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thall receive due attention. It is not very honorable to direct attacks under a cloke or fignature that fecures from retort. And they know that no editor can be found who will fubmit to be the perfonal antagonift of Harry Crofwell. Or if they will perfuade Mr. Crofwell to advance any charges against us amenable to the laws of our country, he fhall alfo be duly noticed Till then, let us have no more cowardly and mean infinuations, hints at nifdemeanor, or bafe inuendoes on character. If there is aught in the public or private life of the fubfcriber offenfive to the laws of morality, decorum, or the flate, let thefe gentlemen proclaim it boldly, and "give the truth in evidence," that he may be publicly convicted and exposed to the world. As to any "fafhoods publifhed in the Bee," they may be corrected in the C. HOLT. Bee.

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fents to the imagination the picture of a
hedge-hog, briftling with quills-or a tar-
get, pierced thro' and thro' with arrows.
In performing the latter, fome random
fhots have found their way to my real an-
tagonifts, who have never failed to expofe
themfelves by their fluttering. Think not
that you, or your dirty fheet of blue paper,
could claim attention, were there no other
object to be gained, than bringing either
the one or the other into ridicule and con-
tempt. With you, as an ordinary (or ex-
traordinary) member of fociety, I have
no concern. I have always carefully a
voided every investigation of your pri-
vate conduct, and I have feldom alluded to
your general moral character. But your
editorial character and conduct I have ever

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confidered as fair game. I have fcrutini-" OBSERVATOR," and a "FRIEND.”—
zed and tefted it. I have found it cor-
Some days fince, we received, from Rent-
Telaer county, the commencement of a po-
rupt and bafe. I have never hesitated to
treat you frankly and openly.. I have not
em, entitled, "The State Swindler." It
dealt in infinuations, hints, or inuendoes.
was accompanied by a note from the wri-
ter, requesting an intimation from us wheth-
er a continuation would be approved, and
obferving that filence would be confidered
as a negative. Having, in a preceding pa-
per, taken a final leave of Foot, only refery-

My charges have been bold and explicit.

about

-Go back to the files of the Balance.-
You will there find accufation on accufa-
tion-charge on charge. The truth of
these you tacitly acknowledge, by contes
ing that they are not amenable to the laws.ing to ourselves the right of animadverting
After this acknowledgment, for Heaven's
on the conduct of our rulers, should they
fake, let us hear no more of your prating continue him in office, we fuppofed that
that would be a fufficient apology for the
non-appearance of the Poem. By a line
from a
from a Friend," however, fince receiv-
ed, it appears, that many are difpleafed.
A little explanation, therefore, becomes ne-
ceffary.-Before a public officer has been
convicted of mal-conduct, it is undoubt-
edly the duty of a printer, to expose every
mifdemeanor of which he knows him to be

character. Do not afk me to
your
make any worfe charges against you:-
Hundreds are on record: And, if you
have them tefted. But remember the fate
dare, refort to the laws of your country to
of Foot and Spencer-and beware!

H. CROSWELL.

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COWARDICE, meanness, and a totali difregard for truth, are fo mingled togeth. er in the above card, that I hardly know which appears moft confpicuous. Had a ny perfon been particularly pointed at in the addrefs, the blank might be confidered as a mere fhield for an coward; but this blank is nothing but a paltry artifice to cover the falfhoods that follow it, for you do not believe that any " efq." or, indeed, any other perfons amufe themfelves in writing against you under my name or authority. Although you have heen in the conflant habit of furnishing out your editorial department with the productions of others-although you have been the packhorfe of your party-although your broad fhoulders have been made to bear the whole burden of the productions of certain great men-yet you know this has not been the The Bee fays, that "our government. cafe with me. You do not think that any is pursuing energetic meafures of repara- guilty. It is undoubtedly his duty to hold perfon except myfell furnishes a fingle artion for the infults," which have been of-up a worthlefs officer to public view, and ticle for my editorial department. Your fered our flag, by the British frigates off to point out the rotten (pots in his character. infinuations, therefore, on this point, are the harbour of New-York. We fincerely The people have a right to expect fuch an bafe, falfe and deteftable. You correctly with that this information of the Bee might expofure. But after a public officer is obferve, that it is not very honorable to prove correct, because we think it is high convicted of orimes, and of a fhameful negdirect attacks under a cloak or fignature time that our government had taken meaf. lect of duty, in a court of juflice; after his that fecures from rétòrt ;" but the obfervaures to prevent fuch unwarrantable aggrefworthlefsnefs is on record, it can be no part tion comes with a very ill grace from you. Gions on our commerce. But we do not Skulking behind your rotten reputation, give it any credit.-We fhould like very titled poltroons have fpit their venom at well to know upon what authority the the Balance and its editor; and I have been dronifh infect predicates this information. compelled to retort by pouring my fhafts Is the Captain entrufted with the "fecrets The Poem in queftion has merit; and into your callous hide, or by throwing of the cabinet," or does he receive it from when Obfervator" will treat of fubjects them at random at your maflers. fome of the understrappers in the depart-more worthy of his pen, his productions firft has been done, until your body pre-ments? If he is actually entrusted with all be attended to, with pleasure.

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of the duty of a printer to pursue him further. We repeat, however, that if Foot is continued in office, the men who keep him there fhall hear from us.

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gricultural.

EXTRACT.

TO FARMERS.

A

POUND of Turnip feed harveft, upon an acre of light gravelly land, that is poor or by over ploughing, and where wanting (the crop of which beed in, when grown high) will, nths time, die away and rot, and land, fo as to prove as good a as twenty loads of dung, or on an acre."

Monitorial.

d the cause of virtue and religion.

wing passages, are extracted from the Ir. Nott's incomparable Sermon on the Gen. Hamilton, delivered at Albany, on ult.]

AT

Ta time when fkepticifm,
and fuperficial indeed, but deprav-
malignant, is breathing forth its
ial vapour, and polluting by its
wed touch, every thing divine and
it is confoling to a devout mind to
that the great, and the wife, and
d, of all ages; thofe fuperior gen-
whofe fplendid talents have elevated
Imoft above mortality, and placed
ext in order to angelic natures--
is confoling to a devout mind to
that while dwarfifh infidelity lifts
deformed head and mocks, thefe IL-
HOUS PERSONAGES, though living in
nt ages-inhabiting different coun.
-nurtured in different fchools-del-
a different purluits-and differing
rious fubje&s-hould all, as if
d with an impulfe from heaven,
o vindicate the Sacredness of Reve-
and prefent with one accord, their
ng, their talents and their virtue, on
ofpel Altar, as an offering to Eman-

This is not exaggeration. Who was
bounds
mat overleaped the
En had hitherto been fet to the human

Darrow.

fity of Ipace, difcovered and illu rated
thofe laws by which the DEITY unites,
binds and governs all things? Who was it,
foaring into the fublime of aftronomic fci-
ence, numbered the Aars of heaven, mea-
fured their fpheres, and called them by
their names? It was NEWTON. But New-
ton was a Chriftian. Newton, great as he
was, received inftruction from the lips,
and laid his honors at the feet of JESUS.

"Who was it, that developed the hid-
der combination, the component parts of
bodies? Who was it, diffected the animal,
examined the flower, penetrated the earth, i
and ranged the extent of organic nature?
It was BOYLE, But Boyle was a Chrif-
tian.

form!

which the people enjoy.

Notwithstanding nation are conducte does not, in the op the highest honor o landing we are ke ual uproar by a ho litical fcribblers-f lieve we enjoy as

ges and as much re of the nations of E

This gentleman he had feen men, a particular, who, fo of the impoffibility efcaping the Englis channel, had been to prifon, and fpace of twenty-fou ing the caufe of h is a true fpecime This is the Liberty Republic. From fhould wish to be

"Who was it, that lifted the vail which
had for ages covered the intellectual world,
analized the human mind, defined its pow-red
ers, and reduced its operations to certain
and fixed laws? It was LOCKE,
Locke too was a Chriftian.

But

"What more fhall I fay? For time
would fail me, to fpeak of HALE, learned
in the law; of ADDISON, admired in the,
fchools; of MILTON, celebrated among
the poets; and of WASHINGTON, immor..
tal in the field and in the cabinet. To this
catalogue of profeffing Chriftians, from
among, if I may fpeak fo, a higher order
of beings, may now be added the name of
ALEXANDER HAMILTON. A name
which raifes in the mind the idea of what-
ever is great, whatever is fplendid, what-
ever is illuftrious in human nature; and
which is now added to a catalogue which
might be lengthened--and lengthened-
and lengthened with the names of illuftri-
ous characters, whofe lives have bleffed fo-
ciety, and whofe works form a COLUMN
high as heaven-a column of learning, of
wifdom and of greatnefs, which will ftand
to lature ages, an ETERNAL MONUMENT
of the tranfcendent talents of the advo
cates of Chriflianity, when every fugitive
leaf, from the pen of the cantling infidel
witlings of the day, fhall be fwept by the
tide of time from the annals of the world,
and buried with the names of their authors
in oblivion."

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I WAS, a fhort time fince, very

much entertained by the converfation of a
gentleman who has come very lately from
France. After liftening pretty attentively,
for a fhort time, to his converfation, which
was chiefly refpecting the transactions in

The gentleman had never feen the or riding out witho attend him. That governor of Franc him-no one could would take nextfinding out," and were all kept fec &c. &c.

Such is the "LI ITY" for which tending for years. for which he has of her citizens. erty & Equality" ue to enjoy fo long remains at their he

We have feen a d'Enghein fhamefu have feen that vet reau, caft into pr For expreffing thei the extraordinary co ful Will the pe to be governed by Will they quietly into the hands of t

AMO

IMPRO

NEW R

CAPT. MUGE has invented a new be on an entire new the inventor the g

Selected.

From the NEW-ENGLANd republiCAN.
ADVERTISEMENT EXTRA..

NEW CONSTITUTIONS MADE,

AND

Old ones Repaired, Tinkered and Mended!

THE Subscribers, and their affociates, refpectfully inform the good people of the feveral States in the Union, that they have long noticed, with a mixture of furprise and regret, that, till within a few years paft, no effectual prefervatives have been provided for the feveral nations, States, or bodies politic, which exift in the world. They every day fee announced to their fellow-citizens, infallible remedies against all difeafes which tend to deftroy human life; and the apothecaries' fhops are filled with the various new-difcovered medicines, to effect that important object.Thus all the maladies which Irave afflicted the human race, from the most dreadful apoplexy down to a fimple tooth-ache, or a ring-worm, may be radically removed by Hamilton's Elixir of Life; Solomon's Cordial Balm of Gilead; Simer's Reftorative Balfom of Life; Richard Lee's Indian Vegetable Specific; Wheaton's Genuine Patent Jaundice Bitters; Hahn's Genuine German Cornplater: Perkins' Tractors; Sovereign ointment for the Itch; Hamilton's Worm Lozenges; or Dr. Northup's Bitters. In the midst of thefe aftonishing inventions, fo well ca!culated to promote the immortality of the body, and render it perfect, little is done towards curing the difeales of the body

the Sign of the Guillotine; where any
State may, on the fhorteft notice, find a.
Conftitution-ready made, or procure one
to be completed exactly fuited to their
condition and where alfo any old Con-
Aitution, or Charter, or part of a Con-
ftitution, may be new-fet, repaired, or
tinkered, fo as to confer on the people for
whom it is defigned, perpetual peace,
happiness, and immortal vigour.

al of the United States, certify, that the Conflitution of the United States labored under a difficulty from its birth, and that, upon application to Paine, Tinker, & Co. they repaired it with perfect cafe; fo that it is now entirely whole and found in every part; and, for aught appears the prefent arrangement will last during the life of the Prefident.

No. 3.

I, ARTHUR FENNER, Governor of the State of Rhode-Ifland, certify, that the Conftitution of the United States, when it firft appeared in this State, had TWO HEADS, which was confidered as an incu rable evil; that Paine, Tinker, & Co. have repaired it to our entire fatisfaction. In the year of the reign of Virtue, 4.

The public are alfo refpectfully informed, that the acting partners of this great concern, are THOMAS PAINE, lately from France, who has vifited every part of that bleffed republic, and feen and minutely exbleffed republic, and feen and minutely examined all the Manufactories of Conftitutions under the direction of Abbe Seyes; and that the other is ABRAHAM TINKER, of New-Haven, who can give full proof of his skill in this glorious fcience, to any candid inquirer; and who, on the 11th of May laft, developed, in an oration, fome 1, ROBESPIERRE, lately of France, of the leading principles on this fubje&t. in the upper regions, folemnly fwear, that, To prevent all deception and fraud in Ipu- during a few of the last years of my refirious Conftitutions, they inform the pub-dence upon earth, one of the new Confiitutions, models of which are now in pofas genuine, unless there appear on it, infeffion of Paine, Tinker, & Co. was the hand-writing of the faid ABRAHAM TINKER, the following infcription ; the hand-writing of the faid ABRAHAM

lic, that no Conftitntion will be confidered

At the Sign of the Guillotine-
Liberty and Equality—

Paine, Tinker, and Co. one and indivisible.

They alfo ayer, that in any conftitution which they may make, or repair, or fanc. tion by the aforefaid infcription, there can. not be found any particle of, or allufiont to, divine revelation; but that the fatne are free from even the appearance of religion. This they deem neceflary to ftate, left fome of their brethren might fear the horrors of a priesthood.

To leave no doubt in the minds of the

No. 4.

used by me and my affeciates, with the

moft furprising fuccefs, and would have remained to this day, had not a few evilminded perfons cut off my head with the guillotine; and that I should deem one of thofe Conftitutions an admirable remedy for the diforders of thefe regions.

(Signed) ROBESPIERRE. Sworn to before me,

MARAT. Notary Public of the Infernal Regions.

No. 5.

I, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, Em

politic, and giving to that fimilar per-public, they affure them, that their skillperor of the French, do certify, that on

fection.

Are there not diseases in every fociety.

was derived from the most eminent artists and government, very alarming, and which in France; and as proof of the bleffed chin and glorious effects of their labours, and tend to deftroy the happinefs of the peo.. ple? Who has not witneffed and lamentof fimilar inftitutions, they fubjoin the ed the apoplexy of anarchy; the obftinate following Certificates from the most ref gout of ariftocracy; the fever of republi-pectable of the human race; and are, with the highest affection for the people, canifm; the gripes of democracy; and Their moft devoted and bumble fervants, the univerfal debility of monarchy ? And PAINE, TINKER, & Co. who is ignorant that many of thefe maladies are to be afcribed to certain wellknown caules, which exift in every body. politic; fuch as St. Anthony's fire, St.) Vitus's dance, falt rheum, tetters and ring-worms, which are juftly denominated AN ITCH FOR POPULARITY.

Imprefled with thefe ideas, and, with a yiew to render the people whom they at. fectionately love, as happy in their politi. cal condition, as any of the aforefaid me. dicines can, as their health; the Subscri bers and their affociates have established a CONSTITUTION MANUFACTORY, At the Fail in Hartford, To be kept in their Caucus Chamber, at

No. 1.

my return from Egypt, a few years ago, I found the body politic of France forely afflicted with the gripes of democracy, and rapidly haftening to the apoplexy of anar. chy; that I applied a Conftitution fimilar to that now used by Paine, Tinker, & Co. and the difeafe entirely fubfided that I afterwards infufed a little more strength into it, and it has now become eternal in me and my family, to the deftruction of the caprice of elections," and to the everlafting prevalence of "liberty and equal

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Year 11.

IABBEY SEYES, refident in the repub-ity."
lic of France, certify that Paine, Tinker,
& Co. of the United States of America
are in poffeffion of the most useful and re-
nowned art of making, mending, and
tinkering Conflitutions, as practifed in
this Republic with the most unbounded
fuccefs, for the last twelve years.
(Signed)
ABBE SEYES.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.

Nota Bene.-Specimens of the above models of Conflitutions are entrufled to Ifaac Hilliard, of Reading, in Fairfield county; to John T. Peters, Eiq. of Hebron, in Tolland county; and to a number of young fourth and fifth rate lawyers, whe, having no great profeffional bufi nefs, bave offered their fervices for the I, LEVI LINCOLN, Attorney-Gener- good of the people.

Paris, 28th Floreal-
Year of Liberty and Equality, 11.

No. 2.

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State Paper.

FROM THE BOSTON CENTINEL.

NEW- FRENCH CONSTITUTION.

[WITHIN the laft fourteen years, the French have adopted and deftroyed nearly as many Conflitutions, or forms of Gov. ernment, until the people, heart-fick of the mad and toolifh vagaries of democra. cy, and mock patriotifm, confented to permit the ruling party in Paris, to make whatever Conftitutions it thought fit.Thefe Conflitutions are now called "Senatus Confultum." That by which Bonaparte has caufed himfelf to be created Emperor, was in force at the date of our laft accounts. It is too lengthy for a femi-weekly Gazette. We have, therefore, made the following fummary of it for the information of our readers; and as à State Paper to which frequent reference will be made.]

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SENATUS CONSULTUM.

This inftrument was promulgated the 16th May, 1804. It contains 143 articles, divided into 16 titles. The firit of them

declares Napoleon Bonaparte emperor of the French, and the imperial dignity hereditary in the direct natural and legimate defcent. The Firft Conful may adopt the children or grand-children of his Brothers, provided they have attained the age of eighteen years complete,& he himself have no children; adoption is prohibited to his fucceffors. In default of a natural and legitimate heir of the First Conful, or of an adopted heir, the Empire will be transfered to Jofeph Bonaparte and his defcendants; and in default of Jofeph Bonaparte, and his defcendants, to Louis Bonaparte and his defcendants, and in the cafe of failure of the heirs of Joseph and Louis Bonaparte, a Senatus Confultum, propofed to the Senate by the great dignities of the Empire, and fubmitted for the acceptance of the people, hall appoint an Emperor.

1, 10, 11, 12, and 13 of the decree of the [ 21ft of December, 1770. The Emperor may fix the dower of the Empress, and affign it on the Civil Lift. His fucceffors His fucceffors fhall not be permitted to make any change in his difpofitions in this refpe&t."

The Emperor will vifit the departments; in confequence, Imperial Palaces fhall be established at four principle points of the empire.

In cafe of a minority of the empire, there fhall be a Regent of the Empire. The Emperor is a minor until the age of 18 years, complete. Females are excluded from the Regency. The reigning Emperor may previously appoint a Regent from among the French Princes. In default of fuch appointment, the regency fhall be given to the Prince nearest in degree of confanguinity. No organic Senatus Confultum can be iffued during the Regency, nor before the end of the third year which fhall follow the majority. There fhall be a Council of Regency, compofed of the titularies of the great dignities of the Ein. pire. The Regent fhall not be empowered to declare war nor to make peace, until after a deliberation in the Council of Regency, of which the Members, in that cafe only, fhall have deliberative voices. The guar

dianship of the Emperor, in his minority,

fhall be confided to his mother; or in de the Predeceffor of the Emperor who is a fault of her, to the Prince appointed by

minor.

The great dignitaries of the Empire are, the Great Elector, the Arch Chancellor of the Empire, the Arch Chancellor of State, the Arch Treasurer, the Conftable, and the high Admiral. They fhall be nom inated by the Emperor :-They fhall enjoy the fame honors as the French Princes and

rank immediately after them: They fhall be Senators and Counsellors of State: They fhall form the Great Council of the Emperor They fhall be Members of the Privy Council They fhall compofe the fhall not be poffible to remove them.-SenGreat Council of the Legion of Honour. It atories fhall be attached to each of the great dignitaries of the Empire: They fhall be ef

of the Minifters, of the Great Officers of the Empire, of the Senate, of the Council of State, of the Legiflative Body, of the Tribunate, of the Court of Caffation, of the Archbishops and bifhops, of the Great Officers of the Legion of Honour, of the Presidents of the Confiftory, of the Confiftories and Mayors of the principal cities of the Empire. He fhall fwear to maintain the integrity. of the territory of the French republic; to refpect and caule to be refpected liberty of conlciene and the laws of the Concordat; political and civil liberty: the irrevocability of the fales of national property; and not to levy any tax but by virtue of a law.

The Senate fhall be compofed-1ft, of French Princes: 21, of the Titularies of the Great Dignities of the Empire: 31, of 36 Members nominated on the prefentation, ard of candidates chofen by the Em. peror, from lifts formed by the Electo ral Colleges of the Department; 4th, of Citizens whom the Emperor fhall judge proper to elevate to the dignity of Senators.

There fhall be formed in the Senate, and from its body, a Committee of Indi vidual Liberty, confifting of feven members, who, if any perfon is arrefted and not brought to trial after ten days from his arreft may, on application from fuch per

fon, call on the Minifter who ordered his arreft either to fet him at liberty or bring him before the Tribunals, which if he refufes to do, the Committee may demand an affembly of the Senate, to which the matter shall be referred.

There fhall likewife be in the Senate a Committee for the Liberty of the Prefs, which fhall proceed in the fame manner in cafe of any intringement of that liber, ty.

The Senatus Confultum contains various other regulations relative to the Legislative Body, the Council of State, the Tribunate, of the Electoral Colleges, and the High Imperial Court. This Court is to be compofed of the Princes, Great Dignitaries, great Officers of the Empire, the Chief Judge, 40 Senators, and other members, and is to take cognizance of perfonal offences committed by the Members of the Imperial Family, by the grand Dig nitaries, and the Senators, as alfo of Of fences of Minifters where they are official

The members of the Imperial Family,tablished in the departments of the Dyle, the Gironde, the Rhone, the Po, the Lowin the order of inheritance fhall bear the er Loire, and the Mouths of the Rhone. title of French princes. The eldest fon of the Emperor fhall bear the title of Im- There fhall be great Officers of the Em perial Prince. A French Prince who fhall pire.-1ft, Marthals chofen from the moftly refponfible. marry without permiflion from the Emper-diftinguifhed Generals, 2d, eight Infruttor fhall be deprived of all right to the inheritance, unless he hill have no children by this marriage, and the marriage fhall be alterwards diffolved.

The Civil Lift fhall remain regulated as it is by the ft and 4th articles of the decree of the 26 h of May 1791. The French Princes Jofeph and Louis Bonaparte and the younger fons of the Empire, Thall be treated conformably to the articles

ors and Colonels, Generals of Artillery, Cavalry, and the Marine; 31, Great Civ. il Officers of the Crown fuch as fhall be inftituted by the ftatutes of the Emperor. The great Offices are immoveable.

The laws fhall be thus promulgated"NAPOLEON, by the Grace of God and the Confiitution of the Republic, Emperor of the F.ench," &c..

The French people fhall vote, in the forms appointed by the decree of the 20th The Emperor, within the two firft years Floreal, of the year 12, on the inheri after his acceffion to the throne, or attain-tance of the Imperial dignity in the direct, ment of majority, fhall take an oath to the natural, and legitimate defent of Napole French people, on the Gospel, and in the on Bonaparte, Jofeph Bonaparte, and prefence of the Titularies of the Empire, Louis Bonaparte.

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Hudson, August 28.

Laft week, an execution was iffued, and the money collected (whether legally or not, time will fhew) which his honor judge Spencer lately recovered of the editor of this paper. We understand, his honor has obtained a verdict of one thousand dollars against the printers of "The Corredor," N. York. If his honor and his friends are to be believed, (and who would prefume to difbelieve them) none of the fuits in queftion have been brought to obtain money, or to gratify a revengeful or malicious fpirit; but, on the contrary, to promote the public good, by restraining the licentiousness of the prefs. This being the cafe, it may rea. fonably be expected that his honor will expend the money drawn from the pockets of printers, in erecting and endowing chur ches, or in establishing fome charitable inftitution, Should he actually erect a church, it is to be hoped that fome of the perfons who contribute to the fund, will. have the privilege of writing an infcription for the corner-stone,

On Friday laft, we had the fatisfaction of feeing the water brought from Hudfon's river, over the bank in front of this city, a perpendicular height of about 80 feet, by means of a new conftructed fet of pumps, invented by Capt. Benjamin Folger, for which he has obtained a patent. As the works are but temporarily erected, for the purpose of experiment, it would perhaps be improper to give a defcription of them in their prefent ftate, or to mention the quantity of water delivered per minute: But, judging from prefent appearances, many people believe that a fufficiency may be raifed, at fmall expence, to fuppli the whole, orat leaft, that part of the city, which in dry feafons, is almoft wholly deftitute,

Yesterday the Grand Jury, now in feffion much to their credit, after patiently hearing a mafs of teftimony for three days, unapier moufly brought in a bill of indictment a gain! Aaron Burr, Vice-Prefi lent of the Uaited States, tor fending a meffage challenge, inviting Gen Alexander Ham ilton to be killed by him in a duel, and gainft William P. Van Nefs, and Nathan

el Pendleton, for acting as feconds. B this 1ittment, if confirmed by the competent tribunals (ot which we have no

doubt) Mr. Burr, Mr. Van Nefs and Mr. Pendleton, are by the last law againft duelling, paffed by the legislature of this ftate, completely disfranchifed, and of courfe difqualified from holding any office of honor or profit, or voting in the ftate for the term of 20 years. The Murder of Gen. Hamilton, having been committed in the ftate of New-Jerfey, the Grand Ju ry did not feel authorized to take cognizance of it. [N. York Gazette.]

What will be the conduct of the Gov. ernor of New-Jerfey, refpecting this affair, it is difficult to conjecture. The public indignation has been raised to fuch a pitch, that many (and we have been amongst the number) have expreffed a hope that Gov. Bloomfield would demand the Vice-Prefident, and that he would be delivered up, to take his trial, &c. The more we reflect on this fubject, the more interefting does it appear. Were this laft, the only crime of the kind that had been committed-had Hamilton's been the only

wrapt up in a very old dirty fhirt, tied in a filk handkerchief full of holes, was found a large heap of leaves two or three (mall ftones, a falt herring and one bifcuit, with a note, flating" that as they had the day before fupplied him with fref provifions, he had left them a relish for breakfast." [Balt. Telegraphe.]

A fchooner, called the Eliza, and commanded by capt. Johnfon, has lately been fitted out at Charle fton S. C. and was intended to be converted into a French pri vateer; but she was feized while laying at anchor-a libel was filed against her in the Federal Diftri&t Court. Her trial came on the 14th ult. when, after a hearing of eight hours, the jury brought in a verdict against the veffel and cargo, which are in confequence condemned as forfeited to the United States.

Accounts from Spain, to the 24h June, contradict the report of an engagement beblood with which the fhores of New-Jer-The repo.t originated in this circumftance: tween the French and Englifh off Toulon. fey have been reddened-had no duel been fought before, Gov. Bloomfield would not, he could not hesitate for a moment. But, alas! Crime after crime has been committed duel after duel has been fought-life after life has been taken, and "juftice

has flumbered--and flum bered-and-flum

The French fleet from Toulon followed a decoy English 74, and a frigate, round the iflands off Toulon harbour, and exchanged a few fhot with them; but on the Enginto port. The French Toulon fleet was lifh fleet appearing in fight, they returned compofed of eight fail of the line; the English twelve.

The not.

MARRIED,

On Thursday evening last, Mr. MATTHEW PINKHAM, of this city, to Miss HEPZIEETH COF. FIN, of Chatham.

On the 16th inst at Kinderhook, by the Rev. Mr. Sickles, Mr. JAMES L. VAN ALEN, to Mrs. LIDIA WYNCOOP, widow of the late John C.

bered." The governor is therefore placed in a delicate and trying fituation. To be confiftent, he must proceed alike against all offenders. All are equally amenable to the law; and circumstances of aggravation or palliation, can be made manifeft, only on a fair and legal investigation. If none of the offenders are arraigned, juftice will ftil fleep ;-If all are arraigned, a vice-prefident of the United States and a judge of the Supreme Court, of this ftate muft appear before the fame tribunal.Heavens! to what a ftate of degradation Wyrcoop, Esq. and daughter of Judge Sylvester. are we brought, when juftice must fleep, or fome of the high officers of our government, be brought to the bar to be tried for the crime of murder.-Whatever courfe is purfued in the prefent cafe, we trust the public will not be fatisfied until fome means are adopted to prevent the repetition. of a crime, the enormity of which now appears in the moft ftriking, the most frightful colours.

A CURIOUS FRAUD.

On Monday morning laft, a good lookng man came into a very refpectable tavrn in this city--he faid he was travelling

the northward and was lately from NewOleans. After regaling himself fumptu.

fly, and enjoy ing a comfortable bed, he leparted next morning, telling the boy in he bar to take care of his bundle-he not eturning, the bundle was opened, when,

The knell.

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"In this city, on Monday evening, 20th inst. Miss RACHAEL ELIAS, aged 25 years. The assurance that she expressed, in her last moments, of fu ture happiness, gave great satisfaction to her surrounding relatives."

In Utica, of a typhus fever, on the 13th inst. Mr. FLAVEL BINGHAM, aged 28 years, (lare consort of Mrs. FANNY BINCHAM, who died on the 11th ult. of the same disorder.) In his death society has lost an industrious citizen- a friend of vir ue and religion-highly esteemed by all who knew him.

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