THE WESTMORLAND GAZETTE, and KENDAL ADVERTISER, January 29, 1820 / FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[Barb Baker]

THE WESTMORLAND GAZETTE, and KENDAL ADVERTISER.
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by J. KILNER, Market-Place, Kendal; Saturday, January 29, 1820; VOL. III - No. 91.
Price Seven-Pence.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

 

Copy of a letter from Porto Bello, dated the 9th instant:

 

"The English prisoners (meaning those deserted by that worthless vagabond M'GREGOR) or rather English slaves as he made them, are in a most pitiable state, nothing can be worse;  they work from sunrise to sunset; and, I am sorry to say, there has been a great change for the worse in the manner of treating them; their food consists of a bullock's head, boiled with a little salt and water, and this is the whole they have to subsist on, divided amongst twenty-five or thirty, as the number makes no difference; they have neither rice, bread, nor vegetables; and this scanty allowance is served but once a day, which the poor fellows divide into two meals, that they may have the appearance of breakfast and dinner.  With such treatment, and working in the heat of a boiling sun all day, it is impossible for them long to exist; indeed they are dying at the rate of nearly two a-day.  Out of the original number of these unfortunate people, only fifty-five now remain alive, and one half of them are in hospital."

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As a proof of the scarcity of money and the stagnation prevailing in Spain, letters of the 23d ult. from Asturias, mention that the Escunda wheat, the best and always the dearest grown in the Peninsula, was then selling at eighteen rials (3s. 6d.) the fanega corresponding to1-1/2 bushel.  The fanega of harrice beans were selling at twelve rials,and of Indidan corn at nine.Meat and other eatables were in the same proportion.  It is a fact that in Spain, since the commencement of the Revolution, land has fallen nearly three hundred per cent, and the imposts have increased eighty.

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The "Gazette de France" contains a statement of the taxes paid by the inhabitants of Paris, from which it appears that that city contributes ninety-eight millions of francs to the service of the State, out of a revenue of eight hundred and fifty millions.  It is then deduced that 700,000 Parisians, forming the fortieth part of the population of France, pay more than the ninth part of the taxes imposed on a population of 29,000,000 of Frenchmen.  The average contribution of an inhabitant of Paris is therefore 168 francs per annum, while that of the rest of the population of France is 26 francs per head; and thus a Parisian pays six times as much towards the support of the State as an inhabitant of the departments.

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KINGSTON, Nov. 6 - a cutter from England, laden with military stores for the Independents, was stranded on the Grand Bar at the mouth of the Orinoco, upon the Congrero shore;  crew saved, but cargo lost.

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AMERICAN TRADE. -  "The Trade of the once flourishing city of Baltimore" says an article from that place, dated October 18, "has, within the present year, become so limited, that very few, in any branch of merchandize, are able to clear expenses.  The situation of many of our banking institutions is such as will, probably, for years prevent dividends being declared by them; and these dividends have, heretofore, been the sole support of many families, composed of widows and orphans, who will now be reduced to great indigence.  The awful calamity which has visited one part of our city, will be the means of increasing our burthens for the support of the poor in no inconsiderable degree;therefore, every expedient which can in any degree tend to diminish the pressure of these burthens, becomes an important consideration."

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