The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-08 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Mat, Occ.7.—Arrived and remain in the Downs,
the Sovereign, Nines • the Echo, Linden; the Reward,
Miller; the Sceptre, ; the Emperor Alexander,
Brigs; the Cecrops, Lengdon ; the John. Spencer; the
I.la. Palsmore ; the Delight, Allen; the Victory, Illraith.
wait; the Quebec, Murray; all from Jamaica: the At.
las, Sims, from Trinidad ; the Jatises, Mansfield, from
(lemma Ayres; the Brunswick, Blake, from Canada ;
the Chapman, Aulbank, from Quebec; the Madras,
Welder, from Calcutta ; the George and James, from
the R;ver Gambia. The wind. this morning, blows
herd from the W.S.W., duringof which, the following
ships lost an anchor sod cable, viz. :—the Jane, Mans.
field ; the John. Spencer; the Tigris, Sisk ; the George
and James, Conithard ; and the Friends, Pearce.
Pi.vatourn, OCT. 6.—Arrived the Ocean, Lymington,
from Sicily, out twelve weeks, ender quarantine, having
ocer•shot her port, carried away her bulwarks, and split
her sails.—Wind B. by N.

PORTSMOUTH. OCT. 7.—Arrived the Industry, Blakey.
from St. John's., New Brunswick ; the New York.
Maitland, from Flushing, for New Orleans.—. Wind S.W.
FA LMOUTH. %OCT. 6.—Arrived the Union, Taylor,
from Liabon.—Wind West.

His Majesty's ships °antes and Topaz* arrived at
Portsmouth the fith inst., the former from Bombay the
sth May, and the latter from Aladras the 20th M ay ; they
sailed from St. Helena for England, the 15th Avast.
The Company's ship Smithy Castle, and chartered ship
Florentia, sailed from Sr. Helena for England, the 13th
Anted. The Vansittart, from China, arrived at St.
Helena the 9th of the same month, and was to sail on
the 17th. The undermentioned ships, outward-bound.
were at Bombay on the ISth May last ; viz.—The 1)o.
nira, Berwickshire, and Duke of York. The Fairlie ar-
rived at Madras the 12th May.
The Vansittart and Sealehv Castle, the last of the
East India Company ships of the season, arrived at St.
Helena on the 9th August, and are hourly expected in
the Channel An unfortunate circumstance occurred
during the outward voyage of the Scaleby Castle. On
the coast ofNew Guinea, a midshipman with a boat's
crew had been sent a-head Li the night for the purpose
of sounding, while the ship continued under weigh. At
day break the boat had disappeared, and alihouzli Cap-
tain Newell lay to several days, no trace of the boat or
its unfortunate crew was discovered. Great fears are
now entertained for their safety.

It is understood that East Indismen will, in future,
occasionally touch at Plymouth. Some gentlemen in
the service of the East India Company hsre been In-
specting the store-houses at Tnrachapel, Catwater,
preparatory to the establishment of a depot there, fur
stores, tice. fur the use of the C,empany's ships which
may put into the harboor.—(lreet Briton.)
It is apprehended that the discharge of workmen
at Plymeoth Dock-yard will continue, as it has be-
gun, for several mouths to come, until the number of
men employed in that great naval establishment it re-
duce*, to about 2000. At the commeseement of the
reduction now in progress, above 3000 men were em•
ptoyed. The discharges take place every fortnight;
—l5O have been paid off within the last month ; and
as in these discharges the situations of the men with
respect to the number of their families,lso. have not
bees considered, many have been reduced to the at.
move distress. In consequence of these dismissals
the poor's-rates of Plymouth-dock an I the adjacent
pariebes stlipto • •---khly -increased. 114 e able
havesi!,ans-

irged from the

possessed of talent will gradually quit the establisjs-
mem; as, tinge the dismissal of the Qaartertnen aid
the excladte appointment of officers from the Hoye'
Academy et Portsmouth. the workmen are precluded
all prospect of advancing themselves in the service,
whatever be their merit or ahillty.—(loid.)
We havelutherity to contradict the paragraph la
the Piymesta Joarnalof Thursday, relative to the ob-
ject of the skit of Captain Foulerton, one of the elder
brethren of the Trinity-bonse. which is there stated to
be the laying lows moorings for the accommodation
of the packets, and giving directions fit. building a
light-house on Ilia west end of the Breakwater. The
fact is, that Alaptaise Foulertee and Dowson. of the
Trinity-house, bare been here some days for the
purpose of swooning the anchorage in t►e Sound,
within and without the Breakwater, in which service
they have bqe assisted by Mr. Sidley, the King's
Harbour Master; and altheogh the removal of the
packets from Fahnotath to this pert is confidently aa-
ticipated, so orders have yet been received here to
this ellect.—(Plyinostris Chronicle.)
Tits lat s.—Yesterday another man belonging to the
Isis smuggler was liberated. He was called Forbes
C . Ile was first overhauled as a British Subject,
and then as a Foreigner. In neither case was satis-
factory proof exhibited. Counsellor James, from
Kilkenny, sat, as A r with the Magist►ates at
the Town Hall. The investigation was adjourned to
Tuesday.—(freterford .Mirror.)
Man:* CURIOSITT.—A very singular fish is at
this time in pickle on board the Mary Frances, Sheen-
land ship, now in the old dock, of this place. Mr.
Wilkinson, the captain, says it waecsaght to the Dumb
of Shetland bytes, of his men seat out is a boat, who
saw it flooodetleg on the surface of the water, and
dragged it os board by one of its tail fins. Its forma-
i tion is exceedingly c:o osy. sad its movements must
ba-e bean vtay slow. Oa a first view of the heal, we
fancied we %w • strong reeemblance to the large
wrinkled face of a fat °ldiot's, and the nonsense about
mermaids immediately recurred to our recollection.—
But a whole view of the animal soon dissipated all our
reveries, and left as only to weeder at the variety of
the productions of nature. Its shape is nearly oral,
being from bead to tail rather more than three feet.
and in breadth two. The skin is of a deep gray, and
and all over as rough as a file moderately wore ; so
rough, that when the sailor laid hold of the tail fin to
pall it oat of the water, his hold was so firm as If he
bed been grasping a piece of strong sand paper. Capt.
Wilk(esee says that when it was first taken its eyes
were quite prominent and exactly resembling human
eyes. It is furnished with a pair of ears. with two
small One beaeath them, and two large tail flea, be-
tween which is a small fleshy tail. We see it described
in yesterday's Advertiser as the Sun Fish of Dr. Shaw.
and it probably is one of that singular species i bet
it meow mid, as Capt. Wilkinson assures us is the fact,
that if it be, the eldest fisherman in Shetland never
should have Seel say thi•g like it before.—Weill
Rockingham.)
In the garden of Mr. Wm. Johnoos, near Felton,
in Northemberlasd. there was polled last week an
apple of the Leadiogton kind, which measured 131
(aches in circumference, and weighed upwards of 16
comet.