MAMMOTH HOG.

A Hog, two years and eight months old, has lately been killed at Bethlem, Conn. which, when drefled, weighed feven hundred and eighty-eight pounds.

NEW INVENTION.

A machine for paring apples has been invented at Lancafter Penr. 21 apples can be pared in a minute, with a great faving.

THE DEY OF ALGIERS.

Extract of a letter from an officer in Lord Nelfon's fleet, dated off Algiers, Jan. 18, 1804.

"On the night of the 15th, the Superb, commanded by Capt. Keats, anchored at Algiers, having Mr. Falcon, the Conful General on board, and a letter from Lord Nelfon to the Dey, demanding that Mr. Falcon fhould again be received. as Conful here, and that all the Maltese who have been lately captured by the Dey's Cruizers, thould be liberated and given up as British fubjects. On the following morning at day-break, a fulute was fired from the fort, which, however, capt. Keats did not return, but fent a Lieutenant on fhore with a letter, to requeft an audience. of the dey, which was accordingly granted. Captain Keats, accompanied by Mr. Scott, Chaplain to Lord Nelfon, who fpeaks the Arabic fluently, and who acted as interpreter there, waited upon the Dey, and prefented Lord Nelfon's letter, with a fuitable and fpirited remonftrance on the occafion. Throughout this interview which lafted nearly an hour, the Dey's conduct was very violent and outrageous, and it concluded with his pofitively refufing to receive either Mr. Falcon back again, or to give up any of the Maltese in is poffeffion.

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at this feason of the year, which was deemed a much more important object at the prefent moment. We therefore to day left Algiers, on our way to Toulon again. The whole fquadron were more difappointed than I can poffibly exprefs, at not being permitted to humble the Dey, and extirpate for a time this neft of pirates. Two hours would have done the buliness completely, and I truft we fhall one day make the experiment. I am perfectly convinced from my own obfervation, and it was alfo the opinion of the ableft officers in the fleet, that four fail of the line would certainly destroy all their works, and all their navy in one morning, with very little lofs. They have indeed a great number of guns mounted on their principal battery, which defends the mole where their fleet is laid up, and it has a formidable appearance from the bay but, it is fo injudicioufly constructed, that a line of battle fhips can anchor upon each flank of it, within half piftol fhot, where not a gun could be brought to bear upon them, and in which fituation they would foon lay the in orationis. This work is the fole whole defence of the town from the fea fide, except an old wall without a fingle gun mounted upon it, and which a few broadfides would crumble into duft,

this place. The blacks compelled the French Captain to hang his whole crew (60 in number) and then to be his own executioner. The French have inftructed the blacks in leffons of blood; and they have proved apt fcholars. Since this last affaffination, the French have fworn to take all veffels trading with the blacks, and to put their crews to death. One Ameri can crew, I am informed, have already met this, fate! All kinds of American produce here is very high-beef 30 dollars per barrel; pork nearly 40; flour feven joes; butter 55 cents per lb.-Cheese 20; lb. and dry goods at any cents per 55 Coffee is 7 dolprice you may fet them at. lars hundred. The Black Commanper der in Chief, and his officers appear much attached to the Americans,"

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Extract of a letter from Wm. Lee, Efq. United States Conful, at Bordeaux, February 16, 1804.

It is impoffible to give you an idea of the diftreffes of the merchants of this city. Credit is totally destroyed, and the mifery is depicted in the countenance of every commercial man. What will be the end of this God only knows. I would advise all those who adventure this way to fend out intelligent fupercar goes, whofe integ"The garrifon does not amount to a- rity can be depended on-and if the merbove 4,oco foldiers (if they can be called chants of the United States were wile they fuch) who have neither difcipline or cour- would except of no advance by means of age, and who particularly dread the Eng-facilities on London, or Amfterdam. Re lih; not only from our naval fkill, but from ancient prophetic tradition they have among them, and which they all firmly believe that Algiers is to be taken and deftroyed by the English on a Sunday." The prophecy may be eafily fulfilled by us whenever we chufe, and we must shortly take fome decided fteps to humble the Dey, unless we are content to pay him tribute like most of the other European pow. ers. No Conful now can ever be fent back with honor or fafety till fatisfaction is obtained for the itfults we have receiv.

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"The Dey of Algiers is entirely guid ed by fome Jew merchants refiding at Al

Extract of a letter from Aux Cayes, St.

Domingo, dated March 18. "On our paffage we met feveral privateers; but they appeared afraid of us. The French privateers are very numerous in the paffage; and we must fight our way though them. The blacks here ftill continue to kill all the French whites, men, women and children. Yesterday, they picked up feventy-five of thefe unfortunate people, and laft night the whole of them. were maffacred. No white person, of any nation, dare be feen out after seven o'clock in the evening. Three days ago, a French privateer ran a fhore a small distance from

mittances on these places cannot be made from this at the prefent Crifis without great risk and uncertainty. I am fettling all my affairs, and withdrawing my name from commerce entirely in order to live peaceable and happy, and to enable me to give a more effectual protection to thofe of my fellow citizens who may need my affiftance in my official capaity.

MAYSVILLE, (KEN.) APRIL 5. ON Monday the fecond inft. a strong and well built fhip, was fafely launched at Limestone, to the extreme gratification of a very large concourfe of people. The enterprize of Mr. Charles Galagher, the entire owner of this veffel, merits the good wishes and patronage of Kentucky.

The benefits to be derived to our country, by the fhip-building bufinefs, are in numerable, and we cannot withhold the highest praife to those who thus early teach their fellow citizens the way to wealth. We ought alfo to give every poffible encouragement to good workmen, as the fuccefs of this important branch of bufinefs' depends materially on them.

MARRIED,

On Wednesday, the 25th ul Mr. ELIJAH WARE NER of Genessee, to Miss SALLY BALL, daughter of Major Jonathan Ball of Claverack.

Ye tuneful nine, ye sweet celestial choir, Attune my lay, my daring breast inspire To paint the terrors of the rushing storm's Destructive force, that heaven and earth deforms, O'erturns the feeble props of human trust, And lays proud structures prostrate on the dust.

Now swiftly past the vertic point of heaven, His flaming orb had Sol already driven, When o'er the sky a sudden gloom was spread, From black'ning clouds, which general terror shed: With louring fronts, their angry course they held, From adverse points, by adverse winds impell'd; Charg'd with their vengeful load of nitrous grain, Dire exhalations and sulphurous train: Till in mid heaven, their magazines expire, And o'er the concave bursts th' imprison'd fire. While the dark troubled air loud thunder rends, And down the expanse the forked bolt descends. The elements in wild confusion hurl'd, With fierce commotion, shock the astonish'd world. Meanwhile from heaven, the pendent waters pour, Commixt with hail, a desolating shower! Wrapt in red fiery sheets, with wild amaze, Pale man beholds all ether in a blaze.

Now with dread fury and more dreadful sound Than winds in subterraneous caverns bound, (So Maro sings) when Juno's cruel Hate Urg'd Aeolus t' unfold their prison's gate, And sweep the sea, where Cytherea's Scn From flaming Troy now sought her rage to shun, A whirlwind comes, with fury arm'd t' o'erthrow And level in the dust both high and low.

For nought oppos'd its fury can withstand;
The lofty fabric built by human hand
Disjointed yields, and lofty trees that high
Lift their tall summits tow'ring to the sky,
By the dire fury of the storm o'erborne,
Wrench'd from their roots, whole forests lie o'er
thrown.

The trees that bent beneath their yellow load,
Uprooted, prostrate on the carth are strow'd;
Dread dessolation marks the tempest's way,
And stamps with horror this tremendous day.
Those grannaries, for which the fertile soil
Was till'd with labour and unwearied toil
With Ceres' golden gifts to fill, now torn
From their firm bases, prostrate lie o'erthrown;
By the resistless tempest forc'd to yield,
Their treasures fly and strow the distant field.
Thus rag'd the storm, but when th' almighty hand
Calm'd the rough tempest raging o'er the land,
What scenes arise! far as the keenest eye
Can dart its vision, forest prostrate lic:
The smiling trees with various fruitage crown'd,
And golden honors, prostrate strow the ground;
Aghast and pale the aw'd spectators stand,
And view the wonders of th' almighty hand.

Let heedless mortals tremble and adore
The Sire supreme, by whose almighty power
All things created were, whose awful sway
Commands earth's numerous nations to obey!
Whose word omnific form'd this wondrous ball,
At whose command whole empires rise or fall.
While mortals walk in Virtues flowry way,
And homage due to their Creator pay;
While all their views to pure Religion tend,
From ills he'll shield and from want defend.

Diversity.

WONDERFUL SHOOTING.

ENSIGN BURROWS, of the Suffex militia, decided a wager at Brighton, on Wednesday laft, which he had made, of a guinea a fhot, that he would not mifs ftriking a fmall apple, which he was to caft from his hand, with his fowling-piece ere it reached the earth: he difcharged 24 rounds, the number agreed on, at the little object in the manner fpecified, of which three only failed in the effe&t; fo that the Enfign's labor to demolish the apple was a clear gain of 13 grineas reward for the excellent fkill he bad difplayed: much money was confequently won and loft on the occafion. [Lon. pap.]

FROM THE SALEM GAZETTE.

VICE appears more difgufling in a woman than in a man, The fuperior whitenefs of Ler charafier, when compared with the other fex, difcovers every ipot which it receives. Vice, faflening on a woman, appears in all its malignity-we view it as a "hog in a flower garden." We behold with regret the profiration of whatever is lovely, delicate or beautiful in the human foul.

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IN the new play of the Soldier's Daughter, received with very great applaufe lately in London, Mrs. Jordan in the epilogue, drew forth reiterated peals. The idea of raifing a female army of referve, spicuous manner, in the Advertiser which accompa muft have excellent effect, and the mate. rials of which this amazonian hoft was to be compofed, excited confiderable meriinent the following will amufe our female readers:

"While glory animates each mortal nerve, Should British women from the contest swerve? No

We'll form a female army of reserve!

And class them thus-Old maids are pioneers-
Widows, sharp shooters-Wives are fuzileers;
Maids for battalions, that's all under twenty,
And as for light troops, we have them in plenty!
Vixens the trumpet blow, Scolds beat the drum,
When thus prepared, what enemy dare come?
Those eyes that even Britons could enslave,
Would serve to light poor Frenchmen to their

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FROM THE PORT FOLIO.

THE LAY PREACHER.

"The fashion of this world passeth away,"

MORE

ORE quickly, in the Preacher's opinion, and in the millener's practice, than the remembrance of a guest, that tarrieth but an hour.

Those flaves to the mode, who, from leifure and fortune are moft capable of reforting to "Vanity Fair," to learn and ape the fashions of this world, have a harder task, than the porter in town, or the haymaker in the country. A new coat every month, and a veft, of a different pattern, every hour, are hardly fufficient, in the opinion of a jury of beaux, to excufe a man from prefentment for high treafon against the law of tafle.

Cuftoms, the lawyers affirm, to have validity, must be equally old and certain. Cuftoms, which I copy, fays the coxcomb, must be as changeable as the filk gown, or the temper of a mistress.

St. Paul, who, I believe, never vifited Paris, appears rather hoflile to fafhion's freaks, although, in many respects, he was of a very complying character. In one of his epiftles, he makes particular mention of the ladies, and their drefs, but is fo uncooth and auftere, as to allow them only three fuits, which he calls by the barbarous names of fhamefacednefs, fobriety, and good works. These uncourtly terms, I lately afked a woman of fashion to define. With the volubility of her fex, fhe firft railed at poor

Paul, for prefuming to dictate in dress, and then told me that they meant linfey woolfey and grogram, flimfy manufactures, fit for none but Jewifh chambermaids to wear.

It one of the patriarchs could get up out of his grave, and furvey the chins of his defcendants, he would not fail to conclude, that the race of man was annihilated by another deluge, and that the daughters of Eve had the exclufive right to the globe. The fashion of this world regulates our perfons no less than our garb. Fashion cherishes a length of hair at one time, and Inips it at another. An antideluvian, in his tent, would encourage his beard to fweep his breaft. A modern coxcomb, at his toilet, will pay a barber to keep the beard fhaven. In the days of Cromwell and puritanifm, fashion fettled the length of countenance, as well as the width of confcience. None but long vilaged penitents could be numbered among the elect. In the merry days of Charles the fecond, and the profligate, behold the oppofite extreme; the features of levity contracted by laughter, and all faces as fhort as the Spectator's. We read, in ancient Britifh hiftory, that king Richard and his courtiers chained their fhoes to their knees; whoever marks a modern fine gentleman, tripping along the flreet, will difcern that his fhoe chain is attached to the inftep, and has dwindled from ponderous filver or gold, to the levity of a fhred of black ribband. The history of whiskers has been fo copioully detailed by my brother parfon, Sterne, that I am almoft excufed from another paragraph. But whifkers have had their fashions, and fuddenly have they paffed away.—

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The gallants in Shakespeare's days, used to confider them as ornaments of the cheek, and, by my muflichois," has been the courtly oath of a Spanish gentleman.Whiskers were then unaccountably worn, not as the pink of taste, but as the infignia of valour, and degraded by German corporals and huffars, into fcarecrows to terrify the enemy. This is not the last of whifker revolutions-Within a few years, a fmirking race, called, in fashion's vocabulary" Tippies," re-affumed whiskers, and their pallid cheeks, thus accoutred, exhibited a furprising compound of ghaftlinefs and effeminacy. But the scythe of the mode, at length, has nearly swept thefe fuperfluous hairs away from the face, and what will next grow there, must be left to fome future fcoffer against custom to record.

When I began this fermon upon the viciffitudes and vanity of fashion, I marked down sketches of the alterations in female drefs, as a diftant topic, on which I should enlarge, as became a preacher. But this was too vaft an undertaking for a writer, fo concife as myfelf. Befides the limits. of my difcourfes are too narrow for fuch an immeafurcable theme. Far from being compreffled info a fingle column, the things which fhould be written, concerning the fhop and box of the milliner, would overflow:a volume more ample than Ridgley's body of divinity, or the everlafling paraphrafe of Gill. For the time would fail me, and it abfolutely fatigued the long winded Ifaiah, to tell of the changeable Juits of a woman, of the "hoods," the "veils" the " mantles," and " wimples," the "bonnets," the "head bands," and the "round tires,"