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Three dollars per Volume I.] From the American Daily Advertiser. Interesting Surgical (Operation. FRANCIS D. SHAW, Esq. Formerly of Eadon, Pennsylvania, having for upwards of two years been deprived of fight by Cataraft, on the 26th ult. submitted himfelf to an operation on one of his eyes, performed by Dr. Pnyfick, which succeeded in an indantaneous and wonderful manner. The method of operation is of own invention, and “ confilts,’ (as he expresses himfelf in a com munication to Dr. Pnyfick,) ‘in the fpecffie application of a familiar, ♦hough potent principle in natural philosophy by means of mechanism of the moll Simple conftruftion.’ i’he advantages of it are, that it is much less difficult than that by deprtflion or extrftion, is neither te.routs, painful or hazardous, is rf* liable to be succeeded by vio lent inflamation, and in certainty arid celerity, is in every refpeft pre ftn abie to Dr A lam’s method of punduringthe rapfule. so much in vogue at present, but which* in this city lias not been iiuifbnnlv fuccefs fU i l’ii patient exhibited an unuiu al degree of ior ituds. under his af fl :f ? on ; and. b-.ffi.ks a tedious lali was three times very fki!ful ly operated upon by Dr Dor fey, accorr tv Dr. Adam’s method above memuoned, without experi kb; i iea/t relief, or having *. h.;i and Si being eefto -7r . - 0 > - J ■A:’ • giC'li •; >-'tl ctions ••• his tit. -.’-m aa idea .t s u k : • :£tmg a •p : ‘ • curt, by ;.rg away t itaradand completely empty ing the capsule of the lens. This plan he communicated to several profeffional gentiemeft, but receiv ed horn them little or no encou ragement —convinced, however, of the practicability of his plan, he persevered in it, and procured seve ral instruments made under his own direction by an ingenious artifl, [though himfelf unable to fee them] and with them tried fre quent experiments on different sub stances as familiar as possible to that of the cataract, with such success as to afford the moll flattering prof peft. (r A detailed account of his plan was communicated to Dr. Pnyfick, in November iaft, and after much urgent solicitation, he prevailed on that gentleman to attempt it, very freely offering himfelf as the firft subject of the experiment. Dr. Phyiic after fome previous prepara tion, with his ufualfkill and promp titude, completely removed every vellige of the cataract, and the pa tic, ’ was once more restored to iij.h: , which gave him the more fa •nsfa&x n, as it was owing to his own ingenuity and perseverance.—- At this time [five days fince] the eye appears rapidly recovering but little inflamation is difeovera ble, owing to judicious treatment, previous to. as wed as subsequent to the operation, and as far as he THE FRIEND AND MONITOR. PUBLISHED (weekly) BY JOHN K. M. CHARLTON. IPASUINGTON, (Geo.) — FRIDAY, ; APRIL 23, 1815. has indulged himfelf, his fight is as completely restored as previous to the firft appearance of the disease. ihis invention, which deserves to be placed on a Ifevel with Dr. i Jenner’s great difeovery of Vaccin | ation, will form anew aera in the annals of Surgery, aad will no doubt be the means of restoring that moft ufeful of our feculties to many who now suppose tliemfelves doomed to a life of darknefg. Mr. Shaw is fully of opinion, thatittnay | be advantageously used in almost every state of the cataraft He j intends to procure from the proper ‘■ authority a patent for his invention, and is justly entitled to all the ad vantage which his ufeful and ingen ious difeovery merits, more parti cularly as he has been under the necefiity of abandoning a lucrative practice at the bar, which it may never be in his power to regain. M. March 31, 1815. - —•— Alexandria , March 22. Extract cj a letter from v ■entlemm in Washington to A/• da ted March 17, Ia 5 “The p refill r of buiEUfe has thus long your enquirie: troonth g ;he na tional debt. navy , c . the in ternal improvements or rationed or acceiorafi’d lay i r war.. Hie fame cau'e vriil r . v prevent drift accuracy in ‘my ‘taounents; but ‘!,e e will be uj material inaccura cy in them Ihe comments on the fafts, you mud youtfelffupply. On the fird of Janu ary, 1790, shortly after the com mencement of gen. Wafliirigton’s ad minidration, the national debt was o 72,233,301 At the commence ment of Mr. Ad ams’ adminidrati on in 1797, the public debt having increased upwards of eight millions was 80,934,023 At the commence ment of Mr. Jef ferfon’sadminiftra- tion, in 1801, the debt amounted to 82,000,167 At the commence ment of Mr. Mad i Ton’s administrati on, in 1809, the debt having been diminished or paid off by the republi cans to the amount of nearly thirty millions, was only 53,782,200 , During Mr. Madi son’s administrati on, about twelve millions more of the debt have been paid off and the then national debt at this time a mounts only to 39,905,183 | It appears that while the federal administration increased the pub lic debt,, the republicans have exttn VIRTUE, LIBERTY, AND SCIENCE. guished more than forty-two millions • of it, besides having purchased Lou isiana, the brilliant theatre of Ame rican glory, and destined to be the great emporium of the western com merce and wealth. The debt created by the war, is afeer tained at the Trea sury amounts to 63,733,122 But this happened in a mod momentous and extendve war of l nearly three years duration, against | all the power of the Britilh empire* a great part of the time. It is a left, too, worthy of remark, and which shows the econenvy of repub-, licans, that the expense of Great Britain in the year 1813, a foiitary 12 months, were 455 millions of dollars, more than fix times the amount of the whole expenses of our three years war ! But this is not all. When the I war Commenced, we had a navy of only 20 vu' r els of,all sizes be [ low 60 gun {hips; we had none I of that class; nor any 74’s. Now, ’ we have a navy of eighty - one ships , among them are three 74’s nearly ready for sea ; two go gun fliips at Sackett’s Harbor ; one 60 gun fiiip there, one frigate and fourteen other {hips ; ten fine frigates and thirty one corvettes, Hoops, brigs and ketches ready for sea; besides nineteen vefTels of war on lakes Erie and Champlain, a great part of them the splendid trophies af the two splendid naval viftorfes on ; those lakes. It is to be observed, i that the lake fleets in the possible | event of anew war being provoked by England, will be of as much importance as the squadrons of the ocean. It is impoflible justly to appreci ate the improvements occasioned or accelerated by the war. In the An gle article of domedic manufac tures alone, the. war has added in solid wealth to the nation, ten times the amount or the expenses which that war produced to the Treasury- We can now supply ourselves, if we had a mind to flop importations, with all the necefiaries and many of the comforts and luxuries of life, from our domedic factories. In addition to all this, we have gained in Europe a name in arms and valor which will prove to be our greeted security against future aggrefiions, and command the ad miration of mankind to the latest period of time. We have had our national charafter drengthened and elevated ; our union and republican institutions consolidated and con- ; firmed. Tbefe advantages, that wealth, this charafter and reputa tion, have been gained and secured j under the auspices of a Madison j and a JefFerfon. Alley.ardria Herald. im - ENGLISH CREDULITY. ( Cojnpilcdfrom History.) In the year 1712, Mr. vV hi ft on having calculated the return of a comet, which was to make its ap pearance or Wednesday, the 14-th of Oftober, at five minutes after j five in the. morning, gave notice [Payable half yecml . nr—imnri . .aj , to the public anccordingly with | the terrifying addition, that a total desolution of the earth by fire> was to : take place on Friday following - ’ The reputation of Mr. Whiiton long maintained in England, both as a divine and a philosopher, left but little or no doubt with the pop ulace as to the truth of his predic tion. Several ludicrous events now took place. A number of persons in and about London, 1 seized all the barges and boats they 1 could lay hands on in the Thames, i very rationally concluding, that i when the conflagration took place 1 there would be mod fafety on the water—a gentleman who had ne glefted family prayer for more than five-years, informed his wife that it was his determination to refuine that laudable praftice the fame | evening; but his wife having en gaged a ball at the house, persuad ed her husband to put it off’till ; they saw whether the comet appear ed or not—The South Sea dock immediately fell to five percent.—* India to 11, and the captain of 5. Dutch fliip threw all his powder in ! to the river, that his {hip might not be endangered. The next morning, howeyef, the comet appeared according to the prediction, and before noon the be lief was universal, that the day of judgement was at hand. About, this time 123 clergymen were fer ried over to Lambeth, it was said to petition that a fliort prayer might be penned and ordered, there be ing none in the church,fervice on occasion—that maids of honor burnt their colleftion of plays and novels, and went to the bookfeilers to buy each of them a bibie, and bishop Taylor’s holy living and dy ing—the run on the bank was so great, that all hands were employ ed from morning till night difeount irig notes and handing out fpecie— on Fhurfday, considerably more than 7000 kept midreffcs were le gally married in the face of several congregations and to crown the farce Sir Gilbert Heathcote, at that time direftor of the bank, ilTued orders to all the fire officers of Lon don, requiring them <c to keep a good look out and have a particu lar eye on the bank of England!!’ ? ’ Pet. Courier. Terrible Alarm ! On the 25th of January, the kingdom of Great Britain was suddenly thrown into a date ol alarm and codernalion never equalled, perhaps, since the famous gun-powder plot. Their ’ own papers mention admiralty dis ’ patches ! seventy fours suddenly man ;7l cd! squadrons instantly sailing ! ! Iffc. IFc. and private letters may | pofiibly tell us of alarm guns ! tbs \ royal family retired to the Tveer for safety! hot press on the Thames ! funds sinking ! wonder rising ! &c. &c. Because “Late on Monday evening, dispatches were received at the admiralty, communicatinr the. IMPORTANT INFORMATION that two American “ cock-boats ’• had sailed 1 Columbian^ [Number 11.