The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1804-10-31 00:00:00

THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, (Virginia) PUBLISHED BY RITCHIE & WORSLEY, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE...AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM...payable in advance.
NUMBER 51.]
WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 31, 1804.
[VOLUME 1.
CONDITIONS.
 I. The ENQUIRER will appear twice a week...During the session of Congress and the Virginia Legislature, either a third paper or a supplementary half-sheet, during the week.  II. Terms of payment. FIVE DOLLARS per annum, in advance.  III. ADVERTISEMENTS, from those who do not subscribe to the paper, should not exceed a square in length, shall be inserted for seventy-five cents the first time, fifty cents for each time during three weeks, and for every additional insertion thirty-three cents; long ones in the same proportion.  IV. SUBSCRIBERS shall have their advertisements inserted for fifty cents the first time, and thirty-three cents for every additional insertion. 
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
Of Electors for choosing a President and Vice-President of the United States.
 Richard Evers Lee, of Norfolk Borough.  John Goodrich, of Isle of Wight.  Edward Pegram, of Dinwiddie.  Dr. Richard Field, of Brunswick.  Thomas Read, of Charlotte.  Creed Taylor, of Cumberland.  William H. Cabell, of Amherst.  George Penn, of Patrick.  George Wythe, of City of Richmond.  John Taylor, of Caroline.  Ludkin Smith, of King and Queen.  John Minor, of Spotsylvania.  William Elzey, of Loudoun.  William Dudley, of Warwick.  Mann Page, of Gloucester.  John Taliaferro, jr. of King George.  Richard Brent, of Prince William.  Hugh Holmes, of Frederick.  James Daily, of Hampshire.  James Allen, of Shenandoah.  Archibald Stuart, of Augusta.  James McFarlane, of Rappahannock.  Gen. John Preston, of Montgomery.  William McKinley, of Ohio. 
The Republican Freeholders will do well to examine their tickets carefully, before they deliver them in the polls. The Republican printers in the state will insert the above Ticket for the information of the people.
WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE.
THE Lectures on LAW and POLICE at the College of William and Mary, will commence on the 20th of November. Oct. 20, 1804. [1m]
JUST RECEIVED BY THE SUBSCRIBER, FOR PRIVATE SALE.
THREE Bales of INDIA COTTON, either by the ship Sally or Lafonia , which are not disposed of before, will on Thursday the 1st day of November next, be sold privately without reserve for cash. PROSSER & MONCURE, F. M. P. Oct. 10—[1m]
NOTICE.
THE partnership, heretofore subsisting between the subscribers, under the firm of Ross & FORD, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Those who have unsettled accounts with the said firm are respectfully informed that they must apply for settlement to Messrs. Wm. Jones of Philadelphia, or Neil McCall of this city.
DAVID R. ROSS. BENJAMIN B. FORD. Oct. 17—[1m. ex.]
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 complete his assortment, by the ship Sally from London, and Lafonia from Liverpool; which he will dispose of on his usual low terms. Sept. 8. [1m]
A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly, to establish a FERRY from the lands of Peter Rust, in Richmond County, to his said Rust's lands in Essex County. September 15—[1m. ex.]
NEGROES—FOR SALE.
A LIKELY NEGRO WOMAN, about 35 years old, with three children; two Girls 13 and 8 years old, and a Boy 5 or 6. They are now living with Mrs. Brewer in Henrico county, and will be sold low for cash. Apply to the Editor of The ENQUIRER, or the subscriber. LAURENCE MUSE. Sept. 29. [1m]
TAKEN out of the subscriber's shop, between Monday morning and Wednesday evening a BLUE SURTOOT COAT, quilted velvet cape and blue pockets. Any person who gives such information that I get it shall be rewarded with one half its value. I. P. HOPKINS. Oct. 20.
A WET NURSE.
WANTED to hire or purchase, a Wet Nurse without a child of her own. Enquire of the Printers. August 8—[1m]
WANTED ON HIRE;
A WOMAN without a child, who is a good Cook, Washer, and Ironer. Liberal wages are offered for one who can come well recommended. Also—A GIRL, from 12 to 16, who has been accustomed to work in a house. Apply at the Enquirer Office. Sept. 8.
DATES'S ALMANAC—FOR 1805—Published by Messrs. Davis & Courtney, may be had at the Office of the Enquirer. September 18. [1m]
TO 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. Oct. 3. [1m]
TO RENT.
TWO NEW BRICK TENEMENTS near the Basin. For terms apply to Richard Bowler at the Union Tavern, or the subscriber. SAMUEL OVERTON. Oct. 24—[1m. ex.]
WASHINGTON HENRY ACADEMY.
THE Trustees of the above Academy having repaired all the buildings which are now attached to that institution; consisting of a convenient dwelling house, smoke house, dairy, kitchen and school house; will to engage for the ensuing year a teacher, capable of instructing youth in the oral languages, practical mathematics, and the English language grammatically. On Saturday the 10th of November next a meeting of the Trustees will be held on the premises; at which time and place, gentlemen qualified as above, and desirous of obtaining the situation, are respectfully invited to attend, in order that the Trustees may select from among the candidates the one who shall be the best approved by a majority of the board. The teacher who shall be chosen shall have appropriated to his use in addition to the above house at least 250 acres of land. The situation of Washington Henry Academy is in the centre of a populous and respectable neighbourhood, about ten miles from Richmond, is remarkably healthful, and possesses the advantage of some excellent springs of water. THOS. TINSLEY, President of the Trustees. Hanover County, October 15th, 1804. (W.H.)
* The principal building was destroyed some years ago by fire.
EDUCATION.
THE Trustees of Winchester Academy acquaint the public, that the Latin, Greek and French languages, together with Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, the use of the Globes, Euclid, and the practical branches of the Mathematics, are taught in the Academy, by the principal master and his assistants.
The school is provided with Globes and Maps, for the use of the lower classes; with Telescopes and an Electrical Machine; with an Air-pump, Eudiometer, and other parts of a Chemical and Philosophical apparatus, for making the usual experiments on Air, and exhibiting the properties of the different elastic fluids.
In their examinations of the school, the Trustees have been highly pleased with the plan of teaching and the proficiency of the Pupils; and are extremely happy in adding, what they believe must greatly increase the utility of the institution, that Judge White will, in future, deliver in the Academy, a Course of Lectures on the Laws and Constitutions of this state, and the United States.
These Lectures will commence annually on the first Monday in December, and continue until the last of the succeeding March, and it is confidently believed, that every exertion in his power, will be made by that gentleman, to render his Lectures beneficial to his Pupils, and worthy of public patronage.
JOHN SMITH, President of the Trustees. September 22. [1m. ex.]
THREE DWELLING HOUSES TO BE RENTED.
ONE situate at the foot of Adams' hill, and but a small distance from the Masons Hall, lately occupied by Mr. Thomas Underwood; on this lot there is a very good and well enclosed garden, a well of excellent water and other conveniences.
One other situate in the alley between the street leading to Shockoe warehouse, and that leading to Mayo's Bridge, lately occupied by Mr. John Robbins.
The other situate in the back street near Harris's Tobacco manufactory, and the Rock landing—having a large garden well enclosed, and at present occupied by Mr. Henry Tompkins.
Possession of the two first described may be had immediately, and of the other on the first of January next.
Apply to JOSEPH GALLEGO. WHO HAS FOR SALE, A light Coach, nearly new, with plated mounted harness, complete for two horses. 19th October. [1m]
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 squares, and are within two hundred yards of the Capitol. They have decided advantages over any other houses in this City, with respect to pure air and excellent water. He has good stables and a constant supply of the best FORAGE. He renders his services to his friends and the public, and offers them, that no unlooked-for demand, nor any other practice which might, in any degree, have a tendency to disturb 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, of whom eighteen have already engaged. R. H.
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 business on Monday next, in the Senate Room of the Capitol.
RESOLVED, that it is expected, that any home or farm, consisting of more than one person, shall make a declaration of the names and surnames of the persons who compose such farm, and that each of the persons who reside in Richmond or Manchester, composing such farm, 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.
NOTICE.
THE office of Supervisor of the Revenue for the District of Virginia being discontinued, and the unfinished business of the said Office transferred to me; the Collectors of the Direct Tax and Internal Revenue, whose accounts have not been finally adjusted and paid, are hereby informed, that they are now requested to call at my office, in the city of Richmond, without delay, and pay the balances due to the United States.—And those who have lands been sold in the district of Virginia by authority of an act of Congress for the United States for non-payment of the Direct Tax, may redeem such lands, by paying to me within the time limited, the principal costs and fees as the law directs.
As most of the abovenamed lands were sold in Dec. 1802, the privilege of redemption will continue until December next.
The money received by me for the redemption of the said lands, will be returned to the purchaser, with interest at the rate of 2.5 per cent per annum on the purchase money, to the day on which it may be paid to me. JOSEPH SCOTT, Marshal V. D. Oct. 7. [1m]
WE have received a small additional supply of MADEIRA WINE.
OF a superior quality, which we offer for sale by the hoghead and quarter-cask. GIBSON & JEFFERSON. July 18. [1m]
FOR SALE.
Will be offered for sale, by way of Public Auction, to the highest bidder, on Wednesday the first day of next month:
THE HALF ACRE LOT OF LAND and TENEMENT lying at Rocketts, late the property of Robert Ombersen, deceased. The buildings on this Lot are convenient and valuable, and the lot will, it is believed, admit of a partition into three tenements; so partitioned, the whole or two parts at least will be sold, and a complete title made in fee simple. Approved notes of persons residing in Richmond, payable at Sixty days, will be received in payment by the subscriber. Wm. BROWN. October 13. [1m]
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 subscriber, who has qualified as executor of his father's will; and he takes this occasion to assure the creditors, that as soon as their accounts are liquidated and the balances ascertained, he will make ample provision to meet every just demand, as speedily as possible. THOMAS CARY NELSON. King Wm. Co. Va. [1m]
FOR SALE.
At Louisa Courthouse, on the first Wednesday in December next,
182 VALUABLE SLAVES, CONSISTING of Men, Women, Boys and Girls, belonging to the estate of Christopher Smith, dec. Among them is a valuable TANNER, regularly bred to the business. The subscriber has refused to sell any of them privately, and they will certainly be offered at public sale at the time above mentioned. A credit till the 10th of February, 1806, will be given, on the purchases giving bonds with approved security, to carry interest from the date; but if the principal is punctually paid, the interest will be remitted. CHARLES SMITH, Acting Executor of Christopher Smith, dec. October 3. [1m]
WHEREAS doubts are entertained, whether the corporation of the city of Richmond, have authority to appoint a mathematical surveyor, to prescribe and regulate his duties and fees; and it is also doubted, whether a street has been established, communicating from the Slotfactory on the north-west side of Shockoe-Creek to the north-west corner of the old town of Richmond; and thence along the south boundary of said old town to the south-east corner thereof, and thence to Rocketts upon the margin of the river, or otherwise in one continued and direct course; and doubts also exist, whether there be any street established on the north-west boundary of the said old town by the Market-house; and it be deemed expedient that such doubts should be removed, and such streets (if none exist) established: PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a petition from the President and Common Council of the said City, will be presented to the next General Assembly of this commonwealth, praying them to explain existing laws, or enact such others, as may most effectually obviate the said doubts, establish (if necessary) the said streets, and authorize the appointment of a surveyor. ANDREW STEVENSON, C. C. C. October 17. [1m]
NEAL NELSON, BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND.
MAKES Boots & Shoes to any pattern or fashion, equal in point of MATERIALS and WORKMANSHIP to any in general use.
Imported Boots and Shoes, of the first quality and newest fashion, for sale.
Gentlemen at a distance, who are disposed to forward me their measure, by paying attention to the annexed cut, can be fitted with Boots or Shoes as well as if they were on the spot. A—the length of the Boot. C—round the Calf. B—the pitch of the Heel. D—round the heel and instep. E—round the instep. G—across the ball of the foot. Fix the heel against a perpendicular, and stick a knife at the end of the great toe—set down in figures the number of inches and quarters, in the different measures. June 20. [1m]
Mediterranean Passports.
NOTICE is hereby given, that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean passport issued to vessels on the United States; that from the 8th day of July next, those of the new form will be issued at the custom houses to every vessel, for which application may be made on a compliance with the terms prescribed by law and surrendering the former passport of which she may be possessed, if any, in which latter case no fees will be required for the exchange: and that by an arrangement agreed upon by the Barbary powers with whom we are at peace, either the old or the new form of passport will be sufficient to protect the vessels of the United States, from capture until the 1st of July 1805, after which the old form of passport will be unavailable and the new one alone in use. Department of State, } 23rd of May, 1804. }
The printers of the laws of the United States are requested to insert the above in their Gazettes twice a week for the space of six months, and the Collectors of the customs to keep copies of it posted up in their offices. June, 3.
THE SUBSCRIBER HAS JUST RECEIVED FROM NORFOLK,
A CONSISTMENT of 50 Barrels, 8 Tierces, & 2 Hogsheads BROWN SUGAR, which he will sell reasonable for cash, or negotiable notes, at 60 days. He has also, COFFEE by the Barrel, and Spanish SEGARS by the Box, all of which articles are good in quality.
HE HAS ALSO FOR SALE,
200 Spanish bales of good quality, also on consignment. DANIEL TRIPLETT. October 18—[1m]
BY virtue of a decree of the Court of the United States for the fifth circuit, in the Virginia district, bearing date the 6th day of June, 1804, in behalf of Phineas Bond, attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards, against David Ross and others, WILL BE SOLD, To the highest bidder, for ready money, at Goodland Courthouse, on the 29th day of November next,
A TRACT OF LAND.
In said county, on Beverdam creek, containing fifteen hundred acres, more or less, including the land whereon the Court House is situated, bounded by the lands of Samuel Woodson and others, and commonly called Ross's Goodland Court House Tract; or so much thereof as may be sufficient to raise the sum of ten thousand Dollars, and the expenses attending the sale. BEN: MOSBY, D. M. for Joseph Scott, N. P. D. (1d)
October 17.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
THAT a Petition will be presented to the General Assembly, at their next Session, for the sale of the Glebe in St. Mary's Parish in Caroline; & the investiture of the interest of the Money, thereby raised, in the present Incumbent, so long as he may continue to act as such in the said Parish. CAROLINE, August 18, 1804. [1m]
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
AN ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE LOUIS XVIII.
[CONCLUDED.]
On the morning of the 24, Coulon carried the packet and the bottle to M. de Milleville, who went to Lazienky, and communicated the whole to the Count d'Avary. This Nobleman having had a conversation in the evening with the President de Hoym, wrote to him requesting an interview. M. de Hoym repaired at ten in the morning to the house of the Count d'Avary, who communicated to him the declaration of Coulon, and showed him the packet and the bottle. The Count d'Avary requested the President de Hoym to sign an attestation of the communication made to him. M. d'Avary, who had put his seal on the articles committed to him by M. de Milleville, asked M. de Hoym to do the same. M. de Hoym, who had at first yielded to the reasons which M. d'Avary gave for identifying the suspected articles till they should be submitted to a chemical analysis by some professional men, then refused to affix his seal; he would not even accompany him to the Archbishop of Rheims, whose house was close by M. d'Avary's. On leaving him he renewed his assurances of the respect and devotion he entertained for the person of the King and his august family; and it was agreed that the Count d'Avary should transmit to M. de Hoym such ultimate details as might appear necessary to enable him to discover the criminals.
The Marquis of Bouvay, an officer of the guards du corps, honoured with the King's confidence, and intrusted with his correspondence, was employed by M. d'Avary to transmit to M. de Hoym the particulars requested.
To supply as much as possible the want of the seal of the Count de Hoym, the Count d'Avary went to the house of the Archbishop of Rheims, who had been previously informed of the affair, and requested him to affix his seal, which he did.
The King had fixed his departure for the next day and the Count d'Avary thought it time to inform his Majesty of the whole affair, that he might act in future by his orders. The King discovered on this occasion a warm solicitude for his family and faithful servants; but in respect to himself the same serenity he has discovered on every similar occasion. His Majesty wrote to the President de Hoym the following letter: SIR, I have received information of a plot entertained against my life. If none but myself were aimed at, if mortal weapons were the means, accustomed as soon as I know them to such threats, I would pay them little attention; but my wife, nephew, my niece, my faithful servants, are like-wise threatened with poison, and I should betray my most sacred duties if I despised this danger. Perhaps I am best with ruffians; perhaps it is only a false imposition: in either case I find it necessary to confer with you. I beg of you to come this evening, when I shall have the additional satisfaction of sharing your, &c.
The Count d'Avary did not find M. de Hoym at home, and had not an opportunity of giving him the King's letter, till nine o'clock at night. M. de Hoym replied verbally, that he should have the honour to send an answer to M. the Count de l'Isle, and that next day he would attend his commands.—He added, that every thing was in the hands of the police, and should be followed up with activity.—M. d'Avary expressed his surprise that Coulon had not yet been apprehended, whose tour was perfectly well known, as it was important that he should be strictly examined, whether his declaration was true, or whether he was an impostor.
The 23rd July, the day fixed for the departure of the King, arrived. No answer from M. de Hoym having been received by his Majesty, he was obliged to postpone his journey, and charged the Count d'Avary to communicate the affair to M. the Duke d'Angouleme, requesting him not to apprise Madame. The Count d'Avary gave a detailed account of the affair to the Duke d'Angouleme in the presence of the Count de la Chapelle, whom the King was to leave at Warsaw, charged with special powers for the further investigation of this affair.
The Count d'Avary transmitted to M. de Hoym the supplementary declaration made by Coulon, on the 24th in the evening.
The answer of M. de Hoym arrived on the morning of the 25th. It stated "That the nature of his duties did not permit him to perform more than a merely passive part in such affair; and that he had given the Police the necessary instructions."
The King having no longer any hope of seeing M. de Hoym, and of communicating verbally with him, thought it time to make a demand in form, which he did in the following terms:
The Count de l'Isle has received the answer of the President de Hoym to his letter of the 24th of July in which he promised to wait on him. He relies too much on the friendly solicitude of his Princess in Majesty towards him and his family, and on the sentiments of personal attachment of which the President de Hoym has given so many proofs, not to be convinced of the activity
with which those measures will be carried into execution, that were ordered in consequence of the declaration, made by the person called Coulon. The Count de l'Isle has expected that the President de Hoym would have come on his invitation, but finding from his letter that he would not come to Lazienky, he finds it necessary to make the following demands:—
1. That the person called Coulon, along with his wife, be secured, in order that they may not effect their escape; and that they may undergo, as soon as possible, the necessary examination.
2. That there be immediately nominated professional men to assist and co-operate with the Physician of the Count de l'Isle, in analyzing the articles considered as suspicious, and given up by Coulon.
M. the Count de l'Isle hopes that the President de Hoym will have no objection to give him immediate satisfaction in these several respects.
Whatever may be the result of those measures, the Count de l'Isle relies with confidence on the exertions of the President de Hoym, for the safety of those dear and precious objects which he leaves here under the protection of his Prussian Majesty.
The Duke de Pierre, charged by his Majesty to carry this to M. de Hoym, returned with the answer, "that the police was apprised of the whole affair, and that it would do its duty." This might be satisfactory in regard to Coulon, but was by no means an answer to the demand made of professional people to analyze the articles in question. It was now six in the evening, and the King's note had been sent at two in the afternoon. Notwithstanding the danger of a delay, which might alter the nature of the articles contained in the packet, the King was under the necessity of waiting till next day for the answer of the Government.
During this interval Count d'Avary charged M. de Pierre, the King's Physician, to procure the assistance of two physicians and an apothecary to make an analysis of the articles delivered by Coulon.
On the 26, at eight in the morning, the King received an answer from M. de Hoym. It stated, "that the nomination of a commissioner for the analysis demanded, depended neither on him nor the Police; that it could only take place subsequently to a criminal process already begun; that the person of Coulon could not be secured, because the laws of the realm did not permit his imprisonment so long as he was not charged with any crime."
Without losing a moment, the Count d'Avary, accompanied by the Duke de Pierre and the King's physician, went to Dr. Gagatkievicz, one of the most distinguished physicians at Warsaw for his skill and moral character. There, in presence of Dr. Bergenzoni and M. Gudet, apothecary, the Count d'Avary broke open the seals affixed to the packet by him and the Archbishop of Rheims, took out one of the three carrots and submitted it to the medical men present. The opening made at one of the extremities was passed over with a clumsy substance, of a colour resembling, in some degree, that of peas. M. Gudet opened it. When they had finished their chemical operations, they drew up a process verbal, and delivered, in the mean time, to M. d'Avary the following attestation:—
"After several chemical experiments made on the mass found in the inside of a carrot, which was delivered to us, it appears beyond a doubt that this mass is a poison of arsenic, consisting of a mixture of three sorts of arsenic—white, yellow and red, as shall be afterwards more particularly stated. Signed, Valentine Gagatkievicz, doctor in medicine, Gudet, apothecary."
"Doctor Bergenzoni being obliged to attend a very pressing engagement, only signed the process verbal."
"Warsaw, July 26, 1804."
The bottle delivered to Coulon by the two strangers only contained a spirituous liquor. The carrot on which the experiment had been made, was returned into the packet, and again sealed with the seal of the Duke de Pierre, with that of the Count d'Avary, and those of the professional men present. The same precaution was observed with respect to the other two untouched carrots and the bottle of spirits.
Furnished with the certificate of the medical men respecting the existence and nature of the poison, the King addressed the following note to the President de Tilly, chief of the special Police of the City, to whom M. de Hoym, alleging his incompetency, had recommended the affair.
"M. the Count de l'Isle was obliged, according to the forms pointed out to him, and which he has hitherto constantly followed, to address the President de Hoym as Chief of the Province, for the prosecution of the attempt denounced by the said Coulon. But M. the President de Hoym, by his letter of the 23rd, received this morning, having declared himself incompetent to judge of this affair, and that the business belongs to the Special Police of the City, M. the Count de l'Isle addresses with the same confidence the President de Tilly. He consequently directed the Count d'Avary to put into his hands a packet containing the articles hitherto considered as suspicious, but which the report made and signed this day by the medical men (which report the Count d'Avary is also charged to deliver to him) really proves to be infected with poison."
"Besides this man Coulon, in consequence of the threats he says were made him, thinking his life continually exposed, M. the Count de l'Isle, without allowing himself to give his personal opinion as to the truth of the information given by him, thinks himself bound to place him specially under the protection and safeguard of the police and of the law."
"M. the Count de l'Isle has always had too much reason to be satisfied with the conduct of M. the President de Tilly, to doubt his activity in following up this affair in such a manner as to detect the guilty."
"He seizes with pleasure this opportunity of assuring M. the President de Tilly, of the respect he entertains for him."
"M. de Tilly was not to be found on the 26th. The King's note and the packet containing the report of the Professional Men, and the substantial proof of the crime, did not reach him till the 27th."
In the evening M. de Tilly returned an answer, acknowledging the receipt of the King's note, and the letter of M. d'Avary. He stated "that in quality of Chief of the Police, he kept the packet into his hands in order to be delivered as further orders might be given. But that he could not on any account proceed against those who were supposed guilty of the affair in question."

tion; since it is solely within the sphere of justice that the examination of every thing connected with it can now be referred. Hitherto M. d'Avaray had thought it proper to avoid all direct communication with Coulon, in order to leave to the Police the commencement of the measures to be taken respecting him. The Magistrate having taken up the affair, and Coulon remaining at large in Warsaw, M. d'Avaray was of opinion that it was his right and duty to examine him himself. He sent for him to the house of M. de Milleville, on the 27th July, and in his presence, and that of the Duke de Plenne, Coulon narrated all that had passed. The Count d'Avaray put questions to enamine him; affected to allude to important circumstances with which he (the Count) was acquainted, and which Coulon did not reveal.
Coulon did not vary in his declarations, was firm in all his assertions, was decided upon some circumstances which at first had appeared doubtful. The Count d'Avaray requested Coulon not to give way to his apprehensions and not quit the town, assuring him that the King had placed him under the protection of the police and the law. The following day, the 28th, Coulon underwent a new examination, and his answers were such, that the persons to whom they were communicated, convinced of the truth of his information, have added their signatures to that of M. the Count d'Avaray.
(Signed) THE COUNT D'AVARAY, ALEX. AUGUST, Archbishop Duke of RHIMS, THE DUKE DE PIENNE, THE MARQUIS DE FONNAY, THE COUNT DE LA CHAPELLE, THE DUKE DE HAYRE ET DE CROY, ARBE EDGOWORTH DE FERMONT, THE COUNT DE DAMAS CRUX, COUNT STEPHEN DE DAMAS.
Continuation of News received by the arrivals of the Iris and Sobrana at New-York, and Active at Philadelphia.
LONDON, August 24. Yesterday arrived a mail from Gottenburgh. The only article of intelligence it brings is a letter from that place, dated the 12th, which says that the Prince of Conde, the Duke of Orleans, and another of the French Princes, are soon expected at Riga, from whence they proceed to wait upon Louis XVIII. It is conjectured that they may be employed in the Russian armies, as it is said to be the intention of Alexander I. to announce his intention of maintaining the royal cause. This, however, is not stated in the Gottenburgh letter.
We entertain considerable doubts of the truth of the reports that Russian troops had been landed at Copenhagen. The object of that measure probably would be gradually to form an army in Denmark, which when completed, would march through Holstein to meet the French in the North of Germany. It seems very unlikely, however, that any Russian troops will be sent to attack the French till a co-operation, and that a very vigorous one, can be concerted. The French army in Hanover, is at liberty to act, as there is no hostile army in that quarter to distract their operations; and indeed a great part of the French armies are in the North, and might be detached against any Russian force that could be transported into Denmark or Holstein.
There was a report yesterday at 'Change that accounts were received by government, that the enemy had their provisions and stores on board and were ready to put to sea. Things are now in a state in which there does not appear to be any obstacle to the enemy making the attempt, in as far as depends on themselves. Their preparations, if not complete, according to a pre-arranged system, appear gigantic and formidable.
There seems to be a general wish that the contest were brought to a crisis.
COPY.—(CIRCULAR.)
"Whitehall, Aug. 20, 1804."
"MY LORD, "I have received his Majesty's commands to communicate to your Lordship the enclosed particulars of an arrangement to be adopted in the several counties of Great-Britain, in the event of the invasion of the country in force by the enemy. His Majesty relies on your zeal and exertions in giving effect, within the county committed to your charge, to these regulations, which in the supposed crisis may become indispensable, for the purpose of preventing the confusion which, in the first moment of alarm, might otherwise arise, and of the utmost importance with a view to the operations of his Majesty's army, to the protection of the property of individuals, and to the internal peace and tranquillity of the country.
"I request that your Lordship would inform me, with as little delay as possible, of the names of the Magistrates to whom you would propose to entrust the different divisions within the country of and that you would communicate to them the heads of the proposed arrangements, and concert with them as to the most effectual means of carrying them into complete execution.
"It is essential, that the Magistrates who are thus employed, should, if possible, be persons not holding commissions as volunteer officers, nor liable on any other account to be removed from the county in which they reside.
"His Majesty has the fullest reliance that, in the event of the enemy succeeding in making a landing on the coast of this kingdom, the loyalty and public spirit of all classes of his subjects will induce them to submit to every sacrifice, and to concur in every exertion which the safety of the country may render necessary; and that they will be impressed with the conviction that the peace and good order of those districts which shall not be attacked by the enemy, will contribute most effectually to assist the exertions of his forces in those parts of the country which may become the theatre of the war, and of enabling him thereby to bring the contest in which we may be engaged to a speedy and glorious termination.
"I have only to add, that directions will be given to the General, or other Officer commanding the district in which the county is included, to communicate with your Lordship on the subject of these regulations, and to afford you every assistance in carrying them, if necessary, into execution.
"I have the honor to be, &c. "HAWKESBURY."
"To the Lord Lieutenants of Counties in Great-Britain."
Regulations for the preservation of good order to be adopted in case of actual invasion, in each county in Great-Britain.
August 12. The Magistrates of each division of the country remaining at home, to sit daily at the place to be appointed in each division for that purpose. To procure the most worthy house-keepers and others to enrol themselves to serve as special constables under their orders, where the same has not been already done pursuant to the Secretary of State's Circular Letter of the 6th of November last.
To be attended at the place appointed for each division by an officer of the volunteer force, if any should remain in that division, and by the chief or superintendent of the special constables enrolled for that division. Such volunteer officer and chief of the special constables to receive and execute orders of the magistrates, in preventing and quelling disturbances, in taking up and conveying offenders to prison, in supplying efforts for all military purposes, required by the general or other officer left in command of the district, and in furnishing a guard for the country gaol or other prisons, if wanted.
If, contrary to expectation, any impediments should occur in the regular supply of the different markets, every assistance to be afforded to the persons who are accustomed to or who offer to supply them, and efforts to be granted in cases where it may be necessary for the secure passage and conveyance of cattle and provisions.
The constables within each division, assisted by patrols of volunteers, if requisite, to see that all public-houses within the same are orderly and regularly conducted, and, if thought necessary by the magistrates, to be shut at such hours as they may direct, and to bring an unknown persons, who cannot give a satisfactory account of themselves, before the magistrates.
A certain portion of the constables and volunteers, in rotation, to go such different rounds in the night, as shall from time to time be prescribed by the magistrates of the division, to whom they are to make their report each morning.
The magistrates of each division to report daily to the lieutenant of the county, or deputy lieutenants, within the division appointed to receive the same.
The lieutenant or deputy lieutenants appointed, to report all matters of importance immediately to the secretary of state for the home department; and to the general officer left in command of the district, or to the officer who shall be appointed by him within the county to receive the same, to whom they are to apply in case of wanting further military aid.
STATEMENT
Of the annual estimated costs and charges, and sale amount of the East-India Company's sales in England, from the year ending March 1, 1799, to March 1, 1804, respectively—distinguishing the India from the China goods.
INDIA. Years. Costs & Charges. Sales amount. 1799 4,209,810 4,663,980 1800 2,948,176 3,563,694 1801 5,280,043 3,978,800 1802 2,179,991 3,086,943 1803 1,846,357 2,289,274 1804 1,943,920 2,236,396
CHINA. Years. Costs & Charges. Sales Amount. 1799 2,772,373 3,652,283 1800 3,060,046 3,794,982 1801 2,319,250 3,616,381 1802 2,822,722 3,539,404 1803 2,902,118 3,753,232 1804 2,950,009 3,629,677
C. CARTWRIGHT, Accomptant-General.
EAST-INDIES.—The British inhabitants of Calcutta have congratulated the Marquis WELL-ESLEY, the governor general, in an address signed by 540 names, on the restoration of peace to the continent of India and the important national advantages acquired under his guidance by the brilliant success of the British arms. They have also resolved to erect a marble statue of his excellency at Calcutta, and to present a Sword to Gen. Lake, value £. 1500 sterling, and another to Major gen. Wellesley, value £. 1000.
OF RUSSIA AND FRANCE.
August 28.
The Russian Charge d'Affaires, M. D'Oubril, remained at Paris on the 10th ult. not having received a definitive answer to the ultimatum he had delivered to the minister for foreign affairs. Immediately after the receipt of the ultimatum, M. Talleyrand went to the baths of Archambault, leaving his head clerk to transact the business of his department during his absence; but this clerk has not the power of going beyond the mere ordinary routine; of course M. D'Oubril has not been able to procure an answer from him. It is obviously the wish of the French government to delay returning the answer required by Russia till the season too far advanced for any active operations on her part.
All the Russians who had hitherto remained at Paris, it appears by letters from Frankfort, have left that city, and were returning to their own country.
August 27.
The German and Dutch journals are so much under the influence of the agents of the French government, that they cast very little light on the politics of the continent. They seem, however, to apprehend a confederacy among the northern powers; and while they decline making any comments on the subject, they do not attempt to discredit the rumour. For our own part, we are of opinion that Russia, and other powers who bear a hostile mind towards the Corsican, will not eagerly rush into the war, but wait until some difficulty occurs to France, in the contest between this country and the legions of Bonaparte. If this be their feeling, it ought to be regarded as a negative support; and we should therefore hope, for their own credit and the well-being of Europe, that they would manfully come forward, and by a great and glorious co-operation, give stability to peace in the restoration of the repose of the world.
A private letter from Hamburg, dated Aug. 17, says—"The division of the Russian fleet, consisting of nine ships of the line, and seven frigates, cruising before Bornholm, are those fitted out at Cronstadt, and the division of seven ships, and nine frigates, in Kioge-Bay, are those that failed from Revel a month ago. Report says, that 10,000 land troops are on board the former, but that there are none on board the latter, of which a part is destined to join our squadron in the German Sea, though, at and near Revel, 30,000 men are still assembled ready to embark.
The Gottenburgh Mail received yesterday brought the following intelligence:
GOTTENBURGH, Aug. 20. A Russian fleet of three sail of the line, and three frigates is expected immediately to cruise in the North Sea. Orders have been received here to show them every attention and hospitality, should they at any time make this port.
Letters from Ostend mention, that Bonaparte has given orders to declare all the French ports from Ostend to Havre-de-Grace in a state of siege.
August 26.
The report of a considerable number of Russians having been landed in Danish Holstein, and that orders were expected to be given to them to move, and that some support from the patronage which the Emperor of Russia appears to bestow on the French Princes, the interview between Louis XVIII and the Prince of Conde, Duke of Orleans, &c. will be held at Riga; and it is thought that to these Princes will be assigned, by the Emperor, distinguished military commands. That the Emperor of Russia is friendly to the general tranquillity of Europe, there cannot be a doubt; and he seems not less desirous of giving independence to the unhappy relatives of the murdered Louis; this may be done by negotiation; and he wisely thinks that with a Bonaparte, 'tis best to negotiate a sword in hand; still we cannot enter into the opinion, that for the sake of re-establishing the Bourbons on the Throne of France, Alexander will become the leader in a continental war.
PHILADELPHIA, October 24.
[From our English papers by the Active, Jones, arrived at this port.]
Stocks, Aug. 30, one o'clock. 3 per Ct. Red. 57 5-8 1-2 3 per Ct. Cons. 57, 56 7-8 4 per Ct. Cons. 75 3-4 1-2 Imp. 3 per Ct. Ann. 5-6 7-8 Omnium, 6 1-2 premium. Cons. for Acc. 57 1-2, 3-8.
OF THE INVASION.
PARIS, August 10. The final embarkation of the troops on our coast, will, we are assured, take place soon after the 15th inst.
LONDON, Sept. 1.
A frigate arrived at Dover on Monday, from the French coast, and sent two officers on shore, but the utmost pains were used to prevent the people on shore having any communication with the boat's crew. From this it is inferred that the officers bring important communications relative to the enemy's movements.
By intelligence received from our squadron off the Texel, it appears, that the enemy's fleet is completely ready to put to sea, every ship having as much provision on board as they can conveniently carry for the use of the troops, who are in a constant state of readiness to embark.
A very general, but, we believe, wholly unfounded report, prevailed yesterday, that the islands of Jersey and Guernsey had been attacked by the enemy.
August 27.
The alarm of invasion continues to be supported with unremitting industry, and reports are daily circulated that government receives new intelligence of the enemy's determination to hazard the attempt; and the public mind has been further agitated by a circular letter issued by the secretary of state for the home department; but so long as certain connections exist, we shall never cease to be alarmed. Such men would, however, do well to recollect, the fable of the shepherd's boy and the wolf:—the boy gave the alarm so repeatedly, that in the moment of danger no person would listen to him. Whatever may be the intentions of the enemy, such is the state of our national defence, that it may well suppress every sentiment of anxiety, and render unnecessary those spurs to national courage, which it seems it is the object of those alarms to excite. The foreign Journals afford no ground whatever to justify the apprehensions which have been suggested; nor is it consistent with the acknowledged cunning of the French emperor to suppose that he would hazard so dangerous an experiment at a moment when so many of the European powers are ready to pour the phial of vengeance on his devoted head. If the threat of Bonaparte's invasion be not carried into immediate execution, they must experience a very long procrastination.
But we have so often delivered our opinion concerning the invasion, about which the noise is now almost as loud as it was last year at this time, that we have nothing to add. The desperate character of Bonaparte rendered the taking of some hazardous and precipitate step by no means improbable at first. But since we have seen that he can control his impetuosity, and since the dangers and difficulties of the attempt to him are certainly not lessened since last year, and since for many months his preparations have been as perfect as they are at this moment, there can be little doubt that the same reasons which have kept him quiet hitherto will keep him quiet yet. As to the information which we are daily hearing the government has received, it must be observed, government has been receiving information plentifully for twelve months past.
We agree perfectly, that Bonaparte is ready, completely ready, and has long been so; and wants nothing but a favourable opportunity to let us see and feel it. But if we remain, as we ought to do, on our guard, that favourable opportunity he will never find. It is well known, besides, to be the opinion of some of Bonaparte's most confidential counsellors, that this lingering warfare is the most fatal which he can wage with us. We are not of opinion that a defensive warfare is so ruinous to us as they, and some intelligent persons here, imagine; not that France is suffering less from her military establishment than we are. It is true, however, that France had in peace, and would have kept up, bad peace continued, nearly as great a military establishment as she now has. As far as this alters the case, the difference is in her favour. She is waiting in war nearly as she would have waited in peace; we are waiting in war, who would have been getting powerful in peace.
"Some years ago a very false alarm, from a man sick in office, raised the price of the quarter loaf to nearly two shillings."
Movements of the Enemy's flotilla.
"DOVER, Aug. 27.—After I wrote yesterday, the atmosphere became very clear, and in the evening the French coast could be seen with great distinctness. The camp at Boulogne could be plainly discerned; it seems to have been considerably increased of late; and the soldiers could be discovered at exercise. The French gunboats have been coming out of Boulogne ever since Friday evening, a few at a time, and although they did not appear from our heights to amount to more than a hundred, yet by a Folkstone lugger, which was off Boulogne last night to three hundred and fifty outside the harbour, besides an immense number inside. Our Dungeness squadron, consisting of about eighteen ships of war, was yesterday evening at anchor to the west of Boulogne, and some of our smaller vessels were cruising to and fro. Some of the French gun-boats put off from the reef, still keeping within cover of the land-batteries, and seemed to wish to provoke our cruisers firing at them. This enticed some of our vessels to go too near the shore, to return their fire, and thus they were brought within range of the land-batteries, the firing from which was tremendous, covering the whole coast with smoke. The Immortalite frigate went in and fired several broadsides at the Enemy, and so did some smaller vessels. One of these was plainly seen from our heights to be a black-sided cutter, supposed to be the Constitution cutter, of Dover, 150 tons, 12 guns, and 40 men. Suddenly, the persons looking through glasses from our heights missed her, and on looking narrowly, they discovered her mast above water; soon afterwards, they saw many boats put off from our other ships to pick up the men, as they supposed; and as the crews of those boats held up their arms, after they had reached their object, it was concluded that all the crew of the cutter was saved. All this was plainly seen from our heights, about half past six last night, and no doubt was entertained that the Enemy had sunk one of our cutters by their land-batteries; but the fact not being positively certain, as persons looking from the heights are sometimes deceived, and the mast coach having set off, no account of this event could be sent to London last night. This morning, however, by the arrival of the lugger at Folkestone, the whole of what was seen from
the heights has been confirmed. The cutter was struck by a bomb about half past six o'clock. It heeled on one side, and took in a deal of water but it soon after righted, when the crew got out their sweeps, and made signals of distress. The Immortalite frigate immediately stood in between the cutter and the land, and fired several broadsides at the French flotilla and at the batteries, to cover the cutter, which was retreating with its sweeps occasionally falling on one side, and taking in water as if she had been struck and cut open by the bomb on that side. The Immortalite sent out all her boats to pick up the crew, and other boats were likewise sent out, to the number of about thirty; they were in a few minutes near the cutter, and took out her men. It is supposed the crew were all saved, as the boats held up all their oars in signal that no man was lost. When any are lost, one or two oars are held down in proportion to the number who suffer. Soon after the men were saved, the cutter went to the bottom. When the Immortalite went in and fired, the blazes and smoke both from her and the land-batteries, were dreadful. Many shots could be seen fall considerably on this side of her, and some bombs fell so near as to splash her sides with water. Indeed, it is not doubted, that she received several shots, and probably sustained some damage.
When the Immortalite and another frigate got under weigh, some persons on our heights expected to see our whole squadron get under weigh also; and that the enemy was actually going to attempt to come over. The vessels were full of soldiers. They remained, however, very long under the cover of our batteries, when the night fell, and this morning they were in the same position. One of the frigates put into our roads this morning, and a boat put to shore with two officers. The moment they landed they saw the boat away, that the crew might not communicate with the spectators. Persons who viewed Boulogne within a few miles yesterday, and who have been at Gibraltar, say, it is fortified as strongly as that celebrated garrison, great additions and improvements having lately been made."
"Six, P. M.—By a gentleman just come up here from Hythe, I have learnt, that the enemy has continued to send their flotilla out the whole of the tide, where they anchor in a line close off with the shore."
August 25.
Our troops along the coast are to be exercised in nautical manoeuvres and sham fights. The attack is to be conducted by the small vessels belonging to our squadrons, and the sea-fencibles, and the resistance to be made by the different encampments, in which the light artillery is particularly to be brought into action.
It is said Government has received certain advice that the enemy has taken his Provision and stores on board, and thoroughly prepared to make his long-menaced attempt. This rumour has been followed by another, that orders have been issued to remove the French prisoners into the interior of the country. These reports naturally arise out of the circular letter written by Lord Hawkesbury to the Lord Lieutenants of Counties, and the speech made to the Brigade which Lord Banbury inspected on Thursday last, in Hyde Park, mentioning that it was probable the Volunteers would soon be called into actual service. We sincerely wish the attempt might be made immediately, which we have no doubt will let the question of invasion for ever at rest, and while it will add to the valour and glory of the British character, will overwhelm with discomfiture and disgrace the Imperial Demon and his disgraced legions of slaves and freebooters.
LONDON, Sept. 1.
No foreign intelligence of importance has reached town since our last. But the aspect of affairs with regard to the enemy's long looked for attempt on this country, becomes every day more interesting, as the demonstrations made by his armaments are daily more bold and seriously menacing. Letters from Dover, by yesterday's post, states, that since Friday evening last, the enemy's boats have been venturing out of Boulogne; and, it is said, that no less than 350 have come out, and they are stated to be full of troops. They range themselves in a line close in shore, under the protection of the land batteries.
Captain Thompson, of the Amiable-Matilda, left Amsterdam on the 4th September, but brings neither papers nor verbal intelligence, excepting that the British blockading squadron had left the Texel before he failed. Captain T. did not hear that any declaration of war had been issued by Russia against France.—N. Y. Mer. Adv.
A Bordeaux price current of the 17th of August represents the state of that market as very inviting to commercial enterprise. Nantz market was proportionably flattening.
A London paper of the 25th of August says, "Louis XVIII and the Duke d'Angouleme are safe out of the Prussian dominions. Letters from Warsaw states that the Duchess d'Angouleme had received letters from her husband, dated on the third day after his departure from Warsaw. His Majesty and his Royal Highness expected to be at Grodno on the following day."
NEW-YORK, OCTOBER 24.
London papers during the last two or three days have poured in upon us like a flood, but without affording much gratification to the expecting quidnunc. Yesterday morning we received London Papers by the ship Jupiter to the 3d of September; and, after we had prepared the most material of their contents for the press, the ship Mary, Wood, came up in 40 days from Liverpool and our file of English papers is extended to the 12th. The rumour of invasion, it will be perceived, has melted into "thin air"; and though such an event is well provided against in England, there are not wanting well informed men who still persevere in the opinion that it will never be seriously attempted. We are under the necessity of confining our extracts principally to articles of the latest date. Tomorrow, if nothing more important intervenes, we shall continue our selections from the intermediate papers.—N. Y. Mer. Adv.
LONDON, August 28.
Private letters by this conveyance state, that Bonaparte has demanded of the Court of Denmark to shut up the port of Hufum against the English, in failure of which he threatens to send a body of troops into the Danish territory. We know not what degree of credit is due to this report; but we cannot help observing, that it is not without some features of probability. We believe there is no doubt of the intention of Russia to land a numerous body of troops in Denmark; and this project, it is not unreasonable to suppose, may have proceeded from the apprehensions of the Danish Court, and the arrangements which have consequently taken place between that power and the Emperor Alexander, who seems now well inclined to stretch forth the protecting hand to those states whose independence is menaced. Besides the Russian squadron destined to join our North Sea fleet; a division of the Imperial fleet still continues to
cruise off the Swedish and Danish coast, and will be ready to act as occasion may require. We rejoice at the disposition which has thus been made of the Russian naval force—not that we deem the naval assistance of that power at all necessary to the success of our cause; but because, however confident we are of our ability to sustain with glory and advantage the single-handed contest in which we are now engaged with France, we consider this as the first step towards a general system of offensive operations on the Continent; by which the ambition and rapacity of that Power are most likely to receive an effectual check. The reviews of the Russian army are immediately to take place, at the whole of which the Emperor has resolved to be present.
The Prussian Minister, Count Haugwitz, the impolitic adviser of the Prussian system of neutrality, has finally resigned and is succeeded by Baron Hardenberg, a politician still more partial, if possible, to French connection.
August 29.
An Evening Paper says, it is reported in France, that during a violent quarrel between Napoleon and Lucien Bonaparte in March last, the latter not only challenged the former to fight him, but ran upon him with a drawn sword which obliged him to defend himself by drawing his own. The ringing of a bell caused, however, General Duroc to enter, who disarmed Lucien, and he was put under arrest in Duroc's apartments by his brother, where he remained until his banishment from France. Since that time he has written several letters to the Emperor, threatening to gain over the Bourbons, and to assist them to dethrone an Usurper, who owes everything even the Throne, to him, his brother. Some persons even pretend that Lucien Bonaparte has sent proposals to Louis XVIII, but they have met with that contempt they deserve, and remain unanswered. The origin of this fraternal quarrel is said to be Lucien's pretension to be King of Lombardy, at the same time Napoleon made himself Emperor of the French.
September 1.
The Russian squadron destined to cruise in the North Sea, it is now said, consists of fourteen sail of the line and two frigates, the whole of which are victualled for four months.
The French fleet in the outer harbour of Brest was, a few days since, plainly discerned by some of our cruisers. It consisted of seven vessels of the line, nine frigates, and eleven smaller vessels. They had troops on board, and were perfectly ready for sea.
September 2.

a vessel for two months. They even sent a ship of the line to cruise in the Baltic, merely to give an airing to an Admiral's Lady who happens to be indisposed! These ridiculous tales evince at once the dread which the French Government apprehends from allowing the people to be alarmed by finding themselves involved in a war with Russia, and the low opinion it entertains of their understanding, which could be imposed upon by such gross and palpable nonsense.
Dispatches were yesterday received from Lord Nelson, off Toulon, the particulars of which have not transpired.
Lord Melville embarked on board the Monarch, Lord Keith, yesterday morning, and failed to reconnoitre the French coast.
In the attack made by the Immortalite, Champion, and Orestes, upon the division that attempted to get into Calais and Boulogne from Ostend, our Correspondent informs us, that several of the enemy's boats were driven on shore, and that the crews suffered considerably. The division was not able to get further than Calais, from whence it was attacked and had one man killed and nine wounded.
Several sloops, brigs, and gun vessels, failed on Saturday, to reinforce our squadron off Boulogne.
It will be seen that the French have lost Admiral Latouche Treville, one of their best naval officers. The news of his death was brought to Paris by an extraordinary courier on the 24th of August.
Cardinal de Bellegin, Archbishop of Tours, a likewise dead at Angervillers in the 72d year of his age.
LIVERPOOL, September 12. Extract of a letter dated Bilboa, 14th August, 1804, to a Merchant in this town.
"There exists a kind of revolution in the town of Bilboa, 3000 men are in arms, and have seized the Corregidor and several Spanish Gentlemen who held places under government, and put them into prison; to what extent the matter may be carried is uncertain, but as yet there has not been any blood shed."
According to private letters received from the Hague of the 1st inst. as soon as his Majesty the King of Sweden received information of the libel which Bonaparte caused to be inserted in the Moniteur, he immediately dispatched a courier to his Charge d'Affaires at Paris, Mr. Ackerbald, with orders for him to quit France without taking leave. At the same time orders were sent to Stockholm, intimating to Bonaparte's Charge d'Affaires there, that his presence would be dispensed with in Sweden. All political relations have therefore ceased between Sweden and France; but the Swedish Consul, Gen. M. Seigneul, continues still to reside at Paris for the protection of the commerce of the Swedish subjects with France. It is, however, supposed upon the Continent, that Napoleon, in a fit of passion, will soon order him away, and perhaps, declare war again Sweden.
Another report says, "that the Russian, Swedish, and Danish Ministers, have quitted Paris." This information is said to have been transmitted to Government by Lord Keith, whose cruisers had intercepted and spoke with several neutral vessels, which were making their escape by all possible means out of the French ports under the impression of an immediate rupture between their respective countries and France. It is said too, that a treaty of subsidy has actually been arranged between this Government and that of Russia, and it is even asserted that money has already been advanced to the Russian Government.
In stating all these reports, we merely discharge the duty imposed upon us with respect to the public, but we are very far from thinking them entitled to the credit given to them by most of the Daily prints.
Dispatches were received on Saturday, from Rear Admiral Louis, dated off Boulogne, the 6th inst. where he arrived in the Leopard, of 50 guns, the preceding day, with the squadron under his orders. At the date of the dispatches there were outside the harbour of Boulogne upwards of 70 gun brigs and luggers.
The only satisfactory information relative to the firing which has been heard in the direction of Boulogne will be found in the following letter:
Deal, Sept. 7, 1804. "Yesterday morning the Ardent, of 64 guns, weighed anchor from Dover roads, and stood over towards Boulogne; she was joined about Mid-Channel, by the ships of our squadron that have for some days past been evinced &c. at Dungeness, when they all make for Boulogne roads. Yesterday about twelve o'clock a firing which had been heard all the morning, became tremendous; it is understood to have been caused in the following manner:
"Yesterday morning at tide time, about fifty three of the enemy's gun boats and gun brigs came out of Ostend, and attempted to get along shore to Boulogne, when they were attacked by our cruisers. The only vessels that were to annoy the flotilla were the Orestes sloop of war, and Bloodhound gun brig. Three of the enemy's gun brigs and a large praam succeeded in making Boulogne, the rest ran into Calais. I am sorry to hear that the First Lieutenant and Master of the Orestes are wounded, though I understand only slightly, one man of the Bloodhound mortally."
"The Orestes sloop of war, had several shot through her, and received damage in her fore top mast. One of our frigates, the Immortalite, got becalmed close in with the batteries between Calais and Boulogne. They kept up a continual cannonade upon her until Calais, and her boats were observed a head towing."
The Batavian national debt amounts to 1000 millions of florins (100,000,000 Sterling). The following are the particulars of this debt from the foundation of the Republic:—In 1579 Holland owed only one million (80,000), the other provinces had no debt; by the peace of Munster, 1648, Holland had a debt of 114 millions. By the wars against Cromwell, in 1652, against Portugal, in 1654; against Sweden, 1659; against England, 1664; and against the Bishop of Munster, in 1665, which ended with the peace of Nimeguen, in 1678, the debt amounted to 160 millions. By the peace of Ryswick, 1698, the debt had augmented to 214 millions; and by the peace of Utrecht, 1713, to 343 millions. During the war for the Pragmatic Sanction, which began 1743, and ended by the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748, it was 404 millions. To this sum were added 50 millions more during the war with England, in 1756, and with France in 1759. Since the revolution, 1795, and until the peace of Amiens, which ended the last war with England, 446 millions have been added, not counting patriotic donations, requisitions, forced loans, &c. The interest for these 1000 millions amount to 29,460,492 florins. This debt is since augmented during this present war with several free and forced loans, the exact sum of which is not known, but is supposed at least to be sixty millions, which swells the immense riches of that commonwealth, where no bank notes are in circulation, but all bills of exchange, contributions, &c. are paid with cash, mostly silver, as gold has a discount.—N. Y. Mer. Adv.
Extra of a letter from Paris dated in August. "We have the pleasure to announce you, that your claims for a residue of an ordinance
and balance of account for supplies which you put under our care have been admitted to liquidation by the American Commission; it is now to be liquidated by the French office, where we hope no difficulty can arise on the merit of it."
"The claim of Mr. Hemphill, has also been admitted for liquidation by the American Board. "As for the final settlement, how and when we may expect payment, it is not in any body's power to give an exact opinion. A new Ambassador is expected from America, and it will depend in a great measure, what his instructions may be on the subject."—[Phil. Gaz.]
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
Capt. Gardner, who arrived at Marblehead, on the 15th inst. in 41 days from Bilboa, brings intelligence, that the inhabitants of Bilboa, from 15 to 70 years of age, and the inhabitants of Biscay in general, were in arms, in consequence of an agreement of the Nobles to furnish 4000 troops for the King.—Capt. G. informs that he left them in this situation, and that all business is suspended.—[Phil. True Amer.]
PHILADELPHIA, October 23.
Table with 3 columns: Item, Dls., Cts. Rows include: For the week ending October 7, 292 00; Ditto ditto 14, 292 65; Ditto ditto 21, 276 00; Including some stage tolls, 860 65. Text below explains the number of passengers for each week.
PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION.
The statements received of the issue of this election are very imperfect. There appears to have been a vigorous contest sustained by the federalists, in but a few of the districts; and it is probable that the new delegation to Congress will consist of 17 republicans and one federal member.
Medrs. Findley, Lucas, Rhea, Hanna, Bard & Gregg are re-elected.—[Nat. Int.]
Extract of a letter from a correspondent, dated Trenton, October 17. "Our Election has terminated highly in favour of republicanism. Of our Council, consisting of 13 members, but four are federal—of our Assembly consisting of 40 members, but twelve are federal—and in joint meeting, where all the important appointments of the state are made, the Republicans have a majority of twenty-one."
On recurring to our files for the last year we find the majority in joint meeting was then fourteen. The difference, therefore, between fourteen and twenty-one, marks the republican gain during the past year.—[Nat. Int.]
Captain Rhea, of the brig Vengeance, from Gibraltar, &c. brought dispatches from the Commander of the American squadron in the Mediterranean for our Government. He was informed by Mr. Gavino that Mr. Pinckney had withdrawn from the Court of Madrid, and had arrived at Cadiz.—This circumstance gave rise to the apprehension of a rupture between Spain and the United States. N. Y. Mer. Adv.
Capt. Rogers, who arrived at Boston on Wednesday in the brig Success, in 50 days from Gibraltar, informs, that Mr. Gavino, the American Consul, on the day previous to his sailing, had received information of Commodore Preble's having actually gone against Tripoli with a formidable squadron. Dispatches to our government, announcing this event, were preparing by Mr. Gavino; but the wind springing up fair, Capt. Rogers put to sea without them. Id.
By the arrival at Boston on Wednesday evening of the ship Bonetta, Capt. Osgood, in 53 days from Palermo and 48 from Gibraltar, we are informed, that the United States frigate Essex, capt. Barron, was lying at the latter place on the 2d of Sept; that the frigate Congress failed the day before for Tripoli; and that the frigate John Adams had arrived at Syracuse, and failed immediately to join Commodore Preble's squadron, who had been off Tripoli for several days, but had not attempted any thing on account of the bad weather.—Id.
The British ships of war Cambrian and Leander, continue at anchor in the Horseshoe, within the Hook, and the French frigates Didon and Cybelle, at their moorings near the city. N. Y. pap.
Information from Charlottesville states that Robert Madison, the republican candidate for representative in Congress, has succeeded over Thomas R. Smith, the federal candidate, by a considerable majority. This is, we believe, the first instance in which that city has been represented by a republican, since the establishment of the present constitution. Notwithstanding the reproach, so lavishly thrown upon the present administration, that they are unfriendly to commerce, it is not a little extraordinary that the five great commercial towns are represented in Congress by republican members.—[Nat. Int.]
The Journal du Soir, a Paris paper, of the 29th Thermidor (August 17) says, "Mr. Livingston, minister-plenipotentiary from the United States of America, has received his letters of recall, and is about to return home. We are assured that he solicited this, but we are ignorant of the motives by which he has been actuated." N. Y. Mer. Adv.
Governor Claiborne has addressed the following circular letter to the several civil commanders. NEW-ORLEANS, Sept. 16, 1804.
SIR, ON the first of October, the Act of Congress "Erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof," will be in force, but I deem it proper to inform you, that your powers as civil commandant will not at that time cease. You will therefore exercise the Authority with which by law you are now invested, until some provision, upon the subject, shall be made by the Legislative Body to be created by the act aforesaid, and of which you will be duly notified. It is expected that as heretofore, you will communicate to the Governor, all occurrences of importance in your district, and in case of difficulty, consult his opinion & await his advice. I take this opportunity to thank you, for the zeal and facility with which you have discharged the duties of your office, and to request that with the same motives of regard for the public good, which has hitherto guided your conduct, you will continue to administer justice in mercy, and to maintain that harmony, security and good order so essential to the happiness of our fellow citizens. Accept assurances of my respect and esteem. WILLIAM C. C. CLAIBORNE.
NEW-YORK, October 22.
Rumor had on Friday last, receded from their command on the American station the officers of the Leander and Cambrian British ships of war, and had imported in the Queen Charlotte Packet, then hourly expected, a supply of navy officers to succeed them.—The origin of this report has not been traced, but it has probably arisen from a circumstance pretty generally understood, that capt. Skene of the Leander has requested of the admiralty permission to return home.
The packet arrived on Saturday, but brought no officers as expected.
Yesterday arrived the armed ship Leander, capt. Lewis, in thirty days from Port-au-Prince, with a valuable cargo of coffee. The Leander left Port-au-Prince in company with the armed brig Dolly, Ricard; having been previously cautioned, that one or two large French privateers were expected to lay in wait for them. On the third day after leaving port, a large armed vessel hove in sight, which they expected was one of those privateers, and bore down on the Leander. As it was near night-fall and capt. Lewis wished to ascertain whether she was friend or enemy before dark, he fired a gun and hoisted the American colors. No signal was given in reply but the vessel continued to approach, lighted her lamps, as it became dark, and the crew of the Leander could distinctly hear the commands given with the trumpet, as the weather was remarkably serene, and she was now within a few fathoms distance.
Her intention was supposed to board, and captain Lewis thought it prudent to put her in confusion by commencing the attack. He accordingly poured a broadside of 18 pounders into her, which flattened her bow considerably, cut away her rigging, and killed one man, the captain of the main-top. Great confusion ensued and she fell back, the Leander aided by the Dolly, kept plying her with round shot and occasionally with grape and langrange, which did great damage to her rigging.
The next morning the game came up again and proved to be the Fortune British frigate, captain Vanhart, of 44 guns. Her guns the preceding evening had all been in the hold in consequence of the late gale, and as she had not expected an enemy, the vessel was entirely unprepared for action.
The captain at first threatened considerably, but captain Lewis explained the circumstance, and stated to him that had he shown his colors the event would not have taken place. He impressed 26 men from the Leander and Dolly, many of whom were Americans with protections; and obliged capt. Lewis to pay 500 dollars for the wife of the man killed, and 1000 dollars to repair the damages, but his conduct was very gentlemanly considering the irritation of the circumstance.
The Leander is a fine handsome vessel; carries 12 eighteen pound carronades, and two long brass twelves—the latter transferable. She has 60 men.
After the indignation which was excited in this city by the tyrannical and overbearing conduct of the commanders of the British frigates in impressing men in our harbor, and at the mouth of the port, we did not expect to find that conduct imitated by the commanders of the French frigates. They, however, have also impressed men, and even gone farther—they have taken men out of their homes in this city, and forcibly sent them on board the frigates. A deposition was made on Saturday at the mayor's office by a person who saw his lodger taken out of his house, and forced into one of the French barges, and has since seen him on board of the Cybelle. It is said that no less than eight persons have been put on board at different times. An examination, we understand, will take place this day at the mayor's office.
ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1804.
TO THE ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT.
YOU are about to discharge one of the most important duties which can devolve upon the citizens of a free and independent nation. The election of the first magistrate of our country, is rapidly approaching. The fifth of December is destined to decide on the appointment of the man, who is to become the President of the American Republic; and you are defined to speak the voice of the Republic.
Whilst the United States holds so pre-eminent a rank amongst the nations of the earth from the plentiful accommodation of its inhabitants, from the almost unbounded freedom of speech, the press and religion, and from the unexampled equality of its political institutions, the sacred preservative of these blessings, the elective franchise of the people, cannot be too rigorously protected, or too scrupulously employed. There is not a man, who should aspire to the possession of the highest office in their gift, who is not recommended by the clearest knowledge and the most unspotted integrity. When that office, however, instead of being the lowest is really the most elevated in our country; when it confers an influence so extensive as that which is assigned to the President of the United States, it becomes peculiarly the duty of the people to vote for the most competent persons to make this selection; and it becomes more particularly your duty, to whom the people have delegated this honourable trust, to raise that citizen to the office, whose virtue is equal to his wisdom, and whose wisdom is co-extensive with the important functions of his appointment. In the other departments of our government, the constitution has distributed their powers into several hands. The Judiciary decision is pronounced by several organs: the law is promulgated by a numerous body of legislators. But the Executive Department is one and indivisible: its functions may appear indeed to be divided into four subordinate departments; but these are really subordinate and subject to the immediate or remote control of the responsible head. The powers of the other departments too, are exercised only at certain periods, while they experience considerable intervals of intermission. The judiciary are not always presiding on their bench: nor are Congress always debating in its hall. But the powers of the President are continually active or continually tending to activity. There is scarcely a moment in which he may not have some office to vacate or to fill, some foreign relations to adjust or negotiate, some details in the subordinate departments to superintend, or to prepare for legislative inspection. His functions besides, as they are described in the constitution, are almost paramount in their influence, and partake of almost all the powers of a republican government. He is to be the "commander in chief of the army and navy of the United States and of the militia of the several states, when called into actual service." It is his duty, "to be and with the advice and consent of the senate, to make treaties," with the concurrence of two-thirds of the senators present. He nominates all ambassadors and other foreign ministers, all the judges of the supreme court, and most of the officers of the United States. Upon every law too, that passes the two deliberate bodies, he has the right of a qualified negative, which, in every case in which it has been hitherto employed, has been found efficacious and conciliative.
Such is the most elevated office, which you in your electoral capacity, will be called upon to fill. Charged as you will be with this most sacred trust; wielding in your hands the interests of your own country, the destiny perhaps of civilized Europe for years to come, and the fate of republican principles throughout the world, it is peculiarly incumbent upon you to discharge this duty with the most comprehensive knowledge, and with awe-inspiring circumspection. In the scale of impartial justice, you will be anxious to weigh the personal merits of the ostensible candidates; their official qualifications; & the mighty consequences of those political systems, which may be expected to shape the different course of their administrations.—Bear with me then for a moment, while I presume to take a bold and rapid Review of these political systems, between which you are called upon to make your selection. I also have an interest at stake. I also have an attachment to my country, which prompts me equally with yourselves, to prefer one system of measures, or one mode of administration, beyond any other, which may have been proposed.
You have two political charts before you, by which the vessel of state may be guided in her uncertain and tempestuous course. One of these was sketched out in certain parts by the administration of the celebrated Washington, and filled up and extended to greater minuteness during the administration of Mr. Adams. The other was long since suggested by their vigilant opponents, pursued under every modification of policy and every species of disappointment, and finally reduced to practice by the existing President of the United States, the illustrious Jefferson.
Which of these systems then, are you willing to adopt? Is it that system, which is modelled upon the policy of the ancient monarchies of Europe, or rather upon the maxims of the British constitution? or will you have that system, which is more congenial to the physical condition of our country, and the spirit of our people? Will you prefer in fact that scheme of administration, which is more assimilated to the condition of countries, unlike to us in age, in situation, in manners, and in political institutions; or that scheme, which, viewing the difference of conditions, and disguised even with the present state of European policy, demands for our country a new system of government, more popular in its form, and more adapted to the uncorrupted manners of our countrymen? Let the preference of these systems be decided by their consequences. It is the practice of philosophy to view every cause through its effect, and to make a decisive experience the guide of a conjectural understanding.
Under the former system, our intercourse with foreign nations was sometimes guided by principles, which were not altogether favourable to our own rights or the rights of neutral nations. In our last treaty with G. Britain, the list of contraband was extended to the raw materials, as well as to the manufactured implements of war; our own vessels were subjected to the most rigorous search, & their cargoes made liable to confiscation, if they happened to belong to the enemies of G. Britain. In Mr. Adams's treaty with Prussia, the same invaluable principles are surrendered; and the doctrine that free ships do not make free goods is expressly recognized.—Under the present administration, no commercial compacts have been concluded: as the last treaty with France, had been previously formed by Mr. Adams's cabinet. Conventions only have been adopted for particular and limited purposes: But these conventions have accomplished the most beneficial results. By the convention with Spain, provision is made for the indemnification due to our merchants for illegal captures during the last war: a convention, which was accomplished in seventeen months during the present administration, after it had been attempted four years, in vain by the ministers of Mr. Adams. By our convention with France, it is sufficient to say that we have gained Louisiana. A country has been annexed to the U. States, rich in all the finest productions of the Earth, and securing to our western citizens the uninterrupted navigation of the Mississippi; acquired without the loss of a single drop of blood, or without any of the horrible accompaniments of war; and purchased at a price which the sale of an infinitely small portion of its territory, and the impost on goods at N. Orleans, will in a few years be more than sufficient to reclaim.
Under the former administration, the doctrine was strenuously advocated that the federal government was too feeble; that the state sovereignities or the jacobinical people were tending towards an entire encroachment upon its powers; and that hence it was necessary to secure this federal head by new and more effectual barriers. A long list of opinions might here be unrolled, which have been attributed on the most plausible grounds to the principal advocates of this system. In the face of the very convention which framed the present constitution, Mr. Hamilton is said to have proposed the appointment of an hereditary chief magistrate and an hereditary senate. Mr. Adams declared in a language and prophetic spirit that the time would come when Mr. Taylor and Mr. Langdon would see in this country a chief magistrate and a body of senators, who would not owe their appointment to the voice of the people. From the opinions of particular individuals, always liable to misconstruction and to progressive alteration, let us however ascend to some of those great political measures which have flowed from this system and which cannot deceive the eye of the observer.
Under the administration of Mr. Adams, armies were feathered over our country, which menaced the repose and devoured the substance of the people. Of the achievements of some of those heroes, their presumptuous interference in civil concerns, their infamous insults upon the peaceful citizen, and of their military parade; let the history of those times tell!
Under the administration of Mr. Adams, an extended navy was seen springing up on our coasts. The peaceful husbandman, the industrious mechanic, the commercial sailor, and even the young man of genius and education, were seen deserting their plough, their looms, the pursuits of a lucrative trade, and the improvements of a liberal study, and joining themselves to the motley, disciplined, and degraded crew of vessels of war. To support these various expences, new taxes were levied upon the nation. It was then that we saw the miserable measurer of houses and windows peeping from the obscurity in which he had been hitherto buried, and rising to an ostentatious elevation above the rest of his neighbours. It was then that we felt the burden of an excise, collected by a numerous band of officers, and always odious to a free nation. It was then that we saw these new and our former resources appropriated, not to the payment of our public debt, but to novel and unnecessary expences. During the four years administration of Mr. Adams, the public debt, so far from being diminished, was increased by upwards of four millions of dollars.
Under the administration of Mr. Adams it was, that those alarms were propagated throughout society, which were occasioned by the suspicions of a violated Constitution, and the sacrifice of personal rights. It was then that we beheld the peaceful and friendly alien, who had sought an asylum in our extensive territory and under our liberal laws, thrown at once upon the mercy of a single magistrate, misguided perhaps by systematic errors, or stimulated by personal animosity. It was then too that the effusions of an undisturbed intercourse were carefully watched, and weighed and subjected to legal animadversion. The American citizen was taught to feel that not over acts alone, but that opinion itself was to be tested and tortured by the criticism of the law. It was then in fact that the sedition law was enacted: the press trembled for its rights, and one of the columns of the Constitution itself, was shaken to its base.
These or many of these measures might have been excused, had the state of our foreign relations in truth demanded such extraordinary precautions. If there had been any well founded apprehensions of a French war, some preparatory arrangements might certainly have been justifiable. But what sagacious politician could well have admitted these illusions? What peril was to be apprehended from the navy of a nation engaged at that very moment in a conflict with a nation the most powerful at sea, of any that had ever triumphed on its bosom? What cause had we to fear that the French government which had so much employment for its naval force on its own coasts, and in its own seas, should send its across an ocean 3000 miles wide exposed as it would be to British attack and British capture?
From this complicated scene of visionary fear and multiplied precaution, of energy without principle and law without liberty, let us turn to a brief survey of the present state of our country. Individuals have now gained, what the government has lost, in influence. The soldiers are disbanded; the navy is reduced. The swarm of internal tax-gatherers has vanished. Five millions of the public debt will probably be discharged during the four years of the present administration, besides the sum of 15 millions; the debt lately contracted for the acquisition of Louisiana. The alien is no w subject only to the superintendence of the law; and the press is now, as it was, and as it ought ever to be, privileged to disperse its most unlicensed criticisms on the measures of the government.
Let me then ask, which of these systems appears most likely to promote the happiness of the republic, and which of these are you most willing to embrace. But surely that question is almost unnecessary. Surely "you will not on this fair mountain leave to feed and batten on that Moor."
Of this system Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton are distinguished advocates; and these are the men, who are the ostensible candidates for your suffrage. The impenetrable veil of mystery still conceals the favoured candidates of the opposite party.
Jefferson & Clinton! These names are already too high to be elevated by the ephemeral eulogiums of a newspaper writer. To your suffrage I am willing to confide the best panegyric, which their actions can receive. Weigh well the solidity of their principles; maturely consider the extent of their official qualifications, and the lustre of their personal merits; and then decide whether the interests of our country do not require the presiding genius of these illustrious citizens. To your hands the constitution and your country have confided the important election. May your enlightened election prove worthy of the voice of your country!
AN AMERICAN.
We are permitted by a friend of Gov. Claiborne to observe, that the Gov. and his lady have recovered from a severe attack of the Yellow Fever.
Sales at Auction.
ON TUESDAY, the 6th November next, will be sold by the Subscribers: 10 Bales Superfine and Coarse Cloths & Cashmeres And—1 case Patent Cloth, imported in the ship Latona from Liverpool. 3 bales India Cottons; 1 box Madras Hindks. Terms of sale—For all sums under 100 dols. cash; between 1 and 300 dols. 90 days; above 300 dols. 4 months. Notes, with approved indorsers, negotiable at the Bank, will be required. THOMAS TAYLOR & Co. v. m. October 31. tds.
DOCTOR WILSON received yesterday a supply of Peruvian Bark, Castor Oil and Talap, all of the best quality. He also has Calomel, Rheubarb, Senna, Mannas, Rochelle and Glauber Salts, Tartar Emetic, Ipecacuanha, Opium, Elastic and Silver Cutabeters, Elastic and common Bougies, &c. &c. He designs to keep a supply of the best Medicines that can be procured, and flatters himself that his acquaintance with Medicine, will entitle him to a share of public patronage. Persons of needy circumstances by paying the retail prices of his Medicines, will be preferred for gratis. October 31. eWaf
NOTICE.
BY virtue of a Deed of Trust executed to us by John Woodson of Hanover county, for the benefit of Charles Terrell, Esq. of the Rev. William Douglass, &c. WILL BE EXPOSED TO SALE To the highest bidder for ready money, on the premises, on the 27th day of November next, the TRACT OF LAND, Whereon the said Woodson now resides in the upper end of Hanover County, or so much thereof as shall be necessary to satisfy the balance due the said Esq. as also the contents attending the trust, by DAVID BULLOCK, and TRUVES. FREDERICK HARRIS, (W. W.) October 31, 1804.
BROKER'S OFFICE.
THE Subscriber has opened a Broker's Office, opposite the Union Tavern, and over the Counting-house of Thomas and Amos Ladd. All business confided to him, will be transacted with strict fidelity. THOMAS NORFALL. October 3. if

MISCELLANEOUS.
M. Mercier had begun, in 1761, and completed in 1788, a Picture of Paris, which he published in French in 12 vols. In this work, full of bold and original sketches, he has presented us with a varied View of the Metropolis of France, as it was to be seen before the Revolution. In 1799, he published his new Picture of Paris, which, translated into English, forms two middle-sized octavo volumes. In this defolatory composition, he has given us very hasty outlines of the manners of the Parisians during the Revolution. From the Hall of their legislative bodies down to the humblest house in Paris, his glowing and hasty pencil has called and collected the figures of his interesting picture. The following Description of a Parisian Fortune-Teller will serve as a specimen of his composition, and of the manners of certain inhabitants of that celebrated city. —
THE FORTUNE-TELLER.
Of what use are books, academies, institutes, the labours of philosophy, all those floods of light which have embowered and which still embower our own times? These rays have not penetrated the mias of the people, they are always the same, the same superstition begets them, nor have they lost a single point of their old errors. What was called good company were the dandies of Cagliostro and Mesmer, two impudent quacks, who insulted the first rudiments of sound physics; notwithstanding which, they did not let the less pocket the money of good company, while the good company were laughing at those who in the streets purchased for two sous the little packets of those who sold oraculum . The Canadian savages consult conjurors and witches, and believe in the predictions of their conjurors. The people of Paris are far more advanced; like the savages, they have their conjurors, whom they also consult, and whose oracles they revere, of which I am convinced from my own knowledge.
In the Rue d'Anjou, near the street formerly called Dauphine, No. 1773, in the first floor, lives one of our most celebrated fortune-tellers. He is called Martin, and affects the Italian accent. There this new Trophonius delivers his oracles; there, in short, he has fixed his lybille cavern.
The entrance is by a little court, which, as well as the stair-case, is filled with persons of both sexes and all ages, who have the air of fowls in torment, and who form a queue to wait their turn for the decision of the fortune-teller. There I have seen feathered ladies, well dressed young men, with a serious air. I have considered with astonishment their countenances streaked with signs of fear and hope, and for a moment thought myself on the threshold of purgatory.
In my turn I reached, but not without some difficulty, the seat of the oracle. I had figured to myself a man of jolly nature and white beard, eyes inflamed, a prophetic tone, such as Cagliostro assumed, and such as he had taken with me at Strasbourg when I laughed in his face from the grotesque appearance he made in his pompous gestures; but Martin, the oracle, is a man without legs, with crutches by his side, and who, on the least movement, seizes them with an incredible alacrity, and draws after him his two caged-in thighs into his narrow and dirty apartment. He had a pack of cards in his hands, a great geographical chart covered his table. He has a gay, firm, and sedate air; he sustains your look with the most complete assurance. Two kinds of clerks go out and in continually to announce the company. No one smiles in this sanctuary, and even I had lost the desire in contemplating so many figures half thunderstruck, and who did not seem disposed to jest on the oracles which they had just received. They were seated in a large and old clock chair. He interrogates them in whispers, and mutters to every one his sentence. He places his finger on the geographical chart, and this appeared to me to be the instant of the most solemn revelation.
Joy sparkled in his eyes at seeing so great a crowd of votaries. He cuts and shuffles his cards continually, inasmuch that they are become quite greasy. He turns attentively fixed on his cards, waits for your first word, and then casts his eyes towards the floor. Meanwhile money flowers on his table. I am certain, from the information I have received, that he does not make less than six or seven louis a-day, for the poorest becomes prodigal when he wishes to penetrate the darkness of destiny. When Martin is offered only twelve sous, he throws away the piece with contempt, and exclaims, with an air of dignity, Go, consult the fortune-tellers of the Pont-Neuf and the Rappé . The enquirer blushes, and presents a large piece. No, never did any departed French academician of Paris sit himself at a greater distance from a country academician. Though he gains a great deal of money, his den has always the air of a garret. He knows that he should no longer consult if he lived in a neat and well furnished apartment. He has very properly guessed, that the people never give faith to a prophetic spirit, unless it be in a place which has an air of something like disorder. He often raises his voice, and when his terrible decrees are pronounced, he makes a sign and the votary withdraws.
There no one laughs at his neighbour; with uncovered brow and timid air each one advances towards the mysterious table. They come away meditating on the words which have been pronounced, and never affect an entire disbelief. Whoever is inclined to laugh or smile, endeavours to conceal the propensity. I was placed at length in front of the legless prophet. I did not consult the oracle on fortune or past events, but he spoke to me, after I had said a few words to him, of his great celebrity, and of his numerous and daily visits which, for a long time, had been uninterrupted. He was obliged to work at such a defilé for two or three days, while two minutes were sufficient for such another. He possessed this prophetic secret from his father, to whom it had been bequeathed, and successively from time immemorial. For what objects are you most commonly consulted? "For robberies ," he answered, "for marriages, for goods lost, for affairs of gallantry; but there is only myself for robberies," he rejoined, with a commanding kind of voice. "The police itself consults me, and I am always the first to indicate the place where the robber has fled."
At these extraordinary words I remained dumfounded! "The police consults you?" — "Yes," replied he, with an affirmative tone, "for there is only I for robberies!" and italicizing his accent, he entered into details which prolonged our conversation. The assurance of his physiognomy did not vary, and he had the tone and language of a soldier, who recounts his prowess. But what most struck my observing eye was, that no one seemed ashamed of having come to this place to enquire his fate.
A train of reflections took possession of my mind. "Is this anxiety," thought I, "found-
ed on some happy chances, on some ambiguities adroitly presented, and received with eagerness by the well-wishing auditor? Or, is it not rather due to the fearful imagination of man?"
Martin did not explain himself on the primary causes which brought him such a concourse of people, for he could not speak to you on the least question in metaphysics or morals; but he seems to be in the firm persuasion that material signs announce and precede the events of our life, and regards the forms which he employs as mathematical truths. This prophet is an ignominious of the first order, endowed with a most tranquil flock of impudence. You can found him on nothing: nature has formed him with a constitution for quackery in the highest degree. It is not an amusement with him, not even a profession; quackery is innate with him, and we are less astonished at his success when we have well read on his face the real or affected imperturbability of his mind.
He has a son very young, towards whom he utters great severity; and the tone which he employs shows, that from whatever country he comes, he is a stranger to every kind of education. Nevertheless, he is not deficient in politeness: he makes distinctions, and with such address, that he takes with each the language which he ought to hold, — Is he not a true quack!
His house is not empty a single day in the week. On Sundays alone he never receives any one. Sunday is his day of recreation: on Sunday he gets into a good carriage, forbids any one to follow him, and returns home very late. One would suppose that he went to air his prophetic spirit in the country, see his friends, and perhaps laugh with them at Parisian credulity. I am never nevertheless inclined to believe that he is himself the dupe to a certain point of the forestry he deals in. It was thus that Buffon really believed a part of certain dogmas and mythes, because he had a good Bishoprick, but he allowed himself not to believe the whole — the reason is, that one has always a little faith or fortune. Martin is acquainted neither with the fates of Dodona nor those of Prouet, neither with the fortuna Virgiliana , nor those of Homer, nor the modern lots of the faints, when the first words that are heard chanted on entering a church are taken for a divine annunciation, a heavenly prophecy. He embarrasses himself very little to know if the Egyptian man, the Egyptian woman, the Bohemian man, the Bohemian woman, have read or will read fortunes in his mode. He calls himself the unique , as a spring of literature, thinks himself the first man in the world the day that his ranting tragedy is first brought on the stage.
The disastrous time we have passed through, and the storms of the revolutions, may probably have driven this crowd to Martin; but it appears that he is very sparing in his predictions, which is probably a matter of calculation with him, because people pay less willingly for bad fortune than for good, or perhaps the disappointed enquirer might take it into his head to revenge the severity of the oracle on the person of the prophet.
Who would have told ten years since to more than ten thousand men, that they should be bearded on the scaffold! They would have replied, "Oh! we are not noble enough for that." A grand seigneur alone, would have smiled from vanity.
I should be curious to know if Guillotin, in his youth, ever consulted a fortune-teller, or any diviner; and, in short, if he has had any idea of his new and terrible immortality. Suppose a necromancer had said to him those words: "Thou shalt be a physician, and thy name peninsular shall cure of the evils of life a portion of mankind." What would Guillotin have thought of such amphibological words? Martin never prevents scoundrels in perspective. Are they then for ever levelled? May Martin not be deceived? and yet we know what would make these scoundrels sprout up amongst us. We only want a decent somewhat more rapid to the viret, most wretched, and most shameful of human superstitions, despotism. You understand me, but Martin is acquainted neither with the history of England, nor the Revolutions of Rome; but shuffling and turning his jeu de tarot in his hands, he enters into no political reasoning.
Struck with all that I had seen, and scarcely able to recover from my surprise, I said to myself, How is it possible for mankind to be so credulous, because he is prodigiously feeling, and therefore naturally superstitious, because the least part of his existence is the present.
But admitting, since to reason well we must make the round of the circle; admitting that there is something real in this kind of divination; if, in short, there exist certain unknown rules to perceive the future, as we have methods to fix the past; if we had near us a hidden thermometer to discover the most secret actions, ought we not then to burn all our volumes, shut up our academies, and laugh at the crowd of writers? Martin's cards would be the divinator's book, the book par excellence ; for it is from want of foreknowledge that we commit so many errors and so many mistakes.
The quack sometimes performs a cure, and to the great astonishment of the physician. The men of genius whom I have met with in the course of my life were not those who have appeared in print. The mechanician thrups up his shoulders when you speak to him of the geometrian. Vaucanson, said, "I will make you a geometrian with the end of my walking stick." The shepherd reads in the sky the different changes of the seasons, without having recourse to the lessons of Lalande. The spiders, it is a fact, led us to take Holland. Every thing is mystery and darkness; and if, as I believe, there is nothing but quackery in fortune-reading, Martin at least knows, and even perceives more than all the philosophers together, that folly is and ever will be the attribute of the multitude, since the enquiring crowd resort without ceasing to the legless man, whilst no person consults either Montaigne or Rousseau.
As all the morality of the Parisians is contained in Chauvelin and Bercene, they are profoundly immersed in nothing but their pleasures & stock-jobbing, which they decorate with the name of commerce. The Jewish spirit is called the spirit of business. Affected by the slightest losses, their mercenary calculations are fixed on the lowest mercantile operations; and as robbery & theft are what is most common among them, it is also what they are most in fear of. This is the reason why they repair continually to Martin, who, on his side, has very well judged that he ought to hold himself out as the most expert of conjurors in case of robbery. He will not change his habitation, since it is at Paris that he ought to shuffle his cards, on account of the number of thieves that are committed, and for nearly the same reason as an assassin gave me, "I am going to leave Paris," said he, "because diseases of the eyes are much more frequent in the cantons bordering on the sea, on account of the wind blasts. I am going, therefore, to settle in one of those cantons."
If we recollected that our Martin is without legs, that he is in possession of the bust of Almodeus, we shall be less astonished at the reputation he enjoys. Conjurors, Sybils, and Pythonists, have been always represented under strange figures. We love to unite an extraordinary thing to an extraordinary being. A handsome conjur-
or would never make a fortune. The lame devil will do well in any country. I recollected that there were at the doors of Notre-Dame two offerings of the holy water: one was horribly hump-backed, and the other without legs. The eye of the believer hesitated on entering; eighteen out of twenty persons extended their arms towards the birth of the little half-formed man, seated the whole of him in his wooden porringer; he enjoyed a marked preference for thirty years.
* He was then in the suite of Cardinal Nelker , whose adventure, by rendering the Court of France ridiculous, broke the spell of the French people.
† The women particularly, more tender, or more curious, and who have no idea of a man without legs, were the most liberal in the distributions of their alms.
FROM AN ENGLISH PUBLICATION.
History of Vaccination, in Turkey, Greece, and the East-Indies.
By J. DE CARRO, M. D.
M. DE CARRO, having set the example of vaccination in his own children, an example very worthy imitated by a great number of persons of distinction, widely spread this beneficent practice, by sending to his correspondents in every quarter, thread, cups and lancets of silver and ivory, impregnated with the vaccine matter, with proper instructions for using them. He had the satisfaction to succeed beyond his hopes. Thro' his zeal, great part of Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Russia, was made acquainted with this inestimable discovery; and to him Asia owes this great blessing. In the year 1800, he sent the materials to Constantinople for the son of my Lord Elgin; and, by the assistance of Doctors White, Scott, Hais, Pezzoni, Auban, &c. vaccination has at length gained a footing in the capital of the Ottoman Empire. Notwithstanding the prejudices of the Turks, even the enemies of innovation, vaccination was introduced even into the Seraglio, where Doctor Romi, physician to the Grand Signior, vaccinated a child of one of the domestics, with the approbation of his highness, to whom he had presented an extract from the work of Dr. De Carro. By the indefatigable industry of this Physician, vaccination has penetrated from thence into Greece; Dr. Caghit, at Athens, and Dr. La Font, at Salonica, practising it with great success. But from thence to the Indies, the distance is so great, that, although the fame of this discovery had made a great sensation there, it had not been introduced to that unhappy country, where the small pox makes such ravages, that one third of the whole number that take it naturally die of the disorder, and one in forty or fifty of those who are inoculated. The English had, in vain, often sent thread and cups into that country, impregnated with the vaccine matter. These had always failed; whether the length of the voyage had destroyed the activity of the vaccine matter, or it was owing to any other cause. At length Mr. Harford, the British Resident at the Court of the Basha of Bagdad, sent to request matter from Dr. De Carro, through Mr. Paget, Envoy Extraordinary from the King of England to Vienna. The Doctor sent the matter with particular care: beside lancets of pure silver, of silver gilt and ivory, he sent to Bagdad, cups, impregnated with the vaccine liquid, according to the method invented by Dr. Jenner, and improved by the Hanoverian vaccinators, Drs. Ballhorn and Stromeyer. These afterwards dipped several times into melted wax these closed cups, which he enclosed in a box. It was thus that the vaccine matter arrived still liquid, on the borders of the Tigris; where it succeeded at the first trial. It had been taken from an infant vaccinated with cups, that Dr. Louis Sacco had sent to Vienna, which had been very successful. The original matter had been taken from one of the cows of Lombardy, and this was the sole source of all the vaccinations made in Asia. Thus Great Britain transmitted the blessing to the West, & the Italian Republic to the East.
From Bagdad, where Dr. Short soon spread the practice, the vaccine inoculation penetrated swiftly to Balfora, and thence to Bombay, by the care of Mr. Milne, a very able surgeon. It was in the month of June, 1802, that Ann Dohlin, of three years of age, daughter of a domestic of Capt. Hardy, was vaccinated at Bombay; and, in the month of October, there were more than a thousand persons in that country who were successively vaccinated, who all had the disorder in the mildest and most regular manner, precisely the same as in Europe. The vaccination was already spread through Hyderabad, Mysore, Madras, and all the provinces of Canara and Malabar. Thanks to the zeal of his Excellency the Governor-General of India, to distribute this great blessing. In the month of March following, there were more than 10,000 vaccinated in the Island of Ceylon, whose Governor, Mr. Mooth, entirely suppressed the Small-pox Hospital there, resolved to propagate the art of vaccination. At length it spread with such rapidity, that in a work of Dr. George Keir, appointed by the Governor of Bombay to superintend vaccination, a work which appeared in the month of May last, it was that in a multitude of large cities, such as Calcutta, Maunpultam, Trincemalee, Calicut, Pondicherry, Mallore, &c. vaccination was generally adopted. After a great many trials with the various virus, not one individual took the small-pox.
The eagerness of the inhabitants of India to be vaccinated, and their children, notwithstanding their aversion from all innovation, and excessive indolence, greatly surprised that of Europeans; which is to be attributed — 1st. To the religious veneration which the Indians have for the cow; which, as is well known, plays a great part in their sacred history. — 2d. To the happy thought of Dr. James Anderson, first Physician at Madras, to give to vaccination a name taken from the Sanscrit language, which means immortality , as preserving from the death which the small-pox occasions. The name is amritham . I am convinced, says the Doctor, that this word will make its way more easily in the kingdom of Candy, in the peninsula of India, and in Hindostan, than the word Cow-pox . — 3d. To the zeal the Brahmins have shown for this practice. Dr. Yates speaks of one who himself vaccinated a great number of children with complete success. And in the Island of Ceylon, it was not thought prudent to confide vaccination to the physicians of the country, but their zeal for this preservative rendered the precaution unnecessary. 4th. To the care with which the physicians of India preserve the source of the vaccine matter. "When it has succeeded in one quarter (they say) it is our care to guard with vigilance so precious a treasure; for if we once lose it, it will be difficult, perhaps impossible, to regain it. Here we cannot go to the original source, as in England; for, unhappily, Providence has not granted to the cows of our country, a gift so salutary to man. Thus, whether we consider the present value of the vaccine matter to the individual, or think of posterity, we must preserve it with anxious solicitude. In India, as well as in Europe, the difficulty of vaccinating with the dry matter has been felt, and it has been surmounted almost everywhere, by sending children, already infected, from one place to another. Doctor Heir speaks of a Brahmin sent with two children vaccinated, to Poonah, the capital of the empire of the Mahrattas, from a place six days distance. 5th. To the measures taken by the Government, to propagate the invaluable discovery of Dr. Jenner. One of the physicians of the establishment of Bengal is charged to provide the means of extending its influence, and to instruct the Indian physicians in its advantages, and the best rules for the operation. The Government has inserted in The Bombay Gazette , a detailed account of its success in India; and this Memoir, very ably drawn up by Doctors Moir and Scott, at the request of the Office of Health in that settlement, has greatly contributed to spread the knowledge and influence of this great blessing.
FROM THE CONNECTICUT COURANT.
GYPSUM.
INDEPENDENT of theory, which may deceive us on this subject, as well as others, we have a guide — A course of observations in various parts of our country, for now more than twenty years, has ascertained, that the plaster is better adapted to some soils than to others; to some crops than to others; and that some modes of applying it are more advantageous than others.
1. Of soils. A course soil of sand or gravel, but with loamy clay or loam intermixed, as is generally the case, profits greatly by the plaster. What renders this soil so unproductive in its natural state is, that being very porous, and letting the water through it like a sieve, the roots perish for lack of moisture. The plaster by loam means or other, tho' possibly by means that we do not yet comprehend, certainly collects or retains water about the roots to a considerable degree; which may be the reason of its converting this kind of soil into rich clover pasturage, and preparing it in a few years for grain crops. But if the sand or gravel be without a mixture of clay or loam, which is sometimes tho' rarely the case, plaster will do it no good; nor will any thing else which does not, instead of stimulating or acting upon what is already there, form of itself a permanent body, and supply the place of clay or loam. The best mode of treating such land is to carry on large quantities of marl, clay, loam, pond or river or sea mud; stable dung, especially that of horned cattle, will answer the same purpose, but it is too expensive; nor will it quit the cost, as labour is with us, to apply any of the other articles in sufficient quantity unless they are near at hand.
Common Loams, except in low wet grounds, profit by the Plaster; and the poorest of them profit the most. Those that have already been long dunged and are in good heart, leave but little to be done which the plaster is adapted to perform. Nor is it near so profitable on land that is exhausted by long cropping, as on that which is naturally poor. In the first case nearly every thing in the soil which furnishes food for plants when dissolved, is dissolved and spent already; but in the latter case there are various substances remaining to be dissolved, and this operation the plaster admirably performs; nothing except lime will do it so soon and effectually. Hence its effect is distinguishingly great when carried back into the Country where the lands are newer, and have more fibres of roots, leaves, &c. yet to dissolve.
On a clay loam the plaster produces little or no effect, except on declivities where water runs off rapidly and does not enter the ground; then it sometimes produces a great effect. Clay bottoms or flats, are sufficiently retentive of water themselves; they generally retain too much, and might often be benefited by a mixture of sand to render them more porous. It is much owing to the redundancy of water in the body of the clay, that it bakes so hard in hot seasons that roots cannot penetrate it; it gradually deprives, after water by bringing small parcels into contact with dry air, clay will pulverize like loam, and blow about in dust, as the white muffs find to their great annoyance, which parade the clayey streets of Hartford at mid-summer. Burnt bricks would also calcine to powder, like burnt lime-stone, was it not for the melted sand which petrifies them.
It is a common opinion, resulting from repeated though partial experiments, that the plaster will in no case, produce an effect near the sea; and the conjecture has been, that the saline particles, with which both the earth and air are more impregnated near the sea than elsewhere, are the cause of its failure there; but this conjecture is now proved to be an erroneous one. At Stamford upon more necks of land projecting into the sea, the plaster has been applied for several years past with a very obvious and great effect. Iron with which the soil is often highly impregnated, and from which none perhaps is perfectly free, is known to be unfavorable to the operation of the plaster. This frequently abounds upon the shores of the sea, and often so much that iron may be profitably extracted from the sand: as was long since ascertained in this state, by Doctor Elliot. Iron and not saline impregnations, may therefore probably have been the reason that the plaster failed of effect in a number of experiments near the ocean. The black specks we often observe in sea sand, and sometimes in vast abundance, are iron, and the best of iron.
There is one important circumstance relative to the plaster, which ought to be stated, to prevent misconception and disappointment; it alone will not do forever. It adds very little to the soil, though it prepares for the food of plants what it finds there, while at the same time it produces a co-operation from the air and water. The consequence is, that where it has completely digested all that can be converted into food for plants, which will take a longer or shorter time according to what it has to work upon, its effect in a great measure ceases. It becomes expedient therefore in most cases, once in a few years, say five or six, to give it new matter to digest. This is done in two ways, one by giving the land a slight dressing of yard dung, about half as much as is ordinarily used for a dressing; for the plaster on this and the effect will be great, and may be continued from year to year, till the land wants another feeding. The other way, and a more convenient one for farmers who have not yard dung to spare, is to turn in the turf of sward, which will furnish matter enough for several years digestion; and in this way the use of the plaster may be perpetuated without losing its effect. In this respect it much resembles lime, which though a powerful stimulant or different, the most so that is used in husbandry, adds little to the soil. And the case is in some degree, the same even with stable dung, though in a much smaller degree. Where that has been plentifully applied for many years and the same kind of crop continued, the land will decline in its produce; and if left to itself for a few years, will appear more exhausted and unproductive than land fed by side that has been more sparingly fed with dung, or not fed at all. — Land is however not just like a horse, whose life will infallibly be shortened by high feeding, though he will for a time perform more service, and as much more as to render high feeding economical; land will forever produce well by manuring, if the tillage be varied by a proper rotation of crops — a course much attended to in the agriculture of Europe, and which on some future occasion, we may attempt to explain.
By the annual account displayed in the circular yearly epistle of the Society of Quakers in England, it appears that the amount of suffering money paid by them during the preceding year, was 12,630, of which 9370, had been paid for "tythes, Priests' demands, and those called church-rates," and 3360 for demands of a military nature. This society has a general fund for the payment of the above recited taxes, which their tenets forbid them to pay, otherwise than upon composition. They farther explain in their printed statement that tythes are not so refunded.
A knowledge of one of the most fertile countries of Europe, has long been prevented by the inaccuracy of the charts and topographical descriptions. A Society of Engineers, at the head of which is Don Salvador de Zimmerman, is about to remove this defect. They are now employed, under the auspices of the Government, to draw plans of the principle town of Spain, and to prepare a general chart of the whole kingdom.
A person at Peterburgh is in possession of a manuscript in the Russian language, written as early as A. D. 1056. It is adorned with some beautiful miniatures, executed by Grecian artists. The proprietor has refused 20,000 rubles for this valuable relic; and it will be a curious fact, if, from such a source of information, it should be discovered, that Russia, the history of which seems to have been involved in impenetrable darkness should, at the period adverted to, have been the most accomplished and enlightened nation of Europe. Some additional light on that country is expected to be derived from the cabinet of M. Bauffe, at the University of Moscow. The first division of that collection consists of medals struck in honour of the Czers, with the legends either in the Russian or Tartarian tongues. Most of them are in silver, and of an oval form.
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