from the commercial advertiser general mgrcgor the following information we have received from on of general mcgreg ors officers who left him about 30 days ago after general mcgregors disgrace ful flight from porto hello he arrived in the armed brig hero fli port au prince two transports from ireland and one from london which had lately arrived to join his standard were then lying at auxcayes the captain who was al so owner of the brig was taken sick and conveyed on shore mcgregor taking advantage of this cir umstancc sailed for auxcayes leaving the captain be- hind a fever had already much redu ced the number of men from europe and 150 only of those that remained deter mined to adhere to the general these he divided between the london trans port and the hero which ho now nam ed la mcgregor he promised to take them to the island of st andrews an insignificant spot which he had captured previous to his attack upon porto hello where he had left a small garrison there to wait for arms and reinfoi cements which he said he expected to receive hi proceeded however no farther than the outside of the harbour wlvre both ves sels remained at anchor during a fort night the fever in the mean time was daily sweeping off torn 10 to 12 of his troops it was reported that a british frigate was off at sea waiting to seize him for carrying off the brig whether from fear of that or some other cause he at length weighed anchor and let her drive ou shore near to town where she was soon wrecked withevery appearance of its having been done intentionally several of the sick lost their liv and the survivors their baggage be still talked of taking the remnant of his fol lowers to st andrews in the transport but her captain refused to proceed and afraid of being compelled sailed as it was supposed for jamaica with most of the surviving troops on board and with out giving mcgregor any notice ol bis intention with the avails of the wreck which was sold for about 2000 dollars the gen eral is supporting his followers who are now reduced by desertion and death to four officers and fifteen men the for mer he has knighted having lately in stituted au order the last scheme he has projected and one which he has sent to england is that if any company of merchants will advance him 90000 he will engage to raise an expedition capa ble of subduingand maintaining the isth mus of darien that with the assistance of the indians he will cut a channel a- crossthe isthmus and that the exclu- aive right of navigating the channel shall be vested iu aid company for 21 years wonderful effffs on extract ofa letter from river ouclle dated 1 8th september 1 8 iy tr inflation in the afternoon of the i2th auguft lad a young girl 1 1 years old named maiie danjou being employed in feeding the poultry belonging to henry boucher of the parifh of river quelle with whom flic lives noticed the cock ill treating one of the hens and gave him a kick having at the time in her hand a fmall flick to keep him off at this moment another of the hens which are calls huppc for each of them has a name fecming to take part with the cock flew furiouflyon the back of the young girl she mentioned the circumftance to the people of the houfe a few minutes after it mult be obferved that he wore that day a comb in her hair and had on a blue and white criicoe gown with rather a yellow tinge and torn at the fkirt w the next day about three oclock 10 the afternoon the brother of the young girl martial danjou aged io years having gone to examine the hens nefts and bring in the eggs found the hen called hnppeon the nrii as foon as he had left it he took the egg which fhe had laid on which he obferved with much furprife a figure of his sifter and the cock she is drawn in the attitude and drcls of the moment het comb in her hair her yel- lowifh blue gown torn in the fkirt the tick in her hand her foot raifed under the tail of the cock and her head turned towards the hen who had flown at her from behind this day the 1 8th sept about two oclock in the afternoon the young girl found in the lame neft another egg on whicjj there are figured two fmall animals i take the fmalleft to be a moufe or a rat and the other a cat henry boucher takes the fmalleft to be a figure of his fmall dog the other the cock m the proprietor of thefe extraordinary eggs is going to quebec where he intends iiewing them to the curious quebec gazette- for tub kington uuomcle the sea serpent from the quebec gazette september the halifax mail arrived on tuefday brought papers from that place to the end of auguft it is ftatcd that orders had been received by the july packet for the complete breaking up of the naval eftalltfhment there accounts had been received that the memorial of the nova scotia leg mature had reached england and it was faid that prince edward i land and cape breton were to be reanesed to novascotia the following letter on the fubjea of the duties on the north american lumber trade is copied from a st johns new- crunfwick paper st johns auguft 3 i timber duty extraftof a letter from a gentleman in london to a mercantile houfe iu this city dated the 8th july thecnflnmc vfi fatty ton 4a kou paffed a copy of which i will fead you as foon as tis publifhed ly it a duty of 2s 6d per load is to br paid on the import of timber from our american colonies from this however we are exempted by former aft till march 1x20 and by great exertions a promrfc hasbecn obtained that the benefit of fuch exemption hall be extended to the period of march 1821 little or no oppogtion has been made to this duty from its apparent infignificance the fbip owners are filent infilling only that the importers not they mud pay it and to ray great aflonifhment tbe liver pool gentlemen fay they can afford to pay it and abfolutely iuftrued their members accordingly the foreigners however have been foiled they had the iiffurance to demand a deduftion of 10s from their duty and an addition of 10s to ours bat in confe- quenceof fome fuccefsful rcprefentaiion on the increafing trade and importance of onr colonies whatever might have been the former intentions of government the rclult has been the duty of 2s 6d only extras of another letter a duty of 2 6d- per load 40 ft which is agreed to be laid on timber from th colouies with the expeation that this is only a beginning and that it is intended tobeincicafed will tend todifcourage the importation there is no exportation of any reduc tion of the duty on foreign timber the appearance of fhe s a serpent has again been announced iu the newspapers of the united sates tho liclicule and incredulity- formerly excited hv the nu- nterous attested accounts of us existence and descriptions of its form universally published most be fresh iu the memory of every one people indeed shewed their judgment w hen they refused impr- citljj to believe the various statements that were given concerning iiisauomalous production of nature but many prbwtl their ignorance and want of liberality b maintaining ail obstinate scepticism upon the point unbelief founded on preju dice and unsupported by proof is as repugnant to those principles that exten sive knowledge implants iu fhe mind as rlat i discriminating credulity which makes its possessors admit and give cre dit to any thing that gratifies their appe tite for the marvellous if many sensible persons had taken as much pains to as certain the correctness of ihecircumsan- 1 ropes with hatchets and thus set it at liberty this animal according to vor- schen had a head resembling that of a horse deepred eyes and a shaggy mane we may justly suppose that the above account is not altogether free from exag geration but still if trv groundwork is true which there seems no reason to doubt the story may b- cited as a cor roboratory proof of fh existence of the sea serpent not very long ago several parts of the skeleton of a nondescript an imal of great magnitude were thrown on the shore of one of he shetland islands by the tide and the form and position of the vericora or bones of thespjue pro ved that thev belong d to some unknown individual of the snake kind thexor- n egian lihenneu according to their own accounts have frcqiu r t opportunities of seeing a monster uhilrtlny term the sea serpent and which in its principal characters as described by them bears a great resemblance to the animal thai has lately been observed alongthe coasts of the united states it is mentioned in an old collection of voyages and tra vels that the master of a small fishing vessel having cast anchor near the coast of denmark sent a boat on shore with four men in it who when about a mile and a half distant from the brig ob served four bodies sir p d like cask floa ting on the surface ol the sea these proved to be part of an animal which raised its head at their approach and on being lired upon plunged under the wa ter and swam oil immediately after it- disappearance they perceived a part of its body rise to thp surface of the sea about forty yards distant from the spot where it head ha been seen thu- proving that its length was enormous th- sea serpent is s seldommet with and has been seen fry fro few people that many conceive its uncomiuouness to h a strong argument against i existence but a general survey 0 will prot that all animals are scarce in pro- portion tolhcir mamiih that tliust that are largest produce fewest offspring the whale never brings fhrtti more than fwti mij hi a tim it lid litil nul iru hi tin pate of tivculy months ten be- in the prrid i gelation and other fail the lime during which she supports lli young w hie the rod and he l ring drop many thmwind spawn everv season the elphniit produces only one of t kind in the course of iiee or four years iho h the none and rabbit have a ge neration amounting to live or six everv f 1 w weeks in conformity iftli these facts we mnj rationally uppose hat the sea serpent multiplies very slowly and that there are but few individuals of the pecie in existence u we consider the immense extent of the ocean ami the com paratively small number at rsefa that occupy it wi- will it think it extraor dinary that the sea serpent ha so sel dom own seen cen in the most fre- fiti6ed seas a rcscl often pursues if fheir desire for the advancement of sci ence by endeavouring to remove the obscurity that has hitherto involved the history of this rare and interesting ani mal production to the editor of the kingston chronicle sir having noticed in your last chron icle some observations ou the prospectus of the evangelical herald that seemed to reflect on the conductors of that in tended publication for not mentioning the christian recorder i beg leave to state some things which i hope will re move any unfavorable impression from our mind i publicly assure you that the evan gelical herald is by no means underta ken with any hostile views towards any denomination of christians and very far woukl the editors be from throwing any reflection on the worthy character uuder whose inspection the christian ite- corder appears io the world or even by our silence io insinuate any thing unfa vourable to his work the high reputa tion which he sustains as a scholar his liberality of sentiments to other chris- tiaus and his great usefulness and dili gence iu promoting the moral prosperity and improvement of our interesting pro vince will not allow us to consider his w ork as a w or k of nought i do as sure ou for myself and coadjutor that we wish him u god speed iuliis benev- voyage during weeks together without meeting a single sa i and how much less chance has it to fall in with an animal so rare as the sa sine undoubtedly is in the greenland si where whales are very numerous thu who go to fish for them have often to wait man das be- ces that were published relative to the foro un appears upon the surface of the watt in fhe opinion of some the described magnitude of the sea se- pent an argu ment against its existence it is a vei futile one for we have a knowledge of several marine animals that in size ap pear to rival the lihcxaggcrutvd dimen sions of the sea serpetjt i need not al lude to the whale which iu unfrequent- sea serpent as they did to turn them in to ridicule our doubts concerning its reality would bv this tirm prob ablj have either been dissipated or proved to be well founded had the sea serpent appeared in any other coasts than those of the united states or been seen by the people of any other nation the doubts concerning it- existence would have been eomparativclj trifling and easily got over cut some cause which i am unable to account lor has in the opinion of mot persons ren dered the veracity of the lower orders rf the americans ery exceptionable ami those who attest the oxitt nee of the sea serpent are principally of this descrip tion in addition to this their newspa pers are continually filled with the most extraordinary relations and every week presents to the public a greater variot of wonders than arc to be found in all the journals the world produces besides within the same space of time if airy of these suspicious paragraphs are really false we cannot suppose that the kdir- ors are aware of it but they would do well to be more particular about he au thorities from w hich the receive commu nications of the kind 1 allude to 1 make these remarks merely because 1 think the accounts of the sea serpent have met with much less credit than they are enti tled to for though it may be difficult to prove that this animal has really been seen otf the coasts of the iuited slates there can be no doubt that such a crea ture actually exists the attention of namiraiists was first seriousi drawn towards the sea serpent by tbe appearance of one among theoi k- ney islands in the year ims which in several particulars xery much resembled that lately seen near the american shore only it was not so large loutoppeddau in his natural history of norway de scribes the sea snake very minutely and says that when seen upon the surface of the ocean it has the appearance of a number of large casks lloatiug one after another vorschenwho was a norwegian navigator and a man of the utmost repu ted veracif states that olice when sail ing in the northern seas an animal of the serpent kind raised itself upwards of tiiirty vet out of the water close by olent enterprise and unwearied exertions to dilfuse the blessiogs of education and the principles of christianity the reason why there wa no mention made of the ch uttan recorder in the pro- pectus of the kvangelical herald was that it wasiu contemplation long before and 1 he plan arranged prior to the ap pearance of the christian recorder the writer of this article had entered into a correspondence with the printers in mon treal as to the terms of publishing the kvangelical herald which correspon dence was laid before the presbytery of l he canada as early a the luh of larru- lnr3 n in 1 t kmmifuct nk 4piiit- d to take into consideration the expe diency of a provincial publication and to report on the best means for carrying the object itrto effect it is however to be remarked that the work iu question is not uuder the direction of that com mittee or the presbytery but finding the report of the commit tee would be deferred untd the next meeting of the presbytery the present conductors resolved to undertake it them selves and supposing it would be more convenient to be printed in kingston it was agreed that the editor for the up per part of the province should asceitaiu at the office of the chroiit le the terms on which it could b- printed at the time o this arrangement of tin editors of the kvangelical herald they had no knowl edge that any such work as the christian itecodi r was iu contemplation- 1 there fore trust sir that this statement of fads and this candid declaration will be suf- lieient to remove any belief that we con sider the christian recorder as a work of nought- on tire contrary i consider it a useful publication and trut the e- vange ileal herald will be a humble co adjutor in the glorious work of promo ting thcbeihiit of the protestant church- es in the country by advancing their piety knowledge and usefulness by bringing in review before our readers the happy union of christians their nnpar- allelled exertions and glorious success which attends them the insertion of the above will much the family of his grace the late duke cf richmond our lamented governor in chief confiding of ladies mary lou i fa and sophia lennox lord william lennox and furies embarked ycfurdsy on board the ocean tranfpon which failed htf- the side of his sloop and having fallen mediately for england major mieod and lieut fizroy aite de camp alio went paffengera in the ocean ed parts of the oeea often exceeds one hundred feet in lengthy nor to the am phibious walrus a enormous mass of dumbness and deformity the sepia or cuttle fih crow y jnrrrrins msa nitnde and p heou known to attack floats full of pien but r lie reader would think i mad an attempt upon his credu- lit if 1 mentioned some of the facts con cerning this kind of animal that were lirst related hy the ancients and have since ben proved by modern observa tion birl who shall presume to scan the wonders of fhe great deep p who shall dare to set limits to the forms and dimen sions of fhor various animated things which people themeasurelessand whelm ing abyss of water that rests upon the bosom of the earth in the dark and fa thomless gulfa f the ocean how many terrific and hitherto unimagined crea tures revel ill all the sublimity of an exis tence that mi 1 h can never know of soli tary undisturbed and unappalled they may have iiu reaped in magnitude for cen turies and made their habitation among those gigantic piles of ice which with a fearful grandeur diversify the bosom of the northern oceans and are nightly il luminated b the chilly radiance of the aurora bulctiis there the greatest and most magnificent individuals of the animal worlc probably remain hitherto unseen i y iiiau and known to the om nipotent eye alone the various facts relating to the sea serpent whh we are in possession of shew that its natural habitation is in the northern seel and that which has ap peared so often near the american shore lias probabl been forced by some par ticular cause to abandon its native haunts individuals f various species of lish have occasionally deen found in latitudes that were altuiietur unnatural and unconge nial to them but the cause of this auo- rualy remain to be discovered it is to be hoped that those naturalists across it uot so entangled among the rig- ho reside n the coasts which the sea gang that fhe veri would have been serpent h sutd to frequent will not in- pullij to the bottom by the straggles of credulously reject any accounts they i fhe mouster if jie men had no cut the wy receive i its appearance but shew oblige yours the buuckville editor to the editor or tjif ktvtov chronicle sir you have published some doubts respecting the import of certain expres sions in the prospectus of the evangelical herald the following is the state of the case after the meeting of the pres bytery and before the editorsseparated they resolved to proceed in the work and agreed upon the plan and for my own part i had not so much as heard that the christian recorder was in contemplation to be published and therefore could not possibly consider it as a thing of nought i apprehend you have entertained a wrong idea that the prospectus was writ ten about or after tire time that you wen desired to give your proposal for print ing the proposed work i confess it was a natural conclusion and without being informed you would not know other wise but it was published in substance as it had been drawn up and iu my pos session long before that time the editor at fredericksburg 13 yet far from fcrirg fully rersuvilifd in kan- n cheater for it h mtatffl that maoy thousand wrr ossemltfing from uir nrihhorine villars who had ifcn secretly drilled in ihr uroftht pike and somed bem on deeds of ftiolance such diaturimnces art indeed deeply to be lamented but as hi- majemv government have etoely watched the proceeding of these incendiaries mid have by a prudent foresight collected aforce sufficient with rhe aid of the loj al pari of rrv po pulation to check audoverpowei ihem it k i to he hoped that since the apprhennm n ring leaders these unhappy cominoi ions will siu sideand the people become sensible of the arts employed to delude them and that the banners of the law and constitution will hi ally wave triumphant over the rags of the disaffected and all the oilier insignia of sedition our readers will observe in another column of this days paper an attempt of the editors oitlte evangelical if eraid severally to explain certain expressions contained in the prospectus of their in tended work which expressions evident ly involve in them a question relative to a simple matter of fact as such we formerly intimated that we were at a loss to understand these expressions and we mast confess that the explanation at tempted respecting their import is still more unintelligible to us we might ask these gentlemen if the prospectus of fhe evangelical herald was ever pub lished in any form prior to the date of its appearance in the upper canada her ald of the 7t september the broek- ville editor tells us indeed that u the evangelical herald was in contemplation long before and the plan arranged prior to the nppearance uf the christian re corder he tels us of his correspon dence with the 1 1 en in montreal a- bout the publication of the work that this u correspond ice was laid before the presbytery of the canadas as early as the 13th january lest when a commit tee was appointed to take intocoiimcleia- tion the expediency of a periodical pub lication c he informs us that the work in question is not under the direc- tion of that committee or the presbyte ry but has been undertaken b iv the present conductors namely himself and the editor of fredericksburg the lat ter of whom it was agreed should as- uti at fht- uflycr oftfio cftrofml p thv terms on which it could be printed j al the lime of this arrangement atld the brock ville editor tfiey had no knowledge that any such work as the christian recorder was in contempla tion with the plan of the evangelic al herald or the arrangements made for its publication it is not our business to interfere these are not the points io question but to ascertain a matter of fact we may be allowed to inquire whe ther the same prospectus which is dated the 3d september and appeared in the upper canada herald of the 7th septem- in r was actually written and published as early wa march last when the first number of the christian recorder was published we ran only say in the words of the kditor of fredericksburjjh that we had not so much as heard of it besides we happen to have some evidence in our possession that certain tain arrangements mentioned in that prospectus were not made as late as the 19th july last and therefore even ad mitting that the substance of the pros pectus had been written and published twelvemonths ao it could have been but very lately revised and altered so as to accommodate it to the circumstances iu which it now appears in the upper canada herald the principal question then between the editors of the evangel ical herald and ourselves is this were they when they last revised their pros pectus and sent it in its present form to the press really ignorant that the chris tian recorder had been in circulation if not since march at least since april last ii they were ignorant of it at this time they might as well tell the public so plain ly and then they would he understood and if they knew it they ought to be candid enough either to acknowledge that they do not consider the christian recorder as a work solely appropria ted to the diffusion of divine truth or to admit that it was an oversight in them when they sent tlr prospectus to the press to say that there was no suck mork in the canadas imfm sggr mtu f t kingston octobeit 1 1819 the account from kngland are of a late date bm furnish intelligence of no very pleasing na ture the meeting of reformers at manchester ft hich had been forometimepostpouedai length took place on the 16th august and va attend with very melai cholv results after reading ihr riot act the civil magistrates supported by he yeomanry cavalry and some regular troop- proceeded m disperse the mob in effecting which object many livfifi were unfortunately lost hunt the leader anil a nunherof other deuia- gngues of less notoriety by whom the poor peo ple had been seduced into a belief that a radical reform or more properl peakmg a total sub version of he existing constitution was uapcrj ouslj lequindfor the salvation of4he country and that the most violent measures should be a- dopted to obtain this end were apprehended ain will assuredly be punished according io their de- icrts tranquility it wouti however appear we shall be happy to insert the poetry signed w s fif ihe subscribe who desires its insertion will call and correct the manuscript copy which he has sent us drowned on saturday the 25n september peter stand and his nephew aievander lsstavd b the upsetting of a small boa in which with a boy they were crossing from kingston to point frederick the boy reached tbehore in safely by swimming and it is supposed that peer in land might bae saved himself in the same way f after getting near he nore he had not at tempted to return to the assistance of his sinking nephew ivter instand was aged s4years native of qiasgow and a warrant officer in mis majes tys snip montreal his nephew alexander was a yooog man of 18 years of age and had only ai rived from scotland alew das before peter insiand e are informed has left a wife and o children with oiher relations who depend ed on him and hi nephew for a subsistence on monday nigu thomas rodgers a ser jeant of the 70lh regiment he had embarked in a wooden canoe and was crossing frum pornt erry to the fori on point frederick when by t me omtbarice the canoe mas oversei aod the uufoiunte man sunk to rhe bottom r to the farmers the fnbfcriber being fupplied with as much barley as hi stores will conveniently hold begs that the farmeis will withhold bringing any mre for six veeks when he will be prepared to re ceive it again at the fame price tflotas dalios kingflon brewery september 30th 1819 40