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DUPI/AH, JAN. 8. YESTE ILD AY a most distressing circumstance •oc curred here, which -threw the whole place, as well as thc country for many miles round, into the greatest dismay and, confusion. About two o'clock in 'he. morning, Mr. SALvtN'-s cotton manufadory, which comprises a very extensive range of buildings, rear Flvet church, was discovered to he on fire." These premises have- ding been admired by strati.' gets, on entering the town, for their stupendous size, and containing exaaly as many windows as th,•re ate days in the year. The Durham Volun_ • vers were immediately roused from their beds, ,and with the greatest alacrity beat to arms ; their exam- , ple fottowed by the Lanarkshire Militia, guar- ter , •e. As fast as the military assembled, they repaired to the spot:where the fire was raging with incredible _fury.; both Officers and Privates used their greatest efforts to extinguish the flames, by carrying buckets of water, to aid the few fire en gines which were coiled-M from different parts of • the town-; ; nothing, however, ,could avail. .It being now near tour o'clock, the conflagration had gained too finlch lower t o admit of any controul ; its blazes were seen for nearly twenty miles round the coun try, particularly at Gateshead Fell, Hamsterley, and .Houghton-le.Spring, which had a grand and awful effeCt. By many it was supposed the whole town was On fire; others anticipated still a greater mis fortune, and were, persuaded that the eal4miry had been occasioned by the French, 'and would not he sati,fied •of the contrary, till they had travelled to Durham in the course of the night, and learned the fa&. Great services were rendered by the Volun. teers and Militia, in proteling and removing the propel ty. _endangered by the fire. At Seven o'.clock in the morning, nothing remained of the stupendous building but the shell„ the greatest part of which fe!l to, the ground in tht course - of the day. It is under stood, here that only 60001.• is insured on the pre. inises ; . the loss sustained will amount to upwards of 20,0001. The new building and cottages facing the road, escaped being destroyed in 'some• measure, owi:ig to the little wind at the time, but more par., titularly on account of the snow that was laying on the houses, which prevented the flames from corn. municating,, or it is impossible to say where the dis astrous affair would have ended. It will be a for tunate circumstance, if all the persons_ employed at the .manufaftory.have escaped being burnt to death ; at present it is not clearly ascertained ; none, that we have heard of, are. known to be missing. EDINBURGH, JAN. 9. YESTERDAY. evening_ tte wind chopped about from west` to east. Some trashes of lightning were cllg.rved about seven o'clock. The intense frost which has 'continued some days, has been succeeded by a fresh. This morning we have had showers of snow mixed with sleet and rain. The Clerks of Lieutenancy. in the County of Dumbarton have received Letters from the Secre tary of State, desiring them to make up lists of all the male inhabitants, from the age of 17 to 50, who are to forM the Army' en Mass, - which 15 to be im meaiateiv called out. The Schooner Charlotte, Captain AUSTEN, be longing to Leith, oh her passage from London to Kiel, in Holstein, after encountering the late severe gales in the North Sea, and making the coast of N ,rkvay thrice, was at last drove off the coast, and, after being a month at sea, was put into Shetland, all well, on the 25th ult. The new Religious Society, called CAristo Sa crum, is rapAly gaining ground in Holland. Their objea is to unite all the religious Seas. The place of meeting is at Delft, where Catholics, Calvinists, Lutherans, Menonites, and persons of all Seas in Religion assemble. The Society admits no domi neering, nor exclusive system. It has not Priests, hut only two Speakers, who, in pronouncing their discourses, stand up before the altar. Their wor ship is , divided into the worship of adoration, and the worship of intruaion. The first consists in dig_ playing the grandeur of the Deity, fro;n the adrni_ rable order that reigns in his works ; the second, in expounding various parts of revealed Religion. The Clergy of Holland are exerting themselves in oppo sition to this Sect, but in vain, as they have the au thoi ity of Government for disembling. There will be a Visible Eclipse of die Moon on Thursday the -2,5 th instant, which will begin, or the southern o f t h e Moo n will appear to cone in conch , with the earth';: real shadoi,V, at 1.4. minutes and'3l seconds after 7 o'clockk in the evening. The ecliptic opposition, or true time of full Moon, will l'utppCtl at 45 minutes awl, .31 szcondi after S o'clock. The middle cf the eclipse, or the time i of greatest obscuration, will take place at 54. Minutes and One sennti after 8 o'doclz ; and the eclipse will end, or tine Moon will be — quit/2 free of rite earth'., shadow, at 3 minutes and 35 specula's after to o'clock. The elerJtion of the eclipse' will be z, hours and 19 minutes ; and the digits eclipse& on the Moon's southern limb 4 deg: 43 min. The Moon's hbrizontfil diameter will be 31 min. 19 sec. anti her horizontal parallax 57 min. z 6 sec. About the middle of this eclipse, the Moon will be vertical to a point on the earth's surface, having 44. deg. 45 min. of east long. and 19 deg. 33 min. of north latitude, which answers nearly to Mecca in Arihia, The eclipse'will con. sequently be visible to the. inhabitants of Europe, Asia; Africa, and the Eastern Stares of North and South America. The Moon will rise eclipsed to the inhabitants of the Caribbee Islands in the West Indies, and set eclipsed to those of. the Ladrone Islands in the Eastern Ocean. A In - : days ago, a bullock, fed by Mr. FIEWIN sox, of Marsthorpe, was slaughtered at Alford, and was found to be of the extraordinary weight of 1 940 lb. tlp! whole of which was sold at the rate of Lod. per lb. The weight of the loose fat was 28 0 1 b. ; hide, 1 , 7 lb. The rump and loin were played for ac higt, by a party of Gentlemn, and presented by the winners to the Alford Volunteers. AMERICA. - intrA.styß.Y DEPARTMENT, SIP., Nov., 4., i '3a3. I have the honour to transmit h e rewith, a re port and estimate of the appropriations which ap pear to he necessary for the service of the year z8o4; also a statement of the Receipts a nd Expen_ dittires at the Treasury of the United States, for one year preceding the ist day of Oaoher, 1803. I have the honour to be, very respeafully, your obedient Servant, • ALBERT GALLATIN. The Hon. the Speaker of the House of Representatives. REPORT. The Secretary of the Treasury respearnlly re ports to the House of Representatives of the Mited States, that for the Service of the yenr i 504. the folloiving appropriations, as detaiied in estimates herewith taansmitted, appear to be necessary : Dolls. Cis. For the Civil List, or the Support of Govern ment, including the Contingent Expences of the. several Departments and Offices, the sum of - -564,30 S 65 FOR MISCELLANEOUS EXPENCES, viz. For Payment of Grants and An- numes, • Içoo o Por Military Pensions - 95,000 0 For the support of the Mint Esta blishment - - - 945 0 0 For the support of Light-houses, Beacons, Buoys, and Public-Piers, and other Establishments for ,the Security ofNavigation, 60,451 33 For defraying the Expellees of Sur veying the Public Lands south of the State of Tenesse, 10,000 o For satisfying Miscellaneous Claims, 4000 o For Furniture for the - PreSident's House,-being the unexpended ba- . lance of former appropriiitions, 145 .t 7 1 .3,40 so • FOR THE EXPEtCES OF INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS, VIZ. For the Diplomatic Department; '46,550 o For the Expences incident try the in.. tercourse with the Barbary Powers, toc,oeo o For aid to distressed Seamen in Fo • reign Countries, - - • To,ooo o For prosecuting Claim; in relation to Captures, - - 3350 TOP, THE MILITARY DE'PARTME'NT, VIZ. For the Pay, Forage, Subsistence, and. Cloathing of the Army; Bounties, Hospital, Transportation, and con. tingent Expences - 677,954 2.t . For Fortitkations, rsenals, :Maga zines, and Armouries, t 09,596 • , For the Department, 65,50 p o —7----.---746g60P351 FOR THE NAVAL DEPARTM.ENT, VIZ, For the Expences of two Frigates, two Brigs, and three Schooners in Aclual Service, -= -354,00 r ss For the Expence of eleven Frigates in Ordinary, and for the Half- pay of Officers not in _Aclual Service, r 54.720 For Ordnance, - - coop 0 For the support of the Marine Corps, £0,933 S 6 For completing the Marine Barracks at the City of Washington, - 35 8 4 7 2 For improving Navy. Yards, Docks, and Wharfs, - szocio 0 Total 2,421,056 27 The Funds, out of winch appropriations may be made for the purposes before mentioned, are, First, The sum of six hundred thousand dollars of the proceeds of duties on in ports and tonnage, which will accrue in the , year 1804, which sum is by law annually reserved for the support of Govern.. ment. _ _ Secondly, The surplus of the Revenue and In. come of the United States, which may accrue to the end of the year 1804, after satisfying the ob. ' jeers for which appropriations have been heretofore made. The Secretary also transmits a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the year prior to the ist of Olober last, being the latest period to which an account can be prepared. All which is respelfuily submitted. ALBERT GALLATIN; The United States of America have opened a loan of eighteen millions of florins at the banking houses of Smith, Hope, and Wenlisch, at 'an annual interest of Si per cent. This money will serve to pay the first instalment to France, for the cessiors of Louisiana. Set thy pee againit Mount-Seir.—An honest far. mer, who reads the Bible every,Sunday (according to *the custom of better times), came lately to his Rea or, and asked him, " whether this war would go with the French ?" The Dolor said, if it pleased God, he hoped it would. " Nay," said the farmer, " I'm 5.t: re it will then; for thus he declares by his Prophet Ezekiel, chap. xxxv. ver. t. ' S o n of min, set thy face against Mount.Seir.' Now m y wife, who is a better Scholar than I am, says this can be nothing hut Monsltur, the Frenchman. --And in almost the next verse it is stronger than that, for there,. Donor, the Prophet adds, ' 0, Mount.S e i r , I will wake dice desolate." The folloWing curious occurrence will amuse, and • its authenticity maybe relied on —A Bank of Eng. land Note, value '2Ol. The property of the Captain of a small sloop, lying•at Liverpool, loaden with ' coals, bound for Cardigan, in South Wales, was lost, and he took much pains to have it advertised be fore he sailed on his • voyage, but without success. The vessel arrived at the place of destination, and the cargo Of coals wit discharged, when lo! in the bottom of the vessel,- and under all the coals, was found, in about zo pieces, the identical bank note ; forming, together with a number of other bits of paper, a manse's nest. They were.carefully ed together, fixed on a piece of paper,• with gum. water, and diSpatched to London for payment. The name of AB,RAHAM NitVLAND, the date, ti;e sum, the signature, and the name of the entering clerk, • could be made out with tolerab!• - _. corredness. Tuesday morning a tire broke out at Mr. Sol o _ mon's, jun. in Vinegar-yard, - Drury-lane, which was occasioned by some linen taking fire, which was drying in the kitchen. By the exertions of Mr. Solomon it was got under withou: 'doing any Material damage. COURT OF KING's 13ENCI-T, WESTMINSTER, DrcENrsER S. SITTINGS BEFORE LORD ELLENBOROUGH AND A SPECIAL JURY. RATCIIETT AND CO. w.- RUTHERFORD, ESQ. THIS Aftion was brought by Mr. Haichett and his Partners, who arc eminent coachmakers in Long Acre, to .recover 2531. 163. which was due to them from Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford, for carriages. Colonel Rutherford being, in the year t Sol, about to set rust as Surveyor-General to the Island 'of Trinidad; in the West Indies, ordered two carriages of the Plaintiffs, which were to he paid for. in ready money. When the carriages, were ready, they sent in their bill, upon the hack of which Colonel Rutherford wrote an order, directed to Turnbull, Forbes, and Co. desiring them to pay s tile - within as usual. This was on the rsth of Sep tember, 18c). When the Plaintiffs' Agent called on Messrs. Turnbull and Co. they told him they had not then any _money in their hands of Colonel Rutherford's, and desired him to call again after Christmas. Whys he.,,,callekafter Chri:4mas, he received no satisfaftory answer.. This ,business went on till the month of July, when the Plaintiffs obtained of Messrs. Turnbull and Co. a Bill at two months for their demands ; but, unfortunately, before that Bill because due, Messrs. Turnbull and Co. became insolvent ; and. the question was, whe ther the Plaintiffs were entitled to ; recover this money of Col. Rutherford, or whether, by giving Turnbull and Co. so much indulgence, .so much time to pay this demand, the Plaintiff, had not taken them for their pavinastets ? As to the order given by Col. Rutheil'erd, as it was neither a banker's check, nor a note payable tm demand, it ought to have had a stamp to make it evidence; and' as it had no stamp itcoUld-not be read. But it appeared from .the 'evidence of Mr. Turnbull, that if they had been urged for the money by the Plaintiffs, they would certainly have paid thern-be fore July. They had paid every other order of 'Col. Rutherford but that ; and they had then a warrant from Government, on account cf Col. Ru. therford, for 10,6001. 'which they afterwards re ceived, LoidELLEItioROUGH obserVed," . .that he was Most clearly of opinion;',the Defendant was e,ntitied to a,Ver'dia. r When Col, RtitherfOrd gave the Plaiti.. tiffs an order on TurnbUll ;Old CO. the Plaintiffs gave him a . receipt for the money, as if it had been paid; and then they g a v e Turnbull and Co. six months farther time; and Mr. Turnbull had sworn, if they had urged them for money, by telling them they would either apply tc) the Treasury, or. to. Colonel Rutherford himielf, they would certainly have been paid. ' The Jury found a VerdiA for the Defendant. TREVAILLAN. MITCHELL. This was an anion brought by the PlaintifF, who is i a Common Informer, against the Defendant, who is a Rope.maker, for not making two Cables of hemp such as is required by the 35th Geo. 111. c. 56, but a part of these Cables were made of materials of an inferior quality. It was stated, this' was a Ties., tiO9 of very great impOrtance to the public, and particularly to seafaring Men,' that their lives, who were most dear to us, should not be endangered by Cables made of bad material's. . It appeared that the Plaintiff came into the De fendant's yard, and took away . these two Cables, of 2o fathoms each in length, and Isi inches thick. There were zoBo .yarns in each ; and it appea . red, most clearly that one of the Cables was pettedly without fault; and that in the other, there were three or four yarns that had not the appearance of being new, but which got in most bfobably by ac cident because, even if they had ran through the whole Cable, the Defendant would not have gained 2s. by the difference. It appeared the Defendant was in a great way of business, and that he was a principal promoter of the Bill which had been passed by the Legislature for the regulation of this subjet. The jury found a Verdi} for the Defendant. MITCHELL. qv. TRAVAILLAN. TM va; an anion of Trespass, brought by the Defendant in the last cause, against the Plaintiff, for cotning upon his premises, and carrying Off the two Cables. The Jury found a Verdit for Plaintiff for 4171. the price of the Cables. This verdia also attached on another . Defendant' of the name of Cotty, who had assisted in carrying away and cutting up these two cables. Letters from St. Petersburgh mention 4t as a fad to he depended upon, that twelve Russian Ships of the Line, and eight Frigates and Cutters, are in a short time to join the Fleet under Lord NELSON, in the Mediterranean. This. Fleet is- besides ac„ companied by several transports, having in- the whole 16,000 Russian Troops on hoard, destined, according to report, to proted Sicily, Sardinia, or Egypt ; alike threatetted by the- French .arma ments on the borders. of the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas. The Proclamation for augmenting the Army is enforced with great severity ; and, besides the - 25,000 men encamped on the frontiers of Galicia, other corps are ordered for the Ist of May in Livonia and Russian Poland; and the same letters say, that the EMPEKOR has determined to make three hundred thousand of his forces moveable next spring, and ready to march at a week's notice. At the same time, the works in the dock-yards, and the repairi' in - the Russian navy, continue without inter. ruption, even . on Sundays and by candle light. Upon the demand of General HEDOUVILLE, as to the cause of these warlike preparations, he received for answer, that it was a secret of the EMPEROR. The cold was so extreme in the early part of last month at Stockholm, that the oldest people remem bered nothing to equal it, ar so early a period of the Winter. The North Stream, which seldom freezes, even is the middle of Winter, was covered with ice, and several pers6ns went over it on .foot' LONDON: Printed by MCIIA NAN 11`MI ',LAN, (of 1 - 10w-Streiq, Crivent-Gaid,mi ; Published by WILLIAM ..RMIGIR SCRIrPS, (Of SOlith A401'6111 At the Suiv.OFF lc E, No. 11 2, Strand; where Advert:semen:4, Order.; for t i n raper, Letter; for the Editor, &C. (post-paid . ),. mu: 3CI ENTIFIC NE;FS. Tx t mucilaginous substance of ti .e nnti-scripros, or common bluebell o - r bare hell, lta: been successfully used by calico printers,- instead of. gum arahie; the mode in use, is to cot the bulbs, arid v.dien clr:;.ed, to retity2e thm to powder, which they yield in the'proportion of about one-fourth of their original weight, and this powder is used ii fixing the e , lours in the same maneer as the gum, and in like quantity, viz. r oz. to 4 nz. of mei:. dant. These ,1-(wts are abundant in ail parts of the country, and might he cultivated in y required quantity, at an expense itifipiteiy short of the pre., sent cwt of gum. The follo;ing very simple prcee3s will produce an ink equal to the best Indian ink, in all its pro perties and eff•cls :—Boil parchment shavings, or cuttings of glove leather, in water till it btconlei a sise, which when cool, forms a jelly.; then, haviltg '• blackened an earthen plate or dish, by holding it over the flame of a candle, rnix up, with a camel hair fine lamp-black thus obtained, wiAz some of the sise, while the plate is warm. Good common carpenters' glue may be used instead a sise, and lamp-black may he procu • red. in any re. quired qua-tity from the smoke of oil, tallow., &c.; - that sold in the shops is, however,,too coarse; a musk may he adilcd, to give. it the ,smell Indian ink, front which this composition (inters only in the.circumsrance, that the Chinese ioftise or si:rue similar subs! which gives it .a lowish metallic lustre When' dry, in no however essen• ial to thq.iirtist. • Some • recent experiments, by a Fren.ch chemist, have estah 7 i,hed the possibility of rest iaticid. essential of an oil as thick as turpentine s .' and which had. no stud( by,which the plant Iron:" which it w as extrane3 could be d'istingu'ished, were mixed with two draelam . s cif sulphuric ether, aii4 distilled in pure water frit tout days, when two ounces and a half of oil passed over as clear and ai4 fluid as. spirits of wine, and having the best and most.decided ockur of wild thyme—there remained in the still two ounces of a resinous matter of a dark red colour. ..In this, and• similar experiments on Other rancid oils, the ether obviously developed the smell of the oil on which it re-aCied, or rather it recomposed the, oil by transmitting its hegrogenous principle to the oily base. • An artificial alum is prepared by adding five parts of murizte of soda to too parts of clay, made into balls by means of water, and calcined in a reve the, rarory furnace—t o the powd e r a 4t h part of it# weight of sulphuric acid is added it intervals, anti afterwards eight or ten times as much water ; the alum is separated from•the liquid by . , a solution (.;E potash. To manufa&• ers of Pr ussian' blue, or tilt tillers of aqua-fortis, this system.of fabricating alum 1, would, be particularly advantageous. Jr. France, M. Curauda'and others have made this salt artifi cially with a profit of zs per cent. over the alum of commerce. We have already mentioned a fulminating powder compounded of oxigenated muriate and arsenic, which explodts with the rapidity of lightning, and in comparison with the strongest gun_powder, make, the iatter seem to burn with e.trreine slowness. Its clear are so violent and so dangerous, that no sttc.• cessful experiment hai yet been made to apply it to objects of use; but it is believed to be capable of. extensive and important applications. A Frenchman, .named Descotils, has discovered a new metal in, the ore of platini ; it is presumert that palladium may bean alloy to it with mercury;* Another FrenChman, named Thenard, has-disco iered a blue, .as fine and beautiful as the lapis lazuli,:ot ultramarine. It is now contended thar.palladium is a new nob?? metal, and not, as was asserted, a compound of pia tina and quicksilver; awl the person who found is or made it, fur the point still undetermined, has, deposited 201. as a premium to any one who. wiil make twenty grains of it. SHIP NE CRAVESESD, JAN. If. • Passed by—the Resolution, Fraser, from Labr ; A poi , 10, St,:din, and St. Johannes, Waliis,:frothMata7,4; A:1 113 Johanna, Lunn, from S ev ill ; .G ood . from ,Sr tkndero; Henrietta,•Lear, from Lisbon; .Sally, Roi)st.n, from Riga; Concord-, Reddeig, and the indefatigable, —, froar Waterford. • DIED. On the t2th of December last, at Montpelier, His Royal Highness Frederick Duke of Eas Gotiiland, uncle to tiic' present .King of Sweden. At the - Roi:kery, Woodford, Mrs Godfrey, wife or P:. Godfrey, Esq. and youngest daughter of the late Si; j. Row— ley. On Sunday Last, at Waltham-place, Berksk.irP., John G Esq. ()n Friday morning, at his prebendal house in the Collegct I)Whain,. aged 78, the Rev. Newton Ogle, D. D. Dean cti • Winchester, and Prebendary of Durham Cathedn.l. At Nlill-1-lill, on the,z9th utr. in the 73d year , of his ace,' fames Rankin, .Esq, formerly Representative in the Assem- biy of Pennsylvania. On the 30th ult. at Linktown of .A.bbottshall, Klrkaldy, Mr. Robert Pratt, ir6tintarturer there. At Dundee, on ill , : zd inst. Alexauder Rankine ; - Esq. oC, Couston, in the Bzd red; of his a,;F . . _ , At Dundee, Mr. lonn ['twins, merchant tli'=re• PAICP. Of' sroCK.s,". YESTERDAY. Bank Stock 149 i 5-i 1 ,, c ,,, stcci: IT:4 ; cit. ttiv.. N., ~,,, 5 per (..ent. 88i India*Boncis s per , Cpt 174-, 9Z 3 Ojimium 4 '34 4 Irish s per Cent. :. 11 .., Cr 3 per (—eta. 4 pe l Cent : 0.,. 72,4 I lYirto Ann. 9 *7-16i 3 per ' . k. 55234 Bank for Account 3 per C Con sSA- t ik . 1 Deterred 3 per cent., 13. L. Ann. 1 6 7-13 i I Cons. nn drion. 56i-ill i 13. S. Ann. 35='r6 P _. OLD WINE AND OLD SPIRJ S. QPENCER and PERKINS, 113 Ne vvgare kj street, Wine and Brandy Merchants, have for foortecti years meliorated Wine in Vats, containin Train 't wo to four thousand gallons, by which mode, and their - inflexible in.' tegrity, in selling their Wine genuine, the reputation of it, for its fine flavour and cordi,l quality, has been tong esta blished, and been sought atter both' t , y the connoisseurs and the infirm. Anxious to excel equal I S , nrit,, they ha ve ' tak'en the same metivl, and pow keep their br..ndy and Rut in Vats of imr a thousand gallons, by wil;cii ii;.-aus they ar: enabled to offer to the Public both Brao,iv and Rum; of a' •quality,superior, and much- older, than nh,st winch is 0 0 sale. Their immense Stock enables them to L'seep Wine t?' great ages : they have Port wh;Zli has been seven years in bottle, Madeira fifteen. years, - Mountain twenty-five years, Bucella seven years, and Lisbon six years of Not less than a dozen of Wine, or two gallons of SpititsF sent to any part of the Town free of expetice. i-street; G r osvenor-sgune); • st be addrefued,