The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1823-08-20

cities of Europe, and inquire who corrected
the errors of Newton and La Place.
The due encouragement of our publick
Schools, the nurseries of our useful citizens.
In them FRANKLIN and a BowDITCH re-
ceived their early education.
Parsons, Cabot, Lowell, Jackson, Perkins.
Bowditch. A brilliant cluster in the glorious
constellation Of old Essex.
SUMMARY.
The Packet ship Columbia, Captain Rog-
ers, arrived at New York from Liverpool,
has brought London dates to June %; and
the arrival Of the Mary-and-Jane at Philadel-
phia, has furnished Gibralter papers to the
list ofJuly. There is not a syllable furnished
by either of these arrivals, that wears an as
pect favourable to the cause of Spanish liber-
ty. The French have moved rapidly over
the southern provinces, without any opposition
worth na ming, and Cadiz is closely invested
by land and sea. The division that entered
Port st. Mary's On the 23d of June, consisted
of 1000 foot, and 500 cavalry.-The news of
the forcible removal of King Ferdinand from
Seville to Cadiz, had just been received at
London. The Globe and Traveller states,
upon what it conceives to be good authority,
that the person sent to the English govern
ment from the new Regency at Madrid, was
dismissed from the Foreign Office with mere
receipt for the dispatches which he delivered.
He also waited on the Spanish Minister, Ad-
miral Jabat, to deliver dispatches from the
Regency, but was dismissed with declara-
ton, that Jabat knew of no such body, and
could not receive the communication which
he rendered. The manner in which the King
was treated by the Cortes, is said to have
caused much dissatisfaction among the const-
tutional troops, many of whom abandoned
their generals on account of it. Billings
Liverpool Advertiser, Of July LIST, says, "The
cause Of independence in the peninsula Of
Spain and Portugal, presents less cheering
: aspect than it has at any period assumed since
the establishment of the Representative sys-
tenn in those countries" Abisbal arrived at
Bayonne on the tenth, and although travelling
iacog. had been visited by all the officers in
the garrison, and was present at grand din
ner given no doubt in his honour, by the Cen
eral commanding the Department it is as
serted that he intended going to Paris. The
Lendon. Times, of June 80, says, C one act of
violence has, We hear, been perpetrated al
ready in the seizure of our brave countryman.
Sir X. Wilson, and his aid-de-camp, at Opor-
to, while travelling peaceably on their way to
Lisbon, and unarmed. They were liberated
only on their parole. The Minister of the
United States to Spain, aud the Ambassadors
OF the Netherlands and Sweden, remained
with the British Minister at Seville. A Brus-
sci article Of June Goth, says, IS The Prince of
Canine, son of Lucien Buonaparte, and his
young wife, set out this afternoon for Ant
werp, where they will embark for the United
States of America. They intend to remain
two or three years in that country'' 1t is said,
Sir Hudson Lowe is appointed Governour of
Demerara.
The revenue of Great Britain during the
last quarter, was expected to be productive al
most beyond a precedent, and the country is
represented generally to be in a fiourishng
condition. Affairs in Ireland, however, were
getting worse. Troops were pouring in from
all quarters of the kingdom, and it appears
that ont of "a days, in which the House of
Commons had been sitting, 40 of them had
been spent in discussions on Irish affairs. Par
Lament had voted grant of 15,O0Ol. sterling
for promoting emigration from the south Of
Ireland to the Cape of Good Hope and the
Canadas.
horrible murder and suicide were perpetra-
ted IN London. young man named Grifflths,
blew his fathers brains out with pistol, and
then shot himself through the head. He was
driven to this rash act in consequence of his
fathers refusing to advance money to support
HIM IN his extravagant pursuits. Both father
and son moved, in what are called, the higher
circles in the west end of the town.
The activity and increase of the cotton
manufactures of this Country are at present
surprising. In Lancashire, we learn, that
ABOUT seventy new cotton mills have been
built, or are building.
Steam Engines.-lt appears that the number
Of steam engines at present in action in this
country may be reckoned at 10000: that
one with another each may be estimated as
equal In power to twenty horses; that each
horse will do the work of six men. and that
consequently the acting powers of our steam
engines are equal in effect to 100000 horses,
or 100000 men. If we contemplate this
mpense accession of strength, much Of the
wonder that is naturally excited, by compar
ing the magnitude of the external and the
internal capability of Great Britain with its
territorial superices, will vanish; Tor it will
De seen that with population of about
l4,OO0,O00, we are employing an active force
that could not be obtained independently of
these means with double tile number. We
ought further to recollect, that the power thus
produced, is more concentrated, and conse-
qucntly more eficacious than it could possibly
De under other circumstances that the capa-
city OF these machines becomes effective in
various instances in which human strength
could by no possibility be employed, as in
draining mines and similar operations. Under
tnis point OF view, therefore, the steam engine
ought not to be considered merely in the iight