'Tis said, that Swift, St. Patrick's Dean, That old satiric sinner, When on his journey to the North, Here stopp'd, and took his dinner. The sign by which the house was known, Was called the Three Crosses; But not, I trow, because mine host Had met with many losses. However, be that as it may, The present Landlord's thrifty; Though in the house he has not liv'd Years counting up to fifty. It happen'd, on a busy day, Mine Host was in the cellar, By Host and Hostess slighted? I'll have your house indicted. "Dean Swift's my name; and, Madam, you Should first wait on your betters; You always should abound. But Swift soon found the angry Dame For, in her rage, she told the Dean, To speak or look but at his Grace, He'd make you think was treason!" To put his Dame in order. Says Swift," Upon your casement, there, 'Tis to your Wife I do allude; Let not the subject grieve you; "Good Master Tapster, I observe THOMAS DEACON.. HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. FOREIGN OCCURRENCES. FRANCE. The Moniteur of the 20th inst. announces the following changes in the French Ministry : The Baron Pasquier, to be Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Marquis de Latour Maubourg (Minister at the Court of London), to be Minister at War. M. Roy, to be Minister of the Finances; And Comte de Cazes, Minister of the Interior, to be President of the Ministry. The Marshal St. Cyr, General Desolles, and M. Louis quit their places. The Gazette de France gives the measure some slight praise, which it introduces by saying "Three Ministers have fallen; the fact is certain. They have fallen because, although long agreed with M. de Cazes, as to making war upon the Royalists, they persisted in going forward; while he, frightened at his own scheme, appears to have seen a necessity for stopping." Liberales, who were sent to the dungeons of Ceuta ; but those Spaniards who have continued to write against his Government are not to be suffered to return. Estremadura is represented as perfectly free from freebooters since Melchior, as it is said, has fled into Portugal; and Valencia, Catalonia, and the whole North of Spain, are perfectly tranquil. The Lancasterian system of education is going on successfully at Madrid. ITALY. It appears by accounts from Rome, that the Jesuits have set up a curious, but very earnest claim to the inheritance of the late King of Sardinia. They coutend, that, as he died a member of their order, they should inherit his property. The Sardinian Minister at Rome is indignant at their audacity. The Papal Government lately totally destroyed Souino, one of its own towns, which contained before this demolition about 3000 inhabitants, on account of its being a receptacle for banditti. GERMANY. A French jury has convicted two individuals concerned in circulating a transForeign papers state that Prince Nalation of Mr. Hobhouse's work, entitled, "the History of the Hundred Days," of poleon, Duke of Reichstadt (son of Boatrocious libel naparte), has been nominated by the Emthereby publishing an against the French Government. M. Reg-peror Francis coadjutor to the Archbishop nault Warin the translator of it, was condemned to 12 months' imprisonment, and a fine of 1000 francs; M. Dòmerc, a bookseller, aged only 19, was sentenced to pay the same fine, and to be imprisoned for half the period. NETHERLANDS. The Editor of The Journal General of the Netherlands, who has been condemned by the Tribunal at Brussels, at the instance of the Spanish Minister there, to pay a fine of 500 florins, for having inserted in his Journal the Proclamation of the Insurgent Spanish Colonel Melchior, has determined to appeal from the seutence, as well as from the still more heavy consequence of it, which is by the law a prohibition from printing or publishing any The work for the space of three years. Proclamation was copied from the English Papers, SPAIN. The King of Spain, since his marriage, has granted a partial amnesty for offenders against the laws; but there are too many exceptions from it, to make it be considered as a magnificent act. Accounts from Irun, however, say, that Ferdinand has at last determined to recall all the Civil and Military Functionaries now in banishment, all voluntary exiles, and even all Members of the Cortes, called of Olmutz; and that he leaves Vienna for Olmutz, to reside with his uncle, the Cardinal Rudolphus, where three priests of the order of Jesus will take charge of his theological studies. A valuable present to the Duke of Wellington is coming from the King of Saxony, in a magnificent dessert service of Dresden china, on which are painted the Duke's victories, &c.; each plate cost forty dollars. RUSSIA. Russia is said to be making rapid strides toward the establishment of a naval power. The number of her ships of war is continually increasing. TURKEY. A revolution has occured in the admiThe nistration of the Ottoman Porte. Sultan held a grand levee of Ministers ; and then announced, sans ceremonie, that four of them were to be deposed, and a fifth, the Grand Admiral, strangled! ASIA. An earthquake, scarcely to be paralleled in its awful nature and extent, has Occurred in a part of the world where similar calamities have hitherto been exThe whole district and tertremely rare. ritory of Kutch, a country situate to the N. W. of Bombay, including several towns and villages, has been destroyed. The entire entire city of Bhooj, the capital has become a heap of ruins, and 2,000 of the inhabitants buried beneath them. Its walls being composed of a stone of a sandy nature, the whole, from the effect of the severe concussion of the earth, crumbled in a mass, obliterating and confounding the site of several of the narrow streets; so that the wretched survivors knew not where to dig, in order to search for the bodies of their buried friends and relatives. This overwhelming calamity happened on the 16th of June last. The British troops, under the command of Sir W. Keir, were encamped in the midst of this terrible convulsion of nature, and saw the city of Bhooj on one side of them, and the fortress of Boojia on the other, wholly destroyed, but escaped, fortunately, without material injury. Among the towns that have suffered, Mandavie, Moondar, Anjar, and Baroda, are more particularly mentioned. The earthquake extended to the Northward as far as the city of Armedabad, where its ravages were considerable: two large minarets, one of the gates, and 300 of its houses, were thrown down. It was slightly felt at Poonah, which is nearly 400 miles from Armedabad, the devastation extending widely on each side of the direct line between those cities. The shocks occurred for several days in succession. The first shock, which took place at Baroda, lasted between two and three minutes without intermission: one more happened on the following day, the 17th of June; two on the 18th, and two on the 20th. According to advices lately received from China, through Mr. Milne, of the London Missionary Society, a general agitation throughout that vast empire threatens to destroy the most antient Government in the world. Secret societies are said to be established throughout China, which a formidable severity has been unable to suppress. In the single province of Canton, 130 persons per month have for some time past perished under the hands of the executioner. Some of the societies bear extraordinary designations; as the White Jackets, Red Beards, and Short Swords. AMERICA, &c. We copy the following from an American Paper lately received." It is esti mated that there are 20,000 persons daily seeking employment in Philadelphia. In New York 10,000 able-bodied men are said to be wandering the streets daily looking for it; and if we add to them the women who desire something to do, the amount cannot be less than 20,000. In Baltimore there may be about 10,000 persons in unsteady employment, or actually suffering because they cannot get into business. We know several decent men, lately 'good livers, who now subsist on such victuals as two years ago they would not have given to their servants in the kitchen. Here are 50,000 persons in three cities wholly or partially idle." The fever has become considerably less violent at Baltimore, and appears to be at an end at New York. At Charleston, for the week ending the 16th ult. there were twenty-three deaths, twelve of which were by the yellow fever. Extract of a letter from Mr. W. P. Cook, Missionary at Otaheite:-" The whole of this group of islands is now perfectly Christian; and if we are to judge of their conduct by that of nominal Christians in general, they have vastly the advantage. Theft is unknown among them; family prayer is set up in every house. The missionaries, 16 in number, have held their annual meeting. A missionary society has been established, of which the King is President. Three thousand copies of Luke have been published; and ten gallons of cocoa-nut oil is given as the price of each. Accounts from Panama state, that Colonel Rafter, and twelve of the officers taken prisoners at Porto-Bello, have been shot there by orders from the Viceroy of Santa Fe. A document of some singularity, and of considerable interest at the present moment, is in the Orinoco Gazette. It is a proposition from the natives of Ireland, in behalf of themselves and others, and seconded by Colonel English, whose name is affixed, to form a colony in the interior of Venezuela, to be called New Erin, and its capital New Dublin. The bounda ries of the settlement are stated in the following terms : The boundary on the Western bank of the Orinoco will be the river Manamo, from its junction with the Orinoco to the junction of the river Caroni with the Orinoco, including all the island on the Orinoco between the rivers Manamo and Caroni, and be from the most. Westerly branch of the same river to the most Southerly point of the Sound of Barceloneta, and thence running from the said point due West until it meets the Portuguese Guyana, which will form a Southern boundary. The French, Dutch, and English Guayna and the ocean, between the English Guyana and the mouth of Manamo river, or Western branch of the Orinoco, will be the North-east boundary. It appears that this proposal has been laid before the Legislature of Venezuela; but with the determination of that body respecting it we are not yet informed. Advices have been received from Vera Cruz, of the 7th of August, at which time it appears that the whole of the nine mil. lions of specie contracted by Spain to be furnished furnished to Great Britain, had been removed from thence in various ships of war belonging to this country. A small part of it, it is known, has reached London, and has been deposited in the Bank of England; while the remainder has been carried to various West India Islands, but principally to Jamaica, where it is placed in situations of safety. We do not find that it is ultimately settled, that the offer of the British Government, to take 10,000,000 more on the same terms, has been accepted; but the general impression is, that the Cabinet of Madrid will acquiesce at a future time, provided the delivery of the specie be not required until the end of 1820. A great many dollars, to the amount, perhaps, of more than a million, were collected at Vera Cruz at the time when these advices came away; they were to be shipped for Spain, on board a Spanish man of war, which was daily expected to arrive. SANTA FE TAKEN BY THE INDEPENDENTS. The St. Thomas's Times of September 28, which has come to hand, brings a confirmation of the capture of Santa Fe and its Spanish treasury, containing half a million of money, by the Venezuelian Army under the command of the President Bolivar. Previous to this important event, three desperate battles were fought: the first on the 1st of July, at Gumza, in the province of Tunja; the second on the 25th of July, at Patano de Barg, near the capital of the same province; and the third on the 7th of August, at Venta Guameda, about 25 leagues from Santa Fe; in which the President totally annihilated the Spanish army under General Barasino. The Viceroy fled from Santa Fe on the 9th, leaving all the magazines and the treasury behind him, and Bolivar entered soon after, and dispatched a division to Pampeluna. DREADFUL HURRICANE IN The West Indies. We greatly regret to learn, by the Danish vessel Harriett, from St. Thomas's, in 42 days, destined to Hamburgh, with tobacco, the melancholy intelligence, that the town of St. Thomas's has been totally destroyed by a hurricane; numbers of the inhabitants killed and wounded by the falling of the houses; and 72 ships, including two Danish men of war, driven ashore, or foundered. The violence of the storm surpassed any thing ever known in that quarter, and extended to Tortola, where also it did considerable damage. A private letter from St. Thomas's, of the 28th of September, says:-Accounts from the Windward state, that the town of Gustavia, in St. Bartholomew's, has been almost completely destroyed by the late hurricane. St. Martin's and St. Eustatia have also suffered severely. At Martinique, we understand, the sea was very high, and in consequence several vessels were driven on shore; but the wind being moderate, the Island did not suffer any material injury." DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. INTELLIGENCE FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. Oct. 23. As three of the young gentlemen from the Grammar school, in Broadstreet, Bath, were amusing themselves on the brow of Lansdown, with flying a paper kite, made in imitation of a huge bird, a large hawk was perceived to approach it gradually, with much apparent caution. After having made a few circles round it at some distance, the bird suddenly elevated itself to a considerable height, and when perpendicularly over the kite, pounced down upon it with great rapidity. The flight of the paper kite was immediately stopped, and falling to the ground with the bird, it was perceived that the latter had entangled its claws in the string which crossed the body of the kite, and not being able to disengage itself, they ran to take it prisoner. This, however, was found to be more difficult than expected, as the bird defended itself with so much courage and resolution, that their hands were severely lacerated; and it was only with the assistance of a labourer who was at work in an adjacent field, that it was secured. It proved to be a large sparrow hawk, and is now alive and well, in a garden in Sion Hill: Oct. 24. REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF CANINE SAGACITY.-The wind blowing strong occasioned a heavy swell on Yarmouth Beach, by which a boat moored to the jetty, with one man on board, was upset ; at this instant a dog (belonging to Mr. W. H. Smith) leaped into the sea, and, after a considerable struggle, succeeded in drawing the man from under the boat, and supported him till a fortuitous wave actually threw him on its bottom, whence he was taken by a rope from the jetty.-The dog then swam after the oars and the man's hat, which he severally brought to the shore.This is the third time of this dog performing the same act; having before rescued a child, six years old, from the river. Oct. 27. At a General Meeting of the Subscribers to the Deaf and Dumb Institution, Birmingham, Mr. Thos. Braidwood (see our last Number, p. 377), the Master of the Asylum, having respectfully signified his intention to retire, in order to superintend his Sister's Establishment at Edgbaston, and and to devote his whole time to private pupils; but having at the same time (with a liberality which reflected on him the highest honour) professed his readiness to remain until he should have imparted to his successor a knowledge of the mode of instruction sufficient to enable the latter to undertake the arduous office :-in testimony of their full approbation of Mr. Braidwood's conscientious and zealous services, the Governors unanimously voted to that gentleman a piece of plate of the value of 201, to be adorned with a suitable inscription. Oct. 28. This evening his Royal Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourg, with his attendants, arrived at the Star Inn, in Oxford, where his Royal Highness changed horses, and then proceeded to Nuneham, the seat of Earl Harcourt. In consequence of his Royal Highness having, some days since, signified hts intention of visiting the University, a Convocation was holden on this day, at which it was determined to confer on him the degree of Doctor of Civil Law, by diploma, which was accordingly done the following day, with great ceremony. Oct. 30. This morning, a melancholy accident happened in Kell's-pit, near Whitehaven, by an explosion of fire-damp, in which twenty persons were unfortunately killed. This dreadful occurrence was owing to neglecting to use the Davy lamp. The Kentish Gazette observes, that much damage has been done by the late high tides at the antient station of Reculver. The stone pavement has, in many intervals along the whole extent, been displaced, and has sunk into large holes in the sand; so that this venerable work of defence is in great danger. Considerable portions of the ground on the edge of the cliffs, along the coast in that vicinity, have also given way, from the high tides having penetrated into their bases; and should the spring tides of the approaching winter be attended with strong northerly winds, it is feared much land will be lost on that part of the Kentish coast. (See views of Reculver in vol. LXXIX. 1009.) The Judges lately decided that Margate Pier ought to be rated to the poor. There have been lately found, by some workmen employed in lowering and repairing an elevated part of the Roman Watlingstreet Road, within a mile of Wibtoft, co. Leic. near the surface of a bed of clay, about 50 human skeletons, one of them of an extraordinary size, together with several weapous, nearly half a yard long, doubleedged, and terminating in a point, which appear to have been fastened to stakes: also some gauntlets, and a woman's earrings. The net receipts of the late grand musical festival at Edinburgh, which are to be appropriated to charitable purposes, amount to full thirteen thousand pounds. A Whale in the river Severn.-The Gloucester paper says-"This extraordinary phenomenon was witnessed on Monday morning last (Nov. 8) in our river, where a whale was left by the ebb-tide, on the sands between Awre and Frampton. It was first discovered by some men, whose notice was attracted by the force and velocity with which it was lashing and throwing up the water with its tail, on finding itself hampered by the receding of the tide. So singular an object attracted a great concourse of people; and as soon as it could be approached with safety, a general scramble took place; and this immense carcase was severed into such portions as could be effected by the use of those implements most readily obtained, and carried away; by the next morning parts of the flesh of this hapless animal were distributed all over the country. This fish had proceeded about twenty-five miles from the mouth of the river in one tide, and we believe, is the first that has been found so far from its native element. Its dimensions were-in length 60 feet, breadth 10 feet, width of the tail 12 feet, the upper jaw 9 feet, and the lower 10 feet long, and the carcase supposed to be nearly 50 tons weight. C. Clifford, esq. of Frampton, the Lord of the Manor, has secured the jaw-bones for the purpose of forming a gateway on his estate." Waterford, Nov. 6. On Sunday evening, the 31st ult. Henry St. George, esq. brother of Sir Richard St. George, was most inhumanly murdered and cut to pieces by a banditti, near his own house, within a few miles of Athlone. He had been lately active in putting down riband men. His cousin, Mansergh St. George, was murdered in 1798. IRELAND, Nov. 10. The Clerkship of the Pleas, &c. which has long engaged general attention, was finally disposed of; letters patent having passed the Great Seal, nominating Joseph Farran, esq. to the situation, who for many years filled the office of Deputy. A proclamation has been issued by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, declaring the County of Roscommon to be in a state of disturbance, and requiring an extraordinary establishment of police. OCCURRENCES IN LONDON AND ITS VICINITY. Windsor Castle, Nov. 6, 1819. " His Majesty has passed the last month in great tranquillity, but without any diminution of his disorder. His Majesty's bodily health continues to be good, under the circumstances of his advanced age." |