The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-08-04 00:00:00

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from the River and
illpr, for Jamaica ;
Ind.—Arrived the
and sailed for the
Neptune, Cowan,

'red his Majesty's
of France; his Ma.
tag. from a cruise;
Bprhice; and the
'Sailed his Mnjesty's
Bucopheims, Coylois, and
2nd to St. Helena—
Napoleon.

hie Majesty's ships
and Z,k, from a

rant:.
Cabinet Council
h eh was attended
Ibrrowby, gllof
1, the Right llon.
,e, Earl Muter-live,
.0. Earl of liuckre
W. W. Pole.
quarter before
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be accompanie ' by
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ise and four, with
Itleman went out 12
the Doke of War.-
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Paris in a few do's.
between one and
dais on Wednesday
during that day for
obtain one till nine

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GLOUCESTER. Atm. 2. • . I. • the city *ere abandoned. .
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liannah tiandcock, aged. 23, was indicted for the ;
A patio*. Sent foraard doting it t; night; littder
COL9Nttill. DEPARTMENT.
your liberal often. wilful murder of Geo. Smith; aged two years and I
.... . .. . . the command of Major tirriwitrigg. reached GOtti-
oodness to return the five months, on the 'l.d of June lest.. . Downing-street, "fogad. IL rooha eilily.in the Morning, and, fording the riier,
as the commence- : Mrs. Lord, pauper, of Yaley.—l life in the ! A dispatch Of•which the following is a cOpy, *AS aseertetned the truth of th. littelligitcties all ha peke.
workhouse: the Prisoneralso lived there; she had this day. receiied from Lieutenatta.General Sir K.
4 of WILLIAM and Batteries of great extent `gets ei octet; hero; retching
lrents of Elizabeth tiled there three weeks: she was called the little we- Brownrigg, K. B. dated Kandy, February 'l5, 1815. ttete t:ie (Allmon place of erasing for a eori-iderible
man : she was exceedingly deformed in• body, and addressed -to Earl Bathurst, one of -his Majesty's &thane. along the oppoSite bank. and commending
[plan and draw , up apjteared not to understand what was going forward.
.Principal Secretaries of State. - • - *the ford; but-were entirely destitute of either inert
I shall this "9"" The deceased also lived there do the ttl of June. I . 11;if,rts Heart-quarters, Vehriviry 9.5, 18i5. or gans. ' Hideous di jeers of the King's resetifirient
with vie accredited
.went to a pasine where there is a window—it is nine r MY Loan,—For some Jaya Subsequent to the bore pteQuted tht.M.Clveil, Ito the remains of pbr
icy and his neigh. or ten yards from Betts Smith's room. I went down date of the last dispatch, which I had the bonottr to • aretehei %theft lip On poles bit both aides di the
FEn NINO has been, stair, and found the deceased in the arms oflary
address to your Lordship, on Kandian affairs, dated titer, Seven of 'Which *ere full he Siva at the feity;
test good man, and Itlalf ' rack; the child was in a dying state; its skull s,
the 16th of January, no circumstance occurred of and the whote avenbet taunted in that 'neighbour.
was 'fractured ; I threw my apron over it, and wrap- • sufficient consequence to be reported to jotir Lord. .bond *as- 19.
more than 'lO years ped it up ; I found the Prisoner sitting on the lied in ' ship, • the several divisions of the invading (mete Major Moffatty WIN the aeltatitis is? the oeCiiiiii
)thing but to esta. Betty Smith's room ; I avlseti the Prisoner .at the bar being partly in movement and partly prepavingtO, •disistnr; Wilk a few ralsit in frObt of the general
and conviction, as why she threw the child out of window : she said move.
Lencamptettnt;• Wee; by Maj..i litho IMO, ..H bin
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~HE POOR AND A she did it, Our the child would not hurt ;it lised an It was found, however, that great, and apparent- retain withal! parole, dlr.nied err pre reed forivald
r JUSTICE. i hour and 4 half; the window is three feet two inches 1T insurmountable difficulties *nut(' occur in pro. 'to Gotta-00Ni lb tiniesiettite of thy Orders td hat
from the finer of the room. ! visioning the troops, on sn.many routes, ivith our I Effect.
Mary Ilandcork, also a pauper in the workhouse. scanty means Of Conveyance, and I. determined ih i • On tetirdittit the • tritogrdrie cilirt(chlars; I. an she
- 1 The window is three or four feet from the door; I . consequnce on a modification of the pion'. •• *Chit ; Mir, dispefehed Mnier W Herniate; t)ep.1.44 art 'r•
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Mowing ships from : saw the child before it came to the ground : it fell on . alteration consisted chiefly in disposing the march cif 1. Mittniellettetel, fourth,. 'Cindy, with italltructionli
th four fish ; Man-
stones •, I heard its skull crush on the stoops ; there the troops in such a manner, that the Ist. and $l ,to lateveat thir poriihllity of ittjury .6 pee!4Onsi br pro:
did not seem any life in it for several minutes ; I -divisions, the 3d and 4th, the 6th and 7th, Should : pttrty, by pthhihilitig the rot') of the triiitp. iriihin
faey and Elizabeth, went to 'fetch the surgeon from Duraley ; I after- arrive on the same line, and, at certain. convenient the gates of thit city, other* ise thah as ati.rd,; us,dee
;ht with 13 fish on wards look broth to the Plisotter, I asked her how points,. 'lithe togetnev ; enarrangement *Welt, lam such disposition- is Major Witterman might judge ad:
'ry bad this year. she came to do it; she said she did it, said should happy to sa), brought the supplying of the army siseble.

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not he hurt t•or it ; n manner was nut uncommon ; within our means, and laid the ground-work of 'a i. Mr.; DINIey; ehb bed atoentitpflitied the pierelo
she was not a person of good understanding, but in- successful progress towards the several assigned the preceding emittr, and remelted at Gelearoolta
offensive, she seemed to have no understanding at all, places of desti„ati„ arm" the wee
until jellied by gent Altiffatea, detaehnieist; With
she was always melancholy. • Ott the Ist of February I learnt, by a letter of welch, before the artital of Major Willerhion; ea
. Mr. Cave, master of the workhouse.—The Pd- the 30th of Illusory., from Major Hook, that the Ist had advanced to the city, *Shia visit Glued leilitely
inner had been in the workhouse three %seek., upon ems
division, under the command of that officer, had deserted of inhabit 1 • 4ofall , ant steppe.
ithe te•ritli of her mother •, she appeared to he of weak reached Garitatey••ni, situate at the font of the leslani empty chests, basema, and mato, Were the only
. intellect, and I treated her as such, awl was very Mountains, .and on the great road leading through thews fouled, eteept !mute few ',HOPS ttf eurolents,
careful of her ; I never suffered her to he out of the Pass Of Gravel of that name towards the city of not portable enough her of aufficiele WU, te be tee
sight of some person, as I had heard she hail attempt- Wsnee, moved.
ed her life; I never heard of her disposition to Lieut.-Col. O'Connell, with the 2tl divisinn, was The detachment encamped withotit the ease.
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do violence to others ; she took but very frith •g close in the rear, telvaireittg to the same point, from On the 13th in the mom *g I left the poaitien it-
notice of the event., and wit no more moved than a w hick Mojor !leek was then to diverge to the left Anieboopnura, with Lieut. Wolter &Cemell's di.
• stock. The window hos bore examined by a masan, (near(' Way witile, in the seven Kellett, to co-ope- visiou, which I meet, to halt et a ctinvettient place
land it being three or four feet from the door on the rate with Captain De liassche, already in that on the hitherside of the river, proceeding myself to
inside, it is impeasilde the child could have climbed quarter, with a smelt foriv, formed. to supply the the Kitereefenare between (instants:eta atie ;he tette,
not ; it is twenty feet to the ground outside. absence of the auxiliary corps, originally expected where I wooled the night, and on see (Meeting flay
Mr. Fry, Surgeon, of Dursley.---i examined the• from Nvins. entered-Kandy with my pelmet suite, aid filed my
child; it diet) by injury of the brain. No serious opposition was made to the advance of quarters in the Palace.*
On the pert of the Prisoner three or four wit. these divisions. The first Adikar of the King of Kin. In the mean time I had learnt by reporle teen
nesse* proved that she was incapable of distinguish- dy, by name Molligrulde, brother to the Dile!~ of the Major Hook, that he had been Warfel to reliance,
ing right from wrong'. and had attempted to drown three Korles, who had previously come over to the In prosecution of a• plan formed with Captain de
herself and Cut her throat. British territory, and himself •DvViate a the four Bussche, who, with his detachment had ascended
the Jury, therefore, found her Not Guilty, on Kerte'. kept hovering in front of Major Hook's the Jaltoewre Grant* and wail le ttimmunication
the ground of insanity. She was, theiefore* com- march, with some foltosiers, hut hail intimated both with the first division, at a short distouctote the left.
netted to custody for life n •ear the statute. to Major Hook ewe Mr. D'Oy, ley, that he was de. Information which throw Officers had received,
sirous to join (tat British standard, end Ma 3 only rendered it probable that the King was about to
We are sorry to !yarn that Capt. Hewitt:newt, prevented from doing so by his apprehension for the fly, sod that the only remaining hope bf securing
of the Hon. Company's ship Matto's, and Captain .fate of his family, who were under the King's power him was by a rapid and sectet movement of those two
MeNavre., of the extra ship Coldstream, died 31 sea. in the capital, hut whose liberation or escape be ex- carol.
lie veettear.—ieist night the Play of The Iron peeled as soon as the troopti should advance sufficiently I we's apprise() by Major Kelly that he iterit after
Chest was performed. Mr. Menaerr &smelter' for neat to Kandy to induce the- King to retire from that a feint reiriatenceby the enemy, possessed -himself of
the first time the character of Sir Rdwird Mortimer. place: he further gate it to be understood, that at. the batter We commateling the Idalgasinha Pass awl
Every time this Gentleman appeori.hefore the Public though he was obliged to keep- up the eppearauce of weeded Site moutwains. A subsequent letter of the
he seems to have gained ground lii their favour, Rue firing, he would sin no harm ; a'el in all these points, .13th announced the further progress of this Willem
last night certainly with much justice, for he sur- although hi, assurances could not in prudence he as fare, Materate, end by are. dated In ilea after.
paved any of his preceding exertions. To go into fully confieed in at tle awe be afterward, faithfully iscroe of the same day, at Magpie Dohbirda Ga.
a detail of his performance would °tile be to repeat kept his word. •• ; - • , ',•- • ;' itteeteeetwellie's marthereist Matneratiketle/ teeelved
the opinlons we have already given relative to his In the evesiwg of this day (the Ist of Sebinary).l by toe on the 14th. eiwiwaftet reechingibe Palace, I
merit* and faults ; we shall, therefore, content our. left Colrenter to join the army, and -proceeded by the was informed 4 Major Kelly hoeing seised together
selves with sayitig, that, on this occasionehe achieved route of Atissahaselle (iatestly called Sittawakka) .wins a great deal of treasure) a tneltilier et oomph
more, because heattempted less. We cement, how. awl through the Oleo and four Korles hawse's Lies- end children, wham htcoolltharedsin he of the Ki; g's
ever, *void mentioning the manoer it, which he gave tenant-Colonel o:Connell's camp, at Creneteynni. family ; but this idea was art 143111111411• blond er.one.
the first ioliloquy, it was re illy thinking aloud, anti While at Kooroonagodde, on the 3d of February,* ooi, though several of the women prove 4 lu -he re.
received a just tribute of applause. The house was letter from the Lieutenant-Crewel, dated at Game "sled and Wiled to pique* deer Kismet r•••ileitie.—
crnwrierl, and the play, on the whole were off well., ter iini, °it the td, informed, that. tlit ailverece ;if Tee treasuse 44 feportett to 'consist of all cull's of
Doctor Metes Pocusfollowed, in which !Netnews that division, under Major Moffatt, of the Ist4ey. deferable desciiptionte hoteetteld liripledeentss and
drew forth ewrsts of applause. Inn regiment, having been detached to support a ornaments of sliver, ttotheeteight of ebbed 1000Ib4.
Lyceum Tusteite.—Previous to the beginning of patrole which ties conceived to be .in danger, had :No muter had heed receited of Major Mackis's
the Play fist 'eight,
,hills were circulated, annoenc. advaticed so near the fortifies . post which commands uppresch, with the fifth division; from Tiiirtentelee,
petitioned the Admi. ing, that an aeceteet hod rendered it impossible for the Beate Pate, that it was deemed advisable to at hod calculated with dottliviencethat lie twos' he within
is sermen from the Mr. T. Cooky to perform the part of Ilardicausae, tack it; an it had been carried, sifter a ' Weis* tWo,or three days' march. •
into consideration. and that, iii consequence, the Mod Hposrei *mild opposition. , .i., ,-, -• • I bad learnt hy reports frneeMajor.flen. Jackman,
ire• now on hoard the he pe-tponad, and My. Aunt, The Beehive, sod At Attypittya, on the 4th,• I teceired Major that, notwithstanding the moat melee* and aletioth
conveyance to the linrkquin Hoax represented in its stead. On the Heck's report, dated- from Gerigamme the preyed. exertions on his part, the Moilsnient of the oth divi.
vessels epf war, for rising of the curtain, isoMe disapprobation was et. inn 112 y, apprising me that he bad taut possession eon haitteen retarded much !aslantl the apisoineel
countries. Oy this pressed ; best on Mr. IteYeoateet coming forward to of that strong position and • the neighbouring hill tinves,bransteidableand insurmountably difficulties
,sr all British milers sophist the cause ofehe alteration, good humour was fort of Galgederah, with hastily any resistance and 'in theemettni'M catrisge, and cileteeving that the
the opportune,. restored, and the whole performance excite) bursts no loss. , stte, roll ifispositionene the treopealready in the
;hire, in which county •of merriment and applause, which testified the satis. On the oth I reached Ganeteynni, where it be. field Itoioltilitbvesuificient tiesieremplett the object!
occurred by the rapid faction of the nuilienee. , • came necessary to halt for some days, to give time' of the estepaien, I adoireased'Oele. Jarktriat on the
ry re-overly requested A eailing Match took place on- for the cosicentra Wednesday last, tion of the &seines advancing from 15;h inst. countermanding' the match of the sixth di.
for the County aid between the Mercury, Captain Watley, end the Si. Trinetenaleseeed the east tide of the Keedien tern. vision, and the return of any portion of it that might
into Parliaaseut, for George, Captain Guerston; the boats were started testy. LieurenaneColonet O'Cnitnell was encamped be out the march. • • • ''
le occurrences. ; friers Blarkivall, by signal from the Cumber/end, It resulted from this 'Puede of the troops, that
here, and Major Moffatt posted at Amennopoors,
,ere billeted in one Commodore Taylor, soon lifter eleven; the.Merrury owe mile and a half bey nod the Pass, and a free com- the King, a lio was known to be in the Dessaasay of
;ud. The owner of had the advantage of the start, the St. George having Dnmbera, with a small tether of irthereuts, wes et
munication opeiebetween the Iwo corps.
titl I have get rid of fooled her rigging. and there being little wind the !bee the MOM. Melligniide, by a message through environed, as to render his escape extremely difficult,
iii inmates drank me Mercury kept rather ahead, hot on the breeze hest,- Mr. DOyley, requested permission to surrender him- and if he did succeed itegetiing thrmigh the Pass lead.
a day of one sort or ening the St. George purled the Mercury of Wool. molt with the banners end records of the four Korles el to his last place of terve, the mountains of Bin_
for I had prepared with; Galleons and half Beaches • the boits kept of which he is Dwaine. having received intimation •tenue Capt. Anderson, of the 19th Regiment, cons.
tar, which few men close to, and frequently. heading each other, of the escape'nf his family from Kandy. My con• mantling the 7th division from Bitticala, would ar.
Prostians I find have , and every means was used by each to ;or to sent being signified to him, he, on the Bth of Fe- rive at that point, with every probability of inter.
ering. i the windward, but neither, boat (so equally were bruary, came into camp in state, attended by a cepting him.
om Canada, amount. , they matched) had the advantage. They kept number el Chiefs of the four Korles, who had not I now made a claim on 'ihe Adikar Eheylanola,
1, arrived yesterday deal together, and passed rotted the receiving previously appeared, anti formally gave op the ii;. for the performance of his promise to raise the pen.
j ship at Gravesend, at the ;same time. It, coming epee tied records of his Deviate into the hands of pie of these provinces. so as to present the knee
Alton, a few evenings up the wind had increased and was nearly ahead; Mr. D'Os ley, whom I had deputed as Commissioner escape, and to ascertain the precise place of his tee
if the Poor Gentle- in beating to wind through . Northfleet-hope, the on the part of the British Government to coulee with treat, to which a detachment might be sent to make
Was mach pleased at Mercers passed the St. George, and in St. Cle. him, I him prhorter.
scenery (says one of mend's Reach was nearly a mile a.heed ; sites-which Learniag by reports from Major Kelly, command- Thislmilt the Adikar undertook with alacrity end
re wanted somewhat the St. George shifted jibs, and presently came big the 3d division, end proceeding through the crottidetteee steering to proceed to Bombers lit pers
lidshipsrosn. up with and passed the Mercury, and kept her dis. province of Saffrogam and Ourah towards the ludul- son : disptisislotis were
.made for the peewee's,. pure
'south for two days, tante a-head from long Reach to Booby's Hole, gasinha Pass, that he couldbe sufficiently advanced pose, by peeparing a detachment to accompal *the
Imed Anderson, who where it 641 calm; the Mercury shortly after got a to support a forward movement on the part of Lieut.- , Adikar, and dispatching another te• form a elmin of
ither.in.law's house, f esti breeze from the north, and kept it to wind. Col. O'Connell and Major Heok's divisions, I, on military communication with Major Kelly's force ets
on Saturday morn- ward, while the St. George lay becalmed. This the 10th, directed Lieutenant-Colonel O'Connell to Heugeraukette.
on Totedly evening; partial breeze decided the wager in favour -rof the ascend the Pass, and occupy Major Milieu', post. Every *Wing being thus prepared, the Adikar ape
;ainst vnung Jerruns Mercury. alio come round the buoy et Blackwoll tine, sending his detachment a littleei advance; and i out for Dombera, on the 10th, preceded by the 11...
411(1 Wilful Murder about a minute before the St. George. This wager on the 'teeing of the.same day, I joined the camp tachment- under the command of Lieut. Mythic, of
her.iteiaw of the de- excited considerable interest among the Captains of 'at AmennOpOnta• -• • • - 1 the Ist Ceylon regiment, and accorreatitied by Mee
the other boats who sailed in the match on Monday The Adikar Cheyiapola, who had followed my , ITOyley, who, on his arrival at leikkeytaealm, let
:teems. Jun. has been lost, and all of them attended on the occasion, , progresses fir ea Ganeteynni, proposed to take a l the rotenone of the same day, Intind the dwfgetint•iit
hich bids fair to make eon. fscilaser. Awe 4.—The wheal Melee les very dideient route from thence; and being furnished with already there. and !emelt It at they had fallen in with
it are ter) striking, ~,, 1101111 h,a Oil, 111 g. al les. than M.s. day's prices —Gott Is. KO escort of *hoot 50 menu proceeded up the moon- a party of the King's people, and, liter a sharp re*
rheaper.—in toilet Grain n , v einem,.
role p: Lucas and Wm, by a. road to the right, le ding to the province aistance, but without loss on ofir side, had killed
StiIITHFIKLO MAKKFT.-.-Aucs. 4.
+owlets with much Te :.It the owns, per at-.mw re sir. 'l of Oudinoora, the introbitants.of which he was &sir- three and reseeded wee-amid eaptued a number of
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:st's Horsemanship, is Beef ... 4- 61 to 5a 11. 1 Herat a Cottle this itow i .oalll. commainicire with. .
persons two of theih were near relatkiii of the
• , Mutton .4, 61. a 6.. 61. , Messrs
lfe. ere .. 5. tut a. 6 6t, I she" - all were related-or allied to him,
-at leoen's of the Pee... Si. 6s. s ',,. 6. 6,. cal.'Orley, that a diveinit of the
hiving unfortunately L,01) • • •60. 011• in 7,. 0... Pio . 3lO •Ilth troops, aeppr•seteso he that commiusdedly Major This account, 'dated the lathe reached me on tlta
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' I Hook, had reached Katueomotte, a ferry of the 17th, and theaente day the priannert were snit in t
oat lietwe with a very
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'lust river colle Metievillignega. about three miles 'ellen. conferee! with, they chi e With earnest.
from Batavia to Great , el •rer
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- *seat s•-- Beetle yd. to Ilt. Oa. • 01. 4listent from Kandy ; that the Jibs; usa 4s4ue 90! :Ageilithrig gOlaikahm Walt* UK' W 1 11111374/
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