The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1804-10-27 00:00:00

THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, (Virginia) PUBLISHED BY RITCHIE & WORSLEY, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE...AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM...payable in advance.
NUMBER 50.]
SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 27, 1804.
[VOLUME 1.]
CONDITIONS.
 I. THE ENQUIRER will appear twice a week...During the session of Congress and the Virginia Legislature, either a third paper or a supplementary half-sheet, during the week.  II. Terms of payment FIVE DOLLARS per annum, in advance.  III. ADVERTISEMENTS, from those who do not subscribe to the paper, should not exceed a square in length, shall be inserted for twenty-five cents the first time, fifty cents for each time during three weeks, and for every additional insertion thirty-three cents; long ones in the same proportion.  IV. SUBSCRIBERS shall have their advertisements inserted for fifty cents the first time, and thirty-three cents for every additional insertion. 
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
Of Electors for choosing a President and Vice-President of the United States.
 Richard Evers Lee, of Norfolk Borough.  John Goodrich, of Isle of Wight.  Edward Pegram, of Dinwiddie.  Dr. Richard Field, of Brunswick.  Thomas Read, of Charlotte.  Creed Taylor, of Cumberland.  William H. Cabell, of Amherst.  George Penn, of Patrick.  George Wythe, of City of Richmond.  John Taylor, of Caroline.  Larkin Smith, of King and Queen.  John Minor, of Spotsylvania.  William Elzey, of Loudoun.  William Dudley, of Warwick.  Mann Page, of Gloucester.  John Taliaferro, jr. of King George.  Richard Brent, of Prince William.  Hugh Holmes, of Frederick.  James Daily, of Hampshire.  James Allen, of Shenandoah.  Archibald Stuart, of Augusta.  James McFarlane, of Roanoke.  Gen. John Preston, of Montgomery.  William McKimney, of Ohio. 
The Republican Freeholders will do well to examine their tickets carefully, before they deliver them in at the polls.
The Republican printers in the state will insert the above Ticket for the information of the people.
WASHINGTON HENRY ACADEMY.
THE Trustees of the above Academy having repaired all the buildings which are now attached to that institution; consisting of a convenient dwelling house, smoke house, dairy, kitchen and school-house; with to engage for the ensuing year a teacher, capable of instructing youth in the dead languages, practical mathematics, and the English language grammatically.
On Saturday the 10th of November next a meeting of the Trustees will be held on the premises; at which time and place, gentlemen qualified as above, and desirous of obtaining the situation, are respectfully invited to attend, in order that the Trustees may select from among the candidates the one who shall be the best approved by a majority of the board.
The teacher who shall be chosen shall have appropriated to his use in addition to the above house at least 250 acres of land. The situation of Washington Henry Academy is in the centre of a populous and respectable neighbourhood, about ten miles from Richmond, is remarkably healthful, and possesses the advantage of some excellent springs of water.
THOM. TINSLEY, President of the Trustees. Hanover County, October 15th, 1804. (eWor)
EDUCATION.
THE Trustees of Winchester Academy acquaint the public, that the Latin, Greek and French languages, together with Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, the use of the Globe, Euclid, and the practical branches of the Mathematics, are taught in the Academy, by the principal master and his assistants.
The school is provided with Globes and Maps, for the use of the lower classes; with Telescopes and an Electrical Machine; with an Air-pump, Eudiometer, and other parts of Chemical and Philosophical apparatus, for making the usual experiments on Air, and exhibiting the properties of the different elastic fluids.
In their examinations of the school, the Trustees have been highly pleased with the plan of teaching and the proficiency of the Pupils; and are extremely happy in adding, that Judge White will, in future, deliver in the Academy, a Course of Lectures on the Laws and Constitutions of this state, and the United States.
These Lectures will commence annually on the first Monday in December, and continue until the last of the succeeding March, and it is confidently believed, that every exertion in his power, will be made by that gentleman, to render his Lectures beneficial to his Pupils, and worthy of public patronage.
JOHN SMITH, President of the Trustees. September 22. (ef—5w.)
We have received a small additional supply of MADEIRA WINE, of a superior quality, which we offer for sale by the hogshead and quarter-cask.
GIBSON & JEFFERSON. July 12. cpts
FOR SALE. Will be offered for sale, by way of Public Auction, to the highest bidder, on Wednesday the first day of next month:
THE HALF ACRE LOT OF LAND and a TENEMENT lying at Rocketts, late the property of Robert Omohundro, deceased. The buildings on this Lot are convenient and valuable, and the lot will, it is believed, admit of a partition into three tenements; so partitioned, the whole or two parts at least will be sold, and a complete title made in fee simple. Approved notes of persons residing in Richmond, payable at Sixty days, will be received in payment by the Subscriptor. Wm. BROWN. October 13. tds.
LAND—FOR SALE. I AM authorized to sell a Valuable Tract of Farming Land, lying within two miles of King and Queen Court House, and the same distance from the river; containing Six Hundred and Seventy-five acres. A bargain may be had if an early application be made to JOHN TEMPLE. October 9. 2549
WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE.
THE Lectures on LAW and POLICE at the College of William and Mary, will commence on the 20th of November. Oct. 20, 1804. [1m]
JUST RECEIVED BY THE SUBSCRIBERS, FOR PRIVATE SALE.
THREE Bales of INDIA COTTON, either by the bale or single piece;—Which if not disposed of before, will on Thursday the 1st day of November next, be sold privately without reserve for cash. PROSSER & MONCURE, V. M rs . October 10. tds.
NOTICE.
THE partnership, heretofore subsisting between the subscribers, under the firm of ROSS & FORD, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Those who have unsettled accounts with the said firm are respectfully informed that they must apply for settlement to Messrs. Wm. Jones of Philadelphia, or Neil McCoull of this city.
DAVID R. ROSS, BENJAMIN B. FORD. October 17. tds.
FALL GOODS.
WILLIAM TEMPLE has received by the ship Edward and Charles, from London, AN EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF GOODS, suitable to the approaching season. He expects an ADDITIONAL SUPPLY, to compleat his assortment, by the ship Sally from London, and Latona from Liverpool; which he will dispose of on his usual low terms. Sept. 8. cpts
OLD MADEIRA, DRY LISBON, & PORT WINE.
ROBERT GORDON & Co. HAVE received by the Juliana from Madeira, 50 pipes selected old WINE, which they assure their friends proves to be excellent. They have also a few pipes, hogsheads and quarter-casks DRY LISBON and PORT WINE, imported by themselves direct from Lisbon and Oporto.
FALL GOODS.
They have received by the Charles and Edward from London, part of their FALL GOODS, and daily expect from Liverpool and Glasgow an extensive assortment of nearly every article usually imported. September 22. ep3w—53s
THREE DWELLING HOUSES TO BE RENTED.
ONE situate at the foot of Adams' hill, and but a small distance from the Masons Hall, lately occupied by Mr. Thomas Underwood; on this lot there is a very good and well enclosed garden, a well of excellent water and other conveniences.
One other situate in the alley between the street leading to Shockey's warehouse, and that leading to Mayo's Bridge, lately occupied by Mr. John Robbins.
The other situate in the back street near Harris's Tobacco manufactory, and the Rock landing—Having a large garden well enclosed, and at present occupied by Mr. Henry Tompkins.
Possession of the two first described may be had immediately, and of the other on the first of January next.
Apply to JOSEPH GALLEGO. WHO HAS FOR SALE, A light Coach, nearly new, with plated mounted harness, complete for two horses. 13th October. (cpts.)
WASHINGTON TAVERN.
THE subscriber has taken a lease of this tenement for a number of years, and has put it in a state of repair which renders it not inferior to any in this City. Beside the Tavern he has detached buildings, well calculated to accommodate those who are anxious of greater privacy than a tavern usually affords. These tenements adjoin the public square, and are within two hundred yards of the Capitol. They have decided advantages over any other houses in this City, with respect to pure air and excellent water. He has good STABLES and a constant supply of the best FORAGE. He renders his services to his friends and the public, and assures them, that no unlawful gaming, nor any other practice which might, in any degree, have a tendency to destroy the peace of his house, will ever be permitted. EDWARD HALLAM. Richmond, September 26.
N. B. About NINETEEN MEMBERS of the next Assembly may be well accommodated, of whom eighteen have already engaged. E. H.
TO LIKELY NEGROES.
ANY person wishing to purchase about 70 Likely Negroes, may hear where they can be accommodated by applying at the Office of the Enquirer. October 3. tf
BROKER'S OFFICE.
THE Subscriber has opened a Broker's Office in one of the apartments above Mr. Burr's Store. All business confided to him, will be transacted with great fidelity. THOMAS NORVELL. October 8. tf
NOTICE.
A person having claims against the estate of Capt. Thomas Nelson, late of King William County, are desired to bring them in, properly attested, to the subscriber, who has qualified as executor of his father's will; and he takes this occasion to assure the creditors, that as soon as their accounts are liquidated and the balances ascertained, he will make ample provision to meet every just demand, as specially as possible. THOMAS CART NELSON. King Wm. Co. Oct. 3. 1m
FOR SALE.
At Louisa Courthouse, on the first Wednesday in December next,
182 VALUABLE SLAVES,
CONSISTING of Men, Women, Boys and Girls, belonging to the estate of Christopher Smith, dec. Among them is a valuable TANNER, regularly bred to the business. The subscriber has refused to sell any of them privately, and they will certainly be offered at public sale at the time above mentioned. A credit till the 10th of February, 1806, will be given, on the purchasers giving bonds with approved security, to carry interest from the date; but if the principal is punctually paid, the interest will be remitted. CHARLES SMITH. Acting Executor of Christopher Smith, dec. October 3. (cpts.)
DATES'S ALMANAC—FOR 1805—Publish-
ed by Messrs. Davis & Courtenay, may be had at the Office of the Enquirer. September 19. cpts
A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly, to establish a FERRY from the lands of Peter Rust, in Richmond County, to his said Rust's lands in Essex County. September 15. [1m.]
NEGROES—FOR SALE.
A LIKELY NEGRO WOMAN, about 36 years old, with three children; two Girls 13 and 8 years old, and a Boy 5 or 6. They are now living with Mrs. Brewer in Bedford county, and will be sold low for cash. Apply to the Editor of THE ENQUIRER, or the Subscriptor. Tappahannock, Sept. 29. tf
LAURENCE MUSE.
TAKEN out of the subscriber's shop, between Monday morning and Wednesday evening a BLUESURTOOT COAT, with velvet cape and Blue pockets. Any person who gives such information that I get it shall be rewarded with one half its value. I. P. HOPKINS. October 20.
A WET NURSE.
WANTED to hire or purchase, a Wet Nurse without a child of her own. Enquire of the Printers. August 8. tf
WANTED ON HIRE;
A WOMAN without a Child, who is a good Cook, Washer, and Ironer. Liberal wages are offered for one who can come well recommended. ALSO—A GIRL, from 12 to 16, who has been accustomed to wait in a house. Apply at the Enquirer Office. Sept. 8.
A GREAT BARGAIN.
THE subscribers are authorized to sell by private sale on liberal terms, and if not disposed of by the first Monday in December ensuing, will on that day, at the Eagle Tavern, in the City of Richmond, positively be sold at public auction, without reserve, for cash, the moiety of a valuable TRACT OF LAND, containing 1080 acres, in Spotsylvania county, within twenty miles of Fredericksburg. The tract is commonly known by the name of Garnett's, and adjoins the lands of John Kenney, John Mitchell, Thomas Johnson, and others. This moiety is that part nearest the town of Fredericksburg. ALSO—Two hundred acres LAND lying in Fluvanna county, adjoining the Lands of H. C. Stone, Richard Wyatt, and John Manly, which we will dispose of on the same terms of the above. PROSSER & MONCURE, V. M rs . September 22. [2am tds.]
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
NEW-YORK, Oct. 19.
The passengers from the ship Iris arrived here yesterday by way of New-London. They left the vessel on Tuesday evening, off Martha's Vineyard, in her way to this port. She sailed from London on the 24 of August, and we have been favoured with papers brought by her of the 22d and 23d. The intermediate dates from the 18th to the 22d being wanting, we are unable to lay before our readers the particulars of a plot which we find has been discovered for taking away the life of Louis XVIII and the principal officers attached to his person.
The Iris, about a fortnight ago, spoke the ship Orlando, Marshall's, who sailed from Amster-dam on the 22d for this port; and was informed by captain M. that the Emperor of Russia had declared war against France, and that he had papers on board containing the official declaration. The Iris fell in with the Orlando a second time on the 14th inst. all well.
Left at London, the ship Jupiter, Law, to sail in a week; ship Alexander, Vote, in 10 days; and ship Hardware, Matlock, in 3 weeks, all for this port.
Passengers in the Iris, Mr. Samuel Campbell, merchant, of this city, and his family; Mr. Albert Ryckman, of this city; Mr. John Guelph, of the house of Guelph and Bancker of Philadelphia; and several others.
The following are the only interesting articles in the papers which have come into our hands.—[N. Y. Mer. Adv.]
LONDON, August 23.
Private advices received by the French Journals state, that the Russian squadron, consisting of ten sail of the line and several frigates, had arrived in Copenhagen Roads the beginning of the present month, and landed 10,000 troops. It is added, that another squadron, with 20,000 men, was shortly expected in the same direction; and there is reason to hope, that a very considerable portion of the forces of Russia, both military & naval, will ere long be employed in the great work of restoring those ancient barriers, which Gallic perfidy and aggression have nearly laid in ruins. We view the landing of a Russian force in Denmark, however small, as a circumstance highly auspicious to the common cause, and as the prelude to a powerful confederacy, which is to rescue Europe from its present degraded state. A Russian army marched through Denmark for the North of Germany, and co-operating with the forces of that country and of Sweden, will be the signal for all other Powers of the Continent to assert their rights, and avenge their grievances; and from these internal efforts, aided by the vigorous external impulse of Great Britain, the most happy results may not unreasonably be expected. All the Powers of the Continent are at length convinced, that it is not by timid or temporizing expedients that the necessary bounds are likely to be set to the ambition & rapacity of France; and that the safety and independence of their several States will be soon more endangered, if they do not, with becoming spirit, interfere to avert the evil with which they every day become more seriously threatened. Such is the influence with which the rude usurper tyrannizes over the neighbouring States, that, according to a private letter from Hamburg, he caused to be intimated to the Elector of Baden, that the conduct of his son in law, the King of Sweden, in presuming to take notice of the murder of the Duke of Enghien, was so displeasing to him (the Corsican) that if the Elector allowed his Swedish Majesty to remain in his territories, he might expect an immediate visit from 30,000 French troops. This fact sufficiently accounts for the fuddlemess of His Majesty's departure from Carlisle; but from the subsequent conduct of this spirited young Monarch, there is every reason to hope, that his present journey will prove not unbeneficial to the cause of Europe and humanity. The Emperor of Russia lately paid a second visit to his fleet at Cronstadt, when he expressed himself highly gratified with the various naval evolutions performed on the occasion. In our account of the attempt against the life of Louis XVIII published on Monday, we omitted the following particulars, which appear in the second declaration of Coulon, viz. That two sharpers came at 7 o'clock in the morning, and opened the great door of the house where Coulon lived, by means, as he supposed, of a picklock; and that they afterwards endeavoured to pick the lock of the door leading to the fair-rate; in which, however, they could not succeed, as the key remained in the lock, and Coulon held it fast within side. He at the same time overheard a person say, "the plan has failed, we must immediately inform Boyer of it & be off." It was observed by another, "mark I had the money been given." They continue to speak still further, but in so low a tone as not to be heard by Coulon. What their intention was may easily be conjectured. But a review of what followed the detection of the plot, and what peculiarly marks and characterizes the conduct of the Magistrates and Governor of Warsaw, if it gives room but to little surprise, it has abundant, however, in it to excite indignation and contempt. What could be more insulting to the dignity and the reputation of Louis XVIII than the hesitation and delay betrayed in the conduct of the President d'Hoym, in returning a proper answer to the letter of His Majesty?
What is more shuffling and evasive than the reasons assigned for not immediately securing the persons of the conspirators, or for not appointing a commission to analyse the suspected nature of the parcel. Such a conduct may not be unworthy of men whose honor or conscience place no obstacle to the execution, not only of whatever express orders they may receive, but ever of what they may fancy to be the secret will and spirit of the power from whom they hold their office and authority. Letters received at Hamburg from Warsaw on the 10th inst. confirm the accounts already received of this atrocious conspiracy, and add, that the French Emiliaries involved in it, had effected their escape; they also mention, indeed, that president Hoym, the governor of Warsaw, and the Prussian City Council, had transmitted a protocol of the whole plot to the Court of Berlin; but what in the interim, has been the consequence of their first indecision?—We shall take the first opportunity of returning to this subject.
We are informed from the Kentish coast, that part of our blockading squadron have again been forced to return to Dungeness by unfavorable winds. Several of the enemy's boats came out of Boulogne harbour on Monday evening, but soon returned without giving our cruisers an opportunity of firing in their manoeuvres. Upwards of 40 gun vessels of different descriptions have lately arrived at Flushing from the interior of Holland. To man these, a very smart press took place at Rotterdam. They are destined to join the flotilla at Ostend. In the Texel, there are six ships of the line, and a proportionate number of frigates and cutters, ready to put to sea at the shortest notice.
A plot is said to have been discovered for taking off the King of Sweden by poison in his late journey from Bohemia to Munich: but we have not yet learned the particulars.
Some of our vessels called at Algiers on the 10th ult. where they were well received. The Dey not only behaved with great civility to the officers, but sent with them an envoy for England, with overtures for settling amicably the differences which have existed between the two Powers ever since the dismissal of Mr. Falcon, the British Consul.
The news of Bonaparte's attempt to poison Louis XVIII, caused much indignation at Berlin, that his Minister, La Forest, had been intimated, both in the streets, and in the Theatre, by the public; and whilst at court, and in the Casino, every Member of the Diplomatic Corps, with the exception of the Italian and Batavian Ministers, shunned him, and avoided speaking to him. This indignation was augmented after the arrival of another courier with information of Bonaparte's Commercial Agent, Boyer's new endeavour either to bribe over with money, or to intimidate by threats, the Frenchman, Coulon, who discovered this base and atrocious plot.
Private letters from Paris, of the 6th inst. say, that when, after the late trial of Moreau, Georges, and the other pretended conspirators, the Temple was emptied of its prisoners, and considerable repairs were made to lodge conveniently State prisoners of rank and consideration, whom the Parisians believed to be the Kings of Naples and Spain, as being branches of the Bourbon family.
Parliament is further prorogued until the 4th of October.
Stocks.—3 per cent consols 57.—Omnium 6 1-2.
August 24.
Our yesterday's letters from the Coast inform us, that a brisk firing was heard from Ambleteuse, evidently directed against a few of our vessels, which were seen directly standing in shore—but as the firing was not of long duration, no consequence is attached to the result. The Duke of York, after reviewing the troops at Dover on Wednesday, proceeded to Shorn Cliff, where General Moore had made the necessary preparations for his Royal Highness's reception. In the mean time, which was to take place there yesterday, it was expected that an attack would be made from the sea by the squadron under the orders of Admiral Lewis; that his Highness the Commander in Chief would be on board to direct the attack; and that General Moore would command the party on land. His Majesty's ships Leopard, Ardent, Veteran, Leda, and General Coote, have returned to Dungeness Roads from the French coast.
The articles by yesterday's Gottenburgh mail afford additional proof of the warm interest which the Emperor Alexander takes in the cause of the unfortunate Bourbons; and, as there seems no doubt of his serious intention to attempt the restoration of that illustrious House, it is considered, and by no means irrationally, that he means to place one of the Princes at the head of the army to be employed for that purpose. The next Hamburg Mail will probably bring some further accounts of the new disposition that has been made of the forces of Russia.
The report was yesterday morning revived, and with still more positive than on the preceding day, that an interview was certainly to take place yesterday between two great and illustrious Monarchs. We have already stated, that no such interview had yet taken place, and we now repeat the assertion with undiminished confidence. The reports which are privately circulated on this subject are such, that a due sense of delicacy and prudence must suggest the propriety of remaining, for the present at least, from any public mention of them.
We have the pleasure to acquaint the Public
that upwards of twenty thousand guineas of foreign wheat have been entered inwards at the Customhouse, and 15,000 of that entered the 21st inst.
Gottenburgh, Aug. 12.—The Prince De Conde, the Duke of Orleans, and another of the French Princes, are very soon expected at Riga, where, it is said, that two English frigates are to convey them; they will proceed from thence to some convenient place in the Russian dominions to meet Louis the XVIII, before having been given by the Emperor of Russia for that purpose; their avant Couriers passed through Gottenburgh for Riga, on the 10th inst.
A Norwegian Gentleman, who has been travelling along the Coast of France, by Havre, from Boulogne, Calais, Ostend, &c. to Amsterdam, which place he left twelve days, says, that the greatest disaffection prevailed every where, but particularly in the army. In Boulogne there were 1800 vessels of all descriptions, which number it was intended to increase to 2000; in the vicinity were about 24,000 troops, and about 15,000 near Ostend. These were the bulk upon the coast, but there were considerable more up the country. He says that though the invasion of England was much talked of, and every preparation made for it, but few persons believed it would ever take place, and that since the late trials the name of Bonaparte was execrated, and the reformation of the Bourbons anxiously wished for; and that nothing but the fear of again wandering through all the horrors of the late revolution prevented their declaring in favour of it in Holland; he says that people were groaning under their oppression.
AN ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE LOUIS XVIII.
This affair is likely to exercise so much interest and conversation, that we think it right to insert a correct translation, of the statement which appeared last night in the Courier de Londres: particularly as the editor of that paper says—"The English newspapers have given an account of this affair from such incorrect notes, that the translation is absolutely disfigured."
For some time past, a variety of reports, but to which the degree of attention which they deserved had not been paid, had given intimation that some design was in agitation against the person of the King.
On Friday the 20th July, two men came into a billiard-room, kept by one Coulon, a Frenchman by birth, and put several indirect questions to him concerning the King. They were acquainted with Coulon's intimacy with the King's domestics, particularly his cook.
Next day the same men came back, and asked Coulon, in a more direct manner, "Whether the King went abroad frequently?—if he went out by himself?—what were the number and persons of his suite?—and if they were armed?" Coulon, thinking these questions did not arise from mere curiosity, gave on each point the answer required.
In the course of the conversation, the two persons inquired, to whom the billiard table belonged? "It is mine (said Coulon) but I have not paid for it." "How, then do you expect to pay for your establishment?" "I got a loan of the money, and I intend to pay for it out of the profits." "There is a way (replied the strangers) by which you might immediately gain a great deal of money." "And how so?" "We will tell you; but the thing is to be a profound secret." "O, if that were all," said Coulon, "But take care; your life might be in danger." "Never mind; say on."
The men then explained to him their plan; and said, that being acquainted with all the servants of the King's family, and particularly the cook, he could go into the kitchen at any time without exciting any suspicion. "If you should succeed (added they) your fortune is made."
Coulon hesitated—spoke of his wife. The two strangers sent for punch and made Coulon drunk, and his wife also (the latter, understanding but little French, took no part in the conversation.) "Take no apprehension about your wife (said they next); we will carry her to France along with you; and we repeat it, your fortune is made."
The glasses of punch went round briskly. Coulon, fearing to intoxicate himself, would drink no more. They separated; and on seeing them to the door, Coulon heard the two strangers say to each other, in bad Italian, "Time presses; we have not a moment to lose."
Next day, Sunday the 22d, a man called twice during the forenoon at Coulon's. He was gone out. In the evening a man he did not know asked him to walk along with him a few yards; and spoke of the conversation that had taken place the day before. Coulon agreed. The unknown carried him into the Old Town, then to the New Town and then into a house the situation of which he could not point out, on account of the darkness of the night, and the winding lanes by which he had been conducted to it. There they found one of the two persons he had seen the night before, who asked him as did the man who had been his guide, if he still persisted in his resolution? Coulon replied "Yes; why not?" Champagne was called in. They fell to drinking, and one of the two strangers got drunk.
The following is the manner in which it was resolved to execute their plan:
Coulon was to go and visit the King's cook, and tell him that for a long time past he had not seen any mutton chops, and that he should ask him to do a few. After the precaution of making the cook drunk, he was to throw into the pot a parcel with which he was to be provided. "Very well (said Coulon) but the money you have promised me: you have promised me 400 louis, but you have given me nothing." The stranger who was drunk said, "I don't know if Boyer would give you so much as that." He who was sober said, in an angry tone, "What do you mean by that? Boyer is not here; he is gone, and will not return for two days."
Coulon insisted on the money; again mentioned his wife, the expenses of the journey, &c. They told him not to be uneasy on that score; that he had nothing more to do than to come next day at eleven o'clock in the evening, and be within 20 yards of the Village New; that there was one would give him the packet; that he was to put it into the pot on Tuesday the 24th July; that then he should go to the Five Gallows, where he should find a person who would conduct him to a place of safety, and carry him into France. "And my wife," said Coulon, "Give you my word no trouble on that head; and there is a ducat to drink with the cook."
At one in the morning they left the house, forced away Coulon, who wished to stop till

day, saying, that his house was shut, and they carried him back to his house by bye-ways.
Coulon immediately went, and waited on M. de Baron de Villeville, Usher to the Queen, and informed him of the plot. M. de Villeville communicated it to M. de Piégu, First Gentleman of the Chamber to the King's Chambers; and M. Count de Avaray, Captain of the King's Guards, ordered that the report should be put in writing, signed and cyphered.
M. the Count d'Avaray thought it proper to conceal from his Majesty the danger till he had obtained more positive information. The life of all the Royal Family was threatened, and he was afraid that the sensibility of the King, and alarmed for the safety of the Queen, and Madame the Duchess d'Angoulême, would betray a secret which his courage would easily have kept if his own life merely had been in danger.
Without losing a moment, M. the Count d'Avaray sent to ask an audience of M. the President de Hoyo, in which he laid before him an account of the intended crime, pointing out to him the necessity either of preventing the consequences of such an attempt, or of unmasking the imposture of a man who had denounced a conspiracy only in the hope of obtaining reward.
M. the President de Hoyo on this occasion displayed a zeal with which M. d'Avaray was much affected. He authorized him, in case the information was well founded, to cause the authors of the plot to be arrested by the King's domestics, either at the rendezvous near the Five Ghibes, or in the walks of Lazenky (a country house near Warsaw inhabited by the King) and to send them to the Garde de Corps, whither M. de Hoyo promised to repair in person.
On the morning of the 23d M. de Avaray sent for the King's cook, and after having bound him by an oath to preserve inviolably the secret as to the subject about to be entrusted to him, he ordered him to let Coulon come into the kitchen, and to allow him to come near the spot.
On the other hand the Baron de Villeville had been ordered to send Coulon orders to repair to the rendezvous appointed at eleven in the evening, the same day of the 23d July.
Coulon obeyed with fear. After passing the Barrière to the Village Neuf, he was followed by one, who in a few minutes said: "Are you Coulon?" "Yes," replied he. Then another man came out from a field of corn. Both of them told Coulon not to go any further, lest the dogs should raise an alarm. They asked him if he continued in the same intentions; Coulon answering in the affirmative, they gave him a packet and six crowns, expressly recommending to him not to turn the packet upside down, because it contained carrots, hollow in the inside, and what was in them might fall.
Coulon demanded the money promised. The others answered that they could not give more, having already been several times deceived, and not considering themselves perfectly sure of him. On this, Coulon said to them, "if you distrust me, let one of you go along with me, I will get him introduced." They refused, saying it was impossible; besides too he might already have prated of the affair, though they did not believe he had. "For the rest," added they; "if you do not succeed, it will be your own fault; if you do, you have only to repair on Saturday to Soc-haer. The Post-master of the place, who knows you, will make you welcome, and will give you whatever you want. When you arrive there, we will give you the 400 louis d'ors, and we will set off for France together. If you do not do this on Saturday, on Sunday you shall not be in life. We have promised you 400 louis d'ors, but you shall have 100 more for every person who dies within a month."
They then pointed out to him the forty-fifth tree from the barrier on the road to Village Neuf. At the foot of this tree they buried a handkerchief, one of the corners of which they left above the ground. Should Coulon be unable to execute the project in the course of Tuesday the 24th, he was to take away the handkerchief, and in case of success he was to leave it.
On leaving him they gave him a small bottle, and said to him, "You will drink two glasses of this before entering, which will give you courage, and when you have put in the packet you need not be afraid, because it will not operate suddenly."
They then told him, that if he should remove the handkerchief, they would see him again in the evening. Coulon asked where? They told him to give himself no trouble, for they knew very well where to find him.
Coulon declared that he could not be certain, if the two men who met him on the night between the 23d and 24th were the same who first made the proposition to him; but that he was very certain, that the tallest of the two, who was present at all the interviews, was the person who gave him the packet, and placed the handkerchief, &c. The two men followed him to the end of the road. On their leaving him he fainted away, and was assisted by a Prussian Officer, who happened to be passing.
All these facts are extracted from a declaration on which Coulon made on the 24th. On the evening of the same day he added to his former declaration, that the secret to which he had been conducted by the two strangers was Seigen-gasse (Seigen-street). He thinks he entered a sort of court surrounded with houses. As far as he could judge he went out by a different door from that he entered by, and before which there were trees and a palisade of planks. He was in a chamber, on the second floor, which had two windows, and where there was a chest of drawers, painted of a pale mahogany colour, and placed close by one of the windows.
* From the time that Louis XVIII had resided at Warsaw, the French Government had one Coulon Boyer, with the title of Commercial Agent. There never had been a person that capacity at Warsaw before. Note of the French Editor.
(To be continued.)
THE LATE DUKE D'ENGHIEN.
[The following Letter, which was the last, we understand, the murdered prince ever wrote, we have translated from that excellent publication, Pelier's Ambigu, of yesterday.]
Letter from the Duke D'Enghien, to Mr. S——, at Vienna.
Ettlingen, electorate of Baden, Feb. 15, 1804.
Sir, Having been informed by Gen. D'Ecquevilly of the alacrity with which you were kind enough to communicate to your Government my anxious desire to be employed during the course of the present war, and of the very particular regard which you have on this occasion testified towards me, I feel much satisfaction in acknowledging how deeply I am affected by that testimony of your kindness towards me; and I could lose no time in returning the sincere expression of gratitude which it is so justly entitled to from me.
It is, therefore, with the fullest confidence, that I again repeat, what, no doubt, Gen. D'Ecquevilly has already informed you of—the complete torpor and state of inactivity in which I am doomed to languish, while the road to honour lies open to so many others, weighs heavier and heavier upon me every day, and becomes a
burthen I am utterly unable to support. I am only anxious to afford your government due proofs of my gratitude and zeal. I presume to hope, that the English will not deem me unworthy to concur with them in combating our implacable enemies, and that they will allow me to share their dangers, and likewise come in for a portion of their glory.
The request I make is wholly unconnected with any interest growing immediately out of the cause of my family; and its sole object is to obtain a post in your family, or some honorable commission. It differs so very widely from that report which at another moment was made by those members of my family who were then residing in England, that I cannot help entertaining a well-grounded hope, that it will be attended with a happier result. You will oblige me exceedingly, Sir, by your laying every possible stress upon that difference. It is unquestionably a sacred duty for us to promote to the last extremity, our cause, and to serve our lawful Sovereign; but it is also a duty very urgent and very dear to my heart, which I feel solicitous to be permitted to perform, in serving my benefactors, and to manifest towards them a gratitude which is equally sincere and disinterested. This desire has long situated my heart, and daily acquires a new degree of ardor.
Let me therefore request, Sir, you will have the goodness confidentially to point out the means by which I may yet attain my object; and you may already rest satisfied of my warmest gratitude, as well as of my very particular esteem and distinguished consideration.
L. A. H. DE BOURBON, Duc D'Enghien.
[The following is also extracted from M. Pelier's Ambigu.]
Article extracted from "the Bee of the North," of the 10th Aug. 1804.
Warsaw, July 30.—The Count de Lisle, who was to quit this city the 26th of this month, did not set out until this day for Grodno. A business which would have astonished the city of Warsaw, if, unfortunately, it had been carried into execution, had delayed the departure of that prince. He has had complete proof that some individuals who now inhabit this city, have fought not only his life, but that of his family and servants. No less than an attempt has been made to poison them all with arsenic. The count de Lisle has received all the proofs, and drawn up a process verbal, and the whole has been put into the hands of justice, which will probably proceed against the offenders, if they have not already escaped from this city. We have seen here the original protest of Louis XVIII, against the thing that has been done, and is doing. With the exception of one trifling omission, it is the same as that we have read in the Moniteur.
LONDON, Aug. 21.
Some French and Dutch papers arrived yesterday from which we have extracted some curious articles. The Moniteur contains a pretended letter from Constantinople, the style of which leaves no doubt of its being a Parisian fabrication. It displays an anxiety that removes all doubt with respect to the misunderstanding that exists between the courts of St. Peterburgh and St. Cloud, and which goes in a material degree to prove, that the period of actual hostilities between those powers, is far less remote than some of our politicians affect to believe. With respect to Austria, some displeasure, on the part of the French government is also pretty clearly manifested. The emperor Francis, it seems, has, by purchase, added the town of Lindau to his territory and the style in which this transaction is detailed in the Dutch Journal, evidently under the influence and control of Gallic agents, shews plainly that the Corsican does not view the present conduct of Austria in an amicable or favorable light. Besides these circumstances, we find that the King of Sweden, pursuing his journey, is expected to have an interview with the Emperor of Germany, at the camp of Moravia, at which the Archduke Charles and John will be present. Interviews between crowned heads seldom take place for trivial objects.
The last accounts from Constantinople state the most violent commotions still continue in Egypt, and that French influence is exerted with the utmost unremitting assiduity to create divisions and disputes, with a view, no doubt, to their attaining a footing once more in that distracted country. Some of the powers do not scruple to call upon the French openly to assist them; but these intreaties are confined to a few, the majority looking to the English for assistance.
We are extremely sorry to find that some disaffected persons have lately been endeavouring to excite a mutiny in the Canadian regiment, a fine body of Highlanders, now at Glasgow; and we fear from the language of the Proclamation upon the subject, that the efforts of these vile wretches have proved not altogether ineffectual.
AUGUST 22.
The Hamburg mail of Wednesday last, and a set of the minor French journals, to the 10th inst. inclusive, arrived yesterday. Private advices received by the former state, that the Russian squadron, consisting of ten sail of the line and several frigates, had arrived in Copenhagen roads the beginning of the present month and landed 10,000 troops. It is added, that another squadron with 20,000 men, was shortly expected in the same direction.
We view the landing of a Russian force in Denmark, however small, as a circumstance highly auspicious to the common cause, and as the prelude to a powerful confederacy, which is to rescue Europe from its present degraded state. A Russian army marched through Denmark, for the North of Germany, and co-operating with the forces of that country and of Sweden, will be the signal for all other powers of the continent, to assert their rights, and avenge their grievous wrongs.
Such is the influence with which the Corsican usurper tyrannizes over the neighboring states, that according to a private letter from Hamburg, he caused to be intimated to the elector of Baden, that the conduct of his son-in-law, the king of Sweden, in presuming to take notice of the murder of the Duke d'Enghien, was so displeasing to him (the Corsican) that if the Elector allowed his Swedish majesty to remain in his territories, he might expect an immediate visit from 30,000 French troops. This fact sufficiently accounts for the suddenness of his Majesty's departure from Carlsruhe, but from the subsequent conduct of this spirited young monarch, there is every reason to hope that his present journey will not prove unbeneficial to the cause of Europe and of humanity.
The report in circulation that Bremen had been entered by the French troops is unfounded. That city persists in refusing to pay the demands made by these military robbers, and the blockade is still kept up with the utmost rigor. The magistrates have requested permission to send a deputation to Paris, but this permission has been denied them.
Fresh differences have lately arisen between France and the Elector of Wittenberg, and his highness has appealed to Russia on the subject.
AUGUST 23.
The rumour gains ground that Government has determined upon a very extensive plan of offensive warfare against our inveterate enemy,
who seems determined to continue that threatening and exhausting system of hostilities, confined to manoeuvres and reviews on his coast, and attacks no where else but in the cowardly Moniteur. If report may be depended upon four grand expeditions will be undertaken at the same time; one against the Elbe or the Weser, another against Holland or Flanders; and two against the French coast in the channel; as some say, with intent to burn the flotilla at Boulogne, and the division blockaded at Havre, and if the latter succeeds, to attack Cherbourg and destroy those works which Bonaparte has lately erected with so much expence. We have even heard that to create a diversion, false attacks are to be made at the same time on the island Noirmontier and Bellisle.
The rumour of an expedition being in agitation, is strengthened by the sailing, in great haste of 20 coppered transports from Plymouth on Saturday, for the Downs.
No mails from the Continent arrived yesterday. We are therefore, without any further information respecting the recent movements of the Russian forces. If the accounts received on Tuesday, thro' the most respectable channel, be correct, the most important consequences may naturally be expected to result. The landing of a Russian force in the territory of Denmark, is a circumstance sufficiently indicative of a proper understanding between those two powers, and must remove all doubt with respect to the disposition of the latter, to co-operate in any plan which the former may have resolved to carry into execution. Of the spirited determination of the king of Sweden, our readers are already informed, and his resentment to Corsican perfidy must be still more heightened, if it be true, as stated in private advices received by the last Mail, that an attempt was made on his life during his late tour, by some of the emissaries of the midnight assassin of Vincennes. It is said, that the intention was to take him off by poison in his journey from Bohemia to Munich; but we have not yet learned the particulars.
PRINCE OF WALES.—Several weeks since, we announced, that considerable progress had been made towards effecting a perfect reconciliation between two exalted and noble Personages. We have now the happiness to state, that the hopes we then expressed are likely to be justified by the event, and that an interview will very shortly take place for that most gratifying purpose. It was yesterday reported, that the Prince had in the morning visited his majesty at Kew, but this rumour, we know, was untrue. An interview, however, is certainly intended which we have no doubt will lead to an event, than which nothing is more likely to allay that fever of party which has so long weakened the best interests of the country. Some of our vessels called at Algiers on the 10th where they were well received. The Dey not only behaved with great civility to the officers, but sent with them an envoy to England, with overtures for settling amicably the differences which have existed between the two powers ever since the dismissal of Mr. Falcon, the British Consul.
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 29.
In the course of this year, 4 Russian expeditions have passed the Dardanelles, and proceeded to Corfu. The first which set out in the month of February, consisted of two frigates, three brigs, and a corvette, carrying 600 troops.—The second composed of one ship of fifty guns and a corvette, entered the Mediterranean two months ago, and had on board 700 troops. The third anchored here on the 27th of May; it consisted of two ships of 74 guns armed in suite, and three transports, carrying 1200 men. The day before yesterday, a fourth expedition appeared; the two ships of which it consisted, had on board 1000 troops. The number of men, therefore, who have hitherto come from the Black Sea, amounts to three or four thousand, which added to 1500 in garrison, makes the Russian troops in the Seven Islands amount to 5000 men. The Porte is really alarmed, but it conceals its fear.
VERONA, July 21.
His Imperial majesty has declared the port of Venice a free port, and extended to it all the privileges and immunities enjoyed by the harbor of Leghorn. All trading ships, and all kinds of commodities, will be exempted from any duties, either on entering or leaving the harbor.
We have translated the following articles from our file of Paris Papers by the Sophrona, to give the American reader some idea of the state of object vassalage and debasement into which the French press and the French people are sunk under the present order of things. These extracts are a faithful sample of the matter with which the columns of every Paris Journal are now occupied: they consist entirely of appointments to the Legion of Honor, minute notices of the most trivial occurrences relating to the Imperial Family, and the most unhallowed inuendo ever offered by Folly and Knavery at the shrine of Royalty.
N. Y. Merc. Adv. O.G., 17.
PARIS, 5-14th August.
The following is a copy of the letter wrote by the High Chancellor of the Legion of Honor, to his eminence the Cardinal Legate:
"Monsieur, the Cardinal Legate, Your eminence has received from his Imperial Majesty, in the temple of Invalides, the day on which the members of the legion took the oath the great star of the legion. I have the honour to transmit to your eminence the letter which confirms your nomination. You are the first foreigner, Monsr. le Cardinal, to whom his Imperial Majesty has given the decoration of the eagle of the legion of honour. This distinction was due to the worthy representative of the sovereign pontiff, to the illustrious prelate to the able statesman, to the conciliatory minister whom France loves, and Europe esteems. I experience a very lively satisfaction in expressing these sentiments in the name of his Imperial Majesty, and I pray your eminence to accept the testimony of my high consideration.
Signed, LACÉPÈDE.
The preparations for the coronation are, it appears, going forwards without relaxation. This memorable era will be celebrated by festivals the most brilliant. It is said that the Senate will on that occasion give a grand occasion give a grand feast at the palace of Luxembourg, and the city of Paris at the Hotel-de-ville. In all parts the manufactures are busily employed in executing the several orders to a considerable extent, either from France or foreign countries.
Prince Joseph having arrived in Paris on the 9th August from Boulogne, whither he is expected to return by the 15th (the day fixed upon for the distribution of the decorations of the Legion of Honour, which the Emperor will make to the members of the legion belonging to the army and to the flotilla) he was immediately waited upon at his palace rue St. Honoré, by a deputation from all the military corps in Paris; and the next day the high authorities of the empire, consisting of the Ministers the Members of the Senate, the Council of State, the Legislative Body and the Tribune waited upon his Imperial highness, when his excellency the President of the Senate pronounced the following discourse:
"Prince, the members of the Conservative Senate hasten to offer to your Imperial Highness the homage of a sincere respect, and of an unbounded attachment."
"The first of the state bodies, doubtless, owed this homage both to the brother of the Emperor and to the Grand Elector of France; but in the discharge of a duty how pleasing it is for the members of the Senate to obey in some measure only the sentiments with which every one of them has for a long time been penetrated for your Imperial Highness! In homages of mere etiquette, it is easy to distinguish the tribute paid to rank from that given to the person. It is well known that the authority which can command measures, cannot force the inclinations. Happily here the legitimate debt is wholly a voluntary offering. Your eyes cannot deceive you respecting it."
"Besides, we are acquainted with your love for simplicity; we know how your imperial highness appreciates grandeur and titles. In your opinion true greatness consists in being useful to mankind; and the most flattering title that of the good that can be done. Animated by such a spirit, Prince Joseph is well assured we honour him for himself."
"August and beloved Prince! enjoy the impression which your presence makes upon us. I came not to address you with an harangue of flattery; it is the heart of all my colleagues that speaks to you thus by my voice."
"I should never cease, were I to attempt expressing everything they would have to say to you; but we respect the moments of your imperial highness; those he can grant us appear to us very short. Scarcely will you have made your appearance in the bosom of the Senate, when your imperial highness will hasten to return to the bosom of the army. Fixed at our post we shall regret our not being able to follow you."
"In short, we feel that the interest of the state is the supreme law. Since this sacred reason calls you so soon among our brave legions near the father of the country, the members of the Senate flatter themselves your imperial highness will be the bearer to him of the expression of their hearts, and that you will repeat to him the assurance of their fidelity. Render us this new service, Prince! I be our interpreter near the great NAPOLEON."
"Tell him that the wishes of all the Senators for the Emperor and his family are wholly absorbed in their wishes for the welfare and glory of their country. In all our affections as well as in our thoughts, the destinies of the Bonapartes and the fortunes of France are henceforward inseparable."
His excellency then addressing himself to her imperial highness Princesse Joseph, said
"Madam, it is a glorious day for the Senate, that in which it can express its love, its respect and its devotion to the august family of the worthy Emperor of the French."
"Madam, your imperial highness cannot but remark, by the altered voice of him who has the honour of speaking to you, the deep tenderness which has been produced in him by the admirable answer of his imperial highness prince Joseph to the discourse, or rather the very few words which I have been permitted just now to address to him. Your palace is my eye the temple of modesty. I fear to wound the goddess of it if I presume to picture her virtues."
"But the most affecting homage is the only one worthy of your imperial highness: it is that of our hearts, and your imperial highness is earnestly solicited to accept of it."
(*This sublime answer does not appear.)
AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, 1-8 August.
His Majesty the Emperor having given orders that the festival of Charlemagne should be celebrated with all the ceremonies which for several ages past have been customary, during the stay of his august spouse in this city and on such day as he would condescend to fix upon, her majesty has assigned Sunday next the 5th of August. Preparations are now making for that ceremony, which will be as pompous as the localities will admit of.
Her Imperial Majesty will attend the Theatre this evening, when the Opera called the Marriage of Figaro will be performed by her order.
Her Imperial Majesty has condescended to make choice of Dr. Reaumont for her director during the time she takes the waters.
The ladies at Aix-la-Chapelle having solicited the honour of being admitted to present their homage to her Imperial Majesty, her Majesty admitted them at her levees of the 18 and 19 Thermidor.
Her Majesty continues her daily walks in the country about town, attended by her court. She will visit to day several manufactories; and will see wherever the goes, her name is blessed, and her person adored.
STRASBURG, 8 August.
We shall soon have the happiness of possessing the Emperor within our walls: his Imperial Majesty will arrive here through the provinces of the interior by the way of Sedan and Metz. We are in hopes he will make some stay in Strasbourg. He will go from hence through the departments of Mont-Tonnerre and Rhine-and-Moselle to Aix-la-Chapelle near her Imperial Majesty. This unexpected news has occasioned the liveliest joy in our city. Preparations are making for the solemn and brilliant reception of his Imperial Majesty.
DUNKIRK, 10 August.
Yesterday his Majesty the Emperor visited several points of our harbour.
This morning, at eight o'clock, his Majesty caused a part of the troops of the camp of Dunkirk to manoeuvre at low water mark. The Emperor leaves this to-morrow for Ostend.
Whenever the Emperor has left his headquarters, either to visit the harbour or order evolutions, our citizens of all classes would crowd on his passage, intermix their acclamation with those of the soldiers, and each one could not sufficiently satisfy his eagerness at the happiness of seeing him.
OSTEND, 14 August.
The Emperor mounted on horseback very early. He reviewed the division of General Friant, which manoeuvred afterwards on the grand. The day was beautiful, and those handsome evolutions were executed in sight of the English, who were stationed at a small distance from the port.
BOULOGNE, 15 August.
The Emperor sat out this morning from Ostend, and this afternoon arrived at his head-quarters at Pont-de-Brigue. The concourse of strangers, who are to attend the memorable festival which is to take place here to-morrow is so great that for several days past they are obliged to seek for lodgings in the neighbouring boroughs and villages.
A respected friend has obligingly favoured us with the Speech of Carnot delivered in the Tribune against the proposition to vest in Bonaparte the imperial hereditary dignity. Hitherto we have been furnished with but an outline of this Speech. The following is from a French copy in the form of a Pamphlet. The reasoning is not as solid as we could have
wished on an occasion so important; it is rather gaudy than masculine. His allusion to the United States is however honourable and correct, and correct, and as an abstract and practical position it is undoubtedly true, as remarked by this great war minister, that "it is less difficult to form a Republic without anarchy, than to erect a monarchy without despotism."
[Amer. Citizen.]
[TRANSLATION.]
DISCOURSE.—Pronounced by Citizen Carnot, upon the motion relative to Hereditary Government.
TRIBUNATE.
EXTRAORDINARY SITTING.
11th Floreal—12th year.
Citizen Tribunes!
Among the orators who have preceded me & who have all supported the motion of order of our colleague Curnier, several have anticipated the objections which might be raised against it, and they have answered them with as much talent as amenity: they have given examples of moderation which I shall endeavour to imitate in making observations which apparently have escaped them. And as to those, who, because I combat their advice, might attribute to me personal motives unworthy the character of a man entirely devoted to his country, I deliver to them, as the only answer, the scrupulous examination of my political conduct since the commencement of the revolution, as well as that of my private life.
I am far from attenuating the praises given to the First Consul: had we to thank Bonaparte for nothing but the civil code, his name would merit to pass down to posterity. But whatever services a citizen may have rendered his country, there are limits which honor as well as reason impose upon national gratitude. If a citizen has restored public liberty, if he has effected the safety of the country, would it be a recompence to offer to him the sacrifice of that very liberty? Would it not be annihilating his own work, in making that country his particular patrimony?
The moment the proposition was made to the French nation to vote on the question for the Consulate for life, every one could easily perceive that there existed after-views and ulterior end.
Indeed we beheld a rapid succession of a crowd of institutions evidently monarchical: but in every instance endeavours were made to re-assure the minds that were uneasy about the fate of liberty, by declaring that these institutions were made with the view of procuring it the highest possible protection.
This day we discover in a positive manner the final end of so many preliminary measures: we are required to vote upon the formal proposition to re-establish the monarchical system, and to confer the imperial and hereditary dignity upon the First Consul!
Formerly I voted against the consulate for life; I now vote in the same manner against the re-establishment of monarchy, persuaded that my office of Tribune obliges me to do so; but I shall do it with the necessary precaution not to re-awake party spirit; it shall be done without personality, without any other passion than that for the public good; in remaining always in conformity with myself in the defence of the popular cause.
Invariably submitted to existing laws even at times when they displeased me most: more than once have I fallen a victim to them, and I shall not follow a different course this day. I declare therefore beforehand that, whilst I combat the proposition in question, from the moment a new order of things is established and it has received the assent of the mass of the citizens, I shall be the first to conform to it in all my actions—to show to the supreme authority every mark of deference which the constitutional hierarchy shall require. May every member of this great society emit a vow as sincere and distinguished!
I shall not dissent on the preference which, in general, such or such a government may merit; we have volumes without number on that subject. I shall confine myself, in a few words, and in terms the most simple, to the examination of the particular case in which circumstances have placed us.
All the arguments hitherto advanced on the subject of re-establishing monarchy in France are, that without it there can be no means to insure stability of government and public tranquility, to escape intestine troubles, to unite against external enemies; that a republican form of government had been tried in vain every possible manner; that from all those efforts had resulted nothing but anarchy; a revolution prolonged or incessantly renewed, a perpetual fear of new disorders, and, consequently, a universal desire to see the ancient hereditary government re-established. To this an answer must be given.
I shall observe, therefore, that a government placed in one man is no pledge for stability and tranquility. The Roman Empire did not last longer than that of the Roman Republic. In the former, the interior troubles were greater, the crimes more multiplied: the republican fierceness, heroism, and manly virtues, were there replaced by pride the most ridiculous, by adulation the most vile, by cupidity the most unbridled, and by carelessness the most destructive to the national prosperity. How have the evils been remedied by the throne being hereditary? Has it not been regarded in fact as the legitimate inheritance of the house of Augustus? Has Donitian not been the son of Vespasian, Caligula the son of Germanicus, Commodus the son of Marc Aurele.
In France, the last dynasty has indeed lasted during eight centuries, but have the people been the less tormented? How many intestine disorders! How many external wars for pretensions, rights of succession, the result of the alliances of that dynasty with foreign powers! From the moment a whole nation espouses the particular interests of one family, it is obliged to encounter a multitude of events which, without that, would to the nation be perfectly indifferent. We could not establish among us a republican regime, though it has been tried under divers forms more or less democratic: but we must observe that, of all the constitutions which successively have been tried without success, there was none but what was the offspring of factions and the work of circumstances, as imperious as fugitive: hence all were vicious. But since the 18th Brumaire we find an epocha, the only one perhaps in the annals of the world, to meditate, sheltered against alarms, in order to found the liberty of the nation upon a solid basis, avowed by experience and by reason. After the peace of Amiens, Bonaparte could choose either a republican or a monarchical system; he might have done what he thought proper, without encountering the least opposition. The deposit of liberty was confided to his hands; he had sworn to defend it. By fulfilling his promise he would have accomplished the expectation of the nation who judged him to be the only one capable of solving the great problem of public liberty in extensive states; he had covered himself with incomparable glory. Instead of performing this great work, what are we doing to day? It is proposed to give him an absolute and hereditary property of a power, of which he had received but the administration.

It is true that, antecedent to the 18th Brumaire, the state was falling into dissolution, and that absolute power dragged it from the borders of the abyss: but what are we to infer from that? What all the world knows; that political bodies are subject to maladies which can be cured but by violent means; that a momentary dictatorship is sometimes requisite to save liberty. The Romans, who were so jealous of it, were however sensible of the necessity of that supreme power at intervals. But, because a violent remedy has saved a sick person, are we to administer it to him every day a violent remedy? Fabius, Cincinnatus, Camillus, have each successively saved the Roman liberty by absolute power; but it was by stripping themselves of that power as soon as they could; by a retention of the power they would have destroyed liberty. Cæsar was the first who wanted to retain it and he fell a victim to it; but liberty was annihilated for ever. Thus all that has been said to this day upon absolute power, proves only the necessity of a momentary dictatorship in the crisis of a state, but not of a permanent and immovable power.
It is not by the nature of the government that the great republics fall in stability; it is because they are unprovided for tempests; it is invariably the exaltation that presides at their establishment. There is but one that effected the work of organized philosophy during the calm, and that republic subsists full of wisdom and vigour. This phenomenon is offered by the United States of America, whose prosperity daily increases to the astonishment of all other nations. Thus it was referred to the new world to contain the old that men can preserve subsist under the regime of liberty and equality. Yes, I dare to lay down the principle that, whilst we can establish a new order of things, without any fear from the influence of factions, as the first essential was able to do, especially after the peace at Amiens, and as he still can do, it is less difficult to form a republic without anarchy than to erect a monarchy without despotism. For how can we conceive a limitation without illusion, in a government of which the chief is all the executive power in his hands, and all the places and offices to bestow? They have spoken of institutions which are said to be proper to produce that effect: but before the re-establishment of monarchy was proposed, should we not have been previously assured, and have shown to those who have to vote upon the question, that such institutions are in the order of possibilities? that they are not of those metaphysical abstractions which are incessantly approaching the contrary system! Hitherto nothing has been invented to temper the supreme power but what are called the intermediate or privileged bodies. Is it then a new nobility that they mean when they speak of institutions? but is not the remedy worse than the evil? for the absolute power deprives us of liberty, whilst the institution of privileged orders takes away both liberty and equality; and if at first the great dignities are only personal, it is well known that they always finish as the grand fiefs formerly, by becoming hereditary.
To these general principles, I will add some particular observations. Let us suppose that all Frenchmen will give their assent to the measure proposed; would it be a proof of their free will? What results from the registers where each is compelled to sign his name to his individual vote? Who is the man that is not convinced of the influence of the preceding authority in such cases? From all parts of France, they say, bursts forth the desire for the re-establishment of hereditary monarchy; but are we not authorized to regard as fabrication an opinion hitherto almost exclusively concentrated among the public functionaries when we know the inconveniences to be encountered by manifesting a contrary opinion; when we know that the liberty of the press is annihilated to such a degree that it is impossible to get inserted in any of the Journals a complaint the most respectful and moderate?
Indeed there should be no necessity for balancing the choice of an hereditary Chief were it necessary to have one. It would be absurd to draw a parallel between the First Consul and the Pretenders of a family justly despised, and whose vindictive and sanguinary dispositions are but too well known. The recall of the house of Bourbon would be renewing the frightful scenes of the revolution, and proscription would infallibly extend itself both to the property and persons of the great part of the citizens. But the exclusion of that dynasty does not render a new dynasty necessary. May we then hope that creating a new dynasty would hasten the happy epoch of a general peace? Would not that rather be a new obstacle to it? Are we assured that the other great powers of Europe will adhere to this new title? And if they do not adhere, are we to take up arms to force them to it? Or after having reduced the title of Consul below that of an Emperor, will the Consul content himself with that title for the sake of foreign powers, whilst he is Emperor only of the French? And shall we for a vain title expose the security and prosperity of the whole nation?
It seems therefore, to be infinitely doubtful whether the new order of things can offer more stability than the present state. There is for government but one means to consolidate itself: it is to be just: that with them favour does not exceed the services rendered; that there may be a guarantee against depredation & impositions. Far be from me any particular applications or any critique on the conduct of government; it is against arbitrary power itself I am speaking and not against those in whose hands that power may reside.
Was then liberty shown to man merely to convince him that he can never enjoy it? Was it incessantly offered to his view as a fruit to which he cannot stretch out his hand without being struck with death? Thus nature who gives that liberty as a pre-emptive want, should have intended to treat us as a species! No, I will not consent to regard as a simple illusion, this beneficence so universally preferred to all others, and without which all others are nothing. My heart tells me that liberty is possible, that the regime of it is easy and more stable than any arbitrary government; any oligarchy.
Nevertheless, I repeat it, always ready to sacrifice my dearest affections to the interests of my country, I shall content myself with having once more made round the accents of a free mind; and my respect for the law will be the more secured, as it is the fruit of long misfortunes, and for that reason which to day imperiously commands us to unite in our body against the implacable enemy of us all; of that enemy who is at all ready to foment among us discord, and to whom all means are legitimate, provided he can attain his aim at universal oppression, and dominion over the whole extent of the seas.
I vote against the proposition.
their employ. 11th. The general commanding the divisions accompanied by his staff-major.
The procession shall be preceded and followed by a platoon of grenadiers, and a detachment of grenadiers shall line the way on both sides. Arrived at the Champ-de-Mars, all the drums shall beat the march, and the procession shall proceed to an amphitheatre, which shall be prepared for their use.
The act announcing the nomination of the Emperor shall be read in a loud and intelligible voice: a discharge of musketry and of cannon, which shall be repeated by all the forts of the city and vessels in the harbor, shall succeed the reading of the act.
After this ceremony, the troops shall file off in the best order possible, and march to the Church, and form in order of battle.
The procession, in the order above-mentioned, shall also proceed to the Church, where a Te Deum in thanksgiving for this memorable day shall be sung: during the Te Deum a second discharge of musketry and cannon shall be made.
After the Te Deum the procession shall return, still in the same order, to the house of the General Division.
The fete shall terminate by a grand illumination in all quarters of the city.
Done at Port-au-Prince, the 6th September 1804, first year of Independence. (Signed) A. PETION. The General of Division.
NEW-YORK, Oct. 16.
From Martinique—By the postilions of Capt. Dockendorf, we are favored with a Martinique Gazette of Sept. 18, from which we extract the following honorable testimony of the humane and generous conduct of the public officers, and the inhabitants of St. Pierre's, to the sufferers from the tremendous hurricane, in the early part of September. In our paper of yesterday we gave a particular detail of the vessels injured.
ADDRESS Of the Captains and Supercargoes of the vessels shipwrecked at St. Pierre's, to the Captain General and Colonial Prefect at Martinique. The undersigned, masters and supercargoes of vessels cast away in the river of St. Pierre, in the late violent storm, beg admiral Villaret Joyeuse, captain general, and M. L'Aufant, colonial prefect of Martinique, to accept their most unfeigned thanks, for the generous assistance they have experienced from them in their distress, and for the exemption of duties on their cargoes.
We pray them to be assured that their kindness will never be erased from our memories. We avail ourselves of this opportunity to express our grateful acknowledgements to the merchants and inhabitants who kindly opened a subscription for our relief, the liberality of which afforded a most seasonable assistance to ourselves, and our crews. We also beg leave to present our gratitude to all those persons who have offered us their individual assistance.
Signed—James P. Watson, (officer of the United States navy) John Selby, Jeremiah Goodrich, John King, Joseph Coleman, John Moulton, Caleb Smith, H. I. Ambling, Robert Mott, D. Wacker, N. Meutgil, Enoch Hubbard, George McCalmont (of Philadelphia) John Bacon, Samuel Hutchings, Thomas Baker, Henry H. Downs, J. T. Clarke. St. Pierre. (M.) Sept. 12, 1804.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
Doctor George Logan, of Charleston, announces it on his authority, and that of several Medical gentlemen, in very extensive practice, that hitherto there had not appeared a single instance of Yellow Fever in Charleston, among persons who had been residents for more than three years; and that it is consequently reduced to a certainty, that the constitution of a stranger is completely assimilated to the constitution of that climate, after three years residence.
At an Election held this morning by the Select and Common Councils of the city, for Mayor, MATHEW LAWLER, esq. was re-elected to that office.—[Phil. Gaz.]
The Marquis Yrujo arrived in town on Tuesday evening last, from the City of Washington. [Phil. Gaz.]
VERMONT ELECTION.
From the returns received there is no doubt of the Federalists having succeeded in re-electing their candidates for the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, and treasurer for that state by handsome majorities. Gen. Chittenden, and Gen. Chamberlain, both federalists, are re-elected members of Congress by large majorities. (Amer. D. Adv.)
Capt. Barry, who has arrived at New-York from Torrevieja, passed Gibraltar the 16th of August, and lying there, three American frigates. These ships must be part of the squadron which sailed from Hampton Roads on the 4th July last.—[Bos. Gaz.]
From New York papers of Saturday last, Capt. Marshalk, of the Orlando, from Amsterdam, says, that War has been declared by Russia against France. The latest papers he has brought, are of the 16th August, and are silent on that head, but he states that a paper of the 18th, contains the interesting declaration, and Capt. Brown, of the Ambition, hourly expected, has it.
At the time of the Orlando's sailing from Amsterdam, there were upwards of three hundred sail of transports waiting at Neu Dieppe, to receive the troops destined for the invasion of England.
The Texel continued blockaded by seven British ships of the line. [Phil. paper.]
Winter begins already to threaten us with its rigors. On Tuesday last a gale of wind from the northward, accompanied with much rain, commenced and blew, with a violence not experienced in this city since its settlement, till the next morning, when a few trees and fences blown down, and Catkill mountains covered with snow, exhibited a reverse to the scene presented two or three days preceding, and reminded us, after little or no spring weather and a short summer, of the near approach of old Boreas in his icy terrors clad. We hear there has been good icing a few miles westward. And at New Lebanon, in this county, they have had snow twice already. As there was some there in May, they have been but four months this year without snow, a remarkable circumstance in this latitude, 42 deg. N. [Bee, Hud. N. Y.]
HARTFORD, Oct. 17.
Last Thursday the Honorable General Assembly of this State convened at New Haven. The house of
Representatives elected Timothy Pickin, jun. Esq. Speaker and Nathaniel Rooter & Sylvanus Backus, Bishops. Clerks.
THE GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.
Gentlemen of the Council, Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, SO few are the public concerns which particularly relate to this State, and which have occurred since our last session, that I shall have occasion to detain you but a short time by this public communication.
A letter from his Excellency Governor Strong, of Massachusetts, will be laid before you, conveying certain resolutions of the legislature of that Commonwealth, respecting an amendment by them proposed to be made to the Constitution of the United States. This proposal from an elder sister State, will I presume, gain from you its merited consideration; and will meet such decision as your wife and prudent judgment shall think proper.
A circular letter of the 24th September last has been received from the Secretary of State for the United States, notifying to this State, that the amendment proposed during the last session of Congress, to the Constitution of the United States, respecting the manner of voting for the President and Vice President of the Union, has been ratified by three fourths of the several states. This letter will be now communicated for your information.
Since the last session of the late Legislature, there have been forwarded for the use of this State, from the Department of the United States, 455 copies of the United States Laws, passed at the second session of the seventh Congress. These copies are to be distributed by the Comptroller, to the several towns, agreeably to law.
The Legislature will recollect that a new election of a President and Vice-President of the United States, is to take place in December next. The Electors for this purpose, to be appointed by this State, will be to be chosen before the close of this session.
In the course of the present year, we are arrived at the result of the French revolution—a result, such as many wise politicians and enlightened civilians have long since predicted. After twelve years ardent pursuit of liberty and republicanism—after destroying their existing form of government, with its royal head; after framing and presenting to the people a variety of new constitutions, for the security of their republican government and equal rights, all which have given place to each other in rapid succession, without the wished for effect; and after scenes of terrible confusion and distress, attended with a vast expanse of blood and treasure, a Monarchy is again restored to that nation with a stronger arm, and more despotic power, than the one which had been overturned. Could it be possible that another lesson of caution and prudence in revolutionary pursuits was necessary, for the admonition of this or any other country, the people might look to this recent result in France, and learn wisdom from the awful experience and misfortunes of that great and powerful nation.
Should any well intentioned individuals in our country, endeavour to satisfy their minds with an idea, that similar measures may be better managed here than in France; or that a well informed people engaged in like pursuits, may say, with regard to their re-here shall the tempestuous billows of revolution be stayed;—let such persons recollect, that in France, and among their enlightened men, the same ideas prevailed at their first outset; and let such persons also consider, before it is too late, how miserably, in that riment, and, pausing on this event let them seriously reflect that like measures will probably produce like fatal misfortunes, and finally terminate in a like unhappy issue. The world has long since been taught, that despotism is the rank weed which springs from the rich soil of anarchy.
Wishing you our wanted harmony in the progress of our general business, I offer you my hearty concurrence in such measures as may be judged most conducive to the general welfare and happiness of the people.
J. TRUMBULL. Oct. 11, 1804.
FESTIVAL.
On the 4th July, 1804, the citizens of St. Genevieve, in the district of Louisiana, and of the neighbouring settlements assembled on the hill near the village, and partook of a dinner, which had been provided by Madame Valle, widow of the late commandant of the district. The day was ushered in by a discharge of seventeen rounds of cannon—and 50 of the most respectable inhabitants of the country attended the celebration.
Doctor Walter Fenwick, at the request of the company, acted as President, and Rufus Easton, Esq. as Vice-President. Felicity and joy pervaded every heart, truly it was "the feast of reason and the flow of soul."
Being the first time the day had ever been honored on this side of the Mississippi, the ladies being waited on, attended towards evening, and partook of the repast with the gentlemen. Under the bower a dish of coffee being provided for them—when the company were delighted by the melody of their voices, and the enchanting music that warbled from their lips—the neighbouring fields being covered with the wheaten sheaf, and adorned with nature's gift, added lustre to the passing moment. The ladies retired at sun-set, under a salute of seven guns; and a ball was given in the evening, at the house of Madame Moreau. After dinner the following toasts were drank:
1. The Day—May it ever hereafter be honored on the west of the Mississippi. 2. The President of the United States—We have read of kings, princes, and potentates, being highly favored of the Lord; but we believe none more so than the Republican Jefferson. 3. The majority of the present Congress—The increase of Republicanism throughout the union a convincing proof of the wisdom and justice of their measures. 4. The Judiciary. 5. The memory of WASHINGTON, and the heroes who fell in defence of American freedom. 6. Louisianians—Cannot be insensible to increase of wealth and liberty, by becoming citizens of a free government. Truly administered. 7. The Federal Constitution—Let it be so amended as to put it out of the power of any party to disappoint the wishes of the U. S. 8. American Liberty—Saith unto the north give up; to the south keep not back—he brings her sons from afar and the daughters from the ends of the earth. 9. The Militia, army and Navy of the United States. 10. Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe—The successful negotiators for the best interests of this country. 11. The District of Louisiana and Illinois County—Fertile, luxuriant and wholesome—will soon add brilliant stars to the American Constellation. 12. The Governor and Judges of the Indiana Territory—When they feel power, may they not forget right; but make such laws as will please the people, & quiet their own consciences. 13. The people of the United States—In the increase of their strength may they extend the arm of protection to the oppressed throughout the globe. 14. Lieutenant Decatur and the brave American tars, who burnt the frigate Philadelphia—they have done immortal honor to themselves and to their country. 15. Our Fair Daughters of Columbia—May virtue appear in all their actions and feasts in all their conversation. 16. The natural boundary of the U. States—The Ocean.
VOLUNTEERS.
By the President—Our fellow citizens of Louisiana, may they reverse the principles of Republican administration.
By the Vice-President—The Militia of the district of Louisiana—May they by their attention to Military discipline, and attachment to the government under which they live, supersede the necessity of any additional troops.
By the Rev. Mr. Maxwell—May Louisiana be happy in the enjoyment of their freedom.
MARYLAND ELECTION.
The following gentlemen are elected to represent this State in the
NINTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
First District—John Campbell—Federalist. Second—Leonard Covington—Democrat. Third—Patrick Magruder—Democrat. Fourth—Roger Nelson—Democrat. Fifth—William Mac Creery } Democrats. Sixth—Nicholas R. Moore } Seventh—John Archer—Democrat. Eighth—Joseph H. Nicholson—Democrat. Ninth—Charles Goldsborough—Democrat.
Fred. T. Her.
ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND:
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1804.
SPEECH OF GOV. TRUMBULL.—It is peculiarly important, that every public character should carefully distinguish between his private principles as a man, and his professional duties as an officer. When a person is invested with certain public functions, it is the very essence of his appointment for that man to discharge any other public duties, than those which are attached to his office. To express more abstract opinions; to advocate a certain set of doctrines, at the very time when he is discharging the duties of his office, and which are not necessarily connected with any of those duties, can scarcely be entitled to the name of information, though it is evidently marked by some of its features. It indicates a disposition in the officer to extend his influence beyond his public functions, and to attach an importance to certain principles, not to be derived from their intrinsic truth, but from the extra-neous influence of his office. Such a principle, if carried into complete operation, would be productive of the most pernicious or ridiculous consequences.
We should see the ministers of the gospel, instead of expounding the tenets of their religion, or animadverting upon the sins of their flock, expatiating upon systems of government; and instead of taking their text from St. Mark or St. John, culing a maxim from Sir Robert Filmer on the Divine right of Kings, or Locke on Civil government, and influencing the political conduct of their hearers, not surely by the penalties of the law, but by the imperceptible weight of their sacred character, and by the incitements of religion. We should see the civil magistrate, while fulfilling his legal functions, and charging a Grand Jury on their appropriate duties, escaping from the statute-book which lay before him; and launching forth into discussions about the constitution, or into the divisions of party; and, instead of railing against the violators of the law, and the disturbers of the public peace, we should see him forgetting his judicial functions in violent animadversions upon some general systems of government, or particular measures of an administration. Such things have been done in our own country and at no distant time; and they have been felt by some of us, as they deserved to have been felt.—The authors of such impertinent conduct, have been viewed by us with emotions of shame and just indignation.
The Governor of Connecticut (Mr. Trumbull) has usurped this same privilege, although he has made a very innocent use of it, in his late Speech to the General Assembly of that state. Having found little excuse for his official privileges in detailing the "public concerns which particularly relate to that state," he proceeds to execute his short and uninteresting communication by a few general reflections on "the result of the French Revolution." The Governor of the confederate state of Connecticut, which had entrusted all its foreign relations to the federal head; this rare officer, whose sphere of duty could not extend beyond the U. States, presumes to introduce into a public communication his private reflections on the revolutions of a foreign country. Public reflections they cannot be called; as they can have no allusion to his own duties, or the office of the state legislators, whom he was at that time addressing. Some reflections indeed on the change of a foreign government might have been properly offered to Congress by the President of the United States; if such observations were intended to show that these political changes were intended a corresponding change in our foreign relations, which it was the duty of that body to understand and to regulate. But any abstract reflections on the revolutions of foreign countries, their probable causes, or their actual consequences, would surely be incompatible even with the constitutional duties of the President. Much more then would they be unbecoming the official character of the Governor of Connecticut.
It is not difficult, however, to perceive the real drift of Mr. Trumbull's observations. We know that the inhabitants of Connecticut have been warmly engaged within a few months in revising their state constitution. One party, principally consisting of the Republicans, have ventured to contend, not only that their present form of government is no constitution at all, as it is simply the Old Charter of Charles II. which has never been specially adopted by the people; but that even if it were a constitution in the most liberal sense of the term, it would still be deficient in the most useful principles of a republican government. The other party again do not hesitate to support the existence and to eulogize the provisions of their constitution. Gov. Trumbull, fearful that the spirit of reform would operate at all, or that it would go too far, is willing to instruct the people of Connecticut by the melancholy example of the French nation. Without being called upon in his public capacity; when the subject itself, to which he makes no pointed allusion, is still aloof in the minds of the people, and has not even reached the legislative body, he comes forward to reach that body, or rather the people at large, on this subject which peculiarly demands their most impartial judgment. He exercises a privilege, which appears to me to enter, by no sort of construction, into the office of a Governor of Connecticut; and which no more belongs to Mr. Trumbull, than to the most retired citizen in the state.
This criticism is merely confined to the propriety of Governor Trumbull's introducing his private opinions into the public affairs. The accuracy of these opinions constitutes a very different, and perhaps a more important subject of enquiry. My own sentiments do not certainly coincide with his in every respect. The application, which he makes of the experience of the French revolution, to the affairs of this country, appears to me altogether unfounded. What analogy is there between a nation, oppressed not only by its government, but by its privileged orders, labouring for the perfection of a new system of things in the midst of civil ruin and foreign war, and a people possessing equal rights, who are anxious to accomplish a peaceful reform in the principle or details of their government? What is there in the fate of the one, that should repress the spirit of improvement in the other? As to the opinion that "we are arrived at the result of the French revolution," every vessel which is waited across the ocean, appears to bring with it some contradictory intelligence. Here, however, it is time for me to pause!
FRENCH COURTIERS.—The constituted authorities of the French empire appears to be fast relapsing into that servile and degraded character, by which the whole nation were so much distinguished under the old regime. As the king smiled or looked grave, it was then customary for the sympathetic countenance of the his-lancers, to assume the varying expression. It is impossible for us at this time and in this distant country to know what are the secret sentiments of the nation itself, and whether the same servility which marks most of the prominent characters of the Empire, has gone abroad among the people to vitiate the
independent manners of a twelve year's freedom. Of this state of the nation, it is plain, we are by no means competent judges. The freedom of the press in France is destroyed; and even the freedom of conversation is suppressed into a low whisper, by the vigilance of the police officers. If we may believe however the unsatisfactory report of the occasional traveller, or some of the lady sketches of their public prints, we may still entertain some hopes that the people in heart and sentiment are not attached to the usurpation of Bonaparte, and that their actions are sometimes marked by the jealous pride of independence. The character of the whole nation is not therefore to be estimated by the conduct of those few individuals, who occupy conspicuous stations, and whose every action is exposed to the view of a suspicious government. It is not by the contemptible degradation of the ordinary class of the civil authorities, or the journales of France, that we are to be graduated the character of the nation, as it is than by the elevated independence of the virtuous Morveau.
The proofs of this servility are to be found in the latest intelligence brought from France. If the same causes continue to operate, a greater degree of it may be expected to prevail, and the result is obvious. When a nation degenerates from the ardor of freedom into the manner of despotism, it cannot at once relinquish its manly character. Some time is required to break down its spirit, and to restore it to all the general habits of the new establishment. The despot soon knows this character, and he will sometimes stoop from his elevated rank to mix with his subjects, and to accommodate his own actions in certain degrees to their former ideas. This is one reason, why the subjects of a newly-created Empire should adopt the complete servility of an old regime: but there is another reason, why they should adopt it, which is more complex. When a new throne is set up, the suspicions of the governor are ever on the watch. Every man who does not contribute one of the organs of his power, who does not appear at the new order of things is absurdly regarded as a grudge against the old establishment. To let such suspicions sleep, he must offer to be, if he really is not, the friend of the despot. He must be numbering in his professions of adhesion and loyalty. When the monarchy has been sufficiently established not only by its own force but by the propofition of the people themselves, such servility of attention is not necessarily expected. The obsequiousness now given is not offered as a pledge of the fidelity of the utterer, but as an allusion to his fears. Fewer professions are required, because fewer fears are entertained of the obedience of the people. Let this fact however be called in question; let this suspicion be once instilled into the bosom of a despot, under the oldest monarchy; and from that moment the race of courtiers is multiplied, and their servility is augmented.
The inference from this maxim is obvious. Let Bonaparte continue to rule over France for some time to come, without establishing his usurpation upon an unshaken basis, that is, without having destroyed all the powerful enemies, who may be willing to oppose him, I say that the servility of the French may be expected to prevail in a still higher degree. The feelings and habits of the revolution will by that time be weakened, and the suspicion of the usurper will be equally great. What tyranny may not then be expected to prevail? Not all the adulation offered to the former monarch of France; and scarcely perhaps the benignant compliments of oriental subjects, can be expected to equal it in measures.
Amidst these servile addresses, it is curious to observe how the habitual gallantry of the French gentleman combines itself with this courtly homage of the slave. The complimentary address to "his imperial highness's princess Joseph" is not more distinguished by the devotion of its loyalty than the language of love. She is complimented not so much as a princess of the empire, as an accomplished woman, or rather as an angel, to whom all men are willing to render "the affecting homage of their hearts." In this respect indeed his excellency the president of the senate seems to me to display his knowledge of the female character. In a problem, which I leave to the consideration of my readers whether an illustrious princess would not be as much pleased by receiving the compliment due to the most accomplished woman, as a man would be at receiving much of the homage due to a princess.
The account which is commenced in this day's Enquirer, of the attempt to poison the family of the Count de Lille is extracted from the New-York Mercantile Advertiser, the earliest & most authentic paper in the United States, for the communication of foreign intelligence. This account which will be concluded in our next paper, is the most particular and satisfactory of any, that have appeared in the New-York prints. If these reports be accurate, what must we now think of the tottering government of Bonaparte? What must we think of the complaints lately received through the constitutional authorities of France, against Mr. Drake, M. D. L. Touche and English diplomacy.
In the arrangement of the foreign news in this day's paper, the reader will find we have departed from our ordinary rule. Some of the latest dates are put first, and some of the oldest dates put last.
Our London papers by the ship Telegraph are to the 27th August, inclusive. We have also received Liverpool papers of the 30th. The subjoined extracts comprise all that is interesting in them.
The landing of 10,000 Russian troops at Copenhagen, given with all the confidence of our own papers by the Iris, is not confirmed, and is extremely doubtful; and the story of the attempt on the life of LOUIS XVIII. is considered as entitled to very little credit.
The farce of invasion is still in rehearsal; and as usual, we are given to understand that the plot thickens, and that the DENOUEMENT may be hourly expected.—N. Y. Merc. Adv. Oct. 24.
TO RENT. TWO NEW BRICK TENEMENTS near the Basin. For terms apply to Richard Bousler at the Union Tavern, or the subscriber. SAMUEL OVERTON. October 24.—[e. W.]
TO RENT, FOR ONE OR MORE YEARS.
MY House in the city of Richmond, at present occupied by myself and for several years back by Cronch & Webster; this is a well known stand as a public house for more than twenty years, it is well situated, near the centre of business, within twenty yards of Proffer & Monroe's Vendue office and one hundred yards of the Capitol. It is unnecessary to give further description, as it is presumed no one will rent without viewing the premises. Possession will be given immediately if application is made within three or four weeks, but if not within that time, will not be rented till after the rising of the Assembly; terms will be made known on application to RICHARD CROUCH, Senr. Oct. 27th. S. 3.
THE SUBSCRIBER
HAS JUST RECEIVED FROM NORFOLK. A CONSIGNMENT of 50 Barrels, 8 Tierces, & 2 hds. BROWN SUGAR, which he will sell reasonable for cash, or negotiable notes, at 60 days. He has also, COFFEE by the Barrel, and Spanish SEGARS by the Box, all of which articles are good in quality.
HE HAS ALSO FOR SALE, 200 Spanish hides of good quality, also on consignment. DANIEL TRIPLETT. October 10.—[g.]

The Rainbow.—Series 2d.
No. I.
ON LUXURY.—PART 1st.
THE ambiguity of language has been the im- memorial theme of regret amongst philosophers. Inaccurate terms are the perpetual pitfall and trap of thought. To this prolific source of dis- cord and delusion, may be traced the prevalence of many vulgar errors, much of the impious ran- cor of religious controversy, and much of the acrimony and alienation that disgrace the history of literary and philosophical discussions. In our very copious vocabulary, a word can scarcely be found, of which the significations are more va- rious and undefined, than luxury . Our ears are familiarized to the phrases, luxuries of the ta- ble, of dress, of furniture, of equipage; luxuries of sense, taste and sentiment; luxury of pity, and luxury of revenge; luxury of joy, and lux- ury of woe.—From this diversity and even con- trariety of import, the much agitated and yet unsatisfied question, respecting the moral tenden- cies of luxury, probably originated. Perhaps the following observations, if perused with can- dor and attention, will serve in some measure to dissipate the obscurity that envelopes this sub- ject.
Various as are the significations of the term luxury , there is one circumstance common to all. By luxury , is always understood some- thing procured or prepared by labour, ingenuity and art; or something, the enjoyment of which presupposes a sensibility awakened and refined by the excitement and culture incident to civilization.—In conformity with this ex- planation, all luxuries are reducible to four distinct classes. First, those pleasures that presuppose any degree of intellectual refinement or cultiva- tion, the pleasures that flow from taste, from an observation or analysis of the phenomena of na- ture, from the contemplation of the history, structure and prospects of society.—Secondly, the pleasures derived from the cultivation and expanded exercise of the sympathetic affections, love, friendship, compassion, charity, patriotism and general benevolence.—Thirdly, all those pro- ductions of art, that contribute to the health, security, accommodation and comfort of animal existence.—Fourthly, all those articles of essential refinement and expensive splendour, which have been invented and fabricated, not for the pur- pose of comfort, utility and convenience, but for the gratification of pride, vanity and ostentation.
The three first classes of luxuries have an ob- vious and permanent foundation in the nature of man; they constitute the original sources & essential elements of human happiness, and in proportion as they are multiplied and diffused, society will be improved and civilization extend- ed. The pursuits of elegant literature and use- ful science, the exercise of disinterested sympa- thy and expanded benevolence; the acquisition of whatever can contribute to the health, longev- ity, comfort and accommodation of animal ex- istence, can be discouraged and proscribed only by dogmatism, whose notions must be alike odi- ous to the instincts of nature, the suggestions of common sense and the deductions of sound phi- losophy. The obsolete jargon of delirious Ro- mance, the blasphemous rant of cloistered monks, are not, at this enlightened era and in this land of liberality and liberty, entitled to the compli- ment of a serious refutation. Can any rational being be found, who would prefer the condition of the primeval savage, covered with a rug, sub- sisting on acorns, roots and berries; sheltering himself from the fury of the elements in a hollow tree or subterranean cave; destitute of taste, sentiment, literature and science, to that of an accomplish- ed man, possessing all the comforts of food, clothing, furniture and buildings, which result from the improvements of scientific art, with a mind enlightened by philosophy and glowing with benevolence? The palpable and odious absurdity of the philosophy (if philosophy it can be called) that would teach us to prefer the sav- age to the civilized state, must render such spe- culations at least as innocuous as they are mon- strous. An indignant moralist might be tempt- ed to exclaim: "Peace, blasphemous babblers, absurd visionaries, dead as you are to all that en- elevates the mind, and divested of all that en- nobles the condition of man, you execute jus- tice; you punish yourselves."
But altho' no competent enquirer can enter- tain a doubt respecting the positive utility of the three first classes of luxuries, there is room for considerable difference of opinion concerning their comparative value and attractions, and concerning the limits within which sensual gra- tification ought to be confined. The calls of appetite are but occasional, the periods of gra- tification short, and intervals of vacant time of considerable duration regularly recur. It is dur- ing these intervals, which the inferior animal and the savage man consume in apathy and slumber, that the progressive mind opens its penetrating eye and spreads its daring wings; exults in its independence, and expatiates with unuttered energy. These intervals constitute the genuine opulence of civilized man; leisure.
The happiness of every individual, and the prosperity of every society essentially depend up- on the judicious employment of leisure. The range of selection is limited. All human plea- sures may be reduced to two classes, those of sen- timent and those of sense. From a fair partici- pation of the former, a vast majority of man- kind have heretofore been and will long conti- nue to be lamentably excluded. Until a capac- ity and taste for the pleasures that arise from cultivated reason, expanded benevolence and ac- tive utility can be extensively diffused, the mass of mankind will necessarily devote the greater part of their leisure, or more properly, the inter- vals of remission from their toils, to gambling, gluttony, frivolous and savage pastimes, and Bacchanalian intemperance.—But surely those who are capable of weighing in the balance, and comparing in the clear light of impartial reason, the comparative value of those pleasures, can- not hesitate to prefer and pursue the former. The refinements of sensual pleasure, by the con- stant and concentrated application of some ir- ritating material to the corporeal organs, tend to enfeeble and wear out the sensibilities, both of the body and the mind: They hurry the ex- citement and consequent exertion of the system beyond its proper bounds: They purchase a moment of feverish joy by hours and days of al- ternate apathy and agony: they generate dis- eases the most excruciating and fatal: they kin- dle passions the most malignant and odious: they hasten the approaches of old age, plow the cheek with untimely wrinkles, and bow down the frame with premature decrepitude: they finally surrender the rational fragments of a no- ble carcass, rotting a loathsome ground, to a pollut- ed and unhallowed sepulchre.—The yawning earth seems disburthened of a dead weight, and the glad descendant dances on the grave.
An enlightened mind must clearly and feel- ingly perceive, on the other hand, that the plea- sures of intellect and moral refinement; the pleasures of taste, sympathy and science, are cal- culated to endure the most rigorous analysis: They are cheap, accessible, and accommodated to all situations: they never apply any initiating or expensive material to the corporeal organs,
and yet awaken into action all the faculties of the soul: they tend to preserve the health, vigour and beauty of the animal frame, to keep back a moderate, equable and genial ex- citement: they extinguish every intemperate & malignant passion: they nourish every grand & generous sentiment: they gild every waking hour with tranquillity and joy: they shed sweet- ness, refreshment and airy visions over the num- bers of the night: they repel the inroads of dis- ease, retard the approaches of old age, and gra- dually conduct into the vale of oblivion "full of years and full of honour."—Even when laid upon the bed of death, surrounded by affection- ate and attached friends, the recollection of a life devoted to the service of society and spent ac- cording to the principles of justice, causes the shades of death to close around the departing spirit with "a less dismal and melancholy gloom."
In order to appreciate more justly, and feel more vividly and distinctly the superior value of the pleasures last described, let us con- trast, for a moment, a philosopher composing an important treatise, or an orator delivering a lu- minous and impressive speech on a momentous question, with a Bacchanal in the last stage of in- toxication.—In the former, we behold the no- blest faculties of man excited for the noblest purpose: the latter exhibits the insensibility of the brute, without the insensibility, the helplessness of an infant, without its innocence.—Finks into the impotence of sleep without its balmy re- freshment, and the torpor of death, without its healing oblivion.
Invariably and extensively as the passion for sensual luxury is at present rooted in the char- acter of man, three circumstances concur to en- courage a hope, that the gradual diffusion of knowledge, will gradually extinguish its influ- ence over the human mind. First, habits of this nature, originate demonstrably, in the gross misapprehensions of vulgar experience and un- instructed reason.—Secondly, the pleasures they produce, are not only poisoned and overbalan- ced by the pains that accompany them; pains of every description, disease, remorse, odium, malignant passions and untimely death: but can be purified and enjoyed only, by trampling without mercy or intermission, on the rights and happiness of our brethren.—Thirdly, all confid- erations and competent judges, and even the ve- ry persons, most inveterately devoted to these pursuits, concur in reprobating their worthles- sness and insignificance, and in admonishing those for whose welfare they are concerned, to avoid, or renounce them. The pleasures of intellec- tual and moral refinement, on the contrary, have a permanent foundation, in the nature of man. Man is not merely an animal, destined "to draw nutrition, propagate and rot."—He is essentially and eminently an intelligent and social being. He is capable of surveying with de- light the order and grandeur of the universe: of analyzing external substances into their elements and tracing their endless combinations: of ren- dering the laws of inanimate matter subservient to the execution of his designs, and the grati- fication of his desires: of connecting truths in an indefinite and indissoluble chain: of improv- ing and beautifying the planet he inhabits: of con- templating with elevated pleasure, and promot- ing by disinterested exertions, the improvement of society and the diffusion of happiness.
These pursuits are farther and more forcibly recommended, by their paramount utility and importance. The happiness and improvement of mankind, and probably of every order of in- ferior intelligence throughout the universe, would seem to depend eminently, if not entirely on the efforts, experience, & progress, of individual minds. It is I believe, admitted by all ratio- nal theologians, that it is not only more con- formable to the history of mankind, but to the glo- ry of God, to believe that created beings are go- verned by laws originally established by the al- mighty fiat, than that the creator should be con- ceived to retouch, repair, and regulate what he has already created. The happiness therefore, of every subordinate order of intelligent beings, must be proportioned to the extent of their ex- perience and the energy of their exertions; to the number, ardor, genius, and independence of the minds employed in the investigation and dis- fusion of knowledge. As ignorance, indolence, and error are the productive causes of misery, the original sins of human nature, to curiosity, invention, and enquiry, disenthralled from re- straint, and unappalled by prejudice, are the only guides to happiness. The instruments and sources of pleasure and pain are mixed and con- founded: they can only be distinguished by the wifdom and separated by the power of intel- lect. The discovery, dissemination and prac- tical application of truth, is therefore, of all employments the most rational and sublime. This would seem to be the grand end, which the regular reproduction, progressive improve- ment and admirable facilities of rational beings were calculated to accomplish. Thus employ- ed and improved, man exhibits no inconclusive evidence, of an origin truly divine.
He grows familiar day by day with God's Conceptions, asps upon God's plan and forms To God's the relish of his soul. Thus viewed, he is emphatically a moral and immortal being: He becomes the ben- efactor of his species and survives in the me- mory and for the advantage of the most distant nation, and the remotest age. Although I shall probably with some readers, incur the charge of tediousness by dwelling longer, on the comparative value of sensual and mental plea- sure, I cannot quit a subject so attractive and im- portant, without again exhibiting these pleasures, in the vivid light of contrast. The most exqui- site and expensive luxuries of sense, are confed- erated momentary in their duration; They are succeeded by long intervals of satiety and loath- ing: They are liable when excessively indul- ged, not only to degenerate and decay, but to paralyze and destroy the organs by which they produced. Not to the pleasures of intellect. The other they are tafted, the more ardently they are pursued, the more delightful they be- come. The desire for information, originally languid, acquires avidity and ardour as we ad- vance; curiosity becomes insatiable, the un- derstanding indefatigable, and moral sensibility exquisitely subtle, discriminating and vivacious. The mind resides and expatiates in an universe of sense, with rapidity and rapture. The variety of our emotions seems to multiply our existence; their energy seems to magnify our power. By comparison with the pleasures of intellect, those of sense are div. t. ed or their fascination and re- duced to their true level. Not that we become insensible to these pleasures, for this is neither to be dreaded nor desired; but that the mind, oc- cupied in the pursuit and fruition of purer and more permanent pleasures, is the less likely to indulge an excessive anxiety, about such as are fugitive and inferior.
MISCELLANEOUS.
LAW REPORT.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, July 14.
KING v. REED.
Mr. Gibbs stated, this was an action for Dam- ages against the Defendant, for pirating a work which the Plaintiff in fact belonged exclusively
to him, which was a Book containing tables of interest on money for commission, &c. arranged and classed in a way so convenient for those who had calculations to make as to render the sale of it very great, and consequently the profits very considerable. The Plaintiff had purchased this work of a Gentleman of the name Anllie, and gave 200l. for it. He had afterwards made many valuable improvements in it; two editions of it had been published; the third was im- peded by the publication of a similar work by the Defendant, pretending to correct the errors in the Plaintiff's book, allowing, at the same time, it was a very valuable work of an ingenious ac- countant; but this was a mere copy of the Plaintiff's work.
Mr. Taylor was examined. He proved, that in the second edition of the Plaintiff's (Mr. King) book, for 56 days, the interest upon 181l. was stated to be 11. 7s. 10 1-4d. which was an errone- ous calculation, the real produce being 11. 7s. 9d. and 348-965th. parts of a farthing. In an- other part of Mr. King's book 168l. for 131 days, was stated to produce 2l. 18s. 5 3-4d. whereas the real produce was 2l. 18s. 5 3-4d. and 24-55th. parts of a farthing. In another part of the Plaintiff's book 168l. for 131 days, was stated to produce 2l. 18s. 10d. and the pro- duce was 2l. 18s. 10 1-4d. and 107-55th part of a farthing; all these blunders were severally copied in the Defendant's book.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH asked what number of instances they were prepared to prove in which the blunders of the Plaintiff had been co- pied by the Defendant.
Mr. Gibbs said, they were prepared to prove no less than 70, which would put it beyond a doubt that the Defendant's book was a servile copy of the Plaintiff's.
Mr. Erskine said, he was prepared to prove, on the part of the Defendant, a hundred more blunders in the Plaintiff's book corrected in that of the Defendant.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH then put it to the dis- cretion of the Plaintiff's Counsel, whether he would pursue such an action? Here was a com- plaint for pirating a book. Before that action could be maintained one necessary averment in the declaration must be proved, namely, That the book pirated was a valuable book . Now he must put it to the Jury to say, whether they thought a book with 170 blunders in it was a valuable book? and that upon a subject the ef- fence of the merit of which was accuracy. It did not profess to give moral instruction or enter- tainment—its whole claim to merit was accuracy and nothing else. It professed to save labour in calculation, at the same time it was calcula- ted to mislead those who trusted in it. Suppose an eclipse were to be thus calculated, what would be thought of an astronomer who gave us an eclipse on a wrong day? Suppose any of the Gentlemen who calculated the produce of small and fractional sums for Government, a- mounting to millions of money, were to depend on such publications as these, what enormous losses might be produced? or suppose a young Gentleman in a counting house were to take these calculations instead of working the sums himself, what might be the effect? He might be discharged as a blunderer unfit to manage accounts. Upon a full view of the matter, his Lordship said, instead of allowing an action for pirating a publication of blunders, it was rather matter of lamentation there was no power by law to re- strain such publications because they mislead those who trusted to them.
Upon this suggestion the Plaintiff's Counsel submitted to a nonsuit.—Plaintiff nonsuited.
On Welding Cast Steel.—by Sir T. C. Frankland, Bart.
It has been generally supposed impossible to weld cast steel or her steel refined by fusion, either to com- mon steel or iron; and the reason is, that in a weld- ing heat it runs away under the hammer like sand; —but though cast steel in a welding heat is too soft to bear being hammered, Sir T. Frankland has found, by repeated experiments that cast steel in a white heat, and iron in a welding heat, unite completely. When that process is intended, the steel and iron must be heated separately, and the union of the parts pro- posed to be joined must be effected at a single heat.
His Mag.
A few days since, a number of German emigrants passed through this borough on their way to the Ohio, where they purpose to settle themselves in a body. They appear to be, generally, a decent, orderly, quiet set of people; and we understand they have some little property.
From the accounts given by these fugitives from their native country (the Duchy of Wirtemberg) we learn that religious causes among others, have occa- sioned their relinquishment of their country. German illumination, let to work by French infidelity and the demoralizing principles of their democrats, has poi- soned the minds of many, even of the German clergy. The purity of the christian tenets has already, in some parts of Germany (from their intercourse with the French) began to yield to the miserable doctrines of materialism which borders close upon the disbelief of a God.
These honest emigrants say, that their clergy had begun to preach up, that Christ was a mere man; and thus, were preparing them to receive other Jacobinical doctrines, that go to the destruction of all religion: they have, therefore, come to a country, where they hope they can continue to be christians, without molestation.
Lanc. Jour.
On the 26th ult. a bottle was picked up on the Beach a few miles from Newport, containing a roll of paper, on which the following was written, with a request that it might be made public:—
"25TH, 7TH MONTH (July 15,) 1804.
"Laura, Capt. Newman, from Liverpool to New-York.—In lat. 40, 20, long. 71, 30, this was committed to the waves. Passengers on board said ship: Robert Sutchell, Sheffield, England; James C. Williamson, John R. Lase, Jeremiah Warder, jun. Philadelphia; John Flanagan, Leeds, England."
Projected union between Comte d' Egmont and Miss Beckford.
A rejection of a matrimonial tender in high life has recently occurred, which should be re- corded. Comte d' Egmont, one of the most noble and wealthy grandees of Spain, came over to England, some weeks back, on an invitation from Mr. Beckford, of Fonthill, with a view (as it is said) of promoting an union between the families, by the Comte's marriage with his fe- cond daughter. The illustrious Spaniard whose mind had been highly prepossessed in favour of the young lady, from an interesting portrait of her, which he had seen abroad, eagerly embraced the flattering invitation, and soon afterwards ar- rived in London.—Being received, on his arri- val by Miss Beckford, with every mark of po- liteness and attention, as the friend of her father, the Comte himself saw no difficulty in the way of an immediate union, conformably to the usage of his own country, and therefore he sent a courier to Madrid, requesting that his friend the Prince Pignatelli, would come over, and as- sist at the immediate solemnization of his nup- tials. The prince obeyed this summons, and as soon as he arrived in England, Miss Beckford was solicited to name the day for an union the had never once dreamt of; and which, of course, was declined with all delicacy towards her dis- tinguished suitor. The Comte, however, not un- derstanding the extent of female liberty in this country, immediately remonstrated with her fa-
ther.—Entreaties were had recourse to but with- out effect, as she declared, "that nothing on earth could induce her to alter her resolve!" The utmost efforts being thus found ineffectual, ideas of an union are abandoned, and Comte d' Egmont, and his friend, Prince Pignatelli, are pre- paring for their return to Spain without the fair object of their visit. The Comte is a hand- some good-natured man, about 34 years of age, possessing in domains and specie a property that makes him the richest subject in Europe. Miss Beckford is confessedly one of the most beautiful women our country can boast, and to her personal charms adds endowments corre- sponding with the elegance of a pure and discern- ing mind.—Bell's Messenger.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
Epigrams: on the Amatory Trifles of Thomas Little, by Thomas Moore.
The name to those trifles prefix'd, The verses does fit to a little, For of value, or beauty, or sense, They truly possess wondrous little.
Another:
Of these rhymelings a pun may express My opinion exact to a little: I was pleas'd with a little of More, But wish to read no more of Little.
Catalogue of Little's Poems.
On Julia weeping, Delia fleeping, Celia sighing, Chloe dying: On Peggie's dream, Sally's whim, Maria's breath, Nancy's crest, Molly's willow, Nelly's pillow:—"with a variety of others, too tedious to mention."
For a fuller account of this whimsical Olio, I refer you, good reader, to the Port-folio; There little, less, leaf, & all letter degrees, Of very small verse you may read, if you [please.
[The following communication from the Ame- rican Citizen, will show that some efforts are about to be made in the City of New-York for extending the Education of the female sex.]
COMMUNICATION.
Lectures, principally to ladies.
Mr. Chilton respectfully informs the ladies and gentlemen of New-York, that he has at length completed an extensive philosophical ap- paratus, and that his course of Lectures on Na- tural Philosophy, chemistry, &c. will commence on the 5th of November, for the winter season, at his house, No. 24, Cedar-Street, near the City Hotel.
It is a singular and painful fact, which can hardly escape the observation of the most su- perficial, who may chuse to glance at the dif- ferent systems of education in this city, that while ample provision is made for the instruction of gentlemen in Natural Philosophy and Che- mistry, by means of the extensive apparatus and able teachers of the college, there does not ex- ist a single establishment capable of furnishing ladies with this kind of knowledge. A stran- ger might easily suppose the people of New- York must either think these subjects of little or no use to the ladies, or that their understandings are inadequate to a comprehension of them.
That this is a defect in female education must be admitted by all, and justly lamented by pa- rents of information and reflection. To sup- ply, in some measure this deficiency, by pre- senting ladies with advantages similar to those that have been unreservedly restricted to the use of the other sex, Mr. Chilton's arrangement was originally intended. His course of lectures, therefore, will be of the popular kind; all ma- thematical and abstract reasoning will be as much as possible avoided, and the most plea- sing and interesting experiments introduced for the express purposes of blending amusement with instruction and rendering familiar and easy those subjects which, if handled in a more sci- entific way, would be irksome and abstruse. It is scarcely necessary to add any thing concern- ing the importance of these subjects; every dis- cerning person knows that they are indispensa- bly necessary to a genteel education, valuable as furnishing inexhaustible sources of pleasure and amusement to the human mind, and that we are indebted to them for most of the comforts and conveniences of life.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
ON Thursday the 20th December next, at my store house, 2 miles above Genito bridges, to the highest bidders, will be sold ten valuable YOUNG NEGROES, consisting of WOMEN and BOYS, among the former are two excellent house servants, one of whom is a good seamstress, and in all other respects well versed in the duties of this occupation, aged 18 years, the other 15 years old, uncommonly expert, the rest very likely, but ac- customed only to the field, BOYS from 4 to ten years of age.
Also A valuable DIOMED STUD HORSE, (DIOMEDES,) four years old, upwards of fif- teen hands high, and most elegantly formed. From the few experiments made with this horse on the turf, it is reduced to a certainty that he is a ca- pital runner, and in the estimation of judges one of the fleetest horses on the continent. Over the Pride- ville course 3 1/2 miles, he won with ease about 300 dollars, defeating the first heat, Col. Hal- comb's horse Donatus, Col. Royal's horse Chis- holm, and Mr. Townes's Balus; Col. Bentley's horse Zoraster, barely saved his distance, and was beaten with ease. The second heat over the Scot- tish mile course on the 14th September, although in most intolerable condition (2 mile heats,) he run upon a bearing rein 1 mile and 15-16 before the field, on this heat he won 300 dollars, beating Mr. Bell's Chestnut Diomed horse, Mr. Haskins's Jim- crack mare, and Mr. Townes's Balus; Col. Hal- comb's Leopard beat him about 8 feet, he was drawn the second heat. Several races of less note have been won by him with great ease. A certifi- cate of the age and pedigree of this horse, will be produced on the day of sale. Terms, one third cash, the balance payable in six months. Bonds with security on demand will be required, but interest remitted, in case the principal is punctually paid.
JOHN ARCHER ROBERTSON.
N. B. I have no objection to dispose of any of the above property privately. I. A. R. Clifton (Amelia) October 20.—(e.S. 500.)
NOTICE.
WILLIAM JONES of Philadelphia, and NEIL M'COULL of Richmond, being ap- pointed to settle the business of Ross and Ford, the collection of the debts, devolves on Neil M'Coull—who requests those indebted to come for- ward and give assurances, of suben payment may be expected, as it is his duty to commence suits im- mediately against those who do not.
WILLIAM JONES.
NEIL M'COULL.
October 20.—(e.S. 320.)
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN OR STOLEN, FROM A LOT IN THE CI- TY, ON THE 14th inst.
A GREY MARE, about six years old, four feet nine inches high, extremely well-gaired, and branded on the left buttock with the letter B. any person who will deliver said mare to the for- mer near Sabin's Tavern, in Caroline county, or to Mr. James M'Gane of this place, will receive the above reward.
ROBERT T. BARLOW.
October 20.—(e.S. 31.)
BY virtue of a decree of the Court of the United States for the fifth circuit, in the Virginia district, bearing date the 6th day of June, 1804, in behalf of Phineas Bond, attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards, against David Ross and others,
WILL BE SOLD.
To the highest bidder, for ready money, at Goodland Court- House, on the 29th day of November next, A TRACT OF LAND, In said county, on Beverdam creek, containing fifteen hundred acres, more or less, including the land where- on the Court House is situated, bounded by the lands of Samuel Woodson and others, and commonly called Ross's Goodland Court House Tract; or so much thereof as may be sufficient to raise the sum of two thousand Dollars, and the expenses attending the sale.
BEN: MOSBY, D. M. for Joseph Scott, N. Y. St. (tall.)
October 17.
Mediterranean Passports.
NOTICE is hereby given, that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean passport issued to vessels of the United States; that from the 5th day of Ju- ly next, those of the new form will be issued at the custom houses to every vessel, for which ap- plication may be made on a compliance with the terms prescribed by law and surrendering the former passport of which she may be possessed, if any, in which latter case no fees will be requi- red for the exchange: and that by an arrange- ment agreed upon by the Barbary powers with whom we are at peace, either the old or the new form of passport will be sufficient to pro- tect the vessels of the United States, from capture until the 1st of July 1805, after which the old form of passport will be unavailable and the new one alone in use.
Department of State, } 23d of May, 1804.
The printers of the laws of the United States are requested to insert the above in their Gazettes twice a week for the space of six months, and the Collectors of the customs to keep copies of it posted up in their offices.
June 2.
NEAL NELSON, BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND.
MAKES Boots & Shoes to any pattern or fash- ion, equal in point of Ma- terials and Workman- ship to any in general use.
Imported BOOTS and SHOES, of the first quality and newest fashion, for sale.
Gentlemen at a dis- tance, who are disposed to forward me their measure, by paying attention to the annexed cut, can be fitted with Boots or Shoes as well as if they were on the spot. A—the length of the Boot.—C—round the Calf.—B—the pitch of ditto.—D—round the heel and instep.—E—round the instep.—G—across the ball of the foot. Fix the heel against a perpendicular, and stick a knife at the end of the great toe—set down in figures the number of inches and quarters, in the different measures.
June 30. ep6W.)
WHEREAS doubts are entertained, whether the corporation of the city of Richmond, have authority to appoint a mathematical sur- veyor, to prescribe and regulate his duties and fees; and it is also doubted, whether a street has been established, communicating from the Spot- tsylvania on the north-west side of Shockoe-Creek to the north-west corner of the old town of Rich- mond; and thence along the south boundary of said old town to the south-east corner thereof, and thence to Rocketts upon the margin of the ri- ver, or otherwise in one continued and direct course; and doubts also exist, whether there be any street established on the north-west boundary of the said old town by the Market-house; and is be- ing deemed expedient that such doubts should be removed, and such streets (if none exist) establish- ed:
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a petition from the President and Common Council of the said City, will be presented to the next Ge- neral Assembly of this commonwealth, praying them to explain existing laws, or enact such others, as may most effectually obviate the said doubts, establish (if necessary) the said streets, and authorize the appointment of a surveyor.
ANDREW STEVENSON, C. C. C. October 17. (ep6W.)
NOTICE.
THE office of Supervisor of the Revenue for the District of Virginia being discontinued, and the unfinished business of the said Office transferred to me; the Collectors of the Direct Tax and Internal Revenue, whose accounts have not been finally adjust- ed and paid, are hereby informed, that they are now requested to call at my office, in the city of Richmond, without delay, and pay the balances due to the United States.—And those whose bonds have been held in the District of Virginia by authority of an act of Congress of the United States for non-payment of the Direct Tax, may redeem such bonds, by paying to me within the time limited, the principal costs and fees as the law directs.
Asmost of the abovenamed lands were sold in Dec. 1803, the privilege of redemption will continue until December next.
The money received by me for the redemption of the said lands, will be returned to the purchaser, with interest at the rate of 25 per cent per annum on the purchase money, to this day on which it may be paid to me.
JOSEPH SCOTT. Marshall V.D. ep—4f.
July 7.
BANK OF VIRGINIA.
AT a meeting of the President and Directors of the Bank of Virginia, on Thursday Octo- ber 4th, 1804.
"RESOLVED, That the Bank commence Dis- counts on Tuesday next.
"RESOLVED, that the President, Cashier and other officers of the Bank, proceed to business on Monday next, in the Senate Room of the Capitol.