The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-04-25 00:00:00

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NAUTICAL
Attract from a letter, dated Sierra Leone, 12th
February. HMI :--41 The rainy season has been more
favourable than Waal, but the months of December
and January have isompartienlarly unhealthy: three
or four residents have died; the rest of the inhabitants
condone much debilitated, and numbers intend return-
ing to England before the rains commence. The mer-
chant vessels have 'offered severely. $5 men have died
out of 85, in two months, and many are left without a
man. Our Chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Oarnsey and family.
Lieut. Olphants, of the 2d West luslia regiment, and
Mr. Wilson, merchant, have been obliged to return to
England. Our Governor, Lieutenant-Colonel Burke,
who arrived by the Tartar, on the let of February,
being seised with fever the day after his arrival, was
forced to resign on the third day, and with Ensign
Spence, of the 2d West India regiment, Lieutenant
Smith of the Myrmidon. and Lieutenant Spratt, acting
in the Snapper, sailed this day in the Wilding—all
much affected by the climate. Mr. Joseph Wright,
late Admiralty Midshipman of the Tartar, and acting
Lieutenant of the slyrtnidon, died here on the sth ofl
this mouth. The following Promotions and Appoint-
ments have taken place here since the arrival of Com-
modore Sir 0. R. Collier :—Mr. James to be Lieute-
nant of the Pheasant ; Mr. Evans acting Lieutenant,
and Mr. Cowley, master, to the Snapper t_slessrs.
Bingham and Edwin, Lieutenants; Mr. Aylen, Mas-
ter, and Mr. Nlitcheli, Surgeon, to the Myrmidon."
The Oeertlina, Sok, from Amsterdam to Bergen,
was totally lost near Scavenger, about 23rd ult.
The Isabella, Swanson, from Jamaica to St. John's,
N. B. and the Mason's Daughter, from Barbadoes,
were carried into Bermuda the tuisldle of February.
wills considerable damage, having struck on souse
rocks.
A brig privateer of 13 guns, and a schooner pri-
vateer of 16 guns, arrived in the Chesapeake about
16 ult.
The Thomas of Weymiss, !farrow, bound to Copen-
hagen, which was on shore near the Swine Bottoms,
has been got off after throw•lug part of her cargo over-
board, and proceeded for Copenhagen.
The Contiance, from Bordeaux, Ourchard, from
Rochelle to Senegal, was wrecked on Isle (Heron
shout 13th inst. crew saved.
The Supply, Liddell, from London to Memel, was
driven on shore near Lonstrop, near Robstrout.
about the I•2th instant, but expected to be got oil.
The Halifax packet sailed from Londonderry 19th
October, fur New York, and has not since beets heard

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HAVANNA'', Mauro G.—The Aim able Maria, Prreg,
arrived here ?.:!nd nit. from Campeachy, after being
plundered of stores, tackle, iar. off Pan de liurjabon,
by the Indernalencia de Buenos Ayres, insurgent pri-
vateer, Capt. Johnson, who pat on board ten nest be-
longing to the crew of the Spanish schooner Romeiro,
hound talramveachy, which he captured 19th nit. about
30 leagues from this place ; and also one manitelong-
inK to the brig Teresa, Ilawlett, bound to Vera Cruz,
which she captured 13th nit. off 3lariel.
llosrnrata, Aram 13.—A boat has jest landed
front the Sherries, and states, that last night, a vessel
mast have been on the Cole Rock, as a light, and some-
times two or three lights, were seen there fur about
an hour stationary, then all at once went out. It is
prohable some vessels went down there.
NEVIS, MARC!' 17.—The piratical system is still
carried on by vessels from St. Bartholomews and its
vicinity, to a very great extent ; no less than eight
vessels, one of them a ship, fitted out by a person
calling himself Commodore Daniel, and under Atli-
gas's Nag, having lately sailed on cruises. Two Eng-
lish vessels, bound from Barbadoes to Porto Rico, have
been plundered of their money which they bad on
board to purchase rattle. A brig was lately carried
into Fire Islands, anal, after taking out the cargo, was
burnt; and the trade between the Spanish mail, St.
Thomas, anal these Islands, is greatly interrupted by
these marauders.
Poarsmorett, A. NlAucts 27.—The ship Argonaut
is ashore at Gerrish's Island t she is (rain Leghorn.
rbr most valuable part of her cargo, consisting of *ilia,
Leghorn straws; &c. bare been saved. Vessel bilged,
and it is feared will not be be got off.
Sr. USER, APRIL s.—The Groote Vischery, Metres,
' arrived front Amsterdam 2nd inst. is already loaded,
and will sail on the 7th inst.

John Chitty, a seaman, pleadesl guilty, last week,
at the great Sessions fir tilamorganshire, to four iu-
dictments fur forging and uttering powers of attorney
to receive prise money at Greenwich hospital, and for'
personating and assuming the names of the parties to
whom the prise money was payable, and received sen-
tence of death.
The ropes of a large swing, in which were eight
young persons, gave way yesterday, at Stepney Fair,
by which they were all precipitated to the ground ;
one of them, a female, bad her arm broken, and was
conveyed to an hospital, the others fortunately escaped
with only slight bruises.
CORONER'it l'itiCKAT.—Yestrrday an Inquest was
held at the Waterloo tavern, at the Surrey side of
Waterloo Bridge, before T. Jennuett, Esq. Coroner,
on the body of William 31inshull, aged 30, who preci-
pitated himself from the above bridge into the River
Thames on Sunday evening last.
It appeared from the evidence of James Watson, a
labourer, that on Sunday evening he was standing
in the Bridge yard, near the Thames, when he heard
a splash in the water, and he observed the deceased
scrambling therein. On the alarm being given souse
watermen gut bins out with a boat hook, anti convey-
ed the body to this house. Witness was merely in-
formed that the deceased had jumped off the bridge ;
he dial not see him jump oil. The deceased was quite
lifeless when taken up.
His nncle proved that the deceased had been de-
sponding fur some time past ; he had not seen bins at
house fur a week together ; he was a horse dealer,
and resided on Backside. Ile had left a wife and three
children.
The Coroner said, that as there was no eridesee be-
fore the Jury to prove whether the demised had actu-
ally thrown himself from the bridge, they would not
be warranted in returning a verdict, that the deceased
had committed the act in a state of derangrment, as be
might have fallen by accident, or save been thrown
over by some person.
The Jury returned a verdict—Fonn,l Drowned.