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THE MUSEUM. ’ METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, Kept at Savannah, from Aug. 6, to Aug. 12. f * * v *•.l £ BIMABKS ;iiIf ‘ __ I8 85 * (Cloudy ‘6 fl 288 sjc Heavy vain 3 87 sf. rain I _d|Bs “ “ heavy ram all night 18175 s rain 12f8U g . raiu heavy 3 80 a w “ 677 “ ~ “ I” 81 §0 s e Clear - 12)85 s k 3187 6,84 9 g “ 8 82 b Clear *” 9 12 84 “ “ cloudy 387 “ rain 6 82 “ “ B T B s . Cloudy 10 12 79 e 381 “ “ heavy shower 6 78| ‘s “ heavy rain all night l 87S sby x Cloudy 11 1 12 80 se heavy shower I 380 Eby s cloudy I 679 “ jclear /'ll ~8 79 iby b Cloudy 12 82 E clear 385 eby w “ 68; by g “ . SONG— By Coleman. IWin the vale where a streamlet ran, And under a tree reclined, itgr-m measured the wit of man, By thinking on woman kind, a woman has killing eyes, he cried, And a soft bewitching smile; i a thousand, thousand charms beside, Our senses to beguile. every glance that confirms her sway, Note, too, each dimple’s power; on her lips the young loves play, Like bees on the honied flower; ou her bosom of sweet, and take rhfs truth for a constant rule— .uniting woman can always make The wisest of men a fool. riE CASTLE OF BRUSSA IN ASI- A Tip TURKEY. (From Von Hummer’s travels.) ‘J'he most remarkable objects within -the limits of the castle, are the ruins of the pa lace of the first v Osmanic Sultans. The edifice, however, is uot reduced to mere shapeless masses of sjune, nor so fallen in to decay, but that the plan of the whole, ■and the distribution of the various cham bers, baths, gardens, pavilions, and foun tains mav be easily re<;ogniied. 24ome ol the latter are still unimpaired, but the wa ter has burst through the prjies, and flows off, moistening ttif earth in various dirsc tions. Grass sprouts out of the jays of the marble lion, from which the water for merly 11 twed, and the basin which receiv ed it is now tilled with ruboisli. Here is, perhaps, the site of the Harem, the sacred asylum of female honour and dignity. The vicinity of the marble baths, wnich still re main undecayed, renders this conjecture the mpre probable. This sanctuary ofde-i coruin and ot pleasure, Which in former times was closed against every unhallow and eye, and scarcely accessible to the rays fthe son or the breath of the atmosphere, is now exposed, without roof or protecting wall, to the inclemency of live weather, and the glare of open day. Briars and thistles overspread the ground which was once .covered with the richest variegated car pets, and masses of stone, hurled down by the hand of time, have usurped the place of down cudiidns. The private chambers of the women, from which the jealousy of oriental despots excluded even light and air, to which the solar rays only penetrated as it were bv stealth, through rails and cur tains, and where stillness was interrupted only by the murmuring of flutes and the sighs of love, are how exposed, even to their deepest recesses, to the sun, the moon the t/ind, and all the inclemency of the weath er. Silence yet prevails} but it is the si ence-of desolation, not of love and it is jK-oken by the murmuring of the water, which, in its course to the fountains, loses itself under ground, and gushes forth from tmong the ruins. Nothing can be more atelancliolly than die complaints of those divisible Naiades, who, in harmonious ac cents, have for centuries been repeating the great truth, that all is ruin. Whither are vanished the splendour and luxury of this palace and its inhabitants 1 Wiere are the voluptuousness of the llareito, and the delights of its beauties! The clouds of per fume, the mirrors which vied with the brightness of the sum, the downy couches, balsamic odours, pleasure-kindling spices, intoxicating opiates,,me-esseuces <§* musk pestiles, the inualin veils and casuroere shawls, which aeemed woven from sun beams and the flower-beds of spring— whither are they vanished ! And the young beauties of all complexions and forms, from every country and ciunate in tbe world; the brown and the fair, the Af rican and Circassian, Grecian and Persian, the innocent Christian virgins tor n from the arms of tfc*ir mothers, and the Egypti * Alines skilled in singing, dabcing, and* instructed in all the seductive arts-r-where \re they now? Allis vanished! Fancy !,td retracted the scenes of past centuries, when tins Harem was the receptacle of beuuty. and the focus of oriental magnili- j cencejbot on recovering from our reverie, we find o'nrsdvea surrounded by ruin and delation, li-’: i Knights-erranU who, after having been Illudet} to sleep in the magic palace of some wicked fairy, wake in the mornig amidst heaps of filth and rubbish.— The veil of imagination which covered the anatomy of this abode of pleasure is fallen, and nothing but the skeleton remains. EXTRACTS FROM <• Bracebridge Hall, or the Humourists, A Medley,’ by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent ,” Wives may gather hints from the follow ing.” % There is no great need of enforcing on an unmarried lady the necessity of being agreeable? nor is there any great art requis ite in a youthful beauty to enable her to please. Nature has multiplied attractions round her—youth is in itself attractive.—- The freshness of budding beauty needs no foreign aid-, to set it oft; i* pleases merely because it is fresh, and budding, and beau tiful. But it is for. the married state that a women needs the most instruction, and in which she should be most on her guard to maintain her powers of pleasing. No woman can expect to be to her husband all that he fancied her, when he was a lover.— Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the art 9 of the sex, as by their own imaginations. They are always woo ing*goddesses, and marrying mere-mortals. A woman should therefore ascertain what was the charm that rendered her so fascin ating when a girl, and endeavour to keep it up when she has become a wife. Une great thing undoubtedly was the chariness of herself and her conduct, which an un married female always observes, She should maintain the same niceness and reserve in her peison and habits, and en deavour stdl to preserve a freshness and virgin delicacy in the eye of her husband. She should remember the province of wo man is to be wooed, not to woo—to be carested; not to caress. Man is an ungrate ful being in love; bounty loses instead of winning him. The secret of r woman’s power does not consist so much in giving, &s in withholding—A woman may give up too much even to her husband. It is to a thousand little delicacies of conduce that she must trust to keep alive passion, and to protect herself from that daugerous fa miliarity, that through acquaintance with every weakness and imperfection incident to matrimony. By these means she may still maintain her power though she has surrendered her person; and it.ay continue the romance of love, even beyond tbe ho ney moon. “She that hath a wise husband,” says Jpremy Taylor, • must entice him to an eternal dearuessse by the veil of modesty, and the grave robes of chastity, the orna ment of meekness and the jewels of faith and charity. She must have no painting but blushing*; her brightness must be puri ty, and she must shine round about sweet nesses and friendship, and she shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when sjie dies.” I have wandered into a rambling series of remarks on a trite subject, and a danger ous one for a bachelor to meddle with.— That I may not, however, appeared con fine my observations entirely to the wife. I will conclude with another quotation from Jeremy Taylor, in which the duties of both parties are mentioned, while 1 would recommend his sermon on the marriage ring to all those who, wiser than myself, are about entering the happy state of wed lock. “ There-is scarce any matter of duty but it concerns them both alike, and is only distinguished by names, and hath its vuriety by circumstances and little accidents; and what in one is called love, in the other is called reverence; and what in the wife is obedience, the same in the man is duty.— He provides, and she dispenses : he gives commaudments, and she rules by them; he rules her by authority, and she rules him by love; she ought by all means to please him, and he must by no means displease her? PROVIDENCE, July 26. From Gottenburg. —The ship Washing ton, Captain Martin Page, arrived here on Wednesday last, in 47 days from Got tenburg, having been,absent about two years. Captain P. informs, that when lie sailed, there was no political news at Got tenburg. Commerce of cvefy kind was extremely languid, and the stale complaint of hard times was often in the mouths of the people. Every description of previs ions was very cheap, and the prices of la bour so much reduced, that the wages of a j shipwright did not exceed twenty cents | per day, and r.eamen’s wages were only; two dollars and eighty cents per month. ’ The Swedes, however, are an economical and industrious people, qnd the free school on the Lancastrian plain at Masthugget, is an honourable pr< of of their attention to tire important subject of moral and intel lectual culture. Four hundred poor child dren are instructed in this school, in the! elementary branches of learning,at an ex-1 ponse, it is said, not exceeding one hundred 1 dollars per annum. The Merchants t f Gottepburg were a bout reviving their trade with China, and funds to the amount of g 100,000 were to be furnished to the first ship which should sail tor that country in the ensuing au tumn. London papers containing the corres pondence between the Russian Minister | end the American Secretary of State, res pecting the trade to tht North west Coast, had been reeetiwd in Gtfttenburg. The Swedes were gratified that the UfiUert States wouliMiave opposed, with so mnrh spirit ami firmness, the extravagant claims of Russia, Captain Page speaks in terms of high praise of the social character of the Swedes. They esteem their trade to the United States as extremely advantageous, facilita ting as it does the sale of their iron, the principal staple commodity of the country. The Swedes it is believed, have never de predated 6n our commerce, and they are said to be more partial to the United States than to any other nation. WASHINGTON July 30. Claims under the Spanish Treaty. —W e some time ago promised that we would •endeavor to procure for publication, an ab stract at the least,’ of the opinon delivered by the senior Commissioner, on what have been called th e contract cases. Our silence 9ince that time we were in hopes would have been construed by our brother edi tors rather a9 a proof that our endeavors had been unsuccessful than that our prom ise had been forgotten. Upon application at the proper source, we find, that the op inions delivered by the Board do not for at a pßrt of the record ; that they are for the most part oral, and that the severe labors of the late session allowed the Commis- sioners no time,had they been disposed, to furnish transcripts of what was said. But, since something seems to be expected from us, we shall endeavor to give such a view of the subject as our means es in formation have enabled us to take, and which if it do not prove entirely satisfacto ry to those concerned, will, we think, re move much of the obloquy which some of the papers have attempted to cast upon the Commission, for the course pursued in relation to theca-es in question. The proposition, whether claims arising from breach of contract were or were not intended to be embraced by the treaty, came up for discussion at a very early period after the organization of the Board: the memorial which first presented it being, as it appears, No. 38 on their docket On the 15th of September this memorial was suspended for argument, and a wish ex pressed by the B aid that- the counsel in terested in ’he question would prepare their arguments by the succeeding Janu nary session. Some of the most di? inguish cd members of the American Bar were concerned in the discussion, aid, durirg the recess es the Board, several arguments were filed, in support of both sides of the proposition. Having had those various views of the subject before them, and tak ing abundant time for deliberation, the Commissioners, some time in February, an nounced that they were prepared to decide the question, it hod been previously un derstood that, notwithstanding the rule of the Board, requiring the arguments of counsel to be reduced to writing, any gen tleman wbo opposed the admission of a claim would be regarded in the light of an amicus curia, and heard ore tenus. When one of the counsel, therefore, claimed po mission to address the Board, before they proceeded, in pursuance of the notice gi ven, to decide, he was frankly told, that, as the Board already entertained the opin ion which it was his purpose to support by argument, it would be unnecessary to give himself the trouble of addressing them at that time ; that if any thing further could be advanced by gentlemen who maintained sLiirfterant construction of the treaty, they would willingly wait to hear it; and if any thing should occur to change their present view of the subject, he should be called upon for his intended argument,, before a decision should be made. Thus the queslion remained suspended until the 11th of March, the last day of that session. In the mean time, letters had been addressed to the Board, stating in the most positive terms, under the au thority of both negociators, that it was unquestionably the intention of the two high contracting parties to the treaty, to include cases of contract in the sth renun ciation of the 9th article, and earnestly soliciting them before they decided, to call upon the Executive for confirmation of their statement. The correspondence which took place, in consequence of this earnest demand on file part of the claim ants, between the Commissioners and Sec retary ofState-, has already been published; and the i esult of that correspondence Mas given in our paper of the 18th of June. On the day appointed for the final decision of the question, the Board briefly gfecapitulat ed the substance of what is here -tated.— They said, that though the gentleman from whom they had expected to hear on oral | argument,had beets prevented from attend ing in person, he had transmitted his views !of the subject to them in writing: that they had examined the question with great deliberation, and had paid all due attention tq the able arguments with which they had been assisted by counsel that the principal argument against that construc jtion ol the treaty which would admit ■claims of contract were that the treaty ! was made to settle &\i difference between J the two nations; that a private contract between one ot our citizens and the gov ernment ol Spain, being a voluntary acton the part of that citizen, entered into Irom his own cotidence in the good faith qf that government could not proper ly make a sub ject of national difference; that the govern ment of the United States, having no right to enforce the observance of a contract, the import and validity of which must be decided by the judicial tribunals ‘of a loreigu sovereign* could not with proprie ty deprive its -citizen of hi* recourse to those tribunals, by interfering in the settle ment of his claims; that, though it might be urged that tire government might, at the solicitation of the citizen, so far interpose &s to use ifs gbod offices with tbe foreign gvvernmert by persuasion—yet it might be doubted whether that solicitation gave a right to make such a compromise of the claim as would bring loss and injury to the citizen; that if, therefore, our government intended to release Spain from the obliga tion of her coptraCts w ith our cirizens, it would seecn that it must have intended also to take upon itself the lull discharge of them—a conclusion which the limited satisfaction that it undertakes to make will not warrant; that the sth renunciation being reciprocal in its terms, if the govere ment of the United States intended tore nounce the claims of its cit zens growing out of contract, Spain also intended the some with regard to her subjects and thu - the latter, who might change to hold the obligation of the United Slates i:i the form of government stock or other wise, would be excluded from thir just claims upon the Treasury—an inference which the known justice anl good faith of the United States, and the very spirit of their Constitution, forbade. On the other hand, the chi<*T argument relied upon to bring these cases within the treaty is, that, unless the sth renunciation bccoostruced to include contract claims, it is left without meaning, inashmuch as all other claims, statements of which had been made to the Department of State, a>e j inclded in the four first specified renuncia tions. This agreement would certainly be unanswerable if it were founded in fact, as it is allowed to be a fundamental principle of construction to attach some meahirig to eveiy clause of a legal instrument; but it falls at once to the ground, when it is shown that the sth renunciation includes, as it evidently does, many cases of tort not specified in cither of the four first renunci ations. Under this view of the subject, the Board said they had thought themselves justified in coining to the conclusion, that it was rrot intended by the treaty to em brace wiihin its piovisions claims arising fom contract. But when they were as sured by the official organ of their govern ment, that the high contracting parties did certainly intend to include these claims as well as others; when they considered that the terms of tbe sth renunciation were unquestionably sufficiently comprehensive to embrace them;and when they reflected! that the good faith of their government J depended upon the execution of the treaty according to the acknowledged intention of the parties, and that a violation of that good laith, through their means, might biingwaraod its attendant miseries upon their country, they felt theinst> es con strained to believe that they had no right to reject these claims, and were bound, therefore, to receive them’ They'could not, they said, feel liieinselveH authorised by their judicial to contmlict the positive assertion of two governments, and say they did not intend what they sol emnly declare they did intend, more par ticularly when the terms of the disputed clause might fairly admit such intention without giving them a forced construction. It was added, and very ingeniously) maintained hy one of the Commissioners,’ (Mr.T.) that in ail cases of treaty, the sov ereign contracting powers had a right to construe them, and that the judicial tri bunals of every country were bound to govern their decisions by that construction. He pointed out the difference, in this res pectjbetweeu a treaty and any other law of the land; and contended, that, as the former was a contract-bet ween two sover eigns, no inferior power couid rightfully interpret it.—But, as we believe this doc trine to be entirely new, and our recol lection of what was advanced in its sup- 1 port is not very full or accurate, we shal forbear to go further.— lntelligencer. Prom the Doily Jidvertiter. •COMMERCIAL. To Theodore Drvight, Esq. Editor of the Nets- ark Daily Mvertiser Slit —The sudden enforcement of the ‘Alva ra” of H. M F Majesty which was issued in the year 1818, but which was not acted upon by the authorities of these Islands until the present moment, renders it expedient to promulgate the following notice for the benefit of those who may engage in speculations to this quarter. The construction which our officers have put upor.it, are as follows:—That the manifest of the cargo, bills of lading, and custom house clea rance, should be accompanied by a certificate trf their authenticity from the Portuguese consul of the district froth whence the vessel shall have taken her departure : these papers must be attached together, numbered, and countersign ed by the consul, so as to prevent the possibili ty ofa substitution, and the whole must be ad dressed by him (under cover) rto the Judge of the Custom-house of the port to which the ves sel may be destined. It is provided, that in cast ofthere bein no Portuguese consul in the dis trict from whence the vessel shall depart, the papers before mentioned must be duly aothenti cated by the highest officer in the Custom House Department, and the fact ofthere being no I or'ugupse consul in that district, also certi fied by him. The non-observance of these re gulations will prevent any vessel from being'ad mitted to an entry in any of the customhouses in the Azores. A Decree of the Cortes of Portugal prohibits the introduction of all spiritous liquors, (pure French brandy excepted), and no vessel having any on board wi II be admitted to an entry. I am, very lespectfully, your must obed’t, (Signed) JOHN B. DABNEY, Consul of the U. S. for the Azores. Puyal, 21,r of May 1822, We understand that in the severe thunder storm on Sunday evening, a frame house ‘in ihe Nortern Liberties was struck by lightning. Part us tire weather board,and plastering was torn off, and a handsaw and some other carpen (ers tools partly melted. There were some persons in the house in bed, but they were not in the least injured. Philadelphia Amer. Qentina^ From the Charleston Courier, FROM HAVANA.—Our Havana papers ti the brig JVepiutie's llwge, (which we did i,ut obtain until yesterday morning,) are to the 2bth ult. It app. ars on that <lay, the Spanish ROV eminent brig Mugico* arrived there in 34 <k v . from Cadiz, with Madrid dales to the 16ih or June. Tl.fje papers confirm the statement*, previously received, of > ivil commotions in cn tain provinces of Old Spain,and give us addi. tional particulars of the operations of the fac tiotis in tiie provinces of Cataionia and Vak-n ----cia—the latter of which was placed under Mar. tial Law, on the- 4th of June Tlie Constitution alists are represented as always successful; the factious flying before them all osc.isions. bin they are no sooner discomfited in one quarts than they rally in another; and in some instan ces with increased strength and confidence Jt is difficult to predict the result of these insur rectionury movements, which are i.o doubt sane, turned by a very considerable portion of -,l ie Spanish iiat>y; excited by the powerful mji u . ence of the iTiestliood; and acting, in all prob ability, i.i accoruance with the secret wis esof the King In one of our Havanna papers of the 28‘.h u!l we find it mentioned, that master of a small caa ting vessel, appeared before the Captain of tire Port on (hat day, and stated, that he had, tht day previous, sailed from tha* place from an outport called Jamco, about 3 leagues distant and as lie was abo.tt to enter that port, was boarded by an insurgent privateer, who put or hoard him the captain and crew of the Spanish br;g Brilliant, which had been captured by her on the 23d, soon after leaving the port of Havao*. a, bound for Ncvv-Orteans. At sun set on tbe 28th the privateer remained in sight of the JJo. ro, when the armed Ketch llyena. comrnaj.iJeci by bent. Cuacon, was despatched in pursuit of her—and it is predicted that lieut. O. would “cover himself with glory should he liaveti,* guod fortune to overtak e her. From ‘he Charleston Citv Gazette FRf/M II F. 1.Y.-I KDITOU’t* COR RK $ I’ONI>KNCR. Havana, July 29.—Upon looking into t;,. state and temper of affairs here, I find, that a’ though at. present every thing is reroarkablt quiet and the people oey the laws, yet itie ap prehensions of a Revolution are not entirely ou: oftheir minds Under the present system, they receive f or. the King a Captain-General and an Intemiant; while they themselves elect the Provincial As. semldy and City Council The Provincial As. sembly is always called on by the Captain Gen. eral for advice, am’ of course seme as a check upon the King’s Officers; for instance—some, time since- anew Tariff was receivi and from Vlad, rid, with, orders that it should be put in imme diate operation The merchants remonstrated to the Provincial Assembl., and by the advice ami representations ot tin latter, the late Gen. (Alrliy postponed the opera l inn of the Bill j This plainly showed that the people ruled, thro’ their denudes..’.'l heir allegiance to the cne.jiit rather nominal than i cal. It would thefc-e, in the opinion of many here, he little less dian madness for them to declare their ladependaict at present. Had Mexico remained Republican, there’ is but little doubt that Cuba would have joined her; but as an Kmpire, she has only ited ontempt and indignation in the bosom of Span ish Americans t think the people will remain quiet under the present sy tem, and they see what success the (late) South American provin ces meet with; and if those, countries flourish, Cuba will surely follow their example. She has resources enough within lrersc If to maintain her independence, nor w ill she want the assis tance of some of the officers of the army and perhaps sonitfuf the navy too; as many of them liave their wives, children and property here, it is natural to suppose they will defend the land they live in. - The Governor pro tern General Kini’erland, appears to be highly esteemed by the people The lste Governor, though an excellent man. is already almost forgotten by the people, ‘t his is their character, for as soon as k man is put un der the sod, he is forgotten by those above ground. A number of transports and merchant, men sailed yesterday for Cadiz, under convoy of the French frigate Jintijroune-, on board of which were four millions of dollars, principally from Vera Cruz. Owing to news being received here of an army of 40,000 men being marched lo the frontiers of Sjiain, under command of Souk,-to form a cordon, and of the Spaniards making a corresponding movement of their troops, jit was feared that a war would break out between the nations, on account of which it was thought proper to stop the cr nvoy and land the specie from the frigate, llut upon the Assembly meeting on Saturday, it was agreed to trt!r the frigate with the property. There has been a Patriot privateer off tin* place lor some days, she has captured several droghers, a brig, and the elegant schr. Brill iant/ the droghers she suffered to come in, with the crews of the brig ami schooner. A line armed brig sailed yesterday, in pursuit of the Patriot, but as she is so fast a sailor, it is doubtful wheth er any thing in this harbour can come up with her It is supposed that the United States brig Spirk, is now off the coast looking out for her. Not a single U. S vessel here at present A ship passed to leeward some days ago, suppo sed to be the Hornet. Very few Arnericait vessels in port Busi ness is dull, money scarce. Prices of imports very low, and h*r exports high. It is said that forty millions of dollars have been carried away from Mexico since the first of January last. Itcrkhtde it is also said, allows the exporation of specie by American. The Castle at Vera Cauz seems impregnable It is still held by the Royalists Col. Callava (late governor of \V est Florida) is ordered there - to take the >'otnma>><i. By the ship Oryza, from Rio Janeiro, we learn that a complete- change has been made in the government of Brazil, by a peaceful, but effec tual revolution A Sovereign National fa* gress has been elected by the people, in wbicn the legislative power is vested, and which per- Raps virtually controls or regulates all other <de- . partments of the Government. The prinee, as King John VI. is nominally the executive head of the nation, which is declared independent, and wholly freed from all subservient eonnex* ( ion with Portugal-such is our impression cl the verbal information obtained, but we canno offfer it to our readers as correct. We hope au thentic details are contained in the printed pa pers now in a course of translation. JBult. Fed. Gat. One of the Alabama papers states that inform* Uon bad been received that the Big IVarrior, an, Indian Chief, y ith the advice of his council, has forbidden the Missionaries to preach to his nation, but allows, the schools to go on for the instruction sfeildreß. a