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,nLONDON, AUG. '
The Amhetaatoteßra of thia evening, contain a counter
|rojea, said to have been made by the Britift Cabinet, to;
Serve as a bails of peace, under the Ruffian mediation. The
purpose of this project is reported to be of the following
enor: —
“ I, The Batavian Republic is to form an entirely in
dependent Statfa._
" a.The Helvetic Republic shall enjoy & fame inde
* pendence.
" 3. The Electorate of Hanover shall be reftcred to its
legitimate Sovereign io fintie quo before the invaGon,
“4. The French shall evacuate every State of Italy, ex
cept Piedmont. J c
' “ j. The King of Sardinia fhall'befclly indemnified for
‘ the loss of that country."
Private advices from Paris, state, that addresses
"ate Signing throughout the Republic, praying 80.
naparte not Vo rift his precious life in the expedition to
Englands This measure may be considered as the
firft retrograde Rep of the French from their boasted
expeditious-Trie spirited measures in this king
dom have filled the flout heart of the First Consul
with dismay. He has given the challenge;—it has
been accepted ; the seconds have been appointed,
the ^ound moafured ; and now the hero of Ma
rengo Tneaks from the combat.,
Two bankers have been fentte prifoh in Paris,
for drawing bills oh Hamburg and Frankfort, for
3,000,000 livres, deftmed for the ule of Lewis
XVIIL fubferibed by royalists in France since his
'refusal to resign his tight, to the throne of France
was known. —6—
AUGnSt3t.
DxfraSl of a letterfo»i Dublin.
1 fend.you the following as the official return
.of the rebel stores found on the night of the 23d,
in one depot ; it will give you a better idea of the
extent of thecorfpirac, than probably yob have
yet received.
Seized in a store at the rear of Thomax-ftreet,
on Saturday the 23d July.
it Deal boxes, filled with powder and made
up ammunition.
I'4 Bundles of cannot powder, No. 1, about
A4O lb.
, 246 Hand grenades, formed of ink bottles
'filled with powder, and eri&rtled with buck Shot.
104. Champaigns bottles filled with powder,
enveloped with thufket balls, and covered with
'canvas.
42,000 Rotah of musket ball cartridges tied
up in parcels of to each, and 4 flints attached
to each parcel.
1 Scaling ladder complete.
156 Grappling irons for scaling ladders.
2| Bushels of mulket balls, about 150,000 ti
nted up in 4 each, being charges for bluriderbutfes.
14 Quires of cartridge paper.
1 Deal cases of sky rockets, and other fighals.
496 Hooks, chiffels, &c
• 48 Quires of the Proclamation of the Provif
zonal GovernmentA
108 Cartridge forfaertl
8 Peices of fouciffe, * 78 yards in length.
N.B.The aboveis an exa& return of that was
delivered into his majesty's llores at royal
barracks, of course does hot includeth&l quan
tity of pikes, the rebels HandardsJ^Rnbrmr,
bread newly baked, &c.
The pikes amounted to upwardWm^ooo •
they were of Simple form and workmanship, and
were broken up by the foldiery,it not being deem
ed necefTary to deposit them inftores.
• Gun powder made up in a long hard roll (like a fan
fagc) for placing under Walls andlbuildings to blow them
up. -'
By the last Mails.
BALTIMORE,^OCT. ll
A few mile's from Monticello, there is a Sign over
the door of a tavern,. kept by a certain Mr. E.
Moore ; of which the following is a description.
Mr. Adams is placed with his back on the peo
ple; at his feet the British Lion, couchanr, un
cro&hed,witri his right hand, Mr. Adams endeavors
to teak the cap frorti the pole of Liberty, with the
intention of fubflifutinga oo^n which he holds in
his left ; ou, of his pocket hangs a libel— Sedition
and Alim Bill 4 —Liberty alarmed and fearedy able
to guard the ornamented part of her walking fluff,
is relieved by jeftrfoh who ftps in, in profile, and
arrests the arm of Adams—out of his pocket hangs
the labels — Declaration of Independence.
Such arc the witty and patriotic allusions of the
Virginia Boniface. Such the,libel on propriety
Add decency, suspended un kr ifc immediate tye of
our most virtuous and phdolophical president.
And 'fuch is the Striking example, hung otit to all
flrangers, of the purity of our democratic manners,
and-the liberty enjoyed under democratic tulcts#
PHILADELPHIA, 06t. TO;
It is a matter bf infinite fatisfa&ion to observe s
th't notwithstanding the formidable afpe& toith
which the malignant fever made its appearance in
this city, the present season, its ravages have been
comparatively diminutive and reftrided to a very
partial sphere. It is an additional consolation to
know, and we receive it From a most refpedable
authority, that the disease has this year borne
unusual marks of mildness and amelioration.
To whatever cause this fa& may be attributed, it
has excited among profeffional foneri, the pleasing
expectation of the future total extinction in our
climate, of the disorder. That it may soon be e
rased from the catalogue of human calamities
must be the fervent Wtfh of every friend to hu
manity.
WILMINGTON, OCt. 1,
The following is the result of the late elec
tions in this Rate :
Kent, federal republican majority 284
Saflex, do. do. do. 595
Newcastle, democratic majority 252
The democratic majority in Newcastle county,
in 1802, was 957. —In that year the democratic
majority in the state, was 23— In 1803 the fed
eral republican majority is 625 votes. So much
for Aurora lies, and calculations#
new. York, oct. 17.
By an arrival from Ireland, we have Bclfaft
papers to Sept. 6ih#
^elfaft, Sept.*2, Num&duM arrests continue
daily to be riffle in Dublin. Many prisoners
are Securedin this town, and Carrickfurg is, to
take their trials before tht ensuing court^-mar
tial.,
Sept. 6. Owen Kirwan has been condemned
to death, at Dublin, as a traitor.
Dublin, Jug. 31st. To morrow the trial of
the traitors commences. Arrets continue to be
toade. Five men, in the goal of Frenchmen,
are amongst them.
Sept. 3- jOn Thursday Edward Keafeney,
wis executed, for high-treason, on the spot
where Lord Kilwerden was murdered; and
yeßferday Thomas Maxwell Roche, and fames
Bfyne Shared the fame fate, at the fame place.
London, sept. 1. An alliance between Rus
sia and Great- Britain is expefted in consequence
of the marriage of the Duke of Cambridge', the
King's youngest son, with a Ruffian Printed ;
arid & electorate of Hanover is to be given
them with a new title.
Lord Nelson has taken possession of the fort
aridity of Meffina in Sicily.
William Airill e Holton, a rebel General offi
cer has been apprehended near Belfast, and four
ladies, who had Secreted him, had been taken
rip and confined. He is fufpeded, however, to
have been in the pay and employ of the govern
ment-. -—0
Boston. Oct #,
: From PORT-AU-PRINCE.
(Extrad of a letter.—Aug. 1803.)
" Our condition is frightful. For a month pal flrekaVe
had only 6 or 700 barrels of Rohr to exist upon, and this
feeble resource is now almost exhausted ; there docs not at
present remain in the public lores more than 60 barrels of
flour, and other provisions in proportion, the army has
lived fix weeks upon etalons alone. All the beeves
which the inhabitants had laved have been killed for the
troops, and they now began to kill the milch cows, calves,
&c to add th dur enhippinefs, the greatest misunderstan
ding exists among the'chicfs. The exemption fttini military
Service, which Gen. Sarazin wished to extend to the marine,
has occasioned the most lively contentions among the chiefs.
M. Colbert (ebnimiffiry general) is under arrest in hi,
own house, guarded by five foldim. All is cdnfufion and
disorder.
" There is so tpecles at fdpiue br oppreffioti, thh is not
framed by the coitmiahaers that yet remain with us.
Their avarice and cupidity are equalled only b, their base.
nefs and cowardice. The public disorder arid misery, so
far from teaching them moderation, seem only to open a
more citenfive field for e±aaidri, peculation, and crimes of
every description Evefy thing is put under contribution
and made td thin to their profit. No vessel cm leave port
without deadly furcbafag the liberty of departing • this is paid
to Sarmin &LaValettc,who receive it as for the service of the
road. Reynolds, an American, lately paid 16c©. dollars.
It is true, that thole who depart at present make coiifider
able profit by the number of passengers, but that does net
juftify the conduct of theft e^tortiofiers.
“Dauiffe parities a war of peculation a^alnft hotiefty,
get infinitely more criminal. He tejzes from individual,
the wood and forage which they have fetched from the
plain at the mouth of the mulkec ; the firft he pretends is
for the hospital, the fetohd for the horses of the garrison.
When a convoy of potatoes arrives from the country, indeed
of being distributed among the miserable starving wretches
in the town, they are seized and monopolized by him, and
fold openly to their original proprietors. To crOWn the
whole, he is now fending his wife to Cuba, with abolit
twenty uegtoes, whom he has ftolcn from their dwtiers
here?' —o=
Bustos, Oct. ig.
By late official rtttirh^ it appeared, that the arm
ed efficient force of England and Scotland, amount
ed to 600 oc® men, of which
14°,000 were Regulars,
130 000 Militia,
50,000 Army of Kelerve; arid
h 90,000 Volunteers :—
These are all properly officered, arrhed and equip
ped j arid are independent of the fca-fenfibles, nu-1
merotls bodies of volunteers since formed, and the
intire levy en mesa This force was deemed fully
adequate to all the objc&s of offence or defence#
Added to this forte the Britiftinavy in commiflion
on the Ift September; was Sy fail bf the line, 16
fifties, 124 frigates, and 167 Hoops of War ;—-total
393* — Vessels were daily adding to these; but there
did not appear any extraordinary activity in the e
quipmenh Buonaparte Has a perfcß knowledge of
this force ; and of the spirit which pevades the
British riles ; arid it aill not be a matter of surprise
when we bear, that ne has given up the expedition
as fruitlefs I arid told the world that Britain is nbt
worth theronqueft
Capture of Demerdfa.
Capt. Lynch, arrived at quarantine ground, from
Bafb^dbes, in 20 da,s; informs; that on the 25th
September, the Mail Packet ^oat arrived at Rarba
does from Demeiara, bring : ftg certain atcobrits of
the Capture of that colony by the Rritifh :—And
that on the following day, (the 26th) an English
fleet, of seven or eight tail of large (hipping, left
^arbadoes for Demerara,
A letter from Rarbadocs, dated Sept | 26th feys,
''Demerar} was taken by the flritidi, the igth inst.
without oppof iton?'
In corroboration of this, we have accoPHU from
St. Elift ari a,in t, days at Portland, ftating,tbat the
British had landed I §eo troops near Demerara, for
the ptirpufe ot attackiog is.
Extras of a letter dated St. saga de Cuba, Jug. 12.
" The government of this country has afforded us
protection. It has permitted our Negroes to be landed,
, and has offered to fell to the French refugees of land in
the countr,. Each family mill receive about 450
acres for too ' dollars. The country is watered by
several rivers, and isftuated in the Bay of Ontanam,
TO leagues diflant from hences
A letter from London, of the date of Atig# ;
30, observes, “ there are daily complaints among i
the merchants, of the uncommon stagnation of
business, the want of markets or demand for mer
chandize,and the scarcity of money or what passes
for money- There never was remembered a time
when so little business has been done at thecuftoml
boufe for the last t*o months, and yet it is to 1
that fortree that the minister looks for the chiefsl
part of the yearly revenue. The importation 1
trade cannot but be considerably affefted by the
blockade of the Elbe and Wefer, and ^e num
ber of our cruifets which are running about the
North Seas in every dire&ion, andcaufing great
alarm even to oar allies on the continent, mull
have the effect of suspending the shipments of
goods &hith whnld othertife be conftaritly com
ing in. • fhe°ftagnation of business at the cuttom
houfe, and excise offices, must materially lessen
the receipts at ffie exchequer. How this defi
ciency will be provided for, or what effeft it will
produce, eannot be predicted —I am just inform
ed, that such has been the distress for cash felt
by the merchants and bankers, that the Bank of
England has been applied to, and actually dis
counted bills to the amount of a million and a
half per weeks, for several weeks paft.—lt is
"hoped, that these evils, which are of a very fefi
ous nature, win be of ihort duration.
PEPMONT. The Legislature of this State is
in f ffion at Westminster—Governor Tichenor is
re eleded, we understand, by an augmented major
ity. The complexion of the legislature, we under
stand, continues democratic ; but the Shades are
nut so Strong as they have been,
AMhersT, oct. 13.
Last week the Hon. Clifton Clagett, one of the
representatives of this State, left town for the Seat
of Government. He was escorted from his feat in
Litchfield, by a,company of Cavalry, and a num
ber of Gentlemen from Merrimac ^nd Litchfield.
, BOSTdk, OCT., 22.
FROM EUROPE.
Yesterday we had several arrivals from Eti
tope ; but they have only furnished us with pa
pers (Liverpool) to the 3d September. Os cori
frequence they could not prefect riny news - We
learn, there were packages of papers On board
the brig Dean, Capt. Dean, directed to persons
in Philadelphia, containing London dates to the
6th September ; but which we could riot obtain#
Weare told, however; that they do hot record 1
any event of irriportaric& Capt. Dean left Liv-|
erpool the 9th SeptetnSeh Uhen it was reported,
that five French grin-boats, hid failed from
Dunkirk for the British coast, about the ift Sep
tember ; brit had met two British gun-brigs,
Which drov&theffl back with great loss.
, Art arrival at New-Yrirk from Ireland, gives
Irish dates to the &h September. The trill arid
execution of the rebels had commenced.
BERBICE ANC OttONOkE
Have lhared the fate of Demerary, havirig both
been surrendered to the English.
The last accounts from Portugal, state; that
the French army has made fevetal (notions to
wards the frontiers through Spain $ and that
the Portuguese expected 2 visit froth theft
EPIDEMICS.
. It is evident, from the last aceotints, th^t the
fate prevhilirig epidemics in Alexandria, Phila
delphia, Ind NeW-York, Were rapidly disappear
ing ; particularly ih the two former places.
The number of deaths to the 16th Oftober,
inclusive, has been 621.=0f these 467 have died
in the city, 96 at Bellevue,,nd 58 at the Marine
Hospital. #
Miscellany.
From the N. York Evening Post.
— =ii
The Voice of the People ; of
Democratic Coitf/lency.
At the last Presidential election, Colohel Burr
deceived as many votes for the Office as Mr. Jef
ferfon. He was then, without doubt, just as much
"the man of the people.'' Every democratic
throat became a trumpet to found his praise. He
Was caressed in public. He was flattered in the
newfpapefs. He was toasted at the feftivals# He
was, in Short, the idol of his party.--Btft alas !
within the Short [pace of three years, what 1
change has taken place--( Net, indeed, in the eha
fader or tondua of Mr. Burr—but in the fenti
• rhents and voice of the people;) He is now de
nounced as 1 "traitor" —saluted with "flashes in
the pan," & greeted with the "rogues march."
—Here areboth sides of the piaure ;---Balance.
Toasts drank by the Democrats, in ißot.
[(.] The Vicc-Prefiacht,
The man that's resolute and just
frirm to bis principle! and trust;
Nor hopes nor fears can blind;
2.] Aaron Burr, Vice-President. May his exertionh tb
preserve republican government be juJily rewarded by his
country.
3.] Aaron Burr, Vice-rreudent befpifing alike federal
calumny arid" intriguing friendship, has uniformly advocated
the rights and dignity bf mate.
4.] The Vice-President. May our government never
be deprived of the talents of a Burr.
5.] Aaron Burr. Vice-President—rendered immortal by
his undevia ting patriotism. &c
Tea,/ drank by the bemoerah in 1803.
I.] Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States—^
to the right about face—3 flaffies in the pan—rogue's
march.
ij Aaron Burr and Benedict Arnold=-may traitors
always meet their reward.
3.] The Vice-President of the United States---''Oh !
fling away ambition, by that fa fell the angels."-^-rogue's
march.
4.] Ma, the wheels of government never be clogged
With Burrs.
5.] Aaron Burr—a tear on his infirmities, and let hint
and them be forgotten forever.
From the Columbian Centiriel.'
FRANCE infills on taking among the powers
j of Europe the station that will make her terrible to
them all. 'The vanity of her people is mu^h more
engaged to maintain this preeminence than to win
or to wear liberty. But hatred accompanies fear.
To keep Holland down calls for ofie army. Even
ft the patient Dutchman would wince when his nose
is brought to the grindstone and ground flat to bis
face, if a French grenadier did not stand behind
him with a bayonet to quit his rage by Striking it
from time to time through his seventh pair of
Ibreeches# Italy is held fail and Swallows her inde
pendence as a child takes physic. All her sturdy
Ibeggars are armed by France# Switzerland and
i Spain as well as Hanover are made free by military
compulsion.
This is glorious, and every hungry Frenchman
would sooner throw away his foop than his fliare
of this glory.
But those among uswho have not vanity enough
to relish it will aft whether the French nation is not
al this very moment made Wtetthed ng well i^h
dhotis by this terrible preeminence ? Was n,|
France happier in 1787, under Louis
. Surely her territory was then large <#&}-—^
Her people were numerous and powerfuragfr to
set invoking enemies at calm defiance# Wffi t the#
has the French nation gained by its victories, but
the dire heceffity to win a great many more, or to
lose all the tonquefts it has made. She must con
quer all tier foes, br she will not finally keep them#
Old Rome, whom France has chosen for het
model, ma'd^ herfelf detectable to all nations ; for in
ttirnk the inflicted unspeakable evils upon every
one of them, either before or after she had subdued
them. But the Roman citizens never had an,
peace or quietness as long as any nation remained
to subdue. The conquerors were almost as wretch
ed as the conquered.
Ambition is denominated the fin of noble minds.
To conquer territory by fighting battles typed
grand. But to win it by a jocky bargain, to trutk
off fix per cents for an empire is more worthy of ri
stock broker than of a Ilatefman, It is, however
the very thing we are to expert when little men
climb into great Nations.
Front the Charleston Courier.
When we look at the individuals who compose
the parties in this country, it is evident, that the
federal republicans have the fame inducement
in common with the rest of their fellow-citizens
to promote the good of their codritry. The,
have property.
They have families, & are as fond of liberty aS
their opponents ; but they have opened their eyes
to the delusion of the times, while the latter, plea
sed with the found of republicanifm,are going on
to destroy the substance of it. If reflection had
, its natdral coUrfe,the good sense of the American
nation would triumph over the sophistry of the
falfe republicans. It would difeover that men,
who tendered the most effehtiril services to this
country)have been removed from their councils ;
arid others; who deserted the field when the,
ought to have defended their independence, and
favoured the infurredibn agalnft the Washington
ridminiftrution, are now at the head bf their af
fairs. By falsehoods, rind a persevering induftr,
in differiliriating therh, they have polluted the
Channels of information, arid perhaps nothing
but the United efforts of all good men, continued
for a length of time, will prevent the rights of
property and security ofperfems from being over
whelmed ih the ruinous chads of democracy.
The Oracle.l
TUESDAY, October 2s,^
European account^ have reached us, to the ■
September, but they still contain nothing A
than a voluminous detail of preparatory fleH
which are gradually leading tb events of the utiridal
interest, to the belligerent poteen § and of the great
est importance to Surrounding nations. Frahce apa
pears determined, tb hazard the issue of war, on the
a&ual invasion of England; and triumphs, in the af-#
sured certainty bf final vidor,, purchased at the ex
pence of 200,009 lives; Great-Britain on the
fotber hand, is prepared at all points, so repel the
haughty invaded and tilth a force, of little less than
200,000 chosen troops, is all confident, that France
must perifl), in Ilie daring attempt. Fired to more
than mortal energies, by the remembrance of an
cient glory, and animated to enthuliaftic deeds of
heroic valor, by the unequivocal assurance, that (
life, liberty, religion, laws, are at flake, the genius
of Great-^ritainjnfpirits her sons, with all the prow. r
efs of elder times ; and the fair daughters of the'
queen of isles, pant for the awful confl ft, with an
ardent third, for the immortality of fame# The
unfated desire of Universal dominion ; - the hope of
immense plunder; she expe&ance of eliding With
out a rival ;,the charms of giving law to the world,
are operative impellents, that goad France to the
dreadful cothbat ; and all that can be accomplished,
by the efforts of man; will undoubtedly be attempt
ed. The points of actefi is Undetermined : but wb
think it probable, that they will prefer landing, on
the Irish, to the Britiffi coast, as they flatter them
selves with a Warth reception from the former, and
expea to be joined by tocos, if they are fortunate
enough, tb make their landing good, This howevef
is rather problematical# The friendship of Ireland
is far from being general. The nobility, gentry, ~
and landholders, are fully petfuarted thaf the blefc
sings of French liberty and equality,arc hardly equal,
to the rational freedom, which is enjoyed, by the
Britith Constitution; and will not barter the inval
uable privileges that freemen peffefs, beneath the
reign of the law, for the uncertain momentary grants,
Which military despotism may cogdefeterid to
maker If Ireland, therefore, flioold be the firftthe^
atre, of Gallic aßion, it is still uncertain, whether
her warriors will reap any other laurels, than those,
which her sons once gathered in &atram bay ; and
we feel assured, that previous to the armies of France
passing the line of the imperial kingdoms, slat an
impaffißie barier would be thrown in their front, and
a second Burgoynade the effed of their temerity#
At the fame moment, we acknowledge it is impofc
ble to furefee and predia every possible Chance of
wat. There may be mines of treason hitherto un#
explored; the train may be laid for immediate ex*
plofion ; and the effects may be terrible for a time*
in truth, the eye of omnifeioce alone, is able to read
the destinies of man ; and the final issue, refis, in
the ficret pavilion of the eternal, inscrutable by bu<
mart wifdJm#— As America exiffs in alliance with
both the contending powers ; perhaps it is prudent,
to will neither complete success, in their hostile
views, levelled at each others political arid personal
existence ; But if we might be allowed to halbard an
opinion, the total ann'thflatton of Great Britain,
as an Empire, and her ftntfre vaffibge to the impe
rious Gaul, Would only give new wings to ahafpit.
ing ambition, which has almost reached the bounda
ries of creation , and we feel confident, that this new
acceffiori to the present Strength of France ; the con
sequent addition to her increasing marine; and the
dchmaioreof the only check to her unbounded am±
bition, would tempt the genius of iliimited domin
ion, to Sweep across rhe A lantic ; and plant the tri
coloured flag, on the walls of Washington: while
America, would only figure in tire humble train of
the satellites of the confuhr orb of glory ; and hisfo