Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1811-02-15

tAS odoISSt was ANtt1 va AOa0 SN~
I'd inst. reported a bill for continuing the
charter of the Bank of the u. States.
A letter from Bordeaux of the tenth De.
cember SAYS war was declared against
England by Sweden, OF the 18th Novem.
ber."
How do z0e stand ?-On the Cd day oil
November last, the President of the United
States, issued his Proclamation, informing
his People, that it has been officially made
known TO this government, that the edicts
Of France, violating the neutral commerce
Of the United States have been so revoked
as to cease TO nave effect on the first OF the
present mouth [Novl
Mr.. Madison, it is TO be regretted, has
had too much faith 10 the assurance Of
Champagny, the French Minister OF 70.
reign Relations-for, it will be seen, by
this same minister's report to Bouapar,e in
this DAYS Gazette, that on the 9Th OF last
month, he says, SIRE, as long as England
shall persist in her Orders in Council, your
majesty will persist in your DEGREES
This report, too, was adopted at an ex-
ira session of the French Conservative Sc
nate, held on the 18th ult.
We leave this difficulty to be settled at
Washington. Something must be imme-
diately done. The Presidents proclsma
ton, now, is a nonentity, and no seizure
OF British goods can be made under it.
IN. r. Gaz.
The New York Public Adv ~ertiser says,
eve understand from good authority, that
Aaron Burr lately made application to Mr..
Russell, the American Charge des Afaires
in France, for his passport as an American
citizen, his obi sct being to quit France, AM
return to the United States ; but that the
application very properly met with a posi-
tive refusal from Mr.. RUSSELL"
The late queen Of H,Hand COPIES of
a very severe but feeling letter, written by
this lady to Bonapsrte, are stated to be cir.
culated at Paris, by the partizans of lose.
phine. They report, that in the year 800,
she sacrificed her Innocence to his incestu-
Gus lust, upon condition that all ideas of a
divorce from her mother should be laid a.
side, and that she was pregnant by Napole-
on when she was married to his brother.
The letter is in 2 pages, close writing
We have only room for the following ex-.
tract.
my SIM" she writes, "fall on your
culpable head! Your threats and seduction
and my mothers tears made me a criminal
before I knew what guilt was. Take back
your blood stained sceptres, your ruined
kingdoms, and restore me, if you can, the
innocence of which you have robbed me.
Nothing proves more the ineficacy of your
power, than your inability to render me my
lost virtue! Your sovereignties-your dia.
the wages of infamy, of prosti.
tuition. They increase the reproaches of
my guilty conscience. 1t is not hardened
like yours. Itdreads, but it believes, in a
remunerator hereafter. It implores his
forgiveness, and prays for your repentance.
l pity, but do not envy, the unfortunate
princess exposed to your poisonous en-
braces. Your treatment, am certain, will
soon send her to a convent, to a mad house,
or to a grave. | moulin my mothers dis
grace, because she has not religion enough
to support it with resignation, or philoso-
ply enough to despise i. with dignity
Again, what are the empires of the world
to peace of mind? When it is gone, SPLEEN
dor and grandeur are only brilliant misery.
You, you, the sole cause of all my wretch
edness, you have shut the gates of Paris,
ofmy native city, against me. Thank God
You cannot dispose of heaven! The most
repentant Of sinners. thrust, will find them
open for her reception. She summonses
her destroyer before the throne of an Al
mighty Greater! Yes! yes before II
months you shall appear in the presence OF
the Judge of Heaven and earth, 10 render
an account for a fortune you have horribly
ahused-for the victims you so cruelty have