The constitutionalist — Exeter, N.H., 1810-12-10 00:00:00, page 3

COLUMBIA.
WASHINGTON NOV. 27, 1810.
A letter from a gentleman of the
first respectability in Washington,
(M. J.) dated Oct. 30, 1810, says,
" The situation of the Floridas most
certainly claims the earliest possible at
tention of our government, for unless
they are adopted into our family of
governments, there is much room to
fear that one of the great belligerents
of Europe will attempt to lay violent
hands upon the provinces, to the incal
culable injury of the U. States."
'' It would be in vain for our gov
ernment to forbid the interference of
its citizens; their interests and their
feelings are too strongly enlisted to be
kept quiet spectators of such a strug
gle! !"—[(j&What a precious confes
sion is here betrayed of the "oppugna
tion" which would be made to the laws
and orders of government, when they
did not coincide with the " interests"
and " feelings" of the southern demo
crats?"] " During the late troubled
state in that quarter, numbers of terri
torians were daily crossing and recross
ing the line in anxious expectation of
some military employment! The Con
ventionalists will meet again in Con
vention, in a few days, at Baton
Rouge, and I think one of their first
measures will be to adopt a Constitu
tion, bottomed upon their declaration
of independence; and in all probabili
ty they will set on foot an expedition
against the Spanish garrison on Mo
bile and Pensacola :—Notwithstanding
these overt acts of self government, I
am well convinced that the Conven
tionalists would promptly and joyful
ly acquiesce in any claim of dominancy
which the United States would set up.
" But upon this subject you will
probably be much better informed, in
a short time, by a messenger who will
be sent by the Convention to our gov
ernment." [ffWe have no doubt of
this article having been written in
Washington,&published to prepare the
public mind for some overt act of our
" consistent” government respecting
the Floridas; though according to the
doctrines entertained at Washington in
regard to other Spanish colonies, the
present Conventionalists are no better
than " Spanish Insurgents"; whose
independence of Spain cannot be re
cognized without a shameless abandon
ment of all pretentions to consistency
on the part of our government. We
have uniformly been favourable to the
real independence of old Spain as well
as the colonies; and have lamented the
policy of the government on the sub
ject.]—Cent.
NEW-YORK.
NEW-YORK, NOV. 29, 1810.
INTERESTING.
We have been favoured, by a mer
chant of this city, with the following
questions to, and the reply of, Mr.
Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury.
[Letter from Washington.]
" For your government we annex
two queries, proposed to Mr. Gallatin,
the Secretary of the Treasury, relative
to the renewal of the Non-Intercourse
between this country and Great Bri
tain, with his replies thereto.
" Ist. Whether goods shippedfrom
England prior to the 2d February
next, but arriving subsequently there
to, would be subject to seizure, or
admitted to an entry ? and idly.
Whether a vessel with, a cargo of Bri
tish goods would be permitted to call
within the waters of the United
States for orders, or to learn the
continuance of the Non-Intercourse ?
''ln answer to the Ist, Mr. Galla
tin shewed a letter to Mr. D. Dunham,
asking the same question, which stat
ed that all goods imported from the
dominions of Great Britain, and arriv
ing within the United States, subse
quent to the 2d February, will be for
feited, if Great Britain shall not on
that day have revoked her edicts. It
follows, that if no knowledge of such
revocation is known here by the 2d
February,goods imported as aforesaid,
will be subject to seizure.
"In answer to the last, viz. Wheth
er a vessel would be permitted to call,
&c. Mr. Gallatin was not so explicit,
but said it would be left to the courts
to decide. That the law would be
rigidly enforced in all cases of arrivals/
after the 2d February ; and he begged
it to be understood that there would be
mo release from the treasury depart
ment—Re mentioned this, he said, be
cause several releases had been made
under different circumstances, which
Jie explained, upon the arrival of ves
scls after the revival of the Jaw under
Mr. Erskine's arrangement. In that
case, it was the act of the Executive
and of the British minister, which in
duced merchants to give orders—here,
jt was under a law well known to all
the merchants —and that all shipments
from England, unless the revocation
18, the trails.
PARTE AND FAMILY.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MALTA.
Lucien Bonaparte is a tall and hand
some man, his countenance swarthy,
with a profile strongly resembling his
brother's, his eyes are dark and pen
etrating, but he is short sighted, and
constantly, except in the house, wears
glasses.—His manners with a consid
erable degree of dignity are affable
and engaging. He seems much attach
ed to his family, and to pay Madame
a degree of attention and respect bor
dering on the gallantry of a lover. I
do not perceive any great degree of
fashion or ton about her; but she is a
fat, lively, good tempered, good look
ing woman.
Mademoiselle, who is by a former
wife, is a tall, thin brunette; with no
great pretensions to beauty. She is a
bout 16 years of age.
The attempt of Hill in the last Pat
riot to soften his late open justification
of Bonaparte's enormities, by pretend
ing to make comparisons, is " lame
and impotent." Keene Sent.
SKETCHES OF LUCIEN BONA-
As the editor of the Newburyport
Whig has thought, proper to attack me
upon a false suggestion, and in a low
manner, you will please to insert the
following, the only answer I deign to
give him at present, together with the
extract I send you. Yours, sc.
From the Newburyport Whig.
Concord Patriot.
One or two friend Hill—ln the first
place the " abominable fraud", you
mention in Hillsborough Bank, Mr.
Bell being President of the institution.
—ln the next place, there is one Brown,
late Collector of New-Orleans, whose
case ought to excite some sympathy, as,
according to your own account he did
not turn scoundrel until after he turned
democrat —Skinner had no partner in
skinning the Massachusetts Treasury,
nor Bidwell in his forgery —not to
mention Clark, Livingston, and a host
of other speculators." Mr. Hill may
shortly have additional evidence of this
kind to strengthen'his position.
Our readers by referring to the Non-
Intercourse law of Congress, will ob
serve, that those sections revived by the
law of Ist May last, apply only to the
exclusion of the British flag from our
waters, and to prohibit the importa
tion of all British goods. Os course,
American ships, with cargoes, may go
to G. Britain as heretofore, even if she
should not revoke her blockading
orders.
To dullest head 'tis clear enough,
(Howe'er to hide it you design'd)
I've gain'd the victory —by a " purr,"
And you are fairly beat —by -wind.
Sans ceremonte then a host
(The f/test arms 'gainst suck a foe)
Os dulcet puffs a parte post.
For future contest I bestow.
DR. CAUSTIC'S MINION.
" Did yon ever see any villanous
speculation of which federalists were
not the progenitors ?"
on her part was full and perfectly sat
isfactory, will be attended with risk
and hazard.
"Mr. G. is also of opinion that the
Orders of Council of Nov. 1807, arc
done away by the Order of Blockade
of April, 1809, so thaVa repeal of her
paper blockades (so called) is the
principal thing demanded.
'' The President, by making the let
ter of the French minister the basis of
his proclamation, has taken it with the
conditions annexed—one of which is,
that England shall repeal her block
ades—From this it is inferred that a
formal repeal of the Orders in Council
of Nov. will not be deemed satisfacto
ry by this government for the pur
pose of preventing the Non-Inter
course."
RALPHO! henceforth I'll bravely dare
'Gainst silly demos urge the fight;
What though my -weapons be but air.
Though my antagonist be bright.
"In the last Constitutionalist, print
ed at Exeter, N. 11. there appeared a
" Puff" at "The Pickeroniad," a Po
em shortly to be presented to the pub
lic. The author calls himself " Dr.
Caustic's minion." Ralpho Risible
would just take the liberty to inform
his minion-ship that he would have
shown rather more judgment, if he had
waited till the poem, which he made
a foolish attempt to saterise, had been
printed." —&c.
To Ralpho Risible, alias Ridiculous
author of a poem in manuscript.
Fudge ! fudge ! man. — Vicar of Wakefield.
MR. BEALS,
EXETER,
MONDAY, December 10, 1810.
■_ ^ee9^l<t^ te3Oe^^—
The other children, six in number,
by his present wife, are very much
like other children. Every child has
a servant, besides which there aregov
ernantes preceptors, &c.
Monsieur Lucien himself, with all
contempt for .earthly dominion, does
not despise the solid advantages of
wealth. The amount of his property
is variously reported from thousands
to millions! It must be very consider
able, when Monsieur Charpentier as
serts, that Lucien's gallery of Paintings
was considered the first private collec
tion in Europe.
He has brought but few of those
with him, but the vessel in which he
arrived, a ship of about 600 tons, is
laden with his property.
London paper.
i
| FROM A GERMAN PAPER.
Wurtsburg, Sept. 11 —-The follow
ing are the details of the unfortunate
catastrophe which happened in the city
of Eisnach :—
About half past eight o'clock, on
the evening of the Ist of September, a
French waggon drawn by nine horses,
and loaded with 14 cases of powder,
catridges, and grenades, arrived at the
gates of this city, and entered it: in
spite of the difficulties which arose, the
waggoners continued their route, al
though it was remarked that one of
them smoked ; it hardly arrived at the
market place opposite one of the inns,
when it caught fire with so great an
explosion, that it was heard at Erfurt,
12 leagues distant. In a moment the
neighbouring houses were on fire : ev
ery person who was near them was
shattered to pieces. The limbs of seven
cannoniers, who escorted the waggon,
and of the horses, were scattered in
the streets. Two young married peo
ple who were sitting in the front of
their house, were crushed to pieces by
an enormous free stone, which the ex
plosion hurled upon them. M. Coun
sellor Dorr has been burnt, and 7 per
sons have been found dead in his house.
—Captain Shenk occupied the second
floor of his house; he was at the time
in his room, with his wife, children,
and a very interesting person, daugh
ter of Eichell, minister of Finance;
when the captain perceived the confla
gration, he precipitated himself into
the street, and was saved ; his family
and Miss Sophia Eichell fell victims
to the flames. In another house, Sel
lett, an advocate, married about three
weeks was sitting at the side of his
young wife, oh a couch near the win
dow which iookedinto the street ; the
explosion struck the wall & the top of
the house, and by a miraculous phe
oomenon the couch fell from the 2nd
floor into the street, and the married
couple were quite free from danger,
but all the others perished in the flames.
The conflagration lasted until the af
ternoon of the next day, although
there were «more than one hundred
pumps at work,and a prodigious num
ber of persons assembled from all points
to render assistance. There are about
40 houses burnt. The windows in all
the houses have been broken ; and
there are very few houses where the
hangings of the rooms have not been
damaged. The number of persons
killed are already known to amountto
more than fifty. It is presumable
there are more than eighty persons
mortally wounded or very much maim
ed—Some people have also been kill
ed in endeavouring to extinguish the
flames—The man who had the care of
the castle called Wartburg having
drawn away about 40 balls filled with
combustibles,one of them,being too hot,
burst and killed him. At a short dis
tance from the waggon which caused so
much distress, there was a second fol
lowing it, equally loaded with powder,
but just before the explosion it fell
back. A little further there were six
others of the same kind: if they had
immediately followed, as is customary;
all the city would have been in a heap
of ruins. I: is impossible to paint the
consternation amongst the inhabitants.
The number of families who have lost
their houses and their fortunes is very
considerable The greatest num
ber is in mourning, or has to mourn
over some unfortunate one who is
wounded.
Latest from LISBON.
We have information of the arrival
of captain Corlis, at Gloucester, from
Lisbon,which he left the 2d November.
We have not received any papers ; but
an intelligent gentleman in Gloucest
er, writes thus :—" As it respects the
fate of Portugal, there is no doubt of
the English and Portuguese holding it
as long as . they see fit to defend it.
The French army is said to be in a
state of starvation.^ The junction
of the Marquis Romana's corps of
15,000 with Lord Wellington's army
is confirmed."
Letters from Lisbon say, that the
reinforcements (principally volunteers)
which have joined the allied army have
swelled it to 90,000, and even to
At Hanever, Mr. Charles Kirk, a
transient person, aged 55. —At Sher
burn, N. Y. Mr. Jonathan Conant, of
Lebanon, N. 11.
In Keene, Capt. Charles Bond, for
merly of Watertown, aged 44. —At
Gilsum, Deacon Ebenezer Kilburn,
aged 66.
(^ A Correspondent in George
town, (Me.) writes that on the 26th
Nov. 1810, the remains of Mrs. Mary
M'Cobb, (relict of the late Judge
M'Cobb, and sister of His Exc'y Gov.
Langdon) who died in March, 1806,
were taken up and interred, by her
son, Judge Hill.—The body retained
its entire shape, the features remained
perfect, and not in the least degree of
fensive; the mahogany coffin, which
had been enclosed in a plank box had
not changed its colour. — Cent.
100,000. This may be exaggerated.
The French line was about 20, the al
lied army about 16 miles from Lisbon.
Flour was 20 dis. rice 7 50, corn 2 50,
and on the rise. Cent.
In Boscawen, 19th Oct. Mehitable
Call, aged 81 ; widow to Lt. Moses
Call.
Col. Trant's official letter of the re
capture of Coimbra, has been translat
ed for and published in the New-York
Evening Post. It is dated Coimbra,
Oct. 7, ami states, that the capture was
made by his division only. lie march
ed from Mialhada at midnight, sur
prized the French piquets, entered Co
imbra by two opposite gates. The
French resisted about an hour; but
the French officer finding the city in
possession of the Anglo-Portuguese,
proposed a capitulation; which Col.
Trant replied to, that he could admit
no other proposition than that of sur
rendering at discretion, promising them
however to protect them from the in
sults of the peasants. The French
then surrendered. Col. T. states the
prisoners at 5000. —4000 were march
ed to Oporto, accompanied by Col.
T's division, to protect them from the
animosity of the country people, which
was excited against them to a great de
gree. 3500 musquets were taken, and
distributed to the peasants ; a number
of oxen and sheep were also retaken.
There were also Eighty officers among
the prisoners. We are sorry to learn,
that Col. Trant found it impossible to
prevent the exasperated peasants from
plundering and exercising acts of vio
lence on some of the Frenchmen ; and
states the victims to their resentment at
from 600 to 800; but that after the
first movements, he succeeded in rescu
ing them from insult. Gen. Miller
and Col. Wilson entered Coimbra the
7th. Col. T. adds, " I must observe
that nothing can exceed the state of
misery in which I found this city.
The enemy not content with having
sacked it throughout, and plundered it
of every valuable that could be found,
had set fire to some houses, and piled
up in the streets, in the greatest disor
der, all the provisions which their army
could not take with it ; for which rea
son it could not be expected that near
800 soldiers, natives of this city and its
neighbourhood, accompanied by their
miserable relatives and acquaintances,
could be patient witnesses of a scene of
devastation, in which their property
had been destroyed in a manner so un
just and scandalous." ibid.
ORDAINED.]—In Hudsonfov.
John Chester.
At sea, Mr. Asa Lawrence, of Bos
ton :—Mr. Russell Wright, of Boston :
—Mr. Benjamin Wheeler, of Boston :
—Mr. Wm. Trask, of Danvers :—Mr.
Rufus Ripley, of Kingston, (Ms.): —
Mr. James Gooch, of Portsmouth,
(N.H.) In Santee, (S.C.) W. Bu
ford, Esq.—ln Charleston, Dr. Peter
Ward, formerly Surgeon of the U. S.
frigate John Adams. —In Boston, Mr.
Wm. T. Clapp, aged 27, son of Ne
hemiah C. of Orange.
At Newbury, Mrs. Jane Little, aged
85.
In Newburyport, Mr. Oliver Croc
ker, mer. of Boston, to Miss Sophia
Tappan, of the former place.—ln Sa
lem, Capt. Zechariah Silsbee, to Miss
Sally Boardman.—ln Boston, Capt.
Eppcs Ellery, of Boston, to Miss Ann
Bullard, of Cambridge.—Mr. James
L. Edwards, to Miss Sarah L. Ed
wards. —Mr. Thomas Wiley, to Miss
Margaret Wright.—ln S. Boston, Mr.
Henry Robinson, of Dorchester, to
Miss Susannah Gould, of S. Boston.
—ln Salem, Mr. William Phippen, to
Miss Sally Burns. —In Grafton, Mr.
Joseph Bailey, formerly of Haverhill,
Ms. to Miss Sally Saunders. —In Keene,
Mr. Daniel D. Hatch, to Miss Fanny
Newcomb..
At Sullivan, over the Baptist Church
and Society in said town, Rev. Jere
miah Cumming.
RECAPTURE OF COIMBRA.
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Died,
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