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ten wearing the insignia of the legion
d'honneur, they insinuate themselves
into society, and freely abuse the gov
ernment Bonaparte, and his favour
ites in the hopes of entrapping the un
wary. Having given his information,
the miscreant leaves the district for a
nother, and the unfortunate family are
after some months seized in the ac
customed manner, and are convey
ed to the dungeons of Paris, or some
strong fortress in the departments,
and never heard of any more. The
wretch who informs removes to some
other department, the moment he be
comes suspected or known."
Other parts of this pamphlet relate to
the manoeuvres of generai Wirion, and
sundry assistants to pillage the English
prisoners of war. We cannot com
mend the conduct of our countrymen.
Like fools, they lay themselves too op
en to knaves. Have any other prison
ers been so over-reached ? Austrians ?
Prusians? They were not worth the
powder and shot of ingenious villany :
and why must John Bull's cullibility
render him the proper prey to Gallick
cormorants ? we nevertheless recom
mend MrSs narration to the consider
ation of aßritish public. It is truly dis
graceful to the great nation.
" We conclude with a word or two
in reference to the great man himself.
" There was not a well informed
Frenchman who did not know the ty
rant had been, attacked with a violent
and singular malady, distinguished hy
the name of Catalispe[Catalepsy]which
leaves the object in whatever attitude
he may be in at the time, deprived of
sight, of hearing, of speech, and of mo
tion. Bonaparte was discovered in his
chamber by one of his greatest favour
ites seized with this extraordinary mala
dy, and remained for several hours
deprived of every function of life, but
that of breathing. His confidental
physician was sent for by a telegraphic
despatch, not as the Moniteur impu
dently asserted to attend a disorder
which thearmy laboured under. Such,
indeed, was Coversait's [Corvisart] ea
gerness to arrive at Schoeubrunp, that
his own carriage broke down on the
road, and madame Lannes's carriage
was directly offered and accepted to
convey him to Bonaparte, whose re
covery was doubtful, and who was ac
tually reported to bedead. Is it prob
able, after this positive fact, that the
physician was going to the service of
^hearmy? would he have put madame
Lannes, overwhelmed with the recent
death of her husband, the marechal
who lost his life at the battle of As
perne gained by the archduke Charles,
to such inconvenience ?
" It was, indeed the general opinion,
that the disorder was occasioned by the
result of that battle in which the mar
echal duke of Montbello [Lannes] with
the flower of the imperial guard was
nearly annihilated by the Austrians.
For hours after this disastrous event,
Bonaparte was in such a state of agita
tion of mind, that he was bereft of rea
son and of course incapable of com
manding. He recovered at the end of
thirty six hours ; but he was strictly ad
vised not to exercise his mind or body."
" The narrative I have laid before
the public are facts, and I pledge my
existence to the truth of what I have
stated. I fear it will never be seen in
France, although it shall not be for
want of pains; at least even Bonaparte
himself shall be put in possession of a
few copies, and as the vapouring war
riour does not understand a word of
the language of the nation he is so irrita
ted against, care will be taken to have
these observations translated into
French,"±
" Weshall inform Mri Sturt, that
he need ndt despair of mortifying the
Great Hero. By agency not entirely
unknown to us, a copy of colonel
Titus's " killing ho murder," transla
ted into French, was laid on the desk
of Bonaparte's most private cabinet,
to which himself alone was understood
to have access, merely to delight him.
That4t dropped from the clouds we do
not say ; from whence it did drop,
it "would not be convenient, al his
phrase is to explain. It vexed him
horribly ; and he long remembered it;
# for on its being copied into the Cour
ier deLortdres, he staunchly affirmed in
the Moniteur that Pichegrtt had con
ducted the business. As he has not
yet forgot it, we hereby inform him
and Fauahet, and Boissy d'Anglas, and
count Fontanes, that, to our own
knowledge, Pichegru was innocent of
the transaction. We trust our read
ers will not imagine that we corres
pond with the court of the 'thuiheries,
although we certainly do know Some
things which are transacted there ; and
the secret passages of that building
have been trodden by some of our
friends.
%this the great man at whose foot
stool have bowed down the powers of
Europe ? We quit him with the sar
casm of the apocryphal Daniel, or the
prostrate Bel, and the confounded Bab
ylonians :' " Lo these are the GODS
ye aorship,".
We are to go to war with England,
because " His Majesty loves the A
mericans." Yes—=He loves us as the
tyger loves his prey, he bears the same
ardent affection for us which the shark
bears for the wretched victim whom
he is watching to devour. We arc
to help Napoleon to destroy the com
merce,and to possess himself of the na
vy of England, which commerce is vi
tal to our interest, and which navy
alone preserves us from destruction.
We intreat the people to ponder well
upon these things. French Influence,
changing through all the forms of
Proteus, is incessantly active, for our
ruin. We know that "Influence" to
be no vision of the fancy, but a dread
and dire reality. We will labour day
and nightto unmask it. Itis but can
did to presume that the reason why
the people manifest so little apprehen
sion and alarm - upon this subject, is
because they do not contemplate the
monster in its true character and col
ours.
From the Massachusetts Sp§.
THE PROSPECT BEFORE US.
There is every reason under Heaven
to apprehend that our political desti
nies will soon be closely interwoven
with those of imperial France. The
declaration of the Emperour Napole
on, of the sth of August, announcing
that the Berlin and Milan decrees will
be revoked upon the first of Novem
ber, should certain conditions be pre
viously complied with by Great Brit
ain or the United States, is a strange
and inexplicable political phenomenon.
Inexplicable indeed it is, except upon
the supposition that the United States
are virtually pledged to unite with
France in opposition to the maritime
code of Great Britain. We would
not lightly indulge suspicions of our
own Administration. But we know
that to this point of union with France
the labours of the late " immortal Jef
ferson" invariably tended, and there is
no longer any doubt that the political
mantle of that weak and wretched
statesman has fallen upon his successor.
A strange infatuation appears to have
taken possession of the majority of
our countrymen, an infatuation which
France well knows how to manage,
and manages with dreadful successs.
It was said in old time that whoever
Deity had determined to destroy, he
first made mad; Os our political mad
ness there can be but little doubt.
God grant that we may not be devoted
to destruction!'
The decrees of France are to be re
voked upon condition that " The Eng
lish shall revoke their orders in coun
cil, and renounce their new principles
of blockade." For those " new prin
ciples of blockade" we are not advo
cates. We censure all " interpola
tions into the law of nations" whether
they be the work of England or France.
But " The English" pretend to justify
this obnoxious measure on the ground
that France has violated the ancient
Law of Nations by compelling the mi
nor powers of Europe to exclude
British commerce. Os course Britain
will not yield this new system of block
ade, and the revocation of Napoleon's
decrees will take place only in case
"The United States, conformably to
the act just communicated (the act
which is a substitute for the nod-inter
course system) shall cause their rights
to be respected by the English." Here
we apprehend that more is meant than
meets the ear. Napoleon will not
yield up his decrees without what he
deems a valuable consideration, with
out an ample quid pro quo. He will
not be satisfied with our merely re-en
acting a dead letter of a nominal non
intercourse law as it respects England.
We cannot doubt that it is understood
that we are to " cause onr rights to be
respected by.the English" by hostile
measures, which will throw us into a
real if not nominal alliance with
France. If in truth there be nothing
under the rose, yer" this new state of
things" will soon produce the same ef
fect.
The Editor of the National Intelli
gencer, whether from honesty or want
of capacity for intrigue we know not,
has made a confession, which will shew
the dupes of democratick professions
how much they have been deceived—
He says " it is not to defray, the ordi
nary expencesof the government, that
a loan has become necessary, but to
pay the debt contracted by federal rul
ers, in a period of great commercial
prosperity. It is from the exertions
of the republicans for nine years past,
to rid the nation of that load of debt,
which the federal administrations [of
Washington and Adams] burthened
it, that a deficiency now exists."
The people of America have been told
a thousand times that it was by econ
omy, our present rulers would enable
It is a monster of so horrid mien,
As to be hated, needs but to be seen.
From the Repertory.
*»
THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG.
Now, our people,loving rulers are
paying off federal debts b, borrowing
money!!
But this miserable apology for the
necessity of borrowing money at this
time is not only absurd, but incorrect.
The editors of the Baltimore Federal
Republican have made a reply to Mr.
Gale's statement, which contains the
real facts, and will defy evasion.
" It was hardly to have been ex
pected that a paper of the smallest
reputation would endeavor to palm
upon its readers a misrepresentation so
gross, and at the same time, so contra
ry to the knowledge of every man, the
least informed in public affairs, as the
assertion that the loan lately obtained
from the Bank of the United States,
was necessary " for the payment of
the principal and interest of the debt
contracted by the Federalists." But
as an evil anticipation of what we are
to expect from the government paper
at Washington, rince the Change of
hands, we have htely been presented
by it with this hobbling excuse for the
mat-administration of the government,
which has impoverished the treasury
and cut off every other source of sup
ply but loans."
The federalists during the admin
istration of Gineral Washington
and Adams, which comprehends
the period of twelve years, expended an
annual average ofbut five and an half
millions of dollars exclusive of twen
ty two and half nillions paid on ac
count of the public debt.—ln the
8 years of Jefferson's administration,
on the other hand, he enormous sum
of one hundred andsixteen millions of
dollars were lavished, not in organiz.
ing a new government, in creating a
navy, in subduing the. savages, in
humbling France, h bringing Great
Britain to a sense of Justice, all which
the federalists had effected, but in
building gun-boats, in sending useless
missions to foreign countries, in losses
through public defaulters, in corrupt
ing patronage, in subsidizing France,
in paying for French spoliations, and
in various other details of scientifick
profusion,
A single contrast will exhibit in the
strongest light the want of candour and
truth which permitted the assertion of
the Intelligencer, that the distress of
the treasury was produced by incum
brances contracted by the Federalists.
The average of,Mr. Jefferson's admin
istration was B.pillions annually, ex
clusive of payments on account of the
public debt. The two former admin
istrations, expended in like manner but
five and an half millions annually,
though they carried the nation through
two insurrections, an Indian and a
French war; and though they be
queathed a navy to their successors, the
expences of which had been paid for.
Notwithstanding this difference in the
necessity for expense and of the ob
jects in which it was realized, Mr, Jes,
ferson expended within two millions
as much money in eight years as Wash
ington and Adams had done in twelve,
and yet the /government paper has the
effrontery to pretend, that Mr. Madi
son is now borrowing so many millions
to pay debts and their interest con
tracted by the federalists! If the de
mocratick party is so blind and stupid
as to believe this, they deserve to be
disfranchised. They will necessarily
ruin the nation still more fatally, and
certainly, if they form their judgments
of men and measures by such a falla
cious standard as ministerial assertions,
of which the passage referred to is a
specimen.
FROM AN EUROPEAN PUBLICATION.
THE SPIRIT OF PROPHESY.
The following anecdote has been
circulated on the continent ; and its
veracity vouched for. Not long since
Bonaparte, with his Empress, visited
the Imperial Library, and among the
rare works which attracted his atten
tion was one intitled " Liber Mira
bilis, written in Gothic characters,
and containing the Predictions of St.
Cesaire, Bishop of Arles, made in the
year 514. The Emperor's curiosity
was excited, and he directed the librari
an to translate a part of it. Chance
themselves to pay off the public debt.
Now we find that their boasted econo
my-will not meet their engagements —
and they are obliged to diminish the
debt—by borrowing!!
The flourishing and protected state
of commerce, though it was assailed
by foreign powers, shewed the uses to
which federalists applied*the money
they borrowed. The navy was built
and put into the hands of their demo
cratick successors. They hauled it up;
let commerce perish ; and suffered that
respect which our flag had secured to
die away, so that if ever it rises, it
must be by incurring greater expenses
than were necessary in the first place.
America had once only to get charac
ter—now she has to wipe off disgrace,
and when that is done she will again be
a candidate for respect.
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON, SEPT. 10, 1810.
DREADFUL CONFLAGRATION.
zOn Sunday night at 11 o'clock, a
Fire broke out in Church-street, in a
small wooden building, which commu
nicated the flames to the adjacent hous
es, all of wood, and raged with un
cantrolable fury. No rain having
fallen for nearly three weeks, the hous
es caught like tinder. [^ Here fol
lows an account of the progress of the
fire. By the following statement of
the number of the houses burnt, front-'
ing on the several streets, an esti
mate may be formed of the extent of
the conflagration. Fronting on.
Church-st. 10 houses were destroyed,
on Motte-strcet 35, on Kinlock's
court 9, Amen-street 21, Lodge-alley
8, Union-street 44, East-Bay-Street
14, Queen-street 26, Chalmers's-alley
8, Unity-alley 8, Broad-street 11,—
Total 194, fronting on the streets.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, the pro
gress of the flames were arrested, but
at 2 in the afternoon, a large store
pear Lodge-alley was burnt. Sever
al houses were polled down, and
several blown up by the artillery.
The fire-masters, artillery, and citi
zens in general, are entitled" to the
highest praise for their intrepidity,
perseverance and intelligence. % A
strong detachment of military was on
duty on Monday night to watch over
the security of the city. The bones of
afemale were yesterday discovered a
led him to the following prediction :—•
The Emperor heard it with some emo
tions, which the Empress appeared to
en j°y ; —and when finished, the Em
peror snatched the book from the
hands of the Librarian,flew into anoth
er room, and, it is said, ordered a page
to throw it into the fire.—But the af
fair got wind ; and as there are copies
kept of all rare manuscripts, the Em
press procured a transcript of it, which
she transmitted to Vienna, from whence
it has been circulated. The obnoxious
prediction is as follows ; —
PREDICTION, A D. 514.
" The administration of this Kingdom
[' rance] shall be so blinded, that they
shall leave it without defenders. The
hand of God shall extend itself over
them, and over all the rich. All the
Nobles shall be deprived of their estates
and their dignities. A division shall
spring up in the Church of God, and
there shall be two Husbands, the one
true and the other adulterous. The le
gitimate, lusband shall be put to flight.
1 here shall be a great carnage, and as
great an effusion of blood as in the
times of the gentiles. The Universal
Church and the whole world shall de
plore the ruin and destruction of the
most celebrated city, the capital & mis
tress of France. The Altars of the Tem
ples shall bedestroyed.—The Holy Vir
gius outraged, shall fly from their Mo
nasteries —The Church Pastors shall be
driven from their seats, and the Church
shall be stripped of her goods. Butai
length the black Eagle and the Lion
shall appear arising from far countries.
Misery be to thee 0 city of opulence!
Thou shalt at first rejoice, but thy end
shall come. Misery be to the 0 city
of philosophy ! Thou shall be subject
ed. A captive King humbled to confu
sion, shall at last recover his Crown,
and shall destroy the children of Bru
tus."
At a late hour last night we receiv
ed the subjoined extract of a letter,
viz :—
" We have information directly from
Baton Rouge, that on Saturday night
about 150 men, under the command of
Gen. Thomas, entered the fort of Ba
ton Rouge. Young Grand Pre, who
commanded, gallantly attempted to de
fend it, and received a severe wound
in his neck, with a broad sword. One
of the guard fired on the assailants, &
was immediately shot down by one of
Capt. Johnson's dragoons-another of
the Spanish guard was wounded, no
damage received by the troops of the
Convention. Having quieted every
thing in the Folt, they proceeded to
the house of his Excellency [Delassus]
dragged him out, and carried him to the
Fort, with two boxes of money found
in his room, and loaded him with irons
—but not without having to knock
him down with the butt end of a mus
ket. The Convention had about 250
men in the place when the messenger
left it, and every thing was quiet."
We further learn, that the Conven
tion ^received intelligence that they had
been betrayed, and that Gov. Folch
had a galley at Galvertown, in which
he meant to embark the Convention
for Pensacola, and that he himself was
in the eastern part of the province sow
ing dissention. This made the above
prompt measures necessary.
" Pinkneyville, Sept. 26, 1810.
IB? tile sai^
NATCHEZ, SEPT. 26, 1810.
MISSISIPPI.
mong the ruins of Union Street. T L
number of houses burnt and blown up
are about 250 —the loss cannot be less
than half a million of dollars. None
of the newspapers were published yes
terday, as all the paper offices were ex
posed to danger, and their materials
very much injured. Bread and meat
were yesterday distributed among the
poor sufferers, by which class a large
proportion of the houses burnt were
owned or occupied; and a subscrip
tion set on foot for their relief.
NEW-YORK.
UTICA, OCT. 9.
We are informed, that a small trian
gular lot on the corner of Genesee and
Whitesborough streets, in this village,
has been lately sold afterthe rate of
three hundred thousand dollars an a
cre; which same land, twenty free
years since, might have been purchased
for one dollar an acre !!!
CONNECTICUT.
NEW-HAVEN, OCT. 16.
On Thursday the General Assembly
met in this city. On Thursday, the
House of Representatives elected Ly
man Law, Esq., their Speaker.—The
same day the Governor made his speecli
to both Houses ; in which he princi
pally confines himself to the considera
tion of State subjects.—On the subject
of Civil and Religious Liberty, this
venerable and patriotic magistrate says.
" The European nations, have for
ages been elevated above th?se of Asia
or Africa, because the son of righteous
ness has beamed upon the former, and
not upon the latter : England, Holland
and Switzerland have long enjoyed
more of this than the other European
nations, because they have felt his
beams less obstructed by the clouds of
of moral darkness than they : and,
on this sidy of the Alantic, the same in
estimable gift of Providence has been
enjoyed, in a visible proportion to the
operation of the same vital cause.
The revolutions which have recently
desolated Europe originating in an aw
ful apostacy of those nations from the
Christian faith, have terminated in the
establishment of a despotism analogous
to those of the East; and we must ex
pect, that the same cause in proportion
as it prevails, will produce the same
effect, in this western world ; indeed, it
must be evident, that without the illu
mination of religion and science, a peo
ple must forever remain incompetent
to the task of self-government. It is
equally eviden that.a system of policy,
founded in the love of truth and justice
in the intercourse of individuals, and!
as much more important, as the Securi
ty of the former is more interesting
than that of the latter. Nothing can
tend more effectually to enkindle and
keep alive, the flame of war in the hu
man family, than that artful and insid
ious policy, which while it is gloried
in by many as the perfection of human
wisdom, has, for the most part, dis
graced the diplomatic intercourse of
nations."
By a report from the State Treasur
er, exhibited to the General assembly,
at the present session, it appears that
the sum divided to School Societies on
the first day of the present month was
37,101 dols. 18 cts. exceeding the div
idend made last October, the sum of
12,393 dols. 49 cts. and that the cash
in the Treasury, appropriated to civil
list expences the 30th September, this
year, exceeded that of the last the sum
of 10,173 dols. 96 cts." and on the
30th day of said September, there was
nothing due from any town or Sheriff
to the State, for taxes or on any oth
er account, on the books of the Treas.
ury."'
MASSACHUSETTS.
PORTLAND, OCT. 15.
Little feat of Tyranny.
"To suit the convenience of the in
habitants of Sacarappe," (or rather to
keep alive the spirit of democratic pol
icy,) the Post Mister General, " be
cause it has been represented to him.
that Mr. Freeman's office was kept in
a very inconvenient place about a mile
from the village,"* has seen fit to re
move him, and appoint in his stead, one
Hex ^kiah Winslow, who lives about
five times farther from said village than
Mr. Freeman does—but Mr. Freeman
month was $37,101,18, exceeding the
dividend made last October, the sum.
of $12,393,49, and that the cash in
the Treasury appropriated to the civil
list expences the 30th September, this
year, exceeded that of the last, the sum
of $10,173,96 ;" and "on the 30th day
of said September, there was nothing
due from any Town or Sheriff to the
State for taxes or any account on the
books of the Treasury."
By a Report from the State Treas
urer exhibited to the General Assem
bly, at the present session, it appears
that " the sum divided to School Socie
on the first day of the present
The terrible consequences of Fed-
eralism.