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cerce. Tfe principles cf our conduction
*‘l government remain unchanged—
t EO long as they shall endure, and the
V fnteprily ot the federal union shall comi
rhe unimpaired, Americans may rejoice in
• the trredem, sovereignly 8c independence
of the United States. They >hali vduit
:»y cut brave father*’ memories,
t shades oi r evolutionary mar
r they shall endutc fetever—
individuals may perish, truth
x he rude blasts of tyranny may
Tin every quarter, l>ui iiccdom is a
.laAy plant that will suivive the tempest,
iaiifTsinke an everlasting root in the most
^unlavoiabte soil.’
New York, August 7.
A Letter from London, of the 24th of
May, to a gentleman in this city^, says,
♦•bu.ee my leaving bt. Sebastiuns i have
leceivid tne following letter firm Paris,
under date ot filb Instant : 1 am sorry
* to inform you that our General has issu.
* ed orders to the commissioners ot seqties
* tiatioh tut the transportation ot ail A-I
* ir.cncen vessels t«> bayonne, where they
♦are to be sold agreeably to the J^ftiper
« «.»*s decree ot tno llu< ult_1 have seen
t e orders, wherein the commissioners are
instructed io turn off the American mas
ters and crews, permitting them to take
U»ei: trunks only, i he nicer says, it is to
retaliate on tire Americans—ami it is un
derstood that the release or repay incur of J
the proper y is not to be admitted eveu as a
subject ot negeejation.”
Extract of a letter trom Amsterdam,
J \ . dated May 18.
jj M^P*erjlh Commissioners have arrived
A tfliejfosscsstou of the American c^r
g%rs deposited in the public stores here
in4l yreai—whicli^ it is said, are to L*e trails*
ported to Antwerp^ to be sold there.”
Accounts from Palermo to 9th June
£tate, that the British would he in posses
sion of Sicily by the 2od June—and that a
lintish frigate had arrived at Palermo to1
convoy onecit the bourbon family to Spain:
The Duke ot Orleans who naarr ed n..»!
oaughtcr of the kug of Sicily, h*a been
mentioned as the person going ^to Spams*
and whose presence, beinj one of he Bour
bou family, may have ,been required by
the Spanish Regency, with a view to in . I
spire the people with additional confidence
in.d enthusiasm.
New-York, August 9.
Died—At 12 o’clock y esterdav, the
H^n. JOHN hKOOMh; Lieut. Go-1
veruoi oi tins state—aged 72 y ears.
i _
Philadelphia, August 10.
By the Portuguese brig from St.
Michaels, •arrived at New-York, in
formation is received, that on the 24th
of June, a nntnU village 21 rhifesfrom
St. Michaels, called Cozas, was sunk
jby an Karthquake, in which many fa
^nilicsl were swallowed up. Those
•*• >ho Acaped, fled to 5:. Michaels,
%ihe ttM.hu shock was sen duly felt*
Vvhe* the village stood, there Has
tiofWng to be seen but water, which
was agitated as if boiling. Toe inha
bitant s in the vicinity of Coz e fled
to tHc mountains being apprehensive
of another shock. Many distressed
f amilies are left without a shelter. But
very few lives were lost, but most of
the property iu the village was de
stroyed.
Baltimore, Aug. J1.
The Gcerge Dyerj arrived yeslertl&y
jn 61 days fit m Bordeaux, h&sytspatclies
for government from Geneiul Armstrong,
v hich have been forwarded bjr yesterday
morning’s southern mail.
Dr Jolm*on, who came passenger in the
* hove fi we are ir.lr.tmp,! *.<■ a
y*" ]>kle list ©t ali «he American vessels urder
re in the ports under bonaparte’seon
This ge.t leman, with Mr Ronald
Philadelphia, ard tr ine others, |tfi
is*t! oft' the capes ci Virginia/and
roo bu*id a boh*, for N. York, winch
ot as yet ailived.
Anier.
Extract of a letter Irrin an officer cn board
t) e. fiij>ale l-r.iitd Sta.es, daitd Han*p.
trr. Hoads August 3id, to hit lne::d in
tins city.
“ To-morrow we sail on a Cruize shr uid
the wind pro»r Uvor&hie in company with
ttie President, Constitution, Wasp k Ar..
om inclined to believe our cruize
wdl be a long one.”
ib.
WORTHY OP ATTENTION.
Cspt. Hoyd, of the English acbmwre,
Trafalgar, in 13 days from Halifax in,
forms, that there are Uuee liiiUsh
©I war, out of Halifax,Jftuinr.g for Anrtnri.
' can 'esseH ptiyticuk^y described by some
one in the U. Ittatfs. jj,
fv%pniPD—^Marietta, the bon. John
fi. Aickson of#CI:fHisbtirg. (Va.) to 11,
r^^hle andTaccottahshed Mis* Ma,v
Wrips, •detainer of <lol. H. J. Meigs, ol
XiatieUt. ■ 'gj
GcoTge-Town, (1). C.) Aug. 8.
A Mr J. Minor of Boston, V. Y. has
Invented a null which supercede* M,e nr.
| ressity of a dspi. 1 he wheel resembles
t/xr sails of a wirdmili, the extremities of
^ immersed m the current. There
.innumerable places where mch nulls
m»rnt be erecird to advantage where m.
dam. .could conveniently be raised. By
t*" turh constructions mills might be erected
©n y.ork Creek, between this mm! the Ci
ty* tlie l*de operating both way*, and the <
. < * *4
(channel narrowed where the Wheels ar
placed, l'he subject is worthy much ccn
sideration.
We are informed that gen. Wilkinsoi
has committed to the press a large worl
in vindication of himself, which will ap
pear before the next sitting of congress
! , Washington City, Aug. 8.
Extract of a, letter from JMr. Jarvis
the yVmerican Consul at'Lisbon, da.
ted June 17, 1810.
%i I here has no; e^ist. d so great,;
scarcity of grain and flour in Portu
gal at any period since I have beet
here, as at this moment. Flour \
now sixteen and a half dollars a bar
rel, equal at the Exchange to seventy
seven shillings sterling, the purcivasci
receiving it lrcm onboard and pay n^
the duty; and the approaching hai
vest will not produce any sensible eflec
on the market, as the low land wheat!
have suffered extremely from the un
commonly wet spring.’'
Natchez, July 2.
WEST FLORIDA.
We learn hy. an intelligent gentlemai
from We?t Florida, that there was a gru
eral meeting nf the inhabitants of the foui
districts forming the province 'f New
Feliciana, held at the plantation of tin
late Mr. Sterling, near St. Frnncisvillr, t*
appointed John Rhea, Ji.hn Joimson, Wil.
liaro Harrow, and John Mills, esq~s. al
men of respectability «tod niHoence in th<
country, deputies to meet at (he house o
Mr. Duval, St. John’s Plains, some daj
nextweekjto take into consideration the
peculiar state vt the country.
(A NeW-Or LEANS-, July 2.
hre broke out yesterday moroini
ab^hU two o’clock, in St. Peter street
near the Library, which rag-*ti wifi
great tury, and threatened clestructioi
to all the back parted the city, and Foi
rtvn hrttitk fill t-tia — .
labor that was made to stop it. Thi
bniloings adjacent were chiefly ok
wooden ones, and caught fire lik<
tinder; added to this, there was ;
strong current of wind setting Ron
the northward and eastward, wi.ic!
fortunately lulled a little alter thrc<
o’clock. Tha loss is great, nad con
fined chi ;fiy to poor people, whose pro
petty w.is not ensured. Between 4
and 50 dwelling houses were entirti
consumed, many with all their good
and household furniture in them.
This city has not witnessed such ;
dreacli.il fire since the year 179*1
when almost the whole city was con
sunned.
£U'-witie.
\ R 1 C H A O N D,
alJF.Wf^Y, August 14, 1810.
FOR THE ARGUS. ^
According to the Haiti mere Wh'g
great struggles are nicking by Rober
Goodloe Harper and others to cstab
h-uh in that city a Washington Society
a society which, under the name o
Washington, is intended for the pro
pagation of torv principles. It is not
rou will observe reader, a scci- ty to ac,
as Washington acted,but aaocie y to in
terpret, in correspondence with theii
own views, the dectriucs of our illus
trious and immuital chief. Thi
scheme of these associates does not lie
very deep. The name of fedrralisx
has heen worried and worn out. Ii
has been dishonored by a thousand
tricks and falsehoods ; and it has long
been a universal conviction with th<;
tory party itself that it can never list
in its present shape. What, then, i.«
to be done ? Change names—“ fool
it, erwis over, and back to back”_and
thu^atrive to rise under a new aspect.
Vm^wuld impose tory doc
11 jgVxX0 people, perhaps ii
^w^cO|Jthalol general Washington
the actMons of the impo'.o s, in
thi«\nstar»o^| will be 10 much at t ari
ance with^Te Well.known character ol
Washington, that by assuming this
new name they will only |>e so much
tre better known in society for the
same vile party that has so long and so
arduously endeavored to subjugate
this country to preat-Britain. The
^vnefederalist nc ver deceived, because
the people saw that it was a burlesque*
Good citizens could never believe that
men were really American federalists,
who by rveiy artifice sod mano uvre
w re st ivirg io divide the union.
And thus it will be with the new
Washing'onians. The citizens df the
United States will never pay serious
attention to the professions of men
n ho call themselves disciples of
YY ashington, and yet satirize the name
that great man by attempting 10
hrow into the arms of England the
/rry country lor which he so often
'isked his life, and Upon whose inde
/Ontlcncc his glory is built.
B it that which is a little aiaming
n the cabals of these associates is
vhat appears by tuc ,YVhig, to wit;
thai tficv take iftn oath% that they sweat
to the observance of certain things, by
whtch they become* ipso far to, the
i sworn foes of every other citizen of a
i different creed. \\ hat are we to think
of t club of this kind in the very heart
of the community, directed by so pref
ligate a pcli ical character as Robert
Goodloe H trp r? Wno knows to
* what deadly and destructive purposes
» this combination of swearers mav hot
be prostituted ? Who knows but'they
i j may be united on the same principle of
■ .murderous intent hs was ttmt bloody
t j band of secret assassins whom it was
1 j proposed to organize at the commence
j meat of the French revolution ; but
i frn#i which fraternity the atrocious
I mi,K* even of Robespierre shrunk with
: horror. Washington himself has ex
■ fressty discountenanced duos of all
t; sorts ; and yet these associates, pre
> 1 tending to revere Washington ; affect
■ ing to follow his advice, enter into the
very thing which he forbids, and thus
their vciy existence is a proof of the
hollowness of their professions of fol
lowing his precepts.
, Married, On Saturday night last<
[by the Rev. A. Foster, Mr. SWEN
JUSTICE, to Miss SARAH PAR.
FEN both of this City.
rROM THE BOSTON PATRIOT.
The life of diaries fames Fox, an
excellent and instructive work, has the
following sensible observations on A
merira : —
Mr. Grenville first conceived the
r| plan of deriving a revenue from Arne
, nca. A Stamp, Act was the first modi
i! Mention, which, fa had finnriirv ^ ivnc
i , rebutted, & repealed ; & a new duty on
■! certain articles of commerce exported
1 . from Great Britain supplied its plr.ee.
: , Hut the project was bad ; a spirit oi
i | deliberation obtained ; apents, (ol
: I whom i) b respectable Franklin was
‘ one) were sent to Kngland to adjust
i ^ (or contend) the point; ar.d in the
i meantime antipathy ripened between
: j the inhabitant* and" the officers oi go*
- ■ rernment. J lie dispute new appear
- ;K«1 to resolve itself into the duiy oi
3 threepence on the pound of tea.*
T he Inhabitants oi Boston, who had
s air card* abstained from its use, deter
i niinc^fn preventing its importation,
i and tnerrfore destroyed the next car
, • go that arrived. At length the pre„
- | paratiotjs for hostility on tb- part oi
I the colonist.®, demanded manifest vigj.
lance on that of the governor, arid the
consequence was open war, a, war which
continued uud«.r every disadvantage
until 1783, and ended v;h*Te it should
have begun, in the acknowledgment
I ol American Independence. Such
i nre the consequences of opposing on
unequal terms in the field, men who
fight uudtr the .banners oi real or sup
posed liberty, l he Congress which
» assembled from the different parts
t o! the territory, nour became perma
. nent ; and a republic established of the
: thirteen states, under a constitution as
1 similar as may be to the British Go*
. veinment, having a Senate and Fresi*
, dent triennially elected. It hfi3 thus
long continued, Sc is likely to continue,
in a very flourishing condition not
■ withstanding external disputes, mari
! time and territorial ; and, internally,
the most violent agitations of party,
»"uu me ucnoininauon oi i eacrahst,
' anti Anti-l'ederalist; irregularities in
;; those appointed to the most important
offices of government, and a violence
: ol temper and manner iu the higher
orders not easily reconciled to its char
acter.”
•
[* Impressments, Orders of Council,
License^, ( to go where ive hove a right
to go, by paying for themJ and' paper
Blockades—are now the substitutes for
4* l/ie duty of three peine a pound on
tea"—the simple cause of that dispute
which terminated in what was once
our Independence of the mother coun.
try. It would be a matter of curious
and perhaps useful enquiry for some
of our great political calculators, ^for
; instance Mr. Gallatin,) to make an
estim-ite of our present grievances in
quantity and quality, and of the re.
I sources oi our country*—ao«l compare
the former with what we suffered, the
latter with what we possessed in ’75
i —and see how far, in our rttrogade
march of dependence on England »ve
have fallen in the* rear of th*t meino
' rable period—i’he result might be,
that it would become his duty to
“ stop the wheels of government” in
the course it is running.]
From the BOSTJN GAZETTE of
August 2.
Extract of a letter from the Captam of
the snip Ganges, at Gottenburgh, to
his owners in Boston, dated A1 ty
2% 1310.
The.day after my arrival, Admiral
Saum^ez Communicated to the British
that no Vessel would be allowed to p»g*
the bound without a British licence ]
and that it was even said, that Amer
can vessels bound to the U. States,
from this port were liable to capture;
As I found :t was impossible to procure
any correct information, I determined
to go on board the Admiral's ship tny
self, and accordingly waited on himj
and was very politely received and
treated die assured me, that as I
came ^onpCadtz, aport not interdicted
to tTie tf r%|»h flag-—! could proceed to
any port in the Baltic, and no British
cruizer would molest me. Metikewise
informed nie that I could with safety
stop at Elfeincur and pay the Sound fees,
and as 1 find this is necessary to ob
jtain a free admission in a Russian port,
I am determined on doiug it.
I u Agricultural Musuem.”
We notice. With satisfaction, a perodical
iwork of this title, lately commenced in
Georgetown, District of Columbia. We
hfve received two numbers, of 16 octavo
pages each, printed and published for Da
vid Wiley—it is intended to be published
“ twice a month or oltener if sufficiently
supported, at two dollars and u half a year
or for 24 nos paid in advance.”
W e wish success :o the work with all
our heart—and trust that every opulent
farmer will aid by its patronage. Its edi
tor observes, that “ in a country like ours,
commerce must draw her resources and
wenith\from agriculture wh'ch for that
reason turrits the c »re, even of those who
are not immediately employed «n it. Tne
• Museumjp to bo a repository of useful es
says original and selected, on agricultaru
in its various departments of til ege, gra
zing, & c =sadomesr;c manufactures and
mecnar.ic arts—ot the productions and re
sources ot «hc country, with descriptions
oi roads, rivers and canals in every part
of the Union.
Columbians learn to venerate
the Piough.”
Balt Whig. j
| Miny (listingunbed fwernbcrs of
P.irh.t ncnt are endeavoring to ameli
orate th- laws ol the coumrv that pio.
v:<b- lor *h * punishment of criminals,
and obtain the establishment ofpeni
tentiurvVouscs as in the U. States.
i O _ t*.
earthquake.
Extract ol a ictttr tro n a g'.’nt’emia ’
i at Smyrna to his triencl at iijs.on,'
dated Feb. 1G, 1310.
I . .*4 About midnight i experienced a con.
I&i<lerr.Lie shock or an earhqutk-, and
,white at dinner urxt dav the shock was
| tw.ee icpcated. I have since learned that
the same earthqu.ka was felt, in all its
t*.iii.‘ic tore*#, in tue island or Cutidia (the
ancient Crete)—That tue greater part
ol tlltl chy ot Candia, nnd al! its fortihen. ,
turns., are entirely destroyed, and a de. !
strnr.tive. fire raging at ;oc- same time, ad- .'
t.< d to the miseries o£ tiro wretched in.
toM right V:JI in thencigh.
!>o'.ufiiood of Canti a are but heaps of rai>-i
|&hl»tpd many thousand p*op e buried in
the Tains of their own dwellings, dro vned 1
in tire rush of water or perished by the.'
>*ire, for it seerrs as t{ ail the elements had •
!conspired m vcngearce acpi.ist tnis nuhap. i
t Py Island. File olive fields are destroy- j
! ed, and the must luxuriant part o( this
j beantii’ul inland exhibits at present butone
! ,w'dv: waste of iuin, devastation, cod death.
| 1 he earthquake has been (a* letters which
are received mention) felt in Cairo, Alex,
andrls, .Malta, Sicily, and all the isl .nds
"I the Archipt-lsgn, in marry of which it
has thrown down houses, and done other
damage.
V* FR07vJ LONDON.
V/e were politely favored with a few
London papers of recent dates, which
contain nothing of much importance
but what has been published. The in
flammatory pieces iu the federal papers
j of this country, favorable to England
-- W *y- .1 ^uvcimuui y
are extracted with avidity into the
London«paprrs. Twenty-one English
prisoners in France, who had d:stin- |
goishe&tjiemselves in extinguishing a
!»'e in jtuxonne, had been liberated by I
Napoleon, with a reward of 6 months
pay to each. One of the papers says,'
“ Every possible precaution both of a
[naval and military nature, has been
taken to provide ior the embarkation,
and protect the retreat of the lititish
army in Portugal, in ease of irretriev
able disaster !'• Several riots had ta
ken place in England am >ng the local 1
militia. The journeymen of a num-;
her of trades in London had formed
th einselves into cumbinatio *■ for the !
j purpose of forcing the masters to pay
higher wages* They v/crc to be in
I dieted tor a Conspiracy.
[Providence Pher.ix.
LATEST PROM*PORTUGAL.
Thrt brig Corp r.il Trim, captain El
well, arrived O.t Tuesday at Glouces
ter from Lisbon. She sailed the 27th
I June. No new events had occurred ; i
but a genera! engagement between the i
English and Portuguese, and French
armies, was still daily expected. She !
arrived just as the mail wa* start.ng, [
and no pap cs have been received in'
town. 1 he English and Portuguese.!
troops occupy g allons ex ending Irom :
ldouro on t e Tagus. 'I he wh >1 * tine '
is under Lord Wellington, who al*o
co .(hands the centre ; m which the
main body of tbs English tro p» arc
posted. The right is commanded by
General Hill, whose dank extends to
m • . . »
the Tagtfs, and who communicate*
with the Spanish force under the m;»r
qiii Romans, at Badajoz. Marshal
I Bciesford comoiaods on tne left, and
is flanked by the Monro, and h.»s un
der him them im force of the Porm
guese troops, A French account sta
ted, that Marshal Ney had taken Ci
dad Rodrigo. But in a Lisbon paper
of the 12tn June, we find a copy of a
dispatch from the Spanish comman
der of that garrison, to the iVI <rquis
Romana, under date of the 1st of June,
which says, “ According to all thr a L
vices which have been given me, it ap
pears that the enemy is preparing to
carry on a formal siege of this place,
which they are surrounding j for Mar*
shal Ney h*s been before tnis city since
the day before yesterday and on the
23th all the troops from Salamanca, Sc
adjoining places, marched with 39 pie
ces of heavy artillery for this pla:e.
In fact we observe movements i» their
camp which indicate unusual disposi
tions ; and they are marking a line of
circumvallaiion from one side of the
river to the other. Fhe only passage
which regains open to us is ov.*r the
bridgtf to the fields of Argannan and
Robledo. I have made the necessary
arrangements to prepare this place for
a siege, and freeing it from all useless
mouths and cowards who might be
detrimental. 1 trust every thing will
go well ; and that we shall defend our
srivy tyiththe vigor becoming sojust
a cause,,and the honor and patriotism
by which we are animated.55
Boston Centinel.
MU. G WAR DIN, having preferred
a situation on the hill forhia esta
blishment, *
JIIF. SUBSCRIBERS can with pleasure
assure tlirir friends. tha: the h»voe«
of the Academy, wncreof L. II. Girartl «.
. Doyie At John Wend, hive at present
the administration, will, from the 1st of
bcpt ni x , he conducted by cnem wtlli the
co.operA’ipn of Mr. C rubles, .are a teach
« r in the College of Uiltimire-a French
gentlemiin o- great acquirements a* well
m Classics and Mathematics us in ttjs Ra
live tongue.
The advantages resulting to yu*th from
this associatio , will be of great consetjiiencu
to the inhabitant* of U.ciRnomi and us vi.
cmity M re time »nd attention will oe
applied to English, Latin and Greek Clas.
6ics ^*lhe fees for F union reduced to a re.t- •
sonable standard, mU the mind be dircc.
ted to useful and early practice, as well t
as 1 ncory^ jn Mathematical and mercau-ff
tile studies.
1 hey Will limit to that number which*
may appear rno.t reasonable lCt the pa.
rents and themselves, the teachers will
be equally iesponsiule in their depart.
mens, excepting the Fn-nou teacher,
whose hours of attendance wdl oe limi
ted.
In discipline,* the same o'-der and har.
moiiy shall be preserved in all depart,
menu, that lias^ fir near.y three years,
been kept up by 1). Doyle in Ins depart.
ment, it snail be neither indolently Gx
ftor tyrannically severe.
The prices coucluded on as mist rea.
sonsble, will be.
For English, including History, Geogra
P^y», BeiU3.Leltres, Book keeping and
—per quarter, 8 dolls- "
SUr y* above WUa Cat in and Greek
langl|»£eir«*10 dolls/
ror small Classes in Spelling Readinir
Writing and Grammar,->6 do.-a
This establishment wift have In vi«w
utility, not ostcBtaticn^and '^u obi cl wdl
he to e,ve that knowleuge of the Eneiisa
Lauguage, ot the Classing, and of the M i
iheinatics, which will considerably finii
taietne completion of a col.ej.7t? educil
It must be apparent to all, that, whero
asnhe English, Latin and Greek Classics
as well a» spelling, Reading, Writing
and Arithmetif. nn,! ....._ '■*
Geography anti the use ot mio Globe*
weretaug.it solely by ]>. D ,yle, for near.
y.kT yw,t,s ,r* th!8 Academy, when the
•choWwaa numerous, that, wn-n an pf|.
umo'fci teacher of equal capability is adU
tied, numb r of pupils limited, and the.
fees lor tuition much diminished, t iers can
be h.tle.donot ot a respectable audlistw.ir
patronage. ®
D. DOYLE.
K. DA13NEY.
August y. if'
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