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c nsternation as France is now. Tin Spanish .Monarch, Philip II. wh nad a most insatiable thirst for con quest and unlimited dominion, then owned not only Spain, but also Por tugal, the 7 United Dutch Provinces cutely suuated i ranee ; .hat G«-n. Armstrong advised all to leave the country as soon as possible. We have made the following extracts in haste. News from Constantinople aboutjthe Duchies of Burgundy and Milan the last of March state, that there nearly all the West India Islands an< are a number of British officers in thejtwo vast Empires of Mexico an( army of the Grand Vizier, who are Peru, extending more than 6000 mile- particularly odious to the Janissaries, in length, and containing immense among whom many hateful distinc- mine# of silver. Also tious have arisen, such as gave me[. j0 ldicrs and their military to the revolution which broke out un England cr G. Britain was the life street parallel to the bay about eigh kets>, by negfo women, according t. and soul of the Confederacy that tv houses, which are pretty equally the Spanish fashion, intermixed wiui Immbled Louis XIV. and wrested distributed, as there are considerable other more elegant articles of dress, cm him the dominions he had con- spaces not built upon between the se- Considerable quantities of country ' uered. veral habitations, so that the town cotton have indeed during the last has a very airy appearance. The o- summer been brought through the ther two long streets are less popu-wilderness from Tennessee and lous, one of them having but about XI corgi a, to the Spanish aid Ame- lements on the waters of Were a road opened A SKETCH OF PENSACOLA. Pensacoli, the capital of West Flo-' 60i t h e other about 70 dwcllingjrican setrlem la, lies in the latitude ot about 30.houses.—The whole number of fa- the Mobile. rida deg;« der the magnanimous Mustapba Bai- ractar. Thu piospects of the farmer in some of the departments of France are not very promising : storms, tempests, rain, hail and floods, have devastated during the whole month <>! May the department of Upper Garonne,spreading throughout seve ral communes terror and dismay. SEMLIN, May 11. The 'l urks, who appear to dread more and more a rupture with France, instead of softening the yoke they have imposed on the Christians as would sev-tn natural, use them with greater cruelty than ever. Bo dies of Turks overrun the Greek vil lages of Bosnia, plunder and com mit every kind of excesses, which increases the emigration of the Greeks into Illvria. were then ranked among the bravest i neari y yules S. East from the and best in the world. American post of Fort Stoddart on The prodigious Spanish fleet, cal-; tbe Mobile bv the road usually travel led the Invincible Armada, was fitted|} cd i but probably not seventy miles out by the Monarch for the conquest!' 11 a ( l ,rc ct line. It is situated *il- of England, and appeared in thi lniost ia a wilderness.—The woods British Channel, in the vear 178H,| consist entirely of the long leafed having on board about 20,000 land|P ine * There are very few families forces. There were, besides, a vastj' n whole ot the country between number of flat bottomed vessels, pre dlc ba y Pensacola and the bay ol ~ ■ Mobile, and as to that part of West a hall North, and in near- !ltt jjj cs - in Pensacola,probably amounts 100. All the buildings are framed and painted, with m the Spanish ‘he 10th degree of West longitude llo u i, out 300< All the buildings are nilitary officersi f, om the city of Washington. It is ( ,f WOOi ^ f ra Pensacola, as well as the greater part of E. Florida, it may be considered brick chimnies : and there is on the opposite side of the bay a brick yard, it which not only bricks but excel lent paving tiles are made. The houses are for the most part only one story high, with piazzas ; a modeol building certainly the most, eligible in a southern climate.—'There are no public buildings which merit peculiar attention. A large capacious two story house, formerly the residence Florida, which lies N. and East of 0 f British governor, is now em ployed as a barrack for the troops, ol which there is usally, it is said, one- in from the former of those states, be tween the Tombigby and Ai.t’.ama rivers, and the navigation of the lat er rendered secure from Indian de predation ; it is probable that a valua ble trade both in live stock and agri cultural productions would take place with the ELtvannu,through the ports of Mobile and Pensacola, and the greater part of such a road would equally accommodate the citizens of Kentucky, Virginia and Pennsylva nia in their intercourse with New- Orlcans.— The Spanish settlements of Florida afford but little lor expor tation from the towns of Mobile and pared to transport into England an army of 25,000 men, usemhled in the Netherlands. This fleet (the Ar mada) consisted of a hundred and thirty ships, most of which were vast ly large ; and when it was first disco vered in the channel, it appeared W M.V ...... — ..... the form of a halfmoon, stretching at; road from Fort Stoddart, does not. h ouse which formerly received the There is a valuable sawmill, with the distance ol seven miles front the]P ass a single permanent habitati-,chores of the king of England, now,two saws only, the property in part extremity of one division to that of® 0, I here are indeed above the ianswers the purpose of a Catholicjuf governor Folca, an a branch of another. At that time it could hanl-, bnc ^ or four cowpens, or houses L-hm-ch. They have a small, neat ro-lthe Escambia about 16 miles (Yoni ly have been thought possible thatj near to which the great herdsmen| tunt j 0 f or p u Glic balls, and in the pub-JPensacola, and another belonging t6 Spain, so rich, so gigantic in power,, c °dcct their stock in the summer p IC rooms adjacent, as well as at j some the same proprietors has be v , , __ Pensacola, and a little tar occasion- as an uninhabited desert. 1 he roadh n complete regiment in the town, ally and a small quantity of lumber from the American settlements o;i . in j another at the Barancas, at thejare perhaps the only articles which the A.abama, which is likewise th^lentrance of the bay. A large ware-igo from thence* to the West Indies. so insatiable in ambition, would in season, but from which, on t-‘ rn > n Kjother houses in the town, is exhibiied;comj,!eted. The plank which is^en VIENNA, May 16 The treaty concluded between our court and Russia, relative to the ces sion of 400,000 subjects, stipulated by the treaty of Vienna, has been published ht re. The line of clc-inar kation between the two empires, now passes by Hiuzdaieu/.e. There has been formed a consi derable entrepot of Russian com merce at Pertyczow, consisting of immense quantities of sugar and cof fee, by way of the Black Sea. Tbit produce has arrived there from O- dessa, from which it has been brought from the Levant, where the merchants have no place to receive it. Borders of the Danube, May ID.— Letters from Trieste state, that they arc actively fortifying and furnishing with artillery* all the ports on the coast of Illvria, wherein Illyrian, French, Italian and other vesse will find protection when pressed by an enemy of superior force. This measure is very favorable to the na vigation £< commerce of these coasts, at least merchant vessels will be af forded every facility to escape the English cruizers, who often visit these seas. Several transports la den with artillery of large calibre have sailed from Trieste forUmage, Pola, Cittanova and other ports others will follow them to furnish the coast of Croatia with sufficient art'll lerv. Odessa, March 3.—An American vessel has arrived here from Balti more. This is the first time that the American flag has appeared in the Black Sea. The captain is the bear er of a letter from our consul-gene ral and charge d’affairs in America, Mr. Daschkoff ; as we have now a diplomatic agent accredited at the United States, we hope that this mis sion will produce the establishment of very advantageous commercial re lations between both countries. Bayonne, May 18.—Letters of a late date from Madrid announce the different advantages gained over the rebels in Murcia, by Gen. Sebastia- ni, and of his entry into its capital. He found therein fifty cannon and considerable stores, which were de stroyed. The Spaniards retired pre cipitately towards Cat thagena. Their numbers are few and are totally dis couraged. General Frazer com mands in place of general Blake, who has gone to Carihagcna, from which he is expected to go to Cadiz. Mar quis Roiuana during holy week, at tempted to raise a let y of the peo ple, but failed. General Regnier has taken, beat, and dispersed about GOOO rebels. The capture of a con voy ol 600 head of cattle, destined i«>r Badajoz, has thrown that city in to the greatest consternation. A popular tumult is said to have little more than two centuries, be re duced to its present deplorable con dition. In the latter part of the 17lh cen tury, Louis IV. of France, strove hard and avowedly for universal em pire, and it seemed for a while as though all Christendom would be foiced to bend to his yoke. He was like the devouring wolf pursuing the timid sheep. His conquests were rapid and extensive Wherever he turned his arms, his enemies fell or fieri before him in dismay. Aftei destroying a million, perhaps, of lives, and laying waste whole countries, this devouring wolf was drive I back to hi den. He was fain like a suppliant to sue for peace, and passed the re mainder of his days in the gloom and chagrin of disappointment. Afterwards there was disclosed another aim at universal empire most formidable combination of crowned heads which struck with a panic the nations of Europe. It was the famous Family Compact establish ed in the year 1762 ; when the sever al branches of the Bourbon Family, namely, the Kings of France and Spain and the King of the Two Si- out their calves with the cows andjthat rage for excessive gaming, whichjtirely' of pine is generally sawed 13 other cattle in the field, they retire SQ frequently prevails where leisure) Ex-t long and 10 or 12 inches . . ||. 1'* - • -«* VI ^ *• **“-*‘vo wide, to their more permanent dwelling. an j a freedom from the pressure of,and every board (of which it is said houses near their plantations on the business is not combined with a cul-;diat the two saws will sometimes cut In whatever direction thcre- rtver. fore you approach Pensacola, you cannot well avoid sleeping in the woods one night at least, and you arc also obliged to carry your provisions for your supply in the day. The country round Pensacola is remarka bly poor. For the space of four or five miles, it is a deep, loose, driving) sand, which in dry weather it is very laborious to travel over. Beyond that, although it is entirely a pine country, there are frequently consi derable bodies of land, which, hav ing a firm foundation, is no doubt ca pable of being improved with the as sistance of those immense herds ofj cattle which the country is capable of supporting. 'There arc many per sons above the line who have from 500 to 1000 head ; and one person residing in Pensacola, it is said, pos sesses six or seveu thousand. Y'et the whole seven thousand do not probably manure one acre of land in the year.—It is said that there arc- some skirts of good land upon the Escambia, near the American line : but the Seminolee Indians have hi- ven ady and lias tivated understanding and a relishj“f00 in 24 hours) sells at thirty s for the pleasures of learning and olfcnts and a half. It finds a r taste. Taverns for the entertainment sale at Pensacola, Vera Cruz of strangers can scarcely be said to the Hdvannn. Some little life exist in Pensacola. lately been,given to the nominal com- Travellers after undergoing a mor-| n . ierce Fcmsacola, by the restric- tifying scrutiny, are sometimes ad-| llons on ■‘American trade. Several mitted as guests in private houses,| vcisc j s recently come to that on the same terms as are usual ir.|l }0rt fro*n New-Orleans, for the pur- professed houses of entertainment :|l ,ose procuring Spanish papers for and there is one small house kept by| toe coast ot Africa, under the ex- an American—the sign post of which P cctat ' on that slaves brought front announces a tavern. Nothing can l ‘ KOCC to Baton Rouge will .readily be procured for horses but Indian corn, at a high price. Hay, fodder, and straw are unknown, and the wri ter of this is not certain that there is even a stable in the town. The few cilies, firmly leagued together to sup port each other, both in defensive , , and offensive wars. 'The object of this fherto resisted any attempts to settle ■ * . ' if. ■ hh H#*rriirlr* tn*» nnn<*nf league was to enlarge and perpetuate the power of the Bourbons, and to bring the surrounding nations to their leet.—Seethe astonishing issue ! In less than hall a century from the time this family compact was made, the Bourbons were stripped of all their power and dignities, some of them cut off by the hand of an executioner, and the rest either imprisoned or ex iled, and rendered the most wretched of mortals. There is now making another at tempt at universal empire, more vast The Perdido, the ancient bounda ry of Louisiana, which the road cros ses near the line, does not appear to have any good bottom lands. The town ot Pensacola is beautifully si tuated on the North side of the bav of that name—which as you stand on the scite of the old fort at the back of the town, has the appearance of a crescent, with the town lying about midway of the hollow. It is about 5 miles from the town to the opposite side of the bay, and about six miles to the apparent termination of the crescent on the right, where the bay and formidable than the foregoing“ catcm . uu M,c "gf*. 1 * W "T ones ; but peradventure it may gjl^mmun.cates with thegulph of Mex- brought to confusion at last. If Bo naparte has greater power than anv other mortal, yet there is a power a- hove him—a power that perhaps may suddenly crush him at the moment of his highest exaltation. If he takes c- ver so much policy, to give deep and ico. Its extent to the West appears to the eye nearly the same : but it really makes a bend and stretches se veral miles up into the country. This bay forms a harbor at once safe, commodious and delightful. It is much to be regretted that the lasting root to his family and relati-j town docs no * en j?y lbe benefit of ons, if he divides amongst them 20 that commanding view oi the harbor crowns and diadems, yet they may! wb \ cb w °uld have resulted liom its soon fall like the family of the Bour-i bav * n 8 been laid out on a plan more Irons, who Vainly thought that the, natlira ^ and judicious. Instead ol a Family Compact had rendered their regular row of houses fronting the power and glory perpetual. 'The b a >’» which would at once have been Europeans are a brave and hardyi e ^ e S and y situated, and have given race, and will not, like the Asiatics, 10 tbe itself a magnificent ap- endure the yoke ol slavery for a very l P carance » ’ s or, ly the backs of the longtime. * dots of the first street that are open 'The defeat of the Spanish Arma-|t° a v 'ew so captivating ; and there da, by the English, in the reign ofi b 110 bn e ot buildings commanding find their way into the territories of the U. S. As to manufactures, Pensacola boast of none. 'There are in the itown some house enrpenters and -•» tailor or two. Whether there be any other mechanics that are residents of the place, the writer of cows that are kept there appear to be in a miserable condition, and there is nothing near the town which they seem to browse upon but the hard coun ‘ ,docs not know, leaves of poor, stunted palmettos. P nnters » There is no public market. In fact there is no animal fi*od of which the people of Pensacola have any regu ar supply but beef. There are two this ac- here are no potters, tinmen, copper- watch-makers, hatters, or : and probably r.o silver smiths, black-smiths, or boot and shoemakers. In luct the population smiths, saddlers licensed butchers, one for the town, °* 5 be to ' v . n seen is to consist almost entirely of the officers of govern ment and soldiers, and ot such other persons as either directly 01 indirect ly find employment from the former and are indispensably necessary to’ their comfortable existence. Should the Floridas be ceded to the United States, Pensacola can only be impor tant as a military and naval station lor the southern country, The healthfulness of its situation will always render it a place worthy of the attention of government in this point of view : and the same circumstance may possible- at a dis tant day recommend it as an eligible scite lor a national university for this bouthern section of the American republic. Its freedom from marsh influence, and the freshness and puri ty of its sea air, render it both a Queen Elizabeth, gave a death blow to the giant power of Spain. Tho’ the the only handsome prospect which the situation of the town affords. None broKcn out at Palma, in Majorca, a-j al ship8 , burnt several < gainst me trench and Swiss pn«on-|j !spcr8Cl i t } le n . st . whi( . ,s, which was only appeased by tlu with :i terrible storm, not English Nav^was greatly inferiorj 0 * tbe streets are paved. All arc both in number anti size, it boldlvat- incumbered with a deep sand. It is fatiguing to walk them. both in number anti size, it boldly at tacked the Armada, captured sever- others, and Thtec of the street are parallel i hich meeting to the general course of the bay, and r , .. -- - - —w...., not one half ofjare probably from 215 to 220 poles pu suasions o t..e jisi.op and clergy.‘Hicrm returned to Spain, and a still lessjlong. Five other streets cross them [proportion ofthe soldiers and seamen, jat right angles, and are from eighty UNIV l.RSAE EMPIRE. {This terrible stroke to their navaljto ninety poles long. The breadth lk tu ten the middle and end of the power the Spaniards never recover-of the widest streets is about DJ feet, 'A.ih Centurv, Spain was In-held by cd. In the reign of Queen Ann, in but some of them are not more than the rest c» Europe, with as much the beginning oi the lt\h century,lhalf as wide. There are in the main and the other for the troops. Thes usually purchase their beeves in droves, which are brought down from the settlements on the Mobile, 'Tom bigby and Alabama. It is the uni form plan of the butchers to kill the poorest first:—and as the remain der are kept in woods, which affords but a scanty supply of grass ; the greater part of them are generally poor enough before they are killed to render the aid of French cooking necessary to their furnishing accep table dishes. Live hogs are like wise occasionally driven down by the American settlers on the 'Tombig by, and some have even found their way from the western part of the state of Tennessee. As to veal and mutton, they have none : and their very scanty supply of vegetables . . v „ seems for the most part to dependr ealtll ‘ ul atul pleasant place of refci- upon the lew that are occasionally lienee even in the hottest season of dealt out to them front the coasting , tbe ) ear * The w inters are mild, vessels which trade to this port. | * be weather is seldom more severe^ 1 The number of the stores, consi-| tban was about the middle of De dering the size of the town, is con- cem herlast. The vegetation of green siderable. Their stock in trade, ex-:P ca3e .— tben in blossont and even in elusive of groceries, is generally, it|P od ’ in a small garden in the town, is said laid in at New-Orleans. Thej was at lbat time suddenly checked large mercantile house of Messrs.] 1 ^ tbe cold i a »d large cakes of iqt ' John Forbes and Co. which was for-! Wcre , SCe P * n tubs which had been merly under the firm of Panton, Lesslie and company, imports its goods from Great Britain, and has heretofore enjoyed a most extensive and lucrative trade with the most numerous Indian nations lying be tween the Mississippi and the Atlan tic ocean. The dwelling house of the resident partner is the onlv hand some building whose projector had taste enough fully to avail himself ofthe beautiful water prospect which is afforded by the situation of Pensa cola. It is a circumstance not a lit tie gratifying to the friends of Ame rican manufactures, that our com mon home made cotton cloth has found its way into many ofthe stores of Pensacola, and has even been car ;icd about the streets lor sale in bas- sunk in the ground for the purpose ol collecting water. On the lGth ot that month at nine at night, and on the next day at nine in the morn- ing the quicksilver in the thermo meter stood at 38 and a half. It had been 41 in the shade at two in the afternoon, but on being hung in the sun, it presently rose to 85. Pi- very one, however, was wiapped ia warm greatcoats. We shall conclude this sketch v. ith a statement ot the ordinary price °f provisions, bcc. at Pensacola, as given by a house-keeper in that place. Beef 8 cents per lb. Pork, fresh, 12 1-2—salt nork 19 3-4. Fowls, from 6 to 12 dcllars r r dozen.