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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.