The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-09-29 00:00:00

The petrified remains of a very large marine animal
have been found in a quarry on the top of a hill near
Bruwyard. They were unfortunately removed from
the quarry by the workman, broken to pieces, and car-
ried upon the roads in the neighbom hood. Only a
part of them hays in consequence been preserved, yet
sufficient to slew!that the animal to which they once
belonged, must hare been one of no common kind or
size. It appears to have lain on the sttrfare of a free-
stone rock, and was covered by a thick stratum of ytl-
lowish coloured marle. Never was the petrefactive
process more complete ; the different pieces are literally
masses of stone, only distinguishable ..as the parts of
an animal by their exterior form.—(HertfoN/ Journal.)

ROUTING OP A BAND OP SMUGGLIMS.—The Excise
of Crielf and its vicinity, with their characteristic vi-
gilance and assiduity for the suppression of smuggling,
having learned, that that daring band of smugglers, de-
nominated " The Stirling Band," were to go through
the country, towards the louth, in the prosecution of
their illicit traffic, determined, if possible, to seize the
whole, or a part of them. The Excise, accordingly,
who wene our, proceeded to different quarters, aided by
a small party Of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards,
who are stationed in Crielf for this purpose, and the Ex-
cise awl Dragoons who went to the Bridge of Kinkel',
sarcertled, upon the morning of the IBth instant, in
seizing three horses, with their burdens of smuggled
whisky. The riders made their escape through the
woods and plantations of Strathallan, not being at all
willing to come into contact with the Excise and Dra-
goons. Some of the smugglers, panic struck, threw off
their burdens and Ned for safety. The rest of the hand;
consisting of about seventeen, having received notice of
the c atastroplie, either returned or made their escape,
by some other direction. The horses anti aquavitte, &e.
were brooglit into trieff, upon the forenoon of the 18th.
Sup i an example, it is trusted, will teach this band the
temerity of their conduct in their violent attempts,
avowedly soil perseveringly, to infringe the laws of their
e:tuntrv. This shows the necessity of having a parts of
Dragoons stationed throughout the country, without
whom, it would be most difficult to suppress such (lan.
ing characters WI the Stirling band.
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HO :MULE ASSASSINATII.N.—A Correspondent, re-
sident at South Shields, sends the following dreadful
det ill, being an extract from a letter received by the
wife of a seaman on board the slip Greenwich, a South
Sea whaler :

" Ship Greenwich, Jan. 7.—On the 25th of Novem-
ber last, at sa. m. we heard a noise in the cabin, and
the second mate, C. Woods, rushed from the deck to
ascertain the cause, but was met on the cabin ladder
by a man, a native of Lima, who immediately stabbed,
him in the breast, and ran forward along the deck and
stabbed A. Ducent, then lying on the a indlass, and af-
terwards ran about the deck stabbing five other men ;
he then jumped overboard. IVe found the Captain and
chief mate in the cabin, stabbed in the breasts. The
Captain's name is 11. Hammet, and chief mate's J.
Snipper. Thus I have given you as faithful an ac-
count as lam able 4this transaction. We have 501)
barrels of oil now onboard, and I hope soon to have
wore. (Signed) ' WM. SHORT."

It is so much tilepraciice of those who have made any
discoveries, from which they hope advantage by laying
them before the public, to speak to the most extrava-
gant terms of their merits, that the discerning hesitate
to patronise them, lest they should become the victims
of quackery. A similar prejudice operates against the
Honest dealer, who, conscious of the superiority of the
commodity which he supplies, and satisfied with a mo-
derate profit, looks for remuneration in an extension of
his business. Mr. CHAPMAN, however, seems to enjoy
an ample share of public confidence ; but to meet the
objections of the most fastidious who may wish to pur-
chase his ALE and Baja, yet doubts its genuineness, he
has made an affidavit, of which the following is a copy:
Sworn at the Mansion-house, before the Lord Mayor
"it CHAPMAN, of ilagnigge Wells Brewery, in the parish.
of St. Panctas, in the County of Middlesex, Ale, Table
Ale, and Table-Beer Brewer, maketh oath, end saint;
that his Ale, Table-Ale, and Table-Beer, are brewed:
from hops,and malt only, and that he never hasbor ever
will permit or suffer say drags or other injurious ingre-:
clients to be used in his brewery.. And this deponent
further &alai, that be superintends the whok of his
'brewing concern himself, and is, .thereby, with safety,
fully cariblp of deposing to the above facto.. R. CHAP.
MAN.-4§worn at the Monsio"-house, tity.of Les-
-don, Jan. I, 1841, before me, Joux THOMAS Towers,
Mayor."—All letters was be post paid.

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