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with my hand. Done at the city of Wafliing ington, this eighteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and of the sovereignty and indepen dence of the United States the thirty-nith. JAMES MADISON. By the President, JAMES MONROE, Acting Secretary of State. DESULTORY. - Alexandria , February 24. HARTFORD CONVENTION. The Delegates on their way to Washington travelled in company with several chiefs of the Six Na tions of Indians who had served un der General Brown ; but as Toon as the latter became acquainted with the objeft of their journey, they peremptorily refufed to let them proceed further in the fame vehicle; so that the Convention had to disembark itfelf and wait until the next day for the means of tranfporation. On their arrival at Wafliington they reported them selves to the Secretary of State and requelled an introduction in their official capacity to the President, the honor of which Mr. Monroe de clined, but fignified his willingness to afford them an opportunity of feeing the President as private citi zens, to which the delegates would not agree and moved off, but re turned on the following day to clofc with Mr. Monroe’s preposition and received for answer, that the Sec retary was too much engaged, but that Mr. Dallas might be more at leisure. who accordingly introduced ufem oiveiteu ot tiieir official capa city. So that the mighty “ doings of the wife men of the Eafl” will result in their going home without -even mentioning the mighty fub jeCl for which they were delegated. f Herald. J Norfolk, Feb. 25. On Thursday, arrived in Hamp ton Roads, the Spanifli fliip St. Philip, a cartel from England. On board this ship, are Lieufs. Wuf fon and Allen, Mr. Dennison, Pur ler, and 94 of the crew of the late U. S. sloop of war Argus , also, 12 or the President, 2 of the Growler, and 3 of the Julia, captured on the Lakes ; with Captains M’Dowell and.M’Kenzie of the U. S. army, and 150 privates, taken in the de tachment under Colonel Boiler. By this veiled, we receive intelli gence, that the U. S. ilopp of war Syren wms captured oil’ the Cape of Good Hope, by the Bntifli fliip •of war Midway, of 74 guns. Ledger, We have conversed with the offi cers of the late U. S. Hood of war Argus, arrived in the cartel St. Phi lip, which fliip put into TenerifFe, and left there on die eighth of Ja nuary ; they fay they heard nothing of the capture of the Wasp. lb. The Dutch and Algerines. The London Globe of Dec. £3, flares, that on the 22d Dec. the following Dutch frigates failed from the Texel, under the command of Com. Tulleken, for the purpose of convoying the Mediterranean fleet; the Zealand, Rotterdam, Yiflel, pugerand, Eendragt and Havik. It is ynderftood that their ulterior ; destination is to wage hoftiliues a gainst the Algerines, unless they deliver up the Dutch seamen whom they hold in captivity. ALGIERS.—It is reported, (& we w’ould fain hope correctly) that our government mean to fit out a powerful Expedition against the Pirates of Algiers—Com. Rodgers in the flag-fliip—that Hull, Bain bridge, and our brilliant lift of Na val Heroes, will accompany him, with the two 74’s, frigates, trans ports, he. (Enquirer. Boston, Feb. 22. We learn, that orders have been sent from Wafhingjon for the im mediate equipment of the Indepen dence, 74 guns, Com. Bain bridge, for sea ; probably destined to the Mediterranean. — Centinsl. Alan ilia, Feb. 24. Volcano of Albany, (Province of Curaniin.es). —The rnoft tremen dous rupture commenced the last day of January, and the lava con tinued to ifl’uc 10 days ; 5 totfns destroyed, and 1200 people peril ed. It appears that the celebrated Frepcli general If u wee pop, the he ro of Caftlebar, has been trusted by gen. Jackfoii, with the command of the important post on the right bank of the Miflifiippi, oppofiteto the encampment of the main ar my. This general Humbert, who has risen from the ranks to the dig nity of a general, and was second in command to general Hochc, in Bantry Bay—is the fame general Humbert who In the year 1798, landed in Ireland with 800 French soldiers, and wkh this fhiall force, and fotno undilciplined and ill arrned Tii sh peasants, kept at bay during a whole fortnight ap army of 10,000 English veterans under the command of gen. Lake. It is laid that he repaired to pur camp at firft, not with a view’ to tender his profeflional l e;'vices, but to en joy the feene as /an amateur of the military art, bat that his em’nufi af:n being raid'd to the highest by the. ftitoxicdie'd perfume of his be loved gunpowder, lje loon, took an active ‘part, and was dlfti.ngulihed. by our great commander, and pla ced in a firuatiun.pf high t: uft and refponftbiiiry. What mult then that army be, when fuck men as .Humbert, aoeuftorned to the ,chief command, and their foreheads crowned with well earned laurels, are contented to accept and proud to act a subordinate part r With armies’ so led, and , f° compoTed, America may bid ‘ defiance to a world in arms. (Demo. Press.) Philadelphia , February 20. The privateer Chaffeur, captain Bovle, of Baltimore, has put into Martinico to refit, having had a desperate action 1 with the Britiih lioop cl war L’Efpiegle. The sloop of war was in the acl of striking her colors, when a Britifli frigate hove in fight, and obliged the pri vateer to nicer off.— (True Anar. Governor Strong*s Preclamation. Governor Strong has iflued his proclamation for a day of public falling and prayer.—ln this proc lamation, not one word is said of the recent interposition of provi dence in the wonderful viclory on the Mifttflippi, nor are we invited to’ pray cor* the lately or oa -annau, but only that our fisheries (cod and alewives) may be raftered as ?n for mer times !—(Boston Patriot. A DYE RTISEM ENT EXTR A ORDINART. From the London Public Advertiser. Wanted —The spirit which an imated the conduct of Eliza beth, Oliver and William . Better negociatcrs, or more gunpowder. Lost—All idea of national dig nity and honor. Found—That any infignificant state may insult that which li fe J to call herfeif Mistress of tlia Waves. vYe team that the Mi lifters ci Holland and Sweden are both now on 2 viftt to this city. Nat. Intel. CONGR L S S. House of Representatives. February 24. Relations with Algiers. The following report, yesterday transmitted to the Houle by the President of the United States, was read : The ading Secretary us State, to whom was referred the resolu tion of theHoufe ofßeprefentatives of the loth iaftant,,, requelling the President of the United States to cause to be laid before that house such information as he fliull deem necessary to be communicated touching the state of relations ex isting between the United States and the Barbary Powers, has the honor to state, that, according to the latest accounts from Morocco, Tunis and Tripoli, our relations with those powers remained upon their former footing, nor is there any particular reason to believe that any change has fines taken place. _ It will Appear by the documents accompanying the meflage of the President to Cmgrefs on the 17th November, 1812, that the Dey of Algiers had, violently, and wirhout just cause, obliged the Consul of U. S. and all American citizens then in Algiers, to leave that place in a manner highly often five to their country & injurious to them fclves, and in violation of the Trea ty then subsisting between the tw r o nations. It appears, moreover, that he exacted from the Consul, under pain of immediate imprison ment, a large sum of money, to which he had no claim but what originated in his own iujuftice. Hiefe adds of violence and out rage have been followed by the capture of, at least, one American vefiel, and by the seizure of an A merican citizen on board a neutral vefiel. The unfortunate persons, thus captured, are yet held in cap tivity, with the exception of two of them, who have been ranfemed. Every effort to obtain the release of the others has proved abortive ; & there is feme reasons to believe that they are held by the Dey as a means by which he calculates to extort from the United States a degrading Treaty. JAS. MONROE. Department of State, ? February 20, 18:5. y Mr. Bibb, from the committee on Foreign Relations, reported a bill to repeal certain ads therein mentioned (viz. the ads prohibit* ing trade alia Atevcourfe with cur late enemy, and prohibiting the ad miiilon into Qur waters of the ene my’s vessels,) and the bill was read, On motion of Mr. Ribb, the Committee of Foreign Relations were difehurged from the further consideration of the petition of Jus tin and Elias Lyman. nnm H*” ft For the FRIEND & MONITOR^ To Pn-rr.R FamiliAs ; \ Which means in English ther Jerry fays) Patrick Familiar. The terror and dismay which you undoubtedly feel at feeing ?. female pen drawn against you is* natural. But however you may be confounded, you ought not to be furpriled—your publication last week was. enought to cut you off from the hopes of mercy. You have courted your fate, and the only, atonement now in your power is, 7 to await it, what ever it may be, with silent and fubmifiive resigna tion. I know not however, that I final 1 be as severe and inexorable as you have just reason to exped.—l have. lately attended a charming dancing parry ; the company was agreeable, the tr.ufic was excellent, and its happy est eels on the tone of my temper has not yet entirely fub tided. And do you think there is any holiness in a wooden image, or (which is exactly the fame in prin ciple) that there is any intrinsic lin in a fiddle ? No 1 lam certain you never conceived so stupid a thought. But (lift I undedtand you tocenfureballs i:ageneral,(whe- ther they are attended by girls at fchool or any other persons) as meetings of a dubious complexion, between bad and very bad—meet ings which it they are not in their character as black as the blackest of fin, are at least of a veay dark brown. That theydeprave the af* fedtions and prepare the mind of the unhappy dancer for the comif fion of any fort of wickedness.— Now it is my fortune to differ froiii you as directly as words can ex press. Dancing, and its attendant circuni fiances, while it unites the . cultivation and improvement or taste with the benefit of exercife while it discountenances, exclude* and suppresses all forts of vice and diflipation, it refines, enlarges and exalts the best affections of the mindi and prepares it for the re ception and exercise of every ami able and every manly virtue. It is not for me, a inifs in her teens, to argue about .the conftittution of the human mind, and the compar ative eflcCls of moral influences and all that; but I fay, (and the word of a lady you are not to question) that I am a finer girl, h have more of the virtues as w’ell as the graces about me while I am figuring through a country dance, than if i vere pouting at home and envying those that are there. Tour sex you know Mr. Patrick, that the young er part of them will fieek pleasure and amusement of feme fort. The efferveflence of youthful spirits wii* overfliow in fome direflion—na ture has said it—now whether would you lay the feene of their amusements in a ba’ii room v/heie 1 no vice, no excess, no indecency even no indecorum can gain ad. million, or would you if you could, turn them loose with one-anotho* and consign them to cards, dice and the bottle, the neverfailing fnbftitutQa for fe mal? society ? i