very much of late on the coast, in consequence of a protracted warfare between the Ashantees and the natives of Buntucco. It is from these two principal states that we derive most of our gold, the Fantee nation acting more as intermediate agents than principals in such barters. Government having considered the trade of Ashantee of sufficient importance to induce them to send out a consul to that country, it is hoped that he will have some influence in bringing them to terms of accommodation, and directing their minds to the less sanguinary employment of com merce. 13. Mails from Jamaica, to the 12th of December, contain long accounts of the losses of the late hurricane in November. His grace the duke of Manchester has issued a proclamation for the opening of the ports of Jamaica to vessels of all nations, for the space of three calendar months, for the importation of flour, rice, &c. owing to the destruction done in the late hurricanes. Private letters from Bermuda state that island still to remain in a dreadfully sickly state; the fever continued to rage with great fury; the deaths were more than had been known for many years. At the date of the last advices (the 28th of November) the weather had become cooler, and it was expected would have an effect of moderating the disorder. Accounts had been received at Jamaica from the Spanish Main, stating, that a severe engagement had taken place, in which the insurgent army had met with considerable loss. On the 24th of November, there were 32 merchant vessels, consisting of English, French, Dutch, and Americans, in the harbour of Angustura, and seven more were met in the river Oronoko, destined for the same place. A volcano had been discovered on Prince George's estate, in the neighbourhood of the Indian River, in the parish of St. John : it was represented as the greatest curiosity of nature: its height from the base to the top was six feet; circumference of the base, 49 feet; ditto, to the top, 9 feet 5 inches; ditto, at the opening, 2 feet 2 inches. Great distress prevailed at Nassau, on account of the destruction by the late dreadful fire. Some severe gales of wind had been experienced at the Bahama islands in December; but no material damage had been sustained. A schooner of St. Salvador had been wrecked on the east end of Electhera; the vessel, cargo, and all hands lost. The American schooner Liley, from Port-auPrince, was wrecked off Exurna; vessel lost, master and crew saved. The Royal Bahama Gazette, of Dec. 26, states, that the Insurgent privateers were blockading Havannah, and there was no force there adequate to the task of coping with them. They boarded every vessel that came in or out of the harbour. A large Spanish ship had been taken possession of by them; and it was said the whole crew were murdered, and the vessel sunk. This had created the greatest alarm at Havannah, and a considerable degree of interest was excited among the inhabitants habitants for the protection of An act had been passed at Nassau, declaring that all slaves, not being actual natives of Africa, should be deemed and taken to be creoles, and subject to a tax, and that to be paid by the owners of the said slaves. Ragged Island, N. P. was under a blockade by a set of piratical boats, several of which had landed, plundered the place, and murdered several of the inhabitants. 14. An inquest was held on the body of Sarah Wark, who was found dead on the floor of her house, situated about nine miles from Belfast. From the nature of her dealings she was occasionally absent for days together, and from that the neighbours were under no fear for her safety. In the end of the house was a small window, nearly filled up with stones; but a dog, probably attracted by the smell of the had got into the house through corpse, it. Not being able to get out again, it barked, and a person looking in at the hole, discovered the body. The neighbours forced the door, when a most shocking spectacle presented itself. The body lay on the floor, and close by it a hatchet. One of the hands, apparently cut off by the wrist, lay in a perfect state near to the body; the other hand was not to be found. On the right side of the forehead the skull was deeply knocked in, and there was also a large wound a little below the chest; and, what added to the revolting spectacle, a small pig, which had belonged to the woman, was found in the house, and had devoured almost the whole flesh of the face, the arms, and the upper part of the body. From all the circumstances, the jury had no hesitation in returning a verdict-"That the deceased had been murdered by some person or persons unknown." 22nd, and Boston to the 24th 16. New York papers to the ult. have arrived. appointed to investigate the afThe report of the committee fairs of the Bank of the United States has been published. It occupies ten columns of an Amecommittee had proceeded to Philrican paper. A deputation of the adelphia, Baltimore, and Richmond, to collect information. mittee conclude the report by After minute details, the comstating, that the Bank have violated their charter in four instances of public debt, in order to sub1st. In purchasing two millions stitute them for two millions of similar debt, which it had conEurope, and which the secretary tracted to sell, or had sold, in of the Treasury claimed the right of redeeming. filment of the engagement made 2nd. In not requiring the fulby the stockholders, in subscribing to pay the second and third instalments on the stock, in coin and funded debt. stockholders who had not com- have more than 30 votes each, on The The committee do not offer any remedy for these evils. The affairs of the Bank in consequence remain in a very unsettled state. American Bank stock was as low as 93. 16. Bombay. The cholera morbus still continues to rage amongst us, but it has decreased considerably during the last few days. The number of deaths from the 17th to the 31st of August, by this disease, on the island of Bombay, is males, 311; females, 226: total, 537. The number of deaths from other causes, during the last month, is 634; making 1171 total of deaths in August. Advices from Tannah state, that the disease was declining there; but that it was prevalent amongst the villages of Salsette. Accounts from Bassein mention, that the disease had reached that place; from which circumstance we infer, that it appears to be progressively moving to the northward. It reached Bancoote, to the southward, some days ago. 16. Madras, Oct. 3.-The latest accounts from Ceylon, brought by these papers, are of a gratifying description. We mentioned, some time since, as a credible report, that the Pretender and his minister, Kappitipola, had been captured, and this intelligence is now confirmed. It has had, as might be expected, the most beneficial consequences, in allaying the rebellious spirit so prevalent among a certain class of the natives. Their influence and intrigues are at an end, and the delusion they inspired has also ceased. In every province the people of all descriptions were hastening to submit, and to give the surest proof of their sincerity by the surrender of their arms. In the seven Korles, arms are brought in every day in abundance. In Hewahette, where captain Cleather was so vigourously attacked, and his escorts so continually annoyed, all hostility had nearly ceased, and there was every prospect of that province, the most rebellious of all, being restored to tranquillity. In Wellassy every thing is perfectly quiet. The new works at Paranagam are in great progress. We hope our next advices from this quarter will communicate the pleasing intelligence of the entire suppression of the recent insurrection. Hamburgh, Feb. 16.-The history of the trade of Hamburgh deserves to be written by a judicious historian. There is, probably, no commercial city where the sources of gain have experienced such remarkable alterations. It is well known, that our city owes its original prosperity to the breweries; at present our beer is, of all the kinds brewed in Germany, the worst, at least the most unknown. Ten years ago our sugar-refiners flourished, and our sugar was exported to the remotest countries, even to those which had sugar-refineries of their own. The latter, indeed, is still done, especially to Russia, where only Hamburgh sugars, as being the most durable, are fit for being sent into the interior of that immense empire; but since sugarrefineries have been excessively multiplied in all foreign countries, and the prices of refined sugar are in no proportion to those of raw, raw, the exportation of this article is now so inconsiderable, that the manufacturers must be diminished in number every year, or become bankrupts. At present, insurances have become a branch of business to an extent never before known. We already rival, in this branch, even the English themselves; want of credit, and of a bank to facilitate the circulation of capital, render the insurance of other continental cities difficult. Hamburgh has at present twenty active insurance companies, each with a capital of from 450,000 to 1,500,000 marks banco; besides these, there are a great number of private in surers. Constantinople, Dec. 15.-The Pacha of Diarbech has sent to Constantinople a circumstantial report of his expedition against the rebels of Mardin. This report has been accompanied by a thousand heads, severed from the vanquished. These sanguinary trophies have been exposed, as usual, at the gate of the Seraglio. The Tartar who brought them, has obtained a Pelisse of honour. Presents have also been sent to the Pacha. 17. Extract of a Letter from Jamaica, Dec. 28, 1818.-" I am glad to inform you of our arrival here on the 18th instant. We left Madeira on the 19th of November, and the same day, at three, were boarded by a pirate ship, of 16 guns, who took possession, drove all our crew be low, and placed sentinels over the scuttle; run the ship before the wind under the Decorters, rummaged and searched the ship for money, as they said, and plundered us of a quarter-cask of Madeira, one barrel of porter, one cask eight dozens of bottled porter, one dozen of poultry, spyglass, and my best sextant, besides wearing apparel, and drank three dozen and a half of Port wine, and sundry other stores. The crew were apparently English; they frequently threatened to put us all to death, to prevent information, which I fully expected they would do, from their conduct. The commander told me he was a second Paul Jones, and cared for no flag; money he wanted, and money he would have. After dark, he was for cutting away our masts, and made the carpenter hand his axes up; he persisted in it a long time; and all being intoxicated, we had a great deal to do to dissuade him from cutting them away. At last they swore me not to return to Madeira, or to give any information of them before our arrival in Jamaica, as, if they caught me attempting it, I was to expect no mercy; and being informed by the pirate, the brig of war in sight was the Parthian, we informed them she stood into Funchall Roads for water, and bound for Jamaica. They left us about nine at night, and allowed us to makę sail, they laying to, which we did, and during that night sprung our foremast. On the 22nd, in the morning, at day-light, Palma bore E. S. E. distant eight or ten leagues, observed the same pirate, with all sail, standing after us; expected no other than he was coming to put his former threats into execution. I endeavoured to get in shore of him, but coming nearly calm, and he gaining on us, at eight armed our boats, and took to them, not being able to defend the ship, as the only means of saving our lives; rowed for Palma; but the breeze scon after springing up from the westward, enabled him to come fast up with us, soon got us under his guns, and were obliged to go alongside to meet our fate, without hopes of mercy; but, to our great surprise, met with every kindness; they towed us up to the James again, which we regaining about four o'clock, after returning me my sextant and spy-glass, and giving us fruit, he said he would see us into the Trades, and kept with us all night, and the next morning sent his boat with orders to make the best of our way to Jamaica, and he stood towards the Isle of Teneriffe, He had plundered a British schooner a few days before, which put into Madeira while we were there; and he said that he had sunk a Greek, and all hands but one." 18," Gibraltar, Jan. 18, 1819. Sir, I have just received an official letter from Minorca, of the 28th ult., informing me that a vessel had arrived there from Tunis, after a passage of eight days, bringing accounts that the deaths in that city amounted to above 400 per diem. The master of the vessel reported, that just before he sailed, he heard that the deaths had increased to above 600 per diem. "A Dutch frigate has just arrived at Mahon, from Algiers, bringing dispatches up to the 15th ult., by which it appears, that fresh attacks of the plague had taken place in that city. The contagion was supposed to have been [ re-introduced by persons who accompanied the bey of Constantinas, Califfa, with the quarterly payments for the Algerine go vernment. (Signed) "GEORGE DON. "P. S. The deaths by the plague at Tunis, according to the official returns, from the 1st November to the 1st December, amounted to 12,117. "GEORGE DON. "His Excellency Sir H.Wellesley." In repairing the principal altar of the lower church of St. Francis d'Assise, the body of its holy founder has been discovered, after having lain there unknown for 600 years. The sovereign pontiff, apprised of this discovery, has given orders to the bishops of Boligno, Perouse, Spoleto, and Assise, to repair to this latter town, after the Epiphany, and to make an authentic recognition of the body, with all the necessary forms. The intention of the holy father is, that these precious remains shall be transferred with pomp to the upper church, and be there exposed to the venera❤ tion of the faithful. Hastings, Feb. 23. A fishingboat, with three men, was this morning upset in a storm, in endeavouring to get into Hastings. The poor sailors took to a raft, and being very near shore, they might all have been easily saved if there had been a life-boat at this place, and thus their sufferings, and the agonies of their friends and families, might have been avoided. The three unfortunate men continued for nearly an hour to float near the shore, at the mercy of the waves, and with |