The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-11-28 00:00:00

THY. STATESMAN..

VICE-REGAL 719 UR.

A quarrel between two Southern Ladies of
rank involved their Graces in an aukward predi.
cement. The wealthy Dowager Countess of
K— is owner pf a mountain lodge, cele.
orated fur its beauty in Arthur Young's Tour.
The Duke and Duchess, during their stay in the
county of Tipperary, were invited by Lord and
Lady C to a splendid fete, to be given by
them at this lodge. The party being accepted,
Lady C— wrote a dry mandatory note to
the porter of the lodge (who is Lady Li 's
tenant), ordering him to /wake all ready by the
appointed hour, for the reception of the Grand
Suite. Lady K being apprize.' of this li-
berty, and deeming it presumptuous on Lady
t* _ 's pirt, gave counter orders to the por-
to% T!,,. Vice-regal linty arrive in grand pro.
et s+m—they find the gates fast locked—the fettecs
guarded by chevalx.de.fthe—the walls lined by
a stray;; guard, prepared to rrpel trespasses.— I,
.Lady C— de:nands admittance, and is re-
fused ; she sup;.licates in vain—sho resorts to-that
elegaat style of language which she displayed some
year's ago with such peculiar fluency at a Parisian
l'heatre--Cerherus is inflexible—the aid-de.
camps, attending ladies, and a-s,mbled courtiers,
are all aghast !...tho party remains exposed to a
' drizzling nits, at the foot of Galtimore, ten miles
distant from any village, and on a desert spot....
At length tic Duchess spies the humble eabin of
an emaciated peasant; it becomes her refuge and
her palace. She partakes of his bumble fare—
enjoys his boiled potatoes with excellent appetite
—faults not the constant smoke—ilivides with his
family the rich viands prepared fur the fete. Her
example is followed—all partake of this repast.
The Tour, originally not directed to an inspec-
tion of the miseries of the Irish peasant, becomes,
by this incident, a source of unlooked-fur instruc-
tion. The striking contrast between the ostenta.
Cowl pump and pageantry of the splendid man-
sions already visited, and this wretched abode,
cannot here prove unprofitable to Ireland. It
must have left indelible impressimis.upon the Du-
cal Tour. And when ihe rerelri, sof Caliir, Cur.
raghinore, Marlfield, and Charleville, recur to
memory, the surrounding wretchedness of neg.
Ilected peasantry mast attend the recollection.
To return to the mountain fete—the 'peasant
was rewarded by a present from the Duke, of all
the remnants of the feast, and all the table ferni.
tele, cloths, spoon', and the other articles with.
out exception ; an,d the courtly train, tired, wet,
disappointed, and humbled, returned, in met in-
choly procession, in the company of Ludy
C , ',Anse society they finally quitted on
the slme afternoon, to proc.ed to Cork.—Du,din
I Evening Post.

TYROLEAN DEPUTIRS.—R. ACKERMANN has
the honour to announce to the Public,
_that the
next Number of the REPOSITORY, for the let of
December, will contain two correct whole-length
Portraits of the DEPUTIIS PROM THE TYROL, by
their express permission, in the Costume of their
Nation. A correct Portrait of florrva, the it
Chief, will also be given in the Supplement, to be
published on the Ist of January, with some Bio-
graphical Particulais reKpecting them, and a CII4.
racteristic Sketch of the heroic People to whom
they belong, which will complete the Second Vo-
lume of this interesting Work, price I.
Two men were brought into Dover,. from Mar-
gate, on Sunday, charged with having forged
notes of the Luton Bank (Beth), in their pos.

Friday an Inquest was held at the house of Mr. 1
Roberts, in'Newli-street, Red Lion-Ai:pare,
un a yelling man who was found dead in his bed,
having retired to it apparently in perfect health.
—Verdict, Died by the Visitation of God.
In the progress of excavating the basin in the
Medway canal; which is to connect the 'rhinos
and the Medway, a stratum of peat has been
covered, in which largo trees are found, apparent-
ly oak and yew, some standing, others lying teari-
sontally, and many in all directions.
A person was on Thursday lust fined by the
Justices of the Peace, at Allot', in the sum of
201 sterling, for illicit djstillation, but being un.
able to pay the money, he was ordered to prison.
While, however, the officers Were escortin4 him
to a chaise, which had been procured to convcy
him to Stirling gaol, the Prisoner, who had lost
a hand, struck one of them on the breast with the
slump of his arm, which so stunned him, that
the smuggler effected his escape. lie was
ately pursued by a great number of pLople, but
was not overtaken ; and after running about a
mile and a half, followed by nearly 3OU men, wo-
men, and children, he had. outrun them so far,
that he stopped, and deliberately took of his coat
and shoes, which he put under his arm, and then
darted over a hill, without leaving any trace be-
hind him by which he could he discovered.
Extract of a letter, dated Tortola, July 1 :
" As I have never met in any of the charts of
Trinidad Nie smallest notice of a sunken rock
which is lit the Grand Boras, I conceive it may
be for the benefit of the British Navy, that its
bearings and distance arc accurately known. I
had an opportunity of getting at its precise shun.
.tion, on the morning of the 26th of June ; the
ship Samuel, Captain Silchree, of London, draw.
ing 17 feet water (oh which I was on board),
having suck fast upon it for sevetal hours. It is
about 40 yards in circumferesim, with nine fret at
low water in the shoalest part. While we lay
aground two of the convoy passed on each side of
es without touching, although not 23 fathoms
fro .1 us, tho water being very deep all • round.
The bearin.ts of this are—Chaeachacarreri, S. W.
point E. N. E. I mile—Goose Island S. W. by
W.l W. —S. E. point of Cumin, bordering on
the Grand Bocas, W. by S.—Note. The current
was setting very strong, from the southward, with
light variable winds." •
A pork-butcher, of the name of Little, resid-
ing in St. Martin's-le-Grand, has had the courage
to fling chart' the gauntlet to Dutch Sam. He is
a vigorous yoong fellow, and, though an untried
man, is hacked confidently by his .friends' at even
bets. The battle will take place in ate weeks.