ral mutineers were brought to Boston for trial, and executed the fourth of the following July-one hundred years ago. Here follows the account from the Boston Gazette of that day. "On Tuesday last, three of the condemned pirates, mentioned in our last, were executed at Charlestown Ferry-viz. Wm. Fly, captain; Samuel Cole, quarter master; and Henry Greenville." "The other, named George Condick, was reprieved by his Honour, our Lieut. Gov.for a year and a day in order to be recommended to his Majesty's Favour. Cole and Greenville appeared very penitent, but Fly shewed no manner of reluctancy for the crime for which he suffered. He was hung in chains, the same day, upon an island called Nix's Mate." It was formerly here as in Europe, the custom to hang pirates in chains to strike a terror to sailors as they come into port, that the influence might deter them from the commission of such wickedness. Noddle Island, but more particularly, Apple Island are spoken of in the ancient records of the town of Boston, as far back as 1667. It seems to have been customary, at that period, and for considerable time after, for the selectmen to let those islands, to individuals, for pastures. Hence annual mention is made of them, as having been let the preceeding year. Hogg Island Hogg Island is noticed in the same way; but no account is given of a survey-the number of acres &c. and we are unable to ascertain their former pearance or dimensions. The Great Brewster, is an irregular reaf of rocks and soil, alternately,-extending from the outer harbour or boundary of the main ocean, towards George's Island,--terminat ing at the centurian, or beacon, so called, located upon its extreme point, towards the channel. The Graves is a name applied to another wild and barren reaf of rocks, at the north of the lower light house, which is located on the Great Brewster. So many vessels and men have been lost upon this reef, that the term grave appears a proper appelation. Thompson's island lies between Spectacle island and Dorchester,being generally elevated pasture-about half a mile in length. There is nothing particularly interesting in its history. This concludes the notice of the principle islands in Boston harbour, and although their early history is lost, we hope we have laid a foundation for future historians, who may here find a record of them, when the little we have been enabled to gathfrom the oldest inhabitants, might have been lost in the revolutions of time. er, New-Periodicals.-Mr. F. S. Hill, already favourably known as the author of that beautiful work, the Memorial, recently published by Messrs. True & Green, will soon issue a semi-monthly publication, to be called The Lyceum, at four dol lars a year. From our knowledge of the literary qualifications of the editor, we recommend the Lyceum to the paof our friends. tronage apMr. Hill has our best wishes for his success. December. Within a few days, the weather has changed a very little, though the air, since the month came in,has been uncommonly warm Lovell's Island, lying to the N. E. of George's, is like the base of a large island, which has been nearly worn away by the constant encroachments of the ocean; still, however, there are many acres of exceedingly fertile land. Fine cat-coughs and colds are very frequ tle are fed there, during the sument, and we fear, that affections the lungs will be frequent mer. UNITED STATES NAVY. Agreeably to the Report of the secretary of the Navy, accompanying the President's message, the whole naval force of the country, authorised by laws, consists of 12 ships of the line-17 frigates of the first class-3 of the second class16 sloops of war-4 schooners of 12 guns each, and 3 other vessels. The whole of these, says the secretary, with the exception of three of the frigates, could be prepared for active service at sea in a few months, should the situation and interests of the nation demand their employment. ITEMS OF EXPENCE Washington, it appears, that the sum of $70,000 has been expended this year, on the Capitol and Grounds; and nearly $4000 on the President's square. We are glad to find, that the Directors of the Salem Mill Dam Corporation, are preparing measures, and entering into contracts, for the erection and prosecution of their manufactory. COLLEGE CATALOGUES. Having examined a number of catalogues of different colleges, we have been led to exclaim-where are so many young gentlemen going to practice professions? It is a The Clerk of the House of Rep-well known truth, that all the learnresentatives, of Congress, gives a statement of nearly 75,000 dollars as the amount of expenditures, from the contingent fund, appropriated for the use of his department, during the year, ending 30th Nov. last. Among the items are the following For Painting, 43,484 64 Stationary, 6,767 00 News-papers, for the Members, ed professions are extreemly crouded in this country, so much so, that every village has an assortment of doctors and lawyers.-They cannot all live by their professions-and hence, if one half were to turn their attention to practical agriculture, it would actually redound to their own personal good, and the great good of the country. It is falsely suppos ed that a professional man lives easily-pocketing the cash for his learning, as fast as he chooses; this is a terribly mistaken notion; no men earn their bread more laboriously. Not more than one professional man in fifty, succeeds in acquiring wealth or gaining a distinguished reputation. There will necessarily The Committee of Ways and be a re-action: the United States Means, have recommended the im- cannot support the professions libemediate appropriation of the follow-rally enough yet. Though we deing sums:- 2,478 52 Services of horses and messengers, 8,506 59 Miscellaneous articles, 8,422 98 There are 6 clerks in this Department, who have a yearly salary of $1500 each; and a chief one, who has $1800. For revolutionary pensions, $1,260,135 For invalids and half-pay pensioners, 801,055 For pensions to widows and orphans, 12,000 $2,073,210 By the report of the Commissioners of the Public Buildings, at sire in our hearts to have literature and science flourish, as the sure palladium of national greatness, we hope that, the mania for studying professions will speedily subside. riched and meliorated,-let them act like men of wisdom, who legislate for the best temporal good and happiness of the people. that the City of Boston is loosing its connection with the interior, and New-York, is actually absorbing, by a sure and gradual course of perall the true sources of geverence, wealth. The country is not so dependant on a commercial town, as the latter is on the country, as the industry and economy of the farmer, renders him almost independent. There are certain advantages in a railway, locally considered,of infinitely more importance to Massachu-lation would increase in a corressetts, than a line of canals;-Let us examine them. First, a railway is liable to none of the interruptions of a canal, arising from the inclemency of seasons, -such as ice, for three and four months. Secondly; a canal is not so practicable, from Boston to Albany; -a railway may be carried over every section of the Commonwealth and wind around our mountains, according to the necessities,ambition or convenience of every town. Again; the expense, a bug-bear item in all the objections, which have been raised against a free communication with the country, is so much less than the cost of canals, that no fears aught to be entertained, in relation to it. Above all, however, when it is considered that a vast proportion of the produce of the western country, entirely beyond the boundaries of our own languishing state, would be directed to this city at the season when the New-York canals and rivers are locked up in ice, should be a powerful motive for a determined exertion to accomplish this great design. We are heartily weary of having our legislature talk-about it,till the fee of attendance at the general court, would construct a railway to the western ocean! If they are sensibly and forcibly impressed with the necessity of a railway, as a of sustaining this ancient metropolis-at the same time the whole surrounding country is en To Bostonians, in particular, their interest requires that every muscle should be put in motion, and every energy employed, to aid this great contemplated undertaking. Our business would increase in a prodigious ratio: our real estate would increase in value; our popu ponding measure; our poor would be diminished, and our condition, as a commercial people, would be changed from an apprehended poverty, to enterprize and wealth. Such are among the prominent points, of importance to each individual in Boston and which demand an earnest and decided attention to the contemplated railways in Massachusetts. FOREIGN SUMMARY. The last dates from Europe are They to the beginning of Nov. do not however furnish much matter of interest. Mr. Canning, as also Mr. Gallatin, had returned to England: Mr. Canning, it is said, had formed an agreement with the French cabinet, that Russia was to be left free, in her conduct to the Turks; but that the Greeks should be rescued from the yoke of the Musselmen; and that Spain and Portugal, for the preservation of peace between the two parties, shall cease to receive the deserters from their respective armies..... The Cotton Market of England had again depreciated, and the manufacturing establishments plunged in new embarrassments;-Corn was allowed to be imported, paying a duty of 10 per cent...... Parliament was to as semble about the 20th Nov......A report had reached England, that the Grand Seignior had been assassinated at Constantinople....... The King of Spain, and the Duke of York, remained seriously indis phia Tea Case, 67 bills have been presented to the U. S. Court, of that District, against seven persons only, viz. Messrs. Thompson, and P. C. Machi, of Philadelphia; Messrs Bailey F. H. Nichol, and E. Nichol, of New-York, and R. Fisher, of Canton......Mr. Kean has sailed for England......There was a pugilistic combat fought in N.-York, a few days since on a bet of 1000 dlls.: this is an English custom, that would be more honored in its breach, than its observance...... There has been discovered, in Chilmark, [Marthas Vineyard] a fine bed of White Pipe Clay, within a tract of about four acres of land. This small space of ground, was sold,a few days since to a company in Salem, for $3000...... The legis lature has thought proper to complain to Congress of a remission of posed.......The Russiae ultimatum has been accepted by the Turkish Divan......The President of Hayti published an ordinance for issuing paper money as a tender, and on the faith of the government, although that government is not only unable | to pay its debt to France, but to meet the expenses of tts own internal regulations......The funded debt of England, which may be truly called a nominal one, was in Jan. last, 893,783,282 pounds sterling; shewing an increase since 1819, of 61,646,837 pounds, although this period embraces a time of profound peace in Europe......A letter from the Archipelago of Oct. 19th states, that the Turks have done but little this season, not having passed the gulf of Argos, as they did the last year; on account of the ill success of every attempt to do so; they are says the letter, shut up in Tripolit-duty in the President of the U. S. za, with the prospect of enduring again the sufferings of last winter; and without the expectation of any further succours from Egypt; it is added, also, that Ibraham Pacha had become disaffected with the Porte......A new tariff of Duties was preparing in Russia...... The northern provinces of the Netherlands continue to suffer by a disease, that had spread itself, in an alarming degree, over the whole of the country. ......Besides the small Greek vessels which have been so unsuccessful in their piracies among the islands of the Archipelago, it is now said that five Greek brigs of war have separated from the fleet, and commenced the practice of pirating on neutral vessels......Lord Cochrane, it is said, has raised supplies in Paris, and was to return to Marseilles preparatory to his embarkation for Greece......The Baron Kendener is to be sent Ambassador te the U. S. from the Court of St. Petersburg. men for not dismissing Col. Crowell, from For the Boston News-Letter. MR. EDITOR.-In looking over an old file of Edes' Gazette, I was amused with the spirit and ingenuity of a number of toasts, given at a Fire-Club, a few evenings previous to the destruction of the Stamp-Office. One of them was to this effect: "It is hoped no patriotic member of a fire-club, would feel himself bound, in case a fire should break out in the Stamp-Office, to assist, in The extinguishing the flames." hint, conveyed in this toast, was thought, by some of the more pruIn the much-talked of Philadel-dent whigs of that day, rather to in DOMESTIC SUMMARY. vite the hand of an incendiary; and || that the act might be committed at a time of high wind,when the safety of the town would be endangered by conflagration. A more cautious lar course; but submits them to the wisdom of the legislature. FINANCE. The message gives the following step was pursued, by tearing down statement of our fiscal concerns;the building, and each of the actors which are in as good condition as in this scene, bearing a portion of could be expected, at this period of the ruins, to Fort-Hill,where a bon-mercantile distress :fire was made of them, and the effigy of the collector burnt upon it. CONGRESS. In adverting to the present condition of our fiscal concerns, and to the prospects of our Revenue, the first remark that calls our attention, Agreeably to adjournment, the is, that they are less exhuberantly two branches of the national legis- prosperous than they were at the lature, assembled at Washington, on corresponding period of the last Monday, of last week, and immedi-year. The severe shock so extenately proceeded to the transaction sively sustained by the commercial of the public business, there being Britain, has not been without a perand manufacturing interests in Great full quorums in both halls. The new members, occasioned by vacanceptible recoil upon ourselves. A cies, since the last session, are reduced importation from abroad is Messrs. Silsbee, of Massachusetts, necessarily succeeded by a reduced and Rodney, of Delaware, in the Sen return to the Treasury at home. The net revenue of the present year ate; and in the House, three delegates from Pennsylvania, one from will not equal that of the last. And N. Carolina, one from Ken. and one the receipts of that which is to come will fall short of those of the current from Ohio. The politicks of these gentlemen will effect no change in the general views of either branch. The first motion made in the Senate, was an important one, and was of fered by Mr. HAYNE, giving notice that he should introduce, in the course of two or three days, a bill for establishing a system of Bankruptcy, in the United States. On Tuesday, at noon, the two Houses received the President's Message, by his private Secretary. It is an able expose of our political relations ond affairs abroad; and of our resources and condition at home. The former speaks of the existing difficulties, in regard to our commerce with Great-Britain, and the Netherlands; and of the ill success, which still attends our negociation with France, for indemnity of the spoiliations committed, by Napoleon Bonaparte, on the commerce of our On these subjects, the Presedent, recommends no particu merchants. year. The diminution, however, is in part attributable to the flourishing manufactures, and so far is compencondition of some of our domestic ble to the nation. It is also highly sated by an equivalent more profitagratifying to perceive, that the deficiency in the revenue, while it scarcely exceeds the anticipation of the last year's estimates from the Treasury, has not interrupted the application of more than eleven millions during the present year, to the discharge of the principal and interest of the debt, nor the reduction of upwards of seven millions of the capital debt itself. The balance in the Treasury on the first of January last, was five millions two hundred and one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars and forty-three cents. The receipts from that time to the 30th of September last, were nineteen millions five hundred and eighty-five thousand nine hundred and thirtytwo dollars and fifty cents. The re |