The Arkansas advocate., 1833-02-27

caisson exploded iia tlsc eitssessI.
 tg!lsTsve,s ; s'celtoeslAs q Tie He 5sd yeo;n. lost yesterday IT gfenadie1s. a,,, 'les, r, some wounded. A shell il ain sd '','a the French army. has just burst is .. Y town, in the quarter oi st. Andre. ens 'se 1t IS not known whether fl Ias dona wy mischief. The inhahitanis af IL. a''y of the own are fleeing with thejr < t,;' fa'' 's,
 Fonce.-It is slated in Bord,snss. paper, tI.at tie French Goselnmess' '. tends 10 submit 10 the Chambers. i,' .l''. course of the session, a project ef e~ 'e l for the trial Of the Duchess d. p..': before the Chamber of Peers. II ,i's law pass, tie trial will eomnence .as. the close of the session. MeabNIsl. 1 the Duchess is 10 he detained al I,la,e under tue responsibility of Ministers
 fioy past hrec o'etgek.- Ne stoptA l press to announce lie arrival oi its ship Ifavre, Capt. Depcystsr, 2tjfb sailed from IEavre CT the l2th of De, cembcr-e ebfinsing papers oI lbat plaS. to the i2th, and Paris journals 10 M l6s
 
 Intelligence from the sent of war;0
 Belgium, is 10 the Sth of December. in. , }clussfe.
 'rhejouraaIs of observers at the secpe of action give hourly notice of essr occurrence. Throughout the w!lele af the Sth December, lhe attack was ,ie. orously piled by tic assaiIants. 'rIFy
 were encouraged by the presence cf l King Leopold, who was in the cits.aua l watched the movements of both sides. Maskcts, IS well IS bofnbs, were djs charged by the besieged without ihlqr. ruption.
 Ali approach 10 4lfe town by waierx 1 was cuf 5sA, and General Chase Was dp. prived of a1i intercourse with hisireah without the Citadsi.
 The works of the besieeers are hean <
 Y advancing towards the Citadel. aHg
 Marshal Gerard in bis geferil erdcts
 speaks with confidence of he appfoael ing capture of tue piacc.
 There was a report of the death d a Gen. Chase, hatit was not believed in
 Paris on tbe 10th Dec.
 1 IL is reported that tlIe Ciiadel had
 snfrendereal--bsai ilIefe is 10 rnention Of the circumstance in the Paris papers d tie l0th, or in the navre of ite Ilfh.
 This report is brought blythe eaYtaa.ef ef l ihe Havre.
 Iicresfine fi'onl f.l5caia.-A friend of ono ol OFT coiored espigsasits, 10 whom fl was addressed, has isssHdaa Us letter received hy him, {per thc brig Liberia, now at fal;aadelfhia,) from one q tle colonists, his cousin, dated the 25lhd September, ls32, which is qiiitc inter ! esting in its character, and we acecT@ ingly give the following substance oIii contents, ncaaty fi lis own afguage.- 1 .Ao.1olk pqper.
 "SVe are well sitaated and doing ell. The spirit of improvement seems daily to ilcreasc in our town, which E spreading fast. 0nr commerce Is get. ing so extensive. that our merchants ire building large warehouses; tlree are erecting al this time, one of which IS stone, f0e feet long. Not wcoi: pass, es but we have one or two arrivals Tn our harbor. l have had the pleasure ot seeing and convcrsing freely with Nil~ iiam Landcrs, the great African travels llers one Of the agents in the expedition fitted out by some English mcrehanisy' to explore the river Niger. He gave nic much interesting information, res pecting the interior of this conntry he says, about five hundred miles back there is one of the hcalihicst countries in the world, entirely exempt from those begs which affect so inJariously inc health Of those .i.o i've near tIic esasii that no aer s4 ssa..l soil I.ls; dlces every luxury of vegetation. Your friends are all well. and Cheese man is doing a good business; in iaef, apy person who will be industrious, can live better in Africa lllan In lhe United States"
 Drcadfui a1a,a,ity.-The Shetland Islands have been visited with an awful dispensation ot providence. He lisll- ermen, while engaged in their usual oe- cupation, at n great distance from laho, were suddenly oyertaken by huIi1' cane of unprecedented violence, eseh in that tempestuoas region. Some weie fortunate enough 10 gain the shoIei others were picked up at sea by pass
 ing vessels, and many were doomed 10 a wHiery grave. Nineteen boats suiah under the fury of the elements: and Q one hundred and fourteen men who conc posed the crews, and .ho had Jeff tlieif home full of hope and joy, only thfee returned 10 tell the tale of their disas-