The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-09-13 00:00:00

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A Portsmouth letter states, that., OA Ceplsaias,
which arrived there on Saturday eight hest, confirms
the account given of the action between the Arun
sad the American ship. The Cep/tales bad spoken
t►e Tartarus, Capt. Pascoe, off the coast of Ire.
lead, who informed tier that the Avon, of 18 guns,
bad engaged an American ship of war, supposed to
be the Wasp, on the night of the 1.4 inst. and after
a desperate battle (which was so closely fought that
the muzzles of the guns of both ships frequently
toadied, and prevented the rammers and sponges
from being used), the Aron went down. Sne hid
her mainmast shut away in the action. This account
save, a few initiates before the tital event, Captain
Arbuthnot called out that he had surrendered, as the
ship was going down. The Americans, however,
did not regard this.
The Cmtilian, Capt. Braimer, saw the action, but
Could not assist in it ; she got up to the wreck in
time to take off the remaining part of the crew,
amounting to about 40 persons ; and in passing the
American she fired a broadside into her stern, which
the enemy did not return, nor did the Castilian af-
terwards see her. T:le night was dark and bois-
terous. The Cartiliun proceeded to Cork. The
Wasp (and there is'every reason to suppose that to
hAve been the vessel) sunk the Reindeer sloop after
a nstee similarly contested, and afterwards went to
• L'Orieut to refit.

Mr. WIJITIMAD came to town on Saturday, in
she confident espeetition of finding Drury-lane
Theatre comptete. He was, of course, greatly dis-
appointed ; but the important alterations that have
taken place, and the magnificent appearance of the
tool ensJorble (oven in the present state) came in aid
of the architect, and we are assured he at length
enr*i•ell himself satisfied of the impossibility of
opening this evening, as it was orignally intended,
still* Nat eJtraordinary eclat which is anticipated on
Saturday nest, when it will assuredly open.

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THE SIIIP'4 Cons A GREAT OfFlCEß.—According
in au eIA Jt tAed form in the nary; when a ship is
paid otf, uo officer must quit the port or consider
himself discharged, until the pennant is struck,
which can be done only by the cook, as the last offi.
ter, at sunset : and should he be absent, no other
person can perform the °lce, however desirous the
officers may be of taking their departure, and al-
though there may not be a single seaman or marine
fistbuard. A c,urious instance of this took place last
peek, at Plymouth, on the Caledonia's being paid
on: When the time arrived for hauling down the
pennant, no cook could be found, from which cause
the officers were under the necessity of waiting a day
or two, until he made his appearance.

• Amongst the last arrivals in this country from
France is lieutenant. General the Honourable-We
WC ILLAGUAY, of the 39th regiment, who d -
guitihed himself in the late enricements asist
SOULT, near Bayonne, and on the banks of• he
Adoar. This distinguished Officer was, for the last
twenty years, fighting in all parts of the globe in de.
fence of his King and Country. - Ile is brother to
one illustrious countryman Vi'count 14tsmotte, and
wephew to that staunch patriot, the Right Boa.
6 MUMS POM01111111.—(DNI•1ik !Crewing Post-.)

The new Birracks for the Life Guards are to be
begun. upon immediately in the Regent's Park. It
Is understood that henceforth the Captains of Troops
will enjoy the rank of Lieutenant-Colonels in the
tney, and the Lieutenants that of Captains, which
Wll .place the Officers of Once regiments .on a foot-
tiiii 's*it the Officers of other household troops in
his chantey, as well es with those of every other
Court of Europe.
_• As esowstous Foim!—A physefur, or spermaceti
fish acne calod .a, or round-headed cachula species,
pros killed between Baidnyle and Ilowth on Tuesday
evening, by Mr. George Smith. This Gentleman,
accompanied hb 4 boy, was engaged in fishing when
It made its appearance. Bs. means of a gond musket
be inflicted in a short time sn many wounds that the
monster was quite disabled, and the falling, of the
Side left it half usec..worell nu the strand. It measures
32 feet in length and 21 in breadth, which exceeds by
Duch the dimensions of any fist' of this species,
*lick UM yet appeared in thn'e Vas.
i OA Sunday morning sesanight, a rick of hay, be-
itsagilog to Sir Wifil Hewshttote, of Mursley, ifatits,
Ity over heating, Wok ire,:entredmtaunicated to three
others arljoitti lig, *kith Were entirely consumed. The
deneigeis estimated at'tensely MI.
lolls.,
descoverv,• hitt/4,5611g to the geologist, was
made en Monday by some workmen, employ-
'enti'talting away part of Bunker's-hill, in the
.4.l4k,yerd at Plymouth. More than 20 feet below
*Tie surface, they reined a laige ssumber.of petrified
'cockle and other sbella imtseddecfle the solid rock,
Which must hive lain there.ever since the i)eluge, as
no pert of the tlock.yard 'could hay* been subject to
e influence of the sea, before its foundation, from
e nature of the ground, which then consisted of
*Us or high rocks, considerably above the level of
lite tide.
i. BATH, SEPT. fl.-s-On Saturday night, is James
Sent; a coal-carrier, of Clutton, was retorning from
this city on the upper Bristol road, he was met,
urban riding in his cart, and on the. wren side of
(he road, by a young gentleman on horseback, who
'demounted his name; which the other, with violent
dihnse,..refsned giving. The gentleman endeavour-
ing to read it on the front of the cart, was prevented
by Hunt, who, then at the foot of the New-bridge
"till, leaped yet of the cart,, and as he was striking
fbe ether with his whip or a staff, be received a pis-
'tot eloot, anti instantfy expired. A
_Coroner's In-
quest was holden on Monday, at Mr. Lovenbury's
(the Brass Millslen), and the Jury, after a long in-
Testisition, in which a man who was riding in the
cart with Hunt was the principal witness, brought in
*Yentict of Manslaughter, against Mr. J. Wiltshire,
of Bristol, who rode into Bath immediately after the
fatal rencounter, dispatched medical gentlemen to
• the spot where it took place, and then called on a
)lagistrate to acknowledge what he feared had been
the consequence of the act, which, on being as-
saulted, he had committed.—We understand, that
Mr. W. o.l.l,Lettled an annuity on the widow Bunt
sa lawny.