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27 TWO DOCTORS. At.T EASTERN APOLOGUE. Tn Indian monarch entertained at his pa

lire two men ofletters; one who devoted his

whole time to books was accounted a prodi

gy of learning nothing could abate the ar

dour ol his studies so that ne soon exceneu

his companion, who, however, was amply compensated by possessing uncommon penetration and an astonishing presence of mind. Both being ambitious of renown, they mutually envied one another, and each secretly decried his companion. Not knowing to

which to give the preference, the rajah Fought for a long time an occasion to put their talents to a trial. At length an opportunity presented: having occasion to send embassies to some neighbouring prince, our

two scholars were appointed trie ambassadors; each was to carry with him a chest, which he was given to understand was filled with magnificent presents. The man of profound learning presented his as he had been ordered; but was struck dumb with amazement when he discovered, on its being opened, that it contained nothing but cinders;

and not being able to answer the interroga-j torics of the monarch on this strange present, be was disgracefully driven from the court, and returned, covered with confusion, to the rajah, his master. The other ambassador likewise presented his chest, which was not more richly laden than that of his companion; but he, when he discovered the contents, without appearing at all disconcerted, replied, that the king, his master, having lately made a great sacrifice according to the rites of their religion, had appointed him to renew the alliance which had so long subsisted between them, and to strengthen it by the usual ceremonies. Thus saying, he re

peated a short prayer; and, taking a cinder between his thumb and forefinger, made a

mark on the monarch's forehead, who re

ceived this token of amity w ith every mark

cf respect. Our ambassador, laden with kindness and presents, returned home, attended by a -numerous escort, where he experienced the most Mattering reception from lus sovereign. Every one admired his address and presence of mind, in extricating himself from so unpleasant a situation; and,

finally, he received the most honourable di

From the Boston Courier, March 19. Lo?p and Bitters. Yesterday in the Po

lice Court, John G. Somes complained of!

Betsey Somes, his loving spouse, ior nemga common drunkard. Mrs. Betsey Somes was set to the bar, and being asked by the clerk if she was guilty, said H do drink, that's sure, and civ husband causes me to do it;

vou know yen do, my dear love: aside to her husband.! I like to go home to my Nations,

who live at Portland, or beyond there, but 1 cannot go, because I cannot raise money enough to nav mv expenses. Now how could

you abuse me so, my dear love, last night, and break my turtle shell comb, which was a present from your sister to me ;'" taking off her bonnet and showing the turtle shell, which had. indeed, like its owner 9 lost a few teeth.'

Having acknowledged the truth ol the charge, the court sentenced the loving lady to one month's confinement in the house of correction. She heard the sentence with great resignation, said she had been there before, and told her dear love, she hoped he would keep sober during her month's confinement, and not drink up her bitters.

WOLVES LY FRAjYCE. The following letter appears in the Paris Journal des Debats, of Feb. 5. Andes, January 27. Sir 1 have just w Unessed an unfortunate

occurrence, which I hasten to communicate

to you. Yesterday evening, in returning from visiting a patient in the mountains, 1 saw on the road side marks of blood on the

snow. I followed the indications this gave me about 500 paces, and then I came suddenly, on turning a corner, up to an enormous wolf devouring a man. My horse immediately started aside and the wolf jumped on his back. I immediately dismounted, and

seized a nistol which was in mv holster; but

before I could make it ready, the furiou

beast left the horse and attacked me. I then

succeeded in getting my pistol ready, and

fired in his throat, but not before 1 was much

wounded. I was bitten in the face, on. the shoulder, and on the thigh, and 1 should not

have been able to return to Andes hut foi

the assistance of two persons, one of whom

lent me his horse, my own having made Ids

escape, while I was engaged with the mon-

r.ter. 1 he man wliom me won was cievour-

tiuctions, and arrived at the highest offices ofinfr ia(j tjie wno!e of his face eaten, and he

POL.4R REGIONS. Capt. Franklin, of the British Navy, recently arrived at New-York, bound on the third exploring expedition, will proceed through Canada to the mouth of M'Kenzie's

river,there resume tne canoe navigation, ana sail westwardlv towards Icy Cape. Should

thev not he so fortunate as to meet with Capt. Pakry, the Blossom of 28 guns, (w hich has latelv sailed from England for the South

seas,) will be found, as Capt. Franklin has kindiv informed us, waiting in Behring's

Straits, in the event of the expedition reach-

Jin that point. It is intended on reaching

M'Kenzie s river, that a party unuer ur. Richardson and Lt. Kendall, shall proceed

eastward and explore the line of coast he-

tween that and Copper Mine river. A detachment of the expedition has gone by the way of Hudson's Bay, but the officers are now in New York. They consist of Captain nVmlrKr tlif rmnmnnflpr : Et. Kendall, as-

tronomer; (this officer was on board the Gri

per during her late disastrous attempt to reach Repulse Bay;) Dr. Richardson, vho rendered such eminent services on the former occasion, surgeon and naturalist; Lieut.

Buck, who also distinguished himself so

highly, will make the surveys, and continue throughout the voyage with Capt. Franklin; Mr. Drummond, botanist. They will set out for York, Upper Canada, in a few days, and the whole party will

assemble at Bear lake; and in the spring of

1826, will descend M'Kenzie's river, and again embark on the polar sea, in July of the

same year.

nate is woll known, and the writer, if he had a particle of shame in his composition, would remain quiet in his present obscurity, and not make any further attempt to villi i y an

Island from which he was obliged to ilee clandestinely.

In order to do awav with the erroneous

impressions which the false statement is cal

culated to make, we deem it our duty to

contradict it in toto; and lor the informa

tion of the neighbouring Communities wc

will further observe, that in the latter part of last month a small house in this town took fire, but which, on strict investigation, was proved to have originated entirely from accident. As to that part of the letter announ

cing the arrest of six hundred persons, we

may be permitted to say, that it had no other foundation that that produced by the fer

tile imagination of the writer. I rue it is,

that a plot has recently been discovered

here, the object of which was to commit pi

racies; some Individuals concerned in this affair have been imprisoned, and are now undergoing their trial. In conclusion, we can n?sure our foreign, friends, that this island is at present as tranquil and safe as any neighbouring one, and wn m.-iv add much more so than many that

the state; while his rival, notwithstanding!

his profound learning, was totally neglected, and sunk into an obscurity from which his laborious works will never rescue him. In active life, penetration and good p.nnse are of more value than profound erudition

could not therefore he recognized.

From a late London paper.

OA" THE GOLD AJYD SILVER MLYES

OF AMERICA. From the many extensive undertaking

for mining in America, and still more with a

view to the general interest of the inquiry,

a summary of such information as merits ... .i ."..

coniider.ee, cannot but te a matter ol utility and curiosity to the public.

The following details have been accord

ingly collected and arranged, under their

respective heads:

Total produce of the precious metals in America.

The mines in Spanish America had been

brought to the fullest height ol production

by the end ot the last century, and continued to give to the world annual supplies, of

unprecedented magnitude, until the year 1810. It was then the disturbances broke out, originating in the struggle for independence, and partly from the conflicts of rival

parties, which desolated the country, and in

terrupted the mining operations, especially in Mexico, Peru, and Buenos Ayres. The

degree to which the produce of the mines

fell off, has been thus given in a recent pub

TAXES LY EJWLAAT). An English editor, speaking of the oppres r.t,, rK;, o rvn nt frnvi r 11 mo n t iliilirf

nnon the people of that country, savs, "We lotion, Tooke on high and low prices, iroro

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the people nave tne iuuesi coniiucnte m ukj ability and zeal of the Government, and

that the laws are cheevlully obeyed by all

classes,

NEW-YORK, March SO. RISE LXM4JYLTACTURED GOODS. The recent advance in the prices of British manufactures, will, we are persuaded, give a livelier start to American industry than we have yet realised from the Tariff itself. From ihe arrivals for a month past it appears that almost every description of mnnufactored goods has risen in value in the European market. The cotton goods of

England have not only advanced, but the rise has been felt on the banks of the Pee Dee or on the Alabama in this country. Hardware and woolens have also advanced in the English market, and we have seen it mentioned somewhere that the latter article in the French market has risen as much as 30 per cent, Goods imported from Europe, as might have been expected, have experienced a

corresponding advance m tins market. En

glish dry goods are now sold about 15 to 20

per cent, higher at the present time than

they were six weeks ago. Hardware and

woolens have felt similar changes. . The ad

vance in the price of cotton has created a considerable excitement among speculators and others, and all united together gives a

great briskness and activity to business.

J!A GA"AJYL

The celebrated Charles-Anthony Dcmaf,

author of a voluminous treatise on the c;vil law, was promoted to the oniee of a judge of the provincial court of Clermont, in the territory of Auvergne, in the south of France. In this court he presided, with the public applause, for twenty-four years. One day, a poor widow brought an action arninst the baron de Nairac, her landlord, for turning her cut of a mill, which was her sole dependence. M. Domat heard the cause; and finding, by the clearest evidence, that she had ignorantly broken a covenant in the base, which gave a power of re-entry, he recommended mercy to the baron for a poor, honest tenant, who had not wilfully

transgressed, cr done him any material inju-J

rv. Nairac, however, being inexorable, tne judge was obliged to pronounce a decree cf ejectment, with the damages mentioned in the lease, and costs of suit; but he could not pronounce this cruel sentence without tears. When an order of seizure, both of person and effects, was added, the poor widow ex

claimed "Oh, iust and righteous God 1 be

thou a father to the widow and her helpless

orphans V and immediately tainted away. The compassionate judge assisted in raising the unfortunate woman; and, after inquiring into her character, number of children, and other circumstances, generously

presented her with a hundred louis d'ors, the amount of the damages and costs, which he nrovnilpd nn thr hnrnn In accent MS a full

compensation, and to let aie. widow enter upon her mill.

"Oh my lord!" said the poor woman,

"when will you demand payment, that I may lay no for that purpose T'

have taxes upon every article that enters in

to ihe mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot: taxes upon every thing w hich ii is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell,

or taste: taxes upon warmth, light, locomo- Mexico 30,000,000

tion ; taxes on every thing on the earth, and: Peru 5,840,000 the waters under the earth, on every thing' Chili 8GG,000 that comes from abroad, or is grown at home ;i B's Ayres 3,G40,000

a very competent authority.

Annual produce of the American Mines in Dol tars. From 1800 to 1818. Subsequent to 1810.

1 2,000,000 2,740,000 866,000

taxes on the raw material; laxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man; taxes on the cause which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health on the ermine which decorate? the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the cofiin, and the ribbons of the bride ; at

Brazil 4,340,000

Greneda 735,000

1,820,000 4,340,000 2,735,000

47,061,000 24,501,000

Thus, the quantity of the precious metals, derived yearly from these sources, was re

duced one half, in consequence of the war

fare and desolation existing since 1810.

tne

lt was in 1820, that the independence 01

bed and board, cochant or levant, we Mexico was established by Iturbide; but the

creat mining concerns nau neon so long interrupted or abandoned, it will require sev-

agam

must nay; the school-boy whips his taxed

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top; the beardless youtn manages his taxed! horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road; and the dying man, pouring his medicine, which has'paid 7 per cent., into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent., makes his will cn an 8 pound stamp,

and expires in the arms ot an apothecary, who has paid a license of an hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death.

His whole property is then immediately tax

ed from two to nineteen per cent. Besides

the probate, large fees are demande d for bu

rying him m the chancel; lus virtues are

handed down to posterity on taxed marble;

and he is then gathered to his lathers, to be

taxed no more.

OF ALL KhXDS . YEA TL Y EXE CUTED

A T THIS OFFICE,

eral years to restore them to activity.

FROM THE ST. THOMAS PAPER. We perceive, in the Antigua Weekly Re

gister of the 4th inst. an extract of a Letter from St. Bartholomews, which says:

"By letters from St. Thomas, we learn that an attempt had been made to fire the town, which was fortunately discovered; and report says that six hundred persons are taken up and in confinement." The above extract from the Antigua paper is another of those foolish and absurd paragraphs which are going the rounds res

pecting this Island. Ye have often observed, in the American and other papers, sev

eral letters, purporting to be from this place

and St. Barts, casting the most undeserved

and w icked censure on the affairs of this Isl

and, but the source from whence they ema

Mrs. Mary Dyer, who had a long and arduous contest with the Sect called Shakers, has again in circulation an interesting pamphlet againt them. The last Legislature of New-Hampshire passed an act for transferring to her, her children from a Shaker Establishment, and a portion of property for her support but, we understand she has not yet received the benefit of the act. She discovers uncommon zeal in what she has undertaken and appears as firm in her purpose as the Mary Dyer who was cruelly executed in Boston in old times for being a Quaker. A handsome steamboat, called the Bolivar, has been recently launched in New York, for the navigation of the river Mag-

dalena, in the Republic of Colombia. This is one of the numerous proofs repeatedly of

fered to cur eyes, of the salutary effects of the revolution in South America; and it must be gratifying to the friends of free governments that their hopes and anticipations

have not been disappointed in tnat important quai ter of the world.

James A. Ilillhouse, Esq. of New-York,

author of Percy 's Masque and The Judgment

poems distinguished by beauty ot verse, has

just issued another, a dramatic composition,

entitled Iiadcul. It forms an elegant octavo

volume of two hundred pages. The merits

01 his earlier productions warrant the expectation of his success in the present work. Ait. Gaz. Luxury. Mrs. Coutts, of London, the widow of the Banker, gave a Concert on the first night that Madame Catalani appeared after her return to England, which w as followed by a supper, the cost of which was estimated at two thousand pounds sterling.