The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-02-11 00:00:00

SOUTH WA RK ELECTION.

The business of Election commenced in South-
wark this morning, and there is every appearance
of a warm contest, the friends of Mr. JONES BUR.
DETT, of reform and of popular right, being deter-
mined not to relax their praise-worthy endeavours
to give to Southwark and the British Parliament
another independent Member, and another enemy
to corruption.

A report was prevalent yesterday, that the LORD
Cisa.wczu.oa means to tender the resignation of the
the Seals of Office. A domestic calamity was assign-
ed sa tha cause of this determination, but it has been
arab ascribed to a public motive.
The Nunez is expected in town to-morrow, from
iirighton. On Monday his Royal Highness will
!vide Privy Council, at three o'clock, at Carlton-
House, for the purpose of pricking for Sheriffs for
the year ensuing.
Extract of a letter from Genoa, dated 25th Jan.
1815:—Our destiny is at last decided; we are
subjects of the King of SARDINIA. Time will show
oar debt of gratitude to England and the Congress.
The King JOACHIM is in jeopardy. It is positive-
ly asserted that Congress has dismissed him. Will he
yield without resistance? You English, what will be
your policy if he defends' himself ? These are the
questions we ask, and to 'which ao one can give a
rely. What i• certain Is, that a King beloved by
,hia subjects, and at the head of an hundred thousand
men, Ts not easily forced. God. preserve Italy from
the, atlsfortune of becoming the theatre of a new war !
There is, nevertheless, much to fear."
We understand that some serious disputes exist in
the Island of Trinidad, between the Government
and the Military, the latter having been subjected to
the tribunals of the Spanish Civil Law. The subject
will be brought before Parliament.
We understand that it is the intention of the Lords
of the Admiralty, not only to dispense with the
FlapOtlicers in the rivers Thames and Medway, dur-
ing the peace, hut also with the Commissioners of the
Navy at the yards of Deptford and Woolwich; which
appointment was only made by the zealous Earl St.
Vincent for a temporary puruese, and from recent
events appears to be no longer of use. About 10,0001.
per annum is expected to be saved by this measure,
in attendants, &c. &c.
We hear the South Sea Company has surrendered
their right to an exclusive trade, on condition of
being guaranteed by Government in the full amount
of their usual dividend.

THE LATE FAUX PAUX IV HMIs LIFE.— On Sun.
day morning last, when Lord -- returned from
Church, he was met on entering his house by his
daughter, a child only six years of age, whom he
accompanied to the door of the nursery, which he
found closed, and on looking through the key-hole,
he saw his Lady with an intimate friend of his Lord-
ship in such a situation that is not to be described.—
His Lordship instantly flew to his chamber, and
seizing a pistol, returned to the door of the nursery
at the moment it was opened by the adulterer, and
levelled it at his head—by raising his arm he avoided
the fatal effects of the hall, which he received in his
right arm, by which it was shattered.
FoRGErs PASSE9.—The system of vagrancy, which
was exposed at the late general Quarter Sessions for
(be county of Devon, is a most deplorable abuse of
that benevolent act of the Legislature, which grants
pecuniary aid to soldiers, seamen, and their families,
on their respective journies home. It came out that
a man, of gentlemanly appearance, called Malony,
keeps, or kept, an office in St. Giles's, London, for
the manufacture and sale of printed passes, to which
the names of Magistrates are ingeniously forged in
imitation of their proper hands' writing. These passes
he sold, at Is. each, to understrappers, who laid
their own profit on retailing them out to such as were
to make use of them. Large parties of vagrant ma-
rauders have left London, from time to time, each
provided with a pass for him or herself, and many of
them carrying bundles of them to sell to such as they
meet with on their tours. Many of them, who tra-
velled towards Scotland, Wales, Devon, or Corn-
wall, had passes, purporting that they were landed
at Portsmouth, on the Kentish coast, or other parts
the most remote from those to which they purport
to be travelling ; the printer's name and residence
tallying with the residence of the Magistrate whose
forged signature they bore.
"3fenzA,or the HOLLANDERS."—A translation of
this work, the production of Lours BONAPARTE, the
late King of Holland, will appear in a few days.—
The foreign Journals pronounce it to have very con-
siderable interest, arid in particular to exhibit a most
lively picture of society and manners in Holland.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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DE It, FEB. 10.—Sailed this motelng the n hole or
the outward-bound Eastindtamen, trafipotts, coast.
ers, and colliers, to the Westward, % ith a fine
breeze at S. E. Also sailed hip Majesty's ship De-
siree, far Portsmouth.. Cam: down from the River
the Numa, Robson. for Grenada.

PUKTSM. OUTIT, FEB. 10.—Sailed his Majest,'S ship
Myrmidon, for PI) month. The outward-bound
convoys have made the signal to prepare to sail, and
will be off at day.light i% the moruirg.
P. S. Arrived the Foster, from the DjWIIF,
bound to Jamaica.

SCILLY, FEB. 7.—lfis Majesty's ship Thais, Capt.
Ware, came in a few days ago from a cruize, and
sailed again to-day.

lIA atwi cii, Fun. 10.—A rrired the Prince of Orange
packet, with a Mail from Holland; and the Ileallfoy
packet, with a Mail from Cuxhaven.--A
w•ritinS-
desk has been picked up near Brudwell, in which
was a ship's papers, called the Guntor, !lob.
Master.
PLYMOUTH, Fin. 9.—Sailed the or man of
war, for Cork and the West Indies; and the Tay
sloop of war, .with a fleet for Bourdeauso