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^ansitory and unsubstantial meteors of'night, un-| ship, wc may confidently expect protection and sphered urtd forever extinguished in the atmos-(devotion to this inalienable treasure. Yet we phere of liberty ; they had seen the solid line of the foe, bristled with bayonets and angry with vengeance, scattered and purged away by the ardour of American courage. Cheerfully der voted to hazard life in every perilous shape, and familiar with the luxury of triumph, they gladly returned at the command of their redressed country, willingly to surrender tne arms which had immortalized them, at the altar which they had so flcbly defended. As equivalent for the restoration, they ask no childish insignia ol knight hood or dukedom to raise them to an unapproach able height of mysterious superiority uuove the brave ranks with whom they had heroically bled, •or the generous people for whose happiness, safe ty and glory they had incurred the sacrifice, des pised the danger and endured the labor. A vote of thanks and honorary swords, much as the ad mirers of royal munificence and ostentatious prodigality ridiculed, the simple testimonial was more acceptable to our warriors and essentially more gl o i‘US, than their splendid mausoleums and priocely monuments. Covered with the brig' ness of deeds that would have glorified Spa- la in her noon of chivalry, and Home in the precious times of her Gracchi, they return to the vine and the figtree, to •* read their history in a nation’s eyes,” and drain the revenues of sen vice from their ownheartsswelled with holy emo tions. Uuf alas ! all of the cherished band did not re turn.— P;ke and Covington had *‘ sunk in the blaze of their la ne.” Their sacred remains mouldered far from the acclamations of crowds and the illuminations of enthusiastic cities. On the field of blood, on the stand of immovable bravery, their undistinguished graves, designa ted the spot where their departed souls had given resistless impetuosity to their troops and aston ished veterans, where in the moment ot hard earned victory they had sped to the kindred spi rits of our first preservers, to tell them that the country which they had so tenderly loved was still great arm deserved to be free. This day, grateful Columbians ! let us repair in imagina tion and love, to the humble beds of the fallen brave. Let us hasten thither by the sumptuous urns and gorgeous tombs of insignificant vanity, to weep with mingled feelings of sorrow and pride. We shall meet the American family there —voluntarily assembled to accord homage for the past, and ratify vows for the future. Hut the best way to illustrate the deserts of our defenders, alive and dead, military and ci vil, is to contemplate the country for which they labo'red and fought. The magnitude of their services is most sublimely and eloquently written in the prodigious extent of our territory and the happy prosperity of our condition. Already too tedious and uninteresting, I will n,<t oppress your politeness by any feeble description. Though a ground on which the dullest might hope to interest, 1 freely own 1 shrink from its occupa tion with astonishment anil despair. Yet we must delight to gaze iit it. A population of more than eight millions, familiar with the enjoyment of freedom, and enlightened in its principles ; doubling every twenty-five yea-s by natural in crease, and ailditi ipally augmented by daily ar rivals from abroad, with unmeasured tracts of productive soil invito g to settlement; where aha'I the bounds of in.t.oonl aggrandizement be fixed ! Not an aggrandizement of ambitious war and incmceivab'e expense, but the natural and magnificent result of our happy situation ! At this moment, citizens of a state, which is an honorable and generous member of a confedera tion, comprising twenty states ; transport your survey to the distance of a century to come.— True, we shall all then have vacated the scene: gathered to our fathers we shall only live in our descendants—nut of the possible reach of tyrants and superior to the amazement, which the pros pect of America now excites. Still, laudable concern for thi>se descendants attracts us to the anticipated view. Impressive sight ! when one hundred years shall have elapsed, agreeably to the datum 1 have just mentioned, upwards of one hundred and twenty eight millions of enter- prizing citizens will possess and animate this mighty land. If the imagination be permitted to go beyond this period in the estimate, until ar rested by the extreme barriers of the country, which it is thus peopling, «e are lost and con fused. Fifty or sixty sovereign states, limited and compact enough in their respective bounda ries to proviile and secui e every blessing of re presentative government, with promptitude and intelligence ; and associated under a wise and energetic federal head, for general defence, and the adjustment of disputes between the great intercommunity ; will present to the world the true sublime in human greatness and wisdom — Splendid destiny of our incomparable constitu tion, whose simplicity, truth and comprehension calculate it for undefined operation on the Ame rican stage. Since the day it first rose, our po litical sun, from the venerable convention, we have been gladdened with its light and miracu lously prospered by its influence. If yonder lu- mi.,ary of the skv, its diffusive warmth has stim ulated reptiles into being, who would have trea sonably ruined us, like it also, it enabled us to detect and destroy them. Beaming impartially on the rich and the poor, on the dome and the cabin, bn the cultivated east, and (lie woods ol the west, it is endeared to us all by the highest benefits and sacred for its holy origin. We wish to See no mysterious easement thrown around it to foi bill familiar approach and enlightened scru tiny. Compounded of truth, reason and justice, by wisdom and virtue, in all cardinal particulars, it challenges examination and defies disparage ment. Hut pardon this officious praise. In the peaceful ami happy homes, you left this morning, and the conscious powers which you possess and frequently exercise, and in the heart felt dignity of independence, vou realize its excellence and by them ail, swear to defend the immaculate char ter. VVe see how stupendous it is, in the wide prosperity of the union, and feel how benign, in our own oosoin9. From the virtuous and able men who compose our councils, shine in the ju diciary and adorn the private walks of citizcn- FOREIGN. use cannot reach, or to emorce w mu mi ig a Portll( . uese monk f ronl Macoa. of the order of i ton and indigo. Wo have already igly and universally felt as the throbs-fit g( . p r ancis. Pekin has also an Iuquisi'ion which is chiefs of the Indian nations, we hav ■t. Having confusedly grouped togetii-j un( j er tke ,ij rec tj on of some Portugese inquisitors j the large imlian pipe -if peace ; we hai events, the heroes, the worthies ami f,. om Q oa The education of all classes is vest- cally made slight feasts ; they come < must never forget that the humblest among us is deeply concerned in its preservation, and awfully obliged to its support. “ What constitutes a state ? Not h.gh raised battlement or labor’d mound, Thick wall, or moated gate; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crown’d ; Not bays and hroad-arm’d ports, Where laughing at the storm proud navies ride; Not sturM and spangled courts Where low-brow'd base ness wafts perfume to pride— No—men! lugh minded men, With powers as far above dull brute endued In forest,brake, or den, As beasts e'xcel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men who their duties know, Bui know their rights, and knowing dare maintain.' Accept, fellow-citizens, my liveliest gratitude for your complimentary testimonies of satislac- tion to some things which l have said, and your polite sufferance of all. The day, the topics connected with it, and the noble excitability of your patriotic minds,of themselves kindled your enthusiasm and gave apparent energy to the teeb lest remembrancer that ever attempted toelogise what praise cannot reach, or to enforce what is as stroll^ the heart er the the consequences, which make this day more memorable, cherished and jubilant than the rest of the three hundred and sixty five, let us.repair to the recreations and festivities which, with sin gular propriety attend and enliven the national birth day. We know that our joy exists in sub lime and virtuous emotions, having its source in the hallowed days of the revolution, and ending in high consecration of ourselves and ours to the preservation of what we now celebrate. We know, that we too are component and integral parts of the astonishing political edifice which at this moment resounds throughout the states with anniversary celebrations, and blush not at the plainness and simplicity of our commemoration. Like the government under which we rejoice and prosper, we have and wish no pompous circum stance, of commonplace parade to arrest the gaze. The more nakedly we contemplate the history and principles we are met to honor, the more proud ly our hearts exult. The decripitude and lep rosy of monarchies and despotisms need splen did coverings and artificial ornaments. On their national festivals, they truly need the deep end transporting swell of music—the stunning thun der of artillery, lestt'/.e groans and imprecations of the oppressed should disturb their fictitious joy and belie the adulatory praise. The misera ble multitude who mindlessly rend the air with the louil acclamations, if enlightened in its cause would indignantly utisliout it, and curse the pa geantry which had long concealed,their enemies and beguiled their sufferings. Though not sur- iminded by magnificent walls, nor covere I with bold and (retted arches; though sovereign mu sic breath'3 not to inflame, to melt, to transport us; though the deafening salute will not awaken the American witniu us, we are not the less wor thy celebrators of this occasion. The erect sta tures of conscious and fearless freemen, are in finitely more impressive and attractive than ex quisite Corinthian columns, and the strong vibra tions of their hearts at the Recital of ancestral glory more potent than the highest efToi ts of har mony. And now as we leave our seats, let us etl'use our joint and ardent thanks to heaven for the freedom in which \, •' o-day meet and sepa rate, & for the glorious prospect of its perpetuity. Conversion to cli rist ianity of the emperor oj China. Extract of a letter from’ Lisbon, dated 20th March last.—•“ By a vessel just arrived in our harbor from Rio Janerio, we have received the very, extraordinary news (and quite official) that the Emperor of China, and all the great Mandarines of his court, have embraced "Chris tianity : which religion is henceforth to he consi dered as the established one in China, to the to tal exclusion of all others! The vessel has on hoard two Portuguese missionaries, one a Jesuit and the other a Monk of the Third Order ol St. Francis, who are bearers of rich presents, and also a letter written by Lis Chinese majesty to the Pope, acknowledging his supremacy : No thing could exceed the rejoicings which took place at Rio Janeiro on this occasion.— The city was illuminated three night's in succession, and their most faithful majesties, with every branch of the royal family, paid their respects to Mon signore, the Archbishop of Dimerrio, Nuncio Apostolic to the Brazillian court. The city ol Pekin is erected into a Patriarchate ;the Patriarch DOMESTIC. French Colony near J/exico.—Extr. letter from a French settler, which w.«T " M I nicate'd for the L’Ueill* American’. ?Vft ri ™r Trhii! are established at the mouth of the ty, on the Orcaquinsas blutf, twenty fe.i ( the level of the river at high watei ; ■is a fine wood covered with trees • a tills is the Grand Prairie, or Prairie ofTof*" tas, which is, at least, fifteen miles from north!’ south, and which extends eastward to a * that communicates with Lake Savinbine-tK land is of the first quality, easily cultivated!I we have around us an immense tract, w |,j t (I promises the richest productions to those w to labor a little. The game course the country in flocks; there is abundance of cows, of bti" and wild horses may be got with ease. The w , | ters are full of fish ; and our inhabitants have surveyed east of the river, say the cum. I try is still superior ; it is interspersed with most beautiful lakes, watering the most magnificent hills, where there are also many animats narfi. cularly wild goats—all this land is in sugar,c«(! Literary Intelligence. have already seen fife smoked have recipro- , .. r . ..- • ® Ver » lli ed*in the hands of the Jesuits, as well as of the! with provisions; ivc are abundantly supplit, high offices of state.—T he confessor of the em- with fresh meat, and have all sufficient salt ajfi peror is a Portuguese Jesuit, and is declared bv I smoked. Our colony is established in a s>ia. law the next person in the empire to the sove- cious fertile country, abundant in resources, j( reign; and an unlimited power is in his hands, i the mouth ot a rive'- which e'» tUs intaa fai These crafty men have adopted the Chinese cos-j bay ; where the settlement of ill people might fume, and are more spendidl v clothed than any prospei as quickly as in any country in feg received of the mandarins.—The Jesuits have the privilege to wear their nails an inch longer ♦ban any of the nobility, the princes of the blood excepted; and the mandarin who dares to have his slipper within two inches as long as the slip pers of the priests is to be punished with death. The missionaries brought from the court of Bra zils some magnificent pieces of China, on which is depicted the audience of lord Amherst witli his Chinese majesty ; and those facetious orien talists have had the audacity to caricature that splendid embassy, which would have done honor to the first and most brilliant court in Europe. anv world. We have no occasion to form travagant eote-prise. nor t,. commit gainst those who o.ive ; we make no other*m of our arms tl in to repulse any aggression; but we an- resolved to defend the fields we hart I cultivated. Victims of event none can deny m the rghtof our existence, the reward of cur U-1 bur, our industry, arid attention to social on)tr, All is here that nature can desire in a land o I bounding with every production that, can be wife, cd : we open an a ay him to those men who M | themselves in the same situation with us. success crown our efforts we shall have render-1 cu an importviit service to our unhappy country* men ; if, on the contrary, we should not succeed | we shall at least have the satisfaction of attempt- Napoleon.—It is reported, there has been a fra cas at St. Helena. Mr. Balcotnb and his family, with whom Bonaparte was so i.itirnate on his first ing- We have no fear of fatigue or privatiiM arrival, has reached England, and it is rumored I in the beginning ; our aim is laudable, our into he was not allowed much time to pack up. It tionspure and honorable, and we devoutly has been stated in letters from St. Helena that Bonaparte has lately received, by some unknown means, 40,000 franca in gold, and a large quanti fy of diamonds. Money docs not seem to be wanting to him or any of his adherents. Las Casas, it is asserted, very recently drew bills for 5000/. by the way of Frankfort on a banker in London, and they were duly honored. Itis even s.iitl that a draft for 10,000/. signed Napoleon, was lately presented to and paul by a London house.—London paper. lieppo.—A Venetian story—A very lively, satirical poem, has been attributed to a Mr. Fn hut the editors of the Philadelphia Union, say, they find by a list of books printed for John Murray,one of the most respectable booksellers in London, that this work is definitively ascribed to Lord (Byron, and several English Reviewers concur in the opinion. Mr. Murray is tne only- publisher of Lord Byron's works in Loudon, a circumstance which adds weight to his assertion as to the authorship of the present work. Rob Roy, TJ'averly, fej’c.—Walter Scott it ap pears is the author •! these excelli-qj novels The Loudon Morning-Chronicle of 7*Iay IS states, that Mr. Scott has sold the copy right of four more volumes of Tales of my Landlord, with the product of w hich he purchased an es tate adjoining his own. The price of the book exactly pays for the land. Dr. John Williams, a gentleman well qualified for tbe undertaking, proposes to publish “ Notes on Kentucky—Historical, Philosophical, Politi cal ami Moral ;” to be embellished with a map of the state, and sundry plates and engravings. Mr. John Lewis Thomson, author of the His torical sketches of the late war between the U- nitcii States and Great Britain, is engaged in writing a History of the late enemy’s movements in the waters of the Chesapeake, and their inva sion at North Point, and the bombardment of Fort MTlenry. Robert Walsh, jun. and Gulian C. Verplank, Esqrs. have engaged themselves, it is said, in con nexion with Judge Cooperand otlie* gentlemen, to contribute in future to the Analectic Magazine. Carnot is engaged in writing an important work, in which he details his oyvn history during the French revolution. Proposals for the publication of a new yvork are issued, entitled *• Observations, Philosophic al and Medical upon the Southern Climate gen erally of the United States, and on the diseases incident to our Southern Seaports—By William Bakar, M. D. Surgeon of the United States army.” Paul Allen, Esq. formerly editor of the Port Folio, and late editor of the Baltimore Telegraph has issued proposals for publishing in Baltimore, a weekly neyvspaper, to be eutitleil “ Journal of the Times.” \ Royal Incomes.—From papers laid before par Tiament, it appears that the duke of Clarence re ceives 21,782/. 9s. 8d. per annum. The duke of Kent, 2,5,205/. 4s. ?.d. The duke of Cumberland. 19,008/. 13s. lOd. The duke of. Sussex, 18,000/ The duke of Cambridge, 18,882/. 15s. 7d. It al so appears, that these royal dukes have each ha out of the admiralty droits, in the year 1805-6, the sum of 20,000/.—that, in 1813, a loan of a similar sum was advanced to the duke of Clar ence, to he repaid bv quarterly instalments of 500/. of which six instalments have been repaid —and that a loan of 6000/, yvas advanced to the duke ot Kent, in 1806, of which one sixth has been repaid. London, -Way 12.—A Floating Chapel for mer chant seamen, was opened (or rather moored) in Bristol harbor on Sunday last. A flag, inscribed with the word “ uric,” yvas displayed, to denote the purpose to which the vessel yvas henceforth to be devoted ; and divine service was perform ed on board in the course of the day, before a numerous assemblage of people. France.—The prince of Cotide lately died at Paris, in the 82nd year of his age. He was the grandfather of due MEnheign. The French court goes in mourning for the prince of Conde— six days in black and five days in white. Letters from Geneva state that a serious and al arming difference had taken place among the Cal- vanists ofSwitzerlaml—The controversy was em bittered by the most violent passions—and such was the acrimony of feeling with which it was carried on. that fears were entertained of the people being hurried into civil yvar. The daring intrepidity of the females of Hindustan is a matter of curious speculation and surprise, yvhen we recollect the privacy and seclusion in yvhich they are educated—The fol- owing, among a number of other instances, is recorded by Col. Wilks, in a late yvork, entitled. Sketches of the South of India—It carries in its features traits of heroism, which have been too often supposed to belong to the sterner sex alone —The son of a widow of Ilindostan had been cruelly murdered by an agent of the unfeeling tyrant Tippoo— In the year 1818 she paid Colo nel Wilks a visit, and yvith other adventures re lated the manner in yvhich she had avenged the murder of her son—Tippoo’s Aumil, said she, who polluted the mansion of my lost husband and sten, yvanted iron, and determined to supply himself from the liut, a temple of carved wood fixed on wheels, drayvn in procession on pub lic occasions, ami requiring many thousand per sons to effect its movement—it was too much trouble to take it to pieces, and the wretch burn ed it in the square of the great temple for the sake of the iron—On hearing of this abomina tion, I secretly collected my men—I entered the town by night—I seized hnn and tied him to a staki*, and, (bursting into tears and an agony of exultation) 1 burned the monster on the spot where he had wantonly insulted and consumed it this event we obtain the wishes and tionof honest men, of good faith and j lulgmeat.’’ Grand Canal.—The New-York “ Columbian’ 1 gives us a flattering account of the progress tf I flip grand Canal, which is to unit - the waters if | Lake Erie with those of the Hudson; and a- presses sanguine hopes that “ the next sumnur I will enable boats, to ply thinugli the distinct I of nearly one hundred miles, from Settees river | to Utica.” The soil is represented as gctuc-l ally very favorable; and contracts are mile I much loyver than the estimate. We hope Ike most brilliant prospects in relation to tins grat work enay be realised ; and, indeed,few yvlm re flect on the resources of that state, ami the en terprise of its people, can entertain n doubt tbit this canal will be some day completed;! (with comparatively a little labor in opening 1 passage from Lake Erie into the Miami of tbe Lakes, or from Lake Michigan into the Illiwi, or both,) connect the waters of the Hiiilsiin with those of the Mississippi, and bring Non York and Neyv Orleans much nearer tigether. Out doubts with respect to the feasihilit of “(be Grand Canal ” have been in a great measure re moved by repeated conversations yvith Mr/El- licott, an intelligent, independent and candid member of Congress from tne vye.-> t*.i part if ] the state of New York ; and no one can cast hi* eye over the map, and not be convinced that the other links in the chain, which we have mention* cd above, will require but little labor or expend Indeed iri times of freshes or floods, it is well known that loaded boats can, and do now pul out of Lake Michigan into the Illinois river. Sports of the fLest.—A gentleman in West chester, Pa. has recently received a letterfoffl his friend in East Tennessee', in whom lie plies' entire confidence, which states—“ Tint bis neighbors had a squirrel hunt some time tbit Spring, and shot to the number of 2000 squjrrell in one day, and thought they had done wonden. But theirbonsting wa- stopped by an account cf a built the peoplehad in West Ten nesse, aboutthe same sime. There was a company took on * bet of g.50l) with another Company, who should get the most scalps. They turned out, and id one day the whole of them had about 33,000 squirrels!” Si. Louis, .1Lay 15.—By letters from fort O', age and Prairie on Chein,*we are informed th* Indians are well disposed tovVards the whites.— Our informants inform us that the present tran quility will continue, if the government does not interfere in their concerns. They are at «* r with other Indian tribes and evgr will be at with one another, unless their thirst for J>lood to not turned against the whites by a generpl p e,c * among themselves ; which has been too often ef fected by a mistaken philanthropy existing »• Washington ! ! !—Niles. The Ontario, captain Biddle, who carried o«t our commissioners to South America, has to« of great service in protecting the persons an* preserving the property of the merchant vessel' lying at Valparaiso, who but for tiiis vessel would have been at the mercy of the Spanish vessels « war. Of this service the captains of vessels, have made a public acknowledgment to captain Biddle. ^ Five 74's, says Mr. Niles, are now building and two more are ordered to be laid down. A verj few years more will put us in possession of a n3 ' al force more efficient perhaps, than that ol *®f the sacreil emblems of my religion !—C. Times, povfer m the vvbfld except Great Britain.