The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-01-06 00:00:00

No. gO6. seats of those who were seated within doors, which caused them to run out of their houses; but these infe rior alarms are not to be compared with yesterday's aw ful phenomenon. It was observed that all animals were much frightened during the great shock: the di gs laid down on their bellies, and would not be moved. The earthquake has been felt far and wide; but its effects appear to have been less violent in the interior titan on the sea shore. I fear that all the line of towns and fortresses situated immediately on this coast have suffered much. i am this moment informed that fifty' .men were killed by the fall of walls at Mangrole, on this coast, which is distaut sixty miles, in a south-east direction. The great shock appears to have proceeded from west to east. The injury which this fortress has ~stained, is esti mated at half a lac of rupees. There is nothing in nature more awful, than to seed , * proudest works omen, in an instant, vanishing, and be. coming a heap of shapeless ruins. !ULF. FIRE :INT) LIFE OFFICES, s4v:•fftt.l . IND flit KIM: 3 TIIF.VIRE. fr.RECTORSI,ProgITR respectfully submit to the due n,i‘antages to Persons insured at these o Ffirgs. T.n. Terms are unusually liberal. with the 3enefits of rvicy other Oillee combined. The Payment of . Went is slowed to surererc by Fire. wished ioCrease of pTadao% NO 'Serge is made f..r iNdie4.4 —no rvsponsibi lite CAI be incurred as in Psrtnerahip Kocledes, nifty meis liable for Losses to the eliole'eileht I :7111 Property. Life Incur - nces effected: the granting or purchase of An nadirs Unitfrel the Public on the same equitable Ttrlll4. sorisinias Pclicies should be renewed within fifteen days. Wti. E I A NI. Secretary. Olf - HYHEE. ASF,COND EDITION of the LONDON MA UAVNE. published by BALDWIN. CRADOCK. and J.IT. is ready for delivery. 10.• The deatasil for this Work so greatly surpassed the el peetatioas of the Publishers. as to exhaust the witole of a reasiderabte impression on the first tiny. The utmost tier- Sian have been used to prevent disappointment to the Pub tie. who &reassured that they may uoe obtain toil Magazine tray Bookseller or Newsman. - • -- A Missionary F.stablisbment is shout to be made on the island of Owhybee, &c. They lie in the South Sea, in about from nineteen to twenty-two degrees north, and longitude from one hundred and fi fty-one to one hun dred and sixty west. The natives of Owhybee have already made very considerable advances in civilisation. Their late or present King, Pomare, wrote a very legi ble band, a specimen of Which we have seen. IlisPrinee Minister was named Mr. Pitt ; his Minister of Justice was tattooed in one half of his body, the other half was of a bright and shining colour, the natural complexion of the natives. lie would sit with great dignity, and hear the parties, plaintiff and defendant, and to whichever of the parties he turned the sable side of his countenance, judgment was given. The King, in imitation of Euro pean monarchs, give a pompous eutertaimnent on his I.irth-day. An American ship baying been seen off the island of Talhete, a canoe came alongside, and the Cap tain and hands were all •lt astonished to hear the natives speak the English language. The canoe con tained no less a personage than Mr. Pitt. Ile came on board and informed the Captain of the character of Isis guest ; he stated that he came by the orders of his Koyal Master, in whose name he slesnalitkd the donation of a e of ruin, which was to lw drunk upon his birth- They are a mild and amiable people, \rho, if they profess friendship, are invincible in their fidelity. • are peculiarly cleanly in their persons. This Day was published. price boards, VIIITICUSNIS ON TILE BAR: including Stric ‘) Wes on th,. principal Counsel practising in the Courts of king's Bench, Common Pleas, Chancery, and Exchequer. By AMR CS CLIME. tondo,: Prinsed for W. ttintpliin and It. Nlarshall, &a tioaere-court, Ludgate-street. bottle day. once 1 flie.y - - - • ..... , - - ---..-,----:-z-,......=.: - .....-_,---- - -.).;,...--.4-a --.---- • ' N i akitti--- ~ jam IAN -4 h.* ( • t: : . • ..,. ... • ~....-.:. , ~.._.,.....,,.., i. 46..r-4. 4- • . . -•-,... ~ 4 4 11 I. L , .A .L I L .I. • , •-"h•- ' sr ''' 0- 7 '• , i 1." I - ( C 4 . • . , , 1 , , - , poem .tiqi . • 1, Lti I ( p 1 i o • 1 i . LONDON, TIIURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY :3, 1820. .. _________ ~ . • . " The Cause for tchich HAMPDEN fa iss foe Field, and SYDNEY died on the Scaffold !" PRICE 7D. _ 1 . 1 1 ...) 1 , l i 1 - THE LATE EARTHQUAKE IN INDIA. The following remarkably interesting details of the phenomena accompanying the above event, are extracted from the Bombay Courier : POREVeNDER, Jima 17.—We yesterday experienced hi this town and fort, one of the most awful scenes in nature, that of a violent and destructive shock from an earthquake! The weather was close and sultry, the thermometer ranging at ti. 6 degrees at sun-set, and a scarce perceptible air was sometimes felt from the southward. Lieutenant L. and myself were taking an evening's walk on the ramparts of the fort, and had nearly gone all round, when at 40 minutes past six, we observed to each other, " how excessive close and oppressive was the atmosphere)" and five minutes afterwards ' I heard a dis tant sounikhoin the westward, not unli ke that 4PII eatmosadrat sea; a thought had scarcely past the mind, as to what could have given rise to it, when I felt a vio lent shock beneath my feet, and instantly exclaimed " an earthquake !" then looking forward, saw the stone parapet, at two yards distance, violently bending in and out, with a quick wave-like motion, and with a vibra tion of about a foot : this appalling sight extended as far as I could see, or about fifty yards in length, and the whole height of the parapet ; it was attended with a hissing, cracking noise. hail the parapet been made of whalebone, and shook in auger by any power, less than nature, the agitation could not have been so great, as that which we witnessed. There was nothing appeared more surprising than that solid masonry should hare received the pliability of the must elastic of all substances. I thought it intpossible that the works could stand,and expecting their immediate fall, instantly determined on descending as quick as possible, but as the rampart was a perpendicular height of seventeen feet, I was obliged to rue back towards the nearest ramp, which was a flight of stone steps at the distance of seventy-five yards ; Lieu tenant L. followed. As we passed along, at a quick run, the sensation felt was s •lar to that hazardous and disagreeable one of running along an elevated and elas tic plank, the ends alone of which are supported. I every instant expected to fall with the works, or to he precipitated from them ; but reaching the steps, ran down as fast as I could, each step apparently meeting the descending foot, which I sincerely believe it did in reality, and the whole flight was violently agitated. While passing down, I expected to be overwhelmed by the work, which were touching my right shoulder, and were partly above my head. Although the rampart and parapet are ten feet thick, and twenty-two in height, yet this wall of masonry waved to and fro . like a sea. Fortunately the steps were broad ; had they been nar row, as is frequently the case, it is doubtful, so great was their agitation, if we could have got down without hav ing been thrown over their side, for, as they joined the works, they were not only affected by their own motion. but also by that of the wall to which they were attached.' Arrived at the bottom of tbstflight of steps, we , not cease running nntil we had got a sufficient length front the works to prevent their (Allow on us. On stor ping, we were surprised to Iliad that the works had not fallen, after having been agitated by so extraordinary a violent and sea-like motion. (in reaching . a spot of comparative safety, for then no place was safe, the attention was directed to a vast cloud of black dust, arising at about 3410 yards distances and from the sea fare of the fort, which ran at right an gles from that which we quitted. The danger being past, for the shock was now over, my curiosity became excited, and approaching the eland of dust, I found it to proceed from the fall of nine towers° and large parts of the curtain ,t leaving twenty - one br eaches of forty sod sixty yards wide. This devastation extended for 500 yards, and over a part of the fort which I had been walking on not live minutes before. I do not imagine that a twenty-four hours' fire, from ten pieces of heavy ordnance could have produced so ex tensive a destruction as was thus effected in a minute and a half!!! We conjectured that the shock bad not lasted more than the above short period. But its effects were suffi ciently powerful to have destroyed the work of ages. We now directed our attention towards home, and the first occurrence we met with near it, was the horse keepers with our horses in their hands, standing in the open air, having, as they said, been apprehensive " that the stables would have fallen and killed them." On entering my house the servant informed me, that; while making the bed in the upper apartment , he had been thrown down on the floor ; recovering himself, he attempted to escape out of the door; but before he could reach it, he was thrown down a second time; he then got up and ran quickly into the open air. Dr. and Mrs. A., on bearing all their tiles violently agitated, and cracking as if in a fire, and observing the whole of their furniture in a rocking motion, imme diately . ran down into the open air, the former with his infant in his arms. Ile informed me, that though his stairs are broad, and built of pnkka masonry, yet he experienced much difficulty in descending, from the , violent agitation of the steps , anJ that of the house, to Iwhia they were joined. Lieutenant L.'s house is a strong pukka stone build ing, of about forty feet high : it st ands b y itself, the shock appears to have shaken it more than most other bowies. The sepoys describe it as " having rocked from side to side," like a " tree in a high wind." On exami nation, there were found so many rents in its walls, that It was deemed advisable for Lieutenant L. not to sleep beneath its roof. I believe there are few houses throughout this large city, which have not been more or less injured: some have fallen, and blocked up the streets in which they were situated. am happy to say, that hut one life has been lost in this town, a circumstance which appears almost mira culous, from the danger which existed. The Rajah and principal inhabitants are now encamp ed outside of the fort, rather than trust themselves be neath their unsafe roofs. which, should they fall, would prove meat destructive, since they are made (as is the case of all rapper floors also) of a thick terrace, supported by stone, on large timbers. The earth opened, and water issued from the cavity, over an extensive piece of ground, in a plain, distant fourteen miles hence. The atmospht.re to-day has been impregnated a strong. well of stilphEir; and there have been 2014141 oche{ ;boas between spa, A. at. and, twin, v.'s. whisk broaibt souse old boom down. and violently Afielalko • mi =ces were 30 and 40 feet high. f Igo sin ft and 25. gte under a harder, but a nobler mandate—" Reflect and labour." The stimulants which have been applied to their vanity may rouse it for a time ; but those effects, like all that is in opposition to nature, must have attend. The very exhibition of the products of French industr), for the present year, shows how little the comforts of the people have been attended to, in comparison with the luxuries of the great ; how little the spirit of soli dity and utility has gained over the national taste for frivolous ingenuity; and bow much greater their wish still is to dusk titan instruct. No body of British inanufacturers. we are persuaded, would submit to be the actors in such a theatrical pageant. The only exhibition about which an Englishman cares, is the diffusion of wealth and comfort in all its shepes ; and he measures it, not by its surface oe its bril liancy, but by its depth and its solidity. He does not collect rare specimens into palaces, that Princes may gam it thus spreads out his every-day productions ' over the that he may imitate and enjoy them. The cottages and hamlets of the peasants, the neat man sions of the yeomanry, the larger habitations of the more wealthy, and al( the gradations of dwellings up to the palace of the monarch, are the places where the products of British industry are to be found, not exhi bited, but in use ; and where active comfort reigns iii every due proportion. To a Frenchman, indeed, exhi bition is the limit of ambition; and the industry u: which lie can make a parade, is that which lie will ever most value. Even while we look back—and forward-- on the changes of empires and the overthrow of state., the rise of some upon the ruin of others, and the dread and interminable rotations of the wheel of fortune, we cannot but feel that there are characters inscribed on the hearts of nations which fortune can never wholly erase. What has long been among multitudes, has, for the most part, wisely been ; and it is allowing too little to habit, to say that it is our second nature. It is more commonly the symbol of our first impulses, and our feelings; the expression of an original bias, no matte' how or when impressed. but continued to our latest years. Of this kind is the industry of England, toge ther with the habit of reflexion by which it has been matured ; not a result from any of the fortuitous events which chance has brought to light, and may again °vet - wham in darkness ; hut a deep and indestructible proili city, more long and lasting than her power itself. The splendour of nations may pass away ; their wealth ni.iy be swallowed up in the vortex of revolutions; and the strength of to-day may be the weakness of to-morrow. But their characters are not thus to be effaced, net their genius to be extinguished. With the power ei lireece, the characteristic vivacity of her intellect not perish ; and, when the martial ardour of Home, the last of the virtues which forsook her, hail become the dream of past ages, another spirit of glory, more peace ful, though not less ambitious, took possession of her soul ; and the world beheld, with admiration, a su , - cessive sceptre in her hands. The seat of the useful arts—of those which mankind bless, and by which they are blessed—of those which the heart reveres, anti the understanding approves, is Britain : and, should he: armies be laid low—should wars or tempests sweep her fleets from the ocean—should even her star of liberty grow dini—she may yet hold her empire over the mind. and maintain a plice among the nations, by the milted nduence of sense, industry, and beneficence. • T a Scnoot.s.—Tide Day was publishes'. price Is. A KEY To KEITH's TREATISE ON THE /1. GLOBES; containing near a thousand Solutions, worked oat to the nicest accuracy, and in so explicit a m ntan tles as to enable the Student to gain a complete and scieific knowledge of both Globes. without any instruction from a Baster. By C. VINES. Mathematician and Nautical Astronomer. Naiad for the Aulhkr, and sold by Sinspkin and Marshall, $1167.• :curt. Ludgate-heel. duodecimo, • 1 1 la : .dt This ) was publish in Three of (IC ad. hoard*, rritjEXILE of POLAND .7'or, the Vow of eitbecy* A~\otrel, t r anslated fee. the French,. f I B) Mrs. RIGHARDSOI. Author of the Tragedies of •' Ethelred. " Gertrude," Original Poems for Youth." sic. • tandig: PriatZwi &or W. Rimpfln and R. Marshall, Sta liasaremoart. Ludgate-street, and C. Chapp!e, Pail-:daft. -- - - This Day was published. pries 7s. boards, THE COMPLETE SPORTSMAN : containing a compendious View of the Ancient and Modern Chase; a concise History of the various kinds of Sporting Dogs; and of the Quadrupeds and Birds, which are the ob jects of pursuit; the method of Breeding and Training Hounds, Greyhounds. Setters. Pointers, tic.; the Diseases of Dogs. with the method of Cure ; Shooting. with particular instructions, wherein the Art of Shooting Flying is reduced to practical certainty; the choice of a Fowling Piece, Powder, Shot, &c.; the Ancient Forest and Game Laws; the Modern Game Laws, explained and ill..strated by a Va riety of Cases; the Paws relating to Dogs; Angling, and the Laws relating to Fish ; with every instruction and in *nation relatise to the Sports of the Field. By T. H. %EEDIIAM. Londor.: Printed for W. Simpkin and It. Marshall, SW ttotters'-eourt, Ludgate-street. NEXT WEDNESDAY, FOUR PRI2ES of /20,000, for the SM li.f, I.O.TTERY, TO BEGIN THE NEW YEAR. TEXT WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12.--Two .I.ffi Prizes of /110.000 must he decided in the First Five Minutes of the Drawing. and the Tenth-drawn Prize above IVO Us. tld. will hare Twenty Thousand Pounds more. J. and J.SI YEW RIG lIT. Sole Contractors, had the plea sure to close the Old Year by distributiag. under their New /iystent. a great excess of Prizes of .E. 10.1100 to fortunate Adventurers in Loudon and its vicinity. and nearly Thirty other Cities and Towns in England anal Scotland ; and they hope at the beginning of the New Yenr to divide Fora am Prizes of tllO.OOO, at their fortunate Offices, Coannasi.; 11, Hemmer; HATIIARNIT ; I Ni, ON rnarp-rritarr ; 116siaTiekels aad Shares are on Sale in the jrestest %ariety. NEBANK NOTES, it is betieved , will not be p7eferred to the Old. Indeed, before the Rank of Eng land is ready with the New, it is probable that HISII (4, Ceribill, awl 9. Charles-Cross.) will have paid several large Sams of £20.800 each in the OLD 11 INK NarEs, as there are FOUR Prizes of 120.0" &e. Consols and Money, in the New Lottery, to begin NEXT WEDNESDAY, 12th tate Movra (January) Two of which must be determined in tie First Five Minutes. - -•-- -•-- In the Lottery just ended, Btsn OLD SIITE7I CAPITAL PRISM awe of which are not yet decided as to their uiti mite ; the Shares were dt,:rilu.ted over various parts (elle United Kingdom nod, ex-hisire of his own Capitals, his Arent st Liverpool. lent Lottery. sold part of one of the ZWLIWO Prises drawn the First Day : end his Agent at sold part of the other Prise of ,20,000 drawn C.c .I..ae day. GENTLEMEN who arc Bald, may depend on recnyering their lia!r by using HUDSON'S HULK DIVINE. or CI:LPtPrItIeSi 4 PICI tries, reeo.nmended by Dr. Hunter and other eminent Physicians. where the Hair his fallen off trolls illness, perspiration. change of climate. or any of those causes which deprive the hair of nutriment, and thereby occasion premature decay. By using the Hail* Divine, it assimilates with the Cold that nourishes the hair. or, where that is perverted or lost, it supplies its place, and restores the hair to its on strength and thickness; i n recent eases, a bottle et Ss. fld. is sufficient to prove its virtues ; but where there has been great neglect, or the per *" is far 'deemed ha life, a certain persrveranee is neces sary. The Proprirtoes can, however, appeal to fads, that. dine cases out of ten, gentlemen have recovered their trait.. even where they had been bald for years. See tAti middle of its elver la an Essay on the Hub. enclosed roiled Gaels byte. Vold. 'prier 14.8 d. 7s. ed., or mot 11110 n in one,priaeosipp stlipso, by Mr. Addasoe. perfumer. 44. "tstgtsireet: Wohaisquere, London; Messrs. Bathe and Pier& 'BoOd.sik , et ; Mr. Ridge, 68, Cheapside ; sad most retteetab!. petteisert. IRELAND. Csinot.tc Artatas.—The following core •spondencr has taken place between Anthony O'Brien, Esq. ICI ai -.- man of the Catholic Meeting lately held in the \.w Chapel, Marlborough-street, and She Right Hon. Henri Grattan : Upper Gardiner-street. 241 h Dee. ISM Stn—As Chairman of a numerous and respectable Meeting of the Roman Catholic inhabitants of pariltses of St. Mary, St. Thomas, an I St. George, held an the 7th of this month, I have the honour to trattsm:t the enclosed Resolutions, requesting your preseniati. , n of their Petition (as enclosed) for the removal of the disabilities still affecting their body, to the Honourable the House of Commons, as expressed in the afores.tid Resolutions. A singular concurrence of circumstances, whirl , . though we partially lament, we cannot hut dilly estimate its bearings, has raised a strong hope of this Session's witnessing the arcomplishment of your ever to he . re membered 'shunss fhat an event so anxiously to be looked for, should be added to the illustrious series of your public services, and take place under the intim.- orate induenee of your personal direction, would, in our particular respect, impart to it an interest uhielt nom: but ourselves can fully appreciate. Feeble would be my attempt to express the nature c: my kelings, at being made the organ, on this oecasioo. of the sentiments of a most respectable portion of my fellow-citizens. I will barely add, they are such as th,. ' eiretonstagees cannot hut command.—l have the honour to he, Sir, with the highest consideration, your mos: obedient, and most humble servant, ANTHONY O . BItIEN. To the Right lion. Henry Grattan, &c. Lc. MR. GRATTAN'S RIPLT. enclose my answer to the Resolutions, and cannot do so wiliont expressing the high sense I have of the sentiments of your letter, and the estimation in which I hold your favouratle I remain, Sir, your very humble servant, Pre. S 7. HINRT URATTAX. Sir—l had the honour to receive the Resolutions ani Petition of the Room] Catholic Inhabitants of the • rishes of St. M try, St. 'Thomas, and St. lieorge. I %holt most cheerfully present their Petition and I shall do it' with a confidence arising, not only from the merits of their question, but from a recollection of their owe K 06.1 eunduct, and the steady tranquillity manifested, upon the present trying occasion, by the Boman Catholics. who have repudiated nit!' scorn the overtures of mischief. of folly, and of infatuation. I have the honour to be, your humble servant, Tinehinch, Dec. 27. Ilannv °salvor. ' Anthony O'Brien, Esq. Upper Gardiner-street. ATHLONS, Dec. 31.—The Rev. Armstrong Kelly. a• Magistrate of the county of Roscouinion, weat laat Sunday to the Chapel of Dallivary, attended by a parry of the Mount Talbot detachment of police. and. as eons • as Mass was over. apprehended four men. charged with administerieg illegal uuths, and committed them to Rut ; common gaol. Variations of the Thermomen in r Otis W co Monday, 32 degrees (freezing pot); Tunaix degrees ; Wetlskaday, 16 degrees: that is, IA dew:. grees below the freezing l o:nt. BOrA.vr BAY. The following extract from a letter, dated Sid ney, Feb. 21, 1819. from a convict who was some time slice sent out from Ipswich, to his wife, is in serted without any other alteration than that which arises from punctuation, and a correction of the orthography:— " 1 tlud, to take the weather in general, it is not much Netter than 1 have known it in England ; but just at the time we landed was very warm. Ne do not feel the heat of the sun here, where I am, so much as the people up the country, where they du not get the sea breezes. Sid ney is the capital of New South Vales, where I am em ployed under tieverament, at my own trade, at a mill on the rocks. 1 have a very good place, and a very good master; we never work on Sundays, or in the night. I expect soon to be foreman iu the mill, as I flatter my self to say I sin the best hand in the country ; therefore I could I have the opportunity of getting off the stores, I , could have any wages I like to ask ; but that I cannot do under four years, unless on conic over to take me off.' la my present situation I get no wages,' but draw ten :bounds and a half of flour, and ten pounds and a half of beef weekly, and a suit of clothes, such as they are, every six months; so part of my meat I sell to buy me tea and sugar, and to pay my lodgings, where I am very condonable for one shilling per week. The ship that is now coining . to England has got an order to the Secretary of State, in England, to send out a number of women to their husbands, by the next ship. I made application for you, but was told I had been so little while in the country, that it could not he granted, un less I had brought a certificate of my general charac ter from borne : but if I conducted myself properly, by the next order I surely would be, which will he eight or ten months from the present date. I ! think, nay dear, by their desiring a character from 'home, fur new comers, that if your friends and pa -1 rich officers made application with a petition directly, you and the dear children might be got ou t directl y , I and stating that I am arrived safe, and have got em ployment at my own trade, where I should he able to support you. If you do not succeed in your application, I shall be sure to have an order for you by the next, as above stated. I can assure you, this is a fir better roam ' toy for a working man than England. A man that will eke himself useful, and is off the stores. may ear n two pusils per week ; even a. man at farmin Jay-labour g will have six shillings per day. I wish it had been paw Able for you to have come over with me: 1 could have rot into business directly. Here are two mills now I ellaading still for want of tenants : it takes but a small capital to get into business here, as the bakers all go to market and buy their wheat, and pay the miller Is. per bushel for grinding; if dressed Is. fid. All grain is sold in the market, by the bushel, off the carts that bring it, the same as fruit at your market. Peaches here are one penny per dozen, and lemons three a penny. — This is a very woody country, where a great many Blacks resort, as they are the natives here. I see some times thirty in a gang come into town, of all ages, as naked as ever they were born, for they have nut the sense of shame ; and if a white man goes far into the wood alone, he is sure to be killed and roasted, and eat by them." FRENCH INDUSTRY. -dr Taking a view of the state of French inou, now and formerly, it is certainly impossible to dont. that it has received a very powerful stimulus, from the destruction of old prejudice.; and • proportionate in crease, since the obstacles which once impeded its pro gress have been removed. We are far , however, from &owing that it can bear a comparison with English in destry ; nor do we think it will ever be in a state to do so. At no time were the French a truly manufacturing and commercial people, like the English ; and that for a reason which acts most powerfully upon all human beheld —they can better do without manufactures and trade dm we m. The charter they received from na ture was delivered in this Sybaritic aphorism—" lie thoughtless and enjoy"—while we wercordained to strug- v EAGLE !NATI! AWE coNIPANY. VOTICE it hereby given, that a Special General II Meeting of the Proprietors of Tea or more Shares, wdlhrbehl at the London Taaern, Hisbopiirate-street, on Fanto neat, the ith of January. at Two o'clock in the Af terglow] prteisel. Tr thr purpose of Eteditsg. Ballot, a DOW tell. in tile room of John Ord, Esq. decease/I. The cvmmenee at Two. and close at Four o'elodt. precisely. at. BEET .13a. 40. Is 4-0. tivereftry. .~ A