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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
Vol. II.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. CLXIX.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2d, 1801.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
Foreign Intelligence.
AFFAIRS OF HOLLAND.
HAGUE, Sept. 19.
The acknowledged necessity of a change in the Constitution of the Batavian Republic, appeared to have occurred for some time the majority of the Executive Directory. This majority has at length submitted to the people its project upon this point, by communicating it, by notification, to the Legislative Body of the nation. A single voice in the first chamber of the Legislative Assembly, formed the majority, contrary to that upon which the people was constituted in these circumstances. The second Chamber was divided in opinion. To prevent the consequences which might follow from debate upon this subject, and to leave to the people time to exercise their rights and express their opinion, the Directory has judged it expedient to suspend the sittings of the representative bodies, until the decision of the public is known, and the provisional shutting up of the two Chambers was performed yesterday evening by the Minister of police, and the Commandant of the Batavian troops according to the order of the Directory, and the approbation of the Presidents of both Chambers. This was performed without any disturbance, and without any person offering the least opposition. When all was finished, the Executive Directory invited Citizen Semoisville , Minister Plenipotentiary from the French Government, and General Angereau , to be present at their sitting, to receive information of their projects, and of its execution. The Directory in the mean time issued an Arrete for the maintenance of public tranquility, by which they confided to General Angereau , the Commander of the Directory Guard, the command of the troops of the Legislative Body, and other Batavian troops stationed in the constitutional limits. Every thing passed with the greatest order, and General Angereau accepted this command to ensure the continuance of the tranquility. Neither Citizen Semoisville nor General Angereau interfered in the least in the business, nor did the influence of the French Government decide any one preliminary measure.
PROCLAMATION
Of the Executive Directory of the Batavian Republic, on presenting, for the acceptance of the people, a plan of a new Constitution.
LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY!
Citizens—If there ever was an epocha when private interest ought to be sacrificed, prejudices combated, the passions moderated, and the spirit of party extinguished; when the voice of truth ought to be heard, and nothing but duty, the love of our country, and experience, ought to guide us; it is undoubtedly at that time when we come to give an account of the result of those meditations which for a long time have absorbed all our considerations. These meditations, directed towards your dearest interests, have had for their only object to establish in our country an order of things, which might absorb the past, and present for the future, a flattering prospect, and such as might become, by the sanction of all the Citizens, a certain pledge of their re-union, and the foundation of their warmest hopes.
The interior state of our country—its exterior relations—the political situation of Europe—the dispositions of foreign Powers in regard to our Republic demands our solicitude, should excite our zeal, and presents us beforehand the success and recompense of our efforts.
And who is he that has not observed in silence with the calmness natural to Batavians, the course of affairs; has not met, which ever way he turned his eyes, the traces of division, of discontent, and a strong desire for another order of things?
But this disposition of mind, so foreign to the character of a nation which attaches itself to its ancient customs, and a hatred for innovation, has more than once been the cause of their preferring to remain as they were, in certain matters, inferior to other people, rather than sacrifice the present, with all its disadvantages, to the future. Will this disposition surprise us, when, proceeding from effects to causes, we recollect all that the Batavian people have witnessed, and suffered within the last six years? Torn by intestine divisions, menaced and assailed by the greatest dangers, has it not been within that short period its finances exhausted by a ruinous war; its commerce annihilated; the sources of its existence and its prosperity poisoned; the greatest part of its colonies torn away;
its maritime efforts linking to nothing; its most valuable cargoes and best ships becoming the prey of the enemy? Notwithstanding these disasters, have not this people sacrificed, without murmur, their means to the unceasing wants of the country?
This same people have supported so many losses in the hopes of being one day delivered from the yoke which pressed upon them—to resume their rank among the nations of Europe, and once more to become, by their love of liberty, by good order and virtue, the example of some, and an object of emulation to others.
Very far, however, was success from answering their attempts; very far, at the end of a struggle supported with such constancy, was a constitution founded in the nature of circumstances, adapted to localities and to the manners of our fellow-citizens, from restoring tranquility, happiness, and union—the country was delivered to all the fury of the passions—citizens infuriate against citizens—the one pronouncing against the other the most unfounded judgment upon their works and opinions—Envy and Hatred usurped the places of talents and information, and deciding arbitrarily upon the fate of the country; our first assemblies, instead of coming to the object of their union, opened in their deliberations new sources of division and trouble. Such is the picture that has been presented by the Republic, since the close of a national convention, dissolved as illegally as it was called together (after two years unceasing labour) gave place to a government, to whom it seemed reserved to close the wounds of the State, and to rally all good citizens round the standard of public good. But here again the general attempt failed; and this long struggle produced a constitution, vicious in its principle, and whose effects prove it to be the child of passion and precipitation.
We ask of you, citizens, of you who have, on decisive occasions, shown you have at heart the interest of your country, we ask of you to-day, whether that constitution is the law expressive of your wills? Is it adequate to your wants, to your customs, or to your character? Is it sufficient for the preservation of your rights? Or, is it the work of a party, who, following all the windings of a crooked policy, wished to make the government of the state a property of a certain class of individuals?
Does not this constitution deprive you of the knowledge, so desirable, of your own affairs? Does it not deprive you of that personal administration, without which there can exist neither order nor economy? Has it not reduced you to the necessity to seek at distance, decisions upon your domestic interests, which you were accustomed to have almost without stirring for them? Can the general administration efficaciously protect and defend you? Those whose duty it is to instruct and counsel, can they see all themselves? The objects submitted to their deliberations, multiplied into infinity, and placed at immense distances, like as upon a rugged rock whose approach is surrounded with difficulties, can they be seized by them, whatever may be their courage and their constancy?
The first Ministers of State, to prevent a flagration of public affairs, are found to be surrounded with a multitude of subalterns, of which the least evil is an increase of expense. When the course of human affairs is considered with impartiality, ought we not to fear, that persons to whom no responsibility attaches, may acquire an influence dangerous to public affairs, and that ministers may become, notwithstanding their vigilance, the instruments of the corruption of their agents. This state is the more to be suspected, as these agents may find the means to escape detection, by obtaining, by false representation, orders under which they may cover their abuse of confidence.
This picture, citizens, however sad and discouraging it may appear, is not at all overcharged. It is the fruit of experience acquired on the part of the government committed to our care. But far from stopping here, we should regard as the effects of an heated imagination, those defects which we have just detailed, if the deliberations and resolutions of the representative body did not oblige us to remark their usual vices to those we so fadly deplore. How many laws discussed among them for three years, can be considered as general rules of conduct? Does there not exist as many particular laws as public ones; and does not the number increase every day with the wants and griefs of the inhabitants?
The innumerable resolutions paralyze the executive government, and bewilder those citizens, whose duty or whose business obliges them to approach the abyss. Far be it from us, however, to throw suspicion upon the head of the Legislators. It is in the nature of things that we must act; and in order to leave no doubt upon this point, we will examine, with equal impartiality, the sum of their labours.
It will be sufficient to recal to your minds the diversity of opinions upon several important articles. The difficulties which retarded the establishment of some of the organic laws of the constitution—the conflicting sentiments which these propositions caused in the two chambers. The numerous reports which it was necessary to present upon one single affair, to well understand it, and in particular the labor upon the administration of the poor; upon the municipalities; that upon the civil tribunals, discussed a long time without any ultimate decision. In short the tedious and embarrassing manner in which the most minute affairs were managed.
You must conclude then with us; citizens, that the legislative assembly could not, whatever was its zeal and energy, overcome the vices and obstacles caused by its organization. The complication of construction impeded its progress, and the evident effect was public and private ruin. This state of things, citizens, has long attracted our notice. Situated, by the nature of our functions, in a manner to appreciate the danger, could we avoid the obligation of finding the means to bring them to an end. But it was not sufficient to know the evil and the remedy; we ought, like prudent physicians, to take into consideration the state of the patient, and not run the risque of killing him, by administering without caution the remedies which ought to operate for his cure.
What had already passed, sufficiently demonstrated the necessity of relying upon solid basis civil and political liberty, before we abandoned that system, the fruit of our revolution, to the uncertainty of future events.
Neither could a momentary suspicion be entertained that the Stadtholder should be restored; that would have been giving to the cabinet of St. James, that fatal influence which he has already used for the destruction of the prosperity of this once happy and flourishing country.
Thus far then, the situation of affairs in Europe, has given to the partisans of the House of Orange, a hope of realizing their wishes. We could neither hope success to our efforts, nor union of wills and sentiments; but at present, that this question is for ever determined, that it appears no cabinet nourishes the plan of restoring the Stadtholder, we thought we could no longer delay a project which a longer delay might have rendered abortive.
At present we feel ourselves as happy in being able to address ourselves, not as the heads of a party, but to the whole of the republic—and to count equally upon those, who carried away by a false zeal; or seduced by prejudices, have hitherto searched for their country, out of their country, and who notwithstanding have never ceased to find there protection for their persons and property.
Peace is signed on the continent; the House of Austria has recognized our independence; our political relations with Russia are renewed. Soon we shall reckon our envoy among the number of ambassadors; of so many other people allies, friends and neighbors.
The French government cannot admit our independence with greater éclat than by the convention which has just concluded; a convention which considerably diminishes expenses, and at the same time takes from calumny that pretext with which she has attempted more than once to serve herself; a drawing from the nature of the relation of the French army with the government; consequences equally outraging the French nation and humiliating to our republic.
Could we have justified ourselves to our fellow-citizens, or in our own eyes, if, far from profiting by such favourable circumstances, the Republic had been assigned, at the period of a general peace, a rank below what she has a right to expect. By that alone, we had hesitated to treat with a government which offered no guarantee, and, in effect, liable to overturn in a year and a half, the epoché fixed for a revolution of the constitution. Who could have answered, that it would then have taken effect in such a state of incertitude, of which we have already experienced the pernicious influence? You know, citizens, that six years ago
we made to the legislative body a proposition which had for its object the amelioration of the fundamental laws of the state. You were then, without doubt, convinced by the course of its deliberations, that it is impossible (as the National Convention had already furnished another proof) that so numerous an assembly, agitated by so many different passions, could give to the state a good constitution. Those who are called to defend and protect the state, will, with good faith, its happiness; and its safety cannot expose it to new agitations.
Penetrated with this truth, and strong in the conviction that we have nothing in view but your welfare and your glory, we formed a plan of a constitution which steers a middle course between the different opinions which have hitherto distracted the inhabitants of the country, and in which we are assured that the leading features are not displeasing to our natural ally. We have done more; in submitting this plan to the judgment of the people, we have given intelligence to the two Chambers of the Representative Body.—And, in fine, that every thing may pass with order, we have resolved as follows:
1 st . As soon as these presents are ready, the municipality shall submit to public examination, a sufficient number of copies of this proclamation, and the project of a Constitution annexed.
2 d . The 1 st of October next they shall open registers in every commune of the republic, and shall furnish to every citizen of 20 years of age, who shall not be excluded the right of voting by the 13 th article of the constitution, the means of giving his suffrage by aye or nay, upon the presented project.
3 d . The 5 th of October these registers shall be closed—the administration of every commune shall send the list of the votes to the executive directory as soon as possible, and at the latest, by the 15 th of October, joining a general list of the actual citizens in their commune, that they may be enabled to communicate to the Batavian people the result of the votes. Every actual citizen who does not vote, shall be considered as approving the plan of the constitution.
Such, citizens, is the fruit of our long and painful meditations. At present, it remains with you to determine whether the project we present accords with your true interests, and has for its real object the happiness of the people.
Let a ripe reflection guide your judgment, and suppress your passions; never forget that you are going to pronounce upon the fate of your country. For our part, citizens, we shall attend with resignation the result of your deliberations, and whatever may be the consequences of your opinion, convinced that your judgment is that of all Europe.
The Executive Directory orders, that this proclamation be fixed up in all the usual places, with injunctions to the Departmental Administrations, to see that it be carried into execution as promptly as possible in the manner within prescribed.
Done and obtained in the Directory Assembly of the Batavian republic at the Hague, the 14 th September 1801, 7 th year of Batavian Liberty.
(Signed) BEZIER, President, (Signed) DASSEVAEL.
PROCLAMATION.
BATAVIANS,
The first Chamber of the Legislative Body, by a feeble majority of two voices, has this day pronounced the suspension of our proclamation of the 14 th of this month, by which the Batavian people are invited to approve or reject the constitution just presented to them.
This resolution in perpetuating an order of things, which has carried the highest degree of confusion into public affairs, (and tends uniformly to the advantage of some particular individuals, while it causes general ruin) has no other object, but to prevent the people from pronouncing freely upon an object of the greatest importance, and to excite a civil war.
We have thought, under these difficult circumstances, that it was our duty to oppose these determinations; and to prevent, by efficacious means, the fatal consequences. We have taken measures to prevent the future meetings of the Legislative Body, until the people have pronounced their opinion.
Citizen Batavians, however strangers we may be to any kind of censure, we could not, we ought not to suffer, that the voice of a nation should be extinguished, and that a few individuals should rashly pronounce upon the will of the people before it was known. Our only
object, and our only desire is that it should be manifested. It shall be one supreme law; we wait it without fear; firm in the conviction that we have considered with disinterestedness your welfare. Weigh calmly, maturely and without passion, the project presented to you, judge for yourselves, and reject with disdain all foreign influence.
Batavians, you are about to pronounce upon your dearest interests, upon those of your children. Choose what will be most for your advantage. May the measures taken for your tranquility give you confidence. It will not be disturbed. We shall be able to repress the malevolence of those who do not fear to cover themselves with ignominy in wishing to fetter your wills.
The Directory orders that this proclamation be stuck up in all ordinary places.
At the Hague, the 28 th September, 1801 (seventh year of Batavian liberty).
(Signed) BEZIER, for the President. By order of the Directory.
(Signed) MANSEU, for the Secretary.
BATAVIAN REPUBLIC.
During the night of the 15 th of Sept. the French troops in garrison here were awakened, and ordered to assemble in the place of arms, where, early in the morning, they went through their manoeuvring and firings.
In the morning a sharp discussion took place, in the First Chamber of the Legislative Assembly, upon the proposition of the Directory.—The proposition of this body was not, however, the result of an unanimous will amongst its members; they had the most violent altercations amongst themselves: the Director Bezier, in one of the sittings, seized the chair of the President Ermerius , and strongly pronounced his opinion against the proposition of the majority of the Directors: as did also his colleague, Van Swinden , in protesting against all that was done by the other three Directors; and forbidding the Commandant of the public force to obey their orders.
On the 18 th , towards evening, several discontented persons appeared in parties. Several police officers, sustained by a party of the military, took possession of, and put seals upon the avenues leading to the First Chamber of the Legislative Body; upon the Chancery, and other places, leaving every where sentinels to guard them. The same thing took place in the Hall of the Second Chamber.
All the insignia of the guard de corps are taken from them, and they now do duty with the other troops in the garrison.
Some Members of the second Chamber of the Legislative Body, wishing to go yesterday afternoon to the usual sittings, were prevented by the rioters.
We have just received official news, that the Departmental Administration of the Texel, has refused to publish the Proclamation of the Directory.
Order of the day of the Batavian army.
Head-Quarters at the Hague, September 18.
The Batavian people being at this time occupied in all the communes, in pronouncing their wishes and opinions upon the project submitted to them by their government, the General in Chief strictly orders all soldiers, serving in the French and Batavian army, whatever may be their rank, not to intermeddle, either directly or indirectly, in this affair.
The duty of an armed force, under such circumstances, and in all times, is to secure public tranquility, the safety of persons and property, and to maintain the harmony which ought to reign between them and the civil power in order to attain these objects.
The General in Chief directs, that this order should be read at the head of each company or detachment of French or Batavian troops, composing the army.
(Signed)
ANGEREAU.
HELVETIA.—In the new Constitution given by France to the Helvetic Republic, the Pays de Vaud is separated from the canton of Berne, and made a canton by itself. A Protest against this measure was circulated in the Pays de Vaud, and in a few days it acquired a great number of signatures. The prefect Polier, on this, issued a Proclamation, in which he strongly forbade the inhabitants to sign this Protest, and declared his intention to prosecute criminally the unknown authors of it. A few days afterwards, he received a letter, signed by thirteen of the most respectable persons in that country, avowing themselves

authors of the protest, and that they were ready to defend its propriety to the last extremity. The letter, which was written with great spirit, they printed for the information of their countrymen, and in a very short time, 8000 signatures were added to the original protest. As so heinous a crime against the Revolutionary powers could not be overlooked, the authors of the protest were fined 50 francs each, or 2l. 3s. 6d. They have appealed against this sentence, and the signatures increased in number every day. As the members of the old Government of Berne have had no share in the transaction, it shews plainly how the people feel towards the old Constitutional and the new Revolutionary powers. All the Citizens of Berne, Members of the electing Assembly, having refused to take the oath required by the Pouvoir Exécutif , were expelled from the Assembly, by the special command of that first of the Revolutionary powers, which has likewise impeached, before the New Directory, the members sent by the cantons of Switz, Uri, and Unterwald, for having persisted in the same refusal. The inhabitants of the Valois have sent to several European Courts a strong Protest against the intended incorporation of their country with France. The French Government admits that they have not the smallest title to that country, but says it is necessary to their connection with Italy, that it should be in their hands.
HAGUE, Sept. 20.
The project of the constitution, just now presented to the Batavian people consists of 106 articles: It begins by general principles, which are followed by eight sections;—1st. Territorial division, and right of suffrage:—2d. Government:—3d. The legislature:—4th. Finances:—5th. Administration of the departments:—6th. Administration of the communes:—7th. Judiciary power:—8th. National Tribunal. The territory of the republic will be divided into eight departments, the limits of which will be those of the old provinces. The mode according to which the right of suffrage is to be exercised, will be determined by law. The government will be entrusted to twelve persons, aged full thirty-five years, who will each have a salary of 10,000 florins; for the first time the executive directory will name seven members, who are to choose other five: there will be a president, who will go out every year: the directory will propose to the legislative body all the laws, which, when approved, will be sent back to it to be published, and carried into execution: it will conclude all treaties with foreign powers, and dispose of the national treasury. The legislative body is to consist of 35 persons, to be named, for the first time, by the government: they will assemble and sit twice a year, from the 15th of April to the 1st of June, and from the 15th of October to the 15th of December: they can hold extraordinary sittings when circumstances require: a third of them will go out every year: the members will have a salary of 4000 florins: their election will be fixed by the law: all the present taxes will be subjected to revision, &c.
HAGUE, Sept. 27.
Intelligence has been received that the Central Administration have at length complied with the orders of the Directory, and published the Proclamation. Gen. Angereau, Semonville, minister of the French republic, and all the constituted authorities, yesterday celebrated the foundation of the French republic with the utmost solemnity. A grand dinner was given by the General, and a supper and ball by the French minister, at both of which were present the members of the legislative body, and the principal Batavian authorities. The Directors, Van Swinden and Ermerins, will refusing to attend the sittings of the Directory, though requested to attend by their colleagues; the majority have at length demanded a positive explanation, whether they intend to take any farther share in the administration of public affairs? Of all the administrators, only the agent of the finances, and that of public economy, have refused to obey the orders of Director Van Haerzolt, in the character of President of the Executive Directory.
RATISBON, Sept. 19.
No vote was given in the sitting of yesterday respecting the business of the indemnities. The protocol will be again open the day after to-morrow. The Teutonic Order, which had demanded that the Emperor should be charged with the affair of the indemnities, will accede to the vote of Austria, which requires a deputation. Mentz, Worms, Paderborn, Eichstadt, and the Princes who have not yet voted, will adopt the same opinion, which will entirely change the state of affairs. There is now no doubt but the conclusion, which will be taken on the 28th of September, will be for a deputation to assemble immediately at this place, and which will give an account to the Emperor and the Diet of the result of their labours and negotiations with France. Austria and Prussia, it is said, will be charged with the en-
vention, which will be entered into on this subject.
SEPT. 23. —In the sitting which the Diet held yesterday, the deliberation on the decree of the Imperial Commission was resumed only in the college of Electors—Mentz gave in its vote.—The Electoral minister of Brunswick has again demanded that the protocol should remain open. It is hoped that at the next meeting, all the votes still wanting, and the necessary explanations, will be interlaced in the protocol, so that on Monday the Diet may come to a resolution. It is presumed, that our city will be fixed as the seat of the extraordinary deputation of the empire.
PARIS, Sept. 28.
According to the report made to the Consuls, by the Minister at War, the statement of the troops returned from Egypt to France, is as follows: 39 officers of the staff, 904 officers of all the different kinds of troops, 2743 light infantry, 3607 infantry of the line, 1210 cavalry, 408 invalids and guides, 1624 artillery, 341 engineers, 397 Syrian, Greek, and Coptic legions, 375 servants of administration—Total 42,148.
PARIS, September 30.
The Pope's Brief to the constitutional Bishops of France.
The Pope has sent to M. Spina a Brief, dated the 15th of August (the same date as that of the Concordat and the Brief to the legitimate bishops), for the purpose of obtaining their resignation.
The substance of the Brief to M. Spina is, that his holiness had been at length happily terminated the negotiations with the French government, and the Catholic religion re-established in that country after so many troubles and agitations; but that his satisfaction was not complete; and that he should even be extremely unhappy, should any of them neglect this happy opportunity of re-uniting themselves to the Holy See, and not conform zealously with the reconciliation which his tenderness offers to them all, in imitation of our Saviour and of divine charity.
That for this reason the Holy Father deemed it necessary to make his dispositions known through the medium of M. Spina, and the means which he thought most expedient to be taken by all those who held archbishoprics or bishoprics in France, without being instituted into them by the apostolic See.
That for that purpose M. Spina would inform them of the gracious will of the Holy Father, and his ardent wishes of putting an end to all the dissensions which agitate France, to re-unite all hearts within his bosom, and in all the bonds of glowing charity. That he does not entertain a suspicion that they will deny his solicitations, or hesitate to testify to him in writing their obedience and submission to the Sovereign Pontiff: their sincere adhesion to all the decisions of the Holy See respecting the ecclesiastical affairs of France; and finally, their prompt resignation of the archiepiscopal and episcopal Sees which they occupy without his authority.
That he recommends to M. Spina to neglect nothing which may bring this great work to a happy termination; and to persuade them that his holiness will receive them with the more good will, and will give the more proofs of his paternal and apostolic love, in proportion as they hasten to yield to his request.—That to him it would be a subject of much grief, if any individual of them rejected his paternal advice, or refused to comply with his request; in fine, that his holiness conceived the stronger hopes, as the declaration of his intentions was made at the period of the festival in which the Catholic church celebrates in honor of the assumption of the Virgin Mother of God; that he considers that circumstance as a happy prelude in favor of religion, the glory of the church, the prosperity of France, and the tranquility of the whole world, having every confidence in the intercession of that virgin, whom France has for a long time recognized as its special patroness, &c.
The moment the bishops residing in France were made acquainted with the disposition of the brief of his holiness, dated the 15th of August, they hastened to comply with it. The bishop of Marseille, who is 92 years old, wrote on the 21st inst. to the bishop of Corinth, as follows:—"I receive with respect and filial submission the brief which you address to me on the part of our Holy Father the Pope. Full of veneration and obedience to his decrees, and always desirous of being united with him in heart and spirit, I hesitate not to transmit to his holiness my resignation of the bishopric of Marseille. It is sufficient that he deems it necessary to the preservation of religion in France, to induce my acquiescence."
"From a regard to religion," says the bishop of Senlis, late Grand Almoner of France, in his letter of the same date, "to preserve the unity of the Catholic church, and to assist the paternal invitations of his holiness, I voluntarily and cheerfully abdicate the episcopal See of Senlis, and deliver my free resignation of it to his holiness."
The bishop of St. Claude had previously made the same declaration. His letter of the 1st of the same month says, "I too much respect the orders of his holiness, not to conform to them. No sacrifice will give me pain, when it tends to the re-establishment of religion, and the glory of its divine Author."
"Being appointed a bishop for the good of the people," says the bishop of St. Papioul, in his letter of resignation, "I cease to be so, that nothing may oppose their future union; overjoyed at having it in my power, at this price, to contribute to the peace of the church, and the prosperity of Frenchmen."
"I think myself happy," says the bishop of Alais "in being able to concur, as much as possible, by my resignation, in the views of wisdom, peace, and conciliation, which his holiness proposes to himself. I pray God to bless his pious intentions, and to spare him those contradictions which may afflict his paternal heart."
The resignations of the bishops of St. Malo and Angers are written in the same spirit; and these sentiments are perfectly conformable to the declaration made by thirty bishops who were members of the Constituent Assembly on the 31st of May 1791. "We deliver our resignations into your hands," said their letter to the Sovereign Pontiff, "in order, that there may be no longer any obstacle to such means as your holiness may take in your wisdom, for re-establishing peace in the bosom of the Gallican Church; and a little farther, to pledge as it were the assent of their colleagues, they add, "we have hitherto had the advantage of obtaining, in the explanation of our principles, their unanimous suffrages, and it is not when we farther offer every thing in our power to remove every obstacle that we have to fear being disappointed by their noble and generous dispositions."
LONDON, Oct. 8.
OFFICIAL.
We have authority to state that the affair in our paper of yesterday, that M. Otto, was informed of the capitulation of Alexandria at the time he signed the preliminaries, and communicated it to Lord Hawkebury, is totally destitute of foundation. We have good reason to believe that the French government had no expectation that this event would take place for some time; and we are confident that M. Otto had no intimation even of the probability of it;—he learnt it from the public papers the next day, and applied for a permission to forward this intelligence to Paris, which was granted to him.
LONDON, October 12.
RECEPTION OF THE FRENCH ENVOY.
On Friday night about 9 o'clock, Citizen Laureston, general of brigade in the French service, and one of Bonaparte's chief aides-de-camp, landed at Dover with his suite, and the copy of the preliminaries of peace, formally ratified by the Chief Consul. By the vessel which brought him over, we received Paris Journals to the 8th, which announce that peace has been signed between France and Portugal; and that the dispute between Prussia and Austria respecting the Bishopric of Munster assumes a more serious aspect. The French funds have risen again to 54. It is the great load of floating debt that must be funded at the peace which keeps down their price, as we understand.
Citizen Laureston, after putting up at the City of London Inn, Dover, immediately dispatched one of his couriers, richly dressed in scarlet and gold, to order horses on the road for the French envoy, and to apprise citizen Otto of his arrival. General Laureston himself, after some refreshment, followed, and reached Westminster-bridge about 12 o'clock at noon on Saturday; the horses of his coach, and the drivers, decorated with blue ribbons, and the word Peace upon them. In this manner the French envoy made his triumphal entry; and a mob soon collected, running after the carriage, which drove to citizen Otto's, the corner of Hereford and Oxford streets, near Tyburn Turnpike. After remaining a few minutes with M. Otto, that gentleman returned into the carriage with Citizen Laureston, and they drove down Oxford-street, for Reddish's Hotel in St. James's-street, where apartments had been taken for the French envoy. At Otto's door the mob increased amazingly, exclaiming "Peace for ever!" "Long live Bonaparte," &c. The populace imagined that Laureston was Joseph Bonaparte, and some supposed it was Bonaparte himself. Hence the acclamations of joy at seeing him were loud and incessant. In Oxford-street, a short distance from M. Otto's house, they stopped the coach, took the horses out, and drew the carriage down Bond-street to Reddish's Hotel, rending the air with shouts of joy, some of them mounting the tri-coloured cockade. Laureston repeatedly bowed, and seemed much pleased with his reception; but really, we believe, much alarmed for his personal safety. After he alighted at Reddish's Hotel, he went to the first floor window (M. Otto leading him up to it, and presenting him) and shewed himself to the populace, repeatedly
bowed to them. He threw a handful of guineas, which were not, we fear, divided on the principles of equality; he that caught most keeping all he caught. Laureston was going to repeat this, when as we are told, M. Otto begged him to desist, as he might offend the government. After being a short time in Reddish's Hotel, Laureston and Otto returned into the carriage to proceed to Lord Hawkebury's office, that they might formally exchange the ratifications.
The mob, greatly increased, followed the carriage with redoubled acclamations, and in St. James's-square they again stopped it, took out the horses, and drew it in triumph to Lord Hawkebury's office in Downing-Street, shouting "Peace for ever!" "Long live Bonaparte," &c. The mob drew the carriage by laying hold of each others hands, and in this manner forming lines one hundred long at least. They seemed quite frantic, getting up behind, on the box, hanging on the wheels, and even opening the doors, that they might see this friend of Bonaparte's. In the confusion and uproar, several persons were thrown down and trampled under foot, two of whom, it was thought would not survive. Soon after two o'clock the carriage reached Lord Hawkebury's office, into which citizen Laureston and M. Otto entered and exchanged the ratifications. About half past two, the cannon in the Park announced this great event, and at three the Tower guns did the same. At the sound of the guns, the populace leaped along all the neighbouring streets, pouring into the Park, rejoicing, desirous of witnessing this scene. The carriage of citizen Laureston having the horses put to, was in the mean time removed from Downing-Street, round through the Horse-Guards, to the entrance from the Park of Lord Hawkebury's office, that those gentlemen might there get into it privately, and drive away; but the vigilance of the populace was not to be eluded. The moment Laureston and Otto entered, the horses were again taken out, and the coach was drawn along in triumph by the mob; Mr. Cox, the messenger, who was in it also, acting as steer-man, or rather director of the way. They proceeded to the back door of the Admiralty, which leads out upon the parade. Here Laureston and Otto entered, and remained some time with the Lords; Lord Hood was also present. Earl St. Vincent came out with the two citizens, and very good humouredly addressed the mob thus: Gentlemen! Gentlemen! (the populace gave his Lordship three huzzas) let me request you to be as orderly as possible; and if you are determined to draw the gentleman, accompanied by M. Otto, I request of you to be careful, and not overturn the carriage." The populace assured his Lordship they would be careful of and respectful to the strangers. Away they drew the carriage with shouts of applause through St. James's Park, round the Palace, by the State-yard, making the old walls of our Royal Court shake again at their acclamations. They went up St. James's street, and again safely landed the two citizens at Reddish's hotel, before three o'clock. Laureston again paid his respects to the populace, and after withdrawing, St. James's-street remained crowded with people, hoping still to see him. At four o'clock, his carriage having been taken to Bennet-street for concealment, he left the hotel with M. Otto's brother to walk to his carriage, and proceed to M. Otto's to dinner; but the mob recognizing him by his uniform, and collecting about him, he returned back to Reddish's, where he undressed, and put on plain clothes, in which he escaped observation, and dined at M. Otto's, which he left at eight o'clock, returned to Reddish's, and went to bed before ten o'clock, very tired. The courier who preceded him from Dover repeatedly fell asleep on horseback, and was wakened by his guide (a Dover post-boy) accompanying him on the road. The poor fellow was quite worn out, galled with riding & fatigued. Unable to ride at a smart trot, and unable to keep company with his companions, he often cried out, in great agony, Ah! you gallop! you gallop! which was all the English he could command. Soon after Laureston entered Reddish's hotel the last time, Mr. Fox, with three or four friends, walked down St. James's-street, on their way to the Shakespeare tavern, attracting, it may be supposed, a great deal of notice, mixed with murmuring applause.
Between four and five o'clock Mr. Fox and his friends sat down to dinner, at the Shakespeare Tavern, to celebrate the anniversary of his election; and it will be seen that his speech is an important commentary on the peace, materially connected with the great events of Saturday which we have been describing. He said in substance, that the war had been undertaken for an unjust object, namely to force upon an independent nation a form of government which it abhorred, and with the design of destroying the rights of mankind; the peace was precisely such as it ought to be, disgraceful to the authors of the war, in this country, who have failed in all their real objects, and glorious to the enemy who have succeeded in them all as they ought to do. This
is Mr. Fox's approbation of the peace, of which some of the Treasury Journals have boasted! We could not learn whether Mr. Fox will attend Parliament or not. From what we collected we think he will not. But absence cannot now be occasioned by the want of countenance given to his opinions in the House of commons. We can positively state, what the reader will not believe till he proceeds further, that Mr. Fox and his friends, hitherto called the Opposition, will have a great majority in both houses of parliament. This will not be disputed, when the public recollect, as they will on the first mention of it, that Addington, Lord Hawkebury, and the whole of the present administration, together with Mr. Pitt and his friends, have on the great political question which has agitated the empire for nine years, come over entirely to the opinions of Opposition, and have adopted them, by flagitating the war in the conditions of the peace.
The illuminations on Saturday began with the night, and were so general, that we had almost said they were universal. A minute description of them will be found in another part of this paper. They were only exceeded by the illuminations on the King's recovery. There were very, very few houses in London that were not lighted up; those of the poorest class were the most brilliant, comparatively speaking. The reason we will state to-morrow. We never before heard so many guns and pistols fired off in the streets, to the annoyance of passengers and horses. It seemed as if the members of the volunteer corps were giving a farewell salute. In a window in Oxford street, opposite to M. Otto's, was a picture of Bonaparte, with this inscription: "The Saviour of the Universe!" at this several of the St. George's volunteers in their uniforms were gaping.
The proprietors of the Porcupine newspaper, confidently, disapproving of the peace, since they approved of the war, would not illuminate. In consequence, the windows of the office, in Southampton street, were smashed to pieces; and those of the house of the chief proprietor, in Pall Mall, shared the same fate. The sign of the Bible, the Crown and Mitre over the window, was besmeared with dirt, or rather with glory in the cause, as the proprietor will, no doubt, assert; and just with as much truth as it is said Lord Hawkebury has covered himself with glory in signing the peace, who, if his former language were now acted upon, would be in reality besmeared with dirt like the sign above mentioned.—The illumination was so great, the sky so red, that some miles from town, London looked as if it were on fire. The sun of the mob, however, had not begun; it never does on these occasions till about twelve o'clock, when the people begin to put out their lights, and go to bed, and flying detachments of the mob break the windows of a whole street.—The sun we say, had not begun, when at eleven o'clock a most tremendous storm came on, which soon cleared the streets, preserved perfect tranquility, till nine even, sent his Majesty, the People, home well ducked, and saved the house-keepers windows.
The lightning began to show itself slightly early in the evening; but at 11 o'clock it suddenly became most vivid, flashing every minute, illuminating the town like the sun, and obscuring the light of the candles. So much lightning has not been seen in London these twenty years, never since a violent storm which did great damage on the 8th of October, 1780. The lightning on Saturday night was accompanied by loud and repeated claps of thunder, while the torrent of rain fell for several hours. The advocates of the war may interpret this as a mark of the wrath of heaven at the peace; the supporters of this peace may call it an approbation of that measure. It extinguished many of the lamps. It is remarkable, that at the Admiralty the crown was drowned out, but the anchor remained. The entertainments concluded at Drury-lane theatre in the midst of this storm, which produced the greatest consternation in the crowded coffee-rooms and lobbies, where the lightning flashed, while the thunder roared. Several ladies fainted, and the shrieks and groans of others were awful.
Yesterday, about noon, nearly 1000 people collected at the door of Reddish's, Gen. Laureston, having previously been asked, went, at one o'clock, in a plain blue coat, on foot with his brother, to Bennet-street, where his chariot was in waiting. After paying few visits, he proceeded to Mr. Otto's, where dressed himself in the regiments of Chief of Brigade of Artillery. The splendour of the dress exceeds description. At five o'clock, Gen. Laureston set off from M. Otto's, in a chariot with four horses, to dine with Lord Hawkebury, at Rochester.
At ten minutes after ten o'clock, Gen. Laureston retired, and returned to Reddish's. When he appeared on Saturday in public, the mob believed he was the brother of Bonaparte, and all who could get near him touched his jacket with much reverence, that they might say they had touched the family of the Chief Consul. When he first arrived at M. Otto's on Saturday, a general volley was

fred by M. Otto's servants from the windows, to announce the ratification. The mob repeatedly cried out at the door of Reddish's—“Vive la République”—“Long live Bonaparte.”
We learn from M. Erskine, that the Bishops of Comminges and Elcar have given in to him a resignation of their chairs, in answer to the Pope's Brief.
In consequence of the same brief the Bishops of Nimes and Chaumont have sent in the resignation of their chairs to the Archbishop of Corinth.
Resignation of the Bishop of Nimes addressed to Monseigneur SPINA:
“Your Excellency will find here annexed the act of my resignation of the Bishopric of Nimes. There is no sacrifice for which a French Bishop in the communion of the Holy See, does not find an indemnification in the happiness of contributing to the unity of the Holy Church, and to the establishment of the Catholic religion in France, by the only measure which his Holiness thinks calculated to produce so great a blessing.
“I am fully sensible of the value and importance of the services which your Excellency has been pleased to offer to render to me in the present circumstances. I have given you a faithful declaration of my sentiments and wishes.
(Signed)
“P. M. M. CORTEZ DE BALOZE, Bishop of Nimes.”
The Bishop of Saint Diez, from the heart of Germany, has also given in his resignation.— Moniteur.
PARIS, August 28.
On the last Quintidi , (Aug. 25.) the Chief Consul, in the audience which he gave to the members of the Legislative Body and Tribunate, conversed long with them on the subject of the new Concordat . He told them that he had not acted in this business as a private man, or according to his individual opinion, which were totally repugnant to the principles of giving the Catholic religion any privileges above other creeds; but that as a member of the government he was obliged to consult the opinion, and wishes of the nation, since he had found that both were in favour of the reformation of the Catholic worship; that, for his own part, he thought himself bound to acquiesce in the will of the majority. The Chief Consul begins now to consider the situation of the Protestants.
Among other things the question is started:—Whether the clergy in the countries which have been united to the Republic, will continue in regard to their religious principles in any sort of connection with their former Princes and Sovereigns? The minister of the Interior, in CHAPTAL, has submitted these questions to be answered by two men, who, with the purest patriotism, combine an unfeigned attachment to the Protestant religion. They are, Citizen MOURGUER, of the reformed persuasion (a Calvinist) who was formerly Minister of the Interior, and a native Lutheran Deputy of the department of the Upper Rhine. Both of them, without any communication with each other, concurred in their answer. Both of them laid down the principle, that the sovereign temporal authority, according to the Protestant system, had revived the chief spiritual authority, and that the Protestant clergy, who formerly stood under foreign jurisdiction, had nothing to apprehend, as by their religious creed they are subjects to that Government which has dominion over them.
The Clergy of England are well informed, hospitable and generous; they love their country, and are a powerful support to the laws. Notwithstanding the difference of opinions, they received the French Clergy with a truly christian charity. The university of Oxford caused an edition of the New Testament in Latin, according to the Roman version, to be printed at its own expence, and distributed among the poor men, with this inscription—“For the use of the Catholic Clergy with the religion.” Nothing can be more elegant or more affecting; it is, indeed, a noble light for Philosophy to behold, at the end of the eighteenth century, the clergy of the Church of England offer a hospitable reception to Popish Priests, permitting the public exercise of their worship, and even the establishment of some religious societies. How illustrious are the vicissitudes of human affairs! The cry of a Pope! a Pope! caused a revolution in the time of CHARLES and JAMES II. lost his crown by being attached to the Catholic religion. Those who are frightened by the title of religion alone, are ignorant of the human mind; they always behold that religion such as it was in the ages of fanaticism and barbarity, without reflecting that like every other institution, it assumes the character of the age through which it passes.
The English display great pomp in their religious festivals. They even begin to ornament their temples with pictures. They have at length begun to perceive that a religion without worship is but the dream of a cold enthusiast; and that the imagination of man is a faculty which should be nursed as well as his reason.
[We have been led to a republication of the following report made to Congress by Mr. Jefferson, when Secretary of State, from a regard to the valuable information it contains, and from a hope that the ensuing Legislature will request from the Executive, similar information in relation to the present state of our commerce and navigation. We acknowledge too that we are not insensible to the correctness of many of the concluding ideas, on the adoption of which depend, and will continue to depend much of our commercial prosperity and exemption from war.]
The Secretary of State , to whom was referred by the House of Representatives, the report of a committee on the written message of the President of the United States of the 4th of February, 1791, with instruction to report to Congress the nature and extent of the privileges and restrictions of the commercial intercourse of the United States with Foreign nations, and the measures which he should think proper to be adopted for the improvement of the commerce and navigation of the same, has had the same under consideration, and thereupon makes the following:
REPORT:
THE countries with which the United States have their chief commercial intercourse, are Spain, Portugal, France, Great-Britain, the United Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden , and their American possessions: and the articles of export which constitute the basis of that commerce, with their respective amounts, are—
   Dollars.     Bread-stuff, that is to say, bread-grains, meals, and bread, to the annual amount of 7,549,887   Tobacco 4,349,867   Rice 1,733,796   Wood 1,263,534   Salted fish 941,696   Pot and pearl-ash 839,093   Salted meats 599,130   Indigo 537,379   Horses and mules 389,753   Whale oil 252,591   Flax-seed 236,072   Tar, pitch and turpentine 217,177   Live provisions 137,743   Ships   Foreign goods 620,274  
To descend to articles of smaller value than these, would lead into a minuteness of detail neither necessary nor useful to the present object.
The proportion of our exports, which goes to the nations before mentioned, and to their dominions, respectively, are as follows:
   Dollars.     To Spain and its dominions 2,005,907   Portugal and its dominions 1,233,462   France and its dominions 4,698,735   Great-Britain and its dominions 9,363,416   The United Netherlands & their dominions 1,963,880   Denmark and its dominions 225,415   Sweden and its dominions 47,240   Our imports from the same countries, are—   Spain and its dominions 385,110   Portugal and its dominions 595,763   France and its dominions 2,068,348   Great-Britain and its dominions 15,285,428   United Netherlands and their dominions 1,172,692   Denmark and its dominions 351,364   Sweden and its dominions 14,325    Those imports consist mostly of articles on which industry has been exhausted.
Our Navigation depending on the same commerce, will appear by the following statement of the tonnage of our vessels, entering in our ports, from those several nations, and their possessions, in one year, that is to say, from October 1789, to September 1790, inclusive, as follows:
   Tons.     Spain 19,695   Portugal 23,376   France 116,410   Great-Britain 43,580   United Netherlands 58,858   Denmark 14,555   Sweden 730  
Of our commercial objects, Spain receives favourably, our bread stuff, salted fish, wood, ships, tar, pitch, and turpentine. On our meals, however, as well as on those of other foreign countries, when re-exported to their colonies, they have lately imposed duties, of from half a dollar, to two dollars the barrel, the duties being so proportioned to the current price of their own flour, as that both together, are to make the constant sum of nine dollars per barrel.
They do not discourage our rice, pot and pearl ash, salted provisions, or whale oil; but these articles, being in small demand at their markets, are carried thither but in a small degree. Their demand for rice, however, is increasing. Neither tobacco, nor indigo are received there. Our commerce is permitted with their Canary Islands, under the same conditions.
Themselves and their colonies are the
actual consumers of what they receive from us.
Our navigation is free with the kingdom of Spain; foreign goods being received there in our ships, on the same conditions as if carried in their own, or in the vessels of the country of which such goods are the manufacture or produce.
Portugal receives favourably our grain, and bread, salted fish and other salted provisions, wood, tar, pitch, and turpentine.
For flaxseed, pot, and pearl ash, though not discouraged, there is little demand.
Our ships pay twenty per cent. on being sold to their subjects, and are then free bottoms.
Foreign goods (except those of the East-Indies) are received on the same footing in our vessels, as in their own, or any others; that is to say, on general duties of from twenty to twenty-eight per cent. and, consequently, our navigation is unobstructed by them. Tobacco, rice and meals, are prohibited.
Themselves and their colonies consume what they receive from us.
These regulations extend to the Azores, Madeira, and the Cape de Verd Islands, except, that in these, meals and rice, are received freely.
France receives favourably our bread-stuff, rice, wood, pot and pearl ash.
A duty of five sous the kental, or nearly four and an half cents, is paid on our tar, pitch and turpentine. Our whale oils pay six livres the kental, and are the only foreign whale-oils admitted. Our indigo pays five livres the kental; their own two and an half; but a difference of quality, full more than a difference of duty, prevents its feeling that market.
Salted beef is received freely for re-exportation; but if for home consumption, it pays five livres the kental. Other salted provisions pay that duty in all cases, and salted fish is made liable to pay the prohibitory one of twenty livres the kental.
Our ships are free to carry thither all foreign goods, which may be carried in their own, or any other vessels, except tobaccos not of our own growth: and they participate with theirs the exclusive carriage of our whale-oils, and tobaccos.
During their former government, our tobacco was under a monopoly, but paid no duties; and our ships were freely told in their ports, and converted into national bottoms. The first national assembly took from our ships this privilege. They emancipated tobacco from its monopoly, but subjected it to duties of eighteen livres fifteen sous the kental, carried in their own vessels, and twenty-five livres, carried in ours; a difference more than equal to the freight of the article.
They and their colonies consume what they receive from us.
Great-Britain receives our pot and pearl ash, free, while those of other nations pay a duty of two shillings and three pence the kental. There is an equal distinction in favour of our barrow; of which article, however, we do not produce enough for our own use. Woods are free, from us, whilst they pay some small duty from other countries. Indigo and flax seed, are free from all countries. Our tar and pitch pay eleven pence sterling the barrel. From other alien countries, they pay about a penny and a third more.
Our tobacco, for their own consumption, pays 1s. 3d. sterling the pound, custom and excise, besides heavy expenses of collection. And rice, in the same case, pays 7s. 6d. sterling the hundred weight; which, rendering it too dear, as an article of common food, it is consequently, used in very small quantity.
Our salted fish, and other provisions, except bacon, are prohibited. Bacon and whale-oils are under prohibitory duties: so are our grains, meals, and bread as to internal consumption unless in times of such scarcity as may raise the price of wheat to 50s. sterling the quarter, and other grains and meals in proportion.
Our ships, though purchased and navigated by their own subjects, are not permitted to be used, even in their trade with us.
While the vessels of other nations are secured by standing laws, which cannot be altered, but by the concurrent will of the three branches of the British legislature, in carrying thither any produce or manufacture of the country to which they belong, which may be lawfully carried in any vessels, ours, with the same prohibition of what is foreign, are further prohibited by a standing law (12. Car. 2. 18. s. 3.) from carrying thither all and any of our own domestic productions and manufactures. A subsequent act, indeed, has authorised their executive to permit the carriage of our own productions in our own bottoms, at its sole discretion: and the permission has been given from year to year by proclamation; but subject every moment to be withdrawn on that single will, in which event, our vessels having anything on board, stand interdicted from the entry of all British ports. The disadvantage of tenure which may be so suddenly discontinued, was experienced by our merchants on a late occasion*, when an official notification that
this law would be strictly enforced, gave them just apprehensions for the fate of their vessel and cargoes dispatched or destined to the ports of Great Britain. The minister of that court indeed frankly expressed his personal conviction that the words of the order went further than was intended, and so he afterwards officially informed us: but the embarrassments of the moment were real and great, and the possibility of their renewal, lays our commerce to that country, under the same species of discouragement as to other countries, where it is regulated by a single legislator: and the distinction is too remarkable not to be noticed, that our navigation is excluded from the security of fixed laws, while that security is given to the navigation of others.
Our vessels pay in their ports 1s. 9d. sterling per ton, light and trinity dues, more than is paid by British ships, except in the port of London, where they pay the same as British.
(To be continued.)
April, 12, 1792.
WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1801.
The details of foreign news, which we continue to present to our readers, as well from files of London prints which we have just received, as from cotemporaneous papers, are so deeply interesting, that we have been obliged to defer the appearance of much original matter; which will, however, not be ultimately neglected.
The surprise of our readers will, we are convinced, be great at the unbounded enthusiasm with which peace, and whatever is incidental to peace, has been hailed by the people of London. In their estimation the First Consul appears to be a God—“the Saviour of the universe,” and whatever emanates from him is deemed sacred. Vive la République , and long live Bonaparte, rebound through the metropolis: while the King of England, and all subordinate authorities, are either forgotten, or remembered only to be condemned.
It is natural that peace should bring joy to the feelings of every people; as every people are permanently attached to peace, and would never voluntarily abandon it but to protect invaded rights. But in Britain we behold not only enthusiasm at the establishment of peace; but we behold this enthusiasm, mingled with a love of liberty, triumphing over the liveliest national antipathies that perhaps ever existed. View the admiration, the distinction, the affection, with which the French Envoy was received, and say if you do not discern symptoms of a spirit, that may ere long give an entire new political character to England. That her political character may be changed, and that from being the friend of, war and devastation, she may become the guardian of peace and prosperity, must be the first desire of every enlightened philanthropist; his second, that this mighty effect may be produced by reason instead of the sword.
Philadelphia, Nov. 28.
Extract of a letter from London, to a gentleman in Salem, dated Sept. 9th.
“The council of prizes at Paris, on the 31st Augt. acquitted capt. Smith and capt. Russell, of Salem, and capt. Trafic, of Boston. Appeals for all our vessels condemned in the colonies, it is said, are to be allowed to be made to Paris, and when the property is proved to be American, the government will indemnify in public securities, and not oblige to have recourse to owners of the privateers.”
Alexandria, November 28.
Arrived this morning, the Schooner Harriet, Webb, Antigua, 28 days.—Captain Webb informs, that in the river he spoke the Schooner Neptune, of this port, 38 days from Lisbon, the captain of which informed him, That Spain had actually DECLARED WAR against the United States. What degree of credit may be attached to this account we are uncertain; we have, however, deemed it our duty, to our readers, as we received it, the report of an occurrence, which, if true, is of the highest importance to our country.
Last Notice.
NOTICE to the creditors of George W. Kirkland, is hereby given, That, on the 26th day of December next, between the hours of ten o'clock in the morning, and five o'clock in the evening of said day, at the office of Uriah Forrest, clerk of the circuit court, for the county of Washington, a certificate of discharge will be given the said bankrupt, unless cause, then and there be shown to the contrary, by the said creditors, or some of them: for which purpose they may attend at the said time and place if they think proper.
By order of the hon. William Cranch, Esq. assistant judge of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, this 24th day of November 1801.
URIAN FORREST,
Clerk of the Circuit Court for the county of Washington in the District of Columbia.
Three Dollars Reward.
STRAYED away from the Subscriber on or about the 10th of November, a BRINDLED MILK COW, having on a bell and iron collar, in pretty good order. Whoever delivers the same to the subscriber shall have the above reward and reasonable charges paid by
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JOHN MINCHIN,
BOOT-MAKER,
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James Hewitt and Co.
In the house adjoining the one occupied by Mr. John Jacob, in I Street, and near the house intended for the Branch Bank, Have opened,
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On the Pennsylvania Avenue fronting the President's Square, near Rhodes's tavern, City of Washington.
THOMAS HERTY has connected with the business of drawing Conveyances of Land, Wills, Mortgages, Leases, Bonds, Assignments powers of Attorney, petitions, and every other species of deed or contract in the profession; that of buying, selling and leasing lots and houses in the City, negotiating loans, &c.
His long experience as a draftsman, and knowledge of the laws relative thereto—the knowledge which he has acquired by residence of the situation of City Lots, and how their titles have been acquired, or are liable to be affected; together with his impartial and strict regard to the interest of those who may be pleased to employ him, will, he hopes, secure to him a continuance of public patronage.
Titles to real property investigated, and opinions given thereon when required. For sale a great variety of Lots, in desirable situations in the City.
N. B. At the above office may be had, his Abridgement of the Laws of Maryland, price 6 dollars. Also his Digest of the Laws of the United States, price 3 dollars. As the Laws of Maryland are in full force on this side the Potomac, it behoves settlers to avail themselves of that information which affects their lives, liberties and property. He who is without a knowledge of his “rule of conduct” is like a stranger in his native land. May 4. 2aw4w. 1aw4

SONG, FOR A HIGHLAND DROVER RETURNING FROM ENGLAND.  Now, fare thee well, England:—no farther I'll roam, But follow my shadow, that points the way home: Your gay Southern shores shall not tempt me to stay, For my Maggy's at home, and my Children at play; 'Tis this makes my bonnet sit light on my brow, Gives my sinews their strength and my bosom its glow!  Farewell, Mountaineers; my Companions, a- dieu! Soon, many long miles when I'm sever'd from you, I shall miss your white horns, on the brink of the burn, And o'er the rough heaths where you'll never return: But in brave English pastures you cannot com- plain, While your Drover speeds back to his Maggy again!  O, Tweed, gentle Tweed, as I pass your green Vales, More than life, more than love, my tir'd spirit inhales: There Scotland, my darling, lies full in my view, With barefooted Lassies and Mountains so blue!  To the Mountains away:—my heart bounds like the hind; For home is so sweet and my Maggy, so kind!  As day, after day I still follow my course, And in fancy trace back ev'ry stream to its source, Hope cheers me up hills, where the road lies before, O'er hills just as high and o'er tracks of wild Moor.  The keen Polar Star nightly rising to view— But Maggy's my Star just as steady and true!  O, Ghosts of my Fathers—O, Heroes, look down: Fix my wandering thoughts on your deeds of renown; For the Glory of Scotland reigns warm in my breast, And Fortitude grows both from toil and from rest!  May your seeds and your worth be for ever in view, And my Maggy bear Sons not unworthy of you!  Love, why do you urge me, so weary and poor. I cannot step faster, I cannot do more. I have passed silver Tweed, e'en the Tay flows behind; Yet fatigue I'll disdain, my reward I shall find; Thou sweet smile of innocence, thou art my prize, And the joy that will sparkle in Maggy's blue eyes!  She'll watch to the Southward—perhaps she will sigh, That the way is so long and the mountain so high! Perhaps some huge rock in the dusk she may see, And will say in her fondness, "That surely is he!"  Good Wife, you're deceiv'd: I am still far from my home; Go sleep, my dear Maggy—to morrow I'll come!  ROBERT BLOOMFIELD.
Washington Dancing Assembly.  THE first Assembly will be held at SELLER'S Hotel, on Tuesday evening the first of December, and will be continued every two weeks during the season.  November 23.
To Let—Three convenient furnished Rooms for Ladies and Gentlemen, & a Table can be supplied if required; at Mrs. de Carnap's, at the seven buildings on the New-Jersey Avenue.  Nov. 27. 3t
Whole Sale and Retail Grocery Store. J. D. BARRY,  INFORMS his friends and the public, that he has commenced business near the Capi- tol, New Jersey Avenue, opposite the house lately occupied by Conrad and M'Munn— Where he has on hand, (and will be constant- ly supplied with) a general assortment of Groceries and Liquors, Of the first quality, which he offers for sale at reduced prices.  Nov. 27. cf
To Rent, And possession given immediately, A TWO STORY BRICK HOUSE, North front of the President's House, CONTAINING TWO Parlours and four Bed-rooms, with Garden, &c. It is convenient to the Public offices, and may be had furnished or unfurnish- ed, with or without board, on reasonable terms, to an agreeable tenant. Enquire of the Printer, or on the premises. Also, Wanted Employment,  For a YOUNG MAN, who would engage as an assistant in a store, having kept one of his own, of course accustomed to it. Would act as Steward and superintend a plantation, or the like—would make himself useful in any situation.—Enquire of the Printer hereof.  November 25. 3tawtf.
TO RENT, THE three story brick dwelling house with the stables, garden and ice-house, lately occupied by Samuel Meredith, Esq. Treasurer. Situated on the river, west of the President's House.  FRANCIS DEAKINS. George-Town, Nov. 29. cp4w
On Wednesday the 23d of December next, will be offered to PUBLIC SALE, To the highest bidder on the premises, "Blue Plains, and Addison's Good Will," containing near 500 acres.
It will be sold altogether or laid off in lots from 5 to 100 acres, to suit the purcha- sers. No land in the United States poss- esses such advantages. It is uncommonly healthy and has a great many springs of excellent wa- ter on it. It lies on the Potomac River for nearly two miles, within one of Alexandria, and four of the City of Washington, with a public Ferry to Alexandria, which is im- mensely valuable, and will be more so.—This land is of the first quality, with my manage- ment, which is not the best, I have made off it ten barrels of corn, thirty three bushels of wheat, and two thousand pounds of toba- cco to the acre. About 200 acres are in wood and timber. The whole shore is a fishing landing, where upwards of one hundred thou- sand herrings, with other fish, such as shad, rock, perch, &c. are frequently caught at one haul, with a seine. There is every necessa- ry building, good enough for any body to live in. A pond in yard and garden, an or- chard of all kinds of the best-grated fruit— About 20 acres of meadow now in grain, and a great deal more may be made—200 acres of this land will now rent for from 1800 to 2250, and with a small expense it might be made to rent for a great deal more.
There is about 70 acres of wheat, and a- bout 30 acres of rye, sowed on it. The pur- chaser can be furnished with all kind of stock, horses, sheep, cattle, and hogs—also corn, hay, and fodder.  And on THURSDAY, The 24th of December next, will be sold, to the highest bidder, at Mr. M'Laughlin's tavern in George-Town—200 acres of land, lying on the east side of the Eastern Branch, about one mile from the city of Washington. It is chiefly in wood and timber. It will be sold altogether, or divided into lots from 5 to 20 acres. Also 206 acres on the west side and adjoining the Eastern Branch, two miles from the City of Washington. About half of this land is in wood and timber chiefly chestnut, and about 45 or 50 acres of good meadow ground. Also a gristmill, with 42 and an half acres of land, chiefly in wood on Rock- Creek, a never-failing stream, about one mile from George-Town, and the same distance from the City of Washington. Also several lots in the City of Washington unimproved, and several in George-Town improved and unimproved. Also 563 acres of land in Mont- gomery county, about 16 miles from the City of Washington, where Mrs. Lynn formerly lived, it has pretty good improvements, good water, and several good orchards. The terms will be made known on the day of sale.— Also about 300 acres lying in Montgomery County, on the main road leading from George-Town to Frederick-Town, about seven miles from George-Town. This land is well watered and wooded, with the greatest plenty of meadow ground. Some is already made. There are two tenements on it, and it would make two good farms, this land will be sold on a credit of three years from the first day of January next. Bond and approved security will be required. Any person wishing to purchase at private sale, will apply to William Bayly, who lives oppo- site to Alexandria, in the county of Washing- ton, and District of Columbia. A good and indispensible title will be given, by WALTER MACKALL.  December 2. 1801. cp4t
A NEGRO MAN To be hired by the year, half yearly or quarterly.  A SOBER well disposed man about 26 years of age, cleanly, and has been many years employed as a coach driver, stable boy, and occasionally waiting at table, and working in the garden.—His master wishes to hire him out in or about the city of Washington, he having a wife living near the District. He has never been accused or suspected of dishonesty.—For further informa- tion apply to the printer.  October 23. ep4t
For Sale or Rent, Two three story brick houses in Alexandria, completely finished, on King and Columbia, street, with sundry valuable property near the fame, possession whereof may be had imme- diately. The situation for the flour and gro- cery business is equal to any in Alexandria. For terms apply to Henry Thomas Moore Alexandria, or to the subscriber. NICHOLAS VOSS.
This day is Published by RAPINE, CONRAD & Co. Corner of south B street and New-Jersey Avenue, near the Capitol.  SELECT NOVELS, vol. 2d & 3d. EXECUTED in a superior style, and each volume containing two handsome engra- vings.—Price to Subscribers, one dollar per vol.
Nocturnal Visit—A tale in 2 vols. by Ma- ria Regina Roche, author of the Children of the Abbey, &c. &c.  Acts passed at the second session of the sixth Congress, began and held at the city of Washington, on Monday the 17th of No- vember 1800.  Also just received, A very handsome assortment of New No- VELS, of the first merit, with a good collec- tion of Law, and miscellaneous HISTORY, and a very elegant assortment of Ladies' and gen- tlemen's Pocket Books, of various prices and qualities.  R. C. & Co. Have always on hand a ge- neral assortment of Stationery, such as writ- ing and letter paper, quills, wafers, sealing wax, ink-powder, pen knives, slates, parch- ment, playing cards, blank and account books, inkstands, black lead pencils, &c. &c. All which they will sell at the most moderate pri- ces. Almanacs for the year 1802, just pub- lished.  Sept. 16, 1801.
WANTED, A person who can come re- commended for his honesty, sobriety, and at- tention; and who can give good security for the faithful discharge of the duties of the Office of JAILOR.  November 20.
Address to Subscribers  ONE year has elapsed since the first appearance of the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. Dur- ing this period domestic events of the first im- portance have occurred. The political scene, so far as it relates to persons, has been completely changed, and so far as it relates to principles and measures materially altered. Public opinion, de- cisively expressed, has called for a reform, and a reform has been made.
There is something so interesting, and even sublime in a Nation now composed of millions, and defined hereafter to be unrivalled in num- bers, shaking off by Herculean efforts the chains of foreign despotism, and then with unexhausted vigor defending the rights of its citizens from internal invasion, that the mind cannot too often pause, and trace the admirable connection be- tween cause and effect whereby the interesting spectacle is produced.
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The distinctive feature of American govern- ments is the representative principle. It is by the operation of this principle, that the nation can at any time express its opinion of public men and public measures, and will their continuance or suspension. It is by the operation of this principle that they have expressed such opinion and by its expression have silently and tranquilly produced a reform, which in other states would have been denominated a revolution, whose at- chievement could only have been imperfectly ef- fected by the sword. Cherish, then, fellow-cit- izens, a sacred regard for this holy principle.— Let every heart habitually feel its value. Let every mind frequently reflect on the inestimable good that it produces. And when the wreck of other governments, falsely styled republican, are held up as evidences of the perishable nature of all political systems, and it is inferred that ours too must go to decay, recollect that our system is the only one that has ever existed, whose halls are a true representation of the people.
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 I. The official acts of the General Govern- ment, including the acts of Congress  II. The debates at large.  III. As far as a scrupulous adherence to truth will admit, an exposition of the motives of the most important legislative and executive acts of the government. 
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City of Washington, Commissioners Office, 2d October, 1801.  By virtue of an act of Assembly of the State of Maryland, entitled "A further supplement to the act concerning the Territory of Columbia and City of Washington," the Commissioners will expose to public sale for ready money, at Wil- iam Rhodes's Tavern, in the said city, on the EIGHTH day of DECEMBER next, the following Lots in the said city, to wit: Nos 3 4 and 5 in square no 99, nos 1 2 4 7 9 14 15 16 and 17 in sq no 196, no 10 in sq no 347, nos 1 8 19 in sq no 635, no 4 in sq no 317, nos 8 15 16 17 18 & 19 in sq no 37, no 8 in sq no 405, no 2 in sq no 43, no 4 in sq no 59, no 1 in sq no 60, nos 2 & 3 in sq no 71, nos 1 2 3 8 9 10 11 12 19 20 21 22 28 29 & 30 in sq no 76, nos 9 & 10 in sq no 77, no 3 in sq no 83, nos 16 17 18 19 in sq no 83, nos 1 & 8 in sq no 6, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 & 20 in sq no 20, nos 1 2 7 8 9 10 11 25 & 26 in sq no 33, nos 15 16 17 20 24 25 26 & 27 in sq no 105, nos 9 10 & 12 in sq no 113, no 20 in sq no 141, nos 14 15 & 16 in sq no 166, no 1 in square north of sq no 580, no 1 in sq north of sq no 583, nos 1 & 2 in sq no 107, nos 4 & 12 in sq no 23, no 12 in sq no 288, no 1 in sq no 317, no 7 in sq no 345, no 6 in sq no 409, no 13 in sq no 535, no 3 in sq no 579, nos 4 & 14 in sq no 580, nos 2 & 18 in sq no 583, nos 5 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 17 18 & 19 in sq no 586, nos 9 10 12 13 14 17 & 18 in sq no 587, nos 13 & 14 in sq no 643, nos 4 and 5 in sq no 734, no 3 in sq south of sq no 825, no 10 in sq no 799, no 2 in sq 821, no 13 in sq 846, no 2 in sq 847, nos 12 and 13 in sq 874, nos 15 and 19 in sq 102, no 1 in sq south of sq no 104, nos 6 7 & 8 in sq no 120, nos 24 25 26 & 27 in sq 126, no 7 in sq 142, one half of no 18 in sq 143, nos 3 and 4 in sq 170, nos 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 & 28 in sq 172, nos 1 2 5 6 10 11 12 13 16 17 and 21 in sq 185, nos 8 9 to and 14 in sq 256, nos 2 3 17 18 in sq no 290, nos 2 5 6 13 14 in sq no 321, nos 1 3 5 and 9 in sq 322, nos 1 2 5 6 10 11 15 and 16 in sq no 348, nos 5 6 7 12 13 14 19 20 24 25 and 26 in sq 457, no 2 in sq 12, nos 1 and 3 in sq no 7, nos 6 7 8 10 11 12 and 15 in sq 75, nos 4 5 and 6 in sq 119, nos 1 9 11 12 and 15 in sq 222, no 7 in sq 432, nos 2 and 2 in sq 796, no 6 in sq 432, no 5 in sq 461, no 4 in sq 1064, nos 1 2 3 4 6 and 7 in sq south of sq no 744, no 1 in sq 401, no 2 in sq 644, no 16 in sq 799, no 17 in sq 728, no 1 in sq 291, no 2 in sq 47, nos 15 and 16 in sq 198, nos 3 5 6 7 6 10 12 13 and 14 in sq 317, nos 2 3 4 5 6 and 10 in sq 345, nos 2 3 4 5 and 6 in sq 344, nos 1 7 3 4 15 16 17 18 19 20 in sq 374, nos 1 4 5 8 9 and 12 in sq 403, nos 3 4 5 6 7 in sq 404, nos 2 3 6 7 10 and 12 in sq 427, nos 2 3 4 5 and 6 in sq 428, nos 7 8 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 and 21 in sq 534, nos 5 6 7 8 9 10 and 11 in sq no 535, no 20 in sq 585, no 15 in sq 587, no 2 in sq 643, no 2 in sq south of sq no 825, nos 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 and 26 in sq 826, no 2 in sq 997, no 3 in sq south of sq no 1019, nos 2 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 26 23 24 in sq 1020, no 12 in sq 1021, no 1 in sq 1022 nos 1 2 3 11 12 13 and 14 in sq 1023, nos 5 and 6 in sq 1024, nos 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and 11 in sq 1045 nos 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 and 13 in sq 1046 nos 1 2 3 5 6 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 and 28 in sq 1047, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 and 24 in sq 1048, nos 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 in sq 164, nos 14 19 20 21 22 23 24 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 & 20 in sq 847, nos 1 2 3 4 5 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 & 34 in sq 877, nos 25 26 27 28 31 and 34 in sq 1048, nos 1 and 3 in sq 1065, nos 1 5 6 in sq north east of 1065, no 1 in sq 1066, nos 2 3 7 8 9 10 12 and 15 in sq 158, nos 1 4 5 6 and 7 in sq 161, nos 1 2 4 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 and 18 in sq 247, nos 1 2 3 4 10 11 in sq 452, nos 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 and 14 in sq 453, no 1 in sq south of sq no 463, nos 3 4 5 and 6 in sq 492, nos 5
9 & 10 in sq no 495, nos 4 5 & 6 in sq no 494, nos 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 & 20 in sq 517, nos 2 4 6 & 8 in sq 518, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 & 20 in sq 529, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 & 7 in sq 537, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 & 28 in sq 538, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 & 8 in sq 565, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 & 21 in sq 567, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 & 33 in sq 568, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 & 24 in sq 569, nos 2 4 & 6 in sq 570, no 2 in sq 572, nos 2 & 3 in sq 577, nos 1 2 3 4 5 & 6 in sq 581, nos 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 & 20 in sq 584, nos 5 6 7 8 9 10 20 21 22 23 24 25 & 26 in sq 640, nos 2 3 4 5 15 16 17 18 20 21 & 22 in sq 642, nos 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 in sq east of sq no 642, nos 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 & 27 in sq south of sq no 643, nos 3 4 & 6 in sq 644, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 & 28 in sq 645, nos 1 2 & 17 in sq 1000, nos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 24 25 26 34 35 & 36 in sq 1042, nos 9 34 14 15 16 17 18 in sq 1056, nos 10 11 12 13 & 14 in sq 1067, nos 1 2 3 4 11 12 & 13 in sq 1078, nos 1 & 2 in sq south of 1091, nos 1 2 9 10 11 & 12 in sq 1092, nos 1 2 3 14 15 16 17 18 19 & 20 in sq 1105, nos 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 & 13 in sq 1116, no 9 in sq 1117, nos 5 6 7 & 8 in sq 1123, nos 5 6 7 & 8 in sq 1130, no 3 in sq 1148, and no 4 in sq 1149.
The sale to commence at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and continue from day to day (Sundays excepted) till the whole shall be sold, or until the further order of the Com- missioners. The highest bidder shall be preferred; but if he fails to pay the money offered, on the day of sale, the next high- est bidder shall be considered as the pur- chaser; provided he pays the money offered by him previous to opening the sale on the ensuing day; if he also fails, the sale shall be void, the lot bid for again, exposed without further notice, and both bidders excluded from purchasing during the sale.  WILLIAM THORNTON, ALEXANDER WHITE, TRISTRAM DALTON.
TO LET, On Capitol Hill, adjoining Mr. Tun- ciff's Hotel.  A convenient two story brick dwelling house, with good cellar, garret, kitchen and servant's rooms, a carriage house, and stable for three horse, &c. For terms apply to the subscriber at his store, north E. street, near the President's figure.
JOHN KEARNEY, Who has for sale some valuable building lots on said street and on square 491, corner of Avenue. H has as usual a good assortment of wines, groceries, liquors, &c.  November 8. raw3t
NEW STORE.  THE Subscribers respectfully inform the Public, that they have opened their new store in particular, in the street just opened a hand- some assortment  Dr. Goods, SUITABLE FOR THE SEASON, On the Pennsylvania Avenue, between the Pres- ident's Square and the River Buildings, which they hope to sell low for cash.
A few cases of Cut Nails. STEARNS & SMITH. November 23. ep3m.
NOTICE.  Several citizens of this place being desirous to have A BRIDGE Erected as early as possible over the POTOMAC, From Maryland Avenue to Alexander's Hotel, where it is hoped that every per- son who wishes to encourage a useful work for this City, will inscribe their names before the first day of December next, also the number of shares they are willing to take, calculating them at two hundred dollars per share.  Washington, Nov. 11. ep1D
FOR SALE.  A TRACT of land containing 2,500 acres ly- ing immediately on the river Potomac, in the county of Prince George, Virginia, late the residence of the late Mr. THORNTON, Esq. Seventeen hundred acres of which are of the most valuable kind of woodlands on the river; be- tween three and four hundred acres heavily tim- bered, the remainder being high land extremely productive. The remainder of this tract is equal to any in the state for the production of corn, wheat, tobacco, timothy, and all kinds of grain of all kinds. On this tract are two commodious two story brick mansion houses, two offices, a large brick stable, a carriage house, cow house and many other out-buildings in good repair. The or- chards and gardens contain a variety of valuable fruit trees, and orchards abound with excel- lent fruit and vegetables. Situated about a day's fall from Alexandria, 14 miles from Norfolk.— There are two