Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-02-10

The number of folders employed by the bel
iigerent powers from March to Augua lat, in
Italy, Switzerland and Germany, is eRimated
at 100000 men-iIo 900 of whom are iad to
have been killed. London Papr.l
The Anfwcr of the Senate of Pennlyvania
70 Governor M'Kean's Speech, breathes a
manly 6rmnefs and decifion which we did not
expect from the Senate of that Gate. They
prefent, even at his own door, glowing picture
of his iniquitous nakedneis and if the fmalleit
yay of decency animates his MATS of bones, ne
will III ink from public view, with full and
complete conviction Of his iyjyfee-like the tar
rapin to his ihell, not only with fear, but with
ihame. ~ T, Gaz.J
,Exhaa from Piay5urs Adlref 10 Coz. M'Kean
i" In your elevation we fee choice uninfiu
enced by expeaants of Office, holders of tock
in the funds, great wealth but carried againit
all thele a proof that Public Spirit like gian.
tets has arilen from her Plumbers that the
quickfands of speculation are pat; that the
MATS of the people govern that equable indnf-
try and fucce6ive fervices will alone lead to
eaate and preferment and that tbe day IL not
Jn nDfHHt foorH s0e FtfV 81 iIoS w." ~ '"Ie'fe
ed on monument az tsRimony Of so.e man
1gainP degenerate hme,."
The citizens of Charlefon, S. c. in addition
to other demonstrations of gratitude, refped
and grief for our late unequalled Chief, have
RATED a fublcrption for eresirg a PeasR,ian
Statue of marble, or an Eqnsi2rian Statue in
bronze, to his memory.
Twenty four Cardinals were attended At
Venice the 13d October, for the election of a
Pope. The Paris papers mention that the Ca
tholic religion will be fpeedly introduced in
France. $50.
Admiral Mellon had left Naples for Minorca |;
and had in contemplation an attack upon fome
French depot.
Major. General Gosvios, who was Colonel
in the American army, during the revolution )
and George Warrington Fawht, fon of the Mar
events in Holland
Citizen Bsreau, who commanded l. 'Infurg-
ent frigate, captured ia the Wet Indies by the
American frigate Conaellation, has been tried
at L'Orient, by court martial, and after an
invelfigation Of nine days. acquitted.
Buonaparte has prefented to Moreau aDamaf.
GUS fabre, which he brought from Egypt IL
is audded with diamonds, and worth 10000
lvres. -
1t is a fad not generally known, that Robef.
pierre,th worthy friend, eamarade and coadjutor
of that execrable and Internal a. 1rielt
and monitor Talleyrand, was Of
Tlo,n;sn. fhe AFT lin who tad fha lsfe of
Louis XIV.
The Swifs did not eafily mix with the French,
and they feem nearly as much divided in their
opiaion OF the Auftrians. In truth, an indepcn
dent nation does not readily enter into the views
Of foreign friendlhip, and knows no seGverer5
but its own energies.
The favages Of Louiiaua, fays Montefquien,
when they are anxious for food, firR cut down
a tree, and then gather the f,nf,. Such, adds
he, is the nature Of dkpatie government, which
is always detroying its own refoure.s and fap
ports. The new Confuls of France, under
regime not very different, have completely de.
froyed the tree Of Representation, on which their
new contribution reied for fupport. What
.fruits they are to gather from its overthrow, it
mutt remain for future events to determine.
The territories which the Britifh poAefs in
the Eat Indies. are much more exteniive dian
Greatbrisain and Ireland. According to ma.
jor Kennel, furveyor.generai to the Eaaindia
company, thefe pohe1ions contain I77,ooo
fquare miles, which is more than the fquare
ara even of France (fuch as it was before the
prefeut war; and Holland united. In thefe
dominions are many rich factories, ftrong forts
and popu!ous cities. Madras contains upwards
of 10000 inhabitants, and Fort St. David,
6o,ooo. The I1and of Bombay, the harbor of
which can conveniently hold 1000 Aips at an.
Choir, has 10000 inhabitants. Calcutta, the
SanIal nr Renral is auer c.:I ia =