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Foreign. NEW- YORK, AUGUST Si. L-1TEST FROM EJTGLAJXD. By the America, captain Rossiter, the editors of the Mercantile Adver tiser have received Liverpool papers -to the lltb, London papers to the 9th, and Lloyd's List of the 7 th of July. ?The affairs of the Queen continu ed to occupy the attention of the government and the people. The coronation was put off. It w as not to take place on the 1st of August, butatsome later period not yet agreed upon. A motion to this effect, made by ail opposition member, was se conded by Lord Castlereagh, who, bo w ever , assured' the House that this procrastination was in no degree oc casioned by the proceedings in the case of the Queen. [[The Times thinks he told a fib.l In the House or Lords, July 6, Lord Dacre presented the following petition from the Queen : ? " Caroline Begina . , ? >. ; " The Queen has heard, with in expressible astonishment, that a bill, conveying charges and intended to degrade ber and to dissolve ber mar riage with the King, has been brought by the first minister of theKiug into the House of Lords, where her ma jesty has no counsel or other officer to assert her rights. The only al leged foundation for the bill is the re port of a secret committee, proceed ing solely on papers -submitted to them, and before whom no single -witness was examined. ' The Queen Jbafc been further informed, that, her counsel last night were refused, a hearing at the bar of the House of Lords, at that stage of the proceed ing whfrn it was most material that x^lhey should be heard, and that a list ^of the Witnessed, whose .names are Jtobwn to her accusers, is to be re* 'j -?psed to her. V Under such *circum ^atances, the Queen doubts whether gSftoy other course i* left- to her but y to protest, in the most Solemn manner, % against the whole of the proceeding ; but she is anxious to make one mere effort to obtain justice, and therefore desires that her counsel ma^ he ad mitted to state her claims at the bar of the House of l^npds." Lord Dacre moved that the coon? g^ be called in. * / 'TPj* counsel having appeared, de 'IjfiwKScI that an. immediate intestiga WSfo! the charges in the bill should HI place. An interesting discus sion arose on this demand, aud it ^was fioftlly agreed that the subject should be taken up on the following uMonday* \ I ; ? ? , * '? It is stated thai the Queen baa written to nearly 100 persons in"|taly to come to England to give evidence, ftany of whom are of the first fami lies. Six Italians, witnesses against the Queen, arrived on Thursday evening in the Dover coach, ami re* mained the wHole of jesterday at the Blossoms inn* Lawrence Lane ; they were of the lowest order, and niiA they were waiting for Mr. Cook.; It is said that the Attorney of Milan was with them;, lie Assisted Mr/ Cook and Mr. Powell, and was a man in low circumstances, but, since the Milan commission, drives a car riage. He frequently went about Milan* saying ne had tbe crown of Bngland in his pocket. < Five persons have arrived in town, under the care of * messenger named Amberget, who would Hot suffer any person to be on board the vessel with him, on crossing from Calais. We understand that those (arsons have befcn under the care of the Austrian government for some time. Borne of them have been accused of cf! initial offences, and are of the lowest rank, having been taken from a state of starvation-? Tram lie?. LONDON, JULY 8. Our readers will observe, that if the adultetous intercourse with Hcr gatni is not proved, the bill against the Queen falls to the ground* We have reason to believe, that when the charge comes to be investigated, it will appear perfectly absurd. 1 The Queen has taken the pleasant villa situated on Barnes terrace, tor [her summer residence. The question as to un alteration in 'the duties on timber, is set at rest for (the present year, the committee* of both Houses of Parliament having adjourned the cousideratiou of the subject until the next session. In the course of a debate on this subject, Lord Ellenborough said, it appear ed from evidence, ilrat the British shipping could be navigated at a 'cheaper rate than shipping from any other part of the world. The Agricultural committee made their report in the house of coiBMPV on the 8th of July, but no ureceed ings upon it were expecty&toue made the present session. Trie chairman stated that no frauds bad been disco Ftted in taking the averages of wheat, and that the new mode of taking them, proposed by the committee,'; would rather facilitate than retatd, the opening of tfce ports in future. A bill for a new issue of exche? quer bills for the service of the pre sent year was read. Extract of a letter from Corky of July 3. "The present distress is very great, and I fear it will long . continue. Our bank failures, within a range of 00 miles, we reckon little shovt of a million and a half sterling, besides a large one in Dublin. Our govern ment has not yet agreed to suffer flonr to be landed here for export." Domestic, y . v SALISBURY, AUGUST 15. ) . It may, not be uninteresting to ma ny of our readers to be informed, that a fund has lately been raised by private subsciiption, principally at' Chatham, or Cherau-Hill, (8. C.) to, be expended in improving the roads leading to: that place from the W es tern Counties of 'North-Carolina/, and paiticularly the road from Wilkesboro' through the Forks of the Yadkin and Salisburv. The' distance from Salisbury toC hatha m is 35 miles less than to Fayette ville, and the ground for a road much bet tar. Should the merchants of Chat ham follow up -this act of liberality, v by giving to the North-Carolina far- J mer a fair price for his produce, very / much of . the products of thi** section of the State will, at no tery distant period, take (hat direction. One fourth, and frequently one third of , the labour of tjie ltowau, farmer is consumed in getting his produce to market. This is a grievous tax, and every individual in the commu nity is, more or less, interested in tightening it. ; ] AUGUSTA, AUfct/ST S4. We learn from the up-'country that the crops of Cotton And Corn are very promising, i The Cotton plant < is large arid extremely well boiled, but the ravages of'the Hot is already apparent and much dreaded. From its early visitation the extent of its progress, it is feared, will be consid erable. GEORGETOWN, AUGUST 23. We understand from a corres|>on* J dent, at Society- Hill, that the Pub lic Works, which have been carried \ on during the last and the present year, under the direction of Gen. ? David 1^. Williams, were finished oo the 13th inst. ; by which, the ob structions to the Navigation of the i Fee Dee river, from Chatham to this place, have been removed. Out readers are fully able to esti mate correctly, the advantages df this 1 improvement of the Navigation of the Pee Dee ; for ourselves, we are gratified with the attention that has been givea to this itnportant liver, by those to whom the Legislature have confided the work of Internal Improvement. But, until those im provements shi 11 have been extended to the interior of North- Carolina, so as to furnish to the whole delta of the Pee Dee, including the Yadkin, the water transportation (which is so practicable) for its immense pro ducts, we shall not realize all the benefits which the situation of George town is susceptible of, nor be satisfied thai all has been clone, which to be, fur this seuiou of South- Caio [ lina. The ara?unt expended by Gen Williams last year, oo the Pee Dec. according to the report of the Civil and Military Engineer, was lest tharn 810,000. The like sum wa^ estimated to bo necessary, for com pleting the work, during the present season. ? as with pleasure we uu-j dersUnd,* (hat only about 87,000 have been expended. Two ware-houses, on Taylor's ^l?wer wharf, were damaged by light ning on Thursday afternoon ; the in> jury they sustained however, was quite inconsiderable. Several build | ings in the vicinity of Georgetown, have lately been struck. Mr. Ben jam iu Young, .a few days ago, was killed by lightning in his house on Sampit. COLUMBIA, AUGUST ?9. The public are cautioned against receiving counterfeit billsof the Plan ter's Bank of the State of Georgia ; a number of which are in CTcnl&iion inartid about ibis place. They are o^Be' denomination of T wenty Dol lars; the name, Bolton," ou some of them, is written Belton ; and the name of J. Marshall, i6 badly writ ten. CAMDEN. THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1820. To the Editor qf the Camden GazetXe, Sir? Your readers'wIiV observe thaf the merchants of Chatham aiv making great exertions tosecure jftif trade of Anson and tfte neighboring N. C. Counties. <f Onefinbth" ob serves the Salisbury paper, "and frequently one third of the labor of the ttowaa Farmer, is consumed in getting his produce to market." It is to !>e recollected that* compara tively speaking, this trade hasliith erto belonged to Camden. I would also call their attention to an article from the Geprgetown paper, stating, that" the Peedee w completed ; and , the navigation perfect from George* town to Chatham." With Columbia and Chatham both exerting themselves, Camden should be on the al$?t. The citizens will therefore be pleased to hear/ that the Agent of the Board of Works here has bees at last desired to find out work IbMhto hands laying idle since the sickly season commenced; and, at an emwnnotrrs expense to the pub lic. The Read to the Boat-Yard is now opening* TP hen the. river shall be made - navigable, (h{s Road will render aapfB service ; but, not quite as mudfc as Would have been derived from the opening of the road from the Forte through Clarendon and thence through Camden totheNorth Carolina line? an attempt' pointed out, as imperatively necessary, by the efforts of the people of Chatham on the one -side and Columbia on the other- AWATEREE. We are much gratified to see the attention: of our countryman ?o gener ally turned, as it has been for some time past, to tf>e subjed of roads and canal*. It leads the minds of our fellow-citizens to * lofty and manly course of thinking : they banish sub jects of little,* minor, petty, suitor dinate interests ; the din and smithe-* ry of party debate. In the contem plation of the New-York canal for example, who thinks of the buck-t tails a mi the apostate federalists, and ; 1 the disciples of 8t. Tammany. ? i These ro^ds and theae canals are in their natore national ; they belong to uo party ; they are great and perma nent benefits, which will be more durable monuments of the patriotism am) public spirit of the present age, than all the party nick names which so often decorate our public papers. I This humour is every day becoming more general, and we can but believe, that such important public works will db more to perpetuate the Union; than the alternate triumphs ahd de feats of different parties, which have i become now little more than a scram ble for office and emolument* Tbe more our fellow-citizens are familiarized to l lie ontempUtion of questions of such magnitude, the less they will be affected by sectional and geographical jealousies, and the long er will our republic remain. Aud such questions are becoming more popular every hour. In tmth and in fact, our fellow-citizens may well be tired of this state of petty warfare, w Inch 1 as been dignified with the | uame of party ; that is, whether j a law shall he passed by A or B, when it is perfectly notorious, that ! either the one or the other will, if elected, vote for the passage of the same law. ? Bait . Morn . Chron . From Spain. . ? The ship Edicard i arrived at New- York from Cadiz, on the 14th instant. She sailed 20th June. Mr Meade & Son, were pas sengers in her. "All remained 1 (says the New-York Mercantile Ad- : vertiser,) quiet in Spain. It was settled that the Cortes were to meet, on the 9th July. The members elected were alraoat uniformly friend ly to the Constitution and new. order > of things, and the only fears that ; prevailed with the considerate people, were, that they would not be able to control the enthusiasm of the na tion, and settle upon a calm ancl ra tional government." - Indiana*?1 The Commissioners ap pointed by the Legislature of India na have chosen a place for the .future Seat oT Government of thai young and growing State. The spot cho sen is on the east fork of White River, and is said to he about fOO miles froafcLmiisville, in the midst of a ver^Bctensive tract of first rate land. Tna few years,* Indiana will lie settled from the Ohio to Lakei Michigan ; and will at no distant period Itc^ome one of the most pow erful members of the confederacy. ? The rapidity with which thte country between the Ohio, and the great Lakes, is. populating, is but little understood. . Ohio now holds the 4th rank amongst the States, as appears hv the last militia returns to the war department, and Indiana and Illinois are pressing upon her skirts in the career of prosperity and greatness.? Twenty yearsji will probably give these states a population of more than 8,000,000 of inhabitants, Louisville Courier . r-> > , - We understand that commissions have been issued to CoU Andrew "Pickens, late Governor of South - Car olina, and Gen. Thomas Flouvnoy, of Augusta, as Commissioners on the part of the United States, to treat with the Creek Indians for (he ex tinguish fnent of the territory within the limits of Georgia, to fill the va cancy occasioned byjfhe resignation of Gen. John ployd w3 Col. John Taylor.? Georgia Journal, l * ^ V ' V - ' French JMarine^- The French pa per* contain an able Report of a Committee of the House of Depu ties, oh the Budget for 18$0. The sum total proposed to be granted to the Government, as the amount of Ways and Means for the year, is 605,183,800 francs, not more than one half of the annual expenditure of the British Government. In this report a system of maritime arma ment for France is, suggested. It is proposed that no large, fleets lie thought of; hat that new frigates be built, as the most suitable species of naval force for the protection of com merce; and allusion is made to our experience in our last war with Eng land, to illustrate its superior utility as a means of annoyance in a contest with an enemy possessing so immense a Navy. The Committee look to' the complete establishment between the years 1820 and 1880, of a Mili tary Marine, to consist of 30 or 40 ships of the line, 30 frigates and 00 smaller vessel's, all ready for active service'. An annual appropriation rif from 40 to 50 millions of francs, to effect the purpose, is advised in the Report. Let Spain pursue a simi lar course of exertion, and the Uni ted States persevere in their plan of maritime equipment, and Great-* Britain will have other motives be | ides the erubarra^ment of her finan I es, to abstain from provoking nn Mrs, which might combiue on the ocean i he energies of those Powers. Walsh's Gazette . A letter from Society. Hill, dated 10th inst. says : ? " Duriug tlie pre sent week we have had the greatest destruction of crops ou (he Pee Dee that lits been known here fur a num ber of years ; raauy planters have lost the whole of their crops ; some who were about to send down corn in a boat that leaves here to-day, have declined doing so, under the impres sion that it will be w orth more here than in town. ? The river commenced falling last evening." In all the southern States, from Virgiuia to Albania, crops of corn are unusually abundant. The cotton also promises well, and should the rot be less destructive than heretofore, of which we have some hopes, the proceeds of the growing crop will go far towards relieving our titizens from those pecuniary difficulties, which in a greater or less degree, have embarrassed almost every one. [MilledgevMe Recorder. JRabama. ? At this time, perhaps no |t?te in the Union can boast of letter agricultural prospects, accor ding to the number oF persons cm ployed, than the State of Alabama, ?The season is delightful and pro* lific beyond ?comparison. To thi? may be added a like general time of health throughout the state ; even in the low country, nothing of a conta gious nature is known. These t h i ngs are substantial subjects of congratula tion, cheering even those who are undet pecuniary embarrassment, in this time of general scarcity of money here, as well a9 in most, if sot all, other parts, of the Union. Cahawba Press . A writer in the American Farmer, on the pernicious consequences at? tending the cultivation of ry Tree, states as a fact, tha thai Tree ?VQWs, no wheat, wiry, or rye can be made within seme hun dred yards. This statement is cer tainly worth the attention of Farmers* A Shjrt made without Needle work. ? It was mentioned in pur pa per some time ago, in a letter from a correspondent, that Mr. David Ay. derson, of th|^anl?sk manufactory, Deanside Brae, had finished a shirt entirely in the 1o?m> without any kind of Needle wont, and had ano ther in progress of a superior quality, .intended as a present to the Hnnterian Museum, in this city. Wo liave seen this singular production since it was finished, and find in it every re quisite and ornament of a man's shirt.- The neck, hand-hands, anifct shoulder-straps, are double cloth and neatly stitched ; the button holes are wrought with button stitch. It haa also the requisite , buttons, guessets, snd a ruffle; and in the breast is "woven the Glasgow Arms, with the motto Let " Glasgow flourish," and helow, " woven and presented by David An^eson." We under stand this s?|lar piece of mechani cal ingenuity? which doeasgreat cred it to Mr. Anderson's professional' abilities, was yesterday presented: to Dr. Coupar, for the purpose be intended. ? Glasgow Chronicle. A Water Wheel has lately been constructed In Bouthington, (Conn.) which runs wholly under water *nd will carry a run of mill-stones, of' 4 feet 4 inches in diameter* with but 18 inchcs head and fall of water, ta grind any kind of grain* The na ture of the wheels is surh, that they may he run by the tide both at ebb and flotf, with nothing more than the natural current of tne water; and mills may be erected on flat streams with .but very little expense. It is thought that it will ojperatc with ono third less water than most other wheels, the water having three opera tions, and ice and* back water can have ao effect upon it.