Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-05-04

AoPS dlt nkely 10 Ue very uuutiuuS IhS
season. A London paper mentions that
not less than 500 persons in the parish Of
PoItsea alone are about 10 remove to the
United States.
A society has been formed at Treves,
ior the purpose of establishing German
colony in the United States of America.
This society has adopted the name OF Ga.
germ, IN honour of the German Baron oil
that name, who has recently sent an agent
at his own expense to America, in order
to ascertain the treatment which the Ger
man coionists receive In that country.
The Baron has published the Information
he has received by this means, in pam
ph!et entitled The German az zmerica.
The following is curious Order of the
Day issued by Bonaparte, when First Con
sui, on the occasion Of an act of suicide
committed by horse. grenadier.
Extract from the Orderly Book of the
Horse.grenadiers of the Consular Guard.
Order of the 22d Fioreal, (year To-.
The grenadier Grobbin has destroyed
himself 10 consequence of love affair."
He was otherwise respectable man.
This is the second event Of the kind which
has happened in the corps within month.
The First Consul has directed that it
shall be inserted 10 the Order of the Day
of the Guard, that Soldier ought TO know
how to subdue sorrow aud the agitation
OF the passions; that there is as much
courage in enduring with frmness the
pains OF the heart as in remaining steady
under the grape-shot of battery. To
abandon one self TO grief without resistance,
TO kill one self 10 order to escape from it,
is TO fly from the field Of battle before one
is conquered.
| (Signed) BoNAPARTE, First Consul.
The new machine, entitled Il" Veloci
lpede," consisting of two wheels, one be-
lore the other, connected by perch, Oh
which the pedestrian rests the weight of
| his body, while with his feet he urges the
machine forward, on the principle Of
skating, is already in very general use
The road from Ipswich to Wilton" says
the Bury Paper, ",is travelled every
evening by several pedestrian hobby -hor-
| ses 10 less than six are seen at a time,
and the distance, which is three miles, is
performed in fifteen minutes. A military
gentleman has made a bet to go to Lon
don by the side of the COACH" The
crowded state of the metropolis does not
admit of this novel mode of exercise, and
it has been put down by the Magistrates
| 81 Police, but it contributes to the amuse-
Went of the passengers in the streets in
the shape of caricatures 10 the print shops.
La one of these a certain Royal Duke is
exhibited on his Velocipede, with the fol-
lowing inscription on his back, g 10000
a year." and above, " Cheap travelling TO
Windsor on my fathers business"
arctic Discoveries Gazette OF
Saturday announces the Prince Regents
appropriation of the following scale OF
rewards proposed in Memorial from the
Board of Longitude, taken into conside-
ration by bis Royal Highness in Council
on the 18th inst. viz:
J.. To the first ship belonging to any of
his Majesty's subjects, or to his Majesty,
thai snail reach the longitude of 10 deg.
west from Greenwich, or the mouth OF
dearne's or Coppermine River, by sail
lug within the arctic circle, 5e00L. to the
first ship, as aforesaid, that shall reach
the longitude Of 30 deg. west from
Greenwich, or the Whale Island or Mac
kenzie, by sailing from the arctic circle,
100000; TO the first ship, as aforesaid,
thai shall reach the longitude of $50 deg.
west from Greenwich, by sailing west
wards within the arctic circle, l5,00OL !;
the Act having already allotted to the
first ship that shall reach the Pacific
Ocean by north west passage the full
reward Of 100000.
2. To the first ship, as aforesaid, that
shall reach to S3 deg. of north latitude,
lO0oi; to IS deg. 2Oooi; to 81 deg.
10000; 10 88 deg. 4OOol; the Act having
already allotted to the first ship that shall
reach TO, or beyond 80 deg. the full re-
ward of 5000i.
The Boston Centinel gives the follow
ing summary from papers received by late
arrivals al that port.
The prices of American produce, par
ticalarly Cotton, continued decreasing,
and would occasion immense losses to the
American shippers. These losses are only
exceeded by those Of the British import
ers of India cottons. 1t is stated, there
were 100000 bales of cotton OH hand the
lst April. Money continued scarce, and
commercial confidence shattered.
Every breath in Europe is sigh of the
times. The depression of commerce sinks
deep into every honest bosom. The effect
is not confined to Europe-the commerce
OF Columbia feels the general distress, but
is able to bear it. Her internal strength
10 heuond the raach nf E,,ronaop nnctua-