before the Congress ; but, as such inci dental services us have been described in this letter ruive never been considered contracts, they have not assumed that form, and consequently have not been re corded. I am, respcctfuliv, -h-, c:r h't ?crvant, YVV.". U. CIlAWJr'OKl). Hon. Daniel P. C'.'.f:, Chairaa:. of the Comn.UUe, .c. U. 11. Tr.M-r:-.7 1) n autient, Third Auditors o;::.c, 5h.rc!i 23, 1822. Sir: I have the honor to state, in re ply to your inquiry, that it appears, from the books of the late accountant of the War Department, that Elias Earle, Esq. of South Carolina, received a warrant, is sued by the Secretary of War, dated 3d February, 1815, for S40,C00, on account of the Indian Department, and that, on the settlement of his account, in Novem ber, 18 16,. the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars was allowed him by the act ing Secretary of War, for his commis sions, expenses, Ztc in the disbursement of 827,121 55, the balance found due, having been then refunded. In the case of Col. R. M. Johnson, he has been paid for his services, as commanding a regi ment of Kentucky volunteers, from the 20th May to the 19th November, 1C13, amounting to S767 80. In several in stances moneys have been placed in the hands of members of Congress, to pay principally to the militia discharged from service without receiving their pay. For these sums they have been chargedand held accountable to produce the proper ieceipls. The Secretary of War will be pleased to decide whether such cases con stitute any of those embraced within his inquhy. With great respect, your obedient servant, PKTKU MANNER, Auditor. Hon. J. C. Caliiou, Secretary of War. Extract of a letter from the Secretary of War to Col. R. M. Johnson, dated May 21, 1811. " Sik : You have been appointed a com missioner to treat with the northwestern Indians. In this mission you will be as sociated with Major General Harrison and ths Hon. Jeremiah Morrow." Wau UiT-innEVT. May 31st, 181 J. Sin : The President's nomination of Mr. Morrow and ourself (communicated by my letter of the 24th inst.) as commis sioners for assisting in the Indian treaty tbout to be held, was made without ad verting to the fact, that the acceptance on your parts would vacate your seats in Con gress. Not supposing that this would be desirable, either on public or piivatc grounds, he has recalled these nomina tions, and appointed in your stead Govern ors Shelby and Cass. I have, Z.c. Scr. J. AUMSTKOJSG. Col. Xh M. Joiinsox. Same to Judge Morrow. War Department, February 26, 181S. Sir : You are hereby authorized to or ganize and hold in readiness a regiment of mounted volunteers, the organization, us to the number of officers and men, to be conformable to the military establish ment of the United States ; the horses to be dispensed with, if thought expedient, upon the arrival of the regiment at its place of destination. The Governor of the state of Kentucky will be requested to commission the officers when selected ; to serve four months after being called into actual service, and six months if required by the United States ; the pay of officers and men to commence from the actual :ervice and march of the corps under the direction of this Department. After marching orders, the contractors and com missaries, agents in the different districts, through which it passes, will supply the regiment with forage for the horses, and provisions for the men, if required to do to. The keepers of Military stores will also furnish said corps with ammunition on regular returns of the effective force of the regiment. If any difficulty arises as to rank, the commanding general will settle the same after the corps shall have: reached its place of destination. I have, v. I Ainiv I : 1 . Hon. It. M. Joassox. NATT I) KI' ATITMENT, Much 2-th, is::. In replv to your letter of the 22d Sin inst. I have the honor to state, that the records of the department have been care fully examined, and they afford no in stance in which a member of Congress has been employed as agent, attorney, or counsellor, on behalf of the Navy Depart ment, during the period for which he wa a niembcr9 since thc; passing of the act i emulating public contracts, approved 21st April, 13C8: And, in all contracts made by, or in behalf of this department, a clause is introduced, stipulating that no member of Congress shall have any interest, or be, in any wise, concerned, either directly or indirectly, in any of the issues, profits, or receipts, of such contracts. With gieat respect, cc. SMITH THOMPSON. Hon. Daniel I. Cooir, Chairman of the Committee If. I!. LETTER FROM MR. RODNEY, A Senator from the State of Delaware, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. S'n: In a Renort made to the House of Ren- Vs-wDtatives, by the Select Committee, to whom were rc f:.rcd several rcrr.xm . .uv.:., fit m the 'Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the man ner in which the Land Oihces have been exam ined1, it is stated 'The Committee believe it to have been uiu- al in the War Department, also, to employ ' members of Congress U3 counsel in behalf of "the United Stater, and they refer part:cular " Iv to the instance of M. Ilahiv.in, of t h House "of Representative:", and Mr. Kotlney, of Delu " ware, of the Senate, employed and paid as lilt ocii.ui cm nu iima ii-mi I nder the direction of the present Sc-! f War' i " counsel uni " cret.trv ot With respect to myself, an error has hcen un- intentionally, committed; as I was not, when employed or paid, a member of Congress, ei ther of the Senate or of the House of lieprcsen- f'llivnc t1ic will ornr'i- frm fCCIt'.tl. Oil i l. ttfr 'mm ! Major Rabcock, of the Corps of Engineers, who was stationed at New Castle, requesting 1113 pro fessional services, in the case of an ejectment brought for the Pea Patch, the trial cf which was expected to take place at F ronton, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Dis trict of New Jersey, on the first of April following. Agreeably to this desire, I attended the Court, but the- trial was postponed, in consequence of the absence of material witnesses on the part of the defendant. Rules were obtained for the ta king their depositions, and also for a special ju rv, and for a survey of the disputed premises. In the summer of 1S20, a detailed Report of the case was prepared and transmitted to the Department of War. At the October term, in the same year, I attended again at Trenton ; and was there on the day of the general election, in Delaware, when Representatives to the Seven teenth or present Congress were chosen. The result, however, was not known, until some days after my return. In the month of November following I was paid for the services rendered, and I have not since been at the Court. The constitutional term of the present House of Representatives, commenced on the 4tl, of March, 1S21. I ntil that period arrived, I was not a member of Congress ; and might have held any other incompatible office under the Consti tution of the United States or of Delaware. The legislature of the State of Delaware chose me a Senator of the United States on the 10th of January last, but the certificate of my election was not received, in consequence of my absence, from severe indisposition, until the 24th of that month, when I took my sent in the Senate. This simple narrative of facts, given accord ing to the best of my recollection, assisted by the original papers lately received, is respectful ly submitted to the consideration of the House of Representatives with a view of correcting any erroneous impression which may have been made lv the unintentional mistake of so respectable a Committee. 1 have the honor to be vour most ob't servant, C. A RODNEY. Hen. Philip P. R vniiF.n, Speaker of the House of Representatives. .ij.ni 27, is::. THE FOREIGN RELATIONS Of the United States appear to be in a sort of serio-comic condition just enough to keep Mr. Adams hand in play, and prevent the department of slate from dwindling into a sinecure. After the peaceable acquisition of Florida, it was thought to be very improbable that any further misunderstanding could take place with Spain. Hut Callava and Coppingcr have furnished more combustible matc lials than even Alagan and Punonrostro ; and while the Macedonian frigate is gone to Havana to fetch a bundle of papers, the chevalier Don Joaquin D'Anduaga, after the explosion cf all his diplomacy at Washington, is ivalking Spanish home wards. France having plenty of claret, and the United States plenty of cotton to spare, are trying which can do the other the most harm, by depriving themselves of markets for their exports ; and Mr. de Neuville, to show his fidelity in represent ing the French government, is said to have been so ultra in his correspondence that he too is going home out of humour. That prince of emperors, the Czar of all the Russias including a few thousand miles on this continent of ours has dis covered that a Russian marine league ex tends a hundred Italian miles, or that a Russian cannon will carry that distance on the American coast ; and having en closed the While Sea and the Black Sea, is disposed to make a belt of the Pacific. Mr. Poletica has accordingly charged this great Russian culvcrin with such shrap neils as Krasilinooff, and Kicecheninicotf, (what a ninny !) and Tehiricoff, and Chlo dicoff, and Scrcbrcanicoff, and Sayeroff, (that is the last of the Coffs,) and Pouche arcfi, and Lazereff, and MedwedefF, and SolowiefV, and Lcwr.sheff, (that is the last of the Effs,) and Krenitzin ; but finding that he gets as hard knocks, though not as hard names, as he sends, he too is on the wing to he gone, with his feathers a little rumpled. Meanwhile Mr. Adams tenders each of their excellencies, and all of them, the assurances of his most distinguished con sideration, and is commanded by the Pre sident to declare, that, although he will not let Coppingcr and Callava have the papers, nor France the cotton without the claret, nor Russia the whole Pacific for Mr. Cracaninicoff and the rest, yet they may rely on his sincere disposition to cul tivate amity with them all. Suppose the three departing envoys should go to Europe in the same vessel, if one would hold them ; and to agree to advise their august masters to retaliate on us by the sale of Mexico and South America at auction. Going, going, gone. Mexico is knocked down to Russia. Cuba and Chili to Great Britain. The Colombian Republic to France. By which disposi tion of her American estates, Spain real izes a large sum in ready money and heavy annuities for future payment, while the recognition cf the United States is cn- countered Ly Russia, Great Biitain and France, with their respective rights to the ceded countries. Their titles would be thought similar to our title to Florida. They can furnish kings, if Spain conveys them kingdoms, with fleets at least, if not armies to maintain them. Many a true word is spoken in jest. The executive, no doubt, has pondered , ., ... . n , t . 3 tnese possibilities. But has Congress I We laurrh at Cracaninicoff, while he is ten thousand miles off. Hut there would be some prating of his whereabout if he should plant a potentate in Mexico. There are serious, as well as ludicrous views to he taken of our foreiirn relations. Not mcaning, however, to treat them gravely on this occasion no more at present. Phil. .lnu r. Sentinel. INGENIOUS PLAY UPON WORDS. America and llussia or the OFFS and the ONS. If we may judge from the formidable list of witnesses snmmoned up by Mr. Poletica in defence of the claims of Rus sia on the Northwest Coast, the contest between that power and our government will not be speedily settled. Tcchinc-&", Choldil-o, Serebronic-oj7", Krassilui-oT, and Payc-c", are a few of the authorities by which he hopes to urge uso'aiid warn us off from our settlements on that part of the Continent ; and, if these fail, no doubt that his august master will send some Plal-o$, to drive us cJ force us cff and Kutus-. These will, no doubt, be met by the administratis at Washingici, who will summow President Jefferson and Madisow, Ambassador Middletow, Secre tary Thompsc??, Livingston and Johnson, and Reporter Wheatc;, to establish their pretension; and should these fail, the last resort will be had to General Jackson, who no doubt will dash on towards Colum bia River, and take off the heads of all the off'a that can be sent to oppose him. JVeivburufiort Herald. INTELLIGENCE He comes, the herald of a noisy world, News from all nations lumb'ring at his back. FOREIGN. EXTRACTS From late London papers received at the office of the Charleston Courier. LONDON, MAY 5. Royal JWarriage. Caroline, the Crown Princess of Denmark, was born on the C8th of Oct. 1793. As the youngest of the eight children, with which her mother, who was born on the 23th of October, 1777, lias presented her husband, is now 14 years of age, it is very improbable that any male issue from this marriage will disturb the succession of the Crown Prin cess to the Throne of Denmark, which descends to females as well as males The idea of eventually devolving through this projected marriage, to the Crown of Britain, has, we understand, filled the Danes with the utmost alarm. Will Rus sia, interested in preventing the Sound from coming into our hands, dare to for bid the ttanns ? APRIL G. An article from Hermanstadt gives a dreadful picture of the horrible cruelties committed in Moldavia and W:llachia by the Asiatic troops of our Allies the Turks. The fate of Ali Pacha has, it seems, in toxicated both the Turkish populace and the Divan, and the rejection of the Ulti matum has even been accompanied by in sulting language to the Mediating Courts. Indeed, we should not at all be surprised if these stupid fanatics, who think it be neath them to attend to distinctions be tween any of the Christian dogs, were, before all is over, to subject to personal violence all the Christian Ambassadors in discriminately, notwithstanding our exer tions in their behalf, and the many acts of friendship they have experienced from Sir Thomas Maitland. Ali Pacha may thus be considered as having contributed to the downfall of Tur key in more ways than one. It may not be so generally known, however, that to the surrender of Parga, the fate of both Ali and Turkey may chiefly be attributed ; and yet we have heard this more than once affirmed by a very intelligent Greek. When Ali had obtained what had so long been the great object of his ambition, he became elated, and threw of the mas'.i at once with regard to the Porte. This ex cited the indignation of the Porte in turn, and induced the Turks to make the ut most exertions to destroy him. The Greeks, whom no one ever accused of want of discernment, perceived in the fruitlcssncss of the endeavors of the Turks against Ali, how little their power was really to be dreaded, and were, encour aged to commence the work of liberation which they had long meditated. The Russians could not, of course, let slip the opportunity. Thus an act of wanton injus tice carried into execution in so harsh and cruel a manner as to make every English man of feeling almost blush for his coun try, has been felt in a manner the short sighted agents of that injustice never con templated. Morn. Chron. From the True Rriton, April C evening. The result and not the probability , of a war between Russia and the Turks, must nc-,T be the subject ef speculation. The from the Sultan to the slave, are both infatuated and infuriated. They seem to exult over the severed and gnasi iy head of Ali, as if, when it ceased to plot mischief, the spiiit of the Greeks and tnc ambition of Alexander had been annihi lated. Under these circumstances, we doubt not but the Turks will fight desper ately, but in them appears also a pretty certain presage of their final overthrow. It is not extravagant to anticipate that a Russian Governor will ere long take up his abode in St. Sopbia - and that a power, whoe dominions already girdle half the globe, and are washed by nearly twenty seas, and inhabited by almost a hundreo different nations, will push her dominion into that fair peninsula, to whicn cveiy friend of libertv, and every admirer or art and science, looks with such fond adora tion. With regard to the mere change in temporal matters, we know not wheth er Russian subjugation would do any tnmg for the Greeks ; but we arc sure that it would relieve them from a monstrous load of religious oppression. This is all that the fondest dreamer of human happiness can indulge, as result ing to Greece from the expulsion of the Turks by Russia, for we must not hope that Greece is immediately to become a free country, or that when she becomes free, she will be restored to her piistine grandeur. It is not in the nature of Rus sia to conquer for other nations. She has already come, not as an eagle to rend the prey, but as a vulture to feed upon the dead carcase she clutched Finland through the rise of Napoleon and grasped Poland a second time at his fall. GLASGOW, APUIL 2. Under our foreign head the reader will find an abridged account of an action fought at Mongrade, East Indies, on the 21st October, 1821, betwixt a detachment of the 4th Light Cavalry, under Major Ridge, and a numerous body of native troops, commanded by the Manharao in person. Victory, as usual, declared for tlu Hiitish ; and among the gallant young officers whose conduct on the field attract ed the notice of the Commanding Officer, we are happy to see mentioned in the Ga zette the name of Lieutenant James Glen cairn Burns, a native of this country, and the younrrest son of the Poet. Those who take an interest in the family of the Bard, will be pleased to learn this fact, and the more so when we assure them that Mr. Burns, who is as good as he is brave, has ever discharged the duties of a son and a brother, in a manner that entitles him to the warmest regard of every lcal heartcd Scotsman. On Monday week, two laborers trench ing in a field, called the Paper Mills, east of Pontefract, found a large stone coffin, hewn out of the solid piece, measuring 7 feet in length on the outside, and 6 feet 5 inclies within. It contained the per fect skeleton of a man who apparently had been beheaded. The skull was pla ced on the lower part of the body, and a stone was" placed where the head should be ; as soon as the air was admitted, the ribs fell down. The top of the cofiin was formed like the roof of a house, and was 11 inches from the surface of the earth. It is the general opinion that these were the remains of Thomas, Earl of Lancas ter, who was beheaded on a hill to the East of Pontefract, on the 22d of March, 1 022. The Turkish ambassador, who was at Paris in 1798, bought a diamond of a jew eller in that city. While the bargain was concluding one of his people stole a ring ; a little child saw it, and told his father af ter the Turk was gone. The jeweller immediately wrote to the ambassador, who sent him word that he should wait 24 hours. At the expiration of this time the jeweller received aboxdirected to him, which he opened, and found in it the head of the thief, with the ring between his teeth ! LONDON', APRIL 7. Two mails arrived yesterday from Hol land with papers to the 5th inst. An arti cle from Trieste, 15th March, gives the following account of the naval engage ment between the Turks and Greeks : " On the 3d March the Greek fleet, GO sail in number, sailed in the Gulf of Pa tras, where the Turkish fleet, nearly equal in number, had arrived before it. The battle that ensued was fought with great obstinacy on both sides : it continued dur ing the greatest part of the night : the darkness, indeed, interrupted it for some moments, but it was always renewed with much fury, and lasted 23 hours. At the end the Turkish fleet, which was com pletely defeated, was forced to seek safe ty in flight. The result was, that the Greeks captured 25 ships, ran five Tur kish ships aground, and blew up two Al gerine xebecs. The Greeks lost seven vessels, which were sunk, and their Vice Admiral, Botaze, with his brig. This brave captain, being between the two xe becs, fired a red hot ball at one of them, which fell into the powder room, and set fire to one vessel. In blowing up it de stroyed also the Vice Admiral's brig and the other xebec. The Turks, pressed on all sides, fled with the rest of their ships, and hastened to the Gulf of Lepanto The Greeks, having detached some of their vessels to convoy their prizes to Na varina, followed to the above-mentioned Gulf without obstacle, thro' the Little Dar- : dasellcsj and pursued their advantages. DOMES TI ANOTHER DUEL ! ALEXANDRIA, MAY 18. A duel tCCr. place in Washington on Monday evening last, between Mr. Cocke, of the United States Navy, and Mr. Win. Gibson, cf the Treasury Department. The second shot proved fatal to Air. Cocke, the ball entering his right side, just above the hip bone. When will there be measures taken by our Government to prevent the loss of so many valuable officers? When will men discard the murderous idea of setting them selves up as Targets to be shot at ? It would be needless to recount the many valuable officers, which have lately fallen victims to this barbarous practice. We could call to mind a Decatur, the bright est star in the American naval annals. Not long since, we had to record the death of young 11 orthingtcn, who fell a sacri fice to the phrenzied ambition of honor, We would ask, who are to satisfy for the many tears which have trickled down the cheeks of the almost comfortless parents, sisters and brothers, for these outrageous transactions against the laws of God and humanity ? Gaz. Atrocious Outrage. One of those acts of brutal violence, which the pen of the journalist almost shrinks from the tusk of j recording, was perpetrated on Saturday evening last, near Godfrey s gate, nau a mile beyond Fort Barbour, on the Piin cess Ann road, the victim of which was a poor but decent female, the wife of a Mr. Mggs, who keeps a small grocery in the vicinity of Fort Barbour, and the per petrator a negro fellow belonging to Mr. William Langley, of Norfolk county. It was at an early hour of the evening that Mrs. B. was passing along the road, when a tall, stout negro man stepped before her from the side of the road and demanded her money. In vain she assured him she had none, and implored him to let hei pass the ruffian seized and forcibly drag ged her into the woods, where he proccd ed to the perpetration of a crime too horrible for us to name. The unfortunate woman struggled in the monster's grasp, until completely exhausted and nearly be reft of consciousness, she fell a final prey to his brutal design. He then seized her by the hair, and bending her head back until she was nearly suffocated, exclaimed that he was determined she should not have it in her power to betray him ; and while he thus held her with one hand, was busily searching in his pockets with the other for a knife, when summonim all her remaining strength she broke from his hold and fled. Fortunately at the mo ment some persons were passing by in ;t chair, who relieved the poor sufferer from further apprehensions, and kindly convey ed her back to her dwelling, and deliver ed her to the care of her agonized family. She remained for a considerable time in a state of insensibility from the agitation of her spirits and the effect of the bruises she had received in the struggle ; and when, on the next day, she had become more composed, the ruffian fwho had in the mean lime been apprehended) was brought into her presence that she might identify him, she was so horror struck at the sight of him that she fainted away. On her recovery she had no hesitation in affirming that he was the author of her suffering, and he was accordingly com mitted to the county jail. V Norfolk Herald, May Z. Vcru Remarkable. There is now livinr m the county of Campbell, a negro woman belonging to a gentleman of the name of Todd this woman is in her 42d year, and has had 41 children, at this time is preg nant with her 42d child, and possibly with her 43d, as she has frequently had doub lets. This fact is well known to many gentlemen in this county, and is suscepti ble of easy and complete proof. Lynchburg Press. EXPEDITIOUS TRAVELLING. LEXINGTON, (KY.) MAY 2. GeOlgC M. Bibb, Esquire, passed through this place on yesterday in eight days from Washing ten city to Wheeling 4 days, and if a steam-boat had been ready to depart for Louisville, the trip to that place from Washington city might have been per formed in six days, and six days more to New-Orleans, making a distance of about 2,500 miles in twelve days. After such things as this occurring under our imme diate notice, who need be incredulous a bout the proposed flying machine said to be on the slocks in Philadelohia ? PHILADELPHIA, MAY 15. The North Carolina 74 gun ship hauled out into the stream opposite the Navy Yard, yesterday morning. She will take her armament on board at Chester, where she will he fiftpl fr co W&. iJ 4t NEW-YORK, MAY K-z&h continues scarce. All the are drawing in most cautiously- board of brokers sold a few hundred sk ui states' tock on Saturday at c iictvc a remo ft irtp.T oi un"K'i.,' the price of stock generally, when tre ; get it low enough to purchase on lation ; but the bona Jide holders re ; ginning to smell a rat, ana tney $re t
