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GREECE IN 1+423 AND iseL This is an interesting volume. It consists of n aeries of letters soil other documents, written during a visit to that country, by the Ilot. Colonel Leicester Stanivipe, who has renders! sn many and such itnportart services to Greece. We have not time now to gives critical notice of the work; lint it appsars, front the hasty view we have lnkt n of it, that it contains a clear and faithful account of the state of effiirs among the Greeks during the period it embraces. Aendeto the letten of Culontil Stanhope, are a great nupm pp ber o valuable documents connected with the Greek cause. We have selected from this mass of papers, those which mere particularly relate to our late illustrious tvuntryman, Lord Byron :- 3110S0LONOSII 21TR law. 1321. MT DEAR BOW I IRO—I an in the hshit of putting Written ques tions to hard Byron kr his decision. The following have roretved his leotdship's 'newer% and I ant desirous of submitting them to Eh: Cornwall , . Ist —W ill roue Lordship allow me to make over a certain elan. thy of Greek and Roman types to the Edna: of tha Greek Vire sick t—Y r.. 241.—Wi1l your Lordship subscribe .Sl. fur the support of the Greek parer i—lces. 311.-1{ ill your Lordship allow me In take round the printing mos, &e. to the seat of the Greek Curteninrnt, i. e. of the Legis lative Body ?--We will talk over this article. your lowdship subscribe lOW. towards tlie support of the German artillery bth.—Will your Lordship One Ina of you loin to tile Greek Goverment to be made over in the German Committee, they having advanced that rantenng its re-nsynient ?—Yes. point your Lo rdship approve of )Ir. Ilesketh being s p . ed Sub-bitendant of Story* ?—Ves. 7th. —Would your Lordship approve of my exchanging the lir-A C o mmittee's prers for die nue belonging to the Minor hate? -.This :wide I do not quite understand, but will talk it over er:o• The following one has given rise to Annie discussion between his bordshoi and myself, with the sulestatice uf which I think it ne e...ssev that the (*.minima* should he acquainted. I have, there. Mel, subjoined the heads of a conversation which has pausal be. tis..e- us on the subject. your Lordship stated yesterday evening that you bad said to orroconlato that, " were you in his place, you would have placed the presa under a censr," and that lie replied, " No; the liberty of the press is guaranteed by the constitution." Now I aish to limo whether your Lonlship was anions when you made the. (lilacs. anon. or whether you only said so to provoke me? If L.,irttsbip was serious, I shall consider it my duty to commu. locate this atkir to the Committee in Eughuid, in order to show them how ilidieult e task I have to fulfil, in promoting the liber ties of Greece. if your lowdship is to throw the weight of your run talents into the opposite scale on a question of such vital im portance. To this question I solicit a written answer, lest I should misrepresent your Lordship's opinion and serMinams. After Lord Byesn hat read this paper he enterod into conversa tion with nue on the subject. Ile said that he was an ardent friend of publicity and the pre.; but he feared that it was rot applicable to this society . in us present combustible state. I an swered etat I thought it applicable to all countries, and essential here, in order to put an ere to the state of anarchy which at pre. sent prevailed. Lard It. feared libels and lierittiousness. I said that the object of a free press was to check public licentiousness, and to expose libellers to odium. Lord 11. had mentioned his rers.vioti with Marrocardato, to show that the Prince was Dot lion. tile to the press. I declared that I knew him to be an enemy to the press. although he dared ion openly to avow it. f his Lordship then said that he kid not mad.' up his mind about the liberty of the press la Greece, hut that lie thought the ex perimeut words trying. Yours, S TO TIlk: llltosososettur, JAW. '23. 1 1 121. BY °tea B•—Parry has arrived at Ithaca, and has rent :Br. llamphrioi to Jli.. donKhi for Instructions. .11ter receiving his in:angelic:, I consulted with Lord Byron and Prince 3larrocur dom. I then wrote to Parry to proceed to Dragositeste, there to din 'Moult all his stores, and to place them in the magazines. From lerammeste they will be conveyed to this place in smell craft. Two Mwrs after Mr arrival, he was sent back to Ithaca, so that the amount of the demurrage will not be great. (*.Morel (button a n d Captain ltlmptiere ate, lam t. 41, canting eat to Greece its the spring. Their presence will be attended with the moa beneficial consequences. Pray urge their speedy de parture. Cant. York, of the Alacrity, a ten.gundrig, came on shrive, a few days ago, to demand an equivalent for an lonian bolt that had been taken in the act of going out of the Gulf of Lepanto with pro. visions, arms, etc. l'he Greek flee., at that time, blockaded the harbour with live brigs, and the Turks had fourteen vessels of war in the Gulf. The Captain nislotained, that the British govere. mut recognised no blockade that was not efficient. and that that etii cier cy &menthol on the numerical superiority or cannon. On slits reilliSple, without ;rug at all into the merits of the case, be demanded restitution to the properly. Prince klavroeordato re monstrated, and eliimed to submit lie ease to the decision of the British government ; but 11w t'aptain peremptorily denintalcil res. mutiny of thermally in four hones. Ile received 2110 Mlles as an equivalent. lewd Byron ronducted the business in behalf of the Captain. In the evening he convened with me in the subject. I mud the strait was einitiocted in a bullying manner, and not sc. cording to the principles of equity end the law of natiens. His lordship started into n passion. Ile coot:ll4rd. that Lite, justice. and equity, had nothing to do with polities. That may be; bin I will never lcr.d myself to injustice. Ilk Lordship then !wean, ac cording to custom, to attar* Mr. Bentham. I said that it was highly illiberal to mak- personal attacks on Mr. Bentham before a friend who held him in high estimation. Ile said, that he n:.lv attacked his publk principles, whirls were mere theories, hut dangetons ; injurious to Simi wand calculated to do great mischief in armee, dudes* object to his borelolship's attacking Mr. B.'s principles; wh a t I eti:rcted to were his prnonalities. Ills Lordship never reasoned on aty of Mr. B.'s writings, but merely nuttle sport of them. I wou!d, thcrefote, ask him what it was that he obireted to lash Byron mentioned his Panopticon as visionary. 1 said that cape. rimer in Pennsylvania, at .11ilbank, Nee. had proved it otherwtse. I said that B Inherit had a may British heart ; lint that Loot Byron, professii g liberal principles from his boyhood, had, when called InA , ll to act, proved himself a Tutk.—Lonl Byron asked, what moon. have you of this?—Your conduct in endeovintring to midi the press, by declaiming against it to Mumeonlato, and your pritioul abuse of lilraal principliss.—Lord Byron said, that if he bad held up his logrr he could have crushed the press. -- I replied, wit, all this power, which, by the way, you never possessed, you went to the !hint anti poisoned his esz.—loll Byron declaimed against the liberals whom he knew.— But what liberils ? I asked ; slid he borrow his nucleus of freemen tom the Italians ?—bord lymn. No; front the Hums, Cart. ettlztlts. Ac.—And still, said I, you presented ('inwright's hoot iltll, and sided Bunt by making his poetry sad piing hint the sale o f y our wades, Lieu Byron exclaimed, mat are worse lien I Vilwi, and shoot,' quit the army.—l retilied, lam a mere lint never will I abandon my principles. Our principles sr: dounctri....lly opposite, us let us avoid the subject. If Lows! Brion act's up to his protesssatts he will lie the greatest ;--if not, IN meanest of mankind.—l Ic said he hoped his character did net dip ad en my asertitms.—Nn, said I, your genius has initorta. Itted you. The worst could not deprive you of time.—Loril Hymn. yoo shall see : judge me by my acts. When he wished me lt"ekihtlellt. I Milt up the light to conduct hint to the passage, but humid, What ! 101 l op a light to a Turk L hope tbat the Q ua k ers w ill now b eg i n to app l y t h e i r f un d s to hI twonteson of chicon • i, the establishment of dispcnsmica, /he. to Inerce. Their aid is much wanted, and it will :se most tiseMllv 43 ' 14 MA/611y employed in the country itself. We should limit .'``? of wide.spreading and permanent utility. .111 ournertinos mkt wherein. be comparatively insignificant. Some ol the witatunate Greeks, whom the Quakers, with such laudable e. "'" 4,0 "... lent 11 . )111e., are now pining in want, and contributing to mate tanker distress. I acts surprised that this does not occur to the , mn e,„.. ~ „ ...*.ylics that the Turks hare endeavoured to makes di. I:;.r'ton t r_•lerseolunt., but have been driven back into the fortress. lie . the captor! of N oo mt as essential to the interests of f ere've. illatnatch as th e rich esto r' that place alone woold enable her to aPry it the we against the T 01 k . Ulysses talks of a Conherras S ' l°44 in le stern GITCCe. This powerful chief is said to be in the dcutocruic r.tcrest. ''ours, TO THE SAME. Hitt Fen. lit!4. 10 * Dr.% n.--l'aptaln Parry has made the following proposi tion is Ponce ii , vincordato, which has been acc-pted la addithe to the sum remitted by Captain Palle. the Prince has ranted AM dollars for wood. The ado measures of thes measures 'l Pike 3 l o solotighi„ which is one of the k e ys to the 3loceo, in a 'at ' , or defence. It will also be the means of funning a most useful kool Byron eta seised, an the 13th inst.. with a severe lit. ilia sittingin myroom, and jesting with l'arry, but his mailed hit brow occasionally discovemil that lie wan agitated by : R h g rethars. 1,11% a sudden he compl a in e d o f a eca'a.:css in one ir legs. lie lose, hut finding I elf unable to walk. called tor assistance. lie then fell into a violent fIeTWOUS convulsion, and j i : Pl4.r d O P•3 lash D Wel (luring this period his face much wiml. In a fee minutes he began to recover his senses; hit IMA/clamed. anti he 11el soon well, thoiNli exhatisted with the rt "fgie ilia Pinlmontese surgeon and Ih. Millingen both a5"1,04 "1,04 :' , red me that the tit , th oug h of a dangerous character while it was not so in its consemiencm. Hitting the tit his loiniship " not ns a giant. and after it behaved with his usual Gnu- I omen; e that obis lit was orcmioned by over-excitement. Lie mid of I:. m.l is like a volcano ; it is full of tire, wraith, • and conlinistibles; 31,11, when thin matter comet to be strongly AP' P Th` ro lt, verd the esrlouou is dreadfurespectith respect to the exotics that d l ing. they ate beviwil my reach, ecc . ept a the provoking canduct of the Suliota. towards theft with • detfrce of Senett4ll, led; and t hen, w h en h i s p l ans were lA TMite. avid his hopes were tßiftul on ince Iron the inroads of the TUtka. 111111111 W. and extorted, and rtfia"3 to gratify their avarice. This was enough in the cause of Reece.. Such events and may an d ought to be anticipated. dna (cab one dtect rautr, which was i bard Byron hail aced taw& Liat could ant be carralril ktinad tar the murk of Li 'W delivery a! Weatvrts • "41e nnaratefal soldiers del C 'wdi till all wail nettled te lc, tate any lawn wawa a howetqw, quits natural, The Suliots have &rice agread to art agreeably to Lord Byron's pleasure. Wiser, you hear these statements do not hang your head. The /mine advances. F. very day the Creeks acquire knowledge. and the Turks taw , Inipotcrit. It requires name w.sdnin than falls to my *hare to tell you under what rid: the lireeka will eventually ra: Lut of this I am cents:a —that they can never again be sha yes. Alain ):•artiativ k of opinion that the tieecks are advnneing in knowledge. At their tiro r.ational &numbly, be %aid that not snort than titre.. or firer Mt nitwrii omit' etptest. tileiii.elveit with isiteeeet : whereas. ar. the areorvi meeting the-.: were thirty or forty that 'make with a fair %litre of intelligence. fie expresani himself in favour of n Plias] government. but &aid that it was difficult to twice the itiatvis ratileare, rich islatal aiming at tire.entinened. He :1 1 .0 de clared brasier ars admirer of the Goverswent of the United States. I think the. speech of the Presidetit of that mu nty and the Greet rhrtrvicie have civet' him this hiss. At all events he has c • Ai derably altered do- tone of his conversation. Twenty-four Turkish *omen and children have, through Lord livron's instrumentality, been offered their freedom. Nine of them wished so remain, and the rest have been rent back to Prevesa. A TUTIIIIII brig has run on shore near this place. The Bazar h cuipty, and all arc Knac to assist in capturing her. Yers, L. S. LORD BYRON To PRINCE MAYROCORDATO. CEPUALONIA, Dye. 2. IBM Prtiecr,—The present will be put into ymil bands by Colonel Strihope, son of 3lajor.tioneral the Ertl of Harrington, Ate. Ike. Ile has a-rived fnwn ter Of y days, after having visited all the Committees of ilentiany. lie is charged by our Committer in act in concert with me for the liheration of Greece. I conceive that his came and his mission will ir• a sufficient recommendation, with out the necessity of any other from a foreigner, nithough one, who, in common with all Eumpe, respects and admires the courage, the talenrs„ and above all, the probity of Prince Mavrocortlato. I am very uneasy at heanng tiiat the dimensions of Greece still continue, and at a moment when she might triumph veer every. thing in g:neral, as she has already triumphed In part. Greece Is, at present, placed between three measures; either to re-conquer her liberty, oe to become a dependence of the soveerigns of Europe. or to return to a Turkish province; the h 3; the choice only of these three alternatives. Civil use is but a road which leads to the two latter. If she is desirous of the Cite of Walachia and the Crimea, she may obtain It tnnmnrenc if of that of Italy, the day after: but if she wishes to became fridg Greece, fret and ink pendent. she must revolve to-dry, or &ha will never again have the opportunity. I am, with due respect, Your Ilighness'a obedient servant. N. n. PA. lingo Highboys will already have known, that I have sou . ;ht to Mill the wishes of the Greek Grvernment, as much as It laid in my power to do ; but I shaulii wish that the A:et, so long and SO vainly expected. were arrived, or at least, that it were on the way, and especially that your Highness sionild approach these pans either oo board the Aart, with a public mission, or in some other manner. 111031 LORD BYRON TO COI.ONF:l. STANHOPE. Seraer, or smne such nanil, on board a Cephaloniote listirz. 31st. MY PFAU ST AWIIOTE.—We Ste just arrived here, that it, part of my iseople and I, with some things, fcc., and which it may be as welt not to specify in a letter ( which has a risk of beine inter cepted, perhaps), but tiamba and my horses, negro, steward, and the press, and all the Committee things, also souse eight thousand dollars of mine, (but never mind, we have more left :—do you un derstand %) are taken by the 'Turkish frigates, and my party anti myself, its another beat. have had a narrow escape last night. (be ing elm under their stern, and hailed, but we would not answer, and bore away.) as well na •nis Morning. Hero we are, with sun and clearing weather, within a pretty little pn-t enough ; but whe ther our 'Turkish friends may not send id their boats and take it. out. (Mr we have na arms, except two carbine's anti some pistols. and. I suspect, not more than for fighting people on board.) is another question. especially if we remain {unit here, since we are blocked trot of 3limolonwhi by the direct entrance. You had better send my friend, George Drake. nod a body of Submit, to escort us by land, or by the canala, with all convenient speed. (samba and out Iknribard are taken into Patna, I suppose, and we must take a turn at the Turks to get them out but where the devil is the ticzt gone ? the Greek I mean. leaving us to get in without the least intimation to take heed that the 3loaleitis were out again. Make my reap:chi tollavrocorilato, and my, that I ant here at his disposal. lam uneasy at being here ; not minuet) on our own ac. count as on that of a /heck boy with me. for vent know what his fate woold be ; and I would sooner cut list, in piece. and myaell too, than have I taken out by thole barbarians. We are all very well. Vnnn. &c., N. B. P.S. The Bombard was twelve nines oat when taken, at least ao it aiplTMl to its. (if taken she actually I , e, for not certain.) and we hail to escape in= another vessel That stood right in between us and the pat. )(LISTA FHA ALI. Mustapha Ali, the youth whose portrait is given in the froutispiecr, in illustration of his national costume, was brought to England by Colonel Stanhope, on his return fiom Greece. His life, though short, has been eventful, and hint character is strongly illustrative, even at the early age of ten years, of that semi-barbarous state of morals and society which characteriz-s the half Europeanized Asiatics, who have for so many ages oppressed the south eastern extremity of the most civilized portion of the globe. The father of Musts/the was a Turk, who commanded a small district in the neighbourhood of Argos previously to the Greek rovolution ; at an early period of which, he, together with his wife and the whole of his family. with the exception of this boy, fell victims to the fury of the enfranchised Greeks. 21Iustapha Ali alone escaped this dreadful scene of retributive vengeance, to encounter a course of life than which death itself is almost more de sirable. Like a flog he pro -sled about naked fur subsist ence, anti was kicked or fondled as caprice dictated, and constantly halfettarced and destitute of a home. From Argos he followed in the suite of a traveller to Salona, where he again led a similar life to that which he had pre viously been subjected to. In the summer he laid up and down in the streets, and found refuge fur the nights, during the winter, in an oven, which became his favourite dor mitory. The menial slave of servantsje performed for them the dirty work whi c h they loathed to undertake; and. though still naked and craving with hunger, the little Turk contrived to make himself agreeable to the Greeks by his good humour and his fun. At this time Captain Humphries, happening to pass by Salons, saw Ali, and took a liking to him. Ile clothed the little orphan. and took him into his suite, of which he quickly became the life and spirit. Released from the state of destitution in which he had been plunged, the gaiety of the boy becalme grater than ever. Sometimes he rode on a mule at the op of the trunks, sometimes he walked for seven or eight hours together over the mountains; but whatever mode of travelling he clmve to adopt, he was al ways at the head of the cavalcade, singing, dancing, and laughing at every thing and at every body. When Colonel Stanhope was recalled by the British government, be oflimal to take charge of Ali, to which Captain Humphries consented with much reluctance. During his stay in the quarantine house at 'lank. Ali became very 'medal to the little Turkish gill wh:nn Lord Byron had adopted as a companion to his beloved Ada. ths her restoration to her father, Ali was very sorrowful and disconsolate, and wept for her absence for many days. The same grief was felt on the depatture of his former master for Argos; and, days after ha was gone, Ali would burst into teats whenever he saw any thing that put him in mind of his protector: on one occasion in particular, when on board slap, he was seen in a retired piece weep ing bitterly over an embroidered handkerchief which had been given to him by Captain Humphries. (In his arrival in England Ali was dreadfully alarmed lest he should be !slaughtered as soon as he hall landed, and was most anxious to have been allowed to remain on hoary. This request could not he complied with, and when, on his coining on shore, he was ordered to mount the stage coach, a kind of conveyance which he hail never previously seen, with a precaution indispensable in the country he bad so recently vitted, lie seated himself on the top of one of his master's trunks and put his legs upon the other, nor could he be induced to quit his post, lest the property should be stolen. 11 is notions of property ar e indeed far from precise, and he may well be pardoned for suspecting others of that propensity to plunder which formed so marked a feature in the character of those among whom his catliest years haul been pawed. Ali now attends the Lancasterian :Mimi in the Borough Road, where he acquits himself so well as to bring home daily a card of merit. lie was at first very desirous to have been admitted into the girls' school, but the directors refused, of course, to allow the young Turk to associate with their female pupils. Ile c will not, however, allow that his parents were Turks: it i s , indeed, an unparthm able offeror: to him to be called a Tutic, or even to apply to him his penmen of Mustapha. Ile hates the Turks: he hates also to have his turban touched; and a gmitle man having one day made an effort to tie i t off, the little barbarian drew his pistol, sad raved on account of its not being hustled. His general habits and attachments arc military, and he is conversant with the use of arms. I.S. THE PRESS. On one occasion, when no one could fire a piztol which Wag out of order, Ali, after ri•p•ated trials, rubb e d th e fli n t rind pan with aulphur, and succeeded in discharging it. He is very fond of daueing..Khieh lie pm-forma in a manner closely resembling that of the ancient Greeks, deviating only by firing off his pistols while ho twirls. He bar also a taste for music and singing, and is an admirable mimic. It in, however, of more importance to his future well doing, and to his present character, to state that be inmost faithful and obedient to his manter'n orders.. lie may la de d be rcgardul upon the whole as a clever boy, 'kill of talent and feeling. alloyed by pride, obstinacy, revenge, ■nd sundry other vices of his cask. AMERICAN PAPERS. The F:astroct ( Maim.) Seklimelof the 21:th rlt. Mires a Retailed arroyo' of the conduct ot the Commander of the British brig lam teed', which anchored in Passamaquoddy Bay on the Mo. One of his boats boarded an American vessel, and made her I'apiain Pay 45 rents. foe five shots which were fired at her, and the board ing ofiicer wanted to know " why the dunned Yankee did not heave to at the first shot. - lt appears that he also took a small fishing boat with three young into in it. who hail caught twenty mackerel for their own They were landed at Casiipo fish • the British side, and their boat and ri. taken from them. If the above statement be true, our Government should investigate the subject. The sante paper of the 4th inst. says—" It will b e seen by the subjoined accounts, two more American fishermen have been cap tured by the 1)oltercll, in open violation of the treaty between this tiaientimmt and Brest Britain. The languttge of the • Mani fesro.• or 1812, we think is tray applicable now, which is, it we recollect right, this :—• On the part of the United States we be hold a state of enmity and peace meanie (;rent Britain, and on the part of fircat Itritnn a state of war against the United States.'— We behold our property plundired on the high seas, and the lives of our seamen jnopartled, and some of them sent to a foreign country. and for aught we know, to be murdered for daring to as sert their right*. In fine, we see the laws disregarded, our flags insulted and trampled under loot; we therefore recommend • an immediate appeal to anus,' that we may drive these • freehoJters* to the polar regions, or sink them in the depths of the sea. Loan COIIIRANE.—It is correctly stated (says the Co lombian° of the VOth ult..) that Lord Cochrane has obtained the consent of the Emperor of Brazil, to his ass g once more the command of the Chilian navy, and that he is now :n co-opciation with the Liberator, with a view of inter cepting the Spanish man-of-war •%sia, and other vesseis lately from Spain. When Lord Cochrane accepted the overtures of his Brazilian Majesty, and assumed the cum mand of his navy, it was under the express condition that he should be allowed to return to Chili, whenever his ser vices might he nquir.d. By the arrival of the Speedy from Santa Martha, which place she sailed from the 28th of August, we have intelli gence from Bogota, of the date 18th August, by which we learn that Bolivar hail countermanded the force that had been ordered to join him. This at least chews that he had uo fear of the enemy. The want of direct information from Spanish America may be ace tinterl for. At this season of the year the Andes are covered with snow, and the intervening country to inundated, that the messengers cannot possibly travel. The despatches are generally conveyed by persons on foot, who are eamptiled to carry on their backs provisions for a month or six weeks ; in their journey they erect temporary resting-places, about thirty feet high. to sleep upon, and it frequently happens that they ate obliged to remain there for a week or a fortnight before the snow is dissolved suf ficiently to proceed on their journey. Accounts from Assam of the 9th of May state, that five companies of the .13.1 regiment left Gowhatty on the sth of that month for Colleabar, where the Burmese force bad retired and stockatled themselves. Captain Iforsburgh, with three companies of that regiment, and the irregular horse, continued at Soagong. . . A letter from Paris, dated Monday last, states that the French Government had, some days previous, received des patches from their Consul at Smyrna, announcing the plunder and destruction of a French vessel (La Jenne 41fe lanie) 0,3 the 3d of July, by three Albanian yes:els, the commatuhrs of which murdered the crew of the Melanie, with the exception of the mate, who escaper! dreadfully wounded, and fire Turkish passengers. The despatches of the French Consul are said to have been permed in a spirit truly heatile to the Greek cause; but a correspondence on the same subject from the Provisional Government of Greece has entirely removed any unpleasant feeling which they might have prodite.ll upon the French Ministry. If we are correctly informed, the Greek Secretary of State for Foreign Anita has not only disclaimed the act of the Al banian Captains, whom he 'lnuits s as pirates, equally detestable to Greece and to all civilized nations; but he has also expressed the readiness of the Provisional Govern umnt of Greece to make any compensation to the owners of the vessel, and the wounded mate. if upon reflection the French Government should imagine that more could be expected than the profound horror with which such an event had inspired all true Chtistians.—Giola. and Tra retire. . _ By the Chichester packet, Captain Eirkness, which ar rived on Sunday at Falmouth, from Sr. Thomas's in 8. days, we learn that a hurricane commenced to windward on the sth of Septemir, r. in the evening, and continued to blow hard all night and the next day ; but what damage is done by it was not known when the packet sallt i ; it is however tt ppOSell to he considerable to the southward and eastward. The Mat ia, mail boat, tell in with a French schooner on the loth September, ten days from St. Tlbornaa's, bound to Martinique, with her foremast gone, and every thing washed from the deck. Two sloops were driven out of Montserrat, and two sunk at St. Kited. At St. Thomas's, the gale entnmenced on Thursday morn ing, the 9th September, when two small craft were sunk, and nearly the whole of the wharfs damaged. An Act passed the Legialature of Barhadoes in June last, amending the Act to tax new comers and non-resi dents. The object of this Act appears to be, that all wi ses anchoring in any port, bey, or landing-place of the island, shall pay a transient tax of two per cent. on the value of their cargoes, whether they are landed in Barba does or not, unless the same are hose fide consigned to a merchant who has resided there three years, and is bound to no other port. The deatlis in Charleston for the week ending on the 4th of September were to, oof which were by yellow feY.T. Test:l-any a Court of Directors was Held at the East India Ilona:, when Captain Clarence Dalrymple was sworn into the command of the ship Vansittart, consigned to 11.mibay and China. Dartmoor granite is getting eensiderably into request in Loudon. and considerable orders for that article have been ra mists!. It is on account of its durability, which is confessedly superior to the Bath and freestone hitherto used in the tnetropolis.—Ereler Riper. The quantity of Ain fallen in Sussex during the last fort night, exceeds, by nearly double, the quantity that has fallen in the munch of October for nearly twenty years past.—!aent;ah Ga;:elte. Ft to E.—Tueralay a tire broke out in an unfinished house, situate in Cauonbury fie'.ds, New North-road, Islington. There were several catpenters employed at the house in fitting up the interior, and they had made a fire in one of the rooms for the purrose of melting the glue. The work men left the hou;e almint twelve o'clock, anal went to din ner, anal shurtly afar they were gene, the house was dis covered to he on fire. It is supposed the fire was caused by some sparks C OMM 111 l leafing with the shavings, there hieing a gteat quantity in the room. Soon after the com mencement of the fire, one of the workmen, anxious to rescue his tools, entered the house. Several of his shop mates, anal other persons, advised him not to venture into the house, as there was no hope of hi succeeding in his ob ject ; but unfortunately, a few moments after the carpenter entered the house, the floors anal roof fell in with a tremen dons crash, and etigulphetl him in the ruins. The house was extyletely giuted in less than an hour, anal from the rapi dity of the fire, it was impossible to render the unfortunate Iran any assistance. Sr mous Ae t0?.,:t.--While Wynne,. the Bristol youth, and the veteran Spencer were lighting the second battle on Tuesday, two persons were standing on the roof of a post chaise, wheu on a sudden, from the shouting in the ring. the horays took fright, and made a sudden start off': both were precipitated in a moment from eighteen feet to t h e ground, one falling upon the other. The undermost, whose name we understood to he sparrow, was taken in a senseless state to Fish wick's hooth. There was no medical aid at hand, and we hare slice heard that he died on the road holm.. The horces drew the poJt-chaise among a cluster of gi'c, and did much rnsehiet.. ANR.2DOTES OF BONAPARTE. A work has latelv been ;rub/WitA at Paris. entitled Tyre Memoir's of 17 ftTodiYl (Wirer, of which the jmarraral dry Drbeds has take:t particular notice. Sense pne , agee of it, Mating to the extraordinary man who ruled France for nearly fourteen years, may he interesting to our readers Early in life the stir -biographer, M. de R., was Len with his regiment to Corsica, where lie became the comrade of Bonaparte, then an of in the artillery. M. dc It. gives us some account of the family and person of this sub-Lieu tenant, who, in a few rare afterwards, became almost the master of Europe. The R /alba officer, of course, speaks not very favourably of the man who bad the insolence to usurp the throne of the Bourbons, but he has the right of speaking harshly of Bonaparte after his fall, as he neither flattered him in the days of his greatness, nor received the favours which the Enux•ror would gladly have lavished on an old comrade. " His fatbet," says M. de K., " had filled die office of in the small town of Ajaccio, un der the republic of Genoa, and that of Judge under the Bourbons. Ilia little sons then no longer went barefoottd, nor hail his daughters any further occasion to bring water from the fountain on their heads. The children of this' petty Corsican citizen were become youne gentlemen anti ladies, and, by the kindness of N. de Merbreuf, the former were rent to the Milit,•ry Academy, and he latter to St. Cyr, while, thanks to this extension of the King's bounty, they ultimately became, by their cunning and address, Kings en I Queens, &e." the author describes Bonaparte himself ae, at the • he last met with him, 'slaying the part of a cautious and malignant traitor. A few yrars he passed again through Corsica, on Lis return from Italy to France. He found the revolutionary principles making rapid progress in that island. They had already produeed a revolt of the soldiers and a manacre of the officers. He rowel Bonaparte busy fomenting ineubordination, and ag gravating the hostility of parties against each other. Less favourably disposed towards his former comrade than ever, N. de IL endeavoured to draw him into a duel, but Bona parte reserved himself for his destiny of grandeur. M. de It., however, fought a duel, in which he was wounded : he regrets that it was not with the " little Corsican," whom he thinks he should have killed. Some time after, he met Bonaparte at Valence, in Dauphiny, and he thus relates the rencontre :—" I happened one day to dine at a table where I met Bonaperte, whom I bad not seen since I was in Corsica. I pretended not to recollect him, but one of my comrades, M. Dupree a free-spoken and most deter mined Royalist, observing that the girl who waited on us at the inn had accidentally put his tray by the side of the elubist, called her back, and told her, once for all, never to I,ive him a seat near to that MTh. TIM little Corsican was, tso doubt, afraid of the repulsive style of the French Lieu tenant, for he swallowed the compliment without saying a word." At this period M. de It. left his regiment and emi grated. because he would not take a new oath, in which the King's name was omitted. The remainder of the volume is tilled with the narrative of his suffering% and dangers in the army of migraine, under the Prince of Conde. REVENUE OF IRELAND. We gave yesterday thesubstance of the conclusion of the Tenth Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the collection and management of the Irish Revenue. We now subjoin a brief abstract of the earlier part, which reco.n mends some very extensive changes, and considerable re dnetions in th_, Customs estahli..hments at several of the ports of Ireland. In Dublin, the duties which in Rag land arc performed as part of the ordinary business of the Collector and Comptroller, have been divided among the following officers : In the office of the Collector Clerks of the SSips' Earle', and Clerk of the Const ; Officer to swear Coasters to their Permits ; Debenture and Cocket Officers ; Customer and Collector. In the office of the Comptroller : Clerk of the Commissioners Check Book; Patent Comp troller and Comptroller. _ _ . - The Commissioners propose to assimilate the system to the English one, and to make a 'eduction of 16,7311. on an establishment of 40,40/. The reductions in many other ports bear a still larger proportion to the total expenditure. The expense of col lection indeed, in many places, bears an excessive propor tion to the sums collected. In Kinsale. the Customs duties collected are 3,105/. a year, which is thus divided:—to the expense of the establishment 2,599/. 13s. -hi.: to the State the remainder, viz. 6s. sal. The Commissioners re commend reductions on this establishment to the amount of I,S:Of. The port of Baltimore is a still strotiger instance of pro fusion. The amount of duties received is 1.0e21. 1.55.; the expense of the establishment is 3.5 , 21/. 34. 711. So that the benefit derived from the port of Baltimore is the opportu nity of expending about 4.4uu1. over and above all its re ceipts. The Commissioners think 1,9841. of this may be minced. The sum of the reduction proposed on the several ports of Ireland is 53,47 U ., which lonns a very large per cell tage on the whole expenditure. GRAIN AND FLOUR. According to Accounts recently printed by order of the House of Commons, there have been imported into Eng land and Scotland, the following quantities of grain ar.d Hour in the years specified : Corn and Grain. Meal and Flour. arters CWI4. Year ending Oct. 10, 1819 - 1i t104.030 . 145 1820 . 1,254,453 . . 1914814 1321 . 1,822.419 . . 345.322 17422 1.1x9270 . . 1,;•!.1 . 1,242.093 . 410.352 And, in the Half-Year riding sth April, 11ri—co,7a7 quarters and 152.8na clus. have been exported from England and Scotland to Ireland:— Com and Gmin. Mod and Flour. Quarters. emu. Year ending Oct. 10, 1310 - 10.344 3135 2820 4.976 - UPI 1821 . . 8.820 . 844 . 36,311..1 - . 62.245 1023 17. 6 ".3 - - 405 And in the Half-Year ending April .5, 1824-31,288 quancra an I 642 cwt. The depositors in the Devon and Exeter Savings Bank have now in the hands of tioverionent no less a sum than t: 0 1 mot. The great staple commodities of South Wales, stemr-real and cohi, now find a regular place in the printed periodical returns of the London Coal-market. Some of the great London brick-makers have discovered that culm is a more economical and more efficient furl in tlieir trade than any other, and they arc using it in great quantities.—(a,ucceer Jour rt.d. We are sorry to learn, that eonsiderthle damage has been experienced in the brick-yards along the banks of the up per part of the Severn, by the overtlowing of the river the early part of the week from the heavy rains; in one yard. we understand, upwards of 300.000 unburot bricks were completely Frilled. Travelling was greatly impeded in many parts by the height of the water ; but, save the above, we heard of no material accident or mischief as the emweeptence thereof. At Branceford Bridge, near Wor cester, a waggon laden with hops was ov.irturned, and two women who were on the top hal sonic di:i:eulty in saying themselves; and at Severn Stoke, a horse whit is was very carelessly left with a cart unattended, turned down a road leading to the meadows, and was drowned.—W.meester Lloyd's Liverpool correspondent has evidently committed an error in dates. lie states the arrival there of the Paragon, from Jamaica, and that she sailed on the 13th August. The Jamaica Papers advertised that she was to sail on the loth of Aumst, and that goods, passengers, and letters would be received on board until that day. We learn that she quitted on the tl.kl of August. but no letters or papers have vet been received in town from her. Me nneu.—A fellow named Douglas. !atcly killed an officer who attempted to arrest him for a debt at Troops burgh, N.Y. by stabbing him three times. Douglas lied to the woods, and for several 'lays eluded the search of the inhabitants, who turned out in a body to more him. Hunger at last drove him to enter the premises of a Mr. Ballet to solicit food, when he was seized and mid:lc:ea to gaol.--Ilea :.,' Pdp•r. DUBLIN CORPORATION. The following occurrence was communicated to us last night:— " Tho Lord Mayor, attended by the Aldermen who dined with him at the Mansion liaise, after th: Quarter Assembly 6c eatery, proceeded to Maritime'', in the coarse of the evening, wham em Common Council were assmnbled, peaakinr of Sheriff Warne', • snack dinner,' a'4 Immediately of entering obtatced prr Alien to poposes toast, MA gave • The glorious, pious. rid insmeteil minter dee great and rot: King William 111., let.' " The toast was recritut and drunk with uproarious applies* but " Mr. Sheriff WAStette infremed the Lend Mayor thst it had been giten from the Chair, and drunk wills due honours, before his arrival; and gently hinted that therefore is Lardr:tip's Muir firer.ce was not exactly necneary. " Another :timber of the Corporation said his Lott!stiip had great resistance to come down there to propose his toast. " Alderman Kix° oiled on the J,nrd Meyer to state whether he had not pledged himself the day be was elected to his prtimet office to propme him (Sir Abteharn) as a proper person to repre sent the city in Parliament, in the event of a vacate? occurring. " The LORD Nevem taunted, and said he would he preyed to ptrform Ma promise, thatrte an dectioa take place during late year of office." We shall no commentary on these occurecces se prent.— a Freeman's Journal. THE GREAT SHIP COLUMBUS. Queue, See?. 5. The large timber ship, the Columbus, of 3,103:3 ti sailed yesterday (the Stlt instant), about two o'clock, r sr. She was towed by the H ercu l s steam tow-Mat, Val touched the ground in coining up from bet anchorage. as the falls, when nearly opposite the upper end of the island of Orleans, awl remained there nearly one hour. The water about this place is 'very shallow and of unequal depth, and the circumstance of bet grounding naturally created great alarm ; fortunately time tide had stll to flow. she again floated, and rounding the point of the island, went out of Mull: about five o'clock. Sir. had be el read, for sea since Monday last, but the weather, the altficultiil attending the raising of her anchors, awl the demand Cu the part of some of b-r crew for higher wages, and their leaving the ship, had hitherto prevented her sailing. Site draws only twenty-three feet of water, and her crew con sists of eighty men. The tow-boat goes down with the Columbus as far as the liic, about ltiO miles below. Some precautious have been taken to caulk and otherwis secure the lieteules against the heavy weather she may have to encounter, and her powers as a steam-vessel, adapted fur towing ships below the port as well as above, and even for navigating the gulf, will be tried—and once known, mar, when circumstances admit of her being thus employed, be taken advantage of. iVe have no doubt that she will suc ceed well. It is intended not to proceed with the Columina: at night, while in the river, nor will it, we understand, be attempted to tack while in the river. She will, however, move against a strong head-wind, wi:h the tide in her favour, by the use of the tow-boat ; and, with five or six slays of ordinary weather, it is probable she will reach[ the guif. Although extremely clumsy in her shape, we under stand she obeys her rudder pretty well, and is rot what is termed a very crank ship. Ail on board appear confident that she will easily and safely reach her destination ; she will, however, we should imagine, be frequently expovrd in stormy weather to ship heavy seas, must strain a great deal, and in a severe'gale might be in great danger of fad ling over on her brain ends. Mr. Charles Wood, the builder, goes home in her, and returns ria the United States early in the winter, to superintend the construction of another vessel of a similar description, but of larger di metrions. This new vessel is already laid down, sit:d some activity prevails at the Ship-yard. Iler dimensions are about 3 , 20 feet on deck, wh!eh is the came length as the Columbus. but tin feet in width, that is to feet broader, and about ,1 feet deeper, or about 33 feet its depth. It :s stated, that she will be completely loaded when nn the stocks, and he ready for sea very soon after being launched, which will be early next spring. The Columbus was s e en this morning at one o'clock, by the True Briton, °W M:. upper cud of Crane Island. Exclusive of the Columbus, there have this season been launched nine vessels at Que bec, and two in Montreal, besides swo steam-boats at the latter place. There arc on the stoc!:s six more in Quebec. and four in Minim al, which, it is probable, will go to sell this fall, making, including the Columbus, twenty-two vessels, which will have been sent to sea from this pruvin:,: at the close of the navigation. The Columbus is near 4,000 Pins, the others may porhapsavertge about 2,250;t00n which world give a total of 6,230 tons, and at the price of ;l. ioA., the value of exports in this way would be 69,37.1 1 . There is every eppearance that ship-building will be more brisk in the elNuill7. winter than it was during the las:. and 16 vessels, including those now building, it is thought, will soon be on the stocks at Quebec, and its neighlnur. hood. The following arc the contents of the cargo of the grrat timber ship Columbus, from Quebec, the arrival of tibial in the river is daily expected :—viz. 36,343 pieceso f deeds 34,8.53 staves and 'headings ; '2,82 pieces of red pine; pieces of white pine; 41 pieces of oak. The whole to be deposited in the bonding yard of Mr. Richarasop, of Lime. house. The Columbus came down the fit. Lawrence ea the 6th of tzeptember. Several people are now travelling the country fir the purpose of passing brae c in, which, though wen extc;lte,i, may always be det•cted by the ring. A woman of tb• name of Priscilla Jenkins, who states that she cants ficaa Bristol, was on Monday apprehended in Hereford with ;.; counterfeit half-crowns in her possesiion, tolerably well ex. ecutetl, and was committed to prison to take her trial for the misdemeanor. On Saturday se'nnight, the school-room beneath the Countess of fluntingdon's chapel, l'heltenliatn, was en tend, and 37/. stolen from a box therein, ("longing to the members of the Protestant Union Club. On Tuesday evening three villains were observed lurking suspiciously about the shop of Mr. Myers, stir. smith, High -street. Clultenham, and on his examining the windows, be die. covered that the glass of one pane had been cracked in three places by some sharp instrument. The offends!' made their escape. ESCAT'T OF A FELOS FROM A WATCH-pier :sr.—Yee day murning about three o'clock, a person of very suspi• citrus app..irance, with a large I und'e In his hand, was stopped while crossing the waste ground at the back of the London Ilespital, by a watchman, who put the usual question en these occasions, namely, what I.e got In the bundle? The stranger, not wishing to enter into an ex* planation, gave leg-bail ; however, eller a long chase and a desperate resistance, he was taken into curt dv, and brought to lilt-end OM Town watch-house, anti on examining the bundle, it was found to consist of two fine fat zest, anti a Muscovy duck. %hid) were all fresh, and apparently nor more than half an hour dead. The prixner was looked up in the strong room, and at five o'clock in the trot r..; the night-constable, with the rest of the guardians of the night, retired to their respective homes, leaving the pri soner, u they thought, quite secure. Stone, a heatiboratagh, at the usual hour, on calling at the watch-house to take The prisoner before a Magistrate, was net a little surprised ra lind the outer door opened, and on further 07(3111/11iN, ha found that all the birds were flown, as well as one of the ' watchtnen's coats. The prisoner erected his oreape by breaking up the top beard of a seat in the room in whirls he was placed, with which he made are ap.-7ture through the wall sufficiently large for his ge,ting into the film:- room, and there he was provided with a necessary inrvlerr aunt to effect his et rape, namely, a large poker ; w-ith this h:. forced hark the bolt of the lock and openetl the door, anti by war of perfect safety, it is supposed. he put Oft the v:ateltman's coat, that he might in that disguise carry -his bundle through the streets in perert safety. The fetnale servant, Ilargaret Edwards. who robbed her mrstrOss, Mrs. 1., e. as aireatly cat , d. has been taken at Newport, and will be Irks! at the n, xt Assi.:es for Mon. mouth. She was traced principally by the active exerfbnit Of a tradesman of Ilristol, aho Was crowing orer in the swam packet to Newport, and who W3S struck with the resemblance of a ton alt pant`NACT on boar:l to the der—'' tionfren in tilt. , ncwrrapers. When apprehen,b o got rid of nearly all the property : a wotrati of flillier, who kteps a shop in Nowport, rave he gioxls for three gitimus to ;old, and **mit rah On Friday, a fisherman of Ilerefonl, t h e L uilt . with a coir:non 9y ;ine, near Lau which wealted 3lts. ,oz. .0 ~~ > ~ 4^ ~ ~~ i. , I i ~~ to the dts?rip. tided, she ha! t of the name of ,•t ent.y Vss. in Isgk• oil's. 1..1 a trout in u;•Sridge Mill i .. 1 . i