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Several vessels arrived at Liverpool on Thursday last, from America, which have brought, amongst other produce, 25,000 bar rels of flour, and 15,000 more are expected every tide.

Feb. 18.

Capital Stock purchased by or transferred to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, up to the 5th of January,

1817;

Total amount for Great Britain and Ireland. 338. 101,058/.

A report is circulated, for the truth of which we cannot vouch, that the Bank of England bas obtained the sanction of Government to a plan for the establishment of Branch Banks in various districts of the country.

On the 24th of February, 10,000 British troops arrived in England from France, be ing one-third of the army of occupation. Las Casas and his son had arrived at the Cape of Good Hope from St. Helena.

Las Casas had been detected in attempting a clandestine correspondence with some people in Paris, through the medium of a Lady in London. A letter had been detected in the lining of a black boy's jacket, written on very fine silk, in cipher; the contents as yet unknown, for the want of a key. Las Casas was removed and confined as a close prisoner. Bonaparte, a few days before, in a fit of spleen, had cut up a quantity of plate and sold it,under pretence that his allowance was not enough.

March 6.

Much sensation has been excited by the suspension of the HABEAS CORPUS act, which was carried by a large majority. After the passage of this act, the funds immediately rose one per cent.

A Protest against this measure was signed in the House of Lords by Frederick Augustus, Duke of Sussex, Bedford, Toley, Tunbridge, Alvanley, Montfort, Essex, Lauderdale, Grey, Wellesley, Thanet, Grosvenor, Auckland, Saint John, Say, Rosslyn, and Holland.

It appears from the Report of the Secret Committee of Parliament, on which the sus pension of the Habeas Corpus is founded, that a very extensive and formidable conspiracy has been organized throughout England and Scotland, for the avowed object of revolution in Church and State.

Married.] In London, Baron Fred. Wm. Driesen, General in the Russian armies, to Miss Aikin, of Hampstead.-The Earl of Warwick, to Lady Monson.

Died] At Mitcham, Lieut. General Forbes Champagne, Col of the 70th regt. of foot.At Teddesley-Park, Staffordshire, the Mar

chioness Wellesley; she was a French woman, daughter of M. Pierre Roland, but long separated from her husband-At Elston, Nottinghamshire, Robert Waring Darwin, author of Principia Botanica.-At Blenheim, His Grace George, third Duke of Marlborough, and deservedly styled the good '-At Chevening, Rt. Hon. Charles Stanhope, Earl Stanhope, F. R. S. F. A. S. Member of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, &c. &c. He was the author of many valuable works, and numerous mechanical inventions. At Barbaraville, Co. of Roscommon, Rt. Hon. Patrick Dillon, eleventh Earl of Roscommon, &c. &c.-At Kensington, aged 79, John Paddey, Esq. whose mother, Lady Ann Paddey, was daughter of Charles, Duke of Cleves and Southampton, son of Charles 2d. The deceased was the

last surviving descendant, in the third degree of King Charles, by the Lady Barbara Villiers, daughter of Wm. Villiers, Viscount Grandison, who was slain, fighting for the King, at father was brother of the favourite, George, the battle of Edgehill, in 1642, and whose Duke of Buckingham.

FRANCE.

Paris, Dec. 18. From the establishment of the decimal system to August. 1816. the money coined amounts to 1,629,666.538 francs, of which 250 millions were gold. The money coined with the head of Louis XVIII. amounts already to 213,815.475 francs, of which 116 millions were in gold.

January 26.

The Report of Count Beugnot to the House of Deputies, on the ways and means of defraying the expense of 1817, after a view of the financial operations of past years, proceeds to state the estimate of expenses of the year, which he makes 16 millions less than the ministerial estimate, as follows:

Ordinary expenses 468,000,000 franks. Extraordinary do. 431,000.000 Expenses of public debt 157,000,000 Making a total of 1,056.000.000 franks. which is about equal to 198,000.000 of dollars. Of this sum it is proposed to raise 759,000,000 by taxes and imports of different funds, and the deficiency of 298,000,000 by a loan, from a company through which it was expected that the aid of foreign capitalists might be obtained. To enable the government to effect this loan, it was proposed to appropriate, from certain revenues, the annual sum of 30,000,000.

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GERMANY.

states a sinking fund, like that of France and The emperor of Austria has founded in his England.

millions. At the expiration of eight months, In 1816, no less than 2563 vessels of various the Contractors for the first four millions tonnage, arrived at the port of Amsterdam. may take the second, but at a higher price of the French funds. The four millions absolutely contracted for are taken at 55. French funds-and the payments are to be completed by the end of ten months from the date of the contract. The contractors are-first, Mr. Baring, of London; next the Hopes, of Amsterdam; Parish, of Hamburgh; a house at Frankfort; and five banking houses at

Paris.

The population of France is officially reported to be 28,813,051 souls, exclusive of Corsica, and the colonies.

March 10.

city of Frankfort are not yet terminated. The disputes between the Jews and the The Diet has referred the Jews to the senate, and the senate has sent them to the legislative body, where it is supposed their claims will be heard.

Vienna, Jan. 25. The Duke of Montfort (Jerome Bonaparte,) and the Princess his wife, passed through here to-day, on their way to Upper

One-fifth of the Allied Army has left Austria, where they have bought the fine

France.

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Extract of a letter from St. Bernard, dated
December 23, 1816.

estate of Kamburg: they are to return in a soon as the fine chateau of Kamburg is put in few days to Hamburg; but it is said, that as order, they will go and reside there with Madame Murat and her family.

The Wirtemberg army is to be reduced so ordered, that in all representations and petias not to exceed 20,000 men. The king has and Latin expressions shall be avoided, and tions addressed to him, the use of all French pure high German alone employed.

of Gottingen, many of whom are said to be There are 1100 students in the university Americans.

The actual armed force of Austria, is computed in a German journal at 530,000 men.

DENMARK.

It is with grief I inform you, that on the 16th, a frightful avalanche had swallowed up two domestics of the hospital, and four men of the town of St. Peter, without there being a possibility of rendering them any assistance. Four of them had set out from the hospital with letters. Two others went to meet them from the town, and all disappeared. Receiving no news from them, we set out in great anxiety in search of them.-Night surprised us in the gorges of the mountain, and it was with the greatest difficulty we could find another. The weather was so tempestuous, that we passed one another without knowing it. On the 19th and 20th we made a fruitless search, and on the 22d we found three of their bodies, seven feet under the snow. a quarter of a league from the convent. All the families of the unfortunate men are in A ship of the line, larger than any belongdespair and in tears. To increase our mis- ing to the Swedish navy, is about to be fortunes, all our dogs are buried under the launched at Carlscrone. The navy will snow. There is no longer at the convent a then consist of 11 ships of the line, in the single one of those courageous animals, who best state, besides frigates, &c. have for so long a time been the hope of the traveller. The useful race is extinct.

For eight hours the wind has been heaping up the snow. The avalanches have changed the form of the mountain. It would no longer be recognized. All the inhabitants of St. Peter, able to labour, are on the mountains.

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Elsineur, Jan. 4. Last year there passed the Sound, 8871 ships, among which were, from the north sea, 208 Russian, 525 Prussian, 942 English, 83 1097 Swedish, 408 Danish, 396 Norwegian, American, 8 French, &c. and from the Baltic, 906 English, 85 Americans, 8 French, 4 Spanish, 23 Portuguese, &c.

SWEDEN.

RUSSIA.

By a late statistical account in the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences at Petersburg, it appears, that the revenue of Russia in 1811, amounted to two hundred and fifteen millions of rubles, and the expenses to two hundred and seventy-four millions. In 1810 the army consisted of 621,155 men; the navy (in 1813) of 289 sail, mounting 4348 guns. The established church (the Greek) had four metropolitan churches, 11 archbishoprics, 19 bishopricks, 26,747 churches, and numerous convents. In addition to this, in 1811, there were 3,500,000 Catholics, 1,400,000 Luthe

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ASIA.

TURKEY,

The successes of the Ottoman forces in the Arabian Peninsula have led to an acknowledgment of the supremacy of the emperor of the Turks; and Abdullah ben Saood, the chief of the Wahabee Arabs, has beeu compelled to guarantee the payment of a yearly tribute, by the transmission of valuable hostages to Mahommed Ali Pacha, governor of Egypt and commander of the victorious

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Calcutta, Nov. 1, 1816. The unusual epidemic disease still prevails in the upper provinces-there is an extraordinary mortality among the European troops. Our last accounts from Java, state that it would probably take till August to adjust all the business connected with the transfer of the island to the Dutch-the English flag continued to fly at Welturredeen, 1st Oct.

The Lord Bishop of Calcutta is daily expected here; his Lordship and family arrived at Colombo, 12th Oct.

Late accounts from Madras state that the members of the French colonial government still remained at the Admiralty Gar. dens, but were expected to return to Pondicherry by 15th instant. The French government intend to reinstate the college formerly at Pondicherry; so as to supersede the necessity of sending youth to Europe, for education in the higher branches of literature, science, &c. We doubt whether the scheme will be found to answer the good intention. Pondicherry will be ceded to the members of the French colonial government very soon; the Madras Gazette has officially notified all British subjects residing in the settlement and dependencies of Pondicherry, except those on duty, to return to the British territories by the 10th inst.

AFRICA.

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BRITISH AMERICA.

CANADIAN EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.

Exports for the year 1816, from Quebec. Lumbers, furs, ashes (70,609 cwt.) with small quantities of grain, flour, and provisions, in all having an official value of four hundred and eighty thousand pounds, or, 1,920,000 dollars. The amount is said to be 140,000l. greater than it was last year, principally owing to the export of ashes, about one half of which is from the United States. The export of furs has been very much diminished, owing to the war between the north west and Hudson bay companies.

Imports. for 1816, at Quebec.

Dry goods, official value, 1,556,2967.— Wines, 300,000 galls.; rum, 1,092,500; brandy, 31,600; gin, 30,100; whiskey, 107,745; Muscovado, 1,809,422; coffee, 335,441; tomolasses, 135,241. Sugar refined, 438,673 lbs. minots, &c. &c. making a total official value bacco, 46,562; tea, 218.969. Salt 219,826 of 2,174,7961. equal to 8,699,184 dollarsleaving an apparent balance against the colony of about 6,500,000 dollars.

Kingston, v. c. March 1. On Thursday last, the inhabitants of this town experienced two shocks of an earthquake. The first took place about two, and the second at four o'clock in the afternoon. The duration of each was nearly a minute. The last shock was more sensibly felt, and occasioned the glass to rattle in the windows. They were both accompanied by a rumbling sound resembling that of distant thunder. The weather, at the period of this unusual occurrence, was moderate, and the wind at the N. E. quarter, with a slight fall of snow.

Quebec, March 15.

Extraordinary.-A prodigious fish some days since run a-shore, near the river Ouelle, in the county of Cornwallis. Its dimensions are said to be enormous, of which some idea may be formed from its protruding and breaking whole fields of ice, of extraordinary thickness at this season of the year, in its career. It has drawn the admiration of hundreds in this district, and it is said a great portion of the inhabitants are

The Dey of Algiers has confirmed his trea- employed in cutting the blubber into junks to

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be reduced into oil, of which it will afford of the government, both civil and military, some thousands of barrels, and will yield a foreign ministers and officers, strangers of very handsome sum to the provincial reve- distinction, and citizens of the republic. nues as droits, and to the Seigneur of the pa- Appointments by the President of the United rish, who shares with the crown in the pro- States, with the advice and consent of the fits arising from fish of this description. The Senale. skeleton is to be carefully preserved for the

museum.

Montreal, April 5.

By the advertisement in this paper from the lieut. governor's office at York, it will be seen that a canal communication from Kingston to La Chine by the river Rideau, is seriously undertaken. Its importance will be readily conceived. In addition to enhancing the worth of the settlements through which it will pass, it will be of vast consequence to the provincials at large.

To be secretary for the department of state, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, of Massachusetts. To be secretary for the department of the treasury, WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD.

To be secretary for the department of war, ISAAC SHELBY, of Kentucky.

Mr. CROWNINSHIELD, it is understood, remains at the head of the navy department.

Richard Cutts, late superintendent general of military supplies, to be second comptroller of the treasury department, under the act of the 3d of March, 1817, to provide for the prompt settlement of public accounts.

Horrid Murder-On Saturday last, beWilliam Lee, late accomptant of the war tween 10 and 11 o'clock at night, the St; department, Peter Hagner, late additional Lawrence suburbs was the scene of a horrid crime. A man named O'Brien was murdered accomptant of the war department, Constant by one McGuire. It appears that McGuire, Freeman, late accomptant of the navy dehaving taken some offence, was behaving partment, and Stephen Pleasonton, of the himself in an unbecoming manner in the state of Delaware, to be auditors in the treapublic house of mrs. Hughes, on which she sury department, under the act aforesaid. went out to ask assistance of her neighbour, of the lands in the northern part of the MisJohn Coffee, of Tennessee, to be surveyor Mr. O'Brien: McGuire, suspecting her design, followed her out, and met with Mr. O'Brien, who quietly asked McGuire why he occasioned such a disturbance? McGuire, without answering, gave him a blow with a club, which he had in his hand; O'Brien fell, and McGuire repeated the blows. Several people coming together on hearing the noise,

the murderer was seized and committed to

sissippi territory, under the act of third of March, 1817.

Israel Pickens, of North Carolina, to be register of the land office, to be opened in the Mississippi territory, under the act of 3d

March, 1817.

tional Judge in the Mississippi territory, to Stephen Archer, of Maryland, to be addireside in the eastern part thereof, under the

act of the 3d March, 1817.

United States, to be secretary of the Illinois Joseph Phillips, late of the army of the territory.

prison. Mr. O'Brien expired immediately
after receiving the first blow. His head was
beaten in a most shocking manner-by
marks, six or seven blows were apparently
given, either of which would have proved
mortal. Mr. O'Brien was formerly a non-
commissioned officer in the 2d battalion of at St. Croix.

Robert Jaques, of New-York, to be consul

Daniel Strobel, of South Carolina, to be

the 8th regiment, and since the peace had John Howard March, of New-Hampshire, become known and esteemed as the best to be consul at Madeira. painter in the city. On Monday his remains were interred in the Roman Catholic bury. ing ground, attended by a numerous concourse of acquaintances, and with military

honours.

consul at Bordeaux, in place of William Lee, resigned.

sul of the United States at Kingston upon William Davy, of Pennsylvania, to be conHull, in Great Britain.

Joseph Ray, of the same state, to be consul at Pernambuco, in Brazil.

Jose dos Santos Monteiro, of Brazil, to be consul for the island of Maranhoa, in Brazil.

Reuben G. Beasley, of Virginia, to be consul at Havre de Grace.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. On the 4th of March last, James Monroe was inducted, with the usual ceremonies, into the office of President of these United States. On this interesting occasion, the President delivered a speech, in which he developed his views of policy and principles of government. Having concluded his address, the oath of office was administered to him by the Chief Justice of the United States. The so- Edward Wyer, of Massachusetts, to be conlemnities were performed in the open air, sul of the United States at Hamburgh. under the auspices of a fine day, and in the Henry Wilson, of Maryland, to be consul presence of an immense concourse of officers

Robert Trimble, of Kentucky, to be Judge of the United States for the district of Kentucky.

at Nautz.

Edward Church, of Kentucky, to be con- duct of some of its agents in this country, sul at L'Orient. have been satisfactorily adjusted.

John B. Frasier, of Massachusetts, to be consul for the island of Curracoa.

John O. Sullivan, of New York, to be consul at Mogadore, in Morocco.

Joel Hart, of New-York, to be consul at Leith.

It is stated in the National Intelligencer, that the difficulties with the Russian government, which had grown out of the miscon

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The probable expense of finishing the public buildings of the United States, at Washington, is estimated at 336,661 dollars. It is expected that the chambers for the legislative bodies will be ready for their reception in the autumn of 1818.

The Swedish and Norwegian minister, Mr. De Kantzow, has taken leave of the president, with the intention of making a visit to Sweden.

ART. 13. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

YOVERNOR PLUMER is re-elected by a large majority. All the branches of the government of this state, for the ensuing year, are republican.

An attempt has lately been made to fire the town of Portsmouth, which was happily detected before any considerable injury had

been done.

Died.] At Hanover, hon. John Wheelock,
L. L. D. aged 63, president of Dartmouth Uni-
versity, to which institution, before his death,
he made a donation of nearly 40,000 dollars.
At Portsmouth, Mrs. Mehitable Mackay. At
Merrimack, mrs. Rebecca, wife of H. W.
At New-Market,
Gordon, Esq. aged 34.
Wentworth Cheswell, Esq. aged 71 At
Hanover, Mrs. Hannah Kinsman, aged 23.

MASSACHUSETTS.

From the return of votes, in this State, the re-election of Gov. Brooks, by an increased majority of several thousands, is already ascertained. The whole number of votes legally returned, last year, was 97,084, The political character of the Senate for the ensuing year will not be changed.

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Esq aged 67. Mr. Alpheus Dunham. Caleb Bingham, aged 60. Mrs. Sarah Warren, aged 62. Mrs. Sarah Frasier, aged 90. Rufus Cutler, aged 31. Samuel Moore, 48. Mrs. Abigail Pons, 67. Charles Harris Hobart. At sea, Stephen Russell Goff, of Boston, aged 24. At sea, Elisha Wild, of B. aged 29. At St. Eustasia, Richard E. Tyler, of B. aged 20. Mrs. Sarah Milton, aged 58. Ann Maria Stevenson, aged 2 years 9 months. sea, Wm. E. Deverell, of B. aged 28. At Nath. Goodwin; he was the first man that Gibraltar, Charles Dix, of B. aged 30. Capt. sailed up the Baltic under the American Flag. Mr. Jonathan Bixby, 48. Mrs. Anna Kingman, 57. Mrs. Patrick M'Donnell, 37. At Charleston, Mrs. Joanna Ireland, 26. At Dedham, Mr. John Kilbourn, 25, formerly of New-York, and a midshipman of the United States' Navy. At Biddeford, April 10, Capt. Lewis Young, 43, formerly of Cape Cod. At Salem, Miss Susan Messervey, aged 22. Dedham, Lemuel Ellis, 56. At Medway, Mrs. Hannah Penniman, 42. At Plymouth, Mr. John Otis, 74. At Medford, John Charunier, a native of Surrinam. At Charlestown, Mrs. Martha Mills. At Holme's Hole, HenMarried.] At Boston, Mr. Joseph R. Albert- y Sawyer, of Beverly, 29. At Dorchester, Mr. Lewis Canon. son, to Miss Mary Jackson. Mr. John Tileston At Bridgewater, Joseph Fracker, to miss Nancy Wood. Benj. Guild, Bassett, Esq. 68. At Richmond, (Mass.) Levi Esq. to miss Elizabeth Eliot. Hon. Jonathan Beebe, 74. Mrs. Hinsdale, wife of Rev. Theodore Hinsdale, 69. Russell, to miss Lydia Smith. Mr. Benj. DarAt Cohasset, Mrs. Elizabeth Hobbs, 26. ling, to Miss Blake. Mr. H. Oliver,to miss Jane At Lynn, Miss Anne Lye, Cooper. Mr. J. Hammond, to miss Elizabeth 27. At Ipswich, mrs. Betsey Crocker, 44. At Fessenden. At Marblehead, Capt. Francis Lechmere Point, (Cam.) Mrs. Sally Ditson, Blacker, to Miss Poily Hooper. At Edgarton, At Rowley, Mrs. Mary Spafford. At Rev. Shipley W. Wilson, to Miss Rebecca Bradford, Lieut. Wm. Baily, 66. Mayhew. At Cape Elizabeth, Mr. Henry ter, Mrs. Rhoda Sprague. At Northampton, Knox Adams, to Miss Serah W. Webb. At mrs. Sarah Strong, wife of the Hon. Caleb At Rowe, Horace Burr, West Springfield, Mr. Wm. Ardway, to miss Strong, aged 60. Lydia Street. At Dighton. Mr. D. Andrews, aged 17, of hydrophobia, occasioned by skinmerchant, of Boston, to miss Elizabeth An- ning a fox, which had died of that disease At Campo Bello, drews. At Roxbury, Mr. A. Ferrier, to Miss some months before. Harriet Childs. At Newbury Port, Mr Tho. (Maine) mr. Samuel W. Chadbourne, 28. At Pearson, to miss Betsey Pearson. At New Roxbury, mr. Stephen Brewer, 32. At CamBedford, Mr. Daniel Butler, to miss Mary cord, mrs. Sarah Warren. At Sudbury, mrs. bridgeport, miss Lucy Lang, 24. At ConAllen. At Brighton, Capt. Ebenr. Stedman, of Cambridge, to miss Mary Braman, of Dolly Wheeler. At Woolwich, Hon. Nathaniel Thwing, 86. At Little Compton, mrs. Sarah, relic of Dr. Benjamin Richmond, 66. Died. At Bostan, Nathaniel Greenough, At Castine, Capt. John Perkins, aged 80.

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