The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-08-23 00:00:00

fined his attack to the.emetee4..mhere they were v;..
gurously reptilsed, and after eannoneeling ti. for
!wale thue, they Paired as •noneloeely &ellen as
ever wee a Frehele are/ in the world, leaner in
our post.iosion the, geld or battle, 13 pietes of
catmint (eight hating been taken the preceding
night), some eaglet, and all his drat sod woionted,
he retired in the night !whim! the Alberlthd; over
which he will neves again Imes!!!
FRESH INSULTS UPON OUR CO4ST.
We have hail many painful neva/tans In ilotibs
the !Inuits offered' to our coast, and the deprede.
dons committed on one trade, by the entitt`e
/*tett/. We lament to say that then! shameful
aggreisicuis continte to be herded on seith impale,/
nity. The following are Wetted-of a lettee trod')
an intelligent Dover Correspertident *s
is Di,Aft. 'll.
" Two vessels, under foreign Cll4Ol/fty went
yesterday taken off Dungeness, lay small lereneit
privateer, sued retaken by one of his Majavis
sloops of war', and sent in here last night. The.
captures of British vessels by the encases pries&
eves in the narrow channel, between the Senn!
Foreland and Peachy Head, Is become truly
alarming. Seldom a week pass* but we hoer of
some vessel being taken, a'nd tory often of two est
three, by a small skulking row.bost. It is mace.
tiatly necessary that the merchants and .ondero
writers at -Lloyd's should be acquainted with the
petilous sitnetton of their property in thiseleannel.
It is true that many King's teasels are steobonenfor
theespo es protection of trade Goon the Devon to
Beachy Head. lint whet is the rad ? They are
very active in retaking vessels after they are its
possession of the French privateers; but nut so
active in taking the privateers themselves. The
merchants and underwriters should loudly call for
a new regulation in the Nary Department, with
r sheet to this narrow channel. If they cannot
prettied tin Government to statism one single
vessel of force at eeth of the enemy's bar.
boors in this new channel (positively, and ant
nominally), they May fit oat cutters,• as letters
of mune , eirryintonty forty men oath, . mit*
in the tot/melon of the ablest simnel Is Mritt
place worthi be selikiellt, either tee take bedlam*
all the-paltry craft at present so injurrions to 't
trade in these sees. When it Is eensittorted Sher,
upon a moderate estimate, net lees than 11100,0001.
are lost by captures stinitelly its this norms chasm
net, sorely the teloptiret 'of some yew system by
the Admiralty, ot"rhe above Man by lbctledu,a
wirisoo4. datentialli necessary."
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Attie the °potato? the dykes by the Meetly
in the Island 0S Wileheron, hone* of one troops
had to martrh forward, iearly up to theiritneas
in water. A company of the kith Regiment of
Foot, upon coming to a narrow pass, were or.
dered to form two deep. 'Upon this order being
given, a grenadier in the Croat rank presently es.
claimed, 44 What a useless order! By It it
plain we are 1111 Too deep already I"
Moth has bees said of the slightness of *tiny of
the recently-erected buildings in the vicinity of the
Metropolis ; how far some of the builders of
these mansions are certain! of the (let-ability- of
their rock-work, is rrettt 'trident from a novel
clause inserted in the lease; binding the respective
tenants, under a penelty, not to give a Dance oft
the premises, doubtless to preterit the inhabitant%
from bringing " a new house about their cars!"
On Woduesdanierelinir last, as Lieutenant-Ge.
neral Baron Hosteteen was returning from Wind.
sor in his. sulky,he.twas stopped between patchet
and Colebrouk iee• taillight footpad, wlowdemand.
ed his money. by Baron presented the.but.end
of ,his whip, whiets forms a begle.hornoutd swore
if he did not take himself off, he would lodge
the whole of the lead it contained in his brain!. •
Th.! fellow asking it for a blunderbuss, quickly
disappeared. The Baron, to avoid a second at.
tack, mended his pace, and shortly after, as he
was driving rapidly, he came 'in contact with a
matt on horseback, when both horses were
knocked down by the shock, and the Baron's
sulky dashed in piece,. The Baron aqd the man,
axe ell as their horses, were so much bruised, that
it nas with difficulty they were removed; foto.
nately they had no limbs broken.
bioms, the Smuggler, swam with the rope
of a Catamaran round his arm op to the very
ramparts of Flnshing, the train been* lighted, and
tied close to the pier. Ik gut back safe and un.
perceived, and fur some minutes the expected ei.
plosion was looked fur with anxiety, but the train
had gut wet with the sea.naler, and it did not el.
A very lamentable accident happened at Reed.
ham, in Norfolk, on Friday se'nitight. It is the
custom to get up the meadow hay therein where're
and tither craft, and when the workmen are late,
it frequently occurs that they sleep on board.
Five' men and a boy were sleeping upon the hay
in else of these vessels, when, about eleven o'clock
at night, during the very heavy Storm of thunder
and lightning, the hay gave way, from some tin.
know!, cause, and the people sere precipitated
into the river, and tow ref the men drowned. '
Amongst the civil actions at the Kilkenny As.
sizes, there was one before Baron GEORGE, which
elrited general interest, and thronged the Court
at an early hour, from the naturu of the rause, the
respectability of the parties, and the well-known
Went, of thus Lae yers engaged, rro and con. It
was an ejectment on the title to certain lands, Sic.
in that city, in which Josses' Goetze, Esq. was
Plaintiff, and PaTalt RYAN, Esq. Defendant. The
•point of. the came turned on au illegal broach of
trust for a Roman Catholic, under a friendly bill
of discovery, according to the,Staiutes of
Quern A N r..1-111r. St/Limpet-Gwent-4.e, for the
Defetelent, disOeyell his mighty porters of ell.
wiewee, and peculiar manner, a hich gives energy
anti feeling to re.sseit ; but when he math! hat el.
most incredible peeled of the Statute-Beek pass in
review before the Court, every Protestant as well
as Catholic hearer seetned to Wand amazed that
such laws could ever have had actual operation h
any memory. The Joey fennel for the eadants
with LI. conn