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"where liberty dwells, there js my country." 0L, I. MADISON, (INDIANA) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1817. No 39.

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jUEL Pi-'LHAM,

EVERY SATURDAY.

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of a letter from the Ccrrespon-

Secretary of the New-Tork

ce Society, to the Lor respondSecretary cf the Peace Side-

Ohio, dated

Jew-York, May 13, 1817.

ar Sir The duty has (3cJ on me of congratulating

pn your organization a a so-

for the glorious object ot the toting peace, and or' solicitfree correspondence. The

-York Peace Society has been lished about a year and a

during which time.it has

;raduallv increasing: in num-

nd making exertions for difL. .1 :

iuc scuiimenis or pace. ("long the measures which we adopted for this object are : lie distribution of tracts on

jubject : 2d, By the placing

kne valuable pamphlets in the

s or members to loan to such 'c disposed to oeruse them ;

A hee conversation on the of the members of our sacie-

5di those whom they find fa-

iiy disposed, with the use or

-asion and arguments to in-

its and to unite with us in i'-otinr the same benevolent

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'1; and from the pecul'ar atn and interest which the sub- !' -s exr.ia:d of late ill the pub'ljViu rally. Peace Socieiies with which ;t tvn luxn lnaui: .cuainted i I s hat of NVw-Yoik, ndup p,.;,rjc .Society, and --r neat li ibLoi iu Knland,

and a third lately formed in that kingdom; the Massachusetts Peace Society, one in Cayuga county, New-York. From these hopeful indications have we not reasons to thank God and take courage ? wc are strongly persuaded the popular delusion in favor of war will vanish in proportion as the public mind shall be enlightened, and the subject shall receive a thorough and candidexamination. But it is to God alone we must look for ultimate success, to him we commend you and the interest of your society. Be assured of our prayers for your prosperity, HEZLK1AH GRIFFON. Corresp. Sec'ry. Arrival of Mr. Adams. New-York, Aug. 7. His excellency John Quincey Adams, late ambassador and minister plenipotentiary to the court of St. James, (and recently appointed secretary of state of the United States; and his lady and family, arrived here yesterday morning, all in good hea!th, on board the ship Washington, captain Forman, from Loudon, and 48 days from Coves. A day r two before Mr. Adams left Cowes, which was on the 15th of June, he received the following important Circular, which it will be seen opens to all nations the importation of bread stuffs into Great Britain. (COPY.) Treasury Chambers, June 11,1817. Gjlntlemen I am commanded by the lords commissioners his majesty's treasury to signify to you their lordships authority to permit the importation of corn, grain, meal, flour and rice, in any ship and from any country, until the 14th Nov. 1817, inclusive, provided the importation of grain shall, during this period, continue legal, under the provisions of the Act, 55, Geo. 3, chap. 26. And I am to desire you will immediately cause public notice to be given hereof. 1 am, gentlemen, Your most obed't servant, S. K. LUSH1NGTON. To the Commissioners of the Customs. Mercantile Advertiser.

PAUPERISM. The following letter from a medical gentleman, is extracted from Cobbett's Weekly Political Pamphlet, published in London, March 29, 18 17. ho can read the shockii-g details contained in their communication, and not shudder at the recital? Americans, take a lesson from this, and

be graterul for the manifold oless--ings you enjoy over the people of every other portion of the globe. Bait. Pat. DISE aSKS OF POVERTY. LONDON, MARCH l6, J 8 1 7. Sir From the wide circulation of your publication, and from your well known patriotism, I trust you will insert this letter in your Register. I view, like yourself, the state of this unhappy country with the greatest alarm ; but, sir, I foresee evil that the generality of people are little aware of, and which you have even overlooked. The evils I allude to, are far more alarming than any deiiciency in the amount of the taxes, or than the foolish schemes of the Spenceans ; and their importance is such, that there is not a man in the country who is not interested on this subject. As a medical manjthenjwould address my countrymen on this awful occasion. I have, sir, paid great attention to the subject of cor.tageous diseases, and have read and sought for all the information I could get on this subject. It is a fact and a well known medical fact, too, that nothing renders the human body so liable to disease particularly to contageous diseases, as poverty and wretchedness. Now, sir, it is notorious that there are thousands of our countrymen in a state of starvation, and living in places not fit to keep a dog in. It was only last week that I attended a starving family, affected with a putrid sore throat ; they were livmg in a miserable cellar, with five panes of glass broken in the window, the floor was half covered with water, and they had no fire, and only one bed for six of them, of which the family then consisted, the other was lying ill of a putrid fever, in the King's Bench prison. It was with diiii. ul-ylcouldrestram my tears at this accumulation of mi .ery. Jfindithas become a common practice, now, for the poor to sleep six in a bed ; and this they are enabled to do by laying three in the common manner, and the other three with their feet up to the others' head, and their head at the bottom of the bed. To what a state of wretchedness' and poverty is this country reduced ! I could give hundreds of instances of poverty equal to the above. It is only a month or two since, that a whole family was on the point of death from starvation, and had it not been that an acquaintance happened to call, they would have perished. One youth a lad 6f 17 or 18, the eldest boyy was dead, and that foe

want of food 100 ; the other son, a boy of 15, was out, endeavor, ing to pawn his jacket for three pence. The person who cal!e4 on them, was so much affected at die horrid scene, that she fainted. The family consisted, before the death of the eldest son, of two boys, a mother, and daugh cr. Food was procured for thein, and their manner of eating it, was more like that of carniverous animals than human beings, to such a state of hunger werethcy reduced. Now, ;vir, you may depencj upon it, that this state of horriU wretchedness cannot exist long, without producing diseases of the most alarming and conrageous nature. It has always been the case, and it always will be. So well it is known that the poor are more liable to contageous diseases than the rich, that in Italy and France, it was the practice, in any Urge town, to drive out all the poor immediately, if any contageous disease made its appe .nnce. The fact is, that the poison of contageous fevers may .be generated amongst the poor, from debility and want of cleanliness, and this has been proved decidedly to be the case in many instances. In 1779. the inhabitants of Carlisle were affected with a fever of the putrid kind. Dr. Heytham, of that city, with great industry traced its origin to a houe nrar one of the gates, which was renamed by live 01 six wretched families ; these unhappy creatures had blocked up every avenue ( of light with which even wretchedness could dispense, to lessen the burdsn of the window tax, and ihus contaminated the air of their cells to such a degree as to produce the poison of fever among them. Thus it will shortly be in this great town, if measures are not: t iken to prevent it. That such a circumstauceOhas not yet taken place, is no argument that it may not To what extent the evil may go, God only knows: but tint if it once breaks out, and I firmly believe it will, the progress will be rapid beyond parallel, and fatal in proportion to the misery of the people. The safety of the higher orders is now closely connected with the welfare of the poor, and a minute and constant attention to their wants, is not less an act of self-preservation than of virtue. Now, as.to the ( measures that ought to be adopted. In the first pla e, it is very evident, that if the people continue to be taxed, as they now are, that hundreds will daily be sinking into the state, of misery above- described. The fact is, that the weight or taxation is fast destroying the hahh,