robbery of the rest, is alike narrow and false.- day of Oct. 1665, &c. the tryel of Ralph Hall and There are, it is true, certain limits, beyond which Mary his wife, upon suspicion of witchcraft The such appropriations would amount to gross partiali- names of the persons who served upon the grand ty. But of these limits congress must be the jud jury are Thomas Baker, foreman of the jury, of ges, as well in the present instance as in the anala- Easthampton; capt. John Symonds, of Hempstead; gous cases of expenditures for military or commer- Mr. Helcett, of Jamaica; Anthony Waters, Thomas cial purposes; for works of defence, and for sala-Wandell, of Marsh Path Hill, Mr. Nichols, of Stanries of local officers. Nor was it for the benefit of ford; Belthazar D'Haart, John Garland, Jacob Lusthe future state sovereignties of the west, that ter, Anthonio De Mill, Alex. Munro, Thomas these liberal and judicious donations were made, Scarle, of New York. but for the common good of the citizens of all the states, who should, from time to time, be induced to seek happiness and competence in the new territories, and at the same time to relieve their native state from the evils always, in some degree, attendant on a crowded population. It would be easy to expand these arguments, and to strengthen them by other considerations of a similar nature. The committee, however, believe, that the view which has thus been taken of the question, whether we consider the reason and po. licy of the reservation, the early and continued practice, sanctioned by the authority of the very persons by whom the original claims were settled; and hitherto undisturbed by any remonstrance, or finally the undoubted right of congress to decide on the proper mode of administering the public property, will be sufficient to convince this legislature of the impropriety of their interference on a subject, which, from its importance, and its appeal to state prejudices and interests, is calculated, (in the solemn language of Washington,) "to furnish ground for characterising parties by geographical distinctions, northern and southern, Atlantic and western, whence designing men may hereafter endeavor to excite a belief, that there is a real differ. ence of local interests and views." The committee, while they are deeply impressed with the truth of his admonition, that "we cannot shield ourselves too much against such jealousies, which tend to render alien to each other those who ougth to be bound together by fraternal affection," are, at the same time, fully convinced that there is no contradiction between the strict justice and equity of this particular case, and the dictates of patriotic feeling and sound public policy.. The prisoner being brought to the bar by Als lard Anthony, shff. of N. Y. this following indict ment was read, first, against Ralph Hall, and then against Mary his wife, viz. The constable and overseers of the towne of Setalcott, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, upon Long Island, do present, for our soveraigne lord the king, that Ralph Hall, of Setalcott, aforesaid, upon the 25th day of Dec. being Christmas day last was twelve months, in the 15th year of the raigne of our soveraigne lord Chas. the 2d, by the grace of God, king of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. and severall other days and times since that day, by some detestable and wicked arts, commonly called witchcraft and sorcery, did (as is suspected) maliciously and feloniously practise and exercise, at the said town of Setalcott, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, on Long Island aforesaid, on the person of Geo. Wood, late of the same place, by which wicked and detestable arts the said Geo. Wood, (as is suspected) most dangerously and mortally sickened and languished, and not long after, by the aforesaid wicked and detestable arts, the said Geo. Wood (as is likewise supected) died. Moreover, the constable and overseers of the said town do further present, for our soveraigne lord the king, that some while after the death of the said Geo. Wood, the said Ralph Hall did, as is suspected, divers times, by the like wicked and detestable arts, commonly called witchcraft and sorcery, maliciously and feloniously practise and exercise at the said town of Setalcott, on the person of an infant child of Ann Rogers, widow of the aforesaid George Wood, deceased, by which wicked and detestable arts, the said infant child, as is They are therefore of opinion, that it is not advi- suspected, most dangerously and mortally sickensable for the legislature of this state to join in the ed and languished, and not long after, by the said co-operation in urging this claim, to which the se-wicked and detestable arts (as is suspected) died: veral original states of the union are invited by the state of Maryland. All which is respectfully submitted. G. C. VERPLANCK, Chairman. Witchcraft-in 1665. We find the following curious document published in the New York "National Advocate" of the 2nd inst. We insert it as well for its own preservation, as to shew the point of "Red Jacket's" sneer at those who recently laughed at Buffalo, on the belief of the Indians in witchcraft-see page 358. And so to the said constable and overseers do present, that the said George Wood, and the said infant child, by the ways and means aforesaid, most wickedly and maliciously, and feloniously were (as is suspected) murdered by the said Ralph Hall, at the times and places aforesaid, and against the laws of this government in such cases provided. The like indictment was read against Mary, the wife of Ralph Hall: Thereupon, several depositions accusing the prisoners of the fact for which they were indicted were read, but no vitnesses appeared to give testimony in court vive voce, then the clerk calling up Ralph Hall, bade him hold up his hand, and read as follows: "Ralph Hall, thou standest The following is a correct copy of a bill of in-here indicted for, that having not the fear of God dictment, preferred in this city, against Ralph Hall and Mary his wife, for witchcraft, one hundred and fifty six years ago. Later bills of this character may be found in Connecticut, but this, we believe, was among the last in this state. It is curious to read this remnant of barbarous ages; and while we do so, let us not forget the lights of learning and civilization, which have introduced a better order of things; At a court of assizes, held in New York, the 2d before thine eyes, thou didst, upon the 25th day of Dec. being Christmas last was twelve months, and at several other times since, (as is suspected) by some wicked and detestable arts, commonly called witchcraft and sorcery, maliciously and feloniously practise and 'exercise upon the bodies of George Wood, and an infant child of Ann Rogers, by which said arts the said George Wood and an infant child (as is suspected) most dangerously and mortally fell sick and languished unto death. Ralph Hall! what dost thou say for thyself-art to the man, we find nothing considerable to charge thou guilty or not guilty? Mary, the wife of Ralph him with. The court thereupon gave this sentence. Hall, was called in the like manner. They both "That the man should be bound, body and goods, pleaded not guilty, and threw themselves to be for his wife's appearance at the next sessions, and tried by God and the country. so on from sessions to sessions, as long as they stay Whereupon the cause was referred to the jury, within this gort. In the mean time to be of good who brought into court this following verdict, viz. behaviour. So they were returned to the sheriff's We having severally considered the case committed custody, and upon entering into a recognizance, to our charge against the prisoners at the bar, and according to the sentence of the court, they were having well weighed the evidence, we find that released. there are some suspicions by the evidence of what the woman is charged with, but nothing considerable of value to take away her life! but, in reference They were released from the indictment and suretyship for good behaviour, and wholly discharged therefrom on the 21st day of August, 1668. National Debt of Great Britain. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. An account of the total amount of the national debt of England and Ireland, including the Austrian and Portuguese loans, and including the debt cancelled in each year, from the 1st of February, 1786, to the 5th January, 1821; stating the amount of the funded debt contracted; the amount of debt redeemed; the amount of unredeemed debt; the amount of unfunded debt; and also the total amount of unredeemed and unfunded debt in each of those years. The annual accounts of the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt, prior to the pass ing of the act of 56 Geo. 3, c. 98, for composing one joint consolidated debt, interest and sinking fund, were made up to the 1st February, and since the passing of that act to 5th January. The annual accounts of the unfunded debt of Great Britain are made up to the 5th of January. The annual accounts of the debt of Ireland, funded and unfunded, prior to the union, were made up to the 25th of March, and since the union to the 5th of January. Foreign Articles. GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. The ridiculous things presented to and decided by the "court of claims," in respect to the coronation, have brought forth others of no little wit and severity. mate children each receive pensions of a greater excess of females-the returns of several parishes The late census, so far as it goes, shews a great Among the real claims presented to the court males, is published in proof of the fact. and towns, containing 43,351 males and 51,218 fewas that of Mr. Walker, the king's apothecary, that may only partially give us light upon it.. [The But this he should attend at the coronation in the dress of census of the state of New York returns 687,950 the Esculapius of Edward II. viz. long shoes, turn-males and 65.3,223 females: excess of males 34,727.] ed up at the toe, and looped to the knee; a blue stocking on one leg, and a red stocking on the establishment, has been warmly opposed in the An appropriation of money, to support the Alien other, with a party-colored vest and cloak. His house of commons; but, no doubt, the money will office will be to carry in one hand a bottle of per-be granted. England must do something to shew fùmed oil. And about an hundred, perhaps, equally laugha- holy alliance. a general correspondence with the views of the ble, were offered and generally substantiated; and it has also been solemnly decided by the judges,sion a few days ago of the second committee of The borough of Petersfield, which, by the decithat when the king and his court rises from the the house of commons, is now declared to be free banquet, the people shall be indiscriminately ad- and open, and the right of voting to be in every mitted into the hall to make a general scramble, the freeholder, without any restriction, after having been plate, &c. having been removed! may be done by perseverance. Some old charters, closed for a century, forms a striking proof of what of the Petersfield people, which they had so long found a few years ago, brought to light the rights been deprived of. The following are among the hits at such non sense The royal college of surgeons, by their president, as the true and legal successors of the ancient and right venerable company of barbers and surgeons, claimed to extract two teeth and draw a horn spoon-duction of the use of breeches will materially assist Breeches. It being considered that a re-introfull of blood from his majesty, by leeches, immedi- the British manufactures, the king, determined to ately before the pouring out of the holy oil. This encourage them, has countenanced their use, and case presenting some nice points, the court ad- it was expected that they would become general journed to take counsel. In this case, previous to before the coronation. If so, for the reason that the next meeting of the court, there will be a so-operated on the mind of the king and from our serlemn argument before the 12 judges, on two points. vility to British fashions, we may expect to see 1st. That, inasmuch as his majesty's teeth have all them commonly used in the United States; and aldecayed, whether the extracting of two false teeth, most universally at Washington City as well for is within the meaning of the charter of the college: what has been assigned, as for the purpose of asand 2nd. that inasmuch as whiskey has been substi-sisting the revenue, by sending money out of the tuted in his majesty for blood, whether the draw-country to buy British goods. ing of a fluid from his majesty's veins, is, by the Rational amusement! At the celebrated course common law of England, in all cases, a drawing of at New Market, a race was lately run between a blood. We have it from good authority, that a ca-pig and a horse. The distance was fifty yards and binet council was called on Sunday last to decide piggy won the race before the horse could be put how long it will be necessary to postpone the "au-to his speed-to the great amusement, no doubt, of gust and sacred ceremony," in order to train leech-many noble lords and ladies, reverend divines, &c. es to hard drinking, in order to go thro' the opera. tion without flinching, should the question be de-sured miles of ground, near Teignmouth, without cided for the college. with apparent ease. previous training, in the space of fifty-one minutes, Running. A black fellow lately run eight mea The honorable company of brewers, by their president, claimed to drink two pots of ale with his majesty. The right hands of his majesty and the of Jan. the amount of the "official value" of woolen Woolen goods. For the years ending on the 5th president to be joined, and their right legs resting goods exported, averaged about 5,500,000l. per ann. on the back of a chair; and to have the pots. Al- from 1801 to 1815. In 1816 the amount was 7,447. lowed-but his majesty to drink by deputy; his tem-809 for the year ending June 1821, 4,707,301. perate habits allowing him to drink nothing stronger than 4th proof whiskey. His majesty was also pleased to order, that a place in the procession should be provided for sir Hans Snickerenstough, of his majesty's kingdom of Hanover; the said sir Hans to be dressed in 15 pair of breeches, 3 coats and 7 waistcoats, each garment to be half orange and half scarlet, and to carry the grand standard of Hanover, a large cheese, surmounted by a dried rat and two onions. The "official value" appears to be about 30 per cent. less than the "declared value." of the English bishoprics, exclusive of all sineEnglish bishoprics. The total of simple revenues cures, and places converted into sinecures for their benefit, has been estimated at £162,000, and of the Irish bishoprics £156,000; making a general total of 318,000. The property possessed by deans and chapters, &c. of which in England and Wales there equally magnificent and mysterious; and it is asare between 30 and 40, (besides peculiars) is serted that one of the metropolitan chapters is in the annual receipt of nearly £40,000. Dr. Beeke (some years ago, and on a very moderate A sum greater than the salary of our calculation) estimated the net income from tithes president, united to that of all the secretaries, in South Britain at £2,500,000, and Mr. Colquhoun added to that of all the judges of the supreme estimates the total professional income, obtained court, heaped upon all those of all the governors by the established clergy in England and Ireland, of all the states in the United States. His illegiti-independently of that received from the universi The whole amount of the duke of Clarence's receipts, for the honor of being born a prince, (for he renders no services to the state), is only one hundred and forty four thousand three hundred dol lars a year. ties, at nearly five millions per annum. The whole | Saxony 12,000, the electorate of Hesse 5,670, Nasinfluence created by the directions of such enor. sau 3,028, Luxemburg 2,556 men, &c.; and the 10th mous property (the sum of which is immense and division is formed of the following contingents, viz. unknown) is retained with jealousy in only a few Hanover 13,054 men, Holstein 3,600, Brunswick hands, and, under the name of patronage, becomes 2,096, Mecklenburg Schwerin 718, Oldenburg 2,178, a most formidable engine of political power. As Waldeck 519, Lippe-Schaumbourg 240, Lippea curious illustration of this evil, it was asserted Detmold 691, Lubeck 407, Bremen 485, and Hâmin a public journal some time ago, that three mi-burg 1,293. tres were retained in one Irish family. Out of upwards of 11,000 benefices there are only about 40 over which parishioners and inhabitants exercise any elective power. The following statement of the parties who possess the appointment for patronage of benefices in England and Wales, will be found sufficiently accurate, and may serve to expose the nature of the system. The king and princess of Wales FRANCE. 1120 1835 1091 653 PRUSSIA. A conspiracy is said to have been discovered at Berlin, in which several families of rank were concerned. In consequence, arrests were numerous, and the king had resolved to increase his army. RUSSIA. The grand duke Constantine is suspected of hav• ing imbibed liberal principles. It is said that great care is observed to keep the troops that have been in France from mixing with the lower orders-for they are said to be infected with a revolutionary mania; and the emperor has rendered himself unpopular by abolishing the practice of wearing beards! The expences of the navy for the present year The innovation is said to be openly reprobated at are estimated at 53,000,000 francs-about ten mil- Novogorod. The Poles are reported ready for a lions of dollars. The number of seamen employed revolt; though the emperor has done much to ren is 10,764. The commerce and fisheries of the king. der himself popular, they still recollect that he has dom engage about 52,000. They are on the in-blotted the name of their country from the map. crease. France owns 58 ships of the line, 39 fri- How much of these things are true-we know not. gates and a number of smaller vessels-generally in a good condition; many of them having been thoroughly repaired. Much attention has been recently paid to the naval establishment. Account of tobacco raised in France in 1818, 1819 TURKEY. It is now stated that the Turks, on entering Bucharest, instead of behaving with the moderation mentioned in our last, committed the most horrible cruelties, impaling alive all the Greeks that fell into their power. Their force near this place is given at 22,000 men, The people of Bosnia and Servia are active in the work of revolution. The latter lately cut to pieces a Turkish detachment of 800 men. It is evident, from the additions making to the fortifications, that the Turks look upon a visit by the Greek Heet at Constantinople, as a possible event. AFRICA. Several vessels, laden with corn, from the Gold coast, have lately arrived in the West Indies. The cost of the article is said to be about 28 cents per bushel. Its quality is approved. EAST INDIES. It was stated, in the British house of commons in June last, while the subject of burning of widows in India was under discussion, that in one presidency alone, (Fort William) 2366 females had been seen to ascend and perish upon the funeral piles of their deceased husbands. CANADA. The city of Montreal contains a population of 30,000 souls. BRAZIL. By an arrival at Baltimore on Thursday last from St. Salvador, we learn that the governor at Rio Ja vernment, and so far succeeded as to seize upon and imprison the prince left in charge of Brazil by his father-but the regal government was restored, the prince liberated, and the governor had arrived at St. Salvador, on his way to Europe, in custody, to be tried as a traitor. The people at the last named place were so exasperated at him, that it was thought they would take a decision of his case into their own hands and put him to death. Paris June 16.-The army of the Germanic con-neiro had attempted an overthrow of the regal gofederation, aggreably to the decree of the diet, is to consist of 301,637 men, of which 222,119 are infantry of the line, 11,694 chasseurs, 48,095 cavalry, 21,717 artillery, and pioneers and pontonniers. The contingents amount to the hundredth part of the population of the confederated states, which is estimated at 30,163,483 souls, and the army is formed into ten divisions. Austria furnishes 74,822 men, forming the first three divisions; Prussia the 4th 5th and 6th, comprising 74,234 men; Bavaria the 7th consisting of 30,6000 men; the 8th division is composed of 13,955 men from Wurtemburg, 6,190 from Baden, 6,190 from the grand duchy of Hesse, and 479 from Frankfort, the 9th division, COLOMBIA. The royalists at Porto Cabello appear to be in a disturbed state, from controversies among themselves. Bolivar is possessed of Caraccas and Laguira, but in these once populous places it is said that he did not find one white person. A new (royal) viceroy from St. Fe is said to be on board a Spanish ship off the coast. Carthagena was hardly pressed by the patriots, and it was supposed would soon be taken; the Colombian flotilla before it consists of 39 gun boats. The debts contracted by McGregor, on the faith of the government, it is said, will be acknowledged. There is a report, via St. Martha, of the capture of Lima. MEXICO. crew were so well pleased with the notion that they immediately subscribed one dollar each (600 dollars) to increase their library. It is expected that the Franklin will sail in about a fortnight on a three year's cruise in the Pacific. Coasting trade. In the last month there arrived at New York, 36 vessels from New Orleans and 12 from Mobile, together of the burthen of 10,336 tons! Rags again for money.-The Lexington, Ky. Advertiser of July 20, states, that during the previous We are yet uninformed of the fate of Vera Cruz week sixty-six and two thirds per cent was demand-but there are additional reasons to believe that ed in that place for eastern funds or specie; during it was powerfully blockaded by the patriots, as the present week large amounts have been offered, well by sea as by land; and that they would make and some sales made at forty. We are also informa great effort to obtain possession of the place can-ed, that specie in Louisville, was this week offered not be doubted, if the fact is true, as is stated, that as low as 33 per cent. it contained from forty to sixty millions of dollars! A letter just received from the Texas by a gentleman in Richmond, states, "That 600 men had just arrived in that province, by the way of Bayou Lafouche, from Tennessee and Kentucky, and 300 from New Orleans, all of whom had joined the re-discount. publican army, commanded by gen. Trespalescos, who is delegated by the Mexican republic to be the chief civil and military commandant in the Texas. CHRONICLE. A grass bonnet, made in New Hampshire, was lately sold by auction at Boston for the sum of fifty dollars. It is said to be of very superior fineness and beauty, and is in imitation of the Leghorns. The tolls paid by the mail coach from New-York to Philadelphia, is said to amount to $4,000 a year. Naval. The U. States' schooner Grampus was launched at the navy yard at Washington on the 2d instant. She is, we believe, the last of the five vessels lately authorized to be built, to carry 10 guns and 90 men, especially fitted to check piracies on our coasts and man-stealing on those of Africa. They are first rate vessels of their class. Rate of exchange at the office of V. W. Fish, No, 107, Main street, Cincinnati:--Piatt's paper 33 1-S dis; Hamilton 33; Laurenceburgh 36; Kentucky State Bank 33; Ky. commonwealth 33; Miama exporting Co. 58; State B. Indiana and branches 70 Honesty! The Nashville bank, which does not pay its debts, has resolved not to make a dividend of profits at present. This is according to the old fashioned state of things-a fashion that will never wear out, while one just man remains on the earth, who is acquainted with the nature of the case. "Overdrawn!" The cashier of a bank at Litch field, Conn. is tenderly said to have "overdrawn" 30,000 dollars. That is, he appropriated other people's money to that amount, to his own use--2 fashionable proceeding, a mere "breach of trust," not all implicating the character of a gentleman! Emigration. A considerable number of very respectable people, and some of wealth, are now emigrating to the United States from the British islands direct. A much greater number of the poorer, but not less useful classes are arriving, via Canada and Nova Scotia. Transportation from England, as a punishment of offences, has so far lost its terrors as to have excited attention in parliament, wherein it seemed to be agreed that crimes had been com mitted for the purpose of getting means to leave the country! Parties of convicts have went off huzzaing, as if some great pleasure was in store for them. The Columbus 74." A Boston paper says that this ship is of about 2400 tons burthen, drawing 26 feet water, and that, from the surface of the water to the highest point of her main-top royalmast truck, the distance is 250 feet! She carries 64 long guns and 36 carronades, (all 36-pounders, The slave trade. In a debate in the house of com. we believe)-that is exactly 100 guns, besides per-mons on the 26th June on the slave trade, Mr. Wilhaps, small guns in her tops, &c. Why should she berforce, in alluding to the case of the French brig be called a "seventy-four?" The British 74's ge- Le Rodeur, noticed some time since, said, the surnerally carry somewhere about 90 guns. It were geon of the brig testified that when it was found well if this practice of miscalling ships was laid that the slaves were affected with opthalmia, he reaside by common consent, and that their denomi- commended that they should be alternately brought nation was understood by the amount of their guns on deck for the benefit of the air; and that when for combat, arranged at their ports. This ship's they were so permitted, they locked themselves in complement is 800 men. each others arms, and, to put an end to their miseWhile on her voyage, a day or two before her ar-ries, threw themselves into the ocean. This, the rival at Boston, she fell in with a school of mackerel surgeon said was the effect of a disease called nos which followed her all day-during which her offi-talgia, arising from a desire to revisit their native land; cers and crew caught the unparelleled number of but which, Mr. W. said, was as strong a sympton of 12,000 fish! a broken heart as could well be imagined. Health of seamen. The Columbus was absent 15 months; her crew consisted of 800 persons, of whom she lost only six; two by casualty, two by consumption and two by fever. The Spark was absent five years-her average crew amounted to 100, and her loss, by sickness, did not amount to two persons per ann. Marine libraries. A project has been set on foot at New York to give little libraries of history, voyages, travels, &c. to different ships for the use of the seamen. On a present of this kind being made for the use of those in the U.S. ship Franklin, the Musquitoes-An English paper announces that a principal road in America is become impassable from a species of non-descript Musquito: they attack both man and horse, and their sting is so de. structive as to cause death in three hours. They ought surely to have told us where these horrid insects are to be found, so that we may avoid the fury of their attacks, and the poison of their stings. We are curious to know whether these are the same kind of Musquitoes, as those which carry brickbats under their wings to whet their bills upon! N. Y. Com. Ade. |