The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-02-09 00:00:00

lb rex EDITOR OF Tits STATESMAN.

sin,—The most satisfactory answer I can give to
$ letter signed " A WErrettxterEa PATRIOT," re•
sing the Irish Charitable Society, which appeared
to your Paper of yesterday, is an earnest invitation
to the writer to examine the proceedings and books
of the Institution, which are uniformly open to the
inspKtion of the Members. The " situation of
importance" which I hold is that of Secretary, the
duties of which I have endeavoured to perform with-
out any emolument whatever.
I am, Sir, your's, &c.
EDWARD QUIN.
crwe-coutt, Fleet-street, Feb. 9.

The ;es tit ER'S Parliamentary Levees commence
upon Saturday, the 18th inst.
Yesterday at two o'clock a Cabinet Council was
held at the Foreign Office.

Two houses in the City, we regret to state, stop-
payment on Saturday last. One of them, a
Jewish house, Messrs. L. and Co. failed for not less
than 300,0001. and upwards.
In consequence of the vacancy which has arisen
in the representation of the borough of Downpatrick,
by Mr. Haullioasz's acceptance of the office of
Chief Comniksioner of the Irish Board of Excise,
Mr. CROIER has again offered himself a candidate
for that borough. Mr. CROKER'S letter to the elec-
tors is dated " Admiralty, Jan. 26."
If Notice has been given at the Post-Office, Paris,
that Mails for the States of Lucca, Tuscany, Rome,
and Naples, will be dispatched from Paris on 'Fun-
d'''. from Lyons on Friday, and from Chamherry
on Saturday, in each week. Mails for the States of
Piedmont, Genoa, Parma, Placentia, Milan, Bo-
logna, Ferrara, Modena, Mantua, Venice, Bergamo,
Brescia, Verona, Vicenza, Treviso, Friuli, Padua,
Tyrol. Istria, Dalmatia, Ragusa, will be dispatched
from Paris on Tuesday and Saturday, from Lyons
on Tuesday and Friday, and from Charnberry on
Wednesday and Saturday, in each week.
Monday, the Bedford Militia marched into Bed-
ford, after an absence of 14 years, for the purpose
of being disbanded. The road for two miles from the
town was completely crowded with people, who had
assembled to congratulate their friends os returning
to their native country. On Wednesday the regi-
ment was disembodied, and the men departed in a
very orderly and correct manner to their homes.

iesterdiy a Court of Directors was held at the
East India-House, when the following Commanders
took leave, previous to departing for their respective
destinations, viz.:--Captain JOUR CRAIG, Princess
Charlotte of lVales; Captain JAMES GaORGE CRABS,
lord Melville; Captain JAMES M'TAG(IART, Rose;
Captain S.:ovt, Ceres. The following Officers were
sworn into the command of their respective ships,
viz :—Captain FottBES, James Sabbald, and Captain
WARD, Fairless for Madeira arid Bengal; Captain
TARROTT, Apollo, for Madeira, Bengal, and Bom-
bay; and Captain itzmimc, David Scott, for Ma-
deira and Bombay.
Advices have recently reached us from the Canary
Islands, to the latter end of November, by which it
appears that the proceedings of the Government
there are carried on in the same spirit of rigour and
oppression as those recently adopted by the Mother
Government. His Excellency Doti PEDRO KO..
narGues DE LA Buaim is Captain-General of Tene-
rife, and through him are all the acts of Govern-
ment administered. He is the person who ruled
with such despotic sway during the reign of the
Regency and the Cortes, and he is not less zealous
now to carry into effect all the intentions of Govern-
ment of King FERDINAND VII.
. . . . .

A physician and a military officer, who had late],"
arrived at Teneriffe from Cadiz, were instantly throe&
into dungeons for having presumed to make known
the discontents prevailing in Spain. The former was
sentenced to five years banishment to a desert island,
and the latter to be depri►ed of his rank, and to serve
five years as a common soldier in the garrison at Santa
Cron.

One of the Spanish Gentlemen who were delivered
rip to the Spanish Government by the Governor of
Gibraltar some time ago, lras recently arrived in
Ltig'slid, having made his escape from Spain. He

has addressed a letter to the British public, wherein
he romplainsvf the inhospitable treatment he met
Frith at Gibraltar.
A Gentleman who has arrived in town from Ham.
burgh, via Holland, states that commerce, both in
Ilolland and the North of Germany, was in a state
of almost total inactivity, and the stagnation had
occasioood some additional failures.

Mr. Kits has procured a theatrical furlough, to
go to Edinburgh for three weeks, where he will per-
form for a few nights. This excursion is to com-
ment* in the course of about ten days.
The Bramble, which took out the first notice of
the peace by dispatches to Bermuda, had arrived in
lone. 42. after as very quick and favourable passage.
--She left England the end of December, before the
ratiQration by the Patrice Braver, in the confidence
that it would receive his sanction, and to take the
earliest instructions arising upon it to the Governor
of the Bermudas. The Favourite, a new 20 gun
ship, which conveyed the Treaty when ratified, has
not been beard of, but there can be little doubt of
ler having had a good passage. She sailed from Ply-
*month on Monday, the2d Jan. at eight o'clock in the
morning. •
On Monday last the remains of Sir 'WILLIAM
CUARIALS FARRELL SKIFFINGTON, Bart. were re-
moved froni his late residence in Charles-street,
Grosvenor-square, for interment at Paddington.
PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPI:.—On Thursday lest, as
a few young Gentlemen were amusing themselves
skaiting upon Mr. Brownlow's lake, the ice gave
way with a Lieutenant Lind, of the Ros•el Navy,
about the centre, when he went down, and would
inevitably have perished, had it not been for the
very intrepid exertion of James Shaw, Esq. who,
wits the greatest presence of mind, and all possible
haste, pulling off his coat, and tying the straps of
his skaits to the skirts of it, rescued him from his
perilous situation. Too moth praise cannot be given
to Mr. Shaw for his very laudable exertion in saving
the life of Mr. Lind, a Gentleman respected by all
nyllt im2:ao"(B4fast News Letter.)