The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-05-19 00:00:00

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riu.vs ON THE Queer's BIRTH-
-I)4K

• es Thursday night there Weft apostausies I
Mien' in various puts of the tows is hunour of her
jetty's birth-day.
At 78, Biehopagate within, was a profusion al
isnir tastefully arranged. "C. R.," a crown and
VW, sarnsoented by branches of green lamps repre-
senting branches of laurel.
In Fore-street, Cripplegate, at the bow of Mr.
Baines. appraiser. we observed a transparency, on
which was inscribed. " May the Emperors of)Enrope
'matinee to be like the Queen--beloved and respected
by their subjects." There was also a large "C. R."
with a star between, and surmounted by a crown in
brilliant lamps, in front of his house. In the same
street Mt. Stephenson, brandy-merchant, exhibited a
transparency of the Queen, with the British lion at her
feet trampling on the Bill of Pains and Penalties ;
on the right of which was the letter " C." and on the
left the letter " R." surmounted by a crown of brilli-
ant lamps.
In Newgate-street, Mr. Herring and Son, hosiers,
bad a brilliant "C. It." surmounted by a crown. in
ritiegated lamps ; and in the same street two other
shops bad the same devices.
St. Panl's Church-yard.---Bailey's cut glass mann-
factory was brilliantly illuminated with " C. IL," and
a crown of variegated lamps.
Alderman Waithman's h.'use, corner of Fleet-street,
tad festoons of lamps on the balcony, " C. It." a star,
swum:wed by a crown, eo:irclest by wreaths of varie-
gated lamps, very splendid. It had a fine effect, and
attracted a great crowd during the evening.
Mr. Roberts's floor-cloth manufactory, in Fleet-
market, was brilliantly illuminated with a large crown
and " C. R.," and a star in the middle.
A baker in Oxford•street corner of Argyle-street,
had in the front of Isis house a brilliant " C. 1t.," and

a crown.
In a house In Tottenham-court, a butcher to the
Queen bail the whole front of bis house covered u ith
I imps; there were festoons suspended front the b.tl-
- and at each end a brilliant star: C. in the
centre over that, with wreaths of dowers and diamonds
In variegated lamps. Over all was a brilliant crown.
surrounded with wreaths of laurel in variegated
'attar. The next house was covered nearly with the
saris devices.

DISPATCHES FROM INDIA.

A Supplement to the Load." Ga:eite of Tuesday
list has been published. It contains dispatches from
road:ray of the 6th and 15th of December. WO, with
crclosures from Lient.-Colonel the Hon. Lincoln Stan-
leapt, and from Captain 'l'. P. Thompson, of the Ittli
Light Dragoons. The former relates to the operations
of the force under the command of Colonel Stanhope,
in the province of Okamundel (a piratical province of
Usserst, situated between the 2•4t1 and 4341 deg. of
north lat.) which led to the reduction of the fort of
Dwarka, or Jugat. Of this dispatch, which we re-
vived from Bombay direct, we have already given the
1.; ...wee.
ey from Captain Thompson. the political
agent at hma, is dated Muscat, Nov. 19, 1920,
ard confirms the intelligence which had previously
been received, of the failure of the expedition against
the Arabs of Alashksrah, in the Doff of Persia. [Tilts
we have also given.] The ill snecess of the rape-
t!ition seems to have been occasioned by the cowardice
of the native troops (Sepoys), who, when in front of
Vie enemy turned round, and Aed from the scene of
action. The luaus, who behaved most gallantly, was
'wounded by a musket ball, which passed through his
wrist. Hr had endeavoured to rescue an European,
who was cot down, and one of the enemy fired at him
so close that the powder entered the wound. Two of
the officers, also, whose names are not mentioned, ap-
peared to have acted with a gross disregard of mili-
tary discipline. Instead of obeying the orders given
to them by Captain Thompson, to defend a particular
position, they marched away, carrying with them
rt-,,,ry person belonging to the artillery depart-
toeut. 'nese officers, observes Captain Thompson.
'to,,lirds the conclusion of his dispatch. " I have de-
termined on sending to Bombay, with directions to
ri.port their arrival to the Adjutant-General of the
•r.-rse. My sole reason for not placing them under
ar-.:est without delay is. that such a proceeding might
iatolve a necessity for publishing, at the head of
esery regiment iu India, that a detachment of .Sepoys
Lid been deserted by its officers and I would not do
.seLat might confine the tiovernment to any specific
ewers,. At the mane time I shall transmit charges to
Artitantkteneral, with lists of evidences, in the
eyent of its.appearing desirable to proceed in that
Apostmer.l9
The loss of the detachment engaged, was neces-
, wily most severe. " atessurttalways be the case," says
•taptaio Thompson," when troops wait to be attacked
with the sword, anti then give way." keutraaat
Boswell, Ist Battalion Si regiment, AM Captain
nompeon himself, were the only ones known to have
.survived,
at the time of writing the dispatch.

CA !ANIMUS OCCUR usiveß.
—......
DOTER,MAT M.—Yesterday evening, at six o'clock,
his Majesty's packet the Lord Duncan brought up in
the Bay from Calais, and the first boat bad jest
ti put
off from her with passengersrs (the wind at the me
blowing very bard,) when the Lady Jane, passage
vessel, from some unaccountable accident, went see'
pletely over the boat, and ran her down, wi
were thth a crewee
of Ave seamen and eleven passengers, who
left struggling with the waves : nine of the passengers'
were fortunate enough to get hold of the bob-stay al
the Lady Jane, and, notwithstanding she pitched
amazingly, and they were plunged under the wares
several times, preserved their hold until they were
taken off by the numerous boats attending the vessels;
the crew were also saved, but we lament to add, that
one young man, a passenger, of the name of Moss
Jacobs, who was sail to have a considerable sum in
gold about him, sunk to rise no more. A reward of
twenty guineas has been offered for the discovery of
his lady. by some of his relatives. It is also said
that auuther person was drowned, but, from the great
confusion which prevailed at the moment of the acci-
dent, ft is uncertain.
The following is an extract of a letter from an emi-
nent physician. who was near being lost, with his
eldest son, on this horrible occasion :
Dover, May 17, 1921.
My Dear ---,—l am just saved from impending
death. We left Calais yesterday with a gale of wind,
and arrived in the roads at six.. Our passage was
horrible, sod we were exhausted by continual vomit-
ing. A boat put off to us at about a mile from the
shore, with a heavy swell, the tide running furiously,
and the wind increasing. We embarked. In ten mi-
nutes, a packet going out bore down upon us under a
tremendous press of sail; we all shrieked out—it was
in vain—in a moment she was upon us, and in another
moment our bark gave a great groan, part.4l and sunk
We were now all under the bows of the vessel, in
the raging sea ; none uttered a word but U.; each en-
deavoured to 10.. k out for a plank—rot as atone of the
wreck remained ; an.l the packets louse ropes were
the only frail implement by which eight or ten human
beings could peisibly be saved. One il ifiese my boy
got, and by instinetise feeling, climbed up and sus-
ende himself nder the howsprit of the vessel which
p had svrd ecked us,u and which continued its course at an
enormous rate. Many feet below him, and eonspletAy
it iiiii erseil in the sea, I gut hold of s small rope, not
bigger than a skipping-rope, and clung to it by both
bands till my clothes embued with water, made the
weight too great to be suppportable, and one of my
hands gave way and fell dead by my side. The
small hold afford by the other uas now my
only chance. I felt that one ofinotc would set-
tle this; and my persuasion of being drowned
inttantly was so unmixed with a particle of hope,
that I said to me boy, " God bless you, my dear boy.
1 woe go don:n :" In another moment my other
band gave way, and the mate and captain of the vespel
which hatl brought us (who bad been endeavouring
to get a host out) agreed that I was gone, and that
no exertion was longer available. Jost before this, a
tine young man, who had just taken leave of his sis-
ts on board, as they did nut like to trust the Wet.'
dapped like a steak Vona D.'s side, and sunk to rise
no more. We hear this morning that there is a second
sufferer, and that one or two of the men are maimed.
and have broken limbs. I can tell you little of my
peosatioos. lam DO longer a stranger to the expec-
tations of immediate death. I wondered with myself
olsether I should have much to suffer, and recollect a
kind of triumph at D.'s having comparatively saved
himself but be could not have lasted five minutes
longer. As he hung, lie kept calling out, "0! save
my father '. save that gentleman I he is my father!"
—all in vain. There were moil boats near, nor one
would place itself in the awful peril which had just
crushed and swamped one of their companions. The I
persons on board the packet which had occasioned'
the acrideut were paralysed, anti looking on
out the least exertion. At last, one intrepid fel-
low, hearing o.'s cries (and no voice was heard
but his,) called out that he would try to save
him. At the moment when I was slaking
caught me by my great coat, having most coprage-
ously ventured his boat and ie life under hhe trleen-
dons sea, and in a few minte*l I found leltifffailk
ing in air, and D. by my aft!e.. All my'iv luable logi.
lalr lgtistedte is
gage is, of cossets lost; IA ma
...,
of wonder to every citie.Z4lll44 so rotten' as,. t 0...
I had not only counted upon destruction, bit had tea-
gourd mvve;f into the persuasion that it was folly to
bold on and prolong the agony of such moments.—
You can have no conception of my situation,
but it
was seen by hundreds. The packet pitcbetlf.triouttly,
and at every pitch I was sunk deep bettor her keel ;
when she rose I got a fresh gasp, and life was thus
prolonged, but of course could nut have been continu-
ed an instant beyond the power of my retaining the
rope ; that moment arrived and I was lanuched
water, into
the sea! 1 swallowed, of course, gallons of
and when I was conveyed to Wright's, stripped and
put to bed, my shudderin4s were quite convulsi and
I cannot yet breathe a full breath, orjet Ark st
distressing feeling at the praecox As • •
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ATTEMPTED Suict ot.--Thursdaynorniteg, 111‘011t I.
o'clock, a young female, apparent aut 18 or 20
years of age, was observed walking backvArds and for-
weeds near that part of the Canal in the Ittgent's Park.
which fronts the Alpha Cottages.° She at length took
off her bonnet and pelisse. which she laid upon the bank
aire waternseofle few ava ak.A poor minutes, plunged
man,nged edinntoamthe
anntidddatelfeorf the
John Kelly, a labourA in the ploy of Messrs. Diem
sad Co. the Dust Contractors ins the Edgware-road, hap-
pened to be passing at the moment, and observing her
r above the water,itumediately plunged in, and res-
oled her from her perilous situation. She was quite
eesseless: be conveyed her to an adjacent public house,
Ike landlord of which refused to admit her. or to offer
the !slightest assistance, because, as he said, " alto was
4w
iset dead I' Kelly thee proceeded with bar to.the we/A-
kita. rly a mile distant). when the parish surgeon
y administered various remedies, and at length
e satisfaction to see his efforts trownertwith m-
oss, animation Married, mud she wee-In a. 'Welt time
Oki to give the name of bet friends, wlie ere highly re-n-ble ; but declined assigriag say easmoder her eo=
la the Coarse of the day the midieskersCOP-
veyeil her home in a coach. .

'The St. St. Louis Rey de Frames, Lees,from Rio Jambe,
has been taken off Madeira, by the Viicedoe imam
privateer, of 19 gum and lOU men, luster Artigas's
aid sent for Margaretta.
The William Rathbone, free Africa to Li
which put into Lisboa, leaky, bad, by arlvleesne
thence t 6 the 4th inst. been surveyed, and the seep
wodld be landed.
The William and Amelia, Jones, from Plying% to
St. John's, N. B. put into Lisbon the 234 ult. 1.a.-
ne
but was ready to proceed on the 4th inst. ---
The Latona, Holley, front Paraiba to Liverpool, pit
into Lisbon the 28th nit. very leaky,aed it was suppooi
would be obliged to discharge.
The George Daysb, Edgar, from Portsmouth tit
Michael's, put into Lisbon the 3d inst. with loss aim.
mast and sails, bowsprit sprung, sad other damage.
The Elizabeth, Knott, bound to Leith, has pat hll
Burnt Island, with damage, having been on thesseek
Carr Rocks the 7th inst.
The Stately, Edgar, arrived in the Downs
maica, parted from the l'ulloch Castiet4or si
the 3d ult. near Cape Antonio.
1 Lirsaroor., Mae 14.—The tieorge,
arrived at t:ork front New South Shetlafid. em
Feb.; the day before site lost her anchors, boats, elk
6,:r. during a violent gale, and was obliged to leave da
place, .although eight of her crew were ett shore. Is ,
is feared that several vessels have suffered there, u the
gale was most tremendous.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITE.—JUSOt of and for Londe%
April 7th, 25 miles from Viper Key, OAK of Florid:,
12 days from St. Anne, Jamaica, 2-Ith lat. n. 4.A. X.
long. 53. 30. W. Frances Ann, of and lrmn Na Yea,
10 days, for Cadiz, with loss of one MAI *IA deck
lumber, 27th, lat. 41. 5. N. long. 45. IV. W. Wynn, 0
Hull, six weeks front Liverpool, for New York, all est
May 4th, lat. 42. 37. N. lung. 3b. 16. W. Eliza, of ad
from Newfoundland, 12 days. to Altcant all well. Ilk Il
lat. 44. 40. N. long. 31. 10. W. Hesperus, 12 days Net
Belfast, for New lurk, 9th, let. 47. 12. N. loott. S 3 tr.
Hannah of Workington, from Liverpool for Namifeuni
land, (lilt, lat. 49. 40. N. long It. W. Vrilmds, 4 1
workington, 21 dAys front Liverpool, tar (lichee. lak
lat. 49. 24). :1. long. 9. 30. IV. IlapPY lt-tars, imi
Liverpool for Lisbon, 24 h ttt rs front Cape Clear; brae
Wan Romney, arrived uhf Margate.

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