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London, England, 1811-01-08 00:00:00

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PHILADELPHIA, NtivENtl3tlt. ft.
Captain Wilson, of the schooner Concordia, arrived
,ere last Arening, in fourteen days from gt. John's
Porto Rico), informs, that a few days previous to
',tis.sailing, the following Spanish ships of ‘kar, vl7.
cwo three eiftkers, the St. Anna and Prince Sept-, *
rigate, and a sloop of war, under convoy of the Br,.
:ish 74, Implacable, Captain Cockburn, hove to off
the harbour,'and sent in for supplies. They sailed from
Cadiz bound for the Havannah, and from thence to
South America. The British 74. had to send 56 men
on board the three deckers, the Spaniards not being
able to work the ships. The troops that left Porto
Rico three months ago, to quell the insurrection at
Caraccas, were principally Massacred. The peopld
of that country were determined to support its in,te,
pendence. The day before his departure from St.
John's, a vessel arrived frorn New Barcelona on the
Main, with several families for safety.
In Windsor, Vermont, lately died an Indian cirl, of
the Mahaw Nation, residing between the sources of tit!
Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. Her life, though
short, was not destitute of incijent. At the age of
four years, every soul in the village to which she be-
longed, except herself and a young Indian, were 11115_
sacred in their sleep by a patty of Sioux. The young
man escaped ; she was tumahawked and left for dead.
Afterwards, being found alive, she was kept some
time a prisoner, till she was sold to a party of Chip.
pawas, and by them to a French Trader, who brought
her to Micalintakinak, at the age of seven years.
She had then travelled some thousands of utiles, and '
had been obliged to speak (as well as she could) four
different languages. Her fifth was the English. She
bore about her marks of savage fashions, as well as of
savage violence ; was a shrewd active child ; and died
of a consumption aged eleven years.
Extract of a letter from an English Merchant at
Baltimore, dated the 80th November, 1810

44 All foreign trade here is nearly at a stand, and
what the Americans send to France is so encumbered
with hazard and complicated and chargeable duties,
that scarcely any one knows what to do fqr the best.
I went yesterday to see a famous cotton manufactort
on the Manchester plan, which is established and flow.
rishes, within three miles of this city s they have like.
wise in several of the States, considerable manufacti.
ries of broad cloths, which approach very nearly
deed to your best Yorkshire cloth. It is evidently the
fixed purpose of the people here, as well as the govern.
!anent, to become daily and hourly mote and more
independent of Europe, and eventually to make Ea.'
rope court America for a supply of grain aid raw
materials and other substantial articles of indispensable
necessity.
44 I have just read an account that his Majesty's
brig Rhodian, Captain Mowbray, had been drives
out opt the reefs, and on shore at Andross Island, with
the !Ass of all her spars, excepting only the foremast
and bowsprit ; no lives were lost.
44 Every creature here appears to be anxious ;n the
highest degree, for the repeal of your Orders in Coun-
cil, and cannot imagine what kind of poliey it is that
can suggest an opposition to their repeal.
" Cooke, the actor, is doing wonders at Newyork;
and what you may deem most wonderful, it is under-
stood that he bath been sober ever since his arrival in

the new world ! The people cf Baltimore lime de•
sired Mr. Warren, the Theatrical Manager here, to
invite him to perform in this city, on the most liberal
terms."

Sunday se'nnight, as three boys were skaiting
Horshays, near Shiffnal, the ice broke in, and they
all perished.
The weather since Monday se'onight has set
in with uncommon severity. Friday the Canal in
St. James's Park was covered with skaiters. The
ice, however, not being sufficieatly strong, several of
the adventurers fell in. Five young men were taken
out immediately, with the assistance of ropes and •
hooks. Sunday the Serpentine River asAnned a most
lively appearance ; several thousand :takers were
assembled to display their agility. In the early part
of the day a man fell in through the ice, and was
drowned. Every exertion was made to save him, but
in vain.—The Paddington Canal i 4 also frozen up
and. for several miles, the lovers of skaiting are; us
great numbers, enjoying that healthful amusement.
The effect of the present weather upon the River
readers it an object of much curiosity. For several
days it has been covered on the Middlesex shore, be-
tween Somerset House and Westminster Bridge, with
one solid sheet of tough ice, which every flood tide
has increased, the current then concurring with the
wind to drive new masses of floating ice against it.
This solid covering, yesterday, reached nearly as far
out as the centre arch of the bridge, and there was a
floating body of large loose masses, passing it to the
breadth of one or two arches beyond the centre. A
little below' the bridge; the solid mass was still wider,
and 14 this and the moving ice, which was so close
as to be distinguishable from it, the river was there
so far covered, that not more than one third of it was
:navigable. . Between two and three o'clock four ad-
venturous fellows, with boat-hooks in their hands, got
upon the ice off Richmond House, and with much
difficulty, from the roughness of it, went about a bun.
dyed yards from the shore and wtanned. If the wind
and weather continue as they are for five or six days,
the river will be completely frozen over at Westmin.
ster-bridge.
A poor i•leot, known by the name of Hawley,
and who has been for years the sport of boys, and the
amusement of the hackney-coachmen, in Piccadilly
and St. James's-street, and who generally wore a sol.
diet's dress, with cross-belts, cartouch-box, tac. was
frozen to death on Friday night last at Pimlico.
Saturday morning, on the arrival of the Carlisle
coach in town, two poor women, outside passengers,
were frozen to death. The coachman supposed they
' were asleep, and did not attempt to distal', them, tine
til he arrived at the Swan with Two nelcs, Lad.
lane, where they were found quite stiff.
LUCIEN BONAPARTE frequently rides outside she
coach, as •a servant, to avoid observation ; but at
'Exeter he was recognized by an invalid soldier, who
had served abroad, and when the carriage stopped to
change horses, the soldier presented him with a paper,
saying in French, that a Lady in this country wished
him to share in her smiles, its she had 44 Capital
Prizes to bestow in the Grand State Lottery, the 15th
Nem Meath) by a New Plan of Dtaitiog.