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COMMERCIAL. AMERICAN NAVIGATION ACT.. The following notification .pp m in the Nalifax Circni:k of the I Ith ultimo, quoted from the Inde• :tag:Chronicle of the 4th s 0 We are authoesed to state, that the Collector of 1 : e Customs for this District has been directed to pet . I, e f o llowing construction, for the present, on the Navigation Act of March 1, 1817. Vessels owned in Great Britain, may bring into !!‘: United States from the British West India Islands, r any other of her colonies, cargoes consisting ~f ar ticles the g rowth, production, or manufacture of said agonies. Vessels arrived in any British colony can pke a cargo from another British colony and bring i o ta the United States. Great Britain and S.veden re t he only nitions which have a similar regulation to that contained in the Navigation Act of the United States, and of course they are the only nations which are affected by it." MONTREAL, SEPTEMBER so. We learn hem the Niagara Spectator of the 21st ult. that a mutual agreement has been made between' ti e Aro , I;zails and British Government, that neither pour retain in service more than two revenue czttrs, et twu guns each, in either Lake, and that s;ttnontl,s previous notice of an intention to augment t!,it force e,n either side shall be given. '11,4 arrangement shews the friendly footing on which we stand with our neighbours. It will be the mea ns (,f avoiding ocoasions of collision and jealousy, and saving to both a vast expense. QUEBEC, OCTOBER 4. The number of vessels arrived at' this port from Ka since the opening of the navigation is 240 ; the nliniber of settlers, chiefly from Great Britain, al- Iready arrived, is 2857 ; and about 200 are shortly I cspectad from Germany. NAVAL INULLAGENCII. MAILS-all. DUC. Alt. DIM th,stn - 0 1 France -- • 1 0 Waterford -- 0 1 Gottenburgh -• O. S 1 Cuffing andiersey 0 1 Flanders --- 0 0 Lisbon - - - 0 O New York -. 0 0 Holland - - .., 1 0 Hamlaurgh - - 0 2 FALMOUTH, NOVEMBER I. Wind from S : to S.W.—The Arabella packet, with Mails for Lisbon, is gone into the Roads. PORTSMOUTH. NOVEMBER 3. Wind S.E.—Sailed his Majesty's .hip ROSARIO on cruize. DEAL, NOVEMBER S. Wiod S.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the 1111.gton,hone Ceylon. Came down from the Rol r ;he Duckenfield, London, and Nisbett, for Jamaica; Gr.ce. for South America; and Mary, for Calcutta-.-the London has sailed. Folio o'CLocx.-..The wind is now S.E. and the ,ontward.boutid have attempted to get away, but the • Rood tide corning, accompafirird by a thick fog, has [ prevented their sailing. DOVER, NOVEMBER S. Sailed this Morning the Queen Charlotte, Captain THOMAS, for Calais, with passengers. Arrived Ibis day the Sybil, Captain MIDDLETON, from Calais. HARWICH, NOVEMBER a. Arrived the Princt of Orange packet, with a Mail Nip Holland. Sailed the Castlereagh packet, with a Mail for Crxhaven. STROMNBSS, OCTOBER 24. 1 Arrived the Eddystone, Davis, from Hudson's Bay, with timber and furs. Captain . Davis saw, in lat. 50.31 x. long. 17. 30. the brig Rover, of Newcas tle, came close past her, fired two guns, but no men to be seen; her sails were furled, and the sea was going in and out of the cabin windows; The Eddy none could not touch her for the sea. • GRAVESEND, NOVEMBER S. Arrived die Staff of Life, Pro° Irons Cork; Isabella, Lawson, horn Jamaica; A'avre, Trader; and Northunsberlpwit, hum Memel; Edward, Wessels, from Bretton; Wasblogtoo, Foreman, from New York s and Swallow Packet, Nesbitt, from Genoa.—Sailed the Perseverance, Stoakley, for Newburgh; and Christina, Rotors, for Anostordern. CUSTOM-HOVIE, NOVEMBER s. Sang ENTIRID bawaans.—The Mersey, ; Edward Mee, ; and Expedition, Baxter, from Honduras ; Triton, Doison; Bugle, Berney; Lord Niddry, Richards..; Provi dence, Fife; Hope, Trotter ; Brave, Frost; Agincourt, Mathern ; Peace, Gariand;' Lord. Middleton, Kerr; John and Charlotte, R ; Roberts, Posse ; Nolly, Anthony; Mary Ann. Aim:, moot ; and Raiford; Garrett from Qeebec Crescent, Brace Mentor Osborn; Naas* anteChercbdl,........; and Jean, Darby, from M alaga ; Wootton, WAlpine ; and Daphne, Bruce, from Trani& ; Britannia, Jacksoo, from Hansbergh; WWlssls Henry, Oreenwell, from Clarence; Garland, Cassie; Ruth, Gay; and kne, Space, from basica; Louisa, Nicholls I Speculation, AIM , derseuDuncan, ; Lord Stephenson; and Playlltria Herbert true Oporto • Regard, Flegg, from Rotterdam ; Sax gnat ;mad drantham, Wood, from Demerara ; Mart, Partridge, from Marna s m ;Frededek.Shephard ; and Paquette tle Bilboa, . j a minia, Fraser, from Labradors ; Telma. dius, Phillips; and St. Johannes, from Santander; Sonja milt and Mary, Coates, from Memel; Happy Return, Kerridge i from Waterford; Severn, Glib, from Lisboa; Diana, Batchelor,, hula Cork; Brat:lock, Peter, frost St. Java; Reck, Findlay, ?runt Sicily; Fordtude, Worts, from Rio Janeiro; Whiting, Codes, from. Leghorn; Maria. Pratt, from the Havannab ; Maris and Mary, —, from Virginia; and Isabella, Osborn, from Sierra Leone. Onrumess.—The Aerma. Harvey, for Waterford ; Berwklit Campton, for Barbadoes; Donegal, Courtenay, for Belfast; kiln and Ann, Hammett, fur Dublin ; Margaret, Glen, for Hayti; Neptune, Stranack, for Ostend; Ranger, Hurry, for la ma ca; sod Rambler, Knight, fur Malta, Smyrna, and Cowan tinny*. The prize-Money for the sailors and marines ern ployeil on the coast of America, will shortly Win course of payment. His Grace the Duke of Wataturroa arrived at Dover yesterday morning, in the Lord Duncan packet, Captain HAMILTON, from Calais, and imme diately went to the Castle, where Lord CASTLSAZAOIi bas been staying some days. The Marquis and Marchioness of ANOLMIZA and the Ladies PAoaT, are arrived at their house tat Old Burliugtoarsueetfrom PAria. THE ARMY. The Earl of D.►r.novsts, now Lientenadt-Govetnor of Nova Svotia, is to succeed Sir JOHN SHIRSBOON as Governor-General and Commander-in-chietinCaaada. Major HAY, who acted as Military Secretary to the late much lamented Sir JANES LE&H at the time of Isis death, and at his Aid.de•catnp Spain, is ap pointed Assistant Quarter Master and Barrack Master 1) thr island ot Grenada. The report that the 44th and 77th Regiments are under orders for India, is without foundation, and we understand that it is not in the contemplation of Government to send out any troops to that. country for the present. The Lady Raffles, with Sir THOMAS STAMPORD !Lamas, Lady itAPIPLIS, and suite on board, which lately sailed from Portsmouth for Bencoolen, of which he has been appointed Governor, has been forced into Falmouth by adverse winds. Accounts have been received of the melancholy acc►dent which deprived the service, in India, of the gallant and distinguished Major entarzet.t., of the Soh Regiment of Bombay Native liitantry. The Major, with a party of Officers belonging to the Poona's subsidiary fotce, were enjoyisg the pleasure Of hunting the w►ld hog. They started a satuber (3 large kind of deer), and while eager in the pursuit over a rugged country, the M.jor's horse fell, and the hlajur was so severely hurt that he ►urvived but a iew• hours. On his body b,ing opened, it was found that the kidnies were completelli destroyed. KOSCI USKO. The Poles resident at Paris celebrated in the Church of St. Roth, on Friday last, a Funeral Service, in honour of ►heir immortal countryman, the great and gallant Koscluszo. So deeply tinged was the fate of this illustrious hero and patr►ot, that it spread its dank and melancholy hues over the mind that would con template it; and posterity, when they 'read the record of his v►rtues. will shed a tear of pity a t hi s mis. fortunes.— Pol .nd is blotted from the list of nations, and the fragments of her broken sceptre are in the hands of those who nitre once her ene►r►ies. The chivalry with which she resisted her invaders was unhallowed by success, and, without the crime, she lhas suffered the punishment of rebelli n. But the sunset of her day was not without its glory, and we 'may look through the darkness of the storm which has since enveloped Europe, to where the mild ra diallers of her departing grandeur still tinge thehorizon. Through all the eventful changes she underwent, and the fearful struggles in which she was invotv,d, Koscivazo was the soul of her councils, and the strength of her battles. Si.sgularly gifted by Pnovt nePcz, to a strong constitution and .s person athletic and robust, he added a soul superior to misfortune, where virtue sat enthroned, and in conscious security seemed to smile upon the world. With him in our view, unmingted with doubt, we can read of the po verty of Antsrmis, and the daring hardihood of the Hero of Thermopy Is. When the aggrandizing spirit of CATHILRINI led tier to send forth her army to ravage and destroy his country—when despair sat broodu►g upon every heart, and the bravest were appalled, .Koactunto remained alone unmoved—. *a *idiom a sign Wayward dm brave man drat% Aabiadmale4lllll l , ti or lkweinitrtroramealr• The unfortunate result we will nut dwell upon. KOSCIUSKO, after a noble struggle, was subdued, and Poland was annihilated—. _ Hope for a season bade.the world farewell, AM Froodoos shrieked as Kosciu sio fell I SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. STATEMENT OF Tilt ODDS ON THE DERBY STAKES, Nov. S.—DERBY STAKES, tare. Taken-14 to 1 apt a. by Sorcerer, out of Horaby Lad. Taken-14 to 1 apt c. by Orville, out of Allegretto. Taken-14 to 1 apt a. by Waxy, oat of [(install. 16 to I sin Brother to Crecy. 16 to 1 apt c. by %Way, out of Witco's. OAKS. 9 to 1 on the field. HUNT= a.—The Prince Regent's Stsg Homids meet Friday, at Wiakfield Plain, at ten. J. Maberly, Esq.'s Fox-Hounds meet Thursday, at the Swan, Wickham • Saturday, at Riddiesdown. H. ] eUtile, Esq.'s Fox Hounds meet to-morrow, at the twenty. fonemile-stone, Reigate Road; Saturday, at Kinguwood Gate. The Sandernead Harden meet Mondays, Wedoesdays, and Saturdays, at Kennel, three miles distant hen Croydon. TM Hatfield Hounds met (lb Thursday, at New Mill End; ihnirday, at Warren Gate, at half putter. The Oakley Hounds meet Thursday, at Manton Thrift ; tr nudity, at Bush Mead, each day, at tea. The Quorndon Hounds meet tomorrow $ Widmerpool lAN Friday, at Kettleby ; Saturday, at Bonney, at half past ten. Sir Bellingham Graham's Hounds meet to-morrow at Grooby. Pool; Friday, at Kirkby ; Saturday, at Thorpe, each day, at 155. Sir Henry Crewe's Fos Hounds will meet at Smalley, en Thursday, the Sth. Mr. Meynell's Fos Hounds will meet on Thursday at Hoar cross, and Saturday, at Holly Bush. The Hampshire nomads meet to-morrow at Braaten Com mon; on Thursday, at the New Inn, La m m ; on Saturday, at Ablxesdon Down. Mr. Chute% hounds meet on Thursday, at Nutley Wood, itnd an Friday, at Upton Park. The Hambledos hounds meet tomorrow at Sautes Downs, and en Friday at Curbridge Common. - The Penrith Rants AT.iensbly, at the George Inn, on Friday'le'nnight, was one of the most splendid aver witnessyd in Penrith there were present about 140 fashionable,. The Stag turned out next day ',afore most excellent sport, and gave a lgag chase Wore it was retaken. FEMALE P EMT RUN itai.•.Zither Crozier completed 43 miles on Sunday, after resting three hours and a half during the day. She started again yesterday morning at stx o'clock, and at half past four in the afternoon she had performed SO miles. The Earl of PEMBROKE and CountWonownow em barked this morning at Dover, on board the King George, Captain Mincan, for Calais. The Serpent of the Ocean, which is supposed to be thisarne as the Kraken of Pontoppidan, is said to have visited the Western Hemisphere, where it ap peais to have deeply engaged the attention of the t American Naturalists. It is questionable whether at the.present moment it would have excited more than ordinary interest in the people of London, if it had evien - appeared in the river Thames,' so much-is their Attention taken up with the Drawing of the Lottery, which will SIMMINICC Next FRIDAY. PLAREMONT, NOVEMBER S. Monday, Four o'Clock, P. M. To-day, st noon. the Princess CHARLOTTE took an airing in her open chair in the Park. Her ROYAL HIGHNESS remained out about an hour and a kilt.— Prince LEOPOLD, attended by Baron HAMM:BURG, took the diversion of shooting, Expresses were, we understand, sent off early this morning to the ANCHBISHOP of Cistrzanuitx, the LORD CHANCELLOR, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE- QUER, and other Cabinet Ministers, requiring their immediate attendance it Claremont. The accouchement is expected to take place same time in the course of to-dar or to-morrow. We are assured that the preparations for the at couchensent of the Princess CHARLOTTE are of the most simple and unostentatious kind, ju. such as would be made for the Lady of a private Gentleman. The M irchioness of EXaTER left Town this day, for Lord GWYDIR'S seat, Sidmouth, Devon. The Earl. of GUILFORD entertained a select party yesterday, at his house in St. James's-place. Lord Aurtionre is returned to his seat, Wiseton Hall, Notts, from a shooting party in Norfolk. The Bishop of LoNoou is arrived at Fulham PaUse, from a tour. 'M Countess of HAAINGTON will return to El- vaiton, Derbyshire, in a tew days, from her house in tnrStable-yard, Si. James's. The Earl and Countess of DARNLEY are expected home nest week, from Paris. Lord and Lads HOLLAND and family are expected at Holland•house to-morrow or Thutsday, frdm Paris. Lord Gwintn and Lady Witt.oucasit and family, are expected in town this week.. from their seat, Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire. DRURY-LANE THEATRI.—The novelty of last night was Mr. H. JosotsTote's performance of the character of Sir Archy Mactareasm, in the Farce of Love a-la mode. Mr. JOHNSTON'S accent was truly Scotch. The necessities of dramatic effect required that the eha racter slibuld be somewhat caricatured, while taste, on the other hand, prescribed moderation. He hit the mark with dexterity, being neither too ertrava gent nor too tame in his theatrical enlargenitt of its peculiarities. COVVIT-OARDEN.TheTragrdy of WOO, in which Mr. YOUNG supported the character o the Moor, was last night performed. Mr. You•to was, tet think, more successful, last night, in his picture of the cha racter, than on any previous occasion. In the pa roxysms nt jealous rage there was more of fire than he formerly displayed—and we also ob►erved, in the melancholy of Othello, a considerable accession •of terling. Miss O'Nent. appeared as Desdemona—and played the character in her usual style of excellence. Mr. BOOTH supported the character of logo. He was well received —and, looking to the whsle of his performance, we are far from thinking that he is an inefficient lap. Gitocsaamicar. BULL.—An Irish Gentleman writes to his Correspondent at Leith not to forward his usual supply of Coals • this season. as he has bad the good !octane to discover a valuable vein of Scotch Coals on his own estate, in the neighbourhood of Belfast. Br *letter from Washington we learn, that the eeulation of the French General Officers for a set- thuiLesson--Molsihs, is entirely pireific and apical tuff, though the vicinity of the place to Mexico may lead in the end to important political results. A ;se goci ition was managed by the able and excellent di. plematist, Mr. Las, the late American Consul at Bourdeaux, for the purchase of 100,000 acres of land by Generals CLAUZILL, Feints DISMOUIETTEE. Nahanni/R i p GARAI= DU SAINTPS, LA KA.. NAL, and others, and which was brought to a success ful conclusion. The above persons, with a numerous body of farmers, artisans, and peasants,. formed thensoelves into a company, and they obtained the cession of 96,000 acres of land, at two dollars per acre, payable in fourteen years, without interest—with liberty to choose the spot between the 32d and 3.50 i degree of latitude in the Mississippi territory, on condition that they should plant the vine and olive. They have chosen an excellent situation on the Mo bile River, at the mouth of the Black Warrior, called, in some maps, the Tuk-a-too-sa, a fine climate, and rich soil. They have already fixed themselves there, and there are foul townships within their district. Land in their neighbourhood has been selling at pub lic sale in the Government Land Office, at from 2 to 70 dollars per acre, averaging 40 dollars. Some of the subscribers to the French Company have been offered 20 dollars per acre profit on their shares.— The four townships included in their bargain are esti mated to ba worth at least 2,000,000 of dollars. This is one of the most extraordinary speculations ever known even in America, fertile as it is in spirited ad ventures, It cannot fail that such a colony, planted in such a situation, must produce singular advantages to the American States, as well as to the settler a themselves. The new Russian Tariff, which is daily looked for, is repotted to be very favourable to the commerce of Ws country. WILLIAM HARVEY, late Mate of the Britannia, came to Saltcoats abqut a fortnight ago, after suffer ing, with ten more of the crew, great adversity. The vessel was shipwrecked on the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1816, when the crew escaped on shore, after the manner prescribed by Captain MANBY ; and the only provisions saved weft a few apples, and a small quantity of beet and pork. They found a tree, which they planked with a hand-saw,, and therewith lengthened the boat, in hopes it would carry them off, but the next night a frost closed it up. Two I wandering hunters came and directed them where provisions might be obtained ; and eight of them set of, expecting to return in three weeks, but that occu- 1 pied eleven weeks. Two men and a boy remained with the wreck, and for eight of these weeks had only four apples each a day for their whole support. They were seven months in these disastrous circum stances, and their only shelter was a tent, from the remains of an old fore-sad. The snow was from 14 to 22 feet deep. There was plenty of game, but they had no means of taking it. The boy lo.t his reason. Spirits, bead 30, coagulated. None of these men lost fingers or toes. A schooner was wrecked about a mile distant from them, and only one Englishman -saved. He must have suffered still more, for it was necessary to amputate botti his feet and hands ; and without fret or hands he has been returned home. TO THR RIGITT HCINt LO Rn S 1 DM , LITAI Pri , .cfpal Stem ry of State fir Ih: Hoop Deprtmeot. MY Loan—lt wit not, I trust, be necessary to apologize to yoer.tolthip for calling your attention to some circumstances which appear to have escaped notice during the late trials for Hi4liTr. Ilion. It is laid down in the books on Criminal Pleadings, upon the authority of a case in Lord Raymond's Reports, th..t no person On be indicted by two Christian nam•s. The case in Lord Raymond is, Rey varata Newman, vol. Ist, page 562, in the folio edition of 4775. " Defendant was indict e d by the mina! of ilizateth Newman, &c. alien Judith Hancock , f or & c . r. King moved to quash it because a worn in can not have two Christian names : for which reason in a case in WY the return of a rescous was :loathed. And for this reason the indictmem was gnashed." The same is laid down in Civil Pleadings also in Lewd Raymond's Repnrts, vol. 2d. page 1016 ; whets though a plea in abatement was held bad in form. Lord Holt, C. J. and Powell, Justice, both) decidedly agree that " a man can have but one name of i.olitns." In the late trials the first prisoner tried was indicted by the description of "Jeremiah Brandreth, late of the same parish of Pentridge, in the same county, labourer, otherwise called Jahn Coke, late of the same place, labourer, &c." Again—" Joseph Tur ner, late of the same parish of Southwingfield, in the same county of Derby, labourer, otherwise called litancberter Turner, Lite of the same place, labourer s &c." Sir Matthew Hale, Pleas of the Crown, vol. 23, page '193, remarks; /slope of the Statutes of leofails extend to indictments, and thetefore a defective in. dictment is not aided by a verdict." Mr. Justice Blackstone, b. 4, chap. 30, indeed re marks, that writs of error, to revere attainder: in capital cases, are only allowed ex gratin, aial' not without express warrants under the King's sign ma nual, er at least by consent of the Attorney-General ; but a higher authority, Sit Matthew Hale, vol. Ist, ,page 353, says, that judgments le treason Are rever sible at common law by writs of error, :tea the Stat. 7th William 3, cap. 5, after enacting that no indict ment, dec. shall be quashed fur ecc. adUs, but such judgments may nevertheless be reversed upon writs of error, as before the passing of this Act," thereby intimating that the writ of error in treason was bf right. Sir Matthew Hale, chap. 32, vol. 23, page 251, ' remarks upon the authority of Lord Coke, 4+ Rep. that if one be indicted attei convicted of felony, but • bath not judgment of death, it is no bar to a new in dictment, if the first were insufficient ; but it clerky allowed or attain', though upon an insufficient in ' dictment, it is a good bar to an indictment, or appeal fur the same crime in all cases, but in appeals of death ; the last by Stat. Si, Hy. 7, cap. 1. Whatever may be the guilt of the persons in clues.. tion, your Lordship will doubtless consider them en titled to all the benefits they can derive from the de 'cisions of former periods, and the strictness with which the laws of their country have at all times watched over the deprivation of human life. I am, my Lord, your most respectful servant. isanutsrit, Yesterday, at three o'clock, Parliament was pro rogued by commission with the usual formalities, till Tuesday, the 16th day of Decetaber nest. Tl:e C.aa. misaioners Were IC! LORD Cunsicat.t.on, Viscount MatAtiu.s, and Lord Sr. HELENS. None nl the other Peesi were present. Mr. RICKMAN and the other Of ficers, as usual, represented the H 'use of .Commons. Our Readers have bees long since made acquainted with Mr. O'Coanna's &terinination to prosecute Owen: and Warring for perjury. At the preient Dub lin Commission, bills of indictment were sent against the former of them to the County, and against the latter to the City Grand Jury. The bilis against Owens have been- ignored, but those against his ac complice have been hund. Enemas: AT Ptn•lH.—Friday, the two unfortu natt men, Clark and G. ifyle, who were capitally convicted at the I.st Circuit held at Perils, were, ift pursuance of their sentence. executed in front of the old jril there, ro nicest* the utmost penitence and contrition on account of the crime for wl►ich they suffered. The circumstance f a number being drawn a £20,000 Prize, after it bad been previously drawn a Blank, has treated great interest cnncerning the pre. sea Lottery, as it is to be drawn on the same plan as the one in which the event above alluded to oc curred :—the number was 4,867, drawn 9th July r.a.t a Blank, and re-drawn on the 19. h of the same month a 820,000 Prize, and shared by BIM I.i it) Siz teen Sizteeoth Ihares. It is more than probable that some of the numbers drawn Blanks NEXT FRI. DAY will afterwards be Capitals, and Blues Offices, OM having in almost every Lottery for many year' past sold more Capitals than any other, are expected so sell the greater part, if not ail the Sii €20,000 Prizes in the Lottery which begins NEXT F RIDAY. About ten o'clock, on Sunday night, as a respee. table young woman was going along Ailrahury. street, Clerkenweil, a man came op to her, and with out speaking a word, gave her a violent slap on the cheek ; she turned round surprised, and demanded why he struck her ? on which he pulled out a long bar, and said, 1 mean to cut your throat p she gave a loud scream and ran away calling out murder t—.. a man who fortunately happened to be fusing at the. same time came to her assistance, on which the vii. lain, without speaking, made two or three desperate thrusts with the knife at the man, which he had the good lock to ward off, and seizing the assassin Ey the wrist, which he held in spite of his struggling. until assistance came ; the felllw was properly stew. red and, lodged in the watch-hoose. Yesterday he was brought before the Sitting Magistrates, at Hat ton Garden, where the charge was satisfactorily proved. On being asked what his motive was to commit so horrid crime ?he said he bad no mo. tive. He was ordered to give 48 hours notice of bail, and in the mean time was committed. A few months ago it was considered a grand Lot tery when the &Acme contained three or four Capitals of 420,000, and then there were 4 Blanks to l Pr tae, and the Public were charged about £24 for a Ticket —bbt in the Lonely ullich begins Next Fliday, there are ism Prizes of £20,000. and mere Prizes than Blanks, yet the Price of jackets is nearly than turnerly : fur thew self-evident improvements in the Lottery System, the thanks of the Public 41V due to Mr. Sivewitoact. -e