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An ACT to divide the territory of the U
rated States rortbrnty of the Ohio, into
t^wo separate governments.
Sec. I. 1)E it enabled by the Senate and House of
D Rfrefentativee of the United States of
America, in Congress assembled, That from and
after the fourth day of July next, all that part
of the territory of the United States north-weft
df the Ohio river,,which lies to the westward
of a line beginning at the Ohio, opposite to the
mouth of Kentucky river, and running thence
to fort Recovery, and thence north until it ihall
interfed the territorial line between the United
States and Canada, ihall, for the purposes of
temporary government, constitute a Separate
territory, and be called the Indiana Territory,
Sec. 2. And be it further enabled, That there
ffiall be eftablilhed within the said territory a
government in all refpedts fimiiar to that pro
vided by the ordinance of Congress, puffed on
the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven
hundred and eighty-seven; for the government
of the territory of the United States north-weft
of the river Ohio: and the inhabitants thereof
Ihall be entitled to, and enjoy all and lingular
the,rights, privileges and advantages granted
and secured to the people by the said ordinance.
Sec. § And be it further enabled, That the
officers for the said territory, who by virtue of
this ad ffiall be appointed by the President of
the United States, by and with the advice and
content of the Senate, Ihall refpe&iyely exer-
Life the fame powers, perform the fame duties,
and receive for their services the fame compen
fitions as by the ordinance aforefaid and the
talk's of the United States, have been provid
ed and eftabiiffied for similar officers in the
territory of the United States north-weft of the
river Ohio: And the duties and emoluments
of SupCTintendant of Indian affairs (hall be unit
ed with thole of governor .• Provided, That the
President of the United States Ihall have full
power in the reeefs of Congress, to appoint and
commikion all officers herein authorized ,• and
their commissions (hall continue in force until
the end of the next feffian of Congress.
Sec. 4. And be it further enabled, That so much
of the ordinance for the government of the ter
ritory of the United States north-weft of the
Ohio river, as relates to the organization of a
General Assembly therein, and prescribes the
powers thereof, (hall be in force and operate
in the Indiana territory, whenever fatisfadory
evidence shall be given, to the governor thereof,
that such is the wife of a majority of the free
holders,notwithftanding there may not be there
in five thousand free male inhabitants of the
age of twenty-one years and upwards: Provided,
That until there shall be five thousand free rode
inhabitants of twenty-one yearsand upwards in
said territory, the whole number of representa
tives to the general Assembly shall not be less
than seven, nor more than nine, to be appor
tioned by the governor tq the several counties
itrthe said territory, agreeably to the number
of free males of the age of twenty-one years &
upwards which they may Rfedively contain.
Sec. 5. And be it further enabled, That nothing
in thisa^ contained shall be confirmed so as in
any manner to effeft the government now in
force in. the territory of the United States north
well of the Ohio river, further than to prohib
it the exercise thereof within the Iliana ter
ritory, from and after the aforefaid fourth day
of July. next ; Prowded, That whenever that
flirt of the territerylf the United State# which
ies to the enftward of a line beginning at the
mouth cf the Great Miami river, and running
thence due north to the territorial line between
the United State# and Canada, shall betted
^n ACT supplementary to the laws „o<u)
-in face, fixing the coinpenfations of tbe
officers of the Senate and'Houfe of Rep
resentatives.
Sec. I. T)E it enabled by the Senate and House ts
D ReprefeuWtiics of the United States of
America, in Congress afernhWy That from and af
ter the thirty-firft day of December, one thou
sand seven hundred and ninety-nine, the offi
cers of the Senate and Huge of Representatives,
hereinafter mentioned, (hall be, and hereby are
entitled to receive, in addition to their compen
sations as now fixed by law, the following funis,
that is to fay : The secretary of the Senate, and
Clerk of the House of Representatives, two
hundred and fifty dollars each, in addition to
their salaries a, at prefect established by law;
and each of their principal and engreffing clerks,
in addition to their per diem allowance as eftab-
Ifhed .by law, two hundred dollars per annum.
Sec. 3. And be it further ensued. That the
sergeant at arms of the Senate, who also per
forms the duty of door-keeper, the sergeant at
a[m& of the House of Representatives, and the
door-keeper of the House of Representatives,
foil be, and hereby are entitled to receive five.
hundred dollar, per annum each, and two dol
lars a day during tye session ; and the assistant
door-keepers of the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives four hundred and fifty dollars per
annum tach, and two dollars per day during
the session, in lieu of the compensations hereto
fore eftablifhcd by law, which compensations
fell commence from the commencement of the
present session.
Sec. 3. And be it further enabled, That this a&
foal! continue in force for and during the term
of two years and no longer.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Tu: JEFFERSON,
Vice-Prefdent of tbe United States, and
Prefdent of the Senate.
AtraoVED —May ad, A. D. 1800.
JOHN ADAMS,
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, TWENTY- FIFTH YEAR.
Sixth Congress of the United States,
At the firft session, begun and held at the city of
Philadelphia, in the Rate of Pcnnfylvania,
. on Monday the ad of December, 1799.
CHAPTER XL.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Printed and Published every SATURDAY
the United States,
Laws of the Union.
Published by Authority.
OF ALL THE. DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL, -PROSPERITY, RELIGION AND MORALITY ARE tNDISPENST BLE SUPPORTS.
CHAPTER XLI.
<be Wntteh States
PreJident of the United States.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1800.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Ta: JEFFERSON,
Vise-Resident of the United States, and
President of the Senate.
Approved —May 7th, A.D. xßco.
JOHN ADAMS,
Prefdert of the United States.
CHAPTER XLIV.
An ACT to authorize the a+lcmance of a
credit to William Tazewell.
BE it enadcd by the Sc at, and House of Repre
fntatives 0, the United States of America in
Congress affcmblcd. That in fettling the accounts
of William Tazewell, secretary of Elbridge
Cerry, late envoy extraordinary from the U
nired States of America to the French Repub
lic, The Secretary of State be, and he is hereby
authorized to allow the reasonable ezpenfes in-
An ACT to enable the President of the U
nited States to borrow money, for the
public service.
Sec. '• 12"' ' enabled by the Senate and House
D of Representatives of the United States
of America, in Congress afemblfd, That the Presi
dent of the United States (hall be, and hereby
is authorized to borrow on behalf of the Unit
ed States, from the bank of the United States,
which is hereby authorized to lend the fame,
or from any other body or bodies politic or
corporate, or from any person or persons, and
upon such terms and conditions, as he shall
judge mod advantageous for the United States,
a sum not exceeding three million five hundred
thousand dollars, in addition to the monies to
be received into the Treasury of the United
States from taxes, for making up any deficien
cy in any appropriation heretofore made by law,
or to be made during the prefect session of
Congress, and defraying the expenses which
may be incurred by calling into a&uai service
any part of the militia of the United States, or
by railing, equipping and calling into a&ua| ser
vice any regular troops or volunteers, pursuant
to authorities veiled, or to be vested in the Pre
sident of the United States by law; Provided,
That no engagement nor contrast shall be en
tered into, which shall preclude the United
States from reimbursing any sum or sums bor
rowed, at any time after the expiration of fif
teen years from the date of such loan.
Sec. 2. And be it further enabled. That so much
as may be necessary of the surplus of the duties
on imports and tonnage, beyond the permanent
appropriations heretofore charged upon them
by law, shall be and hereby is pledged and ap
propriated for paying the interest of all such mo
nies as may be borrowed pursuant to this a&,
according to the terms and conditions on which™
the loan or loans refpeaively may be effected;
and also for paying and difeharging the princi
pal sum or sums of any such loan or loans, ac
cording to the terms and conditions to be fixed
as aforefaid ; And the faith of the United
States shall be, and hereby is pledged to estab
lish fufficient permanent revenues for making
up any deficiency, that may hereafter appear
in the provisions for paying the said interest and
principal sums, or any of them, in manner a
forefaid.
CHAPTER XLIII. -
An ACT to continue in force " An aft
laying an additional duty onfall import
ed into the United States ; and for other
purposes."
BE it enabled by the Senate and House- of Repre
fentatroes of ibe United States of America, in
Congress afembled, That an a& passed on the
eighth day of July one thousand seven hundred
and nincty-feven, intituled, " An a& laying an
additional duty on salt imported into Che Unit
ed States, and for other purposes," shall be, and
the fame is hereby continued in force for and
during the term of ten years from the third
day of March one thousand eight hundred, and
from thence to the end of the next session of
Congress there after, and no longer.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Tu: JEFFERSON,
Pice-Pref dent of the United States, and
President of the Senate.
Approved —May 7th A.D. xßoo.
JOHN ADAMS,
President of the United States.
Sec. 3. And be it further enabled, That the
sums, to be borrowed pursuant to this ad, shall
be paid into the Treasury of the United States,
and there separately accounted for ; and that
the fame shall be, and hereby are appropriated
in the manner following ;—
First, to make up any deficiency in any ap
propriation heretofore made by law, or to be
made during the potent session of Congress ; —
And, fccondly, to defray the expenses which
may be incurred before the end of the next fcf
fion of Congress, by calling into a&ual service
any part of the militia of the United States, or
by railing, equipping and calling into a&ual
service any regular troops or volunteers, pur
suant to authorities veiled or to be veiled in
the President of the United States by law.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
into an independent ftatc, apd admitted into the
Union on an equal footing with the original
Rates, thenceforth said line (hall become and
remain permanently the boundary line between
such Rate and the Indiana, territory ; any thing
in this adt contained to the contrary notwith-
Randing.
Sec. 6. And be it further enabled, That until it
fall be otherwise ordered by the legislatures of
the said territories refpeaively, Chilicothc, on
Scioto river, (hall be the feat of the govern
ment of the territory of the United States
north-weft of the Ohio river ; and that Saint
Vincennes, on the Wabalh river,, Ihalfebe the
feat of the government for the Indiana terri
tory.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Tn: JEFFERSON,
Vice-Pref dent of the United States, and
_ Prefdent of the Senate.
Approved—May yth, A. D. xßoo.
JOHN ADAMS,
Prefdent of the United States.
CHAPTER XLII.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
CITY or BURLINGTON, July 4, 1800.
The Anniversary of American Independence, as afual
in this place, was kept \-itb entry mark of boner,
andinfpired alt hearts with gratitude and every cir
cle with fefivity. Among the eucrefes of the day,
tbe sermon delivered b, tbeßev.Dr, C.H. Whar
ton, was difinguifbed for thatfoundnefs of reflec
tion simplicity of diaion,and clajic elegance, which
are so remarkable in all bis public campoflions ; —
The following Extrabl, which was obtained by
the mofl pressing felicitations of a friend,.will con
vey but an imperfca idea of its entire merit ;
THE whole rage of the Kings of Israel from
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who “ taught
Israel to fin," to Hosea the last king of that na
tion, who with his people was carried into cap
tivity, exhibit a known and flagrant instance of
this truth ; that no bappinefs is to be expected, where
the glory, honor and true worfip of God are over
looked or defp'fod. vie have another instance
upon record, of the infufficiency of human wis
dom, when exerted against, or independently of
the Lord. " The counsel of Ahithopel (it is
written) was as if a man enquired at the oracle
of God." 11. Sam. XVI. And he certainly
did offer such counsel to Abfalom, as would ef
fedually have proved David's ruin, if God had
not turned his wisdom into Zoolilhnels. The
scripture accordingly tells us exprefsiy, " that it
was God, who had appointed to defeat the good
Counsel of Ahithopel, that he might bring evil
upon Abfalom, as also upon his wicked coun
fellor." Thus does the Almighty interpole in
human affairs, & thus do wicked counsels, soon
er or later, fall upon the heads of those, who
give, and those who follow them. The public
measures, therefore, of every country, (hould in
the firft place, be directed to the honor and will
and laws of God, or they will soon be found in
adequate to the purposes of civil government.
These are, as the apostle tells us, " to be a terror
to evil doers, and to encourage those who do well,
that God in all things may be glorified." The
glory of Gpd, therefore, and the good of man
kind. Should be the source and final cause of ev
ery public measure. “ Except the Lord build
the house, they labour in vain that build it," fays
holy David, a law-giver himfelf and a great
mailer-builder in Israel ; and his enlightened son
set it down as an unconteßed truth, " that the
throne," or all lawful government, " is eftab
lilhed in righteousness, that is, in righteous laws
and their faithful execution. But we must not
only put our trull in God, as the arbiter of our
national destinies, we muftfal him allo and hon
or him by private and public worship, and by a
Ready obedience to his laws ; unitfs this be our
condu&, we shall certainly be forlaken.
When the great body of a nation are altogeth
er corrupt in their manners, the government is
ripe for dissolution. Good laws may hold the
rotten edifice sometime longer together, but all
laws must shortly give way to the tide of pop
ular Opinion, and fink beneath the prevalence
of universal practice. But it will be said, per
haps even by some who admit this principle,
that laws effcntial to the welfare and preserva
tion of society, may be ena&ed and executed
without the interference or aid of religion.
Bayle, a celebrated unbeliever of the last centu
ry, wiihed to fee the experiment tried, whether
an atheiftical, might not be a virtuous nation.
And a noted citizen of this country, now support
ed by a numerous pare, to fill the highest office
in the government, is of opinion that neither to
tal irreligion, nor its opposite, superstition, can
injure the rights either of persons or of property.
" If a man believe in many Gods, orone God, or
no God, it neither breaks my leg nor picks my
pocket,"* fays this writer, with an air of levi
ty, very unbecoming a philosopher, Bayle did
not live to fee the accomplishment of his wishes ;
but the sophist of Virginia, has had ample leis
ure to contemplate the consequences of the dire
ful experiment. And if the hateful profped of
a great nation, deluged for more than ten years,
in an ocean of blood, overrun with crimes of
every description, experiencing all the evils that
anarchy can infli& at one time, or tyranny at
another, and finking at last into that very des
potism, to avoid wtich revelation was Scouted
from the land ; if I fay the contemplation of
these feenes of terror, and cruelty and desolation ;
of these orgies of blood and luft r will not induce
th§ writer and his adherents to acknowledge
the mifehievious tendency of their systems," nei
ther will they believe though onefauld rife from the
dead," to convince them.
Amidst this wreck of intellect, who can re-'
frain from sighing over the fufferings' of human
ity. They appeared indeed neceflary to vindicate
the ways of God to man; fad experience was
required to make men feel what all the Regulators
of Atiquity had taught,as a fundamental principle
of government, that" no date offaiet, can folfft
witbout tbe fenaion of religion.'' Cicero expresses
himfelf on the fubjed, more like a chrjftian as
cetic than a heathen philosopher. "The utility
of these opinions, viz. of the prefcnee of the Gods,
no man, fays be, will deny, when he considers
how many things are made sacred by oaths, and
how refpedable that class of men is, who are
assured that the Gods behold and judge their
actions ;" and in his treatise on the " Nature of
the Gods," he declares in express terms that,
'without religion there can be nothing)>ut anarchy
& confufion;' '"I doubt not, be adds, if we call off
piety towards the Gods, but that mutual confi
dence, society, and that most excellent of all vir
tues, justice, may likewise be destroyed." lam
of opinion, (fays Plutarch, writing against Co
lotcs the Enicurian) that a city might sooner be
* 'Jejfcr/on's Notes on Virginia.
curred by the said William Tazewell, in con
fcquence of his being captured on his return to
the United States.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker oftbe House of Rrbrefentatives.
Th : JEFFERSON,
rice-Prudent of the United States and
Prefdent of the Senate.
APPROVED — May ,ffi, A. 1) 1800.
WORTHY OF PERUSAL.
-.MISCELLANY.
Celebration of Independence.
No. 44. A Vol. X.
JOHN ADAMS,
President of tie United States.
Morning, by CHARLES PEIRCE, Printer of the Laws &c. of
in New-Hampshire.
" Citizen. —The guardian of our rights and
liberties, civil and religious, of our peace and
prosperity, is withdrawn."
On the other fide./
" Know ye not that there is a prince and a
great man fallen in Columbia ? The immor
tal Washington is gone. He to whom all eyes
were turned in the hour of danger is gone.
“ Soldier. —And have we survived ? Must
we no more behold him who led us forth to
vidory and to glory ?
Sailor. —He who protected our trade, and
reared our navy, and made our ports the resort *
of che world, is no more.
Under the whole.
" Sic transit gloria mundi."
Shipwrecked, in the Francis transport, a fart
time since, on ft of Sables, capt. Holland, of the
Priti/h 44/b regt, fan of Major Holland, Survey
or-General of Britjb America ; nv<o fervid with
diftinguiJhed reputation, under Gen. Wolfe, at th
feige of Loui/burg and Quebec, and qftemvirds during
the war in the U. States.
0
I built without any ground to fix it upon, than a
commonwealth be constituted altogether void of
religion." Plato, (though confeious of the folly
of the vulgar belief) forbad any attempt to be
made against the popular religion, and the Roic,
&/6w, acknowledges “ that it is an impious,
and pernicious custom to dispute against the
-Goos.''
This was the antient character of PbUofopb,.—
The lovers of wisdom io the bed ages of Athens
and of Rome, always difeourfed with reverence
and submission to the author and governor of
the world. They implored their fellow men
affectionately to avoid all that ' tends to over
throw, to trouble, or disturb those principles,
which condua to the peace and harmony of so
ciety. Their advice was to strengthen the in
telledl, and to compose the pafli,ns, not by brav
ing and insulting the all-powerful, all-wife and
all-merciAil Creator, but by an humble, patient
enquiry into his works, and by fubmifiion to his
difpen Nations. If to the maxims of sages, like
these fully acquainted- with the confutation of
human nature, and zealous for its welfare, the
divine light of revelation ihauld appear to sup
port their in ftitutions by its everlasting fandions,
then nothing can be conceived more aoguft,
nothing more ennobling,nothingmore dignified.
Now, we my fellow-citizens, aa; in full and
quiet poffeffi on of all this wisdom of antiquity,
sublimated and enforced by the light of the gos
pel, constraining us to deny ungodliness & those
worldly lulls, which have ever proved the bane
of political, as well wot individual happiness.—
Let not all this benificence of providence be
wafted upon us ; let us remember the words of
the text, that they " who know the name of the
Lord will put their trust in him, and that the
Lord never forfakes those who seek him." —•
However the influence and the interests of reli
gion may have been overlooked by the framers
of our civil establishments, it is not less the duty
of each member of the community to seek the
Lord by the exercises of religion and the prac
tice of virtue. In this country, more than in
any other, individual zeal for religion must sup
ply the want of national encouragement. Here
true believers, with peculiar earnestness, must
strive in all thingsto recommend their profcilion,
and put to silence the vain feoffs of the ignorant
and the profane. They must boldly arfert the
cause of Christ in an age when so many who
bear the name of Christians, are alhamed of him.
Convinced that profanation and impiety are the
forerunners of public calamities; they must con
fidcr a devolved on them the important duty,
of suspending or averting the fall of their coun
try, and perhaps the Hill more important service
of restoring the influence of religion, and of rail
ing the linking standard of morality.
" First in war, firft in peace, and firft in the
hearts of Americans ; firft in the eyes of the
world ; he was unrivalled as a Statesman, as a
Soldier, as a Senator, and he is embalmed by
the teats of America, entombed in the hearts of
his countrymen, admired by the enlightened of
all lands, immortalized by his own great actions
and the regrets of mankind?'
To this print is a companion, representing
the Genius of Liberty weeping over che uin
of her hero. ~
Over it.
- In the (lores of fome.pf our dry goods mer
chants, we obftrve a neat tribute to the memo
-4f the illustrious Washington. It is a
pucirfHandkerchief, lately imported from Glas
gow, in Scotland, on which is wrought a feene
representing the Death of the General, attended
by his two Physicians, Mrs. Washington, and
one of his domeflics. On each fide of the plate
are appropriate iofcriptions, of which the sen
timents are so impressive that we cannot deny
ourfclves the pleasure of copying them.
On one sole.
" He united and adorned many excellent
characters; at once the paefct and politician ;
the soldier and the citizentfthe husbandman
and the hero ; the favorite of the Genius of
Liberty ; the Father of American indepen
dence ; the promoter of her extensive and bro
therly union ; the pillar of her constitution ;
the President of her Senate; and the Gencr
aliffimo of her Armies.
“He poiT (Ted and displayed extraordinary
abilities, exalted virtues and unexampled felf
command and felf denial; moderate in pros
perity, undaunted amid danger, unbroken by
adversity, firm and unmoved amid the violence
or reproach of fa&ion, unperverted by great
and general applause.
“ He was great in Arts and in Arms. 1 '
Under the whole.
" How are the mighty fallen, and the weap
ons of war perished!
" How lov'd, how valued once, avails thee
not, &c. On one file.
" Why doth America weep ? Why are her
courts and her churches covered with funeral
black ? Why arc her sons clad in fable, and ap
pointed to long mourning?
"Senator. —We lament him who gave sta
bility to our constitution and energy to our
councils.
" He was great in the council and in the
field.",
Oracle of fy Bap.
PRICE I DOLLAR 50 CENTS Per Annum
OF WASHING TON.
On, the other fide.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, TWELFTH YEAR.
PARIS, JUNE 2.
They write from D?hngc.i, that
Moreau has sent an officer to Kray, to
iinform him that France preferred Peace
to War,and if the Imperial army would
retire beyond the Lec\ the French
would retire beyond the Khme, to give
opportunity fort negotiation. Kray
referred the business, to Vienna.
g. He it too old a fowl to be caught with ebtf.
LONDON, JUNE 10.
The expedition, under Gen. Miit
!and, which failed the 23d and 24th
May, have difembirked at Carnac, in
Quiberon Bay ; and nave taken Fort
Penthievre. The objed of this expe
dition is not to foment infurredion in
the Weftern Departments of France,
bpt to keep the Peninsula, as a Point d'-
Appui, and harbour for our fhip^of
war,' and thereby to harrafs more ef
fedually the coasting trade of the ene
my, particularly in provisions, between
the coasts of the Bay of Biscay and
Brest. —
The Foudroyant, of 80 guns, in her
engagement with Guillaume Tell, of
86 guns, expended 162 barrels of pow
der, and 72,360 wt. of cannon Ihot.
Although much damaged (he was got
ready for sea in a few days. Lord
Nelson was not cm board ; he had fomc
time before been landed at Syracuse, in
consequence of a feverc illness.
A paris paper of Ma, to, lays," Tal
leyrand is extremely ill. Doubts are
entertained of his recovery." CT This
being true, there is fame profpea of a favo
rable issue of the negotiation.]
Vienna accounts mention the probability of
an alliance between Russia and France, through
the inftrumenrality of Pruflia. In this measure
a ParifianJournal fees the harbinger of PEACE.
* The Gazette de France fay?, the Ele&or of
Bavaria (wirfe donsinions the French were in
vading) has desired the K'ng of Prussia to a&
as mediator between him and France.
Foreign Articles.
■-^—M^MJBgrv.^rw... —
BOBlfeaY, DEC. 27 '9,.
ON Saturday Admiral Blanket's fajariron,
confining of the Leonard of fotfun^De- t
dalus, of 32, Centurion of 50 guns,arimfc^^,'
pany'sfrigate Bombay,.arrived h re Mratrar'
Red Sea. They puffed the St%h&>flhbcl
niandel, the 13th and 14th Odob r. Fht Ad
miral proceeded as high up as Judda, and the
frigates to Coffier, which they entirely demol
ished.
Jan. rr, rßoo Onthe Bth, the Suffolk of 74
guns, Admiral Raimer, arrived here. She sa
luted with i /guns.
Madras, jan. 5.
From TrincomAlie, so. x. The Brave, of
4Qguns,Capt. Alexander, has arrived here from
the Red Sea, with Gm Debu-q.Tippo's French
Ambassador to the French D redlory and jute.
CALCUTTA, JAN. 8..
The young E nperor rs China, Ca Hing, has
•put his Prime Minißer to death. He was the
great enemy of the English nation, and had a
maffel a fortune of ,0 000,000 talcs, b.-sides
jewels ; all of which the Emperor has seized.
JAN. 24. CapoDile of the American (hip
Louis, has arrived at ME liras, in a final! V ITi,
relcafed by the Claris French, privateer, Capt.
Sourcouf. A letter from a gentleman on board
the Louis, at the time of her capture, dated
Madras, fan. [%, 1800. fays:—
" On the 4th inst in the Iv. of Ganjam, we
were taken by the French orivaceer -C'ariffa,
Capt. Sourcouf; (he boarded us, and after a
severe fcuflfc, drove our men below ;—we injur
ed the privateer very much, in Ihort (he was so
much disabled that it took her two days to refit
before (he could proceed on her cruise. We
had three men killed and seven wounded; I be
lieve we killed 1% or 14 of the French. Capt.
Deale and our jd Lieut, have gone to Mauriti
us, all the rest of our crew are here, and will
come up the tir.l (hip that fails for Calcutta.
The Criterion was in company when we were
chafed by the privateer, and escaped while the
was engaged with us.*
Jan. 30. On the 29th Dec. Capt.
Malcolm, left Bombay, on his embassy
to the Court of Persia. He and his
suite embarked in the Bombay frigate.
Gen. Vakaffovich threatens Switzer
land, byway of St. Gothard, —His
head quarters are at Ari >la, on the
frontiers of the Canton of Uri. His
advanced polls penetrate to Urferen ;
and threaten the frnall cantons.
LONDON, JUNE 10. (unofficial.)
We have accounts from Hamburg,
to the Sth June, They state that Mo
reau is at length retreating but very
slowly, and every day fighting.—His
retreat is less owing to the ineffectual at
tempts which he has m ide again! the
very strong position of the Austrians be
fore Ulm, than his having been forced
by the defirc of Buonaparte, to detach
18000, in order to cover the Icfler Can
tons, which are much threatened by
the Andrians, and particularly to sup
port the movements of Berthier who
is passing into Italy by the Valais, at
the head of more than 25,000 men
from Switzerland, to the army of Re
serve. Gen. Kray, whose army is ev
ery day reinforced, follows him, and
will no doubt press upon him so elofely
as to embarrass him greatly in his re-
treat.
WASHINGTON'S tR GA &.