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S'71: V., FOREIGN i - [jAoraalieJi Y-otlx Statesmaiiof May 35-1 _ One Day Eater from. England —The ship Louisa Matilda, arrived late last -evening from Liverpool, whence she sailed ou the 24th till brings London and Liverpool pa pers one day later than were received hy the Amethyst, at Boston We have oui regular files of the Nhw .Times and British Press to the 22 d ult from \yhich we take the following extracts The Cotton Market at Liverpool remain ed f ir ih a n i at previous prices - Despatches had been received at the. Last ‘ 3 ndid\H(«?e^“bondon-rrplahve to tlie-Bui jmese war, armouncing the capture of the town and porlfdf Martab m, by a de^chment of Europeans and natives, under the corp mand o f Lieutenant Colonel Godwin, ofrhis Majesty^ 4-1 st i^gimantraad flLport) rifBnt ish senmeu of hisMajssty s sliipi Arachne m and Sophie Also of varrpoS successes Assam, over the Burmese Governor and the remnant of his army/ The Barman tioops m Munipore, are said -to-, have received orders to retife rapidly upon the capital and reports from that quarter state, that the intenorV the Buram Empire is ia a veiy agitaied and disturbed condition in. conse~ querieeof the Siamese h mng mvided it in x great force- ■ - ~ Lpyoov,“April 24 — A Flandera-id id ar livedlast night,, with Brussels papet-s to the 16 t&-ini£,y'fi' 0 m--tyhLch we have made the . following extracts-:— - - L ausa N ivsv A p HI 5.—One o f the rnost re markable phenomena ia the criminal legis- ... . lation.is thQ,planofa.errmirud code which Jiqs jiist been $ffb(hftted to the consideration - oftheCouQcil o f trieCanton oftheGrisons. . ^Ariforig^ ggtge the'altentioh ,‘of ;the public ^besides, • those telutfvefo duellingy which we indeed j' -a*#- pje'-fqllpivipg.’ ..; ^ The pardoh gtented' to a criminal:, being •aoi 'exception.’inadfi to. the HwCcannot ema- : ugjte ejtcept fptn the Councils and tie com ■■ ';«t.Tfre;pumshahenLgf death shall hence forth be inflicted by decapitation isvith the sword, but sever be aggravated % the ad- V* *• p , ' a*. r» > »' /»»jrt-lWrio #,» Vtr m i t i! reminded Ids frmid colleagues that they call tbetuseives the fathers of-the people, ^ifo as such ought fifst, according to the ancient laws* to-ende<mmrJp pay the debts which, the country contracted during the troubles The great Womick Ralazano, moved by similar feelings, supported his pioposal on which several Bojars joined them to assert the. ancient rights of. the-Dacian people.-— Hereupon a Committee was appointed to examine into the receipts and expenditure of the last yeai, and/hccbidiffg fo what if at present known, this hsquiry is likely to brings very strange things to light, People are, howevbr, anxious'to learn how . the Porte will take these proceedings. should he supplied to fclfo government of< Salta, who would'S'rise therrecesaary troops. Thi? date is ’one month htqr (wanting one dayl than that under Which-was brought tl\e news ofrOfaneta*® subnussWn,'but we pre. sume, and certainly hope, that this circam starice offers no solid evidence against the complete success of tbe Patriots, lation of a-finib/ “ Branding.shallbe abolishedastliemost impolUicof all punishments, because it pre Vents tiie TCturn o f thp criminal to bette: principles, by impressing on him. the per ——petual stigoaa o f guilt.'”-\ .(From, ihe Journal 'de. Gaud-) Brussels, Apr jl-12.—There is-ii-report ‘ that ourfroyernment, desirous of patting an ' endlo th^oiFeace given in the NetLerhinds hy the insaltiugr and calumnious articles re spectiug it*-..which are pretty often found ii ' \The jBioile dfParisTltas resotyed-to-prohibi that Journal in the kingdomof Netherlands. ‘ • (.From the Oracle f) - - BRussisr.s, April 12.—If We may believe due'ef our -Journals;. the half official Paris Paper, the Btoile is threatened with a pro hibition in dttlr Kingdom': w^ do’notThink that the Government httaClies the slightest jm jterttofe ;fo isnpertiitences (ijpttises) qf a Journal despised in France,\ as it is throughput'-RtfroperThis Journal is, t* truth, qawbfthy oHts attention, Geherril -Gomftiandaht of-East fTan’ders, who hasalfoady travelled through part of Europe, & going, ivithfhe pesinfeion o f th e . .j&Qj&ii* y^(K o « h Aiffienca. - \ Letters from Holland mSntion fliat the V ,Dutch Gormnpient were about sending out • f, |e c | wpWalfftb h e the inspection of Oih; F orts ' bf •C^tJft^aun^lhli dutch istahds ; • it- was.*;ass®!te^ 1° ^mbther object id wibWv viz iHfre inspection of rthe Jebently ~ifrfec^&d.l^S:^flmnes in The -Island ' of JSiij^Aw.rnfQrtEfMarcfrlB,—1T3te F o rte j l r f Turner, the English Charge d ’Affairs, ~ v^nrty^remdasfetiagawaCeount ofthe^sup* “pliex Witli va^ichi Ehglanff has'Ogaifi|urnished the Greeks*■Especially in artillerjr, ammu nition, The Dr igdmari of Porte, bns had a yeiyuarm altercation on thlspubjpdt, with Mr Turner, who declared to him that Jie-h»d no-fcnawledge of the.fact.that he Wiis cbtrvinced the Pofte-hadhfeeU^deweiwed hy the reports made to It, but what he wouhlj however, transmit Jp his Govern-, ment the note winch had been deliver&l to him- -It appears* that the ^qtte fe- likeWish tnudi disutished With the-LofdTilgll Com- missioner, and Authoritigsofthe toniaa Isl ands. , M. de Ribeaupierqis expected, rind until his arriv.'ili all diploindtic.‘negotiations with Iff de Mtn/iacky w it tbe susj>enifed, —L ondov , April 24, 1825.—‘The Paris pa pers of Monday are tilled chiefly witli com ment ines on the atrocious spirit ot’ legisla- tation which now pi ev ails ip France.. The law of sicrilege has m ipircd a general feel ing o f alarm among the; liberal and Protes tant part of the population, .as line law of indemnity his among the proprietors o f the national domains Ail i s dread, aad disqui etude in every el'ass of society. . ■' The accounts from Greece are Iiighly fa- yourable. The attempt to rclieye Patras and Lepanto has failed, and the Austrian transports it was believed, would return to Zante to onload : - From ihe Frontiers o f Walladhifc, March 22, In bOtS the ^prificipalities tlie ejfeactions-to- which the inhabitants -tire exposett, become more ana more oppre sive, and the Bojars areplaced m a shte ofgr^atr emb irxaiSment, by the-ex.traordinary demand I itely address ed by the Saltan to the Hospodaip, requiring ; 1 ,^0,000 pnstei s for the npprOdClinigteain- p<ugq At Bucharest the Bojnrs aStembiecl in Divar were jost ohthe-poiqj: o f acce'dihg . to this new tix, ivhicb arbitrary^pdwer had - imposed on them, when ilichaitaZ. PhilipeS- ^ t . -MblMS„paid5M. rote- hate' qy.dinteresting from Buenos JlyrCs. Tlie editors of the Daily 'Advertiser has been furnished by a friend with Buenos Ayres papers tothe 2d of March, from which ihpy have translated the following Treaty with Great Britain, rauiimTTty the Legisla ture: . J ■ : Art 1- There shall be perpetual amity between the dominions, and subjects of his M yesty, the king of tbe united itingdooVof Great Britain and Ireland, and the United Provinces of Rio de.la Plata and their inhab itants. 2. There shall be a reciprocal freedom of Commerce between tbe territories of his Liatanic Majesty in.Europe,mid the teriio- -riea of-the UaiterlTmviac&s of Rio .de Li. P lata.[T h e article details the privileges to be enjoyed in entering the ports, residing in the country, Sic.] 3. The king of Great Britain further a- grqes, that the inhabitants ofthe said Pro vinces, shall enjoy- .as- greqt privileges of trade mid navigation ip bis dominions out of Europe, us any other nation vidiutever.\ 4. No new orgreateriiutiesshall be impos ed on the importation'of the nrticies o f pro duction, cultivation or manufactnrq of the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata, into the. dominions of his British Majesty', uor oh the importation b f the articles o f production, cui- tiViition, or manufacture o f the said dominions into the said provinces than those-now paid, or which shall be paid for those same_articles, whda produced, cultivated or manuflictu red in other foreign countries; nor shall any WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1825. of either of the .contracting parties, ou the exportation o f any description o f articles, to the teritorics or dominions of the other, than are now paid or shall be paid bn the export:; tion o f the same to any other foreign coun try j neither shall any. prohibition of im portation be laid by e ither, which does not extend to all other nations, 5. [Provides that no new or greater du ties or charges shall be laid .by.either party, in the form of port charges,'’tonnage duties salvage, pilotage,&c. on vessels belonging to theotherr-of-iv-bui’thau-morellian-120 tons, than are paid by theirown vessels.] 6. The\ same duties shall be paid, at the introduction of any article o f British product or manufacture, into the United Provinces, whether it is brought in British or Buenos Ayreau vessels : [and vice versa ;—also, the Same system is established with regarc to exportation.} ; 7. To prevent any misunderstanding on what shall constitute a vessel of either na tion, it is stipulated for the presenUJfiat. al vessels built in thb dominions of H._B. M. owned, manned and cotnm.mded according fo the laws of Great Britain* shall be con sidered as British vessels : and that all vcs sels bmit in thg_£erritortes of the said pro vinces, antUluly oWnsd and commanded by. citizens of the samtv or any of them, ant ayhose captains aud thrsfe fourths of whose crews ijr s citizens of the said provinces, shal be considered as belonging to those pro: vinces. 8. 9. 10 & 11. [These articles relate‘to the rights and pri vileges of individuals, the appointment o f Consuls, &c.j IQ.- The sgbjects o f -PIv B. A4*ijesty,i.resi dents in the pfaylnces of Bio de la Plata, ^bdlmotrdiii^tstwbetU-qjerseeaiteJ- uor-aad- udmittedtohaii-a9ab<>vp.stateelLThe-Gflse was - estidT on account o f tbeii’ Tellgiovbut shaH enjoy PERF j EGT LIBERTY DF CON- SCIENCE, being allowed to perform diviue worship either in their own houses or iu their own. private churches and chapels, which they shall be permitted to build aud maintain; in convenient situations approved o f by the government of the said provinces ; and the Subjects of H. B. 51. who shall clietn tlie ter- ritories of the provinces, shall be .allowed bnrial io their o\vn cemeteries, which they shall be free in the same mniiner to form and inaifilain. [Equal p'HvTfrges are a lab stipu hitedko the..other party,] • 18, [Tliis-article relates to tho disposal of private property,] - 14, FJis Britannic Majesty, .anxiously de siring the Abolition o f the Slave trade, the Untied Provinces of Rroda la Plata oblige themselves tq co-operate with H. B. 'M. for the accomplishmeiit of soLeirefrceut a irork, and to prohibit all persons redding in the same provinces, or subject to their jurisdic tion, in the most solemn laws, frpya. taking any partin that, traffic. io. The present treaty shal lb e- ratified, and the ratifications exchanged in London, within four mouths, or sooner if possible. < In testimony o f which the respective pleni^ potentiaries -have signed and sealed'it with •their seals,, if Done in Buenos Ayres, E’eb. 2, 1825; MANUEL J. GARCIA, . [Seals-t; WOODBINE PARISH- • [T’6:which was aridod on tiie. 19th .Februa ry, the signature of the Governor o f Buenos AyjUANGREGORIO DE LA HER AS. The Hifvme o f ReprfiSfthtati vpk were oc cupied part tff the day of Tebruary 25th, iq discffssmg a plan proposed by a committee, for th< reduction o f the Spanish forced un der General Olaneta,. who* it w«1s then su|>- posed, occupied the four pVovinceisTofnDp- per Peru. ,The report was agreed to, which TRgom'mended .that( munitiunA, sfruis, ,&c. The Judiciarij.-r-^i eiiavo seen thereport of a committee, pppoiiitedata meeting o f the members of the bar,from thedifferent parts of the state,he 1 d at the C 1 ty jfel 1 in JN» Y. to take into, consideration the remedy for the delays of justice incident to the present judiciary sys tem. ' This committee consisted of ten mem- * ‘ \ ‘ ** bers of the bar, of whicii Thomas Addis Eqimit, EsqMvas chiiirinan. We have not room for this report in this day’s paper, hut shall; probably, give it at,length in oufnext, Tlie committee recommend that there should be instituted a Superior Court o f Common Pleas,, possessing concurrent jurisdiction with the Suprenxe.Court; inull except crim inal cases and writs o f ef rar, mandamus pro hibition, a quo iva'ftranto, ivhich shall be sub jeet to no appellant Jurisdiction, other than the. Court o f Errors * aqd that its members shaJl be.appoinfdd ia the s:ime manner, and hold'their offices by tlie same tenure as the Judges of the Supreme Court. That the number of the Circuit Judges be .reduced to four; arid that the. Judges o f the Supreme Courtj the Circuit Judges, and tbe Judges of theJCornmon Pleas, try issues o f fact arising in boUi churfs,' in' ati the counties. That the equity jurisdictfon of the Circuit Judges be abolished-, and that tbere be t\vo \Vice Chancellors appointed* subject to the appel lant jurisdiction; of the Chancellor. We have very cursorily'looked over this.- report, and are^cafcely prepared to give our opinion upon it, but are welt persuaded that some alterntioiris necessary in our system of administering justice, in ordep to prevent delay, and reader the expenses of suitors less. •. / J ^ The Court af Conmon Pieds, for this county, was held’ last week. The amount of Verdict^ taken, iv-e understand, was six cents —The»coSts, we presume, must have been some hundreds o f dollars 1 ' JThotoas M Rodney, of Delaware, Has been appointed Gomfriefrial Agent of the U pi ted States, at Havana, in place of John Warner, deceased. J - _ Ibid. r -• i t . >!■! “ ' ; w* ' • I M I lr m iT ^ ^ ..,^...-7; ,v*.- OnThursday. last, a labouring man, named Moope,lhad his left arm shockingly Shattered at Boston. Amputation was immediately performed above the elbow, by Dr. Walker. * r Ib& ■ On the 8th inst- George H. Drake, of AU legany country, Aid. shpt Dennis Iff. Atbey A dispuiehad-arisen about carrying,a gun when Drake took it, saying he would shoot Atbey, which he did,- and the poor fellow expired a .short time afterwards. . Ibid. ■ The Wilmington College, Del. was a few days since offered for sale Joy the Sheriff of the county. - Previous to tlie hq|ir-of rsaife, the atpount o f the debt frae, ao<p^io5;satis!^' which tbe.sale was to have heerij caade. was paid by a committee of the Masons^of that borbugh. . . Ibid, [F rom the U onk . Miuiioa,] The Bar *—The subject W an uniform system of-practice, and of uniform rules-of .admission to the bar through all, the States o f the Union, is worth the consideration of a liberal profession. It should be under the control of the GenerarGovermijent, .imd reg- ulatexl by act of Congress. As it is^the pro fession is so awkwardly embarressed a 3 to be a sort of anomaly among all other callings A Shoemaker may measure feet, from -Maine to Georgia, and cut up leather of all quali ties, for cusfomers of all sorts. TheThvsic o,f the Doctor is permitted to. operate in one state as well’as in another—=-the Missionary may travel or the eandidate-maysettle wher-' ever they choose, let them belong\ to what denomination they will without reference to boundary lines— but with'a lawyer the case is'djfferent. It is owing to' the difference of practice and to arbjtfajry rules of. exclusion. A Lawyer ip one' state' can hardly thaw a writ .in another, and if he ‘draws; a bow at a: venture, he subjects himself to much more of censure arm even df personal liability, than his practice is worth.\'. And as to his cli ents, here they make oath—there they give bonds—sometimes hold to,bail, sometimes disaster to that flotitishingand Beautiful to« Siati ' PQSflSCRIPT.’t—C AL AMITODS ^1 cMibrictm ‘Office,1halfpatf 2 ckck^Jl.i We stop the pi ess to announce tfj^rav ofthe most destructive}! re which has ocifts in this town, sincfe the 'yerir X80],\ It-hri out dMffctle p a s t i l a clock,in thew-orksh occupied by Mr. Rhodes G. Allen, Cabi Maker, siiuate on the rear of Westmiqi street, and near to the \Univefsalist Oha The winds was quite fresh, and notwitha ding the mpst' energetic and untexnittingl forts at our citizens the progress o f the cquld not be arrested before i t had consy the buildiug in which it originated—the L s\iofy dweilTng houseppwnedTiy the liqjj the »ate- Janies Rhodes, the dwelling t (including a Grocery Storej ov\jiedand pied hy Gapt Samuel Young the houi tbe cprnpr of Union street, occupied bt Oliver Carpenter, the house immediate! johriug; owneii fy -the heus ofrPeKT—f ' and occupied by Mr S. Updike, the on the north sufref Westminster stiep£ by Gem ral Cdrrington, and occu()Ied by B. F -mnri, togefbei with that ornaui'entiri ifice, the Unive \aUst Chapel, elected a years since at g«eat expense, the -walls of which, \ve t egret to say, a re left stan Several d velhug house weie injured fire, sortie o f them seriousl} A wide spread confldgiatiqn was a hended—the firejiaving occmiea in the mo«t compact and coinbusufcle p the town , aud u is omng, under Divine lenroj astor vidence to the untiniig.A -.<> Desperate Affair .—-On Tuesday, last, the Rev. Mr. Morrison; principal of the Belle Air Academy, near Baltimore; was shot by one of the students. The followidg particu lacs of this affair We copy from the Balti more Patriot of Saturday.' - «• Itappears thdt abotft three months ago James Smith, a youth of about i 5 years of age, .was corrected'by Air. Alorrisou, under whose tuition Jatnes tlien was. • Subsequently^ Jatnes Obtained a pistol iu Baltimore, returned fo Belle Air, and had._a dispo.te with one o f the other stu dents, in consequence of which he was re primande'd by. Mr. iVloifison. James then i;ook a favourable opportunity and shot Mor rison, who is daDgerously-ill of toe wound. He was committed in Harford .county* and was- broright before Judged Jxcher on a writ of habeas.corpus, for tfia purpose of being veryably-urguedoribofchsides*and;thotesti- mbriyof Dr; DayiclgewaSf that Air.\ E orii [angerous situation. son .wiis m a Judge Archer determined not. to admit him that the !;o bad until it should be nscerfoined Morrison vvas out of all danger; frou wound. The last accounts represent Mor rison’s Case as much mqre favourable. - - -- Spectator -.— not.* In one place fEeyAuainaon, ia ariotlier attach, in one state there is a fixed rule, in another, it is left to the option of the party; Process goes sometimes against the body, sometimes against the estate, and sometimes against both or neither. The return is to n term or to a day .Out of term—and the courts—'SOme have. rules, some have none* and the practice is intricate or simjple accor dingly. - .. .. \• Aside from rules of practice, the Goijnsel- ler who deals only in principles is subject in' every strange j(irisdictiohvto tlre'ribrfiptiind difiicult question o f ‘,‘hdw caine you. here.v He is dependant on courtesy aiid that is con fined to. those who^ire most eminent in the profession and vvho- o f course need ft the least. These local rules are in derogation of common right* and apply exclusively tom class, o f persons vvho. already labour under embarrassments enough. ' * -5, ' ; ' —- And' novV-j ns was before said, it would an swer a very useful purpose, if there could be an uniform system of practice. The re ports o f cases*in different,states would ho intelligible and applicable. The whole coun- try’would be as operito lawyers as it is to all Others. No unfairodvantage couId be taken of-ii stranger’s ignoracce o f the little fogs of the lex foci/ A member of the bar would riot be obliged in crossing a line to learn a hew trade, ‘or serve a new apprenticeship— he could attend to his business* wherever it might cali hipi—he could give better advice, on more substantial principles—he coptd: know when as well as how to bring nu ac- tion—his client could tell hetfor what to de pend upon, nncl the law would be dpprived Of much o f iis i%gioridus unccriainfij.''' ' our fell6w:citizens, frat oife n f die Jajres tioijs of «iur town was norieducdJtoa ri cholyheapofrnins. INuirib'rirsreiiipvefj good# arid furniture:, and the let .Lagfitl try promptly asseno bJed for the; protect the property exposed to iipafy tod de| tion-: . At thh( late hour* gnd ^m|t*=thh.e siou and fatigue incident '.to .tills ca w’e;hRve«eithefffmehojt,iff$hRk.te.'i partiqolar.* We believe, ;howev*rjfr preceding statement, will He fdtori;su tially coFrect.' : pAfoongthenrtYcle* ofriyerriheridijei in the cellar of the ‘Urifvetolist-GJIi were 100 bales of Cotton, belonging foi spectable house in this, town.] v * TrentonStutcBanb.— Tho fojslrietlli insfiludon. is, we belte’ve, a t a sfc^riJ,^ notes are at this oioment 50 per cent, par in our jn^cket.;; Firoip what info? we can gat]ier relative to this baiikj it i timately. V|deerri:iteriotesatpaE;; tipe ever tnusrhe allowed for the settleti its affairs, wheri it is probable ]lisit go tivb individufils; the New^Yor^ pe coarse, will jrarchrise put its stoolcV rir into opperation again.— U. S.Bazxtft. f 1 Hon, Rapes .IC ing , ^appointed Plenipotentiary to tEe .Court of St.* had engaged (he'cebtre c;\bin of tiie ship Pacific, trt sail oo tbe 1st Liverpool. Mr. King,vvilL h e r e by his eldeBt son Johri A, Kin^ Secretary of Legation* his lady aud o f hi -Mexico.—'The New-York Advocate re cently stated that there Was. no-teujii in the reports from Mexico, of uif ioflh'deff inva- sion o f Cuba. The .editor is mss-infbrni'ed, at least in part. VYe have ju s t' conversed withii very lntelligant gentlemari, a particu- ' ar friend, to whom we have.been indebted for some important letters from Mexico du ring the late Whiter* who bus just arrived torn Alvarado aridTampico. lie assures us that thc.px^fiiiiia<^i vva'B jn a state bf ptepara- tion* but tefoe was no dtoht that ffip chief object wris to create a division that Would lava it favourable effect apoa the operations of the republicans against fob fortress o f Sh John deUlloit, vvhicli is stjll held by the roy-' alists, much to the iu’conveiiience of the pat riots, and tlie eomme.fee\ pf Vera’ The did Don who cc>mmab'dwthhfort;tesS/is' 'resolved not to yield till the last. ‘ Imtnensb' offers'have been marie to - bpy him .off—but no adequate induce nient could be offered, and the oidy mode tLiWeun be adopted, is. to create the division spoken of, or to blockade, With if compstent force, and starve, them out/ Every thing iri Mexico is improving.. Chan ges arefroqifont, but all'for thes belter. The country' is becoming' prosperous-, airid, the leople cOhfotited and happy/ • Such, areihe fruits of freedom. M. Y. Spectator* Counterfeit notes 'oi' the denonjiuation of $2dfr the Washingtqn.-and Warren Bank, are' in ctrdairiSon/\; They are rio well executed that luany have been taken by the Brokers, in. this city; . ' . : %id. Alfred Rowe, t o insane pecsoo, ©TYrhofo some account is given iff this paper, wept; on he. evening of the lolh Inst, fo' the'house of ffr. Elias Goodrich, in Farmington,, and so frightened the family’fihat they fled to'the loose o f a neighbour; Iffr. Bird. f He,,hav ing been u^cd to the management of an uu- ortun.ate^brojher* who had long been crazed, -offeEed.fogo-,-toAdid^gOj-:fofthJiis-rrifeujaud, another: maajn compariy, to take care of the intruder. The fvv o meu entered the houses Mr.. Bird went first, and the other held a can dle, and followed after, him. On opening the inner, door* Mr. Bird received a bldw> froin behind jt, wath an axe; on his .scullj tbe handle was extinguished by tl/e draught: of air,, and the person who had accompanied Mr. Bird, fled. After some time, people ventured ia, and fbunijthe body of Mr. Bird dragged'near the threshold bf Ufo hpTase, his scuil split, and his head partly cut off, . The next day a patty went in pursuit of Rriwe.-— Li the evening one of thqm seeing a man who from his dress he tpok fo be the object o f pursuit, fired ills gun and.killed him. The' person thas unfortuhately kilied* Was Mr. Drayton .Bodwell.. Rows Has since been taT ketl and se-cured:in ga6l. ' v . ' The'Consternation into Which tBri first\ e- vent would naturally throw a neighbourhood* the danger of a visit from the insane.person to any family in.ft, and the excitement, of feel ing irfa. peaceable town on such an'occasion* ma.y in part explain, the reason of their resort to firearms; butas fo the particulars of this strange and fatal discharge; it is the business of others tdinvestigate tbefo. \ !’ Cohn. Mirror, i . -. 0 v ^ F ire'ii^B r (w idm c e ir ^ $ ^ the Nexo- Lpridou steatu-bqaOinie, wefraye Feoervfod pur BostC!it:atid PirbvidepCe papers of yester- day morning. There is nothing patticul.rir ip the Boston paper#; but the Providence A- jfoerican contains thefollowing account o.f a Legislatioe collision ^ T h e senate eft necticut have Jiuiuinated Mr,“Laaxnan 1 election to the United'States'Seriafe'. Assembly, had nominated Mr. YYiUey# adhere—to^thejr ndrnination.~ 3f '* houses should fail td agree upon IheT ate, that jtate, like New-York' Willi with but one member in the federal te m t m Fire.— A.t Washington,- (Ky.) the I and other buildings df Uolonel Key I Craigs, were: burnt' the beginning .month ; loss estitoated at ^20^000.-, JYew Importation,— Seyeial rafts i ; jliink fraVe.atrfyeriat nriiifr'omdhre^esfy-rtiid-it—is -stiwi ffcient tiuaher \cauhe Lad in. Biafc the supplyTsftlffi whriieTiavy of V- T herivfihetoii o f avoanrwas TomM j S lOth instant, hung by h is1iandkea l ree, ifrMonroe, Ms. An artiqal aho was nrrarked R.Basselt ; no other ind or knowledge ofhini. He was about I 8 inches high and appeared' to W l “ orBhyearffopBge^- - - - — —-— Fir cl—-On Monday, everitng, a JftuW occupied by Mr- Oakley, 'No. _ 60 84 street* vvas accident.ally burnt; loss j ted at ^2-,000, partly insured. ‘ Explosion.^—Oh Tuesday , lust WeeS pouriding-tnill of -a powder mtotiftetafl .Canton, C’t. blew up/ bfft ■6rtanate!yy f one. manwas supposed to be mor' by the accident. • John C. Spumes .—The HamYIlijrid tiser, (published in Ohio,) of thoUM says, that Ihrifr fellow-ccitizer», f<n' C. Symmes, has accepted of the (. em peror of Russia.; m<7<3e thr-opgH_ .Ropi.enzoff- iuviririg.hifo'Wfohri lar expeMtidfr, jxntler the enHghtendd monarch.. The eriftfrff ■ Haihiltpri* Observer remarks , es sin? exp.eflition. prove successful, what ret* may be justly cast upon” our go,for* Whether our countryman S. able to find those-undcr-gEoo so entBudasficany spok-en of in Ms' essays-titn’q Wiil determine. DIED, Suddenly . in Ithaca/ oii (he hU ss R o x a n a R o u tJSE v iL L E /ag eldest daughter o f W illiam Rouiaseviik* of Caroline. , ,u Seldom, if over, has the convul^i of friendship been , called to auaoU^ I lrif agedl; P’Jicy) Etliin rtll bl/ Sfeuti .v tlis/v IfoVl tem[ rive Nsi [tlie |hrisi: |*PPr| Lmng it I IV oi owe ■ Adjl tarylj ' E l .burgh IforCisJ A f i ) [ and*ri I* i I Vrhij V Bers iclrn ,:'at ft east? the ORIGINAL STAINED