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ndilitional naval force is \ reputing “ n 3 I'adtT all these circumstan r*° r - S tth similar feelings .ami views a'fi „ „ ar t of the two nations, an al j e L'nited States is not an improbable event- Tt u said that two decrees have been i „nn bv order ot the king ot S, .evoking the celebrated Port M ' arv Decree, declaring his mten- L Ml lit a general amnesty, with *,(ill to glam. <* J , | . .in exceptions, and acknowledge a> ‘ t| ie whole of the debt contracted ip Bto 8 to the period of the departure of “tie Foreign ministers troui Madrid. -she following account which is gi ven as authentic, is calculated to . (ite the most serious reflections ot hor -1 It is stated in accounts Irom lluadalaxana, that a colonel of the corps of the Kmancipado, having been broUtin a prisoner, it was with diffi cult v he reached the prison ; the peo [e w ith loud cries, demanded that heGovernor should deliver him up to iheir vengeance, if he would not sac r;(ice himself. He had the cruel weakness to have the gates ot the pri son opened : the people seized the Colonel, dragged him through the gt reets with a rope about his neck ; led him out of the city, put out his eves, cut off his nose and ears, and hist of all his head. Sir It. Wilson ami Gen. Lallemand have proceeded to England. FitOM HAVANA. A French frigate arrived ofFthe port on the 9th Dec. with instructions for re-establishing the Royal Government. On the 10th she entered, firing a sa lute, which was answered by the ship ping and forts. On the same day the K/inir was proclaimed in the Cathe dral, in the presence of the Governor and all the principal officers of Hava na, who were escorted by a part of the Catalonia, Taragona, and Malaga re giments of foot. Salutes were repeat ed from all the forts, the town illumi nated, &c. The old regulations went into immediate operation. No smiles were seen from the friends ot the Con stitution. A double guard was placed in the city, and all the taverns and coffee-houses were ordered to be clos ed at five o’clock. Ratting —We are told that Dom itian used to amuse himself by killing fleas with a bodkin, and one of the Bourbon family passed his idle hours in shooting passengers in the street from the top of his palace. Very innocent past-time truly, and roval sport compared to a disgust ing species of amusement, which is dailv gaining ground in the sporting circles of England. We observe i t stated in a Liverpool paper that a young gentleman named Wedgsbu ry under twelve years of age, son to the notorious clog fancier “ Old Sum Wedgsbury” has undertaken to kill thirty rats with his teeth in eight minutes, and his papa and friends are ready to back this child of promise against any 241 b. dog in the kingdom—an interesting, re fined and national exhibition. More Piracy. —The schr. Betsy, Dennis, arrived at Georgetown, South Carolina, on the 6th inst. from St. Thomas ami Turks Island. The edi tors of the Winvaw Intelligencer have furnished us the following extract from her logbook:—“ The lTth Nov. two hours out from St. Thomas, the Betsy was attacked by a small boat manned with six negroes and a mul latto. When within pistol shot, seve- # ral muskets were discharged at us,and kept up briskly for an hour. We were before the wind ; bnt by their rowing >nd sailing they kept even pace,pour ing their balls into the cabin windows and rigging, demanding our surrender, threatening at the same time tc kill every soul on board. We received ten ball# in the main sail, and several in the foresail. The first shot came through the cabin window, passed be tween the captain’s legs, and lodged in the bulk head. The crew managed to barricade the helmsman to ward off the bullets, then turned their attention G getting out ballast stones, in order to sink the boat should they gain the V’ssel, as there was not ugun on bo ird. ortunately the wind sprung up at Jnght, and we lost sight of her.” New York, Dec. 15. A number of Citizens wishing to manifest their sympathy and respect <>i the Deputies of the late Spanish “ites, who have reached this city, in miated to them a desire that they ••ould accept ot a public dinner; u to, npliinei,t which,under existing ctr ®Umstances, they felt compelled to > u ine—-not, however without nc n<n\ I edging their deep sense of the “°! ‘'‘tended them, and the feelings ‘ vl “ch had prompted it. sot A W EDiVKSDAY, JAN. 14. Wr learn says the New-York Mercantile, Advertiser thnt British Oovernment has actually made a formal tender of her services, and solemnly pledged all the aid in her power to such measures as our liovernment mav adopt in resistance to the Allied Powers of the Con tinent of Europe against the rightsoftke South \inerican States. OHIO.—The Legislature of this State is now in session. It is a mntter of astonishment, that the State containing 600,000 freemen, should only have one Native in its Legislature. The following summary is made from a list of the members of that body, w ith the places of birth attached : In Pennsylvania 27, Virginia 16, New Jersey 14, Connecticut 10, New-York 6, Maryland 6, Massa chusetts 5, Rhode-Island 2, Ver mont 2, SouthrCarolina 2, New- Hampshire 2, North-C.arolina 1, Kentucky 1, Ireland 5, and Ohio 1, Proposals have been issued by Messrs. Flea snnts k Butler, for anew paper, to be publish ed at Richmond, Va. under ihe name of, “ The Constitutional Whig.” It proposes to support the p-etensions of Mr. Adams to the Presidency of the United States. A Curiosity !—The following is the direction of a letter lately left in a neighbouring Post Office. To William Wall Living in Tatling County Near the Dead River Meeting House in Georgia State These jgf To Forward the Same to the Hand ofa Woman Who was Once Calle • Clary Foy A Daughter of Bathsheba Jones Midwife. The Greeks. —The methodist and other Religious denominations in New York announce, that collections will be taken up in their respective church es, for the benefit of the heroic but op pressed Greeks. We perceive, by certain proceed ings published in the newspapers, that “a national Convention of the Manu facturers of the United States/’ is to be held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday, the 14th day of January next. The object is “to devise means for the relief of the manufacturing in terest of the Ui.ited States from its present depression.”— Nat. Int. AN ACT. To establish an Office for recording Births of the citizens of this State in each County of the said State. Whereas, much inconeenience has been experienced in this state from the difficulty of obtaining tes timony of the ages of persons inte rested in questions of rights before our courts: And whereas, embar rassing difficulties frequently im pede the correct administration of justice on this subject; For remedy whereof, Be it enacted &Y. That from and immediately after the passage of this act, it shall be made the duty of the clerks of the Courts of Or dinary in each county respectively, to enter and register in a book to be kept for that purpose, the names of all persons who may report them selves to him, or who may be re ported by their parents or guardi ans, as well as all those who may be hereafter born within the sarid county, and who may be reported as aforesaid, upon due proof being made by affidavit or oath to the said clerk of said birth , and that the said clerk shall be entitled to take and receive for each registry which he shall be called on to make, the sum of twenty-five cents. Sec. 2. That the parents or guar dians of children now in life, or who may be hereafter born, may upon application to the clerk of the Court ol ordinary aforesaid, and upon payment of the aforesaid sum to the said clerk, require him to enter the name of the said child, with the time and place ot his or her birth. Sec. 3. That the said clerk shall forfeit and pay the sum ot five dol lars for each and every refusal to enter the said births as aforesaid upon such application as aforesaid being made. Sec. 4. That the said entry so as aforesaid made shall be received and held as evidence of the birth and age of such persons as its pur ports to represent in any court ol law or equity in this state, by the production either of the original hook of entry or ol the certificate of the same under the hand and seal of the said clerk ; and for which certificate the said clerk shall re ceive twenty-five cents. Approved Dec. 19, 18:23. G. M. TROUP, Governor, MR JEFFERSON TO MR. ADAMS. We are proud of being able to present to our readers the following copy ofa letter from Mr. Jefferson to Mr. Adams, so truly characteris tic ot that venerable patriot and philanthropist. It is copied from the Boston Patriot. Nat. Intel. Monticello, Oct. 12,1823. Dear Sir : I do not write with the ease which your letter of Sept. 18, supposes. Crippled wrists and fingers make writing slow and labo rious ; but, while writing to you, I lose the sense of these things, in the recollection of ancient times, when youth and health made happiness out of every thing. 1 forgot for a while the hoary winter of age, when we can think of nothing but how to keep ourselves warm, and how to get rid of our heavy hours until the friendly hand of death shall rid us of all at once. Against this tedium vitae, however, I am fortunately mounted on a hobby, which indeed I should have better managed some 30 or 40 years ago, but whose easy saddle is still suffi cient to give exercise and amuse ment to an Octogenerv rider. This is the establishment of an Univer sity, on a scale more comprehen sive, and in a country more heal thy and central, than our old Will iam and Mary, which these obsta cles have long kept in a state of langor and inefficiency. But the tardiness with which such works proceed, mav render it doubtful, whether I shall live to see it go into action. Putting aside these things, how ever, for the present, I write this letter, as due to a friendship, coe val with our government, and now attempted to be poisoned, when too late in life to be replaced by new affections. I had for some time observed, in the public papers, dark hints and mysterious inuendos of a correspondence f yours with a friend ; to whom you had opened your bosom without reserve, and which was to be made public by that friend or his representative ; and now it is said to be actually published. It has not yet reached us, but extracts have been given, and such as seemed most likely to draw a curtain of seperation be tween you and mvself. Were there no other motive than that of in dignation against the author of this outrage on private confidence; whose shaft seems to have been aimed at yourself, more particular ly ; this would make it the duty of every honorable mind to disap point that aim, by opposing to its impression a seven-fold shield of apathy and insensibility. With me, however, no such armor is needed. The circumstances of the times, in which we have happened to live, and the partiality of our friends at a particular period, placed us in a state of apparent opposition, which some might suppose to be personal also: and there might not be wan ting those who wished to make it so, by filling our ears with malig nant falshoods ; by dressing up hi deous phantoms of their own cre ation, presenting them to you under my name, to me under your’s, and endeavoring to instil into our minds, things concerning each other, the most destitute of truth. And, if there had been at any time a mo ment when we were off our guard, and in a temper to let the whispers of these people make us forget what we had know nos each other lor so many years —and years of much t r ial—yet all men who have atten ded to the workings of this human mind, who have seen the false co lors under which passion sometimes dresses the actions and motives of others, have seen also these pas sions subsiding with time and re flection, dissipating like mists be fore the rising sun, and restoring to us the sight of all things in their true shape and colors. It would be strange, indeed, if, at our years, we were to go an age back, to hunt up imaginary or forgotten facts, to dis turb the repose of affections, so sweetning to the evening of our lives. Be assured, my dear sir, that I am incapable of receiving the slight est impression, from the effort now made to plant thorns on the pil low of age, worth, and wisdom, and to sow tares between ftiends who have been such for near half a century. Beseeching you then not to suffer your mind to be disqui eted by this wicked attempt to pois on its peace, and praying you to throw it by among the things which have never happened, I add sin cere assurances of my unabated and constant attachment friendship, and respect. Th. Jefferson. John Jhlams, Former President ) oftha United States. $ Tbe following observations are Elicited from the United States Gazette, by the recent intelligence from Spain: “Riego has been murdered—it matters not in point of fact, wheth er the crime was committed upon lim with poison or with hemp, in prison or in a public square. He was murdered—neither law nor cquitv could sanction the condem nation of a man for treason against a sovereign, whose commission he bore, and whose orders he execu ted. The King ever acknowledged the Constitution and swore to obey it—yet is Riego publicly executed as a traitor for attempting to defend it.” The Editor adds, with much point, that the world will not be astonished at any act of a Sovereign, who can in the history of his reign, point to two congratulations to foreigners for a conquest ofhis native kingdom. Washington, Dec. 19. The Colombian Minister* have din ed with the President. Their appear ance presented, it is said, a striking contrast to that of other Foreign Min isters, who were, of course, invited at the same time. The representatives of the new republic, with their suite, were all in plain suits of black, while the others were in their state dress, covered with the insignia of their re spcctive orders of nobility. We un derstand, that the impression made was a favorable one. Capt. Seilnllo. —We learn by a let ter from an officer in the Colombian Navy to his friend in this city, that the Colombian government has given orders to capture and send in the schr. Bella Isabella, capt. Sedallo with her officers and crew, whenever she could be found. This vessel, it will be re collected, was refitted in this port within the year past, and sailed with the declared intention of proceeding to Mobile and from thence toMargari ta. At Mobile, however, captain S. procured some arms, &c. and cruised ior some time on the Florida coast, and after committing several acts ofa piratical character, proceeded to the YV est Indies, and at the last accounts, was at or near St. Bartholomews, dis posing of tne goods he took from the schr. ./uttius, of Baltimore. Savannah Repub. m+wm Millenium. — A fanatic preacher in the State of New-York declares the Millenium to be near at hand , that in seven years there will not be a sinner upon earth; before which time, however, two thirds of the inhabitants of the earth will be destroyed by famine,pestilence,and wars. Two notorious scolding women had a set-to in England lately , force of lungs alone decided the victory in favor of one of them.— The defeated Xantippe, from great prostration of strength, died the next day. ■■■■ Customs in Egypt. —The Turks allow that their Emperor may kill every fourteen ofhis subjects with impunity and without impeachment of tvranny, because say they, he does many things by divine im pulse, the reason of which it is not permitted to them to know. I have been told that a pacha of three tails is authorized to cut off five heads a [ day, a pacha of two tails three, and i a pacha of one tail one. If a butcher sell bad meat, he is nailed by the ear to his own door post from sunrise to sunset: I re member seeing a Greek butcher nailed thus, and the fellow had the impudence to say to me— ‘ You see me tormented as our Saviour was.’ The Turks lately punished a pi rate by flaying him alive : they be gan at the head and when they came to the breast, the man died with agony. Turner's Travels. CAimOK. f I IHE pnblic are hereby cautioned l against trading for a Note giv en by the subscriber to Stephen D. Stricklin, for the sum of I4y dollars, date not recollected, but betisved to be in March 1822: the same having a condition, that if titles ade by said Stricklin to lot No. 40, 10th district Monroe, should not be valid, the said note should not be collectable. The title having failed, the note will not be paid. I would also caution the public against trading with the above Strick lin, as he has fully proved himself to be a notorious swindler. JEHU CAMPBELL. Tuifss County, Jan. 14,1821 3w13 List of letters Remaining in the post-office at Macon, on the Ist January, 1824. James W. Alston Thogsas Boyce, Reuben Braswell M. W. Crawford, Win. Cane Dr. R. Durrett, Ichabod Davis,Geo- Dane, John Douglass, Daulphin Davis James S. Frierson James Holt, sen. Enoch Hancock Edmond Herron William Johnson, Oliver Jeter, Win. Jackson Jacob Little Robert McCombs Jas. B. Mulford Dread7.il Pace Mrs. Mary Powell, Win. Pickard, Mrs. Charity Philips W m. Robinson Wni. Sanders, Sheriff of Houston county. 43] M. R. WALLIS, r. m. List of Letters Remaining in die Post office, , at Louisville, on the Ist January, 1824—and it not taken out before the Ist April next, will be sent to the General Post Office as dead letters. Hugh Alexander, Alex. Atkison, Charles W. Anderson, James Atwell W m. Buzbay, Messrs Hugh Brown & Cos. 2. Moses Bi inson sen. Capt. John Boutin, Maj. Robert Bowling, Win. Bower 2, Nehemiah Bunting, James Baity, Joel Baldwin 2, Joseph Brian Col. John Cobb 2, Donaldson Coley Thomas Connel, John Crooned Rev. Tho. Darley, James Darley, B. Daniell, Henry Dervey, John Donald son, John Darsey, James J. Davis, Jesse H. Davis, Andrew Dillon 2, Peter P. Dubose, Henry Durden Rev. .losiali Evans John Fleming, Allen Fleming, Baldwin Hooker, Robert Fountain, Owen Fountain, Billy Flagg sen. Mrs. Catherine Fitzgerald Jesse I). Green, Richard Green Ro bert Gobert, W illiain Gihnore, John Glisson, Morris Graham Simon Hutchins, Hardwick & New ton, William Hannah, Sylvester Hartshorn, Mrs Martha Henson James Johns, Avan Jordan, Joseph Jackson, Allen Jones, Simon Janes Stephen Kelley Aaron Lowe, esq. David Lanier, John P. Lyons Thomas Mountain 2, James Me Conckey, Littleberry Mason, Tho's Matthews 2, Josiah Moore, James Martin John McGruder, Alexander McDonald, John Mobley 2, Stephen Murrey, Jordan S. S. Murray, Ster ling Montcrief, Jehn McCorquodale John Neal, John Neel, Ephraim Knoles S. Perry .Redden Pate. John Pierce Richard Peal, Robert I. Patterson, Win. Patterson, Mrs. Mary Patter son 2 B. Raiford, Wilson Rix, Jonathan Ross 3, Jonathan Roberson, Beuj. Ja bez Ryan 2 Jesse Slatter esq. Joshua Shepard, Benjamin Sherrod, James Stone 2 t Abram Sauls, Col. Littleton Spivey, Gardener Shepard, Jacob Sutton, James Smith, James Spetigue, Wm. Scarborough, Mrs Lany Span Wm. I'oinlinson, Samuel B. Tarver esq. R. Turner, Isaac Thomas, Ulys ses Tarvin, Stephen Thomas, James Trimble. Elisha White, John Way, William Walker, Hughy Wilkerson, Peleg Williams 3, Jefferson B. Wells, Joseph Willis, Matthew M. Woods, John Woods. 43] John Bostwick, P. M. List of Letters, Remaining in the Post Office, Fort Hawkins, Jan. 1, 1824. William Brown, Henrv Bailey, John Burnett, James Bryan, Dru ry Bass, Rowell Bass Robert L. Church 4, James Curley, David Culbertson or Eli jah Haralson, Elisha Colton. Drswrv Duke, sen. J. W. L. Daniel, Wm. Dunn, John Daniel. Henry R. Foy Samuel Cranberry. Francis Hamil, James H. Har daway, Col- Wade Hampton, Wil liam H. Hughs 2, Jas. Herring, James Holmes, Thomas Haws. Lieut. JoelJ. Johnston, William Jovce, John Jepson, Elijah Jones. Allen Lawhorn, Esq. Thomas King, Thomas Kent, Daniel Kimberly. Win. L. IMjißee2, John McMur rin, Dr. Robert Mathews, John Miller, Josiah Moody. Harris Nicholson. Mr. Posey, Robert Pearmou, James Puckett, sen. esq. John Rowe, Blake Robinson, James Rowell. Jeffery’ E. Thompson, John Ty ler. Capt. Perry Wimberlr, Thomas Williams, T. W. Watley. William Young. Charles Bullock, p. m. January 1, 1824, 42