The Portland gazette., 1819-08-31

Vdlldce's Honumcnk-There have OF late
been several proposals made for erecting
monument in vh. neighbourhood OF Glas-
gov to the memory of Sir William Wal
lace,-A correspondent in the p" Glasgow
Oh onicle proposes that this monumen.
shall be colossal statue of the Scottish he
70 The ststue te bs cast OF iron, one
hundred and fweFy feet iu height the
whole contsi log sn ( zee of nine thousa nd
square feet waghicE onc hundred and
twenty five tons and the expeases inclu
ding stairs, balustrades, hanccs. screw bolts
and cement, necessary to Join the pieces to-
gciher being estimated at 3,00ol. As the
legs would be nearly FIVE feet in diameter
inside, spiral star might be Gxed in one
of them, to lead 10 suites of tea, and other
rooms, In the body, thighs, and arms oil
the figure. La some OF these the keeper
and his family might reside and his
emoluments might perhaps amount to i've
or six thousand pounds q year, There
might be Hats let out either as dwelling
houses or summer quarters.--Ihe e'her
feet to contain reservoir OF water, or serve
as stabling for yisiter's horses The head
! lighted with gas, might be an observatory,
small rotunda theatre, or concert and as-
sembly room. A clock might be placed
in a spare corner of the figure the hands
on the warriors target HIS sword might
| serve as a thunder rod Visitcis might
walk round his bonnet as they do round
the monument in London. ! his statue, if
we'll painted and put together, and founded
on rock, nigh, bid distance to time, and
outlive even the Pyramids.
| A crowd of weavers and others, supposed 10
/ amount TO s. 900, recsnty assembled on the green
at Glasgow, to petition the regent for means to
remove to he n A. colonies for those who wish
| ed--!he 40h regiment and some troops IF cdrdlrg
were held in readiness TO act while The meeting
was holding.
On the evening Of the 9th of July. Madame
Blanchard was killed at Paris, by falling from the
height she bad ascended with a balloon-the BAL
loon taking FIRE.
The British House of Lords have concurred in
the address OF the Commons to the Prince Regent,
to concert with France and the United States
measures for the more efectual suppression of
the Slave Trade. conditional privilege of
stances appears to be contemplated.
A Vienna article mentions, that Madame Eliza
Bacchiochi, and Madame Jerome Bonaparte,
have set out for the waters OF Carlsbad but that
the husbands Of these two ladies remain at Scho-
en,u, whence it seems that they have not obtain
ed permission to accompany them. The mem
bers of the Bonaparte family said not TO en-
joy an entire hberty-so far to the contrary L at
! they cannot move step without express per-
mission. They especially interdicted from
having the slightest communication with the
young Napoleon.
The King Of Wurtemberg is to be married to
Princess of AnhOll Bernburg Schaumburg.
NJ Leclerc, formerly deputy in the Convention
for Maine ct Loire who exied as Regicide,
has received permission to return TO Paris.
On the 8th Of June considerable district in
the Canton of Zurich desolated by dread
full hail stot otm-in fifteen minutes beautiful and
abundant harvest was destroyed. great num-
Der Of animals were killed in the fields, and the
birds fell dead from the trees.
On the 4th of May fire broke out in the town
Of Bath, in Hungary, The property Of Prince
E$terhazy, which consumed 107 houses, 90 barns
IA grape cellars The next day the fire burst
forth again, ana consumed % houses more, ana
a Catholic Church.
a London paper remarks that the leaves Of the
WhortlebeTy carefully dried are good substi-
tute for Tea.
From the t7th Of April, 10 The end of May, 1862
persons passed Mcntz on the Rhine on their wAv
to embark for America, among wbome were 262
women and 585 chdren.-Of these persons 66S
were Wurtemburghers, 60 Bay arans, 1872 Badeners
III Swiss. and 90 Hessiaos.