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Frow the LONDON GAZETTE, Dee. 17. COLONIAL DEPARTMENT, DEC. 16, 1825. A Dispatch, of which thefollowing io a, copy, has been re ceived from Major-General Sir Howard Douglas, Bart. Lieu terrantlGoyernot Of the Province of New Brunswick, ad airessed to the Earl Bathurst, K. G., one.ofhis Nlajesty'S Prin cipal Secretaries of State t,--7 ()Ct. 17,1323. . . MY „ LoRD—LIt becomes ray painful' thitli to repOrt to your Lordship, that very extensive ravages, attended by circum stances: of the most afflicting description, have been occasioned several parts of the province, by the conflagrations which 'for sometime have been raging in the woods; and the destruc tion of my Government-House which I reported in my dis patch of the 3e inst., has been followe‘by calamities and visi tations the most awful. _ - . • , For;sorne days previous to the 7th instant, the temperature of the air and the state of the atmosphere, much charged with smoke, indicated that fires of extent wore raging in the woods ; but no previous apprehension seems - to 'have been en tertained from the prevalence of conflagrations, which are so commonly put in action to commence clearances in the wilder ness. On the day I have named, however, at about eleven o'clock' in, the forrnoon, an alarm was conveyed to the town, that the residence of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, about a mile and a half distant, was on fire. The garrison and the greater part of the populati6n, ran itinne,liately thither, and succeeded in saving .71Ir. Ilaillie's house from the flames, which were running through the adjoining woods with tremen dous-fury. Whilst there accounts were brought to me that the town was on fire, and before T could reach it, though mounted on a fleet horse, whole streets were in a blaze. ,At that time it blew a gale of wind from the north west, and however incredible ittnay then have appeared, that the fire should have been communicate to the town from the woods in the vicinity, the sequel-of this dispatch will ahew, from what has occurred elaewhere,that there is every reason to believe such was the case. The fire raged wit!.l a degree of fury which no exertions (and those used were very great)'Could flit a moment cheek; and the whole population abandoned their houses, making what efforts they could to save,their effects. • When the fire had mistimed all that part of the town which lay itilthe direction of the wind, the conflagration took a lateral coursthre2_tening the barracks and other buildings, which had they taken firt, must have conducted it to the total destruction of what has remained of the town of Fredericton. To these points every eTort wasdirected, and when I acquaint your-Lordship that the barracks and houses (adjoining to others in violent combustion, and to the yard containing the winter - fuel of the garrison, in a prodigious blaze of fire. which threw its vipers over all the yet standing habitations) were saved by the joint exertions of the people and the military, your Lord ship will be 'able to estimate the conduct which I would ap piaud.- As evening advanced, the woods, which- had continued to burn throughout the day, were now more distinctly seen to be everywhere on fire, and vast clouds of smoke rising in the dis tancw,,accompanied by extraordinary noises, as of furious ex plosions of flame, and the fire reflected on the distant sky, por tended other calamities which I have now the pain to report. On the very same day, and about the hour when this place Asetfered most, the town of Newcastle, one hundred and twenty miles distant, together with all the mercantile establishments on that hank of the 3lirarnichi River, and some on the opposite side, where consumed by a violent torrent of fire, which issued from the woods in the rear, at about nine o'clock, r. m. Thus the destructive element, which was causing such devastations in- other parts of the province; appears to have been driven thither by the gale which was experienced here, but which the mighty action of such extensive and rapid conflagration dilated as it proceeded to the most impetuous hurricane, and the very Wide range it has taken, leads me to fear that we have much yet to learn of its dreadful effects, when reports shall come in from the numerous gangs of woodsmen dispersed in the vari ous parts of the wilderness. .At the same time that the flames and showers of burning embers poured upon Newcastle, they reached the establishment similarly placed upon the bank of the river, and others in the rear, and in fifteen minutes all were consumed. 1 wish 1 could report that life had been spared ; but so vio leotly driven were the flames and embers from the blazing woods, well prepared for the most active combustion by the longest season of heat and drought ever known, that men, women and children, in great numbers, have perished in the houses and in the woods in exertions to save property, or in at -tempts to save life; and when driven in terror to seek safety on another element, greater numbers still appear to have cut fried in attempts to cross the river in boats or in canoes, on rafts, or on logs of timber, which were alike incapable of resist ing. the fury of the storm. Many vessels were at the same time .east on shore, several set on fire, and three entirely consumed by the drift of embers from the land. The total effects of the awful calamity cannot yet be estimat ed. Fredericton has lost about eighty habitations or stores, and property to the value of at least thirty-three thousand pounds. On the rivers Orunuctoo..and Ronderjonish, tributaries of the St. John, several lives and many habitations have been lost and•destroyed, and some nf 'these ravages accompanied by ter rific circumstances- On Miramichi River, the loss of life can not, I fear, be estima,ed under three hundred souls. Great numligrs of the destitute survivors had collected in the village of Chatham for relief, and as so many of the provision stores of the.merchants had been consumed (the settlement depending alrneat entirely upon • imported food) serious apprehensions were entertained of approaching famine. So soon as I learnt this,l assembled his Majesty's Council to consider what mea sures it would be expedient . to adopt, and an agent has been scent to Quebec to purchase supplies, and to proceed with them to Miramichi. In a calamity so extraordinary anti extensive, I feel that I am called upon to depart from that brevity with which the mo mentous operations of my own profession are commonly re pottd, and if I have trespassed too much at length in doing so, it is to spew amply the grounds upon which I ought to apply and appeal for succour. I have done all in my power to afford anti extend relief upon this melancholy occasion, and I have been most nobly support ed bythe liberality of the country. For the. benefit of the sufferers in the fire which has taken place at Fredericton, a subscription has been raised which will be sufficient for the supply of its immediate wants. The sub scription in Miramichi has been most liberal, the city of St. John has come forward with a great degree of liberality, and I bave just learnt by a dispatch from his Excellency Sir James Kempt, that our sister colony was about to send prompt and considerable succours from Halifax, but effectual relief beyond avertiug the horrors of want in the approaching long winter of seven months' duration, is not within such means. In promoting subscriptions, I have on my own responsibi lity paid two hundred pounds from the King's , funds for the benefit of each of the two suffering places, I knovewell enough his Gracious 11Iajet.ty's benevolent disposition, and your Lordship's, to doubt of receiving sanction for this ippropria- The succours to which . the people here naturally - look are those which the abundint charity and benevolence of the mother countries usually contribute on such calamitous occasions, and slvuild any funds be so raised at home, they would be effectu ally and properly applied by Committees here to many cases of very great distress, which is brought upon those who will en dure it silently, but severely, and to re-establish in business many persons who have entirely lost their little capital invested in the- beginnings of a produCtive trade, in the prosperity of • which the mother countries participate, and to aid others who are reduced more partially to difficulty. Should funds so consi derable be contributed as to. be applied further to restore Wild ings, that would be carefully regulated by measures to ren der the recurrence of such dangers less likely, in a way which could not be effected, if the sufferers are constrained, from instifficiency of funds, - to rebuild in the cheaper, but more - perilous manner and material of the country. Means for immediate subsistence and succour being thus provided, I shall to-morrow open a subscription .here for those latter important .purppScs, and to this fund, instead of that for rebuilding the Government-House, I crave your Lordship's grant in aid from tho,Hing's revenue. To this, too, I invoke the benevolence of the mother countries, and I trust some measures may be adopt ed to excite it. The subscription for this purpose will be com •meneed to-morrow, and innnediately afterwards I shall proceed -to the site of the greater calamity, leaving my family in their difficulty here, to a continuance of those kindnesses and protec t ion which they experienced, when driven from their own resi dence.—l have, &c. (Signed) HOWARD DOUGLAS. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. S.'Bratt, Macclesfield, Cheshire, silk-manufacturer. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. W. M'Murdie and W. C. Pont, Epping, Essex, stationers. J. S. Wade, Benhall,Suffolk, brick-maker. BANKRUPTS, R. W. G. Douglas, Woodcote,SusSex, coach proprietor, to surrender, Dec. 24, 31, at eleven, and Jan. 28, at ten, at the 'Court of Commissioners, London. Attornies, Mr. Dally, Clif. ford's Inn, Fleet-street. J. Kelly, St. James-street, Westminster, milliner, Dec. 24, nt eleven, 31, and Jan. 28, at twelve, at the Court of Commis sioners. Attornies, Alessrs. Cooke and Hunter, Clement's Inn New Chamber+. W. Webb, Salisbury-street, Strand, wine -merchant, Dec. 24, 31, and Jan. 28, at eleven; at the Court of Commissioners. At torney, Mr. Lock, Arundel-street, Strand. Mr. C. Harwood, Crown-street, Soho, grocer, Dec. 20, at two, 24, at tweliT, and Jari.lB, at one, at the Court of Com missioners. Attorney, Mr. Hardwick, Lawrence-lane, Cheap side. J, Olivant and W. Cooper, Queen-street, Cheapside, ware housemen, Dec. 24, 31, and Jan. 23, at twelve, at the Court of Com ision ers. Attornies, Messrs. Watson and Broughton, Falcon-square. It. Edmeads, T. Atkins, a G. Tyrrell, Maidstone, Kent, hankers, Dec. 17, Jan. 7, and 28. at ten, at the Court of Com missioners. Attornies, Mr. Wades, Lincoln's Inn-fields; Lon _don ; and - Messrs, Scu damore and. Wildes, Maidstone. J. Carmichael, Birmingham, dealer, Dec. 24', 31, and Jan. 28, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners, London. Attor- Rey, Mr. Jones, Sise-lane, London. J. Dayer and .1. Swayne, Gravel-lane, Houndsditch, wool. staplers, Dec. 27, at twelve, Jan. 7, and 28, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Attornies, Messrs. Dawes and Chat field „as n gel-court, T rogmor ton -street. W. Done, Talkoth Hill, Staffordshire, ribbon-maufacturer, Jan. 6,7, at nine, and 21, at two, at White's Hotel, Manches ter. Attornies, Messrs. Willis, Waton, Bower, and Willis, Tokenhouse-yard, London; and Mr. Whitlow, Manchester . . J. Horn, Liverpool, block-maker, Jan. 4,6, and 28, at one, at the George Inn, Liverpool. Attornies, Mr. Chester, Staple Inn, London ; and 31r. Linde, Liverpool. T. Bird, Liverpool,. broker, Jan..l2, 13, and 28, at one, at the George Inn. Liverpool. A ttornies, Mr. Either, Liver pool ; and Mr. Chester, Staple Inn, London. J. Smith, Bristol, Cabinet-maker, Jan. 2,3, and 28, at one, at the Bush Tavern, Bristol, Attornies, Messrs. Bush and Prideaux, Bristol ; and Messrs. Holism, Frampton, and Lol -1 tus, New Inn, London. J. Murgatroyd, Midgley, Yorkshire, cotton-manufacturer, Dec. 22, at six, 23, at eleven, at the Magistrates' Office, Hali fax, and Jan. 23, at eleven, at the White Lion Inn, Halifax, Yorkshire. Attornies, Messrs. Nl T iglewOrth and .11 idsdale, Gray's Inn-square ; and Messrs. Thompson, Stansfeld, and Thompson, Halifax. E. Pinnix, Emsworth, Hampshire, cattle salesman, Dec. 30, ' Jan. 3, and 23, at twelve, at the Bear Inn, Havant, Hamp shire. A ttornies, Mr. Padwick, Havant ; and Messrs. Brom ley, Gray's Inn-square. C. Jarritt, Bath, hatter, Dec. 29, 33, at eleven, and Jan. 28, at four, at the Greyhountln4, Bath. Attornies, Mr. Fisher, Queen-street, Cheapside ; anti Mr. Mackey, Bath. J. M'Crum and E. Ainsworth, Liverpool, common br.nvers, Jan. 4,5, and 28, at the George Inn, Liverpool. Attornies, Mr. Norris, Liverpool; and Mr. Chester, Staple inn. J. Menzies, Charles -street, Manchester-square, tailor, Dec. 24, at eleven, 31, and Jan. 28, at ten, at the Court of Commis sioners. Attornies, Messrs. Hallett and Henderson, Northum berland-street, Marylebone. W. Coleman, Essex -street, Bouverie-street, victualler, Dec.. 23, at eleven, 22, and Jan. 28, at ten, at the Court of Commis sioners. Attorney, 61r. Ruslibury, Carthusian-street, Charter House-square. J, Milnes, St. Katharine's Wharf, Tower, wharfinger, Dec. 24, at eleven, 31, and Jan. 28, at ten, at the Court of Commis sioners. Attorney, Mr. Rixon, Jewry-street, Aldgate. C. Todd, Upper Lisson-street, Lisson-grove, coal merchant, Dec. 24, 31, and 'Jan. 28, at twelve, at the Court of Commis sioners. Attorney; Mr. Younger, John -street, America square. • T. Deacon, Trowbridge, Wilts, clothier, Dec. 22, Jan. 7, and 28, at ten, at the Court of „Commissioners. Attorney, Mr. Templer, John-street, America-square. E. Osbaldeston, Hertford, grocer, Dec. 24, 31, and Jan.. 28, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Attornies, Messrs. Tate and Johnston, Copthall-buildings, London. J. Nicholas, sen. and J. Nichalas, Jun., l.eatherhead,Surrey, common brewers, Dec. 20, at eleven, 31, and Jan. 28,at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Attornies, Mr. W. Walter, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey ; and Mr. H. Chester, jun. Parsonage-row, Newington Butts. T. Harrison, Fleet-market, victualler, Dec. 27, Jan. 7, and 28, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Attorney, Mr. Harmer, Hatton-garden. B. Hickman, Lombard-street, bill broker, Dec. 24, 31, at ten, and Jan. 20, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Attornies, Messrs. Robinson and Hine, Charter House-square. T. Waller Watson, Newcastle upon Tyne, merchant, Dec. 20, 22, and Jan. 28, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Attorney, Mr. Arnott, West-street, Finsbury.circus. W. Tovee and G. Jeapcs, Clay-street, Peckham ' Surrey, builders, Dec. 24, 31, at eleven, and Jan. 28, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Attornies, Messrs. Overton and Coombe, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury. H. M'Guckin, Upper St. Martin's-lane, wine-merchant, Dec. 20, Jan. 3, and 28, at eleven, at the Court of Com missioners. Attorney, Mr. Whittington, Dean-street, Fins bury-square. IL Ochsenbein, Regent-street, silk-mercer, Dec. 20, at eleven, 31, and January 28, at ten, at the Court of Commis 'loners. Attorney, 61r, Yallop, Soffolk-street, Pall-mall East. C. G. Cotterill, Peter's-lane St. John-street, provision-mer chant, Dec. 10, at twelve, Jan. 14, and 23, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Attornies, Messrs. Nind and Cotte rill, Throgrnorton-street. It. Allmond, Abingdon, Berkshire, grocer, Jan. 3.4, and 28, at ten, at the White 'Dirt, Bath. A tlornies,Mr. Hartley, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London ; and Mr. Millwood,..Frome Sol wood , Somerset. _ E. Kenworthy and J. Bunwell, Liverpool, merchant, Jan. 3,4, and 28,, at one, at the George Inn, Liverpool. A ttornies, Messrs. Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, London; and Messrs. Radcliffe and Duncan, Liverpool. • F. El. Rumboll, Walcot, Somersetshire, coach -master, Dec. 22, 23, and Jan. 28, at twelve, at the Lamb Inn, Bath. At. tornies, Mr. Hughes, Clifford's Inn ; and Mr. Hodgson, Bath. DIVIDENDS. • Jan.. 10, I. Worthington, Manchester, draper—Jan. 7, W. Greening, Hai4stead, carpenter—Jan. 14, J. Benzley, Houndsditch, trunkmaker—Jan. 7, W. Marsh, J. Stragey, and G. Graham, Bern cr's-street (partners with H. Faunt leroy), bankers—Jan. 7, F. Eveleigh ' and S. Eveleigli, Union-street, hat manufacturers—Dec. 20, C. Pearson, Gros venor-place, Southwark, grocer—Jan. 9, J. Hurry, Liverpool, merchant —J an. 7, G. P. Tode, Regent-street, dealer in watches—Jan. 7, T. A. Roberts, Kennington-green, coal merchant—Jan. 14. W. Sargant, Fleet-market, spirit mer chant—Jan. 7, J. A: Gilbert, George-lane, merchant—Jan. 13, J.llrooman, 31argate,brewer—Jan.7, G.Davies,flaverfordwest, shop-keeper—Jan.ll,J.H.Sampson,Soulcoates,Yorkshire,rner chant —Jan. 18, E., M. crosafield, Liverpool, timber-merchant —Jan. 18, J. Hodson, Liverpool, timber-merchant—Jan. 14, J. Butler, Whitchurch, Salop, innkeeper—Jan. 10, W. Greg. son, Kingston-upon-Hull, linen-draper—Jan. 7, G. B. Clark, New.Shoreham, Sussex, brewer—Jan. 17, J. Bridges and J. Drew, Bristol, bruwers—Jan. 10, F. Beesley, Bed wardine, Worcestershire, glove manufacturer—Jan. 10, W. Rurraston, Worcester, hop-merchant—Jan. 10, T. Freeman and H. H. Jones, Worcester, tallow-chandlers—F. Beesley, gt. Bed war dine,' Worcestershire, glove-manufacturer. CERTIFICATES-JAx. 7. R. Reid, High-street, Marylebonne, Upholsterer—G. R. Phelps, Martin's-lane, Cannon-street, vellum-binder —M. Abrahams, Mansell-street, Goodman's-Melds, oil-merchant—H, Pettifer, High Holborn, cheesemonger—J. Brown, New-crane, Shadwell, plumber—W. Hazard, Liverpool, nail-manufac, turer—J. Smith, Broad -street, broker—W. Elliott, Bevinghall. street, merchant—S. Gregory, Manchester, calico.printer— R. Lane, Bergh-Apton, Norfold, shopkeeper—J. Square, Kingebridge, Devon, banker—T. Page, Newhaven, Sussex, grocer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. R. Poole, S. W. Crump, R. P. Westall, and J. Parton woollen-drapers : so far as regards W. ft. Poole—C. Scott- Bart.,__ R. and W. Williams, S. Scott, W. H. Burgess, and C. M. Holies-street, bankers--J. Hall and T. Franks, Elder -street, Spitalfields, silk-manufacturers—T. and T. Baylis, l!olywell, OxTordshire, bankers—J. and J. Beard, Portsmouth and Portsea, bock and shoe-manufacturers—J. Collins and F. Wootton, George-yard, Princes-street, Soho, printers—H. and W. Seddon, blaichestet, packing case makers—J. and S. Holdsworth, Wakefield, dyers—G. and G. Hale, J. Pewtriss, and W. Lynn, Red Criss -street, common brewers—R. W., and J. Macfie, and J. Reid, Glasgow, merchants—J. Harris and C. I. Wayland, Bristol, brick makers--J. B. and J. B. Jackson, and J. Montgomery, St. Paul's Church-yard, warehousemen, so far as regards J. B. Jackson —J. Garland and J. Noble, Bermondsey street, tobacco manufacturers—R. Bowker and T. Haddock., Warrington, dealers in timber—F. A. Cunynghame, Cavendish-square, and T. Stephenson , Charlotte-street, Fitz roy-square, ship owners—C. J: and J. Scott, Braintree, Essex, silversmiths—J. and J. Gerard, Liverpool, boot and shoe makers. • The DUEL between Captain S- and L. B. Esq., of Walworth, which was prevented taking place at Finchley, on Wednesday last, by police interference, was fought on Saturday, at Am berry Common, near Bromley. The parties are distantly related, and the meeting arose from a dis pute at Drury-lane Theatre, respecting alleged familiarity in words spoken by Mr. T- insulting to the feelings of Cap tain S.'s niece. The parties fired twice, and in the second fire Mr. T. received a severe wound in the shoulder, and our cor respondent states that the ball had not been extracted on Saturday. Baron CHARLES DE RF.NTINCK, Lieut.• General in his Belgium Majesty's service, &c. died on the 9th at the . Hague, aged 74 years. The pulling down of a portion of the old buildings at Charing-cross, enclosing the King's Mews, has commenced. TIFF. GREEKS. The Oriental Spectator, No. 204, contains an argumentative article, highly extolling the conduct of the Powers of the Holy Alliance, with respect to die affairs of Greece, and endeavouring to prove the necessity of the neutrality of all the Western Christians. There is now in circulation a Note, addressee by the Divan to Mr: Turner, the British Charge d'Affaires, which treats of the subsidies sent to the Greeks from England, and of the conduct of the English Cabinet in general in this affair.— This Note is represented as a master-piece, and it is not at all probable that a Turk is the author of it. • The Austrian Observer of 6th December has long details, dated Constantinople, 10th and 18th November. Colocotroni came to Napoli on the Btii Oct. to complain of the insufficiency of the means of defence hitherto adopted, it being evident that the Conscription could never succeed. It was resolved on the 10th to raise fifteen thousand men, by offering bounty, and to place them under Colocotroni. This resolution was severely blamed, because it was notorious that Colocotroni, since he resumed the command of the army, has received 800,000 piastres on account, and yet not had above 2000 men on foot. Colonel Fabvier, who has been naturalized, and is wholly in the service of the Government, is very active in organising a regular corps under the protection of Mavrocordato. On the Bth he had 1200 foot and 120 cavalry; on the 9th he set out with 650 infantry aria the cavalry, for Athens, to continue, as it was said, the organization of his corps, but probably to ob serve the opposite party in Western Greece. He has entirely separated himself from General Roche, and the other French Philhellenes, except those who have entered into his corps.— The hope that England would accept the Protectorate of Greece tlaily declined, but the Government still cherished in the public the expectatation of powerful assistance from Lord Cochrane, though well informed persona had already learned from. London of the difficulties attending the ner.-ia. Lions of the Committee with his Lordship. The news or the mission of Mr. S. Canning had caused great consternation.— Some measures were still adopted against those who opposed the application to England. The state of things in the Morea is represented as entirely fa vourable to Ibrahim, who no where finds any resistance; but the obstinacy with which all his proposals for peace are rejec,ed, has obliged him to abandon the system of mildness which he at first adopted, and to have recourse to severe measures. It is surprising how little his troops have suffered by this campaign, in such a country,—his loss from the enemy is not worth men tioning; fur it is now publicly acknowledged, even at Napoli, that all the bulletins 'published in the Journals for some .months past, of pretended battles with the insurgents, are absolutely fictitious.: He has suffered but little from sickness : the plague never shtwed itself in the camp at blodon, but about three hundred men died of a malignant distemper in the camp at Nisi. At fhe beginning of October he had 9,800 Egyptian infantry, and in regiments 5,000 Albanians, and 1,400 cavalry. His troops are well clothed and fed, and his magazines full of provisions of all kinds. _ _ The taking of Grabusa, in Crete, has not had any further re. suit favourable to the insurgents. It is. robable that for the present the Greek Government will content itself with strengthening the garrison of Grabusa, which consists of 800 men, in order to have one fortified post in the island. ROYAL NAVY. PnnTsmouTrt, DEC. 17.—Yesterday arrived the Espiegle, 18, Captain Luke H. Wray, from the Cape of Good Hope station, having been relieved, after three years' service, by the Martin, 18, Capt. Thos. Wilson. She left the Cape on 17th Oct. (brought a mail thence), St. Helena, 31st Oct., and As cension, Nov. 8. The Tees, 28, Capt. Fred. Marryat, arrived at the Cape on 12th Oct., from Trincomalee and the Mauritius, and was to sail on the 20th Oct. for England. No news by her of the Burmese war. The Liffey, 46, Captain Coe, was daily expected, on her passage from India. The Leven, Captain F- W. Owent, Baracoutar, Capt. Vidal, and Albatross tender s had returned from surveying at Madagascar and Dela goa Bay, refitted, and were to sail in a few days, to commence a survey -of the West Coast of Africa. Acting Lieutenant Nash, Mr. Farley, Purser, of the Leven, and several sea men, had died of the fever peculiar to Delagoa Bay. The Aria*, ) 20 guns, Captain F. Chapman, was to sail for Eng land ftbout the 27th of October. It was reported that Lord Charles Somerset anitfamily intended to return by this ship. The Owen Glendowder, Commodore Christian, wan lying at the Cape. The Samarang - and Martin were at the 'Mauritius. The steam vessel Entermae reached the Cape, after a long passage o f 56 days , from Fktmouth, having been obliged to touch at St. Thornai's for water. The brig Eleanor had been brought from Dtlaboa Bay by the Leven, having been taken from the Por tuguese, who, because all the crew except two seamen had died, deemed her a good prize. When the Espiegle the Cape St. Helena, and Ascension, were, healthy. Co lonel Nicolls and the marine garrison had been unceasingly employed' in cultivating the island of Ascension, and with complete success. The garrison supplied the Espiegle with forty tons of water and a quantity of vegetables. Colonel Bird, late ,Colonial Secretary at the Cape of Good Hope, and Lieutenant Rutherford, Royal Engineers, came passengers in the.Espiegle. It is understood he is charged with a strong re presentation to Government of the great loss which Must be experienced by the colonists, if the Cape nix dollar be allowed to remain, as now fixed, at Is. Gd. per dollar, the old standard being 4s. each. Mr. M'Coy, the Purser, is the only officer arrived who left England in the Espiegle. Acting-Lieutenants J. R. Marsh and George Trollope, Acting-Master It. N. New man, and Mr. R. Wylie, Surgeon, now belong to her. She is ordered into harbour to be paid off. On 'Wednesday the Heroine transport, Lieutenant Jewry, arrived from the coast of Africa and the isle of Ascension, but had a longer passage thati previous arrivals . brought in valided seamen. This morning the Oi.towa transport arrived ,from Quebec in 29 days, with part of the 37th and 76th regi ments. The Sovereign, Vibilia, and Cato transports, are to proceed to Cork, to embark the 2d battalion of Rifles, for Malta ; the Jupiter, Speke, and Joseph Green transports, also to Cork, to embark the Ist regiment of foot for the West ladies, and to return with either the 4th or sth foot. The Zebra transport has sailed with the depot of the sth foot from Cowes, for duty at Tynemouth Castle, and Will take thence a detachment of the 69th foot to Chatham. On Sunday arrived the Jasper, 10, Captain Freemantle, from Vera Cruz, last from Falmouth: Tuesday sailed the Arrow, Lieutenant Stewart, on a cruise; Wednesday arrived the Tweed, 28, Captain Frederick Hunn, in 26 days from Halifax, whither she took the Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia; on Thursday the Bittern, Lieut. Dwyer, with 40 seamen, from LiverpOol • yes. terday the Pelter, Lieutenant Adams, in 26 days from Halifax (left the Niemen there), and came into harbour. The Jasper is come into harbour; the Magnificent gone out. Rem a in at Spithead—Glasgow, for Lisbon ; Tweed, Harlequin, for the West Indies; Dotterel, for Halifax; , Espiegle, Calliope, Bit tern, Dromedary, for Bermuda; Magnificent, for Jamaica. In the harbour—Victory, Ganges, Superb, Spartiate, %Varspite, for the East Indies; Vclage, for the East Indies; Sparrowhawk, Herald, for ttte Mediterranean ; Mastiff, for the Mediterranean, Jasper, Pelter, Royal Oak, for Bermuda. The Ariadne and Espiegle will, this season, bring home, the Cape of Good Hope, ninety casks of Constantia wine, being the perquisite of his Majesty from that colony of this choice Wine. The whole are addressed to Lord Bathurst. The. Galatea 'frigate. , Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart. is ordered to this port; from Deptford, to embark his Excellency Alex. Cockburn, Esq. Minister to the Republic of Colombia. The surveying vessels Adventure, Capt. P. P. King, and Beagle, Captain Pringle Stokes, are ordered'to this port from the River, to take their final departure for • the Straits of Magellan and Le Haire ' which they are to surv e y, a s well a s the south-west coast of Patagonia, as far as Chiloe. • Rear Admiral 'W. 11. Gage is appointed Commander in Chief in the East Indies; vacant by the death of Admiral Bingham. The Rear Admiral will hoist his flag in a few days in the Warspite, 74, Capt. W. F. Carroll, C. 8., and sail probably on the 10th of next month, for his command. - The Spartiate, 74,1011 be paid off on Wednesday, docked, and recommissioned as a guardship at this port. Capt. F. Warren Is appointed to command her. The Superb, 73, will be paid off on Monday by Sir Tho. Staines, and recommissioned by Capt. Henry Hill. Lieut. Picking, Mr. R. Hallilay, purser (late Secretary to Sir W. Fahie), and the Rev. C. Hardy, Chaplain, arc appointed to the Superb ; Mr. W. C. Hellier, Purser, to the Spartiate. Lieut. John Drake is appointed to the Albion, vice Servante, sick ; Lieut. Peyton to the Glasgow ; Lieutenaant A. Sinclair, to the Dotterel ; Lieut. Thacker) , to the Ocean ; Lieut. F. Jeffreson to be agent of transports (in the Joseph Green) ; Rev. John Briggs, to be Chaplain of the Windsor Castle. The Philomel brig is ordered to be commissioned. Captain Canning (son of the Right Hon. George Canning) late of the Sappho, and the officers and crew of that ship, came home in the Tweed. - PLYMOUTH, Dec. 15.—Sailed the Pandora, 13, Captain Jervoise, for the East Indies ; Basilisk, Lieutenant Hough, with specie for Dublin ; Calliope, Lieut. Powney, for Spithead, having landed here the life-boat intended for the establish. ment at this port. A certain number of brave fellows, residing in Cawsand, will always be ready to man the boat.—Came in the Nightingale, to refit. Remain, the Britannia, Genoa, Windsor Castle, Druid, Shamrock, Talbot, Nimrod, Victor, Camelion, Nightingale. THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.—There was a rumour this afternoon that this Monarch was no m ore. A breathing time has been et last afforded to the Bank of England and the London Bankers, and we doubt not the opportunity will be im proved by both parties, and measures taken, which in case of a renewal of the alarm may pre vent consequences similar to those which have resulted from the late panic. In this breathing time, and anxious to do our best to prevent a relapse, we ask what it was which gave rise to such unprecedented runs upon Toivn and Country Bankers, a question to w' ich we do not hesitate to say, a satisfactory answer cannot be given. We cannot suppose that want of confi dence could exist without some grounds, and vet we own that with gold below the mint price, with undepreciated credit,and nith a vigorous, flourish ing, and increasing commerce—in the midst of all this national prosperity—all this incalculable wealth—we san see no reason for it. We can►►ot, however, acquit the Bankers of every blame, for we behold in the late events, nothing but the natural effects of the support they have given to such currency as that of Eng land, which exposes the nation at all times to hazards and evils such as those which have visited the country during the last week. The failure of one country bank recalled from circulation a vast quantity of paper. This one failure produced a want of confidence in another bank, and, by Some fortuitous circumstance, another bank fails. The distrust is increased,the demand angments,and pa per is withdrawn from circuin tint), and to sn pply this vacuum there is nothing but Bank of England notes and gold and silver coin. Hence a call upon the London Bankers and the Bank of Eng land—calls which for a time are answered, but which,. as distrust and failures increase, become too large and too unremitting to meet with ade quate answers. Such calls upon the London Bankers may at least be - said to be "one of the chief causes of the late panic, aided, perhaps, by foreign loans. And that time only is required to admit of their coinage into gold and silver coiu. For although it may be said that the precious metals abound, yet, at the same time, the symbol of money existing only where money itself was wanted, created speculations, which would pro duce, in some measure, and certainly greatly augmented the evils we have so lately endured. If, then, the prevalence of Country Bank Notes for small sums may be set doWn as one of the causes of the anxieties of the past week, we think there seems to be some remissness on the part of Government, in allowing such a currency to exist; or, if any good reason is assignable for not interfering by prohibitory acts, in this cir culation they must be blamed for not sending -out a greater quantity of gold and silver coin, and distributing it in a more exte►►sive manner through the country, and thus to check, if not altogether to drive out a currency which is liable to such reverses, and which reflects no sort of credit upon the nation. That in wealthy England, the common money passing between man and man should be paper, seems an anomaly, and having now felt the devastating effects of this anomaly it is to be hoped that we shall return either wholly or partially to a system free from such dangers, and better calculated for the ordi' , nary purpose of retail dealings. If paper "for : . " sums of below five trbunds must exist,' (but we see no reason for h) by all means let us have the notes of the Bank of F•Pg: let . as have the ,notes of this powerful corporation, whose solidity i s acknowledget 4, and whose credit is nnbdUnded ; but let 11 $ suppress these small notes of private banker l / in toto, and return to precious Qetals for retail dealings as soon Ai - potable,. notwithstanding leY . have the paper of the Bank of England as a VW rantee. This period, and the period when cash payments were first restricted, bear no resell"' blance, the very credit, the very existence of the nation, was then threatened—nothing short a; a measure so decisive could have prevent ea a national •hankruptcy, and national annihilatio n ' A national bankruptcy we had, but its effe cts were softened, and,the evil, by wisdom anctru . . • dence made a source of vigour and prospe , ri t l; National existence is not now threatened, awh there seems at , present no temptation to expor t the precious metals. In this great particular 111 two periods differ, and so much as to render th a act which, in.the first was wise and necessarY7 the second,' if not -absolutely ruinous, at le ° highly questionable and dangerous. The Paris Papers.of Saturday received thtf day, contain but little worthy of notice. 1 7 1 ° . mews from Corfu of the Turco Egyptain expe r t,' tion has been received since the landing of tue troops at NavarinO. The funds have rather de i dined, on Saturday at three o'clock. They st° ° ,. as follows : For the end of the month. Five per Cent. - 95. f. 15 c. Three per Cent... - 62 f. 35 c. The following are extracts : " We remark a very curious fact in the Royal Almano of Prussia. It is there said, that the Grand Duke Nichol n3' of the Emperor, born, &c. is the heir presumPtl Y° ° the Crown. This news, say the Germans, from whom lve borrow it, is the more important, considering the source W l° it comes, and which leaves no doubt of its authenticity. " The Park of Mousgseaux, near Paris, belonging to Duke of Orleans, has been sold for 3,200,000 francs. It been bought by a Company on a building speculation." The following extracts from the Brusse l Papers to the 17th December, are all that tb? sB received this morning a ff orded. They were 1°1. 5 the most part 611 ed with- some new regulat ic ` u f for suppressing vagrancy, and the employmen t the poor : In consequence of the invitation of the Central Commitrrs' established at the Hague, to afford assistance to the Gree • 21 Philhellene Committees have been organized in the n orther provinces of the kingdom. t wo MUNICH, DEC. B.—His Majesty has already give n private audiences to the Apostolic Nuncio, who has been !Pi: i7cially authorised to assure his Holiness that the King of 135,"` 6 1 would fulfil the promises which the Prince Royal had me" Rome to the Sovereign Pontiff. " The Ministers of the Ring, my father," added his It; jesti, " did great injury to religion, which s h a ll e ndow ) . to repair." The Allgemeine Zeitung and the Austria n °I" server, to the 12th and Gth of December h ie 3 7i . been received. The intelligence they give rej „, entirely to Greece and Turkey, and contains " i ' s far the most important and interesting documeu hich have been lately received from the theatre' of war and Constantinople. Extra cts found in another column, under the head 46 I G ree ks." We have received the Dianie of Bahia to the 17th October, inclusive, but its contents are u n ' important. There has been a misunderstanding between the inhabitants of the Vella Verd e ' fi l , the district of Porto Sequero, and the dians. The sons of these Indians have beeto taken from them by judicial orders, to be pu t in e p the service of private persons, and some have b e obliged to abandon their lands, to avoid th e . 1 4 butes and services which the Vicar of that v!`e, and the Procurator of the Benedictines requir_. The Government has interfered to repress acts of violence.—The lith October was Cf. 111; prated at Bahia with great rejoicings, it be1 „ 0 , the anniversary of the birth.day of the Em P "' o i and also of his Proclamation as EmPer" Brazil. the We this morning 'received from Trinid ad t i t Port of Spain Gazette of the 9th ultimo. L o_ y, will be seen,by the following extracts that p. BATHURST'S letter continues to occupy the atte 1 taia ° tion of the Colonists throughout our West .1 possessions : ( From the Port of Spain Trinidad Gazette.) the ptb- The summary of the proceedings in th 9 Colonies 0 1 order ject of Earl Bathurst's recommendation of the TriniGau„ 6 ,b of in Council, contained in the Trinidad Gazette of the der the August last, was inserted in the Tobago Gazette. VII head " Tobago," is the following article has exhibits s nie't "TOBACCO.—This small community ur. extraordinary promptitude and decision in rejecting ou r n i t y of —Probably from their vicinity they had an earlier opPor tu smelling a rat than the other colonies. The Legislato% oat mined, in a few days only after the Session commence%pted, the regulations contained in the Trinidad order, if i ' tcr sod would be equally destructive to the interests of themag t oile happiness of the slave,—and this unexpected blow 3 f o l eir deprived his Excellency Sir T. P. Robinson of all hopes ° ever doing any thing creditable in future." ill the In reference to which, the following notice is inse rted Tobago Gazette of the 7th ult.:— We have been requested by his Excellency, Sir - • , hinson, to state, that the following sentence, which apPe''.;,,der last week's Gazette, extracted from the Trinidad Gazettf:lllo - head of Tobago, as relates to his correspondence ,I.„.iyea nisters, viz. " and this nnexpected blow at once oer, e ver his Excellency, Sir F. P. Robinson, of all hopes of the i i , * .e doing any thing creditable in future," was never mad e e ; in tea or even imagined by him, as can be proved by tb copy of this letter to Earl Bathurst, now in his posse ss the f°l' And in the Tobago Gazette of the 14th ult. appear e lowing letter : 4 B°. Mn. EDITOR, SlR—Having, observed, by your last paper, that Y il "i e rt . been requested, by his Excellency the Governor, w a c olle`; refutation of some assertion in the Trinidad Papor, 3 4 n id to lit t ; into your Gazette, also the words " not creditable, A tb o , l- t , been used by his Excellency in his dispatch to LOT; g a ttol' t i ) I beg leave to subjoin a copy of the Letter to Lor " from his Excellency Sir P. P. Robinson, leaving the r judge in what sense the word creditable was used. I am Sir, your olledient Servant, I3 of. ToaAa9, OCT. 1 1... A MEMBER of the HOUSE of Ao- rto bio, ) ,3, Extract of a dispatch from Major general Sir F. I"' - PO 1 , 1315 a . t e sp e K.C.8., addressed to E a rl B a thu r st, dated Tobar' yesterday, after I had closed m Au f r ‘ f waited upon with a d e p u t a tion from the e f with the enclosed pap e r s ." 00 " I have already informed your Lordship in loy°ll:bst the.27th October, th a t had good reason to belrevapjesci House of Assembly would not meet the wishes Of 1 P House * * * For London Markets, see the Third, and for Country Markets, see the Fourth Page. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS I) V AT ONE 0-CLoCK Bank Stock... 201 199 200 2 3 per Cent. Red. 78i 6f 7i 9 3 per Cent. Cons. shut 3i per Cent. Ditto Red B3; 2 3 2i 4 per Cent. New Bank Long Ann. lBl if India Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. gills 10001. lid. 47 80 dis. Ditto 5691. 1 Ad.... 35 65 dis. Ditto Stuiall rAd. ... 520 dis. Ditto Adverti-sed Bank for Acct. India for Acct. ConB. for Acct. 80/ 80i 1 Ditto Bonds 7O 80 dis. 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Deb. 3i per cent. 92ii 2 St. Patrick Insurance 4 per cent. New do. 100 ii Patfiotic ditto Gov. Stock, 3. per ct. fra or. Royal Irish Mining Consols 3 per cent. 81i op. Hibernian Gas Company Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock Provincial Bank Ditto Loan, 4 per cent. ... Fish Shares Ditto Ditto, 6 per cent. ... New Brighton FOMEIGN MAILS. AltitlvEu. I)vu. Lisbon 0 1 GOttenhurgh 0 1 Hamburgii . - . - 0 1 Holland - - - 1 U France - AD - 1 0 Flanders - - 2 0 Malta - - -, 0 1 Leeward Islands - - 1 0 lltliii WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 44 minutes after 9.1 Evening, 14 minutes after 10. 1 1 1 I 1 4 _4 k ) • SOLEIL QUIS DICERE FALSU.SI AUDE4T 7 LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1325.