The Statesman.
London, England, 1811-04-16 00:00:00

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PORRUGAWR P,O BS.

Liven
..ifs klieutew 37.,Eztract of a letter
M4rslial Lord Wellington to Don M. Pereira Fo,
is!, dated Oliveira de L'Hopital, 1 rch:ll..
ETkefirst part of this dispatch tiPpeareld 'id TA.
Gimet‘e of last Tuesday; but the following addl.
tionatinformationis contaicted in the dispatch to
tisa ;Portuguese Regency.]
.g 0 Since my l*s dispatch to your Excellency, I
hale received letters from General Mendltabal
ether persons• relative to the fall of Badijos.. The
Governor of that place hadwritten on. the lith io
tbe.Spanish Minister of- War, and had Manifested
.no fear of the place being in danger, he said that
the fire of the fortress. was well' 'impeded, and
that, of the six batterinwcannon which the enemy
had, one had been dismounted that very day. On
the 9th, he signified to General 'Late that he had
been made acquainted with my, message. On' that
day there was no firing tilt the evening, and on the-,
10th, instead of the 11th as I* had' supposed, the
place capitulated.
" By the Bth article of (he capitulatirin it' was
declared, that the fort of San Cfiristoval and the
Me-de-pont, which is on the right bank of the
anadiana, should be,delivered up to the enemy, as
soon as he could occupy the said !Works. *Front
this article May be collected the spirit in Which the
aspitniatinw was drawn 'tip. . .
" After the fall of Badajos tholthemy made a
movement on the 14th, acid maiched-ogatnse Campo
Mayor; which he atitnniottedtcittirrender ; 1116 be-
ing refused, he proceeded-to opea the treechel be-
', foto A Portuguese gilniisitn hittlikeituintrodeceil
loto Campo-Mayor ; and theifigh the place is but of
small sifeugth, [bare hopes it will, defend itself
till Tell:need by Marshal Beresford.
'`‘ YiterExceliency has.probably seen the Impe-
rial Pearce, -aPpointin& Marshal Ilessieres Governor
Of the oth Goverment of Spain, which ;prom.
Castile, all' the. ProVioces of the
North. ThelroOps deifined for this,
.Geurral. do
cot form a very efficient corps,. or in any respect
disposable, with* the exception of the Imperial
Guards, of which .there hWs beeo.a detachment in
Spate-for. more than a year ; probably in order to
be 'ready to attend the Emperor, atonic! he find
it Convenient to visit the Peninsula.
''''" I have also been informed, that Marshal Bes-
sieres has assembled at Zamora-about 7,000
.ffteni
principally of the losPeriat Guards„ and troops
from all the garrisons of Cietile.”-, •

GERAILIN PAPERS.

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FROM THE LOWER. ELBE,. MAIMI, 15..—1 n the
three new Departments, the 30t4' Wit Infantry
regiment will .be recruited, and •ytion volunteers
will be permitted to enlist into it. -Many. young
lads of 11 and upwards enter voluntarily late the
French marine service.
A sugar.baker at Hamburgh has had his utensils
taken away, as well as his store of sugar, on which
the tariff was in part paid, and partly not, be.
cause he had made a false declaration.
At Hamburgh, and in Altona, three Ladles have,
within a short time, poisoned themselves.
In two vessels which lately arrived at Copenha-
gen, there was discovered a great quantity of Eng.
lien cotton goods, which were wrapped up in cot.
ton.wool.
BANKS 01 THR MAIM, MARCH 9.—According to.
The Gazette de France, a large detachment of the
Nassau contingent is destined far Spain, to com..
plete the Nassau troops there. :
At Frankfort, those merchants who had not paid
the tariff on colonial produce have been threatened
:with military execution.
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PLOT DISCOVERED •Arilgio2l.
•
By, the Growler gun-brig, which nitived tat
week from Lisbon, we learn that's aingerbus plpt•
bad been discovered, the object of which was' to
biro the Bali& shipping in (he TUguk "The .1.04.;
lowbig General Orders were issued In tansequetitei
by Admiral Borksley ' •
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The squadron.to_row guard with oniboie
from
ensk.ship
eiiry night, prepared .with firs grapnels 4to l,e in three 401-'
aims, viz. :—Virst Ctlsar, flask-Mari; Be-
'toad Division; Hannibal, preisdpoliilii, and Tolinat; Third
Division, Itopettlesiz, Zealous'' 'A`tidacrnia, and•Abercronigie.;
The first.divisiob to take theittdid frtititisowset fflt ten o'clotk ;
second division fiom ten Bit ism is ilso estorning rind, the third
division from two till ssuarises—to change every night, and al-
ways to keep a-head of-thliTsbips, it riling to the tide;. as
intelligenee has been received of sittetApt-to 4ie made by the
enemy's emissaries, to Intro the slap:And transports in two Ta-:
pas. Boats or vessels adtift after sou-set;• tibbe examined titbit
strictly.
(Signed) " GEO. CRANFIELD BEAKELEir..!.
By a later airival (the TValsingham packet)
havehuied that a party of American sailors had lent
themeelvics to ibis diabolical plot, and that the Ame-
rican shiPpfng. to' 'the Tagus '.had, in consequence,
been ordered to 'anchorat a great .dislauce from
ours. .

On Saturday night, ,the 6th inst. a darim at.
tempt was made to rob the.bleach-field of Mr. Rob.
son Clarke, near Carlisle. About 10,o'clisek, the,
watchman, being Maimed by the barking of althiti
whick.was chained, turned ont of his box; wheiu
he observed, at about 50 'yards distatice,% two mete
drawing up from the grass each a piece of' cottoli
cloth.' They continued their amployMeat its he ad-1
vaned towards them : when, having got prettfl
near, as *t was bringing his musket to his shbuldefil
he heard the report .of a gun,
,and -found himseif
struck with the shot. •He then levelled 'at the twb.
villains in sight, who, • .had
fled ; and,
fected their escape.
*4:could distinctly
men, but
litis.raltogither,
leouring h
el is business

the watchman,
leather of one shins
his trowseis was •
ly was his skin
,sot s f lepredat
(9411 cirryiag

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SCOTLAND.

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'.Ettensuntit, AnttL•l2—The fourth annuli ex.
hibitima of paintings, &c...in Scotland, by the as.
waisted Society of Artiste, was opened on Moodily
Last.. The .reputation "eo , justly acquired by the
thine forinet exhibitions, will suffer no diminution
by the present, which contains a number of eicel.
fent pictyres. Of their respective merits we shall
be enabled to speak more fully hereafter.
• On Saturday morning,. about one,o'cleck A. M.
•
the master of a fnreign, vessel, at
:present lying in
tratigemouth lsebtairs.who hid 4iime from Ulu-
burgh to Falkirk hi the .Royal Mail, when pro.
reeding to Gringolieutb,-;'weut attacked .hy three
daring having robbed him of
money toiheamoint bt- Tel. teat and maltreated
him in. a most shocking and outrageous manlier,
.leatinghiai covered with wounds, and aitate of
insensibility.. His grousrltvrever.„ ,attracted "the
attention of some humane vcrs9ns, who livol near
to the scene of actitti : they, cciiiditeted • 411 Ali .tbe
Red Lion Inn,. Falkirk., whese.'lte. new lice,: dab.
gcrously ill. The villeins Wfio
must infamous deed still iemaih'undistettcd; but we
understand that measares. are adopted
hoped, w illleadtO 9 ilisciderjr,of the .offejitLcs.-
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CORONER'S INQUEST.
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DECAYED BUILDINGS.
An Inquisition was held before the Coroner for
Middlesex, on Thursday, at the parish of St. Luke,
oo the bodies of Charlotte, Elizabeth, and William
Crew. •
It appeared in evidence, that these three unfortu.
nate children, with their mother, who lately died la
St. Bartholomew's hospital, constituted part of a
family of eight or nine persons who occupied a
small house in loronmonger.row, the property of the
Ironmongers' Company. This hoose, with the one
adjoining, were let last Michaelmas to Thos.Watts,
a builder, who uuderfook to repair them. He had
taken down the front, and secured the floors as ha
conceived. On Monday, about one o'clock, the
occupier of the first house called to Watts that
something was amiss ; he found the windows be.
ginning to break, and called the bricklayer to_get
some shores. They went into the kitchen, and Cud.
:ingthe mortar crushing down, ran ent.ef the house
.iroosediately. They had not escaped half a minute
_when both the houses came down with a trews-
dims crash, the party wall having given way. Watts
swore that nothing he had done to the houses occa-
sioned their 'falling. AU • the family had before
quitted 'the first house a few minutes ; but there
were about nine persons in the ether, four of whom
are since dead, and part of the remainder are at the
Hospital. The witnesses were of opinion, in which
all the Jury concurred, that the hbuses were hi a
very dangerous state when they were let, and ought
'to have been pulled down. There arc several other
,houses now standing in the same situation of de..
ray, which are probably inhabited. The mate-
rials were worth about 1001. They contained a
quantity of sawdust, which caught fire from the
fuel in the stoves, and consumed the whole of the
(property of the poor sufferers.
11,,_ The Coroner observed to the Jury, that the num.
her of untimely deaths which were continually oc-
curring' from the falling of decayed buildings, hid
been and were much deserving to be the subject of
public animadversion. The existing laws hardly
seemed to furnish an adequate remedy, and the Co.
1 toner comes when all the mischief heater. It is trues
as a nuisance, decayed buildings are within the juris.
diction of the Court Leet, or they may be present..
ed by the parochial officers to the grand inquest of
the Bounty ; but to 'redress the grievance effectual.
ly, a public responsibility should attach either on
the district surveyors, or some officer shoold be con-
stituted with power to pull down public building
in danger of falling, or of properly repairing them
on the exigence of the moment. In the present in..
stance, a high degree of culpability attaches on the
proprietor of these houses which were in a ruinous
condition when they were let, and in a situation
much too dangerous to be inhabited. Such an in-
stance of
.neglect and incaution chews p gross and
r capable inattention to the public security. Deo.
• dands are' peculiar to the Coroner's' Court, their
• public utility isr that they are a fine, in some mea.
sure discretionary, in Ilia. hands of a Jury. to punish
the misconduct of persons who havesoffended, but
not so as to incur a felotiious breach of the
.Crimi-
Avouhtittc.h yvoeurdaircev_tocaaissesisats,
nal Law. Tee whole nf the materials which fellare
Death--D4odarmi 1001.
a notD
exceedingtthiteetatriur amount.
A
BOXING EXTRAUADINARY:
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It hat been before statetl, that by special lavits:
lion Molineux and Rick/send had gene to Birming_
ham, a town where pugilism is held in high estima-
tion ; and whilst there, the crowds assembled to see
a man of colour, Who had- becotie so formidable
amongst our native professors, were excessive. the
pugilists, after having veceived the cards of Most
.men in the fancy at liirmiaghass, took -a circuit- to
Nottingham, where setting-to was the order of the
day. This country boasted amongst themselves of
being able to produce a man who would box 'With
any man in the kingdom ; and after the eiceny
professors had set-to with some amateurs of anise.
.quence, a direct challenge was sent by this mau,
;whose name is Siring, to fight either of the blacks.
--Here the honour of the boxers was at stake,
aad Molineux, atthe request of a gentleman ams-
.tetr„-- offered to contend- with the countryman,
with the gloves, s Fires Court form. This anti.
cable set-to wai..itt. a minuteleversed, and. Moll.
ui found himself engaged in actual battle with
' eltulh siz Act 'in height, and of" proportionate
-stretigth lind make, atilt One Who hid ilitted the
sr.hole country; .'• A very sharreolifflet'ettsued, and
tliaemehattge of hits was awful', ewe* with thesgloves.
After about ten rounds, ,in which tho Black had a
decided adfantage iq what Crib ,had. oveg hint
"(science), the 'Nottinghams'hire champion gave in,
after hairitig 'been bit .doWit in almost t vary round.
.The Blacks arrived .in Louden. yesterday, Wets
;with•trsasure!

. • tit (VMS. ' • • •
Oa. Saturday laot, the Lady of K. Bernd, Esq. Bar.
Bard-street, Rimelt-square, of a daughter.
,•.(M.Soodo last, status. Losloirip's huore,. is Lower Clearoat•
our-street, the Right Hon. Lady_ktrowalow„,of a daughtgf.
samelloy this j,:adys,'Sit AL'lreratilitt Mot. M- Ara
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. WARRIUD..-
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Solaraav last, Mr."G. E. 'Williams% of Lambeth, N Miss
Bajoetkir Wilsoaretreet:
&me day., nt Knutsford, Jobb Ireland Blackburne, Esq.
• Neoldllin Pttlytne, Imocasitcsre, is Mtto fterntord, eldest
dasighter.pf the Idte W. BeagordtrEsq. of Bamford.
'!'rr estegety' lamming, at M. George's Church, Hanover-
...mime. by-Alst J. C. Mpepasew, Clioplaiwin Ordinary
tally Hord ITiglmess the Prange ,of Wales, Nicholas Lewis
Fen Wicks -Esslo.uf lietninaints; Norfaeit, to Miss 'Sebrigtm,
daughter of tlif hale, and sister, to the protest Sir Jobs Se-
%skht, Bart. • • .
•tho woichsamb Mire Anse
.to Anse
"Blitteldt•rat dattgop
hter of the lute Mr. John Brown, watch-
onakeec Choriim-erms. • • •