The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-12-03 00:00:00

vein . rs_moi.: 'N V °'• -•••-• .• , • • • • • • • 41 $1 1 / it) b Nia . . , .) 1 tF--) C-fOOOl-t- • j aAAAA:IL"‘°.I • stri. or; iuito)ill . "'writ* • 9 , .' rt . - r yr , * • I * . , 11 41' • t - - • • '';• / • • . f- v. • • • * - jityt . : • - 3 1 tam , 4,18 • 11g, • 1 DAY. • DEC i n 41\ • AAA II aNIX • d't 14, PRJLE 711% L - . • ' - ••• V • • r . 64 Caw for which 11411POSN Pa ir the Aye 41114.311011A5 i1L , 4 ,1 sciolskiP • • s • .4* .: , s LOILMN:MARKETS, DEC. 1. - . pressed state, and the purchasers only buy smell parcels for immediate use.-The demand for Geneva twill , le brought forward by the India continues limited : the CoTTON.-.prices are urivaried." Company on Fridaylast had created much speculation Tea.e-The Tea sale commenced this mornin g at iti the market ; the'rneral opinion entertained was, the India House ; - thequotations must iu consequence that the holders were determined to effect sales at he considered nominal. whatever prices Held be procured: under these di. • colustancel the market was eireedingly heavy. Cos.. TO "4 BE MAGISTRATE." . trary to the general . expectation only 400 bags , oat of 2840 were sold ; the remainder being withdraw*, Ste,-As you invite discussion on the subject, I or taken in for the proprietors-400 Surats fair tai 'ball offer no apology for claiming your attention good quality realised IN. to ltd.; very ordinary to The following remarks. ' 80.; damaged 5.t. to Didt t• there appear . ed no . Tae decision-'of the Court of Qaarter Sessioub buyers for - the ordinary had common qualitiet, of , at Woodbridge, in the case of Batten v. Wallet aid: ' which the greaser proportion of the sale consisted; others,doesnot necessarily teem to involve the 411111/- 20 Bengal,, fair curttaton (palely, soldat 7dthe t . 6 ' Whether the M •so .; lan.Magistrates are justified in orders 4 reriss wow ekra -464 4 baYfi'll ; thw Oct* wet . . folly ins joy pay, Se the ahle.bodied man from a Rate, JO. below the safe of theldth ilt.: '- widish i madefeiptwedy far 'the relief of the poor and 64 LIVERPOOL, Nov 28.-The ° irEey conaliterable impotent.",% A appeared in evidence on the trial of reduction 'in' the prices of Cotton, having induced the appeals that many .of the seers, which were the trade to cense forward with more confidence, we charged to the account of the parish, as relief admi. 'have experiesiced this, week a brisk demand, partice. nistered to the prver, had been employed in paying lady for Bowed/ and Orleans, and an adta nce hi s the wages of the Respondeot's labourers ; that Bridges, 'taken place of about id. per lb. in these descrip. who conceited he was earning the wages of lode. lions, as as'eU is In Breads'. Yesterday, there were peudence - will in fact receiving the relief afforded brought forward,by - Bunion, 500 Surats, pert of the by the pariah pay.table. The conduct of the Parish lot a hick csti the '6th irtst. sold at 110: ; they Were Officers in this instance appears to me to hate amounted Withdrawn it Itaid,- at which price some were *tier- nearly to a fraud ; they made charges on the paris h , .wards sold. The ; sales of this week are-4050 for espences they had never incurred. It was, in • Boweds at 16111. to 1144. for middling to fair ; it3d. r!ty opinion, on this ground, end this alone, that the to M. for good fair to good ; 2060 Orleans at Magistrates disallowed the various items in the tic. 160. to 18d. for ordinal,* to fair ; 181 d. to 204 d. counts of the Overseers. In many other parishes the for good fair to good; 750 - Tennessee. as 141 d. to wages, *bath a labourer receives are insufficient to 151 d.; 110 Sea Islands at 2s. 90. to 24 11d. for support his family, and the Poore Rites are resort fair to good fair, end a • few fine at 3s. 9d.; 340 ed tb to make up the deficiency ; theta can be no Pernams at 22.0. for very ordinary, 23d. to 2s. ground of appeal in such a case as this, as I shall for fair to prime; 1700 Maranhama at 200. to 22t1.; presently endeavour to show, that no law can with 440 Bahia' a t ow. t o 214 d. ; 1 5 8 mi nas at 17 1, 1. to safety be introduced to regulate the contract between 200. ; 180 Demerara' at 2.01(1. to 23-1-d.; 280 Sas the servanc sod his employer. If the" offices of rats at 100. to 124.1.; 85 Bengal. at 84 to 11d. ; Churclitesaen and Overseer had been filled by making altogether about 10,200 bags. The arrivals other iodiAdvals tithe same parish, and if either of are 3897 bales, besides 2400 bales per Neptune, from the persouiegainst whom the appeal alluded to was Calcutta, not yet reported." brought, had said to his labourer, 66 I intend giving SUGAIL-The demand for Muscovades continued you such and such wages, and if you fi nd them- in. sufficient for your maintenance, and that of your fa steady last week ; the business done was not eaten. mily, yea most seek for the relief which theta- has rive, yet the scarcity of good strong Segars is be. provided: l s 'I cannot suppose, that the Court of ar coming already apparent, and for such descriptions • Qoters t Sissiens would have barn justified in in the holders were again askiug a small advance, and terferiog. However this objection has nothing far m several instances prices a shade higher were seas th lied. er to do with the main points of your question, than to show, that they remain undecided ; it is un. The demand for good Sugars continued steady this doubfeut rh y a subject of great importance ; sod I shall of forenoon, and very considerable purchases were endeavour to discuss it fairly. Ato made; Muscovades fit for refining are very scarce, It will be necessary to make some preliminary ob. tin a and for such descriptions the holders are demanding as, r. servations in order to prove, that. the extent of ettia e „ ie d, D to a further advance of Is. end in several instances the p p ayin i d the wastteClibear, are not the pro. eke the ad. improvement has been realised. It is rather au an- . per ahim of legislative enactments. ADM conduct precedented event, that at such an early period there ear and break I cannot help doubting the correctness of the °pi ,, pl e d ge i n f a nts should be a scarcity of good Sugars ; as far as we nion which is entertained by many, that employment as !town nid, as- have observed, th e crop this year has been of an in .pplied. he rmis' different qua l ity, cons i st i ng may alwaye be found for the industrious ; for the in. chiefly of very inferior ration; havin p g o v crease and diminution of the demand (or tabour de . its various train brown Sugars ; the latter cannot be stated et any pend tin certain in - variable laws; the wants of the .sional studies, r improvement. The deliveries of Muscovades from which has arrow consumer alone regulate the activity of the menu the warehouse are again extensive •; the stock much ~se of a long , (adorer, and those wants do not always increase in AO the fullest less than at the same season last year. proportion with the increase of population. The plan .1 and encoorra' In Refined goods the ► prindpsl purchasers were of employing the poor in a parish manufactory is Arative of 0. .een found t• the Wholesale grocers, and some parcels were report- considered by sonless a master-piece of political eco ny public ; ed to be taken for the Mediterranean; for immediate tomb but (without noticing the mismanagement and a these con. fortunate i• shipping there was little doing. The purchases of waste which are always to be found in public este , of the how Lumps have lately been so considerable, that few re. blishments, in which all are generally. though none .nested, f• main on sale. Crushed Sugars in several instances particularly interested, aud the depravation of manners I Mire. Y ,y re-tini- were purchased a shade lower, and there are buyers which such a promiscuous assembly is likely to pro . .ne relay for parcels deliverable about Ist March at GOs. and dace) this plan will only be found to divert the stream sma erring - Gls., yet the refiners show no i nclinat i on to comp l y of commerce, an d not to o dd one drop to its me s y , , brine with these offers. Towards the close of last week mentum. To illustrate this position by an example, J, De' Molasses, which had been very heavy for some we will suppose there are two private sacking ma nu. Als If :11n•P time, again were in request •; and to-day the price is factories in any particular parish, each of which finds .err • 375. 6d. to 38. employment for five persons ; the parish becomes a' ..... Honest vivere sed valere vita.-M A net t t.. By public sale, 164 bags Mexican Sugars, received meoufacturer of this article, and in consequence of " Life is only Life, when blest with Health." from Vera Crus, similar to )allow Ilavannah (not the event of its capital, and its ability to lose money THE finest System of Ethics is to confine within strong grain), 421.6 d. to 445. Gd.; brown 3.14. by the business and yet to con s ider it s e lf a g ainer at due bounds and thus to regulate the Pas.ions ; rime- ' Corezz.-There were two public sales of Wide) the aggregate, the private trader loses all chance of ' .Rained and itistits'ordisate they impetuously destroy those h at . Tiers which Religion and Morality have made sacred ; to curb Plantation Coffee last we e k ; the whole went off, competition (unless, indeed, his superior knowledge bat not annihilate them appears the le-son of prudence, best with much briskness at a further advance of 21. to of the trade is sufficient to insure him a demand), and calculated to limit their e ffer vesc en ce , , he is compelled to desert his looms and discharge his , a ..e . . • p er ; cwt.• ordinary Jamaica so ld at 1325. 6J.; Every ditiorvinization of the human frame requires great me di e d knowledge to remedy, and the piddle welfare is promoted ,gouts ordinary 1345. 6,1. ; fine ordinary 1375. 6d. and labourers; they, consmeently, apply to the parish when profetk4ioonl melt (oi,regitrding the suggestions of the en- 1381. ; good middling Dutch realised 1525. 6d . ; by for relief, and the parish miry employ them instead grimes rind interesteti ) .devive tfo•ir st u dies to the treatment Of •_, of the private trader, who possibly himself may be thoae complaints generated by improdeace, „„,1 th „ milifig , s private contract good ordinary St. Domingo realised , of the passions at an unguarded moment. " Tne strength of a ;10s. andatie holders not being anaious to effect come a pauper ; and if the demand for the article is • itation consikts in the health of the People ;" lue, it is airiest. is les, the buyers tillianced in their o ff ers, and parcels not increased by some other circumstance (for the •• s' !holy to reftert on tl•e dails sacri fi ce to the i g norance of ucfeel- • 4K easpyricisai ant to enuoteriet, iv fur as possible its Anther were reported to have realised 1421. to 1435. . not one single iota added to the mass of productive ravages, ac oer to -nfreriag humanity, the result i:f our own A considerable parcel of good ordinary Jamaica, et perienee in the eari , ais diseases of Debility. The unwarylabour. The only public advantage likely to accrue „ • victim of solitary vice (early acquired ut scl i 1, before rooms bought about two weeks ago, at the greatest de- from this project, appears to me to arise when the I ~. boa asserted her right over the mind), w ill, in contempl a ting pressiou of the market prices, 130 s. has this morning ' his pnwerless state, li. , ;(ne susceptible of enlivenin g sensations, i . la knowing that the most compile :Weil state of eshaistion may N r„ . • Ike roused into manly energy.-I n ternee study-immoderate mix- been sold at an advance of 6s. per cwt. private manufacturer is not totally disabled, for then a competition is excited, which is evident ly beneficial Mess cee e rema i ns Petovistoks, &c.-The Provision market to the consumer. • . iety-long ret.idenee in tropical Climes, nod many other • auses'dingly heavy, the prices of Beef and ; . will frlVlvittlY derange the Nervous System; in such cases we There appears to be no standard by which the ' s- s• eau hold out nons•urance of reoinimation, by regneites which Pork cannot be stated at any variation. The weather price of labour can be regulated, but the supply . s Wave long answered the sangione hopes of Patients of limb Sexes, i s still esceedingly mild, yet no considerable reduc -. • That bane to human hapittlies. LU ES YEN ER EA, can now and demand ; wages may be high and low in cum. ' 'be treated fearlessly. the improved Ante of Medical Science t.',' having divested its antidote of those distressing properties that • entiitogreoderetl Ito exhibition uncertain and harassing. We 1 : , best explain oar method by Alta wing to Patients labouring un-. ~.._ 4er this malady, that a few days only are re q uired for the re- elt •-- ranyielsof early symptoms ; that the most intelerate ease will CIIINEAL.-The public sale of last week went . I parison with what they have been, but they can teeter be said to be inadequate : labour is subject to the off after y moderate pricei; it consisted of 186 serous . same invariable laws as other marketable commodis 245. , . yield to. our remedies Within a month, and dial in a person who • , . ouly suveris himself injured. the disease may be prevented all $ termig' from nppenring fr-a similar remark applies la many .1 ti. „sllier dernnsemenh of the geneLitise system, 445 weakness, ul ).. •, r i :e at ions. &e. especially stricture., obstinate (list's of which are pu rchased 11 K;illitilv reseeiveif w ithout the use iii caustic nr ititnultint.i. Some ' t ll)ll* . e t tliaritirs'inciriental to the salter sex have root escaped our a5,...4. lion can be stated in Butters. i T ell o y i r tec tss o . t o ... 275. Gil. 'per lb.; a few lots 245. and 9d.; garbling I2s. to 13s. 9d. ~ There is no esport demand for Tobacco, boar r ; and forAleogth of time the manufacturers have only great, and the de quotations small , parcels continue nominal, w if ili th b e e supply•should be small, and the demand great, as it was during the late war, the price of las comparatively high; when the supply is Demand unequal to that supply, as at for their immediate use, the present, the contrary. lion-ever low the wages of labour may be, the Legislature cannot interfere in. TIMBER.-By pohlic sale, the cargo of the Friends . , their regulation ; the contending interests of the arsterition I in-wh.ch inilsiess, combined as ith efficacy, has su - 'Timber 925. 6d. payer and receiver of Wages,"see the only medium by smeoiedo the mea ns tiru .11y adopted. rii rifle, MIT system is from Quebec:. 290 loads yellow Pine v fil t fo r , pecaluirly energetic, and eminently successful. to 955. one lot 112 s. 6d.; 60 loads Nova Scotia Pine which the fair value of laboseran be ascertained with t 9 „tie the general necommodntien we do not limit our- Timber 841. to 90i. per; , , lead ; .DePls, 120, 11ft. 3in. ; correctness. It is undoebtedly an evil that thereat tele -Vs* fumed t iertn& of practice, but may he cocoulted at all w Swedish br 7d• • Styckbitim yellow 51.9 d. agriculturist In parishes where the supply of labour reamogibie;hoors.-Cormiry Patients ate requested to describe Intomett . tlwir symptoms. Ikr. when Mediciaes, a id, ndvire, to 6s. • wile tw immeaiarele forwarded to any part of the 1-.iagdom .- yello ~ , ~, • p., . . , it CM, ' BRANDY" As i D Ifo tr. , AN Ds,-'thos b u slopie employing the surplus population of an adjoining ,ik Lank-note is ex petted to accompany the cuss. done in• Runt Itl, bevt slimly and improving prioei. parish; to reduce the rate cf wages below the natural Just published, • Til V /EGO OF LIP.. ). familiar Commentary on thr the deiiveries'from the .iiraiehouse . ,' particularly for standard as ascertained with relation to the ability . st.o.e Rises..-. Itv DOSS nod Co. bloy be had at 20. Pater- exPortatiOn,. cord* ri t4r extensive; the lower :of Ms respective district ; but it is certainly a much .. i s.oster•row; li4, Fleet - street ; mod at nl4 Booksellers, pries. ss. . • • 4 fo) : ._.... ..... • • _ (toss an d c o . M. It. C. liurge „,.., aescriptions stn . ! s t s i i . are m ore in request than greater evil that each parish should be . 'som . pelled a the Other qintithclifi o_ y continues in a very dit i ,ylher twarojilny or support all its etrsl.4sloo4otit 3,. Bouvr:kooreet, fleet-sow, Loudon. • la • t , ' -, . .41 VA, e ., . ,•11,. , . 1145. !ii 031 i Ili •• .. . . . . . t . / , • . . .. . SURREY INSTITU CION• " Dec. 3. P 4 r; ,.. p e o r t s iv, t o n l d i S r. O ° V f:l e le r ilfbllltr t are deliverreaped_h THIRD LECTURE pa "C u r eOROR, on FRIDA Y nett the 4th kw. And r wrinue his On -earth succeeding Fri day (Christina% Day excepted). c hlr. HAZLITT will deliver his FOURTH LECTURE; , sh , comic WRITERS, &r. of Great Britain, no TUES DAY seat the Bth it*. and will continue his Course on each 'Remedios Tuesday. • • • • KNIGHT SPENCER, Secretary. and no other, let its meant of employment be ever so extensive; and such a provision as this most be made to remedy the grievance complained of the flourishing, state of this or that particular inmate: tore; will undoubtedly regtilate the number or per. ions 'dila% it employs; the hardware manufactere may be carriNl on in this district ; the clothing in the neat ; both may at this Mippient employ en equal number of persons, but it it possible that the one may almost totally fail, whilst the other is carried on with incresting success, So as to able to find em ployment for some of the hands discharged in come. quence of the failure of the first. The impolicy of endeavouring to introduce such a restrictive regula tion es I have alluded to is here apparent ; in the one .ease the lower orders of society would be degraded into paupers, with the means of employment withiri their vetch ; in the other, the supply of the ma nofat tured article would be much inferior to the deratanN sod the pries would be raised proportionably. It it only by leaving the labourer to seek for employment where it is to be found, that the mat! of .labour is ' distributed throughout the country,—its fair relative value ascertained,—and the burden of maintaining the impotent and unemployed poor, eqoalitari. • MADRAS PAPERS. MADRAS, it:f.it 4. By the Lady &Ohl, lettett have been received from Batavia and Ileoioolen. i. it is stated that several free traders and Americans were lying at Batavia; that European goodi itere very cheap; that great dif f iculty was eSperienced in pro. caving cargoes, and that iii consequence freight wall at a low rate. The ship Lady Rallies had arrived at Itatatia from Bencoolen, before the dopartuie of the Lady Sophia ; and the report is confirmed, that Cap tain Travers was the bearer of dispatches from Sir Tho Mas Riffles to the &titian Government ; but the nature of them has not been mentioned. If there he any troth in the rumour which pretailed some time ago, that Sir Thomas itsfiles had been consult. ed by the Netherlands Government respecting the best mode of continuing or establishing under the Dutch Authorities, that system which had produced beneficial elects under the British Government, it it very possible that the dispatches taken by Captain 'Travers may relate to this subject. JULY 11.—Calcutta Journals to the 24th ult. bate been received. They give a Melancholy account of the progress of the epidemic et Cawupore, and ebb at Nagpore. It appears that Dr. Corhys's practice has failed of success at the latter place, and that doable are of course entertained of its efficacy; tint 1$ not mentioned that a more successful tupelo 01 prim. it tice has as yet been discovered. We ertstade k ted to I the Golcrtite-Mirror of the 24th alt. for the follnat. iog **lisle " We art extremely sorry to state, .that nor let* ters from Ntigpore . , of the begining of June, re present the sickness that is now prevailing iu that part of India to be of a very serious and alarming °stew. This disorder, which of course has received the name of cholera morbus,..first sweartd 'in the .ejoreppf Colonel Adams, on the 30th ult., the 'day on which his corps reached Nagpore. Jai?, 15 Sepoys and a great number of camp followers died of it. The inhabitants of Nsgpore -had- been suffering front it grievously, fgr, a fortnight before Coloeet Adams reached the capital : and the mortality among them is stated by our intelligent correspondent as at the rate of 25 per diem. " Cornet Sroalipsge, and a party of the Bth Native Cavalry, had been detached in search of Appa Sahib, the Ex• Rajah of Nagpore; and last week a report ob. mined stating that the fugitive bad been re.captired bat no authentic information has yet been received en the subject. Captaiu Heard, in charge of the two Nagpore Ministers, had arrived at Jutibulpoto, sod was relieved by Captain Delamain, who escorts them with sit companies to Allahahad. A Sepoy, who went off with the Rajah, had been taken, and put its irons. The reward offered by Government for delivering up the person of Appa Sahib it said to be two lacks of rupees, and a jashire of 10,000 rupees per annum." We have intelligence from Ceylon of the 2ith ult. It is gratifying to leare that the health of the troops • TUESDAY, 15 1 b DECEMBER. ' - r 0,6,,,, ,of Ai Lords of his Majesty's Tres - I ' 4. , -4 . WIT ; •tbeDraMing of the ST e AT la E me L n O tet 7t ee :l e t avie Y, o w f h i i i e e h k. • 1,,1 ei re:t i e ll e d iei G iins ". l:7l U T l it l i e t)h t ',ll w -‘ itl ) t e t c hi l f s l l ouring Capi • . ' tat Prizes, viz. 4 e. S. - 5,(90 . I 1..."• _ . 4 . 4 1 r .. ... .. .1.000 • ›.•. *• 10.4 s . t 15 .• • ' .51.830 other Prizes of £5O, Bcc. C mots anti Money. .- • -drawn Prize will receive £30.031 in addition. '.• 4 I Stores are Selling at all the Licensed °faces in •••' -*,._. -` by their Agents in the country. . ;•.• i ,' . , • r ERSAL DISPENSARY FOR CHILDREN. Nrs.•s, ST. ANDPEW'S HILL. DOCTORS' COMMONS. APOTHECARY WANT ED.—Notrico is , hereby Directors aindbtoliveroo4o SPECIAL 12 E lfi- I ; ' i lt tit A it It;nslvriiirrti!khGol:lmsr the t 'the Dispensarv. ion' '17E13%1E91)A y the 30th day of Decem ber, 1815, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon ' fur the purpose of 'selecting an Apothecary in the me id of Mr. James Field, who bas rrsigned : And Notice is also hereby given, that the Com-' *Mee will meet et the Divettater, on Wednesday the 16th day ~o f Decetaberott Seven o'Clock in the Evening, to receive the - testimonials and recommendations of nick persons as may he dlesirou. of offering ihem.elves as Candidates for the sittlatlon osif Apothecary to the Institution. after which day n o p erson ' 'will be admitted a Candidate N f R or the !Mooting'. HEY RICHARDS, Secretary. 4 Wilderneshrov,'Dee. I. -A NEW PATENT WATER-PR. 001? HAT, AT ONLY EIGHTEEN SHILLINGi.—IMPORTANT SAYING. 'PRANKS and TAYLOR hours to offer to the Puhli: a SILK HAT on BEAVER BODY, combining every requisite a Hat might to possess; it is superior in rip.. pc:mance to the finest and most expensive Beaver , is eq uall y light, nod will wear twice as Vag, and Is of a better shape, which it retains to the last; will never change its colour, which is the most beautiful Black, if worn for years; no weather 'will injure these Hats, they being W ATER-PROOF ; and will repair several times at a trifling expence, mid' every time appear equal to new, and tire decidedly superior to any Hats ever Lfered to Public notice, the attainment of which has been attended with great ex pence. Merchants, Dealers, and the Trade, who wish fur superior Rats, may be supplied on advantageous tenni. FRAN KS .Ind TAYLOR, Manufactures , , Wellingtou-house, Red Cros..street, Barbiettn.—No unpaid letters received. • - IMPRESSED with a just and humane sense of the calamitous results arising from the injudicious treatment of a certain malady, contracted In a manner too well known to require consment, and often entailing on its unhappy victim a wire of distressing nod almost instapprotable afflictions, Dr. ZAVY retpectfully calls the attention of those ioterested, to his peculiar and most effectual method of cure, unlike the ad • ' , Wining empiric of the day, or the equally criminal conduct ef those " who hold the word of promise to the ear and break ft to our bops.." Dr. Ludy will not presume to pledge infalli bility lorieryitcription of cure, but al far as human nid, as sisted by medical and surgical skill can be applied. ho promises a certain, speedy, and permanent restoration; having made every species of Syphilitic affection, and its vnrions train of dis eases, the primary o b jects of his professional studies, and being flattered bj the transcendent success which has accompanied his mode of treatment during the coorse of a long and laborious practice, he is enabled to offer, with the fullest confidence. pre tensions at once the most hopeful and encouraging. I Riminerahlr Instances can he adduced:illustrative of the superiority of I)i. Lady's system, which has been o rnd to prevail, even w her. eminent talent, retained by public institution; has been in effectual. In addition to those consolatory advances, Dr. Lady will he found equally fortunate in reviving the slumbering our debilitated energies of the hnmnn constitution. which embitter, and if not timely arrested, frequently render nagatitry the very principal of existence. From this desolating state of mann. and sterility, by re-animating the frame and allarlirg lone no' elasticity to the relaxed organs, Dr. Rudy is heals to canes the muss cheering end positive assurnoces that the sufferers o' both sexes may be rescued; a steady perseverance in the meat.: dictated being only required.—Dr. Eadv Is con:iilted daily, ist Nn. 98, Dean-street, Soho, opposite blearies.street (wlsithe! he has lately removed from No. 46, Kiag-street, coiner of Dean•strect, &to), by patients of both sexes.—Country let ters meet respectful attention by warn of second post. is daily improving. Letters from . Cawnpore give rather a Melancholy account of the state of the 21st Dragoons at that stn. Lion. It is said that bet ei at the Saturday anti Tuesday twelve men had died, and six of these Non-Commis. sioned Officers. A subscription is in progress at Ceylon, upon the same plan as that begun In England, for the purpose of erecting a public monument to the memory of bet late Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte. We are sorrry to have to communicate an unfor tunate accident which happened near Candy on Jane 11, Captain Truter was going into bombers, and. about three P. M. he embarked in the Lewelfe ferry boat himself, 10 soldiers, two servants, and the - boatman, in all 14. The river being swelled by the late rains, and the current rapid, Capt. Trutet took the precaution of making all the men sit down. When they were about the middle of the river, the boatman,- whose bands were sore, accidentally suf. fered the rattan, by which he was pulling over to slip from his hold; the boat was immedittely car ried doivrt the stream, and about 150 yards from the placer of crossing, filled and upset; one private of the 83d, and three of the Honourable Company's 15A Native Infant/G.-woe unfortunately drowned, en t tee stand of MINI cost. The rest saved themselves by getting upon the boat, whichleckily struck and remained fast upon a rock about 400 yards lower down • from this - perilous situation, in the middle of a rapid river; *ith riving, they were got to the bank chiefly byithe exertions of priest's But kr and &vea l of the 19rth regiment, and a Cooly. • ,7AA . • c 1 ii I= . % , ~. - a ...._ _i