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CamSfn MAY 26 , 1817. A Jcilcr jroui Pans stales, that the L mp loved Fe rdinand" the I o t li was dangerous ly ill. ' His speedy dissolution was txpect C<1. Wm. Cobbelt and his two Sons arrived Ht Noac-York in the ship In 1 porter, from - I?iverpoek Late accounts from Havana state, that there arc a number of An^encan and Bri tish seamen now in prison at that place, taken on board Carthagenian privateers ; *nd about the first of this month, one of the t^mnlado fleet, formerly the Chasseur biig, sunk a small vessel of the Patriots; the whole crew being killed or drowned except 18 ; these were brought to Havana; and thrown TfUo priM>n, where it was sup posed they would "perish from want. Cap nam Gobi, of the British government brig Saracen, had applied to the Spanish autho rities for the lelea^e of certain British sub jects confined in prison ; bu* could not ob tain their libera ior>. TO Til * PUBLIC. The Proprietors of the " Ca m Ga? zettr" having purchased the interest tvhich the former Printer had in this pa ~ per, the same will hereafter be printed by Grorgr IV, B . Harby. AU sums due to the" Office must be paid to t*.e present printer of the paper, to William hantfley^ Esq. or to the ugents nominated in one of our for mer columns to receive the same, ~ The Proprietors havin. 'now the sole di rertion of the paper, pledges themselves to make such arrangements as will leave no ground for complakit. They have?taken measures to procure a regular supplv of Paper of a superior quality, from Philadel phias and hopes in a few weeks to present ''heir readers with the Camden Gazette in fa^pew and improved dress. ? OBITUARY. 7/ Departed Ihis lifct May 9th, Mrs lil SIAH THORNTON, wife of Gilbert Thornton, aged 73 years* two months ami five d^ys ? left 13 ehiklren, 64 grand chil dren, and 18 groat grand children ; total 95. A numerous family to lament the loss of her agreeable company. ? She was horn in lvlorris County, New-Jeta?y, was religiously educated^became a member of the Baptist Episcopal Church, under the pastoral care of the Rev. John Ganoe, in New-York, and after some years removed to this state and continued a member in full fellowship till her death, which was ?bout 3 J- years from the time she join ed Mr. Ganoe's thurch. Mrs. Thornton was remarkably pious. There cannot rest the shadow of a doubt in the breast of any * ^ one acquainted with her unabated zeal for the glory of God, the promotion of the Re deemer's kingdom, ami the salvation of 4 he.r fellow brings ; but she has left the Church Militant for the Church triumphant In glory, and death being swallowed up of * ? life, she now rests in the bosom of her God, f> F.arthquakc% ? We learn from Mr. Kit ehie, a passenger oft board the Islington, that there had been a severe earthquake between Tobacco and the South Seas, 60 miles distant from the former plnce, which had Mink land 30 leagues in extent ; the whole face of the country had l>een torn op, and rtie rivers Tobasco and St. Francis were rendered impassable by the thousand - floating trees on Us surface. An Indian "village had been swallowed np, with all its inhabitants. A/ao-York f\of\cr% A Mr. Sylve^^r Coomb**, formerly of New-York, has been murdered and robbed on the highway in Kentucky ? supposed to have been by a traveller who called himself Davis. \ Nkw-Lohdon, Maw 7. " Wan dug up from the garden of Mr. John Griffin, of East-Haddam, this spring, a Partmifi which measured four feet and t^rep inches in length, exclusive of a part of it left in the ground. ' What soil has given, since the fall of Adam, ?uch bcete mv fiaranifi* as Last-lladdam." r To the Ec litoriqj the L.&cingt~i Rc-furter. Natchf.j", April I?. Gentlemen ? The supreme congress of the Mexican Republic, have seen with ex treme pleasure, in one of your numbers, the magnanimous and disinterested sup port which was givcu 10 the cauie of liber ty in Mexico, by the lion. Henry Clay, of Kentucky ; a resolution was accordingly entwed into by that body, voting him their thanks ; and it was ordered than an address 1~7\ forwarded to Mr. Clay, expressive of iheiv gratitude for the liberality ofTus sen timents and the geaerostttrtjf his efforts in : the Republican cause of Mexico. The dispatch which bore that address to Mr. Clay, has been, I believe, lost or inter cepted } I therefore beg leave, through the , medium of your paper, to inform that gen tleman of the circumstance, and^to soli<jiI_ him, in be hair of the Mexican people, Ao continue hts friendly sentiments and re gard towards that cause, on which the.' li-J ? be+ty and happiness of millions of our fellow beings depend* I have the honor to be, . ve?y respeclfullv, vours &c. JO U N- -H- A >N ROBINSON. - From the Boston Cejitinel of the 7th inal* Yesterday Lieut. General Lallemant left town for New York. He has recei ved here the attention due 10 a gallant of ficer in exile ; and has expressed his grate ful sense of Arrtfcrican hospitality* His military career has been iirilliant. HeWft F anre with BuQnaji^ile-4-JwUen the laUer survendtted himself to Capt. Maitland, of the Bejlerophon ; and was unittd with Count Las v asev: in the last negociation.? ? The first negotiation, for permission to pass unnoticed to America, was conducted by SdVary. On Captain Maitland's lefu sal to permit Buonaparte's escape, Count Casses and General Lallemant went> on hoard the liellerophon to announce thaf himself on the' generosity of the British Prince Regent. As dffcrent reportshave been circuited of ...the -answer of Capt. Maitiand, we have extracted the follow irc. paragraph from his official despatch on the subject :-r-u Conceiving myseli au thot izect by my secret orders, to rective persons of Buonaparte's description on b'>ard * I have acceded to the proposal, and he is to embark on board this ship to morrow '[July 15th] morning. Thai rO ^frmttmler^tandHtg^^fglrt' arise, I have ex ? pliciily and clearly explained to the Count Las Cesses, that I have no authority what ever for granting terms of any sort ; but all that I can do is to convey him and his suit 'o England, trr -be received in Mich manner us his Royal liighneasnnay deem expedient." The FYench st anger whojrtras in Bos* ton some months since, and Iras then re ported to be Marshall Soult, we Icarn from f>rtUy good' authority, was Gen. Callin court, (the Duke of Viceuze) one of Na poleon's household, and, we believe. Grand Marshall of lhe Palnce. His celebrity has been greater as a Diplomatist than a Mar tinet ; and to him has been imputed the agency of having apprehended, in a neu tral country, the celebrated Bourbon Pr'mce, the Uuke n' I?nghkiw ? and con ducting him to the woods of Vincnwn, where lie \vj?j shot by order of Bonaparte. . After the allies conquered I'arit the first ti ???'*. CaulincoiTt satisfied lhe Emperor of Russia that he had no concern in that foul transaction; but IhM he had been mis taken for thother officer %*vbo executed the minion, for his having left Paris at the same time, on another mission. We ' understand he is now in N\ w-Orleans. j I The Swiss papers mention, that great numbers of emigrants were quilting the Canton of Berne ; the greater part going to the United States, and a few to Russia, i A letter from Cadiz in the Trench pa pers, states that a very rich laden Spanish galleon from South America has been tak en in si^ht of Ute "Canaries. by two Indepen dent privateers, after a desperate battle. Gen. Lefebvre Denouett **, haft fisrWed tit New-York, in the bri^ Day, Capt, Dun, from New-Orleans. The Epidemic. ? We regret learn that an Epidemic has prevailed for some time past in the town or Maneh ester, opposite to Richmond, which has carried off, in the space of six weeks, upwards of 130 per sons, chiefly negroes. Among the num ber* that fy?ve fallen victims, are many of its oldest Aid most respectable inhabitants. Norfolk Beacon. Singular Cu*tom.? The errors of the hu man mind are sometimes so ridiculous that we can scarcely give credit to them. In Egypt it was formerly a custom for the master of the house in which a cat died to shave his left eyebrow, as a token of grief. Ir.Ufna' Trr/trox>emmt. ? Our Canadian Neighbours it would seem, art? enj^agmg in ^ ood earnest in the bu*ness of internal improvements# It is slated in a Montreal paper of the 5th inst. " that a canat com munication from l*mgston to La Chine, by the river Kideau is seriously underta ken." The Lditor adds u Its importance will be readily conceived. 1 ft addition to enhancing the worth of the settlements through which it will pass, it will be ui vast consequence to the provinces at Urge." Thift important enterprise originated in the upper Province, Should there low Province consult its best interest, it will met t this spirit of improvement by a canal from Montreal to La Chine? thus forming a safe and easy communication between Lake Ontario and the tide waters of the 'St. I^awrence. No internal improvement can be devUeti, so as tbt*, to promote the prosperity of both Provin ces. ? Let the Members of our own LegisJa ture survey this subject with attention, and they will discover strong incentives to prompt the vigorous exertions in behalt of . Our great Western Canal. t^^-YorA: Commercial Advertiser . A Mammoth Tree. A carpenter, named Siolliberger, made lately out of a single oak tree, growing on the plantation of Mr. Christopher Lobin gec# Mountpleswdntiownship, the astonish ing number of 5V3'2 first rate shingles ! ? a yield, 11 is believed, not heretofore equalled in this country. Grertisburgh / mficr 3d imU _ From a laic London Pafieri^ Singular Occurrencc. On Thursday last, as some sailors were endeavoring to split some shells on the beach at Margate, by driving iron t?p^ri^^ bolts in the fusee holes, one i- inch shell, which had beeu laying on the beach some years, resisted all their power to rend it, and not being able to wyfrhdraw the bolt, they took il to M:*. Chapman's forge, :in<^ heated it red hot. Observing it make a hissing noise, they appi^hended dinger, and wiihd.ew some little distance from it, when it made an explosion as loud as a six ponder, drove out the iron bolt through an adjoining partition, and the shell itself took a direction through the fiont window erf the shop, and* carrying away the jam of the window^ gtruck the front of Mr. Damford's house on the opposite side of the street, at an elevation of seven feet from the fire where it was heated. It went with stiGh velgjeirp as to drive in the flints five inches, breaking some to pieces, and others into powder, 'l'he shell weighed two hundred weight, and was not the least daynaged, and providentially no person was " hurt. AN ORDINANCE Par raisin# and flawing into the 1'own Trea - ?ury, the *urnn therein mentioned) /or ? the uhe and hew Jit of the tf u?n oj Ct/tnden. Bf. \t oRfiAtvED by rhe Inttrrdam and Wardens of the Town of Camden, in Coun cil Assembled, and it is hert by ordained. by the authority of the same, that every pei son residing within the Town of Camden, shall, on or before the first day of July next, and annually afterwards, pay to the Town Treasurer, the sum of twenty-five cents per head on each Slave living within -the Town ; of whom he Or she may be the owner at the present time, or of whom he or she may have the care or manage ment. And he it further Ordained Ay the au thority aforesaid That no person shall let or drive for hire, any Waggon, Carter Dray within the Town* which is owned or liepi by any person or persons living there in, from and after the first da/ of July next, without first having obtained 3 Li cense frorrr the Town Treasurer, for one year from the above date; and for which license the sum' of four dollars for each waggon, and two dollars for each cart and Mflray, shall be paid, for the use ol the ' Corj>oration : And in case any person or persons shall let or drive for hire, any ' waggon, cart of tlray, within the Town# which is owned ahd kept as above stated, without having first obtained such license ; such person or persons shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not less than the full amount of such license. And be it further Ordained by the autho rity ( tfomaid % That all persons residing within ih* said Town, owning, and at the same time using the following description of Carriages, shall on or before"4 the fir* t day of July next ; and annually afterwards, pay to the Town Treasurer the under mentioned sums, v\t\ four dollars on every Coach, Chariot, Post-Chaise, Coachee* Phaeton or other Carriage having four wheels* and used for pleasure or conveni ence ; and the sum of two dollars on every two whcaled Chaise, Chair, Sulkey or o\hiY Carriage of* whatsoever denomina tion, liav.ng two wheels, and used us above. ^bui b* i : fnrthc^r Ordained by the awhor - icy aforesaid, That a Capitation tax ot six ty iwo and a half rents be annually im posed, and that the same be collected on or before the first day of July next, upon each free Ne^ro, living within ihe ^aid. Town, between the age <lT iifieen and fifty years. .ind be it further Ordained by the author * icy aforesaid , That all person residing wi h in said Town, raiding and suffering to run ai large therein, Hogs of any description* shall pay a fine of one dollar on each Hog ; and it any person shall refuse to comply with this Ordinance, all such Hogs, or a part, as the case may be, belonging to such person or persons so refusing, shall be se ized and sold lor * he' purpose of pay ttg the above fihe, and the overplus, if any there be, shall be paid to the, person. or persons whose Hogs have been so seized' and sold. jind be it further Ordained by the outho - rrity aforesaid. That all persons properly denominated Hucksters* being such '-per sons as are engagetHn |mrchasing^ xrp tqcU articles as Butter, Poultry, Eggs, Fruit* See. kc. for speculation, be required to obtiun a license for such privilege annually#, lor which they shall pay the sum of fif teen dollars to the Treasurer, and two> dollars to the Recorder ; and in case any such person shall refuse to comply witbL tms -Ordinance he or she shall forfeit the. sum ,of twenty dollars for every such of-^ fence. * ? - Uotificd in Vozvn Council, the nineteenth day 'q/ A fay in thryrtrrvf our L.ord 1817/: and forty fit 8t year of American lnde-> fiend< nee. , WM. LANGLEY, Intendant. May 26. 59 ? 61 AN ORDINANCE To amend an Ordnance fi'chibiting the Fir - in jf of (Jnus t virhin the limits of the . Toxin qf Ctwidetiy hnd for other fiurfio*c8 therein mentioned . Whekeas the limits of ihe TowA of Camden have been enlarged since the pas sage of an ordnance prohibiting the Firing of Guns within the limits of the said town, in consequence ok which a large p.Mtion of the lircs of the citizens. inr.ludec I i.) t!>e pre sent limits, are endongeted liom that prac tice. .. / Beit therefore, ordmnrd Us the Irittn dant and Wardens of the t*>wn of Canulerl in Council assembled, tlmr ifre Ordinance prohibiting the Firing of Guns within the former limits of the Town, bo extended in such a manner as to embrace the present ^irhit*^ And H? thereby, ordained lhatr every person commuting** violation of that Ordinance within any part of the present limits of the town of Camden be subjecred to the penaltieffof the former Ordinance. Maified in / own Council the 19 ih dan of i/iayy 181 and forty-prat year of Ame rican Independence, WM. LANGLLY, Intendant . May 2G ' 59 ? 61 SALE AT AUCTION, AL Hi ion William's Store, ofihu^itr ihc P< < jffice ? On FRIDAY ruxr, 30th inst. A genaral assortment of DRY GOODS* ? also ? Cotton Goods, Moroccp Slippers About 5000lh. Cut Nai!*-*Wtlh many* other articles too tedious to enumerate. Also, 1500 yards Northward HOrm spurt on consignment, A% the subscriber Will leave I>ere in a few days, and wishes to close sales* bargain * may be expected. Terms? made known at the time of Bale*' Which will commence at 8 o'clock, A. M. May 26 1 ? ? = ? Camden Rifle Company ? Attention T Attend at Camden on the Evening oCthe 28th May instant, at 5 o'clock* prepared to encamp together during the night, that we may go through Drill oil the Morning of the 29th ins., preparatory to Kepimen'al muster on that day. Every man's equip ment mtists be complete, Jiy order of Cafit* Jjtvy * Win. O'Cain, Ordly * Sctg't* May 26 I ? NEW GOODS Junf received by the Subtcribtr ?, Among which are many articles# suita-f ble for the present and approaching sea sons, of n very superior quality, and wftichi With their former STOCK, comprising. .* General Assortment, they are now offer ing at the most reduced fitters, SHANNON k BALLARD. May 2 6. 1 59? tf ? ?*???? "**' ' ??? "? ' O i? * ? J u ?? in CAUTION. ALT. persons are forbid trading or traf ficing with the Subscriber's NK GROES, as the law will be pot in force against them* JOSEPH KIRKLAND. Flat Rock, May 16, 1817. $8 ?