to be a disorder that would have its course, and, if interrupted, that it would be dangerous. It was then the custom, when a negro was attacked with it, to separate him from the rest, and send him to some lonely place by the sea-side, to bathe; or into the mountains, to some provision-ground or plantain-walk, where he could act as a watchman, and maintain, himself, without any expense to the estate, until he was well; then he was brought back to the sugar-work. humble and destroy it. But as so many powersing the yaws in the West-Indies. It was thought have proceeded against it at one time, we will almost take upon ourselves to say, that at least thirty sail of the line will be laid abreast of it; and as we have a right to reckon upon the cha racteristic gallantry of English seamen, we are perfectly tranquil as to the event. The battle will certainly be formidable. The Algerines are stated to have nearly three hundred pieces of cannon commanding their harbour; and amongst the renegadoes they will doubtless find some wretches who will serve and manage them. But a fleet which succeeded at Copenhagen, can have nothing to fear at Algiers. But this rarely happened. A cold, damp, smoky hut, for his habitation; snakes and lizards his com panions; crude, viscid food, and bad water, his only support; and shunned as a leper; he usually sunk from the land of the living. In the event of the success of the expedition in expelling the Algerines, of which we cannot allow ourselves to entertain any doubt, one of two But some of these abandoned exiles lived, in measures is proposed-the first is, that of deli- || spite of the common law of nature, and survived a vering these towns and cities into the hands of general mutation of their muscles, ligaments, and the Grand Seignor, as members of his dominions, osteology; became also hideously white in their and the second, that of establishing in them Chris- woolly hair and skin; with their limbs and bodies tian garrisons. We will not allow ourselves a twisted and turned, by the force of the distemmomentary consideration of the former, as it must per, into shocking grotesque figures, resembling be as repugnant to the feelings of our readers, as woody excrescences, or stumps of trees; or old we feel it to be to our own minds. We must ex- Egyption figures, that seem as if they had been press our hopes that the latter will be adopted, || made of the ends of the human and beginnings of and we must confess that we see some difficulties the brutal form; which figures are, by some antiin accomplishing it; but they are neither insu-quaries, taken for gods, and by others for devils perable, nor too much nor too many for the importance of the object. We certainly see no rea son why we should not meet the ignorance and fanaticism of Mahometans by the civilization and tempered zeal of Christian nations, and why we should not attempt (under such a manifest opening) the establishment of a Christian empire on the coasts of the Mediterranean. One of the evils of the presents times, is undoubtedly the excess of our population beyond our actual means. Would it not appear, that the most natural remedy would be what was the remedy of the nations of the ancient world, under similar circumstances-colonization. The present sovereigns of Africa, on the coast of the Mediterranean, are four: the first of whom is the Emperor of Morocco; the other three are the Dey of Algiers, the Bey of Tunis, and the Bey of Tripoli. Our first business is with the Dey of Algiers, and afterwards with the Beys of Tripoli and Tunis. It is a matter of some doubt, whether the Emperor of Morocco (for so we presume we must call this barbarian) will not declare his neutrality, and renew the peace for himself. From the Kingston, (Jam.) Royal Gazette. In their banishment, their huts often became the receptacles of robbers and fugitive negroes; and, as they had no power to resist any who chose to take shelter in their hovels, they had nothing to lose, and were forsaken by the world; a tiger would hardly molest them. Their desperate guests never did. The host of the hut, as he grew more misshapen generally became more subtle; this we observed in England, in crooked scrofulous persons; as if nature disliked people's being both cunning and strong. Many of their wayward visitors were deeply skilled in magic, and what we call the black art, which they brought with them from Africa; and, in return for their accommodation, they usually taught their landlord the mysteries of sigils spells and sorcery; and illuminated him in all the occult science of Obi Those ugly, loathsome creatures thus became oracles of woods and unfrequented places; and were resorted to secretly, by the wretched in mind, and by the malicious for wicked purposes. Obi and gambling, are the only instances, 1 have been able to discover, among the natives of the negro land in Africa, in which any effort at combining ideas has ever been demonstrated. This Obi, or, as it is pronounced in the EngWest-Indies, Obeah, had its origin, like many customs among the Africans, from the ancient Egpytians. The following account, published by Dr. Mose-lish ley in his Treatise on Sugar, of the combat between John Reeder and Three Fingered Jack, a notorious runaway, which took place on the 27th Ob is a demon, a spirit of divination and magic. January, 1781, near Mount-Libanus, in St. Tho--When Saul wanted to raise up Samuel from the mas's in the East, will be read, it is presumed, with dead, he said to his servants, "seek me a woman some interest, on account of his recent death. John (eminent for Ob) that hath a familiar spirit.” Reeder received the reward of one hundred pounds offered by the proclamation of Major-General John Dalling, then governor of this island, and afterwards had an annual stipend of twenty-five pounds, which was increased of late years to thirty pounds, and paid under the poll-tax law. -- His servants replied to him, "There is a woman (mistress in the art of 06) that hath a familar spirit, at Endor." When the witch of Endor came to Saul, he said to her, "Divine unto me (by the witchcraft of Ob) by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up whom I shall name unto thee." I. Samuel, chap. xxvi v Formerly there was no regular mothod of treat- ||7 and 8. The science of Obi is very extensive. Obi, for the purposes of bewitching people, or consuming them by lingering illness, is made of grave dirt, hair, teeth of sharks, and other creatures, blood, feathers, egg shells, images in wax, the hearts of birds, and some potent roots, weeds, and bushes, of which the Europeans are at this time ignorant; but which were known, for the same purposes, to the ancients. Certain mixtures of these ingredients are burnt, or buried very deep in the ground; or hung up a chimney, or laid under the threshold of the door of the party to suffer; with incantation songs, or curses, performed at midnight, regarding the aspects of the moon. The party, who wants to do the mischief, is also sent to burying grounds, or some secret place which spirits are supposed to frequent, to invoke his dead parents to assist him in the curse. A negro, who thinks himself bewitched by Obi, will apply to to Obi-man, or Obi-woman, for cure. These magicians will interrogate the patient, as so the part of the body most afflicted. This part they will torture with pinching, drawing with gourds or calabashes, beating and pressing. When the patient is nearly exhausted with this rough magnetising, Obi brings out an old rusty nail, or a piece of bone, or an ass's tooth, or the jaw-bone of a rat, or a fragment of a quart bottle, from the part; and the patient is well the next day. The most wrinkled and most deformed Obian magicians are most venerated. This was the case among the Egyptians and Chaldeans. In general, Obi-men are more sagacious than Obi-women in giving or taking away diseases; and in the application of poisons. It is in their department to blind pigs and poultry, and lame cattle. It is the province of the Obi women to dispose of the passions. They sell foul winds for inconstant mariners; dreams and phantasies for jeal- || ousy; vexation, and pain in the heart, for perfidious love; and for the perturbed, impatient, and wretched, at the tardy acts of time, to turn in prophetic fury to a future page in the book of fate, and amaze the ravished sense of the tempesttossed querent. He had neither accomplice nor associate.There were a few runaway negroes in the woods near Mount Libanus, the place of his retreat; but he had crossed their foreheads with some of the magic in his horn, and they could not betray him. But he trusted no one, He scorned assistance. He ascended above Spartacus. He robbed alone; fought all his battles alone; and always killed his pursuers. By his magic, he was not only the dread of the negroes, but there were many white people who believed he was possessed of some supernatural power. In hot climates females marry very young; and often with great disparity of age. Here Jack was the author of many troubles; for several matches proved unhappy. "Give a dog an ill name, and hang him." Clamours rose on clamours against the cruel sorcerer, and every conjugal mishap was laid at the door of Jack's malific spell of tying the point on the wedding day. God knows poor Jack had sins enough of his own to carry, without loading him with the sins of others. He would sooner have made a Medean cauldron for the whole island, than disturb one Lady's happiness. He had many opportunities; and, though he had a mortal hatred to white men, he was never known to hurt a child, or abuse a Laws have been made in the West-Indies to pun- Reeder and Sam, tired with his mode of war, reish the Obian practice with death; but they have solved on proceeding in search of his retreat, and had no effect. Laws, constructed in the West-In-taking him, by storming it, or perishing in the atdies, can never suppress the effect of ideas, the tempt. origin of which is in the centre of Africa. I saw the Obi of the famous negro robber, Three Angered Jack, the terror of Jamaica in 1780 and 1781. The Maroons who slew him brought it to me. His Obi consisted of the end of a goat's horn, filled with a compound of grave dirt, ashes, the blood of a black cat, and human fat all mixed into a kind of paste. A black cat's foot, a dried toad, a pig's tail, a slip of parchment of kid's skin, with characters marked in blood on it, were also in his Obian bag. They took with them a little boy, a proper spirit, and a good shot, and left the rest of the party. These three, whom I well knew, had not been * House of Assembly, 29th December, 1780. Resolved, That over and above the reward of one hundred pounds offered by his Majesty's Proclamation, for taking or killing the rebellious negro called Three-fingered Jack, the Erther reward of Freedom shall be given to any slave that shall take or kill the said Three-fingered Jack, and that the house will make good the value of such slave to These, with a keen sabre, and two guns, like the proprietor thereof. And if any one of his acRobinson Crusoe, were all his Obi; with which, complices will kill the said Three-fingered Jack, and his courage in descending into the plains, and and bring in his head, and hand wanting the finplundering to supply his wants, and his skill ingers, such accomplice shall be entitled to his free retreating into difficult fastnesses, commanding Pardon, and his Freedom as above, upon due the only access to them, where none dared to fol-proof being made of their being the head and low him, he terrified the inhabitants, and set the hand of the said Three-fingered Jack. civil power, and the neighboring militia of that island, at defiance, for two years. By the House, SAMUEL HOWELL, Cl. As. long separated, before their cunning eyes disco- In this state Sam was umpire, and decided the vered, by impressions among the weeds and bush-fate of the battle. He knocked Jack down with a es, that some person must have lately been that way. They softly followed these impressions, making not the least noise. Presently they discovered a smoke. They prepared for war, before he perceived them. tains, by a little fire on the of a cave. They came upon Jack This was a scene, not where ordinary actors had a common part to play. Jack's looks were fierce and terrible. He told them he would kill them. Reeder, instead of shooting Jack, replied, that his Obi had no power to hurt him; for he was christened; and that his name was no longer Qua shee. Jack knew Reeder; and, as if paralized, he let his two guns remain on the ground, and took up only his cutlass. piece of a rock. When the lion fell, the two tigers got upon him, and beat his brains out with stones. The little boy soon after found his way, to them. He had a cutlass, with which they cut off Jack': head and Three-fingered hand, and took them in triumph to Moran Bay. There they put their trophies into a pail of rum; and, followed by a vast concourse of negroes, now no longer afraid of Jack's Obi, they carried them to Kingston, and Spanish-Town; and clanned the reward of the King's Proclamation, and the House of Assembly. Died-in Hannah's Town, on Tuesday night, at a very advanced age, John Reeder, a well known black man as having been many years Captam of the Charles Town Maroons. He is the person who in the year 1781, after a most severe personal conflict killed the noted and desperate robber These two had a desperate engagement several Three-fingered Jack, who was supposed by the ne years before, in the woods; in which conflict Jack groes to be possesesd of supernatural powers, and lost the two fingers, which was the origin of his deemed invulnerable from "ali attacks.--In conse present name; but Jack then beat Reeder, and al-quence of this service Reeder received an annual most killed him, with several others who assisted him; and they fled from Jack. To do Three-fingered Jack justice, he would now have killed both Reeder and Sum; for, at first, they were frightened at the sight of him, and the dreadful tone of his voice; and well they might; they had besides no retreat, and were to grapple with the bravest and strongest man in the world. But Jack was cowed; for he had prophesied, that white Obi would get the better of him; and, from experience, he knew the charm would lose none of its strength in the hands of Reeder. Without farther parley, Jack, with his cutlass in his hand, threw himself down a precipice at the back of the cave. Reeder's gun missed fire. Sam shot him in the shoulder. Reeder, like an English bulldog, never looked, but, with his cutlass in his hand, plunged headlong down after Jack.-The descent was about thirty yards, and almost perpendicular Both of them had preserved their cutlasses in the fall. stipend from the government of this Island. He did not know his exact age, but said only a few days ago that he was a stout boy at the first peace with the Maroons in the year 1739.-—Kingst pap. August 2. THE DIVING BELL. The Diving Bell (improperly so termed) now in use at Plymouth, is of a rectangular form, about eight feet in length, three feet in breadth, and 5 feet 6 inches deep. Within are two seats; the whole of cast iron, 8 inches thick, weighing 4 tons. Notwithstanding this extreme weight, it is when in the water extremely manageable. A vessel called the Resolute has been fitted to carry the Bell, which is placed abaft, under a strong crane, to which it is attached by a chain of great strength. Two davids run out from the stern of the Resolute, on which, when the machine is weighed by the crane, it is placed previous to its immersion The diver, Mr. Fisher, bly intrepid man; he has been frequently em ployed in England and Ireland on these submarine excursions, has several times been four hours under water, and has often been placed in danger. ous situations, the Beil sometimes nearly capsizing and filling with water, &c. He has been accom. Sam was crafty, and coolly took a round about pained in his descents in Plymouth Sound by voway to get to the field of action. When he ar-lunteers, who have described the sensation expe rived at the spot where it began, Jack and Reeder had closed, and tumbled together down another precipice, on the side of the mountain, in which fall they both let their weapons. Here was the stage, on which two of the stoutest hearts, that were ever hooped with ribs, began their bloody struggle. The little boy, who was ordered to keep back, out of harm's way, now reached the top of the precipice, and, during the fight, shot Jack in the belly. Sam descended after them, who also lost his cutlass among the trees and bushes in getting down. When he came to them, though without weapons, they were not idle; and, luckily for Reeder, Jack's wounds were deep and desperate, and he was in great agony. Sam came up just time enough to save Reeder; for Jack had caught him by the throat, with his giant's grasp. Reeder then was with his right hand almost cut off, and Jack streaming with blood from his shoulder and belly; both covered with gore and gashes. a remarka rienced on the immersion of the Bell as similar to that felt on suddenly dipping the head under wa ter. With one or two, blood has started from the nose, and all experienced considerable heat while below. There are 12 glass illuminators in the roof of the Bell, so that every thing is seen as dise tinctly below as above. Air is forced into the machine through a tube attached to it, one per son above being constantly employed in pumping the damaged air escapes under the Bell, and is seen rushing to the surface of the water in globules. A slight accident occurred to the tube on Thursday se'nnight, by some stitches in it getting loose, by which the water rose as high as the knees of the adventurers: they however did not give the signal of recall by striking with a hammer on the by the report of capt. Fowler, from New-Orleans : machine, but were hoisted up by those above, who had perceived that something unusual had occurred.-On Friday se'nnight the Resolute returned "His excellency Don Jose Manuel de Herrera, to Catwater. On Saturday se'nnight, having re-minister plenipotentiary from the republican gosumed her station, the machine was lowered and vernment of Mexico, to the United States, has an anchor was got up which had been lost, and communicated, under date of 24th August last, which annoyed the anchorage. But the Diving from the port of Matagorda, to a respectable perBell is shortly to be employed in Hamoaze, on son at Philadelphia, the following information. one of those stupendous undertakings which cha- "The republican army of the province of Vera racterize the present age and mark the progress Cruz, under the command of gen. Vittoria laid of i provement. The present jetty-heads in Ply- siege, on the 18th July last to the cities of Cormouth Yard are platforms resting on vast pilesdova and Orizabo, which were then on the eve of driven into the sea by a machine exactly resem-surrendering. The commander in chief of the rebling the guillotine in form (though much higher) || publican troops of the province of Puebla Terran, these, to high water mark are filled with nails, to was endeavoring by forced marches to occupy the give them as much indestructibility as possible, ports of Guazacualcos, which was without means and the whole is strongly connected by horizontal of defence. Gen. Bastamante had been victorious pieces. Along side these jetties or wharves the over the royalists as often as he had met them, men of war lie for the purpose of repair, &c. and was pursuing them with all haste. Gen. ArIt is now in contemplation to remove (in succes- redondo, commander in chief of the interior prosion) the jetties; to drive new piles without fil vinces, for the royalists, had fallen back with the ling naits, and with the assistance of the bell to few forces under his orders, to Monterrey, the cacut off every pile three feet or more under lowpital of the new kingdom of Leon, in consequence water mark. On these piles so cut off, an immense mass of masonry will be laid, and the wharves will become solid bodies of stone. Fire-works and Sodu Water. There is a penalty prescribed in a law of Parliament for using detoning balls, and the igneous element of which they are composed. This clause respecting fire works has, by a late occurrence, been proved to be more comprehensive than has been imagined. A poor woman was sent with a basket to a neighboring town, to purchase six bottles of soda.-Ö her return, just as she was pas sing a poor old beggar, one of the corks flew out with a tremendous report, and hit the beggar on the nose. The woman was so alarmed that she in of the republicans having occupied the port of Matagorda, where they had fortified themselves, and where they were daily augmenting their strength. Subsequent to the possession of that port has been the evacuation of St. Antonia de Baxar, capital of the province of Texas, which was garrisoned by the regiment of Estremadura, one of the most famous corps of the royal party. present, under the command of col. Peire, during "The republican army of the north is, for the the absence of gen. Toledo, who is now in the United States on business of moment, and whose presence with the army is impatiently desired. days of election. A person who was witness to Valadolid, there were various likenesses of Washthis interesting scene says, that in the province of ington and Franklin, which the people carried in their processions, accompanied with music and songs, allegorical of the occasion. "Between Washington and Franklin some carried the resemblance of the gen. Cura Balgo, the first who had the glory and courage to raise the standard of liberty, who was afterwards made prisoner, and shot by the cruel Spaniards at the age of seventy. "The representatives who are to compose the next congress are named by the people, and by the present time will have opened their session. stantly put the basket down, and ran home with-thusiasm which pervaded the Mexicans on the It afforded great pleasure to see the joy and enout it.-Inquiry being made for the Soda Water, she said a pistol was in the basket, which went off suddenly, and so frightened her, she left it behind. In the mean time, the beggar, smarting with the rap on the nose, went to his worship, the justice, for a warrant for the assault. The poor woman was taken into custody and carried before his honour; and on being closely interrogated where she purchased the combustible matter, she acknowledged having got it at Mr. Ollapod's, the apothecary. "Zounds!" said his Worship, "Mr. officer, pop off instantly and purchase six bottles of this aqueous, igneous, dangerous composition The bottles were procured-and Ollapod sum. moned. The apothecary in vain endeavored to prove that a bottle might be let off in a barrel of gunpowder without injury, and that the supposed flash was not fire. But the composition was determined to be aqueous, igneous, and to come strictly under the genus generalissimum mentioned in the act. Ollapod was, therefore, convicted in the full penalty for selling fire-works; and the poor woman to find bail, to answer the complaint of the beggar for the assault. [London pap. MEXICO. "Never has the Mexican cause presented so favourable an aspect. The next congress, formed of men of influence, will remove all these difficul lized that rapid progress which was looked for ties, which, until the present moment, have para. in a revolution created by the unanimous and express will of the people. "The immense resources which our beautiful tered by a government, which, meriting the pub. country contains, will henceforward be adminislic confidence, will give a new impulse, and will cause itself to be felt by the physical and moral qualities of the republic. "The next campaign will be an object of lively The editors of the New-York Mercantile Ad-interest to all men who are really lovers of the vertiser have been favored with a translation of sacred rights of humanity; it will complete the the following interesting intelligence from Mexi- emancipation of that fine country from the oppresco. The fact here stated, of the revolutionists | sive hand of despotism. The inhabitants of Mexi having taken possession of Matagorda, is confirmed i co will hereafter be enabled to enjoy and partici pate equally, the precious gifts with which nature | the insurgent cruizers upon their commerce. The has favoured them." measures of the government are represented to be just strong enough to expose their imbecility. NEW-YORK, October 14. Extract of a letter from a gentleman on board the U. S. sloop of war Peacock, dated, “Gibraltar, Aug. 16. "We arrived here on the 15th inst. the day after Lord Exmouth's squadron sailed for the des truction of Algiers. On taking his departure he SUMMARY-FOREIGN & DOMESTIC. FOREIGN. A report has been circulated at Gibraltar, that that his son, his successor, had ann lled the treaty the Dey of Algiers has been put to death, and with the United States-Not believed. articles have been prohibited to be exported from By the following letter it will be seen, that certain the United States into Lower Canada: Custom House, Coteau-du-Lac, 23d September, 1816. SIR-I beg leave to acquaint you, that I have vernor in Chief, saying that he is pleased to canjust received a letter from His Excellency the Gocel and withdraw the instructions which were conveyed on the 1st April last, authorizing the importation into Lower Canada from the United States, of Flour, Indian Meal, Beef and Pork, fresh and salted, and Hog's Lard. You will therefore please convey this intelligence to the several principal officers of the United States customs along the line, for their government. I have the honor to be, &c. A. WILLSON, Collector. DOMESTIC. Foreign accounts have been received at Boston|| from France, up to the 26th of August. Things in that country remain tranquil. They appear to have got through their criminal docket, having condemned to death, for contumacy, all that appeared on it-most of whom were safe in foreign countries. Many of the French exiled generals The 12,000 dollars of specie lately seized on were near Brussels, some of whom had been ar- board of the Lake Champlain steam boat, has arrested, and others ordered out of the kingdom.rived at Montreal, and been deposited in the The king of the Netherlands has issued positive King's Cash Office, under an escort of 19 Light orders to expel from his dominions all exiles in Dragoons from St. Johns. cluded in the ordinance of the 24th of July. On the 24th of August the feast of St. Lewis was celebrated at Paris. The king received all the anthorities, ataff officers, &c. in the hall of the throne. The gouty old king was weil enough, it || is said, to walk into the city. The weather in France is a subject of remark-it is said that the oldest inhabitants never witnessed a summer so cold; indeed, they say there has been no summer. A traveller had arrived in Paris from Louisiana with a living crocodile, where it was exhi bited as a curiosity. Bull fight, such as are common in Spain, have been exhibited at Bayonne. The Polytechnic School is to be immediately reorganized in France. Capt. Thompson, who arrived at Charleston on the 6th instant from Havana, states that Gen. Morillo had proclaimed Carthagena A FREE PORT. Rice 6 dollars-flour 17 to 18, and rising.-There is no more talk about shutting the ports of Cuba, says a Nassau paper of the 14th August, against foreign commerce; indeed they are closely enough scaled by Carthagenian cruizers.-It is said to be very sickly at Guadaloupe: one hundred funerals have taken place there in one day. In Antigua, also, the yellow fever prevails with an alarming fatality: one third of the inhabitants are said to have fallen victims to it. They The Maine convention adjourned on the 9th inst. to meet again in December next. made a report in favour of separation, though five ninths of the votes were not in favour. They have given a construction to the law contrary to what appears to have been the general construction. The report is said to have been written by Mr. Holmes, and is called a fine piece of sophis try-we shall publish the report in our next. Gen. Jackson, with the other commissioners, have completed the treaty, it is said, in a satis factory manner. The stipulations of the treaty includes all the land lying between the mouth of Bear Creek and fort Deposit, on the north side of Tennessee River, for which the United States are to pay $80,000, in ten annual instalments; and for the establishment of Gen. Coffee's line, with the possession of the lands included therein, they are to pay $ 120,000, in ten annual instalments. The present season has been remarkably healthy in N. Orleans, as, indeed, it has been through out the United States. Specie, in small change, is beginning to appear in the city and State of New York, and in the city of Philadelphia, the banks having agreed to redeem all their rags below one dollar. About the 10th of August, a Spanish schooner, The Governor of Massachusetts has appointed with 300 slaves, from Africa, on board, bound to Thursday the 28th day of November next to be Havana, run aground on the Gingerbread Ground, observed as a day of public thanksgiving and near the Gulf passage. She was got off by throw-praise throughout that Commonwealth. ing her guns and stores overboard, with the loss Gov. Plumer, of New Hampshire, has issued a of her anchors and rudder. She arrived at Nas-proclamation appointing Thursday the 14th of sau a few days after, and after undergoing theNov. to be observed as a day of." public thanksnecessary repairs, sailed again for Havana. The merchants at Havana have come forward with voluntary subscriptions to aid the government to oppose with effect the depredations of giving," throughout the State. A gentleman arrived in Albany on the 29th Sept. from St. Louis, Mo. T. having travelled one horse 1300 miles in 29 days. |