Herald of the United States (Warren, R.I.), 1805-07-27 00:00:00

Gazet of the United States.
WARREN:—PUBLISHED NEAR THE POST-OFFICE, BY NATHANIEL PHILLIPS.
[No. 43, of Vol. XIII.]
SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1805.
[Whole No. 667.]
FOR THE HERALD.
THE LAY PREACHER, JUN.—No. IV.
"Flee youthful lusts."
THE views and immoralities of youth at the present day is a subject of most painful thought to the mind of every person of reflection. The scenes of riot, debauchery and dissipation which prevail among them would lead one to conclude that they had totally mistaken the end and design of their existence—that they were totally insensible of any duties they owe to their Creator, to Society or to themselves—that, in their estimation, the only design of their existence is, "To revell and to riot."
The words of our text presents an immense subject: If attended to in their full extent they would lead us to descend on the whole circle of youthful vices. But we will confine our observations at this time chiefly to those two particular vices which, of all others, are the most prevalent, the most degrading to the human character, and most destructive to human happiness: I mean intemperance and the unlawful indulgence of that passion which was given us for the preservation of our species.
All the natural appetites and passions of man were given us for wise and benevolent purposes, and if duly restrained, tend to increase our pleasure and happiness, but if suffered to grow, unrestrained, in all the wild luxuriance of guilt, they debase our nature, destroy all manliness of character, and render man, "the noblest work of God," worse than the fabled Centaur, which was said to be half man, and half beast.
The drunkard and the debauchee, while they are taking the most direct measures to destroy their own health, fame and fortune, are, at the same time destroying the happiness of society. Thousands are made wretched by their guilt. Many amiable daughters are seduced, by their lascivious arts from the peaceful paths of virtue, and led on, from one degree of vice to another till they become the most wretched pests of society.
The youths who have given themselves up to the unlawful and unrestrained indulgence of their appetites and passions, have thereby forfeited their claim to rationality, and voluntariness.
And shall we be short to judge, or hard if we say, they ought to be driven, like Nebuchadnezzar, from the habitations of men, and take up their abode with that part of the creation with which they have closed themselves? But even here, the conduct of their companions, the brute, would be a silent reproof of their licentiousness; for brutes do not transgress the bounds of appetite. When they have eaten their fill, calm and content, they lay them down to rest. When they have slaked their thirst, with the pure element of nature, at the running stream, they have no false appetite for more. When they have satisfied the desires of nature, they use no unnatural means to excite new desires;—not so the guilty libertine: He is an animal transgressing appetite;—he repeats his gratifications until they become painful; and when his bodily appetites are deadened, by repeated excesses, he sets his imagination at work to create new desires. When his natural appetites are satiated his mind, (if he may be said to possess a mind) is still anxious for new desires.—While his body is in pain thro' excessive indulgence, his mind is in anxious misery because he has then no appetites to gratify.
There are three kinds of happiness on earth gradually less and less. There is a happiness from the exertion of reason, where reason is given: This is the happiness of a man. There is an inferior happiness from the gratification of sense, where reason is denied; this is the happiness of a brute. And there is a calamitous happiness where reason is suppressed or abused; and this is the happiness of a wretch." We see, then, in what line of happiness these characters are content to rank themselves—not with, but below the brutes.
What a miserable picture of humanity in ruin is this! A rational dethroned of reason! The Infidel man of pleasure, says an eminent writer "is an immortal being, that has but two marks of a man about him—upright stature and the power of playing the fool, which a monkey has not. He is an immortal being, that triumphs in this single, deplorable and yet false hope, that he shall be as happy as a monkey when they are both dead."
My Youthful Friends,—If you have any regard for your own character, "flee youthful lusts,"—If you have any desire for a comfortable, peaceful life "flee youthful lusts."—If you have any desire to enjoy a blessed immortality beyond the grave, let me persuade you to "FLEE YOUTHFUL LUSTS."
The importance of the Soul.
AN EXTRACT.
"THE eternal salvation of one soul, is of greater importance, and big with greater events, than the temporal salvation of a whole kingdom, though it were for the space of ten thousand ages; because there will come up a point, an instant in eternity, when that one soul shall have existed as many ages as all the
individuals of a whole kingdom, ranged in close succession, will in the whole have existed in the space of ten thousand ages: Therefore one soul is capable of a larger share of happiness or misery, throughout an endless eternity for that will still be before it, more than a whole kingdom is capable of in ten thousand ages."
AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT.
IT has long been the practice in Germany, Denmark, and the countries on the shores of the Baltic, not only for those who fatten bullocks for the butcher, but for those who keep milk cows, to give them frequently what they call a DRAIN, which is a kind of postage, prepared differently in different parts of the country, and in different seasons, according to the facility with which one or other of the articles occasionally employed in it may be procured, and according to the different fancies of individuals.—The articles most commonly used are, bran, oatmeal, brewer's grains, mashed potatoes or turnips, ryemeal, with a large proportion of water; sometimes two or three, or more of these articles are united in forming the drink, and of whatever ingredients the drink consists, a few eggs, for the most part, and a large proportion of salt, are always added.
Kitchens have been built in different parts of Germany, particularly in Bavaria, and large boilers provided and fitted up in the stables and cow-houses, merely for the purpose of preparing food for the horses and cattle; the example has been followed in several instances in this country. It is asserted by many very intelligent farmers who have adopted this new method of feeding, that it is highly advantageous; that the drink, by being boiled, is rendered more nourishing and wholesome; and that the expense of fuel, and the trouble attending this process, is amply compensated by the advantages derived from the improvement of the food.—They even found it their interest to continue the boiling a considerable time, two or three hours for instance, as the food continued to be still farther improved the longer the boiling was continued, always adding a quantity of common salt.
Common salt is both agreeable and nutritious to animals, as well as to the human being. In Germany they catch the wild horses in the woods by laying baits of salt for them.
A FRAGMENT.
I FIND they all have their hobby-horses. Your little men, and your great men, and your little women, and your great women, all make their slips, and discover their foibles, and expose a weak side. This doctrine is a very delicious morsel to envy, and ill-nature, and slander.—They snap at it with their black teeth, and squint over it with their bagged eyes, and sport it round them with their patrifed tongues, and bloat their lean visages with it as with festering canker. Should they hear of any body that is perfect, they would pine to death, and endeavor to taint the world with contagion. But now they may glet themselves; for there is nobody perfect.
Yet that something may still know their entrails, and be consuming their vitals, I would just put them in mind, that all are not sheep-shearing, or horse truckers, or penny squeezers, or note forgers, or grog guzzlers, or wenches wappers, or lie blearers, or fit knockers, or spleen fretters, or wise droppers, or cyder waterers, or cloth clippers.
All these I esteem as thistles, in the field, and as briars, and as cockle, and as weeds, and as rocks, and as snakes, and as wood-chucks, and as bears, and as hornets, and as grasshoppers, and as spiders. But, I say, all are nothing. Some are not ashamed to hold up their heads. Many are so high what they should be, that malice herself is nonplused, and dares scarcely to whisper what ingenuity confesses—and all are imperfect.
From the KENTUCKY GAZETTE, of June 23.
THE party of discovery, under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, left the mouth of the Missouri on the 19th day of May, 1804.—An express with dispatches from their winter quarters, which left them the 14th of April, has returned to St. Louis. By the express, letters were received from Capt. Clark to his correspondents in Kentucky. A gentleman from Jefferson county has obligingly favoured the Editor of the Kentucky Gazette with the following account, which he obtained from one of the men who returned with the express, and from letters from some of the party. They fortified themselves, in November last, on the bank of the Missouri, 1609 miles from the mouth, by equal measurement, in lat. 47. 21 N. called then Fort Mandan, after a nation of Indians who reside in the neighbourhood, and who have been very friendly to them. On their passage up, they were delighted with the beautiful appearance of the country for about 200 leagues, or to the mouth of the river La Platte, which comes in from the South; after which, to their winter quarters, it is described not to be so fertile. The person who brought the dispatches, speaks of the opening made by
the river, being about one mile wide, with high cliffs on each side. The bed of the river occupies about a fourth part of it, the remainder of the bottom entirely composed of coarse sand, covered with cotton wood. This bottom is continually giving way either on one side or the other, and gaining on the opposite side.—The cliffs in some places are covered with red cedar, which, with the cotton wood, and a few small black ash trees, is the only timber described to be in that country. From the height, there is not a tree or twig to be seen, as far as the sight can extend, or as they have explored. Out from the river, the land goes off perfectly level, with but few exceptions—and their plains are covered with grass. They passed the mouths of a number of streams, the most of which had names given by the French. One they have named Floyd's river, to perpetuate the name of a young man of their party, named Charles Floyd, who died much regretted August 20. They represent the Indians to have been friendly, with but few exceptions. The Sioux are the most numerous, are organized in bands bearing different names, move about from place to place, from the banks of the river out to the plains, in pursuit of game and plunder, having no fixed place of residence, and in a continual state of warfare. These were the most troublesome Indians to the party of discovery, as they expressed a jealousy, lest they would supply their enemies higher up with arms, &c. The higher up they went, the more friendly they found the savages, and the better armed. They have a more regular trade with the North-West Company, and the Hudson Bay Company; which supplies come to them by the way of Lake Winnepeck. The Mandanes cultivate corn, which is of a small kind, from which the party was supplied during the winter, and their hunters kept them in abundance of meat.
Buffaloes are said to be in great numbers, and of large size.—Two descriptions of deer are described; those resembling the common kind of this country being larger, and the tails 18 inches long, and the hair much longer on their bodies; the other kind having a black tail. Elk and goats are numerous. The grouse, or prairie hen, are in plenty; and before the closing of the river in the fall, water-fowl in abundance. Fish scarce, and those primitive. The party had no fort by which to defend themselves against the Indians from higher up, but the party had horses of those animals. The Indians keep horses, which are used entirely for the chase, and in war.
From such information as they have received of the country above there, it is about 600 miles to the great falls, which are made by a ledge of mountains called Rocky Mountains, in which it is presumed the Missouri terminates. At their winter quarters the river is nearly a quarter of a mile wide; it is equally as muddy as at its mouth, and has continued its rapidity, with very little alteration, as high as they have gone, though it has become considerably more shallow, so that they will not be able to take their large barge any higher.—From what information they have obtained of the course of the upper part of the river, the most are at the northwardly part. From where they wintered, to the falls, is nearly a south course. The description given by McKenzie of the head waters of the river, is accurate.
They have sent on to the President of the United States an accurate journal, with a map of the country through which they passed. Six of the party were sent back—the party now consists of 28 men, exclusive of the two officers. They have enjoyed perfect health—not one having been sick, except the unfortunate young man before mentioned, and he was taken off in a few hours with a cramp in his stomach. The greatest friendship has existed with the party; and the men who have returned speak in the highest terms of the humanity, and uncommon pains and attention of both the Captains Lewis and Clark, towards the whole of them; and that they left them in good spirits, fully convinced that they should winter on the Pacific Ocean.
They were told of six nations of Indians they would have to pass, before they would arrive at the falls, from only one of which they apprehended any difficulty—they are called the Snake tribe, and reside high up.
Curiosities of different kinds—live beasts, birds, several boxes of minerals, a pair of uncommon ram's horns, from the Rocky Mountains, skins of a new discovered berry, called the buffalo berry, &c. have been brought on by the returned party, and deposited with the commanding officer at St. Louis, to be sent by him to the President.
We expect in a few days further particulars relative to this interesting voyage.
COMPLETE LIST.
OF THE CONSULS AND AMERICAN AGENTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
 In Great-Britain and its dominions. CONSULS. William Lyman, London. Elias Vanderhoff, Bristol. Robert W. Fox, Falmouth. James Maury, Liverpool. Joseph Wilson, Dublin. 
 Thomas Aulco, Vice Consul, Poole. James Holmes, B. Brist. John Church, Cork. John Gavino, Gibraltar. Joseph Polis, Malta. 
 In France and its dominions. COMMERCIAL AGENTS. Falwar Skipwith, Paris. Jacob Ridgway, Antwerp. Isaac Cox Barnett, Havre de Grace. John Mitchell, V. Com. Ag. do. William Lee, Com. Ag. Bordeaux. Thomas Abdn, V. Com. Ag. Cayenne. James Anderson, Com. Ag. Cete. William Buchanan, Isles of France & Bourbon. Etienne Cathalan, Marseilles. John Appleton, Calais. William Patterson, Naniz. Aaron Vale, L'Orient. Thomas Lovell, La Rochelle. Francis Coffin, Dunkirk. Henry Wilson, Ostend. 
 In Spain and its dominions. CONSULS. Moses Young, Madrid. Joseph Yznardi, Cadiz. Robert Montgomery, Alicante. William Kirkpatrick, Malaga. Lewis Meagher O'Brien, St. Andro. John Leonard, Barcelona. John Martin Baker, Isles of Majorca, Minorca, and Yvica. Henry Hill, Island of Cuba. John James Armstrong, Island of Teneriffe. 
 In Portugal and its dominions. William Jarvis, Consul, Lisbon. John Street, do. Fayal. Marian Lemar, do. Madeira. 
 Within the Batavian Republic and its dependencies. Sylvanus Bourne, Consul General, Amsterdam. Thomas Lowes, Consul, Batavia. 
 In Denmark and its dominions. Hans Rudolph Ahlbye, Consul, Copenhagen. J. N. Nilsen, St. Croix. 
 In Sweden. Frederick W. Lotze, Stockholm. William Clarke, Embden. 
 In Germany. John M. Forbes, Hamburg. Frederick J. Wichelhausen, Bremen. Philip Marck, Franconia. William Riggio, Trieste. 
 In the kingdom of Sweden. Robert G. Gardiner, Gottenburg. Isaac Prince, Isl. St. Bartholomews. 
 In the Italian States. Thomas Appleton, Leghorn. Frederick Degan, Naples. Peter Kohn, jun. Genoa. John Broadbear, Messina. Abraham Gibbs, Palermo. 
 In Russia. Levitt Harris, St. Petersburg. 
 In Turkey. William Stuart, Smyrna. 
 In Algiers. Tobias Lear, Consul General. 
Foreign Intelligence.
ITALY. MILAN, MAY 4.
THE deputation sent by our Government to Turin, to compliment the Emperor Napoleon, met with the most gracious reception from His Majesty. The following are some passages in the answer which that Monarch returned to the address of the President of this deputation:
"I receive, with pleasure, the expression of the sentiments of the people of Milan. These sentiments have been known to me from the time when I first entered victorious within their walls. I consider the inhabitants of Milan as my children; and I shall ever entertain for them the most particular affection, while I applaud myself for having delivered them from their enemies, and saved them from the dangers which threatened them. I recommend to them the practice of the social virtues actively, the love of their country and order. Speaking of the Italian Republic, and the kingdom of Italy he said, that the former had ex-

cited envy and jealousy, and the latter might excite them still more, as it afforded less facility to agitate and disunite; but in that case, God had given him a good sword to scatter its enemies. His Majesty added, that he would never lose sight of the interest of the city of Milan, and that he would hasten the moment of his arrival in the midst of the Milanese people."
HOLLAND. AMSTERDAM, MAY 21.
Our Gazette mentions a report from Paris, that Rear-Admiral Magon, with two ships of the line and three frigates, had put to sea from the Isle of Rhe, and that their destination was to the East-Indies.
ENGLAND. LONDON, MAY 25.
An officer of one of the ships lately captured by the Bold gun-brig, gives a most formidable account of the number of the enemy's flotilla in the ports of Boulogne, Vimereux, Etaples, Calais, Ostend and Dunkirk. He swells the total amount to 5000; is confident that the attempt at invasion will be made this summer: that the French fleet will come out and fight ours, and that whilst they are fighting us with their ships of the line, their large frigates will release the flotilla from the different ports, and convoy them to our shores. The number of men encamped on the Boulogne coast is 50,000.
The foreign intelligence of the week is of trivial importance. Bonaparte is in Italy, alarmed little by the menaces of Russia; indeed, his fears from that quarter are about the same tone with our hopes, which have sunk a full octave within a few weeks. He knows there is little fear from paper proceedings, and this is the only artillery which the Cabinet of St. Petersburg is likely to employ.
There is, however, a complete breach between Sweden and Prussia; the former power is supposed to be spirited up by Russia, and the latter is well known to have failed in a recent negotiation with that Court. Russia is very jealous of the proceedings of the Cordon of troops to 30,000.
MAY 27.
The complete cessation of diplomatic intercourse between the courts of Berlin and Stockholm which has taken place, may be considered more as a misunderstanding between individuals than nations. It can have little effect upon the general interest of Europe. To the report that Russia has purchased the sovereignty of Swedish Pomerania, we cannot annex any credit.
The tone of defiance (says the Courier) which Sweden has lately held to Prussia has appeared to most persons extraordinary. Those who admired the spirit of his Swedish Majesty were compelled to doubt his prudence; and every person was prepared to expect that the wily councils of the Court of Berlin would find his Majesty's avowal of his sentiments a pretext for commencing hostilities, and for sending an army into Pomerania, which Prussia has so long looked upon with an eye of desire. But there is a report in circulation which would explain why Prussia has yet abstained from making any hostile demonstrations against Pomerania. It is said that his Swedish Majesty, hopeless of being able to preserve much longer that province from the hands of Prussia, backed and supported by France, has surrendered it to a power perfectly able to protect it, to Russia. Whether it has been surrendered for a valuable pecuniary consideration, which we hardly think, or whether his Swedish Majesty has exchanged it for Russian territories contiguous to the North Eastern part of his Swedish Dominions, we know not. The placing of Pomerania in the hands of Russia, would of course be highly disagreeable to Prussia. But any speculations upon the probable consequences of such a measure would be premature, before we have ascertained whether the rumour be well founded or not. It is certainly not confirmed by the following articles brought by the Hamburg Mail, which arrived yesterday:—
STOCKHOLM, (Sweden) May 23.
It is reported, that the Prussian Minister has left this Court, and that a note has been published by the Cabinet of Berlin, declaring all communication between it and that of Stockholm at an end for the present.—It is thought that the King of Sweden, having returned the order of the Prussian Eagle, has given rise to this coolness between the two Courts.
The Leipzig Gazette of the 4th May contains the following article:
"His Majesty the King of Prussia persists, for an essential, in the declaration which he has made relative to Swedish Pomerania, without at all disputing the rights of the King of Sweden to the Sovereignty. The arguments which he has used, the motives which he declared, are laid down in so friendly a manner, that they cannot fail to make an impression upon the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. In the said answer his Prussian Majesty gives an assurance that he never had an idea of attacking the rights of Sovereignty of the king of Sweden; but it declares, at the same time, that from the local position and the relations of Swedish Pomerania, and according to the principles adopted by the court of Stockholm, maintained by General Arnsfeldt, at Berlin, in October 1804; there neither ought, nor can arise, from this little country, any provocation whatever, and it is to that which the note of the cabinet of Berlin of the 24th January last, refers. The court of Prussia has given at the same time a formal assurance, that in the present state of things it has no hostile views upon Swedish Pomerania. M. De Brinkman, the Swedish Charge des Affaires, has received no other answer to his note of the 29th of February, except a verbal declaration, importing, that seeing the close union which exists between Russia and Sweden, they should adhere to the correspondence which had been carried on with the former of those cabinets."
MAY 29.
A letter received yesterday from Cork states, that that city had been thrown into some alarm, in consequence of an express having arrived there, with orders for every armed vessel to proceed to the westward; from which it was inferred that the enemy had been seen in considerable force in that quarter.
MAY 30.
Dispatches were received last night at the Admiralty from Admiral Lord Gardner, dated the 22d inst. stating that on the 11th his Majesty's frigate La Loire, in lat. 43, 44, long. 20, 48 W. fell in with five sail of the line and three frigates (supposed from the West-Indies) standing to the eastward. She proceeded to communicate the intelligence to the squadron off Ferrol, and Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Calder immediately went in pursuit, but not getting sight of them, he thinks they have effected their return to a port in France.
The Channel fleet was left all well on Sunday last. Lord Gardner has divided it into two detachments, one of which cruizes as the inshore squadron, and the other as the out.
The two sail of the line which we announced some time ago as having slipped out of Rochefort, are gone to the West-Indies.—They had about 1300 troops on board.
The more we reflect upon the designs of the French, upon which the curious intercepted correspondence lately published has thrown such strong light, the more are we convinced, that an attack upon our Indian settlements is one of their great objects. Some private letters received within a day or two from France, strengthen our opinion. They state in positive terms, that in a certain latitude, the combined fleets were to separate, and that seven sail of the line were to be detached to the East-Indies, with 5000 troops on board.
Lord Keith has left town for Ramsgate, to resume the command of the ships off Boulogne.
DUTCH COMMERCE.
The New Code of Commerce consists of nineteen articles.
1st. The Repeal and Abolition of all Laws and Resolutions existing before the Decree against trading with Great-Britain.
2d. A prohibition of all direct commerce from any of the Dutch ports with Great-Britain.
3d. Every vessel that shall arrive in any out ports with false or forged papers, direct from Great-Britain, or from any port or haven thereunto belonging, shall, together with every article of her cargo, be confiscated.
4th. On information that any vessel, having been under the necessity of putting into any of the British ports, shall have taken any additional articles on board besides her original cargo, she shall be confiscated; and the captain be liable to pay a fine of 1000 guilders, if he be found to have concealed the fact.
5th. A regulation respecting vessels from Great-Britain (whose original destination may be represented to have been for a neutral port) putting into any of the Dutch ports; which shall, if the ship's passport does not clearly prove every part of her cargo to have been destined for such neutral port, be declared to be enemy's property, and confiscated accordingly, so long as free navigation and free commerce be not declared in England.
6th. A fine of 1000 guilders to be paid by every captain or master of the vessel, who shall be found to have any papers, or packets of papers, to be delivered to any of the military officers, on or before their arrival in a Dutch port.
7th. All documents, or ships' papers, of whatever description, shall, with the utmost care, be delivered, and also a written declaration by both the captain and master; declaring upon oath whence they came, whither destined, and that they had delivered all papers they had in possession, and that they have not brought over with them, or delivered before this their declaration, any letters or papers whatever.—Further, all vessels shall be obliged to take a birth nearest the shore, where they are to remain under guard until they have received leave to weigh anchor.
8th. A prohibition of all importation of British manufacture, from any place and in any manner soever, under penalty of the articles being confiscated, and a fine of 1000 guilders. All indirect importation shall be punished corporally, and, if the case requires it, capitally.
9th. The term British manufacture comprises also coal and train oil.
10th. Goods manufactured in other countries will be admitted, provided they are accompanied with original certificates from the Secretary of Finance.
11th. No article is to be imported that shall not have been notified at the different offices of the Secretaries of Finance during the voyage.
12th. All direct communication and commerce between this republic and Great-Britain, shall henceforth be prohibited.
13th. Prohibits the exportation of ammunition without previous permission. Tar, salted meat, and cheese, are prohibited from being conveyed to any port on this side of the Wezer; and even then without special leave, and for a given quantity only.
14th. A fine of treble the value shall be imposed upon all such articles exported without leave, as shall require such previous special permission; as likewise for rye, oats, beans, peas, split barley, grits, pork and butter.
15th. Specifies the form in which the certificates are to be drawn.
16th. No vessel shall sail, unless she be provided with a special permit of the Commissary, &c. besides the other necessary papers.
17th. The captain, passengers, and crew, are prohibited from taking with them letters, packets, or any thing whatever, intended for any port or haven in Great-Britain, under the penalty of a fine of 1000 guilders, and one year's confinement; and for which purpose the captain is required to make his declaration before he sets sail.
18th. Prohibits the lading or unlading on any strands or bye-places. The 19th forbids the casting anchor at any magazine or warehouse,
during the passage, within certain limits.
The intelligence which on Tuesday was communicated from Holland, respecting the intended prohibition of all commercial intercourse between that country and England, has very naturally produced a considerable sensation among that part of the commercial world interested in the Dutch trade. That intelligence has been corroborated by several private letters received in the city, which state, in addition, "that if any letters shall be received, and be opened and acted upon in any manner whatever by any merchant, trader, person or persons, of any description, in Holland, from any of the subjects to the crown of Great-Britain, after orders to be issued to the contrary, that every such person shall be liable for every such offence to the forfeiture of 1000 guilders (about 90 pounds sterling) half of which is to be paid into the coffers of the State, and the other half to the informer."
Letters of the 4th of May, from the coast of Spain, containing a caution of a nature rather extraordinary, have been received in town. They say, "in consequence of the rumours in circulation here respecting Portugal, we deem it prudent not to address you any longer by the way of Lisbon, but through the medium of Holland."
Madame Jerome Bonaparte has seen very little company since her arrival in London.
A letter from Paris, dated May 18, says—"I suppose you have heard that many of the United Irishmen are quitting this country for America.—Dr. McNeven has resigned his commission in the Irish Legation, and is going there; Emmett is already there; Sampson, the barrister, and Sweeney, who killed Corbett in a duel, are also going."
It is reported, that some meetings of disaffected persons (some say of several thousands) have been lately observed in the county of Kildare, Ireland.
The Patriotic Fund Committee, at a special meeting, held at the Coffee-House, have voted to Gen. Prevost, and the officers and men under his command, as a tribute of their consideration for the gallant defence of Dominique, as follows:—To Gen. Prevost, a sword, value 100l. and a piece of plate, value 200l.—To Major Munn, a sword, value 50l. and a piece of plate, value 100l. A sword and a piece of plate of the same value to Capt. O'Connell. The sum of 100l. to Capt. C. Campbell, and the sum of 40l. to each disabled man, or who may have lost a limb. 20l. to each man severely wounded; and 10l. to every man slightly wounded; in which are included the militia of the island.
The crew of the Endymion frigate were paid 213l. 14s. per man, prize money, on Tuesday last. They have to receive upwards of 300l. more.
The King of Sweden has declared Stralsund a free port for the importation of British manufactures.
JUNE 3.
Of Admiral Collingwood's progress, or destination, we are still uninformed. He sailed with sealed orders, which were not opened until he reached a certain latitude.
A considerable degree of bustle has for some days prevailed in the naval department, and great exertions are used to reinforce our squadron in the North Sea.—It is reported that the Toulon and Spanish fleets are determined to release the Dutch squadron, and with this reinforcement, to cover the long menaced invasion. The Glory has been added to the Texel squadron, and four other ships are immediately to follow; part of the Dungeness squadron is also to be sent thither.
Several Russian Gentlemen, Volunteers in the Channel fleet, have repaired to Portsmouth to join the Russian ships now there; and others which are expected.
Saturday, ten guineas were given at Lloyd's, to receive one hundred, should five thousand French troops be landed in Ireland within the next six weeks.

States.
[Whole No. 669.]
Pitiable indeed would be the condition of Lord Melville, if sentence considered as finally passed upon him; but surely no one who has attended to the proceedings of the house of commons, will affirm this to be the case. If we were to credit the language of the newspapers, we should be to suppose, that the greatest crime who ever appeared in the world, now led in triumph by the public voice of the country—that a monster peculation was exhibited, such as people had never seen before, and
cooper and injured the fore-mast very much; ship Farmer, Goodwin, of Kittery, failed June 20, for Cowes, and a market. Spoke, in lat. 31, 10, long. 18, the Driver, British sloop of war; had captured a privateer.
NEW YORK, JULY 22. Arrived yesterday, the sloop Maria, Williams, in 26 days from Turks-Island, via Bermuda. Touched at New London, left there Feb. Experiment, in 60 days from Madeira in distress, having got on the rocks in the sound with a pilot on board.—Saw two ships in the sound just above Hell-Gate bound down.
JULY 23. Arrived yesterday, the brig Peggy, Hughes, in 45 days from the Isle of May. Spoke, July 20, off the E. end of Long-Island, the ship Pallas, of New-York, 24 hours from Newport R. I. for the river Plate. June 4, was boarded by the British armed ship Eugene, from Guernsey, with an intention of pressing men, which they did not effect, as they were repulsed by the captain and crew of the Peggy, notwithstanding the fire of their musketry, &c. July 8, in lat. 34, 47, long. 69, Schooner Richmond, 11 days from New-Haven, for Barbadoes.
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 19. Captain Williamson, of the brig Jane (whose arrival we mentioned yesterday) (on his voyage he spoke the British frigate Pallas, Capt. Cochran, and the Volunteer, of Jersey, by both of whom he was examined and treated politely; but on the 6th of June, saw several sail to the N. W. standing N. one of which he fired a gun and fired British colors; Capt. W. immediately hoisted the American ensign; they ordered him to hoist out his boat or they would fire into him. Capt. W. said, that having broke the stern post of his boat in Bordeaux, he did not think he could swim; they immediately fired some musket shot through her sails, and was preparing a carronade on the quarter deck to fire into the Jane.—Capt. W. then sent his mate and 4 people on board with his papers, which they effected with much risk, one hand being scarcely able to keep the boat free, she made so much water. The Jane's boat was scarcely on board before the frigates came alongside the Jane with orders for Capt. W. to go on board, which he peremptorily refused to do, knowing no right they had to take him out of his brig, especially as he had but two hands and no navigator on board. On the boat's return to the ship he was ordered to stand after the ship, which he was under the necessity of doing, though it was directly contrary to the course he ought to steer, as they detained his boat, mate and four people on board. At 4 o'clock Capt. W. handed several of his sails, and hoisted his colors half mast, so odd still then in sight. At 6 o'clock they discharged the Jane's people and boat, who after rowing two or 3 leagues, got along side the brig at 8 o'clock, being then nearly ready to sink. He thinks that the under officers were ashamed of the conduct of their captain, as they would neither tell his name nor that of the ship; but he believes it was the Fairy. Spoke, May 23, inside of the Cordovan, the brig Elizabeth, of Boston, 28 days out from New-York.—July 2, in lat. 38, long. 69, the brig Maria, 3 days from Baltimore for Amsterdam. July 8, in lat. 40, long. 73, the schr. Clarissa, Thompson, 26 days from Barbadoes for Wilkesbarre.
JOHN CROADE,
Has just received a few Hhds. high 3d Proof St. Croix RUM of an excellent Flavor, which he will sell on very low Terms. Warren, July 26, 1805.
RUNAWAY from the Subscriber, on Sunday the 7th Instant, an indented Bengal Boy, named TOM, but it is likely will call himself SIMON, about 16 Years of Age, of a Swarthy complexion:—Had on when he went away a blue Nankin Short Jacket and Waistcoat, Tow Cloth Trowsers, and carried away with him a suit of striped Cotton and other Clothes.—Whoever apprehends said Boy, and returns him to the Subscriber, shall receive One Cent Reward. I hereby forbid any Master of Vessel or others from carrying away or harboring said Boy on Penalty of the Law. WILLIAM READ. Somerset, July 8, 1805.
were detected in the fact, and committed to Bridewell for examination. It appears that the robbers after opening the street-door by a false key, proceeded to fill several bags, which they brought with them, with the contents of the store, consisting of laces, silks, &c. to the amount of about 6000 dollars. They had provided a boat with several empty boxes and trunks, to carry off their plunder by water. One of the villains Mr. Longchamp had noticed being in his store a few days previous, under pretence of buying some goods for a gentleman to the southward.
Capt. Pendergast, of the ship Brutus, informs, that the day previous to his departure, the American consul received a letter from Capt. Burk, of the ship Thomas, of Norfolk, then at St. Lucar, stating, that he was boarded by one of Admiral Nelson's squadron, who informed him, that the blockade of Cadiz and St. Lucar, was taken off, and permitted him to enter the latter port, with a cargo of wheat from Bordeaux.
On the 26th of May, a British sloop of war arrived at Lisbon, which had fallen in with one of Admiral Gardner's squadron, which had been dispatched from the fleet for England, with information, that he left the Admiral with 23 sail of the line in sight of the Brest fleet of 33 sail of the line, they having left Brest a short time before!
JULY 23. Capt. Hallowell, of the brig Eliza, from Leghorn, via Gibraltar, bears dispatches from Capt. Decatur, of the Congress, then at Leghorn, for our Government. It was expected that an immediate war would take place between the Emperor of Morocco and the United States. There were already two Moorish frigates out cruising for Americans. The United States brig Syren, Capt. Stewart had taken her station off Gibraltar, and was ordered to cruise between Cape Spartel and Magadore to intercept any prizes that these frigates might make. On the 16th May, Capt. Hallowell was chased and fired at by a Tripolitan Xebec of 17 guns, but escaped by superior sailing: at this time she was only 8 hours sail from the Congress. The Algerine fleet were out consisting of the Glory, of 44 guns: Hagium Mustapha, of 44: Hafsam Balhaw brig of 18: and were cruising for Neapolitans and Genoese. They treated Capt. H. with particular politeness. A Portuguese fleet of two 74's and a frigate were cruising in the Gut of Gibraltar.
Eight days ago, off Bermuda, was boarded by a French privateer only 10 days from Basse Terre, G. who informed that the French fleet under Admiral Villeneuve, had taken on board all the white troops both at Martinique and Guadeloupe, and that their destination was positively for Ireland.
Capt. Hallowell further informs us, that it was hourly expected that the British ships at Gibraltar would be burnt by fire-ships from Algiers. Capt. H. has letters from American prisoners at Tripoli.
MASSACHUSETTS. BOSTON, JULY 22. From MALTA, April 19, 1805. A letter, received in town on Saturday last from Malta, states the following information: "The Tripolitan expedition is now going on rapidly; but the weather has heretofore been so severe, that the frigates have not been out till lately; that a vessel had sailed for Egypt with stores, &c. for the Bashaw of Tripoli's brother, who is to assist in the siege of Tripoli by land."
From EUROPE. The Hibernia, Capt. Doane, arrived here yesterday from Port Glasgow, has furnished papers from that place to the 7th June; but they add nothing to our former stock of European Intelligence.—Capt. Doane, spoke the brig Telemachus, on the 13th inst. in a short passage from Leghorn, and was informed that the American Gun-Boats had all arrived safe at Gibraltar.
WARREN, SATURDAY, JULY 27. We are informed, that Capt. MURRAY, is appointed to command the Adams frigate, ordered to disperse the French privateers off our coast. [Phila. paper.]
Combined Fleet.—Capt. Frye, at Salem, from Leghorn, on the 3d of July, in lat. 40, long. 46, spoke the ship Washington, from Mar-seilles, for Newburyport, which five days before (June 28,) had fallen in with the combined fleet, steering E. S. E.
FIRES.—Several destructive fires have recently occurred in the interior of New-Hampshire. Not only many buildings, but whole fields and forests, with a number of cattle, have been consumed.
On the 4th inst. the dwelling-house of Mr. Daniel Brainard, of Haddam, (Con.) was burnt down—supposed to have been designedly set on fire.
From PLYMOUTH, July 20. "Schr. Miles Standish, Capt. D. arrived this day from Lisbon, 43 days passage. Capt. Dutton came passenger, and is bearer of important dispatches for government, from Mr. Monroe, respecting the negotiations between Spain and the United States. Mr. M. had left Madrid, the negotiations have been broken off. Capt. D. proceeds on to Washington immediately via Boston."
STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND. DISTRICT OF NEWPORT. Cleared. Sloop Industry, Tarkinton, For Edenton. Sch. William & Margaret, Wood, Havanna. Betty, Clarke, St. Jago.
DISTRICT OF PROVIDENCE. Entered. From Briz Hiram, Stermey, Antigua. Juno, Packard, Matanzas.
the forfeiture of the ship or vessel importing the same and of the goods so imported in contravention of the laws of navigation. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedt. humble servant. CAMDEN.
Domestic Occurrences.
GEORGIA. SAVANNAH, JULY 10. ON the 7th inst. arrived the British armed ship Margaret, Capt. Bowes, from Africa, via New-Providence, carrying 14 six pounders, and 20 men. On the 4th inst. off the coast, Capt. B. discovered a privateer schr. mounting 7 guns, supposed nines and sixes, and one 18 pound carronade: at 7 A. M. engaged for an hour and a half when the bore away—at 1 P. M. the schooner returned, and ran alongside the ship with a determination to board—Capt. B. however gave them such a warm reception, that the privateer, after an hour's action, were compelled to quit their quarters, and the schooner again bore away. Next day another schooner, (supposed to be the one that captured the ship Two Friends) mounting 8 guns, (7 or 8 pound carronades) and one 12 pounder, came alongside and engaged Capt. B. in close quarters, when, after an action of 40 minutes, she was compelled to strike her colors. Capt. B. being much disabled in his rigging, and in want of men, could proceed no farther and the schooner taking advantage of his situation, made her escape.—Capt. B. lost one man, and had 8 wounded, besides 18 slaves.
SOUTH-CAROLINA. CHARLESTON, JULY 2. The following information is communicated by a gentleman lately from Africa, in order to afford the American merchants a knowledge of the usual treatment which may be expected at Gorée.
Captain Mackay late commander of the schooner Sulan, of this, had taken from him, on his arrival at Gorée, two hogsheads of tobacco, and upon his remonstrating, was told that the governor would have it, and at his own price; this was submitted to, and the payment made in government bills, which he was obliged to sell at fifteen per cent. discount. Capt. A. M'Clure, of the ship Horizon, of this port, arrived at Gorée the 23d January last. The Lark sloop of war, commanded by Captain Langford, lying there, sent a boat on board the Horizon, and impressed three of her seamen.—Capt. M'Clure expostulated with the Captain of the sloop of war, and with the commandant of the place, upon the impropriety of their conduct as they were real Americans.—Capt. L. replied, that that was immaterial, as he wanted men and must have them. Capt. M'Clure got his ship under way after this, but something respecting the men not being settled, several shot were fired by the sloop of war and the fort, at the Horizon, two of which struck her side; she was bro't to, and a boat from the sloop of war was sent to bring her into harbor.
Capt. M'Clure was brought on shore, and after being sometime detained at the commandant's house, was permitted to proceed, with the detention of three of his seamen. Six were at first detained, and three afterwards restored. Capt. M'Clure informed the governor and the Captain of the sloop of war, that he should protest against their conduct in the first port at which he touched.
VIRGINIA. ALEXANDRIA, JULY 18. Yesterday afternoon four persons were killed by lightning on board a small vessel in Occoquan Creek, near the mills—one of them belonging to this town, Mr. Isaac Janney; two others resided at and near the mills, Mr. Robert Lindsay and Beckman's Kaffer; the fourth was a black man. We understand, just as the vessel was getting under weigh, they stepped on board to sail about two miles for pleasure, and had not been there more than five minutes before they met their untimely end.
STATE OF NEW-YORK. NEW-YORK, JULY 20. Yesterday arrived at this port the brig Elizabeth, Capt. Burgess, in 12 days from Havana. By this vessel we have undoubted information, that the combined fleet, or that part at least, composed of the Spanish ships under Admiral Gravina, were confidently expected at Havana: It is no doubt true, that letters were recently received here, addressed to Adm. Gravina, the Spanish Admiral, directed to the care of the Captain-General of Marines. It was currently reported, and believed, that the Spanish part of the fleet, supported by some French ships would go to Le Vera Cruz, take in the treasure there (said to amount to 25 millions of dollars) and touch at Havana on the homeward-bound passage. This object is, doubtless, important enough to justify the report. In fact it was not doubted at all in Havana.
JULY 22. Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Havana, dated July 6, 1805. "Advises have this moment been received here that the government of New-Providence have passed a decree, granting liberty to privateers, &c. to land in for adjudication all American and other vessels which shall have for their return cargoes to the out ports in this island, unless proof can be exhibited that such ports are ports of entry in time of peace. You will please to make public this circumstance for the information and government of our friends advertising this way."
On Saturday night last, the store of Mr. I. P. Longchamp, No. 73, Front-street, was entered into by four villains, (said to be all Irishmen) for the purpose of robbing it. During the evening these villains were observed by the neighbours skulking about the store, which exciting suspicion, they gave information of their suspicion to the watchmen; when the whole four
Paris Papers to the 26th, and Dutch Journals to the 29th ult. were received on Friday. The Moniteur contains no intelligence of importance, if we except that Bonaparte was crowned King of Italy on the 23d, at Milan, from which place, those papers say, he is to set off directly for Boulogne. It is observable, that in the Moniteur and other Papers, many suggestions are offered as to the probability of an approaching Peace between Great-Britain and France.
It is said to be the intention of Government to disband all Volunteer corps that do not muster according to the offers they have made, and in such districts to put in force the act for a levy-en-masse.
Lord Melville's impeachment is to be resisted by the whole weight of Government: the most pressing letters of recall are gone over to the Members who had returned to Ireland.
The author and publisher of a pamphlet against Earl St. Vincent, have been convicted of writing and vending a libel against that distinguished Admiral.
India.—A disorder, resembling the plague of Turkey, lately broke out at Oujein, the capital of Scindea, and is stated to have carried off seventy thousand persons in the course of a few days. The principal inhabitants fled from the city on the first alarm, and the troops at length refused to perform the duties of the garrison, and marched into the country, whither, it is feared, they may have carried the distemper. At the date, however, of the last accounts from Bombay, it was understood, that the fever confined its ravages to Oujein and its immediate vicinity.
GREENOCK, JUNE 7. The movements of the Boulogne Flotilla still indicate an intention to put to sea, and no small degree of bustle has been observed on shore; large bodies of troops have been seen marching down to the coast, apparently for the purpose of embarking.—These demonstrations are most probably made for the purpose of distracting our attention; for it is hardly supposable they would venture to sea in the face of our blockading squadron.
The Texel fleet remains at anchor, ready for sea.
From the Nassau Gazette of June 18.
SIR, You will be pleased to publish in the Royal Gazette, the enclosed letter from the Rt. Hon. Earl Camden, one of his Majesty's principle Secretaries of State, to his Excellency Governor Cameron. I am Sir, your most obedt. servt. JOHN M'CARTNEY, D. C. C. Council Chamber, June 14, 1805.
Mr. Robert Wilson, Proprietor of the Royal Gazette.
Downing Street, 16th Jan. 1805.
SIR, In addition to the direction contained in my letter to you of the 5th Sept. respecting the caution to be used in opening the ports within your government, for the admission of articles from the United States of America, which are not allowed to be imported by law, I am commanded to signify to you, his majesty's further pleasure, that you do not on any account, or at any time, suffer any gin, brandy, or other liquors, East-India goods, or any other articles whatever, except lumber and provisions, to be admitted from the United States in American bottoms, into the Islands under your government.
You are to be particularly careful that the several articles of provisions to be in such case admitted, be specified in the proclamation you may issue for that purpose, and you are not to extend the permission to any articles but those which cannot be supplied by the mother country, or the British colonies in North America: And in case any such articles (except lumber and provisions under the circumstances mentioned) shall be attempted to be introduced, you are to see that the necessary measures are taken for carrying fully into execution the laws of navigation and for enforcing the penalties thereof against any ship or ships importing other articles than lumber and provisions regularly permitted.
You will take such steps as you may judge most expedient for making these directions generally known among the planters, merchants, and others whom it may concern, and in the event of its becoming necessary at any time to open the ports for supplies of lumber and provisions, you are particularly to insert in every proclamation you may issue for that purpose, notice to the following effect, viz:—That if any other articles except lumber and provisions as therein specified, are attempted to be introduced from the United States of America, in American bottoms, measures will be taken for

cited envy and jealousy, and the latter might excite them still more, as it afforded less facility to agitate and divide; but in that case, God bad give him a good sword to scatter its enemies . His Majesty added, that he would never lose sight of the interest of the city of Milan, and that he would hasten the moment of his arrival in the midst of the Milanese people."
HOLLAND. AMSTERDAM, MAY 2
Our Gazette mentions a report from Paris, that Rear-Admiral Magent with two ships of the line and three frigates, had put to sea from the port of Rhe, and that their destination was to the East-Indies.
ENGLAND. LONDON, MAY 25
An officer of one of the ships lately captured by the Bold gun-brig, gives a most formidable account of the number of the enemy's flotilla in the port of Boulogne, Vimereux, Etaples, Calais, Ostend and Dunkirk. He swells the total amount to 5000; is confident that an invasion will
NUMA.—No. IX.
"Hate not laborious work, neither husbandry."
THE more we review the laws and sapient rules by which the universe is governed; the more we examine the contrarious, but concerted system of creation, the more visibly do we discover, the dispensations of a God, who well knows what is apposite to the good of mortals and conducive to the well being of society. We trace in all things, a system, admirably calculated for the advancement of our happiness, our peace and safety. While we are barred by many checks on enormity and sin, we are every where allured by many inducements to a road of virtue and of peace. Allings which advance our happiness and enjoyments hold forth invitations to us to embrace them; whilst those easily and ruinous evils, so incongruous with our virtue, and our alliance to duty, present a dark perspective in their termination, and warns us of its dangers. As incentives to industry, we are presented with its more than competent reward, to ever balance its toils and fatigues. We reap the harvest of our toil, in our sustenance, in our health and happiness; Health the balm goddess of our sweets, the tranquilizer of our troubles and the spring of every joy, attends the husbandman. When Adam went forth to till the earth, the sweets of industry ameliorated the pangs of his apostasy; and on his descendants it has continued to bestow a measure of happiness, sufficient to dissipate many of the asperities of life, to preserve subordination to civil government, and to diffuse order and harmony throughout the world.—Wherever we have witnessed an indolent people, we have witnessed the subversion of principles, necessary for the support of government, and for that moiety of happiness, without which men are but brutes. Wherever we have discovered a neglect of industry, we have found men given up to all the gross vices, which corrode both domestic and civil peace. Licentiousness, libertineness and intemperance; theft, fraud, perjury and ferocious violence are among the train of those evils, which infest every society, who neglect the avocations of life and the calls of industry. Indolence, is not only the bane of civil society, but is ruinous to the virtue, health and enjoyment of every individual.
Observe the votary of Bacchus , the son of pleasure; mark his pallid countenance, his enfeebled frame and his unsatisfactory joys; ask him if pleasure and voluptuousness are not panders to disease, to discomposed minds and unapproving consciences. And after learning of this picture, contrast it with industry; observe the man of employment, look to his conduct and behaviour, look to his dwelling and his household, review his regularity in business, his character and principles, his order and sobriety, and his peaceful family and abode; then learn
the blessings of "laborious work and husbandry."
A life of indolence and inactivity is attended by a train of miseries it renders all the sweets of life; sulsome and insipid, unsatisfactory and tasteless; whereas industry sharpens our appetites, endues us with vigour, ambition and strength, and gives energy, emulation and improvement to our minds and our morals.
"These are thy blessings Industry! rough power: Whom labour still attends, and sweat and pain; Yet the kind source of every gentle art, And all the soft civilities of life."
Let all men of every pursuit and profession, be assiduous to their callings, and prompt to the discharge of their several duties, and they will find themselves, unloaded of more than half the evils, which now embitter their lives: their sleep shall be sweeter, their happiness shall be augmented, and the sources of this world's enjoyment shall be greatly enlarged and refined. But above all, let us "hate not laborious work, neither husbandry;" from thence only are derived the comforts of life; other professions are but secondary in importance, nay useless without this; they are the consequences of "husbandry" and appendages to it. At the hand of the yeoman , we receive our food and raiment, from the cultivation of the earth, proceeds our sustenance and support. Believe, most honourable yeomanry, that while you are pursuing the true road of enjoyment, you are engaged in a calling, the most truly respectable as well as most important to mankind. Go then with pleasing alacrity to your daily labours, and rather than seeking riches in foreign climes, or by adventitious fortune, lay hold of your plough, and it shall lay open to you better gold, than the mines of Peru can afford; the medicine of toil shall be more congenial to your health, than all the dear bought drugs of India; your sleep shall be more joyous, than those who sleep "under bigh canopies of costly state," and your labour shall be crowned with loving kindness and tender mercy.
"All is the gift of industry; whatever Exalts, embellishes, and renders life Delightful. Penfive winter cheer'd by him Sits at the social fire, and happy hears Th' excluded tempest idly rave along: His harden'd fingers deck the gaudy Spring; Without him Summer were an arid waste; Nor to the autumnal months could thus transmit Those full, mature, immeasurable stores, That wave around." Weathersfield, (Con.) May, 1805.
JULIETTE.—A TALE. [From the French of MARMONTEL.]
I WAS born at Verval , said JULIETTE, in this castle. My mother wished to nurse me. She made the employment a pleasure, and she would say, she considered it as a duty. Her health would not permit it; but she took care to choose for me, the best nurse in the canton; and this excellent nurse was an excellent woman. My mother has often told me, that next to the cares of maternal love, it is impossible to imagine any more tender than those which my infancy received from this good woman. From the manner in which she fulfilled the duties of a second mother, it was evident that she had felt all the dignity of one: she acquitted herself with a sweet and noble modesty, which had the air of piety, and which gave a religious character to her most humble functions. If sometimes my mother appeared afflicted at not being in her place, "Madam," she would say, "if your health had permitted you to nurse this infant, you would not have ceded it to me; and were it not for the good you do in the country, I should not have deprived myself of my own child, in order to give suck to yours. But it was necessary that one among us should undertake to discharge the debt of so many unfortunates; and since you have chosen me, it was the will of Heaven that I should be the woman. Envy not my happiness. Enfeebled as you are, your tenderness had been cruel both to you and your child, if you had attempted to nurse it. Be no longer afraid that I shall rob nature of what belongs to her, of the tender sentiments of this little soul; be assured, that from the time she shall have arrived to some knowledge, she will distinguish you
from all women, and from myself; and towards you all her sensibility will be directed."—I repeat not her language literally; I translate it faithfully.
The bounty of my mother placed Susanna, (which was the name of the nurse) in a state of ease which rendered her family happy. As my father always passed the pleasant months here at Verval , I had every year, the pleasure, on our arrival, to see Susanna fly into my arms. I went also to see her in her village; and in this rustic family, always found again, with a lively joy, peace, ease, and happiness.
A journey of my father to the waters of Spa , (for his health was now become impaired) deprived us, one year, of passing the summer at Verval . The year following, we came hither again. This journey was made a fete , in which we all designed to celebrate the convalescence of my father. Susanna came to see me, according to her custom; and notwithstanding much chagrined, she appeared sensible to nothing, but joy for our return. But when I told her, at parting, that I hoped soon to go myself and see her, she prayed me, with a moving, but melancholy air, no more to take that pains. These words, new to me, struck me sensibly. I insisted;—she embraced me, with a smile, in which I discovered emotions of grief, "Mademoiselle, you are no longer an infant," said she, "and your goodness to me....." "I am always the same," interrupted I, "and at all ages you shall find in me the infant which you have nourished. I shall go to see you, and that as soon as possible."
Alas! pride, elevation of soul, are virtues of nature. My nurse was unhappy; the good old man, whom I had seen with Firmin, the father of Baptisti, her husband, was dead, and his last sickness had ruined the family. Instead of the little house, so well ordered, alas! there was now nothing but a poor cottage; instead of the fine black cow, a goat; instead of the field, the vineyard, and the beautiful garden, a little piece of earth, very narrow, and very naked;—it was all remained to them. Eighteen months had changed all. Susanna, seeing me arrive, came to me; and with that noble air, which was natural to her, "You will be a little afflicted," said she, "in not finding us so well provided as formerly. But regret not the use which we have made of your gifts, and of the benefits of your parents. They have been worthily employed. Firmin, our good father, has been attended in his sickness, as if his children had been more rich; and nothing, thanks to Heaven! has been wanting for him, to his last moment."
On casting my eyes around the cottage, thus stripped of its furniture, I burst into tears. "What!" said I to Susanna, "you have left us ignorant of your situation! Ah, my good nurse, you are very unjust! I could you think that we would leave you in want?"—"I repeat," said she, "that the lack has wanted nothing." "And you and your children, and their unhappy father?"—"No, my amiable Juliette, their father is not unhappy. Your foster-brother, Marcellin, relieves him. They labour daily, at the side of each other, in the vineyards of a rich neighbour. Louisa, my daughter, begins to assist us. The wool and the cotton, which she spins with the pretty wheel you gave her, doubles its value in her hands; and our exertions, at the end of the week, produces sufficient for our subsistence. We do not, then, complain; and believe me, if our labour had been inadequate to our wants, Madame de Verval , and you, her worthy daughter, would have been the first to whom we should have confided it."
[To be concluded next week.]
ANECDOTE Of a Royal Visit to Bristol in the Reign of Queen Anne.
PRINCE GEORGE of Denmark, the nominal King, consort to Queen Anne, in passing through this city, appeared on the exchange, attended only by one gentleman, a military
officer, and remained there until the merchants had pretty generally withdrawn, not one of them having sufficient resolution to speak to him, as they might not have been prepared to ask such a guest to their house. But this was not the case with all who saw him; for a person, whose name was John Duddlestone, a bodice-maker, who lived in Corn-Street , went up, and asked him if he was not the husband of the Queen, who informed him he was. John Duddlestone told him, he had observed, with a great deal of concern, that none of the merchants had invited him home to dinner; telling him, he did not apprehend it was from want of love to the Queen, or to him, but because they did not consider themselves prepared to entertain so great a man; but he was ashamed to think of his dining at an inn, and requested him to go and dine with him, and bring the gentleman with him; at the same time, informing him, that he had a piece of good beef and plumb-pudding, and ale of his dame's own brewing. The Prince admired the loyalty of the man, and though he had bespoke a dinner at the White Lion , went with him.—When they got to the house, Duddlestone called to his wife, who was up stairs, desiring her to put on a clean apron, and come down, for the Queen's husband and another gentleman were come to dine with him. She accordingly came down with a clean blue apron on, and was immediately saluted by the Prince. In the course of the dinner, the Prince asked him if he ever went to London . He said that since the ladies had worn stays instead of bodices, he sometimes went to buy whale-bone; whereupon the Prince desired him to take his wife with him, when he went again; at the same time giving him a card, to facilitate his introduction to him at court. In the course of a short time he took his wife behind him to London , and with the assistance of the card found easy admittance to the Prince; and by him they were introduced to the Queen, who invited them to an approaching public dinner, informing them, they must have new clothes for the occasion; allowing them to chuse for themselves; so they each chose a purple velvet, such as the Prince had on, which was accordingly provided for them; and in that dress they were introduced by the Queen herself, as the loyal persons in the city of Bristol , and the only ones in that city who invited the Prince, her husband, to their house; and after the entertainment, the Queen desiring him to knell, laid a sword on his head, and to use Lady Duddlestone's own words, said to him. "Get up, Sir John." He was offered a place under government, which he did not chuse to accept, informing the Queen, that he had 501. out at use: and he apprehended the number of people that he saw about her must be very expensive, therefore that sum was at her service. The Queen made the most grateful acknowledgements; but, as might be supposed, declined the loan.
LORD FALKLAND, the author of the play called the Marriage Night , was chose very young to sit in Parliament; and when he was first elected, some of the members opposed his admission, urging, that he had not sowed all his wild oats; "Then," replied he, "it will be the best way to sow the remainder in the House, where there are so many geese to pick them up."
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