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barks of the Danube. Adrianople is in the power of the rebellious Albanians and Gwirgi Pacha. The difhnce from Con ftaatinople is not great, and the alarm and terror of the fluggifli and effeminate in habitants magnify the difficulties and dan gers that surround the Government on every fide. Soon (hall we exped to hear that the Divan has crofted the Bofphorus and abandoned Constantinople to its fate. Perhaps the great military powers of Eu rope will not wait till that event arrives. —Troops are collecting on the Austrian ' and Ruffian frontiers, and a Manifelto will speedily appear from the Courts of Vienna and Petersburg, lamenting the weakness of the Porte, and enforcing the ncceflity of placing a strong force in European, Tur key, to reduce the rebels, and re-etfablith thofe principles ofgood order so neceifary to the fafety of all regular Governments. The moment in which one Austrian or Ruffian foidier sets his foot on Tnrkifh ground, vre (hall confider as the last of the integrity and independence of the Turkifli Empire in Europe. Never, will the two powers reiinquifh those fertile provinces which are situated to the north and fouth of the Danube ; provinces for which, it may be said with truth, in the strong and eloquent language of Dr. Drennan, “ God has done so much, and man so little.”—An impor tant point will then arise—a point of ma terial confcqnence to us—What (bare will France have in the spoil ? For no man, we believe, is absurd enough to suppose that file will pcrmft Rullia and Austria to ag grant)ize themfeives without obtaining any advantage for herfelf. Will (lie mrmd Egypt ? or, adjourning those designs (file will never entirely relinquish them) upon Egypt, will (he ieize that part of the Turkifli Empire which is oppoute the ea stern shores of Italy ? In either case the fubjtCl is one to which this country can not be indifferent. It would be ridiculous to suppose that it has escaped the attention of our Government.—We have heard it rumoured that some delay is likely to take place with rcfpeCf to the evacuation of Malta. We know not what degree of credit is due to the t umour. The three months allowed by the Definitive Treaty for the evacuation of the island expired, we believe, yeflenfay. Captain De Ville arrived in town on Sunday night from Paris, where he has been confined three months in the Temple. During the latter part of this time, twenty two persons were at once shipped off for Cayenne, without trial. It is generally underflood at Paris, that Touflaint’s con * fpiracy consists in his being in poffeflion of about twelve millions sterling, which the Chief Consul wifties to direct to a duterent channel. JULY 28. This day we received Paris Journals to the 25th. In the preceding columns we have given several Extracts; but what will, perhaps, excite as much interefl as any thing they contain, is the foliowiug ref pedting the FATE OF PEYROUSE, Extracted from the Bth Number of a Journal entitled : “ le Nouvelliffe des isles de France et de la Re-union.” “ Pluviefe 23, year 10, [Feb, 12, 1802 ) “ Capt. Ingenoll, commanding the American (hip Charlotte, arrived from China, fays, he learned in his voyage to the South Sea, at the Sandwich Isles, and the North-weft Coast, that before the French revolution, but the precise year he could not determine, a fliip that had failed from Brest in the month of April, anchored in the Bay of Comfliervar, which lies in 53 deg. 13 min. North, opposite to Engtifield Bay, in Queen Charlotle’s Island ; that this veflei, having on board a great number of sick, was attacked by the Illanders, who went on board at the moment when they were employed in securing the fails; that they massacred the Captain, who was upon deck, and the whole crew, except one young man, whoYe fate is not known. It is added, that the Illanders destroyed the veflei after unloading it. It is to be presumed that this veflei was that commanded by M. de la Peyrouse, or her consort, ” july 31. On the 14th instant, 15,000 Bavarian troops arrived at Bamberg and the neigh borhood. with 15 pieces of cannon, am munition, and artillery. Letters from Asnbcrg, of the 12th state, that a Prussian General has aifo arrived there,and that he was seen at the head quarters. There and in several other towns, there are Coin miflaries charged with the business of fettling the contra&s for supplying the troops with provifiohs. It is ftiil aflerted that the Austrians have occupied a part of the Upper Palatinate, but nothing positive is yet known on the fubjeift. Eighty-five General Officers have joined in making reprelentations upon the iu juftice of heaping almost all favours upon the troops returned from Italy and Egypt. It is remarked, that Generals Ancereau and Massena are not among the eighty five It is said that General Ferrand, who had the command of the troops at Bou ogue, when that place was bombarded by Lc-rd Nelson, is immediately to proceed to Sr. Domingo, and to take w ith him a reinforcement of twelve theufand men. VIENNA, July 11. Last Thursday the Queen of Naples received intelligence by an extraordinary courier, that her consort had returned to his capital, where he had been received by the inhabitants with every demonstra tion of joy. Her majesty the fame day set oul with her family for Prefbourg, where (he was to remain till the next morning, and then to proceed to Trieste, where a Neapolitan frigate has arrived to convey her to naples, and thence to Bar celona. GENOA, July L 2. THE ALGERINES, The intelligence we have received from Algiers for some weeks part is exceedingly disagreeable. About the beginning of May the Regency sent out eleven coriairs of different sizes, viz. two frigates, one of 46 guns, and the other of 36; four chebecs, two polacres, two lchooners, and a brig ; and it is known that they have aiready taken nine consi derable prizes in the course of fix weeks, namely, five Neapolitan veflTels, two Spa nish, one Englifli, one Genotfe, and a Portuguese frigate. These privateers have even flopped two French brigs, under a pretence that they were not provided with p3lsports ; and it was only after some strong remonstrances, that the Agent of the Republic was able to obtain their reltafe. There is no doubt that tiie French Government will take some notice of this conduft of the Regen cy, and demand reparation. There is reason to believe a!fo, that it will interfere in the affair as the two Nea politan vefl'els, because the Republic L immediately interested in the circumstan ces of their capture. One of them had been dispatched from Corfu by the French Agent in the Republic of the seven isles, with a cargo defliined for the service of the French army in the kingdom of Naples. The Agent of the Republic at Algiers bemg informed of the ctrcmnftance, which was carefully concealed from him, desired to fee the dispatches of which that veflei was the bearer; they were refufed to him ; and the efforts he made to caule the prize to be given up, were attended with no other success than that of obtaining the liberty of some paflengers who were on board. In regard to the Neapolitan Cap tain, his fate is truly deplorable, and he ftiil groans in the mart cruel captivity. File other Neapolitan veil'd, which failed from Marfcilles with a cargo of hemp, was taken in fight of the Hieres Isles; the crew consisted of 2t men; one of them, it seems, was drowned in •attempting to escape—two succeeded in getting on fliorc, and gave in their depo lition ; the other 18 were conduced as slaves to Algiers. The captain demand ed the interference of the French Agent, and the affair is now under difeuflion. The Englifli prize excited a violent al tercation between the Regency and the Englifli Consul.—The R egency pretend that the Admiralty pass which the captain produced was forged, because the vignet te represented a veflei with latine fails, whereas the veflei seized was square rigged. The Conlul wiflied to fend notice of the seizure to the Britifli Government; but this was refufed, and the port was flint. The affair is not decided, and the veflei is ftiil detained. The French Consul lias remonftra'ed with great firmnefs, and Threatened hoftiltties if the veflei be not restored with proper indemnities. Os all these prizes, the molt remarkable is that of the Portuguese frigate la Cygne, of 44 guns, and 350 men, which was captured on the 7th of May, at the en trance of the Gut of Gibraltar, by an Al gerine frigate of the fame force and about 420 men. The Portuguese fuffeted them feives to he surprised, at leaf! we mu ft believe so. The Algerine came upon them with a press of fail, fired a. few shot and then hoarded. The Portuguese cap tain, the lieutenant and 36 men were kill ed. If they were not deficient in courage, they certainly were deficient in forefight and (kill. The rest of the Por tuguese were thrown into the hold naked and loaded with chains. The wounded were leven days at sea ; without clothes, without nouriflimer.t, and without having their wounds drefled ; when they arrived at Algiers several of them died in conse quence of their wounds having mortified. This prize, of which there is no similar example in the annals of Algiers, excited in the city the most extravagant enthuli afm. The insolence of the Government has thence increased, and the European) can no longer appear in the streets with out being exposed to the insults of the populace. T'MIE public are cautioned not to trade for a Note of five hundred D li ars, given by me to Simeon Bevens, or or ier ; as the laid Simeon Sevens has fiuce oecn.ne indebted to me to the above a nount and upwards. JOHN WILLIAMS. Long's Mills, Jiily 2, H E R A L D, A U~G U S T A7 WEDNESDAY, October 6, 1802. Monday last being the day of Eleftion for Members of Congress, and the Legis lature of this hate, for the ensuing year — At the close of the poll iiolden in this City for Members of Congress, a Sena- ; tor and two Representatives of the coun ty of Richmond—the votes were— CONGRESS. PETER EARLY, FRANCIS WILLIS, Esq. 217 JOSEPH BRYAN, E SQi ISo MATH. M-ALLESTER, [OHN MILLEDGE, Esq. i S3 Col. SAM. HAMMOND, 144 D. MERRIWETHER, Esq. 66 SENATE. ISAAC W. LACY, E<q. 205 SAMUEL BUGG, Esq. 132 REPRESENTATIVES. Col. ROBERT WATKINS, 250 L. HOST WICK, Esq, 202 COWLES MEAD, Gen. JOHN TWIGGS, 67 COLUMBIA. Senate. —Col. James M‘Ncil. Representatives. —W. Drane, Benjamin Williams and James Simms, Elq’rs. Ej* No papers were received by the two lalt Northern Mails. Mr. Bunce, IN the Augusta Chronicle of the nth in ft. I observed a piece signed Fair Play, and on reading it, I felt ationiflied that the writer lliouid tuppofe that the people were such dunces as to be deceived by the fol ly, and fallacy of his reasoning. He leems tofuppofe that we who live in the country, have not underftandingenough, to know the difference between a duty on the impor tation of certain articles,and a tax on luxu ries—and presuming on our ignorance, he goes on with a msfs of fluff very little me riting the signature of Fair Play. He tells us, that our confidence has been abused , this indeed we daily witness, and I find he is endeavoring to continue the abuse, by at tempting to persuade us not to believe ab solute fa£h. Why has lie made all that palavering about taxes on carriages and loaf sugar, and then artfully talked about duties , endeavored to confound the one with the other in such a manner, as to in duce people to believe, that all that has been said about the taxes being taken off from carriages , loaf sugar, (Ac. is as he fays “ untrue." Will this writer, whoaddrelfes his countrymen , so kindly, venture to fay— will he dare to fay, that the taxes have not been taken off, from pleasurable carriages, from refined sugar, &c. and that they have not been continued in their operation on Salt, on Boliea Tea, on Coffee on Brown Sugar, &c ? If this is the fatft, and I be lieve Mr. Fair Play will not venture to de ny it, there needs no reasoning to fliow us, that the poor are left to pay an over pro portion of the taxes, in their articles of necessity, while the rich are free from any taxes, on their articles of luxury. But fays Mr. Fair Play, a duty is imposed on the importation of carriages, and aflts whether wc (hall not encourage the manufacture of these articles at home —why is he really so stupid as not to perceive, that the very duty he speaks of is intended for the pur pose of encooraging the home manufatftu ry—and will not a duty amounting to one fifth of the price of an impotted article of luxury, fufticiently encourage the work men at home , without exempting that ar ticle and atl of the kind made at home Iran l an anual tax ? If an imported carriage costs “ two hundred dollars” more than one of the kind made in our own country, that very circumstance wiil make these rich nabobs, who do not love to pay taxes, prefer one made here, efpccially, when they know that the difference of price , is occa sioned by a duty paid to the government — and then their fine carriage coding “ one thousand dollars” pays nothing. Bifides some duties are layed high for the purpose of prohibiting, the importation of an article, and when they have this operation, as they have in a great mcafure on carriages, how much tax do the owners of them then pay ? When a Virginia Lord, for instance rolls about in a coach made in the United States, how much tax does he pay for bis carriage? Notone cent—But his poor neighbour who can scarcely make out to live, cannot use one grain of salt in his family without paying a heavy tax upon it—The wealthy Virginian too, will not only ride about for his pleasure free of tax, but he wiil daily consume quantities of double refined loaf sugar, no other kind j will be nice enough for his gin flings, or his luxurious appetite—but on this sugar he pays not one cent tax —while the poor man is obliged to pay a tax, on every pound of brown sugar that he uses in his family, nearly equal to one fifth of its price. This may luit very well for such folks as Mr. Fair Play, who I suppose has a fine plantation an J can ride in his car riage and use loaf sugar, but it is very Foul Play, towards the poorer cfafs of people. But fays this patriotic writer, imported loaf sugar pays a duty of four cents —that is true, and therefore these men of wealth, will take care, to use that which is manu faftured in our oxen country, and on which no tax is paid. If a man can afford to ride in a coach, and to uie loaf sugar altogether, can he not as well afford to pay a Imail tax towards the support of government, as those poor labouring men who are deprived by their lowly situation from enjoying these luxu ries. But fays this writermany of our citizens who could afford to make use of a chair or convenient home made close car riage to drive his family to church of a rainy day” would feel the expence of pay ing a tax to government, very feeling truly this, for the poor folks who drive about in carriages—and pray do not we feel the ex pence of paying a tax on our fait, and brown sugar, and tea and coffee, K'C. or perhaps as we cannot afford a carnage, our feelings are not so delicate, and there fore we can pay taxes without any feeling. But why lo pitifully introduce “ riding to church on a rainy day,” as though the pre sent very pious administration, the dear and “ affeiftionate” friends of Tom Paine, that champion of piety, were anxious to provide the people with conveniences for going to church on a “rainy day”—or were even lolicitous to encourage their going there on a" fair one ? This language is really treating us too much like chil dren, why did not the wiitcr adopt the more sublime idea of providing our citi zens with carriages to ride out their little Babies —near little tilings, how hard to de prive them of riding by a naughty tax— But the Parents of these dear little tilings, feel the inconvenience, in a fair day as well as a rainy one—and whether they go to church, or flay at home, of paying a tax on these articles, which their necejfities oblige them every day to coufume.—But asks Mr. Fair Play, is not the induflrioiis citizens, who makes loaf sugar, and makts carriages as worthy »f encouragement, as any other—and let me alk is not the duty as I before mentioned a fufficient encourage ment to them, and does this writer suppose, that a (ingle carriage Ids would be mat e —or a (ingle loaf of sugar less confumcd if the tax on these articles were continued there now—or does he suppose that those who use coaclies, and loaf lugur are so averse to paying their proportion of the taxes, and to throw the whole burthen of government on the poor people, that they would oot use these articles if they had to pay taxes for them ? But the writer in concluding iiis performance, tells us, that ’tis the home made articles only, that ate “ exempted from the tax,” the foreign ones “ (till pay if, when landed in this country”—This the writer I suppose thought was ingenius, for it is certainly not true, as he wishes it undtrlfood—the fo reign article pays a duty on importation— but neither the foreign one or the domel tic one pays that animal tax to which both ought to he fubjedl, to which they would have been fubjed, had not a disposition to favour the rich at the exptnee of the poor, but manifdt in all the recent mealuresof the government, under the influence of the boasted “ man of the people.” And Mr. Fair Play’s reasoning is in exaA con formity with those efforts to deceive and mislead our underftamlings to which we have now become accu/lomed—bui which we begin properly to understand, since we have opened our hearts and ears to the condinft and language of such as are con tinually endeavoring to impose upon us. 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A scheme of the Lottery may also be seen, on application to TAYLOR & MOORE. Nearly opposite Messrs. IV. H. Jack (A Co. Broad-Street. Oftober 6. (69.)
