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r\ o !ll*k, . cp. >- nio c r i—. Confirwat ion cf the News of Peace with Tripou. Tuesday arrived in If jmpton Roads, the Ui.-ired States’ frig ate P refitlt n t, Com mode.re Bar ron, captain James Barron, in 38 da vs from Gibraltar. By this flap we are relieved from all anxiety upon this intereftmg fubjed, for riot only does Hie bring the certain accounts of peace of peace being concluded, and tl ie i c leafs of our unfortunate countrymen, but she has bro’c rapt. Bainbridge, his officers & part of his crew, a number of whom are now in town. We ur.derftand that gen, Ea ton reached Deine about the lafl of April, when he iriftantly at tacked the Bafbaw’s army, and defeated it wirh little loft, him- Tclf being wounded in the right armfoas to render ir ufdefs. The few Americans who were in the action, displayed a cou rage thatcor founded the l urks ; rhey were appointed to lead the attack, which service they per formed in a manner that did ho nor to their country. We un derhand that at the time Gene ral Eaton attacked the army bv land, that capt. Hull in the Ar gus, cape. Dent in the Nautilus, and lieut. Evans of the l lornet bomb ketch, attacked the bat teries by sea. Gen. Eaton’s army, we un derhand was compelled of 1500 men, and that of the Bafhaw’s of 5000. This intrepid little band had marched 800 miles a cross the Tandy defects, through ahoftile country, and had seve ral partial adions before the de cisive one at Derne. Gen. Ea ton was was wounded when in the ad of cutting down a Seik of the Bafhaw’s army. The result of this adion ap pears to have been an immediate proposal from the Balhaw for peace ; col. 1 .ear went imme diately to Tripoli and a treaty of peace was ligned on the 3d of June, and our countrymen re leased the next day. The terms we cannot learn fully, but we understand that as far as we had Tripolitans they were exchang ed man for nun, for the balance of Americans remaining we are to pay 90,000 dollars. Some provision, but we cannot under stand is made for the Ex-Bafh aw ; his wife and family who were detained as hoftnges, are to be liberated. As the offici al accounts are gone on to Wafli fngton, we must fuipend our curiofitv as to the other articles •for the prefenr. The President left Syracuse the 7th of July : The following was the distribution of the Ame rican squadron ,w that time.— The frigates Canftitution, Con stellation, and Eff-x, with the Brigs Syren Vixen and Bomb-’ ketch Hornet, were at Syracuse; the Argus had failed for Egypt, and the Nautilus for Medina. .1 he frigate John Adams and two gun-boats anchored the day the President faded. General Ea ton failed for the United Stares in a merchant veflel. The Ex .Bufiiaw was at Syracuse when the President faded, ihe Pres ident cn her p ullage to Gibratar gc.rrear the Spai.’lh Cep ft, was then foi aßrt fn E. i< ate, and fired upon from the Batteries. It may be grateful to the friends of the officers who have been in capriviiy, to know where they now are, we therefore have procured the following account. Returned in the President. William Bainbridge, Cape. Jacob ionrs, 2d Lieut. Keith Spence, Purser. Benj. E. Read, Lieut, promoted. Janies Gibbon, do. do. Dank T. Patterson, do. V/m. Osborne, Lieut. Marines. James Biddle, Miofh pman. Robt. Gamble, do. Wm. Ciubifh, do. Wallace Worm ley. do. James Renftiaw, do. Nick. Harwood, Surgeon’s M. Jonathan Cowdrv, do. Wm. A.nderfon, Capt’s. Clerk. George I Judge, .Boatswain. Joftph Douglafi, Sailmaker. Richard Stcphenfon. Gunner. Remained in the Mediterranean. 1 ieut. David Porter. Theodore Hunt. Benjamin Smith. Bernard Henry, Master. Dodor John Ridgley remains as Charge de affairs for the U. S. at Tripoli. Simon Smith Midshipman. and William Goodby, Carpenter. | In addition to the above, we have it from Mr Dove, who was on board one of the bom barding vefli Is during the attack on Drrne, that out of the 300 Americans engaged on shore, there were only fi/e killed, which took place at the time Capt. O’Banan, who was se cond in command, had, with his little band, sealed the walls and pulled down the Turkifti flag, in place of which he im mediately hoisted the American standard ! The prefect Balhaw of Tri poli is flateri by our Officers to be a* man of confide sable talent and mixed with grant cruelty—-although they did not experience themfelvcs any un common lhare of the last quali ty —at one time on the attack of the brave Preble, when every man was driven from a fort but the Balhaw, he remained, cool ly examining the operation with a fpy-glals. After the action of Eaton’s, that led to a peace, he was heard to declare, that if he should approach nearer to Tri poli, he would mafifacre every American and every Chriflian in his power. Mr. Lear has been blamed for making a treaty pre cipitately and before the appear ance of the licet, but as the danger of the pri loners was im minent, and their release the ob ject of the war, it would appear that no moment that could at tain this definable end was to be walled in calculations of future fuccels, and that in embracing the very fir ft opening to release them from the cruelty of the Balhaw, and {huffing the door forever on the return of his ca price or the chance of future e vents, he acted with the wisdom and pi ecifion of a politician and patriot. The officers &e. appear while in I npoli, to have been libe rally treated and fuppliedby the con fills of rlie efiriihan nations there, and fiom their generoi:- ty, to have lifted of the wines denied to thtir Mahometan mas ters —this, perhaps, might have given the Baftiaw an idea that the Americans in their dfterent attacks were drunk, for he of ten laid, when our vefftls flood in so boldly and made f.ich near approaches to their forts, that they were all drunk—if the at tack was made in the afternoon, they had been drinking at din ner —if in the morning they had been drinking all nighc—none but madmen drunkards or dev ils would run such rifques—and in this way he apulogifed co him leif for the dt Tendon and flight of his own men. F ETERSBUR G, Saturday, OP. 5, 1805. To the Public. AN obligation I ewe myfeif and family compels me to lay before the public, a matter of difference between Philip Zim in crm an E sq. and myfe If. i'h e find Zimmerman has in various instances attempted to injure mv private charader in my neighborhood, and the methods adopted by the ingenious gen tleman, to effed his purpose, is by telling his neighbors of at tempts made by me against him. Several reports have come to my ears fiaid to have originated with me, intended to injure the gentleman j the indelicacy of the reports is such, that lam not permitted to detail them, but Jucn as they are I deny them intoto ; and call upon Mr. Zim merman to bring forward any man on earth, that will confine himfeit to truth, and fay lever did, directly or indiredly, make any unfavorable report against his charader. lam bold to lay Ido not believe that Mr. Z. was ever informed of the reports which he has endeavored to impress on the minds of people, as originatin g with me; on the contrary, I am convinced that they are fabrications of his own, intended to anlwer forne of his low-cunning purpolcs, perhaps to account for tne loss of Jus popularity; to make use of a common laying, (( a drowning mas will catch at a draw.”— 1 am rather induced to believe the gentleman’s lituation in re gard to his popularity is getting to a very low ebb, lo much so, that I am fully perluaded lie will not again be the objed of ridi cule at Loiiifivilie, as areprefen tative from this County, aitho’ he has the audacity to hold nim felf a Candidate for the ealumtr Election. I do not know of any cause that could possibly have gave rife to a difference between Mr. Z. and myfeif, except, that on the 2d. Saturday in April last, there was a Negro wedding at Mr.- Feter Guliau’s of this coun ty, and the Pacroie of the DiT ti id being informed of the fame, conceived it their duty to .pay that place a vifi, in order to lupprefs any improper conduct on the part o i the negroes ; tne laid Patrole, on arriving at Mr. Guikrt\, found a very hr >e Cv>i.ev’*ion Ci tie slacks, and > ihirtVmg iuch iiDCilieS bnj.iltiu •• able unless by a written permission frorri theVr owners; they pro ceeded to chastise fome of them, when Mr. Z. and John Tomlin fon came to the negro house, and swore none of them ihould be whipped, and began ven* much to abide the Pacrole however they whipped several of the negroes ; about the fa tut: time Mr. Z. pulled off his coat and swore he would pro rest his own negroes; Mr. Z. drank very freely with the negroes, Sc it was understood, as ajufticeof the peace, he was to join in ho ly wedlock the pair expeded to be married that night. Ow ing to (bme interference on the part of Mr. Gullatr, the Patrole was forced to retreat, not being able to (land their hand with both blacks and whites. I was called upon at a very lute hour at night, after I had been fome time in bed, by the Patrole to aid and a (Tift them in the execu tion of their dury as Patroles, at the fame time reiving the circumstance of their hav'i PC r been at Mr. Gullarc's, and the conduct of Mr. Z. Conceiv ing it as my duty, I did not he sitate a moment, but started im mediately to Mr. Gullatt’s with the Patrole ; on arriving there, Mr. Z. was handing before the negro house with several ne groes, at which time I suppose, it muff have been midnight;— the Patrole called upon several of the negroes to come out of the house, and to the bed of my judgment they did not in rhe finalieft degree exceed their au thority as Patroles ; the con do (51 oi Mr. Z. I conceived very improper, though I was entirely silent on the fubjtd. T hose (lances are all I know of, that could possibly give rife to a difference between Mr. Z. and mylelf; however from that time he has never faded to embrace every poflible opportunity to caluimvate my character, regardlels of truth &: all lort of propriety. The in finuarions of the gentleman may poffibiy have the desired effedt on the minds of a few ; but I flatter mylelf my character as a citizen of this county, is fuflici ently established, not to be ef fe&ed by the gentleman’s infl nuations, however high he may suppose his (landing to be. I now call on Mr. Z. to eftabhfb the charges he has made aga nft me; Ihould he fail to do this, as he mud, well knowing he cant effect impofTibilines, as great as he is. I presume we (hall then fraud upon the ground we are entitled to; but after all I have said on the cccafion, (hculd it not be fuffleient, toge ther wrh the flien.ee on the part of Mr. Z. after my call on him to effabhfh his charges ; I fay a terail this, Ihould there exist cl übrs unfavorable to my cha racter, I will fold my arms in tranquility, and fmilc at a mista ker. world. V s TEp H 2 N H2AR!t S3E R C E It . Lincoln County t } October i, i lie 5. ) Yx e have been informed, and no doubt may be entertained of the correftnefs of the informa tion, that flr.ee the concluflon of— treaty of purchase with the