Herald of the United States (Warren, R.I.), 1806-10-11 00:00:00

Gerald of the United States.
WARREN:—PUBLISHED NEAR THE POST-OFFICE, BY NATHANIEL PHILLIPS.
[No. 1, of Vol. XV.]
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1806.
[Whole No. 719.]
WEEKLY ALMANACK.
   OCTOBER. D. S. M. T. W. T. TH. F. S. S. REMARKS.     12 Sunday, 6 27 6 5 52 8 20 Northern lights   13 Monday, 6 29 6 6 29 9 22 Days long, 11h.   14 Tuesday, 6 30 6 7 9 10 15 [2m.   15 Wednesday, 6 31 6 7 58 11 8 Pretty warm   16 Thursday, 6 32 6 8 51 12 1 days, but cool   17 Friday, 6 33 6 9 49 12 49 nights.   18 Saturday, 6 35 6 10 45 1 38  
NON IMPORTATION ACT.
Law of the United States.
AN ACT,
To Prohibit the Importation of certain Goods, Wares, and Merchandise.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the 15th day of November next, it shall not be lawful to import into the United States, or the territories thereof, from any port or place situated in Great-Britain or Ireland, or in any of the colonies or dependencies of Great-Britain, any goods, wares, or merchandise, of the following description, that is to say.
All articles of which leather is the material of chief value:
All articles of which silk is the material of chief value:
All articles of which hemp or flax is the material of chief value:
All articles of which tin or brass is the material of chief value, tin in sheets excepted:
Woolen cloths whose invoice prices shall exceed five shillings sterling per square yard:
Woolen hosiery of all kinds:
Window glass, and all other manufactures of glass:
Silver and plated wares:
Paper of every description:
Nails and spikes:
Hats:
Clothing ready made:
Millinery of all kinds:
Playing cards:
Beer, ale and porter; and pictures and prints:
Nor shall it be lawful to import into the United States, or the territories thereof, from any foreign port or place whatever, any of the above-mentioned goods, wares or merchandise, being of the growth, produce or manufacture of Great-Britain or Ireland, or any of the colonies or dependencies of Great-Britain: Provided however, that no articles which shall within fifteen months after the passing of this act, be imported from any place beyond the Cape-of-Good-Hope, on board any vessel cleared out before the passing of this act, from any port within the United States or the territories thereof, for the said Cape-of-Good-Hope, or any place beyond the same, shall be subject to the prohibition aforesaid.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever any article or articles, the importation of which is prohibited by this act, shall, after the said 15th day of November next, be imported into the United States, or the territories thereof, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, or shall, after the said 15th day of November next, be put on board any ship or vessel, boat, raft or carriage, with intention of importing the same into the United States, or the territories thereof, all such articles, as well as all other articles on board the same ship or vessel, boat, raft or carriage, belonging to the owner of such prohibited articles, shall be forfeited, and the owner thereof shall moreover forfeit and pay treble the value of such articles.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any article or articles, the importation of which is prohibited by this act, shall, after the said 15th day of November next, be put on board any ship or vessel, boat, raft or carriage, with intention to import the same into the United States, or the territories thereof, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, and with the knowledge of the owner or master of such ship or vessel, boat, raft or carriage, such ship or vessel, boat, raft or carriage, shall be forfeited, and the owner and master thereof shall moreover each forfeit and pay treble the value of such articles.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any article or articles, the importation of which is prohibited by this act, and which shall nevertheless be on board any ship or vessel, boat, raft or carriage, arriving after the said 15th day of November next, in the United States, or the territories thereof, shall be omitted in the manifest, report or entry of the master, or the person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, boat, raft or carriage, or shall be omitted in the entry of the goods owned by the owner, or consigned to the consignee of such articles, or shall be imported, or landed, or attempted to be imported or landed, without a permit, the same penalties, fines and forfeitures shall be incurred, and may be recovered, as in the case of similar omission or omissions, landing, importation, or attempt to land or import, in relation to articles liable to duties on their importation into the United States.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That every collector, naval officer, surveyor, or other
officer of the customs, shall have the like power and authority to seize goods, wares and merchandise imported contrary to the intent and meaning, to keep the same in custody until it shall have been ascertained whether the same have been forfeited or not, and to enter any ship or vessel, dwelling-house, store, building or other place, for the purpose of searching for and seizing any such goods, wares and merchandise, which he or they now have by law, in relation to goods, wares and merchandise subject to duty; and if any person or persons shall conceal or buy any goods, wares or merchandise, knowing them to be liable to seizure by this act, such person or persons shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a sum double the amount or value of the goods, wares and merchandise so concealed or purchased.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the following additions shall be inserted to the oath or affirmation taken by the masters or persons having the charge or command of any ship or vessel arriving at any port of the United States, or the territories thereof, after the said 15th day of November next, viz. "I further swear (or affirm) that there are not to the best of my knowledge and belief on board [insert the denomination and name of the vessel] any goods, wares or merchandise, the importation of which into the United States, or the territories thereof, is prohibited by law: And I do further swear (or affirm) that if I shall hereafter discover or know of any such goods, wares or merchandise on board the said vessel, or which shall have been imported in the same, I will immediately, and without delay, make due report thereof to the collector of the port of this district."
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the following addition be inserted after the said 15th day of November next, to the oath or affirmation taken by importers, consignees or agents, at the time of entering goods imported into the United States, or the territories thereof, viz. "I also swear (or affirm) that there are not to the best of my knowledge and belief amongst the said goods, wares and merchandise, imported or consigned as aforesaid, any goods, wares or merchandise, the importation of which into the United States, or the territories thereof, is prohibited by law. And I do further swear (or affirm) that if I shall hereafter discover any such goods, wares or merchandise, amongst the said goods, wares and merchandise, imported or consigned as aforesaid, I will immediately and without delay, report the same to the collector of this district."
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That all penalties and forfeitures arising under this act may be sued for and recovered, and shall be distributed and accounted for in the manner prescribed by the act, intitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage:" and such penalties and forfeitures may be examined, mitigated or remitted in like manner, and under the like conditions, regulations and restrictions as are prescribed, authorized and directed by the act, intitled "An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities accruing in certain cases therein mentioned."
NATHANIEL MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. SMITH, President of the Senate, pro tempore. APPROVED, April 18, 1806. TH: JEFFERSON.
FROM THE REPERTORY.
FRENCH CALCULATIONS.
Extract of a letter from an American gentleman at Bordeaux, to a friend in Baltimore, dated July 14, 1806.
THE impoverished state of Bordeaux, the stagnation of commerce and the new duties on wine, and on foreign articles of general consumption, have affected all descriptions of people here. Wines of all kinds are extremely low, and West-India produce has but a nominal price. Nothing is doing but from hand to mouth; the hope rather than the expectation of peace, has had some share of late, in making every body wary of purchasing any article whatever.
Negotiations for an exchange of prisoners are going on—and has, indeed, been partly accomplished: but while England insists on maritime domination, and France is every day acquiring or consolidating continental domination, it perplexes me to conjecture how preliminaries can be adjusted between them.
The Kings of Naples and Holland will not descend from their Thrones. So far from it, that the report of the day is, that the ancient kingdom of Navarre is to be severed from Spain proper, and adorned with a crown for LUCIEN;—and Switzerland to be constituted into a Regal Republick , for JEROME. Time only can develop the truth or the fallhood of such conjectures.
Troops have been, and are still marching in considerable bodies towards Spain; whether for the above purpose, or for more effectually shutting out the British commerce from the Spanish ports, I know not. Some people suppose that Portugal is the object.
No person can question that the great Emperor of the French will become in effect the great Emperor of the West, under whatever
title the power may be wielded. The effects of the great battle of Austerlitz will be felt for centuries. It has made all future coalitions against France nugatory or impracticable. Already Russia has a negotiation for peace in Paris: And the Ottomans no longer tremble, save at the name of Bonaparte. He holds them in the hollow of his hand, and bids them scorn those whom they lately feared like fate. For himself, possessing (besides all Italy from the boot to the toe ) both Venice and Ragusa—he will of course obtain the islands and territory that once constituted Grecian Greatness; and this without bloodshed. The views that Russia had been nourishing on Turkey for these fifty years, are vanishing day by day—the silly attempt to strangle Corsu by seizing the mouths of the Cattaro before Austria could deliver Dalmatia to its present owner, has cost much more than its own defeat. It has kept an hundred and fifty thousand troops in Germany these six months at the expense of Austria; who is so pay near fifty millions (tournois) extra, for their subsistence. Austria has at last sent four thousand troops to retake the mouths of the Cattaro, by consent of the court of Petersburg, who must otherwise have been at war with Austria on that point.
Mean while Prince MURAT is becoming an Elector and Prince of Germany. Cardinal FESCH is already Coadjutor of the Arch Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire!—The Elector of Baden, (junior,) who is married to a new French Princess, will become a King. So that if you will look at the map, you will not fail to remark a consolidation of family power that must take root and extend its branches over the west and south of Europe. The rupture of the peace of Amiens, and Mr. Pitt's continental politics have done more for the emperor of the French in three years time, than thirty could have accomplished without them.
The sooner Great-Britain makes peace the better for herself. Every year's delay must make her condition to fliprate less eligible.—This man has all the new machinery for working her ruin gradually. Her only policy is to give a peaceable direction to those raw materials.—Let him have "commerce and colonies" to blunt the edge of martial enterprises, and there are chances in favour of a long peace; or if but a short one, Great-Britain may find something new on the water to pillage, the conscription extending beyond the limits of France proper, will accumulate such an armed force that a million of armed men may be allotted to the invasion. What is now problematical would then become inevitable. The means of crossing the channel is a calm, would not be confined to one point but would embrace many. Venice, Genoa, Spain, Portugal, the ports of Holland—and even the Baltic might be used—not for maritime dominion, but absolute invasion and fearful subjection. Among the impending perils that Great-Britain should calculate upon, if the war be carried on for two years longer, no sound politician can put out of sight: the probability of an invasion of India by land. Dalmatia brings all France to the gates of Constantinople. Should the Ottoman heartily second his only dear friend and great ally, what the ancient conqueror of Macedonia did perform, the modern victor of Europe certainly may perform. No leader that ever swayed a sceptre knows better than NAPOLEON the great difference between achievements very difficult , and achievements absolutely impossible .
His holiness the Pope is in very declining health. French troops occupy all the ports of his territory. It is conjectured that the next Pope will reside at Avignon; and that, in that case, Rome, as formerly, will become the metropolis of the Italian dominions.
The Emperor signified his return to Paris by a measure or two that perhaps you may not have learnt: He abolished the publick gambling houses throughout his dominions: doubled and in some instances trebled, the salaries of the Judges of the tribunals: He repaired and opened sixty-two publick fountains through every quarter of Paris, which since the first of July have diffused living and continual streams of water. To these, eighteen more are to be added. On the 15th of August there is to be a grand festival at Paris in the field of Mars, at which the main army of Germany are expected to assist; whether merely to eat, drink and be merry, or to march afterwards to Boulogne, I know not. There is a colossal triumphal arch and column erecting near the "Grille de Chaillet," so as to form a terminous to the grand vista that opens through the Elysian fields. Many hundred workmen are sounding it to the heroes of Austerlitz.
After the grand festival in August, a grand fair will expose at Paris, specimens or samples of all the manufactured productions of the French Empire.
I understand that our negotiations at Paris and Madrid are likely to prosper: and I doubt not that in London, also that our envoys will arrange matters, from all the reports that are brought from thence. If these two nations continue to struggle, they cannot fail to furnish the flames of the United States, beyond the wishes of both. If they make peace, we must become a manufacturing nation within a few years.
Latest Foreign Intelligence.
ENGLAND.
LONDON, AUG. 15.
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
THE Lord Mayor gave yesterday a splendid Entertainment to the Lord Chancellor and others of the Cabinet Ministers, in honour of his Excellency the Honourable David Erskine, the Minister proceeding from England to America. There were present on this occasion.
The Lord Chancellor, Earl Spencer, Lord Ellenborough, Mr. Windham, Sir S. Cotterill, W. Curtis, and Charles Price; Mr. Barclay, Mr. Combe, Mr. Munro, Mr. Pinckney, General Lyman, the Hon. D. Erskine, T. Erskine, Mr. Harris, and Mr. Wilson, the Lord Chancellor's Solicitor.
After dinner the following toasts were drank.
"The King, and God bless him."
"The Queen, and Royal Family."
"The Prince and his Royal
Brothers, thanks to them for the honour they have done the City in the present Mayoralty by their presence."
"The American Ministers present, Mr. Munro, Mr. Pinckney, and General Lyman; and may there be perpetual harmony between the two countries."
Mr. Munro begged leave to return thanks for the honour which had been done him, which he did not estimate so much personally as with regard to his country. There existed a thousand reasons, he said, which made it desirable for him to promote a becoming feeling between Great-Britain & America; but while he must be considered as a true and faithful servant of his republic, yet no personal exertions on his part should be wanting to preserve that cordiality which was so essential to the interests of the two countries; and he begged leave to drink all their good healths.
Mr. Pinckney observed, that he accorded perfectly in the sentiments that had been expressed by his colleague, and that no endeavours on his part should be wanting to promote the good understanding which ought ever to subsist between Great-Britain and America.
The next toast was,
"The Lord Chancellor of England, and may the name of Erskine and the trial by jury ever be united."
The Lord Chancellor returned thanks. He said, he felt it to be the highest honour he could enjoy, to have his health drank and introduced in the manner it had been at the Head-Quarters of the City of London, a City where he had many opportunities of using the talents he possessed in support of that law which was the admiration of the world, and which was so admirably executed by his noble and learned Friend present, whose health he would take the liberty of proposing.
The health of Lord Ellenborough having been drank—
His Lordship thanked the company for the honour that had been done him, so much beyond his deserts.
GERMAN CONFEDERATION.
RATISBON, AUG. 1.
This day M. Bacher, Charge D'Affairs of France remitted to the Diet the following note:
"This undersigned Charge D'Affairs of his Majesty the emperor of the French and King of Italy, at the general Diet of the Germanic empire, has received orders from his majesty to make the following declarations:
"Their Majesties the Kings of Bavaria and Wirttemberg, the sovereign Princes of Ratisbon, of Baden, of

Hesse Darmstadt, of Nassau and the other principal princes of the South and West of Germany, have taken the resolution to form among themselves a Confederation which places them in safety from all the uncertainties of the future, and they have ceased to be states of the empire.
"The situation in which the treaty of Presburg placed directly the courts allied to France, and indirectly the princes whom they surround, and who are their neighbours, being incompatible with the condition of a state of the empire, it became necessary for those courts, and for the princes to arrange on a new plan the system of their relations, and to cause to disappear an inconsistency which would have been a permanent source of agitation, of inquietude, and of danger.
"On her side, France, so essentially interested in maintaining the peace of the south of Germany, and who could not doubt, that the moment when she should have caused her troops to repass the Rhine, discord, an inevitable consequence of relations contradictory or uncertain, ill defined and ill understood, would have exposed a new danger to the repose of nations, and again, perhaps, lighted up a war upon the continent: bound, besides, to promote the welfare of her allies, and to enable them to enjoy all the advantages which the treaty of Presburg secured to them, and which she had guaranteed. France could only see in the confederation which they have formed a natural consequence and necessary completion of that treaty.
"For a long time successive changes, which have gone on augmenting from age to age, had reduced the Germanic constitution to be only a shadow of itself. Time had changed all the relations of grandeur and of strength which originally existed among the members of the confederation, and between each of them and the whole, of which they made a part. The diet had ceased to have a will that belonged to itself. The sentences of the supreme tribunals could not be put in execution. Every thing attested an enfeeblement so great, that the federation tie no longer presented a guarantee, and among the powerful was only a cause of dissention and discord. The events of three coalitions carried this enfeeblement to its utmost length. One Electorate has been suppressed by the union of Hanover with Prussia; a northern power has incorporated with his states one of the provinces of the empire; the treaty of Presburg has assigned to the Kings of Bavaria and Württemberg, and the Elector of Baden, the plenitude of sovereignty; a prerogative which the other electors would claim, and be entitled to claim, but which could accord neither with the spirit nor the letter of the constitution of the empire.
"His Majesty the Emperor and King is obliged to declare, that he acknowledges no longer the existence of the Germanic Constitution; at the same time, nevertheless, recognizing the entire and absolute sovereignty of all of the Princes of whose States Germany at this day consists, and preserving with them the same relations as with the other independent powers of Europe.
"His Majesty the Emperor and King has accepted the title of Protector of the confederation of the Rhine. He has done so only from pacific views and that his meditation, constantly interposed between the weak and the strong, may prevent every kind of dissention and disorder.
"Having thus done enough for the dearest interest of his people and his neighbours—having provided as much as lay in his power for the future tranquility of Europe, and in particular for the tranquility of Germany, which has been constantly the theatre of war—in putting a period to the contradiction which placed the nations and the Princes under the apparent protection of a system really contrary to their political interests and their treaties, his Majesty the Emperor and King hopes, that the nations of Europe will at
length lend a deaf ear to the insinuations of those who wish to cherish eternal war upon the continent; that the French armies which have passed the Rhine, shall have passed it for the last time; and that the people of Germany will see no longer, in the history of the past, any thing but the horrible picture of the disorders of every kind, of devastations and of massacres, which war always brings in its train.
"His Majesty has declared that he would never extend the boundaries of France beyond the Rhine: he has been faithful to his promise. At present, his only desire is to be able to employ the means which providence has entrusted to him, for the purpose of asserting the liberty of the seas, of restoring to commerce its liberty, and securing the repose and happiness of the world.
(Signed) "BACHER."
The Kings of Bavaria and Württemberg, the Electors Arch Chancellor and of Baden, the Landgrave of Hesse, the Prince of Hohenzollern, the Prince of Salm, Kyrbourg, and the Prince of Ysembourg, have this day sent a declaration to the Diet. In which they renounce the Germanic Union, and announce their resolution, under the guarantee of the Emperor of the French.
ENGLAND. LONDON, AUG. 15. EXPEDITION EXTRA!
Lord ST. VINCENTS, in the Hibernia, of 110 guns, with the Defiance, of 74, and some smaller ships, victualled for eight months, have proceeded to Lisbon; on some expedition which occasions a great variety of conjectures—one of which is, that it is to convey the Prince-Regent of Portugal from Europe to his Brazilian dominions.
FRANCE AND AUSTRIA.
France has demanded of Austria, the payment of twenty one millions, as indemnification for the long continuance of the French troops in Bavaria; and to secure the payment, has taken possession of two of the Austrian Provinces.
RUMOR OR RUMOR.
These appear to be days "big with Rumor."—She has announced, 1. That Russia and France had agreed to co-operate to resist the British right to search.—Notwithstanding the Court of Russia has solemnly recognized this right in her treaty of June 5-17, 1801—now in force.
2. That a treaty of alliance offensive and defensive, had been concluded between France and Russia.
3. That Lord Gower (one of the new outs) has brought from Russia very unfavorable accounts of the disposition of the new Russian Minister towards England.
4. The Maritime Confederacy which Lord NELSON knocked on the head at Copenhagen, was about to be revived.
5. That Lord LAUDERDALE would be sent home in a few days.
All these, and many more, rumors, have their rise every hour, and die of old age and naturally decay in twenty-four. They amuse quidnuncs ; but an ounce of fact is more to be estimated than a ton of them.
One conjecture, however, has some foundation France means to conquer by delay .—But it is said, the Ministry, on the first discovery of the fact, mean to break off this negotiation.
The account of the tappings of Mr. Fox, and letting off more water from him than he ever drank in his life, are exaggerations.—He is convalescent; and his mind acquires vigor, as his body gains strength.
FRANCE. PARIS, AUG. 5.
Nothing has yet transpired of the real conditions of the treaty of Peace between France and Russia:—Yet report states the following as the substance:
Russia to evacuate Cattaro; and separate themselves from the Montenegrins.
France to evacuate Ragusa; which is to be restored to the Porte.
The dominions of the Ottoman Porte to be reciprocally guaranteed.
France promises to evacuate Germany immediately after the evacuation of Cattaro, Russia to use her good offices to restore peace between England and France; and to accommodate the differences between Prussia and Sweden.
Nothing is stipulated for Naples, nor for the integrity of Germany.
AUG. 6.
An Imperial Decree of the 3d inst. ordains the levy of 50,000 conscripts. On this subject, the "MONITEUR" says, this levy is necessary, if peace should be settled, to replace the discharged soldiers;—if war continues, to complete the full war establishment of the army. Since the last review, it adds, 20,000 men have been discharged; and it is probable an equal number will be discharged this year.—Nothing, therefore, ought to be inferred favorable either of war or peace, from this operation, which is almost annual; and made at the ordinary period.
CROWN OF THORNS.
The Holy Crown of Thorns, which was given to St. Louis, in 1238, by Baudouin, Emperor of Constantinople, and which happily has been preserved amidst the religious profanations which have marked our Revolution, will be transferred with all possible solemnity into the Metropolitan Church of Paris, on Sunday, the 10th instant. Plenary indulgences will be given to the pious who may assist at the ceremony, with the requisite qualities.
SUABIA. STUTGARD, JULY 29. French troops in great numbers are marching through these parts into the interior of Germany. Another great project must be in contemplation.
Five thousand French troops lately sailed from Venice, to reinforce those in Dalmatia. They were convoyed by a frigate, a corvette, and two brigs, under the French Italian flag.
Gen. MACK's prosecution goes on at Vienna. A great scene of iniquity is expected to be developed.
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COURT OF VICE-ADMIRALTY, NASSAU, AUG. 5, 1806.
THIS day came on the trial of the brig Stork, CORNELL, master, before the Worshipful Judge DYER. She sailed from Bristol, (R. I.) for Havana, with a cargo of dried beef, the produce of Buenos Ayres, was captured & bro't in. The Advocate-General was heard in behalf of the captors; and the Solicitor-General in behalf of the claimants; the Judge pronounced the following
JUDGMENT:
This is the case of a brig and cargo captured on a voyage from Bristol, in Rhode-Island, to Havana, and claimed in behalf of Mr. HENRY BRADFORD, a merchant of Bristol. The most material feature of the case is, that the cargo was the produce of the Spanish colony of Buenos Ayres, and originally brought from thence to Bristol; and therefore before I pronounce upon a case so circumstanced, it is necessary that I should advert to an important preliminary question, whether a neutral vessel carrying a cargo of such produce direct from Buenos Ayres to Havana, would be engaged in a lawful voyage. Because, if so then no penalty can attach to the present transaction, which, at worst, is only alleged to be a voyage from and to the same ports, in an indirect shape.—But it is my clear opinion founded as well upon the reason of the thing, as upon the best decisions of the Superior Court, that such a direct voyage would be illegal. It would be an intervention of the neutral to take up a trade which was not open to him in time of peace. It would be a carrying of the produce of one enemy's colony, for the supply and convenience of another. And as such a trade is not sanctioned by the relations of the King's instruction, I must hold, that it remains under the general law of prohibition.
I have thought it material to dispose of this preliminary point—because if the law, which I have said would be applicable to the direct trade, is right—then it clearly follows, that the circumstances of stopping intermediately in some neutral port, cannot vary the transaction, or withdraw it from the legal effects of the direct voyage. It will, of course, be understood, that I mean a mere colorable stoppage; because if the goods shall have been bona fide imported at the neutral port, and been thereby (if I may presume to apply the expression to inanimate objects) domesticated in the neutral country, their subsequent re-exportation cannot be, in any degree, objectionable.
To apply these observations to the present case. Suppose Mr. D'WOLFE to import at Bristol a cargo of Buenos Ayres produce, to enter and land it, and pay the duties upon it,
and thereby to mix it up with the common mercantile stock of his country—and suppose Mr. BRADFORD afterwards purchases from him the whole or a part of that produce, and sends it to Havana, it is a completely innocent transaction on either side. But if, on the other hand, it should appear that Mr. D'WOLFE brings such a cargo to his port of residence in America, and afterwards sends it on to Havana, without having taken any of those steps towards a legal importation, and with sufficiently strong presumptions that he had an original intention to do so, it is quite clear that such a proceeding must at this tribunal be held unwarrantable. But still further, if it should turn out that Mr. D'WOLFE and Mr. BRADFORD are in intimate connexion together, and that in the course of such a transaction, (in which let it be still supposed that the same presumption of original interest, and the same facts of feigned importation apply) the one presents himself as the importer, and the other as the exporter of the goods, I should surely be measuring out a very ineffectual mode of justice, if I hesitated to consider such a proceeding as a mere subterfuge, and inadequate to protect them from the same penalties, which would undoubtedly have attached if the one or the other had appeared singly in the transaction from beginning to end.
By these facts I will proceed to try the present case.
That the cargo is the produce of Buenos Ayres, that it was brought from thence to Bristol, and that Mr. D'WOLFE was the importer, are facts clearly ascertained from the certificate of the custom-house at Bristol, and the whole of the oral testimony in the case.—The fact of re-shipment is equally clear. Brown, the mariner, says, in answer to the 2nd interrogatory, that he has been informed (for he was not then hired) that the cargo was re-shipped from a vessel called the Ann , which brought it from La Plata to Bristol, and that it was so re-shipped in the month of June. It is true that MUNROE, the man (who also was not hired at that time) declares the cargo was taken from the shore. Upon which declaration I should say no more than, that I am sorry it was made. Because the master (who entered, as appears from the role d'équipage so far back as the 16th of May,) and is much better informed on the subject, tells us distinctly that the cargo was taken on board from a ship called the Ann , (that imported it at Bristol) in the month of June last. It is not only apparent from his testimony, that this cargo was never landed in the American port; but it is also established by it, in conjunction with the certificate, that a very short period of time elapsed between the arrival of the one vessel, and the loading of the other,—The Ann arrived in May, and on the 6th or 10th of June, the Stork is loaded—her log-book then commences—her crew are begun to be hired, and she is in fact ready for sea.
In this stage of the discussion, the question properly comes, whether any dues were paid on the cargo? A question which I cannot hesitate for a moment to resolve in the negative. It has been argued by the King's Advocate , that (under the 32d section of the American Act of March 2, 1799 ) such a case is by law excused altogether either from paying or securing duties. But as it was contended on the other side that this section only applies to the case of a re-exportation in the same identical vessel and the clause is so worded, and as I have not the larger laws on that subject (though later ones have been passed) to refer to, I am disposed to take this argument most favorably for the claimants, and to allow that this might have been an importation in the usual mode, upon a mere security of duties, though it must be noticed that I have no evidence even of that. But it would be going much too far to infer, from the mere fact of importation, that the dues on importation were actually paid . What does the custom-house certificate say? Simply that "the merchandise specified in the annexed invoice was imported into the district of Bristol." A more sterile document upon this head it never fell to my lot to observe. In other cases we have seen certificates that goods were imported and the duties paid;—which were decisive ingredients of bona fides . Upon one occasion we have seen a certificate that goods were imported according to law , which the liberality of our prize tribunals held to include all the incidents of a legal importation; and in other instances it has been certified that the goods were imported and the duties secured, and for a long time we labored under the mistaken idea that this security was equivalent to an actual payment . But here the certificate simply announces an importation—et præterea nihil . When I combine this scantiness of information, with the recent decisions upon this question of the double voyage (decisions of so much notoriety, and which have provoked so much discussion as cannot fail to induce persons who are liable to any possible suspicions of coming within their line, to protect themselves by the publication of every favorable circumstance) I cannot but conclude that this paper certified all it could do for the advantage of the party concerned; and when it is perfectly silent as to the payment of duties, I am bound to infer that the duties were not paid , even if I go the length of holding that they were secured.
(Remainder in our next.)
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON, SEPT. 20.
Capt. Berry who arrived yesterday from Havana, informs, that on the 27th ult. some British privateers landed a number of men upon the Isle of Pines, took the fort, and plundered the neighbourhood of cattle, &c. This with the appearance of several large ships off the coast, had excited very

considerable alarm among the Spaniards, who marched a few men to the scene of devastation, but before they had an opportunity of evincing their prowess, the British had embarked without molestation. The Vera Cruz ship which was lately captured by the British, off the Havana, had on board at the time of her capture, 900,000 dollars, the property of individuals; 250,000 dollars, belonging to the King, had been landed.
Capt. Jones arrived at Quarantine, left Havana on Monday last. A few hours after sailing saw a French 74 gun-ship, with the loss of her fore and main-topmasts and mizen-mast, running in for the Moro, and a British frigate in chase. As soon as the frigate came within gun-shot, the 74 lay too, opened her lower ports, and commenced firing. After exchanging a few shot the frigate finding the metal of the French ship too heavy, sheered off, and the 74 got safe into the Havana, where she fired an Imperial salute, which was returned by the Spanish 74 lying in that port. Capt. Jones states, that the French ship discharged upwards of 100 shot. A number of shot were also fired at the frigate from a Spanish fort, but it did not appear that she had sustained any damage.
The above is Admiral Willaumez's flag ship, and the British frigate we believe to be the Cerberus of 32 guns, Capt. Selby, as she was the only British cruiser off Havana.
VIRGINIA.
NORFOLK, SEPT. 25.
The English Squadron under Sir J. B. Warren, and which has been for 16 weeks in pursuit of the French fleet under Willaumez, is now off our Capes, after touching at Newfoundland. It consists of the Foudroyant, of 84 guns, Namur, Courageux, Romulus, Fame, and Hero, of 74 guns each, and Amazon frigate. The Amazon anchored in Lynhaven Bay on Tuesday.
STATE OF NEW-YORK.
NEW-YORK, OCT. 1.
FRENCH INFLUENCE.
It was yesterday confidently asserted by persons whose authority is entitled to respect, that a gentleman, but the day before, arrived from Washington informed them that General Turreau, the French Ambassador, had waited on the President and demanded in the name of the Emperor his master, that the executive should immediately suppress the work, entitled, "A HISTORY OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD," and interpose its authority to prevent the publication of the third edition of that work which is advertised to be in the press, and that the president declined it, saying, that if he were disposed to intermeddle with the press, his power did not extend so far. Upon which General Turreau replied, that if he did not do it, the Emperor Napoleon would. For the authenticity of this we cannot vouch—But we can readily conceive the court of France to make that demand on our government when he made one of the same kind from Great-Britain.
OCT. 6.
From the London Statesman of the 12th Aug.
We noticed yesterday the account given by the Monitor of the first steps taken by the Assembly of the Jewish Deputies at Paris. We are now enabled to continue the detail of their proceedings at the second sitting, on Saturday August the second, being their Sabbath, "to give their brethren an example," say the French, "which, doubtless, will not be lost." We believe so, too. Every Jew in France must be strongly impressed with the example set by those Deputies, beginning with the proposed reform of their religion and morals by a violation of one of the most sacred of their religious Institutions, the only commandment, for the strict observance of which they have ever been remarkable.
But it seems that the Jewish Deputies, so far as they are of LOVE, of DEVOTION, for the SACRED person of Napoleon, could not be prevented by the most positive commandment in the Mosaic Law, from receiving the Emperor's Commissioners on the Sabbath, and taking into serious consideration the very profound questions which were submitted to them by his Majesty, and read by the Secretary of the Meeting! It is not unlikely but the Sabbath may be again chosen to deliberate upon the real object for which Bonaparte has convoked them, i. e. to give him SUBSTANTIAL proofs of their loyalty, as well as of their gratitude for his zeal to make them good French citizens!
The following questions, proposed by his Majesty, were read by the Secretary of the Meeting:
 1. Is the Jew permitted to marry more than one wife?  2. Is divorce permitted by the Jewish religion?  3. Can a Jew intermarry with a Christian, or a Christian female with a Jew; or does the law prescribe that Jews alone should intermarry?  4. Are the French in the eyes of the Jews brothers or aliens?  5. What in all cases are the connections which their law permits them to maintain with the French who are not of their religion?  6. Do the Jews who are born in France, and have been treated as French Citizens by the Jews, consider France as their native country? Are they bound to defend it? Are they under obligations to obey the Laws, and to follow all the regulations of the Civil Code?  7. Who are they, who are called Rabbins?  8. What civil jurisdiction do the Rabbins exercise among the Jews? What power of punishment do they possess?  9. Are the mode of chusing the Rabbins, and the system of punishment, regulated by the Jewish Laws, or are they only rendered sacred by custom?  10. Were the Jews forbidden by their laws to take usury of their brethren? Are they permitted or forbidden to do this of strangers?  11. Are these things proclaimed, which are forbidden to the Jews by their law? 
OCT. 7.
Extract of a letter, dated Montreal, Sept. 20, 1806.
"Three persons have been taken in the act of throwing off a considerable number of Bank notes, chiefly I am told of the Merchants Bank of New-York, and some other banks of the United States. They say that they are extremely well executed. I am told that they have found in the house where these persons were apprehended, near fifteen thousand pounds in counterfeit bills. It is reported that another set is in the country, acting in the same manner."
NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
NOTTINGHAM, OCT. 1.
MORE COUNTERFEITERS.
Yesterday were apprehended at the shore of Mr. Christopher B. Carpenter, on Nottingham Square; a person by the name of Williams who appeared from their conduct very suspicious characters: they were strangers, as will appear in the sequel, were brothers, by nature as well as in villainy—The elder of the two called at the shore of Mr. Bartlett, the other at Mr. Carpenter's—he who called at Mr. Carpenter's wished to purchase some calicoes and offered two counterfeit bills, one of 5, the other of 9 dollars, the five of the Farmers Exchange Bank, Gloucester R. I. numbered 2065, payable to H. Hoid, dated June 18th, 1804, signed Mooney Smith, Cashier, John Harris, President, the other a nine dollar bill of the Maine Bank, Portland, No. 414. payable to Samuel Stim, dated July 14th, 1805, signed D. Hale, Cashier, Samuel Freeman, President.
After examining them it appeared they were both notoriously counterfeit; while the process for their being secured was making out, Mr. Carpenter took the liberty to examine the saddle of the younger Williams, and finding something uncommon, called a number of gentlemen to see William's saddle, in which they found in the pads 86 dollars in Bills of the following description, to wit, of the two banks described as above; six of the Farmers Bank, Gloucester, R. I. 5 dollars each; four of the Maine Bank, Portland, 9 dollars each.
Of the Pacific Nantucket Bank, 4 bills of five dollars each, signed Tristram Henry President, Nathan Comstock Cashier.
The last mentioned bills we have not noticed as being counterfeit or in circulation until now; and want of a true bill, which we could not obtain, prevents our giving a descriptive difference.
The five dollar bills of Nantucket Pacific Bank are well executed, on decent paper, and the signatures among strangers would pass very well: the word Nantucket written in Typography appears badly executed—these bills are dated 2d day 8 mo. 1804—The villain who offered his trash at Mr. Carpenter's is now safely lodged in the prison at Exeter.
MASSACHUSETTS.
BOSTON, OCT. 4.
Capt. Godfrey, who arrived yesterday (via quarantine) from the Bay of Honduras, which he left 25th August, informs, that the inhabitants expected an immediate attack from the Spaniards; having received information that several thousand troops and a number of gun-
boats, &c. were fitting out at Bacalar and Campeachy, for the purpose of attacking them. The English were making spirited exertions to receive them; —and had armed boats watching their movements. A flag of truce, which had been sent them by the English, had not returned when Capt. G. failed.
WARREN:
SATURDAY, OCT. 11, 1806.
A gentleman from Portland informs us that he read a London paper of the 16th Aug. which contradicted the account that Lord Lauderdale was not well received at Paris.
[N. Y. Gaz.]
The ship Two Brothers, with the Tunisian Envoy on board, sailed from Marblehead on Saturday morning. His excellency was highly gratified by the treatment he received from the citizens of that place.
Arrived at New-York the 8th inst. the regular trading ship Gold-Hunter, Capt. Vose, in 42 days from London. The Gold-Hunter, sailed from Gravesend the 28th of August, and brings London dates to the 18th—the latest paper was given to the commander of a British frigate, which Capt. Vose fell in with on the banks of Newfoundland. Papers of the 16th, (received at the New-York Gazette office) contain nothing new. The passengers, however, confirm the intelligence that there was no prospect of peace.
Mr. Halliday one of the passengers, has dispatches from Government, from the American ministers at London. Our differences with Great-Britain were said to be in an amicable train of adjustment; and the illness of Mr. Fox only retarded the completion of all differences.
A letter from N. York of the 1st inst. says: —"By a ship ar. this afternoon from Cadiz, in 28 days passage, we are informed, that an express had arrived there from Paris, in nine days, with the agreeable intelligence that all Negotiations between England and France, were broken off." This appears to come from pretty good authority; and renders it at least certain, that no Treaty had been signed about the 15th August; and that in consequence of the arrival of this news at Cadiz, flocks had fell 7 per cent.
The above mentioned letter also remarks, that Sir John Warren, was said to be off the Coast with his Squadron; and that another French fleet was expected in the West-Indies; supposed to be from Toulon.
MIRANDA.—AGAIN.
By letters and papers from Jamaica, we learn, that one of MIRANDA's officers had arrived there with a request of assistance from Gen. COOTE, and Admiral DACRES, the land and naval commanders there; and that the Stork, of 18 guns, Capt. LE GUYT; schr. Flying-Fish, of 12, Lt. PRICE; and the Pike, of 4 guns, Lt. SPENCE, had been ordered to join him at Aruba.
The English ship Argo, Capt. Kidson, was wrecked on the Three Islands, near Lapland, last fall. The vessel was found early in the spring, with no person on board. "Some of the inhabitants, from the nearest settlement, being employed getting anchors, ropes, and any other stores they could find on shore, observed at a little distance, a pole standing in the snow, which they removed, and the following day a dog came out of the hole, which, on seeing strangers, immediately returned; curiosity induced them to clear away the snow, and at the depth of two fathoms and a half, they discovered the dog, and the remains of four human bodies. The animal had eaten most of the flesh of three of them for its subsistence during the winter; one was entire. It appears that the unfortunate crew having quitted the ship, and got safe on land, were unable to find any habitation, and thus perished from the inclemency of the season."
MARRIED.
In this town, on Monday evening last, by the Rev. Luther Baker, Mr. EPHRAIM FRANCH, to Miss MARY EASTEBROOKS.
At Warwick, by the Rev. Mr. Littlefield, Mr. BENJAMIN E. JONES, of Providence, to Miss PHOEBE COLE, of the former place.
DIED.
At Providence, on Wednesday last, Mr. JOSIAH SEAMANS, in the 45th year of his age. At Newport, Mrs. MARY GARDNER, consort of Caleb Gardner, Esq. and daughter of the late Gov. Collins, in the 43d year of her age.
SHIP NEWS.
STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND.
DISTRICT OF NEWPORT.
ENTERED. FROM Brig Pegasus, Southworth, Havana CLEARED. FOR Sloop Aurora, Cahoon, New-York Connecticut, Jeffers, Martinique
DISTRICT OF PROVIDENCE.
ENTERED. FROM Sloop Somersett, Saunders, New-York Eliza, Crapon, ditto Sally, Westcott, ditto CLEARED. FOR Sloop Sally, Walker, Antigua Victory, Oldridge, Washington Rolla, Foster, Savannah Schr. Nancy, Tobey, Charleston Ship Eleonora, Taylor, Baltimore
NEW-YORK, OCT. 9.
Loss of the brig Leopard, Capt. Fowler, belonging to Thomas Carpenter, of this city. Sailed from Rotterdam on the 4th of August, and on the 27th experienced a severe gale from S. E. and S. W. and while scudding under her fore sail and fore top-sail, she was thrown on her
beam-ends, which caused her cargo to shift; and before the weather lanyards could be cut away, the brig filled, the main-mast immediately went by the board, and in cutting away the fore lanyards the fore-mast worked partly out of the step, and in a few minutes went 4 feet from the deck, when the righted, and the gale shifting northerly, a tremendous sea breaking over her, which carried the boats and everything off deck, and the main hatchers burst off. James Clark was below when the brig went down, and William Newman and the cook were washed overboard and lost. The gale continuing, and the sea making a breach over the vessel, with much difficulty the crew lashed themselves to the taffil. On the 30th the weather moderated, the main deck entirely under water, the dead lights were washed out, and every thing from the cabin—found it impossible to obtain a single article, and remained in this deplorable situation, destitute of food or water, till the 2d of Sept. when, at 6 A. M. the ship Gold-Hunter, Capt. Vose, from London for New-York, hove in sight, and at 8 A. M. took the captain and remainder of the crew from the wreck. They were not able to save even the log-book or ship's papers.
SHIPPING MEMORANDA:
The brig Warren, Eddy, and sloop Eliza, Ingraham, of this port, were left at Havana, Sept. 29th.
The sloop Caroline, Russell, of Bristol, was left at Havana, Sept. 29th, just arrived from St. Domingo. Sch'r Eliza, of Bristol, was spoke Sept. 21st, lat. 35, long. 72, 8 days out.
Left at Cronstadt, July 20, ship Argus, Holden, of Providence, to sail in 10 days: Gen. Page, ditto, 10; Neptune, Arnold, ditto 5; Mary, of Newport 5. Sch'r. Hope, of Saybrook, taken by a French 74, has been retaken by the master, and carried into Demarara.
The brig Cincinnatus, Babson, from Guadaloupe, after being captured by the British Bermuda sloop of war, 18 guns; an officer and crew put on board and ordered for Halifax; was retaken and brought into Gloucester.
The French frigate Cannonia, lately put into the Cape of Good Hope, not knowing it to be in possession of the English; and sent a boat on shore, which was captured; but there being no English ships in port the frigate escaped.
The London Packet, M'Dougal, arrived at Philadelphia was boarded, Aug. 19, by the French ship Le Veteran, 74 guns, Capt. Jerome BONAPARTE and treated politely. Aug. 13, was boarded from the English sloop of war Echo; having 3 cutters in company, looking out for Jerome Bonaparte; after receiving information of Captain M'Dougal's having been boarded by him, she steered for England.
For Sale, Freight or Charter.
THE new Brig SALLY, now lying in Swansey, Burthen 175 Tons, sails remarkable fast, and has made but one short voyage to the South of Europe. The said brig is in complete order and ready to receive a cargo.—For further particulars apply to JOHN TROTT, jun. of Swansey, or to JOSEPH GRAY, of Somerset.
SALE AT AUCTION.
THE sale of the Ship BETTY, now lying at Captain James D'Wolfe's Wharf, advertised to be sold the 29th ult. is postponed till the 13th inst. at 12 o'Clock, which time is also appointed for the sale of the celebrated Jencks Farm. Bristol, October 1, 1806. (220)
FOR SALE,
THE staunch and well Built Brig COMMERCE, Burthen 106 Tons, now lying at the Wharf of Charles Collins, Esq. and can be fitted for sea at a small expence.—Apply to HENRY SISSON. Warren, July 25, 1806.
WHEREAS the Hon. Court of Probate for the town of Bristol, appointed the Subscribers Commissioners to the Estate of
ANN BURT,
late of Bristol, spinster, deceased, represented insolvent:—All persons having demands against said Estate, are hereby notified to exhibit the same to either of the subscribers at their respective dwellings, within Six Months, being the time allowed by said Court.
RICHARD SMITH, jun. } Com. JOHN W. BOURN. }
All persons indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment, to WILLIAM MUNRO, Adm'r. Bristol, Oct. 8, 1806.
TO BE SOLD,
At BARKER'S Hotel, Bristol, on Monday the 13th of Oct. next, at 12 o'Clock.
THAT well known beautiful FARM called the JENCKS FARM, situated on Boston neck, S. Kingstown, consisting of about 350 ACRES: for its excellent properties and advantageous situation, no mention need be made as they are well known. Conditions made known at time and place of Sale. Undoubted title will be given.
JAMES D'WOLFE,
Attorney to Abigail D'Wolfe.
September 19, 1806.
FOR SALE, BY
C. WHEATON & Wm. CARR, 62 Puncheons good flavored 3d Proof Antigua RUM.
9 Hogsheads excellent retailing MOLASSES. Warren, Aug. 22.

APOLLO'S FOUNT.
From the LONDON COURIER.
THE following has all the pith and point of the English epigram.
THE TASTE OF THE TIMES.
SOME whim or fancy pleases every age; For talents premature 'tis now the rage, In Music, how great HANDEL would have smil'd, T'have seen whole crowds in raptures with a child; A GARRICK we have had in little BETTY, And now we're told we have a PITT in PETTY, All must allow since thus it is decreed, He is a very PETTY PITT indeed.
THE TEAR OF BEAUTY.
SEE down Eliza's blushing cheek The tear of soft compassion flow; These tears a yielding heart bespeak— A heart that speaks for other's woe.
May not those drops that frequent fall, To my fond hopes propitious prove? The heart that melts at pity's call, Will own the softer voice of love.
Earth ne'er produc'd a gen so rare, Nor walt'ry ocean's ample space So rich a pearl as that bright tear, That lingers on Eliza's face.
So hangs upon the morning rose, The chrysal drop of heav'n refin'd; A while with trembling lustre glows— Is gone—and leaves no stain behind!
RALEIGH, (N. C.) SEPT. 15.
EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON.
[The following account of an extraordinary phenomenon, that appeared to a number of people in the county of Rutherford, state of North Carolina, was made the 7th of Aug. 1806, in presence of DAVID DIXIE, Esq. of the county and state aforesaid, JESSIE ANDERSON and the Rev. GEORGE NEWTON, of the county of Buncombe, and Miss BETTY NEWTON of the state of Georgia, who unanimously agreed, with the consent of the relatives, that Mr. NEWTON should communicate it to Mr. J. GALE, Editor of the Raleigh Register and State Gazette.]
PATSEY Reaves, a widow woman, who lives near the Apalachian mountain, declared that on the 31st day of July last, about 6 o'clock, P. M. her daughter Elizabeth, about 8 years old, was in the cotton field, about ten poles from the dwelling house, which stands by computation six furlongs from the Chimney mountain, and that Elizabeth told her brother Morgan, aged 11 years, that there was a man on the mountain. Morgan was incredulous at first; but the little girl affirmed it, and said she saw him rolling rocks or picking up sticks, adding that she saw a heap of people. Morgan then went to the place where she was, and calling out, said that he saw a thousand or ten thousand things flying in the air. On which, Polly, daughter of Mrs. Reaves, aged 14 years, and a negro woman, ran to the children, and called to Mrs. Reaves to come and see what a sight yonder was.—Mrs. Reaves says, she went about 8 poles towards them; and, without any sensible alarm or fright, she turned towards the Chimney Mountain, and discovered a very numerous crowd of beings, resembling the human species; but could not discern any particular members of the human body, nor distinction of sexes; that they were of every size, from the tallest men down to the least infants; that there were more of the small than of the full grown that they were all clad with brilliant white raiment, but could not describe any form of their raiment; that they appeared to rise off the side of a mountain south of said rock, and about as high: that a considerable part of the mountain's top was visible above this sliding host: that they moved in a Northern direction, and collected about the top of the Chimney rock. When all but a few had reached said rock, two seemed to rise together, and behind them about two feet, a third rose. These three moved with great agility towards the crowd, and had the nearest resemblance to men, of any before seen.—While beholding those three, her eyes were attracted by three more, rising nearly from the same place, and moving swiftly in the same order and direction. After these several others rose and went towards the rock.
During this view, which all the spectators thought lasted upwards of an hour, she sent for Mr. Robert Siercy, who did not come at first; on a second message sent about fifteen minutes after the first, Mr. Siercy came; and being now before us, he gives the following relation, to the substance of which Mrs. Reaves agrees.
Mr. Siercy said, when he was coming, he expected to see nothing ex-
traordinary, and when come, being asked if he saw those people on the mountain, he answered no; but looking a second time, he said he saw more glittering white appearances of human kind than ever he had seen of men at any general review; that they were of all sizes, from that of men to infants; that they moved in throngs round a large rock, not far from the chimney rock; they were about the height of the chimney rock, and moved in a semi-circular course, between him and the rock, and so passed along in a southern course between him and the mountain, to the place where Mrs. Reaves said they rose; and that two of a full size went before the general crowd about the space of 20 yards; and as they respectively came to this place they vanished out of sight, leaving a solemn and pleasing impression on the mind, accompanied with a diminution of bodily strength.
Whether the above be accountable on philosophical principles, or whether it be a prelude to the descent of the Holy City, I leave to the impartially curious to judge.
GEORGE NEWTON.
P. S. The above subscriber has been informed, that on the same evening, and about the same time in which the above phenomenon appeared, there was seen, by a gentleman of character, who was several miles distant from the place, a bright rain-bow, apparently near the sun, then in the west, where there was no appearance of either clouds or rain, but a haze in the atmosphere.—The public are therefore at liberty to judge, whether the phenomenon had any thing supernatural in it, or whether it was some unusual exhalation or moist vapour from the side of the mountain, which exhibited such an unusual rain-bow.
G. N.
From a late London Paper.
THE following affecting circumstance lately happened at Paris.
A lady of fortune and her only daughter, an elegant and lovely young woman, resided in the Fauxbourg St. Germain. A young man of merit and accomplishment, but unaided by the powerful penetrations of suitable fortune, cherished a passion for the young lady, to whom he had frequent access, on account of his being a distant relation to her. His affections were requited with return; and before the parent suspected their attachment, the lover were solemnly engaged. The indications of pure love are generally too unguarded to escape the keen observing eye of a cold mercenary mother. She charged her daughter with her fondness, and forbade her distressed lover the house. To close every avenue of hope she withdrew with her wretched child into Italy, where they remained for two years; at the expiration of which, the mother had arranged for her daughter a match more congenial to her own pride and avarice, with an elderly gentleman who had considerable fortune and property in Bourdeaux. Every necessary preparation was made for their cruel union, which it was determined should be celebrated in Paris, to which city they returned for that purpose. Two days before the marriage was intended to take place, the young lover, wrought up to phrenzy by the intelligence of the approaching nuptials, contrived by bribing the porter, whilst the mother was at the opera with her intended son-in-law, to reach the room of the beloved being, from whom he was about to be separated forever. Emaciated by grief, she presented the mere spectre of what she was when he last saw. As soon as he entered the room he fell senseless at her feet, from which state he was roused by her frightful maniac laughter. She stared upon him like one bewildered. He clasped her with one hand, and with the other drew from his pocket a vial of double distilled laurel water—he pressed it to her lips until she had swallowed half its contents; the remainder he drank himself. The drug of death soon began to operate. Clasped in each others arms, pale and expiring, they reviewed
ed their bad fate, and in faint and lessening sentences, implored the great God of mercy that he would pardon them for what they had done, and that he would receive their spirits into his regions of eternal repose, that he would be pleased, in his divine goodness, to forgive the misjudged severity that had driven them to despair, and would support the unconscious author of it, under the heavy afflictions which their disasterous deaths would occasion.
They had scarcely finished their prayer, when they heard footsteps approaching the room.
Madame R——, who had been indisposed during the opera, returned home before its conclusion, with the intended bridegroom. The young man awoke, as it were, from his deadly drowsiness, and exerting his last strength, pulled from his breast a dagger, and stabbed the expiring being upon whom he doated, to the heart; and falling upon her body gave himself several mortal wounds. The door opened and the frantic mother appeared. All the house was in an instant alarmed; and the fatal explanation which furnished the materials for this short and sad recital, was taken from the lips of the dying lover, who had scarcely finished it before he breathed his last.
From the CUMBERLAND REGISTER.
The following articles have been related to the Editor, by a gentleman of undoubted veracity:
ABOUT the close of the American war, this gentleman, being at an Indian town in Louisiana, at the confluence of two rivers, he observed an alligator swimming on the surface of the water, but paid little attention to it, being nothing uncommon in that part of the world; but hearing a splash in the water, he instantly looked around, and saw an Indian swimming directly towards it, the animal no sooner saw him than it came towards him; when they met, it opened its jaws to devour him, but he thrust his hand into his mouth and immediately wheeled round and made for the shore: the alligator began to make a considerable struggle, but in a few minutes turned on his back and died: the Indian then hauled him out of the water, and the gentleman who had all this time been thinking of what could be the cause of its death, was surprised to see that the Indian had taken a piece of wood which was sharpened at both ends, this he had dexterously set into its mouth, which when it made the snap at him, stuck fast into both the upper and under jaw, from which it could not clear itself or close its mouth and of course must suffocate.
The same gentleman gives us a peculiar instance of Indian barbarity, (he says) that on his return to Pennsylvania, in company with an English captain, and had brought goods from New-Orleans to trade with the Creek and Cherokee Indians, he was one day at an Indian funeral, the person deceased was a woman, who had left behind her a young child who as yet had not been taken from the breast, the infant was carried to the grave by a young woman a near relation of the deceased, who, when the mother was put in the grave, looked round and asked each of the persons present if they would take the child and officiate as a parent to it, but no person would undertake the charge; when she saw this, she elapsed her hand on the childs mouth, with its nose between her thumb and finger, and held it in that manner for a considerable time, which put an end to its existence, and as soon as it appeared to be dead, she laid it in the grave with its mother, where both were buried together. From this instance of barbarity, we may see the wonderful effects of custom upon the minds of mankind; for it would appear from this transaction, that the most successive relative had the disposal of the children that were unable to provide for themselves, not only to raise them, but even to put them to death at pleasure, when it did not suit their convenience or inclination to foster them.
INVOCATION TO FRUGALITY.
O frugality! thou mother of ten thousand blessings! thou cook of fat beef and dainty greens! thou manufacturer of warm Shetland hose and comfortable surtouts!—thou old housewife, darn thy decayed stockings with thy ancient spectacles on thy aged nose!—lead me, hand me in thy clutching, palsied fist, up those heights, and through those thickets hitherto inaccessible and impervious to my weary feet; Not those Parnassian crags, bleak and barren, where the hungry worshippers of fame are breathless, clambering, hanging between heaven and hell; but those glittering cliffs of Potosi, where the all-sufficient, all-powerful Deity, Wealth, holds his immediate court of joys and pleasures—where the sunny exposure of plenty, and the hot walls of profusion, produce those blissful fruits of luxury, exoticks in this world, and natives of paradise!—Thou withered Sybil, my sage conductress, usher me into thy resplendent adored presence!—The power splendid & potent as it now is, was once the purling nursing of the faithful care and tender arms! Call me thy son, thy cousin, thy kinsman or favourite; and adjure the god, by the scenes of his infant years, no longer to repulse me as a stranger, or an alien; but to favour me with his peculiar countenance and protection. He daily bestows his greatest kindnesses on the undeserving and the worthless; assure him that I bring ample documents meritorious demerits! Pledge yourself for me, that, for the glorious cause of Lucre , I will do any thing, be any thing—but the horse leech of private oppression, or the vulture of publick robbery.
ANECDOYE.
“HOW can you, my Lord, prefer punch to wine?”—“Because, my dear, it is so much like matrimony—such a compound of opposite qualities.” “Aye, my Lord, I am the weak part, I suppose.”—“No, my love, you are the sweet, with a little of the acid, and no small portion of the spirit.”
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE Subscriber hereby gives notice, that there will be sold at PUBLIC AUCTION, in Somerset, Mass. on Monday the First day of December next, at 11 o'clock, A. M. the following real Estates belonging to the heirs of SIMEON POTTER, Esq. late of Swanzey, deceased, viz.
THE very pleasantly situated MANSION HOUSE, being the well known Seat of the late Henry Bowers, Esq. with the out Houses and Eighty ACRES of Land adjoining, all under good improvement and well fenced with Stone-Wall. This seat presents one of the best views on the River, and is in the very heart of Somerset.
THE DWELLING-HOUSE, STORES and WHARF, heretofore belonging to Mr. Lloyd Bowers, this is confessedly the best stand in Somerset for Business. The Stores are ample and convenient, the Wharf is in good repair and well built, is at the head of the deep navigable water, and at ordinary Tides, Vessels of 200 Tons will float along side.
THE MANSION-HOUSE and LOT whereon it stands, fronting the Main-Street, and very conveniently situated for Business, heretofore the property of Mr. Caleb Bowers, subject to a right of Dower.
A TEN ACRE LOT at the head of broad Cove, a Wood Lot of 12 Acres, and another of Three Acres. The above Estates will be Sold entire or in Lots as shall suit purchasers.—The Terms of Sale will be made known at the Time and Place of sale, which will be on the Premises. For any information that may be wanted about the Premises, apply to Mr. David Anthony, of Somerset.—By Order and in behalf of the Heirs of Col. Simeon Potter.
WILLIAM D'WOLFE,
Agent for the Heirs
BRISTOL, JUNE 13, 1806.
ALL persons indebted to JOSIAH MUNRO by book or note, are requested to make immediate payment to the Subscriber; an Assignment of all his property being made for the express purpose of a speedy settlement with all concerned. N. M. BURR, Assignee. Warren, July 4, 1806.
FOR SALE, BY RUFUS & NATHAN M. BURR, 65 puncheons 3d proof Rum, Coarse Rock Salt, for the Diary, 14 half bbls. Mefs Mutton, 20 nest Molasses Casks, 2 bbls. R. Beef.
Terms of payment liberal. Inquire of the above. Warren, May 10, 1806.