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The following communications were
furnished us by very young friends and
\ve take' this occasion 'tor the expression,
of our henr*Vihat the public feel* inclined
■Ttj look with a favorable eye Upon all- at
'tempt* of this-'kind. The youth of a
ooslttry is the germ of its future great
ness ; and riioae among them, “ who-press
forward to the mark of the prize of the
high calling,the patriot and the bilge,
Mill alike delight to honor.
For the Chronicle.
* t’.OM.EC'IIONS U OBSKHVATIONS.
w hji tly to know thytelj, ptrun mankindi
't'oknow thy Uod, point nature on l/iy mad.’
Mr. EmTom, , ... , ■
However acquainted with the mul
tifarious objects of nature a man may wish,
or pretend to be, yet such is the ibimation
of his limited faculties, and the shortness
of hie, that universal knowledge is unat
tainable; even w hat is well known cannot
bt learned, muth less could any improve
ments be made to the general block—so
that it is evident that improvements take
place In any science, in proportion to the
■concentration ol mind upon it; but as eve
ry art, ami department of science are dc
pendantin sou c degree upon each other,
it seems rational to encourage each oilier;
■ and as it is a part of your business (and no
’ doubt your warmest wish) to irradiate
knowledge, I hid certain that, when uny
thing hkciy to contribute in the slightest
degree to so deurable an object is offer
ed for publication ill your paper, that you
will publish it- It therefore rests with
vui to say, whether what, is now ofleatd
in tl is i umber (ami what may follow) is
hkcly lo'he ot any advantage in attaining
the endvlesirtd.
Dr Join.sou'ims been condemned by
somcfuT his severity on the writings of
the i.ocls;-how wed founded such an ac
Asusalion is, is not for me to enquire into.
1 am eet tain that whoever reads his lite of
Richard Savage, will not, be disposed to
fail out with him on thin point— but will
rulht r be struck with the delicate man
ner in which be condemns Ins faults, and
i-t the sympathetic recital of his uusfor-
Tunes; they w ill admire the analysis of
Ui , , s of latent feelings which made him
a i so cut and oeiiainly east au air
o* total originality about him m almost cv
e-y particular,—-his birth was as well as
the whole of his life,.very much out of the
ay , I xommun occurrences, and the pro
found learning which is seen in his pro
ductions, ,s not (.considering every circum
starev) the h ast remarkable. 'I hat Dr.
JnTirsiin in ant to work with different fiel
inj;;, when he wrote his other lives is like
ly • tor this teas Ins first production in
tins v ay, ai d whilst he was not in a very
cievuted situation : he moreover did not
foi l that delicacy perhaps in spending his
opinion on their writings; for becoming
more positive i t hi* capability to criticise,
he dealt >t out less It aihssl). lint when no
ticing Sa\ iigc.wc admire ins apparent can
dour. even where he is bound to censure ;
•and when'he does, it is done with fairness,
tenderness, and a kind cl friendly extenu
ation Tl\c \\ amlercr, is considered as
Sa\age’s best production, and .probably
very cprt< clly. The limit* of this paper
will not allow of entering fully into the
merits of this Poem, much Kss that of
his oiliers. Without therefore entering
even paui.slly into t hem, 1 shall only point
out some passages in the Wanderer, hop
inj? that ilm may cause your readers ,o
turn to ihe woik ; where 1 am gird to say
that h.s advice and precepts are much
better than his actions were; but as Hr;'
Johnson says lie ceases to influence us
otherwise than us an author.
Some object to the Wanderer, and say
it is “ a leaf of shining materials, which
strikes rather as the solemn magnificence
u stupendous ruin, than the elegant gran
deur cf a finished pile.” This opinion
Dr. Johnson agrees to 1 think very incur-'
rectly It seems to me to be remarkably
anil minutely filled up in all Us parts; per
haps o much so, as to point out the shades
so del cutely as not to be observ ed at first.,
'l'll is is partly confirmed by Mr. Pope, who
liked it better, says Dr. Johnson, after Uu:
third perusal- O. S C:
streets from Savage in our next- ] I
F'or the VUronicle.
Ah! Bar 11, poor deserted place,
1 never will forget thee;
from my inemTy thy scenes erase.
Whatever ills beset thee.
Although the son* of poverty may dwell
Within thy moss grown bow er.;
Although the rank-grass flourish well,*
With unrestrained power.
Although the night-bird-build herrjest
Upon the oak-tree hoar,
And lull thy maidens soft to rest,
.By the rapid streamlet* roar,
1 never will forget thee, thou
. --fJiuo :ny soul most dear,
At when a-field I drove the plough,
Dcvpul amif-ec troni cure.
ABATER.
Froin Uu Monthly Maffnriue•'
Specimen of a Prospective
News Paper.
The Worth dmertcan Luminary, lit July,
A. D.
. a \ ce,eb ” t l d Professor of chemistry
has discovered a method of composing and
decomposing the surrounding atoms
*? tl, “ t a "y f"mer can, with the
g t es facility. Si at a small cxpeusc.aveit
wui, or produce it in any quantity nccesa
forthe • erfcctionof his crops. The ni .
recently dispelled the clouds ov. r
W cny of Hew York and its suburbs for
•
the spate of a week, converting the cold,
damp weather of our winter into
a cleat and comparatively warm season-.
By tnis useful rontnvance, any mariner
niay allay the violence Os a hurricane, or
. give Mu* Wind the direction and degree of •
force best suited to the object* of 'hi*
. voyage. j
The-corporaliot of Baltimore have sub
scribed a sum for erecting one of the
; newly invented telescopes. It is to be
' liberally appropriated to the use of all
the citizens, so that the humblest mecha
nic may kmuse himself in hi* leisure Jmo-‘
ments by viewing the different occupa
tions of the inhabitants of the moon—
The effect of this invention upon moral*:
tfbeyond all calculation. The labouring
classes now give u|i the enjoyment of
spiritous liquoi s for the superior pleasure
of contemplating the wonders which this
invention exposes to the human senses.’
The ai my of the northern states will
(akX‘ the field a* linst tlial of the southern
“provhicq*f early next spring. The principal
northern force will consist of 1,450,C0D
picked troops. General Congreve’s new
mechanical canwm was tried last week
at Hrff siege of Ccorgiu. It discharged
in'one hour 1120 Iwlls, each weighing
five liundred weight. The distance of
the objectrffired at was eleven mien, and
so perfect was the engine, that the whole
of. these halls were loged in a space of
of twenty feet square.
According to the census just takenby
the order of government, the population
of Ncw-York amounts to 4,892,568 souls,
that of Philadelphia to 4,984,947, and
tire population of Washington" our capi
tal, exceeds six millions and a half. F
Our celebrated travellers, Dr. Clark
and baron Huntbold, have just arrived
from their researches into two of the
countries of ancient Europe. By means
of a new Invention, Dr. Clarke crossed
the Atlantic in seven days. He sailed
up the ancient river T hames, to a spot
which our antiquaries are now agreed,
must he the site of the once renowned'
city of London, but not a vestige of liu
irmi habitation remained. There exist
ed die mutilated portion of a granite arch,
which Dr. Clarke, conceived might be
the last remains of the once celebrated
bridge of Waterloo. * The doctor pro
needed further up the river, loan elevat
ed situation on the left bank, which com
manded a view-of a savage but delightful
scenery. This onr antiquary conjectured-'
might he the ancient ICiclunund Hill, hut
he could not procure u single coin or dis
cover any one object. of antiquarian re
search. Our traveller was extremely de
sirous of ascending the river yet higher,
in order to reach the ancient Windsor,
once the proud abode of England's mo.'
narclis, but he was so annoyed by the
tribes of savages, that he found impossi
ble to proceed. Ih ctor Clarke intends
next year to renew his travels in this
once glorious aud now almost forgotten
island; anil he will lake with hinyi body of
5 and 20 of the United Siates’s treops,
which will effectually, repel any force that
tlie savage inhabitants can bring'against
him. •
Our traveller baron Humkold directed
his researches to Fiance He discovered
the mouth of the ancient river Seville,
and attempted to ascend as far as the site
of the once famed city of Baris, but he
found the river 'entirely choked with
weeds; aud after he had proceeded about
thirty miles, the stream became a mcie
muddy brook, the baron, however, found
the inhabitants of the country so' inoffen
.• ivc & communicative, that he proceeded
by land, protected only by two servants &
three American sailors. The people
could give the baron no information what-'
ever,'Em seemed iiy far more ignorant
than 'he savages ot England; making up
for this ignoiance, however, by a clieei
fnlncss of .disposition at once admirable
and ridiculous. These poor Tiaibarians
appeared fond to excess of decorating
their heads and bodies with feathers and
skins dy ed in the most 'varied colours.—
The baron observed numberless groups of.
these people using the most ridiculous
grimaces & twisting the body into a doz
en ridiculous altitudes. They then be-’
gan to dance, an exercise which they
seemed*so attached to, that it appeared
tohe their only recreation. The musical
instrument to which these poor creatures
were so fimd of jumping and dancing,
was about two feet long, and consisted of
a hollow body, with a solid handle of a->
bout the same length, aud curved at the
extremity. It had four strings, extend
ing from the extremity of the handle,
beyond the middle of the {instrument so
celebrated amongst the Kuropiaus be
tween the sixteen and nineteenth centu
ries under the name of fiddle or violin;'
for the society of antiquarians, in their
last report, have given it as their decided
opinion that the.ancient liddle, viola, vio
lin, violincello, and bass-viol, were mere
ly different kinds of the same instrument;
and they very ably retiite Dr Camden’s
conjecture, that the violinof uucieut Eu
rope was an instrument of parchment and
hells, played upon by the knuckles —■
Vide reports of the dniiquat'iau Society of
New Fork, folio, ro/. 1783, p. 880. f
The late voyage of professor Wander-;
hageu to the moon took up a space of
nearly 7 months, hut the present espedi
lion, it is expected will take up much
less time. The body of the balloon will
be filled with the new gas discovered by
our chemist Dr. JLtherly, and which is
800 times lighter than the lightest gas
known to the ancient Europeans. The
balloon will not be circular, but a poly-,
gon of an infinity of angles, aud at each
i angle a pair of wings, all of which are
wo k- d with the greatest precis hm and fa
' edity, by the most simple bat beautiful
machinery. These (wings at once create \
a draft, and determine the direction of
the air at the will of the -Eronaut, whose
balloon is easily steered bv a newly con- ■
s'ructcd air-rudder. The boat of the bid ;
* The origin of this name of Water
ion is| r.ow irrecoverably losl,| urdess it
, ue a corruption of the terms water low,
or low water, the bridge perhaps having
been built at a spot of less depth than the
, contiguous part* of the river.
I f The ancient fiddle, with its cogno
men, or monosyllable prefixtures, was,
‘ we fancy, a low instrument, very gene
t rally played upon by the vulgar. Pro
• lessor You Vchnont conceives it to have
■ ''ceil not a stringed, but a windinstru
r n n* ; but this is little more than conjec
r lure.
, loon will contain twenty-Ate' persons, ami
provisions-tor twolve><ftpnth. fl foa
, bo .t has two immenae .self acting wings
which, like a bint's-condense the air un>
.dewieath the boat, so is to assist in sup
• porting the mactfioc.v The boat itself
; will be coveted with a paste made of the
; essence of cork, as a non-conductor ot
f heat; and professor Wanderbftgeo, buy
ing suffered so modi from the cold in Ins
previous voyage, will provide himself
■ with a store ol the ■“ condensed essence
I of caloric," a cubic inch of winch will
- keep up a brilliant light anti an intense
'.i heal for four and twenty hours.
The new mechanical steam boat left
, Philadelphia at eight in the evening of
•' the' 3d ultimo, and arrived at Parrys
[ burg, Greenland, at' noon on the sth, a
distance of 893-millcs inj 40,hours,, It
i cat riecl e'glilecn inside and twenty-seven
outside passengers, besides |a great quasi- -
I lity of luggage.
r
Jldvertitemcut.Shoi tly will be publish
ed, price two dollars, the Complete Far
tnei; shewing the art by which the earth
- is made to pioduce four-crops in the year,-
and the crops preserved from any possi
bilily of injury by seasonor weather.
' In the press and shortly will fee publish
ed, price one dollar, a Description ol the
Patent .Safety Machine, by means of which
Dr- Itorenum descended through tire cra
ter of a volcano, and discovered the cause
. of volcanic eruptions.
The present maturity Os the medical
science is beautifully displayed by ti.e last
report of our college physicians, By the
assistance of the optical glasses wj.ich en
able us to perceive minutely ail the n.ost
• secret functions cf the animal economy,*,
and perfect state of the various sciences
relating to medicines, the modern pbysi
cian ts not only able to recover the liuoran
body from the various attacks of disease,
but he is able to anticipate Its causes, ami
-prevent-its approach to a degree ol moral
certainty. But more even than this can
, be effected by the magic of modern sci
ence. Tire physician can prolong life to
treble (he time which was formerly con
sidered its natural,period of duration, and
can at once render the human body secure-.
' from disease and free ,from deformity.—
Those medicines which, with infallible se
curity, eii her totally prevent, or if not up
plied iu lime for prevention, will rapidly
cure the gout, stone, phthisis, pulinomdis,
and other disorders, are now known to all.
But dues nature make us fecb|e and di
minutive, the physician calculates means
by which he can effect the accrcation of
particles to the various parts of our bo
dies, and lb us render his patient perfect
in symmetry. Ifour teeth are not the mu
i del of peifection, they can be' extracted
1 Without pain, and by takiiig itibse' ele
ments cf which by analj sis'teeth; are found
tube composed, they may be fumed to
the standard of ideal beauty. Is cur vision
imperfect, the medicines which are found
to affect the size and--colour of eyes, are
applied, and in a week those organs' are
both beautiful and of perfect operation.—
Thus we are brought to a state of longe
vity, in which ourTorm and features have
■ no model but that formed by our own
ideas of perfection and beauty.
Once every thing was formed out of its
natural channel, and every country may be
>aid to have been in a sort of peaceful
siege. Now things are left to their own
level. The comii.co[principtcs of demand
and supply aic now acknowledged io re
gulate the markets much better than legis
tnrial calculations and interference. Un
man necessities and the common princi
ples of our nature are found to constitute
the best barometer of commercial policy,
and individuals are permitted to trade v\ ith
their own knowledge Ik calculations. Thus
we have no circuitous channel of commu
nication; no licensing, bonding; no un
loading to load again ; no entering one
port as a passport into another; no waste
of labor; man freely exchanges with man,
and the bounties of Providence arc dif
fused over the -whole earth.
l.ast year, no less than 734-vessels sail
edfrom Alaska, and the western coast of
, America through the channels separating
America from North Georgia and Green
land. ft is curious to reflect that the very
existence -of such a passage was a pro
blem of difficult solution to the Europe
ans from the 16th to the 19th centuries—
This was then called the north west pas
sage, .and was fust discovered by a naviga
tor ol groat celebrity amongst the ancient
English; but whether his name was-Parry,
or Croaker, it is now impossible to ascer
tain, from the imperfect stale of our re
ccrds ut that period.
A chemist, deeply read in the sciences
of the middle ages, the 18th and 19th cen
turies of the Christian xra, assures us that
the Englishmen of science about the year
ISOO plumed themselves much upon then
discovering the means isf making brilliant,
lights by re-flectuis,and the different gases
of oil and coal burnt in various dt-scripti
ons of lampc. Now these pigmies woo'd
: have hid (heir d'qmnisiied heads, coiild
they have foreseen our present perfection
In lighting the atmosphere, by .exciting at
i traction and motion among the ccn
■ siluent particles of light and heat. The
aerviineter of New York, at a (rilling ex
pense, produces a light in the atmospiure
ecpial to the brightest moon shine. So
that darkness is unknown to the moderns,
and we experience only the gia-.lalions
between the light of the moon and that
of the sun.
FROW THE BALTIMORE CUBOVICLE,
-TALMA AND KEAN.
It was always difficult to convey, by any
; general description, an adequate notion of
an actor’s excellence : however, there are
some circumstances which it is usual to
mention, in appreciating the talents of the
: artist, or the power 6f the performance
I have seen Cooke, Talma, Kean, Young,
Kemble, Miss O’ Nt-iH, Madam Dutches-i
nois, &c. I may safely hazard the asser
tion, that the French Roscius, possesses
; more of the advantages which constitute
perfect acting, thananyoneinthissplcm ii
enumeration. In the power, beauty al d
richness of his voice, Talma is inimitable r
• no one who has heard it can'ever forget its
, pa-he tic tone and expression. The aflec
- don, the tenderness, thccompassion which
- it so exquisitely expresses, are so perfect,
: -.hat the mind of the heaver is utterly s(tb
- deed by its resistless influence. Often, in
- the intervals, between the acts, I haveuma
giued that his voice was still making its 1
- ■ .< -.- t*
way to my fleart, and I xv'as in the Same
- state with our-first parent, in whose ear
the angel
< “So charming left bis voice, that he a
while
,« Thought him still speaking ; still stood
fix’d to liear.”
In expressing the influence of present
suffering, or the despair of settled grief,
Talma reminds you -of the heart rending
' misery he has endured, by the spectacle cl
an exhausted frame and subdued spirit. —
•flow completely he sustains the character
of profound wretchedness! the very act cf
speaking seems an exertion 100 great lor u
mind which has been bowed down by a
complication of suffering. Alas ! are not
the pomp of declamation and the aids by
which passion is wont to express its mise
ries and distraction, all disregarded in the
intensity of mental agory.
The genius of this great tragedian ap
• ■ pears to have united the efforts of antienl
Greece, in the sublime and matchless
sculpture. 'I have remarked that he has*
chosen, as the proper field for the display
of his powers, that moment the mind ap
i pears crushed under her presure of high.
, ly excited interest, when his misery and
• desolation, which no human fortitude can
sustain, and which no ray ol hope can ever
cheer. In other admired actors, the ex
pression of intense fccling-seenis confined
to a few words, to broken sentences and
sudden flashes of thought which do not
lay open before you the whole soul dftlie
sufferer, although they aflbi-J glimpses of
its avftil recesses.
- The impression on seeing Kean for the
first time, is much in his favour; his
strength of manner—-the decision of his
countenance —even (he rudeness ot his
gesture, mid hardiness of his voice, imply
a-tnimd. The first evening I saw him al Dm-,
> -ry Lane, was in the character of Sir Odes
Overreach, in that incongruous medley ot
melodramatic horrors ami low farce, the
“ New Way to pay Old Debts.” The part
of Sir Giles evinces no beauties ; it is fix
ed solidity of marble and of marble that,
gives no new vcining or sudden rich
ness of colour to the actor’s elaboiate
polishing. In the riot of the wilder and
more savage feelings, he joins with the
extravagant delight of a baibarian, danc
ing round the fire-where his prisoners are
i consuming.—Kean’s mimic agonies give
us the idea of that craving appetite which,,
-perhaps, lire whole earth is not made
to satisfy! lie giyes-it without its pain,
—and, looking on this man’s struggles. ,
we have at once the stirring aspect of the
storm, with the pleasing consciousness
that we have no share in its dangers—vre
enjoy the “ Stiaxe'mini ■ntiitfuo,'’ from a.
point of safety. . The actor’s sudden
change from tremulous rage to wild re-'
juicing, and his fainting in the arms of his
attendants, w hen detection -and disap
pointment had frenzied him, close with!
an effective display of his physical powers.
in Macbeth, he is admirable, during
that tempest ot more than midnight hor
ror, during which the 'turbulent strife of
human-vice and passion, howl continually
on our cars. I had seen Talma in Racine’s
finely drawn character of Orestes: I after
wards witnessed Kean’s performance in,
the same part (in the‘Distressed Mother.),
During the first acts ha was rather tame :
he appeared to reserve all his powers for
the explosion of madness, when the hor
rors of his fate assailed him,-and when he
seems to abandon himself in dark despair
to the wretchedness which closes forever
around him.—
Who that has ever-witnessed his perfor
mance in that soul rending scene, in which
Orestes laments the bitterness and misery
of his dreadful doom, will not sees his spir
its chilled by something like the gloom of
misantropy ?■ No pen can describe the hor
rid sliriek by which he announces the
destruction of reason and the agonies of
madness nor (lie wild horrifying maimer
in which he represents Orestes tortured
by ibe appalling visions which “ sear his
eye balls”—till human nature, exhausted
by such distraction, sinks into a calm even
more dreadful than the storm which had
proceeded it.
It appeared to me, that Kean did not
succeed in the performance of Hamlet j
he is undoubtedly deficient iu the suavity
and gracefulness, as well as in the dignity,
1 which are essential to the effectual repre
sentation of that accomplished and amia
ble personage. The tones of generous
exultation have, in his utterance, too close
a resemblance to the growlings of malev
olence. The scenes with the Ghost, Ro
sencrantz, and Ophelia, were certainly en
titled to the highest commendation—-but
a want of filial respect to his mother, and
the too frequently repeated action cf
pressing his hand to his forehead, appeared
to me great defects in his manner of per
to rating.
The lover of fine acting should witness
I
. the representation of the heart rtndings of
, jealousy in Kean’s Othello—his rage on
the discovery of his bloody dagger in, the
“ Iron Chest,” the “ laughing devil in Ins
sneer” in Richard ami his rapid transitions
from a patent idiocy to the state of reason,
in Brutus. I have never seen him in Kirg
Lear, as he was not allowed to personate
a loyal maniac while there lived one with
in luc precincts of \V iiulsot- Castle.
_ F. .1 I)
from the -V. York Commercial Advertiser,
November 8.
TuteAgu lutfcVUgfcncc.
The news of the most immed’ate inte
rest to our citizens, is that concerning the
corn market. There has been much bad
weather in some parts of England, and
great quantities of grain are doubtless in
jured. But there is little probability that
the ports will be opened. An average crop
has generally been sav ed. In Ireland, the
' apprehensions on account of the crops,
f had subsided, and in Scotland, the wheat
: is excellent, and well saved. In conse
i qneuce of these facts, we presume that
our six penny loaves, which so suddenly
• dwindled to the size of dumplings, will
, be increased to the good old loaf.
i Os the Continental news, that from
• Spain is the most important. The Cou
i rtev says that Kingdom is fast hastening
r to a revolution. The (actions grow eve
i ry dsy more fierce, and the country con
l vulseil with dissentions, consoiiacies and
civil war; and the King insulted, defied,
i andallimt dethroned.
Parliament has been further prorogued
i until the 9(h of November, and it is not
, expected that it will be assembled for the
actual dispatch of businesi until ljie latter
; end of January
The King was expected to leave London
i‘on hi 3 Continental lour, on tfic 22d of
September. He will land at Calais, where /
a distinguished member of the family of j
the king of France, will be ready to wgl- s
come him to the soil of France. His ma- I
jesty -will travel under the title of Earl of <
Dublin. The Urgency appointed during i
his absence, consists of the Duke of York, ]
the Aich Rfslrop of Canterbury, and the
cabinet minister's. 1
The King has expressed his disapproha- |
lion of the conduct of Sir Uobert Baker, I
on the day ofj.JTe Queen’s funeral, and be '
has consequently resigned. Richard Dir
nie, Esq. was appointed chief magistrate
in bis place. "
The papers are far froin Containing the
usual quantity of matter in relation to the
affairs df the Turks and Greeks. Russia,
it is rumored, is satisfied with the Turkish .
ansVver to the ultimatum. The news of
the Russian army having crossed the i’urth
is contradicted. Cut it is said, that the
large Russian force upon that river, keeps
the Tanks so much in fear of an attack
from that quarter, that they are unable lo
send forces lo the Morea, and that in con
sequence of this state of things the insur
rection advances favorably lo the Greeks
in that quarter
The Globe announces the receipt of Pa
ris .papers of the 1 Sth, containing a Turk
ish tlociunent, selling forth the be
uign and paternal protection which the
Sublime Forte has ever extended towards
all its subjects, and the Greeks in particu
lar; deplores and condemns the rebellious
conduct of the Gteeks, and forbids that
any violence or in jury /he offered to the
persons or property of the Greeks, ex
cept in cases of insubordination.
The French five per cents were 85f. 35c;
bank stock 15l8f. 75.
The Queen’s friends, who accompanied
her remains lo Brunswick, have all return
ed to London.
■Prince Ypsilanti has been struck out of
the Russian army list.
The wife of the late Empetfor Chrls
tophe and her two daughters, arrived in
the Downs on tire 14th, from Port-au-
Prince.
The Courts of Berlin and Saxony, have
put on mourning for the late Qveen of
England.
At a meeting of the proprietors of. the
Bank of 'England, a question was asked
respecting the new hank notes, when the
chairman answered that the result was an
entire failure.
Accounts from tire Maine to Sept. 7,
mention a report that several sovereigns
would meet at the end of September ul
Willemsbad, near Hanau, where the King
of England was expected.
■it is reported that an Englishman has,
by his will, left Madam Catalina 70,00.;/.
It is contemplated to establish a telegra
phic communication between Liverpool
and Holyhead orlloy.ake -
Lost)ox, Sept. 21.
** City 1 o’clock —“ This is a holiday
at the Slock Exchange. A great num
ber of brokers and jobbers have assem
bled about the Royal Exchange, hut no
sales whatever reported. Great in
terest, however are is ex'cited respecting
, the proceedings at the Bank .of England
yesterday, liom the silepce. of the Go
vernor when asked if the report of the
Bank shortly discounting at fourper cent
per annum, instead of five, the presfiit
rate, was true. It is inferred this import
ant measure is in contemplation, because,
had it been otherwise, a dii eel negative
would have been given.”
• Letters were this morning received
from Odessa, tlated 24th ull. They en
tirely relate to commercial affaiis; and
so little do they enter into speculation
relating to hostilities, that two we have
seen make no mention of Baron Strogo
noff, or of the Rnssian armies. A foreign
vessel had arrived from Constantinople.
The Porte freaely allowed the passage of
the Dardanelles to vessels laden with
corn, and they chose to unload at Con
stant inople, tl e Government price was
8J piastres, formerly 9.
We have received, this morning the
Paris Papers of Monday and Tuesday last.
Their contents are of considerable im
portance, particularly in what relatest
Spain, where factious grew every day
more fierce, and the revolution sc t ins
hourly hastening to that close which eve
ry unprejndied observA; who marked l(s
origin and watched it progess, must have
anticipated. Scene by scene, and not by
act, the drama has gone on, developing
its plot and unfolding ils characters with
as much consistency us the most skilfully
constructed tragedy. What is now the
situation of the counlrv, and vital the
situation of the King? The former is
convulsed with dissections, conspiracies
and civil war; the latter, insulted, defied,
and ad but dethroned. The very copious
extracts which we have given preclude
us lo day from entering more largely up
on the ominous aspect of affairs in that
country; but our readers need only peruse
the intelligence we lay! dure them. July
to appreciate a crisis which appears iu
fvilahle.—Courier,
The papers also contain a Turkish doc
ument of some interest, though it is too
long to give today. We allude lo the
Manifesto of the Grand Seignior, which
\V;,s published in the Austrian Observer
of the 7th instant. It is dated the mid
dle of last month, and addressed In ail
the Grand Viziers, Mirimans, Mullahs,
Way vodes, and other public functionaru a
of the Oltoman Government. The pur
port of this Manifesto, is, to set forth the
benign and paternal protection v hich the
Sublime Porte h* ever extended towards
all its subjects, and towards life Greeks
in particular; to deplore and condemn
the rebellious conduct of the latter in
certain provinces of the empire; and last
ly, which is the most important part of
the document, lo forbid that any violence
or injury should he offered to the per
sons op property of the Greeks, except
in cases of positive insubordination. Any !
public officer, or Oliver individual, violat
ing this injunction, is threatened with 1
tlie penal displeasure of the Grand Seig
nior. What practical effect may result
from this declaration in favor of the unof
fending Greeks, it might he hazardous
to conjecture. We can only hope that 1
it will check those wanton massacres and
indignites, the details of which have late
ly been so afffic mg to humanity.
The news from Constantinople is to the
13th uii. when iranquility continued pre j
vail in that capital. Twenty of the male- ! 1
factors, who had been daily occupied in
committing massacres,|had been executed,
and a hundred sentenced to the bastina
do.
Paris, Sept. 18.
M. the Duke de Chartre, Firs' Gent e
man of the King’s Chamber, left Pads
t
V* a > for -i -■
port h.s Britannic Majesty is eser'
shortly to arrive. Toe' Duke i s £
by las Sovereign with a mission to'
come the King of Great Britain at
moment of hui landing cn Uio so
I ranee.— .Moniteur,
U appears certain that the Kin? of
land will quit Calais, instantly on lan
tor Brussels; and that is only on hi
turn from Hanover, that this Monarc!
visit Paris.— Jow ml de Paris.
M. IMulij> teen, the English )Coi
who has been compelled to quit Pari
now at Marseilles.— Courier Frown*.
1 una\ —Fi\e per e
shut on the 4th instant, 88f 2uc- .1
the opening ' the'22d instant,. Ms
.Dank Stock, 15481* 75c,
From the London tnuu<ref : Sept.'l
We have received this moAnne Mu
Papers to the 6th instant. They are
communicative thanthe French Joum
to the actual suit of that coimtv , bu
subjoin one or two ext rats— ' ’
Madrid, Sept
“An exp-ess [fiom Sarragosa, a
arrived here yts erday, gave rise U
ports, which, in our opinion, do not
on aiiy sufficient foundation, since,
tlie Proclamation of the- Political C
of that city, it only appears th-yut
are ill-disposed persons; who isti
standing the bad success of Merino,
otlicis of his stamp, pretend to si,
Irom us the sacred code, which.is the
of virtuous minds
[Here follows the Proclamation,".-
We have already published ]
“ it will not he lung before vs
have data to clear up the express'*:
his purposes; meantime, every be
forming conjectures. General Uiago
said, is gone to I.erida, by order i,l
Go. eminent, and Gen. Morll o hast
the military command for the preset,
“ This evening the troops if thei
son have been under arms, mid m:ml
detachments i f the National Guard
patroled the strec.s ts this capital,
supposed that the cause of yhe ciit
lions is connected with the e’eiits al
ragossa, cf which we have spoken a
It seems that the Permanent De
tion of the Cortes is to meSt lo i
for the purp' sc cf informing itself i
result of the journey cf the Minis
the Colonies to the Change, and Lk
necessary measures accordingly.
“heveial citizens, it is said,trill pt
to night a representation lo ilieTiun
lily that this body may request his N
ty lo return lo this capital.
From the Loudon Conner, Sept. 1
The following aic extracts from
papers;—
PAMS, Sept.
A letter from Lisle, dated the 9
stunt says, orders Iron) the Coven
have been received at Calais, to inal
necessary preparations in Uiai port t
reception of his majesty the K
England, who is expected In the c
of next week —Journal de Pans
The King of England will procec
reel to Hanover. It it supposed
thence he will go to Vienna, and that
only, on his return to England h
will pass through Paris. Accft.di
private accounts, however the visit
Britannic Majesty to Vienna, is n
quite decided upon— Comi,tu:imul
A Journal cf the North (says /the
lidieniie) cites the to li winppassaj
letter from the Emperor Akxam
the Emperor of Ausstia ; “ All my
ly, including jmy mother, my am
my subjects, demand wai; 1 alone a
peace; and 1 will proil that that lan
peror.”
MADillD.Sep
Extract cf a private letter in the
tear
“It is now ten o’clock at night
some ferment prevails in the cjpit
shall state to you wlia* gaveri.se U
Yesterday, a courier arrived, IVcm'Sa
sa, with despatches for the Govern
the contents of which were not a
publicly known A few hours attei >
an eslaf.ille was dispatched with an
to General Hi ego to give up the in
command ot Arragov, end to retire I
riila, where he would be under di
ders of the government To day a:
courier l as arrived from Siring ssa
despatches were of such urportuiic
they occdfioaetl tits assembling o
permanent dVputa'io.i, which join
Ministerial Council, r.nd they held i
sitting log: 1110.' The r.S.vs afte;
circulated that die political chief of
goss.i dee'rncd it expedient to cause
Kiego to be arrested; that that to'.' ■
liie entire province were m a s
gtei.t commotion, and that several
ol troops had received orders to I
upon Arraijo.*. 1 hjre is -team n
and, that Hu go ii.adin v.tw t > p»
seif at tin. head ot a Republic, ihi
Fcntsinu is crowded; the leauitig o
zealously defend tiic cause cl 1
whose conduct andp'ir.cip.cJthey
cate against the n-ir.uuredin.puta
Numerous palrcles jaiate the si
Tire political chief, who owes ms
solely to.ihe court he pays I .') t' ; '
gogues, has just haranguctl
the I’uerla de Sol
Mr Leach, V,cc Cha tf
land, is momenta! ity i-xy octet. r
capi.aij he has left London, clung
an important mission lo our Govcuu
IRUiV, Sept
From the Gazette de France-
During some days past, it was.*a.:
that a secret faction had it in vie l ' 4
tiirow the Government. juts,
thrown at the military several e ' :i
successively ; a grenade was ja,' cu
the promenade, and many siuiil
made to excite disorder. On 'he --
groups of the citizens in difbrtiu
tors, cried ‘ A republic forever, a*
cited much alarm. On the tbduvvW
an individual named Vilhunoi, *
designated as the principle '
faction was taken into custody. " - 111
sure hail the effect of cairoing -
agitation.
On rhe 21st, an extraordinary
arrived from Madi'id, bringing
sa 1 of Kiego, and an order &r
lure of the Regiment calledthe ‘C'r
tion, and orders to several ofiicei^ 1
corns to uroceed instantly to oer l **-
eified places. General Riego w'
nwndea to repair to Lerida, aou >
tical Cliief was authorized to
provisionally the civil and military
ous of the province.
Kiego, who was at BujaramZi “
lug'ics from Saragossa, •tcame