The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-12-25 00:00:00

V - E , • a MEXII The latest news from Bleak°, received in Havan nah, up to the 21st ult states the arrival on the 11th Nov. of the Spanish ships of war Asia, 64 guns, and Diamante frigate, L out Vera Cruz, after 17 days' pas sage, having on board his excellency Apodaca, Count del Venito, the Ex-Viceroy of Mexico, and his family, with a great number of other passengers, and specie and valuables to the amount of eighteen millions of dollars ; the Asia brought four millions of dollars.— Wes Cratz bad been cvacnated, and garrisoned by the Independents ; but the Governor, Don Jose Davilay, Marisa de Campo, had retreated into the Castle of . Sr. Juan de Ulna, with between three and 400 men, having previously disarmed the inhabitants of Vera Cruz. He was determined to defend the fortress, un til be had orders -from Madrid how to act. The King's late Lieutenant, Saint Anna, now in the Independent Service, was daily expected there with 700 men from Orizaba. With this trifling exception, the kingdom of Mexico, with its annual revenue of six millions of dollars, are lost to Spain. The Governor of the Ha vaanah was preparing an expedition of 400 men to send to the relief of Don Jose Davilay. The late new Viceroy of Mexico died, it is supposed by poison, a few days after lie had signed the Treaty in the Villa Cordova, with the Independent Chief Yturbide. He had only arrived there about two months from Old Spain, in the Asia. It was expected that Yturbide would be immediately elected Emperor of Mexico.— In the King's service, he was Colonel of the regiment Valladolid ; there being- an insurrection in Acapulco, in February last, the Viceroy sent him with a full force to quell it, but, on his arrival, he and all the troops declared against the King. Acapulco had de clared its;independency, and two Spanish frigates were, by the latest accounts, lying there, having declared for the new Government of M. siva. The Independents appear to be in quiet possession of the whole of Costa Firma. Carthagena had been given up on terms honourable to the Spanish army, and Torres, the Ex-Governor, had arrived, with his Garri son, at St. Jago de Cuba. The coast of Cuba, and neighbouring seas, had been very much infested with pirates. The United States brig Enterprise hail captared four of these marauders, and re-captured their prize, the ship Lucie, of New York ; the former had been carried to New York, and the latter sent into the Ilavannah. His Majesty's ship Parthian, Captain Lloyd, arrived there from Omoa and Troxillo, on the 17th of November, and was to proceed to .Jamaica the day after the Ontario sailed. In Havannah, we are informed, things appeared in a very klooeny way. Trade was perfectly at a stand, each Mall being afraid to entrust his nearest relations with Li. sentiments ; all appeared hushed to foreboding stillness. An insurrection of the negroes was pro jo ► ted, headed by stmt. priests ; it was discovered, hi - met - or, early in November, just in time to prevent a recurrence of the St. Domingo scenes of butchery. There are three political 'parties in Havannals—the Cubanese, who want independence and a republic ; the second are friends of the present system ; the third are for the old regime. 'nine parties are kept in awe by the mulattoes and blacks, who form nearly two tt.irds of the population. RIO JANEIRO. Extract of a letter from Rio Janeiro, dated October 21. IS2l: _ The Morgiana, Captain Finlaison, has had her de. tained slaver, the Anielia schooner, with 315 slaves, be longing to Bahia, condemned to her. The Morgiana haysailed to day fur Pernambuco. The squadron on this station, under Sir Thomas Hardy, are all round Cape Horn, except the Slaney and Beaver, which are in the River Plate, the Dotis, at Pernambuco, and the Au rora frigate, Captain Prescott, C. B. which is here : these ships are lying for the protection of the British ii.terest at these respective places. Pernambuco is at yiesent rather in an unsettled state. A Portuguese fri gate sailed hence last week, to take on board the Gover cor, and convey him to Lisbon, to account for his con &let before the Cortes. Prince Don Pedro's birth-day 'was celebrated here on the 12th inst. with very distin guished splendour. The good people of Rio like him very much. The English and French ships tired a royal salute on ft's• occasion. The French squadron here con s:st: of t . 'Jean Bart, 8.1; Clorinde frigate, 50 guns; An:igont, 46 guns. The Clorinde proceeds to Valpa raiso as soon as refitted. Sir T. Hardy sailed from Val paraiso for Lima, at the latter end of July; the Owen Glendower was to remain until relieved by the Conway, when she was to proceed to this place antlEngland. The ship Alexander, in sixty days from Guernsey, and the Nightingale, of Greenock, in sixty-nine days from Li verpool, arrived here on the 16th inst. NRIV ZEALAND. On Monday (yesterday se'nnight) his Majesty's store-ship Coromandel, Mr. James Downie, Master, ar il% ed from New South Wale•, last from Mercury Bay, New Zealand, with a cargo of timber, hissing had a pleasant direct passage thence, round Cape Horn, of only fifteen weeks, without a day's foul wind. She is come into the harbour to unload the timber, which is a species of fir, of similar appearance to the Amerrcan pitch pine (called by the natives Cowdie) but it is strong as well as light, and is peculiarly well adapted to top-masts of line-of-battle ships. A detachment of the 82d regiment, which went out to cut the timber, has lauded at Fort Cumberland. The natives of New Zealand behaved with remarkable civility to the officers and crew of the Coromandel ; one of the officers and his servant made an excursion of three hundred miles into the interior, and was in every part treated with attention and respect. The natives have made very evident improvement in the scale of civilisation, from their intercourse with the missionaries; one proof which was not quite so agreeable to our people—they barter in trade now for value in gold and silver coin, and not for pieces of lead and copper, and common or nanmental trinkets, as they used. it is a very fine island, and, as the natives entertain just and honour able notions of the character of British officers, all its useful productions may be easily obtained. There was no appearance whatever, at any of the places visited, of canibalism, or of those disgusting sensual practices which formerly prevailed. The Coromandel left Port Jackson in July last, when the colony was most ra pidly improving in agricalture, commerce, and evin in many of the refinements of society.—(Homphire Te legraph.) 'AT CHN►TYIS DAr.-lloliday at the Public Offices. LONDON? TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1821. Accounts have been received this morning, that the Light House of Dungeness has been struck by light ning on the 22d inst., and shivered to pieces. Extract of a letter from Jamaica, dated Nov. 2 : An application has been made to Rear Admiral Sir C. Rowley to grant a convey to the Trade, bound to Santa ilartha and Savattilla, to sail frorn Port Royal, from the 18th to the 20th inst. The Rear Admiral, in reply, states, that he has not at present a vessel of war to spare, but the first that arrives will he ordered for that service. The Spanish brig Maipo, from Lima to Cadiz with a considerable MIM . 11) specie on board was taker., to thi l Southward of Rio Janerki, by a Corvette of 22-gtns, • under the Buenos Ayres 14. On the 2.5 th of June, the Chilian squadron under Lord Cochrane accotopa . flied by five ships, and several transports, made an at. tack on the port of Callao, which surrendered after three hours resist►nce. Three Spanish frigates, one of 42 guns, and the others 314 t.vo armed brigs, and several merchantmen fell into his Lordship's possession; and property to a large amount WAS taken. By the Sybille we learn that a considerable body of Patriots had appeared otf Vera Cruz, and that the Vice Roy had gone to Coolova to meet their Com mander, with a view of entering into some amicable arrangement. Orders ►were sent by him to the' lio vernor of Vera Cruz to open the gates and admit the troops, but this was refused. Previously to the sailing of the Sybille fiom naval - mall, accounts were received of the Patriots having obtained possession of Vera Crux, and Campeacity would soon declare in favour of their independence. ter : Accounts received from P:tris represent the Mli►.istry as t►ot yet perfectly settled. 'the King, who, it is understood reluctantly yielded to the change, is said t o be strongly attached to the Duhe Decazes, and in clined to introduce him into such a situation in the Cabinet as would neutralize the Ultra senti►nents of the Ministers. The removal of the Duke de Richelieu is generally thought to he unrovonrable to the Rus sian interest. and is reported to have chagrined the Russian Ambassador. The Dublin papers receive) this morning contain a brief report, which we have inserted in another Co. Imo, of the proceedings which took place at Lime rick, under the Special Commission on 1 hursday. We are happy to have no oceasision to add any fresh accounts of outrage, to the melancholy intelligence of the various other hinds from that unfor►unate part of the country. In our last page we have inserted, from the provincial journals received this week, some ac counts of the storms and rains which have prevailed for some time past, in different districts of tke king. dom. To this we had to add an account, brought by post to-day, of one of the effects of the tempest that occurred on the coast of Bent on Saturday. —ln many places it is a common question, did you ever know such weather ? The quantity of rain, in deed, appears to be unusually great, but heavy gales and showers are always found to occur in winters that are extraordinarily mild. Many of our readers will remember that this was the case in that winter when Aylmiral CHRISTIAN'S fleet made so many perilous at tempts to proceed down Channel fur the Vest Indies ; and some of them will also recollect that the winter was similar, when the copper roof of the Six Clerks office, in Chancery-lane, was carried off by a tempest. That occurrence took place too at a like season of the year, December 23d, 1790, and the hurricane which then swept across the whole island from the North west,and marked its path with havoc, was accompanied with torrents of rain and bail, and with the loudest thunder and most vivid lightning ever witnessed in inglanal in winter.—Among the memorabilia of this winter, chequered as it has been with clouds and storms, are the mildness, serenity, and brilliancy of the present (Christmas) Day. A Requisition to the Lord Mayor, from the inha bitants and Householders of Dublin, is in the course of Signature calling on his Lordship to convene a Meeting fur the purpose of addressing Mr. Grant.— (Dublin Evening Post.) The Mayor of Curk has complied with a requisi tion fur an application to Parliament to repeal the Win dow Tax. The Magistrates of the county of Tipperary agreed unanimously, at a late meeting, to present a memorial to Marquess Wellesley, praying the immediate renewal of the Insurrection Act. The " Aldermen of Skinner's Alley" had a Meeting on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of voting an Address to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant.— (Deblia Paper.) It is Mr. Gordon, of Cairness, who has been ap pointed by the Greeks to the important command of the fortress of Tripolis:a, having 1500 men under his orders. In a letter from Corfu, in the French papers; be is named Sir Thomas Gordon, and is said to have arrived in the Peloponesus in the beginning of Aug., with a supply of arms and ammunition, and accompa nied by many English and French officers.—(Edin burgh Star.) siA ~.. _. 1 A" • Ik IRELAND. i t , ia • • !t ill !' Limeatex, Dee2o.—This morning Baron iteisti. the tAxo and Mr. Justice Mows toek their seats . on Bench a little after nine o'clock. , Martin Grady and John Grady were then placed at the Bar. They were indicted for feloniously taking a sword from Edward Morgan, at Dunmoylan, ou the 10th of August last. David Carton, John Diatom, and John Mullane, were then placed at the Bar and indicted, for that they did, on the 25th of November, feloniously break into the house of.lehn Reilly, of Church town, in order to compel him to quit the place, and fur assaulting the said John Reilly. The prisoners pleaded not guilty. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated to the Court, that, in consequence of the youth of the prisoner David Carton, it was not the intention to prosecute him, con ceiving he must have been misled. The other two men were found guilty. Daring the trial it transpired, th..t a subscription purse had been opened at Newcastle, for the defence of such men as might be taken and bronght to trial for crimes connected with the disturbances of that part of the country. The reading of the fGllowing document, which was identified by one of the witnesses, excited great laugh. John Reilly, 1 desire you to quit this place, or else you may expect the same usage Sparling got : and I warn all persons to hold no communication with John Reilly, or they will be used as Spilling was. I desire you, John Woods, to quit Reilly 's company, which you were noticed before; and if you do not, you will be tried by the Canonical Laws, established in the Reign of Queen A tine. (Signed) (7aptain JOHN ROCK, Ranger of the Roads. The following pri ;oners were then placed at the Bar : John Ward, Patrick Brown, Thomas Lee, Morgan Organ, George D' Arco, Pat. Enright, Thomas Kea, Daniel Keef, John Finn, ;tad Pat. Cregan. The prisoners were indicted under the White Boy Act, for unlawfully assembling, and for assaulting Ca therine Hassell, and pleaded not guilty. . _ The prisoners were acquitted on the capital counts, hut found guilty of the assault. Mr.Goulburn arrived in Dublin on Thursday evening , and the Marquess of Wellesley wasexpected on Wedues• day. A programme of the ceremonial which will be ob served on his Lordship's landing at the Pigeon Ilouse. and the procession to the Castle, has been issued from the Mice of rms. His Excellency Earl Taihot will bold an Undress Levee at the Castle, on 'Thursday, prepa ratory to his departure from Ireland. Letters from Bombay mention that the new teak built ship Ganges, of ti 4 guns, was to be commissioned by Captain F. A. Collier, and all the officers and men of the Liverpool would he turned over to her, on the return of that ship from the Persian Gulf, which was expected in January. The Liverpool will he broken up. The Ganges may be expected in Ettglend in May. IV. Balhatchest, Esq. Secretary to Sir 11. Blackwood, had been appointed Purser of her. Commodore the Hon. Sir Chas. Paget is appointed to command his Majesty's personal frigate-yacht the Apollo, with a complement of 300 men ; and Capt. the Hon. Thos. Medea Capel, C.B. (brother of the Earl of Essex,) is appointed to command the Royal George yacht, on her usualestablishment. The Apollo yacht is to be fitted in every respect as the Royal George. The Ifith Lancers have received orders to take an other route. They are not to go to India till 1823, i n consequence of the disterbances in Ireland. We understand that it is ietended to celebrate the anniversary of his Majesty's Accession to the Throne on the 29th of January nest, by a Public Dinner at the City of London Tavern, and that a list of Stewards is forming in the City for that purpose.—(Courier.) We understand that fifteen clerks were yesterday discharged from the Navy Office. They are to re reive a moderate pension, according to their length of services. A number of clerks, it is said, will be dis charged from all the Departments. Na "'Twirls Witte CLon.—On Monday last, the Nantwich branch of the Whig Club of Cheshire, and neighbouring Counties, held their first meeting at the Crown Inn, Nantwich. Amongst the company were, Lord Crewe, Mr. Toilet, Mr. E. D. Davenport, Mr. George Wilbraham, and many other gentlemen of dis tinction in the political world. (The Society, it was resolved, should henceforth be called the " Whig Club of the town and neighbourhood of Nantwich.")— Lord Crewe was in the Chair, and Mr. Toilet (in the unavoidable absence of his son, Mr. Wickstead) in the vice chair. Many able and constitutional speeches were delivered (of which we regret our limits will not permit us an abstract) elucidating the present cir cumstances of the country ; and in which, Mr. Toilet, and Mr. Wilbraham, were forcible and eloquent. The Chester Guardian concludes a lengthy, and well-drawn report of the proceedings, by observing, "it was really a feast of intellect, as well as (thanks to our host) a feast of good things, and it will long be re membered as a proud day fur Nantwich. A meeting of agriculturists took place at Stow-on the-Wok], on the Sth inst. to petition Parliament for relief. The principles adopted in the resolutions somewhat differ from those of our late county meeting: after shewing the distress to which the Farmer is reduced, the 3d resolution says—" It is we think absolutely necessary the currency should be increased, and such laws enacted that will preclude the feasibility of an importation of -raw produce, similar to that produced on our own soil, except in times of absolute necessity. That if this system should continue to be rejected, it is then imlispen 'ably necessary that the burtisen should he throws on the real property of the country, and not on industry as is too much the case at present, by • heavy Property Tax, or by one grand and progressive scale 'of sacrifice according to the property possessed, pay off half the National Debt, which would so in crease the value of the remaining property. that there would shortly be but little loss, or some other plan that will throw the barthen on the real capital of the country." THE Sy NIGH WATEJR AT LONDON-BRIM:1E re-menial Morning 22m. after S.—Evening 40 en. after L . r -P DISTRESS OF THE POOR THE BOUM-KEST OE IRELAND, OCCASIONED By Tat LATE RAINS. On Friday last, a Meeting of the principal 'ah e m. tants of the town and vicinity took place at the C ourt House, to consider the propriety of entering into Sub. scriptions, for the purpose of purchasing an immediate supply of fuel, and also of provisions, to be deli vered under the management of a Committee to the Poor of the town.—(Clare Jourrial.) The whole south of Ireland is stated to be in a state or extreme misery, and some parts threatened with a Ermi ne among the poor. The following is an extract of a pri• rate letter, which gives a melancholy picture of the con. •lition of the labouring peasantry. It is dated the 20th instant, from a place within about fifteen miles of l A . merick The Special Commission has sat in Lime r i c k, Eleven have been tried, and of these nine capitally con. victed. Every kind of intimidation is used. Notice s h ave been posted up all over the country, threateni ng th at two Aristocrats,' no matter who they were, should die for every Roekite' who should be hanged.... Every thing threatens a dreadfully severe winter to the poor. The rain is incessant. The p o t atoe crops have been very bad, and of the Mu. grr.vth, part is so bad as not to keep fur the winter. This is a real famine to the poor in this country, w h o " chief food this is. There are several poor families about me who have not as much as will last them two months. The stock should last until May. Of firing they are utterly destitute. The turf has been all de. stroyeil in the bogs by the rain. So dreadful is the want of fuel, that rich orchards and beautifal planta tions are cut down vi et emus, in open defiance of the owners. The wood of every kind is carried away in cartluads. If the military (who, by the bye, can't compass what is more strictly their service against the rebels, as they are called) interfere to prevent the poor from plundering in this way to obtain tiring, the Coo *equence will be starvation." The report of the loss of the Kite, Revenue Cutter, Li vt “. Collingwoad, is, we are happy to may, tilatrur. • - - She encountered all the late storms, mud is now iu Vestry Bay. A gentleman, recently returned from a journey !smug!' Liverpool, Manchester, and Preston, reportb, hat the manufactories there are hi full troth, and that all hands are employed. As a proof of the improvement of trade in Birming ham, it is stated in 4tiB'it Gazette, that in the course of the last year, 271 boys have left the Lancasterian school in that town, the greater number of whom have been rrmoved for the purpose of being placed in situa tions of active employment. As an evidence of the value of labour steel may he made three hundred times dearer than standard gold, weight fur weight; six steel wire springs for watch pendulums weigh one grain, to the artist, 7s. Gd. earls, equal to 21. ss.—one grain of gold only 2d. QUEEN'S PLATE COMNITTSIL.III consequence of the many appeals on the subject of the Queen's Plate, the gentlmen who contracted for its manufacture have written to the Committee to assure them that they will endeavour to have the model complete within a month from the date of their letter. A CHRISTMAS ANECDOTE. — The following anec dote had used to be related by Mr. R C a wholesale mercer, of Milk-street. London:—" I was apprenticed to a sillc-manufacturer in Spital-fields, and during my apprenticeship my friends allowed Inc 3s. 6J. a week for pocket-money ; 1 got a tin box made with a slit at the top, into which I every Saturday night dropped my extra sixpence ; on Christmas eve broke open my box, and the following morning sal lied forth in search of objects on whom to bestow toy bounty, which in that district were tolerably nosne rous, giving to each family in proportion to their num ber, and what I considered their deserts, not exceed ing half-a-crown to any, or lees then a shilling ; and I assure you, that when I sat down to my dinner, the reflection that I bad given one to many others was a high relish to my own." An example worthy imita tion by young persons in general. That destructive and depopulating malady, the small-pox, has, we regret to say, increased to an alarming height, in the city of Chichester, an evil solely attributable to the prejudices of the ignorant part of the community—prejudices, which have been strengthened by the interested views of quacks and empirics.—The National Vaccine Establishment has communicated with Wus. Esq , the Mayor of the above city, and, by way of caution, has transmitted to him an admonition to the public. This measure, it is to be hoped, will tend to impede the far ther progress of this contagion. Last Friday, a small spermaceti whale , 29 f e et in length, was brought into Looe, which produced nearly forty gallons of oil. The Duke of Buccleugh has at this time on Isis es tate at Dalkeith, a crop of onions which equal the war of the largest produced in Spain, heavier for their hulk Griner and more pungent, which were raised in the fu.' lowing manner; as soon as the produce of the seed beds attained a proper size, a moist day was chosen 1,,r taking up the plants, which were then immersed in a mixture of one part of soot and three parts earth, as.tl then transplated by drilling, about four- inches asunder, in tows, and afterwards carefully hoed. ELEGANT GLASSES, FURNITURE, &c.—The nobility and gentry are invited to inspect the Ware-roews 01 COOPER and Sox, 93, Ilishopsgate-street within, where is exhibited an assortment of new and second-band Plate Glasses, admirably suited to every description of draw ing or dining-rooms. In the furniture department is comprised every new and elegant article of up!soN.eiy. cabinet, and chair work, the pries' of which are redireil ,to such a scale of economy as to attract and senors ti.' patronage of rank and fashion. A 4 74. . • ( • 1 V DISTRESS OF THE POOR - - - nr IRELAND. OCCASIONED By Tat int *tatttintatt. " TUE STAISSIA AN" IS tscoßPoisTlin WITS " STATESMAN." ski Pl c • °P i cos $ 1 . 1" s~