Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-09-04

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when he had said that, reprobation was
exhausted. He concluded with moving,
as an amendment, that the bill be read a
second time that day six months.
The attorney general, in declining the
bill said, that unless the house was pre-
pared to say, that this country should be
made dock yard for belligcrent powers,
some such bill as the present appeared
to him to be absolutely necessary.
Mr. Denman supported the amend
ment.
Mr.. Wynn declared he should vote
for the bill.
MIR. F. Douglass, Mr.. Maryatt, and
Mr.. Mcdonald supported the amend
ment.
Sir c. Robinson advocated the prin-
ciple of the bill, and lord Castlerea9h
commended that we were bound not to SUI
fer the assembling of armed bodies for
the purpose Of acting upon either side.
On division there appeared for the
amendment l42-against it l55. Ma
ority in favor Of ministers 8.
The question was then put to the
second reading Of the bill, which was
agreed to, and the bill was ordered to be
committed ON Thursday next.
LONDON, MAY "a.
Emiyration-Sunday se'nnight, sail
ed from Cowes the Resolution brig Of
New Castle, Clark, master, for Balti-
more, having on board 80 emigrants
from the Isle of Wight and other parts
of England, destined TO the Illinois prai-
RIGS and Indiana, excited thereto by the
seductive descriptions of Mr.. Morris
Birbcck, late of Wanbrough farm in
Surry. Among them were Mr.. John
Pitts, farmer and brewer, of Newport,
with a wife and family of sons and
daughters; Mr.. John Woods, farmer of
Whitley, in Surry, the friend and neigh
Dor of Mr.. Morris Birbeck, when tenant
of lord Onslow. Mr.. Woods takes with
him a wife, five sons, and two daughters.
Mr.. Thomas Pearce, farmer, of West
bourne, in Wiltshire. These passen-
gers have embarked some property, also
various implements of husbandry, with
pickaXes, saws, hatchets, &c. and several
wagons, carts, and horses, which are to
draw them to the delightful abodcs Of
Indiana on their arrival at Baltimore.
The remainder is chiefly composed of
laborers, smiths, carpenters, sc.
A Paris paper ofthe 9th ult. says:
"Francc has now 246 vessels of war, I
among which are 48 line of battle ships,
and 90 frigates. Eleven line Of battle
ships and four frigates are on the stocks.
A few travellers have lately excited
in Bordeaux considerable curiosity
Cornelius Sakayonta, chief of the tribe
Of the Oneida, in North America, in the 1
western part of the state OF New-York,
arrived in that city attended by seven
persons, three of whom are females. Il
seems that strong desire of visiting Eu-
rope, and particularly France, prompted
him to leave the United States, which |
he received but scanty pension. 1t is
presumed that he will find in our coun-
try kind of hospitality not SO simple,
but much more profitable, than on the
banks Of Ohio, Mississippi, or Delaware.
These Indians were to make public |
exhibition on the Sth OF June, in the
long room Of the Athenum ofBordeaux."
ST. JOHNS, N. b. JUNE IL.
Within these few days past, upwards |
of 1900 cmigrants have landed here !
from England, Wales, Scotland, and
Ireland, independent Of about 800 men,
women, and children, of the royal West |
India rangers, under the command OF |
lieutenant colonel Layicount, which |
have been kindly sent here to be dis
banded, but which are as yet on board |
the transports. Notwithstanding this
great and unprecedented augmentation
of numbers within the precincts of our
city, we have the satisfaction to announce |
that the place is healthy and provisions
in general at moderate prices. The |
greater part Of them go to the United
States as fast as opportunity occurs.
" 1t will be seen from the shipping list,
(says the Dumfrics Weekly Journal, of
the goth April last,) that four vessels
have sailed since our last for America,
with passengers. They are mostly of
the lower orders of society, either con-
nected with agriculture or laborers, and
some Of them hauherS, from the north
Of England, for 7vhom the ouerscers Of
tie parish flay the Passage"
SUMMARY STATEMENT.
From Yenezueia, the brig Mary Inn,
from 81. Thomas.
In consequence of the detention of the
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