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diggivado Drnatiaggcs.. ,• •
NEW.TORK, NOVEMBER 16.
Yesterday being the anniversary of the•evaluation
of our city by the British tioops in 1783, as a mark
of respect to those who achieved that event, the flags
of our shipping, and public places, were displayed
throughout the day.
It appears that the misunderstanding with the
Court of St. Petersbargh, and 'which had so tar pro-
gressed as to announce the departure of the Russian
Minister, by order of his Emperor, is likely to be
amicably adjusted. The dispatches brought by Ed-
ward Wyer, Esq. Consul at Riga, from Lovitt Har-
ris, Esq. our Consul-General, are said to breathe a
wish for harmony on the part of the Russian Govern-
went, instead of hostility.
Congress meet at Washington City on the 2d of
December.
The Legislature of Pennsylvania meet at Harris-
burgh on the 3d of December.
The electors of a President and Vice• President of.
the United States meet in their respective Statelon
the 4th of December.
V. Ross THE KINGSTON U. C. dAzitnit.)
Ma. -DITOR—On taking up the New York Slacks.'
for of the 16th instant, I observed a paragrapb
(avowedly copied into that paper from the Water-
town American Advocate) to the following effect :
46 It is stated that about the fat inst. a Biltish de.
setter from Kingston passed through SackeecHar-,
hour, and•was soon pursued by three armed English
Officers, who overtook and secured him at Hander-'1
son. While the officers were conducting their pri-1
soner back to Kingston, a number of ship-carpeilters
and other citizens of Sacket's Harbour interfered and
effected his escape."
Now, Sir, the facts to which the above has allusion;
are as follow :
$$ Two officers belonging to the 70th regiment,{
stationed at Kingston, were sent over by me to
Sacket's Harbour ; not armed, nor with the view of
seizing a deserter, but as private gentlemen in pur.
suit of a villain who had committed the most daring
robbery on his master, and whose detection and pu-
nishment every upright citizen of every nation, ought
to have felt alike interested. The said two gentle-
men applied in a regular manner to the Civil Magi.
crate (paying the required fers) in order to the cul•
prit's being committed to prison, in the full confi-
dence that the American laws would deal justly by
the offender ; but, with regret do 1 publish it to the
world, that the Civil Magistrate at that section of the
United States, after receiving the prisoner into his
custody, and being paid for his trouble, had the ef-
frontery of winking at his escape, following up his du-
plicity by the degrading acknowledgment, that the
prisoner's rescue was effected by the daring violence
of a lawless mob. Thus it is, Mr. Editor, by similar
tnistatements as the one inserted in the American
Advocate, are rancorous feelings excited, and jealous
suspicions begat, in the minds of the subjects of two
nations, who have the strongest possible incentives to
reciprocal good offices and durable friendship. Your
obedient servant, 66 TitostAs EVANS,
Lieut.-Col. Corn. 7ciih Regt."
I,'•
GENERAL M:NA'S EXPEDIIION.
We have conversed with a gentleman who fir-4
ived at Norfolk on last Tuesday evening, the sth
instant, in 20 days from Port-au-Prince. This gentle-
man states himself to have embaiked at Baltimore,
Is an Officer under the Spanish Patriot General
Mina. The vessels which composed the expedition
;onsasted of the ship Caledonia and a schooner. On
board of the Caledonia, in which our informant was,
there were about 100 who had embarked in the cause
if Spanish patriotism t but 3-fourths of the above 100
bad all the rank of Officers of different grades.
General Mina had made ample promises to them
of giving regular pay for their setvices from time to
ime ; but not a dollar had been advanced to any one
of the party when our informant came away. The
lame which he assigns for leaving General Mina was
ickness ; having been attacked with a violent fever
immediately upon his landing at Port-au-Prince. He
'lowever mentions, that nearly one half of the whole
number had also forsaken Mina, some from sickness,
some from disgust, and others from fatigue, and had
embarked for the United States in different vessels for
their respective homes. Our informant is a native of
Ireland, a young man of genteel appearance, and
well acquainted with several of the Irish houses in
Bakinsore and Norfolk.
He states that most of Mina's party were young
men like himself, entirely unacquainted with military
affairs, and who had engaged with the Spaniard from
the novelty of the scheme, from a desire of seeing the
world, and actuated by the ambition of signalizing
themselves in the cause of freedom..-4 passion so na-
tural to the minds of youth.
The mutative of our informant was expressed in
language of such simplicity, that. it was impossible
hot to give credit to every sentiment he uttered. It
was the narrative of one who had evidently volun-
teered with the warmest enthusiasm, and with the
most sanguine hopes of success; but unacquainted
with the world. and ignorant of the hardships of •a,
sanitary life.—Pesersbersh Intel. •
One hnodred and two men, women, and children,
settlers, arrived st Quebec on the sth instant, in the
brig Perseverance and Isabella, from Stornoway,
(North Britain).
WILOM THE BOSTON CENTINEL.
From several parts of the United States we have
accounts of abundant grain crops ; from others that
the yield has been a fair average of the last twenty
years ; and from none have we learnt of a general
failure. It is the opinion of intelligent Agricultu-
ralists in various parts of the Union, particularly the
northern division, that the quantity of bread 'stuff
harvested this year is as great as that of the last—the
%exceas of the small grains fully equalling the defi-
ciency of the Indian corn. The present high pries
of grain must, therefore, be attriblited to specula-
tion..., or unnecessary fears of scarcity ; and mutt
shortly come down, if a stop should be put to exces-
sive exportations.
MONTREAL, Norms= te.
Oa Saturday last, about five .minutes after noon,
a severe shock of an earthquake was felt over this
city and vicinity. It was accompanied by a rumbling
noise tinting six or eight seconds. It was also felt at
William Henry precisely aj the same time in two
shocks. The duration, including the interval, was
estimated at about five seconds. -

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1816.
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FRENCH PAPERS.
The Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday reached.i
us this morning, but their contents are of the usual
complexion—dull and insipid. The French prens
deserves any epithet but that of a Free Press. Even
the speeches of the Members of the Chambers may
not, with safety to the Editors, be inserted in the
Journals, if they have not first passed the officiall
ordeal. .
Were it not for information furnished by private
letters, we should be led to conclude that the people
were every where the most happy upon the fact of
the earth, those who superintend the Departments
seeking nothing so much as to banish even from
their memories every trace of tyranny and oppression ;
but contrast this with the fact. Even the petitions
and remonstrances occasioned by acts of opptession.
are passed ever in silence. It was lately representeds
ht the hope of producing some beneficial impression
on the Chamber, by M. COURIER, a landholder off
great respectability in Touraine, that the small place
31 Luynei, in that province, reduced by the revoca-
tion of the Edict of Nantes, from a rich and polio
-
loos town to one of a thousand inhabitants, is now
about to be red iced so nothing at all,in consequenceof
the system pursued by the present authorities. He des-
cribed this place and several others in the same depart-
ment, as given up entirely as a prey to a few priests and
emigrants, and a hostof gendarmes,their agents oilier-
secu tion. He related one fact, with all its circumstances.
of a whole family ruined, owing to its head, a respecta.
ble farmer, having refused to submit to the ceremony
of genuflexion, as he was met by a religious proces-
sion. He mentioned several instances of persons impri-
soned and exiled upon charges of Bonapartism or
disaffection to the legitimate Government, for having
naturally compared, in their private communications
with each other, their present proverty and disquie-
tude, with their former affluence and tranquillity.—
He informed the Chamber of symptoms of commo-
tion which have already occurred io consequence of
the pernicious system of Government ; and be repre-
sented a general insurrection throughout Touraine as
an event to be apprehended, if a thorough change in
the administration of that province is not speedily
adopted.—This representation received no attention
whatever ; and there is but too much reason to be-
ieve that such scenes are not confined to one De-

partment.
The following are the only articles furnished by
the Paris Paperr deserving of the slightest notice :
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. •
SITTING OF THE 21ST OF DEZEMBER.
The Chamber opened at half-past two.
M. HAUTEFEGILLE, Reporter of the Commission of
Petitions, commenced the Report. The following
are the most interesting particulars.
Mademoiselle Gournaud, of la Vendee, whose
father had expired a victim to the Revolution, prayed
to be exempted from paying the list quarter for the
acquisition of an estate. This quarter, it was main.
tained, had been already paid, but the papers were
lost when the house was burnt down. They hal lust
every portion of their fortune.—Passed to the order
of the day.
The Sieur Andre of Path, reclaimed against a
decree of the Commission of Public Instruction,
which interdicted the scholars of Sainte Barbe from
entering into the Royal Colleges, because they had
assisted at a representation of the tragedy of " Man-
lius et des.Fausses Confidences."
The Commission proposed the order of the day
upon this reclamation, on the ground that the decree
in question could not give cause for denunciation.—
Adopted.
The Sieurs Martineau, of Chatellerault, petitioned
against the curate of the said town, 4lbo had refused
to bury their father, who died in the bosom of the
Catholic Church. They demanded legislative mea-
sures, to avoid in future similar evils.—Referred to
the Minister of the Interior. . .
Some inhabitanis of Corsica, put in prison at the,
Fort la Malgue, complained that they had been ar-
rested without any cause (or at least they did •not
know of any), since the first of August, and had
lain in prison since that time without being brought
to-tiial. They petitioned to be judged. The Co-
mmission proposed the-order of the day.—Adopted.
.The merchants of St. Quentin petitioned against
the number of hawkers, who set up their shops in the
town and win their trade by selling merchandise of
deteriorated value at a low price.—The Commission
proposed to refer it to the Minister of Finance.
Baron PCYMMInt declared that this Petition was of
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the highest interest.al If (said he) an end. is not
put ett these abuses which ruin commerce, we shall
behold France peopled by ambulating merchants,
balk and pedlars, while honest tradesmen, who
pay tr licences:lose all their trade. In order to
i,
mak such a scandal cease, I second that it be rider-
retto the Minister of Finance."—Adopted.
A Petition from the Sim Tonanes, of Paris, con-
cerning the promulgation of Laws and Ordinances,

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