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Extract from the 2*l volume of La <
fane* Journal of the private life
mil conversations of the Emperor
.Yupoleon at St. Helena.
“ On one occasion, when the Eng
lish ministerial newspaper spoke of the
lai-e treasure which Napoleon must
possess, and which he no doubt con
cealed, the Emperor dictated as fol
lows :
“ You wish to know the treasures
‘ifNapoleon r They are immense, it
is true, hut they are all exposed to
light. They are : The noble harbors
oE.ntwerp and Flushing which arc
capable of containing the largest fleets,
and of protecting them against the ice
from the sea —the hydraulic works at
Dunkirk, Havre and Nice—the im
iaen.se harbor of Cherbourg—the mar
ntime works of Venice —the beautiful
roads from Antwerp to Amsterdam ;
from Mentz,from Bordeaux to Bayonne,
the passes of the Simplon, of Mount
C'enis, of Mount Geneve, of the Cor
niche, which open a communication
through the Alps, to four different di
rections ; and which exceed Th gran
deur and boldness, and in skill ol ex
ecution, all the works of the Romans;
in that alone you will find eight hun
dred millions; —the roads from the
Pyrenees to the Alps, from Parma to
Spezia, from Savona to Piedmont —
the bridges of Jena, Austerlitz, Des
Arts, Sevres, Tours, Rouenne, Lyons,
Turin, of the Gere, of the Durance,
of Bordeaux, Rouen, &c.—the canal
which connects the Rhine with the
Rhone by the Doubs, and thus unites
the North Sea with the Mediterranean;
the renal which connects the Scheldt
with the Somme, I bind thus joins Paris
and Amsterdam ; the canal which
unites the Ranee to the Vilaine, the
canal of Arles, that of Pavia, and the
canal of the Rhine—the draining off
of the Marshes of Burgoine, of the
Cotentin, of Rochefort —the rebuild
ing of the greater number of the chur
ches destroyed during the Revolution
—-the building of others—the institu
tion of numerous establishments ol in
dustry, for the suppression of inendi
citv——tlic building of the Louvre—
the construction of public w arehouses,
of the Bank, of the canal of the Ourck
—(lie disiribution of water hi the city
of Paris—the numerous drains, the
quaye, the embellishments, and the
monuments of that large capital—the
works for the embellishment of Rome
—the re-establislnnen, of themanufac- ’
timers of Lyons—the creation of ma
ny hundreds of manufactories of cot- !
ton, for spinning ami for weaving,
vvhich’empUy several millions ol work
men—funds accumulated to estab
lish upwards of 400 manufactories of
sugar from beet roots, lor the con
sumption of part of France, and w hich
would have furnished sugar at the
same price as the West-Indies, if they
had i ontinued to receive encourage
ment for only four years longer—the
substitution of woad for indigo, which
would have been at. least brought to a
state of perfection in France, ajul ob
tained as good and as cheap as the in
digo from the Colonies—numerous
manufactories for all kinds of objects
of art, &e.—fifty millions expended in
repairing and beautifying the palaces
belonging to the crown —6xty mill
ions in furniture for the palaces be
longing to the Crown in Fiance and
in Holland, at Turin, and at Rome —
sixty millions of diamonds for the
Crow n, all purchased with Napoleon’s
money — the Regent (the only diamond
that was left belonging to the former
diamonds of the Crown) withdrawn
from the hands of the Jews at Berlin,
in whose hands it had been left as a j
pledge lor three millions. The Napo
icon Museum, valued at upwards of
400,000,000, filled with objects legiti
mately acquired, either by money or
treaties of peace know n to the whole
world, by virtue of which the chefs d’
oeuvres it contains were given in lieu
of territory, or contributions. Seve
ral millions umasscu to be applied to
the encouragement ol agriculture,
which is the paramount consideration
for the interest of France; the intro
duction in France of Merino Sheep,
&c. these form a treasure ol several
thousand millions, which will endure
for ages! these arc the monument
that will confute calumny !
“ History will say that all these
things w ere accomplished in the midst
of perpetual wars, without having re
source to any loan, and whilst the na
tional debt was even diminishing eve
ry day, and that nearly fifty millions
of tuxes had been remitted/’
WASHINGTON CITY.
Respecting the state of the Pub
lic Buildings, and the Capitol, as
the principal one, considerable pro
gress has been made, during the
season, towards the completion of
this magnificent edifice. The in
terior ceiling of the great central
dome is finished —a tY.ore exten
sive labour than any one can well
conceive who has not seen it—and
the scaffolding is struck. This
i great hall cannot be completed at
once, because of the sculpture of
the entablature [we believe it is
called] which surrounds the hall
and forms the base from which the
dome springs; but this work is ra
pidly advancing. The rooms in
the back part of the building are
mostly plaistered and painted, and
the Ofiice of the Clerk of the House
of Representatives, is removed in
to a suit of these rooms, which
have been handsomely fitted up for
its reception. The spacious and
elegant room which is to receive
the Library is also nearly finished.
—The alteration has been comple
ted in the Representatives’ Cham
ber, to make room for the addi
tional members who come in under
the new census, and does not de
tract from, as we apprehended, but
rather increases the beauty of the
Hall. Other alterations are making
in the lobby to establish an easy
and appropriate communication be
tween the Hall of Representatives
and the Clerks Office in the central
building. Whilst these things are
going on within the edifice, the
work without has not been neglect
ed. The exterior of the great
dome lias been finished, and the
basement of the extensive eastern
portico and colonnade has been
reared to a level with the principal
floor.
The improvement also which
was ordered at the last session for
the President’s House, has been
executed with much promptitude,
and the noble circular colonnade
on the south front of that building
has advanced almost to completion.
This fine building now wants only
the northern portico to give it all
the beauty of its original design,
and we trust Congress will not suf
fer it to remain another year with
out giving to it this finishing orna
ment.
T hat portion of the City Hall
which was obtained by the govern
ment for the use of the Circuit
Court has been finished, and the
Court, with all its offices, removed
thither. Other apartments are
preparing for the Orphan’s Court
of die County, and others still, for
professional offices, &c. The sum
of §9OOO has been expended in fill
ing up the low grounds on the Ti
ber ; much progress has been made
on the new route to which the Ca
nal is to be removed, and in a year
or two, the extensive tract in front
of the Capitol, heretofore a great
part of it a swamp, will offer to
the view the Botanic Garden, and
a planted and ornamented Mall.
In the City, within the past sea
son, sixty private buildings, many
of them large and handsome hous
es, have been erected. Anew
Baptist Church and an African
Church have also been added to
the fourteen places oi public wor
ship which the city already con
tained. Besides these public edi
fices, a large building lias been
reared opposite the Department of
Slate for the Branch of the United
States’ Bank, which, when finished,
will form a conspicuous ornamennt
to the city. Several new wharves
have been built, indicating that our
commerce is growing—new streets
haie been opened and old ones im
proved ; amongst them, the cir
cular avenue around the Capitol is
opening to twice its former width,
and the facilities of communication
generally throughout the city have
been extended and improved.
•A ‘at. Intel.
New Novel. —A work entitled
“ Randolph,” by the author of k Lo
gan’ and ‘ Seventy-Six,’ ha* recent
ly issued from the press, and ex
cites not a little interest in the lite
rary world. The merits and de
merits of the most eminent Ameri
can writers, statesmen, poets, pain
ters, he. are discussed in it, with
the freedom and acrimony of a cri
tic. The author has given a full
ledgth character, of Paul Allen,
Washington Irvine, Paulding, Ev
erett, Pierpont, Dana, Percival,
Walsh,Walters, and a slight sketch
of Mr. Hall, Editor of the Port Po
lio, together with a number of oth
ers. In writing of these persona
ges, his pea appears to have been
dipped in gall, particularly when
writing of the late W ill!am Pink
ney, whose fame as an orator and
a statesman he assails in a spirit
of inveterate *ialicc. After having
travelled through Mr. Pinkney s
life, and displayed all his faults,
whilst he carefully conceals his
merits, he remarks;
“ Since this was written, the .s*?-
rtfl<ha3 gone down, Hie a. giant, to
the household of death. There let
the fire of his great heart, the dust
of his mightv brain, sleep undis
turbed. I have looked over all,
but I cannot alter it. Much as I
tremble to stir the ashes of such
men ; unwilling as I am to put out
my hand upon the pall that shrouds
him, and all his anointed faults—
yet I must do it. What I have
written of him was written in truth
and soberness, whilst he was lord
ing it over all his cotemporaries;
and were I to blot out that, no hon
est testimony would remain upon
record for men to appeal to, when
I am where he is, abiding their
judgment in silence. Ilis friends,
and those that love him, would
make him something more than a
great man, his enemies something
less. 1, who have been neither his
friend nor his enemy, have told the
truth. No other man has ; I never
saw the truth written of him. Yes !
I have told the truth , but I would
blot it out. I would at this mo
ment,in tenderness and compassion
to them that tremble when his name
is mentioned irreverently, were it
notin my opinion the duty of eve
ry man that loves the rising spirit
of our country, to caution our young
speakers against the eloquence of
William Pinkney , at the same
time he lifts up his voice with the
wise and deliberate, in praise of his
greatness as a lawyer ; his learning;
his industry , his untiring ambition;
and calls upon them to remember
that,and prostrate themselves be
fore him ; hut to beware of his style
of elocution.” •
Raleigh Rcg-.vtcr.
Toleration. — Mr. Ilume lately’
presented a petition to the British
House of Commons, of great im
portance, and which, although it
did not lead to any parliamentary
result, will produce a serious im
pression on the public mind. The
object of this petition, which was
signed by more than two thousand
persons belonging to the different
Religious denominations, and par
ticularly by ninety-eight Evangeli
cal Ministers, is, that the discuss
ion of theological subjects shall
henceforth be completely free : and
that all writings on this subject
shall lie no longer subject to prose
cution.
A Chinese method of propoga
ting fruit trees ought to be gener
ally known as a ready and safe me
thod of obtaining early bearing
trees it is thus : Select a limb of a
bearing tree, and cut out a ring of
the bark about a quarter of an inch
wide, and circling about three
quarters of the limb, leaving the
other quarter untouched—-Take,
then, green moss twisted lightly
into a cord anil wind it round the
outward part of the naked, wood,
and close to it, until gathered into
a ball from tnree to six or eight in
ches in diameter. Wet it well, and
hang over it a calabash kept full of
water with a small hole in the bot
tom so as to let only a slow Lut
constant dropping fall on the ball
of moss, for the purpose of keeping
it wet. This will soon extract
roots from the bark under the moss
whose connection is cut off from
the tree, and which will he seen
coming through the moss ; then
saw off the limb in the ringed
part and bury it with the moss as
it stands. This will quickly be
come a bearing tree. Leave the
joining or uncut part of the bark
on the uppermost part of the limb.
Hast Florida Iferald.
Some parcels of the Palm Oil seed
or nut in a very fresh state, have been
presented by Col. Gadsden to the Ag
ricultural and Political Society of
this city. They were procured from
the Western Coast of Africa, where
the trees is highly valued by the Na
tives the nuts affording them a twofold
supply, first of an oil exfracted from
the outer coat, aad next an interior
pith or substance analogous to lard or
butter, which they use in the piepa
ration of their food. A committee
has been formed to distribute the seed
and it is confidently hoped that the
uee may be naturalized in a warm
and genial climate. Persons wish
ing to supply themselves with this
seed, can procure it by applying to
Mr. Mitchell or I)r. Simmons.
H F. Jhrald.
KuttiUgnice.
Capt. Ellis, of the brig Prudent, ar
rived at Boston from Malaga, furnish
es accounts to the 21st of September.
The French troops left that place in
the night about four (lays previous to
his departure,but it was not known
where they had gone. All communi
cation had been cut ofl between Ca
diz and Malaga. Capt. Ellis states
thathewas in the vicinity of Cadiz
for several days, in light foggy weath
er, and heard a continual firing of can
non.
A letter from Malaga of the 20th
Sept, says—“ lam sorry to state that
the war wears now more than ever the
character of a civil war, as the forces
of the French are not adequate to
their views. Gen. Riego left this place
with 4 or 5000 men on the 3d for the
interior, and although the French and
Spanish royal troops, amounting to
more than 10,000 men, followed him
in every direction, and had shut him
up in this neighbourhood, lie lias got
clear by terrible and daily fights, and
we have acconnts to day of his being
in the Catalonia with a very coura
geous, though small body of troops,
equal to what he took from hence, as
many have joined him alter the losses
he must have experfenced. I have
hardly any time to say more, as the
master of the brig Prudent is now
going on board. We are anxiously
waiting the end of the present con
test. —in the mean time, trade, tran
quility and confidence have lied
away.”
The foregoing intelligence is not
only corroborated, but a still more fa
\orablc aspect of the affairs of Spain,
presented by the following note iroin
the American Consul, at Malaga, pre
sented to Capt. Ellis, just on the eve
of his departure —“ News has just
reached us that Riego after giving the
French a complete beating in the
streets of Jaen, leaving 700 of them
dead, besides wounded, proceeded on
his march and was in a village called
La Carolina, rapidly marching to
wards Madrid: and was in expecta
tion of joining with Martin, the Em
pecinado; and but little doubt re
mains that he is at this moment with
in a few leaguesof the capital of Spain.
The authorities of this place, spread a
report two days since, that he was
captured, but it was merely to deceive
the ignorant, and keep alive the hopes
of the Serviles, more properly called
the Banditti of Spain. If the govern
ment in Cadiz remain firm a very short
time longer, the face of affairs in this
unhappy country will wear a different
aspect, and F'-urope may have to thank
Spain for saving all the continent from
despotism worse than death. The
conduct of Riego, while in this place,
has been reported in the Gibraltar
Chronicle in a base ard shameful light
and false in every respect. He acted
like a gallant so’dier and a firm unsha
ken patriot, and among all the Gener
als in Spain, he alone proved himself
capable of acting for his unfortunate
country in the true sty le. of the old
Romans.”
A letter from Gibraltar of the
9th Sept, says :—“ Mr. Nelson, our
Ambassador, after making several
ineffectual attempts to reach Cadiz,
sailed yesterday with our squadron
for Mahon to pass a month or so.”
Another letter dated 12, says :
Sir Robert Wilson was not then
employed—he says that the Span
iards were much chagrined at the
loss of the Trocadero,it was taken
by surprise at 2 in the morning,
with a trifling loss to the French.
The Spaniards lost about 800 pris
oners, and 50 pieces of cannon,most
of them mounted.
Gen. Oliva, the commanding
General at Cadiz has returned from
a conference with the Duke d’-
Angoulenie, while he was writing.
He had asked for a suspension of
hostilities and proposed treating,
but the Duke refused, unless the
King was preyiouslv set at liberty,
and the Isla , put in possession of
the French,these ignominious terms
were rejected.
Accounts from St. Lucar, near
Cadiz, of the 9th Sept, confirm the
accounts of the fall of the Trocade
ro, but say that it was sold by the
governor for S7O,(XX), and that the
garrison finding he intended sur
rendering ; hung him up without
ceremony, as an example to traitors
and defeated the F'rench in their at
tack on the 26th with the loss of
1000 men in killed and wounded.
Portugal. —Late accounts re
ceivedat Gibraltar represent Por
tugal in a very unsettled state and
on the eve of a counter revolution.
By a letter from Smyrna of the 17th
.July, received at Boston, it appears
that the Europeans there and at Con
stantinople begin to feel their situa-
turn father dangerous, in C3n - ?
of the accounts of the variou*
sc notions in England in aiji *>
Greeks, the London Moetin, ■ ‘[
Speeches, ike. on the occasion h
been received at Constantinonl?™*
translated into the Turkish ij, , *■*
for the Grand Seignior. ‘ 4l ßt
BY ENOS AYHES.
fit B 7u e Ch °’ ‘I 6 have rece * v ed t
file of Buenos Ayres papers J,
August 13. The Congress h
thorised the Executive t 0 r ■!“
the Convention concluded with?
Spanish Commissioners on the v
of July last, and has also ado 2
the project to support Spain i,‘,
struggle against the French 7
sion, with the sum of 20 milli o 7
dollars, to lie furnished by the i°
dependent states of South America
as soon as the said convention shall
be ratified, and the independence
of the States shall be acknowled^
by the mother country. The P ro
vince of Tucaman has also acceded
to this Convention.
The finances appear to be in
prosperous state, as the revenue
for the last six months of the C | ir .
rent year exceeded the expenses L
several hundred thousand dollars
The interior of the country isVt
disturbed by armed bands, who an.
noy and occasionally plunder the
unprotected inhabitants of the
plains.
A letter from St. Salvador, of
Aug. 24th,states that nearly halfthe
Portuguese fleet, consisting of8!
sail, have returned prizes to Lord
Cochrane.
Most of the old Portuguese
who were partizans of the mother
country have fled to Lisbon.
Brazil. —lt is stated in a late
French paper, that the Emperor of
Austria and Russia, and the King
of Prussia have refused to acknowl
edge the claims of Pedro I. Empe
ror of Brazil, to that title and At
independence of that country, un
til it should be acknowledged bytk
King of Portugal.
MEXICO.
A gentleman arrived at Baltimore
from the City of Mexico, informs tint
there was a commotion there on the
27th Sept, which excited much alarm,
and that on the 2d Oct. a formidable
conspiracy was discovered, in wlm
many military chiefs were united to
subvert the existing- government-tin
issue was unknown. Oxaca still per
sisted in declaring its independence
of other Provinces, and the whole em
pire was partially divided and distrac
ted—business dull. The Mexican
treasury empty; the loan of g2o,ooft
-000 contracted for with a house it
London, was still the subject of dis
cussion, and its negociation was uni
versally thought impracticable.
Great Product. —Mr. George
Reese, who planted an acre of Up
land for a premium offered hvthe
Pendleton Farmer’s Society ta
raised ninety-seven bushels of
corn.
Mr. Murphy, who planted ai
acre ol low ground with the saint
view, raised one-hundred and sir
bushels of corn.
Hamburg Gazette•
Great crop. —Capt. Peter J. Boyn
ton, ot Shelburn in this County,rai
sed the past season, upon three
acres and one tenth cf an acre ot
land, two hundred and fifteen bush
els of winter wheat.
Burlington (Vt.) St
Tlia town of Eaton against the iroi 1
for Corn and Potatoes!!
At the late “ Show and Fair,” 85 )’
the Madison county (N. V.) Observer’
benjamin Bartlett produced
torv proof,” that he raised one hun r0 ’
and seventy-four bushels of corn up" 11
an acre of land, and also, that he w'*
ed three hundred and five and a
bushels of potatoes, upon one had .
of land, for which he received the t ‘
premiums. To the lovers ol J o ' l ” I '',
cake, and to the sons of swatelrO‘ aIK ”
this must be cheering news. ‘
who are unacquainted w ith the ‘ c ‘ 1 ‘
ty of our soil, may feel disp* 1 ’ 1
doubt the above, but every
will be removed by referring *° *
Bartlett, who is an experienced ®*
culturalist, and who will e\p| illl!
process and the mode of cuH ure _
which these enormous crops “ cie >
duced.
Munificent
understood that John McLw 11
deceased, has bequeathed tn®
of One Hundred Thousand
in aid of the Massachusetts ,c
| ral Hospital.