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Algiers. The following is an extract to the editor of the Aurora. 4#ted % Pans, August 7. The operations against Algiers will, no doubt, exckrt your CTinosity ut-Philadelphia—the. following sketch the circumstanfces attending the two visits made by tii British squadron to Algiers, in the interval between th-. months of March and May last may, perhaps, be suffi ciently interesting to the readers of the Aurora, for here i Would be treason to mention it—particularly as entirt Confidence may be placed on its accuracy. . At a moment when curiosity is on tip-toe every where in continual expectation of the consequences of the third , aiait of lord Exmouth, with a much greater parade of naval force,'armed and equipped expressly, that is osten sibly, for the service. At the commencement of March, lord Exmouth, with « part of his squadron, was at Leghorn; the remainder was scattered on the adjoining coast. A courier, who had performed, according to report, his journey from London in nine days, arrives and brings him the order to collect his force. The netos of an intended expedition against the B.irbary powers i3 immediately circulated by the different journals and gazettes. Algiers was filled With these reports fourteen days before the arrival of the squadron. Nothing less, it was said, was contemplated than a total annihilation of the white slave trade—or.. destruction of those nests of piracy, in case of refusal to secede immediately to his lordship's demands On their side, the Algerines paid little attention to these reports and the accompanying menaces. Once already, during the sitting of the congress of Vienna, had they experienc ed their futility. At the time they felt real apprehen sions, and anticipated the moment when, at the command of civilized Europe, it would be necessary for them to choose between entire destruction and a total change of policy. What was their joy to find that the storm, which they thought was gathering over their heads, depended for its efficacy on a collection of alms which sir Sidney Smith, in the name of all the imperial, roval, noble, .and •SMhstrious knights of the European world, volunteered to beg from the purses of individuals, and that this col lection was commenced-by the paltry profits of a ball giv en at Vienna for the destruction of the Barbary powers. Lord Exmouth arrived at Algiers in the end of March, with -a-squadron of sixteen vessels; one of them (the Boyne) of 98 gains; live of them "4s, the remainder fri gates and brigs. A force more than amply sufficient for any object anticipated by the journals, or by the private letters received by the private letters received by the Slaves from their friends and relatives in Europe. Never however did expedition deceive more effectually the hapes and expectations entertained of it. Let us appeal to the terms of die treaty which was the result. The commerce of the Anpflo-toniau Isles shall be respected— twenty,two or three Sicilian and Neapolitan slaves, taken tinder English colors, shall be restored; for the remain der (about 800) the king of Naples shall pay as ransom, a'thousand Spanish dollars per head—a consular present, -amounting generally to between twenty and thirty thou sand dollars—a biennial present of twenty-five thousand dollars and an annual contribution of twenty thousand dollars, and finally, ail tlu: other presents usual on certain occasions, such as grand anniversary, change of minis ters, of the presiding dey himst T, Sic.—in short nearly a million of Spanish'dollars, under the title of ransom, and nearly forty thousand of yearly contribution. The king of Sardinia came off on ternis somewhat more .favorable; paying only five hundred Spanish dollars ran- eom, for each ot his captjired subjects, and a consular present- After this negotiation, so very honorable both to him self and country, lord Exmouth, on the 2d of April, left Algiers for Tunis and Tripoli; carrying with him a third, of the slaves above mentioned; for the payment of the ransom of whom, he pledged his own honor and the faith of his government. From whatever cause, however, it proceeded, whether reflection did not tend to tranquilize altogether his lord ship's conscience, or that his officers (who before their afrival at Algiers had promised wonders to an expecting world) had ventured to manifest tiurir discontent, and to make some reproaches; or that the manners of universal xlisappointment had had time to cross the Mediteranean, and to reach his ears at Tunis orTripoli, or some other scause not perfectly known, his lordship suddenly deter mined to return to Algiers. He arrived on the 14th of May, with nearly the same forces, and demanded the immediate liberation of all the Christian slaves in consideration of a moderate sum, which should be afterwards agreed on, and an engage ment on the part of the bashaw not to make any more in future. Instantaneous destruction of the town would be the consequence of a refusal. “It is unnecessary for me,” replied the bashaw, “to con sult my divan; thou slialt have an answer to-morrow.” “To make a demand of tiiis nature,” observed the ba shaw, at the interview of the succeeding day, “thou art hO doubt Furnished with powers from all the Christian potentates?” “N—o.” “At least, however, thou hast the orders of thy own government.” An evasive answer.— “In all cases, however,” continued the bashaw, “the grand seignor is my suzerain (lord paramount) and without his consent I cannot accede to thy command.— I give thee six months to furnish thyself with the firman order of the emperor of Constantinople, and the autho rity of the Christian powers—and on their presentation I will obey.” Lord Exmouth mistaking this wise and moderate an- -*Wer for an indication of fear, replied that his business was with the dev of Algiers, and not with the grand “seignor, and repeated his menaces. The dey calmly dis missed him. The firmness of the dey on this occasion ought not to surprise us. He was but recently come to the sovereign power, and not yet very firmly established in it. It was said of him, that he was not fortunate—a negation which in the east amounts almost to a crime. Our countrymen moreover some few months before, had most cvuelly mortified him. It was become absolutely necessary for ■him to establish his reputation—and it was infinitely preferable for him to die in combating for his country, than to be assassinated by his discontented subjects.— iBut matters were not yet arrived to this crisis. The Al gerines very well remembered, that thirteen years be fore, lord Nelson, who determined to reinstate an En glish consul whom they had driven ignominously from the country, attempted to frighten them with a much stronger force, and that the then presiding dey had obliged iiis lordship ttr depart, without striking a blow or effecting llis purpose. Many persons, however, believed that lord Exmouth 'had gone too far not to execute menaces he-had made— more particularly as insults hail been given him, which •it was supposed an admiral of the mistress oftiie ocean, 'could not possibly digest. He returned on board his squadron from bis interview with the bashaw, amidst the bootings and coarse observations of the populace, who passednim in the streets, on their way to the marine bat teries. The English consul who wished to follow him on board, was forced from his side, and confined in bis bouse, the doors and windows of which opening on the street were walled up, so as to deprive him of ail hope ■of escape. The ladies composing his family had been forcedJj-o’m the country to the town by the most inferior officers, (sbirri) and were threatened witli being lodged in the slave prison. Two post captains of the navy, who had spent the preceding night with them, accompanied them to the city, with their hands tied behind their backs —and one of them, in the attempt to resist this indignity was severely wounded. The English colors were haul ed down and trodden under foot. Amidst these events, of a character by no means equi vocal, lord Exmeuth arrived on board his ship, and im mediately weighed anchor in order to place his squad- ron out of the reach of the marine batteries! The re mainder of the day and the ensuing night passed in tran quility. Th« next morning at sunrise, and with afresh wind from the southeast, the most favorable that his lord- ship could desire, the squadron was seen approaching majestically the marine batteries, and every succeeding moment was expected to announce the commencement of the fire. But die Algerines were not so fftolish as to commence it themselves, and his lordship, after an emp ty demonstration, deceived as to the effect of his me naces and still more as to the effect of his provocations, was obliged to resume his former anchorage. The next day a boat with a flag arrived from tiie squad- son. It brought an officer charged with a letter from the admiral to the dey, demanding the release of the English consul, and permission for him to go on board— «vyes” replied the bashaw, “as soon as the consul and ad- - - Jr. - * i ^' !=s feredfeve weeks sijiee tb depart.^ ' ‘*What isthe amount i-alifteCs firach fromtli’p actnal state of jthjtngs. Tier shores ICrcaUYC WCCAS tu . iniaiwvuv “ . of this nxnsonfi/^^sraciing an insinuation of a disposition t* -.11 arrangement.'' “You have then money on bqard,” 're joined the dev; “it appears to me that you ought to have commenced by paying me what "you owe me. Youv word of. honor was pledged, tiiis pledge you have sough. to violate. I will act, iioweVer, more honorably than yourselves—whatever may be your iuteiffions, your consiti shall not be hurt.” The ensuing day another flag—and the admiral accept ■ the propositions of the basnaw, of six months to procur -limself the firman of the grand seignor and the author ization of 'the Christian powers. What passed subse quently is not precisely known, and must be the subject of conjecture—but all at once the English and the Al- g.Tines are the best friends in the world. Lord Ex mouth makes the dey a present of a superb spy-glass, an. receives in return a white horse, an ostrich and the usus 1 refteshments, (consisting of two or three beeves, sonu sheep, fruit, and vegitables,) which, on their arrival u :\e squadron, were saluted with three guns, agreeably to usage. The admiral’s brother and several other offi cers of die squadron presented themselves at the palace, and were very graciously received. Lord Exmoutn Wade a peace with the dey for the kingdom of Hanover, on t;ie condition that Prussia and the .Hanseatic towns do not pr fit by it. Finally the English frigate, promised some months before to carry the presents of the regency to Constantinople for the purpose of obtaining from .the grand seignor the necessary reinforcement of Turkish re cruits, is offered anew to the dey—and, at the period of tne departure of the squadron, the 22d of May, this fri gate remained in the road, with the English colors at her mast head. Between the loth and 18th of May, some Hutch frigates anchored near the English squadron; but, after a short stay,’ separated without any communication witii tiie shore. It is only necessary to add (and it may aid us in our conjectures on the sudden reconciliation mentioned above) that the moment of the departure of tiie English squadron from Algiers was the moment of a renewal of oar difficulty with the regency. Hie labor—hoc opus est. Would it be too bold, after a perusal of the above pa per, to prophecy a complete defeat of our own e xpecta tions of the demolition of Algiers L>y the British squadron, and !iis naval Iordsliip. CONTINUATION OP FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, From London Papers in .htg'ist 24th, received at Boston. Lovnox, August 19. Extract of a letter from port St. Mary’s (near Cadiz,) dated July 26:—“The troops forming tiie new expedition destined to act against the insurgent provinces of Ameri ca, are now all ready. Nothing more is wanting for them to sail than money and ships to embark in. They are to he commanded by general O’Donnel (count Abisbal).— The whole armament consists often battalions of 830 or 1000 men each, viz. one battalion of light troops; four of the line, called expeditionary troops; one belonging to the regiment of Asturias; another of the king’s regiment; another of the regiment La Princesa; another of.Soria, anil one battalion of light troops belonging to the Canaries. Besides these, 600 artillery men are to embark, with a corresponding number of sappers and pioneers, and from 40 to 50 pieces of cannon. Two thousand dismounted cavalry are also to go out, and some skeleton regiments to be filled up on arriving in America. It is evident from the exertions the Spanish government is now making, that every thing is to be risk ed on tiiis last formidable attempt, in ail prniiabilty bound against Mexico, that is if tiie expedition sails.” Saturday, his majesty’s store ship Abundance, Mr. Thomas Stokes, (master,) commander sailed from Ports mouth for Quebec, loaded with naval stores for the dock yard at Kingston Chain cables, and nearly forty thou sand blocks, were shiped on board her from Portsmouth dock-yard. Captain Bring, R. N.; captain John Campbell, R. M.; Mr. Balling Halt, naval store keeper, at Kings ton; Mr. Tobin, U. X.; Mr. Pollock, Mr. Grey, Mr. Stevens, and Mr. Colls, surgeons, II. N. and several other officers, going to join their ships upon the Lakes, were passengers. Tiie right honorable the earl ofDalhousie, who was lately appointed governor and commander in chief of the province of Nora Scotia, goes oat with his suite, to Hali fax, in tiie Forth, 40, sir John Louis, bart which ship is at Spitliead, waiting his lordship’s arrival from Scotland. The Forth will go from Halifax to the Newfoundland station. Pirns, August 15. Letters from Germany contradict the report of the em peror Alexander having given the government of Fin land to the son of the duke of Holstein Eutin. It is also unirue that the king of Sweden is ill, and that the tran quility of Norway had linen disturbed August 18. We are assured, says the journal de Frankfort, that M. Canibaceres has obtained letters of naturalization in the Netherlands, and that he has bought a house in Amster dam. The two battalions which are organizing in the Island of Rhe, for the colour of Guadaloupe and Martinique, will be raised to 2036 men by an order of the minister of war. Triestf, July 23. Several vessels sailed from hence to cruise, it is said, on the coast of Africa. It was reported that they would join lord Exmouth’s fleet, and he under his orders, but it . - pears to be certain that they will act according to instruc tions from the court of Vienna, and that they are not des tined to attack the regencies. They will rather act as corps of observation, ami remain near the English squad ron to observe how affairs go on. Zrnrcii, August 6. From Basle, a bark is about to sail for Holland, with about 300 Swiss emigrants for the United States. A great quantity of snow fell on our mountains the lat ter end of July, which has swollen the Rhine prodigious ly. Never was the grand fall of tiiis river, at Laufferfv.ore sublime; and strangers, of course, have been astonished and delighted with the view. A ventriloquist has been banished from the states of Parma for some unlucky specimens of his art. Following a funeral profession to Plaisance, tie heard the bearer of the cross ask on which side he should turn, the proces sion having having arrived at a cross way. The ventri loquist, imitating the voice of the deceased, said, “when I was alive I went on the side where we were.” These words spread terror amongst the people present, every one fled, and the dead was left alone. In another instance, under the portico, where wheat is sold, there is a provi sional prison destined for those who disturb the market. The ventri.oquist sent forth cries as ot those of a poor prisoner torn by a mad cat. All the inhabitants of the town, together with the gendarmerie, and the troops of the corps de garde, in consequence assembled, when the trick was discovered, and the ventriloquist was ar rested. f Ancona, August 3.—The St. Joseph, captain Herbert, of Marseilles, put into tiiis port on the voyage from Africa, declares, that the dev of Tunis had empaled a corsair who had captured a Frencli vessel, and that the ship is restored to a captain Didier, who commanded her. The same captain Herbert relates, that several works of defence have been constructed on the coast in front of Bona; that at Algiers ail the ramparts are mounted with cannon taken from the vessels; and, lie adds, that the Algerines had a considerable camp at Tremesin, near the aqueducts of Uabasson, which is protected by a torrent. The mountain which faces the sea is occupied with bastides, having gardens surrounded by walls: on several points forts are erected. The Algerines intend to retire within these bastides should the town be bombarded. They are all supplied with water, and the orchards that surround them form little woods, which render them very agreeable. The most common tree in the country is that kind of fig called.the Christian. They Dey of Algiers has not at present 12,000 militia, but if war should break out, he can easily assemble from 30 to 40,000; that such troops could not keep the field long, for as they have neither magazines nor munitions of war, and live entirely on pillage, they soon exhaust the country they occupy. A prejudice prevails iiere against tiie English', who are regarded (perhaps vety unjustly) as the cause of the misfortunes of tiie Christians in Africa. Had they sftewn .themselves in the character of masters, it is certain that the governments of the regenciea would have liked no thing better than to have made a^solid peace. Condi tions may be presented to them, fend securities taken; but to do so, is treating with them, as between power and p°wer. Contributions are paid them, and far from ilors. This then, is no trifiij.g country; and yet. the about »,<3^l-,zuo—omy souls less than ,M r \ ief magistrate of that country; a country which has estimates. • “ ti Let us say then, in round numbers, that in ]| Tqieal shall have paid me the ransom of the slaves I suf- humiliating them; their iusolence is augmented. Italy are constMtly menaced; and as the pirates aire not to be iestroyeijphcy will Only suspend their depredations in order to recommence them. - % Vibxha, August 7. It is thought that his majesty will pay a visit in the beginning of next week to the king of Prussia, at Car- Tabad. From Collett's English Register, tune 29. ON EXPENSIVE GOVERNMENT. -i « We are eternally told, by those whose interest it is to deceive us, that a government, to be good', must be ex pensive, must be costly; that the persons belonging to it .mist have monstrous sums of money given to them; must keep innumerable servants and horses: must live bedizened out in all sorts of finery; must be attended with guards, dressed up in gold-laced clothes; and that a plain, simple government, where the persons belonging to it have low salaries, is fit for nothing but to rule a country that is worth nothing, and that is not much lar ger than the Isle ofTha.net. Now, my friends of the county of Kent, nothing can be more false than this,— It is not only no* true, but it is the very reverse of the truth, as is amply demonstrated in the case of the Ame rican Republic. That Republic has as many people in it as Engialid has. It has finer cities than any in Eng land or any in Europe. None, inuied, that are nearly so populous as London and Westminster, but two at least, which surpass in population, and infinitely Surpass in all other respects, all tiie other cities in the British do minions. That republic has about fourteen hundred miles of sea coast; many rivers navigable more that?*, hundred miles up; that republic has, probably, more than a hundred sea-ports and harbors. It has very near ly as much commercial shipping as England, Ireland and Scotland, ail put togetiier, and very nearly as many Sailor chief magistrate ot that country lately carried oil, single-handed, a long and triumph ant War against England; the chief magistrate of that coun try receives only 6,000 pounds a year; that is to say, my friends of Kent, only about a seventh part as much as your lord Camden receives annually for llis sinecure place of teller of the exchequer!—And observe, that the President of the United 8ta.es, tiie ciiief magestraie of that great nation, a man of such ta lents, suen experience, such tried virtue as he must be, re ceives, in the course of twenty years, no more than as much as the princ ss Charlotte and her husband will re ceive in pension and in out-fit, during this one year! And I beg you further to observe, that, as the prince of Saxe Cobourg is to receive 5<J,u00 pounds a year for life, in case of the death of the princess, the least possible sum tiiat this nation will have to pay hint, for fifty years, if he should live so long, and if the law granting the pen sion should remain in force, will be a sum more than eight times as great as that which our brethren in Ameri ca will have to pay to tiie chief magistrate of the country, the man who performs for them by their authority, and in their name-and behalf, all the offices and acts of sove reignty. Ah, my friends of Kent, need we wonder that there are no paupers in tiiat country? Need we wonder, that in that country, the common laboring man, with a large fami ly, may live well, go well clothed, and lay by 3u pounds sterling a year? They would fain persuade us, that these expenses of government are not felt by the poor. What, then, does not the poor man help to pay the taxes? Can he possibly open his mouth to eat until lie has paid a tax? Does he not pay a tax upon his salt, sugar, tea, malt, soap, candles, and, indeed, does lie not pay a tax on his bread and meat and cheese and butter; for, have not tiie land, the horses, tlie leather, the iron, and every thing else been taxed, by the means of which his bread and meat have been produced? Yes, and the man who called out to iord Camden, and told him that ev ery morsel of bread that went into the mouths of his wife and nine children, was taxed to help to pay his lordship's salary, showed as much sense a* he did spirit; and, had I been at Maidstone, I would rather have gone home and have dined with that brave man and Ins wife and nine children oft’a morsel of that taxed bread, than 1 would have gone to dine upon the delicate fruit of the tax at the Bell Inn. William Cobbxtt. CHARACTER OF SHERIDAN. The following is extracted from Cobbett's Register of June 8th, -written before the death of the late R. B. Sheridan. Sheridan was to Mr. Fox what the lord chancellor is and has been to Pitt. Sheridan was always, wliile Fox was alive, not only professing an everlasting affection for him; but affecting to regard him as an oracle of wis dom, and as a paragon of political purity; and, after Fox’s death, I saw him at a meeting in Westminster,-lieId to propose a successor to Fox, shed tears in Hoods at the thought, as he said, that he should live to see tiie day when a person so unworthy as himself should be pro posed to sit in that seat, which had so long been filled iiy his beloved friend, whose parting breath he had re ceived, and whose friendship had been worth more than all the other enjoyments of his life. I knew while I was listening to him, that Fox, when he went into office, took special care to shut him out of the Cabinet. But, until some time after, I did not know, that when Fox was on his death bed, and Sheridan's name was announc ed to him, lord Grey being present, and preparing to g'o away. Fox caught him by the hand, and bade him by no means to leave him alone -with Sheridan. Sheridan must have known of tiiis dislike and suspicion. How then must we lament, that a man of such iranscendant talents, talents far quperior to those of Fox, should have stoop ed to act so mean a part! How I came to know the fi.ct relative to the death bed visit, I cannot state publicly. 1 do know it, and if lord Grey be asked, he will not de ny that it is true. Ambition is very despicable when it thus swallows up sincerity. The lord chancellor knows that die name of Pitt does much witu many powerful people, and therefore, though be laughs witliin himself at the folly, he profits from it. So it was with Sheridan as to the name of Fox. However, Sheridan, with all his faults, has not been a plunderer,-to any extent, and per haps has not very often been actuated by motives de liberately corrupt. He is not now in parliament, and I scarcely ever hear his name mentioned! They told a sto ry of him in London, about eighteen months ago, which made every' body laugh. He had been out dining, had g-ot completely drunk, and was lying by the side of a door in the street. The watchman, in rousing him up, asked him who he was, to which he replied tiiat bis name was William Wilberjorce, member of parliament. Upon' hearing this sanctified name, the watenman lifted up Jiis eyes and exclaimed, poor gentleman! he is sadly over taken! Having asked whither they should take him, he told the street and number, of his house, and thus got safely carried home. Whether this story is true or not, it appears that he has sunk into a mere sot. What an end for the most briiliant mind that lias existed in Eng land for an age! He was distinguished so much for his wit, that his solidity, his depth, the extent of his know ledge, were overlooked. The nation seemed to imagine that the brightest wit of the age could not also be' the profoundest politician. But in my opinion he was; ami whoever reads his speeches with attention, will, I think, find him by far the greatest man of his day. God for bid that 1 should not wish to see a son that I loved, re semble Sheridan, m&her than those tame, cool, crafty, unfeeling and talennlfis creatures, Liverpool and Custle- reagh; but God forbid, also, tiiat 1 should not wish to see that son resemble sir Francis Burdett rather than Sheri dan. A man may be witty, eloquent, and burning with zeal, and may yet be a pattern of sobriety and all the private virtues. Of one thousand five hundred troops under a patriot leader in Sout!. America, it appears by an abstract of news in Niies> Register, that 600 were armed with pikes —the same weapon with which the undiciplined Irish not long since defeated regular corps of Scotch and English. A Nantucket whale ship, (says- Mr. Niles) just arrived from the South Sea, was several times boarded by vessels attached to the Buenos Ayrean squadron, under admiral Brown on the coast of Peru, and always treated with the greatest kindness and respe*^ being furnished with refreshments; &c. It is pleasartbfto observe, that it is thus tiie patriots of South Amends generally treat our vessels—we boast best understanding with them. The ad miral was blockading Callao, (the port of Lima) with two ships, three brigs, and two schooners, and was daily ex pecting a patriot land army, when* joint attack would be made op the •itf.-.Osfc -* N . Cr NS.U6. 1 . Weekly Register presents Us with v! past and probable population of the UnitedHie dmg to the census of 1790, we had o' a(Y '> • 1800, 3,929,3;,; 1810, Mr. N. calculates that in 1820 we shall nmh m <J ' 'd a population of 9,965,178souls. The ? ha 'e ot course, increase much faster than tnose on Z board—Kentucky (for instance) is calculated to •’ >e 6u per cent in ten years—Tennessee, 75 per c . ent “ 1rre * , e ISO—Louisiana, 125—Indiana, 700—Misshsmr,; T, loo—Illinois territory, 600—Misiouri terntorv'”^ 01 ?* Michigan territory, 500—while of fell the Atlanf.r die greatest increase is allowed to Pennsylvania b ; StaVs > 33 1-3 per cent—Virginia is estimated at but 15 Un S According to these data, the States will stand • following order, as to their gross population- v :!e Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, N^rth Carolin Massachusetts, South Carolina, Tennessee \j'*’ J "'°, Georgia, Maine, New Jersey, Connec^ut Venn: -'■ Hampshire, Lousiana, Indiana, Mis^uri )7 ' Rhode Island, Delaware, Illinois. . ’ * In gross numbers, Virginia now stands 974,622,)—NeW York, next (being 959,04; '—g I iiia third, (being 810,091,)—MassachuStt\ ; :. Maine, the fourth, viz. (700,745,) Sic. ’ iulls,v e of MV. Niles has not calculated the rates of on die three last census’s—but the rates of tbs’ crease may thus be stated: ' ueit *&• Increase from 1790 to 1800—35 per cent 1800 to 181U—36. Taking 36 per cent, therefore, as the av'r,j f o) - crease for every ten years, these conclusion* t i, lst._That the United State* double their j.or ■ twenty eight years.-— '“•‘-'Umi 5 2d. That applying the same ratio of increase 1 next census, we may be expected to : about 9,846,268—only 117,910 souls les niin.oer 1,1 population will amount to ten millions of souls— w ' the limit to this astonishing extension? ,k " UCI * By these estimates, tiie t ifited Starts will have : three years a. population of nearly twerito-u-, ',7 • * considerably more than the population ot CrJt'f? and Ireland—and in about ten years more r r ‘'" m population of France. ' mcre fe VVliaf astonishing scene thus bunts upon the ,, the people of the United States continue to rn ■' u their own interests^Ifthey silence tiie voice of k" S ^ judices and personal passions, if t 1( v prest ._ government, bequeathed to us hi the vim, .* fathers; and guard tiie Union as tiie best securitv ° f -° Ur the machinations of foreign enemies, -r the t,;.K S i 1Unst of intestine content; if they march on for tLe a^ n ''^ three years in the same track which they pur.,, ^ p. ' lT J lust thirty years, who will dare to ealeu!., e the ty of this western region? We may s;.v without vlmn- tiiat we shall be tiie greatest people which the sim ever shone on-happier even than Anchists predicted ti, r ., people would be: for the arts and sci- aces will rdvar.c least as rapidly as our power—we dare to hoo, ,\ t m statuary, in oratory and in astronomy, we shall'not fih L far behind our contemporaries; that we Tub „oi de*-.;'- them as the ancient Romans did; but that we i, ; „\ of these arts also—that we shall use our peliticai’ more mildly than the descendants of Ancinsts; ai.e ^. their boast, Parcere subjectis, et debellare supe rbns— To spare the conquered, and pulldown the proud, mav only mean, as to us, that we^sert our rights agiJiVaB who infringe them, and nevri- impose any unreascn2..i terms upon the conquered enemies. * - Visions of glory-! spare the aching sigh*; Ye unborn ages, press not on our soul! St. Lons, August 31. Colonel David Musick, and lieutenant Parker, who were sent by the executive of this territory to notify the inhabitants of Ouchata, Little Missouri, Sic. to remove from the Indian lands, (agreeably to the president's prc. emulation) returned a few days ago, after a fi. ieiiy tour of about 12 or 1500 miles. These gentlemen .v present tiie inhabitants of Oucbata a most revp, c'2,1 and orderly people, well disposed towards the gmera- ment, and willing to abandon the lands they have culti vated for years, if their respectful petition to povtirnent should afford them no lenity. Subsequent information, derived from gentlemen who have been at the springs, confirm the opinion generally prevailing in tiiis country, that no Indian nation claims the land in question. A few families of the Arkansas Quapeans annu. Lly visit the Ouchata to hunt, but have never set up a claim to tl: soil. Wretched indeed must be the fate of the numtioij invalids who resort to the springs, if the fanners art driven off their lands. SeDtember 7. AV e are happy’to announce to our fellow-eitizeMfe the treaty with -he Indians, which we lately mentioned as being likely' to be made, lias been concluded, and tie Indians have returned, apparently' well satisfied with tit American government; and anxious to maintain the mat friendly relations with it. We learn tiiat f.Vv hxe n- linquished their claim to all the lands mchuiid witbi the cess.on of the Sacs and Foxes, which lies ;r a due west line from the southern extremity of ...ke Mi chigan to the .Mississippi, and that they have ceiled be tween one and two millions of acres, adjoining die t«t relinquished, and extending ta lake Michigan—".’a last was an object deemed bv the government 1 im mense importance. It is reasonable, therefore,to ev that no ftirther difficulties or obs*ructions will be ; u- posed to prevent tiie surveying of the military k * Illinois territory; and that measures will shortly he for rendering the communication between lake Mr-- gan and the Illinois river at all times navigable—-an ject which can be accomplished with great facility i:J a small expence.—Missouri Gazette. a A letter from an officer of the American navy, wnayi at Gibraltar, when-on the eve of sailing for Algiers, *•» | Naples, says—“From the movements of the Dutch anc I English, we may reasonably calculate, that Algiers will - c t knocked down by the last of September.”—-W'-'-i 5 '' u Columbian. a Raleirb, September 2/. . ■ We are sorry to learn, that in consequence of eertot ■ irregularities among some of the students of our 11 r 1 ver- H sitv, twenty seven of the young men were a few day 5 a P ! | suspended from that institution for a term of six monte* I The executive of Virginia has called a meeting of “ c | legislature on the 11th November. The reason for '2 ! 1 call is believed to be to give the assembly an opportn"' | ty of repealing the act of last session requiring the t | ginia banks to pay specie on or before the 15th h° vc ‘"’ ber next. The following is an extract of a letter from a respect* Mercantile house in New York, to another in this cv “The pressure for money is perhaps greater that it c ' er has been, and matters seem to be coming to -n a® crisis with many; but when the cloud will burst, or how much effect, cannot be foreseen. Very few oi j who were last season chiefly instrumental in advaiiy-r the prices of southern products, will this season ii-‘) * 1 ^ their power to do any thing's and we are warrantee m ing, tiiat there will be but Tew British adventurers nu- parison with what there were last winter. The s ? u!, ^ c f and western merchants have made heavy pure"-* 3 ' o) - goods, and have thus locked up the gre ater P ortlt> their capitals for at least four or six month to con Whence, then, are to come the millions of dollars will be necessary to purchase the new crops ot c rice and tobacco? . , . c0 >. “Upon the whole, there is reason to believe, tna , ^ ton and tobacco will be very low before tiie February, and the more especially, as it is well ax d ed tiiat tiie quantities of theie articles will g^'ff -jjgo the next year’s consumption. In Liverpool tlie - v j 3 of in the year 1817, with a surplus stock °* “P*' j r n® 1 GO,000 bales cotton, according to recent advice ^ thence. In France, the surplussage Will not bejyvU ^ we presume, that the attention of shippers, -: first instance, be mostly directed to that mar ‘ ^ land has indeed much to apprehend from rapi of manufacturers on the continent of Europe- ^ -,<j. “Dry goods, with the exception of a tew r ‘'“ r we re> cles, are now lower in this market than they sB0 and consequently more of the importers ma= of these very men were the largest tlpppvw last year.”—Cdriest on City fSosefte.