Bank to extend the periods for the redemption of omnium has alarmed these gentlemen and even Mr. Vansittart himself. A petition in aid of the contractors and their friends has been for some ime, handed about, and it is said that the signa ture of about 700 names have been obtained to it. The King's Diamonds.-The expectation of the public, that the mystery respecting the disappearance of the King's diamonds would have been, before this, satisfactorily explained, remains as yet disappointed. In the mean time it has been eagerly and significantly inquired, when was the last time that the persons entrusted with the care of the King's property, saw these precious articles? And with not less anxiety has it been asked, whether or not they were in their proper place, when that place was searched ab ut two years ago, in the presence of one of the Royal Dukes? An enormous oak tree was found, a few days FOREIGN AFFAIRS. ago, in Contley Common, part of the Yorkshire Liverpool, January 1-An agricultural friend estate of J. Childers, Esq. which appears to have has favored us, by sending to our office, a branch been buried under ground many centuries. The of a blackberry bush, plucked the day before length of the trunk measures 120 feet, and its Christmas day in a meadow, Town Green, Augh- diameter, at twenty yards distance from the root, ton. It has on it a considerable quantity of blos-four feet in circumference; with the mock rate som, the unripe red berries, and a number of fine ripe blackberries. It was accompanied by a few primroses, got from the same meadow. In the will of the late lamented Sir Samuel Ro milly, just published, we remark a codicil, dated October 9, 1818, of which the following is an ex From this it is evident that he anticipated the dreadful calamity which led to terminate his valuable existence. tract allowance of ten yards for the height of the bran ches, it must, when standing, have been at least fifty yards high, London bill of mortality. A general bill of all the christening and bu rials, from Dec 16, 1817, to Dec. 15, 1818:Christened in the 97 parishes within the walls, 1048; buried, 1204. Christened in the 17 parishes without the walis, 5317; buried, 4078. Christened in the 23 out parishes in Middlesex and Surrey, 12 410; buried, 10,099. Buried.-Males, 9883; Females, 9822. In all 19, 705. "i am at the present moment of prefectly sound mind, and in full possession of all my faculties; but I am laboring under a most severe affliction, and I cannot but recollect that insanity is amongst Christened in the 10 parishes in the city and the evils which mental afflictions sometimes pro-liberties of Westminster, 4,458; buried, 4,324. duce, without observing to myself that that un- Christened.-Males, 12,550; Females, 11,703, happy lot may possibly, at sometime, be mine. If||In all 24,233. I ever should become insane (which God forbid,) it is my earnest desire that while I continue in that state, the following bounties may be paid to Died, on Tuesday evening se'nnight, Sir Philip different relations out of my income, during my Francis, in St. Jame's-square. It is a singular life, and may be considered as part of the expen-coincidence, that this is the fourth death, within diture which I certainly should have made, if I a very short period, in that corner of St. James'shad continued capable of managing my own square, viz.-Lord Beauchamp, Lord Anson, affairs To my brother, 150l. a year, and to my Lord Ellenborough, and Sir Philip Francis.-Sir nephew, Peter Roget, 150l. a year; to my nephew, Philip was born in Dublin, in 1740. Dr. Francis, Cuthbert Romilly, 1001. a year; to my nieces, the translator of Horace, was his father. He reCaroline and Margar. t Romilly, 30! a year a piece.ceived the first rudiments of his education in IreAll these payments I desire may be made during the joint lives of myself and the several annuitants respectively." Sir Samuel, in the body of the will, states, that "It is his earnest and anxious wish, that none of his sons should be educated at any public school: by which he means such schools as Eton, Westminster, Winchester, and Harrow." land. In 1750 he came to England, and was placed at St. Paul's school. In 1756 Mr. Henry Fox, afterwards Lord Holland, gave him a small place in the Secretary of State's office. Mr. Pitt, who succeeded Mr. Fox, patronised him. By that patronage he was appointed Secretary to General Bligh. In 1760 he was made Secretary to the Earl of Kinnoul, Ambassador to Lisbon. In The late Lord Ellenborough died worth up. 1763 he was appointed by the late Lord Mendip wards of 240,000. By his will he has left 20002.to a considerable post in the War-office, which for life to his widow; 10,000 a year to his eldest he resigned in 1772, in consequence of a differ son, the present Lord; and 15,000 to each of his ence with Viscount Barrington. The greatest other children He has directed the house in St. || part of 1772 he spent in travelling. In about half James's square and the villa at Rochampton to a year after his return to England, Lord Noth be sold the former cost 18,0007. inserted his name in an act of Parliament, to be a member of the Council appointed for the Govern Finance. A deputation from the body of contractors for the last loan, and their subscribers,ment of Bengal, in conjunction with Warren had an interview lately with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to present their memorial against the return to cash payments. The refusal of thell Hastings, and three others. The records of his long contest with Mr. Hastings, are preserved in the books of Council, &c. This quarrel had pre riously occasioned a duel in India, when Mr. Hastings shot sir Philip through the body. Ou the dissolution of parliament, in 1784, he was elected for Yarmouth. In 1806 his majesty was || pleased to invest him with the order of the Bath On the 24 of the last month he expired, after having been reduced to a state of extreme debility by an excruciating disease in the prostrate glands, with which he had been for several years Hicted, and from which his age precluded all Chance of recovery. He bas left à son and two daughters, Mr. Philip Francis, Mrs Johnson, and Mrs. Cholmondeley. When between 70 and 80 he married Miss Watkins, a daughter of a clergy-upon some of the strong holds of the Royalists. man. He had been many years employed abou an historical sketch of his prin pal contempora ries, and it is believed by man that he was the author of the celebrated Letters of Junius. tor of the Patriot, that the above is incorrect, and that the following are the facts:-that some of the sailors on board the vessel in which M Gregor arrived, had left her after receiving a regular discharge, but no troops-that two transports laid outside full of troops, and that they were well provisioned and well equipped for the expedition, and no dissatisfaction was heard or thought of— that M‘Gregor had proceeded to Port au Prince, to see what arrangements could be made with President Boyer, for permitting his vessels to rendezvous in his ports-that more troops were daily expected, when a descen' would soon be made On Thursday the 26th November, at Vienna, of water on the chest, aged 84, the celebrated field marshal Colloredo, minister of state, and di rector general of the Austrian artillery. On Saturday the 28th November, at her daughter's, Collin's Cottage, Harrowgate, Mrs. Ann Dawson, aged 161. Lately, at London, Mr. Courtoy. He was a na tive of France, and, when young, served in the French army. He was by trade a hair dresser, which business he followed for many years in the vicinity of St James's. He was one of the largest proprietors of bank and East India stock in the kingdom, and is said to have left property to the a nount of nearly 300,0007. During the whole period of a long life, his personal expenses were never known to exceed one guinea per week. FRANCE. At the royal levee of Paris on Sunday, among other distinguished personages present, were Marshal Reggio, Treviso, Ragusa, Valmy, Dantzic, Jourdan, Bournonville, Serurier, and a great number of general officers, all of the revolutionary school. Louis appears to have discovered, at length, where his true interest lies. A subscription has been opened in Paris for the erection of a monument at Cambray, to the memory of the immortal author of Telemachus. BARBARY. Mogadore, January 16, 1819.-The Pochahontas, captain Clark, will leave this town and environs quite healthy, no symptoms of the plague having appeared, that we know of, nearer than about 300 miles to the northward. The places known here to be infected are Tangier, wher, by advice received to-day, it was on the decline -Tetuan, Larache, Mequinez, and Old Fez.It is reported to have made its appearance at Rebat, but this has not been confirmed. Landon, Dec. 30, 1818.-The Queen's Will-Mr. Bant ng was appointed b command of the prince, His imperial majesty is at this date at or near regent to value the private property, which is to Morocco, some horsemen having left him on his be equally divided between the princess Augusta, route for that city, from Mequinez, ten days ago. the princess of Hesse Hombourg, the dutchess of It is much to be feared, and scarce can be doubtGloucester, and the princess Sophia. The valua-ed, that the infection will soon make its appeartion of the property at the queen's palace, Wind ance in Morocco, there being every reason to supsor palace, and Frogmore House, is nearly com pose the contagion is among the troops accompapleted. On Monday lord Arden and general Tay-nying his majesty, which are to the number of lor, the executors of the late queen's will, attend-fifteen hundred. Should our apprehensions be ed at the queen's palace, to proceed with the ar- verified respecting Morocco, it will in all probarangements, as directed by the will: the chamber bility not long delay its appearance here, as our of her late majesty, which had been sealed upon intercourse with that city is very frequent, inher demise, was opened. At two o'clock Mr. deed almost daily. Should it break out here, its Serjeant Vaughan and Mr. Hart, the late queen's ravages will undoubtedly be very great, as the attorney and solicitor general, attended the exe-Jews' town, and that part of the town inhabited cutors at the queen's palace, to make the neces by the poorer class of the Moors, are extremely sary legal arrangements for the executors to act crowded. upon and prove the will. Yesterday the execu tors attended at the King's Mews, Charing Cross, to view the carriages and horses of the late queen, previous to their being sold. The royal arms, except the supporters, are obliterated from the carrages with paint the color of the pannels. Yes. terday morning five of the horses were shot on account of their age, being between 30 and 40 years, to prevent their falling to the work of dust carts, &c Mr. Incledon is said to have improved his notes by crossing the Atlantic, and yet sings no better than when he went away. The season has been unusually unfavorable for the ensuing harvest, the rains for a long period having been almost incessant-More so than has been for a number of years. On the other hand, the locusts have appeared in vast flights to the south and adjoining provinces, and if they do not disappear soon, may do much injury. In many parts of the country there has been literally a famine this last season. At this place the price of wheat has been as high as two dollars and a half per English bushel. There are now here five English hrigs, loading for London, but no vessel for the United States. From the Baltimore Patriot of March 2, 1819. Trade, in consequence of the high price of proCaptain Coitt, of the schr. Comet, arrived here visions, and the plague, dead beyond description. in 27 days from Aux Cayes, informs that all gen. St. Johns, (N. B) Feb. 2. MacGregor's troops had deserted him at Aux A large whale was driven on shore in the ite Cayes, owing to the want of funds for their sub-gales, near Point Lapreaux, measuring nearly 70 stence.-Telegraph. feet in length, and about ten feet thick. Dawson and M'Neil, who first discovered this The supercargo of the Comet, informs the Edi Mrs. monster of the deep, and who consider it as their bona fide property, inform that from the number of bruises on the body and head, it must have been previously entangled among the breakers, where it probably wallowed until it died. When found, the tongue projected out of the mouth about 6 feet. It is of the female kind, and will probably yield about 80 barrels of oil. The body lies in the shape of a curve, and is driven an incredible distance up the beach. HOME AFFAIRS. NEW YORK. [No. 11 has been so long depending. By this decision, property to the amount of a million and a half dollars at least, has been restored to the rightful owners. Nothing that ever happened in this place, of a similar nature, has ca ised equal sen|sation. PENNSYLVANIA. New York, March 2-Van Alstine, the murderer of Mr. Bad Reston, deputy sheriff in Scho-whole community, the loss is great, but most par harie county, has had h's trial and was found guilty. He is to be executed on the 19th of next month. We understand he has, since his condemnation, made a full confession of his crimes, which include the murder of two persons previ-tem of love aud benevolence, unknown to the ous to that of Mr. Huddleston; one a white, and the other a black man. He also confessed that he burnt judge Beekman's barns a few years since. There were 64,891 hhds. of tobacco exported from the United States during the year ending 30th Sept. 1817; and 84,537 hhds. exported in 1818. Oswego, NY. ) Feb. 9. Perpetual Motion-A very curious machine, apparently possessing, within itself, a power to move and to continue its motion, has been exhibited in this village for some time past. The machine consists of eight wheels, six of which appear to be of no other use than to add velocity to the eighth. The first and principal wheel gives motion to all the rest-it contains about 20 buckets; eight of these buckets, which are contiguous to each other and upon one side of the wheel, contain each a small ball--the upper one, being placed a little out of the line of direction, forces that side of the wheel which contains the weights, to gravitate. At the lowest point of descent, these balls are successively discharged, one at a time, into the eighth wheel, which carries them up and deposits them again into the original wheel. One of these balls in ascending, (owing to the increased velocity of the eighth wheel,) occupies but one fourth part of the time that is occupied by the first wheel in descending through the space intervening between two of its buckets, so that three fourths of the time, the eighth wheel is without any weight in it. The accelerated motion that this machine acquires by all the weights being in the principal wheel so great a portion of the time, appears to be sufficient to counteract the re action of the ascending ball-so that the machine, in making this revolution, loses none of its original force. The construction is simple, and the whole movement is obvious at a single glance. The inventor is a Mr. William Foster, of this town, an ingenious and self taught mechanic, who, we understan i, intends taking the machine to the city of Albany, during the present session of the legislature, to exhibit for the grati-| fication of the curious and the learned. New York, March 3. The batture at New Orleans-The following extract of a letter from New Orleans has just reached town: This morning the Supreme Court gave a deci sion in favor of Benjamin Morgan vs. Edward Livingston, in the great cause of the batture, which Philadelphia, March 10. A public calamity-Yesterday evening, that superb edifice, the Masonic Hall, situated in Ches nut street, between 7th and 8th sts. fell a prey to the devouring flames. This elegant building, reared by the piety of faithful Brethren, was one of the ornaments that graced our city. To the ticularly so to the Masonic Fraternity--their loss is immense, but this is not all; their means of usefulness, from this extensive calamity, are in a great measure cut off; pursuing an extended sysworld, agreeably to that divine precept of our Lord, which says, "But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth." Oh how often often, often, hve they dried up the tears of the Widow and the Orphan; while the aged, the afflicted, the sick, and the dying, to whom they have administered comfort and consolation, have blessed them. To behold themselves stopped short in their labors of love, pungently adds to their calamity. Their loss is indeed the greater, as it will cause the tears of the Orphan, the Widow and the desolate, to flow, which it was their greatest pleasure to assuage. is indeed a public calamity! It is believed the fire originated from one of the chimneys in the ball room below, which bursted, after the com||pany had assembled. Lodge No. 59, had assembled up stairs, it being their stated night, and had barely time to make their escape, so rapid was the progress of the flames. The elegant steeple which or mented the building, when half consumed, broke in two, and fell on the roof without damaging the adjacent buildings. We feel overwhelmed by the present calamity, which we are sure will be felt by all good men. Bereafter we shall endea vor to state the causes which led to this catastrophe, as they shall come to our knowledge.-Jow. Cincinnatti, Feb. 20. We have it from the best authority, that all the Kentucky banks have suspended their specie payments-and we are further informed that these banks will not resume the payment of specie un til the Ohio banks shall have done so. This information may be relied on. A Strong Measure-We have been politely fa vored, (says the Savannah Republican of the 22d. inst.) by a gentleman of this city, with the peru sal of an extract of a letter from his father in Ken tucky, dated the 1st inst. which says, that govern or Slaughter signed a bill on the 29th ult. which has passed both Houses of the legislature, fixing a tax on the Branch Bank of the U. States, located in that state, of $ 5000 per month; and authorizing col. Rich'd. Taylor, sergeant at arms of the Hou, to collect the same. On the 4th of March next, the first levy is to be made, and in case of non payment, or refusal to pay, the militia of the state are to be summoned to aid in the execution of the law!!! From he Edenton, (N. C. ) Gazette, March 2. On Monday evening the 22d ult. JAMES HINTON, the young man who has for some time past been engaged in conveying the Suffolk or Northern mail, || We are concerned to state, that Dilworth, pecuniary situation would not justify a desertion of my profession, and on considerations of the duty which every man owes to his family, to provide for their support and education; and they were connected with those attachments to domestic life, in which I have hitherto found my greatest happiness. The same reasons yet exist, strengthened by a longer absence from my family and by recent indisposition. They induce me to solicit of the gentlemen who have supported me as a candidate for a Senator, that they would turn their attention to some other person. I am sensible, deeply sensible, of the high honor conferred in supporting me for such a distinguished and responsible station; and though conscious of inability to discharge its great duties and to do justice to the expectations of my friends, I am not the less On Sunday the 21st ult. a number of gentlemen grateful for the kind consideration. I acknowwent in pursuit of another gang of these despe-ledge the duty which every citizen owes to his radoes, when, on approaching their camp, which was in a hollow gum, sufficiently large to contain six persons with" much comfort, Jack, (common ly called Jack Stump,) hate the property of Mr. Edward Haughton, deceased, but now said to be lang to Mr. John Bond, of Bertie, was shot, of which wound he died on the following day. He had fired twice, and was in the act of loading again, when he received the contents of several || well charged pieces. He was in company with Bristol, belonging to the estate of Thomas Vail, deceased, and fought with the but end of his musket until he was dragged out of the hollow, nearly exhausted. Washington, Feb. 12, 1819. DEAR SIR,-It is probable that the legislature will again be called upon to elect a Senator to Congress; and as my name has been once used, it is not impossible that I may again be supported as a candidate for that office. It becomes proper, therefore, that I should distinctly inform my friends of my views and wishes. You are aware that I declined a second nomination for a seat in the House of Representatives, for reasons which are known to my constituents, and which need not to be here repeated in detail. They were founded, however, on a belief that my country, which every republican owes to his party, of obeying the voice of that country and of that party, whether it commands the acceptance of an unwished for station, or the retirement from office. That duty I shall always endeavor to discharge. But in the present case, it is certain there are many republicans in our state much more competent than myself for the station of Senator, and whose sacrifices and privations in discharging its duties, will not be so great as my own. May then ask you, and through you, the other mem||bers of our legislature, who have supported me, to select some other candidate for the office of Senator? I have frankly stated my wishes and my feelings; I trust they will be received in the same spirit in which they are made; I submit them and myself to those, whose right to decide, I cheerfully recognise. It is proper to state, that I was not apprized of an intention to make me a candidate, until it was too late to announce the wishes I have now conveyed, before the day of election. Believe me, dear sir, with great respect, your obedient servant, John A. Stevens, Esq. JOHN C. SPENCER. Member of Assembly from Ontario. Reported for the (Philadelphia) Franklin Gazette. No. 2 of the Record. Larceny of a trunk containing several articles of wearing apparel, &c. of the value of 181 dollars, the property of Wm. Perkins, Esq. This larceny was committed on the night of Tuesday the 233. of February ult. by cutting from behind the Post Coach on its route from New York to Philadelphia the baggage of several passengers, among them the trunk of the prosecutor. The prisoner had hired a room in the vicinity of the city, for the purpose of depositing the plunder he might from time to time obtain in this felonious manner. it was observed by Deborah Kelly, one of the witnesses, that he carried the key of the door of his room with one other smaller key appended to it, and by his having so many trunks and but one key she was induced to examine his movements with more than usual scrutiny. The result of her watchfulness led to stron," suspicious of his being a common offender. Henry Read and Thomas Will unson, constables, were in consequence apprized of the circumstances, and proceeded to arrest the prisoner, who alleged that "he had possessed some of the trunks previously These seeds alone are an invaluable acquisition. The Albany county Agricultural society will paricipate largely in all I shall receive. I have notice of other seeds, and valuable domestic animals probably on their way) from other quarters, and ave reason to expect considerable supplies from very port where American consuls reside, far be vond the reasonable requirements of this country. Should the Agricultural bill, which has unani. to his former conviction, and offered a bribe of twenty dollars to these oflicers for his release from their custody. In the presence of the ma gistrate, Justice Shaw, before whom he was examined, the prisoner at the instance of the prosecutor, who said that several pieces of foreign coin were contained in his trunk, was thoroughly searched, and one piece believed by the prosecu tor to have been his, found upon him. The prisoner asserted that he had owned the piece as long agomously passed the house of assembly, so honora as the year 1815. The falsehood, however, of this statement was proved by the fact of the piece having been coined in England as late as the year 1817. These and other circumstances of a like nature being fully established, and the prisoner having no counsel, being asked what he had to say in his defence, and replying "nothing," the Jury after a short charge from the court, without retiring from the box, returned a verdict guilty, whereupon the court sentenced the prisoner to the payment of 50 cents, the property having been already restored, to 3 years imprisonment at hard labor, costs of prosecution, &c. John Hale, the same prisoner, being arraigned for a larceny of fifty pounds of sewing silk of the value of - dollars, the property of M'Farland and Scudder, pleaded guilty-and was sentenced to one dollar fine (property also restored) 2 years imprisonment at hard labour, costs, &c. AGRICULTURAL. The following interesting letter was received at the office of the Albany county Agricultural Society, in consequence of circulars which were transmitted in May last to the American consuls resid ng in foreign ports, under the sanction of the collector of New York: "Valencia (Spain) 24th Dec. 1818. "SIR-I send you by the brig Paragon, Captain Austin, sixteen bags of different kinds of grain, principally wheats the produce of the province of valencia. I shall embrace every opportunity that offers to send you any thing of the kind which may prove useful to our country; and hope shortly to send a collection of nearly one hundred varieties of wheat and barley, which I am promised from an eminent botanist, who has made these grains his particular study, and who intends lishing a work on this subject. Respectfully yours, &c. ble to the enlightened patriotism of that respect- ARMY. Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, March 10, 1819. GENERAL ORDER. Promotions and appointments made in the ar my of the United States, since the publication of the Register for January, 181 9. Corps of Engineers. Lt. col. W. K. Armistead to be colonel, 12th November, 1818, vice Swift, resigned. Brevet col. W. M'Ree, major, to be lieut. col. 12th Nov. 1818, vice Armistead, promoted. Brevet lieut. col. J. G. Totten, captain, to be major, 12th November, 1818, vice M'Ree, promoted. 1st lieut. T. W. Maurice to be captain, 12th November, 1818, vice Totten, promoted. 2d lieut. G.. Blaney to be 1st lieut. 12th Novempub-ber, 1818, vice Maurice, promoted. O. RICH, American Consul. First Regiment of Infantry. 1st It. Robert L. Coomb to be captain, 7th Jan. 1819, vice Amelung, resigned. 2d lieutenant Wm. Seaton to be 1st lieutenant, 1st January, 1819, vice Smith, resigned. 2d lieutenant Wm S Harney, to be 1st lieu tenant, 7th January, 1819, vice Coomb, promoted. Fourth Regiment of Infantry. 1st lieutenant Joseph Shomo to be captain, 1st March, 1819, vice M'Intosh, promoted. 2d lieutenant Thomas Williamson to be 1st lieutenant, 8th January, 1819, vice Bunting 20 lieutenant John Hull to be 1st lieutenant, 1st March, 1819, vice Shomo, promoted. Seventh Regiment of Infantry. 2d lieutenant George Murdoch to be 1st lieu tenant, 31st January, 1819, vice M Donald, re. signed. Eighth Regiment of Infantry. Brevet colonel George M. Brooke, major, to be lieutenant col. 1st March, 1819, vice Trimble, resigned. Captain John N. M'Intosh, of the 4th Infantry, to be major, 1st March, 1819, vice Brooke, pro The above precious communication was endorsed on the back, "The 16 bags of grain are now in the public store, and will be held to your order N. York, Feb. 22. D. GELSTON, Collector."" moted, |