Herald of the United States (Warren, R.I.), 1805-10-26 00:00:00

Gazet of the United States.
WARREN:—PUBLISHED NEAR THE POST-OFFICE, BY NATHANIEL PHILLIPS.
[No. 4, of Vol. XIV.]
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1805.
[Whole No. 680.]
New and Cheap GOODS.
Level Maxwell, & Son, Informs their Friends, Customers, and the Public in general, THAT they have received, and now open, at their Store opposite the Spread Eagle Tavern , a large Supply of
GOODS,
suitable for the approaching Season, which in addition to their former Parcel makes a complete Assortment, and will be Sold for Cash or approved Notes payable in 60 Days, at the Bristol or Warren Bank (if any accommodation to Purchasers) as cheap as can be purchased in this State, as they are determined not to be undersold: Those that wish to Purchase, are desired to Call and see for themselves.
Warren, Oct. 11, 1805.
TAKE NOTICE.
WE the Subscribers having been duly appointed Administrators upon the Estate of
MARTIN LUTHER,
late of this Town, Esq. deceased, and have taken upon ourselves that Trust, by giving Bonds, as the Law directs:—DO earnestly request all Persons having any Demands upon, or indebted to said Estate to call upon us, that said Claims may be adjusted as speedily as possible:—For which purpose Attendance will be given at the House of the late deceased, every Day in the Week, Sundays excepted.
SYLVESTER CHILD, jun.
SAMUEL CHILD.
Warren, Oct. 11, 1805.
CASH and a generous Price, given for good BARLEY , and Five Hundred Bushels of Potatoes, delivered on or before the 26th instant, by
JOHN T. CHILD, and EDWARD GARDNER.
Warren, Oct. 11, 1805.
Fresh & seasonable GOODS.
JOHN CROADE,
Having received and receiving a large and valuable Supply of seasonable
GOODS,
of the LATEST IMPORTATIONS , and now opening for Sale, at his Store, to which he invites his Customers and the Public; to whom he is inclined to give the assurance, that many of the Articles in the Cotton and Silk Line will come lower than ever.
Among the Assortment, are
A GREAT choice of fashionable Superfine & middling BROADCLOTHS . Scarlet, ditto.
Low priced Blue, mixed and Drab, ditto.
An excellent Assortment of Woolen CORDS , for Pantaloon.
Fine and middling Ribbed and Plain CASIMERE , a great Variety.
ELASTICS .
FOREST CLOTHS .
Blue and Olive KERSEYS , suitable for Great Coats.
Blue and mixed low-priced PLAINS .
Blue, black, green and Chocolate SERGES .
RATTEENS .
Light and dark COATINGS , common and superfine, suitable for Ladies' Wear.
Stout drab, olive and blue FEARNOTS , suitable for Great Coats.
ORLEANS' CLOTH .
DUFFILS .
Spotted SWANSKINS .
Various Qualities of red, white, yellow, green and black FLANNELS .
Blue, red, crimson, green, yellow and white BAIZES , different Qualities.
Wide green, ditto.
Excellent 7/8, 9/8, 10/8, and 11/8, ROSE BLANKETS .
Silk, ribbed & plain worsted and patent HOSE , a great choice.
Mens' and Womens' black and white worsted, Cotton, ditto.
A great and beautiful Variety of TURKEY-DOWN, SWANS' DOWN , and other VEST PATTERNS .
Best olive, drab, slate and black COTTON VELVETS , plain and ribbed a great choice.
CORDUROY and GENOA CORD .
Mulberry, chocolate and garnet WILDBORES .
CAMBLETS and CAMBLETEENS .
GLOSSERET .
MOREENS, TABOREENS, SHALLOONS, JOANS, DURANTS, and TAMMIES , of the most usual colors and of various Qualities.
CALIMANCOES .
Black, plain, mulberry & ribbed RUSSELLS , various Qualities.
FLORENTINES .
A large Assortment and extensive Variety of the most fashionable superfine and common CHINTZES and CALICOES , which cannot fail to please, unusually Low.
INDIA , ditto.
Variety CHINTZ FURNITURES.
Red, blue and purple copperplate, ditto.
A good Assortment IRISH LINENS , 1/2, 3/4, and 1, per piece, or otherwise.
BROWN LINENS .
GERMAN , ditto.
A large supply of INDIA COTTONS , from
flour SHEETING to fine SHIRTING , per yard, piece, or larger Quantities, unusually Low.
Blue ditto.
Elegant Damask DIAPER , 1/2, 3/4, 1, and 1 1/4.
Common DIAPER .
Linen TABLE CLOTHS .
Ruffs, and Hamburg SHEETING .
TICKLINGSBURG , and DOWLAS .
PLATILLAS and BRITANNIAS .
Linen CHECKS .
Cotton, ditto.
A large Assortment of DIMOTIES and MUSLINETS .
An elegant Assortment of LACED CAMBRICKS .
Ditto MUSLIN .
Plain and striped MUSLINS .
Plain and figured Book, ditto.
Black and colored jaconet, ditto.
A great Choice & beautiful Variety of the most fashionable colored CAMBRICKS for Ladies' Gowns.
Book and jaconet MUSLIN HANDKERCHIEFS .
A great Variety of colored & black Silk HANDKERCHIEFS , fringed and not fringed.
BANDANNOES .
Linen and Cotton POCKET , ditto.
Blue INDIA COTTON , ditto.
Black, white and colored fringed Camel Hair SHAWLS , 1/2, 3/4, 1, & 1 1/4.
Silk, ditto.
A Variety of 1/2, 3/4, 1, and 1 1/4, purple and white and common Chintz SHAWLS .
Chintz and purple Mullin, ditto.
Mens' Mullin NECKERCHIEFS and CRAVATS .
MILLINETS .
Black CRAPE .
Black and white Rutland GAUZES .
Crape and plain black, do.
Colored SATINS , for Ladies' Bonnets, India, Italian, & French colored LUSTRINGS .
Black India and Italian, ditto.
SINCHEWS .
Black India SATIN , 1st, 2d, and 3d, Qualities.
Stout figured and plain ditto, for Gentlemen's Wear.
An excellent Assortment of CORDS & TOILENETS for Mens' Vests.
Beautiful striped and figured Fancy SILK VELVETS , for Gentlemen's Vests.
Black and colored plain ditto, for Capes.
MODES and SARCENETS .
A Variety of Fashionable RIBBONS, TASTES and EDGINGS .
Black and white LACES .
VELVET Collaring, and Girdling.
Black and colored GALLOONS .
Scotch THREADS .
Colored, ditto.
TAPES and BOBBINS .
SILK, TWIST and BUTTONS .
QUALITIES and SHOE-BINDINGS .
Womens' black and colored, extra long and common Silk GLOVES .
Cotton GLOVES & MITTS .
Worsted, ditto.
Mens' and Womens' Leather GLOVES .
Kid and Morocco SLIPPERS .
Florentine, ditto.
Marking CANVASS .
OIL CLOTHS , &c. &c. &c.
In the preceding List he has omitted to enumerate such Articles as are not adapted to the present Season.
A large Assortment.
LOOKING-GLASSES , some of which are very Elegant.
Patent TROWELS .
London PEWTER , viz.
Platters, Plates, Basons, Porringers and Quart-Pots.
TIN-WARE , viz.
Coffee-Pots, Measures, Funnels and Pepper Boxes.
HARD-WARE : among which
are Shovels and Spades, Shovels and Tongs, Sad Irons, Warming-Pans, Carvers, Knives and Forks, Pen and Jack Knives, Nail and Shoe-Hammers, Pincers and Nippers, Awls and Tacks, Brads and Iron Candlesticks, Snuffers, Desk and Draw Trimmings, Door, Closet, Chest Cupboard, Trunk and Stock Locks, Single and double warded Pad, ditto. Tailor's and common Shears, Scissors, Nitting-Pins, Pins and Needles, Brads, Japanned and common Thumb-Latches, Ring & Knob, ditto, Googes, Saws, Files, Chisels, Plain-Irons, Board, Spike and Deck Nail-Gimblets, Augers, Japanned Canisters, Common and New-Fashioned Block-Tin Tea-Pots, Table and Tea-Spoons, Brads Kettles, Coffee Mills, Outside Door Brads Handles and Knockers, Wood Screws, Fish-Hooks, Compasses, Scales and Dividers, H. and HL.
Hinges, Sarners and Bellows .—An Assortment of Nails and Brads. Heart and Club, Crowy and Halback Steel, &c. &c.
West-India GOODS and GROCERIES, among which are,
West India Rum, Holland Geneva, Brandy, Lisbon, Malaga, Port and Sherry Wines, Loaf and Brown Sugars, Molasses, Flour, Imperial Hylon, Young Hylon, Hylon-Skin, Soucough and Bones-Tea, Chocolate, Raisins, Pimento, Black Pepper, Cassia, Cloves, Nutmegs, Ginger, Gin, New-York and Elliott's Snuff, per Bladder, &c. &c.
A few Articles in the STATIONARY Line,
such as Quarto Bibles, with and without Apocrypha. Common ditto, Testaments. Watt's and Rippon's Psalms and Hymns. Pilgrim's Progress. Fuller's Backslider. Burr's Grammar. Alden's 1st, and 2d vol. ditto. and Reader. Morse's Geographies abridged. American Preceptors. Perry's, Jones, Scotts and Alexander's Dictionaries. Debon's Arithmetic. Bowditch's American Practical Navigator. Rumsford's Essays. Black and Red Morocco Pocket-Books. Writing Paper. Waters. Lead, Brads and Paper Ink Stands. Sand-Boxes. Walkden's Ink Powder, &c. &c. &c. Warren, Oct. 11, 1805.
BRISTOL-ROAD LOTTERY.
THE Honorable GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the State of Rhode-Island, &c. having granted to the town of Bristol the benefit of a Lottery, for the purpose of making a good Road from Bristol-ferry to Warren, they have elected the subscribers managers to the same, who have given bonds, as required by law, and now present the public with the following
SCHEME.
  1 Prize of 1500 Dollars is 1500 Dollars.   1 500   3 Prizes of 200 are 600   5 100   10 50   10 25   31 10   1230 8   1291 Prizes. 14000   2309 Blanks. For the Lottery. 2000   4000 Tickets, at 4 dolls. each, are 16000 
THE Managers of the above Lottery are resolved to make every exertion to effect a speedy sale of the Tickets, and considering that the scheme is calculated on terms highly advantageous to the adventurers, and that the use to which the saving is to be applied is for a public purpose, and of a beneficial nature to the community at large, they flatter themselves they shall be able to commence the drawing of said Lottery by the first of January next. The prizes shall be paid by the Vendors of the Tickets, or the Managers, without deduction, with the greatest promptitude. A list of prizes will be published immediately after the drawing is completed. All prizes not demanded within six months after the drawing, will be considered as given to the use of the Lottery.
JOSEPH REYNOLDS, WILLIAM DWOLF, WILLIAM PEARSE, THOMAS CHURCH, WILLIAM COGGESHALL, Managers.
Bristol, Sept. 20, 1805.
TICKETS in the above Lottery, for Sale at this Office.
From the Boston Weekly Magazine.
MEMOIRS of HENRY MASERS DE LA TUDE , containing an account of his confinement thirty five years in the State Prisons of France; and of the stratagems he adopted to escape, once from the Bastille, and twice from the Castle of Vincennes; with the sequel of these adventures.
MR. HENRY MASERS DE LA TUDE , was the son of a knight of the order of St. Lewis, who, in the year 1733 was made king's lieutenant of Sedan. At the age of twenty-three he was sent to Paris to complete his mathematical studies, in order to qualify him for some post in the army: but falling in company with a set of rash young men, who were plotting the destruction of Madame de Pompadour, at that time the favorite mistress of Lewis Fifteenth, he was induced to form a project, which laid the foundation of all his future miseries.
From no other motive, as he pretends, than that of doing the Marchioness a good office, he repaired to Versailles, and informed her that he had seen a parcel addressed to her, put into the Post-Office, which he had reason to believe was designed for her destruction—and cautioned her to be particularly upon her guard. She politely expressed her gratitude; and as soon as the parcel arrived (which had been put into the Post-Office by himself) the effects of its contents was tried on several animals, when no harm resulting, she judged him to be an impostor, and had him committed to the Bastille, on the 1st of May, 1749.
In the beginning of September following, he was removed to the castle of Vincennes, where, being indulged by the lieutenant-governor with the privilege of walking two hours
a day in the garden, he made use of the following means to effect his escape. Two turnkeys usually attended him, one of whom waited in the garden, and the other conducted him down stairs from his room. Having formed his project, he for several days together descended a little faster than the turnkey, who as he always found him by the side of his companion in the garden, took no notice of these manoeuvres. Observing this, and taking a favourable opportunity, he tripped as fast as possible down the flight of steps, and, shooting the bottom door of the stair case, advanced boldly to the garden gate, where a sentinel was posted by way of security.
The vigilance of the man, as well as that of several others, who were placed on the opposite side of the draw bridge, he eluded, by pretending to enquire for a person who had just gone that way; but after having obtained his liberty in this artful manner, he was imprudent enough, through the advice of a friend, to surrender himself up again to the king, trusting that the articles confidence of an innocent man would not be abused. He was, nevertheless, recondoned to the Bastille, where he was closely confined for eighteen months in one of the most dismal dungeons of that prison. At the expiration of that term, he was taken from this horrid situation, and put into another room, with a prisoner named d'Aligre, who was likewise detained by Madame de Pompadour.
Both he and his companion had been long caught to expect, with patience, the disgrace of the Marchioness; but with the unfortunate days that are tedious as years, and it is no wonder that they should turn their thoughts towards regaining their liberty. This, however, appeared a romantic idea: for besides the high walls of the bastille, which are six feet thick, and four iron grates at each window, the prison is continually guarded by a number of sentinels, and the trenches which surround it, most commonly full of water; how then could two prisoners, confined in a narrow cell, and destitute of all human assistance, effect their escape.
Mr. De la Tude, who was fruitful in expedients, first informed himself, by means of an artful trick which he played whilst they were conducted back to their room, after hearing mass, that the apartment in which they were confined had a double ceiling; and after mentioning what he had observed to his friend, told him, that he had formed a plan for their enlargement, which could not fail of success. From his confidence upon this occasion d'Aligre thought him disordered in his mind, and asked him with a sneer, where they were to get the ropes and other implements, necessary for such an undertaking.
As for the ropes, said De la Tude, give yourself no manner of trouble. In that trunk there are twelve dozen of shirts, six dozen pair of silk stockings, twelve dozen pair of understockings, five dozen drawers, and as many dozen of napkins; now, by unravelling these, we shall have more than enough to make one thousand feet of rope. True, said the other, but how shall we remove the iron bars in the window; for without instruments it is impossible to do any thing. De la Tude, told him, that the hand was the instrument of all instruments, and that men whose heads are capable of working, are never at a loss for resources; what though, neither scissors, knives, or any edged tools are allowed us, have not we the iron hinges of our folding table, which, with patience and skill, we can make answer the same purpose.
From this discourse d'Aligre began to entertain some hopes, and they now employed all their time and talents in the execution of this curious project. The first evening, by means of one of the hinges, they took up a tile from the floor, and after digging for six hours found it was a double partition, as De la Tude had conjectured. They then carefully replaced the tile, and began to unravel some of the shirts, drawing out thread by thread and twisting them together, till they had formed a rope fifty-five feet long. This they made into a ladder, consisting of twenty-five rounds, made of the wood which was brought them for firing.
The next thing to be done, was to remove the iron bars from the chimney, which they accomplished in about two months, and then returned them to their places, leaving them ready to be removed when they should be wanted. This appears to have been an exceeding troublesome operation, as they never descended from their work without bloody hands, and their bodies were so bruised in the chimney that they could not renew their labor for an hour or two afterwards. This toil over, they now set about making a wooden ladder of twenty feet long, which, as fast as it was finished, was hid with other things, between the two floors.
As the officers and turnkeys often entered the apartment in the day time, without any previous notice, they were obliged not only to secret their tools, but the smallest chips and rubbish that were made; the least appearance of which would have betrayed them. To answer this purpose the more effectually, they gave each of them a private name, and when any body was coming in, he who was next to the door gave the cast term to the other, that he might conceal them as expeditiously as possible. When their ropes were all ready, their

measure was four hundred feet: they had still to make two hundred steps for their ladders, which when accomplished, they covered with the lining of their bed-gowns and under-waistcoats, to prevent their rustling against the wall as they descended.
These preparations cost them eighteen months' work, night and day; and they now waited for a dark stormy night to favour their escape. At length, after a great number of difficulties, and many narrow escapes from being detected by the officers, the happy moment they had been so long expecting arrived, and De la Tude was the first to mount the chimney. Here he was almost smothered with the foot, and the blood streamed from his hands, elbows and knees down to his legs. After some time, however, he got to the top, and by means of a string, drew up his companion and all their implements to the top of the building, from which they lowered their baggage, by fastening a rope to the chimney, and in this way descended both at once on the platform, serving as a counterpoise to each other.
Here they fastened their rope ladder to a piece of cannon, and let themselves and their baggage down into the trench, an operation which was attended with the utmost difficulty; for out of a thousand spectators who should have seen them by day light, vibrating backwards and forwards in the air, not one of them, says Mr. De la Tude, but what would have given us over for lost. They arrived, however, at length, safely in the trench, and solicited themselves upon the success of this part of their enterprise, having been extremely apprehensive of detection, as the sentinel was all the time walking on the corridor, at not more than thirty or forty feet distance.
From this place they proceeded to the wall which parts the trench of the Bastille from that of St. Anthony's gate, where there was a ditch six feet wide, and about the same depth, which wetted them up to their arm pits. When they had crossed this, they had to work their way through the stone wall of the Governor's garden, which was more than four feet thick, and all the time they were employed in this business, the major's round passed them with a great lantern every half hour, at about ten or twelve feet over their heads; during which times they were always obliged to retreat into the ditch, and to stand up to their chins in water, in order to avoid being seen.
Before midnight, by means of the iron bars which had been taken out of the chimney, they had displaced two or three wheelbarrows of stones, and in a few hours more a breach was made in the wall, sufficiently large for them to get through it. They were now in the trench of St. Anthony's gate, and thought themselves entirely out of danger, when they both suddenly fell into an aqueduct, with at least six feet of water, over their heads; in this dangerous situation De la Tude caught hold of the banks, and plunged his arm into the water, drew his companion towards him by the hair of his head, and thus happily escaped the danger which threatened them.
Here, says Mr. De la Tude, ended the horrors of that dreadful night; and here we embraced each other, and fell upon our knees to thank God for the great mercy he had bestowed upon us, in thus restoring us to liberty. They now mounted the slope of the ditch as it struck four o'clock, and after calling upon a friend who was not at home, flew for refuge to the Abbey St. Germain-des-prez.
Soon after this almost miraculous escape, they both set out, by different routes for Brussels, agreeing to meet at the same inn; but when De la Tude, who had to encounter with a number of perils on his journey, arrived at the place appointed, he found that his friend had been discovered and conducted back to prison. Shocked at this intelligence, he set out immediately for Amsterdam, where he had not been long before he was demanded of the States by the French Ambassador, in the name of the king, and carried back to his old quarters in the Bastille, fettered hands and feet, and only allowed a bed of straw, without covering, to re-pot on.
In this wretched situation he remained forty months, and during his confinement, was one day indulged with the barbarous privilege of being permitted to see his friend d'Alègre, whom he found raving mad in the hospital for lunatics at Charenton. The poor creature had no remembrance of him, and made him no other answer when he reminded him of their escape from the Bastille, than by telling him he was God.
Some time after this shocking interview, he observed from the tower of the Bastille, a large piece of paper, at the window of a chamber in St. Anthony's street, on which was written these words, Yesterday died Madame Marquise of Pompadour . This had been placed there by some young ladies who were acquainted with his story; and he was now persuaded that he should be released from his confinement. But Mr. de Sartine, had expressly forbidden all the officers of the Bastille, to inform the prisoners of her decease. When De la Tude therefore wrote to him, intreating his deliverance, he came to the prison and insisted upon knowing his author.
His behaviour upon this occasion, proving offensive to Mr. de Sartine, he was removed from prison to the governor's house, loaded with chains from head to foot, and afterwards sent to the castle of Vincennes, to be confined in the black hole. Here, however, the lieutenant-governor being a humane man, suffered him to walk two hours a day in the fossé, guarded by two officers, and a sergeant who stood at the gate with another sentinel. Whilst he was walking here one evening, it happened to be a prodigious thick fog, which he thought was a circumstance by no means to be neglected; he therefore struck down the two sentinels with his elbows, and pushing boldly by the others, flew as fast as his legs would carry him. A great
cry of stop thief ensued, in which he joined, and by that means made his escape to Paris.
After this adventure, a number of exemptions and letters were sent out upon the search after him, and a thousand crowns offered as a reward for his discovery; finding, therefore, that it would be impossible to elude the vigilance of scouts and informers, he wrote a letter to the minister of the war department, acquainting him that he would not fail to be with him such a day, and begging he would have the goodness to suspend the orders for arresting him until he had been indulged with a moment's audience. Going, according to his promise, to the apartment of the minister, he was immediately secured, without being permitted to utter a syllable, and put in one of the most gloomy dungeons of the castle of Vincennes.
At length Cardinal de Rohan, president of the commission, discovered him at the bottom of his dungeon, in a visit he made to the Bastille, and being moved with his extreme wretchedness, promised him his liberty, provided he could give proper security for his good behaviour. This last kind office was undertaken by a charitable lady of the name of Le Gros, who, on being informed of his misfortunes, resolved to dedicate her whole time and attention towards the procuring his enlargement. The difficulties she had to encounter, together with the narrowness of her own circumstances, rendered the accomplishment of this project almost impossible; but by incessant and persevering diligence, she at last obtained the object of her wishes, and after having set him free from all restraints, helped to support him by the small earnings of her own and her husband's industry. What a strange contrast, compared with the diabolical disposition of his persecutors!
Foreign Intelligence.
FRANCE. PARIS, AUG. 18. THE following article upon the subject of the arrest of M. Prony, at Venice, is extracted from a paper printed at Milan:—The arrest of M. Prony, Inspector General of Bridges and Roads, and of his companion M. Costanzo; the procedures of the Austrian commissaries in this scandalous affair, of which there is no example in the history of nations not at war with each other; the imperious tone with which they dismissed the Commissary General of Commercial Relations—that superintendence of the Police, so exact, severe, and shameful, which is exercised over the subjects of the French Empire and of the Kingdom of Italy, who are called to Venice by business or curiosity; the condescension and inactivity of that same police, when it has any thing to do with the Italian conscripts crossing the Adige to escape the levy; the three Austrian camps which are to be formed near Padua: the order to provision all the fortresses and to press forward the conscriptions in the Venetian States, in Istria, and Dalmatia; those marches and countermarches of the Austrian troops beyond the Adige, appear to justify, if these facts are correct, the rumour of an approaching war between the Emperor of Austria and France. We should ourselves be tempted to believe it, if we could imagine the Emperor of Austria to be so devoid, of prudence as once more to compromise the happiness of his people and his crown.
“Yet it is very true that the gold of England may mislead some of those who direct the cabinets of the Continent; but the history of the last campaigns, and the examples of our Emperor and King, ought to convince the sovereigns of Europe, that it is one of the most sacred of their duties to manage their affairs themselves, instead of abandoning them to men, who, in these extremely important questions have no other mobile, than the passion of hatred, and the thirst of gold.
“The court of Vienna will act as it pleases; peace subsists—if Austria disturb it, if she fire the first cannon, or if by these procedures, she obliges the Emperor of the French to fire it the first, do we think that war will end so soon?—and would the treaty which would this time be signed at Vienna durable or not.”
ENGLAND. LONDON, AUG. 31. We are in some measure indebted to a neutral ship for the capture of the Didon. She spoke the Phoenix first, and soon afterwards the Didon, to whom she communicated the intelligence that she had just spoken an English corvette of 20 guns, and that the Didon might, by setting all the sail she could overtake her. The Didon accordingly carried a press of sail, which soon brought her along side the Phoenix, when she found her mistake. The action was gallantly fought, yard arm to yard arm, for two hours and fifty-two minutes, by the log. After the Frenchman's main and mizen-masts had gone over the side, he gave up the contest, and, as a last effort, ran his bow-sprit over the taffrail of the Phoenix, and attempted to board her. But though the French officers did every thing they could to encourage their men to board, the latter could not be prevailed upon. The Phoenix then boarded the Frenchman in her turn, when the enemy called for quarter, and struck their colours. Her fore-mast fell over the side as soon as she struck—the number of dead upon the deck gave the ship the appearance of a charnel house.
It was rumoured yesterday, on the authority of a private letter from the Hague, on the 23d inst. that Bonaparte had suddenly quitted Boulogne on the 18th, in consequence of dispatches received by him from Paris, and that orders had been received in Holland to suspend the further embarkation of the troops in the ports of that country.
A serious misunderstanding is said to subsist between the French Princes, in which Louis the Eighteenth and his brother Monsieur entertain contrary sentiments.
A paper of the 28th asserts in very positive terms, that the British army destined to act on the Continent, in conjunction with the Austrian and Russian Forces, is to consist of 50,000 effective men, under the following commanders, &c.
Lieut. General his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, commander in chief.
Lieut. General Sir James Pultney, to be second in command: and
Major-General his royal highness the Duke of Cambridge, to have the command of the Swedish army, with the German Auxiliaries to be thereunto attached.
We will be surprised indeed to find that such arrangements have taken place.
There is a letter in the French Papers, dated Madrid, which if it be correct, shews that there has been an action in the Mediterranean between the Spanish fleet from Carthagena and a British squadron, probably the one commanded by Sir R. Bickerton, in which the former were defeated. It states, that information having been received by signal that some English ships were on the coast, Admiral Don Juan Martinez sailed with his fleet from Carthagena to intercept them; but after engaging them for some time, the fire of the English was so incessant, that the Spanish Admiral found it expedient to haul his wind, and to return to port with all possible expedition.
SEPT. 1. The affair of the 22d, between Admiral Cornwallis, and the Breft fleet, was more serious than the Bulletin published by Government, led us to suppose. The gallant Admiral himself, in the Ville de Paris, led the van, and had nearly cut off the French Rear Admiral. He was nobly supported by Sir R. Strachan, in the Cæsar, who requested permission, by signal, to range next to him in the line. The other ships principally engaged were, the Namur, Captain and Montague. The Captain had recently joined the fleet, and distinguished herself very much. Her fire was the most tremendous ever witnessed. She appeared one entire blaze. Part of a shell struck Admiral Cornwallis upon the breast, but fortunately it did him no injury. The Cæsar had three men killed and seven wounded. The Ville de Paris and the Namur had several wounded but none killed. They received several shot in their hulls and sails. The French fleet on advanced just outside their batteries when the action commenced; yet, had they not tacked and ran back so soon, a general engagement must have ensued, or several of them must have been taken. The enemy, no doubt, suffered severely as our fleet were enabled to rake them. The Montague, Capt. Otway, followed them close in under their batteries, constantly exchanging shots with them.
The transports destined to carry the Russian troops are already assembled to a considerable number at the Nore, and the whole will very shortly proceed to their destination, as from the advanced period of the season no time is to be lost in carrying the object into execution. The vessels are fitted and provisioned for troops, and are at present under the orders of Lieut. Braithwaite.
Sir D. Baird and Staff go to the Mediterranean in the Diadem, which has a large sum in specie on board.—Brigadier-General Beresford goes in the Narcissus, and Brigadier-General Ferguson in the Leda;—the three brigades to be employed in this expedition comprise nearly ten thousand men.
Remittances to an immense amount have been brought over to our merchants by the Pomona frigate, recently arrived from Lisbon. Sir Francis Fairling's house has alone received 100,000. in hard cash.
Capt. Blackwood, of the Euryalus frigate, arrived this morning at the Admiralty with dispatches. His ship had been sent from Cork to Lord Nelson; but missing him, proceeded to Admiral Collingwood, off Cadiz. The dispatches state, that the combined fleet consisting of 17 sail of the line, arrived at Cadiz on the 20th ult. Admiral Collingwood, of course, did not, with his four sail of the line, venture to oppose them—they chased him for a short time before they entered Cadiz. As soon, however, as they had got in, he returned to his station, and re-anchored off the harbour.
On the 24th, the Euryalus fell in with Sir R. Calder's fleet, within 20 leagues of Cadiz, so that he would in all probability join Admiral Collingwood the next day, and the blockade of Cadiz would then be effectually resumed. Admiral Bickerton is at Gibraltar with his six sail of the line, and the Carthagena fleet remain in port.—Admiral Bickerton will be able to prevent their junction with the combined fleets, should they attempt it.
Just as the combined fleets sailed from Ferrol, 8 large American ships, under convoy of two armed ships, sailed from Nantz for Cadiz, laden with salt beef, pork, and biscuit; the Colpoys brig fell in with them in the night, captured two, the rest separated, and got between the Isle of Dieu and the main.
WEYMOUTH, AUG. 29. Yesterday a very rich American ship was brought in here, captured on her passage from Spain to Holland.
Domestic Occurrences.
PENNSYLVANIA. PHILADELPHIA, OCT. 11. Extract of a letter from Cadiz, dated Aug. 15, 1805.
To the President of the Chamber of Commerce of Philadelphia.
“AS a citizen of the U. States, and eye witness to the injury daily occurring to our commerce. I think it a duty to give notice thereof, in the hope that some vigorous measures may be adopted, to check these infamous proceedings.
“Every American vessel, bound up the Mediterranean, that is met with, is carried into Algeciras, either by the gun vessels, or by the French and Spanish privateers, with which these seas swarm. Many valuable vessels are already condemned; and the number of captures almost daily augmented. Our Minister, at Madrid, has already information of fourteen: and, unless some measures are adopted by our government, our commerce in the Mediterranean must cease.
“For the encouragement of privateers, the king has relinquished the duties on prize goods.
“Vessels destined to the Mediterranean, ought not to clear for a call at Gibraltar—for, although it is not declared to be blockaded, yet even letters for that place, found on board American vessels, furnish a pretence for bringing them in; when, at best, they are obliged either to abide a suit, or compromise, at great loss, with the captors.”

RHODE ISLAND. PROVIDENCE, OCT. 19.
"If you would learn Death's character, attend! All calls of conduct, all degrees of health, All dies of fortune, and all dates of age, Together took in his impartial urn, Come forth at random."
The King of Terrors, who, in the course of the present season, hath blasted the best and fairest hopes of frail man, in various communities, hath levelled, with too sure an aim, his indiscriminating shaft at our FIRST MAGISTRATE, and, on Tuesday evening last, enrolled the name of his Excellency ARTHUR FENNER, Esquire, in the sable catalogue of victims to his relentless power, in the 60th year of his age, after having, with patience and fortitude, sustained a long and distressing illness.
In the candid contemplation of his character, we behold, with pensive pleasure, the inflexible patriot, whose heart triumphed in that glorious revolution that gave his beloved country a distinguished rank amongst the nations of the earth—a rank he was ever anxious should be maintained with dignity, firmness and wisdom. His fellow-citizens in this his native State early recognized him as an ardent friend of freedom, and confiding in his talents and affectionate regard to this section of his country, with singular unanimity elected him "Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations"—a station he hath held, with zeal, address and intrepidity (amidst the effervescence of party and the collisions of political opinion) upwards of fifteen years, frequently without opposition, which may be considered the best demonstration of his talents and merit in the discharge of the arduous and important offices. In his high station, he manifested no superiority over, or showed any arrogance towards, any man. What Nature's Bard calls the "insolence of office," those exterior forms of dignity behind which menials are often entrenched, his Excellency, with real magnanimity, disdained to assume. Alike easy, pleasant and accessible to the humblest son of poverty as to the favoured child of fortune, he gloried in an opportunity to dispel that awe which the elevation of his station naturally inspired. His aversion to ostentatious pomp and idle pageantry was strongly marked, that, in this respect, it might be truly said of him, what the Poet beautifully applies to another, that "even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side." He was, indeed, the idol of a great majority of his constituents, to whom he was endeared by his affectionate, friendly and humble deportment, and unreserved courtesy of manners.
But, "No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dead abode, (There they alike, in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his FATHER and his GOD." Yesterday afternoon the Corpse, after an affecting and appropriate prayer by the Rev. Mr. Gane, attended by a large concourse of friends and fellow-citizens, escorted by the military, was most respectfully interred in the north burying-ground, where repose the ashes of his venerable ancestors. The citizens of this town and vicinity, however they differ on political subjects, united, with one accord, in performing the last sad offices to their departed CHIEF MAGISTRATE. In addition to other testimonials of respect, the bells of all the churches tolled a solemn knell, the ships in the harbour displayed their ensigns of mourning, and minute guns were discharged during the melancholy obsequies.
The following was the Order of Procession observed yesterday afternoon at the funeral of his late Excellency ARTHUR FENNER, Esq. from his late dwelling.
The military commanded by Colonel CARLILE. 1. Light Dragoons—Col. Arnold. 2. Cadets—Col. Burrill. 3. Artillery—Col. Carllile. 4. Brigadier Gen. Martin and Militia Officers of the State, in Uniform.
5. Full Beards. THE CORPSE Full Beards.
6. Chief Mourners. 7. Distant Relatives. 8. The Rev. Clergy. 9. The Senators and Members of the Legislature. 10. The Secretary of State, Attorney-General and General Treasurer. 11. The State Society of Cincinnati. 12. The District Judge, Marshal and Attorney. 13. The Sheriff of the County of Providence. 14. The Justices of the State Courts, their Clerks, Attorneys, and Justices of the Peace. 15. The Members of Congress, and Officers of the National Government. 16. The Officers, Corporation and Students, of Brown University. 17. The Town Council, Town-Treasurer and Town-Clerk. 18. The Association of Mechanics. 19. The Marine Society. 20. Citizens and Strangers.
The Procession moved precisely at half past two to the north burial ground, where the guns commenced firing from Col. Carllile's train of artillery, and continued during the Procession.
The stores and shops, throughout the day, were closed on the solemn occasion, and business appeared to be suspended.
WARREN, SATURDAY, OCT. 26.
PARTICULAR NOTICE.
The Editor of the HERALD renders his grateful thanks to those of his customers, who have been punctual in their payments, and hopes they will not be weary in well doing. He at the same time reminds such of his customers as are in arrears, that there never was a time that the balances due him would be more bankably received; as Winter is fast approaching, his family large and his calls great, he therefore earnestly solicits their attention, and expects he will not call in vain :—As he is not so well acquainted with the dunning art as many of his profession are, he must confess he feels very awkward in undertaking it.—He would also observe that he does not undertake the task, thinking that any one who owes him will be so base as to take the advantage of the limitation Act , for his long indulgence; but on the above reasons, and of closing his accounts urges him to it:—Cash and produce will be thankfully received, and where it is ill-convenient for his customers to make payment at present, he will take their Notes.
We this day present our readers with the account of the DEATH of our late CHIEF MAGISTRATE, and of his funeral obsequies—are sorry it was not received timely for last weeks HERALD.
On Monday next, the Honorable GENERAL ASSEMBLY of this State, convenes at South Kingstown.
FROM GIBRALTAR.
Capt. Rogers, arrived at Boston, on Wednesday last, from Gibraltar, in 34 days passage, brings accounts, that the combined French and Spanish fleets, were still at Cadiz; that Admirals Calder and Collingwood, were before that place, with a squadron of about 17 sail; and that Lord Nelson, with an additional force, was hourly expected to arrive on that station, for the purpose of taking command of the blockade.
Capt. Rogers further advises, that the French and Spanish troops, in the neighbourhood of Gibraltar, were said to amount to between 20 and 30,000 men; and that on the event of a return of the calamity, which proved so fatal to the garrison and inhabitants during the last year, it was expected an attack would be made. At present the troops enjoyed great health, and were prepared to meet the enemy at every point. The differences between this country and Tripoli, being fully adjusted, a part of the U. S. Squadron, then lying at Gibraltar, and consisting of 4 frigates, 2 Schooners, and 2 bomb brigs, were expected to sail immediately for America.
No accounts had been received at Malaga or Gibraltar, of any hostile disposition having been recently discovered on the part of Tunis, or any of the other Barbary powers, against this country.
SEAMEN'S PROTECTIONS.
A gentleman who has lately returned from Halifax, and brought with him his son whose liberation from on board one of the British frigates, on that station, he procured through the friendship and agency of James Smith, Esq. of that place, assures us, that the Common Protections , which are given to our seamen at the custom-houses, will not insure their safety from impressment on board British ships of war. He adds, that in order to render these Protections effective, and conformable to the regulations of the British navy, they must be accompanied by the copy of a certificate, signed by the town-clerk of the place, where the birth of each seaman is registered; which copy must be annexed to the Protection, and the original acknowledged by the Collector to be deposited in his office. As this notice is important to the interests of commerce and of humanity, we are assured our brother editors in the United States will give it publicity. [Boston Gaz.]
Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of November next, is appointed to be observed as a day of Public Thanksgiving & Prayer throughout the States of Massachusetts and New-Hampshire.
A single stalk of Corn, raised in Windsor, (Vt.) the present year produced 6 ears and 1737 kernels.
A letter from Cadiz, dated August, 19, states, that a new duty of one dollar per barrel has been imposed on all flour imported into the ports of Spain. Cadiz and St. Lucar were ignorously blockaded.
STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND.
DISTRICT OF NEWPORT.
Entered. From Schooner Resolution, Townsend. Grenada Monongahela Farmer, Osgood. Malaga Neptune, Barney. New-Providence Ship Susan & Sarah, Manners. Bourdeaux Cleared. For Sloop New-York Packet, Cozzens. Barbadoes Brig Lucinda, Shaw. Jamaica Ship Rote-in-Bloom, Burdick. Charleston
DISTRICT OF PROVIDENCE.
Entered. From Sloop Hancock, Crapon. New-York New-York, Brown. Ditto
Schr. Ino. Grainger, Brig Abenethy, Clark, Inno. Bates, Planter, Harris, Cleared Sloop Sally, Butler, Polly, Judin, Katy, Boles, Schr. Rebecca, Fenner, Polly & Betty, Boles, Brig Fame, Reynolds,
Arrived at Bristol, on Tuesday last, fchr. Hiram, Norris, in 17 days from Havana.—Left at Havana, Oct. 4, brig Hiram, Carr, of Warren, R. I.; sloop Sally, Haile, of do.; Schooner Ann & Hope, Pitman, of Bristol, R. I.; brig Dispatch, Vial, of Newport. Oct. 5, off Matanzas, spoke brig Niciana, 17 days from Philadelphia, bound to Havana. 13th, in lat. 33, N. long. 76, W. spoke a brig from Matanzas, bound to Philadelphia. 14th, in lat. 34, 47, N. long. 75, W. saw a vessel under jury masts standing S. W. The fchr. Concord, Monroe, sailed from Havana 4 days before the Hiram, bound to Bristol. Capt. Norris on his outward passage lost a sailor named Wm. Morell, and in Havana, on the 6th September, another named Daniel A. Fliat, belonging to Wilmington, (Mass.)—The legal representatives of these persons, can receive the wages and effects belonging to them, on application to Capt. Norris.
NEW-YORK, OCT. 14. The Schooner West Indian, Newson, in 18 days from Point-Pitre, Guadalupe. A large British prize ship, Capt. Foster, was to sail the next day for New-York. Five days ago, just to the southward of the gulph, spoke the sloop Good Intent, from Philadelphia, for the Bay of Honduras, had been dismasted on the 24th, and was trying to get into a southern port—the day before she spoke a sloop that had spoke the ship Two Friends, of Philadelphia, dismasted.
PHILADELPHIA, OCT. 12. Capt. Brown, from Liverpool, Sept. 27, in lat. 41, long. 59, at 3 P. M. saw the wreck of a fchr. which proved to be the Bloom, Capt. Roffetter, of and from Philadelphia, bound to Bilboa; who was unfortunately upset in a gale of wind on the 24th ult. lying too, and filled—we took from the wreck, the Captain, mate and four of the people, all of the crew but two who perished. Oct. 2, at 6 P. M. saw a ship under jury mast, standing to the northward.
Capt. Roffetter furnishes us with the following from his log book:—Having taken charge of the fchr. Bloom, belonging to Wm. Davy & Son, and Dunn & Wachsmuth, loaded with sugar and cocoa, bound for Bilboa. We left the Capes of Delaware, on the 13th of September. On the 23d, it began to blow heavy from the S. E. Twenty-fourth, heavy gales from S. by E. with a heavy sea running, hove too under close reefed fore sail with the bonnet up. At 10 A. M. being in lat. 41, N. long. 57, W. was unfortunately knocked down on our beam ends by a heavy stroke of a sea, which carried off our boats, spars, &c. We were in this situation about five minutes before we could get the lanyards of the main rigging cut away, and about ten minutes afterwards before the vessel righted.—The main-mast broke about a foot above the deck, and carried the head of the fore mast away with it about three feet below the trussel trees. After she righted we found the cabin doors flew in (which was secured by a plank nailed across them) the vessel entirely full of water, and two and an half feet above the main-deck. The cook, named Jacob Tilghman, a black man, was in the cabin, and got jammed by some of the water casks or provisions fetching away on him, and we never saw him afterwards. It was impossible for us to do any thing towards saving the vessel in her situation, as the sea was running entirely over her, during the time we remained on her. Before night the quarter-deck was quite loose, and lifting up with every sea as high as the rail. This day all the provisions and most of the coconas that was in the cabin floated out, but we could not attempt to save any of them for our sustenance, as we were obliged to keep our stays lashed to the rafter rail for fear of being washed off the wreck.—25th, William Bockworth, seaman, died about 8 A. M. from the fatigue and cold of the night, since the time we were knocked down we were continually under water.—27th, moderate weather, found the vessel settling very fast, hove the cables and anchors with every thing heavy we could get at, overboard. The dead lights, with the bulk head at the quarter-deck, all flew in.—By fishing in the cabin with a spike nail (crooked) that we picked out of the quarter-deck, we got a bag of coconas and a bolt and a half of canvas.—29th, at 4 P. M. after being 102 hours on the wreck, was taken off by the brig Rosanna, Capt. Brown, of Philadelphia, who treated us with the greatest humanity, being all nearly unable to help themselves, from their bruises and exposure to the weather, and wash of the sea. There was nothing saved except a bolt and a half of canvas, and a few of the sailors' clothes.
Capt. Wheaton, from Basseterre, on the 23d, in lat. 26, 55, N. long. 67, 30, fell in with the wreck of the fchr. Hampshire, Capt. Thomas Barber, of New-York, who had been upset and lost six men, her main-mast, and every thing off decks, on the 18th of September—the Captain and 3 men had been 5 days in the fore-rigging, when I relieved them—the Schooner was then full of water and almost under, with nothing standing, but the fore mast; in this situation I left her, and on the 24th, in lat. 27, 23, long. 68, Capt. W. spoke the brig Sukey, Capt. Hughes, of Newburyport, who had lost his fore mast on the 19th, and purposed to get into the first port he could in the U. States. On the 30th, in lat. 32, 27, long. 71, 30, W. spoke the brig Abby, Taber, of New-Bedford, who had lost her main-mast, on the 23d Sept., and purposed to try for any port in the United States.
St. Thomas Barcelona Havanna St. Croix Ror Alexandria New-York Savannah Washington Savannah Ditto
BALTIMORE, OCT. 12. Arrived, brig American, Hudson, from Triste, via Madeira. Aug. 4, off Cape Sable, was boarded by a Tunisian galley, which plundered us of canvas, cordage, &c. 6th, was boarded by two Tripolian galleys, who plundered us of several small articles. 9th, spoke an Imperial ship two days out from Malta, who informed Capt. H. that the Tunisians had declared war against the Americans.—23d, in the Straits of Gibraltar, was boarded by an English privateer out of Gibraltar and treated politely, an hour after was boarded by a Spanish privateer out of Algiers and treated politely, both privateers in light of each other.
OCT. 16. Arrived, fchr. Fanny, Swain, Jeremie, 27 days. Left, Sept. 18, the fchrs. Messenger, White; Nonsoch, White; Eclipse, Wheeler; and Meteor, Fraser, all of Baltimore.—The fchr. Hetty, Stanley, of Baltimore, was chased into Jacquemel by 3 French privateers. The day before the Nonsoch got in the sail in with 2 French privateers, which moved up on each quarter, and fired a broadside into his sails and rigging, but did him no material injury; he ordered his men not to fire until he could see in their dispositions; in consequence of his keeping his fire, they took him for an English vessel of war, and not liking his appearance, took to their sweeps, and fled! The Meteor was in company, and they both chased the privateers for some time. On the passage, spoke an English brig, Capt. Cromarti, one of the Jamaica fleet, who informed him that the Prosperity, Fitch, of this port, some time since re-captured from the French, and brought in there, has been condemned on the evidence of the mate, who deposed that Smith & Gordon, (the owners) were both natives of St. Domingo, that Capt. Fitch was on board a Schooner in the fleet, bound to Norfolk. The fchr. Experiment, (Capt. dead) belonging to Rodgers & Owens, of Baltimore, was in the fleet. Capt. S. informs that the Haytian government intended to purchase no more American cargoes, but will still be in requisition until all the debts are paid, that they have contracted. Great disturbances are said to have taken place in consequence of Deffilines having determined to examine all the titles by which the lands are held, and to dispose of all those that cannot satisfy his commissioners on that head.
LIST OF LETTERS remaining in the Post-Office Warren, (R. I.)
B. BARTON, Benjamin 3d. Brown, John Burr, Nathan M. Baker, Thomas C. Cole, Luther, Capt. Child, Nabby Cole, Edward Capt. Rehoboth. Cole, Joseph D. Devol, Prudence Delony, James G. Geer, Susanna Gardner, John Swannex. H. Haile, Commerce K. Kelley, Edward L. Luther, Pearce Laylor, Joseph Low, John Barrington. M. Martin, Nathaniel Martin, Stephen Swannex. R. Round, John J. 2. Rawson, Joseph Barrington. S. Smith, Archelaus do. W. Wheaton, Joseph Capt. Rehoboth NATHANIEL PHILLIPS, P. M.
Fresh and seasonable STAPLE GOODS.
JUST received, and now opening for Sale, [for Cash only,] by the Subscriber opposite the Baptist Meeting House, a small Supply assorted Staple Goods, particularly adapted to the present and approaching Season, consisting of—Broadcloths, Plains, Serges, Coatings, Baizes, Demets, Flannels, Rose Blankets, Ruggs, Turkey-down and Swan-down, Vestings, Woollen and Vesting Pantaloons Cords, Worsted Hosiery, Wilbore, Ruffsels, Jeans, Duroys, Durents, Twilled Velvets, Fine and Common Callicoes, China Furnitures, Colerain and Antrim dressed Linens, White and Brown Plaitiles, Cotton and Linen Checks, Dimities, India-Cotton Sheeting, American and India-Cotton Shirting, Black and White Cotton Cambrics, Silk and Cotton Hankerchiefs, Camel-hair and Cotton Shawls, Black Lustrings, Satins and Modes, Millenets, Edgings, Ribbons, Gallons, Bobbins, Tapes, Linen and Cotton Threads, Silk Sewings, Twiss, Oilcloths, Silk and Cotton Braces, Cotton and Silk Gloves, Quality and Shoe Bindings, Glove-ties, Shirt Buttons, &c. &c.
A general Assortment of Hard-ware and Stationery.
Also a few Groceries.
PASCHAL ALLEN. Warren, Oct. 26, 1805.
FOR SALE, AT THE STORE OF
Charles Wheaton, A FEW Hogheads good retailing MOLASSES. Warren, Oct. 18, 1805.
American Linseed OIL,
OF the best Quality kept constantly on Hand and for Sale, per Barrel, at the Factory Price, for Cash or approved Notes at 60 Days, payable at Bank, by the Subscriber opposite the Baptist Meeting House. PASCHAL ALLEN. Warren, Oct. 18, 1805.

APOLLO'S FOUNT.
From the MASSACHUSETTS MAGAZINE.
On the APPROACH OF WINTER.
VICTORIOUS see him rushing forth From the cold region of the north, His magazine of war; The boisterous winds, that rudely play Untam'd by Sol's meridian ray, Bear on his icy car. Nought can resist his mighty force, As o'er the earth he speeds his course, Swift as the dawning light; His near approach loud storms presage, Fly the fierce heralds of his rage, And put the sun to flight. Let souls, that live the slaves of fear, Think every charm has left the year, And teach themselves to mourn; But, tho' he bid th' assembled host Of all his terrors storm our coast, I'll welcome his return. Each stunted season, as it flies, Comes a fresh witness from the skies Of heaven's benignant plan; And winter in his roughest form, Cloth'd with the horrors of the storm, Is still the friend of man. What tho' gay nature cease to bloom, And the cold air breathes no perfume, Beneath a frigid sky? Health shall be wasted on the gale, Whose swifter wings bear snow and hail, And pale disease shall fly. Let the bright orb of day retire, We'll gather round the genial fire, Nor with a kinder sun; There shall the social virtues smile, Love shall shake off each modern wile, And all our hearts be one.
From the BOSTON WEEKLY MAGAZINE.
MERCY ON AFFLICTION.
AN EASTERN STORY.
BOZALDAB, caliph of Egypt had dwelt securely for many years in the siken pavillions of pleasure, and had every morning anointed his head with the oil of gladness, when his only son Aboram, for whom he had crowded his treasures with gold, extended his dominions with conquests, and secured them with impregnable fortresses, was suddenly wounded as he was hunting, with an arrow from an unknown hand, and expired in the field.
Bozaldab, in the distraction of grief and despair, refused to return to his palace, and retired to the gloomiest grotto in the neighboring mountain; he there rolled himself on the dust, tore away the hairs of his hoary beard, and dashed the cup of consolation, that patience offered him, to the ground. He suffered not his minstrels to approach his presence; but listened to the screams of melancholy birds of midnight, that sit through the solitary vaults and echoing chamber of pyramids, "Can that God be benevolent," he cried, "who thus wounds the soul, as from an ambush, with unexpected sorrows, and crushes his creatures in a moment with irremediable calamity? Ye lying Imans, prate to us no more of the justice and the kindness of an all-directing and all-loving Providence: He, whom ye pretend reigns in heaven, is far from protecting the miserable sons of men, that he perpetually delights to blast the sweetest flowers in the garden of Hope; and, like a malignant giant, to beat down the strongest towers of happiness with the iron mace of his anger. If this Being possessed the goodness and the power with which flattering priests have invested him, he would doubtless be inclined and enabled to banish those evils which render the world a dungeon of distress, a vale of vanity and woe.—I will continue in it no longer."
At that moment he furiously raised his hand, which despair had armed with a dagger, to strike deep into his bosom; when suddenly thick flashes of lightning shot through the cavern, and a being of more than human beauty and magnitude, arrayed in azure robes, crowned with amaranth, and waving a branch of palm in his right hand, arrested the trembling and astonished caliph, and said, with a majestic smile, "follow me to the top of this mountain." "Look from hence," said the awful conductor; "I am Caloc, the angel of peace; look from hence into the valley."
Bozaldab opened his eyes and beheld a barren, a sultry and solitary island, in the midst of which sat a pale meagre and ghastly figure: It is a merchant just perishing with famine, and lamenting that he could find neither wild berries, nor a single sprig in this forlorn desert; and begging the protection of heaven against the tygers that would now certainly destroy him,
since he had consumed the last fuel that he had collected to make nightly fires to affright them. He then cast a casket of jewels on the sand, as trifles of no use; and crept, feeble and trembling, to an eminence, where he was accustomed to sit every evening to watch the setting sun, and to give a signal that might happen to approach the island.
"Inhabitant of heaven," cried Bozaldab, "suffer not this wretch to perish by the fury of wild beasts." "Peace," said the angel, "and observe."
He looked again, and behold a vessel arrived at the desolate isle. What words can paint the raptures of the starving merchant, when the captain offered to transport him to his native country, if he would reward him with half the jewels in his casket. No sooner had this pitiless commander received the stipulated sum, than he held a consultation with his crew, and they agreed to seize the remaining jewels, and leave the unhappy exile in the same helpless and lamentable condition in which they discovered him. He wept and trembled, intreated and implored in vain.
"Will heaven permit such injustice to be practised!" exclaimed Bozaldab. "Look again," said the angel, and behold the very ship, in which, short-sighted as thou art, thou wishest the merchant might embark, dashed in pieces on a rock: dost thou hear the cries of the sinking sailors? Presume not to direct the Governor of events. The man whom thou hast pitied shall be taken from this dreary solitude, but not by the method thou wouldst prescribe. His vice was avarice, by which he became not only abominable, but wretched; he fancied some mighty charm in wealth, which, like the wand of Abdiel, would gratify every wish, and obviate every fear.—This wealth he has now been taught not only to despise, but abhor; he casts his jewels upon the sand, and confessed them to be useless: he offered part of them to the mariners, and perceived them to be pernicious; he has now learnt, that they are rendered useful or vain, good or evil, only by the situation and temper of the possessor.—Happy is he whom distress has taught wisdom! But turn thine eyes to another and more interesting scene."
The caliph instantly beheld a magnificent palace, adorned with the statues of his ancestors wrought in jasper; the ivory doors of which, turning on hinges of the gold of Golconda, discovered a throne of diamonds, surrounded with the rajas of fifty nations, and with ambassadors of various habits, and different complexions;—on which sat Aboram, the much lamented son of Bozaldab, and by his side a princess fairer than a Houri.
"Gracious Allah!—it is my son," cried the caliph, "O, let me hold him to my heart!"—"Thou canst not grasp an unsubstantial vision," replied the angel. "I am now shewing thee what would have been the destiny of thy son, had he continued longer upon the earth."—"And why," returned Bozaldab, "was he not permitted to continue? Why was not I suffered to be a witness of so much felicity and power?" "Consider the sequel," replied he that dwells in the Heavens. Bozaldab looked earnestly and saw the countenance of his son, on which he had been used to behold the placid smile of simplicity and the vivid blushes of health, now distorted with rage, and now fixed in the insensibility of drunkenness, it was again animated with disdain, it became pale with apprehension, and appeared to be withered by intemperance; his hands were stained with blood, and he trembled by turns with fury and terror: the palace so lately shining with oriental pomp, changed suddenly into the cell of a dungeon, where his son lay stretched out on the cold pavement; gagged and bound, with his eyes put out.—Soon after he perceived the favorite sultana, who before was seated by his side, enter with a bowl of poison, which she compelled Aboram to drink, and
afterwards married the successor to his throne.
"Happy," said Caloc, "is he whom Providence has by the angel of death snatched from guilt! from whom that power is withheld, which, if he had possessed, would have accumulated upon himself yet greater misery than it could bring upon others."
"It is enough," cried Bozaldab; "I adore the inscrutable schemes of Omniscence!—From what dreadful evil has my son been rescued by a death which I rashly bewailed as unfortunate and premature: a death of innocence and peace, which has blessed his memory on earth, and transmitted his soul above the skies."
"Cast away the dagger," replied the heavenly messenger, "which thou wast preparing to plunge into thine own heart. Exchange complaint for silence, and doubt for adoration. Can a mortal look down, with giddiness and stupefaction, into the vast abyss of eternal wisdom? Can a mind that sees not infinitely, perfectly comprehend anything among an infinity of objects mutually relative? Can the channels, which thou has cut to receive the annual inundations of the Nile, contain the water of the ocean?—Remember, that perfect happiness cannot be conferred upon a creature, for perfect happiness is an attribute as incommunicable as perfect power and eternity."
The angel, while he was speaking thus, stretched out his pinions to fly back to the Empyreum; and the flutter of his wings was like the rushing of a cataract.
ANECDOLE OF SWIFT.
WHEN Swift was at Quile, a country seat of Dr. Sheridan's, he went one Sunday to church at the distance of more than two hours ride. The parson of the parish invited him to dinner but Swift excused himself by saying it was too far to ride home afterwards;—no, I shall dine with my neighbour Reilly at Virginy, which is half way home. Reilly, who was what was called there a gentleman Farmer, was proud of the honor, and immediately sent a messenger to his wife to prepare for the reception of so extraordinary a guest. She dressed herself out in the best apparel; the son put on his new suit, and his silver laced hat adorned his head. When the lady was introduced to the Dean, he saluted her with the same air as if she had been a Duchess, making several conges down to the ground, and then handed her with great formality to her seat. After some high flown compliments he addressed his host—"Mr. Reilly, I suppose you have a considerable estate here; let us go and look over your demesne." Estate, says Reilly, Devil a foot of land belongs to me or any of my generation. I have a pretty good lease here indeed from Lord Fingal, but he threatens that he will not renew it, and I have but a few years of it to come. "Well—but when am I to see Mrs. Reilly?" "Why do'nt you see her there before you?" "That Mrs. Reilly! impossible! I have heard she is a prudent woman, and as such would never dress herself out in silks, and other ornaments, fit only for ladies of fashion.—No—Mrs. Reilly the farmer's wife, would never wear any thing better than plain stuff, with other things suitable to it." Mrs. Reilly happened to be a woman of good sense, and taking the hint, immediately withdrew, changed her dress as speedily as possible, and in a short time returned to the parlour in her common apparel. Swift saluted her in the most friendly manner, taking her by the hand, and saying, "I am heartily glad to see you Mrs. Reilly. This husband of yours would fain have paimed a fine lady upon me, all dressed out in silks, and in the pink of the mode; for his wife, but I was not to be taken in so. He then laid hold of young master's fine hat; with his pen-knife ripped off the lace, and folding it up in several papers, thrust it into the fire. When it was sufficiently burnt, he wrapped it up in fresh paper, and put it in his pocket. It may be supposed that the family was put
into no small confusion at this strange proceeding; but they did not dare to shew that they took any umbrage at it, as the presence of Swift struck every one with uncommon awe, who were not well acquainted with him.
However, as he soon resumed his good humour, entertaining them with many pleasantries to their taste (for no man knew better how to adopt his conversation to all classes of people) they soon recovered their spirits, and the day was passed very cheerfully.—When he was taking his leave, he said, I do not intend to rob you Mr. Reilly; I shall take nothing belonging to you away with me; there's your son's hat lace, I have only changed the form of it to a much better one. So God bless you, and thanks for your good entertainment.
When he was gone, Mrs. Reilly, opening the paper, found there were four guineas inclosed in it, together with the burnt lace. While he stayed in the country, he kept an eye upon them, and found his lessons had not been thrown away, as they were cured of their vanities, and lived in a manner more consonant to their situation in life. In consequence of which one of the first things he did on his return to Dublin, was to pay a visit to Lord Fingal, and engage him to renew Reilly's lease; without which the poor man would in a few years, have had nothing for his own on his family's support.
ANECDOLES.
ADDISON, in one of his cheerful papers, thus playfully alludes to his love of that liquor which makes glad the heart of man. "Upon my coming home last night," says he, "I found a very handsome present of wine left for me as a taste. This having been sent to me with a desire that I would give my judgment upon it, I immediately impannelled a jury of men of nice palates and strong heads; who, being all of them very scrupulous, and unwilling to proceed rashly in a matter of so great importance, refused to bring in their verdict until three in the morning ; at which time the foreman pronounced, as well as he was able, Extra-a-ordinary French Claret. For my own part, as I love to consult my pillow in all points of moment, I slept upon it before I could give my sentence, and this morning confirmed the verdict."
"Having noticed this tribute of wine, I must give notice to my correspondents, in future, who shall apply to me on this occasion, that I shall decide nothing unadvisedly in matters of this nature. I cannot pretend to give judgement of right good liquor, without examining at least three dozen bottles of it."
SOME time ago, a sailor happened to be in a tavern in London, when the bells were ringing for church, asked what it was for? For church answered the landlord. "I believe I'll go, replied the sailor, but how must I behave?" You must set down in the first vacant seat you see, and not speak until it is out, or they will turn you out. He walked up the aisle, leading to the pulpit, and seats himself along side of the clerk—who, as usual, when the first part of the service was over, cried out, amen . "Hush! hush! shipmate," whispered Jack, "or they'll turn us both out."
A VIRGIN of twenty-three was lately throwing out some affected sneers at matrimony; when a grave friend in company observed that "marriages were made in heaven." "Can you tell me, Sir," rejoined the fly nymph, "why they are so slow in coming down ?"
A TAVERN keeper, at a late trial, having placed himself too near the Attorneys, was desired to withdraw. Gentlemen, says he, pray consider, that I practice at the Bar .
A COUNTRYMAN being requested to help a member of Congress out of a ditch, replied that he had no hand in state affairs .