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TO•MQRROW THE ETAI 13 4pl'imeir WILL FINISH
DRAWING-THE FIRST DRAWN PRI= WILL 94-
CEIVI IN,ADDITIQN :190,0001
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9,3816 z '
PRICE OF STOCKS TOM DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK:
6elluee4 shat—Coot. tno. wit—Coos. for ate. 6S.
4 per Cm. thtit-5 per Cent. NWT 921 95
India Dos& Ss. fis. pre.~ltteltequor Mk, 1.. 41. Fe. I

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Lord EXMOUTH'S squadron may ha daily MOO
it Plymouth. The-Moulin sloop of war arrived at
that port on Tuesday. She left Gibraltar with the
fest al the squadron on the 13th ult. and parted from
, his Lordship off Lisbon on the I• 4 dln thick weather.

By our Port Letters it appears that considerable
damage has been done to the shipping on the coast
by the late gales. We observe that in one instance,
the crew and *passengers of a, Wrecked vessel were
saved by a lifeboat sent from the shore. These boats
ooght to be provided in every creek and harbour
"Jong our shores, for the deliverance of shipwrecked
assaintrs. The aspense would surely be conshleted
as no object.

Halifax Papers to the Bth ultimo have arrived.
- Colonel BARCLAY, the British Commissioner, was
preparing to set off in a few days for St. Andrew's
(Passamaqaody Bay) where the Americas Commis-
sioners were to meet him, for the purpose of settling
the boundaries:

The history of the Dutch, from the'establientent
of their freedom to the present period, teems with
instruction. As long as they retained a regard for
tlleii political rights, and manifested a salutary jea-
lousy of their Rulers, their welfare, national and in-
dividual, increased from year to year. When their
freedom was greatest, their commerce was most flou-
rishing, their domestic tranquillity most markeds and
their influence abroad most extensive 1 _ _

Their country was the asylum of thesetstented of
every other State; to which they brought in return
their industry, ingenuity, and riches : and Holland,
with every disadvantage of soil and climate, was con-
verted, by the genial influence of freedom, into the
richest and happiest country in Europe. It is worthy
of remark, and let Englishmen note it carefully, that,
as the liberality of their institutions began to fall off,
their prosperity began also to decline ; and as the au-
thority of their Government increased at the .expense
of
.public liberty, the former became in object of
suspicion or aversion at borne, and of contempt abroad.
it is also a memorable fact, that morals and religion
flourished most when their freedom was highest ; and,
since,its decl;ne, licentiousness of`atanners has been
spreading rapidly in a country once so famous for its
simplicity. The Dutch have now the vices of poverty.
with the wants and recollection of former riches. They'
also appear to have the set vility and political profligacy
of such a degenerate state. But the punishment is al-
ways sure, in the moral world, to follow the offence ;
and this remark applies to nations even with more forte
than to individuals. They are suffering under the
gelling pressure of a debt and .system of taxation
disproportioned to their means; aid a people, who
have renounced the exercise of those sacred rights,
which their ancestors acquired by unexampled exer-
tions, have the mortification to feel that poverty has
followed close behind in the wain of political dege-
neracy.

ELecnou on Loan MATOIL—At the close of the
Poll this day the numbers were—.
The Lord Meyer. !HI
Alderman Combs -nose
Aklburan Smith • on
GLOUCISTIR ELICTIONe—A considerable tumult
took place in the Town Hall,..Gloocebter, on Tut.
day, between the parties in the ioterest of R. B.
Comes, Esq. and threorporation. Eight persons
ewe carried dff to the Infirmary, in a most frightful
state.- Mr. Comma in this manner got three a=bead„
after the parties had *greed to poll by tallies. The
is Tree Blues," of course, were left in possession of
the Hall. Every thing indicates a long cootest.—
State of the Second-Day's Poll—Mr. Cowin, 160—
Mr. Weal, 159.

is cnrrentip• reported that it is the intendon of
sbrCerpciration Of London,- in the event of the pre-
sent Loan Malmo and Mr. Alderman Comm being
seterned to the Court of Alderman, (the latter having
refused, to serve), that a new Election shall take place,
and that Sir MATTIltbr BLOXAM will bo put in nomi-
• nation. Few mew ever served the office of Sheriff
with more zeal and humanity:. and as salagiauite
.
3e uniformly Os that office with great Credit to the-
City. Sir lIATTRIbb Sit in the 'House of Commons
during five Parliaments, and was always the steady
Friend of the ling and ConstitutiOn.
• We must caution the Public against certain el:tracts
-which may find their way into the Newspapers from
the American Journals, having for their object to,
• entice Europeans to emigrate. WOknow, from un-
questionable authority, that the late emigrations have
produced nothing but miiert. It is true, there is
plenty.of land in the back settle cents of America;
but it is covered with wood, aid thensands of miles
from a market; -and a large eaftkal is the first requi-
site fOr as cultivation. At this moment, much land
is offered for.sale between the Illinois and the Minis-
ppi. The fact is this : a large district ,has been
assigned to the discharged soldiers; and as few of
' • them are such fools as to go and take, possession,
- • they are willing to find fools to purchase it, and the
usual means are resorted to of poll •to
induce individttals to proceed .to- ihis'aew of
promise. •