The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-18 00:00:00

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No MA papers have remelted as thil liaising. but
weir, happy to learn that thee of the statimeste
outrage is the Dahlia papers of yesterday, namely, the
secosatof a &apse being shot, as be was smarties
the pest-boy firma limerick to Cork, prey's, frees the
followiag• to be a scandalous fabrication :
Coax, Dec. I I..Coosiderable agitation prevailed
here yesterday, is esasequeace of a report lusidlously
prophesied. aid ladastriossly circulated, that ea the
preceding skied the postman from. Limerick to this
ciay, sad two dragoons who accompanied Ws as i
pareveciff attached at Belly hours blmiatain,
twee Charleville and Haseraile, by a lawless' bats- 11
ditti, who fired at tham irons behind a hedge. shot
one of the dragoons. Aisi were near despatehiag the
'postman. as his bat war described to he perforated,
Iceordieg to *ea ammo& by a single ball, sad to an-
other by several slogs. That it is false, however.
we are happy to stem—false in every partical r, a h 4
we trust those whose duty it is will isstitate a de l
iniairy late the conduct and motive d those woo
iaveated sad circulated so barefaced and lassoes a
falsehood.
The contradiction of this scandalous fabrication is
coutaithed ii two letters, the first received this morn-
lag, at the Cork Post-Office, also the other specially
forwarded to ourselves by the Postmaster of Doeeraile,
whose cambia, as a pablic officer. in tins correcting
aid esstredicting the unfounded stemmata in circa-
''stlwAs desoceisi of retry praiser(Boathern Be-
.)

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SOUTHERN REPORTER.
"Stn-1 shall thank yon to contradict the report of
the post-boy and dragoons being attacked near Rain-
bows Monstain. The boy and one dragoon that came
up from Charleville gave a very improper account; no-
thing of the kind having occurred, or any shots being
fired, except by themselves, through wantonness. On
the report reselling this, a large party of the military
immediately scoured the country with Lord Doneraile, a
Magistrate, and of course returned without any prisoners,
having ascertained that nothing of the kind had taken
place.-1 am, Sir, your very obedient humble rerrant,
" Joux HATCROPT.

" Do neraile Post-ofbce, Dec. 10.
Many other of the accounts we receive of murders
and robberies in Ireland, we doubt not, have no better
foundation than the above. We believe so, because of
the many contradictions that are given to reports of
these kinds in the Irish papers themselves. and which
of course we forbear to repeat. The state of the dis-
turbed districts, however, is really such, as makes ex-
aggeration unnecessary. In the county of Limerick.
neither the exertions of the Magistracy nor of the
military appear to have suppressed the spirit of dis-
•rder. and, though several committals have taken
place, the gates of the prisons are scarcely closed on
offenders when accounts of new offences arrive.

The Parliamentary Commission which lately sat in
Dublin, we understand, means to recommend that the
Union shall be carried into complete effect by the
removal of the commercial restrictions between the
two countries nose in force, and equalising the duties.
We also uederetand that it considers the present ma-
chinery of the public offices is Ireland on a vale mash
toe large, and dispreporthseed to the revenue, and
AM.. so soloommead a Vita lembor
of clerks, the amount of salaries, and other Isms bl
economy and retrenchment.
It is reported that Mr. Freemantle is to be one of
the Lords of the Treasury, and Mr. Henry Wynn. to
fill a high diplomatic mission on the Continent. The
Marquess of Buckingham, it is said, is to be elevated
to the dignity of a Duke.
Doyen, Dec. 17.—Sir Robert Wilson and Mr.
[Ambles arrived here last nitht. with the intention of
embarking this afternoon for Calais, in the Prince
Leopold packet.
A correspondent of the Dundee Advertiser states,
" It is said that a certain clothier in Dunkeld has re-
ceived orders to provide three hundred suits of tartan,
with bonnets and hose complete, for the purpose of
clothing a body of sturdy Highlanders, as a guard for
his most gracious Majesty King George IV. when he
visits that most independent nobleman. John Duke of
Atholl. As the lady who related this, to my know-
ledge, has considerable intercourse with Dunkeld, I
have every reason to believe this information correct."
A correspondent says, that the effects of the dis-
franchisement of the Borough of Grampound upon the
circumstances of the vi-decant electors have become
very apparent. Mr. David Varcoe. a tailor, who is
at present Mayor, of that place. is now confined for
debt, and his petition, as an insolvent debtor, is to be
heard in London, on the 4th of January next. If some
other of the Boroughs of Cornwall, which are not a
whit behind Grampound in venality, were treated in a
similar manner. a material alteration in the situation
of those peewees called Freemen or electors, would
seen be masifest.—(West-Beiton.)
The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 26th alt. states, that
the inhabitants of Melilla, one of the settlements on
the coast of Africa, have seat to the Spanish Cortese
most melancholy account of their situation, and of
that of the prelims, requesting either that they might
be succoured, or that the settlement might be aban-
doned, and themselves brought over to the Peninsula.
Major Storey's company of Royal Artillery, in
Portswonth garrison. is under orders to embark in the
Pilot transport fur the Cape of Good Hope.
The 4th Dragoon Guards are expected to embark
next month for the East Indies.
The officers belonging to the 6th Dragoon Guards,
on leave of absence, are ordered to leave town to join
their regiment, at Cork, forthwith.
We hear that the mail coach from London to Man-
chester is to perform the journey in 20 hours ; cons&
quently the mail from London will arrive In Maccles
field at two o'clock, and in Manchester at four. This
alteration is, we hear, likely to take place in the
course of a week or two. Lighter coaches have been
built for the purpose, and it is said, that the Poet-
office is to make some additional allowance for this
extra speed.—(Liverpool Mercury.)
In consequence of a serious misunderstanding with
some of the leading Members of the Stock Exchange
on the subject of abolishing time bargains. a project
for the erection of a new Stock Exchange has hose
started by the &meatiest& Yesterday a bleeder
took place, and names to a very considerable asonot
i have Wei entered in faveniae the measure. The
Jew party axe strongly against the abolitien of *Wow