The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-08-14 00:00:00

~' _ ~..... _ a..-:- , 1111130116 THE ST ATESNIAN. particular periods, if it was shewn town?—V.rydistinctly, because we know exactly when the Italian hank came in: the hand writing in the time of Elizabeth is wretched; we. can hardly make it out. Yost would know the handwriting of a hundred years ago P—Yes ; there is a peculiar set appearance about the Vand writj_n_g in Queen Anne's time. f jrn'"*Trre to t*l6illfelitlndwriting at 'the rlistineerhf I:At years hack, it would he very distinct from that written now?.-There ir's kind of—:pariodical variation. Sow voiles of writing continued during a mach louger period than .othets...bat still we can form an opinion within 50 ye:tea: Item is one thing worthy of notice, that it fre quently happened that in particular situations, or amongst particular classes of people, particular band writings were p,rperoated ; for instance, schoolmasters having copies before them, would continue a mode which had been adopt rft before their time; thus we see the law hand perpetuated, and so on. • The printing of this most ancient existing MS. of the Bible (observes the last Edinburgh Review), which is,now proceeding, has already cost . 7,031. 2s. 6ci. • FRENCH PAPERS. The following bulletin, containing the latest intelligence from the army in Catalonia, waspablished in Paris on Monday. last:— " VILLA VRAIICA, AUG. 9. " Monseigneur—General Curial writes me, that on the 30th of Joly, at four o'clock in the morning, the enemy presented himself on the extreme left of the line of investment of Bar celona, with b.OOO men, six pieces of cannon, and SO horses.— These forces were directed on St. Marti. Their right was sup ported by , six gen•buits. A brick fusillade took place from the sea-shore to the village of Clot. " The 6th Light Regiment, seconded by the 33d Chesseurs, and two pieces of light artillery, attacked the enemy with the accustomed bravery. Ile was (breed to make a retrograde movement on several points. " Two pieces of artillery, under the orders of Lieutenant . Carnet. 'deuced by the road of the shore within half-gob ' shot, and fired with constant success, on the enemy's artillery and cavalry. and on the gun-boats. The firing was very brisk at Clot. General Curial tells use that he led a battalion of the 191 h, which he caused to he preceded by his ehosen companies. The enemy being thus taken in flank, was put to the rout on this point. Our soldiers pursued him to the very walls of the citadel. The battle lasted 1 hours; the enemy, re pulsed with the greatest di , order, had I% or Milled, end a hundred wounded. Our loss was four killed, and twelve wounded. According to nil accounts, Mina, whose health is still bad. is yet at Barcelona. The investment of that fortress by land is complete. Milans and Llobera, who were moving rapidly by Mont Slane towards Santa Colonna and the Col de Santa Christens, appear to have directed their march towards Tarra gona, on being informed of ours on Ygualada and • Franca. It is affirmed that a great desertion has' taken place among the militia." The Paris papers of onday contain along bulletin from Guilleminot, dated Head-quarters, Manzanares, the 6th instant, consisting of an official narrative of the several movements of Molitor's division, from the capture of the small post of Lorca, down to the end of last month. Mo litor, it appriarz, bad been compelled to weaken his corps, from the prodigious line of ioonty along which be has ad vanced, and the number of Spanisb,garrisons Which he has left behind him. The strength of oenne of these garrisons may be judged of, from the fact, that' a foraging parry, seat out from Cartliagera on the ,19th, consisted of 1.300 men 11 and brood employment for &strong detachment of theeorpsl of General Vincent, who had been left by Molitrir at Murcia, to watch with upwards o: 4,000 Wien the two fortresses of Carthagena and Micant. On the 24th Molitor seems for the first time to have obtained accurate intelligence as to Ike positions of the Spanish' rmy. Zaps with aseparate corp s . was at Grenada. Ballasteros and 8;1 anise, with the male, body had advanced in secrecy from 'Grenada and Jaen to Gitadalhaertona—a position to the north of the great road leading from Guadic to Grenada, and !linking on its right the march of the French corps d'arusee. Molitor dis covered this design, and moved on to attack the Spaniards. A cavalry action took place in front of Gualdalhortona oa t le 25th, when, as usual, the advantage is claimed for the r'rench, and with the usual addition, that while the enemy's loss consisted of hundreds, their own was limited to some half dozen men. After this action, Molitor, in want of previsions. detached fire battalions and some cavalry against Grenada, from which place Zavas, on their approach, re-, tired. The French force Under - Molitor was, in consequence i of its successive detachment , reduced , say s Guilleminot, to ' 14 battalions, or perhaps 6,000 men. Ballasteros on the 27th took the strong, position of Cam pillo de Arena—all the heights of which, he occupied Wilk his infantry on the 29th, when Molitor attacked him with , the three divisions of Loverdo, Pelleport, and Domon. The force of Ballasteros consisted, according to this account, of no less than 12,000 men, and among them m env old soldiers; and with all this, he lost the battle against 6000 French. " This battle, says the bulletin," continued until night,' which alone put anend to the pursuit ; and the enemy, who only escaped total destruction by favour of the mountains which screened them from the action of our cavalry, re treated in disorder beyond Cambil, after haying left in the rocks 400 or 500 killed or wounded, and having lost 300 prisoners, among whom are 30 officers. On our side, we bad 14 killed, including two officers, and 40 'wounded. " The defeat of the 28th inst. produced such discourage ment in the enemy's army, that 1,300 men deserted from it in the night of the 29th. General Z-iya. has been separat ed from Ballasteros, who has gone into the mountains an, occupied Quesada, Pazo, Mewl. 'and Cazola. He has he. fore him General Foissac Latour, who has marched with all his troops to Baeza and Villa Carito ; and as it is possible that be would endeavour to return into the kingdom of Murcia, General ',overdo with his division has proceeded to Goodie, to observe his movements. " Previous to the action of the 29th, Gee. Ballasteros had sent persons to parley, but his propositions were not accepted. Every thing leads to a belief that at this moment he has sent again to treat relative to his submission to his (catholic Majesty. " Head quarters at Manzgoares, Aug. 6,1823. .` By command of his Royal Highness. " Major-Gen. Count (WILLEM INGT." A bulletin from the MajorMeneral is expected to morrow, which, it is hoped, will contain the snbmiasion of Gen. Ballasteros, which • has beet' a nnounced in the tele graphic despatch. It is rumoured that Citified Rodrigo offers to cap'qulate. Various small bands whit!' have fed from our armievare giving themselves up in all parts—a fact which announc es the complete dissolut ion of the forces of the Cortes. The following article ((says the Cowsljrationnel), extracted from the Restaneador (die paper of lb, violent ttoyalist party at Madrid) of the ild of August, suppotts the rumours in cir culation for some days of negocialtoes at Cadiz, and as to the respective positions of the Prench Government and the Ma drid Regency : We bale learned, not withMit sstonishment, that on the 29th of July the French General commanding in the city of Bergos requested the Spanish authorities to set at liberty all Individuals detained for their political opinions. The authori ties replied that they would not comply with this request, con sidering that among these prisoners were persons of the highest rank, who could not be enlarged without an express order from the Regency of Madrid.—ln spite of this observation, the French General, on his own authority, released these P874 ; 11 ; doubt not, that In ell this there bas been some leis take, and we flatter oorselvn that such a circumstance will Dot be repeated, thanks to the harmony that ridges between the two nations, the protected and the protectress, and thanks especially to the solemn promises Jf the latter?' This harmony Is very equivocal. Vensai FUNDII.—PAnts. Anoure 11.—Five per Cents. *paged at gef. 10e. ; hlgest,9lo'. 26e. • dosed at Oar. 116 e Bask Stock, 1306.—Nespolitaa 6 per bents 77.—Euchange on Lomita, wawa* SU. ?be. ; arse isoatts, W. bk. • • • . • DI :AtriterforflL ...0 • 0-4•4l4.4avier 44 . 4 -1 o..•.TSsb6n I: i 'DUE. ,;(I....Hallatid 0 ,d) 5 ...Flanders .......0 0.; PRICETIF EITOCKVTEI3 DAY - AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3•per CI. Re 4 83 84 S Ohio Bqnds 5l 58 pm. 3p. Ct. Ming. PIM Ez.13111.2d:/ ~3i per Cent ' - ' 9341 -.10081. t —.1 " 1 . pm. 4 per Cents 40044 '-.---5001... -- 30 29 pm. New Fours... until .6........4.—5ma114.-31 33s pm. Long Ann. Imp. 3 per Ct .q.. 84 Con. for Acet— 82101 -rt,,m Mt; ktitteoman. TilliltSDAY-• BYIIBI7IO. AUUIiST 14, .11123. ~,,,~. •Ss Escoonds;,. 1Z teet.ocs....lfeeterday : afternoon the City was throwe iota mot confusion, by the know:el that a certain Reeding •PUper was to contain _news of the widest importance; and those Who Were confided with the reaL-Sgerst immedistelx run to the Stock ExChange and sold out largely, which. caused Consols to fall. 1 4 per cent. The panic was genera/ ; but• the moment the Mountain brought forth'the .Youse; Consols rose to 84 and left off ,at 82 }i• CUnsols opened this morning at 821, Odd got ttp to tillers; and, at present, are 821 Z, with a brisk market. , The Express from Paris, this morning, brings the Reines .93-15—Spanish rose at Paris 3 percent. 39.1-..—. French Scrip 'at Paris . 3—Spanish Bonds opened here at 31, got up to . 354, last price. &in—Colombian 834.—Ittui-' sian 8544... • . • • We have tista morning /*calved by exptese,Tivit"Payers of Tuesday, and extr a ct the following frost tby, ;toile, of that jay:— GRAND HEAD QUARTERS. . Off .vr, (Br AN EXTRAORDINARY 'CONVEYANCE.) According to the Convention concluded on the 4th of this month between General Molitor and Ballasteros, the General and the troops under bis command acknowledges the authority of the Regehcy. General Ballasteros orders the Generate and Governors of the strong places within the extent of his command, to obey •the Regency. Hostili ties having ceased on each side, the army ofßetimes to thenumber of 7000 men, have entered the cantonments as signed to them. Cattutdna, August G.—The desertion of Gemini Dallas teros, who has submitted to the Royal authority, bas depriv ed the ttctious of their last hopes. This important event is .the result of the couabina.ions of his Royal Highness the Duke d'Angonleme, seconded by the manoeuvring of Ge neral Molitor, and the valour of his troops. The Prince arrived at Carolina in the Sierra Morena, where be. !as immediately joined by Count ha Rochefotteanit, his Ailda! Camp, bringing him the news front Grenada of the capitu lation of Ballasteros. General Sallasteros, in Lis capitula tion, demanded to preserve his rank, and made the same demand for all the military under his command. SAINT MARTI, August 6.—BbocKanz ov SARCRI.ONA. Twelve hundred infantry, 300 cavalry, and two pieces of cannon, were sufficient to repulse the sortie on the 30th. Milan, and Holuran are in a dangerous situation. Manso has submitted with about two or three thousand men, and is going to give up Tarragona. This news, which I believe to be true, still wants confirmation. Wrltave received by an extraordinary conveyance, Ma drid Gazettes of the 7th. GOUT becomes more and more surrounded. Discontent begins to manifest itself not only amongst the inhabitants, but also amongst the troops. We learn a new trait of revolutionary ferocity. A di rector of the post has been arrested and shot, for having expressed the opinion of a Royalist. ODESSA,JuLT22.—By an extraordin?ry conveyance. On the 13th of the month, a fire broke oat in the neighbour hood of. Constantinople, which reached to the Arsenal. Two thousand six hundred houses were consumed. Soon after, the fire caught the Arsenal, and the Turks had the - mortification to see consumed a Ship of the Line of 74 guns. t . 2 Corvettes, 5 Brigs, and 110 Vessels of all sizes. (4 sad& At the Stock Exchange yerierday afternoon, a len panic took place in consequence of some very heavy falls which were effected, fur account of speculators who reside in the West end of the town. Consols which bad opened at a declined to 84. Fancy was fully employed to find out a cause for an effect so unexpected and extraor dinary, and various rumours were in circulation which had no foundation. Among other reports was a story that some " moat important news," unfavourable to the repose of Europe, was to appear in the Courier; but when the Courier appeared it was found that the news was stale, and the conclusions had been anticipated. The whole amount of the" most important news" was, that the Duke d'An• gouleme. had left Madrid fur Seville, for the purpose of standing the views of the Cortes respecting negotiation, as the desire of France to terminate the contest had been in• creased by the infatuated conduct of the Regency; but the Cortes hadcontinued to persevere in a determined mist ance, and declared they would sacrifice the lives of Ferdi nand and the Royal Family rather than submit. The con duct of the Regency, ( the Courier states,) was such as aggravated rather than allayed the di' fereoces between the Constitutionalists and the Royal ists; and when the Duke d'Angouleme was about to leave Madtiol for Seville. the Regency peremptorily demanded that they should be the companions of his Royal High• ness. The demand was as peremptorily refused. Still the Regency pressed their demand of being always at the head quarters of the French army. Upon which it was deemed necessary to hold out threats, which alone prevented their carrying their intentions into execution. One of these threats, says the Courier, we understand was, that the French army would leave them to themselves, and take-up a position behind the Ebro. We havabeen of late so much engaged with the foreign relations of . this 'country, that we have had no leisure to advert to those of a domestic nature, which were accustom ed to demand so mach attention :—but as they will force themselves again into interest, it is not wise entirely to overlook them, beeansethe people have relapsed into a state. of comparative indifference. The causes of this indifference are two-fold. One portion of the community has grown' careless, out of mere despair of making any impression upon the ministerial sensibilities, on the questions of reform and the currency ;—and another portion, feeling the hand of taxation a little lightened, begins to conclude, rather too hastily, that it will never be laid on heavily *gals ; but that it will be. gradually lightened, until it is entirely re moved. John Bull is famous for his capacity of belief. Nothing staggers his faith. Had it been written that Jonah swallowed the whale, be would have found stomach for it, with scarcely a wince. Nor is he particular about his authority. Baron Munchausen is a finer name than Locke; and . John Bull finds the former the more entertaining writer. • We once beard a lady, when Gulliver was condemned as improbable, ask " why it might " not'be true: things equally strange were believed, and " wliy not Gulliver?" Thus John Bull always reasons— " Why may it not be tree?" and as no answer can be given t 6 miracle mongers why the catalogue of miracles should not be increased, it is hut a gulp more, and a new one is ,swallowed. Mr. Huskisson tells the people that the taxes are greatly reduced; and as the tax gatherer comes for less money, the story is believed; though it costs the payers, perhaps, twice as much labour, trouble, or ingenuity, to ob tain it. We, however, look at matters a little more closely; and we know that the taxation is increased, and that it will go on increasing, as the race of the tax eaters increase, either in appetite, or in numbers. People tell us, and we -dare say Mr. liuskisson will say so too, that the times are melding. We say they are getting worse. Ask any per. sons who are concerned in the transaction of business with what remains of the middle orders, whether they ever expe rienced so much difficulty in getting in their money? or whe• ther they ever had so many bad debts ? They will readily answer No:—and this can be no proof of mending times. i People are getting gradually poorer. The rich farmer be- 1 • gins to find Isis luxuries expensive, and his hounds and his 1 1 banters must be given up. The middling farmer finds his comforts cost too much, and they must be curtailed :—and 1 the small farmer, who was not accustomed to be poor be- 1 cause his farm was small, finds it almost impossible to go on. Suds sort of people used to pride themselves upon having a few guineas by them; their bills were always punctually paid when due; and there was m mach honest pride under the thatch of the cottage, as in the hall of the squire. The case is materially altered with this class. Money is very scarce amongst them. They compound with the. doctor of the village with hay and oats for physic: — and a sort of barter is established, is order to meet the demands against them. It will, of come, take a long time to reduce a country so rich its resources as this, so well cultivated, and inhabited by a race so industrious and en terprising, to the lowest stage of degradation and poverty This stage, however, must be reached, if the taxation pro reeds. Markets are better; and things being as people any, looking sip, why the people say they ought to look up too; and they gape at the heaven of promises, which Milton designates as the limbo of fools, totally regardless of the dangers which are at their feet. But " are not things better ?" says Sir Thomas Lethbridge. Cer tainly they are; and a sick man may be a great deal better, and yet die at last. The seeming mend ing is only the hectic flush on the cheek of a consumptive patient. It looks well—but it is only seeming. It comes and vanishes like a Fusing shadow; and is rather an indi. cation of the existing disease, than au augury of returning convalescence. The present advantages of the farmers will not make up for their past losses; and their difficulties will recur again,before they are ready for them. It is the trick of the system, to peed alternately upon the various classes. Its patrons know well enough that if it were to press hea vily upon all classes of the community at the same time. there would be a speedy termination of its evils. The whole mass would rise at once, and throw it off their shoul ders. Nor would it be advisable to let it rest too long upon any class, lest the class should not be able to recover itself ; so they have balanced it so nicely, and regulated its move ments so dexterously, that it makes a circuit, and shears as closely as possible, in its march, in all directions. At env period provisions arc cheap, then the manufactures boorish. They become dearer, and then the condition of the agricul culturists mends. The different classes dance upon the pivot of the system; like the figures in a Dutch weather house—one out and the other in, as rain or sunshine prevail, And the British public is quite contented to be the passive puppet, while the wires are alternately pulled this way or that way, at the pleasure of the puppet masters in Down ing.street. When matters are not quite so bad as they might be, the public are quite delighted, and public spirit falls asleep. I f the vessel does not groaod every minute, there is no keeping the crew to their duty. Nothing but the presence of actual danger will rouse them to exertion; and theo, of course, the exertion is too l ate for p revention, and I often too late for remedy. 11 Letters and misers have been received from Madrid to the fith instant. Tory contain nothing of any importance.— It would appear, however, from them, that very active ope rations were carrying on by the Constitutimmi Guerillas in Estretusdara, as we are told that some light troops had left Madrid in great haste, to assist the Royalists in that quarter, and to prevent the enemy from advancing on the capital. A letter from Paris. dated Monday last, says,—" The publication of liallasteros's submission yesterday, the pub lication of the bulletin, giving an account of his defeat to day. and the state of tialicia.as it appears in the English papers, have inspired the speculators in the funds with an Idea that all is over in Spain. This decision is, no doubt. premature; but it cannot he concealed that the submission of Ualicia, and the dispersion of the troops of Ballasteros 0 ) k • u near Grenada, tilpidr,tlp: ;Oh a grrat, bpdloidispo sable force, either to lgid to eat or Ps tindeni‘er the siege of some of the fortified towns in the north. Nothing is revealed respecting the conditions on which Ballasteros submitted to the Regency. They are said to be the same as those obtained by Morino ; but this is not a4vancing onr information much, while , we are left ignorant of the latter. It remains to be sees .oheiliar activosieseviseogniase-•.. his own troops and brother officers is to be required from him, as the purchase money of his personal protection, and the preservation of his military rank.' . . In the following letter from Sir Robert Wilson to.one Of his constituents, of a date subsequent to the engiireimeet ag ' 4' Comma, he I)ays a high compliment to the excelleit via. titles of the Spaniards:— "MY &Inn.. ; • ' • .. I era ping on so well 041 am ahle to traaspoirt ripen In till 1.4.1110 t.' • • service to Vigu, awl sail this night in a brig of war. theta Wog isalip464o vessel In port. . I ILM afraid I shall not be able to get on horseback so sons as I Vag wtalt• • ' and eirewastasiees aseybender desirable:- but you may be tolltielcut I win wialre my person as disposable as possible in the joterest of this excellent people. . Some inhabitants have been wounded be thei isualtidry. ;ASIA Is hese stabtly peppering, and sometimes hailing: boa as (WS has Hot sio bun bardwent, the easualties are not numerous. oweitap '• The Preach sees to think they can starve deb 61we'llehiatistk.ben, bat a Spaniard has • stomach that accommodate. itslett to seed. •I like the Spaniards more than ever.: Thee bramod,, toddy well is the action; and, In concert with a well-organised. corps , to tbe wade roue *few best troops in the world." Advices have be received from Constantinople to the Ilth ult. Trade was at that time extremely dull, both is that'cipital and in every other part of the empire; and it was feared that the depression would last, or rather increase as boa 3 as the war with the Greeks confirmed. The Ras. sian Answer to the last. Note from the Porte had been re ceived. It declared that Russia would not remove dipleass• tic iatercourse till the comniercial relations were'replaced on the footing which they held • before the departure of Be rea Stroganoff. In the meantime Lord Strangford had re ceived from the Russian Court the charge of cooducting its concerns with the Porte, daring the suspension of direct intercourse. 3:' MALTA, Jiro 24.—Hls Majesty the King 'Vibe Tv. Sicilies, by a royal decree, issued at Vienna on the 233 ult and published at Naples on the 7th iastant, has extended the provisions of his homier decree of the 28th of February last, prohibiting the importation of the manufactured cot ton yarn of Malta, to all kinds of manufactured cotton yarn, from whatever country it may be imported. The &motets from La Gnayra, by the Lreward Island mail which arrived yesterday, coafirm the &meant of the Colombian fleet being in preparation to getout again against the Spanish fleet. The Colombian force consisted of the Constantine frigate, and three sloops and brigs of war, of 22,20, and 18 guns. Mixtco.—Mr. Lionel Harvey, late Secretary of Legation at Madrid, is going out immediately at the head of a Com mission to Mexico, with powers which caveat fail, from their extent and importance, to put the British Government in possession of the actual state of that textile country. There is no doubt, we believe, of this htquiry and negotia tion leading to an intimate connexion betweenMeatoo and this country—a subject on which the former has expressed her. self in the most pressing terms of solicitude.—(Courier) The Lady Conibermere has arrived in Liverpool from Sierra Leone. bringing the pleasing Intelligence, that whoa she left that Colony en the 20th of Jane it was much more healthy than it had been. By a Barbadoes paper, which was received yesterday. we learn that reports had been spread among the slaves in that island, stating that they may shortly expect their free dom. To prevent any mischievous consequences that might follow from these reports, a proclamation was issued by the Governor, declaring that the MN/UT of a speedy emancipation is false ; and that all persons who may fill the minds of the slaves with such falsehoods must be their ene mies, and wish to urge them to misconduct, which world entirely put an end to the benefit otherwise to be expected, from any kind intentions towards them. From a proclamation in the Martinique Gazette, it ap pears that counterfeited gold and silver coin have lately been imported in large quantities into that island, and that genuine coin, of which a piece has been taken out, have also been imported and circulated. The Commissioners of Inquit y into the Administration of Justice, arrived at St. Vincent's the 29th May, from Grenada, having already visitod Ltarbadoes. Tobago, and Trinidad. Major Dentist, an officer who had been for several years attached to the Staff of the Duke of Wellington, and who frequently distinguished himself during the campaigns in the Peninsula, has been appointed Chief of police in the county of Wexford. We have to announce the death of the Lady of Sir Robert Wilson. The event took place on Tuesday night at half-past tea o'clock, at her Ladyship's residence, Regent-street. Pioca dilly, after a severe illness of anauy months, which balled the skill of the moat eminent of the faculty. An accent of the melancholy event was immediately sent off to Sir Robert. Tne celebrated Carnot has died, after a painful Warts, at Magdeburg, where he had Ultra refuge since 1813. He was a Member of the Executive Directory and of the Academy of Sciences, and a Lieutenant-General in the French army. He accepted of no conspicuous public employment under tie regime of Napoleon till the French territory was invaded. He was bon 13th May, 1733. Ye.terday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the full wing ships were taken rip and thus stationed: viz. Lady Melt iile, 1.200 tons. Richard Clifford, Madras and China; William Fairlee, 1,348, Ken nard Smith, ditto; Macqueen, 1,332. James Walker. Hen; al and China (early): Duchess of A drill. 13 A, E. M.D ditto; Berwickshir., 1,332, John Sliephi rd, 01 t o; Sir D. - vid 5c0tt,1.342, William Hunter, Bengal and China; Can ning, 1,326, William Paterson, ditto; Earl lialcarrat, 1417. Peter Cameron, ditto; Thealas Coitus, 1,334, Alexander Chrvstie, Bombay and China (rarlv); Duke of York, 1327. Arch. H. Campbell, ditto ; Castle Huntley, 1,200, Henry A. Drummond. ditto; Dunira, 1,325, Moutgonierie Hamilton, Bombay and China ; Marqtys Camden, 1,200, Thomas Lar kins, ditto ; General Harris, 1,200, George Welstead, St. Helena, Benenolen. and China (early); London, 1,332,J- B. Sotheby, St. Helena, Iton.hay and China; Orwell, 1333. China direct; Thames, 1.330, William Haviside, ditto. Accounts hate been received of the prcgress of the Griper, • Captain Charring, on board of which Captain Sabine sailed from the ?lure in the month of ?day last, for the purpose of carrying on th. , series of chservathns on the pendulum, in lite high latitudes in the Polar seas. They arrived at the Kurth Cape, after a tedious passage, the beginning of June, end pro ' posed to remain at llaninterfest atiout three weeks. From that t place they wouW go to Spitanergen, as the second station of observations, and then proceed to the eastern coast of Green land, Intending to make their wav to the most northern pert 1 of that unexplored coact, as far as the obstruction of perms nent ice would permit the st.i? to pass. it is intended to land the instruments for observation at the highest point they should reach In Greenland, and afterwards to navigate down this hitherto almost unknown coast southwards. On quitting 'Greenland, they would visit lc. knd, and then cross to Dron limbo, in Norway, when a foort 3 series of observation would be completed, previous to their return in the month of Norte:- . bee. A letter has been received by Mr. Kirlass, ovroer of the St. Pau}, of Hull, which antra, that on tine tith ult. that vessel, on her passage to Rotterdam, fell in n hit part of the wreck of a ship, apparently hunt 3 to 400 tons hurthen, the Island of Seining then bearing N. W. distance 21) line weather. They made GA to tine wreck, and took fro nt off the forecastle three large anchors, weighing about 21 tons, with some other small articles. The wreck had parted in two, and had been plundered before, the ship's bell bring gone, and not the best vestige of rope about her. The name of the ship they could not ascertain. She appeared to be foreign built, audit* not new, she had latterly wndergoae thoretagh repair, the deck being new. •••lk = NM 1 in t wil •s i