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Newspaper Page TextSEBSaiiT®®®* From the ,V C. Star. THE REAL HYSON TEA PLANT. A. B ,an old traveller in the Indies, and at present an inhabitant ot Moore county, N Carolina, is well acquainted with the growth and cultivation of the above t u*]>lant <n tor eign as well as this country, and also with t ie mode and manner ol curing it* l (, a\e., uiu ;'ivcs to the public the following communica tion respecting it: As soon as the leaves arrive to ma turity, they should be gathered in the morning, while the ilctv is U l >oll alter three or four days of Is 001 } sun * shine weather in succession previovsto gathering,and clear from an 7 rain fall ing in the interim to wet th em > ‘‘ lcn dry up the dew on them as ea r ')’ as J' ou can in the shade, (say in a ro oin w " c,e there is as little wind or air during as possible ;)aftcr w hich, put tli e leaves into a stone jar or jars, with as smim mouths as can be had,so as to preclude the steam from getting out, or the air or water within, by tying cloths over them, and putting on plates or small waiters, w ith weight thereon ; then set the jar or jars into a large pot or kettle with water up to their necks, anil by no means let any get into their mouths ; boil it slowly, until the leaves are com pletely wilted ; take the jar or jars out, | and set them away, with their covers securely on, until they and their con tents are perfectly cool: take out the leaves, with their liquid substance, (if any,) and put the whole together, in etjual quantities, into large dishes to dry in the shade as before recited, of ten stirring them that they may absorb ihe liquid, if any, and dry with expe dition ; and when thoroughly done, should be immediately canistjred up, and is then fit for use. The writer of this article has, for some years past, successfully cultiva ted anu cured in this country the above plant from seed which he himself ob tained in the East Indies; and there is not the least doubt but that it will prosper and do well in any part of the U. States, as the seed, which falls from the plant or otherwise, will stand the winter of this climate,and come up in the spring ; but the most adviseable way is to gather “the seed in the fall, and sow them in the spring, in small drills, of good, fine earth, about two feet wide ; from which you can draw out in a wet season, and transplant as other plants as soon as throe leaves ap pear on the plant, leaving and deposi ting them about eight inches apart,and cultivating them with a hoe, as you would cotton or indigo, which had bet ter be done in the evening, when the heat of the day is over. Three gath erings may be had in a season—the first is the best. A wisp of straw should be placed in the bottom of the pot or kettle, to set the jars on when boiled. Extractor a letterfrom ayounggentfrmon now in Europe to a correspondent’ll! the U. States, published in the Richmond Enquirer. Genoa , . 14 I have been ramb ling about Italy for 14 months and know every road in it better than any one in America, and every street or lane in Milan, Florence. Rome, Venice, &c. &c. &c. better than the Main street in Richmond ; I am, however, I believe about to quit it, I fear forever. lam here linger ing on the end. 44 On the 16th we arrived here : about two miles from town we ovef took a gentleman on horseback, at tended by a servant: I looked at his face and instantly recognized him from a portrait by an American painter, West, now at Florrence, to be the most extraordinary man now alive—a glance at his distorted foot confirmed it—we rode on— part of our object in visiting Genoa had been to introduce ourselves to him. Accordingly next day we wrote a short and polite note re questing leave to pay our respects, to which we received one equally polite requesting us to call next day at two o'clock.—We went, a servant stood ready to receive us, and we were shewn into a saloon where we waited with beating hearts for about a minute, when he made his appearance. lie is about 5 feet 6 inches high—his body is small and his right leg shrunk, and about two inches shorter than the other —his head is beyond description fine. VV est’s likeness is pretty good, but no other bead I ever saw of him is in the least like him. His fore - head is high, and smaller at the top than below', (the likeness are vice versa.J His hair, beautiful brown ringlets, begining to turn grev, he being as he told us, 35 years old. His eyes between alight blue and grey—his nose straight but a little turned up,his teeth most beautiful —his head is peihaps too large for his body- Who is he ? One of our company began a set .apology which he cut short by tel ling us it was useless, for that he j was vcrvgl.’d to see us, and then began to ask us questions,fifty in a minute, without waiting for an an swer to any, and if by chance it was made he seemed impatient if it contained more than tw r o words. He flew- from one subject to another, and during about an hour and an half talked upon at least 200 sub jects—sometimes with great hu mour—laughing very heartily—at length looked round he asked w ith a quizzical leer which of us was from old Virginny. I bowed assent; then followed a catechism to which I occasionally edged in an answer. “ Have you been in England ? How long have you been in Italy ? Is Jefferson alive ? Is it true that your landlords are all Colonels and Justices ? Do you know Washing ton Irving ? He is decidedly the first English prose writer except Scott.—Have you read Bracebridge Hall ? (I answered no.) Well if you choose, I’ll lend it you ; here it is. Have you any American hooks to lend me ? I am very de sirous of reading the Spy. I in tend to visit America as soon I can [arrange my affairs in Italy. V our ! morals, are much purer than those of England ; (theie I laughed,) those of higher classes in England are become very corrupt. (I smoth ered my laugh.) Do you think if I was to live in America, they would ever make me a judge of the ten pound court? Is it true that an Eng lishman is always insulted in trav eling through America ?” We as sured him not. He then told us more laughable stories of the ridic ulous biographies made of him es pecially by the French One of them represented him as a gloomy miserable mortal, keeping the skull ! of his mistress as a drinking cup—l told him that was pretty much the idea that we had of him—as we considered him a kind of Vampyre —(he laughed heartily.) He said Bracebridge Hall was beautifully written, but as for the characters they only- exist in the brain of W. I. There are no old English gen tlemen—no yeomen. The English have lost every thing good in their character? Their morals are par ticularly bad. (Here I thought he really was quizzing us.) In fine he kept us for an hour and a half constantly amused, and dismis sed us well satisfied with our, in terview. His manners are most charming and fascinating,and if he is as they say a devil, he is certain ly a merry one.—Nothing gloomy —his voice is low and soft and at first sounds affected. Now who is it ?—Who is that man about whom I have Written a whole letter? It is Child Harold, Corsair, Don Juan, in plain English, Lord Byron.” LATEST FROM ENGLAND. New-York, Aug.AO. By the arrival of the Ist of July, Packet Columbia, Capt. Rogers, from Liverpool, we have our tiles of papers, &c. to that date, with London papers to the evening of the 29th June.— They speak despendingly of the cause of independence in Spain and Portu gal, hut it does not appear that there has been any advices so late from Ca diz or Lisbon aj> we have had direct. It was reported in the last letters from Seville, that the Spanish Cortes had proposed to the Duke d’Angou leme to give up the custody of the King, provided their personal safety shall be guaranteed. The last Paris papers say that Gen. Bourdesoult, instead of deviating from the high road to enter Seville, is ma king a rapid march to Port St. Mary’s in hope of coining up with the rear guard of Gen. Zayas. Mr. Robinson, a King’s messenger, arrived in London on the 28th of June, with despatches from the British Em bassy in Spain. A cabinet council was immediately convened, and ano ther messenger was waiting to proceed to Cadiz with its answer to Sir Wm. A’ Court We learn from good authority (say the London Globe and Traveller) that the person sent to this country from the new Regency at Madrid, was dis missed from the Foreign Otfice with the mere receipt for the despatches which he delivered. He also waited on the Spanish Minister, Admiral Ja bat, to deliver despatches from the Regency, but was dismisssed with a declaration that Jabat knew of no such body, and could not receive the com munication which he tendered. FRENCH ACCOUNTS. Madrid, June 18. The following are details which 1 , have beer, able to collect of the news from Seville: — “ On the Bth, Sir W. A’Court offer ed his mediation to the Government, proposing to go in person to Madrid and promising to do all in his power to bring back favorable conditions.— the Cortes replied, that they stood in no need of any foreign interference; at the same time that they expressed their gratitude for his good intentions. “ (ill the 11th, the Minister of Eng land sent a note to the Government, in which he stated that, as lie w'as ac credited to the King, and not to a Re gency, he could not follow the King to Cadiz without further instructions. “ The Cortes, then, in order that thev might remove the objections of Sir'W. A’Court, ordered his letter to be answered by a declaration (hat his Majesty would be underrestraint only on his journey, but that he would re sume his functions in Cadiz. Sir \N il liatn replied, that he could not go, for that he did not see his objection remo ved by the proposed arrangement.— He therefore remains at Seville for new instructions. ’1 ne Minister of the United States of America, the Ambassador of the Netherlands, and the Ambassador of Sweden, likewise remain at Seville. The Charge d’Af fairs of Saxony set out with the Queen, she being a Princess of the House of Saxony.” London, June £2. We have received the Paris paper of Wednesday in due course. The Journal de Paris says that an attempt was made, on the road from Seville to Cadiz, to carry off the King but that it did not succeed. The official part of the Moniteur contains several despatches from the army. One ot them, a telegraphic de spatch, dated Madrid, June 20, from Gen. Guilleminot, states,, that “ the vanguard of the 2d corps, after having overthrown the rear guard of Ballas teros on the 14th, and Algenresi, car tied the same day the tete de pout of Aleion on the Iricar. The enemy lost his artillery and some hundred men ; he had several killed and many woun ded.” A despatch from Marshal Moncey, dated Gerona, June 19, communicates some further details of the operations against Mina by Baron d’Eroies and Viscount St. Priest, They are not of much moment. Mina, has already stated in previous accounts, had ta ken refuge in the Seo d’Urgel, of which place Moncey had ordered the Baron d’Eroies to form the immedi ate blockade. It appears by a letter from Lieut. General Barbot, commanding the 10th military division addressed to the Mi nister of VV ar, dated Toulouse, June 29th, that, when Mina was approach ing the French frontiers, all the Na tional Guards in that district were immediately assembled, and under the command of Gen. Crossard, pro ceeded as far as Hospitalet to attack him. But the active and vigilant Mi na contrived to elude his enemies, and finally succeeded in gaining the Seo d’Urgel, to which place, accor ding to General Bat bot’s depatch, he w'as guided by the peasants, and fol lowed by only four of his men. The troops, it is added, displayed all pos sible zeal and ardor, which “ proved,” says the General, “ what they would he capable of doing on an important occasion.” LATE FROM SPAIN. We have been favored by a friend with a file of Gibraltar papers to the Ist July, received by tbe Mary and Jane, arrived at Philadelphia, and we still observe, with regret, that the ac counts are in no manner llatteriug to the cause of Spain and civil liberty. The French troops entered Port St. Mary’s on the 23d of June, to the amount of 4000 foot and 500 cavalry. This tovvu is nearly opposite Cadiz, distance less than three miles, from the nearest point of which, Soult threw shells into the city during the long siege ; and if so small a force is tranquilly permitted to occupy a post so near the Cortes and king without immediate destruction by the people, the cause must be in a melancliolly condition indeed. We have reason, however, to believe that French gold does more than bayonets. The amount of the French occu pying the entire province of Anda lusia, is 20,000 men, of which 5000 are cavalry, and 14 pieces of can non. They formed two divisions that united at Cordova. We observe also, with regret, that gen. Callasteros has been compelled to evacuate Vallencia. The particulars are from the French bulletins, and are therefore, to be cautiously received. Ballasteros had a force of 14,000 men consis ting of the garrisons of Valencia and Molina. 1500 to 2000 men occupied Alcnri ; an equal number garrisoned Teruel. The French general, Count Molitor, passed | the right bank of the Ebro with the second division, and General Ordonneau inarched so rapidly on Teruel that the Spanish troops v/ere compelled to spike their guns and fly precipitately. Molitor ar rived at Teruel on the Bill June, and was informed that Ballasteros had assembled his army in front of Murveidro and he pushed the siege of Saguntum, which place w’as about surrendering for xvant of provisions, when the French, un der Loverdo arrived at Segorva on the 11th, and Ballasteros was compelled to raise the siege, and retreated to Valencia, abandoning his ammunition and artillery. On the 12th Count Molitor ar rived at Saguntum, and relieved the garrison, and on the 13th, at 9 o’clock, he entered Valencia at the head of the division Loverdo, and was met by the magistrates with the city keys, be. be. A great quantity of warlike stores was found in Valencia. The retreat of of B alias teros was said to be so precipitate that he could not col lect the 1500 or 2000 men despatch ed to Aleira which column is lost. Paris, June 25. The departure from Seville was so precipitate, that the Cortes left some millions in money, a great deal of plate, and a part of the ar tillery of their troops. Most of the counsellors of state have re mained at Seville, as well as about 30 deputies and 2 or 300 officers, incensed at the violence done to the king. Intelligence from Spain, by way of Havana, and also by way of Philadel phia and New York, has been received but yet the accounts do not appear so perfectly free from obscurity, that a clear and unquestionable statement of affairs in that quarter can be readily furnished. Even Mina,, the active and enterprising Chief, is so completely beaten and so triumphantly victorious that he is in fact by recent accounts, pretty much, as to all important con sequences,where former ones left him. Making due allowance for the sympa thetic feelings towards a nation whose rights have been outraged, there is still cause to distrust mauy of the French accountsof operations in Spain —while a perfect reliance, cannot per haps be placed o.i the details from oth er quartets. We have given in this day’s paper a few articles which ap pear to be of an official character, and we have given also some paragraphs of a summary from the New York Spectator, on which our readers will make up their own opinions. If nei ther the one nor the other should be conclusively correct, we can only re commend a patient waiting for ac counts which will eventually be of an unquestionable character. The exer cise of this patience w ill in no respect interfere with that friendly feeling, and those good wishes, which our citi zens so generally and naturally en tertain for an injured and oppressed people. The following accounts by way of Havana, can be compared with those by way of New’ Y’ork, and must be left to time to test the accuracy of either. Augusta Chron. MINA’S GREAT VICTORY. A private letter of the 18th June mentioning this affair, says that Donnadicu with 12,000 men had been cut to pieces by Mina, who had also attacked Moncey at Mat aro and defeated him. The head quarters of Ballasteros are said to be at Cuenca, and his advanced post6at Siguenza; his force is sta ted at ten or twelve thousand men. A letter from Barcelona repeats the account of Mina having taken 1,500,000 francs from the enemy —and adds that he roams, and mar ches in security and confidence over the whole mountainous region of Catalonia, occupying every post without resistance. By the latest accounts Mina had one division of his Guerillas, with in a league of Berga and Estanvs, and another in Prats de Llusanes. In the various combats near Ma taro, the French troops had been surprized, and several sallies were made by the constitutional troops, which obliged the French to retire precipitately. A Perpignan article says, that the French in their violent assault on Castchersol, were resisted by the inhabitants, and even by the women, with incredible furv. A Madrid date of June 14th says, the battle of the Bridge of Alma rafc was a terrible stroke to the French. They confessed the Con stitutionalists had killed 2000 men, and taken 700 prisoners. Advi ces from Catalouia, Valencia, and Andalusia, might have recounted greater evils, but, says a private letter, the correspondence has been burnt, in order that they should not know the losses that they havesuf. fie red. It is said the duke of An* gouleme has given orders to pac* up, [ha ntandado einpaquetar.] Baltimrof, August 13. Bombardment of Cadiz. —W e learn from a gentle man, passenger in the schooner Zion, which arri ved here last evening in nine days from St. Barts, that the Patriot brig Bolivar, captain Almeida had arrived at St. Barts two days be fore the Zion sailed, in seventeen days from a cruize off Cadiz. He understood from the officers of the Bolivar that a French squadron was cruizing off Cadiz—that the French army was besieging it and lud obtained possession of the Cas tle of St. Roque.—They kept up a constant bombardment ol the town. This intelligence brings our ac counts in twenty nine days fiom Cadiz. The respectability of our infor mant induces us to place full reli ance on this information. The only hope now is, that Ca diz will be able to hold out, and a few months resistance will do eve ry thinn for Spain, as the French cannot long remain tranquil in Spain ; their safety requires that they should be across the Pyrenees bes ore December, or a winter cam paign, dangerous in its results, w ill be demanded, and there are many preliminaries to settle before that time, “and the resistance of Cadiz may accomplish much good. N. T. Bat. Adv. The King of Wirtemburg lately gave his subjects a Constitution.— This unkingly act has startled the Holy Allies, and they have with drawn their ambassadors! A col* umn of Austrian troops will prob ably be sent to deliver the monarch from this voluntary enthralment, and to restore happiness to his subjects! The Ambassadors withdrawn from VVurtem berg are those of Austria, Russia and Prussia— these three Powers, (besides the constitution,) have taken particular offence at the publica tion of a note addressed by some of the Ger man Princes to their ministers, complaining of the conduct of the ‘ High Allies’ in interfering with their concerns—this note, of course, was unfit to meet the eyes of the People. The di et of Frankfort has also ordered the king of Wirtemburg to suppress a newspaper called the German Observer, and to interdict the edi tor from editing any periodical publication for the nest five years. The offence of the Ger man editor was, that he censured the job of the Inquisition established at Mayance ny virtue of the Congress of Carlsbald,each of the mem bers of which has for four years past received 41 sterling per diem for doing nothing ! Subjects relating to the above have been agitated in the British Parliament—Mr. Can ning objected to any inquiry being made re specting them, and declared that “England was no party to the proceedings of tire Allied rowel’s ; she in this case was merely a spec tator.” Mr Brougham protested against being un derstood to concur with the Right Hon. Gen tlemen that this country could be a mere tame spectator ofsuch transactions. The principles of the Allies were utterly detestable in them selves, and ruinous to the liberties of the world. An American traveller in Italy states that the old king of Naples is the greatest crowned dunce in F.urope. liis ideas never extended to anything more important than hunting and fowling, and so fond is he of the latter, that he prevail ed on the Pope to allow him to shoot pheasants on the Sabbath ! It was to support this brute in ab solute power, that Austria marched an army to Naples, and overthrew the constitutional government. The state of affairs in Ireland grows more and more alarming even a rebellion has been foreboded- Troops were pouring into the agi tated districts. It was stated t>7 Mr. Peel in the House of Commons that out of 84 days that that body had been engaged in business, 49 of them had been occupied in the discussion of Irish subjects. mm The Mi ssionary reports from the African islands of last year, gi vc an account of a singular insurrec tion in Madagascar. The xuomcn rose to the number of 4000, and threatened to chastise the king, un less he would grant them some ot their wishes, and consult them a s to the manner of cutting his hair- He however collected his soldiers around him, and boldly sent them word that he w r as king, and wouh* do as he pleased. The Law's delay . —A case ha’ just been decided in the Court ot Appeals, of Maryland, which ha* been pending mare than eighteen years.