fh clkit of the unifyd states of ame rica coming into any of the ports of this 1 roviuce the following duties namely on all vessels above live tons to fifty tons the tonnag duty of th ree pence per ton on all vessels above fifty tons six pence pet ton provided always that whenever any ship or vessel laden as aforesaid shall arrive at any port or ports of entry or clearance containing oods wares and merchandise as aforesaid the cargo or load whereof is intended to pass by such port or ports in order to be transported to lower canada the master or other person having charge or command of such ship or vessel or the agent or ageuts for the proprietor or proprietors thereof shall forthwith on the arrival at any such port or ports of entry as aforesaid make a report and declaiation thereof to the collector or his deputy stationed at such port or ports of entry and such report and declaration shall be verified on oath and such master or person commanding such vessel or agent oragents for the pro prietor if required shall and he is here by required to enter into a bond in dou ble the amount of the tonnage duty im posed by this act for the payment there of should the whole or any part of such goods wares and merchandise remain in or be unexported from this province and provided also that nothing in this act contained shall extend or be con strued to extend to compel the payment of any tonnage duty on vessels exclusive ly employed for the purpose of trans porting passengers and their baggage iv provided always and be r fur ther enacted by the authority aforesaid that nothing in this act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to au thorise the demand of tonnage duty on any such vessel laden exclusively with goods wares and merchandise in transitu for lower canada v and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that all monies col lected under and by virtue of this act shall be paid into the hands of the receiv er general to and for the uses of his majesty his heirs and successors for the public uses ol this province and to wards the support of the government thereof to beaccounted for to his ma jesty through the lords commissioners of his treasury for the lime being in such manner as it shall please his majesty to direct provided always that nothing in this act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to affect the provis- ions of any act of the parliament of great britain for regulating the intercourse of this province with the united states of arterica vi and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that this act shall be in force from and after the passing thereof until the end of the next ensuing session of the provincial parliament luiioo fo continue merely to forward their private interests and thus reduce these regions to such great unhappiness stran gers and many other inhabitants remove daily with all their wealth and leave thoe that remain behind in a state bor dering nearly on desperation the state is almost without funds and is unable to satisfy the demands of the generals ev ery body confesses and is of opinion that if the grand expedition of count abisbal should take place with tjie an nounced forees they must all promptly acknowledge the legitimate power ar- tigass conduct has this long time been sus pected and he has been a few months ago declared a traitor and agent of the span ish king the portuguese occupy all the eastern shore of montevideo toaeth- er with the colony of sacramento it is likewise well known that the stgnora carlota has several times refused the pro position to be crowned at buenos ay res by and thro the sanction of that congress the provinces of paraguay have main tained themselves completel neutral ha ving war equally with artijjasas well as with the rebels who have endeavoured arms in hand to invade paraguay but they having repulsed their aggressors commence again to communicate freely with each other there are three par ties in chili one for carreras one for the government that governs at present and the third in favor of the malcontent and rebels it is thought here that bv the news of the preparations announced to have been made by san martin he will attempt an attack and landing oh the coasts of peru whore it is reported lie has a great number of partisan as well as in the capital should this not take place but on the contrary make an at tempt upon valdivia r chiloe and ha ving a sufficient naval force he will be able to hurt materially our commerce the province of conception is occupi ed by the kings troops and finally it is the common opinion that the people are convinced that they are not able to succeed in their project of independence flfid hrsi hnv tvmi hrwvn ituiiif v m decision of the congress of paris or to the grand expedition a panorama of jerusalem by prerot is now attracting a crowd of curious vis itors letters frym lyons of may 20 speak of the extraordinary success in that town of m fabre dolivel who by a peculiar method of his own had develo ped the faculty of hearing in manv deaf and dumb of both sexes and different agps the exjeriments made to prove the fact of hearing were in the apart ments of m mot teldege rand president of he chamber of commerce in presence of more than 200 persons among whom were baron ramhand the mayor the members of the municipal council and man ecclesiastics and physicians a letter from paris of2fth may pub lished in english paper says w the royal bounty has not been invoked in vain the king free to follow the dic tates of his heart siiue trie rights of hs throne are respected has commanded the minister of the interior to present to him the report npon which he had re cently put off his deerinn his majesty then authorised th recall of new exiles upon the list of the 3s the list f the 3fl is now reduced to 25 who will come in successively pro vided thev ask permission in respectful icrmsandbe not of the number of the regicides the return of general grouchy and theduke of baseaiio i deferred not- vvithtandiiiii the solicitations of the duke daugouleme in their favor d 07ru may 9s his majestys packet he lord dun- can captain hamilu came into the harbor about 4 oclock this afternoon in three hours from folitlg and landed his royal highness prince leopold of saxe cobourst and rutfte state of tiff i rtt1sii army a return of thr rirl regt n ptfamkh- mentoftbe armvexrlvi 0 the raiments of cavalry and infancy nerving in india cava i v new- york july 15 south americay the brig boxer which arrived here last monday from valdivia soutk america we received lima gazettes to the 24th of march from one of the 22d of that month we have made translations which will shew the actual state of affairs in that country translated for the nexo york evening post from the lima gazette of the lid march- his excellency the viceroy of peru has received from the general in chief of the royal forces in upper peru a letter giving the most interesting and impor tant information of the actual state of affairs at buenos ayres the editor ob- ocitts flialtlu- a ii 1 f thfd iifui by bis long residence in those parts now oc cupied by the enemy as well as by his veracity and good judgment canandmay be relied on to have stated a true pic ture of the situation and affairs of these unfortunate provinces that he gives to his readers the substance of said letter word for word as stated in the same viz that the supreme director puyredon on pretence of sickness occasioned by the explosion of a howitzer having injured his arm had requested and obtained his dis mission fiom office for the space of two months and had been replaced by ron deau who had a strong party at buenos ayres that it was generally believed be would not resign the supreme authori ty at the expiration of the two months- that on the other hand gumes san mar tin and other influential persons belong ed to puyredons party in short that a revolutionary commotion was very soon expected to take place at buenos ayres that the greatest disunion and hatred reigned among the insurgent chiefs uelgrano scarcely obeys the directors orders and gumes was on such bad terms with belgrano that he will attack the troops of the latter if a movement against upper peru is attempted gumes on the other hand is much com promised being the irreconcilable enemy of the director rondeau having been beateu by the same in former time artigas has conquered in several en counters the troops of baenos ayres and during the latter time has destroyed upwards of 6000 men so much so that belgrano has been compelled to send succours constantly to cordova where at one time only 1 or 10q0 men remained the last troops from tucuman that were at cordova amounted to about 600 men commanded by lamadrid which are forced to remain there the troops of ar tias occupying the country so that their communication with buenos ayres is en tirely intercepted the greatest misery is prevailing in the parts that are under the control of the various chieftains who cause the revo- one day later from paris we have translated the following articles from the journal of paris of the 9th june hand ed us thismorning by captain holdridge some singular travellers recently ar- rivedat bordeaux excite great curiosity the principal one is cornelius taykaon- ta chief of the oneida nation to the west of new york his suite is composed of seven persons three of which are women it appears that a strong desire to visit europe and particularly france has made him abandon the united states where he received a small pension from the american government we may however presume that he will find in public curiosity a manner of exercising hospitality less simple but more abun dant than that which is practised in the forests of the ohio the mississippi and the delaware these savages were to exhibit themselves publicly the 8th of this month in the saloon of the athena um of bordeaux a private letter from frankfort 26th may says among the important ob jects which have arrested my attention i have not lost sight as you may well sup pose of the movements of the public tee- ling which are manifested in germany to judge of these movements by the in quietude they cause government one would believe himself at the very mo ment preceding a great revolution that he saw conspirators in all classes of the community and seditious persons in ail the public places the police as nevermore active more dark and mysterious even to the cut olthehair and fashion of the coat all suspected the immense number of young men who in the german universi ties have united themselves in the teu- tonic association are the objects of pe culiar watchfulness it would be impos sible however upon the whole surface of germany to cite a single fact which has borne the character of sedition or a sin gle word which might be considered as a provocation to revolt all the desires of the german people have till this day been expressed in respectful petitions and representations we cannot however dissemble that the anxiety of government is to a certain point well founded discontent is al most general and it is besides augmented by the entire stagnation of commerce and the progressive decline of german in dustry the enormous burdens which result from immense armies maintained in complete peace a prohibitory system to which each siate lias recourse to aug ment its own resources and which tends to destroy all commerce since to cuter germany alone you muit pass the cus tomhouses of 38 confederated slates such are the principal causes of the ajjlic- ting picture w hich these countries present the teutonic association has for its object the political union of germany by the concentration of patriotic ideas and sentiments in the second chamber of cadcn as sembly a formal motion has been made relative to the introduction of the enti liberty of the press in that dutchy a general commission is about to be established at frankfort charged with certain alterations in the german uni versities each university will send deputy who will set in this commission france at this moment possesses 240 ships of war among which are f8 line of battleships and 29 frigates eleven of the first and four of the last description are now constructing 688 545 jtnnk f fifa horses two regiments of life guards each ngiinenr codrisrl f troops of 344 rank and file am 873 hors royal rcimcnl of hore guarrs eight hoops 1st dragoon gnaftfs in troop 20 regiments oforagrnon g larnv and liht dragoon eai rrjff m consisting of 8 troops f 368 rank file and 273 how royal waggon train tv a troop total 314 460 2v soo i2 510 130 8054 6639 foot ctjaftds first or grenadier reginvm three battalion 33 cotnpauif of 80 rank nud til per company coldstream and third rrgimeiin 2 bapahont earfo 40 com panic of 80 rank and file percompan 1 2560 ttotal inkawry 78 battalions of the line 2d battalion of the royal scot d battalion of the 60b reglmt 2d battalion offlihe krigdd 2d west india rgimeih 84 regiment pact regiment cor sitting of ten companies of 63 rank and file royal staff corps 8 companies s00 5 60 480 total total cavalry foot g ksards infeutr warojlccy march i s i 0 6s0d0 87 1 576 sioau 89794 jalmeston from the national tntcuig 3u 17 the st lhiib enquirer m he joined article our ai to a subject of considerable int anfj to fewrtu i is u hh ig 5 z with respect to fhe soura 1 u conclusion 01 information imparted in u wp arct he article below we cor- m0e n posed to place somewhat l thnn 01 on diplomatic cowe8poi tlde the sage speculations of ii oj rl do v e presume the fcm aol tiiaf not select hs conhdants fr me 8r class of people j and fha ftow likely to be informed of w h from our agents srper throu 1 roundabout the north po b n agency of straggling adej i nor ertheless there is nothing scribed to et improbable 1h the vh to the emperor alexander ti zmm be wisely and waniy ado atioa over calculated to aggrandize f which he presides from the si louis tn progress of the rus em ii america tm lookmgto he east f hc he peopl of the umted thp rps templated with astonish in q and of the itusan fcrnpire i of f asia they have not thou iait po a to the west to see fofejeirown backs ready mouun upon t do not k except mr wafch we 7e ke of fte an american who has eve our con russian establish men t on u sketch re he has mentioned them poverof of the military and polity russia where he says eten frf tntr establishments coast c kamschatka to the v w- moanthi an nca that they have a foq at norfolk hundred pieces of artilu p l813 sound tat north 57 tl coas pavsed hey have decendd t lre hundred mi i tne and 3 d es tnemouthotcolumbabv bogadaia a but are profifnie bv a flai l r r i 7 7 r nor oorthero truitful soil to feed their r possessions pge j 67 tiu i he encroachment upo of ccutioeat a uot tjic trensiw ion the american present gigantic growth of tlie russlao empire it is the result of system and of settled policy followed by every great man and rreat woman who has sat upon the russian throne feler the great began it the empress catharine the se cond followed up his plan thr present emperor is only executing the designs of the empire in the course of these three reigns tlv russian power has been firm ly spread over northern asia the straights of bebring have been passed and a solid foothold acquired in north america a road over land is opened fiom pctrrburgh to kamschatka and russian ships loaded with american fur annually sail from the n w coast of america double the cape of good hope traverse 30000 miles of sea and land their rich cargoes in the gurph of finland and while the public is amu sed with a project of a treaty for some islands in the mediterranean the mod ern alexander is occupied with a scheme worthy of his vast ambition ftthe ac- quisition of the gulf and peninsula of california and the spanish claim on the western coast of north america c we learn this not from diplomatic cor respondence but from american fur tra ders o learn it from the russian tra ders now protected by the emperor in carrying off our furs i t from the liverpool mercury velocipedimania the inventor of tbis ingenious and fash ionable machine promifes to give rife to an endlcfs variety of plcafing and ufeful re creation before we faw the performan ces of mr johnfon who exhibits at the mufic hall although we were well aware of he advantages of the velocipede to a traveller under circumftancee favourable to the projiefs of the machine we had do conception of the graceful movements of which it is capable 5n skilful haads skaiting has always been confidered as the mod elegant recreation but velocipeding ov whatever it may be called is in our opinion more plrafin performed by the gentleman we have mentioned we fuhjoin a few draggling paragraphs on the fubject of the velocipede which prorrifea to be as much the rage as the ha- icidofcope was of late this we ventured to predict in the mercury of the i2th of feb page 262 when we firft gave a de tailed dcfcriptln of the invention with an engraved iliuftratin 41 ilt birch the coachmaker fcas con- articled a vehicle called the vclocimani- pede or phseton in miniature calculated to carry three perious the centre or body of the carriage is fuppofed to be for 3 femile the front is for a gentleman to fit on a narrow fadde to guide it at the back i9 a pnall dickey to work the hind wheels by machinery it goes over a diliance of ground of one mile in three minutes and can be krpt up with cafe at 8 mie an hour it weighs only one hun dred pounds w arnongd other pieces of mechanical hguiv a pedeflrian chariot has been in vented which u calculated for the convey ance of ladies the wheels aie upwards nf fix ftet in diameter and run parallel to ich other the feat 13 below the centre f gravity which prevents the rider from ftg thrwn or eatiy lofing the equili brium u u caled he riymnafidromift a fubastitfe for walking has been al ready feci in ibis courlry it has been c itttv furpffcd bv an italian who has ia e a kind f pafuh of the hobby horle if we may beieve the foreign piperi oijfi o which fays a mr bfianza of has invented a new traveliinjj n a e which is faid to be fir mpc iur tu a uu idis anu aud which the trsveler may go backwards in the front of this vehicle the milan parer- ciy there is a winged horfc by the wing of which fche carriage is put in motion on tuefdny evening while a gentleman exercifing on one of the velocipedes of the affembly room in cookftreet he was thrown with fuch f rce from his feat that he had three of his teeth knocked out by the fall it is added that notwith- lianding this unpleafant accident the gentleman meauo to perfevere in fpite of his teeth from the national intelligencer th comet we find that the comet which ha9 been noticed in this city for feveral evenings pall lm been obferved alfo at newyoik i hildelphia and baltimore it may be feer- in the north- weftern direction foon ierthe fun is fairly down and fets at prefent between 9 and jo oclock in the evening gentlemen killed in aflronomy will doubtlefs give us more particular accounts of it if the weather is fuch as to enable them to take due obfervatione meanwhile we intro duce to our readers a tra flotion of a very itttercftmg paffage from la i lace on comets in genera which a friend has pointed out to ui a comet may be known from the identity of the elements of its oibit with thofc of a comet which has ppeared before if the perihelion diliance the pofitinn of the perihelion and of the nodes and the inclination of the orbit are neary the fame it j3very probable that jt is the fame comet which had appeared before and which after having moved to fuch a diftance as to become invifible returns t that part of its orbit in the vicinity of the sun the periods of corre- atry revolutions being very long and thefe bodies having been obferved wth care but about two hundred years we know with certainty the revolution ofnni ouly viz the comet ul ico2 which waa t obferved in 1607 and in f jjf and winch reappeared in 1759 tll period of this comet is about 75 years and attuning unity aa the mean didance of the sua from the earth the tranfverfe or greater axis of its orbit is about 359 and as its perihelion diliance is only 058 it retiret from the sun at lead 35 times further than the earth or three thoufard three hundred and fixty million miles in perfor ming a revolution in its very eccentric orbit its return to the perihelion wgs t2 month longer between x 53 r and 1607 than between 16072nd 1682 and 18 months hotter between 1607 and 1682 than between 1682 and 1759 it is evident therefore that cornets are affected in the fame manner but in a much greater degree by thofe c3ufe3 which influence the elliptic movements of the pianets la place sylteme dtt monde vol 1 p 216 portland july 6 the comet the lovers of aflronomy and thofe who view with plealurc and awe every difplay of the magniscence and power of deity may now be gratified by the appearance of a brilliant comet in osr hemiiphere the lad previous comet which vifited our fphere was in 181 1 remained fomctime and its elements were calculated with great precision by eminent men both in this country and in eujope its tail was found to be33cooooq miles in length and fo tranfparent that flats were vifible through it the prefent comet more brilliant than that of 181 1 will probably excile equal attention and investigation the motion of thefe bodies different from all others in the heavens with which wc arc acquainted rs very rapid in an elijti- cal orbit approaching near the fun in one focuaof the ellipse the tail being always on the cdeoppofae the fun philadelphia june 23 a new comet a comet has lately been difcovered at the obfervztory of kon- it is not vifible to the naked eye a new theory cf the rainbow dr watt of glafgow has accounted for this brilliant phenomena in a new way the common explanation is that the drops of rain aft aa a prifm and divide the rays of the fun but as the rainbow is frequently feen in a quarter where no rain is falling as the edge of a cloud is at fuch times al ways obferved between the beholder and the fun dr watt thinks that the rays of the latter are refracted fiom this edge and thrown on the dark fky oppofite this does net feem fo much like a new theory as a modification of the old it still pro duces the rainbow from the refraftion of drops of rain and the fat that the co lours are thrown upon the fky in a quar ter where there is no rain may be confid ered as an accidental circumstance grass ropes there is a grafs the produdt of new zealand which fron iome experiments made at portfmouth m england appears to anfvver all the pur- pofea of hemp in the manufacture of ropes it is strong pliable and foft may be cut thrice a year and can be brought to eng land at the price of eight pounds per too or one feventh the price of hemp lanen and tread from nettles the irilb have recently made fome experiments upon the flos of nettles for the manufac ture of thread and linen and the refult is faid to be that both thefe aiticles are ob tained equal if not fupcrior to the thread and tinea from flax 1 printing in palestine ii s welt inown wiai uc arcnduaob 01- jerufaetn has been fome time in england foliating febferiptions to establifh a pffrit- ing houfe on mount libanus between syria and paeftine for the diffusion of the chriftian fcnpttfres in the syriac language lie has we team been eminently fuccefs- fill having been patronized by lord tcignmouth mr wilberfcrce and many of the briiiih clergy though on his ar rival it was reported he was an impoator he has vifited the great univerfities in england where he was etrily examined in all the eastern languages and mr lee profeftot of arabic has certified to his aetoniflifng acquaintance with the oriental literature prefer ved in the bodlean library mr clymer the american mechanic has prefented the archbifhop with one of his patent printing pr effee and he has receiv ed prefents of feveral founts of types the moderli crichton in a fpeech delivered fome time ago at a meeting of the shropshire bible society archbifhop corbett gave a very detailed and mokt interesting account of the almost unparalleled literary attainments of mr lee who has with much jutiv obtain ed the title ol the modern cricliton this narrative which would have occupied about four columns of the mercuiy was given in part in the lat kaleidofcope and will he concluded in the next from its extreme length it not at all adapted for a newfpapcr yet we cenfidr the principal fadts of fuch importance that w ftall give a brief ketch of them in ou prefent num ber the only education that mr lee re ceived was that of a village fchool where nothing wa taught but reading writing and aiithmctic at twelve yean of age lie was apprenticed to the trade of rarpr n- ter and builder it waa fome time after this that mt lee conceived the idea of riiin f riijn language and then the on v time i c iuld devote wan the eveninjj on he tern in ti mf hi dayx woik he hat btfiih t fttnvv villi th clifli ul- lice cf puvciy r 1 i a wvrtcj tit whsb