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"the following revieiv has bfeen ffteiveH frbtn 4 ftteca-
Ty club established in tins city; and as it contains some
strictures on the bistoty of an event which we shall al
ways deeply* regret, wfe hive thought proper, for the fur
ther information of ottr readers, to give it an insertion in
the Register: k
DR. EWELL'S MEDICAL COMPANION.
, A work has just made its hppearance in this city call-
•obthe “Medical Companion,t purporting to be the third
edition, and written, or compiled by one Dr. J. Ewell,
physician in Washington. We confess that, from the
handbills posted at the doctor’s doors and Windows, in
which this modest knight of the pestle has puffed himself,
in a manner, we doubt not, quite satisfactory to him
self, we bad supposed the work would have,, afforded us
much useful information, and contributed to simplify ami
extend the sphere of medical knowledge; but mortals
are always destined to disappointment; and we have ex
perienced it- most woefully in the perusal of this “cele
brated Family Physician,” which, like the doctor’s own
narcotics, had very nearly overpowed us with sleep.—
We shall not detain the reader by wading through this
bundle of plagiarisms and mass of compilations, in which
•very thing is borrowed but its stupidity, and every thing
Stolen but its nonsense. That it will never be worth five
-dollars to its subscribers, does not, We think, require the
prescience of a prophet to foretell, and we regret that
the subscribers have paid so dearly for their w%*tle.—
We had no idea that book making had attained such a
height in this country. The patronage which domestic
literature receives is so very limited, that no one could
reasonably have supposed a mere compilation from Bu
chan, Rush, Sydenham, &c. &.C. would ever have made its
Way-from the bookseller’s shelves. To.this, however, the
doctor has contrived to procure no inconsiderable num
ber of subscribers, who, we doubt not, ere this, have re
pented their precipitancy. It is owing, in a great de
gree, to these repeated deceptions, that the growth of do
mestic literature is so dilatory, and that A merican works
of merit have so circumscribed a circulation. Men who
are once deceived will endeavor to avoid a similar decep
tion in future, which thus tends to check the enterprize
Snd exertions of those who possess real science and ge
nius, But we are disposed to question even the utility
of works of this character. To persons ignorant of the
medical science they produce nothing but confusion: and
we should entertain but an humble opinion of the medi-
ieal faculty, if they resorted to such sources for informa
tion—a smattering of medicine is more injurious than a
total ignorance—and the old woman who has derived all
her knowledge from a careful perusal of Buchan, Rees
•Or Ewell, might, from the confusion its produces, and her
ignorance of the true causes and symptoms of diseases, as
soon be induced to administer poison as to apply the
proper remedy—medicine is at best but a science of ex
periments—reducible to no fixed principles, and varying
in proportion to the diversity of constitutions we find in
the human family. He therefore who has tried the most
experiments will perhaps be the most able practitioner
of medicine—the young Esculapi'us who launches into
the world fresh from the hand of Hypocrates, Galen, and
the Other fathers of the medical art, will perhaps be more
Ignorant of the prognostics of disease, and the method of
administering a bolus or a glister, than the good old
wife who has carefully noted the various changes which
'a disease assumes, knows the efficacy of her simple nos
trums, and can apply them with security and skill.
Je sais bien qu’il y a de bons remedes, mais je ne sais S’il a
de bons Jnedicines.—[Be Sage.]
We think that these books have a tendency only to mul
tiply quacks—to destroy our confidence in the medical
profession, and to make every man a physician without
Dbing a doctor. It is not our intention to point out the
paragraphs and pages which the doctor has purloined
from sources within every man’s reach—because we con
ceive it to be a work of supererogation—nor shall we
presume to say that the doctor is a medical quack, though
he is certainly a literary one; aDd has borrowed and
patched with less delicacy than any gentleman of the lan-
set that has ever come before the public. To be sure
for the poetical scraps with which he has garnished his
medical wild boor, we confess ourselves highly indebted
CO him; because in the midst of darkness a little lightning
is very acceptable to prevent us from tumbling 'into
quagmires and falling over precipices. And' if the doc
tor has not been very particular in the application of
these extracts, for we presume that anv thing like rhyme
WOO sufficient, his object being to swell the book; we
are still obliged to him for administering this poetical
•nuff powder to keep us awake.
But our object is not so much to exhibit the doctor’s
iiterary and medical incapacity, as to point out his pre
judices and mistatements in relation to the capture of
"Washington, which has alone called our attention to his
Book. We were quite at a loss to conceive the connec
tion between a subject purely historical and one entirely
jnedical—and before we had seen the “celebrated Fami
ly Physician,” were inclined to think that the doctor
had deduced some fatal disease from that unfortunate
event; but upon examining the different medical heads,
even to the bloody flux, under which we thought the
doctor might perhaps have placed it; we were surprized
to find it wholly detached, and in a manner unconnect
ed with the preceding subjects. The doctor was doubt-
. less influenced by vanity to give the very partial history
of this event we find in his n- dical companion; because
the doctor, like Falstaff, seen.s to be very fond of the
society of great men, whether enemies or friends, and
like Cockburn, no doubt, equally attached to the service
of the god of wine. The sentimental conversation be
tween him and his friends Ross and Cockburn, was per
haps, very interesting to himself, but we are sure it must
he as insipid, even it were true, as the doctor’s nostrums
to the generality of his readers. Whether it originated
from ignorance or design, we are unable to say; but the
doctor has unfortunately introduced men into the battle
of Bladensburg, who were at that time, forty miles off - .—
Among these we find the name of captain Grayson, of
the marine corps, who was then in Baltimore, and must
doubtless feel hurt at thus being lugged into a battle that
Redounded so little to the honor of his country. This
battle has been variously described, and the causes of
our failure frequently developed. Some have ascribed
it to negligence on the part of the government; some to
•panic in the American army; and others to an incapa
city on the part of the commanding general. Perhaps
the real cause was a combination of these three. There
■was, howCyer, a possibility of saving the city even with
the army then oct, if judicious. measures had been taken
by the general at an earlier period; and that army had
dot been ordered to retreat without specifying the point
at which to rally. It is acknowledged by all that the
district militia lic-haved valiantly, and that some of the
corps, in particular, fought till they were repeatedly and
peremptorily ordered to retire. We would barely ask
why were the troops dragged for three days through
Prince George’s county? Why were they kept in such
perfect ignorance of the force and movements of ihe
enemy? Why were they ordered to retreat to Washing
ton instead of Bladensbunr? And why was not the latter
the first object of defence! It mutt surely be obvious to
the most cursory observer, that this village was a point
to which the enemy could have been compelled to march
|>y the destruction of the bridges, and that three days
preparation with six thousand men would have been am
ply Sufficient to have enabled the general to erect breast
works, half moon batteries and other objects of defence
which would thus have retarded the progress, if it did
not tend to the defeat of the invading foe. But to return
to the -doctor—one would suppose that this professional
gentleman had absolutely been an eye witness of the bat-
tie be describes, but whether it originated from his un
willingness to shed blood with apy .other instrument than
that of the lancet, or whether it proceeded from that
exquisite humanity of which he so much boasts, we are
unable to say; but the fact is that the doctor could never
W prevailed upon to advance nearer than five miles to
♦he scene of action. The instinct which influenced
Falstaff not to injure the “true Prince” seems to have
taken possession of the doctor, and though he could
irith the utmost sang froid bleed fifty Americans to
death he had an unconquerable abhorrence to let-
out the blood of one Englishman with his sword.
The doctor has not been correctly informed, when he
asserts that the “enemy instantly displayed a heavy co-
Wnn to the right and passed the fort higher up the
i-reek ” The enemv did not throw out his flanking par-
tteTat all till he had crossed the bridge, nor did many
af the troops retreat till they were actual^ flanked to
the left and had been ordered to retire. The principal
part Of the execution was performed by the Baltimore
DviiWp
corps cange op. The “bidtsouS'lanes,” mefiHoned By the
doctor, WCre made by Captain Burch’* artillery, at the
commencement of the action, and had they been proper
ly supported, the lanes might, perhaps to the doctor’s
regret, have been made much more ‘hideous. Had cofrn-
modore Barney's flotilla Wen, and the marine corps been
earlier oh the ground/ (another faux pas of the general)
the action would unquestionably have been much more
distance of five miles, through woods and through moun
tains, from the third story of his housq. Hi9 optics must
indeed have been very acute to have seen the rockets in
a clear day, at the distance of five entire miles parti
cularly when there intervened several large hills
and and a thick wood of nearly four miles in extent.
But this is Very probable, if, as we understand, the doc
tor afterwards saw the rockets at Baltimore, when the
enemy unsuccessfully attempted to attack that city.—
Our knight of the lancet seems to think that because be
has patched his book with poetical scraps, he is there
fore entitled to the license of a poet, and must not be
confined within the narrow limits of probability and truth
The doctor is very facetious when he speaks of the pob t
troomsm of spine of the troops whom a friend of his met
retiring from the ground—in this, as in many other cir
cumstances, we suppose the dofctor is merely shewing the
delicacy of his humor—or again exercising his poetical
license for the amusement of his readers; but some of these
men relate an anecdote of the author equally as ridicu
lous, and as they cannot be charged with poetising, they
are consequently more entitled to belief. As soon as the
doctor had descended from his aerial elevation in the
third story o r his house in which he had been ..gazing at
the “rockets’ red glare” through the medium of his men
tal eye, one of these passions which he says in his book
sometimes produces a diarrhoea, seized him, and be fled
(if a lobster can be said to fly,) to the residence of a sick
lady in the neighborhood. From having seen the rock
ets, or from tiie uproar occasioned by the retreat of the
American arniy, the doctor w:.s seized with an idea, .that
the enemy was at bis back and Would certainly devour
him, notwithstanding his humanity—and grasping the la
dy’s arm, with convulsive energy, pretended to feel her
pulse for nearly an hour, when it seems he was informed
by a divine in the next house that Ross and Cockburn
were not anthropophagi, hut “perfectly gentlemen,” totiie
great relief of the unfoihibate knight of the pestle. It
was then he beheld the capital “in fames, which, with a
noise like thunder, filled ail the saddened night with a
dismal gloomy We believe it can no where be found but
in the doctor’s book, that light should produce gloom,
particularly when, in addition to the flames, the moon
shone with unusual brilliancy; but it is one of our au
thors touches at the sublime, and as such is calculated to
elicit our admiration. It is unnecessary to follow our au
thor through his fulsome panygerics oil the courage, the
humanity, and the generosity of the enemy. It would be
as sickening to our readers as it is to us. We feel assur
ed that no American can feel any other sentiment tiian
indignation at the conduct of men, who, contrary, to the
usages of civilized warfare, cou(d, without one sentiment
of remorse, or one sigh of regret, destroy the monuments
of the arts and the repositories of literature and science.
The destruction of the capitol, president’s house, public
offices and private buildings, evince a inalig-nity and bar
barity that are only to be found among the rudest nations
of the world ? and the liian who would attempt to justify
these atrocities, merits the contempt and indignation of
every lover of bis country. We respect general Ross for
his courage and fidelity to his country, but we cannot,
at the same time, avoid execrating him and his accom
plices, the doctor’s eulogies to the contrary notwith
standing, for the acts he committed himself, and suffer
ed to be committed by those under him, while in posses
sion of the city. We are, perhaps, better acquainted
with the conduct of the British troops while in Washing
ton, than the doctor himself; and in opposition to his au
thority, we declare, as a fact, tiiat Ross knew the library
to be in the capitol, and when he was asked to spare it,
he exclaimed “pshawJ we have no time to betrifling
with books.” He knew; also, that Washington’s, Tom
linson’s and Sewell’s houses were private buildings, yet
they were ordered to be consumed. He was apprised al
so of the pillaging of several private houses; yet he took no
measures to prevent it. Among them was the house of
a gentleman whom the doctor calls an emigrant, which
he savs, “was plundei-ed of a few artieiesf but which
was in truth, robbed of property to the amount of ten
thousand dollars! and that of another gentleman, who,
thbugh in the house at the time, and though he expostu-
latedjfcvith the British officers then present, he was plun
der^! in the most wanton manner, of one thousand five
hundred dollars’ worth of goods and ultimately had his
horse taken from him by this very liberal British general.
These are facts we are prepared to substantiate. Cock-
bum, with his own hands set fire to the capitol and pre
sident’s house, by way of distinction, and afterwards
boasted of the exploit. This illustrious rear admiral also
broke into Mr. Gales’ printing office and did ail the in
jury to the establishment, his petty malice could dictate,
and yet these are the men tliis wielder of the pestle lias so
outrageously bedizened with praises for their forbear
ance, their liberality, and their virtue!—I/inc procul este
prof aid. There is another fact in relation to tlie doctor
himseif, which we think it our duty to relate, in order to
destroy the illiberal prejudice he wishes to excite against
those emigrants who, lie says, were goihg to make him
the “bloody victim of their diabolical rage dntl fury.”
The doctor’s humanity became so excessive after he
had received the “six doubloons”* from Cockburn, for
dressing the wounds of a poor woman that a British
(but the doctor is inclined to think an American) soldier
had stabbed, that upon the departure of die enemy, he
repaired with a British guard, (who were among those
left by the generous Ross to the mercy of the American
savages, and were, no doubt, well versed in that kind of
business,) ‘to a neighbor’s i touse, who had a fine large
hog in lus yard, with a view to impressgrumphy inio the
British service. But one of those emigrants who have
called down the doctor’s wrath, happened to pass by at
the time, (the owner being absent,) and, by seasonable
threats, prevented the doctor from putting- his designs
into execution, and compelled him and his suit to retire
without their prey. We certainly applaud the doctor’s
humanity to those wounded wretches that were left be
hind by the enemy; but his humanity seems to have been
confined to them alone, for the wounded of the Ameri
can army received but a small portion of his humane
anil benevolent attentions. The doctor’s everlasting
slang about the liberality, tenderness, and noble senti
ments of the British army while in Washington, is rather
loathsome, after the outrages they committed, and cer
tainly is very- inconsistent with the feelings of an Ameri
can patriot. We are unwilling to detract from the merit
even of an enemy, but it surely is very disgusting to see
an American loading that enemy with praise, while he
labors to disparage and darken the character of his own
countrymen- The doctor’s anecdotes of colonel Troop,
though a man of great moral and political excellence,
have no more connection with the capture of Washing
ton, than his book has with the man in the moon; and
how ever gratifying it may be to his vanity, he might at
least have spared us the trouble of Wading through that
additional quantum of trash. Even the merit which the
doctor assumes for having, hv his remonstrances, saved
Mr. Caldwell’s house and the Washington Bank from
conflagration, is, we understand,, surreptitious. Those
buildings r if report be true, were saved through the in
tercession of a young woman who then resided on the
capitol hill.
To be sure, the doctor says he did all he could to save
the rope-walks of Chalmers, Ringwood and Heath; but
it was all in vain, and those rope-walks were as much
private property as the houses that were spared. But it
seems the enemy were determined to “spare nothing that
made in favor of our navy;” and thus the private rope-
walks of those gentlemen! became a prey to the confla
grating hand of the enemy—an act ofjreat liberality, no
doubt, in the eye of the worthy doctor.
We must here pause: it was not our intention to in
terrupt the progress of Mr. E’s book to oblivion, but
this account of the capture of Washington struck our
eye, and we conceived it a duty we owed to ourselves,
manufactures.
edoythe the future historian of tbis'eVcnt, the propriety of con
sulting a more correct and authentic record, than that
which the doctor has furnished. Upon the style of this
work-, it b unnecessary to say any thing; fitingaS various
and diversified'as the authors from whom the doctor
has borrowed; it consequently presents a medley that
cannot be reduced Ho any standard: but ai the historical
part of it seems to be the doctor’s own; we are thus en
abled to pronounce his style below mediocrity. Before
we conclude, we would humbly adm'onish Mr. E. to
omit the account of the capture of Washington, in the
future editions of his book, if he be solicitous to pro
mote its )tele, and save himself from the shafts of
future ridicule and contempt.— Critical Society, tVash-
ington.
12 years, in order to favour the internal
LATEST FltOM ENGLAND.
Nsw-York, August 10.
Captain Bowne, of the Pacific, brings the editors of the
Gazette, London papers to the 28th of June, inclusive,
nd although they afford nothing of moment, we have
noticed, briefly, their contents.
We are sorry to find that there is no abatement of the
commercial distresses of England, particularly amongst
the manufacturers at Manchester, &c.
General Dc-ssaix had been arrested in Switzerland, for
having been concerned in the affair of Grenoble.
The great Mr. Sheridan was so ill, that, according to
the London papers, his life was despaired of.
The British parliament was prorogued on the 3d of
July. Provision had been made for the expences of the
year, and it was supposed there would be no necessity
for the assemblage of parliament before January'.
The king of France has nominated the duke de la
Chatte, a minister of state, and member of the privy
council.
The British admiralty ate about affording protection
against the pirates of the Mediterranean.
Lord Exmouth from the Mediterranean, with his fleet,
arrived at Portsmouth ori the 24th of June—anil, adtis the
Courier, another fleet must be sent there to chastise the
pirates.
It b generally believed that marshal Soult, who had
previously taken up his residence in this city# at the
White Lion Inn, embarked from hence in the William
Henry, for Boston, in America, on the I8th insti—Bristol
Journal.
Paris papers of the 22d (Saturday) have just arrived.
A French squadron, consisting of the Medusa frigate,
the Echo corvette, the Loire and the Argus brigs, sailed
on tue 17th from the Isle d’Aix forSenegal, to take pos
session of the French establishments on the coast of Af
rica.
LoxiioJr, June 14.
Never in the memory 7 of mail, was thebe any thing
known like the emigration now taking place. The door
of the French minister, nay, the street in which he lives,
is crowded with persons applying for passports. Thou
sands have been issued—and those not to needy persons,
but to families of large fortunes—to landed proprietors
—to fundholders—to manufacturers and artizaus of emi
nence—and to men at the head of establishments, who
are seriously contemplating the removal of their arts and
their machines, to places less burdened by taxation. The
extent of this evil will speedily be felt, in diminishing
consumption—-ih the number of persons thrown out of
employ—and in the deficit of the revenue. The river
Thames presents a most dreary aspect; there are not fifty-
foreign sail to be seen in it; and the London docks, which
used to employ 1500 bauds, do not now employ 500.—
With an acknowledged deficiency of 17,000,000/ per am
num, we hear of these emigrations that w ill not cost the
nation less than ten or twelve millions per annum; and
the sum sent by Englishmen abroad will act as a subsidy
to our neighbors, and will be felt as such in the balance
of trade, thereby raising the exchange against us.
Liverpool, June 16.
“A friend of mine was at Manchester, Birmingham,
Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, and London,.a week ago,
and says the distresses in the country are beyond des
cription; that there are at least 20,000 hands out of employ-
in Birmingham alone. I am informed by several persons
from Manchester that more tiian half of the spinners
there are stopping their mills; and in most places tliey are
only working half their time. There is scarcely a calico
manufactory in Colne, and that district, but what has
been under the necessity of compromising with their
creditors; failures are every where taking place. The
Bolton weavers joke and say they can see alt their masters
out. Marry Fell has become a bankrupt, and caused the
stoppage of John and Robert Lord, William Carlisle and
Co. (bleachers) Abraham Hardman and Leonard Slatin.
Those failures took place a fortnight ago. Last week
Messrs. Edgam and Co. an American house in Manchester,
stopped. There are ten houses in Manchester, w hose col
lective debts amount to 60,000/. Knights are creditors about
10,000/. Dickenson and Wylde, Marsden Square, and a
number of job printers, stopped also last week, as well
as Messrs. Goulds, a ■ large woolen manufactory house
,n Roachdale, a relation cf the Goulds in Manchester.—
The earthenware manufacturers begin to feel the depres
sion of trade as much as any- of the other manufacturers.
1 should not in the least be surprized if a fall on their
goods takes place of 40 per cent. There is at present
scarcely any demand for American or the home trade,
and the manufacture of earthenware having decreased so
much, will, 1 have no doubt, cause a terrible depression.
Money is of double value hi many articles. A gentleman
told me orf ’change yesterday, that he had been purchas
ing a quantity of pitch at 10#. per cwt.—that the freight
upon it had cost 2s.—-the duty 9s. The charges there
fore were 11s. besides entries at the customs, commis
sions, warehouse rent, cartage, &tc. The article was sell
ing at 20*. only two months ago. It has not sold at this
price during the last 40 years. I consider it a good ar
ticle to speculate in—in the event of a war it would ad
vance 3 or 400 per cent.
“I wish you would the first opportunity write me a
long epistle, and give me as descriptive an account of
America as you possibly can—say if you think I should
like the country.”
St. Pf.teHsnrun ir, May 11.
The manifesto of his imperial majesty with which the
new tariff'was published, is dated 31st March O. S. and
is as follows.
“After the re-establishment of the free, political and
commercial relations between the European powers, we
have judged it conformable to the general interest to
make some changes in the prohibitory system of trade.—
To this eff ect we ordered, in the beginning of the year
1815, a committee to be formed for the examination of
the project of a new tariff. Harm - now taking the opin
ion of the council of the empire, after it had examined
this subject in all its parts, and after our own minute
examination of all the objects relating to the tariff, we
have judged it necessary to allow the importation of
several foreign goods which were prohibited by the last
regulations of commerce while we for the rest let the
prohibition in respect of the other articles, remain in
force. According to this principle, having confirmed by
our own signature the general and special dispositions, as
well as the lists and tabies which compose the new tariff".
“We command that it shall be put in execution from
the time fixed in the general dispositions annexed to this
tariff'.”
Among many other regulations, the tariff contains the
following:—
It is in force from the time of its publication, and is
valid for all the ports and land frontier custom house offi
ces in the empire, except those in the governments of
Urenburgh, Tobolsk, and Irkutzk, in Georgia, and in the
* “But it is, I assure you, says Cockburn, all the spe-
cie we have w ith us”—p. 648, So it would appear that
the whole British army could muster no more than six
doubloons—a most facetious and probahie story, good
doctor. Why, in the name of common sense, did he not
pay the doctor in the plaUf some of his men had just be
fore pilfered from Iwni ;
line of the Caucasus. _
goods not prohibited, is allowed in the ports of St. Pe-
tersburgh, Reval, Riga, Libau, Odessa, Theodosia and
Taganzok; and on the land side by Kowna, Bizezo-Litows-
ky, Radziwihow, atfd Dubassar.' In all the other ports
and land frontier custom houses, only those unprohibit
ed foreign goods may be imported, the introduction of
which is allowed by the Sastawas (frontier toll guard hous
es.) The duties, according to the number, measures, and
weight of the imported goods are calculated in Russian
silver money, but levied in bank bills, according to a
rate to be published annually; for the current year the
silver ruble is fixed at four roubles in bank bills.
The duties on the value of the good, are fixed in bank
bills, and levied according to a special regulation contain
ed in tfle tariff,
The journal called the Conservateur Impartial, publish
ed here in French, had announced that the tarffTwas fix
ed for 12 years. This is not so; but the importation of the
191 foreign articles) wtyjch are prohibited ifx the tariff i#
From the Charleston City Gazette, August 19.
LATEST FROM HAVANA.
From Captain George, of the schooner Caroline, ai»
rived on Saturday from th^. Havana, in six davs, w e
have obtained the following items of verbal intelligence
A short time before the Caroline left, general Apodaca
ex-gbvernor of Havana, (accompanied by seven sail of
transports, containing 700 troops,) had sailed a second
time for Vera Crus, in the Spanish government ship
Diana.
The new governor, (Don Hundred Fires,) had render,
ed himself very unpopular, by his strict and oppressive,
administration. The inhabitants generally were dissatisfi.
ed with his measures. The planters had been compelled
to pay 25 cents for every box of sugar made on their es.
tales, anil additional tax had been levied upon each slave
—but wliat amount we do not learn.
A British man-of-war brig (probably the Bermuda
which lately went from Nassau) sailed in company with
the Caroline, as was supposed to cruize against the Car-
thagenian privateers, w inch still continued very numerouj
around the coast of Cuba.
The day before the Caroline sailed; two Spanish ves
sels arrived from the cbaSt of Africa, one with 3.00 and
the other with 270 slaves on board. A small schooner
had also recently arrived at Matanzas from the coast
with seventy slaves. These vessels reported that the
British cruizers Were very numerous, and constantly oj
the alert in annoying the slave trade.
On or about the 20th ult. a Spanish brig from Fhiladel-
piiiai with 279 barrels of gun-powder on board, was cap.
tured by a Carthagenian privateer, off the Double Head,
ed Shot Keys, and after taking out the crew, she wa*
setfirfe to arid blown up, with every thing on board.
The fleet of African traders which have been for some
time past fitting out at Havana, sixteen in number, most
ly fast sailing brigs, well armed and manned, sailed fo r
the coast about seven days before captain George left
there.
JHarkets at Havana.—Muscovado sugars §9 a l r J
White do. 13 a 14; Brown do. 10 a 11; Coffee 11 a jo.
Molasses 8 bitts per keg; Flour 18; Rice 9; Hams, lb. 27
cents; Butter 20 cents.
NkwYArk, August 10.
M r e understand that the Delegates from the Banks of
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Virginia, at their
meeting in Philadelphia, have agreed upon resuming spe
cie payments on the first day of July next.
The London Courier of the 21st of June, announces the
receipt of American papers of the 29th of May, and ob-
serves, “there is not an article in them worth extracting/’
[So .say we of the London Dapers.]
From Le Atemoire Bordetaise, June 19, 1816, printed *
Bordeaux:
“The day before yesterday furnished a fresh occasion to
the inhabitants of Bordeaux, of manifesting their attach-
ment to the Bourbon family. At day light, the slaps in
the port were decorated with colors, and the exterior of
the houses were ornamented with white flags. It was re
marked; with great satisfaction, that the new American
consul, Mr. Strobel, adopting the example of ihe con
suls of other powers friendly to France, united the Lil
lies with the American flag.”
Captain Bond, of the brig Ocean, who arrived here last
evening in 58 days from Marseilles, informs that the fri
gate United States left that port for Algiers, about ten days
previous to his sailing; and that the whole American squad
ron in the Mediterranean were to rendezvous off Algiers
about the 20th of June.
General Mina, we understand, left this city vesterdav
for New Orleans, by tvay of Philadelphia and Pittsburg
We are pleased to leant, that among the passengers
arrived yesterday, in the Ship Mary Augusta, from Havre,
is the rev. J. A. Gallandet, who left this country more than
a year since, with the view of visiting the institutions in.
Europe for the instruction of the deaf and dumb.
Mr. G. after passing some time in LOhdon and Edin
burgh in the prosecution of this object, proceeded to Paris,
at the invitation of the celebrated Abbe Sicard. Here he
enjoyed for some months past the benefit of his
instruction and the advantage of attending his public at/
private lectures. Mr. G. is accompanied by Monsit ’
Laurent Clerc, a native of France, deaf and dumb from
infancy. He is one of the most distinguished pupils o!
the Abbe, and for eight years past has been one of the as
sistants in the asylum at Paris.
Thtse gentlemen will proceed, without delay, to the
silperintetulance of tjie institution lately organized at
Hartford, Connecticut, (for the instruction of the deaf and
dumb) at the head of which is governor Smith.
From St. Croix, we learn that A. Benttoti, esq. son-in
law of Mr. John Jacob Astor, Of New-York, has been
appointed bv bis majesty the king of Denmark, governor
general of the Danish West-India Islands, and comman
der in chief of the forces there.—Philadelphia Democratic
J J ress.
Flour at Gibraltal-, June i5, g7 2-4n 8; rice 5, staves
upsaleable and pipes nominal at g80, Boston beef unsa-
liable.
A letter from Havana, dated July 19, states the tonnage
on foreign vessels entering the ports in Cuba, had beer,
increased to £$2 k per ton; and the export duty on Su
gar had been increased to 6 reals per box; and thatotlur
regulations were taking place.—Baltimore Patriot.
We learn with pleasure, that Mr. Capelano, one of the
finest sculptors of Europe, has arrived in this citv with
Mr. Lee, from Bordeaux. He had been employed by
Charles, Sec. and latterly by Joseph Bonaparte in Spain.
He was, on this account, persecuted by the Bourbons, thi
deputy governors for Castlereagh (J Co. in France, and as
Mr. Lame, the polite prefect at Bordeaux, said he could
not reconcile it to his feelings to introduce to the diiie
of Angouleme, (at a public ceremonial) the represm--
tive of a nation which had dared to declare war agaiiut
England—no doubt that base race, who- “glory in thee
shame,” were chagrined to learn that Mr. Capelano had
finished an elegant bust of the American Washington, and
an allegorical figure of America dictating a treatv to
England at Ghent. We cannot but mention those facts
injustice to Mr. Capelano; and we do it now to draw
the attention of the citizens of Baltimore to thi* eminent
artist who is so capable of aiding them in those public
works which are to comeramorate patriotic names and
events, as well as to embellish their city. No public un
dertakings ot the sort are going on here. Aurura.
THE EXECUTION.
Before eight o’clock, on Saturday morning, a number
of people collected in the state bouse yard, and near the
prison, and by ten, the southeast public-square,
thronged with spectators, to witness the unfortunate
young man who was doomed to expiate his crime by the
loss of his life. At half past ten o’clock, the prison gate
in Sixth-street, was opened, and he appeared (preceded
and followed by a great number of civil officers, on horse
and on foot) in a cart with the executioner, and the rev-
Dr. Hurley, with whom he was engaged in deep suppli
cation and prayer. The procession reached the execu
tion ground, in the centre of the northwest public,
square, at eleven o’clock, and after the necessary prepa
rations were made, he was embraced most tenderly by
his confessor, shook hands with the sheriff, the keeper
of the prison and others, and at half past eleven, was
launched into eternity, apparently without a struggle.—
His body hung about halt an hour, when it was takea
f d Th"ii t en h t0 f
Richard Smith was bom in Ireland, but losing his fa
ther in his infancy, his mother married again, and he waS
brought to this country and reared in the vicinity of Phi
ladelphia—and at the age of eighteen, obtained the com
mission of lieutenant in the United States’ army—was in
many engagements during the late war,-and rendered
himself more conspicuous for his bravery than for his
moral conduct.
The concourse of people at the place of execution was
immense, and all seemed to lament the necessity of en
forcing so awful a punishment.
(3U,0Q0 persons are supposed to have heen present ]—’
Philadelphia Daily Advertiser, 12th inst.
ft is said in the Philadelphia papers, that the “dyjrg
confession of Richard Smith,” which has been re-publish
ed in this, and other papers, is the work of some inven-
tive genius, «pd tfantflgyth nerefaawit.—JV*. Y. Everting
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