Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-05-02

duct on his part-of which we cannot sus-
pect him from his conduct for several years
past.
As to thereported dissatisfaction among
the members Of the government, if thereby
the heads Of government is meant 1t can
have no foundation. The president has
been for two weeks on a visit to his daugh-
ter, who had been for some time danger
ously indisposed: and no measures could
have arisen in which the officers of govern.
ment could come into contrast with each
other; beside their departments are all SO
distinct as not &c interfere either with the
other.
In a late account Of the city Of Hamburg
it is remarked how strikingly the versatile
ty of human atf3irs is displayed in the
circumstances of the French Emigrants
in that place ;of whom tits impossible to
speak without astonishment < admiration,
at the fortitude and resignation with which
they bear, and cheerfully too, the sad ylcis-
STUDIES OF fortune
6 A French Bishop is now IN partner
ship with a person, whose business is to
reduce different kinds OF vegetables, roots
and herbs into -four, to be used IN bread,
and otherwise for consumption, on board
ships, and is doing wen--another Bishop
has undertaken tannery upon the plan OF
Suguir, the French Chemist, and also sue
ceeds., A former General has turned au-
thor, and now handles his pen as well IS he
once did his sword his id-de-camy Bap-
tiste, who distinguished himself SO much
at the celebrated battle Of Jemappe, was
very lately paper hanger; a Marquis mea"
sures ladies Tor shoes Duke deals IN can
dies; another of great rank is a silk dyer;
& distinguished officer serves as wait
er to a landlord, who had once been his
lieutenant. The son of a governor Of
large province keeps restaurateaur
house. Another nobleman has Joined one
who had formerly been his cook, in the
same business. The heir OF the great
name of Fenelon keeps public house.
Dealers in small ware, dancing masters,
musick, language, fencing, school masters,
and brokers of every description, are IN
Vulnerable
Extract Of a letter from an american gen
tlenaan, dated Paris, February %.
/" The present will arrive with the last
letter wrote you, the vessel being detain-
ed by a general embargo which is still con-
tinued on vessels in the ports the channel,
in consequence, it is presumed, OF the dis
covered plot to assassinate the First Con-
sui. I mentioned in my last that several
persons had been arrested, but | believe
General Moreau was not then Of the num-
Der. From the publication, under the au-
thority of the government, there can be no
doubt of his having received visits from
Georges and Pichegru; how far he is en-
gagged with them we must wait his trial to
determine he at all events will lose the
estimation he was held in by this nation;
and it is to be lamented, that a man who
stood so high in public esteem, should suf-
fer himself to be led astray by such charac-
tiers. If their object was to bring about a
mother revolution, think they were wrong
in the calculation. General Bonaparte has
established such order throughout every
department, and the people appear SO SEN
sibie of the good effects ofit, that do not
believe they could be induced to fall back
into the state of Reorganization and con-
fusion he has drawn them out of, but be-
lieve that the system he has established will
be lasting. Paris is as perfectly tranquil
as city can be; the whole interior is e.
qually so; taxes are regularly paid and the
treasury well supplied; the whole receipt
Of the year eleven was 6O6, 454, 600 francs,
and the expenditure 617, 8O2, 215 fr.-all