American watchman and Delaware advertiser., 1826-10-06
From late Foreign Journals.

a Liverpool paper con,radicts the report that
change IS to eke place in the edtorship Of The Ed
lnburgh Review. II also states that the scene NJ
the novel on which Sir Walter Scouts pen is now
engaged, is laid in Ireland And adds, we learn
with satisfaction that four volumes of Sir Waller
Scors Life OF Napoleon already nearly printed:
what will not industry and talent united accomplish;
1 he work is to consist Of six volumes lhe FIRST
two arc, We understand, preliminary the last four
devoted to the lie; and the public will rejoice to
near, that the continued good health ard steady
habits OF application OF the author give full and
agreeable promise OF the completion OF this labor
good time.
The Sunday Times states that the Wakefield
family wish il to be known that Mr.. VIM. Wake.
held forfeited his bail by flight, with their concur
renee; that 1t was considered better to sacrifice the
4,0o0l than allow the purpose of traversing in Mr..
r. & Wake6cld's case TO be defeated by prema.
lure trial oil his brother and that the latter will be
Certainly forthcoming when Mr. L. G.. WIS trial
comes on.
| The Proprietors OF one London evening. paper
authorised their reporters to draw upon them TO the
extent OF 2ooL il, by expending that sum, they
could convey the proceedings respecting MIR Wake
helu 10 town before the agents oi any other Journal
Raymond the confidential cle4k of Mr.. Roth
schild has been sentenced at Paris to the pillory
and ten years. hard labor, for the robbery OF his
master.
Ihe lourneymen printers of London have pub.
ished an appeal to the benevolent 1t states their
great priyatons and distress, and soicits subscrp-
tons.
The printing business in Paris is nearly as bad as
IN London. NJ. Didot, the creates, printer there,
has suspended payment.
hree hundred and nnety'one booksellers me.
al the last Easter fair at Leipsic and two thousand
three hundred and seventy four new works, written
10 the German or ancient languages sufficiently
prove the prodgous activity with which the sciences
are cultivated. To these must be added, aliases,
romances, dramatic pieces, musical compositions,
&c making the whole number amount to two thou
sand seven hundred and forty nine.
A country lady, not hundred miles from York,
oeinB told OF the wigwams in America observed,
tfat she had read OF them before and begged to be
informed whether they would bite.
The conhagratons on the moors at Yorkshire are
believed to have been occasioned by lightning. On
llhaiey Moor 500 acres are burnt Barley ia nearly
consumed Thornton Moor is entirely destroyed,
and with it all the young plantations, which up.
wards of $4,000. Oaksworth Moor is entirely
burnt-Overden, Holme, Moss, Burnsall, Fell,
eoden, and GrassiDton, FIRE, and unless heavy
: ain should speedily fall, every will be wholly
destroyed.
Broomhead Moors, in ihe nsighboI hood Of Shelf
held, continued on fire. Notwithstanding the exer-
tons to extingnsh the destroying element. The
lire and the moors above Chesterfield had been in
similar situation for some days; they abound with
grouse, which are preserved The light a, night is
seen At seven or eight miles distant.
Major Laing has reached the city Of Timbuctoo
in the interior Of Africa.
Sir Isaac Co0tn.-We understand that Sir Tsaac
Cotfn, during his late visit to Nantucket, purchased
hne academy for the purpose Of educating all The
hdren who are named Coffin and the descendants
oil Collins. Five trustees TO be appointed, all
OF the name OF Coffin, to superi6,end the affairs of
The institution 1t is said that the Admiral has ap.
propr'aied funds for the support of the academy
forever, and gentleman of this city who is de-
scendant from some Of the Collins at Nantucket,
il IS supposed will lake charge Of the school.
". Fork Paper.
~ numerous meeting Of the citizens Of New
AK, N. j., resolutions were adopted, approving n
ne course adopted by the Administration, ard Of the
administration ke' formed at the late Convention
II Trenton and den0uDCng, in strong terms, the