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■ 4.-.- -- "Towsr" , 7l ll °V . `," "P a- .r4x4l9,4lfinsits 7 JAMAICA, SEPTEMBER 25. _ A French brig privateer h, , s appeared of Mats- Cabo, for the purpose of intercepting valuable traders bound to tkis island. She has captured two schooners frOm thence for this_pnrt (Kingston), laden with specie and wood. One of them is said to have had 30,000 dollars on board. A letter from St. Jago de Cuba,. dated 15th inst. states, that there ate some French privateers cruising off the Moro. OCTOBER 14. The Hibernia, from Belfast, arrived on the 6th inst. On the 26th ult. off Dominica, fell in with the Orpheus frigate, and was informed that five stout French privateers were cruizing in the neigh bourhood of Guadaloupe. KINGSTON, OCTOBER 12. f It is with sincere reeret that we announce this week the &cease of Bartholomew Samuel Rowley, Admiral of the Blue, and Commander in Chief of his ;Mak.sty's squadron on this station, which melancholy event took WitCc at the Pen, on Monday evening, be tween nine and ten o'clock. The Admiral had en kiyed.uninterrupted good health from the period of nos arrival in this climate, until about a fortnight previ‘us to his dissolution,. when he had a very severe attack of fever, which pontinued with such violence, a; at length to affect his mental facultic , , and not-- -withitanding every medical assistance was rendered him, efforts to save his IVe proved unavailing.- 1118areniairs were interred in the Cht:rch-yard of this city on the following al,ernoon with every honour due to his rank. The pro Cession set out from the Pen • at about a quarter past five o'clock, at which time, on a signal being made to the Rig ship, the ships of - war and kuts commenced tiring minute guns, which continued until the bcdy was interred. • Admiral Rowley was the second son of the late Sir Joshua Rowley, part. Vice-Admiral of the White v `Squ,idrott, ho married in the year 1759, and died on q* Vebruary, 1790. He was born in the .'year 1763, entered the service at a very early age, end like his father and grandfather (Sir Wrn. Row- Admiral of the Fleet), pbtained rapid pro - potion. He was made yost into the Lowestoffe fri 'gate,of al guns, on this station, on the 31st of Janu ary, 1781; a Rear Admiral, on the 14th of February, a Vice-Admiral, on the 9th of November, 1803; told Adiniral (of the Blue), on the gist July, 1810. In Apr 1, 1807, he had the chief command of ssqtratiron employed ip the Downs, in which be continued until February, 1 . 08 7 when he was ap. .44 . 4n* tea to succeed the late Viee-Adutiral Dacres in' eltief command on this station. •r A conspiracy, which had been fer some time in airiiation, was fortunately 'discovered at Mar:iiiiqUe t)e 2A;th i 4 last tr ontb, when ,5.0 cif the ringleaders *kre takrn and put into gaol. It had been excited by.three flegti,e“lqin St. Domingo, one of them a 48181ter to die late 'fouissint ; another of them was, possessed rf considerable property, and, accounts -from - Martinique say, had been air this island three i.lifffreci timer, from which he returned to that' island by the way of Curacoa, and it is also said, has Conespondents here, whom endeayouri were using to ford out, PZ.R.AffIN PAP . Elq. NAPLES, SEPTEMBER eft. There is at present much bustle in opt harbours. -The ceastißg trade is protected by thehatteries tormed the shore. The inte:conrse between Otranto and Corfu is seCured. cort tt is in the best possible - state of defence, Aid that island hai not been disturbed `by the English this year: • NAPLES, OCTOBER 5. The misfortune which bele' the province of Molise, is much more considerable than it was supposed. B: sixes the B fern°, Several other rivers, swelled by L':e con have overflowed their banks, the - water having poure4 down from the mountains in int wits.. Bai;ino waventiiely laid under water, and sot verwhe.mt d v iih sand and mild, that some thou- .-- : sands of labourers from the neirrlibourhood must be ; I empl• y,cl'to render the houses again habitable. In ;1 this town was an erVnence, on which stood a tine !1 caste—the water undermined this eminence, and 'r threw it cl , :wo; together with the bit:Wings upon it. At Liiiinsan there was a stone bridge, which was ca. ried away by the flu( d. ' • OC•1 otter. 6.—Thirty in the enemy's ships have ap- I pearcd oil the island of Ponza... In consequence of 1 hearii g that this fleet n.ight have on beard nearly -5000 ni . en, it was supposed they intended an aitack Upon 044 t-!. his Majesty instantly dispatched his Aujut int General Mellet to General Grenier, to en gage him to reinforce the garrison of that phice with a fresh battalion. •Sul;s:quent inilmr.ation, however, anncvinced, that the enemy directed all his forces stgaitiNt . he mail island ( f Poprea, which now is in his •p:•ss-.tssion. The garrison was composed buf of a few 'soldiers. We can retake this island whenever we 'choose, for,lt is ric.t iilz.dy they will employ all their force to preserve it. • • Ocrtraen I S.—On Wednesday last Vt,suvins threat ened us with 4 speedy iritiption. A black and thic . k. 'smoke was seen to rise from its crater, and frcnn litUe io ti , te large quai.tkies a lava gushed out with an horrible )(use. Every thing announced the (;pproach .•(... i .of 2.,- of those great eruptions which always leave 04 .4 et.r t atm so cleplo:able traces. Happily a calm has succeeded, and we now have little to sear. ' VIFNNA, OCTOBER C. Tae Metropol ran Chpter hri received orders to n-tycj.ht,d, within the spaCe• of six wet ki, c') elect an Arc.l4(isirop ; tri there i. rea'spit for :.opposing that the revenuelf (14;s rich bcnctice • will be reduced to sits•nrilFions in bank b(11s, h.catiSe the greater part of the 4n1:4105. will be sold 14or the bener.t c•f'the State. T.hiliaptcr is•the only itr - . in the Monarchy that i•iiiirres proofs of hlttbiti y, there f re all its prebends are . peculited by sans 'of the first' families in' the totpires• . • ' ',. ~ i fl.p;•1 - 1INp, OCTOBER,a. . . i..._ This day oite of the largest magazines of provisions yea, kittrift dpsvii ,- the . *adjoining houses rrere With 11440 Oilietalf sated:' '', -.- ' - -• ; ; 'PETERSBURGH, OCTOBER 8. . :OA ttlearzseh qt-q-lopot Ltst # a Rtpsian corps took by storm an island, situate in the upper part of:the 4iver Loin, which was strongly garrisoned. The --•- • - ; • • enemy last the lassie of-steir great number of ltMed and 'wounded. stated in the wbula of 100 lien. On" the 23d, a Russian detaphment loran* With a strong foraging pasty, near to which ociasion the ilusilans !fad ten men killed, The, Turks lost more than 200 men, exclusive of a ber made prisoners. AALBORG, OCTOBER TA On the 23d instant, an enemy's brig, with three merchant vessels under convoy, passed the Scaw, steering tirs the Cattegat. On the '2.4th, a fleet of the enemy's vessels passed the Scaw, 'and shaped their Course up the Cattegat. mcei vantages oltai. by Gener.d ICutusow, Who commands the Russi in forces in Wallachia. A 4 Imperial Decree of the 4th inst. dated Dussel dorf, ordains, that the expenses consequent on the satisfaction for proupd.rynts, to be defrayed by the associated donecs of I}ayreuth, Erfurt, Fulda, and Hanau, shall be borne in conumn. N4PI..ES, OCT. 20. Vesuvius is again quiets nevertheless a rumbling noise is d ill heard in tlo i nterior of this volcano. Our naturalists infer from this, that we shall soon have another eruption. Tblee hundred workmen are employed daily in replacing the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompea. Some buildings of a considerable size, have lately been clearel from the lava, in which seven.' curi ous antiques, and different specimens of ast, have I been found. LA: MACH, OCT, si. It would appear as if the English hatlentirely with drawn.from the interior of the Adriatic Gulpla. Maritime commerce is reviving ap Trieste. There daily arrive veFsels from Corfn, Venice, Ancona, and Ragusa, lad n with oils, figs, and other corn. mottie;,. The Governor.Gengral of the lilyy:an Provinces continues to visit the diffelent 'countries of Dalmati.tl This country, neglected till now, is susceptible of very considerable improvement. Next year it is in tended to make some experiments with re=gard to tie culture of the cotton-tree. The population of D.il matia, which at present consists of only 2 IpOU souls, might be easily doubled. adaitios to the prtieWs v't all incur fine bp 'by !Ike pikal • the 9th of • V Wl* ' iikere waa a Coo y at :St C 31.0 The- It is confidently repo t ..l,bleibe Russin mb num- sador has teceivedimellizenc; of some imfor . ta3t ad- vantages — obtai n ed - over he army off' Grar d Vizier BERLIN, NOVEMBER 1. Major-General Kruisemark, Ambassador from the Cow t'of France, sct out yesterday on his return to Paris. HAMBURG'', NOVEMBER 2. A division of cuirassiers, which was to have been cantoned in the department of La Lippe, of which Munster is the capital, has received orders to marsh for Erfurt and its neighbourhood, as the dynestery at the present moment prevails throughuutthe greater part of the departnyznt of La Lippe. It is certain that this change in- the disposition of the cantonments, is adopted but as a precautionary measure. ELSINEUR, NOVEMBER S. The weather still colitinucs,tolerably mild, but We have daily rains, „hie n render the roads impassable. For several days past, only one brig hasarrived from the northward, which is still lying in the Roals. FRENCH PApLRS. BOULOGNE, NOVEM BER La. Hitherto the most skilful Aeronauts have tried in vain to steer themselves through the air. M. Anto nio Marchesellt has recently announced, that he has discovered a mode of guiding himself through the air, by the aid of two wings. This process is by no means new. It is well known that it has been often already tried with very unfortunate consequences.— tut such examples do not intimidate our mechanic. Fie has tr►ed his machine already at Lugo, and is ncw about to repeat the eneritnent. He declares, that even since his late trial he is convinced he shall be sufficiently master of his movements to raise him self gently into the air, so that the spectators may keep him in view, and form an opinion of the effect and the cf4cacy of die mechanism he has invented. STUTGARLi, NOV. 6. By a Decree of yesterday's date, his Majesty has dismissed.from his service, and condemned to six months confinement in a fortress, the Bailiff of Blau beueren of Kauffman, as a punishment for several in stances of abuse and arbitrary acts of which he was guilty, respecting the Conscription. The Register Lutz, of the same city, has also been dismissed, declared incapable of holding any public office, and condemned to pay a fine of 100 crowns,' in.consequence of the escalie c f his son, who has de parted from the kingdom. Tke Counsellor of Com merce, Lang, has been deprived of his tide, and is to pay a fine c f 100 crowns for each of his sons, who have also escaped frcm the kingdom. His Majesty, wishing to give to Lieutenant-Gene ral and Adjutant-General De Dillen a proof of his' bounty and approbation of his services, has, by a de cree et this day's date, raised fi'm and his pi.sterity to tic rank of Count. By an Or der of the Day of the same date his Majesty has made a groat number of promotions in the army. His Majesty has also by a decree of the same date conferred the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Me rit on M. de Wiessenhutten, whom he has appointed Captain of the Trained Bands, :with dr_ rank of Lien ; tenant-Gen.. ral ; on the Grand Huntsman and Privy Cs - iuncillor ; on the PrivrCouncillor the Count de Usk-till ; and on the Privy Councillor of State De Meneth. FRANKFORT, NOV. 12. A Deputation of the Jewish Communion of this city went some days since to R.lda. It 4 supposed that it was summoned thither for the purpose of put ting an end to the question tetpecting the claims of the Jews to the right of Cit:zenship, and which has been a Frig time under co,lsideration. This Commu nion has hitherto usually paid 22,500 florins to the public Treasury ; and the doubt now is, how the de. ficiency of that sum can hereafter be supplied. The Gerinan Journals contain the following his torical account; The kii)giom of Bohemia contains exactly 266 cities, 110 saburbs, 295 towns,. 11,8 A villages, 521,702 houses, and 752,137 families. The num ber of the native inhabitants is 3,114,288, and con sequently' exceeds that of 1810 by 27,63+. Of this number, 1,429,715 are males, and 1,684,513 are fe males. - If to these be added the number of strangers, 15,369 of whom are from other parts, ----if Bohemia, 791 from otLer provinces of the mom.,rchY, and 6847 Ircm foreign countries, the whole population of the kingdom ,:mounts to 3,137,495. Of tVs number, 4,191 are tcclesiastics, 2035 N. bles, 6101 PubliC Functionaries and Head Men, 75,727, Burgesses, Commercial Men, and Aristc, 139,369 Peasants, 22,090 Gardeners and Journeymen, and 50,629 Jews. Ql• thl males, 557,630 are married, and 872,215 Bachelors or Widowets. LUBIANA, °C I% sn. The employment of syrnp of gripes and Turkish wheat in pharmaceutic prep.iratious* has been intro duced during the last year, by Doctor Junker and Meszs. Wagner and Wanderschoff, titc. cultivators of Lubiana. The former has extracted and used 472, and the second 50 pounds of srup of grapes. The Intendant of Cannicla has testified •to them the satisfaction he fedi at the Zeal they have manifested is substituting indigenous productions for sugar. • AI.TONA, NOV. 2. The following Public Instrument has been pub. lished: . • • • • " The undOsigned Commission has Monett it tight to reutsv in t* rp -establish, until further • orders, the. measure decreed lest winter, by which all con yetinces of merChandize, I , r',!ither within. the pre cidctrbf the city or tilso'n the Elbe, is proEibited from i ten at night till .seven niorning.. 'All those *hci ihall contravene this .ordeesvili subject • themselvev to the seizure of the merchandize by this Inspector‘the Officers of Police, and the Military Patroles ; and the BERLIN, NOV. 2, Among the changes which the AdMinistration ofl the State has effected ? ene of the most remarkable is, that of the relation between the proprietors of lend and the peasantry. These last are proprietors, and yield to their masters a certain portion of their newly-acquired property to purcha,e an exemption from the corvee and other services of that nature. COPENHAGEN, NOV. 2. The hurricane which lasted fiom the 25th of Oc tober till the end of this month has done much mis chief; if we may judge from the direction of the wind, the greater part of the vessels compsing the enemy's fleet which entered the Baltic on the 20th, must have been cast away on the coast of Pomerania, Prussia, and the Mechlenburgh territory. On the 27th of October the Master of a vesri saw an English frigate without her masts, and with a flag out as a signal of distress near Bornholm, and steering to the South. Nov. s.—The (homage done at lea by the list storm, which lasted from the 25th of Octi.ber to the 2d of November, appears to be very considerable. Along the coast from Dragoe, there are abont fifteen ships on shore, and to all appearanee in a condition never to get afl. at again. Travellers who have ar rived here report that an enemy's frigate had Ire') lost near Falsterbo. They had seen it at first clis maq..d, brit on the following morning it had wholly disappeared. Other travellers assert that an Et lisp ship of the line had struck upon a rock near 1.1. n holm, u here her stern was still visible. Perhaps the last convoy that passed the Belt had no better late. CASSEL, NOVEMBER t The following Decree has been published to day in the Official Journal : The Commission of Government established on the 18th of December, 1810, witn a reference to:the De cree of his Majesty the King of Westphalia, of tht ha of Decernba, 1816, ordering the suppression of all the Chapters, Abbeys, Priories, Monasteries, Convents, and other Ecclesiastical Establishments; except those destined for public education • in conse quence cif the 4th article of this Decree, which unites to the Domains of the State all the revenues of die aforesaid ; in consequence of the article 159 of the Imperial Decree of the 4th of July, which orders the liquidation of Pensbni, Civil, Ecclesiastib and Mi litary, in the HanseatiO Departments, w ever may be their nature ; and in consequence of the Decree of tile 25th of July, which enjoins the Commission of Liquidatirn instituted by the 160th article of the aforesaid Desiree of the fth of July to liquidate thos pensions —Order, 1 hat the Administrators of the Registry and of the National Domains, be invested with the adminis tratkm of the revenues of all the ChMers, Abbeys, Priories, Monasferies, Convents, and other Ecclesias tical establishments, whatsoever may be their nature, united to the National Domain by virtue of the Royal Decree aforesaid of the Ist of December, 1810, as well as with the recovery of their produce, and the caritals attached to them. The Titularies and other individuals of the suppref sed establishments of both sexes will continue to enjoy their revenues with the deduction of the tenth, and charges to which they were subject. There will be also a deduction proportioned to the part which was possessed of these revenues by individuals of the afore paid Monasteries, who have died since the Royal De cree of the sth f Febsuary, 1808. AMSTERDAM, NOVEMBER. it On the 15th, the first payment for 1811 will be made to maimed seamen, and to the widows, parents, and children of seamen killed, or otherwise lost in the service of the State f of the pensions granted by the fi-devatii Commissioners of the Patriotic Fund for the Promotion of the Naval service, patablisbed in Hol land in 1781. Those itho have been employed in the different ad , ministrations of the former Qovernment,,Who, whe- Pier by contribution or by the sacrifice of entolurnents, have co-nperated is the formation of the fund for the support of widows and orebans, hirsbeen authorised ro'form a commission for the administration and the Maintenance - of' the said fund, - in unison with two ,Members of the tuticipal Coanaft Of Amstridani. • The foliating article hai been already inserted in differentiournals, but with some inaccuracies which ttli.pretier nicarrect. ' The following is . a fsl and aothent4 On of OA 4401 tent i • - it Since tbp mouth of ,May, 1811 t the British Go. 11M112111t has devised, in favour of those 'soldiers is its Lind-service - who from infirmities or wounds have become incapable of further service, a plan of provi sion on their retiring from service, which, if it does not reflect lonctur on its humanity, does credit to its epnomy, at least, and secures for it the unquestiena. rile advantage cf retarding, for three or four day:, the fall of the tinonciirl system. 4. Soldiers whd have served 20 or SO years, covered with wounds, but who belonged to some provinces subject to England before the Revolution changed Cie Canine:nal System. or who under any other. cio cumstances were ingaged in the service of Great taut, are consWered past the :tee and condition fir bearing longer the s fatigues of war, and diseharLeat f.om th eir eng igeraeots. • I f , In France, every soldier that is discharged is ad mitted into the Hotel of Invalids; or if he pr fers re turning to his Emily, is granted an amount in p iy ch his retiring from the service sufficient to insure him lionoprahle subsistence. Even useful offices were often elFered to these venerable servants wh .1 they N..\!te judged competent to fill tht m. There is not s ngle I);srict Ati:Maistration that does not aft' rl ottna'rer. or examples. But these strict and meth...- 1 dical calculations 4 a father of a family, wisely di. - t' ibuting amongst his children the produce of Ls eco rrmy, not suit the magnificence and luxury of tis- Government. Emicted by all the trea , ere. of Indi it is with a portion of these riches II: it the ( British Government pretends to provide for the rode. peadence and establish the (orturs cf all these ad. e have shed their blood in conquering it f.r them.- 1 Tney sown he released learn the necessity of h tying recourse to the ht. - mots , and protection of t'io ender where sovereignty they aro again al,out to lace. thbrr.seives ; they must b; made secret prin . :ea for thettiture : bat this must not be at the esp:nce any sacrifice t such are the suggestions of ::tie and pride of the Oale . .net of lemadon. 44 Thirty-six francs are advanced to each of the , " old soldi;rs ; thirty-six francs are to be to Oran et p-oyisiJn in lieu of cc retry, family, and native co , dition—to secure for their old• age an asylum from suffering and misery —and even to serve as an ir.clem niiy for the dangers to which they are exposed by having secretly insinuated into their bage,ar, when. ever the Captains who convey them do not plunder it, s tch libellous publications as a strong and generuut G may be satisfied to treat with contempt; but for the introdnceon of which into any o:hrr roar.. try in the world, the bearers would be most certainly treated as spies. ,With thirty-six francs, and clothed with the rig. ged rem tins of old scarlet uniform; which they are to drag along all the roads Of 'the C -rat:nn,t of Lt:- rope, in testimony of the high-minded generosity ri the Government e•ey have served, these unhappy beings are co.‘ye)edov; - ;r by hundreds to lirligiland. Thence, when the mi merit is safe, and it is %tote cer. tun that there is no Fiench detachment in the i•l..inds that border upon the ancient East Frier-land, daring Captains approach by night fur the purp.)se cf put ting them ashore on vie deserted (oasts of I,ange roog and Baltrum. Some of them are often (iron n el there even at the moment of their debarkation, so great is the apprehension and precipitancy in :recoil) . - phshing the objet.; many abet's, either invalids or unable to proceed, perish (*the sands, over m leaentes of which they have to pass: the reminder. 0 ' perishing with hunger, are soon picked up by the military posts, by the police, or by the pf4cers Gf customs, happy to the indebted fox. their lives' to the precautions generosity to-preserve their lives by the Government against whrop they have long been fighting. " It is well known that the tredve English are r.ot treated with this barbarity; and that in the same manner as the British Government exposes enly fo reign ttoops so the &tigers of battle, it is likewise for foreign soldiers that it reserves the privilege of being treated *n t're manner above described, when they Are no longer good for any thing. Hanoveriana r Wes-plialiaos, Prussians, Swiss, I-Inngarians, Poles, and Russians, ate all t'eated in the same manner.— Thirty-six francs wipe cif the. demand of every one of them, whatever may be the event of their age, of the severity of their wounds. Eight hundred decla rations received by a commission appo•nted by his Majesty to decide upon the fate of these unfortunates, c Infirm the fact, and the real state of dies • prisoners; witich has been communicated to us, a;;c1 we shall successively publish, in painting ow the pl ice whies they hive cho.;.en fbr their retreat, will leave no dotibt in skis respect in the mind of any man. 66 Whilst such scenes are taking place on the eastern shores of the Ems, couriers from Harwich. Gravesend, and Lond , m, eager to second the gene rous views of their Governmeat, perform the s inr• duty on a small scale, but in a manner equally pro ductive, but not less cruel, on the coasts of the North Sea, situate between the mouths of the Meuse ant the Texel. These wretches seek out every where passengers who are anxious to proceed to the Conti nent, and'boasting of having the means of conveying them in spite of the measures taken to prevent all 'communication, shamefully impose upon their cre dulity, and engage to convey them at an enormous price. 66 These passengers are crowded into fishing-bnats, and taken to within a few leagues of the Dutch —it is only then that they are made acgitai:stAl with the certain danger they ruts of being arrested, if they do not attend to all the precautions which are pre scribed to therh, In sitch a cruel situ ition what are they to do ? 'they are directed in the middle of the night,- and sometimes at half a league distance front tire beach, to descend from the vessel,' and make tor the shore, with the water often up to their shoulders ; if they do not obey with a good grace force is em ployed to compel them. Soetimes in these unhappy beings are cast upon the ridge of a sand-bank at low water, so that when the tide flows their destruction is inevitable; if there be a ford it is impossible for thin to find it in the dark, and in that case also they ate sure to perish. 64 About one fifth of such passengers at most nrdioarily attire on shore, and bless the agents of authority. who, eetployed to prevent all illicit communieations, take them up in the execution of their 'orders. Being almost in every instance in a situation in which - th cannot bear with them their baggage ' they are ob liged to leave it on board the verse that brings them, and in case of ter afterwards (lemandingit t the cossfusioo that reigns at the moment of hurrying them 'Awls& Into the boat, affords a opportun e u of - ploideriog them of It." ~,. ti l~;. ~w ~4+