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sasiassai.se rgaiik die mini also 16124; owe di Os
Olken ewer tbseght 11,1(1111. James Agaves meld be a
girlolreeled its eitee'rehstbst‘ the !ay iljnbir• 1•)", 4i'
avant was by en Ofiver of the to Who' Ned
it oat sine night by the isereld Abbate; as he was getting;
out of his birth at night Iv or we the ensapsubsa. he ern.'
&wally in she dark oh time lames Natal
beast; the pausal he fen her lweipsl.-JrZed deli
birth is this ? *enter being made, be mit, " awes i
wer,boys, whoever *amp Skis kWh; tkevit Wrrats da if."'
We all lava ala g,. at biro. The sitireseeehlek .rusk df
the Olken were telling the Celeerl what' bappersat.tlir
' night teethes.. whets he called forward Wrightreed asked him
what reason he had fee seppesieg each • thing! ea which he
told him the foreguieg nrenuntaisce. The "Culeeel said it
could not be passible; at which Wright meld, he weeld give
his oath of it ; upon which the Offseass called eel far MI 11.116
minutia, to try who was the woman—when the Dacha
came Gower., nod said it was him wife. It was the but 'kiwi
say emu could suspect, ea Deelllll6l of the meaner she used
to act Wore the Officers. This lady used to sleep where
nineteen Offinra slept, and hear all seas of vile language;
saw she Officers getting ducked every tournieg, sod fa fret
acted every way like a natia. The swan then got a plate
made up fur her is the peep cabin.
41st.—Saw Margarita, and caw to as sachet the same
night. Early its the morning of this day met ■ Spaisisli brig
of war; came slimier clove up Su us mud looked into us, bat
when air saw twelve guns .rated and asaneed she made
away from us.
42d.—There mute from the Island thee, gen.busitate carry
as on shore. When we lauded we asked for our barracks,
and the SUWON' we got was. they hat no barracks for sp
The Officers conaulteil what they should do; but, when
sight came un, we were all obliged to lie dews hr the sand,
with our trunks beside us. The next nerving we went up
to the Admiral, whom same is Fiches, fee sontraing lo at,
mad fee sums place to sleep, whet he told us oar ratiurs
would be served out le us in half au hour—they accoedingly
were; but, to our great surprise, we received ugly a pial of
rice amotigat three of as.
The Journal goes us to give some further particulars of
the reception the officers met with in the island, part of
which we gave on a former occasima.
This Genitalia kit Margarita on the tilt October, sad
arrived at Trinidad on the 18110, which he bit ten the.
November, and reached this port to the Sitio 1 y,
after suffering much hardship in the voyage from the West
Ladies.

PRICE OP LEATHER.
Botts, 50 to 50Ihs. each ISJ to 10.1 per lb.
Ditto, Si to SS Ihs earls !Id to t3d
Dressing Miles
Fire G.uu•li Hides llllll to 16d
Crop Hid.* 35 to 4(1 lbs. for cultism 15.41 to 114
Ditto 45 to 501Iss ..1714 to 2.11
Calf Skins 30 to 40Ibs lid to t 74
Ditto 50 to 70 lbs 4• • • • ..lali to 36.1
Ditto 70 to 801ba... MI to 304
&ull Seals (Greeolaud) 1114 to 111
Large ditto
Tanned Horse Hides .... 161 J to lIIIJ
Spanish Horse Hides

OILS, per TIM...

of 232 Gallons.

Noe Greetal.Whalt.: 3N —i Spermaceti
Old —/ —1 Linseed
Pale Seal. 341 —I Pale Rape 461 --1

!to oft tits. cuisornoli
" V/ tit Pouts. Aclticutatini. 4e.
famoring that emu ancoootof the distremed con.
ditiou of the poor of Seethed mid Ireland has
! his. laid before Ciffasoinenesot-ead the House of
'•COrneasou%.end that•aisioarlry scheme* for the relief
of .the pear wad reduetion or the mom rase are
reconsmeuded to be earned into poetic, by the
authority of on Ant of Pedimental, hoe induced
me to write for yoor further information and consi-
deration the following things :
lo every comity of Scotland notsteroes tribes of
poor people have for many years been progressively
inertia's& and they are lately beeome more nu.
enemas thou ever, and no such a deplorable state
for want of food Rood raimeat. mica shame to the
people .f a nation professing to be Christian.,
while at the same time there is abundance of pro.
visions fur those -ho have mosey to purchase.
Vold a few yese ago the poor people in Scoif Ind
were not hindered from beeging, but now the ma-
gistrates do not allow them to beg, and the allow.
1111 Ce given to them 14 kirk sessions, to whom
the care of the pour is intrusted, being ivade-
quite to purchase fur them the necessaries of
life, the impotent and indigent poor are in a most
*retched condition. To hinder the poor incapable
of earning their breed from begging, without pro-
viding for them the necessaries of life, is certainly
great oppression and glaring injustice, which ought
not •to be suffered to exist among professed Chris-
tians.
As the gentlemen and clergy of some of the
southern districts in Scotland have at last acknow-
ledged publicly the miserable state of their poor,
and made spplication to Goveromeat and to Parini-
!Deist to devise vane means for their relief. is it
not the duty of Government, for the sake of hums-
nity—for the relief of the miserable—for the credit
of the nation—to get this affair thoroughly investi-
gated ? And among the first things which ought
to be done, I would suggest, that an order be
given to every parson in Scotland to send to Go-
vernment, to be laid before Parliament. an account
of the number of poor in each parish, the amount
of money collected for them at churches, sod of
other donations placed in the muds of kirk sessions,
for the use of the poor, and iu what manner it is
disposed of.
It is a fact that many kirk session', and it is ge-
nerally reported that all of Orin. hare money lie-
longing to the pour, out at interest, while the poor
are kept in a state of starvation in the midst of
plenty. Humane persons in Scotland unable to re-
lieve bat few of them, dare not, according to law,
advocate the cause of the poor, nor petition the Le-
gislature in their behalf, for feat of offending the
rich, who have hitherto, by their influence and
power, presented a compulsive poors rate from be-
ing levied. It is remarkable that the great body
of the higher and middling classes of the people,
who constantly reside in Scothnol, have nut enough
of political knowledge or foresight to discens; that
e compulsive poor' rate would benefit them, as it
has assuredly beuelited the resident people of Eng-
land, notwithstanding the unceasing murmurings
of many about its impolicy and supposed oppres-
sion.
The mode of assessment in England for the poor,
and the application of the priors rate, differ from all
other taxes, in us mach as those who pity poors
rate are allowed to asses, themselves; but the taxes
fur defraying the national expense are laid on by
asses•ors, nod cost large sums of money for collect-
ing and prying them away, and they ate partly ex-
pended in foreign countries, and in the purchase of
luxurice at home—whereav the money levied for
the poor is collected and paid away generally with-
out expense, doll is expended in the purchase of the
net ire of life iu the parishes or neighbourhood
in which it is collected. It is therefore evident that
if a cempublive rate for the poor was levied iii Scot-
land and Ireland, the people who reside in these
countries would be benefited, and the distressed
condition of the impotent poor, respecting fund and
raiment. effectually relieved to the pleasure of
every humane beholder.
Considering the present state of the country, the
methods by which agriculture and the toimufac-
trait% of goods are now carried OH, and the genteel
conduct of all classes of people, I am persuaded
that no oilier scheme bat that of imposing a poor,
rate on the rents and valued rentsof land and houses
in Scotland and Ireland can, immediately and per-
inatiently, effectually relieve the very miserable con.
i &time of the impotent pour in these countries.

‘Vitli regard to England, numbers of visionary
and some impracticable schemes for benefiting the
condition of the labouring dosser, the encourage-
ment of industry end reduction of pours rate, are
continually agitating the minds of the people, ■nd
influencing them to lay the cause of all the
tress now existing in the k►ngdom on Administra-
tion, whom they soy have power, if welling, to re.
'airily all the evils comi:lained of in the country,
by refurming Parliament, end by a thenge of Mea-
sures. And I underotatid that when Parliament
meets, some imaginary and inexplicable schemes for
the employment of the pour, and reduction of poor*
rate, are to be submitted to the Legislature for its

Now after reading the history of the world in the
Scripteires, and is the ►oluminous writings of
learned men of extrusive knowledge, and taking
ism) consideration the usture of nssiikiiid, the sue-
riies• of newel mud distrras 4.1 Lowly, which unovineke
ably. in a greater or Iris &give, wants 111100 ill of
thew lei consequeesce of which is pi t
every where ainolig the liutosais race, kWh-
leer of vim:wary schemes suggeeied stud vr.pi.ortl to
Goversiineut fur adoption, io siongoie :he sot of
the distressed pour. cud fur the reduction of pours
rate. I hereby gi►e a few Netnews* of weir, which
are fusnedied us the law of mature, sad on the reveal.
ed law of God, cumaisecd in the Scriptures, dud
toossuarily comprehended in the less c wand.
tneuts, given to preheated Christians i4/1 gospel 'lre.
Cr pie. and fur a rule of conduct to eel ranuual Cuts.
tures, though the god of this world hada bliuded
the minds of those who believe not the gospel.
I. That to aeparais the poor who we able to work, from
the hieber and twiddle classes or the people, would be tow
leery is the last of salon mad meeeroplurel. That i.e ca-
llow overdid, or can exist, without • armors of poor cud
rich people. That the pose or lower it..... mew wad up-
hold the rich, *ad the rich seaphsy aid gums the roar, and
ought In teach them their duty to God, sad to astir fel-
-1 low eseadurce, protect the. truth oppressioa, succour