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NATIONAL CUR&BNCY
The CfAuiTiniftee on thi* subject hare re
ported a bill to the house of representa
tive*. wbi .b provides, that afler the Slm of
December nett the notes of banks which
do oof by that time pay specie shall not be
received ia payment of debts/doe the Uni
ted States, and imposes new stamp duties
rpon them after the following ssate :
Cents.
Hu notes not exceeding 1 dollar 10
Above l end not exceeding 2 $o
Above 2 and not exceeding 3 S 30
Above 3 *ui not exceeding 5 00
Dolls
Above 5 not exceeding <0 \
Above 10 and not exceeding 2a 2
Above £•) and not exceeding 50 5
Above 50 and not exceeding lor 10
Above 100 and not exceeding SOO 50
Above 500 100
Os which duties ho compensation sfar li
he allowed ; but, it shall be <c sp3*ifi<iHy
collected for am! upon the stamps affixed to
the nates hereby charged thttrewith. ,>
THE NEW TARIFF.
The hill to regulate the duties on imports
and tonnage has passed the house of repre
sentatives, 83 to 54.
SPYNISiiAMKRrCA.
Fly the arrival of the brig Nancy Ann at
Bah m from Bueno*! Ayres, which place she
left about, the last of January, information
Fas been received th*t the patriot army in
Ohiii. under general Rondeau, had been de
feated and almost entirely destroyed by the
royal army under genera! Pesv&ler, in eoase
'jucnce of whit h nearly the whole province
p Cliili, had been obliged to submit.
jf.ciafor’emcnU for the patriot army had
rjarched from Buenos Ayres, but with no
strong prospect of success. Great dissen
sions continued to prevail at Buenos Ayres,
between the opposing parties of the patriots,
and it Was expe -ted that the parly in pow -
er would be s# a obrgul to yield to their
opponents.
A writer <n the New York Columbian
eonlradiets the report of the desertion of ad
miral Brown from the service of the repub
licans ol South America. Xiu the eontrtry
it is said he is performing important servi
ces on the coast, of Peru and Chili, and that
bis family and ait his property remain at
Buenos Ayres.
The Augusta Chroai.de of the 19th inst. 1
says—The mail of lBt evening has made a
T-rj favorable impression oo our Cotton
Market—Prime Lota will sell readily this
<Jay at 28 and 29 cents.
Arrived, British ship Rose, espt. Ansel!,
ii• ooi Louden, 8 tiled ou the 28. h Ffibm iry ;
brings nothing politically or commercially
pew.—She was bound to Charleston but put
in here in distress, having lost her top-masts
And three of her people overboard.
Savannah Museum.
APPOINTMENT
By THE PIIESIDENT AND SEKAtE.
EMANUEL WAMBERSIG, of Georgia
to be Consul at Ostend, in the Low Coun
tries.
A Southern writer hints that Mr. FOR
SYTH may be appointed Ambassedor to
Russia. Some have thought Mr. DEXTER,
[we believe the present demot ratio Candidate
for Governor of MassachusettsJ stood a
good chance.
The Boston prints speak with confidence
of the election of General BROOKS over
Mr DEXTER.
CUSTOM HOUSE EMOLUMENTS.
/ The Secretary of the Treasury has re.
eenV'V transmitted to Congress a statement
of the Emoluments of the offers employed ‘
ir the collection of customs far the year’
18t5. The following is an abstract of the!
information contained in the document
JOSIAH HOOK, the Collector of
Penobscot District received as the e
nioluinents of his office, after deduct
ing all expenditures, the sum of 517’049,
The Collector of N. York rec’d. 815.335
The Naval officer for same Dist. £5.208
The Collector of Portland gg
The Collector of Meuiphrcma
gog, in Vermont Bus*
I'he Collector of Baltimore c 1
The collector of Wilmington, w.o.
The Collector of Bf. Mary’s, in
The Collector of Boston 5! Til
The Naval Officer of Boston fcsYai’
TT.e Surveyor of Boston g 2 910 |
The CoHeetor ofPassamoquoddy fcsUofi
The Surveyor of New-Yo.k 553,724!
Ol -he remainder, the emoluments of b
•xeeed ?,2 000— those of 20 exceed 2500— &
Htose ot the rest, 92 in nun her, fall short
(Portsmouth Oracle*
Y iy puMi- creditors* wero told
t th® Mxßh-itlen Bmk, where the interest
n .ht to be quarterly p id, that the United
Mates had not current modey sufFi sent to
set the amount due io bs ' s “'*y 5 and th u
! e Lvp? t - reaßor s r or wait .in
-.. 1 government Sun something ehe t'oiF>r I
[N. w~Y.rk Gas April 2. *
INTERESTING t'i> MERCHANTS
e , a ii .. , Aibanv, April 1.
\l B if ! .T e beeu received fom
Merchant* ol thefirsf respectfibility in Mon
treal, h,U.M in eon.rnj,;,,., „f
.he sodden tiujolution of the bouse ©f As
sembly, previous t© the renewal of the ! . w
regubtiDg Trade with the United States,
ff'"?’? ‘t 6m * Aprii t
■h, a.Unte nf.h. 23-1, Geo. 31, will he |,J
full force Afterth.il period, which prohibits!
importaaoE mto that province, from th U.j
States^ ot all goods, ware* and merchandise i
or picuu of every description, excepting!
gram, aehes. and'umber. * “1
Charleston, April IS, j
promnew-orleans.
The fast jsailmg ship Heron, rapt. Cmv,?
and !e, mved here yesterday iu 15 days from j
Vew-O dosns. CcpL C. f,voted os with
New-Orleans papers to the 2%h alt.-their’
ITr-st?v un s ntep r Major General!
and su.ie arrived there from!
Natchez *on the 23d ult. The ofebitr.nt<
/e. esved him with open arms, ,nd prepar,-!
.'.ons were making to giv lam splendid
p.aolic enfertuiam nt. H h and reviewed he
roups stationed there, and found them in S o
unhealthy a state, that they were ordeal to
be removed to the banks of the Alabama
iver, i>.% a more salubrious situation. Tie
General h*d dm inspected Fori PE querimi
1 ?‘ ,er fortifie r lions in the vicinity of
New O leans - J
BusiaeM waii very slk when the Huron
suled. M .ny ships had been lying from
three to six months, without obtaining
irei rnts. Cotton was selling at 27 to 32
cents, and Sugar a* gt3.
RETIREMENT OF itt BIJUDETT,
,to iLft lectors ui W his re*o!u-|
tion to retire f om Pariiiment ; a he can!
retni rno benefit to his eons* itmms, in the I
present state of the house of Commons,.and
(of the nation, Ihe people, he says, are
i fneateitjsold, and arbitrarily ruled hy their
servant*; end vtlie Mouse of Commons,
instituted to redress “rievan-'es, js heromc
THK (J HE A TEST OF ALL OHIKVANOSS ; I self
tt-4.’ ready instrument of alt oppression.’——
i Lrttil a savina; spirit animates the nation, he
t n, ' ,st re *' ro —¥ -t liuoient eatißot he expert-
ed to-reform it#elf. * They will no more
part with their rotten bdroiiglift, than e
highway nun will with hi pit o |g.” As
tfc!B speech is a sort of epoch in British
history, we shall insert it at larg*, as soon
as comment. [Colombian.
*“**"**lsfr 5& i>. i
, NKVV-YORK., April 2.
Amor?? the passengers i;i tr.e brig Aben-J
na, arrived here yesterday from Havre, were!
fLe Baron Qiiinetta de Ro'*hetnont, late sr-’
eretary to the provisional governmeat of;
r ranee, and his son.
FOi-ifSr&jsT
Pakis. Feb. ii.
Wehavereßif tn the Loodon < Star* of
the 10 h tust. that It was whispered in the
best informed societies, that there j* to he a
change of ministry, and a dissolution of par
liament. Lord Liverpool has received a hint
to retire. Led* Grenville end Wellesley
will enter the cabinet, and lord Ootierea h
will be prune minister.—The reuse of tj, e
change is a difference of opinion eb the sub
ject of economy in the puolic expenses.
Sir R Wilson, capt. Hut liinsonand Mr.
Bruee, have not, as mentioned in one of the
Journals, obtained their provisional liber!}.
It has, on the contrary, been refused to (new
by an order of the council chamber, aetee
aldy to the king’s attorney general, who a
; flexes ** it the application for provisional
, liberation, ihe accused, we understand,
intend to appeal from the order, and We !
moreover f burned (be interposition of the j
English ambassador; in order that they mv
enjoy the same privileges which they con
ceive the French laws grant to subject of
Fra'tee.
Garotte de France,
Lombok, Feb. 7
By p letter from Corruimn to the 15th
wit. we that the resistance of the eon
stirufional party in GJiria and tbs A*{uriaf
tft the measures of the court daily assumes
a more decisive aspect. Guerilla pertits
heve been formed in different districts, jun
tas have been assembled, and a sort ofltgis
lation adopted by them for the guidance of
thur common system. The spirit ofPorlie’
seems to animate their proceedings. A pa
per called the Patriot,has been printed, &
put into circulation tbrougbeut this part o
Spain, celling on the inhabitants to statu
We fd * U)d vilulicttte the natioaal indepet 1
Alter the breaking up of the cabinet couu
Hi ” S s nd r akernbofe, t
21 * k ' n f* Hiessenger t- Brighton,
♦d* a copy of the despatches brought from
it* j”ru ° f W, ‘* ,inf S ton ’ an<i Ihe reaolt f
be deliberations of the cabinet upon them
[ vo inc prince regent.
Although the prince regent is gradual!*
recovering from his severe fit oft be grot,
ye: theeoßfiaemenf has sio mirh weakened
tbe limb.‘taftaeked, that his roy .i highness
is sti 1 confined to his jartaiertt.
The Austrian archdukes are still travel
ling Niver England, viewing every thi-tv
wonky of ome. At Norwich, the archdukes
descended Into the ri> * pit of Messrs. Mar
shall,:bieb was ilinuiiuated with {.even
thousand candles.
Yesterday Madras papers to the 7 h O--
tober iuclosive arrived They announce
i the death of rear admiral Borlfnw, commnn
;n.er,in chi tin the East Jodies, on the 22 ’
Bpp'emher.—Captain O’Bryan has ,ii
Icoßsequence hoisted bis flag as eommodo e
■ ot hi* maj-siy’s squadron.
( i rt “ P !, P erß M? ‘tains the following
I GAZETTE EXTRA, j
s tI , „ August I*, J%!5.
-Hi? excellency Hie governor, having l
j iftarnt that tiicra are, io this colony, more
j well-wwhers of Bonaparte than fee iweiv
fed, gives notice that he will vi'h pie-sure
| a Jerri them a passage t Europe by the first
opportunity. ‘
j At the of Bou- bon. on the {2th of J.j
|!v; the governor publish- and an address to the
the erne of Louis
si. • HI, Ou tlie 2:>ih August, a grand <eie*
nvmy took place on the presentation of eoi
ou s to ihe regiment of Angemicme.
TlicMtndeu man of war and the Pori
frigate are arrived from the Fast India &
Su Helena ; the former took a. argo of pro
vieimii and live bullocks from the Cat to
Sr. Helena, and left that island the 26lit
Be comber. Bonaparte -(-ouriuned to live at
the cottage i every thing w.ns perfectly
e', & provisions ntevesy des rip ion were in
pienfi ul supply^
The embarrassments of the countrv %e.
nm<* every ti .y more and m re apparent.
A tetter received yesterdi.y tnornins- m r OW p
announces the failure rtf’ a banking'house at
Numpswieh. in Cbesire. On a
considerable house m the c ifv, cotiue./ted
with the continent stopped puyment.
A meeting has recenriy fceeu held at Liv
erpool, of the creditors of Mr. il, the b *nk
er, of that town, whom the pressure of the
viinea had obiged to stop payincot, Tms
|tecs have been appointed .to hi# estate.
| which appears to have claims upon it to the
i amount of three hundred and fourteen ih„ a .
ssud pounds; and to satisfy whit:a there nrt
asseis inhatMi, doubtful and.otherwise, of
nn Ices a sum than t hree hundred and twew
ty thmisi jl poiiitds.
The private From Paris e?p©r Sir
Robert Wilson from *ll snspo-i ra ©Fbeint’
the fabricator of fa. P, i2E i ci Borgho’s re
port, and gtHtethat the peutism of ihe three
English prisoners tn be liberated 6n hail ha?
been rejected by one eotirt, but is Ufcdv to
he allowed by another, the court royal* It
is his -si uteri, that tfee~ English newspapers
| would have been delivered to the subscribers
upon the payment of a postage equal to twen
ty-one tun< s she ammiut of the usual postec
—Si 64 iusieed of 2t. The attempted sin
; position failed, and the papers were proba
bly burnt.
The transport Seahorse ban been wreck
ed near Tramore. She was reiurniot* to
England w ith the 50th regiment, wfcieh fess
been in the bnttie of Waterloo. 12
olfi *ers, 262 soldiers, 14 sailors, 30 women
and 48 children were lost—only 32persons
were saved. 1
Tne editor of the Democratic
Fre.ss, Philadelphia, ‘‘proposes
to publish A SPLENDID EDITION
OF THE DECLARATION OF INDE
PENDENCE* which shall be, in ail
respects, American. The Paper,
the Types, the Ink, shall be man
ulactered in this country , and ex
pressly fbr this publication. The
designs, the engravings, shall be
the work of American artists-
the publication throughout, shall
afford evidence of what our citi
zens have done in politics, and
can do in art.
1 his edition shall be accom
panied with sac similes of all the
signatures to our Declaration of
Ihdt p<.ndence, faithful!v copied
from the original. It shall be em
bellished with medalJiorvjSoi traits
-f those patriots who were most
conspicuous on that glorious oc
casion, taken from the most es- ■
eemed likenesses, and shall be
rnamented with an appropriate
[Vigaeite.”
OGECHF.E
N'AVIG ITION COMPANY.
The Share-holders are hereby
| notified tint an Election fora
new Hoard of Directors will be
held on the second Friday in June
next, at the House of John P. Har-
Vc T’ sc s !ri own of Don is
vide; and 1 hat such Share-hold
ers as cannot attend may rote by
J’roxy.
LITTLFTEIUtY BoSTJCtB,
President.
Louisville, 24th ?
April, J 816. 5
JEFFERSON SUPFTtTOft
APRIL TERM, 18i5.
EXILE NISI.
UPON the petition of Jesse
Brown, * praying the establish
ment cf a Kx ceipt in full from one
Mordica IVFLain, dated the Sd of
i early as tan be recollected by
the petitioner is annexed to said
petition : and probable cause ap
pe.tring to the Court, that the
same is lost and ought to be
tabiished;
It is therefore ORDERED,
That at the expiration of six
months, the said receipt be es
tablished unless sufficient cause
he shewn to the contrary.—And
that a copy of th is orekr be pub
; iished in one of the public gazettes
jot this state, once a month for six
| months, in terms of the rules of
o wt in such cases made and
provided..
Extract from t|o mirutes,
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EXECUTOKV SALE.
JViU be solJy on the 9th day of
j May next, at the Cow-pens near
| Wood's Mills ,
j Ad the Stock of CATTLE
belonging to the estate of Solo
tmon Vv ood, late of Jefferson coun
ty, deceased. Credit will be giv
en until the Ist day-of January
next : purchasers giving small
notes with approved security.—
Ihe sale will continue from day
to day until completed.
Thomas Mitchell, 1 /*
Green Wood, 5 £
March !9, 1816.
FiuricE
Nine months after date appli.
cation will be made to the hou
orable the Inferior Court of Jef
ferson county, for leave to sell
ill the real estate oi Ichabud
Ledbetter, late at said county
deceased.
JOHN COOK,
Admmistr%ion
April 9,