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-!>v Muph's hi V. Teg a few inlick is. The officers I have Jecn who wore prifiouers arc ail dear aiul decided in the opinion that rhe B.ffliaw could not con iifferuly with ffis own fiafety have delivered up the prifbners wirh out a r-niom j and that if Mr. Lear had perfiffed, very little rtfiilance weald have Men made to our squadron ; hut amiefft the defolacion of the bombard* ’ ment and cannonade , the prifio ners would all have been m:dla cred.” Other Fatis.'-r-A few years since the Batavian Republic paid to Tripoli for a continuance of peace, and when there was not a prisoner to be redeemed 80,000 dollars-—Admiral Dev inter who was the negotiator, was at that time before Tripoli tilth Jive ships of the line. Denmark paid about three * years fincc 60,000 dollars for a peace. Sweden paid lately 170,000 dollars for a peace ; & these powers pay bciides Con sular presents, tribute, 3cc. Dialogue between F/afoingtou and Franklin. (concluded.) Franklin. —This effrontery lias often grieved me, for I feel as j'This of your reputation as ofmy own. But calumny, even agamft my-felf, has long ceased to trouble me. I lived to a good old age. During the whole of my life my greatelt ambition was to be life fill to my fellow men. And I may boldly fay that I never did a public a<st not di&aced by a virtuous motive. Still it is equally true that I nei ther did, or attempted, any thing of importance tor which I was not traduced. Calumny is rhe natural offspring of mean ness, envy and dilappointment. It is thought its polluted channel that biafted, ambition pursues its revenge. Though noc infenfi blc to the comforts of life. God knows that 1 let little value on affluence. And yet I have been charged with speculation. IVajhington. —And Infamy his covered those who made the charge. Franklin. —And infamy will cover those whole envenomed pens are now busy in traducing the moll illuflrious characters .-A. Jefferfon, who was cradled in liberty, will live to fee his ca lumniators covered with univer fai contempt. / Vnjkington. —That* man has risen beyond my highell hopes. Anti what ts more, were Itpof fib!c to assign him a higher fla t-on, he richly deserves ir. Happy the country that has such a chic’ rnagilirate, and Hill hap pier the nation that is worhey of him. Franklin.-—- The American ho rilon is not altogether without cioulds ; and the present fun fliine may not be without inter* luiflions. But take my word tor it, this man whom I fome umes, perhaps vainly, take plta kmn conlideiirg as tnv pupil, will long be a Inend in every P'-ril. power has not corrupted, nor can it corrupt him. Its on -1 y 10 -- ft is to animate and e r.- pand his native benevolence ; to mike him more aftive, and tit< uid • uT.rnt of more extend ve f *T v ‘ 1 ’ 1 s fV-! • >*A* \ —Yes his Jiarac tcr fhincs with a pure and Heady luflre. lie has promised no thing Which he has not perfor med, while he has performed much which he never promiled : ‘1 hat Inch a man should be de luged with obloquy. Franklin. —ls a proof of his eminence, but I can ad mini Her to you fome consolation on th*s point. I know him well ; and I know that the calumny of hts enemies gives him little pain, and that the strongest fenriment it excites is pity for those that revile him. From Cob bit’s Political Regijler. NAVAL VICTORY. Arnidft the applause of Lord j Nelson and of our other brave countrymen concerned, wrought not to forget the detestation clue the viperous American caotain, by whole lie he was led affray.— An opportunity will offer for doing j iff ice to the character of those lons of mifehief and of malignity, the American cap tains, the greatest part of whom (I speak with fome, but with few exceptions) may, with perfect truth, be ranked amongff the nioff base and infamous of man kind. The numerous and glar ing inflances of partiality, which they fficwed tow<frds our enemy during the lall war, were, by many persons in England, as cribed to their enthusiasm in the canfe cfliberty and republican l ism. Is that their motive now ? No: they feel no enthusiasm in any cause but their own. They have but two paftions, love of themselves and hatred for us.— They hate England because they have been guilty of base ingra titude towards her; and, be cause they envy their former fellow fubje&s, who, in fpke cf the Pitts and the MTvilles, are more happy and ten thousand times more free, than the Ame ricans, with all their boafled in dependence. Let no man be lieve, that they are to be won by concessions: in this way we have tried them long enough : how many hundreds of afts of kind nels have they received from that navy which they have now betrayed : and with how many | hundreds of lies and falfe oaths i have they requited their bene -1 factors I—No more of them at present; but, I certainly will take an opportunity of putting upon record fome facts, which ffvall serve to make known to Che world the true charafter of this malignant and dcfpicable race or men. ■ —OQkO—- EntraCl from a late London paper. Tartary, —Almoff every mail from the continent brings freih accounts of the extenffon of the dominion and influence of Ruf fla in Afu. The lall letters from Constantinople mention, that lome 1 artar chiefs on the t a l t> n coall Oi the Caspian sea, hav ing ueen guilty of great oppref i f ,: >n, the people afiembled, and 1 deputed a Kalmuc of influence I to represent their grievances, and demand red refs; butinffead of his muTnn being attended to he was Irizrd and yut to death, ■and Several othoc Vrion> 1 k •'•fed to be diiaffk&cd tttfe thrown into prffon. The peo ple at thefc meafiires burff into aftive and deltrliffive rebellion ; they committed the moss horrid miffHcres and devas tation, and in a fherr period camp compnfed upwards of for ty thou fund men. A powerful body of troops under the com mand of a Ruffian gentr'd, ad vanced againff them, and defea ted them with irr.menfe fhugh ter ; and with a view to prevent rhe recurrence of fuel) outrages, has affbmed for his court the government of the country. PETERS BU R G> Saturday, Nov. 30, 1805. A tile of New-Orleans papers, which we received by vefftr day’s wHtern mail, breathes a ffrong fplrit of defiance and war . againllthe Spaniards. They con. tain few fadits of anv great mo ment ; bz these appear rather in t!if form of floating rumours than in the firm and authenticated language of truth. The paper of September u-"h observes, , fS we can Hare from a source tliat may be relied on, that an army of 5000 men is on its march from Mexico,to en the Spacifh frontiers on Lou iiiana I'he paper of the 18th observes, <( v/e learp kom good authority, that the Marquts de Eafa Caivo has written a circu lar letter to all the Spanish of ficers now in this territory, re quiring hem to repair, without delay, to Penfaccla, to join their refpedtivc regiments.” That of the 2111 in flvctching out a concise plan of the measures to be taken on die commencement of hoffiiicies. remarks, rhar, cs by drawing the troops from the various polls on the Missis sippi, fre m th e Walnut- Hil! s to Point Loupee, and calling into service the Orleans volun teers, we Ihould have a force fufficient to ft nice a blow that the enemy would noc recover from during the war. Baton Rouge might be taken by the troops as they defended the Mifliffippi; when concentrating our forces at this place, we wouid pass into Wed Florida, and oc cupy Mobile, Per.facola, and such other places as we might deem neceflary.” That their exertions would have the defin ed effect, v/e cannot presume io doubt, when we recollcdt the general imbecilicy of Spanilh pol’cy and the remarkable de fencelefs condition of the Flo ridas. One of the Creek Chiefs, who was lately in this city, de clared that a very inconfiderabie detachment of men rrght ob tain pofleffion of all the forts on the Mobile j and even ofpenfa cola iifdf. Richmond Enquirer. Extrail cf a letter from a gentle man in the Indiana Territory to the Editor of the Republican Advocate (printed in V.rginu) dated Illinois, St. Clair county Aliy 1 5 sh. 1805. t ( The people of Upper L"u ifl in a appear to be much pleated with the new mode of govern ment winch, they are to cotne under next fil ngreeatT; to the I: rn affs ct Congut f v . ( n Six cf cS'yi'ti Clark’s men have* arrived at St. Louis, and about twenty Indians of different tribes, who have never been in a lctdemeoc of whites before. They live ffoni icco to 1685 nfiies up the Mil fouri, and are cn rhe:r way to lee Mr. Jefferiofr, imending to have these parts in a very ffioib time. When these men left aaptains Lewis and Clark, thru were jull about to leave thei? winter encampments, and pur ine their journey to thcPaciff r ocean, which they furpofid ro be about as much furr-ier off they had gone from the moutfi of the Miffunri.” Our laws very wifedy and very provide for the fife keep, ing the property of ideots and iunatu ks, that they may not wafle their ffibfiance, impover lfli their families, and become chargeable to the public. But drunkards the world of ideers and Wildeff of Junaticks, squander their property, bring the Jr families to beggasy, ami themf -ves on the town—-with cut any effort on che part of th;‘ public ro prevent ir I am told that in fome parts of New-En gland th ,5 y have laws aurhorifing commiffloners to be appointed, (upon certain p-ocf being made that any is ha'oLtwlly drunker, ard d.fiipaces his property, in such away that he and his family are likely to be brought to want) to take charge of his properv, to improve ir. in the befl pofilble manner and to maintain him and his family out of the proceeds. Such a law, though fome objec tions may be raffed against try would, .1 think, be of great ser vice to iocitry. At ieafl the fuhjeiff may be worth the con fin leration of the people and ct their Reprefcntau ves. Trenton ’[ rue American. A gentleman from Mirblc head informs of the arrival there of rhe schooner Hiram, Hooper, from Bdboa—and that the captain saw piffled at Bilboa, an order forbidding Spanish pff vareers to molelt American vdk fids. SE AMENS PROTECTIONS A gentleman who has lately returned from Halifax, and broff with him hrs fan, wholr libera--, tion from on board one of the , Britilh frigates of that Ration he procured through the friendlhip and agency of Jaynes Smith, efq. ; of that pUce aff.ires us, that the j common protections, which | given to our fie amen, at the cuff comhoufsis will not infiure their’ laffty from irnprdfnent on : board Briti !h ffups of war. Hie’ adds, that in order to render ffu fc protections lufe, and con formffile to the regulations of the Britilh navy, they mult ht accouu nnied by the copy of ,1 cernnenre signed by the Town Cl-’rk of’ the place, where the* birth of eich seaman is regiffer ed ; which copy muff be annex ed r o the prateiffmn, and the“ original acknowledged by tfue C glectnr to be depoffted in his oinr ’*. v I N As this notice Is impor tant to the intcreffs of Com. nv-cc and Humaniry, v, a?-e ; vYuM C'd. Oi*r t>roihe? w: t. 5 -fi ff*