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teiresseogna. Avis. 14. This evenieg . lifiltheillrifeets the Duke iJt Sussex arrived m the Rov• 116,wairs .fripte. Captai flotham, from )..islsos. His Royal lidighliess suluted by tlis PnetiAdMlral, which was returned b) the Reeasstieveiee. Sailed the Liserf . eloris, Lied: LCedd, for tht Guernsey. swim. The Diwag‘epe. of 74 ems Ca**. Walker. , bus oracle the signal to come into iiarkionr. The S LICCe - • frigate is commissioned by CApt. George Scott. Sailed the 7 i4une fripite,.up a cruse off France This day the ttpdre fligAte fuel a gun And loosened her toyiial a signal for sAi;ing with the fleet for the Mediterranean. Willi S. S W. If n m own', AWL 14. Arrived yesterday, the Margarcita Maria, Hal venun, firurn Eastrice. YARMOUTH ROAUS. Arrived the Champins Cutter, and !dyne sloop, from a cruise. Sailed the Af,,,:icienve frigate, for the fleet. This morning a large vessel, supposed to be a foreigner, was di,covered to he on Happisburgh Sand ; bin no communication I..ts yet been had with her. Wind W. S. W. DIAL, AUGUST 14. Sailed the Acre lugger, with the Ocean East India. mart ; and the rest of the outward•bound merchant., men, trans i ,•lrts, coasters, and colliers, under con voy, from Portsmouth ; aird,st :sod Veteran men of war, for Dungeness; Leila and L'lnrmortsiiii frigates ; ronsteht and gun-brigs, on a cruise. Arriv-d the Paltaire sloop of war, from the west ward ; Ve,trains bomb, front Sheernest ; Milpoinene, Attire, Leasinn, 13f:tannis h Laval Briton, Rasa, and Tartar, coppered turned transports, from Ramsgate, Ott remain its the Downs. with the rest of the ships as per last.—Wind S.E. ?ROM LLOYD'S Lib T. CaAutism*. Au*. 14—Pored lir the tar! Carr.dcii, Mute • Henry Warliford, Exeter, aud Cuilibt:riai.4, from China ; e▪ irmanbeia, from Setrennieu ; Simon Cock, Watton ; Catharine, Hunt ; Thetis, Lowrie ; Golden Greer, Mdis; lEd • Maergrill Foote, Lundry ; Lottdn.i, Goidnuch Genco.u. Plaut .r, Mattis ; aurl Martha, Gladsall, form Jamatea Bunch, Gib ▪ from B.•rbicc; Mariana , from Ritittedoes; Ann, Chet, front Grenada; Khabeth, Corraut, front Toh:go; Ma ria, Patrick; Fevounte, Clark; Aurora. Fioltay ; and Good latent, front facmerara.—afailed the Rnbert, fur Jamaica; aud the Trifler:. Mary, King, fnr Suf.:nut. YELLOW FEVER. Treia The. No:, ruk Pox, Tue.cLy, July 2. A. xxtrzi annottnrp TO THE MAYOR Or NEW YORK, SNOSM TNaLL 1 . 1:1SIC!111141. " Si er, " We, the subscribers, having heard that a ma lignant disease had made its appearance at the Wia lehoght (on Long Island, opposite New York), have considered it our duty to exaniine minutely into the accuracy of this report, and to tun tttt it to you, as the First Magistrate of this city, the mule of our enquiries. It appears a brig arrived there, some days ago, from Port-au-Prince, in the Island of eit. Domingo—that she came to the wharf near Me. srs. Holmes and Little, who live opposite to each other, and that the crew went on shore to the grocery store set Mr. Little, for the purpose of pur cha,ing such things as they wanted. " Before the arrival of this vessel, the place was healthy ; hut, since the discharging ()flier ballast, se veral persons have been taken sick. She also had on board two barrels of tainted beef, which ss ere ordered by Dr. J. Bailey, of the health department, to be sunk. " It further appears, that the cold. , f f the ressd did on the ; the particulars of whose com plaint we have n o t been able to learn. During the period in which the brig remained at the %short; the wind blew from the North East, and it could he evidently tracci, that the persons who sickened, lived in the dilation to whie.h the wind blew. " A pilot boat (the schooner Hisind) is now also lying near the shore, lately arrived from St. Do anivo, with French passengers. The persons who assisted to pump the bilge water out of the hold, declare it was so offensive a smell, that sonic ac tually sickened, and were obliged to leave her. This information we derived from Mr. Isaac Brown and George Little, residents there. Mrs. Little was the first person who appears to have been taken se riously ill, after the arrival of these vessels. tier complaints were marked with great debility, but unaccompanied by those symptoms that designate the yellow fever. " To the North East from her house, resides Mr. Jones, whose wife died a few days past of female complaints—her mother has also died of asthma. hi neither of those cases were any symptoms of yel low fever to be traced. On the 20hh inst. Philip Dring, a ship car penter, residing at Mrs. Helm's (close to where the brig lay), was seized with a fever, of which he died within a kw Jays, and which, according to the declaration of his physicians, W 4: accompanied by the most unequivocal symptoms of yellow fever. 4. Jane Johnson, who aged the part of nurse in the family of Mr. Little, was seized on the 22d, with symptoms of yellow fever, and died on the 95th, with black vomit. From the contiguity of her apartment to the house of Mr. Dring, there is no doubt but the infeaion was communicated. " In the neighbourhood of Mr. Junes, at the mill, resides William Sherlock. His wife was seized on the 22J, and died on the evening of the s,:tttli, with the most dreadful yclivni: " The followinv persons are now atitually labour ing under the disease :—Esiward Livingstone, James Mrs. Dring, Sarah IVakeman, and Mrs. Uri:ridge, who attended Mrs. Dring. " From this statement it appears, that three have died of the yellow fever, and that five are labouring under the disease. We do not wish to hazard a prognostic, its to what may be the termination of either of them, except in the instance of Edward Livingstone . , whose symptoms indicate speedy dis solution. We forbear making any comment, we only wish to present such. a statement of fats, as may enable you to take the most proper means for the preservation of the health of OUT city." N. B. Two women have been veiled since this report. • • -AIL LITERATURE AND 1111LOSOPHY Travenol an °Menet, on Nature and the Inhabitants of thr Mountains in the Canton de Fribourg, and the Fay By L. M. P. de Lower, veer 12. ....... . The inimitable Sentimental Journey of Sterne, has had a great number of imitators; but none have ttained his excellence, either in originality of taste, r the elegance of sentiment, which are so peculiarly tis charafterisric. To accomplish such a work, it is not sufficient to adopt a certain style of writing ; he must have received from nature a soul capable of Coeling. which inspired him with powers to express ' , 15 s;rassations with simplicity and truth. From this cause it pa ocesels, that those writers who e ould hare trodden in the path of the English Moralist, have universally failed of success ; because they had no guide, but mere imitation, and the aptness of such incidents as arose. The work which we have announced, approaches to resemblance in some respeds. The intention of the author appears to be a just representation of the human heart, by the recital of a variety of semi mental scenes, real and imaginary. The wonder. ful in nature, and the accurate observations of the chamders of men, have furnished him with mate rials for refledion ; and he has endeavoured to paint them to our imagination by an analysis of the affec tions and customs of those by Whom he is sur rounded. M. de Laverne gives us an idea of the spirit in which it is written by the following : " I have," said he, " a heart agitated by all those contradidory sen sations which can embitter or give charms to life. I am in the midst of political troubles, whose fatal influence I have largely shared, but Providence has permitted that those misfortunes, of which, as a member of society, I am a partaker, should be sweetened by those enjoyments which I derive sim ply from my faculties as a feeling and thinking being. I have written as nature inspired use, and for this reason the learned will find that the entire of my writing wants connelion. They will say it is not a work, and will ask what put it • to my head to print it ?I am obliged to answer, at I have it h byielded to a custom so universal, that i is impossi le but they must pardon me in favour Ofe num ber of my accomplices." We may think, on the contrary, that thik-is a weak excuse; that in undertaking a work we oulgist, to be actuated by other motives, and particularly ought previously to weigh well our powers and our means. It is assuredly not a little task to delineate the secret movements of a thinking mind, to scrutinise and examine the phenomena which have arisen at different periods of this age, under the various changes of place and incident. But, supposing that the observer ought to have been in the utmost tranquillity, and that he has chosen very ill in seising a moment when he feels himself agitated by fears and melancholy sensations; this inclination of the soul most easily gives birth to sentimental descriptions and dramatic episodes, but l‘ ill never present men and things in the point of view in which they are placed by nature, and as we find them in the usual order of providence and society. These Travels of an oOsorver are not, however, without a depth of philosophy, which does honour to the author, and proves that, with more time and velleetion, he had composed a better work. But the merit of the subjed dispenses nothing from the obli gation of ba ing careful of his style ; to write well and to think well in an author is so closely united, that we can rarely, if ever, find an exception in fa vour of the contrary opinion. Boileau says, If an author is had in hit language and style, Though else good he may be, he, a 'lnlet most ails. It is more especially to the authors of Tra:elr, that this verse of the Poet may be applied; for he should never forget that he ought to avoid gram. rnatical errors in these days, as well as in the days of Boileau, but also be careful against those abrupt transitions, those apostrophes, these cold sentimental exclamations, and all those unconnefled ideas which have so much prevailed in that species of writing, particularly dining the last thirty years. lt is to no put pose that we read such books ; the instruction they convey cannot sink into the me enery ; and, far from assisting us in the knowledge of men, it rather contributes to throw into disorder and confusion, any knowledge we might before have cquired. We believe that these general reletlions, appro priate to this book of M. de Laverne, are pre ferable to extraaing passages. on subjefts Area& known and treated on by approved writers ; such, for example, are the moral thoughts which Ire in spired by the pstaltme elevation of stupendous moun tains; the enchanting descriptions of beautiful places in Switzerland ; a digression on the ; a dissertation on the taste of women for fanciful inventions; some reflation; on lave; on Jean .lacques ; on the eiglueenth century; on the slavery of negroes ; on the politics of the English, and their spirit of opposition ; and all those subic.ls which requite to be treated in a very different frame of mind from that which is inspired by melancholy pacing amongst the rocks of the Helvetic and the country of the Pays de Vaud. PLeCtitT. Between four and five o'clock on Sunday morn. ing, a fire broke out in a house on Bodmin Cornwall, inhabited by two or three families, si soon communicated to the adjoining houses, and in burned the greatest part of four dwel lings. The roof, &c. of a fifth habitation being quickly taken down, prevented it from spreading far ther, otherwise one side of the principal street in the town would have, in all human probability, been destroyed by the devouring clement . All ranks of people, men, women. and children, exerted them selves in an extraordinary manner. The ruined pre mises belong to a person of small property, and by this fire he is nearly rendered pennyless. On Tuesday se'nnight. a new gun-brig, for the service of Government, was launched from Mr. TAYLOR'S Landing, North Shore, Sunderland, in presence of a vast nu nber of speSators. The hand of the Sunderland Volunteer Infantry were on board, and pla.yed several appropriate tunes. She is called the Ilrely, and will carry 14 guns. (COisciuider3 yrser oar Paper a Saturday An arched colonnade of red stone surrounds the whole of the terrace, which is adorned with olagnn pavilions for sitting in. The mosque h of an oblong form, two hundred and sixty one feet in length, sue rounded at the top by three magnificent domes of white marble, interseißed with black stripes, and flanked by two minaret' of black marble and red stone alternately, siring to the height of an hundred and thirty feet. Each of the,e minarets has three projdling galleries of white marble, having their summits crowned with light o&agon pavilions of the same. The whole front of the building is faced with large slabs of beautiful white marble ; and along the cornice are ten compartments, four feet long and two and a half broad, %illicit are inlaid with inscriptions in black marble in the Nishki cha- , teter, and are said to contain the greater part, if not the whole, of the Koran. The inside of the mosque is paved throughout with large slabs of white marble, decorated with a black border, and is wonderfully beautiful and de licate ; the slabs are abusit three feet in lengi I:, by one and a half broad. The walls and roof Ate lined with plain white marble ; and near the kibla • is a handsome toak, or niches, which is adorned with a profusion of freize work. Close to this is a mimher, or pulpit of marble, which has an ascent of four steps balusttaded. The ascent to the minarets is by a winding stair case of an hundred and thirty steps of red stone; and at the top the spraator is gratified by a noble view of the King's palace, the cuttub mine, the Moran mine, Humaioon's mausoleum, the palace of Feroze Shah, the fort of Old Delhi, and the fort of Loni, on the opposite banks of the river Jumna. The domes are crowned wits: callises of copper richly gilt, and present a glittering a k ,;•earance from afar off. This mosque was began by toe Shah Jehan, in the thurth year of his reign, and completed in the tenth. The expences of its ereftion amounted to ten lacks of rupees, and it is in every respell worthy of beiag the great cathedral of the empire of Hindostan. Not far from the palace is the mosque Roshun Al Dowla, rendered memorable to the Delhians for being the place where Nadir Shah beheld the mas sacre of the unfortunate inhabitants. The cause as signed by historians for this inhuman aft is, that a sedition broke out in the great market-place, in which two thoUsand Pet sians were slain. Nadir, on hearing of the tumult, marched out of the foi t at night with a small force to the Musjid of Roshun Al Dowla, where he was fired upon in the morning from a neighbouring terrace, and an officer killed close by his side : he instantly ordered an indiscri minate slaughter of the inhabitants, and his squa drons of cavalry pouring through the streets, before the afternoon put to death an hundred thousand per sons of all descriptions. Since this dreadful massacre, this quarter of Delhi has been but very thinly inhabited. The mosque of Roshun Al Dom lah is situated at the en trance of the chandney choke, or market ; it is of the common size, built of red stone, and surmounted by three domes richly gilt. Zeenut A/ Musajid, or the Ornament of Mosques, is on the banks of the Jumna, and was ereSed by daughter of Aurengzeeb, of the name of Zeenut Al /limit. It is of red stone, with inlayings of marble, and has a spacious ten ace in front, Is ith a capacious reservoir taxed with marble. The prin cess who built it, having declined entering into tae marriage state, laid out a large sum of money in the above mosque, and, on its completion, she built a sepulchre of white marble, surrounded by a wall of the same, in the west corner of the terrace ; and she was buried here in the year 1710. There were formerly lands allotted for the support and repairs of this place, amounting to a lack of rupees per annum, but they have long since been confiscated during the troubles this city has undergone. Ex clusive of the mosques aforementioned, thete are in Shahjehartabad and its environs above forty others ; but as most of them are of inferior size and beauty, and all of them of a similar fashion, it is unneces sar) to present any farther detail. The modern city of Delhi is rebuilt, and contains many good houses, chiefly of brick : the streets are, in general, narrow, as is usual in most of the large cities in Asia; but there were formerly two very usable streets, the first leading from the palace gate, through the city, to the- Delhi gate, in a direction north and south. This street was broad and spa cious, having handsome houses on each side of the way, and merchants' shops well fat nished with a variety of the richest articles. ,Shah Jeltan caused an aqueduft of red stone to be made, which convey ed the water the whole length of the greet, and from thence, by a reservoir under ground, into the Royal gardens. Remains of this aqueduct are still to be seen, but it is in most parts choaked up with rubbish. The second grand street entered in the same manner, from the palace to the Lahore gate, lying east and west; it was equal in all respefts to the former ; but in both of them the inhabi tants h.sve spoiled the beauty of their appearance, by run ning a line of houses down the centre, and, in other places, across the street, so that it is with difficulty a person can discover, without narrowly inspefAing, their former position. Modern D:lhi I•su been built principally upon two rocky eminences, the one, where the Jama Musjid is situated, named .lujula Pahar, and the other, the quarter of the oil merchants, called Bejula Pahar ; from both of three you have a commanding view of the rest of the Loy. With respect the ruins of old Delhi, the extent cannot be le, ;Lin a circum ference of twenty miles. The curiii i,, to the north and west are crowded with remains of spacious gar dens and country houses of the Nobility, which were formerly abundantly supplied with water by means of a noble canal dug by Mercian Khan, and which formerly entered from above the city of Panniput quite down to Delhi, where itejoined the Jumiia, fertilising in its course a track of more than niaczy miles in length, and bestowing comfort and affluence on those who lived within its extent. This canal, as it ran through the suburbs of Mogul Parah, nearly three miles in length, was twenty-five feet deep, and as much in breadth, cut from the quarry of solid stone, from which most of the neighbour- • Kibla literally implies a compavi, nut here means a biotin'', or excavation in the wa:li of Mahomeitaii tooeques, to situated on the covetion of the batiktinp as altwaya to look %t -yrants the City at Mecca. gent places, were built small bridges of stone, which communicatel with th e gar d en houses of ;I, e nobility. Ancient Delhi is said to have been erected by Rajah Delu, who reigned in 1- lindostan, prior to the invasion of Alrran ler the Grens; others affirm it to have been built by Rajah ?ettouvar, who fl wish e d at a much later period. It is called M Sanscrit, Idebvput, or the abode of 'infra. one of the Ilindft deities ; and it is thus distinguished in the royal clil , l , )mers of the chancery office. 'Hie royal gardens of Shalimar, made by the Emperor Shah :Man, were begun is C'e fourth year of his reign, and finished in the thirteenth, on which occasion, and according to Colonel Dow, the F.m. 'scrim gave a grand festival to his Court. These gardens were 1 id out with admirable taste, and cost the enormous sum of a million sterling ; their pr e . sent appearance does not give cause to supposz such an immense sum has been laid out upon them, as great part of the most valuable and costly materials have been cart ied away. On each side of this !Yaws, inclosed with high walk, art the apartments of the Ifirem, some o f which are built of red stone, and some of brick, faces:: with the chunam afore-mentioned, and ornameiaref with paintings of flowers of various kinds. All th e . apartments have winding pass iges, which comma nicate with each other, and the gardens adjoining by private doors. The extent of &Sinter da-s not appear to have been very large. The gardens .tie not above one mile iu circumterence, a high hoick wall runs around the whole, and the caremtics flanked with oCiagon pavilions of red stone. they still abound with trees of a very large size, and very old. The prospect, south of Shalimar, to Delhi, as far as the eye can reach, is covered with the remains of extensive gardens, pavilions, mosques, and burial places. The environs of this once magnificent and celebrated city, appear at the present time nothing more than a shapeless heap of ruins, and the country round about is equally desolate and forlorn. CURN-EXCHANGE, WioNsouAr, Aug. is. There it a middlan; quantity of Wh htre se,y , with several cargoes of furegn at tried; tiu saasides fin•wr , ad vance, and. at the o Mortar's inathet, wad S. , 11•1•1 1 ,1 dearer than we wetted. Rye at b.dt r :me*, and but I tile Bar k, here Malt i. dearer. Wine Pea. at small I, tittire. Goon samples of Oey Pear fetch Sdv. per Q Bader. Hating a dent•nd fur Oats, they are to. higher, and not litany ben; Fluor is full 9.. dram titan the taroleef last we k. CU•AtENT PRI E OV Gr wriLat ~ 5• 68. 75.. Tiek liWr. , t 3sa pt. hwe do. 764. 78.. 01. I Otte n• 27 M. Ry• 92 84. 04. .. 2* 4. N. Bark) , N. I Nape 3; ti. Malt.. —MA. 73. 0.1. I Rae F10ur......it.- 45 .1.4 White Pea. 440. 59.. od. Sarre ado. L4 4 4;8 •. PMIC' UV STtCI _ 'SST S per Cent. Reduced.. ... S 7 S per Cent. Cuss ... . 4 per Cent ems.. S per Cent. Pimyy S per Cent. 1797 .. .. Od . 1. , 41g Annuities .... Short Alllltlllilli 3l 16al• Imperial 8 per Cent. ... Onininm .iti .... 6.; id India Stock En;. Lot Tickets 171 17 Caniris ON 9 llii T. Bail!, Strek tiro , 4, Corns. 11, and 9, Charing "," ritICE O►' IRISH sTOCKS, Mew Glrennatent Deb. 5 per cent cotrasE or £XCHANI Amsterdam .... 37 $ f U• Ditto it Sueit .. 37 0 Ratterdar3C. r.. 11 17 U. at. Twoly•I alketiff Vemee Las lie Naples Lisbnn Ilto.burgli... • . 35 S lIU.. 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