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ARGUS.
•‘Here TRUTH utiliccnt'd rcings,
And dare accost e'en kings themselves
...Or rulers of the free."
"MILLED GEVILLE :
^TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1810.
——
JLate and Important.
Through the polite attention of a
friend, the Editor of the Argus, a-
hout noon Yefterday, received Sa-
Vai nah papers of the 113th inft. we
have made fuch fele&ions as was in
cur power for this days paper, but
we have to regret that among arti
cles of minor importance, he is
compelled to omit this week, an in-
terefting note from the Due de Ca-
ctore (M Champagny) to gen, Atui-
flrong, relative to a relaxation of the
S'-rliuand Milan decrees; and the
proceedings at a dinner, at which
J.nrd Sommerville prefided, his lord-
Ihip among other toalt9, gave
“ Mr. Pinkney, the American
irnniher, and may harmony always
prevail with thofe who fpeak the
fame language.”
Which was drank with long and
loud plaudits, on which Mr. Pink
ney addrefled the company in an ap
propriate fpeecl*.
SAVANNAH, April 19.
The ffiipGoffypium, capt. Shaw,
after a fine run of four days, got in
lafl evening from New-York. By
this arrival we have been favored
with papers of that city as late as the
morning of the 13th inft. contain
ing London accounts up to the 1 * th
of March, received there by the
fhip.Cincinnatus. captain Conklin,
in 3f> days from London.
The following article appeared in j
the London Morning Chronicle, (an ]
opoofition paper) on the 7 th of
March. Some, confidence feems to i
he attached to it; but whether it be !
we I founded or not, time alone mult
determine Doubts hive been ex
pelled whether Mr. Pinkney had j
inftructions to conclude fuch an ar
rangement ; but from his official
chara&er (mihifter plenipotentiary)
we.fhould fuppofe him inverted with 1
ample powers for the purpofe :— j
«• It is very currently reported, !
that the Negnciations which have 1
for feme time been condu&ed by
yhe Marquis Welleily mid Mr. Pink-
yiev, has happily terminated in an a-
ro.cable adjuftment of the differ
ences between this country and the
United States of America
The John Adams frigate'has been
detained to carry our the treaty,
which will not be made public until
the ratifications are exchanged. It
is faid that the defpatches of the A-
lYterican miniftcr arc to be forward
ed to the frigate to morrow ”
Tite frigate John Adams, it was
fttppoftd, failed from Portfmouth
on the 13th of March, for America,
no touch at Havre, for a bearer of
defpatches, The Juno, Bates, with
duplicates of Mr. Pinkney’s def-
pa.cites, failed about the fame time
for Bofton.
It was faid in England that no
Brtinifter would at prefent be fent out,
as it wasfuppofed Mr. Pinkney’s ar
rangement would fupercede the ne-
ceffity of any further negotiation.
There was every profpciL of a
change in the miniftry. On feveral
occafions, they found themfelves in
thp minority in Parliament; and the
Ea<d of Chatham, the late comman
<?<*r of the Walcheren expedition,
Ind already refigned his office as
inafter general ot the ordnance.
On the 24th of F bruaty, a no
tification was puh'iffied in the Lon
don Gazette, by the Britiflt minifler
for foreign department, whereby all
the ports and coaft of Spain, from
Grijon to the French territory, were
declared in a ftate of blockade.
By a new decree the du ies on all
colonial p oduce, introduced into
I lolland, whether bv capture or o-
therwife are doubled.
Pr ; ce of flocks at London March
10— $ percent, confols, for money.
£7 5-8 g 1—do. for account 68 1-8
A letter from Liffion of the 17th
F'bruarv, received at New-York,
fays, “The fick belonging to the
Br-ifli arm • and molt of their bag-
gap e have been embarked, and it i3
expedled their whole force will
fnortly leave this place. Yefterday
failed from this port for England,
the Britifh envoy, to whom it is faid,
the appointment to the United States
is given ”
London, March’2.
The Roman territory is to be di
vided into two departments, which,
are to fend Deputies to the Leqbfla-
tive Afiembly.— Iris alfo to give ti
tle to the I lereditnry Imperial Prince,
who will be denominated king of
Rome. Provifion is, at the fame
time, made for the fupport of the fu
ture Popes—who, however, will
poficfs no temporal authority.
March 8.
The Archduchefs Maria Loufia,
we are told, in an article from Vi
enna. is the deftined bride cf Napo
leon ; and it is added, that the con-
tradl is ftgned by the parties con
cerned.
Dresden, Feb. 1 4.
An Auftrian Courier proceeding
to Berlin, has brought the agreeable
news of a fufpenfion ofarms between
Ruffia & the Ottomon Porte. Thefe
two Courts have accepted the pow
erful mediation of the Emperor Na
poleon. It is faid, that finct the
Porte decided to make peace, the
Englifh AmbaiTador (Mr. Adair,)
not thinking himfelf fafe at Conftan-
tinople, precipitaely embarked for
Sicily.
Massachusetts Election
The frietidi cf old England, have ralli
ed once more,
In fupport of their champion Chrifto-,
pher Gore ;
But away withfuch trajh,face the tune
of the day,
Is the genuine Ticket of Gf.RRY and
Gray
The votes from S82 towns
for Governor gives,
Gerry, (whig) 44,001
Gore, (tory) 41,925
The Ifland of Wacheren has been
annexed to France.
Lord Grenville has addrefled a
letter to the Earl of Fingai, declining
to take an adlive part in Parliament
at this time on the Catholic queftion,
confidering exifting circumftances
as highly inaufpicious to fuccefs;
declaring, however, his unalieiable
fentiments, and determined purpofe
at a proper feafon to imrfue that
great objedl with unabated zeal.
The Ex Vice Pmfident Burr, was
faid to be in Paris, plotting milchief. i
Cadiz had not furrendered to the
French on the 9th of February.
Treaty nvii/i England.-"On the fub 1
jefl of the powers of Mr. Pinkney
to enter into a treaty with the Bri-
tiffi government, fome doubts have
prevailed ; bur independent of his
character as Minilter Plenipotentia
ry, the expreffions made ufe ot by
Mr. Smith (our Secretatry of ftate)
in his difpatch to Mr. Pinkney,
bearing date the 23d of Nov. 1803,
puts fuch doubts entirely out or the
queftion. — After remarking that the
attack of Jackfcn, on the veracity of
the government, was fo grofs as to
forbid all furher communications
from him, fays "care was, never
theless, taken at the fame time to
leave the door open for fuch as might
be made through any otbi-r channel,
however little probability thatanyfa-
tisfaclory communicationsJhould be re
ceived through any channel here.” I
Adjournment cf Congrefs.'”The
Senate have concurred with the
Houfe of Reprefantatives fixing the
2 3d day of April (yefterday) for
the period of their adjournment,
yeas 23—nays 7—Meffis. Crawford
and Tait voted in the majority —
We, however think it extremely
doubtful w! eth" an adjournment
did take pi: ce at tha ime; Con
grefs, no doi bt having previoufiy
received accounts i the treaty be
ing entered into by Mr. Pinkney
with the Britifh government.
Marino Sheep...& Ram and Ewe-
Lamb ot tire Marino b.ecd of (beep,
arrived in thi- place a few days fince,-
hey are the property of his Excel
lency the Governor.
Banks ...Congrefs are (till en
gaged on the fubjedl of Banks—the
late of the bill belore the Senate for
a “ National Bank” was not decid
ed on the r 8th of April—a bill has
been twice read in the Houfe of
Representatives, to renew the char
ter of the United States Bank for
twenty years, on condition of the
Prefident & Directors of faid Bank
paying into the Treafury of the U S.
on or before the 31 ft day of De
cember next, 1,250,000 dollars as
the price and equivalent for the re
newal and continuance of their
charter.
Whig Majority, 2076
The eledlicn of Mr. Gerry
as Governor and Mr. Giay as
Lieutenant-Governor is confi
dered as certain.
From the Bojlon Patriot•
AN ANALYSIS OF NEW ENOLAND FE
DERALISM.
The queftion is often afked —
Whai is N. England federalism ? No
two men profeffing its tenets would
probably give the fame anfwer or
fubferibe to the fame article of its
complicated creed. Its doiftrine was
once fimple. intelligible and ortho
dox. The fupport of our conftitu-
tion, our government, our laws,
good order, and thofe focial virtues
and fubitantial habits, on which our
private and national happinefs and
honor depend, cncc comprifed the
diftin£t outlines of its theory and
praiftice. Of late it has become
Complicated, and is rather a fubjefl
of abllrufe fcience than fentiment.
Like our foreign relations, it is en
tangled with inconfiftencies, fha-
dowed with doubts, and furrounded
with difficulties. To bring it down
to the comprehenfion of ordinary
readers, it requires an Analfis in the
belt manner of our writers This we
will attempt.
Federalism, like Baruel’s illuminat-
ism, confifts of feveral degrees, the
lower of which are in ftricdl fubor
dination to the higher. 1 {hall no
tice but five of thofe degrees, be
ginning at the liigheft.
1 ft The tDries, or BritiJJs monar
ch fs—This loyal order never have
and never will renounce their alle
giance, to the king of the “ happy
ijles”—they confider our indepen
dence as obtained by fraud—the
people of America Zs loft fheep, and
will never relax their watchful care
till we are reftored to the fold of
their acknowledged fliepherd.
2d. The Itnaican Monarchies—
who wiffi for a king of American
blood, and who from their own joint
flock of wealth, wifdom and virtue,
are ready (whenever the people con
tent,) to furnilh all the materials and
equipage of royalty, from the king
down to the king’s fool
3d. The ■'nti Unionists, or ftick-
lers for a Northern Confederacy, to
be cotnpofed of the N. England
dates, and as many others as may
wiffi to be governed by that beauti
ful fyltem of policy, which has part
ly deve'oprd itfelf in newfpaper ef
(ays, pamphlets, and refolves, alrea
dy i.iued from the head quarters cf
corrrff principles.
4-ffi. The difappointed federalifts
of the old fchooJ, who while in of
fice were fturdy f upporters of order
and government, and fince out, have
proved themfelves apt fcholar* in the
Jr.cor:nic school of oppfition.
5thJy and laftly. That pliant hoft
of indiscribables, who have attached
themfelves tofederalfm—fome for
its former fimplicity—fome for its
prefent vanity—fome becaufe they
are told it is the faffiion—and others
who purfue it through all changes
and feafons as a profitable taadc.
OLD SCHOOL.
Torpedoes...Mr. Fulton has ad-
drefled a circular to the officers of
the Navy requefting them to ac
quaint him, either by letter or other-
wife, with any difficulties that may
be prefented to their minds, as will
tend to prevent the execution of his
fub marine mode of attack This
fubjedl becoming every day more in
terfiling, we have thought the pe-
rufal of the following account of the
fiffi from which this dtftru&ive en
gine derives its name, may gratify
our rearers—it is extradled from a
London Magazine for theyear i’*88
Surinam, a colony of South Ame
rica belonging to the States ot Hoi-
land, abounds with f.s many natural
curiofities as any country in the
world. But that which I look upon
to be as furprifing as any in it, and
which I believe lias not yet been ac
curately deferibed, is a filh of the
fpecies of eel, and is caught there in
nets among other filh ; generally in j
muddy rivers, and I believe is found
in moft of the neighboring provin- |
ces. In fizt and color it is not un
like a common eel of Europe or A-
merica, and in ffiape refembles it
more, except that it is thicker in pro
portion to its length, and the head
is more fl it and not fo pointed ; but
differs from them in this refpedl,
that it comes to the furface to
breathe in the air. It is called by
the Dutch Beave Aul, and by the
Englifh inhabitants the Numbing
Eri. As to the other qualities, of
which I mean chiefly to take notice,
and which I think are as different
from the Torpedo of Europe as die J
fiffi is in ffiape, they are as fpllows:!
Oil touching the filh as it lies in
the water, in a tub provided for it a
fudden and violent ffiock is received,
in all refpedls like that which is felt
on touching the prime conductor,
when charged with the eletflrical flu
id from the globe ; &, like that chief
ly affetls the ends of the fingers and
elbow. Gentiy holding the tail of
the fiffi with one hand, and touching
the head with the other, a very vio- j
lent ffiock is felt m both elbows, &
through the bread and (boulders, I
at firft imagined that the violence of
the ffiock proceeded from both arms
receiving it at the fame tinia, and
that the pain was no more than that
of the two ftrok'-s added together ;
but I found myfelf miftaken. For
upon feven perfons joining hands, &
the fiill taking hold of the tail,
(which may with more eafe be held
than the head) and the feventh at the
fame time touching the head, we
were all afledled in both elbows, and
that in the fime manner as I remem
ber to have been in the eledli ical ex
periment, when feveral persons take
hold of the wire znd the equilibrium
is reftored by the fluids palling
through their bodies.
I find the ffiock mav be received
through metalic ‘fubftances: On
touching the fifn with an old fword
blade I was llrcngly affedled. But
raming it with fealing-wax, and ta
king hold of that part which was co
vered with it, the ele£ltrical fluid (I
cannot help calling it fo) would not
pafs Neither has it any eftedl on
the body when touched with a glafs
bottle, fealing wax, &c. Yet I can
not obferve the halt diminution of
this quality by placing the tub which
contains the iiffi on glafs bottles ; it
continues the fame in all refpedls.
So that whether it has an unaccount
able faculty of colledling a quantity
of the fluid from the lurrounding
waters, or through the body of the
person touching it, or has in its own
body a large fund which it can dif-
charge at pleafure, I am greatly at a
lofs to think or imagine.
Although it has no effcdl on the
human body when touched with a
piece of wood, or indeed any o’^ier
fubftance not metallic ; yet an Occi
dent difeovered to me, that on fome
occafions the tfiedl would be fenfible
through wood. For one morning
while I was (landing by, as a fervant
was emptying the tub, which he had
lifted entirely from the ground, and
was pouring off the water to renew
it, & tile fiffi left alrnoft dry, the ne
gro received fo violent a ffiock as oc-
cafioned him to let the tub fall; and
calling another to his affiftar.ee, I
caufed them both to lift the tub free
from the ground, when pouring off
the remains of the water, they both
received fmart ffiocks, and were obli
ged to defift from emptying the tub
in that manner. This l afterwards
tried myfelf, and received the like
ffiock. This filh indeed was one of
the larged I have feen, and but new
ly caught For I obferve that after
being fometime confined in a tub. &
wanting perhaps their natural food,
they lofe much of the (Length of
this extraordinary quality. I am
fometimes apt to oenjefture, that this
animal has the power of communica
ting the ftrokc when, and with what
degree of force it will; and that it
ferves it as a weapon of defence
againft its enemies. For I have often
obferved, that on firft taking hold of
it, the (hock is tolerable ; but as foon
as it oercetvpe :»e,i .1.. i.m
ned, the (hock is much more vi.kcu.
Thir I experienced to my coll, as [
one day took hold of it, about the
middle of the fiffi. I lifted it part
ly our of the water, when on a hid
den. I received fo fmart a (hock that
itoccafioned a flrong contraction iu
the bending mufcles of my fingers,
and I conld not immediately let it
go ; but endeavouring to difengago
my hand, threw it on the ground ;
taking hold of it a f?ccnd time, td
return it into the tub, I was more
ftrongly affected than at firft, and
that not only in myhands and arms,
but throughout my whole body, tho
fore part of my head, and back par;
of my legs fullered principally ; and
in the fame manner as on receiving
a very fmart ffiock from a highly
charged phial in clerical experi
ments.
On obferving that the fenfatior-j
occafioned by the ffiock, as to the
nature and degree of (Length upon
touching different parts of the fifli ,
was different, I was at firft inclined
to think it might be owing to its hav
ing an extraordinary faculty af con
taining more of the fluid in one part
of its body than another. The tail
par 1- , to above one 'hird of its length,
occafions rather' a numbnefs and
tingling, than pain, but on applying j
the end of the fingers to the back,
head, and under part of its body, it
caufes a (harp pricking pain. This
may-poffibly be accounted for, by tha
difference in the texture of the fur-
face of the (kin, as the manner of
the eleftical fluid’s coming from a
glafs tube is different when its fur-
face is altered by being rubbed with
different subftances, as has been late
ly taken notice of in a letter to the
Royal Society.
Thefe arc- the principal obferva-
vations, the lliort time I rtfided at
Surinam, allowed mean opportunity
of making relating to this extraordi
nary animal.
Wafhlngton City, April 9.
We lay before our readers to
day copious extra£!s from the de
bates in the Britifh Parliament
cn the anfwrr to the King’s
fpecch. From thefe together
with the divifion in both Houfe s,
v/e are enabled to form fome
conjedure of ihe flrength of
the new adminiftration. in the
Houfe of Commons the minilte-
rial majority was ninety fix. A
change in the votes of forty nine
members would leave the minif-
try in a minority. That fuch,
and even much greater change,
will probably foon take place, is
highly probable. Confidering
the pains taken by the Chancel
lor of the Exchequer, it cannot
be doubted that the miniderial-
ifls were more pundual in then-
attendance than the oppofition,
and that confiquently the rela
tive force of parties will be con-
fidcrably varied by a fuller atten-
dance of members. The amend
ment, too, on which the HoufV;
I divided, was couched in fu* h
; high terms, as to give the minif-
, try the decided advantage of re
taining on tin ir fide the model*
I ate men, who felt rtluflant pre
maturely to commit th< mfelves.
It will likewife be perceived that
Mr. Canning and Lord CalUp-
reagh, who will, beyond queii
tion, be eventually marshalled
in the ranks of oppofition, voted
againfl the amendment. Com
bining the {L ength which thefe
gentlemen will ere long biir.g
out againft the minrflry, with
; that which will flow front the
j ther circumftances we have ?.!lu*
I ded to, it does not feem rafn to
hazard the predi&icn that tho
prefent adminiftration, unlei's
radically modified, will be (hort
lived. It is not a little remark
able thaf Lord \Velk fley during
the courfe of this imnortant de
bate was totally filent. It is al
fo fomtwhat extraordinary that
but two flight allufious are made
to American affairs. The firft.
by Lord Bernard, u bo inovf\i
the anfwer, in the lollvYU'/
terms: