The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-12-29 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN'.

ORR posessa, and the wild wee
foatiasalll:lty;likeynttt •
By the activity of the people erfeegist was raised to
the belfry, from which v&tel was amerced. through a
tri ►loor. into the interior if the stWple, to prevent
the ezteosios of the lasies. The fire was happily ex ,
tinct Ly balf.past eight is the evening. It %tad, however.
s quatter of an hour beitte, eonsuosed the timber in
which the cross was inserted, so that it fell on that part
of the wall above the principal entrance. and broke t tto
many times. This termineted the events of this day,l
which will Wag be remembered by the inhabitants of
liontreal, mulls* *leased with the nark Sunday of Uti.S.
We have omittertio state, that the rails which &mewled
yesterday was similar to that of last &today, bit um-
ieinsd taste of the sooty ingredient. and Carried OR its
se tae*, ai i..lotired through the streets, a dense farm
resembliag soapsuds.
We have bees informed that malty permits crossed to I
the other side if .the river, expecting the accomplish-
went of a triAdoewl, prediction, that the island of
Montreal is to be swallowed up by an earthquake.—Far
the troth of this istformatieu. however, we will Dot
vouch.
At this satiatest 4Wedneedav morning, 7 o'cloel) the,
sky is almost as e4m, and tley.l:ght as strong, se is,
usnal,it this hour of the day at this seams of the yem.
NAllitirll4 Nov. 11.—For two mouths there barest
been rain sough is this neighbourhood to wet the
earth. Cumberland River is lower at this time them it
has bees slam the fall of litid I there is sot water
*Dough is several places to float an empty boat
earth is g Ily uncommonly dry. For 'boot the
weeks the woods have. been on fire, and the whole atom-
sphere darkened with smoke, so 'tomb so that a men
cannot he men two headreti carols We are
told the Ohio River is lower than it ever was knows

Ursa if a teener from St. Thomas, dated Ootolier
sr.,. We bar, sews of Barbados being completely
Idedalsked, and part of the leisid sunk.,by a arrionne
im& eartherake, sisal the Ilia *taro."
(PROM TOM nay TM* STOMA *PORT, N0T.1194
Tat Netioret Weliirearer of Friday unounees the
arrival of Captain Rea from Madrid, and adds. we nil-
&Wand, he beings iaformadoe that the Treaty is
ratified. sad things remain ankh In the saute state hal
which oar last advice, left them. Mr. Forsyth reamille
10 Madrid, snake Mildew from Iris is to be forthwith
dent to this inantry. If flusher particulars some to our
knawlelge they shalt be hereafter strike!.
(taint sus new TORI eowatasetat, AA tun Or
PIOT. 23.)
• IMPORTANT, eepose.which. however. rev I
quires coarmation,. is poblished Is The Milledgerille;
(fteorgia)Repishlieen, of the Ilth iastaat. " that fteseral
Gaines bad rewired orders foe a deseehoost of BIN ow
from that State, and 5000 from South Carolina; sk pip
seed to Amelia Island." .
(sans pavan, n0v.46.) •
A flaturaer .elaseon.—The Village iflllsode
paper published at West Chester. Pennsylvania:lllW
doss, that a brilliant meteor passed over that Oboe at
sin o'clock on Suptlay evening. " Its direction was from
N. E. to S. W. The tall was of great length and bright-
ness, and from the hotly the tire fused out as it does frail
a large piece of Wain iron. The streets were so light
that owe might have picked up • pin. It disappeared
suddenly, and almost
confident that it. fell roar him. In a minute and a half,
or perhaps two agates, after the light ceased, a sound
like a cannon was beard, rooting from the direction
where the meteor appeared to fail. We hate seen lien-
Omen from Wilmiagton, londongmve, and Coatesville.
each of whom had a perfect view of this sublime pheno-
menon ; and thry agree in describing its appearance
anJ situation to he similar to that presented to us. Its
iragnitade anJ te unice mist, therefore. have been much
greater than one who saw it could bare well imagined."
The 'modelle Cezeite states, tliat the meteor of Su*'
day evening was seen by several persons in rbilarkl.l
phial; that it was veri large. and was accompanied with
a blue fame; and that it appeared " to touch the earth.
retorted. aura for some distance, and fall spin."
EPROM TVS SARADIAR COCRANT, NOT. W.)
Rex tRIAIIII.II ORSCCRITT.—To those who are in the
hahlt of anticipating a dreadful catastrophe from singa-
ble appearances, yostorasT moat A... Low ow awful day.
Even these bloat ands, :he reversions of which olds&
desiate frees the routine of nasal occupation. seemed, for
ones, to be withdrawn from the beaten path. and to con-
template, with a mistere of astonishment. and terror, an
aerearance for which no one could acconnt, and which
it was, therefore, impossible to pronounce to be either
the precursor or follower of preternatural disaster. Oa
Saturday last the weather was bright and unclouded ;
but at eight o*Lloilt in the vernier. the sky became
surcharged with heavy black clouds from the north-
west, and snow fell in large fakes. The neat morn-
ing, these clouds were dithised over the sky; and
there descended a heavy shower of blackish rain,
which, upon esansinatiou, was found to contain a snb-
starter resembling, to the eye. the tart, and the smell
soot. Towards evening, however, the weather cleared,
at. d yesterday morning was ushered in by a hard frost.
This gradually related under the iulluente of a weighty
damp vapour, which descended from a thick stratum of
clouds that seemed progressively to deepen in colour
and density. awl at noon the darkness was so great that
candles were burning in the Court lease, the Banks.
and In most of the oces in the city. The gloom alter-
nately isereased or diminished, according to the ascend-
ancy of the wind, which, during the day, wee fitful and
cholgiohle, till three o'clock, when a foruidaMe body of
clouds from the north-east harried over the tows and
beauglit the obscurity to Its climax. At -this eminent
there certainly reigned a very general awe—natnre had
from the morning seemed sullen aid dejected, as if award
of impending calamity, and the crisis visored to have
arrived. While the inhabitants were espressiag to each
ether their surprise, arad eschaitgiag opinions on the pro-
bable cause of an appearance to unusual, they were al-
most electrified by a brilliant flash of lightning seereeded
by a clap of thunder that was *closed and berated
for Imlay setniads after its cause had past.
?his was followed by some others—rain again *n—
and there seemed a good prospect of fair westber hit
It less of sheet donde, ; for the clouds again account.
Wei from the N.B. aid at 4 o'clock it was nearly as
dark se before. Those rho had felt alarm. mots'
br
rime. by the continua conteinplatios of the *abject of
terror, tramped. awl were reposing after their. recent
isquientlie, when. suddenly, the tocsin was tolled by
tufty' bali is the city. and the streets resounded with
the tries ef fire! fire. Mistreat certainly, at this ems-
WM, eeliiiitesl a scene which it Lai (we believe) sever
btu* resisted, and which had a malt appease sag
wild reset. The sky was veiled in gloori—lhe Flees
trams was erovnled--was aostinnally swelling hy the
• floods of people who peered is from all the adjarept
streets—owl. towerhig over the heals of the dins*, was
to be seen the steeple o (
meteor,ch parish church, with
ift ball hissing like a and 'brewing oat from
Ore foot of the cress, with which it was surmounted, rev
*rim warred lurid by the incumbent sad
serrweadiag hats. Newer was there slime a 'reader
soil thou wee exhibited is this ovession. The IStrest
• embus Were is a seeesrat ea the new ; Moss were fonord
slant laveleatarily, add romp one eiapied to 010
aloes ew the swam of preening the' hely S
ball S*. pa
sialleseil to hare for a Is. tleie;Alltig teareoss
Ms se water I the la, beweret, with which the steeple

before. • • •
It is apprehended we shall be efflicted with another
epidemic. it the weather does aut eh sage tor the better
in a sheet time.
New CLAIMS ON Tat TattlitaT.—Tbe falkariaK Re.
solgtioa Ism been adopted by the Tene#ssee House of Re-
presentatives :
" Resolved. That our Senators in Congreas he instrnit-
ell, and our Kepresenuttives requested lo ass their, best
esertions to procure the passage of a law In Congress to
wore the payment of lost property by the officers and
soldiers in the Seminole war in the year 161 d.

CCRIOVII CIRO:MITA NCR.
SA T. . Nov. 13.—h is mentioned is a Nassau
Paper of the 29th Sept. that a ores-lasi vessel bad ar-
rived that day from the coast of Florida with a number
of Indians on boa"!, whose appearance is Nasals had
excited considerable curiosity as to their errand ODA
intentions. They repo.:ed themselves as heart been
robbed by oar frontier citizens, and driven from their
Isisses. The following particulars are from the Dmhamn
Advertiser of the 2d (October:—
* NAPIAII. OCT. 22.—The Indians who arrived here
M Wednesday last from Florida, are come to solicit
owe supplies; the Chief has with him a proclamation
Wad by Admiral Cochrane and ileneral Keane, at the
amt of proceeding against New Orleans We believe am
application bas been made to the Commander in Chief
for assistance, bat they have had no enconragement to
expect *compliance with their demands; the amity soh-
sisting between our Dovernment and that of the Coifed
States, precluding toy measure tending to increase or
promote a hostile disposition between these people and
the subjects of the States. They are desirous of get.
tug to Jamaica, but their visit there can be to as little
effett as it is herr. flirt- represent themselves as driven
from their homes, and fainted as wild deer : that there
are about 2,000 of therm and that their greatest pommies
are the Cowetas, a nation like themselves, who having
made terms with the Am; titans are set on by them to
harrass and annihilate their tribe. The nowehtt 'raved
are twenty'-eight,asd being destitute of the paeans of sup-
port, are 'furnished an the score of humanity with rations
and to lodge in time of the barracks.
Law INTILLIGINCS.—In the l'oort of Common Pleas
of York county, a case was decided the week before last,
which, from i-s hearing it will have on many similar
cases that probably exist in this county, requires that it
slimed be generally known. Daniel Treiehler, when spe-
culation was at its acme, bought ;'2 acres of land, for u hicji
be was to pay 20140 dollars. For the payment of this
seam, or tau greater part, he gave his bonds to Jacob
BOner, of si hum the land was knight. After bring in
possession of the land, Treichler gore jatlguarnts on the
properly. Hence arose the snit. an whirl' the bolder of
the Latish on the original purchase and the jodgment
creditors of 'Catchier were joined in issue. Ihe pro-
perty v-as sold by the late Sheriff fur 4,9ooslollars, a sum
not much more than one-fifth the original consideration
money. After a minnte and laborions discussion. the
Jury retired and came hark with a seolict in favour of
Ithe original vendor. By this decision the vendor of real
estate, by taking bonds from the vendee, unless he takes
collateral security, by which the intention will he either
express or implied, that be releases the real estates sold,
has a lien on the property, to the exclusion of all subse-
quent judgment creditors.
The proceedings of the Court of Common Pleas have
by a writ of error, been taken up to the Supreme Court,
where, from the diversity of opinion on the %abject, it Is
nacertisla whether the decision will be affirmed or re-
verted.

DUTCH 11.41 L.
STUTTGART,. Dee. 11.-11 is *Sensed that the Ilnelget
of the Kingdom is to he the only subject et the delibera-
tions of the Assembly of the States, which is to meet in
J aaaaa and that when this is concluded, the Assess-
My still he prorogued, and will be called together again
is the month of May.
ilsnovaa, Dec. 15.—The Prince Regent having pur-
-1 chased the county of Spiegelberg of the Government of
I.the Netherlands, a loan is opened to raise the purchase-

t►e es
Bares

.4.44 reason; pig .as Ire the One style which is peculiar to
him.. This .IMr is now Wows his Majesty for his
opinion add dadaists.
Hears, Mc. 19 _.We learn that the King bas intro-
decant farther redactions in the expenses of the War
Department.

IMPERIAL PARLiAmsir.
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HOUSE OF LORDS, Dar. 29.

MCWIIPIPSIt PTAMP SUMS SILL.
flit the motion of the Earl of Invdtroo'w this hill was
referred to a Committee of their Lordships; and the
Report helag Moire& the Bill wait orairld to be read a
third time to-ntserow (this day).
Ton ***sits' nitgotAhrtott ELL.
The Bakers' Regulation Bill went through a Eons-
mittee. and was ordered to be read a third time to-mov
row (this day).—Adjourned.

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PRICE OF STOCKS
R►st Ilt4ek
S per Cesr. Red. 67
per Vest. Coes.
61 ply Cost.
4 pet tent.. Ast
&pet Cent. 7:a% y
LOW Ass.
lop. S per Cest. Ass.

DAY AT NZ O'CLOCK.
lade Seed
!Amble&
OW Almada
Et. 1111 s, W. M. ds.
Dine Co..
Osmium
Ceps. ferAe. Idi
Led. Tide's

11E111 WATER AT lAINDON•RRIIXTIC TIUR DAY.
Montag. II ads. after 11.—Altatafroa. M fela. after. IL

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
We have received lbs eorammieatlea of " A CoIiSTVIT
Ramose." of Pail-man. We beg leave to &p rim his
tar. If Jowled, it Noe be paid for, so ail web astialso
re taxed at the fitarpolloe.

etc *tattiman.
IN. B. ?sr "BRITISH RTATBRMAN" 1111 A
W Tits STATRSMAN.-I

LONDON:
WEDNESDAY, DecantsEa 49, 1819.
The discussions in the one House of Parliass
still sitting, no longer carry any interest with them.l
A declaration of Lord Binnonxit on Monday in
this House, the Peers, on the second reading of
the " Stamp Duties Bill," struck us as a piece of
quackery, viz.—that " the measures just adopted
by Parliament had already been attended with the
most salutary erects!" Bravo, Doctor ! the very
sight of the apothecary's riot, it has been &MAW,
has procured the evacuation of the patient's ssl
. mach, as completely as the showing the highway-1
man's pistol has evacuated the rockets of the tra-
veller. Yes, yes, the three out of the fire Bills
have no doubt produced some ether—the perma-
nent salutariness remains to be proved. If the
mere announcement of them can have removed all
sense of honour, and the keener sense of insult felt
by thousands, we may say by the millions of our
fel:ow-countrymen, then, indeed, have we mistaken
their character, and shall be at a loss—nay indif-
ferent, how we may reason crop their wants,,
wishes, and proceedings. That the men at present
in power have, and exercise the most consummate
assurance in all they do, we cannot deny; nor that
sometimes it happens that a rashness of proceeding
often passes fur and stands, Ar a time at least,
in the place of uisdom. These men consider, no
doubt, that the present stillness, where all was
fermentation and threat, is a proof that the ob-
jection of the people of England can saw gra-
dually be accomplished, as that of the people in
other countries has been in turn. DESPOTISM is
certainly the aim of Ministers! Rio half measures
will do—on they must go. till they gain the fatal
prize. In the steps which they have taken they
appear to possess the Palma& REGENT'S entire
contidet.se. Thus it should seem that the Liberty
of England is about to Undergo the fate of ill other
human things. It yields to Time, which destroys
every thing—to Viet, which corrupts every thing
—to ignorance, which confounds every thing—and
to FORCE, which crushes every thing!!

money.
Srocatiostr. Me. 18.—A very impnrtant question has
bees discussed by the Royal Hoard of Trude. The oo-
verbal's, of North America and of the Netherlands have
hob made apylieution to our liovennonet for the ab
tion of what is rolled the " Bill of Productions." This
Hill is an tlnliaarce of *eerie llt• years standing. pro-
hibiting the solierts of foreign States from importing
into tie Swedish ports any goods except oath as may
be considered as produrtions of their owe country.
The Hoard of Trade, la the Report whirls it has drawn
up. according to dm orders given to it. declares that
maiatemnsee of this Ordinance is of the utmost ie.
potence to Oat kiagdmo, and that it is the irallidians et
the Swedish cosameree. On the other hand. Balms
EsMcrae's. Pr&Meat of the same Board. declares him-
self iadleldmillp_la be of a directly cootnry °Finials. He
sees la this etti*ere an injurious obstark to a free sag
nstionsi stimowitfal intercourse. and restarka. that if
lsv this moustraist sea* advantage menses to As
Mrraws; old& I" however. don mot commie. yet tlst
•-emenge 'iset net Ise fovided apes • tax Isla en all
"aintisd part of slot Ratios. This lienserisi of
•ts isdistiagnisked is well by the sail/

position. - ...
Friday, a Privy Commit was held at Dublin
Castle, when the baronies of Batiptoe, Dunmore,
Killyan, and Tyaquin, in the county of Galway,
were, ender the Act of the 6 nth of the Mag., di-
dared in a state of disturbance. An extraordinary
establishment of police will accordingly be fermcd
io those baronies.
Letters from St. Petersburgh to the 30th of No-
vember (N. S.) state, that the Emperor Alexander,
apprebemive that the morals of his people world
be injured by their reading the account of Car -
Kk's Trial, bad given directions to the police to
prevent the introduction of all English newspapers
containing it.
According to private letters front New York, re-
ceived yesterday, dated the 29th ult., it is positively
resolved by the Americo:a Government, that on die
meeting of Congress an Act will be passed for
taking possession of the Florida,. It is oot stated
whether this measure is to be adopted with the
concurrence of Spain, or whether the probable In-
' ability of the latter to recover an eftkient protec-
tion of them has induced the American Govern-
' Mat to make sure of what may be rendered here-
after a valuable as well as necessary acquisition in
Ike present nneertein'state of the revolted South
Amosian Colonies.
Is =le (says a Quebec Paper) to tell
inlet the enesemsences of a violent (akin;
peemmimi of the Floridas by the United States i
Ant May be the patentees of any existing treaties
between Great Britain and Spain ; but there is
Stealing in this part of the world that indicates
even a thought of an approaching war with, the
Unitod States, on the part of the Width Govern-
Net
DECIASZD Govenvoas.—ln the short period of
eight weeks, oo less than 7 citizens who had been
derided 's, the Were of nostrum., in diarrent Sint...
of America, have been called from ante to eretn ay.
—John Langdon, former govertior of New Hamp-
shire ; William Rabun,governor of Georgia; Thee.
Johnson, the first governor of Mlryland ; Cale.,
Strong, late governor of Massachteetts; Simon
Snyder, late governor of Pennsylvania; Thomas
Sins Lee, the second governor of Maryland ; Henry
Malleston, governor-clect of Delaware.
The number of eminent persons, natives,or closely
connected with Scotland, who have died within
these le months, is rather extraordinary, .and
greater than we ever remember within the same
period. Among these were the representatives of
seven of the most ancient and noble families of this
kingdom, sir.. the Dikes of Hamilton, Boecleugh.
and Lennox ; the Earls of Errol and Eglinton ;
the Countess of Rothe*. and Lard Somerville • the
Rih.iit Hon. Robert Donde*, Lord Chief Baron ;
Adam Rolland, Esq., of Cask; Professor Plavfoir,
Professor Rutherford, Principal Hill, Principal Play-
fair. and Mr. Watt, the celebrated inventor of the
great improvements upon steam, the steam-engine,
Sze.—(Caledanian Mercury.)
BRAZILIAN TRAVLLLERII.—M this moment, sci-
entific travellers are traversing Brazil, under the
protection of the Portsiguese, and at the expense
of the Austrian, Bavarian, and Tissenn Governments.
On the part of Austria, the following are employed :
Professor Mikan, for natural history in general, and
botany in particular; Dr. Pohl, as mineralogist;
M. Natterer, for 'zoology ; M. Schott, as
Der;
M: %cher, as huntsman; N. Ender, as gardener
painter; and 111. Frick, as natural history *pier.
On the part of Bavaria: Dr. Spilt, as zoologbt: and
Professor Slarions, as botanist. On the part of
It has been said by more than one historian, thatl
the Grand Duke of Tuscany : Dr. Resdi, a naturalist.
when once the chains of a people are forged, they l—( froskinglon Gazelle.)
are easily rivetted afterwards, so that the fate of the ' The mil tater: of the borough of Tewkesbury, fel-
liberty of such a people is scaled for ever. It may lowing the example of those in most other popu-
seem ungrateful towards the hecatombs of the loos places, have, it is said, petitioned the Legishi-
hwe men who have eaten in our land battle" lure to repeal some of the most objectionable
• clauses in the Act paned in the 48th year of his
but it is no less tree, that their victories have un- I present Majesty, respecting the wetting of barley
done their country. The Mike of WEttinurota, in the operation of making it into milt.
to whom the weighed of the United Kingdom are II The first stone of the new Pilot and Ballast-office.
sacrificing a portion of their scanty meal, in order • at Hull, was laid last week, by the senior member
to make his board overflow with luxurioos.viands, 'of the Trinity-house. In die course of the fol.
accordiag to the decrees in Parliament, has dose lowing sight some persons tore up the foundstme,
incredible injury to his country. 'His victory at and id
:enied °lrthe inwriPti"st. Probably fxPectilll..
pieces of money deposited it, bet na
Woferfoo conquered poor old England England!. If we this the depredators were disappointed.
had bema obliged to draw off every Natalia, from i A warm contest has taken place for the moat
the Continent, and bad betaken MdesMee to the Reeordership of Colchester, between Mr. Car-
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tinting wooden wails for Oar defeat*, it hid been wand and Mr. Kelly. The poll was Vowed "
a! million times better for as. Contineetal wars ' 14°1662Y*
I The High Bailiff of Birmingham, in complisace
and a standing army have anqesetioeibly Oath** . with a emtoiiitioo, ei,..ned by wady a hundred of
us, and ought to be the execration of •the patriots the most respectable inhabitants, has appointed a
of England. The triumph alluded to, lees than Meeting of the merchants, mesebeturen, and tre-
daindai is to Goat, eventually has thrown a dn. den of the town, to he held NI the 4th of Mow
neat, for dm purposi of oitaideriag of the orovnell
eel Mitre over evety thing which has military in : at, • • • woe into die 'cam
petite:Min Parliament' to
it. an that do mirillatatko of the mg will be of the present deplorable sitoatisa of the mosolio-
esasideeed as a'ameomitset to the pavan any turing and labouring cosecs of the didnetallY. ctrl
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.11.41:11. INTELLIGENCSt

.Mat, Dec. 111.—Ronsio in the Downs his Ma-1
jesty's ship Severe, Pioneer schemer, and a foreign
genial from France the latter has lost en anchor
sod cable near the Goodwin Sande.
lroaismouTu, Dad:W.—Arrived the Brampton,
°rev), from Bombay for Leaden; and Caroline,
HM from the Downs for the Cape. The Aurora,
reported yesterday to have struck on the Arrow
Bank, has cut bee cable and shifted ber birth. Her
Wader was towed into harbour this morning.
Haan-wit, Duo. 518.--Arrived the Hamby,
Lard Nelson, and Princess Charlotte packets, with
Wails from Holland.—They report that there was
lhat little ice io the river when they left, and not
stdirient to stop the navigation.
lAVERPOOL, Dec. W.—The Martha, from New
York, saw, on the lath instant, a large ship with
only her foremast standing ; a brig was boarding
her. The Martha got on 'bore on the causeway
in Cardigan bay, knocked off part of ber keel,
and unshipped her redder. She afterwards got
rod shipped her redder again.
lianansTs, Dao. 28.—Tbe Blue-eyed Maid,
Tha, from Southampton, is on shore on the
Werthtcher Forelawl. Cargo distil:•4;iog damaged.

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