There are also St. George’s, St. Patrick’s, St. David’s, and St. Andrew’s Societies for the relief and colonization of British emigrants; a French and a German Emigrant Society, and several hospitals.  There are two theatres and an amphitheatre.  Peal’s Museum contains a large collection, which is scientifically arranged; among other fossils is the perfect skeleton of a mammoth, found in a bed of marle in the state of New York.  The length of this animal, from the bend of the tusks to the rump, was about twenty-seven feet, and the height and bulk proportionate.

The navy-yard contains large quantities of timber, spars, and rigging, prepared for immediate use, as also warlike stores of every description.  There is here, a ship of 140 guns, of large calibre, and a frigate.  Both are housed completely, and in a condition to be launched in a few months, if necessary.  They are constructed of the very best materials, and in the most durable and solid manner.  There are now being constructed, seriatim, twenty-five ships of the line—­one for every state in the Union.  The government occasionally sells the smaller vessels of war to merchants, in order to increase the shipping, and to secure that those armed vessels which are afloat, may be in the finest possible condition.  A corvette, completely equipped, was lately sold to his majesty the autocrat of the Russias; but was dismasted in a day or two after her departure from Charleston.  She was taken in tow by the vessel of a New York merchant, and carried into the port of that city.  The merchant refused any compensation from the Russian minister, although his vessel was, when she fell in with the wreck, proceeding to the Austral regions, and her putting about was greatly disadvantageous.  The minister returned thanks publicly, on the part of his master, and expressed his majesty’s sense of the invariable consideration and friendship with which his majesty’s subjects are treated by the citizens of America.  There appears to be a universal wish among the Americans to cultivate an alliance, offensive and defensive, with his majesty of Russia.  The cry is, “all the Russians want is a fleet, and we’ll lend them that.”  In fact, a deadly animosity pervades America towards Great Britain; and although it is not publicly confessed, for the Americans are too able politicians to do that, yet it is no less certain, that “Delenda est Carthago,” is their motto.  Let England look to it.  Her power is great; but, if the fleets of America, France, and Russia, were to combine, and land on the shores of England hordes of Russians, and battalions of disciplined Frenchmen—­if this were to be done, with the Irish people, instead of allies as they should be, her deadly enemies, her power is annihilated at a blow!  For let it be remembered, that there is no rallying principle in the temperament of the mass of the English people; and that formerly one single victory,—­the victory of Hastings, completely subjugated them.  Hume, who was decidedly an impartial