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utiQrtft tli/b'JtTv The war thf fupforr Is difrflrnn? jia r them and ftiij in ir« fail force. *TVe ijtfbptan ar'ny of the Engltflfin not at pnTenf amount to 12,009 men, so great ai* the loiTcs it his sustain ed. The letters of M’ray is Wcllcl&y arc ex. trroely curious, •sa.movv 4he tmbar raSufcnt th; company nin, , - - . From the London Monthly Magazine, Observation) on /owe traeei of 'he ( ak/a A e Mete amorg Pol-Jhed Nation* By Dr, j. L. Mo'kcaw [eU id Sarthe.) A MQN y C 'he curious fads and iru<-Tifing refill(b found in ifk heft and travels, the philofjpiih, - readn null! remark with sur prise tbofc great difference* of civ ill AKi'n, ihofe tomtaih cT lja.'fc;;rlf.n and a pdtlheJ ft?:?, ondei- the lam,e degree, of latitude, in . the faint empire, and fftmetimes in the fame . province. In France, dreary heaths, lards covc-cd with thorns and briars, extend to the very gates cf Nantes, 06c pf its fineft'eitjes, and at the fight of dm oppofuiwn, the be holder is obliged to confefs, with Arthur Young, that the ©pultn.e of the French towns has npconrx/iiur. with the profpcjrity of the countrv. fO • Vat inus tov.rij.cf the fame province pre fect h flili n»ofc linking contrail; and their inhabitants are as diffen-nt from thepeaf.mcs cf Lower Hretagne as frfttn the Hottentots or civilization, lo rl.£ country, in gene, tal, the lower cla/Cs prefenc rathe eye of the obfctvef fniall lialt-civilizcd tribes, V’hi.clj tiiaiu a)molf ail the ciiliotr.s peculiar to*the early 1 periods of fodal fife. Every thing belonging •» the ordinary ai’j.’')! exhibits, even ft ill more general ly, ampler of tbefe great difference* in the dfvclnpment o' perfect.bility m the fame nation* Thus in almolt every part of the cdja/rtry, the peafaut, though not poor, nei ther knows how to feed nor clothe iiimtcli', he does not even fully enjoy air and light ; and his habitation, lame what more regular, indeed, than the (bed of the Otahe-itan, is a'moftas inconvenient as the Apcky hoc cf the Laplander cr Samoycde. litre men and all the domaftic animals. are frequently crowded into the fame apart, piftf, which teceivco light only by the door, a; I observed in fevcral villages of Poitou and Brtitagne ; and in general rural archi. tt#urc has made so littlepregrefs in France, that there is reason to wonder that epidemic and contagious difeafcs arc not more fre queut and dellruftivc. Even in the towns, the benefits of civi_ Zattoii are coivfincd 10 the higher orders of focicty, and reach the lower by viry flow flops. At Paris, for inltance, there is a par ticular Variety cf the human fpet ies, who regard vaccination, lightning, rods, inocu lation, and economical fauns, as audacious innovations 1 and in many, middle as well as lower, mothers, who never heard of Roulfeau, continue, ; n spite cf the illumin ntionand philosophy of the iqh century, to (hack'e and ftiflt their children out of cx ceflive tendc«>cfs, or without fear, without remorse, and almost without motive, deli ver them up to ihe care of hireling musts. It r*.iy therefore, be slferrcd, in a gene ral, manlier, that the common people partici pate but very ilowly in the progrtfs and ad vantages of the development oi perfcftibflity that they Jong rttiin numerous vefliges es ancient hatlarifin, end that they are many ages behind the more fortunate and more en lightened dalles in civilization and intelli gcnce. Theft differences arc always more linking in remote provinces, and small ter ritories bounded and rdlriftcd in their com munications by phyficai and moral causes, A great number of small countries which are in th.s predicament, m*ght be mention ed j and it may be pro\ eci, that even in Europe, and in the audit of the moftpolilh ed empires, there cxift countries whole in habitants are Uili in a kind of fecial Infancy or who, preserving their ancient habits, may be conhdercd as living monuments, the observation of which affords information not Jess important to hiltory than thole derived from the most celebrated ruins and antiqui ties. Ti)us the inhabitants of Lower Brc „ tagne have fcarccly changed for fcveral cen turies, and Itill retain the language and customs of the litrle colony which left the dutchy cf Cornwall, and took ref uge on the coafls of France. Their ancient manners and idiom keep them insulated, and have hith erto proved an fufurmountsble obftacie to all improvement and to ail communication. A ptafant of Lower Bretagne, placed all at once in the midfl cf one of the great towns of France, would be as much attonilhed and embarrafl'td as a Huron or an Iroqnois.—A Angular inftanc; cf the truth of this afler tion occurred a few years ago, A young peasant of Lower Bretagne was carried off by font adventurers, who exhibited ihim at Paris as a man of the woods. He was treat - ed very ill, and made to faft a long time, that he might devour raw meat with the more avkHty, and the better aft the part of a fa vage.—Some officer* from the fame part of the country happened to recognife the un fortunate youth, restored him to liberty, and procured the punishment of his unprinci pled keepers. 1 have b«en informed that in the vicinity of Hamp, on the fuounit of the Vofgcs, there cxifts in the midst of a fortfi. a fma!l focietv, the individuals of which arc uncommonly * handfpme, ard are the genuine defendants of the Gauls. They live perfectly iniuia ted, and scarcely knew, a few years finer, that any revolution had taken place in Frartce. 'The articles. Manners, Marriage, and Medicine, in the btarifticsl Account of the Department cf Deux .Sevres, by M. Dupin, might easily be taken far chapters of travels m-diftunt regions. In which are defetibed the manners of men scarcely arrived at the ’cdmnV:ncur-ent of civiiix.itirm. : ■ (To he (Continued.) From the Timtl, . TH Epr in: ipaj fa<sTs ft a ted in the following extract from my journal, in the brig Onthge, haw, accompanied by proper vouchers, been for vardfed for the infpeftjcn ot our government ; but conceiveing it my duty to make them as public as possible, I mnft nqutft you to give it a place in yonr paper : w •■ v " », “ Satuiday, April ry. 1805, arrived in the harbour of Pan. Royal, Jamaica ; was immediately boarded by a boat from one of His Biitumic Majesty’s armedveficls, the officer and crew of wkch made an ex amination of the liiilois ol the brig, but not finding any one so, unfortunate as to be a native of Great-Britain, they laid their 'hands upon the cook; (a Spaniard) and immediately departed, taking him with them. “Saturday, April the 24th, Kingston Early in the morning, a boat from the fame foip % which had taken the Spanifocook, appeared along fide ; two officers, wirh fcvural man, came on board ; made another enquiry into r’ne protections of the crew, and demanded the Spaniard’s pay and clothes. In reply, I informed them., that an application would be made to the admi ral, sot his rcleafc, who I was confident would not retain him; at the fame time i-eprefented the inhumanity of forcing him into a service, where fie must fight opposed to his countrymen, paffihly with am! against his brothers j and taken, would be certain of a gibbet, '1 o all this I received no other an Twer, than a torrent ofabufe, which being {pent, they, much to ray fatisfacticn, left me —they however fo<*m returned, de claring that the Spaniard had entered, and again demanded his wages; to this 1 stated, that i haa not brought fufficient money with me, and it being Sunday, could not be (applied by the merchant who managed my Ouuncfs. On inis, oruered their men to unbend and carry away one of the brig’s fails ;, this I interdicted in the rsoft fericus manner, declaring that it they attempted so entire a violation of my rights, that it (hould «oft th?mmore than they had any idea of. Another torrent of abuse than ilfued, which like the former, being violent, was soon spent; they then daparted, taking with them u Ruffian Tailor, duly protected *jy certificates from his government. “ Monday, April 15. ...On application to Admiral Deeres, procured an immediate order for the release of the Ruffian, which I carried on board the Diligence, where he was confined; was received by capt, Gor don, the commanding officer, with civility w’hich might be expeded from a gentleman, who feels power, hut at the fame time does not forget right; from this time the visits of these prc(s boats were very frequent and vexatious, examining and re-examining the protections of the crew, until Wednesday morning, May ill; when, X being on Chore an officer, with feverai men, from the Thc feus 74., came on hoard, and as usual, made fcarch, when finding, lying fiek in his birth, an American Teaman, named William Ma thews, whole certificate of protedion they hjd feverai times before examined and com pared, ordered him to tarn out immediately ; swore he was only drunk, or “ foaming A braham but the poor fellow, too ill to attend to their threats, made no reply ; they then attempted to haul him out, but finding he could not be roafed, they quit 1 him, and raking with them an American Teaman, and an apprentice boy, departed. At this moment I came on board ; was in formed by Mr. Moore (the mate) of the procedure; 1 immediately went below, found the unhappy man lying on his breast, his head and one hand hanging over the head hoard ot his birth, and apparently in the ag onies of death. | immediately called tor assistance to lay him in a mors easy posture, which was just accomplifoed, when he ex. pired. ' On the foregoing I (hall make no aomment —and only express ray regret, in not being able to hand you the names of the authors of these repeated outrages ; tor confident I am, that a large proportion of the officers ot the Britilh navy, would feel for them that indignation and contempt which 1 find it impossible to express, __ CHARLES PELHAM. 1 HAGUE, May 10. Mr. Buranger. ci-devant commiflary general of the Batavian government at Suri nam, was arrefied last Wednesday, by * order of the high military court. It is presumed he will be confronted, before this tribunal, with the commandant Batenburg, who capitulated with the enemy for the . farrendcr of the colony ts Surrinam, Mr. Sautfer,. ct-deyaht gov e, nor of Curracoa, who delivtried up that colony by captulaticn to the enemy in 1797, tock the oath of allegiance to his Britannic majtfty, and remained in his fcrvicc in the quality of govenor of the fame colony, is also arrived, and Is to he triced before the high military court. May 19. 1 We. have been looking with impatience for the arrival of the Er.glifh papers, to know what was the important motion for wliich Mir." Pitt held an extraordinary con .vocation of his friends. We now find that his objedi was to make a motion for the re cftahliflamcnt of order in the War and Navy Offices. This motion of the Minister comes, however; rather late, when the Parliament has already convifted Lord Melville of connivance and other mal-prac tices. This Minister is well known to have fpe-ulated for the Queen, who has canted dllTenrions in her family, by de claring herfelf (he enemy of heir eldest Ton, and Lid up treasures for the period, when her hulband (hall yield to old age or to the disorder he is affixed with. She it is who is the principal caofe of the present deadly war, arid of the curies heaped upou the French, which will infallibly fall upon England, This inconsiderate Princess, like all women who meddle with politics, is igno rant of the confluences of a deadly war. Events will teach them to her; (lie will then weep, but her bitter lamentations will not restore to the country over which her huOnnd has reigned, a fplcrdor and pros perity that are now over.— Jiurnal.de Fans, MADRID, April 18. We learn from Algiers, that on the zBfh ult. the Dcy, about ten o’clock in the morning being seated on a stone near l the fortification, about two miles from the city, and quite alone, was attacked by four well armed Turks. He was fired upon twiefe, and received ten wounds from their fabres, by which he loft two fingers off his left hand. The affaffinshave been apprehended. The Dey was conveyed to his palace. He is at present out of danger. One of the balls fortunately fell upon a purfc which the Dey had in a packet covering his left 'bread. The’atietnpt to murder the D*y is aferibed to the dcarnefs of all forts of provisions, and which he had negle&ed to remedy. LONDON, May r x ' Ytflerday, in the House of Commons, Sir William Rawlings, a«d Mr. Albion Cox, Ikeritts of London, were put to bar, for the purpose of being reprimanded and dif chjfged. The speaker addressed them, and observed, that they had undergone an igno minous punifluhent, in consequence of their mifcotrduft on the Middlcfcx eleftion, of which they were Returning Officers. He then recited that part of the report of the fe led committee which charged them with corruptly giving a colorable majority to Sir F. Burdett. He observed that they had been confined in a prison the receptacle for common malefaftors, over which they had control. Thus they had furniffied a memorable example t« others, not to be guilty of fimiiar mifeonduft. They were now humbled, and in consequence of the prayer of their petition, and Paewing con trition for their offence they were dischar ged on paying their fees. They then reti red. May fg. The complete defeat ot the Ottoman ar ray in Egypt has been communicated in of ficial dispatches of heb. transmitted to Conltantinoplc, The immediate conlequen ces of the victory was a capitulation, fign cd by Hourfchid Pacha, the Tuikilk Go vernor of Egvpt, farrer.dering to the Beys the possession of Cairo, ' Freemasonry is again in full vogue at Pa ris. Almott all the princes of the Imperial Family at the Marftuls of the Empire, have bsen admitted into the Lodges of that Me tropolis, The remains of Fenelon, have been dis. covered in a vault, which escaped injury during the ftorra of the revolution. A lub fcription has been entered into for crofting a monument worthy of the author of Tel£ raachus, * May z 1 , According to the latest advices from Ca diz, Gen. Moreau embarked there on the 33th ult. in a French corvette for America. Jerome Bonaparte-has left Madrid, under the affamed name «f Mr. Albert, Merchant, of New;. York, on his way to France. Or ders, however, hav* been given to the Pre fers of Bayonne and Perpignan to detain him ihould he enter cither- of thofc towns • until they (hall receive further infoimation from the French Government. The Spanish troops in the intrcnchment of St. Roch now amount t* 28,000. An attack upon Gibraltar is still confidently talked of at Cadiz. May ts. There was a report very current in town yesterday, that a revolt had taken place in Sweden under the influence of France. It was even said, chat the person of the King had been put under confinement. The marriage of Jerome Bon spy te, ac cording to private letters from Paris, has i been annulled by the Pope, upon the double ! motive ci the hu&and being a minor, and j the wife a heretic. The Amflcrdara Gazette, nr.dcr the head of Paris, flares, t hat Lucicn ficnapar wll be appointed Viceroy of Italy. 7;, “ fefldence of the king of Italy will, i t j s said, he fixed at Rome, and the Papal See be removed from Rome to Avignon.* A splendid Ruffian R nr, bally to Chir.* confiding of fcveral thousand perfonr, is t 0 set oot from Petcrflbargh on the 24th The Emperor of China has intimated j,;, intension to give a mod graceful reception. Yesterday the name of Earl St. Vincent was withdrawn from the Navy Club, by command of his Lordihip. The Royal Jennerian Society yeflerday held its univerfary feftival at the London Tavern, the earl of Bcrkcly in the chair, ' We were rejoiced to hear, by the report which was made by the Trustees, tliat this , mod benevolent inflimtion, under the au fpiecs of their Majesties. has conqured t» a great degree all the prejudices of the igno, rant, and has cflahliGied itfelf on a rock which cannot be ffiaken. It is mod ex. traordinary that, though this happy art of preventing the ravages of the Small Pu* took its n(e in England, it has made a much more rapid progress in every othor country of the wot id. In Paris 60,000 perftns were vaccinated by the Society in three months. In London not more than 12.91 1 have been in jcukfed by the Society in three years J but If England has been more {low in adopt- I ing the beneficent pradice than other conn, tries, owing prehaps to its jreflefting charac ter yet now that the art has manifetied its preference, there Is no doubt of its superseding the variolous practice. As a proof of its general adoption, four fifths of the company at the London Tavern yesterday were medi cal praftitioners, who from confiientious motive? and experience, all concur in giving countenance to the invention. The day ' was fpem with high conviviality, and very confderable additions were made to the funds of the Society. ALEXANDRIA, July ra. Arrived yesterday, febooner Henrietta, John Gilpin, mailer, fourteen days from Barbadoes....Captain Gilpin, flares that it was reported at Barb«does that the Briiiih government there, had demanded of the Americans t« arm ; and in ede of the island being attacked, to rdift the French. The Americans had it Teems declared themfeivas willing to go into the garrison and defend their own property, provided the Eriiifli would fapply them with arms, and permit than to choose their own officers. / DETROIT IN ASHES. Canandaigua, June 2s, A letter from a gentleman of refpeifabili ty at Buffalos Creek, dated the aorhinft, to his friend in this town, contains the fol lowing diftrefiing intelligence: “ By the schooner Charlotte, Capt. Ni hen, who arrived at Fort Eric yesterday, we are informed that the whole town of De troit, is totally confamed by fire, not a single house in town left (landing! . (i The fire, it is said, firft made its ap pearance in a liable near the centre of the town about 9 o’clock in the morning, and such was the rapidity of irs ravages tha; at 12 o’clock not one house remained The Citsdel, which’ was rather detached, and in which were the Barracks, Officers* charters and 9 A contractors’ (tores, was entirely confamtsL'* Note. Detroit is th*feat of Government of the Michigan Territory, and contained upwards of three hundred homes, built of wood, in a compact manner, and above 2000 inhabitants, RALEIGH, (n. c.) July 22. A refpeftable correspondent of Wayne county, has sent us the following melan choly and alarming account of the corduft of the Negroes in that quarter, and the pro ceedings lately had against them. The statement is pubiithed in the gentleman'# own words. t( Way nejb trough, July 15. t{ Dear Sir, “ I take the liberty from a sense of the danger which the white people of this State are in, to communicate to you oncofthe mod (hocking plots by the Blacks imagina ble, If you think it worthy of a place in your paper, it might serve to pat people on th«ir guard. “ We have been engaged in this county in the trying of Negroes for poisoning the Whites, ever since Monday last. One (of fered death at the (take (was burnt aleve) on Saturday last, for poifonirg their master, mill refs, and two others: two more are under sentence of death, and arc to be barg ed on WedotfiJay next. Thirteen ary im prisoned under guard, a part of whom, from the evidence, I expefl will foffier death, and we are daily making new difeoveries. Some have Ueq brought from Satnpfon, 0- thers from Johafton, so that the plot ap pears to have been a general one. It is Laid by fomc of the pri (oners, that the bead men arc to be poisoned (rest, and tho rest are to befubdued, and after detaining a fufficicnf number in slavery, ths balance, if xefaftw/ are to be pur to death. u We proceed this morning with the trials, and God only knows what the event i will be. Six or eight Light Hcrfrom are continually co duty to bring op charged i negroes, beftdes a strong guard of Infant*/
