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S. SKETCH OF THE PROBABLE RECEIPTS,

COMPARED WITH THE PROBABLE EXPEN-
DITURES OF 1816.

1st. The gross annual receipts at the treasury for the year 1816, as above stated, is estimated at the sum of

2. The amount

of the appro-
priation for the
year 1816, as
before stated,

is the sum of... 32,475,503 93
S. But it is
computed that
the demands
upon the trea-
sury for 1816,
will exceed the
amount of the

annual appro-
priation (the
excess to be
provided for

by law) by the sum of

4. And charging the whole of the unsatisfied appropri ations of 1815 upon the funds accumulated

in the treasury during the year

1816, the

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7,972,277 86

Making the probable surplus of receipts beyond the probable demand on the treasury for 1816, the sum of ...........

5. But deducting from this surplus, the amount credited for loans and treaqury notes as above stated, the sum of..

The ultimate surplus of probable receipts, beyond the probable demands upon the treasury for the year 1816, subject to the disposal of Congress, may

In this sketch it is to be noted, that there is no discrimination as to the time when the revenue accrued, and when it became payable; nor as to the system from which the revenue was derived, whether upon the war or the peace establishment; the main object being to show the probable receipts at the treasury from the 1st of 65,702,631 07 January to the 31st of December 1816, as well as the probable expenditure during the same period.

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Leaving the amount of duties for the last mentioned period, subject only to the expences of collec38,934,653 09 tion, at the sum of

9,790,821 21

be estimated at the sum of 29,183,831 88

THIRD.

1st. The aggregate of the duties received at all the custom-houses of the United States from January to July, 1816, both months inclusive, may be stated at the sum of ..........

2d. The aggregate of the debentures payable during the last mentioned period amounts to the sum

6,916,899, 76

794,857 88

6,121,342-45

21,354,743 74

1,829,564 25

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Peace restored; invaders returned home. The Ashantee army took its depar: ture in June from the Fantee country, and proceeded to the back Acra, where they remained encamped. Cudjo Coomah, one of the three fugitives of whom they had come in pursuit, put an end to his existence, to avoid falling into their hands. A second, named Quou Saffaroutchie, was treacherously slain by his own people, and his remains delivered over to the Ashantee invaders. These two were accused by the Ashantees of having occasioned a war of many years' duration.The blacks around Cape Coast Castle had been reduced almost to a state of starvation, but their distresses had been relieved

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AMERICA: UNITED STATES.
Catholic Mission prosprous,

The Catholic Mission into Kentucky, in America, prospers in wonderful manner.The Bishop who conducts it arrived in 1810.

In less than four years he has built 27 churches, and formed 43 congregations. He proposes to build a cathedral. The Protes tants themselves contribute to it. The Missionaries have penetrated among the Illinois, and ascended the Missouri more than 200 leagues. Woods on fire, extensively,

Very extensive fires have taken place in the woods, particularly in the district of Maine, the county of Oxford, including the towns of Paris, Albany, Bethel, &c. New Hampshire has greatly suffered. Europeans can have little idea of such extensive districts on fire, carrying destruction 20 or 30 miles The atmosphere was darkened at such a distance at sea, that several shipwrecks had taken place on the coast; two near Boston.

Complaints, the Order of the Day.

The people of America complain very loudly of commercial as well as agricul tural distresses, to which Government an swers, that the " administration can no more control the state of Europe, than it can the elements." Au extensive naval depot in Chesapeake Bay is believed to be on the eve of being carried into effect. In the late war the bay was a most conveuient rendezvous to the English fleet and

army.

Destruction of a Steam Boat.

New York. Just after the steam-boat En❤ terprise had left the landing at Sullivan's Island for town, with 50 or 60 passengers on board, in a severe thunder squall she was struck by lightning, which descended the chimney, and occasioned the bursting of oue of the boilers.-Ten persons, who were below at the time, drying them selves at the fire, were most dreadfully scalded. They had previously been drenchTwo of them,

by the humanity of the British officers and
others, who raised a subscription to pured in a severe shower.
chase them the means of existence. By
order of the Governor and Council at the
Cape, 200 chests of corn had been pur-
chased to supply the soldiers and blacks in
the service of the Company.

AMERICA: BRITISH.

Hopeful Crops, abundant harvest. It is with much pleasure we report that the two Canadas are likely to be an exception to the general failure of the crops in Europe and in America. The Agricultural Report of the district of Montreal, given in the Quebec paper of the 12th September, gives a must Battering account of the crops; the greater proportion of the abundaut harvest has been safely housed.

Messrs. D. Tortes and J. Roberts, were few hours after. Two others, Messrs. Jolm so severely scalded, that they died in a Dobbs, of this city, and John Gribbens, of Savannah, were very materially injured; the former is supposed to be dangerous. Six blacks were also more or less injured by this unfortunate accident, some of them very badly.

AUSTRIA.

Finances: Loan, Land Tar.

The Emperor of Austria has issued letters patent for the opening of a voluntary loan, at 5 per cent. interest, in order, says the preamble," to give greater extent to

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Commemoration of the Military Dead.

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ford the following details:Letters from Egypt, of a recent date, afhas gained considerably by being under This country the government of the Pacha Amoud-Ali. The city of Alexandria is placed in a good state of defence; the troops are well treated, and there are more soldiers than there is occasion for.-Amoud-Ali is 48 years of

ment to celebrate every year at Brussels a fuage: he was originally an adventurer, who neral service for the military who had died in the course of the year. His Majesty our au gust Sovereign, by a decree of 30th October, has restored this pious ceremony, and ordered that the expenses shall be supported by the Public Treasury.

CHINA.

Persecution of the Christians.

Rome, Oct. 1.-The allocution of the Pope at the late election of Cardinals, contains some curious facts respecting the state of the Christian Religion in China. It seems that the Jesuit Missionaries to that empire have recently undergone grievous persecutions. Gabriel Dufresne, a French Afissionary, and Bishop of Tabraća and Vicar Apostolic of the Province of SeeTchuen for 39 years, has been put to death. Having been banished by the Chinese Government, impelled by religious fervor, he feturned, but was soon discovered and put in irous. The Mandarins then suddenly affected much kindness, ordering his chains to be broken, and overwhelmed him with caresses. But they had honey in their mouths and poison in their hearts. They boldly desired him to abjure his religion: on his side he spoke of the futility of the Chinese rites, and extolled the Christian dogmas. The perfidious Mandarins had concealed two persous behind the partition, who wrote down the Bishop's words. An accusation was consequently drawn up, and the Bishop was taken before the ViceRoy, who being a sworn enemy to all Christians, condemned him immediately to die. In an instant this respectable old man was stripped of his robes and led forth to the place of execution, where an immense rewd was assembled, Thirty-three Christ

commanded a small pirate vessel, but was very successful: six hundred men soon joined his standard, by whose assistance he obtained the dominion over Lower Egypt: his army is now greatly increased. He traffics in grain and provisions, exclusively himself, and receives duties on all other kinds of merchandise. The Arabs are seen crowding around him to ask permission to cultivate the lands, and he has made concessions to them. He receives ali foreigners, and particularly the French and English, with great kindness. There is, in short, every reason to believe, that if this Pacha continues to govern Egypt, the country will flourish extremely." FRANCE.

OPENING OF THE SESSION, Paris, Nov. 4,

At one o'clock this day the King proceeded Peers and Deputies being present in the costume in State to the Chamber of Deputies, and the of their respective Houses, his Majesty delivered from the Throne the following Speech:

"GENTLEMEN-In opening this new Session, joice with you on the benefits which Divine it is extremely agreeable to me to have to reProvidence has deigned to bestow upon my people and upon me.

"Tranquillity reigns throughout the kingdom; the amicable dispositions of the Foreign ties, guarantee to us peace without; and if Sovereigns, and the exact observance of Treasenseless enterprise has for an instant caused alarm relative to our interior tranquillity, it has only served to elicit a further proof of the attachment of the nation, and of the fidelity of my army.

My personal happiness has been increased by the union of one of my children (for, you know my brother's are mine) with a young princess, whose amiable qualities seconding the attentions of the rest of my family, promise me a happy old age, and will give, I trust, to France, new pledges of prosperity, by conforming the order of succession, the first bases of this Me

narchy, and without which no State can be in safety.

in 1712, when Marshal Villars defeated "To these blessings, it is true, there are anPrince Eugene of Savoy, who commanded nexed real pains. The intemperance of the the Allies, a victory which established the seasons has delayed the harvest; my people tottering throne of Louis XIV.-The Duke suffer, and I suffer more than they do; but I of Wellington commanded the army which have the consolation of being able to inform performed the manœuvres executed bythat you, that the evil is but temporary, and that of Marshal Villars, and the Russian Ge the produce will be sufficient for the consump-neral Count Woronzow had under his

tion.

"Great changes are unhappily still neces. command the troops which represented sary; I shall order to be laid before you a faith- those of Prince Eugene. Some Russian ful statement of the expenses that are indispen-regiments came from Maubeuge and the sable, and of the means for meeting them.. The first of all is economy. I have already neighbourhood to take part in these evomade it operative in all parts of the Adminis-lutions, which were executed with a pretration, and I labour without ceasing to make it still more so. Always united in sentiment and intention, my family and myself will make the same sacrifices this year as the last, and, for the rest, I rely upon your attachment and your zeal for the good of the State and the honour of the French name.

"I continue with more activity than ever my negociations with the Holy See, and I have the confidence that their happy termination will restore perfect peace to the Church of France. But this is not all, and you will be of opinion with me, no doubt, that we ought not to restore to Divine Worship that splendour which the piety of our fathers had bestowed upon it (that would unfortunately be impossible), but to ensure to the Ministers of our Holy Reli. gion, an independent income, which shall place them in a condition to be able to follow the steps of Him of whom it is said, that he did good wherever he went.

"Attached by our conduct, as we are in heart, to the divine precepts of religion, let us be also attached to that Charter, which, without touching any dogma, ensures to the faith of our fathers the pre-eminence that is due, and which, in the civil order, guarantees to all a wise liberty, and to each the peaceful enjoy ment of his rights, of his condition, and of his property. I will never suffer any attack to be made upon that fundamental law-my Ordonnance of the 5th of September sufficiently shews it.

"In fine, gentlemen, let all hatreds cease; let the children of the same country, I dare add, of the same father, be really a people of brothers, and that from our past evils, there remain to us only a sad but useful recollection. Such is my object, and to attain it, I rely upon your co-operation; but, above all, upon that frank and cordial confidence, the sole solid basis of an union, so necessary between the three branches of the Legislature. Rely also upon the same dispositions in me, and let my people be well assured of my shaken firmness in repressing the efforts of malevolence, and in restraining the impulse of a100 ardent zeal."

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Allied troops. Grand Review. Valenciennes, Oct. 27.-The grand review of Denain was favoured by fine wea ther. The troops consisted of 54,000 men, of whom 12,000 were cavalry, with an immense train of artillery, each cannon had to fire 100 rounds. The army was divided into two corps; it performed the same manoeuvres which took place

cision and rapidity that excited the admiration of crowds of spectators. It was singular to see Russians, Danes, Saxous, English and Hanoverians manœuvring in profound peace round the column erected by order of Louis XIV. to commemorate the victory obtained by Marshal Villars at the beginning of the last century, and what was still more strange was, that the representation of this celebrated battle was executed by warriors who were come from the North of Europe to secure the public peace and tranquility of France.

The Weather in Paris, on Friday Nov. 15. "This day, at one, during a very cold temperature, and while the snow fell abundantly, several claps of thunder were heard, preceded by lightning."-Gazette de France.

"This day, at one, while the sky was obscured by snow, which fell in large flakes, a flash of lightning was almost immediately followed by thunder."Journal des Debats.

Religious Rites; not performed Among the departmental news from France, it is stated, that a few of the inhabitants of a parish where there was no M◄ nister of Religion, having assembled in the Church to pray, the Prefect thought fit to prohibit their assembling. It has been ascertained that there are no less than 4000 parishes in France in a similar situation: and the consequences of such a want of religious instruction may be easily conceived.

The herring-fishery is happily very productive this year. It employs more than 100 boats at Boulogne, each manned by 7 or 8 men; and there are days when the value of the produce amounts to 40,000 fr.

GERMANY.

Commerce in Activity,

The navigation from Hamburgh to the March of Brandenburgh was never so brisk as it has been this year. Up to this time above 600 Eibe barges, with merchandise have gone to Magdeburg alone.

Manheim, Oct. 22. His Imperial High-formed an article of prime importance ness the Archduke Charles of Austria has been pleased to send, as a present to the Society called the Harmony, of this city, a copy of the splendid edition of his work, " Principles of Strategy,” in three volumes, with most admirably engraved maps and plans. The Society has received this proof of his Highness' regard with the highest gratitude, and placed the work in their library.

Duels: why? or wherefore? Gottingen (Hanover), Oct. 14,-It is long since we have had duels here so frequent and so obstinate as those that have occurred during the last six mouths: they have cost the lives of four students, This strange abuse has revived with more fury than ever, and there is no doubt that it originates in political opinions. Of the four students who fell in these duels, two natives of Old Russia, that is, of the interior of that empire, fought against two Russians of the provinces situate on the Baltic. In general, there is remarked a violent exasperation between the students of those two parts of the empire.

Remarkable Meteor.

The Gazette of Dusseldorf, speaks of a remarkable meteor. On the 19th ult. at nine in the evening, a large mass of iron fell in one of the streets of that city: this mass, when cold, was hard, but it was easily broken, and emitted a sulphureous smell.

HOLLAND.

Nautical valour rewarded. Amsterdam, Sept. 24.-We learn that his Majesty has given to Admiral Von Capellen the Grand Cross of the Order of William, and has conferred the dignity of Knights of that order on the Commanders of the Netherland ships who were in the glorious battle at Algiers. His Majesty has also given the Grand Cross to Lord Exmouth, and the rank of Knights to several British officers.

Public distress; Appeal to charity. Amsterdum, Oct. 22.-The States of North Holland have ordered a general collection to be made in all the churches, for the relief of those who have suffered by the rains and inundations in Guelderland and North

Holland.

among the peasantry of Guelderland, and of which they, used to furuish supplies to other districts, were nearly all lost, so that such of them as reached the requisite ma │turity were likely to be soon consumed. That by the failure of the hemp harvest, thousands of hauds were likely to be thrown out of employment during the winter, and likely to be exposed to the severest wants." The inhabitants of North Holland are exhorted the more liberally to supply the wants of their suffering countrymen, inasmuch as they by the blessing of Providence had remained in a great measure free from these calamities.

INDIES: EAST.

Hindoo College, for Natives.

At a general meeting of the principal Hindoo inhabitants of the town and vicinity of Calcutta, held at the house of the Hon. the Chief Justice, for the purpose of taking into further consideration the institution of a college for the nationaleducation of Hindoo children,

It was resolved, 1st. That an institution for this purpose be established, and that it be called the Hindoo College of Calcutta.

2d. That the Governor-general, and the members of the Supreme Council for the time being, be requested to accept the office of patrons of this institution.

3d. The Hon. the Chief Justice be requested to accept the office of president, and that J. H. Harrington, Esq. be requested to accept the office of vice-president, of the said institution.

4th. That a committee be appointed (for this purpose several persons were nominated).

in the college, the age, terms of admission, 5th. That the languages to be taught and all other details be left to the consideration of the gentlemen who have been requested to form the committee, and who are further requested to prepare a plan for the same, to be laid before a general meeting.

6th. That Joseph Barretto, Esq. be requested to accept the office of treasurer, and to collect the subscriptions.

7th. That a meeting of the gentlemen The exhortation issued by the States to who have been requested to form the comthis effect, mentious, that “thousands of mittee be held at the house of the Lion, the acres of land are still under water, the har-Chief Justice on Monday, the 27th day of vest of whole districts either annihilated or lying rotting on the ground, and the fodder for the cattle either not at all, or very badly saved. That the potatoes, which

May.

Pirates exterminated.

After some hard fighting, and no small labour and pains, a detachment of the ar

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