The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-16 00:00:00

DURHAM COUNTY ELECTION.

THE COMMITTEE for conducting the ELEC-
TION of JOHN GEORGE LANIBTON. F.sq. being
apprehensive that. from the incorrectness of the Lists, many
of the Freeholders resident in London bare sot been solicited
for their Votes and Intere.t, will feel particularly obliged
by the friendly communications of any well-wisher to his
cause whir* can assist them in this object, as it Is the
anxious desire of the Committee that every Freeholder
should receive this necessary mark of their respect.
By order of the Committee.
Committee Room, JOHN WILLSON.
King's Head Tavern, Poultry.

THIRTY PER CENT. UNDER ANT HAT WARE-
HOUSE IN ENGLAND.

CJACKSON, Hat Manufacturer, 58, Barbican,
• near the City Repository, has constantly on sale a
moat extensive assortment of every description of Hats and
Beaver Bonnets ; also a great variety of Gold colour Beal
Turbans.—Likewise Boys ('loth Prussian Caps of superfine
cloth, only b.—leather Hats and Caps from 9d.—The Pub-
lic will lad a great saving by purchasing as above.—Jack-
son's New invented treble covered best supease Beaver
lists at only Itis.—they are decidedly the cheapest and most
elegant Hats aver °feted to the pubile.—The new improved
Patent Water-proof Hat, Silk and Heaver, at only lig. ;
this hat will wear three times 24 long as those imitations
now selling from ills. to 18e. and upwards, by almost every
Hatter; many of them call themselves manufacturers.—The
Trade supplied as usual.
N. B. Old lints covered with silk, and made equal to sew,
lOs. ld.—No unpaid Letters received.

.1 Al Rill CA N P.11)El1S.
(FROM TIIR NEN TORE DAILY ADTERTIEER, FEL 9.]

The following. is au extract of a letter from a gentle-
man in this City

.Isjicr Point. Straits of Swats.

After a very fair passage of 9$ days we arrived at
Java Head. The captain, supercargo, officers, in short
the whole crew, have been on toy list since we left the
Capes of Delaware ; however, save three or four cases,
they were not of much import. Captain Fisher says, he
knew so much sickness to occur in an outward-
boond vessel before. I have as yet made out very well.
What success I shall have in Batavia " the unwhole-
sonic air of which place alone (says Dr. Lind) lies cut off
more Europeans than have fallen by the sword, in all
the bloody wars carried on by the Dutch in that part of
the world," I know nut. I trust, however, we will be-
some inured to the climate, in s measure, before the
tiny season commences; fur, at that time, it is more
particularly deadly hostile to foreigners. I at riliiite the
constant sickness on hoard of our ship to the sudden
vicissitudes of climate, he. at the beginning of a
month, it being the dead of winter (toward* the end of
it), being within the tropics, and the thermometer stand-
ing at 90 'leg. in the shade. Hail, very cold rain and
now, were usual occurrences at the beginning of Au-
gust. (In the 7th the thermometer stood at 47 deg.,
and on the 2fith of the same month at !lit deg., and at
111 deg. in the sun. In nineteen days, behold the
sinning change 43 deg. variation.
The Malays cause off to trade with us ; fowls at five
dollars per lin mired ; sweet potatoes twenty baskets full
dollar, abort two barrels; and yaws, pine-apples,
nas, plaint:As, sugar, rice, monkeys, and birds of
every description, all equally cheap.
The Malaya are nearly naked, merely a belt round
the body, and turban on the head; long black hair, red
skin, and their teeth (from chewing the beetle nut) black
as jet. They all wanted to purchase opium, and had any
of us had a small quantity on board, we should have
made out very well with it ; they smoke it, and consider
it a very great luxury.
BATAVIA, SEPT. ti, Itil9.—We arrived on the 2sth of
August, 102 days from the ('apes of Delaware. Batavia
is alike the pride and the disgrace of the I harli nation.
While I admire their magnificent houses, the taste they
display in decorating them—their beautiful shrubberies,
groves, he. surpassing, perhaps, the richest scenery in
the world—while 1 gaze with delight on plantations of
cocoas, plantains, oranges, inangustins, pine-apples, hc.
interspersed with hills covered with the richest verdure,
and literally teeming with birds whose plumage vie with,
the most luxuriant tint of nature—yet I say, although I I
am transported with the beauties of Batavia, I asis, on the
other hand, as eqnally disgusted with the numerous canals
intersecting the city, the filth allowed to accumulate in
them, the stagnant marshes, where "wasteful, forth
walks the dire power of pestilential disease"—" Here
dwells the direful shark, and horrid alligator." One of
our men fell overboard the other flay, and hail just got
in the boat as a shark sprung towards him. On the bar
opposite the canal I see alligators every time I pass
there, some of which are as long as ourjolly boat. Dur-
ing the westerly monsoon it is dangerous to go by the
bar at low water; they have been known to attack boats
on the bar at that time ; they stay opposite the canals,
and pick up all the filth as it comes out. All the dirt in
Batavia is thrown into these canals, which run before
every house; even some of the Malays, when they die,
an Tftquently lung in ; yet this hlthv, dirty horrid
water, they not only bathe in, but actually drink
The town, speaking, is occupied by the na-
tives of the is and of Java (the Malays), and some China-
men who are banished from their country, for the most
part. The Dutch and foreigners merely come to town
in the morning to transact business, and go out to din-
ner nobody, rave the natives of Java. ever sleep in the
town; I shall sleep on board of the ship altogether. We
are about two miles from the shore, and the noxious va-
pour from the canals, he. can have very little if any
effect on us. Some of our men have hren sick, but are
recruiting. This is properly the dry season, but there
bas been a great deal of rain lately, and it is said that
the place has not been so sickly for upwards of forty
years. It is now becoming healthy, and I hope will coo-
ties. so. I au; tired already; I would prefer the ocean's
dreary waste than merely a sight of lamb without enjoy-
ing the converse of sociable people. I see thousands of
women, to be sure, and a few Dutch Ladies, but fo-
reigners are not often invited to their houses; so that 1
mast forego the pleasure of spaking to a woman, till I
bail the domestic and happy shores of America.
livery thing is very high--the market is overstocked
with chattels of every description, so that it is difficult
to get rid of a carp withist sacrificing it. Several ves-
sels have gone to Manilla, and it is expected coffee will
fall in the coarse of five or six weeks; it has been as
Zee 3$ dollars, and is now 21 dollars per pical.—
are more vessels already goer to Manilla than the
undoes of the island of Limon or [Amnia, were it
doable, amid furnish with • • • • •
I consider music as a great preventive of disease. We
have a drum sad five on board. and have them played
every night. Men, from the fatigue of the day, would
118 after sou-set resort to drink or Ile down on
It:4gel all night in the rain, he. were it am for the
“ spirit stirring drain and ear piercing fife," which ex-
hilarate than wonderfally--tho labour of the day is for-
gotten, and home, with all its comforts, rises to their

PRlt'E SEI EN PENCE.

view. There is not a more powerful stimulus is tle
whole vinteria medire ; kvessel on a Wog voyage snouLl
always be supplied with it.

WESTMINSTER ELECTION.

WEDNES T.-(11IXTD DAT.)

Yesterday an immense crowd had collected round lb:
hustings; every avenue and street lead:nx to the scene
of action, was 611e41 by individuals eager to view tl
contest, and who were anxiously inquirits‘ from each nth
the state of the day's poll. The attraction was greats...
because it was expected to be the last day of Sir Fri '-
cis Iturelett's appearance, previous to his departure mots
the country to attend his trial. An unusual spirit rs
c petition and enterprise seemed likewise to hare
railed the different Committees. In the morning •
Lamb was upwards of GO a-bead of Mr. llobhouse
at the close of the poll for the day, Mr. llobhouse ir:
55 a-head of Mr. Lamb.

The only novelty was the figure of a lamb, holdinv
rat in its month, to whose tail was hang a rock's eon..
The head of the lamb lead a paper cap, to the form •t
a Counsellor's wig. I .nderneath the head was a plarar 1,
hearing on one side, the words—" Behold ratting
with a eoscoosib honk• to his tail ;" and on the other—
" If silly Lao's will go a ratting.
Tii fit ttu get this sort of hafting.•'
The state of the poll, at the close of the day, wa., as
follows :

Hir F. lit RInTT
J. (. lion 1111 l
The lion. G. Lavn

Sir FRANOIP kliEl r presented himself attiblat
and heal ty congratulation and cheering. The cry- I
seemed in excellent temper and goal spirits, and they
hailed him with considerable delight. He moonlit c.I
his observations by saving, that the state of the pull w • 4
satisfactory to all parties. It was satisfactory, no &moot,
to Mr. Lamb, fur the lower he descended in the scale,
the more Isuovant were his hopes—the 'sore holescrilsa-
hie was his delight and he hoped he would be mere
depressed and still more happy to the end of the conte-t.
laughter.)—Man y of their friends were so cool.
vinceol, from the state of tloe contest, that there Web
necessity for them to take any trouble on the oricasiose,
that they did not poll on that day as many as might he
experteol. When they considereof, however, the numbers
that had polled already—when they considered that their
adversary had not the advantage of them for a sine:le
moment, the election might, he thought, be okeicribed as
without example, and under all these circumstri • es, they
ought not, perhaps, to expect any very heavy day's pr II
to take place again. Mr. Lamb, in his co 000000 ent yester-
day on the Hare and the Tortoise, observed that the Tor-
toise seat the Hare. This was correct as to the fable hut
the idea could not he applied to them, for they did not
resemble the hare in supineness but in spet:d. They
were not going to sleep. anal let the heavy tortoise get
before them.--(111seli laughter and cheering).-11
some slight turn should by accident be given to
the poll, of which he entertained no apprehension —hut
if, according to the idea of the honest friend whom be hel
met. Mr. lamb should get ogle a-head, that would pro-
duce an exertion which would afford another herr"y day's
polling. At present, they had only to continue as they
were. It was not on one day's poll that they were gut.-
oressful, but regularly; every days poll was well filled.
Mr. Lamb had pollel better than he (Sir Francis)had ex-
pected, but still his hest hope was despair. It was im-
possible for any hilt Mr. Lamb to feel any hope in his
situation.—(Cheers.)—Hut the electors noel., contimie
their exertions. The contest concerned them mu.%
more than any individual who stood before then there as
a canolidate.—(AppLuse.)—With respect to the great
question of the power assumed by the House of Com-
mons to commit to prisms without trial, Mr. tomb had
told them that the road to fame with them was through
the gates oof a prison. In hail anal arbitrary times, per-
secution was always the road to honour anll •listinction.
—(Very great applause.)—lt was no had argument in
favour of an individual in such times, that he had suf-
fered in a public cause.—(.Applause.)—Mr. Lamb might.
if he thought it necessary, mention tio:s sitl-jeet, and
lay stress upon it ; hot the individual i•o poi-time bout
never intenolonl to mention, and never meant to !ay stress
upon it. Bnt that individual knew they bore it in twill,
and in fart the only consolation that public men had in
these times for their sutkrings, was the sympathy a • t
the applause of enlightened and public spirited
duals. Mr. Lamb had said and unsaid—(load laugh!e.)
Mr. Hohlionse ought to have been committed to pros
Mr. Lamb thought, what no other man could !bill:,
the Ilonse of Commons the temple of virtne.—(.l
laugh.)—Batt if it were even the temple of disrrrtion, it
would not have used arbitrary and violent means to re-
dress its own wri tugs, if it had really received any wrow: s.
Mr. Lamb had said that there was nu doubt, had 31r.
Hohlumse expressed a wish to be brought up to the bar
of the House, his wish would have been granted. 'I his
was not to the purpose : what they contended was, that
he, that no Etiglishniaa, can be c 'ilea—least of all
lay the Horse of Cootninons, who ought to protect the
people's rights—upon a charge without evidence, wilt:met
mopsiry into its natnre and merits, and without trial vi its
troth or falsehood. That was one great important principle
which they were maintaining at this election, and semi •:
one who thought the power ought to bet %elicited, boot esii is
mercy—as if despotism was mercy!—(Cheering.)—lt was
impossible to conceive despotism but as a gross and not.
rageotts wrong to the individual who suffered under it.--
(Applanse.)—Mr. Lamb had said, that Mr. Hottliono.%
friends had wished rather to send I • to Newgate these
to have him prosecuted by the Attoeuey-tieneral. lie
confessed that Ise would rather suffer imprisonment from
the House of Commons, than in consequence of a ver-
dict obtained on the prosecution of the Attorney-lie-
nem] ; because, when he was imprisoned by the usurps-
dos of the House of Commons, all their power craiett
when the Hoene broke up, and he could take his hat sia.l
walk about his business, without asking their leave, or
returning them any thanks.—(Cheering and laughter )
If one had a verdict against him at the prosecution of
the Attorney-General, the penalties were more severe
land perhaps he should have not a whit more rissou to
be satisfied with his trial.—((treat applause.)—But no
power of arbitrary imprisonment existed in this coon-
, try ; and if the king had no such power. he did not sec
bow the House of Commons, who were bound to protect
the rights of the people, could have it. None eught to
have seek power--still less ought the House of Corn-
Moan to have it. fort could claim no power bat as
their Representatives.—(Applause.)—As the time drew
so very near when he would be called to go to the
country to attend his own trial. he could assure them
that he would go with a most satisfactory anticipation
of the malt of this eleetion.—SApplause.)—He would
take a few days of . Per the result be 1111 riot
anxious. He hiturePr stlit anticipate any experience