The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1804-08-18 00:00:00

THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, (Virginia) PUBLISHED BY RITCHIE & WORSLEY, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE...AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM...payable in advance.
NUMBER 30.]
SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18, 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 seventy-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. 
DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.
By agreement, the partnership of SHANKS & MRAE will cease on the last day of August. Those to whom the firm stands indebted will please exhibit their accounts, that arrangements may be made for their discharge. The debtors of the firm are desired to make immediate payment, as delinquents will be indiscriminately sued. Those concerned will make application to COLIN MRAE. SHANKS & MRAE. Manchester, August 15, 1804.
THE SUBSCRIBER
EXPECTS this fall a very general assortment of GOODS, and intends to continue business in the house now occupied by Shanks & Mrae. All those who have been heretofore punctual, are solicited to continue their dealings.
COLIN MRAE. August 15.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED OR STOLEN, ON OR ABOUT THE FIRST OF JULY, A LIGHT BAY HORSE, supposed to be twelve years old, four feet eight or nine inches high, short mane, bob tail, particular marks not recollected, having been in my possession but a short time - had when missed a very sore back. Any person delivering said horse to me, shall receive the above reward. JOHN DIXON. August 15th, 1804.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 5th Circuit, Virginia District, May 30, 1804.
John Lloyd and John Hanbury, surviving partners of Hanbury and Lloyd, Plaintiffs: vs. John Buchanan, Archibald Price, Robert West and Elizabeth Carter his wife,梅氏 Thornton and Presilla his wife, Henry Perrin and Anna his wife, Samuel Anderson and Fanny his wife, John M'Kean, Willis M'Kean, and Alexander M'Kean, children and devisees of John M'Kean, deceased, and James Watt, executor of Alexander M'Kean, deceased, who was executor of the said John M'Kean, deceased, Defendants.
ROBERT WEST is appointed guardian to Alexander M'Kean, an infant defendant in this suit; and the cause coming on by consent of the parties to be heard on the bill and amended bill, the answers of the defendants, replication, the will of John M'Kean, as found, and the proceedings in a suit at law in this court brought by the complainants against the defendant Watt as executor aforesaid, which judgment was obtained at the December session 1801: WHEREUPON, it is DECREED AND ORDERED, That Edmund Randolph, William Mitchell, Robert Pollard and Edward W. Rootes, or any two or more of them, do expose to sale at public auction, together or separately, the lot and tenement in the proceedings mentioned, now in the occupation of William M'Kean; and the small tenements and ground thereunto belonging, which adjoin the tenement conveyed in trust to the defendants Buchanan and Price - after the time and place of sale shall have been advertised four weeks in one or more of the Richmond newspapers - the terms of sale to be one third in cash, and the remaining two-thirds payable in installments with legal interest from the day of sale, the first installment to be paid twelve months, and the second in two years from the day of sale; the purchasers to give bonds for the said two installments, and in default of payment to be again sold by the said commissioners, or any two of them, for ready money, for the payment of the balances that may be due from the respective purchasers: AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That the said commissioners who may act as the complainants, their agent or attorney, three thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars, thirty-three cents, with interest on two thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars, fifty cents, part thereof, at five per cent. from the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and one, the balance appearing to be due the complainants by a statement among the exhibits, and the costs of this suit; and the surplus, if any, after deducting the charges of the sale, to be brought into court, subject to such order as may hereafter be made concerning the same; the monies first raised by the sale, to be applied to the satisfaction of the debt due the complainants: AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That each of the said commissioners as may act convey to the purchasers in conformity to the terms of this decree, and that they make report of their proceedings to the court. A Copy - Teste, JAMES BLAGDENE, D. C.
Richmond, August 18th, 1804.
IN pursuance of the foregoing decree, we shall expose to sale at public auction, the Lot, Tenements, Ground & Property therein mentioned, on the 19th day of the next month, in the city of Richmond. EDMUND RANDOLPH. WILLIAM MITCHELL. ROBERT POLLARD. EDMUND W. ROOTES.
LIQUID BLACKING.
TICE's improved shining liquid blacking for boots and shoes and all leather that requires to be kept black, is universally allowed the best ever offered to the public, it never crows, nor cracks the leather, but renders it soft, smooth & beautiful to the last, and never fails. Black Morocco that has lost its strength is restored equal to new by the use of this blacking. To prevent counterfeits, the directions on every bottle will be signed J. Tice in writing, without which they are not genuine. Sold in Richmond at Edward Hallam's Grocery Store. July 28. Sat
We have received a small additional supply of MADERA WINE, OF a superior quality, which we offer for sale by the hoghead and quarter-cask. GIBSON & JEFFERSON. July 18. eptf
IN COUNCIL, August 11, 1804.
IT is advised that the names of the Commissioners appointed to take the polls for the election of President and Vice-President of the United States be published in the Virginia Argus and Enquirer in Richmond; in the Norfolk, Petersburg, Fredericksburg, Alexandria, Winchester, Staunton, Lynchburg and Lexington papers, with a notification that the Commissioners have been appointed, and a request that the gentlemen appointed inform the Clerk of the Council whether or not they have received their commissions.
DANIEL L. HYLTION, CLERK OF THE COUNCIL.
In pursuance of the above advice of Council, I am instructed by the Governor to request the several printers therein named to publish the same, together with the advice of Council of the 1st of June last, appointing the Commissioners therein alluded to; and that the Commissioners be pleased to comply with what is requested of them.
SAML. COLEMAN. Clerk to the Executive.
IN COUNCIL, June 1, 1804.
PURSUANT to an act of the General Assembly intituled "An act to amend an act intituled an act for appointing Electors to choose a President and Vice-President of the United States" - It is advised that the following persons be appointed and commissioned in the respective counties, and corporations of Richmond, Williamsburg, and borough of Norfolk, for the purpose of executing the said law, viz.
 Accomack. George Layfield, Parker Barnes, Robert Lewis.  Albemarle. Nicholas Lewis, Rice Garland, George Dyer.  Amelia. Edmund Harrison, Thomas Randolph, Daniel Hardaway.  Amberst. William S. Crawford, Landon Cabell, Joel Franklin.  Augusta. John Coalter, Chelley Kinney, James Cochran.  Bedford. Samuel Vance, John Wilson, James Laird, Christopher Clarke, Charles Clay, Daniel Pegram.  Berkeley. Erasmus Gant, Joel Ward, William Somerville.  Buckingham. William Perkins, Jr. Matthew Branch, Anthony Debell.  Campbell. John Dabney, William J. Lewis, Archibald Robertson.  Cumberland. William Daniel, James Deane, John Hatcher.  Caroline. John Hoomes, Daniel Coleman, James Taylor.  Charles-City. John Bradley, James Walker, John Colgin.  Charlotte. Quin Morton, Thomas Spencer, William L. Morton.  Chesterfield. Thomas Goode, Isaac Salle, Thomas Watkins.  Culpeper. John Shackelford, Moses Green, John Roberts.  Dinwiddie. Edward Pegram, sen. Thomas B. Robertson, William Coleman.  Elizabeth-City. George Wray, Augustine Moore, sen. Thomas Jones (Pembroke).  Essex. Tunstall Banks, James Evans, Sibthrelley Rembold.  Fauquier. Gualfayns B. Horner, Augustine Jennings, Richard H. Foot.  Fairfax. Thompson Mason, George Summers, George Graham.  Frederick. James Singletary, John Smith, Robert Mackie.  Franklin. Henry Calloway, Moses Greer, Benjamin Cooke.  Fluvanna. John Quarles, John Napier, jun. Matthew P. Haden.  Giles. Matthew Anderson Thomas Baytop, Richard Bayham.  Greene. Nicholas M. Vaughn, John Miller, Doctor James Carter.  Grayson. Philip Gaines, John Filder, Enoch Osborne.  Greenbrier. John Kippner, William H. Cavendish, Lynn Mims.  Greenville. Lewis Dupree, Joseph Wilkins, Francis Hill.  Halifax. John B. Scott, Berryman Green, George Carrington.  Hampshire. Osborne Spriggs, Francis Murphy, John Higgins.  Hanover. Nathaniel Pope, William Pollard, Thomas White.  Hardy. John L. Schuyler, George Stump, Henry Judson.  Harrison. John Webster, John G. Jackson, David Hewes.  Henrico. Nathaniel Wilkinson, Elisha Price, William Young (Brook).  Henry. Joseph Anthony, George Waller, jun. John Alexander, jun.  High-Wight. John Barber (Everett's Bridge), Emanuel Willis, Andrew Woodley.  Jones-City. John Amble, Champion Travis, William Lightfoot.  Jefferson. Ferdinando Fairfax, Jacob H. Manning, George Hire.  Kanawha. John Reynolds, Morris Hudson, Charles Venable.  King & Queen. Richard Brooke, John Hopkins, Thomas Roane.  King George. Theodosius Hansford, Stephen Hansford, Laurence Berry.  King William. John Roane, jun. Philip Aylett, Hardin Littlepage.  Lancaster. Richard Selden, Martin Shearman, William Selden.  Lee. Benjamin Sharpe, Peter Fulkeron, Joshua Ewing.  Loudoun. Albert Russell, Revd. Amos Thomas, John Littlejohn.  Louisa. William O. Callis, John Poindexter, Thomas Meriwether.  Lunenburg. Waldy Street, Joseph Yarborough, Christopher Robinson.  Madison. Abraham Maury, Elliot Rucker, William Mallory.  Madison. William Sterrett, William Owens, John McCallah.  Mathews. James S. Park, Hunley Gale, Thomas Brooke.  Mecklenburg. Richard Kenion, Mark Alexander, William Munford.  Middlesex. Thomas Roane, Thomas Muse, William Sear.  Montgomery. William John, David Scott, Jr. Enns Dougherty.  Morris. John Byrnside, William Graham, Benjamin Hall.  Montgomery. Daniel Trigg, Charles Taylor, James P. Preston.  Nansemond. Josiah Ridick, Richard Yarborough, Joseph Godwin.  New-Kent. William Chamberlayne, Edward Parke, John Sedders.  Norfolk. Thomas D. Downing, Hierome Opie, John H. Fallon.  Norfolk. Arthur Lee, Daniel Bedinger, James Blamire. 
 Northampton. Caleb Filber, Hezekiah Pitts, William Filber.  Nottoway. Freeman Eppler, Edward Bland, James Jones.  Ohio. Thomas Evans (lieutenant, Wheeling.) John Mills, Joseph Tumbison.  Orange. Robert Taylor, James Barbour, Belfield Cave.  Patrick. Samuel Staples, Gabriel Penn, William Carter.  Pittsylvania. Robert Davis, Daniel Capito, John Slavein, Isaac Coles, William Tinsell, Joseph Carter.  Pocahontas. Richard Crump, Samuel Pleasants, James Poindexter.  Prince-Edward. Archibald McRobert, Tarlton Woodson, Thomas Green.  Prince-Ann. John Hancock, Jr. Jeremiah Plummer, Lemuel Cornick.  Prince-William. Matthew Harrison, John Spence, William Lenton.  Prince-George. Benjamin Harrison, George Ruffin, and Thomas H. Cocke.  Randolph. Robert Maxwell, Edmund Hart, John Carrence.  Richmond. Richard Barnes, Ezekiel Levy, Vincent Brantham.  Rockbridge. John Bowyer, James Caruthers, John Leybourne.  Rockingham. George Houston, Benjamin Harrison, Jacob Rife.  Russell. Nathan Ellington, Andrew Heybourne, John M. Arlton.  Southampton. John Taylor, James Gee, Henry Blow.  Spotsylvania. David C. Ker, Hugh Mercer, John Chew.  Stafford. Col. John Cooke, John T. Brooke, Travis Daniel, sen.  Surry. Nicholas Faulcon, William Boyce, Lemuel Bailey.  Suffolk. Benjamin Wyche, John Cargill, William Massenburg.  Shenandoah. Philip Williams, Jacob Rinker, W. H. Dulany.  Warwick. Richard McIntosh, Thomas Camm, William Digges.  Washington. Francis Preston, Claiborne Watkins, Robert Preston.  Westmoreland. Alexander Parker, Samuel Templeman, Stuart Bankhead.  Wood. Herman Blenkerhadt (Marietta), John Stokesley, James G. Laidley.  Wythe. John Montgomery, John Stonger, Joseph Kent.  York. Doctor Augustine Smith, William Howard, Robert Nelson.  Tazewell. David Ward, Henry Bowen, Samuel Bard.  Williamsburg. Robert Saunders, James Semple, Littleton Tazewell.  Norfolk Borough. Robert Brough, Thomas H. Parker, Richard H. Lee.  City of Richmond. William Du-Val, George W. Smith, John H. Foulhee. 
THE PLANTATION
containing about 800 acres. It is a very convenient and handsome situation, lying on the bank of Rappahannock river, in Essex county, with every convenient house necessary for a family, all in tolerable good repair. I think it useful to comment upon the beauty and convenience of the situation, and the fertility of the soil, as I suppose no person will purchase until he views the premises; - I shall only say, that for all the qualities abovementioned, I suppose it to be equal at least to any seat in the lower part of the country. I will likewise sell my MILL, with 58 acres of Land adjoining it. She lies about three or four miles from my house. I will sell her with the Plantation, or by herself with the land that joins her, as may best suit the purchaser. She stands upon a very good stream, seldom ever wants water, and is now in good repair, being lately re-built, with Bolting Cloths, and a Cotton Gin fixed to go by water. I am ready to treat with any person for both or either of them, and will make the payments as easy as possible, and possession given at Christmas. W. GATEWOOD. August 11. e83v
AT A QUARTERLY COURT CONTINUED AND HELD FOR PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, MAY THE 22D, 1804.
WILLIAM WHITE, & Co. Plaintiffs. THOMAS GIBSON & ROBERT B. GIBSON, Defendants. IN CHANCERY.
THE defendant Thomas Gibson not having entered his appearance and given security according to an act of the General Assembly and the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this state: on the motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendant Thomas Gibson do appear here on the first day of August court next, and answer the plaintiffs' bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the public newspapers printed in the city of Richmond for two months successively; and also posted at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A Copy. Teste, BENJAMIN WATKINS, D. C. e83m-16
VALUABLE HOUSES & LOTS.
THE SUBSCRIBER OFFERS FOR SALE OR RENT, THAT handsome BRICK TENEMENT in which he at present resides, beautifully situated on Shockoe Hill, a short distance from the Capitol, in a very healthy and agreeable part of the city. The house (built of the best materials & quite new) is 33 by 37 feet, two story high, in which are seven good rooms and a ten foot passage the whole width of the house, with convenient closets, and a cellar inferior to none in this city; attached to which are two half acre lots, one or both of which may be had with the house. ALSO, FOR RENT OR LEASE, A small, neat, two-story BRICK TENEMENT, (in the neighbourhood of Mr. Thomas Rutherford) containing five good rooms, passages, closets, &c. &c. with the requisite out buildings, and a good well of water. AND FOR SALE, Several handsome unimproved HALF-ACRE LOTS, eligibly situated on the Hill. A great bargain may be had in any part or the whole of the above property offered for sale, and liberal credit given for the greater part of the money. For further particulars, apply to SPOTSWOOD LIPSCOMBE. July 21. e8-tf
Wants a situation as an OVERSEER for the ensuing year,
A MAN who can come well recommended for Honesty, Sobriety, Industry and Experience. Apply to the Printers hereof. August 11. e82w
BILLS OF LADING, SHERIFFS, BLANKS, BLANK BONDS, &c. &c.
FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
FOR GLASGOW,
The British Ship JEANNE, JOHN COWAN, master; now at City Point; will be ready to receive Tobacco in a few days, and having part of her cargo engaged, will sail by the first proximo. For terms, apply to the captain on board to Robert & Allan Pollok, & Co. Richmond, or to BUCHANAN & POLLOK. Who offer for sale on board said ship, TEN THOUSAND BUSHELS LIVERPOOL STOVED SALT. Peterburg, August 6. t1sep
NEAL NELSON,
BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND,
MAKES Boots & Shoes to any pattern or fashion, equal in point of MATERIALS and WORKMANSHIP to any in general use. Imported Boots and Shoes, of the first quality and newest fashion, for sale. Gentlemen at a distance, 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. epbin
ADVERTISEMENT.
On the 6th day of September next, at the late dwelling house of Capt. John Hedges, dec. on Chippewansie, near Dumfries, WILL BE SOLD, on a credit of twelve months, at public sale, to the highest bidder.
TWO TRACTS OF LAND, situate in Prince William county, containing about twelve hundred acres, of good quality, well timbered and improved, and a large proportion of it low grounds suitable for meadow. Also, about 25 LIKELY SLAVES, and all the other personal property of the estate of the said Hedges. Bond and approved security, required with a mortgage on the land fold, will be required of the purchasers. The land will be sold in tracts or lots, as may be most likely to produce the best price. SETH BOTTS, } Executors of John ISHAM E. HEDGES, } Hedges, dec. Chippewansie, July 5, 1804. e8tds-21
SCHEME OF A LOTTERY,
To raise the sum of 5,000 Dollars, for the benefit of the Female Charity School of Fredericksburg.
  1 Prize of 5,000 D. 5,000 D.   2 1,000 2,000   1 500 500   1 250 250   5 100 500   10 50 500   2750 8 22,000   18 Ticket having a blank drawn to its number after 3,000 100   1 4,000 200   1 5,000 300   1 6,000 500   1 7,000 1,000   1 Last drawn Ticket, whether blank or prize 2,000   Expenses of drawing, 34,850   Sum to be raised, 150   5,000   2,776 Prizes 40,000 D.   5,224 Blanks   8,000 Tickets, at 5 Dollars each, is 40,000 
In the above Scheme, it appears there are not two blanks to a prize, and no prize subject to a deduction. The Lottery will commence drawing on the first Monday in October next, and continue until the drawing is finished. All Tickets drawing prizes will be paid within thirty days after the drawing is concluded, and all prizes not applied for within six months after will be considered as donations to be applied to the purposes of the Lottery. The Managers deem it unnecessary to say anything by way of inducement to persons to become adventurers in this Lottery, as the charitable purpose for which it is intended, will it is hoped insure a speedy sale of the Tickets. Tickets to be had of the Managers and of Mr. Buck, the Treasurer of the Female Charity School. FRANCIS BROOKE, JOHN MINOR, ROBERT PATTON, JOHN CHEW, JAMES STEVENSON, DAVID C. KER, WALTER GREGORY, WILLIAM S. STONE, ROBERT S. CHEW, HUGH MERCER.
* TICKETS in the aforesaid Lottery may be had in Richmond, on application to the Rev. John D. Blair, the Rev. John Buchanan and Mr. Andrew Stevenson.
AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
10th August, 1804.
THE Commissioners of the Revenue are requested to send, as soon after the 15th of September as possible, by post to this Office, a List of LICENSES granted to Merchants in their respective counties or corporations. SAMUEL SHEPARD, Auditor. e83w
WALTER POTTER,
BOOKBINDER & STATIONER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND,
THANKFUL for the encouragement he has received since commencing business, hopes by his strict attention, and faithful execution of all orders which he may be favoured with, to merit a further continuance of Patronage. He has lately received a fresh supply of STATIONARY, and has now on hand a large assortment of BLANK & RULED BOOKS. June 27. [eW6w]
LOAF SUGAR,
OF an excellent quality, either by the hoghead, barrel, or single loaf. The supply will be regular and large. ALSO—BAR IRON, by the ton or single bar: IRON CASTINGS of various kinds, by the ton or single piece, among which are a few tons of 20 and 60 lbs. weights. MICAIAH DAVIS. 4th of 7th mo. 1804. [eW6m]
NOTICE.
By virtue of a Decree of Court rendered to us by the Woodson of Henrico county, for the benefit of Chiles Terrell, Esq. of the Rev. William Douglass, dec. WILL BE EXPOSED TO SALE To the highest bidder, for ready money at Col. Goodall's Tavern, in the County of Henrico, on Saturday the 28th day of September next, the
TRACT OF LAND,
Whereon the said Woodson now resides, in the upper end of Henrico County, or so much thereof as shall be necessary to satisfy the balance due the said Executor, as after the costs attending the trust, by
DAVID BULLOCK and FRANKLIN HARRIS, } Trustees. July 31, 1804. [e82p]
Foreign Intelligence.
TRANSLATED FROM LATE FRENCH PAPERS.
EXAMINATION OF GEORGES.
Extract from the registry of the special and criminal Tribunal of the department of the Seine sitting at the Palais de justice in Paris.
This day 18th Ventose 12th year of the French Republic:—Before us Jacques Alexis Thuriot, Judge of the criminal, & Special Tribunal of the department of the Seine, instituted by order of the citizen President, dated the 16th of the present month to investigate the said conspiracy; assisted by Andre Etienne Freymy, Register; appeared a man who was arrested from among the number of those concerned in the Conspiracy against the First Consul, and the safety of the country, having been conducted thither by a detachment of the military, commanded by Citizen Jean Barriere, captain of the second regiment of the municipal guard of Paris. The said appearer having been requested to declare to us his name, age, condition and place of residence—Answered Georges Cadeau, aged 35 years, without habitation or place of residence.
 Q. How long have you been at Paris?  A. About five months past. I came here, but the whole time that I have been in the city does not exceed fifteen days.  Q. Where have been your lodgings?  A. I will not discover them.  Q. Why do you refuse to make it known?  A. Because I will not add to the number of victims.  Q. What induced you to come to Paris?  A. I came hither with intention to attack the First Consul.  Q. What was the designed method of attack?  A. By force of arms.  Q. Where did you expect to find that force?  A. Throughout France.  Q. There is then in France an organized force at your disposal and that of your accomplices?  A. That is not to be understood by the force above mentioned.  Q. What is then to be understood by the force you speak of?  A. A reunion at Paris.  Q. Where does this reunion exist?  A. It is not yet organized, it would have been as soon as the attack had been definitely concluded on.  Q. What was then your project and that of the conspirators?  A. To fix a Bourbon in the place of the First Consul. 
 Q. Who was the Bourbon designated?  A. Charles Xavier Stanislas, ci-devant Monsieur, acknowledged by us to be Louis XVIII.  Q. What role was to have been played during the attack?  A. A role which one of the ci-devant French princes (who was to be at Paris) had appointed.  Q. The plan then was concerted and was to have been executed in conjunction with the ci-devant French Princes?  A. Yes, citizen judge.  Q. Have you then conferred with the ci-devant Princes in England?  A. Yes, citizen.  Q. Who was to furnish funds and arms?  A. I have had a long time funds at my disposition; arms I had none.  Q. Was not Pichegru concerned in this conspiracy?  A. I have no knowledge of any such thing.  Q. Was not Moreau?  A. I have never seen or known him.  Q. Have you had any correspondence with Pichegru?  A. I have seen him two or three times in London, but never have spoke to him concerning the design I have now to make known to you.  Q. Have you not travelled with him in France, and have you not seen him in Paris?  A. No, citizen, I have neither travelled with him, nor seen him at Paris.  Q. In what part of Paris was you arrested to-day?  A. I know not the place, only that it was said to be near the Odeon.  Q. What transpired at the time of your arrest?  A. I was in a chair and when one presented himself to arrest me, I was provided with two loaded pistols; I fired twice; after the first fire on a man who held the bridle of my horse, I left the chair, another man ran after me, I fired a second time, and was charged with killing the man, I know not whether it was so.  Q. What motive could have induced you to fire on a man?  A. The necessity of self-defence.  Q. Was it not from conviction that it was impossible your plans should remain undiscovered, and that you might be kept out of the reach of the Arm of justice?  A. I fired without reflection.  Q. What is become of the pistols?  A. I do not know, I believe they are lost.  Q. Why were you provided with those two pistols?  A. For my personal safety.  Q. A pistol was shown him, having an ivory handle, tipped with silver, the blade of four edges, and a silver sheath, &c. he was called on to declare if he knew the said pistol.  A. Yes, citizen; I had it when arrested.  Q. Was this pistol made in England?  A. Yes, citizen.  Q. Have not all the chiefs of the conspirators such pistols?  A. I know no other chief than myself.  Q. Have you not for your domestic, Louis Picot?  A. I have no domestic.  Q. The officers of the soldiery concerned in the conspiracy, have they similar pistols?  A. I know no soldiers of the pretended conspiracy.  Q. Instead of an attack by force of arms, was it not with a pistol of this nature, seconded by the conspirators, that you proposed to assassinate the First Consul?  A. I should have attacked him with arms like those of his own guard.  Q. Was not a uniform provided for those of the conspirators who should assemble and embody, and was not the design of civil war to be founded?  A. I have ordered no uniform, if others have done it, that is nothing to me. I observe to you, a proof that I did not wish to engage in civil war, is that I came to execute the plan at Paris; when at the same time it was possible for me to have armed the citizens against each other in other parts of France. 

Q. Have you not travelled into Bretagne a short time since? A. No citizen. Q. How many voyages between France and England have you made within two years? A. I have been once into England and have returned into France. Q. Was you not in England at the head of an armed corps, and paid from the treasury of England? A. No citizen, several officers whom I commanded in the west, have passed into England, but were not employed there, neither was I. A sabre was then shown him, the blade ornamented by Turkish damask, the hilt of malachite, the hilt of green Spanish leather, embroidered with silver. Q. Do you acknowledge this? A. No citizen. It was observed to him he did not speak the truth, for by his order it was brought from a French cutter at Paimpol, and paid for by him. A. It is not so. The interrogations were read to him and his answers, and demanded of him if true; to which he assented in the affirmative, and thereto affixed his signature together with the clerk of the registry, who is entrusted with the point and fibre to deposit in the registry of the tribunal. (Signed.)
GEORGES CADOUAL. TRURIOT, FREMYN, LEGROS, OUBARD.
A LETTER FROM PICHEGRU TO LOUIS XVIII. TO HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY LOUIS XVIII. KING OF FRANCE AND NAVARRE.
"Paris, Feb. 24. "Moreau is already in the temple, and a dungeon is there waiting for me. The same scaffold, as the same prison, will probably soon contain us both, and for ever remove two generals whom the foreign usurper of your majesty's throne regards as the only rivals of his military fame; whose probity is a reproach to his guilt; and who, I am proud to say, have set him, as well as future conquerors, an example of virtue and moderation; who entered the career of danger and glory, poor, and who left it pure. "Sir, for the last time a faithful subject addresses his beloved sovereign. When the grave is dug, and ready to swallow up its victim all flattery ceases, all hypocrisy is laid aside. Even a villain in that situation would act and speak with sincerity. In a short time, Sir, I must be out of the reach of the vengeance of my country's tyrant; and even your majesty, my country's lawful king, will not have it in his power either to pardon past errors, or to reward services performed. "Sir, from what I have read in the history of former times, and from what I have observed of the actions and opinions of my contemporaries, I am firmly convinced, that legal and monarchical government can alone make subjects happy, & their sovereign safe. Excuse, therefore, Sir, the frankness of a soldier, when he acknowledges, that it was neither as the heir of seventy kings, nor your personal talents and virtues, that made me desire to see your majesty quietly seated upon the throne of your ancestors. No Sir, though I was born in your majesty's dominions, I was nearer related to my fellow subjects than to my prince, and their welfare and the welfare of mankind, has always been regarded by me as superior to all other considerations. I would never have been a rebel against my king, but I would neither have assisted him to return to power, had not his hereditary rank and supremacy been not only closely connected with, but inseparable from, the comforts and liberty of my countrymen, and from the tranquility of the world. "Sir, the time cannot be distant, when your majesty will again rule in France. The prosperity and interest of all civilized nations demand it. Please, Sir, then to remember the poor relatives of a general, who, like Bonaparte, might have usurped your majesty's authority, enriched his family, promoted his accomplices, enslaved his country, and tyrannized over it, with Europe. Remember him, Sir! he was dutiful when rebellion was fashionable; he was honest when infamy was a recommendation, & he was disinterested when egotism excluded consanguinity, as well as patriotism and loyalty! "My last breath shall be a prayer to the Almighty for my king and for my country, &c. "CHARLES PICHEGRU."
Letters between Madame Bonaparte, and Madame Moreau. Les Nouvelles à la Main, Ventose XII. No. III. or Paris, March 20, 1804, contains what follows:—
"In a preceding number we published a letter from general Moreau to the First Consul. We are now informed from good authority, that it was authentic, with the exception that general Moreau instead of acknowledging himself guilty of the pretended conspiracy, says, that had he conspired with Pichegru, Georges, and others, such would have been his plan, &c. "The letters we now lay before the public are known to all Paris, and have been admired even by some female citizens, who have not been inactive in our revolution. The one is written by a lady, near 50, sharing a throne; the other by a young beauty of 22, who has been refused to share a dungeon with her husband. We guarantee their authenticity. They want no comments. They speak for themselves." To Madame Moreau. "Paris, 22d Ventose, Year XII. "March 18, 1804.
MADAME, Though the crimes of your husband are great, the clemency of the First Consul is greater—and my friendship for you, and my compassion for a person so dear to you, surpass both. Apprehend, therefore, nothing for general Moreau's life. By the very constitution which he intended to overturn, the chief magistrate possesses the power to pardon; and I promise you that it shall be employed in this affair. Do not, however, by any ill-advised indiscretions of yourself or of your friends, aggravate the enormity of your husband's guilt. They alone can shut the door of mercy for ever, and bring general Moreau to the scaffold.
"I salute you cordially, "Josephine Bonaparte." Madame Moreau to Madame Bonaparte. "Grenobles, March 14, 1804.
"Madame, "I cannot be called indirect in saying, that your assertion, that declares my husband guilty, as rash, ungenerous, and cruel. I do not wish to enter into a discussion unbecoming myself and my husband, who is the criminal, he who, disinterested and without stain, has served his country; or he who served France, only to become the tyrant over Frenchmen. He, whose victories pacified Europe; or the foreigner, who made those victories subservient to organic his oppressions over France and all nations. He, who in the most corrupted country dared to be honest, and had the courageous modesty to confound himself in the crowd, after he had resigned the supreme command; or he, who owes every advancement towards authority, to some new crime, and has, therefore, no other choice left but between power and death—a throne or a scaffold. But let general Moreau appear before impartial judges, and not before pensioned assassins! Let him be tried by men whose lives are as pure as his own, and not by persons, accomplices in the atrocities of general Bonaparte, & whose past crimes answer for their present obedience; and I promise you, that Justice, in pronouncing his honorable acquittal, will dispatch an order for the arrest (un mandat d'arret) of the really culpable of high treason against France—against the world.
"Cease, Madam, to mock humanity, and to insult my feelings, by talking of your husband's clemency and mercy!—Gracious God! how canst thou suffer, without inflicting chastisement, the profanation of these words? The clemency, the mercy of that cruel man, who even in his youth, had the ferocity to inundate the streets and squares of Toulon and Paris, with the blood of innocent men, women and children! who ordered those soldiers, who, in Italy, with their blood, earned his laurels, to be drowned or buried alive! who, in Syria, in the same city poisoned his wounded companions in arms, and butchered his disarmed prisoners! who hired an assassin to stab his rival, gen. Kleber, in Egypt; and who invents plots, and bribes tribunals to dishonor or murder in France, another rival general, whom he could find no banditti audacious enough to pierce!"
"General Bonaparte's reign of crime and of terror may be prosperous, but it cannot be long. Success attended Robespierre, but in a short time the guillotine punished his barbarity! Providence is always just; the fame in 1804 as in 1794. My husband and myself are as resigned to the will of the Almighty, as we are firm in a belief of an hereafter—terrible for assassins, poisoners, atheists, and tyrants, but consoling to suffering innocence upon earth. "I salute you, "Julia Moreau."
TRIAL OF MOREAU.
In the sitting of the criminal tribunal, at Paris May 31st, after the examination of Picot, Rolland, and Lajolais—General Moreau was heard—He confessed his reconciliation with Pichegru; he said that many generals had joined him to pray his recall from the first consul; that he had told Lajolais that if Pichegru would retire into Germany, he did not despair of succeeding—He observed that Lajolais did not go to England at his invitation. He confessed the overtures which Rolland had made him, on the part of Pichegru, but he had considered them as extravagant. He formally denied the interview with Pichegru on the Boulevard de la Madeleine, and although Lajolais persisted in his assertion, Moreau also persisted in denying it. Bouvet de Lozier was then brought forward, and persisted in saying that he had taken Pichegru and Georges from Chaillot to the place of meeting, that he saw Pichegru and Georges get out of the carriage, and understood it was to meet General Moreau. Moreau then confessed that Pichegru was twice at his house; the first time he said was a mere complimentary visit, but the second time Pichegru made overtures to him about the army, and about the influence which the princes might have there; the advantage that might be taken from the invasion, &c. all which he answered so as to make him discontent—His letters were then read—his proclamation on the subject of Pichegru—and his letter to the first consul.
The president then asked him, how, after having denounced Pichegru as a traitor, he could receive him at his house?
Moreau answered, that at first he thought these accusations well founded; but if he had then committed a fault, his subsequent victories atoned for them.
The president then again questioned him about the overtures.
Moreau allowed that they were made; and observed, that when he commanded armies, similar overtures were made to him, both by republicans and royalists. Being asked why he did not denounce them? He said, he would much rather fight the enemy than turn informer; that as to the project of being dictator, he could have obtained it if he wished, before the arrival of Bonaparte; that it had been proposed to him, but that he looked upon that man as a madman, whose design was to overthrow the government.
The president then again inquired particularly as to the meeting on the Boulevard.
Moreau persisted in denying it. He sought to weaken the declarations of Rolland, with respect to the conversation which had taken place; he said that Rolland himself had only called upon him on the footing of an old acquaintance; that it was true that he had spoken about partisans, about the possible reëstablishment of the Bourbons, &c. but it was in the way of conversation, and not as a negotiation; he had served the consul on the 18th Brumaire (November 9) and far from having the least ambition, he only demanded the command of an army, it was therefore, impossible that he could have wished that the consuls might disappear.
One of the judges required the utmost exactness in the expression used by Moreau—to make the consuls disappear!
Rolland repeated them, affirming them to be his very words, M. persisted in denying them; and added that Rolland could not have persisted in them, but to benefit himself. He had been sent to the abbey, while (Moreau) was in the temple, guarded day and night by gens d'armes.
The president observed to him, that he had no guards until after Pichegru had committed suicide; and that the reason of Rolland and several other culprits having been confined in the abbey and other prisons was, that the temple could not contain the whole of them.
Moreau having been asked by the president, whether he had any thing to remark on the supplementary deposition of Rolland?—replied that if he had been deposed to form any party, he would have looked for partisans not among the royalists but in the armies and constituted authorities; that, however, he had maintained no connection with them; and that he saw but very few strangers.
Extracts from the act of accusation against General Moreau.
General Moreau at the head of the army of the Rhine, could not be silent on the discovery of the proofs that Pichegru was the chief of a conspiracy, without rendering himself guilty of the crime of high treason. Nevertheless, four months and a half elapsed before he said any thing concerning this discovery, and he only spoke of it at the moment when he knew the discovery had torn off the mask from that conspirator, and his transportation was decided on? If after the 18th Fructidor Moreau denounced Pichegru, it was only to turn aside suspicions that would have ruined himself without saving his friend.
In a proclamation of the 23d to the army of the Rhine and Moselle, he expresses himself in these words:
"It is but too true that Pichegru has betrayed the confidence of all France. Informed one of the Members of the Directory, on the 17th inst. that a correspondence with Conde and other agents of the pretender had fallen into my hands which leaves no doubt of his treason."
In his letter to the Directory, dated 27th Vendemaire, year 7, when speaking of Pichegru, he says: "We were friends as long as we defended the same cause, but we ceased to be so, when I had proofs that he was the enemy of the French Republic."
He ought then only to have possessed sentiments of horror towards Pichegru, as Pichegru on his side should only have looked on him with hatred. From that moment an insurmountable barrier ought to have separated them forever. If it be proved, however, in spite of these truths that their reconciliation was sealed; that these two men had certain go-betweens to communicate from London to Paris and from Paris to London; and that themselves held conference together at Paris, we may assert without hesitation that the extraordinary causes for this violation of all the laws of honour, could only originate in a sacrilegious pact formed between
them, in order that a conspiracy might succeed. Irrefragable proofs exist of their reconciliation, correspondence and conferences.
Lajolais declared on the 25th Pluviose that he knew by means of a common friend (the Abbe David) that Pichegru and Moreau, for a long time divided, were at length reconciled. Moreau proved his sincerity in having nothing more to do with Pichegru, when before the 14th Messidor, year 10, in speaking of him, he said in a letter: Besides, citizen, his situation affects me very much, and I shall always seize with pleasure the occasion of being useful to him. He proved he would have nothing more to do with him when he added:—You have hinted to my secretary that I opposed his return into France, you may be certain that it is so much the more false, since if Government were to cause me to be informed that I was the only obstacle to his return, I would hasten to cease to be so.
With regard to the correspondence between Moreau and Pichegru, from Paris to London, and from London to Paris, by means of a third person, it was proved by the documents seized when David was arrested, and by those seized at the arrest of Moreau. It is clear from them that it was David who took on himself the shameful reconciliation which was brought about; who sent to Pichegru, copies of the letters he received from Moreau and without doubt of those which were intended for him, he even sent copies of his own letters to Moreau, that he sent to Moreau copies of those letters which he received from Pichegru and without doubt of those which were intended for him. A letter from Pichegru announces clearly that it was he who sent off David for London and who sent money for the journey. David was to have been seen in repairing to London, the living correspondence, as Lajolais was afterwards between Pichegru and Moreau. There is only the one more demonstration to make, it is the proofs that the conferences took place at Paris between Pichegru and Moreau.
Lajolais confessed, in his examination on the 25th Pluviose, that during last summer, he had conferences at Paris with Moreau, relative to Pichegru; that Moreau testified to him his wish for having an interview with Pichegru, and he undertook to bring it about. That when he went into England, Pichegru expressed to him the same desire. He says that he arrived at Paris with Pichegru on the 26th, and went to Gen. Moreau's house to inform him of it, he went to him another time, in the morning, to request him to appoint a rendezvous; the latter agreed to meet him at the Boulevard de la Madeleine, Rue de Causmartin, to the church de la Madeleine, at 9 in the evening, telling him he should be dressed in a blue coat and round hat, that he would strike the ground frequently with his cane, that he would come by the Boulevard, on the side of the rue Causmartin, and that he need only come on the opposite side; that consequently at 9 o'clock exactly, he met him in the middle of this Boulevard; that he informed Pichegru of it the same evening, at the Maison de Chaillot, No. 6, that Pichegru told him at that hour he would be in a Hackney Coach in the rue Baillie which is bordered by the Boulevard; that a second before meeting Moreau, some one who recollected him, cried out "the General is arrived, he is in that hackney coach, pointing with his finger to the carriage; that he then met Moreau, to whom he said, the General is arrived; Moreau then pointed out to him the alley on the side of the Rue des Capuchines, where the moon shone less, telling him to take General Pichegru thither; that he went to the door of the coach; that Pichegru was precisely on the same side by which he came; that it appeared to him he was not alone; that Pichegru immediately opened the coach door, and followed him to the other side of the Boulevard &c.
Couchery (Victor) stated in his declaration that he knew of this interview. He added that having been to seek Pichegru with Lajolais, to conduct him to another conference, Georges said to him; Moreau will not complain to day, for he will be there.
General Moreau has acknowledged that proposals had been made to his Secretary who gave him an account of them. These propositions were made by Pichegru otherwise than as he has accused of being concerned in the plot of the 2d Nivose.
Rolland declared that Lajolais told him that Pichegru, whose arrival he informed him of, had requested him to prevail on Rolland to procure Pichegru a lodging for some days, and to manage affairs between Moreau and himself with regard to what they wished to communicate to each other; that he had been at the house of General Moreau, who told him he would very willingly lodge Pichegru, were he under no apprehensions from a number of domesticks who might recognize him, &c.
On being confronted with Rolland, the 9th of last Germinal, Moreau could not deny but that Pichegru was at his house on the evening appointed. He pretended, however, that instead of having sent Premiers to fetch him, it was only in order to know what he wanted.
Bouvet spoke of a second conference, in which Moreau hinted, that in order to succeed it was necessary to appoint him Dictator.
Lastly it has been attested by Lajolais, that he went to Chaillot to seek Pichegru about half past seven, for another conference; that it was a day on which Moreau was to have an assembly; that this rendezvous had been appointed by Moreau himself, in his house; that it appeared no person was yet arrived; that they went together into the saloon of Moreau, where he and Lajolais had remained through discretion; that Pichegru and Moreau retired to the Library, when the conference lasted for about half an hour; that Pichegru then took a Hackney Coach probably to return to Chaillot.
On being confronted with Rolland, the 9th of last Germinal, Moreau could not deny but that Pichegru was at his house on the evening appointed. He pretended, however, that instead of having sent Premiers to fetch him, it was only in order to know what he wanted.
Bouvet spoke of a second conference, in which Moreau hinted, that in order to succeed it was necessary to appoint him Dictator.
Lastly it has been attested by Lajolais, that he went to Chaillot to seek Pichegru about half past seven, for another conference; that it was a day on which Moreau was to have an assembly; that this rendezvous had been appointed by Moreau himself, in his house; that it appeared no person was yet arrived; that they went together into the saloon of Moreau, where he and Lajolais had remained through discretion; that Pichegru and Moreau retired to the Library, when the conference lasted for about half an hour; that Pichegru then took a Hackney Coach probably to return to Chaillot.
On being confronted with Rolland, the 9th of last Germinal, Moreau could not deny but that Pichegru was at his house on the evening appointed. He pretended, however, that instead of having sent Premiers to fetch him, it was only in order to know what he wanted.
Bouvet spoke of a second conference, in which Moreau hinted, that in order to succeed it was necessary to appoint him Dictator.
Lastly it has been attested by Lajolais, that he went to Chaillot to seek Pichegru about half past seven, for another conference; that it was a day on which Moreau was to have an assembly; that this rendezvous had been appointed by Moreau himself, in his house; that it appeared no person was yet arrived; that they went together into the saloon of Moreau, where he and Lajolais had remained through discretion; that Pichegru and Moreau retired to the Library, when the conference lasted for about half an hour; that Pichegru then took a Hackney Coach probably to return to Chaillot.
On being confronted with Rolland, the 9th of last Germinal, Moreau could not deny but that Pichegru was at his house on the evening appointed. He pretended, however, that instead of having sent Premiers to fetch him, it was only in order to know what he wanted.
Bouvet spoke of a second conference, in which Moreau hinted, that in order to succeed it was necessary to appoint him Dictator.
Lastly it has been attested by Lajolais, that he went to Chaillot to seek Pichegru about half past seven, for another conference; that it was a day on which Moreau was to have an assembly; that this rendezvous had been appointed by Moreau himself, in his house; that it appeared no person was yet arrived; that they went together into the saloon of Moreau, where he and Lajolais had remained through discretion; that Pichegru and Moreau retired to the Library, when the conference lasted for about half an hour; that Pichegru then took a Hackney Coach probably to return to Chaillot.
On being confronted with Rolland, the 9th of last Germinal, Moreau could not deny but that Pichegru was at his house on the evening appointed. He pretended, however, that instead of having sent Premiers to fetch him, it was only in order to know what he wanted.
Bouvet spoke of a second conference, in which Moreau hinted, that in order to succeed it was necessary to appoint him Dictator.
Lastly it has been attested by Lajolais, that he went to Chaillot to seek Pichegru about half past seven, for another conference; that it was a day on which Moreau was to have an assembly; that this rendezvous had been appointed by Moreau himself, in his house; that it appeared no person was yet arrived; that they went together into the saloon of Moreau, where he and Lajolais had remained through discretion; that Pichegru and Moreau retired to the Library, when the conference lasted for about half an hour; that Pichegru then took a Hackney Coach probably to return to Chaillot.
On being confronted with Rolland, the 9th of last Germinal, Moreau could not deny but that Pichegru was at his house on the evening appointed. He pretended, however, that instead of having sent Premiers to fetch him, it was only in order to know what he wanted.
Bouvet spoke of a second conference, in which Moreau hinted, that in order to succeed it was necessary to appoint him Dictator.
Lastly it has been attested by Lajolais, that he went to Chaillot to seek Pichegru about half past seven, for another conference; that it was a day on which Moreau was to have an assembly; that this rendezvous had been appointed by Moreau himself, in his house; that it appeared no person was yet arrived; that they went together into the saloon of Moreau, where he and Lajolais had remained through discretion; that Pichegru and Moreau retired to the Library, when the conference lasted for about half an hour; that Pichegru then took a Hackney Coach probably to return to Chaillot.
On being confronted with Rolland, the 9th of last Germinal, Moreau could not deny but that Pichegru was at his house on the evening appointed. He pretended, however, that instead of having sent Premiers to fetch him, it was only in order to know what he wanted.
Bouvet spoke of a second conference, in which Moreau hinted, that in order to succeed it was necessary to appoint him Dictator.
Lastly it has been attested by Lajolais, that he went to Chaillot to seek Pichegru about half past seven, for another conference; that it was a day on which Moreau was to have an assembly; that this rendezvous had been appointed by Moreau himself, in his house; that it appeared no person was yet arrived; that they went together into the saloon of Moreau, where he and Lajolais had remained through discretion; that Pichegru and Moreau retired to the Library, when the conference lasted for about half an hour; that Pichegru then took a Hackney Coach probably to return to Chaillot.
On being confronted with Rolland, the 9th of last Germinal, Moreau could not deny but that Pichegru was at his house on the evening appointed. He pretended, however, that instead of having sent Premiers to fetch him, it was only in order to know what he wanted.
Bouvet spoke of a second conference, in which Moreau hinted, that in order to succeed it was necessary to appoint him Dictator.
Lastly it has been attested by Lajolais, that he went to Chaillot to seek Pichegru about half past seven, for another conference; that it was a day on which Moreau was to have an assembly; that this rendezvous had been appointed by Moreau himself, in his house; that it appeared no person was yet arrived; that they went together into the saloon of Moreau, where he and Lajolais had remained through discretion; that Pichegru and Moreau retired to the Library, when the conference lasted for about half an hour; that Pichegru then took a Hackney Coach probably to return to Chaillot.
On being confronted with Rolland, the 9th of last Germinal, Moreau could not deny but that Pichegru was at his house on the evening appointed. He pretended, however, that instead of having sent Premiers to fetch him, it was only in order to know what he wanted.
Bouvet spoke of a second conference, in which Moreau hinted, that in order to succeed it was necessary to appoint him Dictator.
Lastly it has been attested by Lajolais, that he went to Chaillot to seek Pichegru about half past seven, for another conference; that it was a day on which Moreau was to have an assembly; that this rendezvous had been appointed by Moreau himself, in his house; that it appeared no person was yet arrived; that they went together into the saloon of Moreau, where he and Lajolais had remained through discretion; that Pichegru and Moreau retired to the Library, when the conference lasted for about half an hour; that Pichegru then took a Hackney Coach probably to return to Chaillot.
IMPORTANT—17 TRUE!
The following extract of a letter from our London correspondent, we believe is the very latest received by the Union. It is dated
"June 20, evening. "Since I put up my papers for you this morning, a report is in very active circulation, which is said to have been very generally welcomed all over France, and which reached this country late last night; viz. that PEACE is expected to take place very shortly. Although the public know of no negotiation on the part of our government, and are aware of the ingenuity of Stock-Brokers in cries like the present, this report has gained currency in the best informed and most elevated circles."
[Phil. Gaz.]
Capt. Brown of the brig Ann, arrived at Newburyport, on Thursday last, from Gibraltar, mentions, that it was reported there by an American brig from Naples, "that on the 14th May, Corsica bearing E. N. E. Lord Nelson had a running fight with the French fleet." No particulars were received, but the fleet was expected down to Gibraltar every day, in case the report proved to be true. Capt. Brown left Gibraltar on the 6th June.
We are informed, (says the New-York Gazette,) by a gentleman who arrived in the South Carolina from London, that the King was considered in a state of infirmity; so much so, that his physician declared that it was absolutely necessary that he should be relieved from the cares of business. The opinion was that there would be a Regency in the course of two weeks. Arrangements for that purpose were in forwardness. It was observed with regret, that the Prince of Wales was courting the popularity of the opposition—And it was said he had declared, that he would only act as Regent unconditionally. It was also stated, that Mr. Fox had said in a private circle, that he would, before the prorogation of Parliament, place Mr. Pitt and his party in the minority.
We have received London papers and Lloyd's Lists by the ship South-Carolina, to the 15th June, inclusive.
LONDON, June, 15.
The German Electors and Princes have sent new credentials to their ministers at the Court of France. The Elector Arch-Chancellor of the Empire has written to the Emperor of the French, to compliment him upon his elevation. As his Electoral Highness would not act without the concurrence of Austria, we may be sure that the new Government will be acknowledged by the Court of Vienna.
All the English at Leghorn have been arrested and conveyed to the new fortress; seals were put by the French upon all their papers, warehoused, and effects. From this measure only such Englishmen were exempted as have lived there for 15 years as Tuscan subjects.
A letter from Vienna, dated May 29, says, "There is a talk now of an important change in the political state of Europe. The principal item of this report is, that, as Napoleon Bonaparte receives the Imperial Crown of France, Poland will, by the intervention of Russia, and with the consent of Austria and Prussia, receive a King in the person of Louis XVIII."
Men of consequence assert, that the French Emperor has proposed to the Courts of Vienna, Petersburg, and Berlin, the following new partitions: Austria to have the Inn quarter (without prejudice to Bavaria); the Archduke Charles, as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, to have the title of Elector, and all the possessions of the Order of Malta, in Germany, (which is to be entirely suppressed, as the English are masters of the Island of Malta) besides the two Prussian Principalities in Franconia, of Anspach and Bareuth. Prussia is to have Hanover; and the city of Erfurt, with its district, is to be ceded by Prussia to Saxe Weimar, along with the Eichfeld.
The following letter from Lord Grenville to Mr. Pitt will be read with the deepest interest. We are assured that it is literally correct.
"8th May, 1804.
"My Dear Pitt, "I have already apprised you, that all the persons, to whom, at your desire, I communicated what passed between us yesterday, agree with me in the decided opinion, that we ought not to engage in the administration which you are now employed in forming."
"We should be sincerely sorry, if by declining this proposal, we should appear less desirous than we must always be, of rendering to his Majesty, to the utmost of our power, every service, of which he may be graciously pleased to think us capable. No consideration of personal ease or comfort; no apprehension of responsibility, nor reluctance to meet the real situation into which the country has been brought, have any weight in this decision: nor are we fettered by any engagements on the subject, either expressed or implied: we rest our determination solely on our strong sense of the impropriety of our becoming parties to a system of Government, which is to be formed at such a moment as the present, on a principle of exclusion."
"It is unnecessary to dwell on the mischiefs which have already resulted from placing the great offices of government in weak and incapable hands. We see no hope of an effectual remedy for those mischiefs, but by uniting in the public service "as large a proportion as possible of the weight, talents, and character, to be found in public men of all descriptions, and without any exception."—This opinion I have already had occasion to express to you in the same words, and we have for some time past been publicly acting in conformity to it; nor can we, while we remain impressed with that persuasion, concur in defeating an object for which the circumstances of the present times, afford at once so strong an inducement, and so favourable an occasion."
"An opportunity now offers, such as this country has seldom seen, for giving to his government in a moment of peculiar difficulty, the full benefits of the services of all those, who, by the public voice and sentiment, are judged most capable of contributing to its prosperity & safety. The wishes of the public on this subject are completely in union with its interests, and the advantages, which not this country alone, but all Europe, and the whole civilized world, might derive from the establishment of such an administration, at such a crisis, would probably have exceeded the most sanguine expectations."
"We are certainly not ignorant of the difficulty which might have obstructed the final accomplishment of such an object, however earnestly pursued. But when in the very first instance all trial of it is precluded, and when this denial is made the condition of all subsequent arrangements; we cannot but feel, that there are no motives, of whatever description, which could justify our taking an active part in the establishment of a system, so adverse to our deliberate and declared opinions."
"Believe me ever, my dear Pitt, "Most affectionately yours," (Signed)
"GRENVILLE."
It will be seen by our Parliamentary report, that the new Minister's majority in the House of Commons is reduced to 28. Tho' actually beaten in the first division by six, it is the last division which is the proper subject of public
interest; because, not having taken place till near eleven o'clock, the two sides mustered in great force, as the numbers demonstrated, there being 214 on the ministerial side and 186 on that of the opposition. According to the calculations of the latter, the minister "can do no more; whilst they assert that on Monday they will have a complete victory. Mr. Fox during the division, addressed the members in the lobby, by exhorting their attendance on Monday, when, he said, a debate on the principle and all the parts of the bill would take place and a division upon either of two stages, which left them the discretion of a further effort, if the enemies of the obnoxious measure should not finally succeed on that day." This address of Mr. Fox was received with unusual acclamation and an evident confidence of carrying their point. There are undoubtedly many circumstances in favour of this sanguine hope; for, besides that nothing falls so fast as a falling Minister, many of the oldest friends of Mr. Fox (such as Mr. Hussey, member for Salisbury, Mr. Carwen for Carlisle, Sir C. Bunbury, &c.) who have not yet voted, and it is said, are sure to attend on Monday. It is added too, that some of those who supported Mr. Pitt in the previous stages (such as Sir William Dolben) are ultimately to vote against the bill. All votes of this description tell double.—Upon the whole it is obvious that the Minister's situation is most perilous; for although he may gain some farther strength by Monday, it seems pretty evident that the Parliamentary torrent is against him; whilst at Court, after supporting the King's favourite minister, it cannot be supposed that his footing is firm. Clear as we are, and shall always be, of absolute party spirit, there are two observations which obviously present themselves to every reflecting mind—the first is that a decisive majority of the representatives of England have declared against a measure, which may nevertheless become the law of the land; the second is, that Mr. Pitt comes in, to carry on the Government, with a much smaller majority than that which suggested to Mr. Addington's constitutional sense of duty, to

general Maitland and Toussaint, with a few modifications and extensions favourable to the commerce of St. Domingo. The Tatar touched first at Jeremie, a port on the south side of St. Domingo; but as Desfalin was at Port-au-Prince, the latter to that town, and entered the harbour on the 15th. The British agent had the following day an interview with the governor-general, when numerous objections were made by him to the treaty, and amendments and additions were suggested, to which it was impossible to accede, for very extravagant were his demands. Desfalin wished to stipulate for universal commerce, and for freedom of navigation round the island to any distance from the coast his vessels might proceed. He also insisted on being supplied by us with arms, ammunition, and what was most extraordinary, with negroes. From terms so excessive as these, no hopes could be entertained of any thing like a satisfactory issue to the negotiation, and during five days more, while the British agent and his colleagues remained at Port-au-Prince, only another interview took place. Desfalin seized the opportunity of recapitulating a number of old grievances, complained of our sincerity, and tended to shew his doubts of our sincerity. He laid vast stress on the confidence reposed in him by the people of Hayti, and of the dignity and independence of his government, which obliged him to reject the terms we proposed, and to which he could not think of acceding, since the island was open to the commerce of the whole world, France excepted. To a proposition that he should put us in possession of the port of the Mole during the war only, he answered, that it was altogether impossible, and that he had given orders to destroy all the fortifications on the land side of the town, which had been carried into effect at Port-au-Prince, and was to be done through the whole of St. Domingo. Our agent returned to Kingston with the proposals of Desfalin in writing, after a solemn promise that an answer should be sent from governor Nugent, at Jamaica, with all possible dispatch.
This promise was punctually executed, for the British agent did not remain quite a week at Kingston, when he embarked in the same frigate for St. Domingo, with governor Nugent's ultimatum. With the exception of some trifling modifications, it differed little from our first proposals. The governor thought it, however, expedient to send presents to Desfalin and his principal officers, to the value of several hundred pounds, chiefly composed of hats, gold lace, epaulettes and sabres. On the 10th of February our agents were landed at Jeremie, but as Desfalin was then at Aux-Cayes, no interview took place until his arrival, which was the 25th. Instead of relaxing in the demands he had before made, he renewed all his objections, and even insisted, as a preliminary, that we should furnish him with one million pounds of powder, equal to five hundred tons, with fifty thousand muskets and ammunition; fifty thousand sabres for infantry, five thousand for cavalry, and fifty barrels of flints. So extraordinary a proposal was a convincing proof that he had no intention of treating with us; but it was considered the wisest course to assure Desfalin that his demand should be laid before the governor of Jamaica. The agents returned to Kingston, and we understand that in consequence of governor Nugent's dispatches, all idea of a treaty with the republic of Hayti is entirely relinquished.
It is added to this account, that the great mass of his officers and army are equally perfidious and brutal; and it is confidently maintained by those best acquainted with his character, that no treaty made with him, or any of them, can be kept sacred. Such a measure would inevitably expose the lives and properties of our merchants to the caprice of those ferocious banditti, who, if left to themselves, must kill a prey to each other. They have now an army of nearly 20,000 men on foot, without any material resources for its support. The troops are miserably clothed, receive no pay, and would be shortly without the means of existence, as cultivation is neglected throughout the island, were we to declare the ports in a state of blockade. The actual ration allowed to each black soldier, consists of a herring, and half a pound of bad bread. The whole population of St. Domingo is not now 150,000 souls, and of that number not more than 25,000 are effective males. This population, diminishing as it is, would decrease still more rapidly, were they deprived of all external succour. With a people so disproportioned to the standing army, it may be easily conceived to what a miserable situation the plantations are reduced. The few which are still worked are cultivated by women, children and old men; and all the sugar-works and distilleries, except in a few instances, have been totally destroyed. A quantity of tafia, sufficient for the consumption of the military only, is not made in the whole island, and not a single pound of sugar is to be obtained. It would seem from the sentiments expressed by Desfalin during his conferences with our agents, that he intends to make coffee and cotton the chief commodities of the island.
As the blacks naturally look to another attempt on the part of France to recover the island, their present system is to destroy all the fortifications round the towns unless they protect the entrance of the harbors. Desfalin does not affect any mystery with respect to the plan of operations he has determined to pursue, should the French effect a landing. Persons of every description are, immediately upon the approach of the enemy, to retire with all their property to the strong holds and fastnesses in the interior, having previously burnt the towns. It is highly probable that serious divisions will shortly arise between the northern and southern chiefs, as the latter, who are mostly people of color, and fewer in number, begin to entertain apprehensions for their safety.
We learn with pleasure that no fears can arise with respect to any danger to our possessions in the West Indies, should the new government of St. Domingo prove hostile to us. The blacks are destitute of vessels capable either of annoying our trade, or of transporting troops, and we decidedly question the policy of any commercial treaty with them, which would not only expose the lives and property of our merchants, but involve us in a connection that might interfere in our future arrangements with France and hold up an example to our own colonies ultimately productive of the most dangerous consequences.
Extract of a letter from Gibraltar, dated June 6th 1804, to a gentleman in Boston
"By an American vessel, arrived yesterday, the Capt. has made a deposition that on passing Toulon he saw the English and French fleets engaging. The American Consul has since had a letter, & is reported, that the British have totally defeated the French, and taken eight sail of the line. Though the intelligence is not completely satisfactory, it is generally believed, that there has been an action."
We think proper to observe, that in another letter, received by the same conveyance, and dated at the same place and moment, no mention is made of his event. What degree of truth therefore to be attached to this news, we know not. Time must determine. [Boston Gaz.]
WEST-INDIES.
The Boston Palladium of the 21st ult. says, that the report of the defeat of the Haytian army before St. Domingo, by the French and Spaniards, is unfounded; that the whites, however, were so strong as to be under no apprehension that they were daily expecting reinforcements from Cuba, which an English frigate was waiting to intercept.
NEW-YORK, AUGUST 8.
Captain Moorehouse, of the brig Ontario, who arrived at this port yesterday from Battalier (Guadaloupe) has favoured us with the following extract from the logbook of the ship Mary of Baltimore:
"On Sunday, July 1st, in lat. 27, 54, long. 62, 30 in sight of the ship Almy, Snow, of Baltimore, spoke a French privateer mounting fourteen guns and 120 men who had captured the ship Hope-well, Sisson, and brig Rockland, Atkins, both of New-York, and sent them for Guadalupe. The privateer boarded the Hope-well after a contest of about half an hour, in which the boat was wounded, and the supercargo and five seamen killed. In the engagement with the brig, captain Atkins was dangerously wounded by a shot through the body, and had three of his seamen killed. The privateer had ten of her crew killed, and a considerable number wounded."
Arrived at Baltimore, sch'r. Betty, Low, 15 days from Point Peter, (Guad.) Left there 21st. July, sch'r. Nymph, Davis, for Baltimore next day; sch'r. Two Brothers, Belt, of and for ditto in 10 or 15 days, Bloom, of and for Philadelphia in 2 days. Four or five days before capt. Low failed, a ship & a brig belonging to New-York, were brought into Point Peter by a French Privateer brig of 14 guns—the ship had 18 guns and 60 men, and the brig 14 guns and 50 men. The brig fought the privateer half an hour—as soon as the privateer had boarded and carried the brig, the pursued the ship, and took her without firing a gun!—The capt. and two hands of the brig were dangerously wounded, and five killed. The crew were put into close confinement. Orders were received from Battalier two days before capt. L. failed, to keep them closely confined till further orders—and it was feared they would all be executed for piracy. The sch'r. Snake-in-the-Grass was condemned. Spoke nothing.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
NEW-YORK, August 7.
The harbour of New-York continues to be blockaded by British ships of war, who commit the most insolent and unheard of depredations on our neutral rights even in our own precincts. These outrages must have an end—As we anticipated the executive of the union is pursuing energetic measures of reparation.
On 21st July last, the ship Guardian, Hunter, from Londonderry, arrived with passengers. When within the Hook and in five fathom water, the Guardian was fired at by the Boston frigate without once hailing. The capt. of the Guardian was determined not to heave to. Pursuing his course he called out fire and be d—d. The Boston was within pistol shot, and in this position fired three times at the Guardian. Finding that capt. Hunter was resolved to sink rather than suffer his ship to be examined in five fathom water, the Boston heered off.
Yesterday the United States revenue cutter, Vigilant, returned from a cruise along the Jersey shore. The officers of the cutter state that when at the Hook they saw the Leander board several merchant vessels as they failed out of the harbour. These were detained several hours.
Having done with the merchant vessels they turned their attention to the United States Revenue Cutter, commanded by capt. Brewster. She was at the Hook with her colours hoisted. As if resolved, however, to add insult to injury the Leander fired at the cutter! The shot fell short, and rather astern. Whatever might have been the consequence capt. Brewster was determined neither to heave to nor alter his course. These aggressions are almost without a parallel. They are intolerable.
The ship Eugenia, capt. Mansfield, from Bordeaux arrived here yesterday through the sound. It will be recollected, that we stated in a former number of this Gazette, that the ship Eugenia was captured on Saturday last off Sandy-Hook by the British ship Leander commanded by Captain Skeene; and ordered for Halifax, on suspicion of having French property on board;—which property, however, we are assured by the owner was regularly to be neutral. On the 7th inst. being off Montauk Point, the Eugenia bore away for New London, and came to anchor within the light house of that port, in distress. Captain Mansfield commander of the Eugenia, and his mate went on shore to report the vessel. During his absence, the British prize master out the ship's cable, and proceeded to sea, intending to carry her into Halifax; on which captain Mansfield, the mate, Messrs. Walter Grace, Ebenezer Goddard inspector of the Customs, and 18 others volunteered their services, armed themselves, got on board a fishing smack, and proceeded after the ship. Having overhauled her before sun set prepared to take possession of her, if necessary by force of arms: But though the British seamen were ready to meet them and threatened to oppose their design, yet they got possession of the Eugenia without the shedding of blood. Having regained the ship, the British Lieutenant, midshipman, and the 12 seamen were put on board the fishing smack, and returned to New London where no doubt they were landed. The British officers behaved politely on board the Eugenia, and did every thing in their power to keep possession of their prize. Captain Mansfield defers the editors of this gazette to express his thanks to the gentlemen who volunteered and assisted him in retaking his ship. [N.Y. Daily Adv.]
Yesterday the brig Eagle, from Bourdeaux, was fired at, off the Hook, by the British ship Leander, but she prudently stood in shore, and saved them the trouble of overhauling her. Passengers, Mr. Boardman, of Boston. [N.Y. Morn. Chron.]
The ship Little Cornelia, capt. Harrison, from Rochefort for this port, was captured on Monday evening off the Hook by the British ship of war Leander, and ordered for Halifax. She was laden with brandy, the vessel and cargo were owned by Mr. John Juhe, of New-York, an American citizen.
As we conceive it to be our duty to observe a strict impartiality towards the belligerent nations we with pleasure insert the following correction of an error, which appeared in Saturday's paper.
Messrs. Lang & Co. IN your paper of Saturday last I observe it is stated that forty passengers and one seaman were impressed from on board the American ship Live-Oak, on Thursday last, by the officers of his Britannic majesty's ship Leander—As this is incorrect, you will be pleased to publish that only seventeen men were impressed from the Live-Oak, the seamen included; and you may add, with great truth, that the talk of impressing British seamen is as unpleasant to the officer
as to the individuals impressed; but the service requires it & it must be done. Great-Britain at this moment is opposing the gigantic power of France, and fighting for perhaps the liberty and happiness of the remainder of the world.
*We had our information from one of the passengers in the Live-Oak.
The late Court Martial held in Boston, (upon the complaint of Brigadier-General John Winlow, against Col. Robert Gardner, and Majors Benjamin Harris, Afa Hatch, and Amasa Stetson, of the Legionary Brigade, First Division) have passed the following sentences, which have received the approbation of the Commander in Chief: That Colonel Gardner be removed from office, and be adjudged incapable of holding any military commission under this Commonwealth during life; and that Majors Harris, Hatch, and Stetson, each be removed from office, and adjudged incapable of holding any military commission under the Commonwealth for the term of ten years.
ENQUIRER.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1804.
By referring to the last number of the Enquirer the reader will perceive that our Latest European Intelligence was brought by the Live Oak arrived at New-York, and by the ship Sable arrived at Portland, with London dates to the 13th of June. Besides the remaining part of the intelligence brought by these vessels, which we either had not received or which we had no room to insert in our last paper, we have had additional accounts from Europe, by the brig Charles at Boston, with London dates to June 19th: by the ship George at New-York, with dates to June 18: and, above all, by the brig Union arrived at Philadelphia, with London dates down to the 21st of June. From the mass of intelligence brought by these arrivals we have found it impossible to extract any articles in the form which they assume in the London prints, except those which are the most interesting in themselves, or the least susceptible of abridgement. With respect to the remaining articles, we had the obvious alternative before us, of passing them by without notice, and thus suffering the regular succession of events to escape our readers; or to throw them into a very concise but a very accurate sketch. No great length of time was wanting for us to decide on the requisitions of our duty, and that decision induces us to present them with the following faithful summary.
SUMMARY.
These accounts do not seem to embrace any new events which are in themselves of considerable importance. Europe rather appears in that middle and quietest state which generally succeeds or introduces some great movement. It appears as if it had not yet sufficiently settled itself after the great revolutions which had taken place in the ministry of England and the government of France; and as if the elements of the new changes which it was silently preparing, had not yet attained sufficient maturity, to burst forth into action. Much, therefore, as the enlightened politician may perceive in these accounts to come over and investigate; however extensively they may assist his researches into the present condition of Europe, or into the condition which it is most likely to assume, he will be deeply disappointed should he expect to meet with any very striking and splendid incidents. The articles which we have before us, principally relate to the changes which have taken place in the constitution of France; to those which have been consequent upon Mr. Pitt's ministry in England, and to the changes which are likely to take place in the mutual relations of these two great powers, and indeed of all the nations of Europe. A few articles, which do not seem intimately connected with either of those points, we shall find room enough to insert under a miscellaneous head.
FRANCE & ITS EMPEROR. New governments never think themselves firmly established until they have obtained the acknowledgment of other nations; like knights of old, who never pretended to exercise the privileges of chivalry until they had been once dubbed by a true member of the order. Bonaparte, in pursuit of this maxim, has sent around a formal notification of his new title of "Emperor of the French," to all the states of the continent. Even the senate of the little commonwealth of Hamburg has been honoured by his notice. He assures them that he will hold no intercourse with them until "the former titles shall be replaced by the new, as well in the credentials of the ministers accredited to France, as in those of his imperial majesty, the Emperor of the French accredited to foreign courts." Such is the language in which M. Bacher, the charge d'affaires at the Diet of Ratisbon, speaks to the different Germanic states, on the 29th of May. And such is the potency too, by which he attempts to enlist the continental powers on his side, against the house of the Bourbons. This policy too will be accompanied with success. All the Electors and Princes of the German Empire have sent new credentials (says the Monitor) to the ministers at the court of France. The Emperor of Germany is said to have nominated Prince Esterhazy as his ambassador extraordinary to discharge the extraordinary office of acknowledging the New Emperor; and what is to us equally extraordinary (for we have not heard the reason) the prince has refused (and positively) to accept of this appointment. The Spanish minister, Admiral Gravina, was received at Bayonne and Bordeaux, &c. &c. &c. with cannon and with honour, (a very apt association indeed). And why all this distinction, which, says the paper, was never before conferred on any Spanish diplomatist? Because, adds the paper, it is supposed "he carries with him the acknowledgment of the king of Spain of Bonaparte's hereditary imperial dignity." A letter from Berlin, seems to announce, that the king of Prussia too is highly delighted with this increase of crowned heads; and that he is about to send new letters of credence to his ambassador in Paris, the Marquis Lucchesini. We also perhaps may enjoy the supreme honour of having it announced to our government, that an ambitious Corsican has terminated the long labours of the French Revolution by making himself the Emperor of the French. Deluded Bonaparte! Miserable house of the Bourbons! Unhappy and insulted nation! And what mighty benefit have this people derived from the elevation of Bonaparte? The exception of the old court is to be brought back upon them. Private letters from Paris say, that the civil list of the Emperor will be fixed at 56 millions of livres; and reader, do not forget that one livre is one-fifth of a dollar. His brother Lucien Bonaparte has just paid (the papers say, but the papers very often mistake) Lucien has just paid £. 300,000 for a palace in Rome, and extensive estates near Balano. The Empress Josephine, a little more generous indeed "has commanded two services of China at the manufacture of Sevres" (much the finest in France, and perhaps in the world) and these presents not unworthy of being sent from one sovereign to another, are to be transmitted to the queen of Prussia, and the Landamman of Switzerland. This illustrious family abounds too in honor, as well as in money. Indeed I with they may
not make their honor too cheap, by making it too common. If these papers declare the truth, the first Consul has appointed six of the Cullen-Brave officers at Antwerp members of the Legion of Honour; and for no other reason than "dispersing a gang of smugglers in attempting to introduce English goods on the territory of the Republic." Several hundred Clergymen too are expected on the Coronation of the Emperor to be enrolled in this same honourable Legion. It is reported too that Mons. Talleyrand is to be appointed Arch-Chancellor of France.
Meantime the fate of the conspirators is not yet consummated. Private letters assert, that "after the conclusion of the Attorney General, regarded as sentences already pronounced," Bonaparte consulted the council of state on the propriety of pardoning the criminals: that his humane resolutions in their favour were overruled by the advice of his council; and that the police officers were reporting every where, that Bonaparte had left the council of state with tears in his eyes. It is time however to cross the Channel, and see what has become of
MR. PITTS AND THE AFFAIRS OF ENGLAND. This premier seems really to stand in a very delicate situation. The constitution of England, possesses one republican feature at least, which is that no law can be passed without the consent of the people in parliament. Hence it is the policy of the prime minister always to attach to his interests at least a majority of the House of Commons (the house of Lords or the Hospital of Incurables being almost certainly bound to him by an identity of interests): For without this co-operation, his measures will be completely thwarted. He can raise no money and no troops. Yet Mr. Pitt has scarcely a majority. On the second reading of the Defence Bill there were for it 265; against it 223. He had only a majority of 42. On the third reading Mr. Fox and his party left the house. Even in the house of lords "the opposition reckon upon 70 votes, and the minister upon 90 or 100." During the debates on the Defence Bill Mr. Pitt "stated repeatedly he would not retire, whatever might be its fate." A new measure however is meditated in England, which may make him "thorn of his beams." Some one is spoken of as a temporary Regent. That man will probably be the Prince of Wales. His attachment to Mr. Fox and his party is well known; and the effect which it may have upon the fortunes of Mr. Pitt, are not difficult to ascertain.
RELATIONS OF THESE COUNTRIES AND OF EUROPE.—Three events of very different tendency are announced: peace between France and England; a prosecution of the war between them; and a combination of some of the powers of the continent with England and against France.
Few circumstances are to be found, which justify the hope of a peace. The probability of this event is announced with greater confidence in the private letters addressed to this country, than in their public prints. What is stated in these papers, seems rather the suggestion of a blind conjecture, than of positive induction. No flags of truce are mentioned: no courts passing between the two courts. Mr. Livingston indeed, our own ambassador has been represented by some of the Addingtonton prints as equipt by Bonaparte with full powers if not to negotiate with Mr. Pitt, at least to sound his intentions. And by this simple hypothesis have they attempted to explain many of the political movements of the day. Mr. Pitt, it appears, however, was unwilling to listen to such a circuitous communication, and promptly declared at once, that if the French government were sincere in their professions of peace, it must seek some other mode of a more direct and unequivocal nature to express them.
Many incidents have occurred, which prove that the present hostility between the two countries is not likely to have an immediate termination. "The French have succeeded in effecting the removal of the late Neapolitan Prime Minister, who was friendly to the British." Accounts from Leghorn of May 19th, express an expectation that several British subjects would arrive there, who were to be arrested at Rome, Civita Vecchia, Ancona, and other ports in the territory of the Pope. "It appears" continues the paper, "that Bonaparte is determined not to leave a single Englishman at large in any part of Italy where his power can command or his influence extend." Mr. Pitt's Defence Bill, which is intended to increase the regular army at the expense of the army of reserve and the militia, provides new safeguards against the most hostile measure which has been hitherto meditated during the war: the plan of an invasion. On the side of France, the preparations for this event are really, or seemingly multiplied. Letters from the coast of Kent on the 18th of June contain the information, that on the day before, 22 of the French vessels had come out of Calais, & after making their way along shore in the face of the English squadron, they had formed a junction with the Boulogne flotilla. Boulogne is fourteen miles south of Calais, and it will be recollected is the principal rendezvous of the invading gun-boats. A letter from Paris, via Hamburg, dated May 30, intimates the intention of the Emperor to visit the coast; and declares that a part of the Imperial guards had already marched for Boulogne and Havre. Other accounts from Paris of June 6th, confirm the intelligence, and add that "the invasion of England is to be attempted before the 14th of July." "Thirty six hours calm (exclaims the Gazette de France) and England is ours." The English gazettes justly ridicule all this grandiloquence; and declare among other things, that "the backwardness of the French Admirals to engage in the invasion may be easily estimated from the great promotion promised to him who succeeds in making a landing in England—namely—that of Grand Admiral."
The most extensive and important part of the intelligence which touches on the relations between these two nations, relates to the projected combination between England and some of the continental powers. On this interesting point, the facts are numerous, collected from different quarters of Europe, and yet completely elementary. Speculation is busy in extracting from them some one system of policy, which these powers are preparing to adopt: but hitherto all is conjecture and confusion. The facts certainly indicate, that some of the elements of some mighty movement are already preparing and exerting their influence: yet whether these elements have sufficient potency to overcome the difficulties which even now oppose their operation, or whether new obstacles are not arising to arrest their influence, we remain satisfied that time only can determine. Of these difficulties it may with truth be affirmed, that the divided and counteracted power of the English ministry is not the least powerful in its influence upon the continental powers. From unfactory theory, however, let us pass on to a few of the most striking facts.
"An article from Hamburg states, that Prussia has declared that the Russian demand for the violation of the German territory by the arrest of the Duke D'Enghien was so reasonable that he should support it with all his interest and power." If we revert now to the condition of Russia, we shall not find her inactive to the necessary preparations for a war. Her troops in Livonia on the coasts of the Baltic and near Revel are said to amount to 40,000 men. Her fleet,
distributed into three squadrons, in the Baltic, Black, and Mediterranean seas, are ready equipped. In the harbour of Revel, she has 19 ships of the line, 16 frigates and cutters, besides transports; and the more numerous fleet at Cronstadt is expected to join the fleet at Revel, before it puts to sea. Her fleet fitted out in the Baltic sea consists of 14 ships of the line, 16 frigates & 4 cutters with transports to carry 20,000 troops, besides those who have already participated the Danubian for the Mediterranean sea. The Emperor of Russia sent out from his capital on May 19th, to make a tour to Revel and the province round the Baltic sea. Some of the English politicians have even gone so far as to lay down for him a sketch of his journey, by which he will proceed as far as Berlin; and here they say he is to form some system of combination with the king of Prussia and the Emperor of Germany, which is to arrest the ambition of Bonaparte. A new scheme is suggested by others, which represents the formation of an alliance between England, the Porte, and a third power, supposed to be Russia; one of the terms of which is to confide the occupation of Egypt to the English during the war.—The Emperor of Germany too is making hostile preparations. All his troops except those in Italy, have been directed to hold themselves in readiness to form three grand encampments. One of these camps is preparing near Prague; the other near Pest, and though the plan proposed to be on the frontiers of Bavaria,—All this lowering storm has not escaped the eagle eye of Bonaparte. A French cordon of 100,000 men is said to be forming on the left bank of the Rhine: and all the secret methods which are necessary to penetrate and develop the mysterious designs of some of the foreign courts, such as feigning the mails & breaking open the Russian despatches, are said to be practised with infinite success by the agents of the police.
While some perceive in these mutual arrangements nothing but the portentous symptoms of a new combination and a more afflictive war, other politicians have ventured to deduce from them the bright prospect of a general peace. These menages they imagine to be held out by the different powers for no other purpose than to alarm one another into better temper and a more conciliatory accommodation. Already have they begun to speculate upon the provisions of the new treaty, which is to secure the tranquillity and re-establish the political system of Europe. The French troops are to evacuate the electorate of Hanover, and the territory of Naples; a sufficient indemnity is to be given to the king of Sardinia, and the Elector of Baden, for the inroad of the French troops into his territory: These are said on the banks of the Maine to be the private arrangements, which have been agreed upon between the court of Petersburg & the French Republic.—Whatever is to be the fate of these numerous preparations and multi-narious projects; whether they are to communicate a new impulse to the feythe of war, or to arrest its desolating rage; time only, which supplies all that philosophy attempts in vain to comprehend, is destined to determine.
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. Letters from Paris say, that "the government possesses all the letters passed between the English agents and the Bourbons in England, with those to the duke of Angouleme and Louis XVIII at War-saw, and that they are of greater importance than those lately published between Drake and Malhe."
The mention of Mr. Drake, the English minister at Munich, leads us to observe that he arrived in England on June 18.
Our minister, Mr. Livingston, has lately attracted considerable notice in the private companies and printing offices of London. Some say that he went over for the purpose of borrowing a loan to discharge the first instalment due on account of Louisiana. Other politicians have invested him with diplomatic powers from the French government. It is certain that he met with great civility from the opposition party; but the motives which induced him to leave the kingdom so soon in violation of his social engagements, are not equally well understood. Mr. Livingston (say the panfiers of London) would certainly have attended the Woburn sheep-shearing, had he not received a hint to steer off.
Mr. Volney has lately published a new work, called "a description of the soil and climate of the United States," in which he criticises very freely, the manners of our countrymen. We shall notice it in a future number of our paper.
A communication on the revolutionary politics of Mr. Jefferson, is unavoidably postponed.
LIFE OF WASHINGTON.
THE FIRST VOLUME is ready for subscribers at the Book Store of Wm. PRICHARD, Richmond, August 18, 1804. ept.
PIANO FORTES & MUSIC.
FOUR excellent Piano Fortes, for sale at Mr. WILLIAM PRICHARD'S Book-Store, on moderate terms.
ALSO—some New Music, consisting of SONGS and PIECES for PIANO FORTE. BLANK MUSIC, PAPER and BOOKS.
A few very good FIELD DRUMS and FIFES. August 18.—Jt.
FAIRFIELD RACES.
ON Monday the 1st of October next, will be run for over the FAIRFIELD COURSE, a Sweepstakes for Cols three years old, two mile heats. Seven Cols are entered at two hundred dollars each, and the subscription closed. Weights, agreeably to the rules of the Jockey Club.
On Thursday, the 2d day of October, the Jockey Club Purse of 400 Dollars, will be run for, four Mile Heats. The following day, the Purse of the proprietor of the Course, three Mile Heats.
WEIGHTS AS FOLLOW. Aged Horses 132 lbs. 6 years old 123 5 years old 118 4 years old 106 3 years old 90. Mares and Geldings allowed three pounds. Richmond, August 18, 1804.
TUNSTALL'S
PATENT THRESHING MACHINE. THE advantages to be gained by farmers, by applying some effectual parts to Threshing Machines, which have greater velocity, adequate strength, and greater cheapness than hitherto, and applicable to any machinery, are universally allowed to be very great. WILLIAM TUNSTALL has obtained a Patent for such improvements; and wishes to benefit the public on the most reasonable terms. Differs and individuals may be now accommodated with Machines and patent rights, by applying in person or by letter (post paid) to the patentee, William Tunstall, at the Swan Tavern, Richmond.
N. B. A Mill Wright and Iron Worker for the respective parts, are wanted—apply as above. These Machines will hull Clover and thresh Rice, Buck Wheat &c. preferred free from grit—Counterfeits will be dealt with as the law directs. July 18. eW—tf

IT has been said that the civilization of a country may be fairly estimated by the degree of respect which is paid to its women. The sentiment is not more gallant than it is just. Its truth has been demonstrated by Messieurs Alexander, Thomas, Russell, and various other writers; who, for this purpose, have resorted, not to any abstracted enquiries into the characters of the sexes; but to a direct appeal to the experience of nations. They have shown, by a curious and most interesting investigation, that from the benighted and sensual savage of New-Zealand, or of Nootka Sound, through every gradation, up to the polished gentleman of Europe or America, the deference and veneration for the female part of the society is exactly in proportion to the degree of refinement which each nation has attained. In a national point of view, Virginia need not to shrink from this test of her refinement. In every social circle in which the sexes are blended, we may observe a facility as well as a tenderness of attention to the fair, which would not disgrace a knight in the proudest days of chivalry. But the moralist, who aims at the culture of the virtues, will direct his attention not so much to the manners of the drawing-room, as to those which may be observed in all more private life. He will look through the ceremonies which men may act from deference to their company, and by which indeed, they recognize and bow obedience to the sentiment above expressed; he will look through these blinds of state, into the bosom of the private family, and watch the manners of the husband and the father when every restraint is removed. It will be by the discoveries which he shall make here, that he will direct his admonitions; and on this ground, I fear that the moralist, not of Virginia only, but of all those states which boast of their refinement, will find too much room for censure and admonition.
What is true of nations, in this case, is true of individuals; or in other words, the civilization of the man, like that of the nation, may be fairly estimated by the degree of respect which he pays to the fair. When I speak of civilization, I do not mean science; since we have sometimes seen a very highly illuminated mind, connected with a cold, a malignant, or a ferocious heart; but by civilization, I mean, that change which is wrought upon the savage man by the humanizing, softening, refining power of social virtue. Neither, by respect to the fair do I mean the bows and grimace of a petit maître, which a monkey might learn; nor the full more imposing exterior of elegance and sensibility which a Zeluco could assume; but, by respect to the fair, I mean a genuine and tender deference, which has not merely glanced upon the surface, but penetrated and pervaded every portion of the heart; I mean not an occasional shew, but a sincere, a perennial, an habitual respect and affection, which renders a man involuntarily assiduous to the wants, and sympathetic with the minutest sufferings of the softer and gentler sex. With these explanations I resume my position, and I beg my male reader to assure himself that whatever figure he may make in other respects; however brilliantly he may shine as a man of erudition, genius, wit, or humour, he is, nevertheless, civilized or not in proportion as he has learned to respect the fair; and more particularly that portion of them whose protection he may have assumed.
It is a mournful truth that the life of the female among us, is too often a series of suffering and of sorrow. Too many of them pass on to death, without having once found the "sunny slope" of tranquility, on which they could repose & declare themselves for a moment, at ease. Their sufferings begin often with life. The restraint of their childhood even when they are salutary, are sources of trouble; because their motive is not yet perceived by the young & inexperienced mind. But not unfrequently the restraints of childhood instead of being prompted by parental wisdom and tenderness, are the momentary dictates of headlong passion and brutal cruelty. This tyranny commenced in their childhood, is extended even to their mature years; and it becomes the more severe as it is then insisted on a mind capable of estimating its wrongs, and often exerted on those sensibilities of the heart which can least brook the curb and lash of authority. Marriage itself is, too frequently, little more than a change of tyrants; and the idol of the lighting and adoring lover, dwindles down into the neglected, oppressed, insulted drudge of an unprincipled and profligate husband. If the poor, lonely mourner, gives birth to sons; she looks on with remorse to the time when they, in their turn, armed with the authority of a husband, shall "play such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, as will make even angels weep"; if she gives birth to daughters; it would not be a subject of great wonder, if, like the miserable mothers on the banks of the Crotonook, she should lay them out of commission, and smother them in the hour of their birth. How many women have here their bitterest wretchedness! Look closely into the domestic movements of our people, and you will find that this sombre picture has too many originals. I am not accusing parents or husbands with the practice of savage violence on their daughters or their wives; to a generous woman there are many wrongs infinitely more humiliating and agonizing than the infliction of actual violence. The decline of poor Maria differed in some respects from the preceding sketch. Maria was among the fairest and sweetest girls that I have ever known. If the love of the fondest and best of parents—if the most enchanting grace and beauty—if the pure spirit and dispositions of a seraph could have saved her from misery, Maria had been saved. My heart bleeds at the recollection of her. But let me try to command myself while I tell this tale of joy turned into sorrow; of the fairest hopes reverted and blasted—of the brightest lustre and beauty extinguished forever.
Her parents were not rich; but they were good. Although they had lived much in the world, they retained a simplicity of character which is now rarely encountered except in the description of poets. Their benevolent breasts were fraught with a tenderness of feeling which luxury is known only to the poor and humble. The rich & the profligates know it only by name. Their simplicity, their benevolence, their sensibility were concentrated in the bosom of the young Maria. They gave an emphasis to her opening beauty—infused her cheek with a richer hue—and rose, in triumph, on the beams of her eyes, through the heart of every beholder. I remember Maria at her first appearance in the ball room. She was then about fourteen years of age. The enquiry ran—"what rose-bud of beauty is this?" The epithet was applied with peculiar propriety; it depicted in one word her youth, her beauty, her innocence and sweetness. She danced; when light and ethereal as a sylph, she forsook whatever we have read of the wild, the striking, the captivating graces displayed by the rural beauties on the flowery side of Albion. It was easy to read in the countenance of this gay and artless young creature the exciting expectations with which she was enter-
ing on life. Her childhood had passed away amid the blandishments and caresses of her fond parents; all had been ease, indulgence, and gratification; admired, applauded and beloved by every body who saw or knew her, every day, every hour, every minute had been filled with animation, joy and rapture. As yet she had not looked only on "life's velvet lawn," covered with a canopy of blooming amaranth; and her young fancy was teeming with visions of bliss in bright and boundless prospect. Alas! poor Maria! How soon was this serene and joyous morning to be overcast! A lover presented himself. Like Maria, he was in the bloom of youth, and had every advantage of person and address; but his breast was not, like Maria's, the residence of pure and exalted virtue. He loved her indeed; or rather, he was infatuated by her beauty; but he was incapable of forming a correct estimate of the treasure which was lodged in her bosom; of that heart whose purity, delicacy, fidelity, generosity and sensibility, an angel might have avowed without a blush. The dupe, however, of fervent and pathetic professions, accepted this man; and Maria, who was formed to crown the happiness of a sensible & virtuous man, became the miserable wife of a weak and vicious one. Merciful God! Must I remember the contrast which I so often witnessed, in agony! Poor Maria! Her velvet lawn was exchanged for a wilderness of briars and thorns; her amaranthine canopy for the keen and cutting blasts of a winter's sky. I have seen Maria in the thronged assembly-room where every eye was fixed upon her with delight, & followed her in speechless admiration thro' the mazes of the graceful dance; & I have seen the same Maria far removed from the world's society, and even yet in the bloom of youth, all lonely and drooping like a wounded flower. I have seen the lovely girl, presiding, like a bright, propitious planet, at her father's hospitable board; and I have seen her the solitary and menial drudge of her own gloomy and forsaken household. I have beheld her the animating soul of the polished circle, dispensing light and life by her smiles—and my own soul has sunk within me, to see her insulated from the world, and pierced and languishing under the neglect of her once ardent and assiduous husband. She had seen the time when every transitory dejection of countenance had been watched by him, its cause sedulously explored, and consolation administered with a tenderness which could not fail of its effect. But now, without a single enquiry, without one touch of pity, he could see her face pale with sorrow, and her once radiant eyes dim with weeping. At such a moment, instead of bending before her as he had once done, and pressing her hand to his sympathetic heart, he could cast on her a look so cold and chilling, as to freeze the vital stream of life even in its fountain, fling out of his bosom with contempt and disgust, and lavish on the vicious and impure those affectionate attentions which he had solemnly vowed to her alone. He might have been happy; & he might have realized to his beautiful wife all those dreams of conjugal innocence and bliss with which her youthful fancy was wont to regale her. But instead of these pure and calm joys, whose recollection might have gilded even the moment of death, he chose riot, debauchery and guilt; to his own virtuous and celestial bed, he preferred habitual impurity and prostitution; and instead of the perpetual spring which she had fondly anticipated, poor Maria experienced only perpetual winter. The blast was too keen for her tender frame. She is gone; and, with her sister angels, she has found that peace which her unfeeling husband refused to her on earth. Her death stunned him into his senses. In vain he endeavoured to recall her fleeting breath; in vain he promised and vowed if he could be restored to him, to atone for his past neglect by future tenderness. To him the reformation or amendment came too late; may it come in time to a portion of my readers.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Description of the River Mississippi, and its Delta, with that of the adjacent parts of Louisiana. By William Dunbar, of the Natchez, communicated by the Author, a Member of the Society; through the President.
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When those lakes are first approached, they present a perfect resemblance of the Mississippi, with regard to breadth, the appearance of the banks, and the natural serpentine form of its course, that many persons have been deceived thereby, and recognized their error only by the discovery of the stagnant state of the water, the appearance on its borders of the Nuphar, Nelumbo, and other aquatic plants; no person therefore doubts that those lakes have all, in their turn, served to convey the waters of this father of rivers, and now during the season of the inundation still flow with a full current, contributing their aid to the evacuation of the waters of a thousand rivers which precipitate themselves into the valley of the Mississippi. When we take a survey of this valley, upwards of 30 miles wide opposite to the Natchez, diverging very obliquely as we approach the sea coast, where it is not less than 32 in long, and that in no part of it do we discover any other soil than such as is now daily deposited by the waters of the Mississippi, it is impossible not to believe that this valley has, in the beginning, been a branch or inlet of the ocean, which received into its bosom this great river, similar to the River de la Plata, the Gulf of St. Laurence, Delaware Bay, and many others not remarkable for the alluvial properties of their rivers. When, on the other hand, we contemplate the effects of the creative power of the Mississippi, which has filled up this prodigious space with soil, more or less solid, and which must at Natchez exceed 100 feet perpendicular above the level of the sea, sloping gradually like an immense glacier to the coast of the bay of Mexico, where nevertheless it does not terminate, but shelving off by continual accumulation frequently embarks vessels out of sight of land, along the coast, to the west of the Mississippi; if say when we survey this immense work performed by the hand of nature, we cannot accord with the opinions of certain visionary philosophers, who have been pleased to amuse themselves with the pretended infantile state of our continent, compared to their trans-atlantic world; but, on the contrary, we must grant to it an incalculable antiquity. When the inundation is at its height, the whole valley is replenished with water every where in motion, making its progress towards the ocean; so that at that season the river may be said to be 30 miles or more in breadth at Natchez; the waters which pass over the wet bank of the main channel never return; on the east, a chain of high land, which at many points is washed by the river, meandering along its valley, compels its waters to regain its primitive stream; but from Baton Rouge, the high land which has hitherto held a forkish course, diverges suddenly to the south east, and is no more visited by the grand channel of the Mississippi; all the waters which escape to the eastward between Baton Rouge and Mobile (15 miles) are collected by the Iberville, which, passing through a breach in the high land of about 60 yards wide, delivers its contents to the river Amite, which empties itself into Lake Maurepas, communicating with the ocean by the intervention of the more considerable lake Pontchartrain; the high land is continued in a very narrow tongue or promontory, in a south easterly direction, along the island of New-Orleans, which is interrupted in many places, thereby venting the waters of the inundation into the lakes, which otherwise would be collected into an oblong basin, formed by the high land on the one hand, and the bank of the river on the other—one half of the island of New-Orleans would
have thereby become so completely inundated as to be uninhabitable. The perpendicular height of the high lands above the level of the inundation is from 200 to 800 feet at Natchez; at Baton Rouge it does not exceed 25, and on the island of New-Orleans it declines so rapidly as to be lost in the accumulation of soil deposited by the waters of the inundation. On the sides of a canal from New-Orleans to the river St. John's, communicating with lake Pontchartrain, I discovered the continuation of the high land cut through to the breadth of little more than 20 feet.
To a stranger, the first view of the Mississippi conveys not that idea of grandeur, which he may have pictured to himself; his first judgment will roll upon the appearance of its breadth, in which respect it is inferior to many rivers of much less note. Its principal channel is rarely a mile in width any where below the Ohio, unless where its stream is divided by islands or shallows; it is not unfrequently less than half a mile. The magnitude of this river is not to be computed by its width, but by its depth; in which it is perhaps equal to any on the globe; but is so contrasted at the place of its entrance into the ocean, as to be there less in width than it is a thousand miles from its mouth; the cause of this peculiarity is, perhaps, not difficult to develop. The natural effect of rivers is to increase continually the depth and breadth of their beds, by the perpetual abrasion of their waters; such must be the consequence with regard to all rivers which do not supply by alluvion a sufficient quantity of matter to counteract this effect. Certain rivers, which in the upper part of their course pass through fertile regions, whose rich and tender soil is easily broken down, and carried away by the impetuosity of the current, not only supply this deficiency, but discharge such innumerable quantities of earthy matter, as to fill up, in a great measure, these spacious bays and channels, scooped out by the hand of nature, in order to facilitate the mingling of their waters with those of the ocean; in such circumstances the breadth of the river will always be in proportion to the mean quantity of water discharged during the time it flows within its banks; for it is to be remarked, that during the time of the inundation, the common channel of the river is in some measure lost in the immensity of waters which flow over its banks in all directions; the bottom and sides of the channel, during this time, suffer no abrasion, but, on the contrary, from the diminution of the velocity of the inferior currents, gain rapidly upon the breadth of the river; the moment the current of the river is confined within its proper banks, it begins to exert its domination over its own channel, and sedulously excavates the bottom, gradually diminishing downwards, hence when the bottom is composed of matter of the most yielding nature, the channel will continue to deepen until the velocity at bottom is almost nothing, and the depth of the water will be regulated by those circumstances: the bottom of the bed of the Mississippi, within the last country, being composed of the finest sand and lightest earth, extremely uncommonly great; it is not surprising that its depth should be uncommonly great; its soundings have (it is believed) never been taken with minute attention, but from New-Orleans to the mouth of the river, its depth is said to be from 50 to 60 fathoms, under the thread of the current, which follows the concave shore; this is gradually towards the shoals, where there are frequently considerable shallows. The sudden effect of the diminution of the velocity of water is so where more remarkable than at the mouth of this river for the rolling torrent so soon arrives at the ocean, without finding its bed indefinitely enlarged, it spreads on all hands; the thread of the current diverges into an infinite number of slanting, like radii from a center; the velocity of the mass of water rapidly diminishes until, no longer able to propel the matter hitherto suspended and swept along by the swiftness of the stream it is deposited in the form of a crescent, opposing to the mouth of the river, a bar with from 12 to 20 feet water.
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POLYGAMIST. Jacques Nortier, an invalid, aged 25, having lost a leg in the service of the French republic, lately appeared before the department of the Seine, accused of having married, within the last eight months, three different women, who were all present, and proved their marriages before the 2d, 4th, and 9th municipalities of Paris. During the trial it appeared that he had made it a practice to marry a fresh woman whenever he went with his regiment; and at that time had fourteen French, one Italian, one Swiss, and two Dutch wives, who had been married to him while in camp or garrison in those countries. Before he was 18 he had been divorced from five wives, not included in the above number, by whom he had six children; and the three wives then before the Tribunal declared that they were pregnant by him. Being asked if he had many children by the women not present, he coolly answered, "I have at least one by each, and believe I have as many alive as I am years old." He gave in the names and residences of 11 wives, in as many different departments, being all he could remember. To gain time to enquire after these women, the Tribunal deferred his trial—When it recommenced, eight of them, each with a child, appeared and identified him, when he impudently declared that, were he the Grand Seigneur, he would keep them all in his seraglio, having an equal affection for them all. After a trial of three hours he was found guilty of bigamy, and sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment, and to regard Anna Varois, to whom he had been married nine years, as his only wife. To this he refused his assent, observing that instead of punishment, he deserved reward; and that many persons had been made members of the Legion of Honour for less patriotic deeds, and that he would petition the First Consul for permission to choose his own wife among his own wives.
[Journal des Tribunaux.]
The Court of Bavaria, whatever may have been insinuated respecting past transactions in that circle, have expressed public approbation of the increasing happiness of the people. As a proof of it they consider the increasing number of peasantry, who by the generosity of the rich, are released from object slavery. The council of military justice has been suppressed. An Auditory General has been substituted with the same privileges as in the civil courts. In the exchange with Austria, Bavaria receives part of the Bishoprick of Rempoten for the Burgau. In 1803 in Vienna and the Lower Austria, were 9,904 marriages, 44,455 births, and 40,312 deaths. The births exceeded the deaths by 9,339. Among the deaths, under 7 of age were 20,292; from 7 to 17 years, 1,223; from 17 to 40, 29,983; from 40 to 50, 2,453, and above 50 11,505, of whom several were above 100 years of age. Only 202 perished by the final pox, so very greatly has this class of sufferers been diminished by the most important discovery of the vaccine. A new system of Forest Laws has been obtained in Bavaria. The advantages to the population, and the agriculture of the country may be known from the history of these laws in England. On the last Leipfic fair, were 2635 German and Latin works. Of which 278 were Novels, and 72 pieces for the Theatre. The works in other languages were 295, and 278 were articles of Music. The Duke of Saxe Gotha, well known for his Literature, and for his generous patronage of learned men, has directed in his will that he should be
interred in his garden, in a common grave without a monument, or an epitaph, and his will has been executed. His merit entitles him to higher notice, and he will live in the memory of posterity. Posterity will not be bound by the will which can only exclude them from the use of the wealth of the worthy dead, in any tribute to their memory. Even zealous Luther is not forgotten. A literary society at Mauffeld have obtained the King of Prussia's consent to erect a monument to this benefactor of mankind. The King has contributed 500 dollars to the expension of public gratitude. The Protestant worship is established a Wurzburg by an electoral rescript of 11th of November, 1803.
(Salem Register.)
FOR THE ENQUIRER
SONNET ON SCHOLASTIC DISCIPLINE.
I. On as I pass the dome, where knowledge fair, Enthrals in captive chains, the youthful band, Where vernal fancy breathes poetic air, And classic sounds, adorn the fairy land;
II. Far other fowers, my flunking ear assail Than pastoral pipe, or silver sounding lyre, Far other murmurs load the vagrant gale Than childhood gay, or festive youths sup re.
III. The scream of pain, the founding scourge alarms! The wail of anguish! and the infants' cry! Say knowledge fair, are these thy boasted charms? Is this, the happiness of infancy?
IV. Shed, fair philosopher, thy influence mild, Exalt the teacher, disenthrall the child. Like vernal rosebuds, bright with morning dew, Bid youthful minds, their pleasing ruffs peruse.
EUGENIUS.
SCRAPS FROM LONDON PAPERS.
From great importations of Dollars into England from the North, and from Lisbon, as well as from the United States, we are told they have fallen to four shillings and eight pence sterling each, or to within about three & an half per cent. of their real value.
Abbe Sicard, the Humane Instructor of the Deaf and Dumb, at Paris has lately been presented with two beautiful diamond rings of great value by the Emperor of Russia.
It was an illiterate reply of Mr. Windham's, when it was said, "Mr. C— has a vast deal of wit," to answer, "He needs must have a vast deal, for he never wastes any."
"Your colours are beautiful," said a deeply rouged lady to Mr. Hopner, as she was sitting for her portrait, "yes madam," answered he, "your ladyship and I deal at the same shop."
Lord Orford, saying that he made a point of never playing beyond the line of his own understanding, "Now, my lord," said the countesses of Buckinghamshire, "I see the reason, you never play deep."
Lady Wallace sent a very civil message to Mr. Harris, patentee of Covent Garden Theatre, offering him her comedy for nothing—Mr. Harris observed that her ladyship knew the exact value of it.
Earl Stanhope has invented, and after much labour brought to perfection, a contrivance applicable to any musical machine played on by the finger; as an organ, harpsichord, or piano, by which the music is picked by the mere operation of touching the note, so that copies of the music may be multiplied as often as any tune is played over.
A new political and commercial paper is to be published in New-Orleans, by A. Marshall, late publisher of a Gazette at Natchez.—This makes the fourth print which has commenced in that country since its accession to the United States. [Phil. Gaz.]
A new College for the Jesuit Order has been consecrated at Rome. The members are already sixty in number. They are to new organize the Jesuit Order.
Orders have been sent out by the East India Company to their Governments abroad to encourage as much as possible the culture of hemp in India. Samples of hemp, the produce of our possessions in the East, have upon the fairest trial in this country, been found far superior to any Rutilian hemp ever imported into Great Britain.
FOR SALE, A TRACT OF LAND,
In Poquoson county, on Appomattox River, where it is navigable, known by the name of M c Call's Quarter, containing 420 acres: this land lies about four miles from the Court House, and is well adapted to the culture of Tobacco, small grain and corn. Samuel Woodson, who lives near the land, will shew it to any person who may wish to purchase.
If it is not sold before the 1st of September next, I shall sell it upon that day to the highest bidder, at Woodson's Tavern, near the premises. JOHN F. PRICE. Richmond, May 30, 1804. [19a-19-3ina.]
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 adjusted 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 lands have been sold 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 lands, by paying to me within the time limited, the principal costs and fees as the law directs.
Asmost of the abovementioned lands were sold in Dec. 1802, 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 the day on which it may be paid to me. JOSEPH SCOTT. Marshal V.D. July 7. ep-45.
A WET NURSE.
WANTED to hire or purchase, a Wet Nurse without a child of her own. Enquire of the Printers. August 8.—4f
CASH SALE OF LAND IN ALBEMARLE.
On September 15th, WILL BE SOLD, in Charlottesville, to the highest bidder, for Cash, THE TRACT OF LAND lying on the east side of Rivanna, over against Charlottesville, containing about 600 acres, with a new commodious DWELLING HOUSE. Two years of a lease under good restrictions have to run after this. The land is all of the South-West Mountain quality; and though much injured in parts, is in general full very good, and all reclaimable. The sale proceeds from a deed of trust to indemnify against loss as security and bail, which was executed in December, 1803, by William Bache, of Pennsylvania, to THOMAS M. RANDOLPH. July 25. opt158ep
FOR SALE, On liberal terms, by the Subscribers, THE HOUSE and LOT near the River Bank, at present in the occupancy of Mr. John Taylor, and distinguished in the plan of the city by the number 8, the property of the estate of Patrick Wright, dec. which, if not disposed of privately before the first day of September next, will on that day, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, be sold on the premises, for one half cash, and the other half on a credit of 90 days, for an approved endorsed note.—An inalienable title will be made before the money is received. PROSSER & MONCURE. July 18. ep18
SCOTTVILLE JOCKEY CLUB.
ON the second Thursday in September, will be run for, over the Scottville course, the Jockey Club Purse of £. 100—three mile heats. The day after, the Purse of the Proprietor of the Course, of £. 50—three mile heats. Weights as follows:
Table with 2 columns: Age, Weight. Rows: 4yo, 133 lbs; 5yo, 135 lbs; 6yo, 137 lbs; 7yo, 139 lbs; 8yo, 141 lbs; 9yo, 143 lbs; 10yo, 145 lbs. Includes a note about Mares & Geldings allowed 5 lbs.
SPRING GOODS.
WILLIAM TEMPLE, HAS just received, by the ship Rebecca from London and Yorkshire from Liverpool, AN ASSORTMENT OF GOODS Suitable to the season, which he will dispose of on the usual terms. Richmond, May 9th. (1)
Mediterranean Passport.
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 8th day of July next, those of the new form will be issued at the custom houses to every vessel, for which application 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 required for the exchange: and that by an arrangement 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 protect 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, 29th 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 five months, and the Collectors of the customs to keep copies of it posted up in their offices. June, 2.
VIRGINIA:
AT A HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY, HOLDEN AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND, 5th March, 1796.
BETWEEN Mary Ruffin, executrix, and Herbert Claiborne, James Ruffin and William Ruffin, executors of Robert Ruffin, and James Ruffin, William Ruffin and Sterling Ruffin, prosecuting in their own behalf. Plffs. AND William Maclin, Isaac Hicks and Nancy his Wife, William Gee and John Gee, Defts.
HIS cause, which abated as to the plaintiff Mary Ruffin, by her death, came on the fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety six, to be heard on the bills, answers, exhibits and examinations of witnesses, and was argued by counsel: on consideration whereof, the court doth direct one of its Commissioners to state an account of the payments made, if any payments were made, towards discharging the debt, interest and charges intended to be secured by the indenture in the bill recited, and also to examine the bills of credit alleged to have been tendered by John Jones, on behalf of the defendant William Maclin, on the ninth day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one, in order to discover whether such bills of credit could be legally tendered at that time, and the Commissioner is empowered to examine the Plaintiffs in solemn manner, and require their acknowledgement or denial of such payments, and tender and to report the matters, as they shall appear to him, to the court, stating specially such as to him shall seem pertinent, or by the parties shall be desired to be so stated; and the bill is dismissed, as to the defendants John Gee, who bath by his answer disclaimed any title to the land conveyed by the indenture aforesaid. A Copy, Teste, PETER TINSLEY, C. C.
COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE,
RICHMOND, May 23d, 1804. The parties concerned are desirous to take notice, that I have appointed Friday the twenty-third day of November next, for carrying into effect the within Decree, upon which day their attendance is required at my office, with their papers and accounts ready for examination. (68-829) WM. HAY, M. C.
NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY COURT.
vs. In Chancery. JETT's heirs & representatives. BY virtue of a Decree of the Court in this suit, WILL BE SOLD, on the 1st of October next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, at the late dwelling house of Mrs. Elizabeth Jett, dec. to the highest bidder, for ready money, the three following TRACTS or PARCELS of LAND, (or so much thereof as may be sufficient to raise the sum of two thousand dollars with interest and costs of suit)—to wit, a tract devised to Capt. William Bache by his father, containing by estimation 376 acres, be the same more or less; out of this tract will be excepted an old Mill, with the and thereto adjacent and appertaining. The tract on which the said Jett resided at the time of her death, containing 40 acres, more or less. And one other tract formerly part of the estate of Mary Haynes, dec. containing 20 acres, more or less.
These tracts lie contiguous to each other, and have been used as one farm; they are situate near the Potomac, about two miles below the courthouse on the main road leading to Fairfields Church, and about the same distance from Coan Warehouses. The quality of this land is not inferior to any in its neighbourhood, and nearly two-thirds of it is well timbered. Its situation affords an abundance of excellent fish, oysters, &c. The dwelling and out houses are suitable for the accommodation of a small family. Mr. Samuel Harding, living near the premises, will shew them to any person willing to purchase. THOMAS D. DOWNING, RICHARD EDWARDS, JEROME L. OPE, PETER C. RICE. July 28. ep-5w