The Statesman. — 1821-12-18 (London, England)

HATCROPT.  " Do neraile Post-ofbce, Dec. 10. Many other of the accounts we receive of murders and robberies in Ireland, we doubt not, have no better foundation than the above. We believe so, because of the many contradictions that are given to reports of these kinds in the Irish papers themselves. and which of course we forbear to repeat. The state of the disturbed districts, however, is really such, as makes exaggeration unnecessary. In the county of Limerick. neither the exertions of the Magistracy nor of the military appear to have suppressed the spirit of dis•rder. and, though several committals have taken place, the gates of the prisons are scarcely closed on offenders when accounts of new offences arrive.  The Parliamentary Commission which lately sat in Dublin, we understand, means to recommend that the Union shall be carried into complete effect by the removal of the commercial restrictions between the two countries nose in force, and equalising the duties. We also uederetand that it considers the present machinery of the public offices is Ireland on a vale mash toe large, and dispreporthseed to the revenue, and AM.. so soloommead a Vita lembor of clerks, the amount of salaries, and other Isms bl economy and retrenchment. It is reported that Mr. Freemantle is to be one of the Lords of the Treasury, and Mr. Henry Wynn. to fill a high diplomatic mission on the Continent. The Marquess of Buckingham, it is said, is to be elevated to the dignity of a Duke. Doyen, Dec. 17.—Sir Robert Wilson and Mr. [Ambles arrived here last nitht. with the intention of embarking this afternoon for Calais, in the Prince Leopold packet. A correspondent of the Dundee Advertiser states, " It is said that a certain clothier in Dunkeld has received orders to provide three hundred suits of tartan, with bonnets and hose complete, for the purpose of clothing a body of sturdy Highlanders, as a guard for his most gracious Majesty King George IV. when he visits that most independent nobleman. John Duke of Atholl. As the lady who related this, to my knowledge, has considerable intercourse with Dunkeld, I have every reason to believe this information correct." A correspondent says, that the effects of the disfranchisement of the Borough of Grampound upon the circumstances of the vi-decant electors have become very apparent. Mr. David Varcoe. a tailor, who is at present Mayor, of that place. is now confined for debt, and his petition, as an insolvent debtor, is to be heard in London, on the 4th of January next. If some other of the Boroughs of Cornwall, which are not a whit behind Grampound in venality, were treated in a similar manner. a material alteration in the situation of those peewees called Freemen or electors, would seen be masifest.—(West-Beiton.) The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 26th alt. states, that the inhabitants of Melilla, one of the settlements on the coast of Africa, have seat to the Spanish Cortese most melancholy account of their situation, and of that of the prelims, requesting either that they might be succoured, or that the settlement might be abandoned, and themselves brought over to the Peninsula. Major Storey's company of Royal Artillery, in Portswonth garrison. is under orders to embark in the Pilot transport fur the Cape of Good Hope. The 4th Dragoon Guards are expected to embark next month for the East Indies. The officers belonging to the 6th Dragoon Guards, on leave of absence, are ordered to leave town to join their regiment, at Cork, forthwith. We hear that the mail coach from London to Manchester is to perform the journey in 20 hours ; cons& quently the mail from London will arrive In Maccles field at two o'clock, and in Manchester at four. This alteration is, we hear, likely to take place in the course of a week or two. Lighter coaches have been built for the purpose, and it is said, that the Poetoffice is to make some additional allowance for this extra speed.—(Liverpool Mercury.) In consequence of a serious misunderstanding with some of the leading Members of the Stock Exchange on the subject of abolishing time bargains. a project for the erection of a new Stock Exchange has hose started by the &meatiest& Yesterday a bleeder took place, and names to a very considerable asonot i have Wei entered in faveniae the measure. The Jew party axe strongly against the abolitien of *Wow