The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-08-12 00:00:00

MIOII,P-I`l7 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
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toutauvtr„ Auger** 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived, the
Cornet, M'Pherson, (roils tike Downs; His Majesty's ship,
Banger, from Ditto; anti the Mercury, Florence, from
braltar.
Fatuouro, Aug, ii—Wind S. W.—Arrived the Camden
packet, from the !Mediterranean, sailed from Corfu, the
'6th ot June; froet.Malta, the 26th, and from Gibraltar,
23.1 of July; and Mei off Cadiz, the 24th, but was not
'allowed to go in, it bring blockaded by eight
french ships of war. The Royalists made an
attack on the. Constitutinnafiste, at San Roque,
and drove them out. They afterwards made an attempt to
get possession of the lines, but were repulse.' by the latter,
and returned to San Roque, which they hold. She spoke
on the 16th of July, off Cape de Uatte, the Rover, Cutlee,
from Naples, and on the 18th, off Gibraltar, the Kingatone,
from Leghorn, for Liverpool.—Sailed, the A gaphea,Atkin-
son. fur Pernambuco; and the Oporto Packet, Charlton,
for London.
• MAL, Auo W.S.W.—Arrived from the Ri-
ver, and remain, the Bolus, for St. John's,' New Bruns-
' wick; the Albion, for lisittticitt the Margaret, for Leg-
horn; the Betmy and Ana, for Pietas; the Marv, for 31i-
• rantichi ; the Rolla, for the lbothrtranean ; the Panay. for
Bilboa; the Charles, for Naplee; the Thalia, for Halifax
and Jamaica; and the James, Sibbalil, for liambay.—
Arrived, the Camden, from Rio Janeiro; the Choice, from
Quebec; and the Susannah, from horn. The ship,
Mary Ann, from India, has just made her number, and is
sit passing through fur the river, at 8 e.g.
Te• The Nymph-, from Newcastle to Falmouth,
coal laden, was wrecked on Sunday night near Dungeness.
' Captain Priekett is appointed to command the Victor,
of IS-guns, titling at Portsmouth for foreign service.
Sir H. Neale sails in a few Jars for the Mediterranean,
in the Revenge. 74, to relieve Sir Graham Moore.
WIGTOWN. A uttusr 2.—We regret to state that the Peggy,
of Garliestown, Peter M'Creddie, mister, when entering
Wigtown Bay to-day, loaded with lime, took fire, When
nearly opposite Carsluish, in conseqnence of the lime hav-
ing got wet, ant burned during the whole of tho afternoon.
Although the weather was hazy, the fire was quite visible
from this side.of the bay, so long as daylight served. Her
roast and tipper works, deck, &e. were entirely destroyed ;
but no lives were lost, as most providentially she was very
near the land.
WIIAILI FlSHEM—Extract of a letter from Peterhead,
An4ust o:—" The Hope arrived in our bay this aftern ton
from Greenland. She reports the Neptune, of Hull, to he
lost, and that she heard the Cyrus of the same port h
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beets beset or damaged. Captain Robertson, of the Hope,
died of a fever the end of June, anti she left the ice the 2fith
July, perhaps sooner than she would have done had not the
event takes p'ace.—The Johns, Jackson, of Greenock, hid
23 fish, 130 tatts."
• ABERDEEN, AV6VST 6.—The Venue, Oawthnrpe, of Li-
verpool, arrived at Stromness 30th July. from Greenland ;
left the ice the 12th July, with 1 fiah. 701) seals, supposed
25 tons of o'.l. Brings no accounts of the Aberdeen vessels
later than thom inserted in our last. Reports the Peterhead
vessels as folio ots len. Penny, 3 fish ; Eclipse, Sorter, 1;
Cleaner, Shand, 2; Jean, Staard, 2; Perseverance, Simp-
son, 2; Union; Markle, 3.—Alontrose. Sperver, Keith,
4.—Leith. Juno, ',yell, I.—Berwick. Lively, Bell, I.
lireenock. Johns, Jackson, £0 fish, 93 tans ot oil. There
was a gnat deal of thick weather in Jane, and the fishing
upon the whole very unpromising.

RSTUaN OF WARM WIATHICK.—The Mercury in a titer-
motnenr, exposed to the sun is the Strand, between one
and two o'clock to-day, stood at 103 degrees.
Faitzmasonar.— I n consequence of the late Art of Parlia-
ment resenting secret meetings id Ireland, the Arttient
and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons of
Ireland have been placed in a dilemma. Considering that
the strictness of Masonic Secrecy foi bids the members of
their Order from giving publicity to any of their Usages,
and consequently that, under the New Act. their members
might possibly, if they continued to meet, be placed in the
disagreeable alternative of either appearing contumacious
to the Magistracy on the one hand, or guilty of a breach of
Masonic duty on the other, the Oland Lodge, under the
sanction, and with the consent and approbstion of his
lirace the Duke of Leinster, (band Master of Masons in
lreLnd, duly considering the peculiar situation in which
the Order is placed,orders and directs, that alter the expi-
ration of 14 days from the passing the said Act, that is to
say, after theist day of August, ISI3, all Lodges and As-
semblies of Freemasons in Ireland shall cease to meet as
Freemasons, until again celled together by the authority
of the Grand Master, whenever the Legislature IO its evis•
dom may think it expedient to repeal said Act, or so to
modify the same, as that the Meeting of the Institution in
helmd may be placed ender similar cucninstances as those
of the Freemssons of England,
. An immense meteor passed over the Oct ills, from south
to oordh, on Wednesday morning about one o'rloi k. It
surpassed to brilliancy the nootoditey sun, and appeared
to dissipate in a long train of electric fire.—(tdiebargh
Star.)
A NOVELTY IN THIS NEIGABOUROOOO.---011 Friday list, two
private stills which had been used for the distillation of
spirits, were seized in an old, lonely farm honer, a few miles
east of this town, together with the apparatus and about
sixty gallons of wash. The penalties under the Art of
Parliament in such cases are, the forfeittire of the stills, the
spirits; wash, and other meter. ale for distillation; and the
proprietor of such stills, or the permit in whose outside
110 sante shall be found, is liable to a penalty of 200/
for every place in 'which such stills shall he discovered,
mid also for evert still and vessel found therein. And
tarties defected in aiding and aasisting in such ille-
gal practices, are liable to a forfeiture of 301. or to be
imprisoned six months, if the fine, in the mean time, should
not be paid. Four Scotchmen charged with the last-men-
tioned offence, were on the same day, brought to this town,
under a military escort, and underwent an examination be-
fore T. Partington. Esq.; but on hearing the matter it did
not appear to the Magi•trate that the charge of their being
fond aiding and assisting wis tuffieiently established
against them, and they were, consequently discharged.—
, (Sums Advertiser.)
Tea CONSTITUTIONAL GANG r. DAVID RIDCWAT.......After
Cng this defendant and his friends to considerable Iron-
hicand expenre in preparing for the assures, that exempla-
ry.gmarylian of the public morals, Mr. Secretary Murray,
liascormiermanded his ;twice iff trial—thus subjecting
Ridgway and his family to another six months of painful
and hamming suspense. How Mr. Murray can recon-
cite his comicience to these successive and systematic at-
tempts to oppress and overwhi lot a poor family, we cannot
conceive. ,Possibly. hots ever, to liim it may be sport, eyen
though it shield be death to them.—(Manchester Guar-
dian.)
ThedGeand Joey at the last Hants digitises threw out the
bill preferred optimist Mr Richard Yeller, by his Grad,. the
Duke of Bucltioesain, for the petition to the House of Coto-
nou. which, our readers will recollect, was published in
the thiscutick some time back, and which complainel of
his Grace's conduct towards hint on a game law question.
His Grace appears to he very unfortunate in his law ad-
risers.—(ilsefinghanulaiee Cid rollick.)
Weismes AND 111 ZASU ere.—W o understind theta gentleman
of Dumfries has mad*a discovery, which will form the ground-
work of a new and infallible ,;tatidard for weights and mea-
sures. The instrument by whieb he proposes to effect this de-
sirable east Is at once rem:Hi:able for its simplicity and power,
and is at the same tints 1(.1.6 to he moat ordinary coniprehen-
sioa.—(Throlfriespeper.)

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