The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-27 00:00:00

FROM ST. JAI". DE CUUA.

We learn that an express bad arrived there from
Mancinilla de Cuba, to announce to the Governor that
that place bad been attacked by the Independents,
who, it was supposed, would plunder the town, and
afterwards burn it. Three hundred regulars and mi-

144 were immediately ordered to proceed to the as•
sitanee of the place, but they bad to march a distance
of 40 leagues., Dy the Two Friends arrived from
Moots Christ°, we learn that the North side of Saint
Domingo had suffered much from a hurricane at Monte
Christo, and Porto Plata. The sea rose to an immense
height, and several houses were blown down, and a
number of vessels wrecked.

The City of New Orleana was visited by a dreadful
tornado on the 12th of July, which occasioned consi-
derable damage.

No Paris journals had arrived to day, when our
paper went to press. Frankfort papers to the 19th
instant arrived last night. They have brought a copy
of the Firnian issued by the Grand Seigoior last
month, in consequence of the entire destruction of
" the Rebels" in Wallachia and Moldavia. This Fir-
man invites the faithful Rajahs and Boyars to return,
and promises that their persons and property shall be
secure, and that they shall be governed as before, by
their own laws. The reason which makes the Porte,
all on a sudden so wonderfully mild and well disposed
towards the fugitives from Moldas :a and Wallachia,
appears to be the fear that if those two provinces,'
which are " considered as its granary," should remain
in their present uncultivated state, " the pssecf9l
Empire" might find itself distressedtvin64
This apprehension is probably the best security which
the fugitives may have fur the fulfilment of the pro-
mises held out to them in case they should return.—A
letter from Berlin announces that the State Gazette
has an article from Krono (in tire Russian Govern-
ment of Wilna,) dated Nov. which says;—" The
march of the troops to the South continues without in-
terruption."

By accounts which have been received from Smyrna.
of the recent date of the 19th ult. we learn that
the Candiots at that place had suddenly sisen
against the few surviving Greeks, and put to death
all that fell in their way. The ferocity of their
conduct was such, that the Pacha h'.oself thought
it necessary to protect the Greeks with the Turkish.
guard, who behaved well on the occasion. Not less
than thirty of the former, however, had been killed
or severely wounded, before the fury of the assas-
sins could be checked. On the 18th an arrange-
ment was made • with the Candiots, who on the
• following day, were shipped off for Candle. Much
activity had lately been displayed at sea both by
the tirreks and the Turks, but it consisted more
in suantentring than in downright fighling. The
Turkish squadron having been joined by several
vessels on the coast sear Peeress, and by those sent
from Itgypt, amounted to upwards of sixty sail. It
pad .repoirpd to Sante on the 9th of October, apd bad
pilotage* the oasis day for the Leveet, after having
...vette,' fresh relaftwoeseeete. This was the squadron
'-Whichhad'pievieeelif attached Osbutstii, destroyed

ite town, and carried away a fewveisels—f;ld
that place. It was stated some time sir.ce, thst
Greek vessels bad been seen retiring to their respeetiie
islands in the Archipelago; and it was supposed ILI
an intention existed of disarming and laying them uplt .
uow appears that they only went to refit, and tier
are represented as having re.assentbled, and proees4,4
to the eastean coast of the Mores. It has hots
to convoy the merchantaws2
prlago. The Cambrian frigate
It
tlerandgitalogfoinuntdieneAcreeshsaie
escorted a fleet of vessels fol. that destination fro.%
Smyrna, on the 7th of last month.

The proceedings in the Court of King's Bents,
during the last two days, have been more than asoal,r
interesting. No cues have occurred of late ' •IQ erd,ch
the public had more anxiontly waited the judgment
of the Court, than those of the " Jokk Bair eh,
paper, and the sermon of the Rev. Mr. BLACOW; sy
none, that we can recollect, had ever occurred hfcre
n which the opinions of the public bad been M eta.
pletely united. In cases of political peldiestiot,
called libellous, men are prone to differ. The 14,,
cates of the power, that be, deem every attempt tb ex-
pose misrule, and everyoharge against the Igellb of
oppreesion or corruption at heinous cries's, mouse
what they are pleased to call the State. Lion and
betty of thinking, and of expressing opinion, ate, and
must, to them, be dieadful. They know that these,
and their political abuses, cannot exist together; sad
they array themselves, therefore, with violence, loop
press what they are aware would otherwise destroy their
sinister delusions. For freedom of diatomic', the
friends of political or religious reformation will Ahura
contend, with firmness and earnestness, as for the most
sacred and valuable of human rights. Rot, between
the discussion of political or religious principles, and
the calumny of private characters, the different is
wide and obvious. Were that licentiousness to be al-
lowed which would sport with the feelings of iadiri-
duals, expose the retirement of domeetic life, set
dearest relatives and friends at variance, or pre.
woke to personal revenge, society could never
exist. All this the private libeller attempts.
With malignity in his heart, and falsehood is
his hand, he scatters his publications like firebrands
and death, and says " am I not in sport?' This is
the very language lately used in one of the pabliem-
tioos to which we have referred. A proneness to what
is termed "fun" is offered as an apology for the base
scurrility and the wanton cruelty with which that
vehicle abounds. Into the particulars of the case fur
which its Printer and Proprietors were brought
to judgment on Saturday, nor iuto that of the
Reverend Libeller which was sentenced yesterday.
there is no occasion to enter. We have no desk
that in neither case did any genuine EnglbsNionnthisk
the sentence too severe. For libels mach less bruins
than that of which the Reverend Gentleman was the
author, the punishment it will be easily remembered,
has not been reckoned so light.

The Dublin papers received to-day leave little rem
to doubt that the horrid outrage in Tipperary, which
we yesterday announced, was wilful and deliberate.
For the only paiticulars respecting it, which ran
reached us, we refer our readers to soother colonic.
In other respects the state of Ireland exhibits viem
which are awful in the extreme. The very means cos.
templated to suppress the existing disorders, are aimed
as shocking as the outrages. The revival of the Iu
surrection act, with all its horror:, is one of the mew
proposed.

The excellent letter of our correspondent, who situ
himself “ an old Publican," inserted in our colonist-his
day, again introduces to our readers a subject to which
we hoped we should never again have had to recur. The
castigation we gave to Lieuteuant-Colonel TORRINS, ire
imagined. would have proved sufficient to deter his
from his deceptions. A mind capable of mimed'', the
value of the good opinion of the world, would hare
shrunk frotp such an exposure. And the man, whew
condWitsd'inicited so many and such jest animedry•
sions, i lie did not and could nut reply to them, yeald,
at least, have refrained from the repetitiou of ads
which exposed him to public reprobation. got
really, some people set character at sought, aid
so long as they can promote their own sordid view'
care not by what disreputable means they seeceed.
persevering impudence of Lieut.-Colonel Tongs:
his daring attempts to encroach upon the property of
others, and impose upon the public by false hares, oltS';
eiently indicate that in his opinion the violatim "
honourable ties is a mere (ride, and that he punsoll
none of those refined feeling., which personaws
rience, even in that condition of life, wall
degree removed from the grovelling herd tof
As for himself, we think him too contemptibk to emit
our observation ; be is far, very far, beneath , but 21
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as his public conduct affects the pnblic interest, "
far we think it necessary to watch hise,..anu deter the
unwary from falling into his snares, Yet, instead et
his shrinking front the lash of censure, lie openly h°3s s
of the degrading means which be employs is do""_'''
Publicans and their customers are still daily Ped°
with the gang of fellows employed by this redoubttd
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champion of the sword. If lee were to prove Woo_
as valiant in the field as his fags are in their way, no.
KING might find his services very useful, for defeat Oil
stimulates them to fresh exertion, and they always auto
the most vigorous charges where their repulse has kis
most mond. The Lieut. Col. calls his gang apeutt •
promote the circulation of his parr agents of tuttioitY
they are truly enough? In the day time these of°lll
disperse themselves over the town, and day ate! WO'
pester and tease the landlords who du not take in tie
Lieut. Col.'s paper—representation and mierepteor°'
Lion, falsehoods and calumnies, persnasioss agd.threat
are all in tarn need, and their effect tried. ntgbt hi°
these fellows repair in groups to the place* that ha"
been visited during the der and renew their doe°
among the parlous companies. Since we published r"
account of their manoeuvres these evil agents of an tett
system have been suljeeted to a few indignities, 11°
easy to be brooked, either by the Lientimant-tBhmel or
'themselves, thong,' for the most part they hot' /,"*. v.
rtbeir bard fate with apostolic fortitude and 6106"
meekness; when they received a blow on one

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