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THE GAZETTE RXD JDWtiTrS ER. > --r-" V'*' flfBLIiUNO V BY SA Mil El* 3N0WDEN, i CORNS* >V K.INO AND ROYALSTRET9, At five dollars per annum. AITU»5S[)AY MORNING, JULY 6. anniversary of independence. Tbe day wa9 commemorated.in this town, by anticipation, on Saturday last. 1 be different Uniform Companies paraded in honor of the day, and escorted tbe. Peri clean Society to St, Paul’s Church, where an oration, suitable to the occasion, wa> delived by Jutnes Q» Sryctt Esq. one oi its members. Tbe remainder of.the day was spent by Jbe military, and a numbe' of the citizens, -at the respective pieces selected for the purpose, with the greatest hilarity and good humor. Mr. RODNEY. The latest advic«9 from Buenos Ayes, state that Mr. RodneyV health was fast improving, and hi? recovery is nojonge r doubtful. THE FOURTH MURDERER. A mau is coQJned in Baltimorejail, who ji strongjy sujoected of being the fourth person concerned in the murder of Bofisal. BOILER BURST. The Mobile Register ot the 8th of June -States that tbe steam-boat Baliz* burst one of her boiler?, and that the stewr.rd’was killed by the explosion. Mr. Francis Belioui, brother of the late traveller, is expected to follow up bis bro ther’s researches. ©o Thursday last, the 1st Hist. Baron de Stackelberg, Charge d’Afiaires from -Sweden, was presented to the President, ■by the Secretary of State, and had an au dience ot leave, preparatory to his depar ture from this for his own country, open a temporary leave of absence from bis sove reign* National Government Journal. The New-York Evening Post says, it is now ascertained that the piiatica! schooner Jately carried into Honduras, and woich was reported to have been owned in the United States, is a West India built vessel, ■commanded by a Canadian brencbman, •'whose papers represent her as belonging to St. Thomas. The vessel has been con demned, and the crew, 12 in number, sent to tbe Wes* Indies tor trial. It having been suspected that this was not the whole of -the pirate’s complement, an armed party proceeded to one of tbe Keys, where they succeeded in making 11 men prisoners; one of whom, a negro, turned King’s evi dence, and stated that the vessel he be longed to, (an English coaster) had been .captured by them, Bear the Musqueto shore, and all on board murdered except himself, and that his life was saved rn con sequence of bis joining the pirates. These men were in irons at Honduras Quebec, June 21. \Ye are happy to find that Ministers have come tc the determination ot encouraging the culture of Tobacco in Upper Canada, by taking off a part o( the duty payable on the importation ot this article into Great Britain. The quantity which was raised last year, has, we have bearo, rouco ex uded that rn the preceding one, and wi»b Jthe protecting duty »t may become of con sequence to our exports. Tbe new views now taken of the commercial policy o( the kingdom, may lead us to look lt»r other changes, equally advantageous to the Mo ther country and the Province, in the re gulations respecting the Importation ot Teas and India Goods generally, upon which representations, as well as upon Tobacco, were some time ago made Irom this Colony. We look at an early day to some very great change in the political as well as commercial concerns ot the North American Colonies. A just and liberal spirit pervades the English cabinet The intimation of the President of the United Spates, tbit th^re are pending ne gotiations for the establishment of consuls to the British American possessions, the settlement of the boundary line between this province and tbe state of Maine, and tbe roost important ot them, the free navi gat ion of the St. Lawrence, rou*t soon call the whole attention of His Majesty’s go vernment to its possessions on this coofi* neat. Hartford, (Conn.) June 29. IMPOSTER. A person, supposed to be from 25 to 3o years of age, rather slender, has been a bout Hartford several days, soliciting alms and having tbe appearance of a person af flicted with St. Vitus's dance. He endea vors to exti!o sympathy by motions of dis Uess, saying hut little, sometimes nothing, £nd walking with difficulty. He was last Thursday ianfred by an overseer of the work housed walk with him, when all at once bis limes result ed unusual -strength, and be ran like a da-er down State-street. A persevering constable being caMed, pur suit was made, he tfas overtaken, and with the assistance of tw*> others, the constable bad him before a magistrate. His speech came—be was tried and committed to the work bouse lor fortj- days. Our vigilant, acting overseer, ordered the master to search him, who found, concealed in a pocket in the inside of bis shirt, 35 Dolls, in money. . » .i.. An English papt: gives the following l explanation ol the iact that intemperaoce 1 abridges life* It is fancilul enough j but a j belief in its truth, and a correspond mg , practice, could do ro harm. An ingenious author asserts, that the length of a man’s life may be estimated by tbe number of pulsations he has strength to perform: thus, allowing seventy years lor the common age of man, and sixty pul 9es in a minute for the common measuie of pulses in a temperate person, the nnru htr of pulsations iu'bis whole life would a mount to 3,287,520,000 ; but if by in temperance he forces bis blood into a more rapid motion, so as to give seventy-five pulse* in a minute, the same number ol pulses wuuld be completed in hlty-six years ; consequently his life would be re duced fourteen years. IRELAND. The following is an extract Irom the speech of the Hon, Mr. North, delivered on the Iltb ult. io'ihe British Parliament, in the. debate on lh« condition ot Ireland: i • In Ireland the peode had tor a series of years suffered a variety of misery,— They bad proceeded trom one affliction to another. Each season brought its pecu liar horror. In the one it was famine, in the next it was teveT; in the third H was murder! 'i hese ead events seemed to form a perpetual cycle, the parts ot which were of regular autl mournlul recurrence. The evils which all felt, all ascribed to different causes. The peasant attributed them to the rapacity of the landlord—the j landlord to the bigdtry of the clergy. For i his (Mr. North’s) jpart, he believed that ; they originated in many causes He per* | feclly agreed with the noble mover ot the proposition before the Houce, that one of the most conspicuous causes ot (he dis turbed condition of Ireland, was its unem ployed population* No political axiom was more certain, than that ther*. was no ; State policy, no sec ret of government, by which it was possible to reconcile tranqui- 1 lity with idleness (bear, hear, hear!) All | the arts ot civilization were in fact but so i many expedients to make peace and in- i dustry mutually productive ot each other. To 3U energetic people, especially, em ployment was a positive want. They had | as eager ao appetite for it as for their food. ; Where such a people were left without oc i cupatien, they became wild, untameable ! and ferocious. Disguise it as they might, | such a people were in a savage state, and fluctuated, as the history of Ireland but too I plainly proved that the Irish people had fluctuated between hopeless indolence and desperate mischief (hear,) Placed at the bottom ot the scale of human beings, the Irish peasant never looked upwards. He was excited by no emulation—be was in spired by no hope—be was deaf to every whisper ot ambition—he was influenced by neither fear nor degradation, nor expecta tion ol advancement—be remained fixed on the spot at which he first drew his breath, without the wish, and still more, without the power of motion He saw whatever existed ot prosperity among his superiors, placed at an imsmiasurable dis tance from his grasp^ ne saw himself surrounded by men of religion different from his own, whose interest appeared to him to beat variance with his own, and whose chief or sole business be supposed to be-armed as they were, w ith the sword ot the law, to keep him quiet and poor.— ' Under such circumstances, his character ! became hardened and desperate; he saw ' i<» the violation of the law no moral culpa bility; he transgressed it, therefore, with out selt reproach, and when his fmisdeeds ! brought him their apportioned punishment, ! be suffered under its infliction with the fri-1 umpb ot a martyr, and not with the com-1 puncUou ot a criminal (hear, hear, heai!) j All the noble traits of such a mao’s origi nal character became degrade t and deba sed- His courage was converted into fero city, his intelligence into fraud; his whole state and condition was gradually deterio rated; and the peasant was at lengih lost in he murderer and incendiary (bear, hear!) These two circumstances, the place whi* h \he Irish peasarr held in society, and bis want of employment were nnques I tionably the chief sources of the perturbed condition ol Ireland.” -- - THE ALPINE HORN. The Alpine Horn is an instrument constructed with the bark ot the cherry tree, and which, like a speaking trum pet, is used to convey sounds to a great distance. When the last rays of the sun gilds the summits of the Alps, the shepherd, who dwells highest on those mountains, takes his horn and calls a loud ‘Praised be the Lord!* As soon he is heard, the neighboring shep herds leave their huts and repeat those words. The sounds last many mi* nates, for every echo of the mountain and grotto of the rocks repeat the name of God, How solemn the scene!—Im agination cannot picture itself any thing more sublime; the profound silence that succeeds, the sigh of those etupen duous mountains, upon which the vault of heaven seems to rest; every thing ex cites the miodto enthusiasm. In the meanwhile, theshepherds bend their knees and pray in the open air, and soon after retire to their huts to en joy the repose of innocence. PORTUGAL. The Gibraltar papers received at iloston are to the *22d of May, and contain the following .proclamation by the king Portugal, from which it seems that the commotion excited hy the Infant was more serious than at first supposed. His majes ty's proclamation is dated from a British ship of war, on board of which be bad been obliged to take refuge.—Phil* Gaz. f From the Bouton Courier of Monday. LATU FROM GIBRALTAR. By the arrival ol tfie ship Coral, Hoop er, 30 days from Gibraltar, we have been j favored with the Gibraltar Chronicle ol May 10, 21, 22, and 26. We find in them nothing very important, i heir contents ire chiefly made up ol the ariicles already noticed in London papers. The paper of May 21, contains the following Proclama tion, by the king of Portugal, dated “on board lire British ship Windsor Castle, lying hi the Tagus, May 9, I82d, Portuguese! Your king is not going away from you; o^-.the contrary, he on ly intends to lemuvc the tears aud anx iety under which y*u are laboring to j re-establish public rceurity, and to tear | off the veil, which as yet conceals the truth from yt>o: certain as he is that, at | b‘s voice, all t!»i« loyal m t m will u niteto support the. thror.e, and that* there will be a* end to the conflict of j opinions, and oi the passions worked up to the groat height, which lately pro duced the fatal anarchy, and which threatens Government with a i complete dissolution. My turn, the Inlante Dn. Miguel, who ' had eo recently covered hinieelf with glory by his heroic undertaking—my Son it was that, u-rgeu by wicked sug gestions, and misled by treacherous ad vice, ventured upon Acts which, even •uppesiog them just and necessary, ought to have emanated from my so vereign authority, and thus encroached upon the Kingly power which cunnot be shared Larly in the morning of the 30th of April*, all the 'loops in the capital ap peared under arms, ami my son was seen to leave my palace for the purpose of putting himself at their head and without uiy know ledge, to order an im mense number of individuals 4>f all classes to be arrested; including the persons who held the highest situations in the state, my own ministers and some of my chamberlains. Tue pa lace I reside was surroended by men in arm«,«r rather converted into a pri son, and access to my royal person prohibited for several houir. And last ly were seen pi oceeUings so violent t hat they bordered upon open rebellion, so much so that the Bepreaentati vee of the Sovereigns cf Eui ope thought them selves bound formally to protest against the violence thus ottered to my royal authority, So rash r. determination which threatened the most 1atai conse quences, so gross an abuse oV the trust which I had put in my son, was account ed for, or vindicated on no other ground than the supposition of a conspiracy which, even if ii had really ex sled, could r>ot justify suah unprecedented proceedings. But, as 1 wished, cost what it might, to maintain the pub ic tranquility, aud concord of my royal family, 1 thought it proper to dirsct by my royal decree cf the 3d lust, that Judges should be appointed for the trial of the accused, and to forgive those acts in which my i son had exceeded his powers in hopes that the legitimate course of law being j thus i©-established, the revolutionary ! measures would cease, and order be gradually restored. But ihe earnest wishes of my paternal heart were not fulfilled; fnrirem if—individuals con tinued to he arrested, and orders issued in the Infant’s name, many of which were signed by obscure persons who held no public situations. Determined to put an end to these scandalous proceedings, and to the de grading encroachments made upon the royal authority to the evident injury of njv loyal subjects, but unab<e to make my royal will known, in consequen e of my being beset by the factions who led my son astray, and who had alrea dy, on the 30th of April, made an at tempt upon my liberty, I resolved, in order to avoid a contest, the ultimate issue of which, however, could not be doubtful, considering the well-known fidelity of the Portuguese naiion—up on going on board the British line of j battle ship lying in this haibur, whith er 1 was followed by the Representa tives ot the European Powers, for the purpose of Irankly disclosing &r>y dis graceful situation to my loyal subjects, and calling them, it necessary, to my assistance. Having taken the advice of my Mi nisters, and of persons once learned, zealous for my royal service, and who have the fear of God before them, 1 have determined to l e-assume the pow ers of Generalissimo of my Royal Ar mies, taking from the Infante l)n, Mi guel, the commander in chief of the ar my which I had conferred upon him, and forbidding the authorities, and all and each of «.y subjects, to obey his orders, or such as may be given in his name, upon pain of being treated as re bels to the Royal Authority, which ex clusively belongs to me by the grace of God, Portuguese! Such are the first dis positions which 1 have made, issuing 1 bedience, to the moei cniuiux .peet to his Father and King, i de prive him of 0,0 aathori'y which wick ed intriguer*, without any public Character, induced him to abuse; and I command you to acknowledge no other authority than mine, and, confid. ing yourselves to the military dutie* laid upon you. to use the arms corn Tint ed to your loyai'y, for my royal servi ces only, ever obeying thocommaud in«” oOice* whom i please to confirm or to appoint. By this proclamation I confirm in the exercise of their powers those who are invested with them, so long as i shall issue no orders to the contrary; and I command all and each of them to pay the most implicit obedience to the di rections that shall be given in name, by the authorities to which you are hence* forth to submit. Subjects of all class es! behave peaceably, and confidently expect from your sovereign the restora* ticn of public tranquility, justice, and t»ei;eral security. b THE KING. Extract from a private Letter. Takida, (For ug*l.) May 14.—His Majesty, highly di*piea»ed with the in fante’s conduct since the 30th of April, carue f o h determination of manifest ing his sentiment*; and,that he might do so with the less risk of compromis ing the public tranquility, he, on the 9th inst went oujboai’d a British ship of war in the I'a-u®, whither be was followed by the foreign ambassadors, and, there, issued a deciee by which he took the command ©t the army from the infante, end strictly enjoined the Authorities to disregard his orders, or any that might be given in his name — At the same time he caused a procla tion to the Portuguese to be circulated, in which he related his son’s arbitrary proceed in g* and i heir origin, and point ed out the result they might be attend ed with. He also ordered tlie individ uals to be set at liberty who had been confined since the 30th of last month. End lastly wrote a letter to Ins son, de siring him to come on boai d. II R II. immediately obeyed the summons, and whs subsequent v removed to a frigate, it is said as a prisoner. These are, in substance, tho news brought tv this day’s mail, which you will read at great length when you receive the newspa pers. In this place some individuals had already’ been arrested and vindic tive men were improving *be opportu nity, buUhanks be given to his Majes ty, who has put end to this tragedy! Our latest intelligence is in the &ame paper of May l^2d, as to)low*:— ‘By the William and M«rv, in 6 days from Lisbon, we learn, that his Majes ty had landed, tranquility being com pletely restored; and that the Infant8 Don Miguel had sailed in the Perola frigate according to some for London, and according lo others, for Havre de Grace, whence he was to set out on a tour t hrough some at the principal slate* of Europe. . t. A NOBLE HORAE. An English paper announces the death of the highly celebrated hunter W oo k ey Walker, the property of cap tain William Healey. The performan ces of this horse, as an hunter, have been very extraordinary. He has been known to leap thirty.five barred gates in one day, with his owner and in the grand steeple chase, near Newcastle, »he leaped the great Burn of nine yards deep water, and won the match gallant ly, which was for ZOO sovereigns. On the banks were stationed men with ropes for the preservation of the daring rider, captain Wiiliam Healey, who accomplished ibis unequalled task in the presence of lhou>aod«. pedestrian feat. At Brooklyn, L. I. on S.aturday af ternoon, a young man,-a hatter, of the name of Siewart, for a trilling wa?>er. (the ejigs only, it was aaici) picked up | and deposited in a half bushel, one hun dred eggs, placed at a yard distance from each other, on a straight line, ije was to doit in an hour, hut succeeded in finishing it in fifty four and? an hall minutes, live and an half within time. In performing this feat, he went upwards of six m leg, and stooped to the ground and then turned about •wo hundred ticpee, without cracking ho egg. A lieutenant ip England', picked one hundred stones and put theni in a basket in forty live minutes, it) 1817 and won great&odds laid against him on the stake. Whether he threw or tossed them is not stated; but Stewart was lose every egg he broke, and therefore , was obliged to lay them down carefiiU ly, I o say that he did it with would not be strictly true, as his fee U mgs and powers were considerably if feeted at time* during the perforative, though he out recruited a*a paratively ireah at the end. Cottl,| A' 1 • Sta^m^ , SAXONY SHEEP. The importation of sheep t from the tine flocks of Saxony C° be viewed with mndi gratif,,^'1)"* those who feel an interest in the ^ perity of this country. 7t is hutT tie more than fifty years since 11 merioo flocks of Spain were first ’ troduced into Saxony. So rapid \*' been their increase since, that ^ ny, in additiou to supplying manufactories, now furnishes in 1 of the finest wool manufactured h, 1/ gland. No country possesses a Jr favorable climate or better j)astU|J ' i for sheep than the United States Wherever the fine merino sheen^ Spain have been introduced, (j)t have been found to thrive. Tl - | fleeces have ever been improved^ (juality, by attentive treatment15 From the usual enterprise am! im;,7 try which has distinguished the J habitants of this country, it wjji be deemed too sanguine to hope, t!lat nparly as rapid an increase may | place in the production of the stapl article of wool, as lias taken place ij , that of cotton, within the last thiin years; and that many who are no* in existence may live to seethe |,e. riod when line wool shall he classed among the great staple exports <(f this country. In the western states there arefew articles produced, the expense attend, ing the transportation of which ^ the markets of the seaboard, ui||„f< be equal to nearly tlie whole actii2| value in such markets. Th relative value of line wool in comparison with its hulk and weight is very great. It is common for most farmers to rely w ith too much confidence on the quality of the wool of their Hocks, fur want of an opportunity of com paring it with the wool produced from the best Hocks of the country There are many merino sheep of full blood, whose wool is scarcely so Uno as that ot the second quality on other sheep. Considerable qualities of Saxony wool have been sold in this country at one dollar eighty cents per pound, and selected parrels rea dily command two dollars per pound in Ciiglaiid. The value of wool iy* creases in a very rapid ratio, as it approaches the finest grades, like the | diamond for every additional carat, I w hile the expense of maintaining Ilia sheep remains nearly the same. TProvidence Journal. From Crawford's History of th In* dian Archipelago IMPALING A MACASSAtt SLAVE. Tlic criminal w as led in the morn* 1 ing to the place of execution, and laid on his belly, being held by four men. The executioner then made a trans* verse incision at the os sacrum* and | introduced the sharp point of the spike, about six feet long, made uf polished iron, into' the wound, so that if passed between the hack bone and the akin. Two men drove it up* a* long the spine, w’hilc the executioner held the end, and ga\e it a proper d> iTction, till it came out between tlw neck and shoulders, flic lower end was put into a wooden post and ri veted fast; the sufferer was liked up thus impaled, a a! the post stuck m I he ground At the top ot the push 10 feet from the ground, there was a little bench, on which the body rcst ' ed. Lie did not 111ter the least com* plaint, except when the spike was ru vetted; the hammering and shaking i by it seemed intolerable to him, iUH he tlieii bellowed out for pain; W again, when he was lilted up in ihe ground' lit* sat in this^itu* lion till death put an end to his t<»r ment, which happened the next < av at 3 (/clock. I*. M. I!/? owed i"* speedy termination of his misery 1 light shower of rain, w hich coi,iii|l,° about an hour, ami ho died halt a hour afterwards. t . At Batavia, criminals v'iio 1 been impaled in the (ley seast'ii, ,a^ remained alive lor eight or ^ . davs, without any food or dr1 ' which is prevented to he gheti ■ One of the surgeons ot the (1 J ^ sored me, that as soon as watu , ^ into the wound, it occasions a grunc, which brings on death a 1 * immediately. Thu miserable s' ^ er continually complains °l ,,|S able thirst, which is prculiarV ^ dent to this punishment. , '°^|l0le minals arc exposed during l/* g(jfU d(ay to the burning rays o. ^ ,md unceasingly torment , rous stinging insects. 1 went to m-c three hours before honied, a! (jfrs. him conversing with«he bv_ ju Lie related to &hl’W» l‘,e (,n* IIlllSu*i> which hu had umiuvred ,,a ^jlii and expressed to. >''VP*rl * . ^ici great COiU^MjSUC^;, :