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United State* for sixteen millions of dollars.? Our present government does not mean to con test the validity of that tale) but it dealrea to lose nothing but Louisiana itself. The United j States consider, on the contrary, part of West Florida as being united to the government of Loulsiana.and following iho condition of the principal Province. Mr. Jefferson, the former President of the United 8tates, declared that this difference should be tjie subject of n nego tiation | but Mr. Madison thought that he could . negociate more advantageously after havingta , ken possession of the aul ijcct in dispute. T1>is usurpation met with auccess during the troubles . of Spain. Now we reclaim the territory which belongs to us, in the most amicable manner.? Instead of nesociating the American government declares it will keep tho territory. Here then ia the commencement of a rupture. It ia doubt less very disagreeable to us to see ourselves me naced with a war by the United Statea, at a time when we have (ft combat tho insurvents of Buenos Ayrcs and tho Caracas. Wo have no Allies agaiiiMt the United 8tates j we calculate 'on the energy and justice of our cause. London, May 20.?The Paris Journals to iho irth bring nn further details of the insurrec tion at Grenoble. It has been completely crushed, and all waa tranquil in that quarter. 'Hie principal instigator of this mad scheme was a lawyer, named Dedier, one of those worthless . beings whom the weak policy of the king's gov ernment, in 1814, loaded with honors and pre . ferments. A reward of twenty thousand francs ' is now offered for his apprehension, and it is thought that he will soon be seized. To a man ( who was condemned to death bv the Prevotal ' Court at Orenoble, and by that court recom mended to mercy, the king has refused a pardon. Some of the private letters speak of commo 'tions and indications of commotion, in various ' ?yart* of Prance. This probably is the fact. The insurrection at Orenoble, anu the report circu lated by the jacobins encourage tho disaffected to shew themselves. The Emperor of Prussia has addressed a let * <er to the courts of Europe, stating that his Holy Xeaguu with Austria and Prussia has no other ?object view than peaceably to found the etcr I'nal peace and happiness of states! 8PAIN.?tatters from Bilboa mention that tthe Denuties from the three free provinces of . Biscay nad assembled for the purpose of agree iiig on measures of opposition to the plan ofFer dinand's ministers, who appear resolved to es Jtablish custom houses in Biscay, contrary to the constitution and rights of tho provinces of Bis cay, Alaba and tiufpuscon. May 21.?A great and alarming disturbance ?'had taken place in England, in Suffolk. Norfolk, ' Norwich and Thetford. A military force waa r called out and sent to those places for the pro ? tectltfn of tho inhabitants. It ia represented 'hit those places are great agricultural districts, xd that the wages arc from Gd. or 18d. a day rrman! a suin Inadequate to tho support of ho laboring claaees. ?' From HolUtnd.?We are sorry to hear tliat ,?.. Eustis and his lady had been much out of 'Health?the climate not agreeing with them.? ritey were about undertaking a journey to Pa 'is. Many respectable American travellers ?ere in Holland ; among them the Rev. Mr. iveritt, Mr. O. Everitt, and Mr. Ticknor? uord Wellington still remained at the Hague.? tie government was popular in HoMind t but ?t much ao in Belgium. The young Prince of ?nce is represented as a porson fine talents. Erving, the American ambassador to Spain. vM at Havre, In SO days from the United tes, and intended to visit Paris, and then ^eM'tn Madrid. Mr. Lewis, of New-York. we believe, his secretary of legation^, anu ir. Smith, of Boston, hi< private secretary. WIDTH A.MKHICA. floHrorN KcutditloH.?The success of the ?atriots under Bolivar en Terra Firma, flee, in n event that cannot fail to have a great and tuspiciouH influence on the liberation of all ftovi'h-Atnertcn. In a central situation between N ?rlh and Houth. open to a direct intercourse. v?:h Kurope. and in the vicinity of the principal ? , i .lands* it invites volunteers from every quarter. ? may maintain an intercourse with all tlio worlil. I lu ml reds of Irish) English and other disbanded officers, naval and *nl|ttary, had Eroceeded for Dementi a, t'uricoa, TriniuMtfld t. Domingo, in order to Join the patriot* by the [ first conveyance | and thousand from all parts will volunteer in tha cause of Independence. When the details of general BoHvftr'a opera* ?^lona come to hand, they wilt present to ui a ?>xt mte esting pictlirtv The rov*!Uta,who tafirdercd opponents without mercy, and even fftiicriflccd foreign. merchant* to their fury, have, **e trust, be'-n justly requited for such deeds \ the lircr^jS jtavc released from the u reign ?' ' ^rror,M & enough done to insure the freedom V A ?ncA?la. Who could have foreseen, aome ve?r* ago, that a few regiment# of Wcst-Indisn e negroes should co-operate in giving liberty e whites and blacks of the southern conti ? Their service is probably on condition of -Spawns the blacks j or the following may 'tfi^n the tact t Hie reader mnv remember, that when ^ gen, Dullivar 'van checked in his brilliant victories o vor the rt?valists in 181.1, by want of arms alone gen. Mnnlevirdf gained the ascendant by libe-1 , rsling the slaves of the patriot-party. Then had ? thav tu emigrate, rtien. women, and children, i from the beautiful province of Venezuela to the I Went-india Inlands.??V. Y. Cot. Httvm tit Cnmtina.?Humboldt, in the " Per son tl Narrative of Travels fo the eoulnocthl re gions of the Nbw Continent is particular in des cribe. j eve v thing around the city of Ouinsna, 'now . i j)OKfivtt?ion of general Bolivar and the *?itrf ?: j\ tht geology of ita vielnlty i its cli? ife. ees, fortresses, 9u5. We extract tho fol '-l.wlttft description of practice* aHd custom* vVlth t ill be thought remarkable enough ? ? Tho mstld of Ht. Antonld i* built at the ea* 'xtremity of the hill, but not bh the most td point, Ivjing commanded on the east by rUfted nuinnut The tntml h cen?idcr? ed boUi heve am! tvery where in the Spdnitli co pnies as a very:Important meant of military de I en'ce | and whore earthen works era raited, the engineer# are tiger to propagate the thorny 0 puntfiuand promote it* growth, as theu are care ful tolceeu crocodiles In the ditches <tf fortified facet. Urfdpr a climate where organised, na ure is to powerful and active, man summons as auxiliaries in hia defence the carnivorous reptile and the plant With its armor of formidable thorns." S** The banks of the Msntanaret are very pleasant, and shadowed by mimosa, crythrinas, ceibas and other trees of gigantic growtn. A ri ver, the tcmperanco of which, in the season of the floods, descends as 22 degree*, when the air is at SO ana 33 degree* is an inestimable benefit in a country where the heats are excessive dur ing the whole year, & where it is *o agreeable to bathe several time* in the day* The children pass, as it were, a part of their lives in the wa ter t the whole ofthe inhabitants, even the women of the most opulent families, know how to swim) and in a country where man is so near the state of nature, one of the first questions asked at first meeting in the morning is, whether thn water is cooler than the preceding evening. The mode of bathing is curious enough. We every even ing visiteu a very respectablo society in the su burb ofthe Guayquerias [Indian inhabitant*.] In a fine moonlight night, chnirt were placed in the water ; the men and women were lightly ! clothed, as in some baths of the north of Europe, and the family and ati-angers, assembled in the river, passed some houraln smoking tegars, and in talkiug, according to the custom of tne coun try, of the extreme dryness of the season, of the abundant rains in the neighboring districts, and particularly of tlio luxuries, of which the ladies I of Cumana accuse those of tlio Caraccas and the llavanna, The company were under no appre hensions from the bavas, or small crocodiles, which are now extremely scarce, and which ap proach men without attacking them. These a nimaltt are three or four feet long. Wo never met with them iu tlio Manzanarcs, but with a great number of dolphins, which sometimes as cend the river in the night, and frighten tlio ba thers by spouting water." Port of Cumana" The port of Cumana is a road capable of receiving all the navies of Eu rope. The whole of the Oulph of Cariaco, which i* thirty-five miles long and sixty-eight miles broad, aflbrd* excellent anchorage. Thegreat ocean is not more calm and pacific on the coasts of Peru than the sea of the Antilles from Porto Cabello,and especially from Cape Codera to the Point-of Pari*. The hurricanes of tlio West Indie* are never felt in these regions, the ves sel* of which aro without dccks.'r Thsclty, (N. lat. 10,10.)?" The city of Cu mana. properly speaking, occupies the ground that Uet between the castle of Btl Antonio and the small rivers of Manxanarcs and Santa Qata Una. The Delta, formed by the bifurcation of tlio first of these rivers, is a plain covered with n -unmeet, sapotas, plantains, add other plaints, cultivated in the garden* ."or shares of the In dlans. Tho town ha* no remarkable edifice,' and the frequency of earthquakea forbids such embellishment*. Tho heats are somewhat less oppressive on the side towards tlio sea shore, than in the old town where the reverberation of the calcareous soil, aha jRo' proximity of the mountain of St. Antonio tiUie the temperature to: an extraordinary degree., X. ? The shore near the mouth ofthe smaU river Santa CataHua ia bordered with mangrove trees, but theso mangrove* aro not sufficiently spread to diminish the salubrity of the air of Cumana. "On leaving the Indian suburbs, and ascend ing the river towards the south, we found a grove of cactus, a delightful spot, shaded by ta marinds. brasillettoes, ubmbax, and other plants, remarkable for their leave* and flowers." Particulars tfthe late Piracu.?A? gross mis representations arc circulated in relation to the schooner Komp, or Santa feci no. as well as in sinuations, thrown out against the reputation of some of the most honorable and respectable mer chant* in the United States, wo state for public information, that Admiral Thomas Taylor, who signs the instructions to the officers of the San tafecino, is a citizen of Buenos Ay res, ha* been in its service* 14 or 15 years, and wa9 sent to this country bv the Buenos Ayres government} he brought public funds with him. With these funds he purchased the Romp and fitted her out with a regular commission from his government. Not being acquainted with our laws, he cleared out the schooner as an Ameri can vessel, which was an error. The American merchants, who appear in print as agents of Taylor, were named in same way that Agents were constituted in France or other foreign parts by American privateers, in the war with Kng land \ we understand they were named without their own authority. As to tho Romp being a Pirate, it is entirely false ) she was * regularly commissionen priva teer under the patriots of Buenos Ayres. and has molested only Spanish royal vessels auu proper ty, which she had a right to take. We avow ourselves to be among that great majority of the American people, who rejoice at every thine not criminal, having a tendency to completo the independence of the South Ame rican patriots. We do not consider tho sale of American vessels to the Spanish patriots, with a view to convert them into privateer*, as an net I of the lea<t criminality > nor will the subsequent irregularities of their officers and crew at all change the character of the original transaction. Mainmort. Patriot, Jim* 89. Nr.w-OnLP.AMS, June 7.?It is with much pleasure we announce to our friends in the north and west that tho water !;as entirely receded from our city, and that the damages sustained will be but trifling to what was expected when the embankment or levee first broko. Never in the recollection of the most aged person has the river Mississippi been known to fall so early j how thankfbl ought we to bo to the (/rent ul*? Itontr of all good, for tho relief given us, as it were by the special act of his benevolent I'rovi rlw. 1 * ??< TUKSDAY JULY 19,1816. COMMUNICATION. Mm. Lc ar a in,?1 nee in your Telescope somo notice of * portrait of Capt. Blakely which is ra ther commended for its likeness to the original. I knew Capt. Blakely well, and retain a perfect recollection of his features and their peculiar ex pression, and am enabled to My that the picture in question is not a likeness. The officiuusness of nrtists has been injurious to his memory us well oh tho neglect of men of letter*. Vou have? I believe, given the only Biographical notice of him that the world has over seen, ai d you will add much to the obligation that the admirers of naval heroism are under to yo)i by setting gp publie right respecting tho caricature <*f Blake ly in the Analectic Magazine. This represents him with high raised brown strained as though he thought with difficulty, and his countenance is marked with the expression of distress. No# Blakely had an animated and cheerful expressi on of countenance, very far from indicating a mind distressed by the labor of thinking or a heart that was brooding over sorrows or rankling ?*re. AMICUS. A mulatto man named Billy Blue was latoly hanged at Baltimore. At the gallows ho confes sed that he had set fire to Petersburg. He said that being engaged at cards in a stable with some people of colour anil enraged at loosing his mo ney, he clapped a candle to the hay and made his escapo without waiting to see the consequen ces. Dr. Phytic of Philadelphia who has been a professor in tho CoKege and a surgeon in the Hospital has been compelled by declining health to resign his employment. An interesting case is related in the Raleigh bloodletting to tho amount of 120 ounce* or nearly a gallon in the course of 3 or 6 days was successfully employed to cure an in flammation of the lungs occasioned by being wounded by abuck shot discharged from aguu. The case was treated bj Dr. Abner W. Clopton of Chapel HUl, who relates it. , A project is oil foot to remove the seat of Go vernment of Virginia from Richmond to Staun. ton or Lexington. It is said that upwards of three thousand hou ?es will be built in New-York during tho pre. ?ent summer. Philadelphia will have an ad dition of two or three hundred. Almost all our towns are improving but none in a degree to be compared with New-York. Manufacture*?Tholphiladelphia True Ame rican of June 28, contains an excellent article on the advantages of that city for establishing manufactures?It begins with the following pa ragraph ??? The fact was stated in a late pa per, that a person in England had been fin?d two hundred pounds and sentenced to sit months imprisonment, for shipping, with intent to trans port to America, an improved machine for spin. ning cotton. This is an important fact, showing with what extreme jealousy the British govern ment guard their manufactures. She undoubt edly fears our rlvalship. Wo have long been her best customers, and should we be able to manufacture for ourselves, it would cut off a most lucrative branch of her trade. Wo should bo benefitted in as ^reat a degree as she would be injured. I ho r-rofits of manufacturing would be our own , and what is of more consequence t ?an money, we should become independent.? 1 ho nation thr?t depends upon another for arti cles of indispensable necessity cannot bo said to be free." Tho meditated insurrection of the Blacks, an nounced in our last, has been happily arrested by a vigorous interposition of civil authority*? The supposed ringleaders, amounting to about 17 in number, were apprehended j !t of whom have been actually condemned and executed^? Several are yet in confinement, two of whom have been found guilty, and will probably be ex ecuted on Friday next. The very judicious pro ceedings of tho court has elicited much truth upon the subject. Tho plot which was one of tho most profound that could have been invent ed, is at present amply developed. It appears that a party of the insurgents were to have fired an lioufte in some remote part of the town on the night of the fourth or fifth of July, (for the pre cise time is not clearly ascertained) while the balance were to scire upon the arsenal and take possession of arms Ac. The bloody scene was then to commence. Upon trial every one who was mostdeeply implicated manifested the great est apparent innocence, hut upon conviction ac knowledged the correctness of the court's deci slon * nor did they evince the smallest compunc tion for having conceived and matured the dv "tign.^-Cif*!^#/; ? The Weather,?Fur several ila*'* f. ,ur t<? yeilcnlny, was extremely warm. The in ercury ascended to 96 in Bon ton. In Salem on Satur day tho thermometer of Dr. IIolvokk was ?*t 9o, on Sunday 101, mid on Monday 100. Ycst<\ "d*y (lie wind shifted to N. K. with heavy ft Jin, and the air became almost uncomfortably coo. I? the mercury down to f?7. On Saturday, in .oil the heat, a corrcspondant counted no les# tha n Keren snot* on tlic sun, seen through a telcHcop o in Boyutou Museum. Vegetation is rapid Tv advancing?green peas, &c. quite plenty, aud' the fruit prospect is good.?Vast. ten. The dwelling house at the Creek Agency, oc cupied by the fittmlv of tho Into Col. Hawkins, wo understand haa been consumed by fire, tn^c ? gether with the furnituro and papers, inciudiii-; hisvalunblo manuscripts. Much of the colonel*^ leisure from official duties, had been devoted (<> science & literature* & his friends had consoled themselves that his works had not |)erished, bu? would survive him, to enlighten his country men and immortalize their autlior. Dy this ac ? cident the public have lost more than his familv No man living vu m oro conversant with tfi? | character of tne North American Indians. or I better knew the habits, customs and traditions rthe Aborigines.?Georgia Journal. Executed, April 19, in Hnvanna, a Spaniard, named Jose Florentine Ifnrrts, aged ?7. Previ ous to his execution he confessed, to ease his. conscience, that lie had been guilty of Seventeen Mflrdcra, in Europo and on the Island of Cuba, chiefly by the uso of the stilletto.?Of those tvlm fell by this assassin, was the French Consul at Malaga ; another the Marquis de Solatia, in Ca dis ; a third, the Commandant Don Jose Here dia, also in Cadi'/.; and a fourth, Don Francisco Rodriguez, a Justine of Peace 3n Havana ;?for which last he was executed after having his right hand cut oft'and nailed to the gato of the roval arsenal. According to a publication made at Parma. the following; is the title which tho Empress Mu ria Louisa has adopted >4 Her Majesty th? Imperial Princess Archduchess of Austria, Ma ria Louisa, Dutchess of Parma, Placentia, and tiuastella." One of the late London papers" states, that four hundred emigrants left Switzerland, on tho 9th of April, and proceeded down the Rhine t<? Holland, where they intended to embark for A merica. They bring with them, it is said con siderable property?sufficieut to establish them selves comfortably iu this country. Sin/pdar dechionfor modern times.?In a jate criminal proceeding before Sir John Nicholl, in Doctor's Commons, against pne William Bri der, on a charge of incest for marrying Mary Walton, the daughter of his deceased wife by Thomas Walton, her former husband, the court being satisfied with the evidence produced to sustain the+prosecution, first pfononnced the marriage null and vo'?4 under the canon law and enjoined upon bothparties to perform the follow ing penance " The offending parties to stand in white sheets at the norch of the church during the ringing of the last oell for divine scrvico on u Sunday, and until after the first lesson, asking forgiveness of all persons entering the church ; then to be led into the church and placed in a conspicuous situation near the minister, where they aro to remain until the gosjiel of the day is said, when they are to repeat a submissive ac knowledgement of having been guilty of thtf crime imputed them, implore the forgiveness of Ood, promise not to ofTond again, and intre.it the congregation to join with tnem in saying {ho Lord's prayer.** MEANS & BRANTftWAITH aPPETl for Sale, wholesale'and retail at their l)r..g and Chemist Store, an extensive assortment of GENUINE DRUGS AND MKDICINKS, Patent Medicines, Shop Furniture, Surgeons' Imtni menta, Phials, Painters* colofi, Hatter*' ami Dyers'mutir rials, kc. which they will ?ell at the Charleston price* (with the addition of carriageexpenee only) MEDICINE CHESTS, For plantations and Families with ? book of approved directions, Mwhys on hand) also, beVt fondon White Ia-mI in Regit, Yellow Ochre and Spanish tlrown. Columbia, July 19, 1816. PURVIS, HRYCE A* CO. HAVE received an additional supply of DRY GOODS ?Also? Ismdon Particular TenerifTe Wine, Genuine Holland Clin, Pennsylvania Whiskey, I.paf ami Muscovado SUGARS : and Kegs very best WHITE LEAD. '/ N. 0. They have Just received accounts of the ar rival at Charleston of is Isrgn supply of Qf)' CO'/ TON HJIfJ(tKYO,TSi of the best quality?a part of it they expect to receive here ahortly, which they intend todis poite of on reasonable terms. July 2?.It. ? IlliDliLI'H WIC1IT HAVR Just rereived from Philadelphia and Charles* ton, an additional supply of GOODS, via Irish linens, and Madalossati Shirting, Pocket ami Penknives, assorted, Ketiand's llottcr Gun ami Itifle l<otks. Crosscut ami Mill Saws, Handsaw, Crosscut and Mill Saw Pile*), Box Coffee-Mi II Is, Butt Hinges and Screws, assorted sixes, Cockle ami Meal Wire Selves, Closet and Stock l/>cks of * superior onalit v, lllacksmith's llcllows, Anvils, Vices ami Sledge ITaapnors, Swedish Iron Ami Ccrmsn gtdel, f (roving and Bead Plane-., Plated Curb Chains ami Suwanrow fours. Tliey have on Itond a Stock of DlW GOODS an' GHOCP.HIKS, well assorted? a quantity of SAI.T anl COTTON BAGGING, all of which they will sell low ; as any that can lie obtained In thin place. Highest market price will be given Tor prime Wheat Kentucky, Tennessee ami North-Carolina Hank Notes on hand to exchange for South-Carolina Notes. Columbia, July 2. Tavv\ IIP. Subscribers having associate*! themselves in Ihe Jl |?ractiee of the l/aw, will constantly attend to all businct* of a professifitial natnrr, which may be efiMist c?l toMkeirmnnsgcm^nt. They will keep tfieir office in C&mRndge, and attend the Courts of l?-?tv am) Equity for the districts of AMk ville, Rdgefirld, Pendleton, IA*r rens, and Ncwbmy. .? DYSON, i t MAVSOV C?t^br;dje, S <* Jane Tth, 101 (i- i> T