Herald of the United States (Warren, R.I.), 1807-02-14 00:00:00

Gerald of the United States.
WARREN:—PUBLISHED NEAR THE POST-OFFICE, BY NATHANIEL PHILLIPS.
[No. 17, of Vol. XV.]
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1807.
[Whole No. 745.]
WEEKLY ALMANACK.
   FEBRUARY. D. D. D. D. REMARKS.     15 Sunday, 6 46 6 20 2 22   16 Monday, 6 45 6 1 28 3 15   17 Tuesday, 6 43 6 2 28 4 12   18 Wednesday, 6 42 6 3 21 5 11   19 Thursday, 6 41 6 4 14 6 9   20 Friday, 6 39 6 4 53 7 7   21 Saturday, 6 38 6 5 38 8 4 Full tides.  
THE DEPOSITION OF WILLIAM EATON, Esq.
Before the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia:
EARLY last winter, Col. AARON BURR, late Vice-President of the United States, signified to me, at this place, that, under the authority of the general government, he was organizing a secret expedition against the Spanish provinces on our south-western borders; which expedition he was to lead, and in which he was authorized to invite me to take the command of a division. I had never before been made personally acquainted with Col. BURR; and, having for many years been employed in foreign service, I knew but little about the estimation this gentleman now held in the opinion of his countrymen and his government: the rank and confidence by which he had so lately been distinguished, left me no right to suspect his patriotism. I knew him a soldier. In case of a war with the Spanish nation, which from the tenor of the President's message to both Houses of Congress seemed probable, I should have thought it my duty to obey so honorable a call from my country; and, under that impression I did engage to embark in the expedition. I had frequent interviews with Col. BURR in this city—and, for a considerable time, his object seemed to be to instruct me by maps, and other information, the feasibility of penetrating to Mexico—always carrying forward the idea that the measure was authorized by government. At length, some time in February, he began to unveil himself—He reproached the government with want of character, want of gratitude, and want of justice. He seemed desirous of irritating resentment in my breast by dilating on certain injuries he felt I had suffered from reflections made on the floor of the House of Representatives concerning my operations in Barbary, and from the delays of government in adjusting my claims for disbursements on that coast during my consular agency at Tunis; and he said he would point out to me an honorable mode of indemnity. I now began to entertain a suspicion that Mr. BURR was projecting an unauthorized military expedition; which, to me, was enveloped in mystery; and, desirous to draw an explanation from him, I suffered him to suppose me resigned to his counsel. He now laid open his project of revolutionizing the western country, separating from the union, establishing a monarchy there, of which he was to be the sovereign, New-Orleans to be his capital; organizing a force on the waters of the Mississippi, and extending conquest to Mexico. I suggested a number of impediments to his scheme—such as the republican habits of the citizens of that country, and their affection towards our present administration of government; the want of funds; the resistance he would meet from the regular army of the United States on those frontiers; and the opposition of MIRANDA in case he should succeed to re-publish the Mexican.
Mr. BURR found no difficulty in removing these obstacles—he said he had, the preceding season, made a tour through that country, and had secured the attachment of the principal citizens of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Louisiana to his person, and his measures—declared he had inexhaustible resources to funds; assured me the regular army would act with him, and would be reinforced by ten or twelve thousand men from the above mentioned states and territory and from other parts of the union; said he had powerful agents in the Spanish territory—and, as for MIRANDA, said Mr. BURR, we must hang MIRANDA. He now proposed to give me the second command in his army. I asked him who should have the chief command? He said, General WILKINSON. I observed it was singular that he should count on General WILKINSON: the elevated rank and high trust he now held as commander in chief of our army and governor of a province, he would hardly put at hazard for any precarious prospects of aggrandizement. Mr. BURR said, Gen. WILKINSON balanced in the confidence of government, was doubtful of retaining much longer the confidence he now enjoyed, and was consequently prepared to secure to himself a permanency. I asked Mr. BURR, if he knew General WILKINSON? He answered yes: and echoed the question. I said I knew him well. "What do you know of him?" said Mr. BURR. "I know, I replied, that General WILKINSON will act as Lieutenant to no man in existence. "You are in an error," said Mr. BURR—"WILKINSON will act as Lieutenant to me." From the tenor of repeated conversations with Mr. BURR, I was induced to believe the plan of separating the union which he had contemplated had been communicated to and approved of by General WILKINSON (though I now
suspect it an artful argument of seduction) and he often expressed a full confidence that the general's influence; the offer of double pay and double rations; the prospect of plunder and the ambition of achievement would draw the army into his measures. Mr. BURR talked of the establishment of an independent government west of the Alleghany as a matter of inherent, constitutional right of the people; a change which would eventually take place, and for the operation of which the present crisis was peculiarly favorable. There was, said he, no energy in the government to be dreaded, and the divisions of political opinions throughout the union was a circumstance of which we should profit. There were very many enterprising men among us who aspired to something beyond the dull pursuits of civil life and who would volunteer in this enterprise, and the vast territory belonging to the United States, which offered to adventurers, and the mines of Mexico would bring strength to his standard from all quarters. I listened to the exposition of Col. BURR's views with seeming acquiescence. Every interview convinced me more and more that he had organized a deep laid plot of treason in the west, in the accomplishment of which he felt fully confident.—Till, at length, I discovered that his ambition was not bounded by the waters of the Mississippi and Mexico, but that he meditated overthrowing the present government of our country.—He said, if he could gain over the marine corps, and secure the naval commanders TRUXTON, PAUL, DECATUR, and others, he would turn Congress neck and heels out of doors; assassinate the President; seize on the treasury and the navy, and declare himself the protector of an energetic government. The honorable trust of corrupting the marine corps, and of founding Commodore PAUL and Captain DECATUR, Col. BURR proposed confiding to me. Shocked at this proposition, I dropped the mask, and exclaimed against his views. He talked of the degraded situation of our country, and the necessity of a blow by which its energy and its dignity should be restored—said, if that blow could be struck here at this time, he was confident of the support of the best blood of America. I told Col. BURR he deceived himself in presuming that he, or any other man could excite a party in this country who would countenance him in such a plot of desperation, murder and treason. He replied, that he, perhaps, knew better the dispositions of the influential citizens of this country than I did. I told him, one solitary word would destroy him. He asked, what word? I answered, Usurper! He smiled at my hesitation, and quoted some great examples in his favor. I observed to him, that I had lately travelled from one extreme of the union to the other; and, though I found a diversity of political opinion among the people, they appeared united at the most distant aspect of national danger. That, for the section of the union to which I belonged, I would vouch, should he succeed in the first instance here, he would within six weeks afterwards have his throat cut by Yankee militia.
Though wild & extravagant Mr. BURR's last project; and though fraught with promiscuous slaughter, I felt very easy on the subject, because its defeat he had deposited in my own hands. I do not feel so secure concerning that of disjointing the union. But the very interesting and embarrassing situation in which his communications placed me, left me, I confess, at a stand to know how to conduct myself with propriety. He had committed no overt act of aggression against law. I could draw nothing from him in writing; nor could I learn that he had exposed his plans to any person near me by whom my testimony could be supported.—He had mentioned to me no persons who were principally and decidedly engaged with him except Gen. WILKINSON—a M c ALSTON, who I found was his son-in-law—and a M c REYNOLDS, a captain of rangers in Gen. WAYNE's army. Satisfied that Mr. BURR was resolute in pushing his project of rebellion in the west of the Alleghany, and apprehensive that it was too well and too extensively organized to be easily suppressed; though I dreaded the weight of his character when laid in the balance against my solitary assertion, I brought myself to the resolution to endeavour to defeat it by getting him removed from among us, or to expose myself to all consequences by a disclosure of his intention. Accordingly, I waited on the President of the United States; and after some desultory conversation, in which I aimed to draw his view to the westward, I used the freedom to say to the President I thought Mr. BURR should be sent out of this country—and gave for reason, that I believed him dangerous in it. The President asked me where he should be sent? I mentioned London and Cadiz. The President thought the trust too important, and seemed to entertain a doubt of Mr. BURR's integrity. I intimated that no one, perhaps, had stronger grounds to mistrust BURR's moral integrity than myself; yet, I believed ambition so much predominated over him, that, when placed on an eminence and put on his honor, respect to himself would ensure his fidelity: His talents were unquestionable. I perceived the subject was disagreeable to the President; and to give it the
shortest course, to the point, declared my concern that if Mr. BURR were not in some way disposed of, we should, within eighteen months, have an insurrection on the waters of the Mississippi. The President answered, that he had too much confidence in the information, the integrity, and the attachment to the union of the citizens of that country to admit an apprehension of the kind. I am happy that events prove this confidence well placed. As no interrogatories followed my expression of alarm I thought silence on the subject, at that time and place, became me. But I detailed, about the same time, the whole projects of Mr. BURR to certain members of Congress. They believed Col. BURR capable of any thing—and agreed that the fellow ought to be banged; but thought his projects too desperate to give the subject the merit of serious consideration. The locality of feeling that appeared in those to whom I had rung the tocsin induced me to suspect my own apprehensions unfounded, or at least too deeply admitted; and, of course, I grew indifferent about the subject.
Mr. BURR's visits to me became less frequent and his conversation less familiar. He appeared to have abandoned the idea of a general revolution; but seemed determined on that of the Mississippi; and although I could not perceive symptoms of distrust in him towards me, he manifested great solicitude to engage me with him in the enterprise. Weary of his importunity, and at once to convince him of my serious attachment, I gave the following toast to the public:—The United States—Paley to the brain that should plot to dismember, and leprosy to the hand that will not draw to defend our union!
I doubt whether the sentiment was better understood by any of my acquaintance than Col. BURR. Our intercourse ended here—we met but seldom afterward. I returned to my farm in Massachusetts, and thought no more of Mr. BURR, nor his empire, till sometime late in September, or beginning of October, when a letter from MORRIS BELKNAP, of Marietta, to Timothy B. DANIELSON, fell into my hands at Brimfield, which satisfied me that Mr. BURR had actually commenced his preparatory operations on the Ohio. I now spoke publicly of the fact—transmitted a copy of the letter from BELKNAP to the department of state, and about the same time forwarded thro' the hands of the post master general, to the President of the United States, a statement in substance, of what is here above detailed, concerning the Mississippi conspiracy of the said Col. AARON BURR—which is said to have been the first formal intelligence received by the executive on the subject of the conspirator being in motion.
I know not whether my country will allow me the merit of correctness of conduct in this affair. The novelty of the duty might, perhaps, have embarrassed stronger minds than mine. The uprightness of my intentions I hope will not be questioned. The interviews between Col. BURR and myself, from which the foregoing statement has resulted, were chiefly in this city, in the months of February and March, last year.
WILLIAM EATON.
Washington-City, Jan. 26, 1807.
Sworn to in open court, this 26th day of January, 1807. WM. BRENT, Clerk.
Late Foreign Intelligence.
By an arrival at New-Bedford, from NANTZ, dates to Dec. 5, 1806.
GRAND ARMY—BULLETIN, No. XXXII. Berlin, Nov. 16, 1806.
AFTER the capture of Magdeburg, and the affair at Lubeck, the campaign against Prussia was finished.
The Prussian army at the opening of the campaign, was composed of 160 battalions, 236 squadrons, and 50 batteries of artillery, under the King, in person, Prince Hohenlohe, Generals Ruchel, Wortensleben, Duke of Weimar, Generals Schmettau, Kalkreuth, the Prince of Orange, and Prince Eugene of Wirttemberg; and consisted of 115,000 infantry, 30,000 cavalry; and 800 field-pieces. All these were in the battle of the 14th of October, excepting the corps under the Duke of Weimar, and the reserve of the Prince of Wirttemberg; of course there were no less than 126,000 Prussians in that battle. We do not find, in any of the bulletins, a statement of the French numbers in the battle of Jena. —Bonaparte says, in some of his letters, he had 200,000 with him; which doubtless were independent of the troops furnished by the "Confederation of the Rhine."—There is no doubt the Prussians were
overpowered by numbers; and that the French victory of the 14th was dearly purchased.
Of the above 145,000 men, not one has escaped; all have been killed, wounded, or taken; with all their standards and colors, cannon, and baggage; nearly all their Generals are taken, and nothing has passed the Oder. The King, the Queen, General Kalkreuth, and ten or a dozen officers, are all that have saved themselves. All the remains to the King of Prussia, is one regiment besieged in Gross-Glogau, one in Breslau, one in Brieg, two in Warsaw, & some regiments in Konigsburg; in all about 15,000 infantry, and 3 or 4000 dismounted cavalry. A part of these troops are shut up in strong places. The King is at Konigsburg. [Here follow some unimportant details of the capture of small detachments of the various fugitive Prussian corps, with their colors, baggage, &c.]
The following are the stations of the corps of the French army:—
The division of cuirassiers, of Gen. d'Hautpoul, Generals Grouchy and Sahuc's divisions of dragoons; General Laffalle's light cavalry are in Berlin; as are the advanced corps of Marshal Ney.
The corps of the Prince of Ponte-Corvo (Bernadotte) and Marshal Soult, are also in Berlin.
Marshal Mortier, with the 8th corps, is at Hamburg, to shut the Elbe and the Weser.
General Savary commands the blockade of Hameln.
The corps of Marshal Lafnes is at Thorn. Marshal Angereau, at Bramburg and opposite Grandentz.
Marshal Davoust is marching from Posen for Warsaw; he is to be joined by the Grand Duke of Berg [Murat] with the reserve of horse.
Prince Jerome, with the confederated troops, besieges Gross-Glogau; his equipage is at Custrin. One of the divisions invests Breslau.—He is to take possession of Silesia.
Our troops occupy Fort Lenozyno, half way between Posen and Warsaw, where they found magazines and artillery. The Poles shew the best disposition; but the country near the Vistula is very sandy. For the first time the Vistula has seen the Gallic Eagle.
The Emperor has desired the King of Holland to return to his Kingdom, to overlook and defend it. The King of Holland has directed Gen. Mortier to take possession of Hanover.
GRAND ARMY—BULLETIN, No. XXXIII. Berlin, Nov. 17, 1806.
The following Armistice was signed yesterday, at Charlottenburg.—The season being found advanced, this suspension of arms settles the stations of the army.—Part of Prussian Poland will be occupied by the French; the other part will remain neutral.
ARMISTICE.
His Majesty THE EMPEROR of the French, and King of Italy, and His Majesty the King of Prussia, in consequence of negotiations, opened the 23d October last, for the re-establishment of Peace, so unhappily interrupted, have judged it necessary to agree to a suspension of arms; and, for this purpose, have named, as their plenipotentiaries, namely, on the part of His Majesty THE EMPEROR, &c. the General of division Michel Duroc, Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honor, Knight of the orders of the Black and Red Eagles of Prussia, and of the Order of Fidelity of Baden; and Grand Marshal of the Imperial Palace;—and on the part of his Majesty, the King of Prussia, the Marquis de

Lucchesini, his Minister of State and General Frederick-William de Zastrow, chief of a regiment, Inspector-General of Infantry, and Knight of the orders of the Red Eagle, and of Merit; who, after having exchanged their full powers, have agreed to the following articles:—
ART. 1. The troops of His Prussian Majesty, which are now on the right side of the Vistula, shall assemble at Konigsburg, and in Royal Prussia, on the right bank of the Vistula.
ART. 2. The French troops shall occupy that part of South-Prussia which lies on the right side of the Vistula, to the mouth of the Bug. [ The Bug empties into the Vistula a few miles below Warsaw. ] Thorn, the city and castle of Grandentz, city and citadel of Dantzig, Colberg and Lenowyo, which shall be delivered to them, as security: And, in Silesia, the towns of Glogau and Breslau, with that part of Silesia which is situated on the right side of the Oder; and also that part situated on the left of that river, which shall be determined by a line drawn from that river, to within five leagues above Breslau, passing through Ohlau, Zobsen, to three leagues beyond Schweidnitz, (without including it) from thence to Fribourg, Landshut, and touching Bohemia at Liebau.
ART. 3. The other parts of Eastern Prussia, or New Eastern Prussia, shall not be occupied either by the French, Prussians or Russians; but if it should be taken by the Russians, his Prussian Majesty engages to make them fall back on their own territories; as also that he will not receive the troops of that power in his estates during the continuation of this armistice.
ART. 4. Hameln and Nieuburg, with the places designated in the 2d article, shall be surrendered to the French troops, with all the arms, &c. The garrisons of these places shall not be prisoners of war, but shall be sent to Konigsburg, and shall receive every necessary to facilitate their march.
ART. 5. The negotiations at Charlottenbourg shall continue; and if peace should not be the result, the high contracting parties engage that ten days notice shall be given of the commencement of hostilities.
ART. 6. This armistice shall be ratified and exchanged at Grandentz, in the course of five days.
In testimony of which the plenipotentiaries have signed the present and affixed their respective seals. Done at Charlottenbourg, November 26, 1806.
(Signed) DUROC, LUCCHESINI, ZASTROW.
England declared in a state of Blockade by France !!!
IMPERIAL DECREE.
Declaring the British Isles in a state of Blockade. IMPERIAL CAMP, BERLIN, NOV. 21, 1806.
NAPOLEON, Emperor of the French, and King of Italy:—CONSIDERING:
1. That England does not admit the right of nations as universally acknowledged by all civilized people:—
2. That she declares as an enemy, every individual belonging to an enemy state, and in consequence makes prisoners of war, not only the crews of armed vessels, but those also of merchant vessels, and even the supercargoes of the same:—
3. That she extends or applies to merchant vessels, to articles of commerce, and to the property of individuals, the right of conquest which can only be applied or extended to what belongs to an enemy state:—
4. That she extends to ports not fortified, to the harbours and mouths of rivers, the right of blockade, which, according to reason and the usage of civilized nations, is applicable only to strong or fortified ports:—
That he declares blockaded places before which he has not a single vessel of war; although a place ought not to be considered blockaded but when it is so invested as that no approach to it can be made without imminent hazard;—that she declares even places blockaded which her united forces would be incapable of doing,
such as entire coasts, and a whole empire:—
5. That this unequalled abuse of right of blockade has no other object, then to interrupt the communications of different nations, and to extend the commerce and industry of England upon the ruin of those of the continent:—
6. That this being the evident design of England, whoever deals on the continent in English merchandise, favors that design, and becomes an accomplice:—
7. That this conduct in England, (worthy only of the first ages of barbarism) has benefited her to the detriment of other nations:—
8. That it being right to oppose to an enemy the same arms she makes use of, to combat as she does; when all ideas of justice, and every liberal sentiment, (the result of civilization among men) are disregarded.
We have resolved to enforce against England the usages which she has consecrated in her maritime code.
The present Decree shall be considered as the fundamental law of the Empire, until England has acknowledged that the right of war are the same on land as at sea, that it cannot be extended to any private property whatever, not to persons who are not military, and until the right of blockade be restrained to fortified places actually invested by competent forces.
ART. 1. The British Islands are in a State of Blockade.
2. All commerce and correspondence with them is prohibited. Consequently, all letters or packets, written in England, or to an Englishman, written in the English language, shall not be dispatched from the Post-Offices, and shall be seized.
3. Every individual, a subject of Great-Britain, of whatever rank or condition, who is found in countries occupied by our troops or those of our allies, shall be made a prisoner of war.
4. Every ware-house, all merchandise or property whatever belonging to an Englishman, are declared good prize.
5. The commerce of English merchandise is prohibited. All merchandise the produce or manufacture of England or her Colonies, is declared to be good prize.
6. One half of the proceeds of merchandise declared to be good prize and forfeited as in the preceding articles, shall go to indemnify merchants who have suffered losses by the English Cruizers.
7. No vessel coming directly from England or her Colonies, or having been there since the publication of this decree, shall be admitted into any port.
8. Every vessel, that by a false declaration contravenes the foregoing disposition, shall be seized; and the ship and cargo confiscated as English property.
[9. This article states, that, the Councils of Prizes at Paris and at Milan, shall have recognizance of what may arise in the Empire, and in Italy, under the present article.]
10. Communications of this Decree shall be made to the Kings of Spain, Naples, Holland, Etruria, and to our other Allies; whose subjects as well as ours are victims of the injustice and barbarity of the English Maritime Code.
11. Our Ministers of foreign relations, &c. &c. are charged with the execution of the present decree.
(Signed) NAPOLEON. By the Emperor, H. B. Maret, Secretary of State.
Further Foreign News.
From French Papers received at SALEM, from BORDEAUX, last Paris date, Dec. 7, 1806.
GRAND ARMY—BULLETIN, No. XXXIV. Berlin, Nov. 22, 1806.
NO information has been received of the ratification of the Armistice by Prussia. In the mean time hostilities go on; as they were not to cease, until the period of exchange.
Hameln (in Hanover) has surrendered to Gen. Savary. Six Gener-
als, 9000 men, and subsistence for a larger number for six months, with stores, &c. are thus in our power.—Savary is gone to hasten the capitulation of Nieuburg, where there are between 2 and 3000 men.
A Prussian battalion of 8000 men in garrison at Czentochoau (Polish Prussia) capitulated the 18th, to 450 French light-horse, and Poles. The garrison are prisoners of war; considerable magazines were found here.
The 30th Bulletin, which was not received by former arrivals, contains an account of the investiture of Glogau, in Silesia, by some corps of Prince Jerome's army:—And the declaration of Bonaparte, that he would neither quit Poland nor Berlin until Wallachia and Moldavia should be ceded in full Sovereignty to the Ottoman Porte;—until all the French, Spanish and Dutch colonies should be restored; and a General Peace made.
PRUSSIA. FROM FRENCH PAPERS. BERLIN, NOV. 11.
By an Imperial Decree, Prussia is divided into four Departments, viz. of Berlin, Custrin, Stetin and Magdebourg; and subdivided into provinces and circles. Gen. Clark is Governor-General of the whole. The administrators of these departments have been appointed.
NOV. 19. A Polish deputation from the principality of Posen, has requested the Emperor to proclaim the Independence of Poland. The Emperor answered, that France had never recognized the partition of Poland; but that he would not declare her independence, until the Poles, by their exertions in arms and sacrifices, had shown themselves worthy of it.
NOV. 20. The Emperor, when reviewing his troops this day, applauded their bayonet-exercise. "You will," said he "beat the Russians at their favorite weapon; for Suwarrows once said, balls are foolish, the bayonet wise."
POLAND. SEMPOLNO, NOV. 18.
The French are advanced to Thorn, and to Wracławeck, on the left bank of the Vistula.
On the 11th a body of Russians entered Prago [on the Vistula opposite Warsaw]—On the 12th another corps entered Warsaw; and on the 13th a third corps entered Praga. General Benninger commands these troops.—According to the French papers, these bodies are not very strong. There is, however, mention made of four columns of Russians being between Gradno and Warsaw, about the 12th November, with advanced guards between Warsaw and Posen, and between Praga and Thorn. The Russian columns are commanded by Gen. Benninger, (who on the 14th Nov. had his H. Q. at Putriłk) by Count Tolstoy, General Semberafsky, and Prince Galitzen.
GERMANY. FRANKFORT, NOV. 27.
Several of the corps composing the garrison of Peterburg, had set out (Oct. 26) for Poland.
NOV. 28. In the night of the 23d Nov. at 11 o'clock, The Emperor Napoleon set off from Berlin to Posen. The Empress Josephine will spend the winter in Berlin.
The French are preparing to attack the Swedish island of Rugen in Pomerania.
The second division of the army of Holland, are marching by Bremen and Verden, and towards Hamburg. There are already 12,000 French in and near Hamburg.
Denmark will be called upon to unite with France, in annihilating English commerce.
ITALY. GENOA, NOV. 19.
TURKEY AND RUSSIA.
A vessel arrived at Marseilles from the Levant, brings intelligence that the Ottoman Porte had declared war against Russia; and that the Russian and English Ambassadors had left Constantinople. This news is confirmed by letters from Leghorn.
FRANCE. PARIS, DEC. 2.
All the letters from the north announce, that the most efficient measures are in operation, by the French Generals, to prosecute the war declared by the Emperor against the trade of England.
Marshal Davoust's advance guard has reached Warsaw. Marshal Lannes is at Thorn. We have no positive information that our troops have entered Dantzig, or Grandentz.
Letters from Marseilles (Nov. 11th) report, that the Dey of Algiers had declared war against France.
RUSSIANS DEFEATED. DEC. 7.
A letter from Mentz, dated Dec. 3, 1806, says, "Letters from Berlin, dated Nov. 28, received here this inst. announce a first engagement in Prussian Poland, between the French and Russians; in which the latter have been most horribly beaten, and completely routed. The French are received with enthusiasm by the Poles; and 100,000 of them will be immediately incorporated into our armies.—The Russian columns are retreating by long marches, in consequence of the good reception which the French have given them."
By an arrival at New-York, from Bordeaux.
FORTIETH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY.
Posn, 9th December, 1806.
Marshal Ney has crossed the Vistula, and entered Thorn on the 6th. He bestows particular praise on Col. Savary, who, at the head of the 4th regiment of infantry, with the gendarmes and voltigeurs of the 95th and the 6th light infantry, crossed the Vistula the first. He had an engagement at Thorn with the Prussians, whom he forced, after a light battle, to evacuate the town. He killed some of their men, and took twenty prisoners.
This affair exhibits a remarkable trait.—The river, 400 fathoms across, was covered with floating ice: the boat which carried our advanced guard, being stopped by the ice, could not advance; on the opposite side, some Polish boatmen rushed forward under a shower of balls to clear the boat. The Polish boatmen attempted to oppose them, upon which a scuffle with fists ensued. The Polish boatmen threw the Prussians into the water, and piloted our boats to the right bank. The Emperor has inquired the names of these brave men, for the purpose of rewarding them.
The Emperor received to-day the deputation of Warsaw consisting of Messrs. Grochowski, grand chamberlain of Lithuania, Knight of the Orders of Poland; Grochowski, Lieut. General, Knight of the Orders of Poland; Lebienki, Knight of the Orders of Poland; Alexander Ponicki; Rzetkowski, Knight of the order of St. Stanislaus; Luszewski.
FORTY-SECOND BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY.
Posn, 15th Dec. 1806.
The bridge upon the Narew, at its mouth in the Bug, is finished. The tete de pont is finished and mounted with cannon.
The bridge upon the Vistula, between Zakroczyem and Utrata, near the mouth of the Bug, is in like manner finished. The tete de pont armed with a great number of batteries, is a very formidable work.
The Russian armies are coming in the direction of Grodno and in that of Bielsk, along the Narew and the Bug. The head-quarters of one of their divisions was on the 10th at Petkolk upon the Narew.
General Doulouci is appointed Governor of Thorn.
The 8th corps of the Grand Army commanded by Marshal Mortier, is advancing; it has its right at Stetin, its left at Rostock, and its head-quarters at Anklam.
The Grenadiers of the reserve of General Oudinot are about to arrive at Custrin.
The division of cuirassiers newly formed under the command of General Espagnie, is coming to Berlin.
The Italian division of Gen. Lecchi is assembling at Magdeburg.
The corps of the Grand-Duke of Baden is at Stetin; in a fortnight it will be able to enter the line. The hereditary Prince has constantly followed the head-quarters and has been present at every engagement.
The Polish division at Zayonschek, which has been organized at Hageau and 6000 strong is at Leipzick for the purpose of being clothed.
His Majesty has ordered a regiment to be raised in the Prussian States, beyond the Elbe; it will assemble at Muenser. The Prince of Hebenzollern Sigmaringen, is appointed Col. of this corps.
A division of the army of reserve of Marshal Kellerman, is set off from Metz. The head of this division has already arrived at Magdeburg.
Peace with the Elector of Saxony and the Duke of Sax-Weimar, was signed at Posen.
All the Princes of Saxony have been admitted into the Confederation of the Rhine.
His Majesty has disapproved of the levy of contributions laid upon the States of Sax-Gotha, and Sax-Meiningen, and has ordered what has been received, to be restored.—These Princes not having been at war with

...and having furnished no contingent to Prussia, ought not to be subject to war contributions.
The army has taken possession of the country of Mecklenburg. This is a consequence of the treaty signed at Schwerin, the 25th Oct. 1805. By this treaty, the Prince of Mecklenburg had granted a passage over his territories to the Russian troops commanded by General Tottle.
The season astonishes the inhabitants of Poland. It does not freeze. The sun appears every day, and it is still autumnal weather.
Domestic Occurrences.
MARYLAND. BALTIMORE, FEB. 3. TO the politeness of a gentleman, just arrived from St. Thomas, we are indebted for the latest intelligence from the Republic of Hayti. The papers furnished, contain an account of the operations down to the 27th Dec. inclusive—on which day the new republican constitution was adopted.
On the 5th Dec. Gen. Christophe appeared on the skirts of Port au Prince, with an army of about 10,000 men, to compel the body of people assembled together, to frame a constitution to appoint him emperor of Hayti.—On his arrival there, he sent in a flag of truce, and desired to have a conference with Gen. Pichon, commander at Port au Prince, who went out to meet him with what soldiers he had; and instead of a conference, as soon as Pichon came within gun-shot of him, his men were fired on by Christophe; when a short engagement ensued in which there were some officers and men killed on both sides. Pichon got into Port au Prince, and kept Christophe from committing any material depredations on the town: As his army was but few in number, he thought it most advisable to act only on the defensive, and not pursue Christophe, after having driven his troops out of town, at the end of which they had entered it.
Dispatches were immediately sent by Pichon to all parts of the South, where they had dominions, for troops, arms, ammunition and provisions, and on the day following, there was not a mule to be found, or scarce a man that could bear arms, in the town of Jacmel, all had repaired to Port au Prince, to join Pichon's army, carrying provisions and ammunition for the occasion. Several skirmishes took place in the course of eight or ten days—during which time, Christophe's army was within two or three miles of Port au Prince, and had several times entered it, but was as often repulsed.
On the 10th of January, news was received at Jacmel, that Christophe had been defeated, and that the greater part of his soldiers revolted and joined the other side; that he had fled for his life; that Pichon's army were in pursuit of him, and no doubt prevailed but they would overtake him, in which case, death would inevitably be his lot, as they were determined to behead him, and establish a federal or republican government.
On the night of the 10th of January, Jacmel was illuminated on the occasion.
STATE OF NEWYORK.
NEW-YORK, FEB. 3.
Last night we received the following interesting News from New-Orleans by the brig Neptune—
That on the 6th ult. Gen. Wilkinson received a letter from Burr, who was at Natchez, requesting to know if the general would suffer him to pass New-Orleans. The general put his determination to oppose Burr's passage on the coffee-house books, and at the same time requested the Merchants to order the vessels down to Plaquemine, to prevent Burr from using them to aid in his plans. The General's Note on the coffee-house books threw the city into confusion.
The force which Burr had with him was not accurately known—but it was said his advanced guard under Adair consisted of 200 cavalry, and Burr was at the head of 600 troops, all arrived at the Natchez.
All the gun-boats, two ketches, and the Schooner Revenge, had sailed up the river under the command of commodore Shaw.
The militia and volunteers were all put under arms the 6th ult. and were on duty when the Neptune failed.
Mr. Ogden was in company at Fort St. Philip. Alexander had been sent on to Washington. Edward Livingston was at large—he was believed to be innocent.
Lieutenant Small, of the United States army, and a Mr. Henderson, who had lately resigned his commission in the army, had been arrested as participants in Burr's conspiracy.
WARREN: SATURDAY, FEB. 14, 1807.
THE great pressure of late Foreign Intelligence in this day's HERALD, will, we hope, be a sufficient apology to our readers for the exclusion of our usual proportion of the proceedings of the National Legislature.
It is said the treaty lately negotiated between Great-Britain and America is now before Congress; that it is admitted in one of the articles, that our flag shall protect all seamen falling under it, excepting deserters from the service of Great-Britain.
We are happy to state, (says the Baltimore Evening Post) from high authority, that dispatches have been received at Washington, from our Ministers at the Court of St. James, informing that a treaty had been concluded between Great-Britain and the United States, and that Mr. Monroe was preparing for his departure from London for the United States with the same.
Extract of a letter from Washington.
"I have the pleasure to inform you that the Secretary of State has taken up the subject of the late captures on our coast by British ships of war, and the condemnations at Halifax; he has given Mr. Erskine (it is reported) a concise view of the consequences that must result, if such conduct is continued."
CURRACOA TAKEN.
Capt. M'Culloch who arrived last night in 23 days from the City of St. Domingo, informs that the pilot-boat Schooner Fair Play, formerly of New-York, had a few days previous to his departure, failed for Curracoa, but returned in 3 days, with information, that that place was actually in possession of the British.
The news of the unsettled state of affairs among the Blacks in the late Haytian Empire, had reached the City of St. Domingo; and it was believed there, that Gen. Ferrand would soon try his strength with Christophe or Pichon, or both. Sanguine hopes were entertained of his succeeding. [N. Y. Gen.]
JAMAICA, ff.—By his Honour Lieut. General Sir Eyre Coote, Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and Knight of the Crescent, Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief in and over this his Majesty's Island of Jamaica, and other the Territories therein depending in America, Chancellor, and Vice Admiral of the same.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, I have thought fit by my Proclamation bearing date the 20th day of August last, to permit until the thirty-first day of December next, and until six months notice be given to the contrary, the importation into, and exportation from, this island, of certain articles and things therein particularly enumerated, in vessels belonging to neutral and other States in Amity with Great-Britain, on certain conditions therein specified and described. I do now issue my Proclamation, hereby declaring, that the permission so granted by my said Proclamation of the twentieth day of August last, shall, from and after the twenty-seventh day of May next, cease, determine, and be of no effect.
Given under my hand and seal at arms, at Saint Jago de la Vega, this twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Six, and of his Majesty's reign the forty seventh. BYRE COOTE. By His Honour's Command. W. CATHCART.
JAMAICA, ff.—By his Honour Lieut. General Sir Eyre Coote, Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight of the Crescent, Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over this his Majesty's Island of Jamaica, and other the Territories therein depending in America, Chancellor, and Vice Admiral of the same.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, I have thought fit by my Proclamation, bearing even date herewith, to declare, that the Permission granted by my Proclamation bearing date the twentieth day of August last, for the importation into, and exportation from this island, of certain articles and things in vessels belonging to neutral and other States in Amity with Great-Britain, until the thirty-first day of December next, and until six months notice be given to the contrary, shall from and after the twenty-seventh day of May next, cease, determine and be of no effect.
And Whereas, by an act made and passed in the last session of the present Parliament, and in the forty-seventh year of his Majesty's reign, intituled an act for authorizing his Majesty in Council, to allow during the present war, and for six months after the ratification of a definitive treaty of Peace, the importation and exportation of certain goods and commodities in neutral ships, into and from his Majesty's territories in the West Indies and continent of South America: It is enacted, that from and after the passing of said act, it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, his heirs and successors, by and with the advice and consent of his and their Privy Council, to permit, or to authorize the governors of the islands and territories herein after mentioned, in such manner and order such restrictions as to his Majesty shall seem fit, to permit, when the necessity of the case shall appear to his Majesty, with the advice of his Privy Council, to require it, from time to time during the present war, and for six months after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace, the importation into, and the exportation from any islands in the West Indies (in which description the Bahama Islands, and the Bermuda or Somer Islands, are included) or any lands or territories on the continent of South America to his Majesty belonging, of
any such articles, goods, and commodities, as shall be mentioned in such order of his Majesty in Council, in any ships or vessels belonging to the subjects of any state in amity with his Majesty, in such manner as his Majesty, his heirs and successors, by and with the advice aforesaid, shall direct; provided such ships or vessels shall duly enter into, report and deliver their respective cargoes, and reload at such ports only where regular custom-houses shall have been established.—And Whereas, his Majesty by his order in Council, bearing date the seventeenth day of September last, has been pleased to declare, that it appears at present to be necessary to permit for a limited time, subject to be sooner terminated, varied or altered, as is therein and hereinafter provided, the importation into, and exportation from the lands and territories of his Majesty in Council (including the Bahama Islands, Bermuda and Somer Islands) and any lands or territories on the continent of South America, or to his Majesty belonging, of certain articles, goods and commodities therein and herein mentioned, in any ships or vessels belonging to the subjects of any state in amity with his Majesty: And his Majesty has been thereupon pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, that the Governors and Lieutenant Governors of his Majesty's Islands and colonies in the West Indies (in which description the Bahama Islands, and the Bermuda or Somer Islands, are included) and of any lands or territories on the continent of South America to his Majesty belonging, and each and every of such Governors and Lieutenant Governors shall be authorized, and they, and each, and every of them are hereby authorized, to permit for twelve months from the date thereof, subject to be sooner terminated, varied, or altered, as is hereinafter provided, in any ships or vessels belonging to the subjects of any state in amity with his Majesty, the importation into the said islands, colonies, lands and territories, respectively, of slaves and lumber, and also of every kind of provisions (beef, pork, and butter, always excepted) which are of the growth and produce of the country of which such ship or vessel importing the same shall belong, and also the exportation from the said islands, colonies, lands and territories, respectively, into which such importation of slaves, lumber, and provisions, as aforesaid, shall be made, of Rum and Molasses, and of any other articles, goods, and commodities, whatsoever, except sugar, indigo, cotton, wool, coffee and cocoa: Provided always, that such ships or vessels shall duly enter into, report, deliver their respective cargoes, and reload at such ports only where regular custom-houses have been established. And his Majesty was thereby pleased further to order, that notwithstanding any thing therein before contained, the said permission and authority to import and export, shall cease and determine, or be varied and altered, before the expiration of the above-mentioned period of twelve months, at the expiration of six months after the notification in the London Gazette, of any order of his Majesty, by and with the advice of his privy council, for revoking, varying, or altering, such authority or permission, or that cease and determine at the expiration of six months after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace. And Whereas, his Majesty has been pleased by his order of council, bearing date the first day of October last, to order that Horses, Mules, Asses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, and every other species of live Stock and live provisions, to be added to the articles which his Majesty, by his order in council, of the seventeenth of September last, had authorized the Governors and Lieutenant Governors of his Majesty's islands and colonies in the West Indies (in which description the Bahama Islands, and the Bermuda, or Somer Islands, are included) and of any lands or territories on the continent of South America to his Majesty belonging, to permit to be imported into the said islands, colonies, lands and territories, respectively, and that the said additional articles be accordingly permitted to be so imported, in the manner, for the time, and under the terms and conditions mentioned in the said order. And Whereas, I am in and by the said hereinbefore recited orders of his Majesty in council, of the seventeenth day of September, and the first day of October last, authorized to permit the importation into, and the exportation from this island, of certain articles, goods and commodities, not enumerated in my said Proclamation of the twentieth day of August last, subject to the conditions and limitations in the said orders of his Majesty in council, particularly specified and contained. And Whereas, it is expedient that the earliest effect be given to his Majesty's gracious intentions on this behalf: I do now therefore, in pursuance of the authority vested in me by the said orders of his Majesty, in council, bearing date the seventeenth day of September, and the first of October last, permit until the seventeenth day of September next, subject to be sooner terminated, varied or altered, or as is hereinafter provided, in any ships or vessels belonging to the subjects of any state in amity with his Majesty, the importation into this island of Staves and Lumber, and also of Horses, Mules, Asses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, and every other species of live stock and provisions, and also of every kind of Provisions, (Beef, Pork, and Butter, always excepted) which are of the growth and produce of the country to which such ship or vessel importing the same shall belong. And also the exportation from this island of Rum and Molasses, and of any other articles, goods and commodities whatsoever, with the exception of Sugar, Indigo, Cotton, Wool, Coffee and Cocoa, upon the like terms, charges and conditions, and subject to the same rules, regulations, visitations, and searched as are observed with respect to British vessels in the like cases: Provided always, that such ships or vessels shall duly enter into, report, deliver their respective cargoes, and reload at such ports only where regular custom-houses shall have been established: And pro-
the 25th ult. by a Spanish privateer, and anchored under a Spanish battery. The Capt. (Landers,) not being willing to lose his property without a struggle, thought proper to put the privateer's men below, after some resistance, in which 3 of his people were badly wounded, and the Captain stabbed in the back, he arrived safe yesterday, and received every attention from the English ships of war in this harbour. The Spaniards plunder every vessel they fall in with, or carry them into port and condemn them."
Just received, and for Sale, by Nathan M. Wheaton, A Quantity of Turks-Island Salt, of a good Quality.—ALSO, a handsome assortment of Crockery Ware, Groceries, &c. at Retail. Warren, Feb. 10, 1807.
SALES AT AUCTION.
On Monday the 2d day of March next, at 1 o'Clock A. M. at the House of the Subscriber—commencing of—
BEDS and BEDING—CHAIRS— and sundry other articles of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE—Terms made known at the time and place of Sale.
AARON HAILE, Adm'r. Warren, Feb. 6, 1807.
On the 10th of March next, at 1 o'Clock A. M. at the Dwelling-House of the late SIMON POTTER, Esq. of Swansey, deceased.
THAT Noted place called the James Brown FARM, on Gardner's Neck, now in the occupation of James Luther Esq. containing Two Hundred Acres, being the same, more or less.—For further information enquire of said James Luther, Esq. on the premises, or at the Subscriber, in Warren. MARY GARRETT, Warren, Feb. 5, 1807.
On the 10th day of March next.
A QUANTITY of Stock, viz: Cows, Oxen, Young Cattle, &c.—And a Quantity of Hay, at the Dwelling-house of the late Simon Potter, Esq. deceased.
...ALSO... To be Sold at the same time and place, by Messrs. Hopkell Mc Neal & Thomas Laing, the Hog Neck FARM, so called. WILLIAM D'WOLF, Adm'r. Somerset, Jan. 20, 1807.
BROKE into the enclosure of the Subscriber, about the First of December last, Five SHEEP.—The owner is requested to prove property pay charges and take them away. HEZEKIAH MUNRO, Adm'r. Bristol, Jan. 29, 1807.

pleasures and gratifications. They would excel all nations in the art of conversation, were not the desire of shining too universal. The love of glory operates upon them with extraordinary force, and stimulates them to great exertions; but it is often attended with empty ostentations and gasconade.
"Although a passion for novelty is apt to lead them into a multiplicity and rapid change of pursuits, yet they are capable of long and steady application, when deeply interested in an object; and in every department of science and art they have attained a high degree of perfection. Even the mathematical sciences have been cultivated by them with a success not inferior to that of any other nation. Their writers have rendered their language familiar to the lovers of literature throughout Europe, and in the value of their productions they have no equals among the moderns, with the sole exception of the English. Their taste in letters is upon the whole, purer than in the fine arts, in which they are generally marked by superabundance of ornament and an affected manner. In some of the inferior arts, indeed, they are unrivalled. They supply dancers and cooks to all Europe, and are the supreme arbiters of fashion in dress."
"The French, naturally inquisitive, and prone to discussion, had proceeded far in emancipating their minds from the shackles of an arbitrary system of government and religion, before any correspondent change had taken place in their public institutions: at the same time, refined luxury and general dissipation had relaxed the bands of morality and accumulated abuse and disorder in every department—Financial difficulties brought on a necessity for reform; and when the idea of change was once admitted, it was not in the national character to proceed in it with caution and moderation. Violent struggles between old and new principles terminated in a revolution, in which monarchy, established religion, and every institution sanctioned by age and veneration, went to wreck. The event of this dreadful period displayed prodigious energy in the nation, but accompanied by a ferocity and disregard of justice and humanity, which involved the cause of reform and its supporters of indelible disgrace. A host of foreign foes united to suppress the dangerous flame or to make advantage of the confusion; but the vigour of the new republic not only resisted all assaults, but carried its conquering arms into the surrounding countries, and finally extended the limits of France farther than her most ambitious monarchs had ever attempted. This success, however, was produced by exertions of authority, which subverted every thing free or republican in the constitution, and prepared the way for a military despotism. The most successful of the generals, a man of a daring genius, and capacious views, seized the reins; and first under the title of Chief Consul exercised, without controul, the authority of the nominal republic. Europe has since witnessed the astonishing spectacle of the same man, an obscure Corsican by birth, causing himself to be declared Emperor with hereditary succession in his own family, crowned by the Pope, recognized by all orders of the state, and thus founding a new dynasty, while the Bourbons are wandering from country to country as exiles. The Roman Catholic religion has been re-established; a kind of new nobility has been instituted, arbitrary government and all the pageantry of a court have been restored; and it seems at present to be an allowed political maxim, that the French are incapable of the blessings of a free constitution."
M A X I M.
ALLOWING the performance of an honorable action to be attended, with labor, the labor is soon over, but the honor immortal; whereas, should even pleasure wait on the commission of what is dishonorable, the pleasure is soon gone, but the dishonor eternal.
From a late London Paper.
THE following curious affair occurred a few days ago at Lewes: An elderly gentleman, and young lady, both from this town, put up at the White Heart Inn, and there ordered beds for the night. The young lady passed for the daughter of the old gentleman, and she not unfrequently honored him with the epithet of Papa ! It seems, however, that their consanguinity was doubted by an officer in the house, who if ultimately found that his suspicions were correct, determined to raise a little mirth at their expence.—Bed-time at length arrived, and the lady and gentleman were shown their separate apartments by the chamber-maid. They had retired but a short time, when the officer who was on the watch, saw the old gentleman remove cautiously from his own room, to the one adjoining the apartment of the Lady. The officer in question was quartered in the house, and as one bed was the same to him as another, he immediately took possession of the room the other left, locked the door, and retired to rest. At an early hour in the morning, the old gentleman tore himself from the arms of chere amie , and hobbled to the door of his own apartment. His surprise, on finding the door locked, may be easier conceived than expressed: his clothes were in that room, and what was to be done to save the reputation of the lady? Driven to desperation, he at last thundered at the door of his apartment, and demanded to be let in; but this summons, the man of war refused complying with. The chamber-maid, the waiters, the landlord of the tavern, were all ultimately roused from their sleep by the noise of the contending parties on each side of the door; and the hoary lover was at length compelled to acknowledge himself not the father of the lady, to preserve himself from the fervor of their wrath. We are sorry to say that the lady, who is very pretty, is a married woman, and is not more than twenty-two or three years of age. Her gay deceiver is between sixty and seventy, and greatly afflicted with the palsy.
ORIGIN OF THE DRINKING OF HEALTHS.
"THE drinking of healths, probably took its rise from the time of the Danes in England, it being customary with the Danes, whilst an Englishman was drinking to take that opportunity of stabbing him. The English, upon this, entered into combination, to be mutual pledges of each other whilst drinking, to drink to each others health and preservation. From thence also came the custom of pledging."
A Curious instance of Forgetfulness.
NOT long since a Man led a blooming Widow to the altar. "The clergyman looking at the bridegroom, said, I think you have a wife living!" "Have I, do you think?" "I am sure you have," repeated the Parson. "I really have a bad memory, sir, and I thank you for jogging it; I now recollect something of it"—on which the fellow withdrew."
A N E C D O T E S.
A Second Solomon.
A MISERLY cook saw a poor fellow leaning on his ship window, and inhaling the various effluvia of hot pies. He ordered him to be gone. That I will, says the beggar, but thank you, master, for my good dinner. Upon this the cook stopped him, and demanded payment in full tale. Disputes ran high; they agreed to leave it to the first man who came along. This happened to be the city fool . He heard both parties with attention, and adjudged the beggar to rattle payment in the cooks ear, by jingling the price of a dinner, as the sound of money, and the smell of victuals, were equal.
LORD Mansfield being informed that Miss Sharpe of 25 had married a gentleman of 70, quaintly replied, that she had better taken two thirty five's .
DIRECT TAX.
PURSUANT to an Act of Congress, intitled "An act to lay and collect a Direct Tax within the United States," will be sold at public sale at the dwelling of Benjamin Howland, Esq. in Tiverton, on the 27th day of February, A. D. 1807, at 10 o'Clock in the forenoon, the undermentioned estates, situated in said Tiverton, or so much thereof, as may be necessary to satisfy the taxes due thereon, together with costs and charges, unless the said Taxes, costs, and charges, shall be paid previous to that time.
   Name of proprietor or occupant in Oct. 1798. Name of reputed owner in Oct. 1798. Kinds of Estates. TAX D. C.     Wm. Borden, Wm. Borden, house & land 54   Paul Crossman, P. Crossman, house & land 76   Sufannah Cory, Wm. Fremers, house & land 16   Russel Fish, Russel Fish, land 4   Stephen Grinnell, Daniel Grinnell, house & land 46   Lewis Grinnell, Lewis Grinnell, land 31   Richard Gifford, Richard Gifford, land 22   Isaac Hart, Isaac Hart, land 85   Godfrey Lake, Godfrey Lake, land 31   G. Manchester, G. Manchester, land 41   P. Manchester, P. Manchester, house & land 32   Henry Necus, Henry Necus, land 24   Retrom Sanford, Retrom Sanford, land 31   Elizabeth Tripp, Elizabeth Tripp, land 61   Sarah Taber, Sarah Taber, land 52   Abial Tripp, Abial Tripp, land 26   Ichabod Williston, Ichabod Williston, land 22   John Willcox, John Willcox, house & land 53   Wm. Woodle, Wm. Woodle, house & land 04  
BY NICHOLAS E. DURFEE, Collector. *TIVERTON, Dec. 22, 1806.
WHEREAS the Hon. Court of Probate, for the Town of Warren, appointed the Subscriber Administrator to the Estate of
BETSEY SANDERS, late of Warren, widow, deceased.—All persons having demands against said Estate, are hereby notified to exhibit the same to the Subscriber, at his dwelling house.—All persons indebted to said Estate, are requested to make immediate payment to
NAHANEL SANDERS.
*January 8, 1807.
N. M. Burr,
Has just received a fresh supply of well chosen and seasonable
GOODS,
and offers them for Sale at reduced prices, on accommodating and liberal terms, consisting of
SUPERFINE middling and low priced
BROADCLOTHS. KERSEYMERES, KERSEYS, KERSEYNETTS, SERGES, VESTINGS, COATINGS, DUFFILLS, FEARNOTS, FLANNELS, BAISES, SWAN-SKINS, DOMETS, Rose BLANKETS, WILEBORES, & DURANTS.
A valuable choice of fashionable twilled, striped & plain VELVETS, uncommonly low.
Factory Cotton & India CHECKS. Cambric and common DIMOTIES.
India COTTONS, SHEETING & SHIRTING, cheap.
CALLICOES, Irish LINNENS, brown HOLLAND.
SHAWLS of the newest taste.
BANDANNOE HANDKERCHIEFS, per piece. Check'd and pocket, ditto.
Ladies and Gentlemen's black, lead coloured & mix'd Worsted STOCKINGS.
Ladies Cotton MITTS & GLOVES. Cotton UMBRELLAS.
Factory COTTON WARP & FILLING, per Bundle &c. at Factory prices.
A neat Supply of HARDWARE, with a great Assortment of Iron Hollow WARE, HAND-IRONS, FLATT IRONS & Cart BOXES.
Coarse and fine SALT.
Black PEPPER, CASSIA & CINNAMON, per Hundred or Dozen.
CLOVES, NUTMEGS, & ALLSPICE, per Pound.
GINGER and PEARL ASHES, per Keg or Dozen.
TOBACCO and SEGARS. 10 Barrels choice Cyder VINEGAR.
100 Sirens TUMBLERS. 300 Rolls Paper HANGINGS & BORDERS;
a fresh Supply; old Stock falling at Cost.
REDWOOD, LOGWOOD, FUSTIC, ALUM, COPPERAS, VITRIOL, AQUA FORTIS & SALT PETRE.
POWDER, SHOT and FLINTS.
A great Variety of Cart, Horse, Chaise and Hunting WHIPS, mounted on Whalebone.
6 Dozen choice sweet Olive Bottle OIL.
A large Supply of Cooper's Cedar and Oak WARES, BASKETS, &c.
Household Parington's Earthen WARES.
HOPS, CHALK, GLUE, BRIMSTONE, ROSIN & VERDIGREASE.
Japan and Capel VARNISH, Gold LEAF, Spirits of TURPENTINE, Paint BRUSHES and Pumice STONE.
3d & 1st Proof RUM, BRANDY, CHERRY, GENEVA, Sherry and Currant WINES.
CODFISH, COFFEE, SHELLS, FLOUR, RAISINS and MOLASSES.
Hylon, Hylon-Skin and Souchong TEAS.
A fresh and valuable Assortment of genuine DRUGS and MEDICINES at very reduced Prices, superior to rivalry with the whole train of Imported and Domestic patent Medicines, now in rage; of which are extra's the famous Billious CORDIAL, Cooley's Vegetable ELIXIR, or Cough Drops, and Rawson's and Wheaton's Ich OINTMENT and BITTERS.
CASH, and the biggest Price given for clean Cotton and Linen RAGS.
*Warren, Dec. 5, 1806.
MISCELLANY.
FRENCH NATION.
The following condensed and generally correct character of the French Nation, is extracted from Dr. ATKIN's "Geographical Delineations," just published. It must be recollected that Dr. A. is one of the most intelligent writers of England, and once was an enthusiast in the cause of the French Revolution.
"A COUNTRY so well adapted to the residence of man, has from early times possessed a large population, and been inured to all the forms and institutions of civil life. The French people are chiefly a compound of Celtic and Gothic stock; but the long continuance of the Roman dominion in Gaul must have given a strong Italian infusion, since it was able to introduce a language with a Latin basis. But, whatever were the diversities of origin, the natives of France have amalgamated into a mass possessing a national character, as distinct and clearly marked as that of any numerous community in the civilized parts of the globe. The essence of this character is an exuberance of animal spirits producing excesses of mobility and a perpetual restless activity. They are quick, ingenious, inventive, fertile in expedients, buoyant against difficulty or adversity; but mutable, trifling, confident, vain, credulous, and incapable of moderation. With much that renders them amiable in society, as readiness to oblige, delicate attentions, kind sympathy and lively sensibility, they are often of insecure commerce, from laxity of principle, unmeaning professions, jealous irritability, and a strong propensity to intrigue. Their feelings of every kind verge to excess; and there is nothing, either good or bad, of which they are not capable, under the influence of their impetuous ardour. No cabinet has excited so much disturbance among the neighbouring states, from ambition and the spirit of intermeddling, of that of France; and we have seen that no change of political system at home has made an alteration in their foreign policy. The French, beyond all people, are the creatures of society; by their manners and sentiments are fashioned, and in it are centered their chief