Years. 1823 1825 Inwards. Outwards. 534,674 tons 515,774 tons. 690,374 892,601 851,364 At first sight, it will appear incredible that a nation, whose annual expenditure does not amount to 1.7,000,000 should ever have allowed the clergy to raise a revenue double that of the kingdom. But this phe nomenon has been a consequence of their enormous Comparing the first and last of these years in which power. Yet, in spite of the inquisition, all the men this increase of 60 per cent. has taken place on foof talents who have governed Spain, have endeavor-reign shipping, the British shipping entered inwards ed to make the clergy contribute a portion of their increased about 11 per cent. only, while that cleared immense wealth to the support of government. Long outwards absolutely diminished. before the revolation they had more than once applied the ecclesiastical revenues to the public ser vice, and when the cortes did the same, they only followed the example given to them by many ministers of absolute kings, who reigned prior to the beloved Ferdinand. [London paper. BRITISH SHIPPING AND TONNAGE. Mr. Huskisson's speech, on proposing his motion on this subject, was of considerable length, and, together with the debate which arose out of it, occupies about two pages of some of the largest public journals. From its statistical nature, and the dependence of one part of the speech upon another, it would be futile to attempt any thing like a satisfactory abridgment, and we shall therefore, in lieu thereof, present our readers with the following remarks, which the editor of the Globe and Traveller has made on the subject: "Mr. Huskisson, last night, made his promised statement of the effect of the recent modifications of the navigation laws. His object was to show, that the departure from the old system had been forced upon the government by the change of circumstances, and by the measures of other powers-that the result had hitherto justified the policy which dictated them, and that the navigation of the country, and its means of supporting its maritime power, were, on the whole, in a very satisfactory state. The first of these positions, Mr. Huskisson appears to us to have satisfactorily established. As to the present state of the navigation of the country, we cannot, till Mr. Huskisson's documents are printed, decide whether their general results are as favorable as the necessarily partial selections given in a speech. Judging from the papers given in the annual "finance accounts," recently distributed, the shipping of the country does not seem to be in a state of progression at all equal to that of its population and wealth. The tonnage and men of the whole mercantile navy of the empire, for 30th September, 1823 and 1824, and 31st December, 1825, are given as follows: Years. 1823 1824 1825 Tonnage. 2,506,760 2,559,587 2,542,216 Men. 165,474 "The subject is evidently one that deserves the closest and most dispassionate examination, and the minutest attention should be given to the removal of any peculiar burdens under which our shipping suffers. The tax on policies of marine insurance was alluded to by Mr. Hume; and even if its produce were more important than it is, it should be sacrified to the principle we have laid down. "The system of impressment, though not now in activity, tends, we are inclined to believe, to raise the ordinary rate of wages of mariners here, and thus to give an advantage to foreign shipping. The question whether it can be dispensed with, has never been carefully inquired into; but has been disposed of on the summary and prejudicial declarations of the naval officers." MONEY-MILLS, somewhat like Malepar's marble manufacturing establishment at New York, have been started at several places. The pieces of paper are curiously stamped and marked, and eminently calculated to defraud the public. We should esteem it consistent with all the courtesy that is due between man and man, that, when any person should offer bills appearing like bank notes, though being those of "no body knows who," that such individual makingthe tender, sensible that the appearance was a deception, should be treated as a scoundrel willing to pass counterfeit money, though too cowardly to make it! One of these mills has just commenced business á Philadelphia. MASSACHUSETTs. It is supposed that there are about five hundred persons of the name of Coffin, in the small town of Nantucket--all probably descended from Tristram Coffin, who settled there in 1644. It would seem that there are about 20,000 sheep on the island of Nantucket-16,000 were recently collected at the grand shearing. to determine." Gloucester, that all the black martins and great. The "Essex Register" says "We learn, from numbers of swallows, have died at that place within a few days. The martins were found, in some instances, huddled together in their houses-they have also been found dead in the streets and yards. Whe ther this extraordinary mortality, among the feathered race, is attributable to a scarcity of food, or some "It appears from this, that though there was a con-deadly epidemic disease, must be left for naturalists siderable increase in our mercantile marine towards the end of 1924, compared with the previous year, the amount has again diminished. But there is a NEW HAMPSHIRE In the senate, a report has been pretty strong presumption that this decline cannot be made by the committee appointed on banks, which ascribed to the new measures, since the amount of states, that from November to May, the capital stock men and shipping had been, for many years previous-actually paid in of the banks of the states was increasly, stationary or declining, and great complaints were continually made of the low profits of ship owners. We believe there is considerable justice in an ouservation of Mr. Huskisson, that not only has it been impossible to preserve all the carrying business, which we enjoyed when we had swept all rivals from the seas, but a smaller amount of shipping is able to carry on a given amount of trade, on account of the absence of those delays which sailing with convoy and other accidents, occasioned in time of war. It does, however, undoubtedly appear, from the same account, that the foreign shipping, which has cleared outwards and entered inwards in Great Britain, has, in the three last years, rapidly increased. The amount has been as follows: ed from $1,577,350 to $1,742,650-that two new banks went into operation during that time, with a capital of $150,000-that the debts due all the banks were reduced in the same time from $2,450,634 32, to $2,425,539 90; and that the bills in circulation were reduced from $956,204 50, to $860,583; while *It is thought that Malepar and his associates-a miserable set of irresponsible and obscure individuals, have defrauded the public of about five hundred thousand dollars. The fellow, a short time before he turned money-manufacturer, kept an oyster cellar. He is a Canadian Frenchman, and especially exerted himself to take-in his Canadian brethren, which he did do, to a large amount. the specie on hand was increased from $220,487 57 rejected, each one having formed or expressed an opito $279,225 60. The report concludes with an opinion, either from rumor or otherwise, touching the nion that no new banks ought to be created. prisoner's guilt. The effort to procure a jury was continued the second day, but without success, and the trial abandoned for the term. No expectation is now entertained of his ever being again tried in that county. This will, in effect, acquit him, or keep him a state prisoner, at an annual expense to the public treasury of something like three thousand dollars! TENNESSEE. Sampson David, esq. a member of the legislature of this state, who died in Jacksonboro, a few weeks ago, has provided in his will, that all his negroes, 22 in number, which are mostly young, should be manumitted in the year 1840, or at his wife's death, should that happen sooner, and has made ample provision for their removal to a foreign colony or to a free state, at their option. INDIANA. One hundred and fifty-two boats de PENNSYLVANIA. Some of the papers state that the enrolled militia of Pennsylvania amount to 71,000, of whom 6,000 are volunteers. This, the Lancaster Journal says, is erroneous. In 1824, we had a mili-scending the Wabash, passed Vincennes during the tary force of 162,988, of whom 28,439 were volunteers. Since that time the volunteer force must have increased considerably, and it is presumed now exceeds 50,000 men. The population of the city of Pittsburg and its suburbs, as ascertained by a census this year, taken by Mr. Jos. Barclay, and inserted in the directory, amounts to 12,976. Of these, the city proper contains 10,515, Kensington 329, Birmingham 459, Northern Liberties 711, Alleghany Town 702. Of the inhabitants of the city, 2.303 were born in foreign countries. The increase of population in the city alone, since 1820, is 3,257. Excess of females in the city and suburbs, 108. From recent examination it is ascertained that there are in this city 1873 buildings, comprising 2360 tenements, and are as follows:-brick, three stories high, 155; do. two stories, 330; stone, two stories high 10; frame, three stories, 10; do. two stories, 623; do. one story, 280; churches and public buildings, all brick, 17; shops, factories, mills, &c. 458. late freshets. They were all well laden. The following is an estimate of some of the chief items of their cargoes-250,000 bushels corn, 100,000 pounds pork, 10,000 hams, 4,000 barrels pork, 600 do. corn meal, 2,000 live cattle, 250 live hogs, 10,000 pounds bees wax, 3,600 venison hams, and many small articles. Indiana is populating very rapidly-and some begin to think that it will overtake even the wonderful state of Ohio! It is morally certain, that it will soon be one of the great states, as several of them are called. CANADA. The office of the "Colonial Advocate," a very ably conducted newspaper, published at York, was lately destroyed by a mob, and all the materials wasted or demolished, the types being thrown into the lake. Two magistrates are represented as overlooking the affair. The "Advocate" had spoken quite freely of the conduct of some persons in power in Upper Canada, and attempted the reformation of certain alleged abuses committed by those in office. The transaction has excited a great deal of feeling, and will probably produce a re-action and reinstate the editor in his place. FOREIGN NEWS. VIRGINIA. The long drought in this state was sucreeded by the fall of mighty rains-bridges, mills, factories and crops were swept away by resistless torrents, and the choicest parts of whole countics present only scenes of devastation, such as never before were witnessed. The damage, at one point, Great Britain and Ireland. The officers of the aramounted to 40,000 dollars! The flood has been my, on full-pay, are 6,173, on half-pay 7,666. The general-the papers may be said to be filled with ac- charge, on account of half-pay, is 758,8814-equal counts of destruction, and the aggregate loss must to 931. per annum for each unemployed officer. have been several hundred thousand dollars. The From a parliamentary document it is proved, that "mountain streams" have all been swelled far be-the laboring classes of England have, for some years, yond their usually highest waters, and the inhabi- exhibited a gradual decline towards a state of utter tants on the borders of all have suffered. James' river has discharged a vast quantity of water. William F. Hooe, a young man of a very respectable family, has been executed at Fairfax court house for the murder of a negro trader named Simpson, whose money he desired in order to relieve himself of some difficulties caused by gambling. A full grown roasting ear of corn was exhibited at Fredericksburg on the 24th ult. poverty and humiliating dependence! While the population, since 1776, has increased as only 1 to 3pauperism has increased as more than 12 to 3-that is from 15 to 61. An augmenting proportion of human misery every year is a frightful picture. From a parliamentary return of auction duties, it appears that the amount of property, (estates, houses, &c. chargeable at 7d. in the pound), sold by auction in Great Britain, during the years ending 5th July, 1924 and 1825, and the half year, to the 5th of January, 1826, was 1.13,696,521 14s 43d-Ireland, (at Gd.) 1.313,622 58. 101d. The amount of furniture and other articles, charged at 1s. in the The Georgetown Gazette of the 23d June, says-pound, 1.7,001,339 18s. 74d; and in Ireland at 10d. "a second crop of corn was planted yesterday in 183,582 Os. 14d. The amount of sales of foreign Georgetown, from this year's growth." produce at per cent. during the same period, was 2,253,039 12s. 114d. SOUTH CAROLINA. About 34 or $5 buildings were destroyed by fire at Charleston, on the morning of the 24th ult. Loss estimated at $100,000. KENTUCKY. The June term of the Harrison circuit The Fancy ball in London for the benefit of the court (says the "Reporter") commenced at Cynthi-poor, was said to have produced upwards of 4,000. aua, on Monday last. The case of Isaac B. Desha, An old maid named Lawrence, is proprietor of we learn, was called the first day of this term, and a nearly all the town of Ripon, containing 5,000 souls, menive summoned to try him. The whole panel was las well as much other valuable property in lands, &c. She possesses a complete control over all elections, and so sends two members to parliamentwhom she will. The ruins of Fonthill Abbey cover more than nine acres of ground, and some of the mouldering towers rise to the height of 160 feet. This monastery was suppressed by Henry VIII. Like other monkish establishments, it had long been the seat of feasting and licentiousness. One of the visitors, appointed by Henry to inspect the monasteries, reported that the "abbot of Fountanys notoriously kept six whores, committed sacrilege," &c. Some idea of the scarcity of money in London, during the late panic, may be gathered from the fact, that the deposits in a single savings bank, which, in December, amounted to 1.240,000 are now less than 1.40,000. Six thousand eight hundred pounds were, we understand, paid down in cash to the great unknown by an eminent bookseller in Paternoster row, for the copyright of the historical novel of Woodstock. raised into a vapour by the heat of an Argand lamp. The largest steam vessel ever built in England, was lately launched from Limehouse. She is called the Shannon, of 550 tons burden, and is intended to convey passengers from London to Dublin, in 72 hours, calling at Margate, Dover, Portsmouth and Falmouth for passengers. A violent assualt was lately committed on the high sheriff of Cork, by a mob in that city. A vast multitude was marching through the streets, with placards, inscribed; "We want employment, ourselves and our families are starving." The sheriff tried to remonstrate with them, but the mob raised on him and wounded him severely. He found refuge in a shop, but tranquility was not restored until a party of dragoons marched to the spot. The London custom house, one of the "lions" of the metropolis, has, at the age of nine years, perished of old age! The original estimate was 177,000 pounds, and it was finished at an expense of 370,000 pounds, [about 1,600,000 dollars]. Owing to the infamously The following facts appeared in a late discussion careless manner in which the foundations were laid, in the house of commons-that the importation of the edifice tumbled down. The lords of the treasubulky articles from the Baltic, during the last year, ry brought an action against the builder, for mal-pergreatly exceeded that of 1822; in 1822 there were im-formance of duty. The jury gave a verdict in favor ported 110,000 loads of timber, and in 1826, 300,000 of the builder. Thus the nation suffers. Who is to joads. In 1822 there were imported from Canada, pay the loss? Verily, John Bull has a broad pair of in masts, spars 6,000 loads, and in 1826, 14,000 loads. shoulders, and with them, a merciful disposition. The importation of flax, in 1822, was 497,000 cwt. and He bears every thing, forgives every thing, forgets in 1826, 1,050,000 cwt; hemp, in 1822, 250,000 cwt.every thing, and learns nothing. and in 1826, 891,000; linseed, in 1822, 1,094,000 bushels; 1826, 2,662,000 bushels. On the 12th of May, in the British house of commons, Mr. Alexander Baring observed. "The chancellor of the exchequer had not, perhaps, given the house all the information it was desirable to have, as to the increase of the trade of the United States of America; but he knew that ninetenths of all the foreign trade with Liverpool was carried on by American ships. The docks of that town looked at all times more like a port of the U. States than an English harbour. He looked at this subject with some anxiety, but he was not aware that it was possible to alter it. He should listen with great willingness to any suggestions having this for their object; but though he thought the evil a serious one, he saw no means of remedying it " Speaking of the navigation of Great Britain, the Courier says Since 1792 our own commercial shipping has increased about 1,000,000 tons, and that of the U. States about 1,300,000; or, in other, words, they have gained on us at the rate of 100,000 tons in eleven years; and, supposing that this could form any rule for future proportions, as we are now 900,000 tons ahead of them, it would take 99 years for them to come up with us. No inference can, however, be drawn from the events of the last three and thirty years, as to the probable progress either of the British or American navy for the next century. It can hardly be anticipated, that, in the course of that time, there will be another period of twenty years, during which, as from 1792 to 1812, the United States will be almost the only neutral carriers on the ocean. Three thousand five hundred guineas have been refused for lord Lowther's race horse, Monarch. An experiment was lately made in the armory of the tower of London, in which the most intense light ever yet produced by art was exhibited. It was excited by directing a jet of alcohol, or the flame of a spirit lamp, upon a piece of lime, by the action of a stream of oxygen gas. The light thus produced is calculated as being eighty times more intense than an equal area of light emitted by the combustion of an Argand lamp. Another new steam engine has been projected, in which spirits of wine or æther is substituted for water. The necessity of a boiler is superseded, the liquid being contained in the cylinder, and The amount of duty paid to the government by five of the principal callico printers in Lancashire, for the six weeks, ending the 25th of April, 1825, was 19,335 pounds; and for the same period in 1826, it was 12,096 pounds, being a deficiency of 7,259 pounds. An experiment has been made with Mr. Brown's newly invented pneumatic engine for propelling a carriage against the ascent, of a sharp acclivity, which was successfully tried upon the steepest part of Shooters hill, where the ascent gains 134 inches in 12 feet. Mr Brown's engine is constructed upon a four wheel carriage. In ascending the hill seven persons sat on the shafts. It is computed that 130,000 writs were issued in 1925, against debtors in England, of whom 75,000 were absolutely incarcerated." On the smallest calculation, the expenses they were antecedently and subsequently run to, by law process, must have been 1.100, individually, and averaging the whole, makes the sum total 1.8,325,000, taken from the pockets of their creditors, and shared among the legalists. Added to these losses, came their bankrupt list of 3,200; allowing each estate was injured to the trifling charge of 1.300, before and after the striking of the docket, increased the legalists bills to i.922,200. It has been stated in evidence before a committee of the British parliament, that three of the Scotch banks--the bank of Scotland, the royal bark of Scotland, and British lien company-hold twenty millions sterling of British government stock. The manner in which affairs are administered in the English court of chancery, is now occupying much of the public attention in that country. A recent case will illustrate its character. A child of seven or eight years of age was committed to York castle jail, for a contempt of court! The child was committed nearly a year ago, for a breach of the rules of the court in not appearing by his best friend, the infant having neither father nor movier, nor any best friend! France. Grants and appropriations for the current year-council of state 635,500 francs; courts and tribunals 14,435,593; criminal justice and correctional police 3,400,000; royal family 7,000,000; civil list 25,000,000. It has been mentioned that 900 officers in the French army have lately resigned, and it appears that very few, indeed, of the non-commissioned officers and privates can be prevailed upon to re-enlist themselves. The cause of these things appears to be in the great and increasing influence of the Jesuits and others of the priestly class Each regiment has an almoner, and through that individual orders to the colonels appear sometimes to issue! This is what the officers and soldiers cannot bear; but it is the will of the pious king that his people should be mighty religious. East Indies There is a report that the Burmese have resumed hostilities, and under circumstances very unfavorable to the British. forty who were taken alive and made slaves. The other 1,000 men who remained in the city, assembled the 700 invalid, together, with the women and chi.dren, in the church, which they blew up into the air, and then proceeded to share the fate of their compatriots, who fell in combatting the enemy. The principal cause of this event is ascribed to a ruse of the Gallo-Egyptians, who, according to the account of a Greek emissary taken by them, placed 500 Albanians, bearing the Greek colours, on a height pointed out for that purpose, and who gave the unfortunate Missolonghites the signal for the sortie. They discovered their error too late; but seeing all hopes of safety lost, they set fire to a mine, which had been for a long time prepared, and were blown up together with the enemy, which pressed them round on every side. (The Burmese empire is one of the most fertile portions of the earth, and well watered by several large rivers and their numerous tributary streams. In Siam there are about 800,000 Chinese, who cultivate pepper and the sugar cane, and carry on a great trade with the neighboring countries. The vessels employed in the trade with China are an aggregate of 35,000 tons. There are many flourishing manufactures in this country. The imports from Sin-Extracts from the message of the president of Mexi gapore, of British and India manufactures, are esti mated at the value of 300,0001. sterling a year.] Mexican States. co to the congress-translated for the Philadelphia Gazette. Hayti. Mr. Gordon, British consul to Hayti, ar- "The treaty of amity, navigation and commerce, rived at Port an Prince on the 9th instant, from Lon- with Great Britain, although it has hitherto offered don. The Feuille du Commerce of that place of the some dificulties which have retarded the wished-for 11th says: "last evening, the secretary general of the end of the negotiation, it is to be hoped will be soon president of Hayti gave an entertainment in honor of concluded in a manner convenient and advantageous the consul general of Great Britain, to a great num-to the parties: and that it will place the seal on the ber of individuals. Mr. McKenzie was not able to relations which happily exist already, and which are be present. He was sick. The consuls of other na-cultivated by the one nation and the other, in the tions who were invited, were without doubt also in-bosom of the most sincere friendship. When good disposed, since they did not attend.” faith and frankness preside over the negotiations, it is easy to approximate even the interests which ap: pear most distant. Later-from London papers to the 30th May. Great Britain and Ireland. On the 25th May, the bonded importation corn bills were read a third time "It is, moreover, to be believed that we shall, from in the house of lords, and passed. The vote on the the same principles, labor to place in close union and bills were 84 to 23. Previous to the question being to regulate the interests of the United States of the taken, the earl of Liverpool assured the house that north with those of this country. That government, the latter measure would only be brought into action following up its system of neutral commerce, on the in a case of great urgency, and that the 500,000 quar-basis of perfect equality, has, in the course of the ters of foreign corn would not be thrown at once negotiatious, resisted the exception which Mexico deupon the market, but would be introduced with cau- sires to establish and to see generalized in those tion, and in a manner calculated to bear as lightly as parts of America, which have been dependent on the possible on the agricultural interest. same mother country, and which, from their identity The accounts from the manufacturing districts of principle, of origin and of necessities, make comwere favorable; trade was reviving, and active bene-mon cause for their mutual assistance against their volence was relieving the distress of the unemployed. The price of wheat had advanced at Dantzic three shillings per quarter. Netherlands The government of the Netherlands has given its negative to the note of the emperor of Austria, transmitted at the suggestion of Eugland, relative to the free navigation of the Rhine. Greece. The Turkish accounts state that the attack of col. Fabvier, with the regular Greek troops, upon Negropont, had totally failed, and the corps been almost entirely destroyed. The Greek loss is estimated at 1000 men, besides cannon, &c. It is stated that lord Cochrane has actually sailed for Greece. common enemy. Those states, though American in their opinions and interests, have connections with Europe which are to be respected to a certain point; connections which do not exist for the new states which are under the necessity of assisting one another in every sense. An official document which has just appeared in the face of the nations, has illustrated the policy of the cabinet at Washington to regard to the grand continent of America. The me morable promise of president Monroe, contained in his message of the 2nd of December, of 1823, is not sustained by the actual government of the United States of the north, which has publicly declared "that it has contracted no obligation, nor made any Trieste, April 16. A vessel arrived from Zante, af- promise to the governments of Mexico and of South ter sixteen days' passage, brings intelligence that America, that the United States will not suffer the Ibrahim Pacha left a feeble garrison at Missolonghi, interference of any foreign power, in the indepenand has set out for the Morea, with the remainder of dence and form of government of these nations." his troops. The Turco-Egyptian fleet has set sail for It is certain that Mr. Clay, secretary of state and Napoli di Romania. Two frigates and two brigs of author of the note, appeals to the sympathy of the this fleet attacked Miaulis' squadron on the 18th, which people of the United States and their community of they met in the archipelago. It appears that the gar-interests with the new republics; but it is no less rison and inhabitants of Missolonghi capable of bearing arms, within theflast few days, amounted altogether to 3,200 men; but, besides these, there were reckoned 1,000 young women, 500 young men, between ten and eighteen years old, and 700 invalids and wounded. Two thousand armed men, having in the midst of them the women and children, made the ditie of the 294; they were all slain, except about certain that the guarantee of a compact disappears, from the disinclination of that government to unite itself with ours in the struggle which some power, auxiliary of Spain, may provoke. The Mexican republic, in declaring her independence of all the mations of the globe, rested herself on the purity of the principles she invoked, in the inexhaustible resources of her soil, and in the adventurous valor of her sons. WASHINGTON, JUNE 14, 1826. SIR: As chairman of a committee appointed by the citizens of Washington, to make arrangements for celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of American independence in a manner worthy of the metropolis of the nation-I am directed to invite you, as one of the signers of the ever-memorable declaration of the fourth of July, 1776, to favor the city with your pre sence on the occasion. She proclaimed maxims of universal justice, and her desires to unite herself to all the nations by the ties of a friendship the most intimate, and the reciprocity of rights and obligations. No flag has been excluded from her ports, and her rich commerce remains constantly open to the speculations of the subjects of all countries. This philanthropic conduct has gained the Mexican United States the esteem and the approbation of nations, while at the same I am further instructed to inform you, that, on retime the tranquility of the interior, and the free circulation of riches have strengthened her elements of ceiving your acceptance of this invitation, a special defence. The government of the republic regards it deputation will be sent, to accompany you from your as beyond the circle of probabilities, that any pow-residence to this city, and back to your home. With sentiments of the highest respect and veneraer distinct from Spain, should venture on the enter prize of disturbing the pacific possession of an ex-tion, I have the honor to be, your most obedient seristence which valor acquired and moderation provant, tects. But if, contrary to all expectation, the classic soil of liberty should be profaned, Mexico by herself alone, will be enough to defend and preserve her rights and her dignities. R. C. WEIGHTMAN, Mayor of Washington, and chairman of the committee of arrangements. [The above is a copy of the letter addressed to the surviving signers of the declaration of independence: letter to the same effect was also addressed to the former presidents of the United States, who were not signers of this instrument. In the letter addressed to Mr. ADAMS there was a slight variation; the shortness of the time, and the distance of his residence from the seat of government, making it necessary for the committee of arrangement to depute a gentleman to escort him without awaiting his answer. Col. House, of the army, most promptly and cheerfully under took this honorable mission, at the request and on be half of the committee.] "The emperor Alexander, in the last days of his life, when he descended to the tomb bowed down by the weight of the dominion of Europe, proclaim-a ed solemnly his principles, his wishes, and his intentions in respect to the American revolution. Mr. Clay announced to the cabinet of St. Petersburgh the profound considerations which hound it to interfere in so important a business. The secretary of the United States insists on the idea that the peace of the world will not be irrevocably assured, while the convulsions and the uncertain struggle in America remain. The designs of the cabinet at Washington will do honor to it always, because they have been worthy of its foresight, of its calculation, and of its philosophy. The foundations of American independence are analyzed with singular dexterity, R. C. WEIGHTMAN, Esq. chairman, &c. SIR: Col. House, of the United States army, now light is diffused over facts, and the final developement, which, after so various events has at length stattoned at fort Independence, in my neighborhood, occurred, is foretold. The necessity of conforming has favored me with a call, and communicated your to circumstances and to the irresistible power of a very polite letter, desiring him to offer me an escort triumphant revolution, is enforced with great bold-to Washington, in order to celebrate with you the apness. The resources of the new states are shewn, proaching fiftieth anniversary of the national indeand the fear lest the continuation of the war, of apendence. war fatal to Spain itself, may give a pernicious turn QUINCY, JUNE 22, 1826. Tam, sir, with much respect, your friend and humJ. ADAMS. ble servant. I feel very grateful for this mark of distinguished to certain interests, to the united forces of twenty and respectful attention on the part of the citizens of million men confederated and conquering. Nothing the city of Washington, which the present state of is omitted which may conduce to set forth events of my health forbids me to indulge the hope of particiwhich the evidence is so palpable. It must, in jus-pating, only with my best wishes for the increasing tice, be confessed that the emperor of Russia did not prosperity of your city, and the constant health of turn a deaf ear to an invitation which concerned his its inhabitants. generous character as regulator of the destinies of Europe. Count Nesselrode, in a note of the twentieth August of last year, confines himself to declaring, shat The opinions of his majesty do not permit him, in so important a case, lo anticipate t'te determinations of the mother country; and that Russia cannot give a definitive reply to the propositions of the Unite l States, till she shall have re ceived positive intelligence of the further designs of Spain and of the intention of the allies. The favorite maxims of a cabinet which marches at the head of the allied powers are not unknown, neither will it be hidden from him who reflects on the phrases of this celebrated document that they involve hostile projects of Russia against the modern republics. Interesting Correspondence. FROM THE NATIONAL INTELIGENCER, OF JULY 4. The sentiments contained in the following letters are, in every respect, so appropriate to the occasion of this day's celebration, that, in offering them to our readers, it would be supererogation to add a word of comment. If history is philosophy teaching by example, where could a more beautiful example be found, than in that which is afforded by the following fetters from the surviving men of the revolution MONTICELLO, June, 24, 1826. RESPECTED SIR: The kind invitation I received from you, on the part of the citizens of the city of Washington, to be present with them at their celo bration of the fiftieth anniversary of American independence, as one of the surviving signers of an instrument, pregnant with our own and the fate of the world, is most flattering to myself, and heightened by the honorable accompaniment proposed for the comfort of such a journey. It adds sensibly to the sufferings of sickness, to be deprived by it of a personal participation in the rejoicings of that day; but acquiescence is a duty under circumstances not placed among those we are permitted to control. I should, indeed, with peculiar delight, have met and exchang ed their congratulations, personally, with the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies who joined with us, on that day, in the bold and doubtful election we were to make, for our country, between submission and the sword; and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact that our fellow citizens, after half a century of experience and prosperity continue to approve the choice we made. May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to send |