The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-24 00:00:00

TEII STATESMAN

says, "with regard to the offence which has been com-
mitted. you may be assured that I have no other feeling
than the desire that LAW and Justice should be executed
in Mercy on this as on every other occasion."

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Lisbon papers, which have arrived to the 7th instant.,
possess considerable interest. The Ordinary Cortes of
Portugal assembled on theist. The King made an et.
fort to attend in person, but an indisposition by which'
he had been for some days opp d, became so severe
as to compel his Majesty to absent himself, and to corn-I
mit the perusal of his speech to a Minister. Neither the
Royal Speech nor the President's answer contain any
allasion to the state of foreign affairs. This omission,
however, is compensated by an article professing to be
official, in an annexed paragraph from a Madrid paper.
By a report of the proceedings of the silting of the
Cortes on the4th, it is confirmed that the Queen of Por-
tugal has declined to swear to the new constitution; in
consequence of which her husband has directed her to
retire to the Qainta de Ratnalhao, one of her country
residences. there to continue until she shall have;
' recovered her health ; when, according Ito law, as
a refractory subject, she must quit the kingdom. Her
health, however, appears to be so bad that there is little
chance of her being likely to be subject to this law, lei
the aittiugs of the following day, (the sth,) &oboe Pato
Soria read the following motion:—" It being iodises*. I
aeble that the law shield he carried into effect, as well
with regard to the es-Queen of Portugal, as any other
person wbo may refuse to swear to the political consti•
tatioo of the taionarcliy ,• and its execution having been
delayed by the report of tea physiciana, stating that her
life would be endangered by the severity of the weather
if she should travel in the present state of her health ; I
propose that the Government be required to order, that
the same geaphysicians do continue to attend the ex-
Portuguese citizen, during her residence in the Quints
de Rainaibao., and accompany her up to the period of her
quitting the Portuguese territories.' Ilds proposition
reinainea over for a second reading.
A mercantile express arrived yesterday from Madride
bringing 'deices from the Spanish capital up to the
14th inst. Every thing was tranquil there at the above
'date, and the most favourable accounts continued to
arrive from the provinces. The only new occurrence
that had taken place in Madrid, was the banishment of
M. Pizarro, who held the appointment of Minister pre-
vious to the revolution, and of M. Jonama, who is
known as having written a work on the subject ofJuriee.
'f he former had been sent to Ivies, and the latter to the
Canary Islands.
A Madrid paper, brought by this conveyance, con-
tains the followiog important articles—" A person re-
siding at Lisbon, and on whose authority we can rely,
Worms us by toolay's courier, that the Portuguese Mi-
nister for ForeigaAffairs, in conformity with the general
*Mot tie nation, and his own patriotic views, has de-
finitively adopted the ultimata% proposed by the Spa-
nish Government, accepting the plan of an offensive and
defensive alliance between the two nations, and leaving
to a period of greater tranquillity the discussion of the
old pretensions to Olivenza, Montevideo, &c. The bases
of this alliance are very judiciously drawn up. Its execu-
tion is particularly easy, mud its conditions are equally
honourable to both parties, and are fonnded on the
principle of rigorous reciprocity. A select corps of
eight thousand Portuguese, of all arms, will immediately
enter Spain, to remain at the disposal of the Spanish
Government; and if circumstances should farther re-
quire it, this corps will be increased, according to the
necessity of the case, and to the interest which both na-
tions feel in defending the common cause at every ex-
pense."
Extract of a private • letter from Odessa, of a receipt
date:—",The, fetes( the Greeks is sot vet decided; it
is true they have eaptared, without striking a blow, by
aiTcilTel maneedilie; seen ves'sels' lbe grand Tnacish
fleet. It is ale. true that the Greek Government is
again re-established at Corinth ; but a corps of 5,000
Turks still maintains an advantageous position in the
neighbourhood, and are waiting for reinforcements
front Negropost, or Thnsaly, where the Turks have a
strong force. An eivly attack on the part of the Greeks
is not intprobable."
The Duke of Wellington arrived in town yesterday
about 12 o'clock, from France. About half-past two his
Grace proceeded to the Foreign Office, Downingattreet,
for the purpose 07 having an interview with M:. Secre-
tary Canning, In which the Noble Duke was disappoints
ed, as the Right Hon. Gentleman was at Brighton on as
visit to the King, having left Coombe-wood yesterday
morning, for that propose, where he bad dined on Sun-
day with the Earl of Liverpool, and took a bed
The Duke of Wellington proceeded from Downing:.
street, to the Ordnance Office in Pall-wall, where his
Grace remained a considerable time.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town
yesterday morning front Blackheath, and after trans-
acting business in the Treasury. left town in the after-
noon for Richmond Park, on a visit to Viscount Sid-
mouth.
The Prince Regent,a first-rate line of battle ship.has bees
commissioned et Chatham, to supply the place of the Glou-
cester, ordered on foreign service. Captain Parry Is ap-
pointed to the command of her, for the period that Admiral
Sir B. Hallowell's flag, as Coininander-in-Chief at Chat-
ham. limy befiylng in her.
The Ranger, andext the commend of Captain P. Fisher,
has been ordered to be completed with all possible dia.'
patch, for a particular service.
The Pioneer schooner has been refitted, and is and
orders to proceed to Plymouth. to join the squadron unde4
the command of Commodore Sir E. Ogren.
In our last we inserted a paragraph stating, that the Reba
scribers to the News-Room of the Commercial Buildings
' had, at their late Annual Meeting, ordered The John Bali
newspaper to be discontinued. Our contemporaries copied
the paragraph, and added, that a requisition had been slot
ell for continuing it. We now think it right to state, that
the requisition has been presented tothe Committee,byvehom
its prayer was almost unanimously rejected—frooonly out of
thirteen (the entire number of the Committee) having voted
to favour of tt.—(frishman, Beefast paper.)
ENGLISHMEN AIMIOS D.—l t appears trom the police
books of Paris, that there are resident in that capital
and its environs 14,000 " English families ;" but the
police reckon one stranger living alone as a family,
equally with an establishment of parents am, children;
so that the 14,0191" families" trill not probably give
more than 35,000 individeale. At Calais, Botilogem
Dieppe, and other coast towns, there are set down tett
thousand four hundred resident families of English ;
there are a good many in the south of France; and pro-
bably about 9,000 natives of Great Britain at Rome and
Naples; and more than 8,000 at Florence, Pisa, Genoa,
and the North of Italy.
CITY ELECTION3.—At the close of the day's poll yes-
terday, in the two contested Wards, the numberstetood
as follow : rhl
CRIPPLRGATS WITHIN.—Eifht Members.
Mr. Waterhouse . 3S Mr. Kehl . . 33
•Mr. Forsyth . 36 °Mr. Thorogood . 33
Mr. Jowers . . 35 Mr. Heron . . 38
Mr. Field • . 35 I Mr. Capri . . S
Mr. Valiance . . 31 Mr. Birks . . 5
BAISISEAW wasp.--Four Members,
•Mr. Wiguelin . 32 Mr. Frisby . . 26
Mr. Hughes . . 32 I Mr. Britten . . 22
Mr. Lester - . 30
°New candidates.

The poll will finally this eveninor.
11.ameurto, Dec.l7.-• Since the 15th instant, the frost
has been very severe, an.l the noviiration is interrupted.
Lone vessels which sailed this suorninir have returned
into the harbour, and none can now come np is this
plate.
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- siurnew INTICLUGENCE.

neat, the. 23.—eise down from the River awl
sailed, the Alphonso and Spey. Dean, for Carthagena
and Pensacola -•-ltetuaios ,in the Downs the Severn fri-
gate.—Wind E.N.E. -
FALMOUTH, Dac. 22..—Arrived the Promise, Glasgow,
from Quebec, for Loudon, out 38 days.—Wind North to
East.
PonTemouTrt. Dec. 23.—Put back, the Roselle:—
Wind E.
liattewtcu, Dec. 23.—Arrived the Lord Duncan Packet,
with mails, Lc. frau) Holland—Wind E.
Ortavesegu, Dec. 23.—Artived the Earl Bathurst.
Gibbs, from Rotterdam ; this vessel has returned in con-
sequence of the great accutoolation of ice at Helvoet.

LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY'S SWOP RACEHORSE.

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[FURTHER FA RTICV.iI Re.]
Official accounts were received on Saturday at the
Admiralty of the loss of bis Matepty's sloop Racehorse,
Captain gockling, in attempting to enter the harbour of
Douglas, Isle of Men, on the night of the 14th instant.
The following letter on the subjeet will bs found inter-
esting :
" This vessel had been ordered from the Plymouth
station to the Isle of Man, as convoy for the Vigilant
cutter, Lieut. Read, which had been disabled in a heavy
gale in Douglas Bay, on the 6th of October, and obliged
to cut her mast and'throw her guns overboard ; she was
with much difficulty brought into the harbour there.
and, after having undergone a temporary repair. was te
hive proceeded to Plymouth tinder eosivey, as Dees
stated. The Racehorse left Milford Haven early on Sa-
turday morning, the 14th instant. After taking a pilot
on board, she proceeded for her destination. They made
the island about three p. m., but the weather being
thick and the night pitchy dark, the pilot,
it
is supposed, on nearing the shore, mistook the Bay of
Castletown, which is very capacious, for th at of Doug-
las; and about half pest five, when the land was descried
close to thens, in attempting to enter the bay, the vessel
street upon Latium's, Point, which is surrounded by
tremendous and almost perpendicular rocks. All hopes
of saving her what once given up, as shefiiled instantly,
and the pumps became totally useless. Guns of distress,
with rockets, false fires,and other signals were made for
assistance from shore; but the wind blowing directly
into the bay, and hying rather fresh, two baits oniv
could be procured that would venture out to their assist-
ance, which they did with lanterns is their bows; and
many of the inhabitants rushed from the town, in a most
dismal night, to the beach, is hick is fall three miles from
it, and over the greatest part very dangerous, from the
rocks and broken ground to be passed, and this in the
hope of being useful to the unfortunate soft* . At
the time she struck, the Captain and Senior Lieutenant
were both on deck, and it appears that no fault whatever
can be attributed to the officers on this melancholy oc-

cation.
" It now became necessary to save the lives of the
crew ; and such was the excellent discipline on board
the ship, that nut a mac attempted to quit her without
orders. We understand that the captain had the
,roll of the crew, and on each man's name being called
over, he stepped into the boat, when an officer was
aimed to descend and take charge of it, and to land if
possible among tlut rocks, of which there appeared but
little bepes, as the sea was heating over them with great
violence. Happily for all but the last boat, this difficulty
was completely overcome, as by this time fires were
made with straw in different directions near the wreck
where there was any hopes of their landing in security.
" The Captain, First Lieutenant, and • Master's Mate
(Mr. Bone), came by the last boat, which. Inform-
Gately. was reviser crowded, sod consisted of seventeen
;1emma...111404w Siwkliwg being go IVA . man la/ 9
(pitted the ship. When at some distance from the
rocks, the boat at:fortunately upset, by which all were left
to shift for themselves. The Captain, being a good swim-
met, was saved with much difficulty; as were the Lieute-
neat, some of the sailors, and some of the boat's crew; bnt
Mr. Booe,the fisherman whocetnmanded the buat(which
MASOIIe that went out to their assistance,) 5 of the crew of
the Racehorse, and 3 men belonging to the boat, were
unfortunately drowned, making a total dB persons who
perishedon this melancholloccasion; sod w hen all circuits.
stances are considered, it is wonderful that no more lives
were lust.
" By this sudden catastrophe the officers have lost every
thing but what they had on their backs; yet time object that
creates commissaration is the widow of the fisherman who
commanded the bosh and so gallantly lost his life on tae
OCC4IIiOJ ; she had just been delivered of her eighth child,
and has, by these means, been deprived of all her hopes I.
this life, which depended solely on her hasband's exertions :
it is not, however, doubted but that Government will hand-
somely provide for her—it Is the least recompense she can
expect.
It has been ascertained that most of the unfortunate
sufferers have been recovered from the watery deep. Those
of Mr. Bose, and the flshermnan (Quayle), during the course
of the day, and 40r3 of the seamen since. The former is to
be conveyed to Mateo( church, and his remains will be at-
tended to the place of interment by the whole of his brother
officers, am."

Extract of aletter from Verona, Dec. 10:—" The ope-
rations of Congress are nearly terminated ; in a few
hours a conference will take place, which will probably
be the last. The King of Sardinia leaves on the 13th
for his hereditary dominione, the Emperor et Austria on
the 14th, the Emperor of Russia on the 13th, and, the
King of Naples on the 16th. The three Sovereigns
will meet at Venice. where they will pass six days. The
l King of Naples will accompany the Emperor of Austria
o Vienna. The Emperor of Russia is expected to arrive
in his capital by the 12th of Jan. next."
" DON CARLOS."—Amongst the rhetorical fig-urre
in this " Tragedy." from the pen of the Hard of the
House of Russell, we have the following
the large eye
" Of Heavenly mercy compasaes the globe."
Thia had hardly met our little eye when we darted it
across the street from our Editorial window to the office
of our opposite contemporary, the ORSCRVUR, who, Gad
knows, sports the largest eye that our eyes ever beheld !
We do not accnse LORD JoKN of committing plagiarism
upon our neighbour Mr. Cumin?, bat we must say,
that we cannot help thinking that the unmeasoreable
eve of the OSMIUM may have suggested to the
Noble Poet this singular mode of describing Omni-
science.
A gentleman in the parish of Clitheydnn, near this
city, planted some Lacombe oaks in December, IS2II,
one of which died down ; but late in the spring of MI,
a bud appeared at the bottom, which proved to be from
the graft. The shoot from thie was two feet in that year;
aad has grown in 4922, five feet nine inches: total seven
feet nine.—(6.eeter Paper.)
It has lately been discovered, that when wood acid is
made to pass through an iron tube heated to bri.ght ice
nition, and the acid allowed to enter the tithe by drop.,
in quick succession, Gis of very excellent quality is
obtained. This fact was first observed by Mr. Lee, of
this city, whilst pursuing experiments on the purifica-
tion of pyroligneons acid.—(Chester Paper )
At Leicester Pair, last week, the sale of Mutton will
brisker and with some little advance, in consequence oi
a demand for the Manchester Market. Prime Beef was
ready sale, but without any very material increase of
the price.
WATERFORD, DEC. 21.—Hest neighbouring Rutter 765.
to 775. equal to 525. with the former allowance of bee make ;
weighed st Crane, Wednesday 261 firkins. Thursday 246,
Friday. 111. Scalded Pigs 16s. ISs. ; Singed itls. to
16s. (ht.; Heads and Offal 10e. to 1 Ise