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,ssTW ZW 6"! is t te fragm simt br- tth of morning
55":- azg-Wzisn vem 11 b'eezes lan th: dale,
. And te Pid ;lcte'ws the & : .'v rs adomiug
Y\—5ss_sict'_1ss(t..lliﬂsit )us huease thence exalc.
isssi,
sict .ctssvee-tls the bsinm, .nil gloom imzsissne :W'm ;,
Pss'VV ten ls)-'-v xin ; forms obscurc the day,
5" Wind" dltrk' ffispzlliug mists diverging,
" . Dss'tsi'usis es &v'tj: th: e llivcxlinss ray.
va-et 13 the smile of Hulth returning
When trtnsiquat erse resusines her reign,
k- From ma: ki; 1—4 ptins and tevcrz burning,
R: store}! to sott repozc a gain.
ucsiSW* " et issstho voic: ast*'iensilship soothing,
5'7 Wusscn an , : 5 1 w '055 the b eedinss -* heart,
Thohrctow )? me by k ad: te &: Stn wtniug,
T xat char us ho.n so Tosssiﬂ sting the smart
a . " And he hid him down upon his bed, and
" tur'nssed anray his face, and would eat do
brssdsiad." 1'43 s-. xxi 4.
AND whence: all this tormcwing dis
qxietusile. VVM .H sick? No. V_Vcts hc:
!) rsicft of dfar frtcnsi' as ? Na- l'l'ld a sure
' mitv ot ;mv name or nature, bcfallcn
hands o. his iamiiy, or his king-lom at
lame} N !. Tnc mm hul no earthly trou—
bled to hath! a ;xi- —-.f on, [: was now ﬂood
vd: with his aﬀai-s . When this fit :)k' vex
sisssssiss asitiim seized him h: hal very lately obtain
ed two szgful viccori: s ovc : thct: Syrians his
most powerful enemies, ausil :tt that ver)
m-vnent was in the hisrhcst Lsicl vation octs
prnsp :ssrit) an} n'yvcr. W 1) then was '"ing
si Anctbso sal so eXtrcmc-Iy dtSCOJSDlttc and
vexed ath .t,ar tiut ** in: laid down umt
his bed, and tumecl army his face. , sitnl
would eat no brass sil. si'" Bsi-cause, forsooth,
his Migh )Os Ndhuch hlcl refused to sell
hf'm : triﬂzng piece of l-.m:,l a little vine
yard. ' Aha!) was sovsi-rsi-L: "1 over milliun:
x.;ss Of peoPlc , he hal lamp}: pcxsonal do. mins,
his cup was full, he had laid up storcs for
_ si- himself m vast abu ldancc. th he wsiantcdi
more. Casting :: greedy cyc upon his migh
ct'siboss'rsvineyard, hc mustnccdsh .wc it for
_ssj.'s "assgardsi :) of h rbs ," 'an I the retusal, tho
; RCCOlnplmcd thithsubxancsisial reasons stung
.si.-.. him to the: corc of his heart, and actualiy
' made him more wrscsisihc (] than & strcct beg
sssiss gar. she: read rwiil rcausimbcr the sh :ck
ing sequsi-l.
cttormeniing nature: of Avariqc, and also a
Striking specimt—n of its horrible eﬀectscta
7 mong men. W'hac avaiird it Ahab that he
was dccked with gold and silver, that he
Was eibnthcd in' purplc and fine: linen, and
{jsi fared sumptuousiy c\'*:r)' (lay. What did
" i: avail him that he had mcn-servams and
'ssss 'maidservants, that he dwzi: in a palace, sat
sisisisisict;-?;si-f.-on a shrew, ruled a kingdom, and had ch
-ss ry comfort and luxury the world could af
. ford ; (what did it all'avail him when Ava
Lsi'ﬀsirice had got fall possession of his heart?
'_.ctss-f'-L,si_si.Wss- 2 _'
' '1 .
ur- c—siss
Esisi sictct'shis tormenting (leman made him com
;? pletely miserable,si- notwichscandiog an his
: wealth and grandcur; and it. hurried him
{si on, as it has hurricd on many thousand o
ssþis thers, to robbcry and murder.
{? Finally, we here learn the necessity of
Þct
FXBAÞDELSNOWDEM
* LBu': SquTaft Far tho saint! endearing,
'. Ofctfuil Sva-ti'm. bought with Blooisi
— 'The- < uiity rui n'i spirit 'chee'rssng,
\Vnth 93.er frt. e, dﬂisst peace dwith Gon.
CHRI )] lN.\.
.,ss
'- -' 35- _@ From the Cmnectzcut Cozu'ant.
cheqk-ingctail inordinate cravings, of repres
lsi ling and exciuguishing all improper de:
zires osyeordly gain, and of being comen:
si' .withsithe circumstances A,) life which Pro
; . vidence has allottcd us. The divine com
msilﬂd. " Thou shalt not covet," imposes a
.sssisssi restrain! on on: of the most powerful and
in Said pmpemi'tifi: of the human heart : nor
Wktsilasiy any claim to real virtue, or rea
(lond)!!! esixpgct happiness in the wordto
.sisisisi' come or Eontentmcqc in the present life, is
si ,: knowwgiy :{emdc ourselves lo ovcricap
- Alexandna Dznly Gazett
ss COssMMI—LBCLAL UPOLITICAL.
i Much barme; ' MENTOR.
' Dazly Gazette, 6 Dolct'ar's per anmmz.
amutru Guzctte, 5 Dodars.
si _
t o
,.nss-x-c [( is clearly ;ccu, as in a giass, that
no condition iusi life wan give: 'wnicmmcnc to
a man whose mind is Lotaliy out ofhcahh.
---——* H: "ny be rich,
Or deck'd with rcgal honors ; but isjoy
Be absent from him, if he [LLSCCS them not,
"sis uselcss graudcur all, and empty shade!
'Here too is Sccu the iiisaciabic rcsticss ,
'ssScti ['URD 4 Y, SEPTEMBER 29.
ON THE TORMENTS OF AVARICE.
,ksiBWD AND Pvnunssn Is!
Royal-alrect. Alexandria.
non..
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: Amount captured by the Bri
&
neral Charles ();Dcmncll, against the rest"
of Regnier's Frectdch garrison, and prOCee-J
ing on the I'OZHl of St. Andsi-m. routed & bp
dy of Gallic trOUpS, and took in port un
Amer'tcan ship.
A letter srom Henrick O*Donctnell, com
mandcr in chiesos the armv of Catalunia,
dared at Tarragona. Ju7y 22, mentions that
the French army of Arragon, of 12.000 in
sa'htry and 1000 cavalry. continued on the
banks of the Ebro, near Tortosa ; that there
Were almost daily combats, in which the pa
triots occasioned the invaders great lnsses ;
that in an aﬀair of the 14th Julv. at Tibisa,
the: enemy luste coloncl, 17 other officers,
. .!
ss-I'I' has been'repcatchy asserted that
France anssd Great'Britain eqziaiiy caavass .
the commcrce of the Unitcd States, and
this tale is repeated again and again in sithe
democratic papcrs, either without any
knmvlnge'of fadts, or if knowing them, a '
total disrcgard Of truch. WHSQ We corn
are the relativc naval stisicngfsih of France
and England, it WOQisl not much surprise ,
us, if the capturcs made by the British si
should amouut to as much as those made by .
France.. ' '
The cditor of this paper has, for seven :
years past, held a situzition in the Office of .
the: Marinsi: lnsurancc company of Norsolk, T
which gives him an opportunity of being _
informed upon this su'>ject, from dncu- ]
ments which cannot mislcud ; he has for the '
information of his readers, extracted from ;
the books :\ statemmc of losses sustained >
by capturcs of property insurcd in that of
si:e, by. all the bcliigsi-rents, from Bsilztrch,
1804, to this time, which presents the fol
lowing result :
Amount captured by the
operations of the Spanish troops, Usidfr 89" -
Capta'zn Snow. srom Cztdiz sailed on the
13th August. No new event of any import
ance had occurred. There had been very
large importat'tons of {lour, and there was a
good supplv ofwater The inhabitants were
confident of their security, An incessant
fire was kept up on the p'sitions occupied
by the French, ;)atcicularly at Trocadero
prints to the llth. They relate nothing" . ?
new as having occurred in that city. The .
intelligence in them from Badajnz, is to the
5th; and furnishes some particulars us the
Actual loss, S 5,312 22
Now in the face oschis statement, for
the corrccmcss of which we pledge our vc
racity, will any mzin be so lost to every
ScnSc of dcccncy, as to rcpcat the same: sto
xy? WVill th: dcmocratic papers l'cpublish
this stutcmcnt?
The reader is informed that th-ct-se losses'
arc upori Ammican property ,.onlcty, for it
wouid have been uucandid to put prup crty
insured for account of eichcx of the bush
gercnta.
201,723 05
Amount capturgd By Spain act
ing under French decrees, 7,073 00
Amount now under cicccntionsi
and not. dvtorrniued, _ 30 ()OO 00
S 42ss4—22 78
Thm it appears that there has been accuaUy
lost. by France, including Spct'm while
under her orders, thc_suzn ot 208ss796 05
And injecpardy now, SOssOO-u 00
5 >38 735 05
Great Britain has captured, ns:; ;! ducz' ing
what was restored, 47}? 35 00
But she has credlt for property
rccaptured and rcscorsid, 42,4—'£2 "8
restored 59,813 50
On which the salvage and ex
pcuccs were, 16.890 72
Amount recaptured from the
French by the British, and
We have been presented with Csh'siz .
French, S 223,185 75
Recovered by compro
mise. 18,IOO 10
D). by sen
tence re
versed, 2,362 (30
tish, 53,610 00
Resturedby sentence re
Verscd, 5ss875 00
S4-7ss735 00
From the Na rfalL Ledgprl
BOSTON, Sept. 21.
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FROﬂI CAD IZ .
5 238 795 05
—.——
31 .462 70
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am! : proportionntc number assoldicra .; but
the French being re'insorced the" Spaniards}
retired to the positions they ocCUpied be
fore the cnmbat ; that on the 18th a battle
tauk placc-betWeen 10 or 12,000 French
troops, under general Macdonzdd, and Qpr
10 OOO S'paniards, includxng armed peasan
cry, near (}ramllcrs; it lasted 6 hours. when
the French entered Bsitrcelon'sit. " The e:
nemy lost 70) men. ausil carried a great
number of wounded into the city. On our
part we had from 120 to 14-0 killed, and
400 si wounded. " After the battle the
patriots engnged in it, retiredto lrztnzn,
on the Loblc-gsitt, to impede t'nc enemy
should he march for this river, or the posi
tion of Montsctrat, and to keep upcu the in
tercourse with Tartagona." -
" [tis probable that the mnvements of
the French general Suchet, on Tortosu, [50
miles further down the Mediterrunean than
Tarragona] Were with a design to attract
our forces to that place, to leave Macdo
nahl sit better oppmtun'ny to attack T:,trra
gona ; bztt on both sides we have divisions
thatwill intercept their communication,and,
when occasion ()ssers, will renew th'; scenes
of Villa Franczt, Blanresu, &c. ,
The siege of Tortosa appears to have.
been commenced by the French.
A corps of peasantry hnvcr near Gerona
and in two successive rencontres, with cqual
force of the enemy, have beaten them. ct
The papers contain ajuurnul us the Ope
rations of the SOOO troops, which Wc'rc' sent
smm Cztdiz to Algesiras, under the com
mand us general Lacy. me the 17zh
juste to the 281h us July, thtcty Were al-j
mossst continually in motion unnoying the e- ss
m-my. On the lattcr (lay they received'
orders to return to Cndiz. ]
We are indebted to cantutn Snow of the -
brig Helen. and cupta'm Knights, a puss-si-n- '
ger, for Cacliz papvrs to the 11 August,
from which we have prepared the ubove
summary.
DA VISH YVAR. ]
Czipt. \Vills, who arrived yesterday from
Cottuiburgh, informs that he was told by
his merchant, that the Dmish government
had issuul & decrcc directing their Cl'uichs
lo capturc all Amei'ican vessels, whatchr
might be: thcir cargo, or wherever from or
bound. A copy was said to have been
printed in the: ch dish pap'ctctss.
AUGUST 22.
FROM GOTTENBUR'G '
The ship Roll'ct, VViHS, arrived in this ]
port yesterday, from Goucnburg, which :
hc left Aug 25: 6.
L'xtracts as letters fi'am .ez/pers'arsig'aes of 3
Ut'SssS'c'csi-S', L'E/Olig'iilssg* [0 {llfo' ])art, zu/ziL-/z,il
with their way valuassG/e carggsi-s, lzavc !
bren captured by t/w—Danes and Frcctnc/z, ]
and carried into .siVs—rwagss'. ! .
CHRISTIANSAND, July 25, 1810. ,
u On the 14th inst. Wc Were capun-cd by s j
& Danish cutccr and brought'into this placed (
Asccr bcing twice: interrogassdss Cupt. sii ,
. , .. .
and his crctcw Were sent on board t'n: , si ]
as piisuners, thrc they still remain. :}
I find iisslhe vcsscl is condemned, it Wlii ,3
JC ? (
-15t. Because the captain had no chartss'
Is the: Atlamic with each days work prick- ' 5
:(l oﬀ! ? L'
Id. Because the captnin had no Sext-simti
m board, without which it was impossible: sst:
in him to know his longitudc Or find his si "
FARSUND'. Juiy 20, 1810, 1;
" It is with pain ( inform you that we: 1'
were brought into this plum- by a Norwegi- 0
m privatccr. There are 18 sail ofAmcri- a
gan vessels in this and the ncighboring 5
)OslS- ' -
Flessssjsts FRANC'E.
Captain Dixe y, from France, lul'orms
that (1 report ufzm accnusixmud'siuiun by gsi'n.
Pu-nhtnss.nghad CcaSssid; that th: ssiilcs of
svosiu stu'cd property wsszs proceeding ; Cut
:m had um for upwards of a dullzu' per
pound. -
Frczzch papers to August 1, were receiv
c-rssl I;.st evening at she Exchungc CUﬀce
Huuzc by the schoomr Two Brmhcrs frum
France. They are extremely barren.
The council ol'prizes had condemned the.
Amclican ships Ohio and Calpo. Thc'
Tilsit had arrchd from Baltimorc; she is
mentioned as a letter of mmquc, and covk
an Amcsizrican vessel called the Spanish La
dy.
c ] , .]
uJ. Because he water on board was too
z'csh to come from Amcx'ica! if)
Extract lrom anstsi'zcl'. C
arciclsi-s resPccting thc opcrations us the: pa
tmits in arms in s'cvcral parts of Lcctc-sin and
Astu rias, whose numhcrs arc rcprcSr-n'cd
as consixlcruhlc. and daily increasing. They
display an aug-nmwd cnthusiusm, and
greatly hurrass sihc enemy.
to the Zd August. They contain numerous ss
We were. presented with Corunna papcl's ;
FRO 31 CORUNNA.
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No, not so. L-ur democrats wit] ram; uhd ap- '
pluud France, and endeavor to cftsirge thc
British With all the blame of the cosi'ss'sinumte
us the orders end decrees : and our udminis
dtrution, with a perfect cemiezi-ssctzss. us the cur,
trary; wiil iUSidt on the ;;uo-J di.—.p-sitionos
Benzsipsisirte and his readings- to wme to an
uceommedutim.
The Bsi'i'tioh ;n-e Williag te- rc:.—omss:c thth
orders in counpil, is the French will zsihsi-uuun
their decrees ; they lnztde th-ct- oss-sizz' lultgcgh;
but not to be Clogj_;c'sil with Lumlitiunu, to un...
ply with which would be t'uimus.
What part then has our pt'csiitft'nt tow?
The law uslust winter authuzlctcd him to xc
store the nun-intcrcutn'se tith the [xx.-tum
plying nution. Neither nasititsin l.usi cun-pliul.
The declctrution oslsiruncc that dlzc um hss-rc
ut'tcr revoke, on certain conditicssns, elItUUlM
to nothing. It is no ground on which to build
& Prodamation. The French detrccs are not
revokcd, and will not be. The Prcaidcnt ttisil
have nothing to say on the siu't-jcct.
A very lsi'a/s/ly remark --A uriter in the
Virginia Patriut, speaking of Jeﬂ'czson ten
:lcring Bonuparte every assistancc to over
.hrow Great Britain, says thzsit is they had
succeeded, Jeﬂ'erson would have put hisw'Ot
on the prostrztte British Lion (" aslel' UW
)east was dead, for :: tientsiinty mue dtad) azzd
:xclaim, " See cou-si'in what we hate done.
unde: in this paper, un pcrusing a lamenta
)lc Odc in the lud- pcndcnc Auuricsiﬄ,
MJVC txc'xtcd chc impousint rage usthc auchur
)f the ryhmcs ; who has wasted no small
]Himtityuf POWdcr in vain cndcsiavmdlo
uscisy his OWn blundch ,- und w impress 3
zsi'sict that what he has written is not onlfs
"" Wsstctssd sluss, but really wench l'CZM'
"83 That he: is Scl'lsious in his bghcs lhﬄct
s no doubt ; for sithe man who is capable ()
ssca-iblzling such couzcmptibic metrical nisi
cr, mum bc supposed possesscd us & juctk"
ncnt_ofcquul discriminutiunz zsiml injw-siﬂ'
"8 of his own con'npusitiuns it is little P'sisi'
able that he would exercise much chcriYY'
ss _'l'nc_rhymctaggcr ubscrvcs : " Hnwr'si'fs'
[l.lS crnical snarlcr may juctsssi, che fuz/nsslt'
nll diﬀer from him in ;SScntiZI poinib ; sihsi-Y
si-Imzre thus: " dogge] lines" m [he n' (
ÞCY t[sink it contains beames, bei'il'fz/ 3";
0an : and will live admircdsi, &:.-- Wh'si
an mducc you, sir, so srvcrt'ly w risict'iculc
he taste of the public? Yet doubzlrsb )ss'uss'
"31905 Predcccssor Searsau has the: sum:
plmon of his poetical lahors. ,.Pcrhapi you
rc unacquainccd with this auchur; Ysi'si
hould hardly suppose: this possibch .sos
'ou seem to have caught his very Sjsssis" '
] SJTURDJY, ssz'r. 29
I _ On perusing the Duke oscm
: Wssss
nion of & London cditot'.
_ Psi'" (if F.:zg,
gland, wuh which she must ccztctimy vjsisipsi
not comply. The French decrees wih her;.
wheel, ii'thc British orders are rescinded on.!
she shall give up the principles ol' hlockade.
Now England assuredly will not give upsh
right; and therefore the makers uii] notlsict
ressisiinded : uf'course the decrees arc notam:
will not be tevoked. This Bonapartc wctt
knew ; and his ochct is plainly to throw, is
possible, the culpability on England, andim
press in this country the helics that Frsisintc is ss
wiliing to revoke but England will not. I;}:
an insidious stroke of policy on the part or
Privatecrs bring In all vessels & _
across." -* - . 't) Com—
si From another.
? CHRISTLANSAND, ]uly 29 181
; " 0 0 the 201h ivst. Wc m-re css 0.
a French privntu r luggrr_ and ss'sssits'sidct ct
this port, whe- re.- we 41er O (my Suz-si'ssss [La
The: French cc-nsul inimms m: n.}(h
pnpcrs will be f'ozwzndcd to ]);nsssiss, .ctsssiﬄh
as possible, for cxaminazisin," sisisill
wuhout due x-cﬂcctton subsmiting to the rsip'si
Bunsixput'te, L-ut too shzzll-zw to have dies.—
uinst Us, m
always the tyg 't" cruuchcs belore zi.c\
slcc/zs." *
—"'*" :
\-Ve yesterday too hastily admittedthauh
British would rectscind their Otdcr in touutif,
1 here is a condition,
attached to the rescinding on the
but this proved Bonuputte's intention"
. " NU
more to disturb us. *- He has humt-tssi
:] " nl.
. . (5 he hdﬂ lowﬄsifld
lnmseli down never to rise as;
sclt'," said the democrat,
. Terc's late 3'\
ter to At'mstrong the other d
The scw cursory remarks which were
Amamsia Y'dﬂp Qctzﬄsi
0 debt:
A_A_..._ sisisi __