robbery of the rest, is alike narrow and false. -There are, it is true, certain limits, beyond which such appropriations would amount to gross partiality. But of these limits congress must be the jud ges, as well in the present instance as in the analagous cases of expenditures for military or commercial purposes; for works of defence, and for sala ries of local officers. Nor was it for the benefit of the future state sovereignties of the west, that these liberal and judicious donations were made, but for the common good of the citizens of all the The prisoner being brought to the bar by Alstates, who should, from time to time, be induced lard Anthony, shiff. of N. Y. this following indictto seek happiness and competence in the new ter-ment was read, first, against Ralph Hall, and then ritories, and at the same time to relieve their na- against Mary his wife, viz. tive state from the evils always, in some degree, attendant on a crowded population.

The like indictment was.read against Mary, the wife of Ralph Hall: Thereupon, several depositions accusing the prisoners of the fact for which they were indicted were read, but no witnesses appeared to give testimony in court vive voce, then the clerk calling up Ralph Hall, bade him bold up his hand, and read as follows: "Ralph Hall, thou standest The following is a correct copy of a bill of in- here indicted for, that having not the fear of God dictment, preferred in this city, against Ralph Hall before thine eyes, thou didst, upon the 25th day and Mary his wife, for witchcraft, one hundred and of Dec. being Christmas last was twelve months, fifty six years ago. Later bills of this character may and at several other times since, (as is suspected? be found in Connecticut, but this, we believe, was by some wicked and detestable arts, commonly among the last in this state. It is curious to read called witchcraft and sorcery, maliciously and felothis remnant of barbarous ages; and while we doniously practise and exercise upon the bodies of so, let us not forget the lights of learning and civili- George Wood, and an infant child of Ann Rogers, zation, which have introduced a better order of by which said arts the said George Wood and an things: infant child (as is suspected) most dangerously

At a court of assizes, held in New York, the 2d) and mortally fell sick and languished unto death.

Ralph Hall! what dost thou say for thyself-art to the man, we find nothing considerable to charge thou guilty or not guilty? Mary, the wife of Ralph him with. The court thereupon gave this sentence. Hall, was called in the like manner. They both "That the man should be bound, body and goods, pleaded not guilty, and threw themselves to be for his wife's appearance at the next sessions, and tried by God and the country. so on from sessions to sessions, as long as they stay Whereupon the cause was referred to the jury, within this gort. In the mean time to be of good who brought into court this following verdict, viz. behaviour. So they were returned to the sheriff's We having severally considered the case committed custody, and upon entering into a recognizance, to our charge against the prisoners at the bar, and according to the sentence of the court, they were having well weighed the evidence, we find that released.

there are some suspicions by the evidence of what) They were released from the indictment and the woman is charged with, but nothing considera- suretyship for good behaviour, and wholly da ble of value to take away her life! but, in referencel charged therefrom on the 21st day of August, 1663

National Debt of Great Britain.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

An account of the total amount of the national debt of England and Ireland, including the Austraa and Portuguese loans, and including the debt cancelled in each year, from the 1st of February, 1786, to the 5th January, 1821; stating the amount of the funded debt contracted; the amount of debt redeemed; the amount of unredeemed debt; the amount of unfunded debt; and also the total amount of unredeemed and unfunded debt in each of those years.

The annual accounts of the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt, prior to the passing of the act of 56 Geo. 3, c. 98, for composing one joint consolidated debt, interest and sinking fund, were made up to the 1st February, and since the passing of that act to 5th January.

The annual accounts of the unfunded debt of Great Britain are made up to the 5th of January. The annual accounts of the debt of Ireland, funded and unfunded, prior to the union, were made us to the 25th of March, and since the union to the 5th of January.

Foreign Articles.

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

The ridiculous things presented to and decided by the "court of claims," in respect to the coronation, have brought forth others of no little wit and severity.

Among the real claims presented to the court was that of Mr. Walker, the king's apothecary, that he should attend at the coronation in the dress of the Esculapius of Edward II. viz. long shoes, turned up at the toe, and looped to the knee; a blue stocking on one leg, and a red stocking on the other, with a party-colored vest and cloak. His office will be to carry in one hand a bottle of perfumed oil.

mate children each receive pensions of a greater amount than is paid to the governor of any state, save one, for his services. So much for legitimate and illegitimate children, if royally begotten.

The late census, so far as it goes, shews a great excess of females-the returns of several parishes and towns, containing 43,351 males and 51,218 females, is published in proof of the fact. But this may only partially give us light upon it.. [The census of the state of New York returns 687,950 males and 653,223 females: excess of males 34,727.] An appropriation of money, to support the Alien establishment, has been warmly opposed in the house of commons; but, no doubt, the money will be granted. England must do something to shew a general correspondence with the views of the

And about an hundred, perhaps, equally laugha-holy alliance. ble, were offered and generally substantiated; and The borough of Petersfield, which, by the deciit has also been solemnly decided by the judges, that when the king and his court rises from the banquet, the people shall be indiscriminately admitted into the hall to make a general scramble, the plate, &c. having been removed!

The following are among the hits at such non

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sion a few days ago of the second committee of the house of commons, is now declared to be free and open, and the right of voting to be in every freeholder, without any restriction, after having been closed for a century, forms a striking proof of what may be done by perseverance. Some old charters, found a few years ago, brought to light the rights of the Petersfield people, which they had so long been deprived of.

The royal college of surgeons, by their president, as the true and legal successors of the ancient and right venerable company of barbers and surgeons, Breeches. It being considered that a re-intro. claimed to extract two teeth and draw a horn spoon-duction of the use of breeches will materially assist full of blood from his majesty, by leeches, immedi- the British manufactures, the king, determined to ately before the pouring out of the holy oil. This encourage them, has countenanced their use, and case presenting some nice points, the court ad- it was expected that they would become general journed to take counsel. In this case, previous to before the coronation. If so, for the reason that the next meeting of the court, there will be a so-operated on the mind of the king and from our serlemn argument before the 12 judges, on two points. vility to British fashions, we may expect to see 1st. That, inasmuch as his majesty's teeth have all them commonly used in the United States; and aldecayed, whether the extracting of two false teeth, most universally at Washington City-as well for is within the meaning of the charter of the college: what has been assigned, as for the purpose of asand 2nd. that inasmuch as whiskey has been substi-sisting the revenue, by sending money out of the tuted in his majesty for blood, whether the draw-country to buy British goods. ing of a fluid from his majesty's veins, is, by the Rational amusement! At the celebrated course common law of England, in all cases, a drawing of at New Market, a race was lately run between a blood. We have it from good authority, that a ca-pig and a horse. The distance was fifty yards and binet council was called on Sunday last to decide piggy won the race before the horse could be put how long it will be necessary to postpone the "au-to his speed-to the great amusement, no doubt, of gust and sacred ceremony,” in order to train leech. many noble lords and ladies, reverend divines, &c. es to hard drinking, in order to go thro' the opera- Running. A black fellow lately run eight meation without flinching, should the question be de-sured miles of ground, near Teignmouth, without cided for the college. previous training, in the space of fifty-one minutes, with apparent ease.

The honorable company of brewers, by their president, claimed to drink two pots of ale with his Woolen goods. For the years ending on the 5th majesty. The right hands of his majesty and the of Jan. the amount of the "official value" of woolen president to be joined, and their right legs resting goods exported, averaged about 5,500,000l. per ann. on the back of a chair; and to have the pots. Al-from 1801 to 1815. In 1816 the amount was 7,447lowed-but his majesty to drink by deputy; his tem-809--for the year ending June 1821, 4,707,301. perate habits allowing him to drink nothing strong- The "official value" appears to be about 30 per er than 4th proof whiskey. cent. less than the "declared value."

His majesty was also pleased to order, that a place in the procession should be provided for sir Hans Snickerenstough, of his majesty's kingdom of Hanover; the said sir Hans to be dressed in 15 pair of breeches, 3 coats and 7 waistcoats, each garment to be half orange and half scarlet, and to carry the grand standard of Hanover, a large cheese, surmounted by a dried rat and two onions.

English bishoprics. The total of simple revenues of the English bishoprics, exclusive of all sinecures, and places converted into sinecures for their benefit, has been estimated at £162,000, and of the Irish bishoprics £156,000; making a general total of £318,000.-The property possessed by deans and chapters, &c. of which in England and Wales there are between 30 and 40, (besides peculiars) is The whole amount of the duke of Clarence's equally magnificent and mysterious; and it is asreceipts, for the honor of being born a prince, (for serted that one of the metropolitan chapters is he renders no services to the state), is only one in the annual receipt of nearly £40,000. hundred and forty four thousand three hundred dol- Beeke (some years ago, and on a very moderate lars a year. A sum greater than the salary of our calculation) estimated the net income from tithes president, united to that of all the secretaries, in South Britain at £2,500,000, and Mr. Colquhoun added to that of all the judges of the supreme estimates the total professional income, obtained court, heaped upon all those of all the governors by the established clergy in England and Ireland. of all the states in the United States. His illegiti-independently of that received from the universi

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sau 3,028, Luxemburg,556 men, &c.; and the 10th division is formed of the following contingents, viz. Hanover 13,054 men, Holstein 3,600, Brunswick 2,096, Mecklenburg Schwerin 718, Oldenburg 2,178, Waldeck 519, Lippe-Schaumbourg 240, Lippe Detmold 691, Lubeck 407, Bremen 485, and Ham

ties, at nearly five millions per annum. The whole | Saxony 12,000, the electorate of Hesse 5,670, Nasinfluence created by the directions of such enor mous property (the sum of which is immense and unknown) is retained with jealousy in only a few hands, and, under the name of patronage, becomes a most formidable engine of political power. As a curious illustration of this evil, it was asserted in a public journal some time ago, that three mi-burg 1,293. tres were retained in one Irish family. Out of up. wards of 11,000 benefices there are only about 40 A conspiracy is said to have been discovered at over which parishioners and inhabitants exercise Berlin, in which several families of rank were con any elective power. The following statement of cerned. In consequence, arrests were numerous, the parties who possess the appointment for patro-and the king had resolved to increase his army. nage of benefices in England and Wales, will be found sufficiently accurate, and may serve to expose the nature of the system.

The king and princess of Wales
The archbishop, and bishops
The deans, chapters, &c.
The universities and colleges

FRANCE.

1120 1835 1091 653

PRUSSIA.

RUSSIA.

The grand duke Constantine is suspected of hav ing imbibed liberal principles. It is said that great care is observed to keep the troops that have been in France from mixing with the lower orders-for they are said to be infected with a revolutionary mania; and the emperor has rendered himself unpopular by abolishing the practice of wearing beards! The expences of the navy for the present year The innovation is said to be openly reprobated at are estimated at 53,000,000 francs-about ten mil- Novogorod. The Poles are reported ready for a lions of dollars. The number of seamen employed revolt; though the emperor has done much to renis 10,764. The commerce and fisheries of the king. der himself popular, they still recollect that he has dom engage about 52,000. They are on the in-blotted the name of their country from the map. crease France owns 58 ships of the line, 39 fri- How much of these things are true-we know not. gates and a number of smaller vessels-generally in a good condition; many of them having been thoroughly repaired. Much attention has been recently paid to the naval establishment.

A combined army of Austrians and Neapolitans had arrived at Palermo, and repose to the Island of Sicily was expected to result from its presence.

GERMANY.

TURKEY.

It is now stated that the Turks, on entering Bucharest, instead of behaving with the moderation mentioned in our last, committed the most horrible cruelties, impaling alive all the Greeks that fell into their power. Their force near this place is given at 22,000 men.

The people of Bosnia and Servia are active in the work of revolution. The latter lately cut to pieces a l'urkish detachment of 800 men.

It is evident, from the additions making to the fortifications, that the Turks look upon a visit by the Greek fleet at Constantinople, as a possible

By an arrival at Baltimore on Thursday last from St. Salvador, we learn that the governor at Rio Ja. Paris June 16.-The army of the Germanic con-neiro had attempted an overthrow of the regal go. federation, aggreably to the decree of the diet, is vernment, and so far succeeded as to seize upon and to consist of 301,637 men, of which 222,119 are in- imprison the prince left in charge of Brazil by his fantry of the line, 11,694 chasseurs, 48,095 cavalry, father-but the regal government was restored, the 21,717 artillery, and pioneers and pontonniers.-prince liberated, and the governor had arrived at The contingents amount to the hundredth part of the population of the confederated states, which is estimated at 30,163,483 souls, and the army is for med into ten divisions. Austria furnishes 74,822 men, forming the first three divisions; Prussia the 4th 5th and 6th, comprising 74,234 men; Bavaria the 7th consisting of 30,6000 men; the 8th division is composed of 13,955 men from Wurtemburg, 6,190 from Baden, 6,190 from the grand duchy of Hesse, and 479 from Frankfort; the 9th division,

St. Salvador, on his way to Europe, in custody, to be tried as a traitor. The people at the last nained place were so exasperated at him, that it was thought they would take a decision of his case into their own hands and put him to death.

COLOMBIA.

The royalists at Porto Cabello appear to be in a disturbed state, from controversies among them selves. Bolivar is possessed of Caraccas and La guira, but in these once populous places it is said

that he did not find one white person. A new (royal) | crew were so well pleased with the notion that viceroy from St. Fe is said to be on board a Spanish they immediately subscribed one dollar each (600 ship off the coast. Carthagena was hardly pressed dollars) to increase their library. It is expected by the patriots, and it was supposed would soon be that the Franklin will sail in about a fortnight on taken; the Colombian Hotilla before it consists of a three year's cruise in the Pacific. 39 gun boats. The debts contracted by McGregor, on the faith of the government, it is said, will be acknowledged. There is a report, via St. Martha, of the capture of Lima.

MEXICO.

Coasting trade. In the last month there arrived at New York, 36 vessels from New Orleans and 12 from Mobile, together of the burthen of 10,336 tons! Rags again for money.-The Lexington, Ky. Advertiser of July 20, states, that during the previous We are yet uninformed of the fate of Vera Cruz week sixty-six and two thirds per cent was demand-but there are additional reasons to believe that ed in that place for eastern funds or specie; during it was powerfully blockaded by the patriots, as the present week large amounts have been offered, well by sea as by land; and that they would make and some sales made at forty. We are also inform a great effort to obtain possession of the place caned, that specie in Louisville, was this, week offered not be doubted, if the fact is true, as is stated, that as low as 33 per cent. it contained from forty to sixty millions of dollars! A letter just received from the Texas by a gen. tleman in Richmond, states, "That 600 men had just arrived in that province, by the way of Bayou Lafouche, from Tennessee and Kentucky, and 300 from New Orleans, all of whom had joined the re-discount. publican army, commanded by gen. Trespalescos, who is delegated by the Mexican republic to be the chief civil and military commandant in the

Texas.

CHRONICLE.

A grass bonnet, made in New Hampshire, was lately sold by auction at Boston for the sum of fifty dollars. It is said to be of very superior fineness and beauty, and is in imitation of the Leghorns.

The tolls paid by the mail coach from New-York to Philadelphia, is said to amount to $4,000 a year. Naval The U. States' schooner Grampus was launched at the navy yard at Washington on the 2d instant. She is, we believe, the last of the five vessels lately authorized to be built, to carry 10 guns and 90 men, especially fitted to check piracies on our coasts and man-stealing on those of Africa. They are first rate vessels of their class.

Rate of exchange at the office of V. W. Fish, No. 107, Main street, Cincinnati:--Piatt's paper 33 1-S dis; Hamilton 33; Laurenceburgh 36; Kentucky State Bank 33; Ky. commonwealth 33; Miama exporting Co. 58; State B. Indiana and branches 70

Honesty! The Nashville bank, which does not pay its debts, has resolved not to make a dividend of profits at present. This is according to the old fashioned state of things-a fashion that will never wear out, while one just man remains on the earth, who is acquainted with the nature of the case.

"Overdrawn!" The cashier of a bank at Litchfield, Conn. is tenderly said to have "overdrawn? 30,000 dollars. That is, he appropriated other people's money to that amount, to his own use--a fashionable proceeding, a mere "breach of trust," not all implicating the character of a gentleman!

Emigration. A considerable number of very re spectable people, and some of wealth, are now emigrating to the United States from the British islands direct. A much greater number of the poorer, but not less useful classes are arriving, via Canada and Nova Scotia. Transportation from England, as a punishment of offences, has so far lost its terrors as to have excited attention in parliament, wherein The Columbus 74." A Boston paper says that it seemed to be agreed that crimes had been com. this ship is of about 2400 tons burthen, drawing mitted for the purpose of getting means to leave 26 feet water, and that, from the surface of the the country! Parties of convicts have went off huzwater to the highest point of her main-top royal-zaing, as if some great pleasure was in store for mast truck, the distance is 250 feet! She carries them.

64 long guns and 36 carronades, (all 36-pounders, The slave trade. In a debate in the house of comwe believe) that is exactly 100 guns, besides per-mons on the 26th June on the slave trade, Mr. Wilhaps, small guns in her tops, &c. Why should she be called a "seventy-four?" The British 74's generally carry somewhere about 90 guns. It were well if this practice of miscalling ships was laid "aside by common consent, and that their denomination was understood by the amount of their guns for combat, arranged at their ports. This ship's complement is 800 men.

berforce, in alluding to the case of the French brig Le Rodeur, noticed some time since, said, the surgeon of the brig testified that when it was found that the slaves were affected with opthalmia, he recommended that they should be alternately brought on deck for the benefit of the air; and that when they were so permitted, they locked themselves in each others arms, and, to put an end to their miseWhile on her voyage, a day or two before her ar-ries, threw themselves into the ocean. This, the rival at Boston, she fell in with a school of mackerel which followed her all day-during which her officers and crew caught the unparelleled number of 12,000 fish!

Health of seamen. The Columbus was absent 15 months; her crew consisted of 800 persons, of whom she lost only six; two by casualty, two by consump tion and two by fever. The Spark was absent five years her average crew amounted to 100, and her loss, by sickness, did not amount to two persons per ann.

Marine libraries. A project has been set on foot at New York to give little libraries of history, voyages, travels, &c. to different ships for the use of the seamen. On a present of this kind being made for the use of those in the U. S. ship Franklin, the

surgeon said was the effect of a disease called nostalgia, arising from a desire to revisit their native land; but which, Mr. W. said, was as strong a sympton of a broken heart as could well be imagined.

Musquitoes-An English paper announces that a principal road in America is become impassable from a species of non-descript Musquito: they attack both man and horse, and their sting is so destructive as to cause death in three hours. They ought surely to have told us where these horrid insects are to be found, so that we may avoid the fury of their attacks, and the poison of their stings. We are curious to know whether these are the same kind of Musquitoes, as those which carry brickbats under their wings to whet their bills upon!

N. Y. Com. Adz.