The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-12-29 00:00:00

11=m. state to their Captain, that they iambi tint remits he fhr snip a ny 1 09 .e•r; in conseqnonee of which, instead of •tairling out to Ora. we Were obliged to come to aingior here. send herewith& list of provisions of all descrip tions on Ln width lam confident it more than sof" firent fsr thr", hundred men f o r three moiollsb in order that, slionlJ any of the infamuls Wit charareirrs, whom I have seat on shore, be base rimmed to endeavour to tprea4 reports injuriout to me. by ill-treaintopt of than -(riassontrary of which I have Inv many vouchers to pro aloha). that you filar hr aLle to, asmi u Itirh I trail you peibliey am, pit:.. A,VERICAN.PAPOIR4. I eion. This last blow has been the most fatal one of any ever aimed at our liberties. It has, in a rest measure, overturned the Constitution, tinder the &our of defending it ; and one of the lye obnoxious Bills is expressly to punish as relorie those who should really attempt to defeneit. The fate and ruin of M►. Kistocx'a fortune for attending a popular meeting at Dundee is a more complete commentary upon the laws of Scotland, and the condition Kits once bosskll liberty, than could be read in volumes. We don't wonder that so spirited, so iocktendent a mind should anticipate .the law, if its vengeance must be directed agairut hien, by transporting himself from such a region rather than be pushed about by the r:.le hands of omce, whdso patrons value them the more for the violence they exercise. The opposition, in the Chamber of Deputiev, against the French Ministry, with respect to the poled of granting one-half or one-third of the taxes in advance for the year lftlo, was evinced on Seterday last, to be spirited in a high degree. The Ministry, however, are likely to maintain ibex THE STATESMAN'. ORR posessa, and the wild wee foatiasall l :l t y ;li key n ttt • By the activity of the people erfeegist was raised to the belfry, from which v&tel was amerced. through a tri ►loor. into the interior if the stWple, to prevent the ezteosios of the lasies. The fire was happily ex , tinct Ly balf.past eight is the evening. It %tad, however. s quatter of an hour beitte, eonsuosed the timber in which the cross was inserted, so that it fell on that part of the wall above the principal entrance. and broke t tto many times. This termineted the events of this day, l which will Wag be remembered by the inhabitants of liontreal, mulls* *leased with the nark Sunday of Uti.S. We have omittertio state, that the rails which &mewled yesterday was similar to that of last &today, bit um ieinsd taste of the sooty ingredient. and C a r rie d OR its se tae* , ai i..lotired through the streets, a dense farm resembliag soapsuds. We have bees informed that malty permits crossed to I the other side if .the river, expecting the accomplish went of a triAdoewl, prediction, that the island of Montreal is to be swallowed up by an earthquake.—Far the troth of this istformatieu. however, we will Dot vouch. At this satiatest 4Wedneedav morning, 7 o'cloel) the, sky is almost as e4m, and tley.l:ght as strong, se is, usnal,it this hour of the day at this seams of the yem. NAllitirll4 Nov. 11.—For two mouths there barest been rain sough is this neighbourhood to wet the earth. Cumberland River is lower at this time them it has bees slam the fall of litid I there is sot water *Dough is several places to float an empty boat earth is g Ily uncommonly dry. For 'boot the weeks the woods have. been on fire, and the whole atom sphere darkened with smoke, so 'tomb so that a men cannot he men two headreti carols We are told the Ohio River is lower than it ever was knows Ursa if a teener from St. Thomas, dated Ootolier sr. , . We bar, sews of Barbados being completely Idedalsked, and part of the leisid sunk.,by a arrionne im& eartherake, sisal the Ilia *taro." (PROM TOM nay TM* STOMA *PORT, N0T.1194 Tat Netioret Weliirearer of Friday unounees the arrival of Captain Rea from Madrid, and adds. we nil &Wand, he beings iaformadoe that the Treaty is ratified. sad things remain ankh In the saute state hal which oar last advice, left them. Mr. Forsyth reamille 10 Madrid, snake Mildew from Iris is to be forthwith dent to this inantry. If flusher particulars some to our knawlelge they shalt be hereafter strike!. (taint sus new TORI eowatasetat, AA tun Or PIOT. 23.) • IMPORTANT, eepose.which. however. rev I quires coarmation,. is poblished Is The Milledgerille; (fteorgia)Repishlieen, of the Ilth iastaat. " that fteseral Gaines bad rewired orders foe a deseehoost of BIN ow from that State, and 5000 from South Carolina; sk pip seed to Amelia Island." . (sans pavan, n0v.46.) • A flaturaer .elaseon.—The Village iflllsode paper published at West Chester. Pennsylvania:lllW doss, that a brilliant meteor passed over that Oboe at sin o'clock on Suptlay evening. " Its direction was from N. E. to S. W. The tall was of great length and bright ness, and from the hotly the tire fused out as it does frail a large piece of Wain iron. The streets were so light that owe might have picked up • pin. It disappeared suddenly, and almost confident that it. fell roar him. In a minute and a half, or perhaps two agates, after the light ceased, a sound like a cannon was beard, rooting from the direction where the meteor appeared to fail. We hate seen lien- Omen from Wilmiagton, londongmve, and Coatesville. each of whom had a perfect view of this sublime pheno menon ; and thry agree in describing its appearance anJ situation to he similar to that presented to us. Its iragnitade anJ te unice mist, therefore. have been much greater than one who saw it could bare well imagined." The 'modelle Cezeite states, tliat the meteor of Su*' day evening was seen by several persons in rbilarkl. l phial; that it was veri large. and was accompanied with a blue fame; and that it appeared " to touch the earth. retorted. aura for some distance, and fall spin." EPROM TVS SARADIAR COCRANT, NOT. W.) Rex tRIAIIII.II ORSCCRITT.—To those who are in the hahlt of anticipating a dreadful catastrophe from singa ble appearances, yostorasT moat A... Low ow awful day. Even these bloat ands, :he reversions of which olds& desiate frees the routine of nasal occupation. seemed, for ones, to be withdrawn from the beaten path. and to con template, with a mistere of astonishment. and terror, an aerearance for which no one could acconnt, and which it was, therefore, impossible to pronounce to be either the precursor or follower of preternatural disaster. Oa Saturday last the weather was bright and unclouded ; but at eight o*Lloilt in the vernier. the sky became surcharged with heavy black clouds from the north west, and snow fell in large fakes. The neat morn ing, these clouds were dithised over the sky; and there descended a heavy shower of blackish rain, which, upon esansinatiou, was found to contain a snb starter resembling, to the eye. the tart, and the smell soot. Towards evening, however, the weather cleared, at . d yesterday morning was ushered in by a hard frost. This gradually related under the iulluente of a weighty damp vapour, which descended from a thick stratum of clouds that seemed progressively to deepen in colour and density. awl at noon the darkness was so great that candles were burning in the Court lease, the Banks. and In most of the oces in the city. The gloom alter nately isereased or diminished, according to the ascend ancy of the wind, which, during the day, wee fitful and cholgiohle, till three o'clock, when a foruidaMe body of clouds from the north-east harried over the tows and beauglit the obscurity to Its climax. At -this eminent there certainly reigned a very genera l awe—natnre had from the morning seemed sullen aid dejected, as if award of impending calamity, and the crisis visored to have arrived. While the inhabitants were espressiag to each ether their surprise, arad eschaitgiag opinions on the pro bable cause of an appearance to unusual, they were al most electrified by a brilliant flash of lightning seereeded by a clap of thunder that was *closed and berated for Imlay setniads after its cause had past. ?his was followed by some others—rain again *n— and there seemed a good prospect of fair westber hit It l ess of sheet donde, ; for the clouds again account. Wei from the N.B. aid at 4 o'clock it was nearly as dark se before. Those rho had felt alarm. mots' br rime. by the continua conteinplatios of the *abject of terror, tramped. awl were reposing after their. recent isquientlie, when. suddenly, the tocsin was tolled by tufty' bali is the city. and the streets resounded with the tries ef fire! fire. M istrea t certainly, at this ems- WM, eeliiiitesl a scene which it Lai (we believe) sever btu* resisted, and which had a malt appease sag wild reset. The sky was veiled in gloori—lhe Flees trams was erovnled--was aostinnally swelling hy the • floods of people who peered is from all the adjarept streets—owl. towerhig over the heals of the dins*, was to be seen the steeple o ( meteor,ch parish church, with ift ball hissing like a and 'brewing oat from Ore foot of the cress, with which it was surmounted, rev *rim warred lurid by the incumbent sad serrweadiag hats. Newer was there slime a 'reader soil thou wee exhibited is this ovession. The IStrest • embus Were is a seeesrat ea the new ; Moss were fonord slant laveleatarily, add romp one eiapied to 010 aloes ew the swam of preening the' hely S ball S*. pa sialleseil to hare for a Is. tleie;Alltig teareoss Ms se water I the la, beweret, with which the steeple before. • • • It is apprehended we shall be efflicted with another epidemic. it the weather does aut eh sage tor the better in a sheet time. New CLAIMS ON Tat TattlitaT.—Tbe falkariaK Re. solgtioa Ism been adopted by the Tene#ssee House of Re presentatives : " Resolved. That our Senators in Congreas he instrnit ell, and our Kepresenuttives requested lo ass their, best esertions to procure the passage of a law In Congress to wore the payment of lost property by the officers and soldiers in the Seminole war in the year 161 d. CCRIOVII CIRO:MITA NCR. SA T. . Nov. 13.—h is mentioned is a Nassau Paper of the 29th Sept. that a ores-lasi vessel bad ar rived that day from the coast of Florida with a number of Indians on boa"!, whose appearance is Nasals had excited considerable curiosity as to their errand ODA intentions. They repo.:ed themselves as heart been robbed by oar frontier citizens, and driven from their Isisses. The following particulars are from the Dmhamn Advertiser of the 2d (October:— * NAPIAII. OCT. 22.—The Indians who arrived here M Wednesday last from Florida, are come to solicit owe supplies; the Chief has with him a proclamation Wad by Admiral Cochrane and ileneral Keane, at the amt of proceeding against New O r leans W e b e li eve am application bas been made to the Commander in Chief for assistance, bat they have had no enconragement to expect *compliance with their demands; the amity soh sisting between our Dovernment and that of the Coifed States, precluding toy measure tending to increase or promote a hostile disposition between these people and the subjects of the States. They are desirous of get. tug to Jamaica, but their visit there can be to as little effett as it is herr. flirt- represent themselves as driven from their homes, and fainted as wild deer : that there are about 2,000 of therm and that their greatest pommies are the Cowetas, a nation like themselves, who having made terms with the Am; titans are set on by them to harrass and a nnihilate their tribe. The nowehtt 'raved are twenty'-eight,asd being destitute of the paeans of sup port, are 'furnished an the score of humanity with rations and to lodge in time of the barracks. Law INTILLIGINCS.—In the l'oort of Common Pleas of York county, a case was decided the week before last, which, from i-s hearing it will have on many similar cases that probably exist in this county, requires that it slimed be generally known. Daniel Treiehler, when spe culation was at its acme, bought ;'2 acres of land, for u hicji be was to p ay 20140 dollars. For the payment of this seam, or t au greater part, he gave his bonds to Jacob BOner, of si hum the land was k nig ht. After b r i ng i n possession of the land, Treichler gore jatlguarnts on the properly. Hence arose the snit. an whirl' the bolder of the Latish on the original purchase and the jodgment creditors of 'Catchier were joined in issue. Ihe pro perty v-as sold by the late Sheriff fur 4,9ooslollars, a sum not much more than one-fifth the original consideration money. After a minnte and laborions discussion. the Jury retired and came hark with a seolict in favour of Ithe original vendor. By this decision the vendor of real es t a te, by taking bonds from the vendee, unless he takes collateral security, by which the intention will he either express or implied, that be releases the real estates sold, has a lien on the property, to the exclusion of all subse quent judgment creditors. The proceedings of the Court of Common Pleas have by a writ of error, been taken up to the Supreme Court, where, from the diversity of opinion on the %abject, it Is nacertisla whether the decision will be affirmed or re verted. DUTCH 11.41 L. STUTTGART , . Dee. 11.-11 is *Sensed that the Ilnelget of the Kingdom is to he the only subject et the delibera tions of the Assembly of the States, which is to meet in J aaaaa and that when this is concluded, the Assess- My still he prorogued, and will be called together again is the month of May. ilsnovaa, Dec. 15.—The Prince Regent having pur -1 chased the county of Spiegelberg of the Government of I.the Netherlands, a loan is opened to raise the purchase- t►e es Bares .4.44 reason; pig .as Ire the One style which is peculiar to him.. This .IMr is now Wows his Majesty for his opinion add dadaists. Hears, Mc. 19 _.We learn that the King bas intro decant farther redactions in the expenses of the War Department. IMPERIAL PARLiAmsir. —..-- HOUSE OF LORDS, Dar. 29. MCWIIPIPSIt PTAMP SUMS SILL. flit the motion of the Earl of Invdtroo'w this hill was referred to a Committee of their Lordships; and the Report helag Moire& the Bill wait orairld to be read a third time to-ntserow (this day). Ton ***sits' nitgotAhrtott ELL. The Bakers' Regulation Bill went through a Eons mittee. and was ordered to be read a third time to-mov row (this day).—Adjourned. MAI PVC Dohlla 0 Wairrford U Uarrasey asdJersry U OWlimbers% Illarburgb MM. Der.' 0 lloilaiml 0 Flasders . ..... 0 Emote 0 0 Lisboa .I 0 Matta PRICE OF STOCKS R►st Ilt4ek S per Cesr. Red. 67 per Vest. Coes. 61 ply Cost. 4 pet tent.. Ast &pet Cent. 7:a% y LOW Ass. lop. S per Cest. Ass. DAY AT NZ O'CLOCK. lade Seed !Amble& OW Almada Et. 1111 s, W. M. ds. Dine Co.. Osmium Ceps. ferAe. Idi Led. Tide's 11E111 WATER AT lAINDON•RRIIXTIC TIUR DAY. Montag. II ads. after 11.—Altatafroa. M fela. after. IL TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received lbs eorammieatlea of " A CoIiSTVIT Ramose." of Pail-man. We beg leave to &p rim his tar. If Jowled, it Noe be paid for, so ail web astialso re taxed at the fitarpolloe. etc *tattiman. IN. B. ?sr "BRITISH RTATBRMAN" 1111 A W Tits STATRSMAN.-I LONDON: WEDNESDAY, DecantsEa 49, 1819. The discussions in the one House of Parliass still sitting, no longer carry any interest with them.l A declaration of Lord Binnonxit on Monday in this House, the Peers, on the second reading of the " Stamp Duties Bill," struck us as a piece of quackery, viz.—that " the measures just adopted by Parliament had already been attended with the most salutary erects!" Bravo, Doctor ! the very sight of the apothecary's riot, it has been &MAW, has procured the evacuation of the patient's ssl . mach, as completely as the showing the highway- 1 man's pistol has evacuated the rockets of the tra veller. Yes, yes, the three out of the fire Bills have no doubt produced some ether—the perma nent salutariness remains to be proved. If the mere announcement of them can have removed all sense of honour, and the keener sense of insult felt by thousands, we may say by the millions of our fel:ow-countrymen, then, indeed, have we mistaken their character, and shall be at a loss—nay indif ferent, how we may reason crop their wants, , wishes, and proceedings. That the men at present in power have, and exercise the most consummate assurance in all they do, we cannot deny; nor that sometimes it happens that a rashness of proceeding often passes fur and stands, Ar a time at least, in the place of uisdom. These men consider, no doubt, that the present stillness, where all was fermentation and threat, is a proof that the ob jection of the people of England can saw gra dually be accomplished, as that of the people in other countries has been in turn. DESPOTISM is certainly the aim of Ministers! Rio half measures will do—on they must go. till they gain the fatal prize. In the steps which they have taken they appear to possess the Palma& REGENT'S entire contidet.se. Thus it should seem that the Liberty of England is about to Undergo the fate of ill other human things. It yields to Time, which destroys every thing—to Viet, which corrupts every thing —to ignorance, which confounds every thing—and to FORCE, which crushes every thing!! money. Srocatiostr. Me. 18.—A very impnrtant question has bees discussed by the Royal Hoard of Trude. The oo verbal's, of North America and of the Netherlands have hob made apylieution to o ur liovennonet for the ab tion of what is rolled the " Bill of Productions." This Hill is an tlnliaarce of *eerie llt• years standing. pro hibiting the solierts of foreign States from importing into tie Swedish ports any goods except oath as may be considered as produrtions of their owe country. The Hoard of Trade, la the Report whirls it has drawn up. according to dm orders given to it. declares that m aiatemnsee of this Ordinance is of the utmost ie. potence to Oat kiagdmo, and that it is the irallidians et the Swedish cosameree. On the other hand. Balms EsMcrae's. Pr&Meat of the same Board. declares him self iadleldmillp_la be of a directly cootnry °Finials. He sees la this etti*ere an injurious obstark to a free sag nstionsi stimowitfal intercourse. and restarka. that if lsv this moustraist sea* advantage menses to As Mrraws; old& I" however. don mot commie. yet tlst •-emenge 'iset net Ise fovided apes • tax Isla en all "aintisd part of slot Ratios. This lienserisi of •ts isdistiagnisked is well by the sail/ position. - ... Friday, a Privy Commit was held at Dublin Castle, when the baronies of Batiptoe, Dunmore, Killyan, and Tyaquin, in the county of Galway, were, ender the Act of the 6 nth of the Mag., di dared in a state of disturbance. An extraordinary establishment of police will accordingly be fermcd io those baronies. Letters from St. Petersburgh to the 30th of No vember (N. S.) state, that the Emperor Alexander, apprebemive that the morals of his people world be injured by their reading the account of Car - Kk's Trial, bad given directions to the police to prevent the introduction of all English newspapers containing it. According to private letters front New York, re ceived yesterday, dated the 29th ult., it is positively resolved by the Americo:a Government, that on die meeting of Congress an Act will be passed for taking possession of the Florida,. It is oot stated whether this measure is to be adopted with the concurrence of Spain, or whether the probable In ' ability of the latter to recover an eftkient protec tion of them has induced the American Govern ' Mat to make sure of what may be rendered here after a valuable as well as necessary acquisition in Ike present nneertein'state of the revolted South Amosian Colonies. Is =le (says a Quebec Paper) to tell inlet the enesemsences of a violent (akin; peemmimi of the Floridas by the United States i Ant May be the patentees of any existing treaties between Great Britain and Spain ; but there is Stealing in this part of the world that indicates even a thought of an approaching war with , the Unitod States, on the part of the Width Govern- Net DECIASZD Govenvoas.—ln the short period of eight weeks, oo less than 7 citizens who had been derided 's, the Were of nostrum., in diarrent Sint... of America, have been called from ante to eretn ay. —John Langdon, former govertior of New Hamp shire ; William Rabun,governor of Georgia; Thee. Johnson, the first governor of Mlryland ; Cale., Strong, late governor of Massachteetts; Simon Snyder, late governor of Pennsylvania; Thomas Sins Lee, the second governor of Maryland ; Henry Malleston, governor-clect of Delaware. The number of eminent persons, natives,or closely connected with Scotland, who have died within these le months, is rather extraordinary, .and greater than we ever remember within the same period. Among these were the representatives of seven of the most ancient and noble families of this kingdom, sir.. the Dikes of Hamilton, Boecleugh. and Lennox ; the Earls of Errol and Eglinton ; the Countess of Rothe*. and Lard Somerville • the Rih.iit Hon. Robert Donde* , L ord Chief B aron ; Adam Rolland, Esq., of Cask; Professor Plavfoir, Professor Rutherford, Principal Hill, Principal Play fair. and Mr. Watt, the celebrated inventor of the great improvements upon steam, the steam-engine, Sze.—(Caledanian Mercury.) BRAZILIAN TRAVLLLERII.—M this moment, sci entific travellers are traversing Brazil, under the protection of the Portsiguese, and at the expense of the Austrian, Bavarian, and Tissenn Governments. On the part of Austria, the following are employed : Professor Mikan, for natural history in general, and botany in particular; Dr. Pohl, as mineralogist; M. Natterer, for 'zoology ; M. Schott, as Der; M: %cher, as huntsman ; N. Ender, as garde ner painter; and 111. Frick, as natural history *pier. On the part of Bavaria: Dr. Spilt, as zoologbt: and Professor Slarions, as botanist. On the part of It has been said by more than one historian, thatl the Grand Duke of Tuscany : Dr. Resdi, a naturalist. when once the chains of a people are forged, they l—( froskinglon Gazelle.) are easily rivetted afterwards, so that the fate of the ' The mil tater: of the borough of Tewkesbury, fel liberty of such a people is scaled for ever. It may lowing the example of those in most other popu seem ungrateful towards the hecatombs of the loos places, have, it is said, petitioned the Legishi hwe men w h o have eat en i n our land b att l e " lure to repeal some of the most objectionable • clauses in the Act paned in the 48th year of his but it is no less tree, that their victories have un- I present Majesty, respecting the wetting of barley done their country. The Mike of WEttinurota, in the operation of making it into milt. to whom the weighed of the United Kingdom are II The first stone of the new Pilot and Ballast-office. sacrificing a portion of their scanty meal, in order • at Hull, was laid last week, by the senior member to make his board overflow with luxurioos.viands, 'of the Trinity-house. In die course of the fol. accordiag to the decrees in Parliament, has dose lowing si g ht some p ersons tore up the foundst me, incredible injury to his country. 'His victory at and id : enied °lrthe inwriPti"st. Probably fxPectilll.. pieces of money de p osi t ed it, bet na Woferfoo conquered poor old England England!. If we this the depredators were disappointed. had bema obliged to draw off every Natalia, from i A warm contest has taken place for the moat the Continent, and bad betaken MdesMee to the Reeordership of Colchester, between Mr. Car -1 tinting wooden wails for Oar d e feat*, it hid been wand and Mr. Kelly. The poll was Vowed " a! million times better for as. Contineetal wars ' 14°1662 Y* I The High Bailiff of Birmingham, in complisace and a standing army have anqesetioeibly Oath** . w i t h a emto i i i t i oo, e i,.. ne d b y wa d y a h un d re d of us, and ought to be the execration of •the patriots the most respectable inhabitants, has appointed a of England. The triumph alluded to, lees than Meeting of the merchants, mesebeturen, and tre daindai is to G oat, eve ntually h as t h rown a d n . den of the town, to he held NI the 4th of Mow neat, for dm purposi of oitaideriag of the orovnell eel Mitre over evety thing which has military in : at , • • • woe into d ie ' cam petite:Min Parliament' to it. an that do mirillatatko of the mg will be of the present deplorable sitoatisa of the mosolio esasideeed as a'ameomitset to the pavan any turing and labouring cosecs of the didnetallY. ctrl MB thrash tarliasseat whisk portable of soot-, into the best mesas of rooting it. iM; I 'ORAL, I jelly's shi golliOt to sud ellibie PORT. 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