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enable them to make their agreements with
the merchants or others for the disposal oil
their cargoes; it is therefore my directions,
that foreign vessels anchoring at Basseterre,
or Point Petre. for the purpose only
OF looking for market and not breaking
bulk. shall pay no other fees than an
i"si'sii vessel under similar circumstan-
ces. 49, n
am. gentlemen,
Your most obedient servant,
ALEXANDER COCHRANE. .
To the resfecfipe Off
GERS Of II. M. Gus
toms. Bassaterre.,
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Iune ID

wv YEhS White Sulphur SPRINGS.
.a ~ 1reenorler; Subscribers, the pre-
sent occupants of these Springs, beg leave to
return Their thanks for the very generous encou.
ragement which they received the last season,
and to inform the public, that they are now in a
situation to receive compsny-ihat thew have
WIN much trouble and very great expence. en-.
aoied themselves to- entertain comtoltsblv ,,r-
wards OF one hundred persons, with thei- ser.
wants. They have repaired all the for MGR
buildings, and have erected seventeen neat lnde.
ing houses, with plank fgors, glass windows
and brick cbimnles they nave also built a ver,
spacious dining house, IA, imp set apart IN. old
o'hihS house Tor the entertaining OF travellers.
ana have added so largely to their stables. that
they can nov stall upw,rds Of an hundred Nor.
SEES. they have laid in AN Abundant sn,n,y ~
the pest stores-from all of which. thew co,6.
dentiy hope to give general satisfaction 10 those
who may visit their >0'~
.FOUWTAIV OF HRAL7Hy
:, "A Post Office has lately been established ae
these Springs, and variety of Newspapers win
DE- taken from different parts ofthe u s. for the
amusement Of the visitors.
Grsenbrier, June is. ~
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HIVE DOLLARS REWARD.---Abscon
l. ded from the Subscriber, on Sunday the
second of June. an apprentice boy, to tire
House Carpenters business, he is stout well
grown boy, he has some marks of the small-
pox, and also a small scar on one of his checks.
ne had on when he went of, pair Of STRIPED
Virginia cloth trowsers, a round Jacket, and
W'nte mar 1T IS expected that he viii first go To
petersburg, aud from there to Norfolk | will
give the above reward, to any person that will
deliver h,m to me, or hail. if put in jail, so that
l get him again.
June 1B O..
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* oNAW *, from the Subscriber, living at
AZ SCOTS Ferry, Albcmsrlc County. negro
man, named DAVID, but has been in lh, habit
OF altering his n me, sometimes passing By the
name OF Billy Logan. He IS a small ir,m.inade
fellow, OF dark complexion, about five feet
three or four inches high, small supken eyes. and
b's forehead tolerably void of bair. This fellow
mas passed TO- tree man in Augusta, but at this
time it - likely he may be in tie ne,rbborho.lsi
81 buckingham Court house, or Bent Greek. ss
ne has formerly lived with MIR. Cheek in thar
n'!gh5orhool. Any person who may secure the
SSid fellow so that may get him, shall receiyy
a reward of Fifteen Dollars.
., R0BERTL IBFFERSop.
yune 10. w}wJ
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THE aa1TrsH INSTITUTION.

The venerable president OF the Royal Acsde-
ny must feel highly grstfeh at the honors and
- NJ ons which have been recently paid him, by
81 most iliuslrious and intelligent characters Of
NJ prcsent tlme.----His picture Our Saviour
,sr.Ag The sick in the Temple, has des ervedy At.
.-s;'ea Tue notice Of all Tie principal amateurs
H'he METROPOLIS. who SPEAK ofitas perfor.
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u The Sale of the OXFORD IRON
WOkhS, which was to have taken place
on the 18th, is: postponed till Saturday
next, 52d Instant.
June q.
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Ertract Of a letter to the Editor dated
dfiHeagcUiAe, &C. Jnne S.

DIsD, at l. betty H4li,in King. William Conn.
~, on TUESDAY the llIn inst WV DANpR1nc.
CLAisoRHs, Esq. aged IS years
Never was greater loss experienced by a fa-
My, ne 'giibors, or trends has grave was Inois
tened by their tears.
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5 DREADFUL occu.aeNcE

On Tuesday the 18th inst. 4 most distress sing
scene occurred in the county of York a Mrs.
Hays, wife of Mr. James Hays, of that county,
who had previously exhibited symptoms of IN
sanity, on that fatal morning. while Mr.. III. was
attending TO the concerns Of his farm, confined
her 3 infant children in a room, and with an a e
most inhumanly put them to death, by knocking
out their brains, and mangling their bodies in a
manner truly affecting After committing this
d'abolical act. Mrs. Hays attempted to take her
own life, by chopping her head and face, and o.
therwise laceratiag her body. This unfortunate
woman, it was expected, would be, in few
days, removed to the Lunatic Hospital at Will
liamsburg. provided she recovered from the ma
ny strokes with which she had wounded her bo
dy.-Pcfers6ars Republican.
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NEW York, June II.
FROM ECT

Captain Harlow, in the Calpe, arrived
| at Boston on Friday from Brest as a cartel
with distressed American seamen, &c.
He informs that the u. S. frigate John Ad
ans arrived at L Orient the 18th April
That w. u Escalier. Bonaparte' S Consul &C.
eral, had taken his passage in the Rose-in.
Bloom for New-York - That many Amer.
can citizens continued detained in France
destitute OF the necessarics of life-And
that although the French papers preten
ded to deny the fact, the French cont
nued to take and condemn American pro
perry.
BY the above arrival Paris Moniteurs are
received to April 18th. Several columns Of
one OF them are coupled by an official report
10 FAVOUR OF some experiments which had
beehmade on the extraction of sugar from
red beets.
Petersburg, rus. March 6-Sales
OF contscated merchandise will take place
on the 18Th, goth, 2sth and 9th Of tn;x
month,
The marriages in the Russian Empire. in
one year, according to an official $, atement.
just published, were 31O.Oo5 births. one
million three hundred and one thousand
three hundred and three; deaths. $40 O46
Purhentn1de, March 27--The merchan-
d'ze which had been found on board YES
sells sequestered here, was this day burnt
lhe Prussian authorities were present al
the: spectacle.-it was estimated at two
millions of francs.
Mr. Bohlendorf will set OF to morrow for
other parts of P1merania, where similar
burnings will take place.
Tenna, Mareh 80 The police continues
to punish severely butchers, bakers aod ia
vern keepers, for enhancing their prices.
Several have been imprisoned in houses of
correction
The event which we expect next to hear
0. rom Europe VIII be the re-occupatioa
OF Copenhagen. and the island of Zealand
by the British, or an attack on the arsenals
ct Sweden aud the blockade of the Baltic.
durora
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PRItADELYHIA, June 8, 1911.
INSTRUCTIONS TO CRUfZERS.

IND HOS loTfO ~ lhOIZERS.
A British officer came. on in the Eastern
Mail, this morning, paid his respects to
Phineas Bond, before s o'clock, and started
in the Southern mall with dispatches for the
British Charge des affairs, at Washington.
We presume that those dispatches contain
che instructions sent out by the British min
istry, to the British cruisers, on this station,
relative to American ships, Ss.---Dem
Press.
The Directors Of the Office of U. S. Tnsnr.
ance Company. of Philadelphia. declared on
the 11th inst. dividend OF IL g per. cent
or the last six months.
The Legislature of Connecticut, at their
May session, passed law, dsqualifying any
citizen of that state to hold any civil Office,
except that of justice of the peace, after he
is seventy years of age.
Young Rodgers, who was wounded on
board the President, is stated by n. York
paper to be yet dangerously i'll.
Extract ola letter, dated Naples, 5th Of
March, 1911.
"Having now another opportunity by the
Two Brothers, we profit thereof to annex you
our price current, although we are far from
recommending our friends in America to
risk their property here, before some solid
arrangement is finally agreed upon between
their government and the telligercnts.-
Since Capt. - departure. we have had three
arrivals here. viz. the Alexander, of New
buryport, with fish the Henry, & Oceanus,
Doth Of Salem, with assorted cargoes.
"And a, Galliopoli, the Elliot of your port,
esides there are two sch'rs at Civita yechia,
with fish, From the moment of their arrival
the whole were put under sequestration. and
few days ago those here were confscated
and orders given to sell their cargoes in
same manner as those of last year The
ash per Alexander. is already disposed of
at the enormous price of32 doIlaas per cwt
free Of duty, now amounting to 10 dolls. per
ewt more. We have several American
spectators here ready to purchase OF gov
srnmen, the conhscated vessels, who load
them with our produce, particularly brandy
and vines, which are rather low, although
we know OF no impeachment to empty vessels
coming here for tn sole purpose Of carry ing
away our produce"
" York Gaz.
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To THE PU8I-JC

nave removed to- the new Brick building.
sctuste at the corner between the Streets.
leading from the Public Warehouse TO Hay's
brewery, and from Mr.. Galego's to the Arm0r-
~ ana continue TO practise Law with attenti-
on ana assidui,y N the several Superior Courts
holden in this City.
Irre IL. 4.
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LONDON. April 10.
THE FINE ARTS.

There seems to be but one opinion, through
out the circles of taste and science, respecting
Mr.: Vests Picture OF Our Savior healing the
Gallery in Pail Mall 1t is coniessedly the most
perfect work that ever was produced by the
mind and pencil of an English artist, and COM
mences an era of historick painting in this coun.
try, which we trust viii be followed up by the
rising professors of the present age wish avidty
& success. ~ - So
lery yesterday, by AN elderly gentleman, who
ranks in the first class of amateurs, should not
be torgott oi.---Atter examining the picture,
which ne did with great attention, he emphati-
caliy said This painting is wholesome anti
dote against the progress of nfidelity. The man
who roateraplates the scene now before me,
it he possesses common sense, must retire a
CHyisffda. ~ s3..
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4 oST, few days ago, Il KEa' OF MIRO "
IL CHEST. N1 "
INC finder will confer anrobliga,ioh by.re-
June l8 =,
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that the rcr<>h libelled il unfit for tie 1t.
lice. Cannot be justified because il is true. =.
In the, Case OF individuals who are neither
Officer, nor candidates for Office. truth is no
JUSTIFICATION Of a libel. but i'm III such cases
u may be given in evidence in mitigation Of
6he hne. In the case now before the Court,
the truth may be given in evidence i'll jus,i.
hcation, 1t being lawful for a petitioner TO
state to the legislature. the facts set firth IL,
ma petition charged In this case as libel -
In no case is it necessary or proper hat the
defendant against whom there is an indic,-
men' or Information for libel. should Eleod
the truth. Which is ordered to be eertlf, d
to the said superior Court.
CopyAIesfe,
0F The Expose Of Gov. Gerry, taken in con.
nection with lis subject, is bold and powerful
appeal To the feelings Of all dsorgsnizers---3.
There are such not only in Boston, hut must we
say 1t. IN Richmond too ? The Yirginia Patriot
OF the 7fh inst. holds this doctrine that b. a,,s
Congress have admitted Louisiana into the u
Mon, and laid an Embargo and Non Inter.
course Laws, "t!ius perseverng in syste m Of
m measures the difect tendency OF which goes 10
the destruction OF all merce," as the patriot
thinks. shereiore~s the original compsc, is moss
essentially violated aud thus are the states in
diyiduslly freed from the original terms of that
comparative appeal to the Citizens IF Virei-
mia, aye, to the federasts Of this state, whe,fer
they will countenance such doctrine as this
Is this federalism II it is, then ar not ,,.
Federsiis,s, as r. Paine SAYS featraiised or
confederated to subyert the liberties of Ameri-
ca ;"
The II. of r. OF Massachusetts, eIecrett
Mr.. Varnum, Senator OF the u S-For v.
$40. Pickering Isl, Scattering S.-Ihe
Senate concurred in the appointments, "a
TO 10.
The H of II. have conquered in the a.
mendment made to their resolution, by The
Senate, respecting the pay of thei, respec-
tive members--each member will receive
out OF the public treasury 50 day, + The
first 20 days.
Ertrdct Of letter to the Editor dated
AdHeascviAe, CO. June S.
We have very late news from Mobile.
Esd uit.--all is tranquil. Governor Foich
has informed the Commandant at Fort -Stod-
dart, that no troops belonging to the Uni,
ted States will be permitted to pass Mobile.
without permission of the Capt. Gen Of
Cuba. Gen Hampton and suite passed tbro'
this place ON Monday last, direct from Ia
ton Rouge. Coils. Gushing and Sparks .ere
still under arrest.-A new paper has been
recently established at Ft. Stoddar,.
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D II NGIWG 8cHoo

" :" ~ II 0 I.
he subscriber respectfully informs The a.
a dies and Gentlemen OF Nianchestet and h,
vicinity, that he viii opon a DAncISe -seWeo,
in the house Dow occupied by MIR. T. p,,ce. ~,
the 4th Thursday, IN June next, and bor;no =
from bis assiduity and attention, he will neg
with Iibersi patronage.
- n. Tvsme4
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House. Bassaterre,
Caddaloufe, 1871 Nay.
COPY

Serious Inconvenience having
oeeh occasionedto the trade by foreign YES
sels DOT oeIng allowed to anchor to examine
INTO me state OF the market, and the time
sm'Eed tor lafing of Bang too sh0ss -
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Nsw Yonk, June 10.

Latest disbafches-We learn by our boatmen
that yesterday afternoon five men reached the
quarantine ground at Staten Island who inform
tnas they had made their escape IN jumping o.
ver-board aud swimming from his Britannia ma.
jes'l siiip Castor, OF 90 guns" They state that
me Castor came TO anchor the night before last,
about and half miles south Of the Highlands I.
tha' she was last from Spllhesd, and brings dis
patches
'Steef's Hst ,ntes her n Gieafe of "a gu,,.
eo'nnrandedby William Ro6etts--6u;h IN I79s,
Col Ferdinand H. Claiborne. is appointed
ny the PRESIDENT Of the United States, bri-
gadier general OF the Mississippi Terrific
ry.
Samuel L.. MtehiR, has been elected
one OF the foreign members Of the IVernr..
rfan Natural History Society of Eo;n :
6urgh---of which Robert Jameson. ESD. is
President. and Patrick Neill, Esq. Secre-
tary.
Progress If REVOLUTIOW in South.
.dmsrico.
Official dispatches from potosi tn ,be
Junta of Rio della Plata, (too long for in
sertion at presently assures the Iunta. thar
the Audiences of Caracas, Potosi. Plata.
Cochabamba and la Paz, even to the very
boundaries OF the Viceroyalty of Lima. were
In perfect tranquility, concord aud aekoow-
Judgement of and obedience TO he govern
ing Junta of Rio de-Ia-P alta -Whie'
The faction and the federaIsts are VERY
anxious for the publication Of the CORES
pondence which General Armstrone is pre-
pairing tor the Prsss. The fae,ivp hope q
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Mr. Wssr's PIcrUne. An English writer,
in lste London paper, who distinguished Mr.
Vests Picture, I" Christ healing the sick" as
the most splendid constellation in the firma-
ment of the graphic muse" says. sit is well
known that this picture was intended rs a gift
for the U. of America, the native c. UHtry of
the venerable President, aud that it has been
bought by the subscribers to the British Instifu.
fion, who we're very happy to purchase 1t for the
sum of 5000 suineas. allowing Mr.. West the Ii
berty of making copy. in order to put his geu-
erous and patriotic project in execution"
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Tkirty-seven distinguished and 10
sers ofthe fine arts. have subscribed fifty gui
meas esch,ior the purchase OF the picture
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A. J. DALLAS, jr.
Of the u. S. Navy.
NoRtoLx, Tune u.

NORruLk, June II.
We stated in our last, that the u. s. frigate,
Commodore DECATUR, sailed from Hampton.
Roads on a cruize---We since learn, that on
Sunday evening he fell in with the British fri
gate Euridiee and the ataianto sloop of var
On Commodore Dcc-tur's hailing the frig ate
one OF his guns unluckily went off. this induce d
the Commodore 70 explain the accident to the
British officer, which was received with great
polteness after this, civilities were exchang.
ed, and since then have bee,r in sight of each o
Their on terms of friendship. The accidental go
ing Oft of the cannon is not TO be wondered at
when it is recollected that tlc frigate's guns
are discharged with locks aud not with matches
@-AN Herald
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Bosros, June 2.

FORTY FOUR lnformations" apains. ves.
sells and Merchandise, under the Non. Importa-
ton Law, have been advertised by the Marshal
Of this District, for TRIAL ON the Fourth Tues
dag OF the present month. An immense amount
OF property is involved, but we presume honda
are held tor most oft. CT 1t the process is
not stopped by the President, the trials will be
highly important.
!. RE WBURYPoRT SUFFERERS.
We learn that the respectable committee g.
lected by a number of Charitable Citizens az
thistowp 10 receive subscriptions for the relief
OF the sufferers by the fire at Newburyport, have
chosen. the Hpn. George Cabot Chairman. and
Ebenszer Stocker, Esq. Secretary. The com
mittee meet each day, at o a. Nj. at the Branch
Bank,to further this laudable purpose and II
is with great pleasure we have witnessed on the
Donation List such sums annexed to individual
names, as dos, honor to the character of our
town for benevolence, & promise valuable
aid to the distressed.
The SelectInen Of Newb,tay port. have offered
one thousand dollars reward, for the discovery
the infernsl incendlary who caused the late
dreadful fire in that town.
Paisezroyth1.-We learn from Newburyport,
that two subscription papers, were circulated
at that place on Tuesday, the one headed nv
Mr. Bartlett with S 5000, the other by Moses
Brown with 1900.
The Newburyport Herald, of Wednesday
last, rs entirely filled with matter relating to the
dreadful fire which took place in that own ON
Friday night last. 1t is therein stated, That
upwards of $50 buildings were DESTROYED. most
of which were stores and dwelling-houses in
which number nearly all the dry goods stores
are included four Printing Offices. the whole
number in Town the Custom House the Sur
veyor's Offices; the Post Office two Ins,Ir-
ance Offices the Baptist Meeting House (; 4
Attorneys Offices: four Book Stores, the loss
OF which is $4,000 dolls. and also the Town IL
braiy."
The Selectmen of Newburyport are autho.
rised and appointed to receive monies and other
DONATIONS for the use oflhe sufferers OH this me-
lancholy occasion.
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FINE ARTS

his ush peculiar pleasure, insert the foYo,;ne
Extracts Of a letter from London ,esoecring mr.
Vests Celebrated Painting. The Editors of pa
6ers in the U. S. are inoifedt TO ,e1publish then,
for the Information. Of RE conamHniy.
PHI Daily A9o.
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The Directors Of the Office of U. S. rnsnr-
ance Company. of Philadelphia. declared on
the 11th inst. a dividend OF II 1 2 per. cent
or the last six months.
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Exryar eta letter from gentleman IF Mar,
=, land, nosp in London, dated
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PHI Daily A9u.
Rxsyanofa letter from gentleman IF Mdp
land, nosp in LONDON, dated -
LONDON, ID, March, 1911
Mr.. WRsr has been exceedingly polite end
kind to me: He has finished the picture for the
Hospital of Pennsylvania, and refuses three
thousand guineas, offered by the cornoiseurs
here to detan it in the kingdom.
Extract Of a lette, from a citizen of Ei;iaiei.
phia, nozo 10 London, to his friend in tsfs CRY
dated 4th Of March, 1911.
l mtst not omit to mention Mr.. VESTS
name to you. He is very attentive to the Young
Americans-The promised Painting for the
Pennsylvania Hospital is now finished. saw
the last touch OF his brush upon it few days Il
go.-Mr. West is satisfied with its execution.
for he says he has reached his ideas. He is not
a little pleased with it, and indeed he has rea-
son, tor many OF those eminent for taste in the
arts, are unwilling that such production should
be taken from this country,S- they have prevail.
ed upon him to undertake to paint copy of it,
which is to be placed in national institution,
to be called the British Gallery & for which
he is TO receive three thousand guineas.-----This
circumstance will prevent the painting reaching
America till the fall, perhaps later. He thinks
the copy will employ him about 8 months.
The society that purchases it intend it to serve
as one of the models of the British school of
Painting, and if any progress is to be made in
that art in America, it will there be fit object
tor the study OF our countrymen, & become
model for 2oPPosite parts of the globe
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nance .h.. sei,Ii have done hooor. evsa to tLe

nance that uoati have done honor. even to the
pencil of Raphael.
The directors ofthe British Institution having
been informed this inimitable work was TO be
seht across the Atlantiek, determined II posi-.
bic, to keep it in England, and for that patriotic
purpose. literally offered the artist 5000 gulneas
for 1t, which was accepted. This money, It was
proposed. shoulsl be t.:.ea s,as,ript;un a
mongst the Governors and Subscribers to the in
stfution, which having been communicated to his
royal highness the Prince Regent, he immedi-
stely directed that fifty guneas might be paid
az his subscription, and accompanied this orde T
with an additional 100 gineas to be applied as
the directors should think most expedsnt for
the benefit OF the British Institution, to which
his royal highness was lately. by his gracious
permission, elected the president.
The u S. brig Viper, arrived at Orleans 9Th
May. from HAVANA she had been sent ou,. it
ia said, to demand the Americans taken at. Mo-
bile, and the Spanish government refused TO
give them up.
Rhode Island American.
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Finding that a reportfas been in circulation
for some time past. that had observed that in
the fracas which took place between the Presi
dent and the Little Belt, the former had fired
the first gun--I feel myself constrained by the
dictates of truth to assert, that the before men
toned reports notHniy false but without any
kind of foundation as coming either directly or
indirectly FROM me.
- Al DALLAS, ir.
Of the u. S. Navy.
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Extract Of a lette, from a citizen of Esiioaei.
phia, no1o 70 London. to his friend in tais city
dated 4rh of March, 1911.