THE U. S. APPOINTMENT BY THE PRESIDENT OF is ascribed to the herb called "Scullcap," which which was applied to him in strong THEOPHILUST WARE, esq, Collector of the Re-doses. A statement of his case is now draw. venue for the 10th collection district of Pennsylvaing up by the physicians. nia in the room of JONATHAN KEARSLEY, esq. resigned. Ilis Excellency Oliver Wolcott, Governor of the state of Connecticut, arrived at the seat of his son in-law Col. Gibbs, on Long Island, yesterday morning. Alexandria, June 30.-Robbery.-One of the passengers, a respectable mechanic, who arrived here the other day in the ship Fair Trader, from Liverpool, was robbed, by some Petersburg, Capt. Crocker, built in this city, Yesterday afternoon, the new steam-boat one on board, of about 400 English guineas took a large party on an excursion of plea being his all, except 200 dollars in silver, sure, below the arrows and back, stopping which was not taken. Ilis intention was, to on her return opposite the residence of the remove to the westward, with his wife and Vice-President. Her speed, machinery and seven small children; and there purchase a accommodations, are equal to any boat on our piece of land with the money which he bas waters. In a few days this beat will proceed unfortunately lust. to Petersburg, Virginia. The company, in We have had, says the Philadelphia Gaz.cluding his honor the Mayor of the chy, and ette, the perusal of the Muster Roll of the U. S. ship Franklin, Commodore Stewart, at present in the Mediterranean.-Her full compliment consists of 777 souls; and what is equally surprising and pleasing is, that out of this great number, there are but ten on the sick list. This circumstance is certainly high by creditable to the discipline and economy the ships police. of The 74 building at the navy yard, in Philadelphia, progresses. rapidly, notwithstanding there has been some delay occasioned by the want of timber, We understand, however, that the requisite supply has now arrived.Nearly one half of her frame is up, and there appears to be a great quantity of timber prepared towards her completion. Naval.-T. BROWN is appointed to command the sloop of war Peacock; and W CHAUNCEY, the Ontario. NEW YORK, June 25. Letters from Buenos Ayres, via Wilmington, have been received as late as the 30th of March. Accounts had reached Buenos Ayres from Valparaiso, of the 8th of the same month.The U. S. frigate Macedonian, from Norfolk, arrived early in January. Lord Cochrane had been spoken near Lima, on his passage to attack that place. The Plattsburg, of Baltimore, from Mon tevideo, arrived at Buenos Ayres about the 20th of March. The schooner Petion, of New-York, was to sail from the 10th to the 15th of April. NEW-YORK, June 23.-We hear, that Jas. Cann, Carpenter, No. 103 Henry-street, who was bitten by a mad dog, and shewed strong symptoms of hydrophobia, is so far recovered as to be considered out of danger. His cure his lady, were much delighted, being highly entertained during the excursion, by the excellent band of music belonging to the 9th regiment. It is almost needless to add that the machin. ery of the Petersburg, was cast and fitted by Robert McQueen, & Co. the great and exch sive contractors and manufacturers of steamboat machinery in the metropolis. A letter from New York states, that some oircumstance on Friday last had caused a hea pressure on the Mechanics' Bank of that city, by a crowd of applicants for specie. The writer adds, that the pressure continued until three o'clock, that they were promptly the ability of the bank to meet all demands complied with, and that there was no doubt of that could be made on it.-Balt. Fed. Gez. Essex Bank.-The cashier of this Bank has called a meeting of the stockholders, to take such measures as may be expedient as to the rights of the institution, and to close its concerns.-N. Y. Gaz. 25th inst. Two Revenue Cutters were launched at the ship yards at New York on the 24th inst.The one is intended for Mobile, and the other for New Orleans. MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE, prorogued on the 19th of June till the 2d Wednesday in Jan. next, after passing 68 arts, including the "act relating to the separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts proper, and forming the same into an independent state." Savannah, June 19.-Agreeably to the sentence of the Superior Court, at their last session, Joseph Reos, a Spaniard, was hung, about 1 o'clock, P. M, yesterday, for the crime of murder. 1 No 26.] WASHINGTON CITY, JUNE 26, 1819. [VOL. VII Printed and Published, every Saturday, by JONATHAN ELLIOT, at five dollars per annum. Contents of this No. of the National Register. calculated for six inside and eight outside passengers. This is the first time we recollect to have heard of any thing of the kind in the U. States. It is confidently reported in the London papers, that a meeting of the allied sovereigns is to take place, this summer, at Carlesbad, and that they contemplate deposing the crown prince (Bernadotte) from the throne of Sweeden. reign Finance and Politics-Determination of the British House of Lords & Commons against the resumption of specie payment, 404—Internal State of Germany, 408-Fate of the Regicides, pronounced in the French Legislature, by the keeper of the seals, 410. South America-Royal Spanish official relation of recent operations on the Isthmus of Darien at Porto Bello, by the Patriots, 404-Gen. M'Gregor's Proclamation after its surrender, 405-Lord Cochrane's Proclamation for the Blockade of Callao, in Peru, &c. 405The state of Germany is every where representPrivateering, 406-Events at Bueuos Ayres, and reconciliation of Artigas with that republic, &c. 407-State of affairs Statistics-Extent of Newfoundland|ed to be very unsettled: nothing short of political in Venezuela, 408. trade, 409. Storm at Montreal, 410. Foreign Affairs, 412. amelioration it is said will content the people.- Recent advices from Africa represent the slave trade as active as ever, notwithstanding the vigi. lance of the British force stationed there to prevent it. Domestic Affairs. 414. Pastry -The Sentmer Iste, 410. EDITOR'S CABINET. City of Washington, June 26th. Various Items.-The President of the U. States, and suite had, on the 23d of June, reached Louisville, Ky. The Bank of the United States, has determined not to make any dividend for the six first months of the present year, on account of the various losses recently sustained. An expose of its affairs is promised to be shortly laid before the public. It is added that a pretty good dividend could be afforded from the funds as they now stand, but it is nevertheless thought prudent to pursue the course they have adopted. The Farmer's and Mechanic's Bank, at Nashville,|| has given formal notice of a temporary suspension of specie payments, which it alleges is "to counteract the present efforts now making to drain the country of specie." No one can dispute the wisdom of this plan to prevent it; but every friend to integrity and fair dealing must see the ruinous effect such steps must have on the credit of any institution that has the hardihood to adopt it, whilst others continue to pay in coin. The two state banks of Virginia have determined to divide no more of the profits of the last six months than will be sufficient to pay the instalment of the bonus to the Commonwealth; that is, one and a quarter per cent. on the capital stock of each bank. A new Mail Coach has commenced running from Jersey City, of a neat and handsome construction Since the assassination of Kotzebue, the Emperor of Russia has become generally obnoxious, and is loudly complained of, for his interference in their affairs. HUMBOLDT'S PROJECTED TOUR IN ASIA. In October last, the celebrated Humboldt, so well known by his important communications respecting America, proposed a voyage of discovery in the East Indies. The object was the country of Tibet, which had been little known, though it has ever been deemed the nursery of Asiatic population. With it he has connected a voyage over the Great Ocean, to observe and connect all discoveries in it. The notice of the Prince was honorable to We transcribe the talents of Humboldt. this tribute of respect from the Prussian King. "The Chancellor of State, Prince Hardenburg, has submitted to me a memoir you presented to him, of a voyage to India and the Indian Archipelago. Your former voyage in South America, and the valuable works which were the fruits of it, have done honour to yourself and your country, and have been highly useful to science. I have no doubt that your present plan will be as honorable. I have the pleasure to assure you, that for the voyage you propose, there will be an annual provision of 12 thousand crowns for four or five years from the time of your departure. I shall provide such instruments as the State possesses for astronomical and other purposes, which upon your return will be delivered as may be directed. It will be highly pleasing from your talants to have the cabinets of the State enriched, and I shall take the deepest interest in the best success of your enlightened enterprise." EAST FLORIDA. The circumstances of a gentleman having recently passed some time in East Florida, enables us to lay before our readers, extracts from his correspondence. They will be found as amusing and instructive, as might naturally be expected from the pen, of a writer of talents and observation. Arrival at St. Augustine-Introduction to, and character of Governor Coppinger, and real dis position of the Floridan government towards the people of the United States-St. Augustine and its fruits. formed men, that he is naturally of a passion. ate character; but, that he is so well aware of the impropriety of acting at periods, when unimpassioned reflection cannot have its due weight, as never to transact any affair of the least importance, until reason shall have resumed its empire. Should he have wounded the feelings of a person near him, on any of these occasions, he avails himself of the first opportunity which offers itself, to express his regret and sorrow for the pain he has produced. When we reflect that we are speaking of a man, vested with an absolute power over the Matanzas, (E. F.) 14th May, 1819.-I ar- inhabitants, with whose government his Soverived at. St. Augustine on the 12th inst. about reign has entrusted him; that in fact, he has 10 A. M. After having changed my dress, I no control but the control to be found in his waited on governor Coppinger, in order to own feelings and judgment, we must acknowpresent him with my letters of introduction.-ledge, there can be no stronger evidence of He received me with great politeness, andrael innate goodness of heart and true greattreated me, during my stay there, with distin ness of soul. guished hospitality. The Governor's charac ter is admirably calculated to render a people happy, and, more especially, under an abso lute government. I have never heard of or been acquainted with an individual, who offer ed a more perfect model for a Statesman, than this gentleman. He is plain in his manners; perfectly mild, affable and unassuming in his conversation. He is surrounded by no suite of officers, through whom it is necessary to address him, and, who then would render him difficult to approach. On the other hand, he is accessible to every one near him, and there is not the slightest appearance of either the pomp or "insolence of office." He visits his neighbors, Sans Ceremonie, and receive theirs in return, in the same manner. He makes his evening calls on his friends, and takes a social game of whist with as much intimacy as ever I was accustomed to do in our own little circle at -. He discusses all the subjects of daily interest in his own Province, and every thing that relates to the world in general, with all the ease, freedom and ingenuity, distinguishing the character of a well bred, and well informed gentleman. In his public conduct, he is averse from doing any thing that can wound the feelings of the people around him; and should policy, necessity, or, the orders of his superiors, compel him to adopt a measure opposed to the wishes of the inhabitants, it is a source of great pain and anxiety. With all this pliability of disposition, he unites as much real dignity, native simplicity, and true energy of character, as any individual I have ever known. His mind is shiningly constructed, and the energy distinguishing it, is happily supported by a magnanimity of the most perfect kind. Of this fact, I can give you a prominent proof. I have learned from well in There appears to be a belief general among › | The police of St. Augustine is admirable. Amongst the citizens, drunkenness is discountenanced; indeed, I may say, it is wholly unknown. Neither do we hear of riot in day nor robbery by night, at any time can either stranger or citizen walk the streets unmolested. And, strange to say, there never has been but one capital punishment infiicted since || wealthy and respectable citizen of this Prothe commencement of Governor Coppinger's vince, and he has two fig trees, each of them administration. This was for a murder of the measuring, from the extreme points of the most atrocious description. The people are branches, 33 feet. I am informed that to the polite and hospitable, and nearly every one southward of this place, and near the end of speaks both the Spanish and English lan- the Cape, all the West India iruits are cultiguages. vated by an individual, who has there fixed his solitary residence. am, &c. SLAVERY IN AMERICA. The town of St. Augustine enjoys a very pleasant and delightful atmosphere, like Ca- I shall resume my correspondence, and diz and the towns of Spain, it appears plan- leaving you to feast in imagination on there ned in an uncomfortable manner, being ir-delightful fruits, beg to say here truly, I regularly laid out, and the streets so narrow, as scarcely to admit of two carriages passing each other. I say the town appears badly planned, because, when I recollect how differently Charleston and Savannah are laid ont; and, that with all the difference, and the difference supposed to be so much in their QUINCY, June 8, 1819. favor, they have been so uniformly, or rather "I respect the sentiments and motives frequently the subject of endemic disease which have prompted you to engage in your On the other hand, St. Augustine with its har-present occupation, so much, that i feel an row streets and Imagrary want of a due cir-esteem for your person, as I do a veneration culation of air, has been uniformly healthy. Rush. for your assumed signature of Benjamin The narrowness of the lanes, for they are really not to be called streets in our accep tation of the word, exclude the scorching heat of the sun, thus giving you a good shade all day; and the irregular way in which they lay, prevents the free range of wind which occasions at times the inconveniences arising from the sand, which we experience in cities built in another manner. Extract from President ADAMS, to a gentleman of Baltimore, who has been writing under the signature of " Benjamin Rush," against slavery. "The turpitude, the inhumanity, the cruelty, and the infamy of the African commerce in slaves, have been so impressively reorasented to the public, by the highest powers increase the just odium in which it is and of eloquence, that nothing I could say would ought to be held. Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed, for This is a most delighful garden spot, and the eventual total extirpation of slavery from as in horticulture, are to be found the most the United States. If, however, humanity valuable and gratifying comforts of life, here dictates the duty of adopting the most prushall we be most likely to meet with those dent measures for accomplishing so excellent productions that have been long and justly a purpose, the same humanity requires that thought the greatest luxuries, that could be we should not inflict severer calamities on placed on our tables. But, as you know the the objects of our commiseration than those people of Spain are not attached as much as which they at present endure, by reducing those of Britain to high and luxurious living; them to despair, or the necessity of robbery, so in the trans-atlantic countries who have plunder, assassination, and massacre, to pretheir origin to the two nations; do we observe their lives. Some provision ought to serve the same difference, as between the mo-be made for furnishing them employment, or ther countries. Of course, generally speak- some means of supplying them with the neing, we find the cultivation of many of those cessary comforts of life. The same humanity articles, that in Charleston and all the Caro-requires, that we should not by any rash or lina markets would find an unlimited vent violent measures, expose the lives and proand a ready sale, almost wholly neglected.perty of those of our fellow citizens, who are There may be some exceptions, but I think I should be within bounds, were I to say that two thirds of each garden is covered with orange and fig trees. so unfortunate as to be surrounded with these fellow creatures, by hereditary descent or by any other means, without their own fault. I have, through my whole life, held The town may literally be termed an or- the practice of slavery in such abhorrence ange grove. The fig, pomegranate, grapes of that I have never owned a negro, or any othall kinds, and melons grow here in the high-er slave, though I have lived for many years est state of perfection. The fig is nearly twice as large as in South Carolina; and I am told it is much more delicious in flavour, I am now sojourning at the house of a very in times when the practice was not disgraceful; when the best men in this vicinity thought it not inconsistent with their characters, and when it has cost me thousands of dollars for THE NATIONAL REGISTER. the labor and subsistence of freemen, which No. 26 promissory notes of the bank of England in the legal coin of the realm. That in order to give to the bank a greater control over the issues of their notes than they at pregradual repayment to the bank of the sum of ten sent possess, provision ought to be made, for the service, and on account of the purchase of exchemillions; being part of the sum due to the bank, on account of advances made by them for the public quer bills under the authority of acts of the legisla If any thing should occur to me which I think may assist you, I will endeavour to communicate it to you; but at an age when "From Marlborough's eyes the tears of dotage flow, "And Swift expires a driveller and a show," very little can be expected from, sir, yourture. most obedient and most humble servant, JOHN ADAMS. OFFICIAL. LONDON, May 20-The Bank-The following are official copies of the resolutions laid on the tables of the houses of lords and commons, by the earls of Harrowby and Pell, and which it is the intention of those individuals, respectively, to propose for the adoption of the legislature, as the basis of whatever practical measures may be recommended. House of Lords.-1 hat it is expedient further to continue the restriction upon cash payments by the bank for a time to be limited, in such manner and on such conditions as shall be provided by parliament, with a view to insure its final termination at the period so to be fixed. That it is expedient to provide, by law, that from the 1st February, 1820, the bank shall be liable to deliver, on demand, gold of standard fineness, having been assayed and stamped at his majesty's mint, a quantity of not less than sixty ounces being of the bank as shall be equal to the value of the required in exchange for such an amount of notes gold so required, at the rate of 41. 18. per ounce. be liable to deliver, on demand, Gold of standard That from the first October, 1820, the bank shall fineness, assayed and stamped as before mentioned, a quantity of not less than sixty ounces being required in exchange for such an amount of Notes as shall be equal to the value of the Gold so required, at the rate of 31. 198 Gul. por ounce. liable to deliver on demand, Gold of standard fineThat from the 1st May, 1821, the Bank shall be ness, assayed and stamped as before mentioned, a That previously to the resumption of cash pay-in exchange for such an amount of notes as shall be quantity of not less than sixty ounces being required ments by the bank, it is expedient that the bank equal in value to the Gold so required at the rate should be required at a time to be fixed by parlia- of 31. 17s. 101d per ounce. ment, to give in exchange for its notes, gold duly assayed and stamped at his majesty's mint (if demanded to an amount not less than a number of ounces to be limited) valuing the same in such exchange at a price not exceeding four pounds one shilling per ounce. That at the expiration of a further period, to be also fixed by parliament, the bank should be required to give in exchange for its notes, gold so assayed and stamped (if demanded to an amount not less than a certain number of ounces to be limited) valuing the same in such exchange at the mint price. That at some time between the two periods above mentioned, the bank should be required to give in exchange for its notes, gold so assayed and stamped (valuing the same at a price between four pounds one shilling and the mint price: aud that after the price at which gold shall be valued in such exchanges shall have been once lowered, it shall not again be raised. | 1st February, 1820, and the 1st May, 1821, under- its notes, on demand, in the legal coin of the realm. SOUTH AMERICA. From the MAINE. Sea Serpent, from Rio Chagres, for the articles of We are indebted to captain Pierce, of the schr. That after the period shall have arrived at which Royalists, at Porto Bello- and a proclamation of capitulation, in French, of M'Gregor's army, to the the bank shall be required to give gold in exchange Lord Cochrane, issued on board the flag ship O'or its notes at the mint price, a further period to Higgins, in the bay of Callao, on the 1st of March be fixed by parliament should be allowed, and a certain notice given, before the bank shall be re-bays, harbors and the whole coast of the kingdom last, declaring in a state of blockade, all the ports, quired to pay its notes in cash. That it is expedient that all laws, which prohibit the melting or exportation of the gold or silver coin of Peru.-A translation follows. Translated for the N. York Evening Post. of the realin, and the exportation of gold or silver || A true relation of the result of Sir Gregor M'Gregor's bullion made of such coin, should be repealed. House of Commons.-That it is expedient to continue the restriction on payments in cash by the bank of England, beyond the time to which it is at present limited by law. That it is expedient that a definite period should be fixed for the termination of the restrictton on cash payments; and that preparatory measures should be taken, with a view to facilitate and ensure, ou the arrival of that period, the payment of the" expedition against the Isthmus of Panama. On the 8th of April, five vessels, viz: 1 large ship, 1 brig, 1 of smaller size, and 2 schooners, appeared shape their course towards Porto Bello, it was unin sight of the port of Chagres, and seeming to derstood from the commander of an English brig lying at anchor near Chagres, that it was M'Gregor's fleet. On the 12th we received intelligence from Porto Bello, that the troops on board the |