The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-02 00:00:00

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okorsisice the last Diet, aid en the general "stifltined
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~ ropes of the kingdom. By this it appears, that a
. Treaty of Commerce has been concluded between
'Sweden and the United States, and a Trinity with
' 'Russia respecting the commercial relations between,
t Sweden and Finland her former province. Prussia
burned' considerable progress in paying op the sums
' agreed upon teen indemnity to Sweden for the loss of
• poserania. The Swedish Revenue of Customs bee
• Improved, and her foreign debt has every where beta
discharged or diminished. The Prince of ORA !CGS has
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hoes reinvested le his military office and titles. This
messeri is said to have given the military great sails-
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faction.

WINDSOR, DEC. 31.--Tuesday her MAJESTY FL
sited the Kno, and *lnwards took 1111 airing throaeh
Slough, Datghett, &c. accompanied by the Nutt-
cessEs. The same day the Duke of CLARENCE Air.
rived on a visit to his Royal Mother. le the even-
log her MAJESTY had a select party at the Castle.—
This morning, after breakfast, the QUEEN and Par s-
eeing went to Frogmore. The Duke of CLARENCE
left us ro.day for Bushey.
BRIGHTON, Deo. 30.—At fotir o'clock this after.
noon a Privy Council was held at the Pavilion. Be.
sides the PRINCE REGENT, there were present the
Duke of You, the Marquises of HERTFORD and
CHOLMONDELEY, the girl of LIVERPOOL, Viscount
CASTLEREAGH, Lord STEWART, and Sir B. BLOOM.
emu. Vicount CHETWYND arrived early in the
afternoon, and attended the Council as Clerk in Ordi-
nary. Mr. LEACH was sworn into office as Vice-
Chancellor. Sir W. A'Couav, our Minister at the
Court of the Two Sicilies, attended the Council.
After thi-Council had concluded their deliberations,
they dined with the REGENT. The Duke of You
remains at the Pavilion until Saturday neat.
The Duke of DEVONSHIRE, when in Russia, paid
great attention to the mineral productions of that
Empire, and became the purchaser of select specimens
that the oldest collector might covet ; amongst which
are groups of topazes, and one detached, near four
inches diameter • aqua marinas of great rarity, &c.
On the road his Grace frequently got out of his car-
riage to pick up curious rock specimens, and to ob-
serve the geology of the country. This is a good
and meritorous trait in the character of a young
nobleman, who possesses such immense mineral trea-
sons in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Ireland-, &c.
The Duke and Duchess of BEDFORD are shortly
expected at Wobourn Abbey, from Taviatock-House,
Devonshire.
• For the information of -many attains friends of
Mr. JOSIAH PASTAN, late of Princes-street, we
barb the pleasure to inform them that he is arrived
• from Ostend, in the Neptune, Captain STRANNACH.
GENERAL PAER—di having been declared in the
Philadelphia Democratic Press, that the patriot
. General Pan is a black man, a writer in the New
York Columbian contradicts the assertion, and says,
46 He is a white, born iu Merida, the capital of the
province to which it gives its name. It was he that
. destroyed the greatest part of Morillo's forces, in
his march from Santa Fe to the province of Vene-
zuela. Ile now commands the provinces that had
"been freed by the valour of his arms, via. Baines,
Merida, Truzillo, and Cucuta."
A coinage of crowns or five-shilling pieces will
commence in the course of a few days at the Mint.
• On one side will be a head of Ills MAJESTY, and on
the reverse the figures of-St. George and the Dragon.
The number to be struck in the first instance will be
600,000 , when that number is completed, they are
to be issued to the Bank, which, it is said, will be
in about a month of five weeks' time.
On Tuesday afternoon, as Mr. Marbh, jun. of Mar.
gate, was skating on the canal, in St. James's-park,
the ice gave way with him, and had it not been for
the prompt assistance of the Humane Society, le
would certainly have been drowned.
DEAL, JAM.' lon...Sailed last night the Centotion,
Mead, for Bengal, and •this morning, the home-
ward.bound, for the Rivei.—Arrived the Isaac
Todd, from Quebec.
• PENZANCE, DEC. 30.—Arrived the William and
Ann, Slacombe, from St. (Jibes, leaky and damaged.
bILYORD, DEC. 29.—Arrived the Henry, Ritchey,
from St. John's, Newfoundland, Kith lots of• bow.'
.ttprit and tiller, foretop-mist sprung, pad of shit'
• cargo thrown overboard, and is otherwise. damaged
and leaky. It is supposed she melt discharge to re-
pair. Also arrived the Margaret, orpIIMAIL, from
London, with lobs of main-sail, fore-sail, and gibb ;
and the Manua, Jones, from Louden for Liverpool,
with her cargo shifted, and her pumps chocked.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. I.—Arrived the Hunter, Am.
brose, from London for St. Thomas's.—Sailed the
Ann Purchase, fur Madeira and Barbadoes ; and
his ,Ann,
ship Rosario, on a cruize.—The tol-
-1 Jolting East Indiamen passed down Channel this
morning, with a fine breeze from the N. E. viz. the
Thomas Coatis, Marquis of Hontley, Lord Lyn-
dock, Earl Balcarras, Buckinghamshire, and. Cau-
sing.
GRAVESEND, JAN. I.—Arrived the Zeta', Chil.
ton, from Pernambuco; Britannia, Anderson, from
Havre ; Venerable, George, from Dublin; Martha,
jlartlett, from Malaga ; Albion, Richmond, from
Getteithurgh ; Regent, Colder, from Seville; Tearer,
Rogers, from Rouen; Polly, Moiham, from ditto ;
Avon, Jones from Dublin; Friendship, Walter,
Ito Waterford; Jane, Taylor, from Cork •, Maria,
Ltveigle, from Newfoundland; Borodino, from the
Cate.—Sailed the Intrepid, John Johnson, for Val.
Perlin and Bengal ; Queeo, W. Fiot, for Jamaica ;
Chiles, R. West, for Savannah; and Sam, Juba
Ayle, for Limerick.

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