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■ PARIS, October 7. ■Buonaparte, member of the national infti- I tute, genera! in chief, to the execu- I tive diredory. f Head-quarter:, Alexandria , 10 th E Thermidor, “th year, (28 th of I J u b> 1 799* I Citizen Directors, I I have informed you by a dispatch I of the 10th of May, that the season favor- I able to a landing, had made me resolve to I quit Syria. The lauding adually took I place on the nth of July. One hundred I fail, among which were several men of I war, (hewed themselves before Alexan- I dria and came to anchor at Aboukir. The I 15th, the enemy took by afTault and with I Angular intrepidity, the redoubt and fort lofAbonkir, brought their camp artillery lon shore, and reinforced by 50 fail, took I their position, with the right wing towards I the sea, and their left towards the lake of I Maddier, upon very advantageous heights, (j I also set out on the 13th, from my I camp of the Pyramids, and came on the I 19th, to Rahmanier, they went to Birkat, I which became the centre of my operations, I and from whence, on the2sth, at 6 o’clock I in the morning, I advanced againfl the I enemy. I General Murat commanded the van- I guard, and caused the right wing of the I enemy to be attacked by general d’Estaing. I The general of divilion Lafne, attacked I the left, supported by the vanguard under I general Lanai. A fine plain of 400 toifes I separated the wings of the enemy; there I the cavalry penetrated, and with the ut- I mod celerity, moved in the rear of the I right and left wing, which were both in- I ftantly cut off from the second line.— I Thereupon the enemy threw themselves I into the \vater to reach their veflels, al- I though three quarters of a league dirtant, I so that they were all drowned —the most I terrible feene I ever beheld. I We then fell upon the second line, iwhich had a (heltered position, a village |7n front, a redoubt in the centre, and re- I trenchments extending quite to the sea, I where more than 30 (loops aCtcd upon the I flanks. General Murat forced the village; I general Lafne attacked along the sea fide; I general Fugiere advanced in closed colums I upon the enemy’s right wing. The attack I and defence were violent: the cavalry I once more decided the victory: it aflaulted I the enemy, it moved with velocity in the rear of the right wing and caused a dread ful (laughter. The cheif of battalion of the 69th half brigade, Bernard, and citi- I zen Mabile, captain of grenadiers of the I fame half brigade, covered themselves with I glorv. The redoubt was taken, and the I huflar having placed themselves between I the fort of Abonkir and the second line, I the enemy were forced to throw them fclves into the sea, and, prefled upon by I our cavalry, all were drowned. We now j fur rounded the fort, where the most nim ble fugitives had joined the reserve. Not willing to lose any of my men, I had fix mortars placed to bombard it. | The shores, from which last year En glifli and French cavaders floated away, now all covered with the corpses of the e nemy ; fix thousand arc already counted, and three thousand are hurried in the field of battle. Thus not a man of this army I (hall escape when the fort fliall be taken, | which must happen ere long. Two hun- I dred standards, the baggage, the tents, and I forty field pieces are taken ; and Kufley I Muftapha, Pacha of Natolia, nephew of I the Turkish ambaflador at Paris, who was I commander in chief of the expedition, is I made prisoner, with all his officers. Such I are this day’s fruits. I We had one hundred men killed and I five hundred wounded. Among the for- I mer arc adjutant general Leture, chief of I brigade, Duvivier of brigade Cretin, and Imy aid-de-camp Guibet; the two firft I were excellent officers of cavalry and of I unexampled bravery, both long spared | from the fate of war ; the third was an ■ officer of engineers, the heft informed man I in a branch of science, on which so much 1 f'uccefs of campaigns, and of the fate of a ■.-country depends ; for the fourth I had a ■ great friendfhip. Generais Marat and .1 KugiereS chief of brigade Morangier are I wounded. Ji The gaining of thi- battle, which will so ■ much influence the glory of the republic, lis principally due to gen. Marat. I afle B for him the place of general of a division. ■ His brigade of cavalry did what seemed B irr.poffihle. Citizen Beffire was very fer- B viceable with his corps cf guides. The ■ adjutant gen. Noiz; performed his ma- B nuvres with the greatest compnfure. Gen. 11l Tunots coat is full of holes nude’by bullets B 1 flult fend you in a few days, a circum ■ ftantjal relation with a lilted the officers M *ho have Ggnalized themselves. I have, ||j in behalf of the Directory, made a prelent P to £ en - Berth.er of a finely wrought dagger, as an acknowledgment of the services by him rendered during this whole campaign. Salute, (Signed) BUONAPARTE. PHILADELPHIA, December 19. General Wafliington has died in the fixtv-ninth year of his age. His complaint was the Cynanche Tonsillaris, an affliction which has been remarkably prevalent this fall. The General has left a very large fortune, which it is supposed will princi pally defeend to the Cuftis family. The important Command of the Army devolves on General Hamilton, who is at present in Philadelphia. In consequence of the melancholy in formation yesterday received of the death of Lt. General George Washington, the Common Council of Philadelphia, last ev ening pafled a resolution requesting the Mayor of the city to have the bells muffled for three days ; and that the deliberations of Council be suspended until Monday evening, as a public testimony of refpeCt due to his exalted and most excellent cha racter. The President, with deep regret, announ ces to the Armv, the death of its beloved Cheif General GEORGE WASHING TON.—Sharing in the grief, which eve ry hart must feel for so heavy and afflicting a public loss, and desirous to express his high sense of the vast debt of gratitude, which is due to the Virtues, Talants, and ever memorable Services of the Illuftirous Deceased, he direCts that funeral honor be paid to him at all the military stations, and that the Officers of the Army and the se veral corps of Volunteers wear crape on the left arm byway of mourning for fix months. Major. General Hamilton will give the necellary orders for carrying into effeCt the foregoing directions. G 1 FE N at the War Office of the United States in Philadelphia, the nineteenth day of December, A. D. 1 799, and in the twenty fourth year cf the Independence of the said States. JAMES M’HENRY, Secretary of War, Congress of the United States. In the House of Representatives this day, it was resolved that the whole House wait on the President of the United Stales, to condole with him on the afflicting be reavement sustained by the country, in the death of Lt. Gen. Wafliington. * Ordered, That the Speaker's Chair be hung with black, and that the members of this House do wear mourning during the Session. A Committee of Sixteen was appointed to report on the most advifeable means of doing honor to the memory of this illustri ous man. Legijlature of Virginia. IN THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES • Wednesday Dec. 18. On motion of Mr. Maddifon, Resolved nnanimoufly, That the members of the house, in token of their profound grief for the loss of their illustrious and beloved fellow citizen GEORGE WASH INGTON, will wear a badge of mourn ing throughout the present session of the General Alfembly. CINCINNATI OF FIRGINIA. At a meeting of the State Society of the Cincinnati of Virginia, convened in the city of Richmond, this 18th day of De cember, 1799, in consequence of the me lancholly information received of the death of General GEORGE WASHING TON, who, being no less esteemed and venerated for his great virtues and eminent talents as a statesman and fellow-citizen, than hewasjuftlv beloved and admired for his courage and conduCt as a brother soldier; and it being the wish of this meeting to manifeft to the present and fu ture times the sincerity with which they commemorate that courage and conduCt, and those talents and virtues, as well as the deep affliction which they now feel at his loss. Resolved unanimously, That this meeting will wear a black crape on the left arm for three months; and they cannot suppress their expectations that the fame mark of sorrow and refpeCt, will be (hewn by eve ry other member of the society in Virgi nia. By order cf the Society, SAM. COLEMAN, Secry. fpjT THE Members of the AUGUSTA JOCKEY CLUB, are requeued to meet at ■ the house of Major DuRKEE, on Saturday i the 11/7/ in/iant , at fix o'clock in the Evening— , and it is came fly wijked. that all the Sub t feribo s that can poffilly, will attend. , January 8. MMiiiit nuiagmißMaiiii—an ii; f HERALD. ~ A U G U S T A W E DNES D A Y, Janu a r y 8, 1800. AMONG the important events j which the revolutions of years, days and hours continually bring forth, to interest the feelings, and engage the at tention of mortals; gladly would well have it in our power to feleA those on-Is ly for publication which werecalcu-H lated to exite pleasing sensations g I But in the viciffitudesofhuman affairs ! and the diverfified state of man, it be-! comes a duty to communicate painful 8 as -well as pleasing occurrences, and toB give publicity to events of individual* and national distress. WITH heartfelt sorrow therefore■ we have to announce the melancholy! tidings of the death of that illustrious! friend of mankind and father of theg] American people, General GEORGE WASHINGTON, J late President of the United States, and! recent commander in chief of the A-ffl merican Armies This affli&ing ev-B ent occured the 14th December, and! was produced by an inflammation of the ■ throat, which increasing in violence,! in twenty-four hours from its firft ap-B pearance produced that fatal cataftro-1 phy, which spreads the veil of mourn-■ ing over Columbia’s land, and fills! with grief the hearts of all her citizens.! Sensible of his approaching diflolution! this great man,Supported by confciousij 1 rettitude, awaited the hour which ■ drew the curtain between him and! temporal concerns, with that steady! firmnefs, and placid serenity for which! he was so eminently distinguished, and|B which the virtuous and good only can! experience; retaining to the laftmo-H ments full pofleflion of his wonderful! powers, he bid adieu to earthly engage-1 ments, and with perfect composure en* 1 tered into pofleflion of those joys which! are the fare rewards of a well fpeut || life. IEULOGIUMS on the character 1 of this illuftriousdeceafed,are rendered! needless, by the conspicuous ftationsgj ite has filled, the memorable fervicesp he has rendered his country, and that! universal efteetn which his virtues fe-fl cured. Having long been the admira- 1 tion of mankind, long reigned in the! hearts of the upright of all nations, and! poffefled, the veneration, love and un-B dimini/hed confidence of his fellow-! citizens, his death becomes a fubjeft of! individual sorrow and public lamenta- 1 tion, throughout these states, and will call forth sympathizing feelings of dis-H tress from the civilized world. * THE Citizens of Augusta, are i particularly requested to meet this day jL at the Church at 12 o’clock, to deter- W mine the manner in which they will I express the grief they feel for thelofsfl of their benefa&or, father and beloved!] friend,General GEORGE WASH-j INGTON. I ■MMPBgaHHIIJI|IIBII II I s LETTER I. Addressed to the Printers of the Augusta Herald. GENTLEMEN, THE general affemhly of the State of Georgia, having doled their litting, and the vene rable band of legillators, who formed the compo nent parts of this august body, having retired in tranquillity to their refpedive homes, amply con vided of their public utility, and enjoying uninter ruptedly, the grateful lweets of an approbating con iYience, it may not, at the prelent moment, be a* mils, retrolpedively, to examine the most prominent features of their condud with a view to the just ap preciation of their collcdive merits. It follows as a confequcnce, from the natural im perfedion of all human institutions, that no one species of Government, which has hitherto been conftruded, is endowed with all those advantages, which are requifue to the attainment of political happiness. If th* system of universal representa tion affords a barrier to tyranny ; the deficiency of governmental energy has a tendency no lets certain, to the licentioufnels of democracy. Such a con . clufion is in fame degree cor.fequent to the nature of our general compad, but as tar as local concerns are intereifed, is more peculiarly applicable to the particular conftitudons of individual states. In a government like our own, where mach ir.uft de pend upon the virtue of its citizens, the only lecuri ty a-aioft innovation confilts in a proper attention to the education of youth. Without this the bon 1 of l'ociety are irksome. Laws framed in ignorance* and executed in error, have the double tendency 0 > deluding to puniftiment, the honest and the upright and of ihieiding from reftribution, the pro flig at ’ and daring. In such a situation, feeble indeed is t . l » influence of the molt enlightened realon. Unitin'" under the banner of l'ome favorite demagogue, ea f man aims at the exerctle of uncontrolable authorn * and the inevitable conlequence is iicentioul'nefs a 'l contortion. Potferior to the emancipation of Euro 1 from the fetters of gothic barbarity, and the reviT al of lcience and of letters in ltaiy, no nation the execution of the social compact, has afforded ' broader basts for the application of these remark * than the government of the individual state in which we now a&ually live. Palling over the period ,! our revolutionary war, when the whole union w ,. convulsed, in the ardor of their efforts for the est/ blilhment of independence, it may fafely be asserted that the State of Georgia, hjs tor five years pift exhibited, the moil unparallelled scene of fadf; OUs inconsistency, that has ever attended the adminif tration, of any preceding Government. In traciag the lources of l'o unexampled a phanomenon, two causes immediately prelent themselves, as worth of attention—Eirft, the spirit of speculation, which has prevailed during this period—and second, the influence acquired by particular charafters, "who embracing the fide of the people, have arrived / popularity ; by their oppofitiea to this speculation The aa, for the sale of the Weftern Territory paflfed at the feffton of one thoufarid seven hundred and ninety-five, in the light in which it is viewed by its oppofers, as grounded on this spirit offp ecu . lation, will long remain a melancholy memento of hunjan frailty. While on the other hand, ifeonft. dered as the just and proper exercise of legiflati* authority; an authority delegated by the constitu tion, to the chosen reprefentative3 of a free people" affords a durable stigma, to the annulling of ninety! fix. That a let of men, veiled with the ordinary powers of legislators, and deriving those powers from the fame unalterable source, the radical prim ciples of the social compadt, should proceed to de clare void, an ait of their immediate predecessors entered into while in the exercise of co-equal authori ty, in which the interests of third persons wereab lblutely involved, which was rendered legal by the ability and cunfent of the parties, and by the recep tion of what was deemed an adequate consideration and for the execution of which, the faith of the go! vernment was unequivocally pledged, is the highest poflible evidence of the position before laid down.— It is unnecelfary, here to add what the melancholy experienceof each fucceflive period has evinced, that the public faith and reputation have become the sport and ridicule of our lifter states, by a measure" which may in one point of view be deemed a vio! lation of the federal compact. It Suffices for the author of this essay, disavowing the indiferiminate a {vocation ofeithermodeofprocedure.thatthe incon fiitency has been noted—that the fountain has been traced from whence flow the evils, which at this day overwhelm us. We come now to the second position, and here it is asserted that the influence acquired by particular characters from their opposition to the ait of ninty five is another source of the misfortunes with which we have since that period, been attended. In an essay of this kind, where the fubjeil is fre/h in the recolieilion of every man, no aiTu**** abitrait reaofning can operate convnftion. It be comes necessary then to have recoutfe to fadts, and under the impreffionof this necessity, is a reference made to the author of the letters signed Sicilius, in his former charaiter, as a representative from the county of Chatham, and since as in the exercise of th« Executive powers of the government. Arrived at the utmost pinacle of popular favor, the foie ob jcdlofthe hopes, the wiffies, and the fears of the multitude, men of difeernment, have fought in afto nilhment for the causes of lb extraordinary an ap pearance—ln vaindidthey attempt to difeover that solidity ofjudgment, and equanimity of disposition, which connected with the exercise of the moral du ties of temperance and candor, are r.eceffary to the formation of the good or the great man. On the other hand, existing in the utter contempt of these obligations and depending on that popularity which afforded indiferiminate support, the administration of this man, has been Angularly charaiterifed, w ith inconsistency and oppression. If this affection were doubted—if examples were deemed necessary, we could call to our recolledtion the impotent, yetun authorifed attempt to fufpenda Notary Public; the unjuftifiable menaca of exercising the military pow er to the oppression of an Inferior Officer, sot his conduit as a member of the late Convention—the refufaltopay money, twice appropriated bythele gifl .ture for the completion of a contrait with an individual, because that individual was unfriendly; f and the repeated prostitution as executive dignity in feenes of turbulence and riot, ovex WHiCH,let the finger of humanity draw the veil. Yet is this man, now exercising the powers of Chief Magistrate, and the majority of the people, flill blind enough to approve, or too timid to condemn a con duit which would ihrink from theteftof realon dr of jurt.ee. Here then let us close this introductory essay, in which have been traced the fourcesof thatfailious inconsistency, the evils of which we have experienced, relerving tor a future number, the special application of thele genetai remarks, to the conduit otthe late legillature. JUNIUS. fc? REMOVAL. David C. Neal, BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has removed to Dr. Montgomery s new Brick Building , oppo site T. Cumming, Esq. Broad-Street. WHERE HE IS OPENING, An Elegant and well chosen AJJortment of DRY GOODS, And GROCERIES, which he is determined to fell at the most reduced prices for cash or country pro* duce. January £. (jt. 26.)