The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-02-09
Foreign and Domestic Glcaninps

that he would call special Court to consd.
er the propriety Of petitioning ParliamentSr
the immediate mitigation of slavery through.
out the British Colonies, and for its extinction
at the earliest safe and practicable period n
At Bengal, about ten thousand boys, and
fifteen hundred girls, are in a couse Of edu.
cation under the auspices of the British.
The publication Of the Life of Napoleon
will follow the historical novel of Woodstock
or The Long Parliament, by the author si
Waverly.
There arc, it is said, now in New South
Wales, upwards of 10000 male convcu
while the females do not amount to more
than as many hundreds
Maha Bundoola, famous Burmese gen,r.
al, who was lately killed by a she'll, at the
capture of Donabue, is supposed to be Ma.
jor Carroll, who was dismissed the British
service, and natural son of the Marquis Of
Hastings who promoted him from private
Captain Cunningham of the COLUMBIAN
privateer Gen. Soublette, who lost an arm
in an action off Gibralter with Spanish
| feet, had died Of his wounds.
| The revenue of the Mexican governmen.
in 1925, from duties on imports and exports.
amounted to S2,275,s3
MAJOR Clopperton and his companions il
the expedition for the interior of Africa, ar.
rived at Teneritfe, September IL, ana wa
to sail ON the 18th for Sierra Leone, and no.
direct to the Blight of Benin, as has been
heretofore stated.
It has been established as the law of Scot
land respecting marriage, that it man cakes
a woman by the hand and declares her to b.
his wife, in the presence of witnesses, tha
she is SO in law. II was thus a person nam
! ed M.Adams, who had an estate worth 10
900 pounds year, lately married woman
after which he shot himself. But the mar
rage was held to be good, though severely
, contested, as of course it would be.
The Worcester Spy states, that during
more than thirty years past, in Worces.s
county, comprehending, at present, htty -toG
towns and eighty thousand inhabitants, Their
has been but one solitary conviction for
: capital offence.
On the nth ult. at Cartersvlle, in Virgin
ia, a traveller committed suicide by cutting
his throat, after having attempted to destroy
, every thing about him, which could lead TO
the discovery of his name.
,, Within twenty years, the State and pee
pie of Pennsylvania, on internal improve
= ments, have actually expended more tna0
ten millions and half of dollars.
The Warren Courier, Pa. states that h'
last freshct has proved unfortunate to mes
, of the persons engaged in the lumber bus
t ness: of 1000, 600 feet of boards on the An.
ghany, one half of them have been stove
z pieces by the ice, and scattered in every d
e rection for great distance down the river
4 and the other half is in very bad situation
The Anti-Slayery Society of Marylan
: have resolved to recommend to its member
: the propriety of withdrawing their patron
age from such newspapers as will not de
Y cline the publication Of professed slaye-tra
e ders' advertisements.
!, A young man named Hugh M'Bride, /
: the employ of the Hudson Bay Company, a
o the post Rat on River, was found dead on th
. 18th Dec. While hunting, he was caugh
I in a fox trap BY accident the two beams
Vt the trap had closed on his neck ,and choake
0 him before he could extricate himself.
An account of the Life, Writings an
!, Speeches of the late William Pinkney,
about to be published. The work will il
e clude some of the speeches of Mr.. Pinkne
Y in Congress and at thcbar, which have new
$ before been published.
e In the House of Representatives, on Sa
o urdGy, the Committee on Naval hffalrs ma'
an unfavorable report Oh the memorial
|. Capt. Isaac Phillips, in which he prayed
J. he restored to his rank of Post Captain i'll IL
S American army.
# The Poultney, Vrt. Spectator, states TIL
\ a female, apparently about IS years of as
V in state of mental arrangement, and almo
) destitute of clothing, is wandering abol
: Vermont. She speaks frequently of Connet
! tcut river, and says her fathers name
! Asa. She can give no account of herself
A Loadstone, in great abundance, is said
Il have been discovered in Rockingham CouI
|, ty, N. c. The discovery smacks of Sinba'
a. ism--a ploughman had his plough dl
: engaged from its place, and it was four
II strongly attached to the loadstone.
10 When Com. Rodgers was at Patras, Sc
en- Turkish widows, whose husbands NJ
t, been killed at Corinth, were brought {
ID board the North Carolina by the Greeks 7
II sale. The Commodore generously PAID the
l. ransom, gave .hem their liberty, and Sc
ID them to Smyrna.
ly William Hill, charged with the murder
G. Mr.. Perry, at Potosi, i'll the state OF NJ
souri,, and for whose apprehension rewa
S. of $1,000 was offered, is said to have DC
lie taken in the Colorado, in the province
,e Texas, by Col, Ross, of Clark county, y
d. kansas. :.
IL A bill to incorporate the North Caroh
a Gold Company, has passed the legislature
re that state.
ts A Mr.. St. George has opened an otce
70 New York, where "every description OF p
G. try, songs, acrostics, letters, &c. shall be
acntad IN tho hecf etvle The StrlCttSt