Hope sate in every eye!-but-in the bloom But soon-too soon-he sees Death's fatal Of love matur'd their melancholy doom

Fate seal'd!-while Death the patient dove | Dumb -motionless-he sinks!-an emblem Struck in the FRUITAGE of her wedded love.

HEA'VN took the mother and the Child,
At once the stem and scion,
Like roses from a dreary wild,

To bloom in peace in Zion!

O, CHARLOTTE! in thy royal line,
From age to age extending,
We trusted for a race of thine,

On wings of peace descending!

In thee, whom all the land ador'd!
In whom all grace transcended!
We hail'd the dawn of bliss restor❜d-
The Prince and People bleuded!
Long shall thy virtues be our theme,

Adorning future story!

And, ever, with the GREAT SUPREME,
Thy crown a crown of glory!

National Register.

FOREIGN.

AFRICA: NORTH.

Algiers: Bastinado for Marriage.

The plague having horribly depopulated Algiers, the new Dey has commanded that all the unmarried men above twenty years of age should be conducted to the public square, and amply gratified with the bastinado, to give them a desire for wedlock. This is the prelude to a new empire of women, which is about to be established among these barbarians; and it must be allowed that the education of the young men in this way has commenced even before marriage.

an Englishman travelled with him to the
southward of Fezzan, and was taken ill on
the road of a fever, which caused his death,
and he afterwards saw him buried. This
person, there can be no doubt, was Mr.
F. Horneman, the son of a German cler-
gyman, employed by the Society for mak-
ing discoveries in the interior of Africa.
As in the case of Park, no intelligence of
this traveller had been received during the
period before mentioned; and as he was
known to have been in the direction stated
by the Bey of Fezzan, no doubt of his
death exists, especially as the period of his
disappearance exactly corresponds with
the alleged time of his decease.

AMERICA: BRITISH.
Fires at Newfoundland.

St. John's, Nov. 18.-Painful is the task which devolves upon us of relating the distressing fire with which this ill-fated town was again visited on Friday night, the 7th instant. The flames were first discovered about half-past ten o'clock, issuing from au uninhabited house, about forty yards from the Royal Gazette Office, in front of Mr. W. B. Thomas's dwelling, and in ten minutes communicated to the surrounding buildings; by this time the inhabitants had assembled, but the engines seemed of little use in checking the devouring element, which now began to assume an appearance that struck every beholder with terror and dismay. In the centre of the town, between two streets not exceeding twenty feet in width, all exertion was unavailing to stem the current of conflagration; the flames spread in every direction with the rapidity of lightning, until about six o'clock on Saturday morning; when the exertions of the more respectable part of the community, aided by the army and navy, sucRecent accounts from Malta state, that ceeded in arresting its progress at the King's the Weymouth store-ship, had sailed from wharf. To give an adequate description that island for Tripoli, to receive on board of the awful grandeur of the scene, we conthe curiosities collected at Lebida (the site fess our inability. When the morning of the ancient Carthage,) and destined for dawned, a scene of desolation presented the Prince Regent by the Bey. They are itself, exteuding nearly a quarter of a mile represented as highly valuable and curious, in length, and three hundred yards in consisting of massy columns of porphyry, breadth, was cleared of the houses that statuary, and other fragments of ancient stood thereon. From the dissenting meetart. This collection has been made undering house to the church yard, ou the west the direction of Captain Smith, of the Royal Navy, who has been some time employed in surveying that part of the African coast, and is frequently with the Bey, by whom he is allowed a guard of Janizaries in his several journeys through the country. At one of his audiences the Bey of Fezzan was present; and he related to Captain Smith, that about seventeen years since,

Tripoli: Antiquities-Horneman.

side; all the buildings from the Court House to the north east boundary of Crawford's premises (both inclusive) on the east side of Duckworth street; from the corner of Church hill, to W. Finlay's on the upper side, and from J. and R. Brine's shop to the King's Wharf, on the lower side of Water street, including the stores and wharfs, were reduced to ashes, and with

sive.

List of merchants whose stores were des

1817:-Murphy and Gleeson; Robert Nevins; Hure, Reid and Co.; Anthony Godfrey; Cunningham, Bell, and Co.; Ryan and Sons (lower stores); Daniel Ryan, James Cliff.

them the greater part of a very large stock time we apprehended we should have to of provisions with which they were stored. betake ourselves to the woods, for the fire What rendered it more truly distressing would certainly have destroyed all the reis, that most of those who suffered so se- maining western part of the town, had it verely in the fire of the 11th of February, not fortunately been a calm at the time it 1816, are again involved in the distress broke out, which enabled the inhabitants which we now attempt to describe;-in to stop its progress westward, The plunthat calamity, many respectable individuals der committed is most dreadful and extenlost their all, and are again reduced to a similar situation, without shelter or covering, at this advanced season of the year.troyed by fire at Newfoundland 21st Nov Winter is approaching,-a long, dreary, Newfoundland winter-and the prospects before us are now gloomy in the extreme; but we will not distress our readers by dwelling longer on this melancholy topic. We do, however, most sincerely hope that efficient measures will be speedily devised and promptly executed, to save us from a repetition of the scenes of last winter. Amongst the causes of distress, not one has produced in our minds more powerful effects, or more unpleasant feelings, than the alarming depravity manifested in the extensive depredations committed during the horrors and confusion of the night, by wretches totally devoid of all religious feeling-or all sense of moral obligatiou.

So far as we have been able to ascertain, thirteen mercantile establishments, and among them the extensive concerns of Hart, Robinson, and Co., Hunters and Co., P. Henderson (late J. Macbaire and Co.,) Bulleys, Job, and Cross; Parker, Cheever and Co., W. B. Thomas, Atwood and Haynes, P. Le Mesurier, and at least 135 dwelling houses, occupied by not less than 1,100 persons, have been consumed; and it is calculated that the amount of property destroyed cannot be less than from 4 to 500,0001.

To the great disgrace of the lower orders of the community, instead of aiding us in stopping the destructive element, they absolutely retired to a short distance from the fire, and were observed to exult openly at the great misfortune which had befallen more than half the inhabitants of respectability in this town; and they refused to work, notwithstanding repeated remonstrances, entreaties, and offers of reward, which we, in common with our neighbours made them. Such savage conduct, we suppose, was scarcely ever before equalled. Our sufferings are grievous, and they are heightened by the opinion entertained, that this dreadful calamity is the work of miscreant incendiaries, who set on fire an uninhabited house in which hay and brushwood had been previously deposited. To Captain Riddle we feel greatly indebted. Although his ship lay at some distance, he rendered us essential service, and has been the great means of saving a considerable proportion of the property on our premises. We have yet one half of the town left, in which we shall find shelter from the inclemency of the season.

Quebec: Typhus Fever.

In consequence of a proclamation issued by his Excellency the Governor, all vessels and boats are prevented from leaving the port till the quantity of provisions in the town are ascertained; this, we are in A board of inquiry into the public health hopes, will have the good effect of secur of Quebec had been deemed prudent by ing to the community whatever may be yet Government, when the health officers remaining, but that itself, with the addi-made their depositions, who attributed the tion of what is expected, will not, we apprehend, be near sufficient to supply our wants till our navigation opens in the spring of the year. In addition, owing to the quantity of fuel consumed, there is a scarcity of that valuable article.

St. John's Nov. 24.-We have now to state, that in addition to the calamitous fire of the 7th inst. we have experienced another dreadful conflagration on the 21st, which in a few hours consumed 55 houses, (in addition to the 185 formerly destroyed), besides stores and wharfs of many respectable mercantile establishments. At one

disease to the influx of poverty, wretchedness and misery, in the persons of so many settlers, (upwards of 5,000 that arrived within the last summer,) many of whom had endured a passage of four months, and very few had been at sea less than ten weeks, in crowded vessels, without money to procure the common necessaries of life. The number of persons said to have died in the lower town, the health officer deemed to be incorrect; but he affirmed that whilst the poor and distressed emigrants from Europe continued to flock into Quebec, pennyless and friendless, suffer

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ing from scanty and probably bad food on a long passage, they must ever continue more or less a source of disease.

some remains of the dead body were found at a short distance. In the space of a fortnight, twelve of these ferocious animals have been destroyed by the inhabitants.

AMERICA: UNITED STATES. The ravages caused by the wolves in the To Patriotic Englishmen. department of the Yonne, for almost two Philadelphia, Nov. 3.-A party of young years, and which for the last six months Englishmen and Irishmen are in gaol in particular assumed every day a more here, for attempting to proceed in a vessel distressing character, have completely from this port, laden with munitions of ceased. By means of the almost general war, for South America, to join the Pa- poisoning, ordered by the Prefect, a very triot cause. They have been heard on Ha- great number of these animals have been beas Corpus, and remanded for trial; and destroyed; and every thing induces a belief I am informed a Special Court will be held that this department is happily delivered on the 1st of next month to try them. It from those whose frightful voracity has deis most probable that they will be then li-prived so many mothers of their children. berated, as they have done nothing in this country to give offence; but were merely passing through as strangers, and were not any way interested in the vessel or cargo but as passengers. The number of them is eleven; one of them a Mr. Perkins, sou of the brewer of that name in London.

in

EGYPT.

Trade to India.

The Bashaw or Viceroy of Egypt has re-opened the intercourse with India by way of the Red Sea as formerly, for the purpose of obtaining supplies of Indian merchandize, The goods are first brought to Suez, and conveyed from thence over the Isthmus to Alexandria. The Bashaw paid his last tribute to the Grand Seignior in Mocha coffee. We place no confidence in the extent or duration of a trade carried on through such channels with the East. The ruined commerce and importance of the Venetian commonwealth are pretty fair illustrations of the superior benefits attendant on the route by the Cape, which the Portuguese, the Dutch, the French, and English, have used for near three centuries.

Cultivation of Potatoes.

Since the possession of France by the allies, the French, probably in consequence of hints from the English residents there, have become great cultivators of potatoes, and in one respect have improved upon our practice, by the discovery that potatoe haulin may be most advantageously applied to the making of pot ash. The Countess de N. has also set the example of distilling good common brandy from the potatoe, with the addition of about 1-20th part of malt.

INDIES: WEST,

Dreadful Hurricanes.

On the 21st of October a tremendous hurricane arose in the West Indies, over which it raged with a more destructive fury than has been before experienced for many years. It was felt on the same day at Jamaica, and at the lesser islands of Barbadoes, St. Vincent, St. Lucie, Martinique, and Dominique. The direction of this awful visitor was from west to east. It swept at the same moment over every object within a space of about 200 miles, from St. Vincent to the north of the Island of St. Dominique- that is, from the 18th The number of wolves killed in the 33 to nearly the 16th degree of latitude, leav. departments of France, from the 1st of Ja-ing behind it one deep track of desolation. nuary 1816, to the 1st of January 1817, was 1894 males, and 522 females. In the department of Aude, besides 104 of these animals, there were killed three bears and a tigre.

FRANCE.
Ravages of Wolves.

In the district of Avalon, a young girl, 17 years of age, has been carried off last month, by several wolves. Some persons, assembled by the cries of the unfortunate girl, quickly went in pursuit of them, and had the good fortune to come up with them and make them abandon their prey. On the same day, and in the same place, a child of 7 years was also carried off, and

The details which have come to hand are sufficiently frightful; and more, we are apprehensive, yet remains untold. At St. Lucie every ship in the port was lost. The Government-house (of course a stone building) was blown down; and of all under its roof, including the Governor, his lady, and child, with the Staff, the Secretaries, Servants, &c. in number not less than 50 souls, not one escaped from the ruins. The destruction at the barracks was still more dreadful. The building was entirely demolished; and 200 officers and soldiers contained in it were buried alive. The