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of aft Enormous Cut, wtrt cad to a prodigi
ous height, and fell down again with a mod
terrible noise. Sulphurous (tones, lightnings,
* and horrible noises, followed this dreadful
eruption. The column of fire took its di
«e&ion towards tbc lonick Sea, to the east
ward of the coast of Morca; but, at a certain
distance it (histed towards Africa. We learn
that the (hower of sand and (tones fell on the
city and suburbs of Medina and Calabria, and
on all the ifiands and adjacent coafis as far
as Malta. , :•
All the ice and snow on the tops of the
mountains was melted, and some persons
"were wounded by the (tones which fell in the
neighbouring countries; the inhabitants fuf
fered from a fuffocating (mell of fulphur and
bitutneu, and from the extreme heat of the
air; all the produce of the earth, the olives,
fruits and Indian com, are burnt; in (hort,
for mauy miles diltauce, the land relembies. ,
the scorched defarts of Lybia.
It is remarkable that Vesuvius at the fame
time began to fend forth flames, and the lava
fiows at present along the valley which fepa
lates that mountain from Mount Somna.
The St. Joseph, a Portuguese frigate, has
taken and carried into St. Übes, an Algerine
galley of 24 guns and 130 men, after an en
gagement of two hours, in which mod of
the Algerines were either killed or wounded.
Both veficls were nearly (battered to pieces.
• A.very Angular circumftauce attended the
death of Lieutenant Thompson, who died
lately. He had long paid his addreiTes to a
youug lady, whose parents had been averse
to the match. The morning he died they
were walking out together \ after fomc con
versation, they fat dowii ou the grass. He
complained of eing very tired, and begged
he might repose his head on her lap i (lie al
lowed him to do so ; on which, laying down ,
his head, he fell into a deep dumber, and
died without a groan.
An extraordinary character found in a little •
village in Provence in France.’—A gentleman ;
who has sent us the account informs us, that
arriving there he fought the best house of en
tertainment he could find where he might
lodge that night. He had no sooner alighted
than he alked for a blackfmitb; the hod of
fered his fcrvices; the gentleman accepted
them ; andWhilft the hor(e was (hoeing, a pei
for. came to have an a & stipulated. The black
smith now the notary signed the deed, at the
fame time informing his guest that he was
likewise a solicitor and an advocate. A mo
ment after a person came to desire he would
anftantly vilit a sick patient. The notary,
now a physician, attended his patient, and
when he returned convinced the gentleman
that he was not only a pHyfician, but an apo
thecary and surgeon, and offered to give a
specimen of his talents, either in preferibing
a dose of performing an operation.
All my apartments,’ (said he) are devoted
to some or other of my trades. Behold my
laboratory to the left, my surgery on the
tight, my study between both, my kitchen
below, my rooms tor my guests before, my
chambers to lodge them behind, and my forge
at the bottom of ray court. But although I
have Fo many employments, yet I find times
so miserably bad that I can scarcely obtain a
fubfiftence• ,, —May we not fay with propriety
of this universal man, Omnis homo ?
N E W - PO R T, Oaoher 25.
America, destined by nature to be carriers
i of her own produce, yet tamely fuffers this
f valuable branch of trade to be monopolized by
foreigners. In the harbour of New-York
there are sixty (hips, of which fifty-five are
Britilh. The produce of South*Caro!ina was
thipped in 170 iliips, of which 150 were Bri
tilh: The other southern dates freight their
produce in the fame proportion. In addition
tp the loss of being carriers of our own pro
i Xilce, we fuffer greatly by the free imports
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tion of gewgaws es Europe and many arti
cles of produce.—Our cheese and barley,
which formerly realized a handsome income
to the farmer, are now hawked about at an
under price for a market. Surely there is
uot an American who regards the interest of
his country, but mull fee the immediate ne
cessity of an efficient federal government ;
without it the northern dates will soon be
depopulated and dwindle into poverty, while
the southern ones become the silk worms to
toil and labour for Europe.
SALEM, Odlohtr 30.
A friend at Marblehead favours us with
the followingparticulars of a late melancholy
occurrence : “ The most aftoni filing feenes
are continually pouring in upon our minds in <
this place, to strengthen and edablifii our
belief in a governing Provi|fcnce, and at the
fame time keep alive every tender fenfiblluy
of the human heart.
u This day arrived from sea, Mr. An
thony Jones, with the melancholy tidings,
in the hurricane of the 26th of Augud, was
upset, and entirely lod—adding, like the
medenger of Job, this mod diftreiTmg part,
and I only have escaped to tell you.
“ The master, Captain Samuel Gale, has
left, besides a numerous family, a widow
disconsolate for the loss of a child as well as
huiband, in the affetting catadro.phe—dill
further heightened by the circumstance of
another at home, arrived at mature age, al
ready, to appearance, encircled in the arms
of death. The mate, Mr. William Ingals,
has left a parent in the bitterest anguiih for
the loss of an only son, and her only earthly
support; besides a train of little ones, and a
companion just ready to have presented him
with a new pledge of their conjugal aftedion
“ The relator of this forrowful rale escaped
in a most marvellous manner. His firft at
tempt for fafety was by throwing himfelf in
to the sea, and then returning to the hull,
unto which he clung for the space of an hour;
but being washed off, his next alternative was
swimming to a piece of the fore boom, uot
larger than a buoy, which was floating along,
on which he supported himfelf for 13 hours
more in the midst of the tumultuous sea. The
only gleam of hope which dawned upon him,
arose from the appearance of a disabled brig,
bearing towards him, but, when arrived, net
a boat was left belonging to her, to take in
the poor supplicant. Though faint, and
seemingly exhausted, fufficiency of strength
remained, properly to secure around his own
body a rope thrown out for the purpose, by
means of which he was drawn into this ark
of fafety, to the no small joy and furprize of
the humane and generous strangers.
“ His gratitude was augmented by feeing,
in a few moments after he was received on
board, a multitude of sharks, those fiihes of
prey, hovering around them, though not
one was seen by him when in his former pe
rilous situation.
“ While we triumph in the goodness of
God towards th*s man, human reason would
have been for fele&ing a different perlon for
the fubjeft of this astonishing deliverance, in
the room of him, who has not a tingle de
pendent. But God’s ways are not as our
ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts.”
N E W - Y O R K, December 1.
Yesterday arrived the brig Apollo, Captain
Tyre, from 6t. Peterfburgh, which place he
left the 15th September. He confirms the
account heretofore received refpefting the
Ruffian and Turkish war, and that great pre
parations are making in the Ruffian dominions
for carrying on the war by sea and land :
That they have between 50 and 60 men of
war ready for sea : That in the middle of
August last the Empress had returned to Pe
terfburgh from her long journey through her
excenfive territories. Captain Tyre further
informs, that 50 fail oi Britilh fliips going
up the Baltic k, w&rt intercepted by
- froft had set in very fevcre when L
at Eifineur. m
ELIZABETH-TOWN, \
When the illustrious Wathington was c*l
led on by the Convention to ratify the Ccr
ftitution, as its Prefideut, holding the Pc Q J
after a short pause, he pronounced thcfe words
too remarkable to be forgotten or unknown!
“ Should the states rejett this excellent Coni
ftitution, the probability is, an opportunity
will never again offer to cancel another in
peace—the next will be drawn in blood !*
Great heaven avert the direful catastrophe!
But may the rising glories of his country gii c
his declining hOrrifon, and her Trailing p ro ,
fpcrity chear his heart at linking into
embrace of death.
PHILADELPHIA, November 27
A considerable number of Roman Catholic
families, we hear are about to remove fro
this city to Carthagena, a proviuce and town
in South America, belonging to the crown ol
Spain. '
From present appearances, fays a corref*
pondent, paper money is ouce more verging
and that very speedily to its lowed ebb, in the
cftimation of the people of this and the ad*
jacent Hate. Whether founded on reason or
not, prejudice is against it, and the ahnoft
universal voice is, let it fink as foou as pof,
fible, never to appear again.
Saturday last arrived at New-York the
ihip Sally, Captain Greeneway, in 5, j ays
from Bristol. An Euglifii paper of the 24th
September, received by this ship, mentions
that there had been a hot press in London,
and that 1500 fearaen had becu taken in one
day.
The Cerattacus, Sewall, from Charleston,
South-Carolina, bound for France, laden
with rice chiefly, and indigo, was captured
within 30 leagues of her deftiuation, by,
flout bark mounting 22 guns, under Spanifl
colours, which proved an Algerine eorfair
commanded and mostly nianned by renega
does.. After having rummaged the vessel,
and taken out what part they chose, they fuf
sered the snip to proceed on her voyage.
On the 19th of November the Lord Hydi
Packet arrived at Halifax from England in 39
days: the papers received arc as late as the
4th of Oftober, and contain the following
iaterefting advices, viz.
That General Gaudi, of the Pruflian army
with his division, lias attacked and taken
NieweniluySjjvith 800 prisoners, 10 pieces
of cannon, and 60 officers : That orders have
been issued by the King of France, recalling
all officers in the French service, at prefen;
resident in England, to join their refpeftive
corps, which order was communicated t
them on Wednesday, through the mediun
of His Most Chriflian Majesty’s Charge de
Affairs : That Lord Aroherff, fays an Even
ing Paper, should a war take place, will b
appointed commander in chief of the army
That orders have been issued for camp equi
page for 6000 men, which will be font t
Germany, in conformity to our prelent trea
ty with Prussia, in case of a war withFranci
20 fail of (hips of the line are to be furnifhc
on the fame conditions, and thole will be ve
ry soon ready for sea: That the number«
men impressed on the river fine? the firft fif
ing of press warrants is upwards of 2000
That orders are given to add one battalion
the 42d regiment, and two to the 60th, whi<
latter will then, as before the war, confift'
four battalions; the men are t° be raised 0
the rifle and expence of the officers, most <
whom are already appointed ; That the Fren<
are out of all patience with their new M»
Hers, for fuffering the King of Prussia to a
vance unmolested into Holland, which tl
assert might have been pi evented, by a® l
bling the so much talked of camp at G ,v
which has never yet been formed > ordt