The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-10-29 00:00:00

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po It7'S _llO Ocr,
Rear Admiral Iferbert Sawyer ni stiikar
morning in the Belvidere, Captain
teed Sir John Warren, at Halifax.
The Olympia made a valuable eaptwe
passage from the Cape. On the 29th u!,.
with the French brig iftatente, deeply
Eastern produce, which she captured set
in with her. She was from the (ate
bound to Bourdcaux.
We understand, 'by letters from tle
Goad Hope, that the estimated
'aloe of
pert v taken at Bourbon, is between 3 led
Lord Henry Percy, of the 14th drag
.ther to Lord Louvainc), was taken pr.
in Portugal. Ile had tho command of the
.Lad his horse becoming rcstire at the app.
French party, he was as consequence ittl
by them.
Vac Friendilap sloop, Captain Willino
a regular Loudon trader, was run down 04•
day evening last, about eight mile; from
Head, by A man of war brig) and the err,,
posed to have all perished. Si.c was 14,1
groceries, &c. for this town.

The Assistance Navy transport, Ca;4.l
Wood, sailed out of this haibi,ur nu Tie
se'naight ; and in the afternoon she tell in ta
Phipps, Bel eastward ofsthe piers, from al
learnt, there were 15 privateers in that pant
Channel. luau hour after ward the Attistal
a. French lugger firing into a fillip. Tie pril
perceiving the Assistance was coming up aiu
stood to the Southward. The ...issistancca
the ship, and chaced the privateer, but cot:i
overtake her. The proited to be the JAI
of Leith, with a cargo from Jamaica. T.,

sistance then collected 10 sail of merchant
took them into the Dawns.

John Crane,
.Esq. first bruter-Attesdantsl
Majesty's Dock-yard, at this port, is, as Lill
request superannuated. .He has Neu
vice upwards of BO years. James Par
appointed first Master-Attendant; The.
son, Esq. second ; and Min. Payne, Loiti
The persons with whom Jeffery, them
came ashore from the Thistle, were )11„
Lord Lake, and Mr. Thatches, his"Loaliiii,
torney. They all proceeded toLuilos, taa
Eery has since made a very satisfiactory mane
with the family of Captain Lake. Jeffery'bc
tations were 10001.—ue have not beard the t
sum he has received.

• Lord and Lady Holland und family left Gui
meat Howieltris morning, on their retum to Hu
House, Kensington.

CORN EXOII4INGEI Ocr. 29.

'the fresh arrives of Wheat to.day cot
makes tolerable supply, but not much fon
and sales thereof fully at Friday's prices;
somewhat cheaper; Melt and Beans, of tie
sorts, nearly at our last quotation; White!
again dearer ; there are considerable Anita
Oats, but being in demand, this articleisautgt
lower; Flour without Tanaka.
Wheat, - - -68 s. 82.. 955. Tick Beam,, •; 15.9
Fine ditto - - 984.1024. Oats,
Rye (new) - - - 40,. 454. Poland. - -
Barley, , s4s. 474. Potatoe ditto -• • •s,
Malt, -
W. Peas (Boilers) 644. 70'. Fine Flour -•1%
Grey Peas, -- - -48 s. b3e. Seconds - •.0
Beam, ---50..56..1

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LUCIEN BONAPARTS.--ThiS extraordinary-
sonage having retired, disgusted with kis In,
having assumed the Imperial Purple, chose► to
place of his tranquillity, the beautiful snd
chanting villa near Albano, about titiP
from Rome, which be purchased at a tcry
siderable expense from the Barbarini family
few years ago. It lies In a sequestered
called Nernori, and has been celebrated, I
the earliest ages, for the residence of
most distinguished of the Roman Sold
The Lake of Neini, adjacent to it, lies ins
deep valley, surrounded on every side socoall
ly with weeds and groves, that its fUrfaCo iIM
ruffled with a breath of wind, which, togetiell
the nncommon transparency of its water, isi
posed to have given rise to the appellation bate
upon it by the Ancients, who called it, gm
to Virgil, Speculunque Diane, Diana's Loot

glass. - -
The following dreadful occurrence is taitel
an Edinburgh Paper, received on Saturtlip
' Gentleman walking along the South Bridge
this morning ( Wednesday)wits alaimed by the.
Of a pistol, and immediately calling thee
of a watchman, proceeded towards the place
whence the report seemed to come. On
at the head of Infirmary.strLet, they parallel
body of a man lying stretched on the growl)
besides him an other man, who, immediately an
coming up, presented a pistol to his head, 14
and I'ol to the ground. Assistance was pr
procured, and they were carried to the Will I
wary, the one perfectly lifeless, and the other(
had fired the pistol when the gentleman and
man came up) nearly so : he died in a few N
after being brought into the Infirmary. la the
the ball had enteral a little above the lett car,
lodged in the brain ; in the other, it had Kt'
little above the right ear, and passed out at the
posit° tide of the head. We understand chit
gentleman who was observed to fire the secant p
was much intoxicated ; that he left his f
a brace of loaded pistols in his hand, 101 l "Aiir,
towed by the other gentleman, in order to
him back. Irritated, probably, by hi, sulicitaa,
•
he committed the rash deed above-iecol,e'nal
interval between the tiring of the two p—
is ois•
De about three miuutes.