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COYGRESS.
Our national legislature meets on Monday
next, Ist Dee. Two new states wiß appear in
that body by their senators and representatives
—lndiana and Mississippi; making in the whole
twenty. These are represented by forty sena
tors, and one hundred and eighty-four in the
house of representatives. Desides these there
will be a delegate fhom the territories of Mis
souri, Illinois and Alabama.
Extract of a tetter from a friend to the editors, dated
“fernanrixa, 22n xov. 1817. ,
“ I can give you but Tritle news from here—-
things remain quiet under the Spanish and Ne
gro command. I look on all the transactions
which occur as I would at a good farce in a play
house. • 1 V
“On the 19th inst. there was a sale here of
prize goods; and this farce exceeded all others
hitherto presented. lii the first place, not the
slightest form of regular legal condemnation was
observed—some were shipped, some stolen, and
the remainder set up at auction and principally
bought in by the private agent. Much has been
promised, on’ paper, by the present masters of
Amelia': order—government—and good faith ;
yet notwithstanding all this, several persons
who had deposited money, as an earnest, to )>e
forfeited in ten days if the bargain was not com
plied with, did not receive a dollar’s worth of
the produce sold them. The representatives
where bipn faches, mortifies, and such sort of
stuff, yet not aybox of sugar was delivered bn
their pledges, and the American gentlemen qui
etly received their money, no doubt rejoiced to
get clear of such a set of men, without more
serious injury.
“A sale took place again on Wednesday* for a
private concern. White Havana Sugars sold at
975 cents per hundred ; Coffee 16 J cents per
lb | Cochineal 312, inferior.” r-
Dreadful hurricane in the West Indies.
Capt. Willjftms of the British brig Lou*
iaa, who arrived here yesterday from An
tigua hatfrfurnished the keeper of the steam
boat hotel reading room books with the
following melancholy particulars respecting
the tremeudou3 hurricane experienced in
lome o£the W. India islands on the 2lst
ult. The islands which suffered most, were
Martinique, St. Lucic, Dominica and St.
Vincents. At Martinique about 40 vessels
were drove out to sea, only one of which
had been heard of. At St Vincents ten
sil of vessels, with the cargoes they had
on board were totally lost. But however
distressing such events may appear, they
are but trifles in comparison with the shock
ing disasters at St. Lucie’s,! there amopg
other dire calamities the government
house was blown down, and all within its
walls comprisingthe governor, his lady and
child, his staff secretaries, servants, &c am
ounting in all to about 50 persons were
buried in its ruins ’ Not one survived the
dreadful catastrophe. And still more hor
rible to relate, the officers and soldiers’
barracks were by the same pitiless blast
demolished, and all within them at the time,
about 200 souls, were precipitated into
eternity!
Capt. Williams could not with certainty
re-capitu!ate all the horrors which marked
this awful visitation : at Dominica and St
Vincents, as well as St. Lucie, the devasta
tion was so complete as to amount almost
to annihilation. It will be many years at
least, before those islands can be restored
to their former condition.
Norfolk Herald.
WILMINGTON, (V.C.) NPV. 22.
We understand that an elegant steam
boat is about to be purchased by the citizens
of Newburn, to ply between that place and
Elizabeth city. * This circumstance w ill
much facilitate the communications be
tween tire northern and southern sections
of the union. We understand that it is
also in contemplation to establish a stage
route between Georgetown, S. (V through
thi place to N-'Wbern, which will shorten
the journey nearly one hundred miles.
Three thousand dollars, we are informed,
have been subset ibd by the spirited citi
zens of Newborn, toward carrying Um lat
♦*r into execution. It ito lie hoped our
citizen# will not permit themselves to be
eetdene by their neighboring townsmen in
U&Jsbte And beneficial undertakings. 1
False Report. —The rumour lately circl.
lated with.regards a second revolution it
Pernambuco, is without doubt entirely des
titute of foundation. An arrival at Boston
on Sunday last, in 43 days from that place
states that all was quiet there : in addition
to which, we- have seen letters from Per*
nambuco much later than the date of the
above rumour, which mention that the late
revolt appeared to be almost forgotten, and
that there could be no apprehension of
another revolution, the country having set
tled down quietly in the calm of despotism.
Balt Fat.
Schr. Elvivft lost. —A letter has been re
ceived at Philadelphia from Washington,
(x. c.) which states—“ I was at the sale of
the Elvira’s cargo; should suppose the
goods sold within 25 per cent, their cost in
N. York. I purchased a bundle of account
books and an elegant grate for 50 dollars,
and two steam engines, for which I gave 5
dollars 50 cents. These articles I purchas
ed with an intention of offering them to the
owners, who may now have them shipped
to Charleston, by paying the cost and char
ges. The vessel and cargo sold for from
7 .to 8000 dollars. Captain Williams re
ceived the money and proceeded for Nor
folk. I recommended his depositing the mo
ney in one of the banks there, which he
promised to do; and from thence proceed
toNew-York. Captain Williams appear
ed much distressed on account eg the loss
of the schooner, and begged me tekwrite to
the owners, giving them a statement of his
conduct &e. I have some tears that capt.
Williams was murdered by the boat’s crew
that was to convey him across the sound.
Although I have a good opinion of the man.
(captain W.) I think it a mystery that he
should cast his vessel on shore with the
wind blow ing almost off the land.”
At the marriage of monsieur, the count
d’ Artois, the city ot Paris, agreed to dis
tribute marriage portions. A smart little
girl, of 16, named Lise Noirin, having pre
senter! herself to inscribe her name on the
list, was asked who was her lover ? Q!”
said she, with great simplicity, “I have no
lover; I thought the city furnished every
thing;” —This answer created much mirth ;
and in the event a husband was found for
her.
Gas Light. —The Light House on Bea
ver Tail, at the entrance of Newport har
bor, is now fitted up with a complete Gas
apparatus.
In England, pipes of delf ivare, are. now
used for gas-lights, which are much cheaper
and more durable than iron.
The Eden, a British ship of war, vjhich
had been sunk by way of experiment, for
the cure of the dry rot, has been minutely
surveyed to ascertain the result, which was
found to answer every expectation.
The monument voted for by parliament
in memory of Lord Nelson, is erecting in
st. Paul’s cathedral.
Subscriptions have been taken in Eng
land for cutting a canal to connect the eas
tern and western seas.
LEGHORN, AUG. 9.
Natural Phenomenon. —On the 24th of
last month, about mid-day,after a Very loud
detonation, the lake of Canfeino, also called
Porciano, totally disappeared. A large
opening was discovered in the bottom,
throtigh which the waters have probably es
caped into the sinuosities of the neighbor
ing mountains.
Czerny Georges. —The execution of this
Servian chief by order of the Ottoman Por
te, into whose hands he fell, has aroused the
indignation of the Russian government in
the service of which Czrny Georges was a
general, and had received several orders
of nobility, &C. Accounts just received
from Europe state, that several couriers
have been dispatched to Constantinople on
the subject, that an equivocal demand for
satisfaction has been made, and that the
. Russian minister had received orders to
suspend the building of a government
house for. his residence. Whether this
circumstance has actually created an unfa
vorable disposition towards the Porte, or
whether Russia has made it convenient to
seize on the occasion as a pretext to come
to a rupture, we shall shortly see. U is,
however, certain, that from the dispositions
which have been for some time past made
by Rueaia, that a pretext to quarrel with
the Porte has been anxiqualy looked for.
It remains to In* seen whether this event will
lie promptly disposed of.
Czerny Georges was under the protectiw
of Russia, ecknowledged so by the divan of
Constantinople, and was executed by order
of the governor of one of the frontier towns
in the Turkish dominions. He vtas, ot all
; characters, the most ||rocious, brave and
• •enterprising, at war with the subjects ot the
, grand seigneur; he was literally the Abeel
liho of Belgrade of which place he was h
i native—he collected a batfd of Servians
. with which be made frequent attacks on
i the Turkish frontiers, and infested their
. towns and hamlets—-his track was traced
l by Hood, and he spared neither sex nor age
f —he was, of cource, a terror to the Turks,
. and a price was continually fixed on his
. head. Such was his cold blooded cruelty,
that he murdered his father, who entreated
bim to abandon his savage horde, and h&ng
■ ed his brother for a trifling offence. At the
, treaty of peace, in 1812, Russia provided
f for the fate 6f Servia, and Czerny Georges
> accepted a commission in the Russian ser
t vice, and dismissed his band. It is reason
; able to suppose, that the Porte will punish
, the governor rather than go to with
; Russia; and as the grand seigneur attach
. es very little consequence to the head of a
: Pachat or Shiek, he will tranquilise Russia
on this subject, if more serious demands
. are not preferred.
New York Advocate.
NEW-YORK, NOVEMBER 15-
Thanksgiving. —The day recommend
ed by the constituted authorities to be set
apart a.s a day of Public Thanksgiving and
Prayer, was observed in this city with the
respect and solemnity which the occasion
was so well calculated to inspire. All ser
vile labour ceased; and the citizens gener
ally assembled in their respective places
of worship to offer up the of the
heart to Him by whom our political and
religious privileges are continued unimpair
ed, who has given us the blessings of peace,
of health, of revived commerce and of suc
cessful agriculture; and who, in the dispen
sations of his mercy, has given to the Amer
ican nation a distinguished pre-etninence.
Important Decision. —We learn from
Plymouth (says theNdW-Hampshire Patri
ot of Tuesday) that on Thursday morning,
last, chief justice Richardson read in the
superior court the decision of the judges on
the case of the prosecution against the
treasurer of Dartmouth University. This
wa- fa Ho
ality of the laws of the legislature amend
ing the charter, and enlarging and improv
ing the corporation of Dartmouth College.
We are informed that the opinion read to
the court was an elaborate and learned ex
position, elucidating the principles and es
tablishing the propriety and justice of the
decisiok.
VOLT ORE.
Lady Morgan’s late work on France is
full of amusing and original anecdotes of
the most distinguished literary characters
of France, some serious, but generally of
a playful cast. Among others is the fol
lowing, incidentally#introduced, when
speaking of madame de Villette, an inti
mate friend of Voltaire during his life:
” In the beautiful picture of Voltaire, by
Largilliere, done in his twenty-fourth year,
it is extremely obvious that the world had
not then passed over a countenance, in
which no trait of the caustic satirist of fu
ture times is visible. There is a playlul
ness, a finesse in the fine dark eyes, which
f resembles the espxeglerie of arch boyhood ;
| but the sharp lines, the abrupt angles, which
| mark the picture of his riper manhood, and
. give almost a wizard intelligence to his
, features, are no where to be found in this
. semblance of unworn, untried, and confi
. ding youth.
“ Voltaire,” said one of his friends, who
was present, “ Voltaire lost sight of that
5 picture a few years after it was done, and
- recovered it a few weeks before liis death.
! It was painted for the object of one of his
i earliest and most ardent passions, the beau
i tiful Phillis, afterwards madame de Gou
i verne, to whom he addressed one of the
I prettiest epistles that ever was written,
i known unddr the name of Des Vous et
i des Tu.”
Sixty years after the period in which he
! had sat for, and presented her with that
> portrait, he learnt, on his arrival in Paris,
t that Phillis was still living. He immedi
-1 ately begged permission to wait on her;
■ but when they met, they both remained,for
• a considerable time speechless; and thil-
lis, once “adorned only by her graces/
i waa now, at the age of ninety, a witch of
• Endori
1 Jn contemplating the ravages which time
1 had made on the wrinkled visage ofher
i lovec, she remained almost insensible to the
> change which had taken place in her own
jferson. When he tiad recovered from his
first emotion, thj) eyes of Voltaire rested on
the picture of a young ami handsome man,
to which U* look* of madamede Gonverne,
also occasionally racurrnl. M Uia tbftjjr
ture of Uw young Aruftet,” said madame do
Gouverne, “ who has immortalized me in
his poem of the Vous et Tu.* Voltaire in
wMirtly begged this picture for tnadame de
Villette. “ It cannot much loßger be mine,”
said madame de Gouverne; and the'picture
was sent that evening to the dear “ belle et
bonne.” “ I remember,” said my informant,
“having seen Voltaire in the evening of
the day he had paid this melancholy visit.
It had considerably affected his spirits. “It
ibas getting on the other side of the Styx,”
he observed, but added, with a faint smile,
“ ceped-ant nous n*avons pas beaucoup rar
dote. —[We are not yet in our dotage.]
Asa pendant to this little anecdote of
the picture of Largilliere, the Abbe de
related one of a more humorous cast, of the
miniature which Voltaire had presented to
madame de Chatelet, and which was only
rendered visible to the fair possessor by a
spring, of which she alone had the secrets’
On the death of madame de Chatelet, and
in the first burst of his grief, Voltaire had
an interview with the widowed husband,
extremely affecting to both parties. Vol
taire, on this occasion, ventured to beg back
the ring, which,madaiue de Chatelet had al
ways worn. “ Yfcu are not ignorant of the
friendship which subsisted between us,”
said the afflicted lover to the afflicted hus
band ; “and that ring, so constantly worn,
you are perhaps already aware, contains my
picture /”
I have witnessed youf-friendship,” said
the marquis de Chatelet, “ and I know the
ring you allude to. As you observe, she
never parted w ith it; but, to confers the
truth, it is not your picture that it contains !
— that picture was instantly replaced by
mine!” The tears of Voltaire ceased to
flow! he demanded proofs of this treason
to friendship and to love. The ring was
sent for, the secret spring was touched, the’
enamel flew open, and the picture of the
young, the chivalresque st. Lambert stood
confessed, in all the imposing superiority
of youth and military glory. The philoso
pher closed the spring, and returned the
ring to the mourning husband.
Underand Over. —A furnisher of funer
als having been tricked by a Swindler, a
wag said, it was no wonder an undertaker
should be over-reached.
/
Extract of a letter, rebeivedln ITosfon73sretr
Trinidad, Oct. 6 —*■ We are just recovering in
this island, from one dfthe most awful visitations
of sickness and mortality that, perhaps, was ever
known in this part of the world. Our worthy
governor, Sir Ralph Woodford, has had a narrow
escape, and is one of the few that have recover
ed.”
Ship ••••••• Popt fit* .£>abannaf).
ARRIVED,
Brig Little-Frank, Moore, Baltimore, 5 days.
Sloop Alexander Clunn, Clunn, Philadelphia,
10 days, with nails, gunpowder, See. to J. Bat.
telle, Isaac Course & Son, and others.
Sloop Experiment, Bradley, Providence, r. t.
11 days, with stone for the meeting-house, build
ing in this city. 2 passengers.
Sloop Rose-in-Bloom, Hamlen, Providence,
a. i. 11 days, stone for the meeting-house.
Arrivals from this port.
schr. Hiram, Peck, New-Orleans, 13th ultimo,
schr. Emily, White, Wilmington, 22d inst.
Vessels up for this port.
At Providence, r. i. Nov. 14. brig Governor
Hopkins, Parr, was to sail the 19th inst.
Clearances for this port.
brig Lydia, Nichols, Boston, 15th inst.
OC T The ship Halcyon of Philadelphia for this
port, was spoke off Charleston on the 23d inst.
Charleston, Nov. 25..
Arr. brig Shepherdess, Lines, N. York, 10 d’s.
Four days since, kpoke brig Eliza, Upton, 12 days
from Salem, bound to this port; schrs. New-
Orleans, Smith, N. York,” 11 days ; Franklin,
Gibbs, Georgetown, 1 day. Monday evening,
off Bulls, spoke a large bright-sided ship 8 days
from Boston, bound to this port; Hyder-Ali,
Marshall, Wilmington, N. c. 1 day. The brig
Robert, Cochran, fr Providence, r. i. british sch.
Caledonia, from Annatto bay, Jam. schrs. Regu
lator M‘llhenny, and Enterprize, Pease, fr. this
port, arrived on Sunday, George Washington,
Shannon, also, on Friday .
Baltimore, Nov. 19.
Cleared, ship Baloon, Stiles, New-Orleans ;
brig Cincinnatna, Mudge, Mobile ; schr. Monte
zuma, Holmes, W. Indies; Consolation, Thomp
son, Halifax; Fenwick, Denison, N. York.
Wilmington, Nov. 22.
Arr. Br. ship sir J. H. Craig, Edington, Liver
pool ; brigs Apollo, Rice, London; Climax,
Marchant, Boston ; schrs. Packet-Osc.ar, Allen,
Providence ; Sylph, Mercen, Boston ; Polly &
Nancy, Lawton, Newport; Minerva, Craghead,
Philadelphia; Emily, White, Savannah. Below
—brig Robert Cochran, Gorton, Providence ;
schr. Vigilant, Grimes,,N. Yofk.
Cleared, brig Connecticut, Blinn, Port-au
prince ; schrs. Leandcr, Wicks, Martinique;
Vigilunt, Bliss, West-Indies.
Philadelphia, Nov. 18.
Arr. Russian ship Amphion, Sandman, 63 days
from Cronstadt, with iron, hemp, Ac; ship* Ruth
A Mary, Brown, 38 days from Cadis, with quick
silver, copper, wine, fruit and cork wood; Aini
•hie, Kricksoif, 60 days from st with salt,
rJWnrlap, 10 <Uy* Boston j
i, S tUf* from N. Vu*kL sloop
dnvsfYom* York j A hr. Mary
13daysmtm f. Island, with salt,
UVe | sloop Hector, Iferricksoti.
‘,Vir. { sloop Phoebe Attn,Brown,
8 days I rum Newport
fifiifti, whr /*>#• Monroe, Wood, it- Stt*
IMr V
New-Vork, Nov. IT.
. Arrived, brig Fair American, Stanwood, Ma
deira, and 45 days from Teneriffe, with wine ;
1 brig Diana, Holmes, 14 days from l urks Island,
’ with salt; brig Neptune, Russell, 56 days from
Malaga, With wine fruit; schr Ellen Jones,
Lincoln, 9 ds. from Swansbury, H. C. with naval
stores ; Union Line schr Jersey, Osborn, 3 days
from Philadelphia, with indigo, flour, tea, duck,
!. starch, stoves, leather &c. Rover, Williams,
3 days From New’ London ; schr James Monroe,
Hipkirts, 3 days from Norfolk, with brar.dy, flour,
salt Ac.—on Friday, spoke sloop’ Peggy, from
New. York for Alexandria ; schr Four Brothers,
Studley, 10 days from Denni?, with fish and oil ;
schr Silvia, Burrows', 10 daysTr Barnstable, with
fish and oil; sclir Boxer, Sayres, 15 days from
Yarmouth, with fish; sloop Rover, Wilcox, 3 day*
from Stonington, with barley, bound to Balti
■ more; packet sloop HuntrcSS,Beecher} 10hours
from New Haven, with molasses and sugar.
Cleared, ship Julius Caesar, Marshal, Charles
ton ; baruqe Gideon, Coffin, London ; brigs Fa
vorite, Beeman, Berbice; Condor, Goodrich,
Middletown, Conn.; schooner Belvidere,. John
son, Norfolk ; sloops Yankee, Sumpters, Mobile ;
Union, Clark, Norfolk; Packet, Leach, New
bCm. 5 * , v
Boston, Mv. 15.
Ar. schr. Republican, Bangs, Wilmington,
s. c. with naval stores ; sloop Volusia, Sher
man, Bridgerwrt.
Cleared, ships Independence, Bangs, Calcut
ta ; Ceres, Webber, Charleston; brig Joseph,
Allen, Guadaloupe; schrs. Olive, Drinkwater,
st. Croix j Ranger, Hedge, Charleston; An
drew Jacksoi., Lincoln, Lubee. ‘
Sailed, U. S. schr. Lynx, lieut. Madison, for
New-York.
Salem, Nov. 11.
Ait. schr. Fame, New-York-—passed, on Nan
tucket shoals, ship Middlesex, for Boston.
Newbury port, Nov. 11.,
Arr. schrs. Essex, Condrv, W. Indies; Charles,
Forman, Philadelphia; brig Emily, 21 days from
Georgetown.
Cleared, ship Atlantic, Matlack, New-York ;
brig Joseph, Patch, Norfolk.
Portsmouih, N.H. Non. 9.
Arr. Ship Liverpool Packet, ‘fibbets, Balti
more ; brig Struggle, Falls, from st. Mary’s.
Portland, Nqv. 11.
Arr. Nimrod, Prince, Baltimore; Planet, Racir
lifij Alexandria; Relief, Baxter, N. York; Ran
ger, Prince, do ; Gratitude, Drinkwater, Alex
andria : Danish ship Henry, Dahl, st. Croix, bal
last ; Lion, Alden, Guadaloupe ; Albert, Stevens,
N. York ; Rising- Sun, Blanchard, Philadelphia.
Cleared, Susan, Woodbury, Alexandria ; Cor
delia, Totman, Havana; Francis, Merrill, W T est-
Indies; George, W’ildridge, do ; Galen, Keating,
Havafia; Milo, Merrill, Philad.; John & Charles,
Coombs, Havana; Active, Davis, Alexandria;
Rollar, York, Richmond; Express, Hubbs, Philad.
DIED. —In this city, on the 25th instant, me.
‘Lawton Ixgkahax, aged 23, a native of War
pen, R. i.
xxaaaecEaai
Passage for Liverpool,
|C7* A few passengers can bee, hand
- .iQrnely arenmined*ted on board the fine Phila
delphia built ship Factor, capt. Hamilton, to
sail on or before the Ist of December. ‘ Apply
to NICHOLAS & NEFF
For Liverpool,
The well known packet ship JOHN &
EDWARD. S. S. Webb, master. For
freight of 300 bales cotton (the rest of her car
go beipg engaged) or for passage, the ship hav
ing elegant accommodations, apply to captain
Webb, on board, or to
nov 27 77 RICHARDS & HARROWAY.
Bills on Liverpool,
Payable in London, and on Boston, for sale by
JOHJY BOGUE & CO.
nov 27 77 Hunter's -wharf.
Powder and Nails.
70 casks well assorted Nails and brads
50 do HFG gun-powder, of superior quality
Landing from shop Alexander Clunn,
For sale by J. BATTELLE.
nov. 27. _ §77
Brant § Fox,
HAVE FOR SAYK,
At their store, on Telfair's -wharf,
50 casks london brown Stout
25 do burton Ale
15 hhds muscovado Sugar
230 boxes Herrings
-50 do bo9ton nq. 1 and 2 Soap
25 do Doolittle’s do.
10 barrels refined loaf Sugar
15 do white Beans
10 do Albany Peas
10 kegs pickled Salmon
100. do do Cucumbers, Beans and Peppers
200 reams wrapping Paper
250 nests boxes
10 casks prime Goshen Cheese
Firkins and jars Goshen Butter
Boxes spermaceti Candles, and
A general assortment of GROCERIES.
Also, for sale as above,
1 elegant brass mounted Gig
3 do plated do.
a Kittureens, and
1 four-wheel Carriage. nov 27 77
Beef,
8 barrels prime Pork
20 do do Beef
20 firkins first quality Goshen Butter
20 boxes Mould Candles
130 half boxes Soap, and
A quantity of Windsor and farcy Chair
Landing from ship John 8c Edward. For sale by *
nov 27 77 REA b BUTLER.
Situation wanted,
}7IOR a young man writing a good hand and
acquainted with accounts, Other in a gro
oery store, dry gdoda’ or the out-door business
of acountiiig-rouni. Reference can be given.—
A line left lit this flfficc to A. Y. will be attended
to. s *w 77 hov 27
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Notice.
mi lE* side of the Pewrof the Roman Catholic
JR Church, will take place on Monday the
first at December next, at II oVlock in the
forenoon 74 nov 24
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Lot for stile,
a A building tut in Browp wqyd with
south from, nqfor the ncadopf * and dlvut-
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apply to , M IILgUEHT *1
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