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&>£?§§)<&§ W&2& VOL L i*fUN TFD W ItisKtY* nr HODGE & M'bOdLKELL. eo<bino\& it, Thd Annual Subscription will be tilu &z oom.a&s, haif advance. f, Sdbtcrlbtrs livtji£ ou <if the State will pay thre w h ale aubtcrip; «jn upon the deli vefy oi th« tirst ituml -•?*. j. N> Suj -Ttptio ts ‘Will be received for le.Vt than dne year ;* o.nl n > pap» r s.ia'l he - discautmtifJ ant 1 are paid* th. Advertisements vedi Uc inserted at the customary rates. fCP Letter? addressed to ike £oi~ s oita must ‘ot ti i, si paid. Tint following C'Esru--MZfi are rt» vested- o'i l authorized to receive Sub* oriptiMs dnd give receipts for this V'ath'.'isvriL’i Dr. Wnt Wright'fc »lr, Jcseoh Moss. * ‘f.uiizsn. r -it\\ Ca’)t. Boyle* * / t ■... it; f • ’ ‘ * aster.. “* twit* Mr. Wyley Gres- M. t*i<? - /} •* i?> Mr. Grant, J. M. Ur&nsvHU, and the Post f.{ isTe rv l y nwliQi i. | Wilkes . />-/.rsv-—Mr. James Wing- Mi P. VL Washington, and Mr. |*.obt «r .;r. I .kiywilU —Mr John Barnett, f Coium’tf i Court*House —?. Muster. 1 H'mcrX' —Mi> Abercrombie, P. M, and Joseph Brya:l. Esq. P lire ■ ton —Mr* Wm. Woods. t&tfsbw gh-*i~M\\ Alex. Pope. ; /i t ’ -nt.i Mr. Eraser, P M. and . ,E- Pit missy. —Mr.Cupningham, P* M. Ja. t —Dr. Shorter. Brice Gaither, Esq. * —i he Post Master v Jti-jdfS m ‘ vaunt iL~MLorn*, P. M. *ls and WtUtaflS Houge tWj. ‘■ rankim —Piie. Post ‘Master and i?*% Rev. Messrs. Thomas Newton Gmlpsan Lane* • »•:?., «•?.->£ a?**j*—(Genera! ?redi>. Warren-*- i he Post Master. XJncoin —The Post Master. Savahnah —Samuel But nett, Esq. Jfltdivay**- -John K. Fraser, Esq. Si, *lar y’.s—Ma] )r Clark, P M. a, C —-Mr. Most v s W* f> obhins. fctf AA /• AA A r AV* /. **AAA/-A,T GSQGKAPHiC iL KKbVCtibS; rmm Kfroths tt Cyprus, Rhodes is h most delight ltd spot* The air of the place is healthy, and its gardens are Idled with delicious fruit Here, c.% in Co* every gate is sru nted with ;v wei iui iV- grsnee Wasted from pvof of o» n:;c a*d citron trees, mi t er!esE arum die herbs exhale rut 1 same init such profuse odour < tha 1 - the w vote atnv> jV’CS'c seems Hlipivgii4te.il Witii a spicy perfaVhe. The present inhabitants of the isl ard coiifVrm the ‘»nc,ien\ history oi Us climate, maintaining that hardly a day passes, ihroug iouc *he year, wherein the sun is not visible- Pa gan writers describe it as s<> peculi arly favored, that Jupiter,is fabled to have poured down upon it a golden bower. The winds are liable to tattle variation ; they are north or rorth-we«t, during utmost every month ; but these blow great v oimce. From the number ot up* 1 filiations it bore at different periods, j IBUiodes might have at ia*t received the n«\ me of the polyonomari island. The principal ruins at Rhode* are slot ot earlier date than the residents ms the Kjrighis of Malta. Ihe re jpiains of tneu tine old fortress are *uffitient to prove tint the building has sustained little injury from time $r barbarians. It stdi exhihits a .venerable moated castle, of great «lze and strength , so fortified as to ( ks&m drnost impicgnabk.. . It ap pears a complete system offor inca 4Son ; combining all the parapher* iiaha of dykes aml uraw bridges, bat- Vlemrftts and bastions. Thv cells of the kniglrs are yet entire, forming a street within the works : and near these cells is the cathedral or chA* •pel, whose wcoden doois, curiously cawed* and is said to be wrought of an iucdt ruptible kind of cedar* have Wen pre>ervv.d in their original atate. The arms of Kngiaad and of TYarce appear sculp* need upon the walls* the Turks have converted the Sanctuary into 4 magazine for military stores <sprL.~- \s n.t *i:c o’clock in the ffti'iiiff cl June,:the third, we made in - bo and by e vst.it M| ** Wiy Ut to give tuc fmrt intelligent i >• fti anpeartnc''. her g'Yofi Wpm the looltouff in the neuttork dr m Is. Ocij)*- Bianco, loYeiuh’ ('■• ‘• Fro wn »nm y\ Yi m ov r hi / , “To use tile la.’'v'u v;- e ‘ seam jj nod «»o i a ter i ••> won* ••.{.< i w»- s: nn dWfmctlv. looming *m«dsi tYu v, log*. F also «re.S fe v v V»gb avl sr»’m l iY oils We hud sivh light Freezes rid frequent cnlriift. that tve did r>t reach > .tries Bav until three o’clock* P H on Saturday the sth of June We had coasted the whole inland tin n its western extremity# and so near to the sh< re. that tve had a dis tinct siirvec of the feature- of the country. We saw the fortress and •own df B«fFj v anciently Paphos, hacked by hgb mountains. ihe coast tow’ards the West much resem bles the southern part of the Cn ruei ; the villages and euitivaud pl ices being near the shore, and ail behind craggy and m *uniYnous —- From Vi ffv to Liniacol, near the j'pnt vvhe»*e the ancient city of A»jv> thur. stood, the coar. app-w f s very fertile, and more so than ati; r part of the island that we afterwardsvisited- Towards the southwestern district the country ts veil covered with for es’ trees, ami .particuiftMV the neigh borhood of B *ffa« ioi produces the finest vnu cad lie wive oft C yprus ; some of this. pours l,;;c oi.\ and m y be kept to a great age.- The wine called C unao ier; is how ever held (nine p.dly in cstee.n r mower the natives. Vs vVv h iik* I : vo Sslmes dav, an r cn nrly* th i* u now called * HaliktTs from a ,cius et* of stk I laces ru ar toe, vea, the low i of ‘*rt ! lines appear'd cove-ed with that j wtu»e fog so much dreaded, and so \ well kt<own in {■ a!y, by tru. nafne oi | ta. The nioun.a i n* heurad : the plaVe were paru.J'v concealed > by this unwelcome var>out% It ro ■ from toe shore m l buildings Lke \ S MOlit; Wm-never thi, app;. *a•'•'•*, ! is the he t *i »*, * g!i? e;i | artel istxcesrve F?wot tiie in! ; v-;s venture out of them ucUse, at »» • 1 day ;an l ail journey cev• ! • ...* f j caravans, are !>erfu o <1 hit »- r a : : I the dey s are then neither t uhdant nor dangerous ; m this i‘er* c: Cy- I ppm diflVfi enure y fi • ; i from all he nei prior, ng siiu es.~* Its ports are mpre »*titr,y tha.it any in the Levant. SiLures. and the town situated o i trie e i tern ami north-eastern toast'.; of the island ; are sUbjecf to such danger cj, tem | peraiure, that in Viie n >ntiis of June an 1 July", peraons f.ill vVetint* to ihe .nil tin. j malady called a *u?*i stroke , or c Ktf) de solid, if thev vea tore out at noon without the ptTKC.-u --tbn of carry mg an u morel la. the inhabitants especially of the lower order, wrap then* heads as if exposed tc tne rigour of a severe winter; be ing always covered with a turban over which, in their journeys, they place a thick shawl, ftianv times fol ded. I'ive great heal experienced upon the eastern coast> of Cyprus is owing to two cuisesj -to the situati on of the island with respect to the Syrian, Arab, 4o- and Lvhnm deserts; and to its mountainous nature, pre venting the cooler winds, the west and north-west, from die low shores to the east and north-east. We had scarce entered the bay, when we observed, to the ncnh-easi a lurid haze, as if the atmosphere was on fire ; and suddenly from that cpuarter. a hurricane took us, that laid the Ceres upon her heem-ends i At the time of this $ piall, J- endea vored to ascertain the temperature of the biast. We found it so scorch ing, that the skin instantly pealed from out lips ; a tendency to sneeze was excited, accompanied with great pain in the eyes, and chap ping of the hands and face.’ The mefullic scale of the thermo neter, suspended in a porthole to a rod wan] was kept in a horizontal p.i iu6n by the violence of the gale; apd the mercury rose six degree-of barer* heit in i rrt;mues> trout eighty to eighty-six ; a singular co i»e j lence cf north east wind to La a.mum accustomed to consider this as he coldest to which tneir island is ex posed. Ail the coast of Cyprus, flora datmes to l asaagosta, anciently So la mis, is liable tc hot winds from almost every point ol the Compass; from the north east ; from the east; fro tl the south-east ;dV<imthe south ; and south west, from Egypt anti Ly bia. From the rest,north-west, and north, the inuubttauvs are by high oweuUifts, iflag tfpen Vdihe AT HI, NS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1814. f karris of \ **urs-% rytTtctfkl f (V;i a SO' ’ Ml V?d:\ tV.jt the glut S ‘ : .s'often •«.:T:-* t *nt hn trmpora- I rr hi? without (,’V n 1 <ft prO*- | | t.rt >; e-ng'lp ’’>•_*?, h ikkitfc which | one n •jrh-t hope for shn-de. In the ! mid V. of the day, fl w .aMmMs a*"e • ’ vcn in fno*mn. »• x■ ■ epti the r*: t n\ . Hi > : jg : ■ pHi ■ “■ It pie - sure whefs* the sun is >ivrst v-> ver fuk ani MM«ptvk*« of kuu- bHc*-; vr - - ’H 4 Rts, a;- o i si** i r - . r'ps ; ir>c of these we*fcifle % three,.inch es’ in l igjh N'j*h<Tyr.es. rs> a train of* camels tn ;v >e um c:-i, grazing among dust v thistle's - » - j bitter IkHjs, walk ifi ‘■? dcWer * seei; j shelter f* l»m tic bu nine n.»ou> , * j We fbtH.d at anchor in flit.** bay | the t'apt. Slacktr- ai « the fleet, with several * r.tuspori • j ships w&Uifig.for supply* ot cvUlv kt I water. <Tfi the foil r >wmg vc >Ma>v> I June the Seventh, about,ten vo'-rock | we landed bud eat rite! our b- f ;v •*.•* u* » reeommt/’icfitiun to. *he- <i; e.**nf ! ?,or»s!ii-:s*d" - 'o ax i>*3rr-7, v. .* v | a tuife tr *ni Salines to- *a’ds ih north Here the (trine p and faor h * I reside, although almost all courier j cial ■ transactions art can .eh on - Salines. We dintd t.f Larneca -v?t our c wn Consul ; xro ketiog. rtir.Tag our wfflk to and iVn*r» hi- bouse ben eath. the shelter of umbrellas. t e • i few plants that b<ktn red’ ?u our ivav ]\ ifnotir subsequent vim s. me. s ’ -i found Hire the n> tl-Jrij wt had wit- j nessecl from tne deck ol me Cere* ■» | 3 « veiling all the harbour t*hi!i Us fear j *ul mist. could not be approat h cl j with imnurmy. Our}«?.nveatedi’neml j and e x .* \rA."'y commander Cap. 1 Hh-'-; ~ r h the first to exnenenct | ,'s ! >afu ml mfi.t:; *re ;b- ; »v,p • j with a i Vvr, k nn W-lick n ;v *i I after.*.-■ rdi i ccovvvcd. 1*; v* • 5 I fave-ry of Cv -v) c C-» J t | npoii l i> * »m* s mre«f oi ; ‘■! 1 « i *c* r.. jpiiUj i cly lu-.cr -u ;*• $r ■* I 1 aSnr *%t a ; -*»‘ma.l ; ghunt. she | }o’ • ri •v* ,i -i ■ .* ‘s to LiV-r (dev* ho-- I | ttina-thy r)V viicm may. h ike no ho - ! u r oc uve Vsl“ahd ; and mhos wcath . v <t *•:.*r?• it fatal io cat fat me ii I <e- in let i fresh of afty kind, unless I boiled to y joily. They kkewistfab i slain r ':om --very so; l of p istry ; | from eggs, chea m, and milk. Fhe j idan-t ’proouces abundance ot deli- I ei.ott* apricot*?, from .kmdard trees, i Slaving a riuch higher flavour than those: of R»/&etu-'. ? but equally tki'tger ous to foreigners* and speedily cau s ngjever, > they be not sparingly used. These off amagC Ata are the most bdebi AeJi. They are sent as acceptable presents to Nicosia, the Cdpit, if. The apricots-cf are also fine, and may be purchased m the mrrfeet at the small pries of three shillings the bushel Many ditferent varieties of the gourd, or pomp kirk re iised in Cyprus lor ve* gejtables at table. Tile voting fruit is boded after being stuffed with rice. We found it refreshing and pleasant, partaking at the same time j \he flavour of asparagus and arti choke. We noticed also the beat root, melons, cucumbers, and a very insipid kird df mulberry, of'a white colour. ~ I'he corn of the inland, wherever the inhabitants have cou rage or industry enough venture oil the culti-alion of the land, in despite of their Turkish oppressors und the dangers of the climate, *is of the finest quah y. The v/hcat. al though bearded, is yery large, and the bread, made from it extremely white and good. Perhaps there is no part of the world, where tke vine yields such redundant and luscious frui*. The juice of the Cyprian grape resembles a concentrated es sence. The wine of the island is so famous all over the Levant, mat, in the hyperbolical language oi the Greeks, it is said to possess the power of restoring youth to ag**« and animation to those who art at the point of death. Englishmen, how ever. do not consider it a fuvmhte beverage, as L , reqo>rcs f neariy u century of kge to deprive it of sickly sweetness widen readers it le pugnant to their palates. i his island that had sc highly ex cited amply gratified our curiosity by its most ititertsting aut quiues 1 aUmnrgh there is nothing m as pre sent state plc ising to the xive. lo st ead of a beautiful and fertile land, cove red Wit h groves ol iruit and line woods, ome rendering it the Para dise ot ibc Levant,niiere is hardly eafin a more Wreidhtd «'* Hun it szhihl*, Few v ,u*. <|sgi§S2/ ! t&!® f •?*) ©ssJ’ w& rray describe it: f '* fleeted ; ir. Vdvtsnts oppressed : po* pulatiaTi destroyed ; pestiferous air , ‘ontag.ao ; p>¥ r r y ; indolence IssohiUon. Its ar»vU|Uit»es alone render it worthy ol resort ; and i-*k*v« if an? person had leisure an 1 • >.•!!.}’: or :* ‘■ to search for thyin \rotHd i{T)|>lv rev>nv the troub-e* In tors pursuit* Chorus mav he considered as yet untrodden — it*-* IN f£RESTING INDEED. Treasury t) ,? vtmr'^’K November 27, »s■„? 4* s hiv? ?be honor to- acknowledge the receipt *»f voitr letter, ‘ qu st »pip jj co-miniHee ot toe House f »i ; Rervesentali v ■* ai) opuuou ‘-Vpott the ( k ow’mg-enquirk-s ; 1. The dkot w ucii a consider*- He is* ML* Oi treasury rimes, with | Inequality of being receiv.dim m | sub crip'ions- to a/National Kinfc | wiil Save iryvi the credit ot g° * i t’.r'ititen? ? -and o \rttcuhii b% I. lpoo j the < ;•■;sped of a loan for ‘* b ■ . 2. Hie'practicability of getting forty-*fonr riik >t»s of trcuoirv not to ffo r m r,( g with si £ millions of specie, the capital h>r a N^tloc al tvink,’ into circuUuoft without depreciation ‘ . .. , !he e*'qu>*» of the committee can no* he satisfactorily answered in the ah -r; t * but must be consider ed in cophectimi noth the present <*• n.te ot our i\it qcc:>. ansi the state ot t'.e public <•».. .’lit, When i strived *t Vv'sVngnk.r tiie *r-?■ 7; v s jj.i f:*.i .-i.-.t under v- j t. re kind «c 0.-'-.-o-u ra-si cc nk *he ky ; . • i < it were groat in a- j j'V.-u-t, w ;:c* the mean- to s-..Uv ! f/ ;he;vi v7>. “*■ siti .il .r lr>, ‘ U iio* .‘OIIC-Ct 1011 Y BTJ 1 d»t* ; ;ii iu tbe application. The de I minds consist *d oi dividend*- upon . o! t a -d new kind and debt upon tre o j Miry notes* and of iegisl.it/vt appro •-;* f-'vy. b>r ?-* ?,.r r ny, toe navy, and -j the current service—-ill urgent and | important- The means consisted : j First* of the fragment ot an author ity’ to borrow money*, when .iiuboi.lv wat. dis-pcsed to lend- d.nd to ids.ue treasury riotes winch done hut neces sitous creditors* or contractors in distress* or commissaries, quarter masters and. navy agents, acting as it W‘ re officially, seemed willing to ac cept Second, Os the amount of bank credits scattered throughout the United Sta f es, and principally in the southern and western banks which had been tendered in a de grefe useless, by the stoppage oi payments in specie, and the conse quetU impracticability of thundering the public funds from one place, to meet the public engagements in an on her place : And, Third of the cur rent supply oi money, from .the im posts, from internal duties, and from the public lam!, which ceased to be a foundation of ary rational estimate or reserve, to provide even for the dividends on the funded debt, when it was found that the Treasury Notes (Only requiring,, a cash pay ment at Ihe distance of a to whomsoever they were issued at the treasury, add almost as soon as they were issued reached the hands of the collector, in payments of debts, du ties and cases ; thus appointing and defeating the only remaining eXpec t y \ r>n of prod;i eti vere ve n ue.. Under these circumstances (which I had the honor to communicate to the committee of Ways and Means,) it became the duty of this de* partnunt to efuleavor to remove the immediate pressure from the treasury / to endeavor to restore the public credit ; and to endeavor to provide fbr the expenses of the ensuing year. ‘The only measures, that occurred to my m** and, t or the accomplishment of such important objects, have been presented to the view of Congress, The act autho rizing the receipt of treasury notes in payment of subscriptions to a public loan, Was passed, I feat, too late to answer the purpose for which n was designed, it promises at this lime litt-e relief, either as an instru ment to raise mdntty, or to absorb me claims fur treasury notes winch are daily becoming due. From tins cause, and other obvious causes, the divide rid on the funded debt had not been pimfctuaHy paid j st large a mount o{ treasury ncki has a 1 ready been dishonored, and the Type of prudent r further u.jmy am f * -r h, ir* trinsaciiiig trie bus*ness * ayui V j i* too Vistouar/. to it * a \ >t “ *• ‘ v. .. “ cifon! a morncri*'* <• nvuiorj. The aC'(l?»! Os ltd :»««» or the **!Y5, sary« thus dt-kcrib* and. wd! scrv* try indicate the st # te of the prhN* cred it which depends esscfttnllv upon public Opinion. * The vjcm .} i** S (. 0 f public cred.it >» indeed the v-hteof the pub'.c deb*, The facultv u s horrf>vvtrie r * 1 o* vc yis not test of mth* lie crtdiiifora ic>rhL*st. ovr-uri) tke a desperate tmiivihtal, 10.g o’ lv t > increase t* e pretu cm, a.eeordm•»■ to the ecv, ; n order to e aieat;. Ihusptiobe pin on, mi* |« fested m ev-*i v form. and in , direction, ha div permit*. itat - v prese it junent. - to speak ;f tht ex istence of public and ‘>[ ,* not impossible that the -ov< »• un ,., r ih rest ources of its pa iron a *e its pie * e . tmd tn<* .ms «,* tempting the rich and the am. to «U ppf) its irons (i .i fi r ‘V it *■>.*-; <•. when the wan **d to-day <r- «.*. . , ed } *?v na * is rise new rci and shall supply the warv+g of •• <— . * I’u v h now and c hur tcu-r V ■ .. tion it iTiav then be a -’TaM but after all, the iinmeasp . *uc * of the western wild, v, oul.l he iiausted in successive ; to < tain pecuniary aids *und fj’l ]-, the gon-rnnient o »i. $-x the foundations of j -ibh, ered-t « „■ re-esUbi.sbtd and maintained. Jo the measures, therefore, wi. ir •> v has been ihy duty to surest, ! ‘ur n endca v orH to introduce an - .. ~ nent plan fof* re* iving the public cm* dit i of w loch Die facility of mg money in .inij npaiion of’ settled and productdev end .s , ,> only ar. im..;dfciit Vs f:urfbdtrcr Lite p! m lsim. r l he but', u.. * » -cn id to < tnhrncc whatever was requisite, io leave nr ho’H.t upon the povver and the do .»•• sition of the governmeni. tu - .Lma to its pecuniary tngHrcmvro ; to ch n»inish, imd not to ailment the .1- mount of the public debt in rhe hands of ir drvidu ds, and to cren,-# jr vierul couSdenee, rather bv *> ■«.: niai nor cf •rt.ndmx the claims of :. e plus, nt class of creditors, thru p ; the manner of conciliating the fa\ur of ahe v class , 7 . Wiih these explanatory remarks, ail, I proceed to answer, ptcialiy the questions which you him proper Red. L ! am of opinion, that a r.ontidtr« b?e issue or,, treasury notes, with the quality of Owing receivable 111 sub scriptions to a nation and ’yank will have an injurious effect upon me -credit of she government) and ; isr» liport the prospects of a loan tor 1815. B«.cause, it will confer, u t »us« jy, advance upon a das of new cre ditors, over the present creddorso! the government, standing on a foo - ting of at least equal merit# Because it will excite general div satisfactioh among the present n -u ders of the pu die debt and a gene ral distrust among the cap'txh.di, who are accustomed 10 advance M . u money to government. Becaitaib, a quality of rd> og to the national ;>ai:k attached to treasury notes exclusively will and to depreciate the value ot !i puh'x debt not possessing that quality ; ■£ whatever depretlates • the value of the public debt, in this wav must ne cessarily impair public credit* Because, the specie capital of the citizens of the United V'tates, so h r as it may be deemed applies >i.. .to investsPients in the public slock- b.os already, in a»great measure been -, vested ; the holders, of the pi’ ’ - debt will be unable tq become sub setibtrs to the bahk (if that, »*hj rl should, eventually, prove desira.;lc") without selling their stock at a ci * preciated rate, in order io procu e the wbdle amount of their subscrii • tionsin treasury notes ; an 1 a < o cm ; * al depression to the value of ihc pub lic debt wilS Inevitably ensue. Because, the very ■ * making a Considerable iwo. ui I Sliry Notts. fWcn With the q i.dnty at bong ‘UbM'ri(:i.d to a Nttif p i Iw sci can only, be regarded as an tx;n »- fnent, on which it &e«ius dint, r< v 3 to rdy j the l i t usury Notes n« r * purenused at pur, y> ith inon* y ; , Uetv set of creditors are to b c* t * r<’; it may not, be deemed a.i objtcr .and gpecuiut on. by money holder in svhsciibe to the Bank. ; the re% » \he expei 1 mem eawmit t/e acu’ 1 tu, Übwt it v- ill be too <> {” a leiiiedy in the Lsc of 1. dr v .. Wi*iie the credil of the. rwvtrv oVf;S ; well ue effected, by ‘ ‘■■■fuice which keeps Uic a.'l *• U’ -V’ .. .<■?’ * •. rV’ jp NO, XU I