Foreign Intelligence.
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ceived at New-York by
bip Hercules.
From the London Gazette, of March
sty it appears that his royal highness the
prmce regent has been pleased, in the
name and on behalf ot his majesty, Yo ap
prove of Joel Hart, +23 as consul at Leith,
for the United States. \
According to advice from Madrid, the
sailing of the expedition from Cadiz has
been postponed for three months. The
cause of it is stated to augment the force,
which is to consist from 12 to 14,000 men.
It is conjectured the expedition. is to pro-
ceed In the first instance to the river Plate,
and commence its operations by expelling
the Portuguese from Montevideo. A
considerable division will then be sent
round cape Horn, to support the royalists
in Peru.
London, Afi 2. —Mails from Ham-
burg and Flanders arrived to-day. Anar-
ticle from Algiers, dated the 27th of Fe-
bruary; represents that seat of baibarity
and oppression as suffering most severely
From the ravages of the plague. We se-
lect the following articles trom the Ham
burg papers : :
Hamburs, March 26 —We have recelv-
- ed the following letters from Algiers, by
way of Marsailles : :
« Algiers, February 25.-~The state of
things bere bgcomés worse and more
dreadiul every day. The plague contin-
unes to rage in a terrible manner. This
distemper, of which dbove 50 persons dic
daily io the city, lasts in general only 24
hours, without avy previous indisposition,
~without having felt any symptoms of the
disease ; other persons frequently fall vic-
tims of death from the infected air, and
the use of unwholesome food. The plague
algo rages in the neigborhood of Algiers,
and farthherin the interior of the country.
To this we may add a mortality among
the cattle Besides these dreadtul scour
es we have other sufferings.
« His highness the Dey causes daily,
and withcul respect to persons, people to
be arrested, execu'ed or banished, and gra-
ciously seizes on their property.
« Every person is so terrified here, the
people prety openly express the wish that
some foreign squadron would make its ap-
pearance, aud some Christian power or oth-
er make itself master of this state of pi-
rates :
“OF thé militia tlie third part is killed,
‘banished or has deserted ; great discontent
prevails among the remainder. The Dey,
however, increases the number of his bo-
dy guard by blacks, and has planted before]
his castie a strong line of 24 pounders,
which command the city. :
«Several raagnificent bwmldings are e-
yecting for the Dey and hus family. In the
mids: of the general misery, his highness
frequently amuses himself with balls, and
causes the neighborhood of his pajace to
resound with music. The unbappy inhab-
itants, particulaily the rich Jews, bave been
obliged to pay a contribnuon of 100,000
piastres, and twelve of the most beautlul]
girls; of the latter, some have, however, |
‘ransomed themselves for different sums,
from 4900 to 8000 piastres.
« The squadion of corsairs which was]
out lately ona cruise, lies still dismantled
in the horbor. $4
«Some of the principal Arabian tribes
in the interior of the country are in a state
of insurrections and it is likely that others
will follow their ‘example, as the Algervine
government is in want of means to reduce
them to obedience. May the insurrection
extend hither
Letters from Copenhagen notice a ru-
mour that the English government propo-
ses to purchase from Spain the island of
Puerto Rico, for the purpose of ceding 1t to
Denmark, for the cession of Tranquebar,!
and the other Danish possessions in the
East Indies. According to another ¥eport,
England has offered tour millions of dollars
fos the Danish teritories in the East In-
dies.
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ishment was excited on its being found to! 14
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whom Madame de Stag), whose amanu-/16
ensis. he was, used to dictate; the cones] 17
tion were iu Madame de Stacl’s own hand (18
writing.
to St. Helena, do
his work.
THE PATRIOT.
“To speak his thoughts, is every freeman’s right.’
theimgrics, on entering the chateh found
25 of theig fellow citizens mortally wound-
ed ; 3 of them died in a few minutes after.
About fifty persons remained in’ the belfry,
some of them suspended from ropes, and
all in a mest periloas situation, but by the
activity of the citizens, they were all saved.
The damage is estimated at 60,000 francs.
London, April T.
« Downing street, April 6—His Royal
Highness, the prince regent, has been
iw ased, in the pame and on behalf of his
majesty, to appoint general his grace the
Duke of Richmond, &c. XK. G. be cap:
tain general and governor in chief of the
provinces of Lower and Upper Canada.
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the : x Ag
Islands of Prince Edward and Cape Biz- | Made inthe neighborhood of Bellefonte, for May
ton.” 1818. The temperature noted in the morning
We are happy to find, from anauthentic{ about sunrise. and in the afternoon generally
document, that there has been a great in-
crease this year in the woolen maaufac-
tures ; in the narrow cloths milled, this in-
crease amounts to 1,582,947 yards; and in
22,135 yards.
The woolen manufactory has been singular.
ly benefitted the last year, by the #ashion
ot the jadies wearing lambs wool shawls,
pelisse cloths, and! Bath coating cloths.
Preparations are making at Dusseldorf
for the reception of the Allied Sayercigans.
From the Lower Rhine, March 22.
Some public jouruals assert, that the
French minister of police, M. de Caze, has
contrived to purchase the manuscript from; 10
which the work that appeared in London, I!
under the title of Muauyerifit veny de St. 12
Helene, was printed. I'he greatest aston-|!
MONDAY, gunk 8.
Afipointment by the Goverfior.
Jorn Hays, to be a justice of the Peace
for district No. 4, composed of the town-
ships of Howard, Walker, Spring and
Boggs, Centre county—Vice Matthew
Lictch, Esq. deceased.
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METEOROLOGICAL @BSERVATIONS,
about three o'clock.
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32 light rain
77 windy & clear
70 rain
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52 clear
48 light rain
51 showers
56 light showers
60 clear
63 clear
70 cloudy & rain
72 fair
75 light showers
63 clear
66 cloudy
56 rain
57 fair
54 rain
57 cloudy
72 clear
78 light showers
78 clear.
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We 80 clear
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50 clear 89 a shower
61 éloudy & rain 78 clear
48 clear 72 clears hy
52 cloudy 68 cloudy & drizzly
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Brindle, bys 1 Vo Te
The Merino breed of Sheep hay-
ing encreased very much of late years in
this and the adjoining counties, the follow-
‘ing directions for preparing the wool for
the cards and for carding it; may be useful
to many ot your readers. ‘The pgincipal{
objection to this species of wool 13 that it
naps so in carding that it cannot be spun to
answer the purpose. If the owners of the
‘wool, and the cardérs, will pay attention to
QO. ~y OW» A CIN gAR(Y
39 clear
43 fair
60 clear
60. some rain
53 fair
52 fair
52 cloudy
59 cloudy
48 rain
48 rain
49 rain
50 clear
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¢ the hand writihg of a certain person to I5
Bonaparte, to whom it was sent: 19
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THE THEIVES COUNTERSIGN. [24
The officers of Marlborough strect es- 25
tablishment, a few nights back, were dep-|26
uted to search the house of a known reeei-!27
ver in the parish of St. James, where some 28
stolen property was suspected to be con- 29
cealedy and accidentally came into pesses-, 59
sion of the following curious secret : al
There is in London a. quantity of little
iron and rag shops, where it is no uncom-! 5.
mon thing to see a sign-board with the, ?
words % Bones bought here” painted on it;
Lut antil this occasion it was never known
that those few words carried an entire dif-
ferent meaning with them. It scems, that
in the stang Dictionary « fo done?” means to
steal any thing, and thus the plunder be-
comes $ bonings.” Wherever the thieves
see the above sign-board they immediately
make inquiries into its ¢ general charac-
ter,” and when the proprietor is proved to
be no « trap,” he may be sure of plenty of;
custom,
this objection will be removed: The own-]
ers should stand by and see their wool card-
ed if they wish it to be well done.
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for preparing and cdrding Merino
a 00d. ’
The wool ought to be washed before itis
shorn off the sheep’s back. To elean the
wool of the yolk, take equal quantities 0
urine and water; heat the mixture in a large
kettle, so that you can scarcely ‘bear your
‘hand in it; and keep it that hot over a slow
¢; put as much of the wool in as you can
stir conveniently : keep stirring it with a
stick for 10 or 15 minutes ; then take itout
ang let it drain, putting a fresh quantity in
the kettle, stirring as before. When it has
{well drained putit into a basket ; set the
basketin a tub, and place them undera
spout’of clear running water, stirring the
wool until it is clean ; then spread it out on
some clean place todry. When it is com-
pletely dry, oil it with neat’s foot oil, or
sweet oil, in proportion of one pint to eight
pounds of wool : the carder aught to card
the finest common wool lor some time pre-
vious to carding Merino wool ; it will not
to card it alter goarse wool ; and if the
cards are not good 1t will spoil the wool.
Weak lye or soap suds, will do to clean
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A bill before the British parliament to;
consolidate the impert and export duties.’ p w
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At present exports to. European countries,
and to the U. States pay one half per cent.
ad. val. Toell other parts, even Br. colo-
nies, one per cent, The new law proposes
to place them all at three quarters of a per
cent. which of course raises thor tothe U.
States, :
It is recommended that vessels should
only pay the ps duty in proportion
to the number of tois of freight they may
havea ko EE
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London, April 20.
EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.
Wednesday se’nuight, a large cancourse
of fashionables assembled at Marion, the
beautiful seat of the earl of Charlemont,
near Dublin, to witness a wenderiul feat of!
activity, performed by baron Osset, of the
16th Lancers. One hundred stones were!
placed at a yard apart, and at one éxtremi-
ty there was a basket; he was to ride to
each stone, dismount, and pick it’ up, re-
turn to the basket, again dismount, and
drop it into it—making him mount and dis-
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{at the scat of government.
the following diréctions and act accordingly,’
lof the
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From the Demostatic Freeh;
| Sz, Thomas, April 30, 1819.
«I have just seen the Gazette de Carrace
cas, which gives the official account of an |
engagement on the 17th instant, at Bani
near St. Carlos, between Bolivar and the
royal gencral Morales; in which the latter
it is saidy has gained a complete victor
over Bolivar—he says that the ndeners
dents lost 400 men killed and 150 prison,
ers. ;
Amongst the Killed of Bolivar’ army t
are stated to be brigadier gencral Pedra
Leoh Torres, the chief of the staff, « 4p. |
tader,” colonels ¥., Caliado, Salon and M
rique, lieutenant colonel Pinango, (nepheyy
of Bolivar,) Silvester Palacious, Manfredo
Bercolary, majors Joseph Francisco’ and
fuan de Dios Morales, the aid-de-camp to
Bolivar, Florencio Toba, the surgeon Sea
bastian Olivares, and many others, wh
The Spaniards have also suffered much;
agreeable to their own statement. Amon
their killed, they mention colonel Raphael
Lepoz. They state that they have also
taken 400 muskets, 39,500 cartridges, 400
lances, 30 cargas anim nition, 300 horses,
and all the camp equipage, &c. Bolivar’s
papers, hat and coats, &c.
It is also reported that the independent
general Marino is dead.”
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Philadelphia, May 23, 1818,
Embarked yesterday in the steam boap
at\Fort Mifflin for Detroit and Mickinaw, a
detachment of about two hundred recruits
ol the first battalion artillery, under the
command of captain Farley, U. 8. corps
artillery.
William R. Swiftywesq. of the house of
Adams and Swift, Baltimore; has beem
appointed Portuguese consul for that dise ©
trict, in place of 5. Cary, esq. resigned.
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A physician has been exiled from Pragus
and fiom all the Austrian states, on the
charge of assisting at MASONIC LOPGES}
which are prohibited in that €mpire with
{the greatest severity.
Conan.
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~The South American deputy from Bues
nos Ayres, Don Manuel Aguirre, arrived ..
Si A ETN apr : ¢ Me
Broiving offer.—~A person in the jail of
Hull, has published a notice; that if the
man who committed the offence for whic!
he 1s imprisoned; will come and confess t
same he shall be ‘handsomely rewarded
A kidnapper by the name of Jernigardghl
has been sentenced to suffer death in.
Wayne county, North Carolina, :
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Rotation.~~New York has 27 members.
of congress—it appears that only three of .
the present members are re-clected—and |
the Wt the present members were nog
it congress. This is not the efs |
fect of any political change.
SEA SERPENT.
Under the article of SEA INAEN, in 2
Rees’ Cyclopedia, is the following paras |
graph, which I would thank you to pub«_
lish. es 3
« Bishop Pontopiddan® mentions (in his
listory of Norway, Vol. I, page 195, &ec.) |
4 sea snake of a very prodigions size ; for |
the perticulars-of lis dimentions, Sec. caver
must refer to the testimonies which he has
recorded,” These animals some of which
are said to be po less than gix hundred
feet long, are dapgerous to navigators, as
they throw themselves over vessels of
some hundred tous burthen and siak them
to the bottom by their weight, The pre-
servative against them is castor, the smell
of which they are said to avoid, The
bishop apprehends that this creature which
inhabits the North Sea, is the leviathan
mentioned in the Scriptures -Isaiah, xxvii.
l.—Job, xxvi. 13. Salem Gaz.
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On Mondays came on the trial of John |
Murphy, before his honor Judge Rush,
charged with having willfully and of malice
aforethought, murdered Daniel Jooes, a
resident in the county of Philadelphae:
The case excited considerabie interest, and
the avenues to the court room were coms
pletely blocked up during the whole course |
ofthe trial. About” o’clock, P. M. the |
jury retired, and after a short ume re- |
turned a verdict of guiliy of murder in the 1
second degree, . ve
© Yesterday the prisoners Murphy, was
brought up before the court to receive his
sentence. The judge, after some prefa<
tory observations, sentenced him to cighe
teen years imprisonment in the penilenti=
ary- “Centinel.
* Bishop Pontopiddan seems, by the notice of
him in the Cyclopzdia, to have been a distin
guished bistoviun and divine, died i Denmark
1714:
The inquiry intd the cguses of the purn-
ing of the Odeon is prosecuted with great
activity.—Several persons have been altea-
dy arrested.
mount two hundred times. An hour was
the time given, but the task was peYform-
ed; with ease, in forty five minutes. From
the apparent want of waining of the rider
and his steed, bets were considerably in fa-
vor of time— for neither the viger nor plia-
bility of the one, afterwards so eminently
conspicuous, nor the fleetness and steadi-
ness of the other, were at first percaptible.
But when, after a few turns, the biron dis-
mounted for the purpose of scratching his
ear with his footy while the horse stood qui-
etlyWiwaiting his master’s will,” any odds
were offered on them.
The Jord lieutenant and his arniable and
lovely countess were present, and at the
conclusion, her excellency crowned the
herculean baron with a chaplet of ever-
greens. He wore, on the occasion, 2 beau-
titul yellow silk jacketyand lilac head-dréss
‘astefully arranged—=light net pantaloons,
one boot and one spur. An elegant cold
‘collation was prepared by lord and lady|
{Charlemont.
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The Connecticut Legislature
Met at Hartford, May 14,1818. Gideon
Tonilins on was chosen Speaker, and Elisha
Phelps and Samuel A. Foot Clerks, ol the
House ; all Re publicans.
Governor Wolcott and Lieut. governor
Ingersoll appear to have been re-elected,
with but lit:le opposition : and a republican
council : Every branchof the government
is therefore republican.
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A frightful accident has plunged the in-
habitants of Villicxs-lé-Bel, Seine and Oise,
fate mourning. On Wadnesday, the 25th,
between 4 and §, the workmen were taking’
down a large bell of 6 millicrs® “weight.
There were present besides the workmen,
about 60 persons; atiratted by curiosity, and
about 40 women in the church. A sudden
crack from the arch was heard, and in an
instant the church was encumbered with
enormous stones, which fell from the
heightol 80 1eet with an horrible crash.
The women; io attempting to make their
escape, hurt each other, ‘and a number of
the inhabitants of the place, attracted by
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William Cobbett has offered himself to
the freemen of Coventry, as a candidate to
represent that City in Parliament.
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[# The Trench milliery, or thousand weight,
38 equal fo 1311 1bs, 7 oz 19dwt, Tray weight
The weight of the bell was, consequently, 7869
You. 11 oz. 19 dwt, Troy weight.
The ship Plato, from Bremen, with Mr.
PINKNEY and family on board, is now
coming up the river,
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