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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>.
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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
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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
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he.r fellow brings ; but she has left the
Church Militant for the Church triumphant
In glory, and death being swallowed up of
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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.
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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 ?