Star.
London, England, 1816-07-29 00:00:00

DISTRESS AMONG THE LABOURING
MANUFACTURERS AT BILSTON.

The following letters contain further details on
this melancholy subject : •
11111ATON, JULY 25, 1816.
" Dua Stn—According to your request, I beg
to transtnit to for a statement of the lamentable and
deep distress under which the township of Bilston at ,
this ease labours. Yoe may depend upon the cur.
of what I am oboist to write, as the whale
WI been twitbialbsir raw days} failigel into
distrists. whlalrbave Wei visited by vireszi most re.
spectable persons, the result of whose inquiries now
lies before me. If I were to transaibe all these-tales
of woe, or even half of them, I should fill a Volume.
It is sufficient to observe, that the number of poor
inhabitants without employment is unprecedented.—
It is tree the Overseers of the Poor do what they can
to alleviate the wretchedness arising from want of
work ; but notwithstanding their exertions, and the
charitable benevolence of individuals, which is very
great, it is a melancholy truth that there are many
families almost, if not quite, starving. The popula-
tion of this Olaf consists, as you know, of about
11,000 s the greater number is composed of the lower
classes, who depend entirely upon the coal and iron
trade for their subsistence. With the dewessed-state
of these trades you are too well acquainted to render
it necessary for me to make a single remark upon the
subject. They-are dreadfully and beyond all example
bad, and without any prospect for the present of be-
coming better. This is the source of all our wretch.
edam, and from this fatal circumstance springs the
melancholy list which it is my painful duty to pre-
sent to you.

" From the papers now before me, I learn that
there ate in this township 717 families out of em-
ploytaent, and without food, excepting that which is
given them by the hand of charity. Some of these
poor creatures have had no work for several months:
all of them have been discharged by their masters
for many weeks, and, with their wives and children,
are looking around themior relief. Great as their
sufferings are, I owe it to them to say, that their pa..
tience and resignation are equally so: they have
been hitherto, and still are, so peaceable and so quiet
that their misery has an additional claim upon the
eumpassion and liberality of all who are placed by
PltoviDitiCCa in a situation to afford them assistance.
This, dear Sir, is the account I am compelled to give
you, even now in the midst of summer, when a poor
man has the chance occasionally of getting a day's
work ; and if it be true now, what, unless there be
some great change, will become of all these 717 fa-
milks during the next winter ? It is really most
awful to thint of it ; (or, besides the numerous iron
works and collieries which have been already stopped'
in this neighbourhood, 1 learn- from aotlastais infor-
mation that the number will be increased very shortly,
and of course the distress greatly increased also.—
What the situation of the adjoining parishes may be
I cannot say with certainty, but have every reason
to fear and believe that they are inns wretched a
state as we are at Bilston. What you here read re
:peeling ourselves is strictly true, and can be proved,
it necessary, by the evidence of the Gentlemen above.
mentioned, as well as by my own.
,g Should this statement be laid before the highly
respectable meeting which I usdentand sakes place
on Monday, and thought the Coptasitan test inclined
and enabled (as I trust they will) m vender us the
least relief, I can onlf.say it will be most gratefully
accepted, and distributed is any way which they
may be pleased to recommend. In conclusion, I beg
to thank you foe the nearest you have takes in behalt
of ney disuesiod parlehionsis.
1.6_ P.S. If catch fausap.is supposed to consist of

44 The whole country exhibited as much life, bustle'
and contentment, as you can conceive : every one
that could work, old and young, had enough to do,'
and were amply rewarded for their labour ; hence by.
working hard and getting plenty of money they went
enabled to live well, to send their children to school
decently dressed, the pictum of health, plenty, and
cleanliness; their cottages were comfortably furnished;
their gardens well cultivated, their cupboardi well
Stored, and their pockets always open for the support
, of Sunday Schools, Bible Societies, and such like eil•
anent institutions, which I hope will stand as walls
and as bulwarks for this ourhappy and highlyfavoured
.country t but now, in the short space of nine months,
how is the gold become dim, and the much fine gold
changed I Scarce bad the return of peace filled every
heart with gratitude, and animated every brhast with
1 the hope that these their comforts would be long con•
tinned, when, contrary toevery expectation, trade got
worse, money became scarce, confidence disappeared,
the bankers withheld their accustomed accommoda.
tiuns, the stocks of goods increased on hand, until the
mannfacturers were obliged to put their people to
five days, work a week; then to four, to three, to two,
and, finally, to stop them. The coal, ironstone, and-
iron.masters, were in the same situation ; and there.
fore, pits, furnaces, foundries, forges, mills, shop%
andostaishfactories of iron, &c. were put to stand ;
and it is now computed, upon a moderate calculi.
ties, that in the parishes of Bilston, Sedgley, Tipson,
Dailey, and Kiogswieford, not less than 15,000 per.
mM an throws out of employment, souls of whom
bite use-had wore kw 11144* than thirteen. weeks ..-
,C9itehre Wilhili riffuelf what mist be the situation
of those parents sod poor children who are thus de-
prived of their wowed support arid the comforts thoy
so lately enjoyed I I would much rather leave it to
your conception, than attempt to describe the unut-
terable distress with which this sudden reverse has
overwhelmed the country.
ss The people who were comfortably circumstanced
as above, having sold their furniture, their clothes.
and every disposable article they possessed, to buy
them bread with, are now left without a bed, a chair,
a spoon, a knife, or cup ; to inhabit empty houses,
with empty pockfts and empty bellies, forced to beg
from door to door, in a country whose charitable ye.
sources are almost exhausted by the continual crowds
which hunger forces upon them ; and the workhouses
are filled so full, hundreds of applications are obliged
to be refused ; the parochial rates are also become
utterly insupportable; and therefore these' poor crea.'
tures are obliged to maintain a miserable existeuce—
sonic families with one shilling a week, some, with
less, and others with no parochial allowance at all.
But, notwithstanding they ate reduced to this stare.
ing condition, I must say, their general conduct re-
flects the highest credit upon them ; their patience
and honesty. in. the midst of their sufferings, aloud
call en Christian sympathy and Christian benevolence.
I have heard of several that have actually died for
want, but I have not personally known them. To
tell you the truth, I have it not in my power to give
what I would, and therefore I cannot brar to visit
those abodes of distress which I cannot alleviate. I
should be happy to spend a portion of my time in
carrying comfort, I may say life. to the miserable
and perishing of my fellow.creatures around me: my •
heart bleeds particularly- for poor helpless chilskee,
pale as death, and crawling about like walking ske-
letons. To recite the sufferings of individuals would
fill a volume. and tire your patience. Such aa, for
instance :—A few days ago, a woman was found.
about sixty yards from my brother's house ' • she had
bya young child in her arms ; exhausted hunger,
and unable to proceed, she was found on the ground
with the child at her breast, in a senseless, and, to
every appearance* in a dying condition. She, how.
ever, revived. and we administered such food as was
considered most suitable (or her. When she could
speak. she told us her husband had got no work ;
that she had several children at home, to W 11011) she
bad given all she could beg the two preceding days-;
that she had had nothing doting that time, and bad
famished herself sooner than they should die for
want ; the had walked to where she was found, and
rbeing unable to proceed farther, had resigned herself
to lien fate, and would have petisbed for want within
a little more than a mile of her home, had we not
happened to have found her. -Another instance shall
suffice. Within about forty yards of my own house,
a friend of mine saw a child take up a bone to pick •
from off, the ground. which a dog had just done with.
He brought the bone and the child to me, and I leave
you to judge how I telt upon the occasion: I hope
you wiU excuse my troubling you ; but if you can by
any means obtain a little relief for these poor crea-
tures, the blessing of those that are ready to latish,
will be upon you."

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PARIS, JULY s 4.
His Majesty proceeded yesterday to St. Denis, and
e"stered that :town amidst the ringing of bells, and
the.eries, a thousand times repeated, (ii " Vive le
• Roil" Arrived at the Royal House of the Legion
Of' Honour, his Majesty was received -at the grand
staircase by the Grand Almoner. the Chancellor of
the ion, and Madame, the Superinteadant. The
-Chaor addressed the King in a speech, to which
his Majesty replied, ‘1 I am so much the more Mat-
tered at what you have said to me, as I am persuaded
you are but the echo of these young ladies." All
the pupils assembled in'the refectory, and drank to
the heahlt of the King. His Majesty. then' said, " I
drink to your health, with all my heart) my dear
e.ii.iren." And soon after be rose and addressed
rut pupils with these affecting wordi, My children.
I can remain no longer with you. I have other chil-
dren who expect me, but I will return espressly to
see you. and visit the establishment in detail." •
It has been officially announced that an espeditionl
has jailed to take possession of Senegal, and that
nterchant.vessels may 'freely sail from our ports Ice
that Colony.
Yesterday the Court of Assizes eendemned to
*roes yeah hard labour, as being convicted of seem
robberies, in amen houses, in seem days. a woman'
named Rabin Zoe, a Jewess in.religion, a thief in
profeseon.
Yesterday the Correctional Tribunal condemned.
to two years imprisonment, a fine of 16 francs, and
costs, P. B. Petit, 22 years of age, formerly.a soldier
in the 16th Dragoons, and subsequently a printer.
convicted of having worn the Cross 'of the Order
of St. Louis, and of the Legion of Honour, without
any title.
A letter from Beziers, dated the 14th, • states, that
the price of corn. which was litely in that part of the
country. from 29 to SO francs the min., fell last
market day to 18 or 20 francs; and that the harvest
it most abundant.
Count Goltz, the Prussian Ambassador at this
Court, has addressed to the Prussian Consuls in our
ports the following letter, dated the 18th of July
_l4 Gentleasen=4 beg you to inform all the Prussian siershents
sisdadp captains at present in our town, that according to certain
Intelligence, the Emperor of Morocco has caused to be lilted oat
at Laraehl two brigs and a corvette, for the purpose of smiting
what Resole, Prussian, and Austrian vessels.*
• Another horrible case has been taken cognizance
of by the Couit of Assizes -at Nismes. On the 3d
J 017% 1815, the town of Uzes had hoisted the Boor. I
boa standard. Several of the neighbouring Com-1
snunet immediately rose to punish it for its loyalty.
A gentleman of Uzes, cf the name of Nicholas, with
some gendarmes whom he had organized, was de.
poted to the rebels, to induce them to return to their
bonies. At the bridge of Arpaillargues he came up
with them, and, getting off his horse, assured them
be came in perfect peace. One of the rebels bade
him, cry out Viva Eavicreur 1 ss Never" exclaimed
the gallant Royalist—'t The Bourbons, or Death t"
A sabre blow was immediitely aimed at him. He
"Wed it off. A coward rebel, from behind, ismaie.
Lately discharged his musket at him; and be fell
dead. The rebels pillaged him, and seized a 6ne
StbrO, which the Sub• Prefect at Ua declared should
be the reward of him who should be proved to have
been the assassin. Two actually contended for the
prise. The assassins had hitherto remained unmo-
lested. Three of them, however, were at length ap-
prehended, and brought to tti4l. One was condemned
to death, and another acquitted by the Judges ; seven
of the Jury finding him guilty, and fise not guilty.
On the Oth inst. a dreadful storm laid waste apart
of the Ist, 2d. and 3d districts of the Departments of
the Landes. The losses have been very consider-
able, and the Preleet has solicited from the bane&
eeace of the Monarch some relief for the victims df
Oil deplorable event.
The King has granted letters of naturalization to
Abraham de Cotogna, Grand Rabbin, President of
the Central Copsistory of Israelites in France. born
at Mantua.

M. de Beanuer, former Bishop of Alais, anti M. de
Cass, Bishop of Air, have not accepted their appoint.
most of Hempel; of the Committee of Poblic Edu-
code&

VIENNA, JULY 14.
Yesterday the Directors of the Austrian National
'leak announced to the public, that they bad pub-
licly destroyed, upon the glacis, paper money to the
amount of ten millions, which had been brought into
their chests either by \ray of exchange, or of deposits
for shares. •
'it appears that the report of the end of the world
had spread every where, and that in several places
this absurd rumour had nearly been the cause of
many misfortunes, We are assured that at Udina,
Clagenfurth, and some other towns of Austria, the
people, being alarmed by these rumours, assembled
in great numbers. The troops were obliged to resort
warms, to prevent shut disorder which awes to'besp-
prehended horn the general confusion.
We knoi not. whether the Italian mountebanks.
when, in the course of their- erratic lecturei, circulated
this report. had not some deeper view thin merely ex-
citing a momentary:tumult. They had in general fixed
the grand catastrophe for the 25th of May, but they
' afterwards postponed it to the 18th of July,
ROME, JULY 10.
The Portuguese Ambassador has obtained perinis-
siott from our Government to make known the ad-
vantages which the Court-of the Brands holds out to
Aitists, &eau, and, in short, all those who exercise
useful profesbions, and who might wish to proceed to'
the Brazils. Hitherto, however, no one has been
tempt:d to accept these brilliant offers.
SAINT TROYES (FRANCE), JULY 19.
We understand that the Algerines have burned
the jujube trees behind their city; that they propose
to fill up the cisterns; and, in short,-to leave nothing I
in their town should the English attack it. In the
Man time the French flag continues to be repeated
by the African States. In proof of this it may be
mentioned, that a French galliot, the Clementine,
lately chased by a corsair, and which was in come-
versce abandoned by the crew, was brought in here
by the corsair, and given up to the Mayor. Another
French galliot was lately deserted by the crew off the
African coast. and given up by the letseir to the
Fresch Consul et Bigot"

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Our columns of to-day teem once !wee with 110
most heatt rending details respecting the distresses of
the country. Let us hope that the Meeting to be
held this afternoon in the City, will apply some
wholesome and really permanent remedy to this most
grievous calamity. Among various communications
which we have received from several philanthropists
on this distressing topic, we recommend the following
as appearing most closely to strike at the toot of the
evil :

The intentions (says this humane mita) or raising
a fund for immediate assistance 'ate deserving the
thanks of the public, and it is hoped will meet the
co-operatioh of the benevolent. The next considera-
tion should be to place the community in a way
that every one, as far as possible, may mitt by honest
industry, care and economy.
Give the labouring classes an opportunity 4 sup'
porting themselves. and they will be maintained more
easily than by expending all the wealth of the nation,
whilst they are deprived of the possibility of earning
enough to satisfy the humble calls of nature. The sup-
port of the poor, in the way we are going on at pre-
sent, will take away all the productions of property ;
landlords, in a little time, will receive no rental:—there
will be none ; but, put John Bull on hit legs again,
and the possessors of British property will be the
most envied people under the canopy of HEAVX2I.
To speak truth, the poor are now a broken.
hearted, dejected, irreligious, and an immoral race
of people, thrust down from a most commendable
state of independent industry, earning instead of beg-
ging their subsistence, and producing by the sweat
of their brow, all that the rich enjoy. Measures must
be adopted to restore order, and place all in the state
to which a wise Providence, nature, and the aid of
industry, evidently point out.
Having wtitten on this subject a few year. since,
I received a letter from a plain South .Down farmer,
who with his father 'before 'him, have for more than
fifty years endeavoured to call the attention of the
public to the dreadful evil of monopolising the occu-
pation of farms. In the very words of this letter, I

beg to address myself to the Associatiun. who so be-
nevolently are now coming forward to adopt mea-
sures for relief.

" i emgratelate you. on your fortunately camping
44 hold of the lucky rope to save our lolly Oafs yard

from stranding. tritons. like lambs s. a saw
" bank, will play, be merry and joyful, so long as
u they have but their bellies full. The meritorious
" husbandman, and the mother of a large family,
" only require a little help, with a trifle they can
" call their own : then, guided by experimental ea)-
" nomy, they will husband their little concern so as
" never to fear want."

Grateful as the country will feel for the Subscrip.
tioAs that will be raised for the assistance of the
Poor, it is hoped such measures will be recommended
to the attention of the Legislature as may place the

lower orders in a situation that will enable them to
support themselves. The Landed Proprietors have
now an opportunity. as many new arrangements
must be made, of letting their lands in small farms,
with a covenant in the lease for a plot sufficient to
keep a cow to be allowed to the labouring ccttager.
No language can sufficiently state the blessings to'
the community from small farms, or the evils that
are felt where they have been monopOlized I farm
after farm has been added together, so that England
has become a nation of starving beggars, exhibiting
at each vestry the most pitiable and heart-broken
objects. In many instances, within an hour's walk
of a parish church there were formerly from 50 to
100 happy families—Tax LITTLE raasteas.indus-
triously employed in producing not only the Common
articles of sustenance, but abundance of the comforts
of life. Every cottager's child
.had its dish of milk,
of which she hungry babes are now robbed. .1 11

What is become of those happy useful *families
that stblegululy, neatly, and piously assembled every
Sunday at their parish churches ?-.the good people
who supplied the markets, the towns, and the villages
with such immense quantities of butter and cheese,
pigs and poultry, and made the land to overflow
with milk and honey ?—Alas I driven from their little
kingdom by an invading foe--a monopolizing Napo-
leon—these once happy people, the husband, the
wife, the sous, the daughters, are lidded into misery,

wretchedness, and want.
The distress of the poor are greatly increased b 7
inclosores of waste, or in better words common lands,
which afforded great assistance to •the surrounding
cottages. The taking away these privileges was
like taking from them a table furni►hed with provi-
sions. To have kept them away from parish suppOrt,
crumbs at least, should have been thrown before them
—a trifling piece of land should have been allotted
to the cottage.

Ova FIIIHRIMIS WOULD ax UTENDRDeIf England
had three times its number of inhabitants, every city,
sown, aid populous place might have an abuodant
mid cheap supply of another specks of food-..namely;
FM" from an inexhaustilslo store, and . thousands

CQnteil ly
'with the Trade between that Island and the Spanish
Main, are deserving of much attention.
KRIGIITON, JAMAICA, JUNE I.
ee All accounts would seem to confirm the very
desirable intelligence: that Bolivar was fast rein-
stating himself in the principal holds of Venezuela,
the country of his birth. We say desirable intelli-
gence in the fullest import of the phrase, for bums-
oity. and British interests are connected with the
issue of the present struggle. Whatever may have
been the public conduct of that enterprising general
in his antecedent campaigns, we are well assured it
paver exceeded the bounds of fair retaliation, and we
might only instance his reply to General Hodgson,
in 1810, the then Governor of Curacoa, ha proof of
our assertion, while the present Proclamation is an
honourable pledge of future conduct. Thus much
'then for the vague anticipation of cruelties which
the insidious and interested shall please to fasten on
the name of Bolivar.; while, this party hold down
'ldle veil which almonds the•Chatuel-house of Morilla's
expeditionary army.
ie Thee as to British interests, we maintain that
by.the re-subjugation of Venezuela and New Gra-
nada to the adored Fanatic, our recent monopoly at
those markets is at an end.. while the independence
of those vast regions would continue to us the im-
mense advantages enjoyed for some years past. with
future increasing benefits, to an extent, not illimitable,
but beyond the power of the most sanguine to ima-1
gine. Bolivar to succeed, will open mines of wealth
to the enterprising spirit of Great Britain—not that
we confine our views to the golden veins of the Pro.
rinses of Antioqua, Choco, Popyan, and Soccoro.
We allude to markets capable of consuming annually
millions of our National industry, repaid by raw ma-
terials and other native merchandize highly prized
in Europe, with bullion for the surplus.
66 It is vain to gloss over facts. To delude our.
selves with a fancied free trade at the hands of the
Spanish dynasty, would be to practise Obiah on the
imagination. There can be no question of the exist-
ence of Montalvo's (Captain-General of New Gre-
nada) Proclamation, announcing the return of the wire
and rahaary (eccottling to the original) regulations of
the Council of the Indies. In vain shall it be said the
Proclamation only • saw the light and then expired.'
It did appear, and stills Wills, though we are free to
admit, the ooaceived easy conquest of the country
at the hour of its birth not seemiagj so thriving, the
baptismal ceremony was prudently postponed at
Mompox. It is notorious the Proclamation was
issued at a very early period after the occupation. of
Carthagena by Morilla. The instrument is forth-,
coming, and speaks for itself. It recites the great
services of which the Philipine Company had been
to the Crown and his Catholic Majesty, to evince
his gratitude, decrees to it an exchuive monopoly, to
commence in three months. 4 And why, it may be
'asksd,' did not the monopoly begin at the period in-
dicated ? No thanks to the Authorities of Spain in
New Granada for the trifling trade we now enjoy,
but to the resistance Morilla experienced as he pro-
gressed. And if any proofs were wanting to confhm
us in the belief that Morilla finds inch by inch dis-
puted, the temporary suppression of chit same Pro-
climation is conclusive.
64 But what above all brings the views of the Ca-
binet of Madrid, as regards her Colonial system, to'
aoon-day light, are the accounts just received of the
removal of Admiral Apodaca from the Golrernment
I of Cuba, with the rearm assigned for it, and the
Pata• tment of a Substitute selected to carry those
views into immediate effect.
66 True we concur in the general principle that
one nation has no right to interfere with the internal
Legislation of another in matters purely Municipal ;
but the constitution of political bodies, and the habits
private life, are miallogotw, and we discover, not
unfrequently, a disposition-to.resist consequences in-
jurious to our interests, while the operation is ad.
mined to be founded is right. This is human na-
ture—coeval with one's birth. and with the origin of
society. So that, anticipating the evil to be appre-
hended by again bearing a Spanish Monarch; through
the organ of • such a thiig as Ferdinand,' lisp these
ominous words-6 The Si. "Mr set:lit a.y dowiaions,'
we take upon ourselves an attempt to stimulate the
great Commercial and Manufacturing Bodies in
Great Britain to contemplate the threa,enea danger.
of such a return of political affairs. •
ea Let the promises and ingratitude of Spain. with
the immense advantages of which she would strip
those bodies be placed in the balance, and from the
issue let it be judged whether the country has not
engaged in war with less reason ? Is the ingratitude
of Spain, when freed from a foreign yoke by the
blood and treasure of England, the necessary cOnw-
queues of her solemn Premises in adversity ? The
right of trade to her South American possessions was
guaranteed at , a moment the political existence of
Iris wimp threstaked with dissolution! mad shall a
foisder asimisiondy rseteted, be, pertained to ab-
solve bleier al a risk** pledge t It has beta r
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'boom" in that bigoted 'Cowry. to %loci* knit
their Assurance Companies 4 and even sit this 47
the solemnities of religion are employed to
a prolongation of natural life, by a promised 11,4.
grimage, qr temples to be dedicated to the supp led
avetter of anticipated dissolution.—Ferdinand
eased to embroider a petticoat for the Virgin will,
his own hands, and the world has witnessed
tile
completion of his engagement. However pious tit
act,
who alone seated wetinka moregenerous feeling towards the
nation him on the throne 'of
ancestors, would be no las pious.
We have had the curiosity to inspect the export
books of the Customs at this port, and we feel sans:
fled that astonishment will be the result at the event
of shipments from the depot of Kingston alone, since',
the straggle for Independence on the Main. cds.
and the Isthmus of Darien, we eels~
fining our views to the consumption of Venetnek
New Granadaa
the following annual exports hen and there tannin?
recorded from the clearances of foreign vessels mdi:
1812, 1,288,745 dollars ; 1813, 2,150,275 doliall
1815, 94,192,460 dollars.

a Those Export Journals are sent to the Commis.
sioners of the Customs in London, regularly led
quarterly, attested by the Collector and Compooliet;
and we pledge ourselves they will prove, to the sate.
faction of any man, or class of mien, who shall take
The trouble to glance an eye at the returns : first,
that by estimating the packages of the imnienie
number of foreign vessels not accounted for, in value,
in the returns; secondly, by the great amount (f
British
tonnage,
by th not at all so enumerated ; and
thirdly,
curtailed
amount of certain extensive
shipments, which .we there saw contrary to our inch.
vidual knowledge of the actual invoice value, see
are within the mark, stating the fact thus :-1812,
three millions; 1813, five millions; 1814, six md.
lions. Such, therefore, being the consumption tr.
muted from the Jamaica depot alone in three years,
ending with 1814—Let those interested like ourselves
compare sales of 1815, since Morillo's expedition,
army appeared in these seas;—let them look to the
sales from Kingston down to this data ; let The tan.
nufacturer, let the nation at a moment of such deep
and general distress, awake to a sense of feeling anci
duty, and say how, whether the success of Morillo,:
or the happier issbe of Bolivar's patriotic spirit, is
longer an event uninteresting to • humanity and M-
ash interests.' "

This morning we received a supply of New Yo!k
Papers to the 27th of June; also Boston Papers to
the*Stb, New-York Papers to the sd, and Philadtl•
phia Papers to the 2J July. They state the arrival
of L*vataris in America, and contain some in.
Ivevestbag particulars respecting the recent Negocia-
boas op the part of the &kith Amerioaas Wisp the
Algethtes

SIZW.YORK, JUNE X.
Letters from Phihdelphia.srate that Lavalette /us
safellarrivedin that city.

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LATE FROM ALGIERS.

ARRIVAL OF THE CORVETTE JOHN ADAIneArTII.
ed at New-York the United States corvette John
AdaMs; Captain Trenchard, from Algiers, with Mt.
Murray, hewer of dispatches for Government.

The John Mamcsailed from Algiers on the 171 h
of May, in company wiih the United States squadron
under the command Of Commodote Shaw, the whole
of which were bound on a cruise, except the sloop of
war Clutario, which sailed for Marseilles.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM‘AN OFFICER ON BOARD
TIM AMERICAN FRIGATE CONSTELLATION, DATER

BAY OF ALGIERS, MAY 14.

44 I wrote you last from Mahon ; at present we
are at anelior in the Bay of Algieri, where we arrived
the 2d of this month, and came to among the squa-
dron of 17 sail of British ships, under command.tif
Admiral Pellew (Lord Exmouth), who, it is much
to be regretted, on the score of huvrtaniti, did not
succeed in his demand for all christian prisoners, but,
on the contrary, received only ono thousand, for
which he gave from 500 to 1000 dollars per head.
. This, in our opinion, is a pitiful arrangement. I
think we could have done bettor4ith our little squa-
dron i however, as the old maxim sap, • What ;s
one man's lots is another': kaisV.fok it will only make
our bright stars shine with mow leaue itt
the eyes of the world—and 1 can assure you those
stripes, which have waved so victoriously, still continue
to suite tenor into the hearts of our savage enemy.
•s At the departure of the British fleet, the Der.
without alleging any cause, began to spew such sigus
of hostility as to make it prudent for our Consul to
'come immediately on board, With his family and
effects.

ge Commodore Shaw, considering it the best plan
to keep these barbarians in awe, instantly commenced
preparations to give them a drubbing. Every boas
in the squadron was order:d to be ready for ;mtge.
diate service, and put in the best possible condition
for a bold, though necessity, enterprise; which was,
to mount and scale those immense and terrible batte-
ries, and to burn and destroy their' fleet, which con-
sisted of four frigates, with numerous sloops, cot.
vettes,-and gun boats.
" Th• evening of our expedition arrived—all an)j.
L ous for the moment which was again to encircle the
brow of Columbia with Soother wreath of laurels—
r but while below, reflecting on my beloved home, I
was surprised, in the midst of •my reverie, by the
information that the Dey, discovering our intentioas;
had seat off a fits or truce, satin that it was MA

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