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FRIDAY. YUy 26.
/ sjr Ri:hard lof England was the
ipaite of the age. His name
was to terrible in the F.ait that the
Women o! Palestine were acculfom
ed to huih the cries of their chil
dren by repeating it. On his re
turn towards his own kingdom the
Duke of Austria treacherously ar
rested and imprisoned him. In the
* xnean time his brother prince John
with the aid of Philip II of France
was endeavoring to suppl-mt him in
/his government. The moment
that Philip learned Richard had
regained his liberty he informed
his confederate, John of the event
in a letter equally laconic and im
preflive. One sh irt line gave fact,
comment, and admonition.
“ Take care of yourself! ibe devil is
broke loose”
Every one fees its perfect appli
cation to B m iparte and the Allies.
AS all present appearances seem
to indicate that Belgium is to be the
fi t theatie of the impending drug
gie. it naturally attracts our partic
ular attention. Belgium being the
ancient name of that country, it
has become, somewhat vague and
in lefiaifeiri modern geography.—-
U hr the Roman government the
two B algae (first and second) in
cmJed all ‘he territory (with small
ex -prions) between the Seine and
the R hine, extending back beyond
the Moselle, perhaps 300 miles
from the British channel; and com
prised not only the Netherlands,
how generally, since the treaty of
Weftphafia lo called, bur Dutch
Guelderland and the present de
partments of Somme Ardennes,
Aube, Marne and others in France.
The na ne of Belgium is now, how
ever l believe confined in its com
, mon acceptation to the Netherlands,
land this (a; the nameitfelf imports)
e nbraces generally the low flat
country between France & Holland.
The principal provinces are Hai
nault part of Luxemburg , and part
of Flanders, owned or claimed by
France ; the residue of Flanders &
the north part of Brabant, by the
Dutch ; and the- southern part of
Brabant, Ghent, Limburg, Na
mur and ethers by Austria ; each
of which three general divisions as
it appertains to one or another
of these powers is called French,
Dutch, or Austrian Netherlands
’ respectively.
We are authorifed to flat? that
James Render, Elq is a Candi
date fora feat in the House of Re
prelentatives of the next General
.Aflembly.
Upwards of 500 of the crew of
the Independence 74, have been
mustered on board.— Boston Gaz.
Reward of Valor. —One of the
last acts of the legislature was the
adoption of a resolution
introduced by Mr. Flubbard, of the
Senate, for bellowing on captain
Samuel C. Reid, a valuable sword,
for his gallant defence of the priva
teer General Annftrong, again ft
“a detachment of his [ Britannic]
roajefty’s ships” at Faya!,
Os the Constitution , we have no
further intelligence, but we enter- j
tain no doubts of her fafety.—- !
What a world of trouble lias the (
American Comtitution occafioned the 1
B-irifh: they have been forking its
destruction these twenty years ; but \
have always hitherto, arid we trust
always will, lose fight of their ob
ject in the misty clouds of their
own political corruption, which
overhangs thar polluted cabinet, as
the physical fogs do their sea-girt
isle. Columbian.
The Ohio, on ruefday evening,
was higher, we believe, than known
for many years. From the heft ac
counts w r e can get, we imagine the
water was near 60 feet above low
water mark.- The inhabitants a
long the river mu ft have fuffered (
incalculable damages. The water j
must have been deep in fome of j
the towns, and the farms in all the
low bottoms must have been delu- ‘
ged. Kentucky paper.
Lieutenant Jones’s account of I
the naval action between the gun
boats under his command, and the ,
British launches ami barges on the j
14th December, will be found in- i
terefting. There, as elfevvhere,
the navy did its duty and acquired
glory. Our force was 2.5 guns and
104 men; the enemy carried 42
guns and 1200 men. Will the
Britifli boalt of a victory ?
Demo. Press
Names. It was observed that the
king oi Great Britain, in his spee
ches to his parliament, talked of
his rflfectiomtie people his faithful
commons, bis brave army, his gal
lant navy, an J of every thing else as
“ his,” except the debt, which he
took special care always to call the
national debt. This observation nas
been recalled to memory by feeing
that the Paris papers, in speaking of
the national institute established by
the late emperor of France, omits
the word “ national,” and speaks of
“ the institute” of which Misters
Napoleon, Lucien and jofeph Bo
naparte are no longer to be regard
ed as members, lb.
It appears, by Gobbet’s Register,
that the appropiiarions for the Bri
tifli navy and navy ordnance for
1814, were twenty five millions
sterling, or about one hundred and
ten millions of dollars. These ap
propriations are always exceeded.
It further appears by the accounts
made up in December, that the ex
cess of the British expenses of 1814,
for war by land and sea, &c. were
thirty millions sterling, or 133 mil
lions of dollars more than the ap
propriations. As the war had
ceased in April, 1814, except with
the Uni ed States, this is astonish
ing. The course of paper money
arid war expenses, is every where
worthy of the utmost consideration.
Jb.
A r \)hticr/ Touch. . i
The following article which is
not found in the papers, is ex
tracted from a letter, with which
we have been favored, dated
“ Rochelle , March ‘26th.
“ When Napoleon presented
hitnfelf at the gates of Grenoble,
he was refufed admittance—be im
mediately took his pencil from his
pocket, & on a flip of paper wrote
to the commandant, “ Monsieur Is
Marecbal , you will open the gates
to me at such an hour.” This brief
request, which conferred the title of •
Marech.il was i’bt'.iirly obeyed and )
the gates were opened.
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A report from the admiralty had
been made to the house of com
mons, in which it is flared, the
Bmifh have taken from the United
States, during the late war, as fol
lows :
42 National vefTels (22 under 5
guns.)
23.3 private vefTels of war.
140? merchant veflels of all de
deferiptions, and made 20,931 sea- j
men prisoners, inculudtng 2.518 1
detained when the war took place. !
[Niles’s Register gives a lift of ;
1.551 prizes taken from the Britifli,
at the last enumeration, and increaf- I
ing handsomely; and ihe number i
of prisoners must have exceeded ‘
30,000.]
Still later news. —The British
sloop of war Perseus, and a British
packet, both arrived at Halifax on
the 23d ult in 25 days from Fortf
mouth, bringing London papers to
the 30th March Great exertions
were making, by all the powers of
Europe to commence immediate
hostilities aginft the usurper Napo
leon ; troops were embarking from
England for Belgium, with all poi
fiole difparch *, general Hill failed
for Belgium on the evening of the
29th March, arid carried with him
a commission for lord Wellington,
to aft as commander in chief. Louis
XVIII. was (fill at Otterid. Ibe
Prince of Orange has alTutried the
title of “ king of the Netherlands
and, it is stated, he commenced
his march toward? the frontiers of
France. The riots in England had
fob Tided.
A mood thing. — We are informed,
that capr. commandant Deacon ,
when captured in the Growler,
upon Lake Ontario, then a lieu
tenant in the United States navy,
was abusively tieated while a pri
soner, by commodore fir James Teo.
When fir lames arrived in New-
York, lieutenant Gamble, of the
United States’ navy, in behalf of
captain Deacon, caiied upon fir
James and demanded fatisiaftion.
Fearing that fir James would avail
himfelf of rank, commodore De
catur authorifed lieutenant Gamble
to inform fir James, in cute the ob
jection of rank (hould be made,
that a gentleman of his own rank
would meet him. Sir James deni
ed all knowledge of any luch indi
vidual as capt. Deacon. The ex
cuse was disregarded, afid the call
was peremptory ; and com. Owen
waited on the aggrieved officer with
an apology. This was reiefted as
infufficient, and fir James agreed to
submit to such terms as commodore
Decatur should approve. The
terms were complied with; and,
of course, were fatisfaftory.
We find by the New York pa
pers, that fir James Yeo, and com.
Owen have since failed for England
in the fbip Minerva, capt Smith.
Military Conscription. —There are
fome very sensible and pertinent
remarks in the Democratic Press on
this fubjeft, tending to prove that
“ an army for the support of liberty
ought to be drawn equally from eve
ry class of citizens and that “ the
system of conscription must have
something in it worthy the adoption
of republicans and republican go
vernments.” To illustrate this,
the writer direfts our attention to
the manner in which Bonaparte
was received, on his return from
Elba, by an army which he himfelf
had raised by conscription Had
this bugaboo been indeed the real
monster if was mis represented to be,
would the unhappy viftims have
voluntarily rallied round its author,
fhouring anthems of p.raifcv and
piercing the air with the cry of
“ long live the emperor—long live
Napoleon the great —the pride, the
glory and the saviour of his coun
try!” Would the “ poor conscripts ”
have done all this of their own free
will and accord, if conscription had
any thing in its nature like tyfanny
and dt fpctifm ? The very manner
in which the army had been raised
(by conscription) proves that these
ftiouts of adulation did not flow
from luch passive vassals as general
ly compose a regular army, “the
dregs of the people ” No, they
emanated from the hearts of citi
zens of all classes and education , col
lected by an equal conscription, a
repreb nattion of the whole nation.
Conscripts have refufed to pul! a
trigger against the “ monfler who
has {hackled them conscripts
have voluntarily rallied round Bo
naparte, and “ hailed him as their
emperor, their father, and their
friend.”
<-.■*-.•jurist *• *■ r^r-~r r •fcarn<nryirtiiiJll.J|i -“UdOl
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TAKE NOTICE.
THE Subscriber grateful to his
customers for the liberal encourage
ment he has heretofore received,
takes this method to inform them,
that he still continues to carry on
the
BOOTS;SHOE MAKING
BUSINESS
in all its various branches, at his
shop about three hundred yards east
of the court house in Wafhir.gton,
where these gentlemen and iadies
who may feel disposed to favor hint
with their custom may depend on
having their work made of the belt
of materials, in the neatest manner,
and molt approved fafliions —He
also wishes to informs the public,
that he has this dav received from
j
New York, a large fuppiy of foal
and upper Lather, and of the very
belt quality ; confuting of the fol
lowing dtferiprions—flefh & grain
black calf {kins, goat and Teal {kins,
grain black, and cordivaned horse
leather, and yellow, green, blue &
black moroccos, (biped fkin's for
bindings, white and brown edge
rool binding, boot cord, do. v, eb
bing, peg and common allhafts,
rasps, shoe tacks, fboe knifes, all
blades, heel ball, Szc. &c all of
which he offers for sale in large or
fmali quantities, as may heft accom
modate the purchaser, and as cheap
as can be had in this state, of an
equal qualify^
All orders from the country will
be punctually attended to, and ev
ery favor thankfully acknowledged
by the public’s humble servant.
Jeremiah Jbobch If.
Washington 2gd May , 1815 -18-3?
NOTICE.
All persons indebted to the Es
tate of John Hardin, dec. of Ogle
thorpe county, are requested to
come forward and make immediate
payment & those having demands
against said est ate are requtfied to
come forward with their accounts
properly attested by law for settle
ment, within three months from
this date.
jospeh Walker, .. ,
nr n > hx ors,
Whitarcr TANARUS( w, li, S
May 2 Cth, .1815. u
