of the inhabitants, who saw the summit of the mountain assume a most terrific appearance. The eruption was more tremendous than had ever before been known, and every one expected instant death. The first effort was to offer up prayers to the Divine mercy, and then fly to seek shelter in the caves and remote parts of the mountains; but the efforts of many were fruitless, they being overtaken in their flight by showers of stones and burning matter, which spread death among them. The misery of our situation increased as the day became darkened, and the subterraneous noise of the volcano more severe. The eruption continued for ten days; and during the first four days was accompanied by almost total darkness. About noon, on the tenth day, the noise of the volcano began to diminish, and at two o'clock the horizon was entirely clear, and suffered us to see distinctly the horrid and lamentable destruction which the darkness had concealed from us. Five populous towns in the province of Cumarines, with the principal part of Albay, were destroyed; more than twelve hundred persons were reckoned among the dead, and many that survived were dreadfully wounded or burnt. The mountain now presents a melancholy picture. Its brow, which was before well cultivated, and offered a beautiful prospect, is now a dry and barren desert. The matter thrown out by the volcano covers the ground in some places from ten to twelve yards in depth, and in others it reaches the tops of the loftiest cocoa-nut trees. Its ravages extend over the whole beautiful province of Cumarines, where scarcely a tree has been left standing or uninjured. The opening of the mountain, which forms the crater of the volcano, has extended itself twenty fathoms below the level, whilst on the southern aspect of the mountain three new apertures have been opened, out of which smoke and ashes still continue to be occasionally thrown. The population of the province was calculated at 20,000 souls;-all who survive the eruption have been ruined or deprived of every thing they possessed. We recommend to those gentlemen, whose studies lead them to investigations of geology, a comparison of the dates at which the most considerable volcanoes have burst forth: partly for the purpose of ascertaining whether there be more than one of these vents of hidden combustion burning at one time?-and whether as one ceases another opens ?-what connection between them might reasonably be inferred? National Register: FOREIGN. AMERICA: UNITED STATES American Atrocities. [From a Montreal Paper.] "General Hull began the war in 1812, by an exterminating Proclamation, and burnt a dwelling-house at Sandwich, at the time of his retreat across the river, after having made free with private property, and made sad havoc amongst Lord Selkirk's sheep.. "The campaign in 1813 commenced by the American army and fleet burning the public buildings at York, the capital of Upper Canada, including those used for civil (such as the court house, and house where the Legislature met) as well as for military purposes. 66 head of Lake Ontario to burn a tavern, beThey even sent a detachment to the cause the house had originally been built. by Government. "Last December, the American army burnt the village of Newark, turning out men, women, and children, to live under the canopy of Heaven, at that inclement season, without allowing them time to save bedding, clothes, or furniture, which the humane President justifies, by stating that it was needful in a military point of view, for the defence of Fort George. "Now this is an abominable falsehood: for at the time of this burning, instead of attempting to defend Fort George, they abandoned it, and escaped across the river before our troops appeared. "At different times during the present campaign, they have burnt villages and settlements, viz. Dover, St. Davids, and Port Talbot, with streets, mills, &c. in Upper Canada; also, all the private stores and, houses at St. Mary's, near Lake Superior, and St. Joseph in Lake Huron, having previously pillaged them of every thing moveable worth carrying away. At. St. Mary's there was not a building or article of any kind belonging to Government. After this, what right has Mr. Madison to complain of the burning the public buildings at Washington, where the Pandemonium sat, which so long brooded over, in prospect, the ruin of Great Bri tain." To put these facts beyond doubt, the following documents have been published. U 2 At New York, the President, ready for York, Sept. 3. 64 guns, 32-pounders on her main deck, Colonel Talbot has the honour of stating 42-pounders on her quarter deck, and a 68to the Loyal and Patriotic Society, that on pounder on each of her gangways; comthe 16th of last month, the enemy, amount- plement 649 men. At Boston, the Constiing to upwards of one hundred men, com-tution, ready for sea; and the Washington, posed of Indians, and Americans painted of 90 guns, fitting for sea very fast. and disguised as the former, surprised the settlement of Port Talbot, where they committed the most atrocious acts of violence, by robbing the undermentioned heads of families of all their horses, and every particle of necessary apparel and household furniture, leaving the sufferers naked and in the most wretched state. Extracted from the records of the Loyal and Patriotic Society of Upper Canada, by JOHN STRACHAN, Treasurer. On the 15th of May, a detachment of the American army, under Col. Campbell, landed at Long Point, county of Norfolk, distric of London, Upper Canada, and on that and the following day pillaged and laid waste as much of the adjacent country as they could reach. They burnt the vilage of Dover with the mills, and all the mills and dwelling houses in the vicinity, carrying off as much property as was easily portable, and killing the cattle, &c. Dwelling-houses burat 19 Grist mills Estimated value of the property taken and de stroyed, 50,000 dollars. The number of families wantonly ruined on this occasion is twenty-five. There was no public property within fifty miles of the place, and the ferocity exhibited by American troops, and especially by their commanding officer, could only be equalled by General Jackson's cool massacre of the unresisting Creeks. sea. At New London, the United States and Macedonian frigates dismantled, and the Hornet sloop was ready for sea. Quakers Libelled.--That respectable and peaceable body of men, the American Quakers, has been lately accused by the Madisonian party, with making treasonable propositions to their brethren the Quakers of Great Britain. The former have ably repelled the foul calumny, in a modest and Christian-like address; in which they vindicate their own innocence, and prove themselves, even beyond their ordinary tenets, the constitutional and avowed enemies of that war into which their accusers have plunged their country. There arrives here a good deal of specie by the routes of Frankfort and Nurem berg. It is said to be arrears from the Low Countries: but our financial situation does not seem improved by it. Finances.-The Austrian finances are still much deranged. The extraordinary contributions which were imposed for IS14 o ly, will be continued for 1815, notwithstanding the cessation of hostilities. The extraordinary expences for which the Government must provide, seem to render this measure necessary, though it is by no means palatable. State Expences.-The residence of the Sovereigns at Vienna has cost the Government more than 30 millions. If to these Naval Force.-At Portsmouth (New expences be added those of more than Hampshire) the United States ship Inde-700 Envoys to the Congress, some idea pendence nearly ready for sea. She is may be formed of the extraordinary conrated 78, and mounts 98 guns-42 poun-sumption created in this city for some ders on her lower deck, 42's on her main months back, and of the immense quantity deck, 32 and 68's carronades on her quar- of specie and paper-money in circulation. ter-deck and forecastle: complement 1,000 Still our course of exchange declines every men; Commodore Rogers is to command day. her. At Philadelphia, the Guerriere, a new frigate, nearly ready for sea. She mounts Religious Toleration. Among the few principles that seem perfectly agreed on at Vienna, is one which must afford satisfaction to all candid and | considerate minds, a perfect equality is to be established in Germany between the three great religious persuasions, the Roman, the Lutheran, and the Calvinistic. Royal Festivities at Vienna. trian Government. These prohibitions are still more rigorous than before. of Rome. About that time, the Congregation of Reform at Rome had applied for certain revenues to the Vicar-General Ballune; on which the Court of Vienna renewed all the laws and edicts of Joseph II. on this subject, forbidding the publication of any bull, brief, or constitution from the Vienna, Dec. 4. The entertainment an- Pope, or even of any episcopal letter or nounced to be given in honour of the Em-charge, without the authority of the Ausperor Alexander, took place the day before yesterday, in the winter riding-house. The Court, the foreign Monarchs, and all the Princes and Princesses in this capital attended. At the close of this entertainment there was a splendid supper at the Imperial Palace. The Empress of Russia and the King of Denmark have visited the Mint in this city. These august personages were received at the bottom of the stair- | case by Baron de Leithner, Director of the Mint and Mines, attended by all the persons on the establishment. Their Majesties were conducted to the different apartments, where they had explained to them the machinery and different processes used in the coining of money: after which their Majesties, according to the custom observed on such occasions, put their hand to the machine for the execution of the me Remarkable Death.-The Journal de Paris of the 16th inst. announces the sudden death of M. Schavinger, one of the most celebrated chemists of Vienna. He was preparing Prussian acid, (aciduum borrussicum), the post powerful poison that is known, and spilled a quantity of it upon his naked arm, which brought on death in a few hours. FRANCE. Marseilles.-The law for making Marseilles a free port has been passed in France, by a majority of 127 to 21. This measure will render it necessary that the measure of making Malta a free port should be instantly adopted also. dals which the workmen were striking, and the object of which was to perpetuate the memory of the presence of these illus- Discovery in Dyeing.-M. le Comte de trious strangers in this city. Baron de la Boulaye Marillac has lately communiLeithner, in the name of the Emperor, cated a discovery of the highest interest to then presented to their Majesties, on a sal- all lovers of the arts, and equally so in its ver, the first two medals which had just consequences to the manufacturing and been broke off. The one, in honour of the commercial classes. It is a preparation of Empress of Russia, has impressed on the twelve colours from indigenous substances, obverse a horn of pleuty and branches of not less brilliant than those already known laurel, under which are these words- (some of them more so), and unchangeable Elizabetha Alexiwna Alex. Russ. Imp.Conjur: by any exposure to the atmosphere, for and on the reverse a garland of roses, borne any length of time. The object of the inby two genii Aitting through the air, with ventor is to apply his discovery to the imthe following device-Vindobonum presentia portant art of dyeing wool, silk, linen, and ornat, mense Oct. 1814. The one struck in cotton, the ordinary materials of furniture honour of the King of Denmark had these and clothing, in such a manner as to prewords on the margin, Fredericus VI. Danie serve the beauty of the colour in its primiRer: and on the reverse this inscription- tive perfection to the last-to preserve the Mense Oct. 1814, to which two palm- fibre of the stuff from the slightest injury branches are added, with this motto-Kin- by the application of the colour-and to dobonum presentia ornat.-The tournaments preserve, in many cases, three-fourths of the are the most fashionable amusements of expense now incurred for foreign dyes, all that are now going forward here. There | (indigo, for instance) by the use of subwill be another on Monday next also instances found at home. The chemists of the winter riding-house. All precautions Clermont-Messrs. Grand, the grout maare taken to prevent the excessive throng,nufacturing company at Lyons--Mousieur which was found so inconvenient on the de Roard, Director of the Gobelins,--and former occasions. The Pope's Bull prohibited Entrance. A Cabinet Rescript of the Emperor, dated the 19th of September, contains some remarkable dispositions respecting the Court fiually the Committee of the Class of Physical and Mathematical Science in the French Institute, including Vanquelin, Gay Lussac, Berthollet, and the Secretary Cuvier, have all borue testimony to the truth and importance of this invention. GERMANY. Amusement rendered patriotic. A patriotic German has published the following proposal for perpetuating the memory of the emancipation of his country: At the end of the religious ceremonies, a Catholics patronized.-Hanover, Dec. 3. Our Ministers are, at present, anxious to effect a change in favour of the Catholics, in a constitutional way. Already arrange Let the French playing cards be abolished, and German ones be adopted in their stead. Let the four kings be called Francis, Alexander, Frederic William, and George. In place of the four knaves, have four knights, and let them be named Schwartzenberg, Blucher, Kutusoff, and Yorck. Let the four aces bear the names of the most important battles, as, Culm, Hanau, Paris, and Leipzig, with their respective dates. Let the queens be called The Guillotine deposited in the townafter those females who have most distin-house of Dusseldorf, after having been exguished themselves during the grand strug-posed two days to public view, was burned gle. In this manner we may obtain a on the Grafenberg, at the celebration of perpetual memorial, which will be univerthe anniversary of the Battle of Leipsic, sally known, and will cost nothing. It in the evening of the 18th of October. would, indeed, be still more agreeable, if fine cards were to be made, with a correct portrait of each of the Monarchs-In perpetuam rei memoriam. Female Uniform.-The Grand Duchessments are making for the establishment of and the Margravine of Baden have taken upon themselves to attempt what no mortal has yet been able to achieve a regulation of dress for the ladies. They propose what they call a national costume, consisting of a white robe of any materials, except velvet or satin, and a girdle of red velvet, with a straight border embroidered in gold, the two extremities of which, fringed with gold, are to meet on the left side. The head-dress, from which feathers and flowers are banished, is to consist of a ribband of red silk, or velvet, with a gold border, passed into the hair. In this dress, the Duchess and Margravine say they shall appear at the opening of a new Museum, where it is intended to hold public sittings; and they promise themselves, "that the uniformity and noble simplicity of this dress will have the happiest influence, especially at balls." To this proposal, which is announced" without any idea of constraint," the Ladies of Carlsruhe, and seve-ing them privileges. ral places in the neighbourhood, have given their consent. General Moreau.-On the 4th of November, a grand funeral service was celebrated in commemoration of General Moreau, at Dresden. Prince Repnin, all the Authorities, and the Russian and Saxon troops, assisted on the occasion. At each corner of the temporary bier, a soldier in full uniform appeared, lowering the colours of Austria, Russia, England, and Prussia. desheim. Other changes, also, are looked a Catholic seminary in the town of Hilfor, and in the interval the Catholic Clergy have regained their pensions. So far is all intolerance practically removed, that the Catholics can, at present, hold the most important employments amongst us, and recently two Catholics have been appointed members of the Hanoverian government. Jews disliked.-The Senate of Hamburgh, in a recent sitting, decided against admitting the Jews to the rights of citizenship. It was not even dared to submit a similar question to the citizens assembled in Common-hall. Generally speaking, the Jews, during the late war, and amidst the misfortunes of Germany, displayed such avarice, that they appear to have lost all claim to the consideration of governments, and people are totally disinclined to be assimilated to a race that has plundered them. They wish to tolerate them without grant Thanksgiving-Oct. 5th being the anniobserved in that city as a day of solemn versary of the deliverance of Lubeck, was thanksgiving, and collections were made for the poor at the different churches and chapels, to the amount of 1712 marks. HOLLAND. Finances.-The Hague, Dec. 3.-In the sitting of the States General of the 23d ult. Mr. Falck, the Secretary of Finance, pre- | his Royal Highness estimated the various sented the following estimate of the expen- revenues of the State, added to the surplus diture of Holland for the year 1815:- of 1813 and 14, would be sufficient to cover the expenses of 1815. 1st. For the Royal Household 2d. For the Department of the General Secretary of State Sd. For the Home Depart guilders. 1,600,000 471,500 4,470,000 1,800,000 18,900,000 789,100 2,691,000 51,000,000 They add, "that it is exceedingly dif ficult for this Assembly to decide how far the estimated expenses of fifty-one millions would admit of diminution without the public service sustaining injury; and also whether the estimated revenue of 404 millions was compatible with the ability of the people that the assembly (as representatives of the inhabitants of these lands,-a people who, for years past, had been com5,000,000 pelled to make so many unexampled sacri14,800,000 fices, had suffered so many losses, and been so much diminished), would have greatly wished that the expenses of the state had been reduced to less than 51 millions; that some very severe and oppressive burthens had been lightened, and the necessary expenses of the State brought within such compass, as that they would be covered by the taxes which the country was capable of bearing: that the assembly, nevertheless, from what had fallen from the Secretary of State, felt great satisfaction in the convie tion that the Sovereign was deeply sensible of the weight of the existing burthens; and that, though the wants of the various branches of administration for this and the following year had rendered it impossible to gratify the wish of his heart in making greater reductions, yet this important work occupied his serious consideration: that this assembly are fully sensible of the unwearied efforts and paternal cares of their Sovereign; and that they give the best proof of this deep conviction by assenting to the law of finance now under their consideration." The Secretary enlarged on the great exertions rendered necessary last year, by the destitute state in which the country was left. "We had now, however," he observed, 66 a considerable land force on foot; | our marine was daily increasing; important expeditions were fitting out both for the East and West Indies; the interest of the national debt had been duly discharged, and all other branches of the public service provided for. "The expenditure of the country for 1814, had been estimated at 63,500,000 guilders. By care and economy, and under improved circumstances, that expenditure would not be found to exceed 59,800,000 guilders; and would leave in the Treasury at the end of the year, about 104 millions." The report assigns as reasons why the expenditure could not be brought within the compass of ordinary years, the short period during which the country had enjoyed independence, the existing situation of Europe, and the expenses of the Wardepartment; and concluded with recommending the continuance of the existing taxes, with the exception of some alteration of that on patents. The States-General, after deliberating on the Report and the plan of law with which it was accompanied, passed a resoJution, approving of the same. They appointed a Committee, consisting of Messrs. Lynden Van Howelaken, Van Sytzama, and Van Pallandt, to inform the Prince Sovereign, that they had seen with satisfaction that the Estimates for 1815, when compared with those of 1814, had undergone a diminution of 12 millions; and that the sum of 40 millions and an half, at which | Great Meteor.-Middleburgh, Dec. 5.The great fire-ball, mentioned in the Middieburgh Courant, of Nov. 22d, was four times the diameter of the full moon: it must have been at an immense height, and as it was seen from many places, it is hoped that we may obtain accounts of observations that will determine its nature. ITALY. Rome. On the 27th of October the Pope consecrated a magnificent standard, intended by him as a present for the Prince Regent of England's Regiment of Austrian Hussars (late Radezky's), by which he was first received at the Taro. On one side of the colours are the Imperial arms of Austria: and on the other a representation of the Virgin Mary, with the infant Jesus, reaching her hand to the Pope, to conduc |