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FOREIGN.

AFRICA.

Mahomedan Corsair punished.

A letter has been received at Embden, from Captain G. L. de Haan, of the John Hermann, of Embden, dated Tripoli, Nov. 11, of which the following are the contents:

"SIR-My last was of the 14th of October, from Larache, but I doubt whether it has reached you, I therefore repeat some particulars: The very day of our departure from Lisbon (September 25), we were taken near Roxent, by a Tripolitan ship of war, which would not respect an EnglishHanoverian flag, and arrived here yesterday at noon; the Captain of the vessel having, on sailing into the harbour, put our flag half way up his foretop-gallaut

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west coast of America with the Indian tribes for furs, which are considered as extremely valuable, and always marketable. Several persons of science proceed at the same time, and the officers are represented as every way competent to conduct the expedition.

AUSTRIA

Artists Emigrating.

Vienna a considerable society of persons Vienna, Jan. 15.-There is already at whom literature and the arts are about to conduct to the Brazils, and who will set kan, professor of medicine at Prague, will out in the month of April next. Mr. Mibe the botanist of this expedition: his engagement is for four years.

The Carnival here furnishes proofs of the distress of the times. There has been only a small number of private balls; and at the Ridotto, on the 12th, there were not a hundred persons.

Extension of Literature.

The German Literati affix great import"The English Consul General seeing ance to the present attempts for the diffu this, immediately took down his British sion of Sacred Knowledge among the Eastflag, went to the King, as I, with a partern regions of the European Contineut. of my crew, afterwards did, and the Cap- Contemplating with energetic satisfaction tain of the vessel, which is called a corthe transmission of Holy Writ to so many vette, having come on shore, was imme-different nations, and its translation into diately seized and bound. The Consul and I being before the King, we, with the ship, were immediately set at liberty; hereupon several salutes were fired from the King's fleet, upon which we hoisted our flag, and the Captain who had captured us was hung up to his mast, at the same height as he had hung our flag, half an hour before, as a satisfaction to the En-refinement. glish-Hanoverian flag.

We are to be paid for every thing, but' must sail with the John Hermann to Malta. We think to sail thither in two days for that Island, whence I shall write again. I and the whole crew are in good health."

AMERICA NORTH: BRITISH.

The Highlanders have emigrated to Upper Canada in great numbers, especially from the western parts of Invernessshire. In a new settlement up the country, more than 1.400 are said to have been settled during the last year.

AMERICA: : UNITED STATES.

ward with the most sanguine hope to inso many different dialects, they look forteresting discoveries in the genealogy of language, and expect that the gifts of Religion and Civilization will be amply repaid by tributes to the treasury of Classical Science, as rich in value as pleasing in investigation, and novel to our world of

DENMARK.

Copenhagen, Jan. 14.-Sweden has paid to Denmark the first instalment of the sum due for the vessels left in Norway and sold to Sweden. The first payment is 30,000 dollars species; the whole sum is 95,000 dollars species. (A species dollar is a crown English.)

COMMERCE: Sound and Baltic.

A letter from Elsineur, dated Jan. 4, says ships, among which were, from the North Last year there passed the Sound, $871 Sea, 1097 Swedish, 408 Danish, 396 Norwegian, 208 Russian, 525 Prussian, 942 English, 83 American, 8 French, &c.; and from the Baltic, 906 English, 85 American, 8 French, 4 Spanish, 23 Portuguese.

Letters from America state, that active preparations are carrying on for completing the two vessels that are going on discoveries in the great South Sea; and which, The number of vessels that entered it is added, are also to proceed to the Hamburgh last year, was 1615; of those northward of Nootka Sound, for the pur- 702 were from England. The number of pose of carrying on a barter on the north-ships which passed the Sound during the

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than in the hulks, where they do very little work, and cost the State a great deal." Pensioners' Deaths.

The number of pensioners paid out of the Royal Treasury of France, who died in 1815, amounted to 3,183; among whom were numbered a pensioner of 102 years old, one of 100, two of 99, three of 97, three of 96, eight of 93, &c. The whole of the pensions lapsed by these deaths amounted to 787,283fr.

The shareholders of the Bank of France,

in their general assembly, held on the 30th of January, voted a sum of 12,000 francs to be distributed among the poor of the capital, exclusive of the 9,000 francs which they give annually to benevolent establish

A French journalist remarks, that Denmark, which presents the singular contrast of a despotism by law and a state of liberty in fact, does not at this moment reckon more than 56,000 poor in a population of more than 1,600,000 persons; while Eng-ments. land complains of having 2,000,000 of poor in a population not exceeding 14,000,000. The fortune of the English, it is added, is founded on industry—that of the Danes upon agriculture.

FRANCE.

Solemnities for Louis XVI.

Paris, Jan. 22.-The annual service for the obsequies of Louis XVI. and of the Queen his wife, were celebrated yesterday at the Church of the Abbey of St. Denis. All the members of the Royal Family, with the exception of the King, were present; besides deputations from the Chambers of Deputies. Some old servants of the King, of tried fidelity and zeal, were present to deposit the tribute of their respect, and of their tears.

At the same meeting the Governors of the Bank of France stated the annual amount of their transactions and profits. In 1815, the shareholders had only received a dividend of 64 fr. and the reserve amounting only to the moderate sum of 180,000 fr. In 1816, however, the dividend rose to 76 fr. and the reserve to 720,000 fr.

Vaccination.

The French Papers notice the zeal manifested in France, during 1815, by the propagators of vaccination. In seventysix departments, of which the accounts have been received, out of 626,641 children born in 1815, 251,116 were vaccinated. Moral State of France.

When M. de Serre brought up the ReAll the civil, military, and judicial auport of the Committee on a law, the obthorities of the department of the Seine ject of which is to continue in a modified were collected at Notre Dame. The Tes- form a law passed last year, by which the tament of Louis XVI. was read, and lis- Crown was enabled to confine, under spetened to with the most devout attention.cific forms, persons suspected of conspiring In the evening all the great theatres were closed.

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The Princess Louisa of Condé, and her Nuns, sung the Miserere on the 21st, in the Temple, at Paris, at the precise moment at which the unfortunate Louis XVI. left the prison for the scaffold. The Princess and the nuns were all prostrate, with cords round their necks, and wax tapers in their hands during the service.

Voyage of Discovery intended. Paris, Monday, Jan. 27.-Extract of a letter from Toulon, dated Jan. 17. "Early in this year, a King's corvette will sail from Toulon, on a voyage round the world, for the purpose of examining coasts already discovered, and to attempt, it is said, to find some place similar to the Botany Bay of the English, there to make an establishment, to which convicts may be sent. They will there be treated with less rigour

or attempting the overthrow of the established Constitution;-the picture of France drawn by M. de Serre to justify a continuance of this measure, bears many very dark shades and melancholy tints. He says,

"Notwithstanding the powerful example of the Monarch, Religion resumes her empire but slowly Revolutionary doctrines are to a certain poiut disgraced in the public opinion-but sound doctrines have not yet sufficiently confirmed those who were misled, and fixed the anchor that is to check them; the Prevotal Courts, a measure of circumstances, do not present the force that was expected from them ;-Extraordinary tribunals do not succeed well in France; and Justice has there lost her dignity. The French army, re-organized, is faithful, but not numerous; extreme vigilance must keep out of it men who might try to mislead it. In all the public services

"It cannot be denied that the political horizon presents at the beginning of the year 1817, a prospect of a perfect calm, and that some slight clouds in the west are not of a nature to trouble it. sires not to be forced to pay, at the fixed France deperiods, the military contributions which has been imposed on it. This circumstance seems to have occasioned some movements in the Army of Occupation, commanded by the Duke of Wellington; but, according to certain accounts, the relief which it desires is granted; thus, there is no fear of an interruption of the general tranquil

the necessity of economising, and political causes, have brought about numerous reforms;-a great number of individuals are without employ, and consequently discontented. This discontent and necessary preferences revive those heated passions which the war carried out of the country, and which an iron sceptre kept down within. In fine, two grievous circumstances complicate and embarrass the situation of France in a very afflicting man ner, The first is the consequence of the dispositions of the Treaty of the 20th of November. The second, the diminution of part of the harvest of this year by the in-lity on this account. temperature of the season. The Allied "Public spirit is recovering in France,

but it can have no dangerous effects as long as a Monarch so prudent, and mien like Richelieu and De Cazes guide the helm.

"The Southern States want time to recover from the disasters which war has brought on them; in the provinces rather more northerly, the people with a decided good will do less than they project, debate, and write; this is a defect long since inberent in the Trans Alpine countries.

Powers have proved by deeds more than by words, their serious intention to ensure the repose of Frauce, and unite her interest to that of Europe. They had calculated on the abundance, the richness of the produce of our soil, the revival of commerce, the impulse of our industry, equal to that which had taken place at the end of 1814. Had these calculations been realized, it is certain that it would have been possible, though painful, for the French to meet by increase of taxes, an increase of three hun"In the north of Europe, Russia and dred millions of expences. Events have Poland flourish under the powerful and destroyed these calculations. French in-paternal sceptre of Alexauder. The interdustry and commerce are in a state of lan-ests of the people are faithfully attended gour and stagnation; her richest produce to; a happy proportion is more and more has entirely failed, and even the produce established between the extent of the Emof articles of the first necessity is moderate. pire and its internal strength; in a word, The care of government, and above all, it is there we see to what a degree an onlithe activity of trade, will prevent all scar-mited power may be at the same time becity, but will not prevent dearness; and it is often from indigence that one must demand tribute. In proportion as these things deprive Government of its natural force, in that same proportion they furnish food and pretext to injustice and ill-will. In consequence of these considerations, the Commission deemed it necessary that Government should have a police, armed with great authority; and though the suspension of a constitutional right is always an evil, yet under the present circumstances it will prevent greater evils."

We learn from Rouen, that the market for cotton stuffs and spun cotton, which took place Jan. 17th, was much larger than it had been for a considerable time before. There were sold at it 4,450 pieces of cotton stuffs.

GERMANY.

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"If we wish to find a companion to this picture equally interesting, we have only to turn our eyes to the United States of America and we shall be convinced that every form of Government is good, when it is of free States govern an immense country, well administered. There a confederation is an evident and remarkable proof of the and the last Message of President Madison success which may be obtained in the administration by simple integrity, without pomp, without any external splendour. sages, which call to mind the fairest times There are in this discourse sublime pasof Rome, when a Cincinnatus passed from the Consulate to the plough.

and energetic character are, the Norwe"Another people who display a great gians, or men of the North, who now punish with death those officers who in the last war did not combat to the utmost; a novelty which may be regarded as a phePa-nomenon in history. We see here a striking example, that a magnanimous people sets honour and national glory above every thing else, and that it admits of no excase for those who do not fulfil their duty.”

Political Periscope, in Germany. Hamburgh, Jan. 21,-In one of our pers we read the following article, which is remarkable, considering the usual spirit of that paper, which has hitherto been nothing less than pacific:

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We understand that his Excellency the Commander in Chief, has received from the Horse Guards, a Brevet for the junior ranks of the ludian army; by which all Subalterns of fifteen years standing, are to be promoted to Captaincies. (Calcutta.)

Tiger Hunt: presence of mind.

The following account, of a most extraordinary adventure, that occurred some time since in a Tiger hunt, was given in the last Hurkaru.

"On the march of our detachment from Louton to Bulrampore, to join General Wood, we arrived at our first ground of encampment, about 8 A. M. Soon after our arrival, the Zumeendar of the village came to us to complain, that a Tiger had taken up his quarters in the vicinity, and committed daily ravages amongst the cattle; he had also killed several villagers, and had that morning wounded the son of the Zumeendar. On this information, Lieutenant Coluett, Captain Robertson, and Dr. Hamilton, mounted their Elephants, and proceeded to dislodge the animal. They soon discovered the object of their search; Lieutenant Colnett's Elephant being a little in advance, was attacked by him; the other Elephants turned round and ran off to a short distance. The Tiger had sprung upon the shoulder of Lieutenant Collett's Elephant, who in that situation fired at him, and he fell. Conceiving him to be disabled, Lient. C. descended from the Elephant, for the purpose of dispatching him with his pistols, but in alighting, he came in contact with the Tiger, which had only couched for a second spring, and which having caught hold of him by the thigh,

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dragged him some distance, along the ground-Having succeeded in drawing one Colnett fired, and lodged a ball in the of a brace of pistols from his belt, Lieut. body of the tiger, when the beast becoming enraged, shook him violently without letting go his hold, and made off towards the thickest part of the jungle, with his the clutches of the animal, Colnett caught In the struggle to free himself from hold of him by both ears, and succeeded after some time, in throwing the beast upon his side, when he availed himself of this momentary release to draw forth the rethe breast of the tyger, shot him through maining pistol, and clapping the muzzle to the heart. He then returned to his elephant, which he mounted without assistance, feeling at the moment little pain from his wounds, of which he had received no fewer than five and twenty, between the knee and the groin, many of them severe. I understand, he has ever since continued to suffer from the consequences of the conflict, and that he has lost the motion of that knee, which was the seat of the principal injury." (Calcutta Times.)

MAURITIUS: Destructive Fire,

A dispatch has been received from Governor Farquhar, containing a detailed ac count of the late destructive fire at the Mauritius, from which it appears that 19 streets of Port Louis were entirely consumed, and that the sections of that town numbered 1, 2, 3, 15, 14, 15, 16, 17, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, were either totally or partially destroyed. The fire was purely accidental, and its destructive ravages is to be attributed to its having occurred at the dry season of the year, and to the prevalence of a breeze, veering with violent gusts from time to time during the conflagration. Fortunately, from its breaking out early in the evening, few lives were lost; but a population of 20,000 persons has been 'reduced to want and beggary by the loss of every thing belonging to them. Among the public buildings destroyed are, the Catholic church, the barracks for the blacks, hospitals for the blacks, prisons for the blacks, large grain magazine, the colonial marine store-house, the public bazaar, the commercial exchange and building called the Bourse, the government printingoffice, the former post-office, the police prisons, the military prisons and guardhouses, the out-houses of the governmenthouse, the great cooperage, the timber and mast-yard, the weighing-yard, the guardhouse in front of the military hospital, and the guard-house of the marine.

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Total

14,501

Jamaica District:
Jamaica.......

3207

New Providence

The inferior wives of the Viceroy diverted us much by their curiosity, in minutely examining every thing we had on, Bahama District: and by trying on our gloves, bonnets, &c. At last her Highness made her appearance, dressed richly in the Burman fashion, with a long silver pipe at her mouth, smoking.

On her appearance, all the other wives took their seats at a respectful distance, and sat in a crouching posture, without speaking. She received me very politely, took me by the hand, seated me on a mat, and herself by me. She excused herself for not coming in sooner, saying she was unwell. One of the women brought her a bunch of flowers, of which she took several, and ornamented her cap. She was very inquisitive, whether I had a husband and children; whether I was my husband's first wife; meaning by this, whether I was the highest among them, supposing that my husband, like the Burmans, had many wives; and whether I intended tarrying long in the country.

When the Viceroy came in, I really trembled; for I never before beheld such a fierce-looking creature. His long robe and enormous spear not a little increased my dread. He spoke to me, however, very condescendingly, and asked if I would drink some rum or wine.

When I arose to go, her Highness again took my hand, told me she was happy to see me, that I must come to see her every day; for I was like a sister to her. She led me to the door, and I made my salam (obeisance) and departed.

Mr. Judson lately visited the Viceroy, when he scarcely deigned to look at him; as Englishmen are no uncommon sight in their country, but an English female is quite a curiosity.

Eleuthera

Harbour Island

1134

Abaco
Long Island

Bermuda District:
Bermuda

96

Total in the West Indies .......... 18,938

The whole net increase of members in the West Indies, for 1815, is 1082.

POLAND.

New University.

It appears from the French Papers, that the Emperor of Russia, as King of Poland, has issued an ukase at Warsaw, by which he founds an university in that city. The ukase is in Latin. The university will be composed of five faculties. Theology, Jurisprudence, Political Economy, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts.The professors of the first order will be declared nobles, and may transmit their nobility to their decendants, if they have been professors for ten years. The Rector of the University will be the Censor of all books published by the professors.

RUSSIA.

Count Romanzow.

Post of to day contains the following arti-
St. Petersbugh, Dec. 21.-The North

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Count Romanzow, the Chancellor of the Empire, has lately received from Italy a colossal statue of white marble, by Canova. This statue represents the Goddess of Peace holding the olive branch in her hand,

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