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importation. The attempt therefore of 1
the partizans of the executive to excite,
a belief in the community, that the re
peal of the internal taxes originated from
their tender concern for commerce and
manufdtures,is in pain. They were cal
culated only to repress the idle paradeof
the rich and luxurious, while the taxes,
they refufed to repeal, are the ones, which
are really injurious to manufactures and
commerce.
- We have now given the fubjed of tax
es a concise and candid examination ; at
least we designed it. The conclusion of
our reasoning is indeed it is, perhaps mat
ters of fact, that taxes, principally paid
by the rich, have been repealed, and thole
mostly raised from the poor, have been
pertinaciously retained; that the former
were in restraint of luxury, and the latter
of manufactures. This result naturally
leads us to inquire, what could be the
motives of the administration for a con-.
dud, at once, so inconsistent with all for-•
mer processions ? The only answer, which
can be given, is art ardent desire to con- j
tinue a time serving popularity ; a pop-'
ularity gained without services, and pre
served without principle. The internal
taxes, being imposed without difguife,l
were paid with more reluctance than those;
on articles of consumption, because they|
are considered as a part of the price. f
Hence the administration supposed it
should acquire great merit with the peo
ple by removing taxes, which were obvi
ous to every apprehension. A prelum-•
; ed incapacity in a great part bfthe nation
to investigate its conduct, was to shield;
them from censure for permitting thofel
which were disguised to remain, howeveri
injurious they might be to the real inter-|
est of the country. Thoughthe present
depofitaries of public confidence lament
ed under their predecessors the depressed
condition of 'the poor and overgrown
strength of the rich ; yet no sooner
did they obtain power, than the burdens
of the latter are lightened, but the remo
val of those of the former effectually op
pifed. There may be patriotism in this,
but, we believe, it will puzzle the warm
est admirers of Mr. Jefferfon to snow it
to the fatisfadtion of the people. If how-•
ever they can demonstrate it, as an indi
vidual, I will pledge myfelf to extoll the
President, in falhion of the times, above
. him, who has been libel ed, above
Washington. HUME.
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—mTES t'FROM EUROPE.
By an arrival at Norfoik fro^ London.
LONDON, OCT. tS.
ADVICES are just received, ftiting
that on the sth inst. his M.j-dy's
lino indefatigable, Commodore Moore,
. of 40 guns ; Medusa, Capt. Gore, of 38,
Amphion, Capt. Sutton, of 32, & Live
ly, of 38 guns, fell in, off St Mary's with
four Spanish frigate,, from the River of
Pilate for Cadiz, and loaded with trea
sure. As they resist the orders which our,
frigates were under, for detaining al! Span
ish vefiels,untit a fatisfadory explanation
had been given in regard to the present
armaments in the ports of Spain, an en
gagement tc^k place, in which, after a
tew broad tides, one of the Spanish fri
gates blew up ; —-two others, one with a
Rear-Admiral's flag, soon after struck,
and the fourth, La Fame, attempted to
escape ; but was followed by the Lively
attacked,and compelled, after a short ac
tion,to surrender. The captured frigates
are La Fame, of 34 guns, 300 men, bear
ing a Commodore's flag, La Medea,and
La Clara. The Fame which has arrived
at Portsmouth, had 12 killed, and 30
wounded. La Medea and La Clara are
hourly expected in port.
All the crew of the Spanish frigate
which blew up, we are furry to fay, per
ished..
It is estimated, that the captured Span
ish Frigates have TVVEN 1Y MIL-.
, LIONS of dollars treasure, on board.
This information has been polled at
Lloyd's, Ii is certain, that the principal'
part of rhemoney wasdeftined for France
to defray a part of the immense expense
of Bo naparte's Coronation. The lit-I
tie man mult be woefully disappointed.
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§ France AND Russia.
M. D'Oubril, the Ruffian Charge
des-Affairs, has left the French territory
after being detained feme days at Brett.
It will be remembered, that by our ac-
counts from Russia, to the 26th septem^
' ber,the French Charge-des- Affurs incon
!fequence of the detention of the Russia,
had been flopped at Revel—ls theabove
paragraph is correct, it is probable both
legations have returned home ; and there
fore France and Russia may be consid
ered as hostile powers though not in ac
tual war.
BREST-FLEET.
We learn, by an American from Brest
that a great animosity exited between
Gen. Augereau, who commanded the
army, there and Admiral Ganthea
ume ; the former having ~accufed the
latter of cowardice. To reconcile the[
parties, an aid-de-cafnpof Buonapar te
had arrived. The Irish partizans,O'Con-;
nor, O'Neil, &c. were much diffatisfiedl
with the treatment they received ; and
some of the guides were anxious to ob
tain passages for America, as they Were ;
badly paid, as well as ill used. It was 1
: said, that Buonaparte had ordered, that !
O'Conner's motley corps of 4000, fhol
. form the forlorn hope, in any delprf,|
undertaking. There were ten thousand;
land troops on board Gantheaume's;
:fquadron ; but none of the Irish guides.|
—
The Spanish Minister will grant pass-!
j ports to vessels loaded with grain and fiih
Ifor Spain if the Merchants should deem
;fuel: passports any protection.
—. %
Affairs of Holland.
oct. 6. Accounts from the Hague,|
Ito the 26th have been received. In ^l
-of the French, the Dutch a<e to
; have a single Executive ; —and 2 radical
I change in all rhe departments, to suit
I them to a regal government. Schim-
Imelpennic is to be called to the throne,
with the title of king. He is averse to
accepting the Ration ; and has accepted
with reluctance the million to Napoleon's
Court, where the business is to be plan
ned. Economy is the ipell which is to
reconcile all parties to the change.
oct. 9. Buonaparte, during his shy
at Mentz, received the homage cf sever
al of the German nobility.
M. Tallyrand had frequent conieren
• c>s with the Emperor at Mentz. The
.alDirsof Europe occupy much of the at
tention of the Ulurper.
Prussia has been addressed by Russia &
Sweden ; but every appearance indicates
that ihe will preserve a ftridl neutrality.
Deftrudion of French Gun Boats.
DfAL, < CT. 4.
Several (hips of war from the Boulogne
station, have just arrived in the Downs,
and by them we are happy to learn that
the expedition against the French gun
boats has completely succeeded. There
were, about 200 outside of Boulogne.
The night was very dark, and every thing
favourable. A new invented machine
floating under water, conduced by a
small boat on the furface ; the machine
containing 4 tons of stones and several
barrels of gun powder was carried one to
one end of the French squadron, and the
other to the other. These maejaUex
ploded after the given time, th
Rones, destroyed many of the Frei^^rgs
and threw the rest into confufic^^ra^e
fire thips were then sent amo^^^^L^
The land batteries, &c. &c.
but without effect, as the night■
The French sent out boats full
but a dreadful havoc was made
them all. It is said that upwarp
of the enemy's vcffels were deftroU ,
that none of our men were
few only wounded. ,■
STOCKHOLM, SEPT. 11,
OFFICIAL.
The Court Chancellor has just an
nounced, that bis Majesty the king, has
ordered that the importation into the
Swedish empire; and its provinces, of
French Journals, Weekly Magazines,
and Daily Papers, is ftridy prohibited ;
and that no exception can be granted or
demanded.
Signed C. B. ZIBET,
A. D. HUMMEL,
FROM LISBON.
Our accounts from Portugal, by Capt
Tyler, are to the 28th October. The
two Moorish frigates, which had been at
Lisbon, failed the 16th October, suppo
sed for Salee. The United States frigate
Essex, followed them to watch their mo
tions ; but no accounts had been receive
ed ofa ny depravations on American com
merce by the Moors. Two Prussian veflels
had been captured by a Moorish frigate,
and carried into Sallee.
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By the Mails.
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BOSTON, DEC. 19.
The Thomas-Wilton, arrived at Nor
folk, from London, has brought papers
I to the 18 October (fixteendays later than
before received) and dispatches of a Rill
later date.
The most prominent article of intelli
gence, by this arrival, is the capture, by
I a British squadron of Three Spanish fri-
Ig ates (galleons) and the deftruftion of a
Ifourth, bound from South-America to
.Spain, and laden with treasure, estimated
in London, at Twenty Millions of Dol
lars. Though we think this estimate
I much exagerated, it is certain they must
I have contained an immense booty Sev
!eral particulars serve to corroborate the
I authenticity of this intelligence. —I. Dif
)patches of a later date th?? the hrR Lon
;don papers, received by Mr. Fetter, Sec
iretary of the Britiih Legation in th, U
;nited States, and who came Paflcngerin
j the above vessel, confirm it :—2. fbe e
vent as officially announced,at Lloyds ;
and, %' Our Navy Lifts inform us, that
I the legates Rated as having made the
I capture, were on the Atlantic Ration.
: The ip 01motion given by Lord Har-
I rowby to '? British Merchants, on the
; 20th Opt ,;er, renders it highly prob-
I able, put ^ 'ns were issued at or before
that tune fur the detention of, Spaniffi
veß'eis in every quarter of the world ; &
turn we may expert to hear of yet more
valuable property detained. Thisevent
must facilitate a public declaration of
; war ; —or couteffions on the part of
'zr. n.
We have but little to add to the news
n our last, from the North of Europe.
Smart newspaper hottiliti es have com
menced between Buonaparte, and the
King of Sweden ; which, Sweden is back
ed by Russia, we think are but precuffors
of more furious warfare.
For other particulars we refer to our
foreign head.
FROM GIBR ALTER.
Capt. Davis, of the brig K becua, a rived at
this p>rt or. Tuefday, in 36 days from Gibraltar.
By this arrival we can learn nothing further from
our Mediterranean squadron eff Tripoli, than the
intelligence be,ore received of the attack made by
Comirodore Preb% Cap' D. was nformed at
Gibraltar Bay, by Mr. Robert Anderton, a refpt&.
Hie merchant at that place, that war between
Soain ?nd England was declared, and that several
Spanish thips were taken an I brought in there a
few days previous to the 7 b of Oft. In conse
quence of the ficknels which prevailed there a few
days previous to the 7th 061. In conlequence of
the sickness which prevailed there, and in most of
the ports of the Mediterranean, ail business was
nearly fuf,ended. In G bukar, upwards of 70
in Malaga, upward of 8c died eve y + : y : At Ca
diz act! Alienor the fever raged odderably.
^Although a ip^euy rupture '^uc.c "England
and Spain is deemed inevitable, we arc ye: incimed
to bUevc that the report at Gibreltcr of open hol-1
ißi • s having taken place between ;hefe two crnr-?
Uoremafure. Oor London accounts ar v to|
to- ^oo & mber, and it is hardly possible, that |
•fr!u.J,(..." % t^iribouX have racbed Gib.
, C r: :\e t f Ln avowing it to have been an
n,l 1,, r xhd on ihe day follcwitgour
daws fiom th... tarter.
[nan jo ie/pated Philadelphia paper of the ift ,
Dee ti . .mentioned, that by an arrival from Lil.
Lbon, which left that place on the i,'h 061. the
news of a rupture between Spain and England had
■pt arrivedat that place, though from the fruition
its bUw^en thelwocountries, the event was
■ifidently expected to take pkce immediately.
■ Lieut. Decatur,
mVho fell in the a& of boarding the enemy, : n the
|rau=:k on the Tripolitan gun boats on the 3d Aur
gull, was the son of Capr. Stephen Decatur, o f
Philadelphia, formerly in the naval service of the
United states, and a younger brother 'of the officer
of the fame name who led the van on that occasion.
Lieut. Caldive/l,
W ho periflied be fore Tripoli, in the fee ond attack
onthe 9th August, by the blowing up of the gun
boat of which he had the command, is, we under,
stand, a son cf the late Mr. Samuel Caldwell, of
Philadelphia. Mr. D°rfey, who fell by the fame
accident, is likewise of Philadelphia, and it is said is
a fonof Dodor Dorsey, formerly a surgeon in the
navy, during the revolutionary war.
FRENCH CORONATION.
Nothing according to the minor Paris journals,
has ever equalled the preparations for the approach,
ing coronation. Tne event is represented as afford
mg the means of independence to every industrious
inhabitant of the French capital. It is averted,
that upwards of 3,000,000 Grangers will be present
on that occasion, of whom 200,004 are foreigners.
Apartments, it is added, have already been engaged
for two millions of visitors, amongst whom are re.
ported to be two Kings, and ten inferior Sovereign
Princes. The milliners and jewellers are incefTaiit
ly occupied ; one of the former, Madame Le Moine,
who alwa^ kept io employ fifty apprentices and
affiftan^, has engaged e : gh'<y additional females
from the provincial towns, and his aired three large
houses, which she has filled with the produdions of
her art.
A jeweller on the Qnay d'Orfevre, has mortgage
ed all his landed property to purchase diamonds to
the amount of 1,200,000 livres (50,0001.), and
twelve hundred new carriages have been finiflied
by the coachmakers on the Boulevards alone, while
double that number have been ordered from Simons,
of Brussels. There have been 2300 petitions pre
sented to the Prefed of Police, for leave to open
new coffee houses, and eighteen new theatres have
already been licenced, for the time of the carnival
—Out of several hundred petitions to open gaming
houses, forty-four have been granted, and ladit, of
a certain description have been allowed to receive
reinforcements of several thousands from the coun
try. 0
NEW PROPHET.
We have been fivored with the following extra ft
of letters, received from refpe&able sources, relating
10 the appearance of a New Prophet, in the
Kngdom of Algiers.—Nat. Intel.
Algiers, JULY 16.
" A report prevails, that the Marabout, who had
taken r be Frenchmen (at Conflanrine) had compell
ed to become Mabomedans, and that be had attack
ed the city of Conftamine with 50,000 Carbiles ;
but had been repulsed with great iols ; and thatihe
Dey had font, in call), 10,000 Marboors, to Con
stantine, and a promise to relieve the country from
I taxes for fouryears."
I Tunis, august 7.
" The new Prophet has occasioned much difor
-Ider in different parts of Algiers : he made but a
Ulort flay at Constantine ; but perfeaiy Gripped that
p!:ce ; taking with him arms, ammunition, clotb
ing, horses and a daft number of cattle ; retiring?-
grain to the mountains—l learn that his army, at
this moment, confits of 180,000 men, and is daily
increasing—all communication between this and
Algiers is flopped."
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The Oracle.
SATURDAY, D.^KMATR 22, iBO4.
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Fire Again.
On Tuefday evening last between the hours of
7 and 8 o'clock, the town was again alarmed bv the
cry of Fire. This was another barn on the plains
owned by Mr. Sherburne, w hich is the second he
has loft within a few days. In this barn there were
15 head of cattle and flock proportionate, nothing
was fared, the desolation was complete, and the
farmer has loft every material for the cultivation of
his grounds and the security of his crops. It is
hoped and expeard the liberality of a public who
have so largely experienced the bounty of their
countrymen on a iimilar ocesfion will remunerate
Me Sherburne in part for his heavy losses.
These repeated fires are highly alarming. That
all of them have been the work of black hearteJ in
cendiaries is uoivcrfally admitted, and the p dicy of
ward patrols in the centre of the town was never
more forcibly apparent. What perlon pofftffiug
property in Buck street, Water street, Wafti/ogion,
Broad, Congress arid Daniel Greets but would cheer
fully turn out and patrol three nights in the months
of Dec. Jan. and Feb. to sleep under the confemuf
nefs that his property is continually guarded front
the effeds of accident and the plots of the incendi
ary. We venture to fay that there is not a man
possessing health and strength, but would attend
with chcerfulnefs to the duty, and it is wished and
expeded that those who are ambitious of being
thought the fathers of the town, will immediately
adopt some mealnres to this effect.
But few citizens were seen with their buckets on
Tuefday evening ; their expectations of its being
on the old spot might induce them not to bur
then themselves with the buckets to carry the dii
tance of two miles ; but those belonging to Fire
Societies, fhcnld never lose, fight of that article of
Itheir1 their constitutions, which lays " a: the alarm <4 fire,
; every member flr.il immediately repair with Lis
I buckets, bags,&c." There was a scarcity ofbuck
,Cts on that evening.
A pair of buckets, belonging to a member of the
" Phoenix Fire Society," carried to the Plains at
the late fire have not yet been returned. The hold
er is requetteu to lend them iomediatty to the
member whole name is painted on them, nr give in
formation that they may be taken care of.
The Legifldure of this Gate rofc on Friday the
14th Inst to meet again at Concord the firft wed
nefday of June next.
The committee to whom was committed the
Petition of Judge Livermoreand Atkinson, for arc
increase of Salary, reported that it was inexpedient
to augment the falajies of the Assistant Justice of
, the Supreme Court at present. This report after
tome de bates was accepted.
Before the Houle adjourned, a letter v as receiv
ed by the Speaker, from the Hon. Nic bolas Gilman
lignifying his acceptance of his appointment to the*
Senate of the U. S. and declaring his devotednefs;
to the preservation of the Union, and the intereGcß
bis native St^te.
A Lift of the ads passed at this feffinn fliall be
given the next week—the Foreign news having
excluded several articles prepared for this day.
A meeting of the New York Chamber of Com
merce has been held for the purpole of Memorial
izing Congress relative to the arming of Merchant:
Vessels.
Deffalines, by an Imperial decree, of the 22< JSep
tember, has Levied a duty of two dollars, per gal
lon, on all ardent spirits imported into his domin
ions. —
An attempt has been made, in the Legislatures of
Virginia, to abolifli the office of Chaplains; by a
declaration, that any application of public money
as a compensation to a Chaplain is illegal. We be
lieve the attempt failed, as among the Legislative
appointments we have seen that of a Cha lain,