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at ail. On the IMi the stream towards
Catania moved more alow ly, till the 18th,
•nd on the 20ih waB<«nU On the 22d
the mountain ioared again, and afterwards
i till the 23 th was silent, when it hunt
|1 whh greater force like peak of ordnance
fsrJM hours. On the 28th the grand eur-
h**i*r Catania. It began again
‘ld another course in April. The follow
ing ha fat of the placea which suffered,
• aa given with the account of 1669. The
town VW Nkolasti, wholly reined by the
evHbtuake. Padara and Tre Cnetagne,
greater pi* destroyed. Eleven towns
engtherated that were overlowod, or as
• the relation says, “ wholly consumed and
loot io this fiery inundation, with all the
fr, lands belonging to them, no footMepr rf
tt them rem awing** Two other towns ruin-
l. fdinfart. The large gardens and vine- !
I Alhinelli were over!own and de-
1 antiques and churches,
fui nls and other placea lost
fchurely. *Son»e of the stones fell 10 mi|es
t dhaancr front the eruption. Sir W. HaggT
' ton fo«Jk.byone of the ancient 1«
L-f -dhat thirty miles from the ern-
ibc*, «W®HvSS in many parts 23 mjles in
J bretyh- The heighth of /Etna was given
I three Italian miles from the sea,
is Mht vtJbuna Which has its power
faum wfah Vouvftrt W vomit fire, and
' are not |hguttar to Italy. Sir W. Hamil
ton says, whaeavet I shall meet with a
-mountain, in any gart of the world, whaae
form h irregularly aonical, With a hollow
Crater on ha top, and one aide broken, 1
shall be apt to decide it waa formed bran
. gruplioQ. Hutie Jiegi»teh ’
tfcme of «»r brethren haw supposed the
prompt publication of General Arm-
Mrong's letter, augured some change in
the view* bf our government towards
France. We have no doubt that the
following speculation on the subject coa
leys the true reason.} Repertory.
* - Zro* the New-York Evening Pott.
Notwitpst am dimg the rumours of an
Immediate call of Congress, and the re
marks of aorne of our brother editors on the
probability of such an event, we have never
been of opinion that Congress would be
convened. We stated our doubts on the
aul ject when the report was first propa
gated. The Executive can have no motive
to call Congress, in the present disposition
of «|w administration. War with France
is notwtended. Bodaparte cannot kick w
i thto a var !— And we have no doubt but
Mr. Armstrong has saM more to his Im
perial Majesty than our gorerament in
tended he should; and though Duane is
now bedaubing this Minister with
- for hi» manly behaviour, he will probably
justify Napoleon’s next attack on our
by saying it was in retaliation for
insolent remonstrance.—
Some pts’!’*® wonder at the promptitude of
the gpvernnWOt In publishing this corres
pondence | they say they are in hopes that
the old deceptive system is to be abandon
«d, and a more honest, open #ad candid
plan of policy is about to be substituted
| • We wish there were foundations for thia
! i hope. We are happy to give our adminis
[ * ' tration credit when they deserve it—and
We commend them for fixing their official
stamp to the correspondence at thia time.
’,®k ft is never too late to do good ; and much
fl may be saved from the fangs of
-I Hh® destroyer, by the publication at this
ifc Kfe hour. We are, however, forced to
J W’ Msprct. that tt was not the interests of the
i Krchants. nor of the country, which in
i' Seed our government to publish the cor-
Strange and inconsistent at
Diay appear, it is a continuation of the
’to comparison with their mother Atn», y
b tiwyigh they would appear great any where
In the middle region co the XJatnnia
jEw. and many other* uu the other aide of
TOe mn»nrt»in t all of a conical form, and
yarh having its crater, many with timber
trees fiourishiog both within and with oat
the craters. All have however been evi
dently raised by expheion. We looked
Mo the great crater, which as near as we
jwwp Judge, to aboot two miles and a half
L gofa»mferewee. The inside to in the
.-■Lef an Inverted hollow cone. The
K&lf.prevented our seeing quite down.
Aw afters as a sort of res
pended fafflfelt water which are vast
caverns and abysses. In nor way back
fpom Catania, car guide shewed me a little
hill covered with vines, undermined by the
|a*a In the year 1669, and transported
< half a mile from the place where it stood,
■teabout damaging the vines.** The rc
;/<Ki&ds <d the eruptions are imperfect till
MOth year of the Christian wra, and the
last hr noticed was the eruption of 1766.
T|»e Earl af Winchelsea published a rela
tion of the earthquake and eruption of
A&tua, at Cambridge In England, 1669,
* fn>m Na|4M, as he was at that time, a
spectator of this dreadful event, upon his
attorn as English ambassadour, from Con*
ttantinople. He tells us the convulsion of
> the earth was oe the 11th of March, and
immediately followed by three eruptions.
It spread 6 miles, and on the 13th ap
proached Catania. The rain on the 14th
did not ttoo its progress. All the ele
ments seemed to be at war. The sea rose
high, and every where thieves abounded,
and life waa In danger, while the fire of
tea mountain threatened to take possession
im
♦
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aid palsying, Jeflersstilan fystem. Had the
documenta been suppressed anti! tfe meet
tag of Congress, and been then suffered to
burst upon the representative* of the peo
ple. if Congresh ere even •• ,ow • wl d *“
graded as Duane represents them, there
would probably hare been enough of the
old Amer** spirit found in them to de
clare war ageinU the tyrant. Thia would
hare destroyed french influence at once;
and the aiwotfon of those who hare at
tempted to justify the French government,
would have been rather oncgsufortable.-
Thia would have turned the wisdom of the
sage Jefferson into foolishness. Thio must
then be guarded against. THE DOCU*
MBNTB ARE THEREFORE PUB
LISHED AT THIS TIME, WHEN WO
ORDER CAN BE TAKEN ON THEM.
The people will scowl at the conduct of
their frirend Bonaparte, for a few days,
hut hb printers here will find excuses for
him. and before the constitutional period
for the meeting of Congress, the outrage
will he almost forgotten. The democratick
Members off Congress will go to the capi
tol with their trunks filled with files of the
Aurora, the Whig and' other French pa
pers ; prepared to plead the cause of Na-,
poldbn, and to condemn Mr. Pinkney. or
some other victim who may be pointed out
•• g sacrifice to atone for the loss of the
national honour.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer (the
House having gone into a Committee) moved
« grant of 400,00«. to his Majesty, to ena
ble him to make good his engagements
with his Sicilian Majeity, for 1810. The
resolution wag agreed to without any ob
servation, and (the House having resumed)
the report was ordered to be received to
**“***' '' ' , A
singular occurrence.
The flowing singular occurrence took
place a few days ago at tfw Royal Navy
Asylum, at Greenwich :—A female child,
five years of age, was sent anonymoualy to
that establishment, with an intimation tha|
SO pounds in bank notes were sewed up m
the child’s clothes, which wewwopoyilingly
found. The following account of the birth,
parentage, and education of the little found
ling was also given: The father was de
scribed ah a seaman on board of a British
man of war, and however unusual, it ap
pears that his wife, from some cause or
ortur, was permitted to go to sea with him.
The tar was killed in action, and the day
after bis death, hie wife was delivered of a
female Infant under one <rf the guns, and
almost immediately expired. The child
was taken care of by the messmates of its
deceased parents, and fed with biscuit and
water, all of them acting the part of nurses
by turns, and carefully removing it from
hammock to hammock, when |hey were
called upon duty. On the ship’s arrival in
port, the 50 pounds above mentioned were
collected among the ship’s company, and
the object of their bounty transmitted tn
the Asylum. The child, which is retnark
i ably healthy, has been baptised Sally Tron
i nion.
PbivAtb letters from Amsterdam ex
press the utmost alarm and anxiety for the
future fate of the oppressed inhabitants of
Holland, which all the fair promises of
Bonaparte cannot remove. It is stated,
that while a regard for the independence
at that country is professed by the French
government, every port and creek is filled
with French soldiers and French Custom-
House Officers. Not a less force than
30,000 occupies the ports of Hol
land. Their head-quarters are at the
Hague. It is suspected to be the present
policy of Bonaparte to oppress the Dutch
so grievously that they may at least beg
the incorporation of their coantry with
Prance as a favour.
May 6.
ftOUSE OF COMMQMS,
No. 8 is a letter from Fkkdinand, in
which he expresses himself thus :— ** That
which «t present occupies my attention io
to me an object of the greatest interest.—
My first wish is to become the adopted eon
tj bis Majesty the Emperour, our august
Sovereign. I conceive myself to be worthy
of this adoption, which would truly consti
tute the happiness of my life, as well from
my perfect love and attachment to the
taerrd person of hi» Majesty, as by my
eubmiuion and entire obedience to his in
tentiono and deJtree. X
According to letters from Faris of the
18th ult. General Wirton, the late Com
mandant of Verdun, committed suicide on
the preceding day. This officer had been
ordered to Paris to answer some charges
of extortion and embesslement of their
property, preferred against him by Cap
tain Sir T. Lavie, and other British prison
ers at that dtpef. It appears that some
days before, bo mqde an application,
through p'third persOttf to Sit T. Llvie, to
spfien the evMeniso again*! 1 him as much
as possible, promising, on
, tiuw, to restore the property |>Artnned.
f • •
foreign ‘lntelligence.
Arrtarr ro atseux FgnnittjurD.
LONDON, May 5.
Araii. 30.
mx LARKAS HIRE GIANT!
lathe Chapeltryof Hale, was born, in
the year 1878, John Middleton, commonly
called the “ Child rf Hate,” who was re
markable for bis largeness of stature and
extraordinary strength. It is traditionally
reported there, that one of the Ireland*
took him to London, and introduced him to
the presence of King James the First, drest
«p in a very fantastick style. On bis re
turn from London, a potrail was taken of
of Mm, which is preserved in the library of
Brasen nose College, at Oxford; and Dr.
Plott gives the following account of him :
“John Middleton, commonly called the
Child of Hale, whose hand, from the wrist
to the end of the middle finger, was seven
teen inches; his palm eight inches and a
half; and his height nine feet three inches,
wanted but six inches of the sice of Goiiah.”
raosi rat eoraL GAZirra.
NASSAU, May 18.
Cause passenger in the John Bull, (from
Crooked Island, Charles Richards, a na
tive of New-London, State of Connecticut,
and late mate of the schooner Sloth, of
Elisabefh-Tefrn, Sfate of Maryland, Ben
iamin Williams master, who, on the 15th
of April, accidentally fell overboard, from
the said having been five days
out from Cuba, bound to Balti more; abreast
of Long Key, between 5 and 6, P. M being
about 5 miles from land, there being at
that time a brisk breeze and the vessel
going at the rate of 6 miles an hour; she
immediately rounded too, but not having
any boat, (it being previously stove,) all
efforts to pick me up were vain; there re
mained no alternative but to swim to land ;
a favourable wind gnd current with the aid
of Providence enabled me to accomplish if,
aftet having been six hours in the water,
and nearly exhausted. As soon as I re
covered sufficient strength to raise myself.
I gave thanks to God, for my
preservation, and then lay down until
morning, when with great difficulty I walk
ed to a plantation belonging to the Honour
able James Mose, where I was most hospit
ably entertained; I remained on Long Key,
and on board the John Bull, until she sailed
for Nassau. As Capt. Williams must soon
have lost sight of me, he will probably on
his arrival report me as drowned, I there
fore earnestly request the editor of the
Royal Gazette to publish the foregoing
statement, that all conoarncd may be as
sured of my safety as sooa as possible.
C. RICHARDS.
BARBADOES, May 19.
The Spanish provinces of Cumana, Bar
celona, New-Andalusia and Ve
oezuela,are hgyUnd description hostile to
the French, anxious to establish friend
ship and alHßbqb with the English. . A
Spanish officer has just arrived on a mis
sion to oor naval and military cqm as coders.
This officer (a Lieutenant of the Colum
bian army) brought despatches from the
Junta of Cumana; and the Wellington
brig has been despatched to Laguira, by
Admiral Cochrane, with an answer; and
the officer most received.—
fe remarked, that thia article /irntt
the late .Spanish “ of Inde-
19 ave b een a forgery, at. the
have expressly avowed their
loyaliyeb Ferdinand, fn whose name alone
.could the Spanish officer 1 have been re
ceived by Admiral Cochrane.]
GEORGETOWN, June 23. *
W, understand General Wilkinson in
tends applying to the Executive for anoth
er court of inquiry. It will not be granted.
Last week, it was certainly the intention
of the Cabinet to call Congress, though not
immediately. Whether their mindshare
altered since we cannot tell. They hardly
know what to do, but we doubt not their
present intention of convening Congress
early in the fall. But why not convene
them immediately ? It is a disagreeable
»easW of the year ; and the Cabinet wish
to spend some time, as usual, at their re
spective homes. Are these reasons such
as can justify a delay of convening Con
gress?
Extract of a. lilt fr from an .American,
dated Paido t .Marfb 26,1810.
“ Before this reaches my native country
you will receive a.melancholy detail of the
abominable seisure of all American pro
perty!, pot only in French ports, but in
every country meanly subservient to the
tyrannical domination of a Bonaparte. The
American property already seised, will
amount to more than fifteen millions of dol
lars, and thia sum is hourly Increasing
General Armstrong did every thing in his
power to check these unexampled viola
tions of every thing like principle, even
the Arabian robber* and Italian banditti,
have a sense of honour or of humanity that
will protect those who enter their thres
hold with a confidence in the rights of hos
pitality, but, nothing can escape from the
hand of a rascal educated in the school of
Bonaparte.
•• Wkra our first complaints were made of
the orders for a general seisure iu
port, be were treated with a new species
of insotenoc. " As you no doubt are our
t&e jttaflsr.
sorely complain of our taking a loan of you
t« pay me great expend of this
>g wedding of our imperial and royal sove
reign. We will inrise Mr. Armstrong
and then furnish him with one of thweap
tured vessels to go home and tell his coun
trymen, that the -very sight if thia cpten
did actne was worth all the money. ’
M In passing the French officers w# fre
quently hear English bastard or American
coward applied to us. Indeed the French
own “ they never can forgive ua while we
talk English. *’
“ Many of our poor, plundered captains
are now here, who say, if they were only
at home, and allowed commissions of re
prisal they would soon indemnify them
selves, and their nation by the great op
portunities that now offer for recaptures
from the French and the salvage and im
post these would give means easy to our
cruisers who excel the universe In this
mode of profligate warfare.
“ That Congresswin be immediately call
ed to grant letters of marque, we are all
confident, and this indeed is now the only
consolation we have left. Stripped as we
are of our last (foliar, by the most dis
graceful acts of treachery, and by a set of
unrivalled fobbers who in fact have no
shame, no feelings’ nor any other principles
than those of an Insatiable thirst for uni
versal conquest and for unceasing plunders
of friends and foes ”
The Whig gives the following extract of
a letter from this place:
“Many of the republicans here wish
again to celebrate the anniversary of our
independence as a political sect; but they
have been so badly supported by the heads
of department and the executive, that
numbers msnnifest an extraordinary de
gree of indifference *, and I fear we shall
not succeed as well as we did last yeas."
Whether the writer, would insinuate
that the Executive and Secretaries are
Aired of what are called revolutionary prin
ciples. or to what cause he would attribute
a supposed unwillingness in the court to ce
lebrate the 4th of July, we cannot discover.
Perhaps they are disgusted with the man ~
ner in which the democrats celebrate the
day. To read the Declaration of Inde
pendence, and to hear the dull, stale, tedi
ous spoutings of violent and illiterate ora
tors, who, like most of ‘he Tammany
Long-tglkers, without any beauty of dic
tion, grace of elocution, novelty of senti
ment or depth of political research, can
only inflame the ignorant or gain the ap
plause 6f fools, by damning the British con
stitution and pronouncing ouf wisest and
best men tories; is indeed sickening, very,
very sickening: yet such is most of the
democratick speech-makers on this day.
Extract of letter from Parte, dated April
10, 1810.
“ The celebrated Captain Nathan Ha
ley, of Hare memory, fitted out under the
auspices of Mr. Armstrong, the brig Hap
py Return, from Dieppe, whence she sail
ed on the 4th or Sth of November last. In
this vessel it is supposed the wife of Haley
sent to England, with despatches for Mr.
Pinkney and for the United States. It is
reported that Haley furthered the escape
of two English gentlemen in the above ves
sel. ' The one a Mg. Start or Hurt, a mem
ber of Parliament—thq other an officer,
name unknown ; that he secreted them in
Hogsheads, and from each received one
thousand guineas, ft is certain that two
Englishmen did escape, and did shew
selves on board, after the vessel cleared
the French coast. The fact might be ve
rified by the passengers—one of whom, I
am informed, brings the report.
A citiien of an adjacent county, who re
cently had his female slave committed to
the Bridewell of this city for running away
from him, applied a few days past to the
Police, to have her prosecuted for felony;
alleging she stole from him articles to the
value of seven dollars, “amongst which
was a very valuable lock, that he would
not have lost for four dollars; he thought
more of it than of all the other articles,
stocking, &c.” The woman being in
Bridewell, he was told to attend there on
the next morning at 4 o'clock, he did so,
and on a further examination it appeared
that the article* in question yrere taken in
another county, whe're the- tomplainant
lives, he was told to take her to that coun
ty and prosecute her there.
The woman being brought forth, was in
terrogated in the presence of her blaster—
Q. “ Did you take a lock from your mas
ter ?
A. “ Yes, sir.
Q. “ Why did you take it ?
A. “ I could not help it. I ran away
from him because he treated me cruelly,
and the lock was to a neck yoke that
weighed twenty fiounde, which he had fiat
round my neck, and it hung on my ehoul
dere ; after 1 ran away a man fl.d it off,
and I threw it into the creek.** *
Thus was the nominal value of the neck
yoke and lock to answer the purpose of
convicting the unfortunate slave, and ena
ble her tyrant to transport her, and pocket
the price of her West-India B ndagc—The
magistrate retusld to interfere, further
than to deliver her to him,
j
NEW-YORK, June 23.
W- 'T 1
Hartford, rm if.
f • 2l ’ 1818 ’
« On frpß*th teat Towns, 2d son oC
Mr. Urban Bhrrett, of thia town, aladlcf
11 years of age, and alio a largo yoke Of
oxen were instantaneeoely killed by light
ning. A heavy cloud Had been for some
time .hanging in the north; a skirt of*it
only passed the notherly part of this town.
About' half an hour before the fall of stay
rain, a very heavy clap of thunder was
heard by tlie inhabitants, and at that time
the awful event took place. The lad was
with his elder brother William, ploughtag,
each with a yoke of oxen, in an open field,
wjiere there was nothing to attract the
lightning to them. Finding that their
ploughs went too deep in the earth, they
stepped between the cattle to shorten their
Ch rtns, and at that instant Edward, and
both his oxen were killed. William, at thdr
distance of about 20 feet before him, wax
considerably affretedaand one of his oxen
struck down upon his knees. He was soon
able however to attend to bis brother, but
c<*ild perceive no symptotns of life in hint,
or in his cattle—act even a tremour of
their flesh. At this time the eyes, both of
the boy and of the cattle were quite open.
No marks of the lightning were discerna
ble on the lad or the cattle, except a little
scorching of hair on each.
His funeral was attended on the 20th,
when a sermon was delivered to a very
large concourse of people, from that denun- 1
elation of God, Gen. iii. 19. “ Dust thou art,
and unto dust shalt thou return."
How solemn and how instructive the lea
son conveyed by this Providence to sur
rivours! Who can think to boast himself of
to-morrow, when we know not what a day
may bring forth! “Be ye alaoreaay—Jor
cxcefit ye repent, ye shall likewise perish.*
SALEM, June 26.
Th r Hobisom.—ln our embargo town
meeting, in which his Honour, the now
Lieutenant-Governour, bore so conspicu
ous and animated a part, it will berm
collected what elaborate arguments were
made by the French parly to justify, as a
mere execution of an innocent munici-,
pal regulation, the French government Ur
seising and condemning the American ship
Horiaou, cast away upon their shore*-*
Far otherwise does General Armstrong
speak of an act which would disgrace the
“ wreckers,” alias “ moon-cursers" of th*
most barbarous coast:—“Was the cap
ture and condemnation (says he) of a ship.
A vessel has arrived at Marblehead frotp
Cadle, which it left the 14th of May. The
master informs, that after the capture at
the Matagorda fort, the French advanced
their batteries to annoy the English and
Spaniards:—That tM French had at
tempted to take the island of Leon, but
had been repulsed:—That the Patriots and
their allies were confident of being able to
defend Cadix, in the works round Which
they had 700 pieces of cannon well mount
ed and served That two vessels frona
South-America had just arrived with nfna
millions of dollars; and that provisions
, were high.
Accounts from Cadix state, that tome of
the unfortunate American seamen who
were cast away In the late tempest had
been set at liberty by the French; while
others had been made prisoners, and con*
fined in gaol.
driven on the thereof France by stress <<
weathtrand the perils of the sea, nothing!"
The latest Lisbon accounts say, the Bri
tish head-quarters which had been long e>-
tablhhrd* at Viseu, [near the centre of
Beira.) had been advanced to the frontier,
in a line with Ciudad Rodrigo; where it
was expected they would give battle to the
French, if not found to be too strongly rer
inforced
General Armstrong is now the theme of
democratick panegyrick. Let him be so.
We call on all honest democrats who unit*
in the praise, to read and ponder on bb
letter of the IQth March, to Champagny*
and compare its contents with th* snivel
ling apologies for the French piracies, and
senseless denunciation of British measures,
which accompany those eulogies. Mr.
Armstrong, who is on the spot, and who
hates England, thus apostrophises to the
French Minbter on the subject of French y
and English conduct:—“ Surely, if it bb
the duty of the United States to reeent
’•theoretical" usurpation of the British
Orders of Council, it cannot be less their
duty to comfilain of the daily and *• p* *c
tical** outrages on the part France.’*
Here Mr. Armstrong makes the outrage*
of France to exceed the usurpation of Eng
land, a* much as practice exceed* theory.
“ At a caucus of the whole democratick
representation of New-Hampshire, held a
few days since at Concord, John God
dard, Esq. of Portsmouth, was unanimous
ly agreed on as candidate for the Chief
Magistracy the ensuing year, and a com
mittee appointed to draft an address accord
ingly, informing him of the circumstance,
and requesting his acceptance of the Caa
didateship, which it is known he imme-
W'
. BOSTON, June 97.
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