VII. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force during the space of three years from and after passing the same, and until six weeks after the commencement of the then next session of Parliament.

Canada.

Hydrophobia. Mr. Gray,-I took the liberty some time since to send you the receipt of a remedy for the Hydrophobia. It appeared to have succeeded in many trials, and soon acquired reputation. I now send you another, of which the efficacy is authenticated by a distinguished curate of this province, as ascertained by above eighty successful cases.

Take the under shell of an Oyster, put it into the fire till it becomes red hot, then pulverize and sift it-break four eggs, of which make an omelette with the powder-fry it with a large table spoonful of olive oil. The patient must eat this after fasting six hours, and he must fast also six hours after it. The remedy must be repeated on the third and fifth days.

If the patient is averse to taking the remedy in this shape, he may take the powder in a glass of white wine.

Boucherville, June 14, 1818.

S. C. B.

During the late warm weather the St. Lawrence, at Cape Chat, was nearly closed up with ice, and the mountains and highlands in that quarter, on both sides of the river, were covered with snow. Indians, come in from a hunting excursion, only about 40 miles to the northward of Quebec, report that on the ist inst. the winter's snow was still lying in the woods, and not a bud had appeared on the trees, which, in this neighborhood, were in leaf on the 20th May

We have additional accounts of the proceedings of the reformists. The delegates elected by the townships of Niagara have met in district convention; and passed many resolutions preparatory to a provincial convention to be held at York on the 6th of July next.

Emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland continue to arrive in great numbers at the port of Quebec. They generally proceed up the river in the steam boats; the total number arrived this season, is little short of 3000.

SOUTH AMERICA.

The United States' frigate Congress, Commodore SINCLAIR, anchored in Hampton Roads on Wednesday afternoon, from Bucnos Ayres. Messrs. Graham

and Rodney, two of the Commissioners sent out to the new republic by our government last fall, in the Congress, have returned in her. Mr. Bland, another of the Commissioners, who went out in the Congress, remains at Buenos Ayres, in the quality of a public representative from the government of the United States.

The Congress touched at the island of Margarita. The island was still in possession of the patriots, who had rendered it almost impregnable. General Arismendi, second in command of the patriot forces, had his head-quarters at Margarita.

Gentlemen in the Congress say that the affairs of the patriots were never in a more flourishing condition. They had lately been reinforced by a fine brigade of artillery, composed entirely of British troops, which rendezvoused at St. Thomas in New Guyana, in March last. We are unequivocally assured that so late as the 22d of June, Cumana had not been attacked by the patriots, on the contrary it was hourly expected to surrender without resistance, as the patriots had for some time been closely besieging it, and had drawn their lines to within pistol shot of the town. Brown and Aury had united their fleets at Margarita and were waiting the orders of the Commander in Chief, Gen. Bolivar.

We also learn that the morning the Congress was getting under way from Margarita, a dispatch vessel arrived there from the Main, bringing positive intelligence of the death of the Spanish General Morillo, occasioned by a lance wound he received in the body about 7 or & weeks before.

The late actions in Chili have resulted in the total defeat of the royalists; their general and a few men only having escaped. The first action took place on the night of the 19th March, when the advanced guard of the patriots were put to the route. On the 23d following, a general action took place, and ended at nine o'clock at night, in the dispersion of the royal forces, with the loss of 3,500 killed, wounded and prisoners.

On the 5th of April, 1818, in the plains of Maipo, a battle was fought between the royalists and the patriots of Chili; in which the royalists were defeated. Their army was totally destroyed, about 2,200 being killed and wounded, and 3,200 taken prisoners. The patriot loss was about 1000 in killed and wounded.

THE

NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

HE New-Hampshire Gazette states, that the fishing schooners Cyrus King of Kittery, Polly and Roxana, of Portsmouth, Eight Sisters of Portland, and one belonging to Fox Islands, all with good fares of fish, have been taken by the British sloop of war Syren, in the bay of Fundy, sent inte Digby, and stripped of their sails, &c. but the crew of the Cyrus King got their ship keeper drunk, obtained sails from the custom house, which they bent, cut their cable, warped out of the harbour, got under way, and arrived safe at the Kittery.

The receipts of the treasury of NewHampshire for the year ending May 31, 1813, including the balance of the preceding year, amounted to $88,888 15. This sum was derived principally from the proceeds of the state tax for 1817-dividend

of the following stocks, viz. $95,134 45 U. S. three per cents, $23,732 76 U. S. Six per cents, $17,605 U. S. Seven per cents, and $25,000 stock of the NewHampshire bank-$100,58 52 principal re-imbursed of the old U. S. six per cent

stock-and $6,000, from the United States, on account of the war debt.

The expenses of the government for the year, including salaries of officers of the state, and travel and attendance of the members of the Council, Senate, and House of Representatives

amount to

Paid on account of State Pri-"

Difference in favour of last year,

576,900

The islands in the bay of Passamaquoddy, called Moose, Dudley, and Frederick Islands, taken possession of by the British during the last war, were delivered up to the United States on the 30th of June last.

The following interesting account of the killed and wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill is extracted from a British periodical publication called "Remem brancer" into which it was copied from 2 R. I. Providence newspaper.

Providence, July 15, 1775.-The following is an exact return of the killed, wounded and missing of the American army in the action of the 17th of June, at

Charlestown, viz.

$25,598 04

Gridley's

Gen. Putnam's Capt. Coit

Con.

15

30

the Chapel will occupy two stories, and will finish 60 by 36 feet. The library room is in the third story, of the same length and breadth as the chapel. There are also three lecture rooms, one in each story, 36 by 20 feet. The building is surmounted by an elegant cupola, and is furnished with a clock of superior workmanship, with a dial in front and rear of the building. In point of materials and elegance, this edifice is said to vie with any in the U. S.

The foundation is also laid for rebuilding Philip's Academy which is to be 80 feet by 40, and two stories high.

The Sea Serpent has again made his appearance off Cape Ann.

It is stated that about 50 ships are now absent from Nantucket on whaling voyages.

CONNECTICUT.

In the evening of the 9th May last, a man named Elihu Miller, having "taken a cup too much," wandered to a precipice not far north of Rockway's ferry in Lyme, and not knowing where he was, deliberately walked, or rather reeled to its brink, from which he fell 46 feet perpendicularly among the rocks below. He was found the next morning, taken up and carried home. His life for a while was almost despaired of; but he is now in a fair way of recovery.

It is stated in a North-Hampton paper of the 30th ult. that swarms of Locusts are now visiting the town of Hadley, and extending their ravages along the east bank of Connecticut River, 20 or 30 miles south of that town. "Many of the forest trees are already apparently dead; and the progress of the Locusts is as distinctly marked as the progress of a fire. The female Locusts are armed with a sting of nearly the third of an inch in length, and of the stiffness and point of a wire sharpened. They attach themselves to the under side of the small lunbs, and commence the process of stinging. Their progress is to the extremity of the limb, which is as distinctly marked as it could be by obliquely puncturing the limb with an awl and so raising the awl at each puncture as to crack the bark in a regular, continued, and unless impeded by some obstruction, nearly a right line. There are about three incisions to an inch, each penetrating to the heart of the limb, which is filled with small worms, or eggs, of the colour and appearance of very small kernels of rice, but distinctly visible to the naked eye."

On Saturday the 4th inst. the freemen of the state assembled in their respective

A very large sword fish was taken on the 10th of June, by capt. Comstock, of the smack David Porter, about 30 miles south of Sandy Hook. He is between 11 and 12 feet long, the largest part of the body 4 feet round, his sword 4 feet long, eyes 9 inches in circumference, and weighs about 300 pounds. He is to be seen at Scudders Museum.

It is estimated that two thousand houses, which will cost five millions of dollars, are going up in New-York. The present population is supposed to be 125,000.

The remains of the much lamented gen. Montgomery, have been removed from Quebec, under the direction of his nephew col. Livingston, to the city of New-York, where they were committed to the tomb on the 8th of July, 1818, with all those demonstrations of respect which his character and patriotic services were eminently calculated to inspire. The funeral service was read by bishop Hobart, and an impressive eulogy delivered by the Rev. Dr. Mason.

The Hessian Fly-We are extremely sorry to say, is committing great ravages in the wheat fields in the vicinity of Albany. In some neighbourhoods in Bethlehem, Guilderland, &c. it is not expected that so much will be obtained from the crops as the seed sown. The season has, moreover, been too warm and wet for spring wheat and other small grains which were not in general sown in the 15th or 20th of May. The fly has also made its appearance among the barley.

Grass promises to be very abundant, and farmers have begun to cut clover. Corn, considering how late it was planted, looks remarkably well.

PENNSYLVANIA.

Dr. Coxe of Philadelphia, has been appointed by the Trustees of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, Professor Materia

1818.

Exports from Charleston-Of cotton, rice and tobacco, from the 1st October, 1817, to 31st May, 1818.

Cotton.

bales.

ILLINOIS.

It would appear doubtful from the fol lowing extract from an Illinois newspaper, whether the act of Congress for the admission of that territory into the union can at present take effect, seeing that the population falls below the estimated amount of forty thousand souls, and that the act of Congress requires, as a preliminary to the formation of a state constitution," that it shall appear, from the enumeration directed to be made by the legislature of the said territory, that there are, within the proposed state, not less than forty thousand inhabitants."

TENNESSEE.

France,

691 7528

The rest of Europe, 28 2708

West Indies,

Coastwise,

Total

Nashville on June 28th.

LOUISIANA.

New Orleans, when ceded to the United States in 1803, contained 9000 inhabitants-it now has from 32 to 35,000. The product of sugar and cotton, &c. in the parts adjacent has risen higher proportionally than the population of the capital,

The question of Fulton and Livingston's privilege is again agitated, by a suit brought in the federal court of NewOrleans, against the steam-boat Constitution. We wait with anxiety the result of a question involving the most prominent interests of Western America.

Thomas B. Robertson, Esq. of NewOrleans, has resigned his seat in the House of Representatives of the United States; Edward Livingston, Josiah S. Johnson, and Thomas Butler, Esqrs. are put in nomination to fill the vacancy.

A vessel from Pensacola, entered at the Custom-House of New-Orleans on the 8th of June, with a clearance signed "James Gadsden, acting collector of the port of Pensacola."