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OF ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS
WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY
RELIGION AND MORALITY ARE INDISPENSA
BLE SUPPORTS.—— Washington's Legacy
* "MORALIST.
On Duelling.
'F'WO young gentlemen of amiable character
1 and manners, formed a most intimate friend
fllip for each other during their studies in Trinity
College, in the city of Dublin. After they had ta
ken their degrees, one of them invited the other
to bis father's in the country, where he became
Hrongly attached to the lifter of his friend, a young
lady of great beauty, and fine accomplishments—
Equality of rank and fortune invited to a match on
both si des, and after a few visits, the day was fixed
upon for their marriage. The evening before this
event was to take place, the young gentlemen who
was to be married invited ^iw Uro' 1 -• <> f ^i : ^;o :
GO ^irUC, and a lew more gentlemen, to a neighbor
ing tavern, in order to take leave (as be fsid) of his
batchelor's life. At supper, a depute took place
between the two friends, upon a triflog fubjefl.
This difpate arose gradually to such a height as to
interest their pillions. The rest of the company
as is too often the cafe,were silent idleuers the con
troversy. At length/he intended groom contradic
ted his friend in a ton, of voice, which one of the
company interpreted into giving the he. The friend
would have puffed it by, but the company infixed
on its being as affront, nil wiT ^ne accord, laid
it required fatisfaffi n. He was f reel to challenge
him —-which he did by throwing him a gloveacrofs
the table. His intended brother in-law returned a
glove, and seconds were immediately chosen, to fix
the time, place and weapons, for a duel. They met
the next morning at 6 o'clock, at the place appoin
ted. The seconds examined anti loaded the piftok,
and afterwads marked the ddbnce from which they
were to fire.
The two friends are fixed by the seconds ten feet
from each other. The word of command, tofe
is given—But no ditcharge of piftoh is heard A se
cond time'they are commanded to fire— but a iol
emn silence still continues. At length one of the
seconds cries out, " Cowards both by ,'' men
tioning the name of the Supreme Being. A third
time they were commanded to fire.—The pistol of
the intended groom was alone discharged, and un
fortunately lodged its contents in the breast of his
intended brother-in-law. He saw him fall, and
ran to embrace him. He pressed him to his boffom
—he received his last look full of anguish & affec
tion—and felt his breast beat lor the last time in
his arms !—The agony of the miserable survivor
could not be described. Heattempted several times
to put an end to his exigence, and was with diffi
culty prevented from doing so, by the interposition
and pious advice of Dr, Berklythen Bi (hop of Cloy ne
By the advice of his friend, he was prevailed agon
to undertake a voyage to England, in order to be
out of the way of those Icenes, which kept alive the
anguish of his mind.
But the distress of this duel did not end here —
The lady to whom the forviving friend was engaged
to be married, was so much affeded by the death of
her brother, by the means of her intended hufb^nd's
hands, that die loft her reafan and died soon after
in a mad house. —Her afflicted father and mother
died in a year after her from broken hearts. The
miCeraWe author of their deaths was no less unhap
py in this refpeft than either of them/ He lived
twenty years alter in obfewity, in the city of Lon
don ; and dec late/ to a friend not long before he
died, that he had never put out bis candle a single
night after be •eidHWd, without fancying he saw
his bleeding friend, b's dißraße 1 mifreh, and their
heartbroken potnv, ar^tnd his best, all reproach
ing him witn UcHi/ the author of their miseries.
PW.G^.
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Foreign Intelligence.
Ghent, S|PT. 12.
The following extraordinary circumstance look
place op the izhvfhßmonth. Citizen Joleph
Back, ex mayor, was sentenced to civic degrada
tion and the pillowy, for having fold for money cer
tificates of povrry to the ronicripts who were able
to pay the 300 livres, which the la w requires for ex
emption. Alter the tx-mayor had flood in the pil
lory for two hour*, pursuant to his sentence, rhe
clerk of the Tribunal came in a red gown, and ad
dressed to the culprit the following words—" Your
country has found you guilty of an infamous ac
tion —the Law and the Tribunal degrade you from
the rack of French citizen." — The novelty of such
an exhibition, and the rank of the offi oder, drew
immense number, of (Delators to the Grand
Square, where this punishment wasbnfii&rd.
— — be— — — — e4
\ Constantinople, August 9.
V Porte has received very unpleasant advices
from @ypt. The rebellious Arnauts have driven
th, fmaQ number of Janiffariea which remained
faithful to the Porte, from Cairo, and invited the
Beys in Upper Egypt to make a common cause
with them. The latter have accepted the invita
tion, and coneaed their troops under the command
of Ibrahim Bey at Giza, whence they frequently
fend out detachments to Cairo. The Porte expels
flill more disagreeable news from Egypt.
The accounts from Syria are likewise very unfa
vourable. The rebels under Abdul Wechab, who
has taken the city of Medina, are on their marchfor
Damascus. The report that they had been defeat
ed, is not confirmed. The Divan has sent orders
to all the Pacha# in Asia to unite their forces to pre
vent the further progress of these dating enemies of
the Mahometan religion.'
The advices from European Turkey are of a
somewhat better complexion. TheTurkidi army
assembled at Schiumla holds the difeootented in
check.
The Captain Pacha will only cruize with his
fleet in the Archipelago; he appears to have top
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ATT frtTU
few land farces to afford any aid against the rebels
in Egypt.
The plague still makes great ravages here.
august 29.
By an extraordinary Courier.
The accounts which the Porte has receivedby
several couriers in the beginning of this week,%e
ver y gloomy. The rebels have obtained so deci
sive a Superiority in Egypt, that it begins to be
doubted whether it will be possible for the Porte to
regain this rich and fertile province. Several of
the Turkish ministers openly avow that the retiring
of the Englifli from Alexandria ha, been very inju
rious to the Sovereignty of the Porte. The Ar
nauts or Albanefe, have found means to form a
close connection with the Mamelukes, anl with
their united force have entirely defeated the Turk
i(h Pacha who commanded for the Grand Signin'.
He loft fume thousands of h : s troops killed on the \
tan. yng 4 > 4r , r & z. r .J „;Qll is nor ex
pected that he will be able to coiled them together
again. Moy of them have Since joined the ene
my.
The Port: now only retains poff-ffion of Alex
andria. The new Facha who had been appointed
1 Governor of Cairo, fled from the city with about
100 men. It is exported that the rebels will im
mediately much against Alexandria, and that the
feeble garrison wilt immediately open its gates to
?hem. Such was the situation of affairs in Egypt,
at the latter cm. of July.
Several councils have been held, and it has been
resolved topjv.- to D^z-% the Pacha of Acre, the
comm nd of the army nhch is to a& against Ab
dai Wechab; and to appoint him Pacha of Damaf
cu% allowing I. n at the fame time to retain his own
pachalik, which is the firft ioftance of the kind.
Phe rebel Abdul Wechab is now in possession of
(he cities of M^caand Medina, and claims the cal
iphas, the principal dignity of the Grand Signior, as
his right.
The danger is confidcred at Constantinople as
great, but the means to repel it are feebfe and infuf
ficient. A g;c:t fun has been promised Djezzar
monthly ; but the forte will not be able to pay it,
and the Pacha of Acre will thus be furmfaed with
an excuse, Riould he effect nothing.
PARIS, SEPT. 23.
A letter from Genoa, in the Moniteur of the
78th Augutt, gives very minute details of the
proceedings of the Albanian and Arnaut rebels
in Cairo. Os these the most important particu
lars have already been received. Some new cir
cumstances are, however, disclosed. Taher
Pacha, the chief of the Insurgents, it appears, a
vailed, himfelf of the firfl moments of success to
be guilty of the greatest outrages. He massa
cred avast number of the Ottomans and the in
habitants attached to their party. On the sur
vivors he levied the heaviest contributions a.nd
allowed his troops, to be guilty of the greatest
exceffefc. After venting his rage on the Ottomans
he nextjaid the Franks and Christians under con
tributiom The English commissary, major Mef
fclt, was imprisoned in his house and for some
time his life was in danger. The Imperial com
missary, M. Roffeti, endeavored to put an end
to his exactions, by paying two hundred purses.
M. Maroufky, a very- eminent merchant ; was
compelled to contribute fix hundred purses. All
bodies and individuals were forced to contribute
in similar proportions. Achmed Pacha at
length futceeded in putting him to death by the
(hot of a carbine, and afterwards sent his head
to Damietta. He failed, however,in taking pof
feflion of the citadel, which was immediately sei
zed by Mahemed Ali,fecund in command among
the Arnauts. He began his career by putting
to death the attendant of Tefterdar & the Pacha
together with a number of Ottomans. Finding
himfelf in need of support, he found it necessary
for hini to call in the assistance of the Beys, who
on receiving hostages, agreed to join his cause.
They had the precaution, however, to leave their
headquarters at some diftanee under the man
agemerit of Ibrahim Bey, their most experienced
and tiufty leader. Reckoning on this support
the Albanians proceeded to attack Achmed Pa
cha, who, with the feeble remnant of the Otto
man troops, was under the necessity of making
a precipitate retreat. He took refuge in a small
fort called Sulkoafki, conftruffed by the French
near t airo The Mamelukes endeavored as far
as they could to repress the outrages of their new
allies, Every fort of outrage continued to pre
vail in Cairo. A number of English merchants
were pillaged of goods to a very large amount,
and nothing but the protection of the Beys saved
major Mefielt from dettrudibn. Major Meffelt
did all in his power to bring about a reconcilia
tion betwixt the different parties. For a confid
erabie period things continued in this diftraded
state, till at length the principle forts were sur
rendered to the Mamelukes, and the Albanians
having 101 l their principal leaders, and destitute
of discipline, were, after some further opposition
reduced to obedience. Great hopes are enter
tained that in confequeßce of the conduct pursu
ed by the Beys on this occasion, a cordial re
conciliation will fpcedily take place betwixt them
and the Ottoman Porte.
0
(Amsterdam, Sept. 13.
Several commercial boufts of this city have re
ceived an extract of, a convention concluded be
tween England and Sweden, the 25th July. The
firft article explains the meaning of the word con
traband, and declares that arms and warlike flores
shall alone be considered as such. The word
commcatut which is used ip the treaty of 1661, and
which has often given rife to differences is effaced.
Provisions and naval Bores arc no longer to be Con
sidered contraband.
The zd article determines that tar pitpb. rosin,
and wrought articles, which are necessary for the
arming at veffeb, except those fpec&a in art, 4'b,&
ORACLE POST.
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--TUESDAY, December 27, 1803.
also provisions {dememe aue les /nbfiflances) (hall be
<'°° "^'" °' Pre-emption on the part
of CTf !ll gerent power, whose cruisers (hall have
conducted a vessel loaded with these articles into its
ports, Indw hich were defined for an enemy's port.'
In tin case a profit is to be granted of 10 per cent,
on th lowed price in England or Sweden at the
chore the proprietor, and also an indemniy for
extras denary exp-nfes and loss of time.
Art Ie 3,f ya that in cases where the rcerclin
dizehing as Ipe.ified in the firft article, but dritin
erifort neutri port, have been taken on suspicion
of bag enemy's property, they will be released
immet ately on difeovery of the error and the own
jcr ind # unified for his expenses and loss of time.
."" 4* determines that the principal produc
tions t Sw< den, such as iron in bars, fleel, copper,
a , T' % '""^ W "^ P"'ks, (not being of Oak,)
also fo r the conttruaion of marts, drill nei
\ #,^ -r;^ ^ : : .^.frr.:, to .{ a s
Tight of pre-emption, but may proceed freely to the
place of tbeir ckfiination. There flail be no em
barraffmeut to the navigation of the coasting vessels
with those arrebe, provided the neutral vessels do
not transport enemy's property; as have been al
ready prelcribed io the treaty ofthe i;tb June, 1803.
, London oct. 3.
A letter from an officeron board the Mangles
which failed from Bengal the 28th March, Ind
left the Cape the ift of July, fates, that there
had been a furious mutiny among the Dutch
troops, but it was fupprefTed for the time by an
increase of their pay. Several Dutch shi ps with
rich cargoes, from Batavia, were about to fail
bound to Hdland, and several more were expec
ted to arrive daily. About a month before the ar
rival of the Mangles, a French squadron of men of
war and tranfeorts for Pondicherry, full of troops
had touched at the Cape ; after their departure
governor Jarfon uent up the country among
the Caffrees ; every article at the Cape is extreme
ly high, and much difaffeftion among the inhab
itants to their own government.
The French according to advices from Han
over of the 16th ult. were preparing to make
great additions to the fortrefs of Hameln and
Fort St. George. These works are to be com
pleted with the utmost speed, and near a thou
sand workmen have been put in requisition for
this purpose To judge from this uncommon
precipitation, it would seem as if the French
were afraid of not being left much longer in the
undisturbed pofleffion of the Electorate. Fort
St George and Hameln have been supplied with
a year's provisions. The elector of Hesse Caflel
has actually advanced to the dates of Hanover
a loan of 50,000,000 rix dollars, and his High
ness's agent, Mons. Hahn, is now in the coun
try to fettle the conditions for another loan,which
will# it is said, amounr t n i.coo.o^Q of jjx Ant 1
lars. ~ L o ——
octi 4. The Turkish empire appears by the
last letters from Conftahtinople, to be in a'moft
deplorable Rate. The Rebellious Arnatus at
Cairo have been joined by the Beys of Upper
E gyp, whose united force presents so formida
ble a front, that it is a matter of doubt whether
that country will ever be re-conquered by the
Porte The rebel troops have entirely defeated
the attny of the Turkish Pacha, several thousand
of wtofe troops were left dead on the field, and
manyof the fugitives went over to the enemy.
Alexandria alone remained in the pofleffion of
the Porte, and the next accounts from Egypt
were expected to announce the capture of that
place by the rebels, as the garrison was feeble
and uifupported by any force from without, the
Captain Pasha not having a fufficient force with
him to afford any assistance. From Syria the
advices were equally melancholy. The rebels
under Abdul Wechab, who had already taken
the City of Medma, were on their march against
Damafeus. In consequence of this threatening
afped of affairs, Djezzar Pacha, who comman
ded at Acre when Sir Sidney Smith so gallantly
defended! that place againftghe army of Bona
parte, had been appointed by the Forte Pachaof
Damafeus, retaining at the fame time his former
Pafhalik,which is the firft instance of two ofthe lar
gest governments in the Turkish empire being
held by one person.
Djezzar has been promised a large sum of
money monthly, to enable him to carry on
effective operations against the rebels ; but it
was not supposed that the Porte was in a condi
tion even to pay this, without which it was not
expeded that Djezzar would be very a&ive.
T ; London, Oct. §.
A dreadful fire lately happened in the French de
partment of Landes, which destroyed a fortft of
pines, together with several farms, and completely
desolated four communes.
By private letters from the Cape we learn, that
the colony is rapidly declining into a Rate likely to
be more deplorable than when it fell into the hands
of the English. The troops are constantly (hewing
^ difpofitronto mutiny, ob account of their little pay
and short allowances, which they were told would
be at leaftequal to those given to the Englifli gar
rison. The government is also greatly in arrears,
and has neither money nor credit. Bankruptcies
are daily happening, and there is such a total Rag
nation to all trade, and luch a sudden deprtffian in
price in all articles of produce, that thole persons
who were the most obnoxious to the Britiji gov
ernment are now loudly calling out for the return
.of tlie English. The whole garrison confifls of
about 2000 men, and those mostly dilguhed and
diLffc&d, and when the Mangles left the Cape,
there was noj@ fingic (hip of war of any dtlcrip
tion, either in Table or Simon's Bay, nor is it pro
bable that our (hips in tha Indian Seas would luf
fer the coffee squadron of Dutch (hips cf war, un
der admiral Dekker, to pals the Straits cf Sunlo.
Sept. 26.
BOTANY BAY NEWSPAPERS.
We are in possession of seven of the firß newfp#.
pers printed at Botany Bay.—The mind capped
by levity may treat fich a communication th
contempt; but whether we view this new colony
commercially or politically, the reflations produc
ed are such as befit the philofophcr, the statesman,
or the philanthropist. These papers, although
printed in a style that 40 years ago would have seem
ed elegant in this country, are not noticed by us as
literary produainns, but as the firft tffay of a colo
ny which will at feme future period far exceed jo
extent, population, and power, the mother count;,.
It is now 18 years fioce the firft eßabiifhn@t
was made in New South Wales; and the colony
is already England in miniature. It is but little
more th^ two centuries since Europeans were fet
tled, on the continent of North America, which is
th:. d?y,r., of ih, crQmria in -tit wor^:-wt'ti
maintains its independence and dignity in the most
decided and honourable manner.
We are ignorant as to the fettlemem of colonies
in the ancient world. Fable and fiction have en
veloped these tran&aions in darkness ; but since
Europe got connected with India and Scu^h Ame
rica, we have had some very (hiking examples of
the fmpoffibility of what is termed colonizing a
country already inhabited and enjoying a poliflied
Rate offociety. We may fend thousands of our
mod energetic and brave compatriots to the East
Indies, they will either return home or they will as
similate thenfelves to the inhabitants; and their
children will resemble the natives o f the country.
The Spaniards experience the fame wit i regard to
South America, and time makrs no change in the
manners of the inhabitants. In fettling a colony in
North America, England Ried less blood, and per
formed fewer of thole anions which a misapplica
tion of language has dignified with the title of great
and brilliant , but it laid the foundation for a g<eat
ami mighty Rate, already amounting to above eight
millions of inhabitants, am: affording by far the
most extensive market for Englifli manufactures
that exists. Ihe fair complement of inhabitants
for the United States will amount to above igo
millions !—Men who will (peak the Englifli lan
guage, live under English laws, and continue to
prefer English manners to those of other countries.
Thus England has already established one of the
igreeted Rates in the world ; and this new country
follows with a rapidity that passes all example.
The firft public effort of the inhabitants of Bo
tany B^y towards assuming a national charader,
cannot be parted over without feeling and obitrva
tion. It is a period that naturally leads to reflec
tion ; and the thinking mind cannot look forward
without feeing the fame things happen that have ta
ken place in America, with this difference. rl.,t rifs
infant colony increases in wealth and conveniences
much more rapidly than that couny did which is
‘ now 'ft# & U/^4 c-t;r&^.„A? ' "
Lehdes the reflections luggute, to % specula
tive politician, the man who port tfc.-Sir human
ity or religion, must be happy to find tha: those
charaders whom bad company and a number of
concomitant circumstances of which they could
not get rid, rendered profligate and dangerous in
this country, are become good and exemplary mem
bers of society in their new situation, wh r a guilty
man shakes off fliame, and becomes a frefh "wor
thy, and induflrious inhabitant of the new country.
A century will not pass over t ; l! this new colony,
feeling its own ftrengtb, will imitate the Americans,
and become in the East a great and powerful na
tion. What the contequence of this will be on
our Asiatic possessions, we can no more tel!, than
what the independence of America will oge day
produce with refpe& to our Weft India islands.
We must only keep in mind, that the men we are
planting are Englishmen, and will peffefs all their
ambition, and all their energy.
It appears clearly from the papers now before us,
which are much occupied by advertisements, like
a provincial Englifli newfpapcr, that the Rate cf
society at Botany ^ y is already greatly advanced.
Public Tales, articles loft and found, even servants
wanted, and articles of millinery and jewellery and •
all other such matters, are advertised in the fame
manner as in the most extensive and wealiy En
glish settlements; and thus atiles to the intellect
ual view, a very wide fi~ld of refledioD.
The extent of New South Wales is very imper
feaiy known ; but the difficulties which attended
the firft fettlcm.pt disappear daily ; so that in a
short time there will he few impediments is the
way of its increase. One advantage it will enjoy
over America ie, that the new fettleri are cot water
ed abroad as they were, but, by extending from one
Ipot will do it with more ease and advantage.
The publifliing 3 paper is an aft which gives a
fort of unity and charade, to the eftabhfhient;
and we lee in that the beginning of a country
which will, in a short time, exceed in power and
Energy Daly, Greece, Turkey, and those parts cf
the world that at one time held all the rest in fub
je&ion and contempt. It is impossible to reflect
on the part, and look to the future, without being
impressed with feeling, of those changed which
take place in human affairs, and in the family of
the world. We must conGdertbs new >r*nch as
that promises tv maintain its importance in a man
ner that will not disgrace the nation from which it
sprung.
There is, without doubt, a disagreeable idea at.
tending the mention of Botany Bay ; and there are
those whose levity will lead them to look contemp.
tuoufly on the country ; but when we c*nfider
that such an eftahlifhment ; s raised from that part of
society that was loti to this country, and had
justly forfeited their rights, bow highly ought we to
admire the humanit v and policy of those who con
verted the rigour of justice imo so mild a channel,
and, from the crimes and misforrbnes of mankind,
reared a society that promises to become io refpec
tableand worthy of proteaion. The plan of this
eftahlifin ent was entirely Mr. Putt's, and much
blame did h: incur on account of the exp^nce ; but
in (hat, 2sin other tuirgs, he had ficauinris rq4
[No. 11.