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A pamphlet has recently appeared,
entitled, A dtfoice again// Calumny ; or
Human in thelhape of Chriftopber Ellery, #
Esq. hung upon his own gallows.
When the Geoffroy Letters Were
frft published we read them with con
tempt. At that time we did not think
it possible that the malice of a profii
gate party could conneft Mr. Rut
ledge's reputation with these ridiculous
letters in any way to render them wor
thy of notice. We were mistaken. We
have since found that they were the in
trodudion of a concerted and deliberate
attack upon the fame of Mr. Rutledge,
and required a scrupulous examination.
They have had it, & we trurt will con
tinue to have it as often as the charge
is repeated. Mr. Coleman, in partic
ular, has gone through a minute com
parison of the evidence, (hewing, at ev
ery turn, the absurdity and contradic
tion of Ellery and his friends. In be
half of Mr. Rutledge, the evidence is
fair, dired, and uniform; going fully
to every point which the nature of the
case required The pamphlet now be
fore us is a collection of the letters of
Mr. R. the affidavits of a largenumber
of refpedable Gentlemen, with many
Spirited observations upon the defigh
and progress of this nefarious attempt.
With every man of common sense
and candor, we should be willing to
rest the defence of Mr. Rutledge upon
this (ingle point, Viz. Mr. Rutledge
could have no motive for writing the letters
fg,ed Nicb Geoffrey. They Urge Mr.
Jefferfon to turn out federalifts from
office, and appoint democrats—This is
the scope and substance of the two let
ters. Now let it be asked, and let it be
answered, if it can be, why should Mr.
Rutledge press this fubjed upon Jeffer
fon's notice ? The very conduct here
recommended to the President has been
pursued Readily and unrelentingly.
Mr. Jefferfon declared it to be his
intension to pursue it in his letter to
the New-Haven Merchants, before the
letters of Geoffroy were written. It
has uniformly been fandioned by all
his friends, who still inlift upon its rec
titude and necessity. What possible
motive then could Mr. Rutledge
or any decent federalift, have for writ
ing those letters. Will it be said that
they were intended to bring the Presi
dent into contempt, by urging him to
Improper ads ? We answer that he has
done them, and that he himfelf, from
the beginning, hisjuftifed them upon fee
iitical principles. All his partizans have
done the fame ; and are now continu
ally pointing out to him new victims.
Chriftophtr Ellery, Esq. had many
motives for writing the letters; Mr.
Rutledge had none#
The faits principally rALd upon by
Ellery, Duane and others are capable
of fpecific refutation. The paper upon
which the Geoffroy letters were writ
ten, has been much infilled on, as af
fording strong proof against Mr. Rut
ledge. This paper Duane and Blake
fay, was imported for the exclusive use
of the members of Congress and none
like it could be found in the country.
Here is the answer.
* in the moment of fending theft sheets to the
press, a letter has been received from Rhode is
land, faying, " Your favour of , refer
red to in a letter this day handed to me by Mr.
I owing to the curiosity of our bonefl poft
maftcr, never reached me. This old tory and
rogue has taken care, however, not to detain at
his office, Duane's pamphlet, which Ellery had
fluffed the mail with, and which are widely and
industriously diffufed by his associates. Duane
it seems has affected with his usual boldness that
"no hot preyedpaper bearing the •water marl, T
Stain/ 179,1 wot tier fold in Rbode-Ifand"—-a
Mr. Wilder, who is a rcfpe&able merchant, and
keeps the principal stationary and book store
we have here, has declared all this to be falfe,
and made an affidavit on the fubjedt, which is
enclosed and which is upon a feet ofthe paper ,wa
fer varied 7 Slain,. 1799'
[AFFIDAVIT.]
State of Rhode-lfland ff.
William R. Wilder, of Newport, in the
state of Rhode-Ifland, maketh oath, That finee
the year eighteen hundred, he has constantly
had for sale,& has been fellingat his book-Core in
Newport, large fuppliea of hot puffed paper,
bearing the water mark T Stain,, 1,99.
W. R WILDER.
Newport, ff
(L. S. Sworn to the twelfth day of,
Feb A D 1803 before me. J
B HAZARD Deputy See' and Pub. Not. ex*ff
The following passage is an answer
to several fads, criticisms, &c. formally
introduced against Mr. Rutledge.
66 Robert Smith, a younger brother
of Mrs. Rutledge, was at Cambridge
College in New England, [Duane,
Blake and others, said upon inquiry no
fitch person could befcund]& for whom
Mr. R. may have taken up letters at
the post office,but never for R. T. Smith
nor for R. Smith from Richmond in
Virginia. Thereisno daily rose [Duane
and Blake, said theie was] in the gar
den occupied by Mr. R's family in N^w.
port, nor ever has been since his knowl
edge ofit. as to the phrases," t,make
their ka? ofl " and " gathering harmed,"
Duane knows better how to trot bogs
in Ireland, than to dUlinguifh provin
cial dialers in America. Neither the
one or the other is true, Yankees fay
hey are “iarvefing, or " getng up
r in, their barveft” —they flavor fiy
Miscellany.
From the Palladium.
On the return of Gen. Hart, the
democratic Candidate for the place of
Lieutenant Gov. of Connecticut from
the feftival at New Haven March 9th,
he and some other of the Great Men
of the party, flopped at a tavern in
Guilford tor refreshment,—^where was
Capt. G—h, whom Gen. Hart did not
know. Some converfatlon however
being introduced, Gen. H. aihed Capt.
G. it he was at the Festival in New-
Haven being answered in the affirma
tive, he asked Capt. G. if he ever be
fore saw so large a procetfon # O yes,
implied Capt. G. with much good hu
mour —-I was once in Paris, and saw
ten thonfand persons marching with
Robefpieireat their head—l three day,
afterwards saw a similar "proceffim'
F ^jn[tobel^^
Ihe Ludaman, or new ftrler of Switzerland
appointed by Bonaparte, was not well re< civJ
by all hit countrymen. He fas been infulnd
and his house has been attacked. Several pt .
tons have, in conkquence, been arrested.
[Fide the pamphlet.]
ft is notorious, that Mr Livingston has been
treated with great coldness and neglect at the
court of the First Conftel. Very lately, howev
er, we are told, that thia haughtiness to our
Minister has been succeeded by the most Tooth
ing attention. Mr. Livingston is now no lon^
ger the neglected Minister of a dflpifcd Gov
ernment; but in no small degree the favorite
of the Premier. Whence this change ?
The expectation of a war with England haa
delayed the expedition to Loteifiana.—The
approaching criGs forbids the fending troops,
transports, &c. from home at the ultimate haz
ard of stirring up new enemies The project of
fettling Louisiana, however vast in its connec
tions, is not set ripe ; nothing will be loft, much
"ay be gained by delay. St Domingo is yet
unfabdued. The forces firft sent there were
doubtless destined in their progress for the con
tinent They found graves inftcad of vidory,
and the unfinished work still asks for new rein
forcements. Mr. Munroe has been sent to the
court es the First Consul with two millions at
his wife disposal. Bonapartetan have no ob
jcdioo to barter profeffiom, promises or even
treaties for cajb in band. This he has often done,
and as often violated his treaties and mocked
his own promises. To this let Holland. Milan.
Modena, Switzerland bear testimony. Hence
the reason of those (miles lavished uptn our
Minister, and hence we (hall probably find the
second edition of baseness and disgrace in the
conduct of Mr. Munroe. We predict those ar.
tyces, however palpable in their appearance,
xuikl succeed. So low are we fallen on national
spirit, so wilfully blind to experience, so much
under the influence of a degraded and degrading
democracy, that we shall become the dupes of
a policy, hollow, vicious and ruinous. Our eyes
are open now and let us not hereafter feck for
a juftification of our feeble temporifing policy,
by faying we have been deceived. Ic is too late
in the day to pretend that any faith can be pla
ced in the engagements of a man, who has ever
made his ambition the measure of his justice
and his virtue. Our enmity he will dread
while he has to coyewith his ancient rival ;
our money he will need now, and the territory
he can take at any other time Does not this
explain the new behaviour of the Consul to our
Minister ? Did it not dilate the letter of the
hand kissing Marquis ? And will it not subdue
the sensibilities of Mr. Munroe, and mould him
to the most abje& compliances.
The spirit of democracy has been manifefted
in the reception of the Marquis's letter, ft thus
appears, as it is, base, groveling, and degenerate.
Much exultation was expressed at this restora
tion of a vetted right, and this too, after the
Cession to France was known, and the policy of
the meaftire itfelf too obvious to be mistaken.
Yet the democrats rejoiced, as though an up
merited and unexpected boon had been granted,
for which they were ready to render their hum
ble and hearty thanks. With such a spirit presid
ing in our councils we can be managed. A little
notice, a very little courtesy, a few smiles oc
casionally bellowed will keep us in good temper
till Fr nee (no matter who governs it) is pre
pared to take us into her more immediate
regard, Palladium.
Duane, during this controversy, has
republiffied several paragraphs, which
appeared some years since in the Auro
ra. He Rates, that he has now the 0-
riginal scraps of paper, rand that they
are in the hand writing of the Geoffroy
le ters. The paragraphs themselves
give the lie to this foolifh Rory. They
are written with the intention, if there
is any,'to dhgrace Mr. Rutledge, and
fomt of his bed fiiehds, without any
apparent motive—Not the semblance
pf a reason can be given why Mr. Rut-
Jedge should miike himfelf ridiculous,
merely for the fake of appearing so.
Yet the judicious Hector Ironside has
yielded his independent mind to such
Teafons. Befides,when these parapraphs
firß appeared they were attributed to
Varnum. Mr. Rutledge never was
fufpeded till some years after, when
this most wretched of all pretences was
hunted up, and wrought into this tissue
of calumny and falfhood. Duane him
felf, after announcing the death of Gen.
Gunn, " chargedhim with being treach
erous to his party,and the sou rce of all
the correct information furnifhed to the
Aurora concerning federal then and
federal measures."
"gathering their harvest, nor do the
southern people fay " make barveft?
This bait will not do for gudgeons them
selves. 'On the fubjeft of provincial
phrases it may not be amds to observe,
that in these ridiculous letters the writer
utes the word Help, in a lenfe peculiar
to the people of the eastern Rates— he
fays, " ice /ball pay through the nose for
Help." Mr. R. writing on this fubjed,
would naturally have said for work done
—for labourers, or for Servants —Kit El
lery would as naturally have said
'Help' —Again, the verb to conduct is u
sed in a feme peculiar to the people of
die eastern Rates, it is tiled as a verb
neuter, whereas to the southward it is
always ufedras a verb aflive.
ANECDOTE.
IT is well known that Frederick the
Second,rgfe remarkably early in the nior
n/ng, and in general allowed a very there
part ot his time to sleep. Blit as age
and infirmities increased upon him, his
deep was broken and dillurbed, and
When he fell asleep towards rhe morning,
he frequently miffed his early hour ol
rising. This lofsof time, as he deemed it,
he bore very impatiently, and gave drift
orders to hit attendants never to fuffer
him to flrep longer than four o'clock in
the morning, and to pay no attention to
his unwillingness to rife. One morning
at the appointed time, the page whose
turn it was to attend him, & who had not
long been in service, cante to his bed and
awoke him, "Let me deep but a little lon
ger," faidthe monarch, “I am still fatigu
ed* —" 9our M jelly has given pobli.se
orders I should wake you so early," re
plied the page," But another quarter of
an hour more,"—-" Not one minute,"
laid the page, " it has llriKk four, 1 am
ordered toinfift upon your M: jeflCsti
bug." " Well," said tie Ring, '• you ate
a bravelad ; had you let me sleep o n
^n " quid have fated ill for four hepleft
A ullage is building over the Eabcio
Branch of the Potomatk, under the fu
perintendence of Mr. Timothy Palmer
ot Newburyport, Mafiaehufetts.
The number of Bankruptcies in England
frc.ni the year f;4g to the end of 1 797 arrouot
<dto n 64c The foallid number was in the
year 1749, when there was but 49, and the
I rgeft was in 1793, when tjoz coniwiffions
were issued.
Zoilikoier's Dignity of Man.
—o—
From the Salem Regfer.
We have seen with pleafnrc the late edition
of Zolh+ofer'e Exercifee of Piety, from the press
of Mr. I homasfjun. at Worcester. It has pas
sed through the hands of the chffical and pious
Mr. Harris, who teas able ro'jndge of rhe me
rit of the wbrk, and was difpoftd to' recommend
the Spirit of true piety which it promotes. We
have long been in the possession of the original
works of Mr Zollikofer, and have regretted
that the English reader could not enjoy the in
ftruflion of his knowledge and piety. We were
eager to obtain, upon the firft notices, that part
of the Exercifee of Piety which Mr. Manning
had tranflited, and immediately upon the light
of the copy, we telexed and published such sec
tions of the work as could be obtained without
great expense, and which might be distributed
with success, and at ^r own charges. We have
not been disappointed. The approbation these
small portions have received, and the good they
have done, have made us more d&irous that the
whole work should appear in America. The
worthy Mr. Harris, it appears, entertained the
fame sentiments, and has assisted in preparing
an edition, which we receive with great appro
bation, because w e are persuaded that no book
has yet appeared, which is better adopted to
promote true piety, and the principles of the
Christian faith. We are still more abundantly
gratified in the profpea of an American edi
tion of that part of Zollibofer'e Sermon, intitled
the" DIGNITY of MAN." They who know
the character, and are acquainted with the ta
lents of this great and good man, will confider
these a great acquifitrcn, and the other difeour
fes, which arc miscellaneous, have an intrinsic
worth, and, as early as in 177%, many of them
had passed through three editions at Leipfic,thc
place which enjoyed the pious labors of this e
minent preacher and ornament of his country,
who died in 1,88, in the 58th year of his age.
" The Exercifee'' already published, are a proper
book for all families, and are adapted to answer
the benevolent purposes of those sincere Christ
ians, who think a small portion of their wealth
not ill bellowed in the distribution of the bed
books of piety and devotion.
" Creation groaned when with laborious birth,
Mammoth was born to rule his parent Earth,
Mammoth! 1 tremble while my voice recounts
His size that towered o'er all our misty mounts,
His weight a balance for yon pine clowned hills,
On whose broad front half heaven in dew dis
tills;
Hii motions forced the starry spheres to shake,
The sea to roar—the lolid land to quake.—
His breath a whirlwind - 4 - From his angry eye,
Flawed flames like fires that light the northern
The hoblcft river force fnpplied him drink—
Nor food, the herds:hat graz'd along its brink ;
Trampling through forefts would the monster
^
Breaking the floutel oaks like blades of graft !"
[Refton Gazette,
LIBRARIES.
Amongst modern libraries,the four latg
eft are tuppofed to be he Emperor's at
Vienna ; the Vatician library; the libra
ry of the Grand Duke of Tufcany,at Flo
rence and that now belonging to the
French republic, at Paris. Ofantient li
braries, the Alexandrian was the molt
celebrated. Among the other ancient li
braries, that of Lucullus is said to have
been very considerable, as was also that
of Frajan, which was called after h m the
Ulpian library; But one of the most ele
gant was that founded at Rome by Simo
nicus, preceptor of the Emperor Gordian
us It is said to have contained 8000 fe
left volumes, and that the zpartm nt in
which they were deported Was paved
with gilt marble. The wells were com
posed of glass and ivorv ; and the shelves,
cases, prefts, and defies, made of ebony
and cedar. [ladies monitor.
The following is an Extract from a
Poem, entitled " The Speech of Cauno
nicus, or an Indian Tradition," published
originally at Calcutta, by John Lathiop,
Jun. Esq. formerly of Bolton, but for
some time known and highly respected
in India, tor his literary talents and ex
ertions. Tne work is entit ed to high
commendation for ts poetical excellence,
as well as the bittorical notices which it
contains of the traditions and mythology
of the aboriginal inhabitants of America.
The verification is chalte and harmoni
ous ; tho' the fofe in some instances, rites
into that hyperbolical draincbara&erifltc
of genius and tatte of the people where
the Author relides. This tale, descriptive
ol a people tar remote, mult be highly in
ftru&ve and interfiling in a country,
whole customs and manners are not per
haps more peculiar nor ahtient; and
we doubt not the Inhabitant of this
country "ill take a superior pride and
pleasure in perusing the productions of a
native Poet, who lings f<> Sweetly on the
distant Shores of the Ganges.
• Great numbers of feme Lave been fettled in f
gyP'for upwards of 2000 years,and Dr. Poeoeke in
forms us that noken de tvas in the country in 1,3,
they bad no kefs than j, fynoppee in Grand Cairo
only. 1
RESIGNS TIQN &
—o-=
A certain gentleman (who has tbt been long
dead) was so entirely resigned to, and depen
dent on, the will of Providence, that ttba&et
accident happened to him, he net ohly said tut
thought it was all for the better. He Was going
from Ireland to Eng and, when tripping into
the packet boat, the entering rope br<ke, he fell
into the pinnace, and Mattered his leg : "well,
said the honed gentfetnar, it it all for the bet
ter." (which was his conftabt etipreffion.)
His friends alked him how he could think
breaking his leg, and the I6!s of bis voyage,
which nTgbt be foltowed by that of * suit in
chancery he was going rtf attend, could be for
the better , “ Providence (replied he) knows
belt : I am Gill of opmionit uas for the better."
He was carried back ; the packet boat failed,
foundered in her ptffoge, and but one p^p
w aslived.
From the National Intelligencer,
Some yelrs ago, 3 clergyman in'Eu
gland,u ho to the duties of Irs Ration add
ed lire benevolent talk of abiding his pa
fifh mers in tne capacity of a phyiician,
happened to have a number ol them ill
'R' l malignant fevers. Due day upon vi
otaia. a patient (to whoin bark arid other
lull niedreires had been adihimdered
without effect, and of whose recovery
there was no Dope's,')the curate observed
I vefl of yeait Raiding by the tire-Re
recollected hivihg heard that meat begin
ning to putr:fy, being placed over a vefi
fel of yeatt or fermenting liquor would
be preserved from further putrefaction ;
and the idea Rruck him to try the effect of
>ea,ft upon h;s patient, as he considered
him pad recovery—He ordered a fpoon
fnll of eat to be given ohce or twice an
hour—Next day he fotind him recovering,
MikreJ tile ,eill to be continued in like
manlier ; the tick man got well, and the
Jurate had equal faccefs in a variety of
cases of putrid and indignant fevers in
which he adniuißered only yeatt.
These ercumitances 1 mentioned to a
circle of friends in Ireland. Soon after
one of these friends was ferzed by a fever ;
ms physician, after some time, deemed it
leceffary to have a confutation of the
Faculty ; they recommended to my
friend's wife to prepare for he worst, as
it was Scarce poffioie her buiband cool'd
live through the n Jit. Sue lent tor some
yeart and administered it 10 him every
half hour during the night ; in the morn
ing the doctors to md, to their aßonifh
ment, their patient not only al ve, but in
a fairway to recover. He did recover,
and is, I believe, now living.
Ppuery— What effect may yeast have in
the yellow fever, int-oduced in as great
quantities as the domach will bear, and
freely adminißered to the bowels by clyft
ers 1
The poor aftoniffied Jews flood silent arid
knew not what to fay, though they immediate
ly law through the drift of the avaricious Gov
ernor. He, after waiting foroe time tor an an
fwer, dismissed them, but ordering them again
before him in a few weeks, tolling them that
be gave them that time to deliberate and to
search the records, and fee whether or not they
had ever returned or made fatisfaftion to the
Egyptians for he jewels they bad borrowed;
When the Jews had retired; they, after eoh
fulting among themselves bow to ward off the
blow, came to the rcfolption of railing a large
firm of money, with which, on the da, appoin
ted, they waited on the govetnor, and told Hm
that since the time their forefathers had bor
rowed those things of the Egyptians their na
tior ihad undergone various revolutions, their
temple had been burnt, and their records de
stroyed, so that it was importable for them now
to tell whether hr not the Egyptians had ever
received faitfadion ler their jewels, and pre
fenting him with the money, added, that they
hoped he weald not make them, vbhb were but
a few, accountable for what the whole nation
did so many thousand years ago.
This being all the Governor wanted, he took
their money, for which he gave them (in the
name of the Egyptians) a receipt in part pay
ment for borrowed jewels, and so left the fame
door open for any of his luccelTors, who may
think proper to take the fame fleps to fquetze
that poor unfortunate people.
Every brewer and dilliiler knows that
the fixed air contained in yeast will spee
dily kill a man whose head is held over a
vessel containing a qiintity of yealt or
fermenting liquor. The fame principle
prevents the putrefaction of meat, not
only prevents the generation of maggots,
but the previous Rage of putreladion. If
then the fixed air contained in yeaflor
fermenting liquors, checks pufrefattion
in animal fubdances deprived of life, will
it not check the tendency to putrefaction
that exiits in the human frame when leiz
ed by 2 putrid disease,?
I am not a physician, not is it probable
i shall ever have an opportunity of tryifig
the eff Rs of yeaß upon the scourge of
our seaport towns. The above reason
ing upon the subject seem, to me fair, the
practice in disorders less dellruftive than
the yellow lever has been fuccefsful, and
as the medicine 3 easily obtained, I with
it may have a trial and prove equally
fuccefsful in yellow fevers.
HUMOROUS STORYS
A Certain Governor of Egypt having occa
sion for a sum of money, fell upon the following
most extraordinary method to raise it.
He issued out an order, commanding the
chief of all the Jews* fettled in Egypt to appear
before him on a certain day ; on their being
condu&ed into his pr fence, they found him
surrounded with his Divah or Council, and the
Pentateuch in his hand—he then asked them if
they believed all that was written in that book,
to which they replied that they did, faying that
it contained the precepts of their religion : on
which be turned to and read the nth and rath
chapters of Exodus, in which is recorded the
account of the Jews', jull before their departure
out of Egypt, borrowing of the Egyptians their
jewels of Gold, Silver, &c.
When h< had finifhed, he tot'd thetii that
since they had confeffed their forefathers had
about 3000 yCats ago borowed of the forefath
ers of the Egyptians their Jewels, &c he had
sent for them to know if thole thirigs had ever
been returned, or latifa&icn made for them;
if not, he added, that it wag now high rime
payment should he made, and that he, being
the political father of th.it people, was in duty
bound to fee that they had justice done them.
But before going to sea at such a pre.
carious time as the prefect, it behoves
the seamen to provide tbemfelves with
the pafoort or protection directed to
be issued at the coileeoi s' offices by the
act bf Congrefs,artd to be careful not to
confide in any others, such as thole issu
ed by notaries public, justices of the
peace; &c. The distinction ma, be
found to be of much conlequence; for
hotod a seaman claim exemption from
impressment by virtue of a protection
of the latter unauthorized kind, he
would probably be told that as he had
not followed the laws of bis ou n coun
try in taking it from the colleger, he
was entitled to no favor and that he
could not be eonfidered as an Ameri
can. This Caution is mote particularly
addrefftu to the seamen tbemfelves,but
its observance must depend in a great
degree upe n the vigilance of the mer
chants and matters <fveffcls in feeing
it ftri&ly attended to by the former.
We are informed that a duel was
fought this morning at Gloucefhr
point, between two officers of the City
Militia, in which one of the rartfes was
t/Urdgred! —
RICHMOND, (Wtr.l APRIL 2%
SHOOTING STARS.
This eledrical phenomenon Was cb-'
Termed on Wedhefda, morning | a ft, #
Rithtmod and its vicinity, in a maif^
per that alarmed many, and afloniried
every beffon who beheld it, Rom one
utitil tDiee in the morning, those starry
meteors feeined to fall from every point
in the heavens, in such nrimbers as id
referable a thouer of ffcy rocked. ~The
inhabitants happened at the fine hour
to be called from their' souses by the
file bell, which was,tung oh account
of a fire that broke ^u'tin one of the
rooms of the Armoury, but which uas
fpcedily extinguished, Everyonetbere
rel'peißs to the Bafhaw. He according
ly with Capt. Rodgers, went on there,
and in a conference, the Commodore
and Bafhaw had a dispute respecting a
Tripolitan brig, captured by the Er
terprize. On the day following, the
Commodore & Capt. Rodgers were ar
rested, and a demand made of 34,000
dollars, to be paid immediately.—On
investigation, it proved to be a private
debt due by the American Consul (Fu
ton) to a merchant in that place ; and
the account having the seal of the U+
nited States affixed thereto the Com
modore was obliged to pay it."
Another letter, “ The consequence
of the discovery of Mr.EaWs conduct
h^s been, that he has been dismissed bv
the authority of the Commodore, and
Dr. Davis has been appointed in hi
place. What property Mr. E. possessed
has been fold to repay the debt."
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PHILADELPHIA, MAY t,.
Extraa of a letter from an officer on Board the U«
nited States flip NevrYork, dated Gibralter^
2&b March, lEog.
“ While lying in Malta, lieutenant" V%
end die ift lieutenant of marines, Mi
went on fliers to fettle a trfling di<
ter exchanging four (hots lieute~
received a ball in his right thigu
through, and was extracted from his
terminated hit existence, after an illnc.s 0. a
weeks.
“ About the farite time 3 dtel was fought
between Mr. Bainbridge a midfbipman, of the
New-York, and Mr. Cochran, at) English gen
tleman, raiding at Malta. The latter wal
the challenger, and was killed."
PHILADELPHIA, MAY 30.
Virginia election.
A Correspondent in Virginia informs us that
the election for member of Congress for the di
ftria of York has been determined, and the fed
eral candidate, Mr. Griffin, is deaed by a m^
jority of thirty -three votes.
Thomae Griffin, toB,
"Burieell Boffett, loj6
Qur correspondent makes the following re
marks
" This diftria confide of ten counties and
boroughs; and although the federal majority is
small, yet when the circuroftances Pre cenfider
ed, we have reason to congratulate ourselves on
the event. Alrooft all the legislative influence
of the diGria, all the members of ths last assem
bly, all the new candidates for the ensuing as
sembly, aimed all the fheriffs, and a hod of am
bitious lawyers were drawn up in array againd
UI. To this formidable combination we had
nothing tb oppofc but the Independent voim of
a free people — Let this be an awful lesson to
the turbulent and designing part of the demo-'
ciats,that the fuffrages of a free and Virtuous
people are hot easily averted from a candidate
bf worh and real patriotism by the arts of faffs
ambition or the low vices of defamation"
[U. S. Gate.
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WASHINGTON, MAY 16.
American seaman.
As the indication of approaching
war in Europe may terminate in that
event, we with to call the attention of
the citizens of the United States and
particular the Teamen,to such measures
as are calculated for their security a
broad,and which are cuilomary in time
of war. Shotaid it happen, we hope
we shall hot witness as one of its confer
quences a repetition of that indiferrmi
nate feene of impretiment, of which,
during the last, our feafaring citizens
uheie so Often the victims.
BALTIMORE, MA.l^
A letter from an officer of the r ::r t
States frigate John Adams, dated, C
raltar, Match 29, 1803, fars, “ On 11
23d Feb. we anchored off Tunis, an.
the American Consul infilled on sh
Commodore's going onshore to pay h;
£3dwm
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