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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
Vol. III.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. CCCCXXXIX.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
MONDAY, AUGUST, 15th, 1803.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
Foreign Intelligence.
NEW-YORK, August 9.
By the politeness of Capt. Dodd, of the British Packet Townsend, London papers to the 5th June are received at the office of the Morning Chronicle from which we have made the following extracts:—
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
FRIDAY, June 3.
Mr. Patton rose to make his promised motion of censure to ministers. He reviewed the whole of their conduct, and said that it warranted him in the conclusion that they had proved their incapacity for the administration of public affairs. He moved two resolutions, the first purporting that the conduct of the French government had been a series of aggressions towards us, and the latter blaming ministers for not having resented those aggressions, nor communicated them to the house.
A very long debate ensued, in the course of which Colonel Balfour, Earl Temple, Mr. Foulkes, Mr. T. Grenville, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and several other gentlemen spoke, without contributing much of novelty on subjects of state discussed.
At length Mr. Pitt rose, and in a short speech declared he felt incapable of deciding the question either way. He did not think ministers had given a clear and satisfactory justification of their conduct, yet he was not inclined to vote for so severe a charge against them. In this dilemma he should move that the other orders of the day be read.
Lord Hawkesbury rose with evident marks of agitation. He expressed great astonishment at the language and conduct of the hon. gentleman, and declared he could not accept a mean compromise, nor continue to hold the situation with which his majesty had honored him, longer than he could do it with honour to himself.
Mr. Canning declared his feelings on this occasion to be most awful, since he came to the house with his mind to fully made up to vote for the question, that he should, for the first time in his life, divide against his right hon. friend. But this was a time in which feeling must yield to duty: the conduct of ministers justified his vote; and he should deem it a necessity to follow up that vote with an address for the removal of the ministers.
Lord Callercach, Mr. Alston, the masters of the rolls, Secretary at War, Col. Eyre, and Mr. G. Vansart, defended the conduct of ministers.
Sir Robert Peel was for the adjournment.
Mr. J. C. Beresford, Lord Dunlow, Mr. Lee, Mr. Dent, and Mr. Shaw Lefevre, each delivered their sentiments. At half past three this morning, the question was called for, and the house divided upon Mr. Pitt's motion:—For it 56—Against it, 333—Majority 277.
Though strangers were not re-admitted into the gallery after the first division, we understand, that upon the original question,
Mr. Fox said, that it was not his intention to vote for the resolutions, though at the same time, it was impossible for him to approve of the conduct of his majesty's ministers. He had expressed his opinion upon a former occasion, and he conceived that the time was past for moving a vote of censure upon their conduct on the present subject. Yet he hoped that what had occurred would be a warning to them how they kept the house in future in dark to the last moment. Mr. Fox concluded by paying some warm compliments to Mr. T. Grenville upon his masterly speech, and by saying that he could not agree to a vote of censure, because he did not know but that the successors of the present ministry might be more objectionable to him than the present.
Mr. Wilberforce laid a few words. After which the house called loudly for the question; and at four o'clock this morning a division took place upon the original motion of Col. Patton.
For it 34—Against it 275.
Mr. Fox and several of his friends retired without dividing.
Adjourned at a quarter past four o'clock this morning to Monday.
MONDAY June 6.
The house resolved itself into a committee of the whole house, to consider of the supply to be granted to his majesty. The Secretary of War then rose to lay before the house,
The Army Estimates.
He said that in proposing the estimates for the army, the subject divided itself into two parts: one of them an addition to that offered by him in December; the second part relating to some augmentation of the regular forces embodied, the militia, supplementary militia, &c. The Royal Military College was the first article he alluded to, and which he said, would exceed the expenses of last year, by about 3000l. so that the expense of this year for that establishment would be 8000l. His next was the Royal Military Asylum, for which he requested 37,000l. of which 21,000l. was necessary to complete the building.
The second part related to the forces. The army complete, as voted in Dec. amounted to 130,000 men. The augmentation intended at present was in the cavalry; ten men in each company remained on foot; it was now proposed to remount these, and replace them by recruits, to bring every company of foot guards to the full war complement. The next augmentation arose from the alteration of the establishments of the different regiments, owing to the abolition of the practice of field officers having companies. It was proposed to add three captains in cavalry and infantry, each of which was to raise a certain number of men. That every lieut. should raise 30 men for his rank, and every ensign ten. The expense of this measure would be upwards of 35,000l. He then enumerated the several items for pay, clothing, &c. of the army, militia, &c. the total of which, for Great Britain, amounted to 2,540,000l. For Ireland, to 570,000l.
Making a total of 3,110,000l. He then moved the first resolution, which being read by the chairman,
Mr. Pitt begged leave to ask his majesty's ministers, if what is opened this day be all the force that is meant to be called forth to answer the present emergency; if he found the present forces were to be all that it was intended to call for, it would fill him with apprehension, and infinite regret.
The Secretary of War said that the plan of his majesty's ministers was to bring forth such a force as should be deemed, on the most mature deliberation, fully adequate to the defence of the kingdom in every part. We have now, he said, a much greater force on foot than we ever had at the commencement of any former war; but he did not say that was sufficient; he did not say that all our energies ought not to be called forth. It was the intention of his majesty's servants to call forth such a number of supplementary forces, but such as would leave us a disposable force also, whenver occasion might induce us to use it. The probability of invasion, therefore, ought not to throw us into a panic, nor lead us to suppose, that if attempted, it will not ultimately tend to the discomfiture and disgrace of the enemy; and he believed, if it be ever attempted, very few of those who formed part of the expedition, if even they should effect a landing, would get back to France to tell the tale of their enterprise in which they had been engaged.
Mr. Pitt said he was greatly relieved in mind from what had just fallen from the right honorable gentleman, and extremely happy to hear that more forces were meant to be added to those which had now been laid before the house, and that a system of vigor, activity and energy was intended to be pursued, on a scale proportioned to the important occasion which so loudly and forcibly calls for it.
General Tarleton approved the measures adopted by ministers, and congratulated the house on the spirit and determination shown by the people to defend their country.
The first resolution was then read and agreed to, as follows:
"That it is the opinion of this house, that a sum, not exceeding 29,337l. be granted to his majesty, for the pay of supernumerary officers from the 25th day of December last, to the 25th day of December next."
The other resolutions were then severally read and agreed to.
LONDON, June 4.
The emperor of Russia has, it is understood, signified to the French envoy extraordinary, Colonel Colbert, that his imperial majesty will not see with indifference the occupation of Hanover by French troops, or the shutting up of the Elbe and the Weser, and from Lubeck we have the important intelligence, that the whole Russian fleet has been ordered to be fitted out with the greatest dispatch. Every ship at Revel and Cronstadt
preparing for sea with the utmost activity, so that a strong Russian squadron is expected to appear very soon in the Baltic. It is added, that in certain cases a considerable body of troops will be embarked on board it. According to the report of a captain of a ship which arrived at Lubeck on the 23d ult. in eight days from Revel thirteen ships of 40 guns and upwards, were even then lying ready to sail, in the road of Revel.
It is generally believed in the first circles, that the Russian Ambassador at Paris, the Count de Marloff, has been informed by the First Consul in the most gross and indecent manner. It is stated that the Ambassador having presented a remonstrance to Bonaparte, in consequence of the unjust imprisonment of the English in France, the Consul replied in the most outrageous terms. It is even said, that he employed manual violence. At all events the general circumstance is by no means improbable.
June 6.
Mr. Pitt's abandonment of the present ministry is no longer doubtful. Yet the manner in which it was announced was not bold. He did not chuse to go the length of a direct censure of his majesty's ministers in his vote; but that unwillingness to enter into any minute examination or discussion of their conduct; an unwillingness from which an inference was perhaps wished to be drawn that such a discussion would only serve to drag into broader day the errors of their conduct; that remnant of a feeling of former friendship declared to be strung, but struggling unnecessarily with a sense of public duty, was a more cruel censure upon their conduct than a positive vote in favor of col. Patton's resolutions. The house, we believe, felt that Mr. Pitt's conduct was uncautioned, for we did not hear him cheered once during his speech. Lord Hawkesbury, on the contrary, affected every one who heard him, by the mixed manliness and feeling with which he declined to accept the compromise offered by Mr. Pitt. He bore the detection as a man, but he also felt it as a man. Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, and the whole house cheered him repeatedly. It may seem rather a strange allusion; but we confess that we think the event of Friday's debate, so far from weakening, will strengthen Mr. Addington's administration. In that fluctuating state of politics and parties which has prevailed for some time, men hovered in doubt and uncertainty between Mr. Pitt and Mr. Addington. They saw Mr. Pitt support the peace with all the powers of his eloquence, and they heard of a negotiation for bringing him again into power. That state of uncertainty is now past. Mr. Pitt is in opposition; and though at first he may not be directly, decisively, and actively against administration, yet it cannot be expected that he will long remain passive and quietist. C'est le premier pas qui coûte—the great difficulty is in making the first declaration of his defection.
For some days there have been rumours of further changes in the administration. Mr. Bragge, who has made way for Mr. Tierney, is to be chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, in the place of the Earl of Liverpool. It has been asserted in a clandestine ministerial paper, that Earl Moira, Mrs. Grey, and Mr. Sheridan, are to join Mr. Addington. It would not, we should think, be incompatible with the principles of any of those gentlemen to accept places in the present administration, but we do not attach credit to the rumour. Mr. Sheridan, it has been reported, we believe without any foundation, is to be secretary at war. Surely such a man as Mr. Sheridan might claim a seat in the cabinet. With respect to Lord Moira and Mr. G. Eyre, we know not that the rumour rests upon stronger grounds.
Our port letters are full of captures from the enemy. We have the satisfaction to announce the capture of another French frigate, La Pensee, of 44 guns. On her return from St. Domingo she was chased by the Minotaur, and Thunder, detached on that service from the fleet under the command of admiral Cornwallis. D'Impatience corvette, of 18 guns, from Senegal, was also captured off Brest on the 29th ult. by the Naïad frigate, who also took several French merchantmen. A small privateer with 22 men, has been taken by lieutenant Inhouffe, in a Revenue Cutter, off Portland.
The Gazette of Saturday announces that Mr. Tierney, treasurer of the navy, is appointed a member of the Privy Council.
It is said, that lord Elgin, late ambas-
sador from the court of London, at the Porte, is among the English prisoners pursuant to the decree of government. There are 300 of them in the city of Paris alone. They have all been sent to Fontainbleau, as well as those who were at Versailles. There will however, be some exceptions in favor of such as had align lawful motives to authorise their residence in either of those cities.
June 7.
Price of Stocks.
3 per cent. consols shut—do, for acc. 39.
3 per cent. reduced 37 3/8—omnium.
This morning we received a series of the Moniteur from the 25th ult. to the 4th inst. inclusive.
The official paper of the 4th announces the march of general Mortier, from his head quarters at Coerverden on the 26th ult. and the evacuation of the bishopric of Osnaburg by a Hanoverian battalion on the 28th. The entrance of the French into the Hanoverian territories has been preceded by a proclamation to the inhabitants in the true jacobin style.
The Moniteurs are full of addresses upon the war; addresses replete with the grossest adulation to the first consul, and the most violent and vulgar abuse of this country.
The French funds are 43 1/4—They had been lower.
Our Yarmouth letter mentions, that the Dutch East India ship sent into that port by the Lipwing frigate, is from China.
Among the passengers taken on board the French frigate, is a French general in chief from St. Domingo. He is said to be Berthier's brother in-law.
A mail from Hamburg arrived last night.
The French papers were wrong in asserting that the French troops entered Hanover on the 20th ult. but they were in full march thither.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave notice yesterday, of his intention to meet the parties disposed to contract for the ensuing loan on Friday next. We understand that the sum to be borrowed will not exceed ten millions, of which from two to three millions are to be for the service of Ireland, and the remaining seven or eight and a half millions for Great Britain.
We understand advices have been received from Lisbon, of the French ambassador having either actually left that city, or being on the point of leaving it, in consequence of the Portuguese refusing to shut their ports against the English.
We yesterday heard of the resignation of the right hon. William Dundas, one of the commissioners of the Board of Control.
Letters from Cadiz, by the last mail, state that all the ships of the line, and frigates in that harbour, are equipping with the utmost dispatch.
We understand that in consequence of the dissensions which have prevailed amongst the commissioners for Trinidad, orders have been sent out to recall both general Picton and col. Fullarton.
On the 26th ult. the French entered the county of Bentheim, and in the town of Bentheim made prisoners of the Hanoverian garrison consisting of 36 men and an officer. A deputation was sent to the French general, from the town of Osnaburg, requesting good treatment for the town, from whence the Hanoverian garrison marched away on the 28th for Diepenau. On the same day the French troops passed the Ems, near Mippen, and a part of the infantry marched to Havelne. On the 29th they continued their march, and a part of the troops, amounting to 10,000 men, entered the Principality of Osnaburg, preparations for defence were making on the side of the Weser. Prussia does not appear to have made any objection to the admission of the French into the North of Germany; and Russia has either not interlered, or interlered without effect.
The decree for the arrest of the English is to extend over the whole of Italy. One measure adopted by the French will cause some embarrassment to commercial men. The Bremen mails of the 24th ult. both going from, and coming to London, have been intercepted and sent to Paris.
Extract of a letter from our correspondent at Hamburg, dated May 31st, 1803.
"I have just time to inform you, that about an hour ago two estafettes reached this place from Berlin; the one addressed to the Prussian minister, the other to the senate of Hamburg. The contents of the dispatches are authentically stated to be, that a convention has been concluded between the mediating ministers, having for object the security of the Hanseatic Cities, Lubeck, Bremen, and the rest of the North of Germany, from all hostile invasion. The Electorate of Hanover seems to be left to its own fate. The French minister Laforet was present at this important negotiation at Magdeburg; and the Prussian army, which is to protect the North of Germany, is now under review, and encamped about Magdeburg and its environs. His force amounts to 30,000 men, who will be put under the command of general Blicher. The King of Prussia has positively declared to France, that the shutting of the Weser and Elbe would give an entire death-blow to the maritime commerce of his dominions; and that if matters should even come to such extremity, his majesty is determined, if garrisons are to be placed in the Hanseatic Cities, to suffer none but Prussian."
[TRAVELLER.]
PARIS, June 2.
The Conservatrice Senate decree, that there shall be taken from the funds of the senate, the necessary sum for the building, within the shortest period of time, a fast rate ship, which shall be ordered for the service of the present war.
The Tempe, of 74 guns, from Martinique, entered Brest on the 29th ult.
The city of Antwerp has offered to build a frigate of 44 guns.
June 3.
The counsellor of state, prefect of Police, issued yesterday orders to begin at Paris, the building of some gun-boats, with the produce of the funds which are already deposited at the general secretariate of the treasury.
June 4.
General Mortier has left Coerverden, where he had fixed his head-quarters on the 26th ult. On the 28th a Hanoverian battalion evacuated the bishopric of Osnaburg.
General Mortier having been made acquainted with the proclamation of the king of England, has replied to it by the following proclamation:
FRENCH REPUBLIC.
Edouard Mortier, Lieutenant-General, commander in chief to the inhabitants of the Electorate of Hanover.
HANOVERIANS!
A French army is entering your territory; it comes not to spread confusion in your fields; but to withdraw the portion of the continent which you inhabit from a government inimical to the repose of Europe, and which makes it its glory to tread under foot all the principles of the rights of man and civilized nations.
The first consul, faithful to the sentiments of moderation and humanity, which distinguish him as eminently his political and warlike virtue, the first consul has, in vain, exhausted all the means of conciliation to prevent a rupture.
The king of England,—to his most sacred engagements, has violated his signature, by refusing to evacuate Malta, as he had solemnly engaged himself to do by the treaty of Amiens; he has given the signal for hostilities; and remains alone responsible before God and man for the calamities which the scourge of war may bring upon the states under his dominion.
I am informed, that proclamations, dictated by the blind fury, have been made to engage you in a dispute, to which you ought to be strangers: preserve yourselves from an aggression equally absurd and useless, and of which you alone will remain the victims.
Hanoverians! I promise you safety and protection, if, consulting your true interests, you separate your cause from that of a sovereign, who, in breaking all the ties of good faith, has thereby freed you from any attachment you might have held yourselves to owe him.
The severest discipline will reign amongst the troops whom I command; your persons, your property will be respected; but, in return I require from you such proceedings as there is a right to expect from a peaceful people.
ED. MORTIER.
GENOA, May 19.
A vessel arrived, brings the disastrous news, that the plague has broken out at Malta. It has made frightful ravages. Upwards of sixty of the Garrison die daily; it has communicated itself to the inhabitants. The king of Naples has established a cordon of troops, to prevent its being communicated from Malta to Sicily.

MALTA, April 15.
The latter end of last month the troops arrived from Egypt, under orders to sail for the first time for England; but on the 8th inst. counter orders were given, and they now form part of the garrison. On the 7th, dispatches were received by the French agent, and shortly afterwards, a French squadron, under the command of an admiral, lying in the Bay, went to sea, the admiral having previously sent out his boats to take an account of every British vessel.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 30.
On the 22d a great council of state was held, to determine what part the Porte should take in case of a new war between England and France. The decision is not yet known.
A Turkish fleet, consisting of five ships of the line, one of which is of 120 guns, and four of 74, sailed this day for the Archipelago, for the protection of the Turkish trade, and the levying of the tribute in the Archipelago.
BERLIN, May 24.
Our court, as is well known, has resolved, in case of a breach between France and England, not to take the smallest part, and there is reason to believe that it will persevere in this resolution, unless some important event should occasion it to be changed.
Citizen Laforet, minister extraordinary of the French Republic, had his first audience of H. M. who gave him the most gracious reception.
The greatest activity prevails within this fortnight in our foreign department. Couriers are frequently despatched both to Paris, Petersburg, Vienna, and London. It appears that this correspondence is relative to the fate of the electorate of Hanover. Our court without wishing to occupy this country, as it did lately, would gladly see it out of danger of an invasion. This has been notified to the French government, from which an answer is hourly expected. It is imagined that the new circumstances will engage the king to defer the journey he proposed to take to France. The grand review is finished, and hitherto no preparations are making for the departure of his majesty.
HANOVER, May 29.
All our troops are animated with an enthusiastic desire to defend their country. It is said that a part of our army will occupy a strong military position along the banks of the Weser. Our country will send into the field 8000 cavalry, and 24,000 infantry, of regular troops.
HAMBURGH, May 26.
All the electorates of Hanover are in motion, the different corps of the army are forming a junction, and they are now raising the people en masse to defend the country against the French army. The young men liable to be included in this measure make their escape in crowds, and a great number of them have arrived here. The Hanoverian troops are guilty of the greatest violence, and blood has even been shed in many instances that have taken place.
LUBECK, May 23.
By a ship arrived here in ten days from St. Petersburg, we received the important intelligence, that the whole of the Russian fleet is equipping with the greatest dispatch. By two other ships arrived to-day, we learn that the case is the same at Revel and Cronstadt; so that in a short time a considerable Russian fleet will be in the Baltic. It is added, that in a certain case, a considerable body of troops will be embarked.
LONDON, June 1.
A letter from the Hague, of the 22d, inst. says, "On Saturday last, Mr. Linton, made an offer of neutrality to our government on the part of England, provided it was rigorously observed; a proposition which was eagerly embraced; but as soon as Citizen Semonville got scent of it, he repaired to the members of the government of states, and declared, that if they accepted the offer of the English minister, his government would instantly send 100,000 men into the country. They, however, then refused; but on some information, it seems that we have resolved to expose ourselves to the vengeance of England, rather than that of France; for to-day orders were issued for laying an embargo on all English ships in the ports of this republic. Mr. Linton has made no preparation for his departure."
June 2.
Mr. Linton, a few days ago, says our Hague correspondent, notified to the Dutch government, that Great Britain was willing to consent, upon certain conditions, to the neutrality of Holland. The Dutch government received the notification with gratitude, but without the slightest expectation that France will permit her to remain neutral. Indeed the first thing the enslaved and enslaving republic of France did when she conquered Holland, was to dictate an offensive and defensive alliance with her.
The Dutch government, however, immediately after the receipt of Mr. Linton's notification, resolved to send three deputies to Paris, to explain the situation of Holland, to the First Consul, and to prove that neutrality could alone preserve her from ruin.
Our Hague correspondent has furnished us with an striking picture of the state of Holland at the present moment.ettered by a power which treats her as a conquered country, and calls it friendship; pillages her treasures, and assures her it is protection; burthens her with troops, and boasts that it is strengthening her resources; forces her into a war, and talks to her of her independence; cursed and insulted by such an ally, she is rapidly falling to the lowest point of misery and degradation.
All the hostile acts that have been done in Holland against this country, have been at the express order of the French government. It was the French government that commanded the seizure of the two packets at Helvoetsluys, and the imprisonment of the captain, the agent, and the English messenger. The Dutch it is laid, remonstrated; but their remonstrances were treated with contempt and derision.
LONDON, June 10.
We stated on Wednesday, that advice had been received of the French troops being on the point of entering Bremen; and yesterday, we mentioned a report, which had reached us, of the enemy being also on their march to Cuxhaven. We have now to inform our readers, that authentic advice reached town yesterday, of the former place, (which belongs to his Britannic Majesty) having been taken possession of by a Republican force on the 2d inst. and that a strong detachment was at the same time in full march towards Hamburg. These proceedings, it is scarcely necessary for us to observe, are a part of the system adopted by France, for excluding the commerce of this country from every part of the continent. Whether the great powers of the North will interpose to prevent this unprincipled project, no less injurious to their own interests than to those of Great Britain, it is at present extremely difficult to determine. Some accounts state, that Prussia has expressed a wish to the French government that Hanover, &c. should not be invaded; while others assert, that the court of Berlin will not in any respect interfere in the dispute between England and France. The Paris papers to the 7th inst. (which arrived yesterday) lay much stress upon the latter statement, and infer, from the probability of both Russia and Prussia being aware of the steps that would be taken by the First Consul, in the event of a war with England, that neither of those powers will oppose the present measures of the French government. Prussia, it is said, without taking any part whatever in the contest, will content herself with forming a cordon of observation along the boundaries of her own territories; and the naval armaments in the ports of Russia, the same accounts state, are preparing upon the pure principle of an armed neutrality. There is, at present, very little data upon which to reason on this subject; but a few days will, we trust, provide us with such information as will enable us to form an accurate opinion of the relative situation of the several powers.
The Paris papers state that Lucien Bonaparte has set out for Spain; for the purpose, no doubt, of arranging matters with the court of Madrid relative to the war. The British Ambassador was expected to leave the Hague on the 3d inst. Bonaparte's journey to Brussels has been again postponed. The Monitor states, that the Post-Office agent at Helvoetsluys was arrested in consequence of his being a spy in favour of England; but this allegation is unsupported by any evidence, and we believe it to be totally void of foundation. The voluntary subscriptions for the construction and equipment of vessels intended for the purpose of invading England, are stated to be already very numerous. Among other contributions, the officers and privates of the cavalry and infantry of the Parisian guard have subscribed two days pay, and the performers at one of the theatres have sent the vast sum of 1000. Some vessels from the West-Indies have lately arrived in the ports of France. The French funds have risen one half per cent.—they are now 48 3/4.
June 11.
In a subsequent column we have given some important particulars, relative to the means proposed by the minister for raising the supplies for the service of the present year. The amount of the Loan is to be only 12,000,000 including 3,000,000 for Ireland. Besides the taxes necessary for paying the interest of this sum, there will, however, be levied a tax of 5 per cent. on incomes of every description, whether arising from landed, funded, or any other species of property; but some abatement is to be made in favour of that arising from manual labour. These supplies, though great, it must be obvious to all, are rendered indispensable by the existing circumstances, and will, we doubt not, be granted with cheerfulness, as the means of enabling his majesty to support the
honour and interest of the Rate. Forty thousand additional seamen, including eight thousand marines, were last night voted by the house of commons.
No advices from the continent reached town yesterday. There seems very little doubt of the determination of France to shut out the trade of England from all the ports of the North of Germany; and a few days will probably enable us to ascertain what effect those violent unprincipled proceedings are likely to produce upon the councils of the different continental powers most interested in the event. The intelligence of the French troops having entered Bremen, and of another detachment having marched to Hamburg, which were stated in our last, was received by a vessel arrived at Hull, from the Weser, and by a merchant in the city, from France.
INTENDED LOAN.
Yesterday the different gentlemen concerned in bills for the loan and lotteries of the present year, waited on the minister, to confer relative to the sum to be borrowed, and the mode in which it was to be obtained. About twelve o'clock, the minister sent for them into the parlour at Downing Street, where he was attended by the governor and deputy-governor of the bank, and Mr. Vanhastart.
Mr. Addington stated that the sum he should want would be 12,000,000, viz. 9,000,000 for England, and three for Ireland. He was in hopes, he said, that he should have been able to have done with less, and flattered himself that, next year, that would be the case; but, in the present instance, the taxes he meant to propose could not be collected in time to answer the exigencies of the state. He, at the same time, thought it proper to state, that it was his intention to propose to Parliament to raise a very large sum within the year by strong taxes; and he trusted every gentleman present would think it advisable so to do. It was also proper for him to state what were his intentions respecting Exchequer Bills. There were, he said, five millions voted in the spring of last year, 4,000,000 about Christmas, & 5,000,000 this spring; but they had not all been issued. His intention was to pay off the first five millions, to let the other stand over, to issue five millions more, to take a vote of credit for 2,500,000, and, in case the bank should not think it right to continue the 1,500,000, which they held, he should in that case be obliged perhaps, to issue 1,500,000. in lieu of them, which would, in other words, be borrowing nine millions on exchequer bills, and paying off ten millions.
He proposed to raise his Loan of twelve millions, if agreeable, by giving for every 100l.—70l. Consols, 70l. Reduced; and to take the Bidding on the least sum in Deferred Stock, and to allow 5 per cent. for prompt payment.
An objection was started to Deferred Stock making a part, as it was already a heavy and unsaleable Stock in the market.
Mr. Addington then, with the consent of all parties, agreed that the Loan should be raised in the following manner: For every 100l. subscribed, the subscriber to have
80l. 0s. 0d. Consols. 80l. 0s. 0d. Reduced.
And those who would take the least sum of Long Annuity to be the purchaser. The interest of the Consols to commence from the 5th of July, 1803, and that of the Reduced and Annuities from the 5th of April 1803; 5 per cent. for prompt payment, which, from the 17th of June (the day of the first deposit) to the 23d of December, (the day of the last payment) makes 21. 6s. 7d. per cent. being 187 days. The payments to be made as follows:
17 June, Deposit 10 per cent. 22 July, 10 19 August, 15 16 September, 15 21 October, 20 10 November, 15 25 December. 15 100
The public bodies to have their usual proportion out of the twelve millions, which is as under:—
Bank of England £300,000 India Company 300,000 Royal Exchange 200,000 London Assurance 200,000 South Sea Company 200,000 Trinity House 100,000 Bank of Ireland 200,000 £1,700,000
The Minister said, the taxes would be heavy, and that he should raise them within the year, chiefly on Excise and Customs; on Landed property, real and personal property, and income arising from whatever source; But that from labour not to pay equal to that arising from property.
He was asked, whether the Funded Property was to be taxed? He replied, certainly; and that it was proposed to be 1s. in the pound on all dividends; but the Stockholder might either have it
slipped out of his dividend warrant, or go before Commercial Commissioners, and there declare his property, and pay the tax all together. On land, he said, it was his intention that the owner should pay 1s. in the pound, if let; and the occupier in England to pay 9d. and in Scotland only 6d. in the pound; as the lands were let in Scotland at a higher rate, and were not so productive as those in England. He produced the Journals of the House of Commons, to show that in 1701, and for several years, a similar mode of taxation was adopted.
The Governor and deputy Governor of the Banks were asked, whether the Bank would take in the Omnium, the same as last year? They answered, it had not been customary for the Bank to commit itself on such occasions. All they could say was, that the business had not yet been mentioned within the Bank; but should there appear any difficulty not to grant the indulgence, they should deem it their duty to give the earliest notice possible.
A great deal of conversation followed, at the commencement of which, the Minister desired the gentlemen to come on Monday, at ten o'clock precisely, to bid for the loan, informing them at the same time, that no list delivered in after that time would be attended to. The present lists are:
United Bankers. Roberts & Goldsmid, Isidore & Shemell, Sir F. Baring & Angerstein, Stock Exchange.
The Chancellor of the exchequer then gave notice, that he wished to see such gentlemen as were desirous of contracting for the lottery, on Thursday next, in order to confer upon the business, and proposed that the bidding should take place on the following day.
At the average price of the funds, yesterday, the proposed loan would be nearly as follows:
80 Consols, 57 1 2 46 80 Reduced, 57 1 2 46 92
About 10s Long Annuities, 17 years purchase, 100 10 Discount, 3 10 £104 0
The lowest window tax in the new regulations is 6s. where there are only six windows, and the highest 83l. per ann. except the number of windows exceeds 180. For one carriage 10l. for nine and upwards 15l. each. For all small chaises drawn by one horse 5 guineas each; drawn by two horses, seven guineas; every post chaise left to hire eight guineas. Coachmakers to pay a licence of 5s. per year, and 10 shillings for every two-wheeled, one 1l. for every four-wheeled carriage built by them. For one horse 2l. per annum; for 19 four guineas each. Horses belonging to farmers paying a rack-rent of 20l. a year, 6d. each. For one dog 6s. per annum, for two and upwards 10s. Every horse-dealer in the metropolis 20l. per annum, in the country 10l. The hair-powder and a moral bearing duties remain unaltered.
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER
Political Character of THOMAS PAINE, extracted from an Essay, entitled "A DISERTATION On the Political Character and Writings of
THOMAS PAINE,
Author of Common Sense, Rights of Man, &c.
By ALLEN MAGRUDER, of Lexington, Kentucky.
"The temple of wisdom is seated on a rock, above the rage of fighting elements, and inaccessible to all the malice of man. The rolling thunder breaks below; and those more terrible instruments of human fury, reach not to so sublime a height. The sage, while he breathes that serene air, looks down with pleasure, mixed with compassion, on the errors of millenial mortals, who blindly seek for the true path of life, and pursue riches, nobility, honour and power, for genuine felicity."
Home's Moral Essays.
"Similar to a being looking down from the emperian, on this world, he beholds with composure from his unclouded height, the mias of mankind, yet wandering in darkness, and error, their mistakes and deviations, and the gloomy tempests that rage in the steep glens below him."
Zimmerman on National Pride.
IN a philosophical age, when the passions of mankind are invited by the most eloquent moral persuasions, to throw off their ferocity, and to yield to the milder dominion of reason, the best characters are condemned to unmerited persecution. National ingratitude has kept pace with the progress of society; the form of the passions has raged as it moved along, and the desolation has accompanied its various mutations, from one
generation to another, without abatement. In one age the fatal shell is presented to an Achilles, by the hand of ingratitude; Epaminondas, the saviour of his country, is condemned to sweep the streets; Phocion is dragged to prison, and Socrates sentenced to drink poison. He who propitiated the falling honours of imperial Rome, in the last age of her decline, by the powers of his eloquence, and snatched the brand from the hand of a Cataline, goes into banishment to appease the rage of his devoted countrymen. In another age a Sydney suffers on the scaffold, for the invincible integrity of his soul; and a Hampden dies, for attempting to elevate the rights of man to their true political dignity. This will always be the fate of those men, whose noble minds, discarding that cautious wisdom which wraps us up in a solitary indifference to the affairs of the world, prompts them to sacrifice their own ease, for the felicity of others. Upon this ground, the reputation of Franklin and Jefferson have suffered martyrdom, in an enlightened age; and the fame of Thomas Paine, the unscorched apostle of liberty, has undergone the same fate.
To these distinguished patriots, philosophy has erected monuments. The first of these may be seen in the forms of fashion, attempts to blast the moral laurels; but they are of that hardy nature, which bled to come to the sudden shock, and will prove to reject the calumny generations, when the tempest is foregone.
There are few men of any age, more deserving the homage of commemoration, than the author of Common Sense. This great man is in the position, what the sun is, in the physical hemisphere. He communicates warmth and energy to whatever he touches; irradiates the mysterious doctrines of human wisdom, by the penetration of thought, and gives birth to a new world of reflection, by unfolding what had hitherto reposed in silent obscurity. Beneath the influence of his genius, of a mind expansive as the empire of thought, superstition and prejudice are willing to yield to a liberal conviction. They awaken from the fatal enchantment that had hitherto entranced the senses; the spells of the sorcerers appear in all their deformity; the mists vanish from the eye, and the full splendour of the light of heaven unfolds the mystery. By this means, he has shook the fabric of the Gothic policy. His pen, the magic Talisman, by which, he has produced these great effects, has caused the tyrants of the world, to tremble on their thrones. Whilst viewing the venerable page, which speaks the language of nature, which elevates the peasant to an equality with his oppressor; they turn from the admiration with terror, and flicken at the fatal hand writing that seems to seal their destiny. To that race of deluded mortals, the monuments of departed grandeur, in the abbey of St. Peter and St. Dennis, are not more fearful than the essay on the Rights of Man. The one holds up to view the sad picture of the closing scene to all sublunary splendour, and represses the pride of ambition which had led them astray from the path of duty. The other, makes a more serious impression. It threatens to close the scene and inflict the punishment, in this life. They equally speak the language of that sublime philosophy, which causes the guilty to shudder at his crimes, and unfolds to the eye of reflection, the false policy, by which, the tyrant is tempted to deny the majesty of virtue.
Mr. Paine's ideas of civil government and political justice, are of the most elevated kind. He draws them from their proper source. He derives them from nature. He first takes man as a solitary independent being, such as he came from the hand of his Creator;—makes him a moral agent; fixes the criterion of his rights, by an analysis of natural law, and unfold to the potentates of the globe, the terrible secret of his equality and the independence of his nature. He next introduces him into society, and makes this natural equality and independence, the elements of the social compact. His relations in this state, are then developed. His political rights ascertained, and his civil privileges fixed. The line of duty is drawn out from the combined rights of nature and of society; by which, he ascertains the laws of obedience and the criterion of that negative power which man is bound to exercise, in cases of usurpation.
It is upon these sublime and eternal principles, that Mr. Paine erects the plan of civil government. It is from an analysis of this kind, that he discovers the majesty of the people and the usurpation that had destroyed it, in each age and nation of the world. It is not surprising, therefore, from a mode of reasoning thus comprehensive and certain in its premises, that Mr. Paine should be the most powerful advocate, that ever appeared in defence of human liberty. A clue of this kind, has conducted him to a true knowledge of the grand farce, which has been played off, from age to age, by kings, priests and the whole tribe, of royal parasites. He has traced despotism through all its various chapels of usurpation; bared open the gates of that mysterious labyrinth of folly,

which had so long concealed the monster, and rivalled the fame of Theseus, by an illustrious triumph.
It is impossible that any thing can exceed the "Dissertations on the First Principles of Government," in point of logical conclusion, comprehensive views of thought, and propriety of analysis. The forces of royalty and of hereditary establishment, when opposed, upon principles of right, to the elements of republican institutions, appear to be usurpations, so monstrous, that they will be classed in future ages, among the fabulous narrations of history. They have neither the authority of time, the force of custom, or of law, to give them a particle of validity; whilst the claims of the representative, or elective system, are coeval with the first establishment of government, and derive themselves, from the natural and political rights of mankind. In the treatise Mr. Paine appears to have a much more luminous, as well as liberal conception, of the republican plan, than any author ancient, or modern. The principles of Aristotle were calculated in many respects, to produce in practice, all the evil to which democracy and oligarchy are exposed, from an unskillful organization. The experiment had never been tried, at the time that philosophy wrote his treatise on politics. Plato and Sir Thomas Moore, were upon the same standing, in political science, with Ptolemy and Tycho Brahe in natural philosophy; and Harrington and Marchmont Needham, were very little better. The light of this immortal science, emitted its beams upon the minds of these great men, by very feeble and constricted flames. Machiavelli of Florence had written largely on the subject; but he drew his opinions from the Italian establishments which were certainly improper models for imitation, from the limited extent of those republics. He might have produced the same materials from a review of the Grecian institutions, during the time of the Archons and the democracy at Athens, and the Iron institution of Lycurgus, at Sparta. Besides Machiavelli could never make a distinction, in principle, between the rights of a republic, and the claims of a princely government. Mr. Paine appears to have been the first to develop the true principles of the representative system, and to elevate it above the reach of vulgar prejudice; and America was the first nation in the world, where the experiment was made, under all the improvements, which had suggested themselves from experience, and the opinions of her sages, with success.
There is a trait, peculiar to the political character of Paine, which gives to it a degree of splendor that would have excited the envy of the ancient sages of Greece and Rome. Whilst it is the source of the bitterest invective, it ranks him among the most useful characters that ever lived. He speaks the language of truth to the tyrants of the earth, and bids defiance to their vengeance. Their crimes are gathered together, in one enormous mass, and presented to the world, to conjure up, from the dungeons of slavery, the spirit of an exalted freedom. Intimidated by no opposition and fearless of censure he fans with unceasing vigour the flame, whilst it consumes the victims of popular indignation. Not contented with lopping off from the political body, the mere excrencences of state, his pervading mind perceives the expediency of an entire change to destroy the malady that affects it. He reduces government to its primieval principles; takes a view of man in his full stage of innocence; exhibits the revolutions of his temper, probes the fountains of national misfortune to the bottom, and shews us his evil genius, in the image of despotism.
It is by a development of this kind, that the mind is led on through a series of meditations, which make mankind acquainted with themselves. The splendour that had surrounded the throne of his oppressor vanishes from the sight; kings are no more than other men; titles lose the fascinating power of sound, which had chilled the heart of the cottage peasant, whilst engaged in the evening orison, for the felicity of his tyrant.
It is a genius of this elevated kind, directing by the most irresistible appeals, all its efforts to the mind, that has been engaged, in the cause of human nature. It flourishes best, in situations of the most eminent danger, when the frightful image of despair, has pallied every exertion and cast a shade over every hope. Standing by itself, it yields alone, to the energy of its own reflections. It views, without concern, the desolation that rages around, and by that fearless intrepidity, which despair communicates to our last efforts, it rises superior to the misfortunes that had threatened destruction.
Who will not, therefore, perceive that a genius of this cast, must be eminently fitted for great revolutionary scenes? Elevated above the vulgar errors of mankind, it stands aloof upon some lofty summit, and calls back the wayward passions, from their millstones and deviations, to a contemplation of first principles. The sage opens the volume of nature; the charter of human rights is exhibited to the view, and man looks back with horror upon the history of past generations, as upon a frightful wilder-
ness, where not a flower blossoms its gaities to cheer the melancholy scene.
In this state of mind, where reason and experience combine to shew him the source of his misfortunes, the spirit of regeneration is engendered. His nerves are invigorated; he acts, and the work is completed.
Philosophy, which estimates the actions of men, by the most scrupulous impartiality, will assign an honorable place to Mr. Paine, within that constellation of sages, who have equally enlightened and exalted the dignity of human nature. In future ages when the tempest of the passions has subsided, the lamp of his genius will shine from the obscurity of the tomb. The little bickerings of envy and malice, will then have lost their inveteracy. Paine will be classed among the Newtons and the Lockes, and like them pass on to immortality. It will be recollected, that if the one gave laws to the universe, by an analysis of cause and effect, upon the principles of geometry, that it the other developed and cleared away the mists, that had for ages, involved the intellectual system. Paine has with equal success, unravelled the mysterious doctrines of political ethics, and placed the science of government, upon a luminous of perfection equally above, and inaccessible to all the malice of man.
For the National Intelligencer.
Benevolence is lovely in itself, and there are few by whom it is not admired. Even those whose bosom never had been blest with its presence cannot altogether withhold their unwilling approbation when its form sweet as the rays of the morning, presents itself to their view. In every age and in every country the deeds of benevolence have been highly praised. Poets, orators, philosophers and historians have employed their talents to adorn them with all the graces of language, and to transmit them to posterity for their applause and for their imitation. The actions of heroes have been also celebrated, but the delights not to contemplate scenes of blood. And therefore, though the description of the warrior spreading carnage and death around him, may strike us with admiration of his prowess, horror is always blended with our admiration. But we listen with delight to the tale of benevolence, because it accords with the sympathies of our soul. It speaks to the heart. Who would prefer the history of an Alexander to that of a Howard? Who would not follow the one into the abodes of misery and behold him mingling his tears, his sighs, his groans with the sighs the tears and the groans of the wretched, while he was contributing to their relief, than follow the other through fields of slaughter, and swell the shout of exultation? Many labours of love are not recorded by any pen, and the remembrance of them is borne away on the wings of time.
Many are known only to those who perform them and to those by whom they are received. In this case the only injury is that which results to society, from the want of such examples as a stimulus to benevolent exertion. For though their ear should never be filled with the eulogies of men, their "Father who seeth in secret shall reward them openly."
These reflections were suggested by the numerous and truly humane offices of kindness which the late Mrs. Story received from a gentleman and his lady of this city, whose names delicacy forbids me to publish. Bound by no ties but those common to all men and to all christians, unsolicited and without any prospect whatever of temporal recompence, they kept forward cheerfully to alleviate her sorrows, and her sorrows they did alleviate though they could not arrest the hand of death. It will add to the pleasing reflections of their own mind, when these friends of the afflicted learn the sentiments entertained of their laudable interpositions by those to whom these interpositions are known.
May the spirit which dictated such conduct be universally diffused! may we never forget that "pure religion and undefiled before God and the father is this; to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep ourselves unspotted from the world." Mrs. Story died here on Tuesday last, in the 38th year of her age. Her life was characterized by simplicity and the love of religion, previously to the termination of her conflict she endured a great light of afflictions: And we have reason to believe she died in the Lord. Reader wouldst thou die the death of the righteous? thy life must be also like his.
Washington City, August 11th 1803.
WANTS EMPLOYMENT.
IN a store or counting room, a young man of the cast give an indispensible recommendation - he understands book-keeping, writes a fair hand, and was bred to the store-keeping business. A line addressed to the Editor of this paper will be attended to.
August 3, 1803. tawaw
WASHINGTON CITY
MONDAY, AUGUST 15.
Extract of a letter from J. L. Cathcart Esq. to the Secretary of State dated, Leghorn 22d. June 1803.
"The enclosed communication from my correspondent, Mr. William Higgins, an English merchant at Malta, gave me inexpressible satisfaction. I will give it to you verbatim.
Malta, May 24, 1803.
"We have no news here. The Adams arrived yesterday, but the Commodore with the John Adams are cruising off Tripoli. The last vessel has brought in the Tripoline lord high Admiral's ship, which she took in going into Tripoli, in direct violation of the pass given her. She is certainly a good prize; though I imagine the commodore will not condemn her, before he hears from home."
It is a truth, which cannot be too frequently and seriously impressed upon the people, that those who call themselves federalists are incessantly engaged in traducing the essential principles of a republican government. Take the following specimen, extracted from the Boston Palladium.
"The Democrats contend that the people govern themselves because they elect their rulers. Would it not be as proper to say, a minor who chooses his guardian remains his own master?"
ANOTHER.
From the Charleston Courier. TOLERATION.
"It is a fact well worth consideration; a fact which will speak home to the pride if it does not touch the feelings of justice of every heart, that in all the revolutions which have taken place in the British cabinet, there never has been known a single instance of a man belonging to one party being put out of office by the other, unless in those highest departments, where their opinion have their weight and influence in council. Some of the Dukes of Newcastle's, some of the Marquis of Rockingham's, some of Lord North's, and some of Lord Shelburne's appointments, are at this moment existing in the Admiralty, the War Office, the Custom House, and the Treasury. Princes and Footies sit at the same board and the same desk together, and gabble politics. Nay, gentlemen in the king's household have not unfrequently been seen at the Westminster election, canvassing for Mr. Fox. Mr. Lewis, Deputy Secretary at War, (the most lucrative office in England) has been removed for many administrations, though he and his are Foxites. When such things are seen in a Monarchy, what can the Executive Magistrate of a Republic offer in his own defence for daring to violate the right of exercising political opinions, and what is worse, in violating justice, by putting men without charge of offence or misbehaviour, from the places conferred upon them, by their predecessors. A Republic indeed!! Hah, hah, hah!"
With regard to this last extract it is a tissue of falsehoods, and the few truths it contains are miserably misapplied. It is not true "that there is not a single instance of a man belonging to one party being put out of office by the other, unless in those highest departments, where their opinions have weight and influence in council." However bold the assertion, not the least dependance ought to be placed upon it, as the truth is that distinctions from office for political opinions are so far from infrequent, that when they do occur they excite but little attention.
It may, however, be true that there are at present in office many men appointed during preceding and even hostile administrations. But what does this prove? Not that these men retain their original opinions, and exert the influence they once possessed against the present ministry. On the contrary, those opinions are in general, if not unreservedly, exchanged for a professed regard for the ministry, and the influence is used in favor of the ruling power. In what light then can retention of office be viewed but in that of bribery and corruption? And this is the true state of the case. The British system of government is an extensive system of bribery and corruption, and accordingly an eminent minister has declared that in the English nation every man has his price. This he well knew from his own experience.
When such a system shall be established in the United States, it will be seasonable to hear eulogies pronounced on the British government, and its administration held up to the imitation of the rulers of this country. Then, too, may degenerate Americans or profligate foreigners laugh at the idea of a Republic. But until that period arrive, let those who feel the honesty of Americans, and the pride of Republicans, bold in equal detestation the corrupt systems of Europe, and their imitators.
P. PETERSON, Danish Charge d'Affairs to the United States, has arrived at New York.
It is with regret that we state the fever to have considerably extended in New York.
On Monday last seventeen cases were reported to the N. Y. health committee; and on Tuesday the mayor recommended the removal of the citizens dwelling in parts contiguous to where the fever originated. It is stated in several letters that all who can are removing from the city.
A letter to the editor, dated N. York the 8th of August, says - "I am surrounded by a number of citizens infected with the fatal fever, which is depositing our city. The streets in the lower parts, as Water street, Pearl street, &c. between Beckman and Coenties are covered with carts and carriages receiving and removing the furniture of our panic struck citizens, and I am myself with my family to go this day. The American Citizens printing-office is to be removed up the Hudson to Newburgh. Aurora."
The Spanish ship S. Julian arrived at Cadiz from Vera Cruz on the 27th of May, with 2,800,000 dollars on board for the royal treasury.
Died - at Coxsackie, (N. York) Mr. Thomas Tryon, aged at least 110, some of his friends say 120.
Cast. Thomas, arrived at New York, in 10 days from St. John's (N. B.) informs, that he went into Holme's Holey on the 4th inst. and that the ship Juno, of Boston, had just arrived there from Cape Francois, with general Rochambeau and his friend on board, they having made their escape from St. Domingo.
A letter from captain Pelon, dated Bordaux, June 9, says - "50 000 French troops have marched to take possession of Portugal; but Spain has refused them a passage through their country."
NEW YORK, August 11.
By the brig William, Alston, we have received London date, to the 15th of June. The Sun of the 15th is now before us from which we extract the following:
Sun Office, half past 2, P. M. June 13. We stop the press to state, that his majesty was sent for this morning from Windsor, by express. He arrived in town by 12 o'clock, and a council was immediately held. It is rumored that the French minister had brought over propositions for peace. The business must certainly be of importance that would bring the king to town so suddenly.
DOVER, June 12.
A French messenger arrived this morning in an open boat (flag of truce) from Calais. He brought despatches from M. Talleyrand, addressed to lord Hawkesbury, and left off for London in a post chaise and four immediately after he landed.
LONDON, June 4.
From the French papers it appears, that, as far as is to be learned from them all parties join cordially in support of the war, and their determination to carry it on with spirit. The orators of the French government are loud in their complaints against Great Britain. Even Baily D'Anglas, a man considered as being moderate in views, joined in this violent language. The importance of the retention of Malta is magnified in extravagant terms. The most odious views are attributed to ministers, for their wish to keep possession of it. It is contended that it is to be made subservient to our views against the Grand Signior by seizing on Egypt. They talk of our employing it as a means of exercising complete controul over Italy, or insulting Spain, or destroying the whole influence of France in the Mediterranean. These and a number of other assertions, are repeated in the report made to the Tribune by Dary, and they were loudly applauded. Invasion is threatened with obsequious parade. Riouffe, in his speech said, "Let but Heaven give us a fair wind, and these islanders will see what we can do in thirty-six hours." This sentiment was vehemently applauded by the auditors.
The war and every concomitant they ascribe solely to Great Britain forming, for herself an unjust code of public right, and acting upon it. These declarations are followed by a series of invectives against the English government, delivered in the Tribune and Legislative body. An analysis of the negotiation is given as well as the complaints of our ministers, and the different propositions offered by both parties.
Paris papers up to the 27th of May are received. The Moniteur of the 24th contains a long examination of the papers laid before the house of Commons. It is affirmed, that of the 72 articles contained in these papers, only ten are official - that the most important ones, and those which would throw most light on the transactions, which have been supposed, and that passages have been designedly omitted - These omissions com-
plained of seem, from the specimen given, to relate entirely to the refusal of the emperor of Russia to guarantee Italy, which it appears the French minister flatly contradicted.
The Paris papers to the 30th instant, have arrived, this day. A column of the French army is destined to invade Naples. The expedition is "to occupy those posts in the kingdom of Naples, which were held by the French troops before the peace."
The French agents at Hamburg, contrived to buy up all the naval stores in that city even before it was ascertained that hostilities would commence between this country and France - a proof of that the French government had relied on war, notwithstanding all their pacific declarations. Mr. Pitt's influence is evidently gone with his loss of office - and it is expected that his friends, who have been retained in office by courtesy until it is reported Mr. Addington will now be admitted. The number will be divided with him on the question for the order of the day was not understood. On that division, Mr. Fox and many of his friends divided with the minister, and went away before the original motion was put.
Whatever difference of opinion may exist in parliament on the conduct of the ministry, whatever may be the state of our parties, there is the greatest unanimity in the conviction, that the conduct of the French has been uniformly hostile since the definitive treaty, and in a determination to risk the ambition of the enemy.
The arguments urged against the ministry of having too long neglected to arrest the arm of Gallic aggression, are such as must endear them to every lover of peace. We believe the country at large will unite with us in exclaiming the moderation and forbearance of the ministry. For we solemnly declare, that we should have expelled our apostolization, had not the ministry waited till the measure of the French iniquity was complete.
Treasury of the United States.
Washington August 15, 1803.
WHEREAS by an act of Congress dated May the 8th, 1792, entitled "An act to provide for a Copper Coinage," in the second section thereof, it is enacted,
"That after the expiration of six calendar months from the time when these shall have been paid into the Treasury by the said Director (of the Mint) in cents and half cents, a sum not less than fifty thousand Dollars, which time shall first be announced by the Treasurer in at least two gazettes or newspapers, published in the seat of government of the United States for the time being, no copper coins or pieces whatever, except the said cents and half cents, shall pass current as money, or shall be paid or offered to be paid or received in payment for any debt, dram or tax, master or being who soever, and all copper coins or pieces, except the said cents and half cents, which shall be paid or offered to be paid or received in payment contrary to the prohibition aforesaid, shall be forfeited, and every person by whom any of them shall have been paid or offered to be paid or received in payment, shall also forfeit the sum of ten dollars, and the said forfeitures and penalty shall and may be recovered by the costs of suit for the benefit of any person or persons by whom information of the incurring thereof shall have been given."
And whereas it appears by the books of this office, that more than fifty thousand dollars in cents and half cents have been paid into the Treasury. It now therefore, in obedience to the said act, do hereby give a public notice of the same.
TH. T. TUCKER.
Treasurer United States.
Aug 9 15.
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IN CHANCERY.
Territory of Columbia, Washington
Country, to wit: Charles Daigle, and John Blagge, and Edward W. Laight, and the said Charles Laight, administrator of Wm. Laight deceased, vs complainants
against
George Walker, defendant. THE bill states that the defendant George Walker, on the twenty third day of January one thousand eight hundred and two, in order to secure the payment of eighteen thousand eight hundred twenty dollars twenty six cents, to William Laight and Charles Laight of the city of New York merchants, executed in addition to a bond for the same purpose, the deed exhibited by the complainant.
The object of the bill is to foreclose any equity of redemption which the said George Walker has, or may suppose himself to have, under the said deed, and to obtain a sale of the premises under a decree of this honorable court.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the said George Walker is absent from, and does not reside at this time within the Territory of Columbia, but is abroad in some part not known, and is believed to be on his way to the said Territory, and is daily expected therein. It is ordered that the said George Walker be not let of the object of this bill, and required to appear before this honorable court, in person or by solicitor, on the third monday in September next, to answer the allegations of the bill of the complainants, and that in the mean time, a copy of this order be published, once in each week, for three successive weeks in the National Intelligencer, printed in the city of Washington, and in the Morning Chronicle, printed in the city of New York, before the twelfth day of September next.
Woolford Solicitor for the claimant. By order, URIAH FORRESTER, clerk of the circuit court of the District of Columbia for the county of Washington. Aug 8 15. taw3c

We are authorized to say, that the Patomac Company, at their late meeting to this place, determined unanimously to make no dividend in the present year; but to apply all the money in hand from the receipt of tolls towards perfecting the navigation. The report of the board of Directors to the Stockholders contained the agreeable information, that no greater obstructions remained in the river between the City of Washington and Harper's Ferry than could be removed in the present season by this application of the tolls.
We are also authorized to state, that the wealthy and public spirited farmers on the Monocacy have loaned to the Company, and have actually paid into the hands of the Treasury, a sum of money equal to the removal of every impediment in the navigation of that important river, for a considerable distance beyond Frederick-Town; and that the directors have already prepared a number of articles and labourers to commence that work, which it is confidently believed by the best informed, will be so far completed by October or November, as to permit, and it at any season in the passage of boats of 100 barrels burthen from that rich productive country to Washington.
We felicitate our fellow-citizens of the Town and City on prospects so flattering. We have all of us calculated on the general advantages in a commercial point of view, from connecting ourselves by means of the inland navigation of the Potomac with the fertile and extensive country lying west of us, daily increasing in population; but because our hopes were not at once realized, too many of us have been too apt to yield to despondency, & to indulge weak and timid apprehensions, that what was only delayed was never to be accomplished. Let the present state of things and the certain prospects before us teach more fortitude and more wisdom.
If we do not hence forward increase in commercial importance with more rapidity than any other town or city in the United States, it will not be because we do not possess the all important advantage of being situated as to be able to buy with the greatest facility, and on the best terms, more of the products of the country than any other seaport. Nor will it be, because we are not placed in a situation to supply the greatest demand for country consumption. The assertion is made by those who are supposed to be competent judges, that we have already in this small town at least fifty retailers, as respectable as safe, and as prosperous as any to be found in larger towns and cities. Three years ago we could not boast of one third of the number of the same description. We have an equal increase in the purchasers and shippers of flour during the same time, and we do not fear that merchants on a larger scale will soon discover where capital can be employed to most advantage, and where enterprise can be best rewarded.
In the name of the French Republic. PROCLAMATION.
STATE OF SIEGE.
Louis Thomas Villaret Joyeuse, General in Chief, Captain General of Martinique and its Dependencies To the inhabitants of the City and Citizens.
The insults, the depredations, and the menacing attitude of our enemy, has forced me to place Martinique in a state of siege.
In this order of things, the military authority necessarily supercedes the Civil Administration. All public authority is concentrated in the hands of the General in Chief.
Inhabitants of Martinique! I have established this order of government to secure your property and persons: before I knew you, I defended your dearest interests, and since I have known you, I have informed the First Consul of your conduct and your principles, which I am happy to say has not contradicted my report; you will prove to the enemies of our country, that there is no sacrifice that you will not cheerfully make, to sustain the honor of the French arms.
A part of your contributions are in arrears. They are the salary of the brave soldiers who are fighting for you; hasten to pay them; good citizens need no other call, the bad will be detected by a delay so culpable, and deserve no farther respect; Any person who shall not pay all his arrears of contributions within fifteen days from the date of the publication of the present Proclamation, shall be compelled to a military, to pay double the amount he owes.
To prevent any delay, I authorize the Commanders commanding the Parishes, to receive the arrears of contributions; they are hereby directed to make the returns to the public treasury, and to address to me a direct account of their receipts: I repeat, that I shall regard the least delay of fulfilling this sacred duty, as a tacit confession of sentiments the most criminal, considering the circumstances in which we are placed.
Inhabitants of Martinique! The Government, of which I am the organ, has treated you as children dear to her. Whatever the event may be, remember that she punishes ingratitude, as well as she rewards fidelity and zeal.
Done at Fort de France, Island of Martinique, the 19th Messidor, (8th July) 11th year of the French Republic.
VILLARET, Captain General.
ORDINANCE
Of his Danish Majesty, defining what is to be observed by foreign vessels in regard to quarantine regulations.
HIS Majesty the King most graciously ordered by his mandate of the 14th of October last, that whenever any accounts are received of the existence of the yellow fever in the United States of America, or when no particular advice is received to the contrary from the minister resident there, all American vessels which are not provided with health certificates from the beginning of the month of July until the end of the year are to submit to certain quarantine regulations, and even if they are provided with such certificates, these vessels are still prohibited from communicating with the shore, before they have been visited by the appointed health physician, and if he has the least suspicion, then the vessel must be dealt with accordingly, in conformity to which, no American vessels during such a time shall be piloted, except having hoisted the green flag.
Which gracious command is hereby published for the regulation of all concerned. Given at the Danish Royal Chancery, on the 5th of November, 1802.
Extract of an ordinance concerning quarantine regulations, and rules, to be observed by navigators who touch at the ports or coasts of the royal Danish dominions, dated at Copenhagen, the 14th November, 1800.
1. Every vessel belonging to one dominion shall have a green flag on board, to be used as preferred hereat.
2. Whenever a vessel arrives from a place where there has been contagion, and in all other cases of suspicion, such as having been visited by any vessel from the Barbary coast, having holes or merchandise on board from suspected places, and having not undergone a quarantine since in any other place, or having had any violent sickness on board during the voyage, then the green flag shall be hoisted at the head of the mast, and any communication is had with any person whatever from the shore, and before anchor is cast.
3. The commander of any vessel offending against these orders, shall pay a fine of 300 riksdollars, (400 dollars) if no dangerous consequences arise from his misconduct; but if otherwise he shall be punished with 12 years labor in the fortification—and should any malicious intent be proved upon him, he shall labor in chains during his life. Any vessel having had communication with another vessel that is suspicious, shall be subject to the same regulations and restrictions.
4. Should such a vessel be under the necessity of immediate communication with the shore, she must hoist her own national colors from the foretop, or under the green flag if she has no foremast.
5. After hoisting the color on the fore top, the signal for a pilot, the pilot shall immediately go on board, but not leave the ship board until the health physician has visited her—and for every day that the pilot is detained, he shall receive one riksdollar.
6. To prevent unnecessary delays to such vessels, as are arrived from places that might be suspected (such as the Mediterranean or the West Indies) but still are secure and free from contagion, not having been at infected places, nor having any infected merchandise on board, and not having had communication with any vessel which could be suspected—nor had any one sick or dead during the voyage, we do order that for such cases all pilots shall be provided with blanks as heretofore written, which the captain and mate of such vessel shall sign, viz.
Underwritten N commander of the ship, N. arrived from N. and N. W. mate of the said vessel, declare to their certain knowledge that neither any of the ships crew, or any other person, or any merchandise or thing of whatever kind on board the said vessel is infected with contagion or dangerous disease, and the said vessel has not been visited by any cruizers from the African coast, or the Levant, and had none dead or sick with an infectious fever during the voyage, so help us God and his holy word; and if this deposition be found false, we subject ourselves to the laws of the land.
10. Blanks of this deposition will be printed in different languages, for the use of foreign vessels that may be subject to the quarantine regulations. As foreign vessels may not always be provided with a green flag, the pilots are bound to have one, continually in readiness to be hoisted in aforementioned cases. If the green flag has been used longer than for one day, the pilot shall receive two riksdollars for the same, but the vessel may then keep it.
Any vessel sailing from the port of New York for his majesty's dominions from the 1st of July to the last of December, must be provided with (besides the usual bill of health) a certificate from the Danish vice-consul, Mr. Hammerkjold resident at No. 78, Pearl Street where attendance will be given.
New York, July 29.
NOTICE. LEGIONARY ORDERS.
A Legionary Court of Enquiry, under the Militia Law, will be held at Rhodes's Tavern in the City of Washington, on Thursday the 25th instant, at 9 o'clock in the morning, for the purpose of hearing appeals from the Battalion Courts, and assessing fines for offences and for other purposes.
A punctual attendance of the members will be expected.
By order of Lieut. Col. Com'dt Brent, WM. D. BEALL, Adjutant. Aug. 10, 1803.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber on the 24th of June last, near the Eastern Branch ferry, City of Washington, a Negro man named ABRAHAM, but being an artful fellow, I expect he will change his name, and pass for a free man. He is about 28 years of age, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, well made: He is rather of a yellow complexion; his wool is very short, and a scar on one side of his head near the top; he speaks very quick, and stammers in his speech. He was formerly the property of D r Geo. Blake of Calvert county. I have some reason to believe he has made for that place, or otherwise for Baltimore. He had no clothing with him but what he had on, which was Osnaburg trowsers, an old shirt, a grey short coat. Whoever delivers the said fellow to me, shall receive the above reward.
LEWIN TALBURT. July 11. 1803.
Upper Marlboro, July 20, 1803. Pursuant to adjournment the general Republican Committee, for Prince George's county, met this day, at Upper Marlboro. GABRIEL P. VAN HORNE, Esq. in the chair. TRUEMAN TYLER, Secretary.
The General Committee being informed by letter from Stephen West, Esq. one of the gentlemen named on the republican ticket that his bad health will render it impossible for him to continue a candidate without great risk and danger. Resolved unanimously, That this committee regret extremely any circumstances which will deprive the country of Mr. West's services in the legislature, and particularly regret the cause from which his resignation arises.
Resolved unanimously, That this committee receive with pleasure, the consent of Col. William Lyles to become the candidate in the place of Stephen West, Esq.
Resolved unanimously, That Colonel William Lyles be recommended to the citizens of this country as a proper character to represent them in the next General Assembly of Maryland, in the place of Major Stephen West, who has declined being a candidate.
GABRIEL P. VAN HORNE, Chairman. TRUEMAN TYLER, Secretary.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED or stolen, on Saturday morning, the 6th instant, from Washington City, a bright bay MARK, eight years old, about fourteen hands and a half high, with a white blaze on her face, and a white blaze on her forehead, light made, her under jaw bone crooked, no white about her, but what is above described. Whoever takes up, and delivers the said mare to William Keen, at Mr. Duncans book store, in Washington City, shall receive the above reward. August 12.
A young gentleman of respectable connections and character acquainted with mercantile business in the wholesale and retail line, and well qualified as a clerk generally, would be glad to engage for a short period on moderate terms, in an office or a store. Enquire of the printer. August 12.
BATTALION ORDERS.
A Battalion Court of Enquiry for the assessment of fines for the 1st Battalion of the First Legion of Militia, of the District of Columbia, will be held at Lovell's Tavern in this city, on Monday the 15th inst. at 9 o'clock, A. M.—punctual attendance is expected.
JOHN P. VAN NESS, Maj. 1st Bat. 1st Leg. Mil. D. G.
N. B. Legal advice having been taken on the point, and an opinion given (different from that which has heretofore prevailed) that there is no obligation on the Battalion courts of enquiry to fine in all cases of absence from parade, it is desirable, and recommended, that all such delinquents as have reasonable excuses for their delinquency should attend and offer them. August 5.
FOUND in Washington city, a few days since, an old pocket book containing some money; the owner may have it by describing the same, and paying the price of this advertisement. Information to be had from the Editor of the National Intelligencer. August 12.
All persons having claims or demands of any nature against the subscriber, are requested to exhibit their accounts, without delay, to JOHN HEWIT or RICHARD FORREST, Esqrs. of the city of Washington, who are authorized, in my name, to adjust and settle the same, and all persons indebted to me are requested to make payment to either of the gentlemen above named. SAMUEL BLODGET. March 30.
It is the wish of the Editor of the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER to engage an individual well qualified to REPORT THE DEBATES OF CONGRESS. Immediate application, with the terms that will be agreeable, is requested.
The Editors of papers who publish Debates from the National Intelligencer are requested to insert this advertisement in their papers a few times.
PRINTING INK OF AN EXCELLENT QUALITY.
FOR SALE AT TIMOTHY CALDWELL'S Near the West Market, City of Washington, who has to Let on Ground Rent a number of Lots in eligible situations. June 22.
LOTS FOR SALE.
In eligible fractions, and upon very advantageous terms—a plan of the several squares in which they are contained may be seen and terms thereof by applying to ROBERT W. PEACOCK. Attorney at law and conveyancer.
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS THE HIGHEST PRIZE.
GERMAN ROMAN CATHOLIC HOLY TRINITY CHURCH LOTTERY.
Table with 2 columns: Prize Amount, Number of Prizes. Includes prizes like $10,000 (1 prize), $6,000 (1 prize), $3,000 (1 prize), etc.
The first drawn numbers on the 40th, 45th, 50th, and 55th, will be entitled to a prize of 1000 dollars each.
The first drawn number on the last day of drawing, when only 600 tickets shall be in the wheel, will be entitled to a prize of 1000 dollars.
From the extraordinary demand for these tickets, from every part of the Union, it is expected that the drawing will commence at a much earlier day than was at first contemplated, and that the tickets will be raised considerably before that period.
They may be had at SIX dollars of GEORGE TAYLOR, Jan. No. 67, Chestnut Street, D. C.
Whole tickets 6, Quarter tickets, 1 75, Half, 3 25, 1/4th, 93. Letters post paid, including the tax, shall be duly attended to, and St. Augustine and New York lottery prizes received in payment. July 20.
HICKORY WOOD.
PROPOSALS will be received until the last day of July for furnishing, for the use of the House of Representatives of the United States, One hundred cords of Hickory wood, which must either have been cut last winter, or must be cut in the month of August. The whole quantity is to be delivered at the most convenient wharf, or at the Capitol, by the last day of September. It is expected that any person undertaking this business will have no objection to bind himself under a penalty for the faithful performance of the contract. For further particulars apply to THOMAS CLAXTON, Capitol Hill. July 20, 1803.
50 DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber living at Popes Creek in the county of Wicwomack, and state of Virginia, on the 19th inst. a negro man named FRANK, by trade a blacksmith, of a tawny complexion, long visage and remarkable fine for voice; about forty-five years of age, five feet four or six inches high, straight limbed. He generally wore a long tailed coat, but it is not known certainly what clothes he took with him—he may easily be detected, as he has taken with him one of his youngest sons named John, who is not more than 9 years of age and is of a very black complexion and a long visage, like his father. I am induced to think, Frank has made for some of the large towns particularly Alexandria or Baltimore, in the former, of which, or its neighborhood, he has a free brother by the name of Rogers, who did live near Dr. Smith's, upon Ravenworth in the county of Fairfax. The above reward will be given to any person who will secure said Frank with his son and give information thereof to the subscriber. And 100 dollars if taken out of the state, and the money paid as soon as I get him. July 20.
RICHARD STUART.
I WILL sell five hundred and fifty acres of Land whereon I live, in Fairfax county, within five miles of the court house, and within twenty of the City of Washington, Alexandria, Dumfries, and twelve of the Occoquan mills, it is a healthy situation, the land fertile, and has about two hundred acres of wood to cut, there is a great proportion of white and red oak, poplar and hickory timber—There is nearly one hundred acres of prime land for meadow, I will give six months credit for one fourth of the purchase money—twelve months for the other quarter, eighteen for the third, and two years for the last payment, a purchaser will find me on the premises. Feb. 21st.
CHARLES VARDEN, TAYLOR, FROM PHILADELPHIA.
HAS received from Philadelphia 30 elegant assortment of the best quality superfine Cloths, Cambrics, Silk florating, Black and fancy silk molekin velvet, white & figured Marcellus, Swardowns, Toilmettes, Velveteens, Fancy cords, Coatings, &c. With a variety of other articles suitable for the winter season.
Ladies Habits, Regimentals and Navy uniforms made to the first style of fashion. New-Jersey Avenue, the second House from the Capitol Square. December 8, 1803.
FOR SALE.
For a term of 5 years, A LIKELY young and healthy NEGRO MAN, about 23 years of age for sale by— ROBERT M c CLAN. Washington May 25.
ON Monday the 29th day of August next, at the town of Sharpsburgh in Washington county Maryland, will commence the sale of several thousand acres of valuable land lying in Washington and Frederick Counties, a great part of this land is excellent arable land, abounding with wood and finely watered—it will be laid off in separate lots as suit the convenience of purchasers—it will be sold at public sale to the highest bidder, the purchaser to give bond and security to pay one half with interest from the day of sale at the end of one year, the other half with interest at the expiration of two years. This property is sold under a decree of the court of Chancery, and clear titles will be made and conveyances given on payment of the purchase money and not before—This is worthy the attention of persons desirous of purchasing fine farms. PHILIP B. KEY, WILLIAM MARBURY, Trustees. July 18th, 1803.
NEW BOOKS.
Just imported in the ship Adive, from London, via Philadelphia, and for sale by RAPINE, CONRAD & CO. New-Jersey Avenue, near the Capitol, a choice collection of new and valuable books—amongst which are Burt's works, 3 vols. 8vo. Pratt's Oeconomics, 3 vols. 8vo. elegant. Peruvius's Voyage, 2 vols. 8vo. Mickie's Lucia, 2 vols. 8vo. Link's Travels, 8vo.—Caviguero's Mexico, 2 vols. 4to. Sancho's Letters, 8vo. Memoirs of Pius the 6th, 2 vols. 8vo. Seymour's Frederic William 2nd, 3 vols. 8vo. Southey's Memoirs of Llama 16th, 6 vol. 8vo. Spallanzani's Travels, 4 vols. 8vo. Watson's Philip 2nd and 3rd, 5 vols. 8vo. Helms Maria Williams' Sketches, 2 vols. 8vo. Gibbon's Roman Empire 12 vol. 8vo. Grandpre's Voyage in the Indian Ocean 2 vols. Memoirs of Pufendorf, 8vo. Reynier's State of Egypt, 8vo. Cavallo's Natural and Experimental Philosophy, a new and valuable work, 4 vols. 8vo. Beccaria's Moral Philosophy, 8vo. Playfair's (Dr.) Natural Theology, 8vo. Adams on the Microscope, with plates. Brown's Travels into Africa, 4to. Horimann's do. Grants Life of France. Delphine 6 vols. 12mo. War Office 3 vols. 12mo. Microcosm 5 vols. 12mo. The Benevolent Jew, 2 vols. by Geo. Walker. Infidel Father, 2 vols. 12mo. Month of Madrid 4 vols. 12mo. Lorison 2 vols. 12mo—Home 5 vols. 12mo. Romance of the Pyrenees, 4 vols. 12mo. The Savage of Aveyron, 12mo. Tales of Superstition 12mo. Broad Grins, by G. Coleman, Boswell's Poems, 12mo. Atala—Oberon's Athenaeum, 3 vols. 8vo. In addition to the above they have always on hand a collection of well assorted books on education, science, and amusement, which they will sell at such prices as cannot fail of giving general satisfaction.
FIRST LEGION.
ATTENTION!
AT a Legionary Court of Enquiry, held on the 15th day of March last, in obedience to a law passed at the last session of Congress, instituted, "An act more effectual to provide for the organization of the Militia of the District of Columbia," ordered that the following be the Uniform to be worn by all non-commissioned officers and privates belonging to the Battalion companies of the first Legion while on duty, viz. A DARK BLUE COAT of ordinary length; WHITE VEST; WHITE LEECHES and WHITE SOCKINGS, or WHITE PANTALOONS and WHITE STOCKINGS, or WHITE OVERALLS, with STYLES and ROUND BLACK HAT: which Uniform having been approved by the Brigadier General, is now published by order of the said court. WM. D. BEALL, Clerk of L. & E.
Sec. 27. And be it further enacted, That all non-commissioned officers and privates, belonging to battalion companies, shall appear while on duty, uniformly clothed, the color and fashion of which uniforms to be determined on for the respective legions, by the first legionary courts of enquiry which shall be held, and to be approved of by the Brigadier General; provided the expense of the same, additional to that of usual, ordinary, and cloathing, does not exceed five dollars for each person, and every such non-commissioned officer, or drummer, or fifer, or private, appearing at any muster held after three months from the time that such uniform shall have been determined on, and the order relative thereto shall have been published, in some newspaper within the legionary district and not wearing the same, shall be fined five dollars for each offence, unless he can make it appear to the satisfaction of the court of enquiry of the battalion to which he may belong, that he was unable to equip himself.
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR
HAS just received by recent arrivals at Philadelphia, from England, and the East Indies, a handsome assortment of SERVE and SUMMER GOODS, of the best quality, also Patent water proof Cloth's and Cashmere's, superior NAVY BLUE and other colors; handsome NAVY & FASHIONABLE BUTTONS, &c. Gentlemen of ARMY, NAVY and FASHION served with expedition and taste. New Jersey Avenue, seventh house from Capitol Square and Pennsylvania Avenue near the President's square. April 13 1803.