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'fl.o iilit.ii,. gf llto Alju * c.u.rtV.i Jiuj c.t in tluie\ pi ration of o.iu. ye.ir? (!>.? !.;\i\eu.-?tfiipi rfihool t!1 exhibit a yme'ctacic of four o^'fKtj Huudiv.l c'nidrrn <*m.chcd with Oto fmiditmon* till piinr.ipti s ul' politic*, morality and litera ture. Tiii* we hate already >iitl can only bo n rtjievtacli: of hi many automaton*, puppets or i'|>r.iki.i!( motilities. ' 'llic idea of, n clitltl beinj* :ic<|u;iintcil with politic* is ho absurd, that we tire antooirflicd tlu; ^editors of the A^Qa Mhttidd have cvpreasod tUto sentiment. ? >Vc hod Mup Sj.Hcd the l*ant&?tiiuu toucher* Wl only em-j raced in thetcfyMem the RrsttdomcnU of Un *aji';o ; and tliirt their exhibitions usually coll ated of caflxj^ the pupil* to ?pe?k as parrots. ? elect passage* iVom those pretty bowks called ?Ku^libii Header* or8cott*? li?f?son? i but If the tive hundred children are tb declaim like Luther Murtin, uno Uobert Uoodloo Itaper, it will be a ji|H'ctar.lc indeed ! Like tlir. Kditors of the Arjcux, we have not, time At ptuitcut t<> enter into a farther discussion 0:1 tlm subject. We <6nfcfw, however, our fiit' u Jiirtin is not e?j\ral letheim | and if it were not l?<r a consideration Hint by a Lancastrian School, a number of rftimls which nature had (ii'htined to fi|(ure in the first ranks of genius, VlMTn* rendered listles* and dormant i we should ;'vt?n entertain hopes of receivitig occasionally irfun a Laucaitmn exhibition, a ai-eater amuse ment than the opera of Punch aim his puppets i -mid alford ! C'lfttuin Porter'* Journal. ? Wc learn with fttvut pleasure that a second edition of thia vcrv' valuable n?.?1 interesting work will noon be put to press at Nov. -York, in two octavo volumes,, with an additional volume of chart*. Many vcrv important addition* haxebeeii made to it,{ nndfrom the ntv|? jn which it is lobe published wt arc persuaded it will be in every respect worthy of the pn'.ro:ix^c of an enlightened pub lie.? iV-/. !nl. Tito lloval !iia!i Academv, purpose to give a premium, iiot exceeding .so/, to the author of ? he Ik>1 essay, (to he handed in previous to the Hth of Ma?chj mi the follow injj subject? ?" Oil The mtNtnre of table and fact in the annaUof Ire i i-.d. and t!ie be;;t modes of ascertaining what detrree of credit theje ancient document* arc i?*tl v entitled t _ VOW !^ir;NNKWS. Liverpool to the 1st of February* and Loudon tlaii'j* t:? ,'ninini v ;i()th, have been receiv ed iit >.ev-Yo?-k. The Niuer fri?rate sailed from Portvnouth o!i the '>Hth of January, wit!i the Hiitiih uiiuiMcr f ir \meri**t. Madame Lava le'te. havinir ??btai:ii-d her provisional liberty bv lurni.duHi; the -'cttiM rn??nired bv law,* has been iele:;?pd from j ri-oii. Field Marshal Illti i!.cr.?;n - n ticnutri paper, ban been ?to please*' wit' i! #? '-'induct of Mniiame I .acHette. d.nt. he hr. ?ent her a letter of t'.auV*, A projected revolution In- been di-trovered and presented al \ 1 : ?er<?. It wa* reported in Pa-is, Jan. HO, t' -.i "-:r Robert Wilson, Cant. Hutchinson and .Si.. I'i'tce will ??- li t mi* of pri-on on bail pre \i'.?i.* t i their trial. It ear* by the daily onl !et;n? that the Frir.c "l.V^ent recovers very alow 1% IV:?:n l is recent attack. i.- .h'tiuanj OA. ? The public attention j is di ? '-ted tf> t'e trial of 8iv Holsert Wjluon and his I" t-mls, which is said to be fixed for Thurs dn \ hofote t!te Coint of As.'r/.e* | the same r-Mi? t t'-at tried Lavalette. On Saturday, tlie da / of their arrest, Sir Robert Wilaon positive ly uectiued j^ivinyc any anawer whatever to the interi oratories proposed to hiin. He was close ly confined, ana ati Mere/. The day after lie would only answer the mere question* of forma lit v, such at his name, o^c, profe#?ion, &c.~ lie pciViMed in this system for the motive* 1 explained to you in my lat>t? and which he com municuted to' Lord Auckland, "that the ten <le.;cv of the question was to eliminate him Unit he was asked, " what his private opinion of Mev wrm, what houses he frequented, " &c. In co:t?ci|ucuro of tliii resolution he waa kept ttu wrvr* nntil the Thursday following, when the Mar ???uia of Muckiuf;h(tm obtained permission for Lady Wilson (who haft the misfortune of beinjk' biiud) to visit her hmdtaml, and the Marquis .icconipai led her to the prison j since that time tlm ri^or of Ida captivity ban been alleviated the i ? pen. it fed to see her Ladvahip every day, and ?.he enters with her friends who coin I nets her. JSir )?' ?!)?;rt i? allowed to wall: in the court when i.he 'Jtjivr pvimuiers nre shut up. M. Dnpin who defuriidcid Marshal Ney, was returned by Lady Wilsnn an hcr hufthamVs counuel, immediately al'fni his detention. JtiHtittryifk).?' French papers received yester day to the fl7th inst. The political arre&tn are still continued with an octivity, and in such numberft, a? to evince that tho'iptvcrnmeiit iii iti the utmost dread of a convulsion. Armed lurcM* is woployctl tor tlio purpose <>| mnkifif/ ilu-hc ;irrr.-tN ami l auding titer t/.p Hiispected ju-rmuiH to llm civil authority. it i? also ovi? ?<????! i' ?t t'.'- far* of the government ore not ill fuiitxleil. tflmt tlio olVorfH of the police* minif nui litis active body is, nre iitMUfllfient v> M-e vent t ie element* of' jiopolnr vengeance Jr.'Mi collecting and threatening (he moat direful of raU*froplde#"~vet flu? departure of the fo? rct.'O tru;?p* if again HpvUnn of. It in now *tat ?d tU'.i *11 the Kugtiiih troop# will have reached 'lu-i.' i!? filiation by the j*t of February j of t uiu ir thitf tUcv nro t<? be withdrawn from the r-ipi'nUa iife&ftUffe ah unlikely aa it would he dangerous to tin* Ituurhon authority) and a Htill more f<?rfiilin(ft?circum*tarir<* tor? weather hnx f??j?v?-v! nod allowed *<imo of the regiment* that new oa Utrir ?etttrj> to i?ml>ark for Knjrland f? The HriliJv artillery, however* ara still Menac ing the hii?..4>oju ics and xtanding width it the #tte.< of Ht. Deni*, /Avwiiooi* /'????. J . ? At a late hear litt night we received tin* IVin poiier* to the &1d inataut. Thov arc chiefly filled with detail* of the cere* inoa'y of the flOth, of which ?c have already gi* Veil an account. With regard to the Kngltali 0flictfM?irr|irted, it I* merely atated that 8ir It. .Wilnon i# allowed to ace bin wife ) to tironieti* ode in the totirt of the priaortt antf to write and foe?'tve Home of the journ*li gird the uuru^rapti wc rcccntlv ?\hLtcd (rviu n .Brussels paper, bluliu^ that .Y.nvalelto liad arriv ed at MurtchiUut wiv nothing father rent ing nl?y.- Th?^ account* Yroiri the* interior of Franco, which the jMitulu aito allowed to pub lish, indicate cohtuderable Agitation, and a yciy uuauttlcd state of the public mfed. lira fol lowing arc c\tracts i ? ? The potriVftccnplcd At Pari sty. tl*> national guard and th? froou* of the line* nave been considerably augmented.? Letter* Trom Turin state Miat insurmountable difficulties had arisen in the negotiation# for the exchange of territories. The King, of 8p4hi ban just mated two new military order*r-that of 8ti Ferdinand and tjfc llermenegiid } and a third order of knighthood, under the name of * Royal American orderof Isabella the Catho lic.' M. Cambacerea 4a not going t6 Italy? none of the individual* compnMd in the royal ordinance can ?o thither? the only countries where they can find a* asylum, arc Prussia, Au stria and UuMia. M? Cambacerea has ahked leave to to go Silesia. Several German Journals state that tho kings .of Bavaria and Wurtcm berg, and the grand -duke of Baden have con cluded an alliance for the purpose of solemnly guaranteeing the States widen thev at present possess. The Venus de Mcdicis has made it* solemn entry Into Florence, it arrived on the 3d, preceded by a brilliant suite, the principal pic tures of the Italian school, the chiefs uVeuvre of Raphael, Michael Angelo, Outdo, Salvator Rosa, Andre del Borto and Julio Romano, serv ed for the escort.? The whole population went out to meet them.? If any thing can console us for our I on Acs in the arts, it would be to see these monuments nass into the hand* of an Idol atrous people, wfiose enlightened enthusiasm promises a religions care for their preservation. General Colbert who was arrested and set at li berty by order of the government, has obtained |>erntihsion to retire to a foreign Ktate ? He has quitted the capital. It is said that the king, in commemoration of the 21st of January, has set at lilierty the prisoners for debt under the sum of 2<),000 francs, who, from their pcroonal quali ties, or from the situation of their families, had any claim to the bcvoleuce of his majesty." A Brussels article of Jan. S3, states," (from private letters) that the following were the an swer* given by Mr. llruce, on his first examina tion upon the escape of Lavalette. Q. Your j n?mf ? ? A. There. in no body except the police of Pari" to whom my name is not known. Q. | Of what country ore you ?? A. Of that country I which linn conquered France. Q. Dili you ait* Hint in the escape of Lavalettc ? A. Distin guish ; if you mean of his escape fnnn prison, no? if you mean his escape from the kingdom of France, yen? I might Kay no to this also, but I say A\e?. Q. What were your motives for act* iuirin this manner?? A. My motives? Tut, in order to savo a persecuted Individual ) 2d, to1 nerve humanity > 3d, to answer the appeal made to ICnglish honor (Unjnn\M J an ap peal which is never made in valir> Lavalettc entered my apartment, lie said to me j ** I am I/avelette ? I have just escaped from prison ; I ni? pursued ; I see iwmo gendarmes at the head of the street t I dare not proceed for fear of be i?!r arrested t I flv to you f I confide myself to Knulish honor, flnifnnte ) save me." Then I took oil'my uniform', which I made !*avalette put on i afterwards 1 concerted with my -'mentis whut was to be done to convey him out df tho kingdom : I resolved to accomplish it myself and I conveyed Tavalette out of France in my own carriage. This enterprise succeeded by means of the disguise. /fowi/wrfr. ?Extract of a letter from St. He lena, November 5, 1815.? We, who are sent into banishment with Bonaparte, to the most wretched and desolate spot on the habitable world, have good > '?a*??n to curse his name i? here we arc literals ?i&rvtngor living U|>on the hard Irish beef, which we get for a ration, in the proportion of one pound per day, and which is so hard as to bo susceptible of as high a polish as mahogany, The privations we all cnuuro are very great i and were it not thai we sometimes catch fish, (for buying theitt is nut of the oues tion) I do not know what would become of us t flvo or sir. fish every day regularly for dinner ami breakfast, and have contiuued to get a mackarel or two for each those weals t but you must nut 3ose them such mackarel ?s you get in Kng , the largest not being more than half the size. It was ludicrous to tee the ladies of the ;f;>d (who arrived in the Ceylon with the second division of tlie regiment ten days after us) ask ing for tho market, and their astonishment was not small when they found there was no such thing in the place* They are worse ofi' than ourselves | all the officers have only three mar luees among them, and thoso four milcH from the town. Poor Napoleon Isat a house in the coun try, or rather hut, for he has but one room, which serves him for lie.d-room, parlor, kitchen and Imll i a house at Longwood, about four miles tVom town, is preparing for him, but will not bo ready for him in two months, and then he \s ill not be much accommodated, for the whole of his suite, (eight persons independent of servants,) an it will tiot furnish a room for each. There is, we all think, a great degree of illihendity in this treatment or him and his followers, which I should think our government never could have intended ; even cavils about eatables and drink ables are made, and a system /if annoyance is pursued, by abridging their accommodations and comforts, tlertram) roquires a room for him self, one for his wife, and another for his chil dren t these 1 understand are to lie refused, though certainly it is as little as any man could expect, were he considered as a close prisoner, and of his rank in life. The generals and their wives are at present in a house in town, until the one that Napoleon goes to at f jongwood is rea dy, when they all go there, Captain Mackey of tho 5fid regiment, lives with Napoleon, and he never moves without two serjeants with liitn, so that there is no fear of his escaping. Kvery boat in that island, fisherman's or not, is moor ed at sun-set by a naval officer, and reported to th* commander to be done so. All guards un der arms at sun-set and day -break j drawbridges up at sunset and As many precaution* taken as ifaWcaW y aigju <>?' U?e ialuud ?no meroty W hhi)>*f *?n* ?W *crfcrti?>:iH4jl?l4w c*l *u nnchor, iqid trio ,i?)fieo As^ctu thc*Hame<nH Itrokfckadcilmotft closely. li'i* morally siblotbat ho djmultl onc!\|>oJVom 4he4slapd wit!j. out having a s!?ip at 91 liftto d/stance torccoiye HM* nnd'a'ny tail cafl be sepn sixty iuiTo* off in moderately clear weather. Two ship* Imvc been sent to the Cape of* Good Hope for stOok, which arc noxiously looked for.ThU island nin)plie3 Itself with notliiHsr but vegetables, and depends entirely on import* Cor subsistence Cutting oft' all trade prevent* any supply <0 the inhabitants, but what they aro allowed to wir chase from the public stores (the sime quantity as tlie ration to the trooira) tho fishing boats not , being allowed to fish at night, which was the best time altogether, render* the situation ofthu Cirileans worse than ours? and they murmur not a little. I suppose the population of the inland may amount to 3,900* including 500 company's troops. The state of, secjety here is much be hind what one would have expected in an Hn# lish colony. Indeed, there is scarcely any so ciety to bo met with, except the daughters or the company's officers, and they con say yes or no. ? Thoy are what we call Yamstocks (native* of the island,) They had a theatre, which how over, was shut un talbre we came. We first ntado it a barrack and now an hospital. A li brary, tliov say, they will have in six month*. We aro all invited to dine at tho governor's 011 tho8thinst. I do not think many will go. It iti said ho is worth rr>,0(H)|bs. with only a son and a daughter. 1 but 1 think no man with any fortune would ever livo here, oven as a governor. His narno is Wilkes, and. he isa colonel in the company's serricc.'*? 'Loudon paptr* Bruaseh, Jan. 23. ? Letters from Paris say that Catnbaceres is going to Florence, Carnot to Uufuia, and Vnndainine to America. Letters from Paris mention that several persons who ore to uuit France in consequence of the law 01 am nesty, have asked for passport* to tho Nether lands or to America t that several French offlr ccni leave their country fpr tho United State's and that the English government does not see without uneasiness en emigration which might endanger its interest in America. Dhtttrbancet In Inland.?! The opposition to tuthtiM in Upper/ aiid Limerick, has subjected these counties to martial taw # trial by jury in consequently suspended ? 44 12,000 troops have marched into Tipjrtrary f any person found out of his bouse one hour before 8un>rUe or one hour after mn-set without beiug able satisfactorily to account for themselves, are forthwith transport ed for seven years to Botany Bay*1' Parliament of Lower (Canada dissolved,? \ gentleman direct from Canada Informs us, that a day or two before he left Quebec, sir George Drummond, governor of Lower Canada, Issued a proclamation, declaring the lU-oviticial jmrlia ment dissolved. The cause wnlch led to this extraordinary measure is given as fullows t The documents from England conveying the Prince - ssfiztiSi judges ot iiio supreme court in that provlhsti when read in parliament, excited a high state of angry and indignant feeling. In the moment or extreme exaggeration. language was uttered and measures proposed in the house, which the governor deemed indecorous and impro|?er, and to nut a stop to the procedure, he declared the le gislative body nolonger in existence. A*. Y. />. mBssmmammmmmttmammammaaBmtmmemBa CONOllKSS. HOIJSK OV RRPItKHKNT ATI VKS. f/Mwntof, Mirth 9. Mr. tawndes from the committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill to repeal the duties on household furniture and gold and silver watches ) a bill to abolish the existing duties on distillation, and to impose other duties thereon $ which bills were severally twice read and com mitted. On motion of Mr. Ingham, 44 Resolved , That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to re port to the next session of Congress what alte rations* if any, are necessary to equalize the duties on the capacity of stills, boilers, (kc. The bill from the Honnto in addition to the act respecting the Navy Pension Fund, was twice read and referred. The intervening orders of the day were then postponed, and tho House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, on tho National Dank bill. Mr. Catlv offered an amendment to pre vent the establishment of more than one Branch of the Bank in any one Htate. The motion was opposed by Messrs. Calhoun, Bradbury and Wright j and supported by Messrs. Canv and Culpepper, and then negatived without a divisi on. After some unimportant amendment, and the bill having been gone through, the commit* tee rose, reported progress, and the House ad journed about <1 o'clock. nil iy. MtrcS IK On motion of Mr. Webster. 44 Re**ltftd, That it is expedient to provide by law, for making the gold coins of England, France, Portugal and Hpain, and the crowns of France, parts the le gal current v of the United Htates, correspond ing with tli intrinsic value of said coins, res pectively, and that the committee on the nation al currency be instructed to report a bill accord ingly.'* llie l?iH from the Senate supplementary to the act providing for the indemnification of the claimant* to certain lands (Ya/.oo) in the Missis sipni territory, was tw ice iVad and committed. The house' then resumed the consideration of tho bank lull. 'Die house successively Concur red in the amendments of the fcommltte* of the whole, without objection, untd it reached that which substituted tho sum of fiflten dollars as the second cash instalment to the Bank, instead of Jive. Mr. Calhoun moved that the house dis agree thereto, with the view hereafter of making the sum trn dollars. After a few reritarks from Mr. Smith of Md. in justification of the amend* meut, it wan disagreed to by tho house* The house then proceeded to that amendment of the committee which restrained the govern* V ^ vi * \ ?. fro.n cij>palntin? more than tfi.r roclor* from any one state, which w. V.mI At. ' Tim next amendment consit (lint which added the word " ttati 'e" of the bill) nndtt!iercby oxcluded f?w jtiuu naturalised oitixen*. The dec! committee was reversed, and the wor rejected? -aye*, 44, noe? Q7. On inn VP ebnter, the UJI was then so omen make it equally eompuUory and jkm bank to pay its irpoilt* 1# Specie, as i jStfyt.. When the house arrived at nent providing sanctions for coroi bank to perform its . enttrsmentj, t ? made a motion substantially to stri ? blauDc which tnakes the charter for case of the uoit?paymer<t of specie, s leave only the penalty of paying 10 1 their notes if not so |taul. A debate op tlds motion, which continued tint clock, without a decision, when tin journcd. TuctJuy, .1 fur eh 13. Mr. I?o\vndos, from the committe and Moon* reported a bill to regulab on import* anil tonnage, which was ' and committed. Mr. Iloberttfon from tho committc Lands reported tho bill from tho Hem to settler* on the public land with*' ment. On motion ot Mr. Tavlorof N. Y* That tho cominitteo of \Vav? aud > strutted to cuouiro into tlie cxpedii king provirtion l>y law for the renewa 'I reasurv Noted. The speaker laid before the hou from the Secretary of War, mado ii of a resolution of this house, coinpris ed statement respecting tlie settleuu of the several states to reiinbursemoi paid for militia services during tin which was read and ordered to lie t Tho house proceeded to tho ordci ?~be{ng the report of the committee house, on /the National Hank bill ? to strike out that nart of an aniondi ed by the committee, which make* forfeitable for non-payment of it* i cie, was agreed to without a dh Randolph then moved to amend thu of the committee,- by making tho mandable on tlie notes of t!ie bank, refusal to pay specie, twenty per cen /**, which was negatived ? nycs 5\ Mr* Calhoun moved to amend the b the amount of the second cash pavn instead'of 3, oh it stood in the bill. agreed to, andsome otlier minor tm disposed of? Mr. Webster .moved ti , clause which declares that the. bonk i . be sued "in all courts whatsoever," ting the state courts ? which, after ? . wton on the propriety of granting jui ' the state court* specifically. was ugre (loot then renewed tho motion lie had ? fully made in committee of the whoh tlie rate at which six per cent stock ceived in subscriptions to the Hank, nlntfifikfk *mNV 'decided tive. 1 0r. to 34. Mr. fNidit pronob< tlie bill, by substituting " New-York ladeh>hia,s' in the clflUKo which fixei . on or the bank, which after dehato 70 to 64. Mr. Atherton moved to bill bv providing that iu apportioning no subscription should bo reduced ' there was on tho list a larger suhxerip ted, ayes 07, noes 49. Mr. Muyrai new section to tlie bill, the object of to allow the five Directors appoii Svcrnmenteacha salary of 1 prevent their obtaining any loar inflation from the Bank, which was < %u -?Mr.; Atherton, moved that tin Which the tliree per cent stock shall I for subscription, shall be reduced fro per cent. Home debut.' ensued on t) which had not concluded, when tlie jou rued. IVethtttrbji, March 1.1. Tlie Dank Hill was read the third ti dered to bo engrossed, Hi! to 01. sion may be considered as fairly in< the filial success of the bill in tlie llou> con rue of the day, the House revere of yesterday, and reinstated Philadcl position for the principal bank. 8KNATK. IPWut/ iif, Mirth 6. Tlie bill to appropriate annually g f a fund for making artificial roans ai< cbnals, was indefinitely postponed, If Mr. Dans submitted the following 4t JRftolvtd, That a committee be ap <>n iuii e into the propriety of making fo vM-iii concerning tl>e application of ? preprinted for arming ana e<|Ui| ping tl ?? the militia." Il'rtintirl.iy, Jfiireh 1.1. The Senate proceeded to the com in committee ot the whole, of the bill - of compensation of the Benators, He tives and Delegates in Congress, from lars per day during attendance to ft annum. The question on ordering th be read a third time was decided as I for the bill 22, against it 1 1. Thurtthiy, JTnrch 14. The bill to change the compensatiot Members of Congress was read the th andpassed 31 to ll. The bill respecting tho late officers a of the sloop of war Wasp, was taken up. bill proposes to allow twelve month* pa relatives of the officers and crew of sloop of we , and slfto authorises the < tion of fifty thousand dollar* among th as a reward for the capture of the llritisl of war Reindeer and Avon.) The bill < mended, and ordered to be read a third t , m/-/, Mur<h is. The bilKto incorporate the subscriber) Dank of the V. fttates was received fit House of Representatives snd read. Onl of Mr. Hibb, arid bv general consent, (j was read * second tunc, (k referred to til