The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-05-20 00:00:00

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k-- • 'fie arrival from America yesterday, bronght nader
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A'. date the 21trt, an account of the American Colonists on 4lbe West Coast of Afrira. which states them to be en
joytng good health, hut that nearly all the tribes aroukd
them were combined again-t theta—their principal ob-
ject being plunder. On the 11th Nov. at break of day,
the Colonists were attacked by • body of 800, who killed
three persons, wonosied, four, and took seven into capti-
. adit. 1 hey weld', however, subsequently compelled to
• ".:retire with conafdrirghlp lose, hat they contrived to carry
jolt their killed soct-founded.
111"8 papers bait bieught us a variety of details of
' 'piracies in. the Writ Indies; iitorChanges and rumour.
se. changes io South America.. The most important in-
telligence, however, is the announcement they contain
• 'if the measures taken by the Russian Government to
. Tut in force its monstrous pretension to the possession of
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,north-western coast of America, and to the exclusive
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s,tp , *irrigation and property of four thousand miles of sea.
. 4-1., _ The foltostiug article from the Boston Online( announ-,
!tt, :'' ~,,,,.7 tea the rat, to which Britain is interested as much as
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INCT,:, ' - " " Capt. Gardner, arrived alien. Medford, from the Sand-
i • with Wla ands, informs uslite r ?earl, Stearns, of B•uston.
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tirritea there floe days before be sailed, from the N. W.
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_e.e, • "Coast, baring been ordered off by the Russian officer COM.
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-*landing at Norfolk Sonnet After leaving the port, the
44 - Pearl was boa.rded by the Russian frigate Apollo, and d 0,..,
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• ~.: • cuitent.: were relented to Captain S. declaring the Russian
. claim to eyelash e jurisdiction to extend to latitude 51 N.
on the N. W. coast of Americo, northward of Sehring's
. Straits, and thence to latitude 47 .3,0 N. on the coast of
: vlapan ; and that ell vessels, of whatever •nstion. caught
„within• WO Italian miles even of those extensive limits (ex-
', . -.., k•-ipt-iti nests of actual distress), will be subject to confisca.
' - • • ' *••:•lion. NO foal Is not excepted. The Apollo was about
. iI - despetcti 'vessids, and also to proceed down the coast for
- - ..se perppse of titderiog all vessels of. Two other large
• • dui frigates ate Oa their way to tile coast. The above
P icle is intereptiag, ',affording proof of the inteotion of
the Itnssisn Government to execute the famous Ukase
which was the subjeet of so mach sharp discussion between
ore Government and the late /fustian Minister at Washing.
ton,:eit I wtiet, it was supposed had satisfied the Russian
, , Government of the unjestness end unsoundness of its claim.
_ •• Aectitnits f: out Europe have often mentioned that Russian
• OHO, bed sailed from the N. W. coast to carry into execti- 1
lion het srbitary edict, but we hstieve the above is the first
ieformation rvcrived of its actual execution by a Russian
force. '---(tioeton Centlitel.)
. A passenger in the schooner Freemason, in nineteen
• days from Campraelsy, informs as that the province of
Yocatsti declared itself separate and independent of the
:,.,Government of Mexico about the end of last month,
itod that a Congress had been convened at Meridi, the
• caphel of the Province. The Governor of Campeachy
was AO out of the Province, being opposed to the.
--.. i • . thenre;und ano•her was appointed by the ifthabitants.—
' (tialtiunire ime-ican.)
Aeronnte from New Orleans state, that a British sloop
of war, h,! captured a piratical vessel, with sixty men,
commended by the notorious Cantu., who was killed in
the action, The pirate hoisted the bloody flag and cried
no miarters—and none were shown, most of them hay-1
. log been killed:
By letters from Jamaica, to the 2•2 d of March, we hare i
- ) received a copy of a Royal Order from the Spanish Go;
• • ".- vernternt to General 'Morales, directing the blockade of
• • the meets of Colombia to he raised.
•'-- ** • - Sir Thanes Hardy is reclaiming oftheChilian Goverla-•
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. ...t • -*sent all-British property condemned at Valparaiso.
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- . • : • A TRAOICAL Evercr.—(From the New York Even-
-1 • ing Poo.)--0n Wednesday, April 16, about twelve
• , Oclock, Mr. Charles Steele, grocer, living at the corner
• . •,- . . ' -*f Broome and Cannon-streete, deliberately took his
un. loaded with slugs, and tired it at his wife, who was
' Sassing along the street, which took off one of her alms
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ihove the elbow. He thee took a razor and cut his Iwo
Ihrtet, which fie survived about two hones. Mr. Steel.)
--. aed his wife had lived nnhalpily together for some time.
, - • Lastweek she went ht re tIM grand jury, and mitered a
„enroplaint against him for an assault upon her person,
be ill-tr-aing her in other respects. He nawindicted
' . And tried at tile present sittings of the. CotsetailfSossions;
, ' .. • . *het rerialred to enter into recognizanees td keep the+
race: fartithing appeared against his character untd
the fotolinarrel with his wife, which has ended in the
• . .• Shove tragical scene. A New York paper of the 21st
1 stater. that Mrs. Steele died from her wounds a day or
'fro after.
• Mee York Evening Post of the 21at of April
jos a long correspondence between the American
, e tort• r, and the Commandant of Porto Rico,
eftitweihject of the death of Lient nant Cocke, com-
manding the American schooner, Fos, who, as was an-
oeuvre& soin'e time aeo, cases killed by a discharge of
a cannon from•Furt Moro, in consequence of persisting
to cuter the port niter a previous discharge with a blank
cartridge to pr-vent him. The Commandant, who was
absent, attributes the rigorous execution of a positive
' order by the second in command to the alarms excited by
the previous .buccaneering expedition against the island
from an American port, under the command of the ad
venturer Oiroiray Holstein, as well as to rumours o
ott•er intended designs against Porto Rico. Commo-
dore Porter is were •Trifty in his expostulation, and the
Spanish Commander very deprecatory. It is satisfactory
to read a letter of thanks front the Acmes of the Amen-
can to those oldie British Spedron,off the same islanJ,
gratefully acknowledging their kindness and sympa-
thy in the occurrence of the foregoing melancholy nos-
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IVINCHESTIR, May 17.—0 n Wednesday some ibour
inrking in a field belonging to H. &oyes. sq. o,
, near Weyhill, discovered, about two-feet on.
•onnd, a most beautiful tesselated pavement-
, ;A the flooring of a tent used by some Ho-
!rid. The land is cleared away, an 3, with hit
ion, it presents a most perfect picture of anti
pavement is composed of small dies abon
square, of various colours. and, according to
ifferrnt compartments, varying in size; the work-
' beautifully shaded, and the figures, which are
preserved perfect, show gri at art of delineation.
-ntre is
.placed the General, with the right arm
, claiping a goblet—in the left a spear—over
ider bangs a skin of a wild beast, and his feet
- the hark of a leopiirit. The whole is de-
,ornamented, and certainly offers to the curious
ipecinien of early days. -The inscription, which
.cfect as at kW, is on the upper margin
e pavement, and is as follows :--QVINTVII
VITNI.SVAIALINAS ET BODENt. At the upper side of
;;;;; linked just above ti e letter Q, is a piece of
;hoist two fret square. The labourers are still
renaming the earth, and tracing. foundations
cgs ivliich no doubt belonged totting remarkable
its ancient curiosity, being in the immediate
'hood of Weyhjil, and close to the road side
• Foothill, will no doubt attract numerous vi-,
Mtupidire arms.)
sing or lot FARTII.—On Tuesday, the 29th of ,
month, at six iu the morning, a concussion, of mei-,
toleeee to disturb persons in their sleep-, and cause
were awake distinctly to feel a violent shaking of
se and room is which they were-as also of the
forni-
therein. °cowed in filmset, and in the neighhourhood
itterent planes within the distorter of eighteen miles. By
• persat.s it bas been described as similar in its effects
-lent shaping of a very 11,,Avy door, or the falling
. Meight, without. as it were, their being distinctly
that WM was the case ; by others spin it has
said to resemble the shock experienced by the explo-
of a powder ur,l4. People in the !olds, and, as we
been 'Oven to understood, some workmen in the coal-
' -reloollooll the eircumstanee.—(Brisiol Ales eary.)

can to those u
gratefully ad
thy in the °cc
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NCH PSTI
.ens, working i
Thruxton, ne
sler the grone
StippOgett to of
man General.
tie exception,
•quity. fhep
livir an inch a
tile different I
Ire ir.4llill la he
,ntostiy preser
Jo the centre
even,lo, cia
• his shoulder
.are rest;tir
gl:tfully ere
r choice spec
is as perfec
of lite paver
ft -'ol47neXis Ft:
•se rinareti
.7,111 t. fbeestone ale
. • employed re:
of hating:l
spot. This
neighbonvh
• ' lAading to I
siturs.—(Th
CONCUS3I(
the last moo
cient vololeoi
mose who w
tie house sr
Yore therein.
at different
Some perast
to the violet
or great st
s..iisible tht
been said
siun of a I
have heels
pits attxrpo
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