Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1804-08-04 00:00:00

For Freight or Charter.
THE BRIG JOHANNA, John Rutherford, Master, Burthen 1100 barrels, in complete order for the reception of a cargo. For terms apply to the master on board, or to
Phinehas Dana.
Who has just received, and OFFERS FOR SALE, 35 barrels S. F. } FRESH FLOUR. 72 barrels Fine } August 2. tf 54
WE WANT
A vessel of 150 Hogsheads, for a Port in France—immediate dispatch will be given.
C. & F. Whittle. tf 49
July 31. A few barrels Superfine Flour, of old Wheat, a-float.
FOR CHARTER,
THE SHIP ANACREON, Jabez Fletcher, Master. Has only made one passage—will carry about 400 Hds. of tobacco, and is esteemed by judges, one of the completest ships in the harbour. Apply to the master on board, or to
William Pennock.
WHO OFFERS FOR SALE, 20,000 feet of Boards, on board said ship. July 28. tf 47
FOR SALE,
A neat Two Story House, with a Shed, in that part of the Town of Portsmouth, leading to the Cottage; agreeably situated, with two lots adjoining. For terms enquire of the subscriber.
Who wants a Freight
FOR THE BRIG GEORGE, Momently expected from New-York.
John Cox. tf 28.
July 21. 1m 28.
BILLS ON PHILADELPHIA.
Apply to C. & F. Whittle. July 24. tf 38
NOTICE.
All persons having claims against the estate of JOHN C. BARRET, late of Norfolk, deceased, will be pleased to present them, legally authenticated, to Mr. William Hartshorne, junior, of that place; and those indebted, will be good enough to make payment forthwith, to the same person, who is fully authorised by
D. M. RANDOLPH,
Agent for C. Barret, Heir at Law of the dec'd. Richmond, July 23, 1804. tf 41
Jamaica Rum, Molasses, &c. &c.
Now landing, from the Schooner Rebecca, John Drysdale, Master, from Jamaica.
117 Puncheons Rum. 8 Hds. Molasses.
For sale by Donaldson, Thorburn & Co.
WHO HAVE IN STORE,
150 Puncheons of Antigua and Grenada Rum, of fine flavour—and A few Hogsheads and Barrels of Sugar. July 28. 6 43
Received by the ship Suffolk, from London, and for sale,
60 Casks HEBERT's best bottled PORTER and BROWN STOUT.
Robert Maitland & Co. tf 44
July 28. 12
FOR SALE,
70 Hds. Petersburg Tobacco. 10 Puncheons old Jamaica Rum. 50 Hds. 40 Tierces. 20 Barrels. 5 Hds. Leaf Sugar. 15 Tierces Hibbert's Brown Stout. 17 Boxes, 11 Barrels, } Philadelphia Ale in Bor's. Glassware, Window Glass & Empty Bottles. 2 Boxes Hats. 8d. 10d. 12d. & 20d. Nails, Sheathing Nails & Spikes. 50 Bags Juniper Berries.
A. Maclure. tf 45.
July 28. tf 45.
Office of Discount and Deposit, Norfolk, July 24, 1804.
WANTED TO PURCHASE,
A few thousand Pounds Sterling, in approved endorsed Bills on London, at sixty days, or bills drawn on any other place, and made payable there.
Robert Oliphant, Cashier. tf 36
July 24. tf 36
123 Barrels Superfine, } FLOUR. 127 do. Fine, } And a few Hds. RICHMOND TOBACCO. For sale by
Phinehas Dana. tf 26.
July 19. tf 26.
TO THE PUBLICK.
The growing prosperity, population, and commerce, of the Borough of Norfolk, having suggested to several gentlemen of intelligence, the utility of establishing, a second News-Paper, whose chief objects should be, the promotion of the Commercial interests of the Borough, by collecting and publishing mercantile information, and the good of the community, generally, by exhibiting a correct and regular detail of foreign and domestic transactions; JOHN COWPER was, at their instance, induced to issue proposals to that effect, on the 31st of January last. Owing to several causes, and principally to the arduous duties of an office which he then held, Mr. C's intended publication was procrastinated until the 17th of May; when, having united with GEORGE L. GRAY, formerly editor of the Republican or Anti-Democrat at Baltimore, the patronage of the citizens was again solicited to their undertaking, by an Advertisement in the Herald, which they here republish.
PROPOSALS,
For publishing, in the Borough of Norfolk, A Political and Commercial News-Paper, To be called the NORFOLK GAZETTE & PUBLICK LEDGER. CONDITIONS.
This Paper shall be published on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, upon a royal sheet and an entire new letter, in a style of typographical elegance not inferior to any paper in the United States.
The charge to Subscribers will be Five Dollars and Fifty Cents per annum, payable in advance.
Advertisements, not exceeding one square, to be paid for at the rate of Fifty Cents for the first insertion, and Twenty-Five Cents for each succeeding publication. Any thing exceeding one square to be paid for as two, &c. &c.
PROSPECTUS.
In a few words may be summed up the principal objects which shall occupy the columns of the Norfolk Gazette and Publick Ledger.
Believing, as the Editors do, that the Constitution of the United States affords the best protection to Civil Liberty that has yet been offered to her in any human institution, and revering it as the most finished result of patriotick wisdom; the publication which they propose to conduct, shall exhibit an uniform and firm attachment to that instrument, as it issued from the hands of its authors; and a candid opposition to the introduction of such experimental changes, or innovations, as, however calculated to catch popular applause, may, by gradually obliterating its fundamental provisions, lead to a final destruction of the whole.
In this department, therefore, the Editors will deem it their duty to keep a watchful eye on the conduct of the constituted authorities, whatever may be the denomination of that party by which they may think proper to be distinguished.
But at the same time that they promise, as far as to them may be possible, to expose whatever they may think, in the conduct of those at any time in power, has a tendency to militate against the publick good, or to endanger the integrity of the Constitution, they will treat them with all the respect due to the rank with which it may have pleased their country to invest them.
As every thing that relates to trade and agriculture, either at home or abroad, must be highly interesting to the people of the United States, generally, commercial and agricultural subjects will, therefore, engage unremitting attention, and, when necessary, supercede every other.
The grand movements on the theatre of Europe, shall meet with every possible regard; and regular and connected details, from the most authentic sources, shall be given. In this part of their duty the Editors will, from time to time, and as often as it may appear to be requisite, present their readers with summaries of the most interesting occurrences, and will endeavour to ascertain their connection with, and influence upon, our own domestic concerns.
To enable them to do this with the better effect, they have already established correspondences in different parts of the British Empire, in the French Republick, and throughout the European continent generally.
The foregoing, with such aid as they may be able to derive from the men of talents in this place; a punctual analysis of domestic intelligence; and occasional literary sketches; it is hoped will produce a paper worthy the most respectable and extensive patronage. To render it such will be the constant aim of the Editors.
JOHN RORKE & Co.
Have for Sale, Wholesale and Retail, at their Store, Market-Square,
Cognac, Old Peach, Apple, Antigua, and Windward Island, Rum. Holland and Country Gin. L. P. Madeira. Sherry. Teneriffe, Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, Loaf and Muscovado, Sugar. Coffee. Chocolate. French and Italian Oil. Olives. Capers. Basket Salt. Pearl Barley. Mace. Nutmegs. Cinnamon. Cloves. Pepper. Mustard. Race & Ground Ginger. Almonds. Raisins. Fig Blue. Starch. Refined Salt Petre. Powder and Shot. Godfroid's Havana Segars, of the first quality. Nails. Scythe Blades. Baltimore Iron. Steel. Cart Wheel Boxes. Irish Gin. Mould Candles. Corks. Wrapping Paper. July 17. tf
FROM THE AMERICAN CITIZEN.
GENERAL HAMILTON'S DEATH—We now propose to shew, from the correspondence published, from other testimony as yet concealed from the publick eye, and from various circumstances of known authenticity and moment, that this unfortunate gentleman has fallen a victim to a wicked system of deadly hostility, planned by Mr. Burr and his friends, and rigidly carried into execution. Attention will be requisite to a due comprehension of the necessary chain of argument and of facts, but when this is viewed in its natural and connected order, the conclusion already mentioned, it is conceived, will be the irresistible and inevitable consequence. By this the publick will determine how far a faction, pursuing projects so bloody, for ends so calamitous, merit their countenance and support.
For some months back I have been alarmed for the safety, and troubled with fearful presentiments of the danger with which a melancholy event has but too conclusively proved GENERAL HAMILTON was involved. During this period menaces have in whispers been denounced, by those who enjoy the confidence and best knew the secret purposes of Mr. Burr, against this child of genius, this pride and boast of the bar, this ornament of the country. Although not apt to be alarmed by threats, yet, calmly reflecting on all its circumstances, I could not, in this case, avert apprehension. A correct perception of right, a faithful performance of his duty, in a case in which allusion is sufficient for all the purposes of knowledge, had more than ever excited the implacable resentment and aroused the slumbering indignation of Mr. Burr. The circumstance to which I allude had involved him in perplexities so fatal to his aspiring hopes, so blasting to his darling pursuits of personal aggrandizement, that nothing short of the DEATH OF HAMILTON could glut his vengeance. Alas! he has at length succeeded. Wrapt up in himself—to appease his resentment, to gratify his ambition, he is capable of wading through the blood of his fellow citizens and of laughing at the lamentations of widows and orphans.
It has for some time been intimated by many of Mr. Burr's friends, in language that could not be misunderstood by those who have calmly observed their conduct for two or three years back, that GENERAL HAMILTON must fall by the hand of Mr. Burr. The reasons assigned by this gentleman's friends for the fatal threat, were precisely those urged by Mr. Burr in his correspondence with the deceased. It was stated that GENERAL HAMILTON had either himself propagated, or had some how encouraged the propagation of what these gentlemen were pleased to term slanders, traducing what they denominated his honour and fame. It was impossible, they said, that Mr. Burr, distinguished for his bravery and known from his constant practice to be a good shot, should be so indifferent to reputation as not to call him to an account. Besides, GENERAL HAMILTON, although, perhaps, the most formidable opponent, was not the only one whose death was meditated by Mr. Burr and those with whom he confidentially associated. They avowed their intention to accomplish if possible, by acts of desperation, by spilling the blood of their fellow citizens, those, on their opinion, desirable objects which by other means they could not attain. For some time previous to the late election, from twelve to fifteen of these bloody villains assembled together in the night, and, under injunctions of secrecy and pledges of mutual support, planned the diabolical work and selected for destruction those who were viewed as the most formidable obstacles in the way of Mr. Burr's designs. In one word, it was their determination to fight their way through an host of opposition which could not, in their opinion, be subdued without blood! The publick will scarcely credit this plain narration of a horrible scene; but I have the authority of one of the DAVISES for it; and this is confirmed by all the circumstances which led to and accompanied the death of GENERAL HAMILTON, as well as by others which are here well known to have existed a little anterior to and during the election. To a gentleman who mentioned the fact to me, one of the DAVISES stated, in express terms, and in a tone and temper indicative of seriousness and courage, for which he has no reputation, that a company of Mr. Burr's friends had formed a regular association on principles, and for the express purpose of duelling, and that they were determined to accomplish by this system of terror and of blood, what they could not without it. It was triumphantly remarked by the friends of Mr. Burr,
when gentlemen called for the author of Aristides and the editor of the Correction that if personal satisfaction only was wanted, from twelve to fifteen stood ready to give it. This is a fact well known to many. The twelve or fifteen mentioned were the duellists systematically organized into a company with the approbation, if not under the eye of Mr. Burr. GENERAL HAMILTON, however, was to be the first victim. He was, in their opinion, the greatest offender: he was therefore, at all events, to be despatched.
These are some of the exertions of a system of determined hostility more fully unfolded by Mr. Burr in his correspondence with the deceased, and which will become more and more irresistible to the senses as we pass it in review. We must previously, however, advert to a circumstance which, when viewed in connexion with the letters of Mr. Burr, will evince preconconcert and design, and a perfect understanding among him and his friends, that a demand on General Hamilton should be made so general and indefinite in nature and terms as that no explanation could be given or apology received.
From what has been said and what we know, it may be fairly inferred, that, by preconconcert and arrangement among Mr. Burr and his friends, it was some time ago determined that General Hamilton should at all events be challenged by Mr. Burr. The removal of this great man was, in the opinion of his antagonists, essential to the accomplishment of various selfish purposes. A temporary, a mistaken, may I not say, a fatal support given to him at the late election, had induced the belief (certainly a false one) that nothing was necessary to insure to him the exclusive management of the federal party, but the death of their highly honorable and distinguished leader; for of this fatal end, if an interview (no matter by what means) could be effected, he calculated with confidence and certainty. He no doubt too concluded, together with his friends with whom he advised, that "so unfavourable an event of things," to borrow the affecting language of the deceased, would strike terror into our citizens—abash opposition, and rid himself of a witness distinguished for integrity and truth, and commanding implicit belief.
Having determined on the challenge, it became necessary to seek for a cause, specious if not just. The first step taken was to examine the files of the Morning Chronicle, in order to discover something on which a challenge might be colourably predicated. For this purpose, about six weeks ago, three of Mr. Burr's friends, (whose names are mentioned to me) anxiously examined, at the office a file of the Chronicle and marked in its pages various paragraphs. Whether they found Dr. Cooper's letter or not, or how or by whom it was placed in Mr. Burr's hands, is not for me to say. (TO BE CONTINUED.)
FOR SALE—A-FLOAT.
600 Barrels CORN. 700 do. SUPERFINE FLOUR. 65 Tierces RICE. 16 Hogsheads CLARET. SUGAR in Barrels.
ALSO IN STORE,
1000 Barrels Superfine, } FLOUR. 500 do. Fine, } 300 do. in Half Bks. } 60 Barrels HERRINGS. A few Barrels SHAD. 64 Hogsheads TOBACCO.
George Murray & Co. tf 32
August 2. tf 32
LANDING THIS DAY ON WARREN'S WHARF,
113 Tierces RICE. 10 Hogsheads SUGAR. 10 do. MOLASSES. For Sale by
Warren Ashley. tf 53
August 2. tf 53
We are this day landing on our wharf, from on board the British Schooner Sprightly, from Kingston,
12 Hogsheads, } PRIME SUGARS. 4 Barrels, } 23 Tierces, } FIRST QUALITY COFFEE. 38 Barrels, }
19 Barrels CASTOR OIL. 59 Bags GINGER. 2 Tons EBONY WOOD. 10 Barrels of LIMES.
All of which we will dispose of on liberal terms. C. & F. Whittle. tf 50
July 31. tf 50
ANTIGUA RUM,
104 Puncheons fine flavoured Antigua Rum. Just received and for sale by Donaldson, Thorburn, & Co.
Who will sell BILLS on New-York, at 10 days, and 60 days sight. tf 24
July 19. tf 24
A PRESSMAN
Well acquainted with his business, will meet with constant employment and good wages at the office of the PUBLICK LEDGER.

THE PUBLICK LEDGER.
TO SHEW THE VERY AGE AND BODY OF THE TIME, HIS FORM AND PRESSURE.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1804.
We have carefully searched through our French papers, The Commercial, Political, and Literary Journal, and the Publicist, for May, but we do not find in them one syllable about Moreau, or any of the other persons arrested. If this proves any thing, it is that the Paris Journalist dare not make any allusions to those cases, unless by the precise instruction or permission of the government.
In the succeeding columns of this day, will be found all the information we have been able to gain respecting Moreau. By which, if authentick, it will be seen that that great and unfortunate General has at last been sentenced to two years confinement. Can any thing more plainly mark the iniquity of the proceeding? Had he, indeed, been guilty, and had he been proved so to the satisfaction of the nation, he would have suffered death with George. But as it was necessary to remove him while the late schemes were in a state of maturation, it is now equally necessary to keep him out of the way, lest his presence should yet prevent the enjoyment of the honours thus acquired.
MR. MOORE.—Every reader of taste, every real admirer of elegant learning, every mind alive to the delicious charms of poetry, must dwell with rapture on the effusions of Mr. Moore. His translation of the Odes of Anacreon shed an unknown lustre over the literature of his country, and will transmit his name to the most remote time, as a distinguished patron and promoter of polite letters. A heart glowing as his numbers, and yielding to every mild and generous impulse, renders him the delight of every society, and peculiarly fits him for its enjoyment. The social passions breathe their magic charm over every thing he writes: and cold indeed must be that breast which his muse cannot warm; chilly and torpid those feelings that are not roused to enthusiasm by his impassioned strains; brutish that nature which refuses to sympathize with the tender emotions of his soul. His sensations are those of the real philanthropist; his language is the language of nature; his song is such as might truly accompany the lyre of Apollo.
We extract from the New-York Evening Post, the following exquisite little poem, strongly marked by a distinguishing trait in the character of its author. It is a tribute of gratitude voluntarily paid to those friends in Philadelphia, whose attentions strewed the stranger's path with pleasures; in whose society, amid "the feast of reason and the flow of soul," the writer of this first had the honour of knowing Mr. Moore.
His fame had preceded him; and never have we seen the pleasure an author derives from the notice procured him by his works, so beautifully expressed as in the two first lines of the fourth stanza—
But the key of his boy-hood had stolen on their ear, And they lov'd what they knew of so humble a name:
It is true they knew him first only as a poet; but soon the author was lost in the man—
And they told him (with flattery welcome and dear) That they found in his heart something dearer than fame.
Let the stoick who cannot enter into the feelings of the writer of those lines, go to the school of nature, and learn, if possible, to weep for himself.
The following very charming lines are the production of Mr. Thomas Moore, the celebrated translator of Anacreon. The author wrote them just before his departure for Niagara, and permitted the editor to take a copy from his own manuscript, but under an injunction not to publish them unless his friend Mr. Dennie, to whom he had sent the only copy that he ever had made, should happen to publish them first in the Port Folio. I gave a copy to a friend, without any apprehension that it would find its way to the press. Somehow or other, it has happened they have crept into a morning paper: and should Mr. Moore perceive them for the first time in the Evening Post, the above will form my apology with him, as well as with his friend Mr. Dennie, for whom the compliment of presenting them as original was certainly more intended by the author, than for any other person.
It will be seen that they are the elegant effusions of a warm and tender heart, for those "small, sweet, countries of life," which he experienced from a select circle during his late stay at Philadelphia.
If it were not almost invidious, among so many charming lines, to select any one as pre-eminently beautiful, we should say that the second line of the second stanza is one of the finest in all English poetry. The 34th stanza is electric. (N. Y. Ev. Post.)
Alone by the Schuylkill a wanderer rove'd, And bright were its flowery banks to his eye, But far, very far were the friends that he lov'd, And he gaz'd on its flowery banks with a sigh.
Oh nature! tho' bless'd and bright are thy rays, O'er the brow of creation enchantingly thrown; How faint are they all to the lustre that plays In a smile from the heart that is dearly our own.
Not long d'd the soul of this stranger remain Unblest by the smile he had languish'd to meet. Ah! scarce did he hope it would bless him again, Till the threshold of home had been kiss'd by his feet.
But the lays of his boy-hood had stolen to their ear, And they lov'd what they knew of so humble a name; And they told him (with flattery welcome and dear) That they found in his heart something dearer than fame.
Nor did woman—Oh! woman whose form and whose soul, Are the spell and the light of each path we pursue, Whether sun'd in the tropick, or chill'd at the pole, If woman be there, there is h'ppiness too—
Nor did she her enamouring magic deny, That magic her heart had relinquish'd so long, Like eyes he had lov'd, was a eloquent eye, Like them did it soften and weep at his song.
Oh! bless be the tear, and in memory o'er May its sparkle be shed o'er his wandering dream, Oh! bless be that eye, and may passion as soft, As free from a pang, ever mellow its beam.
The stranger is gone—but he will not forget, When at home he shall talk of the toils he has known, To tell with a sigh, what endeartments he met As beaming'd by the wave of the Schuylkill alone.
COUNTERFEITS.—We are requested by the Cashier of the Bank, to caution the publick against the receipt of Counterfeit Notes of the Branch Bank of Baltimore, of 100 Dollars; great numbers of which are in circulation.
Il y a en circulation une grande quantité de billets contrefaits, de la banque du d. compte & dépôt à Baltimore, de 100 gourdes. Le public, et particulièrement les marchands Français, sont cautionnés de n'en pas recevoir, sans y payer la plus grande attention.
PRINCE of WALES. The late London news does not as far as it has reached us, say any thing of the Prince of Wales, as having been consulted upon, or privy to, the late change of ministry. The following article however will shew that his parliamentary connexions are pretty much the same as formerly. The mere mention of a dinner given by his Royal Highness, or of the company entertained by him, with whatever avidity it may be received by the quidnuncs of London, would not find a place here, but as it enables us to know his friends on this occasion.
LONDON, May 15.—Yesterday the Prince of Wales gave a most sumptuous dinner at Carlton House, to the following distinguished persons.
DUKES—Clarence, Bedford, Norfolk, Leinster, Devonshire. MARQUIS—Buckingham. EARLS—Egremont, Burnley, Carlisle, Lauderdale, Derby, Fitzwilliam. LORDS—Hutchinson, Morpeth, Dundas, Minto, Grenville, Carnarvon. GENERALS—Fitzpatrick, Dalrymple. MESSRS.—Fox, Sheridan, Tierney, Francis, Windham, T. Grenville, Grey.
The contest between the Houses of Lancaster and York is well known to every person acquainted with the History of England—They were distinguished by the red rose of Lancaster, and the white rose of York.
A lady and gentleman (her lover) walking together in a garden, discoursing on the contention betwixt those Houses, the conversation became rather animated, the lady being a warm Lancastrian; the gentleman plucked a white rose, which he presented to her, with the following beautiful lines:—
"If this fair Rose offend thy sight, "It in thy bosom wear; "T'will blush to find itself less white, "And turn LANCASTRIAN there."
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
From the French Papers at the Office of the Ledger.
PARIS, May 25. Yesterday the several heads of the departments of finance, took the oath of fealty to the emperor and the constitutions, from the hands of his imperial highness the Arch-Treasurer of the empire, in presence of his excellency the minister of finance.
May 26. Yesterday his imperial highness, Prince Louis, constable of the empire, presented to the oath which they took from the hands of the emperor, the generals of brigade—Paillard, Leopold-Berthier, Vonderweidt; colonels—Ponsard, commander of the first legion of Gendarmerie, Dufour of the 21st regiment of the line; Beaumont, aid-de-camp; adjutants-commandants Fournier-Dalbe, Alexander Lautoni, Simon, Roussel; and Couteille sub-inspector of reviews. His imperial highness, acting as high-admiral, also presented to the oath, rear-admirals Sercy, Gantheaume; and Sane inspector of marine engineers; and several captains.
On Monday, May 28, the sittings of the court of criminal justice will commence, when those charged with conspiracy, to the number of forty seven will be arraigned.
VIENNA, May 14. Pursuant to a resolution of his imperial majesty, all the Austrian troops, except those in Italy, are to be formed into three great camps for discipline. His imperial majesty will assist at the reviews in person.
The ambassadors of France and Russia have frequent conferences with Count Cobentzel.
Lieutenant-General de Bradi has returned from Dalmatia; whither he had been sent to superintend some military arrangements.
We learn from Trieste that five regiments of infantry have embarked for Dalmatia; and that several others have had orders to hold themselves in readiness for the same expedition.
According to a statistical report, the Austrian Monarchy now embraces an extent of 24 thousand square leagues; of which 3000 are situated in Germany. The population is estimated at 25 or 26 millions of souls. Before the peace of Luneville, Austria contained a million more of subjects; but she has been completely indem-
nified for that loss, by the investiture of a convenient territory which renders her dominion compact and circular.
There are few countries in Europe so rich in important productions. Her mines of Silver, Gold, and Copper, her Salt-Pits, her Wool, and her Grain, produce an annual revenue of 50 millions. Since the reign of Joseph II. her manufactories have also been in a more flourishing state.
Austria in times of peace maintains an army of 300,000 men, which she can easily augment to 360,000 in case of war.
Moreau.—By the attention of the Editors of the Federal Gazette, we have received that paper of the 30th ultimo—and from Capt. Gould, other Baltimore papers of the 31st.—They do not contain much news. The article to which we have given preference, is the letter said to have been written in March last, by Moreau to Buonaparte. This letter has excited much curiosity amongst readers in general; to gratify which, we now give it together with his speech before the Criminal Tribunal, entire. Their length we hope will be excused by their importance, considered as authentick documents in this oppressive case.
GENERAL MOREAU TO THE FIRST CONSUL.
It is now nearly a month since I have been imprisoned as the accomplice of Georges and Pichegru, and I shall at length, perhaps, be obliged to appear before the tribunals, in order to exculpate myself from the crime of having plotted against the safety of the state, and the chief of the government.
I was far from expecting, after having passed through the revolution and the war, exempt from the least reproach of incivism and ambition, and particularly having been at the head of great and victorious armies, at a time when I had the means of satisfying them, that I should be accused of such a folly whilst living as a private individual, occupied with my family, and seeing but very few friends. No doubt but my former connections with Gen. Pichegru must have been the motive.
Before I enter upon my justification, permit me, general, to trace these connections to their source, and I here entertain no doubt of convincing you, that the relations I have kept up with an ancient chief and an old friend, although divided in opinion, and having served different parties, are far from being criminal.
General Pichegru took the command of the army of the north in the beginning of the year 2, when I had been general of brigade for about 6 months. I filled per interim the functions of general of division. Satisfied with my dispositions, and with those successors I had been able to obtain, he quickly procured for me the rank.
He had no sooner opened the campaign than he bestowed on me the command of one half the army, and appointed me to carry into effect the most important operations.
Two months before the end of the campaign, his health forced him to absent himself, and the government then directed me, in consequence of his application in my favour, to finish the conquest of a part of Dutch Brabant, and of Guelderland. After the winter campaign which rendered us masters of the remaining part of Holland, Pichegru passed to the army of the Upper Rhine, and nominated me for his successor, which I was afterwards appointed by the national convention. A twelvemonth afterwards, I replaced him in the army of the Rhine; he was called to the legislative body, and I then ceased to have frequent relations with him.
In the short campaign of the year 5, when we took the bureaux belonging to the staff of the enemy's army, a great number of papers were brought me, which General Dessaix, at that time wounded, amused himself in reading. It appeared to us by this correspondence that General Pichegru had had relations with the French Princes. This discovery affected us very much and me most particularly. We agreed to consign it to oblivion. Pichegru, in the legislative body, was still less capable of injuring the publick welfare, as peace was secured. I took precautions, nevertheless, for the safety of the army, in order to guard against an espionage which might have been productive of mischievous effects towards it. The researches and decyphering so requisite on this occasion, forced us to place these documents in the hands of many individuals.
No sooner were the events of the 18th Fructidor made known, than publick uneasiness became very great; two officers, in consequence, who knew of this correspondence, induced me to make the government acquainted with it, and gave me to understand that it was becoming very publick, and that at Strasburg, there were persons who were taking measures to inform the directory of it.
I was a publick functionary, and could keep silence no longer. But without addressing myself directly to the government, I made known the correspondence confidentially to Barthelemi, one of its members, intreating him to advise me how I should act, and informing him that these
documents, although in an authentick form, could not nevertheless form judicicial proofs, since nothing was signed and almost every thing was in cyphers.
My letter arrived in Paris a few minutes after citizen Barthelemi had been arrested, and the directory, to whom it was delivered, sent me orders to give up the papers mentioned in it.
When Pichegru was at Cayenne, and when he returned from it to Germany and England, I kept up no kind of relation with him. A little time after peace had been concluded with England, Mr. David, uncle to general Souham, who had passed a year with him in the army of the north, wrote me that general Pichegru was the only one of the fructidorians who had not returned, and that he was astonished to learn that this circumstance was occasioned solely by my opposition; that you refused to permit his return to France. I replied to Mr. David, that far from having opposed his return, I made it my business, on the contrary, to obtain permission for it. He communicated my letter to different persons, and I well know that this permission was asked of you.
Some time afterwards Mr. David wrote me "that he had attempted to persuade Pichegru to request you himself to have his name erased off the list of emigrants, but that he would not consent to it until he was certain that the request would be granted." Furthermore, he directed him to thank me for the reply which I had made to the imputation of having opposed his return, observing that he never thought me capable of such a proceeding; that he knew with regard to the correspondence of Klinglin, I must have been in a very delicate position. Mr. David sent me besides, three or four very insignificant letters upon this subject. Since his arrest he wrote me to request I would take some steps in his favour. I was very sorry that the estrangement between the government and myself, did not permit me to enlighten your justice in this respect, for I entertain little doubt but what it would have been easy to have removed those prejudices which you had apparently imbibed. I heard no more said of Pichegru, but in a very indirect manner, and by persons whom the war had forced to return to France. From this period until the present moment, during the two first campaigns in Germany, and since the peace, distant overtures have been made to me, to know whether it were possible for me to enter into relation with the French princes, but I thought this so ridiculous that I even made no reply. With regard to the present conspiracy, I can equally affirm to you, that I am far from having borne the least share in it, &c. I repeat to you, general, whatever proposal may have been made to me, I repulsed it as in opposition to my opinions, and because I looked on it as the most egregious folly; when the chance of a descent on England was represented to me as favourable to a change of government, I replied, that the senate was the authority to which all Frenchmen would not fail to have recourse in case of trouble, and that I should be the first to submit to its orders. Such overtures made to me, a solitary individual, wishing to keep up no kind of relation either with the army, or of which the nine-tenths had served under my orders, or with any authority whatever, could only demand a refusal on my part; an information was too repugnant from my character, almost always judged with severity, it becomes odious and stamps him with reprobation who has been guilty of it, towards those to whom gratitude is owing, or with whom we may have formerly lived on terms of friendship: duty even may sometimes yield to the sentiment of publick opinion.
This, General, is what I have to lay before you concerning my relations with Pichegru; it will surely convince you that very false consequences have been drawn from my steps and actions, which however imprudent, were far from being criminal, and have no doubt that, had you asked an explanation of me concerning the greater part of these facts, which I would not have hesitated to give you, it would have saved you the regret of causing me to be imprisoned, and me the humiliation of wearing fetters, and perhaps of being obliged to go before a tribunal to declare that I am not a conspirator, and to bring forward in aid of my justification, a probity of twenty-five years, which was never called in question, and the services I have rendered to my country. I shall not speak to you of these, General; I flatter myself they are not yet entirely effaced from your memory! but permit me to recall to your recollection that if my ambition or the grand aim of my services had ever been to have a share in the government of France, the career was opened to me in a most advantageous manner but a very short time before your return from Egypt! and surely you have not forgot the disinterestedness which I displayed in seconding you on the 18th Brumaire. Enemies have estranged us since that period; it is with great regret that I see myself forced to speak of myself and of what I have done; but when I

an accused of being the accomplice of those who are looked on as acting according to the impulse of England, I shall perhaps have to defend myself against the snares she lays for me. I have self-love enough to think she ought to judge of the evil I may still do her by that I have already done her.
If I can, general, obtain your undivided attention, I shall no longer doubt of your justice.
I expect your decision on my fate with the calm of innocence, but not without an apprehension of seeing those enemies triumph who are always attracted by celebrity. I am with respect,
GENERAL MOREAU.
SPEECH OF MOREAU, Before the Court of Criminal Justice.
GENTLEMEN,
In presenting myself before you, I ask to be heard for a moment. My confidence in the counsel I have chosen is entire: I have resigned to them without reserve the care of defending my innocence: it is not only in compliance with their desire that I wish to speak before the court, but I feel the need of speaking myself, both to you and the nation.
Unhappy circumstances, produced by chance or prepared by hatred, may obscure some periods of the life of the most upright man. With much address a criminal may remove from him both the suspicions and the proofs of his crimes: a whole life is always the surest testimony against or in favour of the accused. It is then my whole life which I oppose to the accusers who pursue me. It has been sufficiently public to be known. I will recall some epochs of it, and the witnesses that I shall invoke are the French people, and the people whom France has conquered.
At the commencement of that revolution that was to found the liberty of the French people, I was devoted to the study of laws. It changed the destination of my life: I devoted it to arms: I did not place myself among the soldiers of liberty from ambition: I embraced the military life from respect for the laws of the nation; I became a warrior because I was a citizen.
I supported this character under the colons; I have always preserved it. The more I loved liberty, the more I submitted to discipline.
I advanced very rapidly, but always from grade to grade, without overleaping any—always serving my country, never flattering the committees. Arrived at the chief command when victory caused us to advance into the middle of hostile nations, I did not less apply myself to make the character of the French people respected, than to make their armies dreaded. The war under my orders was a scourge only in the fields of battle. Even from the midst of their ravaged plains, more than once have nations and hostile powers rendered me this testimony. This conduct I believed as proper as our victories, to make conquests to France.
At the time when even contrary maxims appeared to prevail in the committees of government, this conduct did not excite against me either calumny or persecution. No cloud ever arose to tarnish the military glory which I had acquired, till that too famous day, the eighteenth of Fructidor; those who, with too much rapidity extolled that day, reproached me with being too slow to denounce a man, in whom I could see only a brother in arms, even at the moment when the evidence of facts and of proofs convinced me that he was accused by truth, and not by unjust suspicions. The directory, who alone knew the circumstances of my conduct sufficiently to judge of it correctly, and who, every one knows, could not be disposed to judge me with indulgence, boldly declared that they found me irreproachable; they employed me in their service: the post was not brilliant, but it soon became so.
I dare to believe that the nation has not forgotten how much I shewed myself worthy of it; it has not forgotten with what facile devotedness I fought in Italy in subordinate stations; it has not forgotten how I was restored to the chief command by the reverses of our armies, and re-named general, in some measure, by our misfortunes; it remembers how I twice recomposed the army of the wrecks of those that had been dispersed; and how, after having twice sent it back in a condition to oppose the Russians and Austrians, I twice resigned the command of it to enter on one of much higher confidence.
I was not, at that era of my life, more republiкан than in all others; I appeared more so. I saw fixed upon me, in a more peculiar manner, the regards and the confidence of those whose province it was to impress new movements, and new directions on the republic. They proposed, it is well known, to place me at the head of a little similar to that of the 18th Brumaire. My ambition, if I had had much of it, could easily conceal itself from all appearances, or even do honour to itself by every sentiment of the love of country.
The proposition was made to me by men celebrated in the revolution by their patriotism, and in our national assemblies by their talents; I refused it; I believed myself made to command armies, and did not wish to command the republic.
This was enough to prove, in my opinion, that if I had ambition, it was not that of authority, or of power; very soon after, I proved this still further.
The 18th Brumaire arrived, and I was at Paris. That revolution, provoked by others as by me, could not alarm my conscience. Directed by a man environed with a blaze of glory, it made me to hope for happy results. I began to second it when other parties pressed me to put myself at their head to combat it. I received in Paris the orders of general Buonaparte. In executing them I concurred to elevate him to that high degree of power which circumstances rendered necessary.
When sometime after, he offered me the chief command of the army of the Rhine, I accepted it from him with as much devotion as from the hand of the republic itself. My military successes were never more rapid, more numerous, more decisive, than at that epoch when their splendour overspread the government which accused me.
Upon the event of so many successes, of which the greatest of all was to have ascertained, in an efficacious manner, the peace of the continent, the soldiers heard the lofty shouts of national gratitude.
What a moment to conspire if such a design had ever been able to enter my soul! Every one knows the devotedness of armies to chiefs whom they love, and whom they have just led from victory to victory: an ambitious man, a conspirator, would have suffered the occasion to escape, when, at the head of an army of a hundred thousand men so often triumphant; he returned to the midst of a nation still agitated, always restless with regard to its principles and their duration?
I only thought of disbanding the army, and returned to the repose of a civil life.
In this repose, which was not without glory, I enjoyed, without doubt my honours; those honours which human power can never wrest from me, the remembrance of my actions, the testimony of my conscience, the esteem of my compatriots and strangers, and, if it may be said, the flattering and sweet presentiment of posterity.
I enjoyed a fortune which was not great, because my desires were not immense, and which caused no reproach of conscience. I enjoyed the entertainment of my retreat. Surely I was content with my lot—I who never envied the lot of any. My family and my friends, so much the more precious as not having any thing to hope from my credit or my fortune, they could remain attached but to myself alone.
All these blessings, which alone I highly appreciate, filled my soul entirely, and could permit no undue desire or ambitious wish to enter; would it then be open to criminal projects?
This condition of my soul was so well known, it was so well guaranteed by the distance at which I kept from all the paths of ambition, that since the victory of Hohenlinden till my arrestation, my enemies have never been able either to find or to seek me by any other crime than the freedom of my discourses; my discourses—they have often been favourable to the operations of government; and if at any time they have not been so, could I therefore think that that was a crime among a people who had so often decreed that of thought, that of word, that of the press, and who had enjoyed as much of it even under kings?
I confess that, born with an openness of disposition, I have not lost this attribute of the country (of France) where I received life, neither in the camp where every thing gives a new impetus, nor in the revolution which has always proclaimed it as a virtue of the man, and as a duty of the citizen. But do those who plot blame so openly what they disapprove? If I had wished to form and pursue plans of conspiracy, I would have dissembled my sentiments, and solicited all the situations which could have replaced me in the midst of the forces of the nation.
In order to trace this plan, in default of political genius, which I never possessed, I had examples known to all the world, and rendered imposing by their success. I know well that Monek did not withdraw from the armies when he wished to conspire, and that Cassius and Brutus approached the heart of Caesar to pierce it.
Magistrates, I have nothing more to say to you. Such has been my character, such has been my whole life. I protest in the face of heaven and of men, the innocence and integrity of my conduct: You know your duties, France listens to you, Europe contemplates you, and posterity awaits.
PARIS, June 10. His Imperial Majesty has addressed to Consuls Cambacérès and Lebrun, the following letter:
Citizen Consul Cambacérès.—Your title is about to be changed; but your
functions and my confidence remain the same. In the high dignity of Arch-Chancellor, with which you are going to be invested, you will manifest, as you have done in that of Consul, the wisdom of your counsels, and those distinguished talents which have given you so important a share in all the good that I can have done.
"I have nothing therefore to request of you but the continuation of the same sentiments for the State and me."
(Signed) "NAPOLEON." "Done at the Palace of St. Cloud, 28th Floreal, Year 12, May 18, 1804."
Letters from Constantinople of the 20th of March, say, that the Russian Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, Count Italinsky, has concluded, with some Grecian and Armenian merchants, contracts for the delivery of provisions to a Russian Fleet daily expected from the Black Sea, in the Dardanelles, where it intends to pass three weeks. The sum contracted for amounts to one million of dollars—the policy of the Turkish government in admitting a Russian fleet into its harbours, and permitting so many armed ships to enter the Mediterranean, is very much doubted by the French, Spanish, and Dutch Ambassadors, who on that account had several conferences with the Divan, where, it is said, they have severally remonstrated, but without effect.
DREADFUL FIRE AT BAYONNE. Yesterday we received a letter from Lisbon, by the Britannia, Brown, arrived in the Downs from the Tagus, which states, that Bayonne has recently been nearly destroyed by fire. The date of this calamity is not mentioned, but our correspondent gives the following account of it—"The flames were not discovered till six o'clock, in the morning, when they burst forth with irresistible violence; the large stores filled with brandy, tar, &c. presented one sheet of fire, ascending into the air upwards of 200 feet above the building. The brandy, tar, oil, &c. formed a stream, and running in flames into the Ardour, presented the singular and terrible spectacle of a river on fire. The fire continued burning violently for two days, during which many lives, and property to the value of two millions of francs, were lost."
Last evening arrived here from Nantz, which place she left the 15th of June, the Ship Logan, Capt. Macey. We have received by her French papers to the 11th ult. They are principally filled with official documents, and the proceedings on the trial of the conspirators.
Moreau's fate is at last determined.—He is to be imprisoned for two years. In the last paper we find the following decision of the Criminal Court of Paris.
Court of Criminal Justice.
Bulletin of the proceedings of the Court of Criminal and Special Justice, against Georges, Moreau, and others, 15th sitting, June 11, at 4 o'clock in the morning.
The Court of Criminal Justice, after 24 hours deliberation, have rendered a decree, which condemns to the punishment of DEATH, Georges Cadoudal, Bouvet de Lozier, Rousiston, Rochelle, Armand Polignac, d'Hozier, de Riviere, Louis Ducorps, Picot, Lajalais, Coster St. Victor, Deville, Armand Gaillard, Joyant, Burban, Lemercier, Lelan, Cadoudal, Merille, Roger.
To two years imprisonment.—General Moreau, Jules Polignac, Leridant, Roland, Hizzy the younger.
Acquitted.—Victor Couchery, David, Herve, Lenoble, Rubin-Lagrimaudiere, Noel Ducorps, Datry, Even, Troche (father), Troche (the son), Monnier and his wife, Denand and his wife, Caron, Gallais and his wife.
Denand and his wife, and Verdet, are remanded to the Correctional Police.
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May 1, 1804.
THE numerous and destructive fires which have happened within the period of the two last years, in different parts of Europe and America, (more particularly in the towns of Liverpool in England, Gothenburg in Sweden, and Norfolk in Virginia,) render it proper to remind all persons who possess property in the United States of America, of the utility of insurance.
The Phenix Office of London, is an institution sufficiently known by the very large and important losses it has paid, in consequence of the extensive conflagrations in the cities and towns of America, to such sufferers as have had the prudence to protect their property, by insurance.—The Phoenix Company deeply regret that, owing to the experience of serious and continued losses, upon the buildings and stores in the timber towns, no alteration nor remission on such risks can be made at present—but the Directors hope, from the increase of brick and stone buildings, and other improvements of security, that the period is not far distant, when they will be able generally, to mitigate the rates of insurance in North America; and they confidently presume that the promptitude and honour with which they have uniformly fulfilled their extensive engagements, have unexceptionally established the solidity, credit and good faith, of the Company.
The Phoenix Company grant insurances upon buildings, goods, and ships, whilst in dock or in harbour, from loss or damage by fire, upon the most moderate and equitable terms; and persons desirous of securing their property by insuring from this company, are requested to transmit their orders to their correspondents in Great Britain. d3m&1aw3m 46
BOOKS, &c.
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 Johnson's Works, 12 vols. Nicholson's Dictionary of Chemistry, 2 vols. 4to. Hutton's Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, 2 vols. 4to. Philosophy of Medicine, or Medical Extracts, with coloured plates, 5 vols. 8vo. Vattel's Law of Nations. Atkins Reports in Chancery, 3 vols. 8vo. Motherby's Medical Dictionary, folio. Quincy's Lexicon. Moseley's Treatise on Tropical Diseases, &c. Sydenham's Works, 2 vols. 8vo. Murray's Materia Medica, 2 vols. 8vo. West's Poems, and Plays, 2 vols. Gray's Poetical Works. Adams's Geometrical Essays. Adams on the Globes. McLaurin on Fluxions, 2 vols. Rumford's Essays, 3 vols. Cavallo on Electricity, 3 vols. Price, on Morals. Rorrng's Natural Philosophy, 2 vols. Emerson's Mechanick's 4to. Do. Algebra. Boryat's Astronomy. Do. Geometry. A Burlesque Translation of Homer, 2 vols. 8vo. Cruttwell's Gazetteer, 3 vols. with Atlas. St. Ilerres's Studies of Nature, 4 vols. 8vo. Hooles Orlando Furioso, 5 vols. 8vo. Emerson's Astronomy. New Whole Duty of Man. New Weeks Reparation. Bath Guide. Spirit of Masonry. Anna St. Ives, 5 vols. Hugh Trevor, 4 vols. Benevolent Quixote, 4 vols. Light and Shade, 4 vols. Tale of a Tub. Henry, 4 vols. Military Mentor, 2 vols. Life of Earl Howe. Life of Thomas Reid, D. D. F. R. S. Agustus & Mary. Wrangham's Memoir. Zollikofers Sermons, 2 vols. 8vo. Adolphus's History of France, from the year 1790, to the peace in 1802, 2 vols. 8vo. Potter's Eschylus, 2 vols. 8vo. Boyd's Dante, 3 vols. 8vo. Hunter's Poems. The Depraved Husband and Philocephick Wife, 2 vols. The Grubthorpe Family, or the Old Bachelor and his Sister, 3 vols. Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works, 4 vols. Plutarch's Lives, by Langhorne, 6 vols. 8vo. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia, vol. 6. Swift's Works, 24 vols. German Theatre, 6 vols. Domestic Encyclopedia, 5 vols. Denon's, Wilson's, and Whitman's Egypt. No. 9 Literary Magazine. 9 vols. Mavors Universal History. 
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