Herald of the United States (Warren, R.I.), 1805-11-30 00:00:00

Gerald of the United States.
WARREN:—PUBLISHED NEAR THE POST-OFFICE, BY NATHANIEL PHILLIPS.
[No. 9, of Vol. XIV.]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1805.
[Whole No. 685.]
For Sale, Freight, or Charter,
THE staunch, strong and well built Ship COMMERCE , Burthen 199 Tons, now lying at the Wharf of Capt. Caleb Carr , only 12 Months Old, a remarkable fast Sailer, and in complete Order to proceed on a Voyage.—For Terms, apply to LEVEL MAXWELL .
Warren, Nov. 22, 1805.
THE BAKING BUSINESS is carried on as usual in all its Various Branches, by the Subscriber, at his House, who solicits the Patronage of the Public.
JONATHAN BRADSHAW. Warren, Nov. 22, 1805.
FOR SALE,
THE good and fast-sailing Sloop LITTLE REBECCA , now lying at the Wharf of Capt. Caleb Carr , Burthen 71 Tons, not 2 1/2 Years Old—well calculated for the Flour Business, and may be sent to Sea with a trifling Expence.—For Particulars enquire of CALEB or JOHN CARR .
Warren, Nov. 15, 1805.
N. M. Burr,
Has just received a large and handsome Supply of well chosen seasonable GOODS ,
and has extended his Assortment much beyond its usual bounds, and is confident in assuring his Friends and Customers that he shall be able to do by them as well, if not better than ever:
MOLASSES per Hoghead. 60 Rum and Beef BARREL, a Consignment. Coarse and fine SALT . Black PEPPER , CASSIA & CINNAMON , per Hundred or Dozen. CLOVES and NUTMEGS , per Pound. GINGER and PEARL ASHES , per Keg or Dozen. TOBACCO and SEGARS , per Keg and Box. 2000 White Oak Barrel STAVES . 2000 Ditto. Hoghead. Ditto. 10 Barrels choice Cyder VINEGAR . 100 Straws TUMBLERS . Linseed and strained Lamp OIL . Part Barrel GURRY OIL , will be Sold a bargain as it is very much in my Way. 300 Rolls Paper HANGINGS & BORDERS , a fresh Supply; old Stock selling at Cost. REDWOOD , LOGWOOD , RUSTIC , ALUM , COPPERAS , VITRIOL & AQUA FORTIS . FLOAT INDIGO . POWDER , SHOT and FLINTS . A great Variety of Cast, Horse, Chaise and Hunting WHIPS , mounted on Whalebone. A dozen choice sweet Olive OIL . BOILERS , cheaper Ditto. A large Supply of Cooper's Cedar and Oak WARES , BASKETS , &c. Household Puringon's Barthen WARES . HOPS , CHALK , GLUE , BRIMSTONE & ROSIN . SALT PETRE . A great Assortment of Painters' COLORS , Japan and Copal VARNISH , Gold LEAF , Spirits of TURPENTINE , Paint BRUSHES and Pumice STONE . A fresh and valuable Assortment of genuine DRUGS and MEDICINES at very reduced Prices, superior to rivalry with the whole train of Imported and Domestic patent Medicines, now in rage; of which are extra's the famous Bileous CORDIAL , Cooley's Vegetable ELIXIR , or Cough Drops, and Rawson's and Wheaton's Ichb ointment . Jamaica 4 h and 1st Proof RUM & BRANDY . CHERRY RUM , Holland & American GENEVA , SHERRY and PORT WINES . CODFISH , COFFEE , SHELLS , FLOUR , RAISINS , SUGAR and MOLASSES . Hyson , Hyson-Skin , Souchong & Bohea TEAS . A very handsome Assortment of European Woolen and India COTTON GOODS , being bought mostly at Auction, will be Sold very Low: Among which are, 30 Dozen check and printed Pocket HANDKERCHIEFS . COTTON WOOL , factory COTTON YARN & STRIPS . A neat Supply of HARDWARE , with a great Assortment of Iron Hollow WARE , HAND-IRONS , FLATT-IRONS & Cast BOXES .
A handy COACHEE , Two CHAISE and Four HORSES , constantly to Let, or for Sale.
CASH , and the highest Price given for clean Cotton and Linen RAGS .
Warren, Nov. 15, 1805.
ALMANACKS
for 1806,
For Sale, at this Printing-Office, by the Dozen, or Single.
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 Line will come lower than ever.
Among the Assortment, are
A GREAT choice of fashionable Superior & middling BROADCLOTHS .
Scarlet, ditto.
Low priced Blue, mixed and Drab, ditto.
An excellent Assortment of Woolen CORDS , for Pantaloons.
Fine and middling Ribbed and Plain CASIMERES , 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 . DEMETS .
Various Qualities of red, crimson, white, yellow, green, blue and black FLANNELS .
Blue, red, crimson, green, yellow and white BAIZES , different Qualities.
Wide green, ditto.
Excellent 1/2, 3/4, 1, 1 1/4, 1 1/2, & 1 3/4, 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, flax and black COTTON VELVETS , plain and ribbed a great choice.
CORDUROY and GENOA CORD .
Molberp, chocolate and garnet WILDBORE .
CAMBLETS and CAMBLETEENS .
GLOSSERET .
MOREENS , TABOREENS , SHALLOONS , JOANS , DURANTS , DUROYS & TAMMIES , of the most usual colors and of various Qualities.
CALIMANCOES .
Black, plain, molberry & 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.
Long LAWN .
BROWN LINENS .
GERMAN , ditto.
A large supply of INDIA COTTONS , from floor 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 .
Russia, and Hamburg SHEETING .
TICKLINGSBURG , and DOWLAS .
PLATILLAS and BRITANNIAS .
Linen CHECKS .
Cotton, ditto.
A large Assortment of DIMOTIES .
An elegant Assortment of LACED CAMBRICKS .
Ditto MUSLIN .
1/2 & 3/4 tamboured and striped MUSLINS .
1/2 & 3/4 plain and figured Bock, ditto.
1/2 & 3/4 Black and colored jaconet, ditto.
A great Choice & beautiful Variety of the most fashionable colored CAMBRICS 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.
Silk, and Italian Silk, ditto.
A Variety of 1/2, 3/4, 1, and 1 1/4, purple and white and common Chintz SHAWLS .
Chintz and purple Muffis, ditto.
Mens' Muffin NECKERCHIEFS and CRAVATS .
MILLINETTS .
Black CAPE .
Black and white Rotland GAUZES .
Crape and plain black, do.
Colored SATINS , for Ladies' Bonnets,
India, Italian, & French colored LUSSTRING .
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 Collarings, 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 .
A few MUFFS .
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, Salons, Porrengers and Quart-Pots.
TIN-WARE , viz.
Coffee-Pots, Measures, Funnel 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 Trimming, 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 Locks, Ring & Knob, ditto, Gouges, 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, Brass Kettles, Coffee Mills, Outside Door Brass Handles and Knockers, Wood Screws, Fish-Hooks, Compasses, Scales and Dividers, H. and H.L. Hinges, Servers and Bellows.—An Assortment of Nails and Brads, Heart and Club, Crowley 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 Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson-Skin, Souchong and Bohea Teas, Chocolate, Raisins, Pimento, Black Pepper, Cassia, Cloves, Nutmegs, Ginger, Gu, New-York and Elliot's Snuff, per Bladder, &c. &c.
A few Articles in the STATIONARY Line, such as Quasto 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. Aiden's 1st, and 2d vol. ditto. and Reader. Morse's Geographies abridged. American Preceptors. Perry's, Jones, Scotts and Alexander's Dictionaries. Debois's Arithmetic. Bowditch's American Practical Navigator. Rumford'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.
Foreign State Papers.
ENGLAND. LONDON, SEPT. 29.
DECLARATION OF RUSSIA.
DELIVERED AT VIENNA, BY THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR, BAROMOUSKY, ON THE 31ST OF AUG.
IT would be superfluous to revert here to the motives which have induced his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias to recall the Plenipotentiary whom he had sent, in concert with his Britannic Majesty, to negotiate with the Head of the French Government on the subject of Peace. These grounds are too just and obvious not to merit the attention of all Eu-
rope. They are contained in the note which was transmitted to the Ministers of his Prussian Majesty, by M. Novosiltzoff, on the 28th of June (July 10), and the conclusion to which they have given rise, is a consequence of those very sentiments and principles which have led his Imperial Majesty to exert himself with incessant anxiety for the restoration of the general tranquillity. Since the rupture between England and France, his Majesty has beheld, with astonishment and commiseration the greater part of the States of the Continent compelled in succession, to bear the burden of a war, which in its origin is plainly of a maritime nature, and foreign to their direct interests. He could not however, cherish the hope, that this melancholy state of things might be put an end to, by means of a frank and friendly negotiation, when he perceived that without the slightest regard to these solemn proceedings, which tended to the restoration of peace, and even at the very moment when Russia offered to negotiate for its attainment, the number of States which lost their independence continued to increase.
When his Imperial Majesty resolved to recall his Plenipotentiary, he was actuated merely by the consideration that this mission could not produce any pacific result, and not from his having, in any respect, renounced his ardent desire of restoring peace to Europe. Of this disposition the Emperor gave the most convincing demonstration, in his acceding to the application made by his Imperial Roman and Apostolic Majesty to England, France, and Russia, with the view of renewing the negotiation which had been broken off. His Imperial Majesty, however, cannot, at the same time, conceal the possibility that a conduct on the part of France, similar to that which has already compelled the Emperor to tread back his first steps towards a negotiation for peace, may likewise render nugatory the negotiation which Austria is desirous of renewing. The painful apprehension is justified by experience, that new usurpations might be accomplished at the moment when the negotiation was recommenced, or whilst it was carrying on. The apprehension that still greater dangers might arise to the happiness of Europe, from a measure, the obvious tendency of which is its entire deliverance; the certainty that new dangers would become inevitable, as soon as the just demands of the Continental Powers became totally irreconcilable with the pretensions which might be urged by the French Government, in virtue of its successive usurpations; the obligation also which his Majesty feels, in the present melancholy and difficult circumstances, of aiding his allies, whose safety and even existence is so seriously threatened, and, in short of affording them not an illusory, but an effective, immediate, and energetic assistance; all these motives unite in prescribing the only line of conduct which his Imperial Majesty has to pursue.
Russia cannot now recommend the negotiation which has been broken off, under any circumstances, until she has placed herself in a situation to be able to assist her Allies at the moment when they might be attacked, and to preserve Europe from total subversion. Her measures must be so combined as to afford a well-grounded hope, that a negotiation for peace will augur happier results than those which were expected from all the pacific advances hitherto made, and which unfortunately have been distinguished only by the want of respect shown on the part of France to the remonstrances and propositions of Russia and other Continental Powers, and by a continually progressive increase of the dangers of Europe.
In consequence of the above consideration, the Underigned has it in charge to notify to the Ministry of his Imperial and Apostolic Majesty, in answer to the Note presented by Count Von Stadion to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, on the 26th of July (7th August) that his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, upon the subject thereof, has come to the following resolutions:—To accede to the request of renewing the negotiation for peace, which has been broken off by the recall of M. Novosiltzoff, and to take measures for that purpose, as soon as the head of the French Government should manifest a similar disposition without delay to march two armies of 50,000 men each, through Galicia to the Danube, as a measure of precaution in order to continue the support of a powerful army of observation, with the negotiations for peace; which army would be in a situation to prevent all farther aggressions during the period of pacification, and to secure to its completion. Austria, and all the neighbouring Powers, against any further attack on the part of France;—to invite his Imperial and Apostolic Majesty, and some other Powers to co-operate on their part in this salutary measure, the property of which the French Government itself upon an impartial consideration of the case, could not fail to see.
Whilst the underigned acquits himself of this duty towards the Austrian Cabinet, he must likewise, in compliance with the strict injunctions of the Emperor his Master, add; that nothing but the sincere wish of restoring peace to Europe actuates his conduct upon this occasion; that Russia will manifest the most conciliatory disposition in any negotiation for peace, and adopt every measure that may promote its

happy completion; and his Imperial Majesty so earnestly declares, that he is ready to recall his troops, as soon as the much desired security of all the States of Europe shall be obtained.
"His Imperial Majesty formally invites his Imperial, Royal, and Apostolic Majesty to join in the measures which he has adopted; and the Under-signed is fully authorised to concert with the Austrian Cabinet every thing connected with the present important state of affairs."
DECLARATION OF THE COURT OF VIENNA TO THE FRENCH COURT;
TRANSMITTED FROM VIENNA TO PARIS, ON THE 3d OF SEPTEMBER, 1805.
"THE Court of Vienna yields, without delay, to the request which the Emperor of France has made of a categorical explanation respecting the motive of its preparations. The Court of Vienna has no other motive than that of maintaining peace and friendship with France, and securing the general tranquillity of the Continent. It has no other wish than that the Emperor of the French may entertain corresponding sentiments."
"The maintenance of Peace, however, between the two Sisters, does not merely consist in their not attacking each other. It depends not less, in reality, on the fulfilment of those treaties on which peace is founded. That Power which transgresses in so essential a point, and refuses to attend the reclamations to which such a conduct gives rise, is as much the aggressor as if it openly and unjustly attacked the other party."
"The peace between Austria and France was founded upon the Treaty of Lunéville.—One of the articles of that Treaty stipulated and guaranteed the independence of the Italian, Helvetic, and Batavian Republics, and left them at liberty to choose their own Governments. Any measures, therefore, which tend to compel these States to choose a Government, Constitution, or Sovereign, otherwise than according to their free will, or otherwise than is consistent with the maintenance of a real political independence, is a breach of the Peace of Lunéville, and it is the duty of Austria to complain of such a violation."
"A wish to maintain reciprocal friendship, to acquire confidence, to secure public tranquillity from great dangers, may, under critical and delicate circumstances, induce the reclamation party to adopt precaution, to show great moderation in complaints, and to defer the discussion of them to future negotiations. This conduct does not imply any contradiction of the stipulations of the treaty; but that power which goes farther, which refuses all explanation, which avoids all mediation, and which employs menaces instead of the means of reconciliation, forgets as much the laws of friendship as the sacred rights of peace."
"The maintenance of general tranquillity requires that each Power should confine itself within its own frontiers, and respect the rights and independence of other States, whether strong or weak. That tranquillity is troubled, when any Power appropriates to herself a right of occupation, protection, or influence, when that right is neither founded on the laws of nations or on treaties—when she speaks after peace of the right of conquest;—when she employs force and menaces to prescribe laws to her neighbours, and compels them to sign treaties of alliance, cession, subjection, or incorporation, at her will;—when she, above all, in her own journals, attacks every Sovereign, one after another, with language offensive to their dignity; when, finally, she sets herself up as an arbiter, to regulate the common interests of nations, and wishes to exclude every other State from taking any part in the maintenance of tranquillity and the balance of power. One she would exclude, because it is too distant; another, because it is separated by an arm of the sea from the Continent; and evading an answer to the remonstrances of the Powers nearest the danger, assembles troops on their frontiers, and threatens them with a rupture if they place themselves in a state of defence."
"Under such circumstances, it becomes necessary for other powers to arm, to support each other, and to join in maintaining their own, and the general security. Thus the military preparations of the Court of Vienna are provoked by the preparations of France, as well as by her neglect of all means of securing and maintaining a true peace, and future tranquillity."
"All Europe knows the sincerity of the wish for peace which his Imperial Majesty has displayed, and the punctuality wherewith he has fulfilled the obligations of the Treaty of Lunéville; that sincerity cannot fail to be recognized in the great concessions made in consequence of the injudicious extension given to that Treaty in Germany, and in the no less great moderation with which his Imperial Majesty has conducted himself on the first departure of the French Republic from that treaty, in respect to the concerns of the other Republics. While these changes were ascribed to the necessity of securing from all danger the disclosure of the plans for the restoration of Monarchical Government in France, his Majesty made no difficulty to recognize the state of things which, towards the end of the year 1802, was established in Italy. His Majesty's confidence in the views of the First Consul, was confirmed by the obligations which the latter owed to the Italian Republic in his character of President, by his frequent and solemn assurances, before and after his elevation to the Imperial dignity, that he was far from entertaining any plans of farther aggrandizement or of encroachment on the independence of the Italian States. In fine, by the pledges which he had given to the Emperor of Russia, particularly with respect to the indemnification of the King of Sardinia, and the general arrangement of the affairs of Italy."
"All these considerations concurred in exciting and cherishing in his Majesty's bosom the
hope that the consolidation of the new Empire of the French would speedily bring back the policy and proceedings of Government to a system of deportment compatible with the balance of power and the safety of Europe, and some time after, when the first reports of new meditated changes in the States of Lombardy, induced the Ambassador from the Court of Vienna, at Paris, to demand explanations upon this subject; his Majesty, by the official assurance communicated in the name of the Emperor Napoleon, was confirmed in his hopes that the Italian Republic would not be united with France, and that no innovation should take place which might prove injurious to its political independence."
"Europe will decide whether these promises have been fulfilled. The Emperor has not ceased to demand their execution, as the correspondence evinces, which took place between the two Governments, and also the official and ostensible propositions which were transmitted to the Ambassador, Count Philip Cobenzel: and though the Note in which the Emperor Napoleon communicated his intentions as to the establishment of a kingdom of Italy, were accompanied with threats and military preparations; though every thing, at the very time, indicated what events have since confirmed, that the Emperor of the French was resolved to accomplish these innovations by force, his Majesty, nevertheless did not renounce against dispositions, which were announced to him as nothing more than a provisional arrangement. He relied satisfied with refusing the charges which furnished a pretext for those menaces, and with expressing his hope, that the principle of separation and independence, which had been consecrated by the treaty, should be carried into complete execution by the definitive arrangements, which the Emperor Napoleon left to depend upon ulterior negotiations with the Courts of St. Petersburg and London, at the period of the re-establishment of peace."
"These negotiations were, in fact, the only hope which remained to his Majesty of succeeding, by conciliatory means, in maintaining peace, and ultimately to restore repose to Europe, which, from its northern to its southern extremity, laboured under alarms excited by enterprizes, which momentarily increased, both in number and magnitude."
"His Majesty the Emperor of the French had made a pacific overture to the King of England, in terms which pretended to preclude the latter from the right of taking any concern in the important interests of the Continent. This restriction, combined with the relations existing between the King of England and the Court of St. Petersburg, induced his Britannic Majesty to have recourse to the mediation of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia. Notwithstanding the suspension of all official relations with France, his Majesty did not hesitate to employ his mediation, to dispatch an Ambassador for that purpose, and to make application to the Sovereign of France to furnish him with passports."
"The bodies, however, to which those passports gave birth, speedily vanished. At the very moment when the requisite passports were transmitted to the Russian Negotiator, to enable him to proceed on his journey to France, fresh attacks were made on the political existence of other independent States in Italy.—From that instant the Emperor Alexander conceived that his character must have been compromised as a mediator. On the other hand, French armies were rapidly assembled in Italy, without any regard to the promises given that no military preparations should take place in that country. An encampment of thirty thousand men in the plain of Marengo, was speedily followed by another encampment of forty thousand men on the frontiers of the Tyrol and Austro-Venetian provinces. His Majesty thus found himself under the necessity of providing, without delay, for his own safety. He was now convinced that his pacific, friendly, and moderate sentiments, were not met by such sentiments on the part of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, as to permit him any longer to neglect taking the necessary measures for asserting his just rights, and maintaining the dignity of his Empire."
"This is the cause of his present armament. The same disposition, however, which made his Majesty so anxious to avoid a recurrence to such measures, have also determined their precise object. The Emperor arms not with hostile views; he arms not to operate a diversion against a landing in England. Besides, the execution of this descent, after two years menaces, does not seem to be exactly calculated for the moment when France provokes Austria and Russia, by enterprizes which have no relation whatever to the quarrel with Great-Britain. The Emperor arms for the maintenance of the peace existing between him and France. He arms for the maintenance of those pacific stipulations without which this Peace would become illusory, and to attain that just equilibrium which depends on the moderation of all the Powers interested, and which is calculated to secure the balance and the permanent tranquillity of Europe."
"The step by which his Majesty has at the same time invited all the Courts interested, to renew the negotiations which have been broken off, is directed to the same object. The unexpected rejection which his interposition has experienced on the part of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, does not prevent him from renewing that invitation."
"He has been more fortunate in his application to the Emperor of Alexander. This Monarch, who fits so honourable and distinguished a place in the Senate of the Powers of Europe, whose equality and general prosperity form the object of his constant solicitude, testifies in the answer which he has transmitted, and which is here annexed [ vide supra ] a similar wish with that of his Majesty, for the conclusion of a just and moderate arrangement. He is also convinced of the necessity of an eventual armament; and on account of the distance which he
has to pass, in order to support the cause of justice and the issue of his moderation, he feels it to be his duty to cause a part of his troops to advance, for the purpose of conferring on the said mediation all the importance, all the effect which are worthy of so great a Power."
"As a demonstration of the rectitude of the sentiment entertained by the two Imperial Courts of Austria and Russia, it is hereby formally declared in the name of both:"
"That they are ready to enter into a negotiation with France, for maintaining the peace of the Continent on the most moderate terms which are compatible with the general tranquillity and security:"
"That, whatever shall be the issue of the negotiations, and even should the commencement of hostilities become unavoidable, they, at the same time pledge themselves to abstain from every proceeding tending to interfere with the internal concerns of France! or to alter the state of possession, and the legally existing relations in the German Empire; or, in the slightest degree, to injure the rights or interests of the Ottoman Porte, the integrity of whose dominions they are, on the contrary, prepared to defend to the utmost of their power."
"Finally, that the sentiments of Great Britain are conformable with those herein expressed, and that she has displayed the same moderate disposition for the restoration of peace between her and France."
"His Majesty hopes that this sincere and frank declaration will serve to remove any doubt which his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon may entertain respecting his views and motives.—His Majesty will be happy, and his highest wish will be gratified, if this Declaration tend to prevent those misfortunes which it is not in his power alone to avert from mankind."
Extràcts from Paris papers, received at New-York—by the Swift.
IMPERIAL DECREE.
St. Cloud, 2d Complimentary day, year 13. Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, have decreed, and do decree what follows:
TITLE I.—Art. 1. There shall be formed three bodies of army of reserve, the first shall have its head-quarters at Bologne, and shall be commanded by Marshal Brune; it shall extend from the Somme to the Scheld, and shall comprise the departments of the Somme, of the Pas-de-Calais of the Nord and of the Lys.—The second shall assemble at Mayence and shall be commanded by the Senator Marshal Lefebvre; it shall comprise the departments of the 25th and 26th military divisions; the third shall unite at Strasburg and shall be commanded by the Senator Marshal Kellerman; it shall comprise the departments of the 5th and 6th military divisions.—2. All the corps destined to make a part of these three bodies of reserve shall be carried to the compliment of war, by means of the reserve.
TITLE II.—3. There shall be formed at Rennes a flying camp of grenadiers, under the orders of the General of Brigade Boyer.—There shall be formed a second flying camp of grenadiers at the town NAPOLEON, under the orders of a General of Brigade.—There shall be formed a third flying camp of grenadiers at Alexandria, department of Marengo, under the orders of a General of Brigade.—4. There shall be attached to each of these bodies a division of light horse and a division of light horse artillery.—5. These bodies are destined to march wherever their presence shall be necessary.—6. The minister of war is charged with the execution of the present decree.
(Signed)
NAPOLEON.
By the Emperor. The Sec'y of State, signed H.B. MARET.
An Imperial decree orders that there shall be formed a corps of Horse Velites of 830 men.—The corps of Horse Velites shall be composed of conscripts of the three last years, at the rate of six for each department, to be taken from among those who shall offer themselves voluntarily; or in default of such, to be designated by the Prefect. The Velites must be of sound constitutions and must have of their own, or from their relations, a secure revenue of 300 fr. a year.
H. M. the Emperor and King set off for the army on Tuesday last.
The Gazette de France adds that the Empress set off with the Emperor.
A Paris paper of the 28th Sept. contains a very lengthy Exposition of the reciprocal conduct of France and Austria from the peace of Lunéville, read by the minister of foreign affairs in the Senate on the 22d Sept. The subsequent remarks close this exposition.
After such an act on the part of the court of Vienna, the Emperor could
have nothing more to ask of it. It became evident that even that Congress, proceeded with such an imperiousness, and with views so visibly hostile to France, was only a new snare laid for her faith; that Austria irrevocably decided upon war, would not return to pacific ideas, and that she was even no longer free to return to them. The exchange of all places evidently proved that a part of the sums granted to the English ministry, to serve their ends upon the continent, were arrived at its destination, and the power who had just trafficked with her alliance, could no longer spare the blood of her subjects, the price of which she had just received.
All further explanation with the court of Vienna, being thus become impossible; the way of arms is henceforward the only one compatible with honour.
Let England applaud herself upon having at length found allies; let her rejoice that blood is about to flow upon the continent, let her flatter herself that her own will be spared; let her hope to find her safety in the discord of other states, her joy will be of short duration, her hopes will be vain, and the day is not far distant when the rights of nations will be at length avenged.
The Emperor, obliged to repel an unjust aggression, which he has in vain endeavoured to prevent, has been constrained to suspend the execution of his first designs. He has withdrawn from the shores of the ocean those old bands so often victorious, and he marches at their head. He will not lay down his arms before he has obtained full and entire satisfaction; and complete security both for his own states and those of his allies.
The Emperor's Speech in the Senate.
SENATORS.
In the present circumstances of Europe, I feel the necessity of appearing in the midst of you, and of making known to you my sentiments.
I am about to quit my capital to put myself at the head of the army, to carry a speedy succour to my allies and to defend the dearest interests of my people.
The wishes of the eternal enemies of the continent are accomplished; war has begun in the heart of Germany. Austria and Russia have united with England; and our generation is drawn anew into all the calamities of war. A few days ago, I still hoped that peace would not be disturbed; menaces and outrages found me impassable; but the Austrian army has crossed the Inn, Munich is invaded, the Elector of Bavaria is driven out of his capital, all my hopes are vanished.
It is at this instant that the wickedness of the enemies of the continent has unveiled itself. They were yet apprehensive of the manifestation of my profound love of peace, they were apprehensive lest Austria, at the sight of the abyss which they had dug under her footsteps, should return to sentiments of justice and moderation; they have hurried her into war. I am grieved at the blood it will cost Europe; but the French name will obtain a new lustre from it.
Senators, when at your desire, at the voice of the whole French people, I set the Imperial crown upon my head, I received from you, from every citizen, the engagement to maintain it pure and unfulfilled. My people have given me in every circumstance proofs of their confidence and their love. They will fly under the colours of the Emperor and of his army, which in a few days will have passed the frontiers.
Magistrates, Soldiers, Citizens, all wish to maintain the country free from the influence of England, who, if she prevailed, would grant us only a peace surrounded with ignominy and shame, and the principal conditions of which would be the burning of our fleets, the filling up of our ports, and the annihilation of our industry.
All the promises I have made to the French people, I have kept. The French people, in their turn, have taken no engagement with me that they

have not surpassed. In this circumstance so important for their glory and mine, they will continue to merit that name of Great People with which I saluted them in the midst of the fields of battle.
Frenchmen, your Emperor will do his duty, my soldiers will do theirs; you will do yours.
BRISGAW. FRYBURG, SEPT. 16.
On the 7th instant the Austrians crossed the Inn at Burhausen.—One column took the road to Mulhdorf, and directed its march towards Landshut, where it arrived on the 10th.—No intelligence has yet been received of its further progress; but it is conjectured that it will march, or has already marched, towards Ingolstadt, thence to proceed to Donawert, where it will take post. The other column marched by the way of Wasserbourg towards Munich. It is thought that its intention is to take the positions of Lonsberg and Fribourgh, upon the Lech, positions which it occupied in the last war. This army, designated, until its entrance into Bavaria, under the name of army of the camp of Wetz, and which appears to have now taken that of army of the Rhine, will be commanded by the Archduke Ferdinand, having under his orders the Quarter-Master-General Mayer; but no other commander in chief directs it at this moment, and each column makes its movements according to particular orders. Its force appears to be between 45 and 50 thousand men.—Another body of troops of about 20,600 men, making a part of the army of Tyrol, is now at Bregenz, under the command of Gen. Hauffenberg, having under him the Generals Rohan and Alpremont. This body, hitherto inactive, has just made a movement; two thousand men of the advanced guard have marched towards Rovengsbourg in Swabia; other corps are following them and are marching towards Ulm, under the orders of General Wrade; but the Austrians missed their blow, and General Wrade was able to retreat towards Franconia, and form his junction with the other Bavarian troops which are already assembled there, or on their march thither, and which will then form an army of 30 or 32 thousand men.
Domestic Occurrences.
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON, NOV. 4.
The British transport ship Minorca, and British Merchant ship Estber, Capt. Irving, two of the convoy which sailed a few days since with the Petrel, arrived off the Bar on Saturday afternoon, and took pilots, both ships having sprung a leak. No sooner had the ships got pilots, than they were discovered by the French privateer, who immediately made for them with her sweeps; on coming within reach the ships opened their fire upon the privateer, when she hauled her wind for the purpose of reconnoitering the enemy. They continued near each other all night, and a gun was now and then fired on each side; at day-light on Sunday morning they again commenced their firing, which was kept up till eight o'clock, within bearing of the pilot boats. The two ships were seen last evening standing in for the bar, and the privateer at a short distance from them; and it is supposed from this circumstance that she has not succeeded in capturing either of them.
The privateer is not the same which engaged the Petrel, but another Schooner, just from Barracoa; it is believed she is called the Tickler. The famous Capt. Rofs, an American, and who was lately off this port in the privateer Regulator, is on board of her.
The ship Estber mounts 22 guns, and has about 40 men; the transport has about 35 men, and mounts 12 large cannonades; but as both ships were in a very leaky condition, and the wind light, it would not be surprising if the privateer should succeed in capturing one or both of them, as she is represented as being a very warm vessel, and has upwards of 100 men.
NOV. 5. We yesterday mentioned the return of the British ships Minorca and Estber, & their having been engaged by the French privateer now cruising off this port. As we suspected, she had captured the Estber. It seems that the two ships had succeeded in keeping off the privateer until 8 o'clock yesterday morning, when the privateer carried the Estber after a close and sharp contest of fifteen or twenty minutes; the Minorca immediately bore away for the bar, and arrived and anchored in the Roads last evening. The privateer stood off to the eastward with her prize. The Estber has on board a valuable cargo of sugars, &c.
When the Minorca first saw the privateer, on Saturday last, the pilots were on board her in their skiff, and a young man (mate of the Northumberland, lately lost on the bar, and who had taken passage in the Minorca) fearful that the ship might be taken, put his chest, containing his little all, on board the skiff, to be carried on board the pilot-boat for safety: but the Frenchmen were not to be cheated thus; they saw the transaction and dispatched a boat's crew for the booty—they boarded the pilot boat, broke open the chest, and rifled it of its contents, amounting to about 300 dollars in specie, his watch, clothes, &c. for which they gave the pilots a receipt.
The Charleston Times, adds, that after the Frenchmen boarded the Estber, they were kept at bay for nearly 20 minutes by the ship's crew; but Capt. Irving, being severely wounded in the thigh, and having five of his men killed, ordered the colors to be struck, and retired to his cabin. Mr. Lowdon, the 3d mate, after having hauled down the colors, was coming forward, when he was shot, and most cruelly mangled, and his body was thrown over the side before the life was extinct. Mr. Edward the 2d mate, a fine young man, while in the act of supporting his dying captain in his arms, was stabbed in several places with a small sword, and otherwise so severely cut in his head, that no hopes are entertained of his recovery. By this time the residue of the crew were driven below—when the Frenchmen, having complete possession of the ship, the inhuman monster, ROSS, ordered the prisoners to be brought on deck, and put to death. This being remonstrated against by some of the privateersmen, he ordered them to fire upon them, when several muskets were discharged into the hatchway, which killed the carpenter, and mortally wounded two seamen, who have since died.
The privateer is called the Creole, mounts six guns of different calibre; is commanded by one Pierre Burgman; and had on board at the commencement of the action, 111 men. They state their loss to be six killed—seven severely wounded, and a number missing, supposed to have been knocked overboard and drowned.
The wounded Englishmen were yesterday put on board one of our pilot boats. Two of the seamen died before she reached the town. Mr. Ashton, the first mate, died on board at the wharf; one poor fellow died while they were conveying him to the hospital. Two seamen at the hospital; and 13 others, are so dreadfully cut up, that it is supposed only two of the number can possibly recover.
The captain of the privateer was wounded in the fleshy part of the arm by a musket ball, and Rofs slightly in the wrist. They were both knocked overboard, but succeeded in regaining the privateer.
We are sorry to state that three of the seamen (a Venetian and two Portuguese) belonging to the Estber, have entered on board the privateer, notwithstanding they had stood to their quarters and behaved well during the action.
The privateer has gone off with the Estber. She was a fine ship, and had on board a valuable cargo of Sugars, &c. but being in a leaky condition, doubts are entertained of her reaching port.—She made 16 inches of water per hour.
Recapitulation of the killed and wounded on board the Estber.
Killed, 1 captain, 1 3d mate, 1 carpenter, and 2 seamen.—Since dead, 1
chief mate, and 4 seamen.—Wounded, 13 seamen, now at the hospital.—On board the privateer, 4 seamen, and 1 boy.—Escaped and unburt, 4 seamen, 1 surgeon.—Total 33.
STATE OF NEW-YORK.
NEW-YORK, NOV. 20.
We understand, says the Norfolk Ledger, that the United States frigate Congress, Capt. Decatur, in consequence of orders from the Secretary of the Navy, has returned to Hampton Roads. Orders we are told, are lodged for the other commanders of the United States' ships of war to remain in Hampton Roads, and not to proceed up to Washington as originally intended. It is to be inferred from these circumstances, that there is an expectation that these ships will be wanted for immediate service. The Tunisian Ambassador and his suite proceeded to Washington in a packet.
We are informed from undoubted authority, that the Congress frigate is ordered out upon a cruise immediately. Similar orders, it is also stated, are sent to Capt. Stewart, of the Constellation.
Letters by the Hannah, from New-Orleans, says the Philadelphia Gazette, are to the 20th ult. They continue to state several occurrences which lead to a supposition, that a state of tranquillity cannot be long maintained. The Marquis de Caffa Calvo had left New-Orleans for Nachitoché, which occasioned various conjectures. It was very confidently asserted, that a very considerable body of cavalry had arrived on the western frontier, either with a view of crossing thence to the Floridas, or to remain there ready for any sudden emergency. The frigate Pomona had arrived at Pensacola, and landed 400 men. These circumstances, it is added, very naturally awakened in us, strong apprehensions of the continuance of peace.
NOV. 22.
GENERAL EATON, who arrived at Richmond, (Virginia) on the 12th inst. on his way to the seat of government, brings the information that the Dey of Algiers, and his prime Minister, have been massacred by the insurgents, and a new Dey seated on the throne. The following particulars are from the Richmond Enquirer;
"For the following copy of a letter, we are indebted to the politeness of Gen. Eaton:
Algiers, Sept. 9, 1805.
SIR, I have only a few moments, to inform you, our affairs here are well.
On the 30th the soldiers rose in a body, and murdered the Dey and his prime minister.
A new Dey was immediately elected, and not a life was lost, except the above-mentioned.
I forbear to detain the Nautilus, having nothing very urgent to communicate.
I have the honor to be, &c.
J. MOUNTFORD.
Charge d'Affaires at Algiers.
Capt. Campbell.
Extra of a letter from Maraguane, (Hispaniola) Sept. 14.
"I am but a few days released from a state of much anxiety—the mountain Negroes have been very troublesome—the troops and inhabitants have had an action with them, and numbers fell on both sides. This place is in a very confused state, and how far the insurrection may spread is uncertain—many here think it will be general throughout the island."
From the National Intelligencer.
A very advantageous treaty has been made, we understand at this place, with the chiefs of the Creek Nation; by which a large cession of land is made to the United States, and the right given to open a direct road to New-Orleans through the territory of the Creeks. The United States on their part, contract to pay the annual sum of 12,000 dollars for eight years, and the annual sum of 11,000 dollars for ten years thence ensuing.
MASSACHUSETTS.
BOSTON, NOV. 26.
Mr. Thomas Parry, master of schr. Fanny, from St. Johns, New-
foundland, which he left the 6th inst. informs, that on the 4th, two London ships arrived there, in 26 days, bringing London papers, which announced that Admiral Cornwallis had had an engagement with the Brest fleet, had captured 8 sail of the line; which had arrived in England before the vessels failed; and also, that war had commenced in Italy; and a victory been gained by the Austrians. If the above dates, &c. are correct, the London vessels must have sailed the 9th of October. We have nothing so late. Our last London date is the 5th, and the Charles, from Liverpool, sailed the 9th. Roundabout news is always to be received with caution. Cent.
WARREN, SATURDAY, NOV. 30.
Madame Jerome Bonaparte, and child, with her brother, Mr. Robert Patterson, have arrived at Baltimore, from England.
ADVERTISEMENT.
Springfield, Nov. 19. Among other articles, found upon Dominic Daly and James Halligan, latey committed to goal in the county of Hampshire, on suspicion of their having robbed and murdered Marcus Lyon, there is a small white cotton cambric handkerchief, blue check'd, marked W * S * J * B which they have shown much anxiety, since they were taken, to have returned to them.
The pistols, found near the place of the murder, were new, cheap, common fixed horse pistols—the barrels English, apparently stocked in this country—they were probably purchased at Boston or at some store between Boston and Wilbraham. Any person, who can give information respecting the pistols or the handkerchief, may render a service to the public by communicating it to the Sheriff of the County of Hampshire.
Printers of newspapers are requested to give the above advertisement publication.
STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND.
DISTRICT OF NEWPORT.
   ENTERED.  FROM      Sloop Triton, Cornell,  Charleston    CLEARED.  FOR    Sloop Polly, Norris,  Wilmington    — Betsy, Child,  Philadelphia    — Ann & Sarah, Caufines,  Ditto    — Lydia, Burt,  Newbern    — Mary, Brown,  Baltimore    Brig Hannah, Dayton,  Ditto    — Hercules Courtney, Phillips,  Charleston    Ship Charles, Percival,  New-York    — Mount Hope, Burt,  East-Indies    — George Washington, Martin,  New-Orleans   
DISTRICT OF PROVIDENCE.
   ENTERED.  FROM      Sloop Hancock, Crapon,  New-York    Schooner Morning-Star, Bishop,  Washington    CLEARED.  FOR    Sloop Liberty, Hallet,  Philadelphia    — Eliza, Crapon,  New-York    Schooner Morning Star, Dunn,  Washington    — Lucy, Foster,  Charleston    Brig Grand Turk, Bliven,  Alexandria    — Matilda, Remington,  Martinique    — Sea-Flower, Aborn,  Cayenne    Ship Abby & Sally, Sheldon,  Algefiras   
DISTRICT OF BRISTOL.
   ENTERED.  FROM      Sloop George, Cole,  New-York    — Betsy, Bowen,  Beaver-Island, (N. C.)    — Sally, Haile,  Havanna, via Norfolk    Schooner Angenora, Gladding,  Havanna    CLEARED.  FOR    Sloop Polly & Nancy, Gardner,  Philadelphia    — Lilly, Munro,  New-York    — Earl, Hallet,  Providence    — Becca & Betsy, Pearce,  Ditto    Schooner Union, Eddy,  Havanna    Brig Warren, Coggeshall,  New-Orleans    — Columbia, Carr,  New-Province    — Three Sisters, Champlin,  Africa   
NEW-YORK, NOV. 20.
Arrived, the Schooner Fancy, Medcalf, in 17 days from Mariel. Let, brig Argus, Bowen, to sail in 10 days for Providence; ship Eleanora, Randall, for Boston in 20 days. Nov. 9, in lat. 32, 47, off Charleston bar in 17 fathoms water, spoke the brig Lionel, Carlson, from Matanzas for New-York, had been captured by a New-Province privateer; but, not being able to get her in, gave her up, and they were then trying to get into Charleston—wind being fair, the probability is, that she reached Charleston that night.
NOV. 21.
The ship Enterprize, Packwood, in 52 days from London. In the Downs, passed an American ship, which from the private signal, was supposed to be the Remittance, from New-York. The ship William, of Newburyport, from Amsterdam for Liverpool, had been ashore on the Goodwin Sands, but was got off without damage. Oct. 1, in the night, passed through a large fleet of merchantmen bound home, and ran foul of one of them, and considerably injured in her spars. The Enterprize sailed the 23d of Sept. and would have made a much quicker passage if it had not been for the injury received by the above accident.
NORFOLK, NOV. 12.
Arrived, ship Paulina, Choate, 60 days from Gibraltar. Nov. 2, off Cape Hatteras, spoke the brig New-Orleans Packet, of and from New-Orleans, 15 days out bound to Bordeaux, two thirds of her crew sick, and unable to do duty. British brig Peggy, Langlois, 54 days from Jersey. Brig Juno, Edwards, 58 days from Heulbe, Spain. Oct. 1, in lat. 32, long. 23, was boarded by a French privateer brig of 14 guns, who had then in co. the brig Hope, White, of and from Newport, bound to the coast of Africa, on suspicion that her register was not regular, and for having negroes on board that were not free.

APOLLO'S FOUNT.
From the Massachusetts Magazine .
SOLITUDE.
COME pensive nymph of desert cell, Where noisy mirth ne'er dare intrude, Delight with me in peace to dwell, With all the charms of solitude.
'Tis not the glare ambition brings In competition can be view'd, Nor does the empty pride of kings Bring peace like pensive solitude.
Not Plutus, hoary god of wealth, Is with such pow'r to bless endu'd; Nor can impart such joys as health, With pensive blushing solitude.
In cool retreats and shady groves, Chill'd by no stormy winds so rude, In safety dwells with smiling loves, The pensive goddess solitude.
Then take me to thy desert cell, Thou lov'd companion of the good; There with Elvira let me dwell, Dear pensive goddess solitude.
ARMINE.
From Keate's "Sketches from Nature."
STORY of the Count de SAINT JULIEN.
THE Count de Saint Julien was descended from a very ancient family; and was only at the age of twenty, when the death of his father made him master of a considerable sum of money, and of an estate in Dauphine, which might have supported him in the same affluent manner his ancestors had lived in, had not an unbounded love of pleasure taken an early possession of his heart. Dauphine became soon too confined a sphere for him to move in, the dissipation of Paris better suited the gaiety of his temper, where his figure, his expence, and his lively parts quickly introduced him into the politeist assemblies. He was brilliant in all places of public resort, ostentatious in his gallantries, and was admitted to many of the petits soupés of the Esprits forts ; which are coteries , composed of wits and free thinkers, who have too much vanity to agree, in the received notions of mankind; but by their art, and the pleasantries of their ridicule, often operate too powerfully on weak minds, by undermining the good principles they may have imbibed, and substituting their own pernicious ones in their place.
Saint Julien had soon after his arrival at Paris, taken an Italian figure dancer of the opera into keeping; who bore him one son, whom he named Frederick;—a youth of fine parts, formed by nature with great sensibility, and with a mind so happily disposed, as might have rendered him a worthy and shining character, had not all these advantages been overshadowed by a false education, and their movements corrupted by the bad example of a father, who having, in a long course of dissipated connections, lost his own morals, gave himself little concern about those of his son;—conceiving that the exterior accomplishments of a gentleman, comprehended every thing that was most material to carry him successfully through the world. The infidelity of Saint Julien's mistress in a few years totally dissolved the attachment; and Frederick, by the time he attained the age of nineteen, became a companion to his father in all his vices, and likewise encouraged in such as he had a propensity to himself—the dignity of a parent being as much forgotten by the one, as the respect of a son was by the other.
Pleasure and extravagance gradually waste the amplest fortune. The Count's had, during the twenty-four years he had quitted Dauphine, been annually decreasing;—nor could it, by the course of his expences, have lasted so long, but for his abhorrence of every kind of play; and had not some beneficial bequests from deceased relations, retarded its dissolution. He constantly expended far more than his income, and his estate had dwindled away by sales of an hundred acres at a time, till necessity compelled him to abridge many of his expences. The contract for the old family mansion, with all the remaining land about it, was just completed, and the four thousand louis d'ors , which the purchase amounted to, paid into his banker's hands, when the following event gave a new turn to his life and fortunes.
Among Les Filles entretenues , there was at that time at Paris the Clairville, who then lived under the protection of one of the Farmers General , whom I shall speak of by the name of d'Avignon. She was a woman of much beauty, and great intrigue; but her address constantly flattered his vanity and weakness; and by the success of her art, kept her gallantries concealed from him. Saint Julien had made repeated overtures to this lady, and had been treated by her with a disdain his pride could not brook; she had however bestowed a more favourable look on his son, whom she had met in the Thuilleries , and frequently had conversed with; and whose youth and elegant figure, had made a sensible impression on her heart. For there was still an amiable ness of character about him, nor could his assumed air of licentiousness disguise a certain ingenuousness of mind, which must continue to please as long as nature hath a charm.
It chanced that Frederick, coming one evening out of the French comedy, found the Clairville in one of the passages of the theatre, waiting for her coach; which by some accident among the carriages was prevented from drawing up. With his usual address, he offered to see her safe out;—and the result of half an hour's attendance and assiduity, was an appointment with him to meet her at the masquerade, which was to be a few nights after, where she gave him to understand she should be found only with a female friend;—intimating at the same time that d'Avignon had business which would call him some leagues from Paris, not notifying the dress by which he might discover her.
Frederick, who had been constantly tutored by his father, that gallantry was the first accomplishment of a gentleman, never scrupled to communicate to him the progress he made in any he was engaged in; he therefore, with his accustomed familiarity, informed him of the assignation he had made with the Clairville.
Saint Julien concealed the surprise he felt at this intelligence—the contempt which had been shewn him by that lady, recurred with fresh poignancy, from the mortification his high spirit suffered by the preference given to Frederick; he however so sufficiently possessed himself, as not to appear in the least discomposed, and advised him by all means to pursue the affair.
When a father is so unprincipled as to become a rival to his son, in a matter of this nature, it argues a mind so totally depraved, as to require but little apology to be made for the despicable meanness of the Count in seizing this occasion to revenge himself of a woman, and by exposing her infidelity to d'Avignon, ruin her power;—not in the blindness of his passion foreseeing the ill consequence that might happen to his son in this business.
The Farmer General receiving an anonymous letter, which hinted to him, "that the next masquerade might discover, if he possessed the affections of his mistress so fully as he imagined," doubted for some time whether he should pay any attention to its writer;—but jealousy is a passion easily awakened in men of debauched characters; and more predominant in advanced years. He resolved on his intended journey; but took care to get back to Paris time enough to be present at the masquerade. As he was ignorant of the Clairville's dress, he might in so large an assembly have probably returned without finding her, had he not, after more than two hours of anxious search, at last discovered her, by means of some jewels in her hair, which he had presented her with himself. He saw her whole attention given to the gentleman who was with her, observed she conversed with no other, and had now little reason to scruple the intelligence he had received. He watched them with earnestness and rage, the whole night, till they quitted the ball; nor lost sight of her, till he saw her enter with her gallant the house he kept for her. The servants observing a mask
follow al most immediately their mistress and her friend, concluded it to be one of the party;—but the instant that d'Avignon had reached the garden apartment, which was his usual supper room, and whither she had conducted her lover; he threw them both into the utmost consternation, by discovering himself to them, with ungovernable passion reproached the lady for her inconstancy; and drawing a sword, which he had concealed under his dress, ran with fury upon her paramour. Frederick throwing off his domino, hastily seized one of d'Avignon's own swords, which hung with a hat and belt, in the room where they were; and thus armed, used every endeavour to appease his antagonist by words—but the other, pressing on him with a vehemence which would listen to no palliation, the unsuccessful youth found himself compelled to defend his own life; and in the encounter mortally wounded the Farmer General . Clairville fell into a swoon, and Frederick fled instantly out of the house, with that precipitance and perturbation which must ever be natural to so unhappy a situation.
This unfortunate event happening early in the morning, d'Avignon did not survive many hours. Though Saint Julien enjoyed in idea, the secret triumph which this stratagem gave him over a woman, whose conduct toward him had provoked so unmanly a resentment; yet he apprehended from its success no other result, than her disgrace; never conceiving that from such a connection as d'Avignon had with her, any point of honour would have stimulated him, to oppose the arm of age, to the vigour of youth. He felt himself however when the time arrived, by no means in an easy situation—it was a painful suspence, between hope and fear—he was alarmed for the difficulties in which he might possibly have involved his son, and feared also that the great influence of the Farmer General , when he should know who had supplanted him in the affections of his mistress, might be highly prejudicial to the future interests of Frederick. He passed the night in much disquiet; nor dared the next morning to make any enquiry, lest he might awaken suspicion; but in the utmost anxiety waited at home the arrival of his son, wholly ignorant of the scene that had been acted; till the following letter, delivered about noon to his servant, by an unknown person, opened to him the fatal catastrophe.—
"My rendezvous with the Clairville, to which you so strongly prompted me, hath been attended with the most dreadful consequences—we were surprized immediately on our return from the masquerade by d'Avignon, who flew at me with the madness of an assassin. It was in vain that I attempted every thing in my power to appease his passion—I was at last necessitated to oppose violence to violence, and in defending my own life, I have but too much cause to apprehend that I have deprived him of his.—"
"In the hours of horror which I passed since, I have been awakened as from a dream, to a just sense of myself. I view with despair my youth plunged so early into vice, and stained with another's blood!—"
"Terrible as my reflections are, they turn with indignation on a parent, who, instead of guiding my steps to virtue, hath trained them in the paths of profligacy; and by his own wretched example deceived his son into ruin.—"
"By the time that this reaches you, I shall be many leagues from Paris. To fly from myself is impossible, but I will hasten to some distant part of the world, where the fatal errors of my life may be unknown; and strive with repentant tears to amend a corrupted heart.—"
"Unconnected—forlorn—and friendless, my necessities have compelled me in the moment of departure, to deceive your banker into the payment of half the money lodged in his hands. I can hardly regard this action as criminal, when I consider this little sum as the all I can share, of a noble patrimo-
ny, squandered away in extravagance, and which, had honour governed your life, I might have inherited. With this I must push my future destiny; what it may be, is unknown—and will ever remain so to you; as this will probably be the last you will hear of your lost and unhappy Frederick."
Saint Julien on reading this letter, for the first time felt the dignity of virtue . He almost sunk at the reproaches of a son, of which his own conscience confessed the justice; and he had the additional misery to reflect, that he was the secret cause of the fatal event which had driven him away forever from his sight. Though this was a circumstance lodged within his own breast, yet the guilt of it was likely to remain a lasting thorn. The talk which so unhappy an affair must occasion—a ruined fortune—and exhausted credit—the slights that had long been shewn him by many—and his last remaining finances, sunk to a half by Frederick, were sufficient motives to awaken an idea, which he soon after executed, of bidding adieu to Paris. He concerted this plan with a person of considerable rank, who had been much attached to him, and who furnished him with such recommendatory letters to one of the Electoral courts, as procured him in a short time, a decent post, and the countenance of his new master.—
In this situation he lived near eight years, if not happily, at least as comfortably as could be expected; his company was pleasing—and all that was known of his story was, that he had, through imprudence, ran out a considerable fortune. The recollection of past scenes, and the uncertainty he was in about his son, over shadowed the joy of many an hour; but he exerted all the powers of dissipation to drive away every uneasy remembrance.—
(To be continued.)
WHEREAS the Honorable Court of Probate for the Town of Bristol , appointed the Subscribers Commissioners to the Estate of
THOMAS SWAN, late of Bristol , Esq. deceased, represented Insolvent:—All Persons having Demands against said Estate, are hereby notified to exhibit the same to either of the Subscribers , at their respective Dwellings within Six Months, being the Time allowed by said Court.
RICHARD SMITH, jun. } Com. ALLIN BOURNE. }
All Persons indebted to said Estate, are requested to make immediate Payment, to THOMAS SWAN, Adm'or . *Bristol, Nov. 15, 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. 9840   2709 Blanks. For the Lottery, 14000   4000 Tickets, at 4 dolls. each, are 2000   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 Venders 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 drawings, will be considered as given to the use of the Lottery.
JOSEPH REYNOLDS, } Managers. WILLIAM DWOLF, WILLIAM PEARSE, THOMAS CHURCH, WILLIAM COGGESHALL,
Bristol, Sept. 20, 1805.
TICKETS in the above Lottery, for Sale at this Office.
CASH given for RAGS.