The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-02-15 00:00:00

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EAST -INDIES.
We make the following extracts from a series of Ma-!
drag BusettPs, which yesterday arrived, and which come
dews to so recent a period as October 9 :
hilansias, OCT. 9.—.kilvieps have been received from
Rasigooo, by the Britannia, stating that the King of
Ave died ou the 6th of last Jam, amidau succeeded en
the same day by his grandees.
Korcii.--ellle are concerned to state, that there has
been a Areadfal hurricane is the western part Of this
country. It lasted one day and two nights; every tree
has been kWh up by the roots, and every kind of eulti-
vation laid waste, towns and villages have been deluged
1 and all perfectly destroyed. But few people have lost
their lives; cattle, however, of all descriptions, except-
' iog buffaloes, have, in many places, been nearly extir-
pated ; the water generally in the open country was
running fonr feet deep, and earn a ere rarriest away
many miles by the force of the wind. The hurricane
had.not been felt at Moll on the 29th of last month,
hut they bad experienced eight days of high wind, rain
and such constant clouds, that the sun was a stranger
to that capital. The rains, Baugh not heavy, had yet
been constant siuce the 12th of July : too a seed of cot-
ton bad been *men up to the former date, whilst the
raSo crops had rutted.
Seri. 25.—A frigate of 46 guns, for Isis Majesty's tier-
viee,was floated out of the Bombay dock on the s:ls inst.:
she is named the Scriugapatem, and is state .! to be con-
structed on a theory ealrnlated to eorubiue :he greatest
stability with the least possible resistance to her sailing ;
and he esiesidered altogether to be one of the most
formidable ships of war, of her class, known.
801111AT.-06Thnrs.lav morning Isis Majesty's sloop
of war Curlew, Captain Walpole, from ilusliire the 2d
September, and Muscat the flth September, anchored in
this harbour. fly this vessel we understand that letters
have been received from Captain Stonier, of his AI okay's
47th Kegiim-nt, who was some months since deputed by
the Supreme tiovernment to the camp of ibralteem Pack*,
commanding the Turkish troops. which had subdued the
power in Arabia, and eccopied the tract of coun-
try bordering on the PersiaaOalph. Capt. &tinier landed
at the port of Khatief, which he found in the possession
of the Arab Shiekha, on the 11th of July, and, after very
considerable diffienhies, arrived at CI Ahsa,tinder the es-
' curt of a Bedouin Sheikh, whose protection seemed of a
very suspicious is store. Captain &tallier was to proceed
forward on the 22t1 July, to join the Paella's camp,
which was said to he at the distance of ten or twelve
days march front CI Absa. The Pacha seems to he
withdrawing the whole of his forces front the shores of
the Persian (inlph, either finding himself not powerful
enough to retain his conquests, or that their possession
was nut worth the expense. The whole of Deryals,
lately a populous rity, , had bees rased to the ground.
The country through which Capt. Saillier passed is stated
'le he an entire desert, inhabited by the wildest race of
nedouins. Contests between the different tribes were
frequently occurring even in view of Isis tent., attended
with malt slaughter.
The Imaum of Mutat was blockading. the port Kassel
; against which a considerable bud) of his
troops had advanced by land.