The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-10-22 00:00:00


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NAVAL I.NTR L LIG ENCE.

Mowraosc, Oov. 18.—Arrived the Acorn, Bernie,
and the Lelloll4, Burn, from Riga, with part of the
crews of the Esperiment and Rothumurchus, lately
•wrecked in the Baltic ; the crews saved, as also the
cargo and materials of the Esperiment.
• LIVERPOOL, OCT. 20.—A rrived the Partridge,
Clarkson, from Bombay, sailed 2d of July. The
Carron, for Liverpool, was to sail on the 3d of July.
The Colombo for London, sailed on the 25th of June.
The Partridge sailed from the Isle of France on the
Ind of August, and from the Cape of Good Hope the
lit of September.
NORTH SHIELD!, OCT. 19.—This afternoon, in a
thick fog, the Union, Wright, of Whitby, got upon
the Rocks under Typemouth Castle, and bulged ; a
part of her sails is landed, and it is expected the prin-
cipal part of her materials and stores will be saved ;
but as the wind blows fresh from S. E. and a heavy
• sea is coming on, it is doubtful that the vessel will be.
coma a wreck.

The Regent, Jameson, of London, was wrecked
on the 4th Sept. on the Island of St. Anna, on her
some from Pernambuco for Maranhao. The specie
and two men lost.

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. Jamaica Papers arrived yesterday to the 6th alt.
They concur with the American Journals in confirm-
ing the report of Commodore Auuv having taken
possession of Old Providence. Advice. had reached
Kingston from Porto Rice, that the greatest alarm
*listed at that place, and all t he military from the coun-
try had assembled at Sur Quam, to place the works
and town in a more formidable state of defence.—
. The occasion of all this confusion is supposed to
have arisen from the number of privateera, which had
completely blockaded the' harbour, and threatened
destruction to the town. Jamaica continued per-
fectly healthy ; but a paragraph in one of the Papers
states, that in Surinam an epidemic prevailed, which
bad swept off a considerable number of individuals.
Many of the Dutch died in four or five hours after
they were first seized with it. A Meeting was held
at George Town, Demerara, on the 20th of June, to
take into consideration the best means of introducing
the use of steam-boats in that settlement, whets one.
third of the estimated sum necessary fur this purpose
was subscribed in the course of a few hours. It was
expected the remaining shares would be quickly
bought up, as the local advantages which would re-
sult from their adoption were so obvious and im-
portant.
The Duke of Kent packet has arrived from Lisbon
in seven days, and brings letters and Papers from
thence so late as the 10th inst. The former corn.
, plain bitterly of the very impoverished state of the
country, in consequence of the enormous sums re-
quired by the Court of Rio Janeiro for payment of
the forces which the King feels it necessary to em-
ploy, to overawe all attempts at insurrection. For
this purpose the standing army has of late been con-
siderably augmented. It was not believed at Lisbon
that the differences aubsiiting between Spain and For.
angel had been monied,
Intelligence from -Quebec awd Mont net, use the
date of the 19th ult. was received, yesterday. On
the 11th the shock of an earthquake was felt at Que-
bec, along the base of the mountains to the northward
of that city. It is represented as having been suffi-
. ,ciently powerful to cause a tremulous motion of the
windows of the houses and of the furniture. By a
Census lately meld', it appears that the population of
Montreal and its suburbs amounts to about 94,000
inhabitants. The prospects with regard to the har-
vest were very good, in both the provinces. We are
glad to find that public and private enterprise is di.
rectirg its attention towards that fruitful source of
wealth and power, inland navigation. The land,
Jim the head waters of the 12-mile creek to Chip's
paw% river, had been examined, to ascertain the prat.
'ticability of cutting a canal, and connecting the waters
of the Upper Lake with Ontario. The belief was
pretty general that this desirable object might be af.
fected at a moderate eapence.
The LORD ADVOCATE of Scotland, in succeeding
Lord Primitcy, who, it is said, is to fill the office
of LORD JUbTICE CLERK, will have no fewer than
three gowns —as an Ordinary Lord of Session, as a
„Lord of Justiciary, and as a Judge of the Jury
-ICourt ! Such are the rewards now conferred on
.Courtly Lawyers, er rather on subservient Adro-
cotes, for his Lordship never was yet mentioned as a
lausee, even by Isis own deputies.
The coalition, or rather the combination, of the
Water Companies of Westminster, to raise the price
of that indiapensible necessary of life, will no doubt
be the subject eta Parliamentary enquiry ; in the
mean time the pavements are dancing in all directions
to the music of the Union pipes !
We urderstand that Mr. GALLATIN, Ambassador
of the United States at Paris, left town yesterday
,morning for Dover, on his return to the French ca-
pital ; nothing has as yet transpired as to the result
of the negociarions in which his Excellency has been
engaged (with Messrs. Rows/sole and GOULBURN,
our Plenipotentiaries), during his stay here.
LEGITIMATE VIIITUE.—There was an abominable
erstablishment in the Park at Versailles, under
.the management of LE BEL, first Valet de Cham.
bre to Louis XV. Into this infamous sink of
wickedness were aliened, by every nefarious art,
girls of the tenderest age, to be debauched by Louis
le bien-aime. Their numbers amounted at times to
,more than a hundred, many of them purchased of
their parents! Their children, by the King, were re.
,gelarly provided for, and they themselves, when they
became, too old for the Father of his People, were
married of, with good .fortunes, into the provinces.
The whole thing seems to have been conducted with
,as much regularity, and in as business-like a manner
as any department of the State. It is horrible such
things should be, but right they should he known
when they are, or when they have been, that men may
see what thou* arbitrary Monarchs often are, upon
whom thekr affection', their blood, and their wealth
•ra lavished, and that they may learn, by such pic-
tures, the dignity end the necessity of being free.—
such was the morality of the Court during the reign
of Lours 'XV.
- By the returns on the books of the harbour Com-
pany at Margate, it appears that 30)000 persons have
pogd the Pier defies this season.