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we believe, was never called out of his countingroom to take care of the state, until last spring) for lieutenant governor. These proceedings on the part of the Clintonians, immediately excited the Burrites to bestir themselves, and they forthwith had a caucus, when Aaron Burr was nominated as their Governor. Whether this spirited movement disheartened the Clintonian candidate, or not, we cannot say; but for some cause or other, he sent in his resignation; and the faction were completely thrown in the rear of their antagonists. However, the Clintonias once more rallied their forces in the assembly chamber (for the reader must know, all these things are done on public ground) when, after much friendly contention, his honor Mr. Chief Justice Morgan Lewis, Esquire, was agreed upon; and his name is now circulated all over the state, in staring capitals, like that of a mounte bank or puppet-shew-man. on a handbill, headed with "Genuine Republican Nomination."

Now, we certainly do not mean to be to inquisitive; but we should like to be informed, for our own satisfaction, who these genuine republicans are, and who these other republicans, that follow Burr. If by genuine republicans, are meant those political terrorists, who commenced and carried on a system of tyranny, oppression and persecution in this statewho have ejected faithful officers, and filled their places with creatures and tocls-who have exercised their power in adopting plans for speculation and aggrandisement-who have corrupted our elections—who have attempted to fetter the press, and smother the voice of truth-then, we confess, we do not like these genuine republicans. On the other hand, if Aaron Burr, and his partizans, are one tenth part as bad as James Cheetham says they are, we cannot sincerely wish for their

success.

Under all these circumstances, the people should weigh the matter well before they decide. They have seen the Clintonians in power. They have seen how their power has been used-As to Burr, they know that he has been the darling of republicans-not only of genuine republicans, but of all sorts of republicans-they know what tales have been told about him-and they also know whether they have seen any sort of proof of these tales.-For our part, we shall give ourselves but little trouble about the business. There never was a time when we could with more propriety, say, "there is no knowirg who will be governor, until after the election."

REMOVALS.

Perhaps we should not trouble the reader with any remarks on the late removals in this county, were they no: attended with some circumstances which serve to shew, in a peculiar manner, what the democrats mean by republicanism, and regard for the people. If enough has not already appeared, to convince every candid man, that the democrats care not a cent for any thing but offices and emoluments, these removals furnish one or two additional facts which must be conclusive.

We cannot but admire the fervor, the zeal, with which both of the new officers sought the fattest office (that of Surrogate) which was to be taken away

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from a federalist for the gratification of one of them. Without pretending to decide which of the two candidates, was most fit for the office of surrogate, we must confess that the exertions of both to obtain it were highly meritorious. Rumor says, with how much truth, we cannot tell, that the contention run so high between these two modern patriots, that the sovereigns of the county were called together to decide the mighty affair; and that the candidates were summoned before them to exhibit their various claims and pretensions. One of the candidates, it is said, addressed the meeting in a long speech, and concluded by remarking that his family connections were numerous, and it was therefore proper that he should be made surrogate. The other replied, am nephew to Ambrose Spencer."-The first again remarked that he had great influence at the elections The other replied, "Ambrose Spencer is my uncle." The first told the assembled sovereigns that he could bring many votes to the poll. The other replied, "I am nephew to the Attorney-General." The first finally declared that all his friends would turn Burrites, if he was not made Surrogate. The other constantly answered, "The Attorney-General is my uncle"-At length the important question was decided by ballot, when the first had a majority of one vote. It was therefore concluded that he should be surrogate, and the other master in chan. cery. Accordingly they were appointed to these offices; and W. W. Van Ness, removed from the former, and H. L. Hosmer, from the latter, to make room for them.-Perhaps not a single word of this story is true. We give it as a report, and desire the reader to receive it as such. If, however, it is not substantially correct, we should like to see it contradicted through the medium of the Balance. It is hardly necessary to mention, that the only pretext for the removal of these officers, was, their attachment to federal principles. Not a democratic editor-not even the Bee, shameless, hardened, impudent-lost as it is to all sense of propriety, truth, or honesty, dare accuse either of them of any deviation from the strict line of their duty. We will not say, that the new officers have no other recommendations than those set forth in the curious debate above-mentioned. We know nothing of Mr. Van Alen-and of Mr. Parker we certainly know no harm. On the contrary, we acquiesce in the public sentiment, in believing him perfectly honest and trust-worthy. But if the offices are not better filled by the change, how is the public good promoted by it? When the people ask, why a faithful officer is removed; it will afford them but little consolation to tell them that his place was wanted for a nephew of Ambrose Spencer, or for a man who has it in his power to bring many votes to the poll. Besides, this system of favoritism, which has lately obtained such a footing in the state, is likely to produce the most serious evils. It has already torn the state into factions; and threatens every thing valuable with destruction. It has excited an unprecedented thirst for power-an unusual hankering after office-an astonishing greediness for the loves and fishes. It has brought bad men into notice. It has raised the worthless on the ruins of the worthy; and it is impossible to tell where its dreadful consequences will finally stop.

We are soon to have a new governor. Whether he will be a republican, or a genuine republican, we know not; but we will suppose that he will be just such a republican as our present governor; and that, like him (or like some of his minions for him) he will avow his intention of turning every man out of office, who does not exactly agree with him in sentiment, and of supporting and promoting all such as obey his dictates and bow implicitly to his will. What will be the consequence? Honest men will disdain to hold offices on such grounds-while the unprincipled and designing, will fawn round their chief, encourage his wickedness, and flatter his weakness, for the sole purpose of lining their pock.. lets. Such creatures will think it incumbent on them

to hold the rod of terror over the head of every person who dares to differ from the powers that be. Hence a system of persecution will follow. Hence, animosities, party contentions, discord, quarrels, confusion, uproar, anarchy. Hence, the destruction of liberty, and every thing worth preserving.

NEW-YEAR'S ADDRESSES REVIEWED.

Tumbling over a bundle of addresses, which had accumulated upon my hands since the commencement of the new-year, I was so disheartened by the cutting severity of the following stanza, bestowed in advance by the carrier of the

Wellern Spectator,

That I had almost resolved to throw aside my pen, and leave my promise of resuming my review, unperformed.

"To the critic I wish a few words to rehearse,

As you'll be a scratching and picking my verse, Your scratching I fear, no more than a rocket My verse you may pick, but don't touch my pocket."

Several Addresses remain unnoticed, many of them exhibiting traits of poetic genius; but other engagements prevent their being attended to. Next week I shall present the reader with the address of the Morning Chronicle, which will conclude my re

view.

PETTICOAT GOVERNMENT,

At a late dinner at Washington, the speaker of the house of representatives, gave as a toast" The real sovereigns of the United States-the fair sex." -He might as well have said that we are governed by a set of old women.

The "NEW ENGLAND REPERTORY," a federal of superior cast, which was lately established paper at Newburyport, is now removed to Boston. We know of no paper in the United States, that makes a more promising appearance.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Communications unavoidably postponed shall have a place next week.

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OF GRAFTING OLD APPLE-TREES.

IT frequently happens, that, through

fome miftake or other, after waiting ten or twelve years for a tree to come into a bearing ftate, it is then found that the fruit is neither fit for the table nor kitchen; in fuch cafe, we always graft them the fol lowing fpring, obferving to graft on the fineft and healthiest shoots, and as near as poffible to the old graft, and where the crofs-fhoots break out; by fo doing, you will have fome fruit the fecond year; and in the third, if properly managed, you will have as much as on a maiden-tree of fifteen years landing.*

The canker, if any, muft be carefully pared off the branch, and the scion must be taken from a found healthy tree.

Whenever an incifion is made for budding or grafting, from that moment the canker begins. I would, therefore, recommend to thofe employed in budding or grafting, as foon as the incifion is made, and the bud or graft inferted, to rub in with the finger, or bruth, fome of the compofition before the bafs is tied on; then cover the bafst all over with the compofition as thick as it can be laid on with a brufh, working it well in. If this operation be performed in a proper manner, and in a moift season, it will anfwer every purpofe, without applying any grafting clay.

This I have frequently done, and found it fucceed perfectly to my wifhes. Obferve not to flacken too foon the matting

This rule must be of great ufe, and I find it to have been practifed with great fuccefs at Kenfington.

+ Bals is the ftuff of which are made the mats that are put round trunks, &c. in the fhipping of goods. It is a nice foft ligament, and is much better than any other, as it never refifts the fwelling of the

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(or bafs) which is wrapped round the bud ; for in that fe you will find the incifion opened, which very often occafions the death of the bud.

It Nurlérymen and Gardeners would give this method a fair trial, and use the fame compofition as I uíe for curing defects in trees, inftead of loam and horfe-dung (which binds so hard as to prevent the rain and moisture from penetrating to the graft to moiflen the wood and bark) they would find that the grafts would fucceed much better. The compofition, for this purpose, should be rather fofter than grafting-clay generally is; and inftead of applying fo large a mass as is generally done of clay, it need not, in moft cafes, be more than two or three inches in circumference.

Monitorial Department.

To aid the cause of virtue and religion.

[The following is a maxim of Epicurus, with re
flections, by John Digby, Esq. from an edition
of Epicurus's Morals, published early in the last
century.
Edit. Bal.]

THE

HE wife man fhall not feek the Friendship of the peevish and morofe Man.

REFLECTION.

Friendship, when contracted with all the neceflary circumftances, is one of the greatest confolations of Life: we must not then fuffer ourselves to be hurried away by any fudden inclination, but we muft examine well the choice we are going to make, we must study the humour and manners of him with whom we intend to have this commerce; but above all things, we must take care that he be not of the number of thofe melancholly hypochondriacks, whom nothing can pleafe; who feem to have eyes only to look afcew, who speak only to find fault, and who are, in fine, of fo difficult and morofe a temper, that no body can do any thing to their fatisfaction.

If we have not these confiderations, intead of a trufty friend we fhall be fure to find a cenforious critic; and instead of confolation in our misfortunes, we shall receive the fevereft reprimands. Nothing in Seneca's opinion, can prove a greater comfort to the mind, than a friendship accompined with fidelity and mildness: Is it not a mighty blefling, to meet with one whofe happy difpofitions and qualifications render him worthy of being, as it were, the depofitory of our greateft fecrets; and who has fo fine and noble a foul, that we fear his indifcretion lefs than our own?

The sweetness of his converfation, fhall allay our grief; his advice fhall ferve us in the conduct of our affairs, and the very fight of him shall difpel our cares.

Literary Gleanings.

FOR THE BALANCE.

SEVERAL poetical productions of confiderable merit, have appeared in the Bofton Gazette. The following stanzas from a late winter-piece, entitled "The Mal!," contain fome good traits :

"Tho' now the elm no waving foliage bear,
Or summer gales shed perfumes thro' the air;
Tho' the white fields no herbage now adorns,
Or blithsome sparrows twitter 'mid the thorns;
Tho' here no more the belle delights to roam,
But reads her novels by the fire at home;
Tho' the stern season bids the shrinking maid,
Conceal her elbows, and her bosom shade ;"

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There lately appeared in fome of the fouthern papers, a feries of letters, under the title of the BRITISH SPY,' faid to have been written by a young Englishman, travelling in the United States. Thele letters were republifhed in pamphlets, and in many of the newspapers. They and were by no means deftitute of merit; confequently obtained a confiderable share of popular applaufe and encouragement. The fuccefs of thefe letters has induced another foreign adventurer to appear before the public. He calls himfelt the " HIBERNIAN VISITOR," and gives his productions to the world through the medium of the Kentucky Gazette. He profeffes, after the manner of the Englishman, to be a young traveller in America. Without giving my own opinion of the merits of these Irish letters, I content myfelt with copy ing the following paffages from the fift that has appeared :—

"Like all other people, you imagine that yourselves are most enlightened, humane and liberal; that your country is the paradife of the world; yourfelves the mot worthy to inhabit it, and to enjoy the good which it is fo capable of producing. You are in every respect like the fons of St. Andrew, whom Dr. Johnfon ufed to fay, "must like truth very well, not to love "Scotland much better." I have remarked, that this ridiculous vanity feems to pervade every clafs in lociety; the me chanick, the farmer, the legiflator, and the member of congrefs. Your own ir tucs, is the first toast at caroufal;

every

the first fentence in every fpeech; the first and last in every legislative addrefs. Ineed give you no more convincing proof, than

the addrefs of your congrefs to prefident Adams, a few years fince, when your representatives gravely declared their conftituents to be" the freeft and most enlight"ened people in the world." In this there was a general concurrence of opinion; fo that I would infer, your brethren of the other ftates, are not more exempt from this little vanity than your felves. It is pardonable for a drunkard to toast "our moft noble felves." His fituation would plead his excufe; but there can be nothing more ridiculous in a fober man; nor any thing more contemptible in a grave aflembly.

"The pride of an Englishman, the van. ity of a Frenchman, are your common topicks of converfation; and yet it feems that you have the fame complacent opinion of yourselves."

Miscellany.

FOR THE BALANCE.

MR. CROSWELL,

THE

HE following anecdote may not

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"but, my lords, I fhall go no further back This fmart reply decided his fortune,
"than the latter end of Queen Elizabeth's for from that time it was determined to fend
reign, at which time the Earl of Effex him to the Univerfity. With this view he
was run down by Sir Walter Raleigh; was removed to the fchool of Afhton, and
"and your Lordfhips know very well from thence, after remaining two years,
"what became of Sir Walter Raleigh. to Edgeworthyton, diftance about twenty
"My Lord Bacon, he run down Sir Wal- miles from his houfe.-In his laft journey
"ter Raleigh; and your Lordships know to this fchool he had an adventure which
"what became of my Lord Bacon. The is thought to have fuggefted the plot of his
"Duke of Buckingham, he run down my "Miftakes of a Night." Some friend had
"Lord Bacon; and your Lordships know given him a guinea; and in his way to
"what happened to the Duke of Buck-Edgeworthyton he had diverted himself by
"ingham. Sir Thomas Wentworth, af-viewing the gentlemen's feats on the road,
"terwards Earl of Strafford, he run down
"the Duke of Buckingham; and you all
"know what became of him. Sir Harry
"Vane, he run down the Earl of Straf-
ford; and your Lordships know what
"became of Sir Harry Vane. Chancel-
"lor Hyde, he run down Sir Harry Vane;
"and your Lordships know what became
"of the Chancellor. Sir Thomas Of-
borne, now Earl of Danby, run down
Chancellor Hyde; but what will be-
come of the Earl of Danby, your Lord-
ships best can tell :-But let me fee the
man who dare run the Earl of Danby
"down, and we fha!! foon fee what will
"become of him."

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"This being pronounced with a remarkable tone and humour, the Duke of Buck

Let those who are fo ready to run down their fuperiors in merit beware. The page of hiftory is a mirror, in which futurity is faithfully exhibited.

be improper for publication. In the pre-ingham, both furprized and difappointed,
fent day, while perfecution and impeach-cried out, "The man's infpired, and clar-
ment are fo fashionable, I would recom- et has done the bufinefs !"
mend it to the particular attention of cer-
tain gentlemen at Washington. It is the
language of hiftory, and points, in a man-
ner not to be mistaken, to the path which
America is about to travel. The fpeech is
taken from Torbuck's Parliamentary de-
bates, Vol. I. page 248-9. The attend-
ing circumftances are related in the town
and country Magazine, for Auguft, 1777.

CAVEAT.

ANECDOTE OF DR. GOLDSMITH.

:

"In a debate about the profecution of Lord Treasurer Danby, in the reign of DR. GOLDSMITH difcovered, at a King Charles II. we are told of a very pe- very early period, figns of genius that en culiar fpeech, pronounced by the Earl of gaged the notice of all the friends of the Carnarvon, a Lord, who is faid never to family, and at the age of feven or eight ehave spoken before in the Houfe, who vinced a natural turn for rhyming The having been heated with wine, and excited following inftance of his early wit is handto difplay his abilities, by the Duke of ed down. A large company of young Buckingham (who meant no favour to the people were affembled one evening at his Treasurer, but only ridicule) was refolv uncle's, and Oliver, then but nine years ed, before he went up, to speak upon any old, was required to dance a hornpipe, a fubject that should offer. Accordingly, youth playing at the fame time on a fidwhen the queftion for impeaching Lorddle. Being but newly recovered from the Danby was put, he ftood up and delivered himself thus :

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fmall pox, by which he was much disfig-
ured, and his figure being fhort and thick,
the musician, very archly as he fuppofed,
compared him to Efop dancing; and ftill
harping on the idea which he conceived
to be very bright, the laugh was fuddenly
turned against him by Oliver's flopping
fhort in the dance with this retort;

"Our herald hath proclaim'd this saying,
See Esop dancing, and his monkey playing."

until at the fall of the night he found himfelf in a small town named Ardab. Here he enquired for the best house in the place, meaning an inn; but being understood too literally, he was fhewn to the house of a private gentleman, when calling for fomebody to take his horfe, and lead him to the ftable, he alighted and was fhewn to the parlour, being fuppofed a guest come to vifit the mafter, whom he found fitting by a good fire. This gentleman immediately difcovered Oliver's miftake; and being a man of good humour, and alfo learning from him the name of his father, who happened to be his acquaintance, he encouraged his deception. Oliver accordingly called about him, ordered a good fupper, and generously invited the mafter, his wife them with a bottle of wine, and at going and daughters, to partake of it, treated to bed, orders a hot cake to be prepared for his breakfast, nor was it till his departure, when he called for his bill, that he found he had been hofpitably entertained in a private houfe.

FROM THE (PHIL.) DAILY ADVERtiser.

MADEIRA.

The late inundation at Madeira, has excited various conjectures as to the caufe of it, but by late information from the Island it is afcribed to an improvement the gov ernor attempted to make in the rear of the city. The ground furrounding it being very much broken and interfected by vallies, he concluded to fill them up, and for that purpose ordered dams to be thrown across to retain the earth which defcended from the hills.-The confequence was thefe dams ftopped great quantities of water the weight of which broke the firft dam, when the water rufhed through the others with irrefiftable force, weeping every thing into the fea within its direction. Two hundred houfes, fuppofed feet front, and nearly, contiguous, were one with another not to be less than 50 carried into the ocean, together with every inhabitant in them, fo that not a veftige was to be seen after the ruins, either of

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the buildings or the people. A Church, which had tefted the storms of 300 years was carried off in an inftant, and what was very fingular the Bell-man was ringing at the time in the fteeple, which remained without injury, tho' the church was rafed to its foundation, of which he was wholly ignorant till he came down from his exalted itation.

About 10,000 pipes of wine were carried off or buried so completely with the rubbage, that none could be found. An English family of fixteen were loft in one houfe, and not one of them ever heard of --The number of lives this forrowful difafter coft the island was not afcertained, but fuppofed from 1 to 2000. Corpfes were dug up daily; and it was common to obferve ladies of the first character, walking the freets barefoot, in confequence of folemn vows they made to do fo for a limited time, if their lives were fpared, in tokens of humiliation. The gentleman who gives the above information, fays he found the fhore rocky, where he tranfa&ted business in the houfes and ware-houfes when he was laft at Madeira.

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On Monday the 20th inft. about 3 o'clock P. M. a wooden dwelling houfe, belonging to Mr. Jofeph Clark, of this city, took fire in one of the chambers, and was totally confumed, together with a principal part of the furniture. Although this is the first fire of any confequence, that has happened in this city for a number of years, the feveral fire companies, and the citizens generally, performed their various parts with much promptnefs and regularity; and notwithwithstanding the fcarcity of water, feveral wooden buildings almoft contiguous to Mr. Clarke's and which were feveral times on fire, were happily preferved.-Severa! people from Loonenburgh, on hearing the alarm, repaired to the fpot, and generoully lent their affiftance.

A fubfcription paper has been circulated for the relief of Mr. Clarke, and we are happy to hear, a confiderable fum has been raised.

The English have declared the ports of Genoa and Spezzia in a state of blockade.

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The Legiflature of New Jericy, on the 15th inft paffed a law for the gradual Abolition of Slavery, It enacts that every child born of a flave after the 4th of July next shall be free, but shall remain the fervant of the owner of the mother, in the fame manner as if fuch child had been bound to fervice by the overfeers of the poor, males until the age of 25 and females until the age of 21-provides for the registry of the birth of all fuch children within 9 months after fuch birth--and gives liberty to the owner, at any time within one year from the birth, to elect to abandon his right to any fuch child, the owner being nevertheless liable to maintain the child until one year old and thereafter the child to be confidered as a pauper and liable to be bound out to fervice as other poor children, males until the age of 23 and females 21-but while the child remains a pauper, and until it fhall be bound out, it is to be maintained by the town, at the expence of the ftate, not exceeding the rate of 3 dollars per month-the owner not abandoning the child within the year to be confidered as having elected to retain the child, and liable to its maintenance during the respective periods of fervice limited by

the act.

The act paffed by a large and respectable majority in both Houfes. In the lower there were 32 yeas and 4 nays, 3 only being abfent, of whom two afterwards re. quested their names to be entered in the affirmative, making 34 votes in favour of the law.

In the Council all the members being prefent, there were 12 yeas and i nay.

Thus at length in N. Jerfey, is the foundation laid for the abolition of the pernicious. fyftem of ilavery-a fyftem which in principle and practice is equally repugnant to the dictates of found policy, the voice of humanity-and, above all to the doctrines. of christianity.

[N. Y. Mer. Adv.]

FROM WASHINGTON.
Extract of a letter from a Correspondent.
"The Prefident in his extreme anxiety
to communicate to the House a letter from
Governor Claiborne, on the fubject of
Louifiana, did not even flop to have it cop-
ied, but fent the original, with a requcft
that when they had done with it, they
would return it. It feems to have been in-
tended as a fecret communication, and fo
fent to the fenate, but by fome mistake it
was read with open doors; it was then
fent to the House and read in the fame
public manner. The Houfe, however,
have refused to publifh it, I therefore fend
you the fubftance, and in many inftances.
the expreffion.-[New-Orleans.]

"SIR-The tranquility in which I
found this country is fill uninterrupted.

If I have a

This feafon of feftivity, and the change
of government, has given additional fpir
its to the public amulement.
ny political uneafinefs, it arifes from the
great latitude of the powers with which I
am vefted. The anxiety attending the ex-
ercife of difcretionary powers, is always
in a degree unpleasant.

I have found it a vain labour to attempt to renovate the old government. It has left the country in inextricable contufion, particularly the judicial department. Mi ny of the caules in court have been depending for twenty years; and corruption had put a feal upon them, but the introduction of the American principles of Jurifprudence will break the feal, as they have now become the fubjects of enquiry by the correct rules of an enlightened ju diciary. It was my with that those causes fhould be commenced anew, but this I found impracticable, as I am informed the written evidence appertaining to many of them cannot be obtained; and the tranflator of fuch, evidence would together with the records, take years to effe&t.

Appeals from the governor's court for merly lay to the court at Havannah. Ifhall be under the neceflity of deciding caufes of magnitude in the last refort. I am reluc tant to arrogate to my felf a power which the most haughty of my predeceffors nev er exercifed.

I have appointed feven judges for this city, whofe jurifdi&tion extends to caufes arifing in it, of the value of 3000 dollars, with the right to appeal to the Governor's court if above 500 dollars.

The arrangements made by General Wilkinfon meet my entire approbation.

It would be expedient that provifions should be made for the government of the country as foon as poffible, though I do not apprehend any public inconvenience from a fhort delay.

I found in the goal about 100 prifoners, fome of whom had been there from 10 to defire 13 years without trial. It was my to let them free, but on enquiry of Mr. L'Auffat, I learned there had been an underftanding refpecting them with the Span ifh government. I flatter myfelt fome arbe made to procure rangement may thefe prifoners a general amnefly. For furely it will not be derogatory to a repub lican government to err on the fide of mercy, and I should feel a pang if my coun try thould be difgraced by the rattling of a fingle chain.

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The expences incident to the poffeffion and temporary government of our new country, I have reafon to believe will fall within the amount which had been cal culated for them; and the receipt of monies will be fully adequate to their extent.

The Merchants and Planters in this place live in a flyle of cafe and affluence, but I

am forry to fay they are totally deftitute of information,

Such has been their mode of living, and the abject flate in which the government has placed them, that they difcover an averfion to public concerns.-A profound ignorance pervades the whole of them. Equal rights are pleafing to every man. The trial by jury, that ineflimable right enjoyed by the American people, would at prefent be a great inconvenience and trouble to them. At prefent they have not a capacity to enjoy the full effect of a free conftitution. The principles of an elective government they would not underftand-A reprefentative fyllem would only bewilder them. I would recommend the adoption of fome fyftem of education, and that fchools and feminaries of learning

fhould be established.

It will be by the diffemination of knowledge amongst them that they will be rendered capable of enjoying and exercifig the valuable rights of free citizens."

[Evening Poft.]

FEVER IN ENGLAND.

It appears, from our late London papers, that a fever, of a deadly and malig nant nature, rages in the town of New. Caf. tle, (Eng.) the victim is feized with a vio lent pain in the forehead, which is quickly followed by a flupor, and in a fhort time he is reduced to a very weak condition. It had become fo alarming, that the magif trates had taken notice of it, and had ordered out the fire engines, with inftructions to wash every lane and alley, on the Quay fide, completely clean,

[N. Y. Com. Adv.]

CHARLESTON, FFB. 6. On the night of the 31st of December, the English privateer fch'r Hazard, captain Walter Wilfon, belonging to NewProvidence, fell in with the French national fch'r Courier, having on board 3.50 French troops from Port-au-Prince bound to St. Jago, in company with feveral other veffels, having troops on board. On the privateer's hailing the Frenchmen, they anfwered that they were from Jamaica. But as foon as they faw a favourable opportunity, they ran alongside the privateer and boarded her-a defperate confli& enfued, which lafted about twenty minutes, when the Frenchmen fucceeded in capturing her, after loofing about ninety of their men. The French General Noailes, late commander at Cape Nichola Mole, received a wound in the conflict, of which he died in a few days after. The crew of the privateer confifted of 65 men. The following is the number of killed and wounded, which we have from one of the prifoners, who was on board the privateer at the time of the engagement-Killed,

capt. Wilfon, three prize-mafters, the boatswain, one boatfwain's mate, and 8 black men.-Wounded, Thomas Blackftock, firft liutenant; Thomas Wilfon of. ficer of marines; two carpenters, nine white men, and three blacks.

but will in reality embark in a neutral fhip which will take its departure from a Port at fome diftance from thofe which contain the greatest number of veffels. In this veffel he will wait for or join his troops on the coaft of Ireland."

It is faid upon the fame authority that the Fift Conful has intrufted 1,500,000

Mr. M'Donald, who arrived here yefterday in the fchooner Hector, from Ja-francs with Santerre, for the purpole of dif maica, communicates the following:

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"ISLAND OF CUBA, (Barracoa) Jan. 12. Arrived at this port; the fchooner Rofwell, of New-York, in poffeffion of the French. Previous to her coming into this port, they had endeavoured to deface the name upon her ftern, by varnishing it over with tar; but it ftill appeared confpicuous enough to be een at fome diftance. Sufpicions arofe among the American feamen refpecting the capture of this veel. The writer of this, in company with capt. Robinfon, of the Sally, and capt. Eafter, of the fchooner Fanny, of Charlefon, went on board the Rofwell, and enquired how, where, and when fhe was taken, and what became of the crew-to these queftions, no fatisfactory anfwers were leceived, which induced them to believe, that the mafter and people were murdered. The Prize-mafter, on his arrival made apdifpofe of the cargo of the Rofwell, but plication to the governor for permission to was refufed admittance; and on the 15th, the goverror ordered the Rofwell out of the harbor, fending officers on board, at the fame time, to fee that his orders were ftrictly adhered to. After getting out of the harbor, the worked up along thore to. wards Cape Maze, the wind from the eastward."

Mr. M'Donald, alfo informs, that an embargo was laid on all veffels at Barracoa about the 12th ult. in confequence of an expedition that was on the eve of failing aagainst the island of New-Providence. This enterprize was to be conducted by the French who were lately obliged to leave St. Domingo. It was faid the force to be employed confifted of 3000 men, part of which was to come from St. Jago de Cuba. A number of privateers were alfo fitting out at Barracca.

The inhabitants of Naflau having been apprifed of the above expedition, fent exprefs to the Governor, who was at fome other part of the island.

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tributing among the Jacobins, to keep them quiet during his abfence. Cambaceres in the mean time, is to have a Council of five, whofe advice he is to be obliged to conform to, unless under any fudden and unforeseen circumftances. The formula of an oath was it is faid, to be fubmitted to the Senate to be taken by the Civil and Military Authorities to the perfon of Napoletan Bonaparte. It was doubtful, however, whether the Senate would adopt, without great refiftance, fo ftrange a meaf

ure.

NOVEMBER 29.

Some days ago we mentioned, that the French Army on the coaft began to murmur against the delay of the intended Invafion. A Private Letter from an officer on board one of the bomb veflels in the Downs, confirms this fact. "The troops about Breft and Morlaix have openly expreffed their uneafinefs at the Expedition against England being fo long delayed;" and other Letters flate, that a continuance of delay may be attended with ferious coufequences to the Fift Conful and the prefent government of France. The Privates

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fuppofe the Conful has relinquifhed the idea of invading England ;" but the fentinents of the Officers are dirc&tly contradictory to this infinuation; they pofitively affirm, that England will be invaded as foon as the veffels, now preparing in the feveral Rivers and ports, are finished.

Report has been fo various and contradictory refpe&ting Benaparte's plans of Invafion, that we are at laft reduced to the neceffity of declaring, that we can now find little information, and lefs amusement, in reading the statements prefented. It is evident, however, that the Fift Conful muft gratify the wishes of his vaft Armies, by dicting them to new conquefts and plunder. Such a multiplicity of invading boats, colle&ed from all quarters, can never be the adoption of a meature merely to divert the attention of the troops from the affairs of the interior. A man of Bonaparte's genius, with the popularity which. he fill poflefles in the Armies, could have cafily hit upon fome other expedient; and entailing upon the people a gicat and an unavoidable expence in the building and equipment of the boats, when no invafion was ferioufly intended, would be the means of endangering, if not destroying, his popularity.

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