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PHILADELPHIA, July Extrail of a letter from an American gentleman ref dent at Havre, to hit Jriend in this city, dated the zoih of May, ISO 2. “ Tilings in this country arc going strangely—ail back again to the old fy llem.—Pr lefts lead the < van —and the or der ot the day is the institution of a legi on d’honneur, as it is styled, which is fame thing like the old order of St. Louis, 'ihofe who are to compote it are to bear titles for hfe though not hereditary, and to receive certain annual fabrics. It is intended to be a recompcnte to thofc who have exerted therolelves during the reve lation, and every one who has gained a labre ol honor is a member. There are, however, different grades and different salaries; and, you wul, no doubt, agree with me, that if it is not nobility, it is the ladder to it, “ Buonaparte Is to be named Flrft Cen tal for hfe ; to be nominated by the peo~ fly viz. A paper or book is to be open ed in every department, and all those who are of opinion that such a step will be tor the good of the country to sign yis, and the others no —.as if any man an re Jay No, “ Kcport fays a conspiracy was lately 't rnaed againit him by fifteen generals, v ho are at present under arreft—Maffena vrd Angereau are among the number. Du roc, his aid-de-camp, is said to have difeovered ir, and informed him that he was to be atlaffinated in deice tiding the flairs of the Thuillcrics when going to fne review. He was at the head ot the stair case when Duroc told him this, but be bade him give his arm, defeend imme diately, and beware to betray the Jeall 0- r . iympton of fear or suspicion. It is said the conspirators, tmadvifed of his de feendingfo loon, forbore the attack, but waited for his return. He took, how < ever, another ftair-cafc—fuch is the sto ry, as report tells it,—and fuppnfd to he true. “ For my part I do not calculate on the present posture of affairs being of long duration God knows, however, how itj;ny end." WASHINGTON CITY, July 7. On Monday the Anniversary of one Freedom was celebrated with uni versal cmhuliafln. At fun rife, the day was u flic ted in by a difeharge of artillery from the navy yard. At noon the President of the United grates received the ladies of the city and George Town, and was waited upon ge nerally by the citizens, among whom refrdhmcnts were liberally distributed, and a part of the Mammoth cheele, which was cut on the occasion. An animated <>aiety was diffufed over the countenances 'of the vvliolc company. Ihe presence of many of our molt diftingnilhed revoluti onary characters excited a lively recollec ■ tion of, and deep interest in, those sub lime fcencs which our fuccefslul ftrugglc developed ; and a sentiment ot gratitude pervaded every heart, that the intrepid asserters of our rights amidst the storms •of a revolution, were preserved to perpe tuate, extend and enjoy them in peace. At four o’clock a dinner was given at the Navy Yard. The company confuted of about one hundred and fifty ladies and gentlemen, among whom were the Sec retary of State, the Secretary of the 1 rea l'll rv, the Secretary of War, the Post- MaOcr-General, the refpeaiye offi cers of the Treasury, War and Navy departments, the French Charge des Af faires, the officers of the Army and Navj’, Other officers of the general government, and iirangers of diftinftion. ” General Dearborn presided. Sup ported by Mr. Carrol and Captain Tingev, as Vice-Presidents. After dinner the following d oafts were given, each of which was followed by a difeharge of from one to sixteen guns, and by a patriotic air played by Colonel Burrows’s band, interceded with longs. 1. The Day—lmmortality to the prin ciple it eftabliuied. 2. The People— The security of their friends, the terror of their foes. 3. The General and Stare Govern ments, one great system May the whole be as indissoluble and energetic, as the parrs sovereign and free. 4. jefTetfon, Walhington and Adams The mind that conceived, the sword that ntebieved, and the zeal that rouled our freedom. 5. Agriculture—Venerated be the plough, andrefpected those who follow it. 6. Commerce— May enterprise, in dustry, and honor continue to prosper. y. Manufactures —May their prudent extension add new security to national independence. 7. The Lienees and the Arts—Araeri ca has produced a Frinkiin snd a Rhten houfc. 9. The Heroes and Statefrr.cn of 1776 —Their country the United States, the theatre of their glory the world. ia. Party Spirit—May it disappear, before the brighter spirit of patriotilm, founded on an attachment to principles and not men. 11. Peace to the world, and with the world. 17, Our Milrtia, Army and Navy— Feeble in aggrciTton, but mighty in de fence. 13. Equal Rights protected by equal laws—The true definition of republican, ism, r , 14. American Politics—May they ne ver be debased by European intrigues. 15. Freedom to those who would make us Haves. 16. The Daughters of America —May their virtues be rewarded with love, and their love crowned with happ uefs. 17. The Diftrift of Columbia —The child of union, may her equal regards ex tend to all virtuous men. The arrangements at the Navy Yard were made, under the fuperintendance of Captain Tingey and Col. Burrows, with a very happy regard to elegance and ac commodation. The ladies were received under a handsome Markee, until dinner time, when the company was arranged at an ex renfive. table in the form of a hol low square, under a lofty tent covered with the colours of the frigates, which lay within view, ornamented with the flags of all nations. , After the firlt toasts were drank the la dies retired to a spacious apartment in the Marine Ware-house, just tiniflied, where a ball terminated the entertainments of the day. Besides these celebrations, there were many others in ditferent parts of the city, all of which were conduced with the greatest harmony and conviviality. May every returning Anniversary of this day find the American people as hap py, united, and free, as they now are ] The sera of national independence has again returned, and again we arc called upon by every sentiment of gratitude to commemorate an event to which we are indebted for all we pofl'efs and all we hope to obtain. The crimes, the con vullions and oppreflions of Europe impress the liveliest sense of the magnitude of an event that diftblved our connections with that portion of the globe. But for that event we had participated in those crimes, experienced those convulsions, and groan ed under those oppreflions ; and instead of embracing within our limits between four and five millions of freemen, we (hould have been surrounded only with feilow 11a ves. It will be inftruCtive to compare what we (hould have been under such circum stances with what we now are. Britain having fucceedcd by force in her unlimit ed claim of taxation, would have deftroy cd by open violence, or more insidious stratagems, all the independent talent of our country. The statesman that recom mended and the hero that fought for our liberty would have experienced the igno minious fate of rebels. Instead of the undaunted spirit inspired by fuccefsful va lour, coward fear would probably have taken polfeflion of every heart, and the highest ambition of our greatest men would have been to dillinguilh their loy alty to a corrupt court by a zealous co operation in all its schemes of injustice and oppreflion. In vain would the in dignant and insulted spirit of freedom have exhibited a transient aflertion of its rights. The gallows, Hill red with the blood of a Waihington and a Franklin, would have soon warned him of his fate. That prosperity which each individual owes to freedom of pursuit, would have been subverted by monopoly. We (hould have had our East-India and Weft.lndia companies; our governmental bank ; our trade would have been limited to the mo ther-country ; our manufactures would have been fubjeCted to oppreflive redacti ons, and our agriculture would have lan guilhed. We (hould have been taxed to the extent of our annuity, without our consent, and for what ? To support a Handing army of Britilh mercenaries, to perpetuate our bondage, to adminiiter to the pomp of foreign royalty, to extend the inCattable spirit of Britilh cupidity, and to keep down the firft risings ot liber ty in other nations. Let us defeend to particulars—The imagination may be more forcibly struck with a general view, but the understanding is belt addrefled by a detail of circamllances. England is burchened with the annual payment of fifty millions (tcrling, equal to two hun dred and fifty millions of dollars j this fam divided among a population of about ten millions amounts to twcnty-four dol lars a head for every man, woman and child ; and if we take eight persons as the average number ot a family, it will fol low that each family pays annually in taxes, either diredt or indirect, one hun dred and ninety-two dollars ; fucli would have been our fate. Instead ofcontribut iug as we now do, about two. dollars a head, or 16 dollars a family, we Ihoulcf have to pay twenty-four dollars a head, and one hundred and ninety-two dollars a family. Such would have been our pecuniary situation. Our industry would have been annihilated, our enterprize would have been funk, and with them ail pretensions to virtue and talent would have perished. We should have been placed on a looting with thole regions of the Eall, where the blood of thousands and tens of thousands fl»ws at the nod of a tyrant, whole i'ole palfions are avarice and lenfual enjoyment. Where, in such a ftatc of things would have been our equal rights, our impartial laws, our unrivalled cdnftiturions, our freedom of conference, our liberty of the press, our property, our lives ? They would hare all been at the mercy of law less power, without even the feeble re flrainc which the contemplation of misery produces on the heart of a tyrant. We ihould have been plundered of our proper ty, and defpoilcd of our rights by lub ordinate agents who would have conceal ed from their mailers our degradation and our misery. Think not, fellow-citizens, this an exaggerated pidfurt! It delineates rhe<?e tual situation of every colony in the world ; and had we long remained a co lony, it mull also have been our situation. If such would have been the degrada tion of our lot, had we continued in a dependent Hate, is there a citizen among us who does not rejoice in the splendid event that fevered us from Britalp ? Is there a citizen, duly imprefled with the greatness of the event, that does not feel the livdidl gratitude to thole ftatefmeu and heroes who devoted the vigour of their lives to the efiablilhment of our free dom and happiness ? However, then, we may be divided on fubfcqncnt measures, let us with united hearts hail theanniver fary of a day, that having conferred li berty on one empire, promifss it to the whole worlds. The event, long forefeen by intelli gent men in this country, is at length officially announced. Buonaparte is de clared Consul for life, or in other words, king of the French. The operation is effected with apparent tranquility ; but whether it will not eventually be pro duflive of new fcencs of bloodlhed relts with time to determine. The old tale is again told ; and, as ulual, the afl’umpti on of supreme power, for the good of the people , is the pretext of the usurper, and the solace of the Have ! We sincerely pray for the happiness of the French people, but we believe that every present appear ance of security is hollow, and that the palliatives of Ha very, however they may gild, will not render less odious and op preflive the chains which it bears. Be this as it may, vre believe it our duty, and that of every free press in this coun try, to hold up to abhorrence an adl, which by the union of force and flratagcm, fuhverts every vestige of freedom in a na tion once enlightened, and Hill valiant. July l 2. Poffeript of a letter from aw American at, Parity vs the I’Jtk Maj, i SO2. “ Since writing the foregoing, a law has been proposed and will pals, fixing the duties on tobacco per French veflels at 23, and all foreign veflels at 53, mak ing a difference of 11 livres per cwt. to our prejudice, and confining tht impor tation to the ports of Havre, Dunkirk, Dieppe, Morlaix, Nantes and Bourdeaux, Cette, and Marseilles. There is surely no rcafon why our veflels Ihould pay so extravagant a duty on the produce of our own country. On other foreigners car rying our tobacco it may be right, but we mull oppofc it by countervailing du ties. This is an important moment for our ininifter (Mr. Livinglton) to explain and remonftratc; for when once palled into a law, it will be too late.” A New-York paper fays, Bureaux de Pusv, (well known as the compani on of Gen. La Fayette) is said to be appointed by the French government Prefedt of the colony ot Louisiana. [From the Bofan Chronicle. ] Two things appear remarkable in the latest intelligence from Europe—ill. That Gon. Bernadotre has difmuTcd las fuito, and was not coming out to take pofliflbn of Louifana, agreeably to a 1 former arrangement-—and, ad, In fpcak ing on the fuljVd of that colony Lejn» , ceded to the French Republic, l or f Hawkefbury took occafun to declare that he confidercd Mr. Jefferfon as the and greatefi st atesman in America. J From the fevcre animadversions on the conduct of the Executive: relative to the late appointments of Commifficners of Bankruptcy, One would fupnofe that the ; federal Jit think they have an exclt/fae right to mcnopo[ize all that branch cf bujinefs , TO BE RENTED, 1 And immediate Pcfffffion given, valuable property and fiacd for public bufme.fs, known W the name of the C l7 Y-HO TEL • lately occupied by Joseph Carrie. For terms, annlv to HUGH NSSPITT, or SEABORN JONES, Esq. | July 21, ! —~ __ PdfLOffice Columbia Court- House. Letters remaining in /aid Office, ml! be returned to the General Pop Office if not taken out by the ffirji day oj Ohio her next. Lewis sewall, w m . saier whitc, Abraham Jones, Sarah La mar, Thomas Few, Ruffe! Bonner, Miss Elizabeth Blackwell, Daniel or Wm, El lis, Thomas Bull, Jolhua Grinage, Efq* Mold in Amos, John Germany, Esq. Matthias Liverman, Thomas Worthy, fen. Hezckiah Salmon, William Sims, William Wilkins. Esq, Chappil Bonner, Alexander E. Beall, Lewis Crane, fen, Henry Hampton, Charles Shaw, Isaac Wildon, Jas. M'Conky, Marlhaii Keith, Kitty Morrilhnnt Hunt, HADEN PRIOR, P, M. I JAv r. , yC WILLBE SO L d7 On Thursday the iph of January next , at the house of Maryann P/*uglafs‘, in 1 Hancock county, / ALL the pSu-forpfl cflate of George Douglass, corfifting of negroes, and honVhold furniture.- Conditions of fair Calh. All persons havjdg arfy demands against the said etlateyrre dclired to render their accounts properly attested. as the law / 1 direds, on or before the day of laic. Marvann Douglass, ) , J William Douglass, J m rs ' July 19. Five Dollars Reward, RUN-AWAY from the fubferiberpn Friday the i6thinft. (but has been seen in or about town) a Negro Fellow named LATULIPE, but sometimes i* called Mathurin or Monday, is marked • on hisbreaft verdert, about 22 years of age, had on a (hurt grey coat, with dark green collar and cuff’s—He is very well known in this place, and from in formation received, it is expeded he will make lor Savannah cithei by boat oc raft. M. VERDERY. Augujla, July 23. GEORGIA, Columbia County. By Anderson Ckawfor clerk of the court of ordinary for fajfd county, WHEREAS Catharine Brfcot c.si applied tome fJr letters of ad minijlration on hhe efmte and effeds of Truman Srifcoe , bue/f this county, dec . THESE are th.erfFore to cite and ad ■monijk all and ji/hclar the kindred and creditor's of said d/euftA, to be and appear before the next clutt oK ordinary after the expiration of flirty dafs, to piezo caufe if any they pave, uiky said letters Jhould not be granted, GIFEN under my band at off.ciy this 24 .’.h day of July, 1 So 2» A. CRAW FORD, c. c. o. / GEORGIA, Grrene County. By Thomas Carleton, clerk of the court of ordinary for said county. WHEREAS Ma-y Sims and Jjfiph Sims have applied to me for letters of adminifiration, kn the//late and effeEts cf Benjamin Sims, I die ofthis county, dec. THESE are therefore to cite and admo nijh all and ftngulofrifhe kindred and cre ditors of the sud deceased, to be and ap pear before me at my cffi'C, on or before tht lo'h day of Align fi next, to ft no cause, if any they have, uihy j aid letters Jkould not be granted. GIFEN under my hand at office, this 1 ct‘i clay cf July 1802. THOs CARLE TON, c c o. Blank Deeds of Conveyance for sale at this Ofncc, I