The Holy Alliance. FROM A LONDON PAPER. responds exactly-and I have not the least doubt Doctor Hall, of Savannah, sailed in May last for England, with an instrument, to claim the emolu ments and honors of a discovery of longitude; but, though he m y obtain those, the merit of the discovery of the theory, is unquestionably due to doctor Joel Abbot, of Georgia, member elect of the 16th No one transaction of modern times, prolific as they are in daring novelties, has excited more astonishment than the declaration of the ministers of the five allied powers, with regard to Lucien Bonaparte. That the ministers of despotic sovereigns should be instructed to exercise unlimited authori ty over the life, person and property of an individual, would have excited no surprize, because they consider all within the grasp of their power, as ob-Congress. For nearly twenty years the writer of this has occasionally corresponded with him on this jects at their mercy-but that the minister of Great Britain should give the sanction of his country, and very interesting discovery. I have now before me his memoir on the subject, printed in Philadelphia, of his royal master, to the condemnation of a person in 1814, entitled "An Essay on the central influence not taken in arms against any government-not a prisoner-not tried and convicted of any crime-is of Magnetism." The author conceives that he has as new to the history of British diplomacy, as it is discovered, in the laws of magnetism, a native princontrary to British laws, and injurious to British ciple, by which, with proper mechanical ingenuity, longitude may be discovered. This principle he honor. Not only also is the representative of his has defined, in his theory of magnetism, which exmajesty committed by this transaction, but as if to implicate their country more deeply is the act, and to make it peculiarly the measure of Great Britain, the duke of Wellington is stated to be present at the conference of ministers, giving two voices for England while the other states had but one each. In no one instance, not even the decision of the plains the laws of magnetic motion, impressed by nature-never explained nor conceived before. Per haps further communications on this subject may be submitted to you. I will now only add that doc tor Abbot believes that he originally conceived and explained a law of nature impressed on mag. nets, which fixes as permanently a meridional attracfive powers upon the reference made to them by tive government to magnetic bodies, as polarity itSpain in the case of the Portuguese aggressions, has self; that when a magact is formed and suspended the character of the congress at Vienna, and the so as to obey all its attractive powers of government, arde spirit of the Holy Alliance, been made more it will obey not only a polar, but a meridional influmanifest, than by this declaration. By this, it ap; ence, and accommodate itself to the infinite conpears, that every human being is henceforth to hold ceived meridians of the earth, as it accommodates his personal freedom at the good pleasure of the itself to the poles of the earth. five sovereigns whose word is to be law, and there is to be no habeas corpus in any part of the Eu-| ropean possessions of the great and mighty allies. Europe is to be a military encampment, out of which no individual is to emigrate without a passport! Such is to be the result of the struggle for twenty five years, in which we have expended seven hundred millions of money! A Great Discovery. FROM THE AMERICAN DAILY ADVERTISER. Safe Steam boats.-Citizens attend! Surely the sum of death and misery, occasioned by the explosion of the boilers of steam engines on board of boats, is now enough to arrest your attention, if you That the first public example made under this ever intend to travel in steam boats. This discoveinternational law, should happen to be the brother ry has recently been so openly attacked that the of Bonaparte, makes no difference in the case. Lu inventor is compelled to defend it. Therefore, I. cien Bonaparte lived in England innocently and announce that more than forty years ago, I discoharmlessly at a period, when by the nearness of the vered the principles and afterwards the means of great object of terror, he had it much more in his applying the great and advantageous principle in power to excite alarm than at present; unless, in nature of the rapid increase of the elastic power of deed, it is to be alleged against him that he aban-steam, by geometrical progression, by the small indoned his brother the moment that his brother aban-crease of heat in the water, by arithmetical progresdoned the cause of liberty, and that he is danger-sion, and thereby to lessen the consumption of fuel, ous in proportion to his integrity! the size and weight of the steam engine to suit We hope that this outrage against the principles for steam boats. For double heat in the water proof the British fabric of society, will not be suffered duces 123 times the power, and double fuel consumto pass over without a formal protest in parliament; ed produces sixteen times the effect. And have at least let it be known to the world that there are since got into operation seventy or eighty steam still men in England who respect the privileges of engines constructed on the eternal and immutable their own species, and who will avow their abhor principles and laws of nature. So combined and arrence of every departure from the pale of justice, freedom and humanity. The British parliament have outrages enough at home to protest against, without travelling to the continent for subjects.-ED. ranged that it is nearly beyond the art of man, either by neglect, design, ignorance, or malice to ex. plode them the elastic power of steam. He can only make them yield to the irresistable power' in a small degree, so as to let the power escape until the steam extinguishes the fire, and the danger ceases by the regular operation of the engine itself; no accident has ever happened with any of my engines to do injury. On these principles steam boats may be made the more safe, as well as the most commodious vehicles of passage, and steam mills as cheap and safe as water mills to consume only half the fuel that othe engines do, and cost much less. I have made many efforts to communicate my dis 6 1 coveries fully to the public, but without much suc- DESCRIPTION OF BOILERS THAT CANNOT BE EXPLODED. I construct my steam engines, in every part that cess. I published in the year 1805 a laborous and difficult new work (produced by long intense study) holds the elastic steam, of a true circular form. on this new and abstruse subject, describing and which form the elastic power has no tendency to demonstrating those principles, and directing their change, the stress or pull being as fair as that of a. application to mills and also to boats, by means of weight suspended at the end of a walking stick, the very paddle wheels since adopted, which mode perpendicularly, to pull it endwise; this form will of application I had conceived or understood well hold steam of more than one hundred times the for about thirty years before. This book entitled elasticity that any other form will bear. For the The Young Steam Engineer's Guide,' I gave gratis to whole elastic power, in a boiler of any other form many, but sold very few; it contained also rules for tends to change it to a circular form just as certain calculating, and tables of the proper thickness of as blowing a bladder brings it to a round form, and iron for boilers of various diameters, necessary to in this change to break it, and produces a great hold the power with safety, and of the proper dia explosion, being on the weak principle of suspendmeter and length of the working cylinder for en-ing a weight on the middle of a walking stick, laid gines of the various powers, and directions for horizontally, to lend it. My cylindric boilers, fifteen inches diameter, making them, to propel boats against the current of the river Mississippi, and the result of an expe with the ends closed with half globes, will hold ri pent on the river Delaware with a steam engine about 1300 pounds pressure to the inch area of its in a flat, which was propelled by a paddle wheel, inner surface; if 20 inches diameter about 1000; if ascending the river against a head wind, leaving 30 inches 700 pounds, and if 60 inches diameter the vessels then beating up behind it. This was they will bear about 350 pounds, when constructed in 1804. It contained every thing necessary for a with wrought iron sheets, one quarter of an inch steam engineer to know to enable him to construct thick, strongly riveted together, and that with as a perfectly safe steam boat, on my principles, which much safety as any other form will bear ten pounds book the public certainly had the full perusal of to the inch; double the diameters will hold but when the first successful steam boats were put in half the power. But further, in my cylindric, boilers operation. To it I now refer; it is to be seen in the the stress to make them yield is equal in every Philadelphia library. But I soon discovered that part, and because it is impossible for any workman the force of habit and attachment to Watt and Bol to construct such a boiler to be equal in strength in ton's inferior engine (it being afterwards adopted) all its parts, but that some part or rivet of a thouwould prevent my discovery from being used in sand will be weaker than the rest, and yield first boats until dire necessity should compel its adoption. by a small opening to let the power escape inside This ponderous, feebie, and dangerous engine, pre-the furnace, and steam enough to extinguish the vailed in boats, while the light, simple and powerful fire; thus the operation of the engine itself stops engine, consuming only half the fuel, prevailed on all danger. That this will be the case 999 times the land; an absurdity scarcely credible. out of a 1000 instances where such boiler may be I have since endeavored to divulge my princi- made to yield to the gradual, irresistible power, ples and discoveries by many publications in news- we can have out little doubt, as there have been papers, but these circulated no further than I paid. hundreds of instances of such yielding already, with This country has been too long deprived of the boilers which have been rusted or burnt out until That we may safely conbenefits of my discovery. It has been doomed to they yield so often that they have been removed to work its way slowly by its own intrinsic merits, give place to new ones. against the opinion of self interested persons, speak-clude and say, that it has been proved in practice, ing loudly against it, without knowledge of the that these boilers cannot be exploded to do any serious principle, for those who understand its principle injury, not to such a degree as to force through and merits speak in its favor. Editors of newspa- the furnace walls of a mill, and much less to force pears should give currency to arguments and de-through the sheet iron covering of the boiler in onstrations in its favor, as well as unfounded the steam boat Ætna, by the elastic power of steam, a sertions against, the use of the elastic power of that always rises gradually, giving time for the steam, as an agent to produce mechanical effects, weakest part to yield. If it instantaneously rose that a fair contrast may be laid before the public, like gunpowder, the effect would be quite difthat it may appear clear where the danger exists. ferent. Idefy contradiction, or any person to explode When the danger will be found to rest entirely one of my boilers by steam. with what is now called the low pressure, Watt Now cannot any steam engineer make a perfect and Bolton's condensing steam engines; but which safe steam-boat on these principles, so clearly exin fact, are now using a degree of high pressure dan-plained even to the common sense of all, by adoptgerous to be used in their boilers constructed on ing a cylindric boiler that will hold 1300, 1000, 700 wrong principles, in such a form as will not bear or even 350 pounds pressure to the inch area of its steam of any elasticity with safety, for they cannot inner surface, and equipping it with two self acting prevent the steam from rising in two or three safety valves (as I have done on board the Eina) that minutes to a degree of pressure that would explode one of them may be enclosed with a cover and locked, their boilers, which may be seen verified every time after it has been loaded and regulated to lift with the engine is stopped in its motion, to take in a certainty the instant the pressure rises to the greatpassenger, or the boat comes to a wharf, the safety est power he ever intends to use, say three pounds valve is that moment lifted by a string to let the to the inch, if he chooses to work on the perfect steam escape; if this was to be neglected in three Watt and Bolton's principle of condensing to form minutes an explosion must take place.. The lives a vaccuum to obtain his power; if he chooses to of the passengers are entrusted to the care of the work with the elastic power of high pressure to valve lifter! a person, perbaps, to whose care not any degree, since he is now informed and convincone of them would be willing to trust their lives a ed, that as the pressure is raised the speed of his moment, if they knew it!! These are the engines boat will be increased, and the consumption of fuel co highly recommended by those who do not under- may be lessened to one half, he may load his safety valve to lift at 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 50, 100, 150 stand the subject, In this pursuit it has been my good fortune to pounds to the inch with safety, just as far as he wishes to put my principle in operation, to save ex succeed so far as to indulge a confidence that pence, or lessen the weight, or the consumption of upon the more satisfactory tests of works upon a fuel! The less the pressure he uses the slower will large scale, and a reasonable term of time for expe be the speed of his boat, but the people will believe rience, there can be nothing discovered of more imit is the safer; but with any other than a circular portance to the construction of durable foundations form of boiler he can obtain no safety, because he either under fresh waters or those of the sea, than cannot prevent the steam from rising in two or those certain minerals that I take the liberty of three minutes to a pressure that will explode his transmitting to you herewith. These will be found boiler, in case the valve be not lifted to let the in two stone pots to your address-One of them steam escape. But with my boiler, while he works contains a powder which I conceive to possess the a condensing engine with three pounds, he may still properties of Puzzolana, or the cellular basalt of load his locked valve at 150 pounds, and then the Dr. Rees; the other is a lime produced from certain fire will burn down after the engine stops, before concretions of lime, clay and other matters found the pressure will rise from 3 to 150 pounds to lift on the banks of York river, near to the town of Litthe valve, and he may hold his steam from evening the York. These jagged and very various irregular to morning, and then start with great power, even sized (apparently) rocks seem to have been formed before he has a spark of fire kindled in his furnace, a little below the adjacent land, and to have tumband thus he may save his fuel, and never let his ted from them as the washings of the tides have steam go. How striking is the contrast! A remov-worn them down; for many fragments or distinct mas. ses are seen pendant from their beds. The quantity al from the brink of destruction to perfect safety. If the editors of newspapers will give currency is very extensive; and, from some parts of the same to this one publication, every steam engineer who may read it, may know how to make steam-boats more safe, than any other mode of travelling, and at much less expence than he can make the dangerous engines now used. But I wish all to take notice, that I have expended the greater part of a long and la borious life, of arduous and intense study, to acquire the knowledge which I have communicated. To discover the principles, defray the expences of test. ing them and to secure my right by patent, and to establish extensive works to manufacture the steam engines, both at Philadelphia and Pittsburg, to supply the demand, that therefore by this publica- One of those pots aforesaid (the other) contains tion I do not mean to relinquish or impair any of a mixture of this lime powder and the powdered my vested and lawful rights, as a patentee, discover. basalt, in the proportion of lime two, basalt three, er and inventor. To the good people I submit the which from my experiments seems to be the most case; they will judge whether it will promote their perfect for terias mortar. They are to be reduced to a plastic state, by adding the smallest quantity of interest to support me,, Any editor of a newspaper who may be the first water possible, and that by little and little, to aid to publish this in any city, in the United States the beating in rendering it tough. Observe this where steam-boats are used, and will send me a pa-rule-the more beating and the less water, the firmer Hence you will perceive, sir, that my per, I will enclose him five dollars, as a sinall com the mortar. pensation for the insertion, as often as he may deem researches have been to the best chemical authori the public interest requires it, hoping however, that ties, a far as my simple capacity has enabled me all editors will give it one insertion for public good, to understand frota Dr. Rees and some others upon for it may stop the useless expenditure of hundreds this subject. My acquirements and ability to inof thousands of doilars, and save many lives; but vestigate and to understand, are solely from exermy patience has been long since exhausted in pay-cising my practical knowledge and limited powers ing for publishing such information that was neither of mind; whilse I would mos, respectfully solicit read or regarded, which, although it was to pro- your enlightened aid to mature my purpose, and to mote my own interest, it was intended to save the stamp a character upon my inventions. owner of each steam-boat, at least ten thousand dol lars, and perhaps the life of the reader. [Phila. Aug. 16.] OLIVER EVANS. Excellent Cement. DEAR SIR. banks, the vertebra and other bones of some huge Two bricks were cemented on the 1st of this month with a morir far less perfect than the above and instantly (we the norlar was soft) they were placed in a basin of water, werd they have remained ever since. The coment grow, harder with time, as is very preceptible; and from the crust that is evidently formning on the surface, I am expecting a crop of Stalactites. You will readily perceive, sir, that if the invention shall prove effectuai, I am fairly entitled to a reasonable compensation, to be secured by a patent -Among the great variety of useful in- or otherwise, and that your kind assistance in the ventions connected with the arts, as it has been promotion of my object would be gratifying in an lately my object to pursue and to have observed in eminent degree. In conclusion, sir, I pray you England, it was one of great importance in my would have the goodness to favor me with a reply; mind, to discover in this country something that for my apprehensions of having trespassed too far might answer an equally valuable purpose with the on your benignity can only be relieved by your fɩvofamous "Dutch Terias," or Parker's "Roman Cerable reception of this appeal to your liberality, and ment," as it is now generally used in England and by such orders for a supply of the crude materials the West Indies for works under water and elsc. as you shall be pleased to give your most respectD. M. RANDOLPH. ful and humble servant. where situated. Wealth and resources of S. America. Extract of a letter from an English House in Man chester, dated June 4. gray some plushes and sewing silk, about 20,000 dozen and fancy silk stockings, 6000 quintals of iron, 5000 ditto of block-tin, 1000 ditto iron bars, 300 "The interest excited by the advices from South ditto cast iron, 500 ditto steel, 1500 iron hoops, 1500 spades, 100 hoes, 800 hatchets, 400 quintals America, as it naturally leads us to consider the of nails of all sorts from 3-4 inch to 6 inches, 200 influence the important events which are passing ditto from 6 to 12 inches, 500 ploughshares, 80 there are likely to produce in other countries, chests of horse shoes, 500 ditto of all sorts of must render some accounts of the commercial re small hardware, 4000 dozen large and small knives, sources of those vast regions acceptable. The fol2000 quintals of wax, 2000 reams of white paper, lowing particulars, derived from official sources, 1000 ditto coloured ditto, 250 pounds of carmine, will therefore not be found destitute of interest. Prussian blue and other fine colours, 350 pounds of Whether the period of their total emancipation be stone blue, drugs and medicines to the amount of already arrived, or whether its accomplishment 10,000 piastres, 100 chests of liqueurs, 100 ditto of will require a more protracted struggle, is uncer books, 150 ditto of glassware, and 200 ditto of catain, but no doubt can any longer be entertained binet wares. Total value of imports, taken at the of the final success of the Insurgents; when they widest field ever presented to mercantile specula-European invoice prices, 32,307,453 dollars-The tion will be found in an empire abounding with manufactures of the country consists almost entirethe most precious productions of the earth, interly of a few friezes, the use of which is in a manner confined to the Indians and Negroes.-There are sected by the noblest rivers, and filled with har- besides an inconsiderable number of manufactories bors offering at once facilities and protection to of hats, cotton cloths, drinking glasses, &c. which navigation, yet where the comforts derived from do not however occupy much space in the scale of Arts and Manufactures cannot be produced but the riches of Peru, of which the mines are the from foreign parts. In such a country, whatever principal source, notwithstanding the little skil regulations prejudice or hostility might induce the and industry which is employed in working them, rulers destined to sway its territory to enforce, or however uncertain and precarious its institutions might be, commerce will not fail to discover multiplied channels through which its wealth will flow and be distributed, when once freed from the control of the mother country through which its supplies were compelled to reach it. and the small help which commerce affords to the miners, 534,000 marks of silver, and 6350 of gold were smelted and refined in 1790, in the Royal Mint at Lima; and 5,206,906 piasters, in both materials, were coined there. The exports consist of gold, silver, copper, Merino wool, cascarilla, China root, cotton, cocoa, and other valuable articles, to "Although the commerce of the River Plate is the annual amount of 31,486,000 dollars, Cotton is capable of considerable extension and improve- excellent and abundant, as well in the Sierras as ment, the subsisting relations with this country of the vallies. The spiders in Mayabomoa, Chachalate have acquainted us with the nature of its trade poyas, and Jaen, yield a silk as fine as that of Vaand taste of its inhabitants.-The Provinces or lencia. Flax and hemp grow wild and in abundance, Viceroyalties of Chili and Peru, situated on the but no one dreams of cultivating them, though the Pacific Ocean, by far the most important regions latter might with little difficulty be made an imof the southern hemisphere, are not so well known portant article of exportation. The Kermes berhere. Chili is between 15 and 1600 miles in length, ries are likewise found in profusion, and yet this and is 240 miles in breadth; its climate is one of precious drug is only employed by the Indians to the finest in all America, being temperate and salu- die a few of their own coarse stuffs. brious; its soil fertile, and its sky always clear, "Such is an imperfect sketch of the wealth and except at the commencement of the spring, which resources of those immense regions, about to beis in September, when it is refreshed by copious come independent. The effects likely to be prorain. The port of Valparaiso is the principal me- duced by such an event are incalculable; unknown dium of commerce for the whole province, and empires are on the point of opening their vast from thence more than 15,000 tons of wheat are stores for the encouragement of industry and comannually exported to Lima. Saint lago di Compos- merce; new channels will be discovered for the extella is the capital, and contains about 30,000 souls. cess of our manufactures, and the redundant poPeru is however the most important province, in a pulation of Europe will, without doubt, flock in commercial point of view; its annual imports from thousands to shores where the labor of the hus Europe are 50.000 pieces of real small Britannias of all sorts, 6000 pieces broad ditto, 30,000 pieces imitation ditto, 25,000 platillas, 5000 pieces of fine Holland linen, 200 pieces Rouens, 200 pieces Silisia, 1500 pieces Flemish linen, 600 Caserillos, 16,000 gauzes, 3000 packets thread, 1000 dozen shirts, 900 dozen stockings, 400 pieces fine French da mask, 100 pieces brown Flemish linen, 100 bales cambric, 80 bales printed cholets, 100 pieces fine The following article is taken from a very late BriIrish linen, 200 dozen fine hair nets, 6000 pieces tish periodical publication. It contains a lamentable superfine baize, 2000 pieces fine cloth, 600 super- picture of a once rich and flourishing commercial city. fine ditto, 2000 pieces camblets, chiefly cinnamon "Venice, it is well known, is built on a cluster of colour and black, 300 pieces glazed striped stuffs, islets, situated among the shallows which occur 1000 pieces serges, 2000 dozen worsted stockings, near the head of the Adriatic Gult. The houses 200 pieces burats, 200 ditto tammies, chiefly blue and spires seem to spring from the water; canals and black mixed; 500 pieces white calamancoes, are substituted for paved streets, and long narrow 500 pieces checked ditto, 2000 hats, of which 1800 boats, or gondolas, for coaches. Some parts of the white, a variety of light silk stuffs, flowered taffe- city are elegant, exhibiting fine specimens of the tas, glazed atlasses, gros de tours, single and dou-architecture of Palladio; but the splendid palace of ble stuffs, some white but more black redesillas, St. Mark is no longer thronged by Venetian nobles; velvet, part plain and part striped, dark green, the cassinos are comparatively deserted; and the bandman would be repaid with double harvests of many valuble productions. How worthy the attention of the statesman and the merchant is a state of things, calculated to confer the greatest benefits on mankind at the present critical period!" City of Venice. famed Rialto bridge has ceased to be distinguished ern termination of the pier at the Boua del Porta” for its rich shops and their matchless brocades. the course of the deeper channel accessible to very The ancient brazen horses have returned from their large vessels to the port of Venice, is marked out travels to Paris; but Venice has not been suffered by wooden stakes, or beacons, placed at short disto resume its consequence as the capital of an inde- tances. pendent state; the Bucentaur is rotten, and there is no longer any doge to wed the Adriatic. "The long continued blockade of the English annihilated the commerce of the port, and proved "The great' mole is situated about seventeen very disastrous to the Venetian vessels, many of miles to the south of Venice. It was begun so long which became ruinous, and have been found incaago as the year 1751, and it was not completed pable of repair. For some days during Sept. last when the French revolution broke out. On one part (1816,) only two vessels cleared at the custom of the wall were inscribed these words:-"Ut sacra house-one for Constantinople, and another for æstuaria, urbiset libertatis sedes, perpetuo con- Corfu. About half a dozen of small craft, Swedish, servetur, colosseas moles ex solido marmore contra Danish, Dutch, and Italian, were then lying at the mare posuere curatores aquarum." "This truly co- birth, waiting for cargoes, but with little expectalossal rampart passes through a morass, from l'Isle tion of obtaining them. During the war, capital was di Chiusa, on the west, along l'Isle di Murrassi, to wasted, and mercantile spirit extinguished; it is Bocca del Porto on the east, being an extent nearly not surprising, therefore, to find the commerce of of three miles. Towards the land side, it is ter- Venice at the lowest ebb. minated by a wall about ten feet high and four feet The merchants are now endeavouring to obtain broad. If one stands on the top of this wall, the from the Austrian government some advantages at whole is seen slanting on the other side till it ma- the expence of the rival ports of Leghorn and jestically dips into the Adriatic; and the magnitude Trieste, but with slender hopes of success; and it of the undertaking forcibly strikes the spectator's is not perhaps without reason, that the Venetians mind. The slanting part of the work commences have begun to despair of any signal revival of the about two feet and a half below the top of the wall, commerce of this ancient and once celebrated emand descends towards the water by two shelves or porium-to which Europe, it may be remarked, was terraces. A great part of the embankment is of indebted for the invention of public banks." close stone work: this vast piece of solid masonry is about fifty feet broad, measuring from the top of the wall to the water's edge. The stones are Power of Painting on Brutes. squared masses of primitive limestone, or "solid From the American Monthly Magazine. marble;" they are very large and are connected by Messrs Editors-If the following anecdote of the Puzzulana earth, brought from Mount Vesuvius. power of painting, in deceiving canine sagacity. Beyond this pile of masonry many loose blocks of strike you as forcibly as it did me, I am confident marble are placed, and extend a considerable way you will give it a place in your Miscellany. I coninto the Adriatic. When very high tides occur, fess I do not recollect to have heard of an analogous accompanied with wind, the waves break over the case. whole pier; and sometimes, on these occasions, part This In the year 1815, Doctor Buchanan, of the Unit of the loose blocks are thrown up and lodged upon ed States' navy, stationed at Sackett's Harbor, the level part of the rampart: it may be questioned, having sent his son to New-York for the purpose therefore, if this exterior range of loose masses of of taking passage for Europe, wrote to a friend in stone be not likely to prove rather detrimental than this city to select a portrait painter, and have the useful.-Near to this pier, on the side next the sea, boy's likeness portrayed and sent to him. there is water for vessels of considerable size. The was done, and some time after the friend received great object of the work is to guard the Lagoon on a letter expressing the father's approbation of the its south and most assailable point, "contra mare," portrait, and relating a singular occurrence evinsing as the inscription bears; and but for it Venice it is the truth of the resemblance. thought, would by this time have been in ruins "My friend, capt. Heilman, has a fine pointer dog, from the gradual encroachments of the sea. It is named Pero. My dear James being an excellent kept is good order, and seems lately, during the shot, and fond of sporting, an intimacy was consedominion of the French, to have received extensive quently formed between him and Mr. Pero-who repairs. This magnificent work is said to have would frequently call (as it were) for James to go excited even the admiration of Napoleon, which he a hunting. After James's absence he repeated his has marked by this inscription:-"Ausu Romano, visit about once a week, as if seeking his former ære Veneto." friend. The first visit he paid after the arrival of "It may be noticed, that the part of the rampart] Dunlap's semblance of his sporting companion was next to the entrance of the harbour, was the scene truly affecting-The moment he came into the door of many combats between the French troops and the picture struck his eye,-he stood motionless, the English sailors, during the blockade of Venice one leg raised and his tail wagging for a few moby our navy. The rigour of this blockade is not ments-he then seemed to have identified the truth generally known; so effectual did it prove, that of his own sight; he rapidly approached it, whining numbers of the native inhabitants, particularly of and wagging his tail,-jumped upon the chair over the lower orders, such as gondoliers, absolutely which it stood, and placing his forepaws on the perished through famine. "On the Isle di Murassi, already mentioned, are a number of houses, of a pretty enough appearance at a distance, but miserable on a nearer view; they are inhabited by fishermen, who, with their wretched and squaled wives and children flock round a stranger, begging with deplorable looks and tones of penury and want. The great Leguna, or shallow lake, also already mentioned, varies in depth from half foot to three and four feet and more. From the east a frame, licked the hands of his quondum young friend; and this visit he repeats frequently, standing, ere his departure, with his eyes fixed on the picture and his tail wagging adieu. I presume this fact has taken place a dozen times, and in the presence of a dozen people." Yours, &c. R. T. We certainly do consider the circumstance narrated by our correspondent, both extraordinary and interesting. It is, however, not the only instance we have met with of the triumph of the |