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* ricBULo, Satiwwax, Udtihur 24, 4823.
' : The Rav'd Geo. W. Kiko, will perform
^ r * > divine service to-day and to-morrow, at u
> •u,l hours, in the Baptist meeting bouse
'*■- Mar this place
We are sorrow to learn, that the late storm of
wind and rain has done much barm to cotton:_the
crops were fine and the prospect great to the plan
ter before the storm. I'hecottoa that waf early has
no doubt received the greatest injury, iu conse
quence of its being opened—it was blown out, and
by the torrwats of rain that fell, beat into the grouiid.
Some ef thff water courses within our heariug, were
swoln to an unheard of hight. The rain has been
sufficient to cause a Hidden and rapid rise in Pearl
river.
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It will be seen from our news of to-day that li
berty in-Spain is nearly extinguished. The patriots
in that devoted country should have made sacrifice#
of Kings, priests, monks, die. in commencing the
revolution; where they are suffered to exist liberty
musjDiB.
In the last Port-Gibson papers we perceive a long
liitpi deaths published from unparalleled mortality
in watchez, but have neither room nor time to give
them. We are happy to have it in our power to say,
that Francis Baker esq. and Col. Schuyler are not
dead, as was reported. We a-e sorrow to learn that
Silvester Russell, editor of the Mississippi Repub
lican, is among the victims. It is stated by Mr. Ba
ker, in letters to the editors of the Port-Gib*ou
papers, that the disease appears entirely confined to
the limits of the city, as it does not rage in the neigh
borhood, altho’ several persons, taken with the le
ver in the city were, taken out iu different parts of
the country.
Poits-Offices.—A post-office is established
at Whitesand, 17 miles east of this place.
Win. Pickens, Esq. postmaster; one al Bog
uechitto, 22 miles west of this place, James
H. Bull, Esq. postmaster—and one at Copi
ah Court nouse, 30 miles north of this place,
t'• E. Plummer, Esq. postmaster.
Shipwreck.— The brig Telegraph, Swain,
from Mobile, for this port, was cast away
When 7 days out, on the 16th ult. on the
West Tortuga*, and was totally lost—pas
sengers and crew saved. Wm. Love and
part of the crew, have arrived at Boston in
the schooner Echo, Hall, from New-Grieans,
Which took them on board at Key West.
N. Y. Amer.
Two Negro men were executed at Wood
rille, on Friday the 22d ult. for the murder of
their master, Mr. Sojourner:—and on the
29th inst. a Negro man, named Jerry, the
property of Mr. Chasten Old, was also exe
cuted for Burgalry. State Gazette.
Four horned Ram —The prig American,
from Kio Grande, brought out 3 four-horned
rams, two horns on the head elevated, and
theothers bending downwards, with the usu
al crooks in them- No animal could be
better prepared for self-defence* and none
so well calculated to withstand heavy bat
*erinS- N. Y. Paper.
Nankeen Cotton.— Phis important pro
duct, a new -pecies of cotton, called nau
keen of a bright yellow colour, and fine tex
ture, is raised in Alabama. The seed was
furnished by Mr. Crawford, Secretary of
toe Treasury, and procured from Sicily.
# _ Nat. Gazette.
nuoi iLdlLd.
A succession of calamities, involving the
lives and property of the Indian traders,
follow each other in quick succession._
Scarcely bad we penned an account of the dis
aster brought by 'he last express, before we
arq called upon to record fresh instances
of savage barbarity, eommited in another
quarter upon our enterprising citizens.—
Mr. John M’Knight, an old respectable cit
izen of St. Louis, trading on one of the up
per iurces of the Arkansas, has been mur
dered by he Indians, and robbed of nearly
al! his merchandize. He had fixed himself
near the Spanish boundary, where he erec
ted a fort protected by a few men. with (he
intention of making an establishment in
that quarter, and opening a trade with
the Indians. But in consequence of the
unfortunate fate of Mr. M’Knigbt, the post
has been abandoned, and the party has re
turned to the settlements.
f he Indians by whom this atrocity was
committed, are called the Camancket a nu
merous and warlike nation' bordering on the
heads of the Arkansas, and spreading
through a great portion of Texes. It is sup
posed they could bring into the field at least
15,000, warriors. The Spaniards have
never been able to do any thing with them,
»nd have almost relinquished the country to
their possession. From St. Antonio in Tex
es. to Santa Fe in New Mexico, the C’aman
ehes roam at large, the undisputed masters
ot the still. All the early frontier establish
menis Ot tbe Spaniards have long since been
cut oft by those Indians, and the further in
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greft* of the Europeans entirely checked by c
the tears which they inspired. But the (
Americans they Mh-tofore viewed in the (
most friendly manner, between whom and t
themselves there has always beeu kept up a t
kind and mutual intercourse. The Canaan- t
ettfes are said to be uuder the direction of t
the celebrated Caddo chief, the same it waa
mentioned a short time since, that Iturbide
wished to form an alliance with, for the pur
pose of getting his Camanches into tha Im
perial service, in return for which, the Cad
filo was to have had an “empire" on bis own ;
footing.|
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The brig South Carolina, Capt. Johnson, ]
arrived yesterday from St. Croix, was board- i
ed on the 30lb uli. four leagues from Sail I
Rock Passage, by an officer and six men, i
■with cutlasses land knives, from an armed
br'g. They drove the crew into the fore- |
castle, and the passengers out of the cabin;
•prdered the captain below and examined his t
papers; struck the mate, and drove him for
ward; demanded the keys of the passengers ,
trunks, robbed them of a few doubloons, a |
watch, the crew of part of their clothing, the i
captain of a spy glass and some bottles of
wine; ordered the boat of the brig with three
ofhei men to take the articles on board, ,
and afterwards sent them back in a leaky (
boat which aunk in cotnming alongside.—
The pirate vessel was a brig ot about 400
tons, mounted 22 guns, was painted* black,
with a white streak* and bad on board a
crew of 30 men of different nations, most ,
of whom could speak English.
N. Y. Statesman.
ST. DOMINGO PIRATES.
By the schr. Fame, Capt. Sylvester, ar
rived at Baltimore, on Thursday, in 12
days from Jeremie, information is received ,
that three colored men (natives of Jeremie
and Aux Cayes) who some time previous ,
had hired a small boat under the pretext of
fishing and shooting, boarded a small Indigine
schr. which was proceeding from Jeremie
to Petit Trou in the night, for the purpose
of taking in coffee. There were a captain,
three men, a boy, a woman and child on
board the schr.—the negroes robbed the
vessel of the dry goods and money on board
|—massacred all except one of the crew,
who was concerned with them and sunk the
vessel about five leagues from Jeremie.—
They brought their plunder to Jeremie.
Three of the men have been detected, and
ou examination, acknowledge to have ta
ken an AMERICAN SCHOONER some!
little time before—they robbed her and
KILLED ALL HANDS! They were con
demned to be shot, and only awaited the or
der of the President Boyer. A strict search
was making for the other man, and hopes
were entertaind that be would be secured.
Poulson.
NEW-VORK, AUGUST 15.
We learn from Capt. Allen, a passenger
in the Portuguese brig Jarvis, arrived, yes
terday from Maranharo, that the Brazilians
closely blocaded that place, and prevented
the inhabitants from procuring supplies.—
Skirmishes daily took place. The troops!
had still a small supply of provisions on hand
but the inhabitants were intirely destitute.
The place could not hold out for any length
of time.
Capt. Tillman of the schr. Betsey, states
that three days before she sailed, a proclama
tion reached that place from Martinique, de
claring that port open for sit months, for
dour and provisions, to all vessels.
We learn that flour had advanced from
8 to 16 dollars per barrel at Cadiz, and that
the French fleet were strictly blocading the
place, and employing their barges to prevent
supplies being sent from Algiers and Gib
raltar. Daily Advertiser.
FROM LAGUAYRA.
Capt. Gardner, of the schr. Young Brutus
in 14 days from Laguayra, states that the
U. S. ship John Adams, Capt. Renshaw,
was lying in the Roads at Laguayra. Mr.
Anderson the Minister of the United States!
to the government of Columbia, with his fam
ily, were at Caraccas, where it was reported'
they would remain until after the rainy sea-'
'.son to proceed in September or October for
St. Fee Bogota. The destination of the ship
was not known—her officers and crew were
all well. Most of the officers and crew of
the frigate, recently arrived from England, !
had left tier and returned home, she being
only lit for a guard ship. Markets dull, and
the country perfectly' tranquil,—JVat. Int.
FROM PERU. « ]
FROM THE W. T. MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. ,
Late accounts from Peru, slate that • 3000 i
Columbian troops sailed from Guayaquil for
Callao, on the 20lh of March 2000 more i
were to follow fn a short time. Gen. Boll- :
war remained at Guayaquil, waiting advices t
ttorn the Congress at Bogota, before he pro- /
ceded tn person. Another^ detachment of
’olumbian troops was about lorproceed torn
lu»to against the Spaniards in Peru. From
bese movements, directed by the able Bob
ir, there ia no reason to hope for a speedy
ermination <*tbe anarchy (that has long pre-1
ailed in that country.
FOREIGN.
LATE FROM ENGLAND.
Our correspondents of the Ne*v-YorkGa
:ette, Mercantile and Daily Advertisers,
lave politely forwarded slips containing Liv
irpool dates to 30tb and London to 29th in
:lusive, from which we have,gleaned the fol
owing interesting intelligence brought by
he first of July Packet Ship Columbia,
?apt. Rodgers; and the Packet Ship Cortes,
:ipt. Decost. - !
It will be seen by the extracts given be
ow, tbpt a division of the French army was
vithin two leagues of Cadiz. T his intelli
gence is more fully confirined by arrivals at
Philadelphia and Baltimore, from Gibraltar,
md will be found in another column. We
rroceed to give extracts without any com
nents of our own.—Balt. Pat.
The forcible removal of King Ferdinand
rora Seville, offers a new and important
juestion for the consideration of the British
government. Will she continue her Minis
er with the Cortes? As soon as Mr. Ward
irrived with the dispatches from Sir William j
%’Court announcing the fact, a Cabinet!
-ouncil was immediately held, bu! no deci
lion it seems was come to. A second meet
ng was held on the arrival of farther dis
aatcbes received by Mr. Robinson, and the
■esull of the deliberations communicated' to
he King at Windsor. Mr. Ward was itnme
irately to set out on his return to Sir Wm.
%’Court. The decision of course did not!
The Courier on this important point ob*;
terves, “What those instructions will be,
were settled yesterday, in the Cabinet Coun
cil which assembled, in consequence of the
irrital of Sir William’s despatches. Their
nature cannot be known; but we have no
nesitation in hazarding the conjecture, that
Sir Wm. A'Court has been ordered to re
turn borne. Follow tbe King he cannot, for
that would be to sanction tbe violence which
bas been offered to bis person in removing
bim; accredited to the Madrid Regency, he
equally cannot be, for that wou|d be a vir
tual abandonment of our neutrality. The on
ly remaining course is for him to return, un
less, before bis recal reaches bim, the suc
cess of the Royalist cause in Spain shall have
restored the King to liberty; and be would
then resume his functions at the Court of
Ferdinand. This we think the likely issue
af the business, for we learn, upon good au
thority, lhat there is not the slightest chance
Df tbe remnant of the Constitutional Faction
being able to protract -the struggle.—As to
final success, that has long been placed be
yond their reach.
An official bulletin dated at Madrid on
the 19tb June states that the terror vtith
which.the march of,the French columns fill
ed the Cortes, caused them to depart from
Seville with so much precipitation, that they
left several millions in tbe coffers, and a
great deal of plate taken from the churches;
that there had been great disertions among
I he troops, and about 400 officers remainded
it Seville.
We learn, says tbe above mentioned dis
patch, that the Constitutional troops of Vil
la Campa and Lnpwz Banos, which had re
tired towards Ronda, on beiog made acqua
inted with the odious manner in which the
King has been carried away from Seville,
bava dispersed, abandoning their generals.
The Royalist Chief Don Ramen Chambo,
who took tbe fort of Tortosa on the 12lb,
made himself master en the IStbof the other
works of that place which he brought back
wider the power of bis Catholic Majesty.—
Thus our direct communir.atinn'
Catalonia and Velencia are secured by the
possession of this important place.
In all La Mancha, tbe peasants join the
French and Spanish troops, and stop the
scattered detachments of tbe army of Ballas
ieros that appear in that part of the Prov.
nee, which is near to tbe kingdom of Va
lencia.
Gen. Bourdesoulle had marched from
Cordova directly upon Cadiz, without pas
sing tbrongb Seville; by which means he
gained three days march and arrived on the
21st at Port St Mary, in the Bay of Cadiz,
md only two leagues distant from that city,
t is said that Cadiz is constantly supplied
with water from this place. The rear guard !
>f Gen. Zayas had been overtaken by the)
French army and greatly barrassed. [Thej
iccupation of Port St. Mary is confirmed in
mother part of this day’s paper.]
The accounts respecting Mina are of a ve
y contradictory nature. One account rep
esented him as having gainded the Seo
I'Urgel, after much dificulty, with only
bur men. Another states that he had not
more than Out), and that his successive Icy
ses had given a mortal blow to the Consti
tutional cause; and bis «wn influence was
nearly’destroyed.
We find ft Mated under the Bayonne head
of the 17th of June that Abisbal arrived
there on the 10th, and although travelling
may have been suited by all the officers in
the garrison and was present at a grand din
ner given no doubt in his honor, by the gen
eral commanding Department. It is asser
ted that he intends going to Paris.
LONDON, JVNE 28.
The Financial Epose of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer on Wednesday next, will be
of the most gratifying description, we under- %
stand. The Revenue during the present
quarter will be found, we believe, to be pro
ductive almost beyond precedent, and the
generally flourishing condition of the coun
try furnishes ample ground for congratula-^
lion. The statement of the Right Hon.
Gentleman is not expected to l«ad to any
debate, as it will consist chiefly of a recap
itulation of the measures whicb have been
adopted during the present session.
BOJWBARDM EAT OF CADIZ.
BALTIMORE, ADO. 13.
We learn from a gentleman passenger ia
the schooner Zion, whicb arrived here last
evening in nine days from St. Barts, that the
Patriot brig Bolivar, Captain Almeida, bad
arrived at St. Barts two days before the Zion
sailed, in seventeen days from a cruize off
Cadiz. He understood from the officers of the
Bolivar that a French squadron was cruizing
off Cadiz—that the French army was be*
sieging it and had obtained possession of the
Castle of St. Roque. They „kept up a con*
slant bombardment on the town. This intel
ligence brings our accounts to twenty-nina
days from Cadiz.
The respectability of our informant in*
duces us to place full reliance on this infor.
(nation. The Bolivar, we presume, is the ves
sel which boarded the brig Mary and Jane
(arrived at Philadelphia) on the day she
came out of Gibraltar, as mentioned in her
report published ou Monday.—American.
The above piece o? intelligence brings our dates
down much lower than heretofore, if correct—but
it bears no marks of authenticity. The Castle of
StiTloque, for instance, belongs, as we presume,
to tpe town of that name, near Gibraltar, 45 miles
from Cadiz, and could only be of importance to the
French, as commanding Algesiras, whence supplies
were said to be shipping to Cadiz, which would by
the capture of St. Roque, be stopped. The fact of Jfi
the attempt to bombard the city, from the water is
also doubtful.—The British have attempted it ones
or twice, but without much success, and always at
great hazard.
Since the article which we extracted some days
ago from the Daily Advertiser, as to the facility
with which Cadiz might be supplied from Algesiras
with provisions, we have examined the subject more
narrily, and regret to be obliged to state it as our
conclusion, that sujh a mode of supply cannot be
relied on. Cadiz, as by reference to a chart of the
harbour or bay will be seen, is situated on the wes
terly point of a narrow neck of land, which prefects
from the Isle of Leon into the sea. The bleof Leon
itself is separated by the St. Pierre river, (by means
of which according to tlis correspondent of the
Daily Advertister, supplies were to be introduced)
from the continent: but there is nothing to prevent
the French from occupying the Isle of Leon itself,
and of course of commanding that liver. The only
inaccessible part of the Island is the tongue, or neck,
at the extreme verge of which Cadiz is placed. This
point cannot be approached from the island, owing
to very strong defences, on x very norrow cause
way, which is also or formerly was, intersected by
an.*r« C'**tu" From St. Catharines to the N. E.
snd Matagorda, on the S. E. from both which places
on the main the French formerly threw shells,
Uiough without effect, the distance is, from the first
x 3-4 marine miles, and from Matagorda to the
landgate or nearest point of the city, 2 miles. To
the mole, 2 1-2 miles. From bombardment, there
lore, Cadiz has little to fear. But starvation, we ap
prehend, is more to be dreaded, and, perhaps, want
of water—of which the ordinary supply is derived
Irorn St. Marys, a distance of seven miles across the
bay. By oiging, however, in the city, water, doubt,
less, may be bad, such, as in a siege at least, will
be thought good. The great difficulty of sending
supplies coastwise in small craft from Gibraltar,
will arise from the circumstance of the population
of the countrv between Gibraltar »nH r^A:. i.~:_
under the control, as they will be, of the French
army, and therefore unable to aflord the assistance a
and information which they might otherwise be dig. '
posed to do, to those adventuring to the relief of
the City.—And it must be obvious to every one.
that a traffic which can only be carried on by steal
mg as it were, through shallows and behind reefs,
must depend essentially for its success, on the good
will of those who inhabit the coast along which it
has to pass.—If the shqye as well as the sea, is hoa
tiiC) no si^cb trade can be carried on.
A. Y. •AmerUqn.
FromMarteilles—A letter from a mer.
cantile house at Marseilles, of June 23, says
"" 1^® French trade is totally suspended,
and the numerous captures by Spanish pri
vateers, (several of this port) have caused
great despondency.—Apprehensions are
now entertained, that the contest with Spain
is likely to be longer than was al firrt anti,
cipated. Many of our merchants have strip-,
ped their ships and housed the rigging.”
LATE FROM MEXICO.
Extract of a letter from an officer in tha Mexican
service (a native of the United States, and lately 6
resident in this city) to his friend iu Washington

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