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GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.

Yesterday a meeting of the Shareholders in the Gene-
ral Steam Navigation Company was held at the City of
Londqn Tavern.
The Report stated, that from numerous difficulties, it
had been found requisite to defer giving any account of
the state of the Company's property, until next year.—
They said it would. be now requisite to make a further
call of 80,000/.pone instalment of 31. per share to be paid
in October, and the remainder as circumstances might
require.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY said, that the Sharjholders could
not but have heard with astonishment, not to say indigna-
tion, the announcement that there was to be a further call
of 80,0001. It was in contravention of their deed of set-
tlement, which bound the Directors not to enter into en-
gagements, or make any call, for any sum exceeding
20-0,000/. without previously submitting their proceedings
to a General Meeting of the Proprietors, and obtained
their consent. He then entered into a long argument
upon the idea which was entertained by some persons of
selling the property, and putting an end to the Company.
He treated such an intention as absurd. He represented
the advantage to be derived from steam-vessels, both to
the Public and to the Company, to be of the higheat cha-
racter, if it were properly managed. In order,as he stated,
to restore the Company to a healthy state, he moved that
a Board of Confront should be appointed to investigate
its concerns, and superintend its proceedings, in conjunc-
tion with the Board of Directors.

Mr. HALL, one of the Managing Directors, admitted
that the 80,0001., for which the additional call was re-
commended, was to meet demands to satisfy engagements
which the Directors had incurred in behalf of the Com-
pany.
One Proprietor moved as an amendment, that a Com-
mittee of Proprietors be appointed to investigate the ac-
counts of the Company.
It was stated by SirEDWARD BANKS, and others of the
Directors, that it was impossible to make up an account of
the state of their property without great loss and inconve-
nience. Most of their vessels were abroad—one was at
Gibraltar, another was at Hamburg)].
Mr. BOIVRING agreed in the proposition for establishing
a Board of Controul.

The several amendments were then put and negatived.
Mr. Harvey's motion for the formation of a Board of
Controul was carried by a large majority.
Mr. HARVEY proposed Sir Edward Banks as one of the
Board.

The appointment of the five Directors was then put and
carried ; and, on the motion of one of the Directors, Mr.
Harvethimself was appointed as one of the Board.
Sir EDWARD BANKS said, that the appointment of this
Board was just what he wanted to see. He declared that
under its management he might almost guarantee the Pro-
prietors 16 per cent. for the next year.
It was then moved the report should he received. It
was recommended that a dividend should be declared of
51. per share.
The motion was warmly opposed, but was ultimately
carried.

SURVEY of the WEST COAST of AFRICA

(mom AN OFFICER ON BOARD THE BARRACOUTA.)

AtitlusT 27, 1820.-24 send you tbe'following particu-
lars, trusting they will he acceptable ,:--
In the vicinity of Azores' his Majesty's ship Dia4end,
in June hist, on her passagefrom Rio sle Janeiro to Lisbon,
with Sir C. Stuart, the British Minister at the Brazilian
Court, on board, fell in with the water-logged tiinher-ship,
Frances Mary, the particulars of which vessel, with the
detail of the severe sufferings experienced by her original
crew, until relieved by Lord Byron, in the Blonde frigate,
are already before the public.
The Diamond observed this ship close to her at day-
light, and immediately sent a boat on board, which found
she was abandoned, and rifled of almost every thing move-
able, with the exception of her cargo, which remained un-
touched; even her chain plates had been unbelted, and the
figure on her head sawn off, and carried away. The bow
and stern-raft ports were out, and the sea made a perfect
breach through the vessel, covering the cabin deck and
lower beams; a multitude of fishes, chiefly bonetta, were in
possession, and large shoals of them attended her, for the
• sake of substances, adhering to her bottom. • •

It was the opinion of Lord Napier, who commanded
the Diamond, that the Frances Mary might be dragged
into port, either at Lisbon, or one of the islands, by the
frigate, without ninth. delay, and for this purpose she was
taken into tow; but the wind continuing very light, and
the Diamond making but little way with her burthen, he
ultimately acquiesced in the wishes of Sir Chicle a Stuart,
who urged the abandonment of the ship, on account of
the haste be was in to reach Lisbon.

In consequence, four officers, with a cutter's crew
(who were all volunteers), were put on board the wreck,
having with them one of the ship's boats, and two months'
provisions. The Diamond cast her off at S. 30. p. m. an
the 27th, and parted company the same night; this was
in latitude 37. 4. North, and longitude 22. 36. West, or
about 120 miles East of the Island of St. Mary. The
party found part of the bowsprit, the main and main-top-
mast, standing; her other masts were gone; .the main-
topsail yard remained across, with part of the sail attached
to it ; the main yard had been taken away.
When the intention of Lord Napier was made known
on hoard the Diamond, respecting the putting a party on
board this vessel, there was a general desire to share in
the enterprise, which was considered to have a degree of
danger, as well as novelty, attached to it : and all the
young gentlemen, in particular, were emulous to be among
the chosen., Mr. Brown, the second master of the Dia-
mond, with Messrs. Airey, Oldham, and Mitford, (mid-
shipmen), were detached on this service, and we can con-
gratulate their friends upon. their safe arrival at St. Mary's,
in high health and spirits.
Buoyed up by the quantity of timber on board, which
consisted of pine logs and plank, there was no material
risk, so long as the ship should hold together; but as she
'
was nearly unmanageable, and afforded no accommodation
below from the weather, their situation was not the most
desirable; to obviate, however, this latter inconvenience,
they built themselves a place of shelter on deck with
plank from ,the cargo.
But the ship having lost her rudder, the chief attention
was turned to the formation of a new one, or a machine of
some kind, by which she might be steered. The party
:
set about this work with alacrity and determination which
soon
prepareds
little way that could be given to a ship so circumstanced,
the rudder was not of so much service 'as had been antici-
pated ; every
atd shipped ; owing, however, July it
wadi difficulty, and by the Ist of
to the very
nevertheless, with the help of the sail; it 'lbdd. was
made to, answer in a tolerable degree;. in steering by the
wind it was decidedly serviceable : its chief defect inle was
its uselessness as an agent in performing any evolution ,f
which neither it, nor any. plan that could be devised,vt:sr
found to succeed; and frequently when, after many -'''
~iotirs
endeavour to get the vessel upon the opposite t
been abandoned as impracticable, she would, tack,
1
wou of herself,
come up in the wind, and pay off, as
desired, without any
mechanical assistance.l

Tice quantity of lee-way or drift amounted in general

to four points, but this angle increased with the wind and
agitation of the sea*; badness of Ivesdher, hqwever, was
experienced in a very light degree, to which circumstance,
and the fixed direction of the wind in the eastern quarter,
may be attributed the vessel's arrival so early as it was,
seeing that human ingenuity could prevail but little with
such a log.
The possession of this ship to the Company of the
Diamond will be inconsiderable ; but a benefit has been
performed to navigation by ber removal from the high sea,
lying so much as she was in the track between Europe,
those islands; and America. Some unfortunate navigator
'would very likely hare stumbled on board her during the
darkness of night, and the concussion would probably
have been no less fatal than if she had fallen upon the
Formigas.
Her position in the usual track of ships return iiii from
the southward and westward may be demonstrated by the
number she actually encountered. As before observed,
she hadbeen pillaged, and deprived of almost every thing
portable ; and this„ in all probability, had not been merely
the work of one or two vessels, but of several, which fell
in with her during the interval that transpired between
she Blond and Diamond coming across her. From :he
time the latter frigate left her, until her arrival at St.
Mary's, they spoke or saw the following :—On June 28,
the Blossom, from Rio de Janeiro to Trieste; July 11,
saw one sail at' a distance; July 12, saw a sail, but did
not speak her; July 15, fell in with and spoke a Ham-
burgher, 'mend to Havannah ; July 16, met with, and had
intercourse with the American ship Tea Plaid, from Ha-
vanuah, bound to Cadiz, who liberally supplied them with
many things very serviceable in their situation. On the
13th of July, the Island of St. Mary was in sight; but their
progress towards it was excessively slow, owing to the ex-
treme lightness of the win& July 21, the cutter was dispatch-
ed to St. Mary's to gain information; she retie ned the 23d,
and was again sent to close with the offerof island vas-
sal to tow them to St. Mary's; ibp,
,cpqr,„ hack in the
evening with this assistance, and the fallowing day retitled
the anchorage of St. Mary's, where, she was % moored in
security. On the 31st July, Mr. Aveiry was sent across
to St. Michael's in order to procure advice, information,
and assistance from the Consul.

His Majesty's sloop Barracouta, on her passage from
Sierra Leone to Spithead, put into St. Michael's on the "
3d of August, in order to recruit her water, which service
being completed, she proceeded to St. Mary's, with the
Deputy Consul and Mr. A,veiry on' board, with an inten-
tion of carrying the party to England, provided it was their
wish, and consigning the ship to the care of the Consul.
Mr. Brown, however, was adverse to a surrender of his
charge, until he had obtained the most profitable terms
which could be expected at St. Michael's ; the party
seemed•also to consider it a point of honour to see this
object effected. In consequence of these wishes, the Bar-
racouta left the Island, and made the best of her way
homeward.

On the Bth of August, St. Michael and St. Mary still
in sight, we discovered a schooner-rigged vessel, whose
motions appeared to be extraordinarily indecisive • we
edged towards, and closed her in the afternoon, and indecisive;
she was the Flora, of London, bound to Gibraltar and
Malaga, Alexander Christie, Commander, who, being
questioned as to his business among these Islands, as.
signed as a reason, his having to land a passenger at Sr.
Mary's ; but the Commander's and passengers' account
of their, proceedings and intentions appeared so equivocal
and contradictory, that it gave reason to surmise some-
thing more was intended than it was thought prudent to
reveal. This passenger, to land whom the vessel had
been conducted at least seven hundred miles out of her
proper track, was in figure, costume, and general appear-
ance, the exact counterpart of one of those gentry who
may be' seen daily in the vicinity of the Exchange, vend.
ing oranges, &c. dirty, ragged, and rascally. •
The Barraeouta completed the survey of the coast of
West Africa on the 22 of April last, at the foOt of the
Cameroon Mountain. She left the Island of Fernando
Po on the 80th of April ; Sierra Leone, the 13th of June ;
Porte Prays St. Jago, the 7th of July; and St. Michael's,
the sth of August. The cruisers were all out from Sierra
Leone, and slave vessels were very frequently brought in
4 moderate, but increasing ciegree of sickness, prevailed in.
the Colony, but it was c - y confined to the troops.
ELOPEMENT AND SINGULAR RECO-
VERY OF PROPERTY.

About three weeks ago, the proprietor of a highly re-
spectable tavern in the city of London, having been in the
country for a few days, was thunderstruck upon learning
at his return that his wife had eloped with a young man,
taking with her cash to the amount of 5004 It seems
that during the late general election, the house alluded to
was made a place of meeting for the •committee of a candi-
date fora borough in a north-east county, and the teakd can-
didate being well provided with the good things of this
world, desired that no extience might be spared, and that
his constituents resident in London might be treated in the
most liberal manner possible. This was done, and in
the end the tavern hill, amounted to 5004 In due
time the candidate gave a check for the amount of the
demand, and at that very period, • unfortunately for the
master of the house' he was front home, and the order
fell into the hands of his wife, and there is too much rea-
son to fear that she had for some time formed a deter-
mination to elope, and that she only waited for a favourable
opportunity; for immediately upon getting' possession of
the check, she went to the banking-house upon which it
was drawn and obtained the amount of 5004 in Bank
notes, with which she absconded. The, landlord of the
tavern, upon discovering the elopement of his wife, Arid
the fact that she had received the election-bill and taken
the amount with her, applied at Bow-street office for
assistance, and Salmon, one of the principal officers, was
desired by Sir R. I3irnie to use his best endeavours to
discover the retreat of the faithless woman, and if possible,
to procure the restoration of the money to the husbend.
Salmon made inquiries, and succeeded so far as to learn
that it was probable the wife had gone to Prance with
.her paramour. He Nvrote,to the coast of Prance to ascer-
tain, if possible, • whether that was the fact or not ;
and by return f post received a communication front
a person at Boulogne, informing him .that the lady was
then there, and that else had test deposited 4001. out.
of 500/. at a banking-house in. that place. Salmon,
knowing that he could depend upon this information.
waited upon the bushiend, and the latter at once agreed
company
ir arrival
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a sftvioo'insdPcir:iatbrinifelaecldtoce,t:llyiteul evteeroOtirhr:lnitae:tcr4trilitleliaantltseurt
ion which
lady, after
placing the money, as she thought securely, had left,
Boulogne for Dover, intendinti,
tn iu a fern
tytsh; pßubefloicreaultiletorrietiteustnal Boulogne, ew,ini7atllveasapwpeliicietk;lorlet;wtrol
the British Consul there, and to other official pereants, and
furnished with letters from them, and with the document,
which he took with him from England, le, went to the
banking-house, Auld in a very short time, ebtained the re-
stitution of the whole sum of 400/. He could with equal
ease have restored the wife ,to her husband, hut the latter
had no great inclination for a re-union, and having got se-
cure possession of 4004 resolved to come quietly home;
and without
The waiting for his wife, he and Salmon took
a
comfortable voyage to London, by the steam-packet,
wife returned to Boulogile, but found that the greater part
of her ill-gotten money wIL4 g""; and that ah*,.. reserve
had no
ei
to Subsist upon beyond the residue of the 10w
out .of the 500/. which she had taketi.ae

Ttls .LA TR, Moth En.— he pool woman who
was so ferociously stabbed by her husband Burt last
week, is 11"' pronounced out of Wmger. Her case
bas excited much sympathy, and we are happy to say
that the subscription set on foot for her by Mr. Savage,
hes been warmly entered into, and has been the means
of aftbrding her relief and comfort in her melancholy
situation, of which she must otherwise have been totally
destitute.-.Brietton Gazette,

MANCHESTER, TUESDA.V, Aun. 29.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
We have had less business done in our market
to-day than for some time past, in consequence of an
evident determination on the, part of our manufac-
turers to effect an advance in prices, and as evident a
determination on the part of the buyers not to give it.
We are all anxiously looking forward to a demand in
the home trade, as the surer means of giving, life to
our markets; but in the present very Wretched state of
our labouring population, we cannot reasonably hope
for any very early improvement.
The Central Committee for the Relief of the Pours,
Dave, in conjunction with the Trustees of the public
highways, adopted the plan or employing the labouring
classes in the repairs of the road. Bills announcing
the measure, were yesterday posted throughout the
town, and hundreds of applications were immediately
made at the Town Hall for engagements.

MANCHESTER COMMITTEE FOR THE
RELIEF OF THE POOR.

(From the 'Manchester Mercury of yesterday.)
A' meeting of the General Committee for the Relief of the Poor
was held yesterday at the Police-office.
Soon after eleven o'clock the Boroughreeve took the chair, when
the Rev. William Johnson, M.A.., Chairman of the Sub-Com-
mittee, presental and read the following Report
To the General Coimnittee of Subscribers to the Fund for Relief
of the Neceseitous Poor.
The Stib-Committee of Management have agreed upon the fol-
lowing as their ninth Report :
In coliformity with your direction*, your Sub-Committee dis-
continued the distribution of provisions, and withdrew all the
tickets presented, on Friday the 18th instant.
Painful as thin measure was, (though from the state of the fund,
unavoidable) your Sub-Committee have the satisfaction of report-
ing that the demeanor of the poor applicants afforded a strong
proof of gratitude, for. though must of them could not but antici-
pate the distress which a privation of the aecustomed pittance
must bring .upon their familial; even this did not prevent their
expression of, thanks.
In their last report your Sub-Committee presented a concise re-
view of their proceedings from the commencement of their labours;
—they now beg leave to lay before you the following abstract of
their accounts, a more particular detail of which is now upon your
table.
[Here fulloree- the abstract of the-aecounts.)
On the inspection of these act...inane, en observation orsoine im-
portance will naturally suggest itself to those who have been in the
habit 'of remarking the expenses which have sometimes attended
the distribution, of charitable funds, • The whole charge upon this
fond, including the very heavy but indispensable articles of adver-
tising and printing ; the stipends of upwards of twenty persons
specially appointed for the prevention of frauds; rents-of some of
the stores; and wages of labourers assisting in, and preserving
order during the distributions, amounts to little more than three
and a half per cent., upon the gum expended; and, with respect
to the bet article, it can scarcely be considered as a charge, inns-.
moll as these wages were paid to persons who would have been
tit Objects of t•elief, and to whom this employment was afforded, in
lien of a 'ticket to entitle them to provisions front the charity.
Ae.anratter in .soine degree connected with the accounts,

may be stated, that since the distribution dosed, a credit of 1,000/.
in favour of the central committee of correspondence for Mandate-
ter anitthe neighbourhood, has been placed by the managers of
the subscription in London, in the bands of the bankers, to be
epidied for at the dieiletion of that committee.
It will also be an interesting information to many,• that con-
siderable progress has' been made, with the assistance of ,Mr.
Maoism, in preparing to carry into immediate effect a plan for
the employment of such of the poor, as are , able and willing to '
work upon the public roads.
,It. now only renatine for your Sub-Committee to resign into
your bands the trust which you confided to their management.
By order of the Stili.Committee,
astir August, fah WI% JOHNSON, Chairman.
iTheee formal mutters having been disposed of, the Rev. W.
;lototann rally) the au-s two of the meeting to The following para.
graph, which appeated in the Lorelei, Courier of Saturday hisi„
into iihieh paper the Reverend Gentleman said he had ascertained
that it hall beet, copied nom the New Thies and Representative.
`,4 Relief is no longer. given out to the pew; and, consequently,
the distress appears' to widow .but it is to be hoped that stone
relief will be shortly rendoeir to the poor, either through the
map of Money,, foian, " tir -timployment. • It is in agitation to
create employment for the adult poor upon the public roads. It
is known that ineetilige of the Csmiinittee pf Correspondence here
have been held, at which Mr. flyett and Mr. Ill'Adarn have at-
tended, but the result friel not taillike& and, in this mean time,
the poor are destitute of ocouptitiou I hope dutie lotate
of destitution SStill not drive the sufferers to outrage; and. I know
of nothing so likely to encourage awls consequences, as an opinion
circulated here, that the Committee in London have Offered to
contribute to relieve the.poor of Iflancliester, by advancing money
iu proportion to the subscription raised in the town, and to tins
there is an utter exertion among the wealthy inhabitante, who say
that there is a sufficient kirce 'here to preserve tranquility, and
who, 1 must add,' appear little disposes' to aid Government in
their endeavours to ameliorate the condition of the unemployed

poor."
Jo regard to this statement, a discussion arose, as to whether
or not it should be replied O. There appeared to be ni; differ-
vice of opinion concerning the impropriety of the language, or
the ineorrectneas of its statements, any more7than as to the offen-
dive. asseitioni with respect to the feelings and declarations of the
more opulent part of the inhabitants ; hitt it was ultimately de-
termined, that an atinnytoous newspaper assertion was net wtoth
notice, particularly as 4w Committee were then able to afford a
praetical reply to the charge, bygiving public notice, this day, that
their arrangements for setting the poor to work were ready to he
catriii4 into operation.
In the course-of a subsequent conversiation, it Will statist,
the authority of several of the medical gentlemen connected with
the Infirmary, that notwithstanding the suffering which so many
of the'poor have undergorie,'there yet been little or no items-
*ion of disease amongst thou. Two or three members of the
Committee, who had recently been in Ireland, stated how infinitely
worse was the condition of the poor in Dublin, Ulan in Munches-
,ter, snit it Was suggested, that as a precaution, the poor of this
town should be urged to whitewash their dwellings, and supplied
with the mean~ of doing so, hefore winter. After some further
ilVeultory conversation, the Committee separated.

„
PREP.11)0111 OF THE CITY OF 1 o 4 NDOIC—A ques.
tion of considerable interest bait been started, which will involve a
great deal of discussion, if pressed to an issue, as we are assured it
will. be. It is one which deeply concerns every person in any
wire connected with or employed in the trade or manufactures car-
tied on in London, It is tithe*” Whether a manufacturer, artist,
o r_otather person currying on trade to a considerable extent, within
w
b is oaned the precincts of the City, shall be at liberty to etn.
play non-freemen ut his warehouse, work-shop, or office, whilst
tbass who are free of the City, suf.:squally competent to the per-
formearte of the Woo servile°
Ti, subject, it
t.eent,,, has
been intently
li alli. he out of employment ?
i° of '"Per4;"" notalanics (-of course4"at Yallanfvre7r7t‘tiniii, awllutog,efenelring-
wthriktleetivhe:iittil'igfraillttl.test, 'ttlitp-itt,in.tit of Cowniol on the . point,
bring the question unriet the eoteliliitloerit;lll.lllPertrr of"Aedider-
men awl the City Law Officers,
Wish a precedent. 'Fite ritteision will h't t"fig wierred to esta-
e ootted fur with tic moat
intense interost.
Excunswht TO THE Nonx.--Same Gettiliortent
friends' to the unengiloyed Printers, unit n yesterday,l
it theit
own risk, another exemrsion to the None, which we see
find, was more successful/ titan the former. ihe heat, latr t°o:,e
~
.
„„ge of Charity, induced a number of - tr.
day
operating in the „
petted passenger* to purchase tickets, and tri join the party, which
embarked on hoard the Sir Edward Banks, afu atm,,,,,,emei
of two forty-horse power erigint,6, under the command of Captain
Howlett. l'he run down the River was highly pleaslng, and the
excursion was rendered utill more delightful by the polite wen.
tiOns of Captain Howlett, who announced the return of the yew',
and recalled the passengers, by repeated di charges of rockets at
bis own expence. ' A
MEETING OF SAINT NDREW'S PARI4I.
t. Andrew's,
04 IVlonday, August 28, a Meeting of the Parish of S.
Dublin, waalteld in the parish church, for the purpose of inquiring.
' into the present distress of the city operativee, and toloPting Inea-
"l°' for their relief. After an animated debate,
in the course of
which the euuuhrr't of the wore wealthy absentees was very freely
CAMIIIeTitA nit, the meeting, on the motion of Mr. Porde, Cani
the resolution that. the diverrtion of one third of the church
provierty from its original purpose, nornelyi the support of te
-'-- poor, was the principal caused die present distress. A committee
was than appointed for the purpose of endeavouring by subscrip-
tion to relieve that distress,- after which the meeting separated.