The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-09-05 00:00:00

MAI
DUE. I

THE STATESMAN.

If nothing can enter into the port of Cadiz, the egress '
seems to be easy ; for General Riego is announced by the
French papers to have left Cadiz, and to have reached Ms.
lags in safety,• to take the command of the ninth military
district. The consequences of this step, if we may credit
the French, have been the desertion of whole troops of
the Garrison;" and the determination of " both the
" Captains and the General officers" pot to serve under
" such a 'nail:" The natural result of such a feeling,
would have been the seizure of Riego; and his delivery,
with that of the town, into the hands of the French. But
effects do not follow causes as usual, in the peninsular war ;
—and though one Zarco del Valle is mentioned by name as
having deserted, it is confessed that 2,500 remain to defend
Malaga, even under the command of" such a man" as Rie-
go. The imbecility or treason of tile Spanish officers,
in almost every quarter, except in Cataloriia, rendered it
necessary that " such men" as qiiroga and Ilirgo, should
be placed at the head of the troops who are every where
disposed to contend fur the liberty of Spain ;-- and it is
much to be regretted that those officers were not employed
instead of Morillo and Ballasteros. The first had been trained
to he the champion of despotism, bythe butchery of the Republic
ans ofSouth America; and the re-election of such a man, if
not occasioned by absolutely imperious circumstances, was
an a:.t of treason to the liberties of Spain. Ballasteros was
also an officer both of equivocal character, and equivocal
ability ; yet, by some fatality, he was entrusted with one of
the most important positions, and stationed at the head of
the largest and best regular force which the Constitution-
alists had in the field. Had Quiroga and Riego been but in
a condition to have made such brilliant defences as Mina
has made in Catalonia, the French army would have been
already in full retreat; but it is the curse of all just causes,
to meet with hesitating advocates—" sonls but half-re-
" solved"—to meet the crisis•itt which they are called upon
*to act. Humanity has no great reason to rejoice that the
Spanish► Revolutionists have been so exemplary for mode.
ration. The knaves and fools to whom they were opposed,
mistook their moderation and forbearance, for timidity
and hesitating policy. It is difficult to condemn men for
hesitating to destroy their enemies ; bat, nevertheless, it is
certain that the sparing of a handful of traitors to the.
Constitution has led to a thousand times the bloodshed
which disfigured the Revolution of France, and that the
endeavour of the Cortes to conciliate all parties, has weak-
ened their own. Their ultimate triumph, however, will be
the greater, and the more glorious; and of that triumph we
will not despair, even if the threatened attack upon Cadiz
should succeed, which is, not very probable. We see that
this important enterprise has been postponed from the 25th
to the 2btb. Probably it was imagined that the " God of

St. Louis' was too 11111C11 occupied with the revels at Pads,'
and the Bull Fight at Madrid, to have any leisure to assist
the banditti before Cadiz ; and the pious Duke d'Angou-
leme could not think of making the attack without the in-
spiration of his household Deity; so he has given him three
days to recover from the fatigues of his jollity, and on the
213th Cadiz is to be attacked by " a thawsand pieces of
" cannon and mortar," repeats Dr. Slop, " all at once,
" and chiefly on the sea side!" The Doctor seems to
think that if Bonaparte could have attacked the city with
" shipping and gun-boats," be would have taken it very
easily; and that its fall is quite certain, since it is note ex-
posed to such an attack. But there are people alive who

remember when Cadiz was the rendezvous of a nay.ll
force, which Urrat liritain would have been very glad to

have destroyed ; and she could at any time have brought
five thousand cannon to bear upon the town, by sea, if she
had thought it could have made any impression. Yet Dr.
Slop thinks one sail of the line, two or three frigates, and a
few gun-boats, can capture Cadiz, when the land force has
not the means of throwing either shot or shell, within
some furlongs of the town! Perhaps be anticipates the
ascent of the " God of St. Louis," from the infernal
regions, to aid his friends in their attempt; and tha
legions of disembodied devils will lead the van, to ent
courage the human fiends to the task of slaughter. The'
Doctor has set his heart upon the fall of Cadiz ; and if the
French fail, we are afraid he will hazard his on n person in
a Quixotic expedition to point out how Cadiz may be taken
by the aid of a thousand pieces of cannon and mortars, and
a few gun-boats !

Mr. Malthus's has been amusing himself with a treatise
upon the measure of value! We thought Mr. Ricardo
h.scl put an end to all these silly speenlatioas by his failure
in them. If any one can calculate, Mr. Ricardo may pre-
tend to the merit of calculating abilities ; but all enquiries
after fixed standards, and measures of value, are abso.
lutely as ridiculous as the search after the philosopher's
stone, in a gambling system like ours, %%here every natural
principle is inverted, and where the undue advantages of
individuals are continually militating against the welfare
of the whole. The object and tenor of the English sys-
tem, as it affects labour, is to reduce the remuneration of
it to the very lowest ebb. l'his is the great motive, end,
and aim of a system of taxation, which falls principally
upon the consumption of the multitude, instead of the pro-
perty which has been accumulated upon their toil. Great
gains can only be made by the few, out of the privations
of the many. All the wealth in the world can only repte.
sent the amount of the productive labour; and when a
great portion is accumulated in a single hand'
many must be deprived of their due remunera-
tion. 'to reduce a hundred to live, or, rather to exist
upononequarter of what would he necessary to support lift
without reference to its adequate enjoyment, is to snake the
hundred live upon what ought to the portion of 25 ;
and the person who has the power to do this, has the power
of accumulating for himself what should hare been
tributes' among seventy-five individuals. Great wealth
in particular classes necrsttarily supposes great poverty in

the multitude. The latter is the consequence of the forna;rl
and more particularly, where the funding system oli;aim,
and money is made to produce money, without the in,er•
vention, of any profitable labour. Mr. Malthus might
as well attempt to weigh feathers in a high wind, as to
produce any fixed principles which can apply toes,. spits%
of influence, bribery, taxation, usurpation, and intrigue,
The powerful classes take care of their own interests; bet
they never consalt those of the people;—and as the
latter are in effect totally proscribed from any share of the
legislation of the country, it is not a matter of surprise
that their interests are neglected, or outraged, as may brat
suit the views of their masters.

A series of Calcutta papers from the 11th to the 25th of
March have been received. A shock of an earthquake wss
felt at Madras on the 24 of March, extending through the
Nilgherry and the country in that direction, as well as
generally along the coast- The shock was also perceived
in Travancore, hut 20 minutes later than at Madras, and
also in the island of Ceylon. The sum subscribed fur erect-
ing an equestrian statue in honour of the Marquess of
Hastings, amounted at Calcutta, on the I lth of March, to
13.4.00 rupees, above 1,3001. sterling. The new.rule of the
late Governor-General for regulating the press in India was
published at Calcutta on the Litla of March. It ordair,s,,
that after 14 days from the registry of the role, no news
'Paper or hook containing intelligence or strictures on the
Government shall be published without a license from the
i Governor General. These licenses may he resumed or re.
called immediately after notice given by the Governor tie.
neral or the Chief Secretary, which notice will be (kerne.;
sufficient on its publication in the Government Oszette.-.,
All persons concerned in publishing the works before de.
scribed, if carried on without licenses, or continuing to de
so after their revocation, to forfeit 41$) rupees. The fines
to be determined in a summary manner before two jasticee
of peace, with power, on failure of payment, to seize the
goods of the offending parties.
Letters were received yesterday from Lima to the 2lkt sf
March. A plot, or a pretended plot to deliver upithe castle
of Callao to the Royalist Spaniards had been discovered, is
consequence of which 50 persons had been apprehended and
midst° prison. Most of them were old resident Spaniards. A
report prevailed at Lima of a revolution having broken ost
at Cuzco against the Royal cause, but was not generally
believed ; the troops of that party occupied l'i)co, Ica,
Jauja, and Pasco. The transport had sailed fur taitaydirtil
to bring up the troops sent by Bolivar, who was expected is
person. The detachments under Colonel Miller had re.
turned to Lima.

Lady Cochrane arrived at Rio tie Janeiro on the 13th of
Jute last, to join her husband. As the wife of the liras-
Ilan Admiral, she was treated with great distinction; a
•acute from the forts announced her landing, and one ofi
the beat homes in the City was prepared for her receptina.l
The American expedition under lieneral Ashley, em-
ployed to ascend the Missouri fur the purpose of explorirg
the western districts of North America, was attached on the
24 of June by a party of Iticaree Indians, iu number about
(iOU. who maintained a very obstinate contest loefue they
weoe repulsed. The Americans had 12 men killed and II
wounded. About three-fourths of the Indians are said to
have been provided with London finds, caorying a ball
with great force and exacta es, and which they handled
with peculiar dexterity. The Iticaree Indians are described
as a very formidable enemy to trailers aiwendinE the
river, and the contest with the Americans, while it alluribill

them an experiment of 111,4 stnulgth, was not likely t,
create an amicable disposition.
WeATrfef•wtse AND OTHER-wise FOLICIL—A table, 11
which people might he able to foresee the changes about!,
sake place in the weather, was inserted last week in to
New Times,(from which it was coiled into other papers)ail
ascribed to the late Sir William Herschel. It had bete
have been termed a Fable than a Table. The sagacins
Editor, who had ftittered himself that his gentle reader
would as readily pin their faith upon his meteorological si
upon Ida political nostrums, has been obliged to admit tle
he ran find no authority for ascribing the nouble schewt
of predictions to the enlightened Astronomer, and that he
has been favoured a ith a letter from tire .on of the late Sir

William Ilerschel, stating that hi.; father never intemptol
any thing of the kind, and treating the experiment tritl
some portion of contempt.

On Satneday last the Requisition for a pnblic meetingof
the inhabitants of Manchester, " to take into considerrion
the recent invasion of Spain by the French (Liverwurst
and the condact .if the leading Powers of Europe" rchtire
to that invasion," was presented to tire Boroughreeve and
Constables,by a deputation of the Recpsisitionist..The town
officers at first resew. ed that the deputation woutil allow
them till Monday to return their answer to the Ropiisitios;
hut in the course of that day, it seems, they changed their
minds, and on Saturday evening they forwarded dreamer
to one of the gentlemeo. It stated in substance, that
" While this einintry continues to maintain :I strict nestral•
ity, they cone. ived it would be lint-roper for them to camel! '1
with the bighly resp aaahle Requisitiou which had ieee
presented to them." The Requisition was signed by 110
of tire' most eminent merchants,and manufacturers of the
toe n, who, it has been estimated, represent property to the
amount of a million awl a half. Yet a Reqstisition thus
signed and supported has been rejected, and the public
voice of such a town as Manchester is to be suppressed,
lest its utterance should shock the ears of tire Holy
Alliance, and involve a breach of our " strict neutrality."
We are glad, however, to learn, that the Requisitionists
intend to convene a town's meeting on an early day, era.'
withstanding the refusal of the municipal officers to preside
over 4.—(f:oitutry paper.)
The sum of 71.45. was recently transmitted to Sir Charles
IVolseley, Bait., from the friends of freedom at Wakefield,
for the we of the Spanish patriots.—(Stanford News.)
POOR RATE RETURNS.—FrOT tine Report to the House of
Commons of the Select Committee appointed to consider of the
several Returns made to the Orders of the House in leti awl
1423 relative to the Sums Assessed, Levied and Expended,os
ac• mint of tie Poor in England sod Wales, it appears Ihtt
the aversion of the three years ending
In March, hilb, is 26,10,1713
March, ISIS,
March, 1831,
The expenditure in the year ending March
182'1, is
This expenditure is lower than in any year of the retell*
six. The general rate of diminution between 13201111 ad
18:41.22 is about nine per cent. If the comparison be ats•
with 1517-18, which its England and Wales generally, oat!
most of the counties, was the year of the greatest imperiling,
the declension is about nineteen per cent. The fall Is IM
price of wheat since 1817-18 has been very considers*
greater than the reduction of the Poor Rates.
A floating chapel has been opened in the port of Dal&
for the use of the seamen. A vessel of 260 tons bas bets
fitted up for that purpose. This is the first chapel of tie
kind for the service of the Established Church.
'I he age of Bartholomew Fair,of chi
as well as the age
valry, is certainly gone: indeed,their general characteristics
were so similar, that it was imposgible one coal"long or
we
. vive the other. Last night, out of about 5,000 peoples
really believe 2,000 were piekpockets, and the rest peso"
With
who had no pockets to pick. 'fire fair, if let alone,
in the course of a year or two, die a natural death:
DOCTORS' CoSIXIONS.-1111 our report of the SiTo.27
yesterday's Paper, it should have bees stated Ste
Nichols presides in the Arches and Prerogative Celtpts_n*
stead of Sir Christopher Robinson in the Prerogative s°"
Contiatory; that gentleman only presides ia the latter.

SIR ROBERT WILSON.
•
(FROM THE MoRNING CHRONICLE.)
We ate happy to present our readers with an authentic
,py of a letter, written by our Gallant Countryman, Sir
• Robert Wilson, to the Portuguese Government, renouncing
the title, and returning the insignia of the Knight Com-
mander of the Tower and Sword. The letter speaks for
itself, and ponrtray, the hor.ouraide feelings of a Briton,
indigeant at the unjust and illiberal treatment he had re.
imbed from a people who owe to him so many days of
glory, aad into whose port he had steered to seek shelter in
the moment of danger : it chews bin, great under mister-
thee, disdaining to wear a distinction lie had in common
with his barbarous and tv rannical oppressors.
" British schooner Nassau, off Belem Castle, Aug. 11.
Sra—lt is with pain that I take a step which may in some
ogre appear to be personally offensive to his Majesty the
Kid of Portugal, *hes I pave no such intention, being too
well aware of his Majesty's present situation ; but after the
logeserous, vindictive, as well as lawless treatment I have
experienced, under circumstances that would have secured me
protection and hospitality from the Oovernments of even the
most barbarous nations, it is impossible for me to wear the in-
signia of a country whose Government has so outrageously
violated these duties.
The very possession of these insignia implies obligations
en my part which it is not for my honour should any longer
exist, and therefore I have to request that you will take proper
measures to have nay name erased from the Commanders' roll
4f the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword.
"Having formerly refused ell pay and pecuniary remunera-
tion from the Government of Portugal daring the time I was
employed in the service, I have the satisfaction now to feel
that I ele released from every sort of acknowledgment, and
that the service which I rendered Portugal in an extreme mo-
• ssent of her peril, and crisis of her fate.—services which can-
, not be denied, have thus been gratuitously given.
" I have the honour to be,
•
" Your Excellency's most obedient humble servant,
" To his Excellency Count Palmella, R. W.
Minister for Foreign Affairs."
In making public this example of independent prin.
ciple, we feel we are but pourtraying the character of its
author in its true colours. For the honour of our country,
we trust there are few Englishmen who would nut with
him spurn to wear the badge of such contemptible oppresi
'ors. How different is thi. from the garhled tales we have
found in the Lisbon Prints, the offsprings of surveillance
and terror!—The first is the language of freedom and
honour, which is never to he found without freedom, the
latter that of the deceit which superstition engenders.

PARISI' OF ST. CLEMENT DANES.
Yesterday evening, a Public Vestry was held, in put-
!loaner of a notke given in Church on the preceding Sun-
day, to take into consideration whether the Watch• Rice
which hail been established by the Board should be en-
forced against any or all of the inhabitants of the Four
• Inns of Conrt in that Parish. The Societies of these Inns
bating been accustomed to pay men for the. purpose of
watching their prey ini ts,and not having, till dna year, been
called upon to contribute to the Palish watelerate, had, it
appeared. taken umbrage at the resolution of the Board to
enforce it upon them aod_a distress having horn levied
upon some of the inhabitants, one of them had brought an
action against the Parish officers, on account of the distress.
The gates of the I nu,wilieli had been open tilla late hour,haal
been ordered to close at nine o'clock, whereby the public
sae deprived of a pleasant and convenient thoroughfare,
anal the Inhabitants of Clements' Inn Passage and Clare
Market, found their customers obstructed. At the Vestry
Meeting lest night, many representations were made by
different speakers, in consequence of the privations
which the neighbourhood must suffer from the early
closing of the Inn, and of time 'mimice in which the parish
might be involved by litigation, to waive the enforcement
of the rate upon the Society, especially as the proposed
assessment upon all the Inns waft yield to the parish little
more profit than 801. a year. None of the Members of
the Society, lion ever, attended to saipportstheir cause, and
• no attempt was mask to stew that they hail any legal
grounds for the exemptions they required. The forbear-
ance of former Vestries in omitting to a , them, was de-
nied to furnish them with any right. The waiving the en-
forceinent of the rate in the rase of Clements Inn, it was
argued, would necessarily lead to the exemption of the other
Societies': the amount of whose assessments, it was stated,
had been misrepresented by the opponents of the measure
'with a view to under-rate the value of tie object for which
the Parish was contending. Whatever the merits or the
consequences of the measure might he, it was urged, that it
hail been established by the proper Paroehiel Board, and
confirmed by two Magistrates of the County ; and that the
Vestry had no power to rescind it. After a discussion on
these and other points, from six to half past eight o'clock, a
motion wise made that this Vestry be dissolved ; and the
question being put, it was carried by 37 to 26 •
The Watch-rate, therefore, will continue to be enforced
on the inhabitants of the four Inns within the parish,

Ilk Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief arrived in
town yesterday from Brighton, and transacted business at
Iris office in the Horse Guards.
Mr. Secretary Canning arrived, on Monday last, at Low-
ther Castle, Westratirland, on a visit to the Earl of Lons-
dale.

Duvets, Seta. 3.—Arrived the Britannia steam vessel,
Capt. Bushell, from Calais, bringing his Royal Highness
the Duke of Brunswick and suite. His Royal Highness
went to Wright's Hotel, where be remains the night, and
sets off tor London in the morning.—Passed by, the Mi.
nem, Capt. Bell, from Calcutta.
One of the Archdukes of Austria has just obtained per-
mission from the Emperor, hie brother, to marry a young
and amiable person from among the lowest class of his
subjects.—(Coestieweioanel)
Count Piossasco, Baron Ugoni, and Baron Castellino
from Italy, arrived in Clontnel, on Thursday se'nnight, on
their way to the Lakes of Killarney,' and on a tour through
Ireland.
Hoax UPON MR. HUNT.-It should he generally known,
that the editor of the Chester Chronicle, whose name is
Baseball, has in his last paper, with shameless effrontery,
avowed himself to be the ihilaor of the hoax lately prac-
tised upon Mr. Hunt at Chester; the letter addressed to
Mr. Hunt, containing false statements, and bearing a false
signature, being, as the said editor declares, his own hand-
writing. This admission has been made in the course of a
furious attack upon the editors of the Liverpool Mercury,
Who bad fully exposed the contemptible transaction.—(Li-
',teepee' Mercury.)
Dust..—A meeting took place in Hyde Park on Wednes
d►y between a Lieutenant and an aged Gentleman, uncle
to *young Lady, with whom the young Lieutenant had
attempted to escape on a matrimonial excursion. The Lady,
though greatly enamoured of her gallant lover, implored
him not to take the life of her uncle; the consequence was.
that the Lieutenant on receiving the fire of the old Gentle-
man, fired his pistol in the air; and thus the affair at pre.
sent rests. _ _ _

On Monday week, a woman, between eighty and ninety
]man of age, was brought to Caper, from England, as a
peeper; some of whose near relations were once of come-
some enough to be invested with the supreme authority
' et die borough.
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a lapailar Isamat at paces suitable to Übe thaws, hope to salt a mall-
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. SHIPPIN(i INTELLIGENCR.
• - •
PORTSMOUTH, September 4.—Wind West.—Arrired the
Garrote, —, from Santa ; Four Brothers, from Nor-
way; Nimble Cutter, from a cruise, and H. M. ship Menai,
from the Isle of France, with Sir Robert Farquhar, late Go-
vernor of the Mauritius, end family on board.
PIAMOUTH. September 3.—Wind West.—Arrived In the
Sound the Lady Kennaway, Swiftly, from Portsmouth for
Calcutta.

FALMOUTH, September B.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the
Ann Lacy, Baker, from London for Africa; Susanne, Clark,
from Naples, and sailed again ; •American ship North America,
from Savannah in 28 days.—Sailed the kquilar. Watson, from
the Cape of Good Hope and Van Dieman's Land.
DEAL, SEPT. 4.—Wind W. Passed through for London. the
Heart of Oak, Robertson, from Demerara ; Alexander. Erring-,
ton, from Quebec; and Daniel, Alien, from the South Seas,
with 2000 barrels of sperm oil ; left the Prinetof Orange at
St. Helena. Arrived the Britannia, —, from St. Kitts;
Palambam, —, from Virginia. Sailed the Cretan, •Crulli-
ver, for the South Seas. Passed at the bask of the Goodwin
Sands a Russian Government ship for Portsmouth. e. M.
the sap Glory, from Atka, has just arrived under quarantine ;
the brig Ibis, Sinners, from Charente to London, with wines
and brandy, Is on the Millais Shoal, off Deal Castle; but if the
weather holds fine, wilt float off wituout much damage.
WHITEHAVEN, SEPT. I.—A vessel of about 230 tong, laden
with timber, struck on Branock Isle, on the coast of Galway,
21st ult. and went to pieces ; about 200 beams saved, marked
G. R. and C. D.

We copy the following, says the Cork Soathera Reporter,
from a Philadelphia Paper, and have reason to think that the
individual to whom it allto..s was connected with some re-
spectable persons io this city :
" We are informed by a gentleman returned from the wreck
of the schooner Oliver, 11. Perry, from Kingston. Jamaica,
that the passenger, reported to be lost, was an Irishman of
some distinction. From the remnants of letters found among
his effects—one from Sir Charles Rowley, and several from
Bishop England, of South Carolina—lt appears that his name
was Francis Nagle, a Graduate of the Dublin University, and
is stated to be about 25 or 3,3 years of age. His papers and
books, very much injured, which, with some Catholic vestments.
are in the possession of Mr. Bennett, Commissioner of Wrecks,
Cape Island, Cape May County."

QUEBEC, Jut.v 25.—Forged Bills of Exchange to a con-
siderable amount (0001. sterling) have lately been negn-
cisted in this city, by a person holding a situation under
government, and whose character has hitherto been re-
speetable, het who has, in this transaction, manifested na
small degree of effrontery and address. The circumstances
which led to the discovery was purely accidental, when the
delinquent was arrested upon a Ca pias, and liberated upon
giving up the greater part of the money thus fraudulently
obtained. lie immediately absconded, but we understand
that officers have been sent in pursuit. and it is supposed
will eventually succeed in apprehending him. His Majes-
ty's ship Athid,Captain Bourchier, arrived here on Friday
last from Halifax—she has brought 300,000 dollars for go-
vernment. The atmosphere since yesterday morning, has
been filled with a dense smoke, evidently the smoke arising
from the burning of the woods. and we fear that extensive
fires have ravaged some parts of the country.
The Spencer. Keith, arrived at Montrose from the Green-
land seas on Tuesday se'nnight, with five small fish, and
one hundred and fifty seals, siippoaeil to boil fifty
tuns of oil. Captain Keith and the crew describe the season
as very unfavourable. They CM many whales, but the
high winds and great quantities of ice rendered fishing in
many instances impossible. There has not been so much
ice in Greenland for the last twenty years.
Captain Shannon, of the Trincula, has captured an
American smuggler, laden with tobacco, and taken her
into Cork. The cargo is supposed to be worth 10,0001.
It was announced at Lloyd's this day, that the Spanish
privateer cutter, the Tartar, had captured the French ship
the Gustave, from St. Domingo to Havre, and sent her to
Teneriffe. The cargo consisted of coffee and Campeachy
wood, and was valued at 20,0001. The more the Spaniards
get of these benefits the better, for it is proper that France
should doubly pay for her iniquity.
An American Captain, named Harris, who was lately
raptured off Cuba by pirates, has published a narrative of
the outrages committed by them, to which a note is added,
stating that " he was indebted for his life to the decent).
stance of his king a Freeniasuu, having met with several
Masons among the pirates, who interceded for him. It
is strange that Freemasons should be found amongst pi-
rat's, but much more strange is it, that men who have
abandoned the laws of God and Nations, who shrink not
at murder, should respect the bonds of Freemasonry, and
succour a brother in distress!—(.Pile's Register )
It is the intention of Government not to fill the vacancy
which has lately occurred in our Custom-house by the death
of Mr. J. Liddell, landing waiter. A saving to the public
will thus be effected of 4001. per annum, and the same sys-
tem of retrenchment is to be adopted in the event of some
other vacancies.—(Tyne Mercury.)
Letters were yesterday received from Gibraltar, to the
15th ultimo. The following is an extract from one of
them :

"GIBRALTAR, Aug. 14:--A notification has been sent in
by the French Commandmant at St. /twine, that the Gene.
ral Mails will be forwarded as usual. We therefore take
this opportunity of writing to yon through Madrid and
Paris." •

The Grenville Bay, which has arrived at Newcastle from
Davis' Straits, brings a very unfavourable account of the
fishing. up to the beginning of July; at that time the fol-
lowing was the state of the difPrent ships:
Hull—Zephyr, 3 fish; Ahrant, clean; Albion. 4; An-
drew Marvel, 4; Brunswick, $; Cato, 3; Comet, 2; Cam-
brian, 3; William, 4; Wilson, 5; Gilder, 3; Jane, 3;
Ingram, 4; Lee, 6; Marv. I ; Progress, I.
London—Rockward, 4 fish.

Newcastle—Cove, 8 fish ; Lady Jane, 2.
Kirkaldy—Caledonia, 2 fish; Earl Percy, 3; Rambler, 2.
Dundee—Achilles, 4 fish ; Advire, 5; 'Dorothy, 3; Est-
ridge, 2 ; Horn, 3; Princess Charlotte, 4 ; Thomas, 3 ;
'l' lute Brothers, 2 ; Fairy, clean.
Whitby—Phoenix, clean.
Berwick—Norfolk, 3 fish.
Leith—Home Castle, 1. fish; North Pole, 3; Success, 4 ;
Rattler, 3; William and Ann, clean.
Aberdeen—Alexander, 2 fish; lion Accord, 1 ; Dun, 2;
Letitia, 3 ; Middleton, 3; Middleton, Cargill, 1; Princess
of Wales, 3.
Peterhead—Active, 5 fish; Alpheus, 2; Dexterity, 4;
Hannibal, 4 ; Resolution. 2; Superior, 2; Traveller. 1.
The Grenville Bay left the ice on the Ist of August.
The winds, generally, bad been southerly, and the Straits
were consequently so filled with ice, that every attempt
to get farther up into Baffin's Bay bad proved unsuccessful.
Of the North West Passage Expedition, of course, nothing
had been heard by any of these ships, for Hudson's Straits
is understood to have been the channel through which the
passage into the Arctic Sea was to have been attempted.

CORN EXCRANOR, Sept. s.—There is bot a moderate
quantity of grain arrived this week wheat, 3,230; barley,
150; oats, 7,500 qrs. and flour, 4,200 sacks. Our ID irket
is now particularly affected by the continued fineness of the
weather, and it is almost impossible to make any sales to-
day. Wheat is declined 2s. to 3s. per qr. ; barley Is. per
qr. ; beans, Is. per qr. and oats also are rather lower than
Monday. The flour trade continues excessively heavy.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, AUG. s.—lt being Fair time, the
market was not so well provided as on former Fridays; in
consequence of which, a higher price was demanded, but
more particularly for Lamb.—Beef,a3s to 4s; Mutton, 3s.
to 4s; Lamb, 4s to Ss; Veal, 4s to ss; Hay, 41. lOs. to
51._105; Clover, 51. to 61. 6s; Straw, 11. 12s to 11.18 s.

. .
The following has been published as a remedy for a wasp
sting:—" Over the spot where the sting has entered, apply
the pipe of &ley, press it for a minute or two, and the pain
and swelling will disappear."

THE _sri4A,l'EsktiiNi

DUBLIN COMMISSION, SEPT. 3.

TEVANT.

• . .
• ASSAULT WITH TSTSIST TO CONISit A RAPS. , • ,
Owen Campbell stood indicted for an assault on Mary
Anne MiKeon, with intent carnally to know and use her,
and to commit a rape on her. The prisoner was also in-
dicted for a common assatilt on Mary Anne M'Keon.
The prisoner appeared to be between fifty and sixty
years of age.
Mary Anne Witedn, (an interesting and very handsome
child, apparently about ten years of age.) examined by the
Recorder.—Witbess Heel at No. 22, Tighe.street ; she
knows the man at the bar; he lived in the same house with
her father; he lived under them ber father lived up stairs
in (he house ; she recollects the prisoner desiring her to go
for a loan of a hammer; this was In the Jay-time; he
said, that if she would get the hammer he would knock a
nail down in the heel of her shoe ; she got the hammer ;
he then shut the door on her, and pnt her sitting on his
knee-qiiere the witness described the conduct of the pri-
soner.) She bawled out, hut there was nobody for her to
bawl to; she told her father in about a week after ; she
was ashamed to tell before.

Daniel Al•Keon,-eiamined by Mr. 514Kaxe.—Tbe child
jnst examined is witness's daughter; about the 25th of
February he (witness) took notice that the child could not
walk ; he asked her what ailed her, and she burst out cry-
ing, and said that lie would beat her if she would tell ; be
said, that if she would not tell he would beat her; she
then said that on the day they were all out at the funeral,
she went down to play with the prisoner's children; that
be (the prisoner) sent his own children out of messages, and
sent her for a hammer. [Here the witness described the
conduct of the prisoner, as related by the child.] Witness
sent her quietly to he cure•, ; lie did not wish to put the law
in force against the prisoner, or have his child affronted;
the child was under the care of Dr. Todd, but not getting
better, she was afterwards sent to the Lock Hospital; she
was from the 25th of February to the 17th of June under
Dr. Todd's care.

Surgeon Hgan, resident surgeon of the Lock Hospital,
proved the admission of the child into the hospital; and
stated the nature of the disease under which she suffered.
This tientleman also explained the gross fallacy of a vulgar
terror, the prevalence of which has often led to as‘aults of
this description by the most depraved and ignorant of the
lower classes.

In this case the act of violence had not been completed.
The child is not yet perfectly cured : it will take about a
month more to cure her.

The prisoner was found Guilty.
John Hobson, a young lad, was indicted for utter.
ing and having in his possession a forged note, purport-
ing to be on the Hank of Ireland, and of the value of one
ponnil.
The prisoner had offered the note at Mr. Lamprey's, in
Castle-street, in payment for a pen knife.
The prisoner was found Guilty.
Joseph Doyle, another yon► lad, was similarly indicted
for uttering a forged note, purporting to he on the Bank
of Ireland, and of the value of 30s.—Guilty.

EXECUTION OF NAGLE AND RARRETT NEAR BUT-

Oa Friday, about 12 o'clock, the two unfortunate men
mentioned in our last, accompanied by three Romau Ca-
tholic Clergymen, the Sub-Sheriff of the County, Gaoler,
and a party of the Lancers, passed through this City on
their way to Mallory, where they arrived io the e►ening,
and remained during the night. At nine o'clock on Sa-
turday morning, the nieloncholy cavalcade proceeded
towards Reiterant, a distance of six miles, which it reached
about eleven o'clock, and where the awful preparations
were already stomp! led, opposite the Market-house. 'The
crowds assemb!ed from all parts of the Country for several
miles round were immense, and they were permitted to ap-
proach the gallows as close as possible. Nagle first ad.
d d the assembled multitude in nearly the following
words:—" .11y Boys, turn from your evil ways and fem.
Gun; take an example from my awful fate, which ought
to be a warning to you all. If we took our Clergymen's
advice, we would not come to this untimely end. Good
bye for ever! In the blessed name of (ion give up your
am., or they will bring you to this state. I acknowledge
to die guilty of the crime, and I beg all your prayers."
Barrett, who was the better informed, followed, and said,
" Dear Christian., all your midnight undertakings are
useless, and if you felt as I feel now, standing before.
the Throne of Jesus CIIKIST, I beg and entreat of you
to give up your arms. I hav► one thing to say, which
is, to lay no blame to Mr. O'Leary or his family; they,
were never my enemies ; I am sorry to hear there is blame
to them." Rare the unfortunate man read a letter,
written in the County Gaol of Cork, addressed to his fellow
Catholics, charging some individuals, who were considered
from their external devotions to be select Catholics, with
haying uncured to lay a snare for him and antidote his
doom, in hopes their fraudulency might win the aff.•c-
tion of the English Government, and also that they would
receive large sums of money for his b10..d.
After he concluded, the ltev. Mr. O'Connor, of the South
Chapel in Cork, rose and addressed the multitude in a very
pathetic manner, exhorting them to take warning frum the
fate of the young men then before thensoind entreating them
to mind their honest oectmations.eive up their arms, and re-
turn their country to its primitive peace and tranquillity.
This seasonable address had a visible effect on the multitude,
and many were seen to shed tears. The wretched m•n
then ascended the platform,and in a short time were launch-
ed into eternity. Nagle died almost without a struggle,
bat Barrett, who was only nineteen years of age, and stout
made, was for some time convulsed. Their bodies were
afterwards cut down and buried with slacked lime. The
effect produced on the minds of the numbers present, was
testified in loud screams and wailing. ; and we hope, adds
the writer of this account, the injunctions of the dying
men will he the means of effecting a surrender of the arms
which the misguided people overhold with such determi-
nation.

EXPLOSION or a (iUNPOWDER 14111.1..—Monday morning
last, between the hours of six and seven, near Battle, it
appears that the sifting-house, near the powder-mills, be-
tween Crowhorst and Battle, belonging to Mr. Lawrence,
blew up with a tremendous expbsion, whereby two men
were killed ; their bodies were found some considerable
distance from where the unfortunate accident took place.
One man, named Beachin, had worked in the mill upwards
of 40 years. The other man's name is Bovis.
Yesterday morning, about six o'clock, as a paviour's la-
bourer was washing himself at the pump in Aylesbury
street,Clerkenwell Breen (the pavement of which is under-
going repair), a brewer's dray came in contact with the
poor man, arising, in a great degree, from his own deaf-
ness, but more from the neglect of the drayman. The wheel
of the dray passed over the poor man in an oblique direc-
tion, from the ancle to the hip. lie was instantly conveyed
by his fellow-workmen td St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in a
dreadfully mutilated state, and apparently with little signs
of life. He appeared, however, perfectly sensible; for, on
waiting at the ga:e for admission, he faintly exclaimed—
" It's of no use, f must die!" The unfortunate man is
about 28 years of age, and we are informed that he has a
wife and several young children.
DaaaDFUL ACClDCNT.—Yesterday morning as one of the
Covent-garden porters was preparing to assist in unload-1
ing a waggon heavily laden, belonging to one of the mar-
ket gardeners, the belly-band, which was under the horse,
gave way. and the cart upset, and knocked down the above
individual, upon whose shoulders the whole weight of
the cart fell. Several persons instantly endeavoured to
Ilextricate the poor fellow from his perilous situation, but,
on the load being removed, he was found to be quite dead.