The Statesman.
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near Grenada, tilpidr,tlp: ;Oh a grrat, bpdloidispo-
sable force, either tolgid to eat or Ps tindeni‘er the
siege of some of the fortified towns in the north. Nothing
is revealed respecting the conditions on which Ballasteros
submitted to the Regency. They are said to be the same
as those obtained by Morino ; but this is not a4vancing
onr information much, while, we are left ignorant of the

latter. It remains to be sees .oheiliar activosieseviseogniase-•..
his own troops and brother officers is to be required from
him, as the purchase money of his personal protection, and
the preservation of his military rank.' . .
In the following letter from Sir Robert Wilson to.one Of
his constituents, of a date subsequent to the engiireimeet ag ' 4'
Comma, he I)ays a high compliment to the excelleit via.
titles of the Spaniards:—
"MY &Inn.. ; • ' •
.. I era ping on so well 041 am ahle to traaspoirt ripen In till 1.4.1110 t.' • •
service to Vigu, awl sail this night in a brig of war. theta Wog isalip464o
vessel In port.
. I ILM afraid I shall not be able to get on horseback so sons as I Vag wtalt• • '
and eirewastasiees aseybender desirable:- but you may be tolltielcut I win
wialre my person as disposable as possible in the joterest of this excellent
people.
. Some inhabitants have been wounded be thei isualtidry. ;ASIA Is hese
stabtly peppering, and sometimes hailing: boa as (WS has Hot sio bun-
bardwent, the easualties are not numerous.
oweitap
'• The Preach sees to think they can starve deb 61we'llehiatistk.ben, bat
a Spaniard has • stomach that accommodate. itslett to seed.
•I like the Spaniards more than ever.: Thee bramod,, toddy well is
the action; and, In concert with a well-organised. corps, to tbe wade roue
*few best troops in the world."
Advices have be received from Constantinople to the
Ilth ult. Trade was at that time extremely dull, both is
that'cipital and in every other part of the empire; and it
was feared that the depression would last, or rather increase
as boa 3 as the war with the Greeks confirmed. The Ras.
sian Answer to the last. Note from the Porte had been re-
ceived. It declared that Russia would not remove dipleass•
tic iatercourse till the comniercial relations were'replaced
on the footing which they held• before the departure of Be-
rea Stroganoff. In the meantime Lord Strangford had re-
ceived from the Russian Court the charge of cooducting
its concerns with the Porte, daring the suspension of direct

intercourse. 3:'
MALTA, Jiro 24.—Hls Majesty the King 'Vibe Tv.
Sicilies, by a royal decree, issued at Vienna on the 233 ult
and published at Naples on the 7th iastant, has extended
the provisions of his homier decree of the 28th of February
last, prohibiting the importation of the manufactured cot-
ton yarn of Malta, to all kinds of manufactured cotton
yarn, from whatever country it may be imported.
The &motets from La Gnayra, by the Lreward Island
mail which arrived yesterday, coafirm the &meant of the
Colombian fleet being in preparation to getout again against
the Spanish fleet. The Colombian force consisted of the
Constantine frigate, and three sloops and brigs of war, of
22,20, and 18 guns.
Mixtco.—Mr. Lionel Harvey, late Secretary of Legation
at Madrid, is going out immediately at the head of a Com-
mission to Mexico, with powers which caveat fail, from
their extent and importance, to put the British Government
in possession of the actual state of that textile country.
There is no doubt, we believe, of this htquiry and negotia-
tion leading to an intimate connexion betweenMeatoo and this
country—a subject on which the former has expressed her.
self in the most pressing terms of solicitude.—(Courier)
The Lady Conibermere has arrived in Liverpool from
Sierra Leone. bringing the pleasing Intelligence, that whoa
she left that Colony en the 20th of Jane it was much more
healthy than it had been.
By a Barbadoes paper, which was received yesterday.
we learn that reports had been spread among the slaves in
that island, stating that they may shortly expect their free-
dom. To prevent any mischievous consequences that
might follow from these reports, a proclamation was issued
by the Governor, declaring that the MN/UT of a speedy
emancipation is false ; and that all persons who may fill the
minds of the slaves with such falsehoods must be their ene-
mies, and wish to urge them to misconduct, which world
entirely put an end to the benefit otherwise to be expected,
from any kind intentions towards them.
From a proclamation in the Martinique Gazette, it ap-
pears that counterfeited gold and silver coin have lately
been imported in large quantities into that island, and that
genuine coin, of which a piece has been taken out, have
also been imported and circulated.
The Commissioners of Inquit y into the Administration
of Justice, arrived at St. Vincent's the 29th May, from
Grenada, having already visitod Ltarbadoes. Tobago, and
Trinidad.
Major Dentist, an officer who had been for several years
attached to the Staff of the Duke of Wellington, and who
frequently distinguished himself during the campaigns in
the Peninsula, has been appointed Chief of police in the
county of Wexford.
We have to announce the death of the Lady of Sir Robert
Wilson. The event took place on Tuesday night at half-past
tea o'clock, at her Ladyship's residence, Regent-street. Pioca-
dilly, after a severe illness of anauy months, which balled the
skill of the moat eminent of the faculty. An accent of the
melancholy event was immediately sent off to Sir Robert.
Tne celebrated Carnot has died, after a painful Warts, at
Magdeburg, where he had Ultra refuge since 1813. He was
a Member of the Executive Directory and of the Academy of
Sciences, and a Lieutenant-General in the French army. He
accepted of no conspicuous public employment under tie
regime of Napoleon till the French territory was invaded. He
was bon 13th May, 1733.
Ye.terday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when the full wing ships were taken rip and
thus stationed: viz. Lady Melt iile, 1.200 tons. Richard
Clifford, Madras and China; William Fairlee, 1,348, Ken-
nard Smith, ditto; Macqueen, 1,332. James Walker. Hen; al
and China (early): Duchess of A drill. 13 A, E. M.D
ditto; Berwickshir., 1,332, John Sliephi rd, 01 t o; Sir D. -
vid 5c0tt,1.342, William Hunter, Bengal and China; Can-
ning, 1,326, William Paterson, ditto; Earl lialcarrat, 1417.
Peter Cameron, ditto; Thealas Coitus, 1,334, Alexander
Chrvstie, Bombay and China (rarlv); Duke of York, 1327.
Arch. H. Campbell, ditto ; Castle Huntley, 1,200, Henry A.
Drummond. ditto; Dunira, 1,325, Moutgonierie Hamilton,
Bombay and China ; Marqtys Camden, 1,200, Thomas Lar
kins, ditto ; General Harris, 1,200, George Welstead, St.
Helena, Benenolen. and China (early); London, 1,332,J-
B. Sotheby, St. Helena, Iton.hay and China; Orwell, 1333.
China direct; Thames, 1.330, William Haviside,

ditto.
Accounts hate been received of the prcgress of the Griper,
• Captain Charring, on board of which Captain Sabine sailed
from the ?lure in the month of ?day last, for the purpose of
carrying on th., series of chservathns on the pendulum, in lite
high latitudes in the Polar seas. They arrived at the Kurth
Cape, after a tedious passage, the beginning of June, end pro-
' posed to remain at llaninterfest atiout three weeks. From that
t place they wouW go to Spitanergen, as the second station of
observations, and then proceed to the eastern coast of Green-
land, Intending to make their wav to the most northern pert
1 of that unexplored coact, as far as the obstruction of perms-
nent ice would permit the st.i? to pass. it is intended to land
the instruments for observation at the highest point they should
reach In Greenland, and afterwards to navigate down this
hitherto almost unknown coast southwards. On quitting
'Greenland, they would visit lc. knd, and then cross to Dron-
limbo, in Norway, when a foort 3 series of observation would
be completed, previous to their return in the month of Norte:-
. bee.
A letter has been received by Mr. Kirlass, ovroer of the
St. Pau}, of Hull, which antra, that on tine tith ult. that
vessel, on her passage to Rotterdam, fell in n hit part of the
wreck of a ship, apparently hunt 3 to 400 tons hurthen, the
Island of Seining then bearing N. W. distance 21)
line weather. They made GA to tine wreck, and took front
off the forecastle three large anchors, weighing about 21
tons, with some other small articles. The wreck had parted
in two, and had been plundered before, the ship's bell bring
gone, and not the best vestige of rope about her. The name
of the ship they could not ascertain. She appeared to be
foreign built, audit* not new, she had latterly wndergoae
thoretagh repair, the deck being new.

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HIS GRACE, JAMES, LATE•DUKE OF ROX-
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took_ 'fr;i'.W.o)l.l(6.. ditva t Ar:z. l3t~•
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li.!ti,9. 0 • fok' .4.4 .drso•tumptos,
41e: .. w,J Ili'i'ihitie 'fields of *brit
:Aire ll !of ..01d. syc•k; and'aorrie oats '
Tottlgig:th corn generally will
494,. , Crops are by no means
lati•nol dootli any gre4t mischief. In
iv, thus is 11/41.ittteliidt but generally
'°.el -.!hid Q 4, the Itlimlo4, it is well'
~,,,,,nultj. in die OW hot. There was a
1. •X” 0A:1-beads:iv blrfht, accompanied with
I mitklintlitftst et. The price of live
% e, :bat japertoi hors are In demand,
grinersixpieit the mark►ts to fall, and
thly in the right, as the want of money
Stu* ion into the market, as soon
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Thi Ili 'Kent -inCleseteed ender the most fa.
yourable, auspices... Notwithstanding the recent heavy
rains.' On tetra' U 1n ilne colidition, perfectly upright,
.and
erobi throughout the county. • In the
neightiittrhend of the. (heat Hermitage, end the farms ad-
joining-laird 'Oattiley's.Patk,iie do not remember to have
seen grain of every kind weir a more bea!thy appearance.
One month's fine weather from the present time will see the
balk cifthitjoin'housed or Inr stack. ' •

Dear., Ana W.S.W.—Last night the wind
was variable. and inclining to the Eastward, wbea most of
the outward bound sailed, but this morning it blew fresh
from the S.N.-.—The fo:lowing remain :—the Kent, for the
South Sus; the Rugersdoal, for Smyrna.—The Sir Ood-
frey Webster, for New South Wales, put back with lose of
main topsail yard. ,
Poirranourn, Ave. l3.—Wirid Soutberly,Arrived•the
()Milord, Johnson, from the Downs.. for New South Wales.
Sailed. the Gyros, .Beswielc, for Oibraker.
Fatatourn, AUG. 12.—Wind S.W.--Sailed. His Majes-
ty's ship Seringapetam..for the Eastward.; and the Saud-
wich Packet, for Jamaica.

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tinny TEE KELSO MAIL.]
The late James limes Ker, fifth Duke and ninth Earl of
Roxbnrghe, was been on the 10th of January 1736. HP
was the second son of Sir Harry limes of lanes, lint, and
of Anne, second daughter of Sir James Urantof. Grant,
Bart. His great 'grandfather, Sir James Dines of tones,
married, in 1666, Margaret Ker, third daughter of Hary
Lord Ker, son of itobert, first Earl of,Roxburghe, and, as
the lineal male descendant of this marriage, his Grace was,
after a long and expensive litigation, adjudged by the
House of Peers to be the undoubted heist* the honours and
estates of Roxburgh... His Grace succeeded, in these ho.
noon and estates, William, fourth Duke, who died in 1805,
and who was the last of the male ;instal' William, second.
Earl of Roxburelie. .•. . . -
The fimily.of lanes of that ilk is Of grist antiquity, and
it possessed large and valuable estates in the district of 1110
ray for many generations. The firs of the family we find
on record is. Berowaldus Flandreneis, who was a man of
considerable rank and distinction, and made a great figure
in the reigo of Malcolm IV. about
.lbe years 1154 or 1156.
The late Duke was the two and twentieth generation from
Berowaldus, in a direct wile line; and it was remarked by
Duncan Forbes of Culloden, in his iiiitory of the house of
hoes, that in all the long course, of their succession, they
were fortunate in three things ;." Fint, that their inheri-
tance nem went to a woman ; next, that none of them ever
married an ill wife; 3d ly, that no friend ever suffered for their
debt." His Grace's father was a staunch friend to Govern-
ment daring the rebellion in 1745, and wan of great service in
aiding the exertions mane at that time among the disaffected
clans of the north, by his illustrious and 111 requited kinsman,
Duncan Forbes, in favour of the House of Brunswick. Whilst
the rebel forces were in the neighbourhood of tones Hesse,
the Duke. then scarcely ten years of age, very narrowly es-
caped being shot by, a passing Highlander. who discharged his
piece at the door where his Grace was standing, and missedbiut
only by a few inches.
His Grace entered the army at an early period of life,
and served in Germany with reputation during the seven
years war. He Lad a company in the liStb regiment of fcnit
in the year 1759, and in the sSth regiment of foot in 1779.
In 1764 he was served heir to his father in the estate of
lone.. In 1769 he married Mary, daughter of Sir John
Wray of Olentworth, in the county of. Lincoln, Bart., by
Frances, daughter of Fairfax Norcliffe of Langton, in the
count, of York, Esq.; and after her decease, without issue,
In 101, he married, secondly, his present Duchess, Harriet,
daughter of the late 13enjamin Charlewood, Esq. of Win.
dleshatn. His only surviving child, now Duke of Rox-
burghe, was born at Rents on the 12th day of J uly, 1816.
lis his person and countenance his Grace was, in his early
years, a model of masculine beauty, and Reynolds never
exercised his talents on a finer subject than when he traced
the likeness at present in the collection at Pleura. His
Grace retained io old age a noble and commanding pre-
sence, and we have seldom seen, even at a much less ad-
vanced period of life, any one exhibit, till his last fatal
illness, fewer symptoms of declining age. Since the
Period of making Fleury his ordinary place of residence,
he invariably patronized and gave his liberal and efficient
aid to etery undertaking which he conceived had for
its object the happiness, comfort, or improvement of
the commurity. The revenues of his princely estatc
be expended with judicious munificence; and on every side
we trace the erects of his bounty and public spirit. His
charity, co-orrating with that of his amiable Duchess, was
as unsparing as it was well directed. His sense of honour
would have done credit to the purest age of chivalry ; and
no man of any rank or station seemed more deeply impress-
ed with the sublime truths of the Christian religion, or
made its precepts more steadily his rule of conduct.

Tempera mutantwr! There is nothing certain in our
climate, but uncertainty! The mercury in our therm°
meter, in a southern esposure, which, on. Tuesday, between
1 and 2 o'clock, reached 103 degrees, was, at the same boor
Ibis day, scarcely 63!
Yesterday morning the Duke of Gloucester left town for
Cheltenham. The Duchess of Gloucester left town at the
sometime, for Busby Park, on a visit to the Duke and
Duchess of Clarence, and to be present yetterday at the
celebration of the Duchess of Clarence's birth-day; upon
which occasion the Duke and Duchess bad a numetons as-
semblage of distinguished personages.
Captain Protberoe, a relative or friend of the family of the
late Mr. Garrick, has purchased the villa and grounds at
Hampton for 6,000 i. The statue, by Roubilliac. has been re-
moved from the temple in the frwit of the house to the British
Museum; a cast, however, from the original marble is placed
in its stead. The mulberry, a branch cut from Shakespeare's
tree at Stratford-upon-Avon, planted in Garrick's grounds,
flourishes like the Works of the Immortal Author.

About 3 o'clock on Sunday morning, (10th instant) as a
man named James Vann was getting over the wall of the garden
of Sir Heory Hawley, Bart., at Leabourne-grange, for the pur-
pose of stealing fruit, be stepped on the wire of a spring gun,
which went of, and lodged me contents in his legs. He fell
down on the outside of the wall, and was not discovered till 8
o'clock, when be was bleeding profusely from his wounds. He
Was taken up and conveyed to the Whealsheaf public-house,
when surgical assistance was promptly afforded him. His legs,
we understand, are both much shattered. He had, it appears,
on the nate looming robbed the garden of the lion. Col. Strat-
ford, at Addington-place. of several line melons stud cucumbers.
—(Maidstone Journal.)

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