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


palace. A part of Scutari has been de-
stroyed by fire.
The present Pacha of Egypt is inces-
SAINT in his efforts to increase the prospe-
rity of that fine country. A Bank and
Insurance Company is established at
Alexandria--the great canal is to be
restored-and much encouragement is
offered to agriculture.
The Pope has erected Canada into an
Archbishopric.
Cadiz papers mention the capture OF
the Spanish vessel the Tiger by the re-
yolutionary corsair, Constitution.
The Paris papers of Thursday contain
private letter from Madrid which we
should be pleased to find authentic. 1t
is there stated that deputies from Buenos
Ayres had arrived at Madrid, empower
ed to offer the king the submission of
the insurgent provinces of the Rio-de-la-
Plata, on condition of a national repre-
scntation, vote in the imposition Of
taxes, and conformity in the regula-
tons of customs and commerce between
the colonists and the mother country,
and that prince of the blood royal shall
be sent out as viceroy to Spanish
America.
CARRICKFERGUS, MAY !, l6l9.
"The emigration from this part of the
country is still increasing. A greater
number have left Belfast for America
within the two last months, than emigra
ted during the whole of last year; not
less, l am told, than 5000 and upwards
since the beginning of March-mostly
all farmers. Whole neighborhoods now
move off together; and this week
string Of fifty cars, with emigrants and
their luggage, from Carne Castle, passed
through this town for Belfast. Pm
told they have left upwards of a mile
square without an inhabitant. The pas
sage to British America being now very
low, that route is generally chosen by
those proceeding to the western states"
Five thousand nine hundred and forty
seven emigrants arrived at Quebec from
the month of May to the 5th of July.
BRITISH HOUSE of COMMONS, June %.
De5ate OIL the .aai-PotriOt BIZ.
The attorney general having moved
the second reading of the foreign enlist
ment bill, sir r. Wilson contended
against the principle Of the bill, and en-
tered into long historical account ofthe
service of natives of other countries, in
ON, o,D,, ,,,J o+har OWN, ;ec opd pouioc
without offence to their sovereigns. He
instanced the Irish in the service of
France and Spain. We had seen La
Fayette in the service of North Ameri-
ca, and sir Sydney Smith in that of
Sweden. There were Swedish sailors
in the fleet of Rodney and De Grasse, at
the moment of action. The Russian ma
Wy was at one time full of Scottish Off
GERS. He did not see any of the lords
Of the Admiralty present, or he would
have appealed to them to state the num-
Der of Danes, Swcdes, and Norwegians
that manned our navy during the last
war, and contributed so materially to the
glory and security of the country. Was
the house prepared to give new inter-
probation to the laws Of nations, which
would have the effect of inducing foreign
governments to exercise the same re-
striction, and in the end deprive this
country Of their assistance, the value Of
which it had previously experienced
In the year 1856, we subsidized corps
OF Russians and Hessians, without con-
sidering that we engaged their govern
ments III our quarrel. 1t has been the
practice OF the Swiss to hire themselves
out to adverse armies. But then it was
said America had adopted an opposite
principle.
For America he felt sincere affection
he cherished her as the impregnable
fortress of human freedom, with her
gates ever open 10 afford refuge and
resting place to the prosecuted and OPP
pressed. But he was not blinded by his
attachment when he saw an attempt to
separate freedom from justice. Gould
the house forget, that from the United
States the people OF South America had
received, heretofore, the most active as
sistancc There was built the first YES
sci on which the flag of independence
was hoistcd. From thence the South
Americans had obtained the two finest
lrigates in their service.--North Ameri-
Ca had sent commissioners, not to ne
gociate South American independence,
but to give character to their govern
ments seeing which, Spain had inter-
fered, and purchased the forbcarance OF
the United States by the cession OF Flo
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