Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-09-03


ed. Nothing relative to rhe difpoGtion of RI.
ia had tranipired. Preparations for invaGpa
continued An embargo was laid on yeiIsls Al
Bourdeaux for days, was RATED the 9th, and
laid on again the 10th.
1tE.isj What was formerly only rumohris
now truth. Government has ordered the eitaSs
lifhment Of the ufefui and Respectable infitu.
ion to prepare foreign miiiionaries We hf
ulcful with REGARD to commercial RELATIONS,
which it can favour i'll a mon eminent manner i
aud Respectable, with regard to religion, Is
preach the dogma and morality Of which, It
tends It's members 70 The n,oh faYage, diaani,
and unhealthy countries. We recollest yet
With a tender emotion, the fervices rendered Is
humanity by the Barheem dc Las Cafas, 81
the Vincent de Paul, by tho L'Amy, by inc
Iaehard, Sc Jonrnafds Paris, Jnns 20.
The fociety Of miGionaries will oonflt of.,e6
members, Of whom 90 are defined for tie. Lsa-
Indies, 100 for China The Tame number for 81
RIGA and America. and 20 for the iiland; in the
Southern ocean, for Otaheite, Sandwich lfants;
&c. The reit will femain as teachers in France,
except twenty, whom government, in conpii-
ance with the regueit of the Canada Indians;
will perhaps fent to that part Ct Anlerica.
"a (BdJ
Il is fad that in a letter from General Charles
e. pinckney, Yice-preGdent General of the ID.
eiety Of Ciocinnati, General Pinckney con-
dennis, IN the ftrongef manner. The praGiee ii
duelling, and propoies that The focety at gen.
erai meeting, or al their different fate mcetirss,
fhould enter into reioluton neither TO ei.s
nor accep; a challenge.
FROM SAVANNAH, Ate. II.
n dusk-- On iuelday, the 3lh Of July,
duel was tough. at Middletop's Ferry. on The
South Catohna fide, Between William piping,
and John Rowe, both of Columbian county H;
sppng received ball, at the firit FIRE, about
in fhort time expired. Mr. Angling has -
friends to deplore the lois, of an aga ssions.:
friend, and valuable member Of iccicty.
E5eacs P,gea A letter dated Berlin, !ur.
4. fays, +" Citizen Ia Foret, in amounting 10
Baron Eardenburg. Bonaparte.s Imperial Dig
nifty, pFetented plan for dividing the Eurcpeaa
Continent into four grand Empires, or thofc of
France, Aufria, Ruiia, and PruiIia and that
TO ether Sovereign fhoud he permitted, in fl:
tnre, to aGune the imperial the. Hanover vss
offered Us, to concentrate better our poEeilions;
and to make our population nearly as great as
that of Aufria, &c. The abfence of our King
has prevented any determination from be.ii
taken; and, probably at his MaieRys resurna;
this fcheme, with hundred others, propofed
lately by France, will be declined at leaf iisis
is the common opinion here"
Nor att has been announced in the Par.
IS Monitenr, (the governments paper,) thai
this general has been oaniihsd to America
to what part it is. not fuggeited. Other Papers
mention that he left his prton on the alR Of
June, and proceeded for Perpisnan, followed by
his comfort ; and that he IS to embark from
Spain for America. The general it is faid,
had nomination Of this arrangemest, and iaH
turnihed bis apartments in the temple. When
on hls trial he was treated with much ref
pect after ne delivered his fpeech before
the court he vas loudly applauded by the fpec-s
tators--and the guards preftntsd arms whea
he p2hed.--Several- Of the confpirators have
been Pardoned on the iuppiications of female
relations, whc 2ot.ratod themielves at the feet
OF the emperor. and were f.conded in then
prayers by the empfsfs Jofcphne andh her daush.
ter.
From the Mediterranean, we learn, that eora-
modore Pre5e had failed from Meiina, with his
fquatron, four bomb-yeiiels, and four large
gun-boats, which Mr.. Cathcaft, thc late con.
iul at Tripoly had borrowed Of the king OF Ma
pies; for the bombardment of Tripoli. The
iquadron, we alto hear, was in good health and
ipirits.
The London monthly Commercial Reporters
Tor June laif, hys-'' The traders of the Amer
iean States. continue TO enlarge their traffic with
the Eait-lndles bur there is no reaton to fear,
that they fhonld inlure the trade between Eng
land and the Ear, unleis the price of freight
from England TO India Aould be enormo.sEy a
bove what II is at preient" The fame report
lays, the demands for goods for the Victim