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in the Service of the United States, and
(hall be converted of having deferred the
fame, (hallfnffer death, or such other panifti
merit as bv fcntence of a court martial (kail
be inflicted.
Art. at. Any non.commiflloncd officer
or soldier, who (hall, without leave from
hi* commandig officer, a Kent himfclf from
his troop, or detachment, (hallj
upon being convifled thereof, be punished
airordlng to the nature of his offence at the
diferetienef a court martial,
("To he continued.)
i—«maHr9»M«—
CARDINAL FESCH.
[7 he following inierfhng, and no doiiht
correA, jheich of “ His Eminence" Car.
dinal Fefch , the.unt le of his “ Imperial
and Royal M?jefty, the Emperor of the
French , “ is extractedfrom the Jccret hiji
dry of the Court und Cabinet of St, Cloud,’’]
Jofej h, Cardinal Fefch, was horn at Ajac
cio in Corsica, ®n the 8 hos March 1763,
and was in infancy received as aligning boy
(enfant de ekeenr) in a convent of his
native place. In 1782, whilst he was on a
visit to fomc of his relations, in the iiland
«»f Sardinia, being on a (idling party some
d’ft ince/rom fhorc, he was, with his com.
paniohs, captured by an Algerine felucca,
and carried a captive to Algiers.— Here he
turned Muffulman, and until 1790 was a
zealous believer in, and profeilor of, the
Alcoran. In that year he found an oppor
tunity to tfcape from Algiers, and to return
to Ajaccio, w here he abjured his rcncgacy,
exchanged the Alcoran for the Bible, and in
1791 was made a coriftitutionsl curate, that
is to fay, a revolutionary Christian Ptielt.
In 1793, when even thofc were preferibed,
be renounced the sacristy of his church for
the bar of a tavern, where, during 179.1
and *793, he gained a,capital by the num
ber and liberality of his Englifti cuftomets.
Afte r the victories of his nephew Napoleon
in Italy, during the following year, he was
itdvifed to re.affifme the clerical habit ; and
after N.ipoleon’s proclamation of First Con.
ful, he was made Archbiflmp of Lyons. In
1802, Fins VII. decofiued him with the
Roman purple ; and be is now a pillar to the
Roman faith, in a fair wiy of seizing the
Roman tiara. If letters from Rome can be
depended upon, Cardinal Fefch, in the name
cf the Emperor of the French, informed his
Holiness the Pope, that he mud either retire
to a convent, or travel to France ; cither to
abdicate his own fovereignry, or inaugurate
Napoleon the First a sovereign of France.
Without the decilion of the lacredcollege,
f.fivAcd in the manner already dated, the
majority of the faithful believe, that this
Pontiff would have preferred obfcuiity to
disgrace.
While Joleph Fefch was a mailer of a ta
vern, he married the daughter of a tinker,
bv whom he had three children. This mar,
liage, according to the republican regula
tions, had only been celebrated by the mu
nicipality at Ajaccio. Fefch, therefore, up.
cn again entering the hofom of the church,
left his municipal wife and children to (hilt
for thcmfelvcs, confidercd himfelf, still, ac
cording to the canonical law s, a bachelor.
Rut Madame Fefch, hearing in 1801 *fher
ci-devant hufbancl’s promotion to the Arch,
bilhopric et Lyons, wrote to him for some
fuccours, being with her children reduced to
great misery. Madame Lmtitia Bonaparte
answered her letter, inclofing a draft of fix
hundred livres, 231. informing her, that
the fame sum would be paid her every fix
months, as long as five continued with her
children ts reside at Corsica ; but that would
cease the instant (he left that island. Either
thinking herd. If not fufficiently paid for her
diferetirn, or enticed by some enemy of (he
Bonaparte family, (ha arrived secretly at
Lyons, in OAobcrlaft, where (lie remained
unknown until the arrival of the Pepe. On
the fi;ft day his Holiness gave there his pub- ;
lie bcncJiAion, (he found means to pierce
the crowd, and to approach his person, when
Cardinal Fefch was by his fide. Profiting
by a moment’s fiience, (he called out loudly,
throwing herfelt at his feet: « Holy Father 1
- lam the lawful wife of Cardinal Fefch, and
thtfe are our children ; he cannot, he dares
not, deny tl e truth. Had he behaved libe.
. rally to me, I (hould not have disturbed him
.in his present grandeur; I supplicate you,
Holy Father, not to reftorememy hulband,
1 ut to force him to provide for his wife and
children according to his present circomftan-
CfS — Malta—el la re mat fa, fant'jffintQ padre f
“ She is mad—die is mad—Holy Father,"
fa id the Cardinal ; and the good Pontiff or,
dered her to be fak*n care cf, to prevent her
from doing hrrfelf or her children any mif
chicf. She was, indeed, taken care of, he.
cause nobody -ever since heard what has he.
come cither of her or her children ; and as
they have nor returned to Corsica, proba
bly some fuug retreat has been allotted them
in France.
’The purple was never cufgrnced by a
greater libertine than Cardinal Fefch; his
amours are numerous, and have often in
volved him in difagrccable serapes. He had
In iScjanunpltafant adventure at Lyons,
w hkh has since made his day in that city
but short. Having thrown his handkerchief
b* (he wife of a manufaAurer cf the name of
Giror, ftc accepted it; and gave him an
appointment at her house, at a time in the
evening when her hulband uiually went to
the play. His Eminence arrived in disguise,
and was received with open arms.—But he
was hardly (bated by her fide before the
door of a closet was burst open, and his
(hculdcrs smarted from the ladies infliAed
by an offended hulband. In vain did be
mention bis 1 *
increased than decreased the fur y as GlfOt,
who pretended it was utterly impoffiblc for
a Cardinal and Archbishop to he thus overta
ken with the wife of cnc of his flock ; at
last Madame Girot pmpofed a pecuniary
accommodation, which alter ferae oppefition,
was acceded to ; and his Eminence signed a
bond for one hundred thousand livers, 40001.
upon condition that nothing Ihouid tnnfpire
of this intrigue—a high price enough for a
found drubbing.—On the day wiien the bond
was due, Girot and his wife were both ar
rested by the police commissary Dubois (a
brother of the prefeft of police at Paris) ac
etified of being cor.nedcd with coineis, a
capital crime at prelcnr in this country. In
a search made in their house, bad money to
the amount of three thousand livres, 1251.
was difeovered 5 which they had received
the day before from a person who called him
lelfa merchant from Parir, but who was a
police spy sent to entrap them. After giv
ing up the bend of the Cardinal, the empe
ror gracionfly remitted the capital punish
ment upon condition that they Jhould be
transported for life to Cayenne.
This is the prelate on whom Bonaparte
intends to confer the Roman tiara, and to
conftiture a fucccflbr of St. Peter. It would
not be the lead remarkable event, in the
beginning of the remarkable nineteenth cen.
tury, were we to witncA, the Prpal throne
occupied by a man, who from a fmging boy
became a renegado Have ; from a Mululman
a cpnftituttonal curate ; from a tavern keeper
an arch-bishop; from the son of a pedlar
the unde of an Emperor j and from the huf.
hand of the daughter of a tinker, a member
of the sacred college.
His filler, Madame liaetitia Bonaparte,
presented him in 1802 with an elegant libra
ry, for which she had paid fix hundred
thousand livres, 25,«ool; and his nephew
Napoleon allows him a yearly pension don
ble that amount. Bcfides his dignity as a
prelate, his Eminence is ambslTador from
France at Rome, a Knight cf the Spanilh
Order of the Golden Fleece* a grand officer
of the Legion of Honor, and a grand alm*ncr
of the Emperor of the French.
The Arch-bilhop of Paris is now in his
ninety.fixth year ; and at his death, Cardi.
nal Fcfch is to be transferred to the fee of
this capital, in expeftation of the triple
crown, and the keys of St. Peter.
1
LONDON, May 13.
The French government have, as proprie
tors of Venice, claimed of the Porte all the
pofleflions in Tutk[/7> Dalmatia and Albania ,
which belonged to the republic of <venice.
111 .1 Swaora
New-York, July 7.
A letter from an officer on board the Pom
pee, firS. Smith, dated off Gibraltar, A
pril 10, intimates, “ that the Pompec is a
bout to repair to Mtffina, for the purpefe of
bringing tkeKing and Queen of Naples to
England without delay."
A letter from Gibraltar, dated April 9,
fays ** The Swiftfure came from Tetuan,
where (lie had been to water. The Moors
knocked down and Adzed orte of the lieu
tenants belonging to the (hip employed on
the watering party, and carried him off pri
soner to Tetuan, bccaufc captain Rutherford
refufed to give them a certain quantity of
powder, which they demanded. The ir.fo
lencc and extortion ©f both the emperor'of
Morocco Sc the dey of Algiers daily increase,
and our goverment should take Tome deter
mined measures with the Barbary powers to
render the Britiffi flag a little refpcftable in
their eyes, which certainly is not at prefect
the case.”
CHARLESTON, . ULY 24.
The United States armed vcffels, which
have arrived from the Mediterranean, are
ordered on {9 New-York and Norfolk, ex
cept three of the Gun-Boats, which arc to
be laid up in this port.
Extract from the Minutes ts the Conferen
ces of the Methodist Epfcopal Church in
America, for the year 1806.
The addition of 10,627 members to on*
branch of the Church of Christ, in one year,,
mull afford particular pleasure to every man
who knows the value of genuine religion.
N. B. Agreeably to the returns pub.
lilhed in thefaid Minutes, there are more
than 130.000 members of the Mehothodift
Episcopal Church in America, exchiffvc of
thnfcin Nova-Scotia, New- Brunfwtch, and
the various Wcff. India Islands, which if ad.
ded, wduld make about 170,000 in Atner
ca. s
NEW.ORLEANS, May 10.
It is reported at Pensacola that the two
Floridas have been ceded by Spain to France
in exchange for the Datchics of Parma and
Placentia, which will be re-unired to the
kingdom of Etruria; and that France has
fold the two Floridas to the United States
for about 4,000,000 of dollars. It is added
that petfons ofrelpettibiSity at Pensacola are
inclined to believe this news, which we bf„
lieve to have been taken to Pensacola by
individuals who rook their leave of this city
but a fhoit time ago, *
[From a Paris Paper.
Ltoki, 1 sth April.
HU imperial and royal tnajefty has vooth
fafed to accept the offer made him in the
name of our city, of the Ide Pernche. for
the ereftton of an imperial palace,
: Msr. :
From the American Citizen.
Defence of New. York —lt is a fubjcft of
congratulation t« our fellow.citizens that a
system of defence is now in operation for
the city and harbour of New-York. The
survey made by col. Williams has for forne
time been under consideration at the war
officer. A plan of repairs for the works at
fort Jay has been agreed upon and contrails
have been made under the direftion of gene
ral Dearborn by captain Whiley for the done
and other materials neceflary for the work.
A large quantity has already been delivered
on Staten island. The undertaker of the
masonry and his labourers are expefted to
begin their labours within a few weeks. It
is understood that the whole of the ramparts
and parapets are to be faced with brick and ,
stone. New ravelines and curtains are to be
added to the salient angles of the fort. The
original design of the engineer is to be com
pleted or improved upon, and every addi
tional repair and enlargement made that Ikill
and labour can give it. In cenfeqnence of
these defenfivc operations, it is affirmed by
competent judges that both the eail and weft
sides of the city will be pratedfed by the
cannons of the fort so effcdUially, that an bo
ll ile Hect will find it impuTible to lie at an
chor in either of the rivers. Fort Jay will
thus be made a very formidable work ; ca
pable of giving security to the city and of de
stroying the ihips of an enemy.
Orders ate now in execution at Washing
ton, Philadelphia and New-York for mount
ing many pieces es heavy cannon,
Propefals for conirafls are likewise in cir
culation from the navy department, for the
cenftrudVion of a number of gun boats upah
the most modern and improved plan, at the
city of New-York. Mr. Smith’s agent has
for fame weeks been engaged in receiving
proposals for building these powerful engines
of offence to an enemy.
With such rapid and aufptcicus beginnings
we may expeft that in the course of a few
years, our city, under the anfpices ofa wife
and provident administration, will be placed
in such a (fate of security that no one need
be afraid of hostile invaficn j but all the in
habitants pursue their occupation in peace,
under an alfurance that there is nought to
to make them afraid.
ExtraEl of a letterfrom a gentleman on hoard
the Leandery to his friend in New-Tork,
•via ■ Norfolky dated May aB,
1806.
“ 1 wrote ybu from JacCptemel, detailing
our proceedings with refped to the expedi
tion ; it has been a fubjeft of delay and dif
appointnrent which it was impofliblc for the ,
most intuitive mind to forefee or conjefture
—but tharks to Providence and liberty,
which overlooks all we do, our profpefls
brighten. General Miranda, is beloved,
refpefled and eftcemed by us all. By hea
ven, my friend, he is the firft ci mpn. I
never swear but to express thus emphatical
ly my opinion of this great officer—the more
I fee of him, the more I admire him—the
oftener I hear him speak, the more eloquent
I think him—the mare frequent 1 hear him
reason, the more profound I think his judg
ment; The change in the Britilh admini
stration opetates beneficially ,j end our dear
country will reap the sweets of an expanded
commerce, and soon (bine as a liar of the firft
magnitude in the constellations of nations.
We ft;all soon ccnrtft the northern and
southern hemifpheres.’’
Extra hi from the address of the Baltimore
Board of Health.
“ In forne houses privies when badly pla
ced or ill taken care of, diffafe an odour as
inconvenient as unheahhful; but the means
of remedying this evil is exceedingly easy.
If a certain quantity of milk of lime (water
in whichlimehas beendiffolved, and whiten
ed by the fine particles of that fubftancc) be
mixed with a ley of ejheSy or soapy water
that has been used for washing, be thrown
into the privy, it will effeftually destroy all
noxious frncll,
“ By these means, for the value of a few
pence, any colleftion whatever of filth may
be netitralifed. The fame proccfs is adopted
for keeping free from all disagreeable smell,
conveniences for f.tk persons in their cham
bers. Nothing is neceflary but to have a
tub covered with a board as a feat; five or
fix founds of quick lime, a small quantity
ofafhes, and two buckets of water thrown
into the tub, will prevent the odour being
effenflve. The fame means may be employ,
ed for a night chair.—The fetid matter after
being thus neat rallied is an excellent manure
for land.”
The prefefi of Venice, hci ordered ten
fall of the line, 6 cf which of 90 guns, to
be laid or. the stocks in the arsenals of his
prefetfiore ; the keel of the Chatlemagne
was laid down on the 7th of March being
the anniversary cf the firft coalition of Aus
tria, Prussia, the German Empire, England,
Holland, Spain, Portugal, the two Sicilies,
the Papal flares and the king «f Sardina,
against France which was declared in 1793
on this date...there was an extra carnival
and great rejoicings.
The naval commifiloncrs at Venice have
ordered vast stores of (hip timber to be
transported from the forefts ct Dalmatia to
their arsenals, and the con ft rmS ion rs twf
immenfc dry docks, upon the fame principles
as these which have exiftedfor 34.0 years,
and by which the Venetian republic was I
enabled to preferva their (hips from decay
double the penod of any other nation. -
Anro^a,
Account* to l7th ult. received at
Norfolk, Wy capt. Madory, from Antigua,
Bate that the English agent at that place in
formed him, that the French had taken pol
ieffion es fit, Thomas, fit. Bartholomew
anTSt. Martin. ibid*
The Chinese method of making doth water
proof, _
Take one ounce of white wax, melted &
i quart of oil es turpentine, when thorough
ly mixed and cold, dip the cloth in the li
quid, and hang it up -to drain until it is
thoroughly dry ;it will anfwcrfor thick or
thin cloths, dots not injure their fabric, or
injure the brilliancy of their colours.
Mr. Sampson, the irilk Barritlcr, vhofe
great exertions in defence of his ljuffering
countrymen, have expofedhim to so much
perficution, and who has' oppefed nothin-*
hut candour and magnanimity to it, arrived
here on Friday the 4th inst. in the Britilh i
Packet. American Citizen.
On Monday last our Lcgiflathre made
choice of Daniel Clarke, as a Delegate
to the Ceng refs of the United States, from
this Territory. Orleans Gazette,
The Ship Weftcrn Trader, cf 400 tens
burden, from Pittlburgh, and Brig Peife
verance, from Marina, arrived at this Per
on Saturday fail. batcher. Gazette.
The number of Dollars imported into
China, by American veflels, in 1803, 1804
and 1805, amounted to 4,857,300
The following papers have been font to ns
for publication, by cur Correjpondent ct
St, Louts, Lills had bun preferred a*
gainji Mr. Hammond, but ignored by the
Grand fury.
Territory of Louisiana, d'JlriS of St, Louis .
Inquifiticn'taken at the rewn of St. Lou
is, in the diftrift ard in the Territory a!orc
faid, at the houfc of Hiacimh S. Cyr, cn
the 23d day of May, A. D. 1806, open a
view of the body of Maichtwatgachte, an
Indian of the Kickapoo tribe of Inmans,
then and there feund dead, by the oath o£
John Murphy, forcorm, Calvin Adams,
James Smith, James Rankin, Josiah M. L?-
mihan, James Huston, J.ehn G. Ccmegyr,
J. Hurt?., Joseph LaCrurx, Wm. Meffey,
Hugh Patterfen, Gabriel LaCrurx, Georg-:
Doggetr, and Charles LtGuerrien, good and
lawful men of the body ctfaid diftnft, who
being duly fummened and fwerr, well ard
faithfully to enquire when, where ard in
w hat manner the (aid Maichiwaigcchec came
to his death, after having examined several
wltnrflrtwho were duly iworn, upon their
oath fay, that at the town of St. Louis
a fore fa id, cn the 23d day of May, one An
toine Saograiu and Return J. Meigs jun.
Esq.—being then and there in peace of Gor>
and of the United States; fair! Maiohiwai
gachee, then and there did make an assault
upon the said Col. Return J. Meigs jun, and
the said Antoine Saugraiu, and without pro
vocation—did w'alk the streets of St, Louis
brandifbing his Tomahawk in a threatening
manner, and striking the fame into cue or
more doors, and terrifying the Citizens
therof; and did then and there of his malice
aforethoughr, with the tomahawk aftrefaid,
strike ard attempt to kill the said Return)
J, Meigs junior, and that Samvel Ham
mond junior, then and there for the preser
vation and in defence of the life of the said
Return J. Meigs junior, with a certain
pocket pistol, loaded with powder and bail,
then and there a mortal wound gave, to the
said Indian, by firing the fame, which en
tered at the left fide cf the back of the said
Indian, of the breadth of a quarter cf an
inch, and lodging in the body of the fai l
Indian, and that the said Indian then and
there, while engaged with the said Return
J. Meigs junior, and the hand in which ha
held the said tomahawk being held by the
laid Meigs, was in the aft et drawing his
knife with his left hand, which was about
half drawn when he received the (hot afore
faid, and the said Samuel Hammond junior,
at the fame time for the preservation and
defence ©f the life cf the said Return J.
Meigs junior, did then a»d there witJb a
certain dirk of the length ol - iticties
give to.the said Indian two wounds on the
left fide, the ore under the left arm, the
oiher near the (hort ribs, cf the length or
three quarters of an inch, of which said
mortal wounds, the said Indian, cn the fame
day and y r ear, and at the place afordaid,
immediately died, and so the jurors aforefaid
fay, that the said Samuel Hammond junior,
did then and there kill the said Maichiwai
gachce, for the preservation and in the d'*- (
fence of the life of the fa id Return J. Mcig s
junior.
St. Louts, May 26, :So6.
I do hereby certify the foregoing t< V »
true copy from the original, as filed :a u’-
officr. f Signed]
0 NATHAN PUSEY, Coroner.
St. Louis, Louisiana Territory, hi ay 2**
Since the death of a certain Indian ct tie
Kickapoo tribe, in this town, which dean
happened on the 23 in I. I the underfi.CT'd
who fpcaks the Kickapqo language, hi v '
beard several of the said Indians fay, ** th"-
thc Indian who harf been killed was 1 fo-' ,
and that whifky had done what was dare, |
and fetmed qpiet and pacified.” The tr
derfigned heard, the interpreter to f?'J tribe,
Mons Won fay that ** they (the Kickapoo
Indians) wanted a white flag to pvt ev—
the Indian’s grave, to fltevv ih-.: American ,