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office fit A tV'tfidnni. The na*n c and description of every travel ler, in everv town, is taken at these several Offices, •& trans mitted to tk ; General Office. — 1 The ■warehouses of the Mer chants are likewise put under the inspect on of these offices, who * have it in general < rrler to pre vent the introduction and con sumption of h goods. — The place from which any Colo nial produce has been re • ived must be vetified by the oath of the merchant importer. (CIRCULAR.) AV 28, Winch Otter-street, London, sth Ft i. 1801- As it is seriously apprehended that there is an intention to ton cede to America many of the ‘•emu lations &c ptovisions, established by the navigation and colonial bystem of Great-Britain and to continue to relax them generally towards neutrals, notwithstand ing the distressed state of Bri tish shipping, and the ruinous consequences already felt hv de viating from the old maritime principles of the country Ihe committee ofFhip Owners, of this pert beg leave to inform you, that they have prepared a petition t* Parl'ament, praying ■ that the navigation act may he srictly enforced in future, and that such concessions may rot be tn. de a ; are apprehended, and that the present indulgences to neutrals be discontinued; and also, urging that an enquiry may be made into the actual state of the shipping c l die country, with a view to avert those increasing evils and ruinou* consequences which roust inevitably attach up* on the nation, h\ Uiecontinuttlsu;’- pension of the navigat'u n act and the facilities affoidcd to ntu ral vessels. NEW.OHI.K A NS, Feb. 24. TRIBUTE Ob’ APPLAUSE Ila, et> ceieucu General Janus Wilkinson. Sir T'! e (üblciibers, rr.af ters of vc lie's tn the port of Nt w Oilcans, beg lea v e r o ex. press to you, tlnough this channel o! communication, tiic high lenle they entertain oi your le “ice-*- in the pteleni a larnting cun*. S .founded as we ate by ful'picious or c’ehittcQ pet ions, nu)te than orclinaiy ir,cans are requdite to frullrate t! eu ne farious dcfigns, and though we deprecate military alcendency in a fiee government *>et, we confider it at thisjunfclme, he only alternative to ptelerve the peace ofthe country, & main tain inviolate the real inteiefls cd the United States. In all yum measures, fir, we have perceived ‘he arm oi power, guided by the dictates of pauioiiim ; arid we aie well convinced that the civil audio, rity is (ct alalc only hecaule it is incompetent foci the nature of its ptocels, to aveit tire Iloini which was ready to but 11 over tts, 1 hat your exertions may be crowned with luce. 1., a< and your service:. meet the reward which they (o juftiy tnetit, it is the sincere wilh of Sir Your admit ers& friends, Richard Sites,!), Bio-vn, Benjamin Bryan, Edwaid O Bryan, Richard Field, John Brown, Stephen C ‘ay, James Sant fold, Daniel On, Jones, Benjamin Swinlon, Sam’l M’Cutcheon, Amsriah Williams, Francis l’ear lon, Robeit Swain, 1 homas Stacy, V, ill ji; in Allen, Samuel Smith, John Pratt, John Cough, J. Symonds, P. IBov.n, John Richarus, James \\ i bran, Philip Vvilfon, jr. John Wal ler, William J. Bigot. Edward Hunt. O. Bvlitucii., i nomas Chtunfidcs, George Chapman Prefalvia Waldron. Hew-Oilcans 7th Feb. 1307. Richard Siites, Lloyd |ones, William J. Pigot, Committee appointed to watt tn the general. To captains Richatd Siites , Llotjd Jones and Wm. J. Pigot—a Committeefrtm thirty-one mas ters cj vessels in the port oj N. Orleans. Gentlemen— I receive, with great fatislafclion, this teftmno ny of your approbation of my condutt, pending one of the moll painful and intereding feenes of my liie. The Ipontaneous offerings of a hand of patriots, affair bled at this remote point, iioin various quarters of the Amer ican union, of a body of rel pcctable dozens, who, though personally unknown to me, have had an opportunity of wimeffing my whole conuuG, cannot he too highly appreci ated ; because they mud he considered the genuine off fpringof the bread, unindu ced bv management, and tin tinctured by picjudice or per* fonality. If an ardent, honed zeal, has impelled me to anticipate the tardy course of the law, for the salvation of the conffi tution, 1 hope the magnitude of the motive may tx enuate the penial, pcrlona!, monterr tary tiefpals ; and that the dc” chive Ittps which have been loiccd upon me by a combina tion ot imperious circum llances, may be pieferred by eveiy vigilant, faithful citizen, to a timid circumlpetliori, v. hiclt woo'd have put to haz atd the ialety of this empori um and a whole country. I leg yon, gentlemen and thole w horn you r< prelenr, to accept nv acknowledgement for yr in partiality, aid my wa: tiled w Hits lot your indi vidual prolperity and ha[ pr nei;.. JAMES WILKINSON. Honorable to Humanity. The me which debtvoicii I)e ----troit the first ot J unc, 1 805, con sumed the houses on twenty-five streets, lanes & alleys. Sixteen human beings wete burnt, and cows, horses and sheep sharsd the same fate. The wretched inhabitants escaped with only the linen on their backs. A tribe ot the Delaware Indians, who lived within five miles of Detroit held a council the next day, and came to a resolution to relieve the sufferers ; and on the thud day alter the fire, sent 18 Mitch Lows, 25 Sheep, with Turkics, Chickens, and other neecseatics to their relief. Major t aivpbeU the commander of fort Makton, on the British side ofthe river, also eomriUutcd to their reiiet, auu sem itu.ni hve boat loads ot cloths shoes and other useful materials. i he above interesting particu !ats were cointnunicaieu by Air. Samuel A. shut.z, lately arrived at Luihste lioiu Detroit, and who wj, 8 there at the conflagra tion. PHILADELPHIA, April i ; ledum Language —It is ob served bv John L, Gardner, es quire, in one of his cemmonica tions to Doctor Mitchell, th.it theie are many words in the Kinsttnaux and Algonkin lan guages exactly like those of the Mautook Indians on the eastern most txtreni ty of Long Island, and which seem in part to justify an observation ot Mr. bl’Ken. zit- in b.s journey trom Canada to the Pact tie ocean, that there are three cii-iinct nations on the continent cl America. 1, Ihe iGquimaux, who probably came from Greenland. 2. The inha bitants on the boiclers of the Pa. cific between the latitude ot 55 degrees north ; and .'j. Those of the midland or middle region, whose course has been from the Atlantic towards the Pacific. Similarity of languages I con ceive to he a more certain meth od of tracing the origin of savage nations, than similarity of cus toms which among civilized na tions, are nearly the same from the ancient Hebrew, to the mod ern nations of American Indians. In addi.ian to the curious and interesting publication on the na tive Amtrican languages, made a few years ago by Dr. Barton, the public mav expert much more information bom the collected vocabularies of the Aboriginal tongues, which will appear in the narrative of captains Lewis and Clark, in their late expedition across the continent of North America, fiom the Potomac to Columbia river, soon to be offer ed to their impatient fellow citi zens. General Miranda. — By a gen lleman just arrived at New. York from Trinidad, and whose in formation is entitled to the ful lest credit, from his personal and particular acquaintance with the officers and other principal per sons attached to the late expe dition of Miranda, we have the following information :—That gen. Miranda was at Trinidad when our informant left there— and that he was in daily expecta tion of receiving a reinforcement of between 8 and 10,000 men from England, under the orders of general Tucker, and which were said to have sailed, but bad been detained bv adverse winds that on the arrival of these troops Miranda would immediately un de'take a second expedition a gainsi the Spanish dominions of South America—and that it was the concurrent opinion ot thftse qualified to form a correct one that with this respectable force, the general would be able to (town his enteiprise with com plete and speedy success.—Mi randahad been appointed to the rank ot Major general by the English government. The fai iuic ot his late attempt to liber ate i,is count!) men from Spanish oppression in that part of the world, was attnbuted wholly to the smallness of the torces with which it was a’tempted, as they did n c t, altogether amount to thite hundred n tn. Gieat num bers of the natives and those friendly to his project, had fre quently joined the standard of Miranda, but could not he iiulu . ced to continue (heir fidelity, as they could fed no certainty of protection fiom such a handful of i men, against the troops and thieatened vengeance of the Spanish government. April 4. We have sten letters from Princeton, New-jersey, dated Thursday, which state, that a very seiious rupture has occur red in the College of that place. Upwards @f one hundred and fitty students have openly revol ted against the authority of the principal and Teachers; in con st quince of three of their fellow stuuents having been expelled. i he whole number of Liter a. Ty Insurgents have been dismis sed ttom the walls of the College until aboard of Trustees, to be immediately convened,shall give a decision on the subject. We sincerely iegret that any thing should have occurred to tarnish the reputation, or interrupt the progress ot so respectable and usciul a seminary ot learning. ACCOUNT Oj a newly Invented Philosophi cal Linda-Box. It is a fact well known, that on rapidly compressing air, by means oi a piston, a tlanie may he pioduceti which is capable of kindling combustible bodies.— An :• genious workman of St. Etienne, in France, was the tirst to apply this principle to the purposes of practicable utili ty, bv compressing the air into a cvUnder, or tube, with the view of kindling tinder, and the sue cess of his attempts has lately induced M. Dc.moteiz, an inge nious mechanic in Paris, to make several experiments, in order to ascertain the size to which the tube may be ieduced, withent destroying the effect. After several trials be succeed ed in kindling tinder in tubes, or compressing pumps, ol about 4 lines in diameter, and six inches in length; and he observes when these tubes are ©1 an uniform bore, and the pistons accurately fitted, it is scarcely possible to lail in kindling the tindtr by a single stroke of tile piston. As this method of obtaining light is attended with no clanger, and it is in other respects preier able to the tinder boxes in com mon use, there can be little doubt of its being in a short time ge nerally adoptee.. To his ingenious invention, M* Dumoteiz ha3 given the name of Pneumatic Tinder Box. NEW-YORK, April I. THE GALE. Yeflerday morning at two o’clock, a gale commenced from E. N. E. with a heavy fall of know and continued utt til about it, blowing nrolt of the time from E. About 12 o'clock the wind fell to a mo derate breeze, and immediate ly veered round to S. S. W. blew fielh from that quarter until 8 in the afternoon, when the wind commenced a gale from YV. N. W. It is a re ntal kable fadt, that the tide, at twelve o'clock, was from 1 a to 18 inches higher than it has been known by the oldell in habitants—from this lime the water fell though it was not time jor high water till pajl 3 o'clock. Many cellars were H led, and conliderable proper ty damaged. During the gale, the brig .Signal Pole w as blown down, and three fchrs. were driven from then anchors, and lodged on the mud-flats on the Jersey hde,oppolite the ci ty ; one of which is the Cor nelia from St. Thomas. We have realon to fear, that the viffels on the coall, both bound in, as well as thole which recently failed, have luffered. The flvips Frances, Braine, from Greenock; and lour Sifters, Latham, from 11eland ; both rode out the gale, the former in the Ealt, and the latter in the North River. The brig Almira, from Savannah, was fafe at anchor in the Narrows yesterday at 1 o’clock. Eight or nine fail of vellels went down on Monday morning, and all went to leu, except the ships Native, and Milford, and the brig Mars, j Mr Atnllerdam ; they anchor ed in the bay, within the Hook. Since writing the above we learn by the Union pilot-boat, which left the Hook at 12 o’- clock, that two ihips were a* Ihore about ft ven miles to the weltward of the Hook, one of which had 101 l two malts, and the other came in from lea du ring the gale in the morning | probably one of the Ihips that went out the preceding day. 1 here was also a large ill ip a (bore, outlide, about lour miles south of the light-house, luppofed trom her appearance to be an Indiaman. The vessels at our docks did not fuHer so much as we had j tea lon to expect—they were i completely protected in many i places by the extenlive piers j w Inch have been recently crec >ed particularly ’ Pv I the Whitehall. ; ® April 3, I Extraß from cam® ry’s narrative;.,f a difej took place on hoard I Marquis of SomcrarJ lem, in one of the bra® tiie great Salt river i r J wards the river jamhVl tfland of Sumatia. \J 1806. 1 Capt. Story having® board feme sugar, ® See. for (slip’s use, lei,® deck while below at J which time he found on® can niff en of sugar hadl broken open, but con® find who did it. and\ 0 ® were then along Gde.boti® ing only 14 men. T® cers and crew were ch,® low-, flowing the cargo® Broomfield, together wfl carpenter, and anoiherl assisting him,the cook ot® ard remaining on deck® had not been bei<aw (fiyJ tain S.) more then 4 01J utes before I heard® Broomfield cry out that® creefed-—I called all ha® get on deck immediately! ran aft into my (fate icl get my pi If oh and (word® was going up the coir;! Hairs , but just as 1 got! foot upon the fnft (lepj boarding pikes were thro® me, but fortunately mifiedH I Hepped back and firedaH to!, which did no executi® always kept my arm dull deck, and the boarding® alfo,fo as to have them r® Two days previous loih® had all the charges of the® kets drawn, as they had i® loaded for i'orre, time and® them cleaned and not lo® again. It appears that :1 ral of tie men, in uyirl gain the deck by ike M ways were wounded andi® below again. 1 ordrrtcl the nren into the cabin® were between dccL--d® thers, about 10 in nut® being in the lower hold cn® not get up, as ail the bail ways were guarded by the.® lays. Someone repotleil the second officer that killed, and that the Mil had the deck, and was folll men ; I e ordered them I break into the magazine® get up that way ; and it l ® could not escape, to blow® the ship—which, however® 1 had got ptepated for. b® having all hands from be® in the cabin and {leerage, 1® tended to divide the crew,® haif with the chief officer® the other half with inyfeif—® fir ft officer to the main ba® way, and myfelf at the con® nion way. I made a rat'll the Malay language to m own crew which the M a, l returned. We could find three piflols, and the p a s cartridges for two of >h j could not be found. Wew® obliged to load with and hold the ball on the p 1 till we fired, by which m cal we (hot one of them in the ar. —and after making anoli | rally to my people, akj.oiu we had but three (words 2,1 three piflols, and oblige 1 load and fire as above, a 1 j once they appealed to i ,e I direfiled the chief cb- er 1 the main hatch way and he lifted up by the people, af saw no peribn on deck , which we all rushed on and found that they h- Ji - off from the ship ; v;c ‘