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i-iii&r.Ti; 1. I .vo. is. The "Tarvorouzh Scavoza?1 i - r. i) i t r. i) . n y tlad printed by J. IV . Manning. , , TERMS. ' rnbliMlied every irccli at ,,( Li Ti prr annum, if pui within thf It (i Thrc dollars and fifty cents, if not paid . i f'itrfs'ic iibcription y-nr. It. will, be '. " -kitr lit'CUoit. living at a distance, or out of . ' -i . , i i . t , vGrptn mv iavari-itiy in auvaiiw nu hud- .....;,u .-in rr-iv-d forakM reriod' than a . p.r " "... - - - . ... i ...r- -Ami the rapr wilinoi oe aiscontmupa until .., riiire rtccircd to thattffect, and all arrearages r,.;ri to uV Editor must come free of postage, -!. IJ . England to an eminent American firm at Li vcrpooliamountinjr altogether to between 000,000 jind 700.00gireto be repaid on the 15th iost., (Thursday,) antlAnanV pcr- rhbh sons look forward to a cdDside the proprietors of Hsnk Sto quence of this transaction, a tl In itSCeneral cfTect -itiU iintrrrnt lnrL page of payments, so far as the United States are concerned. ! has nroduced. ak would be anticinated. a !!Wni!ili r!if L The merchants were no longer under the ncccssi ly of e rert i n g t h cm so ! ves to obtai n cold for remittance to Eiirone: their corrcst pondents would see at once, from the state hoi guarantee waS ctven im.ij uwmucu, l,l?t ii was anogemcr is incorrect, and it mav out pt the question. Prices had risen, and wbuW no doubt continue to rise, for wheri; the medium of riayment was mere paper, unconvertible Into specie, there must neces sarily, among themselves, and for the mo ment, be a general advance. Still t'jcir l'l'V Vtlll r."l ne aiinu-u ly. t: situation, was a peculiar and anomalous one in many respects. As there existed no vCWrntMCMTi will be inserted atthfi rate of government bank, such as the Bank of Ular r squarp, rr mree maeruons, anu ingianu mignt be said to be at the time of our stoppage of cash payments in 1797, and such as the United States Bank was up to 1831, when the charter expired, there literally existed no form of payment of the character of a legal tender, except as made so by the local 'Governments, which could have no influence in the1 other States of the Union."- , I " ; . i . . ' : ' I A liberal e made to those who advertise by Those Mndini in advertisements will ojiki!.e number cf times they wish tht m inserted. lv v ar. F o r e i ff n. e joss to in conse v imagine Third however. be salelv stated, we understand, that the Bank obtained the best possible security for the lirfiidation of thedeht. -j In the present eventful state of things this, circumstance is of the utmost' importance, for it shows that the fir m in question has the. means of procuring ac commodation, and to continue j itsjopera tions instead of being compelled lo suspend paymentlas was expected. --Chronicle. e learn mat an idea prevails among the leading mercantile men and capitalists in the city that the financial difficulties They lived: together twenty years. He which have existed for months piist are now nearly ended, and that u public de claration to that effect is in conteranlation. nu3i3, out u is niiite mnrh in th tiitti. ral coiinv of things, a! that wigar should -come from Jamaica. HUmu bids fairjtolc the Mexicoj of tho Old Vorld.l Lat!yrar the produce of her silver minrs amountcl to about G03.000A Not hving. notwiihi stmding the. rapid tacrcaie of wcaltli arvl civilizitiouj a demand for so large ian a Sninnub rnnvnr In 177f. lT jrrr,t tl.- , . - - . residue oT his time as a midshipman, in' the Vest Indies and ofT the North American coast,' and iv.is 'present! in several cugagr nents in . which captures were made of French vessels. He was appointed thinl Lieutenant of the Hebe . frigate in 1753, pnd in l78G, ;first. Lieutenant of tlic IVg sus, of 23 guns, of which he was afterwards Hpaptain, and Nelson in the West Indies. He was made Duke of Clarence in 17US, and rose througli the ranks of Rear Amiral auu rvmirai oi ine uemo uieranK oi Ami- iuc inar.u:ariuring districts generaUv art raj of the Fleet, which he attained after tbej very flat, but we hopc;oon to sec an im dcath of Sir Peter Parker, in 181 i.-Hc provement as the most serious cause of un made a left-hand marriage with Mrs. Jor- easiness has been removed; however, it cant dan, the" actress, in 1790, and had several not be denied that the early prospect of a chililren by her. They were, united by (general mourning tends to aggravate thi mo'int of bullion, the finds its wiv to the bes tliis moment happens to I surplus hcfvs-irily. market, which at lc Lngljnd. -ondox, June 19. The accounts! from (Tram the city article of the Times of j .j' the 13M., : . ' The intelligence from Nfcv York, which the last packet has brought, of the stoppage, rr, ais they term it a suspension oi specie navrncnts by all the banks, about 700 in tiMtnDCr, Ml oiaius, asiuuuuuig us u maysccmhas merely realized the expec tations of all men who carefully observed and V in 11 ii., .Ia ana I aa) mttA iif t o w mif i Ail Y it - I 1 1 1 1 OT r lmnneoi t a In nmnifnoii rv t n rr nc here. I he paper system was over- . . J 1 . . t; s 1 ., 4. , i The Important question, as regards this countrj', is, in what Ima'nner our prospects, of obtaining payment of the debt due to us are altered by the stoppage of the banks, ana we nave pecn surprisea to iinu a very general prevalent opinion in the cit thit wp arc much better.ott .m consequehce oi it. 1 his is a course of reasoning which it is i The late events in 'America have cvidentlv ended much to restore confidence. ---Post. THE KING OF ENGLAND'S t1' HEALTli. . j (Correspondence of Galignani ) "Windsor, 10 o'clock, Tuesdav night, June 13. -UI am sorry to state, that although I Jebility. sol tviil? worked to exhaustion; the rnercha upon by the European creditors no, means of satisfying them but by ing specie; and the Government resol ved Hotel none of that over which they liad control lio gel out into circulation. - The consequence is inevitable; ' the merchants Ircak, and the banks,"without a single ex ception, for it is not worth while to inquire nts nres- P'J'n excePl y tbejsuppositibn that ' men, ' , placed in a situationiof; great freril, wilfuliv u t . natter and deceive themselves aS to the con sequences. - Before now know had occu! the events which we rrcd there was a pros parted1 from her in 1S10, and in 1318 was married to Adelaide, now theQucdn Dow ager, a daughter of the Duke of Saxe Mein- eriger. On the 25lh June, 1S30, by tjie death of his brother George, he bccinicj King of England. L ( From the Morn in Hera Id. ) Winpsor, Mondav Night 1 2 o'clock. I The King still languishes , between life arid, death, in a state of the most distressing there haHiJeen a slight partial improvement in his IViajcsty's health since Saturday, the greatest; apprehension exists. No instant danger! is perhaps anticipated rhlit very faint hopes are entertained of his ultimate recovery! The KingH has three medical men in constant attendance, exclusive of the pect either th.at specie must be forced from the American nanKs, or produce so much lowered in price as tjo jiiake that an eligible remittance; but the first consequence is now .r' J.uli -.il t .uw liut totally out of the question, and as the tn n,,m nt. v All ihU limn, to Pducc growers will .not.bo compelled ;tO add jto the wonder, at the situation in which tlic lvhole: American Union is placed, the courjtry is in profound peace,' and on the exterior surface in a state , of the highest r.rnuii 1 1 tlinrn ii nr fill rtf.l,t ami iho SQ J i ... a . f.f ltd some extent among the securities, necuti rrvnniin in mnrii frrpntcr than Ine wants Oil . r , sell, the other see ni s equal lv so, andth finding a means of payment for the Euro pean creditors removed further off than even ut the American paper wiucn nas KQt into circulation here, and been adorned tliC Government that cither the greater of the taxes and duties must bdicmiU fir the money returned to- the people pari ted upbti whom it has been levied. If thisdoe3 not j furnish evidence of a dclberatc design to rob the European creditors of the sum due to them, a contingency, which we have morle than ojicc pointed out as not unlikely to liippcn, it is difficulty to say what would be accounted good evidence of such an in tentiion. This is not, of course, meant to be 'charged on the banks collectively, for theic could not in so wide a field bt a gen eral confederacy of such a purpose, but on tW.o which have taken the lead on . the oc c;on,and.;which arc all among the most ncJlihv and powerful institutions of the . . . y ' a ted at the Stock Exchange, there will be nothing to substitutes for it, when it has run visits of Sir Henry Halford. Sir Henry left the 'Castle early this morning, but his apprehension at the state of the royal pa- iiert may oe judged oi irom the tact that he again returned to Windsor at seven o'clockitljis evening. A great deal :df mys-i tery is; observed upon the nature of the King's disorder! I can inform you, on the best authority, it is water on the chest and many of the symptoms are exactlv the forms of the church, though the mar-j stagnation of traded which originated .with page was megai oy the laws oi rngianu. line susnsion ot the American orders, and the discredit resulting, from the embarrass ments of that branch of commerce. STILL LATER FROM ENGLAND. Two o'clock P. M. The arrival !of tho packet shin Roscoe, Captain Delano, just as we were going to press, has put us in iks H-ssion oi uiiuon papers tome - Jd ouunc, aud Liverpool paicrs ofthc QimL, ' e copy tnc- deci.tratipn oi the r.tw Queen, made to the Privy Council on tL UOth. She was proclaimed Queen of England on the morning of tl.c 21st, at the Palaco of St. James, in presence of a ercat multi tude which assembled to witness the cere mony. Standing between Lord Melbourne and Lord Lansdowine, in their state'drcs- ses, and accompanied by her mother arid others of her court, she appeared at one of lhe windows and received the cheers of thtt people.' The principal Herald- advanced and read .. the proclamation, finishing with 'God save the Queen,' when the cheers were deafening. At a quarter past ten a ine odjcci oi rr.ncc , uonenione sjour- lhc du proclaimi nW her Majesty io diflcr- ent places. Soon after the issuing of the official bul letin this forenoon, Prince Ilohenlohe ltfi the Castle in a travelling j chariot, with four horses, driven at great speed; and in about half an hour subsequently it was publicK announced and universally believed that; the tving was dead. i ne iaise announce ment originated, we understand, in the exhaustion of. the. royal sutlerer having as-1 sumcd all the semblance of death, and in some steps consequent thereon, but to which we canuot ai present more particularly ai- lude. "!.: . M ' .v f i ney, it nas Deen said, was an invitation to tlie Duchess of Kent and the princess her daughter.) I Whether or not this was so, it on to niaturitj', but ot er paper, of the real worth of which six. months hence no man. can form an estimate. ! The fact is, that the Americans have proved too cunning for us;' and the European creditors may go whistle for their money. Failures of banks in thc Union by wholesale are nothing new they happened almost as numerously as now, irt proportion to the then existing numbers,, in 1814 irid in 1818: but the present case stands lalone in one respect, that of being a means' of evading payment to the foreign creditor. x (From the Courier of Juhc X 3.J those which characterized the last illness of js certain liis highness returned alone. H tneiate ueorge tne rounn, 7 . i l I 44 Windsor Castle, June 14. 'The King has passed another tranquil night,) ahd his j Majesty appears refrcjihed this morning, i J, - (Signed.) 'Henry Halford, I "William Fred. Chambers, "David Davies." We are bound, however, to notice, that it is drawn up very cautiously, and the phy sicians certainly, do not contradict the as That we are not at this moment in the in i in the United States. In general precise condition of 1 the United States is hen Banks stop payment the destruction entirelv owing to the: fact, that the Bink tec nis amont? the smaller and weaker cor- of England has fired better than the Bank orlitions, but here the case is reversed; loft he United States, and that London is and . the banks which take the lead are of sudi character and resources,-that the oth ers Uo -not sfon to calculate and to examine intd their means, compared with their en- Ptpmcnts, of supporting their credit, but iollibw at once the example set them. reached the castle about 7 o'clock this eve ning; andjat ten o'clock: to-uight the duch ess had not arrived. II h ! The Dukes of Cumberland and Scssex arrived this afternoon, and remained sever al hours with the King. The Duke of Cambridge is hourly expected. To-djy every memb.crof the royal fami ly, at present here, was introduced indi vidually and alone into the King's chamber, at the desire of his Majesty. The object was doubtless a last farewell. The scene, ! the castle the court, and the town as pre sented throughout this day, has indeed been a most melancholy one.) ' i ! ! (Court Circular.) The state of the Kiua is to ihetlast dc- His Majcs- After the higji tone adopted by the Bank oftjic United States, with its vaunted large capital of $35,000,000, it might be expect ed jhat this at least has icscaped the general vrdck;butit is not so. The President, tov ever, (Mr. Diddle,) in a- letter to the Ho i. J. Q. Adams, which is published in the New York papers, undertakes, in a very elaborate argument, to tustify ' the 'orp.ngc of that Bank also. ment. No cumstancei At the same time, with, the general stop page of the banks, the journals acquaint us 'itjh soffn of their panaceas for supplying the! puce of gold and silver circulation, vthuch is lv an issue of small notes of from lulfa-dollar lo three dollars; that is, from 2s.j to 12s., or thereabouts. The Albany Juirnal observes, w ith very amusing sclf- oni)pbccncy, "the bills of our banks are J'-sl as good, and more convenient - tlian otd;or silver." . : ' 1 jfl.c Government itself is evidently plac tiVin a great dilemma by these events, but r.cihing has been done on their part to tcj.cdy the evil, probably because the at tempt was thought entirely hopeless, and t'-it it must take its own course. The on l'iconccssion made, has been to convoke a infetingof Conzrcss. but the distant time Lxcd, looks as if no practical good was Mu'.eir.niatcd from it. At first a positive causal v.as given to allow any delay in the rymcnt of the custom house i bands, or in ir intdiumlhan specie, but the collector urmtrtook on his own authonly to suspend tlje execution of ibis law, and in another triplication to the Treasury, leave was giv- i to postpone payment under special cir cjjmstancts, for 30, GO, or 90 days, on the cj'uij.ion 'that iutcust at the rale of G pc fut. was to be added. Saved from the pestiilence and quackery of having within it sonic fifty different issuers oi paper money, it is not mereiore, ine Banks of the UniOnr but the Legislature, that is to blame for the existing boufecefse- ba'nks placed under similar cir- could have weathered the storm; they yielded (o the stern necessity of the case, the incurable vice ol the system under which 1hey are established, being that it is always certain, at no distant peri od, to produce such an overwhelming ne cessity.- c are glad to tind that our opin ion as to the immediate effect of the bank stoppage coincides with that of the best in formed merchants. Confidence being in some measure restored, and money having acnn beirun to circulate inthe Union, eve ry thing will gradually resume , something like a quiet state; anu an inose mueuic-u i Europe who have the power and the inclin ation to cancel their debts, may, no douei, procure the iieans. It is not necessarv:. as we have reneated- , f . scrtiQi of the Court circular this morning, that "no improvement has taken place either this aftcfridon tr this evening, in the state of the King's health." The accounts ofour) morning contemporaries, the Post and the Times, are ..still more gloomy, gfee alarming and dangerous. thoUgh that thpy much exceed the truth we tv is "raduallv siuklng.! should not feel ourselves warranted in as- Early yesterday afternoon the King took serting. l The Queen's Drawing-room has leave of those nearest and dearest) td him, been officially postponed in a Supplement who were overwhelmed with affliction, His to the; Gazette, till further notice.. Cotn'cr. Majesty at the same time expressing his 'We are bound ia state that accounts ol concijou3ncsj a less favorable nature than that in the Bul letin are circulated both in Windsor and in London! "Standard. " Nolwithstariding the favorable The accession of Queen Victoria appear to give the whigs and radicals anncrcaso ol contulence. . The packet ship Mediator had arrived at Portsmouth with intelligence, from New York to the 2d of June. The English pa pers take occasion to sneer at the revolu tionary tone of tome ol the American pres ses on the subject of the payment of the du ties in specie. They remark that the bark of the Americans is worse than their, biie." Lord Melbourne stated iu the Houc of Peers, that Her Majesty the Queen wiuld send a message to both Houses. It waj. thought the message would refer with re gret to the late King s demise, to the con dition of the public buSinc&s, and recom mend some temporary provision, for the public service, with a view to the sjccdy prorogation of Parliimcnt. After the pro rogationj a dissolution' will -follow iu.the. course of a month or six weeks. -. i A Subsequent date informs ui that tho- "official bulletin' yesterday, . we deeply regret to consciousness of the approaching l awful change: i . . ,i j Intelligence of the state of the King was forwarded by express to ail the royal lami ly in the afternoon. ! . I i ' The Duke of Cumberland arrived at the state that the King is much very much, castle yesterday from tow n. The 'Arch- worse. Herald. Although we have not heard a positive statement that the . King's malady has as sumed any. new or more alarming charac ter, considerable apprehension is entertain ed from the fact of his Majesty remaining in the precarious state in which he nas con tinued for the last three days; and it was this morning much feared that, if he was not really worse, there was little hope ol his getting better. Globe. . J i STILL LATER FROM EUROPE. bishop of Canterbury remains at the Castle. Th.e following bulletin of the King's health was exhibited yesterday at St. James's Palace: Ml' p ' Windsor Castle, Monday,, June 19. 4 1 ne iving continues in a very weak anu feeble state, notwithstanding his I the All for all be I y shown, that gold should be sent from United Stales, to. accomplish this. that is necessary is to ship produce fit the European market. This may, at events, be nrocured, and it remains tq seen whether the debtors to tmgland in merica, are disposed or able to ship, u uotold, such produce. But the more we reflect upon the existing circumstances, the more wc arc satishcd that their lasting in fluence must be exceedingly injurious. At nrcscnt. the banks are substantially cman- cinatcd from alt chect and control; for, even as respects Acw iotk, wc cannoi ocwutc that there is any one bo iinpc as iu fuu- . ' r , 1 . .rloo that the ncttv, twaddling rcguiauons in the act authorizing me u?per.siuu, anv thins else than mere trumpery, tq be nimnpii iiiererv one. v crc vuiiit to ct on sound and enlarged principles, every thing might still be placed on a secure foundation.' But we confess we have no hUch anticipations. j A vcrv reneral impression prevails that tliq recent advances c t!icpart of thcUank? I' ! f 1 DEATH OF WILLIAM IV.,. KING OF ENGLAND. j New Yore, June 22. The packet ship St. James, commanded by Capt, Sebor, has arrived I from Londbn, bringing papers of the 20th of June. ' 1 hey. announce the death of the Kingof England on the morn inc of that day.- ! Tliis monarch is to be succeeded by the Princess Victoria, daughter of the late Ld- ward! Duke of Kent She was bron on .the 24th Mav. 1S19. and her arrival at her eighteenth year was lately celebrated! by dinners among me wnigs anu rauicais. i nc Princcss.has been educated with great care by her mpthcr the Dutchess of Kent, and being lonstantly surrounded by the whig friends of her surviving parent; will lean, il is supposed stronglyito the side of that par ty. ! She Was not. It is said, on the best terms with her royal uncle. i One effect of this ei ent will be the sercT ance of the kincdom of Hanover from the crcwacf England. That principality docs not auQiii ine icmaic su.t.Miuu. fc descend io the Duke of Cumberland. Thejllate King William was born on the 2 1st "of August, 1765. He entered a mid shipmn at the age of 13, on board the Prince!! Georsre, a ys, gun-ship. He was in this -vesself under Admiral Rodney, when the fleet, cf which it was a part, captured a! Majesty tad some quiet sleep in the night N"After transacting his usual business yes crday, his Majesty received the sacrament rom the hands ot the "Archbishop of Can erbury with attention, and great apparent comiori. ! ! (Signed.) Hexrt Halford, I "Matthew John Tieksxt " ILLIAM r REDEBICK LnAMBEBS, i -David Da vies." j We received, ai a few , minutes this morning, the following express, i, being the second during the night,) conurmaiorv of our worst apprehensions for the !(feof our late beloved Monarch, William IV: j DEATH OF THE KING.; "Windsor, 10 minutes past 3 o'clock, ! I Tuesday, 20th June, 1S37. His MajestvKing William the Fourth, expired at 10 minutes before 3 o'clock this morutng, tn the presence of the Archbish- past 5 ' . .i . ti . i op o: ameruury, uie .ucia oi iiercioru, &c. . : :l "Many carriages and four arc hurrying from the Castle." I Londox, June IC.rThe stock of bullion in the bank is, we are glad to say, progres sively accumulating; -and amounts at pres ent we believe to about X5,300,000. It is a fact, that-while bullion is btring importeo eeoerally from the Continent, from X'lO,- 00O ta 15,000 a-week goes to Holland, a pay ment ! by toe gum w no nave Dougnt Dutch, Stock. : ' 'I. j;' '' Some ofour contemporaries seem to be 'sumri-cd that geld ! &hoJd conie here from message was delivered to the House, ex pressing the grief the Queen felt at tho death of the late King, recommending iho House to proceed wjiih the buincsslK:for it, and ad vising that no nctr treasures should be introduced. j , " j An address was agreed to by the House. n aourefs was aiso agrttu io xz pre scntcd to the QucLn Dowager. . The death of-the King ha given rise to strong party feeling; An article in tho Liverpool Chroniclcjdcscnbcs an attack' ot the London Times on the y oung Que n aud icr mother, as calculated to! excite disduit and reprobation from men. of all parties. - lhe packet ship CoJumbu, armed out 'rom N. Vbrk on the 22d June. Sho wrought accounts from the frs t June. r . letters lrom Lisbon of the 11th of June say, mat me new .-Ministry is unpopular; and the Rational Guafd much wcarit-d with their lalKir and discontented. The Cortes had decreed that the i Ministry must cvicu- ate their seats irr the Cones. ! V London, June 20. The following Dec laration J appears as an extraordinary Ga zctte this evenini; I I : At the Court at ! Kensington, the 20th ' day of June, Ifc37, present the , Queeos Most Excellent Majesty in Councif,' her Majestyj being this day present in CoyrfeU, was pleased to make the following Dtcio ration, viz: j; j f k "Th service and aflictinlos Which the nation has sustained by tbe4Jeaihof hfi Majesty, my beloved ;nclc, devolved me the 'duty of administering the coenj ment of this empircJ This awful rrspon- u" imposed tjpon me so suddenly, so tirly a period of my life, that I the sibility and at should feel myself utterly opptest by th umuen, were t not sustained oy ine iopc that Uivtne irrovidence, which has collid. me to this work, will give me strength for the performance of il, and that I .shall find, in the burity of inyj intentions, and in my zeal for pub lie welfare1, that support and those rt sources which usually, belong to a more mature age and to longtrr expentDce. "I place my firm! reliance upon the wis- uom ot t'arlumcnt, and upon yhe layalty and affect iocfof my people. 1 esteem it al-'. so aijKrfuliar advntagp, that 1 succeed to a1 Sovereign whose coxislaut regard fvr tiri" 4 1;
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