The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-05-19 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The rig. rig iniportat.ce of this quarter 11f this
globe, rrertiit.g )rally such II 11•1111 repining" of
territ..ry ah it e•orli oil increase .4 its poputstn,
from Wilton slid without, at well us the mill exi.a
jug struggle in the southern hemisphere hrtwere
the owl their raislavers, ionisers us to it...
our atlrlllll.Bl loiwordi it More friqueritly, perhaps,
also Hgerrislile to the generality of o.lf rtiltirf
NL W Onuta-us.—A letter from belie.,
March 2M, `3)'• : —Our commerce soil our sgrie,,f„
tare daily experience a roost extrivordniair
cultivainm smell& on every part of the 6..4,
of the Misaissippr. Nature calls our city, in Its
ruination, to become one of the most 11u5i0.h,„.4
depots of commerce which have ever t 5.0.4.
Our popelation is lime river 50,000, and It lakes
each day • new flight.
Whilst a crowd of strangers lead on oar she+.s.
others conning from ilie North, from the %Jolted
States. descend the Oiiin and the Mirenuippi. Th.
population may be calculated ill toe f,,110.11,4
neamser ; five-tenths of French origin, fous.ieoths
Amerman or Biuglialta and oar-tenth of Spanish
origin. The acquiaittou of the Florida's again, it
nee circumstance wheels may be expected to have
considerable ii.ll4euce on our oomustrcid prim*.

Building is going On with woolerfol ortiritr,
print ipally near the beak of the river, said itic
F•sithourg St. Marie, which Now forms the wort
beautiful quarter of the city.
Every day now societies apply for flue grant of
land, which are iustuntly given up to cultiviitimi.
A general arise, is established here, which lakes
ch irge of all. sales and purchases of this kiud ; it is
directed by Din. Michel de Arms, of Spanish on.
gin, notary-puhlic; and by Mr. Jame. Workman.
All bestows* is trsurscical at the C ifi Ma sere,
this is our Excliatige--our littir Lloyd's.
The iatroduction of Strain Engines for our in-
terior navigation has produced the mint esti-an/in-
nary effects. These vessels, by the rapidity of shear
progress, shorten, so to streak. the greatest distance,.
'Flory go up the Mississippi. the Ohio, and the
Mis.ouri, against the current, and require billy
thirty days to traverse a distance cf 2.000 wilco.,
which separates our city from Pensitylvauni. They
thus ewl a blush an immense and rapid cirridation
until now without example w any couniry to the
world.

The Arts, the Sciences ton, begin to become ris.
(waltzed aiowirt us. We live a Society of Aer-
culture ; a Medical Society is establi-tied by its
act of the Legislature : a Society of Emulation ;
seral parses which publish as manyournal.:
L' dmi des Lois is written in French, Le Jewess! fie
Louisiana in the same language and in English, The
Orleans Gasete, in Eugbrh, &c. We base two
theatre., that of Olean* siol that of Swint l'hili!.,
liniments perform ut the firm of these theatres, co-
ruedierl and French wilco's; the second is devoted
to Ilkeetlel di 'drains* which
our ladies 'partake of with enthusiasm.

It is unfortunate that our city should be the focus
of the yellow lever. We rainrinber the sieges
which it spread amongst us in 1817. The Mis”...
sippi as the Nile of America ; the town is built hr..
low the level or the neer on a slimy soil. which suffers
the water to escape only to the depth sof a few feet:
it is surrounded by cypress trees and maralse..
The river, on its retiring during the summer, leaves
an extruded slimy plain covered with the refuse
of auunal and vegetable matter. which owing to the
heat of the sun is promptly decomposed; beuce
the cause of the yellow fever, which attacks as,
corners in particular.
The fear of this scourge does not, however. pre•
rent our population from increasing more rapidly
than in any other part of Louisians. It consisted of
130,000 inhabitants in 1810; it is now 577,934.
according to the latest documents, Natchez. which
was only a miserable assemblage of cabins on the
banks of the Mississippi, near an old fort, i‘ Bow
a beautiful town, peopled by 4,000 souls, m berg
there are tribunals, a sherd, several public esta-
blishments, u press, and a journal.
You will recollect the frightful picture the Abbe
Rapist gives of these sands of the Mobile, where
so many Frenchmen perished iu the depth,
misery. It is in this very some place where eves
yet, under the Spanish Government, are only 'ova
a mass of wretched hovels that there is now esta-
blished as active and Ind ust riot's population ; Wooly.
timber-yard,', magazines, are erected in every
quarter; •tuilitary Justine, a custom-hoise, sot
public establisli,iteAs assure the speedy devrlcipe-
meut ors city already peopl..d with too anus.

The hope pilot-heat leaded on Wrtlar.day, al Suuthanita.
ton, the pass. neers and thapatchrs yCtieship Luts%,
tun, from Benal e.d Calcutta

PRICE OP STOCIDI YINTERDAY

Bank Stock.. Yl6* 4Y6 Bank L. Ana. 18 1-16.
3161 India Stoek.. vit
3 per Cent. Red. 671 69 indite ttoudr"ei a 4 r.
per Ct. C0n5...691if New Annuities.... IS9f
3} per Cent.... MO Es. Bills. 4 pr.
4 per Cents. '7* Cons. fir Am... 11912 k
5 per Ct. N. Atli). 1001 i

BIRTHS
On Saturtlay,!he 13th instant, in C

James's-

stelae, the Laity Georg!•ua Gs enfeit, of a thtight.r.
Oa Wedacsitay, the 17th inst. in Gloareareltlece.
taan.square, the LA.ly rrf 11.iIliam Lynch, EN. at a so:.
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