Herald of the United States (Warren, R.I.), 1807-08-15 00:00:00

Gerald of the United States.
WARREN, (R.I.)—PUBLISHED NEAR THE POST-OFFICE, BY NATHANIEL PHILLIPS.
[No. 37, of Vol. XV.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1807.
[Whole No. 765.]
Female Academy at Bristol.
Miss Susan & Charlotte R. Smith,
PROPOSE to open, in this town, on Monday next, a School for Young Ladies , in which will be taught, the following branches of Education, viz.
READING, WRITING, ARITHMETIC, ENGLISH GRAMMAR, COMPOSITION & GEOGRAPHY, with the use of the GLOBES, PLAIN SEWING and MARKING, MUSLIN WORK and EMBROIDERY, DRAWING, PAINTING, MUSIC and DANCING.
The terms of Tuition will be reasonable. Suitable places for boarding young ladies from abroad, may be had at moderate prices. The strictest attention will be paid to the deportment and health of the Pupils. Nothing will be omitted on the part of the Instructresses to gratify the reasonable expectations of Parents and Guardians.
It is unnecessary to speak of the pleasantness and salubrity of this town,—it has long been justly celebrated for both.
Bristol, July 31, 1807.
NEW INVENTED CARDING-MACHINES.
THE Subscriber has lately had erected, by one of the first Workmen in the United States, at a great expense, to accommodate the Public, at a place known by KINGSLEY'S MILLS, in Swansey, NEW INVENTED CARDING MACHINES, (which will commence business in all next week) for the purpose of Picking, Carding and Breaking WOOL:—He renders his services to those who will please to favor him with their custom, and they may rely on the strictest attention and punctuality to all commands or orders.
EBENEZER COLE.
Such of his Customers, that with it, may loose the Wool at my Store, in Warren, from whence it shall be sent to the Mill and brought back, gratis.
July 31, 1807.
JUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE BY
N. M. Burt,
36 Barrels Brown SUGAR, 1,000 Feet finished OARS, SALT PORK, Dried and pickled Meats BEEF, Hogs LARD, Indian CORN and RYE, Rye and Indian MEAL, Clean white fine SALT, 5 Keggs plugg TOBACCO, in chop.
Choice Cyder VINEGAR, 100 Straws TUMBLERS, 100 Wt. best Russia GLUE, 100 Wt. Concord HOPS, Round Turnip SEED, Logwood per Hund. very low. Gum Arabic 1st Chop, cheap. A new Two Horse Waggon at cost, A Coach and Harness on very ac- commodating terms of payment at a reduced price.
July 17, 1807. TAC
FOR SALE, BY
Jonathan Bradshaw,
A Quantity of PILOT BREAD of the first quality,—in reasonable terms. Warren, July 31, 1807.
Carding of Wool.
JAMES BLISS, of Rehoboth (Ms.) informs those who will please to favor him with their Custom, in Warren and its vicinity, that he will receive WOOL from, and return the Robes without delay, to Mr. JONATHAN SMITH's in Warren—and that said SMITH will receive payment for Carding.
July 31, 1807. p34b.
One Cent Reward.
RANAWAY from the Subscriber, on the 26th Inst. an Indented Apprentice named ELEAZER WOODMANCY, in the 13th Year of his age, of light complexion and brown Hair. Had on when he went away, a pair of Tow Trowsers and linen Shirt.—Whoever will return said Boy to the Subscriber, shall receive the above reward and no charges paid.
CONSIDER TRIPP.
ALL Persons are forbid harbouring or entertaining him on my account, as I shall pay no debts of his contracting after this date.
Barrington, July 31, 1807. p34w
From the PROVIDENCE GAZETTE.
THE ADELPHIAD.—No. 110.
"'Tis to the PRESS and PAN, we mortals owe. "All we believe, and almost all we know."
IF ever Solomon erred, it was in not carrying his idea far enough, when he said, there is no difference between a man and a beast. The prophet Isaiah seems more properly "to have hit the nail," as Patridge says, "ad unguem," when he gives beasts the preference. The ox, saith he, knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. We enjoy the blessings and benefits of life, without any gratitude to the inventors or discoverers of them—indeed without bestowing a single thought on the subject: De Guignes has searched, and laboured, and written in vain. Next to articles of the first necessity, the greatest benefit that ever was conferred on mankind, was the art of PRINTING;—yet the greatest readers are, generally, unconscious of their obligations to the inventors of that noble art, or to those who now continue the practice of it.
Before the discovery of Printing, books were in very few hands; they were copied by writers at an almost infinite expence of labour and of time; and a person who wished for information on any particular subject, was obliged to travel till he found a work, in some library, which contained the particulars he desired to be acquainted with. It was a prodigious undertaking of Plutarch to collect the materials for his Lives, which he compiled with so much ability and integrity. Other learned men were exposed to similar inconveniences.
As to the inventor of the art of Printing, the learned are divided in opinion. The cities of Mentz, Strasburg and Harlem, contend with equal zeal for the honour of having produced him. The cause of John Mentel, of Strasburg, was zealously espoused by a French physician of the same name, who supposed he invented Printing A. D. 1442. The cause of John Guttemberg, of Mentz, is espoused by Polydore Virgil, Palquier and others.
Nander (Faul) of the same place—but Buxtorfius, Schrevallius and others, are the champions of Koster, of Harlem—from whom, some say that Guttemberg, and others that F. B. stole the printing materials. The advocates for Fust ground their opinion on the circumstance of his name being in the Latin bible printed anno 1462—and to Tully's offices in 1465. But the advocates for Koster produce the proof of books, now at Harlem, which were printed by him in 1430 and 1432; and they say that it is evident that the work called Di Spieghel Onser Behoudinge , could not be Koster's first essay. Before that time he must have practised on loose sheets, some of which, without date, are in the library of the King of England at St. James's, and others in the Bodleian library at Oxford. These specimens are the rudest of any which are extant, and form no inconsiderable argument in favour of Koster's being the original inventor. But the honour of inventing single metal types belongs to Schoeffer, the servant, son-in-law and partner of John Fust, of Mentz; so that I should conceive he ought to be considered as the real inventor of Printing; the wooden cuts of the other competitors having been of but little use, and such a method of Printing was known in China time immemorial; however, as there was not, at that period, any intercourse between Europe and China, it is altogether probable that neither Mentel, Guttemberg, Fust or Koster, derived any information from that quarter.
I have, on a former occasion, mentioned the Codex Argenteus , in the library of Upsal, in Sweden, concerning which I expected to have found some valuable information in Carr's Northern Summer; but I have been disappointed. Mr. Carr says, it is richly illustrated with "large silver and some golden letters, which have been made by the brush." Mr. Carr, confessedly is not an antiquary; but the antiquary I supposed this work was stamped with hot metal types, in the manner the backs of books are lettered. If the opinion of Iher is just, here is an instance of Printing in the fourth century; this Codex Argenteus being a translation of the four gospels made by Ulphilas, the apostle of the Goths.—That work was at Prague when Printing was practised by Fust, &c. but I cannot say that they were acquainted with it. It is more probable they laid the plan of their designs from the works of Maso Finiguerra, Baccio Baldini, Sandro Botticelli, Antonio del Pollaiolo, of Florence, and other Italian engravers, who brought that art to a considerable degree of perfection in the fourteenth century. If this should have been the case—and it is highly probable—no wonder the German and Dutch Printers did not settle the point among themselves, who it was that invented Printing—they probably knew that neither of them invented it; for it is said that Finiguerra, the first engraver, "pressed a piece of damp paper on his engraving with a small wooden roller, and the engraving on the metal remained im-
"printed on the paper, just as if it had been de- signed with the pen." The only alteration the Germans made in this business, was to cut their letters in wood: therefore I am far from being convinced, that either Mentel, Guttemberg, Fust or Koster, has any just title to be considered as the inventor of Printing. To Schoeffer, however, we must concede the invention of the method of Printing by means of the single metal types, which is in fact the real, or by far the most valuable part of the art. From Germany the art of Printing was carried into all the countries of Europe, except Turkey.—There it was allowed from 1730 to 1740; but was not finally established at Constantinople till 1784. William Caxton, an English merchant, who had long been in Germany, took over to England Frederic Corselles, who understood the Printing business; and he established a press at the University of Oxford, about the year 1470.—The first book printed in English was the history of Troy.
No one could have calculated, a priori , the immense and lasting benefits the world has received from the art of Printing. Within a century from the time it was invented, it produced the Reformation; it being impossible longer to keep the scriptures and other books out of the hands of the laity, who before that time were profoundly ignorant. Printing laid the book of knowledge open to all descriptions of people, and reformed the world from the dimness and obscurity of what are called the dark ages. In those times the appearance of learned men was nearly as rare as that of the great comet—but since the era of Printing, they have increased so as to have acquired the appellation of the learned world : and there is no one so poor, but he may enjoy the gift of Hermes, or obtain a draft from the spring of Pieria. The enemies of Christianity talk of the trifling effect it had on the manner of its votaries.—They say that "the martial principles of Odin triumphed over the peaceable laws of Christ; and that Christendom was in a state little short of barbarism—that the Crusaders, the most zealous adherents of the Gospel cause, thought they should do God service by cutting the throats of the Saracens, because they were infidels." The fact is, they were infidels, but they were also illiterate. Lord Lyttleton says, that in the reign of King Stephen, it was a mark of nobility not to know a letter; but since Printing has diffused a knowledge of the true principles of Christianity, the condition of man has been ameliorated, and is now in a state of progressive improvement. Such exertions as Robespierre, or the Corsican Goth, are merely as the nebulae on the disk of the sun—defects which wear away and vanish in the course of time. In respect to knowledge, it is from the Press that we derive the greatest part of it—and the Press is the creator of nearly all our great literary characters. Had Printing been unknown, our renowned Dr. FRANKLIN had been unknown also. Had he been any thing but a Printer, it is probable he never would have improved the principles of Boccaccio and the Abbe Nollet, so as to draw lightning from the clouds, to the astonishment and admiration of mankind, and to the lasting honour of our country.
But the time would fail me to tell of all the great and manifold advantages we receive from Printing. Suffice it therefore to observe, that no one has made greater progress towards rendering the art of Printing perfect, than W. CASLON, a self-taught letter-founder in England. To delineate the gradual improvements of this art, would carry me far beyond the bounds assigned to this essay—and perhaps prove tedious to the reader. Z.
Foreign Intelligence.
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 13.
The following intelligence has been received by Viscount Castlereagh, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, from Major-General Alexander M'Kenzie Fraser, commanding his Majesty's land forces in Egypt, transmitted in a letter from the Right Hon. Gen. Fox, to the Right Hon. William Windham.
Extract of the copy of a letter from Major-General A. M. Fraser, to the Right Hon. William Windham, dated Alexandria, April 6, 1807, transmitted to him by Gen. Fox, the original not having been received.
SIR,
MY letter of the 26th ult. has already informed you, that in consequence of the strong representation of Major Misset, his Majesty's resident here, (a copy of which I then transmitted) stating the risk the inhabitants of Alexandria run of being starved, unless Rosetta and Rahmanie were taken possession of by his majesty's troops, I had, with the concurrence of Rear-
Admiral Sir John Duckworth, detached the 31st regiment and Chasseurs Britanniques, under Major General Wanchope and Brigadier General Meade for that purpose.
I am now under the disagreeable necessity of acquainting you that, contrary to all expectation, this measure did not succeed. Our troops took possession of the heights of Abourmander (which command the town) without any loss; but from circumstances as yet unexplained, the General, instead of keeping his post there, unfortunately was tempted to go into the town with his whole force, without any previous examination of it, when the troops were so severely handled from the windows and tops of the houses, without ever seeing their enemy, that it was thought expedient to retire; more especially as Major-General Wanchope was unfortunately killed, and the second in command, Brigadier General Meade, severely wounded.
The troops, I understand, although certainly placed in a most trying and perilous situation, behaved extremely well; and after having suffered in killed and wounded, retired to Aboukir, in good order, without molestation and from whence I directed them to return to Alexandria.
This certainly has been a very heavy and unexpected stroke upon us, more especially as every information led me to conclude, that the opposition, if any, would be trifling; and that prudence could suggest.
Finding, however, by the renewed representation of Major Misset, corroborated by the personal application of the Sotnagi, or chief magistrate, in the name of the people at large, that famine would be the certain and immediate consequence of our remaining at Alexandria, without the occupation of Rosetta, I have, with the concurrence, advice and co-operation of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Louis, (who commands the squadron here since the departure of Sir John Duckworth,) detached another corps, under the command of the Hon. Brigadier General Stewart and Colonel Oswald (as per margin) to effect this purpose, without which it appears impossible that the measure proposed by his Majesty's Ministers, of keeping possession of Alexandria, can be accomplished.
JUNE 22.
The Hazard sloop of war has arrived at Malta, with dispatches from Egypt; copies of which, with other dispatches for the Colonel Office, have been received in London.
The dispatches to the Governor of Malta are stated to have required the immediate departure from Malta of all the victuallers and store ships which might be lying there, as the garrison at Alexandria were in a state little short of absolute famine. The Albanians had not advanced upon Alexandria at the date of these dispatches, but they had neglected no measures which could distress the British troops.
The passage of the Nile was wholly intercepted, and nothing could reach Alexandria from any part of the country. The distress of the British was consequently very great; but General Fraser had received the most positive orders from Messina but to abandon his position as long as he could possibly retain it.
The second action was more severe than has been imagined. Our loss in killed alone exceeds even hundred.

HIGHLY IMPORTANT Foreign Intelligence.
From French Papers received at Boston, from Nantz.
FRENCH GRAND ARMY BULLETIN.
No. Seventy-Eighth, dated,
HEILSBURG, JUNE 12, 1807.
THIS Bulletin gives an account of the overtures of peace, made during the winter; and of their being interrupted by the attacks of the Russians.
ACTION OF SPANDEN.
June 5th, the Russian army put several of his divisions in motion. The right attacked the bridge-head of Spanden, which Gen. Frere defended with the 27th regiment. Twelve Russian regiments made vain efforts; they renewed them seven times, and seven times were repulsed. In the mean time the Prince of Ponte-Corvo (Bernadotte) had assembled his troops, but before they could act, a charge of the 17th dragoons forced the enemy to retreat. Thus during a whole day, two divisions made repeated unsuccessful attacks on one regiment; but it must be owned this regiment was entrenched. In visiting the entrenchments between one of the attacks Marshal Bernadotte was slightly wounded, which will render him unable to resume his command for a fortnight. Our loss is trifling. The enemy's 1200, and many wounded.
BATTLE OF LOMILTEN.
Two Russian divisions from the centre also attacked the bridge-head at Lomilten. Gen. Terry's brigade defended it. Two regiments repulsed the enemy the whole day. The batteries and works were covered with dead Russians. Their General was killed; and their loss was 1000 prisoners, and great numbers wounded. 120 men killed and wounded.
Mean while the Russian commander (Bennigsen) with the Imperial guards, and three divisions, attacked Marshal Ney's position at Altkirken, Gutstadt and Wolsdorf; and were repulsed in all quarters; but when Marshal Ney discovered that his assailants exceeded 40,000 men, he obeyed his instructions, and led his corps to Aukersdorff.
BATTLE OF DEPPEN.
June 6th, the enemy attacked the 6th corps at Deppen, on the Passarge. They were repulsed. The manoeuvres, talents and intrepidity of Marshal Ney, Gen. Marchand, and other officers, are worthy of the greatest eulogium. The enemy confesses the loss of 2000 killed, and 3000 wounded. We had 160 killed, 200 wounded, and 270 prisoners, made by the Cossacks, who had posted themselves in the rear of the army.
AFFAIR OF THE 8TH.
On the 8th the Emperor arrived at Deppen, and moved to Wolsdorf, where they met a Russian division, about to join the main army, attacked it, disabled 500 men, took 150, and in the evening took post at Altkirken.
At this moment the Emperor advanced on Gustadt, with Ney's and Lannes' corps, his guards, and the reserve of cavalry. Ten thousand cavalry, and 15,000 infantry, of the enemy's rear guard, took possession of Glorien, and attempted to dispute the passage. Marshal MURAT, after some skillful manoeuvres, drove them from their positions, and the light cavalry and heavy dragoons triumphed over all the efforts of the enemy, and in the evening we entered Gustadt by force. One thousand prisoners, the possession of the positions before Gustadt, and the routing of the infantry, were the consequences of the day. The Russian horse guards were peculiarly severely handled.
AFFAIR OF THE 10TH.
June 10th, the army advanced towards Heilsburg, and carried several camps. The enemy's rear guard, of from 15 to 18,000 cavalry, and several lines of infantry, were formed at a mile's distance. The Spanish cuirassiers, and other corps, charged them, and gained ground. Two divisions of Marshal SOULT's corps marched on the right, whilst LEGRAND's division marched on the left. The whole Russian army was at Heilsburg; they reinforced their advanced columns. More than 60 field pieces poured death, whilst they were thus supporting their columns, which our divisions drove back with the most undaunted courage and impetuosity. Several Russian divisions were routed, and at 9 P. M. we were under the enemy's entrenchments. Several divisions performed prodigies. VANDAMME's division cut off the enemy's retreat by Landenburg; and several companies went so far as to insult the Russians in their entrenchments. Some brave men met death near the palisades.
The Emperor passed the 11th on the field of battle; making arrangements for a decisive action. The whole Russian army was assembled, and Heilsburg was full of stores, and rendered very strong. The Emperor ordered DAVOUST to form on the lower Alle, and cut off the road to Eylau. Each corps had its assigned post, and were all assembled, excepting the 1st which was on the Lower Passarge. Thus the Russians who had recommenced hostilities, found themselves blocked. Battle was offered them: It was thought they would attack on the 12th, whilst the French army was forming; but instead of attacking, they began at night to cross to the right bank of the Alle, and gave up the whole country on their left, leaving their wounded at the mercy of the victor, as well as their magazines, and those entrenchments the fruit of so much arduous exertion.
On the 12th at day-break, all the army was in motion. All the horses are filled with the Russian wounded. From the 5th to the 12th the enemy's army has been deprived of a
boat 30,000 fighting men; they left in our hands from 3 to 4000 men; four or eight pairs of colours, and 9 pieces of artillery; and, according to the accounts of defectors, several important Generals. Our loss is about 600 or 700 killed, 2000 or 2200 wounded, and 300 prisoners. A Spanish General is wounded. Gen. Roussel, of the Imperial guards had his head shot off; Marshal MURAT had two horses killed under him; one of his aides (Sagun) lost an arm. Several other officers were wounded. We found in the magazines of Heilsburg several thousand quintals flour, and large quantities of provisions of various kinds.
The Emperor Alexander left his army some days before the campaign opened.
FRANCE.
PARIS, JUNE 25.
GREAT BATTLE.
Yesterday his Highness Prince Berghes, arrived at the palace of St. Cloud, and brought from the Emperor, to the Empress and Queen the news of a victory which, on the 14th this month, was gained at Friedland [about 20 miles S. of Konigsburg] by the Grand Army, commanded by the Emperor in person. The following particulars were given at Head-quarters, and which we are authorised to repeat, while we are waiting for the official bulletin:—
The French army has worthily celebrated the 14th June, the anniversary of the battle of Marengo. The battle of Friedland will be celebrated in history. The Russian army, out-manoeuvred, its centre penetrated, and cut off from its magazines, has been completely beaten. Eighty pieces of cannon taken, 25 to 30,000 Russians taken, killed, or drowned in the Alle, are the results of this memorable day. Thirty Russian Generals have been killed, taken or severely wounded. The bodies of several Generals were found dead on the field of battle, and it is worthy of remark, that among them were the bodies of Generals Pahlen and Morscov, two of the first instigators of the sedition devoted to England. The regularity of our dispositions, the intrepidity of our troops, have greatly diminished the loss of the French army, which is not considerable.
[Moniteur.]
The Gazette de France, says, "In addition to the 78th Bulletin, we learn, that on the 13th June the Head-Quarters of the Grand Army was at Prussian Eylau; that the army, in two columns, was marching on to Konigsburg; and that the advanced guards were at the gates of that city;—That the Russian army could not sustain an attack in any part; in that it was overwhelmed and dispersed in such a manner, as to render it impossible for them to re-unite. According to other reports, the French were already in Konigsburg, where they entered pell-mell with the Russians.—But this last news needs confirmation."
The Courier de l'Europe, says "We announce that the battle is over."
DENMARK.
ELSIENBURG, JUNE 12.
We have a report, that a battle has been fought between the Russian and French armies, in which the former was successful. Our best hopes are for its confirmation.
ENGLAND.
LONDON, JUNE 15.
OFFICIAL.
From Gen. FRAZER, to Mr. Fox, dated, Canopus, About Bay, April 24, 1807.
I have the mortification to acquaint you that the second attempt that I thought necessary to make against Rosetta, has failed, owing to a great reinforcement of the enemy being sent down the Nile from Cairo, which overpowered our troops, and obliged them to fall back with the loss (I am grieved to say) of nearly 1000 men in killed, wounded and missing. Among the latter, Lieut. Colonel M'Leod, Major Vogelsang, and Major Mohr. Brigadier-General Stuart, who commanded the troops on this service, is only now upon his march towards Alexandria to the remainder of his force, and has not yet sent me the details; but as the Admiral thinks it necessary to dispatch the Wizard brig immediately from this bay to Messina, I think it necessary to give you all the information I am at present in possession of, and shall send you the particulars of this unfortunate affair by his majesty's ship Thunderer, which will leave Alexandria very soon; and as I have not time to acquaint his majesty's ministers of this event by this opportunity, I must request you to have the goodness to do it as soon as possible.
JUNE 19, 1807.
The following Order of the King in Council, passed June 17, 1807.
It is this day ordered by his Majesty in Council that all ships and goods belonging to the Inhabitants of Hamburg and Bremen, which, since the 1st of January last, have been, and are now detained in the ports of this kingdom, shall be restored upon being pronounced by the High Court of Ad-
miralty to belong to the Inhabitants aforesaid; and not otherwise liable to confiscation, and that the said ships and goods shall be permitted to proceed to any neutral port.—And it is further ordered, that the ships and goods so belonging, shall not in future be liable to detention, provided such ships and goods shall be engaged in a trade to or from any port in this kingdom, or between neutral and neutral port.—But all ships and goods belonging to the inhabitants aforesaid, which shall be found trading with any hostile port, and not going from nor coming to any port of this kingdom, shall be detained and brought in for legal adjudication, and shall be adjudged as lawful prize to his Majesty. And the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, are to give the necessary directions herein, and to them may respectively appertain.
[Signed] W. FAWKNER.
All the Dutch troops in the neighbourhood of the Elbe have been suddenly ordered to march for Holland.—The cause of this rapid movement is kept a profound secret. Conjectures are numberless; some say that the English have made a descent on Embden; others in Zealand; others between the Texel and the Helder; and others again allege, that a civil war, or insurrection has broken out in some parts of Holland!—Respecting the last of these reports, it appears certain, that the Royal Family of Holland have thought it prudent to remove for the present from the seat of government, under pretence of bathing for the benefit of their health.
We are apprehensive the account communicated by an American captain to the Berbice Packet, as we stated on Monday, of the re-capture of Buenos Ayres, is at least premature, as we understand the American left the River Plate nine weeks previous to the expedition which time we know no existence.
On the authority of letters from Holland, received yesterday, of the date of June 8th, it is stated that accounts had been received there of an Armistice having been agreed upon between the French and Russians for six weeks, dating from the 1st instant, the day on which it was signed at the Head-quarters of the former. We give this report merely as it has reached us, without being able to state through what channel or conveyance it has reached this country.
JUNE 20.
The first division of the Expedition failed yesterday morning from the Downs for Stralsund. It consisted of the 6th, 7th and 8th regiments of infantry of the German legion. The division that has failed is under the command of General Dreckfel. A second embarkation will take place in a day or two.
We have extracted from the Foreign Papers some interesting intelligence relating to the movements of the Servian and Turkish armies. The affairs of the former are not quite so desperate as they are represented in the Moniteur. The situation of Michelsohn, and the Russians, we are in hopes, will prove not to be worse than that of their Allies. The retreat from the Danube was absolutely necessary on his part. The principal Turkish army, instead of proceeding to attack him, marched towards Ismail, which was far in the rear of one of his wings. Had they reached that point, the safety of the whole of Michelsohn's corps would have been endangered.
Admiral Sir Thomas Duckworth attended yesterday, at the Admiralty, and had a long conference with the Lords.
The Marquis of Huntly does not go with the Grand Expedition: that gallant Nobleman is now appointed on the Staff of the Army in the Mediterranean, in the room of Major-General Wauchope, who fell in Egypt.—Capt. Johnston, of the 42d regiment,
we hear, is to go as his Lordship's Aid-de-Camp.
JUNE 22.
The Vienna Court Gazette draws a very different picture of the state of affairs in Turkey from the French and Dutch papers. The blockade of the Dardanelles and of the Canal of Constantinople has reduced the capital to great distress. The Captain Pacha seems unwilling to quit the security of the sea of Marmora, and the Turkish squadron which entered into the Black Sea, has been driven out of it by the Russians. General Michelsohn's position remains nearly the same. He has not evacuated Moldavia and Wallachia, and has lately received considerable reinforcements.
It is reported that a change has taken place in the Russian Ministry; that Baron Budberg has resigned, and M. Novoziltzoff received the portfolio of foreign affairs, and that Count Benkman has been succeeded by Count Strogonog, in the Commercial Department. The latter not long since left this country, and his appointment will, it is supposed, be extremely favorable to this country.
Holland is strangely situated—she is apprehensive of an invasion, and she is without a chief magistrate.—Louis Bonaparte, according to private letters from Holland has abdicated the throne in consequence of a misunderstanding with his brother. His conduct, though grateful to the people because it favored their commerce, displeased Napoleon.—The wish of the latter is to distress the English trade by all possible means. Does he ruin his dependent by carrying his wishes into execution—this is to him a matter of indifference—Private letters state that as soon as Louis Bonaparte was placed upon the Throne he saw the ruin which his brother's system was bringing upon the country—the people approached him with representations of their common distress, and implored him to abrogate that prohibitory commercial system, which, by cutting off foreign demand, and thus ruined a commerce which could only support itself by means of its richer neighbors.
Louis Bonaparte appears to have been moved by the scene of distress before him: the system was partially abrogated, and the communication opened between England and Holland through the indirect medium of neutrals. It is stated that those indulgences provoked the indignation of the Emperor Napoleon.
The first of it experienced by the King of Holland was the desertion of his wife, the daughter of the French Empress; who, after some unsuccessful intrigues, withdrew from her husband to her mother.
Louis Bonaparte, wearied with these intrigues, and having in vain solicited permission to retire, has at length abdicated the Throne, and withdrawn himself into Italy. The Dutch provinces are in consequence in the greatest confusion: they have implored the return of Louis—"that Monarch whom they have known long enough to love, and whose retreat will renew that state of confusion and distress, from which his moderation and princely humanity had but begun to relieve them."
FRANCE.
PARIS, JUNE 9.
LOSS of the BLANCHE FRIGATE.
Interesting particulars.—By the Morning Star, Camel, from Morlaix, arrived at Plymouth, a letter has been received from Sir Thomas Lavie, Captain of His Majesty's late frigate Blanche, from which we are enabled to give the following interesting extract:—
Brest, March 9, 1807.
"We failed from Portsmouth on the 3d, as you may remember. At 2 o'clock the next morning we made Portland Lights, distant about four leagues; we afterwards steered a west course until 8 o'clock, then west by south half south. At eight at night it began to blow hard; and, from being under all sail, were reduced to close reefed fore and main-top-sails, and got down top-gallant yards; Ushant, at this time, by our reckoning bore S. S. W. half W. 16 leagues. I lost orders in writing to haul to the northward, the wind being E. N. E. when the ship had run ten leagues, which I thought a good position to join Ad. Sir James Saumarez in the morning. At eleven, Lieut. Appree awoke me, to say that it blew harder, on which I ordered the ship to be brought to the wind on the starboard tack, and the force

top-sail to be taken in; he had hardly got out the cabin before the shock; every body was on the deck in an instant, sails were clewed up, and anchors were let go; we rode a little while until she parted from her anchors and was driven on the rocks.—The night was dreadfully dark and cold, and there was no possibility of discriminating whether the rocks were distant from the land, or connected with the shore; however, happily it proved the latter. I immediately ordered the masts to be cut away, and recommended the officers and men to stay by me and the ship to the last; a few hands got into the quarter boats, and they were no sooner on the water than they were dashed to pieces: it was about high water, and while the tide flowed, the ship lay tolerably easy, until it began to ebb, when most tremendous breakers covered us. I remained by the wheel until the divided amidships, and fell over seaward.—The crew were all on the side, and hauled me up to them; it was pleasing to observe the attention they paid me to the last, and now they cares me as their father; we lay in this state about three hours, when the water left the wreck sufficient for us to attempt a landing, and with the exception of a few, got safe on shore, and assembled under a rock, when three cheers were given to the remains of the poor dear Blanche. At day-light, not two pieces of wood were left together, and the masts were shattered into shivers. Nothing was saved, and we make a most shabby appearance. A cask of rum was the only thing found on the shore; and after I was carried to a cottage, some of the crew were so imprudent as to broach it, by which about sixteen died; it is not possible to ascertain our exact loss but should think 45, twenty of whom were marines. All the officers are saved. Mr. Goodhew, passenger, died through fear—we landed on a shocking coast, but every attention possible was paid to us. We have already been marched about 30 miles, and are now at Brest, which is a heaven to all hands, as they are most comfortably lodged and fed in the Navy Hospital. I am at present at the house of the commander in chief, Mr. Caffarelli, a perfect gentleman.—Our destination is fixed for Verdun, and I would not leave my people was freedom offered me. Gregg is quite well. It is my intention to put all the boys to school, and to secure their maintenance while they continue to France. Excepting a few bruises, my people are quite well.
Domestic Occurrences.
VIRGINIA. NORFOLK, JULY 31.
THERE is certainly a small error in that part of a late statement in the National Intelligencer , which says "If the persons, who deserted from the British service entered our service immediately, and their act of desertion was known and countenanced by us, the British might unquestionably have reason to complain: But it is not pretended that this is the fact in any instance whatever." Thus far the National Intelligencer . We shall state facts. "Four men, as we have before said, deserted from the Halifax, by rising upon the officers who had charge of one of the ships boats on duty; they came up to this place, and on the same day entered with Lieut. Sinclair, recruiting officer of the Chesapeake . One of them said he was an American, the others did not pretend that they were. The Captain of the Halifax said they were all Englishmen; he demanded them of Lieut. Sinclair, who wished to refer the case to Capt. Decatur, then senior officer at this place: Lieut. Sinclair was acting under another captain, consequently Capt. Decatur would not interfere. Lieutenant Sinclair did not think himself authorized to deliver them up; application was made to the mayor; the laws of this state expressly forbid the interference of the magistracy, or any other person, in such a case, under the penalty of death; if the person surrendered suffered death, but fine and imprisonment in any case.—The men were not given up, but what became of them we know not. It is presumed they were not on board the Chesapeake , when attacked by the Leopard ."
The perusal of the article, upon a part of which this note has been made, induces us to think that our government does not mean to stop at a demand for reparation for the recent insult and outrage, but to contend for the unqualified right "that the flag in all cases shall protect persons." We have not time to go into a discussion on this subject; we shall only remark, that if our government means to press the subject to the extent we conjecture, that it is idle to talk of peace, or negotiation, and war must and will inevitably be the result. The sense of the British government, on this subject, is known to our government, and indeed
to almost every person who has chosen to inform themselves on the subject. If, but one American was detained on board a British ship, we should be for war, but we do not say, that we ought to go to war, to protect British subjects, deserters or others, in every situation.—ED. LED.
CHARLESTON, JULY 24.
By the arrivals yesterday from Africa, the melancholy account of the loss of the ship Independence , Churchill, is confirmed. She was blown up at Loango; when her cargo, consisting of about 200 slaves, all the crew, except the captain, one mate and two seamen, who were on shore at the time, perished.
PHILADELPHIA, AUG. 6.
The National Intelligencer has at last informed what is the point in controversy between our Government and Great-Britain. This information is conveyed in the following words:—
"The British government have uniformly contended for the right of impressing from neutral vessels persons born in their dominions—on the other hand, our government have denied this right, and assert that the flag of the United States, ought to be considered a sufficient protection to every person sailing under it."
Here then is a definite and intelligible proposition fairly submitted to the consideration of the American people, and we hope that it will be seriously and maturely weighed before the meeting of congress, and that our representatives will be prepared to pronounce the sense of the nation upon it. As individuals we are ready to declare the opinion that the government cannot be justified in plunging the country into an expensive and disastrous war, for the protection of men who do not belong to us, and who have no interest in coming to us except in obtaining higher wages than they could get at home, or in escaping hardships or punishments which they are required to undergo. We cannot be suspected of a disposition to relinquish the protection of our own citizens engaged in their lawful avocations. It is for their protection that we have continually though unsuccessfully urged the present administration to make provision.—For 6 years past seafaring citizens have been subjected to every species of insult and abuse by the belligerent powers of Europe, and during the whole of that time our government have been diverting themselves of the means of protecting them, till at last when our country is rendered perfectly defenceless, when a single sloop of war insults us with impunity and set our laws at defiance in our very harbours, now forsooth, we set up a claim to protect not only our own people but every mutineer and deserter who, for the sake of high wages, may have put himself on board one of our merchant ships. If the merchants are willing to give up their commerce; if the farmers are willing to lose the sale of their produce; if congress are willing to sacrifice the revenues of the government to maintain this principle, then let them adopt the advice which we find so often and so patriotically given, by rallying round the administration and supporting them in their claim.—Gaz. U. S.
SALEM, AUGUST 7.
Extract of a letter from the Havana, dated, July the 15th 1807. "Unfortunately, sir, I am under the disagreeable necessity, to inform you that the yellow fever and black vomit rage violently amongst the crews of our vessels, and some of the citizens of the United States who are now in this city."
STATE OF NEW-YORK.
NEW-YORK, AUG. 6.
Capt. Abbot, from Kingston, (Jam.) informs, that the British frigate Mediator had just arrived there from La Vera Cruz, with 1,000,000 of dollars; and that the frigate Diadem , Mailing, had arrived at Jamaica from England, and proceeded for Vera Cruz, with the son of Sir Francis Baring, of London, on board.
WARREN: SATURDAY, AUG. 15, 1807.
LATE FROM FRANCE. GREAT NEWS!
By the Arab , West, arrived at Boston, from Nantes, we have received Bulletin No. 78, and a Nauv paper of the 29th June. The Bulletin being very long we have given a faithful abstract of it.—[See foreign head.]
This campaign opened the 5th June; and was continued by a series of hard fighting until the 14th, when the French gained a great and decisive victory at Friedland, about 20 miles S. of Konigsberg. The Russians lost from 25 to 30,000 men, 30 Generals, and 80 pieces of cannon; and were said to be overwhelmed and scattered; while the French were in full march for Konigsberg, at which place the last accounts dated them to have arrived.
There were rumors of an expected Peace, at the last dates. [Bost. Cent.]
From PHILADELPHIA, July 27.
Capt. Mayne, of the brig St. Croix Packet , arrived at the Lazaretto , informs, that before he sailed, the British Packet , had arrived there, which brought intelligence that BONAPARTE WAS ABOUT CONCLUDING A PEACE WITH THE POWERS OF EUROPE; but that Great-Britain would not be admitted to join them unless the Treaty of Amiens was unequivocally acknowledged by that power.
The Norfolk Ledger of the 3d inst. says, that the frigate Chesapeake , with the gun-boats, went down to Craney Island.
General orders were issued at Norfolk for disbanding all the troops, except a troop of cavalry, Capt. Nesbitt's artillery and a company of militia.
Capt. Sheppard's cavalry have returned to Richmond.
By recent advices from Norfolk, we learn, that on the 2d instant, the four British seamen, made prisoners by the militia near the Capes of Virginia, were sent on board the vessel to which they belonged, by order of the President of the United States.
Commodore Hardy, off the Capes, has put on board a pilot-boat, a black man belonging to Baltimore, and the pilot was informed, that there were eight more Americans on board his squadron who would be given up on proper application.
The Kentucky Gazette of the 7th ult. says.—By a private letter of the 15th ult. from Natchez, we are informed that the Supreme Court of the Mississippi Territory have discharged BLANCKENHASSP and TYLER, for want of evidence of their guilt; that RALPH of WILKINSON county, and a damager to the indictment was sustained by the court, and that BLANCKENHASSP had set out for home."
COL. BURR'S TRIAL.
The Federal Circuit Court was held at Richmond on Monday the 3d inst. pursuant to adjournment.—Present, Chief Justice Marshall. The Court opened at 12 o'clock; and an immense concourse of citizens attended to witness the proceedings of this important trial. A few minutes after, AARON BURR, attended by Messrs. WICKHAM, MARTIN, BOTTS and BAKER, and Mr. ALSTON, of South-Carolina. Mr. E. RANDOLPH entered soon afterwards. Messrs. HAY, WIRT and M'RAE attended as counsel for the prosecution. The names of the witnesses were then called over; as were also the names of the petit jury, who were all present except two. Mr. HAY then informed the Court that as Col. BURR was not served with a list of the witnesses, he would propose adjourning the court a few days for that purpose. After some discussion of no importance the court adjourned until Wednesday.
THE "NORFOLK NEWS"
Which has been in circulation for some days, and brought by Capt. STORR-teller from Norfolk to New-York, carried the appearance of falsehood on its very front. The Norfolk papers to the 1st of August, do not contain a syllable on the subject of any battle between the Constitution and any British vessel; and no vessel had arrived there from Malaga. The fabricator of the box deserves contempt.—The Eaterprize , which has just arrived from the Mediterranean, in a short passage, left the Constitution at Syracuse, in Sicily, exchanging civilities and good offices with the British ships in that port. [Bost. Cent.]
MARRIED.
In Danvers, Deacon JOSEPH PUTNAM, aged 67, to Mrs. MERITABLE PUTNAM, aged 68. In Milford, Mr. JOHN DEANE, aged 21, to Miss RACHEL BALL, aged 39, after a lengthy courtship of one week! In Canandaigua, Mr. CHRISTOPHER PROUTY, aged 16, to Miss CHARLOTTE MUHLBURGH, aged 19. In Bruffells, PRINCE FIE, aged 18, son of the Duke William of Bavaria, to MADAME ISABELLE D'GROMBAG, aged 15, niece to the senator of that name.
DIED.
In this town, on Sunday evening last, Mrs. MARY COLE, consort of Mr. PETER COLE, in the 90th year of her age. Her remains were interred in the Burying Yard, on Tuesday last, attended by a numerous concourse of relatives and friends. "Of no distemper, of no blast she died, but fell like autumn's fruit." That mellow'd long, even wonder'd at, it fell no sooner; Fate seem'd to wind her up for four score years, Yet freshly ran the on ten summers more, Till like a clock with eating time, Whose weary wheels at last Good Will."
Herald Ship News.
STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND.
DISTRICT OF NEWPORT.
ENTERED. From Sloop Polly, Norris, Boston Aurora, Cahoon, New-York Schr. Portsmouth, Congdon, Ditto William, Cozzens, Madeira Brig Mount-Vernon, Williams, Isle of May By and wine, Davis, Havana George, White, Isle of May CLEARED. Sloop Golden Age, Helme, Port Lively, Burrows, Ditto Brig Humbug, White, Charleston German Peggy, Austin, Havana Agenoria, Cotton, Ditto
DISTRICT OF PROVIDENCE.
ENTERED. From Sloop Sally, Butler, Antigua Schr. Little Ann, Reed, Ditto Ann Eliza, Ruggles, New-York CLEARED. Sloop Ruby, Sheldon, Port Sally, Crapon, Albany Schr. Minerva, Rhodes, New-York Turks-Island
Cleared at Jamaica, July 11th, brig Amity , Davis, for this port.
The brig James , Diffoll, of this port, was left at Leghorn, June 4th.
Ship Fame , Ham, of Providence, was left at Rotterdam, June 5.
Brig Delight , of Rhode-Island, was spoke in lat. 37, long. 72, five days out.
Arrived at New-York, sloop Catharine & Eliza , Batker, from Jamaica, and 26 days from St. Phillips' Bay (Cuba) where she was carried in and robbed of 52 puncheons of Rum, at the brig Three Stars , was boarded June 26.
Spanish boat from main land, and plundered of her stores, provision, clothes, &c. The barque Moses , 50 days from Surinam, has arrived at quarantine road, Salem. The captain, John Searl, and the 2d mate, Michael Barnes, died on her passage.
NEW LONDON, AUG. 6.
Arrived, brig Commerce , Halsey, Mitagalan, 18 days. July 18, was boarded by an English frigate and treated politely. 23d, was boarded by an English brig and treated politely. The Commerce , on her outward passage, the 2d June, lat. 35, long. 64, picked up a tierce of flax-seed marked C. & L. No. 123. John T. Pater, New-York, 1807.
BALTIMORE, AUG. 5.
Arrived, ship Fame , Howland, 40 days from Liverpool, (Scotland). Left no American vessels. Spoke nothing but an English brig from Liverpool for Newbedford. Was chased by one of the English frigates into the Capes, finding she could not come up with her made a signal to the ship inside, who sent one of their Tenders in pursuit, but could not come up with her.
COMMERCIAL.
From Newbedford.—The following is a copy of his Britannic Majesty's decree, which was written on the back of the register of the ship American Packet as she was leaving Amsterdam, for Bordeaux, in ballast, by an officer of one of his Majesty's ships of war off the Texel:—
At the Court of St. James's, 7th January, 1807, and the 47th of our reign.
OUR will and pleasure is that no vessel shall, be permitted to trade from one port to another both which ports belonging to or being in possession of France or their allies, or shall be so far under their control that British ships shall not freely trade theret. You are hereby ordered to warn every vessel coming from any such ports, to discontinue her voyage, and not to proceed to any such ports: "And in case any vessel, after being so warned, or any vessel coming from such ports, after a reasonable time has been afforded for receiving information of our orders in this respect, shall be found proceeding to any other such port, you are to capture and bring in such vessels for a legal adjudication thereof."
By His Majesty's command.
A true copy.
L. P. M. commanding his Majesty's 3d armed cutter Prince Augusta .
Given under my hand the 24th day of May, 1807. CHARLES PITT.
Philanthropic Society.
ON Tuesday Evening 18th inst. the Members of the PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY, are notified, will be their regular quarterly meeting; a panful and general attendance is requested. Aug. 15th. JOHN T. CHILD, S. & Jy.
TO THE PUBLIC.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the Subscribers, in a joint concern, have agreed to revive and carry on the CLOATHING BUSINESS, in all its various branches, on the Mills lately owned by Jonathan Kingsley in Swansey. All who will please to favor them with their custom, may depend on fidelity and dispatch.
JACOB BARROWS, BENJ. BUTTERWORTH.
N. B.—They will commence the above business the first of Sept. next.
Swansey, July 11, 1807.
FOR SALE, BY
Messrs. WM. & HENRY MOORE, THE first Quality of GEORGE FEATHERS, at 25 cts per pound. Newport, Feb. 5, 1807.

APOLLO'S FOUNT.
Few songs possess " sweeter cadence, sound sense, and more agreeable allegory," than the following:—It is the production of GAB ACH SA-VILLE CARY.—Centinel.
S O N G.
LIFE's like a ship in constant motion, Sometimes high, and sometimes low, Where every one must brave the ocean, Whatsoever wind may blow. If, unassail'd by squall or shower, Wafted by the gentle gales; Let's not lose the favoring hour, While success attends our sails.  Or, if the wayward winds should blast, Let us not give way to fear, But let us all our patience master And learn from reason how to steer. Let judgment keep you ever steady, 'Tis a ballast never fails; Should danger rise, be ever ready To manage well the swelling sails.  Trust not too much your own opinion, While your vessel's under weigh, Let good example bear dominion, That's a compass will not stray: When thundering tempests make you shudder, Or Boreas on the surface rolls, Let good discretion guide the rudder, And Providence attend the sails.  Then, when you're safe from danger, riding In some welcome port or bay, Hope be the anchor you confide in, And care, a while, in slumber lay. Or, when each can's with liquor flowing, Let escaped fellowship prevails, Drink success to all with rapture glowing, And toasts well with rapture falls.
LINES SENT TO A LOVER WITH A PIECE OF BRIDE-CAKE.
WHEN, all-expectant, on your bed, This Cake is plac'd beneath your head, Drawn through the magic Ring, Adorn'd in more than tenfold charms, May the wth'd Vision bless your arms, And every transport bring.  To awe with rapture-chilling fear, May no stern Parent then appear, Each tenderer plea above; But all, as when from Adam's side Awoke the Heaven presented Bride, 'Be elegance and love.
MISCELLANY.
[The following Story of "ALPHONSO and EMILY," is a correct, though melancholy picture of the result of the endeavors of a parent to quench the fire of love, which had been kindled and nourished by duty and strong affection. To which are added some observations on the miseries of such children unhappy and miserable by refusing their consent to a union, the strongest inducements to which are real love and virtue, then indeed may the strings of remorse and the reproaches of conscience, which were the lot of the father of ALPHONSO, be the reward of the inhumanity and indiscretion. We give it a place under the impression that it will excite an attentive perusal, and with a hope that parents, by reading this "tale of woe," will gather instruction therefrom, and by suffering love to have its course, rather cement the bond of union, than destroy the future enjoyment and happiness of their children. It is conceived that parents ought always to be permitted to advise their children in cases of matrimony, and that their counsel ought to be duly considered and esteemed, but that they never ought to be peremptory or commanding. Edits.]
ALPHONSO AND EMILY.
ON a journey which I made a short time since to C——, I one evening took a walk at the foot of a fertile hill, on which stood some very simple country-houses, and the scattered cottages of a hamlet. An ancient castle, nearly fallen to ruin, still overlooked those rustic habitations, once its vassals. A man, bowed by the weight of years, and whose interesting physiognomy still retained the traces of long and severe affliction, stopped not far from me, and sighed. Moved by the tears which trickled down his cheeks, I went to him to enquire the cause of his distress, but he prevented me, by asking if I knew the hamlet. I answered that I was a stranger, and that every thing there was new to me.—After a short conversation, which is unnecessary to repeat, he began the following narrative:
In the hamlet which you see on the brow of that hill, were born and died, about twenty years ago, two unfortunate lovers who are worthy of remembrance. They were virtuous and tender.
Alphonso de Volsin, the only son of the Marquis of that name, was the sole hope of that family, one of the most ancient in the country. Born
with warm passions, and a heart formed for love, he conceived the tenderest attachment for Emily. Vessemar, a charming girl, and well deserving of the heart of Alphonso for her graces and her virtue, had haughty prejudice been capable of acknowledging graces and virtue, without illustrious parentage.
No sooner was M. Volsin apprized of his son's passion, than he employed all the power of remonstrances and intreaties, hoping to stifle in its birth a passion which appeared disgraceful and unworthy of his name.—But it was too late; the impression was made, and that love which already filled the heart of Alphonso, was to decide the happiness or misery of his future life. Restraint only augmented its violence, and all the exertions that were made to extinguish it, served only to display its power.
Perceiving the inefficacy of entreaties, M. de Volsin was discouraged. From remonstrances he passed to threats, which were soon succeeded by the most rigorous orders. Alphonso, irritated by the severity of his father, and distressed by the invincible obstacles which intervened between him and the sole object of his love, listening only to the dictates of his passion, and his despair, signed a promise of marriage with Emily, and thus assured her of his attachment and fidelity, as long as he lived.
M. de Volsin, enraged at the imprudence of Alphonso, and despairing of curing such a violent passion by ordinary means, he obtained a lettre de cachet for transporting his son to the West-India islands. The unhappy young man departed with a soul rent with anguish, but without complaint, accompanied by the regret of a too tender maiden, whom his loss plunged into the abyss of despair. The unfortunate girl came herself to deliver to the marquis the fatal promise of marriage, and to enquire by what means he might be made to relent. "Marry any but my son," said the marquis.—"thing with which I cannot comply." She covered her face, bathed in tears, with her hands, and withdrew.
Eight months had elapsed since the departure of Alphonso, and M. Volsin, who, notwithstanding his severity, still continued to love his son, reproached himself, but too late, with his barbarity, and anxiously longed for an opportunity to recal him. He durst not venture, however, to take this step till he had found an effectual expedient for parting Alphonso and Emily, and for preventing the consequences of their unfortunate passion. There was but one, and that was the marriage of Emily. But how was he to triumph over her constancy, and to induce her to form another connexion? In these points he flattered himself he should succeed, by setting on foot a report of his son's death. His whole family accordingly went into mourning.
The affectionate heart of Emily was easily imposed upon by these tokens of her misfortune; she entertained not a doubt of the death of Alphonso; her soul was overwhelmed with the idea, and the false intelligence of his loss had nearly cost her life.—The first violence of her emotions was succeeded by a grief less extravagant and less acute: she seemed to take courage to endure new sufferings.—Alphonso, who no longer lived for her, was ever present to her view; she sought him all day. She repaired alone to the places they had once visited together, and there in silence indulged her sorrows. Time could not soothe her affliction; in vain her friends endeavoured to amuse her; the fatal blow was struck. The roses on her cheeks grew pale; her youth was rapidly exhausted in tears; and after a few months of anguish, she expired with the name of Alphonso on her lips, and his image in her heart.
Her cruel and premature death consigned M. de Volsin to the horrors of remorse. The image of a distracted father and a family in tears, renewed
more powerfully in his soul the recollection of his son; and seeing no longer any obstacle to oppose his return, he hastened to recal him.
Obedient to his command, Alphonso again crossed the seas. Returned faithful to that love which time, disappointment, and absence, had not been able to erase from his heart. He again beheld the spot where he first drew breath, that spot replete with the revolutions of infancy, which had witnessed his first and his only love. He expected at length to receive again the dear and fatal pledge which he had there deposited. "There, beneath that roof, dwells my Emily," said he, while tears of joy streamed from his eyes. He quickens his pace, he runs; he enquires for her. Emily, alas! was no more.
Struck with mute despair at this heart-rending intelligence, at this stroke not more unexpected than terrible; not a tear, not a sigh, escaped him.—He was seized with an universal tremor; his knees bent under him; he fell speechless, and pale as death. His father, who, expecting his return after such a long absence, passed whole days with his eyes fixed on the road by which his son was to come, his father arrived that moment. He found him extended on the stones, motionless and cold. This unfortunate, and guilty father pressed him in his trembling arms, bathed him with his tears, and called him by the tenderest names.—Alphonso, at length opened his eyes; he revived but to curse his existence, and implored death to end his sorrows. He knew his father, he reclined upon his bosom; but in vain he strove to return the paternal caresses; all the sentiments of his heart were extinguished by his profound affliction.
He was conducted in silence to his father's. He was again in the bosom of his family, he again received their caresses; but every thing had become strange, every thing was already dead to him. Sometimes motionless, and overwhelmed with stupid apathy, he would seem bereft of feeling; all at once his eyes would become animated, his physiognomy would assume a terrific air, and he would rave like a madman. These fits of passion, madness, and despair, together with watching and fatigue, heated his blood. He was seized with a fever, accompanied by delirium. He would then repeatedly pronounce the name of Emily; he would speak to her, ask her questions, give her answers; he would stretch out his arms, as if to hold her, and swear she should never be parted from him. Sometimes he went so far, as to curse his father, and to reproach him with his inhumanity. The image of the dying Emily then seemed to pursue him; the sight of this phantom made him shudder; a cold sweat bedewed his face, and his eyes appeared to distil tears of blood. Attentions of every kind were paid him; he rejected them all, and at length they became useless. After a long and painful struggle, surrounded by his family, and in the presence of his disconsolate father, he raised with difficulty his drooping head, he attempted to speak, his voice failed, and he fell back. Ah! wretched father, I no longer had a son!
Fool that I am, what did I say? My heart speaks at once the language of nature, and of remorse; the horrid truth escapes me, and I accuse myself without intending it. Yes, 'tis I, who am that guilty father, as these bitter tears attest. The victim of an atrocious prejudice, at its instigation, I trampled upon nature, and sacrificed my own blood. I planted a dagger in the heart of my son, in the bosom of an amiable and affectionate female, whose only crime was love and fidelity. I have involved an honest and a virtuous family in misery; I have occasioned the death of all that was dear to me, and have consigned the remainder of my days to despair. I was unjust, barbarous, and unnatural; but forbear to curse me; twenty years of horror, of remorse, of hopeless sorrow, have sufficiently avenged nature and
love, which I had outraged; with a conscience laden for twenty years with the murder of my child, abhorred by myself, terrified, haunted incessantly by the image of my son, I mourn, I detest my crime, which I have no hope of ever expiating.
And why should I wish to conceal it? What interest can I have in still dissembling? I have been left on the earth as an example of divine vengeance; but my life ended with that of my son, with him was my family extinguished, and my name will perish with me. Alas! my pangs increase when my strength abandons me, and remorse inflicts augmented torture as I approach my end.
As for you, who are so happy as to be born at a time when this barbarous prejudice has lost its power, learn at least to know the crimes which it has caused; and know them in order that you may hate them. May the just horror which they cannot fail to excite, prevent them from ever being repeated! May I be the last perpetrator of them! May they descend with me to the grave, and there be buried for ever! But were there still an insensate and cruel father, like myself, a father who, sacrificing the propensities of nature to ridiculous notions, should expose himself to the everlasting torment of having occasioned the death of those who owed their existence to him, and of beholding their blood rise up against him in the days of his old age, tell him of my crime, my remorse, and my punishment; of these tears which have flowed for twenty years, and of the low and terrible journey which I am making to the tomb.
The old man was silent; he raised his tearful eyes towards heaven, and left me.
EXALTED IDEA.
WHILE the American Army was encamped on the banks of the Hudson, a soldier one day, when off duty, went himself with climbing one of those huge mountains—When he had reached the pinnacle, his mind was so expanded with the amazing height he found himself from the surface of the water, and the vast extent his eye reached, that he stretched out his right arm, and gave the following word of command: "Attention the Universe!—BY KINGDOMS, TO THE RIGHT WHEEL—MARCH!"
SEVERAL CITIZENS at a late election, were not a little diverted at the conversation which passed between a bye-stander and a gaol-keeper, who was bawling like a charcoalsman for the old list of Representatives.—"What (says the bye-stander to the Catchpole) makes you so anxious for the old list? Do you expect if the old list is chosen your fees will be encreased? Or, do you think bullucks livers will be cheaper, and then you can make greater profits out of prisoners, and in five or six years more get money enough to buy out the Sheriff and get his birth." The Catchpole swelled like a bull-frog—was as red as a fire-brand, and retired Coopers-ishly chagrined, to the great amusement of those who might "Laugh and be Fat."
NOTICE is hereby given, That the Subscriber having been duly appointed Administrator to the last Will and Testament of DAVID SANDERS, late of Warren, deceased, and has taken upon him that trust by giving bonds according to Law.—All Persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment; and all those having demands are desired to exhibit them for settlement. ALLEN HOAR. Warren, July 11, 1807.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the Subscriber having been duly appointed Administrator, to the last Will and Testament of MARTHA DAVIS, late of Warren, widow, deceased, and has taken upon him that trust by giving bonds according to Law.—All Persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment; and all those having demands, are desired to exhibit them for settlement. ALLEN HOAR. Warren, July 11, 1807.