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LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
New-Ymhk, July 22.
Tlic ship Illinois, captain Funk,arrived at this
port last evening, in 35 (lavs from Liverpool,
whence she sailed on the 1 4th ultimo. Captain
Kemp, owner, has arrived in this ship, and has
politely favored the editors of the Mercantile Ad
vertiser with papers to the 12th, and London pa
pers to the evening of the 1 Ith June. It will be
seen that there were numerous arrivals at Liver
pool from the United State s, but we do not learn
that there was any material alteration in the state
of the market.
The motion of the attorney general, for pre
venting llritifh subjects engaging in the service
of. the patriots of South America, was carried in
the house of commons, by a majority of 13.
In the house of ( mmons, June 7, the report
of the bank of England resumption of cash pay
ment bill was received and agreed to, and order
ed to a third reading.
The weavers at Carlisle have turned out for
an increase of wages.
It is staled that the plague is broken out at
Malta, and that several persons have fallen vic
tims to it.
I''rices at Livrrfiool , Jinic 9. —Cotton, Geor
gia, upland, lld a 12jd; Now-Orleans, 11 a 15d;
Sea Island, 2s 3d a 2s lOd; Tobacco, James’riv
er, 3,V1 a 8d; stemmed, 7d a BJd; Kentucky and
1 leorgia, 3d to 6d; rice, 43s a 455; tar, l4s 6d a
tss 6d, turpentine ll a 13; ashes, 4) a 42; pearls,
46 a 48s; American flour, 35sa 375.
London, July 11.
“There is still fluctuation in the funds. Om
nium began this morning at J per cent premium,
immediately went to par, and at half past twelve
was at J discount. There is a strong impres-
sion that it will improve.”
We arc sorry to state that the news from the
Cape ofGood Hope is of the most serious de
scription. Letters and papers to the end of
March have been received. All the inhabitants,
capable of bearing arms, were ordered to join
the military force.
June 10.—'Fhe chancellor of the exchequer,
last night, brought forward his budget for the
year. The gross amount of the supplies voted, and
to be voted, for the present year, is 20,477,000/;
to meet those supplies, parliament has hitherto
provided only 7,074,000/, leaving an excess of
expenditure, beyond the revenue, of about
13,500,000/. If this excess had been all that we
were called upon to supply, the sum appropriat
ed from the sinking fund would have precisely
accomplished it; but the measure lately adopted,
of returning to cash payments, requires that
5,000,000/ of the debt due to the Hank, should
fn repaid this year, and 5,600,000/ of unfunded
debt lie reduced. To meet this additional charge,
the loan of 12 millions has been negociated, up
on tonus which we partly communicated yester
day, and of which a more detailed account will
be found in this day’s paper. It was stated by
the chancellor of the exchequer, that, in order to
affect the funds as little as possible, he intended
to divide the twelve millions to be taken from the
sil king fund, into 12 monthly payments, during
w tiich the stock woutd remain in the name of the
commissioners. In the January and July quar
ters, however, only 900,000/ would be called for
monthly, (instead of one million;) and in the
April and October quarters, 1,100,000/. This
scale of appropriation would srill leave about
3 to,ooo/ per month, applicable to the reduction
of the national debt. In the ensuing year it is
calculated that a loan of only four millions will
i>c required to complete the remaining payments
to the bank, supposing parliament should again
sanction the application of 11 millions from the
sinking fund. After next year, no more loans
will be necessary during the continuance of
peace.
Wc arc sorry to learn that dreadful storms
have ravaged many places in the south of France.
\ letter from Orthez, dated the 25th ultimo,
that on “the preceding day, about 2 o’clock,
several thousand farmers, inhabiting more than
sixty adjoining communes, had the misfortune to
see disappear, in ihe space of an hour, one of the
richest harvests, the fruit of their toil and labor.
\ dreadful hail storm beat every thing to the
ground, so that it is impossible to describe the
deplorable slate of the vines, the corn, and the
fruit trees: all is ravaged—all is lost.”
Another letter, from I’au, dated the 28th tilt,
says, “the storms in this Unhappy country sne
ered each other with a rapidity which excites
despair. Communes spared at night are over
whelmed before next morning. To-day a part
of the Canton ofPau has been ravaged; the vines
broken, the corn cut up, and the hay destroyed;
hailstones were gathered of the size of a pullet s
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V OO’
Petersburg, May 15.
The port of Cronsladt is entirely free from ice;
‘ifiy snips have already entered the harbor, thir
teen ol which arc leaded with the productions of
the south.
Many persons, who pretend to be well inforrn
( ‘., continue to assert, that our august sovereign
n .s returned a letter, addressed to him by king
C hades John, (Bernadette,) unopened, the con
tents of which, being known by duplicate, were
at variance with acknowledged terms, and might
have been seriously offensive to the feelings of
our monarch.
Stockholm, May 24.
If we may credit the rumors in circulation, a
considerable body of troops is assembling in the
environs of Petersburg. V ; h regard to our own
1 military establishment, it is at its effective height,
. net wc ) net sec how it can lie augmented. It
■■•’id, that, i:i Denmark, all the military absent
JfeT a He, or furlough, have been recalled.
reports, which wo do not guarantee any
Kwl’ 11 •. b- w. nob . . i in,n ma.b
flppjpy . ■. l i . 1111 ,
OF THE EUROPEAN MARKET.
Extract of a letter from a commercial house In
J.ivt rfiool to their friend in A r :u■ York , dal and
June 12.
“Sir —For your favor of May 10, received
June 5, we are much obliged, and assure you,
that w henever you i an find time to write, v. c shall
always be very happy to receive your letters. —
The times on your side are dreadful; here they
arc wretchedly bad, and our markets, wc are sat
isfied, must yet grow lower. In fact, obr pre
sent quotations are quite nominal, and the daily
accumulation of cotton is so heavy that wc
apprehend it will yet bring down both American
and India houses. ‘Flicre is just now no appear
ance of any amendment whatever; and the fact
of nearly all the bills remitted being refused ac
ceptance materially increases the distress. We
see nothing but failuics before us, and wc are
certain that many months must elapse before
confidence can be restored bv the mercantile
world being cleared of those who have been so
ruinously overtrading themselves, and who must
he swept away before a steady, fair, and safe trade
can be resumed. These violent commercial
storms which occasionally happen, are always
dreadful in their operation, but uniformly saluta
ry in their effects, and enable the man of proper
ty and prudence to carry on his concerns for a
few years peaceably and profitably, without the
interference of these wild speculative theorists,
who always involve many in the ruin they seek
lor themselves. The East India company now
have a rich harvest, by purchasing in India their
goods from these free traders at less than half
their cort; they being compelled to sell at any
rate, am!, in fact, being all nearly annihilated.—
And to these men, who 15 months ago boasted
they would carry all before them, we arc indebt-
ed for the present melancholy situation of our
markets—consequently, have but little commis
eration from those interested in the American
trade, which they avowedly staled they would
destroy.
“They deserve no sympathy—however, in pro
cess of time, when they shall be put completely
hors de combat, the American trade will again
raise its head, and he conducted with some de
gree of satisfaction and pleasure; and so long as
American cottons siiail continue at or under 1 Id
per pound, Surats and Bengali may be laid on
the shelf, and the transatlantic planter ought to
sell his produce (and which he can do with a
profit) at a price that will admit of saving sales to
the shipper being effected here at from K>£ to
1 Id per lb.”— Columbian.
From the JYe~.v- England Galaxy.
AME RIC AN LITERAT U R E.
“Why should the Americans write books, when a six
weeks passage brings them, in their own tongue, our
sense, science, and genius, in bales and hogsheads?”
Edinburgh Itevieru,
And why, let us ask, should we manufacture
boots and bottom, when a six weeks passage will
bring us from Liverpool and Birmingham, the
same articles at a cheaper rate? This way of
managing an argument has lately become very
fashionable. “Why” said the honorable Mr.
Austin at the town meeting the other day, “why
should wc pay a school-master for teaching our
children Latin? All Latin works that are worth
reading, are translated, and we can read them,
much cheaper, in our own language.” There
is notwithstanding the force of this reasoning, un
less indeed, a man “has a soul above buttons,”
which is more than some of its advocates seem to
possess.
That vulgar and unworthy prejudices should
exist among the lower classes in Great Britain
against a nation which has beaten their armies on
land and their navies on the ocean, is not sur
prising. Neither is it wonderful that British me
chanics and manufacturers should view with a
certain degree of jealousy the mechanics and
manufacluiersof another nation, who arc already
formidable rivals in the fabrications of various
articles of merchandize and profit. Rivalries
and emulations of this sort, especially amongst
those who have been taught from their cradles
to look upon their own country as the seat of all
that is learned, and ingenious, and wise, to the
exclusion of the claims of all other nations, may
perhaps naturally engender a contempt for the
attainments of those whom they imagine as infe
riors. Tiiis narrow-mindedness among coblers,
milliners, and journeymen tailors, can hardly ex
cite any other sensation than a transient touch of
pity lor their ignorance and weakness; but when
it discovers itself among the better sort, those
whom reflection shfund have rendered superior
to feelings of envy, and from whose bosoms learn
ing should have expelled the pitiful prejudices
ot party, one is moved to the indulgence of emo
tions a little less passive.
If the sentence above quoted, had been uttered
by someone of the numerous young men who
come to thb United States as agouts for a manu
facturer of Liverpool crockery ware, Sheffield
lamps and candlesticks, or Birmingham jacknives
and buttons, it might have passed unnoticed, as
a mere ebullition of that vanity and self conceit
in which some of these gentlemen abound so
plentifully, that no fears have been entertained of
their becoming bankrupts in folly and egotism.
But when wc find it in one of the most popular
reviews of Great Britain, published in one of the
most learned and polished cities in the kingdom,
and by men who arc bending under the weight
of their literary and scientific laurels, he must
be jjosscsscd of an uncommon share of meek
ness and an overwhelming consciousness of his
own imbecility, w ho cannot feel that die reproach
is unmerited. Wc shall never envy the extent
of that man’s philosophy, tior equanimity of the
elements which compose his mental tempera
ment, who can read such libels and feel no glow
of resentment. Yet there arc men among us,
whose national pride experiences no mortifica
tion, and the nerves and fibres of whose patriot
’ ‘ r --
ism arc so calm and insensible as not even to]
suffer a temporary spasm.
It is no reproach to the people of the United!
States that they have not yet surpassed in science,
literature, and the fine arts, the country from
which they originated. They are citizens of an
empire which is, as it were, but of yesterday.—
They are not born the property of a hereditary
landlord, forming a portion of his live stock, but
arc owners of the soil on which they live. In re
spect to natural rights and privileges they are all
equal, all eligible to the highest office of honor
their country can bestow. Independence is the
great and common objects of pursuit; and until
we have men w ith incomes large-enough to pat
ronise the professors of the line arts by a pur
chase of their productions, independence will
continue tube pursued in the most direct and ea
sy paths.
The grand distinction between an American
and an Englishman docs not consist so much in
capacity as in motive or disposition. The for
mer would blush to receive a pension for a poem
or dedication, which the latter would endure
years of labor to obtain. One will ransack the
cabinet of Apollo for gems, and search every
bower on Parnassus for flowers to decorate the
name of his titled patron: the other, acknowledg
ing no natural superior, and seeking no honor
but such as his countrymen collectively are wil
ling to bestow, disdains “to bend or bow before
created man.” In Europe,
“The patron smiles— the flatterers burst with mirth;
lie weeps—they droop, the saddest souls on earth;
He calls for fire—they court the mantle’s heat;
’Tis warm, he cries—and they dissolve in sweat;
They with a glance the rising passion trace,
And mould tiieir own to suit their patron’s face;
At deeds of shame their hands admiring raise,
And mad debauchery’s worst excesses praise.”
In America, a competency is sought by hon
orable labor: every one delights to sit at his own
tabic, to sleep in his own house, to till with his
own hands the spot which lie has purchased with
his own industry, and thinks,
“In any corner lie can get,
To call one lizard his is something yet.”
This passion for independence, or “spirit of
monopoly,” as some choose to call it, unquestion
ably retards the progress of the fine arts, and has \
blasted in the bud many an embryo flower of ge
nius; for who will starve upon anticipations of
profit and fame, when he can satisfy his wants by
labors that arc immediately remunerated?
But are indeed no men of learning and science,
and genius in the United States? Have we no
statesmen or counsellors that do honor to their
country? Then let us strew the ashes of oblivi- 1
on upon the names of Washington, Jefferson, i
Hamilton, the Adamses, Jay, Otis, and a long!
catalogue of others of whom we have been ac
customed to boast. Franklin we are graciously I
permitted by the Edinburgh Review to remem- 1
her, for “halfa century to come ” Let us drive j
away from our recollections all “fond records”*
of Parson and Dexter, and send Story and Olis]
and Webster back to the office of a country law
yer to read books of forms. Wny should we j
listen to the eloquence of Randolph and King, of.
Wirt and Pinckney, and Harper, when we can
import by the “hogshead” the speeches of Phil
lips and lord Castlercagh? It is stupidly foolish
to pay any deference to the talents of Rush, or
Dorsey, or Warren, when a six weeks passage
will bring us “in bales” the “sense” of all the
quacks who have ever been bug-killers to her
gracious majesty the queen, or who have invent
ed “innocent and harmless” soaps and lotions for
the nobility and royal family. As to painting,
what absurdity it is to be pleased with the works
of West and Stuart, of Alston and Sargent, when
every mountebank that crosses the Alantic brings
“bales and hogsheads” of daubed canvass and pa
per, which he is willing to pass off for the works
of the most eminent masters. But the “paucity
of talent” among our countrymen, is in nothing
so conspicuous as in the silly attempts to write
poetry. Dwight made an effort to produce a
poem, on a piece of scripture history, when he
was a very young man. But poor fellow!
cftr4l not write poetry, because,, his “bapUomal
Take warning ye
parents, who"fc*pect verses from jprfrchildren,
and beware of- which
of the sacred nine
by the name of Tinu^f^s *■• - , ■
But to be seikujlfmu'st affec
tion and rcsmgrTfor all the proqm*>i of our
countmjptfenr May wc not be permitted* without
of absurdity, still to relauNuur
idvc for those whom remembrance has consecra
ted as men of genius, letters and taste? Must we
never again read the “Conquest of Canaan,” nor
the “Colifmbiad?” Must the lyre of Paine never
more be suffered to vibrate on our recollection,
and must the “Airs of Palestine” be hushed in
eternal silence, never more to steal upon the
senses, with their smooth and varied melody?—
Can we not have learning, tiil we nave driven
from the heart our native land, and broken all the
sacred ties which bind us to its thousand charms?
Then let us remain forever ignorant and unrefin
ed. If we cannot have feeling, and genius and
taste, without becoming a nation of fiddlers,
merry-andrews and dandies, let us be content to
drive the plough, and navigate the ocean, to make
turnpike reads and construct steam boats; but,
for heaven’s sake, grant us the liberty of hearing
our own poets and orators, of respecting our
friends and benefactors; of loving our wives and
children—and leave us in undisturbed possession
of our honor and patriotism, the sympathies of
our natures and the independence of our minds.
GENERAL MACGREGOR.
\From the correspondent of the Charleston Patriot .]
“Aux-Cayes, July 4, 1819.
“I had received information on the 11th ult.
from Port-au-Prince, of MacGregor’s disaster,
flight and arrival at that place in the Hero; and
on the same day came into this port and anchor
ed, the British ship Mary St Eliza, captain Fol
lias, from Dublin, with 130 passengers, ofTicet's.,
and men for MacGregor’s army. On the 24th,
the brig Henry, from same place, with 135; and
on the 30th, the brig Tarantula, Footman, from
London, with 85, all lor the same concern. The
two first vessels were chartered by colonel Eyre,
in Dublin, for this port only, with the privilege
of 20 lay days after arrival, from and after which
time the charter ceased. They were told that
an agent was here with friends to receive them,
and transport them to their intended destination;
but alas! the poor fellows were sadly disappoint
ed. An agent had never been named or perhaps
ever thought of by MacGregor, and indeed had
he have appointed one he would have been mere
ly nominal and of no service to these detachments,
as MacGregor was not possessed of one cent
when he left this with his advance. The utmost
distress and disappointment to officers and men
have been the consequence of this flagrant and
outrageous deception. Gentlemen of the first
respectability and talents have been inveigled in
to the enterprise, by the most disgraceful false
hoods and misrepresentation. They were told
that the inhabitants of New Grenada were wait
ing to receive them with open arms; that the ad
vance commanded by MacGregor in person, had
already paved the way and made the path smooth
to fame and fortune; and that it would be entire
ly useless to take the precaution of carrying any
funds with them, as they would certainly find an
overflowing treasury on their arrival; but alas!
poor men, they too late discovered the deep de
ception, the unpardonable violation of all faith
on the part of the commander in chief and the
agent of the government of New Grenada.
Three hundred and fifty officers and men are
at this moment here, destitute (the men particu
larly) of every thing except what charity affords
them; their distress is indeed extreme. The dis
ease peculiar to the climate, has carried many of
them off'; and if they are not soon sent from this,
many more will perish. MacGregor is moment
ly expected here from Port-au-prince, in the
Hero, which since his glorious flight from Porto
Bello, lie has christened MacGregor; but should
he come, I do not believe that ten men would
join him, even to avoid the dreadful prospect be
fore them—all their confidence in him is gone
forever. What renders the disappointment of
the officers more acute and distressing is, that
all the funds for paying the charters (w hich bye
the bye was done in advance) of these v r jels, the
provisions, and their own equipments (which are
all elegant and costly) have been entirely raised
by themselves—and their soldiers relying on
them for relief and support, without the means
of doing any thing for them.
“Since MacGregor’s arrival at Port-au-Prince,
he lias issued a proclamation in favor of the He
brew nation, granting them ail the civil and reli
gious rights in the government of
which *me or may be possessed by any Qiket*‘peo
ple. There is truly,bombastic and
laughable in this af
ter his disaster anddwwfffac eiioj1 ’ g n tTlroii i Ncw-
Grenada, work andrhfch £ fibci alitv
of him, grants to these jfoor unfor
tuTflffemen, rights and privileges whiph are el*
nied mostly by all the world beside, in a govern
ment which exists only in his imagination, and in
a country in which he docs not possess an inch of
ground or even a solitary right to privilege himself.
“Since writing the above, MacGregor has ar
rived xvith the brig MacGregor and a crew of on
ly 10 or 12 men—with no funds and no piospects
at this moment of any of the men joining him; a
day or two will, however, determine the matter,
and as a vessel, consigned to our house, leaves
this the day after to-morrow, for Wilmington, I
shall give you all information of his prospects,-
his hopes, See. Etc.
I have had the pleasure of becoming acquaint
ed with colonel McCarthy, who commands the
detachment on board of the Tarantula; a gentle
man of much respectability, and who would do
honor, in my opinion, to any service. He has
promised to give me every information respect
ing what arrangements MacGregor may be able
to make with the officers ofthese detachments, in
time for my next communication. As I have no
doubt that the friends of colonel M‘Carthy, in
England, will be extremely glad to hear of him,
I beg that in your publication you will add, that
colonel McCarthy, commanding the detachment
on board the Tarantula, arrived on the 30th in
good health. The fine appearance of the offi
cers and men of this little band reflects much
credit on their commander: and the politeness
and urbanity of his manners have made him res
pected by all who have had the pleasure to be
come acquainted with him. It is believed that
coionel M‘Carihy will not proceed with Mac-
Gregor, unless he perfectly satisfies him on some,
particular points regarding his prospects and in
tentions and settles some doubts in tiie colonel’s
mind respecting his military character, and fully
explains away the assertions that have been made,
touching his conduct in the late disastrous afl’ai;-
at Porto Bello.”
FROM OPORTO.
Capt. Lqud, of the schooner Industry, arrived
here yesterday from Oporto, reports that there
was a hot press for seamen and soldiers at the
time he sailed, and that every Portuguese sub
ject was seized by order of government, for an
expedition fitting out at Lisbon. Vessels were
; boarded even off the harbor by the press gangs,
and diligent search made for Portuguese subjects.
The Industry was robbed of a considerable part
of her provisions, by the pilots that brought her
out from Oporto, who being joined by two boats’
crews, that came along side as soon as they clear
ed the harbor, demanded some pork, and being
refused, broke open the state room and helped
themselves, abusing the captain and crew (who
remonstrated upon the impropriety of their con
duct) in the vilest language, ahd threatening to
throw them overboard if they resisted
JVo rfolk