to collect into one view the scattered notices upon this subject which occur in the journals of the time.

The Helen, Wilson, sailed from Kirkaldy on the 20th May, for Halifax, with nearly 100 passengers. Since that period the following vessels, with emigrants, have sailed from Leith for British America, viz. Agincourt, Matheson, 200; Alexander, Henry, 44; Lord Middleton, Ker, 163; and Trafalgar, Mitchell, 78; in all 485. On the 30th May, about 100 mechanics, engaged as settlers on Mr Moodie's estates at the Cape of Good Hope, embarked at Leith on board the smack Matchless, for London.

Six hundred and seventy-two persons have this year emigrated from the port of Hull for Canada.

No fewer than 547 persons have this season emigrated from the port of Dumfries alone, and, we believe, considerably more than 100 have sailed from the port of Annan. The Nancy, which left the Nith on 7th June, with 119 passengers, found on her arrival at the Carse, 34 additional adventurers, waiting at that place to be taken on board! We lately mentioned (says the Dumfries Journal) that the Jessie, of this port, had sailed with goods and 65 passengers for British America; and we have now to add, that the three under-mentioned vessels, with goods, and 275 passengers, will sail this week from this port, for the same destination :-Elizabeth, for St John's, 125; Augusta, for Miramichi, 115; North Star, 35; Jessie, for St John's, 65. Total 340.

Number of emigrants that have sailed from the port of Belfast for America, from the 17th of March to the 21st of August inclusive ;-For Philadelphia, 252; New York, 331; Norfolk, 40; Baltimore, 251; St Andrews, 252; Quebec, 1023. Total 2149.

A moral malady, says a continental journal, seems to affect the inhabitants of several countries in Europe, and that malady is emigration. It began its ravages at that period when it ought to have found the termination of them, in the restoration of general peace-when all sources are reopening to activity and commercewhen it is at length permitted us to taste repose after 30 years of misery. Vainly is it stated that the streets of Philadelphia and New York are full of unfortunate mendicants, who weep for the native land they never will see again-vainly do the priests and magistrates endeavour to check the dis ease. Reason has lost her power, and

from the mountains of Switzerland and Germany, descend whole families, who embark on the Rhine, traverse Holland, and are going under the Tropics to find there misery and repentance.

Amsterdam, April 30.-There are here more than six hundred unhappy Swiss and German families, who want to go to America, destitute of every thing; men, women, and children, run about the streets begging a morsel of bread to keep them from starving, while waiting their departure. Some of them who were provided with money to pay their passage, have been deceived and plundered by a German, who made them believe that he was commissioned to receive (on giving them a receipt) part of the passage money on account: he promised them a good vessel, &c. He made some of them proceed to the Helder, the others were to embark here; but in neither of the two ports was either vessel or captain of the names which he had given them. The pretended agent vanished last Friday, carrying away a sum of money, which is estimated at several thousand florins, leaving his

victims in the most deplorable situation. Every measure has been taken to discover this swindler, but hitherto without avail.

Jutphaas (Netherlands) April 24.We have seen pass by this place, at different times in the course of this year, some thousands of individuals of both sexes, coming chiefly from Switzerland, and going through this commune to Utrecht, in order to proceed to America. This emigration seems to augment. Yesterday passed six vessels, on board of which were twelve hundred Swiss families, from the Canton of Basle. To-day six hundred have passed, who are to be followed by a still greater number.

An inhabitant of this commune, who conversed with several of them, found that many of them had directed, as masters and weavers, the first manu. factories of linen, cotton, and silk, in Switzerland, and distress and want of work were the causes which obliged them to quit their country.

Mentz, June 2.-From the 16th to the end of May, a great number more of emigrants has passed down the Rhine; viz. from Baden, 492 men, 449 women, and 1096 children, in all 2037; from Alsace, 211 men, 480 women, 444 children, in all 845; from Wurtemberg, 52 men, 38 women, 69 children, in all 159, making a sum total of 3041. The number of them was much greater, but as they found at Weisenau, above Mentz, some hundreds of emigrants, who were returning to their country, who gave them a dreadful picture of the misery which awaited them in Holland, a great many of them turned back, or resolved to go to Poland. The accounts which travellers bring from the Lower Rhine make humanity shudder. Poor wretches, who return in great numbers, have been found starved on the road, with grass in their mouths. About Amsterdam, where it was found necessary

to erect barracks for them without the gates, their number is said to have increased to 3,000, who are almost entirely destitute of every thing.

Rotterdam, May 19.-I am just arrived from Amsterdam, where there are not less than 4000 Swiss and Ger. man peasants waiting to embark for America, and more are arriving daily. The city of Utrecht is crowded with these distressed emigrants; and at Amsterdam there are about 500 encamped in the open fields, waiting for the like purpose. Their appearance is exceed. ingly novel, and they seem to be organized in clans, having chiefs, and a gradation of superiors. At Amsterdam I saw them frequently promenading the streets in little bands, with a leader at their head.

Emigrants from Switzerland to North America pass in great numbers by Strasburg. It is said in that town that an ex-great personage (Joseph Buonaparte) who is founding a colony in the new world, has agents in Switzerland to excite this emigration.

The number of persons who have emigrated from Baden this year, is said to be 20,000, of whom about 2000 have gone to Poland, and the rest to North America.

Stutgard, June 30.-For some weeks past we see a great number of Wurtemburgers return, who had quitted their country to go and seek their fortune elsewhere, and who are now in the greatest distress. Some of them return from Holland, or from the frontiers of that country, and of the Prussian States, where a passage has been refused them. Others have been only to the environs of Mentz, where the crowds of their fellow countrymen, who were returning home, induced them to do the same.

From Ratisbon, the 17th instant, it is mentioned, that on the 14th two bodies of Wurtemberg emigrants, consisting of 4 or 500 persons each, pass

through that city on their way to e borders of the Black Sea. Two hundred and eighty emigrants om Wurtemberg are encamped on e glacis of Vienna. They were unle to pay for their passage by the anube to Gallatz, and were starving, til the inhabitants of Vienna took em under their protection.

A distressing picture is given in the merican journals, of the emigrants to merica from Holland and Germany; d some severe but just remarks are ade on the conduct of those captains ho are styled the kidnappers of the preigners. A person of some credit, leading the cause of those deluded ad unhappy emigrants, terms the rade an unhallowed speculation in hite freemen's liberty, which he coniders in the highest degree derogatory o the character of the American republic. He avers,—

1st, That such servants as come from Germany, at least, are generally ignoant of that humiliating fact, that they are to be made slaves for years, for the payment of their passage.

2d, That they are not driven by famine or necessity from their native country, but that they are enticed by kidnappers, with false promises of happiness and gain, superior to any they could enjoy in Europe.

3d, That the whole business is a speculation, even more infamous than the slave trade on the coast of Africa. 4th, That this inhuman traffic is a flagrant breach of the law of nations, and abhorred by every civilized go

vernment.

Accounts have been received by the

Jean, arrived at Annan, from the emigrants who sailed from Scotland the latter end of last spring for America. These unfortunate men found themselves miserably disappointed in their expectations. Artificers in wood or iron were the only tradesmen in any request; little or no demand for labourers in husbandry, hewing or squaring of wood being the only source of extended permanent employment for any considerable part of the year, and the season for it is now rapidly expiring, and a long winter coming on, with hardly any resources but charity.

Extract from the report of the joint committee of the senate and assembly, to whom was referred the memorial of the Mayor, Aldermen, and commonality of the city of New York, relative to the proportion of auction duties arising from sales at public auction in the city of New York, which was appropriated to the support of foreign poor in that city.

"That many foreign artisans land in the city of New York; disperse themselves among the various manufactories established through the country, where they seldom gain a settlement, and when reduced to want, are returned to be supported by that city.

"That many foreigners who support their families during the summer months, when employment can be readily obtained, and the necessaries required for the support of life are few, and easy to be procured, abandon their families in the winter season, and leave them a charge upon the public bene

volence.

"That one-fourth of the population of said city is computed to consist of foreigners, who having no relatives in this country, are liable, upon the least reverse of fortune, to become a public burden; that the emigration from Europe during the last year to the

city of New York alone, amounted to upwards of seven thousand foreigners, most of whom are in indigent circumstances; and that, from the total stagnation of mercantile business in that city, and the suspension of its large manufacturing establishments, many of those emigrants must, during the present winter, be destitute of employ,

and depend entirely upon the city for relief."

The Highlanders have emigrated to Upper Canada in great numbers, espe cially from the western parts of Inver ness-shire. In a new settlement up the country, more than 1400 are said to have been settled during the last year.

JANUARY.

"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."

The following official notice was on Friday, Jan. 10, issued from the office of the Master of the Mint :

NEW SILVER COINAGE.

"Royal Mint, Jan. 17, 1817.The new silver coinage being now very nearly finished, arrangements are making for enabling all his Majesty's subjects in every part of Great Britain to exchange, at the same period, the old for the new silver coin of the realm. This exchange will commence on or before Monday, the 3d February next, and all standard silver coin of the realm, (however defaced or reduced in weight by use) should continue to be given and received in payments, for the short period that will elapse before the issue of the new silver coin. By this means no interruption of the circulation will

arise.

"NOTE.-The old silver coin of the realm, (however defaced or reduced in weight by use,) is received in payments at its nominal value, by all branches of the revenue, and at the Bank of Eng.

land, and will continue to be so, until it is exchanged for the new silver coinage. "W. W. POLE, "Master and Worker of his Majesty's "Mint."

Weekly assistance afforded to the Spitalfields weavers :—

The associations distribute at the dwellings of the poor, in sums from 1s. to 5s. 6d. according to the urgency of their wants, among nearly 6,000 families.........

For clothing, in addition to various benevolent contributions, both of old and new articles of clothing............

Loss on the sale of about 7,000 quarts of soup per day, or about 40,000 per week..................

Ditto on sale of cod (from three to four ton weight)...

Ditto on herrings (eight to ten barrels).................. Ditto on rice (a ton weight)................. Ditto on coals (1,500 bushels)................ Wages and charges...... Present weekly expenditure...........

nearly 1,0001.

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250

15

5

25

75

10

1,5301.