Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-06-05

try. F" What have done, The SAYS was
for my country; had | erred in the dis
charge of my official duty, that error
would have originated in the warmth of
my devotion to her interest, and a mis-
application of the means best calculated
to promote her happiness and prosperi-
ty; but to find that my conduct has been
sanctioned by my government, and APP
proved by my fellow citizens, is a source
OF happiness unequalled in the occur
rcnces Of my life; for the proudest honor
that can grace soldier, and the richest
rewards which he can receive for the
fatigues, periIs, and priyations of his pro-
flssion, is the appreciation of grateful
country"
With respect to the surrender of the
Floridas, by Spain, to America, we need
only say, that it is a circumstance that has
long been expected, & against the conse-
quences ofwhich, to our w. India islands,
such precautions as may be conformable
to the views of the friends of the colonial
system, ought long since to have been
, taken by our government. Were the
West India Islands as independent as the
United States are at the present moment,
our ministers might lose some patronage,
but the industry and enterprise Of our
merchants and manufacturers would
gam. 1t is strange, that, to those who
regret such colonial losses, this truth,
SO often proved, should still be again to
prove, that, " to trade to free ports with
people, is the most certain profit
The NELOoIPEDE, alias the .dcceLera-
tor, alias the Pedestrians Ro6bY Horse,
alias the IrGcena, sc. has been fully
described, with an accompanying engrav-
ing, in a recent number of the Mercu-
ry, and subsequently in the Kaleidoscope.
We some time ago predicted, that it
would soon be all the rage, and we now
ind it is becoming more general daily.
We find one has been manufactured in
this town, from the description given in
the Mercury and that it has been found
to answer beyond the expectation of the
makers.
The following detached notices of this
whimsical invention are copied from va
rious journals:
The Bury paper observes, that The
road from Ipswich to Wilton is travel
led every evening by several pedestrian
hobby horses TO less than six are seen
| at a time, and the distance, which is three
miles, is performed in s minutes. a
military gentleman has made bet TO go
to London by the side of the coach.''
d" A curious wager was lately decided
at Chigwellrow, between two gentlemen
Of Chinkford, named Brown and Jones,
for IS guineas, which went the greatest
distance in one hour, each mounted on
MS two-wheeled hobby; which was de-
teimined in favor Of Mr. Brown, who
did nearly eight miles, beating his an
tagonist quarter of mile.''
A gentleman, mounted upon his
wooden hobby horse, on the Cumberwell
road, a few days ago, attracted a great
crowd, from the pressure of which he
was, at his earnest solicitation, cxtricated
by passing age-coachman, who car
ried him and his horse off on the roof
Earthquake.--A letter from Palermo,
of the 4th inst. received on Saturday,
contains the following particulars F" We
have had most dreadful weather here
these last fourteen days, with three heavy
shocks of an earthquake, which has
done much mischief on the southeast
part of the Island, throwing down
churches and destroying villages. Much
damage has also taken place among the
shipping; but, am happy to say, no.
thing of any consequence has happened
here" Letters from Mcssina of the Sd,
and from Naples of the 9th, were also
received; but, though they remove all
doubts of the safety of Messina, they
contain no particulars of the devastation
mentioned in the Palermo letter.
The Client Journal afirms that the
generals Rigaud and Grouchy are on the
eve of returning to France from Ame-
RIGA.
LONDON, MARCH %.
The last arrival of American papers
has brought the result of discussion of
three weeks, on the question of the Sc
iminole war, and of Jackson's manner of
conducting it. Whatever may be the
predominant feeling of the American
people at the present day, we doubt not
that some of them may live to wish that
the transactions of that war, and the votes
of Congress with regard to it, could be
for ever buried in the same grave, and
snatched everiastingly from the grasp of
the historian, and from the observation
and remembrance of the civilized world.
If the insults offered to the Spanish gov