American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-03-22
FOREIGN INTELLIG ENCE.
FROM LONDON PAPERS.

FROM LONDON PAPERS.
The trade oil Dundee never was so brisk as it has
been these last twelve months. All the weavers--
indeed all the aboring classes are fully employed
-Four or five spinning mills having been built within
these few months, and as many more contracted for
The quantity OF flax and hemp imported last year.
Iexceeds that Of any former year by about fifteen
hundred tons, the quantity OF fax being nearly
Thousand Eve hundred tons, which is larger guam
Itlty than has been imported into any other place in
Great Britain. This extra quantity is not more
than sufficient for the demand of our manufactures
which are eagerly bought up as soon as the webs
are out OF the looms. Indeed, ii there were double
the number OF looms gong, the produce Of them
would be no more than sufficient to supply the de-
maad- Dundee Courier
Devon COUNTY MEETIMe-The high sheriff of
Devon, in pursuance Of requsition numerously
attended and respectfully signed, to call a meeting
OF the county, to take into consideration the pro-
priety OF petitionlng parliament on the present
alarming state OF the country, has appointed a
county meeting to be held on Friday, the first of
February next, at IL O'Clock at noon at the Castle
of Exeter.
Letters have been received this day from Odessa,
of the 18th (25th) of December, with letters from
Constan'inople Of the 18th and 18th December, in
which 1t is stated that the Porte had acceded to the
Russian ulllmaum, and that Constantnople was
perfectly quiet Were this is very likely that
direct accounts Of it would have been received here
some time ago, and therefore much credit is not
attached 10 the news.
A small squadron, consisting OF the frigate Ia
Junon, the corvettes LIE Tarn and La Durance
sailed from Rochort, on the 9TH inst, with troops
on board for Cayenne and the Antilles
letter from Nuremberg OF the 3ta instant
quotes letters from onstantinopie, stating that
great number of transport vessels were PREPARING
Tor the purpose of conveying numerous corps Of
aslatlc troops either to the Morea or Gambia Ii is
said that early in this month, an assembly consist
ing OF deputies from all the Greek PROVINCES, was
10 meet OF Calamata
We are informed by a gentleman extensively
connected wiin our Yves; India colonies, that the
accounts from them by the last packet are extreme
" unsatisfactory 10 comm erclal pont of view -
he price OF rum here (he ubserves) does not half
pay the cost CT the cask and several planters have
ceased to manufacture it the same as to molasses
sugar too IS so low as 10 bring the estates in the
leeward islands in debt. Formerly the rum and
moiasses paid all the expenses in the island and
the net Proht OF the sugar was the income OF the
PLATTER. Now the sugar nets about lSl per hogs.
head; on an estate Of 100 hogsheads, about 1901
from which the Island expenses, the supplies from
home, the support Of negroes, the public burdens
are to be deductedi SO that the who'e is absorbed
""SiC 1iC PdiltSI is UOt IN 0eCt TO the merchant
when he Is, ruin is the consequence Formerly,
within three years, the sugar averaged from 25 to
ooi per MD or three thousand pound and no island
charges Tor they were paid by the ram and molas-
SEES the Stores about 1901. were the only deduc-
uoh 50 that man with three thousand pounds a
year, three or tour years ago. without having been
8ulity OF any lmprudence, becomes at once beggar
In short fhe expenses absorb all proft-Courier.
by letter from Paris dated January IL, we find
that ii was confidently stated in that CITY, on the
authority OF letters just received from Spain, that
Riego had died. The same account states that his
death was occasioned by poison administered by
priests. There is no confirmation of this in the
Paris papers OF Friday or Saturday.
The emperor is gone to Warsaw, where con-
gress was 10 be held on the 22d inst. on the sub.
lect OF the affairs Of Turkey and Greece. The
other powers will have some difficulty in restraining
him from laying his hands upon the Turkish pro
Vinces N Europe; his brother Constantine, who is
very ambitious prince, is eager to become the
King OF Greece, which, it is said is promised him
his is the common topic of conversation here, &
all the Russians are anxious for war
That Is an event however, that cannot take place
until sprlng-not until April or May, should sup.
pose, as the Russian armies cannot be ready until
then However, considerable park of artillery
has recently crossed the Dnester and contracts are
about to be made for large supplies on the othe,
hand the news from ST Petersburg are by no mean,
hostllei and the exchanges have improved.