The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-08-29 00:00:00

TO TeX IDITOR Or Tel STATXIIXAN.

Stit,—To the singular circumstances related as attend-
ing the loss, on the coast of Holland, of the !mane fri-
gate, whose wreck has recently been diseovered, after
the lapse of so many years, may be added another, rela.
five to the insurance of the specie on board of her,
which the saderwriters are now trying to get leave from
the Hatch government to fish up; and well may their
recollections he awakened and acute, for the risk was
taken at a trifiing premium, it heing;in fact, considered
as wo risk at all, and the insurance agents pushed it into
the hands of their particular Jriemds as a mere henna.
Thee each took as mach as lie decently, and without the
ap; MillIOCI) of greediness, could take of so good a thing.
With respect to the decision of the Dutch government
on the chains of the Underwriters, I must say, that 1
think that its rejection of those claim*, whatever other
motive may sway that decision, is more consonant to the
rights of the people titan its allowing them, on the
coned that we were at war for the Orange family, would
be; fee if the people chose to submit to soy other go-
vernateet, what business bad we to make war on them
in favour of that family? He this as it may, if I
were Interested in the wreck, I should be inclined to
follow the jedgment of a prudent friend of mine, and a
man of experience in those affairs. I should be very
shyer witionsrpiar soy more ie sack an affair t for

111.4, fed after Toni neiroaition.
plata the permission r. nested. it will be s miracle if
the expellees do not swallow op more than the Gantte
that will be recovered from the wreck.

Q. U. I. Z.

[The Dutch, it appears, when applied to fur leave to
recover the property on board the sunken wreck of the
Latin', replied that the wreck had happened when Bog.
land was at war with Holland, and therefore the pro.
perty had become their lawful prize. This reply the
Corder terms oncourteous. Whatever the reply may be
termed, it is, however, in the spirit of the decisions in
the English Courts of Law; as the following cue; we
recolleet,wil! sbew:—Previoas to the revolutionary war
with France, a 1 bound from Bordeaux to Guade-
loupe was inured, valid all hazards of Me sea and
oneasy, out and home. The vessel reached her destined
port In safety. but was afterwards seized with others by
the British forces on the capture of theisland. During the
Peace of Amiens' the owners applied to the underwriters
for the sum insured, and payment being refused, they had
recourse to the Court of Common Pleas to enforce their
claim. The case was tried before Lord Alvaoley, and
decided against the owners. Thd grounds of the deci-
sion were these:—One of the objects of war, as his
Lordship sail, was to amiiisitaie the commerce of the
enemy. A Declaration of War, must,therefore, dissolve
all obligations that might have been contracted between
the subjects of the Belligerent States Cu. the protection of
the property, of either; for it could not be allowed that sub.
jects should defeat the purpose of the State, by insuring
that property of which the Government meditated the de-
struction. The cause was again argued before the
Judges, on a writ of error, we believe; hut there was
no hesitation about rejecting the owner's claim. Some
mention was made relative to ordering the premium to
be returned, but as the voyage for which the I had
been inured had heen accomplished in part, the order
was not seade.—Entron.]

Yesterday a Ballot was takes at the East India
lipase for the Election of a Director in the room of
John I nglie,Esq. deemed At six o'clock the gl
were cloud and delivered to the Scrutineers, who re-
ported the Election to have fallen on Cherie' Mills,
jun. Ell.
Tag ANCIINT DISCOVIIID IN THa CHAN-
Nil, or Ins ROTIIER.—Sinee our last antic' of this
singular remnant of aotiquity, it has been perfectly
cleared from the sea sand and mud, so as to render
both its external and internal parts visible, and ie
found to be in a state capable of being floated ; sere-
rat ship carpenters have consequently been employed
to repair and fit it, so that it way be conveyed by wa-
ter to London, where, with the antique remains found
in it, it is intended to exhibit it; for this purpose the
attempt to float it will take place this day. "It will
I indeed be (says our correspondent) a very novel and
astonishing oceorrence, to see a ship which was lost 600
years ago raised from what was once the bottom of theses,
and performiag another voyage units propereleinent."
We fully agree with our correspondent as to the no.
velty and singularity of the occurrence, hut we can•
not'roncur with him, that the 1 of that remote
date which he bas fixed, winch less with others, that it•
is one of the vessels used by the Danes, in their at-
tack on this country in 594. We are more inclined
to adhere to oar former conjeetore, that it is of Dutch
or Danish origin, and was wrecked in the great tem-
pest of 1266, which diverted the It..ther from its
ancient to Its present channel; In fact, time of the
articles fogad in it were not of general use prior to
that period.—(Kenfiets Gazette.)

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