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FOREIGN.
fmt called le Chateau 1’ Empereur : that he-
had not hesitated to- seize the treaurc
which was kc|)t there, and which had been
hitherto religiously preserved; and that he
had thus obtained immense means to support for
a long time his horrible satelitcs, and to inertase
their number.
“ The dey hail caused to be seized two young
women of a.Jewish family, whose father wire em
ployed in the English consulate, and two days af
terwards also tlie eldest -daughter of the Sieur
Pominibo, master of the French hotel. The un
fortunate girl last mentioned was compelled to
espouse the dev, and she is now sovereign, but
expecting the fate of the daughter of the dey of
Tytorus, who was seized in the same manner by
the late dev Haji Ali, and who was found at'tei
his death in prison and emaciated by hunger.
, _ “ The greater part of the consuls assembled to
mer.ced, and continues at this time with increas-1 ^ - n ulJ ; gon> cni nplaints and remonstrances,
ed alarm—the whaif and shore covered with | j )ut | lilv ; 110 . been informed before they reached the
■goods of all descriptions, and no possibility of . w | ace orders had been issued by Ali Hadja
inti'. An embargo has been on for a L () | ( j s n . |(C|
SOU I’H-AMKItlCA.
Ilnltimnre, Apri' «. —The editor is indebted to
the friendly attention of a respectable gentle
men of-this city for the following highly inte
resting extracts, which are from a source on-which
full reliance may be placed
La Guayra, Feb. CO.—I write a few lines under
the most awful feelings and apprehensions. Mu
rillo is destroyed or proved coward or traitor.—
-The province is lost! The patriots fast advanc
ing oil Careccas, and no men to defend it. The
greatest scene of distress and confusion imagina
ble prevails, all order lo.-t, and thousands ol peo
ple crowding on the shore and wharf to embark
with whatever of most value they can take with
them. Yesterday the scene of conlusion coin-
getting them i „
w eek past, and no vessel permitted to sail. At
this moment nothing can be done, every one is
saving their own lives and any thing else they
can. There are several foreigners here, none of
•whom will remain,and they all have more or less
piopertv that will be lost, as it is the opinion of
us all that no property found will be respected,
and they tin not consider even their lives safe.—
To add to the disma', last night a severe shock
of an earthquake was felt. The heart sickens
with the scene of distress in every shape. A ve
ry high sea renders it dangerous for a small boat
ti) pass, and the king’s officers have ail canoes
engaged embarking stores and people.
4 o’clock, P. M.—The distress increases ; all
alarm and confusion ; thousands of men, women,
and children on the wharf and beach, endeavor*
ing to get nil'; the sea immensely high, and ma
ny boats overset and lost in the sui f, and women
atul children immersed in the waves.
Nothing positive is known where Morillo is,
or bow near the patriots are ; b-P the cry is in
all mouths, “ they are coining!” (aratcas is
nearly deserted, as tois place will soon be. No
goods, except some of the most valuable can be
embarked, and they much injured. The earth
quake last night has had a visible effect on the
sea ; it is very high. I trust time will be allow
ed to get off most of the miserable inhabitants,
bv whom the shore is lined—say with thousands
Two Americans, one Englishman and myself,
(who all have property here, and find it impossibl
to -. Mibatk it) have concluded on remaining and
waiting the issue. The greatest danger is ap
prciiended from the blacks, who, so soon as the
town will have been deserted, it is feared, will
commence a general and indiscriminate robbery
and plunder and perhaps worse.
We shall occupy one house, and’ raise the A-
morican flag as some protection.—1 have little
hopes of saving any property.
5 o’clock, P. M.—The embarkation continues
with increased terror and confusion ; 2”0 to 8300
are offered to a boat for one trip with passengers,
and the government have just stove and thrown
-into the sea a quantity of gunpowder that they
were unable to embark. At present there are
four of the fleet in the harbor, and a large num
ber of merchant vessels, happily for the people,
who are crowding their decks.
Half past G o'clock, P. M.—Glorious news for
th? Spaniards—Yn express has just arrived, by
which we have news of a terrible action being
fought, in which Morilio was victorious.—
The news has converted the scene of dismay
to joy, anil a salute is now firing ; all are over
joyed, particulars not yet known : to-morrow we
will have them, and I will advise. Suffice to say,
it is such as to completely restore tranquility,
February 26.—-Refering to my several letters
herewith, 1 have to advise that the embargo pro-
bablv will be rai-ed to-morrow, (which has been
on 16 days.) This accounts fur all my letters
coming liy one opportunity. The sudden and
great alarm we have been under has, in some
measure subsided, and enables me to advise so
far as that we are permitted to know the result ol
the late actions. Gen’! Morillo, with the prin
cipal part of his army was posted in Calabosa,
about 45 league 0 from Caraccas. The patriot
chiefs Bolivar and Pins formed a junction near
St. Fernando, beyond Calabosa, and marched to
attack Morillo; who abandoned Cniabosa, with
a view of falling baik on and pioteeting Carac
cas. In his retreat he was attacked by the patri
ots, and in two dais ai d nights, seven different
actions ensued. Morillo always on the lieten-
sive and falling back. In the last engagement
the Spaniards claim a decisive victory j having
destroyed the greater part of their opponents.—
Since the action Morillo has occupied \illado
Cura, this side of Calabosa : and the patriots are
said to have occupied the latter. After which
no accounts were had from the contending ar
mies for four days, and not ui.til the courier an
nounced, as above stated, the decided victory
obtained by the royalists.
London, Feb. 9.—Yesterday we received Pa
ris papers to'Thursday last inclusive. The Jo ir-
nal de Debates gives the following details respec
ting the late transactions at Algiers, which are
stated to have been received at Paris by sir Sid
ney Smith, who communicated them to the Anti
Pi rate Institution.
“ The captain of the Sardinian polncre, la Belle
Marie, which arrived at the Lazaretto of Port
Mahon, on the 6th v of December last, having left
Algiers the of the same month reports, as well
as the fugitive passengeis on board, that the new
dey, Ali Hadju, having established his power bv
the aid of u considerable body of Moors no lon
ger set any bounds to his fury or his tyrannical
conduct ; that all the European po vers, withou’
distinction, bail been outraged ; that all the con
suls had been menaced and terrified by a nu
merous hoide of negroes, of wh*m the dey*-
guard and court are composed, and who had forc
ed themselves into (lie hou>es of the consuls, the
security of which had ceased to he inviolable.—
The captain reports also, that Ali Hadja had caus
ed to he destro ed the ancient palace of his pt e-
deecss-rs,;. that by had established himself in i.
i negroes to fire upon any of the consuls who
should venture to make any complaint or remon
strance, and being convinced on their arrival at
the palace of the truth of this statement by the
menacing gestures of the negroes by whom they
were immediately surrounded, they lound them
selves compelled to retire, alter having recouise
to common place remarks and insignificant obser
vations, in order to fill the time of this useless
audience.
<• The policy adopted by the present dey, who
is a 'iVrk, is to arm the natives of the country a-
gainst Ids own fellow countrymen, thus making a
new epoch in the history of these countries. Sued)
an example authorises every other to assemble an
army of mercenaries of the same description in
order to dispute with him the sovereignty.
“ This experiment was a short time tried by a
Turk of distinction ; he marched against Ali
Hadja with some troops which be hail collected
at Constantine, but the issue of the first buttle
proved unfavorable to him, and he was made
prisoner. The hospitality which Ali Hadja had
formerly received from this Turk induced him to
spate his life, he gave him 1,000 sequins and ex
iled him. This Turk, who was the chief of-the
insurgents has arrived at Mahon.”
Boston, April 6.—Captain Austin, who arriv
ed yesterday from Bombay, favored us with pa
pers to the 13th December, and manuscript ac
counts of a revolt against the British by the Rajar
of Berar—whose troops, consisting of upward
of 20,000 men, made a treacherous attack on the
British forces at Nagpore on the night of the 28th
.November, but were completely defeated, and
the Rajah sued for peace again. The British
force is stated at only 1500 men—and had 100
men killed and wounded.
The above event was pr ‘ceded by the revolt of
the Puishwa of Poonah—and a battle in which lie
was defeated with the loss of 500 men. His forces
at that, time, consisted of 30,000—that of the Bri
tish 3,000. The war with him continued.
The British obtained a victory over another
enemy [Maharattsj at Keeikec about the fifth of
November.
Hostilities Still existed with the Findarces;
and the different exigcncie ■ caused movements of
troops in various directions.
Captain Austin sailed funn Bombay on the 27th
December, and informs that the inhabitants of the
country between Madras and Bombay were in a
state of insurrection, and committing many mur
ders and other outrages.—The earl of Moira was
marching against them with 90,000 troops. Every
European officer and soldier had left Bombay to
join the army.
it advisable to request the house to give him the'
more grave and sagacious advice, and in that ^
pose to amend the report by urging and authnri
sing him to retaliate out of hand I'or the i mn ,,
meat of Mr. Meade, by reprisal on a Spanish
consul in America.—This proposition was sin)
ported by the mover in a very curious, patriotic
—that is to say, South American patriotic-speech
of some length, in which the Spanish government
was rolled about in the mire, till Godoy himself
would hardly know it again, and some principle,
respecting the necessary mutualities of allegiance
ami protection,—not perfectly new ’tis true,but
not the less worthy of notice for that—were laid
down with great precision.—But all availed‘mt
wli e re" Mai or Ped d ie and one of his officers were —the motion was opposed by a set of reasoning
buried, on tl.eir advance.—The remnant of the casuists, with whom the age of chivalry was p Ms .
n irtv were at Sierra Leone, September 4, and ed, and who deprecated the passing ot such are--
1 ‘ J solution.—IIo[)kinson, Sergeant and Forsyth are
the names of those insurgents against cluvalry»
and they said that congress had not a ri->ht to
gi ant such a power to the president, nor the pre
sident to assume it. because it was contrary to
law to deprive any man, whether citizen or'ft.
reigner of his liberty, unless legally charged nift
i crime. Nay, they went so far as to say that if
government did so arrest any man the law would
relieve him, and a habeas cor pus take him out of
the president’s hands.—They moreover denounc
ed such an exertion of power as cruel, unjust and
nhuirian. and said it was better, it war was their
Interior Africa—A letter from Sierra Le
one mentions'the return to that place <>♦ the But
ish scientific expedition for exploring the interior
of Africa. They were completely unsuccessful,
having advanced only about 15U miles into the
interior, from ltio Nunez. Their progress was
tliere stopped by a chief of the country ; and al
ter unavailing endeavors for the space ot tour
months, to obtain liberty to proceed, they aban
doned the enterprise, and returned. Nearly a I
the animals died. Several officers died—and,
what is remarkable, but one puvute, besides one
drowned, outof about 200. Cupt. Campbell di
ed two davs after their return to Rio .Nniiez,anil
was buried with another officer, hi the same spot
party
proposed making a further attempt
CONGRESS.
Commercially Important.—Extract of a letter
from the American consul at St. Pierres, (Mart.)
to a gentleman in this city, dated 10th March,
1818.—-‘ Since your departure, we have continu
ed to receive supplies of lumber of every Kind. I
need hardly say to you bring no more here, until
you hear of a change in the market. Corn con
tinues a glut—rice, of course keeps down, and
will for some time—Pour begins to be on the rise
—none has arrived from the United States since
you left us, and only two ve.-sels have arrived
from France, and they have but little, not worth
noticing. A small cargo within the reach of dif
ferent purchasers, say four up to eight hundred
barrels 1 believe might be sold at 813 and will
reach 14 per barrel each. Should it rise to that
or higher, it is highly probable the port will con
tinue open. The retailers will rise their prices
beyond the proportion of the rise of cargo prices,
and it is the retail price that will influence the
government to open or shut the p rt on the 22d
April. Could you be here previous to that, l have
no doubt of your obtaining 814 round cash. 1
do net know any other article to recommend send
ing here. Our governor is at pre°ent at Fort
Royal, or I would endeavor to know his inten
tions to close or keep open the port. Report
says he has appointed two brokers for the sale of
all American cargoes not absolutely consigned ;
and if the supercargo or captain chooses to sell
his cargo himself, lie nevertheless must pay a
commission to the broker, which broker, l pre
sume, will sell to whom he pleases. If the re
port is true, it will be making the fortune of two
brokers at the expense of the American commerce,
lor the Island will loose it, or 1 mistake.”
Charleston Courier.
Some months ago, a phenomenon of a singular
ppearance was seen at Hartford bridge, by ma
ny persons, without any difference among them
as to the form of the figures, in the clouds, a man
oil horseback, riding at full speed, pursued bj
an Eagle which soon darted upon his head, when
he lost hold of the reins, fell backw ard, and ea
gle, horse and man were seen no more. The fi
gures were apparently of the natural size.—Lon
don paper.
A pedestrian, named Aaron Wentworth, in
Engl nd, has commenced the unexampled fool
match of going 60 miles a day for ten days. H<
had performed 366 miles in six days. He wa-
nor to travel over picked ground; but in his pro
gress is to touch 16 counties.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
[private cohrksfondenoe.)
Washington City, Tuesday, April 7.
The subject which lias for some time occasion
ed so much painful speculation to some, and such
fund tickling hopes to others—I mean whether the
new public offices were or were not to be erected
near the capital—was decided in a committee of
the whole on the hills for ei ecting additional build
ings for the accommodation of the executive de
partments—for making appropriations for the
public buildings—and for furnishing the capito! &
the president’s house. Inthe discussion on this bill
various amendments were proposed. That for e-
recting the new public offices on capital hill, was
one of them, and was negatived withouta division
Tiie zeal of the property patriots on both sides,
(I mean out of doors) was quickened into more
than ordinary animation on this point. I am glad
that the bouse treated the proposition with such
manifest slight.
Thirty thousand dollars were appropriated for
furnishing the representative chamber and com
mittee rooms, by 74 to 68. Thirty thousand
dollars w ere then assigned lor furnishing the pre
sident’s bouse, but not till the members of the
house had gravely shown theiraccurate knowledge
of upholstery expenditure by some proposing r and
the rest negativing a proposition for 840,789, by
90 votes to 52. These are what an upholsterer
by trade would call very nice calculations, nice
enough to baffle the experienced skill of the soils
of the tacking hammer themselves. How our
country’s representatives come by that know
ledge in mahogany and hanging, collectively
w ich individually, the chance is, not one in t
hundred possess, is a question of curious solution
Thencame the question about the sum to be allow
ed for offices to the president’s house, and this
was tossed about through a variety of sums from
89867 down to 7000, at which it stuck—and
7000 was inserted. I should like to see the cal
culations of the several propounders set down in
black and white—they might be of use to future
state architects. “ Every thing in this life (says
Yorick) is big with mirth, if we had only the sa
gacity to discern it.”
Wednesday, April 8.
A military bill engrossed the greater portion
of yesterday’s deliberations in the house of re
presentatives. The reduction of the staff and the
substitution of a commissariat, instead of our
usual mode of subsisting our armies, were the
leading objects of it. On motion of Mr. Col
ston, the bill was so amended as to reduce the dis
charge of the judge advocate office from two
persons to one. On the subject of a commissa
riat some conversation ensued, much of it of a
very sharp and severe kind, on the general con
duct of contractors. It was said that the far
greater part of the mortality that took place in
our armies in the iute war, was occasioned hy
the frauds of contractors. Instances were men
tioned sufficiently abominable to make the hair of
a man of ordinary feeling stand erect.
If half what was said be true, and I see no
earthly reason to doubt it, not Cartouche, the fa
mous French robber, nor his still more sanguina
ry countrymen, the patriots of the French revo
lution—not Kobespiere, Dan ton, Jcau Bon St.
Andre, or any other of that host of cosmopoli
tan philanthropists, have gone to the earth with
viler sins upon their heads than will some of our
contractors, when it shall please God to make
them, for the first time, feel. General Desha
made a strong opposition to the appointment of
a commissariat. The bill, however, was ordered
to lie read a third time.—Alc.v. Gaz,
secret object, to go at once to -work upon it. Anf
now the mover (Air. Trimble) in reply recoin,
mended the old scripture law of an eye for an eye
and a tooth for a tooth,—and by way of retali,,
tion in that sort, upon Spain for Sir. Meade’,
imprisonment, threw out a hint of taking Halifax
from England as well as Cuba from Spain, aodyl
converting them to the use of tliis°country. Jr I
POLITICAL.
Saturday, April 11.
A journal of congress lor the last week, but
that it would be too prolix, would be almost as
interesting as any thing that could be said of the
business tiiat has been transacted. YY’e must se
perate the kernels however, of the measures that
have passed as well as we can from the shells
and husks and give them as briefly as possible.
A bill which I will call an American naviga
tion law, intrnded to countervail the British col
onial system has passed the senate. You will be
surprised to hear that of the two only dissenting
votes on that occasion ,Mr. Eppcsgave one—the
other was given by Mr. VVilson.
The committee appointed to consider a memo
rial from the people of Philadelphia respecting
the imprisonment in Spain of Mr. Richard W.
Meade, made a report containing their view of
the case, and recommended to the house to pass
t resolution “ expressive ot its determination to
support the president in all proper measures lie
might take to procure the enlargement of Mr.
Meade.” It would he difficult to point out any
mode of proceeding more direct or satisfactory
to the point than this, which took place on Satur
day, the 4th—and wanted as it w as thought, no
thing hut the authority of the house declared in
due form, to do all that the house could do with
out going directly to war, an act which neither
congress nor the executive seemed disposed to
precipitate, but rather to let it rise in due grada-
iion-lrom the course of affairs. But one of those
Manchegan champions of the new world, who
mrish their lances on the plains of Kentucky,
■arfuj perhaps that the president might want in-
jtruetion hoiv to proceed, considerately thought
FROM THE DUBLIN EVENING POST,
The 1‘resident’s Message.—We believe th<
Mr. Monroe's message is the only document
proceeding from the first chief'magistrate of,
state, on the occasion of opening a legislative as-
sembly, ever yet issued, which can be read by
every lover of mankind with feelings of delight.
On former occasions, the i ival nations of France J
and Britain, at the opening of every session, I
boasted of triumphs, either over humanity or
freedom ; talked of conquests—negotiation-
sacrifices—blood—misery and taxes. Even the
messages of Mr. Jefferson ami Mr. Madison, were
the first fraught with complaiuts against the et(•
croachments of the belligerents—and the last,
with menaces, which finally terminated in direct
and sanguinary hostilities. On the general peace
in Europe, France found herself in servile chains
—Belgium was delivered to a master, unconuect-
ed with her political, and hostile to her religions
feelings—Italy was once more thrown down and
trampled upon by whiskered archdukes, and
bloou sucking Monks—Germany, where the vital
spark of liberty still burns, and will blaze out in»"|
to a conflagration, which will consume the per*
jured legitimates at last, was cheated, betrayed
aud laughed at, by those faithless princes, who
owed their throwns to the bravery and devotion
of that people whom they now threaten with in*
carccrution anil carnage, for reminding the ottas-
wise, except by station, contemptible creatines; I
whom, in an evil day, they fixed in their prince-
doms, dominations, powers—England, unhappy
England, up to the ears in glory and in debt,
found herself, at the end of the war, a mistress ol ]
150,000 men, and a debt ir of 750,000,000/. wif
no relaxation of taxes, no symptoms of economy
vvitli a ruined agriculture, and a trade, the de
struction of which drove her artizans to thevety
brink of an insurrection—England, after a war
in which she did so much, and endured such sacri
fices, still felt it necessary to continue her most
oppressive taxes to keep her sinecurists ami slug
gards on full pay ; to demoralize her constitu
tional feelings, by hiring writers to decry the lib
erty uf the press—to disfranchise the nation, by
passing a law by which the liberty, and necessa
rily the life, of every man in the state was put in
to the custody of the home, or any other secreta
ry ; nay, she was forced to render herself an ob
ject of ridicule to the nations, by bringing peo
ple to trial, who, iu spite of treasury, bench and
bar, laughed her law authorities and her execii'
tives to scorn. YY hat a contrast does this message
present to this dark and disgusting picture ! All
Europe under the sway of the legitimates,in tear*
of bitterness, with curses on their lips and re
venge in their hearts, panting for an opportunity
for freedom, but kept down in degradation and
dust, by a million of mercenaries, paid out of
their own sweat and blood, while in America
there are eight hundred thousand freemen in arms
that cost not the state a single six pence ! Is not
this enough -to turn the faces of the canting liypo-
Srites ol Europe,green with rage, envy, aye,and
with terror ? They “ damn with feint praise, as
sert with civil leer,” the message of Mr. Monroe;
but it is easy to see jealousy rankling in their bo
soms, and ill suppressed hatred bursting fro®
their bps. Thank God, there is such a county*
as America! Thank God ! when they prate »■
most excellent constitutions, the envy and ad
miration of the world, wc can point our finger to
the other bank ol the Atlantic, tkexclaim, lift "P
the eyes of the understanding and behold! Lo! the
miracle of which you boast is tliere I Every man
sits under the shade of his own fig tree, and feat*
not the intrusion of a tax man, or the voice of *
master; every man can breathe the air of H«»*
ven, and enjoy the cheering rays of its gloriou*
luminary, without an apprehension that they may
be closed against him by the fiat of the fmaiicietj
every man can enjoy the benefits, the fruits «
his own industry, without being robbed of three
fourths of bis earnings under the plea of provid
ing tor a lot of blood suckers; sinccurists w
standing armies. There every man may worship
God as he pleases, without being under the neces
sity of paying to any establishment a tribute f ur
the toleration. The word toleration is not known
—because there is no intolerance—because that
monster, which has brought more misery upon the
world, than all the fabled hydras of classic lore,
or ancient romance, Church and State,, docs nd
exist in this land uf freedom.