The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-10-20 00:00:00

THE STA'

NAVAL IN7'E L LIGENCE.
Po RTSMOUTIT, OCT. 19.---Arriyed his Majes.,
ty's ship Frederickstein, from the Mediterranean,
with a convoy, among which arc the following•
s hips
ttichatA and Ann, End Fitzwilliam, Margaret, Prince
George, Maria, Prince Augustus. and The Sisters.
Arrived the Agincourt armed transport, Capt.
Rub. Sandwell, with duplicate dispatches from Se-
negal ; Lieut. Woodriffe, and .80 Officers and
men, late of his Majesty's ship Solcbuy, came
home in her, as did also 50 French prisoners ;
left the settletnent, all well, on the 30th Aug. ;
they experienced dreadful gales of wind fur seven
successive days off,lreland. Major Maxwell, of
the Royal African Corps, had the command of the
government of the settlement,. when the Agin.
court sailed; the Tigress gunobrig and Tickler
cutter, were left cruizing off the Bar. On the
7th instant, 10 leagues west of Scilly, fell in
with two French schooner privateers. When they
beat to quartuil, they came near enough to ob.
serve the number of men on board the Agincourt,
and not liking her appearance, tboy hauled their
wind.

Several of the discharged transports arc gone
out of harbour, to Spithead, and only wait fur
convoy, to proceed to the North►vard. The Are-
Mune frigate is arrives! from 1.61,0 n.
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FALMOUTH, OCT. 17.---Arrived the Queen
Charlotte packet, Captain Mudge, with mails
from the Mediterranean ; also the Express packet,
Captain liallock, with mails, in eighteen da)s
from Cadiz. She had an engagement with
French schooner privateer, which she beat off.

LEM!, OCT. 17.—Sailed the Clio sloop of
war) with a convoy fur Gottenburgh.

GRAVESEND, OCT. I!).—Arrived the Young
Job', Wv!thank, from Yard.
Sailed-The Martland, Cozens, for Marti.
nitre ; Mars, Stokes, for Charlestou ; Ocean,
Scott, for" Cadiz; and the Dctiorah,
for Dublin.

DEM., .00T. 19.—Last night the brig Juno,
Gordon, a Kirkablv, boom! to Leith, arrived
in the Downs from Oporto in 15 days. Captain
G. states, that the fleet sailed from that place with
convoy on the i!Oth ult., since which he has nut
seen them.

Extract of a letter from an Officer on board the
Dreadnought, to his frier.! in tho city of Dublin,
dated Basque Roads, Sept. 25.—" A cartel ar.
rived bore a few days since with the French pri-
solers who capitulated at Senegal, but not a man
of them was permitted to land ; the boat that
went from her, and in st hick was a French Officer,
was fired at, as soon as they got within reach of
their ;hot ; but not wishing to understand it as
mark of hostility, the boat s..uurrd to approach
near. r, when the batteries opened a fire of grape,
an.l continued it even ulicii it was coming back.
Thus these prisoners, because they did not make
a recistance suitable to 80% rAtITE's expectation,
wi:l be exile., front their native country, or mur-
dered it they approach its shores, from whence
sonic of them have been absent more than 20
yea's.
At the sale of the late NTT. Rogerson's stock, at
Waddingworth, Lincolnshire, several pens of
ewes were sold front 10 to 15 guineas each ; two
heifers fur 100 guineas ; two suckling calves
for 081. 2s. ; and a 61 year old bull for 100 gui.
ncas.

The whole of the troops in the Portsmouth dis.
trict ure to assemble on South Sea Common on the
25th, to celebrate the Jubilee. They consist of
the Royal Artillery, German Artillery, IVurees.
ter, Renfrew, Durham, Ross-shire, Inverness, 3d
Linerts Ottoribthire and Leicestershire Regi-
ments of "Militia. Tim Volunteers its the district
arc also invited to make their appearance on the
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.Gentleman namcd Steauing, of
Brooks Hui Portland.road,)esterday morn-
ing discharged the contents of a horse pistol
through his head. 'rite deceased formerly resided
at .kylshain, Bncks, and he had often exhibited
symptoms of derangement. The report of the
pistol alarmed he Niftily at the house where he
lodged, wane of %bum were stirring, and on go.
iug into the privy a shocking spectacle presented
itsetf, the head of the deczascd having been blown
to atoms.

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. *Rata't.l4 KE..--.-011 Tuesday List a carpenter,
.wh•r wais employed to mike a woodos cage fur a
rattle.suake, in Piccadilly, while in the act of
clenching one of the nails, the venemous animal
bit him in the fore finger and thumb. The ham.
vier fell from his hand, and his aria swelled in a
short time after to au enormott:. size, the poison
of the animal being so exceedingly subtle and
potent, though the snake made but a very small
and trifling mark with its teeth. The unfortunate
man rns removed to St. George's Hospital in the
most excruciating pain, and hd the best medical
advice, but the limb having been gangrened to the
shoulder bone, amputation was deemed of no
avail, at the venom pervaded his whole system;
inchiqus were, however, made in the wounded
arm, to affiittl him a temporary relief, but he was
seized with a reuniting, and expired yesterday
morning. The pain was not attended by any de.
lirium, and be was perfectly in hie senses previ.
°wily to his death. It has been said that putting
the part bitten immediately into oil, is the best
mode of proceeding, and has often produced a
cure.

A melancholy accident happened on the 13111
instant, di Bromley, hi Kent, to Mrs. Charlotte
Mills, agel Ut. lier shawl catc4itt. liter anti
Cotutnunicalit-z to her drers, occasicineti her thath.