The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-16 00:00:00

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BARKS OF THE SPREE, Ava. 19.
" The conclusion of a definitive peace is sup.
poked to be delayed by the opposition of Russia
to some articles proposed by the Conqueror, who,
throughout all the Austrian dominions in Poland,
has taken off the arms of Austria, and affixed his
own eagles, whilst the Russian troops respect the
Austrian arms in the towns which they occupy, and
do not even affut their own arms. No good, how.
ever, is expected from this variance of opinion in
the two Imperial Allies, on account of the fee.
bleness and vacillation of the Russian Cabinet.
Another event, iu the mean time* which, in the
14th century, would have' armed two-thirds of
Earope against the person, family, friends, and
allies of the new Protector of Germany, ap.
pears to have caused some sensation in the Tyrol
and in Saxony. The Pope, before he left Rome,
thandered the ban of the church against 80.
WArARTE, Ins brothers, and his family, down
to' the fourth generation, and pronounced
the same anathema, in a solemn conclave,
against the Princes of the Confederation of
the Rhine, and all the Allies of the Ruler of
France. This papal excommunication has plunged
the King of Saxony into the deepest melancholy,
from which the most serious consequences mu•t
bale been apprehended by his Protector, since a
French General has hastily been sent to Dresden,
and quarters have been demanded for French
troops. , Curs de St. Cyr, the French General of
Thvison, has been at Dresden since the 14th. •You
are, no doubt, already informed of the enert
which this last Papal measure mist inevitably pro.
duce in Spain, as soon as it is known. But it is
hs the Tyrol in partieular, that it has revived the
abhorrence of the inhabitants against their up.
prinsors."

The following is au extract from a letter brought
by a gruel (ruin Malts
" C insv•avinormt„ dons 7.—The Seven Islands are
sow become who, l i..ng forc.aw they would, a trodeavous
for Pirates and tlm enems's cruisers, against our Bag and
amuse re. But it is astonishing, that the evidence of Earts,
he despite of all sound advice as long since given to OW Antral
Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean, has sat inehmed
him to Adopt the necessary measures for the effectual removal
Of Ail serious immtienienre.
" The blockade of the Black Sea keeps up tit exchange.
It Mat 18 Picastie Twit."
Letters of the 7th instant have been received
from the coast of France, according to which it
appears, that in France as well as in Sweden the
notion is prevalent that war will be renewed in the
North of Germany. We go not ourselves think
that this concurrence of opinion ought much to in.
fiance our judgment.
The private letters yesterday received from
FlushiN, represent the mortality among our
troops as /by no means diminished. Some of them
state that for some days previously to the 12th,
from 50 to 100 had died daily.
A mushroom of a very large size was pulled last
week, in a field near Bishoptun, and is nJw in
the possession of a Lady in Greenock. It mea-
sured in circumference at the broadest part, 43
inches, 211 inches in diameter. Its height mite
inches, exclusive of the stalk, and weighed
bib. sus.
On Thursday morning, as Mr. Granger, of
Kent-street, was returning from Greenwich in hi.
gig, his here took fright and ran against a wag.
gots, by which accidont M. Granger was thrown
out, and hid his arm broken.
In the memory of the oldest person living,
there has not been so great a profusion of nuts as
the present season auras: every hedge of hazel,
coppice, amid wood, teems with them ; they hang
as thick (almost) as the leaves that surround them.
This is the ease, not only in particular districts
and cowries, but throughout England. But if
the prodigality of nature is admirable in regard to
this beautiful production, so ought the public
caution to be no less,. in regard to its use. " The
kernels of nuts," says an eminent physician,
44 are extremely injurious to asthmatic persons;
they are hard of digestion, and stuffing, causing
shortness of breath, wheezing, Ike:" They should
not be prematurely gathered, nor immediately
used a week in the husk will Iliprove their fla-
vour, and render. them less exceptionable in point
of wholesomeness.
A curious discovery has just been made in the
archives of the French office fur Foreign Affairs.
It is a manuscript history of Poland, written in
1704, by command of the Government, by Fa-
ther Gouvert de Maubert, a capuchin. The his.
tory has been compared with that of the Acsde.
ukase Roiheres; and to the astonishment of all,
it has been found, that, wept 'some trifling sup.
pressiuns, or additions, he has copied a volume
and a half of his work, verbatim from Masbert.
The Pomona, Capt. LoYn, is arrivell at Ports.
mouri froth St. Kitt's. On the 28th ult. saw a
number of the fleet with loss of masts and sap.
masts; also several of the Jamaica fleet, which had
joined in the night. Captain Lr.oto counted GO
sail, but could nut discover the Commodore ;
spoke the ship l'homaa, Jf London, from St.
Kitt's; the mast. r said, she had four feet water
in the hold, and 014 could not free her ; the fore-

topmast wis blown over and mmen.tnast cut
• away. Spoke, on the 29th, the Iris, STRANGC,
from Grenada to London ; and the !sea, LLOYD,
from Trinidad to Dover ; each of them had both
their topmas.s blown over, and their foresails
blown to pieces. Spoke the Hero, BEAR, from
St. Vincent'-; to London; she had lost her foremast
and wizen topmast, and had the head of her rudder
twisted oti. 'rho hero informed Captain lA.O v
that he sow the Captain man of war the night be..
fore, making telegraph signals to the Exprcss
brig ; hee.mises.saast gone, and the brig's fore-
• top.mast.Captain LLOYD made sail in pursuit of
the shipaWhead, and left nine disabled ships, and
two 'Msk( loss, which had each a disabled ship
in tow; goo was a ship of 16 gnu,. formerly he.
loagisig Scotiandl and employed •in the slave
trade, ROW beleiglii•g to London. On the 31st
spoke the brig Parry, from Grenada t• Cork ;
she bed liken blofn over, but her topsails• gave
way, and, as lb. gale abated, abs righted: On
the @sirloin of the 2Stb saw two m oo a Wreck,
' but could not give theet spy existems. '