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by grantland & orme. Ml LLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY. APRIL 18, 1S29. No. l2orVol.X rr The tUcoRMR Ispubliilied weekly, on Han- Uatreet, hew** Wayne run} Jcffereon, at Three JliiJi P«r MMH"i P a y^' e "> »'j™ nce i or Four llol- i fn “l paid before tM end of Mie year. ovrttTisKMENrt conspicuously timer -d at the uni- ' Those rant without a «|iecihcution of the insertions, will bo published until ordered ,Jd charged accordingly. laleiof laud nnil negroes, by Administrator*, Exe- ™ of Guardians, arc required by law to be held ihe first Tuesday in the fjoatli, between the hours of ii the forenoon and three in the nfternoon, ut tho Uft-lioiise of tho county in which the property is si- Ii, —Notices of the snlc of land must bo given in u ie gaiottc sixtv days, nod of negroes Foitrv days, vital* tho of sale. Notice* of the sate of personal property must lie giv- in like manner, fortv days previous to the day of Also notice to the debtors and creditors ot nu must'be published for port* dnys. Notice that application will he made to the Court of dittiy for leave to soil laml, must bo published for in business "in the line of Printing, will meet with J,nnt attention at tho Hr.conm.R Om«, -l,...., tun business) must he post paid. m 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 i "fi e-:*M