mon goal, out of which he inlisted with Tobias Dillon, in 1805, then recruiting for his commission in that regiment commanded by colonel Doyle, an Irishman, and James Plunket, who raised the greater part of that regiment, in which he was major, has been obliged to quit his native country since 1798 and reside in England, for being a liberal man, although he has in that one county (Roscommon) at present about 30001. a year, will not be allowed to live in it by his government, and the governors of that county knowing him a spirited man, have thus removed him from his native country to spend his fortune in England, in a country he abhors, although Masterson and Keogh were defenders in their native country, (but that was for their just rights, being both Catholics) it is a pleasure to find they were defenders of their honour in the field of battle. Pat. Masterson was born in or near Strokestown, eounty Roscommon, by profession a tailor. X. These rebel republicans manage matters just in their own way; they still continue the hateful practice of reading Tom Jefferson's declaration of independance, having orations deliv ered, and drinking patriotic toasts on this hateful day. Our good friends the Federalists, have done their best to prevent the declarations being read, but they found it would not do; and have actually come to a determination of reading it themselves, drinking toasts, and having orations deliveredThis is all to gull the swinish multitude, for I assure your Lordship they don't care a brass farthing about the day. I should be extremely sorry this double game would be discovered, for our true friends have had numbers to join their ranks since they began to practice it: but it is such a difficult thing to affect merriment when the heart is sad, that I am fearful those hateful seventy-sixers will find them The If we have not something done here 8oon it will be too late; the rabble are getting wonderous wise. press groans with newspapers, pamph lets, and books; and the poor have an opportunity of perusing them, for they cost little more than the blank paper does with us. They have no tax on newspapers. It is painful to mention the great improvements in machinery and manufactories, as they have both much farther advanced than I ever expected to see them. The legislature of Virginia have come to a determination of appearing next Since the above was written, the Legislative Bodies of several other States have come to the same determination. next session in complete suits of homespun. How far this foolish example will be followed by the people of that state I cannot say-but in one or two neighbouring states, I am grieved to find, that there is no legislature, no Swift necessary to recommend the use of home-made, for all the patriotic Yankees wear nothing else. These plebeians have even attempted the re-publication of the Greek and Latin classics; and also the designing and engraving new plates to our an cient and modern books of merit. A print has lately made its appearance, called Emmett's Urn, which, for impudence, and want of respect, I cant't say I ever saw its equal This thing I find stuck up in the first houses, as also in the coffee and porter houses, and barber shops of this city. There is something like ingenuity in this print; but then it is so insolent that it is not to be born with. They have introduced your Lordship on the left of what they call the Urn, in a very unbecoming attitude; my loyalty and love for my country, induced me to send your worship a copy, as also an explanation that your Lordship might be pleased to say, what punishment the impudent author And whereas the aforesaid letter is signed Heppenstal," and introduced in the Public Advertiser, as a correct copy, by an old offender against roy. alty, of the name of Mactwolter; this seditious person is strongly suspected of being the author of said letter, and not the person whose name is added to it; for the only good subject we ever had of the Heppenstal family, was a lieutenant, and he is long since dead. From all which it manifestly appears that he intended to hurt the feelings of our good cousin Nerbury. We, therefore, being desirous of taking vengeance of said writer, do, in the name of our liege lord, his Majesty the King of Great Britain, protector of Ireland, defender of the true church, supporter of Spanish inquisition, &c. &c. &c. offer as a reward, a commission in our brave army in Portugal, to any person or persons who will lodge said Mactwolter on board our good frigate the Venus, which now waits at the hook. Given under our hand and seal, this 31st day of August, 1810. FRANCIS JAMES, who is the son of JACK. Brief Topographical and Statistical Manual of the State of New York, which comprises within 36 pages a great mass of information very interesting to those whom business or speculation requires to attend to its interior concerns. If we had a similar manual of each state in the union, it would add much to our stock of geographical and topographical know. ledge of our own country, in which at present we are generally very deficient. [Nat. Intel.] "In 1731 this state contained 10 counties and only 50,291 souls-in 1771, same counties and 163,338 souls-in 1786 (25 years ago) 12 counties and 238,896 souls-1791, sixteen counties and 340,120 souls and in 1800, thirty counties, 305 towns (including 3 cities) and 586,000 inhabitants. Now (1811) the state contains about 300 villages, of from 15 or 20, but generally from 30 or 40, to 600 houses; 452 towns (including 4 cities ;) 45 counties; and (in 1810) 960,000 inhabitants; giv. ing an increase of 15 counties, 147 towns, and 374,000 people in the last 10 years!! And the militia of the state regularly enrolled amounted to 102,068 in 1809. In manufactures the late census has furnished data, for the following state ment : Looms 33,068; yds. cloth (all kinds) 9,099,703 value dolls. 5,002,891: 82. Tan works 867; val. of leather dolls. 1,299,512: 16. Distilleries 591; val. dolls 1,685,794: 40 Breweries 42; val. dolls. 340,765: 68. Fulling Mills 427 ; enhanced val. of cloth dolls. 679,126: 87. Paper mills 28; val. dolls. 233,268 : 00. Hat facto ries 124; val. dolls. 249,035:00. Glass works 6; val. (besides bottles, &c.) dolls. 716,800: 00 Powder mills 2; val. dolls. 10,400: 00. Rope walks 18; val. dolls. 538,000: 90. Sugar houses 10-val. dolls. 420,706: 00. Oil mills 28; val. dolls. 49,288: 75. Blast furnaces 11; val. dolls, 205,500: 00. Air do. 10; val. dolls. Cut nail factories 44; 156,720: 00. val. dolls. 276.932: 10. Forges 48; val. dolls. 185,240: 00. Trip ham. mers 49; val. (return of work from two of them only) dolls. 1,600: 00. Rolling and slitting mills 1; val. dolls. 33,120: Total value-dolls. 12,085, 525: 62. Also, 413 Carding machines-value included in cloth above; and 26 cotton factories, not included above, the cloth there mentioned being the manufacture of families only. The above returns (except for Onta rio, Columbia, and Washington counties) are moreover believed to be short of the real amount-no tow cloth was returned, except for two countiesinstead of one there are ten or twelve rolling and slitting mills in the state— the nail, hat, paper and rope factories, furnaces, &c. much exceed the number returned. All the woollen factories were omitted. The single county of Rensselaer will this year manufacture of the above articles the value of dolls. 600,000, though returned last year at dolls. 458,000. And many new factories, in Oneida especially, and in the Western country generally, are just going into ope ration. So that it may be safely affirmed, that our present annual value of the above named manufactures exceeds dolls. 16,000,000! There are now made annually 525,000 bushels of salt; viz. in Onondaga 453,840 (though in 1800 only 42,75;) Cayuga 54,000; Genessee 1,400; Seneca (at least) 25,000; and Ontario about 8,760-total value at the works dolls, 147,000. In Cayuga 2,240 skeins of silk. To all which may be added dolls, 60,000--the value of articles annually made by convicts in the State Prison. I have not sufficient data to calcu late the quantity of the ashes, maple sugar, flour, &c. made, or the grain, cattle, sheep, beef, pork, &c. raised annually, so as to make a valuation of our products or lands. But as the sheep sheep returned for Dutchess were 83.855-Albany 34,342-Cayuga 49,872-Onondaga 44,193-and Jefferson 20,000-we may conclude, judging from the population, (exclusive of New York Co.) that the whole state contains 1,280,000. Dutchess contains 14,341 horses and 51,650 neat cattle, which in like manner (N. Y. omitted) gives 247,000 of the former, and 886,000 of the latter; but probably 300,000 horses and 1,000,000 neat cattle would be nearer the true amount in the whole state. The provisions made for roads and bridges, besides the numerous roads and bridges authorised to be laid out, made and built, at the risk of individuals or expence of the counties, the state, or the lands benefited therebyare 36 bridge companies with dolls. 509,000 stock, and 135 turnpike companies with dolls. 7,558,000 stock, extending their roads over a length of 4,500 miles about one-third which is completed. The capital stock of the several incorporated banks is dolls. 11,690, 00. The fund set apart by the state for the benefit of Common Schools now amounts to dolls. 483,326,29the last year's revenue of which was dolls. 36,427 64-besides which 314,770 acres of unsold land still belong to this fund. some small unliquidated demands, dolls. 880,000 (in 1800, dolls. 346,234 98.) Which (exclusive of the School fund and land, and of the 1,000,000 acres public lands above named) gives about 30,000 annual excess of revenue over expenditures, and a perma. nent fund exceeding the public debt doils. 3,311,803 25. There are established in the State two colleges and upwards of forty academies; also, 364 post offices, being more than 17th of the whole (2440) in the United States, and 60 different newspapers, and (in all) about 90 printing establishments. The shipping owned in this state, in 1809, was 251,525 tons, (besides that on the three lakes,) being 1-5th of the whole owned in the United States. Amount of exports in 1807, dolls. (26,357,963; and revenue on imports, &c. more than 1-4th of the whole paid in the United States (from 14th to 1-3d of which two last items is however derived from the trade of other states.) The Revenue and Expenditures of the state are in the abstract, as follows:-Lands, about 1,000,000 acres unsold; and state funds dolls. 4,194, 803 35 (in 1800 dolls. 2,900,000 00) the annual revenue of which is now dolls. 278,486 96-besides which the receipts at the treasury from various other sources were, for the year 1810, dolls. 626,042 18 (for 1791 dolls. 127 649; for 1800 dolls. 192,028 71)-and during same time were paid out dolls. 606,328 22 (in 1791 dolls. 143 417 64; and in 1800 dolls. 261,765 03.) Estimated expences for 1811, dolls. 268,366 22. Debts which the state owes, besides In addition to the goodness of our soil and excellence of our timber, we have plenty of iron ore, slate, plaister of paris, and inexhaustible salt springs, the most valuable in the world. There have also been found coal, copper, lead, sulphur, zinc, marble, isinglass, and some silver. Our territory, containing 55,000 square miles, of which 4 or 5000 are water, stretches from the Atlantic the whole length of NewEngland, and spreads along the St. Lawrence and three, great navigable Lakes. Embracing the head-waters of the Ohio, and two other large rivers which pass southerly through other States-the whole course of the best river in the United States and perhaps in the world together with twenty other rivers navigable by boats and rafts, this State affords the best passage in the United States both by land and by water, from tide-waters to the extensive navigable Lakes of the west. There is not a mountain or any Native Eloquence, any great unavoidable hill to pass between Albany and Lake Erie. It is the only state, too, (except at the nar row and N. E. extremity which extends across the whole width of the United States territory; and the only spot on which the Atlantic and the Lake can be united by sloop-navigation. This peculiar situation, with its other advantages, renders this State highly interesting to the politician, the man of business or enterprise, the emigrant, and the traveller. With the latter especially, the ready and safe conveyance up the Hudson, and to Lower Canada, and the good roads and accommodations westward, will be additional inducements to visit a country of this description, which moreover furnishes Mineral Waters more efficacious and valuable than the best medicinal Springs of Europe, and intermediate subwhich, besides many lime natural views and objects, contains on its western confines the greatest natural curiosity in the world, a country interspersed (exclusive of the great waters before named) with more than fifteen lakes, from ten to forty miles in length, and numerous smaller ones, exhibiting as great an extent, variety, and beauty of inland water scenery as all the other States toge ther. From the new Albany Balance. NATIVE ELOQUENCE. I do not offer the following documents to the public as confidential or important "State Papers," but as literary curiosities. The reader may rely on their genuineness; The speech of Sagoua Ha, which signifies The Keeper Awake, known by the white people by the name of Red Jacket, in answer to a speech of Mr. Richardson, who applied to buy the Indian rights to the reservations lying in the territory commonly called the Holland purchase. Delivered at a Council at Buffaloe Creek, in May, 1811. Brother We opened our case to the talk you lately delivered to us, at our council fire. In doing important business it is best not to tell long stories, but to come to it in a few words. We therefore shall not repeat your talk, which is fresh in our minds. We have well considered it, and the advantages and disadvantages of your offers. We request your attention to our answer, which is not from the speaker alone, but from all the Sachems and Chiefs now around our council fire. Brother We know that great men as well as great nations, having dif ferent interests, have different minds, and do not see the same object in the same light-but we hope our answer will be agreeable to you and your employers. Brother Your application for the purchase of our lands is to our minds yery extraordinary; it has been made in a crooked manner; you have not walked in the straight path pointed out by the great council of your nation. You have no writings from your great father the President. In making up our minds we have looked back, and remembered how the Yorkers purchased our lands in former times, They bought them piece after piece, for a little money paid to a few men in our nation, and not to all our brethren, until our planting and hunting grounds have become very small, and if we sell them, we know not where to spread our blankets. Brother-You tell us your employ. ers have purchased of the council of Yorkers, a right to buy our lands. We do not understand how this can be. The lands do not belong to the Yorkers; they are ours, and were given to us by the Great Spirit. that Brother-We think it strange you should jump over the lands of our brethren in the east, to come to our council fire so far off, to get our lands. When we sold our lands in the East to the white people, we determined never to sell those we kept, which |