The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-11-03 00:00:00

POPULATION. By the census lately taken of the inhabitants of the County of Armagh, we find an increase of numbers to the amount of 17,931 persons, since the year 1814. At that perioi the total population of the district amount ed to 176.213 individuals. At present the aggregate is 123,144. We subjoin. from the " Historical Me moirs of the City of Armagh," the former return for the Reader's satisfaction B a ronial Statement of the Population of the County of Armagh, for the year 1814. Armagh - - 32.708 Uppor-Orier - 24,104 Lower-Grier - 12,864 O'Neiland-West - 33,160 O'Neilaud-Last - - 15,509 Upper-Pews • 19,617 • Lower-Fews - 17,291 Tureny - - 13,n7 Total Population of the County, 176,213 The Baronial Return fur the year 1621, is as ful- lows : Barony of Armagh - Tureny Upper-Pews - Lower-Fews - O'Neilaod-West O'Neiland-East Upper-Orier - Lower•Orier - 36,160 16,180 184169 18.694 39,462 17,953 23,801 21,990 Total population, 194,149 From these returns two important deductions may be made. by statibtical writers. The first is, that ac cording to the present ratio of increase, the population of the County of Armagh would be doubled in number in the course of 68 5 6th year?, if the augmentation than not be restrained by the increasing difficulty of obtaining fi,0.1 and raiment for such an immense multitude' of human beings, collected into such nar row. houads. The second object worthy of attention is, that there is only three roods, eight perches, and a fraction of land, Irish measure, to each individual in that county; Hr. Beaufort estimates the acreable contents of the runntv of Armagh, at 181.450 Irish acres, but the data which he assumes will not support his conclusions, and a mare satisfactory calculation may be made from a correct mu vec executed by Messrs. 19iMem and Cun ningham 51•Crea, in the years 1776, 1777, and 1778. — From 'licit map, it appears, that the greatest length of the et-panty of Armagh from Lough Neagh, southward, is 23 miles—the greatest breadth, from Colonel Leslie's pleases/RN at Glasslougls, in an eastern direction, to that of John H. Reilly, Esq. at Scarvabridge, 16 miles; the wan length 19/ miles; the mean breadth 124 miles, measured in a dire Ct-line across the face of the country, as represented on ihe..map, By multiplying the mean length and breadth into each .other, we find the square miles, each of which contain 640 acres, thus-19.5/ 1:!.5 = 243.75 square miles, Y. by 640 = 156,000 Irish acres.—(lliatory of Armagh, P. 575.) Now, the present population of the county amounts to 194,144 persons, of course there are but three roods eight perches and 3-stlis to each individual. When we reflect that the county of Armagh con tains no large cities or very populous towns, this may well be deemed an astonishingly great rural popnla tion.—lt is also worth remarking, that the long csta hlishtnentof Use linen trade in that country,has caused a minute subdivision of lands—and that notwithstand ing this circumstance, much wheat, oats, and flower, are exported front the county of Armagh to other less pu pa:nos districts. In fact, it is more than compe tent to supply its own population with vegetable, though not with animal food. It issomewhat singular, that titevt appears a decrease in the population in the barony of tipper Pews since 1814 of 748 l ersons. The census for the county of Louth gives a po pn'tation of 101,167 Poulson an area of 110.750 acres. Thete are, therefore, 1 acre and 161 perches of ground to each individual ; a dense population, but far short of that contained in the counties of Armagh or Mo naghan, when compared with the acreable surface. In the census taken a few years ago, Armagh was found to ba the most populous county in Ireland, with respect to rural inhabl:ants.—Monaghan made a near approximation to Armagh. Louth was the third ; and it is probable that the returns in the present census will atiord a similar result. We learn from the learned De Barghe, author of tile Hibernia Dominicana, that about the year 1760, tit. county of Armagh, contained 63,210 souls—that of Louth, 46,102. We are also informed, in the Ilibertiorurn, that in the year 1644, the citizens of Dublin were numbered, and found to be of Pro testants, 2365 men, an►l 2,946 wont.l--of !tom to Catholics, 1,202 men, and 1,506 women. Of course this latter ceissus included none but adults. De Iturghe estimates the content.- of the county of Loath, at 111,180 acres—bot Beaufort, whose calcu lation in this respect, is not, we think, liable to any objection, states it more correctly at 110,750 acres.— (Beanforea Memoir of a Mop of Ireland. p. 20-1116. Dom. p. 15 ) POPULATION OF TOL CITY OF LINIERICL—TotaI, 8236 houses, 66,043 inhabitants. The city of Lime- rick contains a Catbedr4l, 3 parish churches—l cha pel of ease-4 Wonsan Catholic parish chapels—a meeting house for Presbyterians—a slethodist chapel —a Quaker's meeting house—a fever hospital—a cus tom-h►►ase—a court house and two gaols, with a bar rack, which, at the time of taking the account was oe cupled by 1103 officers, non-cornwiseioned racers, privates, and their families. AMERICAN BONN ETS. Much having been lately urged by Mr. (7ohhett in favour of American Bonnets, made of vas, to imitate Leghorn, we extract the following paragraph from the Neat York Commercial Advertiser of October 8, relative to two beautiful bats manufactured from the same ma terial:— BIAUTIFUL Asuctate.—The Misses Blirnap, of Merrimac, N. H. have manufactured and sent to town, two Hats, made of native grass, one of which has been pronounced by judges of the article to be much finer and more flexible, than any imported Leghorn. of No. 60. Roth of them are much superior to the one made by these ladies, which was lately sold in this town. They are now deposited in the Suffolk Insurance Office, and we learn, will he offered for sale at Brighten, on Wednesday. --it is hoped the beauties of the metropolis will not suffer these really elegant articles of dress to be sent to any other place t though it is expected the foshionables of other towns will Meow coespeeiters for thorium. Should one of them be purchased for the lady of the tiresident of the United ROsa*. we vague tosay, that Wlarawhieh wave over the fair face steely el Loilliesiaibe Capitol. will be bead to exceed dot ia flosoele, 'elm. se Senibility.-.- Xlhe GOO THB S . . NSW SPAIN. ' DECLARATION OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF MEXICO. FROM THE CHARLESTON GAZETTE OF SEPT 27J By the arrival yesterday of the brig Catherine: Wellsman, in five days from Havannah, we have re ceived some late accounts from Mexico, and particu larly from the seat of war. A cessation of hostilities between the Patriots and Royalists has taken place. Oa the 11th of August, Colonel Santana had agreed to the proposition of the Viceroy, that the gates of La Vera Cruz should he thrown open the next day, the prisoners on both sides liberated, and the country people be allowed to come unarmed, and in no great numbers. (f he bases of the agreement consist of twenty-four articles, of which the following are the chief :) " Plan of the Government that is to be established provisionally for the purpose of securing our holy reli gion, and establishing the independence of the Mex ican empire, under the title of the Administration Junta of North America, proposed by Colonel Don Augustin de Yturbide, to his Excellency the Count del Venadito, Viceroy of New Spain :" 1. The religion of New Spain is and shall he the Ca- tholic Apostolic Roman relig►on, without toleration of any other. 2. New Spain is independent of Old Spain. 'ma of every other Power, eve►► upon our own continent. 3. Its government shall be a limited monarchy, con formably to the Constitution that may be adopted by the kingdom. 4. Its Emperor shall be Don Ferdinand the Seventh ; but in case he shall not personally appear in Mexico within Ike time that the Cortes shall specify, in order to take the oath, the most Serene Infant Don Carlos, Don Francisco de Paulo, the Archduke Charles, or such other individual of the reigning family, as Congress may think proper, shall be called in his place. 5. Until the Cortes shall meet, there shall be a Junta for the purpose of bringing about such meeting, and causing the plan to be executed in its full extent. 6. Said Junta, which shall he denominated Adminis trative, is to be composed of the Members named in the letter of his Excellency the Viceroy, by which it shall he convened. 7. Until Don Ferdinand the Seventh shall present himself in Mexico and take the oath, the Junta shall goveru in his Majesty's name, in virtue of the oath of fidelity which the nation bas taken. Nevertheless the execution of all the orders that he may give previously to his taking the oath, shall be suspended until then. S. If Dun Ferdinand the Seventh sk.ll not concdo. seem! to come to Mexico, the Junta or the Regency shall govern in the name of the nation, until the Em peror who is to be crowned shall be fixed upon. 9. This Government shall be maintained by the army of the Three Guarantees hereinafter mentioned. 10. The Cortes shall determine upon the cons►itution of a Regency, until the arrival of the person who is to be crowned. 11. The Cortes shall afterwards establish the Consti tution of the Mexicali Empire. 12. All the inhabitants of New Spain, without any distinction of Europeans, Africans, or Indian•, are cid• seas of this monarchy, and eligible to every °lke. ac cording to their merit and virtue. (IFROX THE IiALTI3IOIIC •11111ERICAM. OCT. 4-) LATEST FROAI Mg XICO.—A r tides of adjustment entered into between the Patriots and Royalists, at Cordova, on the 24th (Alto* last. Articles of adjustment entered into at Cordova, between Dun Juan O'Dotinju, Vire Moir, an 4 Din Manuel I turliidr, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Mexi can Forces:— I. This America shall be Sovereign and Independent, and called the Mexican Empire. 2. Its Government shall be a moderate Constitutional Monarchy. 3. Ferdinand VII. on coming to Mexico, shall reign ; in default, his heirs, or successors in doe order. 4. The Emperor shall tie his Court in Mexico, the Capital of the Empire. 5. Two Commissioners from Signor Don Joan O'Do noju, shall depart, and catry to the King of Spain this treaty; in the meantime the Codes of the kingdom offer him the Crown under proper guarantees and forms and request his compliance with the 3d article. b. Cold . ..instable to the spirit of the plan of equality, there shall be formed a Junta of the chief persons of the Empire for their virtues, their employments, their cha racter, their riches, and the esteem they hold in public opinion, the number of whom are suthdeutly consider able, that the re-union of their talents will assure obedi ence to their determination that shall sate from the authority and powers given thew ifa llowing Arti cles:— •eb 7. The Junta shall be called a Provisional Govern ment. 8. Senor Don Juan O'Donojn shall be a member of it —hut it is indispensible to omit some persons named in the plan, in conformity with the spirit of its intentions. 9. The Junta shall elect a President, by a majority of votes, either from among its own members, or from the public in general. 10. The first act of the Junta.shan..lie to inform the' people of its installation, motives of its restinioo, sad any further explanations they may think a public uti lity; and the mode to be adopted for clad% Members to the Cortes. 11. The Junta, after electing its President, shall none a Regency of three persons, chosen either from among themselves, or the public, in whom shall be vested the executive power and government of the Emcee till di. arrival of the Monarch. 12. The Provisional Goverient being installed. it shall govern according to the existing laws, excepting where they differ from a plan of eqoaliry, and until the Comes terns a Constitution for the Empire. 13. Immediately the Regency is named, the Cortes shall he called, conformably to the 24th article of the plan of equality. 14. The executive power resides in the Regency; the Legislative in the Cortes; and in the interim of their meeti ng, the Provisional Junta shall exercise that faculty. in cases which admit of no delay, and the Regency ap prove of the same; the Junta* also to form an alaxiliary body and Council to the Regency. 15. Every person shall be at liberty to remove himself and property to wherever homey think proper, excepting debtors and criminals; consequently Europeans who are in America, and Americans residing in the Penin sula, shall be at liberty to adopt the country they prefers on those leaving this country paying the duties on the property they carry away. 16. In the foregoing articles, public functionaries or military men. notoriously opposed to Mexicali lodepen deuce, are not included. but must necessarily leave the' country within a period die &messy will • taking with them their property. es paying 'export duty. 17. Senor Don Juan O'Llosoja otters Nees his &nth.- My, that the troops sow is the eity *Mask* 'bon gait it on an honourable capitulation, with the wishes of the Comesantler-ialiiief M maid Aisles ebbed. and the see of force. • Cordova, 24th August, MI. • IL k N.' .• isp• - _A •• MALIGNANT FEVER IN AMERICA. CMOs TUZ NEW YORK (OUSIZIICIAL GAZETrE, OCTOBIiII 3.) SICINESS AT Noaroca —We have t.sis morning lee accounts, coming throagh different channels of the state of the sickness at Norfolk. Mr. Ilford, our correspondent, and in whom we need not say for else hundredth time we can place the utmost confidence, under date of. October 2, says—" You will perceive hy.the enclosed -report, that this town is as sickly as it his been this season—the hope of an improvement in its health is altogether as illusory as is the recovery of a patient attacked with the prevailing fever—one day so favourable are the symptoms that be is pronounced convalescent—the next morning he is under the sod— there have one hundred and sixty-four died of the fever since the first of Aug. The other accounts, from the dark and caution • manner in which they are written, abundantly con firm the above. Ohl the 29th of Sept., there was one death of the malignant fever, fire on the 34)th, one on the Ist of October, and two on the 2d. The 11.111106 of the deceased were James Gilbert, Mr. Davis, James Darley, Mr. Phelan, and two sailors, a female, and a negro boy, names not g iven. In Baltimore, oa the sth, there were two deaths of the malignant fever—Nicholas Aire.lia, and Maria Brown. On the 6th there were too more—Mrs. Dunn and Mary Wells. [FROM TIIR WASHINGTON INTELLIGENCER, OCT. 5.] There is yet little diminution of the epidemics and ague fevers which prevail throughout the country. The frost, so tardy in its approach, and whose dilatoriness is so grateful to the tobacco planters, is anxiously looked for by eery body else ; not that much danger is appre hended from the order of disease which is now so gene ral, but that it disables so considerable a portion of the population from their customary pursuits. The follow lowing paragraph, frnut a paper printed at liagarstown, in the midst of one of the most healthful regions of coun try in the world, is. (pally true, we believe, of the greater part of the whole territority of the Union:— Ocr.2.—There perhaps never has been a more sickly season in this part of the country than the present.—ln some neighbourhoods the sickness is so general, that it is with ranch difficulty that persons can be obtained to afford assistance or attend to the sick.—(Hagera. Torch Light.) From the York Pa. Gazette of the 28th inst. we learn that a meeting was held there on the preceding Thurs day, at the Court-house, for +6, purpose of taking into consideration what means should be adopted for reliev ing the sick and distressed in Wrightsville, in that county. The meeting appointed committees to make col lections for the staler'. The village of Wrightsville contains abont three hundred inhabitants, of whom there is scarcely one that has escaped the prevailing fever.—(City Gazette.) A letter from St. Augustine (under date of September 'lath.) states that " this place has been uncommonly sickly this summer, and a great many deaths have occur red both in town and country. On the river St. John's, they have been remarkably sickly. Our courts are not yet organized ; and when they are, I de not know bow they are to act; tor, by General Jackson's Proclamation, the Spanish laws are declared to be in force, and neither Magistrates nor Lawyers know what they are. Until Congress snakes laws to govern the territory, we shall be without any law."—(Enquirer.) OBSERrANCE of the SABBATH in FLORIDA. (The following extract from an Ordinance of the Mavor of Pensacola, we extract from The New York ronstiaereial Advertiser of Oct. 9, together with the Editor's remarks upon the measure:—) Extract from au Ordinance signed by J. G. Forbes, Mayor:— The Committee appointed by the City Council, to make regulations for the due observance of the Sab bath, in conformity to the 34 Section of the Ist Ordi nance, by Major-Gen. Andrew Jackson, Governor, &c. Considering that the Christian sects concur in set ing apart the day of the work called Sunday, far the purpose of resting after six days labour, and dedi cating that day more particularly to religions practices: Considering- that some austere denominations ex clude altogether, all recreations ai well as employ ments, whilst others, more indulgent, do not proscribe on that day, innocent mirth ant bodily exertion: Considering, that in many countries, where slavery is admitted, stares are allowed to come to market on Sunday only, there anal then to purchase what they wins for the comfort of their families: _ _ 410nsidering. that whatever may be the general int rusion and rules of the people of the United Stases on this subject, a due regard ought to be paid to the notional habits of this new acquired territory, Re solved as follows Section 1. There shall he an absolute cessation from worldly occupations on Sundays, until noon. Sec. 2. Shopkeepers may after 12 o'clock vend their goods, without however exposing them to public view; but they shall not allow any kind of ardent or any other liquors to be drank within their doors by the purchaser or purchasers; but liquors so bought must be carried away. Sec. 3. All recreations not forbidden by do laws of this territory, are allowed on Sundays, feem and after lt o'clock ; provided, that pnhlic order be not thereby endangered, ur al tranquillity dis turbed. - _ . Sec. 4. No number, exceeding two, of colored per sons, free or slaves, shall be allowed to stand in, and thereby to obstruct the streets, lanes nod avenues, or to annoy the public in any manner whatsoever. We give this evening the regulations lately esta blished under the administration of lioversor Jack son, at Pensacola, for the obser• mice of a part of the Sabbath. We says part of the Sabbath; for it seems that worldly recreations on that day are only prohi bited in the forenoon. In the afternoon tra d e anal amusements are to be conducted as usual, and in the evening the Theatre of course. This is a very singu lar indiums, and we think it mid have been more creditable to the fleverninent, seeing that they have only gam half way, and that oat of respect to cattalo 4 4 entskro okattosittatiforse," to have is* the matter en- tit* shoe. m. ansaleipal salbeeitise Pessaeols 4. me appear is raeagaine the Sabbath, as having rasa set watt by 11111120 appoiataiss. bat merely by LONDON: SATURDAY RYLNING, NOVILMRZR 3, 1521. ~- The intelligence from Spanish America, which we this day communicate, relates to an event which will form an important era its the annals of the world. Mexico is free. The whole of that fine country, the chief of the Spaniels possessions on the western continent, ' has completely thrown off its dependence on the mother country; and the manner in which it has achieved its independence, precludes the possibillitv, in all ho. man foresight, of falling again under the yoke. This great and glorious wolle has been effected by menu commensurate in dignity and grandeur with its ad. It has been brought about, not by party or intrigue; it has arisen, not on the one hand from visionary, ant on the other from contracted views'; it has been ac complished by the march of events ; by the increase and impure-meat of the population ; by the speed of knowledge ; by the consciousness and recognition of the rights amen. and by the excitement and well directed application of an enlightened public spirit. It bee been the result of a general accord among all the parties by which the country had, for years, been dip tracted. Royalists and Patriots hare come together, and given up their unprofitable s•rife ; their feeling for their native country has overcome every other, and their differeu: opinions have been led to give w.ty to an agreement fur their emancipation and independ• ence. The plan of the new Government to be estat lished, as well as the Articles of Adjustment, are signed by Iturbide, on the one side, and by Count de Venadito, the Viceroy going out of office. and Don Juan O'Donoju, the new Vice-King, oa the other. The Articles of Adjustment declare, that Mexico shall form a sovereign and independent em pire, whose form of government shall be a moderate Constitutional Monarch y . The Plan of Government adds in a still more specific manner, " that New Spain (or the Mexican empire is independent of (Jul Spa'n, and of every other eves npore oar own Continent." Both agree in offering the sceptre to the present King of Spain, PERDU/11D VII.; bet on condition that " he shall personally appear is Mexico within the time that the Conte* Mal specify, in order to take the oath." If imodrauld not appear within that time, the Impetial Crown is to be offered to his brother. the infant Don Carlos, and seem lively to such Princes of his family " as the am .rress may think proper," until some of them shall be found willing to become Emperor. These are tho principal points of the new arrangements. which afterwards branch out into the various de tails of the Government, the establishment of the Curtis, the formation of a Supreme Junta, and the plan of a Constitution. It is declared " that all inha bitants of New Spain, without any distinction of Europeans, Africans, or Indians, are citizens of this monarchy, and eligible to every office. according ti their merit and virtue," a principle not more fi bres' than just. and well calculated to promote the complete civilization of all the tribes of which the population of that extensive empire is composed.--. In order to were this order of things, a " protect ing army" is no be formed. which shall be deamel sated the Army of the Three Guarantee', as it wig take seder its protection the preservation of the Kee swan Catholic Religion. the independence of the cow try ender the sew system, aid the intimate ankle d Kurspeass sod Asostrietos. The Viceroy, O'Detliee 'elgard to nod two Commissioners to carry the troll te tho tbe ettottisi Kiag oss d oSipreasdinyamildeottoioatirr. him i the It istTC::l6ll.ll - I ipim an _maw some Christiss :feet*, "fir the purpose of fls 'ter sit days labour, anti dedieattrg more p ait il lat.!) , to religious practicer." Olbris consider it a for " innocent mirth " and '6 bodily esercisea,.. 4 , 4 none bat " come austere denominations," e xc l ude worldly labor and amusements altogether. For th t y reasons, without acknowledging any superior ohligat tion, the Governor and municipal autlioritiea of lea. sacola, in the plenitude of their power, have dee/ 6 N that "six days aid half shalt thou labor," ic e . w e repeat, for the credit of themselves and the cm they had b tier have said nothing—leaving th. " austere " people who believe in the divine appoi at , went of the Sabbath, as a day of religious ensisl a , tion to the christias, a solace to the labouring man, and a day of rest to our cattle, to Observe it is such manner as they aright deem fit and proper. DIARY FOR THE ENSUING IVERK, NITN Tug TIMIS Or RIGS WATER AT LONDON-RRIRgR Nov. 4, S.—TWTNTIRTK SUNDAY alter TRINITY. Hi m WILLI LANDED. High water—morp. 42 m. after 6; even. 16m. alert 6, M.—POWDER PLOT. High water—morn. 47 m. after 9; even. 18 m. after 10. 6, Tu.—Leopard.—Mick. Tern begiaie. High water—morn. 49 m. after 10; even. 20m. afterll, 7, W.—Day break 26 in. aft. S. nigh water--morn. 61 in. after 11_; even. 12 o'clock. 6, l'h.—TatscEss AUGUSTA SOPHIA Sons. Mak wster—morn.2l ui. after 12; even. 60 m. after It 9, F.— f i ord Mayor's day. Foal. Moor at 6 aft. nigh water--mere. 19m.after 1 ; even. 48 in. after 1. 10, S —Sun rises 27 w. after 7. High water—worn. 16 0. aft. 2 ; even. 11 in. after 2. DAY AT OWE O'CLOCK: lodia Stook 240 Ditto Dos& —. 695. p South-Ss& Bwck 87 South Soo Oki An. Et Bilisld. ItlUUl. 45.65. p. 3001. 0.:. Os. Os. pm. Leo. 7S. pa. Judi• for ditto Con, for Ace ?Si 7i 78 Lott. TAkots tic 14 . PRICE OF STOCKS TH' Bask Stoek For Cent. Red ft 7 per Co it.Cor. 714 / 71 per •I. 6 per C. Ilt3. 06k per Ct.Sasy 116 j 111 per Gout. Goss Mn 191 9-16 Imp SperCeut. Irish b per Coot. Ept ettattsiirtan. " ins Initisil Siralrisnma" Is iiitnitinßATED wain " int IlinTlaillAn."