Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-02-11


committed with regard to the bank notes,
but, chiefly TO injndiciouS mealures prac-
tiled to re-efablilh its credit. The min
liter of Finance has recommended certain
changes in its organization, and that in
The mean time its payments ihould be
made in tilyer inlfead OF bills.
Our fenate fays a Frankfort account Of
November s, conduct with great myltery
relative to certain Jews and other mer-
chants, taken up here for being concerned
in plot tending entirely to dehroy the
credit ofthe Imperial bank. 1t is under
food that a counterfeiter of the bank
notes has been diicovered at Oifenbach,
with his initrunents, predas &c. and is to
be CARED in due time to Sualburgh. The
lew SaIigman who ranlacted many of the
affairs of the bank, was conducted at
the beginning of the preient month to the
latter city.
Koj1iaAo.--On the 18th October, fays
Paris paper, all the Polanders in Paris
attached to the deltinies of .Koiciullso, al
fenbled to celebrate, according TO their
annual culfon1, the anniversary of their
Generals birth day.. Several fenators,
councillors of fate, members of the inlti-
tutc, the ambanador from the United
States, with feveral Americans, and a
number of literary characters, competed
the gueits.
Garnerin the Eronaut made his 18th
aaent in balloon from Mofcow in Ruhia,
on the Cd October, in company with
M. Anbert, who fufsrcd comfortable
pain in the ears from the rarefa6fion of
the air. They attended above 400 totes.
Garnerin ftates, that he faw for the fra
time his balloon reflected in the clouds,
in all the mott vivid colours of the rain
bow. He made experiments in galvanifm
while thus high and it produced des eblot-
i1Snrent,. He discharged a mulket twice,
and the found was leis fenfible than on
the ground. The cold was not increafed
above 4 degrees. He would have pro-
longed his voyage and experiments, but
huntiman, afonilhed at the phenomenon,
fent bullet through his balloon, which
compelled his defcent.
The frlt conful lately prefentcd three
candidates to the conlervative fenate to
fill a vacancy in that body.-They were
BoiiIy D'Anglais, LIE Brun Rochemont,
brother OF the third coniul, and Brunteou
Sainte Suzanne, infpedor general of cav
airy. lie Brun was elected.
Schimmclpennink, ambaaador from the
Batavian republic, has lately received from
Bonaparte prefent of fuperb Berlin and
four elegan, horfes. Citizen Verheul,
commander of the ancient Holland mar
ines, has been appointed an aid-ce-camp
to the Firft conful, and 1000 louis ailign-
ed him for ms equipment.
A young Picdmon.eie, confined in the
prifon of Mentz, in punifhment of crime
o.cafoned by jealoufy, has invented a
machine Of fimple contribution which viii
duble and quadruple the fwiftnels of row.
ing boat This is on principle OF
mechanics which makes the oars act as
levers. Government has taken his inyen-
ton into conilderalon.
The Minilter of the Interior, pre(ented
to the Frit coniul, on o3d OCT. a iuperb
porce.aine tablet, executed at the national
manufacturer Sevres.
1t is painted by Sweback and reprelents
the battle Of Marengo. 1t is one of the
mott exquilite productions of the kind
You fee IN the foreground Bonaparte,
ferene, and directing. the movements Of
his army. Near him are his Mamelnkes
and feveral generals. AT little dittance