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BOSTON, Cooler's. * ‘
XoctraH of a letter from dr. Lettfom, of Londonto a
friend ifitbis town, dated Augufi 20, 1800.
■Jf * I ‘HE greatest revolution of tlie present day, in our
JL department, is the inoculation of the cow pox,
vhich spreads rapidly throughout Europe; we have had a
iout 16,000 fuccefsful cases, without any fatality, and in
3000 trials, where the common smallpox has been applied
after the vaccine inoculation, not one has taken the disease,
So that the charafter of the cow pox is so firmly eftabliflv
ed here as mud focm annihilate the old ‘inoculation. It
seems a glorious reflection on the preservation of human
victims. Perhaps in London alone 2000 die annually of
the smallpox. Imagine how many mult be saved to the
community in half a century, if we calculate these annu
ally, and the fucceflive generations resulting from them 1
fufficient flo‘remedy the carnage entailed upon mankind by
the lull, ambition, and folly of war.’*
New York, OSlober 6. A letter received in town lift
Saturday, vja Bolton, from capt. Paddock, dated Mogo
dore, sth of July, Hates the following particulars: Ship
Ofwego, capt. Paddock, df Hudson, from Ireland Tor this
place, via Cape de Verde, was loft on the coast of Barbary
on the 3d of April last. The captain and all the crew,
save four, who were kept by the thip, were taken to the
interior part of the country and fold as (laves; ‘from thence
they were marched to Mogodofc, and there were redeemed
by the house of William Court and Cos. of that place.
Capt. Warden, who arrived here yesterday in the (hip
Osiris, left Paris the 7th of August. The day before he
had an interview with mr. Vans Murray, one of the A
merican envoys, who told capt. Warden that the negotia
tion hung in a Hate of uncertainty, and that nothing had
then been done.
Philadelphia, October n. The frigate Constellation,
capt. Murray, from a cruise, arrived at Bombay Hook on
Wednelclav last.
The Constellation failed from Havana the 13th Sep
tember, having under convoy a fleet of ao fail.
Baltimore, O&ober 7. Deaths for the last ‘24 hours
ending this morning at sunrise, 22 adults and 4 children.
GBober 8. Deaths for the last 24 hours ending this
morning at sunrise, 12 adults and 2 children.
October 9. Deaths for the last 24 hours ending tiiis
jnerning at sunrise, i t adults, 1 child.
CStobcr 10. Deaths for the last 24 liours ending tiiis
morning at sunrise, 15 adults, 2 children.
Norfolk, Oclober 11.
Extraß of a letter from a gentleman in St. Thomas's
to bis friend in this town, received by capt. Fryer.
“ Siijce my departure from Guadaloupe I was dro.ve into
St. Martin's, a French port, by an Engtilh frigate. I
was from St. Bartholomew’s, in a Swedilh schooner, bound
to this place. I was there treated very politely, and law
there gen. lligaud from St. Domingo; U Cartel was wait
ing for him from Guadaloupe, from which place lie was
to embark in a schooner for France.”
Cbarlefton, October 24. Yesterday arrived the brig
Aurora, Curran, Liverpool, 75 clays.
Capt. Littlefield, of the (loop Aurora, left the Havana
oh the 17th inst. An embargo had existed for 26 days
previous to this date, in consequence of three Spanish 74’s
and a frigate preparing to fail on a cruise; they left Havana
a few days before capt. Littlefield, but after beirig a fliort
time at tea returned, and in entering the port one of the
(hips ran foul of a Baltimore schooner and fiwik her. It
was expected when capt. Littlefield failed that the embargo
would again be laid on the next day. No United States
cruisers on the Havana station.
BASS El ERRE, ('St. CbriftopberJ September 9.
day was brought in here, by the United States
JL schooner Enterprise, John Shaw, eft}, commander,
the Trench lugger letter of marque Guadaloupean, from
Poiut-a-Petre for Bourdeaux, with a rich cargo of liigar,
coffee, cocpa, and cotton; on board of her are four jail
ors, supposed to have run away with the Diana of Nevis;
it is to be hoped someone will recognize them, that they
may be brought to jufticC, and receive the reward justly
due them.
Also was sent in, the (hip Seahorse, recaptured by tire
United States frigate John Adams, George Crols, eft},
commander, with a cargo of fifli, lumber, beef, See.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Ju(y 28.
THE melancholy news of the murder of the French
general Kleber in Egypt is at length confirmed.
Gen. Menou has taken the command of the French troops
in Egypt, and has communicated the circumstance to lir
Sidney Smith, in a letter from his headquarters at Cairo,
dated June 20, of which the following is a copy:
“ Sir,—-I have received the letter which you did me
tlie honor - to write from on board die Tigre, off Rhodes,
dated June 9. As the horrid murder which has been com
mitted on the person of the commander in chief, Kleber,
lias deprived the French army of its general, I hereby in
form you, that I have taken upon me the command of it.
As your allies, the Turks, could not overcome the French
at Malaricb, they have fought a dastardly revenge by the
means of an affalfm.
“ A Janiflary, who left Gaza about 42 days since, ap
pears to have been sent for the purpose of perpetrating this
horrid outrage. The French would willingly believe that
the Muffulmen are the only accomplices in tills bulinefs;
but the murder ought to be made, known to, all nations,
who have an equal interest in avenging it.
“ The (hare which you, lir, took in the convention of
El Arifch points out to me the conduct which I mull pur
futv You demanded the ratification of it by your court.
I must, in my turn, alio demand the consent of the con
suls who now govern the French republic before I can sign
any treaty between the army which I command and the
linglifli and Turks. This is the only conduct I can ob
(Vrve ill the present Rate of affairs. I abhor, as well as.
you do, (ir, the flames of war. I wifli, in common with
yourfelf, to fee an end put to its milerits. I will not,
however, give my consent to any act which is inconliftent
v/ith the honor of tlie French republic and its army. I
am Cure that you must hold the fame sentiments with my
ftdf on this Truth, good faith, and morality,
ought to gtdde every treaty between ‘nations. The Trench •
republican*. are not conscious of the charges made against
them in the paper delivered by mr. Morris. They know
no other conduct thßtf courage in the field, generality af
ter a siege, and good faith in the observance of treaties.
One hundred and fifty Englilh are here prisoners. If I
had listened only to republican feelings ! (hould have font*
them to you without conlidering them as pr-iloners of war,
as they were taken on tlie Egyptian coast without being in
arms, and I am certain that tlie confnls would have ap
proved the a cl. But your allies have detained citizen
Baudet, chief us the ftaff, and adjutant of gen. Kleber,
although his person ought to have been held sacred by the
mod barbarous nations. He was sent with a flag of truce.
I am therefore Obliged, contrary to my own .viflies, to
make reprisals against your nation; but they (hall be re
leased the moment citizen Baudet is sent back to Damiet
ta. He (hail there be exchanged against Muftapha Pacha
and other Turkilh commiftaries. I have ro doubt but you
will have fufficient-intereft with your allies to bring this
bulinefs to a speedy conclafton; it interests your own ho
nor, and concerns 150 of your countrymen.
“ I have the honor, fir, to repeat to you, that I (hall
look forward with great pleainre to the termination of a
war which has lb long disturbed mankind. The French and.
Englilh nations are called upon to pay -respect, and not
to irritate each other; but when any negotiation is to be
undertaken it iuuft be conduced op terms, of reciprocity.
Receive, fir, the alTuranct -of lny refpedt and high conli
deration.
_ * ( MehoTs
And underneath “ Abdullah Bet,”
A name which lie has for along time made use of, having
become a convert to she Mahometan religion..
Sir Sidney Smith has replied to this letter; he condoles
■with him on the loss of gen. Kleber, as well in his own
name as on the part of the grand vizier, Whom he allures
him had not the haft concern in the affair.
The circumstances attending the murder of gen. Kleber
are variotfllv related. Menou fays, in his letter to fir
Sidney Smith, that a Janiflary liad been lent from Gaza
to perpetrate the deed, and tliat he was dabbed with a po
niard at the moment when tlie JanHTary was presenting
him a.paper to read. Other accounts mention that the
murder was tiic efTeft of a private revenge. Other reports
again go 10 far ar, to fay that Kleber owes his death to
gen. Menou, who is laid to be at the bottom of this tragi
cal event. Menou had certainly not been for fome time
on any terms with Kleber, Kid was particularly against
the ‘evacuation of Egypt.
The murder of Kleber in the mean time has placed the
Porte in the molt unpleasant fituatlon, as a negotiation
was m considerable forwardnefs for renewing the conven
tion for the evacuation of Egypt. Gen. Menou is a very
violent republican, and has broken off all kind of commu
nication on the fubjeift, declaring that he will not agree
to any definitive arrangement until he fliould receive full
inftrudtions from Trance. ~
The renewat of tlie war in Egypt appeal’s therefore to be
and preparations for it are condu&ed with in
creased As a part of the French in Egypt wilh
very much to evacuate tlie country, which gen. ‘Menou
strongly opposes, it is hoped that fome advantage may be
taken of this want of harmony. In the mean time gen.
Menou seeks to recruit his army in the country, on which
account the grand viziert army is to be augmented to
100,000 men. The Englilh general Koehler has repaired
to the camp of the grand vizier, and will assist him in his
operations, while the Captain Pacha will act by lea, and
make attacks at different points. The general harmony
Will thus be maintained, more particularly as tlie former
paymaster of the army of the grand vizier, Tchelendi Ef
fendi, has been appointed by the grand vizier.
Tlie French in Egypt form two parties, one wlllijng
and the ether opposing the evacuation of Egypt. The
former is said to be the stronger of the two. They do not
speak much in favor of the new French ‘commander in
chief, Menou, as to his military talents; he is an ex mar
quis, and so wavering in his mind that he has for this
twelvemonth embraced the Mahometan religion, and af
lumed the name of Abdullah Bey, which he puts before
his own.
Vienna, July 23. Under the head France, fays tlie
Court * The details f the battle of Marengo,
by gen. Berthier, have been inferred in the official papers
at Paris; they delerve notice, not only in ‘an historical
point of view, but also on account of the modesty and mo
deration with which he temarks, that both parties mutu
ally admired the heroism of oach other; that the battle
had been one of the greatest fought in the present century,
and that it had become decisive in favor of France merely
from the circumstance, that tlie fcnemy, exhausted by the
immense exertions of the day, at the end of the battle had
to encounter two frefli divisions of reserve, led into adbion
by Defaix and Monnier, who had had no.lliare in the
battle before.” Then follows Berthier’s account, at the
conclusion of which tlie Court Gazette fays, “ Thus ended
that memorable battle, a limilar olie (at least since the
battle of Pavia in 1525) is not recorded in the annals of
Italy.”
July 26. This day's Court Gazette contains the fol
lowing particulars of the late conflagration at Prefeburg:
“ On the 18 th instant, at half past 3 in the afternoon, a
fire broke out in the houle of one Timar, in Michael’s
street. A violent hurricane carried the flames and burning
Ihingles to buildings at a considerable distance, and thus
the two moft powerful elements were leagued together in
laying waftc the unfortunate city of Prefsburg. The flames
arole from every quarter, and, by spreading in an incon
ceivable manner, caused a general confufion, so that every
one was thinking only of his own iafety by flight. The
misery was beyond defcriptlon; the eye behtld nothing bat
smoke and flames, and the lamentations of tlie unfortunate
inhabitants filled the air. The flames communicated to
the interior part of tlie dwellings, destroyed the strongest
buildings, and even consumed the property which the own
ers, at the tiflc.of.thcir lives, had conveyed to the vaults
beneath. The persons blocked up j n their rooms by the
flames and ruins were saved only , by the greatest exertions
of their friends; from the moft horrid death. To complete
the calamity, the wells refuted their aliftanuc to the fiaalt
nirmbcr of persons afferoptsilg-toixtTngmfti the flames; ft*
wliere the iprings had not been entirely dried up the ma.
thinery was either on fire, or had been broken and destroyed
by the repeated exertions of the people. As far as the
Danube (where the dames, raging with unabated f ur y
even threatened to dettroy a I!,ip at anchor in the middle
of the river) every thing had been converted into a heap 0 f
ruins and aflies, and one half of the city laid walk. Among
tlie number of large buildings burned down are the houi'es
of counts Leopold Palsy, J< feph Erdody, John Paify, Em.
merich Efterhazy, the house of the commandant, with two
large -buildings adjoining, &c. Two persons loft their lives
in the flames. The number of houf'es burned down (among
which 4 had been broken down) is 102, and the damage
raided by the conflagration may, without exaggeration, be
eflimated at two millions of florins. Within the five pre.
- teeding years Prefsburg had twice fhffered by fire.”
Private letters from Prefsburg hate, that the French
prisoners there, having been extremely active in quelling
the flames, had not only received a present of 1000 florins
from his majesty, but had also been let at liberty.
London , Augufi 13. On the sth instant died at Ham.
burgh, the justly -‘celebrated profoffer Busch, in the 73d
year of his age. The literary world has loft in him one of
its brightest ornaments, and a great number of gentlemen
in every part of Europe, to whom pi'ofeffor Bulch was afl
inftruCtor, will regret the iols of so valuable k member of
the community.
A-ugv.fi 14. The following letter has been written from
Mittau to M. Thauvenav, minister of Louis XVIII. by
M. De Su Priest, in the name of the king of France, hjs
Sovereign;
li Sir,- —Tt is with g>r2t mortification I learn by your
last that many Frenchmen, whom honor had prompted to
emigrate, have proposed returning into France, and that
several have already arrived there. This conduct very
lenfibly a Herts his majesty. who finds it difficult to believe
that any French gentleman could take the resolution of
fiibm'itting to the government established in France by men
covered with the blood of tlieir king and countrymen.
“ If it be not too late, endeavor, fir, to make them
sensible that fey adopting this meafurc they will efface tern
years of glory, and that through their adherence to the
present government they will forfeit the right of thereco
very of their estates upon the’ return of his majesty into
France. Enprcfs it upon them alio, that it is the clergy
and the nobility that conflitute a monarchy, and that if
these parties quit tlie country the throne becomes null, and
that they can only hope to return to France under honor,
able leaders, covered with glorv, by the numerous facri
fires made for their lawful fovereivn.
“ I'Ve preiume, fir, you will prevail upon them to re
main in the path of honor, by which they will afford us
new proofs of their zeal for tlie good cause. I have the
honor to be, fir, yo'ur very bumble servant,
• * 41 St. Priest, secretary of state
to the king of France.”
A-ugufi 20. Tlie Warwick afiizes terminated on Sa
turday. One of the convidted fl.eep ftealers, when called
upon for his-defence on his trial, made the court smile by
tiie following curious one:
“ My lord, this is a v ery pretty story these .there wit
nesses have told your honor about me. They want to make
you believe that it wai an uncommon affair to find a few
joints of mutton in my house, whereas they all knoiven
that Ive been in the butchering line these many years; that
is, my lord, I buys up .all the rotten flieep and cows. The
farmers knows it, my lord.- Now you must know, my
lord, this here man, (pointing to one of the witnesses) this
here follow, is the only one that opposes me in that line;
—-lie knows, my lord, if he can do me, it il be a pretty
penny In his pocket. I dare fay, my lord, if I'm done, it
will b; a fortune to him of full 151. a year. So you fee,
my he is a very petty fellow for-a witness. Then,
my lore., here’s this other fellow, (pointing to another wit
nel.s) lie owes me a grudge, as you may suppose, for you
mult know Ida lawl’uit with him, and cafi him, so lie’s
foie. Indeed, mv lord, I only caftftiim, as you may fay f
became the last was, we was both cafi; that is, my lord,
we were laid upon our backs, lor the lawyers got every far
thing of him and me too. So you lee, my lord, taking
all these thing* into conlideration, there’s not much to be
depended on what they fay.”
At an inn ina market town on the great road leadingtoj
.Holyhead, where a company of comedians were murdering!
the language of fome of our best dramatic writers, an
Irifli gentleman fat in the kitchen linoking his pipe, and
regarding with pleasure a fowl matting for his supper. A
tall meagre figure stalks in, and after an earnest melancholy
look at the fowl be retired with a ftgh. Repeating his
viht a lecond time he exclaimed, “ By G-d that fowl will
never be done in time.” What do you main!” said
t c Infliman, “ that is for my supper, and you flian’t
touch a feather of ,t.” Oh,” replied the other, “ you
miiunderftand me; I do not want the fowl, but ,1 am to
play Oroonoko this evening, and we cannot begin for
want of the jack chain!” ‘■ °
Augufi 22. The following singular account of a phe
nomenon which appeared in the air near the village of Quin
tana, in the province of Burgos, in Spain, is given inthe
of the P 7th July S - an £Xtraa fr ° m the J oumal of Madrid,
“ At 11 o’clock in the morning of the nth of June a
ftoimy cloud was seen at the extremity of the village of
Quintana, towards the north, and a very thick fog which
eeme tp proceed from the adjacent mountain* having
jom it in a very groi’s column, they formed together a
: R,C S gure ’ with feet > and a long-tail. Tlie
wttn ft V-V er P clu > of a sky blue color,
iunttim/ 1 fT F , ain y dllccrncd > as proceeding from the
l-ar tT u C OUd and f °g’ * hich extended itfelf so
Zr?J° IT ? e f arth * h mitted from time to time
itfolfff f ° 3 ? ark red coloi Vand at length separated
nfelf from the cloud in the direction of tlie villageTwith
hEtVT oni ° f flaines and A Vhe in
riie n2Sf ere VCry much but a violeflt.gale front
T d Z “ C l! e lb - while the
greater part advanced within 400 paces of the vi&age*
and tis frea to tear up in its pafTage several largc ffones
n trees. In particular, a very large oak firft stripped
i 116 lem, j torn up tbs toots* Itdc.