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FOREIGN.
Stockholm, May 4.—Extract of a letter from
a Baltimorean now inSwcden.—“ We are now
on tip-toe for the coronation, which will take
place in seven clays. The ceremony will be ve
ry imposing ami very magnificent. Among oth
er customs peculiar to this kingdom, l must men
tion one: The precision from the Chateau to the
Cathedral-is on horseback—the horse the king
rides is never afterwards mounted on any occa
sion whatever. We went to-day to see him;
he lias been brought down from one of the royal
studs, and is one of the'most beautiful animal
that fancy can paint—perfectly white, with a
tail touching the ground, an*a mane hanging 12
inches below bis neck, which looks like a rich
bed of silver, so purely white and so perfectly
neat and polished are they. This favored ani
mal will pass the rest of Ids life pampered with
every care, and only exercised for his health.—
The horse which the late king rode at Ida corona
lion is now living, and is SO years old. lie is at
one of the royal Haras, from which this beunti
fnl creature was brought. The third day after
the coronation the king receives the homage ol
the nation iu the open air. Immense scaffoldings
ore erected in front of the palace, & it will be a vr-
rv grand spectacle. How simple mv dear friend,
nod how much more w ise are our plaiu usages at
home ! How much more happy, free ar.d inde
pendent are our people, any observing man must
soon perceive by visiting, with a comparative eye,
any, even the best of the states of Europe.
FROM SOOTH-AMERICA.
Norfolk, July 10.—The United States frigate
Congress,commodore Sinclair,anchored in Hamp
ton, roades on Wednesday afternoon, from Bue
nos Ayres. Messrs. Graham and Rodney, two
A short time previous to the arrival of the'im-1
portunt news of San Martin’s victory, one of tin.
commissioners, the lion. The.udnric Bland, set oh
for Chili, whether on business or amusement vve
do not know, as it is not stated in the president’s
message, which seems to contemplate, that the
commissioners should only pass along the south
ern coast; and it being expected that they would
all return together. From the circumstance of
Judge I’rovosi having already visited Chili as a
commissioner, it is probable that Judge Bland
visits that interesting and delightful country
merely as a traveller; we are at a loss to conjec
ture what else can be the object of his remaining
in South America.
The accounts from the Spanish Maine are
highly favorable to the Patriot cause. It was
reported that Morillo had died in Conseque- > of
a wound received at the battle of Calaboso.
The desertions in this quarter -among the Pat
riots have ceased. Margaritta is completely for
tified and could repel any attempt that the Span
iards could make on it.
General Arisniemli second in command of
the troops of the Seven United Provinces, has
fixed his head quarters at Margaritta, from
whence lie directs the movements of the differ
ent Patriot armies of Uumana, Barcelona, Car-
accas, tkc.—Four complete British regiments
have reached the army of Bolivar in Guyana,
and have been incorporated w ith it. A formida
ble army is in the vicinity of Santa Fe de Bogo
ta which it is expected will soon fall. Bry-
on’s fleet lias been lately augmented by a frigate,
and there is no doubt of a loan of four hundred
thousand pounds having boon negotiated by the
United Governments of the Spanish Maine, w ith
the merchants of London.
General Artegas who has taken possession of
the country back of Montevideo and Maldona-
DOM EST1C.
were compelled to relinquish their me, „ ,
discharge the man without further ceremi.ii.
. , - . . . , do, is represented as a sincere friend to the Pat-
ot the commissioners Vent out to the new ropub-, riot calJse> nlul „, lul(J | )ave , )ee „ a 7A , a |„ us C i
lie by oUr government, last fall, iin the Congress! operator ; but being ill treated by the Bueno
have returned in her, and with the commodore,
Mr. Breckenridgc, secretary to the mission, and j
Mr. Breese, purser of the Congress, cameupto j
town this evening. Mr. Bland, another of the : n Ut . tl0g Avreans and Portuguese he lias as much
commissioners, who went out in the Congress, l „ , )e can t0 . the latter wishing to make
Avrean government, lie withdrew his Triends,
and look possession of that part of the country
north of the River La Plata.—Between the
remains at Buenos Ayres, in the quality of a pub
lic representative from the government of the
United States.
The Congress touched at St. Salvadnre on her! C ossfulT-—Beacon,
passage home, for wood anti water, and remain-,
ed there 8 days. Nothing worthy of remark j
transpired during her stay —She also touched at
the River the boundary. Artegas had had an en-
agement with a party of Buenos Avrean troops
under Caron Oldendurg, in which he was suc-
Capitulation of Pensacola.— The following
are among the most important articles of capit
ulation of Fort St. Charles, Barancas in Pensa
cola, to the army under General Jackson.—The
giriison to march oirt with the honors of war,
their arms to be stacked at the foot of the gla
cis, where they were to remain until the troop:
were embarked for Havana, when they will be
returned. The officers and troops to carry with
them their personal effects. All titles legally
derived from the crown of Spain, prior to this
date, to be guaranteed and respected. The gar
rison to be transported to Havana on account of
the United States, and Spanish rations to be al
lowed where they do not exceed those of
the United States. A competent number of
essels to be furnished for embarking the person
al effects, papers, tkc. of the Governor, and
those in the civil anil military offices to be deliv
ered up without inspection.—The sick ami
wounded to be maintained by the United States.
The garrison of Pensacola to enjoy the same
privileges as the garrison of Barancas. The
provisions actually found in the two places to be
appropriated for the Spanish troops. Individ
unis disposed to remain in Florida to be respect
ed and protected. The officers and troops to be
transported to Pensacola, where they shall re
main until embarked for Havana. The Ala
bama chief now in the fort, named Opayhola
shall be included in this capitulation, the govern
or engaging that lie shall never return to Flor
ida. A free toleration to all religions granted —
Any Spanish vessels arriving to be freely admit
ted. Art. 19. The capitulation is made under
the confidence that the general of the American
troops will comply with bis offer of returning
integrally this province in the state in which he
received it, as stated in his official letter. Ap
proved—and the restoration made under the
conditions expressed in General Jackson’s com
munication to the Governor of Pensacola, da
ted 23d May, 1818.
ICidwiping.—A person named William Nel
son, from Easton, Maryland, some time last
year went into Delaware, where he seized a free
woman of color, carried her oft’, ami sold her to
a Georgia slave dealer, from whom she made
her escape and returned home. On her testimo-
These, which are not solitary cases JI ■
en to the public to shew the great lengths
those who are engaged in this abominable
will venture to go in the prosecution oft!,. 6
principled designs.
Murder and burning a whole family.—Tues
day se’night the Dundalk Assizes commenced ba
the Island of Margaritta, where she remainedi| lol - e j ut | ge Etcher, uiom. Hugh M’Cnlw, John
two days. 1 he Island was still m possession of Kipl . ftan utt(l j ames Campbell, were put on their
the patriots, who had rendered ,t almost nnpreg-1 tri)l |. f or getting lire to the house ofEdwai
... .. ■ , — — * ..... v.. imc ..v. u =c ... ward Liucli,
liable. General Ansmcmli, second in command of Wildg.mse Lodge, county of Louth, in Octo-
of the patriot forces, had his head quarters at ber , | 8 16, and burning him ami his family, enn-
Margantta. Anxious to hear some further par- sistitlg altogether of eight individuals. Barnard
tire ars of the defeat or rather total dispersion , MU rov , an - a . )prover t | ie f uct „f the at .
0 the patriots as reported m a letter received at j trocioGs aot . The party colls i st io S of several,
1 hilndelphia Irom St. I homas. ol June .11 tn—! set fire to the houses. The witness was station
and knowing that the Congress must bring the I 8l | Bt the front with unthreshed straw to increase
latest advices Irom the Mam, we made particular | p,.
enquiries of several of die gentlemen from the
Congress upon the subject, who informed that
so far from the indepen lents having experienced
any recent reverses, the affairs of the patriots
were never in a more flourishing condition. They
had lately been reinforced by a fine brigade of
artillery, composed entirely of British troops,
which rendezvoused at St. Thomas in New
Guayna, in March last; and such was the con
fidence of all classes both of the citizens ami mi
litary in the emancipation of Venezuela, that
they considered the event to be as certain as ifit
had already been achieved. It will be recollect
ed that the letter above referred to, slates that
about a week prior to the 11th of June “ the in
dependent general Bermudas attacked Cumann
with all the force lie could get together and was
totally defeated.” Now to show how little re
liance ought to be placed in this and similar re
ports tending to damp the interest which is felt in
the enuse of the patriots, we are uneqilivocallv
assured that so late as the 22d of June, Uumana
had not been attacked by the patriots ; oil the
contrary it was* hourly expected to surrender
without resistance, as the patriots bad for some
time been closely besieging it, anil bail drawn
their lines to within pistol shot of the town.—
Brown and Aury had united their fleets at Mar
garitta, and were waiting the orders of the com
mander in chief, general Bolivar,
We al -o learn that the morning the Congress
was getting under way from Margaritta, a de
spatch vessel arrived there from the Main, bring
ing posiliv" intelligence of the death of the Span
ish general Murillo, occasioned by a lance wound
he received in the body about 7 or 8 weeks before
In addition to what appeared on Saturday
July 11, as the result of our enquiries upon the
arrival of the frigate Congress, we have beer,
politely favored w ith several memoranda made
on the spot, and have conversed with intelligent
gentlemen who came in the Congress. Frain
these sources we have derived the folio ' ing par
ticulars of the state of the patriot cause, and
such events of an interesting character, as took
place during the visit of the commissioners.
The Ontario, capt. Biddle, with Judge Provost
on hoard, was still at Valparaiso from the Iasi
accounts, but on the point of sailing, their stav
having been longer than expected. The munlv
and liberal deportment of these gentlemen, du
ring the gloomy and distressful period preceding
the splendid victory of Maipu. has elicited (he
warm approbation of the merchants in Chili, as
well natives as foreigners.
The Portuguese still hold Monte-Video, but
cannot venture out of it to forage, except in
strong bodies. Their army lias e»en been kept
pent up within its fortifications, by so small a
three as two hundred men. Artigasai^ the pa
triots of the Banda Oriental, wisely profiting by
experience, have substituted for pitched battles,
and regular military operations, that partisan
so formidable) unavailing, places upon a footing
of equality raw troops and regulars. The Por
tuguese in fact, hold no more of a country, the*
have so unjustly invaded, than what they actu
ally occupy with an armed force.
and prevent the family from getting out.
The door was first broken open, and the straw
was tin ust into the entry, lie heard the cries of
women and children in the house, but they did
not last long, as the destruction of the whole was
soon accomplished. The witness identified the
prisoners at the bar. Four other approvers coti-
iirmed his testimony. The prisoner Kiernan ac
kiiowledged being at the firing. The defence of
the others was as usual, an alibi. The jury with
out hesitation found the three prisoners guilty,
and they were sentenced, after a most impressive
address from the judge to be executed
■Pomp of li'ar in India.—Extract of a letter
i-eirun.
Against such persons, with whom detection
and defeat have appeared rather to operate as '
be'warncd’ rC ' te '' aa:<J uulra S«»U" public sl j
Wc ha™ thought it our duty to give t!iei r
names, that those who may have the opportunit
or affording protection in future instances
the more readily perceive the iimninetce of til
danger when it approaches—Philadelphia Vnin
Crops.—During the progress of the Ian sprin.
and summer, we were alarmed bv reports of 'J
ery species of agricultural distress. The fly had
blasted the wheat, the worm had ravaged the
corn, and the seasons were un; i ouitious for sej
time and for harvest. Nevertheless the seed
sprung, the product was gathered, ami j, 3ve
not heard that famine has distressed any portion
of our country, as was seriously predicted, ani j
not without reason. If last year promised toW
the year of famine, the present no less promises
to be a year of plenty. Such crops of whim
and rye, as load the lands of Virginia and Mary,
land, travellers assure us, have seldom
been seen ; the corn, too, is generally thriving•
ami both corn and wheat as far as our inlhrinj!
lion extends, have been exempt from worm y
fly. The rye crop is said to be inferior to tin
wheat, but not inferior to an average crop. Tht
cotton planters of die south, and the tobacc*
planters of the adjoining states, it is feared,art
not so fortunate as the farmers ; but it is hoped
that in the end they will have no reason to com'
plain. The reward of their labor was so abut,
dant at the last season, that it would bi> ungtatt-
fill to repine because at the present it is rather
less. If the general product be less than usual,
the price will be higher in proportion; so tint
little will be lost.—National Intelligencer.
Locusts.—It isstated that swmtr.s of Leant!
are now visiti tig the town of Iladley, and tl>
te/uli'ig their ravages along the east bank of
Connecticut River, twenty or thirty miles south
of that town. “ Many of the forest trees in
already apparently dead ; and the progress of
the grand jury of New -Castle county, found j the Locusts is as distinctly marked as the ».
II indictment atrainst linn tor kulniinmiiir. .msoo 'in.* r :i* i • „
a bill of indictment against him for kidnapping
and application being made to the governor of j with a sting of nearly'the third" of aa'inchii
Maryland for Ins arrest, he was prompt! v deli- length, and of the stift’ness and point of a »«
ve.ed up, as a fugitive from justice. He was ] t a , pened. They attach themselves to the m
lately brought to trial, found aunty of the c um ler si d e „f the small limbs, and commence lie
lor which lie stood mulcted, and senteved agree- process 0 f .tinging. Their progress is to the
ably to the laws of that state, to be pun;icly extremity of the limb, which is as distinctly
whipped and cropped, to stand m tne pilloi v, , m , ;
and to have his ears nailed to f! c ; illory. Winch - f* u
punishment lias been inflicted m on him, and th j each puncture as to crack the bark'in a replr
only cause of re-ret ,s that such an abandoned eoiitim.. d, and unless impeded by som« ab&w
character, should so spced'V' be turned loose up- tion in 1 ■ -- ----- ■ -
on society, without suffering the restraints of three in
§>Jgress of a fire. The female locusts are Muff
nearly a right line. There aie aboil
-ions to an inch, each penetrating li
imprisonment and hard labor, which would fur tlltf hc „ rt <ff the limb, wWd,l filled with H
several years have been an effectual means of
preventing Inin from perpetrating those cru 1 I
acts lor which he has been notorious even in this
citv.
It was this same Win. Nelson, with a person
named Joseph Dawson, also from Easton, Aid.
who came to this city amt obtained a warrant,
dated June ISIT, from John Thompson, esq. of
Southwark, against a certain negro woman living
in the Northern Liberties, and her two sons, one.
about 22 years old, the other a lad of 16. The
warrant was put into the hands of G. F. Alberti,
r ... .. , , who together with Nelson and Dawson, wentin-
from a Britis'i officer, written on the Jumna, Oct., t „ the neighborhood where James Smith, the hus-
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2r, 1817 The whole of the army now in lb
field consists of 10 divisions, each of about 10,000
men. We are advancing from the tinee Presi
dencies towards the same point with the finest
army ever perhaps heard of in India. The Go
vernor-General is with our divisiou, which is a-
bout 13,000 strong, with sixty pieces of cannon.
The camp followers of this division alone a-
mouut to (37,000. For the carriage of the bag
gage of our regiment, we have 40 cleph nts a*d
400 camels ; every elephant has two keepers, and
every two camels one. Of us there are 37 offi
cers present, among whom there are 810 ser
vants; every horse in the regiment has two at
tendants, one us a groom the other to provide
gras.,; these al me amount to 14,000, besides 120
lor tile mess, ami 900 for the Bazaar to supply
the provisions; iu alt, for our regiment alune,
about 3,SOU followers besides their wives, chil
dren, &c. The Matquisof Hastings travels in
a most princely style ; he has 150 elephants, and
400 earn. Is, besides . tate elephants splendidly
accoutrmi having supero solid silver howders or
castie-, on their barks. There are now actually
jti Rajahs and independent chieftains of various
ranks on their wav to pay their respects to the
marquis Some of them indeed are already in
camp. The governor-general, in fact, is now as
great a man us ever the great mogul was.”
The Buenos Avrean Gazette says, “ a slight
advantage obtained by the Royalists in Mexico,
has given occasion to the Spanish Minister in Pa
ris to say, tliatMm whole of America would qui
etly submit to the Spanish yoke, in all, the month
of November, 1818.”
Telegraphs.—Intelligence can be received from
Calais at Paris, between which there are 27 tele
graphs, in three minutes—from Lille* 22 tele
graphs, two minutes—from Strasburg, 45 tele
graphs, six and a half minutes—from Lyons, 30
telegraphs, nine minutes—and from Brest 80
telegraphs, eight minutes.
Captain Smith of the ship Janus, from Rotter
dam, arrived at New-York on the 4th inst. bro’t
out despatches for government from Mr. Eu-tis,
our minister at the Hague—Mr. Eustis left llol-
worins, or eggs, of the colour and appearsne*
of very small kernels of rice, but distinctly »
blc to the naked eye.”
The Hessian FI v, it appears by the Albany|P
pars, is making great havoc in the wheat fir libit
tlie neighborhood of that city. In some fielihit
Bethlehem and Guitderland, it is suppose j till
farmer will scarcely reap a qualit y equal to (lit
read he had sown. Barley is ai.-u injured It
the fly. Grass promises an abundant crop, anl
corn looks remarkably we'l.
Fourth of July.—Toe late national Jubiltt
warfare, which rendering discipline (otherwise land on the 12th of May, for Loudon, on his
return to the U. States.
.Emigration,—The present rate of emigration
from Europe to the United States, is about the
•nival of two hundred persons per day.
| appears to have been observed in all parts of tin
j United States, from which wc have yet heard,
exercises, discharges of artillery
band ol the woman they were in pursuit ol, lived.
Alter prowling about until their intended victims!
were discovered to tie all at home, Nelson went! u itli milit- r
into their house under some pretence, and seiz-i atld civic |Vast and, though it excite. - .-Idi
e the woman ) the others lushed in, and each ini0iitie s.” t | ie declarationTf i.,de,•eiulei.ct««
wife »<> treated in hie own house, boldly exerted | toaJts'tliat 'we have seen.' the ’ "friots ''of Sou*
nnusell to ettect her rescue, until Nelson drew a • • ’
. . I , ' . | America are generously remembered, anil cneer-
pistol which he presented, and swore he wuu i i„,i „„ .. „ ,i j
i,i i,_i i r ed to persevere iii opposing the tyrant loul «
blow out his brains d be made any further re- „i,| a . i„„ LI . a ,i, f
la .1 a i.n.. an.„.... A...I;.. ..L. bpain. So long as grass grows am)
Iv remembered, anJ clieti-
istance. In tlie mean while, Alberti finding the
young man struggle violently for his liberty,
drew from Ins side pocket a short bludgeon or
loaded mace, with which at one blow lie laid the
poor fellow prostrate, and while the blood ran in
streams upon the pavement, effectually secured
him with cords.
Fellow-citizens 1 These outrages were com
mitted upon a Imnily of free people in Fhiladel-
pliia and on tlie Sabbath day ! as can be testified
by respectable persons who witnessed the scene,
and saw the mother and two children dragged
through tlie streets, to appear before a magistrate
remote from their place of abode, where it was
uucei tain that any person would know them or
appear on their behalf. Fortunately for tiie suf
ferers, some of their friends were informed of
the eiicufnstunce,aml attended the examination ;
but on the oath of Joseph Dawson, who swore to
their being slaves, they were ail committed to
prison. A habeas corpus was obtained, and a
hearing had before the recorder, Joseph Reed, esq.
at which time Dawson again appeared as an evi
dence in favor of the claimant, and although it
soun after became known that he was an interest
ed person, yet his oath occasioned their re-com
mitment to prison, from which tney were releas
ed by a process of la w, entered into on their be
half, in order to bi ing the case before the supreme
court, where a verdict was obtained in favor of
this persecuted woman and her children.
A few days after the transaction just related
Nelson obtained another warrant from the same
magistrate, J.Thompson, esq. for a certain “Pain,
a slave,” and together with his associates, Daw
son and Alberti, went over Schuylkill, to the
farm of Judge Huston, were they arrested a free
m an of color, under the false pretence of search
ing him for stolen watches ; but when Alberti had
got fast hold of him, Dawson then came forward
and affirmed that the black man was a slave, and
said that he knew him as far as he could see him.
They then forced him into a carriage and drove
off. but finding that they would be pursued they
runs,” may this anniversary be lionoved bj*
grateful thinning people.
AV’e have seen very few sets of toasts vritW
a respectful tribute to general Jackson. A «•*
of information as to the particulars of his p^
rcedings has caused some to censure him unjust'
ly. We are glad to find that the people think
it necessary to know the merits of his cor.dmff
before they condemn him !! As despatches if® 111
him, detailing the events of his caiiipaii’’. Jrt
now received at AA ashingfon, we mav soon it
pect a knowledge of the facts belonging toil.
At the patriotic town of Newark, N. J. Af'i
was a grand military and mechanical profession.
—No less than twenty-one trades were repf*'
sented by workmen employed on stages d' 1 **
by horses, & beautifully decorated—accompany
by bands of music, tkc. At Boston, a good " or *
was done—the corner stone of a general ho’p'
tal (which promises tn bean ornament to®*
country) was laid in ample fo m by the g rl "
lodge of the state, at thp request of the trusty
in the. presence of a great concourse of pe°P”
The day was also duly observed oil board *
IFasliitif'tun, 74—and the sound of her rani" 111
though the ship was not in sight at the timei* 11
heard in N e w - York.—Niles' Register.
Early in the last month, a Spanish Schooner,
while on her way up to New Orleans, was.M*
ed and plundered of all her provisions.and®® J
property, by an armed Boat with seven m»
The same gang attempted also to plunder » n
mericon Ship. .■
The United States’ ship of war AA’ashinj?*
of 74 guns, ccm. fhauncev, in 42 da.' 8 Kj
Gibraltai and So from Madeira, came to and*
r-Yod
stt
at the quarantine ground of the port of New
>n the 6th inst. Among the passenger*.
I’hos. D. Anderson, esq. late consul at Tumi
Ifrstern Commerce.—Six hundred and
three flat boats were counted descending *
Mississippi and Ohio, by a person in a I#*
boat in his passage up.