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AIfERICA. Min The Pacr.itirgh 'cub:L.4o FATAL DV EL. On Temlrv, the nth April. inst. the remains of John D. BstrlC• were consigned tathe grave. He had particularly desired in his will, that his body should not be interred in a church-yaed. and re quested ton that the usual religious fortunlities, ou funeral 01:C41HO" might be dispensed with. His corpse was therefore conveyed to Cedar Grove, the seat of General Jones, in the suburbs of this town. and hornsl with military honours. The Vn.. lunteer companies of Artillery, Cavalry, and In fantry, attended the funeral, as well as it numerous concourse of citizens. 'flue following are the cir cumstances which led to his death ! ".Satsrday, April 9. " Mr. Burk, dieing at a public tavern, with his friends around him, expressed his sentiments, with regard, to the Friveit Goverunsent io the following manner : " What cult the cavillers against the Adnainistration now say talent will they say to the letter of Mr. Armstrong, in sealer to the areligant note of Mr. Charupeeny ' I am is hopes, when they read the honest, manly, and luminous re marks of au American citizen, is refutatima of the pi eten. *ions of the French macula, they will have lionevty sad mo desty essouirk to withdraw their accusations, and be silent ; for the l'resch are •U • pack of rascals " Mr. Cognebert,—" Did you mesa to apply those observe. time to me , " Mr. Burk—. Sir, I ale not knew whom you are—what you are. I did not ksow there was such a Wing in existesee.— Who am yen, Sir What are you' I do nut so muck a. know your country, or even your name." Mr. C...." I mit, if you mesa to insult me, Sir'" Mr. B.—" Seeing, Sir, that you have so right to intrude upon my eisaretwe or conversation, yt w must even Mks it as you please." Mr. Tory well, Sir " " The observations of Mr. C. were uttered et the piihlie told@ in • tone isf defiance, wind& precluded any thing like entlenniuly or manly explanation.° Sunday morning Mr. Burk received the follow ing note : "Si.—! bare born oolong in the place that you Could not help kaownag that lam a. Freschans. I sot so nearly opposite to you at &miler, that you could ant avoid seeing am. What yogi said rout/ not fail to hurt my feelings-. I do not pretend to controul the converinion of any man; in an much as it dues out relate to re i—but I cannot Ord , look what is said in my very fact, le: it be said directly or indirectly. " If (allueing to politics' you did not mesa to tussle me, sad had not observed that a Freedoms' was within the moth f your words, I espouse you have no objection to owe those feelings by an acknowledgment of it isag form a l • weinter so that I take to whims. you. " Stutay, Ina April." "F. COQUEBERT." " J. D. Pork." To the foregoing note, Mr. Richard N. Thweatt, the friend of Mr. Burk, del.vcred the anviver as follosva: "Ste—My fiieed, Mr. Thweatt, who WRII pl.,' to the ron•eesatioat yes complain of, will arrange with your II lend any thing n.•restary to , !ilictise.on, or belle, it it shall be so determined on. I h0p.... you will excuse the inaccuracy of ad replying to your !Wilt, Ante a lei siteu answer. Sunday Morning, April to." " Mr. Cmpiebrrt." After the rending notes passed, ro further communiention took piaci bete eon the parties, except Mr. Thwestt tieing culled upon to name the tune and place for battle. A challenge was seat by Mr. C. which was ac rented, and, early on Monday looming, the parties, with their seconds, met inn tield *dr g town. On the first lire, Mr. C.'s pistol snapped, and the contents of Mr. B.'s were diw•hinged ineffectual ly. The second fire proved dei.Lise. Mr. C.'s bull plowed through the heart of his antagonist, whn expired without a won! or it groats. Stich is the relation which we have had of this unfortunate affair —lPetersburgh Int.) • Mr. Bork was as Irishman, and fornwrly a student of Tensity College, Dahlia. AMERICAN POLICY_ (Free 74. Nahortol btellifencer On the rise of Congre2w, the public attention will be naturally directed to the courts of measures pursued by them,and to the general situation of the country. Aundst events awfully momentous, in volviug the warfare of the whole of Europe, and threatening the peace of the United States, that body assembled. It was universally expected that affairs would soon reach a crisis, and that we should be either involved in war, or our relations of amity be restarts!. Various circumstances rissappoiliti•il this expectation, and it was not until Tate in the Session that the special mission of Mr. Rase was terminated. Since this event, th,Te appears to here been bar little difirretice of opinion with regard to the course of measures dictated by is sound policy. The precautionary inensure of an embargo having beeii wisely taken on the first uppearnitec of immi amt danger, and our property being preserved by it from inevitable destruction, the only queNtion which presented itself was, in what was we cool,' the most effectually maintain nor own interests, without compromising the national character? But Pao alteratives offered themselves : A eontinuance of **embargo, or war. Seri iiii sly as the evils attending the tOrmer are admitted to be, those that could not fail to have ensued from the bitter. have been justly considered as much greater. we resorted to war, viesinst which native should the declaration have Iw, n made ? There is nn one in quixotic as to say that war should have been waged agiu.ist both Englaiod and France, and their wholetrein *follies and depeodeuries.embnic ing all the *sabots% of Europe. If not against both the r. nations, where is the casuist that p mild be relied upon to decide which had entitled itself to the distinction of the first bloc ? When both hod iejiired us so deeply, would it not have worn the appearance of partiality, perhaps of pusillanimity, to have exerted our energies against one. et the very moment that we threw ourselves in the arms of the other ? iiesidim, what (mold we have gained by such a step ? nos France any thing to offer us in com pensation for the injuries which would necessarily be inflicted upon our commerce by the British navy, provided it were exposed to the perils of the ocean, and we were the declared enemies of Bri tain ? No man will say she has. And what has li:nglaitri to otEcr for our goin4 to war against her rival ? Nothing but colonial submission and the prostration or our commerce ; for it is most isaalii fest, that so long iss the evil star that now rules her ;overnment costinnes to preside, she will be fi.st with nothing short of our degradation. It i* this state or thi7r, by which we are equally peessed by the two belligerent nations, which cost pkrtely deprives us of all free .agency, and. points unerring finger to the system' which has been pursued. Had it not been for the hostile coo duct of Britain, our !wooer might hare demand 'ed &serene measures against France; and but 'for that of France, the atrocious outrage on the Chesa peake, and the no less unprincipled Orders of Council, mi4ltt have demanded war 'against the leviathan of the deep; as, in either case, we might have consoled ourselves with the expectation in that way of redressing our wrongs. But the almost equal hostility of both nations has put this possibi lity altogether aside; and we are Do more under the necessity of entering the lists against them, than isio unsupported individual would be to oppose himself to the bayonets of a legion. Ilenco the almost mar i i iii cites accordance of all parties in refrainiug, in the present posture of al fairs. front offetedive operations. Inasmuch, how ever, as it is impossible to calculate upon the con duct of foreign' nations, and as a persistence in theit:unjust *moonset' may leave no alternative but war, Congress have adopted a system of &Imre, commensurate in their opinion to the expected clan ger. This muskets iii building a considerable nem iser of gum-boats ; in fortifying our ports and har bours ; tit raising six thousand additional troops ; in placing one hundred thousand of the militia in marline& for immediate service, and in progres sively arming the whole body of the people. For these several. objects, about live millions of dollars have been appropriated. It is admitted, on aft hands, that these measures will he very incompetent in case of a MA', btu it bits been deemed politic to husband our resources fee such an event, instead of exhausting them pre viously to the occurrence of actual danger.:-.41ei0 policy is certainly strengthened by the vast import 'lee attached by both of the belligereat parties to • rich treasury. It ought not, indeed, to sur prise as, if events should 'thew that England has hitherto abotained from a declaration of war, in the hope that the spoliation committed by her on our trade, and our own measures, might embarrass our finances in such a degree as I to disable us from eventitally, at the criteal moment, making that decisive exertion winch would convince her that we ton 'lave the power most essentially to injure her. It is nut our purpose, at preseut, to enter info any discussion of the nature or the effects of the embargo, and the other measures adopted by Con gress, or of the ground taken by the Execrative with foreizit nations. These, with other topics, an.l particularly the election of a future President, will receive ie. full an examination as shall be con sistent with the publication of the ineportaut de bates. of Congress still unfinished, and other im portant matters. In the mean time it has become the duty of evert• good ratters, of every American who cherishes the patriotic feelings that made us an independent people, to support the government of his choice in that coarse of measures which bets estimated from the fullest knowledge and the mamma deli beration. I.Vitateve.r speculative differences of opi nion there may have been, with regard to the im position of the embargo, the bnilding of gun boats, the fortifying our bailouts, and the raising addition a l troops, no mast, who merits the name of an American, or is deserving of tic blessings of li berty, can withhold his dhotis to silence any dis content which they may have occasioned, or to car ry thens into decisive etfece—l'arty animosity may hold what language it pleases ; but this will and aught to be viewed as the test of every man's pa triotism. The measures pursued by our Government im pose another duty. to render the discharge of which easy, and seen pleasant, only requires a mo derate share of fortitude, mingled with that enthu ,siaum which the oces.aon is as eminently calculated to excite. To render ourselves truly independent of foreign nations, it is absolutely necessary that we should develspe our own resources. These are sufficiently extensive to supply all our wants, and we shall deservedly incur the reproach of the world if we do not draw apon them in such a way as to convert what was meant as a vital injury into a real liles.ing. Manufactures, mails. and canals. are the great engines of national wealth, of individual prosperity, and of peace. This is the auspicious moment to put them into active operation. Once fully a-going, and we shall convince our enemies that we VIM de without them. and thut every act of tyranny be which they would deprive els of our iia tion.ll rights, will recoil with a dreadful effect on them•el res. THE BRITISH PRESS: LON DON, THUftSDAY, JULY 7. The reports given in various of our Newspapers, containing accounts of insurrections in France, azainst the usurped ... ll:anus and insupportable mastery curiscflptiiiii of Hos APARTS, are probably fake or pretuature. But it is nevertheless a feet, that ceiteni persons are arrived in this country, to the number of three, who have escaped frnm France, and have made their way over here through Holland ; and they not only declare that the sen timent of abhorrence against BONAPARTI is uni venal out that part of the Continent through which they passed; but they are asserted and be lieved to be authorised to make certain preposi tions to our Goverinnent, connected with future meditated movements in France. They have had an interview with a Member of Administration, and it I. not improbable that important conse quences may result from their visit to Eaglancl. The greatest activity prevails in al! the Public Offices and Departments, naval and thititary, con nected with the measures taken for the assistance of the Spanish Patriots. The Puonwe and the Alcuseie frigates arrived yesterday at Portsmouth. to take money on Loan:, and the shipment of all sorts of navul and military stores 'proceeds without in tormassiou at the several deptits in the River. Go vernment are also sending home the Spanish prison. eri with all possible expedition. This is a very wisi 110Catlite. These mop will not only strengthen the Muks of their brethren in arms, but thry will cos • Arm the wavering, and animate the lukeearm, by their glowing description of the entlutsimin that prevails in England in fa /our of dm Spanish Na tion. A body of 1300 of these men sailed on Tues day, from Spithead, in six transports, for Ferr.d. A great number of them were permitted on shore on Monday evening. They paraded the streets of Portsmouth, huzzaing and shooting 0 , the good English !" "the good English!" The town re sounded with these and similar exclamations, and they evinced every deatunstsation of the most ex travagant joy. This is a noble spirit to carry with then► into the bosoin of their J . :unities and their friends. The Marin'test store-ship is arrived at Prytnouth w from off Lisbon, but ..he brings no news. The fol lowing are the only articles of intelligence which we have seen on the subject of Spain, iu addition to those already before the public : Extract of a letter from an Officer on board His Ms.tasirea ship Phasic:— Finisher* Ray, tune 2?, 1801. " I take the liberty of acquainting you where we' are: the ship . is quite healthy ; plenty of fr-sh guest, sad fruit in abundance, suppli , al by the Npaniards about this *se. We Were at anther • few days aro in Morns Roads; I west dm shore sit\ the Captain and his Interpreter ; the people were iireseniyed to see iv; ; ire; trouts, and children, the latter up to their knees in warier, cr)ing out " Lon live the Ls ghali, amid FLIIDIN AND the S LLL L 11..• They have all red cockades in lhe.r bats, with this nnittia--.' Comfier we die for firmaraas u the 88 VE WPM." They offiacd to supply the ship wit/ uhativer wassrauted. Afton return of the owe, iirr. who wag rant away with the Captain's letter, tatTeri:i i i• any assialsoc• within the power of the two frigates °nape Ficisharre i they ye‘terday out as out aGesette, °Actin as any thin?, we wanted. Of course, all thoughts of war are now laid The coasters peas tad repass with out mule mass: " Extract of a latter from Oporto, datcd Juue 7, itqta: " The Portuguese colours are again hoisted at the fort, and the putt declared open to elnpe of all Rations, except the Freareh. " An invitation was sent ail to the Comanager of au Enebeh whiou or war, inviting kis to comae in, but which in vitation he ; howesw. • salute of i<l guns was broil tbecastle, returoe.l by the hoop with en equal mien bee. The French *Seers 4.0 all taken prig:mere, wit!..wit blotwlsbed. " N. li. Culune) Brows, wit► • young Portta,linme as an 44 sent uff on Friday night :a (rpm to." Letters to the 3d instant have been received from Holland. The Mon/rear is said to contain a Saaataav Conse Mow, by which the National Guards are catkd out to supply the place of the troops of the hoe withd►awn from the different departments. It is said that,, least, 160,000 mom are on their march to join the troops which BONAPARTE had already collected on the Spanish ftantieni. With whatever exultation we may peruse the 'Manifestos and other Addresses published by the insurgent provinces of Spain, in the present ay. ful crisis of their country,. we confess that we finel uo less satisfactory and solid grounds of hope in the pages of the No:sitcom The ardour, tempered by prudence, and pointed by local knowledge, which perrules and inspires the patriot Declarations, must animate every haiest bosom. But in the reluctant, hypocritical, yet vaunting confessions of NePoLNON, as dictated to the degraded assem bly convoked at Bayonne, which, in mockery, he affecta to call a " Spanish Junta," we trace all the agitatioo of his haughty temper; one %bile adopt ing the language of conciliation, at another burst ing all restraint, and substituting menaces instead of expostulation. Incapable of seeing, or too in talent, from success, to attempt to is needy, the error that be bes committed, he persists to force the tsufortunate JOSEPH on the indignant necks of the Spanish people. Is 'making diat and rash eaparissent, he has recourse tovavioua principles, ci aspertions, in order to justify and to sustain it. The preteoded resignation of the ' Crown in his favour, by the late Sovereigns, is the . first. But he well knows, that two Priagcs. Arie trapped. katiegidated. and thifonnded by the jrifinfliraa tyrant, could not be considered as free orents. He equally knows, that even if their alit& catkin and resignation to hint of the Spanish Crown haul beets an act of free will, yet that neither CHARLES, nor FERDIN AND, nor his brother, could deprive of their birth-right the other heirs of the royal line. The King of the Two Simms, and his Sons, *swell as the Son of the Pat NCB Regent of Poat.TeCA r., and the RROENT himself. in right of his grand-mother, the daughter of PHILIP the Firm, every Prince of the House of AUSTRIA, as being de scended from CHARLEA the THIRD, late King of Spain, by the maternal line ; each, and all of these iieli vidualet, BON A PARTE well knows, have in defensible rights of consanguinity. Ile therefore, a moment afterwards, substitutes his own mandate as sufficient to dispose of the Throne ; and he supports his authority by the frequent allusion to his victories, and the invincible legions that lie commands. Again, like Tiatoxitaus, the tyger melts into compassion, and " sings DA at cs great and good;" the justice and beneficence of Jo seen, the tears which his Neajnilitan subjects shed. when " he went to bear away his virtues into ano ther land ;" the paternal tenderness and anxiety which this worthy native ni Corsica, Now become King of SPAM, though prudently remainin g st Bayonne, feels for his deluded *objects through. out the insurgeat pmvinces; tintslly, his kiud re x .• lution •• to tied beyond the Pyrenees none but Spanish hearts !" all these softer chords are ru, cessively touched by the finger of NAPOLEON— They stiikingly depicture his uneasiness, and th e boiling fermentation of hi* irritated mind. It is evident that he dreads the election of tlst Archduke CHARLES of AUSTRIA, by his mento s of that Prince ; yet it is mach to be Suspected that he tuay wish to discover, or to inveut, a pretext for turning his arms towards that quarter of Ea rope. Vienna an 4 Beth's are of easier access, e s lie now duds, than Madrid. Nor would it surprise .us, if, ou experiencing a determined moisture:4 on The part of the Spaniards, to his ambitious and flagitious projects beyond the Pyreuees, he should suddenly ebift - thu seene of his machinations and his arms to the Rhine or to the Danube. Laurels are more easily gathered there shaft In Castile or in As turia. The iusolent coutumely %Lk which he treats the future subject* of JOSEPH, is not calculated to conciliate their minds. But when he deutailds of them, is the tone of a conqueror, who addrev s ., himself to a veuquished people, whether " t!::w think that they can restore the Prince* of the old dynasty to the throne ?" he littie knows the nation wham he thus insults. We no longer trace in thes e acts of ititoxicetioa, and of outrage, the wily ha. iian e edso contrived so tar* his projects of elerat,a, or of destruction, under the veil of moderation. lie stands revealed to all mankind in his moive turpitude, while. at the same moment, he coesraiu to hazard the vast empire, which a long serir ni co:veers', crimes, aftekartillaces, had cemented.— l';uch era.: the critical position of NAPO/AUX, where the last Illoxii.vr leaves him, after the fourth sit ting of thi: .Isinta, on the eirt of Jane, at Bayonne. Our next advices from that quarter will be most in teresting. The Corsicans etar.do on a frightful and giddy eminence. He cannot recede without shams. --ear cannot advance without peril. In such a El. to:dire] prompt remedies are sometimes adaniiii.- teferi; and we are involuntarily retniadei, of Juvr- N•s's remark, mi the tyrants of his age and time : Ail zentrnm Ceraris, ring :was Et fulurre, µtics deseendunt reps, et fiscal Mork: lytaunl." Yesterday, a Court of Clireaora was held at East Insiia House, when Capt. GI Ababa Sitirsos was sworn into the command of the ship consigned to Madras and Bengal. The following ship* were thus str.tioned, vil.— Asia, Capt. Trcrueuhccre mod lValthuLostow, t' ptyn Jones, for Madras an d Iteagal. The Court adjourned at six o'clock, till W nesday mixt. The Jiiiso, Roarteson, front London, is taken near Droxer and burnt. The Welfsloop of war, with several ships under her couvoy, from Jamaica, are arrived at Kinsale. The *iih trgiinent, which went to the We.t 'tidies in the begmuting of the year 1801. then COn sisteil of 1 - 300 men. The remains of the se4iineat uri i vett tit Portsmouth, a few days ago, when there appeared, out of the persona originally forming the regiment, two officers, two 11011•coauni6cioneri oth cero, and one private. h is confidently stated, that Viscount MCLVU.te . . is soon to anomie place in the didminutratiou. An aviso, or packet, contaiaing most importrilt dismitehes, intended for Spanish South Amerlea, has been takon, and the dispateliei themselves ore secured. Silo:shad hetni rent by O'Fsanc.l.l., the lite Spanish Secretary at war, one of Bosise P It re's adieeretats ; and having sailed from }lithos for l.a Vera Cruz, was intercepted by'rinse of oar cruisers. The packets taken on board are in Lord Casrtnaeasoies Office, and having beers drawn up uncle► the irirpection, ►s well as direction, of NA PO L CON, contain IDAttCr of 00 ordinary COO. sequence. This day a draft of Go men, belonging to the Coldstream Iteriment of Guards, will march from the Park to Chatham, to complete the first batta lion in the room of those who are sick, The %%hole will marsh to-morrow morning. from Chatham a. Harwich to embark there. The route of the tath Dragoons is changed, in "'teat' of proceeding to Infant!, they are to be quartered at Ipswich, &vii Tim ties-divbftt of prize -money, for the eoptiii e of Buenos Ayres, takes place on the 15th instant.— A Field Officer's share will he 7,0001. The %Vara ickshira Militia ivarelied on Monday into Dover, from Sunderland, from which piece they have been upon their march about a month. Tliq area fine body of men, consisting of about 1;200, and are now encamped on the heights. Goverionent yesterday received antelligencel.oui France via Guernsey. It is understood to relate to the report of an insurrection. which we noticed yesterday. SYLVLITED, the Messenger. left town for Ire land, ou Tuesday with dispatches for Sir ARTut a IVaLLEsi.cir. TIN? Meisenrr, and instrnctinnd to follow Sir A. W. in the event of his having pro croxled to sea. A :timel article in the German papen.olnierve%. that the paragraph inserted in the Itiea poper, im porting that. . 1 by the desire of the Fr. ',ell ein.ul at Memel, as often as a ship sails for a iwuttsl har bour, the value of the ship and cargo ain't be dr poilited in caali, as sectuity thin. the . oyage Phan la. faithfully etecutej. kc. iv altmuther unienuded. 114 there is no trade weatever iu Airtnel." Private letter, from Sto. kauitn mention, that the public exprrtinsim wla dirr, tad towards an cnneth tine which wa• to he inadevtalcon by the British and Swedes united. atzaiiiit /huge, in or'ca to put nu end to the depredalwria 01 the rreum..7ce of the id lies,of which we lately had occasion to it•rak repeat edly ; Dr"4" h.i n, ,s te"N'ePtActe of the numerri.i. Privateers which thv teal and er.mlosity of the • haVU armed against us.