The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-31 00:00:00

WEEKLY REGISTER OF IYEATHER.

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We have had, this week, a variety of weather. The first
Iwo 'lays were fair, serene, and genial ; and the float in the
night thermometer on Monday morning stood.remarkably high.
The next two days were showery, and the night of Wednesday
was windy. Since then the fair weather has returned, though
tie temperature has been lower than before. Yesterday morn•
ing, the puddles were hard frozen ; and last night, too, there
was frost ; though, since the morning, there has been a rapid
and agreeable change. The quantity of rain fallen here this
week amounts to 4 hundredths of an inch.
I Strand, Jae. 31.

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Jai. 23, S 47 54 50 30,04 Fair
20, M•• • • al St 47 ,14 Cloudy
27, T 4B 62 39 29,72 Cloudy
28, W 3B 42 40 ,63 Stormy
29,Th 3B 48 33 .97 Fair
80, F 32 40 39 30,10 Fair
31,2 33 44 .03 Fair
Greatest degree of cold early la the morning, as ascertained
by the ni9kt thermometer :
Sund. I M. I
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I W.
1 Th.
I F.
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42. I 40. 40 31. 33. 93 29 .

A late traveller through Caroiola gives us the following
account of the punishment of some persons who had resisted
the payment of a tax :—" Tbey stood upon a scaffold
erected before the Town-Hall (at Laybach); a line of
soldiers was drawn round it to prevent their being rescued.
A lawyer stood at the middle window, and declared aloud
the crime for which they •ere thus exposed, first in (;ter•
man, then in the dialect of the country. He then de-
clared the law, and afterwards the sentence; the latter of
which was, that according to the extent of each man's
crime, he should be confined for a c:,::;.:2 and
publicly w bip pod."

MAILS.
DUE. ARR. DUN.
Dublin 4) o....Tlnlltril I
I....Wsterford 0 o....Hembro 1
0....0 & Jersey....o I. ...France ..... 0
1....L15b0n 0 0 ...Flunders •I
o....Gottenberg ....2 0. —Malta •+o

PRICE OF STOCKS TIIIS DAY AT ONE OCLOCK.
Rank Stock .
3 per Cent. Reduced.. 91;11 Lon; Annuities 021 0- Ili
I
3 per Cent. Consols —9014 91 I India Itnnda '45 613
31 per Cent. .. .... 1001 I Exclt.Rills2d. 10001. 5.5 .ifirn
4 per Cent.. .... .... 10211 v i Consols for Account 911 901

Ot -tatetintan.

SATURDAY LVENING, JANUARY 31, 1821.

SToCk Esc It ANG E, 12 o'CLocK.—Consols opened
this;morning at 911, and arc now 911, for the Account,
with a good deal of business doing.
The Expresses from Paris bring the French Rentes
of Thursday, 95. 75.. and Spanish, 27 ; but at the
close of the Market Rentes were up to 96., and Spa-
nish had fallen to 25 it ; the previous rise in Spam ,h
was owing to a report that the Old Loan would be rati
lied, but on this report proving fa!se they fell again.
FOREIGN FUN os.—This being Settling Day in all
Foreign Securities, Spanish Bonds opened at 25, and
fell to 441.

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New Spanish. 17—Old, 24i to I—Colombian,1—Colombian, 64/—New
Austrian, 3 to i—Chili, 761—Russian,S9i—French Scrip, 71-
-Mexican, 71.

By an express this morning from Paris, we have received
the Journal des Debuts of Thursday, and the Etoile
of yesterday's date, from which we extract the follow
ing:--

(FROM TILE JOURNAL DES DEIIATS.)
PARIS, JAN. 28.—The opposition Journals yesterday
took an alarm, and declared that the French troops were
going to re-enter Spain, and that Baron d'Eroles was
going to take possession of Barcelona. Others stated, that
we were going to send ships and regiments from fires►,
Ilochfort, and Toulon.

What can all these reports mean ?—k is at the moment
of the elections that the public spirit is to be agnate'',
and lain imaginary warfare. But these manoeuvres will
not silenced.

Troops will not return to Spain, where none are
wanted. In regard to the armaments in our ports, we
repeat again, for the twentieth time, that it is invention
of the opposition. Twelve hundred troops of the line,ac-
cording to the'rew systym, are going to complete the garri-
son of Guarioloupe and Martinique, and to replace the
Colonial liattaiions.

If France should think fit to equip fleets, anil to em-
bark soldiers on board, she will not ask permission, nor
make an excuse to any person. The poor opposition are
♦ery ill.
To day, after mass, the King presided at a Court of Mi-
nisters, which lasted from twelve o'clock till half past one.
Prince Frederick Alexander Francois Constantine, of Wur-
temberg died on the night of Jan. 22.
FRANKFORT. J. 28.—News direct from Missolungla
of the 10th Dec. confirms the account that the blockade
has been raised, and that the Turks lost before that place
three thousand men, and all their artillery and ammuni-
tion. Omer Pacha has retired to Janina, but it is said he

is made a prisoner in one of the houses by his own troops,
because he has not paid them. AU strangers have been re
called to Missolunghi, under the command of Lord Byron.
The Minister of Marine has established a commission
to deliberate on the best method for the projects for arm-
ing ships of wtr and improvements in the ports.
(mom TILE ETOILE

PERPIGNAN, JAN. 25.—The Constitutional troops which
were cantoned according to the treaty of the 2nd
Nov. have been disbanded by Baron d'Eroles, and
sent from Tarragona to Barcelona. The same operation
will take place under the orders of General Sarstield, on
the garrison of llostalrich, cantoned at the San relue
de
Gaorole. The whole of the disbanding has been executed
with the greatest order. Their number exceeds 12.000
men ; there does not any longer remain an army, as they
have all returned to their homes. The Royalists force for
this province will be 13,000 men. Measure; are taken to
keep a good police in the several towns.
MADRID.—It is affirmed that the Marquess of Mataflorida
is appointed Ambassador to Turin.
The Gazette of to-lay has published a list of promo-
tions which his Majesty has ordered among the Clergy.
CADIZ.—The ships Asia and Achille, are ready. They
will sail in a few days.

Jamaica Papers have arrived this morning to the 25th
Dec. of which the following are extracts:—

FROM THR COURANT OP THE 25TH DEC.
We understand, that so fully are Ministers impress-
ed with the necessity of imparting religious instructions
to the Slaves in our West Indian Colonies, that they ap-
plied to the Wesleyan Missionary Committee for 50 young
men to be sent as Missionaries to the %Vest Indies, agree-
ably to the regulations of that body.
Qmo.—The latest information received by Government
from the Liberator and President, is of the 22d July, from
Quito. The Southern Departments enjoyed tranquillity, with
the exception of Pasts, which is still kept in alarm.—His
Excellency has commissioned General Sucre to proceed to
Peru to give aid to that country. General Sucre had arrived
at Lima.
The following is part of a communication from Commodore
Owen : .

PORT ROTAS. RARBOUR, DSC O. •
For the information of persons interested, 1 enclose en ex-
tract of a report made by Lieut. Cowley, of his Majesty's
cuttererecian, respecting the loss of the Minorca schooner on
the Bar of Guezarouleri on the Bth Nov.
[There is a long account in these papers of a continued se-
ries of alecepiloms prr,:tir.d ""nn the dupes of the Po)ais

scheme; but as the iteln-ir,” has been nt !mint. b
the result of a recenjttuicial proceedinx. it unnecessary.
insert the detail.)

If implicit reliance cou'Ai be plaeoml on tlio nainra„,„
given by Ministers, the subjects of licorge the Fouriii.
ought to be the hapriest on earth. A few yoams
ago, a late Fore.g,n ts!),.••;e tittathict:s ricer;;
will render Ins trat.li• %trend arcs
his honest countr7: men at Del st, with a hig!i
picture of the then state of the country. :1 ship ..c
war, returning in tr iutnplt front tae docent co,
and entering the harbour with her Cmhers
her colours chosen flying, Has as a faltmt image of our
national glom y. In the same spirit ,but in somewhat heft";
taste, our present State Pilots, at the rt.cent
Ship-owners' dinner, exult in the security, and gromt-
ing prosperity of the country. This certainly was cm-
fortable news, but it would not have been the 15.,,,,
the Speakers been a 'tittle more explicit, and condrEcen.;p4
to tell us of what this growing prosperity consi,teil.
Whatever might be said of ship-owners, land-owners, or
place-owners, we see little in the state of the country to
warrant extravagant exultation. While Castlereagh's six
despotic Acts remain the Law of England, ar.d an insur-
rection Act governs Ireland, it would be cit!Cnz irony to
boast of our peace and liberties. In time latter country,
where we feen starving and oppressed people driven hydei-
pair to acts of violence and insurrection, we can trace in qtch
a state of things, no symptoms of peace and prosperity.l lEng.
land, too, where the labouring agricultural popalator, are
at this moment half fed by parish bounty, being half
pau-
pers and half ploughmen, we see abundant intlicationr of
decay, but none of prosperity. Let pride and ins.lienee
advance what they may, this class form the solid have of
society, and their prosperity or depression, the oir!y tree
coodition of our national condition."

" Princes and Lords may flourish or may fade,
" A breath can make them, as a breath bath made,
"6 Rut a bold Peasantry, Cieir c3untry's pride,
" When once destroyed, can never be supplied."

The Courier and the profligate press, may prate about an
increasing revenue, which, instead of being a blessing,
is the great prolific source of public distress. Low taxation
is the best criterion of good government,—it proves a sym-
pathy on the part of Rulers, with the wants and necessities
of the people. It is not a high military establishment, a
1 profligate host of platemen, ,pensioners, and idle sir
necnrists, thst give strnegth, or add prosperity to a stale.
It is on a Loge revenue dist corruption depends fur
support. Po away with a scrainide for the pubiic
plunder, and honesty tiny have some chance to come in
fashion. At present, honesty is almost heroine a term of
reproach among public siren, who seem to shim it as tiny
would disgrace. We hope therefore, we are about com-
mencing a new reckoning, and that the speech from the
Throne, will announce the Royal desire, for a great re-
duction of our burdens ; rigid economy in the application
of our means, and a determination to give the people bow
evidence of the prosperity of the country, than any to he
found in the speeches of Ministets,idelivered at Tavern
Dinners.

Letters from Pernambnco, dated the 14th nit. were re-
ceived. yesterday by way of flavre. 1 ntelligenee of tie.
recent events ;a Rio bad arrived there, and had created
great uneasiness. The remaining members of the Jiro'
had resigned their situations, and a new election had taken
place, which led to the appirament of the following indi-
viduals :—Mannel Carvalho de Andrade, as President;
Senhor Selilanlia, recently arrived front Lisbon, as Secre-
tary; and Dr. Bernardo, with two priests named
and Venancio, late deputies to Rio. as CUIMAPI r 410'.!
di Maros, who commanded the Pernambuco umthpzent At
Bahia, and who had recently arrived from thence, hid
been appointed Commander-in-Chief of Vie troops in Pir-
nainbuco. In this province the inhabitants were waiting
with much anxiety the arrival of the next despatches from
Rio, with the intention, as the letters state, of declaring
against the Emperor, shonlil he either 111. topt 40_ .t 0 asSilliC
despotic power, or to re-unite the country with Pin-Viol.
The !ante sentiment was understood to exist in all tlia
northern provinces of Brazil.
Lisbon Papers, to the '2oth instant, have arrived ; hot
the following is the only article of interest which they
contain:—
ft Ltsnote, Jar. 13.—The Gazette contains a circular
letter from the Board of Commerce to the Superintendents
of the custotn-honses in he several ports of the kingdoin,
in which they are ordered strictly to pia in force the ia"
against smuggling. grievous complaints haying been made
by the silk manufacturers of the illegal importation and
sale of foreign goods, of that kind, as well as others, to ti'
great injury of the national m tnnfacture, and in content
of the salutary laws and ordinances which hays been fribel
time to tune enacted and published against this
pernicious
abuse and abominable crime."
The following is an extract of a letter from anninica,
Sth Der. received by the last conveyance
We are at present wider the greatest alarm in this
island, in consequence of a strong presumption of i twitter-
elan. Something in the shape of a plot is beyond doubt en
idea a
the Negroes, who are impressed with the
dea that at Christmas they are all to obtain their
tre
dom. Examinations daily take place, and a Privy Conseil
has just been called by the Governor no the occasion. The
Assembly sent a Nlessage to his Excellency yesterday' en
the apprehension which they entertain of the state of the
colony : arms are to be issued immediately, and it is sup-
posed that martial law will be proclaimed.
word at Itosean was, • Emancipation by Christmas, or tbe
Whites shall be Blacks.' "
By accounts from Calcutta, it appears, that steam navi•
gation has commenced on the river flooghly, and that itt
is intended to attempt the establishment of a steam he ache
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communication between India and England, by the route
of the Red Sea.
In one of the Lisbon Gazettes recently received. is 3.1
attempt to shew that " Brasil can never form a nation to
the strict sense of the word," because it " contains such
variety of inhabitants from Europe. Africa and Ameriticcan,
a.
If it cannot form a nation, or sustain an Emperor
however, follow the example of its northern neighbours,
and form United States.
eras
The 30th ofJanuaay being a Bolyday far the Dr3lll3tie
performers, a selection of Sacred and Profane music
perorme at Drury -Lane Theatre, in the evening, nnner,
Chef mil erid ntendence of Mr. Bncbsa, to a very erowdeO
haute. The pieces were selections from The life:sill/4 anal
r
The Bag olJedgment, and the Overture to Weber's
il
Freysehutz. All the pieces, except the second, went
with great eclat.

SifiPPINO INTELLIGENCE.

pv‘t.'Pentry 30.—Wind S.W.—M 7 o'clock this ramming
t',e Punish brig Marianne Henriette, tifierg.from St. Uhe's to
smekholm, with salt. ran on the Goodwin Sands—at 4p. m.
.be epset, aril is noo ti total wreck. The crew, 10 in number.
landed here.—Arrived and sailed for the River. the Morning
Yield. Melville. from Cephalonia ; and the Ark, Hodgson. front
Sieve Leone.
Peevsvoteetr..Tannary 30.—Wind S.W.—Passed by from
11,0 Down. the Daniel 4th. eurkle. for the...lent!' Seas ; and the
Thomas Christie. for Bom,)ay and China.

ptvuocrx,January W.--Arrived the Emu-
wine. Stanworth. from Rilboi.
. rvotevrtt.Januiry '29.—Wind \.W.—Arrive'a the Francis
treel;nr Packet from Jsmales. sailed !?.Itli Dec... and from
Crooked Island 21 linearly also the blontaguell'acket from
York, sailed 5 h January.
. _

LIVPRPOOL. January 0.--Arrited the Thalia. Simpson.
from Jamaica ; William. Thomson, from Savannah • Cossack.
Steward. from St. John's, New Brims wick ; Shaw, from
!Div Chukker ; Worrell, Roberts, from Leghorn ; Star. Bar-
tna, from Gihraltar ; Alexander, Love and (Jolty, and David,
from the Mediterranean.
Cowes. January Btl.-I.ived the Princess of Wales, Gibbs,
from Carthagena, with loss of bowsprit and foretopinast ;
Columbus, Henderson, from ilevannah. in 39 days, and the
Lord ilungerford, Farquharson. from London.

The Eloanor, llaywar 1. from Newcastle to Liverpool, sunk
on tin Newarp :land on Thursday.—Crew saved.

An express was received in this City yesterday morning. from
finamahon. stating that a vessel had gone on shore in the night
n.••r that place. It was at first reported that it was the brig
Maria, tram St. John's, Newlowndland ; hot We are happy to
he rthle to relieve the anxiety of the friends of those on board
this vessel, by Informing them that she arrived safely in this
harbour yesterday, after a severe passage of twenty-five days.
The vessel on shore, we understand. is a ship of above 400
tons register, called the Dorothea. Michael Clooney. master.
from Savannah, bonml to Liverpool, with about 10(X) bales of
cotton on hoard. We regret to learn that there is no hope of
saving the vessel—hut it is expected, if the weather continue
moderate, that part of the cargo will be preserved. The master
and crew. twenty-six in number, have all been fortunately
saved.—( Waterford Mirror.)
The Bulwark, 7G, Captain Hondas, is ordered from Ply-
mouth to Portsmouth. A part of the Active's complement
are to assist in conveying her round, and the Active is also
to sail in company.
An iron foremast and bowsprit, sent from Deptford to
Chatham, are sow to be sent to Sheerness, and to he stepped
in the Activcjrigate, which is going to sea to meke trial
of them.
It may be remarked, as nn instance of the snccessfol en-
!peptize of the IVhale-fishing Associations of Dundee, that
the quantity of whale-tics importer) last season amonnte I
to upwards of 125 tons—one-fifth of the quantity brought
to. Britain from the Arctic seas. The number of vessels
engaged in the fishing was ten; and the number of tons
brought by each ranges from 7 to 16.—Dundee paper.
MARRIAGE IN HMG LIVE.—On Monday, the 26th inst.
at Bestrt, by spacial licence, by the Rev. 14. Morris, Rose
Lambert Price, Esq. eldest son of Sir Rose Price, Bart.
of I'rensw•ainton, in the county of Cornwall, to the Right
Ilon. Catherine, Countess of Desert.

ticaNs' ANNI,IIIIIf4ART.—The Anniversary of the Scot-
t: .h Bard was celebrated on Thursday by a dinner, at the
Museum Tavern, IRlackfriars-road. During the evening a
crest variety of songs, recitations, and ►er.timerts, were
railed from his works, and giYen by Northers► amateurs
with great effect. Mr. Raven'', of Covent Garden
Theatre, contributed his services on this occasion, and
l'pt the company in continued laughter by the excel-
',ore of his remit singing ; he also produced a new Bong
written for the day, d.•eriptive of the manners and
of the eccentric Poet, n hich was received with
enthusiasm.

Monday sennight, a moctinr of the victuallers anti pub.
11.3.1% was hold at Chatteris, to take into consideration the
propriey of petitioning parliament on its approaching
meeting, to take off. the duty of 10e. per barrel. paid by
the com brewer and victualler on ale brewed by them,
is order that the poor mechanic and labourer may he ens-
Lhd drink his bever.ge on the came terms as his more
aralthy neighbour. The resolutions were unanimously
agreed to by a very full inoeting, awl a petition, founded
thereon, was drawn np and sinned. W. understand the
roiliotorta trust the country at large will ace the neces-
. tt• of j.iining in the laudable undertaking.—Stamford

In noticing the new duties imposed on articles or corn-
mitre by the Russian Ilvse. we observed that if the
trade in commodities, Mich are in request, be tried to he
ru.:raineul in one channel, it will he sure to seek and lint'
another; and that in no country is it 'mute easy to carry on
a routraband trade than in Ruissia. We since find it stated
;I. a fart, that Glasgow and Paisley goods are sold in Mos-
..kw as cheap as in this country; all smuggled of course.
but regularly stamped with the marks of Russian mann-
f3u tuners.

II:MI STAMP OFFICE.--The Lords of the Treasury
irtve igsneol a new Commission, appointinr the following
liertletnett to the Board of Stamp Dales :--
William Campbell, Esq., late Comptroller of Legacy
Unties in London ; John Lissnn Co. per. Esq., who for
many yearn has held the office of Receiver-General of Cos-
-I.4er, and Darcy Mahon, Esq., late lnspector-General of
Stamp Duties.
Eilwatil (narcotic and John Trench. Esgrs , it is under-
Ilt^^(1. sill lie either removed to the Enalish Board, of re-
tire upon such superannuation as the length of their ser-
tire may entitle them to.
The 6.llowing Gentlemen have been dismissed :---
Alexander ['ohne', Esq., Distributor ; Richard Jones,
I'l, Warehouse-keeper ; and Richard Graydon, Deputy-
Warehouse-keeper.

CIATOM HOUR! ARRANGEMENTS.--.los-ph Each, Esq.,
Story-kerprt at this port, has, we understand, been appoint-
ed 'Landing Waiter at Liverpool.—(Wateiford Mirror.)
Tilt Nicen.—The course and termination of this mys-
terious river is on the eve of being finally settled. Private
!"1"1 have been received from the African travellers, Dr.
`)utinrT, Litmenant ClApperton, and Major Denti.mi, so
late as the middle of July last, from Bornon, where they
rill remained under the protection of the Sheik, waiting
!telt further proceeding to the Eastward until the rainy
sea,on shall have ceased. In the mean time they have not
ten idle, having traced back the stream of the
Ecr from the great lake of Teed, into which
tt f.ills full two hundred miles to the westward,
one hundred miles of the Lake
fre, into which Hornemsnn had traced its course.
bees
far this inland sea extends to the eastward had not
"Wertained; but it is conjectured that its waters may
he d'
.sebarged into the Nile of Egypt. Clapperton men-
tions the height of the Lake to be 1200 feet above the level
of 0e sea, which is about that of the source of the Min-
ea"`lPPl ; the length of this river is 3000 miles ; the dis-
;re from the Lake to the Mediterranean is little more
this 4" 2000 ; the fall, therefore, is more than necessary for
purpose.
rhis day tbere will be s new moon, making the second
month. In February, as we had
there will be five Sundays. These
irrences.
son of• W. Rieke% Esq., of Lolham, near
was unfortunately drowned in the back
on Saturday last. He was playing
troy and accidentally slipped in. It
when the melancholy tidings reached
the body was not found until Sunday

rata day sbere ail
datinir the present
Ichia Pa rret;r:::e sly
c nOnbrsreeryeede
e.
3he el lest son of
arket Deeping, as
a rat Lolham 01
'ith anothtr little I
ZlZi,.
late in the day
-ndr and al
tatrzing.