The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-16 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

Confederate Army, under the command of the
Duke of Dantsic. Besides a vast number of
killed, they have cut off or taken prisoners be-1
tween 8 or 9000 men. The brave Tyrolians are
preparing to invade Bavaria, on which account
the whole French and confederate military force
is concerted near Munich. The Prague Gazette
has not till now mentioned a syllable farther about
the renewal of the armistice. The Danish gun.
boats in the Elbe multiply every day ; and this
day intelligence was received of their having cap.
lured, after a sharp and bloody engaginnent of six
hours, as English brig of 16 guns, at the mouth
of the river Oust. A small force of British gen.
boats might soon clear the river of these impu.
dent Danes, u well as -of the French Custom.
house Officers, who are reinforced from a line of
communication from Bremen to Ilamburgh. In
the former place they seized, a few days ago, co-
lonial products, to the amount of near '250,0001.
sterling.

INDIA.

BOMBAY INTELLIGENCE.-APRIL 11, 1909.

The Dutch in the island of Java have lately
been engaged in extensive hostilities with the Chiefs
of the interior. Previous to the departure of the
ship Lord ilinto, from Puntiana, on the coast of
Borneo, sublet.' - were received, stating that a
strung detachment of Dutch troops, from Same.
rang, which had been sent against the dominions
of the ling of Sooloo (one of the Princes of the
Island), had been cut off to a man. Since the
arriva. of Gen. Daendels at Batavia, considerable
exertions had been made to recruit the military
force of the Colony, by levies of native troops.
The Chief of thy• bland of Bally had just received
a requisition from the Dutch Government, for an
aid of 300 men ; but be seemed very little disposed
to •nee it.

The report irf a naval force having arrived at
the island of Java, is without foundation. With
the exception of the armed brig Mandarin (for-
merly an American), and of two small brigs at.
tached to to the Moluccas, not a single ship of
war now bears the flag of Holland in the Indian
Seas. One of the brigs, named the Werner,
Lieut. Gebhart, was captured by the Lord Mini°.
The Coiner, French national brig, during her
cruise to the Eastward, had touched at Magen.
danao, where she delivered to the Chief a present
from the Governor of the Mauritius, consisting
of six pieces of brass ordnance, 50 barrels of gun.
powder, and 50 stands of every description of
small arms, and that afterwards she conveyed a
similar present to the King of Sooluo.
The brig Eagle, which arrived last week from
Sydney, in New South Wales, has brought the
Newspapers of that settlement, down to the end of
August; a series of which, reaching to the 22d of
that month, has been obligingly transmitted to us.
These papers do not at all notice the proceedings
respecting the subversion of the regular Govern.
meat of that colony ; but by letters from persons
of respectability, and more particularly from a
letter addresred by the resident Clergyman of Syd.
ney, to Air. Wilberforce, a copy of which has
been received here, it appears that the dissensions
had arisen from the efforts of Governor Bligh, in
pursuance of orders from home, to suppress the
practice of monopolising the spiritneus liquors
imported into the colony, and by which the of.
cers of the New South %Vales Corps gained very
considerable emolument. The measures to vin.
teract this practice were so exceedingly offensive,
particularly, if not exclusively, to the officers of
the New Sonth Wales Ciirpq, that they ultimately
led to the deposition of the Governor.
,Lieutenant. Governor Foveaux arrived on the
30th of July, and immediately assumed the go-
'eminent of the colony. The accounts received
direct by the lEagk, from Sydney, reach only to
the 22d •f August ; but letters are received fro•n
thence, as low as the 27d of Sept. by way of
China, and forwarded thither by the bomb Cede-
dog, which left Sydney on the 2-1111 of September.
By these letters we learn, that some time after the
arrival of Lieutenant-Colonel Foreaux, the arrest
of the deposed Governor, though still rvritiiiiiet:,
was ouch relaxed. The centinels that had been
placed upon his person had been withdrawn, and
he was allowed 1.1 reside at his seat at Paramatta.
Copies of the whole proceedings between Governor
!Nigh, and the party that overturned his Go.
venom/tit, bad been transmitted to England, for
his Majesty's •determination and orpers. In the
mean time, according to our letters of the 23d of
September, Lieutenant. Colonel Foveaux hail sent
to Colonel Patterson, at Port Dalrymple, in Van
Dieman's Land, requesting him to repair to Syd-
ney, and to take charge of the Government, Col.
Patterson being the senior officer, and holding a
commission as Lieutenant-Governor; but it was
doubted, whether Colonel Patterson would enter
upon the Government, in the existing state of
'fairs.
All the accounts from New South Wales that we
have seen, speak favourably of the conduct of
Governor Bligh, and express the utmost dissatis.
faction at the measures that have been pursued
by the party who removed him from the go.
vernment.

Baron Ditegendoif, well known for his travels,
has invented a machine, by means of which a per.
son may exist under water, without fear of being
drowned. It is a kind of cuirass, which allolvs
the body to assume every possible position, and
which is expected to be extremely useful in saving
persons in danger of being drove ned. The Police
of Vienna have purchased a considerable number
of these machines, with the view of assisting in
bringing up drowned persons from the bottom of
the Danube.

A letter from Dunbar (Scotland), dated the
20th August, says :
" The herring Fishing of this place promises
well; last night 20 boats were employed, and re.
turned successful this morning, having caught
20,000 each boat, at an average. The quality of
the lish is very superior this season, but unless a
supply of boats soon arrives here, the public will
lose sight of the great blessing that is now in their
dn.".

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