zlfutibzy on board bzji'g_1“_ _
favored with the perusal 9
board:..the ..brig-y». l’cdla_rg.T_of New-»<_-Mark. .$m}'_|‘T|.3r
A1{e.b_./,7», 18,1 ;3,_’,_’_.‘1‘,!'0t‘]j‘I an {officer of the vessel to
his brother intliis city,’ and have extracted the
foll6'i\'ing "acc’otint"of" the ini‘-.:unous- conduct, o‘f’the
¢:re\vf:~'~ fi. if A i - ' .
u‘ five have been very iipforttiiiiite in getting a
T -rascally crcw,tliey have-been ifi:.ikingtheir threats
ever since. we-left lidme : the ,,<1t_IY-‘-\l.‘l<“-‘l‘- We ,3“'i"
veil here they undeitool; to take the vcsselfrom
us; we .had ayfig-lit otlfcleck for more than two,
hours ; theywbuiided'mc with a large bucket a-
cg-q33?1l1c‘_'h;:tfl.(4lP, f.i'_i_td_.kno_{‘._itc(l two o_f’my tcethfout,
afid ;vo'1j]'('l‘_l"j;ig:t"e. ;tl_1:x‘(l:)"§~\'l_]: me__‘~uve_i'l)’oard hatl"I not‘
gétT:m§ pistols‘: iffleliftiiliijlaiilf ]<~'*_8’$'*ii'€i*'é. "11°l“ man.
I was, 'l_i~._id all his ,s':liirt"'t‘u;t-e off his‘ back and brui.
sea] séveii ly,‘ they gob iii, cu_t_l‘as’s‘. from him,-
thougli nottill after‘ he had ‘cut one of them across
the face, and stabbed'anotliei'. , Three ‘of "them
got at the first mate and tvasjgoing to kill him,
but he be'iiig “strong knocked tfli'c_ni.'all‘ _do_w_r_i-with
h liandspike ;‘we_ were driven below, but they
dare not come doivnto knoi'v_ii‘ig we were well
armed. ' VA,",Frcnch_fifi§atc"laying ‘clvose
hearing a npise ;onboar‘d', came alongside with
V 3.’) men well armed, and witli ‘ditficultvy g9t.0.n Om‘
,.i,,c'kg,, and A tookfl_all of illerinizlfllll two, who we
iliought wo_uld behave tliemselvcs, 'l_l1eyare in
irons, and have rec_'cived two dozen lasllefi 3 ll‘“=_Y
are to be sent 'homei_n irons to be tried for their
liygisl; 1he,I~‘_rcn_ch Commodore \v_asgoiirg‘toA‘hang
them the next day, but the American ‘Consul -said
it would‘ be best-to send them to A‘rhei‘,ica.‘- If it
had not -_bee_l'_i’ for ”the'.Fi‘cnch_ fri'g_ate',.‘I am well.
satisfied there would have bee’n__som€ lives lost,
as they were all c'i‘ver.tlie"‘t‘:abin door wit'h hand-_
spikes,’ re-a_dy,.‘w“li’eii we got our heads up,‘ to dash
our brains out‘ ;~_~ ust‘ as the F ren_cli’m_cn came ‘alon'g- ‘
side, tvewei-e avmiing oiirselveswitli cutlasses and
pistols, resolved to get possession of the deck or
die in the attempt I have just had to put one of
the m-g"\vliich' we kept ‘_on boa'r(_l,‘_in~iro_ns, fo_r
thre'atening'_to knock me ilotvii and'"disobeyin‘g
V my ojrclei-s--lie ‘goes to a :l‘lll_"i~EiSli pijisop to-moi‘-=
»t'ow."’,_ V H __
sr./mtsii -BARB.l.R_1T’i*. ,
i _ ‘ B.-X-l‘."l‘;I_i\IORI‘-‘._, ~Aiigust 17.
‘ A gentleman of thiscity i-eceivédon Saturday’:
it letter from Havana, dated Moro Castle‘Pri_s_on‘,
.l'u‘iy, Sloth, 1'Sl8. "l‘his;lctter enclosesapetiiion
z:dcl.i_'es_'scd to the _Pi'c'sident of the U. Sgates, sign.
ed by tlie“officci's and crew of the sloop A;lmyra,' ‘
whicli"‘saile,d ‘Char_lc_ston for St.‘ Thomas,
with a cargo éf provisions. ‘ For the inforinatioii‘
ofithose‘ concerned we publish the petitioii.
““ Your humble petitioners, Am'er'iczi'ii citizens,'«
sailed fijom_ Cliarleston, S; C. lo'r St‘. 'l‘hoiiias, in
the sloop Almyra, loaded witli an assorted cargo’
of provisions, which was regularly cleared at the
custom house, slichaving the regular documents
of all Aineiican vessels. In the lat-. of 26,_'l0, N.
experienced severe weather ; the vessel sprung
aleak, and lost theamost, of our SE1ll".3d;‘_"l:‘l]e crew,
till told,’ being six in number, and six’-‘passenger's
in the cabin, all being exhausted, thought it advi-
sable to run for New Providence, being iirthe lat,
of that port. On the 7th of July got a pilot on
board ; ‘on the 9th fell inwith the Spanisli man ‘of
war ,bi-lg San F ernandea, Don Simeon Pdflcfis
comrriancler, who brought ‘us too--the captain
was ordered on board with his papers—-the Amer-
ican colours were flying on board of our vessel-—
on the boat’s return she brought 20 men, seamen
and marines, who ordered every one on‘ board of
our vessel into the boats, when they commenced
robbing the passengers and crew of every article
but the pantaloons and shirt they had on—on ‘our
arrival on board the man of war, they‘ ‘rl taken
all the papers of ‘the vessel, stripped = antain
of every thing that was on his back \- r 1 4 ed
him down" on the deck‘-as the ‘ r» and‘
crew got on board, some we" down‘
that were in an infirm state, ' ‘-1-‘fling fas-
ter—-,-we'w’cre all chained tog; .~ :: jiolt seven
feet-—after
feet loiig. with heavy ir' .~ -~ ’~t‘--.-
« =-. a, on’our backs,
they had stripped us of . I
‘ .-r deck for six
head end fcci,’vve we: '
days, with liatclies clo. ‘-'3 e begged to have
one leg taken out, but to .. to our misery they
loaded our _han_ds also with irons. We continued
in this state until our arrival in Havana--tve were
then brought ashore, s.trapttv'vo'and two, and our
arms so tightthat the blood fairly started from
underneath qur finger nails. VVe were thrown
into a prison among‘ 500 of the ’most_:abandon‘ed
wretclies, stained with crimes that would blur the
face of nature.. Our allowance is I I-3 oz. of
bread, half pint boiled rice, and ‘2.oz. mcatfor
one‘ day—'W‘e are exposed to the cruel caprice
of our guard, who beats us about for the slightest
pretence. There are in this prison thirty-nine
American free born men, some condemned for ten
years hard labor, after-_ waiting for three or four
yiaars for ll‘li\i,.aIl(i if our government do’nt inter-
’ fere, we shall have to end our days in a Spanish
dungeon. As they took us under the American
flag, robbed and sent us to prison tinder the same.
it is to be hoped that your liuinblepetitioners’
case will be taken into Cvdlislclttlillion, as the Brit-
ish men of war demand their subjects weekly,’
alnidttliey » are given -up to them--'l‘o sum up all,
we are naked and in astaie of starvation.
' Jaines L. Stevens, of Baltimore, vlst. olliccr ;'
Thomas, R. Coward, of N. York,passcnger; Wm.
Skipton, of Charleston, do ; Hugh Keenan, do
do ; ‘W. A. F rascr, dodo; Robert Lang, of Bal
imorc, seaman; John llag_arman, do do. ‘ .
N. "B.--The captain and three others sick-, and
not able to write their ‘names, which are as fol-
lov-I.= , ' T -
Nicholas P:itterson,of Charleston, Master; Dr.
James M‘Bribe, ' of do, ‘passenger ;
Bi-inton, of Gco_rgi_a, do; lf‘i'ede-‘rick Laurlerman,
of New Providence, branch pilot.”
A New-Orleans paper gives us a list of twenty
steam-bpats, carrying near 4000 tons, wliiclitrade
to that port from the upper and adjacent coun-
try. ’
\-Vm‘. D. ‘
stalled in ail-llalifait pr.-
; i.l‘..ei“, th'a_t o_n--the l,6th;atid'il-7t'hf_"of June, _in‘,lat: 46
2'4”,’jlong*.'- 44 3,37, tlrealoop ‘Maj*‘ia‘and Ellen,‘-ivliich
had arrived at'tim”prn~r','r'é'~ fell in with several im-
-mense ipasscs. or--islands of -,ic_e, ifrom ‘which. a
blueish vapour appeared to ascend. ‘ ’I,‘hc‘heigh€
of someof their peaks were estimated at no less”
than 540 feet from tlie-:surfaee'of the ocean ; from"
many parts of which the wa‘te_r,ruslied in'toi“rents,
whilst the sea constantly‘broke on their "weather.
side with great fury J”--—-'('oni. ./1dv.- ' ‘
REMARKABLE P‘RESEIlVATlON ‘or THE Bnxc.
Govt-zitivon. CAnvi~:1i.. « ' .
Extract of a letter from Cafitain S; Dozen,» of the
brig G'o-uemor Carver, of Plymaujllz,-to I/re own-
‘er, ‘dated ‘Ha-dre, J-urze,‘.33d, 1818. ' ‘ ~
On the 29th May, in lat. 42, 20', long. 50, near
the easterly end of the Grand Bank, at 3 P. M.
we observed some small islands 0f‘lCC.' It being
very foggy, with the wind S. ‘W. and going at the
rate of- 5 1-2 knots, we immediately took iniotir
royal and steering sails, intending to alter my
course to the south, being often obliged to -luff
and bear away for the islands of ice whicli‘ lay
about us. ' \Vliile in the act of handing the sails,
I discovered an object twice as high as our mast
heads, appearing like a’ ,Watei‘ Spout, but did
not think it possible that an island of ice should
be so high.---—l immediatefy-ordered the helm
"a weather, hoping to getthc -vessel before tile.‘.VIl'l(l
and clear of the danger - whatever it might be‘—'=-
‘but befo,re—tliis could be done;_we' foujn_d,.ourselv‘c_s
completely surrounded, and 'covered« by‘ this imb
mcnse Mountain of Ice‘ tvliich‘fproje’ctcd":over
our heads, so that the water, which ‘ran from it
in streanis and rivulets, fell ovcrthe opposite side,
and although our steering sail booms were rigged
out on the side next the ice, making a distance
of 27'fect,'fi'om the centre of the brig, -they did
not touch it. i ' f ;
~“jFortun‘.itely'we succeeded -in getting ‘clear,
and in less than five minutes, and while so near
that the rebounding of the water reached the ves-
sel, this immcnscbody of ice fell over-directly
towards us, with a ciashingiioisc rcsembling',t_he
lieaviest thunder, and continued for a minute and
anjxhalf. . -' ~ ’'
“‘ ‘I shall always attribute the saving of the brig
to the steadyfirniness and active exertions of the
' mate and crew, who have merited'my sincer
gratitude.” , _ . .
. . .-—<ucr}—:::-~un-—- _ '
FROM LATE ENGLISH PAPERS. .
Extract qf (1 letter from 8;. Hclcgza, afrzlca’ ...I.1.‘1.l17'C/I
I ' ' ' 'i4,‘i8is‘. ' .;.
Independent of all the miserie_s I have descri-
bed as being inseparable from a residence upon
this rock, the insalubrity of the climateis so great
nature pi“cv'ail hereto a most alarming extent.
Perhaps in no given place of the same extent in
the world is hepapitis so frequently found, or un-
der so formidable appcaranccs, suppuration fre-
q._ue'ntly taking place in a few days from the first
attack, whilst others are spuniout -to a ‘motive pro},
tracted, but equally fatal terminati'_on._ v Nata day
passes without our ears being dinned with the luf-
gubrious sound of the funeral bell, tolling for two
or three who have fall'en_victims to‘its_mor1ality.
Already the heads of tlre7iirst fariiilies.in~.the;é.'z_sl-
ing the’ course‘ of.,»sev.e‘ra'I year’s servicefin Iiirlia,
‘I have never seen the complaint proceed with
such rapid steps to a fatal tcrmina»tion.- Since the
arrival of tlte‘-Both regiment here, in 1815, we
have buried one /mndred-men, -women and c/zildrrzz,
being about one-thirteenth’ part of the whole, and
the remainder of the Kings troops haveilost about.
40, independent of the d'eath’s of the squadron,
which amount to near 60, and those of the St.
Helena regiment and inhabitants, whichis great-
erfiniproportiion than would be experienced in
either the East or \Vest-Indies. VVhat could
have induced writers to boast so much of the sa-
lubrity of this island, ‘I cannot discover, as very
few of the natives arrive at the age of 40, andit
is peculiarly unfriendly to Europeans, and above-_
all, to such ‘ as have passed the meridian of life.
ducc which, there must be certain inexplicable
causes existing in the air and the water, as those
of both sexes and of every age, who scarcely stir
_.out (and_ who, conse,quently,'a_re not exposed to
the great change of temperature experienced on
ascending the mountains from the town, 'to which,
and to the action of the raysiofthc sun, the prev-
alencc of the malady was first att!‘ll)lll.’C(i,) and who
lead the most temperate lives, are frequently at.
tached by it. ‘There has been three deaths at
Longwood witliiii the last tlir/eve weeks»; amongst"
them was Bonaparte’s 'stewart, Cypriani, a man.
well known and greatly respected here—-all of ,
them by bowel.com_plaints, and it is whispered
that his master will soon follow, _as he has been
labouring under symptoms of, liver complaint
(produced probably ,by, the cliniate, and aggrava-
ted byconfincnient) for some time. It isan ill
wind that blows nobody. good ;_at least, we will
gain a release fromtliis w_retchcd.unhcalthy rock,
upon that event taking place.
The following * dreadful details are given in an
article dated Geneva, June 19 : _ A
“ Two English travellers who left Geneva. to
visit the Vallais, returned yesterday with the
dreadful,news'~that the rampart of ice -which has
for this month past, blocked up the course of the
Drance, gave way last Tuesday at four o’clock in
the afternoon ; that the valley ofllagne was inun-
dated in the space of a few min’utcs,'the villages
of Bagnes and St. Branchiere totally destroyed,
the bridge of_ Martigny and the lower part of that
town laid under water. The Englishmen who
witnessed these disasters had just timeto alight
with their guides fronttheir mules, and to'climb
up the acclivity of the mountains down the sides
of which they w’e~’e‘ dcscencling from St. _Brachia
to Martigny ; the mules were ca'rried'away and
drowned before» their‘ eyes. They themselves
"and have been h‘urri'edf to‘thc grave by Dur-,
finding .it‘1.iniposs“ible_ to pr'oeeed,"'. returned V in all
haste to;Ge evafiby tliefway of St.‘iMatii_'ic"e, the-7
bridge of" w." ich resisted tl‘u-._vi'oiexicé" oi‘-uric wa‘_-"1
té'rs.' ‘They ‘relate "that " ‘the E_at‘astii'oplie'"was_ ac-
companied by a dreadful noise ;--that the current
brought down wooden houses, palisdoesmiid ruins
of every description. Anarticlc in the Lausan-I
nc Gazette, coiifigming the above, says, itis diffi-
cult’ to obtainccrtain details, all the lower vallics
are occupi’ed‘with this misfortune; the commu-
nications'.are almost impassible, and the‘ ‘extent.
‘‘ of the damage cannot be calculated, except by the
immense mass‘ of ruins brought down by the
Rhone ;» but this gives’ reason’ to suppose great
and irrepairable damage.” ' _
; Singular instance qf good foj-rune...-.’1‘he follow-
ing anecdote is no second edition of the ‘f Fortu-
nate Youth,” but foundcclon an absolute fact :--
Miss B. a maiden Lady far advanced in years, and
possessed pf immense property, had been in ‘the
habit of transacting business at a bankingliouse
in London, and on these occasions was observed
to be particular. in her notice of one of the clerks,
for whom, if he was not present, she always made
inquiries.‘ Withinthe last few months, she had
times, and treatedhiin with soimuch kindness and
attention, that the young, man began to imagine.
that the old lady had a design upon7'his heart, and
wished_ to entangle him in the'niatrimonial.si_1_a__re.
"A_bout three weeks since, however, she was, agree-
ably relieved, fitoin ’thc'se“a—’[')prchetisions by the la-
dy herself, (who "at length invited him to‘ dinner,
-and intimated thatshe had somethingzof an im-
portant nature to" communicate to him. .In.t_h'e
course of the evening she informed _hi_m,.that_ the
‘only relative she hadjin existence’, wasta nephew,-
who was a very profligate young man, and she re-
ally believed, wished her dead, in order that he
might come into the possession and enjoyment
of her wealth. ‘He was at present in very poor
circuinstances, and althougli she intended to be-
queath him a sufficient sum toplace him above
‘want, still she had.»-determined to select some
_ more deserving object as the heir to the residue of
her immense property. Having stated‘ thus much,
she told the astonished youth that he was the per-
son she had fixed-upon, and that she had prepar-
ed a decdof gift, for a large sum, which would
'be..lmniedi'atcl7y placedin his possession,‘ upon his
consenting to assume her name.-' He, of course,
i gratefully acceded to the proposition, theneces-
putcd master of 60,0001. Miss B reserved a
sulficiciit sum to maintain herselfin affluence the
the remainder of her life, and, should he survive,
J18 will, at her death, become possessed of a con_-
as to excite the most serious apprehensions in” jsiderable, addition to his already handsomefortune.
my mind for my family. Liver coniplaints, dys-“ — ’ ’ ‘
cntcries, and bowelalfections of the most violent ‘
. - Wcisisitudes of Iv‘6rtune.—Thcre. are now living
-in Hanipstead two individuals, in whose situation,
time, _and the crosses and changes which are con-
Lsingular_reverse,, The one is a gentleman, high-
yly respected, and keeping his carriage, who had
?formerly filled the humble situationof a porter,
land the other is a person who fills the office of
groom in the service of this very gentleman, who
had been his own porter. Such are the contrasts
gprpdiiced by wild extravagance and prudent fru-
ga ity. ‘
- Dreadful Car;/Zicqt.-=-Tlie followi‘n_g.ac"cot:nt of a_
most barbarous a‘ssault,is contained in alcttcr from
the sufferer, Lieut. F. V‘Viggins, of the l’-5th Ben-
gal Infantry, to his brother, in London, dated
.Lucknow, (Indi'a,) Dec._7, 1817. After mention-
tioning his visit to his Excellency the Newaub
Vizier of Oude, he observes :7-—" On my return,
I was attacked about half a mile from the barracks
-by a body of attrocious depredators, called Mali-
rattas, of whom there were seven in number,
armed with swords and daggers. I was travel-
ling in my palkee at the time, on a barren portion
of land, intersected with ravines, whenthe first
a dagger, aimed at my left breast, but which for-
tunately entercd my shoulder. , On one side of
the palanquin, both the doors were open, through
Few even of the most temperate ofmy acquaint- ,which wereipresented three swords close to‘ my
ance are free from some hepatic alfcctio'n,to pro- *body : on the other side there was also a sword
presented. Perceiving that this was theweakest
side, 1 grasped my sabre, and with violent excr-
tions, succeeded in textricating myself from the
palkee; but the sabreunfortunatcly becoming
entangled in the door-way, I was compelled to-
quit it to avoid being cut "down, by a man who
stood prepared for that purpose. Supposing the
‘banditti would have been content with the passes-
aion of my property,--I attempted to make, my
escape by running towards my" cantonrnents ;"but
one of them, more ‘active than the rest, followed
me up.so closely, that after proceeding. about 200 _
yards, to prevent being wounded behind,‘ I tuni-
ed . round to face him, and stood upon the dc-'
fensive. ‘At this period, a dreadful, but unequal,
canflict took place, during which, I was more than
once veryjnear overcoming my antagonist. My
whole attention was directed to disarm him, for
which purpose, on the first onset, Ireceived his
sword on my left arm, and struck him a _‘_Vi0lCHl.
blow on the face with my right hand ; he appear-
ed much confounded at this, and went three steps
back, as if about to retreat ; however, perceiving
‘that I was unarmed, he again advanced upon me,
when I instantly closed, intending to wrest his
sword from his hand, but unfortunately my ‘hand:
‘§_lipping olfliis,‘ passed completely down the blade
of the sword, wounding my hand very severely.
I then made a similarattempt with my left hand,
which met with the same fate.‘ we then strug-
gled together a considerable time, dui-ingwliicli
I received several sword and‘ dagger wounds.—
‘ At length he succeeded in cutting‘ ‘medown the
away one of my teeth. The severity of this
blow brought me tolthe ground," and ‘before I
-could recover legs," he inflicted another des-
perate wound on my back, wliich completely dis-
abled me ; when, fortunately, at this moment was
heard a party of soldiers ‘comisig'fro.i'n ‘the canton-_
condesccndetl to invite. him .to_]hc'r house several »
-- was attendingga vessel discharging oak bark, at;
"sary preliminaries were arranged, and in a few _
days the Banker's Clerk found himself the undis- ‘
-between an En lish officenand a Portuguese no- .
bleman, in which the forme_r \vas'victoi'ious’, "al-_,
stantly taking place in this life, have produced a ~
notice I had of my danger was by a wound from -
face, from the eye-brows to my mouth ;_ carrying i _
hole’ body r’eire'ate'cli_
.pre_'cipit‘ation. ~ They robbed me of about 650 rd:
that I hid received in‘ all‘ thirteen wounds ; seven
‘tall, The engagemeiit lasted betweenfiftecn ‘uni _,
twenty minutes.-—The"' pain that if have suffered
has been intense, butmy escape from deatli, "and
.'“Y l'.6.<'-0,Vf=.,Tya (Which is C,0tnplete,) are considered
by every one wond_crfttl." ‘ " ' “
. \
/
' .€Cu7".z'ou.9 Story.-'-‘-'=Tlie official Gazette of Chris-
tiana, in Norway, contains the following article :
‘About a week'belorc the Iiaster ho‘lidays’,’ sev-
¢F3lf.m°,“ Who went out onthe cod-fishery, perish-
ed in the storm.’ 0fliiE€t's.l:ie_r-_da‘y', gnmc ,;_,,’€ni,~,g‘,
some fishermen took a sliarkin” their nets; ,'l‘.hey
found in -his stomach, two barrels of bats,‘ and
man in a sailor's dress, with clothes made of skin
and sea-boots, but without a hat. Ashis‘ leat-
ures were not changed, -he was recognisedto be
pest, ‘which took place severalltlays before; he
was‘ therefore delivered to his’ family, and was hit-
ried-“at Heroes. ‘ ' I ' ‘ o \
adnimalf Saga('iiIy.‘_—-ifl few‘ days ago, afpersoin
the K~ing’s dock, L‘iverpool, when, unfortunately,
a particle of this substance got into his eye, which
could not _be_~extracted ‘ei.-the'r by liims'elf or.se_v-
‘eral others, who all tried‘ their‘skillL He contin-
mosrexcruciating pain. Onthe fourth evening,
while still suffering the severest torture, his faint-
ful’li_ttle" dog of the pug breed,“-appeai'cd tov
him with an unusual rdcgreeof attention, and ‘af-
ter fawning with seemingly‘ e_xtra'v,ag-ani flattery,
‘he leaped on his master's knee. (which libertyihc
had never attempted bcfore,), ‘placed his pa-ws on
each side ‘of his head, and began to lick first about
the cliin-,-then the car, then, by degrees, to the af-
flflicted eye, where his attention was chiefly direct-‘T
ed ; ‘he approached it, and with his pug nose, en-
deavered to“ remove the shade which had-been plii- ’
ced over it, and with his mas_t_er’s_ assistance it was‘-:2
soon removed. The dog, was then g'ufi‘¢ped to
proceed in his op‘erations ; he immediately ‘clean-'
sed the eye with a care and judgineiit that would
have done credit to a‘ respe_ctabl'c"pi-actitioner, and
in less than. a minute his ‘masterwas-*1.e)i¢,-ed,
from amiscry, of which only those who liar“; suf-
fered, under similar cii'cumst:inccs,"ca'n jtidge.’
A duel was lately fought rit‘.l.isbon with s:ibre's,.
-though it does not appeaflllat ‘_¢itli¢i:_ pm-ty was
killed or wounded. It origigiateil. in an alledged
insult offered to a Portuguese lady of nobility.
The nobleman afterwards employed five or six
ruliians to’ assassinate the English officer. and his
‘second, but they failcdin the attenipt.
Two British vessels were xvi-ecked inihe Cfilt‘
of Stora, Northern coast of Africa, a place wlieie
the people are all wild. a The crewsiwere detain-
ed and conducted to the inountains ; but were af-
terwards ransomed? by the Eey of Goiistantia, and
delivered up to the British Vice Consul atlloiiiai.
_ --—-u-" '" :o—~.'*-o:C--——” ‘ I
Bzrx/2;/«race ofttlic Potatoc.—-Thcfollotviiig’ ar-
' ticle is just published in tlie.Delaware \Vatchrnan-.-
Interesting Dz'.§covery.——Dr. Baldwin, late Stir-'
geon of the frigate Congress,—has decided the
controversy respecting the habitat ‘of the Potatoe,
Solanum Tubcrosum.--He found this vegetable
growing abundantly on the North side ofitne Rio
dc la Plata, in wilr__l,uncultivat<:d; situafibils‘, unj-
known to the inhabitants, who "do not even culti-"
vatc this valuable plant, now so generally attend:-.
ed to'in most parts‘ of the civilized world.
It is found growing among‘-the rocks on Mon-‘
tc Video, and in the vicinities of Maldonado, in‘
The largest tubers were not‘ more than-lialf;' an‘?
inch in diameter. ' , _ "
A similar discovery (.."says-t-lie Richmond Com‘-
pilcr,) ‘has been made from another quarter-—as
we infer from‘ the subsequent paragraph in the
London Monthly Magazine of J one last : .
“_Don Jose Payon, author'of_the Flora Peruvi-
ana, who resided many yearsin South America",-
saysi “ The salammz xubcrosum [potatoe] grows
wild in the environs of Lima, on the coast. I
have found it wild in the kingdom of Cliili.” The
Indians cultivate it ingreat abundance in Pe'ru‘a‘nd’
Chili, and call it papas. V It is said also to have been»
found in the forests near Santa Fe dc Bagota.
‘WATERLO‘O.—.-A gentleman of this ‘town,.'
laicly returned from Europe, took an opportiiiiity
last Spring‘, of visiting the spot where the famous
battle of VVaterloo was fought in J one,‘ 1815,?
which terminated the great European conflict,
and was succeeded by the fin-.i-l extinction of B --
naparte’s military career. The person who con-
ducted him to the stop, wasthe some who intang-
ed Bonaparte and his staff, as ‘tenographical gui e
on- the memorable 18th of June. l:le lllfi)l‘l‘£1t'(i_
that on the battle field (an extensive plain). \i~-as
‘raised the last year an uncommonly luxuriant crop
of wheat; and well it might. for itlwas fe-rti-lized
bythe blood 6f 80,000 soldiers, who fell in that
sanguinary battle. The gentleman picked up an
Eagle such as are worn by the French l!‘lfalltl'§*,,
and two musket balls, which are now in his posses-
sion. The surface of the ground over the pit in
wliich were thrown many thousands of "the ‘slain,
is sunk ‘considerably lower lllflfl the snrrounding~
"earth, and distinctly marks the extent, of this
vast cemetery.--J\"cvt'!mr§//iort II:-rac‘rl. ' '
A "§?boe! /iz't.--_'l‘he Englishhpnpers (says the"
Borflaiid Ar-gus,)-notice at great iinproreincnt in
ilieir naval architecture---tlie _Ct)l]3>il'llCll\()D_‘ of
*5 round ~-S’l.(.’1'1IS" tothcir ships of war, which on-
able thcm to fight more than ‘twice the number of
guns astern. This i’n2}iro-umzent has undoubted-.
wariwitli thisfcountry, Stern-cliascra were not
yunfrcqucntlyvtlicir main d‘epa;xdg_i:nce.x: ‘
. ‘ . 0
P665, ‘andon my‘- arrival at canto_nme.nts, I form A.‘
of th,em_v,ei-y" se.V_ere,.and.one expected to be.mqi~- 1 , \
one of the persons who had perishedin the tem-‘» '
tied for three successive days and Diig'lltSiln'.‘l:l1t:_'
\ .
the sand hills ‘on the river‘ shore, as well as ii1_2g,,r
low moist situations, near streams of \V‘dlCl'.--pi-(;’i -.,.
. , , ,.
ly been suggcstedby the incidents *of_thc late, ‘
I
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Norwalk Chronicler