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( 3: sel Raf . pa ha- sla liri far fri No cui i 'mi1 of 1 H M , I mi nir b1 fill IT 'dit ed fir im p m A UJ in HI n th 'In cV- diV p tn c tbf h er! P", r) tei 1 rrl ml th ru . vV t Tb following linw, from the Amiiiciii Citiiiw, "are awked by ddicicy ind Ucliog. E. Poll- ) ' TEE GRAVE OF HAMILTON.. - ' r SOFT beam thy raye, fair daughter of the skies, .'.'"'" vtVith rich profusion gilding o'er this scene .... Of deep repose and -death : each vagrant breeze - .. 1 - : " . Lies htish'd witMn its cell, in seeming fear j The solemn calm of nature should be broken, Save when a Solitary zephyr's sound ; Sighing.frimournful cadence, thro' the trees, 'Seems like a parted spirit's whisp'ring voice Which tells of woe to come ; A chilly horror runs 'thro' my frame, j As o'er this sad sepulchral scene I tread, 'With sHow and windifig step lest on some " grave . " ' Haste might impel my feetNor ychi, ye wise, . Smile at th superstition fotid, which de'ems The act unholy and a sacrilege . To nature's laws : Oh ! rather join and pay The rev'rence due to nature's sad remains. This is the spot my Vf'and'ring feet have sought, . The last receptacle of him, who once Was 'great and good-galas'." Iidv far beyond The reach of common natures his it was To blend each nobler quality which forms The soldier, statesman, and endearing friend. - "PT7",,,W" .! Fw.wliij Incut Which to tlie tender charities of life, Tjeat in kind unison thr electric poSver ' 'Of Genius was his own, in such degree That all stood mutebefore him Awful lesson To man's fond vanity that Hamilton ..Whose wisdom, gooclness.valour,wcfe almost ,-Beyond all pai allel, has bow'd beneath Death's iron sceptre ; ard but late eritom'd That eye, whose light'riing spoke die soul . within ; Those lips, whose sounds in pleasing fetters ' held "Each ear attentive, mouldering it) the' dust. Bright dart the moon beams e'er his lowly grave 11 And, by their silv'ry light, methinks I read A name to him allied- his eldest hope ! l!eart-piercing sight 1 here, side by side, . arrang'd, - - - . Father and Son lie wrapt in lops repose ! 'Alike untimely fallen, victims afikc To honor- tyrant of th feeling heart. Oh hapless mother! vicow'd wife! what words Can paint thine angnialrrScarce the stream ing tears 'Which deep maternal sorrow taught to flow, "AVere dry'd from thy pale theck, when this rude blu .v Struck at thebear.t of peace thatstill rcmain'd, And tore it from thy breast. May each blest power, " 'Kind "guardians of the good, with constant care Support thy riif-worn heart; and resigna- tiou N. seemed equally confident in" opinion" that General H. did fire first and of course that it must have been at his antagonist. t - General Hamilton's' friend feels it to be a'sacred duty he owes to the memory of that exalted man, to ' his country, and his friends, to publishto the world such facts and circum stances as have produced a decisive convic tion in his own mind, that he. can hot- have been mistaken in the belief he lias formed oh those points ,.' - , 1st. Besides 'the' testimonies of Bishop Moore, and the paper containing an express --declaration, under General Hamilton's own ' nandnnclosed to Tv.s friend jn a'packet, not to be delivered but in the event of his deaths and which have, already been published, Gen eral Hamilton informed Mr. P. "at least ten i days previous to the affair, that he had doubts I whether he would not receive and not return ' Mr. Run 's first fire. Mr. P. remonstrated against this determination, and urged many I considerations against it, as dangerous to himsell ana ni necessary in ine particular case, when evcry.'ground tf accommodation, not humiliating, had been proposed and re jected.. He said he would lot decide tightly but take time "to deliberite fully. It vfas. incidentally mentioned a.ain at their oc casional subsequent conversations: and on the evening' preceding the time , oC'the ap pointed interview, he inftrmed Mr. P. he had made up his mind not f fire at Col. Burr the Jirst time, but to receive his firey and fire'ir, ihe air. Mr. P. again urged him upon this kubjecVand repeated his former arguments His final answer was i;i terms that made an impression on Mr. P's. mind which ran ne ver be effaced. " My friend, it is' the effect ' ' cf a religious scrupue, and does not admit of reasoning : it ij useless to say more on the subject, as my purpose is definively fixed." 2d. I lis last word oeforc he "was Avounded afford a proof-that this purpose had not chan ged. When he received his pistol, after hav ing taken his position, he was askeJ if he would have the hairspring s-t? I lis answer Was," ''Not 'this time," SdAfter he was wonndH, and laid in the boat, the first words he uttered after rccdveringv th power ofspeech, were, faddressinrj him- Tf one fires before .theother, the opposite I second shall . say one, two, three, lire and he shall then fire, or lose his fire." He then "' asked if they were prepared, being answered in the affirmative , ,ihe ave theAvord present, ashadb:en agreed bn, and both parties pre sented and fired in succession, he intervening time, is not expressed, as the seccds do not p'reciseiy agree on that point. The fire of ColonelvBurr took effect, and General Ham ilton almost'i'nstantly fell, Coir Burr then' ad vanced toward General . Hamilton, "with a rtianner and gesture that appeared to General ' Hamilton's friend to be expressivr of regret, but without speaking; turned about and with drew, being urged from the field by his friend as has been subsequently stated, with a'view to prevent hisbeing recogniied by the surge on and bargemen, who were then approach- - r . ..i ing. o lunner communicauon tooic place between the principals, ;ahd the barge that carried Col Burr immediately returned to the city. We conceive it proper to aftdvthat the c'dnduct 6? the parties in this interview was prefectly proper &s suited the occasion It will be observed that this paper has been published according to the correction that has since taken place in one important par ticular. Iristead of saying both parties" too aim," as it originally :ktood, which' might' .imply that Gen. Hamilton took ifa at Col Burr, it has been agreed that the phraise em ployed should have been " both parties" pre sented," which nieans merely an' elevation of the arm. ' )? 0 R E I 0 K. - ; . LONDON, ane i. Mr. Livingston, the AmeHc'en Tlinister t Frnrr.. is here, in Dursuit of sonte agricultu- Lral information, it is said in some of the pa- , pers, in others it U conjectured, that his ou jectis to negociate a loan for the purchase ot theFloridas. Mr. Fox, and many r.f the British nobility, have been particularly at tentive to him ; and some of the London edi tor have expressed ah astonibhme'ntat these aUentioiis, considering his conduct with re spect to the late " conspiracy." Sir John Ctiallender gave an eletrant dinner 'on Friday, at his house in Mansfield streer, to Mr. Livingston, the American Ambassa dor, and a number cf nobility and fashiona-' bles. " ' ' On the 30th of.May Mr. Wi!berff)rce "rhoyed in the House'of Conimdns for leave to bringin a bill for tl'.e total Abolition of the Slave Trade ; whichTie obtained by a "majo rity of -75 out of 173 votes. It is reported in London, that government hasp.opnsed to receive into its pay 23,000 Rv-sians, 10.000 Daries, and 16,000 Swedes, to co-operate wit u a isriusn army m uip re , r.O'h que ring ot Hanover and Holland. A French army is shortly to be established in the Alsace, and the army of Hanover is to be reinforced. Fresh t roops are constantly mo ving towards Mantua. Three large camps are to be formed iri Prussia, etrly in the summer, one in Prussia Poland, another in SiJesii, and the third oil hc frontiers of I lanovcr. Tki Mormhr- Chronicle r;f yesterdav to'h- r.a'hs r. statement relative to the late fatal du 1 i el, int'iT'lured in the following manner : ' ' The gentleman who accompanied Col. Burr to lh field in the late unfortunate con test cornes forward rtluctahtly with a state ment on the subject, at a moment when any publication of tlie'kind may expose liis prin- cipal'to judicial embarrassment, ff'rhaps to iyi jv.i imomiui This statement consists of ijie "correspon dence as 'published jn the Evenift. 'Post of .Monday last, and an additlohal paper givch as' no. 7, accompanied ocrasionally wiili the narrative of CdI.' Burr's Stcomt. At this time we deem it proper to confine our re- self to a gentleman present, who perfectly j marks to this single additional paper which TJpon thy bosnm hrd hr healing Afw. For him, who lies, this sacred dusl beiieaih, Vain is our deep regret a nation's tears A nation's prayers could not avail, to add One "ifement to his lift Yet to ourse'"r, A soothing,' melancholy pleasure sprincs, From ev'i y Uihut- remler'd to h'm worth -How justly ail m'JU know, l'ond mcm'ry still Bcligbt"ito trace the youthfil warrior's s!cp l wm field to ficl I ; bdt chi n lows tr Iwvll , On southern plains, where York extends her bounds j Where, to the I-p"ratc charge his troops he M, Tl en on the vanquish' foe benignly smiiv!. iureantrH, from their bright abodes, look'd lown And blest n viii'rv worthy of a hero. 'VnimrkM with b!od's contaminating stain, Valor end Mercy, Tor hlsyouthriil brow A Mwrrl crown cntwin'd with fairest flowers I'r-rnial intci mirVl still shall it bloo'm, 1 hy 44 told and motionless" the hund that well remembers it) ' PendUton knows 1 did hct '"mean to fire al Cil. Burr the Jirst time." 4th. This determination had been commu nicated bv Mr. P.-to that gentleman that " morninir, before they left the city, 5th. The pistol that had been usedby Gen trai Hatnilton, laying' loose over the other apparatus" in the case which was open ; after "having been some'tlme in the boat, one of the boatmen took hold ol it to put it into the ' case. General Hamilton obsctS'ing this said " Take care of rfitU pistol if is cockeC. It may go e$ "end do mischief." 1'hii is also remembered by the Gentleman alluded to. 1 his shews that he was not sensible of hav .1 follows together with its introduction. " At nine o'clock, on Vonday, the 25th inst. T called cn Gen. Hamilton, at his house in Cedcr-'strcct, to present the letter No 4, already alluded to, and with instructions for a verbal communication, of which the fol- ... . - - - June 4; The cause of the 'removal of iAicien, we beg his pardon, of hislloyal Highness Prince Lucien Bonaparte to Italy, is now obvious, lie is to be offered to";the Queen of Ltrui ia, and after his marriagK will be created King King Lvr.en the Fin'., In lbtf Gazette dz Frcnce, we find the follow ing paragraph in f ejaj d to the demand mad on Prussia respecting Fmbden : His Prussian. Majesty has, it is said, re jected thnopcsal ; of the French Govern , mcht whicV required permission to occupy-;. . F.mbden,,'n condition of indemnifying the , Prussian nances for the loss of the CuMovn House atd other duties, yhich would 'neces sarily result from that measure." On this subject" it m$"y afford our' readers sorne'amusement to have the lollovWng parti culars stated, sorr,-: of which have been given, bitt they are worth bringing to recollection : ' Immediately after the violation of the neu- trality of the German T.mpire, by the mva- lovviivj notes No. 7, handed me by Mr. Tlurr, j' s'jon of Hanover, in May, 1805, Bonaparte irrrp tn hf ftin hnei. Tlie tuhtinnrf nf u ir t, : riporiated with IMsia concerniiH' the oc- though in terms as much softened as my in ... , . stiuclions would permit, was accordingly cemmuh'cated to Gen. Hamilton. . No. VII. ' A. B. Far from conceiving that rival- I ship authorizes a latitude not otherwise jus. unaoie, always iceis greaier ociicacy in sucn Ar.d to ri-m.Vv.t ac n't iu swctti. ?Vit whf r?coiit ;. deeds in waror ecc? OVr all Columbia's wido extended shores Hi name, long since, wis henvd. Who did not know In worth and valor few were found 1iuc ! qi'd w genius none? Then, be H well-earned f-ime : Confided to a jjrtefil people's care. CLARA. ing hrert at all. ir he had ureo. previous to -j cases, and would think It metnness to speak receiving thc'wotfrui, he would have remem- jl, of a rival bnt in terms of respect ; to do jus Vird it, and threfnre-have known that thi- jj- tice' to his merits $ to be "silent of his foibles. pistol could not p;o ofT; but if afterwards it Such has invariably been his conduct to must havejbeen the elTect of an involuntary jj wards'Jay, Adams, and Hamilton ; the only exertion of the muscles produced by a mor- i' three who can be supposed to have btood in tal wound, in which case, he would not have that relation to him. been conscious of having. f.rl. . ;; That he has too much reason to believe 6. Mr. P. havin-r so sTong- a tonvlction ! "tnat in .regard of Mr. Hamilton, there has that if General Hamilton hatC-Cred first, it ' tten tio reciprocity; for several years his fouhl not have escaped his ottentKn, (all his ,! name has been lent to the support of -base anxiety being a!ivc for the tficct cf the first fire, and InvincT no reason Krbelievethe friend of Col. Burr was not sincere in' the contrary opinion he determined to ps to the spot where the aflTair took place, to see if he could net discover tome traces of th? course of th?j ball from Genera? Hamilton pistol. He took a frivnd with him the laj- afic Gtr.ercJ Hamiltmi died, and after wnnc examinHiion they fortnnately found what they were hi search of. They Tsctrtoincn thnt the hall pissed through the limb of a cider tree, at an efevVtionof nbout r.velve feet rnd nnhalf.peT pcndiculaily from the ground, betfceen thir teen fciul fourteen feet Troni the 'mark on which General Hamilton stood,' and about slanders. He has never had the rcnerosity, magnanimity, or the candor io contradict or disavow. B. forbears to particular'!.-? as it could only tend to produce new irritations ; but, having made great sacrifices for the sake of harmony, haung exercised "fiiibcurance till it approached "to humiliation, he has seen norfUct produced by such cofrjuci, but repetition of injury. He is obliged to con clude that there is on the part of Mr. Hem-" ilton,' a settled and implacable malevolence ; that he will never ceaw in his conduct ti wanfc Mr. l to viol?e those 'ooilesies cf life, and that hence he has po aiternat'Me but to announce these things to the world, which consistently with Mr. B's ideas of propriety, . 1 . m. . ..i a' at I-Uur -ktt wuUof the jire t.M4e ween him-f--can-4edorte 4nh wyy InH thafwhrctr mr"hf I niVconcl Hi'rr, on the licht side; he hav- .adopted. He is incapable ol tei cure, still .IMS: TlIZ XEIt-'YOKK r.V.V."6- POST. T1IK statement contYnin the facts ttiit ?cd i" the interview bttwcn (General Ham;'. ton aivI Cc'.. Burr, published in the F.tcninjf l'ot on Monday lsi, li:ousir aidcl mrtr.i'inin ny piitkrlati of what rt it j Ihe t of Hurting. Thit W4 d(tatc!' fcy suitable Cftndctations at the time, an with the inirntioit, tlul wlutetrr it might 1 t dfemed proper to lay , Itforc i)-e public, ah .i!d k wJc the subject f a f.iiure iota ttm itiot Tlc fo(luitg itlhtrcfgre r.ov t i tinittrd. tii thtf if.terics that luve inre tAei ?! ice hctwren the grntkmcfi that were pie. - i', tSity hae r been able tn aprce i f" Iinp-trtant frts l ha. facd thcrcfo w'.ii S reason nothing wns id nn thoe u'j. js'tti in the (upor h' lv pubhahed at lo nil. tr nutir-ulars ti liirh they were iterted. Mi. P. -jr?s-.?!l a ennfident opi.iion tint Cc icnl ll.n.l oo ti I nvt fire fust jnd lint ke did nt fct at '. CJ. Mr. V. in fallen on the left, t'hc p.vt of the limb throuch which the all pissed 'wa cut off and br6:c,!it to the city, and is now in Mr. Churche'a possesion. , No inferences are pci.v.ed out as rcsu'.tintr from th-Js? facts, nor w?ll any comments be fade. Thcv are left to the candid judg ment and reeling of the public. The Mowing h'the Docuftent No. 13. 'which first appeared in the Morning Chroni cle cf Tuesday and Is above referred to. The occurrences of that interview wUl appear from the following statttntnt, No. 13, which has hem drawn up and mutually a. reed to by the seconds of the parties. Col. Burr arrived first n the ground, as had h-rn, rrcviously agreed j hen Gc icr If.iimihon arrived the prfties exchanged lilutationi, ind the aeerfhds pncerdcd n make their arrant!emtnt. They mtasurrd the distf ncf , ten fuM paces, af d cast tots fur the choice of position, at also to dt tern. ice by mho-n the wortl should legien, U,h of sthichfrll to tie aerond of lien, Hamillort They then proceeded to load Ihe pUol in tarh others presence, alter whUh the patl'tel totik their atations. The eentle man mho tn less is he capable of imitating the conduct of Mr. Hamilton, by commuting itcrett'e i predations on his fame arul character ; but i these tilings T.uist have an end." 1 1 This paper, now for thr first time ever seen by any orje, excepting "M?. Burr and his filend, is olfcrcd as a proper dect!mett fcr public inspection, to tnablc the feeder to form a judgment of the cse. But after the ac- L knottlcJgncnt of the person l.imtelf who produces It, that he not only did not read er ; celiver i:, nor even the aubstame of it, but j only the tubitatrct lofttntd (in'o hat no one j 'can tell) we submit it to1" every cfisinterestrU I and unprejudiced man," whether the nub. lication at all is not highly improper f A ; single remark shall be indulged. This foist. . ing a secret and till now an unheard of paper into the genuine torrciponderre, sl ews, in ! "no equivocal rninner, that Ue writer wii comcioiis that the orrencndence which . reall) took place presents a case noway fasour- ! ble to his prircipal. And here we cannot refrain from rtmtik i rng, that the " atsurances" cf the ediior of the Morning Chronicle on Monday, fhat ( u when a Lirand candid itatctner.t it Lid Le fore the public, the condoit of Col. Burr t-i 'ne the word, then enplained lo the par- i would le justified by every disinterested and tie the trf,i which were ti overn them in ; unpre judiced man." were ctrtainly precipitate firing, whhh were as fwlloi Ihe pirtU a ,', and a departure from strict propriety. All bfinr tdarrd at their ititions the second wVo goes the word shs'l ask ll cm whether they arc reaJy ; Inin? answered in the affir niititc, I c sliiU say f'ttert," alter this the paitWi ihaprticnta4iditne whenth:) please comment nn the fatal transaction thndd laie been foreborne tdi, at least the rublica'.ion of the state rnent itself. It it now before the world and we have nodoubt what will be the general itntirvetit on tis lubject, . neroriated with . Prussia concernini; the oc- i,ipation of Fmbden, during tire present war ; ' . i .j r j' .r... i aim ouercn, ns a securuy lor us miurc cva- 1 cuation,the Fort and towh of Hameln, in ' Hanover, with a yetirly pecuniary indemnity . of twenty thousand Prussian Louis-d'ors. , This is one of Ore' many pluns of the Usur per to excitide s from all continental trade ft iid connections because at the same time, he negocvated with Denmark for the occupa tion of the coast in Holste-ln and Jutlandnd for the fort and town 'of Holsingoer, which command the entrance of the Baltic by com manding the Sound; withS'Vrtdcn and Mcc lcnburg, he intrigued for garrisoning Swe dish Po'merania, and the 'sea-ports' on the Baltic belonging to the Duke of Mcckleti burg offtring all Oiesc states pecuniary or territorial indemnities at the expehce of the filiaged and oppressed Hanoverians. Whi'.e tiiis was going on in north of iiropc, Aus tria was asked to give up, during the war, Venice end Trieste, and occupy, in return, as securitv, Mantua and Pcachiera. Anv per son" looking upon the map'of Europe will see; that had our atrocious enemy succeeded ih his plan, from the Kh'.sjaa frobtiers on the Baltic to the Turkish on the Mediterranean not a continental sca-p,ortwould"havc been open to us; because, in that case, no money; 'would have insured the neutrality of Spain? -and Portugal; and Gottcnburp in Sweden, as well as Stettin in the Prussian Pomcra nia, would have been shut against our com n;ercc. "Surprised that no other state e poused his hatred against thisrnuntr)Tltl'h'XX parte changed his plan of military occupation . into that ftf an armed neutrality ; into which Ki'ssia, Sweden and Denmark, in' the north-; and Turkey, Austria, Naples and Spain, ih the south, were invited. Again disappoint ed, threats succeeded negotiations, the terri tory of neutral Germany was again bunded by the occupat;6n of Meppen, which exclu ded alt trade between I'.mbden and, the inte rior of Germany, whilst, on the other han the French army of ha! was autrmented and the dominions of Austria, a well astHoie of Turkey, menaced. In HolUtyl and in Germany, in Switzerland and In lUly, every where on the Frcnc h frontiers, depots of F.n.' lish gools were sfjictl, and themerchanu l( Oiose countries were ruined, but no H'.itish subject a sulTcrcr, because they were already paid, or had security for payment, frcm merchant-, at Hamburg, Lubick, KinMen, Ve nice or Trieste. This insolent and Impoli. tic conduct, at last, began, it is said, to alarm the King of Prussia, llaugwits was elisgra. ced,and U is even asserted, that o? erturce were then made by the Court of Berlin to those .of Vienna and St. Petersburg!!, for uniting in defensive measures against the fore'iKr who lyrann'ucd over Trance, and dartd. or oppressed all other states. A trea ty of defensive alliance had previously been greed to between Huis'.i, Sweden and Dea mark, which late recurrences may perhaps change into an offensive treaty with Kngland, and should anew league be formed, it is lm- . i .i i. j .i .i . . , prvuauie a n iimnn imrxjisitiie, that -Austria or ever. Prussia can long preserve a neutral t; so vfua violated 1 UcMpane, ' v' I ! 3 fv k el ti ti tt a b! L ir th tl m 13 1. h r i n . a th' th in ss-l a 1 1 !! m r th w f vc ti Vr In m v i 4 a s
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