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The Wilmington mercury
Wilmington, Del.
sn88053099
1798-10-20
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/ * r' ö Printed Orcafinnally and Delivered G rat A —to the Patrons of The Delaware Gazette—By Smyth. SEVENTH DAY ( sat .) EVENING, TENTH MO. ( OLT'.) 20, 1798. [ Collected for the Wilmington Mercury.] HEALTH-OFFICE. Wilmington, 1 oth Mo. {Old.) 20. D E A T H S, For the laß 'Twenty-Four Honrs, ending 6 o*Clock this Evening: Timothy Hanfon, Elizabeth M'Clarv, A Black Child, 3 Borough Hojfital Report. From i i to 20th of 10/ bMo. { Old ) Admitted, t Died, o Difcharged, cured, 2 Remaining in Hofpital, 7 TOTAL DEATHS, From 8 th Mo. [ring.) 7, to 10 th Mo. (Oct.) 20 — inelufive. Adults, 212 Children, 21 Tot. 233 DON .17 IONS received this Day. Thomas Divifon, 1 dollar Nathaniel Sharplcfs, 3 do. William Powers, 4 huihcls corn, 4 do. potatoes, 4 do. turnips, and 2 do. buck-wheat. PuLlifJ. cd by Order of the Board, THOMAS MEN DEM Î \LL, Prell dent * JAMES LEA, Secretary. DEATHS, At Philadelphia, for 24 hours, ending Thurfday laid, Adults, 19 Children, - - 6—23 w cafes, reported Ansi 27 new by 15 phyficians. At New-Fork, for 24 hours, end ing Monday evening laß, 24
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The Wilmington mercury
Wilmington, Del.
sn88053099
1798-10-21
1
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The Wilmington Mercury . Printed Occalioually and Delivered G atis — to the Patrons of The Delaware Gazette — By Smyth. FIRST DAY (M) FA 7 ENING, TENTH MO. (OC 7 .) 2i, 1798. [ Collected fur the Wilmington Mercury.] -TOTAL DEATHS, HEALTH-OFFICE. From 8 th Mu. (dug.) 7. to 10 th Wilmington , 1 oth Mo. (Od. ) 21. Mo. (Oel.) 21 — indu five. D E A~~ T H S, Adults, 2 > 3 Children, 2 1 For the hiß Twenty-Four Hours, ending 6 0'Clock this Evening: Tot. 234 Margaret Foot. Borough blojpitul Report. DONJ 7 IONS received this Day. From 20 to 2 iy? of io:h Mo. (Od ) NONE! Admitted, i Died, o V uhliß. ed by Order of the Board, Difeharged, cured, 2 Remaining in Hofyital, THOMAS MENDENHALL, w all of whom aie couva Prefident f lefcent, j JAMES LEA, Secretary. *
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The Wilmington mercury
Wilmington, Del.
sn88053099
1798-10-22
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The Wilmington Mercury. Printed Occafionally and Delivered Gratis —to the Patrons of The Delaware Gazette—By Smyth. SECOND DAY (mon.) EVENING, TENTH MO. (OCT.) 22, 1798. [ Col!eel cd for the Wilmington Mercury .] HEALTH-OFFICE. Wilmington, 10 fh Mo. (Oil. ) 22. D E A T H S, For the laß Twenty- Four Hours, ending 6 o'Clock this Evening: Thom as Duffieid—a child, from the Hofpital. Borough Hofpital Report. From 21 to 22 d of ioth Mo. (OH ) Admitted, o Died, I DiCharged, cured, o Remaining in Hofpital, 5 TOTAL DEATHS, From 8 th Mo. (Aug.) 7. to 10th Mo. (Ocl.) 22— indu five. Adults, 213 Children, 22 Tot. 2 35 DONAl luNS received this Day. Vincent Gilpin, loolb. beef Mordecai Cloud, i barrel rye meal Jofeph Cloud, i do. common flour, Jofeph Moore, 10 dollars Stephen Mendenhall, 3 do. James Mendenhall, 2 do. Ann Mendenhall, 1 do. The following were Coileded and forwarded by Peter Jaquett, jun. & Harlin Cloud, of Neue aß le Hundred : Antrim Conrow. 1 fheep, 2 bufh. buck-wheat, & 1 quarter pork Levi Colelberry, 1 lhecp Andrew Colefherry, r fheep, 1 bulhel tmnips, 6 fowls, & 6 heads cabbage An Inhabitant of Newcaftle Hun dred, 1 fat fleer William Stidham, 2 fheep Abraham Eves, r fheep, 3 bufh. potatoes, & 24 heads cabbage Ifaac Stidham, 1 lhcep, 81 bulb, buck-wheat, 2 do. turnips, & 1 load If raw Lucas Stidham, 1 fheep, a quan tity of corn & flraw, 1 large & 2 final 1 pigs Peter Jaquett, jun. 1 fheep A Citizcnof Newcaftle Hundred, i fheep, & i bufhel corn Harlin Cloud, 1 flieep fames Barr, 1 bulhel turnips Samuel Barr, 1 bufhel corn Andrew King, 2 do. buck-wheat Alexander Finifter, 2 do. potatoes Jofeph Brown, if bufh. potatoes, i do. turnips, &; 18 heads cab bage Nicholas Quin, 2 bufhel corn, 1 do. buck-wheat, and 6 heads cabbage W. M. i bag potatoes A Lady, i dollar Pubii/ied by Order of the Board , THOMAS MENDENHALL, Prefident j JAMES LEA, Secretary.
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The Wilmington mercury
Wilmington, Del.
sn88053099
1798-10-25
1
1
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t The Wilmimton / Ô Printed Occafionally and Delivered Gratis —to the Patrons of The Delaware Gazette—By Smytb. FIFIH DAY ( thurs.) EVENING, TENTH MO. (OCT.) sj, > 79 8 - [ Collected for the Wilmington Mercury .] HEALTH-OFFICE. DONATIONS received this Day. Wilmington a \oth Mo. [Oct.') 2 3. Colle A cl and fo zearded by Thomas Peirce. DEAT H S, Thomas Peirce, 1 dollar For the laß Tzvc ty-Four Hours, James Lackey, i dollar ending 6 0'Clock tbit Evening: Rees Perkins, 50 cents Major Taylor—at the Hofpital, Alina Brinton, 25 do. Martha Clarke, 2 John Hoopes, 2 dollars Jacob Fherkner, 1 do. Borough Hofpital Report. Hannah Peirce, 1 do. From 24 to 2 eth of 10/ hMo. (Oil.) Caleb Peirce, 1 dollar, 33 cents Admitted, 2 Ami Peirce, jun. 1 doll. Died, 1 Joihua Peirce, 1 doll. 10 cents Difcharged, cured, o Remaining in Hofpital, 8 Publifl.ed by Order of the Board, TOTAL DEATHS, THOMAS M EN DEN H ALL, From 8 th Mo. (Aug.) 7, to 10 th r Preiideut f JAMES ?£A, Mo. (Oil.) 25 — indu five. Secretary. * Adults, 217 Children, 22 Tot. ^39
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The Wilmington mercury
Wilmington, Del.
sn88053099
1798-10-26
1
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xi: ry. Printed Occaiîonally and Delivered G. at is — to the Patrons of The Delaware (jazetre—By Smytlt• SIXTH & SEVENTH DAY (frw. & sat.) EVENINGS, T11NU1 MO. (OCT.) 26 & 27. [Colie Jedfor the Wilmington Mercury.] HEALTH-OFFICE. Wilmington, 10 th Mo. {OH.) 27. DEATHS, For the laß Forty-Eight Honrs, ending 6 u'Clock this Evening : Elenor Moore, Mary M'Gill, 2 * -— Borough Hof pit al Report. From 25 to 2'Jtb of iQthMo. {OH!) Admitted, 1 Died, i Difcharged, cured, 1 Remaining in Hofpital, 7 TOTAL DEATHS, From tith Mo. {Aug.) 7. to 10 th Mo. {OH.) 27 — indu five. Adults, 220 Children, 22 Tol. 24a DONATIONS receive! this Day. Shipley & Poole, 2 barrels rye flour. Pulli/led by Order of the Foard, M ENDEN 1! \L! THOMAS t Preiident * Secretary. JAMES LEA, DE AIMS, At Philadelphia, for 24 hours, ending Friday lalt, A hilts, Children, 2 —20 An! 12 new cafes, reported by 16 p .yficians. At New-fork, for zt± hours, end ing (j.iooer 22 d, h
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The Wilmington mercury
Wilmington, Del.
sn88053099
1798-10-28
1
1
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mington Mercury. The A ■to the Patrons of The Delaware Gazette—By Smyth. Printed Occalionally and Delivered Gratis FIRST DAY ( sun .) EVENING, TENTH MO. (OCT.) 28, 1798. [ Co Heeled fur the Wilmington Mercury .] HEALTH-OFFICE. Wilmington, 10 *h Mo. (ON.) 28. D E A T H S, For the Lift Twenty-Four Hours, ending 6 o'Clock this Evening: Philip M'Laughlin—Hofpital. Borough Hofpital Report. From 27 to 28//a of lOthMo. (ON.) Admitted, o Died, i Difcharged, cured, o Remaining in Hofpital, 6 TOTAL DEATHS, From 8 th Mo. (Aug.) 7, to 10 th Mo. (ON.) 28— indu five. Adults, 220 Children, 22 Tet. 242 DONATIONS received this Day. NONE! Publifled by Order of the Board, THOMAS M ENDEN H ALL, Prelident ; Secretary. JAMES LEA, Cd" The Health-Office is REMOVED to the Second. Door above WelllTs Tavern. Note —In laft Mercury, in the Hofpital Report, read, "Dead, ■Eloped, one. » none-
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The Wilmington mercury
Wilmington, Del.
sn88053099
1798-10-29
1
1
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The Wilmmgton Mercury. Printed Occafionally and Delivered Gratis —to the Patrons of The Delaware Gazette—By Smyth. SECOND&THIRB DAY {MON. & TUES.) EVENINGS, TENTH MO. (OCT.) 29 & 30, 1798. [ Colic il cl for the Wilmington Mercury .] HEALTH-OFFICE. » . . — Wilmington , 10 th Mo. {OU.) 30. D E A T H S, For the laß Forty-Eight Hours, ending 6 o'Clock this Evening: William Thornton—I lofpital, Jofeph Spraggs—Poor-Houfe, ■- Campbell, Jofeph White, John Horn, jun. William Afhby, 6 Borough Hoff it al Report. From 28 to 30 th ofiothMo. {OH.) Admitted, o Died, i Di (charged, cured, + Remaining in Hofpital, 1 TOTAL DEATHS, From 8 th Mo. {/lug.) 7. to 10 th Mo. {OH.) 30 — indu five. Adults, 226 Children, 22 Tot. 248 DONATIONS received this Day. From an old Inhabitant, 10 dois. From an unknown hand, 62 cents Puhliß. cd by Order of the Board, THOMAS MENDENHALL, Prefident i JAMES LEA, Secretary. The Health-Office is REMOVED to the Second Door above Wclih's Tavern. DEATHS, At Philadelphia, for 24 hours, ending Monday Jafi, Adults, 16 Children, - - 6—22 And 8 new cafes, reported by 16 phyficians.
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The Wilmington mercury
Wilmington, Del.
sn88053099
1798-10-30
1
1
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The Wilmington Mercury . Printed Occafionally and Delivered Gratis —to the Patrons of The Delaware Gazette—By Smytb. FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH DAY EVENINGS, & From TENTH MO. {OCT.) 30, to ELEVENTH MO. (NOV.) 2, 1798. [ Collected for the Wilmington Mercury. ] HEALTH-OFFICE. Wilmington y 11 th Mo. {Nov.) 2. D E A T I I S, For the laß THREE DAYS, ending 6 o'Clock this Evening: Arthur M'Grath, Margaret Howard, William Scott, Martha Holt, 4 Borough IJoff ital Report. From 30 th of \othMo. {051.) to 2d i i th Mo. {Nov.) Admitted, o Died, o Difcharged, cured, i Remaining in Hofpital, o TOTAL DEATHS, From 8 th Mo. {Aug.) 7, to 11 th Mo. {Nov.) 2 — indu five. Adults, 229 Children, *3 Tot. 252 DON A T IONS received this Day , John Diuphin, 40 dollars Ha nee Naff, 4 do. George Strawbridge, 5 do. Charles Barrett, 35 days fervices of a horfe Griffith Minfhall, the ufe of a meadow fur tents. Pul/liP.ed by Order of the Board, THOMAS MENDENHALL, Prelident j JAMES LEA, Secretary. The Health-Office is REMOVED to the Second Door above Welfh's Tavern. DEATHS, At Philadelphia, for 24 hours, ending Thurfday laft, Adults, *9 Children, 1—20
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The Dover argus and Delaware advertiser
Dover, Del.
sn88053157
1804-10-24
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7 #^ 'V * : M# m Argus Bp <wr And Delaware Advertiser. [VOLUME I. WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1804. Number 42.] DOVER, DEL. —Prtntf.d by FREEMAN BARBER: —Where Subscriptions and Advertisements will be gratefully received. The Dover Argus is published every Wednesday and Saturday at four dollars per annum , payable half yearly in advance • SPEECH OF CARNOT. [translation.] Difcourfe pronounced by Citizen Carnot , upon the motion relative to Hereditary Govern ment. TRIBUNATE. Extraordinary Sitting , 11 th hi ore a l — 12 th year. Citizen Tribunes ! AMONG the orators who have preceded me and who have all fupported the motion of order of our colleague Curee, feveral have an ticipated the objections which might be railed againd it, and they have anfwered them with as much talent as amenity : they have given examples of moderation which I fliall endea vour to im t-te in making observations which apparently have efcrpecl them. And as to thofe, who, tccaufc l combat their advice, might attribut, e to me pcrional motives un worthy the character of a man entirely de voted to his country, l deliver to them, as the only anfwer, the fcrupulous examination of my political conduft fince the commencement of the revolution, as well as that of my pri vate life. I am far from attenuating the praifes given to the Fird Conful: had we to thank Bona parte for nothing but the civil code, his name would merit to pals down to poderity. But whatever fervices a citizen may iiave render ed his country, there are limits which honor as well as realon impofe upon national grati tude. If a citizen has redore d public liberty, if he has effected the fufety of the country, would it be a recompence to offer to him the lacrifice of that very liberty ? Would it not be annihilating his own work, in making tin t country h s particular patrimony ? The moment the propofition was made to the French nation-to voce on the quedion for the Conful ate far life, every one could ta lily perceive that tl.ere exided after views and an ulterior end. Indeed we beheld a rapid fucceffion of a crowd of inditutions evidently monarchical: but in every indance endeavours were made to re-affurc the minds that were unealy about the fate of liberty, by declaring that thele in ditutions were made with the view of procur ing it the highed poffible protection ! This day we difeover in a politive manner the final end of fo many preliminary meafui cs : we are required to vote upon the formal pro pofition to re-edâblilh the monarchicaliyltem, and to confer the imperial and hereditary dig nity upon the Fird Conful ! Formerly I voted againd the Confulate for life; I (hall,,now vote in the fame .manner againd the re*edabli(hment of monarchy, per fiuaded that my office of Tribune obliges me to do fo ; 'but I (hall do it with the neceffary precaution not to re-awake party fpirit ; it lhall be done without perfonality, without any other paflion than that for the public good; in remaining always in conformity with rnyfelf in the defence of the popular caufe. I invariably fubmit.ted to exiding laws even at times when they difpleafed me mod : more than once have I fallen a victim to them, and I 'hall not follow a different courfethis day. I declare therefore beforehand th»t, whild I combat the propofition in quedion, from the moment a new order of tilings is edablilhed and it has received the affent of the mafs of the citizens, I fliall be the fird to conform to, it in all my afti'ons—to (how to the fupreme authority every mark of deference which the conditutional hierarchy (hall require. May every member of this great fociety emit a vow as (incere and didinguiflied ! I fliall not defcant on the preference which, in general, fuch or fuch a government may merit ; we have volumes without number on that fubjeft. I fliall confine myielf, in a few words, and in terms the molt (impie, to the examination of the paiticular cai'e in which circumdances have placed us. All the arguments hitherto advanced on the fubjeft of re-edablifhing monarchy in France are, that without it there can be no means to infure dability of government and public tranquillity, to ei'eape intelLinc troubles, to unite againd external enemies ; that a repub lican form of government had been tried in vain in every poflible manner ; that from all thofe efforts bad refulted nothing but anarchy; a revolution prolonged or incelfantly renewed, a perpetual fear of new diforders, and, conlè quently, a univerfal defire to fee the ancient hereditary government rc-edablifhed. To this an anfwer mud be given. I thall obferve, therefore, that a govern ment placed in one man is no pledge for da bility and tranquillity. The Roman Empire did not lad longer than that of the Roman Republic. In the former, the interior trou bles were greater, the crimes mo e multiplied : the republican fiercenefs, heroilin, and manly virtues, were there replaced by pi idethe mod ridiculous, by adulation the mod vile, by cu pidity the mod unbridled, and by carelefsnefs tiie mod dedruCtive to the national proiperity. How have tiie evils been remedied by the throne being hereditary ? Has it not been re gai ded in faft as the legitimate inheritance of the houfc of Augultus ? Has Domitian not been the fon of Vefpafius, Caligula the fon of Germanicus, Commodius the fon of Marc Au rele ? In France, the lan dynady has indeed laded during eight centuries, but have the people been the lets tormented ? How many intedine diforders? How many external wars for pre tendons, rights of fucceffion, the reluit of the alliances of that dynady with foreign powers ! From the moment a whole .nation efpoufes the particular interedsof one family, it is obliged to encounter a multitude of events which, without that, would to the nation be perfectly indifferent. We could not edablifh among 11S a republi can regime, though it has been tried under di vers forms more or lefs democratic: bgt we mud ohferv.e that, of all the conditutionswhh h fucceflively have been tried without fueccl's there was none but what w as the offspring of factions and the work of circumdances, as im perious as fugitive : hence all were vicious.— But fince the 18th Brumaire we find an epotha, the only one perhaps in the annals of the world, to meditate, dickered againit alarms; in order to found the liberty of the nation upon a folid bads, avowed by experience and by reafon.— After the peace of Amiens, Bonaparte could choofe either a republican or a monarchical A Item ; he might have done what he thought proper, without encountering the leak oj po (ition. 'Flie depolite of libeity was confided to his hands ; he had fworn to defend it. By fulfilling his promife he would have accom pli ffied the expectation of the nation who judg ed him to be the only one tapai le of folv-ng the great problem of public liberty in exten sive dates; lie had covered himfelf with in comparable glory. Indead of performing this greac work, what are we doing to-d:y ? It is propofed to give him an abfolute and heredi tary property of a power, ofwhich he had re ceived but the adminidration. It is true that, antecedent to the 18th Bru maire, the date was falling ii.to diffolution, and that abfolute power dragged it from the borders ofthe abyis: but what are we to infer from that ? What all the world knows ; that political bodies are lubjeft to maladies which can be cured but by violent means ; that a mo mentary dictatorship is lbmetimes rcquilite to lave liberty. The Romans, who were lb jea lous of it, were however fenfible of the necef lity or that lupreme power at intervals, J u , becaule a violent remedy has laved a lick per son, are we to adtninider to him eveiy day a violent remedy ? Fabius, Cincinnatus, Cain.d 1 '- 13 , have each fucceflively faved the koman liberty by abfolute power ; but it was by drip ping theml'elves of that power as foon a they eould ; by a retention of the power they would have dedroyed liberty. Cæfar was the f rft who wanted to retain it, and he fell a viCtun to it ; but liberty was annihilated for ever.— Thus all that has been faicl to this day upon ablohite pow'er, proves only the neeeflity of a momentary diftaforfliip in the crifis of a date, but not of a permanent and immoveable povA er. It is not by the nature of the govenrment that the great republics fail in dability ; it is becaufe they are unprovided for tempeds ; it is invariably the exaltation that prefides at their edabliihment. Ï here is but one that ef fected the work of organifed philolophy dur ing the calm, and that republic fubfids full of wfifdom and vigour : This phenomenon is offer - ed by the United States of America, whofe prof perity daily increajes to the aßonifliment of all other nations. Thus it was referved to the new world to convince the old that men can peaceably fiibfiß under the regime of liberty and equality. Yes, I dare to lay down the principle that, whild we can edablifh a new order of things, without any fear from the influence of factions, as the firjt conful was able to do, efpecially af ter the peace at Amiens, and as he dill can do, it is lefs difficult to form a republic without anarchy, than to ereCt a monarchy without def. potifm. For how can we conceive a limita tion without illulion, in a government of which the chief has all the executive power in his hands, and all the places and offices to
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The Dover argus and Delaware advertiser
Dover, Del.
sn88053157
1804-10-24
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bellow ? They have fpoken of inllitutions which are laid to be proper to produce that ef fect : but before the re-eftablilhment of mo narchy was propofed, fhould we not have been previoufly allured, and have Ihewn to thofe Jjaveto vote upon the queftion, that Inch ' ho : tirions are in the order of pollibilities ? flit that they are not of thofe metaphylical attrac tions which are incelfantly approaching the contrary fyftem ? Hitherto nothing has been, invented to temper the fupreme power but what are called the intermediate or privileged bodies. Is it then a new nobility that they mean when they fpcak of inllitutions ? but is not the remedy worfc than the evil? for the abfolute power deprives us but of liberty, wliillt the inllitution of privileged orders takes away both liberty and equality ; and if at firft the great dignities are only peribnal, it is well known that they always finilh as the grand tiefs formerly, by becoming hereditary. Tothefe general principles, I will add fome particular obfervations. Let us fuppofe that all Fienchmen will give their aflent to the snealure propofed ; would it be a proof of their free will ? What relults from the regilters where each is compelled to Jign his name to his individual vote f Who is the man that is not convinced of the influence of the prefiding au thority in fuch cafes ? From all parts of France, they fay, burlts forth the monarchy ; but are we not authorifed to regard as fabrication an opinion hitherto alvnolt exclulively concen tered among the public functionaries, when we know the inconvcniencics to be encounter ed by manifelting a contrary opinion ; when we know that the liberty of the prejs is annihi lated to inch a degree that it is impojjiblc to get injerted in any of the Journals a complaint the mofi refpeciful and mod rate ! Indeed there fhould he no necelfity for bal ancing the choice of a hereditary Chief were it ueceffary to have one. It would be abl'urd to draw a parallel between the Firft Conful and the Pretenders of a family jultly defpifed, and whole vindictive and fauguinary difpoli tions are but too well known. The recal of the houle of Bourbon would be renewing the frightful feenes of the revolution,and prolcrip tion would infallibly extend itfelf both to the property and perlons of the greate!t part of the citizens. But the exclufion ofthat dynafty does not render a new dynafty neceflary.— May we then hope that creating a new dynafty would haiten the happy epoch of a general peace ? Would not that be rather a new oblta cle to it? Are we allured that the other great powers of Europe will adhere to this new title ? And if they do not adhere, are we to take up arms to force them to it ? Or after having re duced the title of Conful below that of an Em peror, will the Conful content himfelf with that title for the lake of foreign powers, whillt he is Emperor only of the French ? And fhall we for a vain title expofe the fccurity and profperity of the whole nation ? It feems, therefore, to be infinitely doubtful whether the new order of things can offer moi e liability than the prêtent Rate: There is for government hut one means to confolidate it lelf ; it is to be juft ; that with them favour does not exceed the fervices rendered ; that there may be a guaranty againft depredations and impolitions. Far be from me any parti cular application or any critic on the conduct of government ; it is againft arbitrary power itfelf 1 am fpeaking, and not againft thofe in whofe hands that power may relide. Was then liberty (hewn to man merely to convince him that he can never enjoy it ?— Was it incelfantly offeredto his view as a fruit to which he cannot flretch out his hand with out beingllruckwith death? Thus nature who gives that liberty as a prefling want, fhould have intended to treat us as aftep-mother !— No, I will not confent to regard as a Ample il lulion, this benefaction, fo univerlally preferr ed to all others, and without which all others » are nothing. My heart tells me that liberty is poflible, that the regime of it is ealy and more liable than any arbitrary government, any oligarchy. Neverthelefs, I repeat it, always ready to J facriiicc tny defect afteCtiops to the interdis of I my country, I iliall content niyfelf with hav ing once more made refound the accents of a free mind ; and my reipeft for the law will be the more fecured, as it is the fruit of long mif fortunes, and from that rcafon which to-day imperioufly commands us to unite in one bo dy againft the implacable enemy of us all; of that enemy who is always ready to foment among us dilcords, and to whom all means arc legitimate, provided he can attain his aim at univerfal opprelfiop, and dominion over the whole extent of the feas. I vote againft the propolltion. Foreign Intelligence . PARIS, 5—lgth Augull. i lie following is a copy of the letter wrote by the High Chancellor of the Legion of Honor, to his emi nence the Cardinal Legate : " Monsieur, the Cardinal Legate , " Your eminence has received from his Imperial Majelly, in the temple of Invalides, the day O' ! which the members of the legion took the oath the great flur of the legion. I have the honor to tranf mit to your eminence the letter which confirms vour You are the firlt foreigner, Mons. le nomination. Cardinal, to whom his Imperial Majetly has given the decoration of the eagle of the legion of honour. 1 his dillinCUon was due to the worthy reprefenta tive of the fovereign pontiff, to the illuftrious pre late, to the able Itatesman, to the conciliatory minif tcr whom Fiance loves, and Europe elteems. I ex perience a very lively fatis faction in expreffing thefe fentiments in t he name of his Imperial Majelly, and I pray your eminence to accept my high coniidt ra tion. (Signed) La CLP EUE. The preparations for the coronation are, it ap pears, going forward without relaxation. This mem orable era will be celebrated by fellivals ihe moll brilliant, it is laid that the Senate will oil that oc calion give a grand fealt at the palace of Luxem burg, and the city of Paris at the Hotel-de-Ville. In all parts the manufactories are bufily employed in ex ecuting 'he feveral orders to a coilfiderable extent, either lrom France or foreign countres. Prince Jofeph having arrived in Paris on the 9th Au gull from Boulonge, whither he is expected to return by the 1 Jth (the day fixed upon for the diflri bution of the decorations of the Legion of Honour, Much the Emperor will make to the members of the gion belonging to the army and to the flotilla) he immediately waited upon at his palace rue St. was Honore, by a deputation from all the military corps, in Paris ; and the next day the high authorities of the empire, conlilling of the minilters, the members ol tile Senate, the Council.of State, the I.egillative body, and the Prilninate waited upon his Imperial highnefs, when his excellency the Prelident of the Senate pronounced the following difeourfo: " Prince, the members of the Confervative Senate hallen to oiler to your Imperial Highnefs the hom age of a lincere rcfpecl, and of an unbounded at tachment. " * be firfl of the flate bodies, douhtlefs, owed this homage both to the brother of the Emperor and to ihe Grand Elector of Prance, but in the difeharge of a duty how pleading it is for the members of tilt Se nate to obey in fome meafure only the fentiments with which every one of them has for a longtime been penetrated for your Imperial Highnefs! In homages ol mere etiquette, it is ealy to dillinguiih the tribute paid to rank from that given to the per (on. It is well known that the authority which can command meal arcs, cannot force the inclinations. Happily here the legitimate debt is wholly a volun tary offering. \ our eyes cannot deceive vou refpeél ing it. Btfides, we are acquainted with your love for fimplicity ; we know your Imperial Highnefs appre eiates grandeur and titles. In your opinion true greatnefs confills in being ufeful to mankind; and the moll flattering title that of the good that can be done. Animated by fuch a fpirit. Prince Jofeph is well affured we lionor him for himfelf. | " Augult and beloved Prince ! enjoy the impreffi- j on which your prefence makes upon us. I came not ! to addrefs you with an harangue of lhew ; it is the heart of all my colleagues that fpeuks to you thus by m >" , , I lliould never ceafe, were I to attempt exprefs mg every thing they would have to fay to vou ; but we refpeél the moments of your Imperial Highnefs ; thofe he can grant us appear very lliort. Scarcely will you have made your appearance in the bofom of the Senate, when your Imperial Highnefs will haflen to return to the bofom of the army. Fixed at our poll we lhall regret our not being able to follow you. ! " In lliort, we feel that the interell of the flate is the lupreme law. Since this facred reafon calls you I" 000 among our brave legions, near the father of the country, the members of the Senate flatter them felves your Imperial Highnefs will be the bearer to him ol the expreffionof their hearts, and that you will repeat to him the aflurance of thier fidelity. Render us this new fervice, Prince ! be ' our mter prêter to the great Napoleon. " T( 11 him that the whites of all the Senators for the Emperor and his family are wholly abforbed in their whites lor the welfare and glory of their coun try. In all our affeélions as well as in our thoughts the delliniesof the Uonapartes and the fortunes of France are henceforward inlVparalile." ilis excellency then adJrelTing himfelf to her Im perial High nefs Princefs Jofeph, laid, " Mad am, it is a glorious day for the Senate, that in whii h it can exprefs its love, its refpeét and its de votion to the augult iamily ot the worthy Emperor of the French. " Madam, your Imperial Highnefs cannot hut re mark, by the altered voice ot hint who has the ho nour ol fpeaking to you, the deep tendernefs which has been produced in him by the admirable anfvver* ol his Imperial Highnefs prince Jofeph to the dif courle, or rather the very few words which I have been permitted jull now to addrels to him. Your palace is in my eyes the temple of model!)-, I fear to wound the goddelsot it il I prefunic to picture her virtues. " Rut the moll affeéting homage is the only one worthy ol your Imperial Highnel's; it is that of our hearts, and your Imperial Highnefs is earnellly lo licited to accept of it." C*J7iis sublime answer does not appear.) HAMBURGH, Atigufl 4. According to letters from Dantzick, the Ruffian Fleet ol Revel is failed out to cruife in the Baltic and North Sea. DUNKIRK, Augult 10. Yefterday his Majelly the Emperor vifited f ever al points of our harbour". This ^ morning, at 8 o'clock, his Majelly caufed a part of the troops ol the camp of Dunkirk to manœu vre at low water mark, The Emperor leaves this to-morrow for Oilend. Whenever the Emperor has left his head-quar ters, either to vilit the harbor or order evolutions, our citizens of all claffes would crowd on his paffage intermix their acclamations with thofe of the fol diers, and each one could not fufliciently latisly his eagernels at the happicefs of feeing him. Domeftic Intelligence. NEWMIAYEN, (Con.) Oct. 16. On Thurfday lall the LegiflatUfe of this State convened in this City. Timothy Pitkin, jun. cfq. was choLm Speaker— Nathaniel Rolliter and Svlvanus Backus,.' efqrS. C erks. 1 lie Upper Iloufe, having in the afternoon form ed a quorum, the Governin' delivered to both Houles the following . SPEECH: Gentlemen of the Council, Mr. Speaker , and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives. So few are the public concerns which particularly relate to the Hate, and which have occürred fini e our lall feflion, tliat I Iliall have occafion to deta il you hut a lliort time by this public communication. A letter lrom his Excellency Governor Strong of . Iaflachuletts, .will be laid before you, conveying certain refolutions of the Legiflature of that Com monwealth, rtfpeiSling an alteration by them pro poled to be made, in the Conilitution of the United Stales. Phis propofol of an elder filler Hate, will, I prefume, gain lrom you its merited confideration ; and will meet luch decilion your wile and prudent as judgment Avail think proper, A circular letter of the 24th of September lall, has been received from the Secretary of State for the United States, notifying to this State, That the a mendment, propofed during the feffion of Congrefs, to the Conflitution of the. United States, refpeClinjr | the manner of voting- for Prelident and Vice-Prefi j dent of the Union, has been ratified by three fourths ! the leveral States. This letter will now be com municated for your information, Since the lall leflion of the Legiflature there have been forwarded for the ufc of this flate, from the de partment ot Hate of the United States, lour hundred and lilty-five copies of the United States' Laws paf fecl at the fécond feffion of the feventh Congrefs Thef e copies are to be diftributed by the Comptrol" lor to the feveral towns agreeably to law. * The Legiflature will recollect, that a new ele&ion of a Prelident and Vice-Prefident of the Union is to . take phice in December next. The Eleélors 'for th * s purpole to be appointed by this flate will be to be chofen before the clofe of this feffion. ' In th e courfe of the prefent year, we' are arrived at ihe refuU of the French revolution, a refult, fuch
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as many wife politicians anti enlightened civilians, have long fince predicted. After twelve years ar dent purfuit of liberty and rcpublicanifm : after de ftroying their exilting form of government, with its royal head :—after framing and prefenting to the people a variety of new conllitutions, for the fecuri ty of their republican government and equal rights ; all which have given place to each other, in rapid fucceflion, without the wiiliedfor effeél: —And alter feenes of terrible confufion and tumult, attended with a vail; expenfe of blood and treafure, a monarchy is again reforted to by that nation, with a M onger arm, and more dl'potic power, than the one which had been overturned. Could it be, that another le Hon of caution and prudence in revolutionary purfuits, Was neceffary for the admonition of this or any other country, the people might look to this recent rcfult in France, and learn wildoin from the awful experi ence and misfortunes of that great and powerful nation. _ Should any well intentional individual in our country endeavour to fatisfy their minds with an idea that iimilar rr.eafurss may be better managed here than in France ; or that a well informed people, en gaged in like purfuits, may fay, with regard to their reform " thus far we go, and no farther; and here fhnll the tempeftuous billows of revolution be Hay ed," let fuch perlons recoiled, that in France, and among their enlightened men, the lame ideas pre t ailed at their fu it outlet : and let fuch perlons all'o confider, before it is too late, bow miferably in that nation, fuch ideas have been difappointed in the ex périment, and paufmg on thir event, let them leri on (ly rt'fied that like mealures will probably pro duce like fatal misfortunes, and finally terminate in a like unhappy ilfue. The world has long iioce been taught, that defpotifm is the rank weed that Iprings i Iront the l ieh foil ol anarchy. Wilhingyou our wonted harmony in the progrefs of our general bufmefs, I offer you my hearty concur rence in fuch meafures as may be judged molt con ducive to the general welfare and happmefs of the people. JONATHAN TRUMBULL. Flew-Haven, October 11, 1804. His Excellency then communicated to the two Houles, the Letter referred to in his Speech from Governor Streng, encloling the propcled Amend ment to the Constitution of thé United States.—Al fo the Letters from *1110 Secretary of State, accompa nying the copies of the Laws of the United Stales. And alfo the Letters from the Secretary of State, notifying him that the Amendment of the ConUitu tion of the United States; propofed by Congrefs, re Jpe6ling the mode of chooling the Prefident aad Vice-Preiident,' was ratified by three-fourths of the Stales—and has conicquently.become a part of the Conflitulion. NEW-YORK, October 18. IMPORTANT ! The fliip Iris, Skinner, has arrived in the Sound Fro n Mr. Samuel Campbell who from London, has jufl come up to town lrom her, wc have received London papers to ihe 26th ol Augull. '1 he Ins, a few days liner, {poke the fliip Orlando, Marlclialk, wiiich left thç Texel three da-, s after the Iris left Ihe Downs, and yfxs infci m< d that they had on hoard a Dutch papfr co.-Vainii.g U DECLARA TION OF WAR ON THE PART OF RUSSIA AGAINST FRANCE. The London papers corroborate this intelligence. They Halé ihat.l Jijtuiiiaii fail of tne line and lèverai frigates, with 10.0 03 troops had arriv ed at Ccipenh 1 -. gen, where the troops were landed, and 20,,000 more expefted. An attempt has been made on tire life of Louis XVIII. and on the king ol Sweden, by poil on. Ihe London papers attribute it to Bonaparte. It is further laid, that Rulfia and her allies had de termined to force the king of Prnffia to an explicit declaration of his views—and, if he decided lor France, to invade his dominions. A letter from Leghorn, of the 21(1 of July, Hates, that accounts had been received thelre ol the Dev ol Algiers having been beheaded. The particulars of this event had not tranfpired. Gfcnoa continued iïriélly blockaded. By the Iris, London dates are received to the 28th of Augull. War, it is laid, was immediately peéttd between France and the Northern Powers ex of Europe. LANCASTER, Odtober 16 .^ On Tuefday laH an Election was held throughout this State; lor Reprelentatives in Congrefs, Senators and Reprelentatives in our Hate Legitiature, and ' Jfor county officers. ! The caufe of Truth, Virtue, and Repubhcamfml 1 aided by a Cunning, Intrigue, and Hypocrify of. Third-party Hin, by an average of 458 Votes. i The ARGUS. " Here shall the press the People's Rights maintain, Unaw'd by Inf uenec, and unbrib'd by Gain ; Here Patriot truth its Glorious Precepts drrrw, Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty hWLaiv." DOVER, October 24. The Tories in Kent would wifh us to believe they were the onlv Republicans, what mull the True Friends of '76 mink when they read the following r On the night that Mitchell was ek-fted the Taries of Milford artembled at the Federal Tavern —when A ing George's health was loaded by the Thumping Majority in the highelt glee, until one of their c un pany being plied in his turn, found it impolfible to diged the health of his Majesty ; who, in. confe quence was difmiffed the fociety of -thefe friends of order and true lovers of their country, Oh! Toryifin, where is thy bluili ? Who were the perlons that huzza'd for Kin? George at the Federal Inn ? —And did the noble fe der a) Inn-keeper turn VV R-out of his houfV for refuftng to (wallow the noble toast :—viz. " A '.ing George JIl." —Well done moll noble Testas, this is worthy of your high office as Federal Inn-keeper of Milford. No doubt his Excellenev Gov. Milcht il wll reward you, T it is only in procuring the jaior ship of Kent for you ; that it tn.iv be Ibid, n Tory was placed in office 1er the great ferviee he done to i wards ellablllhing a Monarch'./ Ill On Tuefday the 16th inlt. the fele6l and common councils of the City of Philadelphia, proceeded to the choice of Mayor tor the enfuiug year—when Matthew Lawler, Kfq. was re-eledled. Robert Patterfon, Efq. has been re-elected Pre fident of the feleCt council :—and Thomas Leiper, Efq. re-eleCted Prefident of the common couvcil. MARYLAND ELECTION. Though unable to give us the refdt of the entire elections, the follow ing Itatement w ill exhibit the pcogreifive itate of repuhlicanifm in that Hate. Ol the Reprcfentatives to Congrefs defied, seven clre republican, two federal. Of the former,' Me firs. Nicholfon, Nellon, Moore, MacCrerv, and Archer were defied without oppolition; Mr. Covington, by a majority'of 83 .over Mr. Van Horn, likewife republican; and Mr, Magtudg* by a majority oi SOI over Mr. Plater. Of thé latter Mr Cam:, bel was elefl -d without opposition,. and Mr. Charles GoJ.dfborough, by a ihajbi itÿ OTJ574. T he prefont reprefentatidn f8Blilt,s of fix n publi can and three federal memhem.' f)u:u, at Annapoljs, G; Hoskins Stone, l ate Governor of the Hate «fl aivlind. "At the 'commencement of the American war, lie lifted as fir ft captain in the celebrated regiment of Smallwood ; and 'afterwards highly difiïriguifli'.d himfdf at the battles of Long-Illand, White^Rl.dns, and Prince ton ; and at the battle ol Gdi'mantnvvn he r.ecj;ij;.eii a wound that deprived-hint-of activity for the re mainder of his life. On Saturday the 5th infl. he was interred at Annapolis with military honours. Extrdtl of a letter from Lieut . Piatt , to the Injfiedor of the army, dated Savannah, {Geo.) ■ &epte>nbcr 12 . " It is-with regret I have to announce to you the entjre deftruflion of ForUGrtene, with the kd's 'of thirteen lives, leven of which were Ibldibrs. • For lèverai clays wc had very high winds, yyliic'h; were iiiselfant from the caff and north eaft, they having abated in fome nteafure on Friday morniqg, the 7 th in If ant ; with an ab lolute neceility of having water, andin order to have it brought as quick as pofliblc ; 1 thought it belt to go mylelf with a boat and five men \ but when ariivcd high enough up the river to obtain frejh water, the wind inti eafed, which combined with a ftrong flood tide, precluded allpoflibjlity of returning that evening ; we of courfe were carried before the wind and tide to thih city, On Friday evening and night the gale continued to increafe, with much rain—on Saturday morning and during the whole day and night, til e I term was tre ' meudous that it fwept alinoft every tiling be ! fore it. Finding it impolfible to proceed to ^ ^ - n danger in this! 1 pi" e : ! ,S" dto wai f th î"""jlÿ lnbfided luflicienv ly to enable me o proc . i On Sunday morning with confit.erable uitti cnlty, I obtained a p..flage in about vvithfon e pilots to Tybee Illand (tor the Fort boat was ftové all to pieces, this war the only boat left in harbour and lhe had noTudder) on Monday I was enabled to get up to Cockfpur, where I dilcovered that every thing was fvvept away to the pilings with a part of the If]and.—So vi olent was the gale that we have not heard ol any veffel or boat living in the river (except the United States gun-boat No. I. and aimall floop, the former was drifted in a corn field l'evcn miles from the river.) 'Flic men who were loft are, Reuben Arm it ftrong, Corporal, William Crafts, Mufician, Daniel Lacy, Thomas Moore, fofeph Whita ker, John Glynn, and Samuel M'Williams, Privates. CC And with pain I have to mention the lofs of (.'apt. Nicoll's fon \\ ho was on a vifit tome ; he died wi h Lacy who was trying to lave his life. Three women and two « hildren belong ing to the Fort were likewife loft. k ' The men who efcaped arefo muchbruif ed ami wounded that lèverai of them will not be fit for duty for fome time. The account they give of the form and their lituation is, that the water was over the Fort at ten o'clock A. in. and as it began to rile in the houl'ctiiey alcended, and linally with much difficulty got on the roof which was carried off about one o'clock p. m. they however continued on it un til it parted after which they loft fight of each other, andthe furvivors laved themfelves on plank and feantling which was afloat from a vclfcl that had previoufly gone to pieces (la den with lumber) lying below them. From the force of the wind the wood they held on to, was lbmetimes railed out of the water and car ried fome diftance. They finally drifted on V\ ilmington llland from ten to fifteen miles above the Fort, and one man was lodged in the top of,a tree. " The water was fuppofed to have been from iy to 20 feet above the level of the Fort, for in this city it was at lead 12 feet higher than ordinary fpring tides. —From the winds carrying plank for fome diftance, and indeed from what fome of the men witnefled, they fuppofethat one or two of their comrades were lo;t by blows received by planks falling on them, who might have faved themfelves in the water. " From the lituation of the men and the ft.teof the roads (for they are impallable w ith carriages) 1 have thought it molt advifable to obtain a houle for them a few miles from the city, to ferve as an holpital and barracks—they are now, very comfortably fixed about two miles from town (for l could not procure no place at a greater diftance) wlmrc a phyfician will pay them every attention which may be litccuary NOTICE. TIIE Subscriber hereby' giveth notice to all and every perl'on and perlons concern'd ; that he intends to apply to the Honorable the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, on the twenty-feventh day of Novem ber next enfuing, at their Court to be held on that (la.' at Dover, in and for the County of Kent in the Hate of Delaware ; for a commifiion to mark, bound and ( llablilh, the Suhfcriber's tradl of land andmarfh, ufunlly called and known by the name of Watering Point ; fituate, lying and being on the South fide of Great DucksCreek, the Weft fide of the hay of He laware, and adjoining land claim'd or pofTefled by Kit hard Tay lor, Abraham Taylor, and Ifaac Tay lar ; in Duck-Creek neck and hundred, in the coun ty and Hate aforefaid. WILLIAM KILLEN. Oclober 24th, 1804. NOTICE. THE Subfcriber requefls thole who have any de mands againlt him, to prefent their Accounts for feulement —and thofe who are Indebted to him, hy Bond or otherwile, are defired to make immediate payment, as no longer indulgence need be expe 6 ted. JAMES LAFFERTY. October 24th, 1804. RAGS. The highest price given for clean linen AND COTTON RAGS, 1 , At the office of the Dover Argi**, ;
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jyyjÿji & POETS CORNER. lall, Museum, for January, 1791* 10 From the American lines occasioned by readl^ Mr. Paine's RIGHTS cape MAN. OF THUS briefly Iketch'd the facred rights of man, How inconfiftent with the regal plan, Which, for itfelf, exclufive honor craves, Where fome are mailers born, and fome arc a\ es , look down, With what contempt mull every eye On that bale childilh bauble, call'd a crown— Yet, fource of half the milchiefs men endure, The quack that kills them, while it feems to cure. of Rous'd by the reafon of his manly page, Once more lliall Paine a lifl'ning world engage : From reafon's fource, a bold reform lie brings ; mankind, he pulls down kings, By railing up Who, fource of difeord, patrons of all wrong, for On blood and murder, have been fed too long : IIiu fiom the world, and tutor'd to be bale, The curie, the fcourge, the ruin of our race— Their 's was the talk, a dull defining crew, To govern beings that they fcarcely knew, Who deem'd this world a feulement of Haves, And form'd their fway on fyftems built by knaves— bright years, to work their final fall, A ante, And halle the period that lhall crutli them all. of Who, that has read and fcann'J th' bidoric page, But glows at every line with kindling rage, To fee by them the rights of men alpers d, Freedom rellrain'd, and nature's law revets cl; Men, rank'd with bead's, by them bequeath'd away, And bound, even fools or madmen to obey ; Now driv'n to fight, and now opprefs'd at home, C otr,poll'd in crowds, o'er diftant feas to roam, From Indian climes, the plunder'd prize to bring, To glad the drumpet, or to glut the king, Who, l'worn to pieafe her vain, capricious mind, Was forc'd new diamonds, at her call to find ; like Nero, his proud dame addrefs'd, Gr thus, ;e Ons me left offer (not in jed) Who m; I,< t but thefe fingers o'er your bofom dray, Anct conquer'd nations at your feet I'll lay." •immortal be thy reign ; Columbia, hail! 1 ■Without a king, we till the fertile plain ; Without a king, we trace th'encircling fea, An! travel round the globe in each degree. Each didant clime, Our. gallant flag reveres, Nor afks a monarch to lupport the stars ; Without a king, the laws maintain their l'way, While honor bids each loyal heart obey. Be ours the talk, th' ambitious to redrain, And this great leffon teach, that kings are vain ; That warring realms to certain ruin hade ; That kings fubfid on war, and wars are wade— So lhall our nation, form'd on reafon's plan, Remain the guardian of the rights of man, A vad republic, fam'd thro' ev'ry clime, Without a king, to fee the end of tipte. ExtraSlfrom an address, delivered the 12th of May, 1804, at Worcester, Mass, by Mr. Brazer. " A true' republican does not confine his regard to the narrow circle in'which he may be placed. E 11 - lided in the holy caufe of Freedom, he traces her progrtfs with equal delight, whether die wantons in the luxuriant fields of Italy, or climbs the rugged heights o'' Switzerland ; whether her footdeps prtfs the vine cl id hills of France, or thé bleak mountains ol Norway; whether, to "redrels the rigors of the inclement clime,"'die lcatters her dews on the arid pleins of tl\e equator, or melts, with her fires, the Jfrozen fitters ol the pole ! To him, every advocate of the fame glorious.caufe is a friend a brother. He groups, with an eye of impartial admiration, the wor thies of ancient and modem days who fought under her banners. He viejws, \yith equal affettion and re fpett, an Emmett on the lcaffold, and a Hancock in the chair of date ; a Camillus in banidiment', and a Fayette in prilbn ; a Cato on his fword, and a Brissot finder the guillotine ; a Curran defending the rights and lives of the vittiir.s of oppreffion, and a Jejfer s n proietting the peace and profperitv of the Ions of liberty ; a Ruwan bending his exiled Heps from the land ol his nativity, and a Washington retiring to the feenes ofbis youth, laden with laurels and efcorted by the acclamations of his countrymen." Dollars Reward. 250 RAN-AWAY from the Subfcriber's Farm, on That Long Marfli, in Caroline County, on Sunday night lall, a negro man named ISAAC, about five feet 8 01 10 inches high, with large full white eyes, about 35 years of age, of a very black complexion ; had on when he went away, a blue cloth coat, with a fudian d rell of his clothes not properly cape llrip'd, the known. . _ Alfo, a negro man named PERR 2, of a black fora complexion, with a down look, five leet 8 or 10 in- cot ches high, 21 years of age ; had on when he went order away, a blue cloth coat, half worn, and a crofs drip d by round robbin jacket, with other cloathing not pro- |,j e perly known. , cics Likewife went with them, a bright Mulatto Girl, it named HANNAH, about 22 years of age, with thick lips, and of a lively countenance, pregnant, which is good very perceivable—It is fuppoiedthat Perry, if not all of them, have gone toLewis I own, Camden, or Phi- a nd ladelphia, as he has relations living in each place.— j n Whoever takes up faicl negroes, and fecures them fo G f that the owner may get themagain, (liall receive the above reward, and if brought home all rcafonable I) charges ; or 100 dollars for each negro man, and 50 et [ for the Girl. . Wm. WINCHESTER MASON. t0 Spleen Ann's County, Maryland, or October 17, 1804. Dollars Reward, 1 GO A'AN away on Saturday lad, from the fubferiber, living in Caroline county near lederallburgh, for merly called the north well lork bridge ; a likely young negro man by the name ol Abraham, fix feet high or there about ; fpare made, twenty-one years of age in April lad ,has a blemtlh in one of his eyes, occafioned bv a chip in cutting wood—had on and took with him a Ihort calico jacket, red and mixed under jacket, pair nankeen troufers wide at buttom. red driped jacket, pair ofnaburgh troufers, Ihort drab cloth jacket lined with green baife, Ihoit cloth coat with a black cape, ihoes and dockings, the kind of hat unknown ; went with him a likely young negro man ol the yellow call, named El* iick, the property of /richard Tootal, Dorchefter in county:, Ellick is about live feet ten inches high, to lerable well let, twenty-three years old—had on and took with him a kerfey jacket arid troufers, driped four and four blue and white, Bath coating jacket and troufers, black cloth coat, a wool hat. a pair of nankeen pantaloons, white linen troulers, flioes and dockings, a white mai teils waidcoat, check linen troufers. It is likely they may change their names ; It is likely, they may change their names ; all each of them has Worked everal years at the black the fmith bufinefs. Any pirfon taking mv negro man Abraham, and Any pi r fon taking my deliver him to me, lhall jiave the above reward, and deliver him to me. lhall liitislied Mr. Tootal will handfomly reward 1 am any perlbn for his. Any perfon fecuring the faid Negroes fo that the may get them again lhall have the above re owners ward. JOYEPH DOUGLAYY. RICHARD TOOTEL. of September 26, 1804; STRAYED or. STOLEN, On thé night of the 1 7th Pistant, from the Subscri bers pasture, TWO HORYEY, one a large forrel, near 15 hands high, perceivably hiplhod in his right hip— and marked on his right fide with the cart fuddle, off with the collar; he can either his mane worn pace or trott, but is by no means formed for a hack — The other is a dark grey, though his head is nev uncommonly white, for the red of his colour, his tail is Ihort with a mixture of white hairs, he has a leather running along both fuies of his neck, he trots, canters and hacks very well. ( Any perlbn ftcurin.g faid horfes ; and will bring them home, lhall have three dollars for each; arid - all reafonable charges paid by JOSEPH WEIGHT. September 17, 1804. N. B. The fubferiber lives in Queen Ann's coim ty date of Maiyland, between Centerville and the heaver-dam caufeway, near Henry Pratt's, Efq. FOR SALE, A House and Lot, (in the village of Frederica; Kent Count, State of Delaware,) with a two dory addition 18 feet wide and 18 long, with one room on the fird floor, two chambers above, and a good dry cellar, the houfe is well finilhed, painted, and the in walls filled in with brick to the garrett ; with a dabîe a and carriage houfe, under one roof, fmoak houfe, &c. The Lot is 100 feet front ancl 120 feet deep, under good enclofure—The terms may be known by ap plying to George Truitt, efq. Camden, or to the Sub of feriber in Philadelphia. SAMUEL H. ROWND, Second Street, A 7 b r lG5. Ottober 10 th, 1804' TO BESOLD, AT PRIVATE SALE, That Valuable Property in the Town of Dover in the County and State of Delaware, formerly the resi dence of Eleazer Macomb , Esq. deceased . SITUATE on the main dreet of Dover, a fevr d 00rs below the public fquare. Thai part of the property now occupied by James Clark, prefents an eligible Hand for a llore, and has been ufed as fuch fora fieries of years pall, to great advantage, and cot ,l ( i now be put at a fmall expenl'e, in complete order for mercantile bufinefs. The part occupied by John Lowlier, Efq. is a commodious comforta |,j e brick building, and has a variety of convenien cics in its conftruttion and fituation, which render it very valuable. To this property there are good gardens, a good carriage houle, together with two good grals lots, one of them containing about three quarters of an acre, and the other about two acres a nd an half. It is prefumed, that any perfon wilh j n g to purchafe the above property, will take a view G f j t . a f ur t] ler defeription is deemed unnec effary. Alfo a lot of ground fituate at Jones's bridge near I) overj with a brick tenement thereon, accommodat et [ to an y mechanical employment or public bulinefs For further particulars, application may be made t0 Dottor James Tilton, the elder, at Wilmington, or to the fubferiber at Dover. ALEXANDER STUART, Jun. July 25th, 1804. PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING The American Gardner ; BEING A NEW AND COMPLETE GARDENER'S CALANDER, AND GENERAL DIRECTORY, Adapted to the Climats and present situation of the United States. —containing— AN account of what work is necefiary to be done in the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower-gardens, Vine yard, Nurfery, Pleal'ure-ground, Green-houfe and Hot-houle, for every month in the year; and alfo ample practical directions for performing the laid work ; explaining likewife the bed methods, and par ticular seasons for propagating, and raifing, to the utmod perfection, all lorts ol esfculent plants, fruits and flowers, &c. the proper fealbns for tranfplanting ; all kinds of Trees, Shrubs and plants, lb as to inlure ; the bed pollible fuccefs. With complete directions for forcing the different kinds of Fruits, Plants and Flowers, to early perfec tion, in Hqt-houles, liot-beds, Forcing-frames, Fovcing-houfes, &c. Particular and minute indtuttions, for the raifing, culiure and management of all kinds of Fruit-trees, luitable to the climates of the United States-, with ample dlrcttions for the culture of Vines, on a large and national lcale ; and the mod approved methods of making Wine from the fruit. A LSO, COMPLETE CLASSICAL LISTS OF Kitchen-garden Plants, Fruit-trees, Forell and Ornamental Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Evergreens, 15 Annual, Biennial, and Perennial fibrous rooted flowers, Bulbous and Tuberous rooted Flowers, Green-houfe and Hot-houle Plants, proper for culti vation in the American Gardens, £iff. Being the Essence, carefully feletted, of the mod is approved modern publications, and the refultof the Editor's Pr attisai Experience in each of thefe de partments, for many years. he BY BERNARD M'MAHON, GARDENER AND SEEDMAN, PHILADELPHIA. TERMS. I. THE work will be printed on an excellent wove paper, with new type cading for the purpofe by Binny and Ronaldfon, and will be compriled in onedarge ottavo Volume, of fix hundred pages at the lead. II. The price to fubferibers will he 3 dollars, neatly hound and lettered ; or 2 dollars 75 cents in boards, payable on delivery of the work; to Non-fub, leribers, the price ivillbe enhanced. III. Each perfon procuring ten Subfcribert, and on holding himfelf refponfible for the fame, fliall be dry entitled to one Volume gratis. the *4* The Editor intending to make the work as perfett and complete as in his power,will complete &c. the work of every month in the month itfelf, con lequently cannot have it publilhed before January ap 1805. Philadelphia , January 1804. Subscribers names will be received at the Office oj " The Dover Argus," and at the Editor's Seed lG5. Store, No, 129, Chcsnutstreet, Phifatdelphia.
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The Dover herald
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14 f 1 4 C Thursday, January 16, x8oo. Vo!. I. No. 3. State of Delaware. Secretary's Gilice, 24th Dec. *99. Affected with the livelieft fenftbility at the lofs which the people of the United States have fj'/laiued by the death of our illuftrious and beloved fellow-citizen, I,t. Gen. GEORGE WASHINGTON, the tats Pre fuient —the Governor of this ftalc Hites that all poilible refpeft fltould be paid to his memory, for the many eminent fit-vices which he has rendered to his country. Ami altho' a grateful remem brance will be ever had of thofe virtues and exalted talents which fo confpicuonfly diftinguilhed him in a long feries of pub lic duties, yet the general (intiment, on this diftrefling occalion, pointing to fome particular expreffion of the high fenfe which all feel of our lofs, and the Go vernor, uniting in the public fympathy ; It is therefore recommended to all Civil Officers of the State to wear Crape, on the left arm, below the elbow, as mourning, for three months. Bv order of the Governor, ' ABRAHAM HIDGELY, Sic. of t ht State of Delaware. State of Delaware. General Orders. V he Governor mid Commander in Chlej the deefeji afHittion at of th' ;s State, fee the !of s which the armies of the Unit d States have ftfained b the theatk of Gen. George Y/a(hington. whofc gallant frvices in the Field, and virtue mid wifloin in Council, hav excelled the mot! dijlinguißeed Heroes m.i Patriots of /ht ient and Modern Times _ Dirclls the Officers of the Militia of the State, to wear Crape on the left arm, below . the elbow, l'_> waf of Mourning for Three Months. By order of the Commander in C hief, JOHN STOCK I ON ■ah. Adjutant G Dec. 24, '99. An Apprentice Wanted To the Printing Bufinefi— Enquire at this Office. JTocctgn UntcïUgcnc?. ANGLO-R USSIAN ARMY. no L ODD OX, OCT. 26 . Lieutenant Colonel C linton, aid-de camp to his Royal Highnefs the Duke of as York, arrived this morning at the office of of the Right H011. Henry Dundas, with difpatches of which the following are copies. as Head-quarters, Schagen Brng, CSroher 20. Sir, In my laft communications I have re prefented to you the circnmftances under which 1 found it expedient to withdraw the army from its forward polition in front of Alkmaer, within that which it at prefent occupies, and which I truft will liavc appeared to his Majcfly diffident to warrant the ineafure, 1 lie feafon of the year which lias already afliimcd liere the »(peel of winter, gave from day to day, additional reafon ! prebend that any attempt towards a profeculion of the campaign in this .country could not be at tended with decline advantages, whilll the impolfibihty of covering the troops in the narrow dittrift ot the country in our poflelfion during the winter, and the pre carious date ol (applies to be expected in that feafon, added to the conviction Kelt that the moft adviléable meafure to be piirfued was to remove the army to Eng land; an operation which, although it niight liaie expofed the army to fome lofs 111 its execution, I judged in my mind preferable to any other which could be adopted. . Under this impreffion, and confidcring the lerious lofs which might enfue from delay, I have been induced to conclude an armiltice, in conjunftion with vice admiral Mitchell, (with general Brime, commanding the r rench and Batavian ar mies, ol w hieb the conditions arc inclofed, and which, although they provide lor de- j livering up a large number of prifoners ot > war, now in our hands, yet 1 truft will ! 1 not be thought by bis majelly an inade- ! cjiiate coinpcnfation for many valuable lives which iiiuft have been loft, after the object which has hitherto direftcd them no longer pro mi fed fuccefs ; and when the only means which prefented them lelvcs of lecuving a feenre retreat were thole of retorting to the deftmftive mea fure of innnndation from the fea, which, as it would have involved the inhabitants of the northern part of this province in ruin for a feries of years, mull have been highly repugnant to the feelings as well as contrary to the charaéter and practice of the Britifh nation. I reft confident that the motives which I have here detail cd will.excufe me to bis niajeftv for hav ing a fled without writing for previous in ftruftions from home, and that I fha.ll have the fatisfadlion of knowing that my con duft, in this refpeft, lias met with his majefty's gracious approbation. 1 am, &c. (Signed) KREDERICK. Right Hon. Henry Dundas, &c. ARTICLES. Art. r. From the date of tiijs conven tion all hollilities (hall ccafe between the two armies, 2. 'i he line of demarkation between the faul armies llial! he the line of their re fpeftive out polls as they now exift, 5. The continuation of all works of fenfive and defenlive (hall be fufpended on both lides, and no new ones (hall be undertaken. 4. The mounted batteries taken pof feflion of at the Hclder or at other pofi lions within the line, now occupied bv the combined Englidi and Ruffian arntv, (h: 11 be reftored in the Hate in which they were taken, or (in cafe of improvement) in their prefent Hate, and all the Dutch artillery taken therein (hall be preferveri. 5. '( he combined Engliih and Ruffian army (liall embark as foon as poflible, and (ball evacuate the territory', coalls, ifiands, and internal navigation of tiie Dutch lie j public, by the loth of November, 1799, > without committing any devaftntion, by ! innundatimis, cutting tlie dykes, or otliet ! wife injuring the fources of navigation.
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The Dover herald
Dover, Del.
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1800-01-16
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6. Any (hips of war or other vcflels which may arrive with reinforcements lbr the combined fing! ill. and dufliio army, 11.all not kind the fame, and lliall be fent away a foon as poflîble. 7 General Brune Ihnli be at liberty to fend an officer within the lines of the Zuyp and the Hehler, to report to him the Hate of the batteries, and the progrefs of the embarkation. His Royal Highnefs the Duke of York lhall be equally at li berty to fend an officer within the French and Batavian lines, to fatisfy himfelf that no new works are carried on on their fide. An officer of rank and dilVmcHon fliall be fent from each army refpectively, to guarantee the execution of this con vention. 8. Eight thoufand prifoners of war, French and Batavians, taken before the prefent campaign, and now detained in England, fliall he reflored without con ditions to their refpeitive countries. The proportion and the choice of liich pri soners for each, to be determined between the two republics. Major Ceneral Knox lhall remain with the French army to gua rantee the execution of this article. 9. The cartel agreed upon between the two armies for the exchange of the pri foners taken during the prefent campaign fliall continue in full force till it fliall be carried into complete execution ; and it is further agreed the Dutch Admiral De Winter fliall he confidered as exchang ed. Concluded at Alkmaer, the 18th of Oc tober, 1799, by the underligned Ge neral Officers, furniflied with full powers to this eftevt. (Signed) J. KNOX, Major General. HOSTOLLANT. - Odhber 30. The accounts from Italy date, that finza lips been rc-taken, and that Cham pions t has gained an advantage near Coni. J lie victories in Switzerland have pro duced the effect of preventing the retreat oi'tlie French in Italy, and Genoa remains in the poilefliun of the French. Rome has prelented an unexpected feene. The Fren.h, few in number, and incapable of refilling the Neapolitans who were ad vancing. began to retreat to Civita Vec chia. l'lie people immediately requeded not to be abandoned, and to be armed. A drong force was foon collected, the [ io ] Neapolitan entrenched camp of T 2.coo men at Frcfcaii was llormed, 000 killed, 1800 made prifoners, with the commander in chief, and the military chcft. tight tranfports have arrived at I7ar r wich, in the courfe o; lad week from the Dutch J/.i'ightei-horfe, with wounded fol diert—the following Officers have laud ed, viz. Colonel Hodges, Lieut. Keith, -Hill, Lt. Col. Crew, Major Hutchinfim, - W alters, Captain Hohinfoit, - Parlons, Captain Thompfon, and three others, whole names are not mentioned. ARMY OF THE DANUBE. Berne (Switzerland) OSl. 12. The following Proclamation has been ifliied : Maffena, General in Chief, ft the Army _ Soldiers ! the coalelced powers had united three armies againd y ou their plan was to gain poflcllion of Helvetia, and thereby to penetrate into France. You have deltroyed their plan, You have fecured the Limatlt ; and in two days you have annihilated the army of Korlakolï -You have taken all his call non, all his baggage, and have obtained Zurich by force of arms. The enemy has loll 6coo prilbuers, and three generals w on ml cd. You have fecured the Linth ; you have completely beat the Andrian Army j you have made jooo prifoners, and taken 20 pieces of cannon. Its general in chief lias been killed on the field of battle. The army commanded by Suwar row had advanced to Altorf. You marched againfl it ; you vanquished it in the valley of Mutten ; you have taken 011c ftandard, two pieces of cannon, and the enemy, forced to make a precipitate retreat, lias abandoned 6co wounded among whom are a general and feveral officers. Though repulfed from Glams, you have dill been conquerors, Y ou have made rjoo prifoners, taken a dandard, . u killed a general. Finding their fafeiv only in flight, the enemy fled towards the Grifons, leaving you 1,500 woun they lot! befidcs a great part of their ar tillery, and all their baggage. lipon the Uhine the wreck of the van quilhed regiments, reinforced by Bava rian troops and by thol'c of tonde, at tempted a frefli sttSek. Yon were there ready to receive them. On the fide of Sliatfhoufe y ou ha\ e made i yoo prifoners, taken fix itandaids, feveral cannon and killed a general. Oil the banks of the Rhine, from where the dar flows to the fnmmic of Gothard, the enemy have fire wed the field of battle with the (lain. finally, you have driven the enemy from Helvetia, and by h.fing a portion of land which the enemy have purchafed to dearly, they I oil more than 50,000 fol diers ! Behold the work of fifteen days. Your own country, as well as Helvetia, have decreed you civic honors. When wiiole nations offer yoa their tribute of admiration and gratitude, it is the duty of your general to remind you that a new career of exertion and danger prefents itfelf to you. He engages, in your name, that von will fierce your way through it with y aur wonted intrepidity and devotion. (Signed) .SjENA. r. f Maflcna lias wrote to the Miniflcr at VViu of the Helvetic Republic, giving an ac count of Suwarrnw 's army, in which he fays that it is reduced to " 5000 m-n, mod of whom are deditutc of arms ai d (hoes, and in a dvq lorable lituation, on tiitii march to Feldkirch." —He lays he liiail enter the Grifons 011 the 18th or 19th of October.] LEGISLATURE Of DELAWARE. Cn Friday lad Ids Excellency the Go vernor of this Male met both houles, and. delivered the following fpccch : Gentlemen of the Senate and Kufe of Re[•. Yon have by the permiffion of Divine Providence, agi ccbly to the conditvitiuH* al day affigiicd for the annual meeting of the Lcgiilature afiembled, and it becomes my dmy tu lay before you dich fubjeCis as appear to me demand your pvelcnt atten tion— Lut bviore 1 enter upon this dutv, dill reding as the thought may be, permit me to take notice of the irreparable lofs the United Mates have lately fudained ; yes, V> aldington the Friend of unkind, the greath beloved George \Valliimnmi, late Frchdcnt and Commander in Chit I of the Armies of the l nittd states, is no more, he is dead.—W ill r.ct the I egilla ture of the state of Delaware, with me drop a tear before Heaven's King, cx-
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The Dover herald
Dover, Del.
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1800-01-16
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prelîive of the fenfe of the lofs fuftained, and the afleftion we had for the greated j charafter eitlier the Antient or Modern 1 world ever produced.—Yes, me thinks I ! now fee your hearts melting, ydur eyes 1 lillitig, and hear your tongues declare— We will not only drop a tear with you, but before we rife, by a legiilative tclti inonial, prove to the world how much we loved and admired the man who was not only truly wife in Council, but great in the field.—Clory to God ! We trult our Infs is bis infinite gain. l 7 e died as he lived Walhington lives for ever, and j will he not continue to live in the heart of every true American, who has, or iliall read or hear his wife, weighty, humble, adeftionate and molt foletnn addrefs to the American people, at the time lie with drew from the Prcfidency of the United States ? Yes, he muft—he will. Here let me (top—an awful hlence belt becomes me--abler pens and far more enlarged minds having failed in deferibing the worth ofthat excellent man. 1 have tlio't j roper to recommend to the civil as well as the military officers of the State upon the melancholy occulion to wear mourning f ir three months, which i trull will meet your approbation, and alio that of the citizens of the Hate. ne» of the Si nute and M, of R. c Notwithilanding the lofs our country Has .fuda'ned, by the departure of our il taitrious friend, yet 1 feel happy in oblefv ing that Provide no 1 lias been and Hill is kind to us as a nation, we are not left without a man who fears God and works Pvigliteoufuefs. A man eminently diltin gnilhed, tried and beloved—Virtuous from principle ; great in council and firm in .execution- ucli a man, 1 trait, now prelides over tlie United States, whofe whole foul has been, and 1 believe dill is, ;ed in the fupport of the general go Cl vernment and the happinefs of the people, and vvlto 1 have a firm confidence hath marked the road (and w ill continue to walk therein) of his late highly favoted and exalted predecefibr, which leads un doubtedly to immortality and eternal glory Is, through the wife and prudent t e induct of the Prelident of the e lilted .States, a diilaut glare of hope, that our h ippy country may yet avoid the calami ties attending a date of war, every pru dential preventative mealitre, fo far as 1 urn able to form a judgment has been a dopted, to produce the defired eifcCl : Yet if the pr.ofpect of a continuation of jpvt :c was far brighter than at prefcnt, Wif dom's voice proclaims aloud the way to infure it is to' be ready to allert our rights, ! and oppofu violence and injudice, let it come from what quarter it may : It is 1 with thankfulnefs and much pleafure that 1 can inform you the lait feafon has not been fo afiik'ting to any part of the citi zens of the Hate as the former, kind Pro vidence did not fend the l'eftilential Hod into any part of our date, which was fo feverely felt in many of our filler dates ; neither did our farmers fuller fo much in j their crops the lad, as they did the for mer year ; and it is with much latistaction 1 congratulate you on the union and har mony which meafurabiy prevails through out the date : lint while this affords great confutation, and would be a d roll g re fource in any event, yet the circumltances of our national affairs are dich, as jollities me in fuggeliiag, the propriety of a Re v'Jion of our Alilitni Lirai, cfpecially re fpefting the feveral /Jel'dtery Co vpauies in the date, whole ufefulnels mult forever be tad, unltfs they are furnilhed with field pieces, carriages and apparatus, and alfo refpefting the impofing fines on delin quents, and the mode of collection. A.s 1 Hand informed, in fume parts of the date, the law, as it now Hands, as to fines for non-attendam e, on millier and field days, by the conduct of fume officers, only af fect tliofe perlons who are contaient ioully fcrupulous of bearing arms in any cafe, the roll not being called over, or if called over, fo managed as to elude the taw with refpect to others. Again from my information the mode of collecting the lines, as the law now Hands, is luch from the fmallncfs ot the compenfatinn allowed for collection, that renders it impractic able, I believe, and out of the power of the Commifiary to get perfotrs w ho are trait-worthy to undertake the collection. 1 therefore beg leave to fugged the pro priety of putting, bylaw, tie collection of all militia lines into the hands of the Hundred Co lectors, to he by them col lected c:i the warrant of the eommill'iry, upon the lame terms the county rates and levies are collected. I further beg leave to ohferve, that in my humble opinion a partial review of the whole brigade in each county, would he far more ufeful than the renewing the militia in regi ments, fnppoling the whole altended, and i cannot help exprriliug a wifh that the commander in chief (hon'd he unequivo cally anth,wiled by the law to review the militia in brigade or regiments^ when he might think the fame ufeful anti neceOiiry. Gentle wen, Since the lait felfion I have received from the Executives of feveral of the dates copies of their laws to be prefented by me to you, viz. from the date of Virginia, New-Hampfliirc, Rhode Hland and Pro vidence Plantations, and South Carolina, the governor of South Carolina has for warded three copies ef their Laws, one tor each branch ol the Legiflature, ar.d one for the Executive, and e.xprcfles in his addrefs to me the wifh of his Legis lature, and his own, that three copies of the laws of this date Ihouid be forwarded to him in return. This mode of recipro cating the laws of the refpeftive dates, I mult own ftrikes my mind with peculiar force, but (hall wait your dcciiion on tills fubjeit, before 1 forward the copy of our laws under the prefent exiding refolution to South Carolina. Alfo 1 have received fundry refutations from the dates of Pennfylvania, New Hamp/hire, Vermont, Virginia, & Mary land, refpefting amendments to the con llitution of the United States, and one from Maryland on the fubjrCt of Negroes, together with a letter from the governor to me on the fuhject matter of thole re futations ; and 1 alfo have received a co py ot an act of the Legiflature of Penn fylvani-i, and one of the Legiflature of Maryland on the important (object of clearing the navigation of the Sufqiiehanna and opening a communication between the waters of the l liefapeake Bay and the River Delaware, through this date. This is a tabject, no doubt, that demands your early ami greatell attention, as it is one of conliderahle magnitude, and involves not only the interefl <vt the citizens of this flute, but that of a great body, if not the whole citizens of the United States. The feveral documents and papers above re ferred to, together with a copy of my anfwer to the governor of Maryland I have directed the Secretary to lay before von. Gentlemen, In the lad claafe of the aft entitled " An Act fur bailing prifoners. and about linprifotiments," it is declared that no perl'on or perlons are bound to anfwer to any indictment or prefentment found a gain!! them until a prulecntor's name is endortad on the fame. 1 have long feen the pernicious eftefts of this claufe in the law, its operation is extremely difadvan tugcous to the community at large, and float many recent indauces, conceive my
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felt' warranted in obfcrving that the prin cipal operation this claufe now has is to avoid the judice of the country, and aid and facilitate oppreflion. Under this jm prelfion 1 take the liberty to fugged the propriety of repealing the claufe above recited, apprehending the common law makes ample provifion in l'uclt cafes. Gentlemen, From the many recent indances of duels fought and projiofed to be fought within this (late, 1 have been led to conlider it my bounden duty to draw your attention to that tbbjeft : However it tnay etfeCt thole who under a miftaken and falfe no tion of honor, conlider thentfelvcs war. ranted not only to fport with their own lives, but with the lives of others, wan tonly and inconliderately, and frequently on the ground of the mod trivial circuni llances. This praitile cannot be jollified among a people profefling ( lirillianity. 'Phe law of the date is by no means cal culated to prevent the niilchief. 1 there fore beg leave to obferve, that in my o pinion it would be advifeable to repeal the prefcnl law, and form one more like ly to prevent the growing evil—And humbly apprehend a law formed upon this Idea j that tliofe perfons hereafter con cerned in fielt unchriftian like conduft, being convicted thereof, (liould not only forfeit property within the Hate, he (ob ject to a length of intprifonment, but fliould forever after be incapable cf hold ing any office of trod or profit in the flare, giving teiVmtnny in any of the courts of jttdice, or ferving on any jury. Such a law, I am perfuaded would bring tliofe gentlemen who pofiéls miltaken notions of honor to a ferions conlideration, and ■would induce them to take a more rational way of doing themfelves Judite for either real or fuppofed injnries. Gentlemen, In my addrefs to the General Aflctnbly at the lad feffion, 1 took the liberty of drawing their attention to various (iihjcds fume of which for want of time, 1 prelume, were not taken up, or afted upon, 1 beg leave now to remind you of the matters ol bufinefs therein hinted at ; particularly to that relating to Judgment Bonds, being fully convinced in niy mind, that all fitch fecurities are productive of evil, and in evitable ruin to many of the citizens of the date, and it is now high time they iliottld be done away. It is alfo much to he wilhed, that a re vifion of our criminal law could take place, itnd fpeedily—that puaillujisiits better proportioned to crimes might be inflicted than arc at prefent. In niy humble con ception the bed mode of puniflting mod crimes is folitary confinement, and hard labour ; if this idea is well founded, it follows of confequence, that a houle in fome part of the (late ought to be provid ed for that pttrpole, and wltcre this buli nefs would moll likely be attended to, with the lead expellee, and moll advan tage to the (late and criminal. For uty fclf I have ever conceived that the i o rottglt of Wilmington, or near it, was by far the bed fittiatiun for fuch a houfe. Gentlemen, Since the fifing of the T egiflature I have liiade every effort to procure the arms and accoutrements, the governor is authorifed by law to ptireliafc for the ufe of the militia of this (lute, but without fuccels : i (hall embrace the firlt polfible opportunity to effect it ; but 1 have no doubt from information received, could the legiffature think it proper Co audio rife me to make the purchuie of the arms without redricting to the particular ca liber, in the prefent law mentioned, 1 could obtain the number very (hortly, at near one third lefs colt than they could be had of the caliber contemplated in the Law. Gentlemen of the Senate and II. of Ref. 1 (hall from time to ti ne during the prefent feflion lay before you fuch other fubjeCls as may occur, and appear nectf fary for your attention to he drawn unto. And (licit aCts and rcfolves as yoa may think proper to pals, will meet niy par ticular attention—And I trull it will he my confiant endeavour to promet", us far as in me lies, the union, harmony, peace and profperity of the people, und with confidence I am perfuaded that the eilen liai interefls ol' the citizens of the (late will be attended to by you, and nothing ' palled unnoticed which may be ul'eful and beneficial. RICHARD BASSETT. Further Proceedings in our nett. DoVRR, JAN. lÛ For the lad five days we have had, for the feafon, an unexampled (cries of fine weather, indeed it more refembles the month of April than the middle of Janu ary. CANAL BUSINESS. The Houle of Rcprcfcntatives of this | State, in a Committee of the whole, reject ed the expediency of the meafure, but on the Iloufe being formed, the meafure was determined expedient by a majority of i —Ill confequence of which a committee was formed and ordered to bring in a bill. " We tnufl follow foots, will glad obey, When a fev> funs have roll'd their cares away, T r'd with vain life, will clofe the willing eye ; ''J is the great bit thrig/t of mankind to die. Hieß be the bark that wafts ns to the Jhorc H here death-divided friends Jhall fart nl more ! To join thee there, here with my daß ref of:, Is all the hope thy haplefs hulband knows." DIkD. In this town, on Monday lad, Mrs. F.c beccalt Battcll, wife of Mr. French Bat ted.—When a valued friend or lovely re lative dies in the ordinary tuurje of nature, the lofs is feverely felt and deeply deplor ed : but when the wife of oar bofom, (lie who fooths the bed of ficknefs, and heigh tens every joy of life, bows beneath the rod of death and goes down to the filent tomb " under the mod intrreding cir cuit.(lances," the droke mull he peculiar ly grevions. 1 he lady, whofe death we now bewail, was young and amiable ; an afte<ffionate wife, a fond parent, a kind and engaging friend and neighbour—and while her immortal fpirit receives the rewards of virtue from ail all-gracious God, her death will be lamented, not only by her fad partner and afflicted friends, but by every perfon who poflêffés a heart not callous to the finer feelings of fj in - pathetic forrow. Sittuneary of late tXews from Fnrcfe. I ares, 0(1. ;o —Portugal rrfufes to ac knowledge Paul 1. grand mailer of Malta. — I he king of Prnffia has recalled his re fident at Hamburgh.—It is («kl that Prince ' C hurles has been defeated on the whole of his line by Mafféna ; that Prince Conffan tire, the emperor of Rullia's (on was kill'd and 10,000 of the enemy killed or wound ed ! and that Suwarrovr was hemmed in bv four divifious—Gen. Pnine's army was ordered to march to the Rhine to rein force that army—That the Duke of Yol k's capitulation contained private articles— Madame La Payette, on behalf of herfelf and the Marquis, waited on their generös deliverer from the dungeons of Glmutz, and Emperor of Germany — Buonaparte to thank him, and was received in the moll benevolent and didingni/hed mauner.—it is faid the Rred licet has failed, and that the army of Italy has again been victories,