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wit1- tr.e requisite stowage of wood, be taken ;<ud eonidered to occupy one ihii 1 par: i r such vessel, and be deducted fr" n her fir; & actual admeasurement- nor shad the -id vessel be liable to pay Light Moo-e or F 'linige duty on any more than two thi' I parts of her actual admeasurement, any Law or usage to the contrary thereof ir. anywise notwithstanding. 11. And whereas it i< expedient to alter and amend the laws now in foTce as far as relates to levying and collecting Tonnage and Light House Duty, Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid* That no testes1! boat, raft or other craft of the burthen of ten tons and upwards, that shall enter any port witain this Province, shall be liable to pay any Light Houfe Duty, at any port where there shall be no Light House erected, any Law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. Exports of Cotton from India in the year IKIS From Calcutta. Bombay. !'<» England, bales of 300 lbs. 173,020 138*51$ Hie Continent, 50*0*2 40,109 America, **,*t0 -*--.-8y China, 7b.07G 11*2,10? FQIIEIGX >EIVS, n * < From a London Poper. From a periodical work, publifhed by the Englilh fociety for the prcfervatron of univetfal peace, entitled" The Herald of Peace,* we feleft an addiefs to the emperor of Ruflia, with his Imperial majcftVs reply. "To'his Imperial Majefty, Alexander, Emperor of all the Rnffias, Src. &c. May it pleafe your majclty. The world ha*, lately feen great and fingular events—the awlul deftruclion of human life, and the wide "diffufion of human blcffingrs. It has feen a cnriflian emperor, in the hour of victory, proclaiming the principles of peace—a league of chnftiau monarchs united in the fame views—and the eltabltfh- ment of focietie* in the old world and in the new ; each in its humble and limited fphere aiming to carry thofe principles into crT^a. Penetrated with admiration and with gratitude to the Author of .ill good, for this aufpicious view of events the fociety cltab'ifncd in London fm the promotion «*f permanent and univerfal peace, naturally turns its attention to human inftrumenta to whom the Almighty ha9 given the power, and whofe will, we trull, he has alfb influenced, to promote, in their high Ration*, his own eauTe in the earth. " We are. therefore, emboldened to feck the countenance and fupportofa monarch, whofe prufeffed opinions favor this glorious object, and whofe a&ions h'opily confirm the fincerity of thofe pinfcfiiont lA(^U| tlii'ifUii, Ilit 'O «t-t-*pi *ltc heartfelt acknowledgment! of this focrety, fcr the part your majelty has taken in the caufe of fuffering humanity; and permit me to prcfent to your majefty, in their name, a fit of tract* which they have pub- lilhed with a view to promote the object of permanent, and univcrfal ptacc. Thefc will beft explain the piincip'es on which their exertions arc founded, and the pro- grefs which ihey haw already made. Signed, ( n behalf of the committee ) RO-.fiRT MAKSDEN. Chairman. " Earl llrect, Blackfriars, London, Sepl 3-*h, iSiS. " Aix-la-Chapelle, the 6th— 13th Oct. 1S1S. " I received, fir, with fatUfaflion, the communications of a fociety titablifhrd upon principles conducive to permanent and univerfal oeacc. The mixture of good and evil obferva- b!e in recent events, h3« exemplified in a iifnjl manner the /difcriminating difpen fat ion cf Divine ProTidcr.cc. in mercy and judgment. As achriltfan, 1 cannot but defire the eftahliinment of peace on earth by every lawful and practicable means. As a chrill-an fnvereign, I muft antici¬ pate a time when nation mall not lift up fwr.rd againtt natiov, neither (Itall they war any more. The unanimity of other chriftian powers is yet uninterrupted ; and ftiti'dcd on principles of our holy and fair eft proipecr. of {lability. Permanent and univerlal peace is not altogether at man's ciifpofal; it is encourag inp to obferve the growth of pacific di™ polition* in the world ; and focietiej con¬ ducted in a temperate and chriftian fpiiit, rnav contribute to their extealion and main¬ tenance. With thrfe views, the object of your feci" ty cannot fail of pry cordial appro¬ bation, without Involving an impred concur¬ rence in mcafute- adopted lor its attain¬ ment, over which 1 have no control. Al.EX\NDKR. To Robert Marfden Efq. London. . ■ • • CALCUTtA, Jau.33- Ceylon.—W> have at length the satis¬ faction of announcing to the public, the return of His Excellency the Governor [L:eut. General Sir Robert BrownrW] to Columbia, after an absence of more than fifteen months, (taring »Iitch event¬ ful period he has effectually crashed th" alarming insurrection which had '■o lorn. di*trarted that country, and ultfmatcU established the British dominion on u iirrncr basis than ever, throughout th. whole of the Kand)an Provinces, Hi Excellency reached Columho Nov. 28(h, and was met at the Grand 1 as'hy almost the u hole of the population of Cofumbo, '.f all ranki and descriptions, and ua» rrcived «ithc7erj demonstration of jn\ 7.ud respect, CktVSTtkn Jan. 20- lli< said that the (.'h"i- *a Muibus, ha- ••& l'm«ed the Bay of iJ-'u-al, is nc.\ . rg in the Kingdom of Ava. U'counts fn.m tUjpotona announce death of Jttgiiut Sintj. Raj*h of Jay- nti the 'iOth ult. lie »a> immedi- -u« eocdi-d by his nephew MftUtl ,a Loy ff'j years o!«l. bly fallow the mo,-n'fi cr,trance into any one of her quatters, .i,^ thit foucar the truth that it will be vc-y fcldom found to fail. Total 34'>.S18 3'2:i.lU7 Whole exports 6GOG50 bales, rained at 52,852,4t>0siccu rupees,or0,606,55O/. -I'rling. Extract of a kttcr. tinted Bombay* Dec 26, IS18. t: The crop of cotton of the past sea¬ son is almost inexhaustible. The ex¬ ports from this place amount to V.11.700 nalpsduiin" the year, viz. to England 95.800, France 16.000, Portu¬ gal 14,900, America 35,900, China r*5,!00, a quantity more than double what it has ever been before, and there is now on the Bombay Green, and in ware¬ house, upwards of 30.000 hales, which will of course be exported, before the nextcropcomes in, which (here is no reason to suppose will be less abundant fhau that of the past year." BOMBAY, Dec. 25. A few week* ago, we noticed the de¬ predation of a Jackal, in carrying off an infant from the side of her mother. A similar instance lat'ly occurred at Gun- da Talla, in the Division of Muichuuh Bazer, where a Jackal,about t«oo'clock nn thu morning of the 2(Hh ult. carried off one or two children that were sleep¬ ing on eitherside of their mother. She iras disturbed b\ a tugji'igat herclothes, and jot up to ascertain the cause, when -he missed her infant of ten months old. She searched for it in vain, but at day¬ break, found it in a ditch, nbonl forty yards distant from her hut—the flesh i-n- tirely torn off, and a limb or two only remaining. . . « - Charleston, May 15. Cession of Cubit to Grrttt Britain.— The report of the cession of the island of Cuba to Great Britain, received a few days since, via Savannah, gains credence. Captain Clarkson, of the <-ehr. Sea-11 or>c, arrived here yesterday, in fi days from llavanua. confirms this rumour, in all its '•ssential particulars He informs thai Admiral Sir Home Popham, after lying »OITtC time in Havanna. sailed thence on the 1st in?t. for Jamaica, leaving behind him three sloops of war. The proposed »<(.;•>,<■ ***« nMUfftttv * waffflftiQ Vj Ur inhabitant- when capt. Clarkson sailed, but caused much dissatisfaction. So much indeed, were the public enraged, that it wav publicly declared, that if the island must pass from its present government, the inhabitants themselves uould pny the purchase money, and afterwards dec tart* themselves independent A passenger in the brig New-Jersey, Reeves, arrived on Saturday morning, in 15 days from Havanna, *>tates, that the report of that Island having been ceded ro thi- British is without foundation.— Dotty Advcrfisvr. II i; he a m-w »r lull munii. or llir moon eiitto into the Fir»t or La*t ij-.arter.ai ihe lourof 12 at Noon---------- iff between the limrr of 2 and I--- nUUMLK.I WINTI.R 4 G i c ft — io 10 viihtiglit ^lidiiiglit lo '2 o o A G 8 ii 8 10 very Rjiny 5nonortain Mir & miUI chan^rablc ^iir rait rail A: frmh Fair, if if n nrw r. wiiiriN. w r;iiii or iflon Riiinv if s. if & or 1 or t. if. s. sv. IHttO i>i(to Mir iSr frtffj yair cardIVo>r.un* Mir \tU wind I. orw. rnM, \x\th IOOW and rreqamt Moray vlmurT*. | Rain ] imli frfnd&rain 9lorrr>T c -siiievahlt 10 12 ntlrl rain if w *n«'-. ifE. ecW nigh wind. To the Editor oj the JWn York Even- fag Post. LONDON, Feb. 6, 1S10. Sir—It having been Mated, in several .lewspapers of the United States, thai a Certain work, entitled i; A full and cor- rect account of the chief naval occurren¬ ces of *h» late war between Great Brit¬ ain and the United States of America Sec. by William James," \\as a izrittci Wider the patronage of the tords of the admiiutty" allow me, through the medl- •im of your truly respectable journal, t» dedaiv, that (heir lordships in no ua\ 'ontributed lo Us publication: although, some time afler it■* appearance in prim, they ordered 40 copies, as did the F.a»t Indict Company, in token tf their appro¬ bation of it. The appearance of my real christian "ami- in some of your prints. led me tt» hope thai a previous paragraph, calling mrj Hubert* and making me out to be ;i reprieved felon from Ihe Seiz-York state prison, would have been contradicted, a* •u justice i! ought. The object of Hit libel, no doubt, was to throw discredit on my inval work—but the Mail reputa¬ tion which both that work and its mili¬ tary companion hare acquired from th,- British public, entitles I hem to be, at least, rend, before they are condemned b> the public of the United Slates. A perusal of cither of my works will show. thai ] have not den It *o unfairly with any one hl-tory of the hit.- war, which I wa> foitiitiato enough to procure from your side ol Ihe water. { should lie happy to see, from amount you, a fair and manly review of my (Wi. works; not a personal attack upon the author, but a dispioof uf hi- Statement? ; —not a cavilling at his style, but a Con. filiation ofhr- arguments* Such n pub¬ lication would find a ready ^'to in this •ountry ; and Mr. Souler, of St. Paul's Church \ard. the American bookseller, would, 1 know, be clad to receiva a few copies in his next consignment. With BOapolog) foi this iniiusion, J have the lionor lo remain, sir, Your respectful humble serv't, WILLIAM JAMKS. Doctor Hersciid'a Perpetual Weather TaWc The following table, constructed by the eclchrated l>i-ctor#Heischcl, upon a phi'.ofophical consideration, of the attrac¬ tion of the sun and rr.. on, in their fcveral position? as to the earth, and confirmed by the experience of many years actual obser¬ vation, may without doubt, "Qggtlt to the ebcCrver what kind of weather will p-cbv I rrrfjurnt 'hover*. From the above table it will be feen, that the nearer to midnight either of the moon's periodical changes (t. e. within two bourn either before or after i:) the more fair the weather h in fummer i while the nearer to noon that the change takes place the reverie may he expected Fair weather may alio follow when either of the periodical changes occur during the fix afternoon hours, viz. from fom \o ten, but this is moflly dependent on the wind — The moon's entrance during all the hours after midnight, except the two firll, is unfavorable (0 fair weather The like may nearly be obfcivcd in winter. Every farmer ought to r>rcfcrve a copy of thi table, and carefully to rcRulait his purfuit by its indictatious. Such a line of <.<m duft might materially promote his com fort-and hit tuterefts, w'ile in no cafe could it difturb his profj-efts or dc&ioy his hopes. ( London paper From R'itch* ooit't .'..V.:..- Miipazfrn Remarks on the Periodical Criti cismol Kn^la.nd—in a letter toa frimrd (Translated from the (lerwurt of Vou Ijiiii'crwinket * ) The obiervBOOOt which I made on the periodica] critic-* of Britain, in my la-it let tei, do nol nar.iify you. You insist that my late journew to London mu»t ha«r fcnmfflbaA mevavth m0£h m and ifiiritA inp information coiic.rn;ng KnghVh litera ture in all Its brancj1C!t. ana you request me to communicate l0 yoa whatever I may have learned • eyeing those s(ranffe Reviews* which at prK„t rule the authors and readers of the rrce.t cmintry i, Eu¬ rope, with asarbitrar- aild merciless a sway as wa- ever exerted Bver the civil and po¬ litical world by asp(.r(ive Nero, or a gloo my iberius. My d-ar fri.nd. I went to England to tramact a vcry delieue piece of butine**, not at a|| connected with lite¬ rature ; and during my stay („ |tft metro¬ polis, the great men whom I SiW were not the ureal men of literature. 1 will do, however, all that I t an t0 sal|,fy yonr ^e sires. Remember of,|v lnJ, much, that if my remarks appear W bitter than those of your illustrious fneMj y0!i must not on that account suppose that we radically dif fcr in opinion. T|,c pT,'Vy conn-illorf mu-t be excused for ip&king with a little eMra-severity, for llP has had reason to think on thi- subject morc than 6ocef with the feelings of oe»,oi!al resentment and in suited genioi ;—but „f thU in the sequel. Althonah you ari. wc}\ rcaij ;n Ent.lfsh iuthor», it may not tse unnecevsary to icll y..u. that n-ahing is more unlike a German Review than an Engl;^, ore If yott |((nk first at the tabic of content* in an F.din- burgh, and then at i|ial in a Leipsig Re¬ view, you perceive, indeed, that the bo,4* crit-cised are not tht Same book*, but you would not suspec: l|,at the whole system and style of criticism adopted in the two works arc far rm-re different than the lan¬ guages in which thry arc composed. A German Reviewer is a p|ai0t senMblc, so ber piofessor, docto-, or ma?%tr of 3rts, hired by his booksclUr lo c-mpose a sim¬ ple analysis of a iuw work, in the very same di-pa-ssionate and reflective manner wherein an ..bsiisct of any bo<ik of anti¬ quity, dug up at JWpeii or Pactum, would probahly he Wntrn. It is no mat tcr although the first |caf be waminrr, and the author's name a mystciy j the poem, history, or treatise, e judged according to its own merits by the critic ; and the read¬ er is presented with gftc nrtwo inteiestinsr e^tii'cln, enuUgh to CA...U. not ly adtity, tV appetite of his curiosity —An EnjJMi Reviewer is 2 smart, clever man o' the w->rld. or else a violent political zealot. H" takes up a new honk either to make a je«t .if it, and amuse hit. *cader« and htm- se^f at the expense of its author or he m'kts uie of the name of it merely as an excuse for writing, what be thinks the author might have been better employed in doing, a dis ertaiion. in favour -f the nvtnister if the Review be the pr .pcty uf a r*ntitc, against him and nil his meisures if it be the property *if a Foxtte, book.el- 'ca. It i* n<> maiter alth .ugh the poor ar.hor be a m in who cares nothing r.t all anjut politics, and has nevet once thought ft'ther of Pitt or F oc, Casilerea«h or Napo- lei»n,duriogibcwh'tle time-»f comp(»5inc; hi- b."-'k- The English Reviewers ate ol the • \\ hen wearifLn»(m,'t lliu 1>"tl^r-nm»* inonlf. ac1. wr mi'iMioufil it *•. the couiposiiiontil'a eer- imii ■ ■ )■ '•■ .' I Oi 1 man ciitic. VJr delayed •■ piNilir.tiii;:i in coitirtp'tnce of ttttttt SmtoiCHM urnnerouned Miothai point, and baveUnri li-amt'i) fiom tin* tiunlumi iNal iliea-'luu 11 irf the uiiit-r wr 1-aJ nanird. on I hh fr*ri>d BarOO *»U 1.3>i rwii kel. libiTCA. Mleavaiit Goethe opinion of Pericles, that politics are, or •h >uld be, in »«'me w.) or ,thu thi -ub> jeel of ev-ry man's tiling . u Ton met din tonede meUchonta Qui aprtlgmotia a//* achreion nomizomen." The b ok itsc'f is perhaps as far, both in subject and spir¬ it from politics, as can well be imagined. The Reviewer does not mind that: when he sits down to criticise it, his first ones lion is not, k" is this b..ok good or bad ?" but it is, " is this writer a mini terialist or an oppositionist ?" No one knows : the author is a person who live> in his pro¬ vince, and cats beef and drinks port, with¬ out ever arking who is minister, regent, or king. B'.n he has a nephew, a cousin, or an uncle, who is memberof parliament. & votes. This is quite sufficient. If he votes with Lord Ca<t!ereagh,thepoctiy, or biography orhiflory ©r philosophy, or tradition of his kinsman, is excellent in the eyes ftheQuar terly, and contemptible in the eyes of the Edinburgh Reviewer. Does he oppose the minister ? then the tables arc turned : the Quarterly despises, and the Edinburgh extolshim. His genius is tried- not by the rules of Aristotle, but by those of St. Stephen's chapel- A man may be a dunce.—that is a trifte. If he can influ¬ ence a single vote in the House of Coni- mc*i*. he may reckon upon being trum¬ pet ted tip as a great maa by either ose bet of critics 01 another. The truth is, that the English Revfewer does not much care what the merit of the author is. Tht author is a mere puppet in the hands of the critic. His name in¬ deed arpeari at the top of the page; be is the ostensible punch of the exhibition ; but the person behind the curtain n very ill satisfied unless your admiration is re¬ served for hiiTiBelf. He can make his doll scream or growl as he pleases : he make* it hop through a jig, or swim through a mii'uct, as it suits his fancy. vly dear friend, -he -uth >r is nothing—the Review- ei every thing. It is he that pockets your money, ami is it n:t but fur that be should fyrnish you with the amusement ? Yjii remember what I have said of Shakespeare th t he i« an angelic being, a |«< re spirit, "ho looks down upon u the grc. t j»lobe it elf and all which it inha N'ts * a* if from the elevat'on of some hiuher placet, lie i«, like Urir', the an¬ gel of th-- sun, partaker in all the glories of the orb in which he dwells. Undaz- zled by the splendour which surrounds himself, he sees every thing with the calm eye of intellect. It is true, th..t at the moment when he views any object, a flood 'Ot Vi^Ki ifrio •waYfthih are t'nrowi. uvea '« from the parsing -un of genius Still he «tes the world a> it n ; and if ihe beams love ' • dwell lonjre-t on «ome favoured re¬ gion, there is none upen which they never shine It is a bold thing to compaie Shakspcare with a Reviewer ; but if ever the world should possess a perfect Review er, be assured that he will bear, in rminy respects, a striking resemblance to this first of poets Like him he will be uni¬ versal—impartial—rational. The serious and the mirthful wTH be alike his favourites. He will dirsccl with equal acuteness the character of a Caliban or a Coriolanus. He will have divine intellect a .d human feeling so blended within him, that hi shall sound, with equa1 facility the »oul -*f a Hamlet, and the hean of a Juliet What a being would ihf« be! Compared with him, the present cnVcs of England are either satirical buffoons like Fo;-tc or Aristophanes or thev are truculent trage¬ dian*, like the author <if The Kcvcngc. But it i> time that 1 kh'ould introduce them a little more fully to yur acquaintance I ^iid, in the first sentence of this letter, that the present Reviewers of Engl.iod a*e as de«potical a* Nero or Tiberius. An oligarchy i* alw.y- a tyrannical govern¬ ment ; and such is at thi' moment the constitution of their literary empire. The oligarchy is made up of two parties, who detest each other with a virulence of ha¬ tred never surpassed either in Syracuse or in Florence The heads of these two fac¬ tions,—these Neri and Rianchi "f criti¬ cism,—are Jeffray and Gifford The for¬ mer resembles the gay despel of Rome, the latter the bloody and cruel one of Caprcx. Both are men of j>reat talents, and 'oth are, I think, vtry bad Reviewers. We have never had any thing likr either of them in Germany, therefore 1 must de¬ scribe them at some length. I think that no man can ever be a good critic, unless he be something more than a Reviewer Aristotle and l.essing remain, but Chamfort and all the wits of the Mer care have perished. We will not take our opinion of a great poet from one whom, in spite of all the cleverness which can be VlL. .• 11 lit M !•.'. *~»L ■■ ■ .'• - >vn Ittk ti>" ■ •••• mcasnreably the inferior »f the person whom he criticises. Mr Gifford (Edrtor of the- Quarteily or Minifterial Review) is meiely a critic & a satirist, lie hastrai.slat- rd Juvenal, and done full juftice, if not to the majeftlC eloquence, at least to the sa¬ vage spleen of that ternb'edeclaimer He his written one celebrated satire of his own. He has also been Editor of almost all the old dramaiitU of England ; and he has displayed inhisillulliati «nsof thelc writers, , r at verbal acumen, and great penetra¬ tion into 1 *me parts of human nature ; but he has done all thi* with a perpetual ac¬ companiment of ill-natured abuse, and cold rancoro raillery. He appears to be admirably fitted foi deciding among read¬ ing*, and for reviling his enemies. He is exquisitely formed for the purposes of po¬ etical objurgation, but not at all for those of ,;entlc and universal criticism. He is, besides, a man who has ra^ed himself from a -ow rark in society, by hi* great and ' ..wciful talents ; and he (till ictains not a itt'i ol t* at coarncnes and insensibility in *t'i*;iid o man tstin;-. which are a'way- inseparable from the character of one whosi youthful education Via"! !>een ebnmtetcd without the oVlicacy and te<>drinCH natu¬ ral to people of the -1 oe lefintd ordci- of society- »Ve often read 'he Reviews in his journal with gi. it pleasure, snrh arc the (Ire gth of his language and the ma¬ lignity ot our natur- ;—1 ut all who u;cr who have been, or who q can to be authors, mull, 1 think, " joi»i trembling w-'h their mirth." To say t..e truth, Mr G.ff >rd if one of the last persons whom I th >u!d think of asking, with respect to a great work >f genius. The glass through which be looks is indeed one of great power, but it is tinged with the daiknefs *;f bile; and though it reveal* diftant objects, it at the fame lime difcolours them. The worA thing about ihii gentleman'* fevcrity is, that in ir.olt inllanccs it is quite difpropoitioncd to the ofF.ncc* which call it forth. His reputation, as a man who ha« deferred well of English literature, rclts chirfly on his polltfta] l.itiie, vhi.h I have men loucd above—the *' baviad and M:r- viad " That production poiTclfes cer¬ tainly fome merit ; it is well written aid pungent, and reminds us more than any other Knglish poem of this a^e, uf foine of the bell features of the fchool :*f I ope. But its principal chivaetcrittic is the keen nefaof its abufe ; one not much acquaint¬ ed with the later English literature, would nevet doubt that the indignation of the au¬ thor bad been kiudlci againtl some new and menftrous heresy, supported bv pow¬ erful genius, and likely to p-oducc fome feiious or fata! change in the literary tenets of rhe English. Mull we not be altoriisb- ed to learn, that all this wrath has over¬ flowed upon the foolift frail whirn of :t few newfpaperand magazine poetallcrs — a silliness 100 contemptible ever to have been regarded, except with a tranfitoTV contempt, by any man capable of appreci¬ ating the true character of authors ? I low can owt who thinks the Lauras and Delfo Cruseas matters of fo great moment, form any rational opinion concerning fucti men a- Scott, Wadfworth, Byron, or Goctbe * You can uevcr difcover 'he motions of dis¬ tant worlds by means of the lame inlttu- mcnl which enables you to detect a might) population in a rotten leaf. (To he continued.) UOA1M MWMH& llAr.tr.4.\, April -JO. House of Assembly, 12th April, Tin- Rouse was mostly occupird du- rinc the remainder of t|lr-u*v] Inm Cwu» ouUee ol supply ; iu»J «?•*-% «IOi Appropriation BUI being completed, and agreed to by the Council,* McssajE* w:ii received from His Excellency the Lieu- tenant Governor, ron;uirin^ its immedi- ate attendance in the Council Chamber, M hen the House Attended accordingly. On the return of Urn Uouse, ihcSrrA- ker stated that His I'xrcllctiey had given his assent to several Dills which rcquiied Hi* Excellency's signature : and had been pleased to make a Spet tit. of W Inch the following is a copy :— Mr* rn.zs\DzXi.au<l Gcnticvnoflli? Majesty's Council* Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen «■/ tht House oj Assembly, l have observed v.ith great satisfaction Ihe zealous and continued attftition nhich you have given to the public ser¬ vice during this unusually long Session of Assembly. Your loyal Addrrssto His Royal High- nesfl the Prince Regent, on the death of Uer late Majesty the (Iuein, has been Irausmitted to His Majesty's Secretary ■I Slate. It is now my duly to express my sent'.- mentson the measures which have come under your discussion, and particularly those which appeared to me to deserre your serious consideration, The niiatis you have provided for the founding a College in Halifax, and for the forming of a Provincial Agricultural Society, are, [ trust) sufficient to enable me to ace mplisli the first object ; and to meet with effect in Ihe other, the desire uf the Country lo pi omote its Agriculture: I do entertain a confident hepr thai both of (hese Institutions «ill prow, in lime, lo be sources of great and permanent ad¬ vantage to the Province. 1 regret that Ihe alterations I suggest¬ ed for yonr consideration, in ihe system of Militia, and fi-r the improvement of the Public Roads, have not been adopt¬ ed: I regret this (he more, that 1 had been led to entertain better Itopf* i" tlic commencement of the Session, and be¬ cause I have seen that my intentions Iijvp boon entirely misunderstood onkmth sob* JiCti. f I thank you for C)e. supplies granted for Ihe Public Services of the year, and particularly for the means you have pla¬ ced at my disposal upon the new line 0* road from Anuapoiis. I observe, with regret, thai the appro¬ priation Act containc a vie which I could not approve under a-v eircumstin- ces, much less under th«" d flicul'ies which are felt in a Revenue inadequate to the wants of the public m rvice. I mean the addition ol I ay to Members of tiie House of Assembly J upon that point however, I have yielded my o«" opinion in deference to that of the *»th* r two Bmnc cs of the Legislature* I have nothing now to recommend to you more earnestly, than that, in return¬ ing io your lion e , v«u \>ould auimat*' in your respective Counties, ihe same loyal spirit which has dVUSii^oisbed )• ur proceedings in Assendily : and thatJOU would encoura^* (hal spirit of indotry KOd improvement in Agriculture, wh.ck tppean to be general at this time in the Province. DAI BOUSiB