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• Lorca is a large city of Spain in the king
dom of Murcia, situated on the river Guadaten
tin, about 20 miles from Carthagena Its in
habitants are what are called New Chriftiaps,
being the dcfcendants of the converted Moop.
Though the city is large, it has fallen much into
decay and is thinly peopled.
“ I make known to yon fir, that 01
the last day of April, (which will be
memorable for ages to come) at half
pad three o'clock in the afternoon, a
youth ran into my house and gave me
the lamentable information that the
bank had given way ; he accompanied
these expreflions withfo many tears and
such fobbing, that he could scarcely ar
ticulate, or I understand him On re
ceiving this fatal notice, I ran with pre
cipitation into the street, where Ifound
a general commotion among the people,
who were leaving their dwellings to
put themselves in a place of fafety. I
returned to my house, and by my cries
collected my wife,children and family ;
they saw my trouble ; we all ran preci
pitately to Calvario to escape the great
danger which threatened. We there
found a considerable number of people
filled with trouble and dread, calling
upon God and begging for mercy with
loud cries and lamentations. I then
saw vast quantities of water defeending
from the hills, which dire&ed itfelf
with the greatest fury imaginable to
wards San Diego, spreading itfelf over
all the fields having its general direction,
towards the olive trees. I left my
family at Clavario and went to the
streets De la Cava, from thence I saw
the water breaking down the convent of
Mercy ; arriving at the Gate of Bor
deta, ^ e market no longer appeared ;
I paired to t^ House De Miralles ;
they there told me that !? ou ' es > families
& every thingelfe had been ri'-'ept away
from the Botica to the Quartel, oh s°th
sides. The water covered the hills and
carried away the whole population on
theright of the fountain. Our Corrigi
dor was in the palace directing assistance
to be given ;he was fnrrouuded by
many people ; the general was beat, and
every thing was done for the tranquili
ty of the people. At this time news
was received that at the Mill of Beuna-
Villa they had found the Lord Coun
fellor, who had been drowned ; imme
diately orders were given to the people
to bring his body ;at 12 o'clock at night
it u^s drought to Castillo. I repaired
to the Gate of St. Gines ; I there saw
that the steeple of the Convent of Mer
cy was threatened with ruin. I repair-
The following is an extras of a let
ter written from the city of Lorca,*
by one of its inhabitants, to his friend
in this citv in which he gives an account
of the dreadful accident which befei
that city from the breaking a bank or
mound, which was conftruded a few
years ago to contain the rain water foi
the purpose of watering the fields in the
neighbourhood of that city. The num
ber drowned by this misfortune amoun
ted to 6000.
The Consuls of the Republic, on the
report of the Counfellor ofState charg
ed with all affairs relating to worship,
with the advice of the Council of State,
has decreed, that the Indultum for the
redudion of holidays, given at Paris,
April 9, 1802, shall be published with
out approbation of theclaufes, formulas,
or expressions it contains. By this In
dultum, the Fetes, which shall be cele
brated in France, besides Sundays,(hall
be, The Nativity of our Savior Jesus
Christ— Afeenfon day —The Afawfotion
ofth Most Blefrd Virgin — and the Fete
of all Saints. —All others are abolished.
august 8. An elegant travelling
carriage is prepared for the First Con
sul, which contains a bed, library,writ--
ing-table, and a small service of plate $
the carriage is lined with thin copper,
or composition metal,fo that a ball can
not penetrate it.
Addresses to the Chief Consul have
already begun to pour in, upon the or
ganic Senatus Confultum.
their identity and entire Rate being as
certained in the presence of the second
and third Consuls. It is addressed to
the Senate by a meflage from the gov
ernment,with a copy of the prrdeef vhr
baux, certifying the deposit, the identi
ty, and entire date.
50. If the person, presented by the
First Consul, is not appointed the sec
ond & third Confu§ present one each ;
in case of neither of these being nomi
nated, they each make another presen
tation, and one of the two must of ne
cessity be appointed.
51. If the First Consul leaves no pre
sentations the second and third Consuls
make their presentations separate, if
neither obtains the nomination, they
make a third, from which the Senate
must of necessity nominate.
In every case, the presentations and
nomination must be completed in 24
hours after the death of the First Con
sul.
Tranfatedf'em "the Diario de Madrid."
53. The law determines for the life
of each First Consul the Rate of the ex
penditure of government.
MADRID, May to.
INUNDATION.
PARIS, AUG. 6.
Arts of able d.ddors. —Mr. Jessi rfofl's
editors are fighting mod valiantly in his
behalf; but they are so exccffively eager
° en g a g e ) that they neither wait for
the plan of attack, nor even the word
of command ; the conlequence is such
as might be expeded, a man of con
cert, followed by irretrievable confu
fion in the ranks, and in several instan
ces, even a falling back of ther own
party, so that dismay and defeat already
begin to pervade the whole squadron.
One fays, Mr. Jefferfon had not read
the Profpeß when he rewarded the au
thor ; and that if it shall appear that he
had, he'll desert.— A second fays,he nev
er paid him any money at all ; he only
lent it. A third, that he had no agency
whatever in the Profeed, as detailed;
and that if he had, it indicates an incon
firtency of character, a meanness of dis
position, that never ought to be found
in a chief magistrate. A fourth, that
after the money was in the treasury, he
had no control over it ; that he did not
order it repaid ; but that if he did, it
was a violation of his oath, and he
ought to be impeached. A fifth, that
all the money ever paid Callender,both
from Mr. Jefferfon's own pocket and
the national purse was from unmixt
motive of the most charming charity.
Afath, and last, fays, in decent lan
guage, that the story of Him & Sally
is a " damnable lie ;" and this last
gentleman, who appears in the Citizen
of this morning, under the appropriate
signature of a " Friend to Good Gov
ernment," intimates that some“ horri
ble outrage" will be committed on the
editor of this paper and bis workmen, if
he does not leave off telling such things.
Go on, gentlemen, go cn,and when you
are cleverly advanced, the net'fhall be
sprung over you ; we shall then fee
what a pretty figure you will make.
[Evening Pofl.]
While the galled democrats are rail
ing so vociferoufly against Callender,
on account of the secrets he is from time
to time betraying, they should recoiled
that he is a thing of their onvn impor
ta+ior. ; that be was pressed into their
service the moment he set his foot on
our fhoie ; and that he was patronized
and rewarded by Mr. Jefferfon, and
his friends, and by none else. What
ever Callender's character may be—
" At break of day the following mor
ning we heard nothing but lamenta
tion, ; some looking for their parents,
others for their children ; women seek
ing for their husbands, and all trying to
unite their families. At the Gate call
ed St. Gines we can no longer fee the
feites where the houses flood ; every
thing is desolation from the Convent
of Mercy to the Hospital for Women
the houses carried away from the bar
rier alone are reckoned at 400, and
what are left are greatly injured, as the
water was in all the second Hories.—
The sacred vessels of the Convent of
Mercy were found at two leagues dis
tance ; the church of San Chriftoval is
not much injured, though the water was
up to the cornices ; San Diego is aban
doned ; the faints are removed ; the
lame is the case with La Merced, be
cause mud and trash are left in them
two^ards deep. Every thing is taken
from the Tower of La Merced, as it
threatened to fall to ruin. Trenches
are dug without the town, where they
are going to bury the dead without dif
tinftion of persons, and where they are
now cohering them in carriages. All
the fields and gardens, from the Gar
den de Garces to the road that passes
this, have been a river. No habitations
are left ; people, animals, olive-trees,
gardens, all have perifired and are ru
ined. It is fortunate the whole city did
not fuffer the fame fate; this would
have been the case if the bank had not
given way where it did, and the water
taken a direction to the left of San Die
go. The Lord Counfellor might have
been saved, as was the son of his assis
tance and his servant, but he confided
in his mules, and perished with them
and his coachman. People are sent to
Velez to grind grain ; we have no lon
ger any mills ; of thirteen which we
had, only that of Bcuna Vista remains,
and that is injured ; of oil-mills not
one is left ; of the greatest part of San
ta Quteria only the foundations are
left. The rivulets and gioves are full
of timber and furniture.—The books
and accounts of Ramon Garces were
found at the farm house of Sutullena
""^ 34,c00 reals belonging to him also.
is yet I have neither e:rt nor Hept ;
all is confuhon and dismay ; all are
weeping over the dreadful accident.
At present 1 can fend you no farther
particulars on this fubjed, but I will
venture tol;y, that the damage will be
much greater when the waters have pal
led twenty leagues, which is the distance
from hence to the sea, and when they
have encountered Murcia, Gribuela and
other places in the way."
cd to the Gate of Don John Antonio
Albuquerque, where at this season his
wife and family reside ; they had fled on
horses. Monjul was commifficoed to
collect the dead bodies in the Ovals.
Miscellany.
and Mr. Leiper, one of the leading de
mocrats of Philadelphia has made oatli
to its goodness ; or whatever may be
' the language in which he chufes to dress
;his expeditions ;—ftill I ruth is Truth :
and scolding for years will not abate
one particle of it. Callender was the
confidential comrade of MefTrs. Jeffer
fon, Giles, Macon, and Co. they un
bosomed themselves to him : he is there
fore more likely to be better acquaint
ed with their feerct bifory than any
other man ; and he in common with
other men has the right to seek revenge
for injuries received. Callender's asser
tions are plain and positive ; they bear
internal marks of truth, and he chal
lenges refutation. In the case of Gen.
Hamilton, and other federal characters,
the whole " fefferjonian fa" have been
profufe of their scandal and obloquy ;
and the meafnre they have meted to
others, is now measuring to them and
their idol—in good measure, prefled
down, ihaken together and running
^ ver '__ [Centinel.
Mfrs. Editors,
AS you have to provide weekly fare
for the public, which is a great
gormandifer, I believe that sometimes
you must needs be scant of provisions,
and that you would be glad now and
then, to accept of any wholesome dish
that should be furniihed you ; therefore,
tho' my own Hore is small, I feel con
strained, from mere charity, to fend
you a fragment, which is all that I now
have to (pare.
Happening lately on a wet day, to
step into the (hop of neighbor Cord
wainer, to get a rent in my (hoc closed,
I found the flop filled with men (the
weather being unfaitable to work in the
field)and that an out-landifh fellow,
who, two or three years ago, came a
mong us, and has been employed by
the neighborhood as a schoolmaster,
was declaiming, with great earnestness
upon the blelfed nature and fruits of
liberty. He Was closing his declama
tion, as I entered, and finifhed it in the
words ? following :—“ This celeflial
principle, heaven-born liberty, natural
ly Iprings up in every human mind,
and grows therein with its growth,and
ftr., gthens with its strength." I per
ceived that the company, in general,
were mightily plcafed, and none more
so than neighbor Huck, whom I had
lately detected in dealing my sheep.—
There was one in the room, however,
who did not manifeft any token of ap
probation. My uncle Abram, who
had happened to enter the (hop was
fitting on a bench and fmoaking his
pipe : and as the orator concluded, he
gave a long whiff and Ihook his bead.
Uncle Abram is a plain old man, who
makes no noise in the world, speaks
little, but has read and thinks much,
Now, as I observed before, he appear
ed rather diffatisfied, and his diflatis
faAicn was remarked. " Have you
any objection to these eternal, felf-evi
dent truths i" said our schoolmaster to
him, with energy of voice and with
great assurance Uncle Abram paused,
took his pipe out of his mouth, stroked
his grey beard and hemmed several
times, (for he is not a ready speaker)
and, at length, spoke as nearly as I can
remember, in the following manner :
“ Liberty," quoth uncle Abram, "is
a word that is used in various senses,
and frequently in no sense at all. In
our day, the word is made use of by
political juglers, as a charm to flatter
the vicious and dupe the ignorant : yet
liberty is a good thing when not abus
ed. The love of liberty, you fay, is
natural to the human mind. I grant
that every human creature loves its
own individual liberty ; but there is
nothing " heaven-born" in this, for
even the most ferocious among brutes
possess the fame principle. A wolf
loves its own individual liberty." —
“He expressly speaks the lingo offohnAd
ams," whispered our declaimed—" But
the wolf," continued uncle Abram,
" does, in no wife, refped the rights of
the lamb : and so in the great human
family there are theufands & millions,
who have a mighty love of liberty, as
far as it refpeds their own dear selves,
but at the fame time, are disposed to
invade the rights of others, as the wolf
does those of the lamb. Hence arises
the necessity of the powerful restraints
of law." Tbe fheepfleaier knit his brows.
"Because," quoth uncle Abram, "with
out such restraints wicked men,by their
abuse of liberty, would destroy all so
cial order, and render society itfelf a
curse. The felons in our States' pri
sons love liberty most dearly, and pant
for it most ardently ; but the restraint
ofliberty refpeding such villainsis neces
sary to the peace and fefety of society."
Here the foeepJlealer threw into bis face a
ghastly [cowl.— " Together with the na
tural love of liberty," continued uncle
Abram, " there is a natural love of
power, and a natural inordinate felfifh
nefs, which hates restraints, and must
be checked and reprefled by the power
ful arm of government. Men have a
right to as much liberty as they are
disposed to use virtuously and to no
more ; and indeed good men wish for
no more liberty than they enjoy under
wholesome laws, ena&ed for the
From the BALANCE.
—o—
—o— 776
ALBANY, SEPT. 24.
THE VERMONT ELECTION,
Was held a few days since. The re
turn of votes which we have seen are
too partial to enable us to form any
opinion of the final result. In seven
towns, which are all we have seen anv
account from, bis Excellency Isaac
Tichenor, the Federal candidate for
Governor, had 718 votes; the Hon.
Israel Smith,tbeToiy candidate,3ll.
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BOSTON, SEPT. 2J.
Ne<ws from EUROPE.
Since our lart, the fortunate fliip Ga
len, capt. Hinkley, has arrived here,
from London; bringing papers to
the 13th August.
Another great change has been ef
feded in the French system, of Gov
ernment— Bonaparte was proclaimed
First Consul for life, the 2d Aug.—
The votes in favor of his appointment,
were 3,568,885 ; to 8374againftit,mak
ing about 426 to I —But it appears that
this vq^ of the people was not necessa
ry to ^#cont nuation in power ; for on
the sth Aug. the Conservative Senate,
which is created by the First Consul,
without confuting the people, pro
claimed measures equally as important;
—they altered the whole constitution ;
declared by a solemn Organic Senatus
Confultuni, that the other two Consuls,
Cambaceres and Lebrun, should be for
life ; that the First Consul should have
the appointment of his successor, the
nomination of the other Consuls, &c.
in short almost all the offices of honor,
power, or profit, down to the modera
tor of a Town-meeting. In other mat
ters, the Senate divide the power with
the First Consul, as may be seen by the
said Organic Senatus Confultum. The
new order of military nobility called
the Legion of Honor, is amply provided
for; and the Minister of the Interior
has dire&ed the celebration of the First
Consul's birth (Aug. 15th) in every
part of France. Still France retains
the name of Republic !
From several articles it appears, that
the French meditate an attack on Al
giers ; in which Bonaparte invites the
co-operation of the other European
powers. —o—
— letters fiom Spain, mention,
that Mr. Pinckney had succeeded in
obtaining the appointment of Commis
sioner to fettle the claims which our
citizens have for spoliations. We do
not understand that those committed
in South America, arc included.
ALL the following pieces were
sent, or personally given to Mr.
Jefferfon, in parcels of two or three
Sheets, as they came from the press—
This was done, at Mr. Jefferfon's own
desire. Pages.
Sketches of theHiftory of America 264
Sedgwick and Co. 88
Profpea, vol. I, IS 4
Vol. 2, part 1. 144
Vol. 2d. part 2d. 96
“ I grant," proceeded uncle Abram,
" that love of liberty is sometimes a
noble virtue ; that is to fay, when it is
the principle of a man " to live," and
let live, or to allow to others the fame
rights which he claims to himfelf,
without entertaining a wish to use
his own liberty, power or influence
in invading the rights even of the
weakest of his fellow-creatures ; a love
of liberty, I fay thus extended, is noble,
is heaven-born. But there are few who
love liberty in this literal sense ; and
among those few, I never yet found a
single one of your bawlers about liber
ty. Long experience has taught me
that their pretended love of liberty is
a love of personal popularity, of influ
ence, of power ; and that, as far as they
get power, they never fail to use it ty
rannically.
Here uncle Abram ended, “ He's
either an Hamiltonian or one of Adams's
kidney," said our emigrant school-master,
in an audible whisper.—“ He's a d d
Arifccrat, replied the sheep-stealer.
Uncle Abram, seemingly taking no
notice of their malicious whispers and
wry faces, laid his pipe aside, and walk
ed out with a Ready countenance and
firm step, as one unconscious of having
said or done wrong. OBADIAH.
general good of the public; The
french have made a great pother
about liberty, and have turned the
world upside down ; but they had not
national information and virtue enough
to be free, and so, you fee, they have
a master ; and, if we in this country
spend our time in bawling about liber
ty, without taking care to discharge the
moral, social and civil duties of life,
(as too many of us seem to do) we ihall
have a matter too. Abundance is said
and written, now-a-days, about the
rights of men and the rights of women ;
a ?d 'jhink it is high time to attend a
little time more to the duties of men
and women ; for they have duties to
perform as well as rights to vindicate,
and generally are much more apt to
neglect their duties than to forget their
rights.
United States.
RICHMOND, SEPT. 13.
From Callender's Recorder.
,(^ WE have before us, receive— , .
tne late arrivals, Dutch papers to the
4th, French to the iith, and EnHifh
to the 13th August.
°s^ The Dutch (Rotterdam) papers,±
indicate the rapid revival of connect-'
cial enterprize in Holland. 4 hefimnus
bank of Amsterdam had been 8-estab
lished on its ancient foundation; and *
things appeared reverting to their for
mer Rate. Expeditions were on the
point of failing from the Texel, to oc
cupy the Cape-of-Good-Hope, and the 1
Weft-India colonies rertored to Holland
by the treaty of Amiens.—That destin
ed to the Weft-Indies was to carry 5400
troops, to be dirtributed at Surrinam,
Berbice, Essequibo, Demarara,St. Euf
tatia ; Curacoa, and St. Martin. The
intricate difeuffion of German Indemni-•-
ties had at last been terminated, agreea
bly to the treaty of Luneville, and sev
eral of the smaller States of Germany,
had been ordered to be cut up, and '
served out to Prussia, Holland, Bava
ria, and other large States, as compen
sation for the loss of thd territories
now incorporated with th^Freneh Re-'
pubic. The troops dertined to perform
the operation, were on the march, at
the date of the last accounts.—Some of4
the owners of those dishes—such as the
Bishops of Bamburg and Wurtzburg
—had threatened to oppose the car
vers ; but it was believed, as soon as 4
they saw the glitter of their knives and
Reels, they would consent to make a
virtue of necessity, and fubmit.4
"^ 'he French papers are principal-'
Iy occupied by decrees refpe&ing the
internal regulations of the Republic ;
and die consolidation and perpetuation
of the government. From the show of 4
business in them, commerce, manufac
tures and the arts were in a state ofin
creafing adivity ;—The foreign and ,
French arrivals at Bordeaux, and other
ports, are very numerous :—An ad
dress from the Merchants of Havre, to
the First Conful,ftates,tliat in the eighth '
months prior to August, there had been
458 arrivals there from foreign ports ;
of which 240 were with the last two
months. Ihe expedition to Louisiana '
was in a state of forwardness : Gen
eral Bernadotte had declined accepting
the military command, and General
Vi&or had been appointed. One of our
letters, dated" Bourdeaux,Aug. 12th,"
fays " I inclofe you the Projet orgafo,
de la Conjlitution de la R-publique In all 1
these modifications France is still called
a Republic—All is not yet finifhed;
you may exped to hear of some further
organizations in a short time. Things 1
progress to the desired point of the
Governors. The people, though not
unanimously pleased, are and will re
main tranquil.—The worst in this way'
that can be done, is preferable to'anv
part of the revolution—the horrors of
which are too recent to be aded over ,
again." Our verbal intelligence Rates,'
though the late measures of the gov
ernment strike at the toot of all the'pro
feffed principles of the revolution ; yet 1
feeing they are calculated to extend the
glory, and promote the prosperity, of
the country ;— knowing that Bonaparte
has the absolute command and confi-1
dence of the army—whose pay he hasl
lately increased and to gratify whose
ambition the Legion of Honor has
been created ; —and dreading the hor
rors which almost always attend revo
lutions ; no loud complaints were
heard ; and the Senatus Confultes, are <
read, and obeyed, as they are issued,
with the best grace possible :—The
French people generally appear to think
with the Gafcon in the fong, 4
“ When things are done, and fteft recalling,
"Tie folly or ' "fret, ar cry ;
Prop u, a ratting House that's falling;
But ivben it's down —e'en let it lie."
And as they cannot remedy their pre
sent date of things, they attend to their
business, and let those at Paris condud
the government as they lift. Some, I
however think, another reinverfment
is not at great distance ; and that Bon
aparte must in a short time give place
to Moreau, who is very popular thro'-'
out France—But all conje&urers are
not conjurers.
O By our Englirti files it is pretty
apparant, that the public voice, late so
loud in approbation of the peace, has
greatly fallen ; and that when the new
Parliament assembles, Mr. Pitt will be (
invited again to resume the reigns of
government.
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A letter from an officer on board the 1
U. S. frigate Constellation,, dated at
1 unis-Bay, June 3, contains the follow
ing remarks :-" Yesterday we had the
gratification of walking over the ruins <
of the celebrated city of Carthage. Mr.
Eaton, American Consul, and Capt,
Murray, being of the party. We were
shewn the plain on which Regulus, the
firft Roman that entered Africa in a
hostile manner, fought his celebrated
battle, and also the plain where Scipio ,
and Hannibal fought a pitched battg.
We saw the remains of many of the an
tient temples and city walls.— But,
what remains more perfect than any|,
thing else, is, the aquedud, by which
water was Bought into the city from
a mountain, by a route of 70 miles.
We all dined together in one of the ref
BOSTON, SEtr
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