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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,