The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-10-08 00:00:00

THE ST Al

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• owe of those provisces from the mother-country. We
regret.en.fierd that the ravages of the yellow-fever were
increasing instead.of diminishing at Barcelonetta. The
number of new eases is 77, of deaths 51, of persons '
gored only 4, and of those who remain affected, 325.
The Portuguese papers which have also reached us
to the 23d of September, contain details, of which a
summary is given in another column, of a public fes-
tival which took place at Lisbon, on the 15th ult 7,
when the King laid the first stone of a monument to
perpetuate the memory of the revolution. The utmost
cordiality, it will be observed with pleasure, appears
to have prevailed on that occasion, between the King,
the people and the army.
French papers to the sth inst. have also come to
hand. The different Presidents of the Electoral Col-
leges have been appointed, and have repaired to their
respective districts, but the new elections have not
commenced. The French Chambers are not expected
to open their Session before the 25th of November.
The French Funds have experienced a very consider-
able rise. The Five per Cents. are now 89f. 30c., and
the Bank Actions 1602 f 50c.

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The following is an extract of a letter received by
a gentleman of Leeds, dated Monte Video, July 23,
1b21:—" The Brazilian Government lately sent two
frigates here, to take the second regiment of Portu-
guese Infantry sad some troops of Cavalry. General
Laeoor at the same time received advice. to permit an
assembly of deputies, from every small town in this
province to meet and make the general sentiments of
the people known. Deputies have in consequence
been elected to the number of eighteen—four of which
represent Monte Video, and the whole assembly offered
allegiance to the Portuguese Government, on condition
of their keeping a regular force here sufficient to protect
the Province and the laws: the civil government to
he administered by the natives or citizens. The troops
are la consequence re-landed, and the frigates have
returned to Rio. The people generally are well pleased
with this arrangement, except a few desperate charac-
ters, who would hope to benefit by disorder."
The Central German Committee, which has been sit-
ting these two years at Meats, is expected speedily to
make a final report on the matters referred to it for in•
restigation, immediately after which it will be dis-
solved. The expense attending it has been complained
of by the Court of Baden.
Advicea from Newfoundland to the 12th of Septem-
her were received on Saturday. His Excellency • the
Governor embarked on the 29th of August, on board
his Majesty's ship Grasshopper, Captain Buchan, and
sailed for Labrador. The accounts from Labrador re-
ceived at St. John's, which were to the 23d of August,
stated that more damage than was ever known before
bad been sustained among the vessels which arrived
there this season, owing to the vast quantities of ice
driven on the coast.

Advices from the Havannah notice the arrival of
Don Julian Fernandez de lioldan, as the new Intend-
ant-General. This appointment had taken place in
consequence of the former Intendant having entered
rather too much into the views of the people of that
colony. It will be remembered that the Spanish tariff
has never been carried into operation at Cuba, and we
understand that General de Holdall has orders strictly
to impose the new dnties.
Accounts from Captain Billingtninsen, covnusandet
in the Russian v.)yage of discovery in the Antattic seas,
(as received at Petersburgb from &tiny Bay, his let-
ter dated \lay, 1820,) report that he had discovered
three islands covered with snow and ice, on one of
which was a volcano, lat. 56. S. He announces that
there is no southern continent, or should there be one,
it must be inaccessible from being covered with perpe-
tuil snows, ice, &c.

The following enumeration of a few of the Island•
in the Orecian Archipelago will serve to convey some
idea of its importance generally :—Candia, 160 miles

lung, by from 20 to 30 in breadth ; population
280,000, of whom more than two-thirds are Turks.
' Rhodes contains nearly 30,000 souls, and possesses
one of the finest ports in Europe. The population of
Samos amounts to 60,000, all Greeks ; that of Scio is
estimated at 150,000, of whom there is but a small
proportion of Turks. Lemnos contains 80,000, and
not more than 1000 Alusstilmans ; that of Negropont
is 16,000. Though the population of Milo is scanty,
it is extremely fertile, and has an excellent harbour.
llyrda, with only 20,000 inhabitants, has fitted out
several formidable squadrons, since the commencement
of hostilities, and is celebrated throughout the Medi-
terranean, for the excellence as well as bravery of its
seamen, wl►: sa intrepidity could not have been ex-
ceeded by the heroes of Salamin and Mycale.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. s.—The weather since our last
has been extremely tempestuous on the coast and neigh-
bourhood. On the night of Friday, and during the
whole of Saturday, it blew a heavy gale, the usual ac-
companiment of the equinox. On Sunday and Mon-
day it moderated considerably, but, on Monday night,
again increased. On Tuesday it abated, and the
weather became mild. We have since had a good
deal of humidity in the air, with little sunshine, and
frequent but not heavy rains. A great deal of rain
fell yesterday.
On Saturday night during the heavy swell then en
the river, a small boat very rashly ventured to come on
shore from a coasting vessel, but was swamped, and
three individuals lost their lives. The bodies were
found and conveyed to time receptacle at St. Nicholas's
church.

The following is an extract of a letter from Paris,
dated the 30th :—" The higher circles in Paris are
at this moment appalled by the intelligence of an
event horribly tragical in its character, and the parties
in which are personages well known. I have just
been told, and, unhappily, I cannot doubt the truth of
my information, that 31. de P—, one of the sins of
a distinguished merchant, who, by most honourably
amassing a fortune, has enriched his native place,
Neuchatel, had conceived suspicions of the fidelity of
his wife, Mademoiselle de Their marriage
was the result of mutual inclination. Mademoiselle
de C-- had no fortune, that of U. de P— amounts
to about fire or six millions of francs. The suspi-
cions entertained by M. de P— were, it appears,
but too well founded. Some days ago, desirous of re•
solving a fact which a wise man always leaves in
doubt, be pretended to quit his residence, ►ut promptly
returned, armed with a sabre, and finding his wife and
her lover in a situation which was bat too convincing,
he instantly killed the &reser, and left her lover for
dead.r

THE 1111111AORDINANY MANIAC.
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• Tan EITIAORIIIIIiiT MANIAC, noticed in THE
STATESMAN of Rise lesesdny, has been lately watched
going into the Unitarian Chapel in Essex-street, of
which he had been an unworthy member, until
tempted by apostolical protection to abandon the tenets
of the philosophic and much respected Divine. The
most hardened sinner will sometime or another be ope-
rated on by a qualm of conscience or remorse from a
dread of futurity, which, it is said, so strongly im-
pressed the maniac lately, he was determined to throw
himself at the Reverend Gentleman's feet, ask forgive-
ness, and request absolution for his manifold acts of
hypocricy, falsehood and dissimulation ; but, unfor.
funately, his keepers were on the look out, and
pounced upon him before he could effect the desired
purpose. On their seizing him, he vociferated " you
villains—you robbers—you radicals—you levellers—
you regicides—where's the Horse Guards ?—where's
the gang ?—where's the broken down Manchester rene-
gades?--where's thesubscriptions ?—where's the money?
—ls it come to this with me ?—Has my fellow labourer
the Old Jacobin forsook me ?--where's the Bull, where's
the Beacon ?—Murder, murder 1." One of the trained

bands from the house of ill-fame near the Obelisk,

came up running and cried out, dear Doctor be gentle.
He looked about with a vacant stare and seemed-to.

feel comfort at being called Doctor. At the moment tie
higler was passing with a basket of ducks on his head,
one obstroperous elf from the basket cried, quack,
quack, quack—upon which, the enfuriated manias be-
came ungovernable, and broke loose through the
Temple, where he was purued by a mob of boys,
calling out stop thief ; until like a tortured Ox, he
flung himself into a shop on the north side of Fleet;
street, where he got the Rev. Fidler to play up
" s-mallelieff, s-mallelilu," to which the Doctor added
" Gre ma chret,inceet Paddy whack." The straight
waistcoat being happily placed on, be was again trot-
quil ; he asked for the subscription list; upon findirtt it
did not fill up, and that rascality was on the wane4te
exclaimed, d—n the b—d gang, they are all turaed
Radicals, there is not as much as will pay me 2/. 2s. a
column, besides how are we to dispose of all the clerks
and informers from Manchester, the beggarly draper,
and Stickji,ot, the set, I'll turn Jacobin once more, and
send them to Van Dieman's land, or the Cape ofliad

Hope. The Reverend Fidler, then played, Alley
Croker, which seemed to soothe, and he roared " music
has charms to soothe the savage —," where's the
money ; not that my idol ; have I not matched
through the ordeal, to obtain it, have I not; what have
I not done r The Reverend Fidler. seeing the lit
coming on, at once played up Moll be the We'd, which
so electrified the maniac that he burst forth into a horse
laugh, and as a matter of course fell into histerics,
where we'll leave him kicking. and the treimed Gonda
in tribulation. One run for the Doctor towards the
Home Office, another towards the Stamp Office fisi red
ink, a third to the Treasury for a Sovereign suptie,
so often and so succesefully tried upon the Doctor in
these disorders. By an application of vinegar to his
temples and eul rolotik to leis nostrils, he breathed•
more freely and began to speak in as inarticulate
manner. He'd cry. that is tba. gbest,ig, Howe, no.
'di Francis, take 'm away! bleeder, murder!' How-
ever we might despise the wicked dispositions of the
ma►►iac, the feelings of human nature forced us to
quit a scene so distressing to those minds who dare
think fur themselves, and the frailties of our unfor-
tunate composition.

His Majesty, it is expected, will open the next Ses-
sion of Parliament in great state. The state coach,
which has undergone a variety of improvements, and
its beautiful paintings by Cipriani cleaned and re
touched where necessary, is now complete, and with
the superb harness, is in the Royal Mews. The body
of the carriage has resumed its original form, being
open in both front and sides, with elegant plate glass
windows, so that his Majesty's person will he distinctly
seen by the spectators in going to and returning from
the House of Peers.

The Royal squadron did not return to Portsmouth
until Wednesday last. After being detained in the
Downs by strong south-west winds nearly a week, the
ships put to sea with rather moderate breezes, intend-
ing, by the aid of the tides, to beat their way back to
Spithead. On Tuesday night, whilst thus employed
on the coast of Sussex, it being very dark and stormy,
the Royal George was nearly run down by the Active;
it was the narrowest escape that could possibly happen.
The Royal Oeorge yacht, Commodore the Hon. Sir
Charles Paget, came immediately into Portsmouth har-
bour to be re-equipped, and kept in a state of constant
readiness to proceed again to Calais, to convey his Ma-
jesty home.
Tug LATE Quart's HOUIIIIIOLII.—AII the servants
of the late Queen were discharged on Saturday. They
received the amount of what was due to them up to
Michaelmas-day. The Executors of her late Majesty,
however privately disposed, could, of course, do no
more for them, and no intimation was given, on the
part of the Administration, that any gratuity would
be given to them. It has been cestontaryon a similar
breaking up of any Royal Establishment, to allow the
discharged servants, if not better provided for, a year's
wages in addition to what was actually due to them ;
but it seems that in the present instance the custom
is to be honoured in the breach and not in the observ-
ance.

The equestrian statue of his late Majesty, George
the Third, may shortly be expected to be added to the
other ornaments of the town. We perceive, that the
spot upon which it is intended to be erected, in Lon-
don-road, is now being enclosed. to enable the work-
men to proceed without interruption.
Th. Pier of Sespension, jut completed, near New-
haven, was proved last week, by the weight of twenty-
one lons being placed between the different points of
suspension, and the weight of nearly 500 persons
who passed over the arches at the time of the cx periment.
DIFFICULT DIT:SollIe time ago a wager was laid
that Baron de Strogonoff would be strangled at Con-
stantinople. The Baron, on being informed of the
circumstance, said, very coolly, " I'll take double the
amount on the same wager, but where shall 1 direct
the money to be brought to me in cam I win."
There is a family la Montreal the father of which
is a Frenchman, the mother a Russia', the eldest
child a Make*, the ensoad a Sicilian, the third a Spa-
niard and the fourth a Canadian.