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this offer, advantageous as it was, and for which'
she conveyed an answer in terms at once of gratitude
and regret.
• Besides the capitals we have named above, Ma-
dame CATALAN& has sung in fifty or sixty populous
towns of Germany and Italy ; and everywhere the
most august personages, as well as the Public at
large, have shew•n her, by brilliant favours, that their
esteem for her personal conduct, and beneficent dis-
position, equalled their admiration for the wonders of
her talent. It may be said, that her success, and the
distinctions with which she has been honoured at all
Courts, have hitherto been, and will probably remain,
without a parallel.
Madame CATALANI had entertained, for some
months past, the project of renouncing all public
singing, and of effecting a complete retirement. With
this idea, she has refused considerable sums which
have been offered by several of the Courts of Europe,
upon .condition of undertaking the direction of an
Italian Theatre. A Sovereign Prince had even an-
nounced, that if she would consent, he would build a
new Theatre for her use. The sole motive which has
led her to defer the execution of her project was her
desire to behold England a second time, and let it
again hear her voice, now in greater vigour than
ever ; to enjoy, in a word, a second time, that
illus-
ttious and powerful patronage under which she ac-
quired her first celebrity, and those fervent national
plaudits of which the recollection flatters her pride,
and continually renews her gratitude.
Madame CATALAN& is at present at Bath. She
propses making a tow in Great Blitain and Ireland,
and revisiting London. next spring.

PIRACIES IN THE WEST INDIES, arc.

(From the New York Advertiser.)

It is but a short time since we turned the atten-
tion of our Readers to the subject of the piracies
committed upon the commerce of our merchants in
the We-t Indian seas, and all along the route from
here to South America. As the robberies increase
both in numbers and atrocity, and as no effectual
measares, as far as we have heard, have been taken
to pi event them in future, we consider it the duty of
every publisher of a Paper to bring every fresh case
distinctly before the Public, that the opinion of the
Public may have a fair opportunity to produce that
effect upon the Government, which we fear nothing
else will be able to accomplish. If such daring vil-
lainy as this is suffered to exist, the external com-
merce of our country will soon be cut up root and
branch. We are surprised that our merchantmen,
despairing of aid from Government, do not prepare
themselves for self-defence. They are now subjected
to the disgrace of being plundered, not only by sloops
and schooners, but by the crews of long-boats.—
Armed with deadly weapons, they bring-to our un-
armed and helpless merchantmen, and with the most
insolent as well as blood-thirsty ferocity, rob them
of the indispensable articles of their own and their';
vessels' safety. If we had no armed ships—if we were
entirely destitute of naval force, there would be
something like an apology for suffering this aggra-
vated abuse and injustice to exist. Even in that case,
however, our merchant vessels ought to be suffered
to carry their own arms for their own protection.
But we have armed national vessels that want em-
ployment—we have Officers and men that want
active service—and the merchants pay enough for the
support of the Government to demand protection.
We think the subject one of sufficient importance
to all concerned in foreign commerce, to claim their
most serious and earnest attention ; and we should be
gratified to see the merchants engaged in that com-
merce bestirring themselves, and adopting such mea-
sures for their own safety as the exigency of the case
seems to require.

A long list follows of American vessels captured :
in some cases the crews were treated with great bar-
barity.

MIRACULOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.
(From the Plu7addishia National Gazette of Sept. II)

Captain Howland, of the sloop Rising Sun, arrived
at Providence on Sunday last ; on the sth instant, in
lat. 37. 47. long. 74. 33. fell in with a schooner bot-
tom up; her masts and spars were alongside, held by
the rigging ; her sails were blown or washed from
the bolt-rope. We went on her bottom to cut a hole
through, to see what she was loaded with. We cut a
piece of plank out near the run, and were surprised
to hear a voice, like that of a female, ask, 44 Who is
that ?" but very faintly. We answered," Friends;"
and asking how many there were below ? she said,
when the vessel capsized slite turned instantly bottom
up, and all hands were on deck except herself and
the Captain's nephew (Lewis Miers, of Charleston,
S. C.), a boy about eleven years of age. We drew
her out ; she was a woman of colour, about 22 years
of age, wet, and her flesh all parboiled. She caught
hold of the run scuttle-ring, and pulled the scuttle
off, and went up into the run, where we found her,
with the water constantly washing over her. She said,
probably some of the crew might be in the forecastle.
We went forward, on the keel, and cut through into
the forecastle, and found nothing but a small dog,
alive, jammed between the timbers, and the forecastle
full of lumber ; the rest, seven in number, are sup-
posed to have perished. She says, the schooner's
name was the Blake, of Charleston, South Carolina,
Capt. James Hatch ; that she sailed from Boston on
the 9th ultimo, for Portland, where she arrived, and
loaded with lumber ' • had 14 pipes of wine on deck,
and a high deck load of lumber; that they sailed
from Portland about the 17th for Charleston ; that
she heard the Captain say that' they were off the
Capes of Delaware the morning the vessel capsized ;
that on the 3d inst. about ten A. M. the gale com-
menced ; that they took all sail in, and hove to, cut
their deck load adrift, and let all go overboard; that
about eleven A. M. she capsized. She states, that her
name is Ann Maroy Holden; that she belongs to
Warwick, R. L ; that she was going with Captain
Hatch in the capacity of servant, to wait upon his
nephew, who was in a bad state of health. We took
her and the dug on board, gave her clothes and nou-
rishment : sheis now very well.

Letters of administration of the personal estate and
effects of the late ClintsroruE, King of Hayti, mere,
on the 3d inst. granted by the Prerogative Court to
his widow. The property within :the diocese of the
Archbishop of CANTSBIIO7 was sworn under £9,000.