them. Many persons think that, by degrees, things will be so managed, that many of the disadvantages will be avoided: but others are of opinion that the system of high duties will be modified or even abolished, because it will not produce to Prussia the revenue it expects, and is besides as inconsistent with a confederation of states as with the act of the confederation. The Russian and Polish merchants thought of conveying their goods through Bohemia, but first applied at Berlin, and another regulation was immediately made with respect to Russia and Poland.

Greenock, Jan. 25.-Arrived on Saturday last, the Highlander, Donald, from Charleston, in 32 days; experienced continued gales of wind during the passage. On the 8th inst., in lat. 39.48. N. long. 39.4. W. spoke the Mondera, 7 days from Philadelphia. On the 14th, in lat. 45. 32 N. long. 26. 4. W. at 7 A. M. saw a sail apparently in distress; bore down, and found her to be the Triton, Hogarth, of North Shields, from St. John's, N. B. She had sprung a leak on the 14th ult., and on the 5th inst. became completely water-logged; same night carher foremast, bowsprit, and main top-mast, boats, and every thing on deck, and stove in her counter. At nine A. M. Capt. Donald lowered down his boat (a heavy sea running) and took Capt. Hogarth, eight men, and four boys, off the wreck, reduced almost to skeletons, having been ten days without either meat or drink. James Gould and Andrew Graham died the day previous to the rest being picked up, from fatigue, cold, and hunger. At

ried away

11, spoke the brig Mexican, from New Orleans, 33 days out, and bound for Havre-de-Grace; sent a boat on board her with six of the stoutest of the Triton's men, all in a fair way of recovery.

FEBRUARY.

1. Monday week being the day appointed to appeal against the supplementary charges on windows in Bath, the commissioners of that city unanimously decided against the extra charges, declaring all Venetian windows made previously to the year 1785 chargeable only as one window, and Venetian windows made subsequently to that period chargeable as two windows only. The appellants, to the number of upwards of 700, are, by this decision, relieved; subject, however, to a case for the opinion of the judges.

Portsmouth.-An experiment has been tried in this dock-yard, to ascertain if a grass, the common produce of New Zealand, and which may be cut down three times a year, is applicable to making large and small ropes. A favourable report, we understand, is made of it. The article is strong and pliable, and very silky in its nature. It can be brought into this country at less than 8l. per ton; one-seventh of the cost of hemp.

The quantity of fish caught and cured this season at Newfoundland does not amount to more than two-thirds of an average supply; which circumstance has caused a great demand for the cured fish of this country. Portsmouth herrings have obtained a

great

great preference in this demand, from the care taken in packing them; they are found to reach even the West India islands in a better state than the Scotch herrings, which being roed, and very luscious, do not keep so sound. The French boats have purchased large quantities at Portsmouth, at a higher price than the curers of that town can afford to give; but as they are not allowed to salt them after the 1st of February, the whole which may be subsequently caught will come into the market.

London, Feb. 1.-The solemn and magnificent requiem of Mozart has seldom produced so deep an impression as at the Spanish chapel on Saturday morning, associated as it was with the sacred offices of religion, and the funeral obsequies of the young queen of Spain. The chapel was hung in black, and the coffin placed in the centre with the crown over it, and the arms of Spain and Portugal at each side. The Catholic Bishop, Dr. Poynter, officiated. The presence of the Duke of San Carlos, Duke of Wellington, the French, Portuguese, Dutch, and Neapolitan ambassadors, accompanied by their secretaries, the Spanish officers, all in their state dresses, and the Spaniards residing in this capital, dressed in deep mourning, added to the grandeur and solemnity of the

scene.

2. Died lately, at Notter, near Landrake, lieutenant-col. O'Dogherty, of the Royal Marines, one of the most eccentric characters in England, who for more than 20 years occasionally visited Plymouth-market on an old white

horse, lean as Rosinante, whose lank appearance, combined with his own singular habiliments, formed together a spectacle of wretchedness fully equal to any thing described of the celebrated Elwes. In his last visit to Plymouth, a few weeks since, he seated himself on the steps of the Plymouth Telegraph office to eat an apple. His dress then consisted of a dirty night-cap round his head, surmounted by the poll of an old hat without a brim, a rough waistcoat patched all over, greasy leather smallclothes, kept up by listing braces outside the waistcoat, with wads of straw round the bottoms of his legs. In his hand he wielded a large hedge-stick. Amidst all this seeming penury, he possessed some very excellent freehold estates in the above parish, well stocked; yet he chose to quit the family mansion, and lived in a small cottage in its vicinity, without a pane of glass in the windows. He nightly entered it by a ladder, which he drew after him, and slept in a corner of one of the rooms upon a wretched pallet.

The brig Ann, of Jersey, from Whitehaven for St. Michael's, has been brought into St. Ives, in distress. She had been out 22 days, and was driven 600 miles to the westward of her course, and had carried away her foremast and main-topmast. She was prevented from going on shore to the westward of St. Ives, by the intrepidity of the pilots, who ventured to her assistance in a tremendous sea, and thus saved not only the vessel and cargo, but, in all probability, the lives of the crew; as, had the vessel grounded,

there

there was scarcely a possibility of their being preserved.

Paris, Feb. 2.-The commissioners sent from Spain, to charter transports for the expedition which is said to be preparing at Cadiz, had made a contract to that effect with a mercantile house at Bourdeaux. As soon as this was known among the merchants there, it was severely reprobated, and the Chamber of Commerce made a formal representation against the measure. The head of the house which had made the contract travelled post to Paris, to counteract the representation of the Chamber of Commerce but the president of the Council of Ministers had been informed beforehand, and on the same day laid the affair before the council; they unanimously resolved not to permit contracts of this sort. The merchant from Bourdeaux had then the prudence to desist from his pretensions. What, however, is more singular, is what came out subsequently, namely, that the court of Madrid, for the purpose of paying the one-third of the freight, which was to be paid down in cash, had ordered its consul at Paris to realize the liquidated claims of Spanish subjects, and to pay over the proceeds to the commissioners for chartering transports. It was further discovered, that the consul had already sold on 'Change from 70 to 90,000 francs of rentes. This produced much irritation, and the French government has taken measures to put a stop to these scandalous proceedings, until proper explanations are received from the cabinet of Ma

drid. A great part of the Spanish claims had been bought by Frenchmen, on the faith of treaties. Almost at the same moment when the Spanish government itself permits these flagrant acts of immorality, it opens a loan for 3,000,000 of dollars in Cadiz, and thereby betrays the insidious policy with which it sets up companies and juntas of merchants at Cadiz, for the special purpose of entering into contracts under their responsibility, for procuring transports and other articles.

2. A letter in Glasgow, dated the 22nd ult., at Bangor, in Ireland, from an officer on board of the Seaforth, belonging to Messrs. Gladstone, of Liverpool, and which sailed from thence on the 2nd ult., states, that that ship during the late storm encountered extreme danger, and suffered very considerable damage, and was driven successively into the islands of Colonsay, and Isla, and latterly into Bangor. The hurricane that prevailed exceeded any thing that the oldest seaman on board had ever witnessed. It is melancholy to relate, that during the tempest two vessels were observed to go down within a quarter of a mile of the Seaforth, the names of which could not be learned, as the crews of both perished.

It blew heavy gales of wind at Plymouth on Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday night the storm increased almost to a hurricane, and continued to blow with tremendous violence through the whole of Monday. Although it was difficult, from the force of the tempest, to approach the coast, many persons ventured to

stations

stations commanding a view of the Breakwater, in order to observe the sublime spectacle of that vast erection throwing off the seas which the Atlantic was dashing against it. The foam was seen flying at least 80 feet above the Breakwater.-On this day the Heron sloop of war was seen standing in under bare poles, and anchoring just within the Breakwater: she owed her safety entirely to its protection. The scene was interesting almost beyond description. Several of the boats which ventured out in the harbour, on Monday, were upset, but happily the persons on board were all picked up, so that no lives were lost.

3. The Report of colonel Stephenson, surveyor-general of the Board of Works, as to the practicability of superseding the practice of climbing-boys by the use of machinery, is on the whole favourable to the use of machines, though the result of the experiments is, that the three Royal architects concur in opinion, that climbing-boys cannot be at present totally dispensed with. Colonel Stephenson directed an intelligent clerk, Mr. Davis, to superintend experiments, in order to ascertain the truth. Mr. Davis reports, that the flues of the metropolis may be divided into four classes. For the first class, the machines now in use are quite efficient; for part of the second class, they are also competent; and for the remainder of this class the ball and brush are perfectly efficient. In the third class, where the ascent is at all preserved, the ball and brush act effectually, as they do even in the

fourth class, where there are no parts entirely level. The proportions of the different classes he found to be as under :-Out of 1,000 flues, 910 are of the first class, 50 of the second, 30 of the third, and 10 of the fourth.

Advices have been received from Ceylon, by the way of Madras, communicating the intelligence of the capture of the Malabar chief, pretender to the crown of Candy, who is supposed to have been the chief cause of the insurrection which has so long prevailed in that island. Together with him was made prisoner, his prime minister, Kappitipola.

6. Intelligence from Constantinople, dated the 24th December, states, that the chief of the Wechabites, Abdallah, and his Iman, were brought prisoners into that capital on the 16th of the same month. After being led in chains through the principal streets, they were taken to prison and put to the torture. On the following morning, they were brought before the sultan, and beheaded. Their naked bodies were exposed during three days, and then delivered to the populace.

8. In the Moniteur of the 3rd, there is a report addressed to the King, by M. de Cazes, as Minister of the Interior, having for its object the general improvement of agriculture throughout France. To this report is subjoined a royal ordinance, giving effect to the measures recommended in it. A council of agriculture is to be established, under the superintendence of the Minister of the Interior, consisting of ten members. With this council a corres

Donding

ponding member for each department is to communicate, upon all subjects connected with agricultural improvement. The names of the persons composing the council are also given in the Moniteur. Among them are the duke de la Rochefoucault, count Chaptal, and baron Ramond.

8. Irun.-The report in circulation that the king had appointed a successor to general Elio in the government of Valencia, is not confirmed. The number of persons arrested and detained in the prisons of Valencia is considerable, and the most perfect calm reigns in that city; but those who know the character of the Valencians place no reliance on this deceitful tranquillity. The people of that province are both the most irascible, and the most capable of dissembling their rage, in the whole monarchy.

The sea, from Cape Ortegal to Santa Maria, near Cadiz, is covered with Insurgent cruisers, who occasion incalculable mischief to

our commerce.

11. Accounts from Marinpol, in the government of Catharinaslaw, of the 17th December, say, that the Chevalier Joubert, who has been sent by the French government to Cachemire, to conduct from that country to France a number of the Cachemire goats, of whose wool the valuable shawls are made, has arrived at Marinpol on his return. The

flock of goats that he has brought with him amounts to 1,300. They were almost all of them white. When they were drawn through Marinpol, the cold was at 15 degrees of Reaumur, and the snow half an arskeen deep, and this

temperature of the air seemed to agree with them. They were to be drawn from Marinpol to Theodosia, and there embarked for France."

The subjects for the prizes given by the representatives in parliament for the university of Cambridge for the present year, are, for the Senior Bachelors, "Quænam fuerit Oraculorum vera indoles ac natura ?”—Middle Bachelors, "Inter veterum philosophorum sectas, cuinam potissimum tribuenda sit laus veræ sapientiæ ?"-The subject of the Seatonian prize poem for the present year is, "Moses receiving the Tables of the Law."

13. Sierra Leone, Dec. 15.Sir George Collier has arrived on the coast, in his Majesty's ship Tartar; and it is hoped he will prove successful, not only in clearing those seas from the numerous pirates which have infested the whole line of coast from hence to Bonna, during the last two years, but that we shall hear no more of the slave trade, which, during the same period, has been carried on with such success and facility, by the Spaniards, French, and Portuguese, for want of a

man of war.

Since February, 1818, no vessel of war has appeared at the British settlements on the Gold Coast: the last arrival of any force was his Majesty's ship Semiramis, commodore sir James Yeo; since whose return the slave-ships have anchored, and carried on their abominable trade within sight of the British forts, to the number of six, seven, and eight vessels at a time, with impunity.

Our gold trade has declined