The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-05-17 00:00:00

THE K I Nth

The'Cotirt Circular of yesterday, after repenting the
bulletin of his Majesty's health, as stated in our Iss.
added
We have great plesture in being able to say the King
continued so much better during the day, that his Majesty
ems able to receive visits from the Dukes of York asd Cla-
rence. The Duchess of Oloeester, the Printers Sophia, end
Prince Leopold, called to make their affectionate inguiries:"
On enquiry at Carlton Palace, to-day, concerning his
Majesty's health, we received the following answer :--
•• His Majesty is so much better. that no bulietio has Peen
Iss'
Huedi"
s Majesty's bodily malady, we are told' says aI
.Morning Paper, 'was provoked by the Tellowing eau
,Tbe nail of oneofhis toes bad beets precool into tit. flesh,
le tern tight a shoe. It teal reeonsmeaded to eat oat the
part inserted; and erysipelas, as is not national, followed
tke knife. This disorder is said to hays ascended } con,
siderable height up the thigh, and at one tintetrt have;
been very alartnin;;. A strong narcotic, howevertook
the desired effect: his Majesty had some refresblbg,sleep,
the fever scbsided, and the erysipelas receded.- These
are the particulars which we have beard, and thicb we
believe to be true.'

Yesterday, at three etleck, a Cabinet Council wits held
at the Foreign Office; which was attended by the Lore
Chancellor, Viscount Melville, Viscount Sitimouth, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Secretary Peel, Me.
Secretary Causing, Mr. Wynn, Lord Bexley, &c.
The Cabinet continued in deliberation till past four.
The Duke of York arrived in town from Newmark*
on Thursday night,
The Corporation of Kidderminster have elected the
Right lion. Lord Viscount Dudley anal Ward, Recorder
of that Borough, in the place of his deceased father.
CAM URI DO E.—Thomas Starkie, Esq. M.A. late Fellow
acd Tutor of Catharine Hall, was on 'I uesday list nnani-
mously elected Downing; Professor of the Laws of Eng-
land, in the room of the late Edward Christian, Fag.
Regrtlations for a precious E.ramination sit Cain-
bridgi—A doubt having arisen in the University re-
specting the mailing of the eighth regulation, the Vice
Chancellor and Heads of Colleges have determined •
" that no person who mine to reside in this University !
before March 13, 152.2, (the day on which the regula-
tions fur the estab!igiment of a previous examination
were passed) is subpil to those regulations; but that all
those who ...Awe into residence after that time shall,
without exception, be called' upon to attend the examina-
tion of 1b3.1, or of some subsequent year.
Extract of a Letter. written by an officer of the East
India Company's ship Halearras, to one of his friends in
England:—
" H. C. S. Bslearras. Secbnd Bar. Jan. 11, 1823.
" We ttltall nut leave this piece so soon as we had reason
to expect, owing to the number of failures among the Can-
ton merchants, who cannot raise money to pay the np-eountry
traders for their tea. A circumstance occurred here the
Irtherdeyrasitich we were all afraid would have occasion
a stoppage of the triikbeigillg-beesexer.. izt this ins
Chinese justice, prevailed crier Chinese prejulices,'
we came off with dying colour. Two China-men cant
alongside our ship in a small covered Unpin, or host:.
and seemed anxious to lay their hands on any light thing
they could find. They were repeatedly ordered to leave
the ship, but to no purpose. and at last two or three coals
were thrown at them, one of which hit their boat; en
this they set up a loud yell, and dragged out from under
the covered part of the boat,, an apparently dying map,
with his head cut and covered with blood. They gave
us to understand that we had wounded the man, and
they put him into our coinpodor's, or waterman's boat,
and there left him whilst they went on shore
:to glee in-
formation to the Mandarins. In a very short time after
they left the ship, the poor4tenn died, and on exatniaing
-his body it was found to be much emaciated, as if from long
illness, and the blood on the head proceeded from three
small cats, made with a knife, or some other sharp Into-
went. which could not have occasioned his death. The ea.
lidos who brought him. returned in a short time with unit or
two petty Mandarins, and refused to compromise matters
under 5,000 dollars. The Captain instantly seized the ras-
cals, and kept them in confinemenron board our ship, and
st,i the Chinese who were alongside at the time of 1119 death
had a strong guard set over them. The Captain then went
to Canino, and laid the state of the case before the super-
cargo, from whom it was forwarded to the Viceroy of Can-
ton. Next day the Viceroy seat down proper officers to
examine into the affair, who held a Court of Justice on the
shore-uppos:te our ship, where the villains were brought to
confess that they had the barbarity to bring off a man whom
they knew to be at the point of death, hoping to frighten
the English into a belief that they had killed- him. and
thereby to obtain from them a handsome sum of dollars as
hush-money. They were taken up to tows, where they are
to tee beheaded, and Id or 1 Slecomplices. it is said, are to be
banished for. life. So much fur the friendly inhabitants of
he Celestial Eupire.". •