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THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS. (ht Saturday we received Jamaica Papers to the 7t11 ; till. Among our extracts is a copy of a letter from Mr. llushis sou, on the subject of the late slave insurrection in De merara, which is peculiarly interesting, not only for the temperate sentiments expressed upon the question of the abolition of slavi . ry, but because it discloses the opinions and views of the Bight Hutt. Gentleman's colleagues. The letter is addressed to Nit% til:Astone, of Liverpool, and it may be presumed, front the terms in which Mr. IVilber force and his friends are spoken of, was nut intended for publication. THE AGENT'S LETTER. KINGSTOX, FEB. It I had lately an interview with Lord Bathurst. in the course of which it was my endeavour to impress upon his Lordship my eon. victim of the danger and impropriety of the continued efforts mak ing all OTC,' the country be the advocates for the emancipation ofthe negrom, pressing forward petitions for expediting that object, and more especially in districts where the question cannot be understood hpree.eetlings seemed to me to merit. on the part of his 31a. i -_s esty op 's Ministers, something more marked than disregard ; and I respectfully suggested that they ought to be met in the House of Commons by a decisive declaration that, if the British public should versist in (innards, by which the lawful property of the Colonists must be injured, compensarion must in the twat instance be not only pledged, hut provided. Such a derlararion was, in deed, become necessary, since it would not be difficult for me to prove to his Lortlahip that eases for compensation, upon the clearest ptinciples of equity, had already occurred. and that our properties alti-rether had become of hide or no avail, whether for purposes of sale or transfer. II is Lordship mild he could not undertake to say now in what manner these tow petitions might be nret in Parliament, or what might be the language of Ministers regarding them, but, in his own opinion, they would not be considered as worthy of much re gard. His latnlship did not seem willing to enter upon the discus soon of a provision for compensation. nor was this perhaps the fittest time for my pressing that subject. P.S.—I last night received a letter from !fr. Horton, written by direction of Lord Itathuist, a ropy of which, together with a copy of what I have just written to his Lordship in reply. I now trans mit to you. add I have not any observation at this moment to make to you on the etihiect, excepting such as you will gither front my letter to his Lordship. You may rest assured, that in the course of any coinmunications with his Lordship, the interests of Jamaica shall not suffer by want of seal and exertion on my part, be the mode of that communication what it may. The consequence of publishing in the Papers of this Island the confidential personal communications between Lord Bathurst and Mr. Hibbert has been, that his Lord ship has declined all personal interviews with him, u will' ' be seen by the following letters above alluded to : Copy of a Letter from R. Wilmot Horton, Esq., to (temp Harbert, Erg.. dated Downing-street, January 1), Sta—l am directed by Lewd Bathurst to inform you, that, as , the Committee of Correspondence in Jamaica have thought proper to publish a report of the communications which took place in the personal interviews a hich he hid with you, his Lordship desires, that, in future, his communications with you may be confined to, written documents, as records of verbal conversations arc naturally liable to incorrectoms. I am also directed to infirm you, that in making this communi cation, his Lordship does not give any opinion of the accuracy or inaccuracy of the report of his conversation with you in question, which, in point of fact, he has never seen. His Lordship regrets that, under these circumstance, the inter course which has hitherto subsisted between his Lordship and your 'elf, as Agent for the island of Jamaica, must cease to be so con fidential as the interests of that island seemed hitherto to require. I have the honour to remain, your obedient humble Servant, (Signed) It. WIL3IOT HORTON. - - - - - Copy of Mr. George Hibhert's letter, in reply to the Right Hon. the Earl Itatittind, dated Billiter-court, Jan. 10. 1824. . . re reived last night the le ter of 3lr. Horton, dated the Vth inst., written by directions from your Lordship, which informs me," that as the Committee of Correspondence in Jamaica bare thought proper to publish a report of the communications which took place in the personal interviews which your botdship had with me, it is your Lordship's desire that, in future, such cons. tounications may be confined to written documents," kir reasons which your Lordship pies on to state. I shall, by the mail of this day, transmit s copy of Mr. ilarton's letter to the Committee of l'orrespuntlence; and your Lordship will, I trot, receive through me such explanations as they may offer on the subject. 31eantime I venture to assure your Lordship that the publication of any part of the letters of their Agent, which relate to personal conterences with your Lordship, or any of his Majesty's 31inistens, het in no instance been authorized, much less directed, by the Cons. tuittee of Correspondence, although it has recently once or twice . • happened by means of the access which each individual of the Com. nutter must have to the letters of the Agent, whether the Assembly be or be not sitting. Your Lordship's commands, that in future your communica tions with me may be confined to written documents only. 1 re ceive with regret, not mlly from the kiss 1 must thereby suffer of the facilities which your Lordship has often so kindly afforded me for the discharge of my important duties, but from the additional trouble which 1 foresee I must be compelled to give your Lord ship, in the course of performing those indispensable duties in future. •_ _ _ These considerations, however, are meetly personal ; and as to what regard the interests of Jamaica, a Colony to all respects so in strumental to the welfare of Great Britain, I do not indulge an ap prehension that they will be permitted to suffer through the want of any cecetsary or useful means of communication betwixt his Ma- Secretary of State for the Colutial Department and the r.gent fur that island. I have the honour to be, very respectfully, my Lord, your Li rd ship's obliged and faithful servant, (Si 4 nsd) GEORGE lIIBBERT. LETTER FROM 31 R. HUSKISSON To 31 R. GLADSTONE (Corr.) " Easthain, Nov. 2, 11123. "Me Malt Se a—l now return you the letters from your prin cipal attorney at Demerara, which you have been so kind as to send for tuy perusal and information. lam very sorry that the forebod ings or those who deprecated in vain the agitation of the Slave ques tion by the House of Commons, have been so soon realized ; and that this alarming insurrection in Demerara, and not any of the improvements which were anticipated by the promoters of that dis cussion, is the first practical issue of it. I am sure 1 need not tell you (th ough I believe we have not the credit of it with many of the West Indians) that the Government did every thing in its power to prevent Buxton's motion altogether, and that Mr. Canning in par ticular exerted all his personal influence with Mr. M'ilberforce and others for tnat purpose. I perfectly agree with you that in a mat ter of this portentous di ffi culty, it is only by gra d ual ' amelioration— by moral and religious improvement—by humanity and kindness__ by imperceptibly creating better domestic habits and feelings aiming the stares—by countenancing and encouraging all that can have that tendency in the conduct of the owners and w lute people—by repress ing wits the strong arm of the law, and stigmatising with the moral power of opprobrium and disgrace, whatever leads to an opposite result—that we have a chance of ultimately and even then remotely, providing for the termination of so great an evil, moral and politi cal, as the existence of a large population in a state of chattel pos session and personal slavery. In principle, this is the cud which every good man ought to wish for, perhaps to look to, but it is an ead, wh ch, so far trout publishing or ;nue:aiming at the outset, he ought almost to conceal even from himself. It is the fault, and a heavy one it is, of Wilberforce and his associate*, that by agitating the question, and proclaiming their object, they have rendered the application of the means both hazardous and more difficult, instead of feeling that every step towards their own ultimate object was in itself so much of real and substantial immovement, that it ought to hare been enough to have satisfied their feelings for the present, whilst it would leave them this assurance for the future, that, in doing an immediate good, they had made a safe step in advance towards the attainment of their final wishes. 1 hope, rather than ex pect, that what has happened at Demerara may teed] this party more discretion, and that we shall not witness a repetition tot* those inconsidente petitions and provocations to debate the question of emancipation, which Rimed a part of their tactics in the last Session. On die other hand, I trust that, whilst the Go vernment provides adequate means of increasing the internal se curity of the colonhii, they will nut, front temper, or a mistaken confidence that the danger is at an end, lobe sight of those mea sures of improvement winch are within their power. Among those measures must be a greater encouragement and provision for 31i- nisters of the Established Church, either of Englatid or of Scotland. I think die example of Smith, of whom it is difficult to presume he was altogether innocent of the late conspiracy, proves that die colonies and the government must look fur the religious instruction of the Negroes to men, whose situation :nd tenure will afford a better security that they will not overstep the views and intentions 'of their employers, than can be found in the voluntary oral, even it always honest and sincere, of the Missionaries, fur the interests of religion. Imu sorry that the vicinity of Smith to our estate, andtua connection with wile of your s laves, has involved you in some loss of property; but, looking to the immense stake you have in this colony, you may console yourself, if the result of this formidable conspiracy ehouid be, that its preimiture explosion af fords die chance of a better insurance as.ainat the repetition of a similes danger. " I remain, &c. fie _obta (Signed) " W. 11USKISSON. " John Gladstone, Esq. Liverpool : " TRIAL AND EXECL"fIO . pr REBEL NEGROES IN - JA3IAII:A. KING!Tox, FE aa vaa Y 14. . . Extract of a letter from fluff flay , dated the 10th inst. :—Henry Oliver was executed pursuant to the second warrant on Wednesday lest ; h e died without making any confession, b ut earnest l y im plored for g iveness from his maker, and Jesus. Omer was 'se ated on k riday ; he also refused to make any confession, and on the platform he held up his head, and desired all to lout un his esuntenance, and say, whether he appeared to he a bad Negro. Of the fo u r condemned to death by the list Slave Court, the sentence of thre e h as been commuted to transportation. Sainali and George Taylor, who were sentenced by the same Court to transportation, ! hare been pardoned by his Grace the Governor. Accounts from Demerara, dated the 11:th of January, state the arrival of the 27th, or Enniskillen regiment, about UN strong. AI ar nal law was still continued, the red flag was flying, and the militia sere keys uncle. arms. The Negroes found guilty of being con cerned in the rebellion were sentenced to different punishment/ — from one thousand to two hundred ladies, which were all inflicted. Othino and Sammy, who rereival one thousand lashes each, were Lirther sentenced to be worked in chains—dm former for life, tie ' , fa:t:r for seven years. MEMOIRS OF CAPTAIN Rock: THE CZ 2222 %TED IRISH CHIEFTAIN t WITLI SORE At:C.OCW! or U!8 ANCLS7OII4. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. [Continued from the Di :fish Press of Friday.l One great good that will b. effected by this invaluable work is, that the attractions of its style, and the exquisite keenness of its wit, will gain attention everywhere to the condition of the Irish, and to thy severe and careless sys tem of oppression under which they so long anti so severely suffered ; it will be now known in every corner of England what are the grounds of those tumults, and of all that heart-burning, against the eff.ets of which those whose op pr....Them here treated if are for ever enacting new laws. and calling for additional securities. The writer gives a concise but clear sketch of the system upon which Ireland has been governed from the time of its conquest in the reign of Henry 11., a system which treated them as worse than strargers in their native land, and which unfolded in' its progress all the frightful features of usurpation. The sufferers bad no hope of refuge, for they were not per mitted to escape to a more hospitable land. They were kept for Persecution to try its hand upon. In the Reign of Henry IA . the Irish • • Enemy" (for so the ••nath es Mete styled in all legal documents) showed, naturally 'enough, &disposition to emigrate—But by a refined mixture of cruelty and absurdity, which is only to be found, gesid.te, in Irish legislajon, an Act of Parliament was passed to prevent them. Those whom the English refused to incorporate with subjects, they would vet compel to remain as rebels or slaves. •• lly an Art of the Irish Parliament in the eleventh year of Henry IV., it was or dained that no Irish enemy should be permitted to dep art from the realm." We have ,heard of a bridge of gold for a fiving enemy, but an Ac. of Parliament to compel him to stand his ground could only have been passes) by an Irish Legislature. In modern times, it must be confessed that oar humanity has advanced a few steps, and while we have fratutZs calculated to promote emigration, we have done not to prevent it. _ . . The Captain is an admirable commentator ; in proof of' this, we give his observations on that counteractive system of policy, which, to the majority here, always involves thc. affairs of Ireland in a political mist. Among many minor points of resemblance between our Popish rulers of dune days and our Reformed ones of the present, may be counted that quick and distracting change of Lieutenanteies, suc ceeding one another like the groupei of a magic lantern, each in its separate frame or slider, cacti differing from its predecessor in plans and opinions, and thus remitting the government, like Penelope's web, a mere system of doing and undoing. The account given by Spenser of this motley procession of Lord Lieutenants, is like &picture painted yesterday—so fresh are all its co. lournand so living its likenesses. ••Thegovernors (says he) ue usually envious of one another's greater glory which if they would seek to excel by better goverunient, it would ' be a most laudable emulit tion. But they doe quite otherwise. For this is the common order of them, that who conieth next in place will not follow that course of government which his prtsiccessors held, either for disdane of himself, or doubt to have his doings drowned in another man's praise, but will straight take a way quite contrary to the former: as if the former thought by keeping under the Irish to reforme them ; the next, by discountenancing the English, will carry fa vour with f..e Irish, and so make his government seem plausible, as having the Irish at his command. But he that comes after will perhaps follow neither the one nor the oil Cr, but will dandle the one and the other in such ..on, as he will aucke sweet out of them both and leave bitterness to the poor country.' Our modem plan, it must be confessed, Improves upon the dis traction of this, fur not only hare the Governors of discordant poli tics succeeding each other, but every new Governor is provided with a Secretary to differ with him for the time being, and both re ceive their instructions from a Cabinet, not one member of which agrees with another. If this is not sounding the pitch-pipe of dia -1 cord, Captain heck has no car for that kind of music. Can any wrinanent advantages he gained to Ireland under such a counter-working policy as this ? Is it pos sible to imagine a stronger satire upon any Cabinet than is to be found in such a system ? To send out an enlightened Vies:sue, whose talents and integrity give every promise and warrant every expectation of benefit to Ireland, and appoint as his Secretary an individual who, it is foreknown, will naverac all his steps, and neutralize all his efforts ! And is it to pay court to that aristocratic faction, who claim the monopoly of power and place in Ireland as their palrimony, that our Government consents thus to stamp its own character with fraud and treachery ? Is it to favour the exclusive aggrandizement of the Orange a se r n dants, that we still cling to this most preposterous and disgrace ful system ? Ilow is it possible to transfuse anything of energy into the administration of an authority so consti tuted and so beset, and where the contending powers, like the angels in Paradise Lori, are now giants, and now pigmies, according to the momentary triumph of integrity on the one aide, or of intrigue on the other ? ' But we return to the Memoirs. The writer thus com mences the chapter which brings him to the period of the Reformation:— Henry the Eighth, who was as fond of theology as of dancing. executed various &wears in the forme line, through which he, rather unreasonably, compelled the whole nation to follow him ; and, difficult as it was to /imp pace with his changes, either as be. liev?r, author, or husband, or know which of his creeds he wished ' to be maintained, which of his books he wished to be believed, or which of his wives he wished nut to be beheaded, the people of Eng. land, to do them justice, obeyed every signal of his caprice with a suppleness quite wom!crful, and danced the hays with their mo. narch and his unfortuiate wives through every variety of mystery and murder, into which Thomas Aquinas and the eseutioner could lead them. The lb:formation did but open new sluices of oppression to the Sister Kingdom : every change in England from bad to better was to be a change from bad to worse. What is remarkable, the only respite she received was under the reign of a Queen, whose bigotry drenched England with blood. According to e.e usual rule of contrariety between the two countries, the reign of :Mary, which was attended with such horrors in England, is almost the only interval of peace aid quietness, that the annals of my ;Incest in , exhibit in Ireland. Some local fightiug, it is true, took place among my relatives the O'Brien*, O'Neal*, etc. but little more than was ab s olutely necessary to keep th e i r hand, in practice against a change of administration. The last Lord C —n, upon being found one day by a friend, practising with his sword against the wainscot before dinner, and being asked the reason of his assiduity at this exercise, answered, " I have sonic company to-day that I expect to quarrel with"—! and pretty much in the same manner, the members of my family are obliged occasionally to rehearse, even in their moments of tran quillity, for the reception of any new guests that may be sent them, ill the shape of governors, from England. Irith the exception, however, of these trifling interruptions, both government and people were at peace during the whole of this reign ; and it is worthy of remark that the only period, in which the Irish have been left the stomolested exercise of their religion, was a period of perfect tranquillity and tolerance--such freedom from persecution being enjoyed at this time, that, according to Ware, •• several English families, friends to the Reformation. fled to Ireland, and there enjoyed their opinions and worship without noise or molestation :"—this, too, during the bloody reign of Queen Mary ! IVill our rulers *ever read History ? We trust they will, and that the great interests of Ire land, as a nation, will he preferred to that subjection, from the trammels of which the deserved popularity of our present Ilinister gives them a chance to disentangle them selves. The Oas NG E Iteutx cv has swayed Ireland long enough. It is high time the league were broken up. It is among the first and most prominent causes of all the evils we deplore In the sixth chapter we arrive at the reign of ELIZAD/Tll. The degrree of wretchedness to which the long preceding series of wrongs and miseries had brought this unhappy people is forcibly painted in the following extract : The plan of pacifying Ireland by exterminating the Irish— the only feasible one that has yet been attempted—was tried, on a grand scale, during the reign of Elizabeth ; and had so nearly suc ceeded, that under the government of lazed Only, the Queen was assured that •• little was left in Ireland for her Majesty to reign over but carcases and ashes." ho satisfied, too, with the result of his mission was another of her agents in this work of desolation, that the record which he has left behind him of his sanguinary ex ploits is entitled " Paeans Hibernia," or •• Hibernia pacified." Hibernia pacified ! alas, alas, could the shade of Sir O. Carew but once more bolter over his own region of Munster, he would find that a new edition of his work of Pacification is much wanted— he would find that thrciigh the ramie peace-makers, slaughter and MMtion, have been tried under almost every government since . the grand object is still unaccomplished—the Temple of the Anglo-Irish Janus (that "fonts biceps") lies as open as ever. As I am not writing a history of the English power in Ireland, but merely tracking Ise course by hasty glimpses, and pointing out a few foot-marks of the Hercules of Despotism, from which the rest of his colossal proportions may be estimated, I shall content myself with selecting front the long reign of Elizabeth a trait or; two most characteristic of her general policy ; or, rather, of the po.! hey of these employed by her; as that (peen herself would Lave been far too wise had her attention been fairly directed to the sub- I 1 jest, to turn thus into a wilderness what nature meant for a garden.' or make famine and devastation the hand.maids of her power. There is a memorable saying of hers, preserved by Camden, which not only shows how feelingly aloe was aware of she perverse wicked. tiers of the system pursued under her name, but contains as bitter ' a comment on the whole course of policy towards this country as the most virulent United Irishman ever dared to utter. ...Alas (said . she, on receiving sonic representation of grievances front Ireland),' how I fear lest it be objected to us, as it was to Tiberius by Bator —You, you it is that are in fault, who have committed your flocks DM to shepherds but to waives !" And now for our sneciniens of the policy of this reign. Let the poet Sei:x SEX in the font place, eltscribe the frightful state of ex anlation brought upon the people of Munster, by a w ar i nto a bkb their lender, the Earl of Desmond, wan driven by the cupidity of the chief Covernors, who hail loot; looked on his immense poseessions with a wishful eye, and thinking hint too tempting as an enemy, to be long suffered to remain a trend las he himself expresses it): " wrung him into undolifultiess."—" Notwithstanding," says Spenser, " that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, yet, ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness, at that any stony heart would rue the same. Out of every earner of the woods and elynns, they came creeping forth upon their hands, fur their legit could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spike like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another coon after; insomuch, as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and if they found a plot of water. curses or shamrocks, there they Hocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country sud denly left void of man and beast." The authors of this calamity reaped from it the expected fruits. Five hundred and 'weenie-lbw' thousand six hundred nod twenty. eight acres were forfeited to the Crown, and distributed anions Englishmen. . As famine had succeeded so well in Munster, it was adopted sys tematically in Leinster and Ulster; and that death which Home, pronounces to be the most miserable that man can die, was now prescribed and administered universally as a panacea for all the evils of Ireland. "The ssels.iers," as we learn from Moryson, "encouraged by the example of their officers, everywhere cut down the standing corn with their swords, and devised every means to deprive the wretched inhabitants of all the necessaries of life. Fa mine was judged the speediest and most effectual means of reduc ing them. The like expedient was practised in the northern provinces. The governor of Carrickfergus, Sir Arthur Chichester, issued from ha Quarters, and fur twenty miles round reduced the country to a desert. Sir Samuel Bartel, with the garrison of Newry, proceeded with the same severity, and laid waste all the adjacent lands." Such was the executive part of the measures of Elizabeth's minis ters.—Let us now lift the curtain of her councils, and see what was passing there. _ „ . _ It appears from the letters of Sir H. Story and Sir J. Parrot (who to do t hem justice speak of such conduct with the horror it deserves), that when the death of the Earl of Desmond, and the suppression of his adherents, had left an interval of tranquillity which it was proposed to take advantage of, for the long-desired purpose of in troducing a system of justice and liberal policy into Ireland, the Counsellors of Elizabeth opposed themselves to this humane design, Nod did not blush to assign the following reasons for their oppoes non Should we exert ourselves," said they, - " in reducing this country to order and civility, it must soon acquire power, eons*. quence, and riches. The inhabitants will be thus alienated from England ; they will cast themselves into the amis of some foreign power, or perhaps erect themselves into an independent and separate State. Let us rather connive at their disorders ; for a weak and disordered people never can attempt to detach themselves from the crown of England." Never Vied the Rocks a fairer harvest of riot than during this moat productive reign, One of my ancestors, who lived and battled through the whole of it, has transmitted to his descendants the high and illustrious distinction, of having been personally engaged in no less than forty rebellions, making within five of the num. ber of years that good Queen Bess las he well might call her) reigned —to say nothing of a multitude of episodical insurrec tions, of a lighter nature, with which he amused his summer months. On this affecting picture—for with all the enlivening rdirfof this writer it is still affecting—it is painful to com ment. Talk of converting the Catholics ! How can it be expected that t4c majority of a nation thus treated should adopt the creed of their persecutors ? After chewing them for centuries that your religion has no influence in it to prevail upon you to be just, you demand of them to ex change it for their own ! ! All this is wilful guilt, it is not absurdity : our error has here no apology in our imbe cility; it were well if it had, for the remedy would then be mach nearer at ham!. (To be continued.) BRIGHTON, SUNDAY, Aran. 2S. • MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE. The fineness of Thursday gave every promise that Fri day would be a day of corresponding clearness and calm. S..vetal active preparations were made to celebrate the King's birth-day, and the Steine, the Chain-pier, Ireland's gardens, &c. were expected to present a more gay and fashionable appearance than on any preceding day of the Easter holiday.. To the utter disappointment and mortifi cation of the numerous visitors as well as the inhabitants, these fair forebodings were all frustrated, by the day set ting in from the earliest dawn with a high wind and heavy rain. The rain continued to fall in uninterrupted torrents throughout the whole day, and it blew quite a storm from the morning until the close of the evening. The appear ance of this town was therefore bleak and uncomfortable, and were it not fur the firing of the guns from the battery, not a single citeenstance occurred which could tend to re mind one, in this his faroutite town, that Friday was the day appointed for the celebration of the anniversary of the .King birth. _ _ I iiltich regret thElt &raves upon me to recount a' most distressing event—the loss of a boat and three of his crew, one of the fatal consequences of the storm of Friday. I say use of the fisted nouryttences, as, from the sails, rud ders, pieces of mast, Rm. which have been washed on shore, it is to be apprehended that the loss is not confined to a single wreck. The boat which has been lost was a fishing boat, belonging to the town of Worthing. The fine wea ther that prevailed on Thursday and the preceding days induced the crew, consisting of five persons, to venture at a cnnsiderable distance from the shore in pursuit of their industrious occupation. They were unfortunately over taken by the storm on the morning of Friday, and, in en deavouring to gain the harbour of Shoreham, were swamp ed on the southern sand-batik that lies at the entrance of that small and intricate harbour. Three of the men, con sisting of the captain of the boat, and a father and son, of the name of Porter, were drowned almost immediately on the boat's sinking. The other two succeeded in getting on the keel of the boat when she upset, and, as it drifted to wards the shore, were saved by ropes thrown to them by persons from the land. One of the boatmen who has escaped is a young man and son of the captain who was drowned, the other is an old seaman, who has had many "a hair-breadth 'scape" on his precarious element. Two of the bodies were picked up immediately after the wreck of the boat ; the third was not found, however, until twelve o'clock yesterday, when it was discovered near the chain pier at Brighton, a distance of nearly three miles from the place where the bodies were drowned. The bodies are at present at the Crown and Anchor public-house in Brigh ton. A coroner's inquest was held upon them last night, when a verdict of " Accidentally Drowned . ' was returned, on the evidence of the two boatmen who were saved, and 'of the persons who found the bodies. It is an aggravation to the calamity that the persons who were drowned had large families, whom they have left in a state of exigency that will probably require some charitable persons to rescue them from a state of want. Great alarm has been excited for several other fishing-boats, which have not been heard of since the storm. This day is delightfully clear and mild, and the concourse of strangers and visitors is, at the moment that 1 write, crowding every place of gay and fashionable resort. Merchants and Tradesmen are respectfully invited to the examination of the New Mercantile Assistant General Cheque Book and Interest Tables, by Mr. 11 - right, the Accountant and Agent, of 63. Paternoster-row. Copious Tables and Calculations on Irages ; Interest; all goods bought by Wholesale; Profits; Life Annuities; Public Funds; IVine ; Spirits; Flour; Corn, &c. &c. are com prised in this volume, and the approbation bestowed upon it has been the most unqualified and general, anti its real utility, when even used merely as a cheque on calcula tions in the hurry of business, will recommend it to general adoption. A new edition is now ready, beautifully printed, and strongly half-hound, price Us. It may be seen at most of the bookseller% about the Exchange, and in other parts of London ; or the publisher will have much pleasure in lending a copy for inspection, on a note being addressed to him (post paid), William Charlton Wright, jun., booksel ler. stationer, and publisher, 83, Paternoster-row, London. - . IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TEMPI.E.—FIeet-street and the Inner Temple are to be considerably imptoved and al tered. At present there is not a good carriage entranc e to the Inner Temple, and those who reside in it are put to much inconvenience, particularly after the gates are clo se d in the evening. The improvements contemplated are, the pulling down the houses in Mitre -court, Fleet-street, and Ram-alley, adjoining the west-side of Sergeant's-Inn, which will make a spacious and handsome entrance to the Inner Temple from Fleet-street ; the difficulties in making these improvements arc the proprietors of the houses and grounds asking large sums for the sale of their property. The Benchers of the Inner Temple also have it in contem plation to throw open to a public and uninterrupted view the Temple Church, which is celebrated for its ancient architecture. The difficulties in accomplishing this object are, also, the purchase of the Chambers, and other build ings which surround the Church: in addition to the value of some Chambers belonging to a public body, fcr which they demand 9001. PORTSMOUTH, A ran. 24. I From the HampeGee Tekyeep4.l His !Majesty's bomb Terror, Capt. A. D. Y. Arbuthnott, is kept in a constant state of readiness to sail for Algiers.— We understand the basis of an amicable negociation has certainly been some time concluded with the Dey of Al giers, and that further despatches arc daily clpecttd (ria Marseilles) on the subject, on the receipt of Which the Terror will Kee: ed. The 34th regiment, now doing duty in this garrison, is shortly to embark for Ireland. The following ships are daily expected to arrive here from foreign stations, their three years of service having expired :—Cambrian, Capt. G. W. Hamilton; Glasgow, Capt. l)oylc ; Martin, Capt. Henry Eden ; and Rose, Capt. Henry Hondas, from the Mediterranean : Forte. Sir T. Cochrane, from Harbadoes ; Valorous, Capt.Janies Murray, from Jamaica; Illosiom, Capt. A. M'L-an, from South America; Owen Glendower, Capt. ‘Voolcombe (acting), from the Cnast of Africa; Athol, Capt. Ile.nry Bourchier ; Niemen, Capt. Sibly ; and Dotterel. Capt. Hoare. from North America; Satellite, Capt. Currie, from the East Indies. On Monday the Jasper, lA, Hon. Capt. Trefusis, ar rived from protecting the Oyster Fisheries at Jersey. On Sunday the Tweed, 16, Capt. F. Ilunti, sailed for Plymouth, Cork, and Rio Janeiro; on Tuesday the Sparrowhawk, Is, Hon. Capt. Hondas, on a cruise. This day arrive the Calliope, from Plymouth. The permission lately granted by Government for our fishermen to dredge for oysters on the Motherbank, has given employ to nearly one hundred vessels, this week; and, from the ground not having been disturbed these ten years, the dredging has proved very successful. They are sold at Is. and Is. Ad. per hundred. PL YMOUT it, Arai,. 21.—Yesterday came in the Tweed, 2S, Captain Hunn, from Spithead, to complete her crew : if not successful here, she will call at Cork, and proceed thence to Rio Janeiro.—The Lively, 46, Captain W. El liott, C. B. sailed on Saturday, for Lisbon and Algiers.— Came in the Sappho, IS, Captain Jenkin Jones, from the Irish station, to be paid off; and the Nimrod, 18, Captain. Rochfort, from the Scotch station, to refit.—The Lightning, steam-vessel, has sailed for Pembroke ; she is Attached to Portsmouth dock-yard ; a similar vessel is building for the service of this port. I. Edye, Esq. Secretary to our late Commander-in-Chief, is appuinte.l to fill the same office to Sir J. Sautnarez, vice J. M'Arthur, Esq. who is in 111 health. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. The East India Company's ship Iferefordvhire arrived in the Downs yesterday morning : she left China the li t h Deceit:bur, and St. Helena the Ist March. The Princess Charlotte of Wales also arrived in the Dowus yes terday morning : she sailed from Bengal the 22d December, and from St. Helena the 4th March. The Castle Huntley, outward-bound, was all well on the 17th March, in lat. 3.30. north • and long. 20. 43. W. ; and she was in lat. 3. 16. north, long. 20. 21. wet, on the 18th March. The Sir Dasid Scott, also outward-bound, was in lat. 4.27. north, long. 20. 14. west. on the 110th March. SNIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, APRIL 24. ENTERED INWARDS. £07.1 Eagle, Gibbs (I)ugsield, broker), from St. Michael's. William and Mary. Way (Archer), from Lisbon. Prince of Waterloo. Page (Drinks.id), from Ostend. Henry, Cowall ( Archer ;, from Lisbon. Sprightly, Newton OR Die). from Lisbon. Speedy, Blackman ( Burnett), from Lisbon. Cossack, Todd (Grifliihs ). front Rio Janeiro. &others, Randle (Burnett), from Lisbon. Henry Cox, Sergeant (Thomson), from Jamaica. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRAresvcrL APRIL M.—Arrived the Henry Cox, Sergeant, from Jamaica : Penelope, Roberts, from Alexandria : Sprightly, I Newton; Brothers, Randle; Henry, Cowell; and William and Mary, Way, from Lisbon ; and Royal Essle, Partridge, from St. 3liehaels.—Sailed the Lady Illarkwortli, Capes, for Honduras ; and Leander, Forster, for Jamaica. IVIIITSTARLE, APRIL 2S —The Friends' Regard, of Sunder. land, from Wales, is on shore on the Middle Sand, and, it is feared, will not be gat off. Listiriiica, APRIL 21.—The Lively, Kate, from this port to Belfast, foundered last week off the ti&lters.—Crew saved. CONK, APRIL 19.—The Lively, arrived here to-day from Brid port, was hove on her beam-ends in a gale of wind, from which si tuation she was relieved by cutting away her mainmast ; she ' lost an anchor and cable overboard, sod sustained other damage. Nasssu, hR. }L-..TA. Perla, Intsitaala, hom klisositaiiis to Puerto Rico, was lately wrecked at .Mayaguaaa.—Crcw and pas sengers saved. The Laura, Palmer, from Port nu Prince to Wilmington, N. C., was wrecked at HeLesgs, on the 6th Crew saved. FEB. 21.—The ship wrecked at the N.W. point of Eleuthera, wu the Failus, of New York. Dickinson, master, from Modals, in France, bound to Mobile.—Crew saved. FEB. 23.—We learn that the schooner Zanga, of this port, was taken possession of by some piratical boats, on the coast, near Nuevitiut, and plundered of every thing of any value which was on boar.. JAMAICA (Kingston), FEB. 21.—The Spanish brig Numan tino, having sprung a leak, was compelled to put into Port-Royal to refit. FEB. Majesty's ship Isis is now refitting, and will be ready to sail from Port-Royal on the fitli proximo for Chagres. She will also call off Santa-Martha and Carthagena on her way going and returning, and will see any vessel which may be ready at that time safe into both ports. MAacll 6.—His Majesty's ship Isis will sail positively to-mor row morning for Carthagena and Cliwres : the Thracian on Mon. day morning. for St. Jago de Cuba : the Kangaroo on Tuesday morning, for the Havannah and as far as Cape Florida : and the Helicon on the 14th, for the Bay of Ilonduras and 011101. VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Bombay Merchant, from Liver pool, 14th Feb. all well, by the Princess Charlotte of Wales, ar rived off Margate.—Palm, of Liverpool, from Jersey all well, by li the Francis Ann, arrived at Plymouth.—mma, Reid, and the Lovely Maria, Smith, front Trieste for London, and the City of Genoa, from Marseilles for Greenock, 9th inst., by the Gotner, Pritchard, arrived at Liverpool. IVe are most happy to hear, that his Majesty entertains some intentions of embarking in his Royal yacht. this sea son, for aquatic excursions within the Wight. The Royal Sovereign yacht, Captain Charles Adam, lying at Deptford, will be ready for the reception of his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence on the ;30th inst., and . his Royal High ness's present intention is, to embark with his Royal ('on sort, about the 3d of May ; but his excursions will not ex tend beyond six weeks, should the King wish the Royal squadron to be assembled this vear.—Horiquhire .rgraph. Captain Donald Nl`Letxl, C.B. is appointed to Greenwich Hospital, vice Arden, deceased. We are informed that a promotion of Admirals will take place on the celebration of our Gracious Sovereign's birth day, on Thursday next.--liamnahire Telegraph. . . . • On Saturday the despatches were closed at the East India House, and delivered to the Pursers of the following ships, viz. :—The Orwell, Capt. Wm. Elisha Farrer ; and the Marquis of Huntly,Capt. J. S. H. Fraser, for China direct. A discovery has been made of an intended revolt among the Blacks at Trinidad. By a Decree of his Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse, the 10th of this month, the Neckar Gazdte is prohibited in his dominions. ELOPEMENT FROM FLEET-lITREET.—At an early hour on Friday morning a young gentleman connected with a well-known tavern in Fleet-street (where the great moral ist, 1)r. Johnson, spent many happy evenings), and a very accomplished young lady, the daughter of a professional gentleman living within one hundred miles of Salisbury square, started unperceived on a matrimonial excursion to Gretna Green. The lovers bad not consulted their respec tive parents as to their intention ; and the match being far from agreeable to them, they, on discovering the flight of , t he votaries of Hymen, agreed to follow them, Cocin-y -ike, to Richmond, expecting to find them at the star arid Garter; but the lovers, true to their intention and wishes, were at least 100 miles from town, towards that country where marriages arc soletnitiztxl more promptly than in this. The lady is a ward in Chancery, and from her father's profession, little doubt remains that the affair will ailbril some little employment to the gentlemen of the long robe.—Sorulasi Paper. Chews►. Rim): wo.—On Easter Tuesday, April 20, was rung, at the church of St. Paul, Shadwell, by the Junior Cumberland Society, a true and complete peal of Gramisire Major, consisting of 3,161 changes, which was completed in a masterly style of execution in three hours and three minutes ; it being upwards of gn years since there seas a I peal rang in the above cramp method ; it was perfonnod by the following prolicienta ;—Samuel Feecluun, treble ; Samuel Thurley, jun. second ; 11'in. Williams, third ; James Blacklock, fourth ; Samuel Austin, firth ; Thomas Betts, sixth ; Stephen Wedge, seventh ; John Mersin, enor ; and was conducted by Mr. 'Wm. Williams. MR. .kCARLETT AND MR. ;WILLIS. , . In the coon of the trial of the cause, " Revenge v. Macintosh," at Guildhall, on Friday, Mr. Scarlett. as Counsel for the plaintiff, observing upon the s tep s which h e s a id th e d e f en d ant h a d a d o p te d for the purpose of brirging the plaintiff to his terms " had tra velled about wi t h a person he called a barrister, who, it would seem, had delivered oral opinions as to the plaintiff's liability, and the liability of the ( 'oloinbian lioveroment. Who the Learned per•on might be that danced attendance on Mr. Macintosh, he w-$ unable to learn. Be could not suppose hint to be a barrister, fae no man would deserve that name who could give such an opinion." We understand that a gentleman of the Chancery Bar (Mr. Willis, whose name was afterwards mentioned in the cause, and was rt.: sent at the trial, taking these observ.dions as offensively applicable to himself, immediately wrote a note to Mr. Searlett, demanding a public apology, accompanied by an intimation, that if an apology was not made, he Mound demand the satisfaction of • gentleman. In Mr. Sowlett's reply upon tae defendant's ease, he iv reported to have said (speiking of the opinion given by the Solicitor-General, and a Mr. Willis, who he understood to belting to the Chancery Bar), "Of that gentleman—of his conduct with respect to thi4 cause, he did intend to have said something ; but, from some. thing that ha occurred that slay, he would remain mouth was closed." This we understand to have alluded to the note above-mentioned. On Friday evening, we are informed, that a gentleman of rank in the army, • friend of Mr. Willie, waited on Mr. Scarlet, and demanded an apology, or the usual alternative amongst gentlemen. Mr. &Mew, we are informed, expressed 11% willingness then less he had hen previously disposed td do), Sti make a proper concession, had Wm Mr. Willts's note, on the MOW; ing of Friday, been accompanied by something like a threat, with& deprived him of the Pont d'Or of which, from good taste, he wotild have been disposed to avail himself, if he had unintentionally wounded the feelings of *bother barrister, In the discharge of his forensic duty. Be then expensed his disposition to matte eenees talon if the threatening altideative of Mr. W illis s note was with. seawn. It is reported that Mr. Willis's friend acknowledged that the latter part of the nose would take away the grace of any cot cession which Mr. Scarlett's own . good feelings as a gentleman would suggeet. On Saturday morning some communication took place, with • view to an accommodation of the misunderstand log; and Mr. Willis hating consented to 'hitches' the warlike passage of his note, 'lr. Scsrlett; at the close of thi that cause,, which was tried on Saturday, took occasion to allude to the circum stance above-mentioned. What the Learned Gentletrain said was in so inaudible a tone of voice as not to reach •• the general ear ;" but we untlentioxl him to appeal to lb: Chief Justice, and to such Gentlemen of the Jury as were present, whether chat he said respecting Mr Willis could be understood to cast any reflections upon that gentleman derogatory to the feelings and character of a 4entleanan. If he had been so understbod, whiling was farther horn his intention. The Chief Justice said he did not so understand wha: Mr. Scar. lett lout said.—srveral of the tipecial Jurymen in the box staithesoed ia the same observation. Me. Willis, who WAS present, rent astbay apparently sitisfied, and ob4cretil, that he hoped Mr. Scarlet: would he more guarded in his expressions for the future; tor, although he wore • silk gown, he ought not gown, to forget, that men who wore serge gowns hid the feelings COMMON he hoped, to every man brought up in the proftisiou of • gentleman. MR. .SADLER'S BALLOON. [From the 3fenrlarsicr GuaTyliars of Saturday.] Yesterday, pursuant to the notice which had been given, Mr. Sadler a.cend%l in his baltooo, from the yard of the old Woolien Cloth Ilan, in Salford:. For some time pant Mr. Sadler has been in this town, engaged in making preparations for hie ascent. We believe his first inten tion was to inflate his balloon entirely with carburctud hydrogen from the Salford coal gars-works; but a proposal having been made by Robert Howarth Peel, Esq., ao officer of the dd dragoon guards, now in the barracks here, or.d cousin, we believe, to Mr. Secretary Peel, to ascend with him, various experiments were made, with the view of ascertaining whether the balloon, when inflated with cubs:- noted hydrogen, would be sufficiently buoyant to carry two persons. In the nest instance, we belieie, it was found that the coal gas, both from the Manchester and Salford gas-works, wan moth too ponder ous for the purpose, which, by the way, is pretty conclusive evidence of its good quality. Some changes were, however, made in the mode of preparing it, particularly by substituting common coal for the Wigan cannel generally used for the purpose. It was then found to be of considerably less specific gravity, but it was null considered too heavy to support the weight of two persona. Mr. Sadler therefore de (ermines! to inflate the balloon partly with coal gas and partly with hydrogen gas; and he proceeded to construct, in the eloili-hall yard, an apparatus for procuring the latter, connisfing of two wooden vats, eaeh six feet long, four fat broad, and six teet deep, for hold ing the iron and diluted sulphuric acid, and a third vat, of the same dimensions, to be tillod with lone and water, to purify the hydrogen fro. the sulphureous acid gas winch conies over with it. and wnich, if-stuttered to pans into the halloo.), wuold be injurious to the textunt of die silk of which it in composed. A four-inch cast-iron pipe was also laid to convey the gas from the main pipes in Chapel -street, into the yard where the ascent was to take pine:. Preen the extreme Hoene:is of the weaather during the preeedir.g part of the week, hopes were generally entertained that it would be equally favourable yesterday ; but the morning wee ushered in with a gloomy sky, and slight rain , which incre a sed s o m uc h to wards nine o clock, that Mr. Sadler became apprehensive that he should not be able to asci.oil , and, instead of commencing his preparations for inflating toe balloon at nine o'clock; which way necessary to enable him to ascend at half-pant two, as had been snout sid he remained in a state of uncertainty until twelve o'clock, when, the rain having teased, and the atmosphere be ginning to look a little more promismg, he determined to eon,- tnence the operation of inflation. The balloon was therefore brought out, and suspended from a cord stretched across the yard from the tops of two lofty poles ; a quantity of iron turnings and of diluted sulphuric acid were put into the wooden vats; the plug was taken from the coal gas I ape, and the inflation commenced. borne idea of the way in which the apparatus was arranged may be collected from the following sketch : Front the immense sire of the balloon, which. when filled, contains 25,000 cubic feet, the process of inflation seemed to go on slowly ; and as no public announcement had teen made that the ascension wasof necessity delayed, the people, who had assesubisd in immense crowds in the neighbouring streets, began to manifest considentble impatience, and many who had posted themselves in favourable situations in different parts of the town, for seeing the balloon after it left the yard, concluded th a t M r . Sadler had g iven up his intention of ascending, and went home. . . _ _ 'About half-past four o'cl;:lt,the balloon bring nearly filled, Mr. Sadler began to prepare for attaching the car to it, by fastening the strings of the netting to a strong hoop, and after securing the bal. loon to the hoop by four large cords. lie then got into the car, accompanied by Mr. Peel ; and two flags, a grappling iron, at d rope, and a quantity of ballast, having be en deposited therein, ti balloon was partially released, ter the purpose of trying whether it would ascend; but it was found to be too heavily loaded. A quan tity of ballast was then thrown out, and another a:minima was made; but still the balloon would nut ascend. A third and fourth experiment were equally unsuccessful and Mr. Sadler found, to his great mortification, and no less to the di: 'foment of his ',- tended companion, that the balloon was not su ienthy buoyant to carry them both. Mr. Peel was thereihre compelled to reltnquis l lris seat in the car, which he did with the utmost reluctance. A gentleman who accompanied Mr. Sadler from Liverpool, being ra. ther lighter than Mr. Peel, took the scat which he had vacated, and another ineffectual attempt was made to ascend. The balloon was not sufficiently buoyant to carry two persons; the gentleman then.- fore got out, leaving Mr. Sadler clone. The balloon was then re. leased, at seven minutes and a half past five o'clock, and bounded at once in the atr in the finest style imaginable, clearing all the buildings without dith:uhy, and ascending with great swiftness. As the wind was fresh, its progress through the ate was extremely rapid, and in something less than two minutes and a half after it lett the earth, it parsed into a cloud, end disappeared from the eyes of the spectators. The wind, at the time, by the vane on the ha. change, was about a point to the eastward of north. A few nal. notes before the ascent, the weather, which till then had been fair, though gloomy, changed for the worse, and the intrepid aeronaut set out on his journey in a heavy shower of rain, which continued to fall for some time. Notwithstanding this drawback, the ascent was very imposing, and seemed to give great satisfaction to the as. ambled multitudes who beheld it. The balloon, when It went up, was estimated to contain about 2 . 2,tinti cubic feet of gas, of which about 16,0Ue feet were coal gas. With regard its the remuneration which Mr. Sadler is likely to receive. fur the trouble, expense [ and risk which he has incurred cm this occasion, we are afraid that it will not turn out to be very Jibe. re. Front the louring and unpromising a?pearance of the sly, many persons, particularly la , les, were deterred from attending, and the sum received for tickets was far short of aluit we have no doubt it would hare been, it the weather had been tine; it amounted to about lahl. An attempt was made, some time before the bal loon ascended, to collect ninney front the persons atitembld in the streets outside; but they were at that time generally impatient of the delay which had takeu place, and a vtey trilling sum indeed was obtained from theta. THE DESCENT. _ - Mr. Sadler arrived at the titer Ism, in this town, last night, a little before eleven o'clock. It appears, from his btlitellif la, mat as soon after the ascent of the balloon as he could melee an oosierve tion with regard to his coarse, he found that he was going in the direction of l.iveepuul. TH., we conceive, must have been subs:, quently to 41s disappearance from our eyes: the balkcin was then moving about 2.'i degrees to the west of south, which is a very diffe rent direction from that of Liverpool. After he had proceeded, a, he thought, about half-way to Liverpool, the Ludlam. Will rapidly ascending, he entered another current of air, which carried Imo with great velocity to the south-cast. lie was then, as he judged from the distended state of the balloon, about two miles high . but his barometer having been handed out of the car when it we lightened, with the view of enabling it to carry Mr. Peel, at d note having been returned, he was unable to determine his elevation with accuracy. From the time of first entering the clouds he ass constantly enveloped by then ,, and was exposed to a continued shower of snow, which completely drenched him with wet. Uncle; 'these circumstances, he thought it expedient t.. descend ',quickly as possible. lie therefore opened the valve , and descended •1.11 great rapidity. When he came near the earth, which was cat neighbourhood of Monk's-heath, near linutsford, he threw nut his grappling-irony which caught on the stump of a tree, and he sac. ceedtd in getting out of the balloon and securing it; but in doing so he receive t a blow either front the 'grappling-iron or the tr.:, ',hill he afterwards discovered had Liflictida severe weund ou In? Leek of the head. lie sea exactly thirty minutes in the air. It happened most opportunely that at the time of his descent a rhaive was passing along the road, at DO Feat distanre; and saute persons who had obsened the balloon, directed the driver to the =hem it w.., likely to descend. and Air. riadlet tented the ready as mac as hi. bad secured his baUtran. 7 i 11