The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-12-27 00:00:00

friends. Surely, it cannot be .opposed, that,
to any persons who might merit the distinction
of appertaining to her Majesty's household, the
impo,sibility of itnniediate remuneration could be
nutter of important consideration. The Ministerial
project of making an inadequate provision for her 3i a-
will not be suffered by the nation.
ARISTIDES.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE To-roarnovr.
Nlorn,na. 41 min. after 7.—Evening. f 1 min. after M.

qtr shall insert the Letter of Mr. lA% ts 8 to-morrow.

Etc ktattOman.

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LONDON:

WED?tESDIT £YENINO, DICINISiII 27.

Jamaica Papers arrived this morning.
[perm Tilt ROYAL GAZETTE OF Mt I ITH NUT.]
Estr.iet of a letter from Savanilla, dated Nov. 21 :
.• I think that in the course of ten days we will be in
possession of St. Martha. The gun-boats have been in
the Conega for the last week, and it is confidently re-
psrted that Saxcilas DE Lists, who came out of Santa
Martha three weeks since, has been cut off by the
boats from returning to that town. A heavy tiring
'sas heard in the Conega last night. We bare 13
infantry and 300 cavalry opposite to Cartbagena.—
Trio Gazelle of yesterday from Santa Fe, announces,
in an official communication from Chili, that on the
15:h August Lord Cocitaasc sailed with 50 vessels
azijast lima. General SAN MARTIN commanded the
land forces. The amnesty between 31ontum and
r ottv va still continues, and the general opinion ofd
the best informed officers is, that the country will be sc.!
knowledgeil independent, as nothing short of this is con. I
teciplated. '(he Admiral sailed the day before yesterday,
with 11 vessels of war, against Santa Martha, and the
land forces went by the Conega, under the command of
Ch•lirral MOVTILLO. S INCHES DII LIMA is removed
from both the town and the Conega, laying with the
greatest part of his forces at San Carlos, and his re-
turn
interrupted by our having occupied the Conega
with our gun boats. In this situation 3losciti.Lo has
passed the river, and is marching in his rear to San
Carlos, %here lie must light him ur return on Mara-
caibo."
An earthquake, exceeding in duration any which
has for a length of tiwe previously been experienced,'
ww.s felt at the island of Antigua, on the 17th ult.,
fifteen minutes after eight o'clock in the even-
ing. A second shos.k was also felt on the fol-
lowing morning, at twenty minutes before the save
hoar.
BITRACT OF • LETTrI rnost sysra Ft Di tAGOTA,
OETOISCR 19.
By an extraordinary Gazette just received, which an-
nounces the arrival of a brig, one of Lord COCHRANE'S
squadron, at the Port of Beneventura, 2000 muskets have
been brought for the Republic. Two depu:ies came
in her for the purpose of entering into a treaty offensive
and defensive with the Government of Columbia against
the common enemy. Official information has also been re-
ceived at the above place, that General VaLnes's division
occupies all the territory between the Porpayan and
Mereadenes. There has been a skirmish between lien.
CAL2ADA and the Independent forces, in which the
former was compelled to retreat, Gen. CALF ADA has re-
quested of the Vice-Roy of Lima some reinforcements;
was answered that he himself required an additional
force.

Some alarm appears to have taken place among
our ultra-loyal politicians in the north, as to the
charge ascribed to Miuis'ers, of endeavouring to se-
parate the higher and the lower classes of the peo-
ple. Never was a charge better founded, u to the
efforts of their agents at least, both in the wsy of get-
ting up their loyal Addresses, and in the language
used at their clandestine meetings. A few of those per-
sons whom they call the heads of towns or parishes
as.enible in their secret conclaves, anti issue forth
their Jeclar.itions with their mandates for obtaining
signatures ; and then a boast is made, as a set off for
their insignificant ■umbers, that they contain a ma-
jority in worth as well as weight. The public Meetings
that take place to express opinions opposite to tbe system
of oppression and corruption, are branded with every im-
putation that is degrading; and even the very men
who at the Edinburgh County Meeting were ashamed
or afraid of the charge ascribed to Ministers,
with equal arrogance and inconsistency expressed
their dete•tninatiun to pat down the attempts of
such as they were pleased to term the disaffected,
and to show that this description of people was u
contemptible in nuwoers as in respectability.—
his is surest• not the way to conciliate. The public
are not to be cajoled by language that mixes con•
tempt and menaces with hollow professions of civi-
lity. The commiseration for the distresses in which
the people are involved, is not to be admitted u an
apolo!y fur continuing the causes of their complaints
Lit the people continue united, arm, and peaceable',
and they must ultimately prevail.

It is affirmed that Mr. Peel has already refused, or
certainly will refuse, to accept the office vacant by the
resignation of Mr. Canning.
Prom the Dublin papers we learn, that at a miming
Si
gentlemen, Ind:pant at the outrage committed by
Mr. Richard Al'Natuara, have offered a reward of 100
goiae.is to/ such persons as shall apprehend the mid
lUchard M'Na ears.

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