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Sixty-eighth Bulletin.
Ostkrode, March 29.
On the 17th of March, at 3 o’clock
in the morning, the General of Brigade
Lefebvre, Aid-de-Camp of Prince Je
rome, passed near Glatz, in his way to
Wunchelsburg, with three squadrons
of light horse, and the Taxis regiment
of light infantry, when 1500 men, with
20 pieces of cannon, made a sortie from
the place. Lieutenant Colonel Gerard
immediately attacked and drove them
back into Glatz, after having taken 100
soldiers, several officers, and two pie
ces of hrtillery.
Marshal Massena is gone from Wiles
berg to Ortelsbourg, and forced an en
trance there for the division of Becker’s
dragoons, which he has reinforced with
• detachment of Polish horse. There
* was some Cossacks at Ortelsbourg, and
attacks were made, in which
ic enemy lost 20 men.
On the 26th, at five o’clock in the
morning, the garrison of Dantzic made
a general sortie, which proved fatal.
It was repulsed on all sides. A Colo
nel numed Cracaw, who had a com
mand, was taken with 400 men, and
two pieces of cannon, in an attack
made by the 19th regiment of Chas
seurs.
As for the rest there is nothing new.
The lakes are still frozen ; tho’ there
is some appearance of the approach ol
spring.
FEDERAL COURT.
TRIAL of COLONEL BURR.
Tuksuat, June 9.
Present the Chief Justice of the Uni
ted States, and Cyrus Griffin, District
Judge.
IT will be recollected that on Wed
nesday last, the 3d inst. the grand jury
were adjourned over to this day, at 2
O’clock. At the hour of three, all the
members appeared, and their names be
ing called over,
Mr. Hay observed that it was proper
for him to inform the court, that he had
received no further information respect
ing gen. Wilkinson except what was
contained in a Norfolk paper (the Pub
lic Ledger) received by the mail of this
morning; a paragraph in which stated
that a vessel had arrived there, in 27
days from New-Orleans; and that at
the departure of the vessel from the lat
ter place, which must have been about
the eleventh of last month, gen. Wilkin
son was still in New-Orleans and noth
ing was said as to his intention of leav
ing it. There were gentlemen on the
grand jury just from Norfolk, who
who would be able to state whether the
information might be relied on or not.
He said that he had confidently expect
ed gen. Wilkinson here before thistime;
but that he might have been led into the
mistake by the information received
from Mr. Millikin, as to the progress
which the express had made, when he
saw the messenger on his way to New-
Orleans. It was possible that in the
latter part of his journey, he might not
have been able to move with as much
rapidity as upon his first setting out.
But fiom a knowledge of the fact that
Gen. Wilkinson was at New-Orleans,
at that time, his hopes were much
stronger that he would certainly be
here. The express would go directly
to him, and he would have nothing to do
but to prepare for his journey to this
place. He wished the subject might be
postponed for a few days. For the sake
of economy, for the sake of that justice
which is due to the public and to the ac
cused, he hoped that no objection would
be made to this course. He was sorry,
indeed, to make the request in the pre
sence of the grand jury, who had alrea
dy manifested so much patience ; but
for the reasons just mentioned, he hop
ed it would be granted.
Mr. Martin read an extract from a
Norfolk paper, one day later in its date
than that referred to by Mr. Hay, which
conveyed in substance the same infor
mation.*
CoU Burr expressed a wish that it
might not be inferred from any thing
said by his worthy friend, {hat he was
averse to the measure propossed.
The Chief Justice, after asking wheth
er it was conjectured by the gentlemen
on either side that the grand jury would
be wanting before Thursday next, ad
journed them to day at eleven o’clock.
The Grand Jury having retired, Col.
Burr observed that he had a motion to
make, to which it was necessary to at
tract the attention of the court. The
President, in 'one of his messages to
Congress during its last session, had
mentioned a letter from Gen. Wilkin
son to himself, dated the 21st of Octo
ber, as containing important informa
tion. That letter had not yet been
* (See Norfolk head in opposite page.]
published ; and circumstances in the
course of the proceedings ♦elative to his
case might require it to be produced as
evidence in his favor.——Moreover,
attempts had been, and might again be
made to infer from certain circumstan
ces; conclusions that his intentions were
criminal. It might be necessary, there
fore, to produce the orders of govern
ment to the officers of the army and
navy relative to his case. He had seen
the orders to the officers of the Navy,
which directed them to burn and des
troy his property. There was no way
to procure those documents, but by re
quiring the attendance of the President
of the United States by a writ of Sup-
S/itena duces tecum ; in which the papers
demanded should be mention d.
On this motion of Col. Burr , a desul
tory conversation ensued. Mr. Hay,
declared that the government was wil
ling to furnish all the evidence which
could be obtained from those or from
any other papers in its possession : that
he would consent to write to the Presi
dent and other public officers for copies
of the ducuments desired ; and, upon
receiving, would lay them before the
judges, who might determine whether
they were proper to be introduced as ev
idence or not.
Col. Bun and his counsel doubt
ed, however, whether those papers
would be produced, unless compulsory
precess should be issued, and insisted
also that the original & nota copy of Gen.
Wilkinson’s letter was necessary to an
swer their purpose. The court doubl
ed its power to issue a Supsena duces
tecum, to command the attendance of
the President of the United Stales ; and
said that an avgument was needful to
satisfy it upon that point, which argu
ment, it is expected, will take place to
morrow (this day) and no doubt will be
more than usually interesting and im
portant.
The court adjourned until to-morrow
11 o’clock.
From the Baltimore Evening Post.
It is a strange, though not less cer
tain fact, that most of our citizens
seem more interested in the affairs of
Europe than in those of America. Like
busy-bodies we attend to every one’s
concern hut our own.
The most interesting operations of
our government; the progress of do
mestic manufactures; the growing po
pulation of our country ; the increase
of social happiness ; and the most im
portant events brought about by men,
who believe that republicanism means
something, are all considered as mat
ters of little moment, when compared
with an account of an action in the mo
rasses of Poland, or the narrative of
some slaughter committed on the o
cean. Death and destruction — legalized
murder, and sanctified robbery interest
us more than “ the dull pursuits of ci
vil life !” As the Athenians of old, we
are continually looking out for some
new—some wonderful thing !
When there is no foreign news afloat,
how often do we exclaim—“ The pa
pers are not worth reading—they are
as barren as the accursed fig-tree!”
though they may contain articles of a
domestic nature highly worthy our at
tention as American citizens.
We have always been of opinien
that a paragraph stating, that “ yester
day was launched the beautiful ship In
dependence, of 500 tons, built by Mr.
Mechanic, and owned by Mr. Commerce,
intended for an honest trade. The In
dependence is allowed by good judges
to be as fine a ship as ever floated on
the ocean,” was much more interest
ing to US than one worded as follows—
“ yesterday arrived here the Danish
schr. , from the W. Indies. Capt.
Hermaphrodite , brings us accounts that
a severe action took place on the 15th
inst. oft’ St. Thomas’, between his Bri
tannic Majesty’s ship Terrible of 74
guns, captain Death, and his Imperial
and Royal Majesty’s ship Tremendous
of 80 guns, captain Destruction. The
ships immediately grappled with each
other, when a dreadful slaughter took
place. The battle continued with great
obstinacy for near four hours, at the
end of which capt. Destruction being
killed, and upwards of three hundred
officers and seamen disqualified for du
ty, the Tremendous struck. The com
mander of the Terrible, captain Death,
was badly wounded by the stroke of a
broad sword—it is feared mortally.
Loss in killed and wounded, on board
the Terrible:
Killed, 87
Wounded 163
Total 250
The latter paragraph would be read
with avidity, and the former being one
of the dull events of civil life, vrould be j
slightly passed over, and immediately |
foi gotten.
Another pair of paragraphs
“ We are happy to assure the pub
lic, that there is every reason to believe
that the population of the United States
will amount to more than 7 millions of
souls at the next census—that the
quantity of cultivated land has increas
ed, within the last ten years, three fold,
and our exports trebled—that the pub
lic debt will be extinct, provided we
continue at peace, before 1820, and by
that period we shall have a revenue
amply sufficient for the most noble pub
lic works—such as canvls, roads, &c.
For these objects from ten to fifteen
millions annually may easily be spar
ed.”—
“ Just as our paper was going to
press we received the —— BuU.et-in of
the Grand Army. We have time on
ly to lay before our readers the follow
ing summary. This Bullet-in states
that on the ult. there was a gen
eral action between the French and
Russians, which continued for three
days—in the issue the Russians
were defeated with the loss of
10,000 men killed and wounded, the
loss of the French does not exceed 12,-
000 killed and wounded. Several gen
erals are among the dead. Te deum
has been sung in all the churches on
account of this glorious victory.
Baltimore , May —.
Again—“ We learn that the sum of
—— dollars was yesterday subscribed
for the purpose of making a new turn
pike road from this city to the Ohio ri
ver, near Wheeling.”—
London , March 25, 1807.
“ Yesterday his majesty, attended by
the queen and several of the princesses,
went into the park, and with his own
hand shot a large buck, at the distance
ot two yards, which had been previ
ously tied to a stake for that purpose!”
The former paragraph would not
obtain circulation, except in a few in
stances, in any paper out of Baltimore,
while the latter would be shoved about
as a very interesting article, from Main
' to Georgia!
What have we to do with the Acelda
mas of Europe? Our business is to
save men not to destroy—to promote
agriculture and commerce rather than
to fire the cottage of the husbandman,
and waste the labor of years in the fu
ry of a moment—to offer comfort to
the weather-beaten sailor rather than
immure him in a “ floating hell,” to
deal destruction on his fellow beings !
We read with great avidity the de
crees of foreign princes, and the de
bates in foreign assemblies, while we
exclaim, “ what a dull paper! nothing
in it but debates of Congress and offi
cial documents ! Why don’t you give
us something new /”
The British editors, and with great
justice, oftentimes amuse themselves
by remarking the assiduity with which
many of their type-sticking brethren on
this side of the water, select their com
mon-place paragraphs. The affair of
a murder—the narration of an execu
tion—an account of a boxing match, or
the event of a cock-fight is greedily
pressed into our columns, while the de
bates of Congress—news relative to
agriculture and commerce, to roads,
bridges and canals, b'c. are laid aside
as articles unworthy the attention of an
enlightened public!
Let the French beat the Russians,
or the Russians beat the French—let
the one triumph on the land and the
allies of the other bear the palm on the
ocean—we are only relatively interest
ed in the terrible results of the folly
and wickedness of kings, who seem sent
into the world as scourges in the hand
of Providence to chastice a wayward
people. Let us attend to our own con
cerns. That farmer who raises two
bushels of wheat on the same space of
ground where but one lately grew, is
more entitled to the wreath of glory
than the general who has been the
means of destroying millions of men ;
and he who plans a good road, or de
signs a canal, more entitled to our ap
probation than the projector of the most
brilliant campaign.
We feel grateful that such is our
situation—we rejoice that we are so far
removed from the “ throes and convul
sions of Europe,” that while the na
tions of that ill-fated quarter of the
world are immersed in blood, we can
quietly pursue and enjoy the felicities
of civil life, having “ peace, commerce,
and honest friendship with all nations,
entangling alliances with none.” Let
us then attend to our republican insti
tutions, so replete with happiness—so
productive of comfort, and so happily
calculated to preserve “ peace, liberty
and safety.”
From the Baltimore jitneriean,
A gentleman has put into our pos
session a mutilated list of the Royal Na
vy of England in the year 1723, # and
Steel’s List of the same for the year
1807. By these documents we are en
abled to estimate in some measure the
increase of the British Navy for a period
84 years. The first mentioned docu
ment states, that in 1723, England had
7 first rates of 100 guns each.
13 2d do. of 90 do.
[The copy is here defective till it
comes to the 6th rate.]
25 sixth rates of 20 and 24 gun each.
4 fire ships of i guns each.
5 bombs of 6 guns each.
14 yatches.
10 sloops.
11 hoys.
2 smacks.
1 store-ship, and
8 hulks.
Allowing to each of the intermediate
rates, (a statement of which, from loss -1
of leaves the list does not contain) be
tween the second and sixth twenty-five
ships, the whole number of the royal
navy of England, great and small, in the
year 1723, would have amounted to 173
vessels.
Turning to Steel’s List for 1087, we
find that Great Britain has, of all kinds
of vessels ol war, for this year—
At sea, 579
In port and fitting, ' 148
Guard ships, 10
Otherwise employed, 27
Total in commission, -764
In ordinary, 184
Building, 115
Total, 1061
Deduct the number in 1723 173
Increase in 84 years. 388
This great increase has been occa
sioned in some measure by building
new vessels, and in a great degree by
captures from the enemies of Great
Britain, after many bloody naval wars.
So much indeed, in this latter part of
the case, that France, Spain, Holland
or any other European power have
scarcely any navy at all.—The respect
able fleet which they have from time to
time equipped to defend their com
merce, have fallen a sacrifice to the su
perior powers of the English on the
ocean, and served eventually to shew
the list of the Royal Navy to its present
enormous extent.
It might be worth a man's while to
enquire, if he. had leisure to do it,
whether this enormous growth of naval
power has added any thing to the hap
piness of the people of that nation which
furnishes the means of its existence ?
That it has been hostile to the repose
of nations, we have ample, proof in the
page of common history ; and that it
ha» made the high seas, which nature
intended to be free to all mankind, a
road dangerous to be travelled by the
citizens of peaceable nations, the re
peated outrages on neutral commerce
clearly demonstrates. What Bonaparte
has done and is doing on the land, the
Britith have already done on the ocean ;
and whilst her ministers are condem
ning the Emperor of the French for his
inordinate ambition and cruel devesta
tions, they forget, or wish to conceal,
that Great Britain has usurfied the em
pire of the seas, and lords it over com
merce with as high a hand as he has ex
ercised his authority over the princes
and people of continental Europe.
MADE her escape from the
subscriber, on Saturday night the 25th
ult. while at the house of Mr. Tindall’s,
about seven miles from Augusta, a
likely looking negro w r ench, by the
name of SALLY, about 25 years of
age, of a dark complexion, well known
in and about Augusta, dresses remark
ably gay, and when questioned will an
swer with quickness, and appear to
be embarrassed—All persons are here
by forwarned employing or harboring
her; owners or patroons of boats, are
particularly notified against taking her
away, under the severest penalty of
the law. Any person apprhending
said wench and lodging her in any jail
within this state, and giving informa
tion to the Printers of this paper, shall
be handsomely rewarded, and all rea
onable expences paid.
James Langley.
May 2. 41
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