Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1799-05-13 00:00:00

JENKS'S PORTLAND GAZETTE
PUBLISHED ON MONDAYS, BY ELEZER ALLEY JENKS, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
[NUMBER 55.]
MONDAY, MAY 13, 1799.
ZETTE,
No. IV.—TRANSLATION.
On board the L'Orient, July 12.
Admiral Brueys, commanding the naval forces of the Republic in the Mediterranean, to the minister of marine, and of the colonies.
CITIZEN MINISTER,
I wrote to you from Malta on the 14th June. That letter I gave you an account of the arrival of the fleet at Malta, and of the capture of the island. The ships of the line and the transports were all under sail on the 19th, and the 1st July we were off the old port of Alexandria.
I had previously dispatched the Juno to bring a confidential report. Citizen Magallon (the pilot) arrived on the 1st, and informed us that an English squadron had appeared in line battle off the port of Alexandria, on the 28th June, and they had detached a brig to the west, and that on its return they had made sail for the north east. The squadron was supposed to be that of Admiral Hood.
Loaf and brown SUGARS, Hyson, Souchong and Bohea TEA, Mess and Clear MIDDLING PORK. Also for sale, A few bundles Nankeen. May 11, 1799.
Philadelphia Bar Iron.
Rogers & Hatch,
HAVE for sale at their shop at the head of Mr. Ingraham's Wharf, A few tons of Flat and Bar Iron, Plough Shear Moals, & Spike Rods. Also, A few casks of Rice—and 4 Casks of Boobies. May 10, 1799.
TO BE LET,
A Store, opposite the
Hay-Market.—Inquire of WILLIAM HUDSON. May 13.
DANCING SCHOOL.
William B. Peters,
INFORMS the ladies and gentlemen of Portland, that the first quarter of his evening dancing school will expire on the 8th of June next, when he proposes commencing a second quarter. Those who favour him with their patronage, and do not subscribe by that time, will expect to pay the same as if they had commenced with the quarter. He also proposes to open a day school for young misses and masters, should sufficient encouragement be offered. His terms are 5 dollars a quarter each, on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the afternoon, from three to six o'clock. His evening school will be twice a week, from 7 to 10 o'clock. N. B. Music will be provided the whole quarter, by the teacher. Portland, May 13th. 1799.
TAKE NOTICE.
THE Inhabitants of the Town of Portland are hereby notified to bring in to the subscribers, Assessors of said town, in ten days from the date, true and perfect lists of their Polls and of their Estate, both real & personal (not exempted from taxation) which they were possessed of on the first instant. PETER WARREN, EDWARD OXNARD, JOSEPH C. BOYD. Portland, 7th May, 1799.
100 Dollars Reward.
LAST Night escaped from the Goal in Portland, in the County of Cumberland, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
HENRY W. HUNT,
aged twenty-four years—five feet two inches high—grey eyes—pale complexion—slim made.
Whoever apprehends said HUNT, and secures him in any of the Goals within the United States of America, or so that he may be returned to the Goal in Portland aforesaid, shall receive the above Reward. WILLIAM CALDWELL, Prison Keeper. Portland, 7th May, 1799.
Printers of newspapers in the several States, are requested to serve the cause of justice by inserting the above in their respective papers.
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident proprietors of land in the town of Union, in the county of Lincoln, hereafter named, that their respective lands are taxed in bills committed to me to collect for the years 1796 and 1797, as follows, to wit:
   For the year 1796.   State Tax. Town Tax. County Tax.     The Heirs of John Hilton, D. C. 0 7 D. C. 0 50 D. C. 0 30   For the year 1797.   State Tax. Town Tax. Minister's Tax.   The Heirs of John Hilton, D. C. 0 7 D. C. 0 25 D. C. 0 10   William Jones, 11 39 16  
Unless said taxes and intervening charges are paid to me before the last Monday of June next, so much of said lands as will discharge the same will then be sold at Public Vendue, according to law, at the dwelling house of the subscriber, in said Union, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. Richard Comings, Collector.
Portland,
MONDAY, MAY 13, 1799.
Communication.
WHAT then at length is the end, and what the reward, of so much trouble, confusion and destruction, as the last ten years have brought upon the world? Where the exulting philosopher to cry out, are not mankind now beheaded? Lo! the accomplishment of our predictions! Does not the wilderness blossom as the rose? Is not the pastoral life already begun? Has not tranquillity succeeded superstition? Behold the human race regenerated! Behold mankind both perfect and happy!—I say, where is this philosopher? Is he slain in battle? Does he hide himself for shame? Or is he weeping over his mistakes?
There cannot surely be a more humbling rebuke to dreaming speculation than the result of the late contest for liberty in France. Not a golden, but an iron age—not an millennium of felicity, but a century of humiliation, has been the consequence of their illusive visions—Where the palace rose, now are beheld the foul ruins of conflagration. Where the solemn temple was frequented silence reigns. Where the spontaneous harvest waved, a forest of pikes and bayonets appears. And look into a Frenchman's soul—the change is no less. For his perhaps erroneous religion he has acquired a self-destroying desperation. For his implicit but happy obedience, he has gained a turbulent refractory disposition. For his social pleasures, he has found the dissolution of every tie—in government—instead of an easy and paternal despotism, France is under martial law—instead of a few harmless follies, it is overflowed with errors and abuses—instead of some embarrassments, it is, if possible, ten times over bankrupt and irretrievably ruined. As it respects the arts and sciences—in the pomp of the most elegant monuments and institutions, decay and barbarism—in the place of universal investigation, the chemistry of gun-powder—and instead of men of letters men of blood have succeeded. As to banners—where are the amiable banners that flowed from France through Europe as from its very heart? The all of the Graces is polluted with abominations—stained with blood. The Bacchanalian Fury, Liberty, with tattered vestments and mangled form, with hideous shriek and indiscriminate attack, has in a moment restored the Gothic age, and utterly defaced the model of the world.
But let us look abroad—perhaps the golden age is begun in other countries. We will enumerate the conquered nations. There is Holland, Flanders, Switzerland, Savoy, Genoa, the Milanese, Rome, Naples, Tuscany, half a dozen small republics in Italy, part of Germany, Geneva, Egypt, and to almost every extent and purpose, Spain. Then there is in the place of some of these, the Batavian Republic, the Ligurian Republic, the Lombardian Republic, the Roman Republic, the Neapolitan Republic, the Swiss Confederation, the Belgic Union, the Genevan incorporation, and the like. Are they not happy? What! Can a republic be wretched? Can there be deception in such plausible names? Was not the cloak-bag of Gen. Buonaparte full of constitutions? Are there not some left in the portmanteau of Gen. Championet? What can be better than a constitution? Surely the old laws were abuses—surely it must be best to rectify abuses.
Alas! why is it that the people of the conquered nations if the French army for a moment retreats, and a succeeding Frenchman is taken, tear him to pieces? Alas! there is the wealth and the commerce of Holland—the manufactures of Flanders—the elegance of Italy—and the peace of the world? Is all swallowed up in the abyss of Gallic perfidy and arms? Yes! More dreadful and more horrible has been the progress of Liberty than the eruptions of Atila, surnamed "the scourge of God." Less ferocious is the scaly Indian than the barbarian Frenchman. Better for all nations had been an universal plague than this French disease of Liberty. The world itself will be a beacon to future ages, and degenerate in common parlance to the most abominable sense. But the philosopher, or philosophist, however he be named—where is he? Come forth, Sir—the world demands the cause of this terrible mistake. You, like the disabled trumpeter, have not fought yourself, but you have called the whole world to battle. You have proclaimed war against palaces, temples, kings, priests, and all that we respected. You have preached a crusade against the principles, the comforts and consolations of our youth and of former times. Down on your knees, villain!—Where are your theories now! Has atheism been an innocent creed? Does the end now justify the means? But these were only your opinions—What! have they not deluged the world with blood, subverted religion, destroyed marriage, overthrown governments, exterminated millions, and demoralized man?—What equivalent is your pitiful repentance, or your contemptible life for these things?—But will not the repentance of man turn against the instigator of destruction?—Certainly his heel will tread out the miserable light you have afforded the world—or else he deserve to walk by taper-light and glow-worms forever.
The age of chivalry, it seems, was dark, romantic, and irrational—the feudal system was aristocratical—monarchy was nothing less than despotism—and the religion of Jesus Christ was a fable. So says the world's new priesthood the philosophist, with Anacharsis Cloots and the reverend Thomas Paine at their head. Yet the age of chivalry was an age of honour and of delicate principle—the feudal system was a militia of the simplest, and for the age of it, most beautiful construction—monarchy compared to pentarchy (France) to say the least, is no more than Rehoboam's whip compared to his scorpions—and Christianity needs not the defence of such a pen as mine. But in the transfer of quid pro quo let us see what we shall get by the bargain.—The age of chivalry was gone before France meddled with the world, and it there was any honour in combating its principles, it was exactly such an honour as the people of Charles II's time had in burning Oliver Cromwell's bones. But the more was the pity that it was gone—for it carried all the virtues to their extremes, and would have abjured the French principles exactly as you would drag a pickpocket through a horse-pond. As to the feudal system, that too was gone; but I should be really glad to know of some of the Jacobin dabbler in learning, what comparison there can be between a mere defensive system of land-tenures by military service where, I think, the utmost period of duty was but forty days, (I refer to the feudal tenures of England) and a monstrous co-offal impediment of all the people for life or till the world shall be subdued, as is the case in France? What do you tell about the feudal system? What was even the happy baron of those days compared to a private in the army of France, whose death or even affront is to be expiated by the destruction of a whole nation?
If France has no internal aristocracy, yet France herself is the aristocracy of the world—and French citizen hereafter, like Roman citizen formerly, is to be (if they can make it so) a title superior to that of kings. How will the humble American citizen rank at that day?—And with respect to religion—France treats you precisely as the parent of whom if you "ask for bread, he gives you a stone, if you ask a fish, he gives you a serpent."—The rascals who compose the government of France, do not even know the use of religion as a pillar of government, much less have they ever perceived that it is the only final support of the human mind. It is barely possible, that when, after their allotted term of ephemeral usurpation, they shall come to disgrace a halter, or prostitute a dungeon, they will have a terrible glimpse of this truth—but it is not probable; for like the fifth monarchy men in England (whom, however, they resemble not) they would grin at the gallows, and blaspheme in death.
Upon the whole, then, this world has been mightily improved within these ten years—mightily indeed!—It has exchanged the laws of nations for the more equitable will of France—it has been converted from monarchy to despotism—from religion to atheism—from maxims to bayonets—and from system to anarchy.—Will nobody proclaim the millennium? Where are some of these trumpeting philosophers? Come, Gentlemen—now commences the carnival of human glory. Lo! slavery is done away—all mankind are brothers—reason rules the world. France has bestowed these blessings freely on the human race. The galley-slave now weeps in gratitude to his deliverer. The African leaps for joy upon his parching sands—and even the "untutored Indian" lays aside his useless bow.—Congratulations come from the east and from the west to the Directory of happy France, and from the north and from the south fraternal greetings and salutations.—China with her perennial empire, is convinced of error, and asks the model of a constitution —Japan unguards its insatiable shores, and Frenchmen may now spit upon the cross.—The sun of New Holland brightens—and Botany-bay lips morals to mankind.—How shall we acknowledge your penetration, gentlemen?—It is you that have done all this—you foretold it, and you prepared the world for it—we know not how to express our admiration—It is very fine, very fine indeed! [TO BE CONTINUED.]
Miscellaneous Articles.
Wit comes often learnt too late. It is supposed there is no less than 100,000 active male aliens , in the United States, opposed to the government thereof, including emigrants from France, Ireland, and the West-Indies. We have an Alien Law , but "dead to infliction, to itself it is dead." Brutus, why sleepest thou?
No region is exempt from the infernal spirits which the French revolution has let loose upon the world. As soon as the news of the arrival of Buonaparte, in Egypt, arrived in India, the French emigrants therein were in instant activity; and had actually provided stores for, and had embodied a force of 20,000 men in the interior. But owing to the damper which the intelligence of the Aboukir destruction threw on the enterprise, and the activity of the Governor-General Lord Minto, the conspiracy was detected, the principal actors imprisoned, and the collected stores secured. (Cont.)
A Kentucky paper, of the 14th ult. mentions that the Governor of that State has received a letter from Matthew Lyon, in which Lyon informs the Governor of his intention to move into Kentucky, in company with one thousand families from Vermont. "May they be like unto a wheel—rolling and rolling, and find no rest on this side Jordan."
Articles from London papers of Feb. 27.
The whole Annual Income of Great Britain having been lately stated by Mr. Pitt, our Readers perhaps will perceive, with some interest, the following comparison of it with that of France, by the celebrated Mons. Lavoisier:—"The Income of Great Britain, including that part of it not to be taxed, which is less than 60l. per ann. as stated by Mr. Pitt, is 135,000,000l.—that of France 112,500,000l. If the British Income could be conceived to be divided in equal share between every soul in Great Britain, each would have per ann. 15l.—If the same division were to take place in France, each individual would have only 4l. 6s. 8d.—so that the comparative wealth of Great Britain is about triple that of France, reckoning the population of the former to be 9,000,000 souls,—that of France, 26,000,000."
A Cure for the Gout —Those who chuse to try the experiment, and are afflicted with the gout in the extremities, Capt. Simmons, commanding the Foreign Depot at East Cowes, offers a most simple, yet certain remedy, discovered some years ago by a German Serjeant, when encamped, and, as it may be supposed, is the offspring of necessity: A flocking knitted from dog's hair of the long shaggy kind —applied to the part, when first seized with pain, will so effectually relieve it, by a little pricking irritation, and afterwards perspiration, as to leave the patient in twenty-four hours free from every disagreeable symptom.
A Cure for the Ague —One tea spoonful of hart's horn, a large spoonful of vinegar, the same of brandy; mix them, and take it when you find the cold fit coming on. Many people have been cured with the above the first time of taking it. Afterwards a tea spoonful of bark powdered may be taken two or three times a day for some time in any liquor—but in a glass of Port wine the better.
A Letter from Brechin, of Tuesday's date, says, "on Friday and Saturday there was the greatest fall of snow in this place, that has been remembered by the oldest inhabitant. It was from seven to nine feet deep in the street. Mr. James Strachan merchant, at the South Port, and about thirty persons, went to the upper tenements (on the top of the snow), and directed the well disposed people to dig the families of two houses from their prisons, by the directions they received from those in the inside, up the chimney, where Mr. Strachan placed himself; by this time it was five o'clock, and these people had not seen the light of that day. By the exertions used, they were all relieved from their disagreeable situations."
On the 3d of February, Mr. John Muskett, of Spixworth, in Norfolk, lost two sheep, which on the 15th following were found in a drift of snow alive, and to appearance but slightly injured by their long imprisonment. A similar circumstance occurred in Coventry Park, where a sheep was thirteen days under a drift of snow, without food, and is alive.
See Supplement, for Buonaparte's Letters, News, &c.
THIS DAY,
The inhabitants of this town are to assemble for the choice of Representatives to the Legislature of Massachusetts for the ensuing year. Several nomination lists have been received, but too late for insertion. The candidates mentioned are—Messieurs WOODBURY STORER, WILLIAM SYMMES, and MATTHEW COBB.
COMMUNICATED.
A correspondent suggests to the citizens of Portland, the necessity of sending two or three representatives to the General Court the ensuing year.—Several important questions demand the attention of the Legislature at the two next sessions. The separation from Massachusetts—the Judiciary system—the Bank in Portland, and others of equal importance. Without commenting on the propriety or impropriety of either, he thinks it advisable to be as fully represented as possible.—We have had experience of the opposition of the eastern members when any question has been agitated which respected the District of Maine; we have known their superiority of numbers, and we have known it to our great injury. Let us then unite in improving our constitutional privilege; let us guard our interest by a full representation. Thus shall we be prepared to seek a remedy for the mischiefs of which we justly complain.
Fate seems to have decreed, that pestilent jacobins are to be honored with seats in the legislature. We are informed that a large majority of this description of men will represent the new county of Kennebec, in the ensuing General Court. Mortifying is the reflection, that the two respectable and thriving towns of Hallowell and Augusta, have chosen THOMAS FILLBROWN and NATHAN WASSON, of French cockade and liberty-pole memory, in opposition to Messrs. Dummer and Cony. These political scoundrels have swam for years in troubled water—they gained their election by circulating the Chronicle among the people—by representing the federal tax as an arbitrary and destructive measure; and it is a doubt which is most conspicuous their villainy or ignorance. It is reported that they are exciting the people in the back towns to an armed opposition to the tax. If this be true, the sooner they put their schemes in operation the better:—The punishment of traitors cannot be inflicted too soon—as this alone will manifest the justice and energy of the laws. When fools and scoundrels reign, the land mourns.
MARRIED—Last evening, by the Rev. Mr. Kellogg, Mr. DANIEL LOWELL to Miss POLLY ROGERS.
Marine Articles.
PORT OF PORTLAND.
Monday, arrived ship Capt. Seal , from Turks Island . Thursday, arrived ship Sifvers , Capt. Knight, 57 days from Liverpool .
Friday, arrived sch. Betsy , Capt. R. Stover, from Surinam . Saturday, arrived brig Industry , Capt. William Ifley from Surinam .
Saturday evening, arrived Schooner Jason , Captain John Wildrage, 27 days from Kingston, Jamaica .—Left there, Ships Niagara , Paulding , and Nancy , Warren , Newyork , Harmony , Malden , Charleston , and Victory , Harding , Norfolk .—Brigs Franklin , Hildreth , Kennebec ; Nathaniel Cooper, Prince , Charleston ; Tully, Stapford , Edenton , N. C.—Ship Mary , Wight , Providence , acquitted ; Schooners Experience , Cook , and Neptune , Bytewood , Charleston ; Ship Nancy , Bentham , do.—Schooners Fisher , and Wallace , North-Carolina ; Nancy , Ward , and Eagle , Gray , Boston .—Hope, Melton , Brewer , brought in for trial from Monte Christo , to be libelled; Do. Telfey , Chrisher , belonging to Boston , naval stores, bound to the Havannah .—Schr. Hope , Johnson , at port Antonio , seized.—Ship Hero , Robinson , put in, in distress , bound to Algiers .
BOSTON, MAY 8.
FROM EUROPE.
By the Union arrived yesterday we received Dublin papers to the 21st March.—Intelligence from the seat of war, is not, therefore, so late as before received. A letter dated the 22d March, says, "every thing remains quiet."
Lord St. Vincent, having had the position of the French fleet in the port of Alexandria, minutely examined, and in consequence of the reported practicability of its destruction, has dispatched some ships to frenghten Capt. Trowbridge, the better to enable him to perform that service.
The Russian General Suwarrows is to have the chief command in Germany, against the French, the Austrians being to act under his order.
FROM THE EASTERN WORLD.
We learn from the Cape-of-Good-Hope, that an expedition commenced about the 10th of March, from that station, against the Isles of France and Bourbon. The British force was composed of two line of battle ships, and three frigates, with transports and troops. It was not expected at the Cape, that the French would make much opposition. The intire inhabitants of the islands are opposed to the French creed of Liberty and Equality ;—and it is expected will receive with cordiality the champions of their faith.
A large quantity of munitions of war, and 900 horses, have been destroyed by an accidental fire, at the Cape-of-Good-Hope. The damage is estimated at 3000,000l. sterling.
WEST-INDIES.
Four Spanish frigates, with 600 German troops, (80 of whom died after their arrival) in the service of Spain, are said to have arrived at Surinam, from Cadiz; and that a squadron of three Dutch frigates had failed on an unknown destination.
The Sally , Lackey , arrived at Newyork, from London, brought 70 pieces of cannon, 4, 9, 12, 18, 24 and 32 pounders; and 4 large anchors, for the U. S. Navy.
ALLOWANCE TO FISHING VESSELS.
Many persons interested in the Fishery, in this and the neighbouring towns, have thought that the law granting an allowance on vessels employed in that business, expired with the last Session of Congress. This is not, however, the case. The law does not expire till the end of the next Session of Congress, and the Allowance will be payable, this year, at the same time and on the same conditions as formerly. (Salem Gazette)

War Department.
MARCH 21, 1799.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT separate proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Department of War, until the expiration of the 25th of July next ensuing, for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of October, 1799, to the 31st day of September, 1800, both days inclusive, at the places and within the two districts herein after first mentioned; and also that separate proposals will be received at the said office until the expiration of the 25th day of July next ensuing, for the supply of all rations which may be required as aforesaid, from the 1st day of January, in the year 1800, to the thirty-first day of December, in the same year, both days inclusive, at the place, and within the several states herein after mentioned, viz:
First—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Oswego; at Niagara; at Presqu'ile; at Michilimackinac; at Fort Franklin; at Le Boeuf; at Cincinnati; at Picque Town, and Loramies Rivers; at Fort Wayne; at Fort Defiance; at any place below Fort Defiance, on the Miami river, to Lake Erie; at Fort Knox, and Ouatapon, on the river Wabash; at Maclac; at any place or places on the east side of the river Mississippi, above the mouth of the river Ohio, and upon the Illinois river.
Second—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at any place or places, on the east side of the Mississippi river, below the mouth of the river Ohio, to the southern boundary of the state of Kentucky, and within the said state; at Knoxville; at all other posts and places within the state of Tennessee; at South West Point; at Tellico Block house; at St. Stephens, on the river Tombigby, and any place or places within the Cherokee boundaries; below the southern boundary of the state of Tennessee, and within the boundary of the United States.
Third—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Point-Petre; at Coleraine; at Savannah; and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Georgia; and at all forts or stations on the Oconee and Altamaha; and at all other places in the Creek nation, within the limits of the United States, where troops are or may be stationed.
Fourth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Fort Johnson; at Fort Pinckney; at Charleston; or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, in the state of South Carolina.
Fifth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at the fort at Wilmington, Cape-Fear; at Beaufort-Island, Ocracoke; at Charlotte; at Fayetteville; at Salisbury; or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in the state of North Carolina.
Sixth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Norfolk; at Portsmouth; at Kempville; at Charlottesville; at Winchester; at Staunton; at Richmond; at Alexandria; at Leesburg; at Fredericksburg; at Carterville; or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, in the state of Virginia.
Seventh—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Fort M'Henry; at Baltimore; at Annapolis; at Frederick-Town; at Leonard-Town; at Hager's-Town; at Bladensburg; at George-Town; at Harper's Ferry; at Eastown; at the Head of Elk; and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the limits of the state of Maryland.
Eighth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Fort Mifflin; at Philadelphia; at Darby; at Lancaster; at Wilkes-Barre; at Reading; at Bristol; at York-Town; at Carlisle; at Lewistown (Mifflin county); at Bedford; at Greensburg; at Washington; at Easton; at Wilmington; at Christiana; at Dover; or at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the limits of the state of Pennsylvania and Delaware, except the posts within the state of Pennsylvania, enumerated in the first proposals aforesaid.
Ninth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Hackensack; at Elizabeth-Town, at New-Brunswick; at Burlington; at Woodbury; at Trenton; and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the limits of the state of New-Jersey.
Tenth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at New-York; at West-Point; at Poughkeepsie; at Kingston; at New-Burg; at Albany; at Cones-harie; at Cherry Valley; and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the limits of the state of New-York, except the posts within the said state, enumerated in the first proposals aforesaid.
Eleventh—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required at Hartford; at Hebron; at New-London; at Brooklyn; at Windham; at Litchfield; at Guilford; at New-Haven; at Fairfield; at Danbury; at Middletown; and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the limits of the state of Connecticut.
Twelfth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Fort Wolcott; at Branton's Point; at Newport; at Providence; and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the limits of the state of Rhode Island.
Thirteenth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Portland, in the district of Maine; at Gloucester; at Cape Ann; at Salem; at Marblehead; at Boston; at Springfield; at Uxbridge; and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the limits of the state of Massachusetts.
Fourteenth—Proposals to supply all rations that may be required, at Portsmouth; at Exeter; at Windsor; at Bennington; at Rutland; or at any fort, place or place, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the states of New-Hampshire and Vermont.
The Ration to be supplied, is to consist of the following articles, viz. Eighteen ounces of bread or flour, or when neither can be obtained, of one quart of rice, or one and a half pound of dried or boulted Indian meal, one pound and a quarter of fresh beef, or one pound of salted beef, or three quarters of a pound of salted pork, and when fresh meat is issued, salt, at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations, soap at the rate of four pounds, and candles at the rate of a pound and a half for every hundred rations.
It is expected the proposals will also extend to the supply of rum, whiskey, or other ardent spirits, at the rate of half a gill per ration, and vinegar at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations. The proposals will specify the price of the several component parts of the ration, as well as those of substitutes or alternatives for parts thereof.
The rations are to be furnished in such quantities as that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contract, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, Niagara and Oswego, for six months in advance, and at each of the other posts on the western waters, for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the commandants of fortified places, or posts, to call for at seasons when the same
can be transported, or at any time in case of urgency, such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the commandant that he deemed proper. It is to be understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and that all losses, sustained, by the depredations of an enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid for at the price of the article captured or destroyed, on the deposition of two or more persons of creditable characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles, for which compensation shall be claimed.
The privilege is to be understood to be reserved to the United States of requiring, that none of the supplies which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts shall be issued, until the supplies which have or may be furnished under contracts now in force have been consumed, and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the Sea-board or Indian frontiers not exceeding three months.
James M'Henry, Secretary of War.
Samuel H. Walley, HAVING commenced business in Boston, at STORE No. 34, LONG-WHARF, Begs leave to offer his services to the public in the Commission Line,
to which his attention will principally be devoted. He will advance Cash on Goods consigned him, and use every exertion for the interest of his employers. HE HAS NOW FOR SALE.
A few pipes of excellent PORT WINE, Fresh LEMONS, Boston Duck, Nos. 1 and 2, Best Dutch 3 threaded Seine Twine, particularly intended for the Salmon Fishery. Boston manufactured GLASS of every size (which can be cut) on terms as liberal as can be obtained at the works. A few Casks of excellent Bohea TEA, &c. &c. &c.
Boston, April 24, 1799.
Bowdoin College. PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that the semi-annual meeting of the board of Overseers of Bowdoin College, will be held at the house of Joseph Stockbridge, Innholder in Freeport, on the third Wednesday of May next, being the 15th day of said month; at which a general attendance of the members is requested.
Mark Langdon Hill, Sec'y. Georgetown, 15th April, 1799.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine.
An ACT, limiting the time within which Petitions for Wages which have been drawn by forged Orders, shall be sustained.
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It has been remarked, that in our epitaphs and elegies, we are extremely apt to praise the dead. The following Epitaph does not seem to lie under this censure. Probably it does not exceed the usual worth of the deceased.
HERE lies the body of JOHN SHAIL, Spittlefield's weaver, and that's all! EPITAPH, on a Son of Sedition. Now lies here to mankind he's civil, His turbulent part's below with the Devil, While mortals exulting y look on the grave Hell fears a revolt at the approach of the knave.
From the eager pursuit in every branch of science which has lately characterised the Germans, we are led to believe that the term "Phlegmatic" will in a short time be totally inapplicable to them.
Such is the rapacity with which the German Book-sellers seize on new works that they frequently advertise translations of intended English publications, even before a sheet of them is printed in England. The number of living authors in Germany, is ascertained to amount to 44,000.
A ridiculous duel is said to have been fought in one of the principal German universities between two professors, in consequence of a dispute on the method of observing a comet.
The French botanists in Egypt have had a very poor harvest. The country has not yielded them more than twenty different species. The most extraordinary tree there is the wild fig or Sycomore, a single one of which is sufficient to shade several peasants huts, as well as the oxen employed in working machines for drawing up water. These huts, however, are represented as the most miserable human habitations perhaps in the globe: they are made of mud, not more than three feet in height, and their only entrance is a round hole of a foot and a half diameter.
A woman who had been frequently beaten by her husband, a few mornings past, finding him fast asleep, sewed him up in the bed cloaths, and in that situation thrashed him so soundly that to save his bones, he entered into treaty of amity, which, it is probable, a feeling recollection of his late sufferings will deter him from infringing. When a fellow's heart is so dead to sensibility as to warrant his striking a woman, it is to his shoulders that the remedy should be applied.
Instance of Improvement.—The Spaniards now, when a house is on fire, bring water before the holy sacrament.
The French Directory have passed a decree, ordering all women from the armies who are useless. But this is rather too hard, for, as the Directory send all the men out of the country, it is but natural that women should follow them. Besides, with such a dearth of men in the interior of France there must surely be women enough for the virtuous Directory, and the Council of Five Hundred. The Council of Elders no doubt think it improper to interfere in so delicate a business.
A wit observes of the late embassy of Lord Malmesbury, that when he arrived at Paris he was obliged to find home to enquire what he went for.
A delicate young lady of Ireland lately regaled herself on the lenten fare of six pounds of pork and seven cakes of gingerbread, which she washed down with four glasses of brandy, to prevent acidities in her stomach.
The hair merchants first introduced ladies' wigs, in order to dispose of their overladen market, from heads of the dead soldiery, during the war.—Read this fair country-women, and shudder!
At a court held in New York, a gentleman of the Bar, advertising to a paper produced in court, observed, that "It bore internal evidences upon the face of it."
A Jacobin print asserts, that Buonaparte is likely to keep his ground in Egypt. It is indeed extremely probable he will be buried there!
FEEDING SNAILS.—Among the various modes of industry in the interior part of the Canton of Appenzall, in Switzerland, Dr. Ebel mentions that of feeding snails. In the little garden-grounds along the river Sitter, such numbers of snails are kept during the summer season, that the sound caused by the motion of their denticulated jaws, while they are eating, is distinctly heard at several paces from the spot. Young snails are collected in the adjacent parts, and are placed in these gardens, where the owner supports them till, on the approach of winter, they inclose themselves. In addition to the food which they find on the grounds, and which a cherry-tree, planted in every garden, affords them, they are supplied with leaves of lettuce, colewort, cabbage, and other vegetables by which they fatten and grow surprisingly. Some time before Lent, the owners pack up the closed snails in cakes, and carry them for sale to the Convents of Suabia, Bavaria, and Austria, and even as far as Vienna, where they are purchased as delicacies. By this traffic some have acquired a handsome fortune.
GENERAL DUMOURIER.
Papers inform that the versatile Dumourier has advertised a long letter to the director Barras, in which he details a plan for another descent upon Ireland, and pledges his head for the success of it; offering to be the second in command in the expedition if they will receive him again into the bosom of his country.

Bonaparte's Letters.
[Continued from the last Gazette.]
[No. III.] TRANSLATION.
(For your own private reading.)
At anchor off Aboukir, July 9.
General BRUIX, minister of the Marine, &c.
My letter of this day's date, my dear Sir, you will find my official accounts. In shall venture to lay aside my commissariat, and speak to you unreservedly on my situation in this country. There will be a connection in my letter; first because I am called off every moment by repeated applications which you well know, so sparingly made by a fleet at anchor; secondly, because the vessel which carries my dispatches is under weigh.
Generally speaking, the land and sea officers bear leaves of each other in a very cold manner. The way in which they were all received together for want of room, and the allowance to which they were confined, is for it naturally enough. Orders of any consequence were at first sent out by the commander in chief; latterly Admiral Bruix has received them from Berthier, and of the staff. That for our landing at Aboukir was issued on the very day of our arrival. Two days only were allowed at Alexandria. The immense difference between land and sea operations can be no secret to you; but this is the general's way of doing things!
NOTES.
This is the letter to which we particularly call the reader's attention. It owes its interest to the superior interest to the great intimacy subsisting between Joubert and Bruix, minister of marine, and which allows him to speak out, without hazarding a word to Ceyenne.
We have before us an official letter from Bruix to Bonaparte, dated on board the L'Orient, on the 10th of July. The letter in general is not particularly interesting to be laid before the public; but the concluding paragraph throws some light on this passage.
Deux cents quatre vingt treize bâtiments étaient les convois de Toulon, Marseille, Ajaccio, et Civita Vechia; ils étaient d'environ 4500 hommes, et portaient l'artillerie destinée pour l'Armée de terre, 20 hommes et 1200 chevaux."
The transports from Toulon, Marseilles, Ajaccio, and Civita Vechia, amounted to 293 sail; they were manned with 4500 men, and had on board, besides artillery, 22,000 land forces, and 1,200 horses.
As it appears from a variety of documents the number embarked from France and Corsica was about 40,000 (not picked regiments or companies, but) picked men. If we now add 5000 for the garrison of Malta, and for the ships on the voyage, we shall find the number of troops distributed on board the ships to be something above 11,000. If to this we add the staff of the whole army, we shall be able, as Joubert says, to account naturally for the coldness between the land and sea officers, who had been thus packed together for near three months.
It appears from Boyer's list (Nov. 22) which is supposed to be perfectly correct, that the ships consisted of 15 sail of the line, 14 frigates, several corvettes, and smaller vessels. It is not very improper in this place to mention the fate of the 15 sail of the line, 11 were captured and destroyed by Lord Nelson, two made their escape to Corfu and Malta, and two are in the old port of Alexandria. Of the 14 frigates, two were destroyed in the great engagement, one taken by the Turks, another (sensible) by our cruisers, eight are at this moment in the port of Alexandria, and one is accounted for—most probably it is stopped in one of the Turkish ports—Of the smaller vessels, some have been destroyed, and some taken.
As a pleasing circumstance, however, to mention, that of all this vast armament, the only one, as Boyer says, that ever appeared in the Mediterranean (see his letter No. 22.) not yet reached France; and we shall be mistaken indeed if one ever does! The French may amuse themselves if they please, & Jacobins of this country may follow them, speculating to what fortunate empire the fleet next convey the blessings of liberty. The things we know to be immense; but—the French will never leave Alexandria!
This seems to show a kind of contempt for the enemy. How it originated we know not, but probably in the ignorance and presumption of Buonaparte, who, accustomed to have commands carried into instant execution, and not always brook the delays occasioned by the nature of the sea service, and which his experience in these matters might sometimes lead him to attribute to a want of zeal or knowledge in the admiral.
The influence of Buonaparte in France is highly manifested in this paragraph. Joubert undoubtedly thinks him wrong, and yet in a confidential letter written to the minister of marine, the friend and patron of Bruix, he scarcely dares to breathe a doubt of his infallibility.
As it is, every thing has completely succeeded. Malta is without a supply of provisions—with very little Money—a sale of national property that cannot possibly take place for some time—and an immense population, which was wholly supported by the order. The supplies from France will not, I imagine be very abundant; those from Egypt are not yet in a state of forwardness; and yet the possession of the island, in a military point of view, is of the utmost importance.
The plague ceased at Alexandria only five or six days before our arrival. There was, however, in the New Port, a vessel that had it on board; some of the crew had landed and gone into the city; but we heard of no accident that had happened from it; and besides, it is well known, that in the great heats, the plague is no longer infectious. You will laugh outright, perhaps, you wittlings of Paris, at the Mahometan proclamation of the commander in chief. He is proof, however, against all your raillery; and the thing itself will certainly produce a most surprising effect. You recollect that produced by the magic cry of Guerre aux chateaux, paix aux cabanes !
The commander in chief will march to the attack of Cairo with the grand army; the divisions will do the rest. When the army first got sight of Alexandria, and the deserts which surround it, both officers and men were struck with consternation. Buonaparte has revived their spirits.
The port of Alexandria is absolutely destitute of means, either for victualling or resisting a single ship. But the conquest will soon enable us to draw immense advantages from it. Alexandria did every thing in a year!
The Arabs & Mamelukes have treated some of our prisoners as Socrates is said to have treated Alcibiades. There was no alternative but death or submission; one of our grenadiers chose the former. They took some of our women too; but they only beat them!
It is not yet certain whether our seventy-fours can get into the port. The two Venetian forty-fours are already there. There was a talk of getting out our guns to enable us to enter. But in that case, what should we do there, and when and how should we get out again?
We are now moored at Aboukir, about five leagues to the east of Alexandria—the road is well enough in summer; but in winter quite untenable. The English are in our neighbourhood. They have fourteen sail, and we thirteen, of which three are rather out of condition. We are in expectation of them. The general opinion (but this might be influenced in some degree by personal consideration) was, that as soon as the debarkation was effected, we should have failed for Corfu, where we were to be reinforced by the ships from Malta, Toulon, and Ancona, and thus prepared for all events.
NOTES.
* Here is a pretty specimen of the favors conferred by these propagandists of liberty, &c. on the poor of Malta—the constant objects, as we all know, and as we have all been told a thousand times, of their peculiar protection and regard! They were wholly supported, as Joubert truly says, by the Order; yet the French abolish that order, seize all its property to themselves, and leave the poor inhabitants, like the canons of Boileau, "eperdus et benis," free, as they are pleased to call it, and starving! It is some consolation, however, to find that the Maltese are not wholly insensible of the kindness.
† The wittlings of London (the Morning Chronicle, the Courier, and the Jacobin papers) did better, they decided its authenticity, and substituted in its place a proclamation fabricated for the purpose by the Directory.
‡ WAR TO PALACES! PEACE TO COTTAGES! It is fortunate to mankind that the French in the wantonness of success sometimes put off the mask, & discover the features of the revolution in all their deformity! This "magic cry" (as it is truly called) has set one part of Europe against the other. It has furnished a topic for declamation to the cold blooded philosophers of every country; who, from their closets, have propagated the destructive war from nation to nation, with all the enthusiasm of demons. It was in vain to tell the people that the fall of one, involved that of the other. They were long governed more by words than by facts; and it was not till they saw themselves surrounded by the ruins of their smoking "cottages" while "palaces" frequently remained uninjured, that they began to awake from their dream of inviolability, and curse at once the authors of their delusion, and the agents of their destruction.
The poor in every country which the French have reached, have been the chief sufferers; and in consequence of it, among the foremost to retaliate on their oppressors. Jourdan's grand army was nearly annihilated by them in its flight, and Belgium and Italy, and Switzerland, which has no "palaces," are at this moment filled with an injured peasantry, treathing "curses not loud but deep" and cutting off in secrecy and silence, whole armies of their hypocritical destroyers.
This "magic cry" thank Heaven! has lost its power to charm, and now remains a mere vox et preterea nihil , serving only to remind its profligate employers of the mischief it once wrought, and, as in the instance before us, to furnish an unfeeling allusion or a witticism.
The general has decided it otherwise. The good fortune which attends all his operations, will not fail to follow this: for the rest—we are under the gale of fatalism, and its breath shakes my principles a little.
How deficient in foresight are we all in the wishes which we form! I had half an inclination to remain commissary for some time at Malta; but when I saw that, for the first year at least, that port could neither receive from France nor from Egypt such supplies as would render a residence there tolerable, and that a numerous population would suffer, at least, for a time, the agonies of passing from an organization, imperfect without doubt, but long established, to one differing from it in every respect; when I saw all this, I said to myself, "let somebody else be a witness to these distresses, and let me try my fortune at Alexandria." There I had every thing to do, and every thing to suffer, both from the climate and the troops—and I clung more closely than ever to the fleet, determined to follow its destiny. I have often turned my eyes towards France, towards my friends, but I have never regretted the sacrifices I made in quitting Malta.
Adieu, my dear Bruix, be happy, and realize your wishes for the establishment of the marine. Accept the assurances of my affectionate and unceasing attachment. JAUBERT.
Allow me to present my respectful services to Madame Bruix, and Mademoiselle Theresia.
I say nothing to you of the capture of Alexandria. I shall request Forestier to read his letter to you.
As I have been rather too open in this letter, you will oblige me by throwing it into the fire as soon as you have read it.
NOTES.
Both of these assertions are false, and the latter of them is infamous. We have a letter of Buonaparte's written more than a fortnight before the time he mentions, and in this he expressly says, that "on account of a part of the channel which has no more than five fathoms of water, the seventy-fours cannot enter the port."
"I then," continues he—(we must premise that we take our translation from the Courier , a party paper, but of sufficient authority in the present case)—"I then," (that is on the 27th) "wrote to him again, that he must not lose an hour, but either enter the port of Alexandria, or return to Corfu." This too is a falsehood; for we have the very letter (see No. VIII.) and it does not say a syllable of either; it mentions, as our readers will see, the general's hopes that Bruix was then in the port; but it mentions also, that he was to take no step (much less to sail for Corfu) without further orders.
On the 29th he wrote to me that he had found a passage for entering the port of Alexandria. This he cannot contradict of course, but we have every reason for believing it as unfounded as the rest, and merely inserted to excuse his detention of the fleet.
"It seemed to me that admiral Bruix was unwilling to return to Corfu before he had ascertained the practicability of entering Alexandria." How little must the "Hero of Italy" have looked in his own eyes when he penned this sentence! It appears not only from Joubert's letter, but from a thousand concurrent circumstances, that the sole wish of Bruix was, and had been from the moment the debarkation was effected, to return to Corfu; that he had been long convinced that the port of Alexandria could not receive him, though he continued his examination of its entrance; and that he was detained against his will off the coast of Egypt, by the express and positive command of the general himself.
On the other hand it appears, that Buonaparte was so far from ordering the fleet to Corfu, that he had actually written for the three Venetian ships which remained at Ancona (in the neighborhood, as it were, of Corfu) to come and join admiral Bruix at Aboukir. This fact we have in his letter of the 6th July. "J'aurois besoin que vous (that is the Directory to whom he writes) m'envoyassiez le plus possible, les trois vaisseaux Vénitiens qui sont à Toulon; j'enverrai chercher les trois qui sont à Ancone." "If in this calamitous event he was to blame,"—shame! shame!—"he has expiated his faults by a glorious death!"
the gracious Duncan
Was pitied of Macbeth—marry, he was dead.
The remainder of the letter we shall not notice, nor indeed, is it worth it. Such as it is, however, it has furnished his Jacobin admirers in this country with fresh proofs of his veracity, wisdom, and we know not what, at the expense of the unfortunate Bruix.
§ If (which is far from being the case) we had any respect for the moral character of Gen. Buonaparte, we should feel a considerable degree of uneasiness at this passage—one of the most important in the whole correspondence. It proves him to be a base, and cowardly, and faithless calumniator of a brave man, whose only crime was too strict an obedience to his own orders. But to the proofs.
In the general's official letter to the Directory, of which they have some how or other obtained a duplicate—(for the original is in our possession) he says, "that to the 24th of July he believed that the admiral had either failed for Corfu, or entered the port of Alexandria."
‡ It is probable that Joubert perished in the
No. IV.—TRANSLATION.
On board the L'Orient, July 12.
Admiral Bruix, commanding the naval forces of the republic in the Mediterranean, to the minister of marine, and of the colonies.
CITIZEN MINISTER,
I wrote to you from Malta on the 14th June. In that letter I gave you an account of the arrival of the fleet at Malta, and of the capture of that island. The ships of the line and the transports were all under sail on the 19th, and on the 1st July we were off the old port of Alexandria.
I had previously dispatched the Juno to bring the consul on board. Citizen Magallon (the nephew) arrived on the 1st, and informed us that an English squadron had appeared in line of battle off the port of Alexandria, on the 28th of June, and they had detached a brig to the town, and that on its return they had made sail to the north east. The squadron was supposed to consist of 14 ships of the line.
The consul also told us that our arrival had been daily looked for, for some time; that there was a great fermentation in the country, and no inconsiderable degree of uneasiness and apprehension.
The commander in chief desired to be put on shore immediately; I therefore came to anchor on the coast, and during the night succeeded in landing 6000 men in a creek to the west of the Old Port, near a castle called Marabou, about two leagues from the city: not the slightest opposition was made to our descent.
The 2d, at noon, our troops were in the city, and in three hours afterwards the fort surrendered. There was some resistance attempted at the wall which surrounds the city, but it was immediately scaled. A few shot were fired into the streets from the windows of the houses; the fort too, fired a few cannon; but every thing was soon in our possession.
I disembarked all the troops, and the baggage belonging to them, and on the 7th, having satisfied myself that our ships of war could not get into the port for want of a sufficient depth of water at the entrance, I ordered the Venetian ships, and the transports, to come to an anchor there, and stood off with 13 sail of the line and the three frigates, with an intent of mooring in the bay of Bequiers.
I arrived there in the afternoon, and formed a line of battle at two thirds of a cable length, the headmost vessel being as close as possible to a shoal to the north west of us, and the rest of the fleet forming a kind of curve along the line of deep water, so as not to be turned, by any means; in the southwest. This position is the strongest we could possibly take in an open road, where we cannot approach sufficiently near the land to be protected by batteries, and where the enemy has it in his power to choose his own distance.
Our troops entered Rosetta yesterday, and the army is now in full march for Cairo.
We have pushed into this branch of the Nile as many light vessels as possible; and the commander in chief has asked me for the chief of division, Peries, to command them. The flotilla failed this morning to try if it be possible to get over the bar of Rosetta. You see that we are marching to the conquest of Egypt with the steps of a giant.
It is vexatious that there is not a port where a fleet can enter; but the old port, of which we have heard so much, is shut up by a reef of rocks, some under, and some above, water, forming a number of narrow channels, where the depth is only from 23 to 25 and 30 feet. The sea, too is commonly very high: thus you see, that one of our seventy-fours would be in no small danger there, especially as she would inevitably go to pieces in a few minutes after touching the ground.
NOTES.
explosion of the L'Orient, and cannot therefore have much to fear from the friends of Buonaparte, or from the government. Had it been otherwise, we confess we should not have been withheld from publishing his letter by any consideration of the dangers to which he might be exposed by it. We feel little solicitude for the fate of a man, however able, who appears to be a villain upon principle, and to assist, in pure gait of heart, in the infernal work of revolution, though he sees, and clearly points out the train of human woes that must follow its accomplishment.
* Le Dubois and le Couffee, of 64 guns each, and 2 or 3 frigates.
† Never was there a more glorious testimony to the intrepidity and skill of the British seamen, than this letter to nishes. The French admiral, a man of no common abilities in his profession, and anxious, above all things, to secure his fleet from being headed by an enemy, places his van ship as near the shoal as possible ( le plus pres possible as his own words) and reposes in the most perfect confidence, that nothing can molest him in that quarter; and yet it was between this very shoal and ship, and through this very passage, which, after an examination of twenty-four days (from the 7th to the 31st of July) the French admiral conceived to be impracticable, that the gallant Nelson led his Braves (the men whom the Morning Chronicle pronounced to be "without courage, and ready to resign their swords to every puny whipster") to victory and everlasting fame!

To gratify the wishes of the commander in chief, I have offered a reward of ten thousand livres to any pilot of the country who will undertake to carry the squadron in; but none of them will venture to take charge of a single vessel that draws more than twenty feet. I hope, however, that we shall succeed in finding a channel by which our seventy-fours may enter; but this can only be the result of many laborious and painful experiments.
I have already engaged two intelligent officers in this business; Capt. Barré, commanding at present the Alceste, and citizen Vidal, first lieutenant. If they find a channel, they will buoy it for us; and then we may enter without much danger. The depth within the reefs increases to fifteen fathoms, but the getting out of the harbour will, in all cases, be very difficult, and very tedious; so that a squadron would engage to a vast disadvantage.
I have heard nothing further of the English. They are gone, perhaps, to look for us on the coast of Syria; or rather (and this is my private opinion) they had not so many as fourteen sail of the line; and finding themselves not superior in numbers, do not think it quite so prudent to try their strength with us.
We look forward with the greatest anxiety to the time when the conquest of Egypt shall furnish us with provisions. We are now obliged to supply the troops continually—every hour new draws are made upon us. We have now only fifteen days biscuit on board; and we are in this anchorage just as if we were on the high seas, consuming everything & replacing nothing.
Our crews are weak both in number and quality. Our rigging, in general, out of repair—and I am sure that it requires no little courage to undertake the management of a fleet, furnished with such tools!
I do not think it necessary to enter into further details on our present situation. You are a seaman, and will therefore conceive it better than I can describe it to you.
Before I conclude, I will transcribe a paragraph from a letter which I have just received from the commander in chief:
"I have asked of the executive directory, the rank of year admiral for your chief of the staff Ganteaume. I beseech you to appoint him. I have fought by this to give a proof of my gratitude and esteem for the essential services, the activity and zeal manifested by your staff officers, and, generally speaking, the whole squadron, in executing the orders of the government."
(Signed) "BUONAPARTE." Health and respect, BRUEYS."
[No. V.]—TRANSLATION.
Gizeh, July 24.
Emanuel Perree, General of Division, to vice admiral Bruys, commander in chief of the naval force stationed before Alexandria.
Citizen General,
Since our separating, I have lost no opportunity of recalling to the mind of the commander in chief, the situation in which I left you. He takes a lively interest in it, and has seized the first opportunity which offered, of sending you 58 vessels laded with different articles.
As for us, our position has not been the most agreeable since we parted. On the 13th July we fell in with the enemy's army, at break of day. I had then with me 3 gun boats, the galley and the Cers. The enemy had 7 gun boats carrying from 24 to 36 pounders. The action began at 9; two of my gun boats and the galley were run on shore, and quitted by the crews, on account of the terrible fire which the enemy opened upon us from their boats & from the bank of the river. The enemy were already in possession of them, but the brisk fire from the Cers, and the remaining gun boats obliged them to abandon their prey.
I sunk the vessel which carried their flag; confusion immediately took place, and they had only time to make their escape. Had not three of my best vessels been obliged to give way, I should certainly have destroyed the whole of their flotilla.
NOTES.
† Here is a positive proof of the falsehood of Buonaparte's assertions respecting the sailing of the fleet. We beseech the reader to bear this paragraph in mind, for we shall by and by return to it.
* We are sorry to find such a passage as this in Bruys's letter. He was evidently a man of courage and capacity, and ought to have known his enemy better. Such flights of vanity and imbecility are things of course in the dispatches of the directory; but this is not an official letter; it is evidently meant for the private information of Bruys, and seems drawn up as a kind of defence against the probable remonstrances of Buonaparte.
It is necessary to observe how much the unfortunate admiral was deceived. His fate will not be altogether useless to his countrymen, if it gives them juster notions of our "prudence," with equal, or even inferior numbers.
‡ This is admirable. Had he not been beaten and lost half his fleet, he would have been victorious! The plain truth, however, as appears from several letters, particularly from one of adjutant general Boyer's (see No. XXII) who commanded the land forces on board, is, that he was defeated, and only saved from absolute destruction by the appearance of the van of the army. Notwithstanding this foolish gasconade, Gen. Perree seems to be a man of courage and abilities.
I had twenty of my men wounded & several killed. A ball struck my sword out of my hand, and carried away a piece of my left arm. I do not think, however, that it will be attended with any bad consequences; indeed, it is already nearly well.
I cannot describe to you what we suffered in this expedition. We were reduced to subsist several days entirely on watermelons; during which we were constantly exposed to the fire of the Arabs, although, with the exception of a few killed and wounded, we always came off victorious.
The Nile is very far from answering the description I had received of it. It winds incessantly, and is without so shallow, that I was compelled to leave the chebeck, the galley and two of my gun boats, 13 leagues below Cairo, which I reached yesterday evening.
The little time I have to spare prevents me from entering into further particulars. Our army has had a smart action with the mamlouks, who lost more than 1200 men. Our loss is very trifling; it amounts, I understand, to about 20 killed, and 150 wounded.
Health and respect, EMANUEL PERREE. P. S. Pray send me immediately five or six intelligent officers, and about 40 men. You will oblige me very much, as well as the commander in chief. [To be continued.]
By the last Mail.
BOSTON, APRIL 10.
Capt. Deshon, who left Guadalupe April 4, has favoured us with the following:
Declaration of War against the United States.
ARRETE.
The Particular Agent of the Executive Directory at Guadalupe and its dependencies, has, ever since his arrival in the colony, confirmed the dispositions of the Executive Directory of the French Republic, with respect to neutral and allied nations;—His measures have been calculated to keep union and harmony, and to cause their colours & their property to be respected.
Those measures were scrupulously observed with regard to the Americans. The citizens of that nation, who were detained, on his arrival, have been released. Those who were destitute of means, have been supplied with the succours which their situation required; and cartels were dispatched, at the expense of the Republic, to convey them to New-York. The cargoes and ships seized and carried into the ports of Guadalupe and its dependencies, were restored to the owners; and, to add to the proofs of our aversion from vexations and hostilities, the armed schooner of the United States, the Revenge was sent back to the PRESIDENT.
The Particular Agent of the Directory could not, without astonishment and indignation, be informed, that in contempt of the free and open conduct observed in respect to that nation, Mr. Truxton, commanding the American ship Constellation , mounting fifty guns, insulted the colours of the French Republic, and took in an action wherein he was aggressor, the frigate insurgente whose Captain had positive orders to respect the American flag.
Such a piece of hostility, exercised without a declaration of war, has induced measures, the result of which leaves no doubt that the American officer, in thus acting, followed the orders and instructions of his government.
From the above facts, and the hostilities which are daily committed by the Americans since the capture of the insurgente ,
The Particular Agent of the Executive Directory,
Considering, that it is his duty to cause the flag of the French Republic to be respected, to protect commerce and the seamen from the risks they have to run from the Americans, who are cruising in force on these coasts,
To adopt measures which may be the least prejudicial to negotiations that may have been begun between the two nations; and which may justify self defence against aggression and insults, and even to prevent them:
Resolves as follows:
I. The Captains and Officers who command the vessels of the Republic, and those armed from the port of Guadalupe and its dependencies, are au-
thorized, from the date of the publication of the present Resolve, to pursue all American vessels, whether belonging to the Government or to individuals; to seize and capture them, without distinction , and bring them into the ports of Guadalupe and its dependencies.
II. The vessels belonging to the American Government shall be kept to be used according to the order of the Executive Directory.
III. Such as are the property of individuals, and which may contravene the laws of the Republic, and the resolves of the Executive Directory respecting neutrals and allies, and liable to condemnation, agreeably to the purport of those same laws and resolves, shall be, as well as their cargoes, condemned by a judgment of the tribunal of commerce, and sold for the profit of the captors according to custom.
IV. The merchants' vessels, the papers of which shall have been acknowledged by the tribunals to be regular, and not liable to condemnation, shall be sold, together with their cargoes, and the proceeds thereof deposited in the public coffers, that it may afterwards be delivered either to the captors or owners, agreeably to the orders of the executive directory.
V. In the foregoing dispositions are included, all American vessels and their cargoes, detained in the ports of Guadalupe and its dependencies, ever since information was received of the capture of the insurgente .
The present Resolve shall be read, published, posted up, and registered in the tribunal of commerce and control of the navy.
All public functionaries, owners and commanders of ships of the republic, and privateers, whom it concerns, are hereby ordered to conform to the same.
Done at Bassaterre, in the National House of the Agent, the 24th Ventose, 7th year of the French republic, one and indivisible.
(Signed) DESFOURNEAUX, Agent of the Directory. (Signed) DESCHAMPS, Particular Sec'y for the General Sec'y. A true copy, (Signed) DESFOURNEAUX.
[Thus notwithstanding the uniform disposition of this country to preserve peace; notwithstanding all our sufferings borne for years with a patience bordering on pusillanimity; notwithstanding the many declarations of both our Presidents that war was not our choice, and if we were brought to it, it would be from necessity; notwithstanding the recent nomination of an Embassy, for the purpose of meeting even the smallest appearance of probability, for the purpose of averting that appeal which has so often been the scourge of nations, are we compelled to the ultima ratio of republics as well as of monarchies. May the war thus commenced by our enemies, be prosecuted with firmness on our part, till the haughty, deceitful, and bloody power which has destroyed the peace and happiness of half Europe, and menaces all the world is reduced as low as vice and infamy deserves.]
Russell's Com. Gaz.
Affairs in India.
War! War!
By the arrival of the Eliza, Capt. Folger from Calcutta, we are favored with the following particulars regarding the political state of India, wherein it appears that that quarter of the globe is likely to experience the baneful influence of French principles, by the war that has already commenced between Great Britain and Tippoo Sultan, the firm ally of the French nation, consequently the mortal foe of the English. In consequence of an intercepted correspondence, between Tippoo Sultan, with Buonaparte and the French Directory, wherein he urges them, in the most earnest manner, to send a body of troops to India, to enable him to attack the English, the earl of Mornington, General Governor of India, had left Calcutta, and arrived at Madras in the beginning of January in order to
co-operate with more effect, commander in chief of the British army, who had taken the field immense force, in order to anpoo's capital of Seringapatam two other armies of inferior drabad, in order to subdue the provinces of Tippoo; by which pears that the total annihilation power is an event that must so place; as the French, by whom been misled, cannot afford smallest assistance; even the two Powers, the Marattas and the it appears are so exasperated Tippoo that they have joined it ces to those of the English, in destroy a Prince whose resist tion has been the cause of excé formidable combination again For which purpose three large of British and Natives, had t field, the principal one of whi actually marched from Madras, standing that Tippoo, had supp in the most earnest manner, an modation; but it was the un opinion that nothing less than truction of this power would the combined powers.
On the month of November very formidable army, comman the Republican, Gen. Piron, co of nearly 15,000 men, and wh been for several years employe Nizam, were attacked and dispe a body of British troops drawn t Hydrabad for that purpose, it been discovered that Gen. Piro determined to join his forces wit poo. The reduction of this for effected with little bloodshed, a Piron and nearly 200 French had been sent prisoners to C Zemaun Shaw, with a large arm approached the British Provin the northern parts of Bengal, & ened to create a powerful divers favor of Tippoo Sultan, but o quarter an English army of 20,000 was prepared to oppose him. It posed that Lemaun Shaw is ins in this measure by Buonaparte has, it is reported, dispatched an dors to his court; although th mense distance between them prevented any idea of succour fr gyp; it was in fact the received ion in the east, that Buonaparte's would in a few months be destr It cannot therefore be doubted but events that will take place in Indi ring this year, will be of the important nature, and will pro tend, in their consequences, to the British power in that quarter most firm basis.
Philadelphia, May
The trial of John Fries, for tre came on yesterday, in the Circuit of the United States. The jury formed about 12 o'clock, after the cause was opened by Mr. Sitgreassisting Mr. Rawle, on behalf of United States. The examination witnesses continued until a late last evening, when the Court adjou until 10 o'clock, this morning.
The following articles are taken a Nassau, New-Providence paper 6th April last:
"The Jane left Port-Royal, a night since. Ten days previous to sailing, Lieut. Col. Harcourt wer the Albacore sloop of war, Capt. W for Port-au-Prince, where he w make the necessary arrangements Gen. Toussaint, for immediately ing into effect the stipulations that been concerted between him and Maitland in September last.
"It is understood that the Amer government cooperates with ours in business; and that this is the obje Gen. Maitland and Col. Grant's age to America."
An Earthquake has been felt in Carolina. A letter from Camd fays, it was so severe in the neigh hood of that place, that persons thrown from their beds.