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that the middle head, indead dT being covered
with hair similar to that on the body, is furnifhed
with black curly hair like that on the head ot a
Negro—and hands, instead of paws, are placed
on the each of those legs or arms (^hich ever they
may be called,) which Itand upright on the back.
" The owner of this curious animal expects to
make a fortune by it—he sets out in a few days
on his travels, add will no doubt pass through re
terfoirgh, when you will fde with your own eyes,
and 1 dare fay you will be as little able toac „
count for such a Grange appearance as I can be. ,
To Naturaiifa, the following Query is fummit
ted, viz.—Whether the foregoing birth originated
from an unlawful connexion—or, from what other
cause? :
The following communication has been handed to
, . the Editor'of the Savannah Gazette, by an Mme
* ncan gentleman, passenger in the barque Nixon,
o,^26^^^ ^^ F ,
tofftri was to re ^v all the troops in Paris be
fore they (h^ Starch off to the army of reserve
at Diion. >'>t willing to nMfs the only opportu
nity iti/had offered to me of feeing that extra
grjfaary man, I went to the Camp de Mars, ac
%mpanied by fame friends; we arrived at the
military School at io o'clock, the troops had be
gan to march in by small divisions, which they
continued to do till it was near one o'clock—nev
^r did 1 fee in any part of the world, such a body
of men all young ; mod of them had served under
Buonaparte in his glorious anti unparalied cam
paigns in Italy ; their size near fix feet, their ap
parel was neat and elegant and their countenances
heroic ; their number about 18,000 ; all the
ground round the Camp de Mars, the trees, the
many avenues that led to it, were crowded by
more than 150,000 people, one might have tho't
that all the citizens of Paris had resorted to that
place, to contemplate ^nd (hew their fatisfadion
to the man, whom they with justice look upon as
die faviour of France, the friend to the liberties of
ffitikind. the Wallington of Europe. At 12
o'clock, lhefring<effome cannon at Hotel of the
Invalids, announceq^he arrival bf the First Con
fiil, who was furronnded by his Etat Major, all in
full gallop to the place. He was dressed in hfy
Confiilar Robes. His Etat Major confided of Tome
generals, and young men, about 25 yeafs old, who
had all done some great exploits in defence of
liberty and their country. When on his way nu
merous acclamations of Vive la Republic I Vive
]a Buonaparte ! resounded from every quarter.
The other Consuls in company with Madam Bu
oha parte shared in the public enthusiasm, and the
presence of our Envoys contributed not a little to
.the public fatisfaflion.
During the time the review was palling I wal- r
ked through the crowd to learn the tendency of
the public spirit : I did not hear a single word
that was nor expressive of the general fatisfartion
and disposition to exert themselves to the utmost,
in fuppqrt of.his defenfive measures, against the
enemy of peace and liberty. Even such as are
diflatisfied by the loss of their privileges, did not
with to fee any change in favour of their runaway
princes. His spirit of moderation, justice arid
clemency, has prevailed on the mod inveterate e
nemies of the Republic to live peaceably.' „The
feview broke up at 5 P. M. and he was received
with the fame public fatisfartion on his return to
the palace, as when he entered the Camp de Mars.
So that this review, intended only for a military
purpose, was changed into one of the gfeateft ex
hibitions that ever was seen.
Some days after I left Paris for Spain, the fame
spirit prevailed in every place I passed through.
- -In fagice to the French government,! mud con
fefs, tnat for lotmonthsrefidence in Paris, 1 receiv
ed ev,ery kind of fatisfaaion and protection from
every man employed in it, owing tri my ocinf a
citizen of the United States. That bfing fre
quently in company with some of them, they al
ways expressed their mod eager wishes to fee our
difference fettled tb our mutual fatisfaCliort, which
1 think must be done by this time, if I may Judge
from the reception,that onr Ambaffadetrs met &ith
when they arrived in Paris, and from the general
friendly disposition of the nation the people and
government of these States.
'From the AURORA.
1 MR. DUANE, >
Idare fay you thought that I was dead—but
I'm alive yet,;, though no doubt, many a better
Workman has gone to his long home, hnce lad. I
troubled you 6vith a line—My friend the latinift,
has ja^fflprfHngfll.^why don't
you give os feh)e of your jokes, ah! fays I, every
body knows where his own (hoe binds him, a man'
who has a number of small children to maintain,
and all by his daily industry, can't added I, spend
much tin©2ribbling, If he does them juftice—
very tr@CTAg.roy friend, but now—aye, aye,
how, ari/Werffll, I may indeed write a little for
amufemenf— for, continued,, let it be owing to
What it will, the captures m^de by France, the
blockading .of our ports by the British, the depart
thre of the Congress ,0 the Federal City or the
fear of the yellow fever, ca(h is scarce, and so lit
tle business doing, in my way at lea/t, that 1 be
lieve,,mauy, as well as 1, can find time enough to
fribble,—or perhaps do worse—But dear Mr. Du
ane, what have you been doing? I dec%re I.haye.
trembled for you a thonfanp times—do consider
my friend, there are racks and gibbets, plots.a»d
conspiracies, there are daggers and poignards and
ftillettos, and thunderers, and exterminators, men 4
asvaliant as Champlin, and as good fliouters as
Bayard—the high, the low, tag rag and bob tail,,
from the elephant to the bee, from the boy that 1
runs at the cow's tail,©? to that new difeovefed
fanfler C , rational and irrational,.wife men
and ideots, you have by your plagued accounts a
bout money, made them all your enemies— I de
clare for my own part, I thipk your usual pru
dence has forfaken you !—Why man, Timothy
will extirpate you—Jonathan will blast you with
^lightning— and Tracy will exterminate you.
—I know yqu can give Oliver a Roland, Ctoft, a
caw's tail ; a peckled potatoe to Paddy BroWP,
and as a new acquaintance of/mine laid, fotrwili
do—dVayne. But all this wont do, you have un
veiled the party—you have burned the enchanted
Skin—the people have opened their eyes—the par
ty, appear with lengthened faces—they believe
they no longer can slump the democrats—they
tremble for, their tiraft and butter—their old Ma
fyfiagd Pitt's Jweet meats—they tremble for
their plans of fpectflatinn and peculation—their
secret frauds, t heir-underhand dealings, their X.
Xapd Z business—and all their accumulated grief
ia a|t,ibpted to you.—And still you perlift—c^n't
you rome and go little I can't yon either learn to
Binform8 inform to the wills and Lillies of great men, or
old your tongue and fay nothing ? What a plague
bad you go. do with account#, of the freafury !
Who made you comptroller or auditor general? p
could not you have minded your &n business I
arid let matters of money alone ?—fur,ydu know 1
that money is the god of the world, that banks 1
and treaTuries are his temples—and tnrt such scru
tinizing accountants as you ought not to put your
feet within the sacred sane—and that you facre
ligioutly entered the temple, dishonored the Ged
and revealed the secrets.
After all fee what your peeping has produced ;
Oliver has whitewashed Timothy, Dayton has
walhed himfelf, and honed Stockton has told a
plain llory, proving that the man w# honester
than he himfelf fufpetled—l have almost turned
my poor brain thinking of what way you get ac
quainted with these things—have you gotten the
imifible mantle, that my old grandinolhet used to
tell tales about, that effectually concealed its
wearer from every e>e ? or the enchanted flippers
which could convey their owners through a key
hole, the wishing cap of Fortunatos, or in one
word, have you been dealing with the Devil and
Doflor Faustus ? my curiohty is ex.ited—l am on
the rack, and fa are a great many more, some fay,
that you received all your intelligence of money
and caucuses and secrets, from an old Indian for
tune-teller;ottiers that you are yonrfelf awizzard,
and have an attendant imp in the foape of a black
cat, that tells you all things—But the most think
that it is by a fair communication with old Nick
himfelf, that you get such curious information, 4
though how this can be 1 am again at a loss, for
every body knows that the Devil is not a Demo
crat, but an absolute unprincipled fopporter of
tyrants and despotism—But my dear Sir, beware,
a word to the wife, they fay is enough, have ,ou
forgotten that witches are persecuted ih New En
gland ? depend upon it they who would persecute
an old woman for witchcraft, would collect all
the Illuminati in these dates fairly to condemn you
for Jorcery—who knows but such a motion may
be brought forward in the next Congress ? I dread,
it much—fometbing mull be done, that's certain,
it will never do to fuffer you to call the great est
men in the fates to give an account of their flew-;
ardihip at the bar of the public! besides you may
remember these wife men have told us over and,
over again, that it was the complaints of the De-'
mccrats, that made them wish For more power to
be lodged in the hands of our Chief Magiftrate—
now they fay that such examinations as yours will
induce them to use this term to even their ac
counts: /rem Secret service money, and then
you may use your invisible cloak, flippers, or
or wishing cap—all the aid of old Nick, and Er.
Fauflus, as you please to no purpose—and left this
hint like many other good hints Ihould be forgot
ten, I dedicate it to the great and good but fallen
Timothy Pickering, and to all his friends, suc
cessors and imitators, as the most easy, handsome
expeditious and. fatisfa&ory method of fettling
accounts that has hitherto been invented—and for
his and their encouragement, it haytime out of
mind been fairly used in their beloved England,
and has always been sou d a hiding place for
thousands and has never once failed.—From your
old correspondent.
ROBERT SLENDER.
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fcorthe REPUBLicA^LEDGER.
Cbe Inquirer, So. 8.
WE come now ,to coufider the obnoxious fenti
mentag^ ihft ^ hich Burleigh with such fervor of
zeal,ditts his pen. He quotes it thus; “ writing
on thefubjea of universal toleration, and attempt
ing to prove that one kind of religion is as good
as another, Mr. Jefferfon fays, the legitimate pow
ers of government extend to such acts only as are
injurious to others, &c." The fehrence following
this, which he quotes, 1 omit for two reasons.—
First, it has been abundantly quoted and repeated
already ; and does not alter the nature of this
proposition, tho'trought to illiterate it. —2dly.—
1 would neither use nor undertake to juflify the
mode of expression : For however true it be, that
the atfeifm or idolatry- of my neighbor neither ir
jures rny property or person, yet l could not juf
tify myfelf in (peaking in 'a way that might seem
light orludicrous, on the very serious fubjeft of
his denying the God who is above. But as to the
firft propofi ti'on, which Hands independent of this
and assists the extent, or Father the limitation, of
the legitimate powers of government, it remains
a truth, by whomsoever spoken or written ; and
a thousand errors^ if proved tipon the affirter,
could not changedts nature. It is strong enough
to bear the resentment and opposition of a boll of
writers, each as powerful, Rs the one in gneftion.
I^t us now fee how he manages his attacks upon
it.
After quoting those words, that " the legiti
mate powers of government extend to fuqh arts
only as are injurious to others," &c. he fays ; " By
this passage we are taught that morals are no ob
jerts of the attention or care of government, that
all we are to trouble ourselves about is the eon
duft of individuals, &c. a lefl'on which is fraught
with all the mifehiefs, &c. prartifed by the abet
tors of the French revolution, &c.—H°w differ
ently men gouftrue words apparently plain !—I
should read the lesson thus ; the legitimate pow
ers of government extending only to artsinjurious
to man, it cannot punifo profeffed atheism or po
iytlieifm, which are not such injuries^-No: fays
onr author^ffie lefl'on is fraught with .mifchief;
and is to be read thus—" morals are no objects of
the attention or care of Government"—As though
government could take care of the , conduft of in
dividuals, repleft injurious finmd,Wities ; be a
terror to ill doers, and a praise to T^ty-dgefs, :-and
yet take^o care at all \f morals ^guofe t.bite
tin's no proper care The care of government
should in his opinion extend farther than all this.
How-far ?—Doubtlefs according to the (piti^of
this essay, to guard mo als'and.religion by fo&ifo
ment, and restraint of erroneous opinions—But
this writer proceeds to describe the dortrine he
finds in the words quoted ; and fays, " the doc
trine is this ; that it a man believes in the rerti
tude of-murder, atheism, rape, adultery,&c. it is
of no importance, because it neither," &c.—But I {
would alk, is nothing of any importance but what'
hurts our bodies, or our estates ? or would he ,
confute the Doftrine, by changing it into one that
confutesltfelf ! Inflead of putting my own con
(lrUrtion, I will only put a Ample queflion upon'
bis —Is the aflertion that a man is not to be pun
ished for his avowed belief, the fame as the affer
tiop that it is no matter what a man believes ? I
wilFeveri venture to go a step beyond meer belief,
and speak of artions , and I aver with confidence,
that many immoralities injurious to others, can
not be prescribed at all by human tews ; such as
many breaches of duties between parents and
children, husbands and wives, &c.—And 1 appeal
to tb? common sense of mankind for the truth of/
the afirtion —Am I to be confo@-thus ?—sTheti|
your %lortrine is, that these breathes ol duty are I
of nofliitportapfce» !
For the purpose of n^nifefling the propriety
and necteffity of restraining, and punifhurg Opin
ions, the author sets .before us in a kind of viJion
ary view, a community composed of individuals
believing in the teeitude, (as he phrases it) of
murder, atheifm^ rape, adultery,&c. But if such
'a community bte a chiitieia, of which we can form
no idea, even whenjaifed as a phantom ; why
should he frighten us into intolerance to avoid it ?
—Bnt to follow, tyro-rhe' proceeds in the next
place to draw the~pirture of a tolerating society,
(whieh is a potable thing,) and he makes this al
most as frightful is the other—a nation is suppos
ed fuffering the ffeefropaguiion of the before
mentioned monstrous opinions, (and what govern
ment ever did or can restrain all such ?) and then
he adds ; that according to the doctrine he op
poles, “ this is juft.anH ought to be tolerated," &c.
and if tolerated, hefuppofes it must be proper to
preach these doctrines; and if to preach, then it
is proper to prattife them—otherwise he is very
sure, a fyllem of lying tnuft beintroduced into the
community—Thus hot io reflrain corrupt doc
trines is to encourage, and put the flemp of pro
priety on them, and on enormous practices !—
And thus toleration and justification are con
formed 'to form an argument against toleration !
-But this author is firmly persuaded, that if men
have an uncontroulable right to believe and in
culcate what mordl or religious sentiments they
please, provided they do not prartife them, the
practice w ill soon follow, if impunity may be ex
petted. And that indemnity will very soon suc
ceed ras loon as by the spread of malignat opin
ions the majority become proselyted to the faith
of them ; —then all laws against the practice of
murder, rape, &c. will be repealed/^ and the
wholesome ptartice introduced in its fulled lati
!tude—Thus the monstrous community is like to
be realized !! Now it would beto no purpose to
repeat here; that truth with all its mighty ton
jwincing powers -is armed against these pellilent er
rors—That it is the proper and powerful antago
nist of error. I could fay, fear not for truth, on
ly give it. room. Retrain it not in the use of its
proper weapons—This is too feeble away of pro
moting truth, fay the advocates for legal force.—
Truth needs auxiliaries. It looks out for foreign
aid. You mult oppose errors as you do crimes,
by the (harp weapons of force, coercion, intoler
ance and punishment—And yet these advocates
are apt to feel, like other men, their right of
thinking, and speaking uhat they think—Thus
our author in his third number, having another
purpose in view, fays, “ It is difficult" to chain the
bod, —but it is incomparably more so to chain
the mind."—He was not just then, thinking that
he had in his second number, denied to man; the
incontrolable right of thinking as he pleases !=
And so was propoling to chain the mind!
However evident to an attentive reader, the
dortrine of this writer may be, yet he teems un
der some rellraint, and not willing to speak it
out fully ; while the opposite one comes out in o
pen day light. “ His sentiments are, lays he,
(speaking of the author whom he cppofes,) “ that
a man has an uncontrolable right to believe what
he pleafes."—Why did he not add, mine are ex
artly the reverse ; that a man has not an uncon
trolable right to believe what he pleases? Perhaps
this, (tho' the fart, as appears by the whole op
position) might not found so well ; it might look
too much like forging chains for the mind. So he
Gates the opposition thus ; “ mine are that when
a man can do it with fafety, he will forever prac
tife what he believes—the result is too obvious to
be miftaken"—-DoUbt'lefs it is—you must oppose
the belief itfelf, the root of the mifehief, by ettab
lifhing religion and repressing heresies by the force
of penal laws.—Thrtnowing ones are to infer
this result, and conduct accordingly, while the
more Ample are not to be frightened by its being
too plainly spoken out—The common people are
but alarmed by a cry that religion and mortality
are in extreme danger ; and that vigorous efforts
are needed fqr their fuppbrt.
, I will now take my .leave of this author with a
quotation and oae ot two more remarks. "If
it is Important, fays he, to control of reGrain
one man, in the free exercise of his opinions; it is
equally important tocontrol or reflrain any num
ber of men, Inllead of thus deducing confe-.
quences had it not been bettef^firG to have prov
-ed that it is either important or right that any
one n;an on earth should be so retrained !
Is it not rather curious to observe a man in the
free exercise of his own opinions, yea, in the very
all of propagating them :, (opinions confident! by
some as very pernicious ;) yet pleading that other
men should be retrained in the free exercise of
theirs ?—And might not his own argument be re
torted upon huu thus ; varying his own words a
little : Beljef begets pra&icc—and the followers
of Burleigh have nothing further to do then, than
to spread their dortrines, till the majority of the
Community (hall become proselytes to the faith,
and the laws and clauses of constitutions securing
liberty of confcience,.will be repealed, or annul
led; and the wholrfome practice of persecution
introduced ih-its fufl<4 FatitudeoAnd 1 may add;
then may-men be banished for heresy, as Roger
Williams was, oncea -preacher ^t Salem, whose
heretical tenet it was, that the%iyii Magistrate
has no power in toatters pt religion—a mpn;who
when driven (I was about to fay ffom civil fopety)
into the desert fought and found an afylnm among
civil tolerating natives of !the wilds: Arid in his
exile returned kindnesses for perfections ; and
became the founder and father of a common
wealth'; which has fnbfifled without test or eGab
lifhffient and granted -universal toleration from
that day to the present!
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.1. ' —-U^+f^Qtyty^tt+^v-r^
Fo'tir Ai'ds-de-Gam'o' are (^ be appointed ,to at
tebd hit MajbGfr during the 'war.—The Right -
Honorable Lord! L6vefbn Gbwerjatid the Hon.
Mr. Charles Fitlooy are mentioned.
Silver Medals, iq commemoration ofthrhappy
escape of his Majelfy at Drury- lane Theatre, have
been struck, by order of Mr. Sheridan ; the front
represents Providence protesting the King ' ffoih,
Qe Traitorous Attempt against his life, figurative-!
Iy displayed by a fliield arid shivered Arrows, I
pourtraying the Sovereign's Ufefy^ pud-encircled,
are the words, “ GOD Save the King J" On the'
reverse of the medaliori is the Bi<tiJh Cr^wn in
the center of a wreath of Laurel, tlie t*dje\t I
beams of Glory spreading their pinene? over rt,
the words '• preserved from Affoffination,; My
15, 1890 ;" and, on the Knot of the Wreath " Give
[GOD Praise I"
I By Gen. Maffena's orders some of the beautiful
I iquedurtf at Genoa wete dig up, lot the purpole
I bl calling bullets of the lead.
JUNE 13.
The erasure of emigrants from the lift of pro
scription in Paris coniin ties. Two hundred and
thirty have lately been erased ; and, de(pairing of
the reGoration of Monarchy, they look up to tu
onaparte as the man who is to reriore then, to
tranquility and comfort.
In the British House of Commons on Wednes
day week, a petition was presented from a Com
pany to make paper fervicenble a second time, by
discharging the ink, which was referred to a com
mittee.—On Friday the House in a Committee, a
greed to an address to his MajeGy^ praying that
aid (Lid to amount to 10,0001.) may be afforded
to Mr. Foden, to enable him to perfect his pkm
to save wheat flout by rendering the earth called
gy pfom a proper fubitituie lor palle.
JUNE 18.
This morning James Hadfield, charged with
High Treason, In mooting at his Majelfy, in Dru
ry-Lane Theatre, was brought up and arraigned
h upon his indictment, on motion of the Attorney
Gen. He pleaded not guilt) —and upon his peti
tion to the Court, Mr. Erskine and Mr. Serjeact
Bes twere assigned to him as Counsel, who, toge
ther frith his Attorney, were allowed access to
I him to prepare for his defence. The trial is ap
-1 pointed for to-morrow fe'night, the 26th infl.^
The new Pope has written a letter to the French
Clergy, in which he exprefTes his approbation of
1 the conduct of those who have submitted to the
laws of the Republic in taking 'he oaths of allegi
giance, &c. As to those who conscientiously.
think it their duty to refufe such tells of their obe
i dience, his Holiness does not condemn them, but
exhorts them to confider their condurt, and lays
a flrong injunction upon them not to enter into a-!
ny cenfpiracy which may cause the lean intenup
tion into the present government.
Buonaparte having come so suddenly upon the
Milanese, it is feared he will have intercepted all
the cqrrefpondence from the South of Italy, as
well as from Germany, and that he will by these
means obtain much informations
Domestic Intelligence.
—-<.<<+f^Hgg^ <^}>^b > ^fo„ofr —
SrfNbUSKr,.(N. PV. TERRITORY.) JUNE I.
The;Chiets of the Senakee and Wyandot nations
of Indians, have lately been very artive in secur
ing some stolen horses and the thieves, profeffing
great anxiety to live in amity with the United
States. They also fay, that ten other nations con
cur with them in their pacific sentiments.
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WASHINGTON, lUC. 8. -
WAR DEPARTMENT. - ,
^Ugufi 4, 180 Q
The commanding officers of corps, detachments,
polls, garrisons, and recruiting parties belonging;
to the military ettablifhment of the United States,
are to report to, and receive orders from Briga
dier General Wilkinson, in the City of Walking
ton ; and all officers on furlough, are to report
themselves to the fame officer with all poflible
dispatch.
Samuel dexter,
Secretary of War.
ai,BANr t AUG. 7.,
The Weftern Country exhibits a pleating fight—
the farmers are in their glory, with plentiful
crops ot wheat—the fi- Ids are decked with great
er quantities this season, then perhaps has ever
: been known firice the fettlenient of ;his fettite
country ; and better grain never was transported
than will be the ensuing winter. -
The husbandman, with a cheerful countenance;
beholds the fruits of his labor, a retard only due
to the industrious. \
FHILADELPHT4,AUG,7.
A vessel arrived at Norfolk, lately bro't
in 13 petfons which were picked,,up in an
open boat in the Atlantic Ocean. They
were driven to sea when on theit paflage
from one of the Weftern Iflapds to another.
They subsisted for 5 days on oranges and
becns, without water. One of them is a
Priest ; and some of them helpless old men
from 60 to 70 years of age. ,They were
completely destitute, and bav.e since their ar
rival' depended uponcharity for their fubfid,
ence fwhich, to the credit of humanity,
has been Competent.'
NEW-YORK, Adc.,3."
Tnthe Abby from I reland," there were
36 pallengers. One ot them informs, that
the expedition which Gen. Abercrombie
commands, is to proceed against Majorca j
an island belonging t o the Spaniards, in the
Mediterranean, near Minorca, already tak- !
en by the Englilh.'
^JIl ^ '.J'_=—efoi^l"'
, >. r ,<t w v Of! ^uedsTfi."
Extra# bf a letter from Petersburg (Virg.) dated
Augufl 1. G ;<
' " Q n ,Tuefday night last, Mr. Duncan
M'Cf, was unfortunately drowned injhe
App^'aty;Oppofite this town. On the
evening this melancholy accident happened,
he was noticed to drink very freely, and re
tired to bed about elevenfop'clock much in
toxicated. Those about the^hpufe, know^
; ih| that he has igone out wl, n< i|fo!ftate
,before, were particular in locking ,hedoojs
to prevent if. Some time in the night, un,
known to any person, be got out-of ,th<
; houfe through one of the windows, and g
n ex p e( ^ed fell off the bridge in going to
Yeflerday about 12 o'clock
his body was observed floating in the river a
° c '°, " e bridge, and immediately'
; U P° The. Coroner's inquest found so,
i ver'i'f of a^ciaental death. In the eyeping ?"
""e attended by a .numerous }
iand fefoeaable company, to the, buryingl
g r ° un 4^ Blayfod, and depufited in the ft-/
I tem^taty. ~ ~]
\ m^^^^^
fhas been fen®rf ffl ahlHhdef*/
P hia './