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Extracts j ‘i .i I.i.irj rts.
“ I ?;i nabh and • (Lie, in the authd-i
ri y< f ;ii’ nffifir of Ii >h n,ik. that :.:l
•i’s Dmifli troops i,i the territories of
H iJftrin, ami SeMenwig, have rtcmved.
order# to hold thrrr dVivcs in ua<line r i to
winn-h. A Ruffian courier having ’
brought vciv itnportaiit difpatcht# to j
(: pt begun, ’ii cxjirtT. was irnmediattly
L t of! > y tin; ptine tninilier to the
j) .;i i r roya!, who was with the prioctfs
ic the Uirina:; part of the Daniffi do
it if ‘o'.yi-lli: g his immediate ret irn
to Copenhagen. Great mov menls have
I ii f late ohs. rvcd among the French
t r in i! novc ; ami it in flrongly
filiji r.t and to he the Co’ft tin's intuition
to march a i army into Dnlftein, and
occupy Giockftadt, Hofum, and Fon •
in’ ii. n, so as to (hut no ry crftnniu
i i a iat with Gn it Britain, and even
lodoi.ka found from land lid<—
Thi-i plan of operations, which is fa id
to have been oif. red to Bonaparte \'y
(! ncral .Sch nut r, burp, lus received his
in!! approbation ; hut the court of fit.
PcWuhurg having been informed of a,
the molt pofi’ v? orders were f< nt to tilt
-Danes to def nd the n utralitv and inde
pendence of tl cir territory. Ti e poli
t:i(iof the court of Berlin ire flail ‘.mdt
cidcd, but a categorical answer has l ien
demanded of Frederick, by Alexander f.
“ Our letters from H Aland fl.ite, ]
that courietg arrive aimolt daily from
Boulogne at the Helder, with difpatchc#
reh.tive to the expedition fnting out
there. The troops were to he reviewed
on the 13th, for ihe laH inie previous
to their embarkation. The grand pen
turnery was ixpcCted to attend upu;i this
oeeaii m.
I; ti fligtpre lias been received here,
that : Ruffian (Let ,f 18 fail ot th’ line
11 actually cruizing in the Baltic. Ton ■
w:rt l.itilv launched at Uroi.fi it, Ine
74 gun llrp, one 60, and one *ri.;n'e. —
‘1 In military preparations throughout
tin* Ruffian dominions continue with uu
aha ed activity. Generals I’oxhowden,
Mutts w, ami Lnfcy, were lately tern
nonedto attend a council of wai .it St.
Petersburg, at the breaking p of winch
they repaired to the frontiers, to super
intend the af!"."rib!ing of the different ar
mies [ ut under their command
“ According to advices from Vienna
of the 7. 1 1 infl the Emperor of Germa
ny, oti the H, granted a private xtnli
enee to the Rtieh ambaflador at the
town of Baden, atiout 15 r iles from
V.eunn. Immediately after this inter
view with hit; imperial iiuyerty, a courier
was dispatched to i’.iris. lie is fnppo
jfed to be. beaver of me ultimatum ol his
imperial iiuj tlv, on the futjett of his
diflerenctr with France. It i.. ninonred,
that Bonaparte hrsoHeredto rn. kc tome
important concefuoiison ti e fide of Ita
ly. Aullria, huv cer, does net appear
to place much confidence in his paclic
overtu'es. I Ter troops on the Itah.m
frontier are te living dui’y reinforce
-11 cuts. The garrison of Venice by the
la'eft account;', had been citic.ii'ei to
Ij.rco men, consisting princ'pally ot
liungarinr.a; and the fottificafrons of
St. Georgio Matrglcre were rapidly re
pairing. General Strauch lias been ap
} “intid second in conunan lin the Ty
rolel'e. But, uotwiihftan ling these war
-ILe appearances on the part of Aullria,
thv Fie.'.eb paitizans in Germany cir
culate a repent, that Francis 11. isdts
fali.tied with the abrupt return ut Novo
ziltz iff, and has communicated to 11.■
Emperor Alexander his with that fun e
further effort thauld be made to mediate
a [ eace between England and France.”
At*i uft 31.
We are in feme mcafure indebted to a
nruttal ihip for the capture of the Di
don. She spoke the lb a ix fu 11, and
toon afterwards the Didon, to whom the
communicated the intelligence that flu
had just fpeken an English corvette of!
20 guns, and that the Didon might, by j
felling all the fail the could, overtake j
her. The Didon accordingly carried a;
press ol tail, which loon brought htr a- |
long tide the Pticonix, when (he found
her niillake. The set on was gallantly
loc lit yard arm to yard arm, for two
hours and fitly two minutes, by the log, !
at ter the Frenchman's main and mizen I
nwtl had gone over the tide, hr grew
deiperate, and, as ala ft ilf.it, run his
bowfvrit over the taHYail of the Pi.eonix
and attempted to hoard her. But tho’
tin French officers did every thing to
encourage their men to board, the latter
could not be prevailed upon. The Pht- i
ms then hoarv'ed the Frenchmen in their!
turn, when the enemy called tor q iar-1
trrs, and ft;ia k tlicir colours. Her tore-1
mall (ell over the tide as foou as Hie llruck
the i.uuilrer ot dead upc,n the deck gave i
the (h:p t!ic appearance ot a charnel j
licu.'c, j
V”
•1” Oif ‘ J \ i I; v >ehtf-l I
ai 1 j Tied lb. : x < ith . ihrisuL .!
wli : .‘*h 1 rov ‘A to bI.TFt da Di j
dor ( *i : ’ 1 1 toT “h::i with dis: aichrs) j
which she hid taken on the lo'h, rtier
a frvere aft - on. The French frigate ha 1
133 men killed and wounded—'.lie I’hro
ln:x had 53 killed and wounded We
| kept her company the oert day t!ie 14*11*
In the afternram taw the French (Bet
to windward, f ‘me of them tt-.iiai.ig to
ward, u , and their frigates recoiHiu'ter-
We htd no apprcheidiotM for i
onrfelves as we failed so well ; hut wfli
|.*d to fave'the frigate*. wn3 dri
fted, and the oth r woulßßot c arry a
vets of fail from her mall being woun
ded. Wc had that morning fpoF.cn a
fan*,v,hom we toid that w<- had 25
‘hi! of the line cruihng near ns. 1 Id:
kilow being upon a wind and neir them
j their advanced frigates spoke him, and
jlcno doubt, communicated the inteUi
pence he had received from us, for the
! i igate immediately tacked fired a gun,
aid was covered with tinaln. By 11r~
‘lint we l.ad fired a pun and made Tome
1 (gnats as if to nur Sect which confirm
jed them in thrir apprche:ifioni, for they
all hauled theirwind 3 we made another
iignal and tired a pun, after fpeal.itig the
j l'heonix, made fa:', with her .prize from
tliem, and kept her company till the
j next morning at day light when feeing
{another of the enemy's fleet far w a dc
tired to proceed, if pofiiblc, to l.nrd
Ntlfon with the intelligence, and we left
her for adrai i.l Cmiw It is. O 1 the
fame morning we spoke with an Anieri
jean, wlio tuld us, the nail been bonded
(by one of five fail of the line and three
frigates on the 14311, in lat. 4 0 18 N
l uig. 9 00 W. and that they h".l burjit
ja D.iinlli and Sweddli vellti the fame
j y-
It appears by tire following letter
(from jerfev, that sn alarm of an attack
: had been entered the re.
-Josy, Angr.ft 27.
We hwe been ‘ll a tt:cte of alaim here
tlu-le fe w dayr pall. The 2d batfaliion
ol the ]S ! , quartered at Gramlhiil bar-
j racks, beat to arms, on Sun ay night,
| sod have b'ien under arms aim'd con
jit.o dy iirice. Eighty tail ot French
’ gun vrflels were all day ycllerday to he
j teen between tliis qoaft and Granville,
j but much neater to this than to the
French craft. The ladies are ali pa.k
jing up. dec..
1 We arc inclined to think, however
l tb*f the gun boats in queflion were on
j their way to the Grand depot, and had
! 110 Jcli .',ti of attacking Jersey.
“dleiday a very rich American fn p
wa ! brought in here, captured on her
puff'.gc from . pain to Holland.
The commerce, Terrel, from Virginia,
ir. detained and fsnt into Yarmouth.
September 2.
The following Bulletin was ferit into
Lloyd’s th’s morning.
Admiralty oftce, sc[>t 2, 1 3 05.
“ By a diipatch received this mor
ning from Admiral Collingwood, dated
ilie 2111 ult it appears that on the pre
ceding c;;.y the enemy’* fleet, cor.fifting
of 27 or 2 J Til of the line, with fcveral
frigites,entered that harbour, after ntf.
fcdtunlly chafing the ftr.all fquadroo un
der the Vice Admiral’s command.
“On the 24th the Euryalus, by
which the Diipatch was transmitted,
tell in with Sir Robert Caider’s squad
ron 20 leagues N W. of Cape St. Vin
cent's, to whom the intelligence was com
municated.”
Intelligence has also been received
with respect to the Rochefort fquat’ron.
They tirtl went to Vigo to join tne com
bined fleets, bat miffing them there failed
again.
It is evident now that the course which
the enemy tirtl titered when they left
Ferrul, an!i the fu'ifcquent. movement of
tiie Bretl fleet, were for the purpose of
j deceiving u- into an idea that a combi
ned operation was intended, and of
I thereby preventing us from detaching a
j force alter the combined (Lets.
I Thus art we relieved from all anxiety
1 with reipcCt to our homeward bound
d-ets, narticuli'irly the great Fall India
: fleet : for if even the Rochefoit fquad
j ron keep the fra, which vve believe they
would not and iuve not, they arc not
1 ilrong enough to attack tlie Eift India
ti et. Undoubtedly we would have been
glad if Sir R. Calder had come up with
and beaten the Combined fleets ; but the
j inoft welcome news next to that of a
| victory is, to tend that they have got into
| port without doing any injury to our
j itade.
1 We have now only two great points
to watch, Bretl and and both
! thofc points me watched by a fufiicicct
I force
The French funds remain Heady—6l
j one tilth.
9
i v Loi'ufi.'p vi Ii t ,ow 10 a frigate
coKFf.Dz :r against
FRANCE.
i'amc private letters have within theb I
few day* pall t.ein receiveu f"om Paris
whkh ft.it:', that fesr ;e!y a nay ha? oaf
fed for fume ti.ne back, n wir h a
courier ha not brer, (’upatclicf to Ge r
many, or arrivtd from that country
CoH'cvcncr; I1.1v: repeatedly lec-n he!_
herv. rn Talley rind an 1 the Anllisan.
I’iiilTmii and BaMt'ian ambassadors It
is c< .ifi'len Jy ui-‘, th: t the language of
Taliy uui-.l t<>’els count Cobentzel sp
f.ro H'h nearer to th ; tone and llyie
f'lrme’ iy uleft in ne ;ori:tions between
iir'epLucla'it .--id ■ civili/.jd Hates. It n,
ni; : , liywcvc, Injpofcd, that the Ufirp
ir abfolutcly fean a contest with Aullria |
and Ruffin rxcluivly, lilt that he lias (
’ (l.roeg rcafons lor; appreimnding that the I
fu ll cannon fned vjaiuft the emperor of
Germany will bribe hgnal for the tor
rnation of a me'e e>:teidi v e confederat on
againtt Fiance th-m a 1798.
Offers ot the ith (V temiunig kind have,
k is un’e.lV.od, been made to P uflia
and Bdvar v, but have not onlv been re
ceived w"l i coldntli, hut declined with
e firmnefs that was by no means 1 xpric
ed ; and hence it has been fuppof’ and that
Talleyrrnd has groups for fufpeefirg
that tl/efe Hates have sftually e:.tcicd
into feme fectet engagem: nts of a con
duiosal nature, but which are certainly
not very favorable to the views of Fut e
It is tv ft known that great dif’on cats
prevail in Spain as well as in Italy, Swit
zerland ?nl Holland. Bur what is It'll
more alarming to the tifu pe . Moreau
dees not appear to be so entirely so got
ten by the Dench arrives as Bonapvrtr
leemed- to luppofe ; they pi• y tilt; f-I
and lament the deigrace of a crai
wh fc military talents they levere ; an
tlity certainly he in to be weary of their
pr.f.ut Hate of incertitude; yet, not
wniiftanding a 1 th-fe rcafoas for refl.c
ticn, it not for alarm, the uiurper hia
484,000 t'oiqis, according to the till
quarterly teport, complete y armed and
ready to march, ami lie perhaps wru and
be willing to rifque a continental war,
if he had eommanders in whom he cou’d
abf.dutdy confide, and who peflefied
the confidence of the troops in general ;
but except jourdon end Barnadotte,
whole jacohiriical fanitifm is well known,
almoit all his principal gvir.rals are novi
homines in the inijtavy annals of France,
having at the utroll, only headed divi
lions and bri-aJis.
O
THK TLA MIN 00.
Dumpier (Y.w a few flamingoes in the j
Cape dc Verde 1 Hands. He attempted
to (hoot lome of them, but they were so
(livr.i;d timid that he found this a very
difficult tiling tj do'. He informs us,
that the Silt both o the old and young!
ones was very lean n:i 1 black, yet that it
was good eating, and neither tailed ftlhy,
nor wab otherwise uapkafant.
He lays, that when many of them are
(landing together by the licle of a pond,
they have very much the appearance, at
the diftanccof half or three quarters of a
mil.., of a brick wall, for their feathers
are of colour of new red bucks, and they
often range tbenfe'.'. el in ft rail lines.
The young ones are at iirft of a light
grey, and, as their wing-feathers fprn g
out, they become darker; but they do
not attain their proper colour nor their
usual beautiful dupe till they are at leail
ten ur eleven months old.— Dan:bier's
yojrgc's, vol. i p. 30,
DOCS.
Those animals are so refpedhed by many
of the Mahometans, that, 111 home of the
towns in the Levant, large endowment;,
have often been given by will for the
maintaining ot a certain mimbef of dogs
and cats ; and at Conflautinople! there
are perfotis regularly paid to fee the in
tention of the donors put in execution of
feeding them in the llrcets. For this
purpufe, aifo, in fcveral ot the towns, peo
ple liation themftlves at the corners of
the ilreets, to fell victuals for dogs.-*-
Some of the Turks, out of charity, have
cured them of wounds that they happen
accidentally to receive, but particularly !
of the mange, with which these creatures ,
are here mifcrably till Cted towards the !
end of their li e. Yet with all this atten
tion and all this chaiity towards the ani
mals, the Turks have rooted deteftatiou
tor and in a time ot pestilence they j
! kin as many as they can find, imagining
that it is these unclean creatures which
nddl the air.— Tournefort’s Koj >e into
j the Levant, W, ii. page 62.
fVvr. j
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T 'r, e, ‘,7 UMc S ’’ priri* r<] * -
nt y :ar in London, we raid ‘he t 111 1 “■
■j letter from Mr. Oi'i.k, prd.T’ro
‘i:V”y,’ and Libra-La toiii: F. G w r.:
\’i;'".einb':.,'rh, relative to the d'-ff rent
rarflstirnis of the B.J.e, ia the Library
ilthe El-T-r.
TRANSLATION.
I have rectivc i “your lett r, in vvn*ch
•mu have informed me of the formation
the Erkifh and ForAgn Bible 8 *-:ic
y, arid exprcff.i a with to receive
lecovmt of the different tranflatiouß of
he Bible n the Library of she ’.‘/ret ,r
of Wurtcmburg.—When I r* ad your
letter, 1 could not l-;'p thinking the
Snnhfh are the moll ditlmguit!u*d p iple
ill the world. Had tve poll.*. 1 t.i t !.*r
many the nimufl tram) •lity a1 i prosper
ity, vet such a noble and. tign ol .l.ll.Unig
the Bible would fcarce’y have cut..-,..d
our minds, or in rate ;t had. would not
[have met with such generous encoiir;.,:•;•
j inert and itipport. One cainii't Lilt
highly cltecni tuch a n:riw, and the
more to on account of its tcga.d t.n that
heft of hooks, which, thoughn p ihaiue
fully ncgkcled, has ever p.-.v ed, end
will ccrtir.tte to be, the greet 1: ana of
meliorating the conduil of pa-kmd. j
This fieri 1 volume is of the ntnn il im- 1
j portance, as it is adapted to men of every
I Station of lire, from the hi Mu. I to the
('•.•weft, and suited to every p uille cir
j cnmftance ; which charaefteriitic of the
! B.h'e app irs to me to b: a great argu
, ment f r its divine origin. But to come
! to the r.nTver of your inqu'ry ; the Col
jb'-Aion of Bibles in the L'.ivary of the ;
I I'.kdor, which has been madt in Copen
[ hrgrn by a clergyman of the name of
; Lo r k, and afterwards was brought Kith
j er, amounts to more than 400© d.fferent
editions of the whole Bible, or of dif
tir.ft parts of the fame. Ift ml you
now a lexifier of such trai flttions only
as may be in*erctting to your purpofe*
The l\H ns joilo tvt —t’ %.
3 Os Modern 16 Daiifn
Greek, 14 Icelandic
28 Arabic 3 GiieenlandiC
3 Ethioptic 2 Cable
17 Perfinx I Fsntcic or
G Tut kith Acrais
j Coptic 45 S ifoifti
5 s\ iinenian 6 Fim in
13 Tamuhc 3 Impoonic
6 liindoftanee 1 Rtffian
14 Ma, ay .7 Coition
1 Cingslvfit 21 Bohemian
25 Upper Grr- 10 W. uftilh
man j, 20 Pouih
Ge man. cs 6 Luiiiuanian
18 Portuguele 1 L’ “ eniiati
jp Span.fit 4 I'.rtmiti'ian
13 (tahau 7 Huiigaiaan
290 French 5
1 Rbcetian 1
115 Six.ui 1 Catabnan
213 L igl.ftt 2 Norih Ame
273 Dutch rican Indian.
Since tiie ptirthafe of Ciis library, the
! co'vlefFion ot bibleshas beta confiderab.'v
! augmented, not, hovvever, with any
new rranflation in foreign tongues, but
only with scarce editions in ari kno. n
VVcftern languages, or in the oiyginal
text.
B fiftes, I beg leave to observe, that
ihofe above dated, go not all contain an
edition ot the whole Bible ; for in dance,
that of the modern Greek, ccntai s only
the New Tetlament. hould you think
it nectirary, you could easily obtain a
complete catalogue of the whole collec
tion, by applying to a friend in Aitona,
where it was printed, in the year 1787, in
five small quarto volumes. Mr. Cocr
ner, the Ruffian Counfellor cf State, is
much obliged to you for your kind re
membrance, but is not able to give you
any accurate account of ttie preterit date
of Bibles in the Ruffian empire, having
been only in Peterffi irgh, ar.d that a
tnong the higher ranks. As far as I
know, the Ruffian tranfiatisn of the
Bible cannot be much in the hands of
the common people there, it not being
printed with types in common uL, but
•vith thole used for eccldiaftkal purpose.
Permit me but one cbf rvation more 1
The traiTLtion iato C oa'/on language
was made and printed partly in the uni
versity of TudiDgutn, partly in the
town of Urach, both ct which are in
the Duchy of Wurtensburg. The Im
perial General, Tilly, feiz:d oa those
types in the religious war between the
Papists and the Protcftanw, called the
thirty years war ; and made a pref-nt of
them to Rome, win-re they came into
the poffeffioo of the Propaganda, From
thence they were taken, during the
French revolution and carried to Paris,
where they arc new deposited
Merchants Karnes,
For faie itt this Uiiice.
.: •• - t lit-sh v : |
LIE \V AtiKiNG L’ON
Frre'eJ'n. TThat mr.kea you,try
‘) m ’. *;* ui'y : <M
IF , Try on. ‘The events now passing 1
i 1 *!.;, feme in which we uteiy bore j/im
oar*. When 1 behold the inilrutnent
given to virtue for its defen;-.* dra ni in I
the cauf.’ of ‘dee, and fee t l ft >od of
the innocent flawing in so compmus a ,
tl-.7-.rn, r. v mind is fil'rd with gloo njf
.hough's .nd lamaltnoft temoted lAque
t: >u the wisdom of ttwt Providence it; V.
prtfides over the aif/irs of m-n.
I rani tin. It is a gloomy pitlnrc, and
lam not fnr.vifvd at its aft-ds 00 yuir
feelings. T “.12 herotfui and bsnevo^etic:
are cvrr pacific ; and whether these I -n
----ti neuts a limate the philosopher in b".
closet, or th 1 general at the iiend r h
army, their power is equally irrefil'abk*,
and their effe&s the fa ne. Bui civ : ;y
----ranif’ and religious bigotry Ere the
!i, ft (’••'.•urgen of the human race. Rings
are always tyrants, and fit per Hit ion their
■ iriva-iiUe fupport*. Amid ft, however,
i tiie in . of the palti sns, do you not cm.-
j tcmpL'o with fatiefaiflion yonder fy.r.t,
j in which animation reigns wit: out war
j fare, and where tin? happiness of no man
j is built, upon the misery of a brother.
IVashinotm. Yes, my heart derives its
life blood from comtemplating the fcenc.
That was once our country. It is st
ny count!y- My tye dwell# on it by day,
and I dr-. ;o of it at night. You know
that while living its glory was our idol ;
and now I call heaven to witriefs happi
refg is the moft precious ingredient ot rc.y
ec.j lymcnt. Franklin, it'is to you, motc
than to any other, that America owea
the acqnifition, and iliil more tac prefer,
vation of her glory 1
Frank ie- Say not so. Year Lvord
cut the gordian knot of (lavery. Your
sword alchteved
IVasning'cn■ What you planned.
Franklin. Generous foui Let 11s
{hare the merit, not to the excTlian of
many otlnts cf our countrymen, but with
them. It is true that long before ttie
era cf her independence I thought,deep
ly thought that the acorn run ft be be*
come an oak. I saw the foil was kindly ;
1 perceived that the Ltd.was sown, that
if iiad taken root, and all that 1 feared
was tha: fome unri fledting mortal would
cuturb the earth too soon, and extinguith
its germi'iaiing power. Great worka
require time, and 1 was afraid that iutem-
P trance by denying this neciff.ry lulp
mate would blast the fair profpvct of a
good I'.arveft. But our countrymen pro
ved vs if. ; they waited till the proper
Raton ; they made their choice, and their
valour won thv day. They alone are
free, and they only are happy.
I'/.isrington. But will they remain so ?
I io.fi cf on dnir prefect enviable fit na
tion m.ti! my brain altnoft grows giddy
with ilc 11 .Jil ; but often I (tart as from
a trance and !k myfclf whether the ntxt
moment th-y may not link as low sa thofc
ihai surround them.
Frank,ii. No, that can never be, A
merica can never fail to the degradation
of Europe ; Though Europe may and
will rife to her level.
IVd htngton. Yet there are the fame
bai'ttul p'affions, the lame sordid interefte.
the .’amt sinbitioaus men there as elL—
where.-
Fre.-.'i’>n. True, but there is no where
cl'h-the thmc people.
W r afbinpton There arc men who avow
their hotlilny to republican principles.
p. JBut the people feons
them.
Washing There are the advocates
C- ‘
of war and c “>rr>age.
Franklin. Whom the people look up
on as madmen or .Knaves.
Washington. There is a host of men
who calumniate the faireft characters and
the greatett men.
Franklin. The adamant of whose fame
blunts the arrows of tLiidtr, which iali
poiutlefs to the ground.
Washington, These wretches dare to
eulift my name into their service ; as if l
were not a genuine republican, aid tne
de ided friends of a pacific course. or a*
if 1 could ever debate mvfcif by function
ing the atrocious faliebood* which p. rty
malice alone could propagate.
Franklin. This t.r.V-nuny has ofter
grieved me, for 1 feel as jealous of your
reputation as of my own. ibt caluinoy,
even agalnft unyfelf, has f lnc - ceas
ed to trouble me. 1 lived to a good old
age. During the whole of my ( *‘!e my
greatest ambition was to be u f: *ul to 31 y
fellow men. And 1 may hoi ‘"‘J lay th.ct
1 never did a public a£t cot dictated by
a virtuous motive. Still it is
true that I neither did, or attempt'd*
any thing of importance for which 1 \>'i*
not traduced. Calumny is the naturai
efffpring of meanness, envy and diipap
pointment. It is thought its polluted
channel that blaftcd, atnbitiva puttees it