The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-01-07 00:00:00

ANOT Ilia MUTINY ANTI NTUItnElt.-OCI the sth
of • November last, his Mi:j.utsitidy'tshs:lnicpe,Awrie•it.nhciar,cCatrpg:
fain Sir M. Seymour, Bart. cap:ured, just as she wei•
entering Bourdeaex, the
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tkrlla,oe coffarmer,
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rEtdi .mletlh.taeCkist.i Saunders,,ligemnr
part
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the id sclri
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an, as
coausscolth)rize master, and [0 men, to contlect her to
schooner the
Captain, Second Mate, two boys, a gentleman ex..
ex..
senger, and his wife, in her, who took the advantage,
when the crew had incautiously got too much Ileum;
of knocking the unfortunate Mr. Saunders over-
board (who was drowned), retaking the ye et and
immediately shaping her course for Yran.a., int.; ezt
of whose ports (it. (Q simper) we are sorry to say
she grateenebserved by any of our cruisers, whit'
for the present,- preventtthe reuelerine villeins from'
-beinT;,; .bedifght to juatice. The, above account is
heotight by the American schooeer Fig, taken on the
18th by his Majesty's ship Scylla, on her voeate
from Cherburgh to Bristol, Rhode Islaud, America,
which vessel left-that place the 45th ult. where wee
lying two line of battle ships, one frigate, two gun.
brigs, and five privateers, all ready for sea.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—WiIIiam Knight, horse
and cattle-dealer, in St. John's Clauchen, Dairy,
was lost in the Ken on Saturday se'nnight. He had
left New Galloway to ride home, about. nine o'clock
P. M. considerably inebriated; and his horse com-
ing to his house in St. John's, wet anti shivering,
and without either saddle or bridle, gave the alarm
to his wife, who caused every search to be made for
him that night, without effect. The river was also
dragged for his body, the whole of Sunday and Mon.
day, which was not found, however, till the etretting
of Tuesday, near the farm-house of Waterside, where
he bed attempted to cross through a deep gully is
the river. The fate of this unfortune.te man, who
has left a wife and five small children, one of whom
is smite blind, to !mu! his loss, adds one instance
to the many, of the ft-tat effects of intemperance.—
The poor woman is pregnant, and has been in fits
ever since the accident happened. This is the third
unfortunate person who has perished in the Kea
within the last two years, and since the fall of the
Bridge opposite New Calloway. • •
Yesterday Lavender apprehended another mat
charged with being concerned in the late maleptec-
tiees at the Navy-ofticc, and took him to 13ew-street
/Nice, where he underwent a hang private evtmint-
tion before the Magistrates, Mr. Croker, and Mr.
Bicknell.
The following is given as a correct account of the
late discovery of frauds in the Naval Department :
A min in Spitalfields being on Some, occasion exa-
mined by the Magistrate at Union-hail, stater cer-
tain circumstances which appeared to justify a sus-
picion that there existed 'a confederacy for d,frend-
ing poor seamen, under pretence of procuring 6.4
discharges, and the public, by obtaining Greenwich
pensions for persons who were not entitled to them.
Though the inforination was not very precise, ant
was in some particulars Tether suspicious, the Weis-
trate thought it his duty to transmit it to the secre-
tary •of the Admiralty, who, on an accurate rearni.
nation of the man, thought that his account was pro-
bably 'correct.; Measures were therefore concerted
for detectine the offenders ' • and, at last, proof was
obtained of Gawler, late a Clerk in the Navy Office,
having given a seaman a false discharge, and of his
having certain pUblic papers and doeuments in his
house. An examination was then had at the Admi-
ralty, before Mr. Croker, the Comptroller of the
Navy' and Mr. Graham; atidaVarrants were issued
!against the person of Gawler, and for the seizure of
i his papers. Gawky himself absconded; but his pa.
Ipers were taken ; and on examination disclosed a
series of extensive frauds, and implicated another
Clerk in the Navy Office, of the name of Needham,
who, with four or five inferior agents, is now in cus-
tody, and will, it is expected, be brought to justice.
The investigation is, however, so extremely intri-
cate, and the papers so voluminous, that it is not
possible to speak with certainty as to the extent of
the frauds; but we hear that it is already ascertain-
ed, that on Greenwich Hospital alone they amount
to 1,0001. a year; and we do net doubt, from what
we hear of the activity and industry which are ex-
erted in the investigation, that the whole system of
fraud will be detected, that the offences already com-
mitted will be exposed eel punished, and that mea-
sures will be taken to prevent, as far at pessil)le,
occurrences of similar impesiti ons on iedi vitt...ells and
the. public. It is not true, as stated, that one of the
Admiralty Messengers appears to have been a etinci-
pal confederate. One of those persons is in Lustode;
but he was,- we hear, a very ieferior agent
and his offence is small compared with that of the
others.
PEDEITRIANISM.--.MX•Mealing, the Sornersetshire
pedestrian, completed his Herculean task of going
thirty miles a-day, for 18 successive days, on Satur-
day, at llortyChurch, Gloucestershire, and won fire
hunked guineas. He is lame in the left leg, and
is red. uced from 14 stone 8 pound, to 12 sense 4
pound He had much ditficultyin proceeding the tee
last days.

SCOTCH SM4CICS.
Miusn's Wharf. /thud. Sails.
Fifrshire (Miller), Leith IV 11, —II, •A. M.
Defiance (Watson), Dundee 130 7, —7, P. M.
HIGH WATER AT LONBON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning, 41 minutes after 7. Everting, 10 minutes after 11.

MARRISD.
On the 4th inst. Mr. Francis Jasaeol inn. of Newaste.loPitr
Miss Miles, eldest daughter of W. Mlles, Esq. of Enfiela,
dieser.
Oa Thurschv last, at Liverpool, Richard Addison. Esq. to
AspinaU; daughter of J; B. "Aspiaall, Esq.

DIED.
On Saturday last, John Hilton, Esq. of Ironmonger-lane.
At Harleyford-Place, in the 6th veer of b7r age, Mrs. Eliza,
betb Howard, late of Eton-Collcge:
On Saturday last, at his hon..- in Bruce (leave, Tottenham,
John Smith, Fsq. formerly of Newgate-sflret.
At Ridgway House, near Sonthamoton, on Saturday se °'
night, Miss Matilda %wiles, youugcst dauga.er of Wm. Surtses,
Esti.
gn the 4th inst. Indiana Harriet Brisbane, younvst daughter
of Mrs. S. French, from St. Vincent's.
At Tenterden' in Kent, on the 25th ult. James Black / ore,
Esq. in the 66tbyear of his age.

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