American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1825-05-06

III. object agans. which il is directed.
'ne ooJes' 'es Dem. Press.
Nv the BRIG Rolla, captain Young, arrived yester
d.u from Jamaica we received IRON our atlehuveI
correspondent Of the Commercial Reading hooH'
At Kingston, our flies of the Jamaica Koyai 1aze'e
and Courant TO the gym UT.
The Republic Of Hayti applied some time since
to the Colombian Republic to obtain treaty OF am
ance offensive and defensive. The latter govern
ment, it was we'll known, declined Inc proposal.
We are now furnished by the Royal 0azeue' WIN
the grounds on which the refusal was made nc
.ns ,ssr IF The Government of Colombia states
That as the government Of Hay had allowed
only twenty DAYS for its minister 10 obtain this treaty.
the time was too short to discuss, much less 70 de
eide, question Of so much importance.
O. That treaty OF alliance offensive and deieh-
sse might expose the Republic OF Colombia 70
contest with France, with which power no conlro-
versy existed. !.
8. That the government Of Colombia could not
enter into such treaty without consulting inc ne
publics of Rio de la Plata, Chill and Peru; that
Congress consisting of delegates from those powers
would assemble at Panama in October next, when
the overture from the Haytian government would
be made and tha, there was little doubt OF avora-
BILE answer. BAIT. Am. 2Sth att
PERU.-We learn from Guayaquil, that the
new congress was TO convene at Lima the 10Th OF
February, and that changes would be made IN that
BODY as (our-hfths were iriars who were unpopular
Monte Goardo, who was to be Governor oil Lima,
had been assassinated. Every part Of Peru was
tranquil except Callao, which was closely oesleged
by BoLIvAR's troops, aided by the combined Chin
an and Colombian squadron, on the hrst OF febru
larry. Rcniorcements were expected from Suaya
quill and the reduction of Callao by storm was con-
6dently expected. Two Peruvian corveties,one frig
ate, and one schooner, were 10 join the blockadng
squadron in few days. Transports, with 1900
Colombian troops, sailed from Guayaquil for Che
rlllas about The Goth of January; these were all thai
were left of 1000 men transported from Colombo
! to Guayaquil via Panama, more that 800 having
died at the island Of Puma, at the entrance oil Quay
aqui river. .1atrord.
| IMPROVED STEAM BOAT.-The Trenton
built in New York for the line to run between Phlla
delphia and Trenton, is represented by the New
York papers to be the finest vessel oil her class tina
| floats. Her cabins wanscoa.ed throughout witt
mahogany, the different SORTS OF choice maple ant
other rare and beautiful woods. The larger panels
are fitted with handsome oil paintings which appea
\ framed in the walls, between which are marble pill
lars and pilasters. forming, with other decorations
| a splendid and chaste finish 10 the whole. But he
| model for sailing and construction Tor comfort ant
i convenience are most the subjects of admiration
| On Friday, in trial with the Kent and Marshall
i she ran eleven and half miles an hour. Her boil
ers rest upon the guards projecting over the waite
from each side Of the boat. This leaves the decl
entirely unobstructed and forms what may be call
ed promenade deck.--The space usually occupie,
10y the boilers is converted into convenient and Gle
giant dressing ROOMS Should any accident happel
to the boilers, the water would be thrown drect
into the river, ard not in the least endanger the pas
sengers. And what is likewise important, the un
pleasant and annoying degree of heat in the dinin
cabins is no longer let. She was built at Hoboker
and it may be earlessy asserted says the Post, thu
the improvements in the arrangement and dispos
ton OF her machinery far greater than any thi
S have been yet made since the first introduction
] these boats into our waters.
Rapid Trarelling Fifty Tears ago-Moscow
i $50 miles from St. Petersburg. 10 1775 Cath,
y rine came in sledge from Moscow to Petersburg
in four days, although she turned aside and viste
: mandatory of Hardware at Tula 1t is said say
\ Tooke, that Peter l. once made the same ourne
in 46 hours in sledge drawn by twenty four horse
When the locomotive Steam Engines are brougt
Ito tolerabe perfection, the route, $50 mile
9 may easily be travelled in 10 hours. This is as plat
as any question in the rule Of three. If "a horse
. can travel $50 miles in 46 hours how soon woul
/. the same distance be performedby locomotive ma
i. chine OF an hundred horse power. Dem. Press.
pt A recent Mexican paper contains letter fror
the Secretary OF Foreign Affairs to Baron de Hum
bold, in which the traveller is thanked in hehali
e the Mexican nation, for the justice of his writing
at relative to Spanish America, and invited TO revis
v, Mexico. MIR. de Humboldt, in reply, expresses tn
Ilpleasure he feels at the honor done him. and saws
al" have not lost the hope of seeing once more (wit
ic the permission of my sovereignty the Cordilleras
IS Anabuac. of studying again its natural production
and enjoying the spectacle OF that progressive pro
oil pery which free institutions and the arts Of peat
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