The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-21 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
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swotrg. dec. AL—Arrived the Marianne. Parker;
ll Cape of Good llope.—Sailed the Ida. for Hour:
; and Brothers, for Jamaica.—Wind N. E.
' beta, Dee. 20.—Win4 E. N. E.
Y./AE.IIOI/TR, DEC. 10, 0 P. M.—Several homeward-boan
vessels are now putting in ; among them. the Albion, oi
4 Londo nd the Est, of Bristol.—Wind E.N.E.
London
PLY TO. Dar 10.—Arrived His hlaj•titt'a Ship Glou-
cester, in the Eastward. and remaind in the Sound with
His Majesty's ships Phaeton, Eden. and Valorous; also ar-
rised, the Dwarf Cutter from a cruize. Put in to take pas-
sengers for Sierra Leone; the Nepoe Trader, from Loa•
don, for Sierra Leone; and arrived the Martha. Colliab,
from Newbunilland and Borodino, 3$ days from St, John's.
New Brunswick.—The Berwick, for Van Diarnan's Lind,
sailed yesterday engers.—Wind E.
Hanwictr. Dar,wed the Vanslltart,Masternsao,
, with mails from 11 ind N.H.
• LivierooL, 64 Majesty's Brig, Racehorse,
was lost on Sunchly 4,011 the Isle of Man, sod Ma of the
MN and three boatmen were drowned.
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The following elegant olorceaa Was picked up In a bottle
at Sully, on 11th Dec.:--
.1 Western Olen, on board the brig Royal Union, for
Quebec to Dublin, out twenty-three days, lat. 48. lb n.
long. 40. In. W. of Greenwich, by Jas. Phelan, cable pas.
sugar:Friday: Sept. 27. ISM"
" Wheeaer may this bottle find;
By reporting us will he kind;
Will sedsfy these who're concerned,
-- .Arel reap the fruit of oar ship's errand : .
. , • Now may you have a prosperous gale,
With as much aft as bear top gallant sail ;
And may you in tie haven lie,
Safe moored beneath a tranquil sky; :_
And may yeti have a happy year, ' - .
Warm fires, good wine, and hearty elicit,"
Psomeretaeism.—Yesterd bout tad o'clock, II
prodigious crowd sesembled raleston, t Mr. Res:-
sell, the pedestrian. set out on- match to wale . mites
In eisueeessive hours. Owing, however, to edam derail
with the proprietor of the groatel adjoiniegerhore be west*: '•
walk, he did nut commence till half past Elie o'clock. Wines 4
lit became dark, torches were procured, sod the crowd hi;
Incased every moment till nine o'clock, whea It is coojwl4 7
isl
tared upwards of five thous' were present. The n'ght
was exceedingly dark, and a no, rof ralschlevouslauthe .?
surrounded a large gally,,ete ho full of mad, towage ,
syllich, when any person approa ed, they opened MO- '
;plinke, and allowed them to fall in. Hundreds were taken is
llythTsatrahtgein,which seemed to eve great plessere toyhe
eMpectators. as was testified by a loud shout at every homer.
on of a new victim Russell. tams atima, was getting on
at a steady pease about 8 miles or b miles ao hour. and at
17 minutes to II this forenoon had accomplished 83 miles.—
(Gbassfore Won. of Tuesday.)
A man getearneTownsend, on Monday last, for the seke of -
what heoeut4 of the lookers•on, walked the space of
SI mite; backward, In five hours and a half! The ground
by chose kw this undertaking was from the middle of Dl-
ses Greco to the bridge on the London road—a quarter or
Lai mile stance. Tile time he • allowed himself was six
`hours, but he aeromplished his task within the five hours
and a hitf.—(Devires Gezotti.) '
Duct. PREVYNTEI).—A dad, between a farmer and a
miller, who reside in the western part of this county,
'was, a few days ago, prevented, by the interference of
the Civil power. The farmer, to chew his • pluck,' has .‘
posted his opponent on his trim doors. There is no
doubt bet that a real pistol fight would have liken
place, had not a surgeon, who was applied to to Wiwi
the combatants to the field, blabbed the secret.—(Brie.--
too Herald)
On Saturday Meld, the 'Mt list. Mr. Hunt, head mime- •
keeper to the Hight Hoe. Robert Peel, it Laiworth Ca that
received lafereeatko that a badly of poachers Intended
night to eater his master's plantations, Immediately sum
mooing his &mistimes twelve In number, be awaited their ,•
wised, mad belawenallevint aed twelve o'ctoek seta diechs rge
of
littoral ens intmaisedd tier r near approach. Mr. Hunt •
on challenging them, was answwittbf -1 Wren wets ap —"—
peered to act as lea.ler, who said, "We are five-and thirty
strong and are for • death or glory;' but we Will not use
fire-arms unless your party fire first. ' Turning to his Will
he then threatened to /11001 the first that loft the fluid; and
placing them in military array, a gemeral-fight ensued
Both parties wets sensed with Mahe and steinatis (Metre-
meats much used by polishers, aml resembling flails.) After .
a combat of 20 minutes, the poachers retreated. leaving be-.
hied them several pheasants which they had previously
killed, hut taking away the keeper's valuable dad:tie-barrel
gun. Hach Poacher was distinguished by a white handker-
chief mind hit hat. Mr. Hunt was much hurt, and received .
many deep moues in the head, but immediate assistance
being obtained, he is now fast woman: all his men
were more or less braised, en al the poachers suffered se-
verely, as was amply shown by the bloody state of the
ground on which the Only occurred. An account being
transmitted to Mr. Peel, et the time in London, ea active
Bow-street officer (Bishop) was immediately sent down, end
we have pleasure in stating that his exertions have led to
the pprehension of set eral of the offenders. It appears the •
greater part ofthe gang belong to Milborne, Piddletown, and
adjacent a s/es—distant twelve or fourteen miles from Lit it-
worth. Thomas Jeffries, and Rimed Marlin, of Mil-
borne; Drouta Skinner and Stephen Scott. of Ptddletown.
and John Rower, of Woolbridge. labourers, charged with •
with this nffenee, have been committed by James Frampton,
Zsq. to die gaol at Dorchester, for trial at the eusuiag
County Sessions.—(Dorchester Gazette:)
Rice.—The late storm did much damage to some of
the houses in Ince, near this city. The one occupied by
dse Rev. Mr. Peel, however, sustained the greatest.—
While the storm was raging with its ittmost-molenee, at ,
about half-pact ten, a stack of chitnnies fell upon. the .
roof, which burst into the garret with • tremendous
crash ; forced that floor into the room below, and finally
karst into the latter ; the whole mass of bricks, tiles,
mortar, and two doming% being precipitated into the
kitchen:. At this time Mies Peel, a child of Mr. Peel's
sod the nurse, were in the kitchen, and, what is truly
surprising, not on, of them was injured. It news the
mass of ruins descended towards the outward side of the
boner, where the 'pars and boarding of the second door,
shaken from their fastnesses in the wall. gars Way, ant.
fell in a body, while the opposite extremity of the hoard-
ings, though entirely Ipesened or broken otr from, the
Inner wall, remained resting agaiest it, the floor now
presenting an oblique position, somewhat resembling the
ridge of a house. Prosidentially the individuals named
were sitting in that part of the kitchen over which the
1 flooring struck, and were thus p d from being
buried in the ruins. At the time of this extraordinary
preservation, one, not much less singular, occurred is
another part of the house. Two of Mr. Peel's children
were in bed at the time of the cfllllll, io a room adjoining
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tne cbambpr which had fallen in, when a quantity of bricks
, and slates proceeding from the inner wall of „the upper
I. room, fell upon a curtain at the top of a camp-bee,
in which the children lay. The weight of the ruebist.
sae at least sixty poonle, which, though it did not blast
through the curtain, forced it downwards to within ita!f
a yard of the children, and formed the appearance of A
bag, hanging immediately oYer illeel. Of course, im-
mediately after the accident took place below, these in-
nocents became ol;ects of solicitude, and on the servants
reaching their room, they were found aslaep and unbutt! .
Au out-door servant man happening to he on the pre-
mises when the doors fell, alarmed the neighbours, se-
veral of whom rap to the house, when Illiss Peel, four
children, andtell the servants, were taken front the scene
of desolatiorf to Mr. Warisorton's 'Cant-house, where"'
tbey retuaioe I for that night. The Ril i'. Mr. Peel and
his L idy happened to be on a visit at Oxford, as ire ate
informed, when the accident took place.—(o.eve,.
Guardian.)
The frost his set in keenly at
few days; the adjoining hills al
and the country has *ll tile apps,
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Berwick, witbii three
ire c !owed wiltl bet.ll,
exaoce of winter'.
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