their way. In many cases the company deserted | 110 alleys; 111 passages; 301 quays; 18 boulevards; their carriages, which remained stationary, the 87 places; 31 cross streets; 121 culs de sac; (courts coachman not knowing where they were. Various through which there is no thorough-fare) 10 public sums, from half a crown to ten shillings, were obtained by link-boys for conducting a carriage through a single street. In the theatres, the actors on the stage were scarcely visible to the audience; and even private houses, though closed and well furnished with fires, were filled and darkened by this unwelcome visitor.

FRANCE.

Gen. Travot, who has been confined two years, has been pardoned by the king.

Great efforts are making to put the French army on a respectable establishment-but the spirit, which constituted so large a part of the strength of this country, sleepeth.

The receipt of the theatres and principal public gardens of Paris, during the year 1818, amounted to 5,817,526 francs.

A religious service in commemoration of the Martyr King, was performed in all the churches in Paris on the 21st of Jan.

Mention is made of 13 oxen raised in France, the mean weight of which was 2500 lbs. on foot. [Two much heavier than this average, were killed in Baltimore last week.]

promenades; 56 barriers; 16 gates; 16 bridges; 10 halls; 28 market places; 9 prisons; 13 barracks; 12 palaces; 2 cathedral churches; 38 churches; 4 temples; 3 colleges; 15 hospitals; 9 asylums for monks, and 10 theatres.

A list of state pensions has been published. It is composed of 4,458 individuals, amounting to an aggregate of 2,292,264 fr. Namely, pensions on the civil list, 99 persons, 332,093 francs; Military and Widows' pensions, 4,143 persons, 1,918,563 francs; Ecclesiastical pensions, 216 persons, 41,068 fr.

A letter from Paris states that the priesthood is becoming very insolent and overbearing-that the king has in vain recommended moderation to them, &c.

The following curious advertisement is in Galigani's Paris Messenger:

"Offer of Marriage.--Count Sarsfield Lucan, descendant of the royal branch of Lorraine and the Capets, and of other sovereigns in Europe, wishes` to contract an alliance in marriage with any lady, capable, by her qualifications and fortune, of supporting the rank and titles which she will thus acquire.

The following specimen of French magnanimity "The name of Sarsfield, Lord Lucan, is highly disis worthy of the days of chivalry: Duclos, repeat- tinguished in the military history of Ireland, in that edly assaulted colonel Fabvier, and at length pro-eventful period immediately subsequent to the exvoked him to accept a challenge. They met: Du-pulsion of James II. from the throne of Great Briclos fired first, and grievously wounded col. Fabvier tain. Sarsfield was general in chief of the Irish in the shoulder. The latter answered by firing in troops, and was one of those who took advantage of the air, and pronounced the following remarkable the capitulation of Limerick, to transfer himself and words, which display a great mind: "Duclos, I was family to another country." willing to become the victim of such a man as thou art, but honor forbids me to consider thee as my adversary."

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.

Another report of an attempted escape of Napoleon is given out to amuse the world-saying as how The following table is extracted from a work late-an American vessel had entered St. Helena, appaly published in Paris, written by the count De La Borde:

Extent of territory in France 108,000,000 acres.

Population

In agriculture

17,500,000 Persons.
6,200,000
800,000
4,000,000

rently dismasted by stress of weather, &c.—and that very luckily, a sentinel detected the ex-emperor as he was lurking about to get on board of her, &c. The tale is not worth recording.

A carriage built in India for gen. Bertrand, on arriving at St. Helena, was broken to pieces by a mob of British officers, lest it might contain letters to Bonaparte!-Every one seems tremblingly alive to an apprehension of his escape. He is never seen abroad-no Englishman knows any thing of him but the orderly captain who gets an occasional £140,000,000 glimpse of him through the window blinds. He 38,000,000 nobly refuses all intercourse with his jailors. If ever 30,000,000 he escapes, and is again throned in France on the The following table in respect of England, is from hearts of the people, he will probably try the expe

In manufactures

Indigent

Various

Total

28,500,000

Annual agricultural produce

Manufactures

Permanent public revenues

the same author:

Annual agricultural produce

Manufactures

riment how some other kings can bear such an imprisonment.

SPAIN.

Every thing that we hear from Spain is just as dismal as it ought to be. A nation permitting the existence of such a government, civil and ecclesiastical, as curses this country, has a very small claim upon the charities of a freeman's heart. When the people send Ferdinand and his priests to the gallies, we shall feel interested in their welfare.

£225,000,000 It is again said that between 5 and 6000 troops 115,000,000 were immediately to leave Cadiz for Lima, and that 62,000,000 18000 more were assembled near that city, for othMarshal count Perpignon recently died at Paris, er points of South America. But however, it rather aged 64.

Permanent public revenue

seems as if the means of transporting any of them,

A loan of 200 millions of francs is required to dis-had not yet been perfected. charge the current expenses.

Paris papers contain the following description of that city:

There are now reckoned in Paris 1109 streets;

ITALY.

Naples, Dec. 8. Mount Vesuvius has exhibited one of those awful spectacles which have so often created dismay in our unfortunate city; the abyss burst with

GERMANY.

A person called Baron Hornstein, a courtier in Bavaria, apparently died, and was buried. But two days after on opening the vault, it was found that he had recovered, and forced his way out of the coffin, and was really dead near the entrance of the vault, where it was supposed, he had dashed his brains out in a fit of desperation.

Bavaria.-The number of families is ascertained (by census) to be 789,109, or about 4,000,000 of population.

Mr. Malchus, it appears, was discharged from his situation of finance minister to the king of Wurtemberg, in consequence of a mistake in figures: he had set down the revenue at 4,000,000 instead of 3,000,000!

PRUSSIA.

"Berlin, Dec. 22. An official statistical estimate of our monarchy has recently been published. Its details are as follow:

"Extent-5,028 square geographical leagues, at 15 leagues to a degree.

"Population (1817)-10,588,157 souls, making 2,106 to each square league.

SUMATRA.

Sir T. F. Raffles, the British governor at Fort Marlborough, accompanied by his lady and a few persons, unarmed, has penetrated the interior of this great and valuable island, with a view to extend the British influence over the people, and open a trade with them in gold, cassia, camphor, &c.

The inhabitants beyond the mountains, were represented as savages-the contrary is found to be.. the case; their fields are well cultivated, their cities large, and the country so populous that "within a space of twenty miles the people were estimated to amount to a million."

The mountains, 6000 feet high, can only be passed on foot-the roads were too bad even to admit the carriage of lady Raffles in a chair. She undertook the journey as furnishing evidence to the natives of the peaceable intentions of the expedition.

The governor entered into treaties with some of the princes, and a considerable trade between the parties is expected speedily to take place. The island contains much gold, and its vegetable productions are very luxuriant and exceedingly valuable.

NEW HOLLAND.

Wool, of a very superior quality, has been import. ed into England from Botany Bay. When the best Spanish wool was selling at from 6s to 78 6d per lb. this brought 11s. The sheep in New Holland were originally carried from Spain, and have improved exceedingly.

AFRICA.

Males from 15 to 60 years of age-3,028,448. Of 464,191 newly-born infants, 38,585 were illegitimate. The mortality for the above year has been 2 in 69, that is on 33 men and 36 women. A ninth of the A London paper announces that we may soon exaccidental deaths is attributed to the parents nc-pect some interesting information about the interiglecting the benefits of vaccine inoculation; two or of Africa: a very intelligent and enterprizing genninths to suicide or drowning, by individuals bath-tleman, named Bodeck, having recently returned to ing in the rivers. England, after having penetrated to and successfully explored the kingdom of the Ashantees, in which

RUSSIA.

It is again reported that Russia has obtained a ees-he resided for six months; in the former part of which sion of St. Bartholomew's from Sweden.

he was treated with great severity, but in the latter, with great kindness by the king of the country.

EGYPT.

Merchandize exported to the United States from St. Petersburg, for the year up to Sept. 30, 1818, in 65 American vessels-bar iron 288,353 poods; sheet The great defeat of the Wechabites was to be do. 7,654; clean hemp 246,162; outshot do. 11,613; pompously celebrated at Cairo, after which the half clean do. 6,959; tallow 8,798; tallow candles prince Abdallah, and the princes and princesses of 410; bristles 4,122; feathers 1,494; copper 630; sail his family, were to be sent prisoners to Constanticloth 33,992 pieces; flems. 20,619; ravens ducknople. The power of the Wechabites is said to be 30,328; broad diapers, assorted, 652,166; narrow do. destroyed, and so the Grand Turk "legitimately" 9,595; crash 191,707. governs again in Arabia.

Army (1819) 880,000-360,000 being infantry; 68,000 regular cavalry; 86,000 Cossacks; 49,600 artillery, and 300,000 marines, veterans, &c.

A satistical survey of Poland has been published at Warsaw. That kingdom, in its present state, contains 2191 square miles (15 to a degree,) 481 towns, 22,694 villages, and a population of 732,324 souls, of which 212,944 are Jews.

SWEDEN.

BARBARY POWERS.

The plague rages severely at Tunis-it is said that from 2 to 300 persons have daily died with it.

CANADA.

Lord Selkirk and others, his colleagues, have been pretty smartly fined in several cases tried in Canada, for false imprisonment and other outrages upon sundry persons of the northwest company, &c. His lordship seems to have acted in a very lordly man

The privilege of smoaking tobacco in Sweden, ex-ner. cept by soldiers and sailors, must be purchased by paying a tax of from four to eight escalins a year.

WEST INDIES.

The crater of the Suffriere Mountain, in the isl

and of St. Vincent, it is stated, has been filled cil of war, relative to the treatment of foreigners en with water. The centre has about 16 fathoms of gaged in assisting the insurgents of South America, that fluid, which appears by the latest accounts to dated at Madrid, 14th January; by which it is debe still rising, and was of a sulphuric taste, emittingclared, That, "all foreign adventurers who shall be a strong smell.

A great mortality prevails among the troops at Tobago.

A Spanish [perhaps a really American] schooner from Africa for Havanna, with 100 slaves on board, was lately wrecked on one of the Bahamas-only 14 of the slaves were saved. We regret to hear that the master and 3 seamen escaped.

SOUTH AMERICA.

We yield to no one in our devotion to the cause of liberty in South America. The patriot cause has been as our own, since its beginning. But it is now disgraced by numerous vessels, bearing independent flags, whose sole purpose is plunder. The seas teem with sheer pirates, robbing all persons that they think they can do with safety to themselves. The people of the United States are justly becoming disgusted with such conduct; and public opinion will soon support the laws enacted to restrain them. Let us not, however, impute these things to the patriots of South America, whose local governments are ignorant even of the names of many of the cruisers sailing under their flags! They are the acts of bad men, who care not a straw whether the independence of the state whose flag they use, is established or not. We regret to say, that many of them are our countrymen; so debased as to permit the nominal commander of a vessel to order his men "to haul down the d-d Yankee flag." They have also made absolute captures of several American vessels-in one case the villains, with ropes' ends in their hands, which they frequently used, compelled the crew of an American schooner to transport and stow away the choicest parts of her cargo in the hold of their own vessel! They are most commonly under the flag of Artigas; and indeed, it does not appear now that that flag can be regarded as any thing more than that of mere pirates.

The U. S. schooner Firebrand is cruising in the West Indies, to protect our commerce. We hope that several other light vessels will be associated with her for this purpose.

Com.Aury's force, which rendezvoused at Old Providence, appears to be nearly annihilated, by the loss of several of his vessels in a gale, and a dreadful de, struction of his men by disease and hardships.

apprehended with arms in their hands in his majesty's ultra-marine dominions, under the flag of the said insurgents, or furnishing them with munitions of war, shall suffer capital punishment; and that such persons shall not be comprehended in the pardons which his majesty has conceded or shall hereafter concede in favor of his natural subjects."

CHRONICLE.

The case of the Portuguese ship Monte Allegro, now lying in Baltimore, as a prize to a privateer under the flag of Artigas, and ordered to be restored to the owners a few days ago, has been reconsidered, and now stands open for trial, as if no decree had taken place.

The legislature of Virginia adjourned on the 13th ultimo, after a session of ninety-eight sys, during which they passed 280 acts.

The U. S. ship Hornet, capt. Read, sailed from Boston for Cadiz, on the 26th ult. having on board Mr. Forsyth, minister to Spain, and his suite.

A New York paper observes-The safe arrival of the ship Comet, from this port, at Havre, is highly gratifying to the underwriters of this city. It will be recollected she took out a diamond, on which 100,000 dollars was insured.

Letters were recently received in Philadelphia, from on board the U. S. ship Ontario, dated at Callao, Dec. 6, 181. The Ontario was to proceed immediately to Valparaiso, and after a short stay at that place to sail for the U. States.

The president of the U. S. has started on a tour southward. Much is said about the manner of receiving him at Savannah, Charleston, &c. He is accompanied by the secretary at war.

The mail between New Orleans and Nashville has been robbed. The particulars have not been stated, but the fact seems indubitable.

The great canal from lake Erie to the Hudson. The New York Columbian has the following cheering paragraph: "A cOMPANY OF GENTLEMEN, of known capital, have offered to do the whole of this vast work, for a lease of the SALT SPRINGS, &c. belonging to the state for fifty years, when they shall revert back to the present owners; and never to sell the salt at the works above the present price, which is only thirty-seven and an half cents per bushel. It can be hardly necessary to state that such a contract would injure the state to an enormous amount."

We frequently hear of Americans confined in Spanish dungeons, having been captured in the patriot service. These are cases in which our government cannot interfere They have abandoned the Stephen Van Rensselaer has been elected by the flag of their country-we may feel for their distres-legislature of New York, to be regent of the universes, but have no right to do any thing in their behalf,sity of that state, vice Smith Thompson, (now secretaunless to claim them for punishment.

We have a report from Havanna, (says the Charleston Courier) and which was generally credited there, that the patriots are in complete posséssion of Lima.

Two privateers, under the flag of Artigas have been captured by the Portuguese in the harbor of Port-Praya. The crews were to be sent to Rio Janeiro, in irons.

ry of the navy,) resigned.

The Rev. Dr. Waddill, of Abbeville, is appointed president of the university of Georgia.

Domestic goods. Sixty two specimens of domestic cloth were offered for premium to the society for promoting useful arts, at Albany. The aggregate quantity was 2108 yards.

Plattsburg. We have a queer report in a Boston paper, that this memorable town, "is ascertained" to be within the British boundary. We do not believe it-and, if it is so, we can't part with it.

Ship loads of men, to aid the patriots of South America, are openly sent from London. 500 sclected men, for a regiment of cavalry, are raising. Western banks. It is stated that to collect the No persons are enlisted but those who have seen public monies due in Ohio, the secretary of the treaservice; nor are any but young and hearty men re-sury has directed that the public deposits shall be ceived. made in certain of the local banks, and not in the

A Lisbon Gazette of the 9th ult. received by the offices of the bank of the U. S. as heretofore. This Atalanta, contains an important Spanish royal order, will afford a great relief to the people of that state nade at the recommendation of the supreme coun-I in general, for the present.

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possible, several weeks before the close of the late session; but the talk commenced about the Seminole war, there was not time to pass an act in his favor; and,as a new congress comes in, all his business must be gone over again de novo, which he must attend to again in person, at the additional cost of 1000, or 1500 dollars, besides the loss and sacrifice of another six months of his time: making, in the whole, an aggregate of positive expenditure equal to about twenty per cent, of the sum claimed, which will certainly be given to him as soon as congress can find leisure enough to act on his case. Now, this is an abomination," and, what is worse, quite a common affair.

Many preposterous claims have been paid by congress, and the several committees are, no doubt, so beset by dishonest men, as to feel sometimes almost The editor gratefully acknowledges the general disposed to reject,or neglect, every thing that comes punctuality of his numerous subscribers--and hopes before them; and, especially towards the close of a that nearly all will soon extend the same attention session, there are some gentlemen who are not a to his little demands. He has not any private patron-moment free from the importunity of one claimant age, nor “advertising friends," to support this costly establishment; if his work is devoted to the people, it is the people that must and will mantain it.

or another. Herein, perhaps, may be found a partial apology for what is so much reprehended. But a great fault exists in the usage of the house itself, which adds much to the labor and fatigue of its committees, in neglecting, or refusing, promptly, to act Congress-Private Claims, &c. upon cases reported, and so dismiss them. In at The National Intelligencer, of Saturday last, speak-least nine cases out of ten, as to private claims, if the ing of the late session of congress, finds some cause committee to whom they are referred make an unato compliment it, by saying it is a maxim with nimous report, such report is agreed to without deour oldest and most practical legislators, that, with bate, and nothing remains to be done but to give the a view to the public good, congress cannot legislate bill or resolution attached, the sanction of the house. too little" the editors do not, however, fully as- This might often be accomplished in less time than sent to this broad proposition; but praise the 15th the house spends in hearing a proposition to take congress because more of its acts have excited "aup one of these reports, and in refusing to consider murmur of disapprobation." it; not from any objection to the report itself, but If none of the "acts" of congress are reprehensible because of some other subject supposed to be of --much of the talk about several things is severely greater importance; and so it hangs over from day to to be deprecated, as preventing the national legisla.day, and the committees are so bored by the claimture from passing many acts which they ought to ants as to get out of patience: to feel disgusted and have passed. act disgustingly.

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One of the best men in congress said to the writer. If the good practice of the house in receiving pehereof, "I would rather urge the settlement of a just titions, were resorted to to act upon the reports of claim at the court of the Grand Turk, than ask it of the committees to whom such petitions are referred the house of representatives." This wholesale re-much precious time would be saved to the house, proof is too well supported by facts well known to and the committee-men and claimants be prevented Persons having claims against government, from many unpleasant and mortifying recountres and which require the intervention of eongress, are occurrences. It is the first business of every day's > commonly treated with a degree of hauteur and con- sitting to receive petitions and reports--the fortempt that disgusts, or a cold neglect that mortifies mer are referred, but no time is allotted to act upon and distresses them. They often attend month af- the latter; and a sort of scramble sometimes take ter month, session after session, and leave Washing- place to get them before the house at all! If a certon in a firm belief, that it is the last place in the tain day in the week were expressly assigned for world which a man should visit to learn moral or poli- such private business as had been reported upon by tical virtue-smarting under the reflection, that they the committees during the week, a list of which have lost much time and suffered much derange-should be made out and laid upon the desks of the ment of business in their absence from home, as well members, that they might exactly know what was to as sacrificed much money in travelling and subsis- be done, 15 or 20 common cases might be fully contence for nothing. sidered and disposed of in a day, without any thing There are hundreds of cases, perhaps, like the like hurry, bustle or confusion. What a relief would following we know a gentleman who has twice this afford to the committees-what an immense travelled from the most distant part of the union saving might thus be effected in favor of claimants! and spent two winters at Washington, for the pur- When any matter is to be done, it is true economy pose of obtaining an act to authorize the settlement to do it at once, and relieve the mind or body of it. of certain accounts, about which there is no dispute, Another thing may be mentioned-the committee no shadow of a doubt, as to the right or justice of of claims. has too much to do more than any comthem-in whose favor the committee to whom theymittee, required to attend to the duties of members ore referred, reported in the most favorable terms in the house, can or will give their time to; and to ... VOL XVI- -9.

We claim no merit for ou mit their general absence from the house, cannot be i would certainly come. granted. Perhaps, the raising of two or more com- prediction. Any one who reflected a moment-on mmittees for considering claims might lessen this great the mighty mass of paper afloat;-who regarded the difficulty, as to miscellaneous demands against go- facilities it afforded to extravagance-who saw that vernment. Suppose, the whole United States were extravagance chiefly directed to the acquisition of cast into three divisions for this purpose; the chair-foreign articles, which were ultimately to be paid for man of each of those divisions should be selected from in money (not paper), might have made such predicone of the states allotted to it, but the rest of the tions. But their accomplishment has been hurried, or members of the committee, to avoid any semblance driven into a heap, by the want of a sound political of partiality, should be chosen from the states not economy in our government, by which the whole la. included in it; the honest claimant wants only ho- bor of the country might to have been placed in a nest men to judge the merits of his case:-would not state of productiveness, instead of suffering it to resuch an arrangement ease congress generally, ex- main dormant through the encouragement held out ceedingly facilitate the business of every session, to foreigners*. Another cause, in our opinion, has and save many tens of thousands of dollars every hurried or heaped those ills upon us;-in a design to year to individuals, compelled to attend at the seat force the people to acquiesce in a NATIONAL CURRENCY OF of government! PAPER THE CONSUMMATION OF EVILS. The citizens of the United States were gradually retiring from the vexation and waste caused by a superabundance of the representatives of money, and economy was coming into fashion:-in two years more, perhaps, we might have reached a wholesome state, without the extremity of suffering which now threatens our dealing men, and all others who owe much money, or have much owing to them. It may seem to some to be uncharitable but we serious

These ideas are thrown out to excite a spirit of enquiry. The naked fact is, that reformation in the business of congress relating to private claims, is essential to the honor of the government and the interest of individuals; and we hope that what we have said may put some patrious to thinking of a method to effect it.

Money matters-Prospects a-head. ly believe it, and must state it, that, though our own

We have doleful accounts of the commercial distress and scarcity of money in England and France. There have been many very heavy failures; merchandize of almost every sort, and especially the products of the United States, is a drug in the market-the ware-houses are filled, and there are few buyers of large quantities.

individual folly and w ste, with the want of attention in congress and the executive to prevent them, or direct them to home productions, have led to and caused a rigid economy to become indispensable to the comfort of the people at large—an understanding has been had, and a combination made, by certain powerful SPECULATORS, to redeem themselves from the ruin of their first scheme, by FORCING the adoption of another

we mean, A RESORT TO A PAPER CURRENCY.

From all parts of our own country we hear of a severe pressure on men in business, a general stagnation of trade, a large reduction in the price of staple To speak plainly, let who be offended that may, articles. Real property is rapidly depreciating in let any power be exerted against us that can-we its nominal value, and its rents, or profits, are ex-express an entire conviction of the belief, that certain ceedingly diminishing. Many highly respectable great proprietors of the stock of the bank of the traders have become bankrupts, and it is agreed United States, with other speculators having a pow that many others must "go;" the banks are refus-erful influence on money affairs, aided, perhaps, by ing their customary accommodations; confidence certain officers of government, are enroled for a comamongst merchants is shaken, and 3 per cent. per mon exertion to bring about a suspension of specie month,is offered for the discount of promissory notes payments, by the establishment of a paper medium: which a little while ago were considered as good that the whole number of persons immediately inteas "old gold," and whose makers have not since suf-rested in this terrible project, is less than one hunfered any losses to render their notes less valuable than heretofore. But the worst of all is, that those whose opinions deserve to be respected,tell us these things are only the beginning of evils! If so-what

will the end of them be?

dred, perhaps, does not amount to fifty-to whose benefit the welfare of the nation is to be prostrated: to build palaces for them, to invest them with princely domains, and erect poor houses and build new prisons for the laboring classes. Many of our newsThe pecuniary distresses of Europe may be ac- papers under the surveillance of these speculators, as counted for in a return from the waste, and profu- well as hundreds of individuals whose opinions are sion of war, causing a rapid circulation of money, to directed by them, with not a few who seem willing the frugality of peace, and the slow progress of mo- to relieve present distress by the entailment of funey. When consumption is great and business lively, ture misery, are crying out for this thing—the su 100 dollars oftentimes does the work of a 1000, in preme curse, the superlative of war, famine or pesthe course of a day; but when the contrary is the tilence, that ever can be expected to fall upon this case, an effect is felt as if a large part of the money-republic: a curse that will divest the people not only medium had been drawn from circulation altogeth- of their property, but of their liberty, and transform The people reluctantly quit the habit of hand- them into a herd of underlings and slaves;-produce ling it freely they pledge capital to raise it, and new races amongst us, a monied and landed aristouse it as therefore; pay-day comes at last, and capi- cracy, and a pennyless and homeless dependency— tal being wasted, severe distress, if not absolute just as it is in England; and also give to wicked men bankruptcy follows.

er.

As to the United States, we have many times said that the present and approaching season of difficulty

*These remarks equally apply to all our chief cities and towns-as we are informed. And we are assured, that though things look bad enough in Baltimore, we are much better off than the people of some of our sister cities.

*Those who, from the late high prices of their agricultural products abroad, were always opposed to supporting home manufactures, (we are sorry to say), will soon feel the necessity of regarding the home market. We had rather that the change of opinion we anticipate, had come from the conviction of reason, through reflection, than result from pecuniary distress.