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fudUofa iVw calumnious intli' itltial-; aud crounds so trivial, she especially if, upon grounus should nourish such an BU ' n '°* . Ei.Kl.md, a, to feci a rcpugimnee o m *ke comm... cause with her, cv.rum behall of their common inheritance ot ‘ r *, . Tin. t rample of America has already done much for that cause : and the very existence of such a country, under slid, a government, is a tower of strength, and « f cminigcinent for all win, may neicalttt have to struggle for the restoration or the ext n- Sion of their rights. It -hows withm w hat limits popular institutions ure safe and piac tit able ; and what a large infusion of dc.nu- SS b consistent with the mithoritv o go vernment, and the good order of societ,.-- B«t her*/7«r».rr, as well as her example, will be wanted in the crisis which seems to be approaching; and that influence must he paralxicd and inoperative, it she shall think {t a dfutv to divide herself from England, to look with jealousy upon her proceedings and to judge unfavorably of all the parties sIm* contains. We do not ask her to think well of that party, whether in power or outol it, which has always insulted am reviled her because she is free and independent, ami t e- mocratrc .and prosperous ; but we do conn- dently lay claim to her favorahle opinion tor that great majority of the nation that have always been opposed to this party ; which has divided with her the honor ot its re proaches, and is bound, by every considera tion of interest and duty, consistency and common sense, to maintain her rights and l.cr reputation, and to promote and proclaim her prosperity.” After those high, and we do not scru ple to Tay, deserved compliments, he vindicates” the Review more in detail, but first he makes the following candid acknowledgment: “ It will be understood, that wo deny al together the justice of the charge: But we wish distinctly to say in the beginning, that if it should appear to any one that in the course of agreat deal of nasty writing, bv a variety of hands, in the course of twenty long years, some rash or petulant expressions have been admitted, at which the national pride of onr tr.ms-al luetic brethren might be justly offended, we shall most certainly feel no anxiety to justify these expressions, nor any foar that, with the liberal and reasona ble part of the nation to which they relate, our avowal of regret for having employed them would not be received as a sufficient atonement.” His vindication consists chiefly in con fessing that the Review has sometimes spoken harshly of our couutrytnen, but that it has sufficiently atoned for those ■censures by more numerous praises, and that in truth they really think very fa vorably of the U. States ; that though they have asserted that Americans have scarcely any literature of their own growth, they have at the same litre ex cused us, by admitting that our circum stances have led our men of genius ano ther way ; that they have treated the works of American authors as favorably as those of Europeans of equal charac ter, though they admit the injustice of come of their remarks ; that what they have said about American manners was not of sufficient importance to excite any ill will, and that when they exulted at the innocence of England, end at the guilt of America, in holding negroes in bondage, they were not so well acquaint ed with the history of the U. States as Ihev now are, and that in fact they have no cause to boast on that subject. With regard to the character of England, they assert that it has been painted by Mr. "Walsh in too dark colors, and that it is rather a distorted and deformed" carica ture than a just portrait, and very fairly •compare it with a most fluttering account of the same country given by the same gentleman in 1C10, when his feelings were not quite so warmly American -as they have since become. This is a very fair hit, and we did not feel displeased at it, though Mr. Walsh has atoned for those things by this work, which has in truth extorted from this Journal ou ac knowledgment of its former errors.— This is no ordinary merit, but it does not wholly belong to him. Though he has pointed out theirmisrepresentations, it would only have procured us a repeti tion of abuse had not these reviewers a- mong them some 1 liberal and magnani mous men. Authors are unwilling to confess their faults, particularly when they arc free to remain silent. But these gentlemen have overcome this weak ness, and in the face of Europe aud the world have acknowledged their error, and this is a sufficient atonement. We never felt hurt at their strictures upon American works when they really de served them ; it was only when their re marks were levelloJ at the country through the productions of its children, that we felt angry, though our sorrow always predominated. Paris, June 12. The following speech was pronounced by the assassin Louvel, before the Chamber of Peers, in a faulteriug voice aud a tone scarce ly audible. It may be considered as the essence of the desolating principles which for many years have been perverting his mind ; and the effect which it produced was so much the more profoundly felt, that none of the ordinary motives which excite men to political crimes seem to haw bad the slightest influence nn him. It was the re sult of an abstract perversion of moral no tions operating on a weak intellect, but-on a determined resolution. Lnuvel seemed to represent the genius of evil ; he was ja cobinism personified, dispassionately promul gating its doctrines, though sometimes a trait of obliterated humanity intervened, and .tooished the auditor :— “ I have to-day to blush for k crime which Intone committed: I have, however in dy ing, the consolation of .thinking that I have dishonored neitherthe nation nor my family. I ought "to be. considered as a Frenchman wh. has devoted himself to be sacrificed, in order to destroy, in virtue of my system, a por tion of those individuals who have taken up arms against their country ; Ian. accused' of having deprived a prince of his life—-1 am alone guilty ; but among the men who hold the reins of Government, there are others as guilty as I am; they hjive proclaimed, accor ding to my notions, crimes for virtues. The wo.it Go' ernn.cnts which France has had, have always punished those who betrayed it, or who carried arms against the nation. “ According to my system, w hen foreign armies menace, parties in the interim should cease, ami rally lo combat in a common cause against the enemies of ail the French. Fronclimen who do not rally are guilty. Jn my opinion, if a Frenchman is obliged to quit France in consequence of the injustice of Government, and appears in hrtiis against France with foreign armies, that Freucl.mim is guilty, ami is no longer entitled lo the ad vantages of Ins quality of French citizen. “According to my opinion, 1 cannot help thinking that, if the battle of Waterloo tins' been so fatal to France,-it is to bo attributed to the Frenchmen who, from Ghent and at Brussels, introduced treason in our armies and furnished succour to the enemy. “ Conformably to my opinion, and to my systrm> the death of Louis XVI. was neces sary, because the nation consented to it. If a mindful of factious rnen had penetrated the King’s palace and put their Sovereign to death, 1 might believe it ; hut, as Louis XVI. and his . family w ere long in a state of im prisonment, one cannot conceive that the na tion «li<] not approve ; so that hail there been blit a few persons concerned in it he would not have perished—the whole nation would have opposed it. To-day the Bourbons pre tend to be masters of the nation ; but, in my judgment, the Bourbons are guilty, and the nation would he dishonored if it suffered them to govern it.” The. ohduiacy exhibited by Louvcl during the whole of his trial, did not forsake him to the last. He supped, the night on which he received his sentence, w ith a good appe tite, drunk a whole bottle of wine with a de gree of disgusting sensuality, and . praised it as being to his taste ; he ordered fine sheets tube put on his bed, an indulgence which was granted him. “ 1 was very well pleas ed with the Chamber of l’i ere," said he, “only one thing w.x«d me; that is, that the trial lasted two days.” “Why,” said one of Ins guards, “ y ou gain a day hy it“ and 1 consider it time lost,” (replied the murderer) —“ Why do you persist in not celling for the consolations of religion ; why do you not send fora priest ?” (said one of the guards.) Louvel—“ Can a priest semi me to heaven ?” Guard—“ If you repent sincerely, yon may lie pardoned by the Almighty.” Louvel— “ Do.you think the Prince of Conde is in Heaven?”—Guard—“ As far as we. are able to judge, he is so, for he lived a good life, and suffered whilst on earth ; his reeon.pence then, we may he permitted to think, must be in the other world.” Louvel—“ Eh bien, (well then) 1 would fain go there, in order to torment him.”—The above conversation may lie depended on as corning from one who heard it personally. The tranquility of the town has not been disturbed during the last three days. The lower classes of 4he people have taken no part w hatever in the insurrection, not even on Saturday evenings, when their time is at their own disposal. On these occasions, their heads are generally disturbed hy the wine they purchase, duty free, on the outside of the barriers. Since Friday, not a seditious cry has been heard,or a coup de sabre given. This revolutionary movement may be there fore considered as entirely suppressed, and the .measures of the Executive have been crowned with entire success. SITUATION OF FRANCE. The following article is copied from the London Morning Post. There is doubtless much truth in the article, although the pic ture is probably two or three shades darker, than the actual state of things in the French capital will warrant. It sets us right upon one point, about which we believe there has been a general misconception in this coun try. We allude to the election project, which is the chief cause of the present ferment in that country. It seems that Ce Cakf.s, a late minister and adviser of the king, mana ged to procure a repeal of the Election Law, which was instituted at the return of Louis XVIII. with the Charter itself. This inno vation, says the Morning Post, poisoned the very springs end sources of representation, and threw the power into the hands of the old Jacobin party. The King has been dri ven to dismiss Uc Cazes, and it has been found necessary to restore the election law, as nearly as possible lo w hat it was at tl.eii- doptiou of tl.e charter of Louis XVIII. [.V. Y. Spectator.) ALARMING STATE OF FRANCE. The French Revolution, after an uneasy and feverish slumber, seems about to awake again ; and what may be the consequences of that awakening wc tremble to think.— What stupendous events arise from con temptible causes! M. De Gaze has already cost the interior of France more disturbance and bloodshed than even Bonaparte himself. Napoleon was a master spirit, w ho could rule as well as excite, and he repressed by the force of his tyranny the indignation which it created ; but De Caze had just -so much strength ami talents as enabled him to make a disturbance ;—like a cowardly hoy, lie set (ire to a train of gunpowder with averted eyes, and ran away from the explosion. In spite of the objects which at this moment in terest u.s at home, in spite of the disgust which De Case's administration lias given us for all French politics, the state of France has of late grown so tremendously volcanic, that the attention of England will soon he painfully forced to the danger; our own lit tle family quarrels will he forgotten when we see our neighbor’s house in flames, &. threat ening to involve ours in the conflagration.— We know from the French papers, and still more fully from private sources, that Paris exhibits now the features of August 17t)2,k that her streets resound with the cries of March, til 15. The voice is the voice of Ja cob, hut the hands are the hands of Esau ; they carry the pikes of San’erre, hut their cry is Free t'JCmpereur ; and the spirit of the lionapertist Leaders of this sansculotte mob have risen to such a pitch, .that they talk o- penly of chns.xnl, hunting away the imbecile Bo'iihnns, and recalling the Jacobin Empe ror. They “ can call spirits from the vasty deep ; but tesU (hey otme being vailed ?” Can their cries chann Prometheus from his rock ? Can they bring Bonaparte from St. Helene. ? Yes! they think, they-say, tlroy can ! They talk of ARRESTING AI.T. THE F.NGLISU IN France, as hostages for the restoration of the Emperor. This may he only .the talk, of madmen: but, in the present State of France, it may well'he feared that these mad men are not unlikely to get the power into their hands; and we therefore earnestly ad vise onr countrymen to return home without delay. Perhaps the danger may not lie so near, nor so great, as it appears ; hut, after the lessons which our countrymen received in 1708 from Robespierre, and in 1802 from Bonaparte, thuse will deserve but little pity who shall be a tilled time caught iu the same trap. The immediate spring of all this commo tion is the Election Law; the remote cause is M. De C aze. That unworthy favorite found France at peace, contented with its king, and kajipy under his government. Tit Chamber of Deputies, at once the friend of the throne and the charter, united tlrti king and the people; hut unhappily this same Chamber would not truckle lo the favorite, aud lie Caze had power enough over the mind oftlm weak monarch lo induct* him to dissolve a representation, w hose fault was, that it was at once too independent of the minister, and too much attached to the mo narch. But the mere dissolution of the Chamber would have been insufficient to huve secured the^/’ertirite; the ri al sense of France was against the upstart and Lis mea- mircs ; he'lhftnCore took the hold resolution of poisoning the very springs and: oarers of representation, by a new law <f ( lection, w hid) threw tlie power into I he hands of the old jacobin party. All the friends <rf good or der and the charter opposed this horrible vi olence, and foretold its revolutionary effect. In vain—the favorite carried all before him. The royalists were every where persecuted, prosecuted, and punished ; the rev ukitionitts were every where employed, encouraged Si infiaiiT.-d. Madame, the orphan of tllo Tem ple, Monsieur, the king’s brother, wire in sulted amt almost driven from the Court; while Davmi.-t was created a Peer and a Duke, and lien. V .indamme, of butchering memory, and ‘llegnault, Napoleon’s toad enter, w ere rectified from exile; La Fayette, as vain and silly us he. was thirty years ago, was re-elected to the new .National Conven- tion ; the demagogue Manuel w as forced upon the electors of La Vendee ; and Grc- goire, the regicide, was brought forward n- gnin to try whether the king had the nerves to stand tlTe eight of his brother's Wood : he stood it all, and the favorite stood also ; but the blood of Louis's nephew, assassinated so near his person that his own turn might come next, did, it seems, touch at Inst the ;eneroussoul of the Monarch; andthe /’u- t'on’le, after having turned out two sets of colleagues—tire one because they would al ter file Law ofElections, and the other be cause tiny would nn!—was himself tenderly removed, with the title of a Duke, and the rank of Ambassador to England—we say tile rank, because we cannot believe that the French government will dare to insult the English nalioirby the actual-presenceof M. D< Caze. The Law of Elections, thus made hy De Cnv.e for his own purposes, thus favorahle to the revolutionary doctrines, and Mills fertile in Jarobin Regicides and llonapaiiisl De puties, was of course to be repealed, aud (lie attempt to undo tins Gordian knot of I>e Caze’s has brought the Monarchy to the brink of a precipice—-over which, even while we write, it may have already fallen. To hear all the cries which arc uttered a- bout *tho Chatter, one could scarcely believe that the law, w hich is attempted to be re pealed, was made about four years ago hy De Caze, iate a Clerk of-ohl Madame Bona parte’s, substituted instead of the law which w as instituted at the restoration of liie Mon archy with the ('harlcr itself. 1 <e Caze and his clique were the innovators ; and theob- ject of the present Government is, only to undo' the mischief done by the others ; hut they wit! tail; the mischief is too strong, and they -are too weak ; and the Duke of Rich elieu, and the second-hand Cahinet which he has formed, neither Royalists nor Liber ates, swill speedily, we fear, he overthrown ; and the Rovai Family seems to us (we say it with a heavy heart) nbt unlikely to be for ced to a n« vv emigration, in which, we ven ture to predict, llwt tile grateful De Caze will not follow them. We sincerely hope that our apprehensions may he groundless ; the mob ofParisnrenot the people of France; hut the people of France have been so often enslaved by the mob of Paris, that wc trem ble for the issue of the present contest. Our best hope is iu Marshal Macdonald ; if lie is a man of honor, as wc believe liiqj to he, the Throne may be saved. LATEST FROM E.XGLAXD. Boston, August 4. Arrived this morning ship Jasper, Crock er, 40 days from Liverpool. Capt. C. has favored us with the London Globe, of the evening o f the 2‘2d June. The negociation concerning the Queen af ter lasting near a fortnight, had completely failed, and the result was brought to the House of Commons and laid on the table, hut had not been taKen lip, as Mr. Wilber-, force had given notice of a motion, which he hoped still would avert flic necessity of an inquiry—and Lord Castlereagh and others bad suspended their views to give time for his motion tube decided. Much impatience had been manifested lie- cause Mr. W’s motion had been delayed one day longer than was at first proposed, but lie had pledged himself to make it in the e- vening of the 22d of June, (our latest date! and Mr. Tierney had stated that he should resist any attempt at farther delay, and call for the opinion of the House. Lord A. Ha milton had also given notice of two motions on the subject, one related to the order for omitting tlic'Queen In the Prayers. Mr. W. appears to have had some conferences in preparing his motion. The Queen is said to have determined to remain in England, and to have engaged a residence in liie country. Bills for a loan of 12,000,Otdd. aud the funding of 0,000,000/. in Exchequer Bills, arc before Parliament. But the appropria tions proceed-in their usual style. Accounts from Paris wee,', to June lfl.— The Municipal Body of Paris had present ed a Loyal Address to the King, lamenting the late disturbances. Tile King said the Charter was dearer to him than to those who had shouted its name. At Brest, Nautz, and Rennes, there had been riots, which had been suppressed by the military. London, June 20. A new Ordonanco of Police lias been pub lished at Paris, strictly enjoining all hotel- keepers, fcc. and all persons letting lodgings, or having inmates, to make a daily return of all persons in their houses, whether residing there as lodgers, as guests, or ns friends. An article from Inin, dated the Oth inst. says—“Messrs. Calderon and Cerezo, com prehended in the late Royal Decree against the fit) perjured members of the Cortts, are at Bayonne; and Messrs. Labnndcsa, Cnt- tero and Sanchez, belonging to the same party, are at St. Jean de Ltis. 41 The Marquis de Villa-Piayres, Secre tary-General of the Supreme Tribunal of the Inquisition, was to leave the capital on tlie ■till, in order to proceed to Genoa, where, he is conveying all the furniture of his house, ahd even his library. Two regiments have had a quarrel at Zere-z, hut tilt: particulars are not yet known.” A Frankfort article mentions the negocia tion of a new loan of 100,000,01)0 roubles for the Court of Russia. We are informed hy an intelligent French man, just arrived from Franee, that some very serious disturbances have taken place, at Lyons. An immense reioh assembled, wlpmvere attacked, and finally dispersed by the Swiss, w ith tile loss, however, of about 800 of the latter killed, and wounded. That tUCLegion de (a Yisr.sc had refund to lire ion the populace, mid were in consequence I decimated, and their Colonel thrown into prison. lie adds that the censure will not allow any of the alioie particulars to appear in the Journals. The negociation between his Majesty’s Ministers and the Queen, has failed. '1 lie correspondence, hy the King’s command, was laid upon the table oflmtll Houses, and ordered to be printed. They are, in all, ten papers. The two first are genuine copies of the li tter of the Eail of Liverpool, dated the 10th inst. and her Majesty’s answer, the substance of which was stated, hut not accu rately, iu the papersten days ago. Her Ma* jesty was not called on to renounce the style and title of Queen. The next was a letter from .Lord Liverpool, to say, that though they had not received an answer to the pro posal of the 15th April, made to Mr. Brough am, they were still ready to recuiveany pro position that her Majesty might.he gracious ly'pleased to make. To this her Majesty- answers, tliattliis preposition of the 15th A-' pril had never reached her hand till now ; but tlie desire which 'lie had to yii Id to the wishes of the two Houses of Parliament, would dispose her to receive, with the most serious attention, any proposal that his Ma jesty’s Ministers might now make to tier, consistent with her honor and dignity. That it was important <tt» her Majesty, that her name should he restored to the Liturgy, as the withdrawing it, contrary to the. Statute, bad the appearance, of tending to some Par liamentary or legal proceedings against her, and that must he removed or nn equivalent resorted to as the nicans-of removing that impression. That a suitable Royal resi dence should he provided for her, such as her apartments in Kensington Palace, which she had never given up, and that then she would he prepared to receive further propo sals. To this Lord Liverpool replied, that the withdrawing her Majesty’s name from the Liturgy had no view to any Parliamen tary «r legal proceedings, but was grounded on the precedent that the Queen of King George 1, was not included in tin* Liturgy ; and that, as to a Royal residence, there, was none at this time unoccupied, her Majesty’s former apartments in Kensington Palace be ing in the possession of her R. H- the Du chess of Kent; but his Majesty’s Ministers had directions to supply Iht with tlie means of 4uch accommodation as her Majesty might he pleased to choose lor herself. To this the Queen replied that the omission of the name from the Liturgy of the Queen of ! King George 1. was only while she continu ed abroad, and that tlie restoration ofhcr'J Majesty’s name was indispensable to herlwi- nor. A proposal was then offered of a me diation, which »vas agreed to ; and the next papers are the Protocols of the meetings at the house of Lord Castlereagh, in St. James square. At these conferences it was stated, on the part of her Majesty, that under the unfortunate circumstances in which she was placed, her anxious desire fur the public tran quility would make her give up with reluc tance her wish to remain in this country ; Imt in taking up her residence abroad, in structions must he given to his Majesty’s Mi nisters to receive and pri sent tier at every Court whirh she might visit, as Queen of the United Kingdom. As to her name be ing restored to the Liturgy, she again de manded it as a sine qua non. It was an swered, that it was the invariable eliquet, that foreign-Courts would not receive any person who had not been presented to the Court -•of their own Sovereign. But if her Majesty would condescend to fix tier resi dence cither at tlie Court of Milan, or ano ther in Italy, his Majesty w ould instruct his Minister at such Court to shew her the due attentions as Queen of England, hut his Ma jesty could npt take upon himself to say that liis recommendation would be effectual as to her being received as Queen. It is also »eid,, that when her Majesty had fixed on the place of her future residence, a suitable pro-. vision (and we understand the sum stated was 50,000/ a year) would he settled on her for life. The natural aud dignified reply to this was—that money ought not to he men tioned, for nothing was so distant from her thoughts. It was not for money that she contended, and it must not-be alluded to a- gain. Filially, she could not accept-of a con? ditioual recommendation to he received at the Court where she might take up her resi dence, and she must insist on the stipulations which had been required. Here the negoti ation broke off. We beg leave to state., that this-is a veiy imperfect sketch of these important docu ments, the digestion of which occupied much time, since the minute of each conference was not made final till after the'third peru sal. This day we shall procure a correct copy of the. papers which wilt appear tomor row. In the mean time it seems obvious that no very great difficulty remains to In overcome. Her Majesty having consented to live abroad, and the King having consent ed to her hearing the style and title of Queen, nothing seems left to setile hut some re cognition of the obvious indignity of with holding her name, from the Liturgy, and of not receiving her with such public distinction as should assure to her a becoming reception at the Foreign Court in the country w here she may eluise to reside. Surely all this may yet he done; and report says, that the Country Gentlemen have yet a proposition to make hy which tlie public enquiry may be avoided.—Chronicle. FROM THE WEST-INDIES. Capt. Slade arrived at Philadelphia, who left Porto Rico 26th nit.states that two Spa nish brigs of war arrived there the day pre vious from Porto Cavello, (he officers of winch stated that n cmsntiim of hostilities had taken place on the Main between the Patri ots and Royalists. From Russia.—C’aptni*i Smith, of tlie Solon, arrived at Ncw-York, left Cron- stiulton the Cth of June, and lias brought dispatches for government from the A- mericao minister at St. Petersburg, who was about to embark for home. A Rus sian fleet of five sail of tlie line and some smaller vessels, fitting out at Cronstndt, had hauled out from the Mole ; another fleet was fitting out at Archangel, but their destination was not known. There, was no news. Captain S. was at St. Pe tersburg the latter part of May, and wit nessed a review of 10.000 line troops, hy the Emperor Alexander. The Spanish nuefeJmnts in London have wailed on tjie Duke do Frias, the new am bassador from Spain. In answer to their congratulation on the happy events in Spain, the Duke said—“ It gives me. pleasure to assure y ou, that tlie King is as sincerly at tached to the constitution as any man in the country. Spain, I trust, will now become the abode and asylum of rational liberty, where persons from all parts of the world may find protection.” imavtiftTic. We me sorry to find tiiut nlternpis, which deserve to he stigmatized as in cendiary, are making to revive tho con- troiersy, ly tvliichCongress was so dis tracted at its last session, and which was then so satislaclorily adjusted. The fac tious politicians of tlie East, by whose incumbution the Hartford Convention sprung into being, are not satisfied with the concord which was restored, by tlie compromise of tlie last session, between the East and the South. They are fan ning the smothered embers, in the hope of reluniining tlie extinguished flame.— Fortunately, they cannot succeed There is a kindness betw een the differ ent sections of the country, which will not he converted into enmity. Were it otherwise, we should most earnestly pray, that those who kindled the volcano should first fe*-l the force of its explosion. We trust that the Missouri question will not be revived at tlie next session. We hope more temperate counsels will prevail than that of the scribe at New- York, who hopes to find tlie Eastern states “ united, firm, and inflexible,” in opposing the admission of the state of Missouri into the Union, as now consti tuted. It is astonishing to us, indeed, that any man should so far brave public opinion ns some of these editors have done, who unequivocally express their hope of seeing the North arrayed against Ihe South on a question respecting w hicii they can have no common feeling. An other thing has surprised us still more ; that, whilst the whole South unites in execration of the slave-trade, its repre- sentfllives are vilified for standing forth for what they helieve inalienahl« rights, hv those whose neighbors and townsmen are known to he deeply engaged in this nefarious traffic, not only in despite of the common dictates of humanity but in defiance of the laws of the country. [Aaf. /«< J .] Norfolk, August 2. INTERESTING FROM OIHltALTAK. We learn from a respectable source, that iuimcdiaU'ly on the arrival of the Columbus iu the Bay of Gibraltar, and before she an chored, a despatch was delivered to Com modore Bainhridge, from Governor Don, acquainting him with the measures of res triction he! had thought it his duty to:impose upon the American squadron, in March last ; hut that he was instructed l»y his Govern ment instantly to remove the same, and to ofl'er to them the customary civilities of the port. Some time being taxon in investiga ting the circumstances of this transaction, (which of course Commodore Rainbridge was ignorant of)—and Governor Don hav ing withdrawn the restrictions upon the squadron, and made satisfactory explana tions respecting the conduct of his officers, salutes were exchanged, and Commodore B. went on shore and visited the Governor. Alter lias the British officers who violated the restriction imposed upon the Guerriere hy carrying a challenge on hoard to Capt. Thompson and his officers, to meet the offi cers of the ntfli Itegt. magnanimously ac knowledged the impropriety of their con duct, and made satisfactory apologies to the. Americans. Thus ended the second Punic ■war, and, like the first, to tlie honor of the American military character. Indeed wo are assured, that the honorable conduct of Mi*' officers of the Guerriere, on this occasion, was-the theme of panegyric even amongst tlie EnglishuienRi Gibraltar. Governor Don had been instructed hy his Government to, bring the offending officers of the Garrison to a Court .Martial, and informed Commodore Bainhridge of his desire to do so, hut upon application to Captain Thompson and his officers, fora statement of farts, relative to i their visit on board the Guerriere, they de clined making any repoit whatever cu the subject.—AVe learn moreover, that the Brit ish Government were not well pleased with the Governor for adopting so harsh a mea sure against ottr squadron on so frivolous a pretext as a private dispute, between two young officers—and that Commodore Bain- hridge, in hD negotiations w ith the Governor upon tlie subject, maintained the honor oi' his officers and the dignity of his country, with an independence and firmness worthy -of his character and station. It is much to he rejoiced at that this iin- plensarvt afl’air has terminated thus amicably and satisbietorily ; and if we are not deceived in our judgement of human nature, it will he the foundation of n more friendly regard on the part of the British officers tow aids those of our Navy on that st-dion that has hereto fore existed, or could have existed in the common course of things. Commodore Bainhridge in the Columbus, and Captain Warrington in tlie Guerriere, sailed from Gibraltar on the 12th and arrived at Malaga on the lbtli June.—Capt. Brown, in the Peacock, and Capt. Perry, in the Spark, were nut on a cruize; but were ex pected to put into Gibraltar, for supplies, the first fair wind. Intelligence was received at Gibraltar on the 21st June, that the Spanish Government were about sending deputies to (la- South American Colonies to offer terms of recon ciliation. It was reported that General Cam- pana and the two Colonels implicated in tlie horrid massacre at Cadiz, have been con demned hy the council of war to lie shot! and General Freyre to he stripped of all his honors and emoluments. Extract of a Letter from an aged revolu tionary tfjlcer. “Your present ofiJinus"’ Declaration of Independence is received. It is n beautiful specimen of the. art of engrav ing ; the designs are good, and such as Ihe subject demanded. It is tlie birth day suit for such an infant as was never before politically bovn. “ The worthies placed at the head of tlie oval are well selected. “ Washington*—there U no need to say more—lie stands alone. “ Hancock—Lis «• ;1 of charity cm- hracc'j tlie whole human family ; and lie bad the honor of being proscribed. “ Jefferson—lie had the pinions of Mercury. If a certain set of words is belter than any other to give immortali ty to a subject, this truth is exemplified in tlie composition of the Declaration of Independence. “When 1 contemplate the wonderful assemblage of patriots on that day, and now see them m their hand writiug fresli and peiicclly executed by them, after a lapse ot 44 years, it suggests to me strongly tlie idea of the immortality of man. “ \ou and I have happily had our lot on this stage at an interesting era. God 1ms sustained our souls in life during the Revolutionary struggle, and to tlie pre sent time, when we see our numbers at least tripled, “We may, perhaps, regret the present scarcity of money, and perhaps not—it may teacli us wisdom. Our country is blessed with health, and is overflowing with provisions.—If we are not tolerably linppy, it must be for want of sensibility; and that may be excited by a little re flection, and hy just looking across the water ; this, I think, would effect a rad ical cure.”—A'ut. Int. Printers of Newspapers will he glad to see. and (paid in promulgating the following no tice, iv liieii appears in tlie National Intelli gencer. Ge.vf.ral Post-Office, Aug. 3. 1820- It having been represented to this Of fice, that the Newspaper Mail is fre quently CiU'ried outside, instead of in side of stages, to tlie great injury of newspapers contained therein, Notice is hereby given, to all whom it may con cern, that on information being given to this Otlice of such a practice being pur sued by any Contractor for carrying the Mail, or by tlie persons employed by him, the penalty annexed to such a vi olation of the Rules ot this Office will be rigidly enforced in every case. And, for the iufurmation of the Public, and to put tlie Contractors on their guard, the following Article, contained in" every. Contract made vvilli this Department, is now published. “£). 'I hut, when tlie said mail goes by a stage wagon, it sliall invariably be car ried within tlie body of a comfortable stage, suitable for tlie accommodation of at least seven travellers ; and when it is carried oil horseback, it shall be cov ered securely, with an oil cloth or bear jkin, against rain or snow, under a pe nalty of dollars for each time the mail is wet, without such covering ; and that when it stops at night, it slir.il be put in a secure place, and there be lock ed up. A penalty of one dollar a niilo shall be incurred for every mile in which, the mail, when conveyed by stage, shall be carried out of the body of the car riage above described.” MORE SILVER MINES IN THE WEST. Salem (Ind.) July 26. We have been informed by gentlemen of credibility, that there has been a Sil ver Mine lately discovered in tlie late purchase in this state. The circum stances relating to it are these : A few months ago n gentleman near the bounda ry line was informed, by an Indian, that there was amine of this kind some where» but refused to tell him where it was, un less the man would pay him fifty dollars, a horse, gun, and several blankets, w hich themnn did, and was taken to the place, and brought away several pounds of the ore. 41e has since, we are told, brought away about three hundred pounds. He refuses to tel! where it is but says there i« at least three wagon loads already cast, into bars by the indians, which he in tends to-bring away. We have seen (so have severed citizens of Salem) some of the ore, and should suppose it at least two-thirds silver. The ore is so pure that it can be drawn out with the ham mer, into bars of almost any size, and it is thought hy some to be siitlicientlv pure iu its natural state. From the represen tation of it, the mine is inexhaustible, and in a situation difficult to be discovcr- ■ed. Should tlie above be truth, Indiana may be before Ohio in coining dollars. It is said that Ohio felt considerable re lief on the discovery of the Zanesville mine, and that the banks in that neigh borhood were raised 20 per cent. Should the late discovery prove as exhilirating to the bank of Indiana, we might reckon our money no more than twenty-live per cent, below par, instead offortyflvo and fifty, as heretofore. TROM THE INDEPENDENT OBSERVER. Beat this, if you can!... There has been tatted sind killed in the township ofBrook- iyn, Connecticut, the postseason, Eleven lluiulred and Thirty Hogs, about one half of which were-under one year old, weighing Three Hundred and Sixty Thou sand Seven Hundred and fifty Seven Pounds. The average weight was two bundled seventy one and a half pounds. The largest hog weighed seven hundred and thirty seven pounds. Two hundred and nine thousand seven hundred and ninety four pounds linve been sold.— l wo persons fatted and killed thirty thousand four hundred and ninety pounds. I be above hogs consumed, in fatting, at least 2H,()00 bushels of grain. They were worth, at the timo they were kil led, more than 20,000 dollars. A large quantity of cheese, butter, and grain, has also been exported from the town—thus creating a revenue ofnt least •10,000 dollars. If every town would c- i)n.d this in their produce, we should hear no more of the cry of “ hard times.” The township of Brooklyn contain? 17,000 acres of land, 1200 inhabitants, and 166 dwelling houses. The pilot boat .Eijlus, employed by go vernment for tlie use of the Commissioners appointed by the Navy Board to make a sur vey of the coast of North Carolina, returned yesterday to this port. Capt. Elliot, one. of the Commissioners, has come home in her, tlie survey having been completed. TIib oilier Commissioners, who went out in her, proceeded on to the Eastward some tiniu since. The pilot boat Wesley, also engngi <\ in the survey, will he herein a few days,fuil the revenue cutter employed at Sr.iitlivllle^