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nada, Buenos Ayres and Mexico, to
this country, ami, for any thing I know
to the contrary, from other provinces.
It is probable that they have not re
tttained silent, but whatever they may
have said has not been made known to
this house, or to (his nation. As our
government is essentially popular, 1
isli information to be given to tin
I wish for information, that
sanction senti
w
people.
our judgements may
ments ear hearts so warmly approve.
I do not mean, Mr. Speaker, to com
mit myself in regard to my future
course--it must, to a certain extent,
depend upon circumstances.
■ house will act as circumstances may
require, hut for myself I have no hes
itation to say, that, if it shall appear
that the provinces of Spanish America,
or any of them, are really independent.
earthly consideration shall prevent
me, in my public, character, ft*
kriowledging t hem as sovereign states.
Mr. Forsyth said, lie was too well
acquainted with the temper of the
people of the United Slates on tliesuh.
jeet, to oppose any motion forenquir
ing into it ; such was not his object :
hiit he knew from experience, I hut
some enquiries were proper »ml soon
dangerous. In this ease, he thought
that all which could he known ought
to be known ; hut he suggested to the
• mover of the resolution, whether i>
not too broad in its call on the
no
Olll ae
was
Executive, and whether it ought nut
to contain the usual qualification of
excepting such infotmatioti
President might deem the commun;
cation of incompatible with the pu'dit
Mr. F. presumed the Pn -
sident had eommunieated all that he
knew, or all that lie wished Congress
to know on the subject; and us it
usual in requesting information ul the
Executive, to ask for surh only as the
public interest would, in Ilia opinion,
permit to he disclosed, he proposed so
to modify this motion, in which shape
only could he consent-to vote foe it.
Mr. Robertson signified his ready
assent to Mr. Forsyth's proposition.
' The resolution passed mm.
modified, and a committee of two w,is
appointed to wait upon the President
with it.
as tlu
interest.
was
con. .
with it.
On motion of Mr. Seyherl,
Resolved, That a committee he ap
pointed to enquire into the expedien
cy of revising and amending ■ ertain
acts concerning the Mint establish
ment of the United States, and that
they have leave to report hy bill.
On motion of R1«. Sar.tha ',
The House then proceeded to the
appointment of a Chaplain for Con
gress on the part of this House, and
the Keverned Messrs. Balcli, Cone.
Addison
t
■
to
i.i
I
.
Laurie, Allison, Cuturning,
anti Brown were put in nomination
Two balloting» took plane without w
election : on the third, Mr. Allism
received 84» voles, ami was duly elet*
ted.
The Speaker laid before the House
letter from tlte Secretary of the
Treasury accompanied by printed co
pies for the use of tlte House, of a
statement of the receipts and expen
ditures of government for the y
1816 ; and
The House adjourned to Monday
■
eat
next.
From Ihr New-London Gazelle,
Fall Ploughing.
I have long been satisfied tfiat Fall
Ploughing lias been too much neglect
ed ; ihnt if farmers would more gen
orally adopt the practice, they would
find it economical and profitable.
We, have generally in our climate a
great proportion of open weather in
the Fall—when there is little frost in
the ground, not sufficient to obstruct
the Ploughing, and when the cold
not too severe for labor in the field—
continuing frequently till Sdiristmas.
At this season Oxen and Horses are
not only in heart hut strength—Far
Itave leisure, and labor is plenty.
IS
mers
The usual and ordinary business of
the Fall, already lias or ought to have
been done—Stock now require but
little attention, and the season lor
thrashing grain, dressing llax, and
drawing wood, has not commenced.
Now if this surplus of strength and
labor could he applied to any valua
ble purpose, they ought to he. T hat
it might, a very few obvious consider
ations must convince every man.
In general our farmers are late and
behind hand in the spring. When this
labor becomes in de
season opens,
niand, and of course is dear—proven
der fails—oxen and horses are weak
and feeble, and ground, especially that
th >t which is new and swarded, is in
sufficiently and not seasonably plough
ud—sowing and planting are of eourst
deferred until af'tor there is not *.
sufficiency of summer to bring crop
New or swarded land
to maturity,
turned up in the spring, although
ploughed and tilled well, will not pro
ditce snch a crop as ought to be cal
« .dated upon front the strength ot the
sai'. and the reason is. hecatts# fi t
the ant of sufficient mellowness this
strength is not brotigh* into action.
Hoeing such lato!, the first
time, is laborious — partit ularly to
b >ys — Wore (lie same turn) turned tq
in the Fall with a stout team, am
cross-ploughed in the Spring \vs 11 •
«ne of even less sin ngth, the till,
would lie uiueli easier, and the pros
peet of a sound crop, and an increas
ed fold, vastly greateruml more sure.
Mot only ought new or swarded lam;
to lie ploughed in the Fall, hut ali
lorn!, intended for summer crop, ex
cept land on side-bills, liaole to be
washed.
ia uddition to the benefit to he de
eived from Fall ploughing, by tin
easement of labor in tin- Spring, those,
old grounds, in common with others,
.iiy being turned in the Fall, and expo
sed to the air of winter, acquire rich
ness and strength by imbibing salts or
hy some progress of nature, which I
am not philosopher enough to demon
sir te, merely state is as a fact foun
ded on observation.
Another consideration in favor of
Fall ploughing is, that it exposes
worms, grubs, and buys that have ta
ken shelter in the earth with all their
numerous tribes of eggs anil hosts of
nits, to the frosts and severity of
winter—I, y which they are principally
destroyed.
1
MOODUS.
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Albany- Nov. 24.
Green Oyer and Terminer.
On Thursday last, at the Circuit
Court ol Oyer and Terminer, held by
his honor, Mr. Justice* Van Ness, in
.'alskill. Jonathan Sickler, Charged
»y Thomas B. Cent, an urocuipliee.
with tin* murder of Sally Hamilton,
if Athens, on the 23lh of August.'
1813, received his trial and was uc
pi it ted. Since the confession of Lent.
much interest has been
last spring
■ii itiii'ested hv the public in relation
to me approaching trial. Many were
indu, e-i in believe from the statement,
of Lent, and from the exactness with
which many eiremnslanees related by
"inn corresponded with those that
.urred at the time of the supposed
nur 'et , that riiekler could not escape
eonvi tiun. On the trial, however,
t lie ex imination of Lent was so re
plete with contradictions, absurdities
nil impossibilities, and su feebly sup
■ mrtetl hy corroborating t>« timony, as
to place the innocence of the prisoner.
,s tu ihu crime for Wttieh he had been
i.i lifted almost beyond a doubt
Partaking in a good degree of the
general interest in regard to this trial,
too Editor attended the Circuit for
I lie purpose of furnishing the public a
full report of it. The muss of testi
. auny which was adduced will prevent
Ulli* giving it in full ; but we sha I
prepare a history of the trial from
nur notes, which we helievc will be
satisfactory. The examination of
Lent alone, lasted a few minutes over
live h urs, aud the trial continued
'clock, A. M. till 12 at night.
a
from U
Counsel for the prosecution, Moses I.
Cantin«, District Attorney, assisted
by the Attorney General. For the
prisoner Messrs. Williams and Sudani.
On Friday, Sickler was discharged
from prison, and Lent ordered to he
committed for perjury.
Loss of the Boxer.
Balizb, Oct. 30,1817.
Messrs. Lang, Turner & Co.
I regret exceedingly it should he
uiv lot to communicate the loss hy
shipwreck, ol the United States brig
Boxer, under my command. In en
deavoring on the evening of the 26th
inst. at 10 P. M. to proceed up to the
Balizu, she. grounded in 14 feet water
off the South Pass of (lie. Mississippi
Rivet*, where she bilged atul filled
shortly after, in despite of every at
tempt to save her. All the public
property of consequence, that could
he saved, was taken out before she
went to pieces, which was in. little
more than twenty-four hours after.—
She was so entirely decayed, and so
completely rotten, that thnughulmost
a calm, she convinced u& it was a
nrovideiltial escape, as she must have
Some of her
a
in
in
IS
of
de
heen a coffin for us all.
timber* and other parts of her, have
been preserved as curiosities.
I wislt you th publish this letter to
-lieve the minds of our friends, who
ill he anxious to hear of our having
survived,
great, hut we have borne them pa
tiently j no sickness lias taken place
in consequence among the crew.
I remain, respectfully Gentlemen,
your odedient servant.
JOHN PORTER.
rt
VV
Our sufferings have been
in
*.
P. S. Where she ff'st touched was
soft muddy bottor*, on w hichthe most
.irdintt y merchant vess- l would have
-twill without injury the thumping for
• ays. Nor is it thought extraordina
ry lor vessels to he on flic hard bar
,)• t|ie Mississippi for several days
without being hurt.
the
t
this
Josefb Bonaparte lias offered two
million Vdollars for the liberation of
his brother from St. Helena.
TATE FOREIGN NEWS,
Received al the Off ce of the Chur lent no
City < Hazel te.
liONUON, Oct. (5.
Saturday and yesterday we received
three days' Pur is papers to Thursday
last inclusive.
An article from Königsberg in these
journals states, that the friendly ie
1 at ions between Russia and Portugal
•«re likely to he completely restored,
it is added that the court of Portugal
will «dopt a different system to that it
lias heretofore pursued ami that as a
co sequence of this change the Por
tuguese troops will he recalled from
Monte Video.
It is reported that the King of
Prussia intends to take a journey to
Petersburg.
Brüssf. 1 , 8 , Sept. 27.
The troops of the right wing of the
army of occupation, which extends
from the Main to the North Sea, are
now composed as follows : the Rus
sian Corps amounts to 23.4-00 men,
including all the persons belonging to
the troops: the British corps consists
00 men, ot w hom it is supposed
I liât 20,000 are really military ; the
Danes, Saxons and Hanoverians,
make together a corps of 42,000 men.
including all the persons attached to
the troops.— Every regiment of in
fantry has two field pieces complete
ly besides a large park in reserve, it
tiie British corps has besides a on
merous horse artillery. The com
mander of'lie Russian corps has eon
traded in these provinces for a quan
tity of accoutrements.
of
IIaakt.V.yi, Sept. 30.
Letter from Stockholm. Sept. 12.
It is affirmed that Lord St.ang
ford is negotiating with our govern,
ment respecting a new tariff. 'Phis
affair excites great interest lierp.
" It is 'hoped that the important
duty on our iron, plunk and timber in
England, will he diminished, and that
the English manufactures will he al
owed to he imported here, yet in gen
eral we should he glad of a Tariff.—
1 1 is very probable that according to
the new regulations colonial product*
will not be permitted to he imported
to Sweden, unless coming directly
from America or front ports of the
British Islands."
From an authentic letter, from Algiers.
Aug. 22.
Since the month of May we have
been visited Ity the. plague ; till tin
end of July the distent bee was kept
„•t ret hy superior authority, hut the
plague became so violent, that it car
ried off front 2 to SOU daily. The
whole east part of the country is at
tacked hy it. At Constantine and
Bona, a great many persons have
been carried oft", ami it is said that n
the latter city almost ail (be inhabit
ants have perished.
" You see we have no want of vu
riely hero ; last year war, this year
plague, almost famine, and sometimes
earthquakes. The Algerine licet has
risch since last year's defeat like a
Phoenix from its ashes ; they have
now 11 Corsairs, including one frigate
of 44 guns, 5 corvettes from IS to 24.
five swift sailing brigs, and a school«
er. The smaller vessels have been
upon a cruise, they were ordered to
the Channel to try their fortune, anti
as they met on their way with a Ham
burger ship, and a Russian do. they
were taken together with three Span
ish ships, which were not provided
The
Tli,.
with the necessary passports.
Hamburgh ship belonging to Messrs.
B. & II. Konten, a pretty large brig,
called the linyherstring commanded
Iiy capt in Laurinzcn, was declared »
good prize as soon as it arrived.
Russian brig the Industry, captain
Schumann, hound from Riga to Uumil.
with 11.iX and flax seeds, is uni arrived
yet, which cannot he accounted for,
as it %us taken of Finisterre on the
3d of July. (It was not known at Al ■
giers that Captain Schumann had re
covered his ship Iiy throwing the pi
rates into the sea !) His. ship will he
released as U.e Dey does not chose to
itave a war with Russia. It was ta
ken for a Prussian, in which case it
would have shared the same fate ol
the Hamburger. The surprise of the
Algerines, at not seeing captain
Schumann's ship arrive, is the greater,
because 5 of the crew came at tie
same time as the Hamburgh prize,
hut were released the next day, at tin*
interference of the • unsttl.
Spanish vessels taken have likewise
been released. The crew of tlte Ham
liurg vessels are prisoners of war.—
This sounds very fine in the newspa
pers, hut means nothing more nor less
than that they are treated like slaves,
only not wearing chains. They a>*e
put along witit criminals, must work
from day-break till sunset, and re.
•eive no food, hot four small black
loaves and water. Had not the for
eign consuls assisted these peer men.
'hey must already have perished ot
amine and misery, for if the natives
ran live upon water and bread.—
Northern uien cuunot, wholly strip
i he
ped o' elothps, and in a heat of 32 to
ài- degrees of Reaumur—One is tempt
cd tu ask what, advantage the English
expedition last year lias procured for
the security of trade, ami for human
ity ? Four cors drs will put to sea in
a few days : their destination is to the
North ; they will probably have the
plague on board. The Dutch eon
sul, gen. Volsten in particular, lias
interested himself for the unhappy
Hamburgers."
Hamburg Corro pomlcnlen.
Another letter of the same date
fully confirms flic above. The Coe
respondent itas also a letter from
captain Luurineti himself, (same day)
lie says, •* I must also work myself,
and am driven out every morning with
the slaves, with one horse driven be
hind me and one before, ami have no
liberty to go any where. Snell of my
people as are well work on boaid the
ships, I and my pilot, with a sail ma
ker. Five of our people are sink, hut
none of the plague. On the 7th I liait
(he good .fortune to seethe English
consul, for the consuls are all in the
country, on account of the plague in
the city. This week I had an unlook
i*d for opportunity to write to the
Danish consul; he immediately an
svvered me, ft t o. soled me, telling me
to have a little patience ; he sent us
some money, with four shirts, and
two pair of breeches, for two of the
men had none, and promised to do
every thing for us when the plague
■vas over, aud he could return to the
city."
One of the ships with officers on
hoard to assist the Spanish patriots in
.1. America, sailed on Monday from
Portsmouth.
The great house of Iwan Mucnilow,
of .St. Petersburg!!, has failed for
i .800,000 rubles.
3 &clatoate d 5 a$etrc.
WILMINGTON:
nKn.vKsn.tr lev emu eh to
Norfolk, Dee. 4.
We understand that the Frigate
Congress receive«!, her sailing orders
hy yesterdays mail. The Commission
ers left their lodgings at t.*;e Steam
Boat lintel at 11 o'clock,and procee
ded to tlte Ship in a pilot-boat.
Hampton-boat whit h crossed the
Roadsut -4 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
reports that she was then at anchor
near Seawell's Point, hut having a
fresh breeze from W. N. VV. it is
«apposed she went to sea last night.
Important from France.
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It. is stated in the late accounts from
France, that when tlte resignation ot
*.he Hue do Feltre was made known
to (he Duke of Wellington, In* pro
tested against, the measure, A. threat
I-nod that, if acceptctl, it would In
eonsidered as a measure of hostility to
England. The French ministry re
plied, that tss Frenchmen, undeterred
Iiy menaces, they would pursue sueli
measures ns the interests of France
dictated, and that the resignation ol
lite Due do Feltre would he ret* ** .*tl
the next morning, and that. Gouvimt
St. Cyr would be appointed in hi.*
plaee.
The ministry have also recommend
ed to the king the adoption of the
TRicol.oitED fi.vg, as the national co
lors—a complete net of amnesty to he
passed, and the emigrants to he per
mitted to return. The old, veterans
are also to he taken into the service
in the room of the young men who
have hern planed in their stations.
These are important indications of
the state of publie opinion in Fr.*»_*e,
and they are in entire accordance
with .ill the recent and authentic ad
vices which have reached us from
that country. We hope to lie able to
lay before our readers some further
particulars of these interesting ucour
reuees.—[/Jem. Frese.
Zerah Colburn.
The memoirs of Zerah Colburn are
now publishing in England, and suit-'
scriptions are about to be circulated
for the work in this country. It i«
the work of J. 15. Moore, Esq. " The
work will contain a minute detail of
the child from his birth ; the first
liscovery of his • amazing powers ;
with some of his most intricate ques
tions ; a table of Ills method of ex
trarting thé square-arid cube roots, am:
lelermiuiiig tlte difference of thos>
run's : likewise a tji'l e tnlttaufion of
his method of os -ertainin . ri ne num
bers. and if not a,. prlnu number, of
obtaining all the f.> toes of which that
number is composed, a method (his
own invention) which i*
tin* night of the fô'h H- ember."
explained oil
New Arrangement.
DAILY
c *1. n * y .
Philadelphia & Baltimore
STE.lM.liOATS <S* S TAGES,
By way ol WILMINGTON & ELK. TON.
I HE Strain B..at SUPERIOR, Captain
Win. Milner, and the Steam B .at VESTA,
Capt.J H Burns, are in complete order, anil
one of them will leave the first wharf above
Maikst street, PHILADELPHIA, at :0
o'clock, in the fetenoon for Baltimore, during
the season.
The Stages for the line will deliver the pas
sengers on hoard the Steam Boat New jersey,
tlte Eagle, a'. Elkton ; one of these boats
will lea
or
Bowliv's wharf BALTIMORE,
every afternoon at 5 o'clock for Philadelphia.
Ail the E.implies of this line are skilfully built,
upon the »ate principles of Boiton k Waits.
All bagga-e at the risk of he owners thereof
Application for passage to he made to the
Captains on board :he boats at any time of the
day.
Passengers received or delivered at Chester
ards
and at Marcus Hook. The boat duw
will pass Chester about 12 o'clock, and upwaids
about 9 o'clock. One boat wilt leave Wilming
ton every morning at half past ô o'clock, for
Philadelphia.
D.c 10.
Reel Clay Creek MILLS
For Private Sale.
Tobe sold, at private sale, that valuable pro.
perty known by the name of Red Clay Creek
Mills, situate near the village of Stanton, Whit*
Clay Creek hundred. New Castle County, :
State of Delaware, 5 miles from Wilmington ;
consisting of fifty four acres of first ratt laud,
whereon are (reeled a good dwelliud lo use,
with a pump nf good water at the door, an ex
cellent spring and spring house, barn, and other
out h
.«t
ses, together with an excellent appie
orchard, Stc The water works are a merchant
pair of burr, and one pair if
country stones, with a new superfine bo.tnig
cloth j a corn kiln, and saw mi I, all in tint or.
der, having been lately repaired ; the
a never failing stream, in the driest
mill, with
rater is
sea >ons,
with the tide flowing five feet at the null door.
The terms of payment will be made tasy,
aud possession given 'he 25 of toe 3d month
next. For further particulars apply to th* sub
scriber, living lu Wtlmingt-m.
James Brian.
13 mo. 10, 1817 —6w
13 mo. 10, 1817 —6w
CAM'Kit .
I) 11 . GIDNEYt
Tenders his setvices to those who may be af.
dieted with Cancers. Schorr
ous and Scrofulous
CoillpluiitTS. Hi
Vegetable Sprcihc is
Ole iu ail cases of the Cancer
application is made.
.life
lit'
f nable
anted.
Cures
He calculates to practice in Wilmington
months only,
lev and High streets.
Dec JO*—if
• I be w;
l nee
Apply at Nu. XL corner of Ship.
SHERIFF'S SALK.
BY virtue of a writ of lev. fa to me di
rected, will be exposed to public sale, at
the house uf David Hi mlon, m Christiana
hundred, on Saturday the 2(Hli day of
Decemhet inst. at 2 o'cloc k P. ,\i. Ail
that cettuin lot. piece or parcel of land,
situate lying and being in the Borough .
uf Wilmington, bounded and described
as follows, to wit—beginning at a stake
at the intercession of Orange and Hano
ver Sts. thence down Orange St.
stake in the side ill reot at the distance
ot 10 feet from a right line to be drawn
along the N. W. side of Benj Webb's
tan house, anti extended as fat as Orange
St thence in a N. Westerly direction by
a right line To feet to a stake at the dis
tance of 70 feet from said side ot Webb's
tan house ; thence parallel with Oral
St. towards Hanover St. 2u feet, thence
at a right angle with Orange St ; thence
therewith to the beginning, he the
more or less—with a malt house tile
erected.
Seized and taken in execution as the
P roperiy of Joseph Read, and to he sold
to a
;e
same
eon
by
Francia lltmghey. sheriff.
New-Cusile Dec. 4. 1817.
Turnpike Notice.
THE Stuck!» .lifers in the Hap and New
Dort Turnp ko Company are informed that an
Election will he held at Chuth un, on Monday
the fifth day of January next, f«»v the purpose of
electing a President, twelve Managet*., and a
Treasurer, to serve the ensuing year
James Kelten,
r l rc usurer.
December. 5th. 1817.—St
10 Dollars liewurd.
WAS STOLEN from the stable of
the subscriber living t.tar CariwcU -.
Bridge, New Castle County, and Stale ,.f
Delaware, on the night of the 15 h nit.
a dark hay mare, rising 12 years old, 14
hands high, without shots, no particular
marks recollected, any person sen t i g
s lid mare, so that I get her again, sh.nl
rective the above reward.
i«
of
;
John C. Corbil.
Dec- 5, 1817.-5t
To Rent*
Two Farms in Appoquinnitiminlt, in
sight of Cantwell's Btidge, a good ttut.■.t
house on each—with other out buildings
—excellent water &c. The prop, i ty of
John Peterson, deceased. Fur terms ap
ply to
Peter A. Humphries.
Adm'r.
No. l 1, High Street, Wilmington.
December â. —it',