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AIfERICA.

Min The Pacr.itirgh 'cub:L.4o
FATAL DV EL.

On Temlrv, the nth April. inst. the remains of
John D. BstrlC• were consigned tathe grave. He
had particularly desired in his will, that his body
should not be interred in a church-yaed. and re-
quested ton that the usual religious fortunlities, ou
funeral 01:C41HO" might be dispensed with. His
corpse was therefore conveyed to Cedar Grove, the
seat of General Jones, in the suburbs of this
town. and hornsl with military honours. The Vn..
lunteer companies of Artillery, Cavalry, and In-
fantry, attended the funeral, as well as it numerous
concourse of citizens. 'flue following are the cir-
cumstances which led to his death !

".Satsrday, April 9.
" Mr. Burk, dieing at a public tavern, with his friends
around him, expressed his sentiments, with regard, to the
Friveit Goverunsent io the following manner :
" What cult the cavillers against the Adnainistration now
say talent will they say to the letter of Mr. Armstrong, in
sealer to the areligant note of Mr. Charupeeny ' I am is
hopes, when they read the honest, manly, and luminous re-
marks of au American citizen, is refutatima of the pi eten.
*ions of the French macula, they will have lionevty sad mo-
desty essouirk to withdraw their accusations, and be silent ;
for the l'resch are •U • pack of rascals "
Mr. Cognebert,—" Did you mesa to apply those observe.
time to me,"
Mr. Burk—. Sir, I ale not knew whom you are—what you
are. I did not ksow there was such a Wing in existesee.—
Who am yen, Sir What are you' I do nut so muck a.
know your country, or even your name."
Mr. C...." I mit, if you mesa to insult me, Sir'"
Mr. B.—" Seeing, Sir, that you have so right to intrude
upon my eisaretwe or conversation, yt w must even Mks it as
you please."
Mr. Tory well, Sir "
" The observations of Mr. C. were uttered et the piihlie
told@ in • tone isf defiance, wind& precluded any thing like
entlenniuly or manly explanation.°
Sunday morning Mr. Burk received the follow-
ing note :
"Si.—! bare born oolong in the place that you Could
not help kaownag that lam a. Freschans. I sot so nearly
opposite to you at &miler, that you could ant avoid seeing
am. What yogi said rout/ not fail to hurt my feelings-.
I do not pretend to controul the converinion of any man;
in an much as it dues out relate to re i—but I cannot Ord,
look what is said in my very fact, le: it be said directly or
indirectly.
" If (allueing to politics' you did not mesa to tussle me,
sad had not observed that a Freedoms' was within the
moth f your words, I espouse you have no objection to
owe those feelings by an acknowledgment of it isag formal
• weinter so that I take to whims. you.
" Stutay, Ina April." "F. COQUEBERT."
" J. D. Pork."
To the foregoing note, Mr. Richard N. Thweatt,
the friend of Mr. Burk, del.vcred the anviver as
follosva:

"Ste—My fiieed, Mr. Thweatt, who WRII pl.,' to the
ron•eesatioat yes complain of, will arrange with your II lend
any thing n.•restary to ,!ilictise.on, or belle, it it shall be
so determined on. I h0p.... you will excuse the inaccuracy of
ad replying to your !Wilt, Ante a lei siteu answer.
Sunday Morning, April to."
" Mr. Cmpiebrrt."
After the rending notes passed, ro further
communiention took piaci bete eon the parties,
except Mr. Thwestt tieing culled upon to name
the tune and place for battle.
A challenge was seat by Mr. C. which was ac-
rented, and, early on Monday looming, the parties,
with their seconds, met inn tield *dr g town.
On the first lire, Mr. C.'s pistol snapped, and the
contents of Mr. B.'s were diw•hinged ineffectual-
ly. The second fire proved dei.Lise. Mr. C.'s
bull plowed through the heart of his antagonist,
whn expired without a won! or it groats. Stich is
the relation which we have had of this unfortunate
affair —lPetersburgh Int.)
• Mr. Bork was as Irishman, and fornwrly a student of
Tensity College, Dahlia.

AMERICAN POLICY_

(Free 74. Nahortol btellifencer

On the rise of Congre2w, the public attention will
be naturally directed to the courts of measures
pursued by them,and to the general situation of the
country. Aundst events awfully momentous, in-
volviug the warfare of the whole of Europe, and
threatening the peace of the United States, that
body assembled. It was universally expected that
affairs would soon reach a crisis, and that we should
be either involved in war, or our relations of amity
be restarts!. Various circumstances rissappoiliti•il
this expectation, and it was not until Tate in the
Session that the special mission of Mr. Rase was
terminated. Since this event, th,Te appears to here
been bar little difirretice of opinion with regard to
the course of measures dictated by is sound policy.
The precautionary inensure of an embargo having
beeii wisely taken on the first uppearnitec of
immi-
amt danger, and our property being preserved by
it from inevitable destruction, the only queNtion
which presented itself was, in what was we cool,'
the most effectually maintain nor own interests,
without compromising the national character?
But Pao alteratives offered themselves : A
eontinuance of **embargo, or war. Seri iiii sly as
the evils attending the tOrmer are admitted to be,
those that could not fail to have ensued from the
bitter. have been justly considered as much
greater.
we resorted to war, viesinst which native
should the declaration have Iw, n made ? There is
nn one in quixotic as to say that war should have
been waged agiu.ist both Englaiod and France, and
their wholetrein *follies and depeodeuries.embnic-
ing all the *sabots% of Europe. If not against both
the r. nations, where is the casuist that p mild be
relied upon to decide which had entitled itself to
the distinction of the first bloc ? When both hod
iejiired us so deeply, would it not have worn the
appearance of partiality, perhaps of pusillanimity,
to have exerted our energies against one. et the
very moment that we threw ourselves in the arms of
the other ?

iiesidim, what (mold we have gained by such a
step ? nos France any thing to offer us in com-
pensation for the injuries which would necessarily
be inflicted upon our commerce by the British
navy, provided it were exposed to the perils of the
ocean, and we were the declared enemies of Bri-
tain ? No man will say she has. And what has
li:nglaitri to otEcr for our goin4 to war against her
rival ? Nothing but colonial submission and the
prostration or our commerce ; for it is most isaalii-
fest, that so long iss the evil star that now rules her
;overnment costinnes to preside, she will be
fi.st with nothing short of our degradation.
It i* this state or thi7r, by which we are equally

peessed by the two belligerent nations, which cost-
pkrtely deprives us of all free .agency, and. points
unerring finger to the system' which has
been pursued. Had it not been for the hostile coo-
duct of Britain, our !wooer might hare demand-
'ed &serene measures against France; and but 'for
that of France, the atrocious outrage on the Chesa-
peake, and the no less unprincipled Orders of
Council, mi4ltt have demanded war 'against the
leviathan of the deep; as, in either case, we might
have consoled ourselves with the expectation in
that way of redressing our wrongs. But the almost
equal hostility of both nations has put this possibi-
lity altogether aside; and we are Do more under
the necessity of entering the lists against them,
than isio unsupported individual would be to oppose
himself to the bayonets of a legion.
Ilenco the almost mar i i iii cites accordance of all
parties in refrainiug, in the present posture of al-
fairs. front offetedive operations. Inasmuch, how-
ever, as it is impossible to calculate upon the con-
duct of foreign' nations, and as a persistence in
theit:unjust *moonset' may leave no alternative but
war, Congress have adopted a system of &Imre,
commensurate in their opinion to the expected clan-
ger. This muskets iii building a considerable nem-
iser of gum-boats ; in fortifying our ports and har-
bours ; tit raising six thousand additional troops ;
in placing one hundred thousand of the militia in
marline& for immediate service, and in progres-
sively arming the whole body of the people. For
these several. objects, about live millions of dollars
have been appropriated.
It is admitted, on aft hands, that these measures
will he very incompetent in case of a MA', btu it
bits been deemed politic to husband our resources
fee such an event, instead of exhausting them pre-
viously to the occurrence of actual danger.:-.41ei0
policy is certainly strengthened by the vast import-
'lee attached by both of the belligereat parties to
• rich treasury. It ought not, indeed, to sur-
prise as, if events should 'thew that England has
hitherto abotained from a declaration of war, in the
hope that the spoliation committed by her on our
trade, and our own measures, might embarrass our
finances in such a degree as Ito disable us from
eventitally, at the criteal moment, making that
decisive exertion winch would convince her that
we ton 'lave the power most essentially to injure her.
It is nut our purpose, at preseut, to enter info
any discussion of the nature or the effects of the
embargo, and the other measures adopted by Con-
gress, or of the ground taken by the Execrative
with foreizit nations. These, with other topics,
an.l particularly the election of a future President,
will receive ie. full an examination as shall be con-
sistent with the publication of the ineportaut de-
bates. of Congress still unfinished, and other im-
portant matters.
In the mean time it has become the duty of evert•
good ratters, of every American who cherishes
the patriotic feelings that made us an independent
people, to support the government of his choice
in that coarse of measures which bets estimated
from the fullest knowledge and the mamma deli-
beration. I.Vitateve.r speculative differences of opi-
nion there may have been, with regard to the im-
position of the embargo, the bnilding of gun-
boats, the fortifying our bailouts, and the raising
additional troops, no mast, who merits the name of
an American, or is deserving of tic blessings of li-
berty, can withhold his dhotis to silence any dis-
content which they may have occasioned, or to car-
ry thens into decisive etfece—l'arty animosity may
hold what language it pleases ; but this will and
aught to be viewed as the test of every man's pa-
triotism.

The measures pursued by our Government im-
pose another duty. to render the discharge of
which easy, and seen pleasant, only requires a mo-
derate share of fortitude, mingled with that enthu-
,siaum which the oces.aon is as eminently calculated
to excite. To render ourselves truly independent
of foreign nations, it is absolutely necessary that
we should develspe our own resources. These are
sufficiently extensive to supply all our wants, and
we shall deservedly incur the reproach of the world
if we do not draw apon them in such a way as to
convert what was meant as a vital injury into a real
liles.ing. Manufactures, mails. and canals. are
the great engines of national wealth, of individual
prosperity, and of peace. This is the auspicious
moment to put them into active operation. Once
fully a-going, and we shall convince our enemies
that we VIM de without them. and thut every act of
tyranny be which they would deprive els of our iia-
tion.ll rights, will recoil with a dreadful effect on
them•el res.

THE BRITISH PRESS:

LON DON,
THUftSDAY, JULY 7.

The reports given in various of our Newspapers,
containing accounts of insurrections in France,
azainst the usurped...ll:anus and insupportable
mastery curiscflptiiiii of Hos APARTS, are probably
fake or pretuature. But it is nevertheless a feet,
that ceiteni persons are arrived in this country,
to the number of three, who have escaped frnm
France, and have made their way over here through
Holland ; and they not only declare that the sen-
timent of abhorrence against BONAPARTI is
uni-
venal out that part of the Continent through
which they passed; but they are asserted and be-
lieved to be authorised to make certain preposi-
tions to our Goverinnent, connected with future
meditated movements in France. They have had
an interview with a Member of Administration,
and it I. not improbable that important conse-
quences may result from their visit to Eaglancl.

The greatest activity prevails in al! the Public
Offices and Departments, naval and thititary, con-
nected with the measures taken for the assistance
of the Spanish Patriots. The Puonwe and the
Alcuseie frigates arrived yesterday at Portsmouth. to
take money on Loan:, and the shipment of all sorts
of navul and military stores 'proceeds without in-
tormassiou at the several deptits in the River. Go-
vernment are also sending home the Spanish prison.

eri with all possible expedition. This is a very wisi
110Catlite. These mop will not only strengthen the
Muks of their brethren in arms, but thry will cos•
Arm the wavering, and animate the lukeearm, by
their glowing description of the entlutsimin that
prevails in England in fa /our of dm Spanish Na-
tion. A body of 1300 of these men sailed on Tues-
day, from Spithead, in six transports, for Ferr.d.
A great number of them were permitted on shore on
Monday evening. They paraded the streets of
Portsmouth, huzzaing and shooting 0, the good
English !" "the good English!" The town re-
sounded with these and similar exclamations, and
they evinced every deatunstsation of the most ex-
travagant joy. This is a noble spirit to carry with
then► into the bosoin of their J.:unities and their
friends.

The Marin'test store-ship is arrived at Prytnouthw
from off Lisbon, but ..he brings no news. The fol-
lowing are the only articles of intelligence which
we have seen on the subject of Spain, iu addition to
those already before the public :

Extract of a letter from an Officer on board His
Ms.tasirea ship Phasic:—

Finisher* Ray, tune 2?, 1801.
" I take the liberty of acquainting you where we' are:
the ship. is quite healthy ; plenty of fr-sh guest, sad fruit in
abundance, suppli, al by the Npaniards about this *se. We
Were at anther • few days aro in Morns Roads; I west dm
shore sit\ the Captain and his Interpreter ; the people were
iireseniyed to see iv; ; ire; trouts, and children, the latter
up to their knees in warier, cr)ing out " Lon live the Ls-
ghali, amid FLIIDIN AND the S LLL L 11..• They have all red
cockades in lhe.r bats, with this nnittia--.' Comfier we die
for firmaraas u the 88 VE WPM." They offiacd to supply
the ship wit/ uhativer wassrauted. Afton return of the
owe, iirr. who wag rant away with the Captain's letter,
tatTeri:iii• any assialsoc• within the power of the two frigates
°nape Ficisharre i they ye‘terday out as out aGesette,
°Actin as any thin?, we wanted. Of course, all thoughts of
war are now laid The coasters peas tad repass with-
out mule mass: "

Extract of a latter from Oporto, datcd Juue 7,
itqta:

" The Portuguese colours are again hoisted at the fort,
and the putt declared open to elnpe of all Rations, except the
Freareh.

" An invitation was sent ail to the Comanager of au
Enebeh whiou or war, inviting kis to comae in, but which in-
vitation he ; howesw. • salute of i<l guns was broil
tbecastle, returoe.l by the hoop with en equal mien-
bee. The French *Seers 4.0 all taken prig:mere, wit!..wit
blotwlsbed.

" N. li. Culune) Brows, wit► • young Portta,linme as an
44 sent uff on Friday night :a (rpm to."

Letters to the 3d instant have been received
from Holland. The Mon/rear is said to contain a
Saaataav ConseMow, by which the National Guards
are catkd out to supply the place of the troops of
the hoe withd►awn from the different departments.
It is said that,, least, 160,000 mom are on their
march to join the troops which BONAPARTE had
already collected on the Spanish ftantieni.

With whatever exultation we may peruse the
'Manifestos and other Addresses published by the
insurgent provinces of Spain, in the present ay. ful
crisis of their country,. we confess that we finel uo
less satisfactory and solid grounds of hope in the
pages of the No:sitcom The ardour, tempered by
prudence, and pointed by local knowledge, which
perrules and inspires the patriot Declarations,
must animate every haiest bosom. But in the
reluctant, hypocritical, yet vaunting confessions
of NePoLNON, as dictated to the degraded assem-
bly convoked at Bayonne, which, in mockery, he
affecta to call a " Spanish Junta," we trace all the
agitatioo of his haughty temper; one %bile adopt-
ing the language of conciliation, at another burst-
ing all restraint, and substituting menaces instead
of expostulation. Incapable of seeing, or too in-
talent, from success, to attempt to is needy, the
error that be bes committed, he persists to force
the tsufortunate JOSEPH on the indignant necks of
the Spanish people. Is 'making diat
and rash eaparissent, he has recourse tovavioua
principles, ci aspertions, in order to justify and to
sustain it. The preteoded resignation of the
' Crown in his favour, by the late Sovereigns, is the
. first. But he well knows, that two Priagcs. Arie-
trapped. katiegidated. and thifonnded by the
jrifinfliraa tyrant, could not be considered as free
orents. He equally knows, that even if their alit&
catkin and resignation to hint of the Spanish Crown
haul beets an act of free will, yet that neither
CHARLES, nor FERDIN AND, nor his brother, could
deprive of their birth-right the other heirs of the
royal line. The King of the Two Simms, and his
Sons, *swell as the Son of the Pat NCB Regent of
Poat.TeCA r., and the RROENT himself. in right of his
grand-mother, the daughter of PHILIP the Firm,
every Prince of the House of AUSTRIA, as being de-
scended from CHARLEA the THIRD, late King of
Spain, by the maternal line ; each, and all of
these iieli vidualet, BON A PARTE well knows, have in-
defensible rights of consanguinity. Ile therefore,
a moment afterwards, substitutes his own mandate
as sufficient to dispose of the Throne ; and he
supports his authority by the frequent allusion to
his victories, and the invincible legions that lie
commands. Again, like Tiatoxitaus, the tyger
melts into compassion, and " sings DA at cs great
and good;" the justice and beneficence of Jo-
seen, the tears which his Neajnilitan subjects shed.
when " he went to bear away his virtues into ano-
ther land ;" the paternal tenderness and anxiety
which this worthy native ni Corsica, Now become

King of SPAM, though prudently remaining st
Bayonne, feels for his deluded *objects through.
out the insurgeat pmvinces; tintslly, his kiud rex.•
lution •• to tied beyond the Pyrenees none but
Spanish hearts !" all these softer chords are ru,
cessively touched by the finger of NAPOLEON—
They stiikingly depicture his uneasiness, and the
boiling fermentation of hi* irritated mind.

It is evident that he dreads the election of tlst
Archduke CHARLES of AUSTRIA, by his mentos
of that Prince ; yet it is mach to be Suspected that
he tuay wish to discover, or to inveut, a pretext
for turning his arms towards that quarter of Ea-
rope. Vienna an 4 Beth's are of easier access, es
lie now duds, than Madrid. Nor would it surprise
.us, if, ou experiencing a determined moisture:4
on The part of the Spaniards, to his ambitious and
flagitious projects beyond the Pyreuees, he should
suddenly ebift-thu seene of his machinations and his
arms to the Rhine or to the Danube. Laurels are
more easily gathered there shaft In Castile or in As-
turia. The iusolent coutumely %Lk which he treats
the future subject* of JOSEPH, is not calculated
to conciliate their minds. But when he deutailds
of them, is the tone of a conqueror, who addrevs.,
himself to a veuquished people, whether " t!::w
think that they can restore the Prince* of the old
dynasty to the throne ?" he littie knows the nation
wham he thus insults. We no longer trace in these
acts of ititoxicetioa, and of outrage, the wily ha.
iianeedso contrived so tar* his projects of elerat,a,
or of destruction, under the veil of moderation.
lie stands revealed to all mankind in his moive
turpitude, while. at the same moment, he coesraiu
to hazard the vast empire, which a long serir ni
co:veers', crimes, aftekartillaces, had cemented.—
l';uch era.: the critical position of NAPO/AUX, where
the last Illoxii.vr leaves him, after the fourth sit-
ting of thi: .Isinta, on the eirt of Jane, at Bayonne.
Our next advices from that quarter will be most in-
teresting. The Corsicans etar.do on a frightful and
giddy eminence. He cannot recede without shams.
--ear cannot advance without peril. In such a El.
to:dire] prompt remedies are sometimes adaniiii.-
teferi; and we are involuntarily retniadei, of Juvr-
N•s's remark, mi the tyrants of his age and time :
Ail zentrnm Ceraris, ring :was
Et fulurre, µtics deseendunt reps, et
fiscal Mork: lytaunl."

Yesterday, a Court of Clireaora was held at
East Insiia House, when Capt. GI Ababa Sitirsos
was sworn into the command of the ship
consigned to Madras and Bengal.
The following ship* were thus str.tioned, vil.—
Asia, Capt. Trcrueuhccre mod lValthuLostow, t' ptyn
Jones, for Madras and Iteagal.
The Court adjourned at six o'clock, till W
nesday mixt.
The Jiiiso, Roarteson, front London, is taken
near Droxer and burnt.

The Welfsloop of war, with several ships under
her couvoy, from Jamaica, are arrived at Kinsale.
The *iih trgiinent, which went to the We.t
'tidies in the begmuting of the year 1801. then COn
sisteil of 1-300 men. The remains of the se4iineat
uri i vett tit Portsmouth, a few days ago, when there
appeared, out of the persona originally forming the
regiment, two officers, two 11011•coauni6cioneri oth-
cero, and one private.
h is confidently stated, that Viscount MCLVU.te
. .

is soon to anomie place in the didminutratiou.
An aviso, or packet, contaiaing most importrilt
dismitehes, intended for Spanish South Amerlea,
has been takon, and the dispateliei themselves ore
secured. Silo:shad hetni rent by O'Fsanc.l.l., the
lite Spanish Secretary at war, one of Bosise
P It re's adieeretats ; and having sailed from }lithos
for l.a Vera Cruz, was intercepted by'rinse of oar
cruisers. The packets taken on board are in
Lord Casrtnaeasoies Office, and having beers
drawn up uncle► the irirpection, ►s well as direction,
of NA PO L CON, contain IDAttCr of 00 ordinary COO.
sequence.
This day a draft of Go men, belonging to the
Coldstream Iteriment of Guards, will march from
the Park to Chatham, to complete the first batta-
lion in the room of those who are sick, The %%hole
will marsh to-morrow morning. from Chatham a.
Harwich to embark there.
The route of the tath Dragoons is changed, in-
"'teat' of proceeding to Infant!, they are to be
quartered at Ipswich, &vii
Tim ties-divbftt of prize-money, for the eoptiii e
of Buenos Ayres, takes place on the 15th instant.—
A Field Officer's share will he 7,0001.
The %Vara ickshira Militia ivarelied on Monday
into Dover, from Sunderland, from which piece they
have been upon their march about a month. Tliq
area fine body of men, consisting of about 1;200,
and are now encamped on the heights.
Goverionent yesterday received antelligencel.oui
France via Guernsey. It is understood to relate to
the report of an insurrection. which we noticed
yesterday.
SYLVLITED, the Messenger. left town for Ire-
land, ou Tuesday with dispatches for Sir ARTut a
IVaLLEsi.cir. TIN? Meisenrr, and instrnctinnd to
follow Sir A. W. in the event of his having pro-
croxled to sea.

A :timel article in the German papen.olnierve%.
that the paragraph inserted in the Itiea poper, im-
porting that. .1 by the desire of the Fr. ',ell ein.ul
at Memel, as often as a ship sails for a iwuttsl har-
bour, the value of the ship and cargo ain't be dr-
poilited in caali, as sectuity thin. the . oyage Phan la.
faithfully etecutej. kc. iv altmuther unienuded. 114
there is no trade weatever iu Airtnel."
Private letter, from Sto. kauitn mention, that the
public exprrtinsim wla dirr, tad towards an cnneth-
tine which wa• to he inadevtalcon by the British and
Swedes united. atzaiiiit /huge, in or'ca to put nu
end to the depredalwria 01 the rreum..7ce of the id-
lies,of which we lately had occasion to it•rak repeat-
edly ; Dr"4"h.in, ,ste"N'ePtActe of the numerri.i.
Privateers which thv teal and er.mlosity of the
• haVU armed against us.