GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

Sale of Mr. Kemble's library. The following are Died at Aberdeen, on the 18th of Sept. last, Mr. the prices of some of the lots: Syr Degore, a poetJames Ogilvie, the orator, who was well known in ical romance, eighteen leaves; printed by Wynkyn the United States for his public lectures. He had de Worde-361. 10s. Here begynnaeth a lyttal treareturned to Scotland to take possession of the title tyse of the Byrth & Prophecye of Martin, a poem; and estates of lord Finlater, recently deceased, of printed by the same-261. 15s. 6d. Chaucer's Canwhom he was the lawful heir. terbury Tales, a manuscript of the 14th or 15th cenThe Glasgow petition for the dismissal of minis-tury-211. 10s. 6d. An extraordinary collection of ters was signed by 18,065 persons. Drury Lane and Covent Garden play bills, from the Next to a Miss Delany, the richest heiress in Eng-year 1751 to the present time, were purchased by land is said to be a Miss Laurence, of Studleypark, sir Gregory Page Turner, for 1891. A collection of Yorkshire, whose possessions exceed 1.50,000 a Spanish comedies, was bought by Mr. Heber, of Hodnet. Shakespear's comedies, histories and trayear. gedies, first edition, inlaid throughout, not a very superb copy, was bought by Mr. Boswell, at the enormous sum of 1127, 7s.

Some curious ancient manuscripts, one of the time of William Rufus, (1090), have been found in certain old chests deposited in the Guildhall of Exeter. They are written on beautiful vellum, and said to be interesting.

The following strange, but well-attested occurrence, actually took place a few days since:

London, Feb. 16. It appears, by an account laid before parliament, of the total weekly amount of bank notes and post-bills in circulation between the 16th July, 1820, and the 6th February, 1821, that the following were the totals at those respective periods:-July 18, 26,043,380.; February 6, 23,563,1804; making a diminution of nearly two The lowest amount was

20,785,460 on the 12th December last. The highest never exceeded that above stated on the 18th July.

FRANCE.

That venerable friend of freedom, La Fayette, has taken a warm part in favor of Naples, in the chamber of deputies.

A man servant, in the employ of the rev. Dr. Palmer, of Yarcombe, near Chard, being taken ill, the medical attendant on the family was sent for, who prepared for the man a bolus from the family medi-millions and a half. cine chest, and having wrapped up in paper the grain-weights used in weighing out the proper proportions of the drugs, left them on the table, and near to them the bolus, which he desired one of the females of the house to carry to the man-servant, with instructions to take it immediately in treacle. Some hours afterwards, his master came An idea is held out that the late explosions are to inquire about the patient, and found him suffering under very uneasy symptoms, which the man parts of a system of the government, like the "Caattributed to the strange kind of medicine the Dr. to street" conspiracy in England, to strengthen had ordered for him, and which he said "he could the hands of the ministry. A great many persons never have got through with, had he not cut it into have been arrested, and it seems to have been desmaller pieces;" but "he thanked God that, though signed to arrest some of the peers and deputiesit was rather rough and sharpish, he had got it all among them La Fayette! But the ministers, on the down," This account puzzled his master exceed-vote, were defeated-52 for, 101 against them, in ingly, who, however, soon discovered that the man had actually swallowed in treacle a complete set of brass grain-weights, instead of the bolus, which was found lying on the table in his master's room! Proper remedies were immediately adopted for dislodging this uncommon dose from the man's stomach, who subsequently recovered from his illness. It would be difficult to find a parallel to this instance of implicit faith in the power of the curative art, or similar exhibition of astounding ignorance among 'unfledged animals walking on two legs.'

The queen's crown. The queen's crown, which is now in the Regalia office, in the Tower, and which was made for James the second's consort, cost 1.111,900 sterling. Its weight is 19 ounces only, exclusive of the velvet. Very little, if any, of the gold can be seen, it is so profusely covered with jewels; and, although itsdiameter at the rim is only five inches, it contains 600 diamonds, and nearly 180 pearls!

"Illustrious." Lord Castlereagh said, "though the bill of pains and penalties against the queen had passed"-that is, though she had been proved to be as dirty a strumpet as her husband ever connected himself with, it would have been a degradation and disgrace to parliament not to have voted a suitable provision for that ILLUSTRIOUS individual."

The law! A notorious character was arraigned before chief justice Abbott for stealing seven geese. It turned out that one of them was a gander! The indictment was quashed and the fellow discharged! Executions! Another session at the Old Bailey had just been concluded-the sentence of death was passed on 13 persons; 3 were to be transported for life, 14 for 14 years; 39 for 2 years, &c.

the chamber of the peers.

In the French chamber of deputies, February 12, a warm debate took place on the affairs of Naples--M. de La Fayette, B. Constant, etc. taking the part of that country. The former said

"We have a right to put to ministers the question lately put to those of England, and to demand of them what part they have taken as accomplices in the measures recently taken for the maintenance of a pretended social order, a social order that refuses to nations the right of ameliorating their institutions.” These expressions excited a lively agitation, and a long debate, full of altercation and personalities followed. After numerous interruptions, in which it was contended that the member was out of order in introducing the subject, M. de La Fayette concluded with imploring the chamber "not to destroy the independence of Naples."

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, Has been transferred to the new house provided for him at St. Helena, which is said to be a convenient one. He lately rode out four miles from his residence. Montholon and Bertrand are still with him; but it is said that madame B. will soon return to Europe for the sake of educating her children. It appears that his wife, the empress Maria Louisa, is still in a state of surveillance. She is represented as "negligent in her dress, pale in her complexion, care-worn and melancholy."

TWO SICILIES.

The Neapolitan journals, according to the English accounts, "sustain a firm and resolute tone." They state that 400,000 Neapolitaus are already in arms in defence of their country. If (say they) the Swiss and the Americans, in far less numbers,

could resist Austria and England, shake off their yoke, and maintain their independence, the Neapolitans will be able to do as much; and will show to the whole of Europe that seven millions of inhabitants will suffer no dictation respecting the laws by which they are to be governed.

[The above is probably magnified-for we observe that a conscription is to take place, from which even the clergy are not exempted.

GERMANY.

contracts which they had made for the delivery of sugar at a lower rate than the article was then selling at. The mortality was dreadful--hundreds died in a day of the cholera morbus, supposed to be from drinking the waters of the river as usual, which had been corrupted with filth by the heavy rains. The people were told that the foreigners had poisoned the waters--they murdered a French physician, and finding about his person a bottle of laudanum, they tried it on an animal and it died.

all the foreigners that they could find--the govern. or remained passive, until a colonel of one of the regiments resolved to stop the massacre or perish in the attempt; and then the popular tumult was easily quelled.

The directors of the Lunatic Asylum at Konigs-This was proof enough for them, and they killed berg have established the game of nine-pins for the amusement of the unfortunate inmates. The desire of winning as well as the anxiety displayed in taking good aim, and the interest excited in counting with precision the number of skittles overthrown, oblige the players to fix their thoughts During the late war, the British East India compa. on a particular subject. Order and tranquility have ny commonly paid for freight at the rate of 401. per already succeeded the noisy confusion which first ton. The company has made some late contracts attended the opening of the games, and happy re-at from 7 to 81. and of 26,000 tons offered only 3,000 sults are expected from this experiment. were taken up.

POLAND.

VAN DIEMAN'S LAND.

book from this press is the history of a fugitive exile, named Michael Howe, who, at the head of the runaways, disturbed the colony for six years.

SOUTH AMERICA.

Cracow, Jan. 30. Only 17,000 Polish florins are In 1818, a printing press was set up at Hobart's yet subscribed towards the monument of Koscius-town, Van Dieman's Land, New Holland. The first Lo, yet it seems determined to execute the plan on an extensive scale.-The mound, or tumulis, is to be so large, that the expenses of bringing and casting up the earth are estimated ot 40,000 florins. On the top is to be placed a block of granite, of The papers contain many well written essays on proportionate size, to be hewn from the rocks on the political state of the country, which seem to the Vistula, and which is to bear no other inscrip-breathe a firm determination to retain indepention but the name-Kosciusko. It is further intend-dence and sovereignty. ed to purchase the whole mountain on which the It appears that the viceroy of Peru invited a ne mound is to be raised, with a piece of the ground gociation with general San Martin, commander of as far as the Vistula, to plant in a useful and agreea- the army from Chili, for the purpose of avoiding ble manner, and to people it with veterans who the horrors of war-but the former declining to have served under the general. They are to have acknowledge as a preliminary "the independence the land and dwellings as freehold property, and to of all the territorial provinces of the union," the form a little society by the name of Kosciusko Co-deputies after (as the general states) "going as far lony. It is also proposed to support two young as honor and the security of the independent states daughters of Kosciusko's brother, who are orphans, would permit," withdrew. "I have appealed (he and in narrow circumstances. In order to obtain says) to arms as the only arbiter of the question the means for doing all this, the committee who di- between us and the Spaniards; but I shall pursue rect the affair have resolved to apply to the ad- the campaign with sorrow to behold so much mirers of Kosciusko in foreign countries, and to in-bloodshed, which might have been preserved, had vite in France, general Lafayette; in England, lord Grey; and in North America the late president Jefferson, all friends of the deceased hero, to collect subscriptious.

RUSSIA.

not the fatal influx of ignoble passion corrupted the soul of true patriotism."

It is stated, that an arrangement has been made between Bolivar, and gen. Torre successor of Morillo, for the appointment of commissioners to proceed to Spain for the purpose of terminating the war that has so long desolated the provinces of Caraccas, &c: The armistice appears to have been prolonged in consequence. It is added that the commissioners had actually sailed. Bolivar was at Santa Fe de Bogota. The "Aurora" discredits this report.

The commerce at St. Petersburg, in the year 1820, offers the following very remarkable result: "The value of the goods imported, was 167,380,897 roubles, (about $30,996,476) besides 23,000,000 (about $4,259,259) brought by the vessels last arrived, but not yet entered at the custom house, making in the whole 190,388,897 roubles (about $35,255,735.) The value of goods export- Cochrane behaved with great gallantry in caped was 105,095,296, (about $19,462,090,) so that turing the Spanish frigate Esmeralda, at Callao. the importation has exceeded the exportation by He was himself wounded, and had 15 killed and above 85 millions, (about $16,000,000). Such a dif- 50 wounded. The loss of the frigate was very ference in the balance of trade has never before severe, and 174 of her crew were made prisoners occurred here. The duties of customs at St. Pe--the rest were killed or missing. They fought tersburg amount to nearly 30 millions of roubles, bravely. (about $5,555,555)– vessels arrived, 1090; do. sailed 1070."

TURKEY.

The Turks have been compelled to raise the siege of Janina. It is said that the Suliotes had declared in favor of Ali Pacha.

An arrival from Rio Janeiro, in 50 days, brings a strong report that a constitutional government had been established at Bahia--and that a provisional government had been erected, after an affray between the people and the troops in which some lives were lost. It was believed that similar movements had taken place at Pernambuco; and things It is suggested that the massacre of the foreign-at Rio Janeiro, the king's residence, look "squally" ers at Manilla, noticed in our last, was the act of the--the Lisbon troops were offered promotion, &c. merchants (and not' of the priests), to evade the if they would enter the Brazillian lines, but only

EAST INDIES.

NILES' REGISTER-APRIL 14, 1821---CHRONICLE

twelve men and officers accepted the bounty of the king; the rest insisted on being sent back to Lis

bon.

By an arrival in 70 days from Buenos Ayres we learn that the state of political affairs in that city was still unsettled--there had been twelve or fif teen governors in the last eight months! It was believed there that the whole coast of Peru would be in the hands of the patriots in less than 30 days, and the fall of Lima was calculated upon as a certainty. An entire regiment of 800 men from the royal army had passed over in a body to San Martin.

CHRONICLE

Jacob Sherred, esq. recently deceased at New York, after other donations to charitable institutions, to the amount of 40 or 50,000 dollars, left to the Protestant Episcopal Theological school in the state of New York, the residue of his property, worth about 125,000 dollars.

Lady Hester Stanhope, niece of the late famous William Pitt, who travelled to the east and became a chief of the Arabs, as heretofore noticed in this work--see vol. X, page 350, &c. is now said to lead "a sort of monastic life on mount Lebanon, refusing to see any of her countrymen." She is about 40 years of age.

A copper mine, said to be a valuable one, has lately been discovered near Flemington, N. Jersey. "Affair of Lagaudette." Joseph Demar Garcia Castillano was tried at Norfolk on the 11th inst. for the murder of Peter Lagaudette, and found guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree. Manuel Philip Garcia was to be tried on the 14th--this day.

Up! Fifty shares of the stock of the bank of ths U. S. has been sold at New York for 114, and the same price was offered for more, so says the Mercantile Advertiser.

"The value of a thing

return home, will shew the "striped bunting" the Turks at Constantinople.

The Franklin 74. A Boston paper mentions that this ship, under the command of com. Stewart, is ordered into service to proceed to the Pacific ocean, where she will be joined by the Macedonian. It is also thought that some smaller vessel will accompany the Franklin.

Com. Macdonough. The sword and belt which is to be presented to this officer, by the crew of the Guerriere, has arrived from London--it cost 1300 dollars. We wonder that our tars did not direct that it should have been made out of American steel.

Good! The navy commissioners advertise that proposals will be received until the 1st of May, for supplying for the use of the navy yard at Washing ton, 2,408 pieces of American iron, of various dimensions, weighing altogether about 165,582 lbs.

Army. Generals Brown and Scott are at Wash ington city, and general Gaines is immediately expected, to compose a board of officers for re-orga nizing the army according to the act of the last session of congress.

Cotton. Further frauds in the package of cotton have been discovered at Charleston, S. C. and we are glad to see that a determination exists to hold up such acts of roguery to the public scorn. The names of all the parties are fairly given to the pub

lic.

Coffee. The consumption of this article in the U. States appeared to be about 20 millions of pounds annually, from the statements of the imports and exports of 1818 and 1819. Its use is declining. Ten of thousands use rye, barley, &c. as substitutes. though it is criminal to do so in England.

Rags. One hundred weight of good rags are worth more than two hundred weight of the best four, even at the highest market for the latter in

the United States!

By steam! A letter from a lady in New-Orleans "Is just exactly what 'twill bring." to her sister in New-York, says--"By way of an offset to your ice party across the Hudson, 26th Amazing!-Another Bank has just been granted for the city of New-York, entitled the North River January, I must inform you of our dining on a suBank, capital half a million, for the ostensible pur- brought by steam nearly seventeen hundred miles perb piece of roast beef, from Louisville, Kentucky, pose, among others, of aiding the Messrs. Swart-in eight days; and although the thermometer gra wouts in reclaiming certain meadows lying in New-duated at summer heat in this city, the meat was Jersey, opposite to the city of New-York. Leonard perfectly sound. The memory of Fulton, to whose Kip, Esq. has been chosen president, and Mr. John genius we are indebted for this novel regale, was Stebbins cashier, of this reclaiming institution The drank on the occasion. stock books were opened on the 2d inst. at 10 o'clock, and before three o'clock, upwards of three

millioris were subscribed for!

The navy. There are 32 captains in the U. S. navy-a list of whom and their rank may be seen in the several lists inserted in the Register: of these 1 was born in New Hampshire--Spence; 2 in Massachusetts-Porter and Downes; 3 in ConnecticutHull, Chauncey and Morris; 2 in New York-Leonard and Woolsey; 5 in New Jersey-W. Bainbridge, Evans, J. Bainbridge, Crane and Trenchard; 4 in Pennsylvania-Stewart, Cassin, Biddle, and Angus; 2 in Delaware--Jones and Macdonough; 5 in Maryland-Murray, Rodgers, Dent, Ridgely and Elliot; 4 in Virginia--Barron, Sinclair, Warrington, and Henley; 2 in England-Tingey and Patterson; 1 in Ireland-Shaw; 1 in the West Indies-Creighton.

Naval. The frigate Constitution is nearly ready to proceed to the Mediterranean, and the fine schooner Alligator, lieut. com. Stockton, has sailed from Boston to vex the slave traders on the coast of Africa. It is said that the Columbus, before her

land, that a solution of common salt sprinkled on Mildew. It has recently been discovered in Enggrain infected with mildew, completely removes the disease. Six or eight bushels are required for an acre. Independent of curing the disease, the improvement of the manure arising from the salted straw is much considered.

Death by fire. A young lady, in the 20th year of her age, lately lost her life at Boston in conse quence of her clothes taking fire. She lost all presence of mind and rushed frantic into the street, thereby fanning the flames; and before she could be arrested, was so much burnt that she died, after three weeks agony. When things of this sort take place, a small degree of prudence will prevent such fatalities-a simple falling upon the floor will cause the flames to be easily managed; and those who have their recollection about them, should first prostrate themselves or compel others to do it, whose clothes are burning.

Tavern rates. A Chillicothe paper of March 20, contains an advertisement notifying the people that, at the "Farmers' Hotel," the following prices

will be charged: "Horse at hay and grain, or grain alone, the night, 33 cents; horse at hay alone, the night, 20 cents; horse stabled and fed once, 10 cts.; oats 20, and corn 25 cents per bushel, and stable or yard to feed it in. Breakfast, dinner, or supper, | 20 cents-lodging, in clean sheets, 10 cents. At these prices the different items shall be equal to those in any public house in the western country."

Law!-The "Boston Patriot" represents a case of a poor man who was sued for twenty-five dollars, which he assumed the payment of for another, the legal costs on which amounted to thirty dollars and twenty-three cents!

Died, in Lycoming county, Pen. Col. Hugh White, in the 80th year of his age, an officer in the revoIntionary army.

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A large body of “Desultory remarks," not of We have an abstract of the census of the territoa milk, but of a MEAT-like character, are ready for ry of Arkansas-the aggregate is 14,276, of whom the press and intended for our next. We shall en- 1,617 are slaves. The territory is at present divided deavor to mete out the pabulum animi, or food for into nine counties, but what population now rethe mind, just as we discover that the people wish mains within it is uncertain; for the "Arkansas Gato hear the truth-freely spoken, on important mat-zette," of the 24th of February, informs us that the ters. Choctaw treaty gives up a large portion of "five out of the nine counties," which is inhabited by "several thousand respectable and industrious citizens."

Attention is invited to the article below, on "the meaning of words," from a correspondent who knows the meaning of all that he says-which is not too much in fashion with writers and talkers.

The population of the United States is probably short of 10,000,000 by from 2 to 300,000 souls. We Potomac, and from Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and have yet to hear from all the states south of the Michigan, west.

QUESTION OF JURISDICTION. We now publish the able report made to the legislature of Virginia, as preparatory to an insertion of the opinion of the supreme court of the United States on the case, which embraces one of the most interesting national the "Western Herald," says "The following sum"PROGRESS OF EXTAVAGANCE." Under this head questions that ever came before that body-and, as mary of compensation for the executive departsuch, though exceedingly long, must be Registered. ments of the United States, in the years 1790, enormous increase of the expenditures in those 1795, 1800, 1808, 1816, and 1820, shews a most departments even since the close of the late war: In 1790, $41,868 73

FOREIGN NEWS. By a reference to page 126, it will be seen that the Austrian army, as the soldiers of the "Holy Alliance," were on the point of reaching the confines of the Neapolitan territory and that the people of the latter were determined to resist them, &c.

1795,

1800,

1808,

1816,

1820,

71,997 06 125,581 32

142,352 83

274,442 74 353,097 60

REPRESENTATION. A Kentucky paper, speaking of the constitution and laws of Virginia, says, that, in 1814, a company of 78 men marched from Cul-necessary, and otherwise added to the amount of The war itself made a great increase of clerks pepper county to repel invasion, of whom only four were entitled to vote!

FLORIDA. An extract of a letter, of the 24th of March, dated at Montpelier, Alabama, says, "the Spanish commissioners for the delivery of West Florida, have arrived at Pensacola."

expenses in the different departments-but one would think that time enough had passed since to reduction might be made of these expenses. The get such accounts arranged, and that as rapid a increase of population and consequent multiplication of business in the departments, however, must needs cause an increase of the persons employed

John W. Green, esq. of Virginia, has declined ac-in the public offices. ED. REG. cepting the appointment of a commissioner under the late treaty with Spain.

THE MEANING OF WORDS. There are few words SECRET DEBATES. Messrs. Websters and Skinners are taken, than revenue and taxation;—and there are less understood, and to understand which less pains of Albany, have issued proposals for publishing "the no words which ought to be so well understood as secret debates of the convention assembled at Phi- these: they involve the whole internal policy of the Jadelphia in the year 1787, to form the constitution United States. I have no doubt that if the quesof the United States." These debates are to be tion was put to the people of the United States ingiven from the notes of the late chief justice Yates, dividually, whether they pay any taxes for the supof New-York, copied by his colleague in the con-port of the general government, they would anvention, Mr. Lansing, late chancellor of that state.swer, No. The reason is, they have never examine The work will make about 350 pages, and the price to subscribers, bound and lettered, will be $2 50. We congratulate our countrymen on the preservation of these debates. They will, doubtless, shed much light upon the history of our institutions.

ed the subject; but when they do, they will find its revenue from the people by a mode of taxation that there is no government on earth which derives so oppressive as the government of the United States. This is a strong assertion, but it is true: POPULATION-1820. let those who think differently take the other side The returns of the late of the question, and meet it fairly. Here are my Census of New-Jersey, give an aggregate popula-reasons-our revenue is derived from imposts tion of 277,575-less by 9,821 than, in 1815, we alone; that is, a tax on imported articles consumed estimated that it would be. Of the amount stated, in the country. The natural operation of this sys. 12,480 are free people of color, and 7,557 slaves. In 1810 the population was 245,562-increase $2,010; at the rate of a little more than 13 per cent. in 10 years.

It is stated that the population of New-York will not materially vary from 1,375,000. We estimated it at 1,458,573. -8,

Vos, XX.

tem is this--that the people must raise, not only as

*There must be no cavil at this expression-the age, &c. are trifling in amount; the proceeds of the duties on tonnage, passports, clearances, &c. postsales of public lands are not revenue, and loans cannot well be called income.