The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-09-04 00:00:00

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" thik. Add. • 3.—Wind West.—Sailed ibit
-Clirksok for I odii.-Thi Crichton, South F
ive onebbsweouting in frdm the Westward this ...
The Minertin, Bell, frdm Calcutta, passed this tworalog—
isiled from (Meade April Bth, and from St. Helens 118th
of Johi.—sig,. P.M, Sailed the whole of the outward.
boom! for their different destitiations.-()Q Dover, the
Alfred, Trek, froni Tobago, . . . - FALMOUTH, SUIT. 2.—Arilved the June, Belli, from
Petersburg; Trid, Beefield, froth &Mere% in 56 dis,;
sad Colombia, Perkins, from Virginia, in 29 day*. Sailed
the Creole, Brewer, from Brest. The tiliaMih jariviteeS.
stetter Tartar, which sailed froM hence 27th nif.,. is off 14,
port this morning weir's* a supply Of 0004116de; ()ll' in
cruise she captured off the Casketts tire Frenc slily
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{lie of 450 tons from St: Domingo, hound to tepee .s
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afterwards fell bit with a French convoy, an isdard4 4.1
brig, hut for want of men, and the French inflt krT
'rinsing her, she was obliged to abandon kOlpitizi.:—wi 4ft
w s. w.
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Poarsmotpru. SePT. 3.- -Arrited Hsi Bellliltnt..ll,o4olN
•well, from Gibraltar; and H.M.S. bieiii4 fneels.the buiir
France. Sailed H.M.S. Seringapatem, alis'icsidete.-4fisd,-
s. w. • . . . . . , . . ~.
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Pinot:ma, SEPT. 2.—No arrivals w lailinteesrltretta
W. to N.W.
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-THE GEORGE THE FOURTH. '
The following account of the disaster which betel the
brig George the Fourth, of Waterford, boos) to Qiwbec.l
has been transits:Merl to the Waterford Mirror.. signed by
'several of the passengers, as a testimony to the steady and
manly behaviour of the master of the vessel : •
" Oh the morning of the 20th July we dropped down to
Passage; we proceeded on our voyage the nest day, and
desired the Cape on Thursday, sod though the winds were mid-
year, we were buoyed op with the pleasing expectation of
aeon retching our destined port. The passengers, 118 in sum•
ber, were nearly recovered from their sickness, and all sad-
cipating the pleasures of meeting kind friends, sad' pleasing
schemes for future happiness sad wagon, when the cap was
unexpectedly dashed from our lips by ono of the meet dreadful
calamities teat fall to the lot of seafaring area. At half pest
It on the morning of the 14th all hands were aloft reefing top-
sails, when they discovered a bark close under oar bow • the
dreadful word was elven to pet the helm hard up, and aatlber
'new desired it to be put bard down, when she immediately
struck us under the starboard bow, which drove away the bow
sad carried away bowsprit, which, getting foal oft he Wainer
4be bark, we received a second shock on our larboard bow.
which carried away part of the bow, and otcerwise damaged
oar figure head awl cut-water; they continued to strike each
other's broadside for a few minutes, when our cbaisplates
Mate way ; providentially for as the foremast of the bark. Lull
right fore and aft oa her own decks; had either of her masts
fl :en aboard of us we should both bate inevitably perished
together. Previous to our parting, the stump of oar bowsprit
became foul of their arisen, which brought it over die lee side
of the bark. Such was dm terror and apprehension entertained
of our vessel, that the Mate and five of the Seamen left las and
1 west on board the bark; she being home-band sod timber
1 loaded, they considered themselves safer Oa board her.—
At
the time the ship parted us, several persons ex-
claimed—'• we are going down by tne sera "--The
confusion become dreadful—nothing but lamentation and
cries for mercy was to be heard. every person oa board
waiting in dreadful suspense. expecting every mommat li
he the last, when the Captain went down into the cabin, opeO-
ed the under the latch, and found that she made no water; sag'
one of the seamen went forward and made the same saysiryki.
the hold, When the joyful tidings were gives that we had rots
leaked no injury In our hold. Oar masts remained standee
'Mill day-light, when the foremast fel., which renewed the ter•
tors of the scene ; and with it the topmast; there was nothing
loft for us now but to put hrfore the grind, which peovidantlally,
blew from the westward. We were about 1,0110 miles free
Waterford when the disaster took place.
" We have every reason to hope tbat the bark wlli etieldBllloh,
to port, as the light from her was discernible ter a ameatiers. '
Me time. Oa Sudsy, the 17th, we were spokes by a PAPUA
brig bound to the westward, which kindly offered us assistance,
On Monday, the. 18th, we were spokes by the Triaelsoloef
Providence, bound to Antwerp. who humanely offered us as:
sistanee. We mention these eircumstasces to show the mai
kindness of a British brig, which passed us the mania, Mks"
our misfortune, without taking the least notice of us. Snell
was the terr, r under which moat of the passengers laboarodt
that it required all the fortitede and courage of the stoutest
hearts io support them daring the remainder of oar stay de
board, as every little stock or roll of the vessel renewed their
dears, so much that it bar.lstiad sleep from the oyes of severe(
of them for many days. To &justice to the female part of the
.passengers, they displayed a fortitude which does boomer to
their sex. We arrived this day in Waterford after aisle voy-
age, and feel ourselves board to acknowledge the Moduli( se-
?minim; attention of Captain Thomas to us during the whole
, of our passage, but particularly on the trying event of the 1411;
we also beg leave to oiler our warmest Set nowledgmente tolls"
few braveseamen who remained with us."

Yesterday a Conn of Directors was held at the East
dis House, when the following ships were taken up. viz.—
Princess Amelia. Marquis of Mondry, and Astell.
The Active frigate sailed from Plymouth on Thnrsday
with sealed orders, bre destination is generally believed to
be Cadis. Our cruisereare known to keep sip a communi-
cation with that port. notwithstanding the blockade. The
Lyra tender left Plymouth on Sunday. with a Spanish mere
senger for Cadis, via Oihraltar.
It is understood that by a new regulation the Masten of
ships of war are in future to have the charge of the Warrant
Olken' stores, with an increase to their pay for such ad.
ditional responsibility.
LICHTHOUSIEL—We learn that the Commissioners for
Northern Lighthouses have contracted for the erection of a
lighthouse on Oronsay, a small island on the western ex-
tremity of the island of Illay. The central. or light tower,
will he shoot SO feet above the level of the sea. As the
foundations are already dog, and materials in preparation,
it is expected that the whole will be conorleled in the course
of next tear. The benefit that will result to the shipping
ii•tereste from this erection will be obvious to all those who
are acquainted with the coast, and it affords an additional
proof of the attention and liberality of the coininissioners.
An advantage of another description is also anticipated.—
The elevation will prove a mostap rfect direction to vessels
wishing to visit the village of Pur nahmen, which, fro:u its
situation, and from the great facilities and accommodation
it affords to strangers, would he a far more convenient
point of departure for those wishing to visit Staffs, leolos-
kin, or the Oiant's Causeway, than any other point in
Argyllshire ; especially as excellent tea boats, and careful
boatmen, can at all hours be found oo reasonable terms.—
(Greenock Advertiser.)

ANDReW RYDING.—An account has by some means got
into the London papers stating that this individual had been
removed from the Castle to the Lunatic Asylum at Lancas-
ter. We can aunt.e the public there is no troth iu this
statement. tie still remains in the Castle, and is not likely
to be soon removed to a less secure place of detention. Al-
though acquitted by the Jory on the ground of inanity, his
dere:torment is not considered of such a nature as to pre-
clude the fear of an attempt to escape, if a favourable op-
portunity should offer itself.—(Prestos Chronicls.)
We suspect there is some intention of bringing Joanna
Soutlicote to life again. We received some weeks ago, a
pamphlet, published by a Mrs. Jane Townley. wbe talks
very fluently of her " spiritual communication," and who
asserts, that the affair of poor Shiloh was a spiritual and
not a temporal birth ! And tt is slily insinuated. that after
be was thus spiritually born, the graceless yonoester flew
away to the wilderness, whence, perhaps, he might now be
persuaded to return. and wage war with Priam liohenlobe!
lie this as it may, Mrs. Toweley's pamphlet is a great cu-
riosity, and proves, very satisfactorily, that the age we lire
in La awkesita so enlightened as malty people appose it to
ha.—Okiepii Mirror )

--a—it. - --- . royal _Arent., staiir ase
(Scala legitz), have heen 'completed some time: The
Prloce'• Chamber, She Old House of. Lords, With the Lord
Orrat Chamberlain's Of ice,. and apartments are being
rated to the ground. The workmen hive eiperienind great
labour in pulling down the old walls. as the ninteriall sire
wifirmly cemented together. Tbe .01d . House .of Lordie,l
ss
and Prince's Charnher, with ihe Cellars Underneath. are iv
Mare as when Our Fawkes was going to blow bp the •K:'
Hansen* House, and all the Nobles of the Jena; .sw..fi •'
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the First's time On the site of thete will be balk:Ude"'
mittee Rooms for the aii; of tha Lords, whidi the WO.
Chamberlain will Occypy itt,the opening of Prelims/44rd'
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tetTtpore,. till a house 4 limit in Citton-gardeus. forolp 10
retrace facing the River. Thames, snitah a to she dig' fr
and high rank of hie official (hides. The principal ap TV
inehis hill he likrnjilled,io royal splendour Neil* reception
or MI Mikity, wrio•Sever had any rooms to. retire int i•C'
'emit the fibbing-room, and giber apartments which '®el'
''passes tfirongt tylfick. are always filled with company td'
2xii thil Royal.procession. The King being from the
nt he pack Pie Palice la the custody of the Break
tifambeilais, alio it answerable for. his person should sett;
thing happen. , Tile whole ofthese improvements are trek.
the designs and undo+ the loperiniteodanro of Mn Soong;
to whose taste and judgaient they hays; beat intrusted st bet'
whatever Mr, Somme or any other architect may do for this
Palace, the whole of it will oppear as a mess of incongru-
ous architicture, which was begun by Mr. Wyatt, and add-
ed to so often since, that the effect of the exterior is %Awn-
pletely spoilt; the hest way, and
.probably the cheapest,
would have bees to pull the who!s down, and erect a Par-
liament House suitable to the high station which Great
Britain holds in the affairs of the world.
'The new Courts of Law adjoiniog Westminster Hall are
'proceeding very rapidly. in point of convenience and ele-
gance they will be unequalled. They will have entrances
from Palace-yard and Westminster Hall, by a passage which
runs alongside Westminster Hall. from Old to New Palace-
yard. We understand that the office of the Board of Trade 4
and the Privy Council which adjoins the Hanle Departmeol
in Whitehall will be pulled down, and larger and more
capacious premises erected in their stead. J
On the ground where Richmond House, the corner of
Parliament-street, eight houses of the first rate are erected,
built of brick, with handsome stone pillars, and a balus-
trade running along the top. This row of houses looks
down Whitehall, towards Clearing-cross, and commands a
view of the Thames back and front.
The new Union Club Home, in the King's Mews, will
be ready for the reception of the members in the ensuing
spring. The new University Club will he ready about the
same time. The College of physicians is in a state of for-
wardness. The new street called Pall Mall Rost will not
be finished for some time, as the new Royal Stables in Pim
lico most be completed before they can build on the ground
in the King's Mews. All the above handsome edifices will
make the neighbourhood of Charing Cross and Whitehall
look quite lively.

EMICIIATION.—The Montreal papers say, that emigran's
from Europe continued to arrive there daily, most of them
Irishmen, and whose appearance bespoke " variety of
wretchedness." Within a few days three steam-hoots had
conveyed from Quebec to Montreal no less than 780 of these
unfortunate beings.
Sittings appointed to be held in the Ecclesiastical Courts
at Doctors' Commons, in the ensuing Michaelmas ferns,
11823 :

Ist Session :—Arches, Monday, Nov. 3 ; Admiralty,
Toesday. Nov, 4; Prerogative, Wednesday, Nov. 5; Dele-
Kassel, thorstlay, Nov. 6•, Consistory, Friday, Nov. 7.--
2d Ditto ; Arches, Saturday, Nov. S • Admiralty. Tuesday,
Nev. I l ; Prerogative, Wednesday, Nov. 12; Delegates,
Thursday, Nov. 13 ; Consistory. Friday, Nov. 14.-3 d
Ditto ; Arches, Saturday, Nov. 'l5 ; Admiralty, Tuesday,
Nov. 18; Prerogative, Wednesday, Nov. 19 ; Delegates,
Thursday, Nov. 20 • Consistory, Friday, Nov. 21.-4th
Ditto • Arches, Saturday. Nov. 22; Admiralty, Tuesday,
Nev. 2;5 ; Prerogative. Wednesday. Nov. 26 ' • Delegates,
Thursday, Nov. 27 ; Consistory. Friday, Nov. 28.
The Courts sit at ten o clock in the morning, except the
Admiralty, which sits at eleven precisely.
Sir John Nicholl presides in the Arches Court ; Lord
Stowell. in the Admiralty ; Sir Christopher Robinson, in
the Prerogative and Cunsistory; and the usual Surrogates
in the High Court of• Delegates.
Yesterday being the day appointed to hear appeals at
Hicks's-Hall, a number of respectable licensed victuallers
attended to claim the eeeeption of three windows under the
provisions of an act passed in the last session for the relief
of mops, warehouses, and other places " where goods;
wares, and merchandise, are sold or offered for sale," when,
after a long and determined effort on the patio( the victual-
lers, the Commissioners were of opinion that they were in-
cluded in the act, and they were all relieved.
HamoVAL or Paisoneas.—This day the prisoners who
stand committed on charges of felony, will be removed
from the several gaols in the City of London and County
of Middlesex to Newgate, preparatory to taking tbeir trials
at the ensuing Old Bailey Sessions, which will commence
or. Wednesday next.
The Sessions of the Peace for the Connty of Middlesex
will begin at the Sessions House on Clerkeowell-green on
Monday neat, when the trials of t rrrrr sera, and others, out
on bail on matters of assault, nuisance, and misdemean-
our, will be proceeded in.
El/gremlin? ENTRAORDINART.—Abon? three months ago
a party, consisting of eight or tea persons, left town for a
village not limey miles distant from London, on a matri-
monial excursion. Every thing appeared 'suspicions : the
morning was fine (it was the latterend of May); the friends
were in high spirits at the approaching event, which was to
bind together too families lung united in hoods of friend-
ship. The party had arrived at the last resting.place—the
spire of the village church was distinguishable—the clergy.
man (for aught u a know) had adjusted his canonicals, and
laid his thuinA on " matrimony," when the party at the
ion discovered that the bride had fled, no one knew where
or.by what means, until st length the dreadful mystery
was Iled by a post-hoy, who, on being questioned to
that effect, said," He bad seen that there young lady a z
cum'd out of the coach wi'' he (pointing to the hail. ss
bridegroom), to up the road a piece wi' an add gemman
a-dressed all in black clothes, and pops into a chay as %vat
waiten for 'on, and hong off for Lunnun." This informa-
tion, so artlessly given, bore too much the stamp of truth
for a doubt of its certainty to be entertained. Consterna-
tion seise.' on the whole perty,and after some consideration
the horses' heads were turned round for London. Not the
slightest trace could be found of the fair fugitive until about
ten days ago. when a friend of her unhappy parents die
covered that she had tak,.ll op her abode in one of those
wretched asylums for sacertain class of unfortunate females,
to which the perfidy of her heartless paramour had forced
her. An application was made by her friends to the keeper
of the house, who esiately restored her to a home
onee 'Raptor, hut now rendered miserable by remorse and
shame. Ibe venerable seducer is identified, and legal pro-
f-Ml*lp are.coaninenced alainst him.
How TO &CATO TOT llcarocurrs.--A Gentleman at
Qom-square yesterday mentioned that in the course of one
month he had been rol,bed Ay pickpockets of no less than
nine valuable silk handkerchiefs. Mr. Markland jocosely
observed, " You are a slow walker, Colonel, I believe
Colonel " very much so your Worship." Mr. Markland,
" 1 thought so ; and this is the cause of your lowing so
away isdkdkorchiefs; thieves always attack the slowest
walkers. ..I,amid the Magistrate. never walk slow in the
street, and never had my perk,' picked."

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