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CFFICIAL-rsoM LORD NELSON.
Fran The Londau GaSfftl.

F'oha |Se LoHd6H Gazette.
ADMIRALTY-oFFIcE Aug. IS.
Co4y Of a letter fran lyd Yjlconuf NeLGn,
K. B. Nfe Admral eflbe Red, tie.
10 Evau Nenpeau, En-. dated on board
fbe MeaG/a, Of Bonlogue, AxggR IS,
1901.
SIR,
Having judged it proper to attempt
bringing eff the enelny's Aotilla, moored
in the front .of Boulogne, I directed the
attack to be made by four diyiGons of
boats for boarding, under the command of
captains Somerville, Cotgrave, Jones and
Parker, End diviion of howirzer boats
under capt. Coun The boats put off from
the Medufa at half paft eleven O'Clock lae
night III the bett polible order, and before
O'Clock this morning the firing began,
and l had from the Judgment OF the off.
GERS, and the zeal and eallantry of every
man, the mot perfect confidence of com.
piete iuccefs, but the darknefs of the n;obt
with the rtde, and half tide, feparatcd the
d'Viiions, and from all not arriving az the
fame happy moment with captain Parker.
Is to be attributed The failure of fuccefs
bat | beg TO be perfectly nnderacod that
not the fnaIlef blame attaches. itIelf 10 a.
ny perion; for although tAe diviiions did
not arr We together, YET each (except the
4tth divifion, which could not be cor mn
before day. rn1de facceCful attack or
that part of the enemy they fell in with
and actually took poAcflioa of many br;os
aid flats, and cut their cables, but MANY
OF them being aground, and the moment
OF the battles ceafng on BOARD them, the
veilels were filed with voilies pDon voll;es
OF mulquetry, the enemy beiog perfectly
,eSa'oIels OF their own men, who mutt
nave iuHered equally with us, il was
therefore impofiible to remain on board e.
ven to burn them but allow me TO Cav
who have feen much iervice this war, tTar
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LONDON, Aupuft 10.

A letter was yelerday fent to US, re-
ceived through a respectable channel from
Bruniwick, via Holland, which fpeaks
confidently for the cap. tulation of Alex.
andria, in Egypt, fix days after the fur.
render OF Cairo. The Hamburg Mail,
which became due this morning, NAV,
perhaps, bring US folne information on
this fubje6. Packer !
Mr.. Merry, it is faid, very lately re-.
ceived orders 10 prefs the French govern.
fnent to come to more cloie and delioi.
tive understanding, and to declare its ad.
m iilon or rejection of certain preIimina.
ry principles, and Of their diGinet appli.
cation 10 the BATS of the treaty under con-
temptation. The dilpatches of this mi.
inter- which were anxionny expeaed, did
not arrive till Monday, ard they have
proved 10 tar satisfactory, that the nego-
citation which muG have been inaanty
broken Oil by the perseverance of the
court OF France in the practices complain.
ed or, Will be continued, if il be not
more proper exprefion to fay tina, it will
commence. The whole that has pahed
mas been but negotiation for a ncgocis.
eion--a treaty to treat. The pubic in
tercourie will now, it is faid, aGume
more real, If not more intereRing cha.
racter; and it will be difficult for NJ,
Islleyrand, whatever may be the ulti.
mate views of his cabinet, to avoid tie
drcui}ion of thofe terms and conditions
upon which depends the contamination Of
peace.
Whatever thofe who are apt to be dr.
coouraged by every triAing failure may be
dAPoied to FAY of gallant Lord Nelfons
expedition again& Boulogne, that iluhri.
Gus hero has loH nothing OF his well earn.
ed glory and renown. Under the di1cc,
ton OF this entcrPrifhg officer, our gal
liant tars, Turning at tie empty gairo-
nades Ct the enemy, hurl the Brilifh thur.
Ger on their COATS, ard dare them to cone
for'h. The French, however, think i;
prudent to keep their yefels chained TO
the ihcre.
IL the French Gat-bottomcd boats re.
iemoie thote now gone cut with lord NsI-
Ion, which they are (aid to do, il is in.
Poihble they lhould ever get two leagues
from their own coat, except in the 'sT
fneit weather, and in fuch feafon, the
ports that fheltcr item are confantly
watched. The Britiih boats, when theif
carbonate is mounted, and crew of4o
men embarked, do net draw above
inches OF wafer. 1t is obvious, that iu'a
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robbed of the honor of giving his name to
them. l woaid, therefore, propofe call
ing New England, Cabotia, the other
States, America, and the Southern CONT
nent, Columbia.
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=, crooked inwards, but in the .falie bill
i j, very diainetly turned in and crook
In the true bills, the face of the Indian
IS black and the fhirt white, without any
hades or perpendicular marks about the
breaH and the fhirt,
Oftb< Union 100 dollar Bills.
The word s. Hundred" in letters on
the left hand Gde, in the margin of the
true bills, is engraved on fhade made by
lines finely drawn and hardly vifble-
but in the counterfeit bills this fhade is
made by lines Rrongly drawn which are
dark. and very yiilble.
The difference between the true bill
and falie in this particnlar is 70 great that
it is thought unneceaary to trouble the
public with more minute detail.
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NORFOLK, January 81.


Arrived the. fchooner Independence,
capt. Thornton, ST. Bartholomew fhip
Union, captain Davis, St. Ba,tholon ews.
The above vefel failed under convoy
of the U. S. loop of war Merrinack, in
company with IS fail.
Sloep Liberty, capt. Barrett, Antigua !;
alo the Britifh fchooner Agents, captain
Colbourr, Antigua failed in company
with the ichooner Suiannah, captain New
bold, for George town, S. c.
Jan. 70, in LAT, "a, 81, long, IS, 81,
fpoke tie lchooner Diana, from Trinidad
bound to Bottom.
Left at antigua, =,
Brigs-E ucharis, Price, ofand for Bal
timore, ready to fail Delaware, Welt,
do. do. Tiger, Barclay, Of do. under ad-
judication; Sch'rs , Webb, Of Phila-
delPhia, juf arrived; Daphney, Malon,
Of New York, waiting for a cargo; Sally,
~, Of Seabrook, do.
Brig Luna, Stephenson, from New York
to Madeira, in diitrefs, having iprurg a
Leak.
February s.
Axt,a7 efa letter from an officer en- beard
the cke/apeake, d0ted Jan. 3.
:" Lieutenant St. Clair with the prize
Young Creole, had fcarcely got out of
tight of the Chefapeake, when a fail was
deferred from the matt head, we foon came
up with her-ihe proved to be the fchoon-
er ssucceis, capt. Brown, from the coat
O. Africa, with AZ laves, bound to the
>fiaysna-Capt. Barren put lieut.. Smith
OF. beard other, and fent her for Charlef-
ton. This letter will be fent on from
thence to Norfolk by my friend Smith. .
The United States lchooner Expert
ment, capt. Stewart, anchored in our har-
Dor yefterday--he has had Il days paf-
,ase from Santa Domingo. We learn by
ner that general ToulIaint had arrived
with his army within few miles of that
.,!y, and had demanded its furrender to
nm 1t was expected to be given up in a
by an arrival from the Cape, we alfo
asye received information, that it is gen.
cteuitaints determination to take poiIef.
S Son OF the whole of the Spanifh part of
st.-Domingo.
nc late arrete Of gen. TouAaint, le-
ing 20 persent on all exports and i'm.
a1s' mas been found too heavy burthen
1n the commerce of the iiland. and he has
ppeo 10 per cent. on the imports.
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dorto the court ofs pSkS.aA n
lowing account Of the once tss7ssSGS - :
Ormus, in letter lately received By the
laft fhip.
" The Portuguese, under Albuquerque.
took poGeffon of this ifland in COZ, and
were expelled by Shah Abbas, with the at.
iiftance of the Engliih, in 1922. 1t was
at that time the emporium OF the Eat, AMI
was fufpofed to be the richett mart in the
world; it fhortly, however, fell into de- {
cay in the hands Of the PerGans; ard
when Thevenot viGted it in loos, il was
place of little or no Importance.
When we arrived here on the 1Ath Of
March, the appearance Of the place was
an oblong fort, which was built by the
Portuguese, and has lately received conf
derable repairs from Imsum Of h.u!cat,
who obtained poneaion Of it about four
years ago. 1t is ftuated on a narrow
neck of land letting into the fea, by which
the walls are wafhed on the northern and
eaftern fronts. To the eat and fouth it
has ditch, about eight feet deep and AZ
teen yards broad, which is filed by the
tide.
-" On the cutGde are few nrag~
Cling huts, forming a pettab, round which
hey are at prsfnt building flight
wall, Aanked by round towers, at e.
quail ditances. A chain of hills run a..
crols the lizard, ar the d;eancc Of about
mile and half from the fort; the whole
ground is one continued ruin: and from
all appearance, there has been formerly a
large city, from four to five miles in cir
conference, of which not Jingle houf.
is itanding. -What is peculiarly huguiar
is, that not a fpring'of irelh wafer is to be
found in the iland, which is iifseen miles
IN circumference every hcuie lad Cor :
merly ciitern, which caught the rain as
it fell from the clouds.
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the way, another fucceeded Of no leis Ia
lents-and ano,her-and another.
Characters are created by circumstances.
We veneratea Warrington, and Adams,
Pendleioa, Jay, an Eliworth but if
thefe men had been never known, other
men would have been called to act their
part, and with equal celebrity.
The Democrats boat of a TeferGon,
Clinton, Madifon. Theie men are of
dittinguilhed reputation ertainy-but if
thefe men did not exit, their places would
be filled with men of equal talents. There
are, at this moment, in the United States,
two hundred thoufand men, who, with the
fame education, and opportunities of aeti-
on, would completely fiji the places of any
fifty ofthe mott luxurious men this coun-
try las produced. They live and will die
in obfcurity, foley bccaule they have not
the means of improving ard exerting their
minds. The democrats exalt their Man
JeHerfon to the heavens, incefant
encolniums throw around him glare O.
character, alfe lplendor, that deceives his
advocates They will find he is mere
maa--and no wiier nor better than thou
fands e others.
The federalilts cry out-we are ruined
In reply, let it he incuicased, that the
man who utters the ientimcnt, degrades
hin'felf and his country. To uppoie it
IN the power OF one man or twenty to
ruin country, is a farcafm on all others
and reproach that deferves ceniure. A
change OF administration may create e.
vils--but lSule do men think how fnall
are the evils of the WORT administrations
compared with the MATS of hrength, viz
tue and PROPERTY of nation.
Away with hch language-the whin-
irgs of meanness and cowardice !--H
Our anxious fouls would rail Al5 and itudy
more, they would have a chance of do
ing their country fome good or at
ieat they would give the public lefs
trouble. --1hei anxiety calls to
mind the iaying of the Spartan king Agis
who, being told that tic laws were infrin-
ged and Sparta ruiu<d, replied, fmiling,
/" This is doubtlefs true; for when ! was
boy, heard my father fay that when he
was boy ne heard my grandfather lay the
fame thing" N. T. Com. ,4dv.
From tbe Midd2e/ex Gasene.-A Connec-
ticat paper printed at Middletown.
Me1Ts. B4nniugs,
The importance Of naval commerce to
the United States, and to this fate is not
duly appreciated by the mott ianguine a.
mong US. On Connecticut river have been
built, during the paR year, about 1900
tors Of fhipping. The furveyor of this
port has meainred $500 tons and two
furvcyors in Hartford ard Ssybrook, it is
calculated, cannot have meafured fhort of
1900 tons. The value of 1hipping is
fay &. 10 per ton. OF this two thirds
may be conidered as produced by Bateri-
ais fupplied in the aate by the fervices of
thofe employed in building. five multi
plv the number of tons by +. s the pro-
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Whereuron the ballots being counted,
the following was the re1ult:
III Ballet.
Jeaerfon ftates,
Burr s
Divided 2
I'd bal2et, fame re(ult.
cd balZat, fame refult.
4tb ballst, fame refuit.
This was the hate of the election at 3
O'Clock. OF consequence at that hour
there had been 10 election.
The two divided ttates are Maryland
and Vermont.
Nat. InteAigeneer.
By gentleman who left the City OF
Warrington this morning at fun-rife, we
are informed, TO choice had been made at
the time he left there, but tina, the houle
was aillin ie!licn.
! A government without frong execu-
tive power, is lii equal danger OF dilioluti-
on with matter that does rot poilels the
principle of coheGon.
Politics is the food Of wife men, devour-
ed by fools. He who pretends to pra6tile
law or pkyGc, without having preyiouny
ftudied thole licences, is delpii,d by every
fcnGble man. Yet on politics, ev>ry one
in this country, even the pooref me- .hanic,
prefumes to ipeak, to decide, and ceniurc
with the ut1noR confidence.
Nothing demonHrates the Narrow views
of men, and their utter unacquaintarce with
the hiilory'of ffates and governments Ike
the iririt of dependence at every unfortu-
nate public event. We ale undonei We
are ruined! was the language of nhort
lighted men when gen. Warrington left
this world of vexat:on: AS if no man
in the United States furvivcd, who had
either intelligence or virtue. When
the fact is, that general Warrington had
lefs fhare in devjGxg the more important
meaiures of the revolution, than many
other men, who were in the old Con-
gre{s, and fomc of whom are yet living.
His talent lay, not in originating plans
himfelf, 70 much as in availing himfelf of
the hints of others, in weighing the argu-
ments Of Others for and againit n1eafures
propofed, feletting the ben, and execut-
ing the plan ieleeted, with uncommon
prudence. This talent is one of the mott
ufeful in fociety; but without derogating
in the leait from the merits of Wafhing-
ton, we may fafely affirm that multitudes
Of men, in this country, poGefs all the ia
Tents for conducting public affairs, which
are neceHary to infure wife and faithful
administration.
When the French were abandoned by
La Fayette and Dun,ourier, every one cri-
ed out, their caufe is ruined! They are
undone! Our citizens were looking for
news that the Aufrians had marched to
Paris. Yet when one general was out of
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ISLAND OF.ORMUS.

A gentleman in the fuit Of colonel NAL
colin, who was lately deputed by the Su-
prcmc government Of India, as AmbaGa-
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Alexandr,a advertiser.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY II.


PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
Yelterday at II o'clock the toufe Of
Representatives. repaired to the Senate
chamber, where the votes for PRECEDENT
and Vice Prefdent were counted. 1t APP
pearlng that Thomas Jeferfon and Aaron
Burr had an equal number Of votes, the
Houfe returned to its own chamber and
with clofed doors proceeded to the ballot
as follows:
Whereupon the ballots being counted,
the following was the relult:
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every OF whom, except the gentleman
from South Carolina, have done th-ir ut
mott to wound thofe feelings. But | can
! tel thoie gentlemen thatit is now too late !:
! 40 not thank them for their pretended
tenderness; they have heretofore lafcerat-
ca thoie feelings by their irritating and
aouilve language, until l havebecome per
fectiy cailous to any thing that can come
from that quarter. do not thinl, by any
means that they ihould go round my cafe
OUT or dcllcacy to Ine--rather let them de-
tend the indicting me under the fedition
law tor writing and FULFILLING a letter
dated the 10th June, and fent about that
time by me to the poit-of1ice Of Philadel-
phla, which carried the poif marks of Phi
iadelphia, July 9TH, feven days before the
lazy pafied! Let them defend the Judge
who refufed me challenge of the Jurors,
and taiiely told me that in iirnilar cafe
ihoald not be entitled toa challenge on the
Jury In the courts Of the fate where / then
lived. This, I fay, was falfe, becaufe
there is IN Vermont, among the criminal
code, law agsinf OBTAINING courts, &c.
which allows the defendant to CHALLENGE
FIX of the jury lift without lhewing any
caufe Let them defend the Judge in
charging the jury to find me guilty DINA
llcious intentions, On the ground of my
known political principles my oppoition
IN congrefs to the executive, where there
was no proof whatever againf me Of fuch
principles. Here permit me to obierye that
thoie who are oppoled to the new admin
ttration, have more faith than have in the
Judges, with refpeft to their attachment TO
the party they belong to: for my. part,
after the change in the administration, in
cafe the law is continued, have no doubt
but Judges may be found who would charge
the jury, IS in my cafe, to look to the
political principles and conduct of the de-
i-ndai1t, and 10 turn the tables upon them.
Had /, therefore, with for revenge, I
would vote for the bill. / fear no dan
ger from 1t; have faith in the new adj
n1iniftration; ihall have no defire to write
concerning them, and / now reGde in
country where there is no danger of politi-
cal perlecution.*
NUT now beg leave to refer to the
charges for which Ifufered. /" 1t coniH-
ed OF three counts; the frR, for having
maliciouny, sc. with intent, sc. written
at Philadelphia a letter dated the 10th of
June, and publilhed the fame at Windfor
in the newspaper called the Yeymout .s1four-
nal, containing the words following AS
to the executive, when fhall fee the ef
forts of that power bent on the promotion
of the comfort, the happincfs, and the ac-
commodation of the people, that executive
ihali have my jealous and uniform fuprort
but whenever / fhall, on the part OF the
executive, fee every confederation of the
public welfare fwallowed up in continual
grafp for the power, in an unbounded thrift
for ridiculous pomp, fooliih adulation and
Kut0eky.
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lsihih avarice; when fhall behold men Of
real merit daily turned out Of Office, for no
other cafe but INDEPENDENCE OF ientiment
when fhall fee men Of drmnefs ve,rs
merit, abilities and experience, difcarded
IN their applications for office, for fear
| tney Poheis that independence, and men
| OF meanneis preferred, for the cafe with
| which they take up and advocate opinions.
| the contequence of which they know but
little ot-whcn fhall Zee the facred name
OF religion employed as a fare engine. TO
make mankind hate and periecute each
other, fhall NOT be their humble ad O.
cate.
The fecond count conhAed of my hav-
ing maliciouly, Sc. with intent, &c. pub
llihed letter, {aid to be letter from 2
diplomatic character in France, contain
ing two paragraphs in the words follow
Ing: The misunderstanding betwcen the
two governments France and America has
become extremely alarming confidence
Is completely deitroyed: miitruit, jealou-
lies, and adiipoition to wrong attribution
OF motives, are 70 apparent as to require
the utmoft caution in every word and acfi-
on that are to come from your executive
mean If your Objects toavoid hoHilities.
Had this truth been underfood with you
before the recall Of Mon,oe; before the
coming and fecond coming of Pmekuey:
had IT guided the pens that wrought the
bullying fpeech of your preiident, and ftu-
pid aniwer OF your fenate at the opening of
congrefs in November lait, j fhould pro-
badly have had no location to addrefs YOU
this letter.
But when we found him borrow
ing the language of Edmund Burke, and
telling the world, that although he fhould
fuccedin treating with the Ftench, there was
no dependence to be placed in any of their
engagements; that their religion and mo-
rality were at an end that they had turn
ed pirates and plunderers, and it would be
neceiiary to be perpetually armed againit
them, though you were at peace we
wondered that the anfwer Of both houfes
had not been an order to fend him to a mad
houfe. Inaead Of this the fenate have
echoed the fpeech with more fervility than
ever George the third experienced from
either houfe Of parliament.
The third count was for aiding and bet
ing, &c. in FULFILLING the fame.
Again. Let thofe gentlemen juffify the
Judge in Tending man from the jury, be.
caufe creature ola party fwore thar, at
previous time he had heard that juror FAY
1omething like this: that it was his belief
MIR. Lyon would not be found guilty.
This was man who was fupmoned thro,
mifake, and without thorough know
ledge of his political principles, and ie
was necehary to get rid ofhim fome way
or other. Let them defend the conduit
ofthe judge who, in his charge, in order
to exafperate the jury againft neey dedcend-
ed to degrade his Office 10 much ss tc;{ell
them.l was guilty Of forging the WgssiaK
called " BarIoW's letter. al et - faid
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IL
Rais'd up its unprotected head;
And Cpd in time its beautious breah,
DhPlay'd fringed velvet VET: !
While naught but NORWOOD, tancsv. rue
Around the beautious Aow'ret grew.
| law, adnir'd, and araight exprefs,d.
a with to place it in my breaa,
But no-l cried, thou till lhalt bloom,
And throw around thy foft perfume:
then come and be my darling care,
Thou brcatheft here too bitter an air:
The tend RET treatment thou fhalt prove
For Tendance borne to one love;
For Annals air and native grace,
l IN thee, lovely fow'ret, trace,
( Then Anna was the chofen name,
Iavinia fill points to the fancy
No iooner thought, no foener faid,
Than, root and branch, were fate conveyed
Where morn, and eve, it prov'd my care,
Screen'd from bleak Noyember's air.
But, oh when Anna, fad to fay,
Had turn'd to night, my ev'ry day
And itrove her all to break my heart,
I babe her Tendance to depart;
Go, go, cried, my bofom fpare,
And prove the fair Elias care.
But 10! fome one, to fwell my woes,
Has made my pink, alas rofe,
And gave it thorns, that it might wound,
The breaf, where it had kindness found
Eliza's tho they babe it fpare,
The dart was aim'd at mine with care;
But oh TO make my bofom feel,
They mutt have ain'd dart Of fteel.--
Eliza fays, take back the rote.
She naught expects from MIRA's foes.
MIRA.
Aex. Feb. 70.
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Mex. Feb. 10.


(I)ebate concluded.
Hog/s in csmmHfee---lfgr. Moy,1s in The
ebair.
Mr.. Lyon. In the courfe Of the debate
on tho pref.rt motion, my condemnation
and imprisonment have been introduced,
by a gentleman whom / highly refpeet !;
but without many of the agitasions which
Belonged to, that very extraordinary cafe.
a nunhcrof gentlemen have told the COM
sn1ittee that they would avoid the difcuAion4
Of my cafe, in compliment to my feelings
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For tile Alexandria advertiser.

Menrs. SNowDEN 81 Co.
In yozr baperef 7ne/aay, appeared an all
ferati0u o,1ome lines, That Tin December
Pre/enfsa to -yorn,g Lady, 4vilb no
erpe1zation Of their 6eing made public.
BY givin.g the euele/ed a place .yau qri,v
e01tsr a particular fav0,.
Tour5, sc.