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■MHMIMBrv Ctaonitle G^eUe; edited BY JOSEPH VALLENCE BEY AN. musmi nun Monday $ Thursday. at five raiunt k* aunt?*, hiabi.i i*i ADVANCE.-riOD*TBt CAPER, once a week, TltttT.K HOLLARS PER ASHI'M, PAYABLE A LUO Ilf AT.VANCE. i)i\ Tiuvial Societies v AND TUB CHARACTER OF AN UN dbktakkh. to the EDITO.II Os TlfE REFLECTOR. Mr. Jir/Tector: I was Reused the Other day with having the Allowing notice tJtrust into niy hand by a man who gives 0(lt hilts at the corner of Fleet-market. — W nether he saw any prognostics about me, that made him judge such notice seas Bonablc,il cannot say; I might perhaps cam in a countenance (naturally not ve ry florid) traces of a fever which had not ■long left me. Those fellows have a good instinctive way of guessing at the sort oi .people that are likeliest to pay attention to their pnpeis. , “BURIAL society. “ A favorable opportunity now offers to any person, of either sex, who wotilyLyvisli t,<ybe buried in a genteel manner,by paying one shilling enliauce, and two-pence per week for the benefit of the stock. Mem bers to be tree in six months. Ihe mo ney to he paid at Mr. Middleton’s, at the sign of the First and tile Last, Stone ciittcr’s-slreet, Fleet-market,. The de r.eascd to be furnished as billows;-—* strong e-lnrvcc'din, covered with supeifine ■black, and finished with two rows, all round. Hose drove, best japanned nails, and adorned with, ornamental drops, a hand sow,- plan- As inscription, Angel a bove, and Flowef.beheath, and four pair ■of ;,»ndsonto handles, with wrought th- coffin to be well pitched, lin ed,' and ruffled with fine crape; a hand some v-lvet pall, three gentlemen's cl< .dd, three Crape hatbands, three hood* amt scarfs, and six pair of glovest also. Initial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea. ” •• Man,” says Sir Thomas Browne, “ »s a nnbie annual, splendid in ashes; and pompous in the grave.? Whoever drew up tins little advertisement, certainly uh* dt-Vsnuiod this appetite in the species, a ,1 lian n wle abundant proviso n.fo* if.— ji v. idly almost induce.-; a Utthum vil» Up r. to read it. Methinks 1 could be ■widing to die, in death lobe so attended 'I be two rows oil round close-drove best kbi'K japanned nails,—how feelingly do tiny invite and almost irresis'auly p«r flitude ,iis to, come and be fastened down! what aching In ad can resist the tempta tion to • cpose, winch thecr»p--slirouii, the esp, and the pillow present; what filing is ilicre in death, whicli the handles with wrought gripes are not calculated to plunk away f what victory in the grave.' which the drops and the velvet pad do not render at least extivmely disputable : hut ah .Vi all, the pretty .niblen aticpi.Vc with thi: Angel above and tne' Flower be neath, takes rae mtghtly. The notice goes on Vo inform us, that though the society ha* been established but a very few years, upwards oi eleven bundled persons (tor none hut such would bejpossessed of such a gener. us fore-thought) climbing their l\vi; pnnrcs to save the iv-pwacli of a';iar;,sli funerat Many ' « poor fellow, I flare swear, hss that Angel and Flower ki pu r un t!ie Jt/igei and Punchbowl, win e, to orovide hi’iiMtjd a bier, he'has curtailed himsv !f of bar. Many < savory mors. 1 has the living body been deprived of, that the lifeless cue might be served, up in a riclu-v s'atelo the worms. And sure, if the h d\ could understand the actions ot tlie song and entertain generous no t' .n.s of tilings, it would thank its pro vict-ni p.u'rer, dmt she had been more se-icu us to defend it IVoin dishonours at itsdissiihuitge, than careful to pamper its With good things in the time of its uni nion. It Oatsai were cht dy anxious at his (death how he might die most decent ly, Tvery Burial Society, may be consklor ed as a Club ot Cxsars N r htng (-ends to keep up, in the ima ginations of the poorer son of people, a 'generics horror oT the werkhoust fimre than .lx manner in which pauper fiiucruls * a ' coudacsed in tins mctropdjU: f I The C'-ftin nothing hut a few naked planks, co ■ sell put toga th<v*-the want of a pall ('hat decent and we I (-imagined veil, which, haling the coftln that hidi-s the In !v, keeps that 'Which would shock us Ri vt, rent -c» from us,) Uic coloured ■c • sos (ho men that are . ired, at.cheap r.tcs. to ratty the body,—n.together, f. Uic notion of the deceased having been some person of an ill-fife and con vei’Sßuon, some one who may not claim the entire rites of Christian burial,-—sue bv .vbexipu is ot the sacred ceremony would hi des cr. ted if they should be tit slowed.up-it hint. I meet these m u gre piocesstons gi mtiimes vu the street, 'they are sure to make me out of humour and melancholy all the day after. They have a harsh and ominous aspect. If there is any thing m iheprospectus is sued from Mr. Miodfeton’s, Stonecutter’s stre tj’-whicli pleases me less than the rose \t is to find, that the six pair of] i glov l S u -to be returned, that they are i onty lent, or as the bill expresses it, for ( Use, on the occasion. Tile hood, scarfs, Rod hatbands, may properly enoiign be > given Hp kf-er the solemnity: the cloaks < no gentleman would think of keeping; bi< u pair of gloves, once fitted on, ought hoi in courtesy to be re demanded The weatvi should certainly liave the fee-sim pm ot them The cost would be but trifling, and they would be a proper me I m >l-d of ill* day. This pan of the Pro posal wantg. reconsidering It is nnt ooo ee-weil in the same .ibcral way ,»T thins. \ ngas the rest I-rni also a little doubt r ul w.iethe. ,he limit, w ithin w hich the c bm al fee is made payable, should not be t ♦Minded to thirty shillings r borne pMvisi ~! too ought undoubtedly o t«bv matte m favmjg of those well-inteii n t oned perso-w alt y well-wishers to the tl .* woo having along paid iheir sub- w script,uns rtgu .o-ly, are so unfortunate as a to U- b-m- he six months, whicti would i ♦lit,in them to thmr tree om, are quite w «ompkled. One can hardly imagine a ol t dßorp-dlstfesaing case thin that of-.wpoor enngon ir, aJ ntf»riori of hi 4 freedom is aimosun eiffhtf and then fending wdh a velocity which makes it doubful whether he shall be entitled to brn saner-, al honors; his quota to Vh.ch he nevertlie fess squeezes out. to the diminution of th^comforts which sickness demands. 1 think, in such, some of the contribution money ought to revert. Wifli some such modifications, which might easily be in troduced, I see nothing m thes ;. lr °P"; sals of Mr. Middleton which is not strict |y fair ar.d genteel and lieartdy recom mend them to ail persons of moderate incomes, in either sex. who afe wilhng, that this perishable part of them should quit the scene of its mortal activities, with as handsome circumstances as possi ble Before 1 quit the subject, I mist guard mv readers against a scandal, which they may be apt.to take at the place whence these Proposals purport to he iSsucd. From the sign of) he IV st and the they may conclude that Mr. Miodleton is some publrcan, wbo, in asscmhlmg achu of this description at Ins huusa, may nave {i sinister fmdfof -lira own, altogether i<i reign to the solemn purpose lor v.lnctt club is pretended to be instituted, must set them right by Worming them that the issurer of those Proposals is no publican, though he hangs out a sign, but an honest super-intendantof futierals, who, by the device of a Cradle and a Cof fin, connecting both ends of human ex istence together, has most ingcwouly contrived to insinuate, that the framers of those Jirst and lust receptacles of mankind divide this our life betwixt thorn, and that all that passes from the midwife to the undertaker may, in .strict propriety, go for nothing; an awful and instructive lesson to human vanity. Looking over some papers lately mat fell into tny hands by chance, and appear to have been written about the beginning of the last century, I stumbled, arming the rest, upon the following short Essay, which the writer calls “ The Character of an Undertaker, ” ft is written with some stiffness and peculiarities of style, hut some parts of it, I thintc. not unaptly cha racterise the profession to which Mr. Middleton has tin.-, honor to belong. Ibe v riter doulitlcs lint! hi 4 miiitl cn* tcrtainingcharacter of Sable, in Steeles excellent edmedy of the f nncrat. CHARACTER t)F AN UNDF.IIiTAKER. “ He rs mister of the ceremonies at bu rials ami mourning assemb lies; grand mar aha* at funeral processions, the only true yeoman of the body, oveawhich he exer cises al dictatorial authority from the mo ment that breath has taken leave to that of its final commitment to the earth. His ministry begins where physician a, the luwvct’h, and tVic* divine’s, end. '* souie part of the functions of the latter run parallel with his, It is only fti online ad spiriiHulia. His tcmpMalities remain un questioned. He is arbitrator of all quea iions of honour which may concern the defunct; and upon slight inspection will pronounce h> w long he may remain in 1 'his upper world with credit to himselt, mid when it will be prudent fo p his repu tation (hat he should retire. Ilia deter mination in these points is peremptory • and without aprpes-.l Yet, with a modes ty peculiar to his profession, he med U' fl not out ofhisownsperc With the g"Ob i or bad actions cf the deceased ip , hi* hk lime he has nothing to do. fie leaves • the friends of the dead man to form their » V «<my place to which 1 himself i ven shout the body, as It fs a 1 structure ofpiirts internal,&a wonderful is u 1 fi). nucroscosm. He leaves sucli curious I speculations to the anatomy professor. Or, it any thing, he is averse to such wan . ton enquiries, as delighting rather that I paris Which he has care of should be re -1 turned to their kind/ed dust in as handsome and iiiimuitilated condition as possible; Inatthe grave should have its frtl and unimpaired tribute, —a complete and just carcass. Nor is he only careful to provide lor the body’s entirencss, but tor its accommodation and ornament, fie Orders the fastien of itsrdwellng. Its vanity has an innocent surviival in him. He is ocd maker to the dead- The pillows which he lays never rumple. The day of inic meni ip the theatre in which dis plays the mysteries of his art.lt is hard to desenbewhat he is, or rather to lets what he is not, on that day': for, being neither kinsman, servant, nor friend, he all in turns.; a traiv-cendam, ruiioidg through those l i ations His office is i<> supply the place of sf self-agency ,iu the family, wiio are presumed incapabia of it through grief He is eyes; and ears, and hands, to tbe whole household. A draught of wine cannot go round to the mourners, but he must minislec-it A chair may hardly bo ■ restored to its pla<t by a les§ solemn hand than his. He takvs ,fpou himself ail fun- ions, and ia a sort of ephemeral major domo f He distributes fits al. teiuoon among the com pry assembled aecordi' g iu‘t lie degree ot affliction, which he ca,dilates from the degree of kin'to the deceased; and marshals them accordingly in the procession. Lastly, with his wftud, tvs with another divining rod, he calculates the depth of earth at which the bones of the dead man may rest, which he ordinal - ily contrives may be at such a distance Irom the surface of this earth, as may frustrate the profane attempts of such as Would viola,e bis repose, yet sufficiency on this side the centre to give his friends hopes of an easy and practicable resur rection. And here we leave him, casting in dust to dust, which is the last friendly office that he undertakes to do ” Begging your pardon for detaining you so long among “ graves, and worms, and epitaphs,” • • •» I am, Sir, Your humble servant, MORITtTRtJS. Ei-tracts from mi article on “Banking by I). Buchanan twqr’‘ The chief purpose of the different batiks which were established throughout Eu rope during the tifieenth and sixteenth centuries, such as the banks of Venice, Genoa, Amsterdam, Hamburgh, and Nil remberg, was to provide for the conveni ence of commerce, a currency of a deter miuai and invariable standard. Before ibis period, the currency of those places wag lost amid an inundation of the light and debased coins of every adjacent stale; nd ih business of commercial eatcliaug was ui this manner obstructed by the want ; >f some certain measure pf value. Bj’ the auV-MtßHmt; of " they are generally railed, which 1 1 demands on them in money o weight And fine nets, and by or d*f' ?• the same time, th»' «H paymentsfe certain sum should be made injbm ney, the greatest possible degree < tainty was given to the value of the . • rency, while, by adopting the injtbqp paying large sums, oy means of h **("*? transfer from one name to another m books of the hank, great facility j and di patch were obviously given t 9 A aU transactions. Nor were ttiose afivantag confined to the particular place# m wine i banks were established; H was soo found that the same improvement wluc • wasso useful in the domestic tt-arsact.ons, ofa community could be emphyed wi even greater advantages in simplifying in cash transactions of distant places ** e Inconveniences to which resi( - ing in the same place must have been ex posed in making payments to’etdt .other, previous*© the establishment *f. ! t»anKs, would necessarily consist in fhd w some fitted and invariable measure pi .va lue i in the counting, weighing, ana 'use less transportation of large sums from one hand to another; and in the,frauds said mistakes which would frequently oW' r these cumbersome transactions. Imt in the commercial intercourse of distant pla ces, all those disadvantages would be. greatly aggravated; there would be more scope for Cram's and mistakes; t.iey S’** 1 ' be less easily corrected i fdid, /Without some system of money-dealing, the com merce of distant places must be limited to mere baiter, or to the instant exchange of specie fir goods. The progress cf wealth and industry is, however* neces sarily accompanied by the g.-owth of con fidence and credit. Upon this new prin ciple, commercial dealing is gradually ex tended; and m these circumstances, with out the intervention of the money dealer, there must be » continual and useless transportation of specie between .11 Com mercial towns. No deH can he. discharg ed without a remittance in cash, and ca-vh separate transaction will require a sepa rate remittance. To obviate these use less payments in detsil, the business is naturally transferred to a separate class o dealers, by whom the whole debts ami credits of (lie community, in place of be ing settled individually, are brought to a general balance, that it is necessary to remit specie- The arrangements by which this result is produced are exceedingly simple and obvious and aiCfiow become so familiar, that they hardly require to be explained in retail. , . When, in the progress if wealth ana improvement, certain individuals login toaeqnire, from their intreused wealth, i and their extended trade, tie general con fidence ofthe c mmmnSy. t will naturally f oocur to inferior trailers, vho have remit • tances to make to other places, that the J great merchant, by meaife of his crec.it and , connections, may assist him in his trans . actions with those dis’fni parts. If the one . has monei to remit, tie ether nay nave | money to receive, and in this manner, by i means of credit and confidence, tne ® ,! * ' gagemenl* of' the d'ffjrent parties may J he duly discharged by h mete transfer of . debt from ore p< vson u another.; I bus, y we may suppose A, (I//- great merchant, . has money to receive from the same place a to which B, the ihbrio’ merchant. has 1 money to ntmt. rit receives, Ihq money r , from 11. giving him, <F course, an order y on the debtor which Av has in the same r place in which U’s cvclitor resides. o I, this place the order Urn**); sent,: Hie debt I v , ■ ’ ■»•••»•' lijif \i,«i 'U'Cfll• a ferof claims, without Ihe intervention ol u specie, this account of debt and credit it s finally settled. The credit and connections ■, of the wealthy merclnr.t, inducing other* . to deposit money With him fir the pur t pose of being remit ted to their respective • creditors, the cash transactions‘of the i town and neigh!• onrhond gradually centre i in his hands. All those who have: money u ! ° remit, or money entrust the transaction to his management ; he re ceives their money, for which he gives 'hem his drafts, or their bills, for which he either gives tlieni money, or under i takes to procure payment, and, in this manner, the debts and credits of the dd i ferenl commercial towns, in place of being settled as formerly in detail, are, by the agency ofthe money Dealers brought in to one general account, and reduced at once to a common balance. The. estab lishment of such public hanks ns thoseof Venice, Ochoa. Hamburgh, ac- on the solid security of large deposits of treasure, by inspiring general confi dence, would tend to give life and activi ty to this unproved system of money-dea ling- The credit of an individual, how ever respectable for wealth, integrity and prudence, could- handy be supposed in any case to be equal to that of those pub lic establishments which-w< re the general depositaries of all the filling capital ol the community, of which'the management wis committed to directors publicly cho sen, and bound down in their conduct to certain general, rules, from which they have no discretionary power to depart.— In the two great sources of mercantile confidence, therefore, ucmeh , the reputa-. tion of w ealth and prudent management, those institutions could not he exceed ed. They were evidently beyond the reach of all the ordinary casualties of commerce, and it could only be by for eign invasion, or by some great internal convulsion which would tend to the disso lution of civil order, that their ruin could he accomplished. (to be continued. {Front the Boston AtheneumJ Street Meeting. A Sunday newspapers few years ago, gave-the following characteristic speci men ot what lie -alls V that ancient formu la, which may be termed Ah -Englishman’s Dialogue ” . A, (advancing) Howe d’ye do. Brooks? B. Very well, \bank’e.e: how do you do? A. "Very well, tb'auk’ee; is Mrs Brooks well ? ' . ! 11. Very well, f’m much obliged t’ye Mrs. Adams and the children are well. 1 Ip.pe ? A. Quite well, thank’ce. (A pause ) , .-. B. Bather pleasant weather-to-day. A. Yes, but it was cold in the morning: B. Zvs, but we must expect that at this time o’year. (Anot her pavise,— neckcloth twisted and switch twirled ) 4. Seen Smith lately f Br No,—l capt say lhavefeutrUve seeh Thqrosofi- • f* A. Indeed—and how is he r B. Very well, thank’ee. A. I’m glad of it.—Well,—good morn ing- *. . B. Good morning. , . , .. . Here j,t is always observed, that tne speakers, having taken leave, walk taste than usual for some hundred yards. Ploughing. Ah agriculturist expresses his surprise that many farmers in the light hillysitua lions shoukl plough their lands as it were wet —namely up and down the ml s; whereas, by ploughing across them, all the rain would be stopped by the ridges, in stead cf running to the bottom, aim r quetUly carrying the seed, £Oi), aht ' rna " nure with it. proved the superi ority of the plan from experience. He also mentions that some years ago he set broad beans between the rows ot the. principal part of a crop of potatoes, which not only sheltered them, but conducted , the dews to their roots, and both produc ed excellent crops; but in a small part which was pot set with beans, the potatoes were scorched up, and, hardly worth dig ging- * ; y The following anecdote is given us by Mr. Dutens; “ The Dnkede Cnllmi was i at Avignon at the period when the Duke ! cf Ormond died there ; and having enter ed his chamber st the very moment when I the latter was dying, he had nearly been witness to a remarkable scene, which had c .just taken place, between the expiring nobleman, who was a true pattern of po liteness, and a German baron, plan ont ’ ot the most polite men of his country The duke, feeling himself dying, desired to be conveyed to his asm-chair; when, turningtowards the baron, “ Kxcuse me, ! sir.” said he, “if I should make some ’ grimaces in your presence, for my phy | sician tells me, that I am at the point c-t death.” —■“ Ah, my lord duke 1” repheu ’ the baron, “I beg that you will not put yourself under any constraint on my ac -5 count.” ! Cardinal Jl/«rur/>r(likc the dissjmnlat ing Tiberius) carried his courtier-like love of mystery and falsehood even into ‘ his death-bed. He sent for the Prince of ’ Conde, and told him something in confi dence, which that prince was quiteiticVrn ed to believe, peeceiving the dying state of his eminence. But a very short time after, his death sufficed to prove, to his j titter astonishment, that, even in that aw , f«| situation, the ciirdiival had not told him one word of truth. r, Fanaticism. ,i ■ A party cf religious fanatics assembled a few Sum ays since, at Barnlngbam, 1 York, for the express purpose of dislodg ’ ing the devil, which one of their renega -3 do brethren-had declared had possessed e him, nr he should not have left their so s ciety. The elders of this society com * pilled their victim to kneel open the floor, while the chief priest struck him on f the head with his clenched fist, exclaim ’> ing, ‘‘This is God’s hammer! —Devil, » come out!” This he repeated three e times ; the rest then assailed on all sides, s with horrid yells and frightful gestures, ! kicking and cuffing him, but dnf Devil *' would not move, for the repentant said he still felt him tugging at his right side. On (> tills the sharp elbow of a female made a )l dreadful plunge at his small ribs, and an '* t'i.Ugt.ge.neral attack ensued. Being, ai yd th e Devil had left’ hrn? u, ’fr fe?.£ eclar , then appointed to watch him for thro* days and nights, (hat his Satanic worship might not enter again. After some de * f)ate > >t was agreed Hist the Devil shook be buried in a stone cpiarry; a womar „ gravely declared that siic had him by the tail as they were going to the funeral, but J c he slipped from her grasp. I' _ JOIIAXNA SOCTHCOA-l-’s IllSCm.fcS. h * i* e followers of J ilianna Southcote are still numerous; and we are assured by a s correspondent, that in tlie neighbourhood of 1 olness, Devon, there are some hum ” dreds of silly people who believe that “ Johanna and her Sun are making the tour i of Egypt. T hey have separated from o | ther religious communities. A poor wo man was nearly strangled a few weeks ago ]■ by a self-elected Prophetess of tlus-sreet, who prciemit d that she had been moved g b> the spirit to kill the woman,, because the latter had no faith in her inspiration. * Counsellor Phillips* in his recollections of Curran, says, “ There i,s attached to it, I (Dublin College,) amongst oilier advan , ';‘g es » * most magnificent library, of which the regulations were so rigid and the . public, liours so few, that it had become, I t 0 < ’ v ' extent. j particularly, almost entirely ■ , ’ ’ ♦ j . Count Rumford gives us, in the follow ing extract, tho useful hint of eating a , hasty-pudding by gradual advances, , citcutnventing-the outwork, and storming ’ 'be parapet. These are his words—“ The hasty pudding being spread but equally | ■on a ]>late while hot, amexcavation is made . ,' n |! ,e middle of it, with a spoon, into [- which excavation a piece ot butter, as large as a nutmeg, is put, and upon it a ’ spoonful of brown sugar, etc’. : the butter, being soon beared by the heat of l|ie pud iiog, mixes with tile sugar, and- forms a sauce, which, being confined in the exca ration, occupies the middle ofthe plate.” Thus fat for the array :—Now for the bat tle. “ Dip each spoonful in the same, be tore it is carried to the mouth, care being had, in taking it up, to begin on the out --'ide, and near the brim of the plate, and to approach the centre by gradual advan ces, in order notto demolish too soon the excavation, which forms the reservoir of - be sauce ” This, gentle reader, is the philosophy of hasty-pudding, or rather of eating it. Notice. 4.1.1. persons to whom fbe estate of William Jones, deceased, (late of Burke county) are indebted to, are requested to bring their accounts forward, in terms of tht- law ; arid those that are indebted to the estate, are requested tu-curoe forward and make imnyediate. payment4o Augustus H. Anderson, Isaac Walker, ' * „ ' Administrators. November s——if , • M ‘ t .. -i ' 1 _ k ... . ■_■ ■ r_ TU'GUSTA. | u —' * ; G THURSDAY NOVEMBER 8, 1821. - ■ • —!>* The contribution of our valued friend, a ’ “Surrey” has reached us: but for reason.- s easier understood than Explained, it ihusi a be deferred until Monday nest- 1 Latest From Europe. „ From IJegranel’s Sale lie port. a WAR—RUSSIA AND TURRET. ,‘j Private Letter, from fcdward Kulenkamp n Brkmgx, 2d Sept. issl. ■' I r ‘ . . , tl «p. S moment, tne news reach- es tfs, that she Russian Ambassador lias gl left Constantinople, that war is declared ; a and that 300,000 Russian Trohps, with 100,000 .Austrians, are marching towards Constantinople,” ,y N. 15.—A Bremen Paper of Aug. 29th. q states - thathe Court Paper’in Vienna, j, which, until then, had a pacific appear- a ance, lias now assumed a warlike aspect. From the preceding news, and more . than.all, from the. irresistible impulse, giv en by the settled policy of’Russia ; its mil itary court ; and the sympathy bf its pep pic, for their Greek Patriarch, and their Greek brethren, ipa.y wc not calculate up on a war between Russia and Austria on a one side, and Turkey on the other ? Aus- f tria has taken, in advance her share of the bopty, viz. Paly ami,Sicily,-both of which 11 are now occupied by her troops: Should this war take plare, the policy ’ of the Cabinets, of Great Britian and of 3 France, and indeed of-all Europe, will b i immediately aginst the Russians, from fear of the gigantic strides of that power ’ Prussia and Sweden will not dare to face f J_ the Northern hive; the slow Dutchman . will keep his own government in check, 1 ,■ and at peace ; Spain and Portugal are too • much employed at home to act abroad; the British Cabinet will find itself oppos- ' ee by tha public sentinv< nt in Great Bri tain against the Turks ; the French peo “ pie, will reluctantly be drawn into a war • side by side, with John Bulb Yet, settled in its purpose of cut'tailng Russia,-the ? British Cabinet will watch every move- J, ment; avfdl it.-if of every change, and fi- , nally (it appears to me) involve all Europe ■ in a general War. These are mere .Conjectures, hazarded f with a view to bring out a bier] conjee ' turers. s p. P, F. DEGRAND * Halt, Patriot. ' i ( FOREIGN NEWS. ! Nsw-YonK, Oct. 25.—The late nows by the Hercules, capt Cobb, given inyester \ day’s Gazette, has produced an unprece- . , dented stir among the dealers in bread.. stuffs. On thp promulgation of the news . here of the bad weather in, England, of , j the rise of grain, and the damage done to the crops, expresses were sent off in every , direction with orders to purchase wheat . e and flour— so that, in a very few clays, n the whole extent of this vast continent will J be in possession of news, which must be I exhilarating to those who rejoice at the J p prosperity of the agricultural interests of ' j the country. While we arc on this subject, we em •j brace the opportunity to contradict arc- J g port, that a passenger had left the Keren- j n les off the Hook, and proceeded south ex press for the purpose of speculating in ' flour. We know, that no person who I ( came out of the ship, landed from her at r _ any place but in the city, excopt Mi. ,* Trimble, who was put on shore at Grave- ' ■*. i»~-. and reached town before the ' p other passengers.' 5 . There was nothing clone yesterday in ,1 flour. The holders have made a stand at 1 n 8 dollars, ft will probably be bought to- 1 e day, on speculation, at this price. It may 1 it not do to wait for another short passage 1 from Liverpool. The Magnet must be 1 close on the coast, and her arrival is hour- ' ly looked for. 1 e On a repertisal of the London papers * a ty H’e Hercules, we find but little of in- * (1 terest, to add to our extracts of yesterday. * i. *b e prospect of a war between the Rus 1 -t sians and Turks, seems, by the last ac. 4 r counts, less probable- ' ac ld a few items in a summary wdy, ( i. more for the sake of variety than their in- 1 0 trinsic interest 1 ; Ip consequence of an outragcoais attack 1 j by the mob, on the houses of the Austin- * e ail an( l Russian Ambassadors at Lisbon, s they had both left the country and arrived 8 at London. f s ibe Greeks of Pelbponisus have* under 1 date of Caiamata, May 8, Addressed a let- v ’ ter to Philip Green, British Consul at a } Patras, protesting against his conduct, in 1 a- not conforming to his professions of neu- v trality. They accuse him of having se- b ’ cietly given information to the turks ; ad- f l vising them to set fire to the City of Patras, s by which all the goods in private bouses- *' and the ware-houses of the company .of " ‘ merchants were destroyed, and ofhav- P ing occasioned losses to the amount, of a ’ several millions, and exposing several * v [ Christians to death and captivity. n ; A letter , from Madrid of August 2?, fl . published in the Paris papers, states that , SI , Murillo had been put upon his-trial. I . Yhe Ministerof war had been dismissed, s; ’ tosatisty the club Fontana cl’Or ; and the e whole of his colleagues had threatened tne King to give in their resignations tin- * v less he was restored. All those who had A any thing to lose were hastening from rr Madrid. The envoys of Bollivar, who came there to (reat with the government, had received orders to quit the Spanish ct teritory. lj K Ihe Old Baily Sessions, London com mcnccd on the 12lh ult. The number of ’ persons charged with crime were, in Lon- ' :c don only 03, and in Middlesex 118 1 here were also confined in Newgate, bo V u * t- 3*?® males, and 123 females 362 in all. Os the above 20 males and R 4 females were under sentence of cleakh " T 6 males and 17 females sentenced to * transportation for life, 20 for fourteen fr years, ind 48 for seven .years, f In the courier of the ISfo, g n p -h some mlehgeoce on the subject <,f ,1! Hops, by which it appeavs that the dis 1 ease called the mmtld. would se.ioush A ’ affect the crop in the- several parts of the country. •- r ta 'y\ - From Glasgow. Bylhe ship Homer, CsptainKrn, arriv- ed this forenoon an 35 days from Gre'e Y 1 nock, we have received Glasgow paper;. “ to the 15th- of ■3cpteliiber, ,, and peysued ommerclal letters cube jarr.J he latest brought by her. ’) onfirm the account of the v Kb crops throughnut Great r.ri Slasgow Chronicle of the 15ih ‘ The remarkably adverse wei las for some time prevailed md Ireland, has now fairly e Scotland, and continues to’be i general advance hi the prici Phelletters we have'seen state : “ There has bedn a brisk Cotton this week, principally Dn Monday about 500 bale’s sription were sold at 1 Btb to iasl week’s prices, but toward! he week, in consequence of i ment in the Liverpool mark were offered at last week’s p taken, and none can now lie 01, advance • other sorts are wij dion. The sales amount to { acres.—Sea Islards 94, at lid 16. to fair to good. 191 Stained 9 at 12Jd. good fair-J 5, at 1 Ijd fair—Rowed 14C2J filing, 10C . to 101. fair to goal leans 79, at 1 Hd to 1 fail ulion in Tobacco or Rice.—.S'! Cbariesron Orttl PLEASING- IM ELlGsl Capture of tlie ll By the schr, Mary Ann, cl arrived yesterday we receive! paper of the 24.-th inst. frmJ liave translated,the following, ll log article. 1 “Havana, October 24,1 “Arrived ffom Liverpool, tl ship l.ucies, Capt. Missroon. | this ship was taken possessi! famous pirates who cruize ofl'| tonio, and as these picaroons! plundering her,'the U. S. bril fortunately hove in sight, anA in capturing the piratical fl fl of four schooners and one 1 fl sea robbers had the audacltvfl red flag. Besides the vrsffl there was an open boat atfl same gang which effected ■ The priztts brave been sentH where the crews vvillbetrifl was brought in by a n.:d>fl U. S, brig. flj We have been horror depredations and piracies i.B ed by these buccaneers, :mfl| ulate the mercantile wotld(B| of those unprincipled men, HI licularly. as hy their portant discoveries will Hi which we will find nut ivß companions, who their protH| whom fitted out. together H| teresling inf'ornalion.” Hi Another -kreu^Bj We have been politely taHU following extract from the ship Luries, Capt. Mission rece*ved yesterday in a M, dated Mavanna,', 24th ()<^H “ Tuesday, Oct. 16— hauling round Cape brig - ashore on the came abreas* of her, she h.aHpl this isthe Aristides, poo', taken by the pirates HU and run ashore hy them, we were fired at by a after was boarded by herHl company, all under SpanHfl soon as they got on their sabres, cocked theirHßj and drove us all below. possessed themselves of passengers) watches busses at our breasts, death in case of refusal, ceeded to break open goods in the steerage; liberated some of cur ' ship to anchor, which thorns water. While treH in the cabin, we saw a large schooner and hritpHi round the Cape, which armed vessel: the brig at H near to the Aristides, takiiH. fired at one of the that direction. Our this, precipitately left usH tow and sweep their ■ At 8, the large schoonerH and hailed us, under the CH enquired if we had been rates, and being five, instantly opened a nSB upon them from a 14 firing had ceased, she ag;H say if the brig astern did an Amrican, man of war, , our signal she would ■ to our assistance—she vessel beyond proved armed schooner I,a (’ .r 'H (diaries C. Hojintr. AbtH which proved to be the Ho brig F.nterprlze, came np H qnired if we bad got poH ship again I Being amu.* Kearney domanded ail theH we could spare, to go icl , pirates ; and in less than >H - armed boat left the EnteH r lifter them—About 11, H near the schnonci's, the b-H full of dry goods, was set telvcs, and abandoned. dH li.she was in ablaze to tIH sail-being set. At meridianH jhds this day. “Wednesday, October , leuvy squalls, thunder lig|H \t 4 F. M. cleared u^H •'.'iirnl the Point, iharts) the other two hupp, (no longer lolors at ficir rt„) pn/e. MO, was lopner; stipp.’fied him -les of pi'OV’simis, w'u-di HB apt ofr’.n atiy other veil more than was ‘' .‘'Hll U- 10, capt. Kearney • ’ horn we learn that dm HSi 04.a11yo 4 .a11y lost; her rud W orn off', and four fed ’'H|| Che .British brig I.;« , ' lS, Hfl Vo n Kingston for IJstaHß !ic same time we he Enterprize; After . i:»d dispatched the h i’es yesterday, he aU ''' vith the brig to nputred another d the akcu a French brig ■gi lound to Campcachy Prisoner* rr taker. lie two prisoners who he jail in lcc\ on the Augusta roat^H ond Barnwell _ itoivn yestenlay••••