Newspaper Page Text
bur the Georgia Rtpulludu.
1 ITF 1 IWNTR,
No. XiX.
Jlan nni'-fboni, i umero v;x rent totidetn
c: <t
-i lxttaru.n portae, wet d'.vitis “ , ia Nth.
Jt'TEMAU.
C cd men sre rare, if we our (tore compile,
*i aibc*. has morn g.Vt;*, more mouths the
th? r wealthy N f
Homer ban reprefenfid Jupiter, a* f<-a
----t 4 on histhrore with a cup containing
•pood, and another containing evil at hit
ujc, d'.fpenfing: to fuhUnary beinga,-cer
tain portions from each. To be convin
ced tfiat evil exills, we need oniy look a
round vs , every individual* experience
o uft afford ample teftimmy, that it docs I
exist, and it would be <ay to (hew. that
its esiUvnce is a wife allomrnt of provi
dence. For however tioral evil was
originally introduced, its p< sent evidence
is neerffary to the foppot of Virtue
Was the firft exploded, tk last would b- j
a word empty, and tmmeping.
The dipri-viry of liurffn nature evi
dencesiiftlf in different firms, and in v?
rimiß degrees- There at many, whose
,s .nous in life are direfed foltiy to the
j-quirctnent, of aceumulted wealth, and
whose fimty bosoms tbs oecuji and, by
eltvifing plans for inert aing forture, are 1
doled againtl the calls rt eompaflicn, ar.d
are ever ftranj/e to the ft ft emotions of j
Sympathy, Others del-j htto it/flift in j
jury, to involve in and flicuKy, and to
spread iff der iiround them. Malignant ‘
in difiditfon, they po-fue tl>e gratifica
tion of personal animoffty to a cruel, and
inquitous txccl's. Rendered Hangers
ft) pure felicity, by the unequal, <nd tr
toncoui tenor of their own hvrs they arc
unwilVng to behold the pacific enjoy
ment of plrafurrs, in which they have no
participation, Envious of felicity, and
thendt Ives unhappy, they endeavor todc
ftroy what they sue unable to attain.
Unexperienced virtue if, ever tafy to
arerdtt, for innocence is the parent of
credulity. Suspicion is a dangerous, and
dettfted evtl.— It is natural to believe
the ndiviciual radically vicious, who is
hahi ual'y fnfpicious. There is a pru
d, nt caution proper to be Ooferved in the
tranfetions of life, but let u charitably
fupptfc men good, oi at haft innocent,
until vre attain evidence, that thiy are
corrupt.
It is unrrafonable to suppose, that he,
who onre piirfut s the ide-l phantom of
licentious plealure will nevrr Hop his ca
rter, and it is ui just to fufptcl, that he,
who was irice abandoned to ignoble pro
ptnfities, aad enervated by brutal grati.
fieations, then spontaneously refignedthe
power of ablaitiing. For although ha
bitual indulgence renders the conqneft of
passion more difficult to attain, may not
the wanderer, difeovtring that he bfs
llrayed from the proper path, return, re
gain, and pursue it.
The cold leflons of prudence, and the
maxims of caution may fail to produce
immediate tffuft, but if the wisdom o!
ethers is unavailing, felt-experience will
soon beget the change drfired by affec
tion; The blandiftinientß of bilfipation
arc at fiat Calcinating, but the/ pi fivis
i.ot tiie power of retaining. The chalice,
•which vice extends, may attrafl b"t ma
ny retreat from the portion,,t t h c y drain
its dregs.
A youth, hitherto fondled in the lap
cf indulgence, steps forward upon tht
stage of life, made arrogant by flattery,
ind confident of no tuperior. He may
be driven by the wild Tallies of impetuous
pafhons, from lire road of virtue, as the
(hip on a Umpetuous ica, by advtrfe
winds, from its Ucitined ci ittfe ; but the
fublidts; and fated paifion is followed by
the pangs of remortr. He i6 apt to sup.
pi fe thut the eyes of the whole commu
nity are fixed upon him with vigilant so
licitude. Tenacious of his fame, he im
bibes lofty ideas of peifonaf honor, and
it exigence ranrot be prolonged without
its forfeitures, he will often diftiain to
told life, by so dthafing a tenure.
The young maiden acCuftomed to hear
only her own beauties extolled, imagines
them fuperior.to the charms of any othei;
and fuppufes every one enamored, whoj
bihclds her. If fire hears a ligh escape
the hofom, a lover is the victim of des
pair, and an accidental glance iscontlrued
into a faithful evidence of the molt vio
lent pafiioti.
But furcly the youthful of either sex
will ci nfider it as the monition of a friend,
when they are told, that often “ ruin
lutks in a finile j” that mercenary friend*
ihip is the bane of social life, and that in
the retinue of beauty, supposed ilaves of
ten fubmu lor a fcafon, only the mjrt
effectual to attain iuccefs, and by future
cot quclt to undo.
The mod dtlbifliv beings, who are
flr.mpt with hux.sn appearance, are they
who vow, but todeceivt, who make feem
ing-sfieftion the guile ot their hypocri
■cy, and vivo endeavor to attratl only to
dcftioy. They, who moll deftrve to
ffeape, are oil- mr entangled in the tin ret
*•1 artifice- Uuacquaii.ud with the arts
of fedudion, the contagious nature of
vice, and the obvious ten oralieirg efFcd
ol licentious conversation, tbeir bolotr.s
are open io the vows ol deceit, and their
Heps ire rcgaidlei*, beciufe unapprehen
livc ot the wiles of treachery.
He, whefe fiicndfhip is inconflant,
wiio changes i’s oljtCi*, wi.h the vudelrn
impul.c of cspiice, or who cvir.ces neg
lq .nee, reiative to die fccrcts of him for
win m lie piofeiies regard, should be srci
(.(it v nh a truth catuu n, as a pi tliltrous
dilute, lie wilijeaporoixe the bell m
lrelief lufu who trusts, n.cnly to
til- in.uu.iefi ot va.my, o’ to la.ure ano
ther Uvome, more defined, bcuufc com.
still any individual, w ; ‘ out feme degree
of prudent caution, is like a T-ffl on the
cean, without the implemnits of fterr
.ge. This fpsciescf prudence is not in
compatible with an •ur.fufpicious temper.
It only fetkl jullice, without producing
ii jnry. But fufp'c-on unfounded is con.
carnation without evidence, puirfnme-1
without trial; and denotes a dispeiition
’o rtftgn all belief tu the cxiftencc of vir
tue, or brobity. R.
From the National In'tiUtr.r;r,
“We lately noticed in the Gazette of
the United States the bold and urqttal
fied afl'ertion of a fallcltood, calculated to
fix an odium on the administration, ad
to relieve Spain from the reproach ofvi
o ??ed faith. The allegation of asp- ci
fir i'att was repelled by a pointed denial,
and reference made to irrefutable evt ‘
r'ence. Indeed of a candid acknowledg
incut of error, the only mode of repara
tion left to the editor of that print, wc
find, while he evades further notice of
1 the point in que(lion,hia columns are filled
Iwita acrimonious reproaches againfttlc
executive for other al edged onvfiions o f
duty. Among the numerous ancles ct
this hue, we felt (it the following as a fpe
cimcn of the rest, which we do rot hell
talc to dtclare replete with falfchoode.
so cluir.fi'.y vcii-d as to be even ill fitted
|to impose upon tb.e moll toriCcd cicuu.i
ty.
! “ We were the other dry,” fays lh<
! Editor, “ forcibly (truck with the fin
jgnkrity of an application front twera! of
jour fufcfcribers ft.r a copy of the ftatule
| of 44th George 111. c. 30, upon which
the Britiih consul founded Sn addiefs to
our merchants- The editors of newfpa
ptrs have for so long a lime been the
only perforates from whom any infor
mation as to public ass irs could be ob
tained, that we now (com to be lorked
:to as Handing in the place of amba(Tu
dors abroad, and cabinet coutffellors at
home ; and if the mtafures of foreign
courts are to be explained, and our news
papers do not afford the explanation, the
cbjedt is given up a3 hopclcls. As to
jany information front our government
it is not now a day so much as tnought
cf, much less expected. In fermer tun s
when the admtuiftration used to he so
jakuied for its fcrecy, the public were
i accullomed to receive official informafion
Ist the adds of foreign governments af
j feeling our interelis. If new impofi
itions or unufu.il reductions were impo
, fed by foreign nations upon our com
! merce, the intelligence was communica
ted by our mmifters abroad, and the edit
j themtelves, together with the nereff.r/
I explanations, were promulgated officially
lor the information of those concerned
At p - elent that fort of drudgery is left
to be performed by the editors of news
papers and by foreign cotifula. Under
existing circumtlaoces we ought to be
greally obliged to Mr. Bond, and other
officers of foreign governments rdident
among ns, for informing our merchants
of the refpcifiive regulations to which
they are to conform. We ought, indeed
to go farther and to pay them each the
9,000 dollars per annum which mw go
to our foreign minillers. There can
turely be no good rcafoit for giving th fc
funis to Mr. Muntoe in London, Mr.
Armstrong in i aris, Mr. Pinckney in
Madrid, &c. &c. if we are at last to de
pend upon consuls here tor information
ulalive to the proceedings of foreign
courts. It is true that in other coun
tries it is not thought very decorous for
foreign agents to didlate laws and regu ;
lations to 1 tie people among whom they
rcliJe. It is more cuitoni.it yto cotnmu- 1
liicate tile inilrudtioiis ot the r refpecl.ve
governments immediately to the court,
it the fame coutfe were puifued here,
jowr lecretary 01 Hate wotbd be firtl in-
I toimed of inch rcitritftions as (orei.pt go
vernments eltoofe to impose upon our
commerce, and he would tell us officially
whether those reductions were confor
tnabie to existing treaties and the laws
of rations, and COnftqueutly whether
or not they were obhgatoiy upon our
citizens. As it ;s, we seem to be under
the neeefftty of paying implicit obedi
ence to whatever is promulgated as law
by foreign consuls, whether it be to
rcgu'ate cur trade cr the arnaunt of their
o%jn fees.
“ The concluficMi cf the whale mat
ter appears to be, that our republic tn ad
ministration, who ought to itav’e no fe
irets, have nothing but secrets ; and
foreign governments, to cut off our mer
chants from the plea of igt.orance, in
confcquence of the silence i t cur own,
are graciously pleated to inHruCt us
thern’etves.”
In teply to this farrago we fay,
1. It is not true, that under federal
adminiilrations it was ufuai, in the can
e f new impeffitions or unusual rc it rid ions
tmpofed upon our commerce, for the
acts themfeives, together with the i.eccf
f*ry explanations to be officially piomi.l
gated lor the information of the concer
ned, while nose impojieiont o r rejlridtns
n ere the jubj. fi of uegtetation or exptutui
lion. Nei was it uiuai in cases wncrc
there aiolc no negociation or explana
tion. It may have been done in a few
inttancca : but the thing was extremely
tare.
2. It is not true that such official
communications arc publiiheJ, as a mat
ti rof couile, by iouign governments.
In Europe, it is luppoitd theta merchant
will, in the purli.il of his vocation, tak.
the means of obtaining all uicfui infor
mation, and thole iu public itetiuusrare
l]r officially announce the exiltence o
new uutics, or reftndions impolcd by
foreign nations. itieic are acts, which
it ptupir they tubniit to, and whicu, it
improper, they tr'.ie fit meafurc s , eithet
explanatory or eocrctve, of removing,
3 It is not true that the secretary of
Hate, were he to purfuethe fame course
adopted in Europe, would, in the case
of reftridlior.s, tell us officially whether
they were conformable to ex iling trea
ties and flic laws of nations, “ and ccn
fequently”(puerile conception !) “ whe
ther or not they were obligatory upon
our citizens.”
4. It is not true that the present
administration have more secrets than
<htir predecessors. On the contrary it
is incontrovertible that they have in aft
cases, where the pub’ic good did not
forbid, made a full bifelofure of the in
fo mation p-ffrfsed by them. In at tell
ation of this fact we appeal to the records
of L’otigrels, and to the public prints for
iome years pail, a g l 'at portion of
which have been filled with official do
cuments.
Nothing can be more awkard than
this attempt of federa Jh to imprtfs the
x'eathat they are the excJufive tritnds
to the publicity of cfficial tranfadtions,
and the enemies to (late lecre'* ! Do they
lemrmber the carkrcL t’ at (h-iudcd tlte
memorable Algerine treaty, nut merely
‘hiring ms p?ffrge, but long atterwardf ;
that fatal treaty, which n< t contented
withopenmg the coffers ot the nation to
the iiifatiablc avance of pirates, gratifi
ed their pride, and em.bellifhed their
triumphs with a f igat', built by our
own churns, now the boatl of her na*
vy and the moll efficient inllrument of
outrage ? Do they remerv.btr the pro
fiund obfeurity in which it was intended
toke.-p the Britilh treaty, which the pa
triotism of a Mason dragged into day
light ; and which bad as it was in the
form in whi.h it pass A , might have
been ten timi, worse t it; for the light
filed upon its fatal prov:tion3 by public
difeuffion ? Do they recollect the current
. creed of fedcralii’m that the peop'e did
j not, nay could not judge corttclly of our
foreign relations ; that the admimffration
i abne poffefsea the means of forming ae-
I curate opinions, thereby pointedly beg
j giig the question now’at tffoe IDo they
1 rerolleCt the veto palled by general
’ Waffling ton on the call for papers made
I by lite house of lleprifeutatives, the
contents of which they, the tli’efl tepre •
i /motives, of the people coi fulered es
. initial to enlighten thetr path an 1 point
out their duties? L t them recoiled!
thtfe, and many othc calcs, and ta k as
1 loudly as they plcate of the chtrespedt
jof the pretcut administration to the pen
’ pie. Our ai fwer to alt thtfe ph hippies
is, “ the people are a well informed
t people, and they know their fritnds (rom
their enemies.”
j While on this tfipic, it may not be
I uuamufmg to contrail an initancc of the
j correct and comprehcr.five information
! which the enlightened editor oi the Ga
-1 zette of the United States alcnbcs a
i mong other federal cditoio to hunielt,
, and that poff-ffed by a brotner editor at
i Norfolk.
“ On the fubjeft of Spanish captures,
I (fays the editor of the we
i learn that many t>i them are owing o
[the want of proper papers, such as are
required by the treaty which extils be
tween the two governments. That trea
ty (in the 27th article we believe, but
not having it bciore us we cam.ot be
poiitive as to the article) requires t’. it
[ our veffets (hould be turnniied with patl
! ports of a particular eitlciipvioii, not the
. c iiluiar palfportb which our merchants
i are in the habit of obtaining and lelytng
1 upon, and the want of luch as arc des
-0 ibed in ihe treaty is alledgcd as die re a
lon why so many of our velf.is have
been captured aud carried into
ras.
“ We are confidently allured that the
government of Spain, lo turfsoin autho
ufiug the captuie of zxmercau ved.ls
have recently iff bed circular ordcra to
all their officers to treat the American
Hug with particular refpedt.
“ as tin# information maybe teliea
upon, we hope soon to fi. and our commerce
relieved from one o( the embarraffmerus
under which it has so long been labor*
big-”
On this article the editor of the pub -
lic Ledger remarks ;
“ Our readers will notice an article
which we copy from the Gazette of the
United States. It would, from that
appear, that letters have been received
irom Europe, which alfign a caufc for
the capture of our by Spain. Wc
have examined the treaty with Spam,
and find the 17th article 111 conformity
to mat publilUcd, but we do not find ar.y
form of a annexed to the treaty,
as llated 111 that article. From the belt
information which we can colled, wc
are dilpoled to think that no form was
ever annexed to it, and that it was onh;-
ted as in the cate of the “ Role be E
quipage” in our treaty with France-
Wc cannot, however, think that Spam ia
juftifitd in taking the advantage of an
omitfion, in form only It is our opi
nion that the spirit of tbs article 13 la
tisfied by the pafTportsor sea letter, with
which our veffeis are uluaily furmfhed
as other forms have not been adopted, it
is prefureed that the present haß been
deemed fuflicient. Indeed luch a con
clusion mult be drawn, berauie Spain
has been at war during every admimltra
tion, and no other document has bee.
required on the part ot that country.
7/ Spam eitenptj to j Jlify her tor.duel uu
tier juC'i pretexts, it wilt Le a;
addition 0} meouarfs to nj.icnte and rop and
1 iokjnejs.
What fays the Gazette of the United
Slates to tns i “It Spun attempts t-.
jultity her couduci under Etch m.Ccrabk
jpictexds, it wii! be an addition ot mean-,
nef to insolence and rapaciousness.” I
fnch be lherr.ee/teel reproach of Spain,
who has her own interest to pursue, who
cannot be expedled to be guided by any
regard to our interest, what (hall we fay
to the A merican, who thus attempts to
jollify her conduct, what of the blood
that runs through his veins, but that th
rage of malignant passion has estranged
him f-om himfelf, and in his petty hatred
of those in power, has betrayed him into
feutiments even worse than those afetihed
to the mcannefs, the insolence aud rapa
city of fotfign powers.
IN our preceding columns wc lay be
rore our readers the remaining official
documents published by the French go
vernment, the whole, as they have ap
peared in the National Intelligencer, for
mine-an unbroken chain. We owe the
trarflation of the firlt procedings ot
the Tribunate to the Mercantile Adver
t fer. Our columns were too full to
I admit in detail the Intelligence received
at Norfolk. The prominent events it
announces a'e that Talleyrand had re
paired to Strafburg ; that Maflena had
tltabl lh tl his head quarters at Valleg
j gio in Italy ; and that the French army
had palled the Rhine.
——■
Fr om a Bojlon paper.
1M fOXTAN T COM M SRC t At. COEXESPON-
D E N C B.
ExtraS of a letter fron London, dated
L'eptemb r s 7.
“ Os fevefal vessel. frnt into Eng
land, the Mcffengcr, Bufhiugton, rdtas
ed on paying captor's rxpences.
Huntrele, Chafe, di.
Commerce, Tirrcl, and).
Enterprize, Prall, winout expenfesi
Ezra and Daniel, Hal, do.
Thel’c did not come bfore the court,
and were wholly or in fiart, under my
care
Captain Cook, in a Salem v< ffcl, is
lent to GuernHy, and las been off-red
his papers, w hich l hav< advised him to
accept. He had, as mok other captains
have, a notion that ne eight to leek for
damages. When they ae offered toeir
pipers immediately or u a few days,
they (hould accept them and not think
of damages.
The Adair is detained. The mailer
depoles that the bulk of the cargo was
imported in two vc dels trim-Guatialoup ,
and that the Adair wfited lome time
for tneir arrival, in orOir to take the
lugar to Europe.
The (hip John Builjley, bound to
Amftevdam, Irctn Philadelphia, with a
cargo brought by her Horn Bavaria to
Puiiadeluina, wtiore it x-as landed, ad
vertif-d for sale, &c. las been tiied,
aud lentence relerved.
This vt ffel hau performed two or three
j limilar voyages. The vsyage beiore
| the returnta trom Batavia to Philadel-
J piua, wnere trie cargo wai landed and
reftnpped (rom Amitcrdatn, wnere ihe
proeemed with a faife deilination to
Batavia, with specie, and there bought
tiie bu.k of the present cargo. Tiie
owner has another veffff goue to Am
fttrdam, which is ordered to take in re
turn a carno iuiiaoie tor the Batavian
O
maiket. i hefe circumftanc-s, and force
letters on boar , were confide,-ed by the
captors as evidence of an original lureo
tion to ihip the cargo to Europe, and
fuppoling Batavia to be 2 dole colony,
uot open to neutrals 111 time of peace,
it was urged that the vtffd and cargo
were iiabic to coufifcation ; and if not
immediate y, that Mr. , the own
er, having been guilty olfraud in the for
mer voyage, (faife destination. See )
ought not to be allowed iuitaer piool
as to original intention.
The Eagle, Ferry, was detained on
her voyage from Niw-York to Cher
bourg, The bulk-of her cargo, Gua
daloupe fuga , appeared to be imported
by the o-.vner3 in another vessel, accom
panied with a certificate that the duties
payable in France had been paid in Gua
daloupe. This certificate is mentioned
in the letter to the configure, with the
expectation that it would entitle them
to a remission of feme e>‘ the duties.
As it did not appear that the owners
had imported the lugar for laic in the
United B.aies, to foini a part of the
common (lock ot the country ; but that
it was their original intuition to flop it
to Europe ; the judge concluded tncy
were purtutog a onect voyage from the
colony to -oe mother country —that it
was therefore liable to couth cation
Cd/* He übferved that in reason -ad le
gal operation it was tquai whether the
goo<ig went on from tile United Btat-s
111 the lame or another bottom.
The captor’s council obirrved that
as that certificate gave the proprietor
or the tugar certain advantages in
Fiance , 10 it mint expole him to the
uiladvautage of us being conliJertd as
adopted biench property.
ii u therefore lettieil by the late dc
ciliucsui the court ot admiralty, tl.st
The importation ot goods from the
French, Dutch and Spaniifi colonics into
me United Siatct, mutt be made for the
purpoie of intiotiucing them into the 5
common ttcck, or gtntral commerce r j
That, wliun that puopofe of the im-’
porter does cot evidently appear, or |
.vhtii his iotcuttou to export them to’
Europe docs appear, then his m.-ding;
..ie goods, lecurmg the duties, adveru
ling them for fate, and rethipping them
iu ti.c lame, or in another vet}-l for E.r
rope, are no: lutscicnt to break the con
inulty ol the voyage Irom tile cotony to
,ue mother couutiy ; neither wiii inch
aiming ot tiie goods, <xc. on an oatwa.d
-.oya 6 e from tuc mother country to the
XUoiiy iu ihe lane or another vetfui,
oicc,* tue continuity of the voyage ; *
And hat lfie tor.a fide pr.rG e'er on
colonial produce in the United Stares
■nay expr-r’ it to F-timpe ;
The pr i nciple of law. eHa v l : lhetl
n the war r f with rrfjtdl to the
olcnial tr ad e, will l r adhertd to, txet pt
so far as it is orrray he reltxed by in-,
Irudlions to bis Majesty's cruizers, at>ja
by order* of council : 1
Alter the rfl of November, tSo J, •
all neutrals trading with the coloniiß,
can only go to and from them direAly : |
The trade to Batavia will he (Vci’ 4 “d J
to He an exclusive one. Your v,fr.la|
must p-o and return diretflly to and from
Batavia.
CTf Do in war no more than you
could do in peace.”
London, September 2?.
“ Tiie Adair’s trial came on yefter- I
dar, when two thirds of the sugar, fuo*
posed to be the quantity imported by j.
Mr.——, in the two vcffcls from Gua
daloupe, were condemned. 7|he vessel
and the rest of the cargo were reflared.
” Forget not to make the mailers
and mates privy to your having
fed the goods in Botlon, and in y~iur
affidavit attached to the invoices, Hare 1
diftimftly the names of the persons of |
whom you bought. I
“ ‘The colledlor may Hate in lih cer I
tlficatc by whom the goods were itnpor- 1
ted.” *
NAPLES, August 6.
At the earhquake, aloioft all the in<-
habitants, whose number is eftiinatel at
3j0,000, ran cut promifeuoudy ir.to the
ftreete, in the fame dress in which the
(hock had furpriftd them, aid how fi a.
pie that is in this hot fca’on, and at fu;t
a time, is well known. Many tore ‘hrir
hair, others their clothes ; f >me threw
themselves on the ground, kissed ir, or
tore up the earth with thetr banda.
He* e Hood a grouo locke 1 in each o.
ther’s arms, and fobbing or utte ing ex
clamations ofdefpair, inte-ruptei bv the
moft horrid outcries. There numbers
eolledlcd round the faints in the ftreetr,
praying and fereaming as if the last mo
menr of their lives had arrived. Indi
viduals, especially women, ran through
the llteets, and involuntarily exclaimed,
Mama rria ! St. Man 1, ciafi'-i ! Mother
>f god ! St. Anna! help ns ! The fes
tival of this faint had just been cele.
brated on that day, and fne had perfor- J
med three new miracles, v/hich had not ‘
a litt’e augmented her importance. For I
fix days fuce.(lively, almofl all the
ilreets were fi led with boys and girl*
followin r erodes barefoot and barehead
ed, and (inging penitentiary hymns. But
as these procellions furniihtd the Laza
roni with an occaii in of committing
many excess-S. aud they even attacked
the carriage of the Duke of Afcoi,
the wrrthy minister of the Police ; they
were fnrpreffcd by an ediil issued by
cardinal R.uffo Afcoli has (hewn bim
felf, in this calamity, to be a man per
fectly adapted to hs office. During the
la it eight days he has not pilfrdoce
night at home, but has been iiiceffantiy
engaged 111 riding through the streets;
To his zeal it is owing that fix thousand
prifotiers in the Vicaria did not burst
their fetters, as they endeavoured to do,
and increafc Hill more the general dnor
der and confufion. It was he who
suppressed the many falfe report* propa
gated almoll every night by the lower
claffi.s, in the public iquarcs of the city,
where, .for eight days together, aimoft
ail the inhabitants of Haplts were cn
camped, by (Lengthening the guard,
and confining the lcudeft, whole objefit
was plunder. The day before yeflerclay
v, as one of the meft extraordinary that
ever was icen. 7he fun role as red sc
blood ; the fca was of a dirty lime co
lour, but little agitated ; the air heavy,
(ultry, and oppressive. The fun, during
the whole day, appeared only as through
a veliotv veil ; every one was in the lit.
molt alarm, and scarcely any one pafEd
the night at home. The city was, how
ever, fpareo any new calamity.
P ARIS, October 6.
A gentlemen who has jail arrived
ft on Toulon a {fires us, that great pre
parat.oris are nu king there for the re
ception of a numerous fleet ; and the
report was, that the Brett fleet as well
as the Cadiz fiet, would pass fame time
there previous to a grand expedition in
the Mediterranean.
Count tie Cober-tzel received yefeernay
two couiicrs, one from Berlin and the
other from St Pete, (burgh ; and this
morning his fecretsry let out for Stra3-
burgh. He has called in hi* bills, and
packed up th- moll precious of ef
fects ; but not.ling yet indicates, for
certain, the day ot his departure.
At the lad circle of Madame JofepU
Bonaparte’s, neither the Auilrian nor
the P ruffian ambaifadors were present.
LONDON. October 4.
E.t/ro 3 of a letter fro n Dovtr, 03. 2.
“ His Majesty’s (hip the Antelope,
Commodore Sir W. Sidney Smith, lias
jull come into these roads train off the
French coafl, after beating up channel
for the whole of the day. About ten
o’clock A. M. the Furious gun-brig,
was a!fo in light ; but upon a lignat
Ircm the Commodore’* Ihip, flic flrctch
cduff tor Boulrgnc ; a boat f'o3l the
Antelope, with two midlhipmeo, came
on fuore fora womtiit for feme ncctfia.
n..s, and immediately put <>J again.
The t liant Sir Sidney is expected to
..1 id a; the Cave* in the courle of tf>-
evening. We have had various turn::.
Li and conjicEirei rtiptfctiog bis iate
n.it 10 the F -ncb yoAit 1 x um