The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-09-24 00:00:00

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By ,private letters from Paris we learn that the
French Five per Cents'ihave since been done at 87f. sc.
sad the French Omniam, at 5 per Cast. premium.—
The Premien loan is understood to be f permit worse.
Madrid papers to the 11th have arrived, and are so
far satisfactory as to prove that the public alarm bad
subsided both in that city and in Saragossa. They
contain nothing new respecting the late plots, and
impute the disturbance that bad taken place in
the capital, to foreigners who favour the plans of
those who seek not to give liberty to France, bat
to kindle, for their own ambitions views, a war
throughoot Europe. Another adventurer, a Piedmon-
tese General, is said to have imitatPd at Valencia the
*market of Montarlot at Saragossa. A proclamation
ache latter has appeared in a French Government pa-
per, sad been copied into some London papers of this
morairg, hat is considered in Paris as a complete mys-
tification.
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On Saturday their Royal HVbnesses the Dukes on
York and Clarence visited hi" Majesty, at his Palaces
Pall-mall.
The Earl of Westmorland and Viscount Lowther had
audiences of the King on Saturday.
Colonel Reynett, Equery. to his Royal Highness the
Doke of Cambridge. left London yesterday for Calais,
in order to precede the King, on his Majesty's journey
to Hanover.
Mr. Canning is arrived in town from Brighton.
A subscription, we rejoice to learn, has been open.
ed for the purpose of purchasing for Sir Robert Wil-
son an annuity equal to double the amount of the pay
of a Major General in the army. A handsome com-
mencement has already appeared. One Gentleman
has contributed the sum of 5001.
There is no prospect of his Majesty honouring the
Corporation of London with his presence on the even-
ing of Lord Mayor's day. It is not expected that
his Majesty will bays returned from the Continent by
that period.
Letters from Stockholm, dated the 7th instant,
have been received by the Hamburgh mail. An extra-
ordinary convocation of the Diet of Norway will take
Place it is said, in the spring, as early as the month
of •February. Meantime the King of Sweden, who as
latterly felt his influence over the decisions of that
body Se be on the decline, is aiming at popularity with
them, by conferring honours on its most distinguished
members. M. Sibbern, who officiated as President
doling the King's late visit, has been nominated a
Commanderof the Order of the Sword, and the Bai-
liff a Commander of the Order of the North Star.—
Several Deputies have been created Knights of those
Orders, and also of the Orders of Vasa. Others have
been gratified by appointments in the Civil Depart-
ments, which they had solicited for. The Court
reckon, by these measures, on securing a majority in
their favour. _ _ _

The King of Sweden bas appointed a Committee,
In the spirit of. and evidently suggested by, one of
those institutions which doss honour to this country,
to draw up a plan for separating into classes, and
finding employment for prisoners detained in the state
fortresses ; also for procuring every possible assellors-
lien of their situation, and the adoption of such regu-
lations as may produce a better government and direc-
tion of the public prisoners.
Letters from Constantinople, which reach to the
20th August, announce that the inhabitants enjoyed
in that capital a tranquillity which, the writer states,
leaves nothing further to be desired, as not more than
two or three murders are committed per day. The
n►ost energetic measures are taken against the little
bands of assassins, who, to the regret of all good sub-
jects. have, for some time been disturbing the public
peace. and assassinating a number of persons daily.
Twenty of these banditti have just been hanged, and
a hundred more have received the bastinado. These
steps have terrified the populace, and order seems to
be restored.

Newfoundland Gazettes of the 14th and 21st of
August have come to hand. The former states, that
a French Government schooner arrived at St. John's
on the 12th, from Croque harbour, charged with a dis-
patch from the French Governor there to his Excellen-
cy Sir Charles Hamilton, complaining of the conduct
of some British fishermen, who, in returning from La-
brador last autumn, put into that harbour; and find-
ing the people, with the exception of two or three
men, had returned to France, as is customary at the
end of the fishing season, plundered and set fire to the
Governor's house, and several other buildings, which
were destroyed, as well as a number of boats, and other
articles belonging to the fishery. Similar outrages
are said to have been committed at Quirpon. The per-
petrators of these violent and disgraceful acts are be-
lieved to be well known, and it to be hoped, for the

honour of the British same, that they will be brought
to justice. The French are said to have taken a great
lam*, et fish this season on the coast, principally
with the Seine. The enereasing commercial enter.
prize and activity of this nation is a drew:titmice tbat
almost every arrival from the westward forces on our
notice. In the &sette of the 21st, we find a set of
resolutions agreed to at a public meeting of the inha-
bitants of Newfoundland, held on the 10th, in which
they assert their claim to an independent legislature,
equally with the Nova Scotia, the Canada., and the
other Transatlantic colonies of Great Britain. It is to
the want of this they attribute, in the swords of their
14th resolstioa, m the uncultivated state of the
the depression of its trade, the instability of property,
and the want of institutions for the tustrectiess of
youth" A subscription was entered into for the pur-
pose of promoting the object of the meeting, and
thanks were voted to Lord Holland, Lord Darnley,Sir
James Mackintosh, Sir John Newport, Dr. Lnshington,
and Mr. William Smith, for their exertions Is the
cause of the colony, with a respectful entreaty for the
continuance of their influence in its behalf.
BILIGIETON, Sarr. 23.—Our boats commenced their
Herring fishery the beginning of last week, and the
nightly catches of several were not less than MO. The
fish were retailed at 3d. each.
The sloop Ceres, of Stockholm, which bad bees
lying on shore to deliver her cargo of coals, was on the
sight of this day setanight, by the violence of the
waver, drives epos the beach, where it was feared she
• would have gene to pieces, bet beingansgeir ship, she
was got to ssa again without midi e.