The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-04-30 00:00:00

IVAY4L INTBI:LIGiIiNi;E: r col ouvu, APRIL. Y7.—in the beginning o f month, the Hero and Active privateers „f It,;; port, in company With the • Lion, of Coernsey, then cruising in the Bix,•chasdf into p i a Antonio, situated between St. Audeto and' m i yonue, siren sail of teasels, With cargoes on board, bound from Gijon to Bayonne; and when ni44t c:ne on, sent in all their boats, well manned a nd armed, who adtance.l to the attack 'id the 'must q diva manner, under 4 very heavy fire of mus: ketry, and succeeded in.taking possession of the w h o le; but thu tide unfortunately falling, dud not being acquainted with the harbour, six of them grounded, and one only could I.)e got out, which tessel is arrived at Guernsey, and is called the Mary Ann, laden with brandy and wine.—This , gallant exploit was effected without the loss of any lives on the part of the privateers, only the car. twitter of the Alive being wounded by a musket. ball in the leg. Arrived the nape, Coath ; Sally 4 1 , 11 Phelps; London, Cumming; all from Lona don ;—Porto Bello, Bacon ; Belly, Phelps ; Apollo, Simpson; all from Ipswich ; the Pleasant, ; and Bellona, Wilson, both from Goon. „y 2 with wine and brandy, for this port; the Three Brothers, Wharton, from Neatly ; Susan nah, Barker ; Blessing, Iceton ; Samuel, Hart ; Orient, Douglas, all from Sunderland ; othergill ; and Clio, Smith, from Newcastle. West up into Barn Pool to refit, the drethessa ftigate of 38 guns, Captain Mends. Arrived the Valiant of 74 guns, Captain Bligh, from off Rochfort. Sailed the Peucock brig s of 18 guns, to the Westward. QB.—Arrived the Jupiter, Gibson ; Diana, Darison ; and Dement, Scott, all from Sunderland. Sailed the Ann, Harvey, for Neath. Arrived the &Ilona, Thomas, from London; Dopeweil,.Jeffry, from Ipswich. Sailed the Eliaabeth, May, for Liverpool. Dom, Atm 29.—Yesterday and to-day a very heavy firing was heart% off the coast of France, w hich i i sstcti neatly three hours at a time s 0: cause of which is at present unknown. The Royal Perth Militia marched in yesterday, from Chatham, by the route of Maidstone, Ash ford, and Hythe, in order to relieve the innkeepers on the Dover Road. The 3d Lancashire Militia also marches itton Tuesday next. We aro told Abut it is the design of Ministers to appoint the Right Honourable CUAILU YORK 6 to a Cabinet situation of high and important duties, (hat of First Lord of tie Admiralty ; and Mit his commission is dated before his Hewn to Vailiament for the Borough of St. Uermain's ; so tiut the spirit of the Law of Election on an ap.. po.otment to office is to be ended. This contempt of i.ublic opinion is so peu reedy In unison with tin• whole system, that it cannot fail to•make a dui• impression on every thinking mind. It is an unblushing avowal of the doctrine which it is the object of a Junto to inculcate, that the only sure path to office is that of servile submission. The operation of couching will, it is said, be performed on his MAJESTY during the ensuing week. The Loan MAYOR, we understand, has ap. pointed Friday, the 4th of May, instead of Wed nesday the 2d, for the Meeting of the Livery of London in Common Hall, as the latter day was found to interfere with the usual monthly Courts of the different Companies. We are informed that a fleeting of the College of Physicians will be held to consider of the oon. duet of their President, while at the head of the I Army Medical Board. This determination has been taken in consequence of the extraordinary admission by that person, in a letter to the Deputy secretary at War, that he knew nothing of the investigation of camp and contagious disease. A Convocation will be holden in the University of Oxeord on Wednesday next, in which it will be proposed that the degree of Doctor in Civil Law, by diploma, he conferred on his Royal Highness the PRINCE Of IVALES: and that the diploma be presented to his Royal Highness by the Chancellor, in the name of the University. Hyde Park was yesterday so crowded with car riages that the ride was literally (beaked up: For three hours those who were in the line could nut get out. Nothing could surpass the display of magnificence and beauty in the ride and gardens, as the fineness of the day had assembled every fa shionable woman on this gay promenade. The first meeting of the Four-in-lland Club is fixed fur 'Thursday. 'they meet at Mr. Bo )(TOWS, Mortimer street, drive twice round Cavendish square, and proceed to Salt Hill to dinner, as last year. The following arrangements of titles and of die. placing and creation of kin4s are reported in letters from Germany to have been determined on between the Emperors of France and Austria :--- i CO I. Emperor of France, &e. and King of the Romans. . Vita mcts tt. Emperor of kiwtria and Franconia, and Co protector of the Confederation of the Rhine. The Archduke Cita rt Las, King of Spain and the Indies. JOSEPH NAPOLEON to he King of Hilly. NADI:4MM IV. to be restored to the throne of the Two Sicilies. • JOACHIM to be King of Poland. Euntat to be King of Macedonia. Loos NAPALMS to be King of Davaria. The Hereditary Prince of Bar ARIA to be King of Holland and Berg. Jr ROM c N APrit.ro It to he King of Wirtemburg. The King of W tatuot au an. to he King of Westphalia. The Grand Duke of BADEN to he King of Switzerland. The Ktv of PRUSSIA to cede Silesia to Austria. REM.4IIKa4II&E INSrdIVVE 01 TUE SPIRIT or TRE PicoVIA or tNOLAND, it fur 111:61,: N MU or TAIK £IGHTRENTII CEN WRY. 111 E sirAlt=MAtit. Afit. WOODS Mt: Sheriff Wood has, to correct some rt) . statements, given to the Public the , folios Narrative of his proceedings on the strest V Sir F. Burdett : " On Saturday. the 7th pf April, is the evening ceived the following fetter from Sir F. Burdett ; t a. dais' Letter •ee Tun StAnerv4u) of the 9th iast.)—Ou r eipt of this, I went iminedimely to the house of Mr. Sheri Atkins, who was not at home, being gone into the country I there fore tell a copy of the Letter ut his house; and imp thence proceeded td the Mansion-house, where I communicated to the Lord Mayor the general purport of the Letter l had received from Sir F. Burdett.—ln a situation of high re spousibility, and of which there was no precedent —us Con servat,T of the Peace of the County entrusted to my care., on the one hand, and on the other, required by the Speaker of the house of Commons to aid and assist in the execution of his Warrant, I next waited nit him, at bis house, ac companied by Mr. Smith, my Under Sheriff; nod having also communicated to Mt. Speaker the Letter of Sir Fiancis Burdett, required his information and advice upon the tubject. The result of this conunanication 'was. an ob servation from Mr. Speaker; that • in issuing the Warrant, he had performed his duty, and that he had no doubt 1 should do mine.—Thus left without even the opinion of the Speaker, whom I naturally conceived best able to inform me olthe na titre and extent of authority of his own Mandate, and re garding the Letter of Sir F. Burdett, as an intimation of a diaurbance, of which, as Comervauir of tht Peace, I was hound to take official notice, I then went to Sit F. Burdett's house, in Piccadilly, in front of which I found a strung mi litary force: although at that time there were but few persons in the street, and those by no means indicating any disposi tion to riot.—Sir F. Burdett, requesting me to pass the night in his house, for protection, &e. by civil powef; against mi litary force, 1 readily consented to comply with iii: desire. Sir F. Burdett, then retired. to acquaint Lady Burdett with my intention, nod shortly returning, said, her Ladyship felt much tranquillized by the assurance of my presence; and, that she and her family tcould now retire in peace.'—At half past 10 o'clock, we left Sir F. Burdett's house, without interfering at that time with the military, either directly or indirectly ; hut hearing the cries of a woman in the street, a few doors from Sir F. Burdett's house, we proceeded to in quire into the occasion of her cries; when one of the Lift Guards instantly riding upon the foot pavement, exclaimed—," Uamn your eyes, walk on;" at the same moment aiming a blow with his sword ut Air. Smith, which that gentleman fortunately parried with his stick. The soldier again :wore, and threat 7 etied to "cut us down" if we did not go on. Mr. Smith re plied, that he was not aware who he wasattacking; but he proceeded, and the soldier discontinued his attack. Anxious to preserve the peace, without the interference of the mili tary, l immediately directed Mr. Smith to issue precepts, for the attendance of all the constables of the county that could possibly be assembled on the following morning, and then went to my own house to inform my family of my intention of sleeping at Sir Francis Burden's. 1 was stepping tutu a carriage to return to Piccadilly, when I received a message from Mr. Sheriff Atkins, that he would be with me in a few minutes. Oa his'arrival, we dispatched a note to t h e Secre tary of State, with a copy of Sir Francis Burden's letter, and then 'proceeded to his house in Piccadilly, where the follow ing reply of the Secretary of State was delivered to US : " Whitehall, Sunday morning, 2 o'clock, April 8, 1810. GENTLEM EN—I have this moment had the honour of re relying your letter. inclosing one to you, from Sir Francis Burdett. It is not for me to enter into the reasoning of Sir Francis Burdett's letter I but, I cnp have no doubt, that you will feel it to be your duty, to give every assistance which may he required of you, in aid of the Speaker's Warrant, rather than in resistance to it. " 1 have the honour to be. Gentlemen, " Your most obedient humble Servant. (Signed) "It. RYDER." " Ite remained in the house of gir Francis Burdett. until nearly half-past two o'clock, when the whole family, except Sir Vraitcis Burdett, hnvine retired to rest, I declined passing the remainder of the night there, from the necessity L was under of making arrangements for the emuing day.—At nine o'clock next morning, 'Mr. Sheriff Atkins, and myself, again proceeded to Piccadilly, whereen our arrival, we found the military parading in front, and. to some distence f on each side of Sir Francis Biirdett's house.—Our arrival being notified to the Commanding Officer, we were introduced to him; he informed us, that he consi dered himself as acting under the orders of the Magistrates; bat, that for near two hours, not one of them had been present, although he had sent for them, several times to Bow-street. I then apprized him of our of fice, and authority as Sheriffs, and expressed my desire that the military might be gradually minuted from the front of Sir Francis Burdett's house, conceiving, that from the then ap parent disposition of the people (composed principally of passengers add spectators) no riot or disturbance of the peace was to be apprehended : and that the presence of the military had a natural tendency to create a crowd of spectators, and, 1 as on similar occasions, very general andereßt irritatinn.—l I inforMed the Commanding Officer that 1 momentarily ex pected a great number of constables, who had been sumnion ed ; and by whose aid I hoped and expected to he enabled to preserve the peace, without the assistance or interference of the military. The officer very readily complied with an de sire, and the military were' gradually withdrawn as I re quired. " That part of Piccadilly, in front of Sit Francis Bur dett's house, remained without disturbance for a considerable time. The number of passengers; in carriages, and on horse back, who were continually passing was very considerable; many of the tatter stopped, opposite to Sir Francis Burilett's house, and dirt certainly was thrown, by same few indite-, duals, at those persons ip carriages and on horseback, who refused to take off their hats while passing the house. From the shortness of the notice, it happened that the constables did not arrive in any considerable number; but a large body of Sheriff's officers was inconstant attendance. In the course a the morning a notice to the people to keep the peace was drawn up, and dispatched to a printer's office : but it being Sunday, it was a long time before it could he visited and posted, according to our intentions. At three o'clock, the Proclamation prescribed by the Riot Act was read by Mr. Biroie, one of the Police Magistrates; and about an hour after another Magistrate wrote, in large eharacterte . on a piece of paper, a placard containing the following illsjodged and offensive wails, " You are ail Felons;" which he said he should display upon his hat, its ,the crowd. Against this I remonstrated, and strongly recommended him not to do so, as such an exhibition ruled serve ibo other purr pose than that of irritating. and Warning the people. Soon after, the Officer commanding the troops informed us that he had received written orders from the Magistrotes to wet. I in stantly protested against his so doing; and, warning him of the responsibility ha would incur by such a measure. ex pressed my astonishment that the Magistrates should have given such orders, when one of them had, hut a few minutes liefore, Receded to the propriety of my proposal of going out, as soon as the above notice was priated, to attempt the dis "persion of the people ourselves; be requested me to see the Magistrates, and conducted me and my brother Sheriffto their r00111..-..We were introduced to five Polite Magistrates, then at dinner. I expressed my surprise that they should have given such orders ; - that I was confident they were mere likely to irritate, than to effectually disperse the people ; that I would engage, with the sole aid ofsach officers as were then in attendance, to clear the streets ; but that, at all events, the more constitutional mode would be, to try first the effect of the civil power ; and if that failed, then, and then only, to call in the military.' The propriety of this plan was agreed to by three of the Magistrates then present. During the con versation, the Field Officer io waiting 01100 the Secretary of State arrived, and said. that he was desired to say, from Mr. Ryder, that the Sheri/certainly hail the right of calling in the power of thelhounty, hut that the Magistrates had also the right of acting." " However, after many arguments and observation' on both sides, the Commanding OtQcer who had taken the wise precaution of receiving written orders from the . Magistrates (Agora, $ he•liove, by four of them), • to disperse the peo ple, and not in allow any person to pats up or eown the pub lic road,' being somewhat impatient, and requiring hie enal orders, I said, (addressing myself to the Magistrates,) I protest against this measure—you have taken the power out o f my hands, and if any one shall be killed, you will be justly responsible for ail consequences, and I shall certainly think it my duty to indict the parties offenditie.' We still te maine'l ;it the tilieucter Coffee-house. About 5 o'clock, Mr. Coleman, the Serieaet at Arms, was introdaced. He produced the Speaker's Warrant; Mr. Cater, of the She- I rift's °Kw, asked, whether he intended to leave it with the Sheriff? Ile answered in the negative, and said, • that the his v isit was, to require the aid of the Sheriff in object sjeesret of csitiois. Mr. Cater directed it copy of the warrant to he taken; and then asked' Mr. Cotemait, • in what manner he expected ille,Sheriff should aid him ; whether by "Peaking into the house oniir Francis Burdett, or how otherwise'' lie said. he did e.t know.' lie was shell Inferincd, ' that the Sheriff had considered the subject poet fully, and that he conceived the warrant was not alegal authority to broils open the miter door, and that he could net, therefore, assist him in that way) hat he R as ready to aid him in nil other respects with the Sheriffs pewee acid authority: in the comer of the con- oersatinn, Mr. Cater asked the Ffertit at Arms: • whet het he had taken legal advice ?' lie answered that lie h. d laid the ease before the Attorney-General, hal h d not vet ob tained his opinion; mot promised tom ht west! fUrnish us with it, immediately on receiyiog it.. We rent:listed at the Gloucester Coffee-house until near It o'clOrk; hut &I not hear from him. Returning into the city, my apiiteto•nsiori were realized. The people had been driven Wow one end of Piccadilly to the other, and there remained in great numbers, and, f 0 a considerable distance on the way, had broken the lamps, untwithstanding the presence of the military: Ott Monday morning I retied no the atteodatice of nearly 300 constables, as well ;.s that of many hotidreds of the inhabit ' ants of the county, who were ready to come for w;trtS to pre serge the peace k and I have no doubt, ;hat with tont force, that object would have been fully accomplished without thq slightest aid from the military. In my way to Piccadiflj, f met one of the Under-Sheiilfi (Mr. Forbes), who iutorined me that Sir E. B. bad been bitten from his bowe that mornings that the Serjeant at Arms his Deputy had called him (the Under-Sheriff) up at one ticlock, and communicated to hint tbe opinion of the Attorney-General (already before the public). lie at the same time informed the Serjeant, it was the Sheriff's intention to be at the Gloucester Coffee-Monte, attended by he civil Oliver, for the purpose of preserving the peace; That be (the Under Sherif) was confident the Speaker's warrant would meet no interruption in its exerts.. lion; but whether the Sheriffs would take upon themselves to enter by force the house of Sir Francis Burdett, was a ques tion for them to answer; but this he would take upon. himself to say, from his principal, Mr. Sheriff Atkins, that' nix %vitt lotion should be offered to the Serjeant at Arms in the etym. tit's, of what hetqight conceive to he his dirty, in the manner of effectuating int executi o n ; n or h a d h e any d ou b t th at M r . Shelia' Wood , - on his part, would do all Om was tit in he done, but that, not being his Uuder-Sheriff, he, from defer ence nod respect, declined anticipating the opinion of Mr. Sheriff Wood. "Thin ended the ditties of the Sheriff on this important ne• casion." . Several duds have occurred between the Conkers of his Majesty's and the Honourable Company's army, arising out of matters connected with the late transactions. It appears, from an account Laid before Partin. Merit; that the amount of the repair! . done to the Cathedtal of Canterbury, during the last t wen. ty yeart, is 21,0501. which gives an average of 1,0501. 5.5. An elderly Woman Was on Sundae wounded at Literpooli by a shut fired from his 'Majesty's ship Princess, to hring.to a boat belonging to a vessel just arrived ftotn Madeira.. The personal effects of the late celebrated musi. cal composer, Haydn, Were to be publicly suld at Vienna on the 26th inst. Among them is a parrot, which he had taught to sing a variety of (llama* • airs; Last week, at Ling&ltl, in Surteri the wife of s labourer, named Davis, having gime out early its the morning, left an infant 14 months old in the cradle. On her -return, she found the child dread. fully mangled; one eye turn out of the socket, its arms, face, and neck, much lacerated, and struggling for breath s as if oppressed with a weight. On turning down the clothes, the agonized mollies perceived that it was occasioned by the cat, which with her kitten had foetid the way into the cradle, and probably being annoyed by the ulayfalness of the infant, had reduced it to the above state. A servant in Red Lion‘street, Clorken well, hat, ing some time since accidentally swallowed a needle, was, a few days ago, seized with an excruciating pain,ln the small of her back ; and one neigh, touring surgeon being sent for, he discovered the Point of the needle making its way through the skin. It was immediately extracted, and the piling woman is now recovering. A merchant of Nuremburg, of the name of Mcisner, lately shot himself, his wife, and one child, in the MOM of an inn ; at Munich, where he lodged. His despair arose from pecuniary emhar, iassment, some bills of exchange which he hail drawn upon a banking-house at Augsburg having been returned protested. In a note which he left upon the table, he requested that they might alt three be buried in one grave, which was complied with. John Williams, late servant to Mr. Fisher, of Shirt's', was committed, on Tuesday last, by the Magistrates, to take his trial at the next Shrews. bury Session, for wilfully burning his livery clothes with vitriol, or some other mineral acid, at the time he left Mr. Fisher's service. Last week, at Spalding, during a funeral pro. cession, a cow, which had been over-driven, at. tacked the bearers, and compelled them to drop the corpse and fly for shelter. The animal Vico repeatedly butted at the coffin, and would proba bly have broken it to pieces, had not assistance been procured, and the beast secured. An inquest was held on Friday, at the Coach and Horses, in St. Martin's-lane, on the body of Mrs. Anna Maria Kentierley, who died on Tues day last, iu consequence of being dreadfully burp. ed at her house in St. Martin's-court. Mr. Robert Bownes, a clerk to Mr. Kenner. ley, said, tekt he slept on the ground floor ; on Tuesday mottsiag last, about half.past one o'clock, he was awakened by some noise in the house ; the wittiM Fact., tis Stairs, and between the first and second ilentr.t . lairt he met Mrs. Kennerky, n ll3 was running doWn, with her clothes on fire, j she exclaimed, 64 Robert, assist. me." The wit ness wentinto the first floor back room to get some clothes to wrap round Mrs. Kennedy, who fol lowed him into the room; net finding any thing, he attempted to get up the dun ing.room carpet, but it was nailed to the floor ; then with his hands he tried to extinguish her clothes, which were burning very rapidly, in which attempt he burned one•of his hands ; he next ran down stairs to get the counterpane off his. bed, and ran again up stairs with it ; he met Mr. Ford,• who had been alarmed by the noise ; he desired him to take the counterpane, andio and wrap it round Mrs. Ken.. nerley ; the witness opened the street door, ant called some persons who were passing at the time, and desired them to render assistance ; they went up to the second floor bed.ronm, and found ono side of the bed in dames, which they extinguished. There was a candlestick lying close to the bee, side, but no candle in it ; it was burnt down to this socket. Dr. Thomas said, on Tuesday morning last, be. tween two and three o'clock, he found Mrs. K►•u. nericy in a bed on a ground flour ; sic WaS c►xn. planting of excessive pain ; upon examination, I►,► found she was dreadfully burned in the trunk an,l upper' extremities. It was very clear that' er ilca;;4 was inevitable, and he directed hjs a!teniivn give her present relief. She expired about live 1;4 the afternoon of the same day. The Jury returned - a ir!g4ict of 4cri4l;4 Death. , I /0 THE' EDITOR OF Tfig STATESM AN. Stn, —Ely insettlug the following in your va luable Paper, you will oblige 'Nosy of your leaded. Your's, *c. lolghara, Aprilsl, I. M. It 481. in the midst of those claniours that echoed through the kingdom in 1701, and the universal dissatisfaction of the People at the pro. ceedinp of the Rouse of Commons, sc. that the Gentlemen of Kent petitioned them, in a very hum. ble mahuer, to g Imre regard to the voice of the 6 people, and provide effectually fur their *engin', and safety," &c. It was signed by all the De puty Lieutenants there present, above twenty Justices of the Peace, all the Grand Jury, and other Freeholders then there. This petition was offered to the House on the Bth of May 1701; the gentlemen who delivered it, and owned it at the Bar of the House, were Mr. William Colopepper, Mr. David Polhill, Mr. Justinian Champneys, and Mr. William Ha. milton ; for so I find all their names written in the notes, without the addition of Esquire, tbough four of them were Justices of the Peace, and two Deputy.Lieuteintuts of the County. Concerning the Petition, the House came to this resolution, that it was scandalous, insolent, and seditious, &c. The five gentlemen they ordered to be taken into custody of the Serjeaot at Arms. The treatment they had from him was very singular, and shewed they were under the displeasure of the House; for whoa he accidentally saw two of them talk to. gether, he drew his sword upon his deputy for permitting it ; and when, upon one of those gen tlemen's demanding a copy of their commitment, which they reckoned they had a title to by virtue of the Habeas Corpus Act, biul he refusing it, the gentleman said, he hoped the law would do him justice, his reply was, thai, " he cared not a —for the lam." The reverence of the law is fallen very low indeed, when one, who has the honour of being a servant to the House of sum. mons, can presume to make so bold with it.— However, this speech was of a piece with the de. claration he had made the getitlernan before 44 That he had an unbounded liberty of using them at discretion, that he could confine them at pleasure, put them into dungeansi lay them under :round," kc. And indeed, by the miseries and nastiness :of their confinement, one would imagine that the power of the Inquisition was at this time subsist. ing in the storiioally very free country of Eng- The people, however, being warned, and taking %yarning, there came a Memorial inclosed in the following billet, directed to It t ll—y, Esq. Speaker to the House of Commons : " MR. SPEAKER. " This Memorial you are charged with, in behalf of many thousands of the good People of - England. " There is neither Popish. Jacobite, Seditious, Court, or nirty inte...*.:A concerned in it ; but honesty and truth. " You are commanded by two hundred thousand English. men, to deliver it to the House of Commons, nod to inform them, that it is no Iciter, but serious truth ; and a serious re gard to it is expected; nothing but justice and their duty is required, n: S it is required by them who have both a right to renn.; - :, and prr.ver to compel, viz. the people of England. " We coulti have come to the House strong enough to have obliged them to hear us, but we have avoided any tumults, not desiring to embroil, but to save our native country. "•!f you refuse to communicate it to them, you will find cause in a short time to repent it." This was not delivered by a woman, as was said, but by the very person who wrote it, guard ed by about sixteen gentlemen of quality, who, if any notice had been taken of him, were ready to have carried him off by force. The Memorial, among other things, contained a claim of right, under seven heads, of which the three former are thus : s , We do hereby claim and declare, Ist. That it is the un doubted right of the people of England, in case their Repre sentatives in Parliament da not proceed accordion . s to their duty, and the people's interest, to inform them ot their dis like, disown their actions, and to direct them to such things as they think lit, either by petition, address, K oposal, me morial, or any other peaceable way. '2gl. " That the ilottse of Commits separately, and other wise than by a Bill legally passed into an Act, lave no legal power to suspend or dispense with the laws of the land, auy more than the King Nulty his prerogative. slly, " That the Mouse of Commons has no legal power to imprison any person, or commit them to the custody of Scrjeaills, or othtrivise, (their own Members excepted) but ought to address the King, to cause any person, on good grounds, to be apprehended, which person so apprehended ought to haso the benefit of the Habeas Corpus Act, and be brought to trial by due course of law." After other claims, it concludes— " Thus, Gentlemen:you have your duty lajel kefore you, which it is hoped you rill think of : but if you continue to neg lect it, you may expect to be ; treated according to the resent ments of en injured nation; Englislinsen are no mare to,be slaves to Parliaments than to Map. Our name is LEGION, and ice are many." Such was the spirit of those who may tie called our immediate ancestors !—And it stands recorded in our history, that the House of Commons began to alter their measures. A considerable embarkation of troops for Por. I luzal and Spain will take place in the course of the ensuing week—the 103 d regiment is amongst the regiments now on their route to Portsmouth for Portugal. It is now stated, that Jeffery, the seaman, who was left by Captain Lake on the Wand of Som. brero, was shortly after taken off, by an American vessel, and is now in perfect health in the province of Massachussets, where he goes by the title of 66 The Governor of Sombrero 7,, AH the Officers who were offered by Lord MINT() the alternative of a Court Martial, or the resignation of their Commissions, have resolved, with the exception of Captain MAettiNvostr, who commanded the Chittledruog detachment, to Abide the event of a trial. Within a few days a great retrenchment has taken place in fonr• public offices in the city of Dublin, in the article. of " Newspapers." The number taken in was very considerable. In some offices it amounted to upwards of 50 newspapers pee week, for the person at the head of the office alone, besides a liberal supply for the clerks. The very messengers were entitled to their news. papers ; and such as had not taste for that species of literature, received au allowauco in money, in lieu of them.