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13 O.V si'U' 1: IViX A I AST. PIUNTKD INI) PUB LIS HKD BY WILLI W! .1. BIJNCB. Con iilians, iVc. i *., r (lik Cl TV PAPF.R, i*.ce a wunk, Five Dollars per ivuiujin, payable in advance, fr'j- iMI'N HU’ I'AI'KU, un«’.« a week. Three Dollars per annum, in advance. paper div:oiilimieil till diruot’um* to Unit* fled are giver, and all arrearages PA I !»• fry* T KIOIS. • • • Five D<»||»irs per ;uniiiin payable in advance. f \ |» , KUTISK I ION J’S • • • • Will be iuserlcd altfm rut* of an I a half ccnis, prr Bijuare, lor the Hrsi insertion ;,i, I F<r tnree and UK e .pmrlercents, lor each continuation <:(>>! NJ ’’NIC ATIOA'S I* V Mail, >n mtbe l*ofl-/Ki'd. Q'jm land ond noffforn, by AdmintHtrutors, Kiecnlorn , r fjjtn-dian.t, a rr.pjim j. /la .v, to l». bold on the lirsl Tue»- ,l:iv in t»i« II - 1 1, lint VM -i huir* of ten irj tlio fcrmionii and jj, . i.;,. alurau.M, it l.lm C uirt-1 fume of ihe county in * , vli ■pr )in , i Iv is nitiuil'’.- of those »!•» must be »v,.,i in a p.iMi ■~. z.*Ue S| XT / days previous to the day of sale. *\ of tin* sale ■’( p.iiHoiml property must be (riven in like man uer, FOIIT V Jnys previous lo the day ol sale. -V.itii'i- in 111" li Mn" an I i ri'ili'nranf an mial" mnatbe publishd for li'OuTV Uciici'aV Anil’s AVv.uuuvs, Os the Campaign nf the North Western Ann:/, in the i/enr 1812. Addressed lo the people of the United Slates. No. XXIV. The motives of So' George Provost, in senTni ' liis Adjutant-General to the hea«l 1 ,I(i liters ol General Dearborn, at this tiuu*, I think, must lie evident (nan the statement ol ■ facts in the preceding numhers, and troiu' considerations, which I shall now otter. At I this time, no part of the enemy’s was invaded, exeep ing l»y toe forces from. Detroit, under mv com n vnd. I’o repel this, inv.ision, must have lieen a desirable object, of the commander-in-chief nf the British l army, lie could not withdraw his forces from the east part ot Upper Canada, con- 1 sistenllv with the safety ot bis posts, at Fort ■ Erie, Kort George, ICmgslon and Montreal because lie well knew (1 oieral 1) Miboru had collected, and was collecting troops opposite to th >»e stations lie therefore found it neces sary to devise s one plan, by which his troops, on those stations might be withdrawn, and employed under the command ol G niei al Brock, for the support o( Malden, and the protection of the part >1 live pr ivi ice invaded, and in a mm ier consistently with the safety of th'* posts which have been mentioned, I’hc stratagem, which has here been describ’d was form ’d bv (In* one ny, an I assented to! bv G ”ii*i•. l l Dearborn, t id iis success was c i mil’ te. II ‘w is induced to enter into an air,ve nmi Ih it his tr io is should only act. on the defiMsiv ’. it those stations, from which General Brock wished to withdraw his troops, and. indeed which extended to the! whole frontier, excepting where ‘lso invasion! was made. In pursuance, of this plan, all the forces| were withdrawn from tin* stations I have] m ■ vtioned, excepting a few invalid soldiers] to take care of tin* fortifications, cainnm, &c.j Tnew* firc.es, with the militia of the province,! and ill the savages which could he collected, were immediately transp irte.l by water, over the lakes lo Malden and Suidvvich, un der the co mu aad ot General Brock, us re enforc.em -nis to the eoe ivy’s army at those stations. General Brock arrived at Mal den on the 14th of August, during the sus pension of hostilities bid >w, and on the l.jth marched to Sandwich opposite to Ditto'd, from which place I had retreated, lor the reasons slated in the form *r numhers of these memoirs. About. 11 o'clock on the 1.511 v, I received ale ter from Gen. Brock, by Lieut. Colonel McDonnell, and Majo Gregg, of th* Brilish army, who came under live sanction of a (lag of truce. “ 11i: \o QuauTBRS, ) Studwiek, August 1.5, 1812. £ Sir—The force at my disposal authorizes me to require of vou the im nediatc surren der of Km I Detroit ; it is far from my incli- 1 nation to join in a war of extermination ; but yon must be aware that the numerous body of Indians, vvlnv have attached themselves to my troops, will be. beyond mv controul the moment the contest commences; you will find me disposed to enter into such condi tions us will satisfy the most scrupulous sense of honour. Lieut. Colonel McDon nell and Major Gregg, are fully authorized to conclude any airangenient that may pre •vent the unnecessary cllusion of blood. I have the honor to be your obedient servant. r His Kxcolleiicy, Brigadier Gen. Hull, commanding at Kurt Detroit. Signed ISAAC BUD IK, Major Gen eral, commanding his Britanic Majesty’s forces, Upper Canada.” To thi-letter, I immediately returned the following answer. “ Head Quarle s, Detroit, Aug. 15, 1812. Sir—l nave no other reply to make, that to intorni you that I a n prepared to mce any force which may be at your disposal and any cons -queuces which may result frou an exertion of it, you may think proper t make. 1 am, &c. llis Kxcellencv, M dor General Brock commanding his Britanic Majesty's forces Sandwich, Upper Canada. Signed, WILLIAM HULL, Brij General, commanding the North Wester army of live United States.” I his letter was the first information tin I received ol the at rival o( General Broi l with the forces Ir mi Fort Erie, Fort Georg and the other stations on the east part i Upper Canada. Indeed it was hardly po sible for me to have received the inform, tion, in he came by water with his re-ei fore ’incuts, and had the exclusive commai of the lake. Bv my former numbers, it appears, th belore I reem-sed the river, I had reocivt letters liom Generals Hall and I’orter, wl commanded the American forces on the! Niagara river, that the British forces had I moved from their stations on that river, and the east part of the province, and were pas sing over lakes Erie and Ontario, towards Malden. In those numbers, I likewise sta led how mysterious this information was.—. The arrival ot General Brock, with the for ces, still added to the mystery. It will be remembered, that I had received no infer mation from General Dearborn, or from any o.her quarter of the suspension of Untilities ; and 1 knew that a large American fore? had assembled, and was assembling on the Nia gara river, directly opposite to the British posts. it was likewise well known to me, that that part of the province was of much more importance to the British interest than Malden, and the territory on the Detroit river and its vicinity. It appeared lo me certain, that the British forces could not have been withdrawn from those stations, without exposing them to an invasion, and tube taken possession of by General Dear born’s forces on the Niagara river, directly opposite to them, and only separated by the river. I ask you, my fellow citizens, to re flect on my situation, and consider for a mo ment, the embarrassments at this time oc casioned to my army. General Brock was not only the Major General of the army, but the Acting Gover !nor of the province. Could I have believed I t hat the Governor of the province would ihave left the most important part of it, with |out the means of defence, exposed in the Imanner I have stated, and liable tube itt jvaded.aml possessed by the A nericati for ;ces? Such an event would have been the |most disastrous of any which could have (happened to him. By possessing both sides ! of the Niagara river, we should have com-! manded the water communication to Mal-j (leu, and the whole country above, which! .jwas the only communication on which hat, Jj-ost, S'. Joseph’s on lake Huron, and iu- Ideed the whole North West Company de i| pended lorsupp ie*. Had we therefore ta- I! ken possession of Fort Erie, Fort George, and (In* other posts on the Niagara river (heir communication would have been obstructed ’|aml they must have perisued for the want of the means of subsist mce. I again ask, on what grounds I could have possibly con pceiv *d, that General Brock had left that vi tal part of his province, and drawn his troops from siinations on whose protection their very existence depended. Had it been possible for me to have imagined the cast*, wide i actually existed, that Gen jerat Dearborn had agreed to a suspension of host ilities, I should have believed it cer- Itain, that he would have stipulated, that all I the troops, which were parties to it, should tern iit\ in the same situation, they were, at 1 the time it was made, and expressly, that (none bound by the armistice should be em j ployed, against those which were not in ’ eluded in it. If he had possessed any knowledge of his duty, he would have known this to have been the invariable practice in similar cases. But in fact, I did not even imagine, that it was possible a measure so 1 fraught with the certain destruction of my | army could have been adopted by him. J Bitso it was, and almost all the enemy’s | most important posts were perfectly safe, when only gu irded by a few invalids, to take! -j care of the barracks, &c. The Secretary of VV n, it will he seen by liis letter referred to Iiit a former memoir, stated, that by General ’ Dearborn’s letter to him, the General had informed me the measure, and had pro posed a similar one to my concurrence. .If (it were sent, it only reached me before the! I capitulation from the mouths of General 1 Brock’s cannon ; after that event, he, 1 (General Brock i informed me that it had taken place at Niagara, and all the other posts below were embraced in it. Perhaps it may he asked, when I perceived the forces of the enemy, of all descriptions cmice-H --• trating and bearing upon me from every ! quarter, why I did not retreat from Detroit, I and save my army from capture? as 1 wish ’ to answer every inquiry, and, if possible, ’ remove every doubt, with respect to the pro priety of ny conduct, I will here state the ' reasons, i’o those who are unacquainted ■ with the situation of the country, tins would i probably be a natural inquiry. In the man • tier in which these memoirs are published, I • cannot present a map of the country which was the scene of my operations. I fear it ' will be difficult to describe it in such away s that it will be perfectly understood. I must ask you in this case to examine some general e maps of the country, from .Detroit to the foot of the rapids of the Miami of lake Erie. The distance is about seventy miles. The II only road through which I could have re ■' treated, runs from Detroit as far as Browns '• town, on the banks of the Detroit river, a m bout twenty miles; and from Brownstown to to Bn* foot of the rapids, about fifty miles-; in some places on, .did in others near the bor k. ders ol lake Erie. This road was very dis ,!i > Ii cult to pas-, a great part of it being through a wilderness, and had only been opened by g-| my army, when advancing to Detroit. Its rll .cotirse, for seventy miles being on the mar jgin ol a navigable river, and the lake and :| t General Brock with his arniv being opposite k. to Detroit, with a number of irnied vessels, t,e. gmi boats, and a sufficient number of lia s U ol move his troops nu the water, would have >s- had such an advantage in attacking aretreat l, 1 mg army, especially when aided by his m iiiiiierous tubes ot savages, that I thei ml thought and I now think, that an attempt o the kinil would have resulted in the tutu iat instruction ot the army. With his boat ml protected by his armed vessels and gun iu> boats, his troops might have 'been moved ot .those smooth waters with the greatest celeri-j Ity, and landed in the front, rear, or on the Hank, and harrassed my march in sucli a manner that it would have been impossible to have effected it; besides we must have en countered the difficulty of passing a number of rivers without boats, and oyer which there were no bridges. The only places where some of these rivers could have been crossed, were near the navigable waters commanded by the enemy’s naval armament, and no 1 .boatscould have been provided for the pur- ' pose. There would have been no oilier ' mode of effecting the passage, but by swim- - ining or constructing rafts, in the face of the 1 enemy. Situated as I was, after the arrival 1 of General Brock with the re-enforcements, I I think you must be satisfied, that nothing' l could have justified an attempt of this kind, 4 especially when the nature of the country, 1 and the character of the enemy, which would i have assailed my army durin«- this long * march, is considered. The reasons which '< prevented me from retreating and taking a\ position at the Miami, immediately alter re-1* crossing the Detroit river, have been stated j* in a former number of tnese memoirs. I presume this will be considered as a satis-|l factory answer to the inquiry. |( In my next number, I snail proceed to a|< consideration of my situation at Detroit on! the 15th of August, when I received Gene jl ral Brock’s letter, and the position, and ' numbers of the enemy ; after which I shall i state the reasons which induced me to agree) to the capitulation on the 16di. Before, )l however, I close this number, I must ask 1 your indulgence, my fellow citizens, in ma- I king such ottservations and reflections as ' will naturally arise from the facts and docu- 1 ments which have been presented m the last i | numbers of these memoirs in relation to the • icon. 1 net of General Dearborn. i Alter considering the facts and evidence 1 ,which has been adduced to prove them, lit lask who has been guilty of the vile and base If jcharges which have been im.uued to iner t I Who has been guilty of unofficer-like con duct? If /had been in Geacial Dearborn’s < situation, and he had been in mine, and J\ had received the sam .ordors from the gov- 1 eminent which it has been proved he receiv- t ed, respecting the in. sjoij of Canada, would you not have had a rig.it to have sam that / I had been guilty of uhoflice>-like conduct? f it thus situated, / had received the same or- I der.s he repeatedly receiv -d, to m ■!< ■ diver- ' sions in the enemy’s country, to attack their pus's and to co-operate wit i him, /had not < only neglected to obey Jiese orders, but had | agreed to a suspension ot hosMlitie-’, from I which ids army was excluded, I ask you, whether/ could have complained of he siiej l charge at cowardice being imputed <omer|l If further, /had agreed to a suspension of j i hostilities, in the manner and under tr.ejt circumstances General tearborn did, wheih |l er it would not have afforded s- me colour to) have supposed it was with treasonable iews? i I wish it tube distinctly understood, shat 1 impute nothing criminal to him, and have ■ made these reflections with no oilier vow; but to exhibit in a strong light, that ih -re ; was nut the least foundation lor criminal , charge against me. For the present, I shall fake a farewell of j him, and it the facts and documents which i .have been presented shall cause any unplea- l sunt sensations in his mind, I regret that J can offer no balm to cure the stings and ■ wounds which his own reflections must inflict. . Before these memoirs are ended, be will again be introduced, as President of the . Court Martial before which 1 was tried, and ( his conduct in that character will be parti cularly examined. As you, my fellow citizens, are the legit- i imate and final tribunal, if you are satisfied | that the-facts which have been here stated, are proved by the evidence which has been j ottered, and that the measures he adopted | were the cause of the misfortunes ofthe cam- c paign, and the disasters which attended the army I commanded, it is to be hoped, on ac- | count of his age, Ids respectable connections , and his revolutionary service, your demon- ( cy will be exercised, and the punishment| t which would be justly due to such conduct 1 ( will be remitted, | t For the same reasons here expressed re-j commending him to your mercy, in a former' | number, I stated that it would have been a! happy consideration, had it been in my pow-j, or to have exhibited the truth in vindication j of my own honour, without any impeach-' ; inent of his character, i «•»###»>- ■ Planting Trees, —He who plants trees . upon Ids paternal estate, repays a debt to • Ids posterity which he owes to Ids ancestors. - A gentleman whose lands were more exten sive than fertile, used to plant 1000 trees, - on the birth of every daughter, upon Ids t waste grounds which were, on an average, i worth one pound each, on her coming of age; thus enabling him to give her a fortune ot - .£IOOO without any extraordinary ecouomv i on Ids part, the regular thinning of the trees V at proper seasons, with barking, &c. paying! s off all the current expenses, besides yielding - him a small rent for the land. In the year' 1 1758, ninety-two fir trees were planted) e upon a piece ot ground about three quarters) >. ‘d un ac tu in extent. The land was wiutei o Ami p oi, i'» no extra expense was incurred,l eland no further attention was paid to the I - young trees. In 1813 they were cut down,l is md yielded ninety tons of timber, then! n worth £4 per ton, giving a round sum ot! if £.360, which was equal to a rent of 306 10s.| d during the intervening 55 years. Can a) >. more convincing proof be given ofthe facil-j i- ity with which a man may save a fortune fori n Ids grand children. Mail. Latest from Europe. By the packet ship Howard, capt, Hol dridge, from Havre, whence she sailed the Ifiihult. the Editors of the Commercial id vertiser have Paris papers to the 13th of April inclusive, containing London dates three days later than have been previously received here. Great /ifituin.— Notwithstanding the re duction ot nudes, the increase of the Ex else during the corresponding quarter end ing on the oih of 4pn|, over the correspond dig quarter of last year, is £ 179d>83. To tal, £3,575, 448, Mr. Canning is confined at Gloucester Lodge, wilh the gout. Great Sympathy seems to be felt for Mr. Savary, who lias probably ere this fallen an other victim to the blood} code of England. It is reported, that even in the highest Ecclesiastical quarter, (the Archbishop of, Canterbury) so ne relaxation of Anti-Ca tholic feeling has taken place. Orders have been sent from England, to Russia, to purchase larger quantiles of Rus-| sian goods than can be remembered fori many ye o s. j A most extensive forgery has recently been practised upon the Bank of England,; which succeeded to a large amount. Bills, 1 bearing the signature of John Black & Co. O O were sent up through the Post-Office of Limeri k to that Establishment, purport ing to be accepted by Nicholas Mahon, Esq. of Dublin. They were cashed by the Bank,; and the money remitted according to di rection. A second time the same trick succeeded; but, in the third instances, in-1 quiry was made, and the entire transac tion discovered to be a fraud on the Bank. On the stu of January, 1825, 408,788 lbs. of Tobacco remained in the King’s ware house in Ireland. In the last four years, 1,453,217 lbs. of tobacco were seized in the King’s ware-house in Ireland. A Noble Earl it is said will shortly lead to the altar a lovely Syren from the boards of Covent Garden. And a noble Peer of Ireland U about .o institute “a suit of a very peculiar and delicate nature.” Corn Laws. —A Court of Common Coun cil was held in London the. 6di, for the pur pose of petitioning fora repeal ofthe corn laws. — There w•- but one dissenting voice A grand pub ic dinner has been given by die Whigs of Glasgow to Sir James Mac kintosh, on ids retiring from the office of L< rd Rei tor of the Ministry, after having given his casting vote to Mr. Brougham as his successor. France. —The debate upon the indemni ty law was continued at the last advices. A law fir the punishment of sacrilege was also before the Chambers. The congratulations ofthe Chambers had been offered to the King, on the anniversary ot his return from exile. Sixty banking and commercial houses have petitioned the King to send Consuls to Soutli America, after the example of the United States ajui England. One of die handsomest actresses of the Lynns Theatre, is about to exchange (he stage for a convent. The most magnificent preparations are still making for the approaching Coronation of the King at Rheims, Prince Metternich yet remains at Paris. The Head quarters of the troops arriv ing from Spain were expected to be at Bavonne about the 22d. While they have had an early spring in France, letters from Naples mention no thing but burricans, showers, tempests, and cold weather. On the Ist of April, a fire broke out at Premieifait which was still burning at 8 o’clock in the evening, at which hour, the church and 34 houses were reduced to ash es, and an old man perished in the flames. Only 15 houses were left standing, but these it was h >ped would escape. Letters from Sweden announce a rise ip the price of iron. At Perpignan, a habitual usurer has been jsen'enced to pay a fine of 34,000 fr. Spain. —Gold and Silver mines are said to have been discovered in Estremadura. 'The King has taken measures to encourage 'the people to much further examinations. The editor of the Cadiz Journal of Com merce lias been arrested for praising the conduct of the people of that city on the memorable 16th ot Match, 1820. Much wretchedness prevails in Andalu sia, in consequence of the scarcity of grain. The project of an Aulic Council seems likely to be. carried into effect by the King. 'The Constitutional Guerilla, which secur ed Valladolid, it is said have retired towards ithe confines of Portugal. | The downfall of Ugarte, it is supposed, | will be the downfall of all his financial i plains.— The Ki"g adheres to all ol Ids old favorites. —O’ her‘letters say, the affairs ol the ex-minister have taken a favorable turn j The Bashaw of 'Tangier has refused to hleliver up the Spanish Refugees, and the I Emperor of Morocco approved of his con duct. An attempt had been made to poison the fountain used by the Royal family, and a man was about to be tried for the horrid ■ 1 offence. There is a rumour that Don Vives is about ■tohe recalled from Cuba. Among other sentences to death, was a man for having a green ribbond in his house with the words “ Constitution, Cortes, Liberty or Death.” Vnother has been sen tenced to the gallies, because a copy of the Constitution was found in his carriage. The sailing of the ship with a new Captain General for the Phillipine Islands, has been suspended, in consequence of important news from Manilla. The present Captain General is said to have 8000 troops devoted to him ; and he declares he will not obey the mandates of the absolute King of Spain. 1 The Government is establishing Primary schools for both sexes, throughout the king dom. A letter from Spain states, that the Span ish government appears to consent to young Murat being set at liberty, and that the ves sel which is to convey him from Algesiras to the United States, is expected in that port from Gibraltar. Affairs of the East. —We find, as usual, a great variety of reports from the Archi pelago, Constantinople and Egypt. It is an nounced from Alexandria that Ibrahim Pacha has returned to that port with his ' fleet. [Another letter says he had sent his transports home.] Great attention is to be paid in Egypt to the cultivation of Sugar, i Egyptian transport vessels are said to have supplied the garrisons of the strong fortresses of Coron and Modon with provis ions. I Nothing positive wgs known at Constan tinople respecting the surrender of Patras, j though such was the rpmor. Letters from Alexandria announce the disappearance of the plague. Extract of a private letter of the 29th March, from Augsburgh :—“ Intelligence has been received at Trieste of the Greek squadron with a number of fire ships having jsuddenly re-appeared in the Archipelago and having approached the Isle of Rhodes, where ■ Ibrahim Pacha was with the Egyptian fleet. A letter from Constantinople, March 4th, says—“ The Janissaries have positively re fused to march against the Morea, and their refusal is to be declared alopd by their Aga to the Sultan, when he goes to the Mosque. Several of die men of this turbulent soldiery have been heard to guy : “We will not be • quiet, and we will do nothing for the Gov ernment till we have the heads of the Selic tar Aga, the Kiay Bey, and Hussin Bey. A tremendous fire has taken place at Var ma, by which the greater part of the town has been destroyed. The Pacha’s son, 22 yeafs of age, and several Turkish officers, perished in the flames in ..endeavouring to afford succour.” Other reports are in circulation, and a mong them, that Odysseus, who had joined | Coloctorini, had thrown himself with his parti/.ans, about f 500 men, into Negropont, and joined theTurkg. Holland. —The States General have grant ed 8,000,000 of florins for rapairing the damages of the late inundations.—2so per- I sons 14,000 head of cattle, and 1500 houses, were destroyed in the single province of Over Vessel. The damages elsewhere were incalculable. ’ In the Provinces of Upper Hesse. 9or ' 10,000 people are about to emigrate to Am erica. An agent is there from Brazil. Sales ai Havre , Jlprll 9. 27 bales Sea, Island Cotton 4 30; 461 Georgia 1 95 a 1 97 1-2 ; 2.18 Alabama I 90; 333 Louisiana, 208 9-4 a 21f. 11 th —l6o Georg ia M 1.95 a2; 41 S«a Islands 450a4 60 ; 52G Louisiana, 2 a 2 15 ; 400 Mobile I H7 1-2. 12M—250 Pernams, 232 1-2; 887 Mar. 220 a 225; 200 bags Jrt Domingo Coffee 77 12; lOObbls. Pol Ashes 44 25. 1.1//.—413 bales lyou. Cotton 2 05 a 2 20; 12 St. Dom. 2 to 2 05. 14oU-80 Sea Islands 4a4 70 170 Lou. 207 1-2 a 212 1-2 ;80 Mobile 205 a 210; 63 Mar. 231 1-2; 147 ceroons Guat. Indigo 16. \bth— 75 bales Pernams 2 10 a 250 ; 45 Sea Island 4 50; 60 Lou. 225 ; 660 bags St. Domingo t offee 76 1-2; 15 ccroons Caracas Indigo 15; 11 Guutimala 16 1-4. MARKETS. The Cotton Market had advanced at Havre from 3 to 4 sons |<er lb. \ LONDON, April 8. The markets Imre have been dull, partly on account of the holidays, but more particularly owing to the high prices of al most every article of commerce having been forced up by the late . JJP. Sugar. — Nothing of consequence done; prices without alteration. ; To-day 400 hhds. sold at full former rates, and the market appeared to he recovering. Hejined Sugar. Seine business done in Lumps at 03s pet «;wt. and there are buyers at 82s per cwt. for ordinary. To day more inqu ry, and several offers at former prices refused. 1. Cojf'ee. —The market inactive, uo public sale, and little dis position to purchase by private treaty. St. Domingo sola at various prices from 75s to 77s clean grocery sorts met with in l .qnirv for the home trade, and prices fully supported. Cotton Wool. —The sales consists of upwards of 32,C00 bags, at 2d perlb. advance on Pernams, and l-2d on East India, viz : to !sd. 6000 Egypt an 15d to 16 l-2d, 200 Smyrna, 12d, 800 Bourbon, 16 to 21d, IJ3uO Surats 8 3-4 d to 11 l-4d, 6000 Bcn . gals H 3-4 dto lUd, 800 Madras 9d to 10 l-2d, 70, Deracrura I6d 1 to 18d per lb. J Asiatic Sport. —The long contemplated contest between the Whitehall Boatmen - and the Castleton Boat Club, will take*" ! place on the 20th inst. at 10 o’clock in the ' forenoon, for a purse of two thousand dol lars. The boats are to start from Robins’ - Reef, near Staten Island, and row to a stake • boat which will be anchored in the North • River oppssite Castle Garden. Each bout will be rowed by four men, with a sitter or - helmsman. Two rpore beautiful boats were s never put together, and from the. known skill of the oarsmen on bo h sides, and the , good arrangements made by the commit 11tees, an interesting race may be safely an -1 iticipated. The boat belonging to the Cas t tleton Club was built by Mr. John Baptis, *■ and will be rowed by Staten Island water <* men. The Whitehall boat, so called, was e built by Mr. Montagnie, for Major How - ard, and will be rowed by Whitehall wa termen. [.V. V. Gaz. Uth inst. e Superabundant fFcalth.—We under stand, that on Tuesday, twenty millions of lt dollars were subscribed to the Morris Ca rnal and Banking Company.—Capital only one million, [AT, V. Oaz.