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more transports, can be got ready-and when ed; that incredible as it may appear, it actually that will be, says my correspondent, Heaven only killed pigs of considerable size, and a number of knows. The effect of this intelligence, he fur-fowls and turkeys; the hail being as large as hens ther observes, will be a certain detention of the grand expedition for Buenos Ayres, for a long time, if not a total abandonment of it.

eggs; and that on Friday last waggon loads of them were still lying on the ground-that the rain also fell in such torrents that it swept away all the loose soil, where the land was not perfectly level; the gentleman from whom we derived our information, had a beautiful field of wheat, not a stalk of which could be seen after the storm.

[Columbia S. C. State Gaz. May 4.

Zanesville, Ohio, ) March 30.—American Anti

"For any public purpose, you will please to put this mournful tale in a dress more suitable to the solemn dignity of the subject than I have leisure to give it not forgetting the profound respect which your duty, as caterers of good news, obliges you to observe towards a nation in peace and amity with all the United States, (except Baltimore) and what your christian charities should cause you to feel for the misfortunes of the au-quities. We have seen an article in the Cleveland gust protector of the inquisition, &c. Meanwhile I shall not be unmindful of my duty, in giving you further accounts of the operations of this intelligence in Madrid and elsewhere, and really expect that I shall soon have something to communicate which will show in your paper somewhat in the style of former times, when it was so common with you to say, "We stop the press to announce," &c. &c.

Register, which stated that a mound of considerable dimensions on the west side of the Cauahogo river had been opened and a number of silver broaches found within the body of it, which were much corroded by rust. The writer of the arti cles proves that the mound was a depository of the dead, by the remains of human bones which were found, and he also proves it to be of great antiquity, by a part of the bones being in a state "I informed you in my last of the arrival of of dust when found, and the apparently sound Wm. D. Robinson, Esq. at Cadiz, from Havanna, parts presently becoming so upon exposure to where he had been confined by the royal autho- air. The same paragraph affirms that an earthern rities, in consequence of being captured with an pot capable of holding three gallons, has been re insurgent party in Mexico; I have this day re-cently washed by the Miami river from a mound ceived intelligence from Cadiz, stating that Mr. originally on its bank, which was 350 feet in diRobinson has been liberated from the castle for ameter at its basis, and 100 feet high. From the present, by the Governor, upon his palabra these and many other similar discoveries, the de honor," (parole of honor.) What circumstance writer believes (and we think with good reason) has occasioned this act of clemency on the part that this country was once inhabited by a race of of the "Viceroy elect of Buenos Ayres,' I am people, at least partially civilized, and that this race have been exterminated by the forefathers not informed, but, to give the d- his due, I should consider such an act of condescension to- of the present and late tribes of Indians in this wards myself, under similar circumstances, as a country. piece of very gentlemanly deportment, to say the least of it, and I have no doubt that Mr. R. would not feel himself insulted, if his Excellency, as a further proof of his consideration, was to order him to leave Cadiz and his Majesty's do minions immediately.

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"I shall prove myself a prophet, depend on it, (as a thousand others will do,) with regard to the affairs of Spain, and may soon call your attention to things of more consequence than little fugitive paragraphs of news."

Hail Storm-A hail storm, perhaps the most destructive ever known in this state, passed through Fairfield district, on Sunday evening the 25th ultimo, destroying the crops of corn, cotton, and wheat, in its progress, and in some places throwing down and unroofing houses, and tearing up abundance of the stoutest trees of the forest by the roots; the hails were very large, and fell in such quantities, that when our informant, who was one of the sufferers, left home on Thursday last, the fourth day after the storm, the hail sull lay on the ground in many places 6 or 8 inches thick; the fruit and leaves were entirely beaten off the trees, and the limbs of the trees in many places almost literally pealed with the violence of the hail. In short, it is said, that wherever it passed in its greatest violence, not a vestige of the growing crop of corn and cotton remains.

Since writing the above we have been inform ed that the same cloud passed through that part of Richland district which joins Kershaw district, between Columbia and Camden, where its destructive effects exceeded what is above describ

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tures, 333.

in Canada, 322-British Printed Calicoes, 329-Crimes &c.

American History & Antiquities-The Writing Rock, 323

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with regard to it. The utmost ingenuity of huContents of this No. of the National Register. man reason has never been able to penetrate ORIGINAL-Of the Age of the World, and the extent of Human Reason, 321-Editor's Cabinet, Money and Manufac- farther than to a few principles of the meSELECTED-Statistics-British Revenue, 322-Foreign Coins chanism of the globe; and yet you will hear in France, 329-Trade of Marseilles in 1818, 329-Exports of some men talk as if a portion of the secret Cotton from India, 326, 330-Nantucket Whale Fishery, 326. power of creation had been ascertained. If Welsh Indians, 323-President Adams' Letter concerning I might be allowed to express an opinion the persons who destroyed the Tea in Boston Harbour, 332, which I have long entertained, I would say, Revenue Laws-Comptroller's Circular on their execution, 323. Religion-Bishop Moore's Address to the Episcopal that human discoveries will forever be con Church, 324. Biography, 315. Domestic Manufactures-Presentment of the Grand Jury of Newcastle, Del. 326. Inter-fined to the mechanical forces of the Uninal Improvement-Plan for connecting Lake Michigan and Foreign Intelligence, 32). Domestic-Ball given by the citi zens of Washington, in compliment to Mr and Mrs Neuville, 330. South America-Morillo's invitation to British Partizans, 322-American prisoners, 331-Poetry, 336.

Illinois, 327. Agriculture-Origin of the Potato Root, 328.

The American Essayist-No. 2.

OF THE AGE OF THE WORLD, AND THE EXTENTnical impulses, operating in so minute a man

OF HUMAN REASON.

same steaming operation, flowers and fruits are produced, and are nourished and perfected from the rich particles of earth which surround them. Plants have even lungs for inhaling and exhaling air, upon which the atmosphere operates mechanically, as it does upon the lungs of animated beings.

Verse, or, in other words, to the secondary causes of Nature. There is some reason to believe that what is called chemistry, is nothing else but the more subtle part of these forces; and chemical affinities; attractions, and repulsions, are, in reality, mere mechaner that it is almost impossible to detect Various disputes have arisen, from time to them. This may be well explained by the time, concerning the age of the world; but if process of vegetation. The rays of the sun, this question is closely examined, it will be descending through the atmosphere, enter found that the word age cannot, with propri- the ground and warm it. This warmth exety, be applied to the globe. Age implies pands the moisture which is always more or not only birth, but growth, decay, and ex-less there: The seed is heated, steamed by tinction, of the body. The world, at this the expanded moisture, projected into a stem moment, is not older than it was at the crea-containing tubes, through which, by the tion. The elements, with whose nature mankind are acquainted, are the same in their respective essences, as they have been within the memory of man. Salt has been salt in all ages, honey has been sweet, and Wormwood bitter. Until these and other substances shall begin to lose their peculiar Mankind may go on to a great length with qualities, the world cannot be said to have decayed. As to its growth or diminution, their discoveries of these mechanical forces there is no proof that either the one or the of Nature, but they will never, according to other has taken place. There is, on the con- the present organization of the external trary, every reason to conclude that it has senses and brain, enter the pale of creation, undergone no changes in these respects. At that awful barrier they must stop; and Extinction seems to be equally doubtful; for, that is the proper intellectual stage at which upon the rational doctrine that "God has to fall down and worship. Compared with made nothing in vain," it is to be presumed the creating power of the Deity, the mechathat the existence of the globe is indispen-nical properties of the world are a mere cysable to the system of the Universe, and that pher. Human reason is equal to the percepthe world cannot be annihilated without dis-tion of the latter; but as to the former, it is composing that system. If time, which is impossible to conceive either its essence or nothing but motion, can be at all applied to the method in which it is exerted. the world, duration is the term which should be employed. But even that word, connected as it is with ideas of commencement and cessation, and intimately interwoven as the existence of the globe is with the notion of eternity, appears too circumscribed to convey an exact image of the truth.

There is nothing which so much inclines the mind to infidelity as the very indefinite ideas which enter into the ordinary conceptions of the Earth, and of human discoveries

Men, therefore, have not, by any discovery or invention whatsoever, growing out of their reason, attained a particle of knowledge of the high qualities of the Divinity. This should lead them to mistrust the conclusions which are too frequently drawn from the spe culations of the reasoning faculty. This fa culty, indeed, is only calculated for the world and the things which are in it; and, strictly applied in this way,it is fully adequate to all the purposes of virtue and happiness.

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In the War Duties, continued, there is, under the head of Excise, an increase in this Quarter beyond the corresponding quarter last year, viz. from 897,2031. to 936,4941. The increase in the Annual Duties to pay off Bills is very large indeed, from 18,4667. their amount in the Qarter ending 5th April, 1818, to 516,8871. in the Quarter, ending the 5th April, 1819.

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Merchandise
Produce of

The amount of the Irish Revenue for the Quar-Foreign and ter is not yet known. The Year's Revenue presents an increase of above eighteen hundred thousand pounds beyond that of the preceding year. Total Revenue for the year, ending 5th April, Ireland & the 1818, 17,247,651.

Total Revenue for the Year, ending 5th April, 1819, 19.056,5631.

Last night was presented to the House of Commons the abstract of the net produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the years ended 5th April. 1818, and 5th April, 1819, together with the income and charge of the Consolidated Fund. This abstract enables us to add some details to the above gratifying general statement.

The total consolidated fund for the year, viz. 5th April, is 42,235,7261.

Isle of Man.
Total value of
Import.

1818.

1819.

26,406,6341. 29,962,913 35,880,983

3,698,9317. 4,002,318 4,276,651

30,105,5651. 33,965,231 40,157,634

Such is the financial and commercial statement we submit to the country:-And we think we may ask, without exposing ourselves to the charge of presumption, whether it is not a statement that will afford universal satisfaction. If the mercantile world have been pausing for the last two months, during the important deliberations of the Bank Committe, if, with the prudence and cantion of British merchants they have been checking for that period, their spirt of enterprize and adventure, we trust, after the statement we have published, they will again go forth, like giants refreshed, to their accustomed vocation, of collecting from every quarIn the annual dates to pay off bills, the excess ister of the globe the treasures of each climate and from 13,466. in the Quarter, ending April 1818, to 516,8377. in the present quarter.

The fund for the year before was only 39,598,1921. Though on this last Quarter, as compared with the corresponding one last year, there is a decrease of less than 100,000.

In the present Quarter there are no arrears of Property Tax; and the receipt of arrears for the whole year is not more than 227,000l. whereas last year it was above one million and a half.

In the Customs for the Quarter there is an increase of 115,686-in the Excise an increase of 226,0731-in the Post Office an increase of 19,000l. -in the Stamps, Assessed Taxes, and Land Taxes, a total decrease of 150,000l. which deducted from the increase, leaves an increase in the Quarter of 232,709. The increase in the year is 2,963,115.

The charge on the Consolidated Fund for the corresponding Quarter last year was 8,827,7411The charge on the present Quarter is increased to 9,770,000l. leaving a deficiency of 148,300. Had the charge remained the same this Quarter as it was the corresponding one, the excess of income beyond the charge would have been above seven hundred and ninety thousand pounds.

If we transfer our attention from our financial to our commercial situation, we shall find the same cause for satisfaction and congratulation In the export of our produce and manufactures, the excess of the year ending 5th January, 1819, is above five millions beyond the year ending 5th January 1818, and nearly six millions beyond the year ending 5th January, 1817!!!

country, in return for the manufactures and skill, industry of this great nation-as unrivalled in the arts of peace as in the brilliant achievements and glories of war.-Courier.

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THE WRITING ROCK.

A few days ago, we published an account of the Writing Rock, so called, in Taunton river The following remarks are copied from the Aurora. Freeman's Journal.

As some of our readers may be curious to know something about this inscription, more plain than what is given in the Eastern papers, we give the following explanations:

On the 13th Sept. 1768, Messrs. S. Sewall, Thomas Danforth, Wm. Baylies, Seth Williams and David Cobb, discovered on a large rock on the margin of the sea at Dighton, in Massachusetts, an inscription in strange characters. This inscription had been a subject of common conversation for more than five years, but was considered as some rude work of the Indians who had inhabited that quarter. Those citizens made a copy of the inscription, and copies were multiplied and sent to many learned men and learned bodies, in different parts of Europe.

From the Boston Palladium.

DORCHESTER, May 4, 1819. Messrs. Editors,-In your paper of April 27th, I observed an extract from the London Courier, of March 12th, respecing a settlement of "Welsh Indians" in this Country, and which seems to be doubted in England. The following article may throw some additional light on the subject I have copied it from a pamphlet in my possession, entitled "Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack, for 1787." A SUBSCRIBER-S S. B.

"A true and faithful narrative of fhe captivity and travels of Capt. Isaac Stewart, taken by the Indians near Fort Pitt, in 1764”

"I was taken prisoner near Fort Pitt by the Indians, and carried, with many more white men, to Wabash, who were executed with horrid barbarity. It was my good fortune to excite the sympathy of what is called the good woman of the town, who was permitted to redeem me from the flames by giving them a horse. After remaining two years in bondage among the Indians, a Spaniard came to Many attempts have been made to decypher it- the nation, having been sent from Mexico on discothe characters are partly alphabetical, partly hieroveries. He made application to the chiefs for reglyphical; we have a very accurate copy of it be-deeming me, and one John Davy, (a Welchman.) fore us-and have read several attempts at interpre- They complied, and we took our departure in comtation and decyphering. The letters are oriental, pany with the Spaniard, and travelled to the west. partaking of the characteristic forms of the Sanscrit ward, crossing the river Mississippi, near the river and the Talick, and written from right to left-but Rouge, or red river, up which we travelled seven the story, for it appears to be a historical record, hundred miles, when we came to a nation of Inbegins on the left, and proceeds to the right, there dians remarkably white, and whose hair was of a being apparently three acts, referring to the past, reddish colour; at least mostly so. They lived on the present and the future, and signifying whence the banks of a small river that empties itself into the authors of the inscription came, their number, the Red River, which is called the river Post. In and intercouse with the natives, and their intention the morning of the day after our arrival among to return whence they came: it is not possible to these Indians, the Welchman said he would tarry, describe it without drawing, but the apparent subas the language was like the Welch. My curiosity ject is, that the inscription was intended to record was excited by this information, and I went with the arrival at that place of a number of persons, by my companion to the chief men of the town, who sea from the eastward, who, on landing, paid their informed him (in a language I had no knowledge first devotions to the divinity of the country of, and not like any other Indian tongue I ever whence they came, that is Boodh, or the genius of heard) that the Forefathers of this nation came from fecundity, also a symbol of Minerva and Isis. The head of a hawk indicates infinite wisdom, and also Mississippi, describing particularly the country now a foreign country, landed on the east side of the the north wind, which conducted them to the spot called West Florida, and that on the Spaniards tathere are some other figures and letters which king possession of Mexico, they fled to their then admit of many interpretations. abode. To prove what they asserted they produced rolls of parchment carefully tied up in Otter skins, on which were large characters written in blue ink which I did not understand, and the Weleliman being unacquainted with letters, even of his own language, I could not know the writing. They were a bold, hardy people. very warlike, and the women beautiful, when compared with other Indians. We left this nation, after being kindly treated and requested to remain among them, &c."

The second scene, which is in the then present, is more diffuse, and the figures dispersed there is a vessel with its mast flags, and long rudded, as in the oriental vessels at this day-there is a figure of a horse, which is well known symbol of Carthage. There is a human figure, or bust, upon the breast of which is a TRIDENT, emblematic of Neptune and also of the oriental trinity, of the good and evil and of the mediatory powers-the same as Vichenou, Sieb, and Brama, which, under one or another) name, have been found in the religions of all nations.

The subject generally appears to be intended to commemorate the arrival of a people there from the ocean and the east and who, having had intercourse with the natives, had resolved to return, and had written thus on that rock to commemorate the event: the characters indicate an oriental origin; || but whether from Phœnicia or Carthage, or elsewhere, is not ascertainable, than that it is of great antiquity. That it is a record of some kind cannot be a moment doubted, though the hieroglyphics are many and crowded; yet there is a method in it which renders it beyond doubt intended to cominunicate facts, and the oriental characters are to be found in nearly all the eastern alphabets.

EXECUTION of the REVENUE LAWS. Circular to Collectors, Naval Officers, and Surveyors. Treasury Department,

Comptroller's Office, May 10, 1819. SIR-In the Circular from this Department of the 14th ult. it is stated that "it has also been made a question whether, in case of the importation of goods purchased for a commercial house in the United States, by a partner residing abroad, the invoices are required to be verified by such partner. under the eighth section of the act; which has beer decided in the affirmative, as will be seen from the enclosed Circular letter of the Secretary of the Treasury to the Consuls of the United States in fo reign countries."

Since the date of the foregoing instructons, infor- || with those reflections peculiar to the case. Con. mation has been received at this office, that the sidering the enemy of mankind as the origin of the Construction given by some consuls of the United desolation and distress which I behold, a new imStates to that section, and alluded to in the circu-petus is communicated to my mind! The cross of lar of the 14th ult, has had a more extensive circu- the Lord Jesus Christ is presented to my view, and lation, and has led a greater number of importers, "lo! I am with you always" revives my heart and thus situated, into the error of not having their in-impels me to renewed exertion. To labour in the voices verified, than was at first apprehended; and, vineyard of the crucified Saviour, has formed my it being an established rule of the Treasury, to re-chief delight for the last thirty-two years of my life; lieve parties from the inconveniences to which they and though the power of doing good is in a degree may have been sujected by the advice or opinions abridged by an increase of years, still my inclinaof the officers of government employed in execu- tion is as great as it has ever been, and if I can add ting the revenue laws, with a view to afford time one stone to the sacred edifice, and see the church for the consuls of the United States, and merchants of my fathers placed upon that height to which the generally, to become acquainted with the Treasury apostolic purity of her doctrines entitles her, I shall constrution of that section, and to secure an uni- commit my head to the pillow of death with satisformity of practice under it, you are requested→→ faction, and leave my best blessing to those who shall survive me.

1. In all cases which have already occurred, where merchandise has been purchased in foreign Were I to say, brethren, that I entertain the least countries, by a partner resident in such foreign doubt of our ultimate success, I should speak a lan countries, the principal partners being in the Uni-guage foreign to my heart We are not, it is to be ted States, to admit such merchandise to entry up-remembered, entering within the enclosures of on the oath of the partner or partners resident in other denominatons, and interfering with them.the United States, notwithstanding the invoices We are absolutely seeking the lost sheep of our sball not have been verified, according to the pro- own fold. We are in pursuit of those who have visions of the eighth section of the act. been baptised at the altars we are appointed to guard, and who are destitute of spiritual food.

2. That the rule thus laid down shall apply to all invoices of goods which may be imported prior to the 1st day of August next.

3. That from and after the said 1st day of Au gust next, the rule laid down in the circular of the 14th ult. be invariably applied to all importations embraced by the letter and intention of the said rule.

I take leave to add, that the present arrangement is the result of a consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of some cases which have already occurred." Respectfully,

JOSEPH ANDERSON.

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
VIRGINIA..

Bishop Moore's Address to the Convention of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church, delivered before them at
Petersburg, on Saturday, the 15th May.

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When I look around me, and with an anxious so licitude, view those labourers engaged with me in the work. When I witness their zeal and listen to the sacred truths they deliver. When I hear the name of Jesus and the triumphs of redeeming grace proclaimed by youthful lips. When I see the standard of the cross erected in the pulpit. When I hear the Redeemer proclaimed as the Lord our righteousness, the only hope of the believer. When I see the ministers of the church leading their flocks to the Saviour, as "the way, and the truth, and the life." When I behold those who have been set apart to the sacred ministry by the impo sition of my hands, treading in the steps of Hall, Davenant, and Hooker; conducting their fellow mortals, not to Socrates and Seneca for relief, but to that fountain which opened on Calvary, for the salvation of a ruined world, the wilderness and solitary places of the church appear stripped of their weeds, and are presented to my enraptured view, in all the verdure of primitive times

BRETHREN, TO effect great and important objects, great and continued exertion is required.— Brethren, we have much cause of gratitude to Difficulties must not be permitted to paralize our God for the mercies conferred upon us; and though efforts nor to unnerve our arm. The mind fixed all has not been done that we could have wished, upon a legitimate point, must put forth all its en- still enough has been effected to convince us that ergies in the attainment of the contemplated dethe Lord is with us, and that Jehovah smiles upon sign. To press forward towards the mark, and to persevere with firmness, can alone secure to us Success, and effect the completion of that hallowed object in which we have engaged, the resuscitation || of the church of our fathers.

our efforts.

Aftter leaving the convention in Winchester, last May, in which place I confirmed a goodly number, and ordained two priests and one deacon, I repair. ed to the congregation at Bunker's Hill, at which When travelling through this extensive diocess, place I consecrated a neat stone church to the serfatigued with the labours peculiar to the station vice of Almighty God, preached to a devout and which I occupy, my spirits are always revived by pious people, and confirmed thirty-five persons. I recurring to that noble principle which forms the then visited Martinsburg, at which place I preach. soul of this convention, and which animates the bo-ed twice on the sabbath, to a respectable and at. som of each individual member. It is to raise our tentive auditory, and confirmed fourteen. After Zion from the dust, to build up her prostrated al-discharging my duties in Martinsburgh, I visited tars, and to furnish the people of our communion with the bread of life that we are labouring. JeLovan from his throne of mercy looks down with aprobation, and whispers to our hearts, "well done good and faithful servants."

the North Mountain, where I proclaimed the truth's of the gospel to a large and attentive assembly, consecrated a new and beautiful church and confirmed fifteen.

From the North mountain I went to Shepherd'sWhen the ruins of our desolated temples meet my town, at which place I preached to a large auditory eye, and the religious privations of the people are and confirmed fifty. From thence I went to Charlespresented to my view, my soul is overwhelmed "ton, in Jefferson county, opened a new and elegant

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