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London, England, 1821-10-18 00:00:00

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Second do. . - 7 1 Second do. - -
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Sixth Yo. - - 54 Sixth do.
11xeiveit at the,Wegh-House, October 10 and 11.
2714 rii•kins--61 Keg's.

TAvistock BIBLE
Monday laSt the Almual Meeting of the above
Association was held at the Guildhall of that
towns C. GitEAvEs, Lsq. in the chair: The Re.=
port stated that the ntimber of Bibles and Testa-
ments issued' Since the last report was 385 ; and
gince the forthation of the Society nine years ago,
q,155; and the total amount received, MU The
Meeting was addressed by the Rev. Dr. STEIN-
KOPFF and other Reverend Gentlemen, in able
speeches; after which the Meeting adjourned,
The Rev. Mr. Rumstv, of Trelleck, had
at-
tended Monmouth Races; he went to Bristol on
Friday, and on Saturday morning, on his return-
ing, had just entered the boat at the Isiew-pas-
sage, when he exclaimed, " I am, very sick t"
and expired instantly.
The greatest order is maintained at Barcelona,
and the efforts of charity are unremitting. A
subscription has been opened, in support of the
hospital, and for the relief of the destitute, which
already amotintS to 40,000 francs (1,6661. 13s.
sterling), and soup is distributed in various quar-
ters of the town.

Saturday evening laSt a fine cock pheasant was
found perching in the drawing-room of General
V-vsr., at Beverley. The servant had put up the
window to. air the room, and was suipris(q.l to
find this new visitor in the 'evening ; he. had
strayed in, in the course of the day, and taken
up his residence for the night. The „endow
put down, the' bird 'secured, and sent as a pre-
sent to the General at Lichfield.
It is pa:nftii to reflect (says our Chichester
Correspondent) on the frequency of depred.ition47
in this neighbourhood. Within the sp::ce of
ten days, the font.' following initanct a have
occurred in Clay-lane, Bosham :—Mr. Tester
had a ram killed in his field and carried off; Mr.
William,llardham, a lamb ; and a few nights af.
ter, the lead-work of a pump, at his brick kilns;
Mr.Ewens had a. staple drawn and the lock taken
.away, with all .his' geese ; and on the night of
the fair (Thursday last,) Mr. James Leggett, of
West Hampnett, had a horse stolen from his mea-
dow, beinp the fifth horse this gentleman haS last,
—one of them he regained, and the thief is now
in transportation.

FATAL ACCIDENT.-About two o'clock'yeiter-
day afternoon, as the Salisbury luggage van was
proceeding 'down the Strand, the fore. axletree
suddenly broke nearly opposite Northumberland. House, and the van was thrOwn upon' 'its side.
Two men who were sitting on the box at the Fiti",
one of Whom was the proprietor, (Mr. Wykrr,)
were precipitated Co the ground, and the . y.an
falling with i
ts whole weight, crushed him to
death. When extriCated, he was perceived to
gasp once or twice. The body, was conveyed' to
the Northumberland Coffee-house, where an in-
quest will be held upon it: This accident made.
a great sensation in the neighbourhood. 'The'
street remained nearly blocked up during the re-
mainder of the day by the broken_ van andsthe
crowd collected to view the 'fatal spot.
Cuutous CASE.—An affair of a very extraor-
dinary nature is about to come before the Court
of Assize at Paris. A Scotc.bman,. named Wu-,
'LIAM IVI'DouGAL, who was pursued for uttering
at Paris forged notes of the Bank of Scotland, to
the amount of 40,00 francs, fled to the Nether-
lands, and took refuge in the Belgic territory.—^7
The French Government demanded and obtairlild
that he should be given up. IVl'Dotigal was made
prisoner at Ghent; and conducted by regular
reliefs of guard's to Paris. However, people
were not a little surprised to see the prisoner
soon after his arrival in the capital, 'obtain all at
once his liberty, saying that he was guilty of
that single crime for which our legislature has
not provided a punishment. The fact was, that •
the person who was brought to Paris was not the
true William, but his brother, James M'Dougal,
who had conceived and executed the hardy pro-
ject of setting his brother at liberty on the jour-
ney, by dressing himielf in clothes similar to
those which the prisoner wore. It appeared he
had followed the chaise in which his brother
was, on horseback, for some time, and it was at
Courtray, when the party striped at a little inn,'
that he put himself in his : James, there-
fore, was the person that..the police of the Ne=
therlands had delivered to the French gens
d'Armes on the frOntieri„ This curious case;
Which, before discdssing the accusation, it wilt
be necessary first to prove the prisoner's identity,
will be pleaded by M. Chaix d'Estrange.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS,
October 18.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.I

The Greeks cannot fail to gain friends, no►s
that they are giving proofs of their power to the
world. They used to rely formerly ou-the Go-
vernments of Europe; but disappointment seems
to have taught them the value of Lord Byron's
advice:

Trust not for 6eesloin to the Frank ;
and they seem to trust chiefly now to their own
exertions. They have already surmounted the
chief difficulty in all insurrections, that of escap-
ing being crushed in the outset, anti having stood
their ground so long, there is now little proba
bility of their being put, down. Their main re-
liance is in themselves; but the aid they will de-
rive from Europe, in arms, money, and expe-
rienced officers, will be of signal advantage to
them.

The Subscriptions to indemnify Sir Robert
Wilson amount, already to upwards of 40001.
In the additional List published by us this day
are the names of the Duke of Bedford, the Earl
of Thanet, Lord King, Lord Robert Spencer,
Messrs. Abraham Roberts, M. P., T. W. Coke,
M.P., Daniel Sykes, M.P., Marmaduke
M.P., &c. In a very short time the sum
calculated on will be raised. This is a very
different result no doubt from that on which Mi-
nisters calculated, and itwill go far towards coun-
teracting the despotic system embraced by them re-
specting the army. The army belongs, it is true, to
the King; but the army of a free country ought not
to be subjected to arbitrary treatment. Whenever
such a system is resorted to, the people ought on
their part to meet it with the proper corrective.
It is their interest that British Officers should
remain strangers to that submission which is in-
compatible with the feelings of a Gentleman and
the principles of a good Citizen • and they are
therefore bound to indemnify all who, like Sir
Robert Wilson, are made to suffer for their
refusal to relinquish their honour and their prin-
ciples. Had there been no subscription on this
occasion, the less wealthy Officers of the Army
must at once have inferred that they could
only, escape ruin by an unqualified obedience
at all times to every whim and caprice of the
Court. But this subscription will teach them,
that the public will not suffer them to he made
the victims of any such whim or caprice_; and
will resist every attempt to punish them, except
for acknowledged military offences, and after a
regular investigation.:—The vote of an Officer in
Parliament would be as much at the command of
Government as that of the Secretary of the Trea-
sury, if the principle of dismissal without cause
shewn were to be adopted. The pretence to in-
dependence, if made, would only excite a laugh.
—(lbid.)

[MORNING HERALb.]
The accounts from Vienna are of the Sd inst.
It would appear from them, that the Emperor
Alexander has absolutely conjured the Empero*
of Austria, '‘ by their mutual friendship," to
observe a strict neutrality, with an intimation
that his interference did hut retard and embar-
rass the negociations between him and the Porte.
The last Russian note to the Allies is said to
have excited a strong sensation, but no intimation
is given of its precise contents. The general
impression is, that he still holds by a steady
grasp to his main design. The Austrian Jour
-
mats declare that the next mail would bring the
ultimate issue. This assertion, however, has been
so often made, and so often falsified in the event,
that it is not to be confided in. It is somewhat
curious that the Vienna Papers no longer allude
to his Majesty's intentions of visiting that ca-
pital. His arrival there was certainly expected,
when he set out for the Continent, and prepa-
rations were even commenced for his reception.
Now, however, not a word is said upon the
matter. It would be rather a singularity that
the King should visit Germany without, hav-
ing a personal interview with the Emperor of
Austria. Berlin, it is said, he will visit. The
accounts from the Mediterranean and Archipe-
lago continue to represent the Greeks as uncon-
querable by sea, but as carrying on an uncertain
and afflicting warfare on land. The population
of Livadia and the Morea suffer dreadfully from
both parties, being alternately pillaged by the
Greeks and Turks ; the former are in pos-
session of the open country, whilst the latter
come out of their strong holds whe❑ they have
an opportunity for plunder. The younger Ypsi-
lanti is still unacknowledged, and quarrelling
with the Greek Authorities constituted before
his arrival. They refuse to recognize him,
doubt, because lie is furnished with no authority
from the Emperor Alexander. He is said to be
inexperienced, and incompetent to command men
ou a great occasion. His brother shewed, it is
considered, more personal courage than capacity.
Spain is still desolated with the yellow fever in
Catalonia; but there are:.no further accounts of
its progress on the coast of Andalusia. We have
no account of any sitting of the Cortes; they are
chiefly employed in' matters of course, and in pre-
' paring for the consideration of public business.

[MORNING POST.]
it appears by an article from New York, an-
nouncing the arrival of Monsieur Roux de La-''
boisse with dispatches, thata treaty of commerce',
has for some time been seriously negociating be-
tween France and the United States. The dis-
patches were supposed to contain that 46 long-de-
sired treaty," and in the joyful anticipation of the
event, the mystery in which it had been prepared
was forgotten, and the secret was given to the
world. Whether the arrangements have really
proceeded so near completion as to justify
the daily expectation of• the arrival of the
Treaty itself, we have no means of judging
but the simple ftr...'t that such a matter is in agi-
tation is of no mean importance. Au union of
commercial interests between America and
France must necessarily affect, to a ccrtain
extent, the trade of every other country ; and
though it is perfectly lawful and praiseworthy in
those Governments. to procure every possible

kind of advantage for ti►eir respective subjects;
yet it is equally the duty of other States to keep
an eye on their proceedings, and to inquire into
the propriety, usefulness, and practicability of
forming. arrange►newts of a shnilar nature: Some
of these Papers confirm the report of Lord Coch-
rane having left Callao .for an unknown destina-
tion, and of Sir Thomas llardy's having come to
a determination not to respect any longer the
blockade of the Peruvian Coast. On the other
hand, rumours had reached Baltimore, and
were deemed " more than probable " at that
place; that Lima had at last fallen into the power
of the Chitians, the siege having been resumed
with increased energy both by St. Martin and
Lord Cochrane after a temporary retreat on their
part. We are - happy to find that the yellow
fever had diminished in violence at Boston, Bal-
timore, and at most other places on the American
coast. New York had been declared free from
contagion as well as New Orleans, where the
disorder had previously committed great ravages.
The only place in the United States where the
fever still raged to any alarming extent was Nor-
folk, in which city the new cases continued to
be very numerous. The deaths at Boston and
Baltimore had greatly decreased in number since
our last arrivals from thence. But an accident
had nearly renewed the danger. During. the
dreadful gale which had been experienced
all along the coast, several vessels stationed at
the quarantine ground at Staten Island had been
driven on shore and the crews obliged to land
for safety; several persons had thence caught the
infection, and died. The Board of health, how
ever, had taken effectual precautions to preven
its spreading.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Among the recent regulations in- the army, the
Gazette lately announced an extensive promotion
of the English Commissariat officers. In this
arrangement seven Assistant Commissary-Gene-
rals were promoted to the rank of Deputy Com-
missary-Generals, the date of whose commissions
run from September, 1806, down to August, 1811.
Now there are in Ireland seven Assistant-Com.
missary-Generals, the dates of whose commissions
run from the Ist of January, 1798, down to No-
vember, 1803, some of whom consequently are
near twenty-four years Assistant-Commissary-
Generals, while several of the English Officers of
that class, promoted to the superior rank of De-
puty Commissary-Generals, are not of more than
ten years standing. In addition to the claim de-
rived from length of service, may be added the
undoubted merits of the Irish Assistant-Commis-
sary-Generals, it being well known and univer-
sally admitted that the business of their depart-
ment is conducted with the most exemplary cor-
rectness. We mention this case thus circumstantial-
ly, because we are persuaded that the distinction
which has been made between these two sets of
meritorious officers must he the result of inad-
vertence. The character of the Commander-in-
Chief will not allow us to presume that the situa-
tion of the Irish Assistant Commissary-Generals
could have been present to the mind of his Royal
Highness when -the late promotion was settled.
Ire -therefore hope that it iglu the contempla-
tion of his Royal Highness to do equal justice to
the officek of that branch of the niilitary service.
The King has shewn that the interests of Ire-
land are equally deiar to him as those of any
other part of his kingdom, and the same spirit
may be expected to actuate all those who exer-
cise his power and authority.

[NEW Timts.]
There is one feature of late improvement in
the Revenue which appears not to have excited
much notice, and yet it is one of no minor im-
portance. Our Readers will remember that we
felt it necessary, when, in -1819, the question of
Cash Payments came under the consideration of
Parliament, to treat it with much doubt and hesi-
tation, and; indeed, with no small anxiety and
foreboding. We knew that our feelings on the
subject were those of the most experienced mer-
chants and bankers in the city of London, and
our fears deried strength from that knowledge.
Indeed, it was hardly to be doubted that a bad har-
vest, or any other occurrence which might turn the
scale of the Exchanges, would render the plan
then determined on altogether impiacticable.—
Providence, however, has carried us safely over
this dangerous period. The Bank, with a most
honourable promptitude, has anticipated by the
whole term of two years The stipulated return to
Cash Payments, Acid this great measure may be
considered as accomplished.--But the Bank,
with a perfect knowledge of the subject, remind-
ed the Legislature in 1819, that " the real ques-
tion was, not whether it were possible for them
to resume Cash Payments, but whether the
country was able to bear the reduction .of the
circulating medium which must precede and ac-
company such resumption."

[TH E.TIM ES.]
One or two of. the Irish counties are in a de-
plorable state. We have already published a
detail of some of the outrages -which have been
perpetrated in the county of Limerick and to-
wards the borders of Kerry. The plan of ag-
gression by the rioters seems to have been to
make a series of attempts on the insulated coun-
try houses of gentlemen and farmers who were
supposed to have fire-arms in their possession,
that, ,by getting hold of the arms, they might
furnish themselves with the means of fresh
plunder, and of putting down all resistance
except by a regular force, On one occa-
sion it appears that these disturbers of the
peace, composed of two hostile bodies, took
the field in broad day, before the Gentry
of the district assembled at Newcastle
,races,
and openly fired on each other—dispersing only
after an attack made upon both by a detachment
of dragoons under Colonel Douglas. When we
say that a course of undisguised ferocity, so little
characteristic of a civilized age, is nothing new
to an observer of Irish history and habits, we
pass unquestionably the keenest censure on the
policy by which it has been produced. While
the whole European world has advanced in
the arts of peace and in the enjoyments of
cultivated society, it is a truth as melancholy as it
is disgraceful, that the great bulk of indigenous

population through the south and central parts
of Ireland has stood for centuries unchanged and
motionless. Ulster was judiciously colonized
from this country ; manufactures have there
been successfully introduced ; and from being
in the latter part of the reign of Elizabeth the
most savage and desolate"portion of the island,
that province has since become the seat—the al-
most exclu'sive seat—of industry, sobriety, and
comfort, amongst the labouring classes.

WESTMINSTER S'ESSIONS.— Yesterday these
Sessions commenced at the Guildhall, West-
minster, before FRA:NC/S CONST, Esq. and a
Bench of Magistrates. After the Grand Jury
for the County of Middlesex were sworn in, Mr.
STERLING, the Clerk of the Court, read the Riot
Act, and then made proclamation. The CnAin-
mAs informed the Grand Jury their attendance
would be required at the Sessions House, Clerk-
enwell-green, on Monday. There are, he said,
only twenty at present sworn in, the rest of the
Gentlemen who were summoned not having at-
tended. It would be necessary, in order to faci-
litate the business of the County, which some-
times goes on very well with twenty, that they
should attend early, to enable them to getathrotigh
the business with such dispatch as not to cause
unnecessary delay. The Court would endeavour
to procure more 'Jurors if necessary, and those
who neglected to attend would be fined each in
the penalty of 101.—The Grand Jury then retired.
Several Constables were then sworn in, and the
Court adjourned to- this day.

DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO (NEW YORK, SEPT.I4.)
—On Sunday afternoon last, about six o'clock,
a most destructive tornado was experienced in
Northfield, Warwick, and Orange, in the county
of Franklin (Mass.) It first struck and derno,
lished a house and barn in Northfield, and thence
passed to the easterly part of that town, and de-
stroyed the house of C. Holton, seriously in-
juring him. From Northfield it passed into
Warwick, completely demolishing, in its course,
the house of a Mr. Brown, a daughter of whom,
about fourteen years of age, perished in its
ruins ; and the barn and outbuildings of a Mr.
Ball. At a little distance east of Mr. Ball's, in
Orange, a house, two barns, and a blacksmith's
shop, all belonging to Mr. Smith, fell prostrate
before the blast. The family, consisting of 11
individuals, escaped death by retreating, to the
cellar—all, save one, a young woman by the
name of Stearns, who was crushed to death by
the falling timber. Several others were, how-
ever, so seriously injured that their lives are de-
spaired of. So resistless was the force of the
tornado that the stoniest trees , were uprooted,
stone fences removed, immense rocks torn from
their beds, and even the surface of the earth it-
self broken up, as if with the plough-share of
destruction.

MIRACULOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—Captain How-
LAND, of the sloop Rising Sun, arrived at Pro-
vidence on Sunday last. On the sth instant, lat.
37. 47. long. 74. 33. fell in with a schooner bot-
tom up, her masts and spars were alongside, held
by the rigging ; her sails were blown or washed
from the bolt-rope. „We went on her bottom, to
cut a hole through, to see what she was loaded
with. We cut a. piece of plank out near the run,
and were surprised to hear a voice, like-that of a
female, ask, " 6 Who is that ?" but very faintly.
We answered, " friends ;" and asking how many
there were below, she said, when the vessel cap-
sized she turned, instantly bottom up, and all
bands were on deck except herself and the Cap-
tain's nephew (Lewis Miers, of Charlston, S. C.),
a boy about eleven years of age. We drew her
out; she was a woman of colour, about twenty-
two years of age, wet,,and her flesh all parboiled.
She said the boy was drowned in the cabin. She
caught hold of the run scuttle-ring, and pulled
the scuttle off, and went up to the run, where
we found her, with the water constantly washing
over her. She said probably some of the crew
might be in the forecastle. We went forward
on the keel and cut through into the forecastle,
and found nothing but a small dog alive, jammed
between the timbers, and the forecastle full of
lumber; the rest, seven in number, are supposed
to have perished. She says the schooner's name
was Blake, of Charleston, South Carolina, Capt.
James Hatch : that she sailed from Boston on the
9th ultimo, for Portland, where she arrived, and
loaded• with lumber ; had 14 pipes of wine on
deck, and a high deck load of lumber ; that they, -
sailed from Portland about the 17th for Charles-
ton ; that she heard the Captain say that they
were off the Capes of Delaware the morning
the vessel capsized ; that on the 3d instant,
about ten A. M. the gale commenced ; that they
took all sale in, and, hove too, cut their deck
load adrift, and let all go overboard ; that about
eleven A. M. she capsized.. She states that her
name is Ann Maroy Irolden ; that she belongs
to Warwick, R. I.; that she was going with
Captain Hatch in the capacity of servant, to wait
upon his nephew, who was in a bad state of
health. We took her, and the dog, on board,
gave her clothes and nourishment ; she is now
very well.—(Philad6iitur National Gazette of
Sept. 13.)

HIGH-BRED Fewra.—At Bently Farm, in the
parish of Framfield, a hen recently made her
nest upon the ridge of a lofty barn, wherein she
deposited her eggs, and in despite of the wind
and rain which must have assailed her, there per-
formed and completed the work of incubation,
as appeared soon afterwards, by her brining her
callow brood, to the number of twelve, in safety
to the ground..

There is a person living, we understand, in
London, named ALEXANDER GORDON, whose
case is rather curious. lie has lately attained
his hundredth year, and is in a state of second
childhood, under the constant care of a medical
man. 11e made his will, we hear, some time
back, in which he has bequeathed to MATILDA
AD Imi;,llis great neice, his whole property, which
must he enormous,' being the produce of 6,0001.
a.year left accumulating at compound interest for
eighty years.