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which such institutions should be attracted. It is now rumoured that this projcct is deferred for a time. Wo hopo It is not to be abandoned. For it is certain that tho object is important t'? relieve from a dependence on European intellect and industry: and that for such an establishment, uo iwint can combino so many advantages, local ami political, as the seat of tlio government. tu?i FOMSION NEWS. I'ROM EUHOI'K. The account oftlie seizure of the British Vice Consul, and tlirue ISritiwh vessels, at Oran, a nlace dependent of Algiers, and of the crewa be* lug sent to Algiers, reached Knglaud Juno 101 anil was at first believed, and caused, a great sensation j but when several days elapsed with out its beiug confirmed ; when the Ministers SAid in Parliament that they had 110 information on the subject 1 and when it was noticed that the wlm!<) rested on the verbal statement of the foreign captains who hail arrived atCarthagena 1 the iiitollicence was doubted. Lord Exmouth's treat)- is likely to undergo a discussion in Par liament. When Lord hxmoutli made his late treaty with Algiers, hu gave tho Dey to under stand that the continuance of his political power depended on its faithful observance. There may be a new chance for tho substitution of Christian States for the Barbary powers. Mr. Littleton moved in Parliament, June 12, the discontinuance of Lotteries on account of their immoral tendency. The motion was ne gatived, yeas 21, nays 47. It was said if Brit ish Lotteries were stopped, foreign tickets would be sold in England. It was proposed to havo all the tickets sold at ono office, to prevent the puffing advertisements which arise from compe tition. It is said orders havo been sent from Calcutta to England to prevent any more missionaries from coming out. The expen.se of Parliamentary Printing dur ing the present session is about 100*0001. 1'ho bounty on the drawback on loaf sugar in England is reduced 4s. per cwt. ou single refi ned, and Cs. ou double refined. Livr.nrooi., Juno 19.?Up to the present year, we believe that emigration has taken place principally from Ireland and Scotland; but it in now going on to an alarming extent from the Metropolis and heart of the united kingdom.? There are |iersons who rcceive these emigrants with a view to profit by their hapless condition ?nd ignorance, to these persons they pay sums of money, perhaps their last penny, fur which a contract is given to iiud them passage and pro visions to the United States. The first entire cargo cmbnrked from the river Tlcnes is now onboard the chartered ship Iris, Smith, master, which on Tuesday se'nnignt was seized fur hav ing moro passengers than is permitted. l)y our humane laws, no ship is permitted to carry more than one person Ibr each two tons per register $ and if |utrtly laden, no more than one person for each two tons register measurement, which re mains unladen ) and enactments are added for providing a proper ijuantity of wholesome pro visions for each person, and a surgeon when 50 ftersons arc on Iniard, and for enforcing other sa utary regulations, under heavy penalties. The Iris is 342 tons burthen* per register; and there fore entitled to carry only 174 persons, inclu ding the crew, 131 names were given in at the Custom house, but when the seizure was made 5W1 persons were found on board. Amongst o ther evils attendant upon this system of emigra tion* ? door is opened for the escape of culprits. Paris, June 12.?Didier's execution has ta ken place. He endeavored, throughout his in terrogatories and trial, to throw perplexity and dismay into the minds of his Judges and of Go vernment. lie stitcd, that he was but ouo of 24 Commissaries appointed by a great Power to; promote the interest of the cause for which he about to suffer, and which, better conducted by his surviving Colleagues, would ultimately pro vail. After making this apparent or real con fession, which he observed to ue not dictated by any desire to court the clemoncy of the King, wliich clemency could but little prolong a lile * I ready so far advanced, he recommended to his udges the immediate execution of the sentence waiting him, lest a short interval elapsing, such revolution in things might occur as to nut him i their place, and tliem in his. 'litis frank a owal had the effect of suspending for a few days tc severity of Government, ami of inducing on yir part every kind of offer to obtain from liim he completion of his revelations on a plan, of thich the late events, alarming as they were, /ould appear to form butan inconsiderable part, .lie Power alluded t'i by Didier is conjectured o ho either Austria or Havaria. It is certain hnt the military arrangements and general dis tortions of those powers, but particularly the after, over which Prince Kngene is known to .uve so decided an influence, are a subject of re ,1 uneasiness to the French Court. Yesterday evening several persons were ar cstcd in tho Hup Ht. Claude, near the Iloule ard de Donne Noiivcle, for holding seditious iscourse respecting the soldiers of the Royal tuard. London, June 10.?An article from Stock olm corroborates the accounts to which we have mre than once alluded, of there heing a dispo ition somewhere to restore the ancient dynasty f Sweden & reduce the present Crown Prince to private station. Se\eral of tho State Dignita ies have been degraded, but the nature or their | (fence is not declared. Iternadotte is endea oringto strengthen himself by a foreign royal llisnce, and a daughter of Prussia is solicited >r his son Oscar. VVe do not think this match 'ill ensue, es|wcially as a coldness towards lernsdotte is perceptible in many ipiarters. A new discovery in Aero?tatirs is soon likely i be exhibited to the public, by Mr. M. 8. J. i'aulv, civil engineer, and f>. f'-ny. A l>a loon, /hicli they have for some time been preparing* /ill lie capable of being steered at pleasure, at dlar to teasels at sea. in u horizontal or verti al direction, without lootting either gas or bal last. It U in the shape of a fish, boing intended to act upon the air in the same manner as a fish acta on tho water, and tirill carry 3 or 4 persons with safety. Mrs. Jano Lew son, a verr singular character, died latcty at her house in Cold Bath-square, u ged ilC, possessed of considerable property.? Sho married early, became a widow at fcfl, and after the marriage of her only child, a daughter, lived a state of retirement. An old femalo ser vant having died, and the grand daughter of the servant who had succeeded her being removed, Lady Lewson employed an old man who attend* ed the different houses in the square in going er rands, &c. and lu> acted as her stewanf, butler, cook, and housemaid, and with the exception of two old lap-dogs and a cat, he was her only companion. The house she occupied wa9 large and elegantly furnished, but very ancient) the beds were kept constantly made, although they had not been slept in for above lift y years. Her upartment being only occasionally swept out, but never washed, the windows were so crust ed with dirt, that they hardly admitted a ray of light. A large garden in the rear of her house, was the only thing she naid attention to ; this was always kept in goou order : site was (urtial to the fashions that prevailed in her youthful days, and she never changed the manner of her dress Irom that worn in the reign of George the I First. 8hc always wore powder with a large tete, made of horse hair, on her head, near half a foot high, over which her hair was turned up) a cap over it which knotted under her chin, ami three or four curls hanging down Iter neck. She generally wore silk gowns and the train long, with a deep flounce all rouvd, a very loug waist, and very tighriy laced up to her neck, round which was a kind of a run, or frill. The sleeves of her gown came below the elbow, from each of which tour or five large cufts appended ; a large straw bonnet quite TIat, high lieeled shoe*, a large black silk cloak, trimmed round with lace and a gold-headed cane, completed her every tiny costume for the last 80 year*. Iter man ner of living was so methodical, that she would not drink her tea out of any other than a favou rite cup. She was equally particular with re spect to her knives, forks, plates, &c. *At break fast she arranged in u particular wajr the para phernalia of the tea-table) at dinner she also observed a general rule, and always sat in her favourite chair. l|aving always an excellent state of health, she entertained a great aversion to medicine. She cut her teeth at the age of 87, and never lost one in' her life, nbr was she ever troubled with the tooth-ache. Her sight latter ly failed her. Site lived in five reigns, and wan supposed the most iuithlul living historian of the age, the events of 1713 being fresh in her rocol lection. Viknna, June I.?Tiie territorial claims of Prince Eugene Deauharnois in thu papal domi nions, arc now sot aside by a convention, con cluded under the mediation of the court of Ba varia. The Prince receive** his domain* there upon an hereditary luase, and pays for them, besides a landuinium of 130,(MM) francs, an an nual canon of 20,000 francs. The yearly reve nue is estimated at 850,0(M) francs, and the ca pital value, at 5 piv cent, at 17,000,000 of francs. The pone reserves to liimxelf for nine years the right of redemption on |>uyuicnt of this capital. Austria will also make* an arrange ment with Prince Eugene, on account of his do mains in Lombardy, and will purchase them back. If to these be* added the indemnity which he expects from Naplos, he will certainly bo one of the richest individuals in Europe. latest from France.?The editors of tho N. Y. Gazette have received by tho swift schooner Spartan, Bordeaux papers to the of June, and they are as barren ns the timea. 'Hie mar riage of the Duke of Berri with the ltaliun Princess, was celebrated at Paris with great splendor) but the festivals of the Court were ordered to bo suspended on the Iflth of July, the day on which thu battle of Waterloo was fought. Business in Franco was at a deadly Htand?& the markets of couiso merely nominal. American* in Jluttvia.?Exrtact of a letter from an American gentleman in Le ghorn, to his friend in New-York, dated May 30.?441 have lately received a letter from my friund Major Barney, in which he speaks of the pointed and highly distinguished reception given him by the Emperor of Austria, when on a late visit to Trieste. He jravc him a private interview of an hour, in which lie spoke with much satisfaction of thu American commerce to his ports, and said that every thing on his part would be done to encourage it | he seemed to l>o aware of its beina of more value to him than that of the English, which impression the Major did not of course fail to strengthen, bv pointing to the fact that we not only brought ncn cargoes, hut re turned Indenerf with the productions and manu factures of the Austrian empire} the English, on the contrary, took few of the former and none of the latter. On this visit, he says, he found the Anti-Chamber crowded with persons of distinction, and tho Consuls of other powers \yaiting for an audience. As soon as he enter ed, lie was conducted into the royal presence, and was told that it was the orders of the Em peror to give tho American Consul immediate admission. I am sure you will participate in the pleasure felt in finding in tho sovereign of so imjMirtant nation and with whom we had so little intercourse, the manifestation of so friend ly a disposition towards our country." A letter from Amsterdam, dated 2d June states, that colonel Delacroix, who is well known in almost every city in America, had arrived thero from Baltimore, and that the Prince of Orange has granted Itim 60 florins per month, about 2.5 dollars, but has not appointed him in any military rank, as lie expected. The Colo nel received about florins of a Jew soon af ter he arrived, for which he gave a title to sotne land in Kentucky or Virginia. Jlarlcullure in tf/iain.?The King of ftpain hat imuvd t long dccice for the encouragement of agriculture in his kingdom ; he pur|?og*? to dispense with all taxua on such lands as shall be brought into ft state uf cultivation from a state of waste, and promises to intercede with the Ro man Pontiff to do the sanu* as far as the right* j of the church are concerned. TUKSIMY, AUUUHT !W, 1810. The following is a lint of tho Benevolent Bo. cietie* now existing in tho town of Salem, in Massachusetts. A historical sketch in given of each in a lute Salem Gazette. Tho mere pub lication of the liitt may excite enquiry and iti mutate other* to go and do likewise. I. The Salem Marine Socicty, fund* R8000, lately re ceived a donation from tho Hon. Win. Gray of 81000. 2. East-India Marine Society, com posed of master* of vessel* and su|>ercargoes who have doubled the Cape of Good llope and ('ape Horn ;?present number of member* 140. Ilus a handsome Museum. 3. Salem Charita ble Female Society. 4. Salem Baptist Fe male Cent Society. 5i Tabernacle Charitable Society. G. Bible Society. 7. Dorcas Socie ty?meet* every Tuesday, and while ono read* audibly some useful book tho rest are making garment* for the poor. 8. Foreign Mission ary Society. 0. Baptist Bible Translation and Foreign Missionary Society. 10. Salem Humane Society. It. Female Charitable Li brary Society. 12. Baptist Female Heading 8ociety. 13. Female Book and Tract Socie ty. 14. Female Charitable School. 15. Second Charitablo School Society. 16. Fe male Auxiliary Education Society. 17. Sa lem Baptist Femato Education Society. 18. Tabithean Socicty. 10. Juvenile Benevolent Society. 20. Juvenile Bible Society. 21. Female Society for promoting the Education ot Heathen Children. 22. Auxiliary Mission ary Society. 23. Young Misses' Society for the improvement of tho mind. 24. Children'* Reading and Biblo Society. 25. Children^ AuxillaVy Bible Society. Of these 25 Socio ties 19 are composed exclusively of Females, a fact highly honorable to tho beuovolenco of that sox. Mr. Peale has offered his spleiitlitl Museum in Philadelphia for sale. Tho first offer linn been made to (ho cor|>ora(ioii of the City.? Should they decline the purchase, it ought to bo secured to the nation and placed at tiie City of Washington. 'Hie British Parliament never onacted a measure that redounded more to their honor and that of the nation than the purchase of Sir Hans Sloane's Museum. Our govern ment it i* to be hoped, will not be far behind o thers in giving encouragement to the means of acquiring and diffusing the knowledge of what* ever is useful or rare in the production!* of na lure or art. An establishment of this kind at the Kf.it of government is essential to the elm racier of our country. The expense will be trifling when put in competition with the mag nitude and importance of tho object. Longworth's New-York Directory con^inn a list of nine hundred and fifty-two packets, stcam-boafs, &c. that ply regularly from that port to places on the north and east rivers, and eastern aiul southern ports. On the 29th of July last, there was a public sale in Boston of twenty unimproved Lots, on a new street called New Cornhill. The average price was at tho rate of considerably upwards of half a million of dollars an aero. As a spe cimcn,a lot of 24 by 28 feet sold for ft 14,100. That portion of the street which remains unsold is divided into twenty-eight tots. The particulars of the French disasters in the Russian expedition, aro published in a rccont work. Tho number of human corpses burned or buried in the different provinces are 21.1,310, and 95,810 dead horses, exclusive ofa number of others of which no account was taken. The Steam Boat Vesuvius, that plied be tween New-Orleans and Natchez, took firo a bout 1 o'clock on tho morning of tho 14th of Ju* ly, and was consumed together with About twn hundred thousand dollars worth of goods which were on board at tho time tho accident happen ed, which no doubt was the result of careless* IICSS. TO COWIlKSl*ONDENTS. The strictures of Carothiu$ on tho Compch* Nation Hill, are too intemperate to be productive of good. Tho manuscript will be returned to the author on application. The lady who writes In commendation of Vir tue, which she says will ensure to its votaries " happiness in this world and /*?s in the next/' is informed that her Essay is rather too incor rect for publication. Wo learn with pleasure (aayt (he K, lumbian,) that Mr. Capelano, one of tf oculptors ol' KurojHj, has arrived in this < Mr. Leo from Bordeaux. He hail boen< ed by Charles, &c. and latterly by Joseph parte in Spain. Ho wan on this account ], cuted by tlio Uourbons, the deputy ?governors! Castlereagh &? Co. in France; ana as Mr. Lftii the polite prefect nt Uordcaux,said he could reconcile it to his feelings to introduce to duke of An^ouleme (at a public, ceremonial) t r preventative of a nation which had dared declare war agaiuhtKngland ! no doubt thattal race, whot( glory in their shame," were cl grilled to learn that Mr. Cnpelano KM finis* an elegant bust of tho American Washing an{l an allegorical figure of America dictaui treaty to K'nglnnd ut tihent. We cannot mention thene facts in justice to Mr. Capelano, und we do it now to draw the attention of tl citi/.cn* of Baltimore to thi* eminent artist, is so capable of aiding them in these nublW works, which aro to commemorate patriot!) names and eventu, as well us to embellish theii city. No public undertakings or the sort At going on here. In the meanwhile we l.o e M 0. will stratify our citizens by exhibiting the sta<| tuary alluded to. We are gratified to hear that Mr. Lee and other Americun at Bordeaux pa tronised this gentleman. It is nnitl in the Philadelphia papers, that tlto u dying confession of Richard omit/i," which lias been re-published in papers, is the work of some inventive genius, anil thut Smith never flaw it. The Southern Patriot of the lGtli, says," The Citizens of Charleston, at present, breakfast, dine and sup, at a most enormous charge Animal foo<l U not so high as it wan some time past?but Flour is selling at twenty dollars per barrel ; Rice at Ave dollars per cwt. and Flint Corn at one dollar urn! fifty cents per bushel!" The northern and eastern papers say tliat the most favorable change has taken place in the appearance of t!ie corns. Abundance promises every where to rewara the farmer, and checr the whole community. A Baltimore writer suggests an opinion, that the most serious evils will result to the commu nity, by Mr. Dallas's plan for compelling the Hanks to pay their small Notes in specie , in aft much as it will compel them, in self defence, to discontinue Discounts. All commissioned oflicers of the American ar my, arc required to report, to the War Depart ment, the State and Country, in which they were severally boru. Ji new way to break Young Horses.?A rca wctable farmer in the county of Middlesex, iud a young homo, which it was thought im possible for him to break to the carriage. Afto. trying all the means which could be divisct without eflV.ctf he thought of the following singu lar method ; he loaded a sled with rails, sufftcien for two oxen to draw, he placcd it in a ploughci field, about 300 yards from a piece of rich jp-as land, and pit his horse to it, pulled oft'the bridle and told him to " draw it to the grass or starve. The horse resolutely refused to draw for thre days : but on the fourth he started, looked back and then started again until he reached the gra?b, where he began to feed j this he continued for seven days, when he was taken from the sled, and has ever since proved a most excellent horse.?JWr/A. pap. STATE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA. John White, 1 v#. v Com tn Attachment. John Prune in Delorme. 3 WIIP.HKAS tho plaintiff in tliis action, did, on the :llsl of January, 1816, file his declaration in tl?? of fice of the Clerk of tin* Honorable Court, i ffuiiui till* de fendant, who in absent from and without the limits of Una Htntr, und hath neither wife nor uttorwv known within the sumo upon whom a copy of the suid declarai on with a rule to plead thereto Wit Inn n year ami a day night In* nerved : It i? therefore ordered, ut pursuance of the ?pt of theCiPiiernl Assembly, in thut cane made and provld* ed, that the said defendant do appear and plead to the said declaration on or lieforo the flri?t dav of February next, which will he in the year of our lordotic thousand u.ght hundred ami seventeen?Otherwise final and nbto* lute judgment wdl then lie g.ven and awarded against him. J AM US H. <;Ul?NAUI>, Clerk Olllccof C'? omon l'lcas, Richland > District, February 1st, 1810. > TIIK N. Y. " COUNTRY COL'IUKU," PltlN'TKI) by Abraham Voshurgh, and edited by H*. rent Gardcnier, Netv-Yovk. This paper is publftlted tw ce a week, Mondays and Thursdays on a large toper* royal sheet, in an octavo form, to that if (he number* arc preserved they will make two volumes in each year, each volume containing aliout e ght htmdred pages i ma king tixieen hundred p:.ge* a year, freeofadvertitemcntl, for lite small sum of live dollar* a year. The profit which can licmade from such it paper W ve ry small i and it is therefore necessary that a rigid tyt tern of punctuality should he established and adhered to. This can only be done by ms.sting on payment in ad. vancc. That system w II be hereafter scrupulously ad hered to, without respect of |>ersons. The same cause which renders punctuality indispm sable, renders it necessary also, that the remittance, ho made so that five dollart ft year, New-York money may Itc realised front it. I .it tie or nothing can be rent i zed, if when a Ave dollar hill it scotun, Wo arc obliged to pay a broker from eleven to tweuty-five per cent to turn it m> to money current in this city. It wdl follow, we trust, not let* Conclusively, that we ought not to be subjected to postage. tJj?on these terms we are willing to publish the Coun try Courier, and wlietlter wo Imvo to print It for fifty suhsrrilw-M or a thousand, upoti no outer terms thai! or Cftn we publish it. A LKAKK OF LAND WII.1. be let, to any person wishing to keep a board ing house near to the MOUNT PR09PKC T A* OADF.M Y. Tl?e accommodations will be suited as moth as possible to the views of toy well qualified port on who may with to engage in that business. Pv>r terms apply to EDWARD HOWARDS,' pr a ncw f. fimt. July .10, 181(1. OP.GROP. P. B, HASf.lX. AMHVH RNOMHII C.IIAMMAR, Por gale~iiu5? Rook ft tore of Mc**rt. Moifan ft Culrcy Augiut 'JO, 1811