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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.
'"MISCEL LANY™™
From the United States Gazetts.
4 The natives of the sorest are represented wor
shipping their gods from fear, and as considering
them as cruel and malignant beings, whose an
ger they can appease, only by the deepest felf a
basement, and the molt severe corporeal chastise
ments. Some of the Gentile nations, mentioned
in scripture, offered up their children as facrifi
ces to Moloch—But these were the practices of
heathen and barbarous nations. In more mod
' ern times, in a country diftingnifhed as the mod
polished on earth, and at a period exceeding all
others for the general diffufion of light and
h§mk?~ %- 'r'^ *.Megiec r' adorarior n-U
to a man which falls little fiort of the ostensible
worship offered up to the gods of the heathen,
rr the Moloch of rite Gentiles.— When we read
the addrefies p^fented to the Chief Consul of
France as he palled through his country, we per
ceive a forties of worship not more rational than
what is offered to the Deities of the most Barbs
reus nations. We fee homage paid to a being
who commenced his career by cutting in pieces
the unarmed citizens of Paris, when convened
to assert their constitutional rights to a free elec
tion ; who with fire and (word desolated the
plains of Italy ; who murdered hi £ captives in
cold blood at Jaffa ; who poisoned his own poor
and wounded soldiers that had followed him
from their country, their wives, and their chil
dren ; and who now wages war against law,
liberty, and fecial tiappiziels, for the gratification
of his own ambition.
Bonaparte's conduct to the poor Hanoverians
affords an inftruftive lesson to every nation which
has any interest in the politics of Europe. He
fird demanded their country ; they farrendered
L that, and i left their vines, their fig trees, and
^Ltheir all, gratify French rapacity. Not fatis.
& w@ this, be demanded their arms, & their
contrary to his express Stipulations !
is perfectly confident with the char-
Hos Bonaparte. —It is of the fame hue with
■profeffions and condud in Venice, Genoa,
clan, Tuscany, to the Pope, and in Egypt;
it Grows that the fame perfidy and fallhood
~ which marked his course through the richest and
mod fertile parts of Europe, hill pertains to him.
Englishmen, it is hoped, are now Efficiently a
live to the dangers which surround them, fuffi
cienily apprized of the character of their ene
my, to kLOW that they must meet him, not with
the (Live urmch, dot with their peace offering#,
but with the sword and the bayonet; they must
greet him as they did at Acre, and trample un
der foot his myrmidons, as they did at Cairo and
at Alexandria.
The French call Bonaparte a great statesman
and an able negotiator. Some men have in
quired how this can be, feeing he has not been
conversant with the hiftory and politics of other
countries and other times. Perhaps we can
solve the seeming difficulty. He, who in his ne
gociations, holds himfelf bound by no rule of
good faith or common honesty, but who violates
them without scruple, when it faits his purpose,
may easily over foch those who are fettered by
the obligations of honour and juuice. He re
fembl^s the nocturnal thief, who undertakes to
conduct an unwary paflenget on his way, and
when he has him in a by lane, knocks him down,
tubs him of his putfe and knocks his brains out.
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From the Washington Federalist.
It can hardly be forgrttenwhat clamors were
railed against the lift adminiflration, brcayfe Mr.
Adams occasionally in the summer season took a
trip to the place of his residence, although he al
ways left a majority of the heads of departments
at the feat of Government, to attend to the pub
lic business. The people were then told of the
negligence of their officers, and, of the Shameful
practice of receiving the public money, and do
ing nothing for it. Men who could thus aban
don their polls,,were unworthy of public trust.
How stands the account now ? The pure and
unfpoued Republicans, of the present day, can
never be guilty of what they formerly so point
edly condemned rWe have been repeatedly as
sured that they never neglect their business.
There are at present absent from the feat of gov
ernment, the following officers, some of them for
months, and all for weeks pad, except, the
Comptroller of the Treafurf, who held out 'till
a: few days ago.
Thomas Jefferfon, President of the United 1
States—James Madison, Secretary of State-
Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury—H.
Dearborn, Man of War— R. Smith Secretai yof
the navy—T. Munroe, Superintendant of the
City and Deputy Post Matter— Levi Lincoln,
Attorney General— Gideon Granger, Post Mas
ter General—Gabriel Duval, Comptroller of the
Treasury—J. Simmonds, Accountant of the
War department—T, Tinner, Accountant of
the Navy Department ; with many more infe
rior officers and Clerks.
Their anxiety id have ole Constitution chang-|
ed. as to the mode es electing the President, ve
for their
Vol. XIV.]
a ORACLE POST.
j right to frank for his department onlygfls ^ev
erthelefs broken the law and franked for the
State department. The post-master with great
propriety, more observant of his duty arrested
the letters. Thus we fee that evert democrats,
who are high in office too, don't mind breaking
the law, when it interferes with their views.
The la% mail has removed the embarrassment in
the department of date, as it brought 'franked'
a trunk containing blank franks from the Secre
tary of State.
This (hews us how the world goes—Under
the lift adtniniftration, it watcriminal for a tin
gle officer to remove from the feat of govern
ment. The very men who then condemned
wity so much bitterness, now leave the govern
ment Without a Angle Counsellor, to fuperih
tertythe public business.
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%CONGRESS
is co meet st Washington on Monday next. —The Lour
fiana treaty must immediately be taken up; as by one of
irs stipulations the ratification must be on or before the firft
of November. TheHoufe must originate the appropriations,
The attention of Congress will, it is laid, be called to an
alteration of the Constitution, in that fe^ion
which provides for the election of the President ; and
which prefcribel that the electors fiall vote by ballot for
two persons.—This was considered by the wife and augnft
framers of the Conftiturion, as one of the bell ferocities for
the choice of great and good men to fill the two tird offices
in the Union; a^d its wisdom and utility have bc^n amply
demonstrated by Mr. Morris in a letter to the Legiflatare
of New-York, This provision of the Cooftitution it seems
Hands in the way of some favourite democratic Scheme ,
hnd rnuß therefore be removed. They fear the rie&on of
Mr. Burr to the Frefidency ; or of one of the federal can
didates as Vice Pretident. They cannot prevent fine or the
other of theft events from tasting place, if the Coo&itution
remains as it is ; and, therefore, under the old pretence of
amending^, they are determined, if they have the power---
to injure it in one of its wifefl provisoes. The Constitu
tion prescribes two'modes for the introduction of amend
ment%---The following it is likely will be adopted.—Two
thirds of both Houses of Congress will propofc the amend
ment, which will be, that the eledors ffiall designate on
their ballots the offices for which they intend their respec
tive candidates ; this will be transmitted co the Legislature
of the several States, and when three quarters of
them have ratified it, it will become a part of the Consti
tution. There are now Eighteen States in the Union :—
The ratification, therefore, of fourteen legislatures is ne
cessary. The legislatures of New-Hampshire, Massachu
setts, Cooneaicut and Delaware have majorities therein of
friends to the Conftitation as it now stands.--Those of the
other States, excepting New-Jersey, we believe have anti
federal majorities; therefore, if a majority of either of the
branches of the new Legiflatureof New-Jersey Should prove
Conftitutionalifts, Be proposed amendment will be reject
ed, and the Conftiration preferred in its purity ; which
we hope will be the case. [Centrad.
Another Character of Buonaparte.
Frem Dr. Atkins' account of the Irtvafon of Egyfo
"The command was given to General Buona
parte. In Buonaparte the republic bad 3 citizen th
whofecharaaer the soldier formed but an ingredient.™
He was hitherto publicly known tor little beside
military capacity, or perhaps good fortune. His
enemies, proud of fighting with pigmies, spoke of
him with contempt. He was, however, a lover of
the arts, a Scholar, and a statesman. Possessed of
ascendency over those with whom he was concern
ed, he had at his difpofel the arrangements of this
expedition ; and he went out from France rather a
Sovereign than a general. The colour of his mind
was reflexed in the whole armament. Learning
and feitnee were leagued with arms. He regarded
that of the bayonet as the worst and least of cou
quefts. It was only by spreading civilization, and
assimilating manners that he hoped to retain Egypt:
and, preparing to put in practice all that theory
could suggest for this purpose, he invited men of
knowledge and genius in every pursuit, to be his
companions. Sensible, dfo, of the zalu^ble difeov
cries to be made ip Egypt, he prepared in like man
oer to bring back these to Europe.
"The military force, when the several detach
ments were united, confined of nearly forty thou
sand men, and the lift of articles, men of letters,and
those of feience, contains the following numbers and
departments : in geometry S, astronomy 4, in gen
eral mechanics 15, in watchmaking a, in chemis
try. 8, in mineralogy 3, in botany 4, in zoology 5,
in surgery 6, in pharmacy 3, in antiquities 2, in ar
chiteaure 4, in drawing §, io engineering 19, in
geography rt, io printing 15. In conformity with
the various objed, attended to in this assemblage of
persons, the implements of war were accompanied
with those of Science." ?
From a Paris Paper, -
A CURIOSITY.
The Fir§ proof Spaniard, of whom so much has
been lately said at Paris, has been an obj 8 cf the
Public Curiosity at Madrid. The Madrid Gazette
for the 29'h July, contains Several circurnftanees re
lative to this man, which proves that he faggot ef~
caped from a Convent, as feme have conj dured.
so His name is FauOino Chacou, and he was born at
Toledo in 1780. "This man' 'fays the Madrid
Gazette, "was at Eftremadura in extreme poverty,
latI at the age of 12 years, and recolltding that his
mother had often told him, that when he was very
young, he had fallen into the fire without the least
, injury, he thought of this expedient to get a liveli
; hood. In fad, he expoled himfclf to the aßion of
fire, without inconvenience, and making further ex
periments, he ventured at fall to enter into a Baker's
loven. From Eftremadura he went to Zetland
from thence to Cadiz. He was there at the Iril
§ bombardment of the English. He fared from the
mirft of the fire, many persons who were in a lionft
in fl ou s. At Cadiz, Mr. Robinson heard of him,
I ano wished to tee him ; and fho.ufch the youngman
I Hevrr tiled tis secret but from nccelliiy, be was
r prevailed upon to follow Mr. Robioloirto Madrid
I and to Paris. He was at Midrid in June last. The
I Spaniard has fubmiued to the fame proofs at Paris
as at Madrid,& has had the fame success. Theon'y
leffedwhichI effedwhich fire can have uponhim/ys he decWes
ft Q , —_t.
TUESDAY, October 25, 1803
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gives to him a kind ofcramp, the degree of which lef.
lent upon ih? frequent ute of bis extraordinary foc
cuhy,as difiife mercafes ir. He is a man without
education, and who dee; not know how to read."
Money, fays the elegant Hume, is the oil which
renders {he wheels of trade fmoo;h and eal'y. 1
One would fuppofethat the democrats wished to
E°P ±6fe wheels by taking away all of this
magic oil which we possess, to give to the Great
Confalgfor what why for nothing butter ruin
our merchants !' ;
'',"'?'." °" cw d observation of Ariacharsis,l
the Scythian, who had never seen money in his|
^n :otiptiy,that gold and silver seemed to himl
*"° fl '° * e Greeks but to affid them in nu
m"affß From the prodigality with which bqrl
/^ff^near the Court etfohe Gic4t Con-I
'^ '4r* m P l f4 $> Squander our Health, it|
;^woutglem thas4ie " were of ScythAnexu action.
. Ciurirfol Courier
y 7 From a New Fork Paper.
A London print enumerate, the following among the
c,ridticief that Bonaparte brought from Egypt, 1. Six -
flafks of the darkoefs which had formerly beta spread ovir
Egypt, hermetically sealed. 2 Several fine crocodiles,
from whom it is contemplated to form a fort cf Hud in the
palace of St. Cloud—and in case the breed can be propaga
ted, the Abbe Sicycs is to have charge of rhe education of
the defendants 3. A piece of Noah's Ark, large enough
to form a raft that will float across the channel, in about
36 hours, more or Idi. 4. A number of Hippopotami, or
tea horses, caught on the banksof the Nile, on which it
is intended to mount a troop of Marine Cavafry. {Sev
eral large Turtles, deftebiedfrom the great Tortoise, who
according to Egyptian tradition, carries the world on bis
back. There arc fine Chicken Turtle, who swim very faft,
and are each capable of carrying a regiment of fiddlers
properly garrisoned, after the ancient manner rs placing
cafties on the backs of elephants. 6. A park us heavy ar
tillery, formed from the iron which the prophet glilha
made to swim.
These articles are ail to be employed in the intended in-
Vafieu, and great calculations are made on their im#xntance.
They excite much expectation in this country : cur women
weep at the idea of being devoured by the crocodiles, and
our aldermens mouths water whenever the turtle, arc men
tioned.
it is said that a handsome uniform is provided for the
crocodiles, who are daily exercised in cork jackets, and go
through their manoeuvres with a dexterity and precision
truly admirable. -
A fwimmmg school has been eftabliffied at
N^aily,where the foot grenadiers of the Consular
Guard learn that art. This morning in presence
of citizen Hullin, their Col. at the word of com
mand to charge they swam across the Seine in
full uniform, with even their hats on.
/Shearing Lambs.
From a Pemfykania Paper.
1 observed in your paper of the 13th inst. a
nice 'from the American Museum, on fnearing.
, iambs, in which it is ftated,that "in the town of
Stratham in the state ofNew-Hampffiire,from nine
lambs have lately been fliorn 12 pounds of wool."
If you think it worth publishing, you may inform
the public that in the townfllip of Putsiowiijn the
county of Luzerne, and state of Pennsylvania, I
have, the present season, from fix lambs, thorn
fourteen pounds and four ounces of wool, with
my own bahds.
I am convinced, by seventeen years experience,
that it is really advantageous to ibear lambs ; al
though the wool will not be so long the next spring,
yet it will be much thicker than on those which
are not fhorn ; and the lambs that are thorn will
not lose their wool like those that are not ; befidcs,
fl,eating will relieve them from ticks, and they cer
tainly grow better and make larger theep.
The time that I choose to fliear my lambs is soon
after the new moon, in the last of July or the firft
of August. JOHN PHILLIPS..
. Cure for Yellow Fever.
Mr. Thomas Gilbert, of Newyork gives public
notice that he claims the right of difeovering the
efficacy of Common Table Salt, as the only pre
ventative and cure of the Yellow Fever, of
every nature and type —whether the Lavantine
plague, Weft India yellow fever, or American
billious remittent fever.
* FROM A PHILADELPHIA PAPER.
A very rich and abundant spring of petreleu m
has recently been difeovered on the borders nf Li
guirs, Italy, and is now, without any mixture, til
tratjoo, &c. used in lighting the ftrects of Genoa.
It gives an equallight at fourth part of theexpence
of common oil, it is extremely limped, has a strong
ptitigent smell, and its fpecjfic gravity is to that of
wdtfi as 33 to 106 and to olive oil as 91 to 100. —
There toe 520 petre leum wells in the Burmha do
minions, near a village called Rachanghon#, which
fignifie, a town thro' which a river of oi^flows —
the ill produced from thole wells is ofa dingy green
colour, highly odoriferous, and is used for lamps &
<ther purpofts; it has some medical properties, and
isuted as a lotion in cicataneous eruptions and as an
embrocation in bruises and rheumatic affcafops.
On an average, 412,360 hogsheads cf this, oil are
annually railed from these wells (some of which are
250 feet deep.) The oil of the Ligurian weliQike
thufe of Asia) possesses all the properties of coal tar,'
being in fad the fame thing ; the only difference is,
that nature alebomtes in one case, what refers Loin
ctrymical process in the other. :
• Mechanic A±.
FROM A NEW-YORK PAPER. ~
Mr. John „ofe<,of Cayuga, in $0 fiafe, has
obtained a pa'et for a pew Srili .W & ihr, tv
which frorrsfive to ten barrels of ip.ri's nvy be d:1-
tillWina day, by the labour of only two men ; and
itis fiid to be foobviousand important a # improve - [
merff^ th^t from hvc toien thOulai'G dollars have i
been offered for the right to use them in one Won
tvonly.l
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS."
HALIFAX, (N 5.) 4 .
Lois of the Lady Hobart Packet.
01 the 2zJ of June, the Lady Hobart, failed from this
port tor Falmourh-^On the 26 saw a large whooner under
French colours,Randtog towards her,being fall efenen Capt.
Fellows preyed for engaging her ; but on approach, and
receiving a shot from the Lady Hobart, she Struck her cob
ours : the was taken peffeffion of,& given in charge toLieuta.
Little & Hugoes,two gentlemen of the navy who were paf
frogers in the Packet with direct ions to take her co Fafr
I niouch. • fli^was laden with tilh and fame wide.
I Qn the %Bch, at one o'clock in the morning, the weath
iye being hazy, and at intervals, a thick fog, and the (hip go
-ling at the rate of , miles an hour, the (truck against an I-
Amd of fee, with I'uch violence as to thtow fcveral of the
jeftu out of their hammocks—the helm was immediate,
ly put hard a port, when the (truck a second rime a
bout thecheftrec, & then (winging round on her bead,ftore
in the fternfyoft, and carried away the rudder. Ebe Ifl^d
of h:e appeared to hang qife over the ilup, and was fuu
pofed to be twice the height of her unit heads The wt
^■^£l!°^"" & ° h °^ in * f -^ minutes ; the
gtths were throrim °refyiwa_&f y^.
bed men were fee to bailing ac the hatchways, and two
fils were got under her bottom —rotwithftandiog' which
in left than a quarter of an hour, the fettled down to her
fore chains in the water.
1 he neceflity of quitting, the (hip becoming quite appar
ent, Capt. Felloes (after conlulcing Capt. Thomas of the
navy, who was a pa&oger on board, and Mr, Bargus, the
mafler, who were both of opinion chat no time was to be
1 ift) ordered the boats co be hoiftcd out—The weight did
ftze of the mail, was such as to preclude the possibility of
taking it into either of the boats, without excluding fame
of the people, it was therefore judged prudent to Guk it
The ladies, wito were passengers, wire then placed fa the*
boats, and the rest of the pafleogers and crew immediate
ly followed.—Some bread, with a small quantity of wine,
rum and water, were taken in the boats, with a quadrant
and compass.—Scarcely were these arrangements made,
wh& i the Ihip took a heavy lurch to port, and immediately
went down bead foremoft, and fa near were the boats, that
they narrowly escaped being carried down by the water.
Little more than an hour draped from the fhip'3 friking
till her foundering. °
At & time the ship foundered, Captain Fellows funpo
fca her to be in lac. 36, 33, N. long, 44, 00 W. St. John's
Newfoundland, bearing W. 3 4, N. dittant 350 miles.—
The whole number embarked in the boat, consisted of 19,
and all the provision saved from the (hip was between 40
and 50 Uganda of bifeuit, two demijohns water, confifthig'
of 5 gallons each—l demijohn of rum, and part ofa small
barrel of spruce beer, and a few bottles cf wine; and as it
was a season of the year when the wederly winds are mod
prevalent, it became necessary to husband this small dock
with great economy.—St. Jahn's being the neared land
they co& expert to make .
On id July, the boats encountered a gale of wind,
parted from each other, and continued Separated two days,
and it nly be confidcred an uncommon circumstance, that
after sassing many leagues on the open ocean, they again
fell in & each other, and continued together till they
reacheia^ooceptiou Bay on the 4th Joly, and entered a
place ^BLlfland Cove. They had been 7 days and 6
nights wet, and cold, and with no other fabfif
tence t^^birter of a bifeuit, and a glass of liquor for
24 hoi,ira during the whole period they were in the
boats the, never once saw -the fun efo-p: on t^ tirft+y,
or a star to enable them to take an observation.
Not a fingic person was able to walk from the boats
without affiftauce. on their arrival at the Cove :—But they
were received with th&uemoft kindness and hofpitalicy by
the inhabitants, who feerfully rendered them ail the as
sistance in their power to afford.—Before their arrival the
intellects of several began to be affected. The master cf
the French vessel they had captured, in a fit of phreozy,
threw himfelf suddenly overboard, and instantly disappear
ed, The legs of all of them were much Swollen—they
were becoming uneasy and reflleG, and growing very
weak ; a few hours more, would, in all probability, have
brought on all the consequences of despair and madness.
They reached St. Joint's the 7th July—here they experien
ced the most hospitable treatment from Gen. Skurret, who
not only paid every attention in his power to Capt: Fel
lows and the passengers, but gave quarters to the crew,and
itfued rations for their fopporc.
Mr. Jenkins, the matter's mate, and 15 of the crew, ar
rived here on Saturday evening in 16 days.
Moll of the crew are Rill in a feeble fixation, several
are froft bitten, two of them Severely.
Capt. Fellows, MrfyFellows, colonel Cooke, of the
Guards, Capt. Thomas, of the Navy, and mr. Bargus, mas
ter, of the Lady Hobart, have taken pallage at St. Johos
in a brig bound for Oporto.
LONDON, AUG. 3.
RAMPARTS ROUND LONDON.
An official note has been sent byLord'Cathcart
to the Marquis of Titchfield, on the fubjc& of for
tifying London. The measure is to be put in
to immediate execution. The line of defence is
to run through the County of Middlesex in a sem
icircular form, beginning at the Thanes, near
the mouth of the river Lea, and ending at the
Thames, above and near Batterfea-Bi idge ; it
passes in its northern and north-wettern direction
through Stratford-le-Bg„ and near Clopton, a
long the high grounds which bound the marches (
on rhe right or weftern bank of the river Lea, as
far in the neighbourhood of Stamford, when if
quits the Lea and takes a weftern courfe,palling,
from near the turnpike, on Stamford Hill, b,
Hornfey-Wood to the ridge extending by Mount-
Pleasant, over the village of Crouchend, and
from thence by the Sheep-house Ridge to High
gate and adjacents, from thence by Hamttead
and adjacents towards Wiilfdon-Green ; here it
changes its direction to the south-well and fouth
running down the Canal near the Redhorfe,then
eroding the Canal near Kenfal-Grcen, proceed
ing to Kensington Gravel-Pitts and Holland-'
Hcufe, passing near little Chelsea, and teaching
the Thames above Batterfea-Bridge.
Letters from the Hague of the 2d- Thermidor
announce the very important intelligence, that
the Batavian government has just set apart funds
for immediately conftruding and fitting out 100
gun boats, each to carry 3 great guns: 250 flat
bottoine< ib^ats are likewise to be immediately
got ready in die different ports of the Batavian
Republic, where activity is now become the order
The Cardinal Archbishop of Tours has reques
ted government to dedua 2*400 tr. fiom bis in
ofthe year r in
come ct rue year
; naval conftruv'out ^^^
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