The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-17 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.,

EARTHQUAKE IN SYRIA.
One o'clock yesterday having been appointed utile
hour for proceeding to the business of the meeting, the
. Provisional Committee appointed for the purpose of for-
warding the charitable views of those most interested
in the distresses of the unfortunate Syrians, catered the
,room • we were sorry to observe an unusually thin
attendance. bat Our mewling, of a diminution of
• British sympath, and its etteadaot ways and means for
• alleviating the distresses of the Meted were somewhat
premature, and received an early check by the subse•
quest augmentation of the meeting.
• Shortly afterwards, Mr. R. H. Marten, one of the
Provisional Committee, stated to the meeting, that he
bad just received a most polite note from the Right Hon.
the Lord Mayor, expressing his regret at being pre-
vented by important busineu from taking the Chair at
• the hour appointed ; that such business would. in all
probability, detain his Lordship half an hour, and that
at its termination be would immediately proceed to the
fulfilment of Ws on;agement with the Meeting; his
Lordship left it optional to the Provisional Committee
to elect a Chairman pro itnsport. or to defer the same
until his -arrival ; Mr. Marten therefore moved, that
" the respectful compliments of the Meeting be con-
/eyed to his. Lordship, with the information that
the Gentlemen assembled would await his Lordship's
leisure."
This motion having bawl seconded,and carried unani.
moasly, a message containing the purport of the Re-
solution was immediately despatched to the Mansion
House.
At a quarter before two, the Lord Mayor not having
arrived, Mr. Marten proposed, that Mr. Alder. Atkins,
be requested in the absence of his Lordslaip,!to take the
chair, which being unanimously carried, the worthy
Alderman accordingly took the Chair, and addressed the
tweeting shortly on the importance of the objects fur
which they were assembled ; and having proposed the
reading of the communication made by John Barker,
H.q. to the Levant Company, on the melancholy subject
which had excited so much interest, in the metropolis
particularly.
Mr. Ltnnaur, the Secretary to the Levant Company,
proceeded to read a Report drawn up by the Committee,
wiles
The Right lion. the Loan MATOR entered the room
amidst considerable applause, and took possession of the
Chair, which had been vacated for that purpose by Mr.
.Ahlerinaii Atkins. His Lordship apologised for the
tinavoidahle delay that had taken place through his ab-
sence.
Mr. Der:MU resented the report, which contained the
letter of Consul Barker. already published; he then
stated that the Levant Company had yesterday received
a communication from their Consul General at Constan-
tinople, informing time of the repetition of shocks to so
late a period as the 18th Nov. The order of the Com-
pany upon their treasurer at Constantinople, directing
Lim to forward 40,000 piastres (equal to 1,0001. steel-
lug) to Consul Barker, at Aleppo, fur distribution
among the distressed Syrians, was then read—as also
the directions forwarded therewith to Consul Barker—
among which we cannot but strongly approve of the
liberal tendency of a particular order for the general
distribution of the funds among the sufferers, without
tcrwideration of religion or sect.
Mr. Alderman VSNAIDLES stated, that he was assured
aid nothing bad prevented a full consideration of the
subject among the public generally, but the distance,
and comparatively unknown situation of that part of the
. world, enrich was now a scene of misery and desolation.
After sonic further remarks, the worthy Alderman pro-
posed a resolution, tecommendatory of opening a Public
Subscription for the relief of the suffering Syrians.
Sir Rosser Wionamt seconded the motion, which was
carried unanimously.
Mr. Alderman ATKINS proposed that the Provisional
Committee be approied, with power to add to their nuns-
bore. The worthy Alderman expressed his earnest con-
vlction of the liberal support of gentlemen of the Jew-'
iiii persuasion, as their unfortunate brethren resident in
Syria, (and in Aleppo particularly) had been the
greatest sufferers in the late awful visitation of Pro-
vidence.
Mr. SO/ULL IVEST, one ;of the Society of Friends,
seconded the Resolution, which was carried unani-
ruou.ly.
Mr. LIDDELL then read a letter from the Company's
Consul General at Constantinople. dated the 20.1 i of
Sept., it bleb stated the estimated number of lives lost
by the late earthquakes at 30,000.
A li-t of subscriptions (subsequently received) to those
already acknowledged, was then read. Amoug which
we obaerved the following:—
Sir R. Wigram, Bart. . . £2O 0
Mr. Alderman Atkins 10 10
• •
Lord Grenville . 60 0
• J: J. Angersteln, Esq. , 60 0
Mr. berjrant Bosanquet . 10 0
Dora• quit and Co. . . 21
Miss Bosanquet . 10 10
'4l alter, Nlaltby, and Co. . . 10 It/
Bendel!, Bridge, end Rundell . 20 0 •
G. J. sod G. Rankin . . 10 10
Morning Herald 1 10 10
Alderman Venable, . . 10 PI
Symonds. Esq. 10 10
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayer . . 21 0
The Rey. JOSEPH HUGHEs, A.M. addressed the Meet-
ing at considerable length and with mach energy, on the
strong claims of the wretched Syrians, and concluded
by moving—" That the thanks of this Meeting be given
to the Governor and Directors of the Levant Company,
for their prompt anticipation of British liberality, by
forwarding the sum of 1,0001. for the relief of the Syrian
sufferers.'
THOMAS ALLEN, Esq. then moved that the thanks of
this meeting be given to the East India Company, for
their liberal subscription of 300 i
Mr. Hamm', formerly British Consul of Egypt after
arguing most favourably of the present benevolent exer-
tions of the English nation. moved that the hankers io
town and country be requested to receive subscriptions,
however small, and fora and the same monthly, to such
treasnrer as the Committee may appoint.
Mr. Alderman ATKINS moved, that the Committee
request some members of eminence •f the Hebrew na-
tion, to aid them in this great work of National Bene-
volence. . . . _

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This motion having been carried unanimously, Mr. R.
'IL Manvere observed most feelingly upon the helpless
situation of the Syrians ; they hail none to help them—
none to whom they could apply for relief in their dis.
, sod argued thence that it was the hounden duty
of the British nation, as Christians and as men, to step
forward to their relief and alleviate their distresses by
every means in their potter. He then moved—
"`that Mr. Consul Barker be requested to signify by
his conduct, that the assistance afforded emanates trout
feelings of general benevolence, without respect to any
difference of religious scruples."
It was then moved, seconded and carried unanimously,
" That the Committee do advertise the proceedings in
ouch papers as they may deem eligible."
Thanks were then voted to the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor, who acknowledged his sense of their kindness of
the meeting, which broke up at about 3 o'clock.
The entire amount of Subscriptions received, includ-
ing those of yesterday, is a tribe less than two thousand

lo the town of Lochwinnock, in Renfrewshire, there is a
family which consists of six generations. The eldest pro-
genitor in this singular family has not arrived at the age of
one hundred.

PARIS PAPERS.
(MOM Tat MIAMI] OLAMC.) •
On Sunday an extraordinary courier arrived in Paris,
bringing from Madrid the despatches of the Spanish go-
vernment, in answer to the notifisatiens which have been
made to it; bat this answer, wbicb is dated Jan. 6. can'
only be an acknoweledgentent of their arrival, since the
diplomatic reply will not be returned until after the
Council and Corms have deliberated thereupon.
Every thing indicates that Spanish prise will leave
few chancre to a temporising policy, in spite oftbe efforts
of our party to obtain a tardy and moderate answer, and
notwithstanding, that we are enduring the necessity of a
war which every thing skews we ought in duty to impose
upon revolution.
It is not M. the Duke de Sao Lorenzo who personally
prosecutes (as theQuotidieene seems to intimate), MM.
Ouverard and Rougemont de Lowenburg, for the fact of
the qualification of the Regency of Spain gives to the
rhiefi of the bands piths Faith, in the prospectus of the
Laan that these capitalists are endeavouring to raise. It
is the Ambassador of his Catholic le the name
and according to the special order of the King, who de-
mands exempla!). justice for this outrage to the dignity
of the Crown, to the capital of a nation which can
alone recognise the Coastitutional Government of Ferdi-
nand VII. . •
Some changes in the French Diplomatic Corps arc
talked of; it was, it is said, in contemplation to begle
with M. de Caraman ; Ambassador at Vienna, wltlt
whom the present Minister of Foreign Affairs twos
to have had some differences (d'etiyuelfe) at Verons etet
it appears that this change is postponed in conseipteisZa
of an ob,ervation made to the Preach Minister that hie
removal would not be personally agreeable to the Em-
peror of A ust ria.—(Coratitulionnel.)
(snail Yea G•IIIZTTZ Os PRANCE.)
PaIIPIGNAN, lAN. 4.

EXTRACT Or A IRITATE.LETTER.

" In the tb;;;;;;(mar,There has not been known
such a season as that which we esperienced in the latter
days of December. I informed you in one of my letters
of the disaster which had happened at Fort Pedrona, and
which was ocomiioneil by the snow. Today I learn
from an inhabitant of St. Laurent, that in that quarter,
and as far as Arles, there had fallen such a quantity of
snow, that they were forced to clear the midst)), manna
labour, in order to convey bread to the soldiers wh
were placed in cantonments. The same thing had bap°
pened on the side of the Sorede.
" Endeavours are how making to organise a regiment
of all the soldiers of the Faith. A great Nally hail al-
ready been enrolled ; but I refused."

eIOLO3IIII.IN LOAN.—Having. agreeably to the
resolution of the meeting of the holders of Colombian
Ronde, held at the City of London Tavern, on Saturday, the
I Ith inst. met this day at the office of the Contractors for the
Loan for account of the Colombian Government; the Con-
tractors have exhibited to us a COPY of the STATEMENT
of the ACCOUNT which they inform us they have rehder-
ed to that Governmeut, (transmitted the 23t1 of December
last,) by which it appears that the Contractors have applied
the proceeds of this loan in the following manner, fur the use
of the Columbian Government. viz..—
Paid principal and interest of Debentures, is- C. a. d.
sued by Mr. Zea, . . . . 775,61 S 8 6
Discount allowed on prompt payments of the
Loan. 13,371 0 1
Various supplies and specie provided for the
Colombian overnmert, sundry payments
made by order of Mr.Zen,andcharges,abeet 964,677 IS 1
Reserved for payment of four half yearly di-
vidends, (of 14 bleb one dividend was paid
the let of November last, amounting to
.160,000.) . . . . . . 210,000 0 0
Amount of bonds remaining unsigned at the
time of Mr. Zee's decease, and not isseed,
1,5301. at Sul. per cent. . . 43,60 0 0
Balance remaining at the disposition of the
Colombian Government, .

172,F92 18 6

.ti,000.000 o
(Signed) GEORGE BRIM:Et
THOMAS WILsON.
TIIOMAS ROWCROFT..

London, Jnnnary 10, 1823.

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Ditto Bonds 49A.41s 40s. pm.
South Sea Stock 130}
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LONDON:
FraDAT EVRNING, JANUAR! 17, 1823.

HEREFORD COUNTY MEETING.

At this Alerting, held to-day, Mr. COHRETT attends,
as a Freeholder of the County of Hereford. We expect
that there will be a proposition to back up the County of
Norfolk.—Our paper of to morrow (though it may be
rather late) will contain a report of Me proceediags,
and of the result —Mr. Connor dined with £Le Farmers
at Press Market yesterday.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, It tir-raaT TRgLIIE O'CLOen..—
This being stilling day in the above market, most per•
suns are busy in settling their Accounts. Consols opened
this morning, at SOL and got up to j to SI ; at which
price they remain steady. Up to this hoar we do not
hear of any failures. In Columbia the marhet
looks heavy, owing to the incertitude of the ratification
of the loan: we have not hitherto heard of any
express having arrived to day, from Paris.

Four:lox Fumns.—Some business is doing this morn-
ing in Spanish and Columbian Bonds—the latter opened
at 66i, but afterwards fell to 63, owing to the state of
the finances of the above Republic.
Chili, 74—New Spanish, 81iii—Old, 69—New Prussian,
83-01 d, 66—Russia, Si u--Danish, 841—Neapolitan
781— Peruvian, 77—Colombian, 681, 66, 63, 84, 63—Spa-
nisb Scrip 13i disct.

We received the following. information, about one
o'clock to-day, from our Stock Exchange reporter; but
whether it be deserving of any inure credit than a Stock
Exchange report, we have not had time to ascertain. It
will be renirrke,l, that it comes through the same chan-
nel by which we were informed, a short time before,
that it was not known that any express bad then arrived
from Paris :-
1 The following important information has been received
by a private letter this mining from Paris:—" An mum-

falifi:i
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Gender has arrived from Medirld, wises left on the ith. ',
period the people were i.i great commotion, aed in
Its the most violent threat,s were made. Every
g announers that they are on the eve of a great catas-
trophe. The foreign Ministers were only waiting ter the
•frendallintster, La G verde, to quit Madrid immediately.**

•
Pails papers have reached us to the 1511 jest., free
which we have given some extracts in another column.
A private letter hes been received, which states, that
the Minister of Foreign Affairs was in hourly expesta
Lion of 4 courier from Madrid, as M. de la Garde, in his
lastnote, which reached Paris on Sum:jay, had promised
to send another commnnication in two days. The writer
adds, that tin, cause of the King of Spain against M.
Outward was called on last Tuesday before the Court
of Correctional Polite, bat was postponed till the
2tith, the day when the Chambers meet. The French
•Journals announce that Mina was carrying on the siege
of the Seo d'Urgel with vigour. and that the reported
rapture Qf Italaguer by a party of Insurgents was un-
founded. The Royalist General O'Donnel, is said to
have escaped to Bayonne with a frost-bitten foot, which
it was thought would require amputation. Other ac-
counts however state that he ran away from his own
troops who had risen against him. The Au:trims Olwer-
[ per asserts, on the authority of the Paper published at
Smyrna under the dictation of the Turks, that the latter
Iliad obtained some successes in Attica and had relieved
.Corinth. These statements however are probably as
woundless se the pretended victories of Chourschid
Froths last-simmer in the Morea.

*.F6:die oji Tugsimi.—Five per Cents. opened at 87f.
Soc. ; dosed at NE 55c.—Neapolitan Stock, 73;.—
Exchange on Loudon, one month, 25f. 30c. ; tOree
months, 251. Isc.

BRIGHTON. JAN. 16.—The answer to inquiries yesterday
menial; at the Palace was, " The King continues better."
We are happy to learn that his Majesty was able to leave
his bed yesterday. Tile answer returned at a late hour last
evening vas the same as in the soorning—'. The Kiog con-
tinues better."--(firi,ekron Gazette.)
The Archbishop of Canterbury is nearly recovered from
his late fedisposition.
CATHOLIC CLAIIIS.—We can state with confidence,
that it is the intention of the Attorney General, at a very
early period of the Session, to introduce the subject of
the Catholic Claims to the consideration of Parliament.
The Parliamentary friends of the measure should attend
in their places early in the Session, for it will be one of
the first measures debated in Parliament after the re-
,election of Mr. Canning for Liverpool.—(Dahlia Free-
man's Jocraal )
Accounts from Constantinople to the llth ult. and in-
tellig►nce from Smyrna to the 2.1 irstant, state that the
corps of 7,000 Turks, which had advanced from Larissa
to Salonica, with the intention of proceeding across the
Gulf of Corinth, has been obliged to retreat, having first
committed one of those atrocities by which this impla-
cable contest is distinguished. They art fire to the
'town as soon as they saw themselves menaced by a su-
perior force of the Greeks, computed at 15,0181 men.
But it appears that the Greeks took revenge on the
enemy in his retreat.
It should be generally known, that, in conformity of
an Ordinance of the King of France, under date of the
7th August, 1822, every ship or I, whether French
or foreign, coming from any port whatsoever, and bound
to any port in France, shall be liable, on her arrival, if
not provided with a Bill of Health from the French
Consul or Consular Agent, at the port at which she
she shall happen to touch last, to a restraint at Quaran-
tine; and, if provided with a Bill of Health from the
Authorities of the country she comes from, it will he
ultimately necessary to have the same endorsed by the
French Consuls or Consular Agents residing in the ports
where she may afterwards tonch.
Accounts have been received from Aleppo to the 19th
of November, at which time the shocks of the earthquake
were still frequent, and some of thew violent. The da-
mage that has been sustained is incalculable, and the
loss of life almost unparalleled, even iu such calamities.
One of the most frightful and sweeping scenes of misery
had succeeded, the horrors of which were aggravated
by the state of insecurity to which the poor sufferers
were reduced by the continuance of the shrieks.
The following list of the votes for the Governors of
New York will give an idea of the prodigious numbers
that vote iu that State. The elections are vartirA on in
districts by ballot, and a►e never attended with the least
disturbance:—

NEW WILL EtAcytow.—Votes for Governor Jocepla
C. Yates, 155,2!3—5010m0n Southwick, 2,9l3—Lieut-
Governor Eravtus Root, e2,4so—Henry Huntingdon,
50,1153.

Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated December
12, 1522." The vessel bought for the Republic of Colom-
bia, at 153,000 dollars, has arrived out safe, and is now
cruising ander Colombian colours. Such a vessel %VAS
wanting to reduce Porto Cabello by sea, and the Govern-
ment has promptly complied with the agreement
for its purchase. By a vessel arrived this day from La
Guayra, 1 learn that two sloops of war had arrived
there with specie from England, and of that specie
50,000 dollars were applied in part payment fur the ship
in question."
Letters from Bahia, dated the 22d of October, state
that for the last day or two a very heavy tiring had
been heard in the direction of the two armies—that of
Portugal, and that of Brazil. It was concluded, there-
fore, that an engagement had taken place, and the utmost
alarm prevailed in consequence in Bahia, and the inha-
bitants were shipping all their valuables o n hoard the
vessels in the harbour. His Majesty's ship Creole was
lying there, and the British inhabitants had pat their
treasure on hoard; under the protection of the Captain.
Fitxxcli MARRIAGICS.—The following advertisement
appears in the Petites Affiches of Paris Marriages.
—Are offered, 1. Three young ladies, ages. from 20, so
25, with 1,500 francs portion. 2. Four young ladies,
from 18 to 24, with 8,000 franca ditto. 3. Two young
ladies, from 3S to 3S, with 8,000 francs do., and 20,11110
more in expectation. 4. Two young ladies. from 17 to
IS, with whom can be goaranteed from 60,11119 to SO,OOO
francs. 5. Two young ladies, from IS to 19, wi tb 20,0410
francs. 6. Two widows, from 45 to 50, with incomes of
2,400 and 3.000 franca. Addrers to M. Adolphe, Rue
Fevdean. (His office is open on Sunday.)
Notwithstanding the many prophecies of an early
and severe winter, which were given in various journals.
the season has been as vet uncommonly mild; ■nd in
the gardens of the Upper Ward a number of flowers
are in bloom. The buds upon the fruit trees and bushes
were on the 'five of bursting, when the frost, which
commenced about a fortnight ago, gave them a check.
At that time also a speckled butterfly matte its sp.
pearance in a house in Lanark, admission to which it
had gained by the window. In the orehards on the
Clyde the labour of digging is considerably advanced.—
(Glasgow Chronicle.)
ROIIIIIIY, Jas. IL—Lord Palmerston entertained a shoot-
ing party ►nst week, and afforded theist excellent sport. We
understand that the guns of the following Noblemen and
Gentlemen. Lords Palmerston and Mai nershurv, Right
lion. W. S. Bourne• J. Plemin,r, Esq. M. P. W. Sloane
Stanley, Esq., and Capt. Howie*. begged en Thursday 139
head of game, on Friday 110, and time result of Saturday's
sport made the aggregate number killed in the three days
*tweed 330 head. Ills Lordship's manors sierriranding this
town are abundantly stocked with game; and so tame arc
the pheasants, that in a coppice near Wititenap. when the
keepers feed them, they. are surrourded by the birds in the
taws manner as they would be by poultry in a farmyard ;
a circumstance, we believe, almost without precedect.—
(Southampton County Chron.)