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.._~ NORTH $r PASSAGE. IMMOMMt eP 1112 lan MONMONIi MOM cu NM AIM MIMMIMMIT !masa, w ma MILIMUJi as ALMLNeIp. 11MCOMMT or A MDATIIMMIt PAIIANBIL (Coesiesse bon the seas at Weems* bust.) a Rude and ignorant as these poor aeatures are, you must not believe what is stated in the NewsCrs, that they had no knowledge of a Surmise o ; this is not a subject to obtain correct notions about from s savages, whose language a e do not comprehend. Jack distinctly admitted that they entertamed die same notions of a good and evil spirit as their southern neighbours do, and which all nations, savage and civalzed, with certain modifications, seem to enter tain. But I must quit the subject of these people, lest'l should tire Tow One chviiinstanee, however, dtraidset putsewx, which is this, that their winter habitations was to the northward, .sid that they came down south to pass the summer, where there is more ice and 'now, and eonsequently more food to be had than in the former situation, a seeming para. doz, the truth of which, however, was comeetely verified by us.; a One of the naives sheaved a desire to get posses sion of Jack's cantle, after he had been told - the use of it.—On the very notthern summit of Ballin's Bay, which could not be less than 78min.there was much less snow on the land, and Much less ice on the water, than we had hitherto met with in any part of Davis,Straits, Mid these people had 'told its that we shoidd find it well, therefore, might' oUr new fried} deem this the happy country, and conclude that kit the' world to the south of them was ice and snow ! And if good looks and a cheerful demeanour may be considered as indications of happiness, they were certainly in the enjoyment of it ; they were all in excellent keeping, with faces as round as the full moon, and exceedingly like the people of KAMS chatka and the Aleutian Islands. Their dogs, too, were in excellent condition: they have long bushy tails like the fox, a rough straggling mane round the neck, and have a general resemblance to the wolf: they seem very quiet, and never bark ; but a young dog, since its arrival at Deptford, has learnt to bark as load and long as the noisiest dog in the place. , u'A breeze of wind, and an open sea, were occur rences of too rare and important a nature to'be ne glected, and we accordingly availed ourselves of them, and steered to the northward, leaving these children of nature, and. is we deemed them, of misery, with out the smallest reluctance; for, in fact, they at last became bold and troublesome, and attempted to steal -every thing they could lay hands on. We had not proceeded far, when a singular appearance, of a deep crimson colour, on the surface of the snow, by the sides of the hills, attracted our attention, and the more so when we found it continuing in patches, for an extent often or twelve miles. Having landed near tq one of the patches, we collecied a consider able quantity of it, melted the snow, and preserved the colotiring matter which it dejiosited. Various conjectures Ohre hazarded as to this curious matter, anifall the thrtekingdoms of nature were put in re quisition. Many a page was turned over in our books of knowledge, with which the Admiralty had libe rally supplied us; and at length some one (Captain Sabine, I believe) found in Bees' Cyclopedia, the very thing we were in search of, under the word Snow but the account there given left us just where we started. Saussure, it told us, found snow of a bright and red colour, on the Alps, and considered the colouring matter as the farina of some plant, while M. Rainond, who found the same lgnd of snow on the Pyrenees, concluded it to be of mineral origin, and we now learn, since our return, that ours at least is neither the one nor the other, but an animal lubstance, the excrement of birds, as Mr. Brande supposes, from the quantity of L'ric acid it is found to contain ; and I have no doubt but he is right, for in the very neighbourhood of it were such myriads of birds, of the Auk kind (Alea Alce), that when they rose up from the ice or the snow, they literally darkened the sky ; and close to the spot where we landed, was one of their breeding places. If I say that they sometimes appeared in hun dreds of thousands, or even of millions, it will not give you an adequate idea of their numbers. We shot as many as we pleased, and fed the whole ship's company with them, being very palatable food, free from all fishy taste or smell, and they made most ex cellent soup. We used to bring down from twenty or thirty at a single shot ; and as we had reason to believe that these vast multitudes were chiefly con fined to the upper part of Baifin's Bay, we laid in a stock for future supply, by placing them in casks, with layers of pounded ice between them. o Having passed Cape Dudley Digges, we opened oft a sound or strait, which was considered to be' that of Baffin, named Wolstenholme's Sound ;* but the shallowness of the water, and the ice within it, gave no hopes of a passage that way, and we accor dingly passed it at the distance of 15 or 20 miles.— The 4 Whale Sound' of Baffin, was not more promis ing; but it appeared to many very desirable that we should have approached somewhat nearer to 'Sir Thomas Smith's Sound,' at the north-weitteis et;, tremity of 'the bay, which presented a very • wide opening ; but we passed it at the distance ef 63 miles. The land now stretched S. W. and we ran parallel with it, but at so considerable a distance that. it was Maly to be seen at intervals, when the weather cleared up,. which it did, sufficiently to let, us sea another opening, which we were willing to recognise as 4 Alderman Jones' Sound,' of Baffin. The weather was in general mild and exceedingly pleasant, and the sea in the whole of the upper part. of the bay, almost wholly free from ice, et now and then a solitary ice-berg iteating, or a By the way, we could lave no doubt, from the ion. mean glaciers wjsich filled the valliesalong the shores of Baffin's Bay, and the great depth of water close in with them, that the many hundreds `cir these mor► mous messes we Davis' Straits, some their origin is kegs is silarly curious, hems of castle and cathedrals. towers and spires, ava sometimes so taw sail *tomb should happen to IbiM olives more r displayed. - Arabian Nights LONDON. TUESDAY, 'JANUARY 19, 1819. TIM FUNDS. ?RIC! Or STOGIES THIS DAT AT OPT O'CLOCK : Rook Stock 269-.4 per Cent. Reduced 781.79 78f per Cent. Cons. 78114 —Cons. for Feb. 781 79781 si per Cent. 88}{-4 per Cain. 96197 • -1 per Ct. Navy 1060. -Balk Long Aim. 20 5-16 J . h m ha S toc k 232/_.india Bch* 87 88 pre. . , r 2 pre.--Exch. Bills (24)19 20 pr. • ' Flanders Mail-has brought us this morning Biussels Papers to the 16th inst. . The Orade of the 15th states, that the Court bad Itist received the news of the Death of the-I:avant., of WURTZSIBERGI but none of the other Papers received - make ariy mention of such an event. Her Majesty is the sister of the Emperor Acoluxpaa. A sentence of ii`nost revoking severity has been pronounced by the (oun of Assiaes at Ghent, en the prosecution of the Attotney-General of the Nether lands, against Messrs.:Dusan and Douala, the Pub lisher and Editcr of the Journal des Deux Flanders, for some articles published in that work, the parti cular nature of which is not states. Mr. Dotitur has been condemned to four years' imprisonment and a fine of 500 florins—Mr. DL*I3A R to one years impri sonment—and both to the joint payment of the whole costs of the prosecution. The Joutaal de Gand pretends to have received news from St. Helena, announcing that NAPOLEON appefrs ready to sink under the weight of a malady which leaves but little hope. Several articles from the Prussian dominions are occupied with the long promised, but still obstinately deferred benefits of a Representative Constitution. The sentiments of the people have been already often sufficiently expressed on this subject ; and we are happy to understand that most of the Prussian Mi nisters profess the most liberal principles, particu larly the Chancellor of State, Prince HARM:NEMO, who wishes, it is said, to terminate his administra tive labours. by the introduction of a constitutional system. No French Papers have arrived this day. From our Prirate Letters i!ljklearn, that the long demanded change of the Pren& Prefects of 1815, is at length about to be effected. :it is asserted that not fewer than-twenty-two are immediately to be replaced. This is a measure of the greatest urgency, for the change of Ministers would produce no salutary ef fect if the administration of the government of the Province's were confided to the enemies of the Con stitution. Ultra Royalism must be crushed in every shape—it is the hydra of fable : llercOes destroyed it in applyirT, the actual cautery to the trunk, the moment a head was cut off; and, if M. DECAZES wishes to triumph over the modern hydra, he must use the same instrument, and brand the foreheads of the monster of civil discord, Ultra Royalism. We doubt whether his moderation of principle will per mit him to assume the courage necessary for this de cisive conduct ; but the salvation of France depends on it, and if the Ultras rise from their ashe3, again to torment the Nation, we do not hesitate to declare, the fault will be principally to be attributed to on his part, for those pretended " Royalists" and " Monarchy men." The Minerva, the staunch champion of civil li berty, is now accused of being bought by the Mi nistry, because it is now Ministerial. The charge Appears to us very unfounded. The Minerva has , certainly not changed its principles ; it is precisely , what it was—Condit:dies:al ; and the Ministry having become so, of course there is an Onion of sentiment between them. When a Paper is bought, it is to make it change its principles—it would be money. thrown away to pay it for what it had declared itself resolved to maiei twin from principle. This homage to the Minerva 7 be less to be suspected from us, who have often 104114 fade even with the lifisserva. Oar political prin. *am present bat slight shades of elliference. We only slisagrte upon the propriety of emp:ebb% mea sures. 'the *nerve viewed this'll, sad eimply in sisted on its speedy redress ; and, irritated by theiects enemies, it was softesiasee unjust nen.tip' not going the lengths k joartiope,".. instance bf.Dessesna was eoistandrceisse• bitterness bi the 1 0 0iiireiS 1 • difficulties he had to so (:N . his :Teens go dame. A ingkiall tear:444 mason; . alone watt/ see - adopted othas, hi aesthete goes out,. bare taken Ms place, and inn Month a l re met wiih in our progress through ;; l i ons 4ii s ( i mgt i ome aground, and Mims a4cat, bad . Mends, for ac this bay. The a of these - 7" . lark curious, exhi 'ties the ruia f a 7• Fcentstano and cathedrals, with thostwalls, ad with much kb as, in every state of dattaY ; *NI :riot look at the la G* 3 44 01 7 Pflangsde Sbalt bOrca slid di iietai4 gh th em, ia which cam , . g` th e OM A:.;..i. in .....; 3 : to Ain oot. it is imposOb to coor '177 7 . "'ma Mast sight than that , which ii tkut knew that tali $ a nose so be non with only in th e coed; had he ad Eatettaiosoonts—(To a. coathsesi.) as uh ra wou ld 1 IRV Min 61 , 10111:14 WI UST it ;AO Met Derma affititlie anted as Speaker. Pror letWattioarthied, the' Oaths' aftelnlatesad the Oatirs Woe& "ber. sod !Mates air osentedilbeitwohno for Ow eur.- pipe of Wee wash aid 1040 wire sr fdler esrosses The Dukes alsaldfard and Doran; rho ° of Lane down, and Noel' the *nig of Albsbary. lAuderdale. 0114 gad ; the Ildwp of Durham arid fk. Apaph ; Lords alnehdr. fiwwws,vad Grantham At brae o"tot the Hew adjourned specially min three estoeiL cos:tomer. HOUSE OF COMMON& The Smelts havingtelea site Choir a few ninoweetter throe &dna, roman' tie Mar it those Meribers who were present. The Smelt sad Idsh Crollike woe thus Med over but very Sew Mendtwo apparradiwebelvehtha 40111,-;•A_rrproraek THE EVENNO.STAR. an g tigesaton all France would haver been in the state of / civil war, He knew when to delay and when to strike ; but his • • is a most difficuk one, for, from every thing can learn, all France looks to him for her hopes of salvation, in causing to be religiously obeyed, the Constitution in all its parts. It is for him to regene rate France, and to give her a solid pacific existence : to effect this we would recommend to his Excellency the study of the English Constitution, as found in BLACKSTONI, and the Parliamentary Debates on great questions. France will not fail to profit greatly by it. American Papers to the 28th December, arrived this• day. The National Intelligencer of the 16th, gives the following account of a voluminous collec tion of documents presented to the Congress on the preceding day: " 1. The Report of Judge Rand, ooe of the Commitslows I sent by the Executive to South America, occupying nearly 400 closely-written folio pages. The great length of this Letter will prevent, peobably, its immediate publication. _ _ _ M IL A Lett.; from Mr. J. ILPoisoett, of South Carolina, 't• the Sitfetary of State, communicating, by request of the !calends", suck information reggae*, South America and its 01fairs, as his long residence in those countries. and subsequent yistelligencetherefrom, have enabled him to give. This Letter also verylong, fillitug about 401) folio pages, and will aim be Iprectuded, by its length, front present publkadon. " i Correspondence between the Secretary of State and Don Lads de Onb.• the Minister of Spain, from the 23d March to 'the 50th Nov. bat fernlike, occupying about 250 folio pages. " 4. Correspondence between Mr. Irving, American Mini ster at the Court of Spain, and Dan Jose Pizarro, Spanish Se cruelty of &ate, from the ink July to the 30th of August Melo dyll, filling more than 400 pages. * The two latter series of Papers, intimately relating to topics of great interest to our Country, we shall publish as soon as we can, and before they can be published elsewhere. " It world appear from the call yesterday made by the House of Representatives on the Preiddent of the United &ates, that something is yet wanting to complete the chain of information." NEW-YORK COMMEkCIAL ADVERTISER OF DEC. 18. FROM MoNrmArtneo.—A letter from 'Rio Janeiro of the 10th October, received in Baltimore, confirms the account we gave a few days ago of the success 9f General Artigas, and adds, that he was at that date actually blockading Monte Video—that his troops oc cupied the whole front line of that town, and that the Portuguese tvithin the walls were suffering greatly by the scarcity of provisions. FROM TIIE COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER OF TILE '2O!H. EXECUTION OF ARBUTHNOT AND AMBRISTRR.—A writer at Nashville, in attempting to justify General Jackson, in executing these men, asserts, a that.the General, so far from regretting the course he had adopted, had publicly declared, that he `was only sorry that he had not hung up the Governor of Pen sacola, and the Commandant of S. Mark's." Ditcomen 22.—THE SPANISH MAIN/L-A letter from St. Thomas's, of the 24th of November, to the Editor of the Norfolk Beacon, mentions, that on the Ist of November the Royalists were in possession of Barcelona, Cumana, Valencia, Vittoria, Caraccas, La guira, ,1 and Porto Cavello, and that all the ports to the east of Cumana were held by the Patriots. FROM THE COMMRRCIAL ADVERTISSR OP TIC 25n. FROU HAVANNAH.—Captaitt Furlong, of the brig Mary, who has arrived at Baltimore, in IS days from Havannah, informs, that an Artisan brig and a BoenOs Ayrean sloop of war had been off Ravannah three days ; during their stay an embargo was laid ; a sloop of war had gone out to raise the blockade, but was drove in after exchanging a broadside ; a larger one had begun to fit out to accompany her, when they disappeared. FROM THE COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER OF THE 26TH. OCR AFFAIRS WITH SPAlN.—.Since our last we have received the National Intelligencer of Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, containing the late Cor respondence between the Secretary of State and the Spanish Minister. This Correspondence, which oc cupies nearly 14 columns, we shall lay before our Readers as expeditiously as our limits will permit. That our Readers in the mean time may know the present state of our affairs with Spain, we think proper to state, that the Spanish Minister, in a letter of the twenty-fourth of October, enclosed a number of propositions, to save as the basis of a Treaty by which the Provinces of East and West Florida, with all their towns and forts, should be ceded to the United States in full property and sore-' reignty. Connected.with this proposition, are others In relatioh to the claims of our Government on Spain, fcir spoliations on our commerce, to the boundaries of Louisiana, &c. • On the 31st of October the Secretary of State ac cepts, with certain modifications, of. the proposition for ceding the Floridas, and agrees to cancel our claims for spoliations, but regrets the prescribed boundaries of Louisiana ; and draws the only line to which the President will consent. On the 16th of November, the Spanish Minister replies, and modifies the boundary he had proposed. On the 30th of the same month. the Secretary adheres to his former line, and adds, that as the Spanish Minister is not autho rized to accede to that, he is ready to proceed to the exchange of the ratification of the Convention of acts. --The ratification of the Convention was ex tisane& and the negotiation in relation to the Flo ;rides closed for the present. The Convention of 111 &Ow rgifieci, is =hi-Aced in the proclama- lien et the ?resident. IRON TMs' .11AMIe karma. Tire Bistvesn Tazam—A litter from Washing- Wet of the 10th instant, gives the following as some of the provisions of the late Treaty with Great Bri- 7 tails. By the Treaty an 2rnsigenatet has been mad, respecting the fisheries on the British North Ante i. can coast, leaving them to be enjoyed as they a ll under die Treaty of 1763. Also respecting Co rider establishment, which is to belong to the Unite, States, respecting the slaves carried off by the Brit, I during the late war. It likewise provides for fig the boundary on our North Western frontier, and f. the continuation of the Commercial Convention GI 1815, for the term of ten years. The Boston Sentinel contains a letter front w as h. ington respecting the Treaty concluded or nco,oci a f t between this country and the United States, l a speaking of the Treaty, the letter says:—.o Gore, ment has received official accounts of its signatur 4 and the outlines of it. Both parties being disv t ; to make a just arrangement, the Treaty was WIN ciated in a few days. JAY'S Treaty is the basis. 1: 4 subject of Impressment has been satisfactorily ar. ranged." The same letter, speaking of the state of aitirs between Spain and the United States, says Th e Negotiations with Spain for the Sale of the Florida; lis all up in the wind ; she will not sell nor alienat e , and she thinks that, with the knowl e d ge ( 1 t:.e ,United States has of her standing with the 1101 1 Alliances,' they will not take them by face namely because they want them." In relation to the execution of ARBUTHNOT and AMBRISTIR, the same letter thus remarks :—" lie indignation against Jackson's tyranny and bloe.i. thirsty conduct continues daily to increase, aid men of nerves, of both parties, appear determined to check the march of military despotism, which has long been permitted to move forward, in defiance if law, or even the Constitution. No services, however great, ought to screen a tyrant from punishment.* FROM " THE CHARLESTON COURIER" OF DEC. IS. Arrived the Venus, in 22 days from Ant-Cayes, with oranges and limes. October :4., on her passage out, after having touched at St. Thomas's, and in sight of Aux-Cayes, was boarded by a small slcop out of Aquin, manned with about 2.0 armed negroes, under a white Captain ; detained us three hours, abused and robbed us of every thing, including six thousand dollars' worth of dry goods, and was threa tened with immediate death if any resistance was made to their vile depredations. Next morning ar rived at Attx-Cayes and informed the Commaniznt, who immediately sent two barges in pursuit of the pirate—found her near the shore at anchor, RICI only one man on board, but the goods were gone.— On the 2Sd ultimo, near the hog-sties, was boarded by the Mexican schooner Fortuna, of 20 guns, har ing in company, as a prize, a large Spanish brig, captured after a severe fight of two hours. The C-p -tain of the brig and several men were wounded: her cargo was . wine and silks, valued at 80,000 dollars. Warded mi to take the cargo to the United State , . The Captain of the schooner ryas Northup, of tic•.e. haven, who afterwards took command of the brig, being a fine vessel, leaving his chief officer, lier.Ty P. Vleishman, of New York, master of the schooner: They were almost all Americans, and mostly of Newhaven. They detained me about an hour, kr the purpose of putting some letters on board, during which time they treated me with great politeness, made many apologies for detaining me so long, and requested me to report them. FROM THE SAIIE PAPER OF DEC. 19. IMPORTANT.—Extract of a letter from an official source at Washington, to a Gentleman in Norfolk, dated Tuesday, December 5: " I add this to my letter of yesterday, to inform you that the Commercial Treaty made between this country and Ent land, by Mesas. Gallatin and Rush, has been received bere. By it we are restored to the right of fishing, as established by the Treaty of 1783; and our Western boundaries are extended to the Pacific Ocean, running as far North as lat. 411, In which the mouth and course of the Columbia River are included. Our boundary in that direction was the Mississippi, previous to tin arrangement. The West-India trade they would 001 allow uu; but we should be well satisfied to carry two points out of tkree; May it always be the case!—This intelligence is certain." [lt is proper to observe, that the Charleston Editrr, whO is not in general over-scrupulous, subjoius to this account the word improlsable.o FlOll " THE WASHINGTON CITY GAZETTE" OF DEC. 9. The interest excited by the perusal of the docu ments in relation to the trial of Arbuthnot and Am brister appears to be universal; but the case of these individuals, in being condemned according to the preposterous doctrine, " that any individual of a na tion making war against the citizens of any other na tion, they being at peace, forfeits his allegiance, and becomes an outlaw and a pirate," indeed, - serious and alarming at this moment. That we should have set the example of carrying these principles into cf fect,;cannot be too much regretted. They need ro further justification for putting to death ever:. ger that may have stepped into the ranks of the triots, if made prisoners. It is truly a most u^fortu nate application of the principle set forth by Jackson, and may tend to do more mischief to tl . c cause of liberty than it may ever be in our power to repair. General The Duke and Duchess of KENT, and Prince LEC poLD. are expected from the Continent on or abort the 17th of April. r The. Duke of GLOUCESTER, accompanied . by Marshal Duke de BELLutio, visited the MAW! School at Paris on. Wednesday last. lowd JANIS MURRAY and other fashipeablcs reit torsi Yearart of a 'Aoki° the•Dube of NORTUUN' 'I, 7i( I " -. . _ ;