The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-12-28 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

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ameguirrirarge Iv NSW ORLEANS. I PRIM* RORSIIi.
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WWI eon No" artolool to the 1166 01 ro- The hones of Pram% says Mr. 4014 ooto_1,1016t•
somber, state that the fever of that place, althou. .1 le mewled i sag the souk wilch had wee
somewhat mitigated in its nialigeity, still tamed W Sea the Sweet the Crusades, Swabbed all IG.rips 1-7-1-itli
reMing she town as it were a grase.yard, The , rise choicest Arabia* breeast wall Me polieref Mdse.
- • • • • Mayor - causal an duo great previews, se Seek,
ed leherited this of ha
hes tallest law

ke, havissg
ionnd the Court. Eaglets! 1t h.
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dostry. which in France his __ Meat. Till
Ignertiee is quite erroneous; for. at us peeisA Is the ed.
cantles of history, could the Pima homes be aellesl
pared to the English. So tree is whet we mile ell
that a law of Athelstase priblisits their oxpethelleth
and great attention home sire lees paid to the bead
of this beautiful animal, paliesbarly coder the edges if
Williams the Coacieeror. of 1111a0 11. sad 111, waft.
of Henry VII. and V pos
111.. Ow. Use ting embed the
astonishment of some Owasso who visited this sassily
in the reign of Elisabeth; and horses have sot at any
time bees-knows to degenerate Is England.
The two best breeds of Kreseb Mines seethe Newsom
mid the Limonsin. The fantasia is light, and St few
the sad ; and not unlike the Polish horse. The Nor-
man isused for draught as well as for the saddle t bat.
for neither purpose. can he be compared with as of
sot best breeds. which smite se mach strength with so
meek action. so much bone with so mush lightens. mid
withal, so mach beauty awl mirage with so meek
thaws. Few Norman horses ean trot twelve
miles' in an hour, or wadi he it to rna is our
roaches. The race-boreeki steite uskseers in Frame.
Nethiag tan be more mid eleal and bow 7 than they
Preach post-horse; red, in the lbws or rim ose eel
dose sees an animal that hat has weell/*//ater Mt. or)
op
that is much superior so that whose steads as s
frontispiece to books of Meelmy as of every tio-
feet the species is es limit ilk alai 111116.1. =
of the warrior er of the rellef AM beetle hint
the winkers of a harksey herons; end the fallen hest*
sotwithstaruting his disgraceful trapping and fatigeet,
pricks up, his lively ears, sad carries his head aloft with
all the aristocracy of stature:
Another thing respectierborses. of which the Preach.'
except a few who hare here taught it in England, see
wholly 'Kumasi, is the art of potting them temp Ili
state of extreme health, which h. re is called cosdhiss.l
An any and general method of ascertaining the relit-,
tire speed of English and French horses, is the regulated
rate at which letters are reneeved be order at Ooverm
meet. A total reform in this class of public carriages
has lately taken place in France; and, in lien of the for-
mer unwieldy iii-chines called diligence*, yelociferes,
pots de chat;shre, &e. new vehicles, constructed upon
English models. soil honoured with the title of " inven-
tions Francais/4, have been tensed oat. That which is
destined to convey the mail is in the shape of a chariot,
and the mode of hanging is copied from ones. but the
whole nmeltine is more clumsily built. U contains three
inside passenger.: ahreast, anal one outside, who sits be-
fore with the guanl : while the driver rides one of the
fore horses that draws it ; in all six persons. 4 ter mail.
coaches carry four inside, and three outside passengers.
with the coachman and guard. Tlse weight, therefore,
is one-thin) were in England. Now, the various mi.re-
tations which are contained ever in resent travel-
rifser books, make it our date to correct an error with
regard to English and Preach measures. The post
league of Fraser contain exactly two thousand
Vrench toiies, each toile being six ilrench feet. The
English statute mile comities tet6 of the same wises.
Therefore 21 mike stake lifs mimes mere thee a French
post league. According to the sew measures. the
French post, consisting of two putt leagues, is equal to
either kilometers; and the English mite ts 16,05 L By
of these computations. we may say that tit Preach
leagues, or 8 posts. make IV &Wish waft. NOw, a
comparison.
mule between the distances from Paris,
to six of the principal points to which the_ sew mails
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esances, Ca, Calais, Lyons.-g. sod

sextons of that city, in a report to—lbe _ . state.
that upwards of .1,400 bodies were deposited in
the grabe-yards io the murk of sixty days. The
number buried during the moat fatal sixty 'days of
12417, kstated at 400.
Extract of a settee from a gsatleumut at New Chinas.
dated Ortolier 13:—•• 1 think it my daty. free' the me-
lane!, sly times of tielikiss el mortality which have
prevAied here sloes the Ist of Angst, to inform you
lb..' 1 act still is the bad of the living. Wu sorely I
grieved at heart with the lbss of some worthy fries&
aud matrymes. To citable yoa kludge of the fatality ,
of the diem, at this doe. I have to inform von that
315 hose died of it from the let of !kr robin. to the
28111 AIM t 184 in me week; twat *ea 244, etsd KG lel
amakie, fee. fly correspoadiat at the Natchei writes
Nos that It boa hems SA heal them aid ewes wore we 111
ter asiehisoorimiod. 111 s words are—' It appears to me
as I( dm
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forme mources of Ilying to the coquetry for safety. It
has happened to some here, that Cry have removed .
kowtows grave to esthete, another.; Leer the cattle
are dyiv---horses. oleo, and cows, with rotten tongues; •
sheep toss begs with their hoofs dropping AL sail calves
with rodeo ears; which pestilential complaints compel'
an old aseatryma still to dosire the lead of Me birth'
with allies isks.' 1 have aeon. hi the way of mypro-
feeds% a comista mu. wifta sad childmi.
from hemid Akira" deep eir; acs !NM Argyle-
shire; and 1 ammo* atibmaqraflisidiy, cosoktlag of a
a ma, his wife, sad eh ihakeepfrali the isle fight.
arrived in Apill las% el the atioNalkli 'Of a gardener."
11641"1: TRADS IN 71111
• The hlaaritias Gazette of tiee'l7th of Joie. contains
a Proeistnotioa by the actiri Governor, tieueril
a copy of which is sabjobied. The followiug partirnlars,
staM ia a letter of the thl of July, may serve to ex-
ploits the grenade en which the Major-tieneral appears
to have acted:—
" The steepest Major-Oeueral flail Meted the colony
shoals of small omit wore seat oat for staves to Made-
r, Mosanibique. sad elsewhere. They bay* gre-
iinally reenfrmd, sad gone out eels; and it is admitted
by every OM hese, that at no former period the statis-
t:ads was so brisk as it is at this moteat. At the
lowest cemplitatioa. the umber of new slaves imported
bide the last month exceeds 7UU : Ad the perms
tiredly eagaged, or otherwise hiterested in thisinhume
trade (which is fact comprises the whole population),l
have increased is activity sad daring beyond any prece- I
Beet. Not Mg ago a military guard, consisting of a
sorporal and ker men. conveying to tows 110 blacks
seised by them. sad who had km been lauded. were at-
tacked on the read by a body of men, who nulled onl
e..eta from a wood I the grsakr abisber of the blocks
were reamed, sad wily !trembled in the possession ofl
the soldiers; is the mile one or tweet( the assailants
were wounded. bat, as mid. ammo( the odroders were
discovered. The soldiers even were declared to have
acted illegally in presamiag to seise these blacks. I
Within the last three week a meal was taken by
me of the bests boksigiag to the Liverpool frigate.
from which Mot 110 blacks bad just bees larded (the
Master. sad several others emeraed. 1 think IS in;
cumber. will withima kw Says be seat to England for ;
trial); of these a metals sealer were marched daring
:I;:stght doh Port Lode, escorted by a body al
men--ereoles. whites and blacks ; they were
• with by one of the saissediaates of the
ag police ;
W del

ttlCue..Strasbourg,
Valescieunes, and the times is which those disease**
arit performed, "ices an average Mg. of 4 2-7 tbs Rag-
lish miles per hour. When snailroarlses were first
establisOtil in England, this limited speed was ten
miles as hour on certaiu of our roads hut, beteg found
inconvenicnt, it was reduced to sight, and boldly to
wee. Thus the reduced average rate of mail-coaches
is England is to that is Erase, as three to two. But
'the weight they carry is also as three I. two • and as
the mass, multiplied by the velocity, is the expression of
the force, it follows that the horse we employ to promote
epistolary comniankaties, is to the hone the itesioch
employ fur the same parrs', as oboe to four. SOWN
deduction toast, however, be made for the superiority of
our roads and vehicles. public carriage has lately
brew established on one of the southern roods of Eng-
hied, to run it miles per beer; hut, seven horses having
died in three weeks, the rate is now reduced to 141 miles
Der boar.

spokes
it was kaiak/WS limy wee ses rig Mar
fonad!"
The fellowag is a fact publicly
there is set ere single latent. of a at havieg
been comissiosd here, however hermit ease, how-
ever eleariy .proad. And the several rues sent in ap-
peal from the deci‘loas of Mr. Smith, the Jadr of the
Vice AdlisietsCoart, Jerald they CAS beam the
public. it will sea, that asiformlr even the we these
protease( a slave eases has been persaally cue-
donned to eepts, sad otherwise harassed ; while the
dealers, sad these father imagined is that oefiriess
traffic, have been screened sad favoured in various
rs
wa. " ass.
la the essetli of Ana; 1818, the setmear Le
Voyageur, owned sad coseriamied by --, leaded at
Trait d'Has Mace, a retired bey in the Fkka district,
about el Malays, chiefly wemea and girls. This vessel
bad has for some meastbs matted, as armloads, of
her previa* egalpessot and smiling bad bees eren by
a sl.ve, anal Treptard, heiesging to Madame Tear,
an inhabitant of Flom whoa ea was a heard. Trap-
tard was iestracad tele on the look-eat, and was the
vessel arrived, to acquaint Ole Ulcer commimmfiag at
liar/. He regatta lode so, bet gave isiotieatloa
*vast Calk, of tits JMh regimest, stationed at a pest
rear to him. '/hr flajoart, led by the slave, proceeded
to the wad, ware Madams Tema was bend aserbsetag
a ameba newly-101W slaves to a place Si seaseal-
meat. At the sliest of the Baja* she dispersed them,
bat
avd, as it was eight, mug Ofitirefat seven were se-
cured. A private of the Ma regberat, bearer of the re-
port to (fen. Hall of *Wad Impeded, fell in with mo-
ther party of tame sieve% a the reimltoPort Leas, and,
althooghlte amnia as aleswipt Si seise than. ea of their
coodactors attached ad warded Ma erkb a dagger.
" The Collector Si the Cranes Was rat to nag, to
search for the rasairder ei their *as, but le say suc-
ceeded is guiles ere of then,* Malay plump, rear the
spirt where the soldier bad been woens It was ga-
tPered from Trapani, trial the (liege had beta divided
Into small Ws, ord distributed ementfillfereet plants-
Ceas foe their grater coaselasst. The measurer bad
made off, but the Master remained at the Maritime. A.
warrant kw Ms appribersioe was Weed ley Mr. Cannier.
thee Jalge of the Admiralty heart, 10l abe - nutl
M laid
bold • The e - seises 1a;
lays,
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A General Court Martial resembled in the Court
Martial Room, Government Hones, on Monday last,
when Lieutenant-Colonel I loco, of the 35th Regiment,
was tried on the following charge, vie.—" For being
drank on duty when parading the Clear& sad Vicipiets
of the fifth kegineent, on or about the fib of October
lost." The proceedings commenced by an Address from
the Prosecutor, when witnesses were 'Ramified in sup.
port of the charge, and the prosecution closed; on which
the Court adjouraed till Wednesday. the at instant, to
give time for the Lieutenant-Colonel to prepare his &-
hove. Os Wednesday. the Court aseembled at ten
e'clock, when an able defence was read to the Coart for
the Calomel, sod witnesses were esamised in poet of
his inneceeee, after which a reply was read b the Few
viceter, when the proceedings closed, sad the Uee. mos I
cleared for the Members to form opinions and emilefee
to be submitted to his Royal Melons the Fenton 11.
01041%,—(PlimowtA Paper, Der. 24.)
Stictnse iN FRASOIL—It appears dot INN
have been twenty suicides committed in Fide dies
ing the month of October, being six tan than weal
committed in October 1818. Of these wren were
nen and thirteen men—twelve were unmarried
eight inarried.—The causes are thus stated:—
'row disgust of life, 'rakes Al of intellect. do-
mestic quarrels
Play. disipsdea •
Poverty and loss of siteatios
passion of love
ar of reproach and punishment
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;dooms comes
rednesday mak% abou
i Ostreeffht o'cßrisiwktotall=
i butchers shop in Radclet,
joist of meat moiler his root. and walked deal eddy
away. The botcher being in a room near at bead, yaw
' transaction, permed the thief, and brought him beck
the shop again; wboreepeo, he tea eat a heedful
silver, revisited the hasher hi weigh the most. and
would pay for it; bet dm latter preheret
and beaded lam emir to the Magistrates. te le dealt with
accerdieg to law. . ,
Among the various indacements which the New i
'System holds eat to adveneure» in the present '
A
Lottery, may be essmerated the 6114whq
Scheme rich to Capital Prises; a small •mambo of
tets; Four Prises of lelo,ooo ; the mertainty of
Prises of £W,OOO additional** the Two gist
rises on the 12th of JANUARY, Ilbelt the Lottery
begins drawing.

w ariiiiir "TtiTier he
then . ge o no art. but he was mot loid _women
bold of. The eight slaves wriertir to be all Ma: and .;„,i
lays, sod from their testimony it a • that eke! 0 '.....
bees carried off from sow of dm slay Woods. Their "'a
village. as tamed. bad been eseitelaeli mg burnt by the .They.
error of IA Voyageur. and their broad mediums or the e-'.
women during the pools is mosheehls egos be described. Ta .
It was some knows that tbe Voyageur lad animal Hoar- ip 2: V
hon. The blegideinse frigate-. CsAit. Purvis, went dews VT. '
there ; but au leer &Freitag la ligM the miter id* his _.""
crew jemped into a boat rod got es Owe. The vessel and wide
BR her papers were sehred. alai the fatter Anted the
etl It hel
proof for her coodedbatiest by Mr. Smith, :Fudge of the a Joist ,
Mmeralty Cauttiree alas comfeented thit eight Malays. ewa7.
In the course of two Int months of on% the master the fret
of fa Poyegewr • to the Maurilitas. bat eke war- to the 1
fat for Idiarnisidiso bus been either enteelled or sot a di*.
acted apes, sod po itedititiree leets take* either et him he ems
or any other of the simpllested with him. sled hal
Madams Term. proseuated be tke accordi
realties br Geo. Wien. has set bleu ~dirt= AAP
In then. Poor Troptad Is the adz unfortuusta sufferer. tiptoe
hi has hies is strict confisesneot macs December. Itllti, Lotter
and Is now intended to he transpeeted to Batavia. less- woo
ing bore his wife sad children.
" This surely requires ae rmennent ; malty other cases Two 1
of dollar turf can be prodared ; this was selected i.'
on meow of the doable crime it exhibits of piney as rroe"
n
well as slave-dealing." begi