The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-10-10 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENC&

DSAL, Orr. 9.—Arrived and 'sailed for the kelt, the
Redman, ereeinan, from gt. Kitts
.; Regent Packets Calais
from Malaga Lavinia, Sims, from Cape of Good Hope;
also, and remain. the Martha, Thomson. floe St. last;
and Alfred, Wilson, from Ancona. Put back this day sad
ramaio, the Hope, Dean; Swift, —.—. Craig. Elachle,
Taylor; and Hadley', Crockley, 0. B. ships.--Wind,
W.S.W.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 9.—Arrived the Wm. Manning,
Smith, from London ; Arab, Brown, from Batavia; Cato,
Transport, from Halifax ; Snapper, from Africa;
„Marshal Blucher, Davis, Malaga; Ellen Douglas, Rice,
.Sumatra, with the loss of anchor and cable. Sailed the
Kin; George IV. Brisson, isle of France.—Wini,. West.
Pr.xsesum, Uci. 2.—Sailed the Francis, for Teneriffe;
Trafalgar, foe Africa; and Briton, for Constantinople. Off
the Port Abe Ann, Williams, from Palermo; Traveller,
Bownsan,,awnambuco.; and Lord Wellington, bare, from
Malaga.—Wied, S.W.
FALMOUTH, 00. B.7Sailed the Dart for the South
Seas; and the Fanny,ior Lisbon.—Wind, S.W.

The Brilliant, Bolin, irons Guernsey to Southampton, is
onshore on the Warden Lodge, near the Needles.

Romaay, May 31.—The ship Cornwall, Richardson, arrived
here, on her voyage from locks to England, struck on a beak
off Cape Aden. and sustained considerable damage. On the
29th of March at S. 33. P. w. the Cornwall, in the act of tack-
NC struck on a Knell, with only 41 fathoms oo it, 3 fathoms
inside and roundit, ands regular bunk of soundings from i to
93 fathoms, extending, about five miles; IS. 3. N., long.
43.311. E., Cape Aden in sigh►, beating S. N. W. ; a large
white tower above the low coast, bearing N. by eompess; the
beash.k,w, with a heavy swell running on it. The ship attack
repeatedly, and broke the main piece of her rudder. as well as
the pilules. short off; sprung a leak of two feet per bout.
which Increased when it blew hard. After getting the ship off,
made a temporary rudder to three days, with which she got
close to :Smalls, when,, from batty), seas and a gale from the
eastward, the temporary rudder broke; she was obliged to bear
away fur Aden key, where she arrived the middle of April,
steering with the assistance of the seila ; another temporary
redder was then made, which brought the ship to Bombay.—
Twenty men died with fatigue during the voyage, and 17 were
:,Imuled slck the day after ner arrival., four of whom are since
dead.

liatmosis.—We are obliged to paper* the continua-
lion of the article under this head, of which we yesterday
cave the oseitnencement. In the mean time we recommend
to the atteation of thostrwho feel an interest in the subject,
the valuable Note: as Aeronautics, which we have been
fortunately enabled to extrec: from an American publica-
tion, and which we have inserted in the first pegs of
our Paper to-day.

, .
Fitoss Tip COURT CIRCULAR.WIN.DI3OII. OCT. 9.—Tbe
weather being fine this afternoon, hie Majesty, accor•fieg
to his ueual custom, left the Castle soon ,aftor too o'clock
in his phaeton, attended by his suite, for the purpose of
taking an airing in tVindsor•park. Yesterday evening,
Lord and Lady Maryborougis, Lord and Lady Cowper,and
Lord St. Helens, arrived at .tliss Castle at a visit to the
Kieft.

Tae Duke of Clarence, accoutpanied by the Duke of
Saxe Weimar, arrived in town yesterday morning from
Bushey. The Duke of Clarence pp•id a visit to the
Princess Augusta yesterday. The Duke of York, and
the 'Duchess of Kent visited the Princess Augusta on
Wednesday.,

Yesterday the Prince de Polignac (the French Ambassa-
dor) transacted business with 31r. Canning, at the Foreign
Office, Downing-street.
Sir Robert Heron has declined offering himself u a can-
didate to represent this county l The why and the where-
fore are to he found in his own address in another column.
We nought can reason but fro•n what we know,' and it
seems to our limited understandin,s, that Sir Robert does
not suffiriently estimate the power of the preat body of
small freeholders, who, particularly in the lower plus of
the county. are, or rather were, Iris friends almost to a
man. Sir William Inrilby has now declared himself a
candidate—in the Whig interest, way we presume ?—(Stain.
ford News.)
A freeman of Ipswich, an industrious Ishnnrer, since the
late contest there for the bailiwick, has had his feelings so
worked upon, particularly by the idea of a charge of bribery
which he supposed was brought against him, that his in-
tellects because affected, when he declared. that lie would
soon put the charge beyond all doubt, and actually drew
Out of the bank 901. which he deliberately pot into the tire,
and burnt. How alarming would be the effect, if this
malady should spread among those who consented to sell
their birth•rigbt for a mess of pottage.—(Stamlord News.)

MILITARY RIFLE PRACTICII.-1 detachment of the Yager'
of the lion. Artillery Company has received orders to proceed
Wednesday the 15th instant, to the New Practice (Pound at
IVooleach, tor xi...purpose of showing the effe:t of rifle shoot-
ing, both as regards promotive tied celerity ; which w• have
been informed is intended to be dope in tile following manner :
—An equal number of men, all experienced shots, will be
stationed at 250 and 200 yards from a target occupying about
the spice of nine men in line. As soon as the men have taken
their ground, the signal to tire will•be given; the firing will
continue exactly thirty minutes. The target will then be in-
spected by the officers present, and a fac-simile taken of it in
order to its being engraved and presented, in the first instance,
to his Majesty, the Captain General of the Corps, and to the
Field officers. The rifle, as to precision, has ever since its
introduction as a weapon of warfare, been allowed by military
men to be greatly superior to all other smell arms. To unite
celerity with precision )11 the use of this arm, is the desired
object of all rifle service, and notlitag but constant practice in
all weathers, in different situations, and at all distances, within
the power of certain execution, and with superior arms, made
upon scientific priuoples, wil; enable any troops to attain this
object. Whether this degree of perfection hes been attained
by the riflemen of the Honourable Artillery Company, the
public trial, which is about to take place, will show.
SMITHFIELD AND FLEET MARKITIL—Mr. Martin has
lately written to the Lord Mayor, urging his Lordship to
exercise his authority to prevent some of the confusion
which prevails in Smithfield on market days, by preventing
carts, waggons, and ether carriages from passing through
it during the time of the market. To this his Lordship has
replied, that it is not in his power to do so; and that he
apprehends an Act of Parliament, and a new road from the
bottom of Fleet Market to the north road. would be requi-
site to remove the annoyances complained of, and afford
accommodation to the traffic of the metropolis.

REMOTA" or CONVICTS von NSPORTA TION.—
Yesterday morning 25 Convicts. under sentence of trans.
portation for various periods, were removed from Newgate
by a caravan, under a proper escort to Sheerness,
and put on board the Retribution Hulk, preparatory
to their being conveyed to New South Wales ; and
this morning twenty more (mostly boys), were taken from
the said gaol, for the same destination. Among the adults
to day, were Brownian, and Mr. Calmac, the former for
stealing, the latter for receiving,several copies of Lingard's
History of England. the property of Mr. Beasley. Mr
Cahuac,it may be recollecteci,wasaflookseller in Southwark,
I and mach respected. They both appeared much dejecte!.

. , THE STATESMAN.

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ittELANIX

RIGHTS OF SEF ULTURB.•
lititief this hesd,,the Dubai' Booting Poet Oft'beds,
mancludrs a long article with the statement, which We
copied from the Courier of the occurrences at a. •'Mara!
which took place on the 9th of September, is the Clara-
yard of St. Kevin's, Dublin, and subjoins the following 2.
" This affidavit will be contradicted in all its material
parts by the Oentlemen, whose names have been introduced
by the Sexton. The following letter has bras sear ha us
by the Messrs. Redmond, of lluthasines-rosd. One of
these gentlemen was the brother-in-law of the late Mr.
1:0'

" TO THE BOTTOM OP TOM D. M. POST.
"SlR—Having seen in a morning Paper of this .day a
statement of a Conversation said to have occurred, between
Mr. Dunn, the Sexton of St. Kevin's, and ourselves, on the
occasion of his interruption of the usual prayers over the
Olive of the much lamented Arthur D'Arry, we deem it
right to inform the Public, through your Paper, -time the
principal allegations of that statement are wholly un•
founded, and several of the minor facts mach ,misrepre-
seated.
" We take leave further to state, that we iptendovith
the least possible delay, to contradict these 'Ws-statements
on oath.
" Joex MIDNOND, 9, Rethetines Road.
" Rests RIDMOX D, it, Rathoines Road.
" Monday, Sept. 6."

• '
TITHES:PARISH OF CASTLEHATER.—Were•R; there 111
not much peace in store for the unfortunate parish of Cas
tlehaven, notwithstanding the judicial admonition of Mr
Blacker at the close of the late hirestigation. We ground
oar apprehensions on the following circumstances :
At the Petty Sessions held in Skibbereen, on Saturday -
last, when the busiuess of the day was nearly finished, about
four o'clock, the Rev. Mr. Morritt, who acted as chairman,
stood up and requested the Bench would appoint a day in
each week for the special purpose of hearing and deter-
mining tithe asses. He said, that the number at demands
for tithe would be too great to begone through ou the ordina-
ry days fix transacting Magisterial businessoind that unless a
day in the week were exclusively devoted to them, the whole,
could not be determined within the period fixed by law.
He himielf had six hundred summonses prepared, and
ready to be issued against his parishioners.--Mr. Wright,
the agent for the Parishes of Creegh and Tullagh, had a
great °moiler; and Mr. Baldwin, the Magistrate and
Lessee fur the tithes of Abbeyatowry, had also a great
many, And, he added, if the Magistrates declined acting,'
he was resolved to sue for injunctions against them in the
Court of King's Bench.
The Magistrates present were, Capt. O'Driscoll, an
extensive tithe farmer; Mr. Thomas Baldwin, a tithe,
farmer, and Mr. Somerville, who said he was not qualified
to act under the Tithe Bill. The other two gentlemen
said they were ready to act, but expressed a doubt whether
it would be proper to name a day until a fuller Bench
were assembled. On this suggestion the appointment of
a day for the purpose specified was deferred until the fol-
lowing Saturday.
The Rev. Mr. Morritt, we understand, has •gone to
Dublin to lay his grievances before thivernment.--.
(Southern Reporter.)

SHERIFF LAMPREY'S DINNER.
(FROM TES DUBLIN MORNING POST OF WEDNZSDAY.)

Yesterday blr. Lamprey, one of the new Sheriffs, gave
the first official dinner. Air Johnston, the Lord Lieute-
nant's Secretary, C.pt. Ricketts and Capt. Lindsey, Aide-
de-Camps of his Excellency, and other Officers of the
floose!.old were present. •
After the usual routine toasts, the King, the Duke of
York, the Lord Lieutenant, &c. icr., the health of the late
Lord alayor was proposed, and received with applause and
Mose*.

After the toast was drank, Alderman Fleming returned
thanks. He felt that the mu4e in which he had discharged
his duties as Chief Magistrate of the City, had been
differently estimated ; it appeared so, from the difference
of manner in whiCh his health had been received ; but the
approbstion of his conduct, so condescendingly expressed
by the Illustrious Statesman at the head of the Govern-
meat of the country, fully justified him in the libiral line
of conduct be had pursued. In retiring from office be
had the consoling reflection, that be had endeavoured con-
scientiously to discharge his duties, and he trusted that,
for intention at least, his fellow citizens wonid give him
credit.—(Very loud applause and some hisses.)
hlr. Johna•on's health haring born given amidst loud
applause', lie returned thanks in an approuriate speech,
and soon after retired with the other officers of the
Household.

About 120 rrsons dined. Up to the hoer of eleven no
obnoxious toast bad been given.