elliot, John Beck. and Malachi Clinton. The other person, apprehended along with these immediately -after the outrage, has, since the precognition, been liberated, it being found that he was no way concerned in it. We have al ready made mention of the good terms which sub sisted between the detachment of the 13th, to which these men belonged, and the inhabitant., of :he town, previous to this melancholy occurrence; and as• a proof that its consequences were no less dee , :ly felt and deplored by the former than by the latter. and that this feeling has pervaded the whole Regiment, we have great sati s faction in annexing the following manly an.: ingenuous letter from Cplonel WILLIAMS, to the Chief Magistrate, accompanying the libti ral donation of £lOO, voluntarily subscribed by the ()dicers, Non-commissioned Officers, , and privates, rfor the relief of the families of those who lo•.t their lives on the occasion : " STMLLVO CASTLE, 3f AUGUST, 1820. " learnt with the most heartfelt sorrow and regret that two memo` the 13th Regiment. forgetful of every . principle towards themselves and the corps to which they be long, did, on the morning of the 30th ultimo, as I am informed, ill a state of intoxication, lire from their quarters, by which pro. ceediog some lives were lost—the Officers, Non Commissioned Officers, and Privates, deeply deploring the circumstance, have earnestly requested to subscribe towards the relief of the sur viving families of the deceased. I have, therefore, to transmit to you the suns of One Hundred Pounds, to be distributed in such manner as you may judge most advisable. " I beg to apologize for the trouble lam causing you.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, " W. . WILLIAMS, Colonel, " Lieut.-Col. Corn. 13th Regt. " To the Chief Magistrate, Greenock." At Hereford Assizes, Richard Carpenter, the young man who was in custody, on suspicion of setting fire to the College of that City, is discharged, there be ing no Bill found against him, _ • What •is called the Independent Interest at White haven has just achieved a great triumph, in the Elec tion of fourteen. Trustees of the Harbour. The per sons elected were all in the Independent intereht, and have been nominated by a majority of four to one over the other nominees, in the teeth of the whole in fluence of the House of LOWTHER. " The Act of Pat liament," says the Initehaven Gazette, which has been mainly instrumental in bringing about this triumph, " by which the manner of con lucting this Election is directed, has been the law for one hun dred and eleven years. This is the first instance in which the sight of the inhabitants to vote has been publicly exercised, and the result is most trium phantly satisfactory. We are proud to !:.wc been the first who gave the Public a knowlel eof their rights, and induced the exertion of them.' The state of the Corn-market is at this moment a source of great anxiety, management, and ‘ l ,ecula., tion. Upon the amount of the return of the average price of Oats, for the present and next week, depends the circumst-mce whether the ports shall open for the importation of Oats, or continue shut. The teturns for the last four weeks %vete— in Week - - 2Ss. 2d. 1 3d Week - - 265. 5d. 2 d ditto - 255. 11d. I 4th ditto - - 275. 6d. So that, unless the two last weeks of the period shall • each exceed 28s. 7d. the average price for the six weeks will not amount to 275. the price above whichh . the yens will open. They will probably be kept ' shut, or will open by the difference of Id. The con-. tension between the speculators - who have quantities of Oats in granary to bring nut if the ports shall open, and the farmers, is excessive, and the vigilance exercised on _both sides to prevent fraud, is favour.. able to the Public. • Between ten_ and eleven o'clock on Thursday after noon, a fine young horse, drawing a cart up Luc!• gate-hill, opposite the Old Bailey, fell, and a wag gon passing at the time, the near fore wheel passed and rested on the hind leg of the animal, which kept kicking at a desperate rate with the other. After some time he was released from his situation, shockingly cut and bleeding, the bone being exposed from the knee down. i- MORE EXECUTIONS FOR FORGERYTWO -Of the three unfortunate men left for execution at the list Assizes for Kent, viz. Thomas Saunders and Joseph Wilkes, for uttering forged Bank of England notes, suffered the sentence of the law on Thursday, it Penenden Heath. They behaved, as they had con [ducted themseltes since their condemnation, in the most becoming manner, and paid the utmost atten tion to tile religious instruction afforded them by the Rev. Mr. HARKER, the Chaplain of the Countyjail. A reprieve was on Wednesday received' for Joshua Ati4, the Other unfortunate man who was lett 'for execution At the same time with the above, for cut tin Off theliand Of John Cook, at Charthatn.,:The ;oylul intellr was received 'with every mita of joyru, gratitude by the unhappy culprit. We understand a Petition, numerously sigaed, had been presented by the inhabitants of Char:than), in his behalf. Tolima' 'Publ rsHmENT.The Turkish frigate, which sailed from Gillingham on Monday, left one of her sailors on the Marsh, at -a cOnsiderabje dis tance below HOo, confined to a stake driven into the ground, with his arms and legs chained in such a way that it was impossible for him to extricate him self, and the flowing of the next tide would have drowned him i • fortunately, this poor creature was found by a lad belonging to the Dock-yard, who went on the Marsh to shoot curlews: the man made signals of . distress to him, and the lad by himself, and the aid of others, preserved his life. It is said the man had been guihy of theft, and for which his countrymen had put him in this situation iu order that he might perish. The - same man, it appears, had been observed en Sunday morning by Jame, - Clark, a caulker of Chatham Dock-yard, in walking over Hoo Salts, sitting on the mud. The unfortu nate man, perceiving Mr. Clark, beckoned with his hands, as well as his miserable situation would allow. On approaching him, he found the poor fellow's legs chained, his hands bound, and his body lashed to a stake, ip such a situation that the tide might flow over hid), Mr: Clark succeeded in forcinglim,from the cords, and dragging him to the Marsh, beyond the reach of the tide; but being alone, and in sight of the Turkish ship, he was fearful of zneddhlig farther. ~- 0 ~~.. 'V R' . s- i OP