The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-10-06 00:00:00

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DEAL, OCT. s.—siiled the Oromocto, Strickland,
from Bombay for the River, and the rest of the
lameward.bound that arrived yesterday.—Arrived
to-day and remain, the Resolution, Smith, from
(Andre& ; Montreal, Service, from Quebec; Ro.
hert, Neilson, from the West Indies, upset the palls
of her windlass, and ha• gone to Ramsgate to re-
pair.—Came down from the Ritter, the Anna Ro-
bertson, Macfarlane, for Liverpool and Calcutta ;
Gambier, --, for Madeira and Africa ; Prince
Regent, Starlets, for Gibraltar ; Plantegeuet, An-
derson, for Jamaica, and remain in the Downs with
the rest of the outward-bound, as before.

PoRTIMOUTFI,OCT.S.—ArriverI his NI tjesty's ship
Cherub, from Africa and Havannah.-- Paper]
op Channel, the General Harris, ---, from Chine ;
sailed April 1, and from St. Ilelena, August 20,
and left the Regalia (transport) there, all well :npoke
the Prince Regent, about fourteen days since ; she
sailed from Bengal, May 12: spoke the Sophia, from
Bombay for London : also spoke the Railer, from
Penang, bound to Gibraltar ; and the John, from
Bengal bound to London, some days since. Arrived
the Catharine, •---, from Havannah, for orders ;
Sir George Prevost, Morrison, from Quebec; and
Integrity, —, froth Amsterdam for Honduras.

PLYMOUTH, OCT. 4.---Ar rived the Frederika Char.
lofts, —, from Rio Janeiro to Stock holm, out 85
days, with loss of two yards, and sustained damage in
her sails. -
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NORTH S WELDS, OCT. 3.—Lest night the Jane,
Caithness, Coat, Itidpit, in coming out of Sunderland,
struck on the bar sad was obliged to ►un for this port,
and in coming in this morning got upon the rock-
head and sunk ; the crew were saved by nor life-beat;
with the assistance of people from the shore, nearly
all her stores have been saved, and part of her cargo
thrown overboad in the hopes of getting her off, but
the sea is so very high that success is doubtful.
Dor ca, OCT. 5. Arrived off this port the Core.,
Hooter, of South Shields, from Jamaica; and the
Narova, Davis, from Mogildo►tt.

Authentic art:flows from the coact of Africa, state
that the Spanhirdc hare tianiportel a greater number
of slaves to the Wert Indies in three months of the
present year, than in the same interval, in any pre-
ceding veer.
Another fanatical sect has sprung up in Simony.
It has its principal sect at Ilort's'adt, near Crimma,
and the leaders of it preach that beautitude can only
be rilitainpd otakii.4 pilpimstes to Jerusalem.
IVO learn hb the tart accounts from India, that the
Msrquia of lltsTlitct has appointed Mr. GERALD
WELLESLEY to be British Resident at the Court of
liourAn.

A peasant in East Gothlnna, being lately employ.
ed in fishing in the river Staging, drew out an eel,
which had fast entwined itself round a gold crown,
richly set with jewels. This crown is of ancient
workmanship ; it is ril present sopposed that it he.
longed to Kind Scr;tsmori I), and that it was lost in
the above.ttatned river MI the retreat after the battle
of Stwengebro, in 1.54/8, which cost him the Swedish
Crown. The peossiot is nu his woy to Stockholm,
with his precious relic, to present it to the KING.
Mrs. HART, the wife of a respectable farmer and
grazier, of Ravetithorpe, its Northamptonshire, was,
last week, delivered of three fine female infants, all
of whom, with the mother, are likely to do well.
The Herring Fishery has commenced on the coast
of Snesex, and the fishermen remark, that those
they have yet token are of a latger size and liner
flavour than for some seasons past.
The Bizth anniversary of the Bristol Missionary
Society was held on Thur.day lost, when upwards
of 5001. was collected at the different churches and
chapels in that city, in aid of this Institution.
The Staffordshire Rejoient of Yeomanry, con.
,isting of nine troops,. is nn duty in Stafford.—
They were inspected by a General Officer on Sa-
turday.
The Earl of Wicimow died, on Sunday week, at
his house in Ruiland.squate, Dublin. His Lordship
is succeeded in his titles end estates by his son, Lord
CLONMO RE. •

A Russian ship of the line and three frigates an-
chored is Copenhagen Roads on the 17th ult.

iOn Saturday morning. the remains of Madame
RvserNt, Who died on Monday last, in her 36th
rear, were removed from the Chevalier's house, in
Pall-mall, and interred in the family vault at St.
iamaa's Church. A number of carriages, bektigitig
to the friends of the deceased, followed the proces-
sion. A hearse and ale !wises conveyed the rfe-
ceaced.

Several pant of Wales, particularly in Cardigan-
shire, have within the last we'd: been visited by tre.
tnendous gales of wind, accompanied by torrents of
rain. On Saturday and Sond4y week, the fall of
rain in Cardiganshire inundated, whole districts. A
new bridge over the river Arth, and two houses in
the village of Pennant, were swept away ; another
house, near a small brook in the vicinity of Aberay-
ron, shared the same fate. Near Tregaron trees
were torn up by the roots, and the west end of
Ilanwenug-bridge was swept away. The flood ex-
tended into Carmarthenshire, especially in the vil-
lages of Llansa we! and Mydrim, all around which
was one expanse of water. The roofs of houses
and buil:ling' in many places were torn away by a
hurricane.

A few days since, the boat of the Scourge Revenue
cruiser, Lieutenant hi*CREA, haring narrowly
watched, from the heights near Bare, a smuggling
vessel sink her contraband goods, instantly proceed•
ed to the place, and succeeded in creeping op one
hundred and thirty casks of spirits, which they de.
posited in the CliSton-house of that port.

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PROTEST :I i aiSCENPANCY— fin
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LORD MAYOR.
[TOOK TIIE DUBLIN EVENING, POST, OCT. 3.1 •
Pursuant to the promise in Thursday's Post, we
iciest a foll report of the proceedings=shall we
call them so?—at the Lord Mayor's dinner, on
Wednesday Pressing. We ariticipate the satisfaction
of the whole Public in the perusal of this City feast.
It is, in truth, the first time that the Public, em-
phatically so called, ever, within the memory of
the oldest b-iing• amongst- Os, participated in the
feelings which predominated at a Civic entertain.
moot. Those pious orgies were always, here'efore,
consecrated to the memory of old and dangeroos
prorti:jitus—dicet:-.7nivy,
o the revival of irritating and insulting
hatred, malice, and all uncharita-
bleness. Times, however, ate changed ;—a new
and a brighter sera is opening upon us. A Lord
Mayor of Dublin—the Bead of a Corporation,
which has been so long the focus of dissension—
which hes so long tried to keep the embers of po-
litical and religious animosity alive which has
sufferer! on Opportunity to pass, and, when oppor-
tunities did ors( present themselves, which created
occasions, to insult sod calumniate the Catholic* of
Ireland—the Chief Magistrate of such a Body
evinced a strength of noisol, sod stowed a maens•
nimity of character, its bearding the Linn in hit
den, and in refusing to sacrifice at the utthely Altar
of Ascendancy. The occasion, too, which Alder-
man M'Kenny chose, was the most hspitv that could
Imo (merited. The Represen,mtive of Misisely.
with
the Chi. (a of his Council, was present. A Secretary,
who has already woo the hearts of all men, assisted
at the celo!.rhtioss of the banquet. The Representa-
tives of the Nobility, the Bench and the Church, sat
around him. It was a proud evening for the Lord
Mayor. Ile has made it so. It was in vain that
the paltry management was at work behind the cur•
fain. It-was in 'silt the Orchestra had been drilled
to insult the principles of the Government end of the
Secretary. It was even lie sails that the Prompter's
voice was audibly heard by the Andieoce, and that
the Chief Actor was instructed not only as to the
past he should play, hut as to his modo of perform.
ing it. Ile would eat take the cue. lie knew the
character too well to he schooled into its business
by any mats. Ile felt that he was representing the
Chief Magitisrate of the second City in the Empire.
Ile felt that it
was a post of honour ; that integrity
and manliness should be the characteristics of the.
scene, and he hail too meth a feeling of respect for
the company that attended, as well RS for himself, to
obey the blots or suggestions of any man, or set of
mess. To drop the metaphor, the Lord Mayor felt
that the only chance which the Corporation had of i
being restored to same degree of respect or considetes
tion, was, if possitutp, to purge it of the had taste
and !gad feeling, in which, perhaps, in es great a de-
gree, is to the several substantial overt arts of its im.
propriety (we do not cho,le to employ a stronger
term), it o esitadecline and fall in popular estimation.
Whatever silly prejudice or hotheaded ignorance may
pretend, theevent will allow that the Lard Mayor, on
this occasiost,proved himself the real friend of the Cor-
poration. But this•is a matter, to us, of iiifling
importance, compared to the example which his
Lordship hns set.' Some of our cotemporaries affect
to treat the importance which we bestow on this
affair as escessive and overweening. Thole wise men
know little of the country, whose affairs they pretend
to discuss. There are no people in Europe, the
Fres', h, perhaps, excepted, on whom externai m-
bola and sentiments, intrinsically it may be, of little
weight, make so lively, and even such lasting im-
pressions as the Irish. For instance, she 66 Immor-
tal Memory,", a toast which a Catholic who loves
freedom might drink with enthusiasm, has become
effetssive to his feelings, associated as it is with an
idea that it is given in a sense hostile to his liberty
and his hope,—nay, it is not too touch to say, that
words, harmless in themselves, have perpetuated the
dissentinos of this country even more than things.—
Any circumstance, therefore, which indicates a revo-
lution of feeling—which shows that even in the strong
hold of prejudice itself an Abdiel was found, and that
he succeeded its forcing " Universal Benevolence" on
these hours of cutsviviality, which were hitherto cons
seciated to the triumphs of bigotry, must be import-
ant. This, w• repeat it, is a matter of serious and
general congratulation to the whole. country. It must
have the effect Of softening down our party asperities;
it muSt have the effect of operatingas 815 eatimplegene-
'rally, and it will prose to the Government of Lord
'Talbot, with what facility the warm hearts of the
People of Ireland may be won--lION snout kindness,
or even liberality, makes them forget past injuries,
and bury angrrand bitter recollections in oblivion.
Independent of the benefits, which the know.
ledge of the hiked fact would be calculated to pro.
duce, it is clear,'thet the orcasion, and the time,
and presence of the Lott' Lieutenant and Mr.
Grant, confer tesi importance on this circUm-
' starter, which it it impossible even for stupidity
itself to overlook. We do not say, for we would ,
not, as we have deilared •on a former occasion, he
the means of raking hopes, which may not be
realised hat Government have it in contemplation to
propose ny measure in favour of Catholic Emanci-
pation to the new Parliament.' But it is clear, that
they wish to rule the People of Ireland more in love
than in fear. It is manifest, that they desire the ab-
sence of all irritating topics—of all angry symbols—,-
of ail those sesitimeusts which may awaken bitter re.
collections, and perpetuate unholy prejudices.-4-Mr.
Grant's Speech (which, by the way, has made more
noise, and a deeper impression, than any aimilar,tio-
cement ever did in Ireland), is a pledge of the good
will of Administration. It has been felt so—stod the
first consequence operating with the good sense, good
feeling, and true Patriotism of the Lord Mayor.
which it has produced,' has been the sinking, would
to God that it may be eternal—of those obnosioute
sentiments, even in the baleen of the Corporation—
their
rallying point and strong holds, which have for
so long a time produced such heart-burning; and io-
dignant recrimination, among the People •of Ireland.
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This we sap—and we swill 'Warn to assert, that
the Public opinion ceincides with our own, is a mat-
ter of great importauce to the peace of the !cinema,
aott.eveq. to the character of the Government.

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