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Id by the French to carry troops to Louisiana,
had been ,iven rp, and the troops Rationed at
Heltuet, G^ree and the-Brill, the French having
taken poffUlion of the fortifications at thoft pla
ces :—That two French and Several Dutch fri
gates were lying at Hclv&ctiluys, but the lat
ter were difmanUed :—That two British fri
gates were cruising off that port to watch the
motions of the French, And to intercept the
Dutch merchant ships bound in : That at the
declaration of war, only one British vcffel was
lying at Rotterdam, but feverai packets arrived
a few days after, and were taken poiEffion of
% the French :—That it was said that Mr.
Li%n, the British Ambassador, was to depart
for England on the loth of June ; and that the
Dutch, with the greatest relevance, saw that
the, must once more be plunged into war.
Miscellany.
Democratic Confession.
CTO - 0
1 HE printing of the, " American
Patriot," a democratic gazette, lately
published at Baltimore, was discontin
ued last week, for want of encourage
ment. The editor appears to impute
the ihort and sickly exigence of his pa
per to the influence of feme demo
aririocratic family.—The following
are extracted from his Lift words :
“ The Patriot may now be consid
ered as dying ; he has forgiven all his
enemies ; the padions of resentment or
hatred, if he ever entertained them,
are now totally difearded ; and while
he, speaks to you the truth, let not the
last words which quiver from his lips,
be attributed to any other motive, than
a love for those political friends that
may survive him."
,Jt is a phtfeal fa& tbafHAti^s bare a
powerful influence on the human mind ;
in politics this species of prejudice is no
ie, powerful ; and tn this citv it operates
with three-field energy."
" We have a certain fed, cempofed
of the body and ligaments of an eaten
free, p^erfi'd and ambition' family, with
out whose favor no ,iblic enterprize,
no Undertaking bottomed on republican
principles can possibly succeed ; and
without whose advice and ccnfent,in
fluence and recommendation, no election
can be carried."
“ Watched by this family compact, a
frft effort to establish an independent
press, was punched with the utmoji ilib
erality : we allude to the period when
the elcßion of a Major was under dis
cussion. The Editor then, erercifing
the right of a free citizen, gave his
candid opinion on the found policy of
displacing the present Mayor. A cry of
anti-republicanism was immediately let
on foot, and every little membrane of
the whole body, used its influence to
lenbn our fubfeription lilt, and dimin
ish our patronage. The leviathans of
die patty set the small fry into a date
of agitation, and the consequence was,
a great declenfen of fubferibefs. But
we with not to dwell upon an irksome
retrofped. We have learnt enough, by
this experiment, to know that an inde
pendent press cannot exist in this city,
nor in another, if names are allowed to
sway public opinion, and ignorance and am
bition are permitted to lord it over common
sense and the human underfanding."
" Weboalt here of the liberty of the
press. We feel no hesitation in avert
ing, that the press is heavier (hackled
in this, city, than even in England.
What is the difference of the effe& on
the printer if ^law of the land circum
ftribes the freedom of his publications,
and can destroy him in his business, —
or if a particular junto may have at
any time, the fame power, by alienat
ing the public support from him, under
the delusion of party fayoriiifm? What
is the difference in effect if we know an
attack on the government, or the expo
fare of the intrigues and duplicity of a
certain set of men can dislodge us from
business, and lelfen the means of our
support ? This mode of destroying the
freedom of enquiry, has been frequent
ly pra^ifed here by the little band. The
Telegraphe and the Gazette know this
fad by experience."
" Aj'tho' wefoall never again obtrude
eur opinions on the public, yet we cannot
now take leave of it, without exprefling
cur most sincere willies, that our re-
" This family possessing all the holds
anki faftnefts of influence, their smiles
muff be courted, and their countenance
obtained, for every measure in which
political principles are the mol dis
tantly connected. To fuch' a compact,
an independent republican print, conduct
ed With aCivith would be certain death.
Their patronage was nbt courted for
the Patriot—and whifoers have been
circulated that the object of this un
dertaking was to be the defence of
pr^cip^f, not of men • and alio of un
masking falfe and pretended republicans,
who tyrannize over public, opinion by
dimming a name, and the affectation 0/
,ncccit) ; by.their wealth and influence,
to procure for themselves the moll
,imp leaves and thefatt.fffoes; a dread
of the powerful influence of the prels
on fab a compact, a&uated by such
motives; could never allow them to ie
commend, fandion, or support this cl
tlblilhment. Hence it fell into neglect,
and now expires, for want of support ; a
difgraceful instance of the powerful in
fluence of names, and the infatuation
in which feme men have the power to
chain the human intellect.
publicans will look about them with
more watchfulness —that they will ex
ercise their reason more than their preju
dices—that they will mark and contrail
the prefer.: conduct of these whom the pub
licfuffrages have ek'ated,with what were
their frmer profeffions —that they will
look at the influence which retains the
ir.fl inveterate arij'toc:ats in 'office, to the
exclusion of the uniform and decided
Whigs —-that, they will fee whether
men's conduit quadrate with their pro
fefons ; that they will exercise their
own discrimination, and not allow any
afeming demagogues to dilate to them
who fha'l,and who (hall not be the objefts
on whom to beflow their desired right, that
of the elective franchif-— that they will
scrutinize into men and their sentiments
and no longer fuffer themselves to be
wheedled & cajoled under the specious
and endearing name of republican:, by
those who aim only at their own ag
grandizement."
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Tunisian Humanity.
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From the Wafoington Fedcralid.
Translated from a report of the Chevalier de
Barthe's ; written on the Jpot.
A fuccin& relation, of the attrocities
exercised by die Tunifiansat Carloforte,
a small village in the inland of St. Piere
in the independence of Sardinia,
The crews of 5 Tunisian corfaits,cdm
pofed of a horde of affairins,whofe base
fury will forever evidence the depraved
manners of the Barbary States debarked
on the isle of St. Piere the 3d of Sep
tember 17^8, and marched in three
columnsagainri the little village ofCar
loforte, two leagues diriaht from the
landing. The riling day liar lighted
their entry into the village. A dis
charge of musketry and the horrid
war-whoop was the signal for pillage.
In an inftant,Carloforte was the haunt
of biigands,and rhe theatre of the molt
attrocious violence. Sordid avarice
retarded for a moment the outrage
which innocence was loop to experience.
She town was lacked, tvejy thing pil
laged, and all conveyed oh board. In
their violations zgainft the peribnalßb
erty of the inhabitants, the Barbaiiahs
refoeaed only the British agent ; all
other Ecrop&n agents were carried on
board ; the agent of France alone, af
ter having been most ill, treated, was
thrown a league from ffiore, with his
wife and two infants, into 4 boat with
out fails or oars ; all the reR filtered
the general hit. The ffiades ts ni^ht
which had veiled the furies of this un
bridled horde, being dissipated, the
wretched inhabitants of . Carlcforte,
dripped and wounded, now recognized
each other. Won; horror . what vows
addressed on high that the dear obretts
of each others affection mi-ht have es
caped the bloody hands of a cruel enemy.
A horrible passage of four days bro't
these wretched captives to the road of
the Goulette. Six young maids had
been fele&ed by the Rais or Chiefs, to
serve their foul desires—whatever the'
most difguftful brutality could invent,
was the padime of these mongers dur
ing the passage. , But the most Shock
ing feene was their entrance into Tunis.
The men were compelled to march,un
der the laffi of the baftinade from the
Goulette to the marine, a ,distance of
nine miles. . At. the marine, the wo
men, who had been ti.anfpo.rted on
lighters, rejoined the men lo.pafs on
foot thro' the city of Tunis, and to ren
der themselves at the residence of the
Bey, three miles distant from the city.
These hapless beings,broken down with
fatigue, choaked with dust, and dying
with third ; scarcely able to drag them
selves along through the burning sands;
" A young mother of two infants,
one of two years, the other in her bo
som, was surprised while nursing the
latter at her breast —the mongers seiz
ed her and attempting to violate her—
die refilled—they slabbed her with a
poignard, and with the fame blow nail-,
ed the infant to her heart ! An aged
vicar of seventy years was furprized by
the tigers in his bed. E opposed to
them the remnant of his fuperanuated
vigor. They broke his arms and drag
ged him by the heels, on the ground
face downwards, all the way to their
Dipping. We find a number of chil
dren from eight to nine years left dead
upon the Chore mangled and Elated in
a manner not to be exprefled ! &c."
Towards reven o'clock, evening of
the fi u. th, distributed among the dif
ferent coilairs, the unfortunate beings
quit the Chore where, they had always
enjoyed peaceful hajfmefs in perfect
fecuriiy. Nearly a thousand individu
als, overwhelmed in tears, beheld dis
appear the i/land which had given them
birth and nourishment. Those who
had escaped, extended, from the Com
mits of the mountains, their arms to
wards the beloved objects whoin they
never could hope to fee more.
See here an extract from a report to
the Miniller of Foreign Relations of
Citizen Bauleau, commander of the
corvette Badine, who anchored at the
isle of St. Piere the day after the depar
ture of the Tunisians. This officer,
whose condud is above all praise for the
affiflance of every kind he rendered the
inhabitants who had escaped, expresses
himfelf thus : , ~
From the Baltimore Federal Gazette.
Tbe^following is anextrac? of a letter which
1 received from a friend, on whom the
fulleft reliance may be placed.
A. R.
'' I intended immediately to have writ
ten to Messrs. Yundt and Brown,the con
ductors of the federal Gazette, published
in Baltimore,but as you are on the fpot,l
with you would be good enough to gi e
them the information I wished to commu
nicate ; I observed,fume time ago,in their
paper, an article of intelligence, which
they appeared to give with regret- that
a l^te decilion of the. court pf chancery
in England would deprive the State of
all hope ofrecovering the 250,000 k flock
in the bank of England, which it bad long,
been contending for. I do not know ih#t
any^determination hat been had on this
fubjedt at al!; it ought, however,, to be
known, that in any event, a part only pf
the film will be loft to the date, as the
King of Great Britain authorized Mr.
King the American minister at his court,
to fay,that he was ready to relinqmlh any
right that the court of chancery might
award to him on the fubje^t. A commu
nication tothis amount has been made by
Mr. King to the Governor of this State."
Q
The arrival of Jerome Bonaparte at the
fonthw^rd, is likely to make an addition
al item of '• Norfolk News,"
conduced by their ravi/hers, followed
by an immense crowd of people drunk
with joy at feeing so many chriftians
who. seemed to them so many witnesses
of the valour of their pretended f>l
diers ; —Women al mod entirely naked,
finking under the weight of their sick
and dying infants ; mothers with their
babes at their mutilated breads; young
married wpmen who had experienced
the firft pains and the frlt transports of
a mother on board the corsairs which
had torn them from their husbands,
bathing with their- tears the tender
charge ; infirm old men forced out of
reverence to these Barbarians to march
with naked heads under a Torching
fun ; reaching out their trembling
hands towards each palling cruise of
water to allay the third which devour
ed them 1 It was thus they were drag
ged to the piratic Tyrant's court, to sa
tiate his foul, his eyes, and his lust!
The grandees of his court were now
/permitted in his presence, to choose
from these victims such as they might
desire for their ufa. These grandees,
according to the custom ofdhe country,
made their choices with the fame exam
inations which a butcher in Europe uses
upon the cattle he purchases in market.
This feene being £ni&d, the men
capable of labor were conducted to tli:
palace dungeons to he afterwards dis
tributed upen the Bey's public works.
The aged, the children and the invalids
were abandoned without the lead pro
vihon in the Greets of Tunis. . But all
the agents of foreign governments and
all other Christians, feelingly engage
themselves in behalf of these interesting
victims, and exhibit towards them mul
tiplied afts of charity for their fuccour.
From the Charleston Courier.
TOLERATION.
It 13 a fatt util worth consideration. :
a tact which will Speak Conic to the pride,
it it dues not touch the leelings or jullice
of every heart, that in all the revolutions
which have taken place in the British Cab
inet, there never has beenknown a tingle
iidluace of a man belonging to one party
being put out of office by the otl;er, un
lets in thole highest departments, where
, eit opinions have their weight and in
fluence tn council Some of the Duke of
Newcastle's, some of the Marquis of
Notkin, ham's, Some of Lord North's &
tome 01 Lord Shelburne's appointments,
are at this moment existing in the Admi
ralty, the War Office, the Cullum Hoofe,
and rhe Treasury. Pittites and Foxites
lit at the fame Board and the fame desk
together, and gabble politics. . Nay, gen
tlemenm the King's household have not
umrequenily been seen at the Weflmin&er
election, canvassing for Mr. Fox. Mr.
Lewis, Deputy Secretary at War (the
molt lucrative office in Erirland) has been
unmoved, for many administrations,—
though he and bis are Foxites, When
such things are seen in a Monarchs, what
can the Executive Magistrate of a Repub
lic offer in his own defence for daring to
violate the right of exercising political 0-
pinion,and what is.worfe,in violating jus
tice, by putting men without charge of
offence or mifnehavior, from the places
conferred upon them by their predecessors
A Republic indeed—Hah, hah, hab.—
It were to be wished that this feeble
but faithful description might be traced
by a more experienced pen, and that it
might reach the view of those powerful
governments who-are disposed to pro
tect unfortunate innocence and fuff-ring
humanity. It were to be wilhed that
it might engage them to aboliffi that
commercial policy, which is the- ible
aliment of the power of the despotic
pirates of Baibary. -^
It :s tit that the inhabitants of Eu
rope Hiould know that the mod con
temptible fnbje& of this regency, may
openly outrage and even fplt in the face
of any Christian he meets, at pleasure,
and with impunity. Fivc-or fix na,
tional representatives, accompanied
by their dragomen, are alone secure
from the insults of every fort, in which
these people, cruel and arrogant, born
in ignorance and bred in stupidity, are
indulged.".
Citizens of the United States ! We
have our full.ftare of the reproach due
to the chridian world for supplying
those inhuman brigands with the means
of outraging human nature!
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SURRENDER or TOBAGO.
BRIDGETOWN, (BAR.) JULY 9.
Batra It of a inter dated Head- Shatters, Tobago,
f^% ^3.
“We embaiked again the 24th, leav
ing the 68th and three companies of 3d
Weft-Indies hi .garrison at St. Lucie.
On the 25th we goounoer way, and
saw Tobagc on the merging of the 30th
ult. A small fort near the bay of Cour
land, fired a few ffiots. but was soon
Fenced by theVenu, frigate and a brig
of war (the Port Mahon) which has
just joined us. PoSrefEon was imme
diately taken of the. fort by a party of
seamen with cadaffes, who soon fubfli
tuted the English Jack for the tricolor
ed flag. The French had only a cor
poral's party and eight men, one of
whom vias killed and two wounded.
A landing was immediately effected
without the smallest oppofition,and the
whole of the troops and Hores were on
(Lore by eight in the evening, when we
advanced about four miles into the in
terior towards Fort Scarborough, Situ
ated about eight miles from Courland,
where we landed. A,fummons was
sent as before, with an offer of reasona
ble conditions which was accepted by
General Berthier, and the articles of
capitulation were Signed at 4 o'clock in
the morning .of ig July. At 11 we
took quiet possession of the Fort and
Idand, the French garrison marching
'out with the honors of war, &c.
.. “ We have eflablifhed the head-quar
ters at Mr. Balfour's, father-in-law of
Col. Campbell, who is likewise here
We were joyfully received by all tbe
inhabitants, who have fufTefed much
from, contributions, requisitions, &c.
Here we arc treated in a very hofpitz
ble manner, and live like princes. We
expert to return on the sth to Barba-,
does. We have all fuffered not a little
from heat and fatigue though continue
in good health. Gen. Maitland is still
at Trinidad. Gen. Pinion remains
here in command."
.[Here follow the articles of capitu
lation by which the French were . per-,
mitted to march out with the honors of
war, &c, The French officers, soldiers,
and every description of individuals at
tached to their fervipe, to be embarked
in one month,and conveyed to France,
at the expense of his Britannic Majesty
—the property, &c. of the inhabitants
of the colony to be refried and pro
te&ed—French veflels then in port to
be permitted to fail for any port in Eu
rope or America, provided the proper-,
ty does not helorg to any person vho
has come to the Illand since its cession
to the French Republic, &c. &c.
;Tbe news received at Norfolk,bv three
French gentlemen,that Bonaparte's troop
had taken possession of HanXurgjt teems
was nut true. It has been reported, that
one of thole gentlemen is citizen Jeron>e
Bonaparte ; but this is not probable.
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{I LONDON, M^LY JC.
The firfl magnanimous aCt of Bonaparte af
ter- the declarition of war, was tofize and bn
prfon al! tie Enylifa, men, women and children,
found in his dominions ; and this too -Iter bis
official paper had invited them to flay in France.
MAY 31. The Ring of England, as Eleaor
of Hanover, has proclaimed a Urid neutrality,
of that deflorate during rhe preterit war.
o
y PLYMOUTH, MAY Ip. -
A teaman has arrived here who left Brest.
ten days since ; —he Rates that a great many
Englilh seamen as well as flop wrights, are at
that port , the latter conrifting chiefly of those
discharged from our dock.yards,who are allow
ed by the French government two guineas per
week, for wages, and lodgings free of expeoie
—
— Jamaica, June 35.
1 wo negro men weietoed on l uc.day,
lor forming a r.sdh us compiracy a
gaiult the white n habitants of this iffaiid,
of which being found guilty, alter a Ion;
trial, and on the cleattfl evidence, ili^
wete sentenced io be flanged on the fol
lowing morning, and afterwards their
l^ads to be fevered from their bodies, &
Buck on poles. Tijs was accordingly
put in execution ;on Wednesday ,between
the hours of ten and eleven o'clock in
the forenoon,on the Parade. Their Leads
were after A ards placed upon poles,which
we hope will deter others from hereafter
engaging in firndar practices.
FOREIGN ARTICLES.
LONDON, MAY 20.
Some additional papers relative to the late
negociation have been laid before Parliament,
awong them is the following :—
C°fy °f a letter frur. Hr. Rufus King to Lord
Hawkesbury.
London, MAY 15, 1803.
MY LORD,V
In the prefenc critical posture of affairs, I Icfe
no time in communicating to your Lordship for
His Majeftys information, that a. treaty was
£gned at Paris on the 30th day of April laft,by
the Plenipotentiaries of America and France ,
by which the complete fovercignty of the town
and territory of New-Orleans as well as. all
Louisiana, as the fame was heretofore poffiffed
by Spain,hu been,acquired by the United States
of America In drawing up this treaty, care
has been taken so to frame the fame as nut to
infringe any right of Great - Britain in the navi
gation of the river Miffifippi.
I flatter myfelf that this communication will
be received with fatisfaaion ; and regarded as
a new proof of the disposition of the United
States, to observe towards His Majesty, a spirit
of amity and confidencejmportant at ail times,
and more especially so in the present citcum
ftances, to the harmony and mutual prosperity
of the two countries.-
1 avail myfclf of this occafon, to renew to
your Lordffiip the assurance of the diftinguilhcd
cenfidcration with which I have the honor to
be, &c. RUFUS KING.
Pt. Hon. Lord Hawkesbury.
The following is the paragraph which
gave rife to the indifferent:
Holt fays, the burden of the federal
song is that Mr. JefferSon paid Callender
for Writing agamiS the late administra
tion. This is wholly falfe. The charge
is explicitly a traitor, $ robber, and a
perjurei —For calling Adams a hoary
headed incendiary ; and for moil
Slandering the private charades of%en
who be well knew were virtuous. These
charges, not a denfocratic editor has yet
dared, or ever will dare to meet in an
open and manly difeuffion.”
Another jndi&rient is to be tried at the
next circuit. -—
Dedham, AUGUST 2.
Lift Friday a young man of 25, Iron?
Sturbridge, of the name of Johi ,M.foii
at work on the turnpike in Roxonry—
driving an iron fpfndle,contrary to advice/
into a charted rock, which a t the third 1
Stroke, exploded, sent him above ten feet
disfigured with numbet lefs,wounds in the
face and hands', without burling his sen
se- ; but one gaffi of several inches in
length fuppoled by a Sliver of rock pen
etraiingjun below the front edge of tie
diaphragm, wounded the liver ; Some In
cites of the caul protruded.externally ;
and -appearance of connl on of stomach:
W th great 0; preffion of t he animal func
tions, he furvued Bor 10 hours His re
mains after luoeral Services,were decent
ly interred near the remains of Whitney,
bis unfortunate fellow labourer ; ^ho by
a iimdar accident, was consigned to the
urave,jutt 3 weeks before.t
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PROVIDENCE, JULY go.
Monday arrived here, the Hon. Aa
ron Burr, Vice President of the United
States. He was soon after waited < a-'
at his lodgings by many refpeßalL
gentlemen of the town. On Thursday
evening he honored the theatre withhis
presence, .and was welcomed by a
crowded audience with three cheers.
[There ts wormwoodfirfine folk, mthis
article.]
The federal court of the date of
Souih-Carolina, has fined John Lowe;
jeweller us Charleston, 400 dollars, sos
Smuggling various articles of jewels,
which were also forfeited and fold at
public auction, for 4305 dollars 40
cents. He is alio by " raw Disabled
from holding any office of trail or pro!
fit,under the United States, for a tcrrii
not exceeding seven years."
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NEW YORK, JULY 2^.
FROM LEGHORN.
Capt # Hamien arnved yesterday, in
froms that about thirty-jail of Btitiffi
vessels, were lyidg in the Road there,un
der protection of the English frigate Ac
tive, Capr leavers; and that the French
troops had taken poelUfion of Leghorn
two weeks before he failed The U. 3,
frigate Adams, was at Leghorn. The
French hod provisioned the island of El
ba. —: —
Hudson, July 19.1
Proceedings on Crfyell's indifl
rnent.
Last week the indie rent against Harj
ry Cvolwfll, for punching the annexed
paragraph,was tried at the Circuit Court
held at Claverack. On Monday,the ques
tion whether the truth could be given id
evidence as a julliticatinn, was decided
in the negative by Chief juit.ee Lewis,
on Tuefday the cause was advocated by
Mr. Attorney General Spencer, arid his
Foot and very ably defended uv Mi*. Vari
Vechten,of Albany, and Mr. Vai Ness
of this city. Judge Lewis, in his charge
confined the jury to very narrow limits.
He dated, that rhe only enquiry fdr them
to make, was, whether Croswell was the
publisher of the paragraph, and Whether
ianendoes ivtie truly set forth. Theiufy
retire about fe<ty 0 'clock on TuefJa,
evening, and returned a verdict of Guilty,
at eight the next morning. As the whole
tranfaftion is to come before the Su
preme Court in AnguH next, we deem it
improper to enlarge on the Subject at
prefect. A far and Correct Statement
will be hid before the public in due sea
son.
_____BY_MaI L. _
NORFOLK, JULY 26. I
The next meeting of Congress will
be a period big with the fate of the U
nited States.—'Tis her interest to fleet
clear of any dispute with either of the
contending powers in Europe, and bf ,
that means insure the Carrying Trade
to hetfelf, whilst they are at war. That
part of the cession of Louisiana which
stipulates that New-Orleans (hall be a
free port for France and Spain, to the
exclusion of other nations, is a serious
fubjed for Congress to deliberate upon;
for Great-Britain, if the treaty is so ra
tified, will not be on a footing with the
molt favoured nation. The calling of
Congress, therefore, is . a very proper
step on the part of the President of the
United States.
NEW-YORK JULY 27.
Sharks.—The fifhermen that fre
quent the Sea-Bass Banks secure the
Hih taken in a large wooden floating net
called a Car. Filh fuffer from close
confinement, in hot weather as much as
men, and the fifhers always calculate
on losing a quarter or a half of thei^
cargo hi the hot months. A Ihark it
is well known will follow a tainted ihip
at Tea for a week together, and is a$
distinguished for his rapacity as his per,
severance. There can be hardly a.
doubt but the appearances.of sharks a
bout the flh-carsat the Fly-mas ,t, ai
this period,is occasioned by tHd-feum*
stances above-mentioned, that theft
feent the fifh tainted while liying by tie:
ing crowded together in a heap ; and
that fellow their objed from sea to the
market of this city-