remained unnoticed, and it is scarcely known such a character existed. To the memory of Andre, his country have erected the most magnificent monuments, and bestow ed on his family the highest honors and most liberal rewards. To the memory of HALE, not a stone has been erected, nor an inscription to pre serve his ashes from insult ! ! Biographical. the nation; and all men deplore his death. A sketch of life and character shall appear hereafter --he was about 74 years old.] WASHINGTON, April 21. It is with feelings of unmixed veneration for the character of the revolutionary hero, the patriot and statesman, combined in one, that we announce that the venerable GEORGE CLINTON IS NO MORE. He expired about 9 o'clock yesterday morning, at his lodgings in this city, after an illness of about four weeks continuance. ORDER OF PROCESSION ADOLPHUS G.WERTMULLER,was born in Stock Immediately after the annunciation of the above holm (Sweden) and educated as a portrait and his melancholy event, both houses of congress adjourn. toric painter. After his first travels which were ed. They meet to morrow morning earlier than deemed necessary to the confirmation and esta- usual to receive the report of their joint committee blishment of his taste and some good practice, he and authorise the necessary arrangements for the became painter to the king of Sweden, by whom funeral obsequies. he was afterwards introduced to the court of France. He resided in Paris many years where he painted For the funeral of the hon. GEORGE CLINTON, late from person, the king (Louis XVI.) queen and most vice president of the United States. of the nobles. He was a persevering student, and The committee of arrangement will attend at Mr. to the last availed himself of every striking object O'Neals, the late residence of the deceased, this pertinent to his profession. He was well known day at 2 o'clock, P. M. throughout Europe; not more as an artist than for A detachment of cavalry from the district of Costrict integrity, temperance, regular activity, polumbia, will assemble there at the same time. liteness, sincere friendship and defensive courage. At half past 2 o'clock, P. M. the corpse of the He was zealous for the union of civil order and li vice president will be removed from Mr. O'Neal's, berty-his departure from Europe to this country to the capitol, in charge of the committee of arwas mentioned with regret in most of the public rangement, escorted by the cavalry. prints, as a loss of one of the best artists. He was active in his business and painted in Spain, Portugal, at Rome, and various other places; he was concerned in the publishing, in a fine style, various chalk engravings of nearly all the fine statues and busts in Europe, taken immediately from the objects; some of the originals of which remain in his port folios and many copies. From his application and celebrity he had accu mulated an independency in property, a considera ble part of which, however, was lost, as well by the French revolution, as mis-placed confidence in persons of his native country. Mr. Wertmuller's father was an apothecary in Stockholm, estimable for character and profession al knowledge; he also had considerable wealth. His daughters got suitable matches. An elder brother of Mr. Wertmuller is an eminent physician, but has for several years left off practice, and lives very in dependent on his property. On their arrival at the capitol, the corpse will be taken from the hearse and deposited in the capitol until 4 o'clock. At 4 o'clock the procession will move in the fol lowing order: 1. The cavalry. 2. The marine corps. 3. The chaplains to both houses of congress. 4. The physicians who attended the deceased. THE HEARSE. Ile arrived at Philadelphia in the year 1794 — went so Sweden in 1797, to settle his affairs and returned with his property in 1799-was married in 10. 1800, presently after he purchased a farm on the Delaware, below Chester, and died on the 5th day 11. of October, 1811, having bequeathed all his pro perty to his wife, who survived his loss but a few weeks. The piece for which he obtained the greatest ce lebrity was his Danae, for which he had been offered in America fifteen hundred dollars-it brought him a rent of two hundred and fifty dollars a year. His style of painting was high finished, fine surface and strong character. George Clinton-dead! 12. 13. 14. The senate of the United States as chief mourn. ers, preceded by their president pro tem. and secretary. The sergeant-at-arms of the house of represen- The house of representatives of the United Military Affairs. Recruiting for the additional military force has commenced, and promises to proceed vigorously and with much success, if we judge from the facts which have come to our knowledge. By the 28th of last March, we learn, on inquiry, that recruiting instructions and money for bounties, &c. were for[Having formed a resolution sometime ago, to pub.warded to every quarter of the country. The aplish towards the close of the year a general obitu propriations for the support of the additional militaary of distinguished or remarkable persons, we ry force were made on 21st of February; on the have refrained from noticing the deaths of some 24th of February near 600 nominations of officers illustrious and revered men. But this general for that army were made to the senate; on the 12th rule must be laid aside in cases like the present. of March those nominations were confirmed by the The good and truly great CLINTON belonged to 'senate, and within three days thereafter the mails Earthquake in Venezuela. carried official notices of appointment to the offi march immediately to Detroit, for the protection of cers to every section of the country. The law for our frontiers. the establishment of a quarter master's department did not pass until the 28th ult. immediately after which the recruiting orders were issued. We have collected these facts, in order to explain, to those brave spirits whose ardor cannot brook delay, the reason why the hour of preparation has seemed to them to "limp so tediously along." Nat. Intel. Dem. Press. Gen. Pinkney has accepted the commission of major general. Fed. Gaz. NOTES OF PREPARATION. a The following are all the particulars we are yet able to collect respecting the melancholy matter to which they relate. A more distinct and perfect account will doubtless be published, which we shall not fail to lay before our readers. Major Swift, of the United States engineers, has By the arrival of the schooner Independence, received orders from the war department to visit the fortifications in Georgia, South-Carolina and Betts, at the port of Baltimore on Wednesday last, Virginia, to direct proper repairs and alterations, and from Laguayra, we learn that Caracas, Laguayra, to orders supplies of all necessary ordnance and and the adjacent villages were destroyed in a stores for war, to repair to Washington, and report great measure by an Earthquake-Twentyon his proceedings. Bos. Con. five hundred in Laguayra and about ten thouWe understand that Wm. Jones, esq. has de sand in Caracas are said to have perished in the clined accepting the appointment of commissary ruins. One American alone fell a victim to the cageneral. tastrophe, a Mr. William Cromwell, of New-York. The first and severest shock at Laguayra, &c. was felt at 4 P. M. on the 25th day of March: four shocks were felt on the night following, but not sufficiently severe to do any damage. On the 27th all the sur. The appropriation laws of the United States for vivors were employed in digging the dead from unthe year 1812, were passed about the 21st and 24th der the ruins, from whence they were put in lighof February last, and were known here about the ters, carried outside of the shipping and thrown then 24th and 27th. The woollen, linen and cotton gar-into the sea. On the 28th of March the sea was so ments inspected, since the 5th of February and be rough, that they desisted, but a large fire near the fore the 15th of April, amount to eighty six thou wharf and burnt forty at a time in one fire. On the sand nine hundred and sixty four. Besides these, 29th the stench was so great that they had to desist shoes, hats and caps, worsted and cotton bands and from digging up any more from under the ruins. tassels, cockades and eagles, leathern stocks, stock The survivors pitched their tents on the plains of clasps, woollen hose, 4 or 5 woollen and cotton Mogetaro. On the 4th of April there w another blankets, plumes, epaulets, great coats, bedsacks very heavy shock that caused the vessels to tremble and sheets, cartouch boxes with belts, bayonet belts as if on a ridge of rocks, and from the schooner and scabbards, camp kettles, axes, axe slings, mus- Independence the mountains were seen moving like kets, gun powder, salt petre, sulphur, drums, fifes, ships in a heavy sea, and large pieces scaling off 300 hospital, horsemen's and common tents, knap them. As the Independence sailed at half past five sacks, haversacks, &c. have been bought or made; P. M.; the damage by the last shock was not known. materials for 6 to 7000 tents, have been purchased. [Sun. The duties, powers and knowledge of the business, Extract of a letter from a gentleman at La Guayra to so far as relates to the purveyor's office, end with his correspondent in this city, dated La Guayra the into, the public arsenals and stores. April 4th 1812. Contracts for, and purchases of various articles The dreadful earthquake which has laid in ruins to a large amount, have been made in the same the cities of Caracas and Laguayra, and the adjatime. The whole of this business has been done cent country by which more than 5000 houses have without any material addition to the ordinary clerk- been destroyed, happened on the 26th March, at ship. There was a considerable surplus of cloath-seven minutes past 4 o'clock, the explosion was so ing and materials from last year on hand in Decem-violent that it buried in its ruins more than eight or ber, besides the above mentioned. Four contracts ten thousand persons. for woollen blankets, 6000 cotton blankets, and 25,000 yards of kersey, besides, many others have been made; 80 to 90,000 pairs of shoes, 5000 horsemen's swords, and a great number of felt caps and hats have been purchased. [Dem. Press. Extract of a letter received per schr. Independence from Laguayra. "A few days prior to our arrival, this town was almost destroyed by an earthquake; it commenced about four o'clock, P. M. on Thursday the 26th The purveyor of public supplies advertises for March; its duration was about four minutes, and 5000 felling axes with slings, 5000 iron camp ket- its effects horribly destructive; since my arrival, tles, 500 drums with sticks, 800 fifes, 2000 pick there have been a few shocks, but no material daaxes, 2500 spades, 2500 shovels, 25000 gun slings, mage done. Such is the alarm of the inhabitants 3000 dragoon saddles, 3000 bridles, double bitted, that the town is entirely deserted, and they are now 3000 halters, leather stalls, 3000 forage bags, 3000 living without the walls, beneath little terts and nose or feeding bags, 3000 pair of holsters, 3000 huts, which are erected merely to shelter them, curry combs and 3000 brushes, 1000 fascine hatch from the rain and heat of the sun. « It is not within the compass of my ability to ets, 1000 grass hooks, 7000 yards of picket cord, 3000 valises, also woollen and other usual supplies. describe to you the misery of these people; fear and PENNSYLVANIA.-It is the opinion of the best despair, grief and ruin, have completely overwhelininformed, those who have the best opportunities of ed them. Parents have escaped, with the loss of information and who feel most anxious upon the their children; children with the loss of their pasubject that the army quota of this state, twenty rents, and very few without the loss of their pronine companies, will be completed in three months. perty.-Already five hundred persons have been Press. found, and the probability is, that a greater number ZANESVILLE, (Ohio) April 8.--Governor Meigs still remain buried beneath the rains. The destruchas received orders from the president of the Unition at Caracas is much greater; 2500 bodies have ted States to raise twelve hundred volunteers, to been thrown upon a funeral pile, and burned already, and it is supposed, from 5 to 10,000 souls were lost. his excellency the minister of war to make the pro-. Out of forty churches in that place two convents only remain standing. Such is the lamentable situ ation of these two places, that it will be a long time, before they can be reinstated. No business of any nature is doing. All the Americans here will go to Puerto Cabello. French weights and measures. per experiments with this new invented piece, the order was executed at the polygon of la Fere under the direction of general d'Aboville commandant of the school, together with the inventor, Mr. Villantrois. The result of those experiments surpassed every possible expectation; they had been for a long time announced and expected; hence the curiosity of an amazing crowd of spectators had been excited, The killogramme is one of the decimal proportions of the French dinary war engine, the bare dimensions of which all eager to see the effects of this new and extraorsystem of weights, which by a law of the 7th of April 1795, was reduced to a rule of proportion founded on the measurement of a affrighted the eye. Without further description, it section of the earth, being a tenth part of the distance from the is enough to say that the piece and carriage weigh pole to the equator, equal to 30,784,440 feet of the old French measure, which is well known to be 68 parts of 1000 longer than ten thousand kilogrammes, and that notwithstandthe British; or the English foot being 1000 parts, the old foot of ing its enormous weight is as easily managed as the The unit of the new French measure then is formed in this way common gammer mortars and requires no greater ~the tenth part of the distance abovementioned, was divided into number of men to work it. This singular advanten million equal lengths, or parts; and one of those parts wastage is owing to the particular construction of the found equal to so much of the old measure as amounted to 36 juches, 11 lines, (or eleven-twelfths of an inch) and 290 thousandths carriage, said to have been invented by Mr. de Vilof a twelfth and the denomination given to this part was a Greek lantrois. word meaning measure, that is metre-a word already familiar in all languages which have borrowed from the Greek, as in diametre, poetic metre, geometry, trigonometry, barometer, eudiometer, France was 1068. &c. &c. The charge of this howitzer is 45 pounds of powder: the weight of the shell 180 pounds. It was Weights and measures were determined to be denoted by four duce a most dreadful detonation; but it was found, thought that such an excessive charge would proelementary words, or words characteristic of the application or nature of the use to which they were applied; and at the same that the explosion is less than that of all other mortime of a decimal distribution, subdivision, or collocation of the quantities; so that not only the quantity was told, but the kind of tars hitherto known-which probably proceeds quantity was to be signified by the word. Thus the four elemen-from the particular form of the piece. The projectary words are metre, lenghth-are, capacity-litre, superficial or tile takes from 35 to 40 seconds to run over its curb. surface, length and breadth--gramme, weight. The greatest height of the throw, is of 600 toises or thereabouts. The metre was thus made the elementary term, or measure of all other measures; and is itself the sign of rectilineal measure or Length, the square metre is the element of superficies or length or breath; and the cubic metre is the measure of capacity, as length breadth and thickness. modelled. the swiftness and elevation of the shell) discover it But the eye cannot (on account of in the space. After this discovery, it may be truly said, that French artillerists, who it appears have advanced rapidly to the greatest possible perfection, have found means of shooting their projectiles, to a dis To bring the system of measures, of capacity and weight, to correspond with the exactness of the length; a cabic metre of water, condensed from vapour and weighed in vacuo, was found to correspond in weight with 2041 pounds, 14 ounces, and 14 grains of the old French measure of Paris. This quantity, or cubic me tre, was divided into ten million parts, or proportions also, aud was designated by another Greek word, granene, which means a tance unknown to all other artillerists. The range cubic centimetre of water. of this howitzer exceeds by twelve hundred toises These principles being established, the language of proportional parts, in order to be rendered simple and plain and universally that of the Congreve rockets; and it is well known understood, was like the new language of chemistry, (so happily that our artillerists after having found out the conand with so much advantage already in universal use) to be new struction of those rockets improved upon the disThe greatest ingenuity of the system is the decimal prefixture, covery, and that now they can throw them to a which by combining decimal proportions with the designation of greater distance than the English themselves. the kind of measure, simplifies language by avoiding circumlocution. The composite words or prefixtures were of two classes, the first class were those which describe decimal subdivisions, as deci, tent, milli, or tens, hundreds, and thousands; the second class were words signifying collection and not division, deca, 10 times-hecto, 300 times-kila, 1,000 times-and myri 10,000 times. Thus the three first are to be considered as divisors, and the four latter as Mr. WHARTON moved a grant of 10,057 pounds multipliers all applicable to each elementary proportion of weight or Leasure. Thus to apply the new language of weight to the sterling towards erecting a bridge over the river quantity of any article, say 200,000 kilogrammes of wool, a gramme Eden, at Carlisle. according to the new standard is equal to the following amountOLD FRENCH-18 grains and 841,000 decimal parts of a grain divided into a million of parts. Parliamentary Pleasantry. In the British house of commons, Jan. 24. a Sir J. GRAHAM advocated the motion on the ground that the bridge would facilitate the entrance ENGLISH-22 grams and 966 decimal parts of a grain, divi- of Irish members, and gentlemen into England! ded into 1000 parts, or wanting only 34 parts of a thousand of making 23 grains. (A laugh) He also observed, the county of CumHere we have a knowledge of the exact proportion-one kilo-berland was ready to bear all the expences, if the gramme is 1000 grammes, or 1000 times 22 grains, leaving out the house granted half the expences of the bridge.— 34th part, or say a kilogramme is 15,443 grains English. A pound English is 7,000 grains-multiply by kilogrammes and divide by (A laugh.) English grains amounting to a pound, and the result is the amount of 441,514 pounds avoirdupoise. (Aurora. Newly invented Howitzer. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH. Mr. WHITBREAD observed, the hon. baronet's reasoning was most convincing; he had just told the house the county of Cumberland was ready to pay all the expences, only requiring the public to pay half.-A laugh.)—He had also declared the bridge, in its present state, was large enough for LAFERE, Nov. 20th, 1811.-Of all the discove Scotch cattle to pass, but not for Irish members.→ ries honorable to the corps of artillery, from the (Loud laughing. )—He (Mr. W.) was well aware days of general Gribeauval down to our time, no the Irish members were of some weight, but he one has been more deserving of praise than that of thought any Irish gentleman might pass where the Villantrois' howitzer, so called from the name of its hon. baronet could. laugh.)-If this vote inventor, late colonel of artillery. was granted, all the counties in the kingdom would This howitzer shoots a shell to the distance of expect the same indulgence. This had been called 3000 toises or one French league and an half. The a job for Ireland, but, in his opin on, if it was a corps of artillery of the imperial guard, having by job at all, it was a job for Cumberland. (Hear, hear! ) The toise 6 feet 6 inches English, The kilogramme is little more than two pounds, Interesting to Farmers. On the Siberian, or Naked Wheat. rising resources of our country enjoying freedom. Not many years ago the quantity of sheep in the United States were only a few hundred, and now the millions are counted. They now almost equal By a fortunate accident I obtained from a mer the population eight millions and in four years chant in Boston, in January last, half a bushel more will amount to sixteen mill ons-and again in (which he imported from Russia) of this invaluable four years to thirty-two. Man doubles in 23 years grain, as respects our cold northern regions. Small in population; by the benevolent dispensation of samples will be delivered to each of the members of Providence, animals for food and raiment multiply the Berkshire Agricultural Society by applying to faster, so that notwithstanding their slaughter, Thomas B. Strong, or to the subscriber in Pittsfield enough remain for increase. In South America a or to Dr. Caleb Hyde in Lenox, personally or by bad government diminished population by war and order. oppression, and prevented its multiplication by For the information of the public, the following monasteries and nunneries, but the cattle have so is in substance extracted from Varlo's Husbandry, increased as to be killed only for their hides and vol. II. page 263-published in 1795, by an English tallow. farmer residing in America. Pittsfield, 9th March, 1811. E. WATSON. In North America the emigrants were annually numerous and the cattle and sheep imported few in proportion; too many were therefore killed for food "Varlo states that the naked wheat is a native of valuable more care is taken of them. A short pestill they increased, and now their wool is become Siberia, one of the coldest countries in the world, riod will unfold the wonderful consequences from covered with snow nine months in the year. That Merino sheep introduced by Bonaparte's invasion it is the chief support of the inhabitants, and vege of Spain. What great events arise from little tates and grows quick; the grain, small, full and hardy with a thin skin-that he ascertained its value-twelve pounds of English wheat was made into a loaf, the like quantity of Siberian, and both baked together. The English loaf weighed 15lb. the Siberian 18/6. when baked, and both equal in qual ity. That the Siberian produces only half the quan tity of bran, and as it partakes partly of barley in its nature, it makes good ale. things. (Dem. Press. The Spanish Guerillas. In the details of events in Spain frequent mention is made of the Guerillas. By the French they are accounted as robbers and assassins--but the English speak of them as " patriots." From the folThat when it first arrived in England he procur-lowing description of them, by an officer in the ared only half a wine glass full, intending to sow it in my of lord Wellington, an idea may be formed of April, but by mistake it was not till the 7th of June, what they really are and it yielded a good crop. The ensuing year he "Perhaps a description of the Guerillas might be dibbled in each grain a foot part in April, and yielded 2000 fold. That it exceeds any grain for increase acceptable to you; I will attempt to give it as well as my own knowledge will allow me, from havand grows better upon bad land-but yields better in proportion to its goodness. The proper season tong seen a great deal of this hardy race :-They ge. sow is about the 10th of April (probably 1st of Maynerally perambulate in small parties, according in here) he advised to plough deep, or even to trench number to the object they have in view; their unplough, that is twice in the same furrow-to dibble ceasing thirst for spoil, makes them extremely acin each seed with a setting stick, a foot apart, as it stools out greatly and injures the crop to sow it thick. That it costs only about 3s. sterling an acre in Eng land, and will require in this mode only twelve quarts to an acre. One man can cover two acres a day with a rake—and grass seed may be sown be fore the ground is raked. There are two kinds of wheat in Siberia. [Pitssfield Sun. $60 co $41 52 ma The price of the wool and the profit on the nufactures, is 2 dollars and 15 cents per pound. The wool of the United States will increase this year above three millions of pounds. Calculate this at only one half when manufactur ed and add thereto the leather and parchment, the meat, tallow, &c. and an idea may be formed of the tive in learning where the enemy are contemplating Miscellaneous Intelligence. The Chronicle. We have this week to record one of the most A NEW OIL-A method has lately been discovered at Venice of extracting oil from the Chinese distressing events that has occurred for years: Our raddish-this oil is said to be superior to those al sorrow for the disaster, as a mere misfortune, is ready known, not only for eating and communica greatly increased by our earnest wishes for the hapting light, but even for medicinal purposes. It pines and prosperity of all the citizens of the new results from experiments made by Dr. Francisco republic; and we fearfully anticipate that a calamity di Oliviero of Verona, that this oil is extremely so distressing may have some effect in reducing useful in pulmonary and rheumatic affections; also them again to bondage. See " EARTHQUAKE IN in pleurisies. It has also been successfully employ- VENEZUELA," page 131. ed in convulsive coughs. It is not liable to grow rancid, as other kinds are. Accounts are received which appear worthy of full credit, that the southern Indians (the Creeks) MILITIA OF VIRGINIA-The governor has tho't had been so far led away by bad advice as to unbury proper by and with the advice of the council of state, the tomahawk,notwithstanding all that government to direct the distribution of so many arms as will be has done to render them quiet and prosperous. We sufficient to arm completely, (they being the most are told they have killed twenty families on Elk river. exposed to danger,) the following counties, to wit. A letter from Jefferson, (Ten.) informs that the Accomack, Charles-City, Dinwiddie, Elizabeth writer was that moment under marching orders City, Essex, Fairfax, Gloucester, Isle of Wight, against them. We hope these reports are exag. James City, King William, King George, Lancas-gerated-not that we apprehend those Indians will ter, Middlesex, Mathews, Nansemond, North- do extensive injury, but because they themselves. ampton, Northumberland, Nerfolk, Princess-Ann may be swept from the face of the earth. Sur. Prince-George, Prince-William, Richmond, South-rounded as they are by a race of men more hardy, ampton, Stafford, Surry, Spottsylvania, Sussex, more skilful, and so numerous, their actual exterWarwick and Westmoreland. mination would appear an easy task. The governor after given some wholesome advice The papers teem with accounts of the impressand direction to the officers commanding the seve- ment of our seamen by the British. We have ral regiments in those counties,says "It seems that received a copy of the "message from the president no alternative is left, but an appeal to arms or an ig-of the United States, transmitting a report of the nomimous submission.-America will not deliberate secretary of state on the subject of impressments, which to choose. How long shall we set with our in obedience to a resolution of the house of reprearms folded together, and still hope for the continu- sentatives of the 29th November last;" by which ance of peace-when by a long series of acts, such it appears that 6257 persons, detained in the British hope is proved to be illusory? There was, indeed, navy, have actually claimed of government the proa time when such a hope might well have been in tection of their country! Will not this nefarious dulged. Separated as we are from the old world by business end? a mighty expanse of ocean; quietly pursuing our Massachusetts.-The late election in this state was honest and legitimate avocations; impartial in our uncommonly animated. Last year only about 85,000 feelings and irreproachable in our conduct towards votes were taken, but on the late occasion they exall nations; with justice for our guide and peace ceeded 100,000. If the returns are well and truly for our object, I repeat again, we might well have made, Mr. Strong, the federal candidate, has been hoped to have been exempt from those calamities elected by a majority of between 1500 and 2000 with which, as with the besom of desolation, an votes over Mr. Gerry. Loud complaints are made angry God has swept the face of Europe. But ra- of unfair dealing. Last year Mr. Gerry's majority tional as that hope once was, it would be madness was about 3000. any longer to indulge in it. The measure of our The new senate consists of 29 republicans and 11 sufferings is full; that of our patience is exhausted." federalists. The house of representatives is to be He then refers to some of the evils we have suffer- chosen in May; both parties are sanguine of suced, and expects the people "to place their eyes up-cess. ralists. on the history of the revolution"-to be always The elections in Rhode Island, and in Connectiready and prompt for any emergency and exhibit to cut, as usual, have terminated in favor of the fede the world "the sublime spectacle of a free people with arms in their hands, disciplined and prepared A letter has been received at Philadelphia from to defend the heritage they received from their ances London, dated March 12, 1812, which says, that by a secret treaty between the British government and Spanish regency, the islands of Cuba, Porto Rico and St. Domingo, are to be placed under the protec tion of the British. tors." Price of grain in England.-A letter from Liver pool dated 3rd mo. 21, 1812, says "American wheat would now readily command 18s. 6d. to 19s. per 70lb. flour 74 to 76s. per bbl. We anticipate high prices. Rice has been sold at 38s. per cwt." The price of wheat is nearly equal to three dollars for the American bushel of 60s. What a pity, that this step."mother" of ours, will not so conduct herself that we might freely administer to the wants of her people, from our exuberant productions! The general price of flour in Spain may be esti mated at 20$ per barrel, though at Cadiz the price is quoted at 16 a 17. A French squadron of four sail of the line and a frigate sailed from L'Orient about the 10th of March. Destination unknown. Price of stocks London, March 19-3 per cent. cons. 60 1-8 60. The people of that part of Hayti lately commanded by general Borgela, have revolted, and put themselves under Petion. There appears to be a great stir among the people of Canada; the new militia law obliges each mon It is stated in some of the British papers that ano-to attend muster six times a month, and take an oath ther mighty armament is designed for the Baltic of allegiance. For refusing to comply, imprison"to take possession of Copenhagen and the island ment and fine, or banishment from the province are of Zealand, in which the British are to be assisted imposed; many are said to be leaving the country. by the Swedes." At Kingston there was mutiny among the soldiers |