The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-20 00:00:00

THE FLAG OF TRUCE.

grArgSll4N OPPICE, TWO ()Tures.
We have made particular enquiry at all the Public
Mar, where the dispatches, said to have been
brought to Dover by a flag of truce, should have ar-
rived, before this hour, and find that nothing of the
kind has been received there. Notwithstanding this,
the arrival was announced at LLOYD'S this fore-
noon, and Stocks rose one per cent. in consequence;
but now that it is believed on 'Change the rumour is
unfounded, they are' again on the decline. It is
thought that the comniveication is from the celebrated
Baron GERAMB.
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The Address to the REGENT has met with a very
poor reception at Manchester. It has now been ly-
ing at the Exchange-room, Police-office, and other
public places, for about a week ; it has likewise been
hawked about at public taverns, and from door to
door, and has obtained 300 signatomps up to this
time. This plainly proves that it is not the sense of
I the town.

A mail, meanly dressed, attracted much potice
on Saturday near Temple-bar, where he stood foe
many hours with a label in front of his hat with the
following inscription—" I am starving,' I want
work, and have a good character."
Saturday, the Loan MAYOR went, attended by the
Governors of Bethlem and Bridewell 'Hospitals, the
Sheriffs, &c. acrd laid, at three o'clock, tbe'first stone
of the new Bethlem Hospital, on the site of the pub:
lk-house, formerly the Dog and liuck, in- St..
George's-fields. The procession passed over Black.
friars-bridge, and returned over Westminster-bridge;
and through the Strand to the City.
Thursday being St. George's day, it will be cele-
brated by the PRINCE RESENT giving a splendid en=
tertainnaent to the Knights of the Garter.
The new Equestrian piece, at Coventikarden
Theatre, is, we understand, the joint production of
Messrs. FAWCETT and Dianix.

The Haymarket Theatro will open on the 15th of
May, with a most excellent company, for the season.
Miss SMITH IS engaged for five years to perform
in Drury-lane Theatre. POPE and C. KEMI3I.It, it is
said, are also in treaty with the Committee of Ma-
nagement.
Mr. BANNISTER, the public will hear with great
pleasure, u ill again head the comic ranks at the re-
opening of Old Drury.

Mrs. Mot; vratx, we have much pleasure in stat-
ing, is in so faira way of recovery, that she will short.
ly resume her place in the English Opera.
Friday morning, a private in the 55th ftegi.
ment of Foot, who was under sentence at Car-
lisle by a Court Martial, for desertion, in a fit of
desperation cut his throat in a most desperate man-
ner, in the guard-house there, where he was con-
fined. Faint hopes are entertained of his recovery..
Wm. Ware, a seaman of the Naiad, on Friday
last, about to receive the punishment of • being flog-
ged round the fleet, agreeably to the sentence of a
Court-Martial, for an attempt to commit. an unna-
tural crime, eat his throat, but sarical assistatny•
being immediately administered, .it is supposed he
will recover. Two other seamen were punished the
same day, by being flogged round the fleet.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL 18.

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Sailed last evening the Ocean, 913 gins, Captain Plampin, far
the Mediterranean—she took with her the trade that was at

this port; the Hannibal, 74 runs, Captain Pym ; Vengettr, 74
guns, Captain Duntlas ; and Fawn sloop of war, 20 guns, Capt..
Fellowes, for the station off Cherburgh ; the CroccOil.., 92,
guns, Captain Lumley, on a cruise; the Cutnls7rlnnd, 74 guns, •
Captain Baker; Plantagenet, 74 guns, Captain Lloyd; Vene-
rable, 74 guns, He.tr-Admiral Durham, for Portsmouth ; the
Pnietiers, 74 guns, for I'ortsmotith ; and Q men, 98 guns, fur
Basque Brads.
The Decoy ebtter, Lieutenant Pearce, sailed on Thursday for
the Eastward.

moral.
The falling in of the Highgate Archway, had been
anticipated by the workmen for n”arly a fortnight
previous to the catastrophe. It is considered to hie
originated in too economical a regard to the quantity
of bricks used in the arch, and the quality of the
cement for uniting them. This accident, though a
partial evil, will be evidently a pusiic advantage,
since it is now wisely determined, by the proprietors,
to reduce their tenebrious tunnel to an a! ell of about
30 feet in length, which will be under and will sup-
port Hornsey-lane:
An accident of a serious nature took place on Fri-
day night last, throuzh the intoxication of the coach-
man of the Worcester mail (who, notwithstanding his
being in that situation, was not prevented by tl:,a pro-
prietor at Oxford from proceeding), in consequence
of which, the coach in passing over Uorchester-bridge
was overturned, having a gentleman and lady from
Kidderminster, and a gentleman from Bourton-on-
the-nater, inside passengers. who escaped without
much injury I • but an outside passenger was most se-
riously bruised.
A gentleman named Sparks, who was going from
Dublin, to join the present Theatrical Company
in Cork, unfortunately fell from off the coach
on Sunday se'nnight, near Johnstown, and was
killed.
Some private letters are said to have been received I A few days ago, as a person ,near Fulwood, in
from Lisbon, of the Ist inst. concerning the earlier 1 the neighbourhood of Prestos-1, was making a hole in
stages of the siege of Badajos, and which speak of the floor of a house, he discovered a quantity of Nil-
Lord WELLINGTON'S having begun to batter in breach. ver coins, of various sizes, of the reigns of Edward TILE MA RI ‘ EIN.
Communications, it is said, had taken place between -.2.--
the Fourth, Elizabeth, James the First, and Charles
the Allied Army and the Garrison by flags of truce, the First. Those of Edward were nearly defaced, , CORN-EXCHANGE, Aran.9o.
the particulars of which were not publicly known. but the others, including a crown-piece of Philip Zliisita, i the freshf argils of
iWrehatrd,snicoittl,:thle qukaoetiaLit oo
German Papers have been rec4ived, but they throw su‘ piny, whicheni
calyases"lna re/Leticia in price of abont 45.. and .r..
the Fourth, of Spain, and two sixpences,• were in a "`"":
no additional light upon the politics of the North. good state of preservation. per quarter. Barley and Malt, dull sale, nearly at last-quo.O.
rt.tcoes.not Peas and Beaus
An approaching interview between Boxs.emtvs and
arrivals Or OTtsci "atir:i' variation.attislitatlrt`siie aio rya . •r;
his father-in-law, the Emperor FRANCIS, is still There is now grewing in the gard•nt of Mr. Dod,
of Bolt, Denbighshire, two sweet blowing Almond filly at the last quotation. Flour, in full supplyovithartalt,,. '
spoken of. It dues not appear that any military Trees of large size, which produce fruit in as high radar!. .
preparations are making by Austria, of an extensive state of perfection, as in the most warm climates. , ‘ybrat . 965 1164 19fis , Tick do. (new) .. 53 t'Al
Fine ditto l3l b 8 Do. (Vine Old) .. 65 6 •
nature. In St. Ann's Parish, Soho, the wooden. posts at Rye
Letters have been received from the Coast of Rol- the corner of the streets are removing, and there are Barley rl 731 Poland do. ...... 50 Si.
Q 6 ix 'olatued 59
land, and from Dunkirk, to the 17th instant, but 1 substituting en their place cast iron in the shape of i Matt Q 6 P (boilers) • ' -1).
)8288 I Rape Seed .ef.o XV!
nothing is said respecting the departure of BONA- cannon, which are not only ornamental, but will ul- , tlriy do.'" rs
60 66 Fine Flour
PARTE from Paris. Nearly all the troops which were , ,
timately, it is said, be a saving to the Parish. 1 Beaus ,„ . 62 68 Seconds
lately distributed over Holland have been marched , A farmer of Muggiagton was lately convicted in 1
MTH/IMA hIARK F.T.--A PR IL SO.
to Prussia. The Duke of Pr.scarris, it is said, was the mitigated penalty of 701. and costs, for making :
To sink. the Offal, per stone of 81h.
about to leave Amsterdam, for Paris, where, it is candles for Isis own private use... - I Deer ....ss. 2,1. in 6:. 41. I Head of Cattle this day : .
6. fit I Beast. . 1790
supposed, be would remain, to superintend the dif- I A. Gentleman who had a small claim on Counsel. ! Mennene ..6s. 44. to .
' V ...7d. tot to 8,.. 04. Sheev)
ferent departments of the Government during the ab- ler R-----, met him the other day on his poney. and :Rork ...6s. •, to 71. 64. Calker
Bence of BonaraavE. • observing that he was not the same colour he was a, slualb —*As. 611. ro 9s. 0,1. Ple4 . 30J
The Call of the House of Commons stands for
. .14, 1 year ago: the Counsellor promptly remarked, that
i : HAY-MARKET.
04 ' :'...- 51. . od. to 6t. or. 04. •
Wednesday, and Is to be strictly enforced; the motion he did not know what colour the poney was at that . .
.... 91. 104. od. to Si. S. 041. •
°tube Catholic Quastioa CetneS-On the neat day. ilium) but $t present he was very near a Dan. • - c ..... el. Ss. od. to 71. Os. Od.

Arrived the Wealands, HntlNon ; Ann, Cassop ; Venn,
Ciesman ; Ranger, Whitehead, from Sunderland ; Active, Pi-
;eon, from Newcastle; Lark, Harris. from London; Trih-
lry, Tyreart, from Sunderland ; and Havock, Wood, from
North Yarmouth.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 19.

Sailed his Majesty's ship Porcupine with a convoy for Spain
and Gibraltar, &c. 4flcc.; and his Majesty's ships Rose and Hope,
for Guernsej.
FALMOUTH, Aran. 177
Arrived his Majesty's ship Elizabeth, from a cruise; and Ike
Mind cutter from ditto. .
Sailed yesterday the Walsinghasa packet, with the Mail for
Lisbon; and to-day thr Lord Hobart packet for the Brazils;
also the Primes, Amelia packet, %hit the Muni for Italia, kc.
The Elizabeth packet has gone Into the rnads, and will sail fir
Lisbon to-morrow with another Mail should the wind be fair.

DEAL, AP RIG 19.

Arrived the Elizabeth, Eliott, from. Lisbon.
Sidled 'lds Majesty's ships blus, Orion, Cottragenx, and
Ariel, for the

The HiJena sloep of war has arrived at Scilly, from Ja-
maica; we may therefore expert in a day or two the official ac-
count of the maim between the Southampton and the Amethyst
frigates. r- .

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