the soil which they penetrate, and its branches and unjustly detained by the British government; breast the lowering tempest. and that, as to the limits which it wanted to set to

The immense oljects of equalizing taxation; se- his corsairs, they had never cruised within sight of curing the freedom of elections; removing the bur-the British isles, and that, therefore, the injunction dens incident to military duty; with other weighty was useless-an evasive answer which cloaks his si concerns for your interest, have engaged our assi-uister intentions. duous and incessant attention. For reasons known to yourselves, little has been thoroughly effected. But the palladium is still safe, and we shall hand back to you the sacred deposi e. Soon,we trust, uninAuenced by fear or favor, you will exercise your an cient privileges, and a concise and plain provision of law secure their stability.

The British consul, seeing the impossibility of prevailing upon the bashaw to comply with the prince regent's wishes, called for an ostensive and ctagorical note which H. E. immediately gave him; and the consul delivered it to the comman dant of the frigate, which directly sailed for Malta. August 4.—The day before yesterday came in the As friends, whose interests are precisely like other Tunisian sloop of war, commanded by Maho. yours, we counsel you to be watchful. Those from met Laz, which captured, on the coast of Portugal, whom your confidence is withdrawn, have their ja Hamburg vessel, laden with wine and cork. Se eyes still upon you. They are foiled, but not ex-ven unfortunate Hamburghers, detained on board pelled. They have retired to a point, shortly dis. the sloop as prisoners, have shared the fate of their tant, to rally their forces anew. All the skill and countrymen, and been shut up in the dismantled vigor which veteran troops can unite, will assail you castle of Gaspa, exposed to great hardships. For on the spring campaign. If you sleep on your post, tunately for them, the Danish consul here has rebe assured your camp will be cut up, and the splen-ceived orders from his court to supply all their did victory which now gladdens your hearts, will be wants, by which means their situation is somewhat lost-IRRETRIEVABLY lost. improved.

Be vigilant, be firm, be persevering yet a little longer, and your sons shall "Speak with the enemy in the gate. You shall sit under your own vine and fig tree, and none shall molest or make you afraid.” Signed by order,

MOSES WARREN, Chairman.

British Maritime Law.

Foreign Articles.

EUROPE, GENERALLY.

A Paris paper of Oct says-The number of troops of permanent armies, have never been so considerable in a time of peace as at the present. Yet the arts of peace are more cultivated than ever. What dinger could be apprehended if a part of the men We have already called the attention of our readers who consume without producing, were restored to to the principle laid down by the British in re-agriculture, to manufactures, &c. spect to certain Tunisian vessels, that had appeared on their coast The rule is important, and completely at variance with the whole conduct of the British themselves in respect to other na tions, and especially so of their usage towards the United States, for many years preceding the late war. Hence it is important that this British principle, in regard to themselves, should be well understood, for future guidance.

FROM THE MADRID GAZETTE.

Tunis, July 26.-The Tunisian sloop of war commanded by the admiral of this regency, Mustapha Rias, which went a cruising on the 16th of March last, with another sloop and a schooner, came back on the 13th inst. having presumed to push as far as the Categat, and to capture on her return two Hamburg ships within a short distance of the British coast. The masters and six men of their crews, whom Mustapha Rias kept on board his sloop as prisoners of war, were immediately confined, by the bashaw's order, in the citadel of the city, called Gaspa, where they remain altogether wretched and forlorn.

On the 224 and 24th inst. his Britannic majesty's brig Stateitite, and frigate Myemdon, from Palermo and Malta, successively came in with despatches for the consul. On the morning of the 25th, the captain of the frigate waited upon the bashaw, and in the name of the prince regent, claimed the Ham. burg prisoners (the ship having been recaptured, without the straits by the English frigate -,) upon the ground, that they had been taken within aght of the British coast, and, at the same time, called upon him to direct his corsairs henceforth to abstain, like the Algerines, from cruising in those waters.

Unawed by these demands, the bashaw answered the British consul, that, with respect to the Hamburg prisoners, he would not release them until after the arrival of the ships captured by his cruisers,

The regards of Europe are turned towards the Spanish colonies. Men recruit for the insurgents, in London, although the editors write against them. They recruit also for them in the United States. The progressive growth of the last mentioned nation, continues at a pace which defies all calculation.

The emperor of Austria has adopted conscrip. tions to fill his regiments in Italy. This system has been much abused; but its abuse should not cause what is good to be rejected. Of all modes of recruiting, conscription is that which appears best adapted to the actual state of society. It is the means of forming invincible armies for the defence of states and does honor to the profession of arms!

European liberty. Extract of a letter, dated Hamburgh, lug. 6, 1817. "We left Cipe Henry, June 27, and arrived at Bremen, July 26. Immediately after our arrival at Bremen, we had to take pass. ports to permit us to proceed to this place.

"You cannot reconcile yourself to the changes which have taken place in this country these few years past. Germany now appears to me as strange as the U. S. did when I first visited that happy country. All the regulations of the French which were a burthen to the people have been retained-particularly the military system and the alien office.

"I could not get a pass on the certificate of the American consul, but had to get other securitywhen I received a permission for one month, and it was understood that if I remained above a month, that I would be obliged to become a citizen and do military duty. I had to go into Denmark, where my pass from Bremen was of no avail. I had to get a Danish pass-so again a Prussian when going to Berlin. These expenses and vexations are numerous, for at every garrison it is to be countersigned; the same is the case with the military.-All persons from 13 to 45 have to do duty, and nobody is admitted a citizen, unless he is first made

GERMANY.

perfect as a soldier. It is believed here that EnThe Democratic Press of the 21st inst. says-Our gland favors the Barbary powers to enter the North Šea, and to take our vessels, to prevent our trad-readers are aware that in the Diet assembled at Prankfort, on the Maine, are represented not only ing to the Mediterranean.” the powerful, but the petty potentates of Germany. ENGLAND, &C. It is calculated by the proprietors of the Water-Their deliberations involve the best interests of loo bridge, lately erected in England, across the Germany, and engage the serious attention of all We have heard, from unquestionable Thames, that the tolls will amount to upwards of Europe. authority, that the Diet some time since appointed $200,000 per annum. Poor Rates Aggregate statement of all monies a person to come to the United States, whose inraised by the poor's rates, &c. and of monies ex-structions are to travel through the Union, and pended for the maintenance of the poor in England make enquiry, from every person and authority, within his reach, as to the reception and encourageand Wales, in the year ending 25th March, 1817: Total Raised. Total Expendedment given to the emigrants from Germany, their 4,858,160 17 0 situation generally through the Union, and parti England 16,789,262, 11 4 3 4 Wales279,626, 10 8 1-2 213,867 17 9 cularly in the several states. This representative of the German Diet, is Baron Von Gagern, whose brother is an influential member of the Diet, where he represents the king of the Netherlands. Baron Von Gagern arrived in Philadelphia about three weeks since, and is gone on to the city of Washington. This notification is deemed of some impor. tance, as upon the report of M. Von Gagern, will not only depend the measures which shall be adop ted by the Diet, but greatly influence the opinions and conduct of the German people towards this country.

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17,068,999 22 15,072,028 14 9 J. H. ADDINGTON, under secretary of state. FRANCE.

The French papers are filled with the trials of persons concerned in an extensive plot under the insignia of L'Epingle noir (the black pin). They were prosecuted under the idea that their object was the expulsion of the Bourbons; but, it seems, they only desired to drive out the allied troops. The king's advocate stated that they amounted to 30,000 men. They were defended in the court with so much boldness, as to excite the threats of the attorney-general; but were declared not guilty, by the jury. When the verdict was pronounced much approbation was expressed in the court.

At Toulouse, a person had been condemned to three months imprisonment and a fine, for having traced on the sand the figure of an eagle!

Gen. Vaux blew out his brains at Dijon, on the 24th Sept. Cause not stated.

A Paris article of 4th Oct. says-"From a statement of commerce of France during the year 1816, it appears, that the importations of Dunkirk, Cherbourg, Havre, Brest, L'Orient, Rochefort and Tou lon, amounted to 42,151,511 francs, and the exports to 20,104,126, the balance in favor of importations, 20,046,535

Dresden, Sep. 19. The 17th of this month we saw arrive here, about twenty men of the old body guards, who in the campaign of 1812, had been made prisoners of war in Russia, and were detained there till the present time.

SPAIN.

PRUSSIA.

A Berlin article of Sept. 23, states that after long discussions, it has been determined by the government to impose a duty of 30 per cent. on all British manufactures, imported into the Prussian states.

BLACK SEA.

The Spanish and Neapolitan governments, as well as Sweden and Sardinia, havè solicited of the Porte the liberty of navigating the Black sea. It is said that the Turkish government demands a very high compensation for the privilege. The conferences with Baron Strogonoff, the Russian minister, relative to boundaries, were still going on.

RUSSIA.

Gen. de Tuyll de Servanskerken, has been named as the successor of Mr. Daschkoff, as minister near the United States-and was expected soon to set out on his mission.

The emperor has started on his tour through his empire.

The nobles of Esthonia were amongst the first of those of the empire, who had given last year the noble example of the abolition of slavery.

Petersburg, Sept. 17. A deputation from the nobles of Courland, has presented a resolution for the abolition of personal servitude among the A letter from a young American, dated at Va-peasants of that province, for which they have relencia, in Spain, says that, attracted by the word quested the confirmation of the emperor. "WASHINGTON," in the play bills, he attended the theatre, and witnessed a comedy truly American. The plot is taken from the circumstance of the General's threatening retaliation on his British prisoners, which deterred the British commander the whole of the empire. The weather continues from inflicting death on a number of American beautiful and serene, but the temperature commenofficers, prisoners of war. The play was well writ ces to be cold, and it announces the approach of ten, and excellently performed. During the per-winter. formance, an illumination scene took place, and in the most conspicuous part of the stage appeared, in large transparent letters, Vive Washington'!

The play was repeated three nights and the writer says that he had never seen any thing so complimentary to the general's memory on our own stage.

NETBEKLANDS.

A new palace is to be built for the king of Netherlands at Brussels-estimated expense, tween 3 and 4 millions of florins.

Of 13,544 births in North Holland, during year 1816, 1368 were illegitimate.

The harvest was never more abundant in almost

Government has organized at Odessa an institution for the education of the rising generation, to be called the Lyceum de Richelieu, to perpètuate the memory of the founder of the colony, [Perhaps no place in the world of so recent an origin, has increased more rapidly than Odessa, on the Black sea. It was founded after the commence. ment of the French revolution by the present prime the minister of France, the duke of Richelieu, then an be-exile from France.)-Cen.

the

BARBARY POWERS.

The National Intelligencer says-The revolution in Algiers, and the decapitation of the Dey, nowy confrmed, are events not uninteresting in them

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selves, and particularly to us. The late Dey had any thing like it had ever occured, for such established, among all our countrymen in the Me-length of time, in any city on the globe. Bombay, July 18.-We learn by letters from the diterranean, who had opportunities of observing his character, a reputation of probity, elevation, Gulph of Persia, that a severe action had taken fortitude, and intrepidity-qualities not often unit-place between the Wahabee troops, commanded in ed in an Algerine chief of any grade, and, there-person by Abdelaben Soed, and the Turkish troops fore, remarkable. He had signalized himself for under the command of Abraham Pacha, the son of the two latter qualities, in a distinguished manner; Ali Pacha, the viceroy of Egppt, in which the by the cool and desperate resistance he made to the former met with a severe defeat. The action took demands of the British admiral Exmouth, and after-place at Mattswiah, seven stages from his capital, wards to the attack by the tremendous force em- Deriah. Abdelaben has since fallen back to the for ployed to enforce them. Whenever he has yield-tress of Boridah, in the district of Kassime, four ed, as far as we have observed, to the demands of stages from Deriah, where he was again assemany nation, it has been from policy, when his dis bling his troops, in the hopes of retrieving the criminating observation taught him it would be in credit he had lost by the defeat, which was so comvain to prolong resistance. He was an Algerine, plete, that it is stated, if Abraham Pacha only folit is true, and therefore entertained notions, and lowed up his success the Wahabee power will be pursued a policy, when he dare, reprobated by the entirely annihilated. On the evening of the 15th of June, Mr. Anderlaws of nations, and obnoxious to the advancing civilization of all christian nations. But, as an Al-son, the 4th officer of the H. C. ship Charles Grant, gerine, he was a great man; and his dethronement was swimming a short distance from the ship, acmay prove the harbinger and the cause of the utter companied by a quarter master and forecastle man. Mr. Anderson struck out and swam towards a Porannihilation of the power of ALGIERS. He was dethroned, it is reported, because his tuguese frigate, then lying about half a cable's reign had been disastrous. Disaster, then, is to be length from him, and he was followed by the two As they approached the frigate, Mr. Anderretrieved and retrieved it can only be by re-estab-men. lishing the former principles and practices of that son was heard to say "don't drown me;" on this expower, the surrender of which is the disaster of clamation, the quarter master turned round, and to which the Dey was accused. Should the attempt his inexpressible horror and alarm, saw an immense be made on our commerce, we shall be immediate-shark darting at Mr. Anderson-he immediately ly engaged in a war with that nation. It is in this exerted his whole strength for his own safety, and view we consider the revolution as interesting to us fortunately succeeded in getting on board the Porand that we have been gratified in reflecting, that we have a force in the Mediterranean, should the revolution at Algiers portend a revolution of policy, sufficient to protect our own commerce, and keep the pirates in their ports, if not to annihilate their marine.

tuguese frigate. The alarm was given and the boats of the frigate and the Charles Grant, were instantly lowered down into the water, but unfortunately without preventing the fatal catastrophe.The shark passed Mr. Anderson, then turned round and took him under the water, which was instantly The National Advocate, speaking of the deposi-discoloured with his blood; he rose again, but was tion of the Dey, informs, that, though the Janissa- then attacked by five or six more of these voraries generally agree to decapitate their "legitimate cious animals and he was gone in an instant. One sovereign," the choice of a successor is more dif- shark was observed to be making after the forecasficult. On one occasion, not being able to fix on a tleman, on which a sentry on board the frigate with suitable person for that dignity, they agreed to put great presence of mind and coolness, levelled his it upon the first man they should meet at a certain musket and shot the fish, thereby preserving the place. He happened to be a grave digger; and, in life of the sailor. The next day a large shark was spite of his most earnest remonstrances, they crea-caught by the people on board the H. C. ship Vanted him dey.' The poor creature did as well as he sittart, measuring upwards of 12 feet. knew how, but they soon found that he would net suit them, and told him that his power was at an end. He was glad of it, and would have cheerfully retumed to his old trade-but they said that the honor of the office would be seriously affected by such a determination, and, to preserve it unsullied, they strangled him.

The naval force of Algiers is given at one frigate of 44 guns; 5 corvettes from 18 to 24 guns, and 5 brigs and schooners.

EAST INDIES.

CANADA.

A Quebec paper of the 11th inst-states, that three hundred and three vessels with five thousand three hundred and seventy five new settlers have arrived at that port, during the past season.

FLORIDA.

We have nothing new from Amelia Island. But learn that the Mexican privateer Superior, capt. Jolly, had captured a Spanish vessel from the coast of Africa, with 290 slaves, and also an English schooner from Havanna for Laguira, with a full carIntelligence has been received of an insurrection go of stores for gen. Morillo, among which were of the natives at Saporanes, one of the principal 30,000lbs. of gunpowder. These prizes were orderresidences attached to Amboyna. The Dutch resi-ed for Amelia, from whence the negroes will certainly dent was killed, and a detachment of about 200 men, be smuggled into the U. States, as many others have sen by the Dutch authorities to quell the distur- lately been. This trade in hunan flesh is so profita. bance, was defeated and nearly every man of them ble, that if that island is not taken possession of by the United States, we shall hear of many slave vesdestroyed.

It is computed by Mr. Raflas, late lieutenant sels sent in as prizes that had very conveniently laid governor of the island of Java, in his history of off the port to be captured, as certain English vesthat island, recently published, that from the year sels were taken to the eastward, during the late 1730 to the year 1752, a period of twenty-two years, war. the deaths in the city of Batavia exceeded a million of persons. or nearly fifty thousand a year: It is astonishing that any place could supply such a with a powerful force, had arrived in the neighbor

waste of population. We had not imagined that

MEXI60.

Advices from Vera Cruz state that gen. Mina,

hood of the city of Mexico, and there was little

doubt of his accomplishing the projects he had in their own mental and physical resources, and feel contemplation.

SOUTH AMERICA.

Gen. Paez is said to command 10,000 men in Venezuela, is a black man. He is a bold and indefatigable chief of the revolutionists.

no want of the assistance of strangers, whatever we may think to the contrary; and those who have nothing but their wit and gentility to dispose of, cannot carry them to a worse market, for it is overstocked already with these articles. There is neither a real nor an imaginary want of learned professo s; at the same time a want of education, a provincial accent, or vulgar manners, would be a more insuperable bar to respectability in America,

A vessel arrived at Guadaloupe, navigated by 4 Spaniards, which was taken possession of by the French authorities, on a well grounded belief that she was the prize of a patriot privateer,-that had been manned by 4 Americans and the 4 Spaniards-than they would in London. and that the former, while asleep, were murdered by the latter, expecting then to share the prize among themselves. They were sent to France for trial.

"Titles go for nothing in America-people of riches will be favorably received any where, and such may confidently expect common civility, social order, and as far as respects the white population. The Aurora is truly pouring a flood of light-honesty, from the Americans; but they must be upon the geography, commerce, and political con- content with a less share of obsequious homage cerns of Mexico and South America. We propose than they might command in a place where there is to attempt a methodical digest of the many interest-less independency of spirit. Those who go to ing facts given us through that paper.

The Englishman in America.

VIEWS OF AMERICA.

America with small fortunes, solely upon a plan of economy, will be grievously disappointed; for, though some necessares of life are cheap, yet the elegancies, and many of the necessary conveniences of life, are excessively dear; and the elegancies of The English newspapers and magazines (says life are indispensable. Perhaps there is no counthe Richmond Compiler) abound with articles on try where so large a proportion of the expenses of American affairs-on the actual situation and a family are a sacrifice at the shrine of elegant apfuture prospects of the republic. This is one con-pearance and the habits of refinement; for there are vincing evidence of the importance which is at- no people, I should suppose, whose enjoyment of tached to us in the old world.

luxuries has so much outrun the producing those luxuries among themselves; or who are so well able to procure them from others upon extravagant terms.

One of these pieces has lately reached us, in the Monthly Magazine of July last, in the form of a letter written by a Mr. T. Bakewell from "Spring "Money employed in trade, and well attended to Vale." He says he has "resided for several years by persevering indrusty, and strictly correct habit, in one of the United States of America"-that he has a chance of success: but the needy speculator has "connections there with whom he corresponds, will find himself so close elbowed in every corner and who occasionally furnish him with American of North America, and so often outwitted, that he newspapers." He therefore comes forward to give had better stop on this side of the Atlantic. In some information about the situation of the United the present state of England, and I fear its prosStates. Like the remarks of all observers at a dis- pects, laborers and mechanics, with families, have tance, some of his remarks are incorrect; but the reason to wish themselves citizens of America, most of them are judicious: where there is little deficiency of employment, and

"The most perfect liberty and harmony in religion still less of beggary and distressing want; but the prevails, as I am told, in every part of the union; chances of domestic comfort, in the respective counit certainly did where I resided. It would have tries, were not very greatly in favor of America, so been thought the most palpable want of breeding, long as the English laborer and mechanic could to mention the subject of religious doctrines in a find employment.-The streets in America are not mixed company, or to betray the least want of re- paved with gold, nor will the land yield its inspect to any, on account of their religious tenets; crease without toil and care; and toil and care are not that the people are more indifferent to the more irksome and dangerous to health, in Ameduties of religion there than elsewhere, for most rica, than in England; and the reason that so many assuredly a much larger proportion of the people emigrants express disappointment and disgust is are strict in their religious observances than what owing, most generally, to their having entertained prevails with us. But no one there presumes to the most foolish and romantic ideas of the country, question the propriety of his neighbor's religious previous to seeing it. There cannot, I think, have persuasions; liberality and candour in judging is been a time within these last forty years, in which not the sentiment, for they do not take upon them the skilful and industrious agriculturist, with a to judge at all. There are no union of church and sufficient capital, would not have found it more to state, no religious disability, no inviduous distinc-his interest to have been an American farmer than tions, no ostentatious display of the ceremonies of an English one; for generally speaking, the proone denomination of religionists over another; produce of the American farmer is more steady in its vided their moral conduct is correct, the people value, more certain of sale, and affording a better there may enjoy their respective religious feelings profit, than the produce of the English farmer. And in perfect peace; and practise the rites in open day, a sum that should be equal to the rent and taxes equally free from the imputation of superstition, of a farm in England, for two years, would pur bigotry, or heresy. Those, however, who profess chase the feesimple of the same quantity of land in no religion at all, are looked upon with suspicion. America, of equal quality, and in a situation having "I know of no particular disabilities that aliens all the advantages of good society." are subjected to in America, except their not voting at elections, or serving in the militia; but the welcome that is of en given to respectable strangers, arises more from the feelings and habits of courtesy, than any real desire of receiving emigrants. The Americans have a competent share of confidence in

Manufacture of Paper.

FROM THE DELAWARE WATCHMAN,

We have lately visited the paper mills of Thomas Gilpin & Co. on the Brandywine, and witnessed

The European papers are filled with our accounts of this strange animal.

the performance of their new machine for manufac was a great substance passed us through the water, turing paper on an extensive scale, which promises the head of which was elevated some 40 or 50 feet, to be an important addition to the arts and manu-supposed to be the big serpent, which supposition factures of our country. This process of making was confirmed, as we were soon surrounded by a paper delivers a sheet of greater breadth than any school of long fish, which we made out to be his made in America, and of any length-in one con- spawn! tinned unbroken succession, of fine or coarse materials, regulated at pleasure to a greater or lesser The Franklin. A French officer, mons. Perrong, thickness. The paper, when made, is collected from the machine on reels, in succession as they are filled; who ranks as captain of a frigate in the service of and these are removed to the further progress of Louis, admitted through the solicitation of the mar the manufacture. The paper in its texture is per- quis La Fayette, is regulated as a gun-room passenfectly smooth and even, and is not excelled by any ger in the Franklin 74, to become acquainted with made by hand, in the usual manner of workman- the machinery, order, &c. that belongs to the Ameship-as it possesses all the beauty, regularity and rican navy. This may come of French influence," strength of what is called well closed and well shut but, certainly, Napoleon has nothing to do with it, sheets. The mills and engines now prepared, are and that's some satisfaction!! This ship went to calculated to do the daily work of ten puper vats, sea last Monday. and will employ a water power equal to about 12 to 15 pair of mill stones, of the usual size.

The apparatus and machine are on a principle and construction entirely new, and are patented by the inventors here. It has been very expensive, and has been brought to its present state of perfection with much 1: bor, ingenuity and perseverance.

It is with much pleasure we announce the success of this machine; and we hope it will tend to secure our country against the importations from abroad, which have so much interfered with our own domestic arrangements; and we are also much gratified in believing, that its establishment on our own stream so immediately in the neigborhood of this place, will aid its improvement, and add to the valuable manufactories on the Brandywine.

CHRONICLE.

The Washington City Gazette says-Two agents of the colonization society wished to obtain passage to England in the Franklin, for the purpose of selecting a situation for the intended colony: but have been refused, on the ground that the government might be supposed concerned in the transaction.

The U. S. brig Boxer has been wrecked at the south pass of the Mississippi-crew, specie and armament saved.

The United States' vessels Prometheus, Enter prize, and Lynx, have arrived at New York from the eastward, and would, it was understood, in a few days, accompany the corvette John Adams to the gulf of Mexico.

A ship pierced for 32 guns has been built and launched in New York, in 72 days, at Messrs: Brown's yard-another war vessel of 900 tons, was immediately to be launched from Mr. Eckford's.-They are probably intended for the "Spanish" Ame

Messrs. Rodney, Graham and Bland, as commis-rican market. sioners to South America, with Mr. Brackenridge, Naval Depot.-The citizens of Annapolis have as their secretary, and Mr. Reed, private secretary taken measures to represent to the government of of Mr. Rodney, left Baltimore on Thursday last in the United States, the eligibility of that place for the Norfolk steam boat, to embark in the Congress the location of a Marine hospital and naval arsena! frigate.

The legislature of North Carolina met on the 17th inst. John Branch was elected speaker of the senate, and gen. Jredell speaker of the commons. Mr. McMillan, a representative in congress elect, for North Carolina, died, on the 13th inst. in the 32d year of his age.

A committee waited upon the president with a statement of the advantages of the place, and were politely received, and informed that the harbor would be examined. They were also assured by Mr. Evelett, proprietor of the machine by which the Potomac has been deepened near Georgetown, that the bar at the mouth of the Severn may be reThe articles of the "North Carolina commercial moved so as to give 25 feet water over it, for an company" are published. They provide for a capi- expense of about 15,000, including the cost of a tal that shall not exceed $500,000, in shares of machine for it. $100 each; seven directors to manage the affairs of

The Army. A complete battalion of U. S. light the company; its operations to be entirely commer-artillery, under command of lieut. col. Eustis, was cial,and the principal establishment to be in Fayette-publicly exercised at Boston on the 13th inst. The ville; the association to continue for 12 years, and privates had been chiefly enlisted in the present so long thereafter as the majority may agree upon, year, and gave great satisfaction by the exactness &c. The great object of this company appears to of their discipline. be to export (direct) native products of the state,

Boundaries of the United States.-The commission and import such supplies of foreign articles as are ers under the 4th article of the treaty of Ghent, will required for its consumption. There cannot be ahoid a final session in the city of New York on Monquestion but that such a company, reasonably wellay 24th inst; and their decision on the important conducted, will much benefit the state, and give a questions submitted to them will then be made powerful spur to internal improvements; hence it has

our best wishes for its success

A sea serpent has beeen seen in Long Island Sound. The wild fowl are said to have appeared much alarmed by the visitor, flying in every direc And a letter tion as he approached them. from a passenger on board the ship Cotton Plant from New York to Savannah, to a gentleman in that city dated “Savannuh, 12th Nov. 1817, says

public. Colonel Austin, the agent for the United States, left town yesterday, to be present at the conferences of the commissioners.—Bost. Chron.

The commissioners appointed to settle the north. ern boundary line, have arrived in this city. D. P. Adams, esq. one of the assistant commissioners, proceeded to Washington on Tuesday morning, with despatches from gen. Peter B. Porter. Major Fraser is still in this city. The utmost harmony P.S. I forgot to mention for the information of prevailed between the commissioners, and there is S.L, that, while lying to in latitude 33, 15 there leason to hope that the business has, or will, termi