Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

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: