copper, &c. mixed and tempered in such a manner as to be perfectly malleable. It is in sheets about the size and thickness of copper, and is said to be as durable, in warm climates. In climates more severe and frosty, it is rather brittle, and apt to crack. In France it is much used, and is infinitely cheaper than copper. This composition was invented by Buonaparte, and is known only by the name of "Buonaparte's copper." For iron-fastened ships, this is said to be preferable to copper. Charleston City Gazette of March 5.)

The imports into New York for one year, from April 1815, to April 1816, are stated to have amounted to 56 millions of dollars, or 14 millions sterling.

AUSTRIA.

Atmospherical Phenomena.

presage of favourable weather.—(Vienna Court Gazette, April 5.)

BELGIUM.

Brussels, May 5.-An English frigate has just arrived at Antwerp, to take on board and convey to Civita Vecchia the statues, pictures, and other works of art, which sacrilegious hands had dared to ravish from the capital of the Christian world.

FRANCE.

CHRISTIAN SLAVES.
(From the Moniteur)

Paris, May 7.-"Messieurs the Chevaliers subscribers for the abolition of slavery, in whites as well as blacks, and other persons invited by them, met in the Rue George Bateliere, the 15th April, 1816.

"M. Viscount Chateaubriand, on his arSalmthal, in the circle of Marburgh: rival, delivered to M. the President copies "On the 4th of March, this year, at nine of his speech delivered in the Chamber of in the evening, we had in this neighbour-Peers, which were afterwards distributed hood an entirely new phenomenon, on two among Messrs. the Chevaliers present. estates of Count Kuenburg: a violent "M. the President, opening the Sitting, storm, accompanied with snow and some read several extracts from his Report, rain, passed from the westward towards which will be printed and delivered to subthe south east, that is, from the Schwan-scribers, and communicated all the justifiberg Alps, towards the vineyards of Ge- catory papers of his very extensive corresrith, over the mountain-castle of Hohle-pondence, of which some are in the Arabic nech, within which is the parish church; when suddenly the gilded cross on the steeple of this church seemed to be in flames, which lighted the country all round, and at the same time a sort of crackling or hissing noise was heard from the steeple as when water is poured upon red hot iron. This lasted for a whole quarter of an hour, and left rather an unpleasant smell. The next day the cross was almost quite black, but it now begins to resume its former brightness.

lauguage, from Kiban even to Allas, from Jaffa to Tangier, with the translation; and that of all the interesting documents which are in his hands

"After dinner, the President continued the reading of the principal pieces, and among others of some letters from Algiers itself, particularly a letter from an Officer of the British navy, addressed to a Member of Parliament of his own nation, and which he had sent to the President, containing very distinct details of the situation of the unfortunate Europeans, suffering in irons at Algiers of which he was very re

With a telescope one can perceive, that something inflammable fixed itself on the iron. At the same time, a similar phe-cently an eye witness, and some very judinomenon appeared at the top of the steeple of the church of Welsbergh: only the fire was smaller, and of shorter duration. It is strange, that these electrical flames appeared only on these two steeples, which are almost a German mile (five English miles] distant from each other, though there are other steeples in the line between them, some of them of the same height, on which nothing similar was perceived.

It may easily be supposed that this phenomenon, on account of its novelty, furnishes the peasants with matter for various conjectures. It had most resemblance to the flame often seen on the masts of ships, called by the Italians, Tucco di St. Elmo, which is also accompanied by a crackling noise, and is considered by mariners as a

cious reflexions on the impolitic measures of the nations which, having been, and being still able to annihilate the naval power of the Algerines, have made ephemeral truces, for they cannot be considered as solid treaties of peace, stipulating merely for their commercial interests, without regard to their glory, or to the rights of humanity, and leaving to the Algerines the means of begining again, as is doubtless their intention.

"Sardinia having no military marine, could not perhaps have acted otherwise; but it is expected of the great Powers who have it in their power to stipulate for the smaller, the protection of all the coasts of Europe, inhabited, according to the ex pression of the Mussulmans, by the Naza

rihe nation. The Ambassador of his Sardinian Majesty to the Court of France, has notified to the President under date of April 20, the conclusion of peace between his Majesty and the Regency of Algiers, through the support and mediation of Great Britian.

fested by the President, when submitting to his Majesty the documents, proving that several inhabitants had very recently been carried off from the coasts of Italy and Sardinia, and that 20 men had been murdered, and their corpses found upon the

shore.

"The President had the honour, on the

same day, to make similar_communications to his Royal Highness Monsieur, and to receive from him the like assent."

Tricking Titles Suspended.

to give the title "My Lord" to every stranger who has the appearance of an Englishman. It adds, before the Revolution the English travelled from curiosity: they now travel from economy.

The Surgeons of Paris, in an address to Louis XVIII. say, that their society was incorporated so long back as 1255.

"The President having had the honour to be admitted to an audience of the King the day after this meeting, to make his report to his Majesty, as a subscriber to the charitable fund, and to lay before him the correspondence and documents, directed A Paris paper observes, that the English his Majesty's attention to the energetic and in that city, contrary to their usual cusimpressive conclusion of the Address of the tom, spend very little money, in conse English House of Lords to his Royal High-quence of which, the Parisians have ceased ness the Prince Regent, on the 15th May, 1814, imploring him earnestly to use all the influence of the British Crown in the negociations, and to solicit of all the sovereigns of Europe the total and immediate abolition of the Slave Trade in Africa, to stipulate for a general and irrevocable renunciation of these barbarous practices, and to procure the promulgation, under the united authority of the whole of the civilized world, of a solemn declaration, that to drag into slavery the inhabitants of peaceful countries is a violation of the universal law of nations, founded, as it ought to be, on the immutable principles of Justice and Rel gion -soliciting also the acknowledgment and performance of those important duties by which we have engaged to pay that homage to the rights, liberty, and happiness of our fellow creatures.' The President observed to his Majesty that, as the Blacks were not specified, the Whites could not be supposed to be excluded from the wishes expressed for the abolition of slavery in Africa.

"The President on this occasion, laid before his Majesty a copy of the eloquent appeal of the Vicomte de Chateaubriand to the Chamber of Peers, on the 9th of April, remarking, that, from the sentiments thus expressed by the Houses of Peers of both nations, the Sovereigns might perhaps think it worthy of consideration; and if in their wisdom they admit the principle, they might proceed to its application, and do good by their supreme authority, without waiting for a formal suggestion, which could not be presented this Session, nor earlier than next Septemher, which would leave the defenceless coasts of Italy exposed to the incursions of pirates, at least during the whole summer.

His Majesty readily admitted the correctness of this reasoning, and admitted the justice of this cause. He evidently felt the same indignation that was mani

The Paris Papers of the 8th contain the trial, conviction, and condemnation to death, of General Bertrand, who is, however, luckily enough, at St. Helena, out of the way of being executed, except in effigy.

ITALY.

Scarcity.

Private letters from Italy, and the accounts given by travellers, fully agree in the statements of public papers, respecting the scarcity of corn in that country. There is no recollection of such a dearth, extending over the whole country, from Calabria to the Tyrol, since 1763 and 1764, when there was a great scarcity, especially in the Roman States; the more one approaches the North, the more it increases, so that in distant vallies, between the mountains, some persons have already died of hunger. To this is added want of employment, in parts which formerly gained something by manufactures. To meet the first want, all the Governments/ make such regulations as they judge suitable, to hinder particularly the usurious speculations which these distresses always occasion. The Pope has done it first, because his States suffer very considerably, which is also one cause that there are so many robberies. At Bologna all purchases of corn must be notified and regis tered. In the Sardinian States every body must give an account, in writing, of his stock in corn, flour, &c. as well as what he wants till next August.

In the kingdm of Lombardy, while the Emperor was present, there was in several

towns a distribution of corn, &c. to the poor, to prevent commotions, which might easily have been occasioned by the contrast of their distress with the profusion of the rich. For in Lombardy, where a dearth of corn is a thing almost unheard of, it is the most oppressive. The total failure of the maize has caused this dearth. People, indeed, place their hopes in importation from foreign countries, to which the speculators are very much tempted; large cargoes have arrived at Leghorn and Genoa, others are on the way from the coasts of the Black Sea, but it is to be feared that the poorer class will not receive much relief from these supplies.

ROME APRIL, 10.-The want of money becomes every day more sensible. The concourse of strangers increases the consumption and the dearness of provisions. The bread known under the name of paniotta weighs now only three ounces. Several bakers have been arrested.

VENICE.-April 17th, the day of the restoration of the famous Lion, recently arrived with the Corinthian Horses, to its original scite, in Venice, from Paris, a sum of 5,400 ducats was distributed in prizes, to be drawn by lot, by forty Venetian girls, for their marriage portions, in honour of the occasion.

ing ice against the Dykes, which gave way in the night of the 21st of March, and laid an extent of country, equal to 480 English square miles, under water, carrying houses, cattle, and every thing before it. The calamity was so sudden and universal, that many hundreds were instantly drowned; when day-light came, and boats could be procured, about 7 or 800 were taken, naked and perishing with cold, from the tops of such dwellings as had resisted the first rush of the water. The recital of sufferings is heart rending. The land was extremely fertile, and in a state of high cultivation, Six thousand head of cattle, besides vast flocks of sheep have heen drowned; several churches, and many buildings have been undermined and fallen to ruins.

The Dyke at Marienburg likewise burst, and laid one of the suburbs 12 feet under water, 78 lives were lost, and the alarm was so great in the town, though not overflowed, that numbers were trodden to death in the streets, in attempting to escape. In short, so sudden, and so great a calamity has seldom happened, except from earthquake or volcano.

RUSSIA.

Russian Tariff.

No. L-Silk goods of one colour, and plain, without gold and silver, velvets,

A Venetian engineer has discovered a mode of perfecting the compass, The dis-gros de tours, satin, taffetas, levantine, and covery has been submitted to the Italian Institution, which has acknowledged its importance.

serge, to be imported to Petersburgh only, 25 per cent; ribbands (except for Orders) to be imported to Petersburgh only, 25 per cent; cassimere of all colours, 25 per cent; spectacles, 10 per cent; white crockery

instruments, 5 per cent. ; blankets and coverlits, white, to be imported to Petersburgh only, 25 per cent; mahogany 10 per cent; Beech wood, 2 per cent; diamonds and pearls, one per cent.; prints and paintings 25 per cout.

The ship in which the Duke of Holstein (ci-devant King of Sweden) arrived at An-ware, 25 per cent.; strings for musical cona, carried the white flag. It was under this flag that the Prince wished to enter the Holy Land, aud he was furnished with passports by Louis XVIII. when at Ghent. NAPLES.-Mauy effects stolen from the apartments of the Palace of Naples, when the Theatre of St. Charles was on fire, have been recovered; among others, the casket of the wife of Murat, enriched with diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and other precious stones: it was a present from the Grand Seignior to a General of Bonaparte, who parted with it to the Ex-Princess: it is valued at nearly £24,000.

PRUSSIA.

Dreadful Inundation.

No. 2.-Carpets, gold and silver to be imported to Petersburgh only, 25 per cent; razors, knives and forks, scissors, snuffe rs penknives, &c. 25 per cent. ; files, saws, and other iron instruments, 5 per cent; beaver and otter skins, and other. foreign furs, 25 per cent.; French cambrics to be imported to Petersburgh only, 25 per cent.; twist, dyed and white, 73 silver rubles, per po.; white kindacks 25 per cent; paper, all sorts, white, 25 per cent.: ostrich feathers 20 per cent. apples, 125 co. per 2 ankers; brandy, arrack,

By letters from Marienburg, in East Prussia, a town on the right bank of the Vistula, we have accounts of a most dread-shrub, 10 ro. s. per anker; perfumery, 50

ful and extensive inundation of that river, on the breaking up of the ice, owing to a gale of wind impelling the masses of float

co. per bottle; porter, 20 co. per barrel.

No. S.-Cocoa, 125 co. silver per po; chesnuts, 75 do.; fruits in liquor, 12 ro.

silv.; sago, 125 co. silv.; rice, 15 co. per po.; hops, 125 co. ditto; dyed woollen yarn, 875 co. per po.; quicksilver, 25 co. s.; soot, 25 co. silver; salt, to be imimported to the Baltic only, 15 co. s.; cheese, 15 ro. s.; whalebone, 250 co.; coffee, 3 ro.; indigo, 250 co.; cochineal, 750; wire 50, co; vitriol oil, 150 co; Venetian soap, 1 ro.; nuts, 1 ro. per pd.; coals, 50 co. per br.; logwood, 50 co nicaragua, Iro. per bq; watches (except what are prohibited) 15 per ro.; stockings, ditto, ditto, 20 ro.

"Declaration of his Highness Mahmoud Bashaw, Bey of Tunis, the well-protected city, and the abode of felicity, made with the Most Honourable Edward Baron Exmouth, Knight Grand Cross of the illustrious Order of the Bath, Admiral of the Blue Flag of the Fleet of his Britannic Majesty, and Commander-in-Chief of the vessels of his said Majesty in the Mediterranean.

"In consideration of the great interest manifested by his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of England to put an end to No. 4. Cider, 35 co. per bottle; soga, 50 co. the slavery of Christians, his Royal Highditto; French wine, 20 ro. s. per hhd.;_ ditto ness the Bey of Tunis, willing to give a in bottles, 25 co. per bottle; herrings, Swed, proof of his sincere desire to maintain invio20 co, per barrel; ditto, English and Dutch,ably the amicable relations which exist 150. 30; vinegar, 625 co. per hhd.; cloth, between him and Great Britain, and of his (except what is prohibited), 125 co. s. per pacific dispositions towards all the powers arsh; birds, 25 co. per piece; oranges and of Europe, with which he desires to estalemons, 50 co. per 300; mares and stal-blish a perpetual peace, declares that, in lions, 25 ro. each; tin-plate, 625 ro. per the event of a future war with any one of 450 sheets; cocoa nuts, 125 co. per 10 these Powers (which may it please God to pds; titles, 1 ro. per 1,000 p. prevent!) all the prisoners made by the two parties shall no more be reduced to slavery, but shall be treated with all possible humanity, as prisoners of war, until a regular exchange, and in the form which is practised in such cases in Europe, and that, at the end of hostilities, such prisoners shall be returned to their respective country, without ransom.

Refined sugars of all kinds pay 3 silver rubles per pood: raw sugars 12: rum is prohibited; white cotton goods of all kinds 25 per cent. ad valorem. Cloth, except black, 1 rubles per arschine.

The duties in roubles are understood silver, a 4 ro. B. N.-The per cent. is to be taken from the value, according to the exchange.

Switzerland, Mar. 19.-Last year died Pastor Sauge, of Mautran, near Fribourg, well known for his knowledge of agricul ture. His heirs having renounced the inheritance, his property fell into the hands of the Judge of the Court of Insolvency, who found among the books of the deceased 26 volumes of the works of Jean Jacques Rousseau. These were laid by themselves; and application made to the Council of State for permission to burn these immoral and dangerous books, which was immediately granted. (Allgemeine Zietung, 6th April-Supplement.)

It is mentioned in a German paper, that between two and three hundred Swiss were preparing to emigrate in a body to North America. They intended to proceed down the Rhine from Basle, and take shipping in some of the ports of Holland,

TUNIS.

DECLARATION OF THE BEY AGAINST
SLAVERY.

“Done in Duplicate, in the Palace of Bardo, near Tunis, in the presence of the Almighty, the 17th of April, in the year of Jesus Christ, 1816, and of the Hegira 1271, the 19th day of the Moon Jumed Anell. Furnished with the seal of the Bey.

(Signed)

"EXMOUTH.

“ Admiral of his Britannic Majesty.” The same Journal announces, that his Majesty the King of Naples has concluded a treaty with the Regency of Algiers. By this treaty, the King of Naples is to pay every year to the Regency of Algiers the sum of 24,000 Spanish piastres.

NEW SOUTH WALES. Discoveries and Adventurers. The Hope, a country ship, has arrived off the Isle of Wight, from New South Wales, Batavia, Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena. A gentleman, who came home passenger in her, gives the following information:

"The Indefatigable, a ship of about 550 The Florence Gazette, of the 27th April, tons, which sailed from England, in Octocontains the following article:ber, 1814, with male convicts for New Copy of an important document received South Wales, arrived at that Colony, in by his Excellency Lord Burghersh, Am-April, 1815, after a good voyage. She left bassador of his Britannic Majesty to the Court of Tuscany:→

Port Jackson, in June, 1815, for Batavia; and, as that is a season of the year when

there is great difficulty in doubling the South West Cape of Van Diemen's Land the Master of her determined to navigate her through Torre's Straits, by far the most dangerous passage in the world, ou account of the numerous reefs and rocks scattered over it. The Indefatigable fell in with a small ship called the Cochin, bound to Amboyna, and a brig going to Bengal, which sailed from Port Jackson, on the 18th of July, and made the reefs of the external barrier, in 11. 50. S. latitude, opposite Hardy's Islands, on the 3d of August; and, having found a passage through them in that latitude (about 20 miles south of the place where the Pandora frigate was lost) she sailed among them for two days, anchoring at night, and passed the most dangerous part of the Strait without accident, by a passage that had not been attempted before. In doubling the northernmost island of the Duke of York's groupe, she struck in thirteen feet water, and remained fixed for ten hours, when, by the rise of the tide, she floated into deep water without injury. The masters of two vessels in company went on shore on Possession Island in hopes of finding turtles; but had no sooner set foot on shore, and advanced towards some bushes, than a party of Savages in ambush threw a volley of spears at them, and nearly cut them off: the Captain of the Cochin received a spear through his hand, and his mate another through his shoulder, but no lives were lost. These Savages, fearless of fire-arms, followed the party to the beach, and waded into the sea after them as far as they were able, throwing spears into the boat. The natives of these Islands, and the North Coast of New Holland, are by far the most dangerous people in the world, and uniformly endeavour to destroy every person that unwarily lands on their shore. They are numerous; and to give notice of strangers being near, light fires in all directions. The Indefatigable arrived at Batavia by the way of Allas' Straits, August the 31st. She there received a freight of coffee, sapan wood, and pepper, and was ready to sail for England, the passengers, and every thing being on board, when, on the 22d of October, she took fire in the after-gun room, occasioned by a man drawing off arrack by candle-light, and in a few hours was burnt to the water's edge."

National Register.

BRITISH.

King's Health.

"Windsor Castle, May 5-His Majesty passed the last month in good bodily health, and in uniform tranquillity, but his Majesty's disorder is not diminished."— Signed as usual.

Carlton-House, Thursday, May 2, 1816.

nity of the marriage of her Royal Highness This evening, at nine o'clock, the solemthe Princess Charlotte Augusta, daughter Frederick, Prince of Wales, Regent of the of his Royal Highness George Augustus United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with his Serene Highness Leopold George Frederick, Duke of Saxe, Margrave of Meissen, Landgrave of Thuringuen, Prince of Cobourg of Saalfeld, was performed in the Great Crimson Room at Carlton-House by his Grace the Archbi shop of Canterbury, in the presence of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince Regeut, their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York, Clarence, and Kent, their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Augusta-Sophia, Elizabeth, and Mary, her Hoyal Highness the Duchess of York, her Highness the Princess Sophia of Glou cester, their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Mademoiselle D'Orleans, the Duke of Bourbon, the Great Officers of State, the Ambassadors and Ministers from foreign States, the Officers of the Household of her Majesty the Queen, of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and of the younger brauches of the Royal Family, assisting at the ceremony.

At the conclusion of the marriage service, the registry of the marriage was at tested with the usual formalities, after which her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, the Bride and Bridegroom, with the rest of the Royal Family retired to the Royal Closet.

The Bride and Bridegroom soon after left Carlton House for Oatlands, the seat of his Royal Highness the Duke of York.

Her Majesty the Queen, his Royal High ness the Prince Regent, and the rest of the Royal Family, passed into the Great Council Chamber, where the Great Offi This information may prove of great cers, Nobility, Foreign Ministers, and other importance to our Colony at Port Jack-persons of distinction present, paid their son:-it is much to be feared that in the destruction of the vessel, all Charts, &c. of the passage were consumed.

compliments on the occasion.

Immediately after the conclusion of the marriage, the Park and Tower guns were fired, and the evening concluded with