The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-05 00:00:00

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should dimiplind older seek circumstance; be m • minty en-
forced ? In the opinion of many. Olke►:, ordinar. . parades
ought to be dispensed with, Khan there are ric:;ree'v men
runnel in benitli to do the nece.sary duty. General Piero"
commands M
" Several of our ;.ssels rind gun•boats paned Wane Cad and
yesterday morning, and returned with interest the ftre of the
French Watt ries. We distinctly !maid a cannonade of some
hours continuance."

The advices brought by the Princess Mars from
Malta are of the 14th of July. They communi-
cateno events of importance. The packet sailed
from Cadiz on the 17th ult. Letters from that
place mentidn this arrival there of the Franct.,cu
de Paulo, from Vera Crue, with eight millions
of dollars on board. No additional information
from the British army in Spain had been transmit-
ted from the Junta at Seville, or by private
letters to the lith. Serious apprehensions were
entertained for the fate of Crcr ma, which, it was
feared, would at length be compelled to surrender.
Letters from Cadiz state the arrival at that place
of the Francisco de Paulo, from Vera Cruz,
with eight millions of dollars on board.
A Gottettinirgh Mail arrived last tt4ht, which
firings advices (tom Stockholm of the 21st ult.
lip to that date nothing decisive had occurred with
felted to the relations between Russia and Sae.
d n, and military operations were suspended.
On Monday se'nuight a Court-Martial encase-
bled at Portsmouth, to inquire into the conduct of
Captain H. E. Cut.vmstez, Commander of his
Majesty's late ship Solebay, and that of his OE-
errs, and ship's company ; and to try them fni
the loss of that ship. I'he Court agreed that no
blame was imputable to Captain Cozestams, nr
his officers and shin's cocripanj, for the loss of his
Majesty's late ship Solebay; but that it appeared,
the' after she was on shore, and Itzfore she was
abandoned, ,Michael Grace, 7'l:atria: Jones,
Charles Niletts, and Robert Storks, seamen, be.
lunging to he:, had been in a state of drunken.
ness ; and the Curt adjudg-d. that Captain Co.
LUND! NE, his Officers, and ship's company, be
acquitted, excepting Michael Grace, whom the
Court sentenced to receive 150 lashes, Thomas
Jones to receive 130 lashes, and Charles Niletas
atnl Robert Storks to receive 50 lashes each, and
to be mulcted, or to forfeit all the pay due to them
from the 11th of July last.
On Tuesday a Court-Martial was held at
Portsmouth, on JOHN ASHLEY, carpenter of his
Majesty's silt!) Dcrwent, for being drunk when or-
&red on duty, at the capture of Senegal ; so that
he was incapable of leading his men to the attack
of that plate. Ile was sentenced to be dismissed
the service, rendered incapable of serving as an
officer again, and to be imprisoned six months in
the Marshalsea prison.
A party of frieuil to the purity of Election,
consisting of about 80 respectable inhabitants of
!Leading, dined together at the Bar Inn, in that
town, on Tuesday last. Some resolutions were
passed, with a view to preserve the purify of
Electioa in that borough, and it Ina agreed to
renew the meeting next year. •C *3
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—A nuniorponaid In a
Ge Al.:mews family iu Paddington road, Mary-
e-'ione, and the daughter of a respectable fruit..
erer, after having gone out with the children,
retired to her bed-room, and in half an hour she
was missing, when called to breakfast. The door
Hof her chamber was locktxl, but the other servants
having some suspicion, the dour was forced open,
and she was found banging by the bed-post. The
body was cut down, and by the assistance
of Mr. Hawthorn, a surgeon, animation was re.
stored, after the young woman had been bled,
and put into a warm bath. Pregnancy was the
cause of the rash attempt.
CORONER'S i.NQUEST....-.An inquisition was tak cu

yesterday at Sunbury, hliddle•es, before Mr.
Hooosox, Coroner for Middlesex, on the body
of a master carpenter, in Jertnyu-street, who was
found drowned in the Thames, at Sunbury, on Sa-
turday last. It appeared in evidence, that the de..
ceased, who was an industrious, respectable
tradesman, left his house in Jet-ors:street, on
the morning of Monday se'nnight, anti be was
not heard of afterwards. He was found by some
fishermen in the River on Saturday, and tbr body
seemed to )save been two or three days in the wa.
ter. He had been seen in the nfighbourhood in
the early part of the week, and his loose conduct'
attracted some notice. It appeared also that the
deceased was subject to fits of derangement, and
in this situation he had before attempted suicide.
Verdict—Lunacy.
The report of the death of lady EctioT, lately,
at Worthing, in consequence of a dreadful *eel.
dent, we find, was out correct. It was Miss ISA-
ner.t.A ELLIOT, youngest daughter of the late
NICUOLAS ELLIOT, Lbq. of Winterborne Ginner,
neer Salisbnry. Miss ELLIOT was walking near
Worthisegos hen she was met by a boy on horse..
back, and the buy being unable to manage the
horse, she was beaten down against a wall, her
skull was fractured, and this melanCholy accident
occasioned her death. Her remains were brought
to Winterbortie, on Saturday, and deposittd in
the family vault.
Among the attractions of that annual scene of
amusement, Bartholomew Fair, the most promi-
nent is Mr. Pot.rro's exhibition of Wild Beasts
and Birds.—This beautiful and extensive collec-
tion, which has been exhibited before his Majesty
and the Royal Family at Windsor, and which has
attracted the universaJ admiration of the Nobility,
Gentry, and the Public, may now be seen near
St. Juba-street, Bartholomew-Fair, where Air.
POLITO has so provided for the accommodation of
his visitors, that these wonderful productions of
nature way be inspected without the slightest in:
convenience or danger.
Extract of a letter rrom Dr. Hartsseker, of Amsterdam,
to Dr. Andmy. of Pates:—" My dear Sir, to give )ne my
" opinion on the ruse you wrote me, l pelisse that mom,
1' are the cause of almost every 'anemic with which 01111-
.4 kind we ; also the hriste eresnieu is tlestruyett
" bs vermin of various kinJs. More than AV dillkteat ours
" of worms have been discovered, many of wbuui ore as
" ,sash as mites• and are seen in the wOO% of intui ts. I.tr,
mammy, of I,dinburgh. asserts, they are observed in the
e' hen patients are in 11l Issmit:l. Tory brio.; um fevers,
" ant even tits. awl a lock kill thoutonds of the human &specie ,
before Vl.r. are ever fuspected to be the cause."—P. 4. Sy,
wish that .:ay Medical utiationaa could sad a cue for
Worry, Mile tini (;out--than he would du more for the ow
id his fellow sesatares than any compirtat.

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