The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-01-15 00:00:00

also from Haosburgh ; but no official publication
on the subject has yet made its appearance. The
speculations in these letters are, t►at the rev°.
cation of these DCCreli will lead- to the relaxation
eNsur blockading system—which will pare the
way fur Peace. We cannot see on what prin.
elide any such expectation can bq founded.

The present century, young as it is, has not been
deficient in what is termed hoaxing. Who
is his Excellency MIRIAM HASDIM HASSAN
—What countryman is he ?—Considerable curio.
sity prevails on the subject of this important Per.
sonage, on whom so much seems now to depend.
The Public would, perhaps, be gratified by some
communication on the rent or supposed object of
his mission.

All the accounts that reach us from Porinpl
concur in announcing the departure of our army
from the Peninsula. Coimbra is probably the pro.
sent head quarter', but some letters rOprltli a he.
lief that they will soon be at O,wrto.
Thu return of their PRU6IIIAN MAJ.:MU to
Berlin was celebrated by the liberation of all pri.
soners fur petty offences, and gratuitous admission
to the Theatre.
Seventy.ntio Austrian Generals and Colonels
have retired on pensions.
So utensil° and solid were the fartileations of
Raab, that the French were obliged to employ
380 cwt. of gunpowder to destroy them.
On Saturday last a considerable number of ves.
gels arrived iu the River from Dutch ports.
Brandy fell, on Saturday, sixpence a gallon,
in consequence of the expected repeal of BoOA.
PA RTC'S Decrees, and of our own Orders in
Council.
Barba lees Papers to the 12th November aro in
town, but are destitute of news..

A detachment of the Royal African Corps,
consisting of 14 Officers and 300 men, under the
command of Major Critsnot.m, is on the eve of
sailing fur the coast of Africa.
Mr. 'Awn, Governor-General of Upper.
Louisiana, lately shot himself, in consequence of
the American Guverumeut having refused to pay a
bill he had drawn on it.
The project to work the merchintmen frozen in
at Cronstadt through the Ice, has been reuuslicard
as impracticable.
-Lord S— C— is the nobleman whom it was
lately-attempted to carry off from the Isla of Mali.
The French brig Ceres, from Leghorn to Ha-
vre, token by a Port uguess ship of war, and
carried into Gibraltar.
Saturday morning, Mr. CCA !ILES Weswr exhi.
bited his powers on the new organ, built by AL-
LEN, fur Covent-Garden Theatre. .

Wednesday Earl CASIDIM presented a petitioll
to his MAJESTY for a licence or patent to erect a
new Theatre in the City of London.
A Lady of distihction is, we understand, threat.
' ened with a Prosecution, on a charge of poisoning
a witness, to prevent him from giving evidence in
a case in which she felt an interest.
A young Lady at the West end of the town, Ims
been very fortunately taken by her guardians, a
few weeks prior to her becoming of age, from the
possession of a foreigner, who kept her under a
false pretence of marriage.
Yesterday, a Lady in Great Titchfield.street,
gave away a considerable quantity of flannel to the
blind poor of Mary.le.bone parish.
A Soddy is about to be established, for the re.
lief of the necessitous poor in the King's Bench,
in which there is nu allowance of either food,
fuel, or even lodging, the Marshal receiving one
shilling per week, from each prisoner, for his
room. There Is reason to believe, that at differ.
eat periods, many have perished from want of
food and common necessaries.

The following unique advertisematt appeared
last week in a Liverpool Paper:
IL INTERVAL ELOCUTION, with the secret bow it is to be'
" performed."
by Internal Elocution, is meant that spe-
cies of eloquence, " which away not be heard,"
we shall feel much anxiety fur the presence of the
Professor in the metropolis, previous to the open-
ing of a certain Assembly, where we really dread
to encounter the external elocution of some of the
numerous Oratcre with which that assembly ii
known to abound.
AlRlCa.—About eighteen months ago, a de.
tachment set out from the Cape, consisting of Cap.
rain Donovan, of the 3tl, a surgeon, and some
Hottentot soldiers; but the object of their mission
was for is long time kept secret. These tra-
vellers, sifter meeting many of these -accidents
which usually retard the progress of a dangerous
and diitCult enterprize, have been traced as far
as Lectako, a very considerable village, which
has been discovered some years ago, and which is
fully described in Mr. Harrow's Travels to Cochin.
China. Since their departure from that village, The
fate of the mission was unknown, and its success was
despaired of, when the news of its arrivaiin the vici-
nity of the Portuguese settlements, on the Museln:
bique coast, arrived at the Cape. The Governor
has since received dispatches from them. They'
have not, in the coarse of their proceeding srf,
more than a thousand leagues, discovered any rat
savages, except the Dutch inhabitants of the frees.'
tier provinces of the colony. Every where eh*
they were received with kindness; they have
found wild camels and cameloopards, and kenii
observed very singular arrangements in the eats,
blishmcnts of the natives, their property, the rlif•
Ohm of their houses, end the system of slowest
which exists throughout the interior of Africa.
They are now proceeding to-the toms of Mosam.
bique, where it is intended to seed a ship to
bring them back to the Cape of Good Uope.
Dm, Senate's Novnt,.—We nadentoad that
Novel, is threeVolonteS, from the pelt of Pt.
Static, is iq soliaiderahle forwerdnass, lima Will
shortly be published. It la n very interes4ing
foundettaiallisterical tattoo 40 the priqpir
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