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OCCIDENTS BY LIGHTNING.
We hear from New-York and several
other places, that the weather has been
uncommonly boisterous and that the
lightning in many instances has proved
fatal. On the 25th ult. the barracks on
Gibbet-Island, near New-York, were
blowndown. At Ellis's Island ahoufe
was blown down, in,which were three
persons, one of whom was killed on the
Ipot and another very badly wounded.
At New-York, during a violent thunder
gust on the 26th, one of the Brooklyne
Ferry boats was upset, in which were
14 paffengers,7 of whom were drowned.
At Worcester on the 27th, the inhabi
tants experienced a very severe thunder
storm ; during which, the lightning
flruck the house and office of a mr. Bangs, burs off the
clapboards and plaiftcring, broke tbeglaffes,and didcon
fiderable damage amongst tbs furniture ; from thence
it puffed to an adjacent building in which was a young
lady, who received such afbeck as to render ber inJen
fible for the space of 14 hours. Thefame afternoon
a young woman was killed at Pomfret. At New-
Bedford on the nd, Mr. Peleg Huttlefan, merchant
was killed by lightning, and tnuo others amazed in
fuck a manner as to be infertile for feme time ; several
borfes, cows, ^c. were killed. At fartmeutb it
has also done feme damage. On Connecticut river it
flruckin two places, about four miles apart ; in one
place a ftp on the flocks, in the other a tree. At
Freetown, on the fame afternoon, during the dorm a
column of dearie fluid, apparently a foot in diameter,
defended to the ground, broke an apple-tree by the
roots, and ftsifted the bark nearly, to the top. A
guantit, of earth and gravel, fimated at five tons'
weight, was thrown a considerable difiance into the
Q . stones the bigness of a man's bead, were thrown
fa high as to bury themfelvcs on tbeir return ff the
earth,through a tougbfward. Large bodies of earth,
fufrfed to weigh 200, were removed to the diface
of 40 feet ; and a person forced f?om the door where
he flood, eight feet bach ards. Afcenefo grand and
ferffcAb ^OO4 w~r#ever before fotneffai
by the beholders.
fee goods, extending that contraband
of war ought to include naval as well
as military stores, maintaining that
ports ought to be considered in a date
'if blockade when it was unfafe for ves
sels To enter them, although the ports
were not actually blocked up, and
denying the right of convoy to pre
clude neutral mips from being search
ed. In support of these opinions, he
quoted the decisions of courts of law,
and treaties entered into between this
country and various powers, in which
he contended the rights now claimed
by this country had been expressly ac
knowledged. He then proceeded as
follows : It Was during the short time,
Sir, that the Hon. Gentleman (Mr.
Fox) filled the office of Secretary of
State ; who, from the greatness of his
genius, might have been led to those
bold attempts, which, by common
minds, would be denominated rashness;
it was during that short period, that
he advised his majesty to cede these
rights in behalf of the Empress of
Russia, for the purpose of purchasing
her friendfhip, and preventing that fev
ereign from joining France, with whom
we were then at war. How far this
was good policy, I will not now pretend to dif
cufs,but in this as in every other cession
of the fame nature, it is plain the right
rcfted with this country, since it could
not give what it did not possess ;' it was
ceded as a matter of favour, and not
given up as a matter of right. Let it
however, be granted, that it was an aft
of found policy to make that ceflion to
Ruffin; that it was so at that time
when our naval inferiority was too un
fortunately conspicuous ; when we were
at war with France, with Spain, and
with HoHand, and when the addition
of Ruffian hostility might have been
a ferlous evil : does it follow that at
the present moment, when the fleets of
all the Northern Powers combined
with those of France and Spain, and of
Holland, would be unequal to a con
test witli the great and foperior naval
power of England ? does it follow
that we are to facrifice the maritime
greatness of Britain, at the shrine of
Russia ? Shall we allow entire freedom
to the trade of France ? Shall we fuf
fer that country to fend out her
12,0cc,000 of exports, and receive her
imports in return, to ehlarge private
capital and increase the public flock ?
shall we allow her to receive naval
stores undisturbed, and to rebuild and
refit that navy which the valour of our
fcamen has destroyed? shall we volunta
rily give up our maritime confequeuce,
and expose ourselves to scorn, to deri
sion, and contempt? No man can de
plore more than I do the loss of hu
man blood—the calamities and the dis
tresses of war; but will you silently stand by,
and, acknowledging these monstrous
and unheard of principles of neutrality,
inlure your enemy against the cfeds of
your hostility ? Four nations have
leagued to produce a new code of Ma
ritime Laws, in defiance of the most
folcmn treaties and engagements, which
they endeavour arbitrarily to force up
on Europe ; what is this but the fame
jacobin principle which proclaimed the
rights of man, which produced the
French Revolution, which generated
the wildest anarchy, and spread horror
and devaluation through that unfortu
nate country ?—Whatever shape it
assumes, it is a violation of treaty, it is
a violation of public faith, it is a viola
tion of the rights of England, and im
periously calls upon Englishmen to re
sist it even to the last shilling, and the
last drop of blood, rathet than tamely
submit to degrading concession, or
meanly yield the rights .of the country
to fhameful usurpation.
Taunton, Stephen Hathaway, RcHbotb, Fred
erick Drowne, Dartmouth, Holder Slocum,
Swanzey, Christopher Mason, Freetown, Simeon
Borden, Norton, George Leonard, Dighton, Ru
fus Witmarfti, Eufton, Abiel Mitchell, Raynham,
Abraham Hathaway, Berkley, Apollos Tobey,
Manfcld, Benjamin Bates, New-Bedford, Seth
Spooner, Alden Spooner, Westport, Abner
Brownell, S&merfet, Francis Borland.
Dukes County.
Edgtirtown, William Mayhew, Cbilmark, Ma
thew Mayhew, jun.
.Nantucket.
Nantucket, Micajah Coffin.
Barnftable.
Barnfable, Isaiah L. Greene, Sandwich, Wil
liam Bodtifh, Yarmouth, Elisha Doane, Eafhasx,
Hampshire.
Springfield, William Ely, Hadley, Samuel
Porter, Wtffcld, James Taylor, D,erfeld, Jona
than Hoif, Northampton and EaJlbampton, John
Taylor, Afahel Pomroy, Nortbfald, Solomon
Vofe, Sunderland, Samuel Church, Brimfield,
Clark Brown, Blanford, William Knox, 3d.
Pcibam, Isaac Abercrombie, Palmer, James
Smith, Southampton, Lemuel Pomroy, South
Hadley, R. Woodbridge, Greenfield and Gill,
Moses Bascom, Nezu-Salem, James Felton, Mon
tague, Henry Wells, Granville, Thomas Hamil
ton, Israel Parsons, Greenwich, Robert Field,
Ambers, Zebina Montague, Monfen, Abner
Brown, Belchertown, F.leazer Glark, Bernarfen
and Leyden, Lemuel Foster, Cbeflerfeld, Benja
min Bonney, South Brimfield and Holland, Oliver
Wales, Warwick & Orange, Josiah Cobb, Wil
braham, John Bliss, Cbefter, Elijah Blackman,
Conway, Malachi Maynard, Granby, David
Smith, Shelburne, John Long, Worthington, Ez
ra Starkweather, Southwick, Joseph Forward,
WiHiamJburg,EW&3 Hubbard, Weft Springfield,
Jonathan Smith, jun. Wfhampton, Aaron Fiffi
er, Longmeadow, Gideon Burt, Ludlow, Aaron
J. Miller,' Plainfield and Cummington, James
Richards, Hawtey, Edmund Longley.
Plymouth.
Salem, Ebenezer Beckford, Benjamin Pick
man, William Prescott; Ipfwicb, Nathaniel
Wade, Jonathan Cogfwell, Joseph Swafey ;
Newbury, Joliah Little, Joseph Newell ; Ne\a
buryport, William Coombs, William Bartlett,
Jona. Mar sh ; Lynn and Lynnfield, James Robin
son ; Gloucfcr, John Rowe; Rowley, Moody
Spofford ; Salfury, Samuel March ; Andover,
Thomas Kittcridge ; Haverhill, Francis Carr ;
Marblebead, Joshua Prentiss, Eli(ha Story ;
AmcJbury, Christopher Sargent; Beverly, Moses
Brown, James Burnham, John Stephens;
Bralford, Nath'l. Thurston ; Boxford, Thomas
Perley ; Danvers, Gideon Fuller ; Methuen, Wil
liam Kufs.
Middlesex.
CbarleJlon, Thomas Harris ; Watertown, Wil
liam Hunt; Medford, Nathaniel 'Hall; Cam-
Cidge, Jedarhan Willington, Joseph Bartlett;
Concord, Joseph Chandler; Sudbury, Jonathan
Rice; Woburn, Loamnii Baldwin ; Reading,
James Bancroft ; Malden, Jonathan Oaks :
Groton, Timothy Bigelow: Billerica, Oliver
Crosby: Cb.kmfad, William Adams: Marl
boro, Jona. Weeks : Dunfable and Tyngfooro,
John Picts; Sherburne, Daniel Whitney, Stow
and Boxboro, Charles Whitman, 7\?uf% Timo
thy Jackson, We,on, John Slack, Lexington, Jo
seph Symonds, Hopkinton, Timothy Shepard,
Ho!l,on, Ephraim Littlefield, W,ford, Abe!
Boynton, Tewk,^, William Symonds, ARon
and Carlfc, James Brooks, Waltham, Abner
Sander son, Pepperell, Joseph Heald, Lincoln,
Samuel Hoar, Bast Sudbury, Jacob Reeves, Lit
tleton, Daniel Kimball, Townsend, John Camp
bell.
Plymouth, Zachcus Bartlett, Scituate, Elijah
Turner , Duxboro', S. Spr ague, MasJbfeld, Elisha
Phillips, Bridgwater, Nahum Mitchell, Middle
boro, John Tinkham. RoebeJler, Elisha Ruggles,
Plympton, Seth Cvfhing, Pembroke, Kilborn
Whitman, Abington, Aaron Hobarc, Kingston,
Jedediah Holmes, Hanover, Benjamin Bass,
Halifax,Zebediah Thompson.
Norfolk.
Roxbury, Ebenezer Seaver, Joseph Heath,
William Brewer ; Dorcbefer, John Howe, Perez
Morton ; Weymouth, Asa White ; Dedham, Ifaac'
Bullard, Ebenezer Either; Braintree, Ebenezer
Thayer ; Medfield and Dover, John Baxter ;
Milton, Edward H. Robbins; Wrentbam, Na
than Comftock ; Brookline, Stephen Sharp, Need
ham, Jonathan Kinglbur, ; Medway, Moses
Richardson; Walpole, William Bacon; Sharon,
Jonathan Billings; Cobafet, Thomas Lathrop ;
Franklin, John Boyd; Quincy, Moses Black;
Canton , Joseph Bemis ; Stoughton, Lemuel Gay.
Jacob Kuhn, Messenger.
County of Suffolk.
Boflon, Charles Jarvis, Benjamin Austin, jun.
George Blake, James Prince, Nathaniel Fellows,
David Tilden, RufTell Sturgis ; Hingham, Na
than Rice.
Civil Govcium^rtt of Majachufetts.
The Legislative Body.
THE SENATE.
The Hon. David Cobh, Esq. President.
George E. Vaughan, Clerk.—Rev. Dr. Thach
er, Chaplain.
Suffolk — Hon. James Bowdoin, William Tu
dor, Jonathan L. Austin, Esquires.
Fffex —Hnn. John Treadwell, Nathaniel
Marsh, Esquires.
Middlefex —Hon. William Hull, William
Hildreth, Aaron Hill, Esquires.
Hampshire — Hon. Samuel Fowler, Ebenezer
Hunt, Hugh M'Cklhn, Esquires.
Plymouth, ^c. —Hon. Xfaac Thompson, Bcza
Hayward, Benjamin Allen, Esquires.
Bri/tol—Hou. Joliah Dean, Elisha May, Ef
quircs.
Bar oftable —Hon. John Dillmgham, Efarire.
Worcefter —-Hon. Elijah Brigham, Salem
Towne, Bezalcel Taft, Thomas Hale, Esquires.
Berk,ire —bon. Barnabas Bidwell, esquire.
Norfolk —hon. Benjamin Hichboru, John
Ellis, Esquires.
York —hon. Simon Frye, John Lord, Esquires.
Cumberland —hon. Woodbury Storer, Esquire.
Lincoln, Hancock, Washington, and Kennebeck —'
Nathaniel Dimmer, Esquire.
HOOSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Hon. Edward H. Robbins, Speaker.
Henry Warren, Clerk—Thomas Baldwin,
Chaplin.
Hon. Oliver Wendell, Stephen Choate, John
Hastings, Alexander Campbell, Nathan Cufh
% John Coffin Jones, Daniel Bigelow, and
Josiah Bartlett.
His Excellency
Caleb Strong, Esquire,
His Honor SAMUEL PHILLIPS, Esq.
COUNSELLORS.
Gavel nor, and Commander in Chief.
THE EXECUTIVE.
Lieutenant Governor.
FOR 1801.
BriftoL
Sdu/l Freen;an, Falmouth, David Nye, Harwich,
Ebenezer Broadbrooks, Benjamin Bangs, Cha
tham,Richard Scars, Wellfleet, Lemuel Newcomb,
Dennis, Jud^h Paddock, Orleans, Richard Spar
row.
Worcester.
W?rc,er, Samuel Curtis, Lancaster, Samuel
Ward, Mendon, Joseph Adams, Brookfield, John
Cutler, Oxford, Salvanus Towne, Leic,er, Tho
mas Denny, Sutton, Stephen Munroe, Wefboro,
Nathan Fiiher, Soutbboro', Trowbridge Taylor,
Shrewsbury, Jonah Howe, Dudley, Thomas
Learned, Grafton, Nathaniel Adams, Upton,
Elisha Bradifh, Hardwick, John Hidings, Bolton
and Berlin, Jonathan Merriam, St^rb, idge, Jo
siah Walker, Leominfler, Jonas Kendall, Weflern,
Joseph Field, Douglas, Aaron Marsh, ikew-
Braint ree, Benjamin Joflyn, Spencer, Benjamin
Dtury, Peterjbam, John Chandler, Templeton,
Leonard Stone, Oakbam, Spencer Field, Fitch
burg, Jofcph For, Rc,«^/i,;lf3ac;Grcgory. Afo-
Lurnbam, Jacob Willard, Northboro', Nahum
Fay, Hubbard,on, William Marean ; Weffimini,
fcr i Jonas Whitney, Princeton, David Rice,
Barre, Joel Bent, Milford, Samuel Jones, Ster
ling Israel Alien, Boyfen, James Longley.'
Berkshire,
Sheffield, and Mount Wafoington, Mos.
es Hubbard : Stockbridge, Ephraim
Williams ; New-Marlboro', Benjamin
Wheeler ; Egremont, Nicholas Race ;
Pittsfield, Joshua Danforth, Great-Bar
rington, Thomas Ives ; Sandifcld and
Southfield, John Canfield, Lanejbord and
N. Afford, Gideon Wheeler, Williamf
town,William Young,WilliamTowner;
Lenox, Joseph Godwin, Partridgfield,
William rii@ "Wef-Stockbridge, Grove
Po^nroy; Richmond, -Hugo Burghardt ;
J&bington, Anthony Ames-; Lee, J -
0 Whitton, Adams, Abraham How
land, Hancock, Simeon Martin, Clefire,
Daniel Brown, Tyringkam, Adoniiah
Bidwell.
York, Samuel Derby . • Kittery, Mark
Adams § Wells, Nathaniel Wells, Jacob
Fisher ; Berwick, Richard F. Cutts;
Biddeford, Daniel Cleaves ; Arundel,
Thomas Perkins, Buxton, John Wood
man, Lebanon, Thomas M. Wentworth,
PepperelbarF, Richard Cutts, Fryburgh,
Wm. Fell'enden.
Cumberland.
Scarbro' Joseph Emerson, Nortb-
TarMGukh, Samuel P. Russell, Falmouth,
Archelaus Lewis, Brunfivick, John Dun
lap, Gorham, Lathrop Lewis, Ne^-Glo
cefter, Nathaniel C. Allen, Freeport, John
Culhing, Durham, Mr. Burnham,
Harpfaell, Benjamin Dunning, Liver
?rt@re, David Learned.
One hundred and four new Members have
been returned to the House of Representatives
of this Commonwealth the present year. It is
the fulltft House ever known in this State.
Tuefday next, at 4 o'clock, P. M. was affign
cd for coming to the choice of a Major Gene
ral of the 9th Divifon of Militia,
Pommalfero' David Payson, George
town, Mark L. Hill ; 'Wooluich, Peleg
Tallman ; &ivJbzWrz%Elihu Gatchell;
Topfoam, Benjamin Jones Porter, Brif
tel, Thomas M'Clure ; Waldoboro', John
Head; Thomaftown, Heni y Knox, Bath,
J&Liua Shaw, Bomdoin, James Rogers,
New-Castle, John barley ; Boothbay,
Jo%i. Sawyer, Warnw, Samuel Thatch
er, Lewfion, John Herrick, Litchfield,
James Shurtliff, Thompfonboro', Noah
Jordan.
At 4 o'clock, P, M. agreeably to alignment,
a legislative convention was formed for the
purpose of choosing nine Counsellors, when
the following gentlemen were chosen. The
hon Oliver Wendell, Stephen Choate, John
Hastings, Stephen Longfellow, Thompson J.
Skinner, Enoch Titcomb, Jonathan Maynard,
Thomas Dwight, and William Afpinwall,Efq'rs.
On this occasion his honor the Lieutenant
Governor, addressed the Legislature as follows:
Me. Prefdent, and Gentlemen of the Senate,
Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Repre
fentatires,
Having received information, through your
very refpe&able Committee, that I have 'been
defied Lieutenant-Governor of this Common
wealth, 1 beg permission to express to you, Gen
tlemen, and through you to our fellow-citizens,
my very grateful acknowledgments for the
honor hereby done me.'
The best evidence es gratitude in my power
to exhibit,, will be a faithful and impartial dis
charge of the duties of the office.
This, you, Gentlemen, and the Common
wealth, have a right to expert—To this, every
pulle of my heart strongly impels me-
And therefore, accepting the trust, I am
prepared to make the declaration, and take up
on myfclf the folernn obligations, which are
wifely required on this occasion.
AuguJla, Nathan Weston, Hallowell,
Thomas Fillcbrown, Winthrop, Natha
niel Fairbanks :— Winjtew, Elnathan
Sherwin, PittJlrwn, Jedediah Jewett,
Read,'eld, Thomas Whittier, Monmouth,
John Chandler, Mount Vernon, Nath'i
Dudley, Farmington, Supply Belcher.
Cajiine, Job Nelfop, Orrington, Oliver
Leonard, Vinalhaven, William Vinal,
Frankfort, Francis L. B. Goodwin,
Hampden, Martin Kinsley, Deer-Ijle, Jo
seph Tyler.
Committees were appointed to wait on his
Excellency the Governor, and His Honor the
Lieutenant Governor eled, to inform them the
Legislature were ready to attend their taking
the oaths, &c.
This afternoon, 4 o'clock, was assigned for
coming to the choice of nine Counfcllors.
The Rev. Thomas Baldwin, minister of the
id. Baptist church in Boston, was re-chofcn
Chaplain for the current year.
, At 12 o'clock, the Senators and Representa
tives OTembled in the Reprefentatives' Cham
ber ; His Excellency CALEB STRONG,
and the Hen Samuel Phillips, entered, and
the President of the Senate administered the
oaths and received the declarations directed to
qualify them to take upon themselves the du
ties of the offices of Governor and Lieutenant
Governor.
Legislature of Massachusetts.
HOUSE— THURSDAY MAY 18.
Kennebeck.
Hancock.
York.
Lincoln.
FRIDAY, MAY 2,.
AFTERNOON,
BOSTON, JUNE ,
2 efterday the febooner Irie, Captain Griffin arrived
at Quarantine Road, in 52 days from Naples, &
35 from Gibraltar. Mr. Thomas Hill, jun.
fupercar, of the Iris, has obligingly furnijbfd us
with the following interesting papers.
English account of Egyptian Affairs
" GIBRALTAR, ARRIL 1,, lßoi.
YESterday arrived from Aboukir,in
28 days, his Majesty's hired armed
brig Louisa, Trufcott, from whom we
have the following information :
The British army, under Sir Ralph
Abercromby, arrived in Aboukir Bay
on the 2d of March ; but did not at
tempt to difembark,on account of tem
pestuous weather, until the Bth, when
a landing was effected by 7000 men,
under a heavy fire from artillery and
small arms. The French made a vi
gorous opposition, advancirg to the
beach and adua'ly levelling the muf
quets over the gunwales of the boats ;
but the British soldiers leaping on shore,
attacked the enemy with the bayonet,
made good their debarkation and drove
the French about two miles towards
Alexandria, and into the castle of A
boukir ; taking from them 8 pieces of
cannon.
Our loss in killed and wounded this
day is computed to amount to 4.00 or
500 men ; and the enemy's about the
fame. Among the corps which made
this firft landing were the guards, 28th,
42d, 90th, and gzd regiments. Our
troops were reinforced the fame even
ing by §o€o more men who landed af
terwards : and having effablifhed them
felvcs in this position, they remained
until the 13th March ; when a general
adion took place, which terminated in
the total route of the French ; and 4.
pieces of cannon being captured by the
Englilh, who loft about 1000 men in
this affair : But by accounts from prif
oners,the loss of the French was greater.
On the 14th the attack commenced
upop the castle of Aboukir ; and on
the 18th that garrison surrendered to
the British forces ; all the guns, except
two, having been dismounted by the
fire from our batteries.
A letter from Bourdeaux, dated March 29th
inserted in the last Paris papers, contains the
following account of a horrible crime, perpe
trated a few days before, in the neighbourhood
of Braye.
A farmer had fold some cattle to a person of
that vicinity, at a certain credit. On the day of
payment, not being able to go himfelf, he re
solved to fend his daughter for the money. The
latter had a lover, to whom she communicated
the object of her journey; and it may be na
turally supposed, that (he invited him and that
he promised to accompany her. But scarcely
had he received this proof of his mifirefs's con
fidence. when the mifereant thought of robbing
her of the sum (he was going to procure. He
communicated this design to three accomplices,
who were of course to fharc in the booty.—
^ It mav be worthy of remark to news-mon
gers, that the late French account of tbeir victory in
Egypt, on tbe loth March, was from Gen, Mon
cei, dated at Milan, the 2d April, in which be fays
tie intelligence of the Englijb defeat and embarkation
was founded on advices from Naples ; —and that the
Iris, which arrived here yferday left Naples the
Iltb April —nine days after the date of Moncey's
letter and then nofuch accounts bad been in circula
tion.
When the Louisa left Egypt, the Bri
tish army was polled within 2 miles of
Alexandria ; and the French, supposed
to be about 6000 ftrong,were entrench
ed on the heights at Pompey's pillar,
said to command Alexandria. The
British were occupied in disembarking
their field train of battering cannon,
two thirds of which were already on
shore ; and the attack upon the French
camp was expelled very soon to begin ;
when it was supposed there could be
little doubt of the event being as glo
rious to Britain as the proceeding ac
tions had proved. The French had at
firft mistaken the 42d regiment in the
Highland dress, for Turks, and at
tacked them with their usual confidence
—but were received with a gallantry
and spirit, which they did not expeft,
and probably had not been accustomed
to. The Highlanders received the
French cavalry on their bayonets ; in
their turn made a brisk charge ; check
ed, and completely worsted that part
of the French army opposed to them.
It is further reported that Murad Bey
and his followers have attacked the
French at Cairo, and prevented Menou
from joining the forces at Alexandria,
where all the rest of the French troops
in the Delta had been concentrated—
Certain accounts had arrived that the
Grand Vizier with his army had march
ed towards the Delta about the 20th
of February.
One of the Lieutenants of his Majes
ty's ship Swiftfure, writes as follows to
his friends in Gibraltar, dated 17th
March.
“ Our gallant army is only waiting
for the heavy artillery to attack the en
emy's height near Alexandria, which
must immediately fall on our becom
ing matters of this height, as it en
tirely commands the town."
Sir John Harren fell in with and
chaced the squadron, under Admiral
Gantheaume, on the 21st of March,
but loft fight of thera in the night—
They were seen on the 4th of April,
by his Majesty's brig of war the Mu
tine, off the island of Sardinia, fleer
ing north-east. Two of the line of bat
tle ships had loft their foremans.
Late Foreign News.
SHOCKING. MURDER.
Having a.I ;our Gifguifcd their drcE, and hbek-
I cned their faces, they proceeded to lay in wait
for the girl, who disappointed in her lover's
icompany had performed the journey alone, and
;was now returning, after Succeeding in her mis.
fion. From one of those secret prefentimmts,
which sometimes anticipate misfortune, she
had the precaution to conceal all the money in
her bonnet, except twelve livres. The robber#
' flopped her, and demanded the money she had
been to receive. She anf-vered (he got no more
than twelve livres, which file offered to them.
On searching her, and finding no more than
two fix livre pieces in her pockets, they permit
ted her to continue her journey.—Street, had
she left them, when the lever rcolaamg him
felf, pretended that they had nr.fearched her
Efficiently, and assured them that rhev had been
deceived by her. The three acco=-.:--s took
therir^ road, while he himfelf hiving taken
a circuit, and washed his face in a brook in his
way, pretended that he had come to meet her.
,™ m ° me " "" f:kw him, (hr ' thought her
felf in fafety, and immediately told him what
had happened, and the stratagem she had em
ployed. This eonverfatiorf took place near a
fifh pond. A shot was heard, and two sports
men were seen at a little dillance in purfuic of
a hare. Fearing that he should be disappointed
ofhis prey, the wretch affaffmated his midrefs,
and cut off her head, which he suddenly wrap-'
ped up in his handkerchief, and throwing the
, body into the water, took to flight.—Thinking
I that the hare had been wounded, the sportsmen
, battened into the fame direction ; traces of
bloodied them to a thicket, behind which the
;murderer had concealed himfclf. Mis terror, and
the appearance of the handkerchief, which was
covered with blood, induced them to think that
he had seized the hare. They tore it from him;
but what mull have been their horror, on - find
ing that it contained the bleeding head of a
, young female. They apprehended the uffaffin,
, and conduaed him to the goal of Bourdeaux.
! We have not yet heard what become of his ac
complices.'
Several cabinet councils have been
lately held, the objects and results of
which have not leaked out. The lad
was held on Saturday, at the Prefi
dent'shoufe. Seeing thefecretariesand
attorney general, gathering there, we
fondly expected that devotional exercise
was the object, but nothing of this
kind has transpired. Even Mr. Smith
seems not to be trusted with their inten
tions. It is laid a number of frigates
are to be lent to the Mediterranean, to
take care of the Algerines—This how
ever, at present, is a profound secret.
Our readers will be very careful to whom
any thing of the kind is mentioned, as it
mud not be known for the world, fell
some invidious friend to the Dey Ihould
give him such timely informrtion as to
enable him in a great mefrure to defeat
its intentions! [WajhingtOT Fed.]
Extract of a letter from an American gentleman, now
in Barcelona, dated the goth of March, xßoi,/0
bis friend in Salem.
" We have received an official letter,
a few days past, from the American
Consul at Tripoli, of that Dey intending
fofitiveh to declare war against the Unit
ed States of America on the 22d inst.
unless his demands were complied with
before that time ; and as the limited
period has now aerially expired, and no
arrangement is made to alter the Dey's
determination, we may calculate with
certainty that his cruifeis are now out.
and capture, indiscriminately, every A
merican vessel that falls in their wa ;
What have they to restrain them, or
curb their piratical disposition?"
Articles per Mails.
This Morning Mr. Nicholls, one of
the clerks of the Navy Department, fee
off for Hampton Roads with failing or
ders for the Squadron about to fail for
the Mediterranean under Commodore
Dale. The vessels employed are the
President, Philadelphia and Essex, and
the sch. Enterprize, commanded by
Commodore Dale, captains Barron and
Bainbridge, and Lieut. Commandant
Sterrett. It is expected that they will
fail on or before the iftJune.
Arrived Brig Viper, capt. Story, 58
days from Leghorn. March 25th, the
day we failed, while running under the
lee of Gorgona, saw two fail making
for us, which began to fire on us as
soon as they were within gun-shot,
which we immediately returned,fuppof
ing them to be Tripolitan corsairs—
After an hour's engagement, during
which time a fort on Gorgona continu
ed a constant fire upon us, but fortu
nately doing us no injury, they wore
snip and flood in for the shore. The
Superior was in company, and assisted
in the engagement.
Erroneous S^ptement correttyd.
Dispatches of a very interesting na
tuie relative to the Algerines, are Rat
ed, in a New-York print to have been
received from our consul at Malaga.
Dispatches have been received, but
their date is not subsequent to that of
thole already received ; nor do they
contain any material information be
sides that already published.
PHILADELPHIA, MAT 2%.
It is now at leak two months since the
government of this country received
positive afurances of die hostile inten
tions of certain Barbary powers. It was
hoped, nay, believed that the receipt
of such intelligence would be instantly
succeeded by measures on our part,
whereby to secure the property and thg +
lives of our citizens from lawless plufc
der and unnatural slavery. Isis how
ever to be lamented, th^t, notwithsland+
ing the certainty of such an hoffili:y, an
OFFICIAL.
WASHINGTON, MAY 2%
WASHINGTON, MAY 2f,
WASHINGTON, MAY 20.
BALTIMORE, MAY If,