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Notice of the sale ol peisonal properly must bo given in like man ner, FORTY days previous to the day of sale. Notice to Mm debtors and (re Jilorsol'an estate must be published for FORTY days. ■iJ l'3~rr'~U "■■■ II i JJ-I—it- MSSSB Uvvaca*a\ tl'iU’s » >\a*. mo n*», Os Ike Campaign of Ike North Western Army, in the year 1812. Addressed to Ike people of the Unit'd States, No. XXII. It is a subj ‘ct of regret to me, that iu this memoir, I cannot present to you a cer tified copy from tlic records of the'war of fice, ot the original armistice or agreement between Sir George Prevost and General Dearborn, for a suspension of hostdilies on the Niagara frontier ; L am happy at the same time that I nave it in my power, to furnish a satisfactory reason, why it is not piesented, and to offer other documents, to prove its existence and contents. The fol lowing is a copy of a letter, from the Se cretary of War, Mr. Calhoun. War Department,-Zilh Aug. 1823. Sill,—Conformably to your request, I have had copies made of all (lie correspon dence, between tiiis department, and your self; likewise toe corresa indenoe with Ge neral Dearborn, G »v. .Vleigs, and Gov Scott, as far a-> die same can be had from the records mil dies of this office, and now transmit them to you. L'he copy of the ar mistice to which y ni refer, cannot oe loan - on file, i.i tnis department. 1 am, tics. ( Signed,) J. C. CALHOUN Gen. vVm. Hull, Newt m, Mass, Alter receiving this letter, I applied ti Gov. liustis, who was ai toat uni Secre tary of the vVar D-p .nnient, and lie in formed me, that ii mis receive 1 .it the war office, and placed on tne lid s ot tiie De partment. How a public document <>f s< much consequence could be lost, appeals in some decree mysterious. I shall liowevei make no other comment on it, than to ob serve, that the high standing and charactei of Mr. Calhoun, and his prompt and hon ourable conduct, in furnishing me, widi tin other testimony, which I requested, am which his predecessor General Armstrong had neglected to furnish, or even notice ;niy application, forbids the most distant suspi cion, of any unfair, or improper manage meut on his part. General Armstrong wai the immediate successor of Governor lius tis, who declares it wits left m tile in tin ollice, and had the custody of the public papers of the department. The following is a c qiy of the letter to General Arm Strong, which was put into the Post Oilict in ijoston. Newton, (Mass.) May \olh, 181-4. Slit,—Having been ofiicially informed; by the Adjutant General, of the result oi the Court Martial by with Ii I have been tried, and feeling it a duty, winch t owe tt; my country, my Dimly, and tin self, to pub lish the proceedings of my trial, 1 request as soon as pos-nuie, a copy of the same from the War Department ; which request is warranted by the Dudi article of Uie rule? and articles id’ war. 1 am, &c. ( Signed,) WIL LI AM HULL. Hon. John Armstrong, Sec’ry of War, / Washington City. $ This armistice had so talal a beari.-ii oi • , o mj situation, that 1 must be excused, foi disclosing every circumstance which hac any relation to it. To prove that this agreement was made between Sir George Prevost and Genera Dearborn, I will in the first place present i copy of a letter from the Secretary of Wa to General Deal born, copied from the re cords of Ibe v. or ofhee.—[Vol. Gib, p. 200. Dai Department, Aug. 1 5tk, 1812. SIR. — V ou. letter of the 8 th, with Ilia of tne 9th nisi, enclosing a letter from Si George Prevost, addressed toyou, has bee received. A letter addressed to tne S. cretary ot State, covering a dispatch lu Mr, Raker, late Secretary of legation u His Britannic Majes.y, from Sir Geoig Prevosi, has ;.lso ueen received, and tit dispatch lias been deliverd to Mr. Baker. Np communication having been made t this government by Mr. Baker, i am com manded by the President to inform you that there does not appear to linn anv iusii liable cause to v.ny or desist from tne ar raiigenients, winch are in operation ; and am further commanded to instruct you, ilia from and after the receipt of tin's lettei and allowing a reasonable time, in wide you will inform Sir George Prevost there 01, you will-proceed will! ilie utmost vigou in your operations. How far the plan, ori ginally suggested by you of attacking Nia gara, Kingston, and Montreal, at the sain time can be rendered practicable, you ea best judge. Presuming that not more tha a feint, (if that should be deemed expedi ent) with the troops on lake Champlain, aid ed by volunteers and militia, can be inline diately eflecled, against Montreal, and con sidcring the urgency of a diversion in fa . vour of General Hull, under the circum stances attending his situation, the Presi r dent thinks it proper, that not a moment should be lost in gaining possession of tlu ' British posts at Niagara and Kingston, oi n at least the former, and proceeding in co operation with General Hull in securing 'J Upper Canada, it is expected, that the J force assembled at those [daces, particular- K ly at Niagara, will be such as to justify your immediate orders for an attack, or it tins should nut be the case, that the mea | sures you have taken for rendering it such, >-■ will prevent any material delay. You will of course communicate your views to Geu. Hull, and direct Uie commanding officer at ( Niagara, to be particular in giving him eve ry inlormaliuti whicli can be useful.” =, Before 1 proceed to make any comments jon in>s letter, 1 will transcribe another ad ,l dressed to me by the Secretary of War, t gi>mg me the information. War Department, Aug. 20 tk, 1812. “ SIR, —General Dearborn has comma , mealed to tins department, an anangement . by winch it was agreed between linn and . |Sir George Pievost, that offensive opera- tions should be suspended until the deter- I tin.la.ion of the government should be made pknown to him, on certain iiilorniation pre . sained by General Dearborn to be contain ,jed in a dispatch, transmitted by Sir George , | Prevost to Mr, Baker, late Secretary of le ,! gatmn to His Brittanic Majesty in this ci ty. It further appears by General Dear born's letter, that lie made known, and pro posed to your concurrence, in said agree ment, so far as your orders, and as circum j stances might permit. I am now instructed by the President to | infoi in you that no communication, such as was supposed by General Dearborn might have been transmitted, has been made to ’!this government, by Mr. Baker, or by any I authorized agent of the British government, ‘ which will justify a delay, or suspension of any-military operations, of winch General Deai born has been duly informed. Incase therefore, you shall have entered into any stipulation respecting a suspension of of fensive operations, with the olticer com manding the forces of His Brittanic Majes II ty in your vicinity, you will conceive it to be made known to him, that such stipula tion, is, afier due notice, to cease and de r termine, and yon will proceed in the same manner as if no such agreement had been " entered into.—See vol. G, p. 128, 129. 11 in the close of the letter, lam informed :l that General Dearborn was ordered to at -1 tack the enemy’s posts at Niagara and Kingston, that 2-400 men were at Niagara, l * that lie was ordered to notify me of his movements, ike. which has been cited in a " former memoir. As 1 belore observed, I never received a y letter from General Dearborn during the I campaign ; and it appears by the letter here recited, that it was twelve days after IS the armistice was agreed to, before tlicad *" ministration wrote to me from Washington, ie giving me information of it, IC This lett r 1 never received, and the co ts py 1 have here presented has been obtained ' from the records of the War Office, in e deed, the lirst in formation I received, that General Dearborn had established a peaci on the Niagara frontier was from General Brock, immediately after the capitulation was signed. Neither the administration II nor General Dearborn ever gave me any 0 information of it, which was received. Puus it appears, that by the neglect of the '* General, and the delay »f the ad minis'ra- 1 ‘ lion, 1 was kept in ignorance of a measure ,l which so materially effected my situition s and had no knowledge of it until General Bi •ock had time sufficient to collect and march ail the forces of the province agains l me. Before 1 close this number, I will observe, that from documents here produced. 1 do n presume you will be as well satisfied of the •r following facts as if a copy of the agree d ment had been produced ; viz. that it was entered into as early as the Bth of August, le and that it provided for a suspension of il hostilities, on the frontiers of Canada, in a which the army i commanded was not in ir eluded. - Having thus proved, what were the or •j ders ot the government to General Dear . born, and the measures he adopted; in mv it next number, after making some general ob n serrations, 1 shall consider the effect they •ii had on my situation. —QOO or BETTER PROSPECTS. ot W e congratulate our readers on the ini ge proving prospects of the country. The pri ie ees ot cotton and tobacco, the two great Southern staples, continue to advance. — to Both articles are in great demand, at about n- m average of 100 per cent, on the prices ol u, the last year. Heretofore the quantity ol i- cotton made iu Virginia lias been limited.— r-j Hence it is an article less familiar in oui 1 1 markets than tobacco or Hour. But the pre a: paratiuns making for its culture in the low r, er parts of Virginia, induce a belief that ir -h a few years it will be numbered among oui e-jmoH valuable staples. —Richmond Enq, 111’; -i Longevity. — Angela Millett, died at tin a- Alms-House in Philadelphia, on the 22i! ne «It. aged one hundred and eleven y ars, tun in months and eleven days. She was born u ui Canada, and was minuted into the Alms li- ; House on the 28th October, 1824. I- The following nonce of Madame Carapar and of “ her Private Journal” recently | published, is from the New Monthly i. Magazine for March : [. Madame Campan, who is well known as it the writer of the most interesting Memoirs e that have appeared in our time, was one ol ,- the most sensible women in France, and a . person to whom her country will be indebted j, for first introducing into the Continental • system of education, some of the solid qual . ities of our own. Instead of labouring tc y produce finished coquettes and brilliant or- I naments, of a salon, Madame Campan en . gaged herself in forming less attractive, but far better and happier persons; affectionate J daughters, excellent wives and in others, and pious women. And fortius task her admi [ ruble good sense, and unchanging good hu mour, her perseverance and her virtues, rendered her eminently calculated. With far less than it was striking and dazzling a bout her than Madame de Genlis, her plans . are, in our eyes, much more attractive ; and ’ she has done far more good than that lady, because she was less governed by her ima gination. Madame Campan seems, indeed to have been an exception in this respect to J the rest of her Country women. And in -1 stead of comparing her to any of these bril liant females, who have produced so much ‘ effect in our days, we should rather be in i dined to class her, in point of practical good ' sense, and the constant desire ot making people wi»er and ■ happier, which prevades all siie writes, w ith tlie best and most pious women of our country, with our Edgeworths and our Moors The wo- before us is a journal, edited ' by M. Magi u i' lunate friend of Ma ■ dame C, " -' r remarks on various ’ subjects tht or. necdotes she related, both ol tin i w . 1 mutts, and the par • ticulars of her behaviour during her last ill j ness. Os the lively manner in which Ma* f dame Campan narrates an anecdote, we give J the following examples : f “ Madame Campan related to me a fact > so extraordinary, that I cannot refrain from f recording it here. The .Marchioness de For -1 ges, whose husband was grand falconer, re -2 sided at Versailles, in the year 1775. The f Marchioness was pregnant; and, during ■ child-birth, sonic unpleasant intelligence ■was communicated to her. If I recollect rightly, she was informed that one of her ' houses had been burnt down. The pains -of child birth immediately ceased, and the - Marchioness continued pregnant for the ‘ space of twenty Hve years. At the expira t tion of that period, she died , and, on her body being opened, the child was found pe -1 trifled. A few years pn vious to her death, - the Marquess de Creyi said to her, in a • drawing room, “ Madam, 1 think you would . do well to swollow a tutor for your son ; his s beard must be beginning to grow by this i time.” Her good sense and habits of self-respect » are evident from this Fttle anecdote : J “ She informed me that Madame Murat r one day sud to her, ‘ I am astonished that r you are not more awed in our presence ; - you speak to ns with as much familiarity a* • when we were your pupils!’—‘The best thing you can do,’ replied M ulame Cam - pm, ‘ is to forget your titles, when you are 1 wi h me ; for I can never be afraid of queens - whom I hive held under the rod.’ ” t The details of her system at Ecouen are brief!, sii nmo ied up in a conversation with 1 the Emperor Alexander; • “ I'lie Emperor enquired into the most i minute particulars respecting the establish -1 meat of Ecouen, and I felt great pleasure in • answering his questions. 1 recollect hav - log dwelt on several points which appeared - to me to be, very imp .rtant, and which were in their spirit hostile to aristocratical princi ' pies. For example, 1 informed his Majes ' ty that the daughters of distinguished and 1 wealthy individuals, and those of the hum ble and obscure, were indiscriminately con founded together in the establishment. If, • said I, I were to observe the least pretension > on account of the rank or fortune of parents, 1 I should immediately put an end to it. The - most perfect equality is preserved ; distiuc • tion is awarded only to merit aud industry. • The pupils are obliged to cut out and make t all their own clothes. They are taught to i clean and mend lace ; and two at a time, - they by turns, three times a week, cook and distribute victuals to the poor of the village. - The young females who have been brought - up at Ecouen, or in my boarding school at f Saint Germain, are thoroughly acquainted - with every thing relating to household busi f ness, and they are grateful to me for having made that a part ot their education. In my conversations with them, I have always taught them that on domestic management ■ depends the preservation or dissipation of - their fortunes. 1 impress on their minds t the necessity of regulating with attention - the most trilling daily expenses; but at the t same time 1 recommend them to avoid ma -1 king domestic details the subject of conversa d tion in the drawing room ; for that is a most - decided mark of ill breeding. It is proper r that all should know how to do and to di - reel; but it is only for ill educated women, - to talk about their carriages, servants, wash n ing, and cooking.” r “ I’he monarch seemed to be interested in tins conversation. He observed many points of resemblance between the Maison d’Ecou e en, and the establishment which his mother I had founded at St. Petersburg!!, but this o was not surprising, for both institutions had n been planned on the model of St. Gvr.’ ” i- The unpolished letters to her son are full ol the affection, frankness, & practical wisdom n which might be expected from this virtuous, y consistent and intelligent woman ; but we pass them over, to come to the last part of the volume, entitled “ Thoughts on Edu cation ;” which are divided under the heads of Public and Private ; and subdivided in ® to chapters on Nursing, on the Habits of _ Children, on their duties to servants, to their “ parents, and to God. From thence Madam ‘I Campan proceeds to dress, to the progres l sive steps to be followed in a private educa -0 tion and to accomplishments. Under" Pub ° lie Education” she discusses its advantages —the various plans—on punishments—and ' on residing Romances, &c. 1 To those who are interested in these sub jects, we strongly invite attention to this u interesting volume. 1 Latest fiom England. j New- York, May 10. 0 The Ist of April Liverpool packet ship) Wtn. Thompson, Capt. Crocker, arrived last evening. Having sailed on her regular Jday, the advices are only one day later than before received. The following letter j from our correspondent, gives a favorable Jaccount of the Cotton trade up to the even ting of the 31st March, and the passengers s state that the market opened next morning a at a little advance. Liverpool, March 31. j “ The total sales of Cotton during yes terday and to-day, amounted to 13,334 s bags, of which 7303 were American, viz. ’ 56.59 Uplands, at 13| to 16? ; 796 Orleans [ 15? to 18,720 Tennessees, 13? to 16? ; and 128 Sea Islands, 2s 9d to 3s.—The average . of the sales this week, has been of Uplands. , 14| ; Orleans, ]5 a 15 16 ; Ten nessees, 14]|ths. In the extensive sales during the t last eight days much irregular business might , he expected to have been done, but there was an almost daily and progressive advance until yesterday morning, when we consider* , ed the. prices of Uplands, Orleans and Ten -1 nessees, at least 2d per lb. above what they \ were on the 23d instant. About 12 o’clock t yesterday the demand which had previously r been exceedingly animated seemed simul , taneously to cease, and during the afternoon 1 . and tliis morning, purchases to a moderate ; extent could have been made at a full ?d " under these prices, but the bulk of the hold- 1 . ers were firm, and would not listen to any reduction.—This afternoon there has been a good demand ; a better feeling is again es | lablished in the market, and every one ap , I pears sanguine that prices mast yet advance .considerably. The whole stock of Cotton , in this port is estimated at not over 70,000 bales, three-fourths of which is no doubt held by speculators. The dealers and spinners in Manchester are generally but slightly , stocked. Speculators and the trade togeth er take off Goods and Yarns as fast as they ; are produced. The stock of Cotton is now ' so circumscribed, the expected import small, and there is so much capital embarked in Cotton and its fabrics, that we shall not be , astonished to see good Uplands much higher | some time this year; but we again repeat ' ' that ev o ry thing will denend upon the con- | duct of Speculators and Importers. ' “ The following comprises the business in ' other articles of American produce this I week, viz : 665 bbls. Canada Pot Ashes at 1 33s 6 a 34s 3 ; 111 old at 33s ; 30 Pearls 1 37s 9 a 38s ; 80 bbls. United States Pots at I 39 a 40s. (the duties on United States I Ashes will soon be reduced to 6s. per cwt;) ' 83 tierces. 475hhds. Clover seed at 56s a * 665; 43 hhds old New-York Flaxseed 75s ; ' 20 new Phila. 78s a 795; 103 tierces fine I new Rice, 21s 9d a 225. I London, March 30. * There is a slight improvement in the ( Fmglish funds this morning. * Yesterday a motion of Mr. Ilnskisson, I for a committee to inquire into the effect of 1 , the repeal of the combination laws, was ( carried without opposition. * At a meeting of the paper manufacturers, \ .they have resolved to raise the price of' ( printing papers, 7? per cent, and of writing ' paper 16 per cent.—This is said to be ren- s [ tiered necessary by an advance of wages to ’ the workmen, and the rise in price of the ' t raw material. 1 t It is said, in a letter from Paris, that at I I the last Cabinet Council, the Duke of An- I . gouleme proposed for the adoption of the r Government, a line of conduct similar to ’ that of Mr, Huskisson, in the repeal or mo -9 dification of the import duties, but that this 1 t proposition was overruled by M. de Villele. j f The last letters from Alexandria state the s last year’s crop of cotton in Egypt at 200,000 j bales, of which, England will probably re j ceive 150,000. London, March 29 —New Dollars, 4s. . 119. t ■“*•#*•••■ r Norfolk, May 9. VERY LATE FROJ M THE W. I. SQUADRON. lt The arrival here, yesterday, of the United . States ship Decoy, Lieut. Comd’t. M.P. Mix, in the short passage of seven days from, i, Matanzas has put us in possession of b very late intelligence from our West-India . Squadron, for which we are indebted to the r officers of the Decoy, and the attention of a s friendly correspondent at Matanzas. j The Decoy sailed from New-York on the 28th of December last, for Thompson’s Isl ,f and, touching at St. Jago de Cuba and a Havana, since which the officers and crew ~ generally have enjoyed good health, and i have returned home with a good stock ot f that first of earthly blessings. She sailed - from Key West oh the 16th of April, with i 19 convalescents, and four Pirates, (the - Captain, Surgeon and two men) wounded in f the encounter with the Sea Gull and Brit r ish Boats—The Pirates to be delivereiLyp ito the Governor of Havana. The pirMfcal - captain died of his wounds on the pasaMe. Information by this arrival contirmFthe - intelligence before published by us, that 3 Key West was very sickly during the 1 months of February, March and April the mortality, at the same time, very great - among the residents of Thompson’s Isl -3 and, and there was very little improve ment in this respect to the period of the Decoy’s sailing. Surgeon’s Mate Joseph B. Stillman, temporarily in charge ol the United States Naval Hospital at Key West, we regret to learn, is among the victims to that inhospitable climate. He died on the 28th March—five years having expired on that day since he entered the Navy. He was a native of Massachusetts. The Pirates recently captured by the Sea Gull and British Boats, we learn, would probably be tried at Havanna by a military commission. * We understand that a duel was fought at Key West on the 12th ult. between Lt. Com. Mclntosh and Lt. Varnum, in which . the latter was slightly wounded. The Hornet, capt. Kennedy, sailed from Matanzas 25th April, on a cruise to wind ward, to relieve the Grampus. Theschr. Fox, Lt. Com. Cook, from this port, arrived at Matanzas on Sunday, 24th ult. and was despatched next day on a short cruise. The Terrier, from Thompson’s Island, was going into Matanzas as the Decoy came out. The Sea Gull and the brig Spark, Lt. Com. Newton, were the only U. S. vessels at Matanzas when the Decoy sailed, the j officers and crews of which, as well as those of the squadron generally, were in fine | health. The spark arrived at Matanzas on the 'j 21st ult. after a disagreeable cruise down the Main, and having landed Mr. Bolton (who went out, as we understand, for the purpose of surveying the line for a canal across the S. A. about Ist April, at St. John’s River in Costa Rica. She would be despatched, as soon as she could i be watered, to scour the coast, in search of 1 pirates. f The following officers have returned in f the Decoy: II Mervine P. Mix, Lieut, Corndt. Lieutenants. —Abm. S. Ten Eck, Wil liam Pottenger. , Sailing-Master —Porter. 1 Surgeon's-Mate —Henry W. Basset. 1 Midshipman —W. S. J. Washington. Gunner —Thus. Stardey. Win. Alexander, Marine, (of Philadel phia ) and James Sears, Purser’s Steward, (of Baltimore) died on board the Decoy, on her passage to this port. SOMNAMBULISM. Pittsfield, April 21. Mr. Timothy Dean, of Adams, in this || county, son of the late Dr. Dean had ern- I ployed himself for some weeks in thrashing, during the past winter. One night as lie; was about closing his labors, he ascended a | ladder to the top of the great beams in the barn, where the rye which he was thrashing was deposited, to ascertain what number of bundles remained unthrashed, which he de termined to finish the next day. Theensu- || ing night, about 2 o’clock as was supposed, Mr. Dean was heard by his mother to get up am) go out, and had no farther recollec tion of him during the night—he repaired to his barn, being in sound sleep, and altogeth- 1 er unconscious of what he was doing, set open his barn doors, ascended the ladder as he had done before, on to the haymow, thence on to the great beams of the barn to where he said rye was deposited and threw down a flooring and again descended and I commenced thrashing it—when he had com- r pleted it, he raked off the straw, and bound it into bundles, and shoved up the rye to ;> one side of the floor, and then carried the straw up the ladder, and deposited it upon | , some rails that lay across the great beams of yi the barn—then threw down another flooring j of rye, when he thrashed and finished as I before : thus he continued his labours until I he had thrashed five floorings, and on re turning from throwing down the sixth and last, in passing over part of the haymow 4 he fell off’ where the hay had been cut down a bout six feet on to the lower part of it which h awoke him. He at first imagined himself in his neighbor’s burn, but after grouping about in the dark for a longtime, ascertained that he was in his own barn, and at length found the ladder on which he descended to the floor —closed his barn, which he found open, and returned to his house—on coming to the light found himself in such a profuse pers piration that his clothes were literally wet through—he went to bed, and the next morn ing on going to his barn, found that he had thrashed, during the night, five bushels of | rye—had raked the straw oft' in good order, i ’ and bound it up and deposited it on the great ' beams, and shoved up the grain to one side of the floor, all in a workmanlike manner, without the least consciousness of what he was doing, until he fell from the hay. Mr. Dean was disposed to have concealed these extraordinary facts until his neighbors in quired the cause of his thrashing at nights, I when Ids family disclosed the particulars.