6. A tonnage duty is levied on American vessels arriving from foreign ports, unless two-thirds of the crew be citizens of the United States.

Boston, May 12.-Despatches have just been received from Mr Serjeant by the governor of the national bank. We understand they state he has succeeded in obtaining ten millions of dollars for the new bank at Philadelphia, and this too without difficulty in England. What a country of wealth and poverty! The Venice has arrived with 300,000 dollars; the Solon, the Emily, and the Electra, with much more.

After the 14th of July next, the American national flag will consist of thirteen stripes and twenty stars. The thirteen stripes are to be permanent, and one star is to be added whenever a new state is received into the union. The facts are published at this time for the benefit of ship-owners, &c.

By the Courier arrived from Boston in nineteen days, and the Canton, with several other vessels, from New York in twenty-one days, Boston papers to the 20th of May, New York to the 17th of that month, and New Orleans to the 16th of April, have been received. Cobbett has given notice, in a letter addressed to the people of America, that he will resume his labours in that country.-A ship arrived at Boston from Pernambuco furnishes intelligence to the 9th of April. The new Government appeared well established, and was making every necessary preparation for defence. So far do the Anti-Portuguese rulers consider themselves settled, that they have sent out his Excellency Don Antonio Gonsalvo de Cruz as Ambassador to the United States.

A letter from Washington, dated the 2d May, states, that the American Go. vernment have lately sold 100,000 acres of land on the Tinibechy, in the Missis sippi territory, to a French company, at two dollars per acre, payable in fourteen years, without interest, upon condition of their planting the vine and olive. About 300 French emigrants have gone to reside on those newly-purchased lands. At the head of these people are Lakanal, Pennienes, Garnier de Saintes, the two L'Allemands, Desnouettes, Clausel, and others, with a crowd of artisans and mechanics. Joseph Bonaparte's New Town.-The Dutch mail supplies the following account of the Ex-King of Spain's colony in the United States." Joseph Bonaparte is building a town near Baltimore, which none but French are permitted to inhabit. It is to be capable of containing for the present 12.000 inhabitants. The art of the most sublime architecture is employed to embellish the edifices. Thus it should

seem, that the French refugees renounce the hope of ever returning to the Continent of Europe, since they spend their whole fortunes in fixing themselves in so magnificent a manner in America.”

The National Intelligencer states the terms on which the bank of the United States obtained its specie in England, viz.

"The specie to be delivered in the United States at 4s. 8d. Sterling per dollar, within six months from January last, the time the contract was made; the payment secured by a deposite of the United States' stock at par, redeemable January 1819, or at an earlier period, giving two months notice, interest at five per cent. commencing at the date of the contract." From the same paper we learn, that the mania for emigration is to be found even in the United States. A company of young men was forming at New York, for the purpose of proceeding to some parts of South America, there to form a settlement. Each adventurer was to advance a certain sum to purchase a vessel and the necessary stores.

Extract of a letter from St Francisville (L. A.) dated May 5th 1817-A very serious and distressing accident happened nearly opposite this place.Yesterday morning, about eight o'clock, the steam-boat, Constitution (formerly the Oliver Evans), passing down the river from Natchez to New Orleans, burst her boiler, and every person in the cabin, eleven in number, was scalded to death; some lived two or three hours, some five or six, and two or three lived about twenty hours. The captain of the boat, the engineer, and one or two sailors that were in the afterpart of the boat, were the only persons that escaped uninjured.

In an American paper, a remarkable advertisement appears from the Navy Board in Washington. It is for proposals for supplying the machinery for three steam batteries, each to be equal to 120 horse power, to be completed in one month.

BRITISH AMERICA.

In the House of Assembly in Lower Canada, the Speaker notified to the House, on the 21st February, that he had the same morning signed warrants for the imprisonment of S. W. Monk, Esq. con formably to the order of the House; after which, the deputy serjeant at arms at the bar informed the House, that, in obedience to its orders, he had lodged S. W. Monk, Esq. in the common gaol of the district.

On the 1st of March, the Legislative Council of Lower Canada came to a resolution, that an address be presented to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, hum

bly beseeching his Royal Highness not to inflict any punishment on the honourable Louis Charles Foucher, Esq. one of the puisne judges of the Court of King's Bench for the district of Montreal, in eonsequence of the articles of complaint exhibited against him by the Asssembly of that province, until such articles of complaint should be submitted to the consideration of the Legislative Council, and they should have concurred therein, or until such articles of complaint shall have been heard and determined on by such a tribunal as his Royal Highness should appoint.

April 20.-James Stuart, Esq. arrived on Sunday the 16th at Quebec, and of course would take his seat in the House next day. What is called the great question was set down for the 19th inst. that is, Whether farther proceedings shall be had against the two chief justices. It is understood at Quebec that the government at home had given directions to dissolve the Parliament, if the House of Assembly proceeded farther in this matter. Judge Monk expected to be discharged on bail; but the Court, on hearing his counsel, who urged that the warrant of the Speaker of the House of Assembly was informal, had come to the decision, that the warrant was without objection; he was in consequence remanded to prison. He had transmitted a petition to the House of Assembly, in which he states, that he did not wish to throw any impediment in the way of the committee, who were investigating the case of the chief justice Foucher. He had refused to give up some official documents, but their contents were open to the inspection of the committee; but his duty to the government would not warrant his giving up the possession of official documents.

In the Court of King's Bench of Montreal, bills of indictment were found by the grand jury against Duncan Cameron, and John Dugald Cameron, partners of the North West Company; and against Cuthbert Grant, William Shaw, and Peter Pangman, clerks of the said Company; and against George Campbell and others, for the felonious seizure, in 1816, of the cannon sent from England for the defence of the colony of Red River.

SOUTH AMERICA.

About 30,000 stand of arms had arrived at St Thomas's, from Bordeaux, accompanied by several of Bonaparte's officers, and an aid-de-camp of Murat; all of whom, it is asserted, intend joining the insurgents of South America.

The ministers of Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, have deli

vered to the Marquis de Aguilar, the King of Portugal's minister for foreign affairs, a note, dated Paris, 16th March, in which they express their surprise at the occupation of a part of the Spanish possessions on the river Plate, by the Portu guese troops of Brazil; and, announcing their intention to take cognizance and part in this affair, in consequence of an application made to them by the Court of Spain, they call upon his most faithful majesty to explain his views, and to take the most prompt and proper measures to dissipate the just alarms which his invasion of the Spanish possessions has occasioned.

A great sensation has been excited in Europe, by the accounts lately received of a formidable insurrection having broken out in Brazil on the 6th of March. According to the reports first received, seven provinces of this extensive empire had revolted from the house of Braganza, and declared for independence, liberty of conscience, and a federal government. By dater accounts, however, it appears, that the revolt had not as yet extended beyond the provinces of Pernambuco, and that an attempt to subvert the royal government at Bahia had failed, and the conspirators been apprehended.

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The revolution in the Brazils is not the only great event that has taken place in the new world. By the Colonel Allan, Captain M'Lennon, arrived from the North West Company's settlement, on the river Columbia, and last from Buenos Ayres, letters and gazettes to 16th March have been received, which state, that the Buenos Ayres army, commanded by General San Martin, and destined to free Chili from its Spanish oppressors, has met with most complete success. the 12th February, the patriots met the royalists near Chabuco, defeated them in a general action, and the result of this victory was the complete downfall of Spanish power in this interesting portion of the South American Continent. A new form of government was instantly organised in the capital of Santiago, and the supreme directorship confided to Don Barnard O'Higgins, who issued a proclamation, congratulatory of the event, to the people of Chili. On the 13th of March, three of the enemy's standards, two taken on the coast of Valpariso, and the other at Llamparaes in Upper Peru, reached Buenos Ayres. The former Spanish governor of Chili, Marco del Pont, had been taken by the patriots. The brave army of the Andes, with General San Martin at its head, had covered itself with glory, and was expected to recross the mountains before the winter closed them, with a large body of

2. Scindiah has about 40,000 soldiers; he is said to be in close alliance with the Rajah of Berar, and with the Bhurtpoor Rajah. He has acquired much strength since the Mahratta war, by bringing the feudatory states under his immediate control.

3. Ameer Khan may have 28,000 soldiers; Mahomed Shah and Lall Sing, who generally act with him, can bring 20,000 more into the field. Ameer Khan is generally much in want of money; and when his troops become mutinous from being kept in arrears, he gives them perhaps half their pay, with authority to plunder to the amount of what is still due to them.

4. Holkar is poor, and has only 17,000 men-Ameer Khan, Mahomed Shah, and Lall Sing, are nominally his generals.

5. The Pindarees are a tribe of military adventurers, who, having followed the standards of different chiefs, and, from the present tranquil state of Hindoostan, being out of employ, have joined with other vagrants, and have cemented themselves into one great body of 40,000 soldiers. These hardy troops infest the neighbouring provinces for plunder, and will fight under any chief who will best pay them.

On the 4th December, Mr. Gordon For. bes and Colonel Loveday delivered over the French settlement of Chandernagore to the Commissioners appointed to receive it by Louis XVIII. A proclamation was issued, and Te Deum performed on hoisting the French flag, and the English and French functionaries partook of an entertainment, at which the healths of the Kings of France and England, and of the Governor-General of India, were drunk with every demonstration of respect.

The Bombay Courier, of the 4th January, contains Major Lushington's account to the resident at Poonah (Mr Elphinstone) of his successful and persevering pursuit of the Pindarees on the 26th and 27th of December. The major is stated to have conducted the expedition with very great skill and address,. and deserves the greatest credit. Only one British officer was killed, Captain Darke, of the 4th regiment of light cavalry; no officers were wounded. The principal object of the Pindarrees in entering the Concan was to seize a large quantity of kincob (silks) which was exported from Bombay to Chowal for the interior; this they succeeded in, and it was their intention to sweep the coast as far as Surat.

Letters from Calcutta, of the 20th of January, mention, that the cotton haryest was expected to be very bad. They

also speak of the death of the Rajah of Nepaul. On his funeral pile one of his Queens, one of his concubines, and five female attendants, resigned themselves to the flames, as a voluntary sacrifice in honour of his memory.

Batavia, March 3.-Conceiving that the annexed intelligence may be interesting, it is forwarded to you, and may be depended upon.-His Majesty's ship Alceste was wrecked in the Straits of Gaspar, on the 18th of February. The officers, crew, and passengers were all saved, and landed safely in Middle Island. His Excellency Lord Amherst, and his lordships suite, arrived at Batavia on the 22d of February, in open boats, and it happening that some British vessels were then lying in the roads, ready for sea, they were despatched the following morning to Middle Island to bring away the officers and crew of his Majesty's ship Alceste from thence. It is hoped that a considerable part of the baggage and property may be saved from the wreck. His Lordship and the gentlemen of his suite are in good health, and will to return to England by the first ships expected on their homeward-bound passage from China.The return of the vessels sent to Middle Island for the officers and crew of his Majesty's ship Alceste is daily expected.

This gives 256 persons to a square mile, or 2 acres to each, which is full one-half more in proportion than the population of England.

The revenues amount to 84d. a-year each; so that as the British revenue stood in 1815, before the abolition of the income-tax, one person in England paid as much as 180 in China.

Industry in China is, nevertheless, carried to the highest degree; and there are not to be found in China either idle persons or beggars. Every small piece of ground is cultivated, and produces some. thing useful; and all sorts of grain are planted, not sowed, by which more seed is saved than would supply all the inhabitants of Britain and Ireland.

In that country every one labours, and even rocks are covered with earth, and made to produce. The sides of mountains are cultivated, and irrigation is very general, and conducted with great art and care. Cloth and paper are made

from various vegetables, which in Europe are thrown aside as useless.

In one word, they neither waste time, nor space, nor materials, and pay scarcely any taxes; nevertheless they are so poor, that is, they enjoy so few of the necessaries of life, that the law permits the stifling of new-born children, when the parents have not the means of bringing them up!

This account is said to be from the best authorities, and affords abundance of materials for thinking to our speculative economists; but if any thing were wanting to complete the strange result of such a population and so much industry, it is, that the Chinese despise all other nations, but most of all commercial ones, and that they have always as much as possible insisted on having gold or silver in exchange for what they sell to strangers.

Lord Amherst and suite arrived at Canton on the 1st of January. The failure of the embassy is known to have arisen from the demand of the Chinese of the abject ceremony of prostration, which Lord Amherst resisted, not only on general principles of national dig. nity, but on the precedent established by Lord Macartney. The embassy, though not admitted to the Emperor's presence, was, however, treated in its way back with great and indeed unexampled attention, and the persons of the suite enjoyed a degree of personal freedom greater than was ever before enjoyed by any foreigners.

The last despatches from Captain Maxwell of the Alceste frigate, at Canton, communicate very important geographical information. It appears, that after the ships under his direction quitted the Gulf of Pe-tche-lie, they stood across the Gulf of Leatong, saw the great wall winding up one side of the steep mountains and descending the other, down into the gulf, and instead of meeting with the eastern coast of Corea, in the situation assigned it in the several charts, they fell in with an archipelago, consisting of at least one thousand islands, amongst which were the most commodious and magnificent harbours; and the real coast of the Corean peninsula they found situate at least 120 miles farther to the eastward. Captain Maxwell from hence proceeded with the other ships to

the Leiou-Kieou islands, where they met with an harbour equally as capacious as that of Port Mahon, in Minorea, experiencing from the poor but kind hearted inhabitants of those places the most friendly reception.

Africa.

AFRICAN EXPEDITION— Sierra Leone, May 12.-It is feared that all communi. cation between Captain Campbell and Sierra Leone is cut off, by the following circumstance :-Colonel M'Carthy, go. vernor of Sierra Leone, had received intelligence of two vessels, supposed Americans, under Spanish colours, taking in slaves, up the river Rio Noonez, at the town, whose chief has always been considered as a staunch friend of the Eng. lish and the abolition, and the very man by whose means all correspondence be tween us and the expedition has hitherto been kept up: he is a powerful chief, and a well informed man, having been educated in England, and always been in the English pay; that is, receiving valuable presents from time to time from the governor. The Colonial brig was sent to ascertain whether it was so. On her arrival, finding it was the case, a message was sent to this chief, requesting his assistance, if necessary, in capturing these vessels (a brig and schooner, well manned and armed,) who apparently seemed determined to make a desperate resistance. He not only refused, but sent word to say, that if attacked, he would protect them to the utmost of his power. Notwithstanding, they were at tacked the same evening, and carried in the most gallant manner. On gaining possession, the vessels lying nearly alongside the bank of the river, the comman der of the Colonial brig finding himself completely exposed to the natives, who assailed him on all sides with musketry, arrows, &c. was obliged, in his own de fence, to turn the guns of the vessels upon them. The consequence was, that in the morning the banks of the river were covered with dead. The vessels have since arrived at Sierra Leone. This unfortunate occurrence taking place be fore the expedition is out of his territo ries, he no doubt will avenge himself by annoying them-we are all afraid so,'