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WIU.IAM J. HUNUK.
Condition!*, iV-.
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j»» yahl <• in aclvnocu,
(y • >.‘\TIU FAPKiI, *n<;# » weak, Thn-o Dollars
mokUOT, iii Btlyhncu.
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■' '' ’ ’ 1 . i ... ~i fm sink I>N MS
I.'ivu to H«'ll land. m>: "• dolman* ' 1
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n,r,hoiia.l »« •. Ilk. a Child .1 lto« »““•
1■,,:I■~: (alt Vfyt.i l . tj.'H ‘i»HV ,
Full to lli«* Urn onbo»oif*
A ill h-as jH-umxi la- ‘ vAfrf 1 l' ,( " ,M 11,0 !*’
„ ..(.Ui-oini ufiinM'l !*••« ni i'"inn|ir and M»n<.
Ai l , * ur r r fh'*y tt:or !. . .’!«>»£ i
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y\ n , Ith ; Mi f oi n».;s I'Hlly nlo( in tho sl-rou-ii
() llw:il ,l . aim J ripple ;<n»ji
Over i! 1 *- ' »l?rs —away, ijjjd•
•;|r i -■.»>* o( y "tli 'hay I' ait.
I’,'.- r uway lik«* ■ •>
Wli >- v the :>• iu.tifiil p»;Vl>7,
■Music artund l»< t. ...u 1 siiiuliino o.i ln^h—
I*,. H in thii'l; mm:«t /Ult<T rim! K ,ow . ' .
On ' thtn li 'art?* ‘! are,breaking bolow ’
i'iiii tlu* ivim i 1 ■-ari.flli l ' <)» -i* OH -
Jinn11 U«-• n tin*ln - i* lh« iky,
..tin iis )••.. «rvn the |>fvv.M -I h.*r mil’ll.
A,lmu • th- climt-I- -mh.lo l«t>ht 1
1, nk l» llin w.c*i —nil ■i* <in tlimr br^ait,
not th ' lii|> lik-t «ri is‘u;i 1 ul nAt f
' Bright and nluiv >*i the fihailowy itmiii, -i^^
Oikc n lit .»rt-ch«i*Uh«Svl home V‘* ioma jdeiblaU* plain'
r^Vlin—•«» fihf H.iiilos io the iilvVy light,
Sjtrn.uliiig hor win • ■* on the ho«oiyi ofm.'ht,
Alone on lh« d.-nji, m .hr moon in *.h *ky # .
A iilrmtoin of beauty - .old iU ' .p, With a »igh,
Th.ll lovely k thin; is tho man i<>u ufiin.
Ail .1 1 ■ Jl..i > ai*c mill fi lie bur ti • withii» t »
/till, .ill*' watches hr I* . !r|)il> I lilt n -
ll J
Iti.kc; h 1 »j.• i M.ruiw and guilt nmld not stv’<*r,
Drurli wliii h a.'c parted ancllrtrukon l.irev»?ri
l»; d.;* ni> Ihul b<* Wl' !■ 1 , iifl-JMt on Hi** w.n ft
TV* death !■ -d of ho, ", i>r ill*' yumig spirit'* f
' Pis thin. ;. i •»". li' while ll pa e-nloij/;,
’ ,i,.', a vessel 1 ial BUn.»l»in«r and son , '
Jaile;, t.-c hi, in 'ho ga/..* of tli•• w.»rld,
\\ itli sii ,i i i . '•••»!, .i■ i*i villi t..isvas:i unfurl«d ;
AH gladness uml glory, to wandr.niig *■ • r,
A i hurte * i;y : mww, ro.il fii-h .1 v ilh eight! •
•,r uili'i,s ii nil ini •- as ill »i»| Ocl it w
gillie * u11 c» w put "i, just to con i <yur tears ;
\m'- tiie ' ' 1 , “ jilU M :inc. i ilia irid cannot know, j
1 .he iTcarl-Vf• k« n - \il-;S lie huri,iiu: ‘ I*w ,
AVhil.Ulh'* ve.'siil drives on (u Ihni dapuln'' shore
)*' hera the dreams ot nnf clnhlhoed aie val|ianod and O i l !
-000--
Mr. Pcrki at* RxtratHulUwry Steam Can.
\ discovery has be n imule wliidi will,
hi ail probability, iwljost iiccouut be
aveeo popolali .u ami lood in Uie most s,.- 1
iisjactorv nuuiiu’r. \N . iilltule to the- new.
Steam tiun id Mr. I’orkins, whicli piomi-.
se» very fair U» y ieiul die whole rice of he-:
r«e^lo'their -Jlwi; hdoTes* in a very short,
line. According to the following account,|
wliich wt extract from the LoiuUni Me
. eiianic’s Register, th? eft’fitts of this inven-;
tion wifi leave every plague or pestilence at
an iiiuaeas irnble clisJLuuce behind in point
,!' destructiveness.' Ten of guns, sup
posing one shot in twenty i.uU' to lellt wi'l
sweep away 15H.00U men in 14 single day ! .
“ \\e were enabled on Wednesday,
through the kindness id Mr. Perkins, to
evamine minutely, hi his manuhii lory in the
Regent’s Park, the extraordinary piece of
mechanism called the Steam Uim. ! is
imply formed by intro,lacing a barrel ian.
tlm steam generator ol any engine, and b
die addition of two pipes towards the
chamber of ihe gun, iiuvodticing a ijiiunii
ta ot balls, winch, by tjie action of a han
dle to the chamber, are dropped into the
barrel and tired one by one, u the rate of
from four to five hundred in the minute.
11 The explosive tin e ot (lie steam w'tieh
rushes from the rnerator and expels (lie
balls isaliou - fOO las. to'the s.jtc.re inch :
with this loive a musket ball (tied against
an iron plate at ihe distanc of lOn feet
from the gun, is completely Ihnumnl ; and
when a force id 8-10 lbs. In d -ijn.irc inch
in applied, the ball is actual 1; dri.eij to
pieces in such away that, 1101 of its frag
ments can be collected. is i|; gin 1. m\v
fixed, having a direct cominiinicaiinu thro'
a wall with oneyit Mr. Perkin* • engines, 1!
cannot n} course be removed Ir • the sp ,
the barrel merely being ausceptible of a!
teraliim ; but in the eve .of e invention
being applied to purposes ol warfare, it
would be easy to attach a portable steam en
gine ol small dimensions, n hir'd could be
removeil vvilli as much rapiditv a- an' piece
of ordnance now m use. Phe tos! id ch
a machine ultogethev would he compara
tively small, and as Mr. P rkms is iln-ot
cnastruci a-4 pouude wl»ici• can be 10, veil
tab nit with gre ,t fa; id:-. two hors.the
public will nave agn . pportunitv d'lmic-
Ulg ol iis practical ,m r.ts, of whi 1, Imv
evei there cannot I), a doubt, at ■ die < \
p " iments already made at (he in . . inn,
‘ Ihe most w r.mrdinarv par: ot 1,
lair is tu> sm illiie-s nf die ex|teiis chaig
iog at tillery of this nature, eomp.a il will
t 1.1 ul tl;,» pres tu system. I Mr. Per
kins’ steam imu, one pound wt igut nfcoal
*is Inuiici to produce the same est as lint
p und< weight ot gunpowder, vi/.. on
pauul coals will generate sullicien
? .steam to expel, with equal force, ns many
. balls as four pounds of ponder. Os the
rapidity with which the discharges are
made, we say little after what we have ob
_ sct'ved nt the mode in which the balls are
expelled, but there is another great advuu
f" tage, w.iich, u;i the score of humanity, de-J
commendation* An explosion from]
{this gun is next to impossible ; fur tjje grea-4
v * n ter the rapidity of firing, the less is the dan - {
. t . gei ,as the stream of vapour rushes for-j
ward, without check,and finds vent in tin i
.open nr. How many lives, on the contra-)
‘ |r.. li.ive li 'eii lost bv the bursting of our!
u,„ jeitlnmon fujjd pie and how little reli
ance is to be placed upon the greatest care
i. : i• i dcansii,;* them in (i.e heat ol a bottle.!
(Ten guns, upon this principle, would, in a
field of hat'le, be more than equal to 200
mi the present system ; and a vessel of on
, ly six guns would be. rendered more than'a
jmatch for a seventy-four.
•■rj "If r»ny two rulers ol ihe earth were to ,
know ‘hat in the . entof doclaring war n
jfi;iiinsf c.v-*» other, .. plague or pestilence ,
jwould blast but armies, and sweep them I.
) from the tin eof the earth they would pause '
{before they made such a declaration , butu
! what plague, what pestilence, would ex-!,,
iceed, in its effects, those of the .steam Ofiu
i Five hundred balls fifed C very minute,* -
land one out of twenty to r'ach its mark—
■w.liv, ten of such,guns would dcstrhv IJOOO
ilaiiy Mr i’e n s considers steam dis
covery iii in |i infancy, for he aavs he is
convinced that a Steam engine, duiafht be
imade to throw a ball of a !■ u weight,, from
j Dover to Calais.” ' -.**>■
j NK W (11P EN, Ue.C?i3jL . ;
! Interestin'. r -A irJWS^
jtiotiarj officer, a highly re
ofithis town, lat' ty
leaves of an o! '
long forgotti i, i in A-VJfeJ W* ‘iT the
unfortunate M ijor nutate ban)
excited melt uni i ; w, sleet died I
by Andre himself, vnmvyffiifl? lie is rep
■resented sitti ig at a small round table, in
[the room where he was confined, his ic'gsj
crossed, one anu thrown negligenfly upon
I the back of his chair, and the right hand
I resting m the table near an inkstand and
ipc i. Iheß< eie probably represents him in
the situation in which he drew the skct.di
'The countenance in placid and iimug.rUulj
jam! highly expressive. The drawing is tin
l.parenflv executed with great ease rapidity
and gracefulm; ,s, and lie Id .-wise an said to
be good., it was presented l>v Vudre liirii
sell io the officer ol the guard on dutv at the
time, and by In n to the gentleman who now
possesses ififlftiio was stationed neai, and
liiequently visited Maim Andre during hi
confinement. It is s ated that Major Am
dre was in 111 c habit o' making similar sketch
es and drawing, which w re frequently nb
-1 allied by gentlemen who visited him.
[ Herald,
■..-•gr*
j In August last, the second daughter of.
[the Ixmpi.roijiii jfra'/.il was bapfi ed by the)
'name of— Donna Fruncisra-1 'aroliuu-.h>na
iiii-Chnrlolla- Lnipol iina •>/ the
|maun Kinder <h l‘aida-Micadlnr(xnL>rUUii\
i RufadUt- 0 emu*a . , r ! I
—jfyr*-. ' j
i A few da vs since, 1 h ird the venerable;
:Ju 1 1 f, 'e ielate the following Revolution-1
■ary anecdote. If you think it wo'by of {
pi ( serving, vou arc at liberty to publish-it •;
1 would remark that 1 ■-!, mid think, the sto- J
■|-v incredible, if mi informant was not aj
'man of unquestionable veiai ity.
' j' VuUileton flnz. [
“ The morning following the battle at
Yorktown. I cn iosity to attend the,
dressing of tu led—an : among ollieisj
whose limbs wt:He so much injured as to re
quire amputation, <v,is a musician, who re-j
te ived .a musket ball in his kue \s was I
usual in in such cases, prepar. loin were)
•made to lash* him down to 'tic (able, topic*-'
vent the possibility ol Ids moving. —Says
:the sufferer, ‘ Now, Doctor, what would
vou be at ?’ ‘ f v lad t Tin going to take otf
vour Ic" - ; and ’its necessary you should be
hushed down’ 4 i shall consent to no such i
idling—vou may pluck mv heart from my
bosom, but you'll not’conliac me. Is there
a fiddle in the tent i if so bring it m A
■violin "as furnished, and liter tuning it, In
■.aid, ‘ now Doctor begin,’ and lie continued
r to play, until the operation, which took about
i foriv minutes, \va- (.oinde'cd, without mi*-,
i ,uig a not 1 '- or moving a muscle.
-eoe—
Ni.'v-.l u- —The Legislature of this
* Slat** adjourned on the 31st iillimo, alter,
1 passing an a- ’ ’<« incorporate a Cornpanv ta
,quake a t'anal (rom the Raritan to the Del
1 aware, from which (Company the .State is
(to receive a bonus of 1(H),out) dolui: .. Vet
t o ire also passed to incorporate six banks
•i which are collectively to pay to the state
abo aits ol somf fio,ooo dollars. Ihrc
’ banks a- well as tin* canal company, are
) probably to be established on capital from
ibe City-of New \ ork.
i .iiiuricun Tea.— The New-Orleans pa
e per-, si i ■ that there arj several planta
tions oftb tea plain growing oi L uiisiana,
,a id that i« ti in luxuriously. We some
dme ami, iottmaied a doubt whether the
. L >oisiai.a plant was the same us the plant
of China These paper*- .-late, that fiuui'a
. nupansou .rr uc •of the seed of Ibc
h (,ouisiana tea " i i). with that of Ciiimi.
•- 1 there, re >i aas nc a loiibi of the shrub ol tin-
I- . ouuti v bt*i'i„ ii.-genuine tea-plant 11 net
ti 1 1 ami v iem . i i > lor our- elves to cultivate i
u* in >• ■ qualities as u supercede the neces
ntisitj ti imporliug it
£inlj|erntfj <£onsrc,3£'.
f's'.CONU SESSION'.
5, 18-2,3.
| IN SENATE.
Mr. folßlson, of Kentucky, from tin
Military Affairs, asked leavi
jy»i die coimittce to be discharged from tin
further comidei ation of the follow ing reso
lution, offered by Mr. Mu on, on the sit ill
[uU. -I
Resolved?, Jha the Committee onMilita
ry Affairs he instructed to enquire into tin
oxpediencdjof limiting the number of Cadet:
at the Miliary Academy at W at Point, t<
the nuuvbq - of Members in tiie House <>
liepresepjativfis, and i d|a.t the* rm
adniift*l fipff. State and Teutltory
iiapresi’otltnes to which such state or Ter
ritory A a!#he entitled ; and that the bro
thjjt o£ no persoti educated at the Academy
shall he ad «jtfed,. so long as there be other
applicants, (hid that p>ovision be made for
admitting ’ 'imi the District of Columbia.”
Mr. via in regretted th it the committee
lad disapjf ovecl of the proposition contain
.*(hin the .resolution. It was an object he
( uni long imcmileinpluti m, and had reserved
for fho i b of the present administration,
it had b.etfhis intention to offer it at the
jciostJ of the last aitminislration, but omitted
jit. It was aiiedged that the subject ought
Ito be left 1i) T he discretion of the War De
partment! hut he was opposed to leaving
any tiling, lit which Hie whole nation was
interested; to discretion, when it could be
fixed bv law. favoritism would.exist as it
had always existed, unle-s*-,wc: jittained
greater perfection - thaw had over oefltTM
tljLcd, in could fie experled He would
.iperefCrce, * uv ibis matter, prevent favoritism,
by withholding discretion and establishing
tne rule on a fitted principle, by law. Thel
nation contributed equally to the support'
of this institution, and he would distribute,
its benefits equally. He would even, ii iti
were practicable, allot one Cadet t-> each
particular Congressional district, so as to
make tin benefus of the i usti' ution asdiffu-1
sive as possible. As to the rule, however !
oli having not more than one cadet from!
one family. he would 1 ke to modify that so!
fai as to say, that vvlvne the fa • her had been
killed in service, the rule should not apply.;
Mr. M. slid, he knew how difficult rt was to 1
resist a committee in this !>nd v , but he ho
ped the S-'iute wou’d not nst.in th r * com
mittee in tlu ir unfavorable deci-mn on tin*
proposi l ion.
Mr. Johnson observed that flip practice of
the War Department in the nmiointnicnt ol
Cadets was now, an I had, for some time,
been, substantially the same as that recoin-'
mended by the resolution— that-was, that
the number admitted From each state was
in proportion to its representation in Con
nss So far thmefoie, I gist item, the!
t mrnmitiee, at least a major! 'v of them,.
th«a.'jhi was mi necessary. t)n the other]
I 'tjfre of the tu'opo-ithm. that which rega
dei! the »r of the Cadets,
'he Coqjfff ttja! i' ff fed from the mover of
tlie/esfm nio<l ! L. J ffLii>W’ did not d em q ewe
died; i*p.|jU! u; m..m --m
present nfftv-. Urn ever, Mi T
said, if th- ia *Afyf|C '-erd v .. ♦ honor’c
hie movci, with the commit
tee, and wool ! nwruct the comthiMe-, to
bring in a hd! conform,aide to the resolution
he for one w m'd perform n - uni t of the
labor of prc'.aring it with pleasure. He
would therefore move, that, for the present,
the subject be laid on the table, that it might
he further < onsidered.
1 his motion was ,ag", ed to, and t mo
tion laid on the table.
HOUs” OF KKPIIK HINTVTIVES.
TnunsDAT, January 6, 1825.
The following Message was * received
' »m the President of the United-States,
by Mr. I’vk-i ' • his private Secretary:
To the Senate , nvil House
of Representatives of the TJ, States :
\s he term ofmv service ; this highi
trust will expire at the end of the present
session of Congress I think it proper to in-j
vite your attention to an object very infer
eating <n nte, and which, in it e niovement
of one government i deemed, on principle,
eouallv interestin' to the Public. 1 liave
been longin h> service -T mv cmintf’’ and
in its most difficult conjunctures, as well
abroad as at home, in the com -t of which 1
h; ve hail a control over the public moneys
to a vast amount. If, in the course ofmv
sen ce, it shall appear, on the most severe
scrutiny, which i invltS, that the public have
sustained any loss by a ivy . -t of mine, or of
others for which lough# to be held responsi
ble, Jam willing to bear it. If, on the o
ther hand, it shall ftpear, on a view of the
law, and of precedents in other cases, that
justice has been withheld from me, in any
instance as I have believed it to he in ma-
Iiiv* and greatly r,» my injury, it is submitted
wheth i t ought not to he rendered. It U
!mv wish that .ill matter- oi account am:
■clahns, between mv country and mvseif,be
settle-., with that strict iegard to justice
.• hi. li is observed in settlements between
individuals in private life. It would be
gr'.hi t mv; to me, and i' appears to oe just,
,rlr - (• uhjeetjShould be now examined,
both respect- with a view to a decision
hem alter. No hill would it is presumed, be
presented for nm signature, which 'would
operate either for or against me. ami 1 would
ca: tain!y sanction none in my favor. Wliili
here, I ran furnish testimony, applicable ti
'any case, in both views, which* full loves
Itigation may require ; ami the committee to
jwhoin tlie subject may be referred, by re
j porting facts now, with a view to a decision
I after my retirement, will allow time tor fui -
Ither information, and due consideration of
jail matters relating thereto, vidttleinenls
,jwith a person in this trust, which could not
!qbe made with the accounting officers of the
~ jgover iinent, should always be made by Con
igress, and before the public. 1 lie cause of
j the delay in presenting these claims; will be
[explained to the committee to whom he
t subject may be referred. It will re
isuine, be made apparent that u ,n>\o nicvi-
S table ; that from the peculiar * .'feumstan
( ices attending *-AS^ 4 tcilgcess alone
’['could decide otr Wf ami ■ rival trout msi
' derations of ddivaij t ‘'to:.
' highly improper for me sought
| from Congress
which is now proposed—(|*B e x P ; at '°n o!
| my term in this high trust.JJ|>th er
| rations appear to me to operate, »Sj|b
force, in favor of the measure whRRv ’now
r propose. A citizen who Ini'S long served his
country, in its highest trusts, has a r 'g!tt, it
:he has served with fidelity, 'to enjoy undis
turbi d tranquility ami peace in his retire-,
merit. This he cannot expect .to do, unless
I his conduct, in ail pecuniary concerns, shall j
be placed, by severe scrutiny, on a basis imti
j to be shaken. I his, therefore, formsastrou I
I motive with me for the enquiry which 1 now
! invite, 'fiie public may also derive consid
erable advantage from the precedent* in the
future movement ofgtlie oyernment. It be
: ing known tiinf such scrutin yjsv.ts madeifcl
myr ise.it may form a-new and strong Inr-j
rier against the abuse of the public conli
' deuce iu future. *
JAMES MONIiOE. 1
j / rushin^ton,Jan. 1835.
l iie Message was read, and ni tter*! fo a
lie on the ruble and be»^inte4-#Air r ,4NG- 1
H \ v for that a in a'
I which he had made, to refer ivto a '
’committee. And then
, The House adjourned.
The failure of the banking firm to which [,
Mr. Fauntleroy belonged with the details!
of his conduct, have created an extraor-j
i dinarv panic throughout England, the na
ture amj cbneeqr.enc.es of which are sta- j
fed in an interesting manner in the fol- j
100 ing article of-Ball’s Weekly Messen- .
ger. v ' j
We scarcely remember a perjod when
• c event so intrinsioallv unimportant as the 1
ba'A rooti’v of a single bouse, and that house '
o' I'(tie note produced so much general i
alarm, and so verv materially affected the 1
stafe.-m public. ere lit. Perhaps the amount i
of husinec.s of the Berners stre< t Rank 'bd
not exceed a five hundredth part of the bank-,!
ing business in London ; t' eir dealers were)
for the most part tradsmeu with them-j*
sebes, added to a few builders and specula
■ tors in the sanie district. c
| u Now, the failure of this firm has been.i
( manifestly owing to the extent of their soec-ji
:nl itious with the latter description of these',
'customers ; and lies been protracted from']
vear to vearh- the transactions of the mi- i
happy eriminal. w’-ase s'long attachment toy
♦he “house ,md firm,” anpears to have ted i
him into 1 1 most oiliable condition. What t
Hheref.ire is there in such a failure and from |
• ueh can«‘'s, which should extend the appre
hension hew d i s own immediate, occasion, t
and should lead to a distrust in other Bart-!i
k n rs ? Vet so the matter is. A most un-'jl
reason hie aonreher-aion appears to prevail, ,i
land unless thlstiptmic, this folly ffor so*"we
jmust pall it a**qh now'exis's,' steps, it will ■'
.seriously affect the conveniences of trade, ’<
land put an end whilst if continues, to all >
1 discount; for how can a«v Rank venture to!
idiscount even the best bifs whilst the ap- i
i prehension of a run upon it renders it a mat- I
j icr of necessity to keep all its cash ?
, “ This is, indeed, one great mi chief of 1
the present state of tilings, ft rat only
endangers the best conditioned and most
'solvent banks, whose assets are abundantly I
; sufficient, though perhaps not immediately
I convertible but likewise the solvency of in
numerable tradesmen, whose dailv and
1 weekly occasions require die discount of
then hills. We remember, indeed, only
onencr'iod like'lt, and this was the time
.which just preceded the suspension ofnay
meuts he th Hank >f England. At that
lind, tl" Ban! . under the circumstancesi
if a mu, v e,. c compelled to th... v back all j
the. best is to sa to discontinue
it s discounts.-—The consequences were tre
mendous, so much so, as to compel (he Go
vc iment of the country co adopt the two
■ memorable evens of that period, the sus
f pension of cash p. ments, and a public loan
t > the. merchants upon the value of their 1
stocks. One circumstance we have beard :
• upon unquestioned authority and we there
i fore fully belie e it. A house, of great
red it at. that time, and still existing hi the
-■same r still greater repute, had been in|
1 the habit of rereiv rig discounts to the a
■. mount of fifty or Gvty thousand pounds. —
The Bank, in one of the weeks of this pe
el riod, threw out its bills, and thus suddenly
['[Stopped the customary s q.ply.— The manag
i‘ing partner requested a . orview with the
i>: directors, and informed them, that this dis
, continuance of the usual discounts tVould
. compel the house to stop pawn -nit, and fie
n believed there were some gentlemen there,
ci who need not be informed how f•: and wid"
d [the lass would exmnd. The inti motion had
.( its due effect, and the hills w re dGcount
ejed. The consequence was, the- preserva
o lion of one of the greatest mercantile firms
i. in the City of London—the firm being, a>
»
u[the e wed, unquestioned ■ solve:.! bm
-jreqttirinjpts rtgu . r supply <d the usroma
1 1 ry aid*
“ Our purpose, in the above observations
f is, to give bur sincere anil strenuous advice
s most intelligent portion of our I *
I ciijn trade, not to contribute to *nU on
and mischievous misgiving o'.
- xhe ci'flr. ot Hanking Firms unquestionably
t solid.<«a solvent, and thus not to bring on
k the evil, which they now needlessly dread.
6 I! discounts are slopped, the ruin will be
- vvnle, and the circle of distress will be most
- mischievously enlarged. Half the building
■ speculation around the metropolis, will p
cease & every, trade will feel the dilFerence.
- •“ i'he appisthcnsiou, moreover, is as uu-t
. reasonable as it is mischievous, for the con* '
i jdition ol the Berners ■■ cruet House was s,ng
11alar and peculiar, and there is notlm g
! '! the circumstance ot its failure which just
••lies a distrust in any other firm. It appeals
II to have boen a needy concern from the verv
'[beginning, nod never to Iflfee-possessed a .V
■ general repute. Hearly", -.irs gi the
(Hank of England rejected its a ceptances
i that is to say, considered it as x tailing and i
{bankrupt concern, without adequate funds,
and speculating beyond ips nqjjms.
) “As regards p« Vic! mils, vho
■rant the means ot jpeflay depositing tiu‘ ! c i
iinoney for short pedals, it has often st, ■ck
us, that Government might afford tj i t v «t-;
nutans by isstyngj'bills for 100/' atone or ( ,p c
a> I a half pJTOhft; We have no doubt but
that a vast <pjantity'o r ihese Exchequer Bill-
I would be ipunedlately taken up, as they
I would cv cily suit the private occasions o*
many clas*'* of people. If it bt a -;kt ;i, now 1
(Government could dispose of the money ■ -
{reived for these Exchequer Bills?.we ua ■
Iswer, lend it to public works at two or three
|pcr cent, and with the prytit, reduce taxes.”
New York, Jan o
FROM' GIBRAN I All.
\\ e received by tiie Franklin a I ■<-. /
Gibraltar papets to the latter end-of Nov ,
her. We notice .only the follow ing um; . ;
The Gate duties formerly levied at Ca
diz on tine cocFiipeal, cochineal dust, gran
j ilia, indigo, Vanilla wool, Cbtton, raw’silk
ifrom whatever country, copper h. ton ...
{pigs from .Spanish America, os and cow
{hides and dyewotid;were provissionallv ta
ken oIF November the 9d>, by the competent
authority unf! his Majesty’s pleasure should
be known on the subject.
The period' allowed for the deposit of
transit goods and produce of the country
was at (h.i same lime extended troin one to
thre'e months, at the expiration us which,
whatever had not been exported, must irre
nussibly pay the established du ies.
I'ho members of tlie Regency, appointed
by the Cortes, in Seville, on the 11th June.
If ’o, II- Cyaetam Valdes, I), Gabriel |ig
discan, ami j), Casper tie Vigidet, fall m
GibraKiir] vt ere .summoned on the au No
vember, to present themselves within f.-to
days, in-the prison of the Royal- A.,!.:h.
(of that city, lor the purpose ot answ-n -
utld clearing dbemselves from the char * '
prefered agaitrst tHemt .for accepting d
excercisingthe said .Regency; in delay
whereof,fitter the expiration' of the sac j
mentioned perimjs, tjiey shall he tri.'d a,d T
sentence passed upon them, as if they were,
present.
The Cadiz Correo Mercantile of Nov h
says that Vessels arriving at the purl A n
North America,-are no longer'liable to per
form quarantine, provided their crews b» in
good health. -*■•#**—
Jlmmal Jttturn of Migrating Birth t Iht
same spot. —Tine hue Dr .Tenner, in a (i-n
ous paper on the migration of birds, i übli sh
ed since ins death in the Phil, Tunis, »r
1834, mentions (be follow ing curious expe
riment:—“Ata fafft-himso in this nui*>'i
bourhood I procured sKVeral swifts, and
by taking off two claw s from the foot of
twelve, I fixed upon them an indelible mark.
The year fallowing, their nesting places
were examined in an evening, when hey
had retired to most, and thcr f found seve
ral of the marked
third year a stmilar*Seareh was made, and
did not fail to priuluce some that were mark
ed. I now'Season to make an annual search;
but at the expiration ofiffteven years, a cat
wa» seen to bring a bird into the farmer’s
kitchen, and this also proved to he 0..e of
those marked for the experiment.”
Kefirs of the olden time —At the celebra
tion of the landing of die Piigrifns at Ply
mouth, (Mass.) which was attended by about
live hundred persons, were exhibited, save a
letter, among other interesting relics. Miles
1 cane and sword, and White’s
{pewter platter, brought oiit ;n the first ship,
'the May-Flower. The Succotash w, s ‘.ruled
jin Governor Carver’s iron pot, am! tin Pie-
Isplent occupied Governor Winslow’s arm
i chair.” ,
:j Distressing. —While Mr. Eleazer Avery,
lot’Colchester, Conn, was killing hogs, on
{Monday, 27ty ult. two of the men were
-(called into the house to take a large kettle,
■ j containing boiling water to scald the hogs,
• off the fire. To lighten the kettle a tew
- pailsful of water were taken out, and set in
> the corner if the room, and while lifting the
- kettle the bolts of the crane’ were drawn cut
I the kettle fell, and the water was thrown
; over the floor, scalding in its way tlve feet
, and legs of the persons, and a little child
then near the fire. The slstm of the child
1 hearing its cries, ran into the mom, caught
- the child up, and, supposing the water mi
- the corner of the room to be cold, plui ~
■il.it theiein, which immediately put au end to
its existence.