The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1804-10-06 00:00:00

THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, (Virginia) PUBLISHED BY RITCHIE & WORSLEY, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE....AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM...payable in advance.
NUMBER 44.]
SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6, 1804.
[VOLUME I.]
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 fifteen cents; long ones in the same proportion.  IV. SUBSCRIBERS shall have their advertisements inserted for fifty cents the first time, and thirty-seven cents for every additional insertion. 
NOTICE.
JOHN DUNSMURE, legally leave to inform his friends and the public, that the GROCERY BUSINESS, hitherto carried on by him, will in future be conducted under the firm of
DUNSMURE & TURNER;
Who have on hand A General Assortment of Articles in that Line, which they offer for Sale on reasonable terms.
All those indebted to John Dunsmure, are requested to come forward and settle their accounts. October 3. 4 th
SALES AT AUCTION.
WITHOUT RESERVE, FOR APPROVED NOTES AT 3 AND 6 MONTHS.
THE Subscribers will begin to sell, on TUESDAY, the 16th day of October next, a very large and valuable assortment of
DRY GOODS:—AMONG WHICH ARE:
Superfine, fine and coarse Cloths and Cassimeres, Chintzes, Callicoes and India Cottons, Men and women's silk, thread, cotton & worsted Hosiery, Mansfield, Dimities and Jeans, Bombazines, Durants and Wildbores, Men's, Ladies and Children's Hats, Ladies extra long and short silk and kid Gloves, Bandannas, cotton and silk Handkerchiefs, and Shawls. A most complete assortment of Cutlery, Hardware, and Printed Goods, &c. &c. &c.
The sale will be continued from day to day, until the whole are sold.
THOMAS TAYLOR & CO. V. M rs . October 3. 4 th
THE SUBSCRIBER—HAS FOR SALE,
HOLLAND GIN, in pipes; Malaga Wine, in gr. casks; Cotton and Wool Cards, in boxes; Chocolate, per box; White Lead, Spanish Brown, and Yellow Ochre, ground in oil; Nutmegs; Patent Shot; Bar and Sheet Lead; Mould Candles; Writing and Wrapping Paper; Country and Swedish Iron; Sheet and Hoop Iron; Liver Oil; Copse; Allum; Flint Indigo; Refined Salt Petre; Ground Ginger; Pepper; Soda, 124, 104, and 84, Nails and Brads; German and Bischoff's Steel; Cart Boxes; Straws of Tumblers; Assortment of Shovels; Hld. and Hld. Gauging Rods; Hamilton's Snuff; Nail Rods; Short Pipes; Saws, Sawing and Hardsaw Leather; Northern Chees, &c. HENRY HOYER. October 3. 3 rd
70 LIKELY NEGROES.
ANY person wishing to purchase about 70 Likely Negroes, may hear where he can be accommodated by applying at the Office of the Enquirer. October 3. 4 th
BROKER'S OFFICE.
THE Subscribers has opened a Broker's Office in one of the apartments above Mr. Burr's Store. All business confided to him, will be transacted with strict fidelity. THOMAS NORFELL. October 3. 4 th
FOR SALE,
SIX COLTS from the noted mares Kitty Medley & Misnera. ALSO FOR SALE—Either of those MARES, in foal by Diomed, for cash or on credit. Their pedigrees and performances may be seen by any one who wishes to become a purchaser. JOHN HOSKINS, King & Queen. Oct. 3. 2 nd
NOTICE.
All persons having claims against the estate of Capt. Thomas Nelson, late of King William County, are desired to bring them in, properly attested, to the subscribers, who have qualified as executors of his father's will; and he takes this occasion to assure the creditors, that as soon as their accounts are liquidated and the balances ascertained, he will make ample provision to meet every just demand, as speedily as possible. THOMAS CART NELSON. King Wm. Oct. 3. 1 st
FOR SALE,
At Louisa Courthouse, on the first Wednesday in December next,
182 VALUABLE SLAVES,
CONSISTING of Men, Women, Boys and Girls, belonging to the estate of Christopher Smith, decd. Among them is a valuable TANNER, regularly bred to the business. The Subscribers has refused to sell any of them privately, and they will certainly be offered at public sale at the time above mentioned. A credit till the 10th of February, 1806, will be given, on the purchasers giving bonds with approved security, to carry interest from the date; but if the principal is punctually paid, the interest will be remitted. CHARLES SMITH, Acting Executor of Christopher Smith, decd. October 3. (epid)
ADVERTISEMENT.
TWO BONDs, executed to me by Capt. John Hurst, bearing date, September 9th, 1802, for £ 77 each, one payable the 9th September, 1803, the other the 9th September, 1804, were lost, mislaid, or taken out of my possession some time in the fall of the year 1803. The public are cautioned against taking assignments of said bonds; and the said Hurst, against paying them to any person but myself, or my authorized agent. WINIFRED WEBB. Northumberland county, Sept. 29. [3 rd ]
We have received a small additional supply of MADEIRA WINE, Of a superior quality, which we offer for sale by the hogshead and quarter-cask. GIBSON & JEFFERSON. July 10.
"HIGHLY IMPORTANT."
THE republican printers throughout this state are requested to state in their papers, that the election for Electors of a President and Vice-President of the United States, will be held on the first Monday of November next, at the Court-house of each county and corporation in this Commonwealth; and that the persons chosen as Electors, are to meet at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, on the first Wednesday in December next, to vote for a President and Vice-President. September 15.—[epid.]
At a board of Directors, of the Bank of Virginia, on Thursday the 13th September, 1804;
RESOLVED, that the operations of the Bank, commence on Monday the 8th of October.
RESOLVED, that any person producing and depositing at the Bank their or their Commission receipts, for any number of shares regularly endorsed or assigned, shall be entitled to receive one in his, her, or their own name or names, in a form similar to that used by the Commissioners at Richmond, stating therein the whole number of shares to which he, she or they are entitled, and the sum paid thereon.
JOHN BROCKENBROUGH, Cashier. September 19.—[epid.]
OLD MADEIRA, DRY LISBON, & PORT WINE
ROBERT GORDON & Co.
HAVE received by the Juliana from Madeira, 50 pipes selected old WINE, which they advise their friends proves to be excellent. They have also a few pipes, hogsheads and quarter-casks DRY LISBON and PORT WINE, imported by themselves direct from Lisbon and Oporto.
FALL GOODS.
They have received by the Charles and Edward from London, part of their FALL GOODS, and daily expect from Liverpool and Glasgow an extensive assortment of nearly every article usually imported. September 22. ep3v0-834
WASHINGTON TAVERN.
THE subscriber has taken a lease of this tenement for a number of years, and has put it in a state of repair which renders it not inferior to any in this City. Besides the Tavern he has detached buildings, well calculated to accommodate those who are anxious of greater privacy than a tavern usually affords. These tenements adjoin the public square, and are within two hundred yards of the Capitol. They have decided advantages over any other houses in this City, with respect to pure air and excellent water. He has good stables and a constant supply of the best forage. He offers his services to his friends and the public, and assures them, that no unlawful gaming, nor any other practice which might, in any degree, have a tendency to destroy the peace of his house, will ever be permitted. EDWARD HALLAM. Richmond, September 26.
N. B. About THIRTY MEMBERS of the next Assembly may be well accommodated, if whom eighteen have already engaged. E. H.
FALL GOODS.
WILLIAM TEMPLE has received by the ship Edward and Charles, from London, an EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT of GOODS, suitable to the approaching season. He expects an ADDITIONAL SUPPLY, to compleat his assortment, by the ship Sally from London, and Latona from Liverpool; which he will dispose of on his usual low terms. Sept. 8. epf
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
MEMOIR, IN JUSTIFICATION OF GENERAL MOREAU.
[CONTINUED.]
General Moreau had formerly been intimately acquainted with a curate of Pompadour, a man of talents, and uncle of General Souham, named David. This David in 1793, during the persecution of the priests, took refuge in the staff-major of his nephew. General Moreau was then in the service of the Republic. But let us here bear testimony to a trait in his character which none can contradict. He always abhorred those persecutions, with which many self-styled republicans afflicted the various classes of citizens: whoever was a Frenchman and a man of honor, possessed unfeigned claims upon his protection, wherever it could be afforded. M. David was unhappy; he was therefore welcome to the general. David, his nephew General Souham, and Moreau, lived together in the house of Pichegru; and afterwards, when those different persons met each other, it was with that pleasure which is always felt in the presence of those whom we have known in times of adversity.
Moreau had heard no more of David from the time of Pichegru's deportation, until the middle of the year 10, when he one day demanded an interview with the general. Its object was to obtain an explanation of what he called the denunciation of Pichegru. Moreau satisfied him; satisfied him so entirely, that he became the mediator of a reconciliation between the two generals. A reconciliation which ought not to occasion any surprise, after the detail which we have given of the facts that produced the innocent letter of the 17th Fructidor.
Whatever may have been the nature of this reconciliation, the details of which constitute three charges in the act of accusation, amongst which figures the crime of being reconciled, it was with the greatest surprise that Moreau learnt, about the beginning of Pluviose last, from Lajolais, (a friend of Pichegru, whom he had some occasion to know the preceding summer) that Pichegru was then in Paris. Lajolais even urged an interview at different places which he named, where Pichegru wished to discuss his own particular affairs. But Moreau thinking his return to Paris, without the sanction of government, extremely imprudent, constantly refused to meet him.
Pichegru, however, resolving, at all risks, to see Moreau, came to his house about eight o'clock on the evening of the 11th Pluviose. It was a day most unhappily chosen by Pichegru, whose greatest desire must have been concealment, being the particular day of each week set apart, by the general, for receiving the visits of his friends.
Moreau, after a few moments of unimportant conversation, pressed him to be gone. He took his leave.
Some days afterwards he repeated his visit, equally unexpected. This was his last. Here terminated all personal communication between them; and Pichegru was no more heard of by Moreau; except it may have been, as is asserted in the act of accusation, the next day by a certain Rolland.
These visits, and the words supposed to have been then said, by Moreau to Pichegru, and by Pichegru to Moreau, of which, by the bye, no one was a witness, are the ground work and the subjects of the accusation against an illustrious & hitherto untainted general.
Pichegru, say they, long ago meditated the restoration of the Bourbons. He plotted in their favor in the year 4; and hence Moreau, either by the intrigues of Pichegru, or by his tardiness in denouncing him, has become an object of just suspicion.
Since that period, they continue to urge, by the intervention of David and Lajolais, Moreau has been fully reconciled with Pichegru, and has even held communication with him; circumstances which, from the antecedent conduct of Moreau, were totally incompatible with the laws of honor; they are therefore criminal, and could have no other view than to disturb the public repose.
In fact reports have circulated, in London, that Moreau had promised to re-establish the princes of the house of Bourbon.
That, in consequence of this promise, Pichegru and other Royalists had come to Paris; had interviews with Moreau, which could not be otherwise than illicit and criminal; that to him were made, on the part of the Bourbons, certain overtures, which he rejected it is true, but only by proposing others of his own projecting, to wit, that he would place himself at the head of the Royal party, as soon as the first consul should be assassinated, on condition that they declared him dictator; with full power to act according as his own inclination should impel him.
In short, Moreau must, at all events, be guilty, although he did refuse to take any part in the conspiracy of Pichegru, in as much as he did not denounce it to the government:—
 1. Of the possibility of having formerly been the accomplice of Pichegru.  2. Of being reconciled to, and maintaining a culpable correspondence with Pichegru.  3. Of having engaged to re-establish the princes of the house of Bourbon on the throne of France: an engagement attested by the reports and hearsays circulated in London.  4. Of having had interviews with Pichegru at Paris; of having rejected certain overtures, but by substituting others, which had for object the overthrow of the Consular government.  5. Of not having revealed the residence of Pichegru in Paris. 
Such are the crimes alleged against General Moreau in the act of accusation; and such are the several charges to which it is our duty to reply.
FIRST CHARGE.
Moreau was the accomplice of Pichegru, in the year 4.
This is a charge which ought not to have been introduced into the present proceedings. Of what consequence, in the year 12, to the consular, and particularly to the imperial government, is a conspiracy, real or imaginary, the object of which was to annul, in the year 4, the fragile constitution of the year 3, which the eighteenth Brumaire so happily reduced to dust, amidst the general plaudits of the nation?
In what predicament should each of us at this moment appear, if the government under which we now so happily repose, after a tempest of such long continuance, espousing all the quarrels of every government which has been erected and proscribed in France, during the last fifteen years, should demand from us a rigorous account of all that we may have done, for or against the oldest monarchy of 1788, for or against the constitutional monarchy of 1791, for or against the revolutionary government of the third year, for or against the directories of Vendemiare, of Prairial, or of Fructidor; which have been in such rapid succession overturned by each other?
On the 18th Brumaire France emerged from a chaos. It is from that day that she should date her existence. All which preceded it is involved in midnight darkness. On that day the national will, to secure the public repose, proscribed, en masse, all this train of ephemeral governments, and ordained that no man should be questioned upon what had been his conduct under their influence.
It is then a mere mockery to make the conduct of Moreau against the Directory, previous to the 18th Fructidor, a subject of criminal enquiry. If he was at that time guilty towards it, what must have been his subsequent degree of guilt? Was it not he, who, on the 18th Brumaire, marched to the Luxembourg, and there held that feeble authority in awe, while at Saint-Cloud, another government arose at the will, and for the happiness of France?
This imaginary offence of Moreau against the Directory, in the year 4, should not, therefore, form any part of the present accusation. But they will tell us that it is only inferred to bring back, for a moment, the recollection of that want of duty which is exhibited by his letter of the 17th Fructidor, the motives of which were not known, but which a contemplation of his glory, and his victories, had long since obliterated.
Such is not according to regular process, nor consistent with the nature of an accusation. In rigorous construction of law, there is no necessity of a justification against a charge so advanced. Nevertheless General Moreau seizes with pleasure, this occasion to explain himself, in the face of the whole nation, on the part he acted prior to the 18th Fructidor.
It appears but too true that Pichegru had, in the year 4, maintained a correspondence with the army of the royalists, and the Prince of Conde. The plan seems to have been, to cause Louis XVIII to be acknowledged, to make the army of the Rhine declare in his favor, mount the white cockade, get possession of several strong places, &c. &c.
But Pichegru and the Prince could not agree on several points; particularly whether the right or left bank of the Rhine should be the scene of action in the first instance; and also on a general amnesty, and the confirmation of the sales of national property, which the one exacted and the other refused.
Such is the general purport of the papers of
Offenburg. Whatever these papers may say as to the charge against Pichegru and others, it is most unjust that any suspicion should, from them, extend to Moreau, or enter into the act of accusation against him. His name is not mentioned in them more than three or four times, and always either to express that he is not in the confidence of Pichegru, or in recounting events that have taken place. There is not in the whole, one word from which an inference can be drawn that he was even tampered with. The Attorney General has not cited, nor will he cite, any thing from them to support the idea.
Why then has that officer endeavoured to establish such a doubt; when not only are these papers devoid of any thing indicating Moreau to have been involved in the plot, but when all his conduct, at that epoch, contradicts even the possibility that he could even have been so? It was at the moment of its existence that he took upon himself the command of the army, to guide it, during a whole year, from one victory to another, into the very heart of Germany, and to crown all his triumphs, in a manner so singular, by that wonderful retreat, which excited the admiration of the oldest generals, even amongst foreigners and enemies.
Moreau was the accomplice of Pichegru! Happy wretch! How easily might he then have consummated his crime, even without incurring the risk of reproach! He had only to leave the work to fortune; she alone, in the midst of Germany, in an unknown country, surrounded by two powerful armies, would have been fully adequate to the destruction of the French. It was only necessary that he should not counteract her. He had only to abstain from that effort of genius which no man living believed possible. His army must have perished, the treason would have succeeded, and the traitor, who had the wonderful art to conceal his perfidy beneath the blandishments of repeated and brilliant victories, would have been lamented, caressed, and honoured.
Away then with this foolish charge, which gives the lie to the universal voice of Europe; and against which the national gratitude alone ought to have been his guarantee.
But, at least, says the act of accusation, he too long delayed to disclose to the directory the plot in which Pichegru was then involved. 1. The papers seized could not be understood until they had been deciphered, which necessarily occupied much time. No one was there designated by his name; and the evidences of their application when they were collated, appeared so little decisive, that those who seemed to be implicated by them, being put on trial were acquitted; and it is probable that even Pichegru would himself have been discharged, if, instead of receiving immediate sentence of deportation, he had been sent to answer before a tribunal.
2. This plot was to have been put in execution in the year 4, and it was now near the close of the year 5, General Moreau commanded the army; he had every thing under his controul; he watched the suspected; he arrested the intriguers; tried and punished the spies. All was rendered abortive, broken, destroyed. These proceedings, and the victories gained over his enemies, will speak better for the disposition infused by him into the army, than any denunciation of its chief for having endeavoured to corrupt it, could possibly do.
3. Besides, this denunciation must have been directed against General Pichegru, first the commander and afterwards the friend of Moreau. It could have had no other consequence than that of sending him a few days sooner to Guyana. But the projects concerted with the prince of Conde in the year 4, and the scheme of overturning the government by the army, were matters very distinct from what were passing in Paris in the year 5, and all those trifling and miserable disputes between the councils, on which the Directory, imbecile as it was, had only to breathe, and they were annihilated.
4. Lastly, a proof that general Moreau conducted himself properly upon that occasion, is, that the public opinion, not informed of the circumstances which drew from him the letter of the 17th Fructidor, censured him with one accord for having written it. Let public men contemplate the capriciousness of Moreau's situation; then universally censured for having denounced Pichegru, even at that late day, now accused and brought to trial for not having done it with more alacrity.
But let us at once put an end to the discussion of this odious charge, by an expression, equally distinguished for reason and dignity, which escaped from the pardonable impatience of General Moreau, when, at the tribunal, he recurred to this point—"If I erred, it was an error against the Directory; which has since been sufficiently expiated, by having gained thirty battles, and saved two armies." (To be continued.)
From London papers received at Philadelphia, by the ship John and Alice, from Liverpool.
LONDON, August 1.
As we stated yesterday, his majesty went in person to the House of Peers, and prorogued the Parliament by a most gracious speech from the throne. In reading the speech, which occupied several leaves, two of them, happening to stick together in turning the leaf, were omitted to be read. It so happened, that the chain began and ended two complete paragraphs, so that there was no incongruity to make the omission manifest at the moment. The speech, as it was originally designed to be spoken, was afterwards read at the table of the House of Commons by Mr. Speaker, on their return to their own chamber.
His Majesty delivered the Speech in a tone of animation and decision, which, while it evinced the consciousness of the justice of his cause, must at the same time have produced a powerful effect on the mind of the Foreign Ministers, all of whom were present, and who will no doubt transmit to their respective courts the deep impression which, at the present crisis of Europe, such sentiments, so expressed, were so well calculated to impress. Indeed, his majesty's appearance in every respect, and the composed & dignified manner in which he went through the ceremony, brought up a general gleam of joy in every countenance, and their lordships seemed to congratulate each other on this unequivocal demonstration of his majesty's entire and perfect recovery.
If a war should unfortunately break out between Russia and the Porte, France will, in all
probability, embrace the interest of the latter, as a step to obtain the possession of Egypt, and some of the Grecian islands, as the price of her assistance. In that case great circumlocution, great prudence, great political foresight, great abilities are required in the cabinet of this country. By the decision on so important a subject, the fate of this country will be materially affected. We have not time at present to enter on the important discussion; but we may, with a secret satisfaction, refer our readers to the utility, to the necessity of the possession of that nus abstenus , that imperiū tutamen , MALTA, which we have never ceased to proclaim to the world, and which will in the present circumstances, we trust, be warmly acknowledged by all parties.
Our cruisers on the coast of Holland have spoken with several neutral vessels and Dutch fishing boats, all bringing information that Bonaparte was daily expected there to review the troops encamped near Utrecht, and to inspect the naval armaments at the Helder and in the Texel designed together to invade this country. Some more gun-boats and flat-bottomed boats have arrived at Flushing, from the interior of Holland, and the Banks of the Rhine, but their number is insignificant; and in Zealand, they seem more to apprehend than to intend an invasion. The discontent in Holland is great beyond description, among all classes of the people, not excepting either the Members of the Directory, or the soldiers of the army, all equally desiring to get rid of the French yoke. The consequent distrust is so great, that French grenadiers govern at the Hague—French artillerymen occupy the batteries on the coast: French officers dictate in the Texel—and, at Utrecht, where 15,000 Frenchmen are encamped, they have been joined by only 3,000 Dutchmen; all the others being dispersed in garrisons where there are five subjects of Bonaparte to two Batavian citizens. From the 10th to the 22d inst. 12,000 French troops have passed through Breda and Nimèguen, for Hanover, where the misery of the people is still greater than in Holland. It is generally believed at the Hague, that Bonaparte, being dissatisfied with the present Batavian twelve directors, intends to reduce their number to three; it is even said, that the Dutch Ambassador at Paris, Schimmelpenninck, is to be appointed dictator, until a peace with England.
While things go on thus in Holland, we find by a decree of Bonaparte, after a war of fourteen months, and repeated boasts that the crews of his armada were complete; after France, Italy, Germany, Holland, and Flanders, have been exhausted of men, that his plans are acknowledged not to be mature. He still wants sailors, and premiums are now offered to tempt the soldiers to embark on board his ships of war. It is curious that this decree has not appeared in the Moniteur , but in the Gazette de France . Why is it not suffered to be seen in company with his pompous decrees of imperial appointments of Lords and Ladies of the Bedchamber, and all the other caricatures of royalty, by aping of which, he is now exposing himself to the laughter, ridicule and contempt of the world?
AUGUST 2.
The war between Russia and Turkey, mentioned in the letter from Gottenburgh, is far from improbable, when we consider that it must take place at the instigation of Signor Bonaparte, the great emperor.—He has never ceased, since his repulse in Egypt, to cast a longing eye on that country; to say nothing of his views on the Morea, Malta and some of the Grecian Islands.—We have before asserted, and we still assure our readers, that a confederacy had taken place between him and the Emperor Paul, to divide the Turkish empire in Europe and Africa, between them. The outline of this plan we have laid before the public from authentic sources of intelligence.
This treaty Bonaparte has been moving heaven and earth to renew with Alexander.—To this source must be ascribed the conduct of Russia respecting Malta during the armistice of 1802, and several other events of the same tendency. The Emperor of Russia justly suspects that the Corsican would obtain the loan's share, and become a dangerous neighbour, and trusts to the inevitable effects of natural causes for the possession of Constantinople.
Foiled in these attempts, Bonaparte must try other measures. If he can persuade the Porte that the passage of the Dardanelles with large forces, and the occupation of Corfu by Russia, are dangerous to the existence, he may inflame her against Alexander. If he can make the Turks believe that he will employ all his forces in their defence, that unsupporting power may yield to his representations, and fall a victim to the infatuation. If the invader of England feels at length his inability to perform his mighty threat, he may with a pretence to withdraw his forces from the coast, and march them into the Turkish territories. For this he must obtain the consent of Austria; but Austria is not yet in a condition to resist, and may perhaps be soothed by a promise of a share of the plunder.
These projects may, by cool politicians, be considered as extravagant. But when the character of Bonaparte, the frantic leader of a misguided multitude, is considered in all its analogies, nothing that is possible can be thought extravagant.
We repeat it—his views in the Levant are undoubted, but whatever means he may employ to obtain that end, Malta in the possession of this country will check his exertions, and like the pillars of Hercules may prove the ne plus ultra of his schemes of Eastern usurpation.
We have seen four letters from Italy, which all concur in stating, that the proclamation of Bonaparte, as Emperor of the French, has been received by the French army in that country, not merely with discontent, but also attended with dissatisfaction. When General Jourdan announced this new revolutionary Dignity at Milan, and, with his staff, exclaimed, "Vive l'Empereur!" the troops remained silent, the soldiers hissed, and hooted, and grounded their arms; and at Genoa they made a square, and desired to deliberate, when Bonaparte's countryman and Minister there, interfered, and, by his advice, the men were ordered back to their barracks; where the officers drew up an address of congratulation in their own names as well as that of the soldiers.—General St. Cyr, the commander of the army in the kingdom of Naples, had more difficulties to encounter before he could procure not the consent of his troops, but an address from individual officers. It is supposed that Lucien Bonaparte had his emissaries in this army, and from envy or to his brother, Napo-

eon, had gained over some of the principal officers, who, on the 24th of last May, delivered a petition to General St. Cyr, demanding, "that as their men resided in an aristocratical or rather despotic country, where libertine principles may easily be imbued, a new oath to liberty and equality, and fidelity to a Republican Government might be taken." St. Cyr said he would transmit their demand to the First Consul. [Reports some time since reached America from Italy, stating, that many of the French troops there, voted against Bonaparte's being made Emperor.]
The State-coach for Bonaparte's coronation, is making at Paris, it will be laid, cost 300,000 livres.
It is communicated, in private intelligence from Paris, that the same Tribunal which tried Georges and Moreau will be shortly called together for the trial of the Ex-nobles Fauche Borel, De la Rochefoucauld, and De Beaumont, who have been several years prisoners in the Temple. The object of this measure is, no doubt, to implicate the Generals Lecourbe and Macdonald, whom the Gorican views with a most suspicious eye.
An Extract of a letter from Ld. Nelson to a friend in London says, "The good people in England are totally mistaken in supposing that I wish to blockade the port of Toulon. On the contrary, it is my wish, and the wish of my brother officers, to catch the enemy out of that harbor, that we may once more receive the thanks of our country."
PARIS, July 20. There is a kind of fraternity between the English troops in India, and the Russian troops in Persia. While the former bravely defeat defenceless Mahattas and Hindoos, the latter no less bravely conquer and disperse some diametric friends of liberty in Georgia. The province Imeretia has been occupied by the Russian soldiers, without resistance, under pretence, that its mountainous situation was favourable as a refuge to robbers, when in fact it was the last refuge for liberty in the Persian empire; as, for thirty centuries before no soldier of a despot, ever dared to pollute it with his presence. The great distances of these countries causes Europeans to lose sight both of their real and relative value & consequence; and while we are here combating and intriguing for some few towns, villages, or rivers, of no significance, the English and Russians are conquering provinces in the East, the revenues of which are greater than those of most kingdoms in Europe. We are butchering each other for some pebbles, while they are decorating themselves with real diamonds. The yearly revenue of the late English conquests in India, is greater than those of the kingdoms of Prussia, Naples, Sweden and Denmark, together; and the revenues of the Russian usurpations in Persia amount to more than the Swedish and Danish monarchs. We have only one hope, that these destroyers of the human race and enslavers of mankind will finally quarrel among themselves, and that his majesty our emperor will be called on as an umpire to settle their disagreements. [ Journal des Defenseurs. ]
In the beginning of June, seven Spanish ships anchored before Constantinople. They intend to sail for the Black Sea, and to load again there. Formerly the Spaniards received this production by French ships; but thanks to their neutrality, and to the war, they seem now determined to procure it themselves by trading directly in the Levant.
The Elector of Bavaria has ordered an encampment of 15,000 men to be formed next September near Munich. His highness is perfectly in the right to be on his guard, whilst Austria has such an unnecessarily numerous body of troops on foot under pretence of manoeuvring. The protection, alone, however, of the Emperor Napoleon, is more than sufficient to preserve his Highness from the ambitious views both of Austria and Russia, and all Europe together. [ Le Citoyen Francaise. ]
The Emperor of Russia, or rather his Ministers and Counsellors, has every where emissaries, who endeavour to seduce the inhabitants of other countries to emigrate and settle in Russia. To people those waste deserts of its inhospitable climate, Helvetia has furnished its quota, and some hundred citizens of our departments near the Rhine, of the ci-devant palatinate, have followed their example. The Emperor has, therefore, ordered all his Prefects, Commanders, and Police Commissioners, to put a stop to this emigration, by not permitting any person in future to cross the Rhine, without a pass from the Minister of Police, Fouché. Every Foreign or French Emigrant, who is discovered in attempting to engage the people to emigrate, is to be immediately tried as an embaucheur, and shot.
The Minister of the Marine and of the Colonies has written, on the 6th of this month (July) to the Prefect of the Arrondissement, at L'Orient, the following Letter:—
"The exhausted state of the maritime inscription, Marineur , and the acknowledged impossibility of completing in seamen, the equipments of the vessels of Government, have determined his majesty to appoint, as you have already been informed, that the detachment of the land forces should be embarked in order to supply the deficiency of sailors. In order to derive from this measure all the advantage that can be expected from it, his Imperial Majesty is inclined to excite the emulation of the troops by encouragements proportioned to the services which they shall perform on board; and these are the dispositions that he has fixed upon in this respect, counting from the 1st Thermidor, year 12; and during the course of the year 13, on the first of every month, will be distributed prizes of encouragement for the land troops who shall be embarked on board the vessels and armed frigates."
"The first prizes shall be eight francs. These shall be decreed to the Soldiers who being well acquainted with the use of the oar, formed to the management of guns, and knowing well how to manoeuvre among shallows, shall be in a condition either to reef or set the sails."
"The second prizes shall be of four francs. These shall be appointed to the soldiers who being acquainted with the management of the oar, shall be also well skilled in the service of the guns, and shall have made themselves remarkable in this respect."
"The third prizes shall be three francs. These shall be decreed to the soldiers who shall apply themselves with zeal to the exercise of the oar, and shall be accounted good rowers, ten prizes of each sort shall be distributed among every hundred men embarked on board a vessel or a frigate."
"If the number of troops embarked should not be under one hundred, then the prize of such kind shall be reduced in proportion."
as distributed before the crew and the troops embarked.
"Mention shall be made of the prizes distributed, as well upon the roll of the ship's crew, as on that of the troops embarked."
"The Captains Commandant of vessels and frigates may reduce the number of prizes of every kind, if they know that among the soldiers embarked, a sufficient number cannot be so well distinguished as to deserve that the whole of the prizes should be distributed."
"The prizes of encouragement shall be paid from the marine fund."
"It is understood that the troops of marine artillery embarked should not participate in these prizes, as their pay is larger than that of the infantry of the line, since the regulation of the 15th Floreal year 11, made an addition of three francs to the pay of the gunners who should have attained the higher manoeuvres, and since, at any rate, these troops are, by the Constitution itself, specially attached to the service, they ought not to be allowed to enjoy the reward granted for the extraordinary service that is required from the land forces embarked for the assistance of the crews of the vessels."
"You will not fail to co-operate, as far as you are concerned, Monsieur, to procure the execution of the dispositions contained in this letter, which ought to be registered for inspection and notified in all the ports of your arrondissement, where it may be useful that they should be known. I salute you, (Signed) "DECRES."
FRANKFORT, July 12. The French privateer from Ancona, which lately attacked an English ship from Malta, at the entrance of Trieste harbour, is detained by the Austrian governor, until satisfaction is obtained for such a violation of the laws of neutrality.
Though the Dutch Ambassador Schimmelpennick has presented his credentials at Paris, the French Ambassador to the Batavian Republic has not yet obtained any new ones, which cause many to think that some change will take place in the Batavian government, and that Schimmelpennick will occupy one of the principal places.
July 17. On the 14th instant, about 11 at night, his Swedish majesty arrived here unexpectedly from Karlsruhe. He had passed through Darmstadt incognito, and yesterday prince Carathen of Hesse Darmstadt, came hither to him. His majesty's route to Bohemia, will be by Wurtzburg to Prague, Topita, Carlsbad, &c. His majesty is accompanied by Baron Lagerbjelk, first cabinet secretary and chamberlain; the Queen remains at Karlsruhe.
BRUSSELS, July 22. The Emperor Napoleon arrived at Boulogne on Thursday, accompanied by several great men and generals. His arrival was announced by repeated discharges of cannon. The camp at Compiègne has already manoeuvred before his majesty, and this will be followed by the other camps. On Thursday or Friday next the empress is expected at Brussels, on her way to Aix-Chapelle. Their majesties will meet here to return together to Paris.
Within fourteen days sixty-eight gun-boats and 67 transports have passed here from Flushing bound to Ostend; the last transport carried the depot of the Batavian Mariners, coming from Helvoetsluys.
GOTTENBURGH, July 23. By private letters from Peterburgh, received by the way of Hamburg this morning it appears that a war between the Russians and Turks is determined upon, in which case it is thought France will assist the latter, which may lead to very important consequences. The emperor of Russia has set off for the Crimea, to inspect the armaments going on there. The Russian charge d'affaires has left Paris.
FROM FRENCH PAPERS. MILAN, June 6, (17 Prairial).
The annual festival of the Republic has just been celebrated here with the greatest pomp. Marriage portions were bestowed on those girls who have more than one brother in the army. A general illumination took place and a ball was given gratis at the theatre of la Canobla. The play of Theseus was represented at that of Scala, in which was introduced a lyric scene alluding to the return of general Bonaparte into Italy, and to the different factions over which the genius of that illustrious character has triumphed; lastly Medals were distributed, after the design of Appiani celebrating both the Festival of the day, and the discovery of the last Conspiracy.
RATISBON, June 30. In this day's sittings of the Diet a letter from the Baron de Reden, electoral minister of Brunswick Lüneburg was read, in which he recalls to the recollection of the Diet the declaration he delivered to it on the 22d August last, and remonstrates anew against the occupation of the Electorate of Hanover by the French troops. At all times (this letter says) H. B. Majesty has separated his relations as a State of the Empire, from those of his crown. This distinction has been admitted and acknowledged, as well by the German corps as by France herself, during the last war, after the conclusion of the treaty of Campo Formio, and by the treaty of Luneville. It is then against every principle of justice that the French government has taken possession of the German possessions of H. B. Majesty comprehended in the peace, and the consequences resulting from which are incalculable. H. B. Majesty Elector of Brunswick Lüneburg, expects from the equitable sentiments of his Co-Estates, an adoption of such measures as may deliver his said possessions, from the evil they labour under, and procure them the benefit of peace, to which they have so just a right, according to the constitution of the Empire. His excellency concludes by recommending the affair to the Diet, and entreating the ministers to ask for the necessary instructions of their respective courts in order that they may come to a decision on the subject with the least possible delay. There is, however, every reason to believe that this new remonstrance will be treated in a similar manner with the first, viz. that the Diet, will not take it in consideration.
July 30. To day at the express request of the envoy for the elector of Brunswick, (the King of England) the protocol on the Russian note, was opened in the colleges of electors and princes, and the electorate of Brunswick, and city of Bremen gave their votes.
In the vote given on the part of Hanover, on the subject of the Russian note, his Britannic Majesty, as elector of Brunswick, Lüneburg, expresses his full approbation of the part taken by the Emperor of Russia, and proposes that his Imperial Russian Majesty should be requested, by an act of the Diet, to take such measures as in his wisdom he shall judge proper, to procure a suitable and satisfactory explanation from the French government. His Majesty, at the same time, reminds the Diet of the more important and dangerous violation of the rights of nations, the Treaty of Luneville, and the security of the German Empire, by the forcible seizure, occupation, and possession of Hanover, His Majesty's German territory, without any declaration of war.
BERNE, July 1. In the letter from the Minister Talleyrand to Mr. de Maillardoz, concerning the disturbances now appearing in the Canton of Zurich, and which was presented to the Diet, the following passage is worthy of remark:
"H. M. the Emperor will never have any thing more at heart; than to contribute towards strengthening the tranquillity of Switzerland. In consequence therefore of the information he has received that addresses were handed about concerning a union of Switzerland to France, he has issued orders that they may be seized, being firmly decided to prevent every one upon the French territory from violating the acts of mediation and from disturbing that good order, to the re-establishment of which his Excellency the Landamman has so powerfully exerted his efforts."
The commission for the liquidating of debts has presented the fruit of its labours to the Diet. It has found means to reduce the twenty millions of debt to four, which now forms the sum total of the public debt in Switzerland.
GENOA July 4. The French minister Salicetti, is gone from this city to Paris.
In a Milan Journal is the following article:—According to the last accounts from Rome, the Pope has been applied to furnish Cardinal Fesch with the necessary full powers to crown, in his name the Emperor of the French.
Madame Bonaparte, the mother of the Emperor Napoleon, is at present at Fesci, with her son Lucien Bonaparte.
ITALY, July 8. The Chevalier Aston, from Naples, has arrived at Palermo, where he has been received by the Governor lieutenant-general prince County, with great distinction. The pension of the late minister is 10,000 ducats.
The French envoy at Florence, General Clark has given in his new credentials.
According to some accounts an embargo has been laid on foreign ships in several of the harbours in the Black Sea.
PETERSBURG, July 8. The papal Ambassador Arezzo, left this city on the 2d inst. in consequence of what has passed at Rome.
SWITZERLAND, July 10. The deputation which has been appointed to congratulate the emperor of the French on his accession to the Throne, has set out for Paris; the late Landamman d'Alry is at its head.
VIENNA, July 18. The French Ambassador here, Compagny, has received dispatches from Constantinople by a courier, who we are assured, carries the congratulations of the grand Signior to Bonaparte on his advancement to the imperial dignity. The French Ambassador has not yet received his new credentials, nor have any been sent to our new ambassador at Paris, Count Cobenzel.
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 27. The report that English ships have been forbidden to enter the Turkish harbours finds little credit.
According to the accounts from Egypt, there had been a riot and battle between the crews of the Turkish squadron lying at Aboukir and Aramants. The Commander of the Turkish squadron and several Greeks belonging to his ships were killed.
LEGION OF HONOR. [On the 14th July, the members of the Legion of Honour took the oath prescribed. The following particulars respecting that institution are from a Paris paper of the same date:]
On the 11th July the Emperor Napoleon issued the following decree:
 1. The decoration of the members of the legion of honor shall consist of a star with five double rays.  2. The centre of the star surrounded with a crown of oak and laurel, shall present the head of the emperor with this legend; Napoleon Emperor of the French; and on the other, the French Eagle holding the thunder bolt, with this legend: Honor and Country.  3. The decoration shall be enamelled in white; it shall be of gold for the grand officers, and of silver for the legionaries: it shall be worn at one of the button holes of the coat and fastened to a black and red ribbon.  4. All the members of the legion of honor shall at all times wear their decoration; the emperor alone shall wear either the one or the other indiscriminately.  5. All sentinels shall present their arms for the grand officers, commanders, officers and legionaries.  6. The grand officers, commanders, officers and legionaries shall receive their decoration at the same time as their diploma, in the extraordinary sittings determined by the articles VII and XVII of the 13 Messidor of the year 10. They shall nevertheless wear it, without waiting for one of those sittings, when the grand chancellor shall have addressed it for them, and in consequence of a particular order from his Imperial majesty, to the chief of the Cohort, or to another grand officer, commandant, or officer delegated for this purpose by order of the emperor.  7. Whenever the grand officer, the commandant, the officer or the legionary for whom this delegation will take place, shall belong to a civil or military corps, the decoration shall be delivered to him in the name of the Emperor, in presence of the corps assembled. 
A decree of the 4th Germinal (24th March) grants to the legionaries of the legion of honor retired from the army, not admitted to the hospital of the legion, and occupying no civil post, a gratification of 15 francs which shall be augmented, according to their age, their charges, and the population of the town they inhabit, as far as six tenths of the above sum.
The French government, passed under date of the 24th Ventose, (14th March) an arrete of which the following are the principal articles:
 "The title of member of legion of honor shall be forfeited by the same causes as those which occasion the forfeiture of the title of French Citizen, according to the article 4 of the constitution."  "The exercise of the rights and prerogatives of member of the legion of honor, shall be suspended by the same causes as those which suspend the rights of French citizen, according to article 5 of the constitution."  "The grand judge, the minister of war & marine, shall transmit to the grand chancellor copies of all judgements in criminal, correctional and police affairs which regard the members of the legion."  "The commissaries of government at the criminal Tribunal, and the reporters at the council of war, cannot inflict any unworthy penalty upon the member of the legion, unless he shall have been degraded."  "For this degradation, the President of the tribunal, upon the requisition of the Commissary of government, or the president of the council of war, upon the requisition of the reporter shall pronounce immediately after the reading of the judgement, the following formula:  "You have been wanting to honour, I declare in the name of the Legion, that you have ceased to be a member of it, &c. &c."  "Foreigners who may be appointed members of the legion of honor, shall be admitted and not received. They shall wear the decoration, but they shall not take the oath prescribed to the legionaries; they shall not be comprised in the number fix'd for the different ranks of the legion of honor; neither shall they enjoy the political rights attributed to the members of the legion by the Organic Senate-Consultum of the 28th Floreal year 12." 
The Chef-Lieux of the cohorts of the legion are Fontainebleau: the abbey of Saint-Waast, of Arras; the abbey of St. Peter, of Ghent, the Chateau de Bruhl, the Chateau of Severne, the palace, otherwise the States of Dijon; the ancient archbishopric of Vienna, idem of Aix; the ancient bishopric of Beziers, the hotel of Malta at Toulouse, the ancient bishopric of Agen, the abbey of Saint-Maixent, the chateau of Creon, the abbey of Bee, the chateau of Chambord and the chateau of la Vemerie.
A second arrete of the Grand Council of the same Legion has established a committee of that Legion, which shall unite in the Great Chancery every time that it shall be convened by the Grand Chancellor who shall be the president, this committee shall give its opinion upon all affairs communicated to it by the great officer.
The Great Council has appointed to form the Committee consultation, M. M. Abrial, Senator; Bigot-Preameeneu, Counsellor of State; Chabert, director of the veterinary school at Alfort; Fleuriou, Counsellor of State; Francois (de Neuchateau) Senator; Gondon, of the National Institute, of the section of architecture; Joubert, Tribune; Lacuee, Counsellor of State; Simon, Tribune; Tronchet, Senator; Winar, Senator; all members of the Legion of Honor.
LONDON, August 4. On the 20th ult. M. D'Oubail, the Russian Charge des Affaires in France, had received a courier with dispatches, which required an immediate answer; he therefore went directly to the Office of the Foreign Department, where he was informed by M. Callard, its Chief, ad interim , that the Emperor being on the coast, and Talleyrand at the waters of Bourbon d'Archembeau, until further orders from the Emperor, the communications could not be answered—though they would be received and forwarded to his Majesty, whose determination should be sent to M'Oubail, as soon as obtained.
It will be seen that the absence of Bonaparte and his Minister, at the moment when a courier from St. Peterburgh was expected, with the Emperor's ultimatum, is merely a political trick to gain time, as should the month of August pass in temporising, and without any open rupture with Russia, the season will be too far advanced for the Russian naval and military forces to co-operate with England this year; at least, upon a large scale; and, during the winter, changes may occur of which the Corsican will take advantage, either to embroil his opponents, or to bring about a pacification with them.
Extract of a letter dated Dublin, July 19, 1804. Your favor of 26th Dec. with the enclosure came safe to hand, and hope with the blessing of God to be seeing you in your country, for the situation of these countries are now become so critical from the condition of the people and their contiguity to France, that I fear sooner or later we must fall a prey to them, their immense line of coast, together with their extent of country and the multitude of people at their command, that I think some time or other they will be too many for us; we may at present defy them, but from the vast number of men of war now building in all their ports, they will shortly have a great fleet, and what do they want but that to convey their great armies to our shores. At this moment if they were to make good their landing I am convinced we could not stand before them, from their being veterans, and their great superiority in discipline, particularly in this country, where one particular set irritated and ground down by religion, being made the stalking horse of policy, they would join them to a man what is very extraordinary, we are given to know by government, that at this moment we are at the point of another rebellion, notwithstanding the number of examples made here last summer; we are openly assured that there are upwards of 800 emigrants amongst us now all in the pay of France, one of whom (the first) was taken up last week, and is now in the castle; so you see how disgracefully we are situated between a foreign and domestic enemy. I believe the long threatened invasion will be attempted this month. Admiral Cornwallis (who lies off Brest) has sent to all the vessels of war able to put to sea to join him immediately, as the enemy were about putting to sea and with as fine a fleet as they have had this long time; these considerations have induced me to look to your country as the only fit place for me to remove to.
Every thing advances in price, beef 5d. to 8d. mutton 7d. to 8d. pork 4d. to 6d. bacon 9d. to 10d. per lb. wheat 36s. per barrel, oats 20s. barley 18s. but we have a promising harvest which will we hope reduce these prices.— Aurora.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. LIFE OF WASHINGTON. AFTER an interval of some weeks, the public have been favoured by the appearance of the second volume of this interesting work. Gibbon says it is the peculiar advantage of English literature, that the fame of a book read with approbation in London, immediately spreads to the shores of the Delaware and the Ganges. Of the work coming from the pen of Mr. Marshall we may say, it will immediately have its readers from the lakes of St. Mary's, from the woods to the ocean. What can be so interesting to Americans as the eventful history of their own empire; the recorded patriots. In the pages of Mr. Marshall the aged fire calls up the animating remembrance of his early toils. The young are told who were their benefactors, receive in full system, what then had caught as traditional fragments, and listen with an enthusiasm to the story that recounts the glory of their fathers.
After a judicious introduction, presenting under one view, the original settlement and early progress of the different colonies, Mr. Marshall has opened the first chapter of his second volume with an account of the birth of the illustrious subject of his work. In this chapter most readers are presented with an interesting scene. They are introduced to Washington at a time of life when character is unfolding. They see him a youthful soldier, constant, intrepid and aspiring and aiming at distinction and thirsting for glory. They see him, in posts of inferior military command, the faithful and zealous executor of every trust, displaying, in the onset of his military career a skill and valour that drew admiration from the experienced and disciplined captains of a martial people. The narrative of this chapter is successfully conducted, and attains the first purpose of every narrative, that of leaving upon the mind a distinct and lively impression of its subject.
The second chapter gives a full account of the causes of the difference between the colonies and the mother country. The great question of the right of Britain to tax her remote subjects is here viewed in every light. To this chapter the American reader, in a distant generation, will resort as the voucher of the rectitude and patriotism of his ancestors. He will see in it a sense of justice that perceived wrong, and a high minded spirit that stood forth to resist it. In scenes of political collision he will be reminded that the birth of his country was in virtuous jealousy and honourable pride, and will hesitate how he ever consents to a recall of those pledges of national security and independence. The remainder of the book comprises a history of the military operations of the revolution, down to the winter of '76 and '77. Of the expedition into Canada, a vivid narrative is given. To have been a spectator of the conflict at Quebec could alone have given a more distinct idea of it than Mr. Marshall's recital. The official letters of Gen. Washington are copiously spread throughout the work, and taken in connection with existing events, shew in impressive lights, the quick sighted and pervading apprehension of an able chief. It will be the praise of Mr. Marshall's work that it contains no imputation on account of the war. It is properly observed, that history is biography. Roscoe's life of Lorenzo of Medici is a history of the learning and arts of a modern age of Italy.
The life of Alexander embraces a history of the overthrow of the Grecian states, and a biographer of Cæsar must shew us the character of Brutus and of Anthony. Dr. Ramsay's history is faithful and interlacing; but Mr. Marshall's will, in all probability, become the standard authority upon subjects connected with the American revolution. The latter draws full pictures of what the former gives general outlines and only faint sketches.
Of the style of the book before us, it may be confidently said the general result is favourable. Its principal characteristics are perspicuity and ease; without high ornament or periods very glowing. It is so elevated that it will adorn the library of the man of letters, and yet, so familiar, that most of its chapters may delight the evening leisure of the mechanic or the husbandman. The writings of some of the historians of our language make the taste for style somewhat luxurious. In the life of Washington there is now and then an embarrassed sentence, and in a few instances, diction somewhat loose. A nice ear is sometimes offended by the repetition of particular modes of expression, and does not always find the harmony it could wish. But, whoever is disposed to exert verbal criticism upon this work, should keep in mind the peculiar circumstances under which it has been written; he should recollect that the second volume has extended to near six hundred octavo pages, and should be told, that this volume is to be followed by three more of equal bulk. Mr. Marshall has shown himself a sufficient master of style to assure his readers, that when, unperplexed by "the pressing hour of publication" he shall review his composition for another impression, a task which at a future day must be imposed on him, his inaccuracies will disappear. His pages form a body, the solidity of which qualifies it to take any polish.
The author's narrative has been suspended at an interesting crisis of the revolution, and when the fame of his hero was beaming with particular lustre. The reader waits with anxiety for the continuation. [ Pbila. Reg. ]
The President of the United States, arrived at Washington, on the 30th ult.
We are informed that three persons have been apprehended at Tioga, in consequence of the Governor's proclamation, among whom is Gillet, supposed to be a principal. Against him the grand jury have found a bill. The bills against the other two have been returned ignamus .— U. S. Gaz.
Extract of a letter from Williamport, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, dated Sept. 18, 1804.
"Aaron Gillet has been taken and brought to this place, and two bills found against him by the grand jury. He has entered bail for his appearance at our next court. Dorman Blox and his family are come in, and I am informed by him, that Gillet has sold the tract in the name of Mark Wilcox, to a certain Samuel Sattarbe. The grand jury found bills against a number of the Yankees for a forcible entry on Wilcox's tract, but if government does not take some decisive measures, it will be of no use to get possession of any lands by a course of law, as the persons to whom you lease, are drove off by those villains. There is one way they might be kept in subjection, which is, for the governor to station a garrison on the Tioga and one at the mouth of Sugar creek, which would keep them in fear, and the civil officers would be able to do their duty. At present no process can be executed of any kind."
The Yankees have cut up Wilcox's tract and one below, into small tracts of 30 perches—on the Tioga and extending one mile back they give one hundred acres to each Connecticut settler. If something is not done by government to put a stop to these intruders, we may as well give them the country. I intend forwarding by next post all the depositions I have."— Id.
JEROME BONAPARTE.—A letter from Halifax received at Boston says, "I believe there was a mistake in printing here the account of the letters respecting M. Jerome Bonaparte; that addressed to him was said to be written by "Decres," but it appears to have been from "Denes," the person who wrote the other letter which has been mentioned. It begins thus, "I am just come my dear Jerome, from performing a very distressing service," and then goes on to inform him, that he has written officially to M. Pichon to stop his allowances, &c.— Palladium.
The injury done by the late storm in the Southern States is estimated at Savannah to amount to $50,000 dollars, and in South Carolina to exceed a million.
Capt. Sabin of the sch. Industry, (arrived at New-York) from Madeira informs, that a fleet of Seven British transports, under convoy of the Culloden, Sir Edward Pellew, Commander, and two frigates, failed from Madeira the beginning of last month, for India. [ Pbila. Gaz. ]
A fever has, we understand, lately made its appearance at York Town, in the state of Pennsylvania, which has been alarmingly fatal. Fourteen deaths occurred in that borough on Tuesday the 11th inst. This is comparatively greater than the mortality in the city of Philadelphia in the fever of '93 and '98. [ N. Y. Mer. Adv. ]
We understand Walter Jones is appointed by the president, attorney for this District, in the room of John Thompson Mason, resigned. [ Alexr. Expositor. ]
The Treaty lately held between the Creek Nation and the United States Commissioners, has terminated inauspiciously for Georgia, they have not obtained one acre of land. A deputation of Chiefs are to pass through this place early in October next, on their way to the City of Washington. [ Sparta Pap. ]
More votes were given in France for Bonaparte to be Emperor, than were given for him to be consul for life.
The federal ticket for members of Congress, consisting of Samuel Tenney, Silas Betton, Thomas W. Thompson, Caleb Ellis and David Hough, has succeeded in New-Hampshire, by a majority of 500 votes. [ Ulster Gaz. ]
TRAVELLING TO NEW-ORLEANS BY WAY OF PITTSBURGH. Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Pittsburgh, dated Sept. 7, 1804.
"I have the pleasure of announcing to you my safe arrival here, after a very pleasant journey of less than 7 days from Philadelphia. Ladies perform this trip with much ease and safety; there were two in the stage with us."
"The horses in this line, I believe to be superior to any other on the continent, and the drivers very careful and accommodating. The Inns where the stages put up are excellent, having good beds, and refreshments of all kinds, accompanied with much hospitality. Their charges are truly moderate; my experiences the

whole distance (320 miles) for meat, drink, lodging, and hair-dressing, amounted to only the final sum of dollars. 8-2. The proprietors really merit every encouragement, and the thanks of the public. I hope your state legislature will pay some attention to this road; a small annual appropriation would keep it in excellent repair, and greatly facilitate the communication between our great eastern and western worlds. I set out in two days for New Orleans, in a covered boat, and the waters being in good order, hope to be there in 20 to 25 days. The trip to Orleans will soon become as easy and familiar to us, as the travelling from Philadelphia to Boston, and quite as cheap."
VINCENNES, (I. T.) Aug. 21.
A few days since the Delaware tribe of Indians relinquished to the United States all their claim to the extensive tract of country, which lies between the Ohio, Wabash and the road leading from Fort Vincennes, to the great falls of Ohio. It fronts the Ohio about 300 miles, and its acquirement by the United States is of immense value, as it will facilitate the establishment of extensive settlements on White river, the Wabash and the Mississippi. Great part of it is first rate land; plentifully watered, and abundantly supplied with good timber.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Fort Wilkinson, to his friend in Augusta, dated the seventh of August.
"Two days ago we received intelligence from the Creek agency, which though by no means conclusive as to treaties, induces us to look forward with confidence to a further extension of our western boundary line. Indeed Colonel Hawkins writes, that the United States Factory, and of course the Garrison of this post, will probably be removed to the Oakmulgee river, before March next."
A letter from Cadiz by the brig Sea-Nymph, dated the 11th August, says, "60,000 bushels of wheat, and 2,000 barrels of flour arrived there from the Levant and the United States, from the 21st July to the 9th August."
[N. Y. Mer. Adv.]
Captain Young, who arrived at Providence, R. I. a few days ago in 44 days from Cadiz, informs, that Mr. Pinckney had left Madrid, and was on his way to Cadiz, at which port he was to embark for America. (Ib.) Sept. 27.
HURRICANE IN THE WEST-INDIES.
The brig Agenora, arrived yesterday from Surinam, having touched at St. Thomas, furnishes an interesting detail of the injury produced by a Hurricane which commenced on the 4th September, and continued 3 days. It is worthy of remark, that the hurricane in the southern states, of which we are daily publishing accounts, commenced on the evening of the 7th, and lasted till the morning of the 9th.
On the 4th inst. in the afternoon, a gale commenced at St. Thomas, which continued with such violence, that in three days it destroyed forty-two sail of vessels, principally Americans: it was asserted by the planters that it was the severest gale they had experienced for nineteen years; the crops were materially injured. Accounts had been received from windward, stating, that the British packet from Falmouth to Barbadoes with dispatches, had been lost. By an arrival from Martinique at St. Thomas, information was received, that out of 42 sail of vessels, all went ashore but 5. It is also stated, that Guadalupe, St. Bartholemews, St. Kitts, Antigua, and in fact all the Carribee islands, shared a like fate.
At St. Martins, the brig Enterprise, Bowen, of Providence, went ashore, with a valuable cargo of furs, and part of its outward cargo of India goods, vessel and cargo totally lost; also Schooner William, Genuel, of Alexandria, with furs totally lost; another Schooner of do. shared the same fate, and one or two prize vessels.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Natchez to his friend in Pittsburgh, dated August 15.
"Mr. Kemper, formerly a merchant at Bayou Sara, has lately made an attempt to possess himself of Baton Rouge, having under his command between 40 and 50 men; he marched from the neighbourhood of the line of demarcation between this territory and West Florida, on the 7th inst. On their way they made prisoners of alcade O'Connor, Pintado the surveyor, and an officer of the militia, and burnt Pintado's house and gin."
They arrived on the following morning about day-light, near the fort. The Spanish commandant, apprized of their intentions, had posted a picket of eighteen or twenty men, who hailed the party as they approached....they immediately answered by a volley from their rifles, which dispersed the Spaniards, two of whom were observed to fall.
Kemper returned on the following day with his party, to Bayou Sara, and encamped near the house of a Mr. Cobb....Col. Fulton was sent after them with a command of 200 men. It was reported yesterday that Fulton was within twelve miles of Kemper's camp, and that the latter was preparing to set out to meet him determined to give him battle.
The whole province of Louisiana from the Bolize to Nachitoches, Opelousa, &c. are nearly in a state of rebellion, they are dissatisfied with the present mode of government, and declare they will be a state, enact laws for themselves, appoint their own Governor, &c."
"P. S. This moment the mail arrived from New Orleans; Kemper and his party did not stand to fight."
[For the satisfaction of our readers, we subjoin the convention which the court of Madrid has recently refused to ratify.]
A CONVENTION,
Between his Catholic Majesty and the United States of America, for the indemnification of those who have sustained losses, damages or injuries, in consequence of the excesses of individuals of either nation, during the late war, contrary to the existing treaty or the laws of nations.
His Catholic Majesty and the government of the United States, wishing amicably to adjust the claims which have arisen from the excesses committed during the late war, by individuals of either nation, contrary to the laws of nations or the treaty existing between the two countries—his Catholic Majesty has given, for this purpose, full powers to his Excellency Don Pedro Cevallos, counsellor of state, gentlemen of the bed chamber in employment, first secretary of state and universal dispatch, and superintendant general of the post and post offices in Spain and the Indies; and the government of the United States of America, to Charles Pinckney, a citizen of the said states and their ministers plenipotentiary near his Catholic Majesty, who have agreed as follows:
First—A board of commissioners shall be formed, composed of five commissioners, two of whom shall be appointed by his Catholic Majesty, two others by the Government of the United States, and the fifth by common consent; and in case they should not be able
to agree on a person for the fifth commissioner, each party shall name one, and leave the decision to lot; and hereafter in case of the death, sickness, or necessary absence of any of those already appointed, they shall proceed in the same manner, to the appointment of persons to replace them.
Second—The appointment of the commissioners being thus made, each one of them shall take an oath to examine, discuss, and decide on the claims which they are to judge, according to the laws of nations and the existing treaty, and with the impartiality justice may dictate.
Third—The commissioners shall meet and hold their sessions in Madrid, where within the term of eighteen months (to be reckoned from the day on which they may assemble) they shall receive all claims which in consequence of this convention, may be made, as well by the subjects of his Catholic Majesty as by the citizens of the United States of America who may have a right to demand compensation for the losses, damages, or injuries sustained by them in consequence of the excesses committed by Spanish subjects or American citizens.
Fourth—The commissioners are authorised by the said contracting parties, to hear and examine on oath, every question relative to the said demands, and to receive as worthy of credit all testimony, the authenticity of which cannot reasonably be doubted.
Fifth—From the decisions of the commissioners, there shall be no appeal, and the agreement of three of them shall give full force and effect to the decisions, as well with respect to the justice of the claims, as to the amount of the indemnifications, which may be adjudged to the claimants; the said contracting parties obliging themselves to satisfy the said awards in specie, without deduction, at the times and places pointed out, and under the conditions which may be expressed by the board of commissioners.
Sixth—It not having been possible for the said plenipotentiaries to agree upon a mode by which the above mentioned board of commissioners should arbitrate the claims originating from the excesses of foreign cruisers, agents, consuls or tribunals, in their respective territories, which might be imputable to their two governments, they have expressly agreed that each government shall reserve (as it does by this convention) to itself, its subjects or citizens, respectively, all the rights which they now have, and under which they may hereafter bring forward their claims, at such times as may be most convenient to them.
Seventh—The present convention shall have no force or effect until it be ratified by the contracting parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged as soon as possible. In faith whereof, we the undersigned plenipotentiaries, have signed this convention, and have affixed thereto our respective seals.
Done at Madrid this eleventh day of August, one thousand eight hundred and two.
PEDRO CEVALLOS, (Seal) CHARLES PINCKNEY, (Seal)
Extract of a letter from one of our captive fellow citizens, dated Tripoli Prison, May 4, 1804.
"I mentioned to you some time since what the English consul had told me, that he had obtained leave for me to live with him, but that the burning of the Philadelphia frigate, by our squadron, had irritated the bashaw against us, and made him retract the permission which it seems he had granted with so much reluctance. Since that the consul has gone to Malta, having been peremptorily ordered to leave this regency. I feel very little disposed to regret his dismissal, at least in him I have lost no friend, notwithstanding his professions, and affected friendship....His conduct towards us on our arrival, at this place was far from being friendly. Instead of coming forward as he ought to have done, to console us under our misfortune, and alleviate our necessities, we knew not for several days that there was such a man in Tripoli. Instead of being with us as humanity ought to have dictated was his duty, he was basely couching at the throne of an unprincipled tyrannical usurper, and with the most despicable humiliation congratulating him upon his good fortune in obtaining so valuable a prize as our ship, and so many slaves thus suddenly becoming his! With regard to what he said of having obtained permission for me to live with him at his house, I am very much inclined to think he never broached the subject to the bashaw, he never mentioned it to me until he knew that such a thing was not impracticable. His dismissal was a circumstance rather to be rejoiced at, for should another consul be sent here he may be a gentleman, and coming from Malta no doubt be made my friend by Mr. A. Ball. Should such be the case, and we continue here any time after peace, or after the negotiation for our ransom is finally concluded, I shall then probably live with him, and will have it in my power to tell you something about this barbarous country, and its ferocious inhabitants."
As it is now, we are as much secluded, and as closely confined as any of the bashaw's women. 'Tis said there are many circumstances in this city and its neighbourhood well worthy of seeing, the ruins of ancient pillars, triumphal arches, &c. &c. But we might remain here twenty years and not know more of them, except by report, than you who I hope will never see the place. There is a triumphal arch in this city which I have seen: the workmanship is finished in a very superior style, and the figures in base relief of bold and beautiful execution. The Latin inscription is in some parts much defaced, and what is legible is in such detached & imperfect parts, words, and letters that it would puzzle a profound antiquarian."
"It is in general supposed that our squadron intends to bombard this place sometime in the course of the approaching summer....should such be the case, we shall all be moved with the royal family and be confined in the country palace."
Altho' the bashaw has no very sincere regard for us, yet so soon as this town is attacked by our squadron, he will take care to have us removed to a place of safety. I hope in God we shall have another crack at him, I don't think we should ever again be made prisoners to the bashaw of Tripoli."
Capt. McMillen, who arrived at New-York on Tuesday evening last, from Cadiz, informs, that the tale of a war between the United States and Spain, had subsided; and that our Minister at the Court of Spain, had not, to his knowledge, left Madrid, as reported.
General Moreau and Lady were at Cadiz, and would sail for America as soon after the confinement of Mrs. Moreau, as possible.
Phil. Gen.—Sept. 27.
INDIANA TERRITORY.
Letters have been received, covering governor Harrison's proclamation, for elections to be held at the different court houses, on the 11th day of September next, in all the counties throughout the Indiana Territory, to take the vote of the freeholders on the question of entering into the second grade of government. [Spj.]
In the brig Rose, capt. Tonkin, (arrived on Thursday at New-York) from Cadiz, came passenger, Captain Dutton. He is the bearer of very important dispatches to Government, from Mr. Pinckney, our Minister at Spain....Immediately on his landing in town, he proceeded express to the seat of Government.
It is the wish of the Editor of the National Intelligencer to engage an individual well qualified to report the Debates of congress. Immediate application, with the terms that will be agreeable, is requested.
ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1804.
VIEWS ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF G. BRITAIN AND THE U. STATES.
The statistical and financial document which was laid before the British House of Commons, by the chancellor of the exchequer, on the 24th of July last, & which has appeared in many of the public prints of this country, is too important to pass by us without consideration and comment. To the English reader, it will be recommended by the very great extent of information which it conveys of the political economy of his own country. To an American reader, it will be doubly interesting. It will furnish him with a view of the financial state of a great nation, from which his own country men have borrowed so many of their political institutions, and which is in many respects the most influential nation that exists on the surface of the globe. It will besides present him with the materials for taking a relative view of the state of his own country, in those political points in which it is most important to compare two nations together. Where the countries themselves are great, and the points of comparison for which they are brought together are important, these relative views are always curious and often instructive. To such a delineation the following cursory remarks will be principally confined.
In the examination of so complicated a subject, the mind naturally desires some simple arrangement, that may enable it to take an entire view of the several objects that are brought before it. Where the points of consideration are so numerous and different from each other, it naturally feels a few general classes, under which it may distribute this confused group of images. The present subject spontaneously leads us to a very simple arrangement. Every fact, which this document notices, relates either to the pecuniary concerns of the people, or of the government. The statement of the first is principally confined to the external trade of Great Britain. The statement of the last is made to comprehend the several classes of its debt, and the present annual expenditure, with the principal details of its financial resources. It will thus be easy to reduce to the two heads of Trade and Finance, the most interesting facts in this document, and of course all the materials, which it furnishes for a comparison with the statistical and financial affairs of this country.
TRADE.—The official value of the British manufactures exported from Great Britain, on an average of six years, ending the 5th of Jan. 1804, was 105,929,980 dollars.
The official value of foreign merchandise exported from Great Britain on an average of six years, ending the 5th January, 1804, was 68,126,666 dollars.
The official value of American domestic produce on an average of six years, ending the 1st of January, 1804, was 26,290,071 dollars.
The official value of foreign merchandise exported from the United States, on an average of six years, ending the 1st of January, 1804, was 35,666,996.
If we may assume the position that the value of British manufactures exported constituted nearly the whole of the exported produce of that country; it will follow that the exported produce of G. Britain exceeds that of the U. States by 69,939,999 dollars. It will follow that this part of the trade of Great Britain is nearly three times as great as that of the United States. The capital of the carrying trade of that country however does not exceed our own by a greater sum than 32,459,670 dollars: that is, this part of the trade of Great Britain is not quite twice as great as that of the United States.
The tonnage of British ships employed in the foreign trade of Great Britain in the year ending the 5th of January, 1803, was on an average about 1,302,120. The tonnage of foreign ships employed in this trade during the same period was about 757,542. The corrected and registered tonnage of the United States, amounted at the commencement of the year 1803, to 560,380. The tonnage of foreign vessels, which entered the ports of the United States, during the year 1802, amounted to 146,779. Hence, if the British and foreign tonnage, which are expressed above, be really employed in conducting the trade of Great Britain, with other countries, and if the corrected and registered tonnage of the U. States be really employed in carrying on their foreign trade, we may conclude that the tonnage employed in the foreign trade of G. Britain is about three times as great as that of the U. States.
Hence, with these data, accompanied by a calculation of the comparative rapidity of the returns derived from this trade and of the rate of profits derived from the sale of the produce imported and exported by this tonnage, and of the relative bulk of the commodities transported, we might be able to determine the ratio between the profits arising from the foreign trade of G. Britain & that of the U. States. If we were at liberty to assume these returns as equally quick, and those profits as equally great, we should probably approach the same ratio, with which we have been furnished by a comparison of the produce both foreign and domestic, which is exported from these two countries. We might perhaps venture to assert that the foreign trade of G. Britain is two or three times as great as that of the U. States.
The official document supplies us with no account of the internal and coasting trade of Great Britain. It is therefore impossible for us to institute a comparison between the trade carried on between the different parts of Great Britain and the trade which the different states and districts of this country carry on with each other.
FINANCE.—The annual resources of Great Britain are appropriated to the payment of its annual expenses, and to discharge its accumulated debt.
The total amount of its funded debt, on the 1st of February, 1804, was one thousand, nine hundred and forty millions, seven hundred and 22 thousand, 320 dollars, besides annuities of different kinds to the amount of 6,950,563 dollars; and a new loan of eighty millions, 558,850 dollars, borrowed during the present year.
The interest, charges of management, and other expenses incident to this enormous sum, amount to 104,323,136 dollars. Reader! pause for a moment, and reduce this sum to palpable weight and dimension; estimate the weight of this sum in the form of silver, with the number of horses and wagons which would be necessary to convey it from the treasury; or let your imagination conceive the space of ground, which these dollars put along side of each other, would be sufficient to cover, and then you will form a more sensible image of this enormous sum exported from the labour of the people of Great Britain.
Our own debt, estimated by the fortune of a private man or by the number of individuals whom it would feed, clothe and lodge, appears exorbitantly great; yet how diminutive does it appear, when it is set along side of the debt of Great Britain! The sum of 7,200,000 dollars, has been appropriated for the payment of the principal and interest of our debt; of which about three millions and an half are at present applicable to the discharge of the principal, and the residue to the payment of the interest. This sum is not more than the fifteenth part of the interest of the British debt. Indeed less than the annual interest of that debt would be much more than sufficient to pay off the whole principal of our debt.
The funds which are necessary to discharge the sum required for the service of the present year, inclusive of the interest of the public debt, are estimated at three hundred and fifteen millions, nine hundred and twenty one thousand, 223 dollars 11 a sum, which is nearly twice as great as the whole official value of the exports of Great Britain. A great part of this sum is appropriated to the military services of the present year. A great part is employed in upholding that system of extensive patronage, and splendid power, which in its turn upholds the monarchy of England. It was during the last session of the House of Commons that Mr. Pitt proposed that the civil list should be fixed at 4,333,333
dollars a year, and that 2,630,220 dollars should be granted to discharge the arrears. Thanks to the liberality of a republican government! There is no extravagant expense attached to the mechanism of our all-sufficient administration. Thanks to the genius of that constitution, which, by making the pecuniary fountain of power, has formed a splendid and pernicious expedient to adorn our federal executive. A certain power of expenditure, our political system certainly possesses superior advantages over the monarchy of England. A prince of Wales or a Duke of York, without the smallest exertion of honorable industry, may spend as much upon their baubles, on the purchase of a diamond buckle (or instance) as might be sufficient to supply every moral and chaste want of our highest magistrate. Let me ask then which of the inhabitants of this country is ready to prefer this picture to that?
COMMUNICATION.
TO THE EDITOR.
Through the medium of your very interesting paper, I present the Farmer with a concise Table; by the aid of which, he may find how much grain he makes. This Table will equally serve the Miller and Merchant, who receive Grain—by which they may at any moment check their receiving book.
TABLE.
   Solid Inches. Parts of a Bushel.    1 .000435029702  3 .000930059524  4 .001395089286  5 .001860119048  6 .002325148810  7 .002790178571  8 .003255208333  9 .003720238095  .004185267858  
I shall explain the Table by an example. Suppose a Granary 2ft. 2in. or 254 inches by 17 ft. 5 in. or 209 inches, how many bushels will cover the floor 1 inch deep?
This fig \times signifies Multiplication.
And this = is the sign of Equality.
254 \times 209 = 53086 solid inches
then per Table
   Bushels.    50000 = 23. 25148  3000 = 1. 39508  80 = .03720  6 = .00279  53086 24. 68657  
Now this number, 24 bushels & .68657 parts, may be marked up in some conspicuous part of the granary, being the area or number of bushels the floor contains at one inch deep; which being multiplied by the mean depth in inches, will give the quantity of grain at any time required.
Let the mean depth be 4 feet 4 inches or 52 inches, then 24. 68657 \times 52 = 1283 7-10 bushels, or 42b. on a supposition that 60lb. on an average make a bushel.
NOTE.—Those who are acquainted with the nature of Decimal fractions, will point off as many figures from the Table, cyphers included, as there may be cyphers in the number required from the Table, thus 50000 having four cyphers 23 are bushels and the rest parts of a bushel. This Table, containing a Decade, will answer the largest number in practice.
Let a corn crib be 20 feet by 18 feet and filled 10 feet high with corn in the ears, the number of barrels of shelled corn is required?
The common allowance for corn in the ears being two barrels for one. RULE.—To the product of any two of the above numbers multiplied by one half of the other, add one eighth of the same product, divide their sum by 7, the quotient will be the number of barrels in the crib when shelled.
   20 \times 18 \times 10 = 1800   Add 1-8 = 225   Divide by 7 2025  
289 2-7 bls. shelled.
To compute this question by the common method, would require upwards of 70 extra figures; or it may be done by the Table, for 18 ft. = 216 inches and 20 ft. = 240 inches & 10 bushels in the ears, make a barrel of shelled corn, then 216 \times 240 = 5184 which per Table
   10   289. 25714 or 289 2-7 barrels as above.  
NOTE.—As Indian corn does not lie very close, the following approximation may do when greater accuracy is not required— 20 \times 18 \times 10 \times 4-08 = 288 barrels. That is, multiply the length, breadth and depth of the crib together by 8 and divide by 100, the quotient is barrels, the remainder multiplied by 5, gives bushels, &c. Yours, &c. J. P.
VIRGINIA MAGAZINE.
Those gentlemen who have been kind enough to receive subscriptions for "The Virginia Magazine, or Monthly Miscellany," are requested to return lists of such names as they have been able to obtain, so soon as convenient, as the first number will certainly make its appearance on the first day of December next. There will be at least one elegant Copper Plate engraving attached to each number. J. DIXON.
October 6. (34)
ADVERTISEMENT.
WILL BE SOLD, on Monday the 8th instant, at Messrs. Proffer & Moure's Vendue Office, for the benefit of the Underwriters and those concerned, (E A) No. 61. A bale of CASSIMERES, " 48. A truss of FEARNOUGHTS, " 24. A case GLAZED LEATHER HATS and BANDS.
Received by, and damaged in the brig Susan & Polly, Capt. Seargent, from London. ELLIS & ALLEN.
October 6.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber yesterday morning, a very likely well set MULATTO BOY, about seventeen or eighteen years of age, by the name of PARIS, who has been brought up as a house servant. He went off without any clothes, but those he had on, and they cannot be particularly described, except his over jacket, which was a short round one, of striped Virginia cloth. He has a scar on his forehead, which was occasioned by a wound he received when very young, and a remarkable one on the back of one of his hands, (it is believed to be the right) from a burn.
As he was seen shortly after he eloped, at the Ferry at New-Castle, there is no doubt but he intended for Richmond, from whence he may probably attempt to get off by water.
A reward of ten dollars, will be given for the apprehending, and conveying him to the subscriber, or for the delivering him to Mr. George Turner, at the Bell Tavern, in Richmond.
ROBERT POLLARD.
BANK OF VIRGINIA.
AT a meeting of the President and Directors of the Bank of Virginia, on Thursday October 4th, 1804.
"RESOLVED, That the Bank commence Discounts on Tuesday next."
"RESOLVED, that the President, Cashier and other officers of the Bank, proceed to inspect on Monday next, in the Senate Room of the Capitol."
"RESOLVED, that it is expedient, that any House or firm, consisting of more than one person, shall make a declaration of the names and names of the persons who compose such firm, and that each of the persons who reside in Richmond or Manchester, composing such firm, shall subscribe the Firm Book, and insert therein the names of his partner or partners."
J. BROCKENBROUGH, Cashier.
N. B. Persons applying for discounts must lodge their Notes at the Bank on the Monday and Thursday of every week. J. B.
By JAMES MADISON, Secretary of State of the United States.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of the Act of Congress passed on the 26th March last, entitled "An act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act relative to the election of a President and Vice-President of the United States, and declaring the officer who shall act as President, in case of

TRUTH AND ELOQUENCE.
AN ALLEGORY.
IN the first ages of the world, Vice, it is said, was unknown among the sons of men. The descendants of our first parents, for many generations, spent their days in the enjoyment of those tranquil and pure pleasures, which spring from innocence and love, and from gratitude to the beneficent beings, by whom their blessings were bestowed. The earth was then watered by innumerable streams, and covered with perpetual verdure. The forests were filled with lofty and majestic trees, whose shade invited to meditation or repose; while on their wide spread branches the feathered choir displayed the beauties of their plumage, and warbled throughout the day, either songs of joy, or solicitations to love. The fields and meadows were embellished by countless flowers, diffusing fragrance thro' the air; and produced, tho' not spontaneously, yet in abundance, those nourishing fruits, which imparted beauty to women, and health and strength to men. This was indeed the golden age: and the celestial beings, contemplating the felicity which was enjoyed below, deigned sometimes to assume a human shape, and for a time, to make their abode on earth, among the wise and happy mortals who then possessed it. But after the lapse of many centuries, man became tired of the pleasures which he had so long been permitted to enjoy. The Daemon of selfishness, escaping from the gulf of Tartarus, to which ages before, by a council of the Gods, he had been condemned, found his way to the habitations of men, & soon seduced the greater part of the human race from the allegiance which they owed to their celestial benefactors. The enemies of the invader were firm, and for a long time maintained an unequal conflict; but they were finally overpowered by numbers, and almost entirely destroyed. From that time, the Gods renounced all intercourse with men; and left the earth and its inhabitants, a prey to those physical and moral evils which have since never ceased to afflict them.
Among those who had exerted themselves to oppose this humiliating revolution, Truth and Eloquence had borne the most conspicuous part. Truth and Eloquence, it has been sometimes said, were of celestial origin. But this opinion is not correct. Truth was the legitimate daughter of Labor and Wisdom, the most venerable among the inhabitants of the Antediluvian world. Amidst the confusion and crimes, which induced the Gods to abandon the earth, Labor had been seized by the partisans of selfishness, beaten with many stripes, loaded with chains, and compelled to toil for the benefit of others. Wisdom did not experience equal cruelty, but she was banished by a decree of the usurpers. The place of her retreat has never yet been discovered. It is said that her footsteps have been sometimes traced in Europe, and that they have been distinctly perceived in America; but it seems most probable, that Minerva, who respected her virtues and pitied her sufferings, soon procured her a seat in Heaven, and thus placed her beyond the reach of men, who, in every age, and in every country, have proved by their conduct, their entire contempt for her character & counsels.
Truth has been the favorite of Minerva. Many of her infant years she had spent under the immediate guardianship of the Goddess, and by her she was irrevocably confirmed, in those principles which she had been taught by her venerable parents. On her first acquaintance, her countenance seemed gloomy, and her manners austere. Her conversation was generally serious, and her language plain. The votaries of pleasure, awed by her looks, avoided her society; the advocates of vice trembled in her presence; but to those who knew her well, she appeared invariably graceful and benevolent; and even her worst enemies, after a few interviews, have sometimes acknowledged the injustice of their first impressions, and devoted their lives to her service, with unalterable fidelity and zeal.
The birth of Eloquence was not so respectable. She was the child of Enthusiasm, and on her mother's side, was nearly related to some of the first families of the ancient world—to Taste, Fancy, Sensibility, Genius, Benevolence and Virtue. But who her father was, is yet unknown. Some have thought, that she displayed a strong resemblance to Ambition; others have been equally confident that she bore the features of Avarice. But however divided men might be as to her birth, they were unanimous in their approbation of herself. The expression of her eye, varying with every thought; the melody of her voice, whether in persuasion or command; the grace and dignity of her gestures; her prompt wit; her extensive knowledge, made her the object of universal admiration. But her fortune when young was not so auspicious as that of Truth. Her mother, tho' passionately fond of her, sometimes left her. Carried away by her own contemplations, she forgot for a time her darling child. It chanced that Mercury found her during the absence of her mother, and struck with the readiness of her infantine replies, he carried her away. He retained her in his hands for a considerable time, and did not return her to her mother, until he and his friend Proteus had amused themselves with teaching her some of the arts by which they had been accustomed to impose upon mankind. The impression upon the mind of the infant, produced by this disastrous event, was not, however, immediately perceived.
At the commencement of the conflict, which we have mentioned, Truth and Eloquence were in full maturity. In the age of innocence they had been inseparable companions. Eloquence had imbibed from her mother, the most ardent affection for Truth, & notwithstanding her own aspiring temper, had, for a long time, voluntarily acted as her attendant and handmaid. Beloved by the Gods, and for a long time respected by men, they had exerted their united influence and powers, to avert from mankind the evils with which they fore saw their enemy designed, treacherously, to overwhelm them. Even now, notwithstanding the multitudes who had deserted, they did not despair; and in the presence, and with the approbation of the Gods, who had assembled before their final departure from the earth, they bound themselves to live in perpetual amity, and in the prosecution of their labors for the good of mankind, never to suffer any difficulties or dangers to separate them. Truth, tho' apparently austere in her deportment and confident in her individual strength, did not disdain the alliance. Tho' not convinced of its necessity, she knew it might be useful, and without ceremony or hesitation offered her hand to Eloquence as a pledge of her sincerity. Eloquence seized with promptitude the proffered hand of Truth, pressed it to her bosom with imitable grace, and in a voice sweet as the sound of the harp touched by the hand of Apollo, congratulated herself on the solemn ratification of a compact, which alone could justify a hope that she could be useful to the world. The celestial audience, impressed with reverence for the exalted character of Truth, and delighted by the charms of Eloquence, gave them their benediction, and departed for ever.
Such were Truth and Eloquence, when they formed their compact. Truth reflected that this alliance would facilitate her progress, and that the aid of Eloquence would more effectually dispose mankind, to receive from her these salutary counsels, on which the welfare of the whole race depended. On the other hand, Eloquence knew that vicious as the world had become, her admonitions, unless enforced by her ally, tho' they might be heard with pleasure, could not long be regarded with reverence.
The treaty being thus formed, the confederates began their career together, with entire good faith. They addressed all they saw, and endeavored to reclaim those, who had patience to hear them, from the brutality of ignorance, and the misery of vice. Truth adhering firmly to her exalted principles, pursued an undeviating course. Without regard to wealth or power, in the gilded palace, and the straw-built shed, to the tyrant and the slave, her manners and her language were the same. Pride was always offended by her sincerity. Power always felt uncontroolable terror at her approach. They therefore combined against her, insulted her in gross and barbarous terms, and often offered violence to her person. Upon occasions like these Eloquence, stepped forth to rescue her friend from danger. She often succeeded in appeasing the wrath of those who had been employed to persecute her, and sometimes convinced them that she was worthy of their friendship and admiration.
In process of time, Eloquence began to perceive that she herself was acting only a secondary part. Truth was always treated by their mutual friends, with the most profound respect; while that which was paid to herself, seemed daily to be diminished—and what was still more mortifying, to be diminished exactly in proportion as their acquaintance with Truth increased. She never failed at first to receive the tribute of their fervent admiration; but in time this admiration subsided, and in some instances totally disappeared. In fact she discovered that she was still regarded merely as the handmaid of Truth, and that upon many occasions her presence was deemed not only unnecessary, but inconvenient: that she served no other purpose but to call the attention of mankind to the merits of her friend: of which, when her hearers were convinced, they gradually lost their respect for herself, by whom they were introduced. In the excess of her mortification, she one day made a pathetic complaint on this subject, in the hearing of Truth. With the candour with which she always spoke, Truth told her, it was in vain to repine, as her unaided talents, brilliant as they were, however they might amuse the idle, could never permanently secure for her the respect or friendship of the wife. Eloquence mortally offended at this reply, declared the treaty void, and separated herself immediately from her friend. Truth, unmoved at this event, pursued steadily the same course which she had before marked out; but finding herself sometimes impeded in her progress for want of her former associate, endeavoured to re-collect and to adopt some of the graces by which she had been distinguished. She learned, therefore, in process of time, to lay aside the awkward and negligent phraseology, which she was accustomed to use, and to express her sentiments, not only with the animation and firmness which she had before displayed, but in language which, tho' plain, was always correct, selected with care, and elegantly arranged. From the first moment of separation, Truth has never sought the society of Eloquence. It is true that she does not avoid her, but she never goes out of her way to seek her. The aid of Eloquence on any momentous occurrence, is accepted, if offered, but it is never solicited. Truth is always content to rely upon herself. She is right. Her credit is daily rising, and she is now known to multitudes, by the simplicity of her manners, the plainness, perspicuity and brevity of her discourse, the unshaken firmness of her mind, and her in conquerable attachment to every principle tending to promote the liberty and happiness of mankind.
Eloquence, after she had leisure for reflection, soon perceived that this separation if generally known, would greatly impair if not destroy her influence. She took therefore the utmost care to conceal it. Even when she was animated by the most deadly hate, she failed not to profess the utmost veneration for her ancient ally, and often, availing herself of what she had learned in her infancy, assumed her appearance, as well as her name. In this character, and in this way, she has invariably imposed on ignorance and credulity, and scrupled not to advocate the most pernicious doctrines. She has not only defended errors, but crimes. Influenced by ambition, or seduced by avarice, she has become occasionally the advocate of murder, of tyranny, of persecution, war and desolation: of every act, which injures individuals, or lays waste a world. To gratify her intemperate love of fame, and fondness for wealth, she will take any side, of any question, and if her talents are admired, is content that her principles shall be condemned. Such is her abandoned effrontery, that she has been known to denounce Truth herself, as an impostor, and to claim in the name of Truth for herself, the homage and admiration of the world.
But this shameful prostitution of her splendid talents, is not without some interruption. Sometimes influenced by her mother's spirit, she devotes herself to the service of Truth, with the zeal and intrepidity of her ancient friendship. Then it is that she assumes a new form. Her voice seems more than human. Her eye seems to flash with the fire of heaven, and delivering only the precepts of Truth, she is heard with ten thousand emotions, which she alone is able to describe.
So profligate, however, has her conduct generally been, that she has excited the general indignation of mankind; and unless she will be content to be again the handmaid of Truth, it is said, that a petition will be speedily presented to the Gods, praying that she may be forever banished from the earth.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A MUSICAL PRODIGY.
The famous Spanish Singer, Donna Isabella Colbran, is on her way from Italy to Paris. This virtuosa, who is not yet twenty years old, is already considered as the first singer of our times. At three years of age, she sung very well, and at six she was regarded as a wonder. The last concert she gave at Madrid before her departure, brought her in 40,000 reals (6,000l.) She has, at the requisition of the Emperor Napoleon, obtained permission to travel for twelve months, eight of which she will pass at Paris. On the day of the Emperor's Coronation, she is to sing for the first time. From the Emperor's private purse 100,000 livres (4,000l.) are assigned for her expenses, during her residence in France, not including presents, and what she will gain if permitted to sing before the public.
A fashionable young countess asking a young nobleman which he thought the prettiest flowers ROSES or TULIPS? He replied, with great gallantry, "Your ladyship's TWO-LIPS before all the roses in the world."
The Herculaneum Manuscripts.
Great progress has been made, under the auspices of the Prince of Wales, in the unrolling & recovery of the Papyri found in the ruins of Herculaneum. The Rev. Mr. Heyter has been at Naples for a considerable time, engaged with a number of assistants, in this important work; and scholars of every country will be delighted to hear that he has made rapid progress in the task. Previously to the interference of the prince of Wales, eighteen manuscripts had been opened in the course of 46 years; but under his auspices nearly 90 have been opened in little more than 2 years. This is a patronage worthy of the prince. Mr. Heyter writes from Portici in May last, "that tho' the difficulties in traveling the almost extinguished Papyri are incredible, and the operation of course must be dilatory, as the persons employed may even yet be considered as learners, yet every day new lights are opening to them." About 80 manuscripts have been unrolled under his directions entirely or in part. Among these, 7 were Latin; in consequence of a fatal accident they were reduced to powder. He has discovered at the end of one manuscript the name of Demetrius Phalerius. Fragments of 4 of Epicurus are ready for publication; the engravings of one book, and 6 columns of another are completed. A treatise on Anger, another De Natura Deorum, as well as a Logical Essay by Philodemus, are also ready for publication. The treatise on Anger is anonymous. That of De Natura Deorum appears to be by Phaedrus, the friend of Cicero.
An inhabitant of Afracan has made a very valuable discovery. A plant which grows everywhere in Europe and Asia, in marshy and damp places, and on the banks of rivers, called by the botanist Butomus Cimbellum, produces after a very short and easy preparation, flour, of which bread may be made almost as white as wheaten bread. The inventor has sent a sample of flour and of the bread to the minister of the Interior, and in return received from the Emperor a very valuable present.—French pap.
On the 22d ult. one of the new invented carriages, called velocifere, drawn by four horses, passed through the Elysian Fields in Paris. It carried no less than thirty-five passengers, and will be no longer than 36 hours going from Paris to Lyons, a distance of 110 leagues, or 330 English miles. This curious invention promises to be of the greatest advantage, both of their commercial and military transports. The inventor has obtained an Imperial Patent.
[London Pap.]
DEAFNESS.
A correspondent, who has the misfortune to be deaf, has communicated the following simple expedient for still enjoying the pleasures of music under the pressure of that calamity:—"In my early days I was a great admirer of music; but having lost my hearing many years ago, I likewise lost those delightful charms which not only please the ear, but give delight to the heart even in its saddest moments. Having some old instruments by me, and my children springing up, I was desirous they should learn; but not being able to know when they were right or wrong, it put me upon the trial of many methods. The best I have yet found is by placing a straight small lath, any convenient length, one end against the instrument played upon, the other against the upper teeth (the under teeth have no effect) or against the nerve close behind the ear. Persons deaf will be agreeably surprised to find they can distinguish every note as distinctly as when they had their perfect hearing. It must be observed, that only stringed instruments are here meant."
[London paper.]
THE YOUNG ROSCIUS.
EDINBURGH, JULY 2, 1804.
The Theatre of this city was opened on Thursday night with the tragedy of Douglas, for the purpose of introducing, as the hero of the piece, a boy of twelve or thirteen years old, who has been for some months distinguished in Ireland, and more lately in Glasgow, by the appellation of the Young Roscius.
That a child, in whom reason cannot be supposed mature, should be able to conceive, far less to delineate, the various emotions which agitated the shepherd and the hero, we did not venture to expect. Genius has often effected its emancipation from the trammels of poverty, obscurity, and depression, and the silent workings of its powerful impulse have supplied the place of experience and learning; but that the infant faculties should keep pace with those of maturity is, perhaps, scarcely less wonderful than if (what has in no instance been seen) the physical power of that period of helplessness should equal the vigour of confirmed manhood. Early and very wonderful dawnsings of genius have been displayed in the cultivation of some of the sciences, in arithmetic, and more frequently in music; but the science of the mind, and the attainments connected with it, have almost invariably been reserved for the investigation of ripe age.
With such impressions we attended the representation of Douglas, not doubting but that our eyes might be entertained with happily caught attitudes, or our ears with melodious imitations; but that we should witness a clear, correct, and comprehensive conception of the author—a chaste, powerful, and original delineation of the character, we certainly did not expect. Our astonishment and delight, therefore, at actually finding this rare combination exhibited in the performance of this wonderful boy may be readily conceived.
His appearance, on his first entrance, chiefly engaged the attention by its extreme juvenility. He is gracefully formed, but he is not, as we understand, more than twelve years old, and he looks still younger. His face, too, though very pleasing, has all the smoothness of boyhood, and from the necessary faintness of those lines by which the passions too legibly indicate their existence in maturer age, it was not easy to anticipate a powerful delineation of emotions which could hardly be supposed to exist in the breast of the performer. But no sooner had he entered upon his part, than his superiority was fully exhibited—he speedily took full possession of the audience; and after the scene with Lady Randolph, in which he reveals to him the secret of his birth, the spectator was involuntarily, and almost unconsciously, led to try him, not by a standard accommodated to his inexperience and his youth, but by one arising from the clear perception of the poet's beauties, and the recollection of what had been previously done for the character by the first performers of the part.
To this admirable scene we certainly never did see greater justice done—feldom, very seldom, so much. In the previous progress of the part, the youthful candidate had exhibited the ardent and aspiring shepherd, panting for honour and distinction, yet repressed by modest timidity and ingenuous diffidence. In this scene his performance breathed all the wildness of joy, the enthusiasm of filial love, tempered by reverential awe, the triumphant consciousness of noble descent, and the nobler dignity of inborn worth. Never did we see those feelings more chastely conceived, more beautiful blended, or more powerfully expressed. His address to
his mother was more peculiarly admirable. The taunting scene with Glenalvon was also excellent; and, in general, those passages were most prominently so in which ardent feeling was to be expressed. It is not by any means to be understood, however, that he was defective in the descriptive and declamatory scenes. On the contrary, his account of the hermit was the evident result of a clear and accurate discrimination; and the burst of feeling with which he announced, the catastrophe of the fuge, was the genuine offspring of nature. But the dying scene was beyond all comparison the finest. We have seen Mr. Kemble and others in the part; and, with a clear perception of all the hazard we encounter, we hesitate not to deliver it as our opinion, that if any previous performer has equalled, not one has excelled this astonishing child in the delineation of life's closing scene. His voice was clear, melodious, and articulate to the last; and yet so natural, and so accurately did its receding murmurs indicate the increasing debility of expiring nature, that each plaintive accent seemed its final effort. The dropping of the curtain was accompanied by the rapturous and reiterated applauses of the audience, whose tears had previously borne less equivocal testimony to the merits of the performer.
It would be easy to enlarge upon other particulars of the performance, but it is probable we may be thought to have already said too much. We shall close our account therefore, with a few general remarks.
The readings, deportment, conception, and whole manner of this boy, are entirely his own. He is, so far as we can judge, entirely original. He not only does not imitate the first performers of the day, but he is remarkably contrasted with almost all of them. Every one knows that the school of Garrick is now no more. The fire, the rapidity, the impassioned gestures, the quick and exhaustless variety which characterised it, have given place to awful dignity, to stern elevation, to savage wildness, and to eccentric grief. It seems to have been the aim of this infant performer (if any aim can be ascribed to that which most probably is the restless dictate of nature) to renovate that school. His whole acting, at least, is founded on its principles. It is rapid, natural, and easy. He has no artificial pauses, no effected modulations, no statue-like attitudes. Every word he utters seems the immediate result of the feeling which prompts it; and in his gestures are seldom characterised by elaborate smoothness and grace, they are uniformly true to character and to passion. It is difficult to pronounce respecting the height to which this phenomenon may one day attain; or whether, like many others, (all of them, however, we contend, less wonderful) he may blaze for a day, and set in obscurity. But this we do say, that when a veteran performer shall exhibit the powers of this child, he will be entitled to the praise of no ordinary excellence.
IMPERIAL SWORD.
A Swedish armorer has lately presented to his Imperial Majesty Napoleon, a sword at which he has worked for three years. The following is the description of it.
The handle of the sword represents the head of an Arabian horse, with bulls of Mercury and Mars. Upon the branch of the guard, appears the Goddess of recompence, surrounded by heroes all crowned with laurel wreath which she shows to six other heroes, that they may merit it.
The blade of the most exquisite beauty and workmanship, damasked and inlaid with an inscription in golden letters, Arabic characters, bears these words: "Thou wilt conquer thy enemies, and wilt have pity on the nations of peace." On the other side of the blade, justice crowned with glory.
The upper ornament of the scabbard is set with fine pearls, fished in the river of Eure-Amine in Finland.
The upper ornament represents the Goddess Pallas, seated and leaning against a column upon which is seen the inscription R. P. F. Beside the column are the victorious banners of the republic. The Goddess is holding in her right hand a buckler, with the bust of Bonaparte; and at her feet is a couching lion.
The second ornament represents Bonaparte, on horseback, surrounded by aids decamp uncovered because they are speaking to Bonaparte.
Upon the ornament, in the middle of the scabbard, Bonaparte is seen mounted upon Neptune's car and happily arriving from Egypt, to save France.
The upper part of the scabbard represents Bonaparte, mounted upon Mercury's car, drawn by four horses, and hastening to join the army.
The second part represents the army which ceases to retreat at the arrival of Bonaparte.
The third part represents the battle of Marengo. Bonaparte here appears on horseback, in the midst of the fire.
Upon the fourth part the battle continues, and terminates with a victory.
The fifth part represents a delicious garden, in the middle of which the hero is seen reposing upon the bosom of the nation, which unknown to him, places a crown of laurel upon his head.
Upon the sixth part the hero is seen going out of his tent under the figure of Alexander: the Amazons throw themselves at his feet, begging for peace.
Upon the same piece are seen Hercules and Mars, giving each other the hand in token of reconciliation; they are trampling upon discord.
Upon the right side of the upper ornament are seen different trophies of war.
The right side of the scabbard represents parts of the towns and fortresses conquered by Bonaparte.
The lower part of the scabbard represents the preparations for the defence, gun-boats, anchors, cables, masts, sails, &c.
[Paris paper.]
DIED.
In England at the Grotto House, Margate, in the 16th year of his age, Mr. T. P. OLDFIELD, a youth of most extraordinary genius. At the age of 5 years he had a scarlet fever, which brought on him a paralysis of the lower extremities and debilitated his body for the rest of his life; but his mind presented the finest display of human perfection. Whatever he read he instantly had by heart; his favorite pursuits were the mathematics, philosophy, astronomy, geography, history, and painting, in all of which he had made a great proficiency. His favorite authors were Locke and Newton; and his retentive faculties were so strong, that he never forgot a single incident with which he had been once acquainted.
He could relate every circumstance of Grecian, Roman, and English history; was master of astronomy, and had pursued it up to all its recent discoveries; had the finest taste for drawing and painting; and would frequently take the most admirable likenesses of persons who struck him from memory. He wrote a hand like copperplate; and at a very early period of life made himself master of arithmetic. He was never known to be out of temper, and though he suffered an illness of ten years, which terminated in a dropsy, and bursting of a blood vessel upon the lungs, he was never once known to repine or be impatient.
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EDUCATION.
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The School is provided with Globes and Maps for the use of the lower classes; with Tele scopes and an Electrical Machine; with an Air-pump, Endometers, and other parts of a Chemical and Philosophical apparatus, for making the usual experiments on Air, and exhibiting the properties of the different elastic fluids.
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Department of State, 23d of May, 1804.
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