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THE GEORGIAN.
SVY ANNUL:
THU MSI) AY MORNING. MAY 9, HW-
Elijah Mix, tty.'-The reader will find in
•unoV.ier column, an article relative to this
promising firehge of the War Department. To
: many no doubt it will be amusing—but we must
' confess that to us it is in the last degree hunri-
Hating. The truth of the statement made can-
nut be doubted. That this man Mi*, the part.
Tier or the chief clerk of the War Department,
who lies under‘.lit 1 implication of a crime such
‘ ns detailed, should enjoy the gams of a contract
given by favor, without security or respon ubili-
ty, and should be suffered to fatten upon the
spoils < fthe public, i9 mortifying—it is disgrace
ful, and, en vevite, we blush for our country !—
Laws, said the Scythian, arc like cobwebs; the
great flics break through, hut the small are
caught. We do trust whilst the truth of the
observation stares us ir. tut face, there is a high
er tribunal—public opinion—which will effec
tually punish the offender, and will brand with
deser/ed odium the whole disgraceful traurac.
tioa.
A" bean’.fj1 little steam-boat," named the
' M Carolina, of Georgiu," 65 feet keel and 1C feet
beam, and 45 tuna burthen, was launched at
ii’ew-York on the 27th ult. She was built for
E- Early, Esq. of this city, and is intended to
tun between Tybee and Savannah during th>
summer season.
CONGUESS.
A resolution was introduced in Senate on the
• 30th ult to authorise the President in caiooCl
the repeal of the lb iliali West India TCStriefllM^
to open the porta of the United States,
In the House, a report was received from tW
•iscnl concerns of the government. Tb*r re
port estimates that the revenue for the
x car will be adequate to the necessary exgjtt-
dilut es, and wil leave in the treasury, at the
of the year, a surplus of 713,543 dollars.
A great part of this day was takeu up on the
bill to reduce the compensation of members of
Congress. A motion to insert four dollars per
tiem was negatived. Before a decision, the
ciouse adjour.ed.
forto Cabeilo had not surrendered in the
-afoiddle of April, though well founded expec
tations wefe entertained efits immediate sur-
deader, by a combined and rigorous blockade
by land and •>«■». Markets at I.a Guyra were
dull, being glutted with American produce of
c.very description and country produce scarce
‘jrid high us per last quotations.
Ait extract of a letter f$Bn LonlSon of the 1st
" There i3 no doubt b^it that the
British West India Colonies will J»e opened to
the American flag this month, bU I suppose the
Regulations and laws will not be completed, so.
t>9 to go i
tiext July.
;i*.c operation ir. the Island* before
Tnj?t:<.\-*-7hd la'.c accounts by the CfnCinr.a-
Xu* at New Yo:b, cor.urm the statements made
of the agitated state of this kingdom. It wa9
said that political missionaries travelled the
country in the disguise of merchants for the
purpose of exciting revolt. Quant ties of arms
have been ceried at Ihest and l'ari3, belonging
to the opponent!! cf the present system. In the
-Chamber of Deputies allusion was made by
Gen. Gerard to Napoleon, which created much
applause frotn one side and murmuring from
the other ; on which the general remarked—
‘'pardon, gentlemen, I thought a word of that
old French army might find an echo in this
-chamber, which so many of its trophies once de
corated.'* To this General Joy replied—" Pa
tience, the time will come again.'* Other mem
bers on the tight exclaimed " Mo, never.**
A letter from London says, Mr. Washington
Xrvine is no*? correcting the sheets of his new
work, Braccbridge Hall, and adtl3, " there is as
much anxiety for its appearance as there would
be fora novel of Scott's, or a poem of Byron’s-
There is also a very clever book just published
here, " Europe, bp a Citizen of the United
States,” which is highly thought of. The vVor/A
Jlmerican lieviev is also circulating freely, and
Las obtained great reputation ; so that our Ed
inburgh Reviewers would be ra’lbcr ashamed
now to ask, ns they once did. “ In the four
•quarter), of the globe -who reads an .IticMtan
Jtouk •” '
Messrs. Carey & Lea of Philadelphia have
received and put to press the new novel by the
Author of Wavcrly, entitled the "Fortunes o'
Nigel.** A letter from Loudon thus describes
the work—"The present novel is the most in
teresting the author has written since ivunhoe •
it is equal, if not superior to that most admired
and celcbiuted pioduction. The scene is chief.
Jy in London during the lime of James I. anil
the work embraces some delightful puiticulars
cf that very interesting period.'*
Mr. Kean performed the character of frir
i'ertinax Mac Sycophant at Drury Lane Thea
tre in March. Bell's Weekly Messenger says,
the character was well played, and was only in
ferior to Ceoke in the strong expressions of his
Sarcasm, and in the Variety ot the character.
A letter from Home mentions that M. Ambro
ses Marecbal, Archbishop of Baltimore, in the
rutted States, I ad arrived in that city, and was
received by Ins Holiness the Pope, in the most
gracious manner, and presented with a gold
Mice, beautifully urjuiwc-Eu.
The prbpric:ois»Ft'..c r.cw line ofDeu'-YorV
Packt ts have allured the time of their sailing
to the 24th of each month from Ncvv-York and
the 8th from Liverpool. The times of depar
ture from Ncw-York are now the 16lh, 24th and
1st of each month, and from Liverpool the 1st,
8th and 16th.
Two elegant swords, the hilta and ornaments
of which are pure gold, have been manufactur
ed by N. 8tarr, of Middletown, Conn, which for
beamy and work man'hip, it is said, can scarcely
be excelled. They v. ere made pursuant to un
order from the state of Tennessee, for General
Jackson and General Gaines.
General Scott has arrived in Washington, un
der orders from the war department.
Mr. Cooper performed Othello in Louisville
(Ky.) on the 18th ult. on which occasion the
boxes were put up, as in Boston, during Ms.
Kean's engagement, at auction, and brought
from 12 to $35 each.
The measles appear to be raging in Canan
daigua, in the state ol New York ; twenty child
ren have died in that town and neighborhood in
one mouth.
Lithography,—The Boston Daily Advertiser
says—"This species of printing is extensively
used in Europe for copying commercial circu.
lars. We have lately seen a letter of three px-
ges closely written, of which the lithographic
printer furnished the writer in London, 100
beautiful copies, perfect fuc similies of the ori
ginal, in the an hour from the deliver
of the copy t jj^^^H>w price of Ss. 6d."
A wrsgrfl^^F^advertised in l'hiladclphh;,
thst tto^toigmutgales were kept for exhi-
bmon iif.ijMLtfbighborhood of the city, which
hid been tough t to sing the won/# of Robin
Adair, *idseveral other of Mr. I’hihpps's songs.
committee of Ways and Means, relative to the ‘' tlle *•? •»*»»* » lar K e .umber of amateur.,
male andfemale -attended, who were of course
hutted,
• A wetrremedy has been discovered and in
(roduced into practice in London, for diseases
of a rheumatic and nervous nature, which is
called AcupuncluYation. It consists, as the name
imports, in inserting a needle into the muscular
parts of the body, to the depth sometimes of an
inch, which has in many instances been iellow-
ed-by »he best effects.
Mr. Godeatt, the rope dancer, in ascending to
the gallery of the circus at New-Y’ork, when at
the height of 20 feet, fell and was severely in
jured.
The annual charge on the British treasury,
for foreign Ministeis and'Ambassadors, is not
less than 29^,690 pounds sterling.
Patent Plate Window Glass, without cross
bars, is adveWised in Condon papers. The
squares are so well fitted and neatly jointed, as
to give the window the appearance of one en
tire o!ate.
?ive hundred laborers are wanted to work in
the Cayuga Marshes, on the New-York Grand
Canal.
A letter from Liverpool states that a pur
chase of 1200 bushels European bonded wheat
had been shipped at that port for NeW-York,
In the course of forty-eight years 5154 indi
vitbuls have been preserved by theTtoyal Hu
mane Society of London. They have also paid
20,500 claimants for preserving livee.
FROM OUIt CORRESPONDENT,
Boston Evening Gazette, April 27-
Disturbances at St. Salvador,—-Captain
Brace, arrived at Salem, informs us, that
from the 17lh to the 24th of February,
Great commotions and many bloody scenes
bad taken place at St. Salvador, in conse
quence of the arrival of an European Ge
neral to take command as Governor and
Military thief: supported by the Europe
an and Portuguese troops, about 8000 in
uumber, he demanded of the Brazilian
commander the resignation of his autho
rity ; and the latter supported by the na
tive troops atid populace, refusing, they
were fired upon in the Palace Square,
and a considerable number killed and
wounded.
The Brazilians were compelled to re
treat to fort San Pedro, where they re
mained till the 21st, when they evaluat
ed it, and retired to the. country, leaving
their comfnnnder a prisoner, who would
probably fie feint to Europe for trial. Dur
ing these 4 days about 300 Brazilians
were killed and wounded, and about SO
of the European troops. Many of the
former were shot down, while peaceably
passing the streets.
During these transactions, all business
was suspended at St. Salvador, the mer
chants and many other inhabitants having
retired to the shipping for safety When
('apt. B. sailed (27th February) tianquil-
-'lity was in a great measuie restored, and
business resumed, but it was expected the
Btazilians would soon return in greater
force altd attack the place, when bloody
work was anticipated.
Captain Brace has favored us with St.
Salvador pap -rs to the 20th 'Feb. contain
ing details of the events noticed above,
but wc received them at too late an hour
to procure translations for this paper.
FROM HAVANA.
Charleston, May 7 — My the pchr. Jane,
Capt. M‘William, in 5 days from Hava
na, we have received our papers to the
29th ult. and letters to the 1st fost.
Letters had been received from Lieut,
ticaruiy, of tho V. a. brig Eutcrpriic,
dated atA'cri Crtij., but C»pt. Micwii. ft H ft ft ft ft ft ft
Warn heard no particulars. b 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Tht frigate Macedonian arrived at Ha
vaua on the 28th April, from Boston.
City Gazette
MEXICO.
In the "Noticiow>” of the the 27th
April, we read the following letter receiv
ed by a respectable inhabitant of Havana
from his friend in Mexico. It is dated the
3d of April, and furnishes a late and in
teresting account of the actual political
state of New Spain. Yturbule seems to
be playing a treacherous game.
" This evening a little before prayers,
the government received information that
n regiment of military had been raised at
Texcuco, at the head of which is Capt.
Buceli—they shouted Viva el Roy ! and
leaving their baggage in the care of the
Jlyutamionto f(town council) theyj pro
ceeded to Chaleo in good order. The
government immediately ordered the
march ol a body of grenadiers, which took
place at 12, I*. M.{ but unfortunately,
the regency did not know the feelings of
these men—fur the soldiers disobeyed
their crnnHauulero and deserted most
shamcffulh^Kkiis was the conduct of a-
bout n Tacubaya the soldiers
disobeyt inWr commanders even to the
extreme of violence, using insults, snatch
ing oft their cockades and delivering them
to the general. The Congress distrusted
these last regiments, (of Cruz and Busta
mante) and as they happened to both sal
ly forth un the same day, it gaye occa
sion to think that they were among the
conspiratois.
It was alredy past 10 o’clock at night,
when these rumous reached us and even
then manyymrsons hastened to the house
of' BrisenjflHktheir money, so that out
ot a milllM^l a half of dollars, he has
not half remaining. It is now 8 o’clock,
and the deputies of the Congress have
just retired^ Their discussion lasted
from 9 in the morning to this hour.
At lOyesietday, Yturhride presented
himself to tlte Congress, saying that pub
lie tranquillity was threatened, and re
attested that certain deputies should be
dismissed the assembly, who were com
preliended in the conspiracy. He was
answered th.it, according to rule, no body
could be sent out, and as he himself did
not compose Ike Regency, he would please
to retire and icturn with them,die.
Don Yanczthenobserved," I will thank
tour Excellency to receive my resigna
tion. Your Excellency will pardon me,
(uddiessing Iturbide)—you are the only
man who usurp* all powers. Ylurhide
replied, " we shall soon find, Signor Ya
rn z, who is \\i traitor,” Yanez replied,
"I shall not I live this spot before 1 con
vince your hotness, you are that traitor.’
Much luiAoltuous discussion took place,
whjch time foWs me (o repeat. I anf
convinced tlw Imings and disturbances
have nccuriwLj^use' Iturbide wishes to
destroy ‘'ITejWr^i?S9.
The Genfll presented a letter, which
he received'Horn Davila, in which lie is
invited to redtrtquer the Empire, and place
it under the protection of Spain. But, as
if the Devil hjl a hand in it, the plot was
discovered. These plots and usuipations
have destroyed the equilibrium of our go
vernment, and we are now in the situa
tion of Buenos Ayres.
The most important fact communicat
ed by the late foreign intelligence, says
the National Gazette, is the official an
nunciation in Parliament, of the intention
of the Briti>h Ministry to bring before
the House of Commons, a measure " bear
ing a relation to he question of opening
a commercial intercourse between the
West India--Coloniesand the (J.States of
Amend.” This measure was to have
been submitted to the House on the 29th
March, hut the intention does not ap
near to have been carried into effect on
that day. We have been favored with
the ensuing extract of a letter on this
subject, dated Liverpool, April 1st, and
written by one of the -most respectable
commercial firms in that city.
“ The bill to regulate the trade with
the \Y est Indies does not appear by the
proceedings in Parliament on the 29*h, to
have been brought in. But it may have
been brought in pry forma, although no
debate took place on it. A proposition
has been assented to in the Agricultural
Committee, to allow foreign wheat in
bond to be ground into flour ; bond being
given to export 50 lbs. of superfine flour
for every 70 pounds of wheat taken out.
There is not we b*?.iave, any fresh flour
notv in this market unsold j but you will
be aware that after the passage, of tho act
above mentioned, the vent for export will
be considerably diminished, and after
September the espurt to Newfoundland
ceases.”
It may 'be apprehended that the Eng
lish millers will immediately undersell us,
under such an arrangement. The freight
from England to their own Islands is less,
eve believe, thatrfreight from the United
States ; to all other parts <>f the world it
19 as low, and in several instances lower.
The bonded wheat in England is nomi
nally from 4 to 5s. sterling for 70 lbs.—
The lowest price here, say g 1 30 cents,
(in fact g 1 33 is paid, and J 40 asked ;)
which is about Gs 9d. sterling for 70 lbs.
at par. TJius there would seem to be no
chanced sales fur our millers and farm
ers, but in a reduction of prices. The
winter in England and France has been
very favorable to wheat. There were in
bund in England,on the 1st January, five
and un hull millions of bushels of wheat.
Stockholm, March 8-—“ The official Ga
zette publshcs a letter from the Emperor
of Morocco to his Majesty our King, thank
ing lum in the most friendly manner fur
ELIJAH MIX.
Particulars of Mr. Elijah Mix. the Rip
Rnp contractor. Let the Secretary of
War, and his Chief Clerk (late partner
of Mr. Mix) read this—
From the New-York Evening Post of April 24.
" Facts.—Wc happen to know some
thing about this Mr. Mix, and something
ao important too, that we cannot, consist
ently with our sense of duty, withhold it
from the public on this occasion. ME
Butler has said that there were suspicious
appearances about the contract with Mix;
nod Mr. Cumbreleng said "lie did not
think the government ought to have made
a contract with Mix.”—Whether these
gentlemen were justified in their expres
sions respecting this man, let the follow
ing incontrovertible facts now decide.—
These facts arc given me by the most re
spectable witnesses, and l hereby pledge
myself for the legal proof of them when
ever a direct denial shall render that ne
cessary and proper.
" In the year 1811,Elijah Mix negotiat
ed a promissory note for, say, between
tfhree and four thousand dollars, with
Hones arid Town’s indorsement to Sam
uel Stillwell, under an understanding
that Stillwell should not put it afloat in
the market, without first apprising Mix
of his intentions ; but, Stillwell wishing
to purchase some goods -of Hones and
Town, asked them if it would be conve
nient to take in part payment their own
indorsement ?—With marks of surprise,
they denied there was any such indorse
ment in existence. Stillwell was posi
tive, and returned to get the note to ex
hibit to them ; meeting Mix at the door,
he told him of the negotiation, and of their
having forgot their own indorsement, ad
ding, that he was going tack to satisfy
them. Mix heard him in silence, took
the alarm, consulted a friend, and imme
diately left the state. It was then dis
covered that he effected the forgery by
the following ingenious artifice.
"Some time before, having to pay
Hones and Town a sum of money, he
wrote a receipt for them to sign, near the
top of the lei in his receeipt book, in
such a inaniter as to enable him to out dff
their signatures from the receipt and leave
them attached to the blank paper below,
and then by turning the paper back for
front, he turned the signatures on one
side into an indorsement on the other, and
then by writings note and signing it him
self payable to ilones and Town, instant-
ly Hones and Town appeared as indors
ers for the same sum. This he did, and
immediately became possessed, with more
than a conjurer’s adroitness,of the indorse
ment of Hones and Town, for upward 1 ) of
23000.
" For this piece of doxrerity, the
Grand Jury of New-York, at the subse
quent sesrion, saw lit to find an indict
ment for forgery against Mr. Mix, Which
he look good care should never reach
him, and never of course be tried. And
now, reader, you have become somewhat
better acquainted with the man with whom
the agent of the government has aitice
the above transaction, made a contract
by the non fulfilment of which, strange ao
it may appear, he has transferred to his
pocket, out of the pockets of the people,
the trifling sum of two hundred arid twen
ty-live thousand dollars, and has retired
to spend the money with leisure and dig
nity at Georgetown, where as we have
been told, he has been living iri a style
of splendor That vies with that of the
most opuieHt mca in the place.”
Mr. Montgomery, from the Committee
on the Public Expenditures, made a re
port upon the subject, on the 27th ult.
in the’House of Representatives conclud
ing with the following resolutions:
1. Resolved, That the Committee on
♦he Judiciary do enquire into the e«pc*
dicncy of prescribing, by law a mode, by
which all persons having claims against
the United States, on account of money
or property, may have the same brought
before, examined, and decided upon in
the judicial way, embracing therein all
cases, where, upon a like state of facts,
between individual and individual, an ac
tion at law or bill of equity would be sus
tained.
2. Resolved, That the Committee on
Military Affairs do inquire into the expe
diency of repealing all laws authorising
the building of forts, and erecting cer
tain other military defences, by contracts
made by persons not ot the army , and
providing, in lien thereof, the most ad
vantageous mode of having such services
performed by the labor of the regular sol
diers, aided by proper mechanics, under
the superintendence of the proper officers
of the anny.
3. Resolved, That the Committee of
Ways and Means do inquire into the ex
pediency of changing the existing law, io
relation to the time of reporting balances
to Congress, as being due from individu
als to the United States, so a9 to require
such report, within one year after the ac
count ought, by law, to be closed. And
that the said committee do also inquire in
to the expediency of prescribing, by law, a
more effectual mode of taking sureties
from the officers concerned in the collec
tion and disbursement of public moneys,
embracing a mode of renewing the obli
gations of such otiicers periodically—
And that the said committee do also in
quire into the expediency of providieg,
by law, for the forfoliures of offices, in
relation to (he collection of the revenue,
ntid the disbursement thereof, on certain
specified omissions and malpractices.
Mr. Foletica, the Russian minister, left
Washington yesterday morning on his re
turn to Russia; during his residence here
lor nearly two years past, in his dipfo-
llio 20 brass c.pitoa vvtiicb lie lias 8cnthim.|^ t ji c department a, well u» private
character, he has cotfimanded very gen
era! esteem, though we must be allowed
to say that since the production of the of
ficial correspondence on the claim of Rub-
sia to a portion of our borders on tho
North West const, the nationul justice
of the government of Russia has been ren
dered more questionable than when Mr.
P. first arrived amongst us. The further
diplomacy between the two countries has
been committed to the hands of a charges
de9 affaires.
Mr. de JWtuville, it is expected will
return very shortly to Europe : he polite
ly declined an invitation to a ball and sup
per, as a mark ot respect from the citi
zens of Wasington for himself and lady*
previous to his quitting this place : advi
ces, however, received through late foreign
papers state that new instructions on tho
subject of our commercial differences withi
France have been transmitted to Mr. N.,
which if correct, may probably prolong
his departure for some months longer. It
the accounta are to be credited which we
copy from the Sierra Leone Gazette, ao
African paper, some arrangements are re
quired to put a stop to the slave trade
under the French flag on that coast :
such a ncgociation could not be confided
to abler or more zealous hands than Mr.
dc Neuville.
Mr. Canning the minister, from Great
Britain, will now be the only ambassador
of the rank of minister plenipotentiary
remaining near our government. iSjr. (j.
is a gentleman of an amiable disposition,
possessing constitutionally but little ot
the impetuosity of his countrymen : in his
demeanor he appears phlegmatic and cau
tious, of mild and retiring manners. Of
all his predecessors, (to use a mercantile
phrase,) he is perhaps the best assorted
for the American market, and the best
suited to conduct a negotiation with arc-
publican government.
Of Don Joaquin de Jlnduaga, we hear
he is waiting advices from his government
in. Spain, at Philadelphia. As our re
cognition of South American indepen
dence will only leave the Spanish cabinet
Hobson's choice, there will be no difficulty
at home iu preparing Don Joaquin’s des
patches. Wash. City Gazette.
John IIolkar.Esq. who contracted at Pa
ris with Dr. Franklin, during the American
revolution, to furnish the United States,
with a large supply of clothing and arms,,
and was subsequently the French Consul
General in this country, died Inst week at
Winchester, Va. where he had lived in
retirement Tor the last 30 years. His fa
ther was an adherent of the Pretender, and
fled with his prince to France, after tlm
disastrous rebellion of 1745, taking with
him the subject of this notice, who was
then an infant. Cofa. Jldv.
novel sight.
On Wednesday morning last, a waggon
drawn by ten yoke oroxen passeft through
this town from the northward. It excited
the curiority of every description of peo
ple, and during thestoppage of a few min
utes we gathered the following particulars.
The expedition was voder the command
of Mr. Roswell Brown, of Berkshire coun
ty, Mass, and was on its way to Greenbrier,
Va. to asaist in making the new turnpike
connecting the James river with the Ken-
awha- Mr. Brown had contracted to do
ten miles in the neighborhood of Lewis-
burg, and had with him all the necessary-
apparatus. The Whole length of the team,
with the waggon, was upwards of 100 feet,
and the lu;id weighed nearly five tons •
It had been just three weeks on the road,
and had averaged 20 miles a day Tne
oxen, which on settig out were "as sleek
as moles” a3 the driver said, now looked
lank and weiry. Poor fellows ! two thirds
of their journey is over.
Winchester Rep.
Trom the National Intelligencer.
UNITED STATES AND SPAIN.
MESSAGE from the President of the U.
States, transmitting-, in pursuance of a
resolution of the Senate, of the 25th A.
pril» sundry papers relative to the recog.
niuon of the Independence of the South
American Colonics.
To the Senate of the United Staten:
I transmit to the senate, agreeably to
their resolution of yesterday, a report Irorn
the secretary of state, with copies of the
papers requested by that resolution in re
lation to the recognition of the South A-
merican Provinces
JAMES MONROE.
Washington, April 26, 1622.
DePAHTMENT OF §t'ATE, >
April 25, Itf22. J
The secretary of states to whom has been
referred a resolution of the senate of this
clay, requesting the president to communi
cate to the senate any information lie may
have, proper to be disclosed, from our rnit.>
htcr at Madrid, or from the Spanish min
tstcr resident in this country, concerning
the views of Spain relative to the recogni
tion of the Independence of the South A - -
mcrican colonies, and of the dictamen of
the Spanish Cortes, has the honor to sub
mit to the President copies ol papers pur
ticularly referred to.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
ENCLOSURES.
The Spanish minister to the secretary of
state, 9th March, 1822. (Translation.)
Secretary ot state to the Spanish mtniv
ter, 6ih April, 1822.
Spanish minister to the secretary ofstate,
11th April, 1822. (Translation.)
Mr. Forsyth to the secretary of state, 14th
Feb. 1822. (Extracted.)
^Diciaij’ti.ofiheCunes, l::li February,
[travslation.J
Dan Joaquin dc .indmga in the .Secretary of Mali,
W a.ihim!ton, March 9.
bm—In (he National Intelligencer o'
tins da, I liavc seen tltu ntC35S(ju lent t,