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tors three centuries ago ; but we must recollect that chemistry had but little progress at the commencement of the i9th century. Washington, Aug. 4. By dispatches from our envoys in Russia, to the principal secretary of territorial relations, brought by the steam frigate Fulton, we learn that the emperor Petro Paul appears to be at last willing to cede Kamtschatka to thetJnited States. When we consider that we are already in possession of the Behring and Andrean Isles, and that Kamtschatka, from its proximity, naturally pertains to the United States, and is separated only by a paltry half frozen strait, we cannot but be surprised that the court of St. Petersburgh should so long and so pertinaciously contest our indubitable right. Nantucket, Aug. 14.- Arrived here this morning 27 sail of Whalers, from the Pacific Ocean. They returned as usual through the Isthmus, of Darien. We mention this circumstance; because it has been apprehended that the Grampus, 1800 tons, could not pass the canal without taking out her freight; but we are happy to state that such is the depth of the water in the canal since the cut from lake Nicaragua, that the Grampus loaded to her bends passed through all the locks without any injury except the staving of a few fathoms of her false keel. The captain speaks in high terms of the civilities of the customhouse officers rn the Venezuelan as well as the U. States side of the canal. Washington, Aug. 12, 2000. We do not presume to know, for we would not 'by any means have it understood that we have any access to the cabinet more than our brother editors, but we conjecture that the late seizure of the British frigate in' the state of Florida will not, on investigation, be found, as is stated in the opposition papers, cither an oppressive or unjustifiable act in the government of the U. States. It is well known that after the annihilation of the English naval force by our steam fleet on the glorious and ever memorable fourth of March, 1990, the rulers of the nation had the sagacity to see, and the candor to own, that the happiness and glory of the nation had been sacrificed in the pursuit of that evanescent phantom, a com mercial monopoly ; and their envoys declared, that, in future, their policy would be to endeavor to obtain a competent share of commerce, by a fair and common rivalry in the market, and not by force of arms or maratime restrictions. In the same spirit the treaty of 1991 was made, by which they ceded Jamaica, the last of their West India possessions to the U. States, and ex

pressly declared that in future they would not put in commission any vessel of war above the rate of 16 guns. Philadelphia, Sept. 1, 2000. Yesterday came passengers in a Greek polacre frbm Messina, Seigniors Raphael Giotto, and Bartholemi Pierina, two celebrated Italian sculptors, in order to perfect their education by studying the lectures in our academy of Fine Arts.

GREENLAND. A Danish colony is stated to have settled in (Greenland as arly as the year 983. The country is said to have received its name from its superior verdure to Iceland. In the year 1406 the ice" closed in upon the coast and rendered it inaccessible; and from that time till the last summer all communication with the colonists . appears to have been cut off. Attempts have from time to time been made to learn their fate. As late as the year 1786, captain Lowehorn, of the Danish navy, was sent out expressly for the pur-posc,-but it is understood without success. The opportunity now offering, it is presumed will be improved. . Even if the whole of this unfortunate race have, as is much feared, perished, it is hoped that some vestages of their situation after the ice shut them in, may be traced. With regard to the geography, t is supposed that an opportunity is at last presented, by the departure of the ice, to ascertain the true state and position of the po lar regions. Greenland is tho't to be either an island or a cluster of islands. In support of this conjecture, it is said that a strong perpetual current sets down from the northward, along the eastern coast of America, and the eastern shores of Old Greenland, affording a strong presumption that there, is an uninterrupted communication between Davis's Strait and the great polar basin. Vast quantities of driftwood are also floated down the eastern side of Greenland, sometimes filling the bays on the northern coast of Iceland. It is said that this wood could not have 'grown to the northward, as not a stick except that of a merely dwarfish state, .is to be found in a growing state for many degrees below where those logs are cast up. That many of them have recently been in a growing state is apparent from the fragments of bark & branches adhering to them. They are of kinds which are produced both in Asia and America; and are supposed to have floated down the rivers in those continents, ints the polar basin, and from thence through the outlet into the north crn ocean

An additional argument in favor of the insularity of Old Greenland, is derived from the fact, that whales stuck with har. poons on the coast of Spitsbergen, are very commonly killen in Davis' Strait, with the harpoon in their bodies, and vice versa. There can be no mistake here, as the names of the vessels, &c to which they belong, are always cut in the sockets of their harpoons. Captain Franks in 180$ struck a whale in Davis' Strait, which was killed near Spitzbergen by his son, who found his fathers name on the harpoon stick ing in the fishes body. OF CANADA. Seeds of Revolution. The Upper Canada papers announce, officially, that a Provincial Convert' tion, assembled at Catharine, in that province, on the 4th of May, and was immediately organized by the choice of John. Clark, Esquire, president, William J, Kerr, Secretary and Geo. Adams, Esq. Treasurer. The The towns of Niagara, Granthem, Lowth, Clinton, Grimsby, Combury, Gainesborough, Pelham, Thurold, Stamford, Willoughby, Bertie, Crowland, Humberstone and Wainfleet were re. presented. These form an inconsiderable part of the towns of Upper Canada; and no delegates appear to have been sent from York, Kingston, Newark and Chippewa, the principal towns of .the province. The. measures were adopted with unanimity. They recommended the election of representatives to form a provincial convention, to meet at York on the 6th. of July next, to appoint a commioner to proceed to England with petitions to the prince regent, on the state of the province and to hold conferences, generally, on all matters then requiring attention. Mr. Gourlay, the author of the public addresses which put in motion the meeting, was invited to a seat in the convention , and to assist in its business. They had a precedent for this in Massachusetts.J The principal opposers of these measures are colonel Clark and Major Leonard. Much is expected from Gen. (Gov.) Maitland, on his arrival from England. One party anticipate from him a prompt alleviation of grievances ; and the other as prompt a suppression of self, created associations. Centinel.

Vindication of General Jachon. No occurrence of modem date has probably drawn forth a greater variety of comment, than the recent military executions on the Southern frontier. Circumstances so unusual in our country produce no little sensation, the greater from tfcir unfrcquency.