The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-10-08 00:00:00

THE ST Al imam • owe of those provisces from the mother-country. We regret.en.fierd that the ravages of the yellow-fever were increasing instead . of diminishing at Barcelonetta. The number of new eases is 77, of deaths 51, of persons ' g ored only 4, and of those who remain affected, 325. The Portuguese papers which have also reached us to the 23d of September, contain details, of which a summary is given in another column, of a public fes tival which took place at Lisbon, on the 15th ult 7, when the King laid the first stone of a monument to perpetuate the memory of the revolution. The utmost cordiality, it will be observed with pleasure, appears to have prevailed on that occasion, between the King, the people and the army. French papers to the sth inst. have also come to hand. The different Presidents of the Electoral Col leges have been appointed, and have repaired to their respective districts, but the new elections have not commenced. The French Chambers are not expected to open their Session before the 25th of November. The French Funds have experienced a very consider able rise. The Five per Cents. are now 89f. 30c., and the Bank Actions 1602 f 50c. _' ~` t ~c• The following is an extract of a letter received by a gentleman of Leeds, dated Monte Video, July 23, 1b21:—" The Brazilian Government lately sent two frigates here, to take the second regiment of Portu guese Infantry sad some troops of Cavalry. General Laeoor at the same time received advice. to permit an assembly of deputies, from every small town in this province to meet and make the general sentiments of the people known. Deputies have in consequence been elected to the number of eighteen—four of which represent Monte Video, and the whole assembly offered allegiance to the Portuguese Government, on condition of their keeping a regular force here sufficient to protect the Province and the laws: the civil government to he administered by the natives or citizens. The troops are la consequence re-landed, and the frigates have returned to Rio. The people generally are well pleased with this arrangement, except a few desperate charac ters, who would hope to benefit by disorder." The Central German Committee, which has been sit ting these two years at Meats, is expected speedily to make a final report on the matters referred to it for in• restigation, immediately after which it will be dis solved. The expense attending it has been complained of by the Court of Baden. Advicea from Newfoundland to the 12th of Septem her were received on Saturday. His Excellency • the Governor embarked on the 29th of August, on board his Majesty's ship Grasshopper, Captain Buchan, and sailed for Labrador. The accounts from Labrador re ceived at St. John's, which were to the 23d of August, stated that more damage than was ever known before bad been sustained among the vessels which arrived there this season, owing to the vast quantities of ice driven on the coast. Advices from the Havannah notice the arrival of Don Julian Fernandez de lioldan, as the new Intend ant-General. This appointment had taken place in consequence of the former Intendant having entered rather too much into the views of the people of that colony. It will be remembered that the Spanish tariff has never been carried into operation at Cuba, and we understand that General de Holdall has orders strictly to impose the new dnties. Accounts from Captain Billingtninsen, covnusandet in the Russian v.)yage of discovery in the Antattic seas, (as received at Petersburgb from &tiny Bay, his let ter dated \lay, 1820,) report that he had discovered three islands covered with snow and ice, on one of which was a volcano, lat. 56. S. He announces that there is no southern continent, or should there be one, it must be inaccessible from being covered with perpe tuil snows, ice, &c. The following enumeration of a few of the Island• in the Orecian Archipelago will serve to convey some idea of its importance generally :—Candia, 160 miles lung, by from 20 to 30 in breadth ; population 280,000, of whom more than two-thirds are Turks. ' Rhodes contains nearly 30,000 souls, and possesses one of the finest ports in Europe. The population of Samos amounts to 60,000, all Greeks ; that of Scio is estimated at 150,000, of whom there is but a small proportion of Turks. Lemnos contains 80,000, and not more than 1000 Alusstilmans ; that of Negropont is 16,000. Though the population of Milo is scanty, it is extremely fertile, and has an excellent harbour. llyrda, with only 20,000 inhabitants, has fitted out several formidable squadrons, since the commencement of hostilities, and is celebrated throughout the Medi terranean, for the excellence as well as bravery of its seamen, wl►: sa intrepidity could not have been ex ceeded by the heroes of Salamin and Mycale. LIVERPOOL, OCT. s.—The weather since our last has been extremely tempestuous on the coast and neigh bourhood. On the night of Friday, and during the whole of Saturday, it blew a heavy gale, the usual ac companiment of the equinox. On Sunday and Mon day it moderated considerably, but, on Monday night, again increased. On Tuesday it abated, and the weather became mild. We have since had a good deal of humidity in the air, with little sunshine, and frequent but not heavy rains. A great deal of rain fell yesterday. On Saturday night during the heavy swell then en the river, a small boat very rashly ventured to come on shore from a coasting vessel, but was swamped, and three individuals lost their lives. The bodies were found and conveyed to time receptacle at St. Nicholas's church. The following is an extract of a letter from Paris, dated the 30th :—" The higher circles in Paris are at this moment appalled by the intelligence of an event horribly tragical in its character, and the parties in which are personages well known. I have just been told, and, unhappily, I cannot doubt the truth of my information, that 31. de P—, one of the sins of a distinguished merchant, who, by most honourably amassing a fortune, has enriched his native place, Neuchatel, had conceived suspicions of the fidelity of his wife, Mademoiselle de Their marriage was the result of mutual inclination. Mademoiselle de C-- had no fortune, that of U. de P— amounts to about fire or six millions of francs. The suspi cions entertained by M. de P— were, it appears, but too well founded. Some days ago, desirous of re• solving a fact which a wise man always leaves in doubt, be pretended to quit his residence, ►ut promptly returned, armed with a sabre, and finding his wife and her lover in a situation which was bat too convincing, he instantly killed the &reser, and left her lover for dead.r THE 1 1 11111AORDINANY MANIAC. • • Tan EITIAORIIIIIiiT MANIAC, noticed in THE STATESMAN of Rise lesesdny, has been lately watched going into the Unitarian Chapel in Essex-street, of which he had been an unworthy member, until tempted by apostolical protection to abandon the tenets of the philosophic and much respected Divine. The most hardened sinner will sometime or another be ope rated on by a qualm of conscience or remorse from a dread of futurity, which, it is said, so strongly im pressed the maniac lately, he was determined to throw himself at the Reverend Gentleman's feet, ask forgive ness, and request absolution for his manifold acts of hypocricy, falsehood and dissimulation ; but, unfor. funately, his keepers were on the look out, and pounced upon him before he could effect the desired purpose. On their seizing him, he vociferated " you villains—you robbers—you radicals—you levellers— you regicides—where's the Horse Guards ?—where's the gang ?—where's the broken down Manchester rene gades?--where's thesubscriptions ?—where's the money? —ls it come to this with me ?—Has my fellow labourer the Old Jacobin forsook me ?--where's the Bull, where's the Beacon ?—Murder, murder 1 ." One of the trained bands from the house of ill-fame near the Obelisk, came up running and cried out, dear Doctor be gentle. He looked about with a vacant stare and seemed-to. feel comfort at being called Doctor. At the moment tie higler was passing with a basket of ducks on his head, one obstroperous elf from the basket cried, quack, quack, quack—upon which, the enfuriated manias be came ungovernable, and broke loose through the Temple, where he was purued by a mob of boys, calling out stop thief ; until like a tortured Ox, he flung himself into a shop on the north side of Fleet; street, where he got the Rev. Fidler to play up " s-mallelieff, s-mallelilu," to which the Doctor added " Gre ma chret,inceet Paddy whack." The straight waistcoat being happily placed on, be was again trot quil ; he asked for the subscription list; upon findirtt it did not fill up, and that rascality was on the wane4te exclaimed, d—n the b—d gang, they are all turaed Radicals, there is not as much as will pay me 2/. 2s. a column, besides how are we to dispose of all the clerks and informers from Manchester, the beggarly draper, and Stickji,ot, the set, I'll turn Jacobin once more, and send them to Van Dieman's land, or the Cape ofliad Hope. The Reverend Fidler, then played, Alley Croker, which seemed to soothe, and he roared " music has charms to soothe the savage —," where's the money ; not that my idol ; have I not matched through the ordeal , to obtain it, have I not; what have I not done r The Reverend Fidler. seeing the lit coming on, at once played up Moll be the We'd, which so electrified the maniac that he burst forth into a horse laugh, and as a matter of course fell into histerics, where we'll leave him kicking. and the treimed Gonda in tribulation. One run for the Doctor towards the Home Office, another towards the Stamp Office fisi red ink, a third to the Treasury for a Sovereign suptie, so often and so succesefully tried upon the Doctor in these disorders. By an application of vinegar to his temples and eul rolotik to leis nostrils, he breathed• more freely and began to speak in as inarticulate manner. He'd cry. that is tba. gbest,ig, How e , no. 'di Francis, take 'm away! bleeder, murder!' How ever we might despise the wicked dispositions of the ma►►iac, the feelings of human nature forced us to quit a scene so distressing to those minds who dare think fur themselves, and the frailties of our unfor tunate composition. His Majesty, it is expected, will open the next Ses sion of Parliament in great state. The state coach, which has undergone a variety of improvements, and its beautiful paintings by Cipriani cleaned and re touched where necessary, is now complete, and with the superb harness, is in the Royal Mews. The body of the carriage has resumed its original form, being open in both front and sides, with elegant plate glass windows, so that his Majesty's person will he distinctly seen by the spectators in going to and returning from the House of Peers. The Royal squadron did not return to Portsmouth until Wednesday last. After being detained in the Downs by strong south-west winds nearly a week, the ships put to sea with rather moderate breezes, intend ing, by the aid of the tides, to beat their way back to Spithead. On Tuesday night, whilst thus employed on the coast of Sussex, it being very dark and stormy, the Royal George was nearly run down by the Active; it was the narrowest escape that could possibly happen. The Royal Oeorge yacht, Commodore the Hon. Sir Charles Paget, came immediately into Portsmouth har bour to be re-equipped, and kept in a state of constant readiness to proceed again to Calais, to convey his Ma jesty home. Tug LATE Quart's HOUIIIIIOLII.—AII the servants of the late Queen were discharged on Saturday. They received the amount of what was due to them up to Michaelmas-day. The Executors of her late Majesty, however privately disposed, could, of course, do no more for them, and no intimation was given, on the part of the Administration, that any gratuity would be given to them. It has been cestontaryon a similar breaking up of any Royal Establishment, to allow the discharged servants, if not better provided for, a year's wages in addition to what was actually due to them ; but it seems that in the present instance the custom is to be honoured in the breach and not in the observ ance. The equestrian statue of his late Majesty, George the Third, may shortly be expected to be added to the other ornaments of the town. We perceive, that the spot upon which it is intended to be erected, in Lon don-road, is now being enclosed. to enable the work men to proceed without interruption. Th. Pier of Sespension, jut completed, near New haven, was proved last week, by the weight of twenty one lons being placed between the different points of suspension, and the weight of nearly 500 persons who passed over the arches at the time of the cx periment. DIFFICULT DIT:SollIe time ago a wager was laid that Baron de Strogonoff would be strangled at Con stantinople. The Baron, on being informed of the circumstance, said, very coolly, " I'll take double the amount on the same wager, but where shall 1 direct the money to be brought to me in cam I win." There is a family la Montreal the father of which is a Frenchman, the mother a Russia', the eldest child a Make*, the ensoad a Sicilian, the third a Spa niard and the fourth a Canadian. v • -"-• • • Mit..O I CONNELL'S FUR C4P Pc. •CP — l wo • , . • .11 ; 1.. • • TO THE EDITOR. , a Cork, Oct. 1, 1521. Stn—AS my Travelling Cap seems destined to woke part of history, ! may be permitted to request. that yea will be so good as to give the most uneqnirocal emoratliction in my name, to the person, whosoever he be, who has accused me of asserting, that " I got it from the King." I iodine strongly to think, that no earthly considera tion would be sntfiCient to induce me to say so iii earnest ; and to saysoi4jest would be a dull joke indeed—dull be yond the proverbial insipidity of Bar jesting—where there is laughter much at little jest. I cannot refrain from adding,that I am astonished to find that even in Loudon, there could exist a newspaper so exquisitely silly as to notice the Fur Cap.—With which, f bare the honour to be , Your very obedient bumble servant. (Signed) at, O'CoNNELL. The Gold Cup that Dr. Syntax won at Richmond last week, is the sixteenth of his winning during the last seven years, viz.—seven at Preston ; five at Lan caster; three at Richmond; and one at Middlehatn. Game this year is considered much more scarce in Sussex, than has been known for many years. Several clerks in the Bank of England, not included in the original list of reduction, have petitioned to be discharged upon similar terms. The number of appli cants on Friday, amounted to twenty, and several others are expected to follow the example. It is presumed `that i like system will be adopted in the East India House, and several other public offices. LICENSING SYSTEM.—We are informed that, in consequence of inform ttion communicated by tbe then municipal officers to the Magistrates, the licenses of two low public-houses in this town, which are a great resort for every description of bad c h arac t ers , were , a t last licensing day • but one. suspended. They were subsequently renewed by one Magistrate ; but the dia. rafter of the houses not having been in any degree ameliorated, the present officers felt it their duty to reiterate, as strongly as they could, the repres,nta lions of their predecessors. Strange to say, however, though the licenses of these houses were again sus pended at the last licensing day, they were, a few days afterwards, again renewed. it is inconceivable wl:at interest can be so powerful as to defeat the represen tations which a regard for the public welfare hail in duced the town's officers of two successive years to make.—(Manchester G on rdiais.) Tee MANCHESTER Expaiss.—The new conveyance from London to this town, which we last week an nounced, arrived here on Tuesday, and again on Thursday (having in the interim returned to London): it reached this place about I I o'clock in the foren.ion of each day; having set out at 4 o'clock the preceding afternoon : the speed at which it is intended that the Express shall ultimately travel is I I miles per hour, including all stoppages; but whilst the concerti is in Its infancy, the projector will not attempt to make the vehicle exceed the rate of ten miles an hour. Owing to one or two little mistakes or accidents, such as are almost unavoidable in a new undertaking of this nature, the carriage was each day a little behind its proper time ; but on those parts of the journey where no ca sual circumstances occurred to retard it It) miles per hour were accomplished, and in some instances con siderably exceeded, without difficulty. The vehicle is of's peculiar construction : the body, except that it is of a width to accommodate only two persons, resem bling in shape a small chaise ; it has only two wheels, and instead of a pole has double shafts. The entrance is in front ; anti the driver and guard both sit on seats attached to the doors, which turn down upon the foot board to admit of ingress and egress. The passengers may sit, as is usual in a post-chaise, or they may at pleasure change their seat into a couch, nu which they can recline upon comfortable cushions at full length. This is accomplished by making the bottom part of the front of the carriage project under the footboard of the driver and guard, thus affording ample room for the legs and feet. There are also several ingenious contrivances to facilitate the affixing and detaching of the horses, and to obviate such accidents as might be expected to arise from their restiveness.—(.Was cheater Guardian.) Timm, Ocr. s.—Last evening this place was vi sited by a more severe storm than has been expe rienced for some years. It commenced about seven o'clock, and continued with little intermission, until twelve. The squalls of wind, accompanied by heavy rain, were so violent, that it was with difficulty those whose business compelled them to leave their houses, could keep their feet; quantities of slate fell from the roofs of the houses, and in Lemon -street, a chimney was blown dow, and injured the roof of the house to winch it belonged. A chaise which left one of the inns here, for St. Austell, after the storm bad commenced, was compelled to return, the road being rendered im passable by some large trees which were blown (lowa near Tregolis. Happily no accidents of a more serious nature occurred here, but we are sorry to find that this was not the case is other places, and we much fear that the shipping along the coast have suffered. Our Falmouth corres pondent states, that about five o'clock last evening, the wind shifted from S.W. to North and blew tre mendously bard. The Elizabeth packet parted from her moorings in the harbour, but was brought up without sustaining any damage. Several other ves sels were in distress, but the darkness of the night prevented boats from going to their assistance. One of the pilot boats belonging to the harbour was over set, and it is feared that the whole of the persons on board, five in number, perished. The particulars of the damage done to the shipping could not be ascer tained when the post left this mu+ ning. We lamtuit to add that Mr. Symons, of the Ear, near I?almouth, a most respectable shipwright, was this morning found drowned near his yard. As Icon as the storm had partially subsided last evening, he went to inspect his premises, and it is supposed that he was precipitated from the pier-head by a sudden gust of wind, and no assistance being at hind, the violence of the storm preventing his cries from being beard, he was unfor tunately drowned. Ale. Symons was a most worthy man, and is deeply regretted by all who knew him. A shocking accident happened on Saturday to a little boy, aged nine years, sun of Mr. Barton, butcher, of Shipboarne, who was carrying a quart bottle of beer to a field a short distance from home, when he tripped against a stone, and, falling on the bottle, it cut open hie side, from whence protruded his bowels, and the poor little sufferer survived only two hours.—(Kcat Oros. Oct, 5.) ........1.•••...... • COMPLICATED. ACCIDENT. On Saturday afternoon, about - three &clod:, at ' s gen•lemars SIRS driving a gigs in which was' aboi young lad, apparently his son;• ab.mt 13 years Md . , • through Strtnford-street, Blackfriarti, the horse took fright in turning the corner into filackfriars-road, and bolted violently against one 'of .the hackney coaches on the stami there. The shock threw out the gen tleman atiollte* vonng lad, as& breaking the shaf s eff • the carriage, the horse ran with the fragments behind him towards the eastern footway near Blackfriars bridge, and there knocked down two women. Ail the • passengers in that busy thorongbfare were tilled with consternation, and fleeing for security in different di •rections, when the equally alarmed and entntive•l animal suddenly turned and ran on the opposite side of the way, and there struck sith his head two other ' women, who had taken refuge on the steps of the Plate Mass Manufactory. At this juncture the career of the animal was happily arrested by the courage an exertions of the wa'ermen at the head of the bridge stairs, and the utmost attention then directed to the' various persons ho had been hurt. 'I he gentleman who had been driving the gig, very soon recovered from the effect of his fall, without receiving any seri ous hurt; the young lad was much less fortunate: One of the women thrown down near Albion-plaee, near seventy years of age, was very severely injured, and reported (we hare reason to hope erroneously) to have had one of her legs broken ; her companion re ceived a deep wound on the head. The other two women did nqt escape without injury, and the face of one of them was much bruised. All the wounded per sons were taken to a surgeon's in the neighbourhood. where immediate relief was administered, and after wards conveyed to their respective places of abode. The attention which was bestowed on the sufferers by the gentleman, whose horse was the occasion of the com . plicated accidents, was prompt and unremitted, and highly deserving of praise. Escaez.--As one of the Woolwich stare coaches was coming to town• on Saturday evening (near the Elephant and Castle,) at its usual pace, a boy with a wheel-barrow, had the temerity or care lessness to drive it across the road, immediately before the horses' heads. The attempt was made so suddenly, that the coachman, to whom no blame is imputed, found it impracticable to pull up in time, and thought it less dangerous to let the horses pass by or over the boy awl barrow, than to risk the chance of irritating the ani mals by a sudden check. The coachman pulled up the moment his carriage had passed the little vehicle, and was happy to find that the thoughtless driver had been so fortunate as to clear the wheels. The barrow was found to be overturned by the horses' feet, and in turning it up to see what injury it had met with, the coachman and passengers found, to their inexpres sible surprise, a young infant turned out of it, with- out having received any hurt but a few slight bruises from some of the broken parts of the barrow. ' PARENTAL AFFLICTION BELIE p.—We are happy to inform our readers who were interested in the fate of the infant lost while gleaning in the fields near Nocton Heath, that the little wanderer has been found. Through the kind exertions •f the Honourable Mr. Robinson, it was discovered tinder a hedge, three or four fields from the place where it hail left the other children. The night which the little sufferer passed in the field Was wet and cold, and life was nearly extinct. Both Mr. Ro binson and his lady were present—Lady Sarah It. procured all the meatus necessary to aid restoration, which happily was effected. Rine isrreoeurv.—A rare instance of integrity of conduct has this week come under our notice, which deserves to be recorded. About six years ago a tradesman residing in this place fell into decay. and finding his embarrassments insurmountable, he left the town considerably in debt. His creditors soon began to consider their claims desperate, and mane of them had long ago placed the ominous word bad opposite the entry in their ledgers. But on Monday morning. last each of them received a circular, requesting that they would meet the debtor and his wife on the arrival of the itippon coach at the White Horse inn, Leeds, and bring with them their accounts. This welcome invitation was, of course, readily accepted, and as each account was presented it was discharged, without any deduction. The aggregate amount of the debts thus honourably liquidated we have not heard ; but we know that one tradesman, a timber-merchant in this place, received 1091. The lady, who took an active part in this pleasurable duty, has, we hear, had lately a handsome fortune left her, at her own disposal; and one of the first purposes to which she has applied her well-merited wealth has been to discharge all her buss band's debts.--( Leeds Mercury.) AIJRKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, OCT. B.—We had an immense sup ply of Wheat this morning from Essex, Kent, Suffolk, and the Northern Seaport Counties, which, together with what remained over from last week's arrivals, pro duced an almost total stagnation in the trade, and what sides were made were only of the finest old Wheat, which obtained last Monday's prices; but New must be quoted nominal, as no sales could be effected from the damp state of the samples.—Barley and ;leans are 2s. per qr. cheaper ; but Oats, although the arrivals are very large, fully support last Monday's prices. ENULISH. Buell Beans ... 38 40 Tick ditto 34 U Oais, Potatoe 3ll 33 Ditto, Poland 3O 33 Ditto, Feed 10 II Flour, Per Seek 00 03 Rapeseed, per Last II 33 FOREMV. S. S. Wheat. Kent, sad Essex New 4O 64 01d....:..... 60 70 Suffolk, (New).r... 9 40 64 74 00 Norfolk Ol d, (Old) Rye 3O 34 Barley 4B 40 Malt . 84 79 White Peas Wheat, American.... Dantzie Baltic. Red Boilers. Grey ditto 29 33 . SMITH ?I t LD MARKET, OcT. S.—There WU an abundant supply of every description of Cattle at market this morning, in consequence of which the market was heavy, and the prices are lower than last week's market. '. U. Ilatabio' Red .. .. (To sink the offal ; per Stone of Sibs.) . Beef .... 34. Otl. to 4s. 04. CATTLE AT 'cumin. Mutton.. 2s. Od. to 4s. 0(1.I Beasts . 70 W Veal .... 3s. .to 3s. 0.1. Calves . 3 1 43 Perk ... . Si. &I. to 4s. 61. Sheep and Lambs ....21.9M Lush.— Os. Od. to Os. Od. Pigs HAT MAIIIKIT.—No alteration is the price of Hay this woroing.—Straw sod Clover as per our last. Hay .... NAN. to H. &L I Straw —II Bs. to U. We. Clover ..111.10s. to al. Os. -' .I'' -______ '4l.' I , . 4 !% .-; f lb.