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%mg Curncah were well known to the Salicetti,
who nuroduced him to Barras, to whom he gave
indubitable proof of the Sincerity of his profeffions,
at a period when suspicion was justified by the
mbit serious and frequent defections. He was ac
cordingly advanced to the rank of general of ar
tillery ; and directed, under Dugomier, the at
tacks of the various redoubts that Surrounded and
Strengthened this important port. It is needless
io add, that the issue of these operations was a
Speedy restoration of the key of the Mediterrane
an to France.
The couqueft of Toulon contributed not a lit
tle to raise the reputation of Buonaparte ; and
proved equally advantageous to his friend Barras.
That deputy had also been bred a military man,
and was employed by his-colleague on all great
occasions. On&of these soon occurred ; this wart
rhe commotion among the fertions of Paris, known
by tire name of the injurrettion oflendemairW On
this ocaalion he tpok care to be surrounded by a
ble men ; luckily for the convention, one of these
Was Gen. Buonaparte, and it was to the maderly
klifpoiition made by him, that the triumph of the
-representative body was principally ascribed. A
'noble field now opened for his exertions. In the
Spring of 17,6, be was inverted with the command
ct the army of Italy ; and the unparalleled events
which have Since marked the progress of this ex-'
traordinary than, have been widely trumpeted by
fame. '.„ ;
As to his perform Buonaparte ispf Small ftatnre,
but admirably proportioned. He is at spare hab
bit of body, yet robust, and calculated to undergo
the greaselt fatigues. In refpert to his mind he
possesses uncommon attainment. He converses
freely, and without pedantry, on all fubjetts, and
writes and speaks with fluency and eloquence.
Above all things, he has attempted, and in a great •
mieafure obtained the mattery over his passions.
He is abstemious at meals, .and was never seen in
the flighted degree intoxicated. He podefles ma
ny friends but has no minions, and preserves an
inviolable secrecy, by means of a rigorous Silence
far better than other men do by a loquacious hy-•
pocrify. From recent events, he seems dedined
to take a principle part hi the lad aft of the po
litical drama of the 18th century—and whether
be will prove the Cromwell or the Washington of
his country, time will soon develope.
The man, however, of whom it has been laid,
£c his mittrefs was the commonwealth, and his com
panion Plutarch," Should not hesitate to prefer a
croic to a kingly crown.
„— — --■=_-
European Intelligence. •
Received by the (hip Turner, Capt. O'Brien, arrived at New-York
from London, 45 days from Gravefehd.
France.
PARIS, DEC. 21.
NEW CONSTITUTION. ~ ,
"Buonaparte assembled at the Consular Palace,
on the ith of Dec. the two LegiGairve ComwiG
fions. Roger Ducos took die chair.
Dannau read the plan of the New/Conttitution
of which we have only hitherto collected imper
feft fragments.
The difeuffion was calm, and every way worthy
uffo great a cause. They fat difcoffed it in whole
and tben<artitle by article.
Some of the articles were strongly combated,
but tirey were carried by a great majority ; others
were rejected ; and it was here that Buonaparte
manifested his wonderful powers ; for, after hav
ing collected all the opinions for and againd an
article, he commented on the argument advanced
and concluded by bringing the majority to agree
to the proportions which he made.
The assembly did not Separate till 7 o'clock
next morning ; and the estimable Dannou was ap
pointed to digest the alterations which were made
made ; and the art will be made public in a few
days..
ICitizen Renderer has now lifted up another cor
ner of the curtain that concealed the new Consti
tution. The following is the Sketch which he
gives of the pubHc/edablifhmeut :
LEGISLATIVE POWER.
There is to be a Council of State to propose
laws, which Council of State constitutes part of
the Executive Power. For the difeuffion Os these
propufed laws, there is a Tribunate, or a feleft bo
dy of the Representatives of the people , and a
Legislative Body to decide upon the proportions
alter they have been discard or assented to.
The Legislative Body is to contift of 300 mem
bers ; the Tribunate of too; and the Council of
State of 30. j ,
EXECUTIVE POWER.
There is ta.bea first or principal Consul invert
ed with power to appoint and remove Ministers,
Generals, Ambassadors, and Counsellors of State.
There are to be two other Counfefs to difeufspub
lic matters in concert with the first Consul. They
are to have but a confultiv), voice ; their persons
are inviolable. They are named for ten years—
they may be re-elerted ; they will have a guard.
The grand Consul will have 500,000 francs of Sal
ary. There are besides two Councils of State, the
one for the Department of Foreign Affairs ; and
the other for the Home Department. This latter
Council will have the initiative.—lt will have also
t° j*dge and decide on litigated questions in the
Department of the Admiralty. Such it the Gov
erment. (, ~
The Administration is confided.
I. To Ministers, of Councils of Administration,
fueb as the Admiralty.
2. To Administrations of Communes of twenty
square Myriametres, affirted by Commissioners to
be named by the Confuis.
3. To intermediate Bureaus, charged only with
the transmission of the orders of the Ministers to
the Communal Administrations, and of the reports
of the execution of tbe'or,ders by the Administra
tive, as well as of petitionsand appeals of the peo
ple to the ministers, from the acts of the adminis
trative bodies.
The Consular a&s mart be Signed by a Minister
before they can be executed. The Ministers are
refponfibte, each in his department, for the execu
tion of Consular Arts which Shall be contrary to
the law, and for the uon-cxecution of Consular
Acts agreeable to the law.
4 yUDKIAL POWER.
It Shall be afterwards organized by the Constitu
tional shears established tor the formation of the
laws -4.
CONSERVATIVE POWER.
There is tp be a body of from 80 to 100 members
etefled for life. They mull hevea qualification
in land rental of 25000 francs a year. They name
themselves to vacancies in their own body. A
person must be 40 years of age to be admissible.—
Tlfs body Shall exercise various functions ;
1. They e&t the members of the Legislative
Body and the Tribunate, and take them from the
lift ofthe notables of the nation, or elected out of 1
the third degree. I
z. They Shall pronpudce on the unconstitutional 1
acts committed by the inviolable bodies of the Le-|
giflative or Executive Powers.
3. They Shall exerette the tight of renfhrte on
the lift of the Notables of the nation, which they
may every year reduce one hundreth part.
4. They are, or they may probably become a
grand jury to try the crimes ofHigh Treason, im
puted to the great responsible functionaries.
The Consuls in going out of office, or on giving
their resignation, mail enter of right into the Con
servative Body.(
The manner in which the Confervatiye' Power
Shall fill up vacancies in their own Body, is— Three
candidates Shall be presented to them—one by the
Legislative Body, and one by the Tribunate.
The Grand Consul will alone be lodged at the
Luxembourg : The two others on the palace of
the 500. The Tribunate and the Senate in the
pavilion,of the Thullleries. The Conferyative
Jury at the Loufre, in the place of the Institute,
and the institute in the buildings of the Sarbonne.
The invalids will be 'transferred to Versailles, and
every thing that beldhgs to the ministry at war,
such as the Ecat-Major, the administrations, &c.
On the eted inst. (the 13th Dec.) the Legislative
Body will be assembled, and on the 27th the Con
stitution will be officially transmitted to the De
partments.
Several Journals have ftate'd that Citizen Syeyes
is to be .President of the ConStitutionary Jury.—
We think that we can State with confidence that
this jury will have no President. All the members
composing it will be equally qualified to exercise.
the functions of temporary President, according
to the mode of election to be adopted. A num
ber of other reports of the fame nature, who pro
mote this or the other citizen, and confer places
before they exist, deserve no greater credit.
[Redafleur.
Jamaica.
KINGSTON, FEB. S 3.
All French inale slaves are immediately to be
confined in the barracks.
Yesterday, M. Dafportas was executed here, as
a French spy.—He appeared perfectly unconcern
ed in the march taken previous to his execution ;
but just before he was turned off hte made an exer
tion to save himfelf by dinging to the ladder.
Domestic Intelligence.
•• SAVANNA, JAN. 21.
Head-Quarters, Wickwa.
October, 31,1799.
WHEREAS divers perlons have been employed
by the United States, and his Catholic Majesty,
fanflioned by commifflon, to ditieminate difeord,
to make parties, aad by every .unlawful means to
deceive our people, in order to effect the comple
tion of a treaty made between the United States
and his Catholic majesty at Philadelphia, in the
mouth of September,l79s,with intentions to sub
vert, and destroy the right of fovteignty which
this nation and its confederates have had from the
beginning of time.
We the Director-General of Muskogee, being
duly authorized,do hereby issue our proclamation,
and direst that ail persons now residing within
the territories of Mufkogee, holding any unlaw
ful commiffien under the United States or hrs
Catholic Majesty, or employed by them, are here
by ordered to depart these our territories, on or
before the Bth November next, as they will ans
wer at their peril.
We do hereby also direct that after the said Bth
day of November next, if any person or .persons.,
are found holding said commissions, or acting con
trary to good order, he or they Shall be arrested ^as
conspirators, and proceeded againit according to
the law of nations established to such cases.
Given under our hand, at Wickwa, :'
. this 2irt day of Oft. 1799. r
God save the state of Mtrfkbgre.
•Wm. A. BOWLES, - 1
Direftor -General of Mulkogee.
Ochookweethia, 30th Nov. 1799.
FRIEND,.
I have now dispatched all the talk to England,
to Providence and to Jamaica, by my boat. 1
hourly expert the arrival of a veflel, which 1 Shall,
as soon as foe has dife barged her load fend off with
other copies of duplicates of them in orde^ that ail
may be fore. < ' ; s
1 enclose you a copy of the proclamation ref
peCting the Americans who have been employed
in this country Since 1 have been away in order to
deceive and destroy the nation. 1 hope they are
all gone, for it is not my wish to injure them ; it,
is absolutely neceflary thatthey Should depart and
that immediately, or they Will forfeit the protec
'tion due to all men and by the law of nations
;ought to stiffer death by being hanged as conspira
tors again ft the peace and Sbvreignty of Mufkogee;
There are Some good men, who have been em
ployed by them; they were ignorant aad did not
know the consequence of their employ —James
Derezens, at the Cowetta, although he has had
a Qininilfiou from the Spaniards, he has not done
much harm, because I flopped it. Mr. Hawkins
is the man who, if he is not gone, must go itnme
diately as he is a dangerous man, and will cause
some mifehiefto yoti by flaying. I fhhll seize him
if I find him, for not obeying the proclamation,
and proceed against him according to law.
1 requert you to make known this talk to all
your towns. As my papers have not come down
as yet, you had better kept them until you come
yourfelf, or until 1 fee you at your house, for as
soon as I have dispatched my business here 1 will
pay a visit to the towns, which 1 expert will not
be -long. The people whom Iletubebfod m^
when I came to meet you at the Wekiwa, having
a great deal of rum behaved very ill, they destroy
ed almost every thing 1 left with them, or let the
water Spoil it which is the fame thing, which 1
feel more for the fake ot our beloved red people,
s than for myfelf, but it will not be long before all
will be straight.
lam your sincere friend, - :
. WILLIAM A. BOWLES.
Let me bear from you and the news you have
in the town.
To the little Prince of the
broken arrow, alias Co- ' ';
wappee little Prince of
Cowetta ^ol&hajje.
BOSTON, FEB. 20.
The American academy Qf arty and Sciences yes
terday manifeded publicly their refpert and vene
ration for the memory ofthe man whose death
has covered to nation n ith mourning, and who was
I one of their honorary mertibers. - They proceeded
I at 12 o'clock, from the Old State-House, to the
church in Brattle-Street, where after a Solemn
Idirge from the organ, the Rev. Dr. Barnard ot Sa
lem, made a devout, appropriate, and pathetic
prayer. John Davis, elq. then delivered a classic
al, elegant, and Spirited Eulogy on the character
and 'virtues of General WASHINGTON ; of
which the Academy have requeued a copy for the
press. The music was fate and excellent ; and
frequent as the testimonies cf refpett have been,
it appeared from the attention and interest which
the audience difeovered on this occasion, that
they Still retained a warm assertion for the memo
ry of the departed hero and sage, and were not
weary of expressing their refpert and affection tor
him. ' — —
NEWBURYPORT, DEC. 20.
The following account of a most uncommon
appearance, Seen by Capt. Jof. Woodman, of the
brig, Nymph, of this port, and obligingly commu
nicated by him—will probably excite much at^
tention, and it may be proper tb State, that if it
would net be fubflantiated by the attestation of
his crew, and Several others, Capt. Woodman's es
tablished character for veracity would not admit
a doubt of its truth in the mindsof any acquainted
with him.*
MR. MARCH,
Being requelled to communicate the following
remarks to the public, 1 fend them to you, to be
inferred in your paper, if you think proper.
On my late parage home, from the island of St.
Domingo, being in lat. 29, lon. 71, on the 12th
Nov, '„, at half pad 1 o'clock in the morning,
the weather being clear and pleasant, the wind to
the eastward, tlie moon near the full, and Shining
very bright, observed the Bars to Shoot in great
numbers, from every point ofthe compass, and.at
two o'clock, the whole atmosphere appeared to
be full ot Stars, 1 may fay thousands of thousands,
fliooting and blazing in every difertion, in a most
extraordinary and alarming manner, and so con
tinued till day-light ; the day following the wind
came round with the fun, till it got to the north
ward, and the whole atmosphere was filled with
<woke, attended with a Strong smell, like the burn
iug of woods, and so continued for several days,
tili I got in lat. 35 N. and further, on my arrival
at the Vfoe^rd, 1 met with several matters of
veflels, who were on the passages at the fame
time, and said that the Stars made the fame ap
pearance to them on the night above mentioned,
though they were then Several degrees to the
northward of me. JOSEPH WOODMAN.
©w Republican Lap Ipreacber,
No. 15.
FET ALL THIS AVaILETH ME NOTHING SO
LONG AS I SEE MORDECAI, THE JEW,
SITTING AT THE KING'S GATE.
THE book of Either is both instructive andin
tereding—ln this Short history, ye are informed
to what lengths ba'fe and wicked men will go,
when they get into power—and how very dan
gerous they are to the peace and happiuefs ot So
ciety. Haman had got such an afeendancy over
the mind of King Ahafirerus, that it seems he was
ready to grant his every request, however wicked
or unjust. Mordecai, however would not flatter
him in his pride, be would not bow down to hire.
Exasperated at this he gets a degree, that on Such
a day, all the Jews, men, women and children,
should b e indifcrinSinately Slain. Letters for this
purpose were Sent into all the provinces=and the
Jews were waiting the day of their final extermi
nation. Mordecai, in this dilemma, fends to the
Queen, and infills that She intercede with the King
in behalf ot her nation—telling her that She mult
not expect to escape, being a Jewef>—and that if
file did not intercede, deliverance would arise from
another quarter. Either, feeing and feeling the
necessity and importance of the case, ventures her
life on the issue. She approaches the King-—lie
holds out the golden feeptre, and receives her gra
'cioufly, and alks what was her request.: She then
Requests that the king, and Haman would attend at
her banquet that day. This is complied with, and
I theQteen again requests that they u ould attend nt
the banquet Site Should prepare on the morrow also.
—Haman retired from the Banquet, and in the
fulnefs of his joy, relates to his wife, the Singular
notic^and attention which was paid him by the
king and queen-=but concludes with the words as
above; yet all thisavaileth me nothing, So long
as I see Mordecai the Jew fitting at the gate. The
advice he received from his friends was to build a
gallows fifty cubits high, aud to hang Mordecai
thereon.—This he intended to do—and prepared
the gallows accordingly. But liow Sirangely do
affairs turn ; Jiow often are men Catclied in their
- own devices, in an evil time, when it cometh Sud
denly upon them. On that night, the king could
not Beep, and calls for the records to be read to
him. Here it was noted, that Mordecai the Jew,
had informed of two of the King's chamberlains
who had conspired against the life of t^e king.—
The king enquires if any thing had been done for
Mordecai to compenfipe him for this Service. The
answer was no. —lhe King fends for Haman, and
fays to him, what Shall be done to the man whom
the king deiighteth to honour ? Haman, fuppolibg
himfelt intended, makes the following reply ;
)' Let the royal robe be brought, which the
Iking ufeth to wear—and the liorfe that the king
'rideth upon, and, the crown-royal, which is set up
on his head. And let this apparel and horse be de-
Ilivered to the hands of the king's most noble prin
ices, ttiat they may array the man withal, whom
the' king delighteth to honour, and bring him on
horseback thro' the Streets ofthe city, and proclaim
before him, thus Shall it be done to tlie man wltom
the king delighteth to honour. Then the King
said To Haitian, make hafle, and take the apparel
'and the horse, as thou half said, and do even so to
Mordecai, the Jew, that Sittezh at the King's gate;
let nothing fail of allthat thotihaft Spoken, Hqw
. ShocketynuSt Hainan have been. He intended to
exalt Mfeted@'k *as upon a gallows— He Ts
! obliged however to comply with the mandate of
the king, and then hattes to his house mournings
and having liis head covered; On this day, B'a
man attends the king and the queen at the banquet
—here Either makes her request—the king com
plies-the jews are fa<ed from destruction, Haman
and, his foils are hanged on the gallows intended
for Mordecai, and, Mordecai placed in the fame
Station which Haman, his bitter enemy, and set
of his nation had tilled. ,
The above Sketch affords a fclemn and awful
lesson to all wicked counfellors^nd advisors—how
they exercise the power put into their hands. It
also lays before them, this solemn truth—that Jus
tice will sooner or later overtake them ; and that
it will render to them double for all their evil
works.—To the upright and just—to those whose
motives are pure, and who are anting with a Sin
gle eye to the interest of the people, a pleafmg re
dealon is afforded in the contemplation of that
justice which renders to every man according to
his works rand of that pure aud certain protpert
of their meeting the reward of good and faithful
servants. Their cause being good, by a virtuous
perseverance in the fame, they n^ naturally ex
pert that success will ultimately crown their ex
ertions—while their foes toall be covered with
Shame and contusion !
Another thing is worthy of consideration, Mpr
decai did not Shrink back horn danger—but con
tinued to urge Either on to her duty. And the
event plainly proves that however dark and dtf
mal profpetis may appear—iho' the clouds may
look black and threaten our destruction, that per
severance will do great things—Our prefect diffi
culties, instead ot discouraging Should prompt us
on to greater exertions ; mould animate us to be
alive to otar belt interests —and to endeavor to d f
place as many ofthefe Hamans from office as may
De possible. For pofleffiu'g the difpoftion of their
old pro tc-type, that they do not do more mil
chief is less from want of inclination than want of
power.
Cbe Republican Ledger.
Portsmouth, February 26, 1890.
As many of our Friends in the adjacent
Towns are solicitous, to know the Candi
dates to fill the various Offices of Govern
ment, the enfumg year, they are informed
(thro' the medium of this paper,) that the
following Gentlemen will have the Repub
lican Ticket in this Town—viz,
The Hon. TIMOTHY WALKER, Esq.
Governor.
LEVI BARTLETT, Esq. Counfellor,
MOSES LEAVITT, Esq. Senator.
JOHN GODDARD, ,
WOODBURY LANGDON.
SAMUEL DROWNE. J
; Nothing, fays a correspondent, appears more
ridiculous than to hear the absurd declamations
raised against the Chief Magistrate of Pennfyiva
mia. We reasons which have produced this hue
and cry from the tools ot aristocracy, (among
whom Mr. Fenoo, lhe memorable hero of the
"Joto and litter of pigs," loudly vociferates) is be
cause governor M'Kean has exercised a priviledge
veiled in him by the Constitution of that State ;
because he has difmi&d from office a few gentle
men, whom he considers inimical to the peaceable
welfare of the commonwealth ; because he perle
^veres in such political principles as dictated him
in '76 ; because lie pursues that Strait line of con
'du& which British corruption, nor no personal
consideration can overcome. This being the case,
/nothing but virulence and defamation resounds
from the peaceful banks of the Schuylkill to the
craggy cliffs of ^ Alleghany. Impartial reader,
'whoever thou art, examine the conduct of your.
Iworthy President on such occalions, and then fay,
lif you can, that he has not set a handsome prece
dent ! Has not his felertion of men to office tre
'quently extended more to men of his own “ kid
ney," than to men of virtue and merit ? In Short
has a man who peffeffed independent sentiments
received a edmmiffion from the hand of the Preli
dent ? Let the candid reader answer for himfelf !
iln the New-England States this principle has been
: remarkably exercised. But as soon as Governor
M'Kean makes a liule change in the appointment
of officers, nothing but calumniations the molt
bale, and infaltsthe molt degrading, teems from
, the prostitute presses. You thus fee, Republican
Citizens, who are the oppofers and diforganizers
of civil government, & whose submission continues
no longer than while they constitutes majority.
[Cent, of Freedom.]
7g be Let, and Roffeffion taken early in April,
*y^next,,
A Large convenient House and Garden,
Situate in Congress-street, now in the
occupation of C. Toppan, Esq.—For fur
ther particulars enquire of Madam Jane
Boyd, or Supply Clapp.
Portfoiouth, Feb. 25, 1800.'
TO BE SOLD,
At Public Au&ion,
At Mr. Greenleaf's Tavern,
By JACOB WALDEN, Auctioneer,
On Thur/day the 13th day of March next, at three
o'clock P, M.
THE Dwelling House of the
fubferiber, and the land adjoining ; in two
Lots, viz. One lot 69 feet on Vaughan Street, and
80 feet on Crofs-freet, and 72 feet on the North
line, having 65 feet breadth from Vaughan-flreet
at the east end of the lot, with a good u ell of wa
ter within those bounds, and a pump to the well.
,The other lot is 134 feet on Crofs-ltreet, including
• the House, and 94 feet deep ; this lot affording a
large paved yard at the Bast end of the House and
a fufficient piece of ground for a garden at the
Weft end. Those premises have been advertised
for sale in one lot, but concluding that it may be
more conducive to the convenience of purchafera
/to divide it into two lots, 1 have done it so as to
render the division more eligible, which may be
obfervedand examined by those who incline, to
.become purchasers or infpetted by other persons,
any day previous to the Sale.
; hi a former advcrtifeiuent a description of the
House was given; which renders it uiineceffaty to
add any thing, further in this : a§ the ellate is gen
rrally known to those who it is probable will be
come purchasers, but any further particulars of
the eSlate, also the conditions of payment may be
known (previous to the fate) by applying to
t'JOSHUA WENTWORTH.
Portsmouth Feb. 25, 1800.
NOTICE.
THE fubferib^rs appointed a Committee
by the Hen. Sam, Tenney, Esq. judge
of Probate for the County of Rockingham,;
to receive, examine and adjust all the clah^
of the Creditors to the Estate of THO's'
ILOUD, late of Pdrtfmouth in said County,
Truckman, dec. repiefented insolvent, give
notice that we will attend on said business
at the Town Clerk's Office in said Putrf
mouth, on the firft Tuefday in March next'
;and the five following months from 6to
.8 o'clock P,M.^ *
GEORGE WENTWORTH,
ISAAC RINDGE,
' -MARK ROGERS.
pG^tfmeutb, Feb.zyb, 1800.