EXPENSES OF GREAT BRITAIN.

MR. BURDICK, A friend of mine (who by the way is a federalist) intends sending you a table of the expences of the U. States in consequence of the Direct Tax. If you insert any such statement, please to insert the following also :

The expences of Great Britain for the year 1813, were

120,000,000 pounds sterling, or 533,333,330 dollars :
That is 44,444,440 every month,. 10,256,410 every week,

1,461,187 every day,

7,125 50 cts. every minute,

427,350 every hour, 118 70 cts. every second.

If

It appears by the above statement, that while we expend 52 millions, England is expending 533 millions of dollars; that she spends as much in one month as we do in a whole year. The territory of G. Britain contains only about 50 millions of acres. their expenditures were assessed on the land, it would take a tax of 10 dollars annually on every acre to pay it. The ferritory of the U. States is about 1000 millions of acres of land. If our expenditures (say 50 millions) were assessed on the land of the U. States, a trifling tax of 5 cents on every acre would pay it, without recourse to any other taxes for the support of government. If the British annual expenditure was levied on the inhabitants by the way of poll tax, it would take a tax of 53 dollars annually to pay it. If the American annual expenditure was levied in the same way, it would take only the trifling sum of 6 dollars annually to pay it.

MILITARY LETTER WRITING.

MR. BURDICK, On the 30th March, 1814, Gen. Wilkinson advanced from Champlain with about 3000 men, and attacked a stone grist mill at Lacole river, garrisoned by about 500 British regulars and militia, and after 3 hours fighting to obtain possession of the mill, withdrew back to Champlain, &c. with a loss of 13 killed, 128 wounded, and 13 missing. The British loss stated at 11 killed and 47 wounded. This little affair was soon after represented by letters in the papers as the most brilliant ever achieved; and Gen. Wilkinson was praised for his "courage, presence of mind, and military talents" far beyond any praise bestowed on Bonaparte or any other of the great captains of the age, even in their contests when hundreds of thousands had been engaged. One of the army letter writers remarked that "Gen. Wilkinson could not be prevailed upon to repair beyond the reach of danger; and that he stood intrepid, undismayed, and unappalled in the very thickest of the battle

"Like Mount Atlas,

When storms and tempests thunder at its brow,
And oceans break their billows at its feet.”—

I have noticed the above historical fact merely to remark, that it reminds one of a description given by a cowardly

pompous fellow to a friend of his, having split or tore his breeches, in consequence of a fright occasioned by a small Terrier Dog barking at him :

"I was attacked by a most ferocious and tremendous animal yclep'd a bull dog. He came at me with a mouth opening like the crater of Vesuvius; he barked like thunder, and his eyes flashed like lightning; but notwithstanding all this, I stood

"Like Mount Atlas,

When storms and tempests thunder at its brow,
And oceans break their billows at its feet,"

till repeatedly urged by my friends I attempted a retreat over å stone fence four feet thick, and in the act my Breeches ripped as if heaven and earth were coming together!"

Another army letter gives quite a different coloring to this affair; and furnishes a singular evidence of subordination. It states that "General Wilkinson's post was in one of the sides of the North, a mile and a half in the rear-and that when Col. Clarke's detachment came back from the battle, the General anxiously asked what had become of his army; when Colonel Clarke told him to go and see !"

PUBLICK MORALS.

MR. BURDICK,-The late Restrictive Laws on Commerce, have done more injury to Public Morals than all the Restrictive Laws on Vice ever did or can make good. I might fill your proposed volume with instances in proof of this assertion; but the following humorous hit, (predicated on real facts) from a southern paper, may suffice:

"SUGAR MINES.

A'

"We all know, that in certain parts of the United States, Sugar or Maple Trees, grow spontaneously, and yield considerable quantities of that valuable article. new and most surprizing discovery has lately been made on the roads from Canada to Massachusetts, and on the coasts of that State, viz. Sugar Mines !-The Moralists of Boston have now only to dig a few feet deep in the sand, and they will find bags and barrels and casks of sugar, ready made and well coopered to their hands, so that they have only the trouble of carting or sleighing them to their different places of abode. There has lately also appeared symptoms of mines of well-manufactured cloth and various articles of hard-ware-It is somewhat remarkable, but it is nevertheless true, that these articles are very like those which are made in England-but it is only a likeness, for every body knows, that they actually grow on the borders of Canada," &c.

RIGHT OF TAKING DESERTERS.

On the 1st June, 1809, an American vessel, bound from Ogdens burg, N. Y. to Oswego, anchored in a bay on the British-side of St. Lawrence, having on board Capt. W. P. BENNET, of the 6th U. S. Infantry, and some of his men. While lying there, Capt B. hearing of a Deserter by name of UNDERHILL being in that settlement teaching school, dispatched a sergeant and two men to apprehend him, which they effected, tied his hands behind him and at the point of the bayonet drove him some distance, till the prisoner making attempt to excape, the party fired at and killed him: they then fled to their boat and proceeded to the American side. Capt. B. was tried by a Court Martial for this offence, but was acquitted.

EXPATRIATION.

In 1809, the Spanish Ambassador at London, APADOCA, required of the British Ministry that AARON BURR, (the late Vice President of the U S.) who was then in London, should be compelled to depart from the Kingdom for having undertaken an expedition against the Spanish American Colonies. BURR appeared when summoned, and claimed the right as a British Subject, under Magna Charta, to remain unmolested in the country to which he owed allegiance; he asserted that he was entitled to protection by his birth under the British government long before the independence of America, and that Great-Britain could not refuse to recognize the right of any subject born within the realm or its colonies.

MONEY STOPPED.

Jan. 26, 1814. In the H. of.R. of Massachusetts, the following. Resolves passed, unanimously, viz. "Resolved, that the [recent] seizure of $138,874, belonging to the President, &c. of the NewEngland Bank [in Boston, which sum had been obtained in specie for N. York bank bills, and was on its way from N.Y. city to the vaults in Boston] by the Collector [David Gelston, esq.] of the port of N.York, was a breach of duty, and a violation of the rights of said corporation."-The other resolution was expressive of the sensibility which the Legislature felt as to this outrage; requesting Gov. Strong to transmit the resolutions, &c. to the President of the U. S. and to request him to order an immediate restoration of the money so unjustly and illegally detained by said Collector, and, further, to request the President to remove D. Gelston from his office, as a small atonement to the injured citizens of this Commonwealth,&c.-Both parties considered this act of the Collector as little short of "robbery."-The money was afterwards given up by order of the President.

VIRGINIA.

THE return of the Militia, for the year 1813, gave, viz. Infantry, including officers, 68,330-Cavalry, do. do. 5,217Artillery, 2,254-Total strength, 75,801.

1,484 34,381 28,015 6,366 374 52,789 46,928 5,861

Of 10, and under 16.

Of it, and under 16, including beads of families.

Of 26, and under 45, including heads of families.

Of 45, and upwards, including heads of families.

SLAVES.

Coloured Persons.

Aggregate amount of the population in said counties in the year 1810.

Aggregule amount of the population in said counties in the year 1800. GAIN in said countie: from 1800 to the census of 1810.

6,949 3,330 3,649 3,739 2,861

7,00

6,63!| 3,350 4,106

4,041

3,096|||

3,282 4,335 4,194

2,520

1,457

390

7,304 3,391 3,865 3,912
5,568 2,278 2,532 2,840
1,377 594 660

2,389

1,246

669

304

York,
Cumberland 7,156 3,398 3,906 4,127 2,545||
Lincoln, 7,860 3,510 3,900 4,126 2,571
Hancock, 5,827 2,447 2,695 3,055
Washington 1,518 587 797 938
Kennebec, 6,068 2,672 2,885 3,128
3,374 1,463 1,541| 1,647
2,521 1,056 1,030 1,319 673
Totals... 41,273 18,463 20,405,22,079 13,291 39,131|17,827 21,290 21,464 12,515-969 228,705||150,901,77,804

Oxford,

Somerset,

854 2,465 926 1,205 1,150 565

LIT will be observed, that, in 1800, the County of Oxford was included in Cumberland and York.-Likewise the County of Somerset, with Kennebec ; consequently their individual gain, since that period cannot be stated.]