formed the almost exclusive occupation of the in-and beauty which cast the belles of other districts habitants. They supplied New Orleans and the into the shade. It is a singular fact, that for thir Mississippi coast with beef, at the rate of one cent teen winters past, the reigning toast in the Orleans and a fourth per pound; but even at this price ma-bal! rooms has been, almost, always from Attakany had amassed money enough to purchase slaves pas, or Oppelousas. and commence farming establisbinents. The Ame The topography of those counties are pretty acrican government, which took place early in 1804, eurately delineated on Darby's inap of Lonisiatia.→→ gave new stimulus, and induced the inhabitants to His book is a very inferior production to his map, turn their attention more to planting. The soil and not much to be relied on for useful informa and climate uniting with their exertions and industion. I will here add a few words concerning the try, have secured to the first planters of those dissoil and its productions, but as these vary in an extricts a most enviable independence. A few years tent of country, containing about 300,000 square ago they were a horde of shepherds, consequently miles, I will consider the districts separately. a hardy and virtuous race. Of late their plan of Oppelousas, lying to the north-west of Attakapas, life has changed, and their means rapidly increased, is well calculated for a grazing country. Its praiwithout introducing the thousand fictitious wants ries are very extensive, and the greater parts of the which usually travel in the train of wealth. Even land second and third rate. The lands of the best now, it is no uncommon sight to see a planter of quality in this country are in its south-west corthose countries, owning, perhaps, 70 or 80 slaves, ner, consisting of a strip about 26 miles long and clad in the product of his wife's loom, attending to 8 wide. In this tract are situated many large planhis horses, oxen, or crop with more assiduity and tations which yield immense profits to their proattention than characterises a Carolina overseer:- prietors. The northern part of the county, border. Yet, if a stranger visits him, he will find his table ing on Rapide district, is poor land, and the wes. crowded with the best wines of the world, and noftern section which skirts the Galph and the River lack of intelligence or any thing else which forms Sabine, is little better. Those lands, however, good cheer. Riches here, appear to add only to produce tolerable corn, and a coarse luxuriant the comforts of their possessor, without forining grass which can feed cattle enough to supply the the inviduous distinctions among men which exist home and West India markets. in other parts of the world. The ease with which Attakapas is divided into two parishes, St. Mary they are acquired, may be the reason of this-but and St. Martin. The Vermilion river rises in Op. the detached situation of the country accounts for pelousas and on entering St. Martin's becomes a it more rationally. Besides, the population is as considerable stream. The lands on its banks are yet quite thinly scattered over an immense terri-high, and generally of the best quality. After a tory, and wherever this is the case, we do not course of ninety miles in this parish it falls into a usually find so many of those little presuming ani bay of the same name near the 39th degree of mals, wearing the shapes of men, which are such north latitude. Between the Vermillion and the great nuisances in thickly inhabited countries. In 1810, Attakapas and Oppelousas, contained 13,774 souls. For two years after the census was taken there was a great emigration to the country. It was stopped early in 1813, by the pressure of the war, but since the peace has recommenced. At present (Sept. 1817) I feel confident the popula. tion would be estimated too low at 20,000. Minton (the western limit of Attakspas) lies a prairie country which in soil is nothing remarkable but affords excellent pasturage. The Tesche, likewise, rises in Oppelousas near the source of the Vermillion. Its general course is to the south-east, piercing the western sections of St. Martin and St. Mary. It meets the Alchaffullaya at Berwick's bay, and is navigable for seventy The settlements are principally in the prairies, miles from its mouth for the largest boats, and for which to the south and west are skirted by the sea. smaller craft almost to its source. From the line of This may be the cause of the district, under consi-Oppelousas to Berwick's bay, a distance of more deration, being the healthiest of Louisiana. The than ninety miles, there is no soil on its banks number of very old men is truly astonishing. Mr. which is not first rate. As it approaches the sea, Berrard, the first permanent settler of Attakapas, at however, the land is thought to improve, and the the age of 78, enjoys all his faculties and is in ex-climate certainly becomes more favorable to the cellent health. His former partner, Mr. Sorel, who culture of sugar. Between the upper part of the came to the country with him in 1764, died last Tesche and the Vermillion, in the Parish of St. year, aged 80. A cousin of Mr. Sorel is still heal-Martin, lies a rich tract of country principally thy at the age of 82, and fifty others might be prairie. It is as yet very partially settled, owing to named who are much older. the scarcity of wood. This cannot form a perinaAll the old settlers, who married early in life, nent impediment, as trees, when planted in those have a small colony around them of their own be-meadows and shielded from the vernal burnings of getting. Mr. Gedry, of St. Martin's (Attakapas) the grass, thrives faster than in any soil I have ever has 12 sons and 6 daughters living, and seventy seen. Several persons have already tried the exgrand children. John Ballice Broussard, aged 95, periment, and find four or five years sufficient to reckons his lineal descendants at 170. The women grow any supply of fire wood they may want. who have children are generally very prolific, few sides, there is not any part of the rich meadows of of them raising less than eight or ten children.-Attakapas more than five miles distant from plenty This alone proves that the country is healthy. The of wood. The climate is, at the same time, so curate of Attakapas (Mr. Isaby) has ascertained mild that fuel is little wanted but for the kitchen. from his parish register that in the last seven years, The good lands of Oppelousas and St. Martin's for 700 deaths among the Catholics, there have been 1600 births. It is the custom for the rich and gay young people of Louisiana and Mississippi, to spend their carnival at New Orleans. The health enjoyed by the young ladies of the prairies, added to their active and industrious habits, gives them bloom Be are best adapted to the culture of cotton. They sent to New Orleans last year about 6,000 bales of fine cotton, and if the whole of their rich soil was cultivated might produce annually more than sixty thousand bales. About five thousand steers are each year exported from those districts, which sell at home for 12 dollars each. and with the hope that the remarks I have made Louisiana Sept. 1817. Legislature of Connecticut. The parish of St. Mary's, being the southern part of the tract of country under consideration, is well adapted for the culture of sugar. This was doubt ed until some of the enterprizing American emi grants tested it, in the last two years, by the most successful experiments. It is found to succeed as well, if not better, than on the Mississippi, and the cane is certainly brought to maturity with less Jabor. Cotton also succeeds remarkably well, but New-Haven, October 9. will soon give way to sugar. In the year 1816, this We hasten to lay before the public his excellency parish, with a population of about 3,000 souls, sent governor WOLCOTT's speech, delivered this day be to market 2,500 bales of cotton, 900 hogsheads of fore both houses of the assembly, at about half past sugar and 800 beef cattle, which sold for $350,000. 11 o'clock. 1 Some sugar has been cultivated in Oppelousas The house of representatives have made choice and St. Martin's, but owing to mismanagement, or the climate, it has not succeeded well. The parish of St. Mary is in no place more than 10 miles wide, having the sea on one side and lake Platt and the Attchaffallaya on the other, which may have an influence on the early frosts and protect the cane crop till it reaches maturity. The Tesche lands lie mostly from ten to fifteen feet above the highest swells produced by the Mis sissippi floods. In the year 1813 and 15, when there were very great freshes, the lakes between the prairies and the Mississippi, and, with them, the Tesche, rose about 8 feet above their common level. But a recurrence of this can scarcely be expected, as the levees on the Great River are rapidly extending, which will prevent its waters from flowing into the lakes. But even if the levees should be demolished, the prairies are too high ever to be inundated. The Vermillion is never affected by the Mississippi. The lands on its banks (and indeed in eve ry other part of the country except the Tesche) are from 30 to 100 feet above the level of the sea. of William Bristol, esq. (republican,) speaker and and Gentlemen of the house of representatives, The circumstances under which we are now convened to deliberate on the concerns of the state, are peculiar auspicious. Peace and tranquility; general health, and a genial season, favouring the exertions of unusual industry, have been succeeded by ample rewards. While these blessings demand expressions of gratitude to the Kind Disposer of events, they encourage benevolent dispositions towards each other, and united exertions to advance the prosperity of our constituents. Since the last meeting of the legislature, propositions have been received from the states of New-Jersey and Kentucky, for amending the con stitution of the United States, which will be submitted to your consideration. Sloops of 100 tons can ascend the Tesche to Nova Iberia, 60 miles from its mouth, though the Information has been received, that the ordnance produce of the country is seldom carried direct to department of the United States, is prepared to the ocean, the Tesche, Attchafalaya communicate deliver the proportions of arms and equipments to with the Mississippi by the Lafourch and Plaqua- which this state is entitled, by an act of congress. mine-a voyage from any part of those rivers can I have accordingly directed the quarter-masterbe easily made to New Orleans in 9 days. general to adopt the requisite measures for affectAlong the coast of Attakapas are found four ing a settlement of our accounts to the close of Islands, viz. Belle Isle, Cole Blanche, Grand Cote, the year 1816. An offer has been made to deliver and Petite Ance, which bear no resemblance to the in artillery, a proportion of the value of what may main land, and appear to be the remnants of some be found due. There being no authority to assent ancient continent. They rise several hundred feet to this proposal, the subject is submitted to your above the tides and I would suppose originally be. consideration. longed to a high diversified country. Be this as it Among the matters which, at the last session, may, they have a very fertile soil and produce the were presented to the consideration of the legisiabest sugar and cotton of Louisiana. The four is ture, those concerning the judicial department, Jands contain about 7000 superficial acres of good and the equalization of the system of taxation, are land. There are sugar establishments on all but of vital importance to the people. A lasting title Belle isle. There are other Islanda lying in the to the gratitude of our constituents will be acquir Attchaffallaya, or Berwick's bay, which have a very ed, if safe and equitable principies shall be esta good soil, but once in ten or fifteen years have been blished on these interesting subjects. The legis liable to be overflowed by the heaviest swells of lature has wisely provided for an investigation of, the Mississippi. and a report on the subject of taxation, bat as the In Oppelousas about one third of the population completion of a proper system will require time is Americans. In St. Martin's one fifth, and in St. and profound reflection, I venture to express a hope, Mary's more than a moiety The rest are princi-that no apparent difficulties will deter you from pally French. pursuing it with that perseverance and impartiality, which its importance demands. Lands throughout the whole country are to be had at a very low rate; though they are rising every day in value. Good tracks in the pari-h of St. Mary's, with plenty of wood, may be had for two and three dollars the acre. As the expenses of supporting the state poor, annually amount to a considerable sum, and under the operation of the present system, may be expected to increase, I recommend that the provisions With a salubrious climate, a rich soil and indus-on this subject be revised. trious population, Attakapas and Oppelousas will It appears to be deserving of consideration, whe soon not only be called the richest counties of Louther an enquiry ought not to be instituted into the isiana but outstrip in agriculture any section of the condition, management, and legal provision which union, Such a country is worthy of observation, respect New-Gate Prison, and whether consistently with justice, humanity, and the public security some beneficial reforms cannot be adopted. Foreign Articles. ENGLAND, &c. Agriculture being a primary and most important interest of the state, it is the duty of the legislature, Flour at Liverpool, Sept. 3, 50 to 52s. per bbl. not only to protect its industrious members from It is intimated that the ports will be shut against disproportionate burdens, but to facilitate to them, the importation of grain and flour on the 15th of the discoveries and improvements of modern times. Nov. Those of Ireland are already shut. As great numbers of our intelligent citizens migrate A malignant fever is raging in every part of Irefrom the state, and as it receives but few accessions land, and many deaths have taken place.-Among of enterprizing strangers, it has resulted that agri- the victims of it, is chief justice Osbourne. cultural knowledge has been depressed below what The disease raging in Ireland is committing ought to exist in a state, highly distinguished for dreadful ravages. At Limerick, 30 persons in fever science and improvements in the arts. The incor- had been admitted into the hospital in two days. poration of an agricultural association, whose duty In one grave yard at Strabane 107 persons had been it should be, to collect and disseminate printed buried, who had died of it, within a month-the tracts on the various branches of rural economy, court honse had been fitted up for a hospital. At might, by stimulating emulation, speedily produce Londonderry, &c. booths were erected for the rehighly important consentences to the community ception of patients. Great alarm prevailed. It A practice has prevailed in the other states, of seems admitted that the pestilence has arisen for rewarding, by honorary tokens, such of their native the scarcity of wholesome food! citizens as have performed meritorious services The monthly bulletin reports the old king as for their country. If it should be judged expedient, heretofore-in bodily health, but as deranged as for this state to adopt this practice, commodore usual. Isaac Hull, who obtained the first of those brilliant Stocks, Sept. 8-3 per cent. consuls 793: Amevictories, which signalized the late war, appears, rican 6 per cents. 106. on the score of public and private virtue, to be eminently entitled to such a distinction. The state of public opinion unequivocally proves that a momentous responsibility is devolving on the legislature. I hope that it will not be thought| unsuitable if I invite you to cultivate a spirit of con ciliation and good will towards each other, and among all the people of the state. The grain and four received at Liverpool from the United States for a year ending the 1st of Sept. last, is estimated as sufficient to have laden 2786 vessels, of 100 tons each. Trade and commerce appear reviving-and the crops, not yet however got in, were very heavy. Ap. prehensions for the safety of the crop existed in Ireland, from the continued wetness of the weaLet it be remembered, that the government of ther. Am. flour, in Ireland, from 58 to 608. Connecticut was formed on the principles of, and Mr. Bird, an eminent painter in England, has reaccording to the model devised by illustrious men, ceived 5000 dollars of the prince regent for his who were republicans in principle, and who at picture of the embarkation of Louis XVIII at Dotempted to establish a democratical republic in ver, for France, on his restoration. Sir T. Clifford England. Though their exertions were unsuccess- has a picture from the same master, of the disemful in that country, yet it is to the laws and regula- barkation at Calais. tions which they formed, that the British nation The whole consumption of cotton in England in has been principally indebted for its power, wealth, 1817 is expected to exceed 92,000,000 lbs.-20 and renown; and for what yet remains of civil li-millions more than in 1816. berty. In New-England the systems established Lord Erskine, for attempting to stop a cart from by our founders, have prevailed, with eminent ad- passing his coach in the street, was severely whipvantage to the people; and in Connecticut, they ped by the carter. have remained, without any essential change, till A Jesuit's college is established near Preston, in the present time, during a period in which govern. Lancashire, and appears to be in a very flourishing ments of a different structure have been subverted, state-and the scholars, professors, &c. are said to and the civilized world convulsed to its founda- amount to 500 persons. Thousands in the neightions. Antecedent to, and during the revolutionary borhood are said to have been converted and led war, and in all the consultations which ensued for astray from the established church, which seems to the establishment of American freedom, Connecti- have alarmed some so much as to make them decut performed no inglorious part, both in the coun- sire the aid of the secular arm to keep the people' cil, and in the field, and has secured a title to the as religious as they ought to be!-Blessed be Hearespect and gratitude of the nation. It is natural ven!-we are not to be frightened by any thing of and just that institutions which have produced so this kind in America-those who are the slaves of much honor and advantage, should be objects of one set of sectarians are the only ones fitted to beveneration and attachment; and if, as may be admit-come the slaves of another. ted, some changes are expedient to adapt our go. On the 5th April, there was a defaulter on the vernment to the principles of a more enlightened Stock Exchange, in London, for one hundred and age than that in which it was formed, and to re-sixty thousand pounds, in consols. concile it with the institutions which surround us, Lord Cochrane is expected to resign his seat in and by which our interests are necessarily affected, Parliament, and Roger O'Connor is to be nominated still we are bound to recollect, that whatever is in his stead. It is said Lord Amberst brought a respectful letter from Napoleon to the Prince Regent. of common concern, ought to be adjusted by mutual The grain harvest is not good in Ireland, but that consultations, and friendly advice; that party spirit of potatoes is excellent. and sinister interests ought to be wholly excluded from influence; that it is the duty of reformers to repair and improve, not to subvert and destroy; that passion is a dangerous consellor: and that by the wise constitution of our nature, nothing which is violent or unjust, can be permaneat. OLIVER WOLCOTT. Court of Chancery, Thursday, Aug. 14. Queensberry estates.-The lord chancellor said he had looked into the accounts, and now allowed 245,500l. three per cents. calculated to be 194,000. which was the sums required to pay one fourth of their legacies and interest to their legatees, and of Sir Arthur Pogott-No objection can reasonably be made from any quarter; for after this sum is paid, there will still remain 1,258,7331. 158. three per cents. which at the present price is equal to 1,000, 9007. sterling money. Nay, should the price sink to 50, which is not very likely, still there must be funds sufficient for all demands. The lord chancellor-The magnitude of the fund is the consideration that renders the transaction safe. self Louis XVIII-the late dauphin; he appears to have gained some proselytes, and talks boldly of recovering his crown. The mystery that hangs over the disappearance of the dauphin, is said to favor his pretensions. Romantic Death-A few days since, a young man and a girl were found hanging on the same tree, in the wood of Vessinet, France. The former was named Honore Noel, aged 24, and the latter Victoire Herriot, aged 19. It appeared they loved and were equally desirous of intermarrying; but their parents obstinately opposed the union. The mayor of Chalet received a letter from this unhappy cou ple, signed by both, intimating that in consequence of the above, they were determined to die together. A Restaurateur has recently fixed his residence in the Rue de Lysee, opposite one of the gates of the Palace Royal at Paris. His sign, which is the at The personal property of the late duke of Nor-traction of all the idlers in Paris, represents an ox, thumberland, is estimated at about £700,000. [In having such estates as those just above mentioned, is the secret of the financial resources of Great Britain. If property were equalized in that Country, and the peoplej at large possessed it, we should have a different account about the raising of loans.] London, Aug, 29.-A Manchester paper of Tuesday se'night, contains a list of fifty-four men, who have absconded from their families. FRANCE, The French now give a bounty on grain only at their Mediterranean ports. Five military men have been tried at Paris, by the first council of war, on a charge of conspiring to assassinate the princes of the royal family-two of them have been condemned to death-one to three years imprisonment, and two acquittod. with an elegant hat on his head, draped with a cashmere shawl, with a ridicule suspended from his neck, and finally decked out in all the parapherna. lia of a modern lady of fashion; at the bottom of the picture the following words are inscribedBauf a-la-mode! NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. Lord Amherst, on his return from China, visited the ex-emperor on the 3d of July. He was in good health, and wished to know on what law it was that he was detained a prisoner? It does not apPear that the lord answered him. It is reported that he sent a letter to the Prince Regent, by lord Amherst; but it must be delivered to Castlereagh. without the Irishman's leave. The prince, poor thing, dares not receive a letter that his mission to China had failed because he When lord Amherst explained to Bonaparte would not bump his forehead nineteen times on the ground as he approached the emperor, the latter is reported to have said-Indeed! now, had it suit Gen. Jomini, who deserted from the French army, is in the employ of the emperor of Russia, and now engaged in writing a history of the two last cam-ed my policy to send an ambassador to the empe paigns. The M. Talleyrand who has lately been appointed a cardinal and arch bishop of Paris, is said not to be the famous traitor to all parties, the prince of Benevento, as we believed was the case. The latter was lately overturned in his carriage and thrown into a hollow 11 feet deep, and might have had his neck broken-if it had been his fate to have it brok. en by accident. Paris papers announce that cardinal Talleyrand Perigord had been admitted to audiences to his majesty and royal family. His elevation gives him the right of sitting in the presence of the princes and princesses. ror of China, I should have instructed him to kiss his great toe; and if that would not do, he might, if required, have saluted a more offensive part, provided my object could be attained." SPAIN. A Madrid article of July 29, states that tranquili ty at that time prevailed in Catalonia and Arragon. It is not known what has become of Milans and his associates, concealed for some time in the mountains of Catalonia. "The time is at hand (says the Spanish official Gazete) in which the courts of London, Vienna, and Petersburg, are about to act upon their true inte rests, and to acknowledge that there is no safety for royal establishments in Europe, if another independent government should be suffered to exist in South Ame A frigate destined for a voyage round the world, was recently destroyed by fire in the harbor of Tou-rica. Such a government would always be a standon-supposed not to be accidental. Executions, for political offences, still take place in France. The Swiss diet have passed a decree in honor of the memory of the royal Swiss guards who perished at Paris, August 10, 1792. ing temptation, and an obvious object of desire to all other people, who would begin to think that kings were less necessary, when they beheld at hand such an example of a people governing themselves." [Bravo!] Bell's (London) Weekly Messenger commenting on the above, denies the probability of any such An insurrection of a very alarming appearance, connection with England, and expressly says, what had broken out at Lyons, but seems to have sub-is certainly true, that it is the manifest policy of sided. Davoust has taken the oath to Louis and received a marshal's baton. Marmont has fixed his head quarters at Lyons. England not to maintain and encourage the union of Spain and her colonies-and also observes"The truth we believe to be, is that the recent principles of the Spanish patriots are nearer to the A letter from Paris states that is has been decid-side of the beloved Ferdinand than this Solomon ed that no diminution of the Army of Occupation will take place this year. A person has appeared in France who styles him knows or believes, and that the time approaches when he may again retire to weave petticoats for his wife or saint. Alas! (we ourselves must be al lowed to say,) that such a people as the Spaniardstains, from which come smoke, ashes, and vitrified should have achieved their own liberty to return stones.-The earth is covered with bits of transpa under such a Bourbon as this, and that Lacy should have fought with Wellington to put Ferdinand in a condition of banging him." Letters from Madrid speak of the fitting out of a new expedition er South America, for which the shipping is to be furnished by France. rent glass. This crust is so considerable that if it is not propped up, the sinking of the matter compesing it will produce an effect like the eruption which took place in the time of Titus." NETHERLANDS. The king of the Netherlands has appointed comA notice was lately circulated in secret at Ma- missioners to negociate a commercial treaty with drid, of which the following is the substance-"The America. The conferences have been opened at creditors of the king may now expect to be called the Hague. upon to present their several accounts without delay The prices of corn are every where falling in the for payment, as their can be no doubt of an over flow-Netherlands. ing treasury; in proof of which his majesty has just Vaccination had made such progress at Amster. expended sixty thousand dollars on a cradle, and dam, that out of a population of 200,000 souls, in one hundred thousand dollars for the lace of a sin- the first quarter of 1317, not one individual was atgle dress for the prince or infanta that is yet to be tacked with the small pox. born." [Let the people rejoice, the Bourbons are re- Brussels, July 31.-Yesterday, Mr. Gallatin, amstored] bassador to the court of France, and Mr. Eustis, The Madrid Gazette intimates that the UNITED minister to the court of the Low Countries, presentSTATES, England, Austria, and Russia, are to assisted their credentials as envoys extraordinary and in reducing the colonies to obedience to Ferdinand! ministers plenipotentiary from the United States Ferdinand has ordered, that ali military men, of America, charged to arrange, definitively, the taken with arms in their hands in insurrection in commercial relations between the two nations and South America; all spies; all instigators to rebel- conclude a treaty to that effect. lion; and all deserters from the royal standards who have joined the revolutionary cause;-shall be tried by court martial, and promptly punished.-All other offences to be tried by the civil authorities; but their sentences are to be executed in the summary manner of military oues. About half a million sterling of the losses sustained by the Spanish merchants, in the captures made by the insurgent privateers, is paid by insurers at Lloyd's. Their excellencies afterwards had the honor of dining with his majesty at the palace of Lacken. GERMANY. There have been violent commotions at Mayence, for the want of bread: but the mercenary bayonet restored tranquility. Letters from Vienna say that a negociation is spoken of between the Austrian government and the kingdom of the Netherlands. A Tyrolean has lately invented at Vienna a maThere are renewed reports in some of the papers chine for needle work, by which it is said every about a treaty between Spain and Russia, and per-kind of sewing may be executed with the utmost haps England, for reducing the colonies-which precision. The emperor of Austria has granted a however is positively denied as to England, at least, patent to the inventor. by the ministerial papers. Perpingnax, July 18.-Immediately after the arrival of general Lacey at Majorca, he was made acquainted with his sentence, and at five in the morning it was carried into execution. RUSSIA. The mother of the emperor of Russia has presented to the young queen of Spain the grand decoration of the order of St. Catharine; and the em. peror has appointed the Spanish minister of foreign This officer met his fate with calmness and re-affairs, (Pizarro,) a Chevalier of the order of St. solution. "I only regret," said he, that I die by the hands of my ancient companions in arms: it is in the field of honor, and in combating the enemies of Spain, that a soldier like me ought to terminate his existence." After having uttered these words he said to the soldiers-Fire. [It is said that Ferdinand has just murdered forty) distinguished patriots-(late leaders of the people to restore the wretch to the throue)-without trial, because they were suspected of being the friends of gen. Lacey.] Madrid, Aug. 22.-Yesterday morning her majesty was delivered of an infanta, who has been christened by the names of Maria Isabella Louisa [This is a "bitter pill" for the legitimate friends of the "adored" king!] ITALY. Alexander. The British anti-ministerial editors affect to see, in the conferring of these honors, something more than a civil expression of regard. The emperor of Russia has ordered an establishment at Petersburgh for teaching the Oriental languages. To the 30th of June there had entered the port of Cronstadt one thousand ships. There are but few examples of so great a degree of activity ever having taken place in that port before. The emperor of Russia has reduced his army to the peace establishment. The emperor Alexander was on the eve of leav, ing St. Petersburgh for eighteen months, on a tour of inspection through the southern provinces of his immense dominions. The Russian envoy at the Brazils, is said to have taken offence and left that country. The differences between the Turks and Russians Eruption of Vesuvius.-An article from Naples, are likely to be amicably settled, and a negociation dated July 20, says "The present eruptions of is said to be on foot for engaging the Sublime Porte Vesuvius are astonishing.-Copper, iron, alkaline to permit the free passage of the Dardanelles to all acid, sulphur, sulphuric acid, chalk, and ammoniac, vessels paying a moderate duty. form salts that are sometimes in a mass, and sometimes divided. It is observed that copper is very much mixed with volcanic matter; quantities of it are found among the different kinds of lava. Vesuvius, which since the year 1813, has been more or less in a state of commotion, has entirely covered its former crater with a thick crust, over which Intelligence from Constantinople states that the the new eruptions have thrown two little moun-Kiaya Bey, or minister of the Interior, had been The American minister in Russia is treated with great distinction, and it is thought important negociations are in progress, TURKEY. |