little fimilar to that of the 18th Brumaire. My ambition, if I had had much of it, could eafily conceal itself from all appearances, or even do donour to itfelt by every fentiment of the love of country.

The propofition was made to me by men celebrated in the revolution by their patriotifm, and in our national affemblies by their talents; I refufed it; I believed myfelf made to command armies, and did not wish to command the republic.

This was enough to prove, in my opinion, that it I had an ambition, it was not that of authority, or of power: very foon after, I proved this ftill farther.

The 18th Brumaire arrived, and I was at Paris. That revolution, provoked by others, as by me, could not alarm my confcience. Directed by a man environed with a blaze of glory, it made me to hape for happy refults. I began to fecond it when other parties preffed me to put myfelf at their head to combat it. I received in Paris the orders of General Bonaparte. In executing them I concurred to elevate him to that high degree of power which circumftances rendered neceffary.

When, fome time after, he offered me the chief command of the army of the Rhine, I accepted it from him with as much devotion as from the hand of the republic itself. My military fucceffes were never more rapid, more numerous, more decifive, than at that epoch, when their fplendour overfpread the government which accufed me.

Upon the event of fo many fucceffes, of which the greateft of all was to have alcertained, in an efficacious manner, the peace of the continent, the foldier heard the lofty fhouts of national gratitude.

What a moment to confpire if fuch a dfign had ever been able to enter my foul. Every one knows the devotedness of armies to chiefs whom they love, and whom they have juft led from victory to victory: an ambitious man, a confpirator, would he have fuffered the occafion to efcape when,. at the head of an army of a hundred thou-. fand men fo often triumphant, he returned to the midst of a nation ftill agitated, and always reflefs with regard to its principles and their duration?

I only thought of difbanding the army, and returned to the repofe of a civil life.

In this repofe, which was not without glory, I enjoyed without doubt my honours-thofe honours which human power can never wrest from me, the remembrance of my actions, the teftimony of my confcience, the esteem of my companions and fangers, and, if it may he faid, the flattering and prefentiment of pofterity.

I enjoyed a fortune which was not great, because my defires were not immenfe, and which caufed no reproach of confcience.

I enjoyed the entertainment of my retreat. Surely I was content with my lot-I who never envied the lot of any. My family and my friends, fo much the more precious as not having any thing to hope from my credit or my fortune, they could remain attached but to my fell alone.

All the bleflings, which alone I highly appreciate, filled my foul entirely, and could permit no undue defire or ambitious wifh to enter; would it then be open to criminal projects ?

This condition of my foul was fo well known, it was fo well guaranteed by the distance at which I kept from all the paths of ambition, that fince the victory of Hohenlinden till my arreftation, my enemies have never been able either to find or to feek me by another crime than the freedom of my difcourfes-they have often been favourable to the operations of government; and if at any time they have not been fo, could I therefore think that that was a crime among a people who had fo often decreed that of thought, that of word, that of the prefs, and who had enjoyed much of it even under its kings.

I confefs that, born with an openness of difpofition, I have not loft this attribute of the country (of France) where I received life, neither in the camp, where every thing gives a new impetus, nor in the revolu tion, which has always proclaimed it as a virtue of the man, and as a duty of the

citizen. But do thofe who plot blame fo openly what they difapprove? It I had wifhed to form and purfue plans of confpiracy, I would have diffembled my fen. timents, and folicited all the fituations which could have replaced me in the midft of the forces of the nation.

In order to trace this plan, in default of political genius, which I never poffeffed, I had examples known to all the world and rendered impofing by their fuccefs. I know well that Monck did not withdraw from the armies when he wifhed to confpire, and that Caffius and Brutus approached the heart of Cefar to pierce it.

Magiftrates I have nothing more to fay to you. Such has been my character, fuch has been my whole life. I proteft in the face of heaven and of men, the innocence and integrity of my conduct: You know your duties; France liftens to you, Europe contemplates you, and pofterity awaits,

COURT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

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Bulletin of the proceedings of the Court of Criminal and fpecial juftice, against Georges, Moreau, and others, 15th fitting, June 10th, at 4 o'clock in the morning.

The Court of Criminal Juftice, after 29 hours deliberation, have returned a decree which condemns to the punishment of death,

Georges Cadoudal, Bouvet de Lozier, Ruffillon, Rochelle, Almand, Polignac, D'Hozier, De Riviere, Louis Ducorps, Picot, Lajolais, Cafter, St. Victor, Deville Armand Gaillard, Joyaut, Burban, Lemer. cier, Lelan, Cadudals, Merille, Roger.

To two years imprisonment-Le General MOREAU, Jules Polignac, Leridant, Rolland, La Fille Hizay."

Acquitted-Victor Couchery, David Herve Lenoble, Rubin Lagrimaudiere, Noel Ducorps, Datry, Ever, Troche fa. ther, Troche the fon, Monnier & his wife, Denande and his wife, Caron, Gaillais and his wife.

Donand and his wite, and Verdet, are remanded to the Correctional Police.

Suddenly, on Wednesday the 25th ult. at Newtown, Long-Island, Doctor RICHARD LAWRENCE, in the 38th year of his age. Society in his death have been deprived of a skillful physician, a social, hospitable and benevolent man. Mild in his temper, unoffending in his manners, and generous in relieving the wants of his fellow creatures, he was endeared to all who knew him. He has left an amiable wife to weep over his early tomb, and a numerous train of relatives and friends who will long cherish his virtues in mournful remembrance.

[Evening Post.]

LITERARY NOTICE.

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IMITATION.

To the greatest hypocrite on earth.

He call'd thee vicious, did he? sland'rous elf!
Thou art not vicious, thou art vice itself.
Another Imitation.

BONAPARTE's a liar, his slanderers cry-
They lie, he's no liar, he's only A-li.

Diversity.

From the Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.

BOOTS.

Mr. POULSON,

Great improvements have of late years been made in boots; yet, I perceive, they have not attained perfection, efpecially the heavy kind. The weather is now warm, and it will be of vaft confequence to our Bucks (efpecially thofe that dare not ride) to be well equipt to walk the clean pavements of our city.

I would propofe the boots fhould be made of good length, coming up close to the hams, making a reafonable allowance for about a dozen large wrinkles, fo as to rife at least nine inches above the knee. 1 propofe them to be wider than thofe now in ufe, and to have large long fquare toes, well turned up, equal at leaft to an angle of 90 degrees. The leather of the confiftency or ftrength commonly used in fire buckets, and like them, jack'd or stiffened with pitch, and by no means to omit the following important improvement :-They fhould be cockered (as it is called in fome countries) or, if yon pleafe, fhod or ironed-this is done by making for each boot a plate of iron-fomething like a horfe fhoe,-for the heel, and another for the toe -to be well nailed on and finished by filling up all the intermediate fpaces with hob nails whofe heads fhould be half an inch in diameter. Through boots thus improv. ed not a mufqueto in a thoufand would pufh his nole.

I do not purpofe the flim Young Jemmie's of fourteen, who move like wirework, fhould carry the fame weight of iron as the broad back, fturdy fellow of nineteen or twenty, left, in the attempt of fo high a degree of improvement, the hips might be diflocated or the back bone fuffer fome irreparable injury. If I had nothing elfe to do, I would graduate a scale of the proportion of weight, regulated by the girt round the loins.

A young man thus equipped, with legs of the fize of his body, (I would not have them larger) and a coat drawn round his fhoulders and neck fo thick as to refemble the neck and fhoulders of a bull, would, with the ladies, be quite irrefiftable. LOUDON.

NOTHING is a greater proof of our progrefs in refinement than the modern revolution in our English nomenclature. In days of yore, an emprefs was content to be called Maud or a heroine Joan.In thefe days our milk- maids are Carolines and Arabelles; our fifh-tags Louifas and Sophias. Paffing through a ftreet the other day, our ears were affailed by the voice of a mother, exclaiming, "Julia Maria Matilda, come out of the kennel, you dirty little bh." [London Paper.]

THE following defcription of a courtezan, is extracted from a very old and quaint book:

He, that keeps her company, is in the highway to the devil. To look upon her with defire begins the voyage; totalk with her mends his pace; and to poffefs her is to be at the journey's end. Her body is only the lees of delight; for, when you tafte her, fhe's dead, and palls upon the palate. Her trade is oppofite to that of any other, for the fets up without credit, and too much cuftom breaks her. She is even moored in fin, and yet is always failing about. At fifteen, fhe is the compan ion of brave fparks, and at thirty, the is the furgeon's creature..

"Now it is to be understood that the duel was fought a little paft 7 o'clock, that the boats were nearly or quite an hour in croffing the river, fo that Mr, Burr could not poflibly have reached home till half past eight; but the phrafeology of the above billet implies that it was written before eight- between 8 and 9 o'clock," leaves it to the option of the receiver to come as foon any time after 8 as he pleases. This billet, then, was either written before. Mr. Burr went out in the morning, and left lying ready to be fent off immediately after his return from difpatching General Hamilton, or it was the first thing he did as foon as he reached home, and without being very attentive to the hour. We leave the choice to Mr. Burr and his friends.

"Mr. Prime went: he had heard nothing of the dreadful bufinefs of the morning: he continued with Mr. Burr about a quarter of an hour, during which time he conducted himfelf towards Mr. Prime with all that cafe and affability which are fo peculiar to him. There was no diftrefs, no regret, no embarraffment either visible in his countenance or difcernable in any part of his demeanor. On the contrary, fuch was his cheerfulness and usual behaviour during Mr. Prime's flay, that when he afterwards was told, as he drove to the city, that Col. Burr had that morning Thot General Hamilton through the body, in a duel, and wounded him mortally, he with much confidence affared his informant that it must be a mifiake, for that he had just left Co Burr in as much good homour and unconcern as he ever faw him in his life; nor was it till the dreadful intelligence had been repeated to him in all its circumstances by a circle of half a doz

en gentlemen, that he could yield to it his credit. This account we had from Mr. Prime's own lips the fame forenoon, in the prefence of feveral gentlemen and we now make it public with his exprefs permiffion, as well to correct erroneous reports as for fuch other purpofe as we think fair and right.'

Where Mr. Burr ftaid, for several days after the death of Gen. Hamilton, is not well known. He left New-York about a fortnight fince, in the night, and proceeded, by an unusual and obfcure road, in a light waggon, to Philadelphia, where he appeared in public, and was vifited by Gov. M Kean and Mr. Dallas. A letter from Philadelphia, dated July 27, fays,

"Aaron Burr is ftill here-It is faid he approached our city with fome diffi dence and diftruft; but a few days refidence at the country place of the Attorney of the District, where he halted to reconnoitre, infpired him with confidence to brave. the laws of decency and decorum, and the indignant and condemning looks of our injured and infulted citizens. Accompanied by his friend Dallas, he unblushingly walks through our freets at noon day, obtrudes himfelf upon the public notice, and, where the flighteft previous acquaintance will afford him a fhadow of a right, he fiezes the hand, nay, forces himfeit into the houses of individuals wearing badges of mourning for the man he has murdered."

The letter further adds, that Mr. Burr is believed to be the author of a moft infiduous and villainous attack upon the character of Gen. Hamilton, which appears under the fignature of "Warren" in a democratic paper of Philadelphia.

Seventh, Eighth and Ninth. On thefe feveral heads the following facts are offered. In giving the first, the editor of the Citizen begs to be understood as pledging himself to fubftantiate the truth of it, if called upon by the civil authority."

"About half after ten o'clock of the morning when the fatal interview took place, Mr. Matthew L. Davis, who is known to be in the confidence of Mr. Burr and his friends, met in Pearl-ftreet a gentleman of veracity with whom I am quainted, and, in a ftrain of exultation, faid-"Well do you not flake; do you not tremble? Tremble laid my friend for what? For the FATE of your leaders, said

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* A report now prevails, that he is very ill with a dropsy in the head, in the neighborhood of Philadelphia.

Davis, for although General Hamilton is

the FIRST he is not the LAST that is t FALL!" Davis has fince confeffed to Mr. Lang that an affeciation of duellifts was formed, and that one of their objects was to take away the life of General Hamilton." In further support of this fact, the following notes are given in the Citizen :→ GENTLEMEN,

I am informed (and I believe correctly) that M. L. Davis declared in your office on Saturday laft, in a mode of fportive triumph, that my remarks on the Society of duelifts, contained in the Citizen of that day, were correct.

As the well meaning of both the republican & federal parties cannot but feel an intereft in bringing to light and expofing to the frowns of their fellow citizens an af fociation fo horrible in its nature and end, I take the liberty of requesting, for publication, a statement of the declaration to which I allude.

Your ob't. ferv't.
JAMES CHEETHAM.
Mrs. John Lang, & Co.
N. Y. July 24.

SIR,

New-York, July 25, 1804.

In your letter of yesterday you call up. on us for a statement of "declarations" which Mr. M. L. Davis made in our of fice on Saturday morning lat.

Mr. Davis being in our office the 21ft inft. a conversation took place refpe&ting the remarks in the American Citizen of that morning, headed general Hamilton's death. Mr. Davis oblerved, that the remarks refpecting thole who had pledged them felves to fupport Mr. Burr, to the laft drop of their blood, and wherein the names of the Davifes were given as authority, were "true enough." And fur. ther obferved, that the printer of the Cor rector had the names of a certain number of gentlemen (we believe he faid twelve) who had agreed to fupport the publication of that paper with their lives-and that their names were to be handed to any per

ton who fhould demand perfonal fatisfaction, on condition that he would fight ei ther of them-and not otherwife. Yours, &c.

JNO. LANG, & Co. The following is allo stated by a correspondent in the Citizen :

He

"It is underfood that Davis expreffed himself, the morning after the fatal wound was given, in the following words. was highly elated and poke in an air of triumph:

Yesterday afternoon, fays Davis. (meaning the afternoon of the day on which the duel was fought) I and feveral

of Mr. Burr's friends paid him a vifit. You may depend Mr. Burr's a d-v-ish good fhot! after we had drank a glass of wine, continued Davis, Mr. Burr remarked, by way of apology for firing a little below the breaft, that had not it been for fmoke, or a rifing momentary mist, or fomething of that nature which intercepted his vifion, he should have lodged the ball exactly in Gen. Hamilton's heart!! Slapping his hands together in confiderable earneftnefs. No man, faid Davis, had any chance with him he's a prodigious good fhot, you may depend."

Tenth. The editor of the Evening Post, afcribes to Mr. Burr a paragraph which appeared in the Morning Chronicle previous to the publication of the correspondence, in which it was faid that Mr. Burr's conduct would be approved by every can. did and impartial man, when all the facts came before the public.

These are a part, but probably, not all the facts which have transpired, relating to this dreadful event. They furnish an ample field for reflection-but we forbear.

TO C. HOLT.

Your ordinary meanness, your small-scale baseness, and your petty knaveries, have much too often fallen under my observation. You have been repeatedly detected in all the little tricks of which little minds are capable. But, until last week, you had not gone all the rounds of turpitude. You had not, until then, given a finishing stroke to your editorial character. Hitherto you had calumniated the living patriots of our country only, You had not pursued the best of men to the tomb, to wreak your malice and to vent your slanders.

If I have formerly considered you rather more a dunce than a knave-If I have treated you with playful levity, rather than with seriousness and gravity, it was because I had not before observed in your conduct such an instance of cold blooded inhumanity, and savage malignity, as you exhibited in your last paper. I looked upon you as mean and despicable; but I did believe you possessed the feelings of a man, In the last particular, I was deceived. Your vulgar and malignant attack upon the character of Gen. Hamilton, is sufficient to prove that your bosom was never warmed with one spark of sensibility.

That you, and your brethren in iniquity, should calumniate Gen. Hamilton, while living, is not astonishing. He was a man without a parallel. The blaze of his genius eclipsed all the inferior lights by which it was surrounded. His virtue was without a spot-his honesty without a blemish-his fidelity without a breach. He was therefore envied and hated. His rivals felt their inferiority. They des paired of rising to the proud eminence on which Hamilton stood—they therefore strove to drag him

down to their own humble level. The attempt was vain; and he has been compelled to expiate, with his blood, the unpardonable crime of being superior to his fellow men: But even this has not been sufficient to satisfy the insatiable venom of his enemies. The silent mansions of the dead have been disturbed by the raven croakings of inhuman slanderers. His broken-hearted widow, and a circle of tender orphans, have found in the country, a wretch, sufficiently hardened, to pour, rankling poison into wounds which claim from any thing less than a sav. age, the healing balm of comfort and condolence.

The motive you avow for assailing the fame of Gen. Hamilton, is more base, if possible, than the deed itself. It proves, nay you almost acknowledge, that envy instigated the inhuman assault. You say that you feel yourself "perfectly justifiable in derogating from the reputation of Gen. Hamilton," because his friends have gone over the extremest bounds of reason in their panegyric on the deceased, and extolled him to such a degree as to wound the feelings and slander the good fame of the living.” You say that your observations are drawr. from you, by the "unrestrained and exclusive panegyric on his character," in which his advocates have indulged. Is it, then, such a crime for the friends of Gen. Hamilton to indulge in the expression of their grief for his loss? Is it such a crime for them to render the honest tribute of praise? Yes, it is a crime in the eyes of those whose feelings are wounded when a rival is extolled-who claim for themselves all the praise, all the adulation, all the panegyric, that the people can bestow. I forbear to enlarge on this head here, because I intend to make it the subject of future animadversion. It was merely introduced to shew that envy was the basis of your attack.

Bearing in mind, then, the confession which does you so much honor, that you assail the reputation of Hamilton, because his friends, in their zeal, have indulged in what you deem unreasonable and extravagant panegyric, let us examine the nature of your slanders, and see whether the matter is not even worse than the manner. Do not think, however, that I shall follow you through all the depths to` which you have descended. There are allusions in your production, which I will not copy, although in doing it, I might overwhelm you with public indignation. Let them die in the soil which produced them. You may yet live to wish your hand had withered before it pourtrayed such a damnable image of your heart.

"His political, his moral, and his relig. ious principles and conduct, we must take the liberty decifively to condemn. We cannot approve the advocate for monarchy, national debts and standing armies, nor the proteffed duellist, and” *****

the time of the adoption of the constitution, he wished to infuse a greater degree of energy into our government; although he doubted whether the constitution was strong enough to stand the test of experiment; yet he was one of its most zealous advocates, and continued to be, to the day of his death, one of its most able defenders. Is this a proof that he was a monarchist Certainly not; but I defy you to adduce any other.

It is perfectly right for you, who are the advocate of immorality and deism* to condemn the moral and religious principles and conduct of Alexander Hamilton. Thieves have been known to condemn the invention of locks.

The charge of his being a "professed duellist," is repeated several times in the course of a few lines. You mention" the repeated duels in which he has engaged;" and finally say,

"We know that he has been in the habit of fending challenges, deferring the iffue by evafive letters, (fome of them almoft verbatim with his correfpondence to Col. Burr) and coming off without fighting and therefore in the character of a duellift he has failed to maintain confiftency and fpirit."

As this is the first time that such a charge has ever been publicly made against Gen. Hamilton, and as you have given the public nothing but your bare word to support it, you must permit me to doubt every syllable of it. It is undoubtedly an atrocious calumny, invented by yourself; but, as it can add nothing to the baseness of the rest of the performance, I pass it without further notice.

You say," that the loss of General Hamilton, though much to be lamented by his friends, and the admirers of eloquence and abilities in general, is a subject of no regret to the republican,” &c.

Is it necessary, then, to be a republican, that a man must also become a brute? Of what strange stuff must a republican be made, to feel no regret for the loss of abilities? Do not republicans admire eloquence-Be it so. Finally, you say. "He is gone, and we have more reason to rejoice than mourn." Of this I have no doubt. But could you not spare the remark at this particular time? Could you not

"Assume a virtue if you had it not.” Could you not postpone your cpen exultation to a period, when the grief of Gen. Hamilton's friends had a little subsided? Could you net mimick, for a few days, at least decorum, if not sympathy? Could you no longer conceal the savage barbarity of your nature? Shame on such a wretch !

* You will understand this allusion. The public feel no interest in your immorality or irreligion.