The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-11-02 00:00:00

STATESMAN.

city. If we add the stringers who continue to ar.
fire, and thOse who are expected, especially from
'England, it is certain that Brussels will be very
brilliant. _ _

The fortresses of Marienborg and Philippeville,
which with their territory are ceded to the Nether-
lands, though they have been very warmly attacked,
have happily not sustained much damage, and their
fortifications are in the.best condition : only a few
houses in the interior of the town ha►e been injured
by the bombardment. It is affirmed that Mensal'
and Charlcmont are to be occupied by the Prussian
troops on the 10th November.
'Palma iv expected here this week to perform a few
times. It is supposed he will soon after leave the
stage and go to live on his estate.
VIENNII, OCT. 18.—It is affirmed, that by a Con-
vention concluded between our Court and the King
of the Netherlands, this Monarch engages to dis-
charge the bonds of the Netherlands, which were
reduced in 1811, and which were still a bootless upon
Austria. This measere strikes off at once about
sixty millions of the public debt, and esonerstes
Austria from its engagements to the holders of those
bonds. This news has mulled a rise in the paper
currency, and it is hoped it will further improve.
The gratuity given by the Emperor to the Officers
of the Austrian Army, is said to amount to silt mil-
lions.

A stroll; representation has been made to Govern.
merit during the present week, relative to the ap.
Frsrance of approaching insurrection in a part of
lrehind hitherto free from nocturnal disturbances ;
and we understand it was stated in reply by the Se-
cretary of State, that 10 regiments would reach Ire-
land witliuut delay.
We hear that several agents are in town from
America and from Rus4a, engaging the ablest of the
seamen who have lately been disbanded.
Batusrom, Nov. I.—Several respectable French
fAinilies are now daily arriving from France, which
gives rise to the fears of a new re-action on the ere
of commencing in that country. The promenades
on the Steyne and Marine, have yesterday and this
morning displayed a pleasing contrast between the
novelty of the costume of the Parisian belles and the
unadorned simplicity in the dress of our fair coun-
trywomen. The rage of Domes and the equinoxial
tempests having subsided into fine weather our fa-
shionables participate in the enjoyments of bathing
and pedestrian excursions.
This morning our fishermen were enabled to bring
in their boats well freighted with the treasures of the
deep, and with such a plentiful supply of herrings
that they are retailed at 24 for a shilling.
SrORTING.—On Monday a fine slog was thrown
off on our race coarse, who commenced running in
escellent style alone the Downs, and after a severe
pursuit of 10 miles was overtaken by the hounds
sooner than was espected, which was owing to so
numerous a field of sportsmen encircling and mobbing
the stag In his rapid progress over an extensive and
open country.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India-house, when Captain T. Wmatssos was
sworn into the command of the Cumberland, des-
tined to Bombay and China.
011 Saturday last, at Louth, a person of the name
of Armstrong Will taken into custody for marrying a
Miss Etheringhans the preceding Monday, he having
a site living, at the same time within a few miles of
that place.

To um EDITOR or Tint STATESMAN.
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Sunday morning a young MA of the name of
'of the field, and have not since ventured into the
Robinson, holding the situation of Captain's clerk, ' reeding.room, without first ascertaining that old
on hoard the Cordelia sloop of war, lying in the Med-
way, having on account of bad health been removed , hard-mouth, as they call my friend Bowurro, was
to the Argonaut, hospital ship, jumped out of one of `not there. It is, indeed, vendetta to see the im.
the port holes of that ship, on the side where no portance assumed by these men in the navy, who
boats happened to be, and was drowned before time- ! owe their promotion entirely to having been six
ly assistance could be afforded. The body was found years on the quarter-deck, and being the son of
shout one o'clock. lan assuming, overbearing Returning Officer, 'or a
Iphigenia frigate, which has been so long de. I
burgess of great credit in the borough, who can
at Portsmouth by contrary wind., sailed on '
: influence the election. When the produce of such
13y for the Cape and Bengal, with dispatches,
specie to the troops. I men are to be provided for, the professional merit of
bract from a letter, dated Cape of Good Elope, old deserving Officers, who are Gentlemen in their
12, 1815 :--" Lord Mont t has 'node a to. manners and in education, counts for nothing ; and '1
ion to Lord CHA rtLEs So... Ease- (our Governor I appeal for the truth of this to Mr. CROKRB, and
Comn.ander in Chief), for as many European also to Mr. 'Lie, who well understand what they I
)pi as he can spare. The war in the Isiepaul
are about. When your Correspondent, S. STAR.
try, which he is carrying on, you may he sure
,ry destructive to
our troops. We have, ill BOARD, spoke of th
emodesty and of the patrimony!
sequence, already sent two divisions of the 79th of these two personages, the whole room burst into
'spent from hence; the last will follow to-morrow. a fit of involuntary laughter—even the pettyfogger
` Sir A. CAmener.r. has sent from the Mauritius and the two Corporation men forgot their servility
7th regiment, with the flank companies of the and their interest, and for once in their lives scented
Atld the light company of the 12th regiment.— to be subdued by truth and honesty.
aDel KEATING, who was lately Governor of the ,
'isd of Bourbon, is gone with these troops to ! I am, Sir, yours,
'll. They are told they will proceed direct op Near Pl)asoutir, Oct. 20. MATT. NIZEN.
Nepalil country, although there are only 1001
'f the 66th regiment left at Fort William.— ! A person, by examining the condition of Notting.
Irbon was delivered up to the French on the 6th ham at the present time, may discover the full dlr.
,pril. The merchants have been thrown into greet ference in the meaning of the words Peace and
trrassmeets in this settlement, by the Corn. Plenty, which used to be considered as inseparable
(Sir G. Buer.von) having taken on the Cal* companions. Peace we have, or at least the great
to India.—We learn this from Rio Janeiro, men tell us so, and we of course must believe them;
.re it was made known that she would not touch bat how fares Plenty .1 We have plenty of frames
The Centaur, 74, Captain CAucemn, it standing still—plenty of moo out of employment—
'
. to return to England." . plenty of women clothed in rags—plenty of children
About thirty years ago, the price paid to the half-starved—plenty of prisoners—plenty of soldiers
growers of wheat was nearly the same as at the pre- i --plenty of useless warehouses—plenty-of travellers,
period. The quarter.' loaf then sold in Lon. ! who bring plenty of orders for money, not for goods
at from sf. to 7d. It is now at Ild. per —and tradesmen".'meetveptenty afters, lest they should
tern. I not make things and tie."—Ctiollinghoes R.
rom the hourly increasing demand for Tickets view )
A. Shares, we understand most of the Lottery ! SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On the 29th of September
Ofhce.keepers have been obliged to increase the num. a boy employed at Messrs. Cooper's manufactory, at
of their Clerks. Those Ladies and Gentlemen Staverton, near Bradford, had his right thigh corn.
have not already received their favourite or be. pletely torn from his body near the hip joint, in con.
/he Tickets, are solicited to apply for them before sequence of his apron becoming entangled in a
(Imlay morning, for, as the Drawing begins the machine, called the gig. What renders this occur.
awing day, the pressure at the crowded Lottery rence remarkable is, that the boy has never sustained
Iffices on Monday will he inconvenient, particular. any loss of blood whatever, either at the time of the
Ladies.— N.B. The Three Prizes of 850,000, accident or 'subsequent to it, although no arteries
'he Four "'sizes of £20,000, may all be drawn could he sewed. lie is considered free from danger
'uesday. land is rapidly recovering.
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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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Sta,—Do not suppose that because I live in the flattertcrr, Nor. I.—Arrived the Edgar, Har.
neighbourhood of this notoriously rotten Borough, 'luso, from Archangel, with linseed, for London,
that lam a Plymouth man, or a Poole, ore Gospoi t, with lots of anchor and cable; Frances, Eleanor,
with bailey, from Leith for London, with Inv. of
or Portsmouth man, or that I come from the Cinque
ditto.—Sailed the following packets : Earl of
Ports. My father was neither a cheesemonger, a fish-
Leicester and Crisilereagh, for Holland; Lady
monger, nor - a borough-monger, in any of the above.
llepttan and Ilenro Freeing, fur Cuxhaven ; and
mentioned places, but a plain unaffected Vicar in this Active, for Gottenburgh.
county, with only his vicarage to maintain seven ej Ponosuourn, Nor. I.—Arrived the John Powell,
boys and live girls, and with no pretensions to the from Palermo, and is ander qoarntoitte; the Pereeval,
notice of his parishioners hut his virtues. iiiS eldest NewShor, ham, Albion, and Robust transports, from
the Down,.—Sailed his Majesty's ships Sparrow and
son be contrived, by many' self-denials, to seed to
college. I was dispatched to sea with Commodore Lightning., for Chatham.
Dune, when he was chaced by the French fleet in DEAL, Nov. I.—The Danish ship Mercurius,
from Copettliagen for St. Croix, is the ship supposed
Quibernn Bay, which the gallant Ilawits at that :
to lie lost on the Good win Sands on the night of the
time attacked and defeated. I passed for a Lieu- :
tenant in 1766; but hawing nothing but my services and 30th ult. The ship's log and papers have been picked
certificates of good behaviour from the several Cap- : up, from which the abuse information was obtained.
tains I sailed with to plead in my favour, I had the It also appears she had several Danish ioldiers on
honour to hold the rank of Midshipman, and fag as bnerd. The whole, with the crew, it is feaied, have
Second, and finally as First Mate of a merctinntman, : perished.—Sailed several small transports for Dover
until the American war broke out, in 1775, when Roads. .
efficient officers being scarce, I was appointed a PLYmourn, Ocr. 31.—Came in the Sovereign,
Lieutenant, where I have stuck ever since, without the Myrtle, Nancy, Cynthia, and liiiperionI from St.
least prospect of promotion, unless I should live to see Petersbuigh.
another Jubilee augment the ranks of loyalty, giving Lym,„l.oN, Nov. I.—Passed by the Union
me a rank in which I can he of no service, and two Parket and the Ilenry Foley transports, blown out
or three shillings a day more, when I ant no longer of the Downs, on the night of the 29th ell. with loss
in a condition to enjoy the g0,...1 things of this of anchor and cable, for Portsmouth.
world. I should not have taken the liberty to ! FALMOUTH, Ocr. 30.—Arrived the Spanish brig
furnish you with this brief sketch of myself, Providencia, from Gijon, bound to London; and
but for SAM STARBOARD'S letter in your much-ad. the Ocean, Chresta, from Teneriffe for London.—.
mired Paper, which has tbrowis this neighbourhood Sailed the Prince Regent, for Ancona, with fish.
into a great hustle. It was read with a very audible PENZANCE, OCT. 30.—His Majesty's ship Levant
voice at all the Reading-roams in the three towns of is at anchor in this Bay; ; It bas blown a gale all
Plymouth, Stonehouse, and Dock, by old Bowrimos night, and still continues to blow hard from the N.E.
• who, like my self, has nothing in Isis favour but his and E.N.E.
age, his services, and his unsullied reputation—as
these have all Inst their influence at the Admiralty, BAKER) THE ROCHESTER PEDESTRIAN.
since the late Lord Satrawicu laid it down as an
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established rule ate the Board, that an Officer, who WED/tint:AY.
was not a burgess or a freeholder, could have no . Baker, after having a refreshing night's rest, cont•
claim to promotion, except in glaring instances, in rammed his journey at four o'clock on Wednesday
which public opinion was to be respected. My old morning, and by half-past eight completed 16i miles;
messmate has remained on the list of Lieutenants at nine o'clock he started again, and by one o'clock
made-up 341 miles; he coninieliced at two, and at a
ever since ; and what has been very humiliating, he
quarter before seven in the evening completed 53
has been obliged to serve under Captains whom miles, and went off the ground amidst the cheers of
he has employed as errand-boys, and who carried all whoiaw the conclusion of his day's journey.
out parcels from their father's shops till they went Baker 'is in most excellent spirits, and pursues his
to sea! At. attempt was made to discredit your Pa. tack with uncommon
,gaiety, laughing and joking
er b one of these ttyro in attornies who, with many persons during the day. He has walked
like sharks on the coast of Guinea, abound
py peggg ,in all
at the rate of 41 miles an hour, and on the whole
his
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takes journey as many would their meals; or, in
our borough towns, in the hope of wriggling them- other words, it does not appear to be the least trouble.
selves into the Corporation, and leading or pilfering or fatigue to him to walk 60 miles a.day. We can.
it ; but my messmate, who has the rough and firm not say what effect 12 or 14 days' journey may have
voice of a boats wain, silenced Mr. roam A rto.
_on Baker, but at present
nothing appears against hitt.
ultimate success, even within ihe given Isini. lie TOURPENCE, and gave, such a detail of abuses, char.
says it Is his wish always to have done his daily task-
ter and verse, and held out such proofs of Corp°. at an early hour, by which means he shall secure his
ration tricks and Ministerial tricks—of pensioners regular rest. The company, though not numerous,
riding upon pensioners —pensions given to clerks in *ere most respectable, and belting was conaiderably
counting-houses, for Gou knows what—of drapers, in his favour. Considerable delay was occasioned by
lawyers, and cheesemongers, being Commissioners of a caravan containing all elephant crossing the course
the Lottery, with oilier abuses, which so well illus. on which Baker was walking, in its way to take its
station; and other amusements are daily expected.
trated what SAM STARBOARD said, that the lawyer Ott the whole, the weather being very fine for two
and two of the Corporation were fairly beaten out days past, has caused a degree of merriment which

adds much to the pleasure of the scene.

DRURY-LAWS THEATRE.—List night Miss Mutt,
appeared for the second time in Polly, and she re-
ceived from an audience most numerous and attentive,
the warmest approbation. We have certainly wit-
nessed no performance so uniformly good, as this
young lady's representation of this character ; for
we sca►cely recollect another instance where vocal
power was so happily combined with graceful, ap-
propriate, and spirited acting. Miss NASH was
evidently oppressed by a cold ; but still she gave such
proofs of the melody of her voice, and of the sensi-
bility
..ith which she expresses the tones of tender-
ness,
as to prove that when• in full possession of her ;
natural organ, she will produce the finest effects of
the musical art, those of sympathy and emotion. This
esquisite talent was admirably displayed in the few
notes in the taunting duet with Lucy; where the
contrast between the flippant termagant and the affec-
tionate wife, was displayed with a felicity that charm-
ed every ear, and it was universally encored. Miss
}CELL I'', share in th►e merit was fully equal to the
other ; for she touched the true key of Lucy's pas-
sion, and in every attitude and gesture gave as the
picture of a deluded vixen, bred' in a gaol, but whose
vehemence was not strained to vulgarity. Th. song
, of 46 Cease your Funning•" was also encored, and
we were delighted to hear Miss NASH vary her
cadences with skill and taste. Both she and Mr.
CooKE, however, ought to recollect, that one of
the purposes of this Opera, in its original, was to
ridicule the extraysgance of the Italian school, by
exhibiting the simplicity of the English hailed, and
also to show how much more efficaciously the sym-
pathies of an audience may be aroused by nature
than by art. Mr. Cooaa does net indulge much in
decoration in Macheasis, and. we are sure that his
good sense will tell him he ought to abstain from it
altogether.—We cannot conclude this short article
without noticing the scene between Mr. MUNDIEN
and Mr. DOWTON, which for comic humour, force,
and effect, is, perhaps, not to ►e paralleled _cm the
stage.
After the Opera the laughable Entertainment of
the Merry Mourners was received with uni►ersal
applause.

At the late Lincolnshire stuff hail, which was in-
stituted for the encouragement of that manufacture,
most of the ladies wore muslin:; this is not so mach
unlike the Barbers, who went to St. James's some
years ago, to petition his MAJESTY do wear a wig,
and most of them actually appeared with their own
'hair dressed sod powdered.

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of lamed at For
of Saud:ly for tl
be sad specie to t
Extract fro,
o- June 12, 181
quisition to 14
tia sod Comn.aud
troops as he
cowry, whit
is very destr
the consequence,
re• regiment from
And tiir A. C.
the 87th regin
sie 22d, r.nd the
Coionel K Eil
tke Island of 80l
in B*(18e1. The
lir to the Nepalil
men of the 66
Feu
Bourbon was
los of April. The
embarrassment
re. weilis (Sir G.
leg Alai! to India
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here. The
about to retu
rite
About Oil
sa Brewers of w
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the who have no
5,e spoke Ticket
• Monday 'nor
following dal
t-e- Offices on M
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ly to Lodi"
and the Fout
ttkii en Tuesday.