The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-25 00:00:00

NRIV ZEALAND.

On Monday (yesterday se'nnight) his Majesty's
store-ship Coromandel, Mr. James Downie, Master, ar-
il% ed from New South Wale•, last from Mercury Bay,
New Zealand, with a cargo of timber, hissing had a
pleasant direct passage thence, round Cape Horn, of
only fifteen weeks, without a day's foul wind. She is
come into the harbour to unload the timber, which is a
species of fir, of similar appearance to the Amerrcan
pitch pine (called by the natives Cowdie) but it is
strong as well as light, and is peculiarly well adapted
to top-masts of line-of-battle ships. A detachment of
the 82d regiment, which went out to cut the timber,
has lauded at Fort Cumberland. The natives of New
Zealand behaved with remarkable civility to the officers
and crew of the Coromandel ; one of the officers and
his servant made an excursion of three hundred miles
into the interior, and was in every part treated with
attention and respect. The natives have made very
evident improvement in the scale of civilisation, from
their intercourse with the missionaries; one proof
which was not quite so agreeable to our people—they
barter in trade now for value in gold and silver coin,
and not for pieces of lead and copper, and common or-
nanmental trinkets, as they used. it is a very fine
island, and, as the natives entertain just and honour-
able notions of the character of British officers, all its
useful productions may be easily obtained. There was
no appearance whatever, at any of the places visited,
of canibalism, or of those disgusting sensual practices
which formerly prevailed. The Coromandel left Port
Jackson in July last, when the colony was most ra-
pidly improving in agricalture, commerce, and evin in
many of the refinements of society.—(Homphire Te-
legraph.)

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CHN►TYIS DAr.-lloliday at the Public Offices.

LONDON?
TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1821.

Accounts have been received this morning, that the
Light House of Dungeness has been struck by light-
ning on the 22d inst., and shivered to pieces.

Extract of a letter from Jamaica, dated Nov. 2 :
An application has been made to Rear Admiral Sir C.
Rowley to grant a convey to the Trade, bound to
Santa ilartha and Savattilla, to sail frorn Port Royal,
from the 18th to the 20th inst. The Rear
Admiral, in reply, states, that he has not at
present a vessel of war to spare, but the first
that arrives will he ordered for that service.
The Spanish brig Maipo, from Lima to Cadiz with a
considerable MIM.11) specie on board was taker., to thil
Southward of Rio Janerki, by a Corvette of 22-gtns,•
under the Buenos Ayres 14. On the 2.5 th of June,
the Chilian squadron under Lord Cochrane accotopa.
flied by five ships, and several transports, made an at.
tack on the port of Callao, which surrendered after
three hours resist►nce. Three Spanish frigates, one
of 42 guns, and the others 314 t.vo armed brigs,
and several merchantmen fell into his Lordship's
possession; and property to a large amount WAS taken.
By the Sybille we learn that a considerable body of
Patriots had appeared otf Vera Cruz, and that the
Vice Roy had gone to Coolova to meet their Com-
mander, with a view of entering into some amicable
arrangement. Orders ►were sent by him to the' lio-
vernor of Vera Cruz to open the gates and admit the
troops, but this was refused. Previously to the sailing
of the Sybille fiom naval-mall, accounts were received
of the Patriots having obtained possession of Vera
Crux, and Campeacity would soon declare in favour of
their independence.

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Accounts received from P:tris represent the Mli►.istry
as t►ot yet perfectly settled. 'the King, who, it is
understood reluctantly yielded to the change, is said
to be strongly attached to the Duhe Decazes, and in-
clined to introduce him into such a situation in the
Cabinet as would neutralize the Ultra senti►nents of
the Ministers. The removal of the Duke de Richelieu
is generally thought to he unrovonrable to the Rus-
sian interest. and is reported to have chagrined the
Russian Ambassador.

The Dublin papers receive) this morning contain
a brief report, which we have inserted in another Co.
Imo, of the proceedings which took place at Lime-
rick, under the Special Commission on 1 hursday.
We are happy to have no oceasision to add any fresh
accounts of outrage, to the melancholy intelligence of
the various other hinds from that unfor►unate part of
the country.

In our last page we have inserted, from the
provincial journals received this week, some ac-
counts of the storms and rains which have prevailed
for some time past, in different districts of tke king.
dom. To this we had to add an account, brought
by post to-day, of one of the effects of the tempest
that occurred on the coast of Bent on Saturday.

—ln many places it is a common question, did you
ever know such weather ? The quantity of rain, in-
deed, appears to be unusually great, but heavy gales
and showers are always found to occur in winters that
are extraordinarily mild. Many of our readers will
remember that this was the case in that winter when
Aylmiral CHRISTIAN'S fleet made so many perilous at-
tempts to proceed down Channel fur the Vest Indies ;
and some of them will also recollect that the winter
was similar, when the copper roof of the Six Clerks-
office, in Chancery-lane, was carried off by a tempest.
That occurrence took place too at a like season of the
year, December 23d, 1790, and the hurricane which
then swept across the whole island from the North-
west,and marked its path with havoc, was accompanied
with torrents of rain and bail, and with the loudest
thunder and most vivid lightning ever witnessed in
inglanal in winter.—Among the memorabilia of this
winter, chequered as it has been with clouds and
storms, are the mildness, serenity, and brilliancy of
the present (Christmas) Day.

A Requisition to the Lord Mayor, from the inha-
bitants and Householders of Dublin, is in the course
of Signature calling on his Lordship to convene a
Meeting fur the purpose of addressing Mr. Grant.—
(Dublin Evening Post.)
The Mayor of Curk has complied with a requisi-
tion fur an application to Parliament to repeal the Win-
dow Tax.
The Magistrates of the county of Tipperary agreed
unanimously, at a late meeting, to present a memorial
to Marquess Wellesley, praying the immediate renewal
of the Insurrection Act.
The " Aldermen of Skinner's Alley" had a Meeting
on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of voting an
Address to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant.—
(Deblia Paper.)
It is Mr. Gordon, of Cairness, who has been ap-
pointed by the Greeks to the important command of
the fortress of Tripolis:a, having 1500 men under his
orders. In a letter from Corfu, in the French papers;
be is named Sir Thomas Gordon, and is said to have
arrived in the Peloponesus in the beginning of Aug.,
with a supply of arms and ammunition, and accompa-
nied by many English and French officers.—(Edin-
burgh Star.)

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Limeatex, Dee2o.—This morning Baron iteisti.

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tAxo and Mr. Justice Mows toek their seats. on
Bench a little after nine o'clock. ,
Martin Grady and John Grady were then placed
at the Bar. They were indicted for feloniously taking
a sword from Edward Morgan, at Dunmoylan, ou the
10th of August last.
David Carton, John Diatom, and John Mullane,
were then placed at the Bar and indicted, for that they
did, on the 25th of November, feloniously break into
the house of.lehn Reilly, of Church town, in order to
compel him to quit the place, and fur assaulting the
said John Reilly. The prisoners pleaded not guilty.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated to the Court, that,
in consequence of the youth of the prisoner David
Carton, it was not the intention to prosecute him, con-
ceiving he must have been misled.
The other two men were found guilty.
Daring the trial it transpired, th..t a subscription
purse had been opened at Newcastle, for the defence
of such men as might be taken and bronght to trial
for crimes connected with the disturbances of that
part of the country.

The reading of the fGllowing document, which was
identified by one of the witnesses, excited great laugh.

John Reilly, 1 desire you to quit this place, or else
you may expect the same usage Sparling got : and I warn
all persons to hold no communication with John Reilly,
or they will be used as Spilling was. I desire you,
John Woods, to quit Reilly 's company, which you were
noticed before; and if you do not, you will be tried by
the Canonical Laws, established in the Reign of Queen
A tine.

(Signed)

(7aptain JOHN ROCK,
Ranger of the Roads.

The following pri ;oners were then placed at the Bar :
John Ward, Patrick Brown, Thomas Lee, Morgan
Organ, George D' Arco, Pat. Enright, Thomas Kea,
Daniel Keef, John Finn, ;tad Pat. Cregan.

The prisoners were indicted under the White Boy
Act, for unlawfully assembling, and for assaulting Ca-
therine Hassell, and pleaded not guilty.
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The prisoners were acquitted on the capital counts,
hut found guilty of the assault.

Mr.Goulburn arrived in Dublin on Thursday evening,
and the Marquess of Wellesley wasexpected on Wedues•
day. A programme of the ceremonial which will be ob-
served on his Lordship's landing at the Pigeon Ilouse.
and the procession to the Castle, has been issued from
the Mice of rms. His Excellency Earl Taihot will bold
an Undress Levee at the Castle, on 'Thursday, prepa-
ratory to his departure from Ireland.
Letters from Bombay mention that the new teak-
built ship Ganges, of ti 4 guns, was to be commissioned
by Captain F. A. Collier, and all the officers and men
of the Liverpool would he turned over to her, on the
return of that ship from the Persian Gulf, which was
expected in January. The Liverpool will he broken
up. The Ganges may be expected in Ettglend in May.
IV. Balhatchest, Esq. Secretary to Sir 11. Blackwood,
had been appointed Purser of her.
Commodore the Hon. Sir Chas. Paget is appointed
to command his Majesty's personal frigate-yacht the
Apollo, with a complement of 300 men ; and Capt. the
Hon. Thos. Medea Capel, C.B. (brother of the Earl of
Essex,) is appointed to command the Royal George
yacht, on her usualestablishment. The Apollo yacht
is to be fitted in every respect as the Royal George.

The Ifith Lancers have received orders to take an-
other route. They are not to go to India till 1823, i n
consequence of the disterbances in Ireland.
We understand that it is ietended to celebrate the
anniversary of his Majesty's Accession to the Throne
on the 29th of January nest, by a Public Dinner at
the City of London Tavern, and that a list of Stewards
is forming in the City for that purpose.—(Courier.)
We understand that fifteen clerks were yesterday
discharged from the Navy Office. They are to re-
reive a moderate pension, according to their length of
services. A number of clerks, it is said, will be dis-
charged from all the Departments.
Na "'Twirls Witte CLon.—On Monday last, the
Nantwich branch of the Whig Club of Cheshire, and
neighbouring Counties, held their first meeting at the
Crown Inn, Nantwich. Amongst the company were,
Lord Crewe, Mr. Toilet, Mr. E. D. Davenport, Mr.
George Wilbraham, and many other gentlemen of dis-
tinction in the political world. (The Society, it was
resolved, should henceforth be called the " Whig
Club of the town and neighbourhood of Nantwich.")—
Lord Crewe was in the Chair, and Mr. Toilet (in the
unavoidable absence of his son, Mr. Wickstead) in the
vice chair. Many able and constitutional speeches
were delivered (of which we regret our limits will
not permit us an abstract) elucidating the present cir-
cumstances of the country ; and in which, Mr. Toilet,
and Mr. Wilbraham, were forcible and eloquent. The
Chester Guardian concludes a lengthy, and well-drawn
report of the proceedings, by observing, "it was
really a feast of intellect, as well as (thanks to our
host) a feast of good things, and it will long be re-
membered as a proud day fur Nantwich.
A meeting of agriculturists took place at Stow-on-
the-Wok], on the Sth inst. to petition Parliament for
relief. The principles adopted in the resolutions
somewhat differ from those of our late county
meeting: after shewing the distress to which the
Farmer is reduced, the 3d resolution says—" It is
we think absolutely necessary the currency should be
increased, and such laws enacted that will preclude
the feasibility of an importation of -raw produce,
similar to that produced on our own soil, except in
times of absolute necessity. That if this system
should continue to be rejected, it is then imlispen-
'ably necessary that the burtisen should he throws
on the real property of the country, and not on
industry as is too much the case at present, by •
heavy Property Tax, or by one grand and progressive
scale 'of sacrifice according to the property possessed,
pay off half the National Debt, which would so in-
crease the value of the remaining property. that there
would shortly be but little loss, or some other
plan that will throw the barthen on the real capital
of the country."