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he very (Ireng. Sprinkle this on tlie leaves end ytittng branches every morning and evening, du ring the time the fruit is ripening. In the Eco nomical Journal of France, the following me thod of guarding cabbage from the depredation of caterpillars, is dated to be infallible, and.may, perhaps, be equally Serviceable rgairifl tlicfe which infeft’ other vegetables. Sow with hemp all the borders of the ground wherein the cab bage is planted; and although the neighbor hood be infefted with’caterpillars, the space cn ciofed by the hemp will be perfectly free, and not of those : vermin will approach it ; which makes it.appear that they have a natural anti pathy to hemp. It is a fa£t that caterpillars breed in each others bodies, eat all. the inside of them, and nothing is left but the (kin. Many also kill one another when they meet. Nature seems to have adopted tbefe methods for destroying ma ny, which would otherwise destroy every thing for they breed very fa ft. I am, fir, yours, Sec. V,. REID. FROAI A J’MILADELPHIA PAPER. f GUNNER'S SYLABUS. The following table is extracted from various parts of the 44 Pocket Gunner,” ar.d digested in the form here repfefented : it is intended to fnew in a concise view, the ing-edients of the different combustible compounds, made use of in Gunnery, the preparations, &c. The ad vantage of a table of this kind, mud appear ob vious ; a3 it enables the gunners or others, to perceive, in one view, the whole of the mechani cal and chemical compounds used in the art ox war- Carcasset—Composition. Saltpetre 50 patt3 Sulphur 25 Antimony 5 Rofm 3 Pitch 5 VAcnGenr.'s— Com. hoc siion ■ * Saltpetre 50 parts Sulphur 28 Antimony IS Rofm or Swediih Pitch 6 Composition for Kits. Rosin 9 lbs. Pitch ’ 6 Bees-Wat; 6 Tallow I Composition for Fire-Sails. lbs. ez. -Rofm 5 8 Sulphur 3 0 Allum powder 1 8 Starch do. 0 8 Nitre 4 G Mealed powder 8 0 Linseed oil 3-4 pint Oil of spike ] do. Bengal Lights , No- 1. lbs. ‘ oz. Saltpetre 1 ’ 7 O Sulphur 1 32 Red orpiment 0 8 Do. No. 2. lbs. oz. Sal pet-re 2 4* Sulphur 0 8 Antimony 0 4 Orpiment 0 1 1-2 i Light Balls . Nitre 40 parts i Sulphur 15 Antimony 3 Pitch 3 v •this ia melted and call into the (hape of balls. Suffocating Bots. Sulphur 6 parts .Nitre 5 Chinese or Whitt Lights. Nitre 50 to 60 parts llrimftone 16 20 Antimony 5 0 Orpiment 8 10 For Sm.ohs Balls. Uamed powder 10 lbs. Nitre 2 Pitch 4 Sea coal 3 Tallow 1 For Fire Hoops, Fire Arrows ar.d Fire Lances. lbs. oz. Mealed powder 1 0 Nitre 3 O Sulphur 0 8 Linseed oil 0 8 Composition so fill- carts for setting fire to Fascine Batteries. lbs. oz. Mealed powder 1 4 Nitre 6 O Sulphur 1 8 Composition for dipping Reeds, Bavine and Cur tains for Fire Ships. Rofiii 120 lbs. Coarf? fulphtir 99 Swediih pitch 60 Tallow 6 Mealed powder 12 Composition for priming for Fire Ships. Pulverized nitre 22 lbs. 8 oz. Rofm 2 11 Sulphur 18 0 Mealed powder 45 0 Linseed oil 1 pint Fuzes — Composition. Nitre 3 lbs. 4 oz. Sulphur 1 0 Mealed powder 2 12 * So called front its having been used by tb- Austrians at the liege of that place, has the eif , of making (hells answer the mirpofe of carcuft alter they bur if. 1 Gun jtpwd.r—cxetrdiejg to tieprop action rs tie French. Nitre 75 ‘• Sulphur 9 1-2 Charcoal 15 1-2 ICO I,latch —Slow Match, No. i. Prepare (trong lye, and soak it in light twif.- •ed white rope for three days—bums 3 feet in 6 ‘ hours. Do. No. 2,.as was mads at Gibraltar. Take 8 oz. nitre, dissolve it in a gallon of’ water, in a heat near the temperature of.boiling ‘ water ; (trong blue paper was then immersed and soaked in it, and hung to dry. French improvement, No. 3. Tajte acetiteof lead (sugar of lend) 3-4 of an oz. difib!ve it I pint rain water ; soak the-rope in this solution in the usual manner—they es teem it preferable to the old fort. ( Quick Match) —Worsted Match. Worfied 10 lbs. Ooz. Mealed powder O 10 Spirits of wine 3 p.nts Water 3 pints Fiflt glue diffblved-(ifipglass) 1 -2 pint (Quick MatchJ —Cotton Mutch. Cotton .1 lbs. 12 cz. Nitre .1 8 Mealed powder 30 0 Spirits of wine 2 quarts Water 3 pints Blind Fast composition, for Petrids. Mealed powder 7 lbs. 0 oz. Wcod allies O 3 Puri Fires composition. Nitre GO parts Sulphas 40 ‘ Mealed powder 70 Length of each 161-2inca. And will burn 32 tb 15 minutes Rockets. . Composition.—old preparation. lbs. oz. Nitre 4 0 Sulphur 1 0 Charcoal 1 8 New Preparation. lbs. cz. Nitre 4 4 Sulphur 0 12 Charcoal 2 0 Composition far o/t7 AN | . . lbs. cz. Mealed powder 0 8 Nitre 3 0 Sulphur 2 0 Antimony 2 O I iinglafr,; (diiTolved) 0 3 1-2 Alcohol (ript. wine) 1 0 Vinegar 2 0 Composition for rains to head iky rockets is j the fame as above for the rockets. Tubes — Composition. Take maied powder, a diffident quantity, mix t it up with alcohol ({pint of wine) until tolera-j bly (tiff. In regard to the ingredients for gun-powder,! and also its, producing the greatell Strength cr, effect pofliblc, it is influenced by the proper pro- 1 portions of the conllituents parts-*—at the fame j | time the purification of nitre, to its utmofl (late ‘ ! cf purity, so that it (hall not confi'ft of any thing ’ else than nitre, acid, pot a(h and water, (fitrnp. l of pot a(h ) is an objeCt no less defi ruble in the ; formation of gun powder, as it is absolutely ne -1 tefiary to produce the great ell effeCt pofiible.— 1 Attention also mull be paid to the purity of charcoal employed, as this is the forunner next to fulphor, of the inflammation and combustion of gun powder ; and consequently produces tbe greateil proportion of corbonic acid gds, in con sequence of the union cf the oxygen of the ni tric with the charcoal : since the utmost effeCt 1 of gun powder may be reduced to this point, that the proportions of nitre, fulphor, and char. ! coal, mud be Efficient to undergo a thorough and complete chemical decompofirion when in-, flamed ; this is also the reason why fome pow- J der leaves globular patticles on any iolid body ! after eombufiion ; their being redientsnot being a j dequate to insure a thorough decompofltion. It is I with this view that chemists of Europe, and par ticularly of France, have paid moll attention to the fubjeCt, in hopes, and in fail they have suc ceeded, in difeovering the exa£t proportion of ni trate of p'otafh, (nitre,) fulphur and oxyde of cardon (charcoal) requisite to produce a tho rough and complete decomposition. Hence I I (hould presume, that eonfidferitg the chemical labilities of Lavoisier and Berthollet, &c. engag ed in the experiments for this purpose ; that the ingredients of powder, according to their formu la, is the moil correCt—as the force of that ar-J tide depends upon the immense quantity of gas fes or airs disengaged in chambers of guns. CINCINNATI, Augufl 2i. A Correspondent informs us, he received the following information from one of Burr’s follow-’ ers who has lately returned to this neighborhood from the abortive golden expedition, viz. That, mod of their boats had falte bottoms in which were concealed arms and other warlike prepara- j tions—-that to the bottoms of other boats were ittachcd boxes, painted and made water tight,! and so ingeniously contrived, that by a touch they could be disengaged and precipitated to the bottom of the river, for their better concealment: n case of danger of difeovery—that fiich boxes were also filled with arms, &c—that the nuai *er of mufleets, cxclufive cf field ordnance, trani icrted down the Miffifippi, amounted to many lioufands of (lands. Being a(ked if they did ■ it amount to 13,009, heaufwered they far ex reded that number. The man observed, thatj he followers of Burr were left in the greateil .. .lire fa, want of means to return- tv their reipeitive j 4 hemes .that he overtcok 30 of riierp en the road ? sick, without money, and unable to proceed - ! that Morgan Neville, one of Burr's aids, hau gone up the Arkanfaw river. He obTerved, fur ther, that Burr’s pay-mafler, Uriah De Lacey,) a lawyer from Kentuky, had-givcn ir.SJ ten dol lars, on account of pay, which was ad he had. ever received, as fuck. WASHINGTON ( ITY. Sep. 11. I Ext ranof a letter from super err go of an Amen. can vessel to his owners in this city, dated Cay i enne, July 31, ISO,. .y ? ! We were hoarded off this harbor by tiie ! Englifli frigate Ceres, captain Piget, and treated with the utmoil indignity. He made use of ev ery threat he could devifeto drive us away, mid fa id he was blockading the port and that ii we atterr.nted to go in he would fink the veflel, ana fliould every damned rafeal of us be gasping in the water for breath, he would not let a boat pick one of us up. We, however, on his object ing to endorse the regider, firmly refined to go away, notwithilanding the repeated mefiages he had lent us, with threats of all kinds annex ed to them ; after being detained 48 hours, finding ourlelves cli(agreeably situated, - I wrote him a letter, faying,'that we neither could nor would change the del (-'nation of -the veflel ex cept from force, and that it he did trot allow us to proceed on our voyage, or endorfitthe regis ter to fiiew that the port was blockaded, vve fliould confider the velfel and cargo prize to him. I alio observed to him, that our voyage would eventually benefit Iris Country more than it would its enemies, as the whole oi our home ward cargo would coufltl of articles of particu lar coafuniption in England, and was fiddly in tend ad for that market.. He lent word back that on that consideration only he would fuffer us to go in.” Foreign News. O LO -DON, Augufi 7. Letters from Malta, of the lit of June, men tion, that the Spartan frigate had arrived there, i few days before, from a erode, and had been chafed by two different French fqv.adrons, out of Toulon. Her crew had been roughly band ied in an nnfur.cefsful attempt to cut out a large vp(Tel in the port of Nice. Out of leventy men employed, there were fifty-eight either killed cr j wounded ; both the fudl and ffcond lieutenants loil their lives. Auguf: 3._ There Is flrsng reason to believe, that tiie fad-’ den reconciliation between the Emperor Afexan ■ •Jer.-aod Bonaparte, and the interchange of their, i refoeclive orders which followed, have created al- 1 j mod. as much surprise and difappmntment in • J Rulua, and the Ruffian army, as in this country. ’ | When the Emperor Alexander recross-d the l Nienen, a.id joined hia army, dec*'rated with the ! Cordon of the Legion of Honor, he was,mot on ly received without the ufusl demonstrations of j attachment, but there were even strong exp re s j (ions of diffatisfadlion. f From America, we have accounts two days later than any before received. By t’nefe it ap pears, that Mr. Iriicine wvs not prelent at tne 1 examination of the men at Wafhmgtcn ; but dill it is maintained that they are American ci . tizens. Barron was difnsiffed from t.ie Chesa peake in great ui (grace. It is alledged again-fi him, that he ought to have been ready to ep. pose his enemy while his (hip had a plank re maining whole. Mr. Muitroe has received dri ps tches from his government, and has had an interview with Mr. Canning. The Americans infifl: on the right of searching being abandoned by Britain ; the.dodlrine is opposed by us , and if the dispute is not and cannot be adjidled, blows mull and will mod affurediy be rciorted to. Auguff 9. ! Yefferday a bag of lettevs was received at the Poft-Offise, from Rotterdam, with letters dated on Saturday lad. The expeditions from this country occasioned trmch {peculation and alarm in Holland. The garrifonsof Alkmar, Medina-’ blick, &c. had ri been marched to the Fielder; and the troops at Flulhing, had, in like manner, been reinforced by drafts from the neighboring garrisons, under an appreheniion that those pla ces were the objects of our attack. The van of the Baltic Fleet, is led by Sir Sa muel Hood; the rear by Commodore Keates. The folio wing letter has been transmitted to ’ Ireland, and circulated there : Whitehall, July 23 My LorC—l have the honor to transmit to your Grace, the copy of a notice given by the Commissioners of the Cudoms, to the merchants , concerned in the trade with the United States of America, and to the madersof all Arcer.can ves sels, informing them, that according to a deter mination of the Lords of His Majelty’s moil , Honorable Privy Council, (hips being American property, but not the built ot America, or con i demned as prize within the United States, failing under sea-letters, cannot be cptifidered as Amen can vefftls, and consequently entitled to import into this kingdom under the Sfftli Geo. HI. i cap. 97- which AA was continued until the lit of June, 1807* by the 46th of his Majetty, cap. Id. and the regulations contained therein, di ’ reeled by his Mijelty s Order in Council, dated 27th May, 1807, to be duly observed until other : provision (hould be made ; and direfling the ) Officers of the Revenue to conform to the above ! determination of their Lordihips, so far as they j were or might be refpeitiv’ely conCtraed ; and i I -I hsvi.to reqhe’R, that jftak Grrrre won;-; ~ difeatons fiV grmnu’g-ti-g the fame anu , , merciianta in Ireland, concerned in tne trad..- the United States. i At the fame time, In order to prevent Ne 0N wenieftee to the merchants, from the ffid mination not having been (ooner made them, I beg leave to recommend to your give directions for admitting to entry Ren AAn,..: n ,.. rican (hips of the above difcription, as may arr j ?e ‘in the ports of Ireland, prior to the 31(1 c fO c . sober ; after which day, the rule that drips American property, but not of the built of merica, and failing under sea-letters, iho ild r , be conlidered as entitled to import under the pi, 37th Geo. 111. cap. in. *.iuuld be ii.vu. adhered to. I have the honor lobe, Her. Lc. HAW KESIiURY. AFFAIRS AT STRALSUND. We have been favored by a correspondent at fit; abend, with the fallowing journal of the vents which have taken place before that town, since tire Swedes were compelled to (hut them, (elves up in the fortrefs : STP.ALSt’SO, July 15. *• On Monday, hottilitics commenced, end yetlerdav the French were only two miies out!,.!* our gates. I Hood with a gentleman oa the ramparts near two hours, looking out, i--r could fee every movement quite d.itmttly. TANARUS.;. French drove on ; and at length alt the Sv.c. t (no Britilh troop-s were out) about 8900 ret:.’ . ed, ns hard as they could drive, into the garriio., and we commenced a fire irom the town o i t : . e French line—3o were wounded out of the to 2 killed, and one officer; the feene ci ;>■ ivtk and diitrefs was hornble. We are now Rut m m. the garrison ; there is but little firing to The French are now regularly attacking, t:.- town, by corritrudhng approaches. The was out a great deal. I fiiw him yefferday ; ia.v all the troops come in, the wounded, &c. Out triend K. was out, and laid the Swedes were x nic ft ruck. The tranlpcrts are detained, cl probably the troops will be Dent home again ; at prelent they -are pulhing them on. to tins p'.rce, as fail as pofiible. In about a week, i i'uypok we (hall be bombarded, if the trocp3 doni make a faily j and people here feetn to fear, if they da that the French will get in with them, as they have done before, at Bois-le-duc, See. Thrte regiments of German Legion Infantry, and one of Cavalry, are now here ; about B‘JOO men—the | relt in fail inarch through Rugen, and about 8009 Swedes ; it will take 18 or 20,000 met: to garrison these works, I find. The cavalry with the enemy ate Spamlh, the other top.s Italians | and Dutch. A village was burnt yesterday, just outride the walls, by lightning ; vve have lad a ! great deal lately. 45 July 17 41 Lord Cathcnrt arrived 101 l night, at fe.ven c ‘cluck, and is much clifappointed at our reap'd up condition. Nothing new fines yellvrday. I have not been able to walk to the ramparts t, get a look at tne French, ail yeibsrday or Lord Cut heart will now, I think, decide w.teifc. ’ er we are to return or attack i wo expedt raider to return. l j 44 July IN “ Stralfund is as full as it can cram, and we can :*o but a quarter of a mile out cl town, ocr friends Ft: French kicking so cloic as one and a ‘ half English miles ofF. ‘l’iiis is Sunday, bit a.l the chinches are full of nodes, an.i the paws are filled with foluiers, bread, cheese, £:c. t-ic, 44 July 2D. 44 The French s-e working at their battenct ns hard as they can ; a trifling firing is going ca 1 to-day. The Ring, lam told, waits the arrival ’ of a meuenger, front the Emperor of Ri.riibe* lore he dfisajany thing, The picqviets of tire ar. 1 my are dole together. The French are quite ’ round the town. “ July 20, 5 o'clock in the afernen. j 46 I have just learned, that Lord L u.heart, tc-monov/ removes his head-quarters to Bergen, ’ the capital of the I (le of Rugen t in all pi’ Labil ity we Shall go with him—lt is laid the tinee re* ’ gur.e:ats of the German Legion, now here, are 1 allu to return to Bergen. The King aifo krv Straiiund today. To-morrow it is imagined the ’ town will be bombarded, or perhaps to-night. ’ They have been fparving at each other all ciay. > : Imagine how full this place is, when all the coua*. try people, their carts, liorfes, dec. are drives in Irom before the enemy, with, the furniture every thing they could getaway.” GLASGOW, Auguff 10. As to.4he,prubaole coaliqueuce of the p* ’ lent dispute with America, our opinion incitnw to war. The only condition held out to oat government in tire Prciident’s Proclamation* > reparatiunp-a word of much moment and of verj : indifinite interpretation. We think it molt pw* i bnble that our miniilcrs will support Admiral f j Berkley, and vindicate his conduct. Unkr ■ trie London head, ami in our eonsfnonde'its • letter, the reader will find a number of ru noun t from the continent. A war with Ruifiiwe apf i prehead to be no iefs probable tiwm a war with ■ America. Stocks have fallen. 5 Dollars Reward. : A piece of BLUE PLAINS mi* ftok JiAL L's night from my ft ore, with a fmtH . keg ot about two galfori'i—-the pi .-ce of Cloth , of 17 yards. I fulpe.lt the ait was done by • | two Negroes who cause together. Whoeref • j itvdl diicover the felon an 1 bring him to urifi-'t (hall receive Ten Dollars Reward, or the abov-i ‘if the property is returned. .i p. minarD’ | Sept. 9.9, <si