ds of joy in the street, which lled on the breath of eve, filled y virtuous bosom with sensations elight. What are the reflections which ent themselves to the mind from rvey and recapitulation of this e? A natural association of ideas tray a people, who, after having groaned under despotic restric3, severe bondage, and oppressive are suddenly emancipated by firmness and virtue of inflexible iots. To them do we owe these monies of gratitude and joy. And are they?-The Federalists of Eastern States, who made a noble dagainst unconstitutional and unoppression, and drove its authors the iniquitous ground they had n. 'pril 26.-A letter from the Haah, dated the 10th instant, says, he French residents in this island ›bliged to keep close on board of els, &c., on account of the rage he populace. American vessels have arrived are overhauled by Spanish officers, to ascertain if have any French property on d. Money is very scarce. New es have been laid—10 dollars on - per bbl., and on other provisions per cent.; cotton goods 15 per -, and other dry goods 22. Suare from four to six dollars, and ee 16.—No sale for any articles. EDESTRIANISM.-CAPTAIN BAR.-Captain Barclay started at ve o'clock this night, (June 1.) New-Market Heath, for a bet 000 guineas, with a Mr Webthat he would walk 1000 miles e same number of hours in sucon, walking not less nor more one mile in an hour. Great in is excited in the sporting circles is eccasion, and the bets with Captain Barclay and others amount already to a very great sum. The captain is backed freely in London at six to four, though a task of equal difficulty in its kind was perhaps never before accomplished. A pedestrian of the name of Jones formerly attempted to go a mile an hour for a month, but he declined in less than three weeks. Captain Barclay has apartments at the house of Buckle the jockey, and his half mile out is measured from his parlour door down a lane leading to the northward of the course. He lives high, and takes rest about an hour and a half at a time. His task will continue for 41 days and 16 hours. We therefore refer our readers to the 12th of July, in this Chronicle, for an account of the progress and completion of this celebrated enterprise. James Adam, shoemaker in Banff, became embarrassed in his circumstances in 1805; (his creditors then receiving a composition of 15s. per pound, and granting him a discharge.) By industrious application to busi ness, he has since recovered from his embarrassments, and paid his creditors the remaining 5s., making full payment of 20s. per pound-conduct which reflects much honour on himself, and holds forth an example worthy of imitation. 4th, 5th.-KING'S BIRTH-DAY.— This day our gracious sovereign, George III., entered into the 72d year of his age. On account of this anniversary of his birth falling on Sunday, the joyful celebration of it as a national festival was deferred till the day following, Monday 5th. The return of the festival was announced by the ringing of bells early in the morning throughout the country, particularly in London and Westminster, where the merry peals rung the whole of the day. The standards and flags of the united kingdom were displayed from the Tower, the different public buildings, and all the churches. The ships in the river exhibited their various colours. The guards were not inspected, as is customary, by some of the royal dukes, owing to the inces sant rain that fell. A double royal salute was discharged at one o'clock, in St James's Park; and the 60 cannon on the Tower Wharf were discharged at the same time. Owing to the late indisposition of her Majesty, and also to the fire at St James's Palace, there have been but few draw ing-rooms this season. The drawingroom of this day was, however, peculiarly splendid, and crowded with beauty and fashion. The company continued going to the palace from half past twelve till five o'clock. The Dukes of York, Clarence, Cumberland, Kent, and Cambridge, also the Princess Charlotte of Wales, breakfasted with their Majesties and the Princesses, at the Queen's Palace, at nine o'clock, and paid their respects to their royal father upon the happy return of the day. In the course of the morning, the Bishops of Salisbury and Chester, several other dignified clergy, also a number of personages of distinction, attended at the Queen's Palace, to pay their respects to their Majesties. At half past twelve o'clock her Majesty and the Princesses left the Queen's Palace in three carriages, the Princesses in their full court dresses, but her Majesty was only in her morning dress, and proceeded to the apartments of the Duke of Cumberland, in St James's Palace, where her Majesty dressed. The Duke of Cumberland received them at his door. A sumptuous cold collation was provided for them: after partaking of it, her Majesty dressed in her supert court dress. The Queen was adorned as customary on the King's birth day, in honour of the day, in the most costly jewels, particularly he crown and helmet, and her stomach er, and other ornaments and dia monds, to the amount of 150,000 The Archbishop of Canterbury wa admitted into the presence of he Majesty, at the Duke's, and delivere an oration of congratulation upon th return of the day. When her Majesty and the Pris cesses left the Duke's apartment; they were joined by their state at tendants, and proceeded through th gallery to the ball-room. Her Ma jesty and the Princesses entered th grand council-chamber exactly at quarter past two o'clock, attende by Earl Morton, her Majesty' chamberlain, and Colonel Desbrow her Majesty's vice-chamberlain, o each side of her Majesty, and othe attendants. The former held up he Majesty's train, and upon her taking her station between the second and third window, he placed it upon: marble slab behind her Majesty The Princesses, as usual, arranged themselves, according to their ages, tc the left of her Majesty, towards the throne. The nobility and gentry, after they had congratulated her Ma jesty upon the happy return of the day, proceeded to pay their respects to the Princesses. Her Majesty received the numerous presentations in the usual manner. A few minutes after her Majesty had entered the grand council-chamber, the lord chamberlain waved his wand of of fice, as a token of her Majesty's pleasure, to Sir William Parsons, the master of the King's band, to whose judicious care the performance of the birth-day ode was intrusted. Sit Among the company present wereTheir Royal Highnesses the PrincessAugusta, Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia; Princess of Wales; the Duchess York; the Princess Sophia of Glouter; the Prince of Wales; the Dukes York, Clarence, Cumberland, Kent, nbridge, and Gloucester; the Archops of Canterbury, York, and Tuam; Lord Chancellor; the Lord President the Council; the Lord Privy Seal; first Lord of the Treasury; the MasGeneral of the Ordnance; the First d of the Admiralty; the President of Board of Trade; the three Secretaof State; the Chancellor of the Exquer; the Lord Chief Justice of the art of King's Bench; the Lord Chief tice of the Court of Common Pleas; Lord Chief Baron; the Speaker of House of Commons; the Secretary War; the Lord Chamberlain; the d Steward of the Household; the Comnder-in-Chief; the Judge-Advocate ; Judge of the Admiralty; the Attor-General; the Solicitor-General; the g's Advocate; the Lord Mayor of don; the Recorder of London; the eriffs of London and Middlesex; their Cellencies the American, Spanish, trian, Portuguese, Sardinian, Swedish, Sicilian Ambassadors. Dukes-Portland, Gordon, Bedford, ufort, Montrose, Argyle, Rutland. uchesses-Dorset, Rutland, Bedford, ufort, Buccleugh, Newcastle. adies Dresses.-HER MAJESTY.-A green and silver tissue, with lace draperies, richly ornamented with diamonds, festoons of Valenciennes lace, and beautiful diamond tassels; border of the petThis dress exceeded all former birth-day ticoat, a most sumptuous diamond chain. dresses in magnificence. PRINCESS OF WALES.-A superb lilac and silver gossamer gauze court train, richly embroidered all round with a beautiful silver net fringe, embroidered with a magnificent plume of feather lame work, embellished with silver spangles up the front and centre of the dress; bo dy, sleeves, and pocket-holes richly embroidered in plate, silver-work, and spangles; the drapery looped up with superb diamonds in clusters. The richness and beauty of this dress were extremely elegant. Head-dress-diamonds and rich ostrich feathers. PRINCESS CHARLOTTE of Wales. A frock of pale blue patent net, embroidered in silver, with a light elegant border of the same. Gentlemen's Dresses.-PRINCE OF WALES.-Field-Marshal's uniform. DUKE OF YORK.-A ditto. DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.-Scarlet dress coat, richly trimmed with gold lace, to the Second Foot Guards. On account of the continued deficiency of his Majesty's sight, he did not appear in public on this occasion, though his constitution is extremely vigorous, and his health good. ILLUMINATIONS.-His Majesty's trades-people seemed to vie with each other in the splendour and taste of their respective illuminations. The principal illuminations were at the Subscription Houses in St James's street, Pall-mall, and St James's square. G. R. a Star, a Crown, and numerous festoons of variegated lamps, were every where conspicuously shewn. The Opera House made a brilliant display, and the little theatre in the Haymarket displayed its usual taste. Astley's Amphi. theatre, the Circus, Sadler's Wells, &c., were not deficient in their usual attractions: G. R. a Crown, the Rose, Thistle, and the Shamrock, were displayed with their accustomed good effect. The Yellow Fever Remedy Warehouse, at Charingcross, was very beautifully illumina ted. At Edinburgh, on Sunday, in honour of his Majesty's birth-day, the royal standard was displayed, and at noon the great guns were fired from the Castle and Leith Fort. The ships in the Roads fired a royal salute at one o'clock. On Monday it was celebrated with the usual demonstrations of loyalty and affection by which the inhabitants of Edinburgh ever testify their regard for their beloved sovereign. At twelve o'clock the first regiment of Royal Edinburgh Volunteers, commanded by the Right Hon. Charles Hope; the Mid-Lothian Artillery, commanded by Ma jor Brown; and the Prince of Wales's Loyal Edinburgh Volunteers, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel In glis, were brigaded in Bruntsfield Links, under the Right Hon. Charles Hope, when, after having performed several evolutions, three volleys were fired in honour of the day. The brigade was inspected by Lieutenant-Colonel Gillon, Inspecting Field-Officer of the district, who expressed himself highly gratified with the appearance of the different regiments. The Berwickshire and Aberdeenshire regiments fired three volleys on the Castle-hill. In the evening, the Right Hon. the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and a great number of the first characters, a mong whom were the Duke of Buccleugh, Lord Melville, Sir Edmund Nagle, &c., assembled in the Parliament House, which was elegantly and tastefully fitted up for thesion, where his Majesty's heal drunk, with a number of other and constitutional toasts, acc nied with appropriate tunes, band of the first regiment of Edinburgh Volunteers. In every part of the united dom, the inhabitants testifi« joy upon this occasion by demonstrations of loyalty and tion to our beloved king. ANTRIM.-On Thursday the 1st of June instant, ber twelve and two o'clock, four ers escaped from the county a trim jail, Carrickfergus, in 1 ner not inferior to any of the effected by the celebrated Trenck. They were confined separate cells, two in each, usual hour, nine o'clock. W assistance of a gimblet and p they cut the wood case of th over the iron bolt, so as to in the finger, and shoot the bo this means they got into the p they had yet four doors to of fore they could get into the two of them they opened int ner above stated; but the thir inches thick, and studded with was so effectually secured, th sisted every effort. They had course to a most singular By some means or other they a fire, by which they heated of an iron hoop and the b grate, and by this method a burned the door in two p completely as if cut by a sa ving now got into the yar carried out their two woode steads, and placed them, one other, against the wall of the which is near forty feet high then fastened the blankets beds together by whip nd of the blanket they fastenn old iron grating, which they id in the yard, and threw the ket and grating over the wall, ing hold of the other end, and that means gained the top of the , and got clear off. s the prisoners were effectually red over night, and their opera3 conducted without the least 2, na possible blame can attach he keeper of the prison. h.-CENTENARY ANNIVERSARY HE SOCIETY IN SCOTLAND FOR PAGATING CHRISTIAN KNOWGE. This respectable Society commenced in 1701, by a few ite individuals, who met in Edinh, as a Society for the reformaof manners, and formed the nodesign of establishing charity ols in the Highlands and islands cotland. Their exertions soon cted public attention, and they enjoyed the countenance of the eral Assembly, and the aid of the wn. The date of their royal pa, constituting a certain number he subscribers into a corporation, e 25th of May, 1709, old style; vering to the 6th day of June, style. One hundred years, there from that date are completed on anniversary. On this occasion, xcellent discourse was preached re the Society, in the High ch of Edinburgh, by the Rev. Henry Moncrieff Wellwood, ., from Colossians, iii, 9, 10, 11, h, as usual, was printed. Some lemen came upwards of forty to attend the centenary. After e service, the Society dined toer at Oman's; the Right Hon. 1 Napier, his Majesty's commisr for the church of Scotland, in hair. The Society spent a most able day, such as the feelings arising from so benevolent an institution were calculated to inspire. At the commencement of the corporation, its capital did not exceed 10001. The annual expenditure of the Society at present amounts to nearly 40001. The directors have also effected, for the benefit of the Highlands, a complete translation of the Scriptures into the Gaelic language. This beneficent undertaking was begun upwards of forty years ago. Besides the establishment of missionaries and catechists in the Highlands of Scotland, the Society, in terms of its original patent, has, by means of funds specially appropriated for the purpose, established foreign missions, chiefly on the continent of North America. On the whole, there is perhaps no institution which has ever had so powerful an effect in promoting religion and virtue, as well as civilization and comfort, in the most neglected regions of our native land, as this truly excellent society; and its affairs have uniformly been conducted with a union of zeal and of liberality which confers upon its successive directors the highest honour. 7th. The following advertisement has been published at Rouen :-"A considerable number of Austrian prisoners of war being arrived in France, his Majesty is desirous that, far from being a burden to the state, this circumstance may be a means of giving a fresh activity to the manufactories, and supply the wants of agriculture. There shall be placed successively at the disposition of the prefect 2000 prisoners, who shall be sent into this department in detachments of 50 men. The agriculturists and manufacturers who should desire to obtain some of those prisoners will present themselves to the mayor of their commune, who will receive their declaration as |