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of thc gallicisms and mciclricioin orna ments "which occurred too frequently in former transatlantic productions. The purity of its anglicism far exceeds what is frequent among ourselves. This, with the impression left by some elegant mind ed Americans who have vUitcd us within the last few years, hae brought about a wonderful revolution in public opinion in favor of our grand children of the new continent. Mr. Mackenzie, ( Henry) who is still the most lively person I meet with, and by far the most eloquent and pleasant, sat with me a good while the other day, as indeed he often does. . He talked of A.merica as a Most magnificent and won derful country, and expressed his admira tion of the late works." BURNS'S MONUMENT. Extract from Mrs. Graft's Letter to a Lady near Boston, dated Ldinburg, Jan. 2. One person, and one thing in Dum fries, I must tell you of the person is Burn's Jean, and the thing Burn's Monu ment. Jean, whom I knew slightly be fore, notwithstanding the cloud on her early life does credit to her husband's choice !Tnd to his memory. She is a per son of strong plain sense and an excellent heart, and by her patience in adversity and moderation in her late prosperity, as well as her general conduct, has won the good will of all. Her two sons in India have attained to lucrative situations, and allow her between them two hundred a w r r I - t " year, llcr nouse is a peneci muuei 01 cood taste and simnle neatness. It is o 1 ... much embellished, but it is ttic same house which he inhabited. His fellow citizens have given the name of Burns's Street to that whuh he inhabited. Mis. Burns's manners are indicative of that chastened good sense, which is best ripen ed in a varied life, like hers. 1 here is indeed a kinr of intuitive propriety about her, in all she says and does. t he monu ment which is lately finished, filled me with pleasure and surprise, both by the design and execution. I have seen noth ing in Westminster that seems to me at all so appropriate, or indeed better finish ed. You would suppose they would have chosen a scene in the vision, or some such poem, to lurnish an inscription and a hint for the sculpture ; not at all with matchless good taste they selected a pe riod from his dedication of his works to the Caledonian Hunt The irenius of my country found me as Elijah found Eli aha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me.' Could there be a hap pier thought or one more calculated to af ford a fine image to the Statuary ? In the first place, the Mausoleum consists of a Dome, open, but supported by pillars and railed round. It is in the manner of the Temple at Barnurdswell, but far more elegant, and finely finished within. In the back part is a very large tablet of white marble, where, in alto relcivo, ap pears the figure of the young rustic as large as iife, and very like the best por trait of him. There is nothing fine or Grecian about him. It is a true Scotch plough on which he has his hand, (a toil wo-n hand) and his is the true costume of a Scotch peasant, improved only and rendered more classi-I cal by the neck beinj thrown open as a ploughman is apt to do when over-heatcd. Pleasure, mixed with surprise, animates his countenance, while with his bonnet in hand, lr? looks up to the descending fig ure which seems floating towards him in the air. It is the muse of Caledonia, all serial elegance and superhuman grace, finely contrasting with the manly rustici ty of the entranced ploughman. She spreads out the ample verge of her man- tic as to miold him. I his mantle has a broad border of thistles, to give it charac ter. Instead of an inscription, the em phatic name cf Burns is engraved thus nui;.."5 on tne uasc oi tc monu ment. The exquisite grace and perfect simplicity ol the whole is beyond all praise. ECLIPSC OF THE SUN. The following description of the Eclipse of the Sun, which will take place on Mon day, 27th August, is from Fisher's Alma nac, calculated for (lie meridian cf New Haven. Be?-irming - 7h. 4C$m. A. M. Middle - - - fih. 5(Jm. r.d .... I0h. 2.3ni. Duration - 2h. 4o:n. Digits eclipsed, 8 degTces 10 minutes on Sun's -Ccuth Limb. The centre of the penumbra will strike the ear.h at 8 hours 32 minutes, in lat. 29 N. Ion. 117 W. from Greenwich, near the coast of California, and will cross the northern part of the Spanish dominions, ;he states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala bama, and Georgia ; after which it will pass down the. Atlantic Ocean, and will leave the earth at 20 minutes past noon, in 23 S. lat. and 6 E. Ion. about midway between St. Helena and the Cope of Good Hope. The Sun will be centrally eclips ed on the meridian at lOh. 22m. in lat. 14 deg. 43 in in. N. Ion. 1 A cleg. i n vv est. This is a larger eclipse than has hap pened since the year 1311, or will happen for some years to come. It will afford a very favorable opportunity of determining the longitudes of places throughout the United States.. INTELLIGENCE. He comes, the herald of a noisy world, News from ail nations lumbYing at his 1 back. l OKCIGN SUMMARY. TROM THE COM MEItCI AL AIlVERTISER. An elegant Altar piece has been discov cred by some workmen, enclosed between two walls, in the touth aisle of the Bristol Cathedra!. In the north aisle also some od of engraving bank notes, by which the superb remains were discovered, with gild- work will be executed in different colors, ingand colors remarkably bright, and per- which it is expected will increase the dif fect fluid columns. The dilapidation prob- ficulty of forgery. The specimens will ably took place in the reign oi Henry VIII. shortly be before the public, at the suppression of monasteries. Court of Claims. Among the many cu lt is understood that an immense mili- lions applications to perform certain ser tary force is to be assembled within and vices at the crowning of the King of Eng- in the vicinity of the Metropolis upon the land was that of Godfrey and Cooke, approaching Coronation. Chymists, praying to be allowed to pre- It appears that Mr. Brougham has giv- pare and supply the oil for the purpose, cn up his Education Bill, on account of after consecration, of anointing his Ma the opposition it lias met with among the jesty. These petitioners applied to be ai dissenters. lowed to fulfil such service, because their It is not generally known that all the house had supplied the Anointing Oil principal figures in Mr. West's picture of used at the coronation of George III. k4 f TriT.'P I, "thrill- t It cri I'nffralt"!. That of the sick man in the front, is paint ed from the brother of the late Mr. Barry, the Artist ; he is now blind, and sits daily near the nursery ground, opposite Euston square, to solicit the alms of the benevo viliilJl (.. t i. .v 7 - - ...... w - lent who pass him. Surgery. When the surgeons of Tri- poli take off a limb, they dip the stump into a bowl of he: pitch which settles the mio a uowi oi no: pr.cn wnicn seines me bleeding without tying up the arteries. The experiment ha been tried of dri- vitig a c .rri igc ftcm London to Liverpool and Manchester, at the rate of eleven miles an hour. Although the distance was accomplished within the time, yet it proved that the plan was not practicable without extreme cruelty to the horses. Mr. Hume, member for Aberdeen, hav- ing told a Mr. W. (a ministerial member, more remarkable for his trequcnt cries of " hear, hear,' than his eloquent speeches,) that my Lord Castlcrcagh (now Marquis of Londonderry) was like the letter Q the latter requested an explanation. " Be- cause, answered Mr.il. very good na- turedly, " he is always followed by U." A poor blind man, of the name of James Watson, of Edinburg, has invented and brought to peifection, a musical instru- ment, wnicn unites tne power oi two vio- luutcuui , it was u, iaii ui aj.ijf-iuui semi-tones, and more could be added, if necessary ; upon this instrument he dis- plays a remarkable degree of practical dexterity. A new Chapel is about to be erected, in Liverpool, for the use ot a body ot Secta- nans called aanciemamans, wno are De a i 1 t i I cerning pretty numerous inithe North cf England. A camp meeting of the Primitive Meth- ouists lately tooK place on iviexuorougn Common, in Yorkshire, which consisted of between twenty and thirty thousand persons. In ttie centre ot tbe ground, at some distance from each other, stands A Madrid article of June 14 says, the were placed for the preachers. This sitting of the Cortes on the 12th was im great assemblage met and separated with portant ; the Minister of Finance stated the greatest decorum. that the amount of fhe contributions paid I he discovery ships sailed irom Long- hopc? Orkneys, 30th May, where they had been detained severed days. In the population list ot Lclinnurg is an insn woman, aged toi, wno sun earns ner subsistence Dy spinning. 1 he Constitutionnel, a Pans journal, states - mat tne lung's attorney general at London, zx the instance ot tne minis ters of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, is about to prosecute the editor ot a paper, who compared the alliance of Alexander I. Francis II. and Frederick William III. to the triumvirate cf Octavius, Lcpidus, and Marc Anthony. This is very probable. When Bonaparte was First Consul, and at peace with Great Iliitain, the publisher of a French paper in London was prose cuted, and subjected in damages, for a libel against the ruler of France. A large sea-toad was lately left by the tide in the river Severn. The head and mouth were considerably more than half its bulk ; thc diameter of the latter, when extended, was more than 15 inches, and lined with small, but very sharp teeth. It had a receptacle or paunch under each fin, capable of containing a couple of quarts : it weighed 1 1-2 cwt. At Sir C. Hawkins silver and lead mine, at Ncwlyn, in Cornwall, a solid plate of silver was taken last week from the smelting furnace, which weighed 286 lbs. It is stated, in accounts from Giessen, in Hesse-Darmstadt, that on thc third of May, there fell in different parts of that city a rain of thc color of blood. Profcs- sor Zimmerman analyzed it, and says that its component parts were oxvd of iron, province of Spain and Portugal, and a an earthly acid, and carbon. Many of thc great part of France, volunteered to pre inhabitants were much alarmed by thc pare himself as a Mahomcdan for a jour shower, ney from thc source to thc termination of Professor Hanstcen announces that po- the Nitrer, but on speculations that could larity iu not confined to iron ; but that a wall, a tree, or thc mast of a ship, are ca pable of producing the effects of a north pole below, and a south pole above. U.'.der the head of Literature, the lev erpool Mercury says, " A hhorl time since a coroner's jury assembled near Waldron, on an inquest ; when they came to thc ceremony of signing, there was but one among the twelve who could write his name." It would be difficult to find twelve such literary men in Ameiica. A medal h3 been struck by thc city of I Padua, in honor of the traveller Belzoni, who is a native of that place. M. Belzoni presented to that city two lion-headed statues of granite, part of the fruits of his enterprising researches. Voltaire's tragedies have been transla ted and printed at Odessa, in the modern Greek, (the Romaic.) They have been successfully represented in the Theatre of that city. Sir V. Congreve has invented a meth I I lir fy-mi-f nf'ni. inr. nxrla t.. . M li J Ci 11, klliUl Hit II 1 OvJIili; III- quiries, stated, that they had nothing to do with this application. The petitioners did not adduce any warrant or authority for the privileges they claimed. It re garded regulations that were under the exclusive controul of his Majesty. The King could appoint such person as he pleased. If the claim of Mr. Walker, the Kinsr's the claim ot Mr. Walker, the King' Apothecary, now preferred, be allowed ii the Court of Claiuis, he will be obliged t attend at the coronation in the dress o in to of the Esculapius of Edward II. viz. long shoes, turned up af. the toe, and looped to the knee ; a blue stocking on one Ieir, ant; a red stocking on the other, with a party colored vest and cloak. His office wil be to carry in one hand a bottle of ncrfum ed oil. The dress of each gentleman pension er at the coronation is, we are told, to con tain one thousand two hundred sutrar-loa buttons I If each of these is to have its respective button-hole, the centlemen hat better commence dressing themselves lm mediately, lest they be too lute for the cer emony. Miss Fellowes, sister to XV. D. Fel lowes, Esq. Secretary to the Lord Great Chamberlain, has, we learn, been appoint CU CIUCI Jiero IVQmaTl ID MS iVlJieSty On the day of coronation.. Her dutv will be accompanied by her six maids, (who are to be young ladies of respectable families,) to precede the procession, and to strew the path with flowers. Miss Fellowe will, in fact, be the first person in the oro cession. The rova! state-coach, which was made so long ago as the beginning of the reign of Geortre II. has iust been reDaired. jew wheels and new linings have been furnished, and the old ornaments have been furbished up, so that the whole makes a very splendid appearance. ln the last ten months to make i-ood ar- rears, was 120,764,158 reals, and for the payment of the current taxes, the sum of 585.297,352 reals, making the sum total 0t 705,061,5 10 reals, the general estimate being 712,000,000: theie remained onlv 6 000,000 to be paid in the two remaining months to complete the amount. Liierhool horn the annual bill of mortality, for the town and parish of Liv erpool and its vicinity, just published, it appears that, from the 1st of January, 1820, the number ot bnths was, males 2432, females 22S6, total 4713 ; exhibiting an increase in births of 1 70. The burials, durin thc same period, were, males 1541, females 1616, total 3157; exhibiting a de crease in burials of 571, and a superiority in the number of births over the burials of 1561. I he number of marriages wa 1653, showing a decrease of 1 1. In a recent London paper, the follow ing singular advertisement appeared : " Accommodation to journeymen coopers. Wanted, 12 men who are in the habit of getting drunk three days a week only ; six to work three days, and the other six to work three days, alternately. Apply to C. C , Kay-street, Clerkenwell. N. l. Six sober men, to work all the week, will be preferred." EXTH A 0 RD IXAR Y ENTE liP RISE. Troni the London Quarterly Review. Captain Dundas Cochrane, a command- cr in the navy, after perambulating every not be complied with. He therefore trav- elled on foot to St. Petersburg, and was introduced to the Emperor, to whom he proposed a journey on foot across Siberia, following the northern land which he sup posed to be joined to America, or, finding that not to be the case, to procure a pas sage across Behring's Strait, enter Kot zcbues Inlet, and prosecute his journey on foot along the northern coast of Amer ica to one of the establishments of the Hudson's Bay Company. The Emperor readily acceded to his project, and he set off with a passport and an order from the Minister of the Interior, to all to whom he might apply to afford him every pos sible assistance. In September last, in formation was received at Petersburg oi his having reached the Altai mountains on the confines of Chinese Tartary ; and that from Irkutsk he was now bending his way to the northward to avoid interrup tion from the Chinese, and with the view of reaching Kamschatka, as the most like ly place to procure a conveyance across Behring's Strait. Coupling, therefore, this extraordinary expedition with ore sent officially by the Russian government, under the orders of Lieut. Baron Wran gle, to ascertain with certainty the exist ence and precise position of the north east Cape of Asia ; the laud expedition of Lieutenant, now Captain Frankiin, in America, and that of Capt. Parry, we cannot but indulge a hope that, in no great lapse of time, the geography cf the north ern regions of Asia and America will be accurately determined. DOMESTIC. TORNADO AND HAIL STORM. auousta, july 25. A tornado, of the most awful nature in its effects, pass ed through the counties of Oglethorpe, Wilkes, and Lincoln, on Sunday morn ing, the 15th ult. and destroyed or injur ed every thing in its progress The larg est trees were uprooted and twisted from their trunks barns blown down, and their contents (corn and wheat) scattered be fore the wind promising plantations of corn and cotton utterly ruined, and many persons made beggars, who a moment be foie deemed themselves independent. Such is the account we have received of the awful visitation, the particulars of which will be found in thc following ex tract of a letter received by the editor, from a gentleman of this place, at pres ent in ilkes county. idver. " On Sunday morning last, just before day light, a most tremendous tornado passed through a part of this county, and in its course has done extensive injury; and in some instances has been attended almost with ruinous consequences. It commenced, as far as I can understand, a bout Athens ; at least its effects have been heard of as high up as that place it passed through Oglethorpe, Wilkes and Lincoln, and from the latter county crossed Savannah river; but how far it extended into South-Carolina, or what damage it has done there, I have not un derstood. Its width was from half a mile to two miles, getting wider as it approach ed the river. In its passage through this county it was from half a mile to three quarters wide, and in that space, during .1 us wnoie progress, it has done vast and incalculable mischiet. it passed through one of our neighbor's plantations, and almost totally destroyed his crop: his overseer yesterday told me that he should not make enough for the supply of the place upon the day before the hurricane, he calculated upon a hundred and forty bales of cotton, and a tolerable crop of corn. I rees, Fences, and houses were blown down ; and the awful roar of thc wind, and a violent and incessant shower ol hail and rain, rendered the duration of the storm a period of almost inconceiva ble apprehension and alarm. The wind leveled the trees in every direction twisting off those of large size, and scat tering the fences far and wide : the hail stripped the cotton and the corn to the bare stalk, and in many instances beat it into the earth at such a rate, that in the morning scarcely a vestige of vegetation vas to bo seen in fields which the day be fore presented a promising prospect. Several poor persons in this neighbor hood, particularly two or three widows, have lost their entire crops, and are so injured in their prospects, as to require the aid of the benevolent for their sup port, and subscriptions to assist them have been set on foot, and are liberally patronized. Mr. , who formerly re- sided in Augusta, who had a flourishing and extensive crop of cotton and corn growing on his large and valuable planta tion, had unfortunately the whole of his place within the influence of the hurri cane, and his prospects of a crop arc to tally destroyed; he told me yesterday that he should not make a pound of cot ton, or a bushel of corn : his last year's corn house was blown to pieces, and the corn scattered about the fields ; his large barn was blown down, aud the wheat in it blown away and lost : his carriage house was blown down, and his carriage destroy ed his poultry house was blown down, and above three hundred head of poul- ry, ne mtormed me, was killed by the hail ; and the trees were blown down so hick around him, that he had to make a circuit ot halt a mile, to i'et from hie house to the road. His nciehbou rs also suffered severely. In short, I scarcely ever heard of more serious iujury from such a tornado in any part of the up country- as it widened towards thc river, I believe it was comparitively less violent, so that I hope the injury was lessened as it progressed." Charleston, aug. 7. By the schoon er Jiagle, Captain King, who arrived at this port on Sunday last, from New-Orleans, v.c have- been favored with thc pa- ers of that" city to the 17th uk. inclusive, from which we have made a few extracts for this morning's Courier The exports from New-Orleans, from the 1st October, 1S20, to the 7th July, 1821, amount to 126,729 bales cotton, and 23,344 hogs heads tobacco. The number of vessels in port on the 17th July, was S ships, 12 brigs, 5 schooners, and 2 sloops. A violent gale, or tornado, was experK enced at New-Orleans on the 13th ult. which did considerable damage. Its ex tent was about 800 or 900 yards in length, and about 200 in breath. A great num ber of buildings were blown down and dam aged, and two persons were killed A oart of the distillery of Messrs. Fort k Clement, the walls of which were O! brick, 14 inches thick, was blown down, which exposed to the rain aooiu mree hundred hogsheads of Molasses, most of which was spoiled. A piece of pine scantling was blown from a house, and one end of it pierced severrl inches into a 13 inch wall, w here it i remained the next dav. The whole damage done by the gale is estimated at about sixty thou sand' dollai s. The gale was also felt at the English Turn, (where considerable damageVas done to thc crops of corn,; nil A also in Mobile Bay. LIGHTNING. salem, july 28. We had a heavy thunder storm on Wednesday. afternoon. 1 he lightning struck a tree in Andrew street, split, and tore off much of the bark, a piece of which was hurled 30 feet. It also levelled a post which stood a few feet from the tree. A horse and cart (in the care of a boy) were standing about six feet from the tree. The boy was stunned, and the horse much frightened, but no injury was sustained by either. At Wenham the same afternoon, thc lightning struck the house of Mr. Josiaii Kimball, and we lament to hear, killed his son, a lad of about 8 years of age Thc lightning descended by the chimney, which was much shattered, and entering the interior of the house, did great injury to thc furniture, broke the crockery, win dows, Sec The boy was found dead by the side of a bed upon which he had been sitting. The lightning also struck two houses at Mackerel cove, in Beverly, belonging to Messrs. Josiah Chapman and Charles Harris. Thc houses did not sustain any essential damage, and no person was se riously injured. The lightning passed so near to Mrs. Chapman as to rend thc seam of one of her shoes. THE COLUMBUS, Commanded by Com. Bainbridge, which vessel arrived at this port from Gibraltar in company with the U. S. brig Siar.t captain Elton, on Sunday last, is perhaps the largest ship of the line that ever sail ed in the European seas, under the Amer ican flag. She is about 2,400 tons bur then, according to the usual measure ment, and carries 64 guns on her gun deck, and 36 carronades on her quarter deck and forecastle. Her complement cf men is 800. She draws 26 feet of water, and measures 250 feet of altitude from the surface of thc water to the highest point cf her main-top-gallant-royal-must-truck. On coming on the coast on Friday last, the Columbus met with a school of Mack erel, which followed the ship all day ; in the course of which period, they caught thc unpareileled number, according to an estimate, of 12,000 of that fish. There were near 300 lines used, and the people pulled in the fish as fast as they could throw their bait into thc water. One of the Lieutenants counted 600 Mackerel which he caught with his own hands. The Columbus has brought many rare plants, birds, and animals ; of the latter, two cattle of the celebrated white Tus can breed, are the most conspicuous. J3osto?z Intelligencer. ZAXEJ.VILLE. JULY 31. l:firaisement law, again l he crimes which are committed in this state, unoer this infamous law, meet the eve in every direction. All kinds of trash broken tombstones, human skeletons, dois, ice- &c. are turned out to satisfy executions, and appraisers are generally at hand to place a high value on them I How lontr this mode of collecting, or rather net col lecting debts, is to continue, cannot clearly be foreseen. If thc members of the next Legisla ture who are in favor of this law were to receive their pay in such articles as arc I C. , . - i iiciiueuuy iiirnea out as property under its provisions, instead of the fascinating three dollars a day, there is reason to be lieve a change of affairs would soon be thc consequence. Much villainy and fraud might, howev er, be prevented by the vigilance and care of the people throughout the state, in the election of proper officers. It is very important that judicious and honest con stables should be elected. Messenger. Arrangement of thc Judges for the Fall nuim Edenton, Newborn, Wilmington, Raleigh, Hillsborough, Morganton, Judge Dasiei, 13 aiio eh, Paxto", Nash, Norwood, Y:.T. hill, sccv Italrjfi, jivgwe 4, 1821.
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