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iJ. ‘■! •'< ‘•'* i",. j, ham Jin;tin 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 ! - ■ . . n u ‘ - 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