Herald of the United States (Warren, R.I.), 1806-03-22 00:00:00

Gerald of the United States.
WARREN:—PUBLISHED NEAR THE POST-OFFICE, BY NATHANIEL PHILLIPS.
[No. 25, of Vol. XIV.]
SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1806.
[Whole No. 691.]
WEEKLY ALMANACK.
   MARCH. D. D. L. S. REMARKS:     23 Sunday, 5 56 7 10 010 30   24 Monday, 5 55 7 10 511 21 Days leng. 12h.   25 Tuesday, 5 53 7 11 421 12 10m.   26 Wednesday, 5 51 7 12 411 11 Likely for a storm.   27 Thursday, 5 50 7 1 411 11   28 Friday, 5 48 7 2 373 7   29 Saturday, 5 47 7 3 331 4 3  
LATE Foreign Intelligence.
Battle of the Three Emperors!
[An arrival at New-York from Bourdeaux furnishes the following particulars of the operations of the Grand Army of France.]
THIRTIETH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY.
Austerlitz, 12th Frimaire, year 14.
THE 6th Frimaire, the Emperor, upon receiving the communication of the fall powers of Messrs. de Stadion and de Gaulay, offered previously an armistice, for the purpose of sparing the effusion of human blood; if the enemy really had a mind to make an arrangement, and come to a definitive accommodation.
But it was easy for the Emperor to perceive that the enemy had other projects; and as the hope of success could not come to the enemy, but from the side of the Russian army, he easily conjectured that the negotiations were no longer any thing more than a ruce de guerre to lull his vigilance.
The 7th, at nine o'clock in the morning, a cloud of Cossacks, supported by the Russian cavalry, made the advanced posts of Prince Murat fall back, surrounded Vitshau, and took there 50 men on foot of the 6th regiment of dragoons. In the course of the day the Emperor of Russia repaired to Vischau, and the whole Russian army took position behind that town.
The Emperor had sent his aid-de-camp, general Savary, to compliment the Emperor of Russia, as soon as he was apprised of that Prince having arrived at the army. General Savary returned at the moment when the Emperor was reconnoitring the fires of the enemy's bivouac placed at Vischau. He bestowed great praise on the good reception, the graces, and good personal sentiments of the Emperor of Russia, and even of the Grand Duke Constantine, who showed him every kind of care and attention; but it was easy for him to perceive from the series of conversations which he had for three days with about thirty ex-combs, who, under different titles, surrounded the Emperor of Russia, that presumption, imprudence and inconsideracy would reign in the decisions of the military cabinet, as they had reigned in those of the political one.
An army thus conducted, could not be long without committing faults. The Emperor's plan was from that moment to wait for these faults, and to watch the moment for profiting of them. He immediately gave orders for his army to retrace; retired by night, as it had met with a defeat, took a good position three leagues behind, caused his men to work with great assiduity in fortifying it, and erecting batteries.
He proposed an interview to the Emperor of Russia, who sent him his aid-de-camp, Prince Dolgorouky; this aid-de-camp might remark that every thing in the countenance of the French army denoted reserve and timidity. The placing of large guards, the fortifications making in the utmost haste, all showed the Russian officer an army half beaten.
Against the custom of the Emperor, who never receives with so much circumspection flags of truce at his head-quarters, he repaired himself to his advanced posts. After the first compliments, the Russian officer attempted to start political questions. He assumed upon every thing with an impertinence difficult to be imagined; he was in the most absolute ignorance of the interests of Europe, and of the situation of the Continent. He was, in one word, as a trumpeter of England. He spoke to the Emperor as he speaks to Russian officers, whom he has long provoked by his haughtiness and ill-usage. The Emperor contuined his indignation, and this young man who has gained a considerable influence over the Emperor Alexander, returned full of the idea that the French army was on the eve of its ruin. Que may be convinced of what the Emperor must have suffered, when it is known, that towards the end of the conversation, the Prince proposed to him to give up Belgium, and to place the iron crown on the most implacable enemies of France. All these different steps fulfilled their intention. To beat the French army was no longer the question, but to turn and take it; it had done so much only thro' the cowardice of the Austrians. It is asserted that several old Austrian generals, who had made campaigns against the Emperor, warned the council that it was not with such confidence that they ought to march against an army in which there were so many old soldiers and officers of the first merit. They said that
they had seen the Emperor reduced to a handful of men, in the most difficult circumstances, insure his victory by rapid and unforeseen operations, and destroy the most numerous armies; that here, however, no advantage had been obtained; that, on the contrary all the skirmishes of the advanced-guard of the first Russian army had been to the advantage of the French army; to these observations, these presumptuous youths opposed the bravery of 80,000 Russians, the enthusiasm inspired into them by the presence of their Emperor, the picked corps of the Imperial Guards of Russia, and what they probably did not dare advance, their talents, of which they were astonished that the Austrians did not comprehend the power.
On the 10th, the Emperor, from the top of his bivouac perceived with unspeakable joy, the Russian army beginning, at two cannon shot from his advanced posts, a movement in flank to turn his right. He then saw to what a pitch presumption and ignorance of the art of war had misled the councils of this brave army. He frequently repeated: "Before tomorrow evening, that army will be in my power." Nevertheless the enemy entertained a very different idea: he came up within a pistol shot of our advanced guard; desiring by a flank march on a line of four leagues in length, extending along the French army, which appeared as if it dared not to move out of its position: it had but one fear, that the French army would escape it. Every thing was done to confirm the enemy in this idea. Prince Murat caused a small corps of cavalry to advance into the plain; but suddenly, as if astonished at the immense forces of the enemy, it hastily returned. Thus every thing tended to confirm the Russian general in the ill calculated operation he had fixed on. The Emperor caused the annexed proclamation to be placed in the order of the day. In the evening he wished to visit on foot and incognito all the night guards; but he had scarcely made a few paces ere he was recognized. It is impossible to describe the enthusiasm of the soldiers on seeing him. Straw lights were in an instant placed on the tops of thousands of perches, and 80,000 presented themselves before the Emperor, saluting him with acclamations; some to celebrate the fete of the anniversary of his coronation, the others saying that the army would give its homage to the Emperor on the morrow. One of the old Grenadiers came up and said to him: "Sire, you need not expose yourself. I promise you in the name of the Grenadiers of the army, that you need only fight with your eyes, and that we will bring you to-morrow the standards and artillery of the Russian Army to celebrate the anniversary of your coronation."
The Emperor said in entering his bivouac, which consisted of a wretched straw hovel without a roof, which the Grenadiers had made for him: "This is the finest evening of my life; but I regret to think that I shall lose a number of these brave fellows. I feel how much that will hurt me, that they are truly my children, and in fact I sometimes reproach myself with this sentiment, which I fear will end by rendering me incapable of carrying on the war." Could the enemy have beheld the scene; he would have been alarmed. But rash and unthinking, he continued his movement, and hastened forward to his ruin.
The Emperor immediately caused the preparations to be made for battle. He dispatched Marshal Davoust, to the convent of Roggero; he was with one of his divisions, and a division of dragoons, to make head against the enemy's left wing, in order that as a signal given, it might be quite enveloped; he gave the command of the left to Marshal Lannes, of the right to Marshal Soult, of the centre to Marshal Bernadotte, and of all the cavalry, which he assembled on one point, to Prince Murat. The left of Marshal Lannes was supported by the Sonon, a superb position, which the Emperor had caused to be fortified, and on which he had caused to be placed eighteen pieces of cannon. On the evening preceding the battle, he had intrusted the guard of this position to the seventeenth regiment of Light Infantry, and certainly it could not be guarded by better troops. The division of Gen. Suchet, formed the left of Marshal Lannes; and that of Gen. Caffini his right, which was supported by the cavalry of Prince Murat. The latter had in front of it the Hussars and Light Horse, under the orders of General Kellermann, and the division of Dragoons Valther and Beaumont, and in reserve the divisions of Cuirassiers of Generals Nanfouy and d'Hautpoil, with 24 pieces of light artillery.
Marshal Bernadotte, that is to say, the centre, had on its left the division of General Rivaud, supported on the centre by Prince Murat, and on its left the division of General Drouet.
Marshal Soult, who commanded the right of the army, had at his left the division of General Vandamme, at the centre the division of General St. Hilaire, at his right the division of General Legrand.
Marshal Davoust was detached to the right of General Legrand, who guarded the pass-
ges of the Ponds, and of the villages of Sokolnitz and Celnitz. He had with him the division Priant and the Dragoons of the division of General Boucier. The division of General Gudin was to march very early in the morning from Nicholsborough to stop any of the enemy's corps which might stretch beyond the right.
The Emperor, with his faithful war companion Marshal Berthier, his first aid-de-camp Colonel-General Junot, and all his staff, was in reserve with the ten battalions of his guards, and the ten battalions of General Oudinot, of which General Duroc commanded a part.
This reserve was drawn up in two lines in columns by battalion, at the distance of opening; having in the intervals 40 pieces of cannon, served by the artillerymen of the guards. It is with this reserve that the Emperor had the project of rushing wherever his presence would have been necessary. We may say that this reserve alone was worth an army.
At one o'clock in the morning the Emperor mounted on horseback, to visit his posts, reconnoitre the fires of the enemy's bivouac, and receive an account from the large guards of what they might have heard of the movements of the Russians. He learned that they had spent the night in drunkenness and tumultuous cries, and that a corps of Russian infantry had presented themselves at the village of Sokolnitz, occupied by a regiment of the division of General Legrand, who received orders to reinforce it.
The 11th Frimaire, day at length appeared. The sun rose radiant; and this anniversary of the Emperor's coronation, on which one of the finest feats of arms of the age was going to take place, was one of the finest days of this autumn.
This battle, which the soldiers persist in calling the engagement of the three Emperors, which others call the engagement of the anniversary, and which the Emperor has called the battle of Austerlitz, will be for ever memorable in the annals of the Great nation.
The Emperor, surrounded by all his Marshals, waited, to give his last orders, till the horizon was well lighted. At the first rays of the sun the orders were given, and each Marshal rejoined his corps in full gallop.
The Emperor said in passing along the front of several regiments: "Soldiers, we must finish this campaign by a clap of thunder which shall confound the pride of our enemies;" and immediately he has on the point of the bayonets, and shouts of Long live the Emperor! were the true signal for action. A moment after the cannonade was heard at the extremity of the right, where the enemy's advanced guard had already passed; but the unforeseen encounter of Marshal Davoust stopped the enemy short, and the engagement commenced.
Marshal Soult moved off at the same instant, marched towards the heights of the village of Pratzen, with the divisions of the Generals Vandamme and St. Hilaire, and entirely took the enemy's right; all the movements of which became uncertain. Surprised by a march of flank whilst it was flying, thinking itself attacking and seeing itself attacked, it looked upon itself as half beaten.
Prince Murat moved off with his cavalry. The left, commanded by Marshal Lannes, marched in echelons by regiments, as at exercise. A tremendous caracade commenced along the whole line: two hundred pieces of cannon, and nearly two hundred thousand men made a dreadful noise; it was a real combat of giants. The armies had not yet been fighting for an hour, and the whole of the enemy's left was cut off. His right found itself already arrived at Austerlitz, the head-quarters of the two Emperors, who were immediately forced to march the Emperor of Russia's guards to endeavour to re-establish a communication of the centre with the left. A battalion of the 4th of the line was charged by the Russian Imperial Horse Guards, and routed; but the Emperor was not far off: Perceiving this movement, he ordered Marshal Berthier to march to the support of his right with his invincibles, and shortly after the two guards were engaged.
The success could not be doubtful: In a moment the Russian Guards were routed. Colonel, artillery, standards, all were carried away. The regiment of the Grand Duke Constantine was crushed. He himself owed his safety only to the swiftness of his horse.
From the heights of Austerlitz, the two Emperors beheld the defeat of all the Russian Guards. At the same moment the centre of the army, commanded by Marshal Bernadotte, advanced; three of his regiments maintained a very fine charge of cavalry. The left, commanded by Marshal Lannes, attacked several times. All the charges were victorious. The division of General Caffarelli distinguished itself.
The divisions of Cuirassiers seized the enemy's batteries. At one o'clock in the afternoon, the victory was decided; it had not been a single moment doubtful. Not a man of the reserve had been necessary, nor had fought anywhere. The cannonade was no longer kept up any where but at our right.
The enemy's corps which had been surrounded and driven from all its heights, found itself on a low ground, and pushed up against a lake. The Emperor marched thither with twenty pieces of cannon. This corps was driven from position to position, and a horrible spectacle ensued, such as was seen at Aboukir, 20,000 men throwing themselves into the water, and drowning themselves in the lake.
Two columns, each of four thousand Russians, laid down their arms, and surrendered prisoners; the enemy's whole park is taken. The result of this engagement is forty stands of Russian colours, among which are the standards of the Imperial guards; a considerable number of prisoners, the staff does not yet know them all. It had already notice of 20,000, 12 or 15 Generals; at least 15,000 Russians killed remained on the field of battle. Altho' the reports be not yet arrived, we can at the first coup d'oeil, estimate our loss at 300 men killed, and between 15 and 1600 wounded. This will not astonish military men, who know that it is only in a rout that men are lost, and no other corps but the battalion of the 4th was broken. Among the wounded is General St. Hilaire, who wounded at the commencement of the engagement, remained the whole day in the field of battle; he covered himself with glory. The General of division Kellermann and Walther, the Generals of Brigade Vaubert, Thiebault, Sebastiani, Campion and Rapp, aid-de-camp to the Emperor. It was the latter who at the head of the grenadiers of the guards, took Prince Renain, commander of the Knights of the Imperial guards of Russia. As to the men who have distinguished themselves, it is the whole army which has covered itself with glory. It constantly charged shouting Long live the Emperor, and the idea of celebrating so gloriously the anniversary of the coronation further animated the soldiers.
The French army, although numerous and beautiful, was inferior in number to the enemy's army, which consisted of 105,000 men, 80,000 of whom were Russians, and 25,000 Austrians. Half of this army is destroyed; the rest has been put to the most complete rout, and the greater part have thrown down their arms.
This day will cost tears of blood to Saint Petersburg. May it cause that cabinet to reject with indignation the gold of England; and may this young Prince whom so many virtues called to be the father of his subjects, snatch himself from the influence of those thirty ex-combs whom England pays with art, and whose impertinencies obscure his intentions, make him lose the love of his soldiers, and throw him into the most erroneous operations. Nature, by endowing him with such great qualities, called on him to be the confoler of Europe. Perfidious councils, by rendering him the auxiliary of England, will place him in history in the rank of those men, who by perpetuating war on the Continent, consolidated British tyranny over the ocean, and caused the misfortunes of our generation. It France cannot attain peace but on the conditions which the aid-de-camp Dolgorouky proposed to the Emperor, and that Baron Novositzoff was charged to bring, Russia will not obtain them, even if its army should be encamped on the heights of Montmartre.
In a more detailed relation of this battle, the Staff-Major will make known what each corps, each officer, each General has done to illustrate the French name, and give a testimony of love to their Emperor.
On the 12th, at day break, Prince John of Lichtenstein, commander of the Austrian army, waited on the Emperor at his head-quarters, set up in a barn. He had a long audience of him. Nevertheless we pursue our successes. The enemy is retreating along the road from Austerlitz to Goring. In this retreat he presents his flank, the French army is already on his rear, and following him with the sword in his reins.
Never was a more horrible field of battle. From the midst of immense lakes we still hear the cries of thousands of men who cannot be relieved. It will be three days before the wounded enemies can be all sent off to Brunn. It makes one's heart bleed. May so much bloodshed, so many misfortunes fall at length on the perfidious Islanders who are the cause of them! may the cowardly oligarchs of London support the burden of so many evils!
From the BIVOUAC, 10th Frimaire. SOLDIERS!
You see before you the Russian Army come to avenge the Austrian Army of Ulm. They are the same battalions you have beaten at Hollabrunn, and whom you have constantly pursued to this place.
The positions we occupy are formidable, and whilst they march to turn my right, they will present me their flank.
Soldiers, I shall direct in person all your battalions; I shall keep far from the fire, if with your accustomed bravery you carry disorder and confusion into the enemy's ranks; but if victory be for a moment uncertain, you will see your Emperor expose himself to the first blows; for victory cannot hesitate, in this day

especially when the honor of French infantry, which imports so much to the honor of the whole nation, is at stake.
Let not your ranks be thinned under pretext of carrying off the wounded, and let each man be penetrated with the thought, that we must vanquish these hirelings of England, who are animated with so great a hatred against our nation.
This victory will finish our campaign, and we may take up our winter-quarters, where we shall be joined by the new armies now forming in France, and then the peace I shall make, will be worthy of my people, of you, and of me.
(Signed) NAPOLEON. By order, The Major-General of the Army Marshal BERTHIER.
AUSTERLITZ, 12th Frimaire.
SOLDIERS, I am satisfied with you; you have in the engagement of Austerlitz, justified what I expected from your intrepidity. You have decorated your eagles with an immortal glory. An army of 100,000 men, commanded by the Emperors of Russia and Austria, has been in less than four hours cut to pieces and dispersed; those who have escaped your swords, have been drowned in the lakes.
Forty pair of colours, the standards of the Imperial Guards of Russia, 120 pieces of cannon, 20 generals, upwards of 30,000 prisoners, are the result of this memorable day. This infantry so much boasted of and in superior numbers, have not been able to resist your shock, and henceforth you will have no more rivals to dread. Thus in two months, this third coalition has been vanquished and dissolved. Peace can no longer be at a distance; but, as I promised my people, before crossing the Rhine, I will only make a peace which shall give us guarantees and secure rewards to our allies.
Soldiers, when the French people placed the Imperial Crown on my head, I trusted to you to maintain it forever in that high splendor of glory which could alone render it valuable in my eyes. But at the same moment our enemies thought of destroying and vilifying it; and the iron crown conquered by the blood of so many Frenchmen, they wished to oblige me to place on the head of our most cruel enemies; rash and senseless projects, that on the very day of the anniversary of your Emperor's coronation you have annihilated and confounded. You have taught them that it is easier to brave and to threaten, than it is to conquer us.
Soldiers, when every thing that is necessary to insure the happiness and prosperity of our country shall be accomplished I will conduct you back to France. There you will be the object of my most tender solicitudes. My people will again behold you with joy, and it will be sufficient for you to say I was at the battle of Austerlitz, for them to answer, That is a brave fellow!
(Signed) NAPOLEON. The Minister Secretary of State, (Signed) H. A. MARAT.
THIRTY-FIRST BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY.
AUSTERLITZ, 14th Frimaire, year 14.
The Emperor set out yesterday from Austerlitz, for his advanced posts near Sarutich, where he placed himself near his bivouac. The Emperor of Germany was not long in arriving there. The two Monarchs had an interview which lasted two hours. The Emperor of Germany did not conceal both on his side and on that of the Emperor of Russia the contempt they feel for the conduct of England. They are a set of shop-keepers, he repeated, who set the Continent on fire in order to secure to themselves the trade of the world.
These two Princes agreed on an armistice and on the principal conditions of peace which is to be negotiated and terminated within a few days. The Emperor of Germany then informed the Emperor that the Emperor of Russia likewise designed to make a separate peace; that he entirely abandoned the affairs of England, and no longer took any interest in them.
The Emperor of Germany frequently repeated "There is no doubt but that in her dispute with England, France is in the right." He solicited also a truce for the remainder of the Russian army. The Emperor observed to him that the Russian army was surrounded, and that not a man could escape; but, added he, "I desire to do something agreeable to the Emperor Alexander, I will suffer the Russian army to pass. I will stop the march of my columns, but your majesty must promise me that the Russian army will return into Russia and evacuate Germany and Austria and Prussian Poland." Such is the intention of the Emperor Alexander, replied the Emperor of Germany. I can assure you besides you may convince yourself of it in the course of the night by your own officers.
It is asserted that the Emperor said to the Emperor of Germany, when he asked him to come near the fire of his bivouac, "I receive you on the only palace I have occupied for these two months past." The Emperor of Germany replied laughing, "Vous tirez si bon parti de cette habitation, qu'elle doit vous plaire." "It has been so much to your advantage, that I do not wonder at its pleasing you." This is as near as could be understood the words which dropped from him. The numerous loice of the two princes were not so far distant but that they heard something that was said.
The Emperor accompanied the Emperor of Germany to his carriage, and caused Prince Lichtenstein and general prince Schwarzenberg, to be presented to him; after which he returned to sleep at Austerlitz.
Every information is collecting for the purpose of writing a fine description of the battle of Austerlitz. A great number of engineers are drawing up the plan of the field of battle. The loss of the Russians has been immense. Generals Kutusow and Buinowden
were wounded. Ten or twelve generals were killed. Several aides-de-camp to the Emperor of Russia, and a great number of officers of distinction lost their lives. It is not 120 pieces of cannon, but 150, which have been taken. The enemy's columns which threw itself into the lake were swamped by the ice, but the cannonade broke it, and two whole columns were drowned. On the evening of the day, and for several hours during the night, the Emperor rode over the field of battle, and caused the wounded to be carried away, a horrible spectacle, if there ever was one. The Emperor, mounted on a very fleet horse, galloped along as swift as lightning; nothing was more affecting than to see these brave fellows recognize him on the field; some forgot their sufferings and said, "At least the victory is certain," others, "I have suffered for these eight hours, and since the beginning of the battle I am abandoned, but I have done my duty," others, "You ought to be satisfied with your soldiers to-day." With each wounded soldier the Emperor left a guard, who caused him to be transported into the moveable hospitals. It is horrible to say, that 48 hours after the battle there were still a great number of Russians whose wounds we were not able to get dressed. All the French were so before night. Instead of 40 pair of colours, we have already had 45 brought in, and our soldiers still find the remainder of several others. Nothing can exceed the gaiety of the soldiers at their bivouac. They scarcely perceive an officer of the Emperor, but they cry out to him, "Has the Emperor been satisfied with us?"
In passing before the 28th of the line, which has a great number of conscripts of Calvados and of the Lower Seine, the Emperor said to it, "I hope that the Normans will distinguish themselves to-day." They kept their word. The Normans distinguished themselves. The Emperor, who knows the composition of each regiment, said a few words—these few words arrived, and spoke to the hearts of those to whom they were addressed, and became their rallying signal in the midst of the fire. He said to the 57th, "Recollect it is many years since I named you the Terrible." It would be necessary to name all the regiments of the army. There was not one which did not show prodigies of bravery and intrepidity. Here indeed it might be said, that death took the alarm and fled before our ranks to burst over the enemies ranks. Not a corps made a retrograde movement. The Emperor said, I have fought 30 battles such as this, but I never saw one in which the victory was more decisive, and the chances so little balanced. The foot guards of the Emperor were not engaged. They wept with rage. When they asked to be employed, the Emperor said to them, "Rejoice that you have not yet been in the action, you are to fall on as a reserve. So much the better if you are not wanted to-day."
Three colonels of the Imperial Russian Guard were taken with the general who commanded them. The Hussars of this guard made a charge on the division Caffarelli. This charge cost them 300 men, who remained on the field of battle. The French cavalry shewed itself superior, and acquitted itself admirably well.
At the end of the action the Emperor sent colonel Dallemagne, with two squadrons of his guard as partisans, to ride over the field of battle, and bring in the stragglers.
He took several stands of colours and 1500 prisoners. The guards greatly regret the colonel of the Horse Rangers, Morland, who was killed with a grape shot, as he was charging the artillery of the Russian Imperial Guard. This artillery was taken; but this brave colonel found his death. We had not one general killed. Colonel Masson, of the 14th of line, a brave man, was killed. Many Chiefs of Battalion were wounded. The Voltigeurs vied with the grenadiers. The 55th, 43d, 14th, 36th, 40th, 17th. . . . But we dare mention no corps; it would be an injustice to the others—they all performed wonders. There was not a single general, an officer, a soldier, but was determined to conquer or to die.
We must not conceal a trait that does honor to the enemy. The commander of the artillery of the Russian Imperial Guards had just lost his cannon. He met the Emperor, "Sire, said he, get me shot: I have just lost my cannon." "Young man," answered the Emperor, "I appreciate your tears, but one may be beat by my army and still have a title to glory."
Our advanced posts are arrived at Olmutz. The empress and the whole court have fled from thence in the greatest haste. Col. Corbineau, equerry to the Emperor, had four horses killed under him, upon the 5th he was wounded himself, after seizing a stand of colours. Prince Murat bestows great praise on the fine manoeuvres of general Kellermann, on the fine charges of general Nansouty and d'Hautpoul, and in fine of all the generals, for one knows not whom to name because they should all be named. The soldiers of the train have merited the praises of the army. The artillery made a dreadful havoc among the enemy. When an order was given of it to the Emperor, he said: "Its successes give me pleasure; for I have not forgot that it was in this corps that I began my military career."
The Emperor's aide-de-camp, general Savary, had accompanied the Emperor of Germany, after an interview, to know whether the Emperor of Russia adhered to the capitulation. He found the wreck of the Russian army without either artillery or baggage, and in a frightful disorder. It was midnight: General Meerfeld had been repulsed at Godding by Marshal Davoust. The Russian army was surrounded, not a man could escape. Prince Czartoriski introduced general Savary to the Emperor. "Tell your master, cried that Prince, that I am going away; he has wrought many marvels; how this day has increased my admiration of him! he is predestinated of Heaven;
my army will require a hundred years to equal his; but can I retire in safety?" Yes, Sire, answered general Savary, if your majesty ratifies what the two Emperors of France and Germany have agreed upon in their interview. And what is it?—That the Russian army shall retire home by the stages that shall be regulated by the Emperor, and that it shall evacuate Germany and Austrian Poland. Upon this condition, I have the Emperor's orders to repair to our advanced posts, which have already turned you, and to give orders to protect your retreat, as the Emperor wishes to respect the friend of the First Consul.—What guarantee must I give for that?—Sire, your Word.—I give it you. This aide-de-camp set off in full gallop to Marshal Davoust, to whom he gave orders to cease all movement and to remain quiet.
May this generosity of the Emperor of the French not be so soon forgotten in Russia, as the fine procedure of the Emperor, who sent back 6000 men to the Emperor Paul with so much grace and so many tokens of esteem for him.
General Savary conversed an hour with the Emperor of Russia, and found him such as a man of heart and sense should be, whatever losses he may have experienced. The Monarch asked him to give him some details of the engagement. "You were inferior to me," said he, "and however, you were superior in all the points of attack." "Sire," answered General Savary, "that is the art of war, and the fruit of 15 years of Glory. It is the 40th battle the Emperor has fought." "That it true, he is a great warrior. For my part, it is the first time I have seen fire. I have never had the pretension to measure with you." "Sire, when you have gained experience, you will surpass him perhaps." "I shall now return to my capital. I came to the assistance of the Emperor of Germany. He has made known to me that he is satisfied; I am so too."
On his interview with the Emperor of Germany, the Emperor told him: Mr. and Mme. de Colterredo, Messieurs Paget and Rafamowski are all one with your Minister Cobentzel. These are the real causes of the war, and if Y. M. continues to abandon yourself to these intriguers, they will ruin all your affairs & alienate the hearts of all your subjects, you who have so many qualities to be happy and beloved.
An Austrian Major having presented himself at the advanced posts, with dispatches from Mr. Cobentzel for Mr. de Stadion, at Vienna, the Emperor said, "I will have nothing to do with that man, who has sold himself to England, to pay his debts, and who has ruined his house and his nation by following his sister's advice."
The Emperor took the greatest notice of Prince John of Lichtenstein. He frequently said "How is it when one has men of such great distinction, that one can suffer oneself to be led by fools and intriguers." In fact, Prince John of Lichtenstein is one of the most distinguished characters, not only for his military talents, but for his qualities and knowledge. It is confidentially asserted that the Emperor said, after his conference with the Emperor of Germany, "That man has made me commit a fault, for I could have followed up my victory and taken the whole Russian and Austrian armies, but, however, there will be some tears the less shed."
THIRTY SECOND BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY.
AUSTERLITZ, December 6, 1805.
General Pratzen, at the battle of Austerlitz, had four horses killed under him. Col. Conreux and Demoustier distinguished themselves. The traits of courage are so numerous that as they were reported to the Emperor, he said, "I need all my power to be able to recompense worthy these brave men."
The Russians, in fighting, have the habit of laying down their knapsacks; and the whole Russian army having been put to flight they were taken possession of by our soldiers. A great quantity of baggage was also taken, and the soldiers have found in it much money.
Gen. Bertrand, who had been dispatched after the battle with a squadron of the guards, has brought in a great number of prisoners, 19 pieces of cannon, and many baggage waggons well filled. The number of pieces of cannon taken up to this time amounts to 170.
The Emperor testified some dissatisfaction that plenipotentiaries had been sent to him the day before the battle, and that the diplomatic character had been prostituted. It is worthy of M. Cobentzel, whom the whole nation regards as one of the principal authors of all its calamities.
Prince John of Lichtenstein is come to meet the Emperor at the castle of Austerlitz. The Emperor has granted him a conference of several hours. It is remarked that the Emperor conversed freely with this general officer, who has concluded with Marshal Berthier an armistice of the following tenor.
Armistice concluded between their Imperial Majesties of France and Austria.
His Majesty the Emperor of the French and his Majesty the Emperor of Germany, desirous to reach the period of definitive negotiations for putting an end to the war which divides the two Empires, have agreed as a preliminary to begin by an armistice, which shall continue until the conclusion of a definitive peace, or until the rupture of negotiations; and in this case the armistice shall not cease until 15 days after that rupture and the cessation of the armistice shall be notified to the Plenipotentiaries of both powers, and the head-quarters of both armies.
The conditions of the armistice are, I. The line of both armies shall be in Moravia, the circle of Iglau, the circle of Znaim, the circle of Brunn, that part of the circle of Ostrau, upon the right bank of the small river of Trenzbois opposite to Proslau as far as it
empties itself into the March, and the right bank of the March as far as the mouth of that river into the Danube including however Preßburg; but no French or Austrian troops shall be stationed within a circumference of five or six leagues round Holitsch, on the right bank of the March.
The line of the two armies shall besides comprehend, so the territory to be occupied by the French army, the whole of Lower and Upper Austria, the Tyrol, the state of Venice, Carinthia, Styria, Carniola, the county of Goritz, and Trieste; in short, in Bohemia, the circle of Mentzendorf and all the country on the east of the road from Tabor to Linz.
II. The Russian army shall evacuate the Austrian States, as well as Polish Austria, viz. Moravia and Hungary within fifteen days, and Galicia within a month. The order of its march shall be traced, so that it may be always known where it is, as well as to prevent all misunderstanding.
III. There shall not be made in Hungary any kind of levy en masse, nor insurrections; and in Bohemia no kind of extraordinary levy; no foreign army shall be permitted to enter the territory of the House of Austria.
Negotiators on each side shall meet at Nicholsburg, to proceed immediately on the business of negotiations, in order to establish promptly peace and harmony between the two Empires.
Done interchangeably between us the undersigned, the Marshal Berthier, minister of war, major-general of the grand army, charged with full powers from his Majesty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy; and Prince John de Lichtenstein, lieutenant-general, charged with full powers from his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, &c.
At Austerlitz, the 15th Frimaire, year 14: (6th of December, 1805.)
(Signed) Marshal BERTHIER. J. Prince de LICHTENSTEIN, Lieut. Gen.
Translated for the New York Gazette, from the Appendix to the 31st bulletin of the Grand Army.
AUSTERLITZ, Dec. 4. This moment arrived at head-quarters the capitulation, forwarded by Marshal Augereau, of the corps of the Russian army commanded by General Jellachich. The Emperor would have preferred that the prisoners should have been sent to France, even had it occasioned a few days longer blockade; experience having proved that when permitted to return to Austria they have been soon afterwards incorporated with the armies.
General Wreden, commanding the Bavarians, has had several skirmishes in Bohemia with the Archduke Ferdinand. He has made some hundred prisoners.
The Prince de Rohan, at the head of a corps of 6000 men, which had been cut off by Marshals Ney and Augereau, threw themselves upon Trent, passed the neck of Boacio, and attempted to penetrate to Venice. He was beaten by General St. Cyr, who made him and his whole corps prisoners. The following is the dispatch of Marshal Maresca, giving an account thereof to the minister of war:—
Capitulation of the Austrian army, commanded by Lieutenant-General JELLACHICH.
The general of division Maurice Mathieu, grand officer of the legion of honor, commanding the second division of the seventh corps of the Grand Army, authorized by the Marshal of the Empire Augereau, general in chief of the said corps; and general Wolkeisel, in the service of his Imperial and royal majesty the Emperor of Germany, authorized by general Jellachich, commander in chief of the Austrian armies in the Voralberg; have agreed on the following articles:
 1. The corps of the army under the order of Lieut. General Jellachich shall be prisoners of war on parole. The corps shall defile with all the honors of war, the men shall lay down their arms, and shall be conducted into Bohemia to the advanced posts of the Austrian army.  2. The officers shall retain their arms, horses, and baggage.  3. All the horses of the troops, the arms, the whole of the artillery, all the ammunition and military stores, every article that is not private property, shall be given up to the French army.  4. The French army shall take possession of all the Voralberg, Feldkirch, Rudens, and their territories as far as Larchenbergh.  5. The three battalions of the regiment of Baulieu are comprized in the present capitulation, if on the 14th of November, at 7 in the evening, they have not joined the corps of the Prince de Rohan, and if they are on the Larchenbergh.  6. All the officers and all the troops of the army of lieutenant-general Jellachich shall give their parole of honor not to serve during one year, reckoning from the date of the present capitulation, against the troops of his Majesty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, or against his allies.  7. The sick which shall remain in the French hospital shall be treated with all the attention prescribed by humanity; and on their recovery shall be sent to their garrison, being included in the 6th article.  8. The corps of the Austrian army shall be conducted to Bohemia, by the route of Linz, Tetschang, Bibarac, Gensbourg, Amberg and Retz; it shall march in three columns, at the customary day's march, and shall be treated as to lodging, provisions and forage in the same manner as the French regiments.  9. The Austrian troops during their march shall be, for their government and discipline, under the orders of their own officers, who shall be responsible for their conduct, and shall be accompanied by a French escort.  10. An officer of artillery and de genie , an inspector of reviews, and a commissary of war, with a battalion, shall take possession of 

the arsenals and magazines of Feldkirch to-morrow, 15th of November, at noon.
11. The corps of the Austrian army shall defy the day after to-morrow (16th November) at 8 o'clock in the morning, before the French army, and shall then lay down their arms and surrender their colours.
Done interchangeably at Dornbirn, 23rd Brumaire, (14th November, 1805.)
Signed, The General of Division, MAURICE MATHIEU, Major-General WOLKELFEL.
Approved by me, Marshal of the Empire, ANGEREAU. JELLACHICH, F. M. L.
LATEST AND Very Interesting News.
Received by the Packet, Capt. Scott, in 30 days from Liverpool—arrived at Boston.
ENGLAND. LONDON, FEB. 4. MR. PITT.
IT is with unfeigned concern we state, that the Right Hon. WILLIAM PITT, breathed his last at half past 4 o'clock, on Thursday morning, 23rd Jan. at his house at Putney. The illness of Mr. Pitt originated in excessive anxiety, and unwearied attention to business. His whole nervous system was so deranged, that for weeks together, he was unable to sleep, and this privation of rest led to a general breaking up of his constitution. An hereditary gout completed the whole.
NEW MINISTRY.
The new Ministry is at length finally arranged. Lord Grenville waited upon his Majesty yesterday at noon. The conference was confined to that one point upon which a difference of opinion had taken place, viz. the annexing a Military Council to the office of Commander in Chief. We are happy to state that his Majesty was graciously pleased to acquiesce in that measure which Lord Grenville had so earnestly and properly pressed. But we are informed that his Majesty, in order that there might be no misunderstanding on the subject, delivered his sentiments in writing. Lord Grenville then retired from the Royal presence with the paper he had received from his Majesty, and submitted to his friends. He then returned to the Queen's House about 4 o'clock, and declared to his Majesty that his friends and himself were perfectly satisfied with the contents of the paper which his Majesty had been graciously pleased to submit to them. His Majesty then informed his Lordship, that as no further difference of opinion existed he considered the business as finally arranged. The following is the list:
Mr. Erskine—Lord Chancellor. Lord Grenville—First Lord of the Treasury. Lord Henry Petty—Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Fox—Secretary of State for the Foreign Affairs Department. Earl Spencer—Ditto for the Home Department. Mr. Windham—Secretary of State for the Colonial and War Department. Mr. Grey—First Lord of the Admiralty. Earl Moira—Master General of the Ordnance. Earl Fitzwilliam—President of the Council. Lord Sidmouth—Lord Privy Seal. Lord Ellenborough—A Voice, without Office. The whole of the other arrangements are not yet settled, but the following appointments are fixed.
The Duke of York—to continue Commander in chief, with a Council. Mr. Sheridan—Treasurer of the Navy. General Fitzpatrick—Secretary at War. Lord Minto—Board of Control. Earl Temple and Mr. Hiley Addington—Joint Paymasters of the Forces. Lord St. John and Lord C. Spencer—Joint Postmaster General. Earl of Derby—Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Duke of Bedford—Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Mr. Tierney—Secretary to the Lord Lt. Mr. George Ponsonby—Chancellor of Ireland. Mr. Grattan—Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland. Mr. Adam—Chancellor of the Prince of Wales. Mr. Pigott—Attorney-General. Mr. Romilly—Solicitor-General. Mr. Vandart—the second doubtful—Joint Secretaries of the Treasury. Lord A. Hamilton and Mr. Eliot—Two of the Lords of the Treasury. Mr. N. Bond—Judge Advocate. Dr. Lawrence—King's Advocate. Sir Francis Vincent—Under Sec. of State to Mr. Fox. The King's Household remains.
The French papers bring a Proclamation, in which the Emperor Bonaparte says, that England may have peace; provided she will reduce her maritime establishments!
We understand Mr. Fox has already sent dispatches to all our Ministers at Foreign Courts, announcing the change in our Ministry; and adding that his wish is to restore peace to all Europe. If report be true, it is Mr. Fox's intention to make peace with France, leaving the Boulogne flotilla, as it now is; and he proposes to guard against the dangers of its existence by compelling every man in this country capable of bearing arms, to learn the use of them.
FEB. 10. It is stated in several of the papers of this morning that dispatches were received on Saturday evening, at the office of the secretary of state for foreign affairs, from the Continent, containing intelligence of a most extraordinary and distressing nature, viz. that the King of Prussia had taken possession of the Electorate of Hanover in his own name, and as his own property; that his Britannic Majesty's arms, as Elector of Hanover, had been taken from the Tribunals and public offices throughout the Electorate, and that a demand had been made upon Lord Gathcart, that all the Recruits raised there for the German Legion should be given up to the Prussian Government.
It is mentioned in some accounts, that the King of Prussia is to take possession of Bremen; this can only be at present, a matter of conjecture.
Letters received in the city from the Continent, state, that an arrangement has been made between the Courts of Berlin and St. Cloud, to shut out British commerce from the Prussian ports. We know not what degree of credit is due to this statement, but it seems not improbable.
Paris papers have arrived to the 3rd, and Dutch to the 7th. They have brought us Bonaparte's Proclamation to his army to march against Naples. It was issued on the day of the signature of the peace of Presburg. He talks of his having done every thing in his power to save the King of Naples—of his having behaved with generosity—of his having pardoned him three times—he characterises the Court of Naples as a Court without truth, honour, or common sense—declares that the Neapolitan Dynasty has ceased to reign, that its existence is incompatible with the repose of Europe, and the honour of his Crown.
The Emperor of Germany returned to Vienna on the 16th, and the Archduke Charles on the 18th, at the head of 25,000 men.
The Emperor Napoleon arrived in Paris on the 25th ult. It was expected that his return to the capital would be marked by the most extravagant demonstrations of joy. Bonaparte expressed a wish, however, that all matters of the kind should be suspended till the army returned to France, when "he hoped his soldiers would be received as children should be, who are an honour and glory to their families."
It is very probable that all the petty States of Germany will be merged in Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Wirttemberg, and Baden, and that Napoleon will then confederate them with France, as his proud plan is to plant allies around him in every direction.
Prince Eugene has married the Princess Augusta of Bavaria.
An arrival at Falmouth, brings accounts that all the armed ships in Brest, had escaped that port.
The Marquis Cornwallis died in India on the 5th October.
GER. HAMBURG, JAN. 13.
It is now certain, that the English troops are to return to their own country. To-morrow they are expected at the mouths of the Weser and the Elbe, in order to re-embark before the end of this month. The Swedish troops have also, since yesterday, broke up from their last quarters, and are in full march to repass the Elbe. The head-quarters which have been at Lunenburg are removed to Boitzeburg. It is said that the Swedish army will provisionally take a position behind the Elbe, its right wing touching the Hamburg territory, and its left that of Prussia. The King of Sweden has dispatched a courier to Petersburg. It is said that the Prussian troops will reoccupy the Electorate of Hanover.
FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. 22.
The Emperor has adopted Prince Eugene Beauharnois, as his son, and allotted to him the kingdom of Italy, after certain conditions are fulfilled by certain powers, and in the interim the Prince is to set as Viceroy. It is said he takes the name of Eugene-Napoleon.
On the 4th inst. at Munich, was celebrated the marriage of Prince Eugene Beauharnois [son of the French Empress by the former husband, since adopted by Bonaparte] with the Princess Augusta Amelia of Bavaria.
We are assured that orders have been given to augment the flotilla at Bologne, in as much as the Grand Army will soon return to the coast.
JAN. 29. The Rochfort squadron has returned to port, after a cruise of 161 days. It has taken one man-of-war, 3 sloops, and 42 merchantmen.
Yesterday his Majesty, surrounded by the Princes, and Grand Dignitaries, received on his throne the homage and congratulations of the Constituted authorities.
37th Bulletin of the GRAND ARMY.
General St. Cyr is advancing by forced marches towards Naples to punish the treason of the Queen, and to precipitate from the throne this culpable woman, who has violated in so shameless a manner, all that is held sacred among men. It was endeavoured to intercede for her with the Emperor; he replied, "Were hostilities to recommence, and the nation to support a thirty years war, so atrocious an act
of perfidy could not be pardoned." The Queen of Naples has ceased to reign. This last crime has completed her destiny; let her go to London to increase the number of intriguers, and form a sympathetic ink committee with Drake, Spencer, Smith, Taylor, and Wickham, she may also invite, if she pleases, Baron D'Armfeldt, M. Fersen, D. Antraigues, and the Monk Morus.
GIBRALTAR, DEC. 28. A convoy from this place has been taken by a squadron from Brest. It had the Queen's 13th and 45th regiments on board.
WARREN: SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1806.
To make room for the interesting Foreign News, which is given at length, we are obliged to omit some articles of a Domestic nature. The mails, however, furnished but little.
MARRIED in this town, on Tuesday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Baker, JONATHAN ALMY, Esq. of Newport, to Miss REBECCA BROWN, of this town.
A List of Prizes in the Bristol Road Lottery will be published in our next.
The President's message at the commencement of the present session of Congress, was published in England early in January. The New-York memorial had been published. It is said, that Mr. Fox, a short time previous to his coming into the ministry, expressed himself averse to the proceedings respecting neutral commerce, which have been recently complained of. [Boston Palladium.]
The change of Ministry in Great-Britain, is an event favorable to Peace; and it is very probable negotiations will, before long, be commenced.—ib.
It is said Jerome Bonaparte is at sea, with a squadron of 7 sail of the line, supposed to be bound to the Cape of Good Hope.—ib.
Extract of a private letter from Paris, dated Jan. 25, received in London.
"Besides the Electorates already elevated into Kingdoms by our Emperor, he intends, according to report, to confer the same honours on the Republics of Helvetia and Batavia. His brother-in-law, Murat, is intended as the Sovereign of the latter; and his brother-in-law, Prince Borghese, is to be King of the former. The Electors of Saxony and of Hesse have also been offered regal rank, if consenting to certain pecuniary sacrifices."
"Spain will, within twelve months share the fate of Italy. With Portugal she is intended to be ruled by the sceptre of a Bonaparte; but whether by that of a Joseph, a Lucien, or Jerome, depends upon the success of our Cabinet in its plan on the Turkish Empire, or its intrigues with Prussia, Russia, and the other Courts of the North."
"Some serious jealousies had broken out between our principal Generals. Bernadotte's favour with our Emperor increased so much after the battle of Austerlitz, that he was promised a princely rank; but no sooner was it known than Soult, Angereau and Massena, demanded the same titles. After some discussion, Napoleon followed the advice of Berthier and Talleyrand, and determined to promote ALL his Field Marshals to Princes; if not sooner, they will be proclaimed as such on the 2d of May."
PROCLAMATION AGAINST NAPLES.
"From my Imperial Camp, at Schoenbrunn, Dec. 27."
Soldiers, "For ten years I have done all I could to save the King of Naples; he has done every thing in his power to destroy himself. After the battles of Austerlitz, of Auerstadt, and of Lodi, he could give no effectual opposition. I placed confidence in the word of this Prince, and I behaved with generosity towards him. When the second Coalition was dissolved at Marengo, the King of Naples who was the first to commence that unjust war, abandoned at Luneville by his Allies, remained alone, and without protection. He solicited my pardon, and I forgave him a second time."
"A few weeks ago you were at the gates of Naples. I had sufficient reason to suspect the treachery which was intended, and to avenge the insult which I had received. Still I was generous. I acknowledged the neutrality of Naples—I ordered you to evacuate that kingdom, and, for the third time, the House of Naples was confirmed and saved."
"Shall we grant pardon for a fourth time? Shall we, for a fourth time, place any confidence in a Court without truth, honor, or common sense?—No! No! The Neapolitan Dynasty has ceased to reign—its existence is incompatible with the repose of Europe, and the honor of our Crown."
"Soldiers! March—drive into the sea; if they will wait your attack, their feeble battalions of the Tyrants of the Sea. Shew to the world the manner in which we punish the perfidious. Lose no time in informing me that the whole of Italy is subject to my laws, or those of my allies; that the finest country in the world is emancipated from the yoke of the most perfidious of men; that the sacredness of treaties is avenged; and that the manes of my brave Soldiers, mangled in the Ports of Sicily, on their return from Egypt, after having escaped from the dangers of the sea, the deserts, and a hundred battles, are at length appeased."
"Soldiers! My Brother will lead you on; he is acquainted with all my plans; he is the depositary of my authority—he is in full possession of my confidence—let him have your's."
(Signed) "NAPOLEON."
The Annual Election of Officers for the WARREN ACADEMY is on Wednesday next, at 6 o'clock, afternoon: A punctual attendance is requested.
SHIP NEWS.
STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND.
DISTRICT OF NEWPORT. CLEARED. FOR Sloop Polly, Bliss, New-York. Brig Augenia, Landers, Havana.
DISTRICT OF PROVIDENCE. ENTERED. FROM Sloop Polly, Justin, New-York. CLEARED. FOR Ship General Hamilton, Page, Charleston. Snow Ida, Sayer, Martinique. Sch. Minerva, Prentice, Charleston. Sloop Polly, Westcott, New-York.
DISTRICT OF BRISTOL. ENTERED. FROM Sloop Rebecca & Betty, Pearse, Providence. Rebeckah, Hicks, Ditt. Sch. Friendship, Cranston, Norfolk. CLEARED. FOR Sloop Olive, Barney, Norfolk. Brig Augenia, Bradford, Havana.
A French privateer was cruising off Savannah Feb. 15. The harbour of St. John's (Antigua) on the 10th of February, was full of detained American vessels. The Brutus, Toby, of Kh. de-Island, was at Madeira, Nov. 16. DEAL, (Eng.) Feb. 5. Arrived the Nancy, from Pluthing for Rhode-Island. The "Boston Importing Company's" ship Packet, capt. Scott, has arrived at Boston, in 30 days fr. Liverpool, with dry goods, &c. The English papers mention, that on the latter part of Dec. there was a violent gale of wind at Gibraltar, when above 20 neutral vessels went on shore. The Merchants, from Boston, for Holland, has been sent into England. The Portuguese Consul-General gives notice to masters of vessels trading to Portugal, that if they neglect to obtain bills of health signed by him or a Vice-Consul of his nation, they will be subject to such quarantine in the ports of Portugal, as the law requires.
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APOLLO'S FOUNT.
The sick Lady and the Almanac.
A POOR old woman, with a diarrhoea, Brought on by dip-slop tea and rot-gut beer, Went to Sangrado with a woful face; And, hawking twice or thrice to clear her throat, She told him, in a plaintive note, her case."
Disease had brought her to a doleful state, Her legs seem'd tott'ring with a lifeless weight, Her bosom pant'd for the lack of breath, Her voice seem'd echoing from the vale of death, Her sunken orbs but dimly shone; A ghastly spectre! hardly skin and bone.
The Doctor, being in a wondrous hurry To fill a lady in hysterics hurry, Could hardly stop to hear pale mis'ry's moan; So, jumping in his coach, he bawl'd, 'Go on!'
However, to keep the dame from kingdom come, From the sharp grip of grinning death so cruel, He told her she need but hurry home, And boil some ALOE ARMONIAC in her gruel, Then call upon him soon, and let him know If things went better, or in statu quo.
The Dame, obedient to the Doctor's order, Come when the time prefix'd was ended; Health seem'd to triumph o'er the dire disorder, But still she seem'd a little broken-winded.
Sangrado felt her pulse, and tongue inspected, Then ask'd her if she'd done as he directed: "Zook, sir, for tho' I sent my godson, JACK, From house to house amongst my neighbours, To buy a MOORE'S OLD ALMANAC, He could not get one, after all his labors; And so I took and boil'd the ALOE I' THE WOOD; And, prais'd the Lord! it's done a mort of good."
MISCELLANEOUS.
A CHURCH MOUSE.
THOSE who are fond of the ludicrous, may perhaps indulge a little risibility from the following incident:—On Easter Sunday, while the Vicar of a certain Parish church, in the vicinity of Chester, was delivering to his congregation an occasional evening lecture, the attention of the audience was diverted from the discourse by the whimsical appearance of a mouse, (which being the resident of a church, may be supposed was not the fatest of its kind) peeping through a small crevice in the wood of the desk, very near the head of the Clerk. The sagacious little animal with hesitative steps, at length ventured out, attracted, as is supposed by the inviting perfume of Mr. Sternhold's wig, a large portion of flour and pomatum having been laid on in honour of the day. Pinching hunger more potent than even love itself, soon forced the poor intruder to the upper works of the Clerk's carcass, (at that time half immersed in sleep) by actually seating itself at the top of his wig, where the little thief made a sacrilegious attack on the greave that lay so temptingly around it. The smothered titterings of the congregation bursted out in a broad grin, which disturbed both the Minister and the mouse; the preaching and nibbling ceased at the same moment; when the vicar perceiving the cause of the laugh, called to the clerk to put his hand on the top of his wig! adding, in a stronger cadence, "has the fellow no feeling?" Somnus had however, arrested his senses which his nasal organs loudly betrayed. Here the Vicar as slackening the reins of temper, called out, "Robert! Robert! I wish I had you by the ear!" when the clerk (awaking rather mal-apropos) added "amen" to it!—At which a renewed laugh, drove away completely Morpheus and the Mouse; and the muscles of the good people being so intolerably deranged, it was some time before they were restored to their natural church-going state of gravity.
(London Paper.)
The VINDICATIVE PORTUGUESE; a Character.
The ingenious author of "Zeluco," appears to be an utter enemy to that extreme of human folly, the belief that religion can exist without morality; and his portrait of a vindictive Portuguese is replete with the finest satire. Zeluco had incurred the resentment of this Portuguese, by attempting to invade his domestic peace in the tenderest point. The Portuguese, in course, consistently with his national character, meditated nothing less than assassination; and his conduct roused the suspicion of the physician, who has already appeared as the amia-
ble advocate of humanity. But we shall now proceed in the author's own words:
These suspicions were not entirely removed by the dissimulation of the Portuguese. Notwithstanding the latter's declining to seek legal or honourable redress from Zeluco, the doctor perceived something in his manner, which gave him the impression that the Portuguese meditated a less justifiable measure than either; his benevolence inclined him to prevent what his sagacity and knowledge of the man's character led him to suspect. His suspicion was confirmed a very short time after by the merchant's wife, who, under pretence of being indisposed, sent him a very urgent message to come and see her. With perturbation of mind she told him, that she had reason to dread him, that her husband had formed a very criminal project of being revenged on Zeluco, and watched an opportunity of putting it in execution. She was prompted to this step by no regard for Zeluco, but from a horror at the intended deed, and from anxiety for her husband;—adding, that she was afraid of displaying much concern, partly because she did not wish that he should know of her being suspicious of what he intended, and partly that she might not awaken the jealous disposition of her husband;—with tears in her eyes, therefore, she intreated the doctor to exert all his influence to turn her husband from such an unjustifiable design; or if he failed, to use such means as his own prudence could suggest to render it ineffectual.
The good doctor applauded her conduct, and seized the earliest proper opportunity of renewing the subject, which he had once before touched on to the Portuguese; adding, that he feared he still harboured vindictive intentions against Zeluco; representing the danger of such a scheme: that however cautiously it might be executed, he would infallibly be considered as the perpetrator. "I know no other reason which you can have for suspecting that I harbour such intentions," said the Portuguese, "but your thinking it impossible, after what you know of this man's behaviour, that it should be otherwise."
"You are mistaken," replied the physician; "I think it ought to be otherwise; and this is not my reason for harbouring suspicions."
"I do not tell you," said the Portuguese, "that your suspicions are well or ill founded; but could you be surprised if it were as you suspect?"
"Neither shall I be surprised," rejoined the doctor, "if you are convicted and executed, for gratifying your revenge in such an unjustifiable manner. Come, come, sir," added he, "allow yourself to be guided by reason, and not impelled by passion in this matter: consider what a dreadful situation your wife and child will be in, should any misfortune befall you in consequence of such an attempt. The wisest plan you can follow, since this man is on the point of leaving the island, is to let him go in safety, and it is probable you will never see him more." Here the Portuguese shook his head. "Then, sir," resumed the doctor, "your next best measure is to challenge him honourably." "What right has a man who has acted so presumptuously to expect that he is to be so dealt with?" said the Portuguese. "None," replied the doctor; "but were I in your place, I should be more solicitous about what was reputable for myself, than about what my enemy had a right to expect. I only hinted this as being of two evils the least; and the best argument that can be made use of to one who despises the Christian religion."
"I do not understand you! what do you mean?" said the Portuguese. "Why, that you are in that predicament," answered the physician.
"Who! I despise the Christian religion!" cried the Portuguese, in terror and amazement.
"You seem at least to despise one of its most important precepts," said the physician; "from which it may
naturally be concluded, that you have no great respect for the rest."
"I have not the smallest comprehension of what you mean," rejoined the Portuguese.
"Yet I have expressed my meaning very plainly," said the physician; "I really do not think you can with propriety be called a Christian."
"Jesus Maria!" exclaimed the Portuguese, "you fill me with horror. Why, sir, I take the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Virgin, with St. Joseph her husband, St. James, and all the host of heaven to witness, that I attend mass regularly, and have always from my infancy believed in every article of faith which our holy mother church requires; and I am ready to believe twice as much whenever she is pleased to exact it; if this is not being a Christian, I should be glad to know what is."
"Nay, my good friend," resumed the physician, "it is a matter of indifference to me what you do or do not believe; I am not, I thank God, your or any man's father confessor; but if you understood the spirit of the Christian religion half as well as you believe what the church exacts, you would find that your attending mass, and all your faith into the bargain, will not make you a Christian, while you indulge such a violent spirit of revenge."
"As for that," replied the Portuguese, "neither the church nor the Christian religion have any thing to do with it; that is my affair, and depends on my private feelings; and it is impossible for me ever to forgive a villain who attempted to injure me."
"It is because he attempted to injure you, that it is in your power as a man, and your duty as a Christian, to forgive him. Had he never injured you, nor even attempted it," continued the doctor, "it would indeed be impossible for you to have the merit of forgiving him."
It will naturally be imagined, from the vindictive character of this Portuguese, that he was a hypocrite, and pretended to more faith than he really had; but this was not the case.—It never had occurred to his mind that there could be any doubt of the truth of those tenets in which his father and mother had instructed him, and which he heard venerable-looking men in sacred habits proclaim from all the pulpits of Lisbon. He was decidedly of opinion, that none but monsters of wickedness, who ought to be burnt in this world by way of preparing them for the next, could harbour any doubt on such important points; he had indeed occasionally heard it hinted, that some of those doctrines were incomprehensible, and others contradictory; but this did not convey to his judgment any reason for doubting of their truth. He never omitted, therefore, any of the ceremonies prescribed by the church; he confessed his sins regularly, performed penance faithfully, would not eat a morsel of meat on a Friday on any consideration; and with the most punctilious perseverance repeated daily his Pater Noster, Ave Maria, and Credo, to the last bead of his rosary. A person who thought that the whole of Christianity consisted in these and other ceremonies, could not but be surprised and shocked to hear his claim to the name of a Christian disputed. As to that thirst for revenge on every real or imaginary injury, which he had indulged from his childhood, and some other culpable propensities to which he was addicted, he considered all of these as venial foibles, which were more than expiated by his obedience to mother church in more essential points; and when his indulging in those culpable practices to which he was by temper or constitution prone, came in question, he shrugged his shoulders, and said, "Well, I thank God, they are neither heresy nor schism."
The physician, however, endeavoured to give him a different notion of these matters, founding most of his arguments on passages of a sermon to be found in the gospel of St. Matthew; for this happened to be a physician who
sometimes read the bible: there are, it would appear, some of that kind in America. The Portuguese, at first, thought the passages in question of a very singular nature; and as they were plain and intelligible, and nothing mysterious in them, he could hardly believe that they were quite orthodox: besides, he was a good deal surprised that certain articles, which he thought of great importance, were not touched upon; yet on being informed who the person was who had preached this sermon, he could not deny that it had a fair chance of being sound Christianity. The physician having brought him so far, found little difficulty in persuading him that it was his duty as well as interest to leave Zeluco to his own wicked heart, which carried its punishment within itself; hinting also the probability of his falling sooner or later within the grasp of the laws of society, which his passions continually tempted him to violate.
It was probably owing to the remonstrances of this extraordinary physician that Zeluco left the island in safety; and the Portuguese merchant was indebted to him for being freed from the two most tormenting demons that can possess the human breast, jealousy and the spirit of revenge.
AUCTIONS.
TO BE SOLD.
At PUBLIC VENDUE, On MONDAY, 7th of April, on the Premises
THE residue of the reserved part of the Estate of MARME DUKE MASON, Esq. so called, for the payment of the debts of the said Marmaduke, consisting of one call of the House where the said Marmaduke last dwelt, with about three Acres of Meadow Land, E. & O. said House.—Conditions of sale to be made known, at time and place of sale.
WILLIAM BARTON, Executor.
*Warren, February 28, 1806.
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a decreeable to an Order of the Honourable Supreme Judicial Court, of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, held at Bristol, in and for the County of Bristol, on the 2d Monday of September, A. D. 1805; will be Sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, on Tuesday the 12th day of April next, at Two o'Clock, in the afternoon of said day, on the premises, agreeable to the decree of this State in such case made and provided:
All the real Estate that NATHANIEL PHILLIPS, jun. late of said Bristol, deceased, died seized of, for the payment of his just debts, and other contingent charges, (to wit) one certain lot of Land, containing about one eighth of an Acre, be the same more or less, situate in the Compact Part of said town of Bristol:—And is bounded as follows: (to wit)—Easterly on the Main Street in said Bristol—Northerly on Land of WILLARD DIMMAN—Westerly on Land of RICHARD HASKING; and Southerly on Land of Capt. BETH LINCOLN, with a large new Dwelling-House thereon standing, with all the Appurtenances thereunto appertaining: Also, right of dower, in said premises of the Widow of the said NATHANIEL.—Conditions of sale to be known at time of sale.
JOHN HOWLAND, Adm'r.
*Bristol, February 28, 1806.
Cotton Warp and Filling.
A LARGE supply, of various numbers, at the Factory prices, per bundle or otherwise, for sale by the subscriber, opposite the BAPTIST MEETING-HOUSE.
WHERE ALSO MAY BE HAD,
Best American
LINSEED OIL.
per barrel or less quantity, on as good terms as can be obtained at the Mills.
European, East & West-India GOODS, &c. &c.
PASCHAL ALLEN.
*Warren, Feb. 8, 1806.
Whereas the Hon. Court of
Probate for the town of Warren, appointed the subscribers Commissioners to the Estate of
THOMAS ALLEN,
late of Warren, Mariner, deceased, represented intestate:—All persons having demands against said Estate, are hereby notified to exhibit the same to either of the subscribers, at their respective dwellings, within six months, being the time allowed by said Court.
ALLEN HOAR, ANSELL CHURCHILL, } Comm'rs.
ALL persons indebted to said Estate, are requested to make immediate payment, to
STEPHEN DAVOL, Adm'r.
*Warren, March 8, 1806.