gras. The virtue 20d courage of my sou wai justly this act of clemency. i 10 abundance, to independence, and to tie Jappiest prospects. Permit me once morc to intreat the mterierence of your high in- fluence in favor of innocence, and in the Dispatch, cause of justice and humanity. ter, 18 which he informed the public, it 1 : : ~ His ho-|a great number of genteel families had em nov, sity led bun to America; he was bornf, SH at Era od Es 0 {on : Byte = sa - i fon proceed with the british regiment: appoini-Juy ed to accompany Bonaparte to St. Helena —He added further, that the island being dreadfully infested with rats his majesty’s torrespondent counted 500 dead bodice ing ihe next day on the river Dec, they had been ignominiousiy thrown y the two legged victors. The rest of the ~avatling host having evacuated the town, aispersed in utter confusion, cariying with them, however, their arms from the field ow lsl.ouse, Poin Willuze ak © Armstrong, Indiana 2d Jello isoi on James M Kelly Joshua devwis “ Fayette—~Thomas Boyd, Andrew Stow” ) art;t Thomas M:Kibben. Bedford—Abrahain Mating Jacob Hart. Franklin—Robert Smithy Jacob Dee chart,i David Maclay t Menigomery-—~ Win. Powell, Wm. M Whate,t Lr. Tobias Sellers, Dr. James Anderson sir, a letter from Frénce to Gen. Washing- ton, 2nd favor me with a copy of it that it waay be transmitted from hence. I feelthe whole weight of thediberty taken in present ing this request. ut 1 feel confident, whether granted of not, that you will pity the distress by which it is suggested; your humanity will drop a tear upon my fault and blot it out férever. - « May that heaven which T implore, grant that you may never need the conso- Yation which you have ‘it in your power to minister had determined that it should be forthwith effectually cleared of these nox- ious animals. To facilitate this impottan, purpose ho had been deputed to purchase in the co.rse of 2 week, as many cats anc thriving Kittens as could possibly be procu- red for money in that short space of time, ad therefore, he publicly offered in his of battle. ——ET & [52] : EE — i From the Harrisburg Pa. Republican. Legislature of Pennsylvania, 1815-16. gat Dauphin--Jacob Bucher, James Reily ¢ | Lebanon—Jacob Goodiiait, Jota: Sawa yer.t The Senate consists of 31 members, 20 of whom are democrats, and 11 federalists; making an increase of 1 federal member ince iast year. bestow on. Theresa Asgill” art was to this fetter that young Asgill owned his life and His mother was intormed almost #iberty. handbills, 16s for every athletic full grown tom cat. 30s for every adult female pus: and half a crown for every thriving vigor. ous kitten that could swill milk, pursue a ball of thread, or fasten its young fangs ir The House of Representatives consists it 97 members, 71 democrats and 26 fed -ralists ; making an increase of 3 tederal- ists in that body since | ear. If anew lectien be held mn Berks county to decid: he dispute between Messrs. Heister and Luzerne and Susquchanna—Redmond Conygham,t George Denison.t Bradford and Tioga---Samuct M'Kean$ Huntingdon----Alex’r Dysart, Conrad Bucher.t ~ Beaver----John Clark ¢ at the same instant, that the minister of the King of France had written to General Washingtemw to procure the pardon of her won, and that his request had been granted. if auy thing can convey an idea of the -mournful sentiments, to which this parent was a prey during eight months it1s that sentiment which her gratitude inspires --ghe letter addressed to the Count de Ver: gennes, on hearing that she owes the res. toration of her son tp lis interference; the greatest talents never produced any thing more noble or equally affecting ps SECOND LETTER of Lady Asgill tothe Count de Vergennes. «Exhausted by long suffering, overpow- ercd by an excess of unexpected happiness confined to my bed by weakness and lan. guor, bent to the earth by what 1 bave undergone, my sensibility alone could sup. ply me with strength sufficient to address you. 75h #Condescend, Sir, to except thie feeble a dying mouse. On the evening of ti :hird day after his advertisement had beet distributed, the people of Chester were 28 Democratic majority in the Legislature ionished with an ir. uption of multitudes oifin joint meeting, 55. ,1d women, boys and girls into their streets} New members in the Senate 9; in the every one of whom carried on their shoul: House of Representatives 51. ; : 1 In the subjoined list, we have given tht ders cither a bag or a cask, which appears} eqerajisis ali the representatives they have ed pregnant with some restless znimal, any pretensions to, it being doubtful wheth- that seemed labouring into birth. Every for Mr. Lewis and Mr. Brobst are federal- road, every lane was thronged with this ists or not. comical procession; and the wandering) sn SENATE. #4 Lycoming, Potter and M’Kcans--Joscphs spectators of the scene involuntarily com- 1st. District, vis. the city and county of : . J. Wallis + J ; : _ {PhiladelphiaeeJacob Shearer, Wm. Mag- pened to remember’ the old riddle about fee, Nicasias Biddle, Ben. a Morgant |, Green—Rees Hill. t. AVC En, : 2d. Chester and Delaware——Abraham «As 1 was going to St. Ives, Baily, Maskell Ewing. ~~ “ 1 met fifty old wives, {3d Bucks— William Irwin. Every wife had fifty sacks, 4th. Lancaster—Join Hopkins, Cha Every sack had fifty cats, Smith t : Every cat had fifty kittens. 5th. Berks and Schuykill-~Charles Shoe- Kittens, cats, sacks and wives. maker, Peter Fraily. - How many were going to St. Ives?” | 6th. Dauphin & Lebanon—John Forster Before night fall, a congregation of near- ly 3000 cats were collected in Chester Biddie, there can be no doubt of the electi oi of the tormer ; which will make the de- ner Allegheny & Butler~ William Cochran, nocratic majority 46. ; Wm Courtney, Archibald Coon, Andrew Christy.t : Mifflin --Jonathan Rothrock, James Mil- liken. Delaware «Dr, Samuel Anderson Sam. uel Adwards Somerset and Cambiia-«-Thomas King Henry Black. { ——— | Adams---Jemes Robinette, William Bl ler, : Centre and Clearfield-+-Jacob Kryder, i “Erie, Crawford, Warren Mercer and Ve- nango-=-Jaceb Herrington, James Weaton, Ralph Morin ¢ ’ *Isaac Heister and Marks J. Biddic, hat an equal number of votes. 5 rles 4 7th. Montgomery—Geo. Weaver t | 8th. Northampton, Wayne, Lelngh & Pike—=Thomas J Rogers,t Henry Jarret. @ffort of my gratitude. It has been laid at the feet of the Almighty, and believe me it has been presented with the same sincerity qo you, Sir, and toyour illustrious sovereign by their august and salutary intervention, as by your own, a son is restored to me to whom my life was attached. I have the gweet assurance that my vows for my pro gectors are heard by Heaven to whom they are ardently offered. Yes, sir they will produce their effect before the dread- gul- and last tribunal, where indulge in he hope that we shall both appear togeth- er you to receive the recompense of your virtues: myself, that of my sufferings. I will raise my voice before that imposing 1 will call for those sacred re- gisters, in which your humanity will be found recorded. “I will pray that blessings may be showered on your head, upon him who availing himself of the noblest privil- ege received from God, a privilege no oth. er than divine, has changed misery. into tribunal hap piness, has withdrawn thes? tbe innocent head, and resto J ‘est of sons to the ‘most tende ‘tunate of mothers. i ~~“ Condescend, Sir, to acce mot been destroyed by war. “after the hand that expresses it, with the heart, which at this moment only vibrates with the vivacity of grateful ecntiments, shall be reduced to dust; even ‘0 the last day of my existence, it stall beat but to of, fer you all the respect and all the gratitude with which it is penetrated. «Theresa Asgill.” ctr © EID {SI Selection from late London Papers. ra Hoax at CUhester. A Correspondent arrived: jn this neigh, porhood from Chester, has stated to us the following account of a curious trick latlg ployed off in that town. A short time ago a respectable looking man caused a number of hendbills to ba distributed through Lhes. The happy bearers of these sweet voiced creatures, proceeded all (as directed by the advertisement,) towards one street, with ®and unfor- pt thie just tribute of gratitude due to our virtuous sen- timents. Preserve this tribute, and may it go down to your posterity as a testimony of your sublime and exemplary beneficence zo a stranger whose nation was at war with your own, but whose tender affections had May this tri buic bear testimony to my gratitude long howled bass, so that it soon became difficult for the nicest ear to ascertain whether ca- nine==felinee—or the human tones were predon:inant. - Some of the cat bearing la- dics, whose dispositions were not of the noyed by the pressure of their neighbors soon cast down their burdens, and began tobox. A battle royal ensued. The cats sounded the war-hoop with might and main. Meanwhile the boys of the town, who seemed mightily to relish the sport, were actively employed”in opening the mouths of the descrted®sacks, and liberat- ing the cats from theif forlorn situation. The enraged “animals baunded immedi- ately onthe shoulders and esds of ‘the combatants, and ran spitting, squalling and clawing along the undulating sea of skulls, towards the walls of the houses of the good people of Chester. The citizens, attracted by the noise, had opened their windows to gaze at the fun. Into these windows the cats instantaneously sprang, taking posses- sion of the rooms by a novel kind of storm or escalade. The cats, in their sudden as- sanlt on the drawing rooms and other a- partments of the Chesterites, rushed with the rapidity of lightning up the pillars, ard then across the balustrades and galleries, for which the town is so famous, and so slap dash through the open windows into the apartments. Never since the days ‘of the celebrated Hugh Lupus, were the drawing rooms of Chester filled with such a crowd of unwelcome guests. Now were heard the crash of broken china—the howlings of affrighted lap dogs——the cries of distressed damsels, who wept their torn faces and dis, hevelled charmseeand the groans of fat old citizens, rushing and tumbling forward to- wards the balconies, bald, bare and bleed- ing. All Chester was socn in arms, and dire were the deeds of vengeance executed on the feline race It is needless to recite the various combats that took place be- their delectable burdens. Here they be- came closely wedged together.—A vocal concert soon ensued. The women scream= cd—the cats squalled=—the boys and girls shrieked treble, and the dogs of the sireet most placid nature, finding, themselves an-} tween the cats 2nd the men, Suffice j¢ that A" } ~ 9th. Northumberland, Columbia, Union, Luzerne and Susquehanna~-Fhomas Mu; - ray, William Ross. Kean, Potter, Bradford and Tiogo~-Henry Welles t Ith. York and Adamse--Chgries Au. estus Burniz.t James MO Sherry, Mifflin and Huntingdon—Wm. © 12th. Beale. nd : 13th. Cumberland--Igaiah Graham. 14th. Bedford, Somerset and Cambria —~John Tod. Ro : 1 15h. Frankline~James Poet 16 h. Westmoreiand, Ludiana and Jeffer- son—John Reed.+ 17th, Fayette—Presley Carr Lane. 18th. Washington and Greene—Abel M’Farland, Issac Weaver. 19th Allegheny. Armstrong, Beaver and Butler—=Samucl Power, Walter Lowrie. 20th. Mercer, Erie, Venango, Crawford and Warren----Joseph Shannon. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. City of Philadelphia----Thos. M’ Kuen, John hallewellt John Read,t Thomae Kit- terayt John M. Scett.t County of Philadelphia-—-Jacob Holgate Jacob G. Tryon;t Jos. B Norbury,t Joey B. Sutherland, George Morton, John Hol- mes. Buckse—Dr Phinchae Jenks,t Samuel Sellers,t David Wyncoop,t Wm. H. Row- land Chester—Jokn Menough, Jacob Hume phrey, John Jones,t James Reberts, John Sharp t ° Lancaster—~Henry Hibshman,t Jeremiah Mosher James Buchanan, Joel Lightnert Joel Carpenter, Emanuel Reigart. York—Fredcrick Fischelberger,t Pete Storm. John Levingston,? John “troman.t Cumberland---Jacob Alter, Wm Ander- son, James Wallace.t Berks & Schuylkill---Christain Halde- man,t Jacob Epler,t Daniel Roads, David Hottenstine,t* i Northampton Wayne and Pike.--Peter Hilliard, James Ralston,t John Brodhead.t Lehighe—Abraham Rinker, Philip Wind' Northumberland—~Henry Shaffer, Jo- seph Hutchinson. Union—