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_ ... n .» or two ofl vernments bfuod wholly without excuse,
i\mn whh h * 1 . .. I mul liu would pres.* upoii their govt rument?
.....I. . i nn . ant] liu would upon Iheir govi rtimenn*
tits smaller poem* hurt pn ooiisly i ' • t|„.y toubj Inur him—lm would pros up-
nearod in tlmt work, It the approving |(|| people, through wlioiu those go
vernments must sooner or Inter hour it, thui
t ain will he Iheir plea of England's exam-
pln of iiidifferiuce to this tiallie for n befit s
of years, even if that plea were stronger
1 titan it eat) lie pretended to lie—True it is
that this is the fortieth year since the wrongs
of Africa first (might the attention of the
English ear. At that time a small society
(principally from among tile Society of
I'Yicniis) rix in number, of whom alone
George Harrison was the survivor, met in
•ngtrliire upon Ibis traffic. True, their efw-
rjave whs as secret in its deliberations hs
pearod in - ..
judgment of the English public can nod
any weight to Mr. Bryant’s claims to the
Hihiiiratmn ofhis countrymen!, hi* Poems
only require to be koowu to euUlle biu*
to U.”
AFRICAN INSTITUTIONS.
The following speecheB of Mr, Wilher-
force and Mr. Uiougham were delivered at
a meeting of the African Institution in Lon*
<; ,n on die lOth Ultimo, winch was no;
tired in O.ir paper of Thursday, When we
itWIildUn d tlia remarks ol Mr. Randolph on
the same occasion.
Mr. Wilberforco ill seconding the declara
tory resolution, deeply regretted the neces
sity which existed of enlightening the public
mind of France respecting I he odious nature
of the slave trade Fifteen years ago, when
their illustrious Chairman had joined in the
formation oftlnssociety, lltey vainly thought
the question of abolition was set at lest, and
that nothing emained but lo secure the co
operation of the other powers to execute the
prohibitory laws enacted against the crime.
Though their anticipation had not been ful
filled, they Imd yet done much, and had
earned that reward which all good men were
sure to meet without reference to the success
of their benevolent efforts. Independent of
the moral necessity for the continuance of
their labors, they should never forget that
ihey owed Africa a weighty reparation for
tile deep injuries which they had inflicted on
tier unhappy children, and could never stop
until they had repaired the evils they had
committed. (Hear, hear.) The honorable
■gentleman then took a retrospective glance
at the progress of their labors—-at the advan
ces they had made since the time when the
unhappy Africans were declared, even hy
some historians, to be an inferior class of hu
man beings, not to he classed in I he same
ja.de with others. He particularly eulogized
the Society of Friends for their uniform ef
forts io the cause of the abolition—efforts
w hich, lie said, had compelled them lo vio
late the modesty of Iheir own feelings, to
act in opposition to the principles by which
they regulated their conduct, and come for
ward to as-ist in the Indy work, in open day.
in conjunction with their brethren of differ
ent religions. He also said, that to the ho*
(ion has bo willed it ; Rod ItvijittiE j The Ameri
yields to her supreme will, now tint he
ascertains that it is not an inconsidirate
movement of blind gratitude, Inn thlt ir-
resilahle impulse which always tljerls
the general with to thu end of piblie
prosperity.
'1 he nation, indeed, desired it eager
ly ; hut was diverted from it by tliedau-
gcrous collision of opinion. Thefmn
of the government had no consistency ;
it was threatened alike to be madi’fhc
despotism ol thosep^ho struggled aff?'*-n-t
her independence, and to be ahnilrildted
by her most enthusiastic protectors.'
were other congresses that had since assem- o„ r country at one lime exposed to
drench with her blood the steps cl a
throne that a foreign prince might mount
it, and at another lo be torn in pieces by
factions of her own sons. Meanwhile a
mortal paralysis began to prevail, that
stopped the supplies of the national trea
sury, enervated the army, benumbed the
government, impaired the vigor of (be
empire, and prepared us to be the easy
! prey of foreign invarion, of secret ma
| donation, or of intestine discord. Every
thing, in line, betrayed certain symptoms
of tiiat same anarchy into which the
bled, though composed of very different
members, influenced by very different feel
ings, and having vciy different objects to
promote. This society sought information
respecting the traffic ; tlu-y were followed
by Thomas Clarkson, and treading on his
heels in the great work, came his honora
ble friend, (Mr. Wilberforco,) who had ren
dered his name illustrious by his services in
this holy eaose. (Loud applause.) And
yet, notwithstanding the great exertions of
such men, twenty-live years elapsed fiom
tlicheginning to the conclusion of theiretrtns
solar as the passing of the abolition act.
Why did (le refer to these facts ?—first,
that they had to take to themselves the
deep shame of allowing so many years to
elapse in the progress of such a question ;
and next, to discourage despair, under any
present circumstances, by showing, that in
whatever cause a free and enlighten) d peo
ple resolve to embark, success must ulti
mately attend Iheir struggle. (Applause.) It
was not one year before their final triumph,
that alter the question of abolition was car
ried in the Commons, it was flung out iu
the Lords. (Hear, hear.) Me referred to
these facts to discourage despair, not to
vindicate foreign powers, or allow their plea
of the example of England. When the
subject was first taken up in England it
was new, its details and atrocities were un
known, the effect of measures was untried ;
but vvould it be contended that the powers
of the continent could plead that ignor
ance ? Had they not had the benefit of tin-
progressive experience of England? They
might, indeed, have come into the discus
sion at the eleventh hour, lint they did so
with all the advantage of hearing the ten
nor of Ireland, her ports had never been de- (| U m- 3 previous debate, and acquiring all the
filed by the vessels of this odious traffic—-a
fact which gave that generous and gallant
option an additional claim in this hour of her
calamity. (Hear, hear.) It was a humiliat
ing fact, that England had, in the slave
trade, been pre-eminent in guilt—but it was
consolatory to know that she was also fore
mast in repentance. (Hear, hear.) So com
pletely had England formerly identified this
traffic with her trade, that even when she a-
bandoned it, other nations fancied that it was
for the purpose of carrying into effort some
now commercial speculation. He then con
gratulated the society upon the accession of
the Duke de Broglie Hi Ins friends, w ho were
among the most intelligent and distinguished
characters in France, & whose efl'nrts would,
no doubt produce -.the best results. He ad
verted in flattering terms, to the success
which bad, after a lapse of years, attended
the colonization of Sierra Leone—at first the
prospect had been discourageing—so it al
ways was in tb* history of such improve
ments. The colony of Virginia, one not un
dertaken by needy speculators, but at the
suggestion of the wise- i of men—Lord Ba
con, and partly formed under the eye of Sir
\V. Raleigh—-tlircy time* was the colony
of Virginia attempted, and as often abandon
ed, until at length a final trial was made, and
complete success attended at. The honora
ble member eulogized in the highest terms,
the services of Sir George Collier, and the
naval force under his command on the coast
of Africa, ai d remarked that the first inti
mation of making the slave trade piracy,
had a very singular origin. It arose from a
treaty made hy the son of a very old friend
of his, Lieut. Thompson, U. N. with a peo
ple in the Arabian gulf, who consented to
denounce the slave-trade as piratical, alt ho’
he, (Mr. Wilberforre) was afraid they were
themselves little better than pirates. (Hear,
and a laugh.)
Mr. Brougham proposed a resolution ex
pulsive of the gratification of the society, at
finding the slave trade made pjrjc.y hy the
United Slates of America. In doing so, In
xperienre of the past to regulate their deel
sion. (Loud cries of hear.) They must
start, therefore, with Us at the pri-si nt time,
and not flatter themselves with the delusive
hope, that either among the wise or tin
good men of future, limes, they would stand
justified iir a delay, which in the ease ol
England was without defence, but which in
their case would he utterly without pallia
tion. Applause. The honorable and learn
ed gentleman then pronounced a warm pa
negyric upon the example set hy the United
Stales of America, in making the slave trade
piracy, and upon Mr. Randolph's great ef
forts in promoting that act.
We are indebted to a friend for a se
ries of Vera Cruz newspapers of a lute
date. Every thing connected with the
concerns of Mexico is now of interest if
not of moment, to the United States.—
The following proclamation of the new
Emperor of Mexico, forms a pregnant
theme for reflection. We must remark,
ns a plea for the character of our hasty
translation of this document, that the o-
riginal is by no means a good specimen
of composition. —National (Jascttc.
Dmrio de Vera Cruz, 29 May, 18-22
Proclamation of uur limperor, Heitor Don Au-
gust in the First.
Inhabitants of the Mexican empire :
The wish lo preserve, in addressini;
yon, the tone and confidence of a simple
fellow-citizen, is even yet entertained
by him. whom you have been pleased to
raise fiom that class, to tbe Imperial dig
nity. What have you found in your
compatriot to reuder him worthy of an
honor so exalted and brilliant? Did
you, perchance, sec in him the man,
who emancipated tbe nation from the
tyranny of three centuries t is the
Crown an offering of gratitude, natural
r and his lady, Sr mout
ol' the foreign A ml) "--adors were present.
Ionian Islands—Advices from Zulilc, nf
April 1H, afliim.lhat the sy stem of neutrality
which has been proclaimed in the Ionian
Isles, goes directly to the confiscation ol the
property of all the Ionian Nobles suspected
of bring favourable to the cause of the
Greeks, w ho art combating fur their inde
pendence. Several of these Noble:), known
ny their fortunes and their principles, have
hern obliged lo expatriate themselves, ami
seek for safety in the insurgent islands.—
Aniongst tilt m are the Count Mctaxa, a rich
proprietor; M. Anzalaeato, known for hi*,
wealth and the honorable employment of hi*
fortune; and the voidable Archbishop of
Ceplmlonia, Typcltlo, known for his piety
and his learning.
THE RUSSIAN UKASE.
In the month of December the attention
of this country was, besought to the dan
gerous doctrines contained in the Russian
Ukase, hy which that Power had appropria
ted to itself the whole of the north-west
coast of America, up to 51 deg. north, and
of the coast of Asia up to 45 deg. Ol min.
;nd by which it declared that no ship, on
xain of confiscation, should tome within,
joe hundred miles of either of these coasts,
including in America the possessions of tbe
North West Company, and iu Asia a por
tion of the Chinese Empire ; neither of
Mexican nation was about to plunge,; which countries lias, even hy the latest ac-
wheti the Imperial army proclaimed herjeounts, been surrendered by Lord London
independence at Iguala.
was grieved to say, that instead ofheing as- magnanimous and generous a peo-
tumbled, ns they had Imped, this day, to
Witness the consummation of their 15 years’
labor in enforcing the art of abolition, they
had now the mortification to find a new se
ries of troubles rising to their view, from a
singular combination of unhappy circum
stances. As long as their own laws had to
he watched over to be enforced—as long as
tilt k own colonies declined to give their own
slaves the equal benefit of the, law, and with
held from them every thing which was not
extorted from iln-ir masters, by the necessi
ty of fostering the slaves now risen in price,
it" that degraded epithet most still attach to
human beings—as lung as other nations re
fused to redeem their plighted promises—so
long tho African institution must obviously
imd necessarily have much to accomplish —
(Hear, hear.) It would seem from the in
teresting report which had been read, that
the history of the chief countries of Europe,
since the peace, exhibited nothing lint a se
ries of pledges given "lobe, forfeited—oppor
tunities of lienefitting mankind only afford
ed to be scandalously thrown away—chan
ces held fottli to tile nations of the world,
but east aside, of recovering themselves, and
of gaining imperishable renown. (Applause.)
He looked with indignation at the contrast
presented to these nations by the U. States
of America, and the still greater contrast
presented hy the republican subjects of a
free country, in the performance where they
had not promised so modi, to those regal
goverments which had promised so much,
and performed so little. (Applause.) Too
much could r.ot he. said of the Society of
Friends, who had hern forcibly compelled
by the greatness of their own doings, to en
croach upon meekness of habit which uni
firmly induced them to
“ Do good by stealth, and blush lo find it fame,''
(hear,)and forced them to receive that pub
lie approbation from their fellow-subjects
which they were the first to earn but the
last to claim. (Hear.)-—There were, how
ever, some of the foreign governments who
resembled the Society of Friejids, but il
was only in this one. habit—that they made
no claim for the approbation, of mankind
(Laughter.) If they were slow iu claiming
they took espw ial care to be also slow io
tieserving. Their modest and retired hah
ps were never broken in upon by the sp
plans of suffering humanity ; they kept the
I ff hand in entire ignorance of vvli 't was
doing hy the right, and to obviate the possi
bility of a charitable exposure, they rook,
particular carp to keep both hands idle
pie? Yes certainly. Gratitude, that
sentiment which Heaven has implanted
iu all hearts of this delicious region, ne
ver shewed itself in greater force than at
the time when our country recognized
herself free and independent. From
that moment, 1 was struck with admira
tion of the thankful feelings of the inha
bitants-—then, were the diadem and o-
bedionce tendered to me with free and
sincere acclamation ; and 1 would have
then accepted them at once, making to
my country this last sacrifice, assuredly
the most painful, considering my natural
dispositions and the ob ject of my wishes
since 1 began to institute comparisons
between the disquietudes of the world
and tiie sw eets of solitude—•had not my
very duties and services pledged lo the
country furnished trie with a two-fuld
motive for refusing her liberal offers.
Fixed in the principle that every thing
should he given up to the country ; re
solute and consistent in the plan conceiv
ed for the recovery of National Inde
pendence, ami faithful to the treaties
concluded at Cordova with a minister of
the Spanish Government, it will not be
said that Iturbide availed himself of the
regard of the people, hut only lo mode
rate the demonstrations of their love and
gratitude. Scarcely had public opinion
begun to manifest itself through the
press, designating him as the person to
wield ihe sceptre of the empire, when
he endeavored, without delay, to give it
a different direction. He declared and
proclaimed his own, in public and pri
vate, as citizen and as magistrate ; as
one interested in the glory ol the nation,
and punctilious and delicate in respect
to what regarded his personal interests.
‘ he laurels of that victory which broke
the power of the oppressors ofhis coun
try. quilly encompassed his brows, and
assigned the proper limits to that lamia-1,
Me ambition, which fecundates all (he
virtues. Why then constrain him to as
cend the throne, from whose elevation
hecaii no longer view with complacency
the services rendered to his country,
without feeling himself pressed down by
‘Vml was the nation not to exert freely
her will in such a crisis ? Was not the
hand which was adequate to save her in
her preceding ominous situation, hgd
under an obigation, in consistency, ever
afterwards to prelect and save her ?—
Yes, adored country, that same hand,
with the single aim of your preservation
will sway the sceptre which you have
confided to it! In the same spirit and
measure that he sought honestly to de
cline it as a reward for past services,
w ill be labor to sustain the weight which
is added to it bv the very circumstances
under which it is received. That which
coaid not he conceded, without reproach,
to your mere gratitude, cannot, blame
lessly, be denied to your service, to
your benefit, to vour authority.
V ou have before you now, fellow ci
tizens. the real impressions ofyour obli
ged compatriot. Heaven is a witness
to them, that lias deigned so visibly, al
ways countenance his sincere aims. lie
attests Heaven, in proof of those whirl)
have determined him to accept the
crown. You are also aware of our de
plorable situation, and the necessity of
escaping from it hy whatever course.—
Full of virtue and moderation, you have
chosen to pursue the dictates gratitude,
Jk to exercise the rieli! inherent in every
free nation, to etablish the form of her
government, and to nominate her chiefs.
The national will is respected ; and
he in whose favour it has been pro
nounced, cannot take umbrage at the dis
sent remarked in some persons before
the formal act which elevated him to the
rank of first citizen and chief of the na
tion. Much less can those be objects of
his dislike and resentment, who, for their
dear country, will discovrr in him who
is charged with the common welfare, on
ly the tenderness ofa fellow citizen and
a friend—in the habit of obedience from
his earliest years, he has had lessons of
command unkown to those who acquire
power by hereditary title ; unaccustom
ed so prejudice, vanitv and adulation, he
can feel and acknowledge the suprema
cy of ihe law, and be penetrated with
the certain truth that the love of the peo
ple i* the felicity of the Prince, and the
kindness of the Prince the felicity of the
people.
Oh, let this ho the glorious foundation
ofyour choice ! And since, fellow citi
zens, von understand the motives which
prompted the acceptance of your favor
at so great a sacrifice of inclination, co
operate w iih hip, to the end that the Im
perial authority may he. constantly di
rected to the public weal ; to the repulse
of all dangers which may threaten it. and
to the aggrandizement of the empire : —
Above all. he persuaded of the very ten
der affection and cordiality with which
the wishes of the nation are gratified hy.
AUGUSTIN.
lurry to the Emperor Alexander, as Ida
Lordship did when he gave up Java and
the Moluccas to Holland, without knowing
that lie had done so. So sunk has the coun
try been by its misfortunes, that tbe imperi
al document lias been permitted to pass
without one individual of the British Parlia
ment having ventured to observe upon it,
and so completely has the proud spirit uf
England been heat down.
Luckily for the world, the United States
of America have not submitted with equal
patience to the decrees of the Autocrat;
an important discussion is now depending
between these two countries—a discussion
in which we, however, are much more
deeply interested than the United States,
inasmuch as the Ukase of the Emperor in
cludes much which is actually settled hy
Englishmen, arid forbids us at the same
time from trading with a portion of Chinese
Tartary, when an opening for our enterprise
was likely to he attempted.
Tin- real views of Russia are ofa nature
and extent beyond any thing formidable, as
her Minister at Washington (who, from his
name, seems lo he as little of u Russian as
Pozao di Borgo, or Capo d’Istria, or many
other of the ministers of that power)
it 1 or »r'
exposed lo such nlllii.liu
a soil Htid such a peopL
some terrible mis tub
outh of the Alps will he permitted to] Hint *o tunny
come mid pay their homage lo the uu
I hoi s of their tale.
FRANCE.
The Session ol the French Chambers
was opened on the 41 li ol June, hy the
following Speech of thu King :
“ Gentlemen—'The necessity which
has long been felt of liberating :lie finan
cial administration from those provision-
al measures to which it has been neces
sary hitlierio to recur, has determined
u.e. tbn^year, to anticipate the period ol
cai.ing you logether. In exacting from
you this new sacrifice, I rely upon your
zeal, and upon that devotion of which
you have given me so many proofs.
“ Providence has preserved the infant
which it has given tu us, and it it a pleas
ing thought to imagine (hat he is destin
ed to repair the losses and the misfor-
tunee which have befallen my family and
people.
“ I have the satisfaction to announce
to you, that my relations with foreign
powers continue to be of the most ami
cable description. A perfect unanimity
lias influenced the efforts, concerted be
tween my Allies and myself, to put an
end to the calamities which oppress the
East and which afflict humanity. 1 cher
ish the hope of seeing tranquility restor
ed in those countries without the occur
rence of a new war to aggravate their
miseries.
“ The naval force which 1 maintain,
in the Levant has accomplished its dcs-
liriatv'n, hy protecting my subjects, and
by affording aid to tho unfortunate, whose
gratitude bus beeu the reward of our so
licitude.
“ I have adopted precautions which
have kept from our frontiers the conta
gion which has ravaged a part of Spain.
The present season does not permit that
we should relax these precautions, and
! shall therefore continue them as long
as the safety of the country may requite
It. Malevolence alone can discover in
the»e measures a motive foreign to my
real intentions.
“ Rash enterprises have disturbed, iu
some parts of the kingdom, public tr.m-
quility ; bat they have only served (o
display more signally, the zeal of the
magistrates and the fidelity of the troops.
rr.t? fheiild I,.
S. Hull 11)1
there in ,-a |,n.
“Si'ilielliiiin in.
fiuii* ly “ loltcn iu the slute of L'm
mark.”
The West India Bill had not been tj.
ually acted on.—The Navigation I ifl
was onletej for a fid reading on the
noth May. Mr. Brougham and the
Chancellor of ihe Exchequer united m
its support. Mr. Wallace explained i •
general object to be the simplification f
the laws, by “ relmiug ‘some ol tho
enactments in force for the rcgoln'inn
of Hie trade of foreign shipping with the
ports of the kingdom, so as to plans
the several nations of Europe upon Ilia
same footing in that respect one wiih
another.” He spoke of the pronititudo
which (lie United States hud shown in
recognizing the South American states ,
and added ; ” Probably the now states in
South America were by this time recog
nized as legitimate by the President and
Congress, and that most valuable com
merce opened to the only competition
which in that quarter could inspire in
with the least anxiety. It was not fur
him, on an occasion like the present, io
touch upon the reasons that might decide
the question of our recognition ; but he
thought it right that our law should he so
far altered as to enable us in this latter
case r.ot to delay the intercourse which
might tlieo he opened upon condition* < f
reciprocal advantage, and of receiving
iu our ports their ships with ns much
freedom as ours were admitted into tl.o
ports of South America.—Rich. L.ij.
tended that the Emperor might have shut i If a small number of individuals, who
up the whole of'the Northern Pacific, ns tu-
possessed dominions on each side of it. I
It would have been well if Lord Melville i
Lad ascertained this law of nations before he |
lent to discover a north-we
thus, if discovered, would be nugatory. In
tile same manner,and with somewhat better
chance of
tre the enemies of order, view, with des
pair, our institutions consolidated and
rendering a new support to the Throne,
t passage, which j m )' people abhor their criminal designs.
* I shall take care that violence does not
leprive them of the privileges they cn-
uircess, as to the execution of her joy.
decree, might England declare the Northern
Atlantic closed to the ships of modern Rus
sia. How tong are we to submit to such en
croachments, in order to support the princi
ples of tlie Holy Alliance ? It cannot but he
considered as a matter of some curiosity to
that this important question is left to the
decision of the two youngest nations in the
world ; and t)i.at Franee and England should
equally submit to have a new law of nations
imposed on the world.— Times.
The London Courier of tbe 80th of May,
acknowledges tile receipt of American pa
pers to the l Oth, from which very copious
xlracts are made, and the editors particu
larly notice the difference between the Pre
sident and Senate relative to military ap
pointments.
Matthews, the most distinguished comi:
Positive calamities, though exagge
rated by fear, have recently ^desolated
the department contigious to the Capital.
The’nid of public and private benevo
lence has, however, mitigated them.—
The activity of the inhabitants shortened
the duration ofthese disasters : autho
rity seconded their zeal ; justice? will
punish the guilty.
“ The exact state of the debt arricrcc,
is at length ascertained, and will he sub
mitted to you. This debt whose origin
is in limes happily far removed from ns
and whose liquidation has developed its
full extent, will retard, for the present
lyear, in spite of my most deep regret, a
dian of the age, was on the eve of departure of those ameliorations of which the
various branches of the public revenue
will be susceptible.
“ The advantages we have already
obtained should encourage us to perse
vere lor their maintainance and increase.
1 rely upon your aid to secure, in our
beautiful country, that prosperity which
ProviJence designs for us ; this is the
wish of toy heart ; the incessant object
of my thoughts ; it is the consoling idea
which alleviates the recollection of my
pains, and which embellishes the antici
pations of the future.”
l’M\FAG.N.
((Renewed bursts of laughter.) The, ego-! the excess ofhis recompense ? Then,"
New-York, July 11
LATE FROM EUROPE.
The June packet ship Jas. Cropper, Capt.
Reid, arrived yesterday from Liverpool,
having left that port on the 1st of the month,
and brought London papers to the evening
of tbe 30; h May.
Mr. I lodge, American consul at Miirsiiilles,
a passenger in the James Cropper, lias
brought dispatches for government from our
Minister in France.
There does not appear to lie any impor
tant political intelligence. The accounts,
continue to lie contradictory with regard to
the relations between Russia and Turkey.
Tlie West India and American trade bill,
and the Colonial trade bill passed in com
mittee of the House of Commons on tho
24th, and were ordered fur further discus
sion on the 80th.
It is stated that Ihe price of sprrie has
been materially lowered iu England by the
large importations from the United States
and South America.
The distress in Ireland continued, and the
measures for the relief oi' the poor were una
bated.
A new comet was discovered on tlie 12th
of May, by II. (jamhart, of Marseille*. It
is near the second star of Taurus. From
the observations made, it appears that at 40
minutes past 10 o'clock its right ascension
was li? 1-2 degrees, and its northern decli
nation fifi. The comet is at present invisi
ble to the naked eye.
The total exports from Great Britain in
1821, amounted to /fib,! ft 1,41 l, exceeding
the amount in 1820 nearly three millions »nd
half. ’ There was a decline iu tlie impo.ts
of upwards of half a million.
The King of England made a grand party
on the 22d, to receive the Prince and I’rin-
cesa of Denmark. The splendid and inag-
nifirient gnld and silver state servile was
used upon the occasion. The second course
was served upon the former, and (he whole
of the preparations were as superb as
for America
Aerial Navigation from Bombay to London.
It appears hy a certificate published in the
Bombay Gazette Extraordinary, by Mr.
Warden, Chief Secretary, that a Mr. T.
Boyce had made application to the Govern
or of Bombay, to be allowed to carry ttit-
mails, &.c. from Bombay to London, by
means of a balloon; he professing to have
discovered n method of giving horizontal
motion in mronautics. The Governor re-
Icred Mr. Boyce to the Philosophical So
ciety of Bombay. A Air. C. Hodgson has
also put in his claim to leronautic fame;
and another competitor has appeared in the I
Calcutta Journal of September 20, where
the mode of operation is explained at con
siderable length. This we candidly con
fess lo be beyond our comprehension.
j Liverpool Kalcidescopc.]
New-York, July 15.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
The packet ship Hercules, Gardner,
and the regular trading ship Euphrates,
Stoddard, arrived here on Saturday
morning from Liverpool, the former hav
ing sailed on the Cth, and he latter on the
7th ult. Wc have received our regular
files lo those dates. The papers are
quite uninteresting, and contain no po
litical intelligence of importance.
The packet ship Columbia, in which
Air. Poletica, the Russian minister, took
passage arrived at Liverpool on the 5th
June.
Lox’bon, June G.
By letters of a very recent date, which
yesterday readied us from Leghorn, wc
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Our accounts from London are to the
25th May, from Liverpool to the 1st
June, ihe last Liverpool Advertiser
states an express to have arrived at Paris
bringing dispatches from Vienna to tho
21st May. From Vienna there is “ a
a full confirmation of the important fact
that the forces of the Sublime Porte are
evacuating the principalities of Moldavia
and Wallacliia.” Here is one important
obstacle to peace removed. Another,
is tlie safety of the Greeks. To abject
this difficulty, perhaps the negociation
goes on. The story is again revived,
with strong assurances of truth, that a
Congress is about to be held in Florence,
and that the necessary arrangements an
making for its immediate convention.—
Will the Christian state? of Europe leave
the Greeks at the absolute mercy of the
t Turks ? The massacre officio is a suf-
the Captain Pacha was sent with a strong
squadron and an army to reduce it—
15,000 of the Greeks are said to have
perished—an universal carnage was first
commenced—but the unfeeliug conquer
learn that houses have been engaged in j ticint warning to them. Scio was one
Florence for the Emperors of Russia and *^ ie ln °st beautiful isles in the Archi
Austria, who are expected lo arrive in pelnga with a population which has been
that capital to attend a Congress about stated at 100,000—it revolted from tlie
tlie middle of July. The subject*! Turks and raised fhe banner of liberty
appointed for deliberation and decision tho Contain Pacha was sen) with a ii™
in the conferrences of that assembly, are
said to he tlie relative state of Greece
and Turkey, and the settlement ofthe af-
fairs of Italy. The stage is larger than
that of the late Congress of Troppau and
Lnbach (where the two Emperor? could
enjoy as profound a seclusion as two
monks of Latrappe :) but whether the
royal actors are to be increased, we can
not ns yet ascertain. At any rate, as,
the spectators of the external show will
he more numerous, the world will hear
more of it than of tlie secret conclaves
<fn Ihe German territory. It is extreme
ly probable that both England & France,
which formerly rather watched than join
ed the .two former meetings will send
ministers lo this, as it? range of delibera
tion will be more extensive, and its de
cisions more final. It is likewise pro
bable that those substitutes for Kings,”
the Austrian Satrap? of Naples and Sar
dinia, with the other tributary Brices
COLOMBIAN REPUBLIC.
This sister Republic begins already to nv
sumo an imposing station amidst tbe naliie.s
if tlie earth. We find her ministers in the
old as well as the new world filling a Isr^e
space in public consideration, and ncliii * : g
measures of great importance. It was re
cently the Int nf Air. Tonnr.s, to be receiv
ed tiv the President of the United States r.s
the first acknowledged minister from Co
lombia, an tionor, to tlie obtaining of whirl),
his own talents, patriotism, and virtues, had
largely contributed ; Mr. 7,r a, minister pleni
potentiary of the Republic at Paris, has I-
sn been eminently fortunate, in thu ,-itter>-
tions bestowed upon him, and in the ser
vices he has rendered" his country ; an Her-
tainment ivas lately eiven to him at which
several nf the most distinguished character)
of France and England were present, h t
what is a much more substantial eonsidem-
tion, Air. Zea has negotiated a loan of two
mili.io.vs stf.ri.iko for Colombia, a meas
ure of vast importance, as it will relieve tho
republic from pecuniary embarrassment and
enable tier to meet all tier engagements.
[Baltimore i'cd. Gaz.)
Mr. English, the American, who has
penetrated so far into the interior of Af
rina, and is now a believer in the M ■ i - -
stihuan faith, was a student of Harvard
University, where he graduated in U 3
or 1807. He must, therefore, be more
than 30 years old It is a mistake to
say that lie was an infidel at the age of
17. He was a Concregltional Clergy
man after leaving College, and, from a
Calvinist, he became an Unitarian. His
next change was to the Jewish faith, in
support of which ho wrote frequently
Ho has now, it appears, become a Ala-
homedan ; and what change he is next
to undergo, imagination may conjecture,
fie was, whpn at College, remarkable
for the quickness of his mind, and (lie
force and beauty of his declamation.
It his discoveries in Africa are ns no-
vel as his religion has been various,
much of interest will be attached to hu
researches.—Courier.
Recently two lawyers were imprisoned ; u
Philadelphia jail, for treating the Court, iu
that city, with disrespect—and on the ‘.’--J
ult. John H. Hopkins and Neville B. Craig,
were arraigned at the bar st Pitnburg, l’i
for contempt of Court, and fined tSOilnlYrs
ach. It seem?, on tlie preceding Saturday,
they were on tlie opposite sidps of a caier,
wherein the matter at issue between thei".
-Hunts, amounted to one dollar fyfifty cent. '
before, an adjourned court of common pleas,
Judge Wilkins, presiding. Craig nrctised
Hopkins of having made false represent ,'
ons to tlie court—which was denied and re
asserted :—when the latter called tlie nt! it
liar—whereupon Craig jumped upon him,
and gave him a moderate pommelling, to the
no small amusement of the court and bye-
standers.
For such conduct as this, we should tl.i k
tlie punishment lenient. If an impri-onn t
of sixty days had been added, it would have
afforded these feentlemen an opportunity to
have cooled their courage, taken a few! -
sons in the school of good manner*, ? 1
perhaps they might too have heroine r,
verts to the"dueli-ino of Fa!staff, that “ ihd
Hie better purl of valor is discretion.”
[Butt. Patriot.
A singular, yet not unprecedented err : •
retire, we are informed, took place n
evening of ihe 41 h in-l. nt one of tlie pub '
gardens iu the city of New-Yo i k. A), *
woman decently dressed, hot appar, -
feeble, was sitting in one of the alcoves with
an infant in her arms. Near her w i* h
young gentleman, a foreigner, to whom ll •
young lady .addres i d herself, and In gg d
him to hold her child for a moment m
she had adjusted some part, of herd,' ■
He. was too polite not to yield to hern
or? finally reserved thousands of women j r ;u«!st. In a moment she dhappiarcd
1 crowd, and could not afterwards Hi foe:
The young gentleman was left with a *1
ing infant in his arms, surrounded by
jeering companion*, and was pirh-p
only person present who could not i
smile at witnessing his rally and uinvclc
paternity.—.‘hueritan.
iml children lor slaves
The most horible picture presented
by Europe, next to Scio, i? Ireland ! —
The spectacle of famine and misery in
certain districts is said to baffle discre
tion. In Ihe county of Mayo, not less
than 70,000 persons are wholly destitute
of fuod. Cases are slated of several
persons w ho have already died of star
vation. Hundreds of starving people
were greedily seeking for warter-cres-
ses, wild mustard, cettletops, dwarf-
thistles, &ic. The British government
and private individuals are making some
exertions to relieve them—but it is a
disgrace to the acre in which wc live I the city of Philadelphia has been
and to a country like G. Britain, which refuge for the runaway negroes fi
boasts so proud a naote of civilization, 1 the neighboring soutfiera vVa'cs”—
Tho N. York N. Advocate s'atcc M
11 it i? not to he denied that iu N. 7 •
the free hiark* " are becoming quite i
tolerable,” The Philadelphia Union 1
so complains that “ the blacks have ;
creased so much among” them, “ a*
hive become a serious nuisance.”
frankly admits, that “ for many y r