The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-08-11 00:00:00

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A fe* Carieetts Papers, but of detached iittd irra.
'gular dates, hate been received since the earthquake.
The folloWing is the substance tif their contents
They are principally occupied by Government Pro:
derivations, addressed to the inhabitants and the arf
my, exciting them to the defence of the territory in..
vaded by the troops of Coro and Maracaybo, who,
taking advantage of tke general consternation, and
of the superstitious fears of the people, have possessed
I themselves of several town; and cities. What these

places were cannot be distinctly untlerstood from those
Papers; bat, according to a dispatch from a Sir
Gregor M'Gregor, who commands a corps, under
the Generalissimo Miranda, it appears that Valencia
is occupied by the Spanish troops. it' is said, in a
Proclantatiiin, that the eaemy from Coro 46 entered
the territories of Carona, under the mask of the
basest perfidy." Aeother, contains a promise to•
accelerate the re-conquest of Greiner., °spin°.
and' Araure. in a Bulletin, of the 2211 of May,
it is Mated, that, the towns of G‘iigue and Porta.,
chuelo de Guayea have been recovered, and, it •
it is said, that there was a report of " San Carlos '
having bent retaken." Those who are well ac.
quainted with the typography of these provinces may
thus judge of their state on the 22d of May, which
is date of the latest papers received. ,The Procrama:
tions appear full of energy, and are written in as t
style which indicates a .recovery from the trrror into
which the earthquake threw the inhabits,nts. That
directeld by the Governinent to the troops, on the"'
13th of April, argues against the supposition that the
earthquake had been-a punishment from Hearer for
having refused obedience to Ferdinand VII. in this
manner—" What King had the Caraccas disavowed,
when, in 1611, an earthquake produced raveges
to such an extent, that it was in agitation to remote
the city to the site of Sabana Grende, and forty
families came from the Canaries to supply the loss of
population which that convulsion had occasioned ?--
What King was rejected, when, oat the. 21st Octo-
ber, 1766, the Caraccas again suffered great devasta-
tions from the same cause ? Was not this country at:
those periods subject to the Sovereign of Spain ? Lima,
Acapulco, Guatemala, and other towns of America,
base they not also been destroyed by earthquakes
under the Government of their Kings ? Did not Lis-
bon suffer in like manner, notwithstanding its popu.
lation adored the King of Portugal I" Admiral La.
forey performod a duty, of humanity in sending, as
soon as he was informed of the earthquake, that
Orpheus frigate to La Guayra, and offering assist-
ance to the unfortunate survivors. The Government
of the Caraccas, in their Proclamations, contrast
this generous conduct of the British Commander with
that of the Spanish Governors of Coro and Mara.
caybo, who seized-the moment of misfortune and
cote.tentation as a favourable opportunity for prose-
cuting
In the Midland Chronicle we find the expunged
Evidencealluded to is the Speech of Mr. SitouosrAus
on the Orders in Ceuncil :
EXPVNGIM EVIDERC —" Q. Do you mean to represent in the
cotton spinning, it; general, the men are row gainiiig as much as
they used to du at soy' former period of time ?—A. Mot cer-
tainly not; lime eaM:d same three or foilr years agovihrea•
Mums as yossehas th.y oak , • pm.
" Q. When did that reductioa take place?—A. The rethma
tlun took plate in hill •
" Q. Vu you mean to represent that the men gain now, as
much as they Ought to gun)? —A. It ie impossible for me to an-
, swer that question, beca•vie it depends Upon a man's way of
thinking but the., gala a< ~ ads as I think tisrq Gag .it to es 11.
" Q. You made your own estimate of what they oug'i. to
gala, when yon said Mat they gained three inlet as much as
they ought 1..5; I meant With reference to what titer
ought to gain for their own comfort, and the good orsecielz,.
' beg leave to sWe, that the common people In this ewe tan , fr ma
the verb high wars given for several years previous to the year
1806, got wages that in fact tiohlard all that otrlt.o of society,
I and that they are accustomed to to.turies that it is (Oka& to wet*
I theta front.
" Q. In what manner do you consider that the high wages of
the poor have unhinged society ?—A. lieeanse they have got in-
to ha4its totaltl irrelevant to ~•,r
" Q. What luxories do you allude to, as having been brought
t bythese wages within the reach of those poor people. which it
ssoalil be dangerous to society fur them to have?—A. I must
beg leave to state the particular situation of the.towng of Glas-
gow and Paisley. The rate of wages, prior to 1106, was 60 ex.
travagain, that I should suppose, upon a Sunday going tot
tiurch, you would see 2 or 3000 girls in silk stockings. and plea
bably as many rouged ; the very best teas of the East India
Company were not good enough for theta; their whelp mode of
life was upon the mime system. I believe they b;tve been spia
rited en to their exeesse,, by the very shocking conduct-of,
am sorry to say, great people at the great public oieetingsin this
i town (London), as the!► coaduct is reported in the publitt

pipers:
The Caowx Patrice had some this since drawn to
the amount of 50,00;1.• sterling on Paris, and the
bills, under the direction of Bematexave, had been
dishonoured. To indemnify BERNADOTTE for this
disappointrwet, it had been ordered by the Court of
Stockholm, that none of the dividends due to Vol.-
land from Sweden should be paid, and that out of
the sum so reserved he should be remunerated.
By letters from Xeres to the dateof the Ist July.,
we learnvilhat flout has bees as high '916 hard dole
lan the fanega, aud'but for a little assistance from
Gibraltar, the inhabitants of the place end the tedjaw
cent country must all have perished. The prim is
new reduced to one third of what it was before. Our
letter is from a Frenchman, and we are happy to
find him observe—" Our affairs go on most wretch.
eitty in this country."
The Commissioners of Mallstreath Inclnsure (An.
glean) have succeeded in excluding the sea from that
valuable tract, by which undertaking, no less than
3000 acres of land have been rescued from a state of
comparative sterility, and converted into rich core
field.s

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NAV4L INTELLIGENCE.
POIITANIOUTLI, Aua. 10.
Arrived Ms Majesty's ship Cadmus, with a convoy from the
Downs. Sailed his Majesty's ship Fawn, with a convoy for
Gork. The Cadmus is appointed coney faiGuernsey and Jtuu
ley, and to sail immediately.
DEAL, Amt. 10.
Arrived his Majesty's ship Poietiers, from off Flits'.ing, and
sailed epic for Portslooeth. Also arrived the Gard Mint. Bar-
tel, Hill, from the Isle of F,rance and Mortals, last from
ortsallegth. SeHed his Majesty's day Resoles, *lth Fr *eh
01(0•04_,, for Wit, with Mary aid Jane, Fastest for Americo
(111eidintst detaided ships);
• • F414.41011TR, Ave. O.
Selina his Aftljestfa.sbip Unused, Captain WindbUnt. grids
several veassts for Portmed and the Medlte mem, to join the
ceavoy off this ports soder lie Pique oodioroofoes roods..
M 6 of about eo sail t afro th i'tintseto Fibeelseth packet lee
Itadora, aid the Brazils: mad the Townsend pieta fa Cali*
The Hind cutter from a cruise.
YARIIIOI3IO, Atm. a •
'•NW ai *woo he speFaci.
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