on tV'ie tii"cui.iiaut;&, a person re
lates luit hi; ilt,i in a very amusing
htor , and us tmt.t need smile i:i pitc
of niir ngr.ivated fadings, an J some
tii'ui a h irse laugh is absolutely lie
cei.ar , or we are considered insuscep
tible i.f agreeable rmoiLin ; and be-
fore our featurr resume ihcir wonted
placidity, wc arc c idled upon to hear
sorrif V) ramus ami Tliiaby tragedy,
and if we d rot weep, we arc pro
nounced cruel umi unfitting.
The Siifin Erg 'end.
Kxtract nf a letter from a (liktiniiisheU literary
t.entli iii.m in I.oUiluM to lu correspondent in
No-1 oik.
"I do not know whether the Spy. ha
as yet been noticed in any of the period
ical works here ; and indeed if it has. the
opinion of these work are so very falla
cious t hut the author may be kept in ig
norance of the real recrptioii of his work.
It gives rue pleasure therefore to state, on
better authority than periodica) criticism,
that the book has been highly successful.
It is daily getting more and more into no
tice, and I dj'ilv hear it spoken of in the
most flattering terms by persons of the
fuse distinction, both in literature and
fashion.
" One of thr best criterion of it suc
cess is, that Murray repines he declined
the publication of it, as he hears it well
spoken of from every quarter. He lays all
the blame at Gilford s door, to whom he
had referred it, when first sent to him.
and who had reported unfavorably of it.
Murray would be triad to receive another
work from the author of the Spy, and will
use every means in hi power to obtain
it."V. Y. Statenman.
Cambridge University has now an an
nual income, including the umount paid
fry the student for tuition, of 45.000 dol
lars It his an account of property, in
eluding building and library, if more than
half.' nillion of dollars and derives from
its f ! and personal estate an annual in
come if more than 20,000 rlallars; yet
fortt-bt or ten years past, lias received
10.CO did l.i rs a vear from the state of
M- rhusetts. In the state of New York,
fur..- to the amount of 7?J,000 dollars
hav K-rn granted to their colleges, and
10 .i,0 to their academies. In Virginia.
SOt' C0 lollars have been expended upon
th. dhling alone of the University lately
ev t lished. South Carolina has within a
fev cars expended 200.000 dollars upon
buil'ings and other accommodations for
thiir University, and pav annually fronr
the state treasury, 12,000 dollars for the!
suction of the irirucor
l'hce facts,
V..1- f'..
are stated in a memorial from Yale Col
lege to the legislature of Connecticut, a
incises to induce a grant of additional
legislative pafonage to that respectable
institution. lllnch'ter JiefiuMcan.
ir.lSHLWTOVS ANCESTORS.
riv a itTa aaiTina rt iLirsTias.
In the complicated and marvellous ma
chinery of circumstances, it is absolutely
impossible o decide what would have hap
pened, as to soi;'- events, if the slightest
disturbance h l ken place, in the march
of those that nrcrdrd them. We may i
observe a li'tle dirty wheel of braf. spin-1
ning round tij e n i' greasy axle, and the
lesult is tW in "Mother apartment, manv
yards disi'n' 'torn ita beautiful piece of
s:lk isu-i Pom a loom, n ailing in us
l.ues thr in'- if the rainbow ; there are
myiiads of events in our live the distance
between which was much grester than
that between thU wheel and the ribbon,
lu where the connexion had been much
more close. If a private country gentle
man in t'heshiie, about the vear seventeen
hundred and thirty, had not been over
turned in his carriage, it is extremely
ptobi-blr that America, instead of being a
free republic at this moment, would have
continued a dependent colony of England.
This country gentleman happened to be
Augustus Washington, F.q. w ho was thus
laccidenily ihrorM into the company of a
bidv who afterwards became hi wife, who
emigrated with bim to America, and in
the vrsr seventeen hundred and thirty
two, t Virginia, beenme the envied mo
ther r tieorge Washington the Great.
HKITISH FINANCES,
if the London accounts m the quarter's
revenue, ending Ort. 10. 1820. be taktn
as an accurate criterion fjr the whole
year the vearly revenue rf the govern
ment of Ore it Br itnin, for one year, 1 80.
is 43,33S.OOO. sterling, equal to ore hum.
ttrrd and Hinrry.thrre mH'iom thret hat
. t!rtd and Jiftren tkwMndJivf hundred and
ffiv jive dollan ar.dffty '" cent. This
immense sum together with the revenue
from Ii eland, and other part of the Brit
ish empire, is, however, not found suffi
cient to p inibe expri.se of the govern
ment which every year in a time of pro
fovnd peace, j:e'j more and more in debt.
The retrtive. thus found Inadequate to
meet rue year' expenses of the lliitisli
l'Ov n.nicnt, would be found more than
ut!'i imt to meet all the experses of the
United Stales gov: tnmen'. lor tm pear.
Pa-Indium.
If nil (he v i (mils wt-,n ,rrtc toittuU as
thr'Tpnu-ipals Ttry title blooj would be shed
ijl that wav.
INTKLLKiHXCK.
Hi 'onii'S henud t a inny world,
NuAh liotn nil latum Imnli'ring ut his buck.
WIT. FROM F.XGLAXl).
The jliip l''cuh', armed ut New-York frmn
.iverjiool has brought I.uii.liii dates to the 7tli
Jiiih", ami Liverpool oi wie atu.
. i .i ...1
bottom fiuvc experienced a further decline
public null have been made of I'plainl at u re
ductiou of 14 per lb. and of Sea Island at 1--
Tlio niarket is extremely heavy, and no hopes
appear to be entertained of any revival. Ki'-e,
on the other hand is looking up. . 2W tieru
sold early in Junr, at Liverpool, from 1 j C to
'"'. and a few hull' tiercel at 16. fid.
The proclamation of the Kir.pcror Alexander,
relative to Turkey in circulation at 1'arisv is pro
nounccd to be a forgery.
Commotion in I'arw, Lyons, and other parts
of France are frequent, and disturbance contin
ues to agitate Spain.
Appearance of hostilities between Turkey
and liWia diminish every duy upon the Conti
nent, tiovernment funds are high in every
country in Europe.
Accounts from St. I'rtcrsbtirgh of April 30,
mention the arrival of M. Tate sclied', and declare
that no war would take place. '1 he Fmperor
had not left that city, but was exacted shortly
to set off to Warsaw, Vienna and Italy.
A bill is before the llritish Parliament, propo
sing to peunit a direct intercourse between the
Kait-tndies and the British Colonics.
Nothing fatal had been done on the 6th June
with the Wet fmlia and American trade bill.
The (ireeks ami Turks still maintain a bl'KKly
Contest villi various sncceis. ( 'luirlettvn ,1cr. I
SI'KF.f II OF IIIF. KIM. OF FltANCE.
Sfreih pioivivncd by hit .Miei'y, vpm ntening
the .Vi-mioi of the Cliumtvrt.
" fiKKTLKMF.sJ 'I'ho necessity which
has long been felt of liberating the finan
cial administration from thuse provisional
measure to which it has been necessary
hitherto to recur, lias determined me, this
year, to anticipate the period of calling
you together, lit exacting from you this
new sacrifice, I relv upon your zeal, and
upon that devo'ion of which you nave giv
en me so many proofs.
" Providence has preserved the infant
which it has given to us, and it is a pleas
ing thought to imagine that he j destined
to tepair the losse and misfortunes which
have bef.dlen my family and my people.
" I have the satisfaction to announce to
you tlut my relations with Foreign Pow
ers continue to te of the most amicable
description. A perfect unanimity has in
fluenced the efforts, concerted between
mv Allic and rovsclf, tn put an end to
the calamities which oppress the Last,
- a - I nf. . 1 . . ...
anu wnicnaiuict numanuy. i cnerisn tne
hope nf seeing tranquility restored to
those countries without the occurrence of
a pew war to aggravate their miseries.
" The naval force which I maintain in
the Levant has accomplished its destina
tion, by protecting my subjects, and by
affording aid to the unfortunate, whose
graiiiude has been the reward of our so
licitude. " I have adopted precautions which have
kept from our frontiers the contagion
which has ravaged a part of Spain. The
present season does not permit that we
should relax these precaution, and 1 shall
therefore continue them as long at the
safety of the country may require it. Ma
levolence alone can discover in these mea
sure a motive foreign to my real inten
tions. "Hash enterprises have disturbed in
some parts nf the kingdom public tran
quility ; but they have only served to dis
play more signally, the zeal of the magis
trates and the fidelity of the troop. If a
small number of individuals w ho are the
encmie of o-dcr, siew with despair our
institutions consolidated and rendering a
new support to the Throne, my people ab
hor their criminal designs. I shall take
care that violence doe not deprive them
of the privilege they enjoy.
" Positive calamities though exaggera
ted by fear, have recently desolated the
department contiguous to the capital
The aid of public and private benevolence
has, however, mitigated them. The ac
tivity of the inhabitant shortened the du
ration of these disaster j authority sec
onded their real justice will punish the
guilty.
u The exact state of the debt arrtrree
is at length ascertained, and will be sub
mitted to you. This debt, whose origin
is in times happily far removed from us,
and whose liquidation has developed its
full extent, will retard for the present
yeir, in spite of my most deep regret, a
part of those ameliorations of which the
various branches of the revenue will be
susceptible.
' The advantage we have already r,b.
tained, should encourage us to perseveit:
for their maintenance and increase. 1
rely upon your aid to secure, in our beau
tiful ccuntry, that ptospe rity wh'n.h Prov
idence designs for us; this is the wish of
my heart; the incessant object of my
thoughts; it is the consoling idea which
allevi ates the recollection of tny piiinn,
and whii h embellishes the anticipations ol
the future."
LONDON, JUNE 6.
The rumoured Congress ut the rity of
Florence is aanounccd in l'ajis with in
creating confidence; but the soveicigus
of which this assemblage will be compo
sed, are not even a fleeted to be known.
That Russia and Austtia would be princi
pals is obvious: what other potentates
might be invited to assist the council of
Legitimacy, no conjecture is yet hazard
ed. If such assemblage be really held, it
may be hoped that the results of the de
liberations will be more conducive to the
permanent tranquility of Europe than
those of the memorable Congress at Vi
enna. Mr. De Tutischefl'i represented
as remaining at I'etersburgh, without any
appearance of tho negotiations laving
terminated. From that circumstance
peace is inferred, nnd the Austrian Metal
li'iuei bear a better price. At Paris, and
in London, the expectation is for peace.
The obstacle to publicly promulgating an
event which cannot but give satisfaction
to the mcnied interests, is nevertheless
yet involved in mystery. From Buchar
est we learn, that the Asiatic troops
spread havock and destruction at every
point within the sphere of their retreat;
but that the inhabitants could not divest
themselves of apprehension that they
might yet return. The mutual atrocities
of Turks and Greeks give a character of
sanguinary ferocity to the contest, alto
gcthe.r disgusting. At Scio, the street
are said to have been covered with many
thousands of dead Greeks, in which were
comprehended, as well females as males.
If in the capture of the place 4000 of the
assailant were destroyed, that obstinate
resistance) may account in some degree
for the extent of the massacre nor have
we any reason to doubt that the ven
geance of the Greeks, if successful, had
been equally sanguinary. It must, how
ever, be remembered that the Greeks
have been groaning under the yoke of op
pression during three centuries, and of
(he many anomalies in national policy,
which modern times present, that of the
support of Turkey, by Austria and En
gland, is not the least surprising. That
the Government secretly abet the Turks,
has been long conjectured if the follow
ing extract of a letter received in town
this morning from Salotiica lie deemed
worthy of credit, conjecture will be con
verted into certainty :
f Ejrtract J a letter from Suluuica.J
a The important Island of Negropont
is delivered from the Turkish yoke, after
a series of bloody battles, in which the
Greeks of the island were supported by
the troop of the Peloponnesus. The
inhabitant of Sapor, ia have intercepted a
large sum of money from Constantinople
to Chourschid Pacha. The llydriots
have seized three thgfuh sessels with
ammunition for the Turks. The Greek j
government paid the captains of these j
vessel the price of ihcir cargoes, and
sent them to Zante, with a letter to the j
English commander, complaining of the i
repeated violations of the neutrality to
which the English had pled-red them
selves. An .luttrian vessel, after con
senting to be searched by a Greek brig,
tired upon her, and killed several of her
crew j but the Greeks returned the charge,
captured the Austrian, and carried her to
Patmos, where the Captain will be tried."
lirithh Truvcllcr.
IHn Till UVSaraxiL Il TtlT.
State of Ireland. Extracts from infor
mation received by the Liverpool Com
miltee.
A letter from the Archbishop of Tuam,
to the secretaries at Liverpool, says, " I
pray the relief of your benevolent com
mittee to the perishing population of this
town and immediate neighborhood. Our
distressed state is truly deplorable, and 1 1 k'a w,!c, xve published in our last, is de
have the same to report of almost the ' cidctMy favorable to the side of the Ui.i
whole of the province t.f Connaught, ,fH s'atcs, in the controversy with the
over which, as Metropolitan, I preside,
I am appalled at th conviction that ma-1
ny must die from actual hunger, and ma- Bt ,h C,0HC of lhe la,e war- 11 " sucl1
ny more from the effrcts of bad. scanty, as rnight have been expected from a just
unwholesome, iinniitritimi food." ' ! ly disposed and disinterested arbiter. The
A letter from the Uector or Castleha-1 C,JSS or "ses embraced by the third par
ven, say Already four individuals have , apraph cannot be large, though there may
died from famine. I yesterday found by ! ne rasf hch arc embraced by it such,
the road side a girl, 12 year old, attemp-i for sample, at that of slaves which dc
ting to cat crass ; she had not tasted food I er,f d to the British force under Nicholls,
tor three days, and could scarcely articu- ,n 1 'nua, ana caincu on. i ne
late. The squalid countenance of the who'e amount which, under this decision
peasantry are appalling. 1 saw a man ' ? ,h Emperor, will become payable to
yesterday, faint, whilst digging u field, I r'"ins of the United States, cannot Tall
from hunger. Weeds of the corn field ! far 6,' of t0 ndllions of dollars. Con
are collected to furnish a wretched meal. ! derablo time wiil necessarily edapse, we
Famine will soon be followed by pesti-j should suppose, before the claims can lie
iencc."
A letter from a gentleman of Slio, now
at Dublin, says, " I am induced to address
myself to you, on behalf o( the tioor in
the town and neighborhood of Sligo, j
where not only famine, but disease pre
vails to tin alarming extent, and whero it
is computed, that upwards of "00 persons
will he for ome months depending on
public bounty for the means of existence.
I had a letter from Sligo this morning,
which represents, on the report of visit
ing committees, the misery greater than
those who were best acquainted with the
situation of the poor could have possibly
conceived. My friend says at thiir sec
ond public meeting, the county court
house, where it was held, was nearly fill
ed with poor, piteously inquiring what
was to be done for them ; it was :n affec
ting sight. He calculated on 600. being
got, which, tinder present circumstances,
is a laige sum for Sligo. The commit
tee me going prudently to work ; they ut e
giving out seed potatoes on a credit, and
finding work for the poor at reduced rates.
Any assistance your committee ran af
ford, will be most acceptable, and will lie
gratefully acknowledged."
A letter received from I'allina, says,
"within the limited sphere of my own
observation, there is a degree of private,
patient suffering, that almost exceeds be
lief; but the faces of the sufferers show
their privation. One instance occurred
last week : the widow of a baker, who had
been an industrious, honest man, was,
with a family of eight children, without
any kind of food for 43 hours : on hearing
of it, I sent her a sack of potatoes, und
some meal. Every street supplies instan
ces of distress ; in one lane near us, 1 1
houses were deserted in one week by their
inhabitants from absolute necessity. Dur
ing last week, seven of these houses were
filled with beggars, two and three fami
lies in each house, and the rest will, no
doubt soon be occupied in u similar way,
as they are flocking in great numbers ;
many of them have the Appearance of
having seen better days. Want will be
felt for full three months to conic, ere
which, God know? what may be the con
sequence." A letter from the Hv. Mr. Seymour,
of Lonnemare, says, " there are not, I
believe, ten families in the barony of Hal
lynahlnch who have sufficient food to sup
port them during the summer; manv
families strive to exist on one poor meal
in the day ; several live on shell fish and
salt leaf, other have bcendiivcn to the
necessity of disinterring the potatoes they
have planted, and using them for food,
while some individuals for the want of
seed were obliged to lay their potatoo
gardens waste. Typhus fever, the result
of scarcity of provisions and unwhole
some food, rages much in this r.o.iiiiy."
A letter from the committee at Clons-
kilty, county of Cork, savs, " Were we
to attempt a description to you of the ap
palling scents of famined-faced misery,
with which we arc surrounded, it would
only add an unnecessary panrr to acting
philanthropists. We have entered into
subscriptions which enable uu to employ
one hundred and twenty labourers on
works of utility, leaving thousands on
thousand unemployed. Melancholy to
state, of the small number we have em
ployed, many ofjhcin lud not xateu anw
food from thirty to forty hours previous."
A letter from T. S. Lindsay, Esq. High
Sheriff of Mayo, savs, the aJixtress arises
from " a failure in the potatoe crop of last
year, and the inability of the lower class
es to purchase either this root or any oth
er provisions at present. 1 he small plots
usually attached to the cabins of the poor,
in many cases, remain unsown from the
impossibility of procuring seed. Noth-
ing can be more wretched than the situa-
tion of the peasantry generally in Mayo
I have seen hundreds of wretched people
greedily seeking for water cresses, wild
mustard, nettletops, dw arf thistles, or dan
delion, all the spring ; and this unnatural
food has been the only tneal within their
reach."
w IJJWM a
i)o.vrs'ric.
iiostos, jvly 10 Yesterday General
Hairy Dearhorn, Envoy cxtraordinm y
and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court
of Portugal, his lady, and fan i!v. sailed
for Lisbon, in the brig Spartan, Captain
Soule.
WASHINGTON, J V t. V 17.
The decision of the Emperor of Uus-
kntish government on the sut.-cct of hc
k!jVrs deported from the tinted States,
liquidated, as they wiil have to be srpa
ratcly and judicially examined.
Xat. Intel.
TfiefbUiztring i the dethhn : The Em
peror is of opinion, "that the United
" State of America are entitled to a just
" indemnification from Great Britain for
" all private property carried away by the
u Uriiish forces ; anil os the question re
" gards slave more especially, for all
" such slaves as were carried away by the
" British forces from the place and ter
" ritorie of which the restitution was
" stipulated by the Treaty, in quitting the
" said place and territories."
" 1 hat the United States ore entitled to
"consider, as having so carried away, all
" such slaves as may have been transpor
ted, from the above mentioned tcrrito
" i ies on board of the British vessels with
" in the waters of the said territories, and
" who for this reason have not been re
" stored."
44 But if there should be any American
j u slaves whs were carried uny from tc
" ritot ies of which the first article of the
Treaty of Ghent lias not stipulated the
restitution to the U. States, the States
"arc nut to claim uti indemnification ,jr
" the said slaves."
If we place any faith in newspaper re
port, the next congress will comprize
some of the most distinguished charac
ters of our country. Langdon Cheves,
Dc Witt Clinton, Gen. Jackson, Henry
Clay, and Gen. W. Scott, are spoken of
as candidates for seats on the floor of Con
gress. The community will not be at a
loss to discover the peculiar attractions
that invite such a galaxy of talent to the
American capital, at the next Congress,
when they recollect that the near upproacU
of the presidential election makes it prob
able that the great question ot determin
ing who will be the successorof president
Monroe may be decided, so far us relates
to the will of the Congress, at it fust,
season. Wanlt. City Gaztjte.
mvj Intelligrticr On Saturday, the
22d nit. two attornics (John 11. Hopkins
and B. Craig, Esq's.) were arraigned f t
the bar in Pittsburg, for conteuiit rj court,
and fined glsO each. On the Saturday
preceding, they were engaged on the op
posite side of a cause wherein the matter
at issue between their clients, amounted
to one dollar and fifty cents, before an ad
journed court of common picas Judge
Wilkin presiding. Craig accused Hop
kins of having made a false representa
tion to the court which was denied, and
re-csscrtcd : when the latter called tho
former a liar whereupon Craig jumped
on him and gave him a moderate pom
melling, to the no small amusement of
the court and bye-standers. This circum
stance gives the lie to somebody, who ha
tartly, as he supposed, likened iwo aitur
hie to a ftuir jf tctttort, the blades ol
which cut what passes between them,
without cutting themselves.
I'ittkburr; fiajicr.
CAUTION'.
kkw-voiik, jllv 12. There appcar.s
to be a giiiguf young villains in this city,
who enter people's bouses under vaiiou i
pre texts, but lor the sole purpose of car
rying o.T whatever they can lay their
IuimU oi Yesterday a house in Beaver
Stiect was entered by one of these I'rrtiy
Ihyt, with ' May I liqht a Cigar ? The
request was granted, but unfortunately
the cigar was difficult to light, and whilsc
the servant busied herself about some do
mestic concern, the y oung gentleman se
cured a wntch that was hanging over tha
mantlcpiece, silver spoons that were on '
the dresser, and then retired, with ' I atTi
very much obliged to you.'
I'ltK POCKET.
We have just been informed that a gen
tie man from the South, while standing at
the post office window, had hi poikct
book stolen, containing 4000. The bills
w'cie cf the following description: g93
United States' Bank ; S40CBauk of Amer
ica. The balance in Daiicn and Savan
nah money, mostly in 100 and 50 dollar
bills. A laboicr standing immediately
behind him is suspected of the theft.
NAHROW ESCAPE.
A carriage was seen going down Bcc-tor-strect
towards the wharf, and just as
the horses were about walking ctf the
doek into the liver, a bystander seized the
reins. A gentleman popped hi bead out
of the window, exclaiming hallo, what
do you stop ihe horses for when it was
discovered that the driver had fallen from
his scat at a considerable distance, being
drunk. A moment more and the whols
establishment w ould have been lost-
'tMni'iniM. A man named I'micn
Ann. lately died at Norfolk, of abstinence.
He had been hypochondriac, and his last
fatal illusion consisted in a belief that if
he fasted forty days, (the duration of our
Saviour's fast he would lie endued with
the divine nature, and nevtr die. In vain
did his friends remonstrate in vain did
nature, retiring gradually, warn him of
approaching dissolution. lie persevered
until the twenty-fifth day, when in an ex
treme slate of exhaustion, reduced to a
mere skeleton, having only on the twenty-first
day taken a little mint toddy and a
little milk, refreshing himself by the ex
ternal application ot water to his lace and
breast, he died Charlatan Courier.
.hria! Aiitrciilicn from lilmbcy to .on
u'(,n. It appears by a certificate published
in the Bombay Gazette Extraordinary, by
Mr. Warden, chief secretary, that Mr. T.
lioycc had made application to the Gov
ernor of Bombay to be allowed to carry
the mails, ic from Bombay to London, by
means of a balloon, he professing to have
discovered a method of giving horizontal
motion in xronautics. Ihe Governor
referred Mr. Boyce to the Philosophical
Society of Bombay. A Mr. Hodgson has
also put in his claim to rcronaulic fame ;
and another competitor has appeared in
the Calcutta Journal of Sept. 20, where
the mode of operation is explained at con
s'tlcrablc length.