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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,
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