The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-08-16 00:00:00

the mere visions of a distempered fancy; that NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. *myriads of people had not been called from their peaceful occupations to perish in the field, or FALSIOIITIT, Auo 13.—Arrived the chaSse-itiaresi so drag their maimed bodies through the remains of a Cosmopoli, from Normontier, with salt, under the wretched esktenee, and call this state of being white flag.—Sailed the Manchester packet,. with glory ; and that the whole of civilized society had Mails for Surinam. not been doomed to sufTer in its tenderest relations and dearest comforts—to place a weak old maim on a throne which he cannot keep, and gi►e the British nation the honour of spurning from its shores a man who may yet hurl the thunderbolt of implacable yen. two , against them. Is there more fancy than truth in this ? Turn where the solid fabric of our prospe rity is silently consuming under the blaze of our glory ; where time faint reflection, and even the no- blest efforts of commiserating humanity cannot hide the countless sights of distress, languishing trade, and decaying agriculture, and ask your hearts, ye advocates of ear, if this is prosperity—if this be harpiness. Sir ifunsom Lows transacted business yesterday and on Monday at the Secretary of State's Office. Mr. VICK, the King's Messenger, arrived in town on Monday sight, with dispatches from Paris. Yesterday, about half-past three o'clock, Mr. Jonstsos, the King's Messenger ) arrived from the same place. The impressment of seamen is directed to h+ dis. continued at all the sea-ports : as also .the receiving of volesteers, except for the peace establishment. Orders have been issued at the different ports to pay off the Navy; and the seamen are to be sent to their reapective homes in small vessels, to be in rea diness for that purpose. The natal command at the Cape of Good Hope, which was to have been discontinued, is to he re•esta. Wished there, anti Admiral Sir GrOUGE.COCKIIVRN is appointed to the command. The story copied from the Bath Papers, with the well connected fable about BoNAPARTeS letters being picked op at sea, is now said by the Ministerial Papers to be a fabrication. Dieppe is ip the possession of the English, and the road from that port to Paris is perfectly clear and safe. Thus it is probable that the reinforcements for the English Army will henceforth be sent via Dieppe, instead of the present circuitous route by Flanders. There is a report that 5000,0 f our troops in India, haling encamped on a low ground, subject to inun. delimit, were all drowaed. We sincerely hope it will prove unfounded. Aua. 15.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Johnson, Ashdown, from Tarragona; his Majesty's ships Rhin and Nymphen, to be paid off; Itfuture sleep of war frum Plymouth.—Came down from the River the Rakes, Gardner, fur Jamaica ; and George, for Bilbaa.—Sailed the Royal Oak, Sea Nymph, industry, Regent, and Alexander trans ports, to Deptford, to be paid off. Government yesterday received dispatches from the Mediterranean from Lord Elmbum. PORTIMOUTII, JULY 15.—?arrivedthe Christina, Becker, from the Eastward, hound to Bourdeaus. Put into Cowes, 111a.teower, NPGrath, from Yong hall ; La Fortune, from Havre; and the Swiftsure, from the Westward. The number of American mercantile agents lately arrived at Liverpool from the United States, erceedf ail precedent. Fifteen vtage coaches now run daily from that port to Matiche.t r. and in general return heavily laden with cotton goods of every description, purchased at the latter place, for esportatiou to Boa on, New York, and Charlestown. t It is stated by a Gentleman who if just arrived from Paris, which he left on Sunday, that the dis turbances bad not 3et subsided, and that patroles of English cavalry were night and day riding through the clifiefeut streets ni that city. The Metter' of BEDVultb and Lady JANE MON tAGui i remain at Nice. It is his Grace's inten tion v! , . • cio) to return to Italy, and accompany his ansht to England. The health of Lady Jan:, ihou 4 ti much improved, is not completely re stor. PLYMOUTH, JULY 15.—Sailed the lifenelarts and 3lutine, on a cruise ; Nymphen, for the Nore; and theSE...iftsure, to the Eastward. Dona, AUG. 13.—The sloop Isaac, of Aberdeen, Corbet, was lost yesterday off Orfordness, in a heavy gale of wind : crew sated. The British ship Three Sisterg, from Greenock, was wrecked in the Gulf of tit. Lawrence, on the 10th of April; anti all on board except the mate and one seaman perished. The Fa.,ourite, Hawkins, from Drontheim to Gibraltar, put into Youghall, on the 9th instant, leaky and datnapd. A. Madras Casette, of the Of h of JR unary, states, that Earl Mcg.a,s and his Countess were in excellent health at the latter end of the preceding month. They were highly delighted with the part of the country they had lately universe& in coosequence of the opportunities it afforded of enjoying, in the greatest perfection, the sports of the Indian field. Mrs. PADTLION, formerly Madame JEROME BONA e.tate.r-This amiable and interesting Lady has been for some time at. Cheltenham, affected by an indis position, for which she has taken the benefit of th e , waters, and the medical treatment of Dr. Sir A. B. FAULKNER; of that place. •We are happy to learn that she is now in a satisfactory train of recovery. Lord and Lady Hot.t.sxo and family arrived on Tuesday at Holland-house, Kensington, from Brussels. The gallant Major Ntc►toLl.s, who had the com mand of the Marine Battalion serving in Florida, and who was so severely wounded in that service, has come home in the Forward, with an bunion Chief, who has greatly distinguished himself by as sisting the British against the Americans, in that c - entry. The first lend of new wheat brought to Guild ford mullet oa Saturday last, sold for 191. It wawa very fine sample, from a farm at Wisborough Green, Sussex. The camps of the Allies round Paris are abundantly supplied with every necessary. The country people constantly bring in fowls and eggs, and almost every description of line fruits, which they sell at least 50 per cent, under the prices of, similar articles in Eng land. I out at a late Arial at Kerry, that the am , • of the security given by the Treasurer of th county (who has at present more ilisn 27,0001. in his bawls), is only 4,0001. The Chief Baron de clo.reil, that he would represent the circumstance to Gmernmeht. The unfortunate patients in Belklem Hospital were on Monday removed to the new Lunatic Asy lum in St. George's Fields, which is now completed for their reception. A Correspondent bas sent us the following recipe, by which, he says, it may be ascertained whether wine is pure or infected:—'Fake of the Sopertartrate of Potass two drachms, of the Sulphqret of Potass l one drachm, dissolve them in two ounces of common wetur and shake them well together frequently; keep the mixture well corked. When the powder has subsided and the liquor becomes clear, pour it into a clean phial; keep it light stopped for use. Fifteen or twenty drops are to be mixed in a glass of the suspected wine; if it turns blackish or turbid and deposits a dark-coloured settlement, it may be considered as certain that there is some deleterious article in it, hut not otherwise. This may be done without injuring the vinous fluid in any degree. A very melancholy circumstance occurred at Chat. ham, on Wednesday morning, the 9th inst. about half past six o'clock. The cook• of the Texel matt of war, in order to enable himself to maintain a wife and family of five children, occasionally toiik passel'. gers to and from the ships in theMedwayin a small boat. On the morning above mentioned, he was about to go alongside the Achilles for that purpose, but as she was to be old off on the morrow, all boats of thistle cription were forbidden to come near the ship. Un. fortunately this poor fellow, either from ignorance or otherwise, was not observant of the orders given, and was in consequence fired on by the marine on duty, and the ball passed. directly through his head; he immediately fell and expired: the whole of the affair was seen from the dock-yard.. The oars felt overboard, and the boat drifted till many surround. ing hosts instantly rowed towards it, where the hotly was found with the blood flowing from it in a stream. Jtt was taken to the bospital ship, the Argonaut, ashen the Coroner's Inquest which sat on it, found a verdict of 11441.441funleexpittst the Marine, who was committed lei the custody of the Civil Power, Costs E7MIAPII4I, Au IG.-Having an abundant supply of Wheat, and very little demand, our prices are merely nominal : nor is it possible to say at what reduction any considerable sales could be effected in the present stagnated state of the trade.—Oats, Beans, Peas, anti other articles heavy sale, and ra ther lower. DEATU OF TUE DOKE OF Sf. A LBA side denly, in a fit of apoplexy, on Saturday evening, at• half pest eight o'clock, at his house in Stratford.' place, Aubrey Beauclerk, Duke of St. Alban's, Earl of Burford, Baron Vine and 110,011 ton. His Grace ail,' Hereditary GeausiFaitener of• 1 England, and Reglster of the Court of Chancery ;1 born August 21, 176 ; succeeded his father Aubrey, the late Duke, Feb. 9, 1802; marriedyfirat, July 9, 1788, Miss Mosec, a rich heiress, by whom (who I died August 18, 18C0) he had issue, Mary, now Lady Deerhurst ; secondly, he married, August 1502, Louisa Grace, third daughter of the Lady. Louisa Manners, and niece to Wilbraham Tal lemarhe, Earl of Dysart. Heir, his Grace's infant son, boln about nine months Ante. The late Duke had been in a declining slate for some, time previous to his decease, his Grace being subject to great in ternal debility, and sudden epesesedlc attacks on the head and stomach. Previously to the day , of his death he had kept his bed for nearly a week; but on the day of the final result, he remarked, that he felt himself much better ; the attack wet instantane ously fatal. The Duchess and her sister, Mrs. DIN rymple, were in the room at the time of the melan choly event. An extraordinary transaction, which is staled to lave taken place oil the coast of Georgia, it the month of April last, is become the subject of general animadversion. It is said that about 150 negroes, who had joined our army in consequence of Sir 4. Coctia %welt Proclamation, were restored by an Officer of rank to their original owner, contrary to the faith of that Proclamation. Several British Officers who were present strongly remonstrated against the restoration, which they regarded not only as a breach of national honour, bat as the result of undue partiality, while the poor Blacks themselves, among whom were several females, deprecated the act with the most piteous lamentations, especially as to the fate that awaited them from the resentment of the owner whom they had been induced to desert, as Well from the experience of harsh treatment as from a natural reliance upon the pledge of a British Ad miral. That resentment those unhappy beings have no doubt severely felt. But the whole of this trans action is of such a nature as to call loudly for en tclry. It certainly appeals with peculiar force to the benevolent Advocates for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, by some of nhom it will, we trust, be , brought under the consldcatiou of Parliament. 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It Is reported that the French Government have it in contemplation to raise a auto of money by Lot tery, for assisting the Parisians to meet the requisi tions made by the Allies; in whioh case the Scheme and plan of Drawing will be modelled nynn We are not surprised that they should condescend to borrow from us in this particelar--eaperiallr when we look at the Scheme of the Lottery to he Drawn nest week, in which we find a list of splendid Prizes, and only Five Thousand Tickets. tkuitortrff, Ago. 14.. , SatUrday. being the stnnieersary. of the of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, eiery pos. Bible dentotiatrXtioti .Of loyalty wail evinced by the inhabitanti. At twelie o'clock the ca nn o n on t h e look - out were fired ; the. interyils betWein .the three rounds Of seven guni, tieie.apewereil by 'feu. de joie from the 49th regiment. At one, the WaR. derer fired a Royal salute. .She was, .durin g the a day, tastefully decorated with varkty of colours. The Princess Charlotte of *Otis won on board the preceding day, and enjoyed a pleasant excursion for about three hours. On the evening of Saturday, display Of fire-works took pima...Opposite the Palace, acid we can, with truth, affirm, thit it was the best collection that has been exhibited nt Weyniouth for a length of time: Yesterday her. Royal Highness, with her estiblishmene,atteutled Oiiine S..rvice, took an airing from two to four; hi the eliciting the baud attended as usual, and played tomp tine pieces of music. The tcplanade was crowded with fashion -10)16 until a late hour. I .. f '; ',ROM THE CALCUTTA PAPERS, JAN. 21, 1815.] C.Ser...e - rieront leCtcurn, Dec. 29, 1814.—0 n the 20thlve were reinforbed by the Id battalion, 7th, under Lieitt.-Colonel Lyons. This corps brought.up 1 the heavy guns frisni the camp of Colonel Adams, at ! Macron. On the evening of the 27th Lieut.-Colonel Thompson moved with part of the reserve, consist ing of the 2d, 3d; a n d li g ht infantry bettalione, as also several hundred of the Ikajell's troops, and part of the mountain train. his object was to gain the rear of the swine's position, and cut off their supplies from the fort of Mallow.). The troops reached the heights before day break; on the 28th, and he the afternoon the guns were opened spinet a ! stockade of the enemy, on the top of a lofty peak . —this fell into our possession tart night. Early this morning, the enemy were observed in the direction of those heights, where, soon after*ards, in consi derable force, they made,a gallant attack on Colonel Thompson—they were repulsed,' leaving 50 dead on the ground, and some prisoners ; it is supposed their I wounded must have been considerable.--Our loss amounted to near GO men, hors de combed,' mostly wounded, ! The result of this affair was soon evident In their evacuating the heights to the eastward of the fort, i3RIGIITON, Alta. 14. ! the two grand stockades and severel other millet • —Nom.... works; two or three of these they fired, but one of Lord Fife, Lord W. Gnrrlon, Sir Edmund Na the largest (teiten possession of ey Major limes, . gle, General Gse seine, tee 'Rev. Mr. Blomberg, with the greeadier battalion) was found complete,: and a select party had the honour of dining with the and is of great strength. !Prince Regent at the Palace, last night. His Royal Dec. 30.—1 n the attack on Colonel Thompson, , Highness wee iteadiesirible health. and spirit:. The the enemy' !ost 50 men who were Irft dead on the irmither last night turned oat very fine; the cont. ground, but carried off all their wounded. They petty on the Sieyne were elegant and nomerous, and charged thepiquds, and were received on the bayonet. groups of protnetialleis remained there u n til a ft er 11 The principal stockade is to o'clock:r amaziegly curious work . . A select party, iiiiittilieg the above Noble me n an d —perhaps I can give you some idea o f th a t a n d a ll the rest. The outside work, fir palisades, bamboo Gentlemen, dine with the Prince to-day ; and to interwoven, two door ways about three feet. high morrow, it is understood, his Royal IL:gutless takes from the ground. Within, first a r ow o f ga hi ons his departure for F ro gm or e. Th e Pri n c e , i t appears , lilted with earth, and then a stone wall three feet is much pleasecl with the manner its which the plan thick, with loop holes—surrounding the work on of alterations has been acted upon, and very few tie the inside, are sheds to preserve the men from the viations from it are now to be th e consequence o f hi s shells, and the body of the stockade excavated for visit. the same purpo s e its deep burrows, covered over with ! Ilia Royal Highness's return to this place may 1 5r trees and earth. Nothing but • regular siege shortly be looked for; and it is confidently rumoured could have been effectual against this place, there- that her Majesty, the Princesses, &c. will b e h er e , fore, how fortunate things have turned out—what before the eud of the month. Ills Reysl Highness they called the " Burrs Bar," or grand stockade, has not been seen in. public to-day, hut we under was found to be two, one within the other—the outer . stand he took exercise on horseback this morn i ng i n work like what I have described—the inner stone , the riding school. !citadel wall four feet thick, and the entrance a laby- ' Mr. Crace's residence, near the South entrance of i rinth. the Pavilion, was of the number most brilliantly il. i Came NA Atli, JAW. 3, 1811-1 now sit down to luminated on Saturday night. Doctor and Mrs. Tieruey, in honour of the Prince Reg e nt's bi r th-day, give you the particulars of by far the most disastrous e event which has yet happened, as our brave fellows entertained a numerous party to dinner, &c. on Sa• beenh turday, at their house, No. 8, South Parade.ave kill e d in c l ose conflict by the sword, and not, as before, by shot from behind walls. ; Many enquiries have been made at the Marine Lie • brery to-day, with such comments as the circumstance On the morning of the 27th ult. at an early hour, . me , rits, respecting Boyer, a man whom Mr. C. Major then)Ldlow, with the grenadiers of his Majesty's VI alker, the Master of that Library, preserved from 63d, ght companies of the 1 st, sth, and 6th, with half of the 27th, and the Ist battalion of the a eatery grave on Saturday. Boyer is under a sat- Ellsge here, in consequence of the jury he regiment of native infantry, moved up the hill, su lon which the fort of Jumpta stands, with the inten ttstainehd n"Us the u p settin g of the "It' in Me' V. .on -of possessing himself of one of the tources from we regret to state, received huts in his struggles to i which the garrison is supplied with water. Three regain the land, which he has felt mo r e severely to day titan heretofore. His humane a n d c ourageou s ' Olipitants carried two howitzers and some lIMMIIOI.. conduct is the subject well deserved of gene r al enco ! lion, &c. The grenadiers and light companies, having first gained the summit of the hill with little opposi- rnit) . l 7 t he Russian Count anti Countess 0: floe, attacked and carried one of the stockades, but last e toff - are in the d the spacious being, alas! too eager, they . pursued the flying arrival list . They have engag - Goorkaha so fast, that they left the battalion of the . apartmelits over the Marine Libr is. 6th behind them; here poor Munt was wounded in the wrist by a ball, and immediately advised to retire' The Paris Papers tell us off the Concert of CAT t in the rear; tying his handkerchief round his arm, !ANT, on Thursday lest. There nes a fracas veto he nobly refused, and gallantly cheered on the Bumf- unusual at the public' places of Pa: iv. The Fro IA rl warts, calling to them by that name; when our was immense, there being is great number of Faiglee troops came to the second stockade, the enemy sallied and other foreigners present. When those, eho had out sword in band in such nerahent, as completely bought tickets, entitling them to certain boxes, ar to overwhelm theui; they retreated and rallied three rived at them, they found them pre-occupied. The times, but were repulsed with great loss; and at last butt-openers said they could not make . the foreign compelled to retire down the hill; at this , time the Gentlemen comprehend their rules, but the Paper gallant Mont received another ball in his body ; and rensarke, that thereould comprehend the reasons of as several of his sepoys were hearing him off, geeing! the foreign dentlemen. Violent debates are men. a large party of Goorkehs close upon them, and per. tensed, het happily no other violences; though num ceiving he could not be saved, but tterattempt would hers of men, and what ti seeseie, of Ladies, passed inevitably cost the lives of Ms men, he herOically the evening in the passages. ; ordered them to put him down, and taking off his At the Quarterly . Meeting of the General Assem sword and sash, desired one of the sepoys to carry ,My of the Church Of Scotland, hed on the 9th of them to Lieutenant Dow ie, as the enemy should not ; August, eloquent and impressive speeches, were .' have them, and to save themselves if they possibly made by Dr. John Inglis and Dr. Francis Nicol, to could. Lieutenant Seyer, of the 6th, had a most . recommend and support among the people of Scotland, narrow escape; he - was wounded and left on the . the liberal and well-Merited Subscription for the ground, when the Goorkahs came up. who, al- . Sufferers of the BritesleAriny an the victory of Water though he was unarmed, barbarously gave him several 100.--:These speoclrevi were 'preserved and. reported cuts; he lay to all appearance dead, when, just as In an elaborate manner, by aUtiffirt of n:emory of sh ; a self:tatsght young man, the iref a private of the another man was going to give him the finishing blow, Major Ludlow, who rallied a small party, came up I gallaut 42d Regiment, who fell In the defence of his and saved him. country in that hard-fought and glorious battle :--- having stated his case, and simple story, elegantly Major Richards, of the 13th, with the light corn. pany of his Majesty's 53 , 1, the same companies ofd written, and being found to be well versed in Latin, Greek. and other acquirements, lie has been by the the 7th, 10th, and 26th, with half of the 27th and ' let battalion of 13th regiment of native infantry, ; fortunate notice and generous care of Robert John moved down at the same time as Major Ludlow in stone, Esq. of the Waterloo Committee at Editi another direction, to seize also upon a spring ;' our i burgh, at once placed as one of the Assistants to the troops gained their position, and took possession of ! Librarian in the University of Edinburgh. the kill, bat onfortuoately their ammunition (ailed, I At the York Assizes, the proprietors of the Tra just coac wered !' arbitrati on to when the other party was compelled to retire, : 4501. and th h, roe e costs of me t to Mrs. e NE re, w hose ay p leg and soon alter they were attacked by above 1509 of had been fractured from the overturoirg of the coach, the enemy, and obliged to commence a precipitate and was afterwards amputated. The accident had retreat down the hill, covered by two or three of the light companies." arisen from the breakiag of the axle, and Ge .De fendants scree adjudged not to hare paid sufficient at tention to its previous c.‘ntleion . The Chapel Royal, in St. James's Palace, has been'undetgoine a repair for some time, lint it. mak ing preparations for the marriage of the Duke and Duche•s of Custn EU Las n , as hag been erroneously statod, hut on accoont of the roof and the cieling being defecti , .e. The repairs are now complete, and the Chapel will be ope:t..d ag,iitt for Divine Service on Sunday next. Hist., in the last Lottery, sold in Shares 265/, a Prize and 10 other Capitals, seven of . which o w f e l re i G e ol s cl i° e ' ll Prize*. In the Lottery that ended in April lest, flestt sold all the Titre, Prins' of e 30,000, and 10 other Capitals, two of which , were Golden Prizes. Bun is now selling Tickets a n d Shares for the Lottery of only 5000 Tickets, to he all drawn the 24th of this Montt', Schemee, with particulars, to be Had et B:sn's Offices, 4, Cattle ' bill, and D, charirg.croes. Within these fen , days Weymouth has become ex tremely full of company; avid every day adds bonsi. derably to the gaiety t'f the _ al‘ - iL.r0w1ir....,L—...--- - gMlaailab ...__ '4JI . _ ~: __~.~w 4116- . r .. ~~~1 • . • MN ...l 4 ~; • 1 . I -~ A 1