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tention sat in a corner-silent, serious, and indifferent: he was short in stature and mean in appearance. Guess my surprise when I was informed that this Mr. Watson was no other than Young Watson; he concerning whom, for some months, our whole country was in a general ferment. I felt some curiosity to know the history of a person so singularly thrust into premature importance. His appearance greatly disappointed me, not on account of the poverty of his dress, for that I presume results at present from circumstances beyond his controul; but I had imagined Young Watson to be a daring, bold, enthusiastic, indiscreet young man. He does not seem, however, possessed of any one of these qualities: he is reserved, not from constraint, but habit, and habit of a kind that more bespeaks an absence of talent than the attendant of mind. The ship Venus, in which he went passenger, was hauled to off Dover. Two Bow-street officers went on board, having certain information that he was there. His face was painted; he had on a farmer's frock coat, stuffed; shoes without heels, looked stouter, shorter, and younger than described in the proclamation. He went on deck upon knowing that officers were looking for him. When he was standing by their side, Miss Wilson, a cabin passenger, fainted. Lavender, ignorant of his person, told him to take care of the lady;

examined the trunks of all the passengers, not excepting that of Watson, who continued supporting Miss Wilson. The officers did not believe but that he was on board, their information being positive; they at length whispered to each other in his hearing, "he is not here;" -they departed-the ship got under weigh;- he conversed with all concerning Young Watson.-Upon arriving in America, Mr. Busby, son of Dr. Busby, who was a cabin passenger, enquired of an Englishman in New York, if young Watson was in America; being answered in the affirmative, he asked by what ship. "The Venus." "No, that is impossible, for I came in "the Venus.". "He certainly came in the "Venus." "Under what name ?"-"Thomas Pearson." "Oh, I know the boy Pearson very well, we used to call him the proud farmer." He has got a situation in a school and receives 501. per annum; is little known and less regarded.

Americans who have heard of him either care nothing about or dispise him for the political part which he has taken in these few lines you have the particulars of a young man who has excited in no small degree the public attention. He did not express the least gratitude for the extraordinary assistance which, I presume, he must have received.

CINCINNATI.

(Palmer's Journal.)

THE city of Cincinnati (named after the Roman Cincinnatus) stands on two gentle swells of land, its front street is immediately on the north bank of the Ohio, opposite the mouth of Licking River; it is nearly in the centre of the western country, distant from Pittsburg, in a S. W. direction by land, 300 miles, by the river, 520.

The general appearance of the city is clean and handsome, indeed elegant and astonishing, when we reflect that less than forty years ago it was the resort of Indians, and the whole surrounding country a wilderness, full of wild beasts and savages.

The number of public buildings and dwellings in July, 1815, were 1100, and the population at that time was estimated at 6000; since that time there has been a regular influx of New Englanders, Kentuckians, Virginians, British, French, and Germans. The present number of buildings may be between 13 and 1400, and the number of inhabitants 8000, all whites, the laws of Ohio prohibiting even free negroes, (except in certain cases) from settling in the state. Near 400 of the houses are built of stone or brick, many of them three story high, and in a very neat modern style; the rest of the houses are frame, most of them neatly painted.

Numerous manufactories are established here and in the vicinity: the following are the principal,

A steam flour mill, built upon the beach of the river; at its base it is sixty-two by eighty-seven feet, its walls

* Now about 12000, 1823.

are ten feet thick; the height is 110 feet, the number of stories nine; to the height of forty feet the walls are drawn in, and gradually diminish in thickness; above they are perpendicular. According to the "Picture of Cincinnati," in its construction it swallowed up "6620 perches of stone, 90,000 bricks, 14,000 bushels of lime, and 81,200 cubit feet of timber." The building cost 120,000 dollars, and the machine is driven by a seventy horse power. There are six pair of stones, and when in complete operation, it makes near 1000 barrels of fine flour per week.

A steam saw mill, of twenty horse power.

A cotton and woollen factory, carrying 3,300 spindles for cotton, and 400 for woollen.

Four cotton spinning establishments, containing together 1,500 spindles.

A woollen manufactory, yielding sixty yards of broad cloth per day.

Two glass houses.

A saw mill, worked by two pair of oxen, on an inclined wheel, forty feet diameter; the weight of the bullocks ascending the wheel, works the machinery, without their drafting at the collar.

Two newspapers are published here, the Western Spy and Cincinnati Gazette, each issue about 1,500 papers weekly. Several respectable books have been printed.

Here is also a good public library, a grand lodge of Freemasons, a school of literature and arts, a university, (a nominal institution) a land office, and post office, at which nine mails arrive every week.

The public buildings are of brick, and would ornament an European city. The new Court-house is a stately edifice, fifty-six by sixty-six feet, and one hundred feet high; the apartments are fire proof. Presbyterians, Baptists, Friends, and Methodists, have each a meetinghouse. Those belonging to the Presbyterians and Baptists are finished with taste. The Friends meeting house is a temporary wooden building. The Lancasterian seminary is a capacious structure, calculated to contain 1,100 scholars, male and female. There are three brick market-houses, the largest is upwards of 300 feet long. The police of the city is respectable; they have, how

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ever, no lamps or watch, nor do they seem to require any. We boarded in the heart of the town, and our doors were mostly open night and day. Theft is very rare, the lowest characters seem to be above it.

The fourth of July, the anniversary of American independence, occurred whilst Mr. Palmer was here, and was celebrated with much energy. The morning was ushered in by bands of music parading the streets, and firing of cannon, (which continued at intervals through the day.) At eleven o'clock, three companies of volunteers, (consisting of a rifle corps, and two companies of infantry, one a fine company, just raised, called the Cincinnati guards) assembled near the landing, and accompanied by many citizens, two and two, marched in procession to the Presbyterian Church, the band playing, Hail Columbia! Yankee doodle! &c. the Church was crowded; numbers of well dressed females occupied the front seats. The ceremony commenced with an appropriate prayer and psalm; then the declaration of independence (as made by the colonists) was read; after which, an impressive national hymn was sung by the whole congregation, the chorus repeating at the end of each stanza:

Fathers, sires, heroes brave,

Who fought and bled for liberty,

The heavenly boon, we swear to save,
Whilst freedom has a votary!

When the enthusiasm occasioned by this hymn had subsided, an orator stept forth, having the national flag on one side, and a decorated cap of liberty on the other; his manner and language was rhetorical. He dwelt on the mild laws, the liberty, plenty, and comforts,which in common with their fellow citizens, the inhabitants of Cincinnati experienced; observing, what a delightful sight it was (and I thought so) to see men of all nations united as a band of brothers, to rejoice and praise the Almighty for the free government and numerous blessings which they happily enjoyed. Before parting, another hymn was sung, containing too much boasting and bombast; the two first verses and chorus were as follows:

When first the sun o'er ocean glow'd,
And earth unveil'd her virgin breast;

Supreme 'mid nature's vast abode,
Was heard the Almighty's dread behest.
Rise Columbia, brave and free,

Poise the earth, and rule the sea!
In darkness wrapp'd, with fetters chain'd,
Will ages grope, debased and blind;
With blood the human hand be stain'd,
With tyrant power the human mind.

After Church, the citizens and strangers, who desired adjourned to a good dinner, provided at the principal tavern; where the day was concluded with conviviality many national and philanthropic toasts and sentiments being given.

NEW ORLEANS.

(Various Authorities.)

NEW ORLEANS, the capital of the state of Louisiana,

is situated directly on the east bank of the Missisippi, 105 miles from the mouth of the river. In the year 1717, this city was founded; and at that period there were not perhaps 500 white inhabitants in the whole valley of the Mississippi: there are now nearly two millions. In the beginning of 1788, the town contained 1,100 houses, built of wood; in March of that year, by a fire, the number of houses was reduced in five hours to 200. It has since been rebuilt, principally of brick, which is of so soft a nature, that the buildings are plastered on the outside with a thick coat of mortar, and then painted or whitewashed. The city is regularly laid out, and the streets generally forty feet wide, crossing each other at right angles. In 1803, the number of inhabitants was about 9,000; at the commencement of 1819, the population amounted to between 36 and 40,000, and it is rapidly increasing by accessions from all the states in the Union, and from almost every king. dom in Europe. A great number of new buildings were erected in the last two years, distinguished for size and improved style of the architecture. The hurricanes to which this country is subject, will not admit of the houses being carried up several stories; but they have terraces and walks on their tops according to the french fashion. The public buildings consist of three banking houses,

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