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Stephen Gerard (of Philad.) has loaned 230,850 dollars, to the Schuylkill Navigation Company-that they may complete their improvements on the river Schuylkill-when the Company were unable to procure the funds from any other quarter.

John Conard, U. S. Marshal for this state, is re-appointed by the President and Senate of the U. S.

DELAWARE.

[Joseph Haslett, Governor.]

The Legislature has appropriated 25,000 dollars, for the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company.

MARYLAND.

Samue. Stevens (of Talbot County) is elected Governor, for 1823. Gen. Samuel Smith (Member of the U. S. House of Rep.) is elected Senator of the U. S., in the place of the late William Pinkney. Isaac M'Kim is elected Member of Congress, in his place.

T. Emory, J. Prideaux, I. D. Moulsby, P. Chew, and N. Brewer, are appointed the Governor's Council.

A bill providing for an alteration of the constitution of this state, so as to give Jewish equal rights with Christian citizens, has passed the House of Delegates and the Senate. When passed by the succeeding Legislature, it takes effect.

VIRGINIA.

James Pleasants, U. S. Senator, is elected Governor.

John Taylor (of Caroline) is elected U. S. Senator, in the place of Mr. Pleasants.

James Ross (of Penn.) and William B. Gaston (of N. C.) are appointed by the Legislature, Commissioners to carry into effect the Convention between this state and Kentucky.

Col. William M'Ree (late of the U. S. Engineers) has been appointed by the President and Directors of the Board of Public Works, their Principal Engineer.

Jacob Beeson, U. S. Attorney for the western district of this state, is re-appointed by the President and Senate.

NORTH CAROLINA.

Gabriel Holmes is elected Governor.

John Branch is elected U. S. Senator, for six years from the 4th of March next, in the place of Montford Stokes.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

John L. Wilson is elected Governor, and Gen. Bradley, Lieut. Governor.

Col. Arthur P. Hayne is elected Senator of the U. S., for six years (in the place of Mr. Smith) from the 4th of March next.

DIED, the 27th of October, on board the ship Moss, on her passage to London, William Lowndes, of this state, one of the oldest and most celebrated Members of the National Legislature. He was distinguished, during his long service in the House of Representatives, for his amiable virtues, his ardent patriotism, and a persuasive wisdom

which overcame, by enlightening opposition. His loss is felt not only by his own State, but by the whole Republic.

Major James Hamilton is elected to Congress in his stead.

GEORGIA.

[Gen. John Clark, Governor.]

DEC.-An amendment to the constitution of this state (to give the people the election of Governor) was rejected in its Senate, two thirds of the votes being requisite the votes being 30 to 17.

ALABAMA.

[Israel Pickins, Governor.]

William R. King is re-elected U. S. Senator.
William Kelly is elected to the same station.

LOUISIANA.

[Thomas B. Robertson, Governor.]

Henry Johnson is re-elected U. S. Senator, for 6 years from the 4th of March next.

John Nicholson, U. S. Marshal for this state, is re-appointed by the President and Senate.

MISSISSIPPI.

[Walter Leake, Governor.]

Thomas H. Williams is re-elected U. S. Senator, for six years from the 4th of March next.

TENNESSEE.

[Gen. William Carroll, Governor.]

Henry Crabb is appointed by the President and Senate, U. S. Attorney for the district of West Tennessee.

KENTUCKY.

[Gen. John Adair, Governor.]

The Legislature has ratified the convention entered into by Henry Clay, on the part of this state, and B. W. Leigh, on the part of Virginia; and two commissioners, H. L. White, of Tennessee, and J. Burnett, of Ohio; and as counsel, Henry Clay and John Rowan-are elected to fulfil the compact on her part.

Chapman Coleman is appointed by the President and Senate of the U.S., Marshal for the district of this state, vice John T. Mason, jun., resigned.

OHIO.

[Jeremiah Morrow, Governor.]

INDIANA.

[William Hendricks, Governor.]

ILLINOIS.

[Edward Coles, Governor.]

Jephtha Hardin, U. S. Attorney for this state, is re-appointed by the President and Senate.

MISSOURI.

[Alexander McNair, Governor.]

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.

[This department, for the same reason as the preceding, is restrictedbut is to be copiously filled hereafter.]

Major H. Lee, son of the late Gen. H. Lee, has prepared a publication, to vindicate the memory of his father-injuriously assailed, as he conceives, both as respects his father's services as a soldier, and his credit as a historian, by Judge Johnson, in his Life of Gen. Greene.

The following American works are reprinted in London.

"Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, by Mr. William Wirt, of Richmond, Virginia."

The Spy, 1st and 2d editions; under the new-fangled title of "The Spy, a Tale of the Neutral Ground-referring to some particular occurrences during the American War; also portraying American Scenery and Manners."

"Travels in the Northern States of America, particularly those of NewEngland and New-York, by Timothy Dwight, LL. D., &c., author of 'A System of Theology,' &c. Reprinted from the American edition, with illustrative maps."

"The New-England Tale-from the second American edition, revised and corrected by the Author." By John Miller, Fleet-street.

Published in Edinburgh "Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry; with Notes, translated from the French of M. A. Legendre, Member of the Institute, and of the Legion of Honour, and F. R. S. of L. and Ed. Edited by David Brewster, LL. D., F. R. S. of L. Secretary and F. R. S. of Ed., &c. With Notes and Additions, and an Introductory Chapter on Proportion."

Mr. Robert Gourlay, Author of the Geography of the Canadas, applied to the Magistrates of Salisbury, in December last, to obtain an order for a Weekly maintenance, upon, the overseers of his parish. The court was crowded; Mr. Gourlay attempted to state by reading the nature of his application, but was not permitted, although he has a natural impediment, which prevents him from properly arranging his ideas. They altogether paid him that respect which his talents and his integrity demanded, and made the most ample allowances for those eccentricities which have proved a source of misery to himself and to all his connexions. He was eventually allowed 3s. per week-and the once opulent inhabitant of Deptford Cottage now labours on the roads through the day, and reposes at night under the roof of a poor house.-Wiltshire paper. Of Southey's "History of the late War in Spain," Vol. I., the Examiner says:-In this volume Mr. Southey has found, or made, ample scope for introducing the virulence of a Renegado's feelings. All who have been hated and injured by his ministerial friends-Napoleon, for instance, and Sir John Moore-are visited with due abuse. This will, we doubt not, be very acceptable to his Tory patrons and purchasers; but they will not be so pleased, when they discover that great part of the narrative has already appeared in the Edinburgh Annual Register.

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Literary and Political Repository:

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