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&> true and To important is this,that
the Executive which shall prescribe to
itfelf the quill of the people, as the rule of
.its administration, will probably put an
end to our government.
The reason is, that the hollow and
portentous roar, which paifes for the
voice of the people, but which is real
ly the forerunner of dorm and devalua
tion, ordinarily proceeds from that in
flammable & eruptive matter which ev
ery society embrace, which is always
fermenting, and which, unless it be kept
carefully smothered, is fare to burst
forth, and to throw the date into con
fusion by the explosion. This fermen
tation is excited by the mod worthless
and wicked of the populace, encourag
ed by those who hope to raise themselves
upon the pioftrated rights of the com
munity. To comply with the wishes
of these is to violate duty and to betray
the interest of the real people, the sub
stantial part of society, and to excite in
the latter a resentment which is not
easily opposed. Had Walhington con
sulted this pretended voice of the peo- ?
ple, we Ihould have rushed headlong
into an alliance with France, and like
all her other allies, ihould have long
since perithed: as a nation, in her mere
tricious embrace. Should Mr. Jeffer
fon consult this fame voice, which till
roars, and waxes louder and louder,
tried ft faithful men will be thrtift out
of public employment, and our offices
will be filled with ySrei^ adventurers,
defrauders, extortioners and peculators ;
jealousies and animosities will be ex
cited between the different diftrifts of
the union : our ancient institutions for
the promotion of science, morality and
religion will be difeouraged, & brougat
into disrepute ; while the ridiculous
ravings of Godwin will be promulgat
ed under the name of science, and Paine
and his obfeene blasphemies will be pat
ronized by the government; Corrup
tion will usurp the place of Justice ;
Virtue will desert the feat of Power ;
Discord will be found among the peo
ple ; and Anarchy will follow in the
train.
Jacobin scribblers, who prate about things
which they do not understand, and wilfully
misrepresent those which they do, pretend to
reproach us with inconsistency, and with having
deserted the principles formerly profeffed by
the friends of government.—The imputation
is unfounded. —We have always maintained &
still maintain, that the government must be
fupperted against all opposition ; that those en
trusted with the administration of it, ought to
ad? for themselves upon the principles of the
confutation, and for the bed interest of the com
munity : that they ought to be above the influ
ence of private spleen or resentment, and above
the reach of bias from the clamours of mob
meetings and hungry office-hunters. Should it
be replied, that these are the men who have
elected the Chief Magistrate, and that he is of
their party ; we aufwer, if this be true, there
is so much the greater need of watchfulncfs on
our part, and so much the greater necessity for
setting our (boulders firmly to the pillars of the
government, in order to sustain it against the
Ihock of such accumulated force. The fafety
and permanence of the government ought to
be a consideration paramount to all others ; and
should any administration ever be found (which
God forbid) so profligate or so weak as to fcek
its deftrudion by intruding it in the power of
fadious men, we trust there is flill virtue and
spirit enough in the nation to refeue it from
such violence, and to remind the administra
tion itfelf that the law is the supreme power.
If it be asked whether this Gazette will ad
vocate or oppose the administration of Mr.
Jefferfon, our answer is, that we shall govern
our conduct by the prin ciplesalready laid down
If Mr. Jefferfon should pursue the system of
government which has been twelve years tried,
with unexampled success, and which he himfelf
declares to be now " in the full tide of success
ful experiment," and which has, as he also ac
know ledges, kept us thus far " free and firm ," he
will meet with the support of all who love
their country. But should he, contrary to his
own judgment, as explained in his inaugural
address, yield to the solicitations of those who
have all along opposed this system and declared
ft to be corrupt and despotic, should he attempt
to weaken the government and to place it at
the mercy of those who hate it ; should he en
deavour to change the system and to accommo
date it to the wishes of those whose liberty con
sists, in nothing short of the power of plunder
ing those who have property and of inflating
and harraffing those who have principle,we shall
not (brink from the duty, however painful, of
entering our remonstrance against such tamper
ing experiments.
We believe, with Mr. Jefferfon, that the sys
tem of policy established by the illustrious
Warrington and pursued by the'fuccccding ad
ministration, is such as to “ entitle him to thefojl
place in bis country's love, and the faireft page in
the volume of faithful bflory ;"* and that by a
steady adherence to that system we have been,
hitherto, “ advancing rapidly to destinies beyond the
reach of mortal eye.f For these reasons, which
must operate forcibly upon the mind of Mr.
Jefferfon, we feel a strong attachment to that
“ patriotic sect," who laboured with Wojb
ington in eftablilhing that wife and fuceefsful
system, and with his successor in continuing it ;
and who shared with both the feoffs, the rcvil
ings, the falfe accusations and the violent oppo
sition of hollow hearted Jacobins, who now
pretend to have become the friends of govern
ment, and who are incessantly besieging Mr.
Jefferfon with applications to turn off those
veterans in the service of their country. To
these felfifh and sordid petitions, however, Mr.
Jefferfon cannot liftcn ; for he has denied the ex
igence of parties in the country, and declared
us all to be " brethren of the fame principle" —
“ all Republicans and all Federalifs." None, there
fore, will be removed from office, but such as
have betrayed their trust and been guilty of
“ delinquency or oppreffon, or intolerance, or anti
revolutionary adherence to our enemies;" and the
places of these will undoubtedly be filled by
those who have supported and continue to
support the Woffington system which Mr. Jef
ferfon has so warmly eulogized. •
' Should these expectations he drfappointed,
and should the reverse of all this prove true of
Mr. Jfrfon's administration, we shall then be
* Inaugural Speech, f The Inaugural Speech.
compelled to ncquicfce in the opinion which
fomc have advanced, that Mr. Jeffirfon is not a
man of Efficient Armnefs and energy for the station
which he occupies; and that he has not forti
tude enough to pursue the system which he has
publicly approved, in opposition to those who
have always hated and reviled both the system
and those who supported it. Then shall we
expe& to fee " the doors of honor and CONFI
DENCE burfl open, and those, who occupied,
with Waffiington and Adams, the mansion of
honor, and (hared with them the confidence of th#
upright, being dispersed and driven into the re
tirement of their private dwellings, every ave
nue, and every dirty bye passage which lead to
these doors will be seen thronged with motly
gangs, whefe faces, we know not, and wbofe
language we cannot underfland, Grangers,Jews
and proselytes, Cretcs and Arabians, all pressing
forward to these doors of Honor, (not of confi
dence) wide open to receive them. Auroras,
and Chronicles, and Citizens, and Republicans and
Telegraphs, are tht ensigns ; and the heralds
who support them, and who proclaim a new
order of things, are those who have fuffcred
cruel persecutions by fcourgings and imprifon
mentsjn Grange lands. In the ift ranks advance
Gallatin and Dallas, and hard upon them are
Callender and Cooper,, and Cheetham, and
Paine, and hosts of others, who, have come to
gether from the four winds ; and the doors of
honour are wide enough to receive them all.—
Then will "the rights and blessings of SERF
GOVERNMENT," that is to fay, the rights
and the blcflings of club-law, be restored to all,
and every possible "fade of opinion" will be en
titled to as much of office as it can get.
Without morality no free government can
be long sustained, and without religion there
can be no security of morals. It will therefore
form no coufiderable part of our plan to drag
forth and expose those wretches who are con
tinually labouring to bring reproach upon re
ligion, and to stir up jealousy and hatred against
those institutions which are designed to promote
it. The Jacobin publications have recently
abounded more than usual in sneers and oblique
thrusts at the ehriftian faith. Few of them,
however, have acquired impudence enough to
come out boldly,and profefs their object Their
maxim is, "frike but conceal the band." They
profefs to direct their aim against the abuses of
religion, against persecution and intolerance,and
in this way, hope to flncld tnemfelvcs from ev
ry attack, and at the fame time to accomplish
their object. This flimfy veil, which has been
always assumed by infidels, shall not screen
them from exposure to the public eye. We
shall not fit and look patiently on to fee the
impiety and obfeenity of Paine, Godwin and
Rousseau, and of the whole school of modern
philofophifts, inculcated upon the minds of the
ignorant and the young, merely becaule these
who attempt it are pleased to intermix certain
remarks about philosophy, liberty of conscience,
candour, free investigation, liberality and prieft
craft.The meaning of such tepms when so
used, is fufficiently obvious, and we are under
no obligation to mistake it.
In addition to what has been already mention
ed, it will be our endeavour to give variety and
interest to the Gazette, by interspersing it with
articles of the literary, miscellaneous and hu
morous kinds, both in prose and verse. We
would gladly not only furnifh flrong meat for
the full grown and rgbuft, but light & racy fare
for those who feck to gratify an unvitiated
taste.
It can scarcely be necessary to remark, that a
paper of so long standing as rhe Gazette of the
United States, and one which has for many years
been the official paper of the government must
possess all the necessary means of early and
correct intelligence, both foreign and domestic;
and interest as well as duty will induce us to lay
it faithfully before our readers.
It will be perceived that we have marked out
a great work—much too great for the accom
plishment of one or two hands. We hope for the
auxiliary labours of those who think with us,
that the press must be corrected or the nation lofl,
and also, that the press mus furnifo that correction.
As the strongest inducement for gentlemen to
lend us their aid we can inform them that this
Gazette has now a very extensive circulation in
parts where federal papers have rarely been seen;
that it penetrates into the very recesses and
lurking holes of Jacobinifm and impiety—
where aimoft every truth will conic in the
fafeinating garb of novelty ; where every detec
tion of falfchodd and every judicious reflexion
will be likely to take effect and produce some
good. We cannot but cherish a hope, there
fore, that men of correctnotions, of found
principles, and of mature reflexion, will be
persuaded to lend us some affiance in so import
ant an entciprize.
LONDON, JULY IJ.
CA PT. Blake, of the dispatch cutter,
arrived in town on Saturday after
noon with dispatches from Lord St.
Helens, as fatisfadory as they are im
portant. On the 17th of last month,
a Convention was signed at Peterfburgh,
between Lord St. Helens and Count
Panin, by which all the differences be
tween the two countries were amicably
terminated. The other two Maritime
Courts of the North, have been invited
to accede to this Convention, which
they will doubtless do. This news was
justly considered by Lord Hau kefbury
of such moment, that his Lordflhip, late
as it was in the evening, communicat
ed it to the Lord Mayor in the follow
ing letter :—
" Downing Jircet, July 11, halfpoft 8, P.M.
“ MT LORD, 1
SETTLEMENT
Between England and Russia.
“ I have great fatisfaCiion in informing you,
that Capt. Blake, of the Dispatch cutter, is just
arrived from St. Peterfburgh, and has brought
a Convention signed on the 17th of June, by
Lord St Helens and Count Panin, on the part
ofhis Majesty and the Emperor of Russia, by
which all differences between the two countries
have been amicably adjusted.
“ Their Danish and Swedilh Majesties have
been invited to accede to this Convention.—
I have the honor to be, &c.
Late Foreign News,
By an arrival at Bofton —London dates to
JULY i 3 tb, 1801.
(Signed) ‘ HAWKESBURY."
The Right Hen. the Lord Mayor.
it is unnecessary to make any obser
vations on the very beneficial conse
quences of this event.--The removal
of the causes which produced the war
I^Of EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS.
ENGLISH ACCOUNTS.
LONDON, JUNE 29.
The following extract of a letter from
Egypt is authentic :
" AboUKIR, MAY 8.
" I was yesterday at Rosetta ; the Hate of
the place blears inconteftible proof of the poverty
of the supplies and resources of the enemy.
" The Mamelukes, to the number of 5000,
ad in conjunction with the British army, which
receives from all dircdions the most abundant
fupphcs. I have seen one of Menou's proc
lamations on the fubjed, in which he has threat
ened to burn every village, of which a single
inhabitant Ihould carry provision to the English
camp.
" Menou, probably alarmed by the extent of
the desertions, and the increasing difeontent of
his followers, lately sent a flag of truce,declaring,
that the French were desirous to evacuate Egypt
or the following conditions:--
" if. That they /ball be permitted to re
turn to France with the Honors of War,
in the vessels remaining in Alexandria, or
these proving inadequate to their proper ac
commodation, the Englifo to furnifo such
further transports as Jhall be wanting.
" 2d. That they be allowed to tale with
them their arms, baggage, cannon, ^c."
" The Eriglifh General replied that if the
French evacuated Egypt, they mould be con
ducted to France with all the Honors of War
in English cartels, but that the demands of the
Republican General, in regard to arms, (lores,
&c. were wholly inadmiflible.
" We learn from the deserters, that Menou
communicated to the army the failure of this
overture, and fought to inflame their resent
ment by the most impassioned declamation ; he
reproved his troops for want of their accustom
ed constancy, and expressed his indignation and
wonder that an army which had given chains to
Italy, and dictated peace to AuHria almost be
neath the walls of its capital, the flower of the
French Nation could fufhr irftlf to be beaten by
the laches Anglois, (the cowardly English ) The
soldiers are as much aftopifhed as the General at
their defeat, but they have profited better by
their experience, and learned to refpedt their
enemy.
" Through the fame channel we learn, that
the loss of the Republicans in the battle of the
aid of March, comprised 2400 killed and
wounded, and 500 made prifouers."
O Os RUSSIA qvith FRANCE.
PARIS, JUNE 17.
The Aid-de-camp Duroc arrived at
Peterfburgh on the night of the 24th
He was introduced the following morn
ing to M. De Pahlen, who presented
him to his Imperial Majedy on the 26th.
The Emperor received him alone, in
his closet, in the most favorable man
ner. He afterwards had several con
ferences with M. De Panin, the Privy
Councellor. On the 27th, he presented
to the Emperor, on Die parade, the of
ficers who had occompanied him to
Peterfburgh. In the afternoon of the
fame day he wag met, while walking in
the palace gardens, by the Emperor,
who ordered him to be called, and con
duced him to a private alley, where
they conversed together for a consider
able time. The countenance of Alex
ander 1. excites refpecf, and inspires
confidence. He is equally dear to the
military and the people. He had late
ly visited the fleet at Cronftadtg It
was very late at night when he rßurn
ed, and his absence caused a general
anxiety. The regiments at Peterf
burgh were, of their own accord, under
arms, and called loudly for their Em
peror. The grateft union prevails in
the Royal Family. Lord St. Helens
did not arrive at Peterfburgh until the
29th —M. De Marlow, appointed Min
ister to the French Republic, has set
out for Paris.
in the Baltic, the re-eftabliihment of
our commerce in the North in its great
est extent, and the return of more than
twenty-five ships of the line, at the mo
ment when our enemy affects to medi
tate the invasion of our island, are ad
vantages too great and too obvious to
render it necellary for us to enlarge
upon them, or to enter into any view
of the other effeds that may follow this
happy event, which throws no little
political fplenJor on the new adminis
tration.
LONDON GAZETTE.—June 29.
From the Earl of Elgin to Lord Hawkefbury.
" Confantinople, May'l3, 1801.
" My Lord —An Officer is arrived from the
Captain Pafba, with the intelligence that Gener
al Hutchinson had marched from Rosetta, on
the Bth infl. with four thousand British troops,
in company with a corps of Turks of equal
force under the command of the Captain Pa.
fha, and on the 9th attacked the French near
Rahmanich. The enemy were driven in ; and
in the course of the night they retired towards
Cairo, having left a small garrison in the en
trenchments of Rahmanich. On the ioth,the
Fort surrendered, and the combined force then
proceeded towards Cairo,having concerted their
movements with the Grand Vizir, who was at
El Hanka, a position four leagues distant from
Cairo, in a north-east direction. Our loss at
Rahmanich is dated not to exceed thirty men.
" The Turkish officer reflorrs that a rein
forcement of three thousand British had arrived
at Aboukir about the 6th of May.
I have the honor to be, &c.
(Signed) ELGIN."
Right Hon. Lord Hawkesbury, &c. &c."
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(O This account is fully confirmed by
numerous advices from Conftantineple, Italy, and
Vienna. On ibefubjeß the London Courier, (the
E'^ifo Aurora) adds, " The retreat of the
French to Cairo interposes an almost insuperable
obstacle to all communication and co-operation
between the fi r ce encamped under the walls of
Alexandria; anckthat part of the army, which
has retired to the capital of Egypt. The city
of Cairo itfelf is not strong, but the citadel is
capable of fuflaining a siege, and the French
have thrown up some strong cut-works.
'' The French continue to hold out in Alexan
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OCapture o,RHAMANIE — Official.
The French brig Le Lody, which left Alex
andria on the 19th of May, and which arrived
at Nice,brings intelligence fix days later than the
last official difpatchefwhich were received from
Egypt. It does not appear that in that interval
any thing remarkable had occurred on that the
atre of the war ; it is at all events certain that
nothing had taken place to the advantage of the
French, as they preftrve the greatest silence re
fpeding rhe dispatches brought by the Lpdy.
All,hat has been publilhcd is, that on the 1 9th
of May the French were still matters of Cairo
and Alexandria, and that the latter place had
been entirely isolated from the former by the in
undations effected by our troops.
We do not believe that Menou has in Alex
andria provisions enough to support a siege of
several years. Our troops we will venture to
assert, are neither so unskilful nor so patient as
the Greeks before Troy.
A Gazette extraordinary has been printed at
Madrid, containing the Bulletin of the Progress
of the army of the Prince of Peace, addressed
by that General to the King, and his Proclama
tion to the troops upon opening the campaign
against Portugal.
Upon the 20th May, the Spanish troops had
done no more than to possess themh Ives of Oli
venza, and to surround the Portuguese fortrefs
of Elvas. The Prince of Peace is not above the
gafconade of informing his sovereign that one
hundred Spaniards put two thousand of the
enemy to flight; that he commenced the attack
in person at the head of the advanced guard,
and that the soldiers brought him two orange
boughs from the gardens of Elvas, which he
presents to the Qu^en ! !!
Admirrl Blanket, in the I.yen of 64. guns,
arrived at Suez the 30th of March. No other
veffcl arrived with him. La Forte frigate, and
a transport with stores, were loft in the Red Sea.
Ad. B. brought with him but 260 troops ; but
the Bombay army was speedily expelled.
Yesterday accounts from Lisbon, as late as the
20th ult. were received. The treaty with
Spain had not been pubiilhed.—The English
convoy was to fail from Ltfbon, July 9th.
LONDON, JULY 12.
We understand that the First Consul
of France refufes to ratify, the Treaty
with the American States, unless the
American government shall agree to
it without modification.—Apprehen
fions are entertained that the French
will renew their depredations on the
commerce of the United States. Mr.
Dawson, who is at Paris, was to apply
to the French government to suspend
measures of this nature until the mat
ter Ihould be reconsidered by the A
merican Senate, or some other amica
ble mode of fettling matters could be
adopted.
The angry and decisive tenor of the
Noteprefented by theAmericanMinifter
to our Cabinet at the moment of their
being involved in a contest, with the
.Northern Powers, clearly shews the
line of politics which the new Govern
ment of the United States would adopt
if their inclinations were not retrained
by their fears. The condemnation
which is the fubjed of complaint took
The Peace between Spain, France &
Portugal, was ratified at Madrid on the
10th ult. The King and Queen of
Spain were preparing to leave their cap
ital on the 18th of the fame month, on
their way to Lisbon, in order to pay a
visit to their daughter the Princess of
Brazil, no doubt to congratulate her
on the glorious peace which has paved
the way back again for the re-union of
the two Crowns under the protection
of the great nation ; which is to fend
Louis Bonaparte, as it is said, to receive
their joint homage on the occasion.
Twenty thousand Spanish and 10,000
French troops are to garrison the
fortified towns in Portugal. Some
territory in Portugal is also to be ced
ed to Spain.
ME3SINA (Sicily) MAY 27.
Yesterday four fail of French line of battle
(hips, two frigates, and three smaller vcffels
puffed the Streights from Toulon, bound to
Brindisi (in the Adriatic/ to join three Neapo
litan frigates given by treaty to the French.—
After being joined by four other Ships of the
line, the whole are defined to the Levant.—
They will have on board 12.000 soldiers, in
tended no doubt to fuccour India.
Capt. Kendal arrived this day from Lyming
ton, spoke a brig coming thro' the Needles, the
master of which informed, that he was from the
Mediterranean, and that the whole of Gan
theaume's squadron was taken and destroyed.
London, June 24. Dispatches were re
ceived on Sunday from Ad. Cornwallis, dated
the 16th. —lt consists of 25 fail of the line, and
eight frigates, ready for sea, and expelling to
fail daily. A (harp look out is kept for them.
July 12. Both the Brest and Texel fleets are
ready for sea, and our jolly tars as ready to
meet them. Admiral Cornwallis keeps a (harp
look-out for one, and Admiral Dickfouthe
other..
O O f GANTHEAUME's Squadron.
dria, and it is probable that the siege of that
place will not be very vigorously or actively
carried oh until the operations against Cairo
have been brought to a termination. It is
ffrange that the arrival of the Bombay army
at Suez is not mentioned in Lord Elgin's dis
patches. It is not probable that Gen. Hutchin
son ffiould on the loth of May have been ig
norant of such an event; yet Government, it is
said, have received official advices of it. The
three thousand British troops who have arriv
ed at Aboukir, afford a very feafonablc and im
portant supply."
Sailed, the Argo of 44 guns, Carysfort of 28,
Falcon of 18, and five transports, having the
15th regiment and a detachment of artillery on
board, with flat-bottomed boats, destination
unknown : Supposed to be for the Brazils.
^ ANOTHER EXPEDITION.
TORBAY, (Eng.) JULY 11.
(CT French and American TREATY.
^ Os the BREST-FLEET, ^c.
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FRENCH ACCOUNT.
PORTSMOUTH, (Eng.J JULY 12,
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fy^O/ Portugal.
LONDON, JUNE If.
LONDON, JULY 12.
BERLIN, JUNE 2%.
The i6^co men assembled in our environs,
for the grand manoeuvres, still remain in their
cantonments. These troops are kept on the
war eftablifhmcnc, and are ready to march.
Their deftinarjon is still a myflery, but is gen
erally believed that they are destined to take
possession of the countries that will be ceded to
Fruffia, as an indemnity. Our relations with
France are still very pacific. Those with Rus
sia have never been so intimate as at present.
Rome, MAY 13.
It is confidently asserted that the Pope has fi
nally determined to renounce all (hare in the
temporal Government of the Ecclesiastical States.
GERMANY. RATISBON, JUNE 19.
The hopes of the Ecclesiastical Party have
entirely vanished, It begins to confider the fc
cularifations as inevitable. Important changes
are also expeded in the Constitution of the
empire. they will be the necessary result of the
aggrandizement of the powerful houses, and of
the dimunition of the number of the petty
Princes. Some pretend to fay, that in the new
plan the Roman months will be suppressed ; and
that each petty date will be bound to furniffi,
in case of war, its contingent to the army of
the more potent neighboring prince : that is to
fay, Austria, Brandenburg, Bavaria, Saxony, Heffc.
Wirtemberg, and Hanover. Several other chang
es arc spoken of, the object of which is co di
minish the whfel-work of the political machine,
and to augment the strength of our Republic of
Princes. The basis of this new constitution is
to be an armed neutrality, pacific in its essence,
but fufficiently Hroog to prevent the ambition
of neighboring powers from disturbing the re
pofc of Europe. It is with this view, it is said,
that Hanover will be separated from the Crown
of England, either in favor of the King of
Prussia, or of puifne Prince of the House of
Brunswick.
[From the Moniteur of the % r , % fl ']
The Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon,
and Surrinam, were not conquered by
the English armies ; but were delivers
ed into their hands by the Orangifts.
Holland has loft them in consequence
of the divisions and disorders which are
always produced by great revolutions.
The English have taken nothing from
the French in India, which was fufcep,
tible of defence. The Isles of France
and Reunion belong to the Republic.
The British flag flies at Martinico. Th^
inhabitants called in the English, & put
the fortrefs into their hands, to support
themselves against the infurreftion of
the negroes, duiing the eff^rvefcence of
the revolution, and until France thould
be able to obtain a government capable
of protecting them. It is, therefore,
owing to the disorders of the revolution
that England po/Teffes Marunico,_
Trinidad was without defence ; and
even Malta (with refpeft to blockading
it with a few Blips) wouldJ,vc been
fuccoured, had it n^t been for the inte
rior disorders md the divi(w& which.
INTERESTING TO ENGLAND.
JUNE 18.
YeQerday nearly a thousand letters from Mi
norca and Gibralter, brought to Plymouth by
the Santa Margarita of 36 guns, were deliver
ed from the Pod-Office. We have received
by this conveyance a letter from Port Mahon,
which mentions, that the expedition fitting ouc
at Carthagena was luppofed to be defined a
ganft that island, some correspondence between
a French emissary and the Governor at Major
ca, expressive of such a projed, having been
intercepted. The garrison was healthy, and
fully competent to the defence of the place.
The Electorate of Hanover is to be ceded
either to Prussia or the Prince of Orange.
The Chief Consul has lately been ex
tremely afflided with the rheumatffm,
which renders the application of blis
ters on the bread and arms necessary.
The Moniteur fays that he has derived
much benefit from them, though the,
prevented him from abiding at the lad
grand parade, or giving the usual au
dience to the Ambassadors this da,
He has not ceased a tingle day to do
business with the consuls qnd Ministers,
and held this morning a Council Gen
eral of Finance which takes place the
6th of every month, and at which'all
the Ministers and the Director-General
of the Public Treasury attend. We can
hardly suppose that his illness is of a.
dangerous nature, for Madame Bona
parte left Paris on the 7th, with her
daughter, to drink the waters of Plom
bieres. The Chief Consul's fird phy
sician has expressed his belief that he
will be able to be present at the fete of
the 14th of July.
We know not whether it be to the
indisposition of Bonaparte, or to anoth
er cause, that we are to attribute the
fall of the French funds above three
per cent, from 46 1-4 10 43. It is pro
bable that it has been produced by the
ChiefConful's illness, which occasioned
great uneasiness at Paris.
Q3'Q/ rranee & Englana a^ain.
PARIS, JULY 2.
The First Consul has authorized the estab
lishment of a Bureau of Foreign Legillation ;
it is to be under the direction of the Minister
of Judice, and is to colled, translate, and class
in order all the civil, criminal, commercial,
maritime, military, and police laws, existing ac
present in the different countries of kurfope.
place on the 20th OdoSer, and was
announced in the American papers
early in November. Six months were
fuffcred to elapse without its being
made the objeft of amicable difeuffion;
but so soon as the Northern Confed
eracy assumed a tone and consistency
which threatened our maritime and
consequent political exigence,—this
charge is resorted to as the occasion of
offence, and expressed in terms not
confident with our notions of the ac
customed intercourse of friendly States.
LONDON, JULY 1%.
HEAL TH OF BONAPARTE.