The National Register. — London, England, 1822-01-14 00:00:00

GALES IN TIM MEDITERRANEAN. Gr. NOA . Dec. 27.—About two o'clock on Tuesday snoring (25th) we were visited by a gale of wind from S W , which, I believe, has never been sur passed here: it is impossible to describe its fury, or the sea by which it was accompanied, and its effects will speak stronger than language. Some of them are as follows : _ _ _ The Belle, from Liverpool, bound to this place and Leghorn, was driven on shore at San Pier de Riena, a little west of this port, about a mile distant, and gone to pieces. Captain and two men drowned. A Spanish vessel, loaded with pilchards, totally lost near the same place, with two other vessels, one a Genoese. In the part of the quarantine ground, the General Lincoln, American, (cargo, fish sugar, Bte.), lost; two men drowned. In the inner port, not a ship has escaped serious damage ; among the rest the John, Drumming, and the City of Genoa, are much injured, particu larly the former. Upwards of 30 feluccas, pinks, Ste. have gone from their anchors, and it is said that nearly 50 lives are lost within the port. All the bridges, moles, buttresses, &c of the port have received immense injury : even Porto Franco has suffered, and a very great loss has been sustained in grain, by the sea washing over the warehouses, and destroying them. (AVOTIIER LETTER. BANE DATE.) The most tremendons weather in the memory of man has overwhelmed our port with desolation. It commenced on Christmas-eve, and raged with great fury nearly 40 hours. Thirty-two vessels, small and large are said to have perished. The Manning, from London, Alert from Bristol, and the Ellen, from Bergen, after suffering considerably, are got into the Arsenal. The accounts from the coast, it is feared, will be very bad. DEC. 29.—We had last night again bad weather and heavy sea, which caused damage to another Swedish vessel, and the loss of bowsprit to the Wel lington. At Villafranca, an American, with fish, has been sunk, and a Sardinian vessel, with brandy, lost. From Marseilles we have not yet had letters, but fear mi‘chief also there, us it appears the storm took that direction. At Leghorn, it appears, they have escaped ; at least ietters from thence. of the 25tli, do not notice any thing particular. LEGHORN, Dec. .‘22 —Arrived, the White Oak, from New York and Gibraltar ; Diligent, from Boston, (these vessels have taken shelter under the Malora,till the gale which now blows, abates); Susan and Letitia, from Gibraltar. TARRAGONA, Dec 26.-1 have to inform you, that for these three days past we have had the most ter rible gale of wind ever exp rienced here from the south-west, with a most tremendous sea rolling into the port : all the vessels parted or cut from their moorings, and beating one upon another, have every one of them received very considerable damage.— The incessant fatigue I have undergone in getting every possible assistance given to the British vessels, prevents me from giving you any further particulars of the damage done. TRIESTE, Dec. 25.—Wc had to day a tremen dous gale of wind from S.W. ; half of the town was inundated with sea driven by the wind. Many warehouses have been severely injured ; the gale is, however, now abated, and the water diminishing- NAPLES, Dee. 3i.—Since the 18th the weather has been tremendous, and there is no appearance of clearing up. 12.411 L FIT S#V!tLI4iI. On Wednesday last this venerable nobleman assent bled his tenants occupying farms under his Lordship, at NI dont House. where they had been previously recpwsted "to give their attendance. by a circular from his Lordship's steward, IVilliain Si118;110i1, Esq. The noble Earl ye• Crivrd his nomennis tenantry in the great ball; after each was seated. his Lordship informed them that he 11.1 d laltell into his most serious consideration their %not ation as farmer.' in the present slate of the tittles; by an • amicable communication which he had with sonic of Ili* tenants who had kept a regular account of the init. goings and expences of their farms, and which accoimi lits Lordship had investigued, it was clear that a reduc tion of rent was necessary. for he was quite satisfied in Ins oust mind. that the ;educed price of the produce of the land was now permanently establish.d. since our return to payments in sovereigns and shillings. and he did nut %visit to hold nut any delusions that corn would kWh a bilker price; he was satisfied in hill own that it could ton ; it 1114011 lillettlale a little according to Sellbolls, but in no material degree; and his Lotdship w s of opinion, that any alteration in the corn laws could not possibly have the elect of raising 11w price of the produce of the did not mean to hold out ail s stich hopes—.he had therefore reduced his rents, under an luipleSsillal that the ;Average of corn 11l tile year. 1793- 04, 41111 9.5, was aouut the standard at which we might expect it iu keep. His Lordship stated farther. that he expected each tenant would stop .11111 dine, and that they nimbi find a directed lot each In Isis seat, stating the rent lie had fixed upon their respective faun., and with which he hoped the tenant would be satisfied. His Lorathip consitleied that the connexion between land lord and tenant was their mutual and contision 11M:relit ; - THE NATIONAL REGISTER he was aware that the tenants had embarked considerable capitals, which they most nic..s-arily do to enable them 10 occupy their farms properly, and it was but fair that they should be remunerated both foi their capital and their trouble. Ills Lordship ni xi sronxly recommended that the labourer should hate fair :mil sultment wages to enable him to lit e—to Me well, and support his family. with. out KoiDg to the pirish l r rdiet. DI make up a deficietwv of the wages which he ought to have; for, in his Lord ship's opinion, nothing tended mote to lessen the la bourer in his own esteem as a man, than being obliged to apply Mr parochial relief ; it spoiled him as a labourer, by destroying the proper pride which a MOD felt in sup porting himself by his own honest exertions. We understand, from undoubted authority, that the reduction which Las taken place is from 35 to 35 per cent., including 15 per cent. which his Lordship took of in 1815. At the hospitable mansion an excellent dinner was provided for the tenants on this interesting ticeas.cm, and upwards of eighty sat down to table. AFFEC'fiNG PARTICULAIti OF TILE LOSS OF TliE JULI %NA EAST-INDIANIAN. The following account of this melancholy event has been transmitted to us by one of the aurvivors : The Juliana, Capt. Ogkyle. reached the Doesits on her voyage front Calcutta, out Friday the 21st December, and after having post Airs. Oglevie on allure at Deal, and re ceived a pilot, proceeded fur the river, but was tweed, by stress lir INYa11:1. r, to 411C1101 in 1114101 e Roads, lions whence she was drtveit, with the loss of two anrh..ts awl cables, on the morning al Sunday, the Utt, and f want of skill in the pilot, armoured on a sand hank, called the Kentish Knock, between Iwo and three o'clock in the afternoon of the haute day. its Ilia SCA was ragtag atilt great violence. the niain-mast was I 11111 l ediat , ly cut AM ay, in ender to lighten and ease die .hip ; and a uoat with two men in tier was lowered down, but the boat had scarcely tourlied the water alien at was dashed to piece-a, and ho , li the men weer killed. Al this time there were on hoard alum, forty souls, in• eluding the captain and his brother, both 11..1111.11411 II ill the navy, MI. Graham, the surgeon, a instil servant, amid it lesnale child, passengers tr Calcutta. As thre e was no hope of movittg the ship, the long boat neat provided with provisions . , W411 . 1', and a compaas, attic a view of (ladling the vessel: butt time wind having gone down with the ebbing of the tide, and the earpenter having reported favourably of the state of the ship, it was deter •111 lib put oil their departure till the I , day, iii the hope that, lit the mean time, 10.111 . .! vessel would put off to their ussistaitee, and that the y should be thereby enabled to sa ve a part of the cargo. FrJlll this fatal resolution arose all the misery that en suet, fur lied they qui telt the 'hilt at this Moment, au object that might base inseam elfecteal without difficulty, the sea 1/1.011 lice batik, at ebb title, being comparatively smooth, there is no manner of donut that they all would have made the shore in safety ; but, alas! the uppt , • y was 10,4, and sit ver again returned. In the evening, the sapience of the wind increasing, the tide lust with rrigilll . lll ilespeluosity, and the very litst wave that bloke over the atop shattered the lung-boat to pieces, amid on ried away all the bulwarks. The 1114 - 11 were now obliged to take shelter on the boakin it, ur the high est part of the quarter deck, to avoid being washed over board, where they remained till the title reining gave them an opportunity to seek, betweeti decks, 4 short cessation of buttering, and to recruit their wearied bodle3 Minh I I:lreSi an, or anvil lepuse as was possible. The captain atom- could by no pet sit:1 , 1011 be induced to quit the deck, where be continued doting the whole of this drealthil night. '1 hough an accumposlitel seaman and fertile in moor ees, be 111111 a 1141111 scree 11141 escape became every • t e doubtful; anti with what an guish most he have reflected 011 the wife he had su lately palled wide, on kits &eating mother, and other dear rela tises whom lie was never more to behold. Dosing the night, pieces of eitlitiis i•gid rope dipped in tar were hurtled at the mast head, in hope that sums pass. ing ship might see and conic to their idler; a raft was also rottatructed, and mos . ll ill g• was looked cur with the moat heart rending anxiety. %V lilt the omitting camo . the tide, nothing abated tit violence—one ease swept trout the deck the siii grits' and s using Itioale, and at the same instant clashed the neat& tic 1 vans against the rudder, and literally shattered her lie-ad to pieces !—The face of Mr. G 14114111, a lutist 01111461 e man, was singulaa ly adecting. lie had been ill doting the greater pair of the voyage, mid hail a presentiment, which he often expressed, that he should mo.ver see I. lon again; nor could lie be laughed ur itslllolllirli mint ur his 01,11110r1. When the ship made the Downs, Capt. Ogle vie endeavoured most kindly to persuade 11111110 go Oil shuts at Deal, but euttld not ptevail; and thus a valtiame man was lost, upon whom e mother and two sisters, mew tesideut in ittiAllti, entirely depended tin • support. Immediately alter Mr. Graham had been swept over huatJ, Mt. Edward Oglevie having ascended the mizen top, the mast gave way, and be was precipitated among the pieces of wreck with which the ship was surrounded, 41111 killed. The budy was recovered and placed on the duck at the feet of his unhappy brother, whose agony at this moment the w riter, who witnessed the scene, cannot attempt to describe. ,Many persons were now lying dead about the deck having been either struck by apars, or killed by excessive langur, and no succour appearing at eleven o'clock on iVlenitlay morning, the C. 11,14111 told the crew dial all fur thrr exerttue on board was useless, and they had better endeavour to save themselves by quitting the wreeki as speedily as possible. Accoidingly, about twenty got tii:on the raft, which scarcely lett the vessel when a was overturned by the f i ery of the eases, amid 0011101 e than six men regained their station, the lust being all drowned. The eaptatii and two others were still on board, alien the burl [layette forced act opening its me 10)110111 or the ship, she inatantly filled, and her decks blew up. The hull tell to pieces, amid in a few 1110111C111a the whole was wie unis %Vital 111111. %Vial great difficulty the raft, with the six survivors, zleareil the masses of the wreck with which it was 11111- 140 , 0111'd, This was accomplished about three o'clock on Monday afternoon. his the course tit the night lour tit the acs cited. The two who teniameJ were Picked "P by a 11•:. 1 .•;.: (Mat 011 Tuesday, when wholly ex!tauened by suf. ~. ~.. n • When the raft drifted front the wreck. CsiptalkOgle vie was seen clinging to the quarter gallery. bet usual have pet bitted in a few momenta. Why he did not endear**, to save himself on the raft can be nnw only 'natter of opi • ; but the pettiest probability is, that the high sense which led him often to 'feel ure, that in such situations the cai'lain should ever be flue 1,14 en board, most have in duced him to remain wilts e‘espe became impossible.— lie WS% a man of extraordinary talent, and W4S early distinguished by the immortal Nelson—he was signal officer on board flue Vici,,ry,l6l the battle of Trafalgar, anti had subsequently wen 'math service as first lieutenant of a large filgate. Many can hear testimony to his excel lence as an officer, and the sorrow ut au extensive circle of fa iris& speaks the Palillliiii(111 ill which he was held by all who knew him in domestic life. It will he recollected that some months ago an action was brought against Mr. Henry Hunt, who is now a prisoner in Ilchester, for penalties to the amount of 2001. in consequence of his having sold roasted grain under the title of breakfast-powder; these penalties were sued and recovered by the Excise, in consequence of one of those revenue laws which are never known till they are telt, hav ing made it penal to sell any thing which might be deemed, or might be used as a substitute for coffee. It was clearly proved, that in selling this article no imposition was practised ; the powder had not been sold as coffea, nor had it been culled by any such name ; the whole body of the crime was, that the powder might be used as coffee, if any one chose to do so, in the same manner as any one might use water instead of wine, or read a speech of Lord Lon donderry's, instead of Demosthenes. The existence of a law by which such an offence was created ex cited much astonishment at the time, and Sir R. Wilson called attention to the subket in the House of Commons. It was then reported in all the papers, and universally understood, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had state/ that it was not the inten tion of Government to levy the penalties. We re member that we received it as a grateful symptom of some shame at the existence of a law rarely parliiel led even in the statutes to which financial rapacity has given birth. We see, however, that Mr. Hoot, in the :25 h number of his Memoirs, says that the Sheriff of Somerset has given him notice that he has a writ to levy this penalty, by the sale of his (Mr. I luau's) property in that county The building in Paris, called during the Revolu tionary Government, " the Pantheon," and emc ',toyed as a cemetery for the remains of eminent men, was sometime back reconverted to its origins purpose of a church, dedicated to St. Genevieve, the Patroness of Paris. Among some hundreds of great names, whose ashes have been deposited in the Vaults of this building, were those of Rosseau and Voltaire. The ministers have signalized their en trance into office by destroying the monuments and casting out the ashes of these two unbelievers. and re-entering there with great pomp—comprising a train of Princes and Princesses, Bishops, Priests. and Lawyers—the remains, or what they call the remains, of the Virgin Saint. The Newcastle Theatre having been fresh paint ed, was opened on Wednesday se'nnight. The most remarkable feature of the evening was an attempt to call the manager to account, by a party in the gallery, for not re-engaging Mr. Holland, who has been the favourite comic actor for the last three years. Mr. De Camp resisted this dictation with spirit, at the some time explaining that Mr. H. had discharged himself, though it appeared he had written letters to form a cabal in his favour.— He declared that while he held the management, he would engage such performers only as he thought proper, and in this declaration he was supported by the majority of the audience, who did not approve of the assumed management of the gallery party. Your beautiful ostriches, standing when erect five feet in height, of a dark colour, were brought to town on Saturday morning from Portsmouth in a double caravan, having been sent as a present from the East Indies to his Majesty: they are to be conveyed to Brighton. • A subscription has been opened at Bath for the relief of the law of that city, who have stifilTed from the late flood. This example is worthy of imitation in this metropolis, for the relief of the poor in the lower part of Westminater and Chelsea. Soiewitect.—Tlie melancholy account xrtiv.d it L •‘% es on Nlooday, of the loss of the Lark, a trailia.t veswl from Newhrven to London, on the Calionthy Sand, Cape. Burrows, master, who was lost wi:h all his crew. She WaS laden with .coils, mincipally for Lewe., except a quantity of corn fur Nles , rs. Caa and Cooper. of the . I'pe-null ; alid we arc extremely sure to heir M.O the latter is the only vitt insured. We have, however, just seen a letter which stalks that some hopes an! eh. Limed of saving a small hurt of her rashes It at pears the; lil • caotain was found the twat morn ag, lassoed to the egging, in his pocket were nine smerehtus.a watch, a id sonic letters, which were the only awaits afitardeal of discovering to what placeithe vessel helium's!. Captain Borrows has lest a Wile and five children to lam at th.-is irreparable loss. No Inlnt, probable, was Matt' sea. peeled, and much coat.unkaattun Is•apreasea.-11r. o llisat „ Polor• • ±r.i; . _•- • - -- 11111110 t .:....k..1.8L:._