The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-06 00:00:00

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

We have received communication of the following
letter from Mauritius, dated the 4th of May.
" Since the 27th of February, the day of the depar-
ture of our deputy for England, I have not thought it
necessary to write you. Though two months have
elapsed since that period no event has interrupted the
uniformity of their course. The colonial government
has positively done nothing, has adopted no measure.
During the whole of this interval it has remained plunged
in a state of profound torpor, and but for the enormous
salaries which the crowd of civil and military servants
continue to draw from the treasury, it might be supposed
that there was no longer any government. The police
alone seemed to have preserved some remains of exist-
ence, net in checking delinquency and crime, for never
have cases of theft and of marooning been more numer..
ous, but in persecuting strangers established at Mau-
ritius. The .majority of these persons are small dealers
and workmen, who have brought from Europe their seve-
ral handicrafts, in which the colony finds the greatest
advantage in the manufacture of various articles of mer-
chandise, which it would be otherwise obliged to import
from abroad. Without any reason that can be guessed
at, the police has fallen furiously on these peaceful in-
dividuals, and has intimated to them a positive order to
quit the colony without delay. Some of these persons
are well known to the department to have been residing
here with its express permission, and in consequence of
recognizances entered into by them fifteen or twenty
years ago. There are several who have married creole
wives, and have had children born to them in the island.
The police evinces no consideration for those ties which
attach them to our colony, but expels them from it with-
out even assigning a cause for so severe a measure. This
applies, however, only to the French, Italians, and Swiss.
As for those of English origin, from whatever part of the
globe they come, they are received with favour. We
have several examples of convicts escaped from Botany
Bay, from whom the police do not even require a pass-
port. They publicly abandon themselves to theft, to the
reception of stolen goods, and the fraudulent sale of spi-
rituous liquors, without being at all molested.
" It is now nearly a month since we have been threat-
ened with famine. The universal persuasion that the
Mauritius is sacrificed as a victim to Mr. Jeremie and to
anarchy, has prevented the merchants of Calcutta from,
sending the usual supplies of rice necessary for our con-
sumption. This commodity has suddenly risen to an ex-
cessive price. The bag which sells commonly at three
and four dollars, was paid for as high as fifteen. At last it
failed us altogether, awl it became necessary to support
our famishing slaves on corn and manior,' the price of
which was doubled. The government, in spite of reit-
erated entreaties addressed to it from all quarters, would
absolutely take no precautionary measure to prevent this
scarcity. Perhaps it regarded with satisfaction the pos-
sibility of seeing Mauritius depopulated by famine, and
i of repeopling it by Englishmen, to whom it might cede our
lands. It has not even despatched one frigate out of three
which are now in the harbour, either to Ceylon, to India,
or elsewhere, in order to make known our wants, and to
prevail upon the merchants to ship supplies of rice, which
they would have sold at a large profit. In the meantime,
fortunately, two English and two French vessels, loaded
with rice, have arrived from India. The regulations of
the Custom House do not allow of the importation of
this commodity by foreign ships; but in an emergency.
like that of famine, the colonists imagined that the go-
vernment might grant a special dispensation, as other
governors had done in similar circumstances. The ad--
ministration hesitated during several days, and only
yielded at last to the most urgent entreaties. This im-
portation has brought clown the bag of rice to four dollars.
" To this scourge another has succeeded. Mr. Jeremie
arrived on the 29th of April on board the Jupiter ship of
the line. Though all the colonists had determined be-
forehand to respect the express pleasure of his Majesty,
and to allow their mortal enemy to return among them,
Mr. Finners, the chief commissary of police, purposely
affected to entertain fears for the personal safety of the
new Procureur General; at his landing, which was ef-
fected with precipitation, lie surrounded him with police
guards. You will find all the details of those miters in
the Courier paper which I send you, and it would there-
fore be superfluous to repeat them here. Every thing
contained in that journal is the expression of the unani-
mous opinion of the colonists. Its sentiments are ours.
The facts reported in it are of the most scrupulous accu-
racy, and you and all our frien4 in London may repose
in it the most entire confidence. _

" You will observe that Mr. Jeremie has lost nothing
of his arrogance, and that ire has begun by insult."—
Guardian and Public Ledger.

LONDON GAZETTE.-TUES DAY, SEPT. 3,

INSOLVENTS,

Aug. 28.—Williara Short, Henrietta-street and Compton-street
Brunswiek-square, and South-crescent-mews, Burton-crescent, cabi.
net-maker.

Aug. 31.—Alexander Bowen Hopkins and Philip Burgess, Commer-
cial-place, City-road, tobacconists,
Sept. 9.—John Warwick,_ St, Alhan's, Hertfordshire, wine-dealer

'BANKRUPTS.

William Corp, Tower-street, carpenter.
George Price, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, twist-net-manufacturer.
George Wightman, Manchester, victualler.
Benjamin Shaw, Harlsethorpe, Derbyshire, eandlewiek-manufae-
trer.
William Gilburd, Brighton, wine-merchant.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Barton and Baynes, Livorpool', ship-brokersi----J. and 11r. Phillips,
St.Mary-axe, boot-makers.—Hitchcock and Heyward, Regent-street,
silk-mercers.—J. Trix and S. Ware, Barnstaple, Devonshire, wine-
merchants.—ll. E. Tremlett and J. Lea, Bath, woollen-drapers,—C.
Wright and T. Nalder, Newbury, Berkshire, auctioneers.—J. and E.
Cohen, London.—Richardson and Hunt, Derby, wharfingers. —C.
Baker and J. G. Fox, Southampton, and Memel. Prussia, timber-
merchants.—C. and th Newton, Chester, and Holywell, Flintshire,
small ware-dealers.—A. Lawler and G. Broad, jun., Bedminster, So-
rneraet,hire, linen-drapers.-1 and J. Verlander, Coklicster, sta-
tioners.—W. Johnson and. J. Golding, Tottenham-court-road, opti-
cians.—Crocker and Evans, Bath, linen-drapers.-11aii,, Brothers, and
Co., Leith and Inverkeithin-, and B. Haig and Co.,London, distil-
lers ; as far as regards R. Haig.—Hogg and-Willocks, Montrose, clo-
thiers.
DIVIDENDS.
Sept. 25, S. Gordon, Liverpool, merchant.—Oct. 11, J. Swift, Liver-
pool, white cooper.—Set. 27, C. Baynes, Mitcham, Surrey, carpen-
ter.—Sept. 28, J. A. -Harvey, Ilie_.h-street, St. Giles-in-the-fields,
clothes-salesman.--Sept. 28, J. A. Taylor, George-street, Hanover-
square, boarding-house-keeper.— Sept. 25, L. W. Wright. Wenlock-
basin, near Hoxton, engineer.—Sept. 26, J. Sanford, sen., Stoke New-
ington, coal-merchant.—Sept. 27, J. and W. Slitter, Strand, wax-
chandlers.—Sept. 26, W. Sparks, Chalk-farm, tavern-keeper.—Oct.
2, J. Bent, Bankfoot, near Ilebden.bridge, Yorkshire, cotton-spinner.
—September 26, S. and W. Hartley, Tadcaster, Yorkshire, common-
brewers.—Sept. 24, R. Cockin, Doncaster, maltster.—Sept. 27,.1,
Hartley, Emley-park, Yorkshire, fancy cloth-manufacturer.—Set.
30, J. Winter, Stoke-under-Hamdon, and Preston. Plucknett, So.
mersetshire, glove-manufacturer.
CERTIFICATES—SETT, 24.
J. Goodwin, Manchester, flour-dealer.—W. Woolcott, Exeter, De-
vonshire, grocer.—S. Bonsor, Oxford-street, tallow-chandler.--F.
Taylor, Webber-street, Blackfriars-road, victualler.—S. Castleden,
Three Colts-street, Limehouse, baker.—A. Barrett, York-street, St.
James's-square, wine-merchant.—F. Pout, Surrey-street, Strand, and
Battersea-fields, Surrey, attorney-at-law.—A. Coombs, Bennett's-hill,
Doctors'-commons, earpenter.—S. A. Blake, Plymouth, ironmonger.
—J. Edleston, Manchester, commission-agent.

BRIGHTON, Sept. I.—A strange report 'cached us last evening
of a man having attempted the life of a girl six years old, by ty-
ing a heavy stone round her neck and casting her into the sea off
Seaford. Ile miscreant was observed by the preventive men,
who got the child out and took the man into custody. A long
time elapsed ere the child recovered. She said she had been
stolen from her home at Brighton by the man who attempted to
destroy her. She had no ;narks of violence about her.—A day
or two ago, as some boys were gathering nuts in a field near
Hurstperpoint, a small village about eight miles from this place,
one of them fell from a bough into a ditch, in which he discover-
ed the skeleton of a human being. About six months ago, a
pauper named Jupp was missing from the parish of Hurstper-
point, and the skeleton has been recognised as that of Jupp's,
by a handkerchief which he was in the habit of wearing round his
waist being found fastened to it. He occasionally left the poor-
house, and obtained a scanty subsistmce by begging, and when
he was refused food he usually threatened to starve himself, and
it is supposed he carried his desperate threat into execution. He
had no relations residing in the parish. The bones were put into