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—<Nerr
Byobst.t
Columbia---Joines M'Clure.t
Washington---James Stevenson, Thom-
as Morgan, William Vance,t John Hamil-
ton.t
Middiesworth,t Jacob
“10th. Lycoming, Centre, Clearficld, M’.|
HNote.---Those marked with a dagger()
ire new members--sthos¢ in adic ave Fed
eralists. %
SG
The Influenza.
Like most sublunaiy things, this Ep
idemic has its ludicrous aspect. Ours is
a coughing population. The orator wag
winding up'a most sublime climax He
ie suddenly arrested in his brilliant carece
and cougls for about ten minutes—His aue }
aience catch the infection— nd cough in
chorus with bim-——The Auctioneer was
just going to knack down to you a favorite
object—once twice three—you bu
with impatience—well | on comes thr fe
—& he coughs twenty times at least—
The merchanty while eulogising his goods
is interrupted in the like way, The shope
ping Belle cannot with her wonted fluency
enumerate the fine articles she has bought
or seer——and the enamoured youth who.
writes love-verses. and protests he is dying :
with hopless affection, seems in great dans
ger exhaled his soul in a fit of coughing,
We therefore, say, “From the influenza
and from universal couhging may a pro.
pitious ‘change of weather, or physicians
speedily deliver us!” 4
{ Rickm. Compiler.
i.
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CREEK INDIANS.
Nashville, Ten, Nov. 7.
We have a report in town, that the Creek
Indians have taken Fort Jackson, by sure
prize. The report is considered very pro=
bable, from the garrison being nearly all
sick and unfit for duty, and the Indians bes
ing known to be near the Fort in number.
COMMUNICATION.
Commodore DECATUR.
The Algerines Tunisians, and T ipoli®
ans have bcen reduced to humiliating
terme by this chivalric commander. He
has given them such an electric shook, us
was never before discharged from a Chriss
tian Battery. DrcaTUR may weil be term-
ed the « Champior of Christendom «~The
.erms which he hes obtained for the vind
cation his country’s. honor, are, “indemnity
for the past and security for the future;™
but he did net pause here. He demanded
grom these barbarians, (who exist only, as
the monuments of European disgrace)asa
member of the christain family, a release
from Slavery, “of all christian priseners,’’
and obtained it. This is a Glory, which ne.
ver cncirculed the brows of 2a Roman Pon-
tiff ; ner blazed from an immoral dydem
VW estmoreland--Cza. Blumen, IHeory
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