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LITERARY.
Further extracts from Gibbons life —written by himself.
—His great work brought to a close—
“I have presumed to mark the moment of conception; I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of 11 and 12, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a herseal, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not disseminate the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my power. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five quartos. 1. My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate copy, has been sent to the press. 2. Not a sheet has been seen by any human eyes, excepting those of the author and the printer: the faults and the merits are exclusively my own.”
—Interesting retrospect of his life.
“When I contemplate the common lot of mortality, I must acknowledge that I have drawn a high prize in the lottery of life. The far greater part of the globe is overspread with barbarism or slavery: in the civilized world, the most numerous class is condemned to ignorance or poverty: and the double fortune of my birth in a free and enlightened country, in an honorable and wealthy family, is the lucky chance of a unit against millions. The general probability is about three to one, that a new-born infant will not live to complete his fiftieth year. I have now passed that age, and may fairly estimate the present value of my existence in the threefold division of mind, body and estate.
“1. The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience, unsullied by the reproach or remembrance of an unworthy action.
“Hic murus ahenus esto, Nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa.”
“I am endowed with a cheerful temper, a moderate sensibility, a natural disposition to repose rather than to activity: some mischievous appetites and habits have perhaps been corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved by cultivation, but it may be questioned, whether some flowers of fancy, some fruit of errors, have not been eradicated with the weeds of prejudice. 2. Since I have escaped from the long perils of my childhood, the serious advice of a physician has seldom been requisite. “The madness of superfluous wealth” I have never known; but my tender constitution has been fortified by time, and the inestimable gift of the sound and peaceful slumbers of infancy may be imputed both to the mind and body. 3. I have already described the merits of my society and situation; but those enjoyments would be tasteless or bitter, if their possession were not assured by an annual and adequate supply. According to the scale of Switzerland, I am a rich man; and I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expence, and my
expence is equal to my riches. My friend lord Sheffield has kindly relieved me from the cares to which my taste and temper are most adverse: shall I add, that since the failure of my first wishes, I have never entertained any serious thoughts of a matrimonial connexion?
“I am disgusted with the affection of men of letters, who complain that they have renounced a substance for a shadow; and that their fame (which sometimes is no insupportable weight) affords a poor compensation for envy, censure and persecution. My own experience, at least, has taught me a very different lesson: twenty happy years have been annuited by the labors of my History; and its success has given me a name, a rank, a character, in the world, to which I should not otherwise have been entitled. The freedom of my writings has indeed provoked an implacable tribe; but, as I was safe from the stings, I was soon accustomed to the buzzing of the hornets: my nerves are not tremblingly alive, and my literary temper is so happily fenced that I am less sensible of pain than of pleasure. The rational pride of an author may be offended, rather than flattered, by vague indiscriminate praise; but he cannot, he should not, be indifferent to the fair testimonies of private and public esteem. Even his moral sympathy may be gratified by the idea, that now, in the present hour, he is imparting some degree of amusement or knowledge to his friends in a distant land; that one day his mind will be familiar to the grandchildren of those who are yet unborn. I cannot boast of the friendship or favor of princes; the patronage of English literature has been long since devolved on our booksellers, and the measure of their liberality is the least ambiguous test of our common success. Perhaps the golden mediocrity of my fortune has contributed to fortify my application.
“The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more, and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last: but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years. I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and experience of the sage Fontinelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the natural season in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience; and this autumnal felicity might be exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than to dispute this comfortable doctrine. I will not suppose any premature decay of the mind or the body; but I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a brown shade the evening of life.”
PERSIA.
Curious anecdotes from the late travels of M. Gardane in Persia.
The politeness of the Persians is of a species perfectly Oriental. A nobleman, of high rank, went one day to the French ambassador's “to beg his pardon because the weather was so bad in Persia.”
The diplomatic conferences at Teheran, are held in the same manner as in our diplomatic exhibitions, with the doors open, and in the presence of a multitude of auditors. The Orientals cannot conceive the necessity of secrecy in conventions between states.
The women are kept as much enslaved in Persia, as in the rest of the east. A Frenchman belonging to the suite of the ambassador, one day excited a great uproar at Teheran, for having ventured to cast some inquisitive looks at the garden of a seraglio. At the sight of a man, the women uttered screams of affright; some of them even snatched up arms, and prepared to repel ogles with musket balls.
M. Gardane one day asked a Persian nobleman how many children he had? “I don't know,” replied he, “enquire of my secretary.” The secretary turned to his list, and answered that his master had seventeen children.
MR. JEFFERSON'S ANSWER To the friends of the Administration of the United States, in Bristol county, Rhode Island.
The receipt of your friendly address in the last moments of the session of Congress, will, I trust, offer a just apology for the late acknowledgment.
We have certainly cause to rejoice that since the waves of affliction and peril, raised from the storm of war by the rival belligerents of Europe have undulated on our shores, the councils of the nation have been able to preserve it from the numerous evils, which have awfully menaced & otherwise, might have fallen upon us.—How we may yet retain this desirable position, is difficult to be foreseen.—But confident I am, that as long as it can be done consistently with the honor and interests of our country, it will be maintained by him to whom you have confided the helm of government. A surer pledge for this cannot be found than in the public and private virtues of the successors to the chair of government, which you so justly recognise. Your reflections are certainly correct on the importance of a good administration in a republican government towards securing to us our dearest rights, and the practical enjoyment of all our liberties; and such a one can never fail to give consolation to the friends of a free government, and mortification to its enemies. In retiring from the duties of my late station, I have the consolation of knowing, that such is the character of those into whose hands they are transferred, and of a conviction that all will be done for us which wisdom and virtue can do.
I thank you, fellow-citizens, for the kind sentiments of your address, and am particularly gratified by your approbation of the course I have pursued; & I pray Heaven to keep you under its holy favor.
TH: JEFFERSON. Monticello, March 29, 1809.
FOREIGN NEWS.
THIRTY THIRD BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF SPAIN.
[Translated for the Chronicle from the Paris Moniteur of March 2, 1809—received by the French Letter of Marquee L'Esperance, arrived at Boston.]
The Duke of Dalmatia arrived at Tuy on the 10th of Feb. The whole province is quiet. He was gathering all the means necessary to cross the Minho, on the next day. The river is very wide there. He was to be at Oporto from the 15th to the 20th, and at Lisbon from the 20th to the 28th.
The British were embarking at Lisbon to abandon Portugal; the indignation of the Portuguese was at its height. There were daily some severe and bloody engagements between the British and Portuguese.
In Galicia, the duke of Elchingen perfected the organization of the province. Admiral Massaredo had arrived at Ferrol, and activity was beginning to revive in that important arsenal. Tranquility is restored in all the provinces under the orders of the duke of Istria, and situate between the Pyrenees, the sea, Portugal and the ridge of mountains that cover Madrid. Security succeeds disorders and alarms.
Numerous deputations daily arrive at Madrid to tender their homage to the king. The re-organization and public spirit make rapid progress under the new government.
The duke Belluna is marching towards Badajoz; he disarms and pacifies all Lower Estremadura.
Saragossa has capitulated. The calamities which have befallen this wretched city, are a terrible example for nations. Order is re-established in Saragossa, and extends to the whole province of Aragon. The two corps d'arms which invested that city are now dispensable. Saragossa was the real focus of the insurrection of Spain. It was in that city that the party who wished to call a Prince of the House of Austria to reign on the Tagus, had assembled. The men of that party had inherited this opinion from the ancestors who were of that sentiment at the time of the Succession-war, and which has just been crushed forever.
The battle of Tudela had been won on the 23d November, and on the seventeenth the French army was encamped within a short distance from
Saragossa. The populace of the city were armed. The inhabitants of the neighboring country had joined these, and Saragossa contained fifty thousand men formed into regiments of 1000, composed of 10 companies of 100 men. All the grades of generals, commissioned and non commissioned officers, were filled by monks.—A body of 10,000 men who had escaped from the battle of Tudela had retired to that city, the substance of which was secured by immense magazines, and defended by two hundred pieces of cannon. The image of our Lady of the Pillar was daily operating miracles according to the directions of the monks who animated the courage of the population, or supported their confidence. In the field these 50,000 men would not have stood against three regiments; but shut up in the city, and spurred on by all the leaders, how could they avoid the evils which ignorance and fanaticism attached to them? Every thing has been undertaken that was possible to do, to bring them back to reason.—Immediately after the battle of Tudela, it was that the opinion entertained at Saragossa, that Madrid would make a bold stand and that the arms of Somosierra, Guadarama, Estremadura, Leon and Caralonia would eventually beat the French, would be used by the leaders of the insurgents to keep alive the fanaticism of the inhabitants. It was therefore resolved not to invest the city, & to leave open its communication with all Spain, in order that they might learn the discomfiture of the Spanish arms, and the accounts of the entry of the French army in Madrid. But this news reached only the in-leaders who took care that the inhabitants should not know it.—Truth not only was concealed from them but they were encouraged by lies. To-day the French had lost 40,000 men at Madrid; yesterday, Romana had entered France. In fine the British army were rapidly advancing, and the French eagles must fly before the terrible leopard! All this time sacrificed to political views and the hopes of being able to calm those heads, heated by fanaticism and error, was not lost for the French army.—The general of engineers, Lacoste, aid-de-camp to the Emperor, and an officer of the most distinguished abilities, gathered at Alayon all the tools, equipage of mines, and materials necessary for the subterraneous war which H. M. had ordered.
The gen. of division Dedon, commanding the artillery, assembled a great quantity of mortars, bombs, howitzers and heavy ordnance. All which were drawn from Pampelonia, seven days march from Saragossa. Meanwhile, it was perceived that the enemy were availing themselves of this stagnation, to fortify the Monte Torrero and other important positions. On the 21st December, the division Suchet drove them from the heights of St. Lambert, and from two other works, out of the reach of the city. The division of gen. Gazen overthrew the enemy from the heights of San-Gregorio, and the 21st of light infantry and 100th regiment of the line, carried the redoubts in the suburbs, which defended the roads of Sueva and Barcelona. He also ordered the storming of a large building near Calhego, where five hundred Swiss had entrenched themselves. On the same day the Duke of Cornegliano also carried the works and the positions of Monte-Torrero, took all the cannon and a great number of prisoners, and did great execution among the enemy.
The Duke of Cornegliano being taken sick, the duke of Abrantès took, in the beginning of January, the command of the third corps. He signalized his arrival by the taking of the convent of San-Josef, and pursued his successes on the 16th of January by the carrying of the tete de pont of Huerbal, where his troops made good their stand. The chief of battalion Sthal, of the 14th of the line, distinguished himself at the attack on the convent of San-Josef, and lieut. Victor de Baffon was one of the first to scale the works.
The investing of Saragossa was not yet complete. They persisted in leaving open the communications in order that the insurgents might be informed of the overthrow of the English, and their shameful flight out of Spain. It was on the 16th of January that the English were driven into the sea at Corunna, and it was on the twenty-
sixth that the operations began to take a serious aspect before Saragossa.
The duke of Montebello had reached it on the 20th, to take the chief command of the siege. As soon as he was convinced that the news sent to the city, was productive of no good effect, and that the monks who directed the minds of the people had succeeded in preventing the news from reaching the people or in altering it so as to perpetuate the delirium of the besieged, he took the resolution no longer to spare them.
Fifteen thousand peasants had assembled at Perdiguera, on the left bank of Ebro. The duke of Treviso attacked them with three regiments and notwithstanding the fine position they occupied, the 64th regiment entirely overthrew and routed them.—The 10th hussars were in the plain to receive them, and a great number remained on the field of battle. Nine pieces of cannon and several stand of colors were the trophies of the encounter.
The Duke of Montebello had sent the adjutant commandant Gasquet to Zuera, to disperse a party of rebels. With only three battalions, this officer attacked 4000 of them, overthrew them, and took four pieces of cannon, with their horses and appurtenances. Gen. Vattier had, at the same time, been ordered with 300 foot and 200 horse, to scour the road to Valencia. He met 5000 of the rebels at Alcaniz, forced them in the very city to throw down their arms in their flight, killed 600 men, and took magazines, provisions, ammunition and arms; among these latter were 1000 English muskets. The adjutant commandant, Carrion de Nizas, at the head of a column of infantry, colonel Burthe, of the 4th hussars, and the chief of battalion Camus, of the 28th light infantry have particularly distinguished themselves.
These operations took place between the 20th and 26th January. On the 26th, the city was severely attacked, and the batteries were unmasked.—On the 27th, at noon, the breach was practicable on several points. The troops lodged themselves in the convent of San-in Gracia. The division Grandjean occupied about 30 houses in the city. Colonel Chopisek, and the soldiers of the Vistula, distinguished themselves. At the same time the general of division Motier, in an attack on the left, possessed himself of the whole front of defiance of the enemy.
Captain Guetteman, at the head of the pioneers, and of 36 grenadiers, mounted the breach with a rare intrepidity. Mr. Bobieski, an officer in the Vistula Rangers, a young man of only 17 years of age, and having already received seven wounds, was the first who entered the breach. The chiefs of battalion Lejeure, aid-de-camp to the prince of Neufchatel, and Haxo, behaved well, and were both lightly wounded.
On the 30th, the convents of St. Monique, and the Great Augustines were carried, as were 60 houses taken by pioneers. The Sappers of the 14th regiment of the line, distinguished themselves.
On the 1st of Feb. gen. Lacoste was struck with a musket ball, and died on the field of battle. He was a brave and distinguished officer. His loss has been much felt by all the army, but more particularly by the emperor. Colonel Rognat succeeded him in the command of the engineers, and the direction of the siege.
The enemy defended every house; three attacks by mines were carried in front, and every day three or four mines blew up several houses, and opened the way to our troops.
In this way we reached the Corso, (the main street of Saragossa) lodged ourselves on the quays, and took possession of the university and colleges. The enemy attempted to oppose their miners to ours, but little acquainted with this kind of warfare, their miners were very quickly discovered and stifled.
This manner of conducting the siege rendered its progress slow, but sure, and less dangerous for the army. Whilst three companies of miners, & eight companies of pioneers alone, are occupied with this subterraneous war, whose results are so terrible, the city is continually kept on fire by the mortars throwing shells and five balls.
The attack had been made but ten

days before the reduction of the city was considered as not far distant. More than one third of the houses were in our possession. The church of Our Lady of the Pillar, who by so many miracles was to save the city, was destroyed by bombs and no longer tenable.
The duke of Montebello then tho' it was time to take possession of the suburbs on the left bank, in order to occupy the diameter of the city and cross his fire. The general of division Gazan, carried in a very brilliant manner the Swiss barracks. On the 17th, a battery of fifty pieces opened early in the morning. At 3 P. M. a battalion of the 28th attacked a large convent, whose brick walls were 4 or 5 feet thick, and carried it. 10000 of the enemy defended the suburbs. Gen. Gazan advanced rapidly to the bridge, by which the rebels could effect their retreat into the city. He killed a great number, and took 4000 prisoners, among whom were 2 generals, 12 colonels, 19 lieut. colonels, and 290 officers. He also took 6 ammunition waggons, and 30 pieces of cannon. Almost all the troops of the line in the city, occupied this important post, which had been threatened since the 10th.
At the same moment, the duke D' Abrantes, crossed the Corso and blew up the colleges.
After these events, the Junta, in order to gain time, and to give the people time to get over the horror and surprise with which they were struck demanded to parley; but their faithlessness was known, and this deception was useless. Thirty more houses were carried by mines or pioneers.
At last, on the 31st, all the city was occupied by our troops—15,000 infantry, and 2,000 horse. They laid down their arms at the gate of Portillo, and have surrendered 40 stands of colors and 150 pieces of cannon. The rebels lost 20,000 men during the siege; 13,000 were found in the hospitals, and of these 500 died daily.
The duke of Montebello would not grant a capitulation to the city of Saragossa; he only issued the following orders:
"The garrison shall, on the 21st, at noon, lay down their arms at the gate of Portillo, after which they shall be prisoners of war. The soldiers of the line who will take the oath of allegiance to king Joseph, and enter into his service, will be admitted into it. In case their admission should not be granted by the minister at war of the king of Spain, they shall be prisoners of war and carried into France. Religion shall be respected. On the 21st at noon, the French troops shall occupy the castle. All the artillery and ammunition of every kind shall be delivered to them; all the arms be deposited at the door of every house and collected by the Ward Alcaides."
The magazines of wheat, rice and vegetables found in the place, are immense.
The duke of Montebello has appointed Gen. Laval Governor of Saragossa.
A deputation of the clergy and principal inhabitants have set out for Madrid.
Palafax is dangerously sick. This man was despised by the whole of the enemy's army, who accused him of vanity and cowardice. He has never been in any post where there was danger.
The count of Fuentes, a grandee of Spain, whom the rebels had arrested on his estates seven months ago, was found in a dungeon eight feet square, and liberated. The sufferings he has undergone are almost incredible.
Bayonne, March 7. —We witness the incessant passage through our city, of the garrison of Saragossa, escorted by the division of gen. Augereau. Yesterday 4000 of them entered; to day 5 or 6000 arrived; to-morrow we expect the monks, amounting to 500. As they arrive they are conducted to the alcazar Boufflers, on the banks of the Adour; there they are carefully washed and scoured, and strip of the rags that cover them. These horrid clothes are then burnt and new clothes are given to all the prisoners. The officers who are suffered to go at large through the city, give the following particulars about Saragossa. All the troops of the line would have surrendered long ago; they knew they could not stand, when they found the city was invested, but it was not in their power to capitulate, they were under the control of the vilest populace; the monks would have hung any one that would have spoken of surrendering. These wretches were induced to capitulate only when they saw two thirds of the city destroyed. Palafax who had been confined to his bed for several days previous is now dead, they say. A most shocking epidemic rages through the city, in consequence of the long resistance and privation of every thing. It has caused the death of more than 20,000 of the inhabitants.
according to the information of the prisoners.
Germany—Embsden, March 4, 1809. —The French army of the Rhine under the duke of Auerstadt (Davoust) has broken up from its cantonments in the countries of Gotha, Hanau, &c. and is now on its march to the Danube. The staff of the army was on the 17th ult. removed from Erfurth, for the purpose of being established at Ulm. The army under general Oudinot, which on the 20th had head quarters at Augsburg, at that date comprised nearly thirty thousand men.
Some Dutch regiments have passed the Mein, on their march to Franconia. Several divisions of French troops from the duchy of Berg, &c. have taken the same route, and all the carriages and horses in the countries through which they passed, were put in requisition for the conveyance.
A French army is to be formed in Saxony, with which the forces of the confederation of the Rhine are to act—several Westphalian regiments were on the 20th ult. under orders to proceed thither.
The French have already established an army of between forty and fifty thousand men in Italy, within a few miles of the Austrian frontiers. The Dalmatian army under Marmont, has been broken up, for the purpose of forming this new corps, but at present it consists chiefly of Italians. A reserve is forming near Brescia, and is to be joined by a body of Swiss troops. It is understood that Messena is again to have the command of the Italian army.
Count Mier arrived at Vienna on the 12th February, with dispatches from Count Metternich, the Austrian Ambassador at Paris, communicating, it is stated, the final decision of Bonaparte on the subject of his differences with the Emperor Francis. Messengers were immediately dispatched to Petersburg, Berlin and Copenhagen, as also to the several Austrian governments, and orders were given for the necessary arrangements preparatory to placing the militia on permanent duty. The Messenger, Napper, arrived from Paris on the 14th, and stated, that previous to his departure, the tradesmen belonging to the Austrian embassy had been directed to furnish their several accounts, in order to their being discharged.
A Cordon of troops has been formed along the whole extent of the Austrian frontiers, and no person is permitted to pass without a passport from the imperial public chamber at Vienna. One hundred and fifty bakers at Vienna had been put in requisition for the service of the army. The Austrians are making great exertions to fortify the city of Ems, in Upper Austria, and have appointed 6000 soldiers, and a like number of peasants to that service.
The Cabinet of Vienna, with a view to the farther augmentation of their army, has ordered the first and second battalions of reserve to be gradually incorporated with the regiments of the line, and has directed that third battalions of reserve be immediately formed.
The Duke of Friuli (Duroc) accompanied by one of Bonaparte's aide camps, on the night of the second ult. passed through Frankfort, charged with an important mission to the court of St. Petersburg.
Jerome Bonaparte, king of Westphalia, has issued a decree for calling out his contingents of conscripts on active service; and 2,500 more, who are to form a reserve, to be taken from the young men born in 1788.
The reports of an early adjustment of the differences which subsist between Russia and Britain, had induced a considerable reduction in the price of colonial produce in the former country.
It is stated that the Emperor Alexander had appointed Prince Prosfotowsky, who commands the Russian armies in Moldavia and Wallachia, his plenipotentiary at the Congress of Peace with the Porte.
Louis Bonaparte was at Utrecht, taking measures to relieve the country suffering under the inundations, when he received dispatches from Napoleon, requiring the immediate march of 15,000 Dutch troops into Bavaria, to act with the French army under the Duke of Auerstadt, and expressing an expectation that another corps of like force would be in readiness to take the same route by the middle of March. Louis sent off couriers to Amsterdam, &c. calling his ministers and counsellors of state to Utrecht, where, after much deliberation, his council declared to him the incompetency of the nation to sustain the burdens of a new war, and protested against the employment of so large a force in a service so unconnected with the interests of the country. Several regiments were, however, immediately put in motion, and had, at the date of the last accounts, arrived on the Mein.
Greenock, March 17. —The foreign papers make a war between Austria & France inevitable. The Archduke Charles is appointed sole dictator of military operations. The Dutch council of state has remonstrated against involving Holland in a new war.
Our London correspondent, after mentioning the raising of the 24 hours embargo in Sweden, adds, the Sublime Porte will immediately join Austria, in the war against France.
London, March 14. OFFICIAL FROM SPAIN. —On the 12th Feb. the head quarters of the Spanish army was at La Carolina, under gen. Urbina. The duke d'Infantado had been unfortunate and was removed. The supreme junta remained at Seville. Gen. Abidia had been appointed minister of war. A French army of 25,000 was preparing to enter Estremadura. Gen. Cuesta, with 16,000 Spanish troops, was at Truxillo—At Alacantia there was a Portuguese and British division, amounting to 14,000. The French had advanced to Ciudad Rodrigo. Soult was at Betanzos the 28th Jan. Romana had entered Portugal. The 40th and three other British regiments were at Seville, on the way to join Urbana's army at La Carolina, and to defend the Terra Morena. The Spanish army in La Mancha was looking their enemy in the face.
March 9. Yesterday, Col. Wardle moved in the House of Commons, an address to the King for the removal of the duke of York from the command of the army. This motion was opposed by Mr. Burion and Mr. Percival (C of E.) who declared his intention not only to oppose the motion but to move an address highly approbatory of the conduct of the noble duke as commander in chief; and that his removal would be highly injurious to the army, and public service. Mr. P. reproached the connexion with Mrs. C. No decision was had on the motion.
The Russians, we learn, have marched a body of troops on the ice across the Gulf of Bothnia, captured the Swedish island of Aland, and were preparing ice boats for an expedition to Sweden proper. The distance from Aland to the main is about 80 miles.
March 12. —The Gazette of yesterday contains lord Cochrane's official account of the defence of Roses, and the castle of Trinidad, against the French; of the surrender of the former by the Spaniards, and of the evacuation and destruction of the latter by his lordship and a party of seamen and marines belonging to the Impetueux. Lord Cochrane speaks in high terms of the heroic spirit and ability which have been exhibited by lord Cochrane, in the assistance he has endeavoured to afford the Spanish patriots. Lord Cochrane was at Malta the 26th Jan.
NAVAL AFFAIRS. The Gazette contains also a letter from Admiral St. B. dated on board the Caesar, near Bahia light house, March 2d; which states, that the French Brest fleet then remained at Isle d'Aix, consisting of 10 sail of the line, 4 frigates, and the Calcutta. The eleventh ship of the line was bilged on the shoal within Isle d'Aix. She is the Warsaw, a new 80. Of the three frigates, which ran under Sabies d'Olonne, one was bilged and abandoned; & the other two up an inlet where they grounded every low water. A western swell which was set in would destroy them.
March 13. The Hope arrived at Plymouth on the 6th spoke the Surveillante frigate from Brazil, and was informed that on the first saw six sail of French men of war steering S. W.
The Walsingham packet, from Lisbon, on the 1st inst. in lat. 47, saw six large ships steering S. W.
A French squadron of three sail of the line has slipped out of L'Orient. On the 2d inst. they were seen in lat. 43, long. 14, under a press of sail.
Our Falmouth letter says, "The Surveillante, on the 3d March, in lat. 40, 30, long. 10, 12, saw four sail of the line, and three frigates, lying to, to leeward, and in the act of burning a brig; but several large ships, apparently of the line, appearing to windward, they crowded all sail, and stood to the westward."
The first is undoubtedly the L'Orient squadron; the latter supposed to be Adm. Duckworth in pursuit.
The French squadron at Flushing is said to consist of 12 sail of the line; which being joined by others, and a Russian and Danish force, is to attempt some great enterprise in the spring. So say the French papers.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD. Will be given to any person who will give satisfactory evidence against the person who SHOT the subscribers HORSE on the Common of this City, between the evening of the 2nd, and 8 o'clock of the morning of the 3d instant.
ROBERT KING. May 5—
THE INADMISSIBLE PRINCIPLES OF THE KING OF ENGLAND'S PROCLAMATION OF OCT. 23, 1807—Considered. BY THE LATE PRESIDENT ADAMS.
(Continued.) They will be thought to have no friends in America, who will care enough for them to make much noise, and these will be impressed. If there should be any natives or sons of natives of any of the West India Islands, or of any part of the East Indies, where the king is said to have thirty millions of subjects, these must all be impressed, for conquest confers indelible character of subjects, as well as birth. But if neither English Scotch, Irish, Welsh, Italian, German, Dutchman, Spaniard, Portuguese, East or West India-man is found, the reverend Lieutenant will think if he is prudent enough not to say, " Jura negat sibi lata, nihil non arrogat armis " "Our ships is so weakly manned, that we cannot fight an enemy; we cannot even navigate her in safety, in bad weather; procul a Jove, procul a fulmine , I will take as many native Americans as I please. It will be long before I can be called to account; and at last I can say that I saved the king's ship, and perhaps beat a Frenchman by the aid of this meritorious impressment, and I am sure of friends who will not only bring me off, but obtain a promotion for me, even for this patriotic action." How many American ships and cargoes will be sunk in the sea, or driven on shore, wrecked and lost; how many masters and remaining sailors will be buried in the ocean for want of the assistance of the men thus kidnapped and stolen, no human foresight can calculate. It is, however easy to predict, that the number must be very great. These considerations, it seems, have no weight in the estimation of the British ministry. Their hearts are not taught to feel another's woe. But all these things the captains and owners of American merchant ships must take into consideration, and make the subjects of calculation before they can venture to sea. In short there should be a corporation erected in every state for the express purpose of insuring against impressment of seamen. In a course of time and experience the chances might be calculated, so that the insurers and insured, might at a great expence be secure. But the poor sailors can never be safe.
The law must be settled, or remain unsettled. If such impressments are determined to be legal, either by treaty or by acquiescence in the king's proclamation, it will establish in the minds of British seamen a pride of superiority and a spirit of domination, and in the minds of American seamen a consciousness of inferiority and a servile spirit of submission, that ages will not eradicate. If the question is allowed to remain undetermined, American seamen will fight in defence of their liberty, whenever they see the smallest prospect of escaping, and sometimes when there is none. They will kill and be killed. Some will be punished for their resistance on board the British men of war; and some may be carried to a British port and there prosecuted for piracy and murder. This, however, will seldom ever be done; for I still believe there is sense and justice enough in the British nation and their juries to acquit any seaman, American or British, who should kill a press-gang in defence of his liberty; but if he should escape and return to America, and be here prosecuted, I will not believe there is a judge or juror on the continent, so ignorant of the law, so dead to every sense of justice, so abandoned to every feeling of humanity, as to find him guilty of any crime, if it were proved that he had killed a dozen press-gangs in defence of his freedom. We shall have a continual warfare, at sea, like that lately, at Canton. Our Secretary of State's office will be filled with representations and complaints; our nation will be held in a constant state of irritation and fermentation, and our government always distressed, between their anxiety to relieve their fellow citizens and their inability to serve them.
A republican, who asserts the duty of jealousy, ought to suspect that this proclamation was dictated by a spirit as hostile and malicious as it was insidious, for the determined purpose of depressing the character of our seamen. Take from the sailor his pride and his courage, and he becomes a poor animal indeed. Broken-hearted, dejected, depressed even below the standard of other men of his own level in society, a habit of fear will be established in his mind. At the sight of a British man of war a panic will seize him; his spirits will sink, and he will be only a cutter or a lugger, he will think of nothing but flight and es-
cape. What but the haughty spirit of their seamen, which has been encouraged and supported for ages by the nation, has given the British navy its superiority over the natives of other nations? "Who shall dare to set bounds to the commerce and naval power of Great Britain?" Is the magnificent language of defence in Parliament, and it vibrates and echoes through every heart in the nation. Every British sailor is made to believe himself the master and commander of the world. If the right of impressment is conceded by us, in theory or practice, our seamen's hearts will be broken, and every British seamen will say to every American seamen as the Six nations of Indians said to the Southern tribes, whom they had conquered. " We have put the Petticoats on you ." In such a case many would have too much reason to say, let us no longer rejoice for independence, or think of a navy or free commerce, no longer hope for any rank in the world, but bow our necks again to the yoke of Great Britain.
If the spirit of a man should remain in our sailors, they will sometimes resist. Should a British cutter demand to search American merchant ships, of five hundred tons burthen, armed as they sometimes are and have a right to be—The commander of the cutter calls for a muster of the men, in order to impress such as he, in his wisdom, shall judge to be British subjects. Is it credible that the captain and crew of the merchantman will submit to such usage? No, he will sink the boat and cutter too, rather than be so insulted, and every American must applaud him for his spirit.
Is this right of impressment to be all on one side, or is it to be reciprocal? British modesty may say: "It is an exclusive privilege, which we claim, assert and will maintain, because it is necessary to support our dominion of the seas, which is necessary to preserve a balance of power in Europe, against France, and to prevent the French Emperor from sending fifty thousand men to conquer the United States of America." All this will not convince American seamen. They will answer; "We think a balance of power on the ocean as necessary as on the continent of Europe. We thank you for your civility in kindly giving us hopes, that you will defend us from the French army of fifty thousand men; but we are very willing to take our defence upon ourselves. If you have a right to impress seamen from our ships, we have an equal right to impress from yours."
Should one of our gun-boats meet a British East Indiaman, armed with 50 guns. The gun-boat demands a search for American seamen; calls for the muster roll, commands the men to pass in review before him; would the East India captain submit? No. He would sooner throw over board the press-gang, and run down the gun-boat. Such will be the perpetual altercation between Britons and Americans, at sea, and lay an immovable foundation of eternal hatred between the two nations. The king's proclamation will be found as impolitic a step as ever the court of St. James' has taken.
It is said, in the context, "The British ships of war, agreeably to a right, claimed and exercised for ages—a right, claimed and exercised during the whole of the administrations of Washington and Adams, and of Jefferson, continue to take some of the British seamen, found on board our merchant vessels, and with them a small number of ours, from the impossibility of always distinguishing Englishmen from the citizens of the U. States." We have before seen what sort of a right to impress men from their own ships has been claimed, in what manner it has been exercised, and in what light it has been considered by the English nation. It amounts to a right of getting their officers lawfully killed. But surely, no right was ever before claimed to impress seamen from foreign ships. If such a pretended right was ever exercised, or, in other words, if such a crime was ever committed, I presume it would be no better proof of a legal right, than a robbery, burglary, or murder, committed on shore, would prove that such actions are innocent and lawful. To argue from single facts or a few instances to a general law, is a sophistry too common with political writers, and is sometimes imputable to compilers of the laws of nations; but none of them ever went to such extravagance as this. No claim or pretension of any right to search foreign vessels for seamen, ever existed before our revolution; and no exercise of such a right ever prevailed since, except such as resemble the exercise of the right of committing robbery, burglary and murder in some of our cities. No ages have passed since our revolution. The right was never asserted or claimed, till the late pro-

clamation of the king appeared, and that proclamation will make an epoch of disgrace and disaster to one nation or the other, perhaps to both.
From the peace of 1783 to the commencement of our government, under the present national constitution, whenever any American seamen were impressed, they were immediately demanded in the name of the Old Congress, and immediately discharged, without ever pretending to such right of impressment. During the administration of Washington, whenever information was received of any impressment, immediate orders were sent to demand the men, and the men were promised to be liberated. Washington sent captain Talbot to the West-Indies, as an agent to demand seamen impressed on board British men of war. Talbot demanded them of the British commanders, captains and admirals, and was refused. He went then on shore, and demanded and obtained of the chief justice of the island, writs of Habeas Corpus, by virtue of which the impressed seamen were brought from the king's ships, and set at liberty by law, the commanders not daring to disobey the king's writ. During the administration of Adams, the secretary of state's office can show what demands were made, and the success of them. The remonstrances that were made in consequence of post hoc instructions, and the memorials presented at court by our minister, were conceived in terms as strong as the English language could furnish, without violating that respect and decorum which ought always to be preserved between nations and governments, even in declaration of war. The practice was asserted to be not only incompatible with every principle of justice and every feeling of humanity, but wholly irreconcilable with all thoughts of a continuance of peace and friendship between the two nations. The effect of the memorial was, an immediate order to the commanders of the navy to liberate the demanded men. I shall say nothing of Mr. Jefferson's administration, because the negotiations already made public, sufficiently show, that he has not been behind either of his predecessors in his zeal for the liberty of American seamen. During all this time, excuses and apologies were made, and necessity was sometimes hinted; but no serious pretension of right was advanced. No. The first formal claim was the king's proclamation. With what propriety then, can this be called a right, claimed and exercised for ages, and during the whole of the administrations of Washington, of Adams, and Jefferson? Is there any reason why another proclamation should not soon appear, commanding all the officers of the army in Canada and Nova-Scotia to go over the line, and take by force all the king's subjects they can find in our villages? The right would stand upon the same principles; but there is this difference—it would not be executed with so little danger.
From the Boston Patriot. The sins of the late PRESIDENT ADAMS against the BRITISH FACTION in America, will never be forgiven—they will be visited upon the children to the third and fourth generation. The same vindictive spirit which began the persecution of the father by artful insinuations and malicious whispers, openly and boldly assaults the son with all the rancor of aspersion. The letter of the hon. J. Q. Adams, yet fresh in public recollection, has furnished the evidence of the charge of apostasy from what now passes as orthodox federalism. The little critics of the day have worried down themselves in hunting for those defects of composition which were to disgrace the Professor of Rhetoric; but neither his feeble nor his mighty antagonists have deigned to point out an unsound principle, or the shadow of inconsistency in the statesman. These we know to be the sentiments of such as have not betrayed the federal cause, by renouncing whatever is substantially republican. The following letter from President Washington, will show in what estimation that great judge of character, held the "talents & worth" of the young Mr. Adams.
Monday, 20th Feb. 1797. DEAR SIR, "I thank you for giving me the perusal of the enclosed. The sentiments do honor to the head and heart of the writer; and if my wishes would be of any avail, they should go to you in a strong hope, that you will not withhold merited promotion from Mr. J. Q. Adams, because he is your son. For without intending to compliment the father or the mother, or to censure any others, I give it as my decided opinion, that Mr. Adams is the most valuable public character we have abroad—and that there remains no doubt in my mind, that he will prove himself the ablest of all our diplomatic corps."
"If he was now to be brought into that line, or into any other public walk, I could not, upon the principle which has regulated my own conduct, disapprove of the caution which is hinted at in the letter. But he is already entered.—The public, more and more, as he is known, are appreciating his talents and worth—and his country would sustain a loss, if these were to be checked by over delicacy on your part. With sincere esteem and affectionate regard, I am ever yours "GO : WASHINGTON. Vice-President."
When it was understood by the Junta, that President Adams was about to negotiate with France, Mr. J. Q. Adams, who was then one of our diplomatic corps in Europe, (and allowed by the Junta to have been the ablest,) was suspected by this patriotic faction to have had some concern in communicating the treacherous information of the pacific and honorable intentions of the French cabinet towards this country. On a sudden, the son dwindled down to an "indiscreet, beardless boy," in the estimation of the Junta.—The father progressed with rapid strides, and passed all at once, the rubicon of even Noah's flood, in all the headstrong weakness of old age; while the President's lady, whom they had long noted on their calendar, as the "old woman," was thought to be at precisely the right point of age and influence, to save the nation from the horrors of peace, and the disgrace of independence.
An Extract of a letter from a respectable friend in New-Bedford, to his Federal correspondent in Boston. "I most sincerely congratulate thee on the settlement of our difficulties with the government of England. I believe that gentlemen, who have not seen the necessity of embargo and non-intercourse laws, must now be convinced of their utility, and acknowledged with gratitude the firmness and wisdom of our greatly enlightened administration. Jefferson's fame will adorn the brightest page of history; the man whose narrow mind is led by envy to disrespect him, is sowing the seeds of mortification in the bosom of his child, who must blush in riper years, that his father was his foe."
[We are indebted to a friend for the following letter from Dr. BRICKELL, of this city, to President MERES, of the University of Athens, in this state, on the subject of the falling of stones from the atmosphere; and invite those possessed of useful scientific essays to forward them for publication.]
Charleston paper. Savannah, 22d Feb. 1809. Dear Sir, Your very obliging and scientific letter, relative to the fall of stones, (some in a state of ignition) from the atmosphere in different parts of Connecticut, on the 14th December, 1808, was handed to me by my friend Mr. Harris. Various opinions relative to this phenomenon have delayed my reply. The descent of stones from our atmosphere, on sea and land, at different times, and in various parts of the world, as attested by history, is no less true than formidable and astonishing. Many instances of this kind which are not on record, have doubtless occurred. I recollect reading in Livy, when a boy, of the descent of a shower of stones in Italy, to the no small amazement of myself and classmates. Such a shower fell, not long ago, upon a vessel at sea bound to Charleston, (S. C.) from which the terrified seamen took refuge between decks after shutting the hatches. Specimens of these stones are preserved. A terrible shower of stones is said to have descended in Benares, (India) lately: and we have a circumstantial history of a shower of burning stones, which fell in different parts of Parma (Italy) last April. One of these upon being examined, affected the magnetic needle. Its specific gravity was more than thrice that of water, and its surface was vitrified, as if it had been acted upon by volcanic or other powerful heat.
It contained silicious earth, oxyd of iron, magnesia, oxyd of nickel, oxyd of Manganese, oxyd of chrome, and sulphur; not, however, in equal proportions. As water cannot ascend spontaneously into the atmosphere, (I mean without the agency of whirl-winds, or other adequate force) before its levity is augmented by resolution into its constituent gases, the ascent of a body of stone, metals, &c. whose density exceeds that of water, must be impossible, without volcanic or other powerful agency. We may here remark, that the vertical and moving pillars of sand, observed in various parts of the world, occasionally, appear to be raised
as water spouts are, by winds. Had the ponderous bodies of stone, metal, &c. which have frequently fallen from our atmosphere for ages, descended from the moon, or other planets or satellites, the increase of matter in the earth, augmenting its centripetal force, must have drawn it nearer to the sun, (Newton's princip. lib. 3, prop. 7.) shortened our year by diminishing the semi-diameter of our orbit, and increasing the velocity of the earth's motion, (princip. lib. 3, prop. 2;) and encreased the solar parallax as we approached him, (Euclid, lib. 3, prop. 20.) Had these meteoric stones come from the moon, the loss of matter lessening her gravitation and celerity, must have carried her to a greater distance from us, diminished her parallax and lessened the number of her annual lunations, by the above cited doctrines. None of these consequences having occurred, we must infer, that the quantity of matter in the earth is unchanged since the creation, and consequently, that these exotic stones are thrown from our volcanoes. Many of these stones, which you have mentioned, are probably from Hecla, which has been in a state of dreadful explosion occasionally of late; and the flaming stones from the southward and eastward, are likely to have come from the islands, or from the country between Lima and Quito, which has been in vehement commotion. The force and direction of the wind acting upon these meteoric stones, as well as the state of the air, must have effects—a copious quantity of oxygen gas must give them additional splendor in their passage through it. When the wind is with or against them, their velocity and the distance they travel will be proportionably affected; lateral wind must act upon them as the angular bearing and ventral impetus, (Newton's princip. lex. 3, co. 1.) These stones are seen to fall back into the crater generally, in calm weather; but are carried off by the winds, and finally descend to the earth, after describing a parabola, more or less elevated in the atmosphere, proportionate to their projectile force and centripetal power. I remain, sir, with the highest esteem, your friend and humble servt. JOHN BRICKELL. Mr. President MERES, Franklin College, Athens, Geo.
WASHINGTON CITY. FRIDAY, JULY 5. We learn that the Junta at Havanna, about the middle of last month, determined that the following duties should be paid on all goods imported into the island of Cuba, since the 25th March last. It will be seen that these duties are very high, and that the law or regulation under which they are collected, has a retrospective effect.
STATEMENT OF NEW DUTIES at Havanna, to be in force from and after the 25th of March, 1809. Flour of the manufacture of the U. States, $ 10 per bbl. exclusive of militia and police duty, of upwards of $ 1 per bbl. On exportation entitled to a drawback of $ 10 with the deduction of one per ct. on that amount. In Spanish vessels $ 6 and the militia duty, &c. as above, and drawback on exportation of $ 6, deducting one per cent. Soap, Lard, Rice, and all other articles of necessity. 50 per ct. in American vessels & 30 per ct. in Spanish vessels. Drawback allowed in case of exportation of 49 per ct. Cotton and other goods, heretofore prohibited. 15 per cent. on their valuation and no drawback on exportation. All other goods, wares, and merchandise heretofore paying 34 per ct. 22 per ct. & no drawback in case of exportation. Tonnage duty, &c. on vessels of the U. States, the same as Spanish vessels pay in said states. Cotton, tobacco, furs, peltry and other raw materials permitted to be deposited here for exportation on paying a duty of 1 per ct. Some additional duty on wine in American vessels over and above 22 per ct.
The Legislature of Massachusetts have incorporated a society for the encouragement of useful inventions. The recited objects of this institution are, to promote and encourage new and useful inventions, by premiums and medals, to establish a private Cabinet for depositing the first outlines of new inventions, and a public Cabinet of models and descriptions.
New-York Election. In the city it appears, on more critical examination, that the average Republican majority, notwithstanding the defection of a large number of misguided Republicans, was 162. In Orange county, the Republican majority is 964. In Montgomery the Federal majority is 14. In Ulster the Republican ticket has succeeded by a majority of between 2 and 300, and about 100 for the Senators. No doubt is entertained of the election of republican senators for the middle district, by a majority of more than 500 votes.
VIRGINIA ELECTION. The following is a complete list of the members elected to the next Congress from the state of Virginia: John W. Eppes, Daniel Sheffey, Wilson C. Nicholas, John Randolph, Peterson Goodwyn, John Clopton, Thos. Gholston, jun. Thomas Newton, Burwell Bassett, Wm. A. Burwell, Walter Jones, Jacob Swoope, J. Breckenridge, John Dawson, John T. Roane, John Love, John G. Jackson, Joseph Lewis, Mathew Clay, Edwin Gray, J. Stephenson, John Smith. The following is the complete return from Williamsburg district:     Basset.  Eyre.      Glocester 268  29    Matthews 125  59    Warwick 116  2    James City 147  14    York 117  57    Elizabeth City 130  13    Middlesex 136  26    Northampton 6  181    Accomack 94  491    Williamsburg 35  5    1174  871     Majority for Basset 303.
The Legislature of Tennessee convened on the 3d of April, agreeably to the proclamation of Gov. Sevier. The governor's message of the same day recommends several objects to the attention of the legislature; amongst others, the situation of the state in relation to its representation in the next Congress. On the next day, in the Senate, "Mr. Kennedy introduced a bill to provide for an election, to elect Representatives to represent this state in the Congress of the U. States." An act has accordingly passed for holding the elections on the last Thursday and Friday in April. On the eleventh of April the legislature proceeded to the election of two Senators in the Congress of the U. S. vice Gen. Smith, resigned, and Judge Anderson, whose time had expired. The votes for a Senator to supply the place of Gen. Smith were
For Jenkin Whiteside 22 James Winchester 16 John Sevier 1 Mr. Whiteside is therefore elected. The votes to supply the other vacancy were For Joseph Anderson 23 John Sevier 16 Judge Anderson is therefore re-elected. It is with sincere regret that we learn from a notice in the Western Centinel, that G. W. Campbell declines a re-election to Congress. Pleasant M. Miller is a candidate to supply his place.
Baltimore, May 2. Yesterday the several corps composing general Stricker's brigade, met at their different parade grounds, and after having arranged themselves into regiments marched to Whetstone Point, the general rendezvous for review. The brigade being formed, they were passed in review by major general Smith. Having gone through the evolutions of the day with a precision and accuracy that would not dishonor veteran troops, they returned to the city and were dismissed. The strict order and discipline observed throughout the various companies both of horse and foot, together with their fine military array, are deemed the best encomiums on citizen soldiers, regularly organized to defend with their lives the laurels of the revolution.
OLMSTEAD'S CASE. Philadelphia, May 1. The pleadings of counsel in the case of the United States against Gen. Bright and others, for resisting the Marshal of this district, were finished about four o'clock on Saturday afternoon last, when Judge Washington delivered a very able and luminous charge to the jury; which occupied about an hour. The jury retired, and the court adjourned until eight o'clock, when they again met; but the jury not having agreed, they adjourned until ten o'clock; at that hour the court was again opened, and the jury appeared, but not having agreed, they were sent back to their room, where they have been and will be confined until ten o'clock this morning, to
which time the court stands adjourned. May 2.
The jury in the case of the United States, against Michael Bright, bro't in a special verdict yesterday afternoon. The verdict states the defendants to be guilty of knowingly and willfully obstructing, resisting and opposing the Marshal, in his attempt to serve and execute the judicial writ of arrest, mentioned in the indictment, but that the defendants acted under the orders of the constituted authorities of Pennsylvania, in so obstructing and resisting the Marshal.—The jury then leave to the court to say, whether, upon the whole matter, they found the law is in favor of the United States or the defendants, and if the court are of opinion that the law is with the United States, then the jury find the defendants, and every of them Guilty; but if the court are of opinion that the law is with the defendants, then they find them and every of them not Guilty.
The following is the sentence pronounced by Judge Washington on Gen. Bright and others, found guilty of resisting the marshal of the United States. Gen. Michael Bright, 3 months' imprisonment, 200 dollars fine. James Atkinson, Charles Westfall, Abram Ogden, Charles Hong, William Cole, Samuel Wilkins, Daniel Phyle, John Knapp—One month's imprisonment, 50 dollars fine each. A further account of the final proceedings in our next.
Philadelphia, May 2. Arrived this morning, the British ship Recovery, capt. Th: Jefferson, 40 days from Liverpool. By this arrival we have received London papers to the 17th March, and Liverpool to the 20th—their contents, however, are unusually destitute of interest. They are entirely devoted to the discussions, in the case of the Duke of York. A debate of great length is given in the Star, of the 16th March, which was terminated by the final vote on the subject, as follows:
For the motion to acquit, Ayes 364 Against it, 123 Majority in favor of the Duke, 124
It will be observed by a short article in this day's Gazette, that although his royal highness has escaped the stigma of corruption in his office of commander in chief, the scrutiny which has been had into his conduct, has developed many instances of gross misconduct and indiscretion—and that although he has eluded public punishment, the enquiry has produced the salutary effect of drawing him back to a sense of his public and private duties.
A commercial arrangement had been made between Great Britain and Sweden. It was strongly rumored that Russia and Prussia were about to unite their strength with Austria, in a grand struggle to check the overwhelming and unquenchable ambition of France. The English papers to the 17th contain no additional advices from Spain. New York, May 2.
In consequence of the late negotiation at Washington with Great Britain, the gun boats in this port, are to be laid up in ordinary; and their crews to be transferred to the Constitution frigate.
We learn by the sch'r Richard, Captain Bradford, in twelve days from Havanna, that the riotous proceedings in that place, had, in a great measure, subsided. The French inhabitants however, by permission, were selling their property to the best possible advantage, and hurrying off.
We also learn, and we believe it, that flour was 22 dollars a barrel, on which there was a duty of ten dollars—this is not so bad as had been reported. And we also learn, that the duty on exports had been entirely abolished—and, that Americans were treated with more respect and attention than they were during the embargo.
NOW DRAWING, BLACK RIVER LOTTERY, No. II. The following high Prizes are now in the wheel: 1 Prize of 20,000 Dollars, 2 do. 10,000 Dollars, 2 do. 5,000 Dollars, 2 do. 2,000 Dollars, 4 do. 1,000 Dollars, 11 do. 500 Dollars, 36 do. 200 Dollars. Besides a great number of prizes 100 and of 50 Dollars each. TICKETS, Halves, Quarters, and Eighths are now selling at JOSEPH MILLIGAN'S Georgetown, at the New York price. A regular Crack Book of the Drawing is kept, where all Tickets are examined gratis. Letters post paid, containing bank notes, will be regularly attended to, and distinct adventurers will be early advised of their success. May 5—2d
A CARRIAGE FOR SALE. For Sale on moderate terms, a Light Handy Carriage that has been run as a Hack; with harness for two Horses. Enquire at this Office. May 5—St

PUBLIC SALE. William Lorman, against Peggy M'Laughlin and the heirs of Charles M'Laughlin, deceased. BY virtue of a decree of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the county of Washington as a court of Chancery in this cause, dated the 12th April, 1809, will be Sold at Public Auction on the 30th day of May next, at the Union Tavern at 11 o'clock A. M. all the interest of Charles M'Laughlin, deceased, of, in and to LOT No. 171 in Thomas Beall of George addition to Georgetown, with the improvements thereon, and that part of LOT No. 175 in said addition, conveyed by D. C. Brent, esq. as marshal, to Charles M'Laughlin and not sold with the Union Tavern.
The terms of sale are, the purchaser to give bond to the Trustee with approved security for the purchase money and interest thereon from the day of sale, and payable in two months from the said sale. NOTICE is hereby given to the creditors to file in the said court, their claims against the said Charles M'Laughlin, deceased, properly authenticated within ten days from the said day of Sale. DANIEL BUSSARD, Trustee. May 3-3w
TAMMANY SOCIETY. A stated meeting of the Tammany Society, will be held at the Council Fire of their Great Wigwam (Lindsay's Hotel) on Friday evening the 5th day of the present month of FLOWERS, precisely at the going down of the sun. By order of the Society. B. SMITH, Sec. City of Washington, Month of Flowers, 3rd, Year of discovery the 317th, (May 3, 1809.)
SAMUEL STETTINIUS, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE NEAR THE CENTRE MARKET. HAS received from Philadelphia and now opened a GENERAL ASSORTMENT of Seasonable DRY GOODS, among which are: Elegant Calicoes, Do. wide Chintzes, Ginghams, Cotton & Silk Chambrays, Elegant Vest Patterns, Ready made Table Cloths, Bed Spreads, Country Prints, Dimities, Cotton Cassimere, Blue Nankens, Short Yellow do. Long Yellow do. Cotton Checks, Linen do. Cotton Stockings, white and colored for men and women, Lutestrings for Dresses, Seersuckers, Colored Cambries, Cotton Shawls, Madras Handkerchiefs, White Crapes, Pink do. Bandanna Handkerchiefs of assorted colors, A large assortment of fashionable Bonnets, Silk Shawls, Do. black do. Do. do. Handkerchiefs, A General Assortment of Silk and Kid Gloves for Ladies and gentlemen, Irish Linen, German do. A General Assortment of Cotton Muslins, An extensive Assortment of black, colored, high heeled Morocco Shoes for ladies and misses, Morocco Slippers, Leather do. Kid Shoes, Suspenfers, Shirting Cambries, Linen do. Cotton Cambrie, Most elegant Robes for Ladies Dresses, Tamboured Muslins for Dresses, plain, sprigged and figured Leno, Muslin and Leno Shawls, Fans, A variety of Silk and Mantua Ribbons, White Silk Stocks for Ladies and gentlemen, Lead colored do. Nankene do. do. Cotton in Bales, Artificial Flowers, and a number of other articles too tedious to enumerate. Those Ladies and Gentlemen who will favor him with their calls, may rest assured to be accommodated to their entire satisfaction in all respects. He offers also for Sale by Wholesale. 25 Boxes Brown Havana Sugar, 1000 Pounds best Green Coffee, 4000 do. Second quality do. 1000 do. Third do. do. 12 Boxes Tin, 1 Pipe genuine Holland Gin, with certificate, 15000 best Clarified Quills, 150 Pieces Hat Bindings, 1 Bale Gurrabs, 1 Do. Baftas, 1 Do. Cotton Checks, 300 Pieces Yellow Nankens, 10 Boxes Window Glass, 10 by 12. Furniture Calicoes, Fashionable do. Undressed do. 25 Dozen Cambrie Handkerchiefs, Dowlass & Ticklenburg, Oil Cloth, Diaper Table Cloth & Toweling, Tapes, Cloth colored Sewing Silk, Black do. 300 Pieces Satin, Lutestring and Glazed Ribbons, 60 Do. Galloon Bindings, 25 Dozen White Cotton Stockings for men, 25 Do. do. do. women, 36 Do. Ladies Combs, 25 Pieces Boot Strap Webbing, Cotton Stripes, Linen do. 1000 Pounds Spanish Soap Leather, 20 Pieces Bandanna Handkerchiefs, 36 Do. Cotton Cambries, 1 Chest Old Hyson Tea, 1 Do. Young do. 6 Do. Hyson Skin do. of 13 lbs. each, 50 Dozen Common half pint Tumblers, 25 Do. strong bottomed do. 5 Do. plain quart Decanters, 5 Do. plain Decanters, 15 Do. plain Wine Glasses, Spanish Segars, Rocket Looking Glasses, 12 Pounds Twine. All of which he will sell low for CASH approved Notes. Washington, May 3-3t&w
DR. ROBERT FRENCH RESPECTFULLY informs the public that he has commenced the practice of PHYSIC and SURGERY in Georgetown and its vicinity. He keeps his shop in the House lately occupied by Dr. John Weems, deceased. May 3-4f
WASHINGTON BRIDGE COMPANY. NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of Sixteen Shares of the Capital Stock of the said Company, upon which the Second Instalment of Ten Dollars a share remains unpaid, which shares are numbered 461, 462, 463, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and to the Proprietors of 85 Shares, upon which the Third Instalment of Ten Dollars a share remains unpaid, numbered 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372, 373, 461, 462, 463, 474, 475, 476, 477, 478, 479, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 485, 486, 487, 488, 489, 490, 491, 492, 493, 579, 580, 581, 582, 583, 584, 585, 586, 587, 588, 639, 640, 641, 642, 643, 1059, 1060, 1070, 1339, 1340, 1468, 1534, 1535, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, that unless the respective Instalments of Ten Dollars on each share, be paid to the Treasurer, on or before the first day of June next, the President and Directors will proceed on that day, to forfeit for the benefit of the Company, the said Shares, in conformity with the provisions of "An act authorising the erection of a bridge over the river Potomac within the District of Columbia." NOTICE is also given to Delinquents of the Fourth Instalment, that unless they make payment immediately on their shares, the Directors will advertise them for forfeiture. By order of the Directors, DAN. CARROLL, of Dudl'n. Pr. April 26-14m
PUBLIC SALE. IN pursuance of a decree of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, for Washington county, passed in the case of Godfrey Haga, against the heirs of Charles Cist, deceased , will be offered to public sale on the premises, on the 10th of May next, at one o'clock. Three two story Brick Houses, and a Frame House on Lot No. — in Square No. — in the city of Washington, all under rent, with the appurtenances belonging to them respectively. The said houses are advantageously situated on E street, near the Hotel Spring, and will be sold separately. The terms of sale are one third cash in hand, or to be paid immediately on the ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court; one third in 12 months, and the other third in two years from the day of sale—bond being given with approved security for payment, with interest from the day of sale, on each instalment. PHINEAS BRADLEY, Trustee. April 20-tds
By virtue of an order of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for Washington County, will be sold at public vendue at the house of Mr. WILLIAM RHODES, Innkeeper, City of Washington, on Saturday the 13th of May next ensuing, at 3 o'clock P. M. the following very valuable property, in the city of Washington, to wit: Lot No. 6, in square No. 224, containing 4,618 3-4 square feet. On this lot, (with other improvements) is a large, elegant and commodious (three stories) brick house, well calculated for an extensive tavern or boarding house; and is now occupied, in part, by Mrs. Suter, as a boarding house, and the other part by Mr. Edgar Patterson, as a store. This property is situated on the corner of 15th and north F streets, directly opposite the treasury department, and may be justly said, to be as eligible and advantageous a situation for public business, as any in the city; and from the largeness and structure of the aforesaid house, it may be occupied and used, as two separate and suitable dwellings. The terms of sale will be, one fourth part in cash, and the residue on 12, 18 and 24 months credit, the purchaser or purchasers giving approved security; possession to be had immediately. Lots No. 15 and 16 adjoining, in square No. 407, containing 10,206 3-4 square feet. On those lots are some wooden framed houses—They are advantageously situated on Ninth and E. streets—The terms of sale are, one half cash, and the balance on a credit of 90 days, the purchaser or purchasers giving note or notes, with approved indorsers—possession to be had immediately. Lot No. 26, in square No. 232, containing in lot 5,902 square feet—Alley 1,238 sq. ft. and lot No. 27 in the same square, containing in lot 5,322 square feet—Alley 309 1-2 square feet. Those lots are adjoining, and situated on 13th street, on one of which is erected a small wooden house. The terms of sale are, one half in cash, and the balance in 90 days, the purchaser or purchasers giving note or notes, with approved indorsers—Possession to be had immediately. All and singular the abovenoted property will be sold, subject to the dower of Mrs. Mary Ann Penwick, Widow of Bennet Penwick, deceased. April 28-eptds.
CHARLES H. VARDEN, MERCHANT TAYLOR. RESPECTFULLY informs the gentleman of the district of Columbia and Public in general, that he has received by a late arrival from Philadelphia, a Choice Assortment of superfine Cloths, Cassimeres, single and double milled, superfine Coating, black silk Florentines. Likewise an elegant assortment of Sponceties & rich silk Molskins for Waistcoats with a variety of other articles suitable for the season. Regimentals and Navy Uniforms made in the most elegant and uniform style of fashion. Richard Dornwell's celebrated PATENT PARALLEL SUSPENDERS far superior to any hitherto in use can be had on the same terms retail, as at his Manufactory. November 27-tf
FOR SALE AT PUBLIC AUCTION, On the Premises on the 15th day of June next, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. LOT No. 3, in Sq. No. 161 in the city of Washington together with a Dwelling House and Slaughter-House thereon. Said property is well situated for a butcher. A fine run of water passes near it. It was formerly owned by Daniel Gayer. Terms of payment, one fourth cash in hand, one fourth payable in six months from the sale with interest, one fourth payable at the end of 12 months with interest and the remainder payable at the end of 18 months with interest. Said payments are to be secured by good notes negotiable at the Bank and a mortgage on the property. April 17-tds
NOTICE. THE persons who claim title to the following LOTS in Georgetown, are notified that their titles are defective in consequence of their having neglected to avail themselves of the compromise agreed on in the case of Beatty and Davidson. The representatives of Gen. Davidson are yet willing to assent to the same compromise, and all who apply by the 10th May next may obtain deeds on those terms—the lots claimed by those who do not apply will be proceeded against. If those persons desire any information on this subject they can apply to Mr. Abner Ritchie or to F. S. Key, esq. Georgetown. Letters from those who do not reside in the District (post paid) will be attended to. ANNE MARIA DAVIDSON, Executrix & devisee of Gen. JOHN DAVIDSON.
The following are the Lots in Beatty and Davidson's addition to Georgetown, referred to in the above notice—Lots No. 2 & part of Lot No. 3—lots Nos. 4, 6, 15, 30, 41, 43, 44, 52, 58, 59, 60, 65, 67, 71, and part of lot 72—lots no. 80, 81, 83, 85, 86, 87, 91, 92, 94, 103, 104, 105, 109, 110, 113, 114, 118, 119, 121, 123, 125, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 148, 149, 154, 155, 163, 166, 168, 170, 175, 176, 194, 195, 196, 203, 207, 211, 212, 214, 216, 220, 225, 227, 230, 231, 236, 237, 239, 245, 246, 256, 257, 258, 259, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 267, 269, 270, 272, 273, 275, 278, 279, 282, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, and 295. March 22-10m
PUBLIC SALE. BY Virtue of the powers invested in me by the last Will and Testament of John Emory, deceased, I will sell at public auction at Long's hotel in the city of Washington, on Thursday the 11th day of May next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, the following LOTS—Lots No. 3 and 15 in square 431, on Lot 15 is erected a small one story Frame and Workshop—a part of Lot No. 2 in square east of square 1025, laying on the Eastern Branch—part of Lot No. 2 in square 731, and Lots No. 1 and 22 in square 218. The said Lots will be sold on a credit of six months, bond with good security being given for payment with interest from the day of sale. GEORGE BLAGDEN. April 26-tds
FOR SALE. ALL or any part of the Estate of the Subscriber, lying on the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, between the two Bridges, and immediately opposite the city of Washington; a considerable part of the Estate is heavily wooded, and the whole is divided into convenient Farms, each containing a proper proportion of wood and arable land. On payment of one fourth part of the purchase money, indisputable titles will be made, and reasonable credit for the residue, secured by bond and mortgage. ALSO FOR SALE. The whole, or any part of the Estates of the "North American Land Company," and "Aggregate Funds," consisting of divers large bodies of Land variously situated, in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Kentucky; and of Houses & House Lots in the City of Washington. On the Sale of which, indisputable title and very liberal terms, both as to price and periods of payment, will be granted to all persons, particularly settlers disposed to purchase. For further information, and terms, apply to the subscriber, at present in Philadelphia, or at Washington from the 1st to the 15th June next. JAMES GREENLEAF. Philadelphia, April 12-cpl0wug
BY virtue of an authority to me given, will be SOLD at Public Vendue, at the House of Mr. Wm. Rhodes Innkeeper, city of Washington, on Saturday the 13th of May next ensuing, at 4 o'clock P. M. one equal half part of Lot No. 2 in square No. 238, in the city of Washington, adjoining Lot No. 3 in the said square, and containing 1,955 square feet and 7 1/2 inches. The above described Lot is advantageously situated on a public street, and is directly on the Tyber Creek, and near the public Wharf on said creek, on which said Lot is a new and an excellent pump of water. An indisputable title will be made and a credit of 60 days given, on note or notes with approved indorsers. JA. A. PORTER. April 28-epts
FOR SALE AT PUBLIC AUCTION, On the Premises on the 15th day of June next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. LOTS No. 16 and 17, in Sq. No. 101, in the city of Washington, together with the Buildings thereon standing. Said property is directly opposite Mr. Wm. O'Neal's houses near the West Market, and is most advantageously situated, it being the estate formerly owned by Mr. Samuel Wilson, deceased. The terms of payment are one fourth cash in hand, the remainder divided into three equal annual payments with interest annually on these three payments which are to be secured by good notes negotiable at the Bank and a mortgage on the property. Also at the same time and place, TWO SHARES in the Theatre. April 17-tds
FURS. UPWARDS of four thousand Raccoon Skins, from the Lakes, will be sold at Public Auction, in lots to suit purchasers, at this office, on Wednesday the 17th. May next, at 12 o'clock. For sums not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars cash must be paid. For sums exceeding that amount, notes with approved indorsers at ninety days will be taken. J. MASON, sup't. Indian Trade Office, Georgetown, April 20th, 1809.
PUBLIC SALE. PURSUANT to a decretal order of the Chancery District Court of Williamsburg, will be offered for sale, on the 4th Monday in May next, at Westmoreland Court House, being court day, that very valuable FARM, situated on Nomony river, in the county of Westmoreland, the property of JOHN MATTHEWS, late of said county, containing 643 Acres. A credit of twelve months will be given, the purchaser executing to the commissioners acting under the aforesaid order, bond with approved security, and a deed of trust on the land to secure the payment of the purchase money according to the terms of the decree. April 14-tds
PROPOSALS For carrying the MILLS of the United States on the following post roads, will be received at the GENERAL POST OFFICE, in Washington City, until the tenth day of June next, inclusive. IN MAINE. 1. From Scodie falls by Scodie, Dennysville, Machias, Jones, Addison, Harrington, Steuben, Gouldsboro', and Sullivan, to Trenton, once a week. Leave Scodie falls every Wednesday at 6 A. M. arrive at Dennysville by noon. Leave Dennysville at 1 P. M. and arrive at Sullivan the next Saturday by 10 A. M.— Returning —Leave Sullivan every Saturday at 2 P. M. arrive at Dennysville on Tuesday by noon. Leave Dennysville at 1 P. M. and arrive at Scodie falls by 3 P. M. 2. From Dennysville to Eastport once a week. Leave Dennysville every Tuesday noon, & arrive at Eastport at 3 P. M. Leave Eastport every Wednesday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Dennysville by 11 A. M. 3. From Trenton, by Bluehill, Castine, Bucksport, Prospect, Belfast and Ducktrap, to Camden, Thomastown, Warren, Waldoboro', Nobleboro', and New-Castle, to Wiscasset, once a week from Trenton to Castine, and twice from thence to Wiscasset. Leave Trenton every Saturday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Castine by 8 P. M. Leave Castine every Sunday and Tuesday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Wiscasset on Tuesday and Thursday by 8 P. M. Leave Wiscasset every Wednesday and Friday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Castine on Friday and Sunday by 8 P. M. and arrive at Trenton on Saturday by 11 A. M. 4. From Bucksport, by Frankfort, Hampden, Bangor, Eddington and Orrington, to Bucksport, once a week. Leave Bucksport every Saturday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Eddington on Monday by 4 P. M. Leave Eddington every Tuesday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Bucksport by 8 P. M. 5. From Wiscasset, by New Milford, Gardner and Hallowell, to Augusta, once a week. Leave Wiscasset every Friday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Augusta by 7 P. M. Leave Augusta every Thursday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Wiscasset by 7 P. M. 6. From Portland, by Falmouth, Gray, New Gloucester, Lewiston, Green, Monmouth and Winthrop, to Augusta, once a week. Leave Portland every Monday at 8 A. M. and arrive at Augusta on Tuesday by 6 P. M. Leave Augusta every Saturday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Portland on Sunday by 6 P. M. 7. From Hallowell, by Augusta, Vassalboro', Winslow, Waterville, Fairfield and Canaan, to Norridgewock, once a week. Leave Hallowell every Saturday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Norridgewock on Sunday by 6 P. M. Leave Norridgewock every Monday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Hallowell on Tuesday by noon. 8. From Vassalboro', by Fairfax, Unity and Colledgetown, to Hamden, once a week. Leave Vassalboro' every Monday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Hamden on Tuesday by 10 A. M. Leave Hamden every Tuesday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Vassalboro' on Wednesday by 6 P. M. 9. From Hallowell, by Augusta, Mount Vernon, Unity, Sharon, Farmington, Chester, Readfield and Augusta, to Hallowell, once a week. Leave Hallowell every Saturday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Farmington on Monday by 10 A. M. Leave Farmington every Monday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Hallowell on Tuesday by 6 P. M. 10. From Wiscasset, by Bath, Brunswick, North Yarmouth and Falmouth, to Portland, three times a week. Leave Wiscasset every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Portland by 8 P. M. Leave Portland every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 7 A. M. and arrive at Wiscasset by 6 P. M. 11. From New Milford, by Ballstown, Palermo and Davidstown, to Belfast, once a week. Leave New Milford every Friday at noon, and arrive at Belfast on Saturday by 6 P. M. Leave Belfast every Sunday at 6 A. M. and arrive at New Milford on Monday by 6 P. M. 12. From Brunswick, by Boudoin, Litchfield and Hallowell, to Augusta, once a week. Leave Brunswick every Tuesday noon, & arrive at Augusta by 7 P. M. Leave Augusta on Wednesday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Brunswick by noon. 13. From Portland, by Windham, Bridgetown, Waterford, Paris, Buckfield, Livermore, Turner, Norway and Poland, to Portland, once a week. Leave Portland every Tuesday at 8 A. M. and arrive at Turner on Thursday by 10 A. M. Leave Turner every Saturday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Portland the next Monday by 4 P. M. 14. From Portland, by Saccarapoe, Gorham, Standish, Eliotstown, Hiram and Brownfield, to Fryeburg, once a week. Leave Portland every Monday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Fryeburg by 10 A. M.— Returning —Leave Fryeburg every Tuesday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Portland on Wednesday by 6 P. M. 15. From Portland, by Gorham, Bucksport, Limerick, Limington, Parsonsfield, Newfield, Shapleigh, Lebanon, Doulty's Falls, Sanford, Alfred and Waterboro', to Portland, once a week. Leave Portland every Monday at 11 A. M. and arrive at Doulty's falls on Wednesday by 6 P. M. Leave Doulty's falls on Thursday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Portland the next Monday by 8 A. M. 16. From Wiscasset to Booth-Bay, once a week. Leave Booth-Bay every Wednesday at 7 A. M. and arrive at Wiscasset by 11 A. M. Leave Wiscasset at 1 P. M. and arrive at Booth Bay by 5 P. M. IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 17. From Portsmouth, by Dover, Rochester, Middletown, Ossipee, Moultonboro' Centerharbor and Plymouth to Haverhill and Newbury, Vt. and from Newbury, by Haverhill, Plymouth, New Hampshire, Meredith, Gilmanton, Nottingham and Durham, to Portsmouth, once a week. Leave Portsmouth every Tuesday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Plymouth on Thursday by 7 P. M. Leave Plymouth on Friday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Haverhill on Friday by 5 P. M. and at Newbury by 7 P. M.— Returning —Leave Newbury every Saturday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Plymouth by 6 P. M. Leave Plymouth on Tuesday by 10 A. M. 18. From Fryeburg in Maine, by Conway, Bartlett, Rosebrooks and Jefferson to Lancaster once in two weeks. Leave Fryeburg every other Tuesday at 1 P. M. and arrive at Lancaster on Wednesday by 6 P. M. Leave Lancaster every other Monday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Fryeburg on Tuesday by 10 A. M. 19. From Exeter, by Epping, Nottingham, Epsom, Pembroke, Concord, Salisbury, Grafton, Lebanon and Pelham, to Hanover, once a week. Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 9 A. M. and arrive at Concord by 10 A. M. on Wednesday. Leave Concord at 11 A. M. and arrive at Salisbury by 3 P. M. Leave Salisbury at 4 P. M. and arrive at Hanover on Friday by 8 A. M.— Returning —Leave Hanover every Friday at 1 P. M. and arrive at Concord on Saturday by 2 P. M. Leave Concord at 3 P. M. and arrive at Exeter on Monday by 3 P. M. 20. From Exeter, by Newmarket and Durham, to Dover, once a week. Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Dover by 11 A. M. Leave Dover at 1 P. M. and arrive at Exeter by 7 P. M. the same day. 21. From Haverhill, Ms. by Chester and Pembroke, to Concord, twice a week. Leave Concord every Wednesday and Saturday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Haverhill by 11 A. M. Leave Haverhill every Tuesday and Friday at 1 P. M. and arrive at Concord by 7 P. M. 22. From Portsmouth, by Exeter, Kingston, Haverhill, Andover, Wilmington, Wolburn, Medford and Charlestown, to Boston, three times a week. Leave Portsmouth every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 3 A. M. and arrive at Exeter by half past 7 A. M. Leave Exeter at 8 A. M. and arrive at Boston by 7 P. M.— Returning —Leave Boston, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Exeter by half past 5 P. M. Leave Exeter at 4 P. M. and arrive at Portsmouth by 7 P. M. 23. From Exeter, by Chester, Londonderry, Merrimack, Amherst, Petersboro', Marlboro', Keene & Chesterfield, to Brattleboro', once a week. Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 8 A. M. and arrive at Amherst on Wednesday evening, and at Keene on Thursday by 3 P. M. Leave Keene at 4 P. M. and arrive at Brattleboro', on Friday by 6 P. M.— Returning —Leave Brattleboro' every Saturday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Keene by 9 A. M. Leave Keene at 10 A. M. and arrive at Exeter the next Monday by 3 P. M. 24. From Salisbury, by Andover, New Chester and Bridgewater to Plymouth, and thence by Holderness, New Hampton and Sanborntown, to Salisbury, once week, and the reverse the next week. Leave Salisbury every Thursday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Plymouth by 6 P. M. Leave Plymouth Friday 6 A. M. and arrive at Salisbury by 6 P. M. 25. From Haverhill, by Bath, Littleton, Dalton, Lancaster, Guildhall, Lunenburg and Concord, to Littleton, thence by Bath, to Haverhill, once a week. Leave Haverhill on Saturday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Guildhall on Tuesday by 4 P. M. Leave Guildhall on Tuesday by 3 P. M. and arrive at Haverhill on Friday by 5 P. M. 26. From Haverhill, Ms. by Salem, to Windham, once a week. Leave Windham every Monday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Haverhill by 1 P. M. Leave Haverhill every Monday at 4 P. M. and arrive at Windham on Tuesday by noon. 27. From Hanover, by Oxford, to Haverhill, once a week. Leave Hanover every Friday at 9 A. M. and arrive at Haverhill by 6 P. M. Leave Haverhill every Saturday at 8 A. M. and arrive at Hanover by 6 P. M. IN VERMONT. 28. From Littleton, N. H. by Littleton, Vt. St. Johnsbury, Danville, Walden, Greensboro', Craftsboro', Eden and Johnson, to St. Albans, once in two weeks. Leave Littleton, N. H. every other Monday at 6 A. M. and arrive at St. Albans the next Wednesday by 6 P. M. Leave St. Albans every other Thursday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Littleton, N. H. on Saturday by 6 P. M. 29. From Windsor, by Woodstock, Royalton, Randolph, Williamson, Berlin, Montpelier, Middlesex, Waterbury, Bolton, Jericho and Williston, to Burlington, once a week. Leave Windsor every Saturday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Montpelier on Monday by 3 P. M. and at Burlington on Tuesday by 1 P. M.— Returning —Leave Burlington at 3 P. M. on Tuesday, arrive at Montpelier on Wednesday by 5 P. M. and arrive at Windsor on Friday by 10 A. M. 30. From Montpelier, by Berlin, Barre, Washington, Corinth, Bradford, Newbury, Ryegate, Barre, Peacham and Danville, to St. Johnsbury, once a week. Leave Montpelier every Thursday at noon, arrive at Newbury on Friday by 7 P. M. Leave Newbury every Saturday at 5 A. M. and arrive at St. Johnsbury by 5 P. M.— Returning —Leave St. Johnsbury every Sunday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Montpelier on Tuesday by 11 A. M. 31. From Rutland by Pittsford, Branden, Leicester, Salisbury, Middlebury, New Haven, Vergennes, Ferrisburg, Charlotte, Shelburne, Burlington, Colchester, Milton, Georgia, St. Albans & Swanton to Highgate twice a week. Leave Rutland every Wednesday and Saturday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Burlington by 8 P. M. Leave Burlington every Thursday and Monday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Highgate by 8 P. M.— Returning —Leave Highgate every Wednesday and Saturday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Burlington by 8 P. M. Leave Burlington every Monday and Thursday at 4 A. M. and arrive at Rutland by 3 P. M. 32. From Royalton by Tunbridge, Chelsea and Vershire to Corinth once a week. Leave Royalton every Thursday at noon & arrive at Corinth on Friday by noon. Leave Corinth every Friday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Royalton on Saturday by noon. 33. From Rutland by Castleton, Fairhaven, Benson, Orwell, Sholam, Addison, Vergennes, Willboro', Essex ch. Peru and Matsburg to Champlain, once a week. Leave Rutland every Monday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Farhaven by 10 A. M. Leave Farhaven at 11 A. M. and arrive at Champlain on Thursday by 10 A. M.— Returning —Leave Champlain every Thursday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Rutland the next Sunday by 6 P. M.
LOST, ON MONDAY the 24th ult. a SMALL POCKET BOOK, Containing a variety of Papers together with four TEN Dollar Bank Notes—if the person who has the same will return the Book and Papers to the subscriber, he or she may retain the money and no questions asked. WASHINGTON BOYD, F. street near the Bank. May 3-4f