Jenks's Portland gazette (Portland [Me.]), 1799-09-23 00:00:00

JENKS' PORTLAND GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED ON MONDAYS, BY ELEZER ALLEY JENKS, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE.
[NUMBER 74.]
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1799.
[VOLUME II.]
War Department.
Trenton, September 2, 1799.
ALL Officers of the first regiment of Artillerists & Engineers, and of the first, second, third and fourth regiments of Infantry in the service of the United States, who are, from whatever cause, absent from their commands, are required with all possible expedition to report themselves by letter to Major General ALEXANDER HAMILTON. The officers thus called upon, will be held amenable for any avoidable delay in reporting themselves, and those who do not report in four months from the date of this notification, will be presumed to have resigned their commissions.  JAMES M'HENRY.
District of Maine, ss.
BY virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas, directed to the subscriber from the District Court of Maine—will be sold at Public Auction, on Tuesday the First day of October next, the fast sailing and well built ship, called the MAC, of about 165 tons burthen, now lying at Bath, on Kennebec River—together with her tackle, apparel and furniture. Said ship is remarkably well found; was built by an approved workman on Merrimack River—is well sheathed, and said to be a prime sailing vessel.
The sale will be held at Bath, at twelve o'clock on the day aforesaid; and the conditions of sale then made known. An inventory will be ready for inspection in a few days, at the subscriber's office, in Portland.
ISAAC PARKER, Marshal.
Portland, 9th September, 1799.
CROCKERY STORE,  WHOLESALE & RETAIL, in Fifth-Street.
Robert Crofts,
Received by the brigantine PORTLAND, from Liverpool, and offers for Sale, a Complete Assortment of
PENCIL, ENAMELLED, CHINA GLAZE and COMMON } Crockery Wares.  Also—A handsome assortment of Glass, China & Japan Wares. A few Crates of assorted, and cups & Saucers. N. B. Crates of assorted Ware packed at the shortest notice.
Portland, Sept. 16.
FOR SALE,
By Newhall & Watson,
No. 3, LONG-WHARF,
Russia Sheeting,
Russia and Ravens Duck, Cordage and Bolt Rope, Iron—flat and square, Steel plate Shovels, Nail Plates, Nail Rods, Iron Hoops, 3 old Anchor, Sheathing and Drawing Nails, Tar, Sheathing Paper, Twine, Ginger, Powder per barrel, Muskets, India Cottons, Loaf & Brawn Sugar, Teas, Coffee, and Chocolate, W. I. Rum, Gin, Brandy, Wines, Codlines; deep sea and log lines, Brushes, &c. &c. (cts)
Sept. 9.
Lately received, and for sale,
By John Abbot,
At his SHOP in Fore Street,
A variety of interesting and useful BOOKS, chiefly modern publications.
Among which are the following:
MALLET DUPAN, on the deft- ruction of Swiss Liberty—interesting to every friend to his country; Studies of Nature, by St. Pierre; Naval Gazetteer; Murray's Grammar; Joan of Arc; Southey's Poems; Marshall's Gardening; Telemachus; Looker-on; Well-bred Scholar; American Accountant; Vindication of Divine Providence; Botanic Harmony; Botanic Garden; Catharine of Russia; Staunton's Embassy; Zimmermann on National Pride; Ormond; Wieland; Arthur Mervyn; Caroline of Litchfield; Juliet Grenville; Female Review; Darwin on Education; Gifford on Female Education; Volney's Travels; Winterbotham's Chinese Empire; Cambell's Journey; Bruce's Travels; French Revolution; Price's Sermons; Pike's Arithmetic.
School Books & Stationary.
ALSO, English & W. I. Goods.
Sept. 2.
Bowdoin College.
THE TRUSTEES of Bowdoin College, are hereby informed, that their next semi-annual meeting is to be held on the last Tuesday in September, current, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of Mr JOHN DUNING, in Brunswick.
John Frothingham, Sec'y.
Portland, Sept. 9, 1799.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, That a further time of six months is allowed by the Hon. Jonathan Breman, Esq. Judge of Probate for the county of Lincoln, to the Commissioners by him appointed to examine and allow the claims against the Estate of David Silvester, late of Pownalborough, in said county, Esq. deceased.—Said Commissioners will attend said business for the purpose aforesaid at the house of Capt. Ebenezer Whittier, innholder in said Pownalborough on the first Thursday in the six following months, from six to nine of the clock in the evening.
JOSEPH TINKHAM, } Commis- JOSEPH CHRISTOPHERS, } sioners. Pownalborough, Sept. 7, 1799.
PORTLAND, Sept. 4, 1799.
THE Selectmen having observed that the street leading out of town by Bramhall's Hill, so called, has been much injured by the digging up and carrying away of sand therefrom—hereby forbid all persons from digging up or carrying away sand or earth from said street, or any other of the streets of said town—as in such case they will be prosecuted therefor.  SAMUEL FREEMAN, Chairman.
FOR SALE,
ABOUT 50 acres of excel- lent LAND, lying in the town of Windham about one mile from the meeting house, mostly under improvement—producing twenty tons Hay, and will pasture 8 or 9 cows. A house and barn are situated thereon, convenient for a small family.
Any person wishing to purchase the same, will please to apply soon to LEMUEL JONES. Windham, Sept. 10, 1799.
WHEREAS the following Lots of LAND were advertised to be sold on the 1st day of September next, which happens on Sunday, and the sale thereof on that account, cannot be legally made THEREFORE,
By Virtue of an Order of the Supreme Judicial Court for the Sale of the Estate of the late THOMAS FLUCKER, Esq. deceased, Will be sold at the House of Mr. THOMAS MOTLEY, Innkeeper at Portland,
On the first day of October next, at 11 o'clock, A. M. to the highest bidder,
PART of the following Tracts of LAND , lying in the township of Falmouth, and County of Cumberland, and which are in common and undivided with certain heirs of the late Brigadier Gen. SAMUEL WALDO, and which was part of the Estate of the said THOMAS FLUCKER, Esq. confiscated to the use of the Commonwealth after the just debts and legal charges thereon should be paid—to wit:
One third part of two hundred and fifty-six acres granted by the Proprietor's Committee of Falmouth, to Brig. SAMUEL WALDO, and laid out near the Duck Ponds.
One third part of five hundred and eleven acres, and eighty-two rods, being the remainder of the eight hundred acres, laid out to Brig. SAMUEL WALDO, by the Proprietor's Committee at Sirens-water.
One half part of six hundred and ninety acres, allowed and granted by the Proprietor's Committee of Falmouth, to the heirs of Brig. Gen. WALDO, out of their share of nine hundred and sixty-two acres, lying near the Duck Ponds.
Conditions of Sale to be made known at the above time and place.
H. KNOX, Agent and Administrator. August 20th, 1799.
THE nonresident Proprietors of the following Lots and undivided Tract of unimproved Land, situated in the town of Buckfrown, in the county of Hancock, are hereby notified, that the same are taxed in the State, County and Town tax-bills, committed to the Subscriber to collect for the year of our Lord 1798, in the respective sums set against them, viz:
   First Survey. Lot No. Cts. M. Second Survey. Lots. Cts. M. Second Survey. Lots. Cts. M.     52 20 4 39 8 4 93 11 0   58 20 4 43 17 2 94 17 2   60 20 4 45 17 2 96 16 8   61 20 4 47 17 2 101 16 8   63 20 4 49 17 2 106 12 8   64 20 4 51 11 0 108 12 8   65 20 4 52 11 0 109 12 8   Second Survey. 53 12 8 110 12 8   6 12 8 54 16 8 111 12 8   7 10 6 59 9 8 112 12 8   10 8 4 60 9 8 116 12 8   11 8 4 61 9 8 119 11 0   14 8 4 68 12 8 121 12 8   16 12 8 73 20 4 122 12 8   20 16 8 75 12 8 123 12 8   21 16 8 78 12 8 124 12 8   24 16 8 81 12 8 135 12 8   25 20 4 82 12 8 127 11 0   31 12 8 85 16 8 Common and undivided Land.   35 9 8 86 14 6 Acre D 16 M   36 8 4 90 14 6 5800 5 18 6   37 8 4 91 11 0   38 8 4 92 11 0  
If no person shall appear to discharge said Taxes and all interregning charges, on or before Monday the twenty-first day of October next, at nine of the clock in the forenoon, to much of said Land as will discharge the same, will then be sold at Public Auction to the highest bidder, at the dwelling house of JAMES ELDREDGE, in Buckfrown aforesaid, according to law.
Richard Eldredge, Collector for the town of Buckfrown, for the year 1798. Buckfrown, 19th July, 1799.
Affairs of Europe.
[The following judicious and interesting Sketches, are copied from a London paper of JULY 22d. They merit a careful perusal.]
AT the moment when the last changes in the information were effected at Paris, we were not backward nor afraid to deliver our opinion with regard to their nature, their importance, and probable effects. We saw with uneasiness the degree of interest and expectation they had excited in the public mind, and we felt it incumbent to dissipate hopes so sanguine and so unfounded.
Far from considering an intrigue (to be compared only with the revolution of a seraglio) as of general or political importance, we applied ourselves to shew that the change which had taken place was a change only of persons, and of persons only in secondary or subservient situations. We endeavoured to satisfy the Public, that while Barras remained at the head of affairs, it was of little consequence who occupied the inferior offices either in the Directory or under it. Whether Sieyes or Rewbel possesses his confidence; whether Ramel or another be his Chancellor of the Exchequer, is beneath our care, and beneath our curiosity. When Cæsar joined with himself some Gohier or Moulin in the Consulate, the Romans in derision called it the Consulship of Julius and of Cæsar.
We have had the satisfaction of observing our opinion make its way here, while it has been constantly justified and corroborated from abroad.
From the very moment of the recommencement of hostilities in Suabia, it became evident, that the good fortune of the Republic was no longer seconded by that ability and dexterity in evil, which had hitherto upheld it, in spite of its guilt, and in spite of its weakness. Even from the day of Carnot's exile, the vigour which that bold conspirator had impressed upon the measures of the Luxemburgh, appeared wanting in their Councils. We missed a certain character of greatness, which he stamped upon their wickedness, and the energy with which he dignified their crimes. Whether it be true or not, that disorder in the brain precedes the dissolution of the body, or that Heaven deranges the intellect of those whom it determines to destroy, it is certain, that as the hour of retribution has approached to the French Regicides, they have receded from the constancy and fortitude which distinguished their early atrocities, and have dwindled into common criminals, confounded by their guilt, and irresolute from their fears.
As soon as Barras had taken the resolution of sacrificing his Ministers, and suffering the Councils to resume a part of their privileges, of which he emerged them in September 1797, it appeared to us, we confess, if the Republic were to be saved, that one of these two courses would have been taken—either that the Councils would have improved the opportunity to overthrow the tyranny altogether, and to involve Barras in the fate of his instruments; or else, that Barras would have endeavoured by some of those measures (which during nine years the French called great ones) to divert the attention of the Republic from the Councils; to extinguish their importance in the lustre of victory; and to balance their authority by the power of the army.
The late commotions that have taken place in the Thuilleries upon the opening of the Ultra Revolutionary Club, in the Salle du Manege, will be considered of more or less importance according to the tempers rather than the judgment of men. In itself it is a very natural concurrence that the Jacobins, whom Drouet continues to guide, should renew their ancient discussions, and hold the same furious orgies over which he and his friend Babeuf were accustomed to preside. When the government allowed the clubs to resume their fittings, this circumstance was to be foreseen; and it was also to be expected that they would meet with some part of the opposition which triumphed over them before, and brought them to trial. The Jacobin Club appears to cause no jealousy in the Councils, and to be agreeable to Barras. The Chouans who besieged it were even dispersed by the Directorial Soldiers. From hence, alone, we are not induced to argue any immediate results of importance, at least any not previously concerted with the Government, of which the club appears at present rather an engine than an enemy.
In fact, the good understanding that appears to exist between the Executive Power, the Legislature, and the Jacobins, is, perhaps one of the most fatal and most palpable signs of the weakness of the Republic; and of the utter extinction of all principle and energy in the nation. The present tyranny seems to be prolonged only by that extraordinary state of the public mind, which has been called the "Indolence of Despair;" and that apathy of the
people which renders them incapable of making the least effort or struggle, and induces them to confide their hopes of redress and amendment to the God they have renounced, the Sovereign they have betrayed, and the nations they fight against.
At the present moment the reins of Government seem ready to fall into any hand that will reach at them. Either the principle of ambition is effete and spent, or the calamities of France have made the sceptre itself undesirable.
This we consider to be the true secret, why in the late alterations so little has appeared of individual ambition—why none of the charges that have taken place have led to great results even to ulterior conspiracies.
Barras indeed has to swallow some bitter pills, but they are gilded with great art and care. The trial of his former associates, and the denunciation of his Secretary Legarde, cannot be agreeable even to one so disciplined in perfidy and revolutions, although in every accusation there is a kind of saving chuse for himself. It is "during his absence" or "against his will" that all the frauds and speculations were committed. But he reigns only over the general languor which he dares not to dispel by any act of vigour or eclat.
Never yet perhaps was a sovereign so unenvied, or a pre eminence so little desired. The approach of Suwarrows, like the approach of death, bids men relinquish their hopes, their passions, their revenges. It cannot be, but that Barras has his enemies and his rivals too; but they will trust their cause to Suwarrows.
Declaration of the United Swiss.
LONDON, JULY 20.
STATE PAPER.
The following is the Declaration published by M. Von Steiger, late Schultheiss, or Mayor of Berne, and entitled, the "Declaration of the United Swiss, who have returned for the restoration of their country."
"Swiss! brethren! confederates! who yet, with well to your country, collect your last strength, and exert it to obtain vengeance; for now is the time. Come unite with those worthy Swiss, who have assembled to deliver their country, and to extirpate the common enemy, who has subjugated you. Confide in God, who will protect the just cause; confide in German integrity and fidelity, which never has broken its word. Receive as friends the Austrian armies, who come for deliverance, and solemnly assure you that they will again restore ancient independence, your laws, rights and government. They have the same views and wishes with yourselves; unite with them, follow their directions, and assist them with your advice and exertions, as much as may be in your power. At their head is a Prince of the House of Austria, who, by his splendid, yet moral virtues, has acquired the greatest glory throughout Europe, and the love of millions of men, who honor him as their father and deliverer. Under his orders is a distinguished general (HORZE,) who himself is a native and a brave Swiss; who seeks the crown of his military glory in the deliverance of his country, and the freedom of his fellow-citizens."
"He will lead you on, and share all labors and all dangers with you. Fear not, therefore, but prove yourselves worthy of your noble ancestors, who shall look down upon you from Heaven with complacence. They would have expired with shame, could they have known that their descendants would ever have submitted to so disgraceful a yoke. Fall then upon your enemy, who insolently calls you to his assistance, and extirpate him, that your country may be freed and secured from similar violence for ever. Then may we expect from our endeavours, with the powerful support and blessing of God, that the reign of crime shall have an end, guilt receive its punishment, religion and justice again return among us, agriculture, manufactures and trade flourish, oppression of every kind cease, and public tranquility and domestic happiness be once more restored. Then shall we be again a free and virtuous people, respected abroad, and happy at home, as we formerly were."
"With these views, we return to you, to fight for you."
"FREDERICK VON STEIGER, Late Mayor of Berne, in the name of all the United Swiss."
MURDER OF THE MINISTERS.
European accounts of a late date, say the Parisians are convinced, that this murder was the work of the Directory. A number of Uniforms of Steckler Hussars were made at Strasburg. The widow of Roberjot, when invited to attend the ceremonies ordered by the Directory, answered, she did "not choose to appear before the murderers of her husband." For this offence she was committed to prison.

Further Foreign Articles.
TALLEYRAND IN JEOPARDY!
Or, The Apostate Bishop doing penance.
PARIS, JULY 17.
CITIZEN Talleyrand has just published a vindication of his conduct, in answer to the accusations preferred against him in several pamphlets and journals. He begins with remarking, that all his accusers are themselves either ex-priests or ex-nobles, and even princes or foreigners, who, having first introduced themselves to notice with cunning and dexterity, soon assumed, with audacity, the privilege of instructing us how we should be free in our own country.
"What then," continues Talleyrand, "do these men urge, who are not Frenchmen, or those among Frenchmen whose integrity they have succeeded in corrupting? That I have been one of the constituent assembly! Yes, I was fully convinced that they never could forgive those whose names are illustrious among the founders of liberty. I was fully convinced that men who had never experienced the first follies of the French people, in 1789, who indulged in shameful raillery on the sublime enthusiasm of the nation, and who, unable to prevent the revolution, exerted themselves to render it odious, were in secret enraged against the assembly which first proclaimed the declaration of the rights of man, and were more favourable to the anti-revolutionary part of that assembly than to the part which produced the revolution. But I was ignorant that they could carry their audacity so far as publicly and without any mask to reproach a citizen for having been a member of the constituent assembly. And yet this is one of the numerous accusations preferred against me in their favourite journal."
"In the present agitation of the public mind, three suppositions are alone possible: The Republic will consolidate its strength in the midst of so many events; we shall be overwhelmed in the confusion and destruction of every kind of authority; or royalty will be restored to oppress us with increased fury and tyranny. Every other supposition is to me a chimera, and I have unquestionably given sufficient pledges of my zeal against the two last systems. The fate allotted to me, by both the one and the other of them, is sufficiently known, as well as the kind of preference which they would grant to me. It has been a thousand times demonstrated, that I can have no other desire but that of consolidating the power and establishing the glory of the Republic. I did not, indeed expect, I confess, to be reduced to the necessity of proving, in the 7th year of the Republic that I am not an Emigrant. A proof rendered unnecessary by the unanimous declaration of the National Convention, which ordered my name to be erased from all lists of Emigrants, and repealed, at the same time, the decree of accusation which had been brought against me."
"But it is asked by my accusers, What are the motives which caused the National Convention to erase the name of Talleyrand? The answer however, is simple, and undoubtedly decisive, I was sent to London, for the second time, by the Provisional Executive Council, on the 7th of September 1792. I have in my possession the original passport delivered to me by the Council, and which is signed by six of its members, Lebrun, Danton, Servan, Claviere, Roland, and Monge. It was transmitted to the Convention, when it thought proper to take my case into consideration, and I will produce it to any person desirous of seeing it."
Talleyrand denies that he wore the white cockade in America and at Hamburg, and appeals to the testimony of the Envoy and Consul at that city.
With respect to the reproach of having suffered the new coalition to be formed, he vindicates himself, by quoting his opinion, which was decidedly given in favour of an honourable peace, and makes the following observations: "when it is considered that those who dare to accuse me of wishing for the continuance of war are the very persons who stirred up the fire of discord, invoked with the most ardent prayers all the fury of war, were eager to excite revolutionary movements in every part of the world, abused every power in the most insulting and impolitic manner, threw obstacles in the way of every negotiation, and propagated in the public Journals the assertion so fatal to the tranquility of Europe."
That Republics and Kings are necessarily in a state of hostility;—when it is considered that I have been constantly engaged in repairing the mischiefs produced by so many inconsistencies and follies, and in calming the apprehensions of the Envoys of neutral and amicable powers, every one must be struck with astonishment that these men should accuse me of co-operating in producing the coalition, and that they should themselves be ignorant on how many accounts the accusation applies to their own conduct. I have also, in a detail which has been noticed by the Legislative Body, pointed out the principal and more immediate causes of the coalition, and I may be allowed to observe, that my observations have been received by the National Representation, with a degree of interest which it only confers on acknowledged precision and truth.
The alterations in the Cisalpine Republic are totally without my knowledge, I was merely acquainted with them in consequence of their execution; so much so, that when Citizen Rivaud was sent Ambassador to that Republic, I
was applied to for blank letters of credence, and thus I was totally uninformed with respect to his embassy, until he had been employed for a considerable time. Here I know, it is objected to me with severity, that I should not have hesitated to have given in my resignation.—And is it imagined that I was no disposed to that measure? can it be thought that such an idea was not gratifying to my independence? but I confess, I was prevented by that desire, that indefatigable hope of peace, from which nothing could detach me. I forgot myself entirely in that sentiment, and to that I sacrificed my personal uneasiness, my repugnance as an individual.
"I am accused that an attack was not made on Portugal. But if such an attack had taken place, and had been violently opposed by Spain, would they not have thought themselves justified in blaming a conduct which would have irritated this latter power, whose alliance it was so useful to cultivate? I am reproached with not having sufficiently encouraged privateering against England; but if it had been encouraged without any wounds, with what vehemence would they not have inveighed against the want of precaution, or the stupidity of Ministers, who assured that 545 armed vessels for cruising had been captured by the enemy from the beginning of the war to the end of the 6th year, that the number of our prisoners now in England amount to more than 30,000, for whose subsistence the Republic is at the yearly expense of 15 millions, and that it is principally to privateering such a result is to be attributed, might have dared to expose the nation to the repeated hazards of a game, the losses of which are so sensibly felt?
"I am reproached with the expedition to Egypt, which was planned previously to my administration, and had in no respect been determined by me. But if that expedition, in which the genius of Buonaparte, which his glory and that of his invincible army rendered certain, and still renders certain, so many successes had not been effected, and it could be proved that I had opposed the project, with how much acrimony would not these same persons have said that I was influenced by secret and improper views, and that I wished to deprive the Republic of the most magnificent establishment in the world, which was to strike a most terrible blow at the British power in India."
"They complain of the cold indifference of the Swedish government; but how much more would they have to complain, if, in order to prevent it, the Republic had given way to demands incompatible with her dignity? They also object (could it be imagined!) that men of the best characters as republicans, have been entrusted with diplomatic missions, with an intention, they say, of getting rid of their vigilant observation at home. But if others who were not republicans had been entrusted with business of that nature, would they not have had more reason to complain, and would they have been silent upon so favorable an opportunity?
"In short, every thing which has been done, either within or without the Republic, is imputed to me; and I am interrogated why the Grand Duke of Tuscany was not kept as a hostage, as if it were my province to give instructions to the Generals. They have the effrontery to assert, that it was I who alienated the United States of America, at a moment when they knew that American negotiators have arrived in France, and they cannot be ignorant of the share which I have had in that event, on account of the language, full of deference, of moderation, and, I will be bold to say, of dignity, which I addressed them in the name of the French Government, while those who now attack me were desirous only to convey to them expressions severe and irritating."
Talleyrand concludes his vindication by accusing his assailants of ignorance, malice, and the basest designs.
Observations of Charles Delacroix upon the Reflections published by Talleyrand Perigord.
As I have been named, or referred to twice in the reflections which citizen Talleyrand has published, I owe it to my own character, to establish those facts with respect to which I have been alluded to in this work. It is true as citizen Talleyrand says, that it was me of whom lord Grenville demanded a passport for lord Malmesbury; that it was I who forwarded it; that it was during my Ministry the negotiations were carried on; and, finally, that it was I who pointed out Lisle, in consequence of the express orders of the Directory. I do not see how these facts can excite suspicion; but if it was necessary to justify them, I would say that the facility of telegraphic communication, and the recollection of the intrigues of lord Malmesbury, at Paris, during his first mission, were the principal motives which determined the Directory in preferring the commune of Lisle. "It is well known" says Talleyrand, "that the expedition to Egypt had been prepared before the period of my Ministry. It is a certain fact, that citizen Magallier, Consul-General of the republic in Egypt, after a great number of memorials he had sent relative to an expedition against Egypt, received, previous to my entering into administration, leave to return to France. It was in fact, and it could not be otherwise, my duty to give information upon the subject of his memorials." It would seem from this passage, that it was I who prepared the expedition to Egypt. I owe it to truth to declare the fact, without attempting here to judge of the merit of the enterprise. It is very well known that different projects, particularly under the ancient Government, were proposed relative to Egypt; but what is not known, yet is not less true, is, that these memo-
rials remained wholly neglected during my ministry. That neither myself on the part of the Directory, nor the chief of divisions, paid any attention to them; that I had not any idea of the contents of the memorials of citizen Magallier. That his memorials in no respect influenced the permission given him to return; but, on the contrary, it was granted on the ground of his ill state of health, and the danger he was in of dying if he remained longer in Egypt. Let citizen Talleyrand refer to the account which I have given the Directory of the operations of my administration on the 12th Thermidor, under the article Ottoman Porte. He will find there is not a word relative to this expedition, and that throughout it breathes the desire and the hope of promoting and assuring the most perfect harmony between the two powers. Citizen Talleyrand may recal to his mind, that in the first conference I had with him after my return from the Batavian Republic, having for a long time discoursed upon the subject of the horrible counter-revolution, which had destroyed in one day the fruit of six months labour there; and the outrages committed against the French Republic on my person; I spoke of the report which was then just circulated, that Egypt was the immediate object of the expedition of Buonaparte. "I would not attempt (said I) to steal the secret from you; but I do not believe the report. It is not to Egypt, but to the Black Sea. He is gone to destroy the settlements of the Russians, who are determined to declare war against us, to restore Poland to its rank as a nation, to keep the house of Austria in check, and command a definitive peace. If you have any ulterior designs against Egypt, the Porte, in gratitude for the important service you will have rendered it, will willingly lend its assistance to realize them." Citizen Talleyrand left me to enjoy the sweet illusion which events have but too soon destroyed. My regard for truth has imposed on me these short observations. I will plead my excuse to citizen Talleyrand.
CH. DELACROIX.
Charenton, 27 Messidor, July 15, 7th year of the French Republic, one and indivisible.
Council of Five Hundred—July 10.
A great number of Addresses congratulated the Council on the fall of the Triumvirate, and demanded a speedy punishment of the Traitors.
Latest Dates.
BY AN ARRIVAL AT NEW-YORK.
LONDON, JULY 25.
We have the pleasure of stating, that the homeward bound Jamaica and Lisbon fleets have passed by Portsmouth in perfect safety.
We stated yesterday the arrival at the admiralty of Mr. Jackson, master of the Ville de Paris, lord St. Vincent's flag ship, with dispatches from his lordship, at Gibraltar. Mr. Jackson came home in la Suffisante. We have by this conveyance the confirmation of the junction of the French and Spanish fleets, consisting of forty-four sail of the line, off Carthagena, on the 22d ult. and of their having failed again on the 24th, with a view of repassing the straits of Gibraltar. The enemy's fleets were seen from Gibraltar on the 6th instant, attempting to beat through the Gut; but from the state of the winds, it is not expected they could accomplish this object sooner than the 12th.
Intelligence of the enemy's movements had been dispatched on the 22d ult. to lord Keith, who was supposed to be off Genoa, assisting the operations of the allied armies in Italy; and as the enemy's fleets had met with such adverse winds, it is thought not improbable but his lordship would come up with them before they could pass the straits.
Yesterday evening capt. George Burlton, of the Haarlem of 74 guns, arrived at the admiralty from Gibraltar: the Haarlem failed a day later than la Suffisante; she was chased on her passage home by a part of the French and Spanish fleet: and on the 9th instant heard a heavy firing, but could not learn the particulars, being compelled to bear away, under a heavy press of sail, from the superior force which bore down on her ship.
The intelligence captain Burlton brings, confirms the reports that the French and Spanish fleets have effected a junction, had attempted to pass the Gut of Gibraltar, (most probably with a view of counteracting the threatened expedition against Holland by the renewed menace of a descent on Ireland) but being baffled in that attempt by the state of the wind, they had returned up the Mediterranean, with a view of getting again into Carthagena.
A rumour, however, has been very generally circulated in town, that the British and combined fleets were in sight, and even that they were seen engaged on the 8th inst. This report is countenanced as our readers will observe, by our letters from some of the ports; but these accounts are totally disbelieved at the admiralty, as no such intelligence has been received officially there.
FRANKFORT, JULY 13.
At Ehrenbreitstein, 4000 men labour day and night at the new works of the fortification, several redoubts are already finished. These new works are surrounded with different palisades, and contain ditches 50 feet deep. To strengthen the army without, the French generals have appointed that the 3d battalion of the garrison, which were joined from the conscription should be field battalions—the new corps were to do duty in the garrison.
LONDON, JULY 24.
OFFICIAL.
Lord Henley writes to Lord Grenville from Vienna, July 6, That the Court have received from Suwarrows, under date Alessandria, July 1, a detailed account of the victory over Macdonald, by which it appears that the French then lost 20,000 men, killed and prisoners.—The dispatch likewise informs of the re-occupation of Tortona by the Austrians.
"Vienna, July 6.
"A second messenger from Marshal Suwarrows dispatched from Alessandria the 1st inst. is just arrived. I am informed, that besides a detailed relation of the brilliant successes of the imperial army, on the 17th, 18th and 19th June, (over Macdonald) and by which it appears that the loss of the French amounted in all to TWENTY THOUSAND MEN KILLED AND TAKEN PRISONERS;—he brings an account of the Austrians having re-occupied the town of Tortona."
WESTINDIES.
Extract of a letter from Cape Francis, to a gentleman in Philadelphia, dated Aug. 7, 1797.
"General Toussaint is now busy in the southward, quelling the rebellious Rigaud, who has been declared a rebel by Proclamation of the Agent, of the 12th of July.
"We have been threatened at the Cape, with such another day as befel us on the 20th of June, 1793: but the plot having been discovered in time, several of the chiefs have been apprehended, adjudged by a Court Martial, and shot three days ago:—We are perfectly quiet in this part, with a hope of soon seeing the southward reduced to obedience."
The Expedition against Surinam.
Comprises three sail of the line, and five frigates, commanded by ad. lord Seymour. Capt. Boyd, arrived at Baltimore, from St. Thomas, was informed by the captain of the U. S. brig Pickering, that the British had arrived before Surinam, and had blockaded it. The Governor and inhabitants of Surinam have for a long time supplicated the protecting force of Great Britain or the United States, to rescue them from the crouching tyger of the French Republic.
Of the celebrated NECKER.
From Barruel's Memoirs of Jacobinism.
This man early discovered that he would one day become a disciple of the Sophisters. When a banker's clerk, he was employed by some speculators both as their confidant and agent in a business which was suddenly and greatly augmented their fortunes. They were secretly informed of an approaching peace, which was to enhance the value of the Canada bills; one of the conditions of the future peace being the payment of those bills which had remained in England. They admitted Necker into the secret, on condition that, for their common emolument, he would write to London to have a number of these bills bought up at the low price to which the war had reduced them.—Necker engaged in the association, and through the credit of his masters the bills were monopolized. When his associates inquired with respect to the state of the bargain, he informed them that the speculation had appeared so hazardous, that he had desisted from and countermanded the purchase. When peace arrived, he was in possession of these bills on his own account alone, and they made nearly three millions Tournois. Such was the virtue of Necker when a clerk!
Having thus made an immense estate, he now invited the sophisters to his table. He held weekly clubs, which were punctually attended by D'Alembert and the chiefs of the conspirators. Hearing of nothing but philosophers, he became a philosophist as suddenly as he became a lord, and the intrigues and encomiums of the conspirators transformed him into a Sully. At length Louis 16, hearing so much of his talents in finance, called him to the ministry as controller general. Among the many means of the conspirators, the most infallible was to introduce disorder in the finances. Necker succeeded completely in this plan, by those exorbitant loans, which nothing could have hidden from the public but that blind confidence and those encomiums perpetually thrown out by the sect. When recalled, for the second time, to the ministry, he again attempted to ruin the finances, and by monopolizing all the corn, and ordering it to be shut up in storehouses, to starve the people in the midst of plenty, in order to convulse them into a revolution. When he was detected in his villainy, he was immediately rewarded with dismissal.
Necker was employed by the sophisters to draw the Calvinist into their party. He made high pretensions to Calvinism, though he was in reality a deist. This the Calvinists must have seen in his writings and his universal connection with men of impiety, if they had not been blind to conviction. His celebrated Treatise on Religious Opinions is nothing less than deism. It does not consider the existence of a God as approved—and what can be the religion of that man who doubts the being of a God? This publication obtained for its author an academic crown, as being the best production of the day, i. e. which could insinuate the most impiety the least perceived.
* He was first appointed in 1776, and resigned in 1781. In 1788 he was recalled, to replace Brienne, and dismissed in 1789.

Portland,
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1799.
Continuation of the LAWS of the U. S. will accompany the next Gazette.
OF AFFAIRS ABROAD,
There is nothing very late. The most important articles by the last mails, will be found in this day's paper. They are mostly interesting, and will compensate the reader for perusal.
The defence of Talleyrand ; and Delacroix's observations may serve as valuable documents to the American public;—The fallen bishop is fast losing his popularity, and will probably soon fall a sacrifice to French artifice.
On Tuesday last Capt. Wadsworth's company of Artillerists and Engineers, under the command of Lt. Leonard , arrived in town; and on Wednesday part of Capt. Stoddard's company embarked on board the Boston Revenue Cutter, and sailed for Fort Independence; the other part will leave here in about three weeks.
Chandler Robbins, Esq. is appointed Register of Probate for the county of Kennebec.
FIRE.
On Wednesday evening last the store occupied by Messrs. Vearie & Stone , in Brunswick, was consumed by fire. Every article, consisting of European and West-India Goods, was consumed in it. This misfortune is the more to be regretted, as the effects destroyed belonged to deserving and prudent young men.
DUELS, have become much too common in this country. With our lads of Spirit nothing will settle a misunderstanding but a duel—a pistol or two must be discharged, if they contain nothing but powder.
“In consequence of a political dispute, capt. Johnson and lieut. Sharpe, of the 10th Regt. of Infantry, met on the 12th inst. near Bristol, (Penn.) They fired two shots each. Capt. J. was slightly wounded on the first fire. The second discharge was fatal to Lt. S. and capt. J. also received another wound.”
On the 12th inst. another duel was fought in Newyork. Neither of the parties had the glory of being killed!
VICTOR HUGHES.
Gaurard , who served under Victor Hughes , in the Westindies, challenged him. They fought, and a ball passed thro' Hughes' arm and lodged in his breast. It is supposed he cannot survive the operation of attempting to extract it. Thus perishes one of the depredators of our commerce!
“Mr. O'Brien, the Irish giant, at present exhibiting at Liverpool, is confessedly one of the most wonderful productions of nature ever seen, as is strongly exemplified by the astonishment of all beholders on entering his presence. He is nine feet high!”
AMERICAN INVENTION.
“Mr. Benjamin Dearborn, of Massachusetts, a native American, has established the Manufacture of a Vibrating Steelyard , or just balance, for which he has a patent, under the seal of the United States. This instrument unites the convenience of the Steelyard with the accuracy of the Scale Beam; it gives the neat and gross hundred upon inspection, without reducing one into the ether, and no art in the manner of using it, can cause it to err.”
“Should the inventor meet with encouragement, he proposes to bring forward other discoveries, not less worthy their notice, which otherwise will rest in obscurity, or be published in Europe.”
The young lads in Portsmouth, N. H. are forming themselves into a military company.
Record of Mortality.
In Philadelphia, Sept. 7th and 8th—thirty-one burials.
Sept. 9th—twenty-one do.
Sept. 10—eighteen do.
Sept. 11—seventeen do.
Sept. 12—thirteen do.
In Newyork, the deaths by the fever, average about nine, in each 24 hours.—Among its victims in that city, is Dr. Perkins , inventor of the metallic points.
Accounts from Charleston , S. C. mention a fever there, similar to that in Philadelphia.
“A very melancholy event took place in the town of Bethel, on Androscoggen river, in the county of York, on the night of the 5th instant. A Mr. Jonathan Bean of that place, was found dead on the morning of the 6th, in his own house, hanging by his neck with a piece of a rope, which he had cut from the bed cord, with a knife which he left on a table near where he was hanging. His feet stood firm on the floor, and supported a great part of his body, which stood upright. A chair, on which it was supposed he stood, when he fastened the rope to the string-pieces, which supported the chamber floor, was found laying against him a little above his knees, and the fore part of it was almost level with the floor of the house. He was alone in the house that night; his wife being gone to make a visit to one of her daughters, and no one went into the house till the next morning, when he was found dead. He had been for several years in a strange situation, and appeared to be deranged in his mind; and had not for some time been from home, and scarcely out of his house. He had frequently told his wife that he intended to make way with himself; but as he had made no attempt to do it, though he had frequently been left at home alone, till this fatal moment, none supposed him to be in earnest, and paid little or no attention to what he had said, relative to destroying his life; nor thought it necessary to watch him, to prevent the awful deed. For some time previous to his destruction, he had been more sociable than he had been for several years, and appeared quite rational in his mind. He was just entered upon the 81st year of his age. A coroner's inquest was called upon the body, and the jurors' verdict was, “That he voluntarily and feloniously did kill and murder himself, by hanging himself with a rope, which he provided for that purpose.”
Marine Articles.
Port of Portland.
Thursday last, arrived brig Sophia , Capt. Nason, 40 days from Kingston, Jamaica. Spoke sloop Horizon , Capt. Robert Davis, from Kingston, bound to Norfolk. Capt. Nason has furnished a list of about 90 sail of American vessels carried into Kingston, within a year last past; some of which were recaptured from the French, and have since returned, paying salvage.
On her passage out (says a Boston paper) the U. S. frigate Boston , Capt. Little, was spoke by the British frigate of the same name, who sent a lieut. on board him to enquire whether the fleet under convoy had contraband goods, and whether capt. L. would give his honor that they had not? Capt. L. answered that he would give his word and honor that the fleet was bound to a free port, under his convoy, and as such he should protect them. They then wished each other a pleasant passage and parted.
Providence, Sept. 14. Thursday arrived at Newport from New Providence, where she had been condemned and repurchased, the brig Sally , Capt. Brown. In her came passenger, Capt. Metcalf Bowler, late of the ship Rebecca , of this port, mentioned in our last to have been also there adjudicated and condemned.—Capt. Bowler, after having been captured by the Arab frigate, took the liberty to remonstrate with her commander on the impropriety of sending him to New Providence on a pretext so trifling. The petty despot, with his arms akimbo, and a supercilious grimace, made this laconic reply: “Sir, his Majesty's commanders never err.”
The brig Fame , Bell, from Philadelphia to the Cape of Good Hope, after being at sea 104 days having experienced several tremendous gales of wind, with the loss of foremast, and being boarded by a Spanish ship from Vigo, to river la Plata, and plundered, was obliged to bear away for the first port and arrived at St. Pierre's, Martinique, the 14th August, in a distressed condition.
American Navy Affairs.
The frigate United States , Commodore Barry, has arrived at Newport, from a cruise. Dr. Amos Winthrop, M. B. and Member of the Medical Society of London, is appointed Surgeon in the Navy of the United States.
The Ganges sloop of war, capt. Tingey, has lately taken 7 prizes—a sloop of 14 guns was the last.
The Merrimack ship of war, capt. Brown, has captured and sent into St. Christopher's, the French letter of Marque, Buonaparte , valued at 20,000 dollars.
We hear from very respectable authority, that the brig Pickering of 14 four pounders and 70 men, commanded by lieut. Hilyer, has captured a French privateer of 16 sixes and 120 men.
Charleston, August 29. A small French Schooner called the Adelaide , was sent into this port yesterday, as a prize, by the United States brig General Pinkney , capt. Heyward. She was from the Havana bound to Port Republic, with dispatches; she was unarmed when captured, except having some cutlasses and shot on board; from this, and some other suspicious circumstances, captain Heyward thought proper to send her in. The dispatches of which she was the bearer, we understand, were taken in her.
[CIRCULAR.]
Havannah, Aug. 27. 99.
Sir, Referring you to my respects of the 18th inst. I am now enabled to give you the definitive determination of this government relative to the admission of Foreign vessels into this port; which is, that neutrals, with provisions, will be permitted to an entry, for six months, from the 18th instant; and with dry goods, until the last day of September next.
At the same time, permit me to observe to you, that the exclusive privilege to two individuals of importing Flour is now revised and in force.—Vessels henceforward, arriving with that article, will either not be allowed to enter or obliged to pay an exorbitant duty.
Should any alteration take place, I shall be careful to advise you of it, for the information of the merchants at your port.
I have the honor to be, Sir, your very humble servant J. M. TZNARDI, Agent of the U. S. The Collector of the port of Boston.
E. A. JENKS,
Respectfully informs the public, that he has opened, at his BOOK-STORE, A New Circulating Library, consisting of nearly four hundred volumes—among which are the latest Novels, Magazines, Reviews, &c. Additions will constantly be made of the latest Publications, catalogues of which, with the conditions, will be furnished.
For Sale at said Book Store, an assortment of
Books, Stationary & Blanks.
Writing Paper, of different size and quality—Wove, Gilt and plain post paper—Quills—Red and black Ink Powders—Slates—Pencils—Morocco Pocket Books—Glazed & common Wafers—Black Sand—A variety of Ink Stands—Desk Knives—Playing Cards, &c.
Also, Music and Drawing Paper—Paint Boxes. Conversation Cards, or the Art of reading the thoughts of Men.
Children's Books, of various sizes.
An assortment of Account Books—
Blank Books of any dimensions, not on hand, shall be made at the shortest notice.
A few handsome TRUNKS.
** Orders from persons in the country shall receive immediate and prompt attention.
Sept. 23.
THE subscribers having been duly appointed Commissioners to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the
Estate of Daniel Epes, Esq.
late of Portland, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice that six months from the second day of July last, was allowed by the judge of Probate, for the completion of the business, and that they will attend for that purpose at the Insurance Office in Portland, the last Mondays of this and the four following months, from three to six o'clock, P. M.
EBENEZER MAYO, DANIEL TUCKER.
Portland, Sept. 19, 1799.
THE subscribers appointed commissioners by the Hon. Jonathan Bowman, Esq. Judge of Probate for the county of Lincoln, to receive and examine the claims to the
Estate of William Lackey,
late of Thomaston, mariner, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice that the term of six months is allowed the creditors to bring in their claims—and that they will attend the business of their appointment at the house of Josiah Reed , Esq. in said Thomaston on the first Mondays of the five ensuing months, from two to six o'clock in the afternoon.
DAVID FALES, jun. SAMUEL M. MARTIN.
Thomaston, August 23. 1799.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber hath been duly appointed administratrix of the
Estate of Benjamin Noyes,
late of New Portland, in the county of Kennebec, gentleman, deceased, and hath undertaken that trust by giving bond as the law directs. All persons, therefore, having demands against the estate of said deceased are desired to exhibit the same for settlement; and all indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to the subscriber, or to JAMES HILL, of Poland, attorney to administratrix.
PHEBE NOYES, Administratrix.
New Portland, Sept. 4. 1799.
JUST PUBLISHED,
By EDMUND M. BLUNT,
New Practical Navigator;
Being an EPITOME of NAVIGATION. CONTAINING
THE different methods of working the Lunar Observations, and all the requisite tables used with the Nautical Almanac, in determining the Latitude and Longitude, and keeping a complete reckoning at sea; illustrated by proper rules and examples: The whole exemplified in a Journal, kept from England to the Island of Teneriffe.
Also—The substance of information every Candidate for the American Navy ought to be acquainted with, previous to his being appointed. This, with the Sea Terms, is particularly recommended to the attention of all young Gentlemen designed for, or belonging to, the Sea.
The first American, from the tenth English edition of JOHN HAMILTON MOORE, Improved by the introduction of several new Tables, and by large additions to the former Tables, and revised and corrected by a skillful Mathematician and Navigator. Illustrated with copperplates.
To which are added.
Some General instructions and Information to Merchants, Masters of vessels and others concerned in Navigation, relative to the Mercantile, and Maritime laws and customs.
EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE.
“Among the many valuable originals and amendments which the purchaser will find in this new edition, is given an exact method (instead of Mr. Moore's erroneous one) of finding the Latitude by a single altitude of the sun, having also the true time of observation. The tables of declination are also corrected; as Mr. Moore, by reckoning the year 1800 as a leap year, has caused an error at times of 23" in the declination. A new method of working a lunar observation is likewise inserted, which has not that variety of cases incident to other methods. A very useful addition of two columns is also made to table 25, which greatly facilitates the calculation to find the time for an observed altitude of any of the heavenly bodies. Table 20, is published for every 30 seconds of time, instead of 30 seconds. This alteration was deemed requisite to render it sufficiently convenient for use. Various other improvements of great utility have been made in many parts of the work. It will however suffice to observe, that about 300 errors (besides those noted in the errata annexed) have been corrected in the last, and most accurate edition of JOHN HAMILTON MOORE.
Newburyport, Sept. 1799.
** The above valuable Book is just received, and for sale, in Portland, At JENKS'S Book-Store.
EBENEZER MAYO, Collector of the Revenue.
N. B. All Retailers of Liquors will be subject to Penalty of Fifty Dollars for selling without Licence;—and all owners of Wheel Carriages to a Penalty of Twenty Five per cent. if entry is not made and the duty paid within Sixty days previous to the last day of September next.
Portland, Aug. 9, 1799.
BARTER.
WANTED, in exchange for Land, at Waterford, forty six miles from this town, materials for a House, &c.—and labour to finish the same.—The bricks to be delivered in Portland the ensuing fall—frame, boards, shingles &c. in the course of the winter months, and the joinery, and masonry, completed in all July next.—In said land there is a choice of lots; some suitable for making farms, others abounding with timber, mill privileges &c. &c.
Inquire at the Store of NATHANIEL CHAMBERLAIN, Middle-Street.
Portland, 5th Aug. 1799.
MEDICAL.
AT the Theatre in Dartmouth College, the MEDICAL LECTURES commence the first of October.
On Anatomy and Surgery.
Chemistry and Materia Medica.
And the theory and Practice of PHYSIC
Bowdoin College.
THE OVERSEERS of Bowdoin College, are hereby notified, That their Semi-annual meeting will be holden at the House of Mr. JOHN DUNING, in Brunswick, on the last Wednesday of September next—at which a general attendance of the Members is requested.
MARK L. HILL, Sec'y.
Georgetown, 14th Aug 1799.
Jacob Howe,
INFORMS the public that he has undertaken to carry the Newspapers from Portland through Windham, Raymond, Bridgton, Waterford, and Oxford, to Bethel . He will leave Portland every Monday evening, and arrive at Bethel on Thursday evening;—and returning through Newpennycook and Norway , and to arrive at Paris on Friday evening, and thence to proceed through Hobson and so on to Portland .
The postage to Saccarappa & Windham will be 50 cents a year—to Raymondtown, Bridgton, Waterford, Oxford and Bethel, three cents for each paper—and to the town on the return, one dollar a year.
The advantages of a post riding through the above towns are so obvious, that it is hoped a liberal encouragement will be offered to support the undertaking.
The subscribers to Newspapers, and others, who may please to favour him with their commands, may depend on the strictest fidelity, punctuality and dispatch.
Flintston, July 15.
To Let,
PART of the House formerly occupied by Mrs. EMMONS; which is calculated for a STORE, and very convenient for a small Trader. Conditions may be made known, by applying to NATHANIEL FREEMAN, living on the premises.
Sept. 2.

Biographical.
The American public has had few opportunities of acquainting itself with the character of Marshal SUWARROW, or Souvoroff. The information we have hitherto received concerning him, has been disguised and perverted, in a thousand ways, by ignorance, falsehood and prejudice. As this man is now acting a conspicuous part, on the theatre of Europe, it is but common justice, that such accounts of him should be presented to the public, as are written by men whose acquaintance and intimate observation enable them to give the most accurate traits of his character; and that knowledge should not be confined to those channels of information, which are polluted by party passions and malignity. The ensuing portrait of him is taken from the "Spectateur du Nord," a very intelligent and impartial work, printed at Hamburg: (Com. Gaz.)
Field Marshal SUWARROW.
OUR readers must judge of the following portrait, drawn by an officer of distinction, who served under Marshal Souvoroff. In such a piece no one will expect, we think, to find academic perfection or elegance. And, we need not say, that we have preserved scrupulously the likeness as it has been presented to us.
We can only perform our duty to mankind by making public every portrait of this great man's character. Providence has set him, as an example before heroes, in order to animate and revive in generous bosoms, those virtues, which alone render them worthy of immortality. Who more than Field Marshal Count Souvoroff Rimnikski , is entitled to that religious homage, which we yield to those extraordinary men, who seem born only to govern the world. Extensive in project, prompt in decision, indefatigable in execution, ignorant to retrograde, except through the battalions of his enemies; such is this wonderful man, who never made a step backward, who was cast in the mould of Cæsar and of Alexander , which for so long a time has been thought to have been broken. Continually occupied with glory, which is his element, he devotes to labour the time men employ in repose. The only tribute he pays to nature is a few hours sleep upon a little straw, under a simple tent, in almost every season of the year. Modest and unaffected in private life, a linen dress is sufficient for him. His genius continually active allows him no repose; so that he never walks—but he flies. He contemplates military science from an elevation too high to notice its minutiae. He beholds only things in great, leaving to others the task of enumerating the buttons on a soldier's coat. Adored by his soldiers; he places himself on days of parade in the midst of them, like a father, and converses with them familiarly, concerning the causes which have enabled them to conquer, and of the faults, which they have been capable of committing. Good, generous, his affections extend even to children; and this man, who in the day of battle, appears like a thunderbolt of an enraged deity, discovers, by the side of the weak and unfortunate, all the sensibility of the most tender heart. Fulfilling all the duties of his religion, with a zeal and a piety, which ought to confound our modern atheists; when he speaks of his victories, he attributes them, always to the author of all things; detesting that impious philosophy, which produces nothing but crime and revolt against all established systems.
At Warsaw, he destroyed this philosophic phantom, at the moment when the North was near being crushed by it. In fine, we cannot better characterise this great man, than by the letter, which he wrote to her majesty, after the surrender of Ismail , which cost the Turks 30,000 men. "Glory to God!—Glory to You!—Ismail is taken—and I am there." We seem to read the dispatch of a Spartan General.—In a letter subjoined to the portrait just given, it is said, "This Marshal Souvoroff is one of the great men of this age. He has never been vanquished. A little white waistcoat is his only protection against the severest cold. He keeps no equipage; and for his war horse, mounts the first Hussar's horse he meets. He rises every day an hour after midnight; dines at eight in the morning; fares like a common soldier; and has gained twenty pitched battles. He detests the revolution."
There is certainly somewhat of the character of antiquity in this General, who would not be misplaced among the heroes of Plutarch.
General MACDONALD.
Whose movements have so much contributed to change the face of affairs in Italy, is of a very ancient and respectable Scotch family. He was formerly in the Dutch service. He is about 32 years of age, and served under Pichegru as a General of Brigade in the first division, and proved himself to be a very able officer. The strongest column of the army of the north was entrusted to him, and he directed, besides, the movements of Gen. Jourdan's. St. Just dismissed him because he bore a Scotch name, and was, on that account, he thought, an aristocrat.
The French gen. Macdonald's father was engaged in the rebellion of 1745; was the head of a great Highland clan, and on the defeat of Prince Charles Edward, Macdonald fled to France.
Miscellaneous Articles.
POLITICAL BOOKS.
A Connecticut gentleman, a friend to the interest of Christianity and to the happiness of the human race, is publishing an abridgment of "Barruel's Memoirs of Jacobinism." This is a most salutary undertaking, and is rendered peculiarly useful to the people at large, in consequence of the abridger's choice of a newspaper for a vehicle of this warning against the daring impiety of the French sophisters. In a note to one of his extracts, the abridger very justly remarks, "that it is to be regretted so many seditious and profligate books are to be found in most of the book stores of the United States. The public are cautioned against many of Voltaire's, particularly his treatise on Toleration, and his Philosophical Dictionary, an edition of which was not long since published in this country. Condorcet's Treatise on the Human Mind. The works of Rousseau, Volney's Ruins, and Godwin's Political Justice." This last work is one of the most execrable and pernicious books which has appeared since the insane era of Gallic revolution. It is calculated to destroy most of the morality, and all the established religion and politics of the world. It abounds in the vilest sophistry, and overflows with the most false and injurious assertions. It should be burnt by every hangman in the universe, and the person of the vain, presumptuous, and vicious author, ought to be perpetually in Newgate. He should be whipped in all the market-places, and exposed in all the pillories of that country, whose purest, and most sacred institutions he has personally laboured to destroy. "Brimestone should be scattered on his habitation," and his memory should be infamous. A man who labours to destroy the happiness of the human race, deserves no other treatment than what a gentleman bestows upon an impudent scoundrel, who spits in one's face, or a felon, who purloins the handkerchief and the watch.
[Farmer's Museum, Sept. 9.]
IDEAS OF PERSONAL BEAUTY.
WHEN Mr. PARK was at Boudon, in Africa, the king of the country, sitting on a mat, with two of his attendants, having conversed some time with him, and received his presents, observed, that his women were very desirous of seeing the white man , and requested that he would favour them with a visit. "An attendant," says Mr. P. "was then ordered to conduct me; and I had no sooner entered the Court appropriated to the ladies, than the whole seraglio surrounded me; some begging physis, some for amber, and all of them desirous of trying that great African specific, blood letting . They were ten or twelve in number, most of them young and handsome, and wearing in their heads ornaments of gold, and beads of amber."
"They rallied me with a good deal of gaily on different subjects; particularly upon the whiteness of my skin , and the prominence of my nose —They insisted that both were artificial! The first, they said, was produced when I was an infant by dipping me in milk ; and they insisted that my nose had been pinched every day , till it had acquired its present unfightly and unnatural conformation. On my part, without disputing my own deformity, I paid them many compliments on African beauty. I praised the glossy jet of the skins, and the lovely depression of their noses; but they said that flattery, or (as they emphatically termed it) honey mouth , was not esteemed in Boudon. In return, however, for my company, or my compliments, to which, by the way, they seemed not so insensible as they affected to be, they presented me with a jar of honey and some fish, which were sent to my lodging; and I was desired to revisit the King in the evening."
LACONIC
The following order to Col. Strauch, is a specimen of the laconic style in which Field-marshal Suwarrows sends his military orders:—"Immediately after receiving these dispatches, you are to break up, with four battalions, to stop the French in the Valteline, and to take fort Truenies." This order was successfully obeyed.
New-England Fortifications.
An excellent toast, given by a Lady. "The best Fortifications of our country—the navy, the meeting-houses, and the public schools." The lady who gave the above, is certainly well versed in the tactics of a free government, and were her name known, ought to be toasted by every patriotic American.
Recipe for making the celebrated Mar- tini's Vinegar, recommended as an antidote to a gutrid fever.
Take rue, sage, mint, rosemary and wormwood, of each a handful, and infuse them over the fire in two quarts of strong vinegar, strain the liquor through a flannel, and add to half an ounce of camphire, dissolved in three ounces of rectified spirits of wine, with this wash the loins, face, and mouth, and on approaching infected persons or places, smell a sponge dipped in this decoction, wear also camphire in a bag near the stomach.
CAUTION TO FEMALES.
Among the numerous instances of unfortunate ladies who have perished by their garments catching the following relation may be deemed one of the most affecting. It is not inserted for the purpose of arousing the feelings of humanity, but intended as a caution against similar accidents. The Lady is the subject, we are informed, was beautiful, her family opulent.
March 13—Died in London, in her 21st year, Miss Seddon, the only unmarried daughter of Mr. Seddon, of Aldersgate-street, hosier. This melancholy event was occasioned by the current of air drawing her dress into the fire while she was pushing a coal between the bars with her foot, on the evening of Tuesday the 12th. Her cries were heard by the women at work below, but supposing it to proceed from the footman, who was subsequently found dead, they paid no attention to them till they continued longer than his fits usually lasted. One of them ran up stairs, and seeing Miss Seddon in flames, called to the women below for assistance. They all ran up immediately, but were so terrified at the dreadful sight, as to be incapable of rendering her any assistance. Some of them went to call the men who were at work in a distant part of the premises, and they supposed that a private door which communicated with the house immediately with that part of the shops in which they worked would be open to them; but as no one had the presence of mind to let them in that way, they were obliged to make a considerable circuit before they could reach the ordinary entrance of the house. Miss Seddon in the mean time got from the drawing room into a wide passage at the top of the stairs, where she burned so dreadfully that the wall paper and ceiling were much discoloured; when the workmen first saw her, she was naked, blackened and disfigured object, struggling with agony and torture. They resorted to the carpet, as the most expeditious mode of extinguishing the fire; but it was nailed to the floor, and she was destined to remain in this distressing situation till some blankets were procured from the servant's beds, which being thrown round her had the desired effect. But it was too late! All the efforts of care and medicine were unavailing; for her body was so dreadfully injured, owing to the fuel the fire met with in her stays that her ribs and the bones of her neck were quite bare. The violence of the pain seemed to have extinguished the acuteness of her feeling; for she lay apparently easy at five o'clock in the afternoon of Wednesday when she expired. [Genl. Magazine, '99]
Inhumanity.
It is unhappy for society that individual Monsters, exposed to such savage brutality as is exhibited in the following description, are placed in situations to gratify their sanguinary disposition.
Newburyport, Sept.
An account of the following we are informed has been transmitted, with the proper vouchers, to the Secretary of State, and will doubtless appear in due time. It was however the wish of the party concerned, that his fellow citizens should be early made acquainted with the cruel and unjust treatment he received, by a British man of war.
"I, RICHARD CARTER, of Kittery, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, declare solemnly and truly, that I was a seaman on board the ship Pomona , Nathaniel Kennard, master. That while the said ship was lying in the harbour of Kingston, Jamaica, being on board one of the lumber stores, I was accompanied by three British officers, who asked me what ship I belonged to. I answered them, the American ship Pomona . They then asked for my protection: I told them it was on board. They then drew their cutlasses, beat me with them, and dragged me, together with another seaman, belonging to Boston, by main force, as they got us to the king's yard. After this a guard was placed over us, until we were carried on board the Brunswick , of 74 guns, Rutherford, Commander. Here the treatment I received was more cruel and abusive. After being on board a little time I was ordered to the quarter deck, the officers on which ordered the boatswain's mate to take me down and give me a smart dram, as they expressed it. I was taken down in the waist, where the boatswain's mate continued to flog me with a three-iron rope till he was tired. He then called a man to his assistance, who took the rope, and followed his example, by flogging me until I could scarcely stand or go. My clothes which I had on were all cut to pieces. I was then ordered to duty in the waist. In going down the board side, not moving so fast as the said smaller thought I might, he gave me a blow and knocked me down upon the gun deck, calling me at the same time a damn'd young rascal, &c."
"The next day Capt. Kennard, hearing what had happened, endeavoured to come on board, to effect my release: but the Lieutenant ordered the centinel to fire on the boat if it attempted to approach the ship. Capt. Kennard then procured a writ for the captain of the ship, and had him arrested when on board, who was obliged to give bonds that I should be delivered up. I was accordingly sent on board, but in so mangled a condition that I was unable to do duty for ten days. I hereby acknowledge my respects to Capt. Kennard for his exertions in my behalf. It was owing to his determined conduct, in not stopping to Bilboe's insolence, that I was relieved from their master's hands. Numbers of American sailors are now held by them in a state equal to absolute slavery."
RICHARD CARTER.
[The foregoing was authenticated on oath before Daniel Humphreys, Notary Public.]
EXTRACT
From the ACCOUNT OF AMERICAN POETS.
[The eleventh number of "American Antiquities" contains an extract from the seventeenth book of the Anarchiad , entitled "THE LAND OF ANNIBILATION."—This extract is introduced by some ingenious critical remarks, partly serious and partly jesting, on the machinery of the Epic Poem; and particularly on the uniform practice of Epic Poets, of introducing the reader into the internal regions. "The philosophical cause" proceed the pretended antiquarians, which has led all poets into those regions, we shall not attempt to investigate. The following extract is more excellent in its plan, and has suffered less from the hand of imitators. The LAND OF ANNIBILATION, described in so picturesque a manner, is a valuable addition to the subterranean geography; but the theory of a race of beings, properly the denizens of that country, who, after having mixed undistinguished with mankind, and performed all human functions, then return to their primitive nobility, might pass for a burlesque idea, if it were not found in so serious a performance.] (Eng. Mag.)
"Beyond the realms where Stygian horrors dwell, And floods sulphurous whelm the vales of hell, Where Naiad furies, yelling as they lave, In fiery eddies roll the turbid wave; Beyond the verge of chaos' utmost clime, The dubious bounds of nature, space and time; A realm extends its unessential gloom, The vast creation's universal tomb. There no fair suns emblaze the courts on high, Nor moon, nor starry fires, the evening sky; No matin clouds in ether hang their sails, Nor moving spirit wakes the vernal gales; But endless twilight, with a feeble ray, Browns the dim horrors of the dusky day, And silence, sameness, and eternal shade, The unbounded, wild manity pervade."
"In night pavilion, o'er the shadowy plains, The peevish Power, ANNIBILATION reigns: Eldritch of Fiends! whose unceasing breath Peoples the shores of darkness and of death. Down the deep gulph's absorbing vortex whirl'd, Sink the vain spenders of each upper world; Ambition's toil, the statesman's gloried name, The hero's triumph, and the poet's fame: Inflame throgs who, fir'd with lust of gain, Dive the firm earth, and force the faithless main, Here, lull'd to sleep, eternal slumbers keep, And curtain'd close in dead oblivion sleep."
"Beneath his sceptre, in imperial state, His stern commands ten thousand demons wait; Prompt, like their prince, in elemental wars, To tread out empires, and to quench the stars; Extinguish'd worlds in delug'd fires to lave; Sweep ruin'd systems to a common grave; Exterminate existence, and restore The vauxquish'd vacuum to the tyrant's power."
"These the great Hierarchs, whose prowess leads The vassal throng to desolating deeds:— But far beneath them spreads a junior fry, The pigmy populace of the nether sky; With feeble powers, for petty toils design'd, Their humble office is to plague mankind; Pervade the world, excite all mortal strife, Inspire the wrongs and blast the joys of life."
"Matur'd for birth, at times on earth they rise, Incarnate Imps, and veil'd in human guise; Like man appear in stature, shape, and face, Mix undistinguish'd with the common race; Fill every rank, in each profession blend, Power all their aim, and ruin all their end."
"Of these the least, in med'cine's garb array'd, With deadly art pursue the healing trade, The lancet weild, prescribe the poisonous pill, Invent the nostrum, and unceasing kill, O'erload the Stygian bark with frequent freight, And crowd with angry ghosts the realms of fate."
A GENTLEMAN by the name of Mann, commander of the ship called the Moon, was very familiar with a gentlewoman whose husband taxed her with being familiar with another gentleman.—She declared She knew no more of him than the Man in the Moon.