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Asylum, at Aversa, to give you the information yourequire, but I will make it my business to obtainevery particular in my power, and transmit theresult to you by the first opportunity. I thank you for the package, and the maps whichpoints out the route of the canal; it is a most magni-ficent undertaking, and I trust will answer the ex-pectations of the promoters of it. I am extremely sorry, that my absence from Naples, deprived me of seeing the young gentlemenyou mention, and of showing them such little atten-tions as might have been in my power. Pray remember me most kindly, to our mutualfriend, Grellet; tell him I regret to say, that all thegood he has so anxiously strove to do to this wretch-ed country, has vanished into nothing. I hopeGrellet received the books I sent him several monthsago through Allen. Believe me, yours truly, H. LUSHINGTON.To Mr. THOMAS EDDY, New York. Albany, 23d December, 1822. DEAR SIR, William S. Burling lately solicited me to recom-mend to our friend Colven, the introduction of a planfor laying an excise on spirituous liquors, and I part-ly promised him that I would; but on further reflec-tion, I consider it most suitable that the overture should emanate from his constituents, and with thisview I now write to you. In some well written essays, published on this sub-ject in Walsh's paper, it was estimated that fiftymillions of gallons of spirituous liquors are annuallyconsumed in the United States, at an expense of thirty millions of dollars, and with the sacrifice ofthirty thousand lives. If this be only an approxima-tion to the truth, what a field for reflection does itopen to the moralist and the statesman.