clined to go to war with Spain-in this, however, you are mistaken the reverse is the fact and they only with the federal papers to utter thofe opinions that they may have an argument of that fort for indulging their wifh to go to war with my country, which would certainly be very injurious to your's-For if the King, my mafter, was to order three fhips of the line and fix frigates to the Miffiffippi-three fhips of the line and fix frigates to the Chefapeak and three fhips of the line and fix frigates to Sandy Hook-what would you do? But you have it in your power, to do much good, by efpoufing the part of peace, which is fo neceffary to both na tions-And if you will confent to take elucidations on the fubject from me, I will furnish them-and I will make you any acknowledgement." Perceiving, at this moment, his infamous purpofe, I with difficulty ftifled the emotions which it excited, and restrained my indignation. He went on to examine in detail the feveral points in difpute between Spain and the United States-and, as I wifhed to learn his opinions refpecting them, I fuffered him to proceed. Among other things be, faid that if Mr. Pinckney had acted by instructions from the adminiftration, or if his conduct should be approved by them war was inevitable. But he had no doubt war was the wifh of our administrationfor he had received a letter from NewOrleans dated on the 25th of April laft, which stated that there was a letter at that place in Mr. Jefferfon's hand writing, dated in March laft, which declared that if the fettlers between the Miffiffippi and the Rio Perdido, would raife the American colours they should be fupported."

He continued his obfervations, and preffed me to give him an anfwer-affuring me that this was no diplomatic manages, ment, but an panchement (unbofoming) of himself to me as a man of honor-and he trufted I would fo confider it. I then quitted the room; He went with me to the ftreet door, and again afked me when I would give him an answer. With diffTo culty I fuppreffed the indignation of my feelings and left the houfe.

W. JACKSON. Sworn the 7th Sept. 1804, That the contents of the within flatement are juft and true. EDWD, SHIPPEN, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of PennJylvania.

SIR,

Philadelphia, September 7th, 1804.

Confiderations paramount to all others, the love of my country, and a fenfe of perfonal honour, which no change of fortune or circumftances can ever, efface or diminith, have decided me, on the prefent occafion to addrefs you.

SIR,

Monticello, Sept. 15th, 04,

I have received your letters of the 7th and 9th inftant,* and fhall ufe their contenis in due time and place for the benefit of our country. As you feem fufficiently apprifed that the perfon of the Marquis Yrujo is under the fafeguard of the nation, and fecured by it's honor against all viola. tion, I need add nothing on that head. On another however I may be permitted to add that if the information refpecting a letter faid to have been written by me was meant as a fample of the communications propofed to be given to you, their loss will not be great. No fuch letter was.ever written by me, by, my authority, or with my privity. With my acknowledgements for the communication I tender you my falutations.

TH: JEFFERSON,

Major William Jackson.

* Duplicate.

From the Gazette of the United States.

THE following article, extracted from the Norfolk Publick Ledger, contains our fentiments upon the probable refult of our prefent differences with Spain. We have never believed that the Spanish government will dare to go to war with us, unlefs compelled to it by France, and of courfe backed by the Emperor of that republic; and having fuch affiftance, they can never provoke our government to go to war with them. They may, perhaps, block up our ports again, and again compel us to pay a handfome fum for having them opened-but nothing more.

FROM THE PUBLICK, LEDGER, WAR WITH SPAIN. NOTWITHSTANDING what has

been publifhed in this and other papers,

propriety, be reverfed, and Mr. Charles Pinckney might be inftructed, by Mr. Madifon, to fay-" We boat our own ftrength without knowing it; and we fear the ftrength of others but know how to refpect it."-This would perhaps be correct. We are dealers in extremes. One day we utter the most daring provocations, and the next tremble at what may be their confequences.

We do not at this moment wifh for a war with Spain. Until England has allo declared against her, her navy, having no check, would prove rather inconvenient to our little Mediterranean fquadron ; which might become the victim of our impolicy, before any of our Gun-Boats could get out to protect it. Nor do we wish to lee our government make, in any cafe, a common caufe with Great Britain, until ample redrefs fhall have been obtained for the injuries he has for fome time been, and now is multiplying upon us.

Spain knows well, however, at what time the may affume the appearance of energy. She knows that the tame fpirit which now influences our councils is not cafily roufed. In the affair of Tripoli the has a happy fpecimen of our manner of warfare. She doubtlefs expects, and we fhall not be furprifed to hear, that all these differences will be accommodated by another treaty; in which the juft claims of our merchants will be furrendered, more territory (the Floridas for example) purchaied and fome fifteen millions of dollars drawn from our pockets, to enable the enlightened government of France," to crush the defpotic government of Eng. land. For as the Right Reverend Bishop TALLEYRAND fays,-Il faut d'argent, beaucoup d'argent.

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Be it our weekly task,

To note the passing tidings of the times.

Hudson, October 9.

It appears, fays the Washington Federalift, that an infurrection is on the eve of taking place in a part of what was lately Luzerne county, Pennfylvania.-Mr. Gallatin has long been abfent from the feat of government.

A letter from Cadiz, favs, that " 60,000 bufhels of wheat, and 12,000 barrels of Flour arrived there from the Levant and the United States, from the 21st July to the 9th Augu."

Captain Thomas Dalfon has arrived at New-York in the brig Rofe, from Ca. diz, with very important difpatches (as i is faid) to the Secretary of State from Mr. Pinckney, our minifter at the court of the King of Spain. Mr. P. had received his paffports, and was to leave Madrid for the United States about the 20th of Auguft. The bearer of the difpatches has given it as his opinion that a war between the two countries is apparently inevitable.

At Georgetown, S. C. it is estimated that ten thousand barrels of Rice have been destroyed by the late gale.

We learn, with extreme regret, that the late tremendous ftorm, has extended its ravages very widely. At Savannah, it was more severe than at Charleston, and at St. Croix and Turk's Ifland, it was equally deflructive.

A Savannah paper of the 12th ult. gives the following account :

On Saturday last we experienced one of the fevereft gales of wind that has happened within the recollection of our oldeft inhabitants. In fact, few, very few among us, can recollect ever to have seen any thing," the effects of which were fo deftructive, as has been the late hurricane. The ftorm: commenced on Friday night, with a degree of violence by no means unusual or alarming. On Saturday morning it had in fome measure abated; but about 9 o'clock its violence increased until four or five o'clock, when it appeared to have gotten to its height, and continued to rage with dreadful fury until about 10 o'clock, when it began to fubfide. During the early part of the day the

wind

was from the north; but at about the middle and during the latter part of the day was fhifting almost continually from N. to N. E. Confined as the inhabitants were to their houfes, and unaccustomed to fuch fcenes, the imagination wandered ancontrouled over the most highly colored pictures of deftruction and devaftation, and fancy prefented to the mind's eye the most horrid and awful confequences. But when the morning came, and the ftorm had fo far fubfided as to fuffer the inhabitants to look about them,it was found that bufy fancy ever apt to exaggerate, had formed but an imperfect picture of the dreadful scene of havoc and deftruction. The trees in every part of the city were proftrated. The chim. nies of a great many houfes were blown down, and feveral houfes themselves. The steeple of the Prefbyterian Meeting and part of the wails of the Epifcopal Church were blown down. The wharves from one end of the city to the other were torn up, and almost every store which was erected at any distance from the foot of the bluff, was either totally deftroyed, or fo much torn to pieces, as to fpoil every 1

thing contained within them. Every vel. fel in the harbour was thrown upon the wharves, except fuch as were totally de froyed, and large fhips are laying on fome of the highefl wharves. There was no paffing from one whart to the other; lum. ber, cotton, tobacco, hogfheads of rum, fugar, and in fact every article of dome!. tic and foreign produce, were firewed from one end to the other of them.

All

We have heard of but three deaths in the city, a man and two children, who were killed by the falling of houfes, but humanity fhudders in attempting to defcribe the fufferings of the people of Hutchinfon's Island and other rice plantaLions in the vicinity of this place. the buildings upon thele places, almoft without an exception were fwept away in the general destruction, and many lives were loft among the negroes and overseers with their families. The lofs of negroes trom the different plantat ons is computed to exceed one hundred.

Another paper, after mentioning the ftorm, adds

During its continuance, the fhaking of the dwelling houses, the fcattering of the flate and tile from fuch roots as were covered with thofe materials, the falling of feveral chimneys in the city, and the levelling of fences and trees around, created an inceffant alarm, which the arrival of morning proved to be too well founded.

A chimney in failing, killed two chil dren of Mr. J. Nelfon; a houfe fell and killed John F. Webb, and flightly bruised his child who was fitting near him.

But it was in the morning that the full horrors of the scene were witneffed. The fhores covered with lumber and the ruins of flores destroyed; the wharves with fhipping; the hopes of the merchants scattered among the fragments of the buildings or floating in the river, and in many of thofe ftores which withstood the gale, damaged or ruined; the innumerable fmall boats crushed like egg fhells, and thought almost as little worthy notice; reeds and marth grais torn by the roots from the oppofite iland, and accompanied by numerous ferpents, turtles, ma: fh-birds, &c. forming a back ground of the picture; and the negroes who had furvived the night on that fland, compoied wholly of rice plantations, fcreaming for affiftance, and for the lofs of their drowned companions, comnleted the affecting the fublime collection. Infenfibility itfelt could not have looked on unmoved.

We have not yet heard from the neighbouring plantations, nor can we form any idea of all the damage done.

On Womington ifland, Mrs. Scriven, wife of Mojou Scriven, and one of their children, were killed by the fall of the boufe.

Oa Hutchinfon's illand, Mr. Hoxhant

and wife, who had the care of a plantation, were carried away and drowned. The number of negroes drowned cannot be afcertained. It is fuppofed not less than thirty.

Fort Green, at Cockfpur ifland, is completely levelled, and all the buildings def. troyed. Of the foldiers, 7 of those who were there, escaped by getting on the roof of the laft houfe which fell, with fourteen others, men and women, foon after flating, the roof parted, and they feparately efcaped to land on Wilmington ifland. A fon of Capt. Nicholls is among the drowned. Four foldiers and a non-commiffioned officer were fortunately detained in town, as was Lt. Piott.

Gun-Boat, No. 1, is fafely lodged in a corn-field on Whitemarsh ifland, about 8 miles from where the drifted, and within 60 feet of a creek. It is hoped the will be got off without difficulty. All her 'me are fate and fhe has received no damage.

The following are the melancholy details as published in the Savannah papers :Damage done to houfes above the Pluff: Commerce Row, untiled, &c. The Exchange partly untred, fome windows and fathes broken.

Dr. N. W. Jones' houfe, on the Bay, occupied by Mr. Nelfon, has the chimnies blown down, by the fall Mrs. Nelfon has received much hurt, and two of her chil. dren killed.

The house occupied by Meffes. Bacon and Malone, near the fort, one chimney down, and feveral of the out houses.

The houfe in Carpenter's Bow, occupi ed by Mr. Bellinger, chimneys down, and unroofed.

The houfe occupied by Capt. Webb, crushed to the ground, himfelt killed, wife and child efcaped unhurt.

Mr. Hartftene's houfe, chimney down, roof part forced in, &c.

Judge Stephens's house, one chimney, trees, &c. down.

Mr. George Anderfon's dwelling house, chimneys and roots fallen in.

Mr. Berrian's houfe, chimnies and trees. down.

Meffrs. Hunter and Minis's lower fto. ry entirely beat in.

Mr. Stackhoule's entirely fwept off, and contents, books, &c. property of Dennis and Williams, loft.

Mr. Howard's Pore not much injured, falt, &c. much damaged.

Coffee. Houfe wharf, Mr. Dunn's Blackfmith's Shop entirely fwept away. Mr. Archibald Smith's ftore fuffered very partially.

Mr. H. Lord's ftore part beat in, and almoft all the contents floated out.

Havens and Bilbo's ftore fuffered confiderably.

Two imall flores on Hunter's wharf, carried away with contents.

Mr. Idlers ftore and contents entirely gone. Mr. Davis's flore and contents entirely

Machin & Macintosh's flore entirely carried away contents partly faved.

Harris & Brook's flore, northeast cor. ner and doors beat in, contents entirely loft.

Thomas Rodman's flore, lower part beat in, contents almost entirely floated off. Mr. B. Maurice's ftore, part beat in contents much injured, and fome loft. Mr. M. Labiffe, front part of the ftore beat in contents entirely gone.

Burroughs & Sturges's flore and goods. much injured.

Mr. George Anderfon's flores, one entirely down the other much injured, contents partly faved.

Cumming & Hormon's fore, beat in contents nearly all loft.

Col. Gordon's ftores, beat in, contents entirely loft.

al corvette, and the fhip General Jackfon. On Howard's whart, floop Liberty, bilged &c.

On the coffee-Houfe wharf, the brig Minerva, of Savannah..

On the piles of Williamfon & Morrel's wharf, brig Hiram of Savannah,

On the piles of Starke's wharf, the floop delight of Charleston.

On Montmollin & Heron's wharf the fchooner Hiram, of Savannah.

At Mein & Mackay's wharf, the hip Magdalen of Glafgow, upfet-the schooner Savannah Packet, of Charleston, bilged on the wharf, and floop Rachel, Brown, upfet, fincerighted.

On T. & R. Newel's wharf, the ship Brutus.

On Bolton's upper wharf, the brig Diamond and fchooner Carolina.

At Wayne's wharf, the brig Brandywine aground.

At Gordon's wharf, the fchooner Cornelia, upfet.

On Caig & Mitchell's wharf, the York, of St. Simons.

In the above statement we have not comprised all under either head, as it is at this moment quite impoffible to attend fo minutely to the fituations of every fufferer, as one of the Editors has come in for a fhare in the general deftruction, fuch as the lofs of two chimnees, doors, windows, fences, &c. and is compelled at this time to look at home.

The Knot.

MARRIED,

In this city, on Wednesday evening last, Mr. GEORGE HOLEMAN to Miss MARY ANN CAN

ADY.

At Middlebury, Vermont, Mr. JOHN FITCH, one of the Editors of the Middlebury Mercury, to Miss CHARLOTTE MOSELY.

The knell.

DIED,

In this city, on Thursday morning last, Mr. ReuBEN PECKHAM, in the 37th year of his age.

In Barnstable, (Mass.) Mr. THOMAS DAVIS, aged 78; 70 years of which he lived with his moth

er, who died at 98; the last seven he resided with his sister During a visit he made to Boston in the year 1752, his father died: From that day he never suffered himself to be shaved. Though possessed of real and personal estate, he was never known either to buy or sell any thing. He lived to see four settled ministers in the parish, only one of which he attended; living within one hundred rods of each of them, he was never known to speak a word to either. Not remarkable for seeking objects of char- ity, yet hundreds (now living) have received elief from his hands. In sickness he would receive no aid from any physician.