JAMILTON, in ¢ Published we ALEXANDER emer 2. al. eo en aa ———— + —— Fr ow SATURDAY EV ENING. Saglonber 1 SHO mY MEMOIR 1 EF jrearly all bis army | destroyed Bolvar|the younger, who is at pregént iy HR, De dies on , farnous. (rol) wneede ¢gimade his escape, leaving behind him, in ted States, has been released by Louis thewidia of the ny ‘Of the famous Grotius, an anecdote Off | Lu fhe enemy, all his batgage.18th; with his unfortunate companionjand fifty yards, which Laviletie’s is 3 countetpatt, camp quipage, &¢. and succeeded in get-| Count Toreno. The whole extent of Hugo Grotius, or Dz Groot, was born atl oo «%0n +na rd his fleet at Ocumares, with - river which has no other cataract ov Ho Dictt, in !olland, in 1533. He wasa per-l, gow of his followers ; but the commander |[ From the Naticnal Inelligencer, Aug, 21.]isiderable impediment, from the point of son of incomparable genius, and without co. foe¢ (Biron) refused to pat to Sea, STATE BANKS. Jefferson river, the Jargest of the thre controversy one of the greatest men of hish eso in want of provisions. The meni The convention of delegates from the orks, to its entrance to ‘the Mississippi, age. When but eight years old, he made} oC ipen turned on shore, except a suffi | Banks of New York, Philadelpnia and Bal is three thousand and ninety six miles 5 Latin verses which would have been 10} ....¢ number to man the fleet, and all mas- 'timore, which lately mei at Philadelphia, no sther tributary stfeam in the world pos discredit to the mature age of an accredit-} 1.4 by a furious populace. The fleet decided to postpone the resumption of spe-{sessesed such a navigation ed poet. When hut fifteen be had acquir-f oo. steered for the island of Buyenayres,|cie payments until, at the earliest the 1st of ed 2 very critical knowledge of philosophysl ich Gen. Bolivar on beard. July next. The dccision was communicat- mathematics, and jurisprudence. At 24} eo ed, as stated in an’ extract froma Baltimore he was made advocate general. In 1613 bef ot paper, published ib this pap rn the 15th seitled at Roverdan, and became Syndick © The petgrn from Elba. [inst to the Secretary of the Tieasuiy ; but ol that city. Al this time Holland was : : we understand, that the Secretary was far grealy agitated with the disputes of the] That there was a plot actively carried oblfu,m approving it, or suggesting, that in remonstrants and contra remonsuants.lwhile Bopaperte was at Eiba, though soli e discharge of his official duties, he could B racveldt, the intimate friend and patfonjofien and so boldly enied, is evident from acquiesce in the proposed arrangement. of Grotius, declared in favor of the former,lthe proofs on the trial of Rigar ¢, who him- 5 employed not less than 27,000 francs, : The decision is in manifest collision with and Grotiue by his writing and influence ot ! ; the measures of the Legislature, for estab- support:d the pamy of his benefactors in-douceurs, to alight infantry regiment—iyighine the Bank of the United States, and fifteen undies’ Wie, Sob at least Thils business epic in gre cuin of Barnc-lin cotertaining the Poles—in secret expen jy ion of fhe. revenues Mm the sederd-aiiomsehioh is oven: wide wh wy Bo Bs aT TY I ead IRVORSHOUTIIG dUPKITIICLE met BEX POU fi] ist neh Ca Sad DUA (ee tring BEIEht Yuncere 5 Bs o) ry where, ds, Win Ros go Re A : Heer ath rs Po TEAR we ded Wal Babak. add lige iden #olved in his fall, wae coudeind hper-§ ces ol printing—ia keeping an officer its effects may U9 gE Go ow {The vicotioy pe ay petual ithprisonment, and shut WER Ah | Paris to transmit orders to him on the partispeegions of a letédr wiiicl *lncdiment one hinred id. fifty miles up: castle of Louvestein, foi Bonaparte trom Lall>mand and Lefebre: ed to the Bank Commissioners at Philadel. FRCITREE oF Gi iy His wife observing the chest in whik! j—emin employing iif Smissyty of Che joni ; and of which the following is a COPY:| jon01h, the breadth of the river two hun- was his linen, &c. passed and repussed [ons to act as a spy on the Duke of Belluno, - : er 0 hun fora the prison, had ceased to beinspectedficc. Itis to be observed that ail his oc- Letter from the Secretary 3 . aft A hrtecitre ea nes by the guards, adviced him to shut himsclif curred while Rigard was acting as Lom- ; RR PL A up in it, and endeavour to make his escape wmandant of the department of La Marde, of the Tr easury to the ht a gy Ay Te he ee ie olson a ne oy p ys | Bank Commissioners at|with much more justice than the Mississip= gif, +1 Goiius was locked up in It dndg : (Lon. Pap. July os : a igsisrins carried ¥ ut unobserved, his wite remaining : Philadelphia. \ Treasury Department, 15th August, 1818, cary, TH ied iu safety 10d GL — try hies on its borders more extensive than 3 Lis sieady, He Was carjjsoin hmily Ho vi Lt ET Egypt, and ofa soil the richest perhaps in friend’s house al Goreumn, where dressing Origin of the late King EyD’ ? porhape MU R AT + 1 Gexrtresan~The information com® . municated to this Department renders it : the world, Its waters, which aren > Limoeeid like a mason, and taking a trowe! table, are very red, a apd ‘ule in his band, he pissed unnoticed mineral. The river is remarkably narrows tough (the market-place took aboat, andl pre unhonny termination of this unfors|probable, that in the course of afew days iis seldom spreads to the width of (wo hums erriving safe at Velvet, in Brabant, he tooky, 00 wan, who was raised to’ a throne by, the sum of 8,400,000 dollars in gold and sil- ry Bonaparte, is well known. But his birth|ver coin, and in the publie debt, will have and family are in greater obscurity than abs actually received, on account of the Nr AS Pa PR IN ¥ | RED RIVER. It takes its source in the Cordill at no great distance north of SuntaRe | is navigable six or eight hundred m with scarcely any obstruction. There is at that point a curious raft, formed ol lo and earth, which entirely covery itd chan nel ; trees are growing upon it, aod one might pass over without perceiving the river. Red Riverruns in a valley on an Sonic of the Judges were of opinon that the wife of Grotius should be kept in pri- son iu his stead ; but she was liberated by a “yhajority of voices, and her conduct univer- jo Ziti apalanded. Gearing ofter this retired tofrance, where Louis XII. gave hima oa of 1000 crowns per annum ; but of <his be was. deprived by the infuence ol ceedingly crooked. The annual swell, which is early in the spring ofthe year, he United States, exclu ‘raises the water fifty or sixty feet, when 5 subscriptions ; and it will tuen be your du- 3 flows with great rapidity ; but during the The following anecdote which has been "Fano timesnd plece within the 6 cuniner aud season of low watch, ic is sunk related by several writers, tends to throw of Philadelphia, for the election of the di-|yi hin deep and ragged clay banks, of an some light upon his history After his e- rectors, who are to be chosen by the stock- unsightly appearance, and has not more levation to the rank of a prince of the holders. : dred and fifty yards, and is more gencrally. cartilage, and got thence to Antwerp — contracted to one hundred ; it is also ex- most of the French generals who distin [subscriptions to ithe capital of the Bank of ruished themselves in the reign of Napole- the United States, exclusively of the public Cardinal de Richelien in 1631. In 1634, Ye became councellor of Chistiana, queen of Sweden, who sent him ambassador to France eleven years 3 and when he rewried to Sweden fo ive an account of his inissi- on, he asked, and with great difficulty ob- tained his dismission On his return to his owa country, whither he bad been warmly wvited, (his enemies being almost aif dead.) he was taken ill ou the way; aud diced at Rostock, April 28, 1645. Grotius was a great lawyer, a great critic, great di- vine, and a good man His mmerous wit tings have immortalized him, especially his truth of the christian Religion, and his trea- tisc on peace and war. . re etn BGD | () ; GES A letter from New Orleans, dated the A71h of July, states that sufficient returns di the late election in Louisiana bave been received to ascertain that General Villere is the Governor elect. In speaking of the late disturbances in England, the Liverpool Advertiser thus remarks : « We are concerned to learn that in addition to the disturbances in the eastern district of the kingdom, some daa- gerous tumaults have lately broken out in the south west; chiefly in the seat of the superfine cloth manufactories. In that quarter the distress, we believe, has long been urgent, but as they have always been noted tor their orderly habits, we had not ex ccted dny public disturbances. They have of course been quickly put down ; fo these unfortunate persons must know, and ought to be made sensible, that nothing is to be remedied by a violation of the laws. and that men never succeed who try by such means to redress their own giievan- cus.’ El From the Spanish Maine Capt. Bowers. of the schr. Bonna arrived at New York in 17 days from Porto Cavel. lo, states that Gen. Bolivar landed on the 5th of July, at QJcumaces, a small port 15 miles to the windward of Porto Cavello, with his patriot army amounting to 800 10, principaily blacks frem St. Domingo: snd was on his march far Carraccas, when hie was met by Gen. Morales at the head I"rench empire, he stopped at a small town three days ; and on finding the bread pre- pared fou his table of an inferior kind, he dispatched one of his suite to order the best baker in town, to attend him, to receive from him his directions respecting this precious article of life. A baker who had heen long eciablished in that place was se- lected for this purpose; and upon the aid. Jde-camp ordering him to wait upon the Prince immediately, he observed, to the no little surprise of the officer, «itis useless my going, the prince will never employ me.” Upon being pressed to state his rea- sons, he declined assigning any ; but as the or ier of the messenger was preremptory he ted to Murat, with whom he stayed about ten minutes and then retived As he quit- ted the house in which the Prince lodged, he observed to the aid-de-camp, ¢¢ I told you the Prince would not employ me, he has dismissed me with this,’ displaying a purse of ducats —~Upon being again pres- sed toexplain the reason of this singular conduct, he replied, © The Prince Murat, when a boy, was apprentice to a biscuit ba- ker in south of France, at the time Iwasa journeyman to him, and 1 have often threshed him for being idle ; the moment he saw me just now, he instantly remem: bered me, and without entering into the subject of our acquaintance, or of that which led me to his presence, he hastily took his purse of ducats from the drawer of the table where he sat, gave it to me and ordered me to reure.” Anecdote. A lawyer, upon a circuit in Ireland, who was pleading the cause of an infant plaintiff, took the child up in his arms and present- ed itto the jury, suffused with tears. This had a great effect, until the opposite law- yer asked the child what made it cry! ‘He pinched me !” answered the little in- nocent. The whole court was convulsed with laughter. From the Baltimore American of Aug. 20. We have the great satisfaction of announ- cing that Gencral Espezand Mina, uncle of the royal army, and after a most sangui-iand successor in the command of Navarre gay battle, was completely eut up, and duting the late Spanish was, to'(zen. Mina, r * in Germany, where he stayed for two or duty, it is presumed that commencing the business of the Bank at file place designated for holding the elec: ition ; and conforming to the general nature 1of your trust you. will no doubt, be disposed to make such other preparatory arrange- ments as will facilitate and accelerate the ‘operations of the institution. It is, inde-d, of high importance to the people, as well ‘a8 to the government, that the Bank of the ‘United States should be in an organizcd ‘and active state, before the 20th of Februa ‘ry next, when the paper of the State Banks, ‘which have not returned (o metallic pay- ments, must be rejected in the collection followed him, and was immediately admit. | of duties and taxes ; and when such banks will, unavoidably, cease to be the deposita- ries of the public revenue. In this view ofthe subject, Tam author- jised by the President to recommend that you cause to be prepared such books, en- gravings, and paper, as you shall deem ne- cessary for the commencement of the busi- ness of the bank, as soon as the directors shall be chosen by the stoekholoers. If; however, an opportunity occurs, it will be proper to consujt the directors who have been appointed by the government, altho’ not members of your Board, upon the mea- sures parsued, in consequence of this re- commendation. With the advantages of the proposed anticipation it is believed, that the Bauk of the United States may be in operation bes fore the first of January next; and a hope is stiil iudulged, that the State Banks will either conform to that event o* adopt the period contemplated by the l.egislature (the 20th of February) for a general re- sumption of specic payments. 1 have the honor to be, gentlergen, very respectiully, your most obedient servant, A. 3. DALLAS. Louisiana Rivers. The cataract of the Missouri, from eve- ry discription, are next to those of Niagara, the most stupendious in tie world. The decent in the distance of eighteen miles, according to the estimation of Lewis and Clerk is 362 feet nine inches. Fhe first great pitch 98 feet second 16 ~third 47—8 inches As an incident, in the performance of this you will deem It proper to provide a. suitable building for -{rino. than eight or ten feet water. The outlets from this river are more numerous than even from the Mississippi, and joined by streams which flow from the uplands, oe pine woods. The course of the river is cof istantly subject to change ; many of the boyoux which at present appear inconsid- erable, at no distant period constituted tives bed of the principal river. ANIMALS. i The Buffsloe, may be said te have ‘fo tired north of the Illinois, and west of the Mississippi The plains of Indianna and Iilinois, were ohce his place of favorite rex sort, and he loved to frequent the banks of the beautiful Grice: bo encroaching settlements have drives him away. Hi. proper country appears to be the plain of Missouri ; those of Indianna and llii- nois, are miniatures of these Here the Buffaloe is found in immense herds ; fre quently covering the plain as far as the eyn can reach. Some ot thesc heards have been estimated at fifty thousand heaus. In the dry season, they are found in the neigh borhood of the great rivers, but there ars also regular migrations of them from north to south, when they are seen passing the Missourl, for scveral days in succession like the march ot Xerxes’ army, The wool of the buffaloe has a peculiar fineness, even surpassing that of the me I have seen gloves made of it, lite tle inferior to silk But for the difficlty of seperating the hair it might become g very important article of commerce. Should any means be discovered of effecung (his, or should it be found that at certain seas sons, there is less cf this mixoire. th: bute faloc wool must become of prime .anpor- tance in manufactures The Prairie dog or squirrel, is a great cuiiosity. It lives in buriows, or as they’ are called towns, and is about a third lar ger than the fox squirrel. The head ig thick and clumsy, it has large jaws, full large eyes, but the ear is not prominenty consisting of little more than the orifice. The budy is long. and legs short, the ‘ail not much Jarger than that of 2 commoty ground squirrel, and very delicate; the hair shoit and sleek, of a light grey ex< cepting on the belley where it 1s white; It is without doubt a species of squirrel houeh it has a cloven lip like tbe iabit. mz cs a 1 oise very similar to that of e ground squirrel, though uch londer; { i fand resembling in a-slight degree he bags
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