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ATHENS, GEORGIA : PRINTED BY ALEXANDER M'DONNELL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER i 4 , 1809.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 25.
Arrived, fhip Superior, Capt.
Butler, 5 1 days from Liverpool,
with a full cargo of dry goods to
iuadry. Capt. Butler failed the
tenth of Auguft, and brings nothing
later than already received. Spoke
the fit ip Oliver Ellfworth, from
Liverpool for New-York, which
vdTcl failed three days after the
Superior, and was informed by her,
that accounts had been received in
England of the complete fuccefs of
the Britiih expedition—Flulhing
and all the other points of attack
having furrendered. OffcheWef
tern Ifles, fpoke the Britifh (loop
of war Nautilus, who had fell in
with a cutter from Spain, carrying
difpatches, conraining an account
of a vidlory obtained ever the
French in Spain. This mu ft re
late to tivj action of the 27th and
28th July. The loft of the French
as reported by the Nautilus, is but
14,000, killed and taken prifoners.
The city council of London, the
beginning of Auguft, had a motion
before them for refeinding, their
former vote of thanks to colonel
Wardle.
Ic is reported by the Superior
that Bonaparte had returned to Pa
ris. This is not likely to have oc
curred fo fooq.
American produce had experi
enced a considerable rife in Eng
land, in canfequence of the well
grounded expiation that imme
diately on hearing of the rejection
of Mr. Erfkine*s arrangement, this
government would revive the pro
vifions of the non-intercourl'e.
[_ Tranjlatedfrom Le Publicijle of
Paris f\
The moft diftreffing intelligence
is received at Conftantinople from
the Holy Land. It is reported that
the Armenian inhabitants in the
neighborhood of Jerufalem have
quarrelled with the Chriliians there
, ‘and proceeded to fuch extremity
that many perfons have already loft
their lives. It is added that many
dhafters have happened in tiie
Holy City, and that levcral church
es have been deftroyedF
Extract from tbs hUjftna Gazette cf
7 ui y 3G I^o9.
A vcfT i under a neutral flag from
Civita Veccha has furmlhed us
with a copy of the declaration Blued
by his Holinels Pius 7th, at the
time of the lacrilegious invafion of
all his dominions, and of the patri
inony of the church; and likewife
of thefentence of excommunication
iiiued again ft. Bonaparte and his
k accomplices, on the lOthofjunej
which aft of the Pope are herewith
pubiiflied, to render them more
generally known throughout the
Catholic world.
PIU3 POPE VII.
The dilaftrous dtflgns of the foes
Foreign Correspondent
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GEORGIA EXPRESS.
MANY SHALL RUM T© AND FRO, AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL BE INCREASED.
of the Apoftolicai See are at length
completed.
After luffering the violent and
iniquitious fpoliation of the faireft
and moft confiderable portion of
our dominions, we now behold
ourfelves deprived entirely, under
unworthy pretexts and wirh the
meft grievous inj'uftices, of ail our
temporial fovereignty, with which
our Fp;ritual independence is clofely
connected. This confolation ac
companies us, under the preffure of
this fevere perfection, that it has
not been incurred for any wrong
done to the emperor or to F inee,
which has been alwavs and e .ojeht
of our tender fatherly foil entile;
nor on account of anv worldly
political artift e; bur beraufe we
would not betray our duties or our
confluence.
No one, who profeffes the Cath
olic religion, and much lefs he,
who prefides over, and is princi
pally bound to announce it, can d;f
pleafe God for the fake of pleafiag
men.
Bound moreover to God, and to
the church to tranfmic our rights
whole and entire, we proteft againft:
this new fpoliation/ and declare it
hull and void.
We rejed with the moft deter
mined resolution the alignment of
any allowance intended f >r us or rhe
members of our College (of Car
dinals) by the emperor of the
French.
We fhould be overwhelmed with
di(grace in the fight of the church,
if we fubmicted to receive our fub
fiftence from the hands of the
ufurper of her patrimony.
We refign ourfelves entirely to
Divine Providence, and to the de
votion of faithful fervants of God,
and (half be fatisfied pioufly to con
clude the bitter career of our pain
ful life.
We adore with profound humili
ation the infcruitable defigns of
God. We invoke his mercy over
all our good iubptfts, who will be
always our joy and our crown —and
after having difeharged in thefe
moft diftreliing circumftances, our
duty, we exhort them to prelerve,
in ail integrity, their rtligion and
faith, and with fighs and tears be
tween the porch and the altar, to
unite them Fives with us in Repli
cation to the Supreme Father of
lights that he would gracioufly be
pieafed to work a change in the
wicked defigns of cur perfecutors.
Given at our Qoirinal Apoftolicai
place this 10 June, 1809.
PIUS POPE VII.
L. S.
Ccndufion of the Sentence of excom
munication.
PIUS POPE VII.
By authority of the Almighty
God, and or the Saints Peter and
Paul, ve declare you Napoleon
Bonaparte and all your accomplices
(co-operators) in the ad, which
you are now executing, to have in
curred the cenfure of excommuni
cation i under which by our apof
tolical letters, rotemporaneoufly
publifned and affixed at the ufual
places in this city, we declare all
thofe to have fallen who, fince the
forcible invafion of this city on the
id of February, 1809, have com
mitted the violences, againft which
not only our fucceffive fccretaries
of ftate by our orders, but we our
feiv.es have protefted in two confif
torical allocutions (difcourfes)of the
i6thofMarch, and nth of July,
1808 : and the fame penalty attach
es to all mandataries, fupporters,
and all others who have executed
themfelves or procured the execu
tion of the above ufurpations and
violences. Given at Rome, at the
Church of S. Maria Major, June
i®, 1809.
PIOUS POPE VII.
L. S.
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From late London Papers .
A Britilh officer writes from
Me Bin a, of date the 14th April
laft : —“ I returned a few days ago
from a trip to Mount dEtna, where
I had been to fee the effects of an
eruption, which took place on the
20th ult. The preceding day, we
were all much furprifed at feeing the
{beets of Mefiina covered with a
quantity of fire afhes fomething
like gun powder, which were dri
ven by a ftrong fouth wind, from
the top of the mountain, a diftance
of fixty miles. Ic appears, that
thefe afhes are thrown up before an
eruption of fire ; they corne to
Mefiina in fuch quantities, that it
was unpleafant to walk the ftreets,
efpecially againft the wind. On
the 28th ult. volumes of lava and
fire, burft on from the feveral cra
ters, which the volcanic matter
made of itfelf, about fix miles above
the village of Lingua Glafta; it is
importable for words to convey, or
colors to paint, the awful grandeur
of this at once grand and terrific
feene. Figure to yourfelf the high
eft mountain in Arran vomitting
fire from a dozen different places,
and throwing up immenfe heaps of
red hot ftoncs to the height of one
thoufand feet, attended with a ter
rific noife, like the roaring of many
cannon. Conceive quantities of
melted lava iffuing from each cra
ter like metal from a furnace, and
fweeping along with it, forefts,
houfes, and every obfiacle that
prefents itfelf to impede its pro
grefs, and you may have fome fain
idea of an eruption of Mount JE:-
na. In three days the lava pro
ceeded fix miles, but very fortu
nately did not overwhelm any vil
lage ; it has however deftroyed a
quantity of timber, many vineyards
and fome corn fieM . It was la
mentable to witnefs the inhabi
tants that were unfortunately floa
ted in the neighborhood; they
cried; tore their hair, prayed to
all their faints and images, and car
ried them in procefiion to the
in that their prefence yic
flop the devouring element,
no purpofe. The wooden •
feph and ail the reft: of them were
deaf to their prayers, and the lava
continued to roll on for more than
ten days, when the volcanic matter
being exhaufted, the fire became
extindft. Had it continued a few
days longer, feveral villages rnuft
have been burnt down. I was not
more than 500 yards from one of
rhe craters, buc fome of the ftones
flying over my head, I was obliged
to fcamper off. The effid at
night is beyond all defeription
magnificent. ,
London , July 8. The Dutch pa
pers contain a circular mandate,
addreffed by Bonaparte, o rhe
ult. to the Bifhcps, commanding
them to ofier up praifes on account
of the victories of Enzerdorf arid
Wagram. In this inftrument, he
fays—“ Though our Lord Jefus
Chrift fprang from the bio id cf
David, he lought no worldly em
pire ; on the contrary, he required
that in concerns of th s life men
fhould obey Csefar. His great ob
ject was the deliverance and falva
tion of fouls, We, the inheritors
of CeafaFs power, are firmly re
folved to maintain the independence
of our throne and the inviolability
of our rights. We fliall perfevere
in the great work of the reftoration
of the woifiiip of God : we fhall
communicate to its minifters that
refpedabiJity which we alone can
give them : we fliall liften to their
voice in all that concerns fpirltual
matters and affairs of confidence.”
tc We fliall not be drawn afide from
the great end we flrive to attain,
and in which we have fucceeded in
part —the reftoration of the altars of
our divine worfhip i nor furfer our
felves to be perfuaded that thefe
principles, as Greeks, Engli/ii Pro
ttftants and Calvanifls, affirm, are
inconfiftent with the independence
of thrones and nations. God has
enlightened us enough to remove
fuch errors far from us. Our fud
jects entertain no fuch fear.”
LONDON, Auguft 2.
We have the plcafure to lay be
fore the public, an account or a
moPc brilliant atchievement, againft:
the Kufiian flotilla in the Baltic.—
\V r e ardently hope that frequent op
portunities may be afforded us of
making Ruffin feel cur power.
About the beginning of laft
month the Ruffian Florida in the
Baltic took up a pofitioh Under a
point called Penfaccla, E :ch v/nu
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