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nets eats out the very heart and core of virtue,
^nd like a deadly mildew blights and shrivels
the blooming promise of the human spring.
Its benumbing touch communicates a torpid
flnggifhnefs, which paralyzes the foul. It des
cants on depravity, and details its grossest ads
as frigidly as if its object were to allay the tu
mult of the passions, while it is letting them
loose on mankind, by " plucking off the muz
zle" of present restraint and future accountable
ness. The fyffem is a dire ihfufion compound
ed of bold impiety, brutish sensuality, and ex
quisite folly, which creeping fatally about the
heart, checks the moral circulation, and totally
stops the pulse of goednefs by the extinction of
the vital principle. Thus not only choaking the
flream of a&ual virtue, but drying up the very
fountain of future remorse & remote repentance.
* “ When the north-wind bloweth it devour
“ eth the mountains, and burneth the wilder
" nefs, and confumeth the grass as fire."
"Eccles. )d. 20. ', !
Miss Hannah Moore, freaking of the many at
tempts that have been made to corrupt the moral
Jenfe of mankind, through the medium of the
Press, turns a particular attention to the Ger
man Literature —-from this invaluable work we
feledl the following observations on the much ad
mired play, " the STRANGER."
As a Specimen of the German dramas it may
not be jnfeafonable to offer a few remarks on
the admired play of the Stranger. In this piece
the character of an aduitrefs, which, in all peri
ods of the world, ancient as well as modern, in
all countries, heathen as well as chriftian, has
hitherto been held in detestation, and has nev
er been introduced but to be reprobated,
is for the firfl time presented to our view in the
most pleasing and fafeinating colours. The he
roine is a woman who forfock a husband the
moll affectionate and the most amiable, and
lived for some time in the most criminal com
merce with her seducer. Repenting at length
of her crime, ffie buries herfelf in retirement.—
The talents of the poet during the whole piece
arc exerted in attempting to render this woman
the objed not only of compassion and forgivenefs,
butthe esteem and affection of the audience. The
injured husband, convinced of his wife's repent
ance, forms a rtfolution, which every man of
true feeling and chriftian piety will probably
approve. He forgives her offence, and promis
es her through life his advice, protection, and
fortune, together with every thing which can al
icviate the misery of her situation, but refutes to
replace her in the situation of his wife. But this
is not fufficient for the German author. His
efforts are employed, and it is to be feared but
too fuceefsfully, in making the audience consider
the husband as an unrelenting savage, while they
are led by the art of the poet anxiously to wish
to fee an adultrefs restored to that rank of wo
men who have not violated the moll solemn
covenant that can be made with man,nor difo-
Heyed one of the most positive laws which has
been enjoined by God.
About the fame time that this firft attempt at
representing an adultrefs in an exemplary light,
was made by a German dramatist, which forms
an sera in manners ; a direst vindication of adul
tery, was for the firft time attempted by a wo
man, a profeffed admirer and imitator of the
German suicide Werter. Tbe female Werter, as
she is styled by her biographer, asserts, in a work
entitled “ The Wrongs of Women," that adultery
is juftifiable, and that the reftri&ions placed on
it by the laws of England, constitute one of the
Wrongs of Women.
And this leads me to dwell a little longer on
this most deftrufelive class in the whole wide
range of modern corruptors, who effed the most
desperate work of the .passions, without so much
as pretending to urge their violence in extenua
tion of the guilt of indulging them. They folieit
this very indulgence with a fort of cold-blooded
speculation, and invite the reader to the most
unbounded gratifications, with all the faturninc
coolness of a geometrical calculation. Theirs is
an iniquity rather of phlegm than of spirit ; and
ia thepeftilcnt atmofphetf they raise about them,
as in the infernal climate described by Milton,
Theparching dir*
Burns frore, and frojl performs th' effia of fire.
This cool, calculating, intellectual wicked-
Now —men who have long served the Rate
With wife heads and clean hands, are represent
ed as Ariftocras, arrogating To themselves the
right of governing the Rate, and not fafeJy to be
trusted—This is Democracy.
Now—Morality and Religion are reprefent l
ed as mantles of deception ; and every man who
profeffes either, is to be abused asa hypocrite ;
Methodists, Episcopalians, Baptists and Presby
terians, are to be taught that jealousy and ha
tred towards each other, are— Cbr^ian duties.
A man who publicly profeffes himlclf to be a
Drift, is by all means to be preferred to a Chrif
tian.* Ate a known Libertine becomes the
head of a party, aspiring to rule the Rate—This
is Jacobinifm !
* One of the leading Demor<ats of this city, declares
Jimfdf particularly plcdfcd zoitb having a PreJident
of the United States a Defl.
/le gathered together and made Abimelecb
king !!! !''— —Xes, that accursed as
sassin, who in cool blood murdered the
numerous progeny of their best bene
fador, their political faviour, they vol
untarily made their king! By the
pillar of Shechem the blood-reeking
monster flood to receive regal dignity ;
and there the people proclaimed him
king ; there they Routed, “ God save
king Abimelech!—“ Long live the
man of the people !”—He loves us, he
has told, that he is our bone and our
Belli.” HISTORICUS.
Now-m*c set thcmfelves up for offices, de
claim in praise of their own wisdom, loudly
boast of their patriotism, are believed by many,
and sometimes succeed in their views—This is'
Democracy.
Few years have passed since it was the opin
ion of all men of decent character, that chose
who had served the public with integrity and
capacity, were, from their experience, nioft ca
pable, and from their proved fidelity, most fafe
iy to be entrusted with the management of our
public affairs—This was Rcpublicanifm.
Few years have passed since morality and re
ligion were thought effentiai qualifications in
the character of Legislators and Magistrates ;
and men grossly immoral, never dishonored the
Senate or Forum—Titis was Rcpublicanifm.
NEW HABITS.
Few years have passed since it was conceived
to be difgracefui in this Rate for a man to set
himfelf up as a candidate for an office ; and so
impolitic, that any man who attempted to dec
tiouur, was furs to be neglc&ed—This was
Republicanism.
THE STRANGER.
From the Connecticut Gazette.
OLD HABITS.
jby floods, cataracts,and volcanos. The dcfolation
; indeed was terrible,nd the ruin was tremendous:
I yet it was a ruin which did not infallibly preclude
Ithe possibility of recovery. The country, chough
I deluged and devafted, was not utterly put be-
Iyond the power of reßoration. The harveßs in
jdeed were destroyed, and all was wide fteriliry.
But, though the crops were loft, the fads of ve
;getation were not absolutely eradicated; so that
after a long and barren blank, fertility might fi-
Inally return.
But the heart once infested with this newly
medicated venom, fubril, though sluggish in its
operation, refembits what travellers relate of
that blasted Ipot the dead-sea, where those de
voted cities once flood which for their pollutions
“ And when the chcif priests and scribes saw
the wonderful things that he did, and the chil
dren crying in the temple and faying Hosanna
to the Son of David : they were fore difpleaf
cd/' It is not easy to conceive of a fubje&
more fortunately chosen for a picture which
is designed for an institution whose great object
is the dilpenfation of health and happiness to the
infirm and miserable. There can be little doubt
that the painting will be executed in Sir jienja
jamin's highest style of design and colouring.--
And how much may not be expelled from the
sublime pencil of the great American Artist who
has, long since, attained to one of the highest
Rations in his profeffion, and who is, perhaps,
unequalled by any painter, in modern times,in
the walk of Sacred Historical Painting ? The
size of thePi&ure, including the frame,is sixteen
feet wide, and ten high. The (ketch has al
ready been exhibited at the Royal Academy,
and has met with the general approbation of
the lovers of the fine arts.
O
From the New York Gazette.
It is the duty of every citizen, at this mo
mentous time, to furnifh bimfelf with a copy
of the Constitution of the United States; to
read it carefully, particularly that part which
defines the powers of the President ; and to
judge for himfclf in the present alarming con
troversy. Men, under the cloak of Republican
ism, have began to undermine the fabric, and
if fuffered to persist, it must soon be in ruins.—
It is of little consequence who are in office,com
pared with the principle which has been boldly
adopted. Has the President the sole power
of appointments to office ? May he take the
advantage of the recess of the Senate, and not
only fill up vacancies which may happen, but
make Vacancies when no inability or delinquency
in officers is pretended, and thus effectually de
feat the provision '" by and with the advice of
the Senate ?" These are the questions we are
called to answer for ourfdva and our posterity.
Amelia, at the age of twenty-one,
is hill a child ; not the artless child of
nature ; a being Runted by the magic
of faffiion, who extinguished reason at
its dawn, and sapped all the energies
of the foul. Thou lovely form !
moulded in the likeness of the Cyprian
queen, how beauteous yet how inani
mate ! how unimpressive art thou !
Thy Parifiah trappings arrayed as
auxiliaries of conquest, like the. paint of
the fepulchre, serve but to attract me
lancholy notice.—Does Amelia speak,
sympathy is every where silent ; and
her presence is acknowledged only by
the tired eye.
ELOisAhas too much beauty for the
peace of many who approach her, both
male and female ; as lie has by far too
much sensibility for her own. She will
depend for happiness entirely on the
arduous attentions and bouhdlefs chari
ties of love. She knows little of the
philosophy of life, and meets with
countlcfs obflacles, where others, of but
Common damp, glide easily and plea
santly along. None perhaps fee her
with indifference ; but the accurate ob
server will mingle a suggestion of pity
in the strain of commendation. She
poffefles a mind charaderiltically bril
liant, but it is entirely under the con
trol of feeling—hence an inordinate in
dulgence in the luxuries of yain imagi
nation. Characters and events in real
life, seldom excite other than painful
emotions—She is notwithstanding gra
cious and unembarraffing in her man
ners, and readily participates with the
voracious beau in “ the feaft of” feati
ment " and flow of foul.”
From tbe New-ferfey Journal.
It is with much fatisfadlion we inform the
Public, that Sir Benjamin Weft, Historical
Painter to the King of Great-Britain, is engag
ed in painting, as a present, for the Pennsylva
nia Holpitak a large Picture to be placed by'
the managers of the Hospital, in one of the
rooms of the institution. The fubjed of the
Picture is of Sir Benjamin's own choice. It is
the benevolent REDEEMER of mankind ex
tending his aid to the infirm and afflicted of all
ranks and conditions in life. The picture is
particularly directed to the following passages
in St. Matthew, chapter xxi. verses 14 and 15 :
" And the blind and the lame c^me to him
in the Temple, and he healed them."
were burnt with fire from heaven. It continues
a [tenant lake of putr ifying waters. No whole-
Tome blade ever more shoots up ; the air 4s so
tainted that no living thing jubfißs within its
influences. Near the fulphureous pool the very
principle of life is annihilated. All is death,
Death, unrapealable, eternal death !
AURELIA is univerfilly thought
a beauty. A mafeuline mind,
it it has withheld from her manners
the power of fafeination and promp
tures of levity, has amply gifted them
with elegance and dignity—Of the va
rious arts, which engage and rule the
frivolous mind, and from which the
temperament of sensibility is not of
ten entirely free, Ilie is wholly ignorant—
Her's is the languish of love—her tear
ful eye the messenger of feeling. Her
condud constantly evinces a well regu
lated mind, which in conversation dis
closes itfelf, adorned with all the graces
of nature and finished education.
From" the Commercial Gazette.
Sketches of living characters in the toqwt of
Refton.
The ravages which some of the old offenders
against purity, made in the youthful heart, by
the exercise of a fervid, but licentious imagina
tion on the pallions, was like the mifehief effected
LONDON, SEPT. 14.
Some Janissaries under a leader connected
1 wiah Paffawan Oglgu, have taken Belgrade,
deposed the Pacha, and appointed a new one,
I supposed to be devoted to Paffawan. The
authority of the Porte in this quarter, has receiv
ed some rude shocks, and Paffawan threatens it
more and more. Wefbould not be surprised to
fee part of the Turkish forces recalled from E
English fleet from the coast of Holland. He
is desired to join the flotilla, “ the advanced
guard," under Admiral Latouche, at Boulogne.
If these circumstances do not induce ministers to
take every precaution, they will be as criminal
as those who allert " the alarm of invasion is all
a nainifterial humbug-"
A fccond and more conliderable division, of
Lord Nelson's force failed from the Downs for
Boulogne, on Thursday. It consists of the
York, of 64, and Iris, of 50 guns, with several
other ships of war, His Lordship on Wednes
day received intelligence by one of our armed
veffcls, that the enemy's flotilla-had moved out
of the harbor to Boulogne roads, the winds
having abated. Hence, a suspicion arises of
their delign to put to sea. By our Margate let
ter it appears the small (hips of war in the roads
there, have been put in motion to join Lord
Nelson in the Downs, no doubt : and, it is said
his Lordship will himfelf put to sea, to prevent
the movements of the enemy, who, it is believed,
will attempt to bring the fleet of gun-boats
that is in Calais, out of that place to Boulogne.
Notwithstanding recent events, the parties will
again come to blows, if the French come
within their reach.
We are l^ppy to hear that Mr. Fox, yielding
to the wilhes of his friends, has resolved to at
tend Parliament in future, as constantly as he did
before his secession. There never was a period
which called more loudly for the exercise of his
great abilities. —; c—
SEPTEMBER 1%
Dispatches, supposed to be of great importance,
were received by Mr. Otto, and communicated
to ministers. It was yesterday reported with
confidence, that the negociation is oft the eve of
being broken off, if not absolutely at an end ; —
and stocks experienced a depression of above one
per cent. There was a rumour likewise, that
Mr. Addington is about to retire, and that Mr.
Pitt was again coming in. If It be true that
the negociation is really at an end, we Shall not
be surprised to ice Mr. Pitt comp forward from
behind the curtain. If the negociation be not
entirely off, we believe it will not laR much
longer. We fee very little hopes of its success.
O
of the sailors is beginning —the moment approaches
—armaments are ordered inall the ports of the
Republic, and all the seamen are to be put in
requisition." This letter has not been officially
published by the French Government, which so
i„ from being ostentatious, refpeCting the pre
paration against Britain, conduces them with the
greatest secrecy. The French papers are nearly
silent on the fubjcft, and the belt intelligence we
obtain, is from the Hamburgh paper, font to us
by a private correspondent at Biuffcls, In ad
dition to this letter of the maritime prefect, we
find that Admiral Winter is ftridly ordered to
fail, the moment the equinoxial gales drive the
LONDON, SEPT. 10. *
ON Monday, we not only Rated the depar
ture of the guilds, and of the Duke of
York to review the crafts, But that the nego
tiation had approached an important crisis—and
that something decisive in it was to be immedi
ately done at Weymouth. Mr. Addington left
town frir that place, loon after the important:
conference at the Duke of York's on Friday, at
which the rupture of the negociation was not
only foreseen, bet the tefolutiou taken cf increas
ing car mean, bl defence, in consequence of pri-%
vate information, hft Addington returns this
day. What thrflepsarc, which have been taken
in refpc& to the treaty,,we do not know; but
it is reported by well informed perfon^ that
ministers having about a fortnight ago made
certain propositions to Bonaparte, in the form
of an ultimatum, with the dtfign of pressing him
to a decision, and to bring about an open and
regular treaty, he has demanded the restitution
of most of the colonies of the allies of France,
as a preliminary ton negociation. Upon this, it
was on Friday refolvcd, at the conference at
York-House, to prepare aghinft invasion, and to
lend Mr. Addington to the King, with a view,
of taking lohie important step. Perhaps the
negociation will be broken off, and fomahirg
published immediately; but; it is more in the
character of the present ministers to fend couri
ers to Paris ; and the farce may still be kept up
till near the meeting of Parliament ; as thei
denouement will then have a much morefervisea- i
blc effect on the public.
Serious Invasion of England.
LONDON, SEPT. 10.
The intelligence we stated on Monday, is daily
confirmed. The Duke of York is at Portsmouth
infpeding the fortifications, assisted by able offi
cers; and he will make the circuit of rhe coast
as far as Norfolk, for this purpose. By a letter
from Brighton, we find he is expelled at .that
place in a day or two. A camp js formiug there
of io,coo men ; and some of the guards have
arrived at the appointed spot. To begin forming
a camp at this season of the year, is an explicit
declaration that ministers have recently seen new
cause to apprehend an attack upon our coasts
by the enemy. This new cause, we believe;
tonfifts not only of the menaces arid preparations
of the French, but the almost certain and speedy
rupture of the negotiations. The duke of York
will order new means of defence on every part
of the coast which may be thought the most
vulnerable, and his attention will be particular
ly directed to Suffer, which we long since stat
ed, ministers apprehend to be the real object
of the enemy, if they actually design invasion.
Ol this there can be no doubt, as far as prepara
tions and menaces go. The bustle in all their
ports nearest to London, the marching of troops
and artillery co the coasts, thele movements have
been repeatedly Rated; and in the Paris Jour
nals to the )tb, which we received yesterday,
we find a circular letter of very great importance
from the maritime prcfe& at Angers, to the
lub-prefc&s. It is there announced, that “ The
French soldiers having obtained peace on the
continent by conquest, it remains for the French
fcamcn to obtain peace on the seas by con^ueft like
wise. The calk of the soldiers is fulfilled ; that
Lord Nelson's third expedi
'tiou to the coast of France.
Foreign News.
By an arrival at Cbarleflon. London dates Sept.
If — nine day; the latefl.
Breaking up of the Negociation
of Peace with France. ,
Capture of Belgrade.
LONDON, SEPT. 12.
The funds again fell yesterday. No man
entertains any hopes of the negociation. Indeed
some report that it is on the eve of breaking off.
With such a combination of unfavorable cir
cumstances, as an approaching rapture of the
treaty, daily threats of invasion, and the certain
ty of an enormous loan, the funds muff soon
tumble at a rapid rate. -
LONDON, SEPT. 12.
Two mails arrived yesterday, all that were
due from Hamburg. With them came Mr.
Vick, with dispatches from Vienna, and a mes
senger from St. Petersburg, with the ratification
of the treaty concluded between this country and
Russia. From the foreign journals we learn,
however, that the treaty is not much liked by
Sweden, and Rill less by Denmark. This, it is
laid, detains Duroc at Petersburg. France takes
an a&ive interest in rhe lubjed, and the inter
change of me&ngers is very frequent. The
Emperor of Raffia is said to have deterred the
French from landing troops from European
Turkey. The report of Menou having surren
dered is certainly untrue ; equally so is the news
of a sally from Alexandria, in which the French
loft 700 men. Ihis lift intelligence comes
from Malta, the 11th July ; now we have ad
vices from Egypt itfelf as late, which take .no
notice of so great successes as the capture of 700
of the troops at Alexandria. The French sol
diers arrived at Malta, cannot have belonged to
Belliard s army, no part of which could have
left Egypt so early as the 11th July, the day on
which these troops reached Malta. Two thou
sand Swiss and Condean troops have arrived at
Malta, on their way to Egypt, and 300 c Eng
lilh have lately passed by from the Webern Sea 3
for the fame place. Several small vessels seem
to get into Alexandria, which by the best ac
counts, may hold out a confiderabie time.
Spanish Insolence,
&'INHUMANITY.
t^ THE depredations of the Spaniards
on the property, and their inhumanity to
our citizens, is a subject mhicb requires
the prompt interference of our government,
to remedy. The foHoming particulars mill
place their proceedings in a glaring point
ofview.
CAPTURE of the MOLLY.
" Ship Molly, at Algeziras, full 26, 1801.
" At half past one, p. M. we discovered three
gun-boats under the land, Banding out for us.
The headmoft bore down upon us, having a
French flag, and a red flag flying. When with
in musket shot, be fired a fhet at us; upon
which we hoifted'our colours, and fired a shot.
He immediately began firing upon us, under
the above-mentioned colours, round and grape
(Without ever having made an attempt to hail
us) from a twenty-four pounder. "We immedi
ately gave him the contents of our broad fide,
and drew two of the aftermoft guns for ilerri
chaceS- A quarter before two, we difeovered
several other boats coming out on us, as well as
a fleet of them from the Barbary Ihore. Tbe
wind being light, they came up with us very
faft, bearing down upon us in succession, keep
ing up 3 continual fire of found & grape, from
9to 32 pounders. We having good steerage
way, loft up, and fell off to get our guns to
bear and gave them the contents of 7 broad-sides
of round and grape double headed shot, which
they not relishing, Shortened fail, and fell upon
our quarters and stern, still keeping up their
fire. Finding they were determined not to
look at our beam, and it being out of our power
to get our main deck guns to bear, we were
obliged to maintain a running fight with our
Bern chaces, The guns being much too light
for the weight of shot, recoiled with so much
violence,as to tear the carriages to pieces, draw
ing the bolts from the ftanchions,and dismount
ing themfelvcs every sth or 6th shot. In this
situation we were obliged to conflantly replace
them with the quarter-deck guns, by which we
loft considerable time. At a quarter before 3,
finding the "gun-boats increased to the number
of 16, and more bearing down upon us under a
constant fire, having eight of our carriage guns
dismounted, and rendered totally useless, the
wheel carried away by the capsizing of one of
the stern chaces, our fails, spars, running and
Banding rigging confidcrably damaged,the wind
light, and no profpe& of escaping, we thought
it most prudent to Bribe. As soon as our col
ours were hauled down, the commander of the
gun-boat under French colours (by this time he
had alfd hoiked a Spanish flag) notwithstanding
he Bill kept his bloody flag, flying, ceased firing
—but the Spaniards kept up their fire, after
we Bruck, and we received fifteen shot before
they ceased firing,the ship rounded too immedi
ately. Upon boarding ire they began pillaging
every thing they could lay their hands upon,
and in the course of an hour, there was noth
bed,or a hammock, or a second change of clothes
left in the ship. The number who boarded us,
we suppose, amounted to too mln, Handing
over us with pistols and drawn fabres to our
breasts, while they were taking our watches
from us, and our handkerchiefs from our necks
threatening to take our lives, if we attempted
to make the least resistance. Being exceeding
ly exasperated at the reception they had met
with, not fufpe&ing we should have maintained
an action against so many boats, they insulted us
driving our men below with their fabres, and
stripping their clothes from their backs. After
having pillaged what they could, from the cabin
and Bate rooms, most of them returned to their
boats, and the ship ordered to Algeziras where
she arrived at 7, P. M. The commander of the
French gun-boats, when on bo^rd, iufulted me,
struck me, and frequently drew his sword upon
me, swearing he would take my life. The rea
son of this conduct was explained by his gun
ner, who said they had 5 men killed and 7
wounded, most of whom he expected would die
of their wounds, and the cousin of the Captain
was among the latter, having his arm shot off,
and not being expetkd to live.
gypt, to flop the alarming progress of the Pacha
of Widden. sept. 15.
. The capture of Belgrade, the bulwark of the
Turkish empire in Europe, by a corps of Jannif
faries, commanded by officers in the service of
Paffawan Oglou, has produced the greatest sen
sation at Vienna. Paffawr Oglou has it now
in his power to threaten the capital of Turkey.
It is mentioned as a positive fad, that the Em
peror of Germany, by virtue of a fecrec article
in the treaty of Luneville, has promised not to
take any measures to flop or hinder the progress
of the Pacha of Widden, as long as the latter
Shall continue to observe the laws of good neigh
borhood, and Shall abstain from molesting the
Austrian fubje&s, whether Greeks or Christians.
Os die Northern Confederacy—and of
Affairs in Egypt.
^UMMART
STOCKS.
CLAIMS of U. S. MERCHANTS.
Extract op a letter from Vice-Admiral La Crtfe,
Capt. General of Guadeloupe, to the minylcr of
We have lately drawn the attention
of our readers to leveral unprovoked
and unjustifiable enormities committed
by the Spaniards upon our dctencclefs -
citizens. In addition to those, we have
this day toannounce a fpeciesof aggres
sion difgraceful to humanity,and which
we trust, will not fail immediately to
excite the attention of those whose du
ty it is to protect our citizens in foreign
ports. It is communicated in a letter
from New-Orleans, dated September
6, 1801,to agentlemah in this city^iz.
“ I cannot avoid acquainting you
with a circunillance which, in my opin
ion, merits the attention of your gov
ernment. A, few days age, the Cabil
do, or Council of this city, petitioned
the Governor, at the request of the
French and Spanilh phyficiuns, to pre
vent two Americans from pra&ifing
here—one of them is Doctor 2erban,a
young gentleman of great still, who
has for ten years pradiied with the
greatest success and Approbation in this
place ; the other is a young gentleman
from Virginia, of the name of Flood,
of equal talents, but has not had more
than two or three years experience in
this places The Governor hasthought
proper to forbid their attending die
lick ; and furthermore, orders that all
who do not fend for the French and
Spanilh physicians be lent to the holpi
tal !—a place from whence, I believe
not one American or Englishman, out
of hundreds who have been forced by
necellity to take refuge there, have
come out alive. Doftors Zerban and
Flood still continue to assist their coun
trymen in a elandeftine manner ; but
we fear some desperate measures may
be taken to prevent them which will be
attended with the molt distressing con
sequences to the poor American Gran
gers here, who receive no kind of hos
pitality nor attention from the people ;
anjd Pdare venture to fay, that of the
poorer class of Americans who come
here at this season, out of an hundred -
there will not escape ten. The French
and Spaniards, independent of their an
tipathy and dislike to us, and the want
of Medical knowledge in the most of
them, have not the faculty of Convers
ing with a Granger, and therefore do
not acquire so perfect .a knowledge of
the iituation of their patient, as though
they under Good him ; nor are they so
attentive, which 'is a great point in a
dileafe like the present prevailing, yel
low fever.” [True Amer.]
marine, dated the 15th Mfidoie, §th year.
" On my arrival in thi> cU^y, 1 had a wish
to know, what arrangements had been taken
to execute the treaty between France and the
United States of America. 1 law with pleafUrc
that ail the vcffels which were taken force the
treaty were delivered up to their iclpedivc
owners, except those which were condemned
before the publication of the convention in the
colony—but I was alarmed at the number that
were condemned before that event took place,
and the proceeds of the tales delivered to the
owners of privateers and their crews—but I
propose to prefcnt you with a lift, that you may
be enabled to know the importance of the claims
of the citizens of the United States against the
owners of privateers, or the government. If it
be true that by treaty the republic has under
taken to restore the immenfc sums that the
owners of privateers, who for that rcafon have
become uifolvcnt, will be unable to pay, the
evil is Bill greater, for the decree of the consuls
of the sth Germinal, ^th year, constituting 3
council of prizes to fit at Pans, was unknown
here, until our arrival in the colony,by the agents
and ordonnateur of the n^riue, so that neutrals
were delivered up without r efer ve to the habits
that the tribunals of commerce bid contrasted,
of condemning every thing fincethe retaking of
the colony; where the influence of a domineer
ing administration had deprived them perhaps
of the liberty of adjudging according to their
confeiencts and information.
I immediately caused to be published the a
bove decree, as well as the one concerning the
distribution of prizes taken by national vtffeis.
The claims before me of the owners of A
merican vessels condemned and fold since the
Bth Vendemaire last, multiply daily. They
beli#e that I should fatisfy them for the lofo
they have sustained, but to convince them of
their millake, I have in all decrees given by me
on the petitions presented fully, developed the
principles that I believe necessary to convince,
them that it is the council of prizes only, who
have the right to decide on claims of this kind.
The claims of the citizens of the United States,
induced me to enquire into the responsibility of
citizen Rigaud, ex-commiffionet of prizes at St,
Bartholomews, citizen Michel, (the elder) a
delegate at St. Thomas, of Citizen Cotton, CT
" Our men acquitted themselves
with honour. None attempted to quit
thier quarters ; but, on the contrary,
were refoluiely determined to stand by
their guns, and law the necellity of
hauling down our colours with reluc
tance. lam much indebted to the cod
conduct of Lieut. Maly during die ac
tion who pointed Several of the gun, 3c
made them tell on the gun boats.
“ Mr. John Gibson, supercargo, was
very adive on all occaficns, rendering
me every affillance' during the action.
(Signed) JOHN MILLER.
“ We had one man wounded with a 1
grape Diet in the arm, and the gunner $
on the head by the captizing of one of'
the stern chaces; neither of them dan
gerous. Had our guns been fufficient
ly heavy to Hand fire, we have every
reason to suppose we could have fought
our way to Gibraltar, the Rock being
'? ^'' 'and having powder and balls
fufficient to maintain the action an hour
longer.