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Ihould, in the fame manner, as before,
t>pen her bosom, and restore it back to
her, without diminution or retention.
From this lenience, it ihall follow, fays
Jupiter to the by-standers, that in all
future ages the retainers of Avarice
ffiall bury and conceal their riches, and
thereby restore to the Earth what they
took from her."
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LIVERPOOL, JULY 28.
Copy ,' a letter from Dublin, dated Sun
day 11 o'clock, 24th current.
TO A MERCHANT IN THIS TOWN.
"Dear Sir,
"You will be shocked to hear that
we are at this moment in a more alarm
ing situation than at any period during
the unfortunate rebellion: At an early
hour yesterday evening, a variety of
inflamatory proclamations were distri
buted in every part of the town, calling
on people to unite as before, in opposi
tion to English oppreflion, &c. and at
so early an hour as 8 o'clock, a large
party forced into the Lord Mayor's,
and seized all the arms and pikes which
were in the house, and about io o'clock
a general engagement took placein the
neighborhood of James street, Thomas
ftreet and in every other part of the
liberty. Lord Kilwarden (the Chief
Judice of the King's Bench) coming
into town about 9 o'clock, was forced
out of his carriage in James-street, with
his nephew and were both killed by
pikes.
"Col. Brown of the 21st, and a few
more officers, and several of the soldiery
and women have unfortunately been
killed, together with a great number
who appear of the very lowed order.—
But what is the mod alarming, is that
their plots have been carried on \'ith
such secrecy that they are not yet dif
eovered, notwith (landing several prif
oners were taken. Mr. Clark, of Pal
merston, cotton manufacturer, was (hot
on Aran Quay,at 8 o'clock in the even
ing ; and it appears there were several
parties collecting in different parts of
the town at a very early hour. • The
Privy Council has been fitting at the
Castle these two hours pad, and it i
expelled martial law will be proclaimed
immediately. There are several gal
lows eroded in different parts of the
town, and the executions it is supposed
will be innumerable, as there are about
100 prisoners taken. They do not
seem to have any leaders of conse
quence ; the only one taken is a man
of the name of M'Caloe, publican, at
whose house there has been got about
1000 pikes and 600 rounds of ball cart
ridge. We have not yet heard of any
didtirbance in the country, and all the
coaches have arrived this morning.
"The situation of the city is mod
awful. The drums beat to arms at to
o'clock at night and continued until 12,
when almost every citizen was under
arms. The engagement continued ur.
til 4 o'clock, and within these two
hours two of the 62d regiment have
been killed in the neighborhood of the
Royal Hospital."
From the Hibernian Journal, dated Mon
day, July 25.
On Saturday evening lad, govern
ment having had intimation that a de
pot of pikes and other engines of de
ftru&ion, had been made by a newly
organized horde of insurgents in the
vicinity of Bridefoot- street, a detach
ment of cavalry had been ordered by
Gen. Dun from the barracks, which
we joined by a company of yeoman in
fantry, part of the Liberty Rangers,
now under the command of the Earl
of Meath having arrived at the spot
where their indrudions directed them,
after a fkirmilh of a few minutes with
the populace, in which a few lives were
loft, a great number of pikes were
found, also several combustibles, par
cels of nails, fragments of iron, glass,
compost clay, oakum and other mate
rials.
With these were difeovered a num
ber of deal balk, in pieces of various
lengths, from 7 to 15 feet in length,
with a circular cavity in each of about
three inches diameter, filled with gun
powder, to each aperture was applied a
wooden plug, with a handle and vent
hole, or receptacle for a fuze appeared
on the upper furface of the timber about
tube of about two inches long, through
which fire was designed to have been
communicated to whatever vehicle was
conftru&ed to discharge them.
A suit of green uniform, with gold
epaulets and a splendid embroidery
was also found, and several papers, by
which the train of operations fixed by
these deluded people, was discovered
and will doubtless be prevented. A
mong the melancholly difaflers of the
sight, might be reckoned the murder
of Lord Kilwardin, Chief Justice of the
the middle : This machine was suppo
sed to have been intended to aid the
projected operations of setting fire to
Dublin Barracks. Several kegs of pow
der were discovered, with parcels made
of four musket balls in each, and a tin
Fi om the Weft-Indies.
Capt. Garcin, arrived at New-York,
from St. Domingo, informs thatjnft
before he failed, intelligence had reach
ed Cape-Francois, that the Bnglifh for
ces had taken possession of Jeremie.
Court of King's Bench, and the Rev.;
Arthur Wolfe, his nephew, who ac
companied him with the ladies of his
Lordship's family, in a carriage, to
town. The wound he received was a
large lacerated one in the fide, having
the appearance of being indicted by a
shot from a blunderbuss.
LONTON, JULY 27.
The General Defence Bill palled the
House of Lords yesterday, and will re
ceive the Royal Adept this day.
The Sea Fencibles all along the coast
enter with alacrity ; 500 have already
enrolled themselves at Deal and Do
ver ; 150 flout fellows are learning the
life of the great guns at Archcliff Fort.
Dover will be further strengthened in
a day or two, by several companies of
Infantry.
By a neutral vessel arrived from Hol
land, we are informed that a French
officer, who is called a Commitfary,
with 25 men, is Rationed at all the
sea ports in Holland, to infpe& such
cargoes as may be imported into that
country ; and such goods as shall be
difeovered to be Engliih are to be con
fifeated for the use of the Republic.
It is with much concern we an
nounce the total loss of another fine fri
gate. La Seine, of 42 guns, com
manded by Capt. Milne, ran upon a
sand-bank to the northward of the Tex
el, on Thursday night lad ; and all the
efforts of the officers and crew to get
her off proving ineffectual, they deter
mined to set die to her next morning.
PARIS, JULY 9.
Admiral Nelson it is faid,has difper
fedmanifeftos throughout Italy, declar
ing that he will seize all vessels, under
whatever flag they fail, bound from or
to any of the ports occupied by French
troops.
VENICE, JULY 3.
Letters have been received here from
Madrid, which Rate, that there has been
ordered throughout the Spanilh king
dom, a new levy of 40,000 men, to
reinforce the gari ifons of Alicant, Car
thagena, Cadiz, Ferrol, and Corunna ;
that new works are erecting for the se
curity of those ports : and that the na
val force is to receive an augmentation
of § fail of the line and 12 frigates.
The damages sustained by indivi
duals, some of whom were opulent na
tive merchants, cannot well be estimat
ed.— But we trust that this severe mis
fortune may induce greater precaution
in the prevention of similar scenes, and
whatis more material, that it may tend
to reconcile the natives to such ar
rangements refpe^ing this extensive Ba
zar, as (hall the more effectually guard
against the recurrence of so dreadful a
calamity.
BOMBAY, FEB 19
On Thursday last, a mod dreadful
and alarming Fire broke out in our
crowded and populous Bazar, the rav
ages of which, tho' it is not yet quite
extinguished, it is impossible to relate
-the extent cf the devaftatic n may be
fomewbat conjectured by those who are
acquainted with Bombay, when we fay,
that about^-fourths of the Bazar are
dettroyed,including perhaps, 1000 hou
ses ; and when the measure of these
dwellings are coniidered, having many
families under one roof, the number of
the unfortunate luffereis must be pro
portionally great. We are at a loss to
date with certainty where the fire orig
inated—it is said to have been in a da
ble on the morning of Thurfday,where
home valuable horses became the firft
victims—unfortunately the wind con
tinued ratherhigh the whole day,which
increased the flames in the progress of
its direction with aftonifliing rapidity,
and so great and violent was the con
flagration at sunset, that the deflruc
tion of every house in the Fort was to
be apprehended—All the Records and
papers in the Secretary's office were
early removed, and the houses of busi
ness followed the example - indeed,
every inhabitant, however remote, took
the precaution to remove his furniture
and effects.
Such was the adive ardour displayed
on the firft alarm by the fire-bell and
the beat of the drum, that every one
flew to lend his assistance in extinguish
ing the flames, but the dryness of the
season, the narrowness of the streets,
and above all, the very combustible ma
terials of which the houses in that quar
ter of the town, are conftru&ed, aided
by a strong wind from the N. W. ren
dered all endeavours vain to flop the
progress of the flames, tho' they suc
ceeded in moderating their fury. We
cannot pretend to describe the horror,
dismay and consternation which perva
ded the unhappy fufferers—thoufands
of poor fufferers, endeavoring to save
their little property, were seen throng,
ing in all directions, bewailing their un
happy fate, and thrown at once desti
tute of home and shelter, were obliged
to seek the repose of exhausted nature,
in the streets or fields.
From a late London paper
1 AN INFUSION SKETCH.
If there be one person so loft}o all
love for his country, and the British
Constitution, as to fuppdfe, that his
petfon or his property, his rights and
his freedom, would be tefpeaed Under
a foreign yoke, let him contemplate the
following picture— not overcharged,
but drawn from feenes afforded by ev
ery country; Italy, Holland, Switzer
land, Germany, Spain, which has been
expofedto the miseries of a French in
vasion.
London, to Thermidor, Year-
Gen. Bonaparte made his public en
trance into the capital river London
bridge, upon a charger from his Bri
tannic Majesty's stable at Hanover,pre
ceded by a detachment of Mamelukes.
He flopped upon the bridge a few se
conds to survey the number of ships in
the river ; and beckoning to one of his
aid-de-camps ordered the French flag
to be hoisted above the Engliih—the
English sailors on board, who attempt
ed to refill the execution of this order,
were bayoneted,and thrown overboard.
When he came th the Bank, he smil
ed with complaisance upon a detach
ment of Fiench grenadiers who had
been lent to load all the bullions wag
gonsr which had been previously put in
requisition by the Prefect of London,
Citizen Mengaud, for the purpose of
being conveyed to France. The Direc
tors of the Bank were placed under a
strong guard of French soldiers in the
Bank parlour.
From the Bank the First Consul pro
ceeded in grand possession along Cheap
fide, St. Paul's, Ludgate-hill, Fleet
ftree,, and ftrand,to St. James's Palace.
He there held a grand Circle, which
was attended by all his Officers, whose
congratulations he received upon his
entrance into the capital of these once
proud iilands. Bonaparte, previously
to his arrival, appointed two Prefers,
one for London and one for Weftmin
fler. Citizen Mengaud, late Commis
sary at Calais, is the Prefect of London
and Citizen Rapp of Westminster. He
also nominated citizen Fouche to the
office of Minister of Police. The Man
sion-house has been selected for the resi
dence of the Prefect of London, and
Northunmberland House for the resi
dence of the Prefect of Westminster.—
Asit has been deemed necessary to have
the Minister of Police always near the
person of the First Conful,Marlborough
House has been given to citizen Fouche.
Lodgings has been prepared else where
for the late, owners of that splendid
Palace.
London was ordered to be illuminat
ed, and detachments of French dra
goons paraded the principal streets and
squares all night.
It THERMIDOR.
Bonaparte,at five o'clock in the morn
ing, reviewed the French troops on the
Esplanade at the Harfe Guards. A
Council was afterwards held, at which
the followingFroclamations were drawn
tip, and ordered to be posted in every
part of the city.
By order of the Firfl Consul.
PROCLAMATION.
St. fames's Palace.
Inhabitants of London, be tranquil.
The Hero, the Pacificator is come a
mong you. His moderation and his
mercy is well known to you. He de
lights in restoring peace and liberty to
all mankind. Banish all alarms. Pur
sue your usual occupations. Put on the
habit of joy and gladness.
The First Consul orders,
That all the inhabitants of London
and Westminster remain in their own
houses for three days.
That no molestation be offered to the
measure which the French soldiers will
be required to execute.
All persons disobeying these orders,
will be immediately carried before the
Minister of Police.
(Signed) BONAPARTE.
The Minister of PoIice,FOUCHE.
PROCI, AMATION.
To the French Soldiers.
Soldiers ! Bonaparte has led you to
the (bores and the capital of this proud
island. He promised to reward his
brave companions in arms. He pro
mised to give up the capital of the Bri
tish empire to pillage. Brave Comrades
take your reward. London, the second
carthage is given up to pillage for three
days.
(Signed) BONAPARTE.
ANGEREAU,
The Minister of War per Interim.
The acclamations of the French sol
diery Five Bonaparte—le Heros—le Pa
cifcateur-le Magnanime —resound thro'
every street.
12th, 13th, 14th Thermidor.
London pillaged! —The doors 4 of pri
vate houses forced. Bands of drunken
soldiers dragging wives and daughters
frem the arms of husbands a<d fathers
and violating them publicly. Many
husbands who had the temerity to resist,
butchered in the presence of their chil
dren—Flames seen in a hundred diffe
rent places bursting from houses wh ch
had been set fire to by, the vivacity of
the troops —Churches broken open and
the plate plundered.—The pews and al
tars converted into (tabling— Four
NEW-YORK, SEPT. 9 1803.
, On Wednesday evening last, as one
lofthe Hearse men was entering the Alms
House gate his attention was attraded by
a bundle ; which on examination he
found to contain an infant mulatto child
He took it into the Alms-House, and al-
Bishops murdered, who had taken re
fuge in Westminster Abbey. The
screams of women and of children mix
with the cries of the soldiers— Five la
Republique ! Vive Bonaparte !
St. Martin's church converted into a
depot for the property acquired by the
pillage of bhe soldiery.
15 Thermidor.
A proclamation published by the
First Conful,promifing protection to the
inhabitants.
" The magnanimous Queen, in the
midst of danger, used to her Parliament
the following expression ; —" And I am
informed, that when Philip, attempted
this last Invafion,fome upon the sea coast
fofort th^rtowns, fled up higher into the
country, & left all naked and e^pojed\o his
entrance ; but I swear unto von by God, if
I know those persons, or m^y know sny
that fhail do so hereafter, I will make
them feel what i r is to be so fear; id in so
urgent a cause." This was language fitting
the circwmibuces. Let out feelings now
be in unison with it, and we shall repel a
more inveterate and dangerous enemy
than Philip, or any other ever was 10 this
country.
The houses of the principal Nobility
and Generals appropriated to the use
of the French Generals. Every house
is required to furnifh so many rations
of bread and meat for the troops.
At a Council of State, presided by
Bonaparte,the twohoufes of Parliament
are solemnly abolished, and ordered to
be replaced by a Senate and Council of
State. General Maffena is appointed
President of the former, and General
Deffoles of the latter. The Courts of
Law are directed to discontinue their
fittings, and are replaced by military
tribunals.
16 Thermidor.
A contribution of twenty millions
ordered to be levied upon London. A
deputation. Was sent to Bonaparte to re
present the ifnpoffibility of complying
with the demand, the bank and the ca
pital have been pillaged. After wait
ing in the anti-chamber of the Consul
four hours, the deputation are ihform
by a Mameluke guard, that Bonaparte
will not fee them. Two hundred of
the principal citizens are ordered to be
imprisoned till the contribution is paid.
17 Thermidor.
A plot difeovered by Fouche against
the First Conful,and three hundred,fup
pofed to be implicated in it, sent to the
Tower.
Infurreftions in different parts of the
capital, on account of the excesses of
the soldiers, and the contribution of
twenty millions; Cannon planted at
all the principal avenues, and a heavy
fire of grape-shot kept up against the in
surgents.
Lords Nelson, St. Vincent, & Dun
can, Messrs. Addington, Pitt, Sheridan,
Grey, twenty Peers and Commoners,
among the latter Sir Sidney Smith,
tried by the Military Tribunals, for
having been concerned in the insurrec
tion against France, and sentenced to
be shot. Sentence was immediately
carried into execution in Hyde Park.
18 Tkerniidor.
The dock-yards ordered to fend all
the timber, hemp, anchors, malls, &c.
to France. The relations of the British
sailors at sea sent to prison till the ships
are brought into port,and placed at the
disposal of the French. Detachments
dispatched to the different counties to
disarm the people.
The Island ordered to be divided into
departments and military divifions—
the name of London to be changed for
Bonaparte-opolis ; and the appellation
of the country to be altered from Great
Britain to that of La France Infulaire —
Edinburgh to take the name of Lucien
ville—Dublin, that of Meffen-opolif.
BY MAIL.
CHARLESTON, AUG. 27.
An extrad of a letter from a gentle
man in Fayetteville diftrid, to his friend
in this city, mentions-- "That the elec
tion for a Member to Congress for that
diftrift, was decided in favor of Major
Purviance, the federal candidate, who
had a majority of 970 votes."
PHILADELPHIA, SEPT. &
The news-writers in England arc en
deavouring to rouse the people from their
lethargy : at the conclusion of a long es
say we find the following :
" Let us all remember the great example
of QueenElizabeth,when with less means,
and with a still more formidable enemy,
foe braved those who dared to invade her
dominions. That Queen was not Mis
tress of the Seas. Commerce was then
in its swaddling clothes. There were no
Nelsons, IJowes, Duncans, or St. Vin
cents ; yet the spirit of England,of Free
dom, and Independence,roamed at large,
and diaated to the Queen the condua
that suited her dignity and the fafety of
her fubjeas. Let us think of that, and
the peril of the present day will be pro
perly appreciated, and as properly repell
ed.
Whilethe health-committee acknowl
edge the service of those who were present
they deem it a duty to inquire into the
'condufl of the firemen who ought to have
"httinded, but who were not seen in their.
Rations at the fire. They therefore re- *
quest the engineers to report to the May
or the names of all such firemen as were
within two miles of the city-hall, and
were not found in the performance of
their duty.
Io aft old negro woman who was dear the
spot, and who appeared from her aßious
to entertain no litde concern for its fate.
Great ptins were taken to induce her to
disclose t he author of so brutal and unfee
ling an act,but to no purpose. The child
is about a week old, and was very hbun
dantly Supplied with eloathing.
0
FIRE.
This morning about 4 o'clock a fire broke
out in the Bakery of a Mr.Frazer,in Clift
street, and before it could be subdued
deftro, ed 12 dwellings. Upon no form
er occasion have we witnessed such exer
tions as were made on this by the firemen.
Notwithflanding many of the Engines
were deficient at lead three-fourths of
their complement of men—an almost en
tire want of water for the firft 15 minutes,
and the greatheat of buildings burning
on both tides of a very narrow street at the
fame time, the conflagration was master
ed in less than three hours. Our fellow
citizens who attended, also deserve much
credit for their services ; but we confef s
we want words to express our high opin
ion of the firemen, u ho, at one moment
might be teen exerting all their activity
to extinguifli the flames, rcgardlefs of
tottering walls and chimnies,and the next
pulling them down to prevent injury to
others. The corporation are also entitled
to much credit ft rtheir care in furoifhing
an extraordinary number of fire buckets
which they had previously given notice
were placed at the Alms-House and Ci
ty Hall. We are happy to learn that no
one has been hurt upon this occasion.—
The following is an account of the houses
burnt, with the names of the ownersand
occupants t
NAVES.
Simon Frager, baker, 3, Cliff-Street ;
Safety Magee, grocer, 1, Cliff street, and
John Street,John Vernon, and John Tar
gee, silver-smiths, 93, John itreet ; Jame,
Hoglet, Chair-maker, (hop gyJohn-ftreet
Roderick M'Leod, accountant, 6, Cliff
do. S. John Carne, Chairmaker, 2, Cliff
do. ; Reuben Munson, comb-maker, 2,
Cliff street ; Abraham Bohee, Cooper, 5,
Cliff-lfreet ; Michael Bloomer, pilot, 8,
Cliff-ftreet ; Sarah Taylor, widow, 10,
Clitf-ftreet ; Samuel Pooley, joiner, 4,
Cliff-ftreet Lewis Faugeres, 2g,John-fttect
Jeruflia Haviland,widow, 77. John-street
a number others, who occupied parts of
houses.
The four houses on the fotfth-eaft fide
of Cliff-ftreet were the property of Mr.
Thomas Pearfells; One of the houses on
the north fide was the property of Mr.
Abraham Bohee. The bake -house and
three others belonging to the Durye fam
ily ; and the last was the property of Doc
tor Faugeres.
From the deferred part of the town in
which the fire occurred, much lots and
injury resulted to the furniture & proper
ty of perlons whose houses were without
inhabitants.
The fire occasioned much alarm in the
vicinity of the city. Boats crowded with
passengers crossed from Long-Island, and
the roads to the city were filled with horses
and carriages.—Those who were absent
not knowing whose property was confir
ming,and alarmed by theextent and fierce
nefs of the flames hurried to town to as
certain whether they were not the fuf
ferers.
The Board of Health have great plea
furein presenting their acknowledgements
to the citizens whose a&ivity was so in
strumental in preventing the extension of
the fire in Cliff-ftreet: Particularly the
engineers, wardens, and firemen, who
under many difeourging circumstances,
have on this occasion, exceeded their usu
al exertions, which were so fuccefsfully
seconded by tlieir fellow citizens.
A letter from Philadelphia, by the last
mails, fays, " You will fee by the papers,
something about a carriage and horfes.l
do not know, that I am in pUleffion of
the fads refpe&ing them :—But I hear
when the brotherof the Fitft Conful,now
here,was in St Domingo he made tree with
a phaeton& pair of horses belonging to Mr.
Myers, an American merchant at St. Do
mingo. As a man has a right to his own
wherever he finds it, attempts have been
made to recover the Rolen goods here.
A gentleman who was present in St. Do
mingo, when the articles were forci,
bly took by Jerome, fays that when Mr.„
Myers sent his servant to Bonaparte to re
qutit he would return his Itorfts and car
riage, the insolent Frenchman told the
mdfciiger " to tell him to go to hell.
0
The Manbatten Company have offer
ed a reward of 500 dollars for apprehen
ding & securing in jail, Benjamin Brow
er, the person who has embezzled their
cash to a large amount Brower had been
several years a clerk in the Manbatten
Bank.
—©—
Capt. George Bradifh, in a brig from
Cape Francois was captured in the South
Channel, by a privateer brig from Hdi.
fax, and had put on board a prize mailer
and four hards, leaving Capt. B. with
two sick hands; whorofe upon the brig
and carried her into Salem.