Exports of Cotton from India, in the year 1818. To England, bales of 300 lbs. The Continent America China Total 178,020 128.512 40,642 49,109 41,210 42,289 76,976 112,197 223,807 336,848 Whole exports 660,655 bales, valued at 52,852,400 sicca rupees, or 6,606,5507. sterling. in the city. The entertainment was never in this city surpassed, in variety or elegance; the decorations were extremely appropriate and neat; reminding us of the present friendship and early connexion of the two nations. A brilliant transparency represented the arms of the United States and France, their flags entwined, and over them a scroll, on which was inscribed, "First allies in the cause of Liberty." Many of the animating old revolutionary tunes were played by a full band: the lily and the pine, intermingled, ornamented the apartments, and carried the thoughts back to that glorious period when the gallant French battled with us and QUEBEC, May 7-Last evening a huge mass of for us; and renewed in all present the feelings of rock detachad itself from Cape Diamond, and fell || regard for the brave people who shed their blood in into Champlain street, choaking up the avenue, of supporting our independence. In the course of the about 20 yards, and burying under its fragments a supper, the Mayor having given the healths of the number of pieces of cannon and gun carriages. guests, Mr. De Neuville rose, and said he should not attempt to express his feelings, and those of his lady, on an occasion to them so flattering and so grateful. In his native language, he said, he could not; and how much more difficult would it be in one which was not his own. CANADA. On the 9th inst. the engine house, saw and grist mills, belonging to John Goudre, esq. of Quebec, were destroyed by fire. 30001 were insured on them in the United States. ST. HELENA-In the Trincomalee, from St. Helena, Mr. STOKOE, late medical attendant on Buonaparte, has arrived as passenger. Letters from St. Helena mention the report, that Dr. Stokoe, like Dr. O'Meara, had quarrelled with Gov. Low, on the topic of Buonaparte's health and conversations: and that the Governor had placed it at the option of" the physician, either to submit to a trial by CourtMartial, or be invalided home. He preferred the latter. It was understood that Buonaparte had been seized with a slight apoplectic fit; from which however he had recovered. APRIL 8. It is said, Dr. Stokoe has been examined by Ministers, and ordered to resume his func tions at St. Helena. "Three years ago," said he, "I arrived in the "United States as the Representative of a Sovereign; twelve years ago, I touched your hospita "ble shores, as an unfortunate Exile; in both situ"ations we found the same friendship, the same "benevolence. The land where foreigners, without any distinction of religious or political opi "nions, happy or unhappy, rich or poor, minister or refugee, are welcomed as brothers, if they are "as brothers, if they are virtuous, is not only the "land of freedom, but of humanity; such a land is, "and ought to be, prosperous and blessed by God. "Ladies and gentlemen, said he, the memory of the "heart is the best-never, never will we forget our "estimable friends of the United States, and par"ticularly of the District of Columbia. We hope and we wish sincerely to meet them again The Mayor, in behalf of the company, made a short, but suitable reply; and the company sepa rated with feelings of increased respect for the amiable guests and their nation. A private letter from the Isle of France, mentions" a fatal duel, which took place at Port Louis in September last, between Monsieur LS and Monsieur RC, Supercargoes of two French vessels, which had sailed from Calcutta; in which the former was shot through the body, and died three days afterwards This was the third time that they had gone out on the same unfortunate occasion. DOMESTIC. FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. MR. & MRS. DE NEUVILLE. BALTIMORE, May 22.-Information was received in this city a few days ago that the body of a Mr. JAMES ADAMS, a native of England, was found on Sunday the 9th inst. near Cumberland in this state, having been murdered in a horrible manner. It appears that he had gone into the 'interior for the purpose of purchasing land, having brought with him a considerable sum of money in gold-he travelled in company with the three men mentioned below. As soon as the murder was known suspi cion was directed to his companions, who had disappeared immediately after it. Pursuit was com menced and they were traced to this city, where they were apprehended on Wednesday last. On being searched, two purses of gold were found on them, besides a number of articles which have been identified by persons in this city as belonging to the deceased. Mr. Adams was known here and is. said to have been a respectable farmer from the county of Cadworth, England. It is with pleasure we observe a mark of respect shewn lately by our citizens to M. and Madame de Neuville. During their residence in this city, they have spared no pains to acquire the respect and esteem of all who came within the sphere of their acquaintance, and they have not succeeded more by the free and elegant hospitality which they have extended to all who chose to share it, than by those more impressive acts of benevolence and kindness, which are known to have marked their private || walks in society. As they also purpose soon to leave the United States for their own country, our citizens would not permit them to depart without some testimony of the esteem which is so justly and generally entertained for them. Accordingly a The names of the men who are apprehended and Ball was given to them on the 18th instant, which of whose guilt we are sorry to add there appeas to was attended by a numerous and brilliant assem-be but little doubt, are William Cotterell, the fablage of ladies, a large number of citizens, inclu-ther, and Wm. and John Cotterell, his two sons. ding all the members of government, Naval and Mi-They were passengers in the same ship with the Litary Officers, and such Foreign Ministers as were deceased from England. When apprehended they VOL. VII.] THE NATIONAL REGISTER. had engaged and paid for their passage in gold in the ship Franklin, about to sail for Liverpool. We are informed that previous to his departure from this city Mr. Adams mentioned that he had a draft on a merchant here, whose name is not known, for a considerable amount. The draft has not yet been found. The effects of the deceased are in possession of Mr. N. Fowler, Constable, No. 28 Lancaster street, Fell's Point. PHILADELPHIA, May 29.-Mr. BAPTISTE IRVINE, United States' agent to Venezuela, arrived here this morning from St. Thomas. The whole amount of deaths in the city and liberties of Philadelphia for the year 1818, was 2765. Diseases-consumption, 396; cholera morbus, 203; convulsions, 141; fever, typhus, 311; other fevers 181; dropsy, 99; do. in the head, 67; do in the breast, 5; still born, 156; debility, 89; atrophy 46; apoplexy, 40; hives, 48; various inflamations, 170; old age, 65; pleurisy, 25; palsy, 37; small pox, (natural) 8. CONVICTIONS AT PHILADELPHIA. Charles Stewart, alias Levi Blake (an East Indian) for stealing a trunk of T. Cadwallader, jr. by cutting it from behind a stage, sentenced to three years imprisonment. Charles Sulpree, a young man of respectable connexions; but a victim of intemperance, was convict ed of setting fire to the manufactory of Oliver Evans. He seemed, from the account given by the witnesses to have been actuated by no malicious motives towards Mr. Evans. After having set fire to the manufactory, he was the first to give the alarm, and the most industrious in his endeavors to Having been suspected, he was extinguish it questioned on the subject, and made a full confession of his crime. The court for the present suspended their sentence. Wm. Bell and Milford Jacobs, (both blacks) were convicted of stealing The latter gave evidence in the case, and was sentenced to two years imprison ment-the former to three years. bers, and have not yet been heard from. Several [bably a few small towns which have chosen memsent session. Of the members chosen, 147 are from of the members chosen will not attend at the preMaine, among whom are 88 republicans and 59 federalists. During a shower from the southwest, yesterday SAVANANH, May 22.-Captain Chevalier, of the List of American Prisoners, American citizens A Hosmer, Thomas Woodard, John T Givings, William Kkipton, do. Boston, Baltimore, do. do. do. do. do. Norfolk, do. do. do. do. Several lately sent to Spain. Aaron Post was arraigned for an assault with intent to murder Samuel Able. The prisoner was passing up the Delaware river in a Durham boat, when some other boys from the wharf threw stones The number of prisoners taken under the Patriot at him; upon which he levelled his gun at the prosecutor, and put the contents in his thigh. The defendant produced a very strong recommendation flag, belonging to different nations, is about one from a number of respectable people in Philadel-hundred. Some of them have been in prison six phia and Northampton counties, and upon the request of the father of the boy, a nolle prosequi was entered. years. A coach-maker's experiments.-The_inventor of some improvements in coaches in England-has found an advantage in hanging the carriage, and placing the baggage, low, and mentions the follow On Thursday last, the 27th inst. a new Church, "The patentee suspended 34 lbs. to a line, which, The Velocipede (or Tracen) is in motion at passing over a pully, moved a stage coach which Washington Hall, N. Y. Riders have not yet suffi-weighed 17 cwt. Seven half hundred weights were cient experience to make their entree in the Park then placed on the roof, when it required 25lb. The Philadelphia Balance has made a judicious im- more to inove it. The seven half-hundred weights provement, by mounting a small swivel in front, were then placed down in the boot, when it requirand the machine is to be used in the field of battle, ed only 14 lb. thereby proving, that to place the in which it will not only be useful for attack, but alweight nearer on a level with the line of draft is a so for retreat.-Nat Adv. BOSTON, May 26. It is ascertained that there are 405 Representatives chosen to the present General Court, of whom 249 are federalists, and 156 are republicans-federal majority 93. There are pro-l saving of labor to the horse of 11 lb. in every 25 of draft If a person was to fix a pound weight at the seven miles in the hour, this would show how much top of a ten foot rod, and run with it at the rate of more labor it required than if brought down on a level with the hand." SOUTH AMERICA. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. By the Ceoilia, capt. Hampton, from La Guira, Now serving with the insurgents. THE "MOHAWK INDIANS." the liberty to ask president ADAMS, if he could Some time ago, the editor of the REGISTER took oblige him by furnishing a list of the names of those gentlemen who destroyed the tea in Boston harbor, previous to the revolution. The following is his reply; and its publication may probably put us in possession of the information which we seek to re cord. Quincy, May 10, 1819. i whether I can give the names of the Mohawks, who MR. NILES-In one of your letters, you ask me harbor? I now tell you in truth, and upon honor, that I know not, and never knew the names of any were concerned in the noyade of the tea in Boston barrister of law, in the court of judicature, in the one of them. During the week of that transaction, I was employed in the discharge of my duty as a Boston the deed was done. I never enquired who, did it--whenever any person discovered an intown and county of Plymouth-when I returned to clination to give me a history of it, as many did, I word to me on that subject-name not to me one constantly stopped him short-aud said, say not a person concerned in it. My reason for this caual-against the authors of it, and that I should be caltion was, that I expected every day an indictment led upon, to defend them in a court of justice; and general or solicitor general, should have it in his I was determined that no judge, or juror attorney power to compel me to testify as a witness to any fact relative to the transaction; and to this day I know not the name of one man concerned in it. It is represented by those revolutionary agents that there exists a well established Republican Government, laws, armies, and populations who have submitted to such Republic, and in fact all that may constitute a nation. Under such allurements many may have left their homes for the purpose of establishing themselves in this country, of knowing the Supreme Chief, and of obtaining as a reward for their services, properties, fortune and honor: but how miserably have they been deceived." Englishmen: to you I address myself, who are ready acquainted with that famous personage whom you no doubt (while in England) compared to a Washington at least, but now, having seen the Hero of this despicable republic, his troops, his Generals, and the wiseacres who compose his Govern ment, you must be convinced of having been most shamefully imposed upon. You are serving under Within two years past, a gentleman, an entire stranthe command of a man in every respect insignifi-ger to me, on a visit he was pleased to make me, cant, and have joined a horde of banditti who are famed for the exercise of the most barbarous cruel- said, told him that he was one of the "Mohawks" blurted out the name of one gentleman who, he ties, which are so averse to your national character, but this name I will not commit to writing. You that you must abhor them. may depend upon it they were no ordinary Mohawks. He who retains the least spark of honor and jus tice cannot remain united with such a band of rag. muffins, who are abhorred by the very country that gave them birth, whose soil they have sullied with crimes of all descriptions. The people of Venezuela only wish for peace and for the extermination of those monsters. I know that many of those misled Englishmen and other foreigners are prevented from separating themselves from this unjust cause for the want of means. I therefore offer and guarantee to those who may present themselves to the army under my command, personal security. They will either be admitted in the service of H. C. M. or be sent free to the country of their own choice. The friendship which reigns between Great Britain and the Spanish monarchy as well as my af fection to the British nation induce me to this step, which I hope may prove serviceable and accepta ble to military men worthy of a better fate, some of whom may have known me in Spain in the divi- || sion of the brave General Hill. their names, and the total abstinence from plunder, Albany Gazette of yesterday announces that the re- ington and Warren bank; and we believe another This offer of security tendered to you by a Spa-kinds, and the great scarcity of money, the terms nish General who fought at your side for the liberty of Europe, I trust you will consider as sincere and involable. The General in Chief of the King's army in Ve- on which the present loan has been made are strong indications of the unimpaired confidence of ated for the completion of the canals, and of the the public in the sufficiency of the funds appropri ability of the state at all times to meet its engage. ments." EDITOR'S CABINET. City of Washington, 22d May, 1819. Money and Manufactures.-The public prints are filled with the productions of writers who are misleading the community in the most shameful manner, on the subject of money and manufactures. There are even writers mad enough to propose that specie should be entirely banished from circula tion ! of a pernicious diminution in the quantity of our metallic money. The real cause of the scarcity of the precious metals in the U. States, is to be found in the substitution, which has taken place almost every where throughout the union, but particularly in the middle, southern, and western states, of bank notes. Our bankers have attempted to do that which is impossisible. They have attempted to make credit A common knowledge of the true nature equal to cash: In other words, they have enof human interests and passions ought to be deavored to make a paper dollar, resting exsufficient to convince every reflecting person clusively on security, equal in value to a silthat paper money, unsupported by the pre-ver dollar, which has an intrinsic value. It cious metals, will increase without limit, and may be regarded as an incontrovertible fact, that it will cause successive depreciations in if two kinds of money are put into circulathe currency, until it will be worth almost tion, one of which is intrinsically more vanothing. The redemption of bank notes with laable than the other, notwithstanding they specie, is the only check to the excessive is- may be both of the same denomination, that sue of paper money. Experience has rethe least valuable of them will become curcently shewn, that no reliance is to be placed rent, and the more valuable will be hoarded, on the bank directors as to this particular. or otherwise disappear. Every one puts off Under compulsory laws to redeem in specie, his doubtful or bad money first. In the year the directors of banks have uttered their pa- 1717, the relative value of gold and silver per to a most ruinous extent. The paper coin, was settled by proclamation in Engsystem, without a metallic basis, was suffi- land, and sir Isaac Newton predicted, that ciently tried during our revolutionary war. the denominative value of the gold, in proWith the most undoubted patriotism of that portion to its intrinsic or marketable vaday, continental money sunk in value to alue, being greater than that of the silver cypher: And in France the assignet project coin, it was impossible the latter could rewholly failed. The insanity of some writers main in circulation. This prediction was veis incurable. None more so than the paper-rified; and the fact was stated in the British mongers who infest the columns of the Na- House of Lords on the 21st of June, 1816, tional Intelligencer. Through that vehicle by lord Lauderdale, in a protest against the they have a very deleterious influence on silver coinage bill. The late gold coinage of public opinion; for the character of the news- Great Britain, too, has recently found its way paper gives an undue weight to such essays. to France, whose government does not coun We trust that persons at a distance will not tenance the circulation of paper money as receive these writings as the true standard of Great Britain and the United States do, and the knowledge prevailing at Washington, as almost the whole of it has been recoined at to the currency of the United States. The the French mint; so impossible has it been in subject is much better understood at the me- England to preserve in circulation, at the tropolis than may be supposed by residents same time, bank notes and specie of unequal in the states. We are not quite so ignorant value. The British government has finally at the seat of government as to believe, be- become convinced of this important truth, cause a paper note is called a dollar, that it is, and the latest advices from that quarter state, therefore, worth one hundred cents in spe- that it has been determined to correct the cie; nor do we suppose, by doubling any giv-evil, by depreciating the intrinsic value of en amount of paper money, that the value of that amount is increased two-fold. Men do not like to find fault with themselves; and when misfortune comes upon them, they look, not at home, but at a distance, for the causes of it. Every day we see in the public prints more or less abuse of the India and China trade, as the means of carrying off our specie. Yet it is well known that this India trade was pursued with as much alacrity in former years as at present, and was then not charged as being the cause the coinage, by emitting guineas worth only seventeen shillings for twenty-one shillings. This, unquestionably, will be better than to continue the paper currency; for this new specie will be kept within the realm, as it will pass for more there than it will in foreign countries, and, of course, there will be no motive to buy it up for exportation.There will, it is obvious, be a loss to the British public in the first instance, of four shillings in the guinea; but, then, the loss will be all at once; it will stop and be permanent at a certain point, and will not be liable to fluctuations and successive depreciations, as in the case of paper money This is a sound principle upon which the British government proceeds; for whenever any denomination of money is rendered of more value at home than abroad, it is evident that it will remain at home. somuch that many persons, who, by their own labor and the hire of a few hands, can immediately become respectable farmers, would never be able to become even humble asso ciates in a manufacturing establishment. There are but two classes in manufactories: The opulent employers, and the laborers; and this inequality must continue. In agricul ture, as it regards the whites, this is not the case. The price of land is cheap; and an in Most of the strictures which appear in the newspapers concerning manufactures, are equally absurd with those respecting a circu-dustrious man, in a very few years, may ac lating medium. if we wish to take a just view of this subject of manufactures, we should consider all the circumstances connected with it, for it is a very broad question. Upon the general proposition of encouragement of domestic manufactures, we believe the people of the United States are very little divided. Domestic manufactures are on all hands allowed to be a very desirable object: But the degree in which they should be encouraged, is matter of calculation. cumulate a sufficient sum to purchase a farm for himself. it is not to be supposed that intelligent freemen will readily forego these advantages. When we arrive at a dense popula tion of 50, 100, or 150, souls to the square mile, like England and France, there will be a reaction. Lands will not, then, be so cheap: Plantations will not be so readily procured; and our citizens will seek other employments. It is in vain to hold forth England as an example for the United States with respect to manufactures. England is a When the Anglo-Europeans first visited small island compared with the territory of America, they found a country without the American union. Great Britain, in some houses fit for civilized man, and without those years, does not raise grain enough to feed various establishments which his condition her population; and her subjects would absorequires; they found, also, a soil uncultivated. lutely starve, if it were not for the supplies Here, therefore, was a great raw material to of corn which they are enabled to purchase be worked up; that is, houses, and farms, and with their manufactures. The United States, plantations, were to be manufactured, out of on the contrary, are a great agricultural nathe forests, the mines, and the lands. In this tion: The basis of their wealth and prosperidescription of manufactures have we not ex- ty is agriculture, which is a noble employ ceeded the most sanguine expectations? No-ment, and one that is calculated to render body will deny it. This want of houses and them great and happy. The main argument food was of the first necessity. It is, in a of those who are vehement in their cries for great measure, still so. Capital will always protecting duties to manufactures in the U. follow the object which is most lucrative. States, is, that we furnish to Great Britain Men have no preference in this respect, ex- the raw material, which she re-sells to us, in cept what are pointed out by their interest. a manufactured state, at a great advance in Population so increases in the United States, price. This is not a fair way of estimating that lands rise in value in the most astonish- the exchange of commodities. The true meing manner. Hence money flows in that di-thod of estimating the comparative value of rection. Capitalists vest their money in raw and manufactured articles, is to ascertain lands, which soon yield them an hundred the capital employed in the production of fold. Compared with what are more strictly each, and the respective profits accruing from called manufactures, trade in land affords an that capital. We have at this instant before enormous profit. Consequently, men who us, an extract of a letter from the honorable have cash are not disposed to invest it in ma-Francis X. Martin, of New-Orléans, bearing nufacturing establishments, from which they the date of the 22d of July last, addressed would derive less profit. They pursue their to a gentleman in Georgia." In this extract, interest, as mankind forever will, when they Mr. Martin represents that some of the sugar can discern it. The raising of grain, cotton, planters in Louisiana, "derive a revenue of and tobacco, requires less capital than the fa- 1,000 dollars, in some years, from the annual brication of cloth, flannel, and cotton goods, labor of some of their working hands," and in America; and from this cause individuals that "from 500 to 750 is the ordinary calcuprefer the former pursuit to the latter. Agri- latior." This working, or "field hand," as culture, moreover, enables single families to Mr. Martin informs us, costs from 1,500 to establish themselves in a state of greater in- 2,000 dollars in cash. The profit which this dependence than manufactures admit of; in-hand, or slave, produces to his master, is, ac |
