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Late Foreign News.
RUSSIAN NOTE.
Upon tie refusal ofi the Emperor to Ratify
the Treaty, feat by Gen, Baron Du berg
to the Foreign M infers,
**The motives that produced the million
o'".'he Councellor dilate M. D’Oubril to
P.uis, are too generally known to render it
neceff«y to rebate them.
** That cmlTton has jml teiminated. M. D’
Ouhrtl took upon htmfelf fofign 5 definitive
Treaty with the Frcmh Government. But
that a£l, far from fulfilling the magnanimous
internum of his Imperial Mijcfty, n entire
lj contrary to the orders Sc in[ft‘u ft ions which
M. D’Oubril had recei ved. In co'ifiquencc
cf this confide ration, bis Imperial Majesty
has nor thought fit to Ratify the Treaty.
“ Yet, in order to leave no possible means
of rdloring a>:d general tranquility
untried, the Imperial Miuiffty has received
orders to make known aga n to the Cabinet of
tlisThutllaiies,thclvufison which hi.s imperial
IVhajcfly will he ready to renew she Negoei
at ions, so rim it will depend on the French
g'-vernmn’t to accept order lire t he equally jtstt
and moderate popofals which nre made to it.
“The undesigned Mioiflcr for Forcin
Afftirs, in making know n this determina
tion ofKis ai’gnft Mailer, ro his excellency
M, , avails himfilf o( this ocrafion to
renew the afluraticcs of Ids cliftiiiguiftieJ con
fid if at ion &.c.
“ ANDRE DE DUERRG.
“SV. Petersburg, 3-14 ring. I Sc 6.”
Fhontifrs of AUSTRIA, Auc. 23.
According to report the French wiihirg
effectually to prevent Auf.ria from taking
port in a new war, if by chance it (hould
break our, have demanded to occupy the
whole circle of Auftiia rill the re cdablifh
mmt of peace with England. 'They are dill
rot only at Biannau, but have likrw ife oc
copied the right bank cf the Ilonzo. All
the metfure* that are silently taken announce
that the present tranquility will (con be di«
llributed. A great magazine is forming in
Moravia on the frontiers ofbikfia. The ar
tillery men have received orders to make 8
milfiuns of cannon catndges, and ts million
of mofkct cat ridges—Five companies have
bern employed in making them thefefeuror
five days.
LONDON, September to.
We yellerday dated that government dif
patche* were ordered, aficr the riling of ihc
Privy Council on Monday, to he lent offfor
the Continent. One mdfenger is gone to
Vienna; two, it is said, have proceeded to
Paiis, one of whom, we arc told, is the
bearer of a fine Turtle, The departure of
this Turtle, confidercd in the city as a Ne
gotiator of a moil conciliating charafler, has
had the eftcCl of railing the funds.
It is reported, upon the nuihoiity of a
private letter from St. Feterlburg, that an
attempt was lately made to poison the Em
peror of Ruflia.
A fine fit ip, called he Commerce tie Paris,
of 118 guns, was launched on the firft Au
gust l:,tt at Toulon ; Ihe is th? firtt ship of
that rate ever launched ihere.——All the three
deckers previoudy cor.ftruflcd at that port
v ere built in ti c basin. On the 15th of
the fame month, being the fete of St. Na
poleon, the keel of the Ar.TSTF.ui.ITZ, of 128
guns was laid upon the flocks.
Srpicmbtr 13.
Capture of BvtKCS AmtES, by general Be
resfiord, at a fir Home fopham.
We have the happintfs to announce ano
ther atchicvmtnt by the British arms, in
the capture of the important fittlcmcnt of
Euenos Ayres, the capital of the province
i f La Plata, by the troops under gen. Bcjef.
find and fir Home Popham. This is ano.
ther victory growing out of the expedition
fitted out by the late Ministry. The wel
come intelligence was brought by the Nar
cuEm frigate, which arrived at Portsmouth
j ellerday afternoon. The details, howe.
ver, have not yet transpired, W r c had
thought that government would have pub.
lifhed an extraordinary Gazelle this morn
jog; but none bad been published w hen our
paper was put to press,
Capt, Ross Donnelly, of the Narcissus,
v ho brought the difpatchcs, landed at Swan
age, and immediately set off for LtmJon,—
'lire expedition was fitted out from the
Cape, but the governor of La Plata appear#
to have received information of it, and to
have made preparations to refill it. This
circumftancc, adds to the glory of the
cnterprilc.
Oor force confided of about 1 too men—
our ships arrived in the Rio dc La Plata, on
the evening of the 25th or 26th of June..—
Every thing was prepared for debarking
the troops; the ships ran up the river, and
anchored a Ihort distance from the city bt
Buenos Ayres. The men were immediately
landfd. Some attempts is said to have been
made to eppofe the landing, but our troops
charged with the bayonet, and the Spaniards
were forced to pay the lame acknowledg.
ment to the fupertoriry of our prowess which
the French have done in Calabria. The
Spa nidi Viceroy, aftcradiort refinance, fled
up the country. We are said to have loft
only eight men killed and wounded. As
fiion as the landing was effefled, the city is
said to luve been futnmoned—the (hipping
in the mean time had been fiationed before
the city. It was surrendered to us on the
28th of June. The mature and valuables
found in the town, are said to exceed one
million llerling— 300,000 pounds, or ac
cording to other accounts, 1 bo,ooo pounds
•have been brought home in the Nprciffus.
Mr. Fox died on the morning of the 14th
September.
The following Britilh squadrons arc now
at Tea :—Nine *fail of the line, under Sir
C. Cotton, off Brest ; fix do. under {Com
modore Keats, off Bellciflc; fix do. under
Admiral Harvy, off Cape Finifterre; fix
do. under Commodore Hood, off Rochefort;
five do, under Sir R. Strachctv; fix do.
under Sir J. Warren ; feveh do. failed
from Plymouth, last week, Admiral
Louis! and four or five fail of the' line un
der Earl St. Vincent, in the Tagus. Besides
a squadron off Cadiz, and two others in the
Mediterranean.
The Ruffian emperor Alexander has d»f
mifled force of the French emigrants of rank
from his (ervice. It is, probably, the pre
lude to the recognition of Bonaparte, and
perhaps to the withdrawing efthar protcfli
on which he has hitherto afforded the head
of the Bourbon family.
The Servians under general Milinko late
ly defeated a corps of 6000 Turks and Crcf
faiians near Borafch, in which action 4,000
cf the latter remained dead on the field. The
Porte has granted to Ruffian (hips the free
navigation of the Black, Sea, and has sent
s firman to the dates of Barbary to refpcdl
the Ruffian flag. The Pcrftans intend to take
B-iflora ; for which purpose Babi Khan was
in full march ag*infl it,
A general rctusval of regiments from Scot,
laud to Ireland will take place immediately.
A report has been very lltdngly circulated
on the continent, that the kingdom of Po
land is robe rdlorcd, and that the Emperor
ct Russia’s brother is to be the new king.
It is by no means improbable that Bonaparte
(heu’d make a propofuionof that kind to the
Emperor of Ruffin, becaufc U would tend to
weaken both Aufttia and Prussia; who must
of course, give up to the portiors of Poland
which they at present poflefs, & consequently
place them more immediately under the con
trol of Fiance.— It is certain, however,
that Bonaparte has ytt more conccfllons to
extort from Austria for the French troops
continue toadvanceon all fidcs to the Au
strian frontiers.
When Lord Lauderdale was dispatched to
Paris, Miniftcts did not, we believe, expcdl
that the negociations would have been pro
tracted to the extent that they have been,
hecanfe the great leading points, or the basis
of the treaty, were, we are assured agreed
upon betweert the two Governments before
his Lordship fetrut, and that is, we appre
hend, what the Moniteur meant by faying
that the negotiation was finifhed.—The out.
line of this basis, we enderliand from good
authority to have been, that Hanover (hould
he relived, and that we (hould retain Malta
and the Cape of Good. Hope. Lord Lauder
dale, however, had -»ot been eight and forty
hours as Paris before Bonaparte fhifted his
grouud. He made a demand that we Ihould
give him up Sicily. We abstain at pre
sent from all comment on such a demand—ln
deed it fuffidently characterizes itfelf,
Malta, July 18.
“ I come now to relate to you an event of
the mod melancholy defeription, and almost
unparalleled in regard to the dreadful Sc mis
erable confequenccs. It happened this morn,
ing. A magazine took fare and blew up
with an cxplofion scarcely ever known to be
equalled; by it 370 barrels of gun-powder,
and above 1000 Ihells and granades, were
blown up. Such an immense quantity as
40 000 lbs. of gun. powder, must occasion
the moll dreadful havoc & deftrudion. The
houses adjacent in every direction, were
thrown immediately into ruins; and hew
Blocking it was to tie inhabitants, you may
eaflly conceive as there was no chance of cf
caping. The building are all of done, of
ircmcnfe thickncfs. It is calculated that 1300
petfons have either perished, or are dread,
fully maimed. The principal fuffercjrs are
the MaJtefe, whochicfly lived near the place.
One man has loft his wife and fix children j
ethers neatly the fame, and whole families
are buried together. Thole who efcapcd
momentary death, perhaps, arc (hockingly
dhfigured and maimed, and are crawling a.
bout in a miferahle condition. Fourteen
artillery.tr.cn, who were in the magazine
were of course blown to atoms. The band
of a regimenr, (tl\e 39) were just playing
“ God favc the King," near the place; two
were killed on the (pot—the whole of the
remainder were much wounded* The guards
on duty were killed. The magazine is situ
ated on the fide of the water opposite to the
city 1 of Valetta ;it is called Barmola. Stones
.were thrown over to us, some at thediftancc
of two miles. It was fituflted close to the
wafer fide, and the bed pf the sea was so
(hocked by it, that it rose up & overflowed
the banks. Two veflcls (small ones) were
funk. Immenfc Hones were thrown up,
which fell into the water; others on the
(hips and rigging ; one I saw, which fell
on a vessel just arrived, weighed an hundred
weight. The guard-(hip, the Madras man
of war, is moored some distance from the
dlfallrous place; but a done fell upon the
quarter deck, and broke the thigh of the
gunner, who had lately ‘ arrived A Mr.
Woodhoufc here, wh6 with his brother,
has a great winc.nwking concern in Sicily,
has loit 250 pipes of if, worth nearly 70001.
—they w ere at lome little distance from the
place ; but the (hock wa» so great, that the
calks burst.
“ In fliort, it is a feene of tnifery which
no language can [deferibe. The churches
arc filled with the dead. A friend of mine,
just oome from the ruins, fays, that he was
walking over them, when he lighted on the
head of a woman. Her whole body was
Crofted flat j and although it is only a few
hours since the great calamity took place,
her body owing to the intcnfe heat, was
entirely putrified. Nothing farther has as
yet been afeertained.
“ It is supposed, however, that the men
were employed in cutting away the fufes
trotn the (hells, or doing something like
that, when by some means, a spark arose.
The merchants here have began a fubferip
tion of 201. a piece for the relief of the poor
fufferers. A whole town, I may fay, is
dellroyed.
“ The accident happened this morning
about a quarter past 6 o’clock. They fay
there are now buried in the ruins, one thou
fond barrels of gun. powder, that are in dan
ger ; but I trust in God it is untrue, for
were that to blow up, it would bring all
Malta in ruins. May the Almighty avert
such another difafler.'* i
_
Berlin, Augwst 25.
AH the movements now taking place,
appear to announce war; the garrison of
this city, as well as that of Potftdam, have
to-day received orders to hold therafelvcs ih
readiness to march at the firft figral.
BALTIMORE, Otfober 29.
On Sunday, the 12th instant, departed
this life at his refldcnce in Baldmoie coun.
ty, in the 73d year of his age, Mr. Benja
min Banneker, a black man, and an im
mediate defeendant of an African father.—
he was well known in his neighborhood for
his quiet and peaceable demeanor, and a
mong feicotific men as an astronomer and
mathematician. In early life he was in
ftru&ed in the mail common rules of arith.
me tic, and thereafter, wlih the affiftaace of
different authors, he was enabled to acquire
a perfedl knowledge of all the higher branch,
es of learning. Mr. 6. was the calculator
of several almanacs which were publilked in
this, as well as some of the neighboiing
dates, md although of late years none of his
almanacs were published, yet he never failed
to calculate one every year, and left them
among his papers, preferring solitude to mix.
ing with lociety, and devoted the great
clt part of bis time in reading and contem
plation, and to no books was he more at
tached than the feriptures. At his deccafe
he bequeathed all his astronomical and phi
losophical books and papers to a friend.
Mr. Banneker is a prominent inftancc to
prove that a defeendant of Africa is fufeept
ihle of as great mental improvement 8c deep
knowledge into the myfterics of nature, as
that of any other nation.
From the American Citizen.
Liberty of the Press.
The author of the following paper never
writes on principle without communicating
to the public something which, if not new,
is told in a new way. The liberty of the
press is a fubjedl of the firft importance.
He would gratify me and 1 have no doubt
render an essential service to the community
by publifting at large his thoughts upon it.
Os theterm “ Liberty of the Press.”
The writer of this remembers a remark
made to him by Mr. Jefferfon concerning
the Englift Newspapers which at that time
1787, while Mr. Jefferfon was Mihifter
at Paris, were most vulgarly abufivc. The '
remark applies with equal force to the
federal papers of America. The remark
was, that “ the licemioufnefs of the press
“ products the fame effeft as the restraint
“of the p*efs was intended to do. The
**%efl raint. Said he, was to prevent things
“ being ft and the liecntioufnefs of
“ the p>ef prevents things being believed
“ when they arc told.” We have in this
(late an evidence of the trufh of this re.
mark. The number of federal papers in
theeity Sc ftatc of New. York arc more than
five to one to the number of republican pa.
pers, yet the majority of the elections goal
ways against the federal papers, which is
demonffratlvc evidence that the liccjntiouf
nefs of those papers is deftitue of credit.
Whoever has made observations on the
characters of nations will find it generally
trus, that the manners of a nation, or of a
party can be better afeertained from the
charafler cf its press than from any other
public circumstance. If its press is licea.
tious, its manners are not good. Nobody
believes a common liar, or a common do
famcr.
Nothing is more common with Printers,
cfpccially of Newspapers, than the continu
al cry of the liberty of the prefi, as if,
because they are Printers they arc to have
more privileges than other people. As the
term “ liberty of the press ” is adopted in
this country without being underlined I
will ftatc the origin of it and stew what it s
means. The term comes from England
and the case was as follows.
Prior to what is called in England the
revolution, which was in 1688, no wotk
oould be publiflied in that country without
firft obtaining the perraifiion of an officer
appointed by the government for infpcdling
woiks intended for publication. The fame
was the case in France, except that in
France there were forty who were called
cen/ors, and in England there was bnt one
called Imprimatur.
At the revolution the office ot Imprima.
tur was abolifted and as works could then
be published without firft obtaining the per
million of the government cfficer, the press
was, in consequence of that abolition, said
to be free, and it was from this circuniftancc.
that the tern hie tty of the press arofe*
»
The preft, wftich is a tongue to the eve
was then put exactly in the case of the he!
man tongue. A man does not a(k liberty
before hand to fay something he has a tnird
to fay, but he becomes answerable after
wards for the atrocities be may utter. In
like manner, if'a man makes the press utter
atrocious things he becomes as answerable
for them as if he had uttered them by word
of mouth. Mr, Jefferfon has said in his
inaugural fpeccb, that « error c f opinion
might be tolerated •when reason nvas left
free to combat it This is found philolo
phy in cases of error. Bat there is a dif
ference between error and licentioufnefH,
Some lawyers in defending -their clients
(for the generality of lawyers like Swiss
soldiers will fight on cither fide) have often
given their opinion of what they defined
the liberty cf the press to be. One said it
( was this; another said it was that, and lb
on, according to the fcafe they were pleading.
Now ihcfe men ought to have known that
the term, liberty of the prefs i arofc from a
fact, the abolition of ihe officer of Im
primatur, and that opinion has nothing to
do in the calc. The terra refers to the faft
of Printing free from prior rejiraint , and
not at all to the matter primed whether
good or bad. The public at large, or in
case of prosecution, a jury of the country
will be the judges of the matter. <
COMMON SEN&E.
[ We be live that Thomas Paine is tit
author ]
To the Editor of the Star.
Sir— The following Angular co-incidcn*
Ce s, may furnilh matter for rtflcflion to the
c urious. Jr has been generally admitted
l hat the Roman Empire, after palling under
/even different forms of government (or Cc «
ven beads) was divided into ten kingdoms
in Europe (the ten hprns of Daniel & John)
and that, nctwithftanding the various chan
ges, Europe has undergone, the number of
kingdoms were generally about ten.
It is not a little furptifing that th t Heads
of the family of Flapoltoa, who has effefted
such a change in {lie fame Empire, are ex*
ad ly /even, viz.
i. Naeoleon,
a. Joseph, King of Italy.
3. Louis, King of Holland.
4. Jerome,
5. Murat, Duke of Berg and Clevc,
0. Cardinal Fesch.
7. Eeauharnois, the adopted son of
Napoleon.
And also, that the Members of the new
Federation are jfjl tea, v>».
x. Bavaria 6. Vfembourg
1. Wirtembcrg 7. HohenzoUern
3. Baden 8. Arcrabcrg
4. Darmftadt g, Satin
5. Naflau 10. Leyen
It is also remarkable, that in the man's
ftame, Napoleon Bonapare, there arc pre.
cifely three times 5 letters—
NAPOLE DNBUON-OPARTE.
6 $ 6 66$
And in his name is contained the name
given by John to the King of the Locufis*
who is called APOLEON, or th© X>iftroycr.
9th Augufh A* B*
Wlm
Mr. Etflcmc, (on of the lord cbapccllor,
( and the new rainifter from England, is a
young gentleman of amiable and rcfpcftahlc
charade; and warmly attached (9 the In
states. He married, about 7 years ago,
the daughter of Oen. Cadwalladcr, of
Pennsylvania, gpe of the patriot* of 177 6,
and who bled in his country *s defence. By
this marriage, Mr, E. has a daughter whom
he left in Philadelphia, /when he returned w
England forac years ago) with hejr grandmo#
thcr, Cadwalladcr, the general’s
widow, Mr, Erlkinrt father, the lord
chancellor, is known to entertain, arid ex*
press upon all occasions, the malt partial
sentiments towards this country,' and to
have veiled a conlidcrable portion of bis pro
perty in the American funds. The fending
Mr. Erlkine to the U. States, in the
character he now fills, is the Itrongeft proof
of the finccrc disposition ot the Britilh go
vernment to cultivate a lading friendfhip
with the U. States, N. M. T, Ad-
The Britilh Hoop of war Avon, with Mr.
Erlkine on board, has arrived at Niinolk,
having touched at Bermuda.
Neva. York paper .
The Nunery, at Three Rivers, Cana
da, has been destroyed by fire; together
with Mr- Hart’s malt-House, and otb«t
adjoining buildings. Times.
A fine Siberian Ram has lately been im
ported from St. Peterlbargb, in Russia, by
" Mr. Isaac Hicks, merchant, of Ntw-
York. He has a coat, of hair as well as of
wool j and has four horns on his head,
of them like thofeef a (keep, and two,
fembling thole of a goat. He is in
health, and is a great curiofuy to tbtf
Naturalist and the Farmer.—
A new fpedcs of bark, intended for »
dying drug, has lately arrived at New-York
from Santa Fedc Bogota, on the river Mag
dalena, in South America. The celebrated
Spanilh aftronomr.r Mr, Ferrer, to whom
it was font, intends forwarding fampics Jt
to diffc«eet parts of Europe, for axperiments.
A valuable purple color is expected from •”«
The bark is naturally of a rcddilh color,
and hot a texture chick, rough and ratpc;
course.