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from tub NEW-YORK ETr.SlNC POST.
It is at least amusing if not profitable
compare the late ceremonies of the
urtli of March at Washington with the
evious occasions of the same kind. A
,. or two since wc gave from the Lan-
ster Gazette, a rather pleasant article
incoming the inauguration of the cider
dams. As a sort of counterpart to it
publish to-iay a reminiscence of the
ceremony of the kind that took place
our country, the inauguration of Wasli-
ffton. That of John Adams seems to
_vc been attended with considerable state
id parade ; tl>nt of Washington was the
or* striking and affecting from its rim-
city. All the pomp of the occasion
insisted in the illustrious citizeus of our
n country by whom lie wns surrounded,
the pcerl^jjjfefiierntioii of great and
■tuju^^^ffaised up by Providence for
WWptieies of that period, and in the
cut and thoughtful multitude of freemen
whom the ceremony was witnessed.—
!ic passage below is from Francis Her
n’s Reminiscences of New-York,|ut the
<1 of the Talisman for 1829.
“On the site of the present Custom
ouse, where the commerce of the world
ys its tribute to the great treasury of the
lion, stood the old City Hall, command-
g a view of the wide nnd winding ave-
e of Broad street. Here in a species of
leony in the second story of the build-
g, such as the Italians call a loggia,
eitn in its materials of wood nnd brick,
it splendid in the taste and proportions
veil it by the architect L’Enfant, the in
duration of the Chief Magistrate of the
aion was administered by Chancellor
vingston to Washington, the first of our
‘“SWcntS. In the front of the building
innumerable and silent crowd of citi
es, intently gazing on the august cercmo-
thronged the spacious street in front,
d filled Wall street from William street
Broadway. Behind the President elect
ood a group of the illustrious fathers of
nation, Hamilton nnd Knox and the
der Adams, and, the venerable nnd learn-
and eloquent Johnson and Ellsworth
id Sherman of Connecticut, and Clin-
ii and Chief-Justice Morris and Dunne
N. York nnd Boudinotof New Jersey,
id Rutledge of South Carolina, nnd less
nspicious in person though among the
'emosl in fume, the Virginian Madison,
icre too stood the most reverend of the
lergy of New-York, the venerable Dr.
gers, of the Presbyterian church, the
ise and mild and persuasive Dr. Moore
the Episcopal; the dignified nnd elu
ent Dr. Livingston of the Dutch; nnd
s learned Dr. Krauze and the patriot
'. Grose of the German churches. Back
these stood younger men, s^tcc scarcely
is illustrious than the elders just nicn-
ined—Ames, and Cabot, and Governeur
rris, majestic and graceful in spite of
wooden leg. But why’ should I :it-
*pt to describe this great occasion by
rds ? I lately looked over the port folio
my friend Dunlap, and found, among
ny other fine things, sketches which
sent the scene vividly to the eye, w ith
features of the great men who figured
it, and their costumes and attitudes,
h us lie himself beheld them. I wish
ie one would employ him to paint a
ile picture, such us be is capable of pre-
-h)g, on this magnificent subject. The
de ol a New-Yorker, the feeling? of n
riot, the ambition of :vu artist, and the
"flections of this interesting ceremony,
wli still live in his memory, would sti
cate him to do it ample justice.
Washington afterwards received the vi?'
nnd cuugratulations of his countrymen
an afternoon levee, a ceremony which
s then thought by many somewhat too
'nial and court-likc for our simple nnd
mblican manners, though now it would
looked upon as a very plain sort of thing,
quite a matter of course. 1 forget
tether it was held at the fine old house
the head of Pearl st. occupied by the late
ranklin Bank, or the other spacious man-
re in Broadway, now Bunker’s Hotel,
r he lived in both, and in both I visited
m.”
As every thing relatiug to this great man
interesting, we take leave here to men*
111 an anecdote of a later date, which has
!® n related to us by good authority, and
Mch supplies a deficiency in the account
fhe elder Adams’s inauguration by the
nter in the Lancaster Gazette, who mere-
remembers that Gen. Washington was
fesent on the occasion, but does not re-
>llect any thing of his appearance.—*
' as ‘iir>gton attended the inauguration in
‘®siinpie garb of a Virginia planter, a gray
3at buttoned up to the chin, buckskitf
reecliea and white topped boots. lie had
cv,, r before shown himself a* the seat of
merninent but in a military uniform or in
all dress of the day, and now when he
“re upon his person the lrndges of rovo-
itioaary retirement and private citizen
ship, it seemed as if the love and venera
tion of the people was increased ten fold.
Neither tho splendor of the foreign ambas
sadors, nor the distinction with which the
chief Magistracy of the Union invested
the hew President, could divert from him
the public attention but for a moment.—
All eyes were fused upon him even during
the ceremony of the inauguration, and si
lent and attentive as the crowd were, he
could hardly inovo without exciting among
them an audible murmur. When the cere
mony was ended, Washington left the par
ty of distinguished and (itlicinl personages
who surrounded Mr. Adums and withdrew
to his private lodgings. The whole mul
titude followed him and crowded around
his door with acclamations, much to the
mortifientiou of Mr. Adams, who was ob
liged to return to his house without any
such mark of respect from tiie people.
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE.
The January' liuhihet - of the Oriental
Herald, n magazine specially devoted tp
the affairs of India, published in London
by Mr. Buckingham, author of “Trnvcls
in Assyria, Media, Persia,” <$’c. speaks in
glowing terms of‘‘the merchant mariners
of America.”
“ To engage in the trade of China and
tlie Eastern islands,” says the editor,
“ with any prospect of advantage, it is ne
cessary ty lie free from all description of
restraint—that every sea should be open
The real Atlantic Slope, which com
mences at tho western termination of this
saudy region, is the hill nnd dale region
of the United Stntcs, and makes up for
this unfavorable foreground of the picture.
Its gentle swells and picturesque hills
form the fine rural scenery of the country,
and are equally auspicious to health nnd
agriculture. This region is nil arable, and
either naturally fertile, or susceptible of
improvement. Here is seated our best
and most comfortable population. The
mineral resources of this slope: arc rich
and various. Iron abounds through its
whole extent. Gold is found in conside
rable quantity in a space of 200 miles
square, in North nnd South Carolinn, and
nearly half a million of dollars have been
collected thence. Lead, zinc nnd copper
appear in many places. The coni region
of Pennsylvania is literally inexhaustible;
the finest anthracite exists in mountain
masses; while bituminous coni is found
in basins in Virginia and Maryland.—
Throughout this slope the marbles abound,
u!>d present a great variety; the kaolin
days, the nhunine earths, and other mi
nerals necessity to the nrts, arc found in
innumerable place® * ouu, on tho whole,
this district may be considered richer in
mineral productions than nny pm' 1 of tho
Union of equal extent, and contufus the
seeds of great future advancement ill ngl'i*
culture, commerce and tho nrts.
The sandy shelf, however unfavorable
to our merchants—every port be familiar-’’ a general characteristics, is not, wc
ized with our flag—that, as far at least as
our own law can ensure it, wc should have
unqualified access to every nation of the
earth—be confined to no prescribed routes
—detained to no ancieut stations, but be
at liberty to sail where we will, to return
which way we please, and to stay ns long
ns our exigencies may require. Be it re
membered, that we have not here to com
pete with the old worn-out nations of the
Continent. A new people thirty years n-
go “in the gristle,” but now “ hardened in
the bone of manhood,” nre our bold and
adventurous rivals. Distinguished by an
energy of character, an indomitable spir
it of perseverance, to be dismayed by no
difficulties, discouraged by no delay, free
as the winds of the immense oceans which
bound their coasts, the merchant Marin
ers of America seem insensible to fa
tigue, seek no repose, but are engaged in
one uninterrupted circumnavigation Of
commercial enterprize.—“ Whilst we fol
low them,” says Burke, *• among the trem
bling mountains of ice, and behold them
penetrating into the deepest frozen reces'
scs of Hudson’s Bay and Davis’s Straits
—whilst we are looking for them between
the arctic circle, wc hear that they have
pierced into the opposite region of polar
cold—that they are at the antipodes, and
engaged under the frozen serpent of the
South. Falkland Island, which seemod
too remote and rouinntic an object for the
grasp of national ambition, is but a stage
and resting place iu the progress of their
victorious industry. Nor is the equinoc-
tinl heat more discouraging to them than
the accumulated winter of both the poles.
We know, that, .whilst some of them draw
the line and strike the harpoon on the
coast of Africa, others run the longitude
and pursue their gigantic game along the
const of Brazil. No sea but what is vex
ed by fisheries—no climate that is not wit
ness to their toils.” Such was the por
trait of America in her infancy, while yet
in the nursery of Great Britain. Since
that time whatever may look like poetry
in tbfc description has been more than re
alized.—Not“ squeezed,” as we have been,
“ by the restraints of a watchful and sus
picions government,” but suffered to take
their own way to perfection, the Ameri
cans, under cover of our own mischiev
ous restrictions, by the excellence and va
riety of their assortments, have obtained
a preference over us in all the ports of
continental Europe, engrossed the better
portion of the trade with the immense re
gions which lie beyond the Cape of Good
Hope and the Straits of Magellan, and
pushing their successes to the Thames,
selected from tin; warehouses in which
our manufactures mouldered, the materi
als which invigorate their competition,
and extend and auimate their foreign aud
domestic commerce.”
FROM THE BALTIMORE AMERICAN,
The. Atlantic Slope.—Mr. Darby di
vides the territory of the United States in
to three great sections; the Atlantic Slope,
the great Central Valley of North-Ameri
ca, nnd the slope between the Rocky
Mountains and the Pacific. The first, be
ing that which we inhabit, he characterises
ns follows:
The great Atlantic Slope extends from
Florida to New-Brunswick, a length of
2100 miles, by n mean width of 160, and
contains 008,600 square miles. It cott-
tains two regions of very distinct charac
ters ; first, a diluvial shelf of sand, clad in
pine forests, arid extending from the At
lantic to the falls of the rivers; secondly,
the real primitive slope, rising from these
falls in an inclined plane to the tops of the
Alleghany. The shelf of sand, if we ex
tend it to Cape Cod, is more than 1500
miles in length. From Georgia to Jersey
it averages 120 miles in breadth; thence
to Nevtsink HiMa. 60 miles; npd Rom
these hills it runs out into the narrow
couch of Long Island and Cape Cod.-—
This sandy region ia a great deformity to
our continent. It is generally sterile and
unwholesome, and filled with swamps and
marshes not easily ^claimable; tc push
es the population away from the comforts
and facilities of the sea.
would obscrye, so utterly barren and use
less as the render might be led from these
to suppose. Rice, vegetables and fruits
may be drawn abundantly from its soil,
and some large and well known districts,
not unfertile or unpeopled, are compre
hended within it. Fish and other delicn-
cies abound in it. Its worst feature is its
insalubrity ; a feature which it is likely to
their rites, and tho following is his ac
count.
“ The chief scat of these Subbees is
Kournn, at the conflux of the Tigris nnd
Euphrates ; and at that place their bishop
and upwards of n hundred families reside.
There arc also some few at Shookashoaah,
a large Arab town higher up, and they
are scattered over the plain country of
Iihusistan, nt Shooster, De/.ltpool, nnd
other pluccs them, but their limits ore ve
ry narrow, nnd their whole body collect
ively is thought to he less than n thousand
families. They possess n gospel of their
own, which is written in <t dialect of the
Chaldaic, hut with characters peculiar
to themselves, of which Mr. Niebuhr has
given an alphabet, though lie seems to
have collected no other irformntiqn re
garding them. This gospel enters at
large into the genealogy, birth and edu
cation of John the Baptist, with his sepa
rate history until the time of his bapti
zing Jesus, when the histories and acts
are treated of in continuation, In;; In what
particular the version accost! will), or dif
fers from, nny of tho?.c received among
us, I could not learn J ns, in the first piuce,
the book itself | s not easily to bo procur
ed from the priests, and in the next, it
would require either n knowledge of their
language, or a translation of it.by them
iuto Arabic, to understand it, neither of
♦flitch was it in my power to obtain.—
This' gos pel is attributed by them to John
the Baptist himself, and it hi their sole
authority in all matters of faith nnd doc
trine. They have besides, however, a
book of prayers and precepts, with direc
tions for ceremonials, which th ey ascribe
to the learned men of thoir sect, who im
mediately sncceed their great leader.—
They admit the divinity of Jcsusi, us Christ,
the son of God, and conceive that John
the Baptist is to lie honored as liis lore'
retain, as districts more favorable to ngn- runner, and ns the person selected 1 by God
culture will drain its population, mid keep
its surface in its naturul, uncultivated and
undrniued state.
to perforin the most holy sacrament of
baptism on bis child ; but whut are their
notions regarding the Trinity I could not
learn. They are distinguished from all
other Christians by their frequent repeti
tion of this sacrament on the same per
son, who, in other churches, would receive
FROM THE NEW-YORK COlUIER.
It is a miserable tiling to lie rich-
river it not from experience, but from j it but once. It is said, even, that every
observation; Our Friend Solomon South- j individual of their body is baptised nnnu-
wick, ouce published a poem entitled ally on some particular occasion; but
“ Pleasures of Poverty,” and although no; whether this is a fixed day for all, or pe-
body read more than the first page, it was
the best thing Solomon ever did. It was
the perversity of mankind, not the “ ab
sence of caloric” iu the poem, that pre
vented the “ Pleasures of Poverty” from
becoming immortal.
We pity a rifeh man—and why ? Be
cause he is like the unlucky fellow who
adorns the first page of the Almanac.—
Aries, the ram, is eternally jumping over
his head, rendy to but oiit liis brains for
the sake of getting nt his purse—Taurus,
the bull, is goring him with both horns to
Gulinr festivals chosen by ilka individual*
themselves, docs not appear. This how
ever is certain, that on nit important
changes, or undertakings or events of their
life, baptism is ro-adinmistcied. The
child at its birth is baptized; when named
it is baptized again; on completing the
age of puberty it is also baptized; and
whether contracting marriage, becoming
the parent of children, undertaking a jour
uey, recovering from sickness, or any o-
tlier important event, as well as after
dcutli, and before interment, baptism is
make him bleed freely—(Geminij. geno-' re-administered with the same solemnity
rally falls to the lot of'.flic poor man,)— I as at first
the claws of Cancer are fastened, on his
breast in the shape of poof relations—Leo,
is couchant before him watching the op
portunity to prey upon his possessions—
Virgo, is laving snares for liis heart—Li
bra, is weighing his losses—Scorpio, is
stinging him with ingratitude—Sagittari
us, transfixes him with the nrrows of en
vy—Cnpricornus, is bearding him with the
spirit of rivalry—Aquarius, (changing the
sek) is keeping him in a hot whirlpool of
routes, parties,.nnd balls to oblige a dash
ing wife, and money-wasting daughters ;
The prayers used at their marriages
anti funerals nre suid to bo long; the first
is a ceremony performed among them
selves in some degree of privacy; but the
latter ia conducted openly, without their
being interrupted in it by any one. They
have no standing church, since their pla
ces of worship must he newly erected for
every now occasion. It is, therefore, usu
al with them, when these occasions occur,
to make an enclosure of reeds, when, af
ter a most tedious process of purification
the ground becomes consecrated, aud they
and to sum up the miseries, tho slippery | |>crform their worship therein, secluded
» Fishes” render his footing unstable,' and f n ,| ie eyes of strangers, after which
Ins standing uncertain ; for they are nei- j t|, e Guildiniz is pulled down and tl estroved,
ther more nor less than the changes of j Xheir attention to the purity of I heir food
life. . Who so hard hearted as not to pity | j 9 carried to nn . extraordinary degree,
1 m . landequalKthatofthpliighestcusteofBui-
Who is dogged ill the streets, & knock-1 mjuy India. ]y 0 water that is not
ed down at midnight? '1 he rich man. jdrnwn from tho river by the mselves in
Whose I must! is broken into by robbers ? their own vessels, and even nf.*r that suf
fered to suliside, nnd l>e otherwise purifi
ed by their own hands, can be drunk by
them. If honey or similar . articles are
The rich man’s. Who has his pocket cut
out, and his coat spoiled in a crowd 1 The
rich man. Who is in doubt whether peo
ple are not laughing nt him in their sleeves, ] obtained" !)/ them i n thTViazaar,' it must
when they arc eating his dinner 1 The j | mve purified water poureil on it, and re
rich man.. M ho adds to liis trouble by I ma jn a certain time covered, to be cleans-
every story " Inch jie adds to liis house ?— j oil before it can be eaten ; ijul even fruit,
The rich man ; for the higher lie ascends, j though fresh from the tree, intlst bo sitni-
tbe colder is the atmosphere. A Bank | lm-]y washed to be purgeduf its dcfilemerU.
breaks, and who suffers! T he rich stock j R j 9| however, singular cmvogb, that while
holder anti depositor. W ar blows bis f <| )e y er.rry this attention tc> religious purity
hern, and who trepibles 1 Death approach- j 0 f food to a great degroit altogether mi
en, nnd who fears to look him in the face ? known to nny other sect.* of Christian*,
Why, the rich man; and yet all the world ! abstinence and fusts should bo held iu n-
envies the rich. Depend upon il^rcadcr, I humiliation by them ; and that contrary
the length of your face will always be pro- j , 0 t j lp general Christian uo tion of this be
portioned to the length of your j/urse. If j n g always acceptable to God, and tcud
you live in a two-story house, be thankful,
and covet not the loftier tnansiou of -your
neighbor. Yoti but dishonor yourself, and
and great coats, or any thing else they
could lay their claws on. A poor woman,
a soldier’s wife, had Washed her blqtiket
and hung it out to dry, when some of these
miscreants, who , were on the watch, stole
it, and rau olf with it into the liilli, which
are high and woody. Thill drew upon
them tho iiidiguation of the regiment, and
we formed a strong party armed with
sticks nnd stones to attack them, wjth the
view of recovering thg property, and in
flicting such chastisement as Alight be a
warning to them for the Allure. I was on
the advance, with about twenty, flyid 1
made a detour to cut thorn oflf from ca
verns, to which they always flew for shel
ter. They observed my movement, and
immediately detached about Ally to guard
the entrance, while others kept tjte post ;
and we could distinctly sec them collecting
large stones and other missiles. One old
grey-headed one in particular, who often
paid us a visit at the barracks, nnd was
known by tho name of Father Murphy,
was seen distributing his orders, and plan
ning the attack with the judgment of one
of our best generals. Finding that my
design was defeated, I joined the corps dc
main, and rushed oil to the attack, when a
screuin from Father Murphy was a signal
for n general encounter, and the host of
baboons under his command rolled down
enormous stones upon us, so that we were
obliged to give up the contest, or sonic of
us must inevitably hayebcen killed. They
actually followed tis to our very doors,
shouting in indication of victory, and dur
ing the whole night wc heard dreadful yells
ami screaming, so much so that we expect
ed a night attack.
In the morning, however, we found that
all this rioting had beeu created by disputes
about the division of the blanket, for we
saw eight or ten of them with pieces of it
upon their backs as old women wear their
cloaks. Among the number strutted Fa
ther Murphy. These rascals annoyed us
day and night; and wo dared not venture
out unless a party of five or six went to
gether.
A Mnsqueto.—This tormenting insect,
happily known only hy report in Engltmd,
is justly an object of dread to all new co
mers. A young lady from the Highlands
of Scotland, having had her imaginati
on worked upon, duriug the voyage to In
dia, by the terrible description given of it
by the officers of the ship, who felt a plea
sure in hoaxing the griffins (new comers,)
and having heurd by some means that it
had a proboscis or trunk, on seeing an ele
phant near the beach where they landed,
exclaimed, «9 she caught the arm of one
of the passengers for protection, “Is that
the animal ye caw r> muskeetec *”— Twelve
Year't Military Adventure.
animalTbarometer.
At Schwetzingen,in the post house, says
the travelling correspondent of the last
mentioned periodical, we witnessed for
the first tiino what we have since stefi
frequently—tin amusing application of
zoological knowledge for the purpose of
a nostienting the weather. Two frogs,
c species jftana arhorea, are kept in
a crystal jar about 18 inches high nnd 6
inches in diameter, with a depth of three
or four inches of water at the bottom, and
i small ladder reaching to the, top of the
jar. On the approach-of dry weather the
frogs mount the lacfder ; but when mois
ture is expected they descend into the Wa
ter. These animals are of a bright green,
and in their wiki staic, here climb the
trees in search of insects, and make a pe
culiar singing noise before rain. In the
jar they get no other food than now and.
then a fly ; one of which wc were assur
ed would last a frog for a week, though it
will cat from six to twelve in a day if it
can get them. Iu catching the flies put
alive into the jar, the frogs displny great
adroitness.
VALuiBLE*HABIT.
One of the most valuable habits of .life
is that of completing every uiidertnlung.
The mental dissipation in which persons
of talent often indulge and to which they
are. perhaps more prone than others, is
destructive beyond what enn readily be
imagined. A man who has lost the pow
er of prosecuting a task the moment its
novelty is gone, or it is become encumber
ed with difficulty, has reduced his mind
into a state of the most lamentable and
wretched imbecility. His life will inevi-
FROM THE NBW-YORK EVENING POST.
ing to purge the. soul, as well ns tho body,
of impure passions and desires, the Sub-
i bees ragard it as a heinous sin, as a pro-
insult your destiny, by fretting and repin- j f a i, ;it ion of the gifts which the Creator has
I so bountifully provided for his creatures
In their moral character, they aro nei
ther esteemed more upright nor more cor-
! ru P‘ ‘j!™ "f ghbors.-.!Due of their
lectures on the East India Trade have at- j ™ st ‘l' a t.«gu,shcd urtues ,s mutual co,.-
. . , , ■ • , . , . T 'fideiicc iu each other; and a breach of
traded so much attention lately in Lop- 1
don, gives in his Travels n curious aceouut
of a sect of Christians met with in the re
gion around the confluence of the Tigris
and Euphrates. Their dress, their lan
guage, and their general manners so ex
actly resembled those of the Mahomedan
Arabs, among w.horatlwy dwell,and their
unsocial religious tenets, and the privacy
in which they perforin their worship, make
it impossible to distinguish them by their
exterior, and successive travellers might
pass through the country which they inha
bit without ever dreaming of their exis
tence. Mr. Buckingham, however, suc
ceeded iu obtaining some knowledge of
their religious belief, thfif traditions, and
trust in any way is said to be regarded by
thorn ns a moro damn ing offence than mur
der, fornication, and adultery combined.
Baboons at the Cape of Good Hope,.—
On the hilfs pear Simmons Town, at the
Cape pf Good Hqpe (says Lieut. Ship, in
his memoirs A whole regiments of baboons
assemble. These. rascaU, who' stand six'
fecthigh, itiidnre most abominable thieves,
used to annoy ifs exceedingly. Oiir bar
racks were under the hills, and when we
wept to parade we were invariably obliged
to leave armed men for the protection of
our property ; and dven in spite of this
they hpre frejpently strikin'dtir Mankets
tably be one of shreds and patches^ The
Consciousness of not having perseveredtb
the end, of any fijngle undertaking will
hang over him like a spell, and win par
alyze all his energies; nnd he will at
Inst believe that, however fair may be,
his prospects, and however feasible his
plans, he is fated never to succeed. The
habit of fuiishitig ought to be fofmed in
early youth.
Increase of Value. -Thereinto been
some striking instances of rise in the value
of property in. the Northern cities, but
hardly any equal to'.the following
“.The real estate of the lite Mangle
thorne of New-York Was sold nt auction,
a,few days ago. for $351,Thesame
property, 40 year* ego, cost only $
Anecdote.—A gentleman waited on Ge
neral Jackson at Washington, and nt
some time. Rising to go away, he re
marked, that he would not encroeqiiJ
er on the Presidcnt’s,time. Wherrii
the President said,' " Sit down< air, and
stay; I like to hdve you; you are the,first
mbit who tias come to see me without
askingTor an otAve."-~9*lt. 'Pat.
• INTERESTING NARRATIVE. ,
Some weeks ago, tlie History of Loui
siana, by Barbe Marboit, which waa is
sued in Paris in the beginning of the pro-*
sent year, was kindly maced in our hand*
by a friend. We read it With much inter
est,—particularly . the Preliminary Ditv
course on the United Stutcs, of one hun
dred pages, and the account of the cessiop.
of Louisiana to our government, whiefv
occupies “the second part” of the volume*
This account struck us na so curious and
important for our notional annals, that w*
have caused an abstract of it to be mode
in English, and to be published thu morn
ing. Barbo Marbois, the author, was the
negotiator for Napoleon, and preserved ip
his memorandums, whatever was said or
done on the subject. His testimony may
therefore lie deemed fully authentic. The
world is for the first time directly informed
what were the determinative motives of
the First Consul in granting to us the im
mense territory in question, apd that hie
price was thirty millions of francs, or six
millions of dollars less than that which
wc gave. Wc made au invaluable acqui
sition ; he parted r ( ith that which he knew
he could not secure, and the addition of
which to our rednurcey he Regarded as like
ly to prove' both mortifying and detrimen
tal to Great Britain, *ftc considered it in.
fact as so much Wrested from her, aud.
contributed to tlie strength of her future
most formidable rival. The fact is re
marked, that he waited only the close of
the. negotiation, to make or declare a for
mal rupture of the peace of Amiens.
[Nat. Gdx. .
From the Philadelphia National Gazette.
CESSION OF LOUISIANA.
Abcount of the origin nnd progress of the
cession of Louisiana to tho United States,
abstracted from the French of Barbe'
Marbois* History, of Louisiana.
The danger of a rupture with Great
Britain, , caused Bonaparte in the year
1803 to conceive the idea of ceding Lou-
isitinn to the Uuited States, for a pecunia
ry Equivalent. It waa apparent to him
that it would be matter of little difficulty,
for .the English to make thefnaelvei mas*
ters.of that province in dM*e ■ of war,
merlins of the Isrgq naVal airommtnt sta
tioned in its vipinity at Jamaica and other
western isles which he possessed no mari
time force suflicient to oppose. Convin
ced therefore of tlie impossibility of pre
serving it, it became an object to him of
great importance to prevent the loss which.
France could not avoid, from being pro*
cluctive of. any advantage to England.
Before coming,^however, to any conclu
sion concerning the best method of resign
ing this acquisition, the only fine he bad
hot accomplished sword in hand; and tlie
fruit of hip own negotiations, he deemed
it proper to obtain the opinion of two min
isters, one.of, whom wok conversant with
colonial administration, and who were
both acquainted with the countries of the
western hemisphere;
Accordingly the f0th April, 1803, Eas
ter Sunday, after the accessary time had.
been devoted to the solemnities of the day,
he called them into his presence, and ud-
dressed them with all font Vehemence find
pussfon which lie especially manifested in,
politicul matters. “ I know,” said ha,
“ the full value of Louisiana, and I have
desired te repair the fable. committed - by
the French negotiator who abandoned it
in 1763. It has been restored to me in
consequence of a few liues of n treaty; but
scarcely have I recovered it when its lows
again appears inevitable. But if I must
yield its possession, it shall coct those less
into whose hands I wish to resign it, thaw
those who impel me to give it up. The
English have Successively deprived France
of Canada, Isle-Royale, Newfoundland,
Acadia, and the richest portions of Asia.
They ore laboring to agitate St. Domingo.,
They shall not obtain tlie lltmimippi which
they covet. Louisiana is nothing in com
parison to their aggrandizements through,
out the entire globe, and nevertheless the
jealousy they, experience on account of
the subjection of that cdfcriy rfgain to tlie
authority of France, renders it pjilpnble
to me that they desire to obtain pqsnssion
of it, and that ah utteriipt ot ite conquest
will be the commencement of the war.---,.
They have twenty vessels in the gulf of
Mexico, and role id foots seas With sove
reign sway, whiistour affairs in St. Dom
ingo are every day assuming a darker
aspect sinoe the death oF Leclero. If they
Will only take foe trouble of making a de
scent upon LmfliUna its Conquest will he
easy.' There is hot a moment te be lest
in placing that out of foeir grasp, FqT
aught l know they may be there now.—
This would hot fie contrary to their
custom, and as for me, in their place,J[
Would not have delayed. I wi«b, if time
yet remains, to deprive them pf foe remot
est idea of ever possessing thethhiony, t
efo thinking about reding it th roe United
States, Scarcely, indeed, will I fid ab)e to
say that I cede k to foem, for it is n$ vet
in our posseuiotl. ' ■: ' ; 1 T '"- ’ -
M I will trehsfoitmareiynn t
foe**'republicans whose
to gain. They ask f
iff
^erwreoiowy^t
nod ft kirafors fo raa t
that growing power, T
of qipM dfoity to the pptiei
foe commerce of Frenep/f
vored to retain R.,
your opinions.** ‘ „...
One of the counsellors (ST. de '
who had been Secretary of Ihq F
gntion in America and Administrator of
St. Domingo, 1 Wee decidedly h ftrior of
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