The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-12-31 00:00:00

tre of the Okra Gonave have been punished for
their conduct, which occasioned; the disturbances
there d few days before; bat from the mildhesa of the
sentence, it is evident that this frac* was not of a
political nature ; not does there spear to hive been
any tumult or expressions of disaffection against
the &mason, respecting. the disasters of his
campaign sinoe his return to 'Paris. It must,
however, be admitted, that a great deal of
caution had been used, previous to his appear-
ing is the capital, to conceal the extent of the
losses sustained by the armies in Russia. We do not,
however, expect to hear of any of those explosions
in Paris, which have been so often predicted by our
Ministers, and echoed by their servile journals.

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the accounts from Jamaica, by the Mail which &r-
-fled on Friday, represent that Island to be literally
blockaded by American privateers: Admiral STIR.
1 LING was so much In want of croziers, that he had i
been obliged to hire a paltry vessel (which was lately
sold in London for about 5001.) for the protection of ;
the trade. Neither on the Leeward Island, or Ja-
. in** stations, had a single ship of war arrived from
England as a reinforcement, up to the end of Oct.
although the war with America had been anticipated
more than six months.
Recent advice. from the Windward Islands state, ,
that the Admiral is mortified at the depredations of
the Anwrican privateers, it not being in his power ,
to prevent them; most of the few cruisers under his
orders halting been out so long from England, that
their copper is nearly off; so that the privateers re-
! main unmolested, as they can sail round our ships
whenever they think proper: they are, in conse-
quence, become so daring, as even to cut vessels out
of harbours, though protected by batteries, and to 'I
land, and carry off code from plantations. What
! must Sir FRANCIS Lsroetv's feelings be when he
learns, that instead of receiving a reinfor*ment of
ships to sappert the British flag, he is superseded as
Commander in Chief on that station, by the ap-
pointment (an unprecedented one) of Sir JOHN
W ARUN, to the very important command of hit
Majesty's ships and vessels on the lialifax and Lee-'
ward bland station, which, in our opinion, is by
• far too extensive for an individual, and more para.
IPcularly at the commencement of a war with Anieri-
ies ; besides which, be has to attend to his duties as
r a Negociator ?
tins following letter was yesterday received at
WiTfeS _ _ _

" Admiralty-01a, Dec. 29, 1819.
• II am emataanded by the Lords Commissioners of the Ad-
'Shaky to inform ype, is reference to my letter of the 25th lost.
Syr the information of the Committee fur nuutagleg the afrairs of
Lie re's, that I ham Ms day steeived a letter from ldml-
aM as Yarmoath, traametting one dated Hall,' the '1
28th last. teas Captain Daum; •of the Sheldrake, which strip
ino is base eonvoyod the trade from the Dasher to Gotten-
burgh, by whit* k spears. that the whole of the trade collect-
ml ia that river, had, with the exception of two vessels (one of
which was la ballast), voluntarily returned their convoy in-
armee/Is. sot cossiderlag ft, as it is stated, safe to proceed at
this advanced season of the year.
(Shooed) “ J. W. CROKER.
Te Mr. J. Bgievwr, Joe. Secretary to Love's."
At a court.llilartial, gn board the Raison—
able, in Sheerness harbott on the ilst lust. Sekjeant'
&Nab, of the Royal Marines, belonging to the
Snipe gun-brig, was tried for stealing& 101. note out
.of the Clerk's chest of the said gun-brig. The
.charges being proved, the Prisoner was sentenced to
e reduced to the ranks, and to receive 100 lashes
round the fleet.
The 11‘hop of Lonna& has given the 'Archdea-
tenry of Colchester to Mr. JErrsamov, of Essex.—
The Precentorship and the other Prebend in St.
Paul's linger still.
On Monday se'nnight, the troops in Limerick
Garrison, commanded by Major-General DAtthf
(with his Staff, Brigade-Major O'DottoGuut, Quar•
ter-Msster-Geoeral ARMSTRONG, Assistant Adje-
Aant-General WOOLDRIDGE), consisting of a brigade
Of Royal Artillery, Ist K.'s Dragoons, 72d, 90th, and
Monaghan Regiments, were drawn up in the. square
of the New Barracks, where the sentence of Lieut..
°PATRICK LYNCH, 2d haft. 90th (whose trial coo.;
silenced on the 7th inst: on a charge preferred against
him), was promulgated, and in his presence teed
aloud as follows:
SENTENCE.
4, The Court having taken into their consideration the evi-
-1 denee against the Prisoner, as also what was olTered by Alin In
! his defenee,are of opinion, that he es pito, of the charge eabi.
Wird against him, as far as relates to the assault 'coniniitted by
hint on Elisabeth O'Brien. being In breach of the Articles of
War, but acquit him of itemailaloos. infamous conduct—and do,
therefore, adjudge hint to be reprimanded in such manger,
and at sech time and place, as the Commander of the Farces
may Orme to appoint—nod further, that he (the Primes()
he buspeptied from rank and pay, furs period of six calendar
months."
Cvatays MATCll.—Carter the pugilist,whose mas-
ter[). pedestrian peeformince has placed him high on
that list, has been matched to run three amateur pe-
destrians, on Sunbury Common, on Monday nett,
and to give the.following distances :—The first is to
Motive 500 yards out of two Miles, the second 600
yards, and the third 700, fat -SO guineas. The
ground to be taken at starting. !-Carter is backed
,Also to perform the distance laAtaa minutes and a
half.

A poor man of the name of James Gaunt, of
Runslet, a millwright by trade, while in search of
work, was robbed near Alverthorpe Bar, in the
neighbourhood of Wakefield, on Tuesday night, by
three footpads, who knocked Isim down, and
riled his pockets of Os. all the mosey he bad in the
world.
MusDaw is making the Theatrical circcit of Ramp.
shire; after finishing his engagements at Portsmouth,
Gosport, &c he goes to Ireland, to perform at the
Dublin Theatre.
The children educated at the new Lancasterian
school in Grantham, consisting of about 140, dined
together on roast beef and plum-podding at the Red
Lion ina in that place, on Gitristmal-day. They
lresented a most interesting sight.

Monday an Inquest was held at the Poor-house in
Spalding, by SAMUEL, EDWARDS, Gent. Coroner on
the body of the infant child of a piuper girl, which,
was found dead in bed beside its mother, who then
lay in, end had fallen asleep.--Verdict, tasailkeittl
by bolas. overlaid.


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PEtliottn, DEC.
Expedution,: Captain Evans, of and from Philagal-
phia, bound tn Dourdeautsladin i'ith cotton, cap-
toted by his Majeaty's-frigatel Bolton and ,indro-
Macke.

The Niemen frigate, Captain Pym, sailed this
morning for Pertstnouth, having under her convoy a
fleet zonsisting of nearly 100 sail ; amongst them the
homeward bound Mediterranean fleet, which arrived
here a few days since under convoy of his Majesty's
ship Kent.
Arrived the Conquestador, of 74 guns, from off
Brest.
There is a report in circulation, that the Belle
Poule frigate has captured a French frigate, which
escaped from Havre, bound to America.
The schooner Badqjos, from the Mediterranean,
is just arrived. The Pickle brig of war, which ar-
rived here some days since, having fallen in with her
at sea, and taken some Masters of vessels out of her,
who had been captured by a French privateer.

Captain Dacres, late of the Guerriere frigate,
with his Officers, and some of the men late of the
Barbadoes, lost in the West Indies, arrived here
' this day in the Leonidas frigate, from Ireland ; they
having arrived there in the Africa, 64, from Acne-
' rica.
DEAL, DEC. 30.—Arrived. the Sprightly cotter,
with 15 sail of vessels under convoy, from Dart-
! Mouth ; Royalist sloop of war, Capbitt Downie,
with the Ruese French privateer, with 68 men on
board, which she captured eitrly this morning, off
Dover: The privateer came out of Boulogne last
evening ; had made no captures.
Put back by contrary winds, the Providence East
Indiaman.

Came down from the River, several ships, and
remain with a large fleet of outward-bound.
I PORTSMOUTH) Mc. 30.--Arrived his Majesty's
! ship Venerable, from Corwin& ; Prettoyante, from
the Dawes ; Valiaul, from off Cherburgh ; Niemen,
with a convoy, from Plymouth; Northumberland,
I from ditto ; also the Bolls, with dispatches, from
I Newfoundland.
Sailed Ms .Majesty's ships Savage and 111issIctoe,
on a cruise. _ _

NEWHAVS/It Dec. Adey, Master of the
Catlatrine, of Sutherland, landed here with his crew,
and states, that his vessel was captured yesterday by
three French privateers, between Brighton and
Shoreham. The privateer also captured two other
♦essels, supposed to be colliers.

In a journey, and through a variety of Govern-
ments, and such a journey, and such a variety as the
late most astonishing passage of BONAPARTE to Paris,
there can be but one opinion Its to the suppression or
the change of his name : it was expedient for expe-
dition arid ease, apart from the additional conside-
rations •
of security ; as, such, it has ever beets' the
custom. Kings nod Princes every where have thus
affected and travelled in an incognito, at all times and
places, even when most remote from, and apparently
out of reach of any approachable peril Thus it was
the Emperor Josten travelled as Count fame's.
STEIN, the King of Daxmaex as M. Le Comet Do
Nom,. The King of PROiSIA (Ftterteerca) did the
same, even in his little tour through Strasbnigh
(where the nesessary passports being forgotten, he
forged one ender the feigned name, sealing it silth his
own seal upon the spot) : it was.so even with our
own late Duke of YORK (the present King's bro-
ther, who died in Monaco), and so, in short, with
all the world. As for the speed of tae journey, that
has no comparison : it far exceeds every thing the
most remarkable, in the recollections of what has
'been done by Mcisengers and the Post! And as
such, is a display of physical power most extraordi-
nary ! The power to subdue such difficulties, to
endure such fatigues, and all this without any cross
-accident, or interposing mischief to delay ! Though
all this comes to pass amidst the horrors of a Northern
' winter, through countries of barbarians (at least se
barbarous as to be without roads and inns), and
through countries, too, where we have been told it
was all alienation and hostility ; all impatient of the
Germanic Confederacy, and wanting nothing to
shake it off but the very light levers a a while hand-
kerchief and a idsite ribband ; as light and as lasting
as the LILIEi.
In addition to the alarming depredations committed .
but too successfully by a nest of %instills who infest
this, place (Boston), which we have lately had occa-
sion to mention, we have sincere regret in recording
- another burglary no less daring In its nature. Last
Monday night, or early on Tuesday morning, the
brew house of Mr. J. BROUGHTON was broken open,
and property to the amount of 141. or 151. taken
therefrom. The money was deposited in two boxes;
one of which was Mr. BROCGRTON'S and contained
a little silver and halfpence, which bad been taken
for yeast; and the other the Christmas-box of his
brewer and labourers working in the brewhouse,
the contents of which had, been collected within
these few days past, and which, they used to I
keep in the brewhouse., until they had received
the customary donations of their friend& at this
time, led they. should make a sliviAon of .the
whole. The thieves seem to have been. at consider-'
able trouble to etfect their purpose, and well ac-
quainted with theprernises,asthey took the tiles from
off a building, and, breaking through the ceilieg,• de-
scended into a store-room, from whence they must
have got through a window about five feet high into
another apartment, where they pessessed lhemlelees
of Mr. BIIOUGUTON.9 box • bat that Orthe men,
which contained the principal part of the iatney, was
in another store-room, leading from the'above, *filch
was limited, and was found this morning fOrcedopen,
and, the box gone—though it was quite a dirk Mom,
and the box hid in a corner behind the door. There
is strong suspicion entertained' of the thief, and we'
sincerely hope he will not *escape with implinit7.--
(Boston Gazette-)

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