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The whole building is warmed by a single stove situated in the cellar, calculated The following is a Recipe, given in an by the inventor for burning the Rhode American paper, to make a very beautiful Island coal. Owing to the smallness of its paint for the walls of stair-cases and lobdraught, it burns this coal in great perfec-bies, the cost of which is less than one-tion, keeping up a permanent and intense fourth of that of oil colour, and the beauty heat. The stove is surrounded by a brick far superior :-Take 4 lbs. of Roman vichamber, from which a brick flue is car- triol, and pour on it a tea-kettle fall of ried up to the second story, communicating boiling water; when dissolved, add two by large pipes or apertures with all the prin- pounds of pearl ash, and stir the mixture cipal rooms of the house. The air is admit- well with a stick, until the effervescence ted from the outside of the building through ceases, then add lb. pulverised yellow a brick passage way, down to the stove; arsenic, and stir the whole together; let a portion of it goes to maintain the comit be laid on with a paint or white-wash bustion; the rest being rarified by the heat brush, and if the wall has not been painted of the stove, ascends rapidly through the before, two, or even three coats will be flue, and may be delivered at pleasure into requisite. To paint a common sized room any, or all the apartments, by opening the with this colour, will not cost more than pipes or communications. The strong cur- five or six dollars. If a pea-green is rerent of heated air thus obtained is sufficient quired, put in less, and if an apple-green, to warm the largest room in a very short more of the yellow arsenic. space of time,

A cistern of water is placed near the roof, which is supplied by pumps from a well in the cellar, and may be drawn out for use by pipes communicating below.

National Register :

FOREIGN.

AMERICA: UNITED STATES.

Revenue and Financés.

The New York Advertiser of Dec. 14th contains the Treasury Report, by Mr. Dallas, comprising a view of the sources of Revenue, the objects of public expendi. ture, and the fiscal arrangements for the year 1816,

The actual receipts

The demands on the Treasury

The excess, exclusive of the amount in the Treasury on the 1st Jan. 1816 Treasury notes issued Reimbursements Outstanding Balance, 1st August

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We have inserted this, partly as it may afford a hint to the judicious; but, more especially (as it appears in all the papers) to caution against the use and application of arsenic, in any form. When the inadvertence of servants, the ignorance and meddling of children, and what may be termed the force of accident, are considered, the hazard of allowing any dangerous drug, except under the management of a professor, to be brought into our houses, is striking.

AMERICA: SPANISH.

Statistics: University.

By the last census the city of Mexico contained more than 180,000 inhabitants. In 1809, the number of births were 6,693

the deaths, 6,160: judging by this latter fact, its population is about one-third of that of Paris or London.

Among many liberal establishments of 38,745,699 0 this great city which indicate, not only an enterprizing spirit, but an advanced stage of refinement and arts, and zeal to incourage intellectual improvement, is a university, under the direction of able and learned teachers, which contains upwards of three thousand students. Here in addition to the ordinary branches of science, painting, botany, chemistry and minera logy are taught.

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36,133,191 0
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8,735,794 0

The aggregate Public

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Public Debt before the

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Making a grand total, with the floating outstanding Debt, of

87,779,274 32
73,096,414 33

AUSTRIA.

Marriage Gifts to the Empress. Vienna, Dec. 28.-The deputations of the different provinces of the Austrian monarchy have presented their different gifts to the Empress. The Provincial States of D123,630,692 93 Bohemia presented ten thousand ducats; those of Moravia, one hundred thousand florins; those of Styria, fifty thousand flo

Mr. Jacob Perkins.

rins; those of Upper Austria, a like sum; | last, who were eighty-three Roman subthose of Lower Austria, one hundred thou-jects, have been delivered up, and expesaud florins; all in hard cash. dited to Civita Vecebia, whence they will The Hungarian Deputation is yet ex-proceed to their own homes. This circular pected at Vienna; it will be composed of announces that a meeting of the Society 52 persons, and present forty thousand du- will take place at the Hotel de Montesson, cats; but this offering will not be made on the 29th of the month, the second annitill the coronation of the Empress as versary of its foundation. Queen of Hungary, which will take place next spring at Baden. The ceremony of the coronation is very important to the Empress, for without this act she could not have a right to the rich jointure of that kingdom.

RELGIUM.

Distress from want of Corn.

Extraordinary Band of Robbers.

The public of the British metropolis have been alarmed and astonished at the bands of youthful depredators, which have lately paraded our streets. The hand of Justice has seized several; but rather enough to shew the extent of the evil, than to suppress it effectually. The same calamity has afflicted Paris; of which the fol

Brussels, Dec. 23.-Letters from respectable authority in the Grand Duchy of Lux-lowing article is witness. It may also reemburg, present a dreadful picture of the mind the reader of some of the dextrous public distress in the Ardennes; provisions performances of the famous Cartouche. have risen to an exorbitant price, and the coarse bread which the inhabitants feed on

is paid for with its weight in gold (au poids de l'or). Speedy measures are necessary to put an end to distresses which daily increase in that happy country.

Paris Dec. 22.-The Court of Assizes pronounced judgment on the affair relative this day, after four hours' deliberation, to a great number of robbers, viz. eleven men and five women: some, as authors of most part by stealing; others, as receivers midnight depredation, committed for the of the stolen goods. One of the prisoners, named Gonthier, was aged only fifteen

For some time past troops of indigent persous have traversed the country of Hainault; they demand of the farmers corn and potatoes, and threaten to burn down their farms, unless these articles are fur-years six months; the rest had hardly passnished them at their own price. Hitherto fested at the trial a surprising effrontery. ed thirty years. Almost all of them manithe evil has been only local, but it threat- One of them, named Jardinaud, the elder, ens to become more frequent and exten- who was called, as a nom de guerre, Piedsive; the Government has judged it pro-de-Celeri, said, "How! Mr. President, do per to take repressive measures, which it has, however, preceded by a proclamation, shewing the folly as well as wickedness of such proceedings.

DENMARK.

Expatriation proposed: cui bono? A person at Copenhagen has made a proposal, in order to relieve the distress of the labouring class, to establish a colony in the Nicobar Islands, and to conduct it thither

himself.

FRANCE.

Statistics: Population. According to official documents committed to the two Chambers, the population of France, exclusive of Corsica and the colonies amounts to 28,813,041 souls.

Christian Slavery suppressed.

Paris, Dec. 28.-In a printed circular addressed to the Knights and Ladies, and other subscribers of the Anti-Pirate Institution, the President, Sir Sidney Smith, confirms the intelligence that we had already given, that there does not remain a single Christian slave in Barbary; that the

you desire me to avow myself guilty, to shall be safe, and I will acknowledge every destroy my mistress? Promise me that she thing." Another, named Gurgy, pleaded his own cause; he dissembled nothing, and sought only to affect the Judges by stating the misfortunes, true or false, which according to him, left him no alternative, since the age of thirteen years, but to become a robber. One of the complaints against Jardinand the elder, the Chief of this band, was, that he had introduced bimself, in the month of January last, into the apartments of the Countess of Caraman, Rue Saint Dominique, and of having carried off a gold watch, suspended at the head of the bed, without disturbing her Ladyship's repose.

GERMANY.

University Statistics: Gottingen.

The number of Studeuts this year at the University of Gottingen is greatly increased, and amounts already to 1,152; of these only 386 are natives of Hanover, 566 are from other German States, and 180 fe

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reigners; of the latter, 36 are Russians, | States only are competent to obtain. 17 Swiss, 68 Danes, 10 English, 6 French, Third. One hundred crowns to the Aca25 Hungarians, 4 Americans, 2 from the Greek Isle of Chios, &c.

Stutgard, Dec. 7.--The Arts appear to acquire new life. The organization of a new Academy, and a new Scirool for the Arts, is confided to the celebrated 'sculptor Counsellor Von Denuecker. Several casts are already ordered from Rome. We hope also soon to receive from England casts of the celebrated collection of Lord Elgin.

West Indian Royalty: German linen. Among the orders received for the linen and damask manufactories of Bietfeld, in Germany, is a very large one lately given, for King Henry of Hayti. Among other things a quantity of the richest damask table-cloths has been bespoken, for which King Heary has sent a drawing of his arms, with various devices, and his motto, "God, my cause, and my sword." Besides these orders, large purchases have been made in Bremen, and the other H nseatic-cities, for the Queen of Hayti, of services for the table, brilliants, pearls, &c. which have been paid for in ready money, at high prices.

Caution to Experimentalists.

demy of Saint Luke. Fourth. One hun dred and twenty crowns to the Academy of the Lynx. And fifth. One thousand one hundred crowns to relieve poor, old, and infirm artists residing in Rome.

Cardinal Caricatured!!!

Rome, Nov. 28.-Lovers of rare prints seek eagerly in Rome after a print repre, senting Cardinal Gonzalvi presenting to the Pope the lost Provinces, which are als legorically represented in delivering the Act of Congress. It is on the largest folio paper, desigued by Francisco Munno, and engraved under the direction of Bertollin, As soon as the Cardiby Antonio Bauzo. nal heard of the existence of this print, hẹ not only bought up all the impressious about a hundred in number), with the exception of a few that were accidentally preserved before, but caused his own portrait to be effaced from the plate, and an allegorical goddess to be put in its stead.

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Singular vicissitudes of Weather. › Capua, Dec. 7-We have had most extraordinary weather here for some time. On the same day we have had the oppressive heat of summer; a storm, accompanied with thunder, lightning, and hail; Mr. J. Weluer, a German chymist, re- aud in the evening, a sharp cold, with tired last summer to his house in the counflakes of snow, just as if it were the month try, there to devote himself, without being of January in Siberia. We have had some disturbed, to the study and examination of shocks of an earthquake in the direction Mr. Welner tried of the north. Orders have been given for poisonous substances. his poisons upon himself, and appeared in-public prayers in all the churches; the host sensibie to the great alterations which such has been raised; tlie relics of St. Bridget dangerous trials produced upon his health. have been carried in possession; and the At the latter end of the mouth of October ecclesiastics have recommended a strict ob-he invented some unknown poisonous mix- servance of fast during the Advent. ture, and wished to assure himself of its effect. The following is the account which he gives of it in the last page of his manuscript" A potion composed of (here the substances are named, and the doses iudicated) is mortal: and the proof of it isthat I am dying!"

ITALY.

Manificence and Beneficence.

The Pope has attached to the title of Marquis of Ischia which he couferred on the sculptor Canova, an annual pension of 3,000 Roman crowns. This celebrated artist has disposed of this revenue in the following mauer: First, a fixed dotation to the Roman Academy of Archaiology of six hundred crowns. Second, one thousand to found annual and seventy crowns, prizes, and a triennial prize for painting, sculpture, and architecture, which the young artists of Rome and the Roman

Prize Question.

The Academy of Bologna proposes for the subject of a prize the following ques tion :-" Which is the class of citizens' most interested in the preservation of Government?" The prize is a medal of 300 sel quins.

Society of a new kind.

The Grand Duke of Tuscany has formed a society for the "Reward of Virtue," for those of his subjects who shall perform the most disinterested act towards his fellow creatures. The prize is a golden medal of 300 crowns, with the effigy of his Majesty thereon.

Dreadful destruction by Avalanches.

A letter from St. Bernard, dated Dee. 25, contains the following details:-“ A trightful Avalanche on the 18th buried two domestics of the hospital, and four men of

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To Leith: 2,209 pud of tallow; 1,006 do. of flax; 1,600 barrels of tar; and 15,000 pieces of masts.

To Newcastle: 2,983 tchetverts of wheat; 5,999 pud of tallow; 3,357 do. of potash 3,986 barrels of tar; 1,480 masts; and 4,185 deals.

the town of St. Pierre, without a possibility 178,005 pieces for masts: 44,815 deals; of affording them any assistance. Four of 1,617 barrels of pitch; and 906 of tar. them had quitted the Convent charged with letters. The two others had come to 1,648 do. of hemp ; 8,409 do. of iron; 2,000 To Liverpool: 8,780 pud of tallow; meet them from the town, and all disap- | masts; and 30,000 deals. peared. To heighten the misfortune, all our dogs have been buried under the snows. There remains at the Convent only one of these courageous animals, which were so long the hope of the traveller-their race is extinct. It will require a long time and much attention to repair this misfortune. For eight days the wind has not ceased to accumulate snows. The Avalanches have changed the form of the mountain, it can be no longer recognized. On the south Bide of the Convent they precipitate themselves from the summits bordering on the Jake, and by that unusual circumstance, the house itself is threatened. All the inhabitants of St. Pierre capable of labour, are on the mountain. The passage is interrupted. The carriers met a band of tinkers, whom they made return to St. Pierre. Without this precaution, they must all have perished."

POLAND.

Brick Houses encouraged. Warsaw, Dec. 26.-By an Ordinance of the 26th ult. 300,000 florins are to be annually advanced from the public treasury to this city in a loan, for 23 successive years, on certain conditions, for the assistance of the inhabitants, who are inclined to build new brick houses.

Konigsberg, Nov. 20.-Of 634 vessels which have sailed this year from Pillau, 491 were laden with about 23,000 lasts of corn. After they learned there that the harvest had proved indifferent in many parts of Germany, Holland, France, Eng Jand, and the South, the prices of rye rose from 70 to 80 per cent. and wheat to 100 per cent. higher than in summer. The harvest in that country has been about two thirds of the usual crop.

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To Hull: 1,205 pud of hemp; $,460 do. of iron; 3,160 tchetverts of linseed; 1,588 barrels of tar; and 4,185 deals.

iron; 2,873 tchetverts of wheat; 850 do. To other British Ports: 1,575 pud of of rye; 14,029 barrels of tar; 16,979 pieces of masts; and 12,093 deals.

wheat; 23,317 do. of rye; 24,791 do. of To Amsterdam: 2,284 tchetverts of linseed; 120,000 masts; 16,955 pud of tallow, &c.

To Hamburgh: 18,241 tchetverts of Rye; 20,050 pud of tallow; 279,924 pieces of masts, &c.

To Bremen: 4,612 tchetverts of rye; 5,033 masts, &c.

To Antwerp and other 2,325 tchetverts of wheat; rye; 3,880 ditto of linseed; of tar, &c.

Dutch Ports: 11,577 ditto of 15,000 barrels

To Cadiz and Gibraltar : 1,864 tchetverts of wheat.

To Lisbon and Oporto: 12,811 tchetverts of wheat; 2,164 barrels of tar, &c. tallow: 5,383 ditto of tallow, &c. To Bordeaux and Havre: 1,649 pud of To New York: 10,704 pud of tallow; 12,992 do. of hemp; 11,100 do. of iron. 4,437 pud of hemp;

To Baltimore: 4,499 do. of iron, &c.

There still remained in the warehouses at Archangel, besides large quantities of hemp and tallow, 3,080 tchetverts of wheat, 1,000 do. of Rye, 9,000 do. of linseed, &c.

SWEDEN.

Requisites for Citizenship.

Stockholm, Dec. 10.-His Majesty has seeks to obtain the freedom of any of the ordered that in future every person who cities in the kingdom of Norway, as a pre-wholesale dealer or merchant, must be full twenty-five years of age, write a legible with orthographical accuracy; be able to hand, and write the Norwegian language read and write English, French, and Ger man; be well acquainted with book keep

To London: 7,798 tchetverts of wheat; 20,839 do. of linseed; 55,064 pud of tallow; 1,076 do. of flax; 30,606 do. of iron;

ing, and have been at least four years a merchant's clerk. In every town three respectable and experienced merchants shall be chosen, who, in conjunction with the Magistrates, shall judge, by means of an examination, which is not to last above three or four hours, whether the applicant is qualified by his knowledge to be a merchant. No person shall obtain the right of a citizen, or the liberty to be a huxter, publican, &c. who is not forty years old, versed in writing and accounts, and able in to prove that he has been some years some business, or unable to get a livelihood by some other allowed profession. If any person is deficient in any of these qualifications his Majesty reserves the further decision to his Norwegian Government, upon application being made. It is to be understood, of course, that unexceptionable character, and exemption from military duties, must be particularly proved. SWITZERLAND.

Difficulties in the way of Commerce. An article in the Arau Gazette of July 4, says, that the want of success by the Swiss in their application to the French Government for the free transit of their manufactures, arises not from the Ministers, but the clamours of the manufacturing towns. The Duke of Richelieu, and almost all those who have a voice in these matters, admit that it would be better to allow the Swiss the transit, than to compel them to connections with foreign maritime cities, as Genoa, to the injury of Marseilles, Havre, &c.

The cries of Messrs. Terneaux and Company, overpower all argument, and in particular with respect to cotton manafactures; the constant answer is, "Nous, nous, ferious lajude si vous cedious sur ce point." We should hazard our lives if we yielded this point.-It is thought that the importation of cheese, and straw works, perhaps linen, may be allowed under more easy conditions than hitherto.

THE JEWS.

The following list of the number of Jews in the towns and counties of Europe and Asia in which they are now most numerous is collected from documents recently published:

In six districts of Poland, 20,000; In Germany, 200,000.-In Konigsburgh and Dantzick in Prussia, 1,600. In Hungary, 75,500. Gallicia, 80,000. In Constantinople, 80 or 90,000. In Salonica, 12,000. In Aleppo, 5,000: Rome, 9,000: Leghorn, more than 15,000. Bohemia, 46,000; and in Moravia,27,000.

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National Register :

BRITISH.

The King's Health.

"Windsor Castle, Jan. 4.-His Majesty continues to enjoy a good state of bodily health, and has been generally tranquil during the last month. His Majesty's disorder remains unaltered." Signed as usual.

The Prince Regent has been pleased to direct, by his Order in Council, that all the' vessels in the navy shall, in future, be distinguished by the number of guns and carronades they actually mount, and not according to the erroneous denomination which had long since grown into use.

By the regulations lately issued from the Horse Guards for the future dress of the: British staff, no medical officer, will wear an epaulet on his shoulder, or a feather in his hat.

Naval pay adjusted.

The Lords of the Admiralty have made an alteration and increase in the pay of the Officers of the Navy, when employed. The long accustomed compensation for servants has been taken away, and the following full pay established:-Captains of 1st rates, 8001.; 2d ditto, 7001.; 3d ditto, 6001.; 4th ditto, 5001; 5th ditto 4001. per annum: 6th ditto, 261. 17s: per month; 7th ditto, 231. Os. 4d. per month; Lieutenants of seven years rank, if serving as First Lieutenants, 111. 10s. per month; all other Lieutenants, 91. 48. per month.

Commodores to have 20s. per day; Commanders-in-Chief to receive three guineas per day as table money; Midall other Admirals 3001. per annum. shipmen, who have passed, to have 5l..

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month.

New species of Timber adopted.

The sloop of war about to be laid down at Woolwich, and named the Athol, is not to be built of fir, but of that bighly esteemed and valuable timber the larch (or larix), of which there are now such immense young forests all over the mountainous parts of the kingdom. The larch (a native of the Alps) has not been introduced into this country more than 80 years at most, and was not propagated as a forest tree till within these 30 or 40 years, so that it has not till now been found practicable to procure trees of sufficient size to give a fair trial to this valun ble timber.

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