The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-02-13 00:00:00

Mails front ',awake, tit thte istb of December,
esntain long aernents of the laws of the late her..
Wan* in Noennbon
Ili, Grace to. Doke of Manchester has issued •
Proclamation for the opening of the posts of Jamaica
to vowels of all nations, for the specs of three is.
lender month', fur the importation of Dour, rice,
itc. swine to the destruction done is the late hurri-
canes. Private letters from Bermuda state that
kited still to remain In a dreadful sickly state ; tho
fever contineed to rage with great fury; the deaths
were more than had been known for many years. At
the date of the last advice, (the ?Ilth of November)
siie weather had become cooler, and it ores especial
nonld have an effect of moderating the disorder.
Aceoents bed been received at Jamaica from Ow
Spanish Main, stating, that a severe engagement ha 4
taken place, in which General Maids had been
killed, bet the Insurgent army bad met with con-
siderable loos. On the 24th of November tbere
were 32 merchant vessels, consisting of English,
French, Ditch, and Awakens, in the halfwit of
Angostura, and wren more were met in the river
Oronoko destined for the same place.
, A vole;no had been discovered on Prince Georp's
estate, in the nvighbnorhood of the Indian River, in
the perish of St. John : it was represented as the
geeeteet curiosity of nature: irs bright from the bass
to the top was sit feet; circumference of the bans,
a fief ; ditto; Is Ow top, sloe feet lye inches : ditto,
it the openleg, two foot two inches.
We have received &Alma Casettes to the let of
January. Greet distress prevailed at Nano, en
amount of the destruction by the late dreadful fire.
' Some severe gales of wind bad been elperienced at
the Bahama islands In December; bat ,ent material
damege had been sustained. A seJtoisset of St. Sal-
vador bad been wrecked on the east ea of Elec.
theta ; the vessel, vireo, and all hands lost. Tho
American schooner I.iley, from Port.oe.Prince, was
wrecked off hums; vessel 'loll, Master and crew
saved.

EPROM Tat 11101',U. BAHAMA GACCTTIC, OF DtC. 26.]
By an arrival from ilavennth we learn, that the
fosergen privateers were blockadrog that pert, end
there was no force there adeqeate to the task oecop-
ing with then.. They boarded every vessel that came
in or oat of the hatboer. A large Spanish ship had
been taken po ion of by their:. add it was nkl
the whole crew were murdered, 'Odd the vessel sank.,
This bad treated the greatest aline at ilavennah, sad
considerable degree of inter* Incited 'moil kite
inhabitants for The protection 011ie trade.
Air Ret bud been patletrif Nassau, deciarinc
,all slaves., not being actual withal of Africa, should
be deemed and tbien to be CSMU, ind sebject to
a tax, and that to be paid 441111*min of the said
..11,
slaves.

-It was ieported at Nam', dist his Majesty's
schooner Spind4tbet salted for Calm on the 10th
December,: bat hist no tees; and all beads
perished. •
!tagged
_nW. P. was imam a blockade by e.
set of Oradea Noe% enterar of abler had landed,
lotandered trod bmrderod several of tin
iabalaittneiL '" "" •
A dnititidOnibtflorolte Mick Savannah die latter
load of Xhieidilki nu damage occasioned is old-
heated to. lie •borebrds of 000,000 dollars. An
usense quantity of cotton,' sager, end rice, was
tbrirwi into the Ater ; istedkieses afirtlifireo lives
WPM lost. Thu greatest inifferieri sere plautnie, and
' those that had store,.

AFRICA.

Scats* Liaise, Dcc. at. hippy to my,
that Si, Georg* Collier has arrived on the coast, in
his hlajeety's ship Tartar; sad we sincerelythopo-ho
will prove successful, not only In clearing abates's,
hem the nem pirates which have infitelnk the
whole Ilste of Coast from hence to Unmet, otorlarg that
last two yams, bat that we shall bear so u4re he
Slave Trade, which, doting the same period,'"has
been carried nn with success and facility, by the Spa-
niards, Fiesch, awl Portal/nese, (or want of a mats
of war.
Since February, 1818, no vessel of war has ap-
peared at the lit itish settlements on the Gold Coast
the last arrival of any form U.S his ii•jesty's Whip
Semiramis, Commodore Sir J/11104 Yoe; Airco whom
return the slave shirr have anchored vent caul/doss