Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-07-03


return ofthis officer TO England, is stated
in the following letter.
81. Helena, Jan. %, 1919.
There has been no occurrence here
of any interest to our friends at home,
for some time; all has been as vapid
and moaptonous as the hardy duty on a
home scAion, only with far greater pri-
vations. But, at length 6uz has been
created.-Mr. Stokoc, the surgeon OF the
flag ship, whom Bonaparte accepted as
his medical attendant, after the return
home of Mr.. OsMeara, has incurred the
displeasure of the governor, and returns
to England i'll the Trincomalee. The
facts are, | understand-When MIR.
Stokoe consentedto succeed Mr.. O'Mea-
ra, and before he had made any visit to
Bonaparte, he made it the sine qua non
of his accepting the situation, with sir
Hudson Lowe, that he should not be
required to detail any familiar conversa-
lions into which he might be drawn, OF
any circumstances which he might over
hear at Longweod; but plodging HIM
self, as a British Officer, that if any
thing should come to his knowledge in
which his alliance to his king and count
ry should be compromised by his secre-
cy, he would then instantly give infor-
nation to thegoyernor. This has pass
ed on until few days since, when b.
naparte was suddenly seized with serious
illness, in the middle Of the night. Mr..
Stokoe, as soon as the necessary forms
were gone through, visited him, and
found that he had slight apoplectic fit.
After few hours he appeared free from
the attack, but it had left considerable
degree of indisposition. Mr.. Stokoe
made official reports OF the circumstan-
ces to sir Hudson Lowe and the admiral
{ Plampin,) and gave copies of them to
Bonaparte. Whether it was this latter
circumstance, or whether Mr.. Stokoc
had represented Bonaparte as being in a
worse state of health than suited to the
pre-disposed notions of sir Hudson, is
not known; but he was instantly forbid
to go to Longwood-was threatened to
be tried by court-martlal, or as an act
of mitigation of his offence, he was told
he might invalid home. OF course he
preferred the latter, as the least incom-
modious to him, and he sails tomorrow
in the Trincomalec. The reports were
drawn up of course, with conscientious
accuracy; and were such as the case de-
manded. | understand Bonaparte is
really in serious state of health. His
dwelling is sealed against all visitors"
A London paper says, that Eugene
Beauharnois, has recently been at Paris
and was introduced, in cog, to Louis
XVIII.
The emperor Alexandria has sane
toned the establishment of a University
at Petersburgh.
Ferdinand, it is reported, has refused
to fulfil SO much of the will of his late
father as ordered the payment Of his
debts.
The German papers state that count
Humboldt is preparing the details of a
new representative constitution of Prus-
STA. Some alterations in the import du-
ties are contemplated, amongst which,
foreign clover seed will be liable to an
additional duty of 25 shillings per cwt.
This, says London paper evil en-
courage and protect the farmer, and will
increase the revenue 6oo,ooot. on that
article alone, supposing the importation
to be lessened. The consolidated du-
ties on it will then be 27l. per cwt."
Accounts from Berlin of March | 5th
say, " Our Bank has just been declared
to be an institution Independent of the
states, as it originally was. Its paper is
nearly at par value, though it gives only
two per cent"
The Morning Herald of April 9Th
says, that report is in circulation, that
Mr.. Nansittart is preparing to resign his
office, and that he will be succeeded by
Mr.. Peel.
The ships Hecla and Gripa, were to
sail on the l4th of April, from Deptford,
on voyage of discovery to the Arctic
Circle.
The Newcastle of 56 guns, was to
sail early in the spring for Halifax, with
rear admiral Griffith, who is to be,com-
mander in chief on that station.
Another edict of the inquisition, pro-
hibiting the publication of certain books,
is in the press and will shortly be pub
lished.
Recent advices from Ceylon state,
that the governor of that island had
emancipated all the slaves employed in
the Hospital.
Mr.. Mollieu, who recently explored
the sources of the African rivers, the
Gambia, and the Rio Grande, has return