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in the United States. Extract from the proceedings of the genera! convention of the Bap tiff denomination in the United States, at their firff triennial meet ing, held in Philadelphia, in May, 1817 : (hewing the number of churches & members in each State .'States Churches Members. Maine 113 62 87 New-II amps! lire 53 373 8 Vermont 112 8470 —tar >l .* 77j1 gi-’hrtfle-Jslaiul 57 59‘7 ( 'miner ticut 49 6772 Kew-York 821 23558 New-Jersey 24 1941 Fennsvlvauia 60 4517 Delaware 8 570 Marvlarul 33 1455 Virginia 314 11838 Tvorth-CaroHna 215 11711 Soulh-Cui olina 169 11003 Ot-nrjria 202 16834 MiSsissippi-Territory 56 2441 TANARUS: . - fee ‘ 169 9704 TCrntncky 421 22434 Ohio 203 3628 Indiana 67 2474 SitmislU.M. T. 9 216 S.G.Conf. U. S. A. 10 1934 £664 165,201 There were no returns of the number of churches nor members in one entire aflbeiation, and the number of members are not re ported from 142 churches in Vir ginia. No return of members from 18 churches in North.Carrolina. No return of churches or mem bers from one entire aflbeiation of • South-Carolina. No return of one do. in Georgia. No return of members from 8 churches in Kentucky. No do. do. 5 do in New-York. Upon making a very moderate allowance for the associations, churches, &c. from which reports have not been received, the ex hibit of the whole will be as fol lows : Number of Baptist churches in the U. S. 2,727 .Ministers 1,916 Baptised last year, at least 10,000 Members in Fellowship 183,245 ■The financial committee of the house of commons has reported that there will be wanted for the fert te of the year 18:7, over and above the products of ail the taxes, &c. the lum of 15,312,288/. and for that of the year 1818, nearly 13 millions, without calculating contingencies ! A reduction of the intcrefts payable on the national debt is hinted at. It must come to that, sooner or Liter. The effective flrength of the British army at home and abroaJ, exdufiveofartillery, formed agrand total of 266,865 men on the isth of April. The woollen goods exported from Great Britain in the year ending January 5, 1817, were valued at 8,405,486/.—of which, the value of 3,029.,667/. were, sent to the United States. A fleet is fitting out at Ports mouth, supposed to be destined for China, from the extenlive pur chases of tea made by the Eaft-ln dia comp any. The duke of York's late “dear ; angel,” Mary Ann Clarke, still attracts attention. But her trade of selling benefices in the church and commhlions in the army, is at an end. A London paper fays femetking ab ut “ the real lovers of the con-! fiituilon.” We should like to fee a copy of it, and learn how its principles are applied. From the lit cf April to the 17th of June, 275,000 barrels of flour were received in England (rein tile United states. The Britilh ports are opened to j all nations for the import of bread- Huffs, in anv ship or vessel, until'| the 14th of November next. Edward Rushton , one of the pu rest and ablest advocates for free dom that England boafled of, is deceased. ITALY. Prince Eugene Beauharnois has fold h?s Italian principality 10 the j aing of Naples, for the funi of fiv't millions of Francs. ENGLAND, &c. The king and queen narrowly es caped drowning at their country feat near Stutgard, by the overflowing of the Ncckar. The water rushed into | the house with f.uch violence as to tear j up the pavements in the hall. The queen made her escape out of the win- ; J dow by neans of a ladder. J Santani, from St Helena, has been I arrested at Come, and his papers sent to Vienna. How fearful are the “ le- j gitimates,” of the dungeoned loan ! Lord Cochrane is represented to have j arrived at St- Thomas with 40 cr 50 l’ritifh officer?, to join the patriots of South America. In Pennsylvania a ccnteft for 1 power prevails between a portion cf the old Republican party and 1 | the federal party united, and the i J great body of Republicans, old and new, who supported Govern !or Snyder. In (his contelt the | characters ofTvleffieurs Heister and | Findly, the rival candidates for the office or Governor, are treated I with very little respect ; and yet, | we presume, they are both worthy men. The political battle in this Hate, as almost every where else, is obviously for the c ‘ loaves and fiihes.” In Kentucky a controverfv exlfts with respeu t to the conlhtutionality or unccnftitutionality cf electing a new governor in the place of the late Governor Madison. This is i I the ostensible grounded argument; ; ; but, in reality, it is a conflict be- ! tween the fiiends of Mr Clay and j til ole cf Mr. Pope, for the empire ! of the state. When Governor Madilon died, lieutenant governor Slaughter took the governor’s chair and appointed Mr. Pope Secretary of State, although he had just be- 1 fore been rejected by the people j as a candidate opposed to Mr Clay I for a feat in Congress. Should a new Governor be chosen, Mr. Pope will probable be ousted from office. UNCOMMON SEE PENT. j We have in our polkffion an ex j tract of a letter from John .Low, I efq. to his son in town, dated Gloucester, Aug. 14, 1817. There was seen on Monday and Tuesday morn, playing about t e harbor, between Ealiern Point and Ten Pound Island, a Snake, with his head and body about eight feet out of water; his head is in p.rfect (hope, as large as the head of a horse. —his body is judged to be about 45 cr 5c feet in length ; it is theft he will girth about 3 feet round the body, and his (ling is about 4 feet ill length-. While wiring the a beve, a person has called in, who ; fays that there are two to be fecn, j playing from the Stag’s Head into , the harbor, inside Ten Pound ; Bland. Idle fee cl a tors are Mr Charles Smith and Mr John Proctor, and itveral others. A number of our i Jh*.rp fiiooters are in pursuit of him, : I hut cannot make a bail penetrate ! his head. Another party is just going in .pursuit, with guns, har poons, &c. Our ftnall craft are ; fearful of venturing out a filhing. The above can be attested to by | twenty different people of undoubt ; ed veracity. _______ Law Intelligence . ! * (NEW.-YORK, AUG. 1 6. At the Court of General Ses sions of the Peace, came on yefter d?.y the trial of Francis Mezzari, ads. The People, for a libel upon Aaron Palmer, a refpe&ahle iaw yc-r, in holding him up to public i ridicule, by a painting purporting i to be a portrait of Mr Paltner, with a pair of Aftes years, which he cx hibitted for sale at an auction. The | facts which came out in evidence, j were the following in substance : Mr Piltner fat to the defendant | who is in Italian, and a painter by | profefljpn, for his portrait ; who, when it was finished, lent it for ex hibition to the Academy of Arts, Mr Palmer’s content or 1 knowledge. Mr Palmer and his : friends were much difpieafed, for they considered it at belt but a ca ricature, and Mr P. meeting Mez zsri soon afterwards, in a miid way tend him of his and his friends’ disappointment with, regard to the picture, and of his disapprobation of what he had done ; but, at the seme time added, that he did not ivilh M. to lose his labor, and ask ed him the price with a view to | jjpy him for it, which he offered to , do then : he was told 65 dollars ; • but Mr Mezzari fa id he would not ; Receive any thing from a man who ; had insulted him by decrying his j skill ; if, therefore, Mr P. would | only give him a writing reiinquifa in u all claim to the picture, he had no more to ask. Mr P. did so ac ; cording!’/, and M. departed ; but : soon afterwards sent to demand the j price, which Mr P. then refused to pay. On which M. brought a suit for the money ; but on a trial of of the case, Mr P. set up a want of co iideration, and infilled that the picture was deficient in idem fiance. The. Jury being of the ’ fame opinion, gave a verdict for the defendant. An execution hiked ror the coils ; and the picture was given to the Sheriff, and receipted lor, to be forth-corning at a day when it was to be sold at public ! auction to faddy the execution. Ia the mean time, Mezzari had painted a pair of Aftes ears, which he affixed to the head. Mr P. ac ! cidently hearing c.f the circum -1 fiance, lent a friend to die a-j&ion I to buy it in, and who bid 30 dol lars, but M’s agent bidding. 40 dol : lars, it was ft ruck off to him. He j then exhibited it h in?, left, and | took much pains to cull the at ten ■ tion of the people to it. Mr P. i finding that it was made such an Improper life of, complained of the injury to the Grand jury, who found an indictment again!! Mez zari for a libel, and yesterday the raufe was tried. T'lie defendant being a foreigner, a jury, confuting of one half of Americans, and the other half foreigners, were impan lecl to decide between the parties. Tiie cause began at 12, a. m. and lulled til! the evening, before it was .committed to the Jury ; who, it seems, were together all the night, being unable to agi'ee cn a verdict till this morning, when they bro’t in the defendant guilty. We have not heard the sentence of the court. This being the firft trial Hr a libel of this kind in our courts, we have been the more particular in dating faffs. (iiv post. A paragraph in the Baltimore Patriot attaches blame feme where for delay in issuing patents for mili tary bounty lands. We have learnt that orders were given very soon after the dole of the war, for the survey of those lands ; but the ho ftiie dlfpofition cf the Indians fora long time, rendered the execu on of those orders impraffticafdr When it is recolleffed that not only lauds were to be furveved diffident to fatisfy all the claims for boun ties, but lands fit for cultivation, diffident for that purpose, it will appear evident that much time was necessary for the execution of the . surveys, and we do believe that no blame to the Surveyor- Genera!. In the General Land Office,Lot tery /rickets are already prepared from ’all the surveys which have arrived, and we under Hand that the Lottery for .Lands in Illinois territory, will be ready for drawing • in two weeks, a;.J will commence as scon as the President returns to the city. - (naevintel. CHARLESTON, AUG- 7- ‘Large Peaches. We yeihrday saw a Peach, raffed in the garden ‘ of Mr John Stroble, of if is city, 1.2 ounces and one drachm, i, and , measuring -i i inches In ci ct.mfer. ence. Tire tree from which tt: s beautiful ‘fruit was taken, is In is . fourth year of bearing, and was on ly full’ermVto grow to maturity five dozen peaches, the final-left of I which weighed nine ounces. The peach above-mentioned was one of the largest. From this circum ftar.ee, it ks clearly proven, that, peaches would arrive at greater perfe-flion, both in ftze* and flavor, fiom having the excess of fruit tak en off whi Iff young. Charleston, Aug 18, All the mails due from the • south, five, were received to-day . The contractor has been uftng ev ery endeavor to get along with them, but could not do so before, The heavy and continue! rains keep up tiie dreams, and prevent the. commifficners cf the roads from working ; almost all the bridges are carried away. The contractor, M- Bolan, fays in a letter to the post mailer, if it continues to rain,* there will be no eroding. This will be the last mail you can have until there is something dene with the bridges. One mall was received, the old est out of five due this day, front the north. NO I ICE. * Will be sold, in the town of Washington, on the first Tuesday in October next, to the highest bidder, THE OLD COURT-HOUSE. The terms will be made known on the day of sale. By order of the Court. - JN° HALFDAY, Clk. Sept 5, 1817. ‘ “ no tick ■ The subscribers to the Washing', ten Races arc requested to conven* on Tuesday next, at Mr Charlton ’ Coffee-House, in order to organise’ the club. September 5.