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j 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.