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.. CHARI.ESTON,,AUGUST IL 1
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From Captain Geoige, of the schooner Caroline, pr
I ' ' • arrived on Saturday from the Havannah in sin days, pr
we have obtained the following items of -verbal in- th
, - • tenitencet . . in
-A short time before the Caroline left, General se
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Apodaca, Ex:-Governor of Havannah, accompanied lit
" 1 --by severi "rail of transports. containing 100 troops, se
•.' ' bad Sailed the second time for Vera Creep in the na
• . , Spanish Government ship Diana. The new- Gover. h;
Doe, Don Handred Feries, had rendered himself leery ill
unpopular by his strict and oppt'essive administra. pi
', Aims. The inhabitants generally were dissatisfied
. . with his measures., The planters have been compel- 7.
led to pay 25 cents. for every box of sugar made on th
seir estates,
.and au additional tax had been levied it.
is von each slave; but to what amont we do not learn. fi
-i The day before. the Caroline-ssiled, two Spanish yes- s°
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. eels arrived from the coastuf Africa, one with SOO and is
. the other with 57(.) slaves on board. A small same bi
ter had also recently arrived at,Matinzas, from the di
, . Coast, with seventy slaves. These vessels repotted,- in
that the British cruizers were very numerous, and rinni
constantly on the alert in annoying the Slave Trade.
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I . On or about the 20th ultimo, the Spanish brig —, le
from -Philadelphia, with 279 barrels of gunpowder on te
I' board, was- captisred by a Carthagenian privateer off fiat
I . the Double-headed Shin keys, and after taking out Li
the crew, she was set fire to and blown up with every
. thing on board." . P 1
It is now ascertained that 'about three-millions or r,
capital stock for the National Bank is yet ,unsub-
scribed for.
NEW YORK, AUGUST U. ' ' 0
CUSTOM MUSIC LAIIIII • b
We are informed that another Bulletin has -been 1
received at the Custom house from the Comptroller
• of the Treasury, -in which that Officer informs the ji
Collector, that tie has reconsidered the opinion last E
expressed to him on the subject of debentures,' and I
on [etcher reflection inclines to think that`he mistook r
i - the meaning of the law. On the whole, therefore. r
he instructs the Collector to allow the double deben- c
• tures on future exportation. We presume that those
. . merchant who for the last fortnight, during the in- c
1 1 terregnum of the law, have been denied the benefit 1
of the statute of drawbacks as now expounded, a
will be reimbursed their-money.
. But we learn that the Comptroller of the Treasbry, 1
in his last Circular, has promulgated a construe- I
tion of the law of tonnage, which we venture to pro- I
pounce quite as extraordinary as that concerning I
' - ‘ drawbaek% The law, and until to-day the practice,
1 I has been, to demand. 50 cents:for tonnage, and 50 I
cents. light money, agreeably to the new, tariff which -;
took Place on the 50th of June, 1816. But now this 1
-is increased to two dollars and 50 cents. by a Tree-
-1 ' sury Circular. I
The following particulars are stated on the autho. ,'
, City of Captain Dickinson, of the Breeze, arrived at '
, Baltimore from the coast of Africa : -
, 44 The American schooner Hiram. Derrens, for 1
Newport, R. 1. was condemned, vessel and cargo, on ,
I the 21st June, at Sierra Leone, for having purchased '
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I i 1 two or three quintals of cam-wood, and two cannon,
from an English brig, within the distance of three
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leagues from the coast over which the English claim
the jurisdiction, and which extends from Cape Sierra
Leone as far as the river Sherbro'; nor will a foreign
- vessel be safe at the 'lsland Bananas, unless anchored
1 at least as far to the Westward as the middle part of
I the island. The English had captured a number of
Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish vessels, and it was
so profitable an employment as to induce Sir James
L. Yeo to come-out in the Inconstant frigate, to
cruise in the Bite, of Benin ; he had already sent in
one 'Portugeese schooner from St. Salvador. The
Spanish brig is Nueva Amiable, of St. Jago de
Cuba, Francisco Munos, master. entered the harbour
-of-Sierra Leone, roil delivered herself up with 380
, I slaves, all of which were condemned together with
the vessel. rifle latter sold for 1200 dollars, it being
. • drought that she could not be repaired ; bust upon
taking her to Bence Island, it was found that the
leak complained of was occasioned by the worms,
I I aid the first.purchaser refused UM dollars for her.
1 ' .—lie was coppering her to the bends, And intended
sending het for England. The supercargo purchased
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1 a Portuguese prize brig, and- intended taking 100
i , Spanish, pris ners to Porto Rico, or StAlago. The
1 - -Spanish brig la Neuva Paz (purchased by Captain
1" ,- Dickinson at Sierra. Leone) was captured by the Co,
lonial bug Prince Regent, of very inferior force, the
crew of the Paz most shamefully deserting their
I quarters, and running below. The Captain, Fran-
; cisco Leguero, and supercargo, Robert Cleary, were
- killed. Monsieur Antoine de Bennefons, sailing max-1
ter. and Don Pedro Lazarano, first pilot, were is
prison at Sierra Leone to be sent to England, one
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come part of thecrew were to be tedt to Havannah
in irons, for having detained and taken oat the cargo
, of an English' schooner off Cape Mount. There
i cannot be less than 50 or 60 siril of vessels now upon
that part of the coast of Africa which attends from
the Islaud of Goree to Cape Cos:etude. English,
-Pesach, Dutch, sod Americans, vie with each other,
tothe certain lots of the latter, who can undersell the
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i former only .in the single article of tobacco, which
eves beyond Cape Mount is of little value, while the
forager can undersell the latter at least 50 per cent. in
every other article necessary for the trade. - The
- - English have taken 'possession of the Bird Islands on
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the north side of the river Gambia, and- are busily
employed in erecting fortifications there and on
4pmes s Island, about seven leagues up the river,-and
kis their. intention to exclude all foreigners from any
participation in the trade of that river.
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'I 1 An important change' as meditated in the military
I system of the West India Islands, . The native mi•
. amts. it is said, are to be removed to other situa-
tions, shere their services may be equally valuable,
- without the hazard resulting from their employment
[ in the midst. of a large negro population. -It is stated•
that' one regiment as destined to Gibraltar, and
soother to Corfu ; and that Government have already
, taken up between four and -hire thousand tons of
shipping for their' transport, which are to sendeeerios
I' at Barnadoes. These vessels are engaged, at 15s.
per ton per month, about 'one fourth less thesis
,time of seer. 5
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