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thorns deep ;—and on the coast of Para there are .se-
veral harbours and roadsteads; by which there is a
ready connuriicatiOn with Trinidad. There are
,many other harbours on the coast of Caraedai; but
none of any great note:

mlke..4hirty. These. early. marriages- are neither
praduaive of happiness, nor conducive to morals.
Fidelity to the marriage hed is equally disregarded
by b-othliatitics. But; if -any difference arises, the::
advantage is on the side of the wife ; for 'she can
have her 'husband reprimanded or imprisoned when-
7ever she chOos6 to 'complain of his conduce; and.
,Ill,he 'should recriminate,. she is sure that her story
liStened to 'in preference to his.

POPULATION, MANNERS, AND CVSTOMS.
M. DE PONS estimates the whole population Of Ca-ic
recces at 728,000 souls, of which he.assigns 500,60%
to the Provinces of :Venezuela and Varinos, too,op,
tci Marac;iibo, 80,000 to Cumana, 34,00 D to SpaniSh 1, lee.' '
Guiana, and 14,000 to the Isle of Margarita. . The . r.l.4m()Ytre have been informed that some very import-
whites form one-fifth of the pupuliiiibu, the slaves. „ant 4sTsOvery has been made relative to the horrid;
three-tenths, the free people of colour two-fifths, and murder of the young woman in St. George's-fields,.
the Indians one-tenth.-2l re are few. lieropeanse :mentioned in former Papers. The woman who
in Caraccas, except those sent out io the srviee
.0f: \ washed 'the bloody clothes of the deueased, in which
the State; including Whom, not a hundred Spaniards she was nitirclerell, and 'who- also had washed the.
'settle annually in'the province. But of those who go -.dollies which were fo,,in•Ll on her, has come forward
-to Atnerica, very few return to their native country, and made some discoveries of the perpetrators of
except the Biscayners and Catalans. The Spaniel-cis k this -horrid deed.- We nntlerstand they were all,"
.are not permitted to visit their American Settlements. . women; and the OfTicers'of Justice- are now in elos
Of there., With every. expedation of bringing
without a licente from -the King, which cannot be ,pursuit
obtainedunlesS the object of their journey is known the nto "condign perpis.htnent.
and approved...of .by the Council of the Indies ; and Qeseevit'reox.—in passing the end of Pleel Men-
the licence granted to- them is in general limited to- iikkG;fefrom
.11ol.born_liill, on7vieving• the. b. eginning
t.W.-> years residence, leave to settle not being ob- f !fortriC ikcivertisen-writ -in large characters on the•two
Wiled without the. greatest difficulty. Even theCrel I "'Leber houses-of Skinner-street, thus writtep, " l'Iro:
oles, who have gone to Spain for their educatiaiiV r•-es!rowel Bent," .at -fist sight it puts us in mind of
cannot return fo their native c '-hice.woon's -moue,- (the .Razor Strop- Maker) if
. country - without a It's''
cence. So stria was theGovernreent forMerlyon th
iY- you get goad a oodd Priie for little money, t.
-No Grum-
„.,
subitel that a _passport to.ont province chid not eurho- It/b.-lg.". *e„,
We have before noticed the estenishirte :excess rise 'the bearer of it to go4ct. another. r.l'hese severe, •
but ill-executed laws, were diEtated in part bypoli-
of -Dr• SOLOMON re,speecting the astonishing Cure
tical fears and jealousies ; but their principal-source I
performed by that otl-senatryce Medicine the Cordial,
was in that spirit of monastic regulatioes—in Rilm cift those - O—ile -ad, Wh .
yieli has' ainazingly promoted the
sale 12..1 this' neighbourho.ocl. These , Cases, so re-
maxims of religious- bigotry and austerity, which have i
been selong cultivated with such mischievous effeas t _swat
. , i spee y attested; - prove, its• intrinsic value in per-
t veus consumptive comolaints in eeneral, and in Spain. Insteadr•of considering its Colonies as a
nat-
place of refuge for the; idle, the profligate, and the i ;vers,lle, s&, . . t.,,1 1
.f. . ..\
~. .
/ emp its e Tic as• irst at tsreoicineS extant..
.disaifeEted, where they might, learn' ta'ainend their I •
liveseand, if p6;sible, forget their errors; the: Spanish
I
Court has watched over its foreign Settlements withe
the solicitude of a duenna, and regulated-their goVern-
men-t as if they were to be inhabited by Carelnisiaris.e,
No. Spaniard could get permission to go -to -AMeriete:,
without a certificate of his. moral and religious chats,'.
raEter, and an attestation that none of his forefather4ste
for three generations hack; had:suffered -hi --an antori
cleft or carried the infaMous San-bonito. Foreigners
Of all descriptions were kept oil' of these. countries.
with the greatest care ;- and-if tolerated by thecon...
nivance of thee ViCeroys,. they ' were suisjeeted- 'to:
every inconvenience and oppression. But of Bite,
years, go much have these.anciept maxims of Spa-
nish policy fallen into disregard, . that, by a . Royal
Cedula of i 801;:foteigners were. permitted to settle
in the Spanish Colonies for .the payment of 8200
reels (about 861. to the Crown e:and, for the samelr
sum,_ they may Iye admitted to 'all the peivileges, t::.,.
natural born Spaniards, provided. they are of
.t et:
Catholic. persuasion, .and not otherwise disqUal: :,41:'
by law.--e-The Creoles are of quick apprehension,.
and capable of.:greater application to blisiness -of .
study-than-their West Indian neighbours; but their
edueation is miserably conciliated. They are taught
in their infaecy' the miracles ' and legends of-their -
Saints ; and inade to observe,
_wit h.the `Most Sdrit-
pulous., attention,' all the minute pradices- and ob- •
servances of their rdligihn. They'," are then instruEt- •
'ed in Latin ;,and then education is supposed to be
finished when they have acquired a'. little selielaslic .
learning, and attended the, leEtures of SO= Pro- • .
fessor in Theology or Law., ,Their ignorance 'of all.
sorts -of useful knowlddge is extreme, and can only
be equalled bytheii Contempt for all useful occupa-
tions. - The care and improsietnent of their estates
they esteern.an objea-b-neatiotheir.notice, and hold
all. professions in disdain, 'except the Law, the Army, '
and the Church. Family pride, of the lowest. and
most illiberal cast, is One. of their ruling .passions;, :
and this has been•lostered 'by .a preposterous -e6gn- .
lotion; which till lately: obtained in all. the demi
I
niops of Spain, empowering children, as so 4 ;its•
they attained- the age of-'puberty, to conipel , t }pit` '
-parents to: consent- to . their marriage with WhOrn ~
' they, pleased, provided it was not with a person of in-
ferior birth. This law was- abolished •in the year
1803 ; and the authority of the parents' over their
children, in the article of marriage, extended to er,
years of age for males,. and to .23 for females ; but,
while it lasted, the .objeEtions to which it- gave rise,
on the ground of misalliance, were a continual I
.„. .. .
t \WHEN' ProfeSsional - Men of Education an/
source of.heartburnings and dissentious in the Spanish
-•-• - • I K.espotisihifity deviate from the
Colonies.general System by
the Seca= of a pec.-tiliar branch •the saiviion'Of long co•
Liti6i6usness, is another fault of the Spanish Creoles.
b periority. -
.-
, tinned success is the best criterion or sti ' . --- l'a"
M. DEPOT'S CalCUlateg that IlaWSlilts cast in Ceraccas e Eight years have 1 devoted. my practice to the exclusiYe
1,200,000 dollars annually and,. inCubaein ..treatincre.of T V lirce rs,..rders, au :: tlic succestirl result of
; etne,
my plan' Rives me additioilAl aritir to of n„ as tar as -I• am
s • at:eh are tho most
a population of -254,000 souls' found empletynirt •tbi,•,
,the rani;es of those Com p lacit
for 10G Advocates, with. a proportionable-number of important in the Catalogue of lluinan Infirmities.
t tf,,terlininiatint inft.ilielyery Britinctt:i,las an Atiny. S
Attornies and Notaries ;•• 'while theFreneh ~-part. of ergeon.
St. Domingo,:with a population- of ,660,000.. 50.115,. :diVid4;7lszt-fwronfil at-it'le it;lr' mYrakeen et- Aniechic.atecdl e.
'mtV.nest-o.ure• tinhc-
niiiintained only 36., e With these- shades ine their 1 -Nuttily nc
dangerous precip;Aay-ot general Pradirioners.
."0:e. i niceti!!..erders,' to the C tire, of vvliich 1 hays de-
chara6ter, the Creoles of Caraccas -are mild and ho- .
voted. ni,, satteritioir 'comprise every species of VEN E.
inane, moderate in their desires, and-cautiaus, even .1-,--, tee Ale it\lFFeTt;sui,,,,..hetnes• of a recent or I long. do.
.to timidity,:in-their condtfai, and in - tile •mantlge-..t ration,-.. zilly-, :I II kiilds ,of o.:ebility,, whether arising from
t h.e ,liii.i(fis of sicll94it bietis,,, or the
.!ii,,itne
ment of their affairs. This turn- of miod was. stnlng-,vre.ses or wgure
ly exemplified some years agoein the. attempt which .ti iait.:l-;‘, w—i'licto is estxlie%it .113-Arr- IILZ.F.I,NI4tt .7.4, or ts' :1 er
E rersViliw 3-
wa s • then made .to excite them to take' up:urns . .; Askinie.rs.-Als. iiiseaiits are tee result at ignorance,- or haste
het.
~in the .i.icat'ikrit pr. a.. siirwieGonortir :i; and it cot un-
aninst the-Mother Country, and .to't.hroW'off
6 frecuentll' , happens tifat -the' seeds 'ot Lite are poisoned b
yoke. 'This, conspiracy had its..--Origin --witti" :three thexinititeretion."of +an- unguarded hour.--liy a. superior rneY..
cured; and; evea,. where
State Prisoners, who had been-sent- -from Spain to - thigi such Corrylaints are -easily
Caraccas out account of their. revolutionary . delin- others .11a,re-iaqd,' rm tst that .I: may preilunie to o:!'t:t a
' radical' re-eStinlisinnent.
'Few, howev.er; are the cases "of tom plicate in
quencies at home. - These perSoten, who: were- Con- •.
dernned to perpetual banishment:nd imprikonment, - :,this disorder, comitiiredlivith _tile ealeinitoue situations of
treated With'heinegreat indulgence at Caraccas; arid Men,. who tr,,th an iiidulgeni:e in a
,solitary Nit:c., or the
-,
6 prevalent 'gaieties of a tastuonable lite; acquire that ,state
permitted- to have free intercourse with_ the natives, .. of Pebility.-• which is the unavoidable consequence 'of such
formed the - project of a conspiracy against the Go '. pernicious habits.
Where. the initiarniy sufferer broods over has triisery4: Nit
.wer meta ; but, though they engaged Several,:,per-...
carefully• to:lulls his anstoitenc, . it • mav be sonic coos.-
sous of consequence •in their. party; sueh..-waS the' lation for him ro know, that although it be an objet of
coldnesS and apathy of, the Creoles, that, after their ' , doubtior uncertainty with other l'raaitimers; the removal
r 1) ;,an t
txop e
redact'ce -..iial,
if ;
y the:
vig vitro
eu t
first converts, they .made no progress in gaMing. pro- . , 4 the.Se.t.lletielent.r-ies byt,tt,ltfe graillu,.ll.l:titrogress 01,-kciiova--
qVillenemusenhAN4
selytes. - After the plot had been kept a protband ' otTniti a i:sc. nu s or
secret for many months, it was disclosed to the Go- -' much anxiety Will he titevented 'by an early Counierac.:
vernment. Some of the ringleaders escaped tt others ti.tctolti.tthlit itivlokcii,uil.State State; and in these cases,, ,no, great
.; -
were taken ; but no resistance meas.: ,attemptecl. It - " But :hese this Deficiency has for years existed, •a proper
was .found-that ofe persons had enteeedinto the con- pereverance :is • indispensably eiiiiisite to-revive the shun.
spiracy ; six .of whom were taken:arid executed; berivlilßBptlikisif4'
...)t-,,,,,laFris4d towrhe;aihuarlTltenthei. Constitution.
ed
the rest either escaped,- or were sent to the galleys, ' in titti? dkpec.tations of -a
Family', may tejeacnsurtedsaP,P;hinatt in
or banished from , the Colony. M. DEPOt's repro- must it-eft:knees:: seen deleas are curahle by Medical skill.
hates this conspiracy with the horror Pa &Id to a t The snrry wilkisl,icsibiTertrial to rtiy• undertaking.
rm
refugee-from St. Doming-o, and with the. pltilosbpity- • .tahe !eh:_:;(1, 'el' .tenicy.2tpm'rerse‘i'lsierts, al'iadvienFtLe-(sirclielteoe with
now in • credit at St. Cloud. The Spanish Creoles
this- intitnatiOn it:given,' that Mr: lime may be consulted
marry in general as soon 'as they attai9 the age of ' :personally, or by .Letters (inclosint; a smaioNote), at his
tosuch
house, No. 29, Arundei street,- Strand, near Temple B tr.
puberty. , -An unmarried man of 20. begins'. to lie . teeeete There is an additional Entrance .in Water-smet,
look&I upon -as an old batchelor. It-is not. unusual, *.,i;ijoini.r.e; and the Narne ii•on. oth the doors.
to see 'a married. couple, whose united ages' do not.; Martin lirie, lvferriber of the 1t6.al College of Surgeons.
...,

• .
On Wednesday •vast. the Lady of John Gray, Mg. cht
Weinploy Park, -of it'Daualkter. . • ,

AfARRIAD.

On .Tuesday, .at Bangor,. I.anrence Brock I lollinstread,
Esq. to Miss Ecii,v4rds, etaughterof Edward. Edwards, Esq..
'of las .1 nn, -near Wre x.h.arn,
O Wednesday last; Captain•Sampsc.n Baker, to N•liss•Cox,,
otAlorsieptown. • •
.)n 'Finirsday last, at Finchlev, Mr: Piper, of Oxford..
street,-to Miss drown, of Hendon:.

RDA Y.