Herald of the United States (Warren, R.I.), 1805-09-28 00:00:00

Herald of the United States.
WARREN:—PUBLISHED NEAR THE POST-OFFICE, BY NATHANIEL PHILLIPS.
[No. 52, of Vol. XIII.]
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1805.
[Whole No. 676.]
Insurrection at Algiers.
* We have accounts by the way of Salem, of an important insurrection in Algiers, and that it continued to rage on the 3d of July. A Bordeaux paper of the 1st of August, received by Capt. Bradford, contains the following article:
Translated for the Palladium.
ALGIERS, JULY 4.
NO favorite, not even a Turk, ever enjoyed an influence over any Dey equal to that which the Jew NAFTALI BUSNAH had acquired over the present. He treated directly with the agents of the different powers, and suffered them not to approach the Prince, whom he deceived, day and night, by means of his creatures, and whom he governed entirely, by means of satisfying all his whims. BUSNAH distributed places; he created and deposed the Beys or Governors of provinces, with whom he always kept up a private correspondence; he fixed the sums they were to send to the Dey; he held the keys of the Khazans; he had monopolized all commerce, and suffered no competition; he governed the marine of Algiers, and that of all other ports of the kingdom; the corsairs sailed only when he judged it expedient, and directed their courses according to advices received by him from Europe, where he had numerous correspondents; he took possession of all prizes, without allowing them to be sold at auction; he, in short, violated all the ancient customs which are here sacred laws. This system was supported by tyranny, mixed with the most notorious meanness, but joined with much courage. A conspiracy was formed against the government four years ago. A price was set upon BUSNAH's head and the pillage of his stores proclaimed. The prime minister had received, fifteen months ago, several strokes of the yataghan, even at his post; the Dey was attacked and dangerously wounded by four Turks; and BUSNAH was the object of these various outrages. BUSNAH himself, a year ago, had miraculously escaped two shots of a pistol, aimed at him by a Turk. He had not been terrified by any of these terrible warnings; he had paid no attention to the advice which had been given him; his insolence, on the contrary, had augmented and become, particularly for the last seven or eight months, insupportable.
The indignation of the militia was extreme; the unprecedented scarcity that we suffered by reason of BUSNAH's sending all the grain of the kingdom to the enemies of government; the revolts of the province of Constantine, and that above all the most serious of Mascara, originating from his exactions on the Beys, could not fail of increasing it. The 29th of last month, at 7 o'clock in the morning, he was shot near the Dey's house, with a pistol, which a Turk, named YAHIA, fired at him, saying, "health to the Governor of Algiers." Some Noubadjies of the Prince's guard ran, and would have arrested the assassin, who preserved a firm countenance, and taking in one hand the pistol which remained charged, and in the other his yataghan, said "I have killed the miserable Jew who has so long tyrannized over you, you are Jews, like him, if you attempt to injure my person." The Noubadjies retired, and the Turk went peaceably to his lodgings. BUSNAH was carried to his house, where he died three hours after.
YAHIA confessed to his comrades the action he had committed, and asked them if they were determined to defend him; he said, that if they would not, he would fly to the mountains. They all swore to die rather than deliver him up. Deputations from the other bodies of militia came to him, and made the same oath. A great number of inhabitants imitated this example, and wished to kiss the hand chosen, as they said, by Providence, to deliver their country from the monster who had oppressed it. In the evening the Dey pardoned the assassin by sending him his chapler, according to custom. It was necessary to accompany the body of BUSNAH with a numerous guard. The people were for burning it, and stoning those who carried it. The 30th very early the militia issued from the barracks; they massacred all the Jews they could find in the streets; they then went to the houses and stores of BUSNAH, which were broke open and pillaged. The Moors and barbarous populace of the Piskis and Kbaits, joined with the militia; they broke open the doors of all the Jews, and the plunder became general; they were encouraged by the cries of joy of the women in the streets and on the terraces. After some hours of this dreadful havoc, the Dey, whose guard had remained immovable in the palace, dispatched some members of the Divan to the barracks, who were ordered to say to the militia, that the Prince loved the Jews as little as they, and that if they desired it he would only suffer to remain in Algiers those who professed the mechanical arts, the number of which was fixed by the convention anciently made by Barbaross with the Hebrew nation.
This step of the Dey had the effect to calm the militia, who retired quietly to their barracks. The Echouch's and the Noubadjies stopped the carnage and pillage by degrees, and acted as a police guard the remainder of
the day. Government caused the dead bodies that were found in the streets to be drawn by slaves to the place of Babel Oude, amidst the acclamations of an immense crowd. Nothing occurred on the 31st inst. excepting that the assassin of BUSNAH presented himself in arms before the palace of the Dey, saying he had been informed he was to be punished, and was ready to submit to the sentence. The Prince sent him for answer, that his word was sacred, and that he had nothing to fear. The Jews carried the dead bodies from their houses to the burying places escorted by Cossabadjies. It appeared, however, certain that there were in the barracks many conspiracies forming to attack the palace and massacre the nobles. The difference of parties, and of opinions, upon the person who should be chosen to govern, but above all the gold which was lavished without measure, caused these projects to miscarry. On the 2d inst. all the Jews were embarked which could be contained in an imperial ship then in the port. The days of the 2d and 3d inst. have been tranquil. The militia had it in their power to have stolen, and have been much offended that the excesses were attributed to a desire of pillage. They have returned freely every thing that had been carried to the barracks. It is in the houses of Moors, and in the hands of the Piskis and Kbaits, who have carried them to the mountains, that all the riches of the Jews are secreted. Various accounts are given of the number of deaths, but it is not so considerable as was first imagined, that of the wounded is considerable. There were fourteen or fifteen thousand Jews at Algiers who were rich in diamonds, pearls and jewels of all kinds. The most miserable Jews carried on her head a Sarina of gold, which cannot be worth less than 300 dollars, these have all been taken from them. The losses of the Hebrew nation in this article are incalculable. The Aga has been but a few days journey from Algiers. The new Bey has not been able to get into, and the old is still that up in Oran. Ammunition is sent by water and land. More than 1200 individuals, men, women and children have taken refuge, for the most part naked, in the house of the French Com. General, where His Majesty's flag has protected them. The government has caused it to be announced in the barracks, last night, that the Moors have intentions hostile to the Turks, and has engaged the militia not to lay down their arms. Is this a finesse of the government who wish to turn the attention of the militia from themselves? Or is it the result of the bad news received from Parent? Be it as it may, the government has this morning caused to be hung at the gate of Bab Azoun three Moors, in whose houses it is pretended arms and powder have been discovered. The massacre and pillage of the Jews at Belide did not take place as has been reported.
IMPORTANT STATE PAPER.
ANSWER TO M. NOVOZILTZOFF'S NOTE.
FRANCE.
PARIS, JUNE 30.
THE Moniteur of yesterday contains the following article, which is particularly worthy of remark in the present circumstances:—
BERLIN, JULY 15.
M. Novoziltzoff left this capital yesterday for St. Petersburg. He had a long conference with Mr. Jackson, the British Envoy at Berlin.
"The mission of that Russian Envoy was announced to all Europe several months before it commenced; and this was sufficient to render it abortive. It also became the subject of many discussions, calculations and intrigues. After M. Novoziltzoff had been represented rather as a bearer of orders, than as a negotiator, his mission was represented under another colour, to render it less hateful. He was to negotiate, they said with none but the Emperor himself. They, who propagated those idle reports, well knew, that all demands of that nature, deviating from the regard due to a great power, must on that very account frustrate a mission, the purport of which was not very evident; and what fully proves the uncertainty and obscurity of it, is, that it was successively an object of orders and counter orders. Now, every thing well considered, the counter order which calls M. Novoziltzoff back to St. Petersburg is probably more favourable for peace than the order by which he was sent to Paris."
"If the object of his mission was to allay the coolness existing between France and Russia, he would probably have succeeded. What, indeed, have France and Russia to do with each other? Independent of each other, they are enabled to hurt, but all powerful to do good to one another. If the Emperor of the French exerts great influence in Italy, the Emperor of Russia exerts a much greater influence on the Ottoman Porte and in Persia. The former has a limited influence, which does not extend beyond the discussions on the subject of her boundaries, and does not much increase her power; the latter, on the other hand, exerts her influence over two powers of the first rank, which have long stood in the same political rank with France and Russia, and which rule over Arabia, the Caspian, and the black Sea. If the
Russian Cabinet thinks it has a right to fix the just boundaries by which France is to be limited on all sides, then that cabinet will undoubtedly allow the Emperor of the French to fix the boundary by which it is to be limited in its turn. When it views with Herfchen's Telescope from the terrace of the palace of the Tauride, what happens between the Emperor of the French and some tribes in the Appenines, it ought not to demand that the Emperor of the French should not see what becomes of the ancient and illustrious empire of Solyman and of Persia; that he should not see, that for ten years past the whole Caucasus has been united with Russia, at the solitary request of a few families of that country; that Wallachia and Moldavia are entirely dependent on Russia; that she has subjected to herself the Mouths of the Phasis, and constructed forts there; that thereby obliging the Porte to suffer conquests, she has procured great advantages to herself for pursuing her conquests into the centre of Persia."
"Is then the Emperor of the French lowered to that degree of weakness, that he must coolly listen to a Russian Commissary, calling him to an account for what he does in countries unknown to Russia, and with which she has no relations? that he must close his eyes from seeing, and refrain from answering, when Sultan Selim has less to say in Constantinople, than a simple Envoy from St. Petersburg; when the Bosphorus is violated, and the consequence of the occupation of Crimea, and of the mouths of the Phasis, are felt in full force; when the cries of the Seraglio, although lettered by fear, awaken all Europe; and lastly when there is not a Pacha in the Morea, not a Mussulman in Constantinople but expects every morning to see a fleet from the Black Sea calling anchor at the foot of the Seraglio, & a herald reading the Declaration of War, and to hear the reports of muskets in the garden of the Grand Signior?"
"But if a Russian Commissary, coming to Paris to say, that a diminution of influence in Italy was demanded, should say, at the same time, that a guarantee should be given for Persia and the Porte—that the Bosphorus shall no more be violated, but remain shut, according to the practice of all times, against the ships of all Powers; that the Treaty of 1798 shall not be renewed; that the subjects of the Porte shall no longer navigate under Russian colours; that the regiments enlisted for the Russian service in Albania, at a great expense shall be disbanded; that the ships in the Black Sea shall never be so numerous as to endanger the Porte of being menaced in her own capital, before the Powers of Europe can be informed of her danger; that the Phasis shall be evacuated and the Caucasus restored to the Shah of Persia, and that tranquillity shall again be given to that Empire after so many years of internal wars and calamities: then it would be easy to conceive what would be the effect of such language; and although we are not in the secret of the Cabinet of Thoulieries, we dare say the Emperor of the French would be ready to meet so noble an agreement; he would listen, not to menaces, but to a desire to consolidate the independence of nations and the happiness of mankind. Whatever sacrifices he should make for the independence of the Porte and of Persia, he would still be a gainer; prosperity, for which he labours, would acknowledge him its deliverer, and admire the acuteness of that reason which made him discover before hand that the Russians would be the oppressors of the whole world, even as they now oppress the North, and the establishment of that Universal Monarchy, with which Europe has been so much frightened, and which has so long been held up to its view as the aim of the French nation, which comprises every thing in itself, and can never be dangerous to the independence of other countries."
"If the Russian Plenipotentiary came with a message from England, who is there but feels the difficulties, the unavoidable trouble, which new instructions, new pretensions of Russia would introduce? Of whatever nature the objections may be, which divide England and France, those nations would then be obliged to expect the decision of their differences from a far distant country, to which the interests of both is so little known."
"When the Cabinet of London applauded the mission of M. Novoziltzoff, it did so, because it hoped not only to bring over Russia, but also to draw in Austria and Prussia along with her; for it knows well full, that the concurrence of Russia alone will not allow it to think of the insane plans of partition which it has formed against France, and of which, in its madness, it never ceases to dream. If the English government is desirous of peace, it will recollect that it can reply to a French note, by an English note. These two languages are easily translated, and the intervention of another would only render the negotiation more intricate."
"Could M. Novoziltzoff himself be accurately acquainted with such knotty affairs? Did he know, that at the time of the Treaty of Amiens, the Empire of Mysore was not wholly united to the English possessions; that the Empire of the Mahrattas was annihilated; that England had doubled her power in India; that no European ship can sail into those seas? Did he think that France would give up her com-
merce with India forever? Did he also see that commerce alone was not the main point—that England has obtained that point which Catharine never would suffer by her cannon, at Copenhagen—that, what France never will allow, was obtained of Russia, by Nelson, in the Gulph of Finland—that since that treaty, to contrary to the rights of which even the nations the least bold are jealous, various interpretations have been made of the right of blockade; that whole rivers have been blockaded; that Cadiz was blockaded, even when our squadrons were masters in the Streights; that Venice is blockaded, although no English ship has been seen there for six months past, and no neutral vessel was seen there neither during six months; the effects of a strange connivance in other powers? At Venice, Trieste, Lisbon, and in Northern ports, all shipments for Genoa were stopped from the moment that port was declared in a state of blockade."
"Did that Plenipotentiary come to say that Russia had procured the liberty of the Indies, and of the European commerce in India; the recognition of the universal sovereignty of those seas; the renunciation of all interpretations concerning the rights of blockade, henceforth limited to countries attacked, or in danger of being taken, and (in the true sense of the words to blockade) surrounded on all sides? Did he at the same time come to demand, that the Crown of Italy should be placed on another head, and to require the surrender of some parts of the territory on the other side of the Alps? If this was the case, he should have been welcome; he would have met with no obstacles, and his undertaking would have been crowned with success."
"But if he, approving what England does, recognizing her right to search all ships, to place whole kingdoms in a state of blockade, applauding the immense increase of her power in India, come to represent to France that she ought to evacuate Parma and Genoa, and renounce the Crown of Italy; then it would appear that it was evidently intended to oppress France; then it would be France which they would wish to bring back to those times when Poland was partitioned without its own consent; when means were found to terrify a degenerate race, to deprive it of the consciousness of its worth, and even of the will of opposing the oppression. France has arms, courage, and armies; yes, of whatever nature the coalition shall be, which the English Ministers may find means to form, France, though regretting the influence of English gold on the Continent will dissolve that Gordian not as well as the two preceding. As often as they shall step in between both to reduce England within equitable and decent bounds, no sacrifice will be too hard for France; but if they will lay the whole weight upon her she will see in those intentions, nothing but hatred and insult, and one must be very ignorant in calculating the power and the state of affairs, to hope to succeed always."
Poland has been partitioned; France must have it in Belgium, and the Banks of the Rhine. The Crimea has been occupied, and the Caucasus, the mouths of the Pasis, &c. France must have a compensation in Europe; the principles of self preservation require it."
"Is a General Congress of Europe wished for? Well! Let each power place at the disposal of that Congress the conquests which she has made within the last fifty years; re-establish Poland, restore Venice to its Senate, Trinidad to Spain, Ceylon to Holland, and Crimea to the Porte; withdraw to a distance from the Phasis and the Bosphorus; to give up Caucasus and Georgia; let the Porte, after so many disasters, take a little breath; let the dominion of the Mahrattas, and the kingdom of Mysore be re-established, or no longer remain the exclusive property of England—then shall France recede within her ancient boundaries and in so doing, France will assuredly be the greatest loser. Whence then this serious outcry, this summons to a crusade against a power which, for the last fifty years, has derived less advantage than any other from the revolutions of states, and the changes which has taken place in every part of the globe, and which, uniformly victorious, has retained nothing of her conquests, but what was necessary to form an equitable compensation?"
"Europe had sustained several dreadful shocks; social order had revived; the peace of Amiens had established the general system. A feeble ministry, an unexampled arrogance, have kindled the flames of war anew, and exposed the peace of all nations to a state of uncertainty. The continental Prince, who shall first join in this project of general subversion, who shall first give the signal for war, will be answerable for all the calamities which may ensue from it, and subject himself to the merited curse of the existing generation."
"It is the opinion of every intelligent person, that the result of a war upon the continent can have no other tendency than to increase the power of France. They are also persuaded, that she will not always have the weakness, from a pure feeling of generosity and a vain hope of promoting the happiness of mankind, and the peace of the whole world, to evacuate numerous and populous conquests."
"It is the fashion at present to inveigh against the ambition of France; had she, however, been disposed to retain the territories con-

quired by her arms, the half of Austria, the states of Venice, the kingdom of Naples, Switzerland and Holland, would still have been subject to her dominion. The real boundaries of France are the Rhine and Adige. Did not the French penetrate beyond the Adige and the Rhine? Were they prevented, by the force of arms, from taking the Salza and the Drava as their boundaries? Or did they not forego those boundaries, from a generous moderation? It is in the natural course of things, that men such as Woronoff, Thugot, and Adon, (to whom Europe gives as little credit for capacity, as it ascribes to them hatred against every thing that is great and liberal, and who have sold their consciences for English gold) should exert all their influence to re-produce all the calamities of war. The prosperity of nations has occasioned the loss or the diminution of their credit; and this too is fortunate for princes. There are some who have ceased to reign, in consequence of listening to their counsels.
"The calamities of a continental war would fall neither upon Russia nor England, inasmuch as the scene of action would lie in Germany or Italy. What interest then can the French, the Italians and the Germans take in the meditation of powers, which would employ the moment, when they were engaged in the most sanguinary attacks on each other, to accomplish the downfall of the Turkish and Persian empires? The constant policy of the Northern States has been to provoke wars from which they themselves had nothing to dread. Thus it was that Catherine, for several years, permitted Austria and Prussia to carry on the war, still promising them assistance, which however could not prevent the French armies from appearing before the gates of Vienna. Thus it was that the late Emperor of Russia extended the calamities of war, by furnishing Austria with auxiliaries, at a time when Austria would, without them, have acquired many advantages—auxiliaries, however, who, upon the first reverse, trod back their steps, and in the middle of a campaign, left their allies to sustain alone all the pressure of war, which they had promised to share in common with them."
"In a word, France and Russia can gain nothing by a milondesandasing; they can inflict on each no injury by a war; and whatever may be the policy of either, there is nothing in which they can find so much advantage as in maintaining a good understanding with each other. We have already declared, and once more repeat it, that if Russia evacuate the Bosphorus, Caucasus, Phasis, Georgia, &c. France will accede to any arrangements which can be required with respect to Italy. But, unfortunately, it is too well known, that no one finds pleasure in sacrifices of this nature, and hence France must be allowed to indemnify herself so as to compensate for such advantages as are obtained by the other powers."
"As to England, the treaty of Amiens is still in force. It was concluded after a deliberate and long investigation of the reciprocal interests of the two states; it was broken unexpectedly, and upon idle pretences. Re-establish that treaty, and both states are at peace.—But if England requires new conditions; if she wishes to enter into a discussion respecting the frontiers of France on the side of Italy, let her give to France a share of the Mahratta territory; let her, in short, adopt maxims consistent with the independence of the other powers.—But the English will perhaps say, "it is better to sink than to consent that the flag shall protect the cargo—that a vessel, for whatever she contains, or whatever is done on board her, shall be accountable only to the sovereign of the state to which she belongs; that the Indies shall cease to be our property, or that any power whatever shall have a right to share with us in our superiority in the Indies?" Do not you then expect that France shall enter into discussions with you upon points which do not concern you, or do you consent to enter into discussion with her upon points which involve the sacred interests of all nations? France duly appreciates the advantages of peace: but she will carry on the war as long as it shall be necessary towards maintaining the honor of her flag, and the preponderance which it has acquired; and until she has obtained the assurance, that in whatever quarter of the world a Frenchman may shew himself, he shall not have occasion to blush in consequence of the insults and arrogant assumptions of the English."
GEN. EATON AND THE EX-BASHAW.
There has appeared much solicitude in the public mind, to know what was the nature of the alliance, between Gen. Eaton and the Ex-Bashaw of Tripoli, and how far our government had pledged itself to make his pretensions to the throne a common cause. The only explanation we have yet seen is contained in the following letter from Com. Barron to Mr. Eaton. In this we learn what the Commodore considered the extent of his authority. There was a time when this would have given us a satisfactory clue to the views and instructions of government. At present, from occurrences very similar, we should not be surprised to find, that the instructions given to Mr. Eaton and to Com. Barron were considerably different; or at least, that Mr. Eaton must have held a language to the Ex-Bashaw, different from that of the Commodore's letter. As to the true state of the case, there yet remains much room for conjecture.
"MALTA, MARCH 20."
"DEAR SIR,"
"YOU must be sensible that in giving their sanction to a co-operation with the Ex-Bashaw, government did not contemplate the measure of leading necessarily and absolutely to a reinstatement of that Prince in his rights to the regency of Tripoli. They appear to have viewed the co-operation as a means, whereby, if there existed energy and enterprise in the exile, and attachment to his person on the part of his former subjects, might be employed to the common furtherance and advantage of his claims and our cause; but without meaning to fetter themselves by any specific or definite attainment as an end, which the tenor of my instructions, and the limited sum appropriated for that special purpose clearly demonstrates. I fear, by the Convention you seem to think of making with Hamet, that a wider range would be taken than is consistent with the powers vested for that particular object. These apprehensions may perhaps prove groundless on further representations from you, but under present impressions I feel it my duty to state explicitly that I must withhold my sanction to any convention or agreement, committing the United States or tending to impress upon Hamet Bashaw, a conviction that we have bound ourselves , to place him upon the throne."
The consequences involved in such an engagement cannot but strike you forcibly, and a general view of our situation in relation to the reigning Bashaw, and our unfortunate countrymen in Tripoli will be sufficient to mark its inexpediency—I shall consider it my duty, as it is certainly my inclination to afford you every aid compatible with the authority vested in me and commensurate with the means that have been placed at my disposal: and you may rely upon the most active and vigorous support from the squadron, as soon as the season and our arrangements will permit us to appear in force before the enemy's walls: but I wish you to understand that no guarantees or engagements to the exiled Prince, whose cause I must repeat we are only favouring as an instrument to our aid and not as an end in itself, must be held to stand in the way of our acquiescence to any honourable and advantageous terms of accommodation which the reigning Bashaw may be induced to propose. These terms being once offered, and accepted by the representative of government appointed to treat of peace, our support to the Ex Bashaw must necessarily cease. You will not however conceive, Sir, that these considerations important and necessary as they are, ought to induce us at once to abandon the benefits which the measures you have adopted seem to promise. I conceive a perseverance in them by no means incompatible with a total freedom from any trammels with respect to a definite object which freedom I deem it all important to preserve, especially when I view the peculiar situation in which Capt. Bainbridge, and his fellow sufferers may be placed by this co-operation. If by your energy and exertions added to the supplies now sent forward, you succeed in getting possession of Derne and Bengaze, we may calculate that having received this impulse from our strength, the Ex-Bashaw will himself possess sufficient energy, courage and talent, and if accounts are correct, sufficient interest among the people to move on with firm steps, and to conduct his friends and followers to the gates of Tripoli; but should he be found deficient in these essential qualities, or that it appears we have been deceived in regard to the disposition of the inhabitants, he must be held as an unfit subject for further support or co-operation."
(Signed) S. BARRON. "To WILLIAM EATON, Esq."
Foreign Intelligence.
ENGLAND. LONDON, AUG. 2—9.
THE following article is now circulated on the Continent, as comprehending the principal complaints al-
ledged by the Court of Vienna against the Government of France, viz.—The occupations of Hanover, of the Papal states, and of the kingdom of Naples, as well as the Helvetic Republic, contrary to the Treaties of Ratisbon and Luneville; the incorporation of Piedmont with the French Empire; the invasion of the German Empire by the seizure of the Duke D'Enghien on the territory of the Elector of Baden; the seizure of several islands on the Rhine, which, according to the Treaty of Ratisbon, belonged to the German Empire; the demand, or rather threat, to occupy all the seaports in Dalmatia, and in the ci-devant Venetian States, during the present war; the demand or menace to occupy the capital of the Kingdom of Naples, all its forts and seaports; the occupation of all the seaports of the kingdom of Etruria; the incorporation of Parma and Piacenza with France, contrary to the secret articles of the Treaty of Luneville; the imperious demands to the courts of Vienna and Naples to exclude all British and Russian ships from their respective harbours; the late imperious demand to occupy the seaports in the Island of Sicily; the creation of a new kingdom in Italy, contrary to the secret articles of the treaty of Luneville; the incorporation of Genoa with the French Empire, contrary to the secret articles of the Treaty of Luneville; the evasive and insolent answer given to the representations of Count Cobentzel, Ambassador from the Emperor of Germany; and the insulting language held by the Chief of the French Government to all the representations of his Majesty the Emperor of Germany and Austria."
The promised Commercial Treaty between France and Switzerland has been abandoned: France objected to most of the terms proposed by the commission of Zurich, as being contrary to the French laws, or injurious to the French trader; but, in fact, because they were calculated to rescue Switzerland from the wretchedness in which it is the policy of Bonaparte to keep her, in order to reconcile her to the political change which awaits her Government. The Swiss, on their part, objected to such clauses of the French project as interfered with their custom-houses, and which prohibited the importation of British goods. The consequences are that the trade and manufactures of that unfortunate country are nearly annihilated, unable to procure either the raw articles, or a market for their goods.
"Yesterday we received some more French and Dutch Papers; but none of them are of a more recent date than those which had previously reached town. They speak of the increased activity of the preparations in the ports of Holland for the invasion of England, and of the fixed determination of Bonaparte to make the attempt, in order to compel us to conclude a separate peace—a determination which he means to carry into execution before any arrangements can be formed between this country and the Powers of the Continent."
Dispatches have been received from Gibraltar, which mention that the Expedition, under the command of Sir James Craig, had gone up the Mediterranean, it was supposed for Malta, under the protection of four sail of the line.
The Combined fleet is stated to have specific to the amount of six millions sterling on board, chiefly in the three rezees and the gallion.
Marquis Cornwallis has by this time superseded Marquis Wellesley in the supreme Government of India;—the former is gone out specially commissioned to offer a general pacific system to all the Indian Powers, and is expected to return to Europe in a little more than two years.
The St. Rafael, of 84 guns, is by far the finest Spanish ship of the two prizes, and is almost a new ship.—El Firme, of 74 guns, is about thirty years old, and has had a thorough repair.
According to the latest enumeration, the population of Paris was
547,756 souls. The number of the poor who receive support, 86,926. In the year 10, there were 111,626 poor.
The Queen of Etruria has declined the proposed union with Beauharnois, and announced her intention of remaining a widow.
AUG. 10.
THE INVASION.
"We have reason to believe that the intelligence lately received by Government is such as to create a firm persuasion that the enemy will immediately make an attempt to invade this Kingdom; their preparations are complete, and in the Texel the Troops destined for the expedition are actually embarked, with all the artillery and stores, and we have no doubt are only waiting for a favourable opportunity to put to sea. It was, indeed, yesterday positively stated that the Dutch Fleet had failed; but we have ascertained that the report was wholly unfounded. Admiral Ruffel sailed on Thursday to resume his station off the Texel. At so important a crisis we are happy to be enabled to state, that Government have adopted every measure which prudence could suggest to defeat the daring design of the enemy. Of the result of such an attempt we never entertained a doubt:—at the same time we should be sorry if confidence led to any relaxation in the necessary means of defence. It would be idle to deny that we have a most active and powerful enemy to contend against—that his means of attack are great beyond all example—and that his enmity to this country is implacable. Our confidence is founded not upon any contempt of the enemy, but upon a knowledge of the skill, discipline, and courage of our fleets and armies, and upon the loyalty, unanimity, and bravery of the people of these kingdoms."
The following Circular letter, was yesterday ordered to be sent to the commanders of the different Volunteer Corps throughout the kingdoms:
(CIRCULAR.)
SIR, In consequence of intelligence received by government, of the embarkation of large bodies of troops in Holland, of a fleet of men of war being ready to sail from thence, and of the increased preparations of the French at Boulogne, and its neighbourhood, I have received orders from His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, to direct the General Officers, and Inspecting Field Officers attached to the Volunteer Corps, to give notice to those Corps, of the possibility of their being speedily called upon for service: and also to suspend all furloughs for working during the harvest till further orders. I have the honor to be, your most obedient and humble servant.
"HARRINGTON." "General Commanding the London District."
Domestic Occurrences.
MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY.
NATCHEZ, AUG. 16.
ON Sunday last, the citizens of this place were alarmed by the parting and falling into the Mississippi of a great part of the bank under the bluff, which carried with it a number of houses.—So little notice was bad of its moving, that several lives were nearly involved in the ruins—providentially however, no person received injury except in the loss of considerable property.—The scene lasted at intervals for several hours and was truly awful.—Had the circumstance occurred in the night, it is highly probable that a number of lives would have been lost.—The chasm in the bank appears to be about 300 feet wide, and between 40 and 50 feet deep—a large stream of clear cold water precipitates itself over a gravelly bottom impregnated with ore through the chasm into the Mississippi.
Among the principle sufferers, as to property, we learn are Mr. Lee, an industrious young man, from Boston, the widow Crisholm, the estate of Daniel Barny, and Mr. John Callender.
GEORGIA. SAVANNAH, SEPT. 7.
On Thursday last arrived brig Sboro Staple, Capt. Arnold, 16 days from Boston, who informs, that on the 27th of

Aug. off the capes of Virginia, he fell in with a French privateer ship of 16 guns, and a sbr. of 10 guns. The Captain of the ship ordered Capt. A. to come on board; the heavy press of sail he was then under occasioned some delay, which induced the ship to fire several shot into the short staple, one of which went through her main-top sail, one through her main-sail, the other cut away her royal staysails, &c.—when Capt. A. got on board the privateer, his papers were examined, and after receiving some very abusive language was permitted to depart—the crew consisted of a motley set of French, Spanish and Irish.
On the 29th spoke a brig and three schooners from Baltimore, bound to St. Domingo, armed.
On the 3d inst. off Charleston, he spoke a sbr. from Falmouth, (Mass.) bound in, the Captain of which informed him, that 4 days before, off Cape Hatteras, he spoke the ship Dispatch, Paul, 82 days from Liverpool, for Savannah. Same day Capt. Arnold spoke the United States frigate John Adams, on a cruise.
VIRGINIA. NORFOLK, SEPT. 12. Confirmation of the news of the PEACE with TRIPOLI.
Tuesday arrived in Hampton Roads, the United States frigate President, Commodore Barron, Captain James Barron, in 38 days from Gibraltar. By this ship we are relieved from all anxiety upon this interesting subject, for not only does she bring the certain accounts of peace being concluded, and the release of our unfortunate countrymen, but she brought Capt. Bainbridge, his officers and part of his crew, a number of whom are now in town. We offer them our felicitations upon this happy occasion, and sincerely hope that the pleasures they will meet in their native country, and the embraces of their friends, will compensate in a measure their past sufferings. We are sorry to understand Commodore Barron has returned in very bad health.
The particulars which we have collected are corroborative of what has been already published—General Eaton deserves great credit; to his enterprize and courage we are principally indebted for the attainment of these important objects.—We understand that Gen. Eaton reached Derne about the last of April, when he instantly attacked the Bashaw's army, and defeated it with little loss, himself being wounded in the right arm so as to render it useless. The few Americans who were in the action, displayed a courage that confounded the Turks; they were appointed to lead the attack, which service they performed in a manner that did honor to their country. We understand that at the time general Eaton attacked the army by land, that Capt. Hull in the Argus, Capt. Dent in the Nautilus, and Lieut. Evans of the Hornet bomb ketch, attacked the batteries by sea.
Gen. Eaton's army was, we understand, composed of 1500 men and that of the Bashaw's 5000. The intrepid little band had marched 800 miles across the Sandy Deserts, through a hostile country, and had several partial actions before the decisive one at Derne. Gen. Eaton was wounded when in the act of cutting down a Selk of the Bashaw's army.
The result of this action appears to have been an immediate proposal from the Bashaw for peace; Col. Lear went immediately to Tripoli and a treaty of peace was signed on the 3d of June, and our countrymen released on the next day. The terms we cannot learn fully, but we understand that as far as we had Tripolitans they were exchanged man for man, for the balance of Americans remaining we are to pay 60,000 dollars. Some provision, but what we cannot understand, is made for the Ex-Bashaw; his wife and family who were detained as hostages are to be liberated. As the official accounts are gone on to Washington, we must suspend our curiosity as to the other articles for the present.
The President left Syracuse the 7th of July: The following was the
distribution of the American squadron at that time.—The frigates Constitution, Constellation, and Essex, with the brigs Syren, and Vixen, and bomb ketch Hornet, were at Syracuse; the Argus had sailed for Egypt, and the Nautilus for Messina. The frigate John Adams, and two gun-boats anchored the day the President failed. General Eaton sailed for the United States in a merchant vessel. The Ex-Bashaw was at Syracuse when the President failed.—The President on her passage to Gibraltar got near the Spanish coast, was taken for a British frigate, and fired upon from the batteries.
It may be grateful to the friends of the officers, who have been in captivity, to know where they now are, we therefore have procured the following account of them.
Returned in the President. William Bainbridge, Captain. Jacob Jones, 2d Lieutenant. Keith Spence, Purser. Benjamin F. Read, Lieutenant, promoted James Gibbon, do. do. Daniel T. Patterson, do. do. William Osborne, Lieutenant Marines. James Biddle, Midshipman. Robert Gamble, do. William Curburh, do. Wallace Warmley, do. James Renhew, do. Nicholas Hardwood, Surgeon's Mate. Jonathan Cowdry, do. William Anderson, Captain's Clerk. George Hodge, Boatswain. Joseph Douglas, Sailmaker. Richard Stevenson, Gunner. Remained in the Mediterranean. Lieut. David Porter. Theodore Hunt. Benjamin Smith. Bernard Heney, Master. Doctor John Ridgely remains as Charge des Affairs for the United States, at Tripoli. Simeon Smith, Midshipman, and William Godby, Carpenter.
In addition to the above, we have it from Mr. Dove, who was on board one of the bombarding vessels during the attack on Derne, that out of the 300 Americans engaged on shore, there were only five killed, which took place at the time Capt. O'Banan, who was second in command, had, with his little band, scaled the walls and pulled down the Turkish flag, in place of which he immediately hoisted the American standard!
The present Bashaw of Tripoli is stated by our officers to be a man of considerable talents and bravery, mixed with great cruelty—at one time on the attack of the brave Preble, when every man was driven from a fort but the Bashaw, he remained, coolly examining the operations with a spy glass. After the action of Eaton's, that led to a peace, he was heard to declare, that if he should approach nearer to Tripoli, he would massacre every American and every christian in his power.—Mr. Lear has been blamed for making a treaty precipitately and before the appearance of the fleet, but as the danger of the prisoners was eminent, and their release the principal object of the war, it would appear that no moment that could attain this desirable end was to be wasted in calculations of future success, and that in embracing the very first opening to release them from the cruelty of the Bashaw, and shutting the door forever on the return of his caprice or the chance of future events, he acted with the wisdom and precision of a politician and patriot.
The officers and men appear while in Tripoli, to have been liberally treated and supplied by the consuls of the christian nations there, and from their generosity, to have tasted of the wines denied to their Mahomet masters—this, perhaps, might have given the Bashaw an idea that the Americans in their different attacks were drunk, for he often said, when our vessels stood in so boldly and made such near approaches to their forts, that they were all drunk—if the attack was made in the afternoon, they had been drinking at dinner—if in the morning, they had been drinking all night—none but madmen, drunkards or devils, would run such risks—and in this way he apologized to himself for the desertion and flight of his own men.
STATE OF NEW-YORK. NEW-YORK, SEPT. 23. At the last Session of the Supreme Court of the State of New-Jersey, held at Newark, on Friday last, Harry Lawrence a negro man, was brought to trial
for the murder of his wife, by infusing arsenic in butter, which he spread on a slice of bread; and gave to her to eat.—During his imprisonment he had the bardhood to assert, that he was sorry he could not live long enough to be the death, by the same wicked means, to two other persons. The jury, after an impartial hearing of the witnesses, and an excellent charge from the judge, on Saturday brought in a verdict of guilty.—He is ordered for execution on the 4th of October next.
On Saturday last, at Brooklyn, Nathaniel Parson, a ropemaker, hung himself on a popular tree in John Hasting's nursery. He has left a wife and four children; the former of whom was a witness to the distressing scene.
MASSACHUSETTS. BOSTON, SEPT. 24.
By an arrival of the ship Neptune, from London, we have received the papers of that city to the 11th of August.
It is evident from a variety of publications, that the British government really believe that the French have completed those preparations that they have affected to deem competent to the conquest of Great-Britain, and would soon make the long-threatened attempt.
An American ship from Holland put into a British port on the 8th of August. The supercargo informed, that they sailed in haste, to avoid an embargo, which was momentarily expected to be laid. 20,000 troops had been embarked in Dutch transports, and 25,000 were preparing to embark.
The blockade of the Texel has been resumed by a British squadron.
The purchase of Swedish Pomerania for Russia was made by England, at a price amounting to about the first vote of credit, five millions sterling—26,000,000 six dollars.
There were reports in London at the last date of two fleets being seen engaged on the 2d of August. The 1st of August was the anniversary of Nelson's battle at the Nile.
All the London editors agree, that the port of Vigo could afford no sufficient protection and shelter to the French and Spanish ships, and that therefore they could not have remained long at that place.
It is a circumstance highly flattering to this country, that although the little Emperor of the Gauls succeeds, in general, but too well, in prejudicing the minds of his newly created subjects against us, all his endeavours to restrain them from purchasing in our funds or adventuring in our Lotteries, have hitherto proved ineffectual.
The idea of a sudden attack on Gibraltar, cannot be long entertained, when it is considered, that the Government, from the regard to the health of the country, will not allow troops to pass from provinces which were infested last year to those which were healthy, and vice versa.
Letters from Spain say it has been ascertained, that the malignant fever which prevailed in that kingdom last year, was imported to Malaga from Vera Cruz.
OF THE FLEETS. SEPT. 26.
Capt. Williams, arrived at Salem from the Mediterranean has brought further advices of the European hostile fleets. It appears, that the Combined fleets, after touching at Vigo, and Ferrol, had arrived at Cadiz where they amounted to 35 sail of the line. And further that the Spanish Carthagena squadron, of 8 sail of the line, were in sight of Gibraltar when Capt. W. failed (Aug. 23d,) bound to Cadiz to join the fleets there, with a fair wind. That Admiral Bickerton, with the Queen of 98 guns, Capt. Pender, Le Tonnerre, 80, Capt. Tyler, Minotaur, 74, Capt. Mansfield; and Beileroophon, 74, Capt. Cooke with two frigates, had left Gibraltar, to join Admiral Collingwood, who had at the last dates, a small squadron off Cadiz. Lord Nelson had been at Ferrol; but not finding the combined fleets there, had failed in farther search of them.
Capt. W. was informed by the American Consul and other gentlemen at Gibraltar, that a WAR between Spain and America appeared inevitable; and that the Spaniards were in daily expectation of war being declared against them by the United States. Mr. Pinckney, whose negotiation had failed, was expected at Tangiers every moment; and Mr. Bowdoin had thought it expedient not to proceed to Madrid, as we have before known. In the mean time the Spaniards treat these things with contempt, and insult and capture the American flag daily; and the common observation is, that our Government cannot much longer brook such hostile and insulting treatment.
WARREN, SATURDAY, SEPT. 28.
Twenty-one cases of malignant fever in Philadelphia, were reported to the Board of Health on Thursday the 19th instant, and 23 deaths.—On the 21st, 61 new cases, and 39 deaths.
At New-York, on the 21st, the Board of Health reported 8 cases, and 2 deaths.—25th, 23 cases, and 6 deaths.
The Osage Indians, it is said, have defeated a body of Chickasaws.
Late advices from Havana mention, that a frigate was fitting out there, said for the purpose of carrying 400 troops to Pensacola.
The sugar-refinery of Mr. Edward Pennycuick, at Philadelphia, was a few days since destroyed by fire, with the stock and utensils; the loss estimated at 50 or 60,000 dollars.
A reward of 300 dollars is offered by Messrs. Thomas Lovell and Co. of New-York, for apprehending Daniel Moore, an absconding Broker of that city, who is supposed to have come eastward.
STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND.
DISTRICT OF PROVIDENCE.
Entered. From Sloop Maria, Culveison, St. Bartholomew's Brig Fame, Reynolds, Cronitant Cleared. For Brig Pilgrim, Smith, Savannah Ship Nancy, Mauran, Trieste
DISTRICT OF BRISTOL.
Entered. From Sloop George, Cole, Hudson Cleared. For Sloop Betsey, Cowing, Norfolk
MEMORANDA.
The U. S. frigate Adams arrived off Charleston, Sept. 5.
The ship George & Harriet, from Boston for Havana, foundered July 30—ten men were taken from the wreck by the brig O'Keen, of New-Bedford, and carried to Point-Petre.
The crew of the Montezuma, of Charleston, taken by a French privateer, were treated with great severity, put in irons, &c.—Sch. Mary, of New-York, has been plundered by a French privateer.
Brig Catharine, Seward, of Norfolk, with a valuable cargo of rum, has been captured and sent into Porto Rico, by a French privateer. The only reason for capture was the value! The duties on this cargo would have been nearly 7000 dollars!
Sch. Satellite, Hall, of Baltimore, with a cargo of coffee, valued at 14,000 dollars, has been captured and sent into Barracoa.
Brig Sally, Burr, of New-York, was taken by a French privateer the 11th July, and sent in Barracoa: the passengers were confined four days to the cabin, robbed of their clothes, money, &c.
BRISTOL-ROAD LOTTERY.
THE HONORABLE GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the State of Rhode-Island, &c. having granted to the town of Bristol the benefit of a Lottery, for the purpose of making a good Road from Bristol-ferry to Warren, they have elected the subscribers managers to the same, who have given bonds, as required by law, and now present the public with the following
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 1 Prize of 1500 Dollars is 1500 Dollars.  1 500  3 Prizes of 200 are 600  5 100  10 50  10 25  31 10  1230 8   1291 Prizes. 14000  2709 Blanks. For the Lottery, 2000   4000 Tickets, at 4 dolls. each, are 16000 
THE Managers of the above Lottery are resolved to make every exertion to effect a speedy sale of the Tickets, and considering that the scheme is calculated on terms highly advantageous to the adventurers, and that the use to which the saving is to be applied is for a public purpose, and of a beneficial nature to the community at large, they flatter themselves they shall be able to commence the drawing of said Lottery by the first of January next. The prizes shall be paid by the Venders of the Tickets, or the Managers, without deduction, with the greatest promptitude. A list of prizes will be published immediately after the drawing is completed. All prizes not demanded within six months after the drawing, will be considered as given to the use of the Lottery.
JOSEPH REYNOLDS, WILLIAM D'WOLF, WILLIAM PEARSE, THOMAS CHURCH, WILLIAM COGGESHALL, } Managers. Bristol, Sept. 20, 1805.
TICKETS in the above Lottery, for Sale at this Office.
Washington Academy Lottery.
THE Drawing of this Lottery will positively commence on the First Day of October next, at the Academy Hall, and continue from Day to Day until completed.
By Order of the Managers, DANIEL E. UPDIKE, Sec'y. Washington Academy (North Kingstown) August 9, 1805.
TICKETS in the above Lottery, for Sale at this Office.

APOLLO'S FOUNT.
From the BOSTON WEEKLY MAGAZINE.
SIMILE.
THOU azure fretted roof, whose studs Are diamonds of the purest lustre; Thou lovely tree, whose crimson buds But lately did around the cluster; Where are thy charms when clouds arise, With sable veil thy beauties crossing, Or from chill autumnal skies, Falls heavily thy leaves embossing?  The sweet perfume, the soft clear light, In the drear season of December, Are lost, and faint is the delight, With which those beauties we remember; So pleasures which have long been o'er, Tho' priz'd to rapture while they lasted, Faint joys upon the bosom pour, That feels they are forever blasted.  Soon will the genial spring return, The azure sky no more be clouded; And thou, fair tree, no longer mourn Thy charms by heavy winter shroud; The rose will bloom, the stars will shine, These grace the eve, that scents the morning; But to this cold, sad heart of mine, No hope remains of joy returning.
From the BOSTON WEEKLY MAGAZINE.
THE TRIUMPH OF FORTITUDE AND PATIENCE, OVER BARBARITY AND DECEIT:
A TRUE STORY.
[From the Female Spectator.]
HIS mind, however, was somewhat more composed after the departure of the messenger, but his body had little or no relief from medicine: His mother was inconsolable, but did every thing in her power to comfort him; and as she found the care of Jemima and his two sons chiefly engrossed his thoughts, gave him continual assurances, that if she was so miserable as to survive him, those persons so near and dear to him, should share all her tenderness.
The fellow entrusted on this errand by Lothario, went about it with a great deal of alacrity, not only as he saw his master's peace, perhaps his life, depended on the success of it, but also as he had always thought what he had acted in regard to Jemima was treacherous and base.
Having a good horse, and a willing mind he reached London sooner than he expected. The first place he went to was the midwife, whom he rated bitterly for her cruel usage of a young lady, who, he said, might easily be discovered not to be one of those who prostitute themselves for hire. She made what awkward excuses she could; said, It was madam's own fault; if she had told her the truth, care should have been taken of her and her children too. Then, to prove her honesty, delivered into his hands the letter, with the bill before mentioned in it.
Thence he went to Dalinda, but with what a torrent of abuse & scurrility did he bear the reputation of the poor Jemima overwhelmed by this barbarous woman! And when he endeavoured to put a stop to it, by assuring her, that she was his master's wife, that he had declared her such to his mother and all his friends, and that he himself had been witness of the marriage; she either did not, or pretend not to believe one syllable of what he said, but persisting in calling her vagabond, infamous strumpet, and all the opprobrious names that malice could invent, concluding with wishing she and her brats might be dead, that with them the scandal she had brought upon their family might cease.
The man was shocked at her brutality, but perceiving that the more he espoused the cause of this unhappy creature, the more bitter she grew, and also that there was no intelligence to be gained from this quarter, took his leave, though not without telling her, he was certain that his master, if he lived, would resent the treatment she so unjustly gave his wife.
Where now to direct his search he was wholly at a loss. Being fully informed by the midwife of the miserable condition in which the left her house, he had recourse to all the parish nurses, hospitals, work houses, leaving no place of public charity without making the most strict enquiry; but not the least information could he receive; and after having rambled over this wide city and suburbs for several days without any success, he began to fear, lest in that depth of misery she had been plunged into, the would have
fallen into despair, and put an end to her own life, and those which she had no longer any means of preserving.
With a mind, which these thoughts rendered very much troubled, did he set out for his return, almost dreading to see his master's face, since unable to carry home to him any part of what he so ardently wished, that it seemed as if his life depended on it.
Jemima's sufferings were, however, not yet arrived at their period; Heaven tho't fit to try her yet a little farther, thereby to make her virtue more conspicuous: while the servant of Lothario was in quest of her with honour, peace, and plenty in his hand, she was running through dangers, hardships, and sorrows, which nothing but the Supreme Giver of courage, and her perfect confidence in him, could have enabled her to sustain.
Slow was the progress she made in her long journey, not being able to travel more than five or six miles in a whole day, though it was then summer, and the sun ruled three parts of the four-and-twenty-hours.
It would be endless to recount the many rebuffs she met with when craving any assistance to help her on her way, and the difficulty she found in getting lodging for herself and little ones, even though she offered to pay them for it before-hand. The wretches scrupled to give her shelter, because she had not a pass, and some were cruel enough to tell her, they were sure she had been whipped out of London; for were she an honest woman, the magistrates would not have refused to give her that testimony of her good behaviour.
Some few indeed were more merciful, and whatever their opinion might be of the cause of her misery, the distress they saw her in excited their charity, and for their own sakes made them relieve her wants.
Alternately she happened among savages and christians, but even the latter, too much influenced by appearances, were very sparing of their bounty; and it would have been utterly impossible for her, weakened as she was by hard living, and the immense fatigue she underwent, had not that Almighty Being, who, when we think him farthest from us, is often nearest to us with his aid, snatched her now almost sinking soul from the miseries in which it had so long been plunged, and graciously rewarded the virtue it had tried.
She had not reached quite the mid-way to where she wished to be, before she became so weak, that she rather crept than walked, and sometimes was near falling. Unable to support the weight of the two children at once, she would lay one down, and carry the other a little farther; then place that in the same manner, and go back and fetch him she had left behind; by this means, though she eased her burthen, she increased her steps.
Either a pebble, or some piece of broken glass in the road, had cut one of her feet; and she sat down under a hedge, and plucked off her shoe and stocking, where perceiving the blood run pretty plentifully, she washed it with her tears and wiped it with a handkerchief she took out of a little bag tied to her side, which contained all the poor necessaries she had for herself and infants.
Little did she think any eye, but that of Heaven, saw her in this employment, till having dressed her wound as well as she could, and given suck to both her children, she was preparing to prosecute her journey in the same manner, but was hindered by a footman, who came running hastily cross the field toward her.
As soon as he came near enough to be heard by her, "Stay, good woman," said he, "you seem to be in an ill condition to travel; my master and lady, who have observed you, have therefore ordered you should come to their house, and take some refreshment."
She lifted up her hands and eyes to Heaven, in token of acknowledgment, and saw, which before she had not done, the back part of a fine seat,
which had a summer-house on the garden-wall, and directly opposite to the place where she had been sitting.
The man took both the children out of her arms, and carried them for her, and she followed, though with a very limping pace, through a little gate on the farther side of the field, which opened into the back part of the house.
Jemima was then conducted into a parlour, where sat a gentleman and lady, both of middle age, but who had all the virtues of humanity imprinted on their faces. The lady asked her several questions, as whence she came, how far she intended to travel, and the reason of her being reduced to such a miserable situation? to the former our heroine answered with plainness and sincerity, but as to the latter, only said, many odd circumstances had concurred to render her so. The gentleman then said, "I suppose you have lost your husband, perhaps, before the birth of these children. No, sir, replied she, I hope he is still living, and that the same gracious power who brought me so far on my way, will in the end conduct me to him."
As they perceived she spoke with some agitation, and the marks of grief were bursting in her eyes, they would not trouble her with any further interrogations, but ordered the footman to let the house-keeper know, that it was their pleasure that this unfortunate stranger should have every thing needful for her refreshment.
Nothing could be performed with greater punctuality than these commands; our fair wanderer found herself treated with no less tenderness than she could have been, had she been known for what she was.
But the hospitality of those worthy persons did not stop here. They would not think of her prosecuting her journey in the manner she had done. They informed her, that a waggon always passed by that road, which went to the place, to which she was going, and she should be put into it with her children, and money given to defray the expenses.
This was joyful news, indeed to Jemima, not only as it would be such an ease to her fatigue, but also that she should arrive there much sooner than she could propose to do by the way she had hitherto travelled; & now all her prayers to Heaven, were, that she might find Lothario at her arrival. "Should he happen to have left his seat, and gone to London, while I have been pursuing him with these weary steps, (said she to herself,) it would be the extremest malice of my fate, and all I have so long suffered, will be but the beginning of my sorrows."
But these desponding thoughts only just flashed upon her and were gone. She would give way to nothing which should render her unworthy the care of Providence, by distrusting it, and resolve to be always thankful for the good, and to endure with patience all the ills it would inflict, brought her mind into that happy composure, which meaner souls are incapable of knowing.
The third day after her arrival at this asylum, was that on which the waggon usually came by: but little did she think she was much nearer to the accomplishment of her wishes than her most sanguine hopes would have flattered her with.
How wonderful, how mysterious are the ways of Heaven! By what unseen, unguessed at means, are frequently the greatest events brought about!
She rose early in the morning to give as little trouble to the servants as she could, and came down stairs. As they were preparing her breakfast, and she was sitting with one infant in her lap and the other lying on a little stool near her, a footman came hastily in, and called to the butler, saying, "John, here's your brother at the gate." The fellow ran hastily, and presently returned with a person with him, whose face Jemima thought she was acquainted with. But on viewing him more attentively, and hearing him speak, recollected it was no other than him who had assisted at her marriage, and been
passed upon her as a country gentleman.
A thousand various thoughts at once assailed her: To see before her eyes a person, who so well knew the truth of her engagements with Lothario, and at the same time to see him in a character so widely different from what she could have expected, raised in her such confused emotions as her spirits were unable to sustain, and she fainted away.
(To be continued next week.)
ABSENCE OF MIND.
AMONG a number of instances that I have heard of Dr. Mosley's absence of mind, I shall relate one which he frequently mentioned, and laughed at very heartily, when in a good humour, at the same time observing, that his brother was as bad as himself:—The Doctor being once on a visit to his brother in Norfolk, in the beginning of the winter, and intending to set off for London the next day, his brother proposed to go and shoot wild ducks early in the morning, that he might take two or three couple fresh killed to London with him. The servant had orders to clean the long fowling piece, get plenty of powder and shot, and to goose-grease their boots. Every thing being in readiness, according to their desire, about an hour before day-light the Doctor and his brother set off for the place where the ducks resort, in order to be there by break of day, when they generally take wing to go to feed. They had walked nearly three miles; and it having rained in the night, the clay-mud wall was very dirty and greasy, when they heard the cry of the ducks. They were now obliged to get over the wall and a gate, across a sluice into the marsh, where the ducks were. The rain had raised the water about a foot. It was then proposed that one should go over, & the other remain behind.—Says the Doctor, "George, do you go over, for I have forgotten my boots."—"By G—d, Doctor, so have I," said his brother; "but we won't lose our sport as we have come thus far." So both waded through, and got over the gate into the marsh; and advancing along the fleet, they at length perceived the ducks.—"You are near enough George," said the Doctor.—"Aye," replied George, "I think we are not above an hundred yards off."—"Why then fire," says the Doctor.—"Do you fire," returned George.—"Why, I have not got the gun, do you fire."—"I fire! why d—n it, I have not got the gun," said his brother, "I thought you had it. What a fine opportunity is lost! Here are no less than thirty ducks within shot and neither of us have got the gun!" Thus, after rising very early, walking at least 3 miles in a most dirty place, along the salt marshes, and wading mid leg in water above fifty yards, they found that they had both forgot to take the gun as well as their boots.
FOR SALE,
A CONVENIENT Dwelling-House and Shop, with a good Well of Water, and about One Acre of good Land, formerly owned by Nathaniel Pearce, it is very pleasantly situated, and is a good Stand for a Trader or Mechanic, and is bounded on Palmers River, and on Capt. Samuel Bullocks Land, lying on the Main Road leading from Providence to Dighton, about One Mile from Miller's landing.—Those who wish to Purchase are requested to apply to the Subscriber, or to Gideon Peck. JOHN ROGERSON. Rehoboth, Sept. 13.
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FRESH FLOUR. Do. NAVY BREAD. MOLASSES, suitable for Retailing, and New-England RUM. Warren, Sept. 13, 1805.
OPENING THIS DAY, BY
Benj. T. Chandler, at his Shop, No. 9, Cheap Side, directly opposite the Roger Williams Bank, Providence, 5 Bales of Ingrain, Scotch and common floor CARPETINGS, which he will Sell lower than can be purchased in the State.—Also, a general Assortment of DRY GOODS as usual. Aug. 23, 1805.