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v VOtcS 01 SteriiO:,.jn,VYoroc5icr wim Mrainv,i, alu ic uercoureoTindivri?i. :i.! , i v r-wa'rihis' imperial majesty . , had .compelled, of Spaniards, but tlwt they might be brought to couhViei wliich he had conquered to support a. m the polity of employing Spaniards a.na 4n.'ii nnnn th trenKtirv' of tihnal cnards.' and in aidihe: the civil authorities -ariuiwa miuut w,v's - d . . . ; . .V. . K jarffer.fc The minister urged that there ought to f hove been a coiinscaiiomoi ine oiunn frhireverr f rurid that r I. rM- was informed lUit jii Seville :-alone, it'ifQuld amount tQ forty ' ;i mHllonaihatthltlate belonging to the Churches iirt l Ccwivents, ougfttno nave oeen.--eizeu e cJellency insisted that, in Spain there' must be in : circulation tmmenseVavim of money, introduced TSvlhe FrencrandBruish ; ties'aVweli as that viTvpottea irom rKnun . America, "v hij. the - Wii arm ea without drawing upon France ; that but oh account of the . war, in Spain, and being; at peace with'Jhe cbntinenthei could have -disbanded a large part of his army and, thus have diminished his expences. The minister contplained to meP that the funds which , ve had raised had not been judiciously applied tc their proper objects viz. to the pay ment of the troops employed in the subjugation arid pacification of the country- tha't ' the'public funds had "Been- expended in: luxury and expences; that might and ought to have been avoideilTbat rewards and gratifications, however justly merit-1 ed,:ought Jbiyft been suspended until timesf- tranquility i nat me, emi iisiwas numerous auu expensive, beyond what was' necessary. "T " His excellency said that Spanish regiments had ; been1 formed, ;and th,at; others" were now forming, r v that after hWing 'put the state td great expences, Im : wrt-id -iwirease the serengtlii'-of the enemy. p m.iflt Finally: the minister, complained ;that the king I i - had treated withiunmerited indulgehce those who I , " had been opposed to him, which could not fail to I 'J? disgurthbsewho had been attached to his cause L " from the commencement. r - ' , I,! " These are the principallopics upon which the :' ninisterde8caoted, and I shall now lay before your $ excellency my observations in rebly. y ill . iC !. JThepoini whiehraccoj-dingilo roy judgment, ' the emperor laid the greatest 'stress on, was, that -7K-iMmo he sent frm France to iM. Spain, except the two- millions of francs monthly, patch Calling to my recollection, what had oc curred upon this subject, whert I was minister for foreign affairs, and having afqll kiiowledge of had VnTisted under the royal banner. 1 Urged the policy of t?eraploybg the, Spanish, troops m mmsons. atid ttated that ;man? ' of the French generals had lamente 1 the necessity o? scattering their troops in various parts of the kingdom, to preserve order "and tranquility in places, which had already submitted 10 the kinei t -y:r r r The minister appeared to me, to think that it would be impossible to persuade ihe t rencn ge erals to aWreein the Dolicv of raisinjr a regular army 0 . wheri riecessarvi I replied that I knsw. that, mere were some French irenerala in the first rank and talents,' "who were not only favorable to the plan of raisine Spanish trefeiments, but , had supported their ' opinions with ereat zeal and sohdity of ar gument, which I was ready to lay-before his ex cellency. That those cene rals who held the con trary oninion, -would deserve more consideration, it they -would rnakg, Known tneir pajneSfDULJunHi thev did so, thev iustly merited suspicion oflm proper views.-l (The' remainder of ' the letter treats of subjects of more interest, andisomitt ed.) instant, two lads bv the name of David and Sam uel Morse, sons of Mr. James Morse, of Concord, iiom the one expected and intended, and rolled tromipe summit on wnicn u lay, wun great velo city down the bank, while his' three children, who which was caught in a trap- When within a short ' had left the house, their mother being absent, were distance of the bear, it extricated itself from the trap, and closed in with the oldest lad, who brought the hear under him as he fell. The other youth, with that true courage which characterises the Green Mountain Boys, willing to share the danger with his brother, caught the bear's head and confined it to the ground, with his hands. laving no weapon about him. This alarminc: scene being in sight of Mr. Morses house, the mo ther of the lads flew to their assistance, caught the trap, which in her cool moments, she would have been totally unable to manage, and with the . 1 t- !)-. the Vit iiatidn of our provinces, and of our resources 1 told the minister that the king my master, was U fully sensible of the great expence to .which the ' ' emperor had been put, by the war in Spain, that the king was uiwier the painful necessity of de ; - clarine:, that under existing circumstances he could not maintain himself in Spain, without the aid of his imperial majesty. That the revenues of the kingdom were very small, and wholly, inadequa'e to the exigencies of the state, arising partly from the very great difficulty in collecting, in the fevv'is tricts already subdued ; and because many of the pVovinces wereyet unsubdued. Indeed, in the provinces subdued," the frequent incursions of the insurgents, rendered it always difficult, and fre quently impossible, for the administrators and col lectors to perform their duties. Ikrc dranza, de lath at grea length, the difficulties vihich are eXtieriencid by Joseph in his Jimal oj 'icratibnt, which Z will not be here it.aerleJ, being well kno&n, and then he firoeced-9 :1 " - ' .K s j represented to the minister that in Andalusia, fffrdra my information) that some contributions ; had been levied that in Grenada, (although no onnosilioh had been made) a forced loan of five 1 f milliahs of. Reals! had been made; that in Mala ea a. loan of the same nature and to a much lamer amount had been made, the greattr part of vnicn nau ueen piaccu iniiiB- vuinuusauiy ci of the fourth division of the army. Not having been myself at Seville, when it was taken, I could not speak with exactness of what occurred, but that i had been informed, that all the British pro perty in that city, had at the desire of the French administrators., been seq uestered that the same measures were pursued at Malaga. ' ' I hat the amount of this sequestered property Tiad been supposed much larger than it appeartd o be, as general Sabastiani in particular found at Malaga 1 bat it was not to be wondeied that -hiimpeTialTnajestyhabm exaggerated accounts " of t he amount f . British nroperty, said. to be in Seville. fin the three next paragraphs, which are cf great lengtn, Jiranza atsurts me nunisier inai vne ' utmost activity had been used in the seizure of the . plate . belonging to the churches, leaung none Herproceeds to combat the opiniop of the minis ttr as to ' the ..amount ot circulating specie in Spain,; assuring him that .altho' largte sums may . he in the country that from the character of the ' - war, all industry is suspended, commerce, anni- hilated, "and the confidence necessary to the circu lation. '.of, money destroyed. Aranza. finally as ' sures the minister that the money which had been brOiieht into the Spanish treasury, had been em plowed in , the support pf the French armies ex ' " ctvt whatlw'as actually essential to the support o the . king and his civil administration, in whicli, ' instead' of prodigality, .the utmost frugality had.. 1 been observed. Th at. n ot on ly the rewauis and ' gratificatlons' for meritorious, services hadfiot -peen paijOjn money, uui even arcai paiw the kinr's expenses "had-been defrayed by war -T wants' on the sequestered national prope'rtyTallow; ' ing "tliV holders the 1 pvilKge of purchasing the j tame at a fu'ure day. ' Aranza then proi;eeds; . The opinion that the raising of regular Spanish regiments,, and embodyifhe-roilitia, are pre judicial, in . asmuch ,as thly" occasion heavy rx pnces arid then esgrtand thereby increase the force of the enemy, ( isentehairVd by 5ome, but is jnuch cjljc'stioned, an J if not unfounded,' is Neatly iexagge rated, . . rep? eserited to the min i3t,ejs that upon' the principle of ajiaj ;poji0. - " huvea national frce of its own. I admitted tliit - f in the commencejnent of thenar,, thjre'.had been. utsny desertions, but never tq rthe'extent report d ; that the number had been, and was .daily, limmishing,, and would diminish' as public opini " iAi chanred, and mast finally cease, because the insurgents no" longer existed ia the chiraeter c( (Signed) DUKE OF SANJTA FE. fnr AbiiaK BiPelow. Esq. (Fed.l 165. Mr. Whit. ing, ( Demo.) Ktand; nine for' Mr. .Scatta ing. There can be no fears of. the ejection of Mr. Bige- : ::- i,r - IMrRQVED COMPASS.. i We afelnformed,' that William Russcl, of New Bedford,- in 'Jhii state, has obtained tetters Pa tent, for " a. new and useful improyement in the Mariner's 'and Surveyor's Compass,' in which the defetts of those in common usei" particulatly ,the violent , atritation of the compass card in a high sea j its refusing tp tend when a ship is scudding before the wind" and what is termed sleeping, or moving on ita axis,, on coming imo still water out of rough and various defecls'in the surveyor's compass now in'general use ; are ' obviated or re moved. ' These compasses' we understand, have met the general approbation of . those whd have had an opportunity to view them, a'ad theTf utility haiheep folly tested by trial on a voyage fropi KfwdTMfMdjQUJ 1 11 1 irr imTifirr!inr.' as . . - mm mori mttrtstmg, hm that of .iSht can tend mm t-flT..-,.,..!!.. . ,acr. vviunj vo enbin.li lire ffleflartTes of war in the K"dle;' tht airtfnl aviA ine!,i:...L - ' gloried in by many; as the r,P,r. nH has, Torjhe most, part, disgraced i ntercourse of fa ations. ? Ti .m. MITj locutuces which W -from the Ubcialitv oftur .nr-... Td . J "SB)n. anJ present generation,' iv thesupnon J 1 schoolsothe College, and of ihi nrI,tt: tty.,'Tdeinonstrate,the-corrtctness of Thp.uniformi'y, and stability which i, 31 vw iniwuv. vuuuwti, areine pen nui. c. and similar measles,; In-these Dart of 1T1V oh'iprt' tr .. mit BIQrn 1 tn MVimnf . ult r&" " c - r'.Y1" I'i severance, in. which I deem, essential i our safw that pANTttti, September 29. Singular Combat vltih a Bear, On Friday the 2 1st ' ' " N O-'-" KEVNBt?Kjr, Oai 6. ... DISTRESSING ACCIDENT. ; t Killed at Newfield on the 2f ih nit. by a log's passing over them two children of .'a Mr. Brick'-: ford of that place. The circumstances attending the event were peculiarly distressing- ; The father was attempting to remove a log on the margin of a precipice, at a small dtstance from his house- Unexpectedly, it took a direction totally, different our. the spring of the trap into his mouth," arid held it in that position, until Mr. Carruth and Mr. Ham in the act of ascending the hill. At the moment the log stprted the father cast his eyes towards the house, and saw one of his children coming towards him He screamed The child probably being frightened, did not know how to avoid the danger, and accelerated its pace towards his fa: ther. The' sound had scarcely left his mouth when he1 saw the other two children climbing the hill, and within the distance ot two rods of the rolling log. They perceived it and shrieked. In an instant it passed, over them, mangling their tender limbs in the most shocking manner. The first -blow beat out the bear's ye, and then drovesond pierced the father's ears, he sprang to the spotp but only to witness the horrid spectacle. What were his agonizing sensations ? Nothing i. Thff education ftfrnmK l.,.,- ny-' iftrt in Vuirv ?lto. - . 'Wari wu. oe mai ot tne State. . MUQhC M,vvivui "'c wwuvin ox ine Legislaim be emnloveH. 7 i j wwt b mill ujii TiniriiR. ... . " . f 0,4 ""poriant interest in child. ' Wllirll i Krifn V.r i;a-..J . . .... . vv,..tauilllcr usjur .P. ,.,., .nuuui sycu io mat of if, m -"wiigm u iuc cuizcns lies ib lentS. natural and ftrmiitvrt m a i . ' ,, , H llDeiW JSC spe nan In ha rt, 0( id!. C i mi C 1 iltorLart ived and dispatched liim. In the wrestle but parental affection can imagine. In its progress with the bear, he xaucht the youth's right hand the small end olithe log was thrown against a in his mouth, which very considerably wounded him. No other injury was sustained. So strik ing an instance of preservation, by the judicious efforts of true courage, probably has not occurred ; the children was about six years of age since the settlement ot this state. fence, which raised it from the ground so thauhe surviving child was only thrown down and the lo rolled over it without material hurt. The oldest Salem, Oct. 10. Extract of a lettei from an American gentlemen at Keil, dated 1 7th August to another in Got j tenburg, received at the latter place the I9th, by a ship in 40 hours from the former. " There. is a new Decree and the premise of a new system of operations inspecting the neufnl trade by the neutral flag. It ia dated 6th August. and is to take effect the 1 1st of November-next. . it : , ..'' i . ii permits a" inipormnons oy neutrals into me empire, except inanutactured goods, on paying the duties nffixed to a tariff made for that purpose and which I copied into my last, to whichH-ie- er you." M RUSSIAN DECREE. By the Grace of God, We Alexander the, 1st, Emperor u Autocrat, of the Russias, 8cc. &c cc. Political circumstances having put an end to all commercial connection with Portugal, the Brazi lian ports have in consequence been thrown open tp vesstls belonging to friendly powers. ' " In conform ity with which, at the representa tion of the chancellor of our empire, and by the advi.ee of our privy. council, we have thought fit to. order the following changes to take place in the Commercial Treaty entered into witlithe Por tuguese government in 1798 : t. From the" date of the, present, the importa tion of Portuguese products into this country,- as well as the clearance of Itussian vessels or goods lororUjguesepjaxts,i,0 2. 1 he reduction in the duties of Portuguese w Hartford, (Con.) October 15. ; - , On Thursday last the General Assemby of this State met at New. Haven. On the prec eding day, his Excellency Gov. Tread well was met at Hamden by a number of gentlemen from New Haven, the Sheriff of the-County, and his com pany of Horse-guards, commanded by Major Munson,. from whence he. was escorted to the city." On Thursday, the House of Represen tatives met, and chose Lyman Lnw, Esq. Spea ker, and Sylvanus Backus and V llliam T. Wil liams, ' Esqrs. Clerks. The. Governour and Council were then escorted to the State House, by the Fool-guards, commanded b ..Major At wtiter, the Horse-euards, and the Artil'ery its strength by all lawful means, it , mat ine eaucauon, ot youths, and the iBslr, of the citizens in genu al, in moral and rtl, rrmrj, -win come within its province.' Tj ru.i. uiC upcwuig uunu witn the rudim owivi.ub is, uiuccui le nrst stfpioJ ivcii, in me .uuisc ui cimcauon , but this jjJ iiicmii m mrmer ena. tne amendinetit i ..v..., uuuui mtticu, me acquisM miuhjcurc may oe worse man m vain individual, and to the public. The lut oeen canuuy attended to, but the former neveu nas Deen ioo much neglected. Info lection ot instructors in our common schools. asareinmoral,jrrcligiuu3, oiLunfriendlrm1 constitution and laws of. thejand, should teny excluded. ,, 1U3 unnecessary to point oat any specific visions as an improvement of our system1 will readily, occur to the wisdom of tbelri ture. To enforce the execution of law onoffecden duty next in importance to that of forming the zcru for voluntary obedience. As far, Mtic he will yields to that of an individual's, so fr vil liberty is annihilated ;."of course it is intpJ and may be subverted by the impunity of ci Offences affecting the honor of God, am' muic lmcicai ux me otate, or tne more imai ate interest of the offender, such as sabbath- mfj, common swearing, and drunkennd loo often wth impunity. By these offences state is not lelt to be so immediately ibjured, it is essentially and vitally affected. Bt the the design of public worship irnd instructfaiia teated ; by the second, the fear of an oath minished, official faithfulness is less guarded, the investigation of truth, in trials ar1, comes more precarious ; and by the third, weajth o the State is wasted, and its cM Company, commanded by Major Staples, where the session was opened in the usual munnt r, inJItad of a bkssine, become a burden a and his Excellency delivered the following j curse. The laws for the prevention and purJ opeecn. in no instance, ao we recollect tne I ment ot these crimes aeainst society cannot i mimary convened' on tms occasion, made a more biilliant appearance. to have wines, oilsrand salt, is to be suspended until re-. gulations shall be issued to the contrary. 3. Wines from" the island of Madeira and"flie Azores, Brazilian indigo and tobacco, imported out displace be repealed: and if they are i forced, , by those who are sworn to enforce m they become the occasion of breakingdoffnotl laws, which are intended to guard puMicMra and of introducing, such a constructipDofoffl oaths, as shall leave them very little force or I ligat ion on the conscience. Surely, such I ot things requires public animadversion ; i rather, because, the licentiousness to wbichl tends, strikes at the principle of a free m lie i : The-rapid increase of the-expeTiseof supptf State paupe rs seems to req ui i e' the "attention the Leeislature-' :To reduce, if ppssil)le, that p of the public charge, it will probably bt ki necessary to place them une'er a dnection,oii ! than that of Selectmen, who jr.ust be expeciw SPE1-CH. , Gentlemen of the Council, ' , Mr. Siepker, and ' Gentlemen f he Home of Rrfitcscntalivea, THE favourable auspices under which we meet at! this season, for the despatch of the important business incident to the Legishtture, in the re moval of the distressing drought which, at the rising of the General Assemby in May last, had. well njgh cut off the prospect of a competent former harvest ; in (tfie uncommon fruitfutness of the, season which succeeded, by which the face of nature was renovated, and a competence of the friuts of the Earth produced ; in the general hralth which has prevailed the summer past ; ; lean: in favour of t a town interest, whetuuc: and in that degree of internal Deacerand eood feres with-ihat nf thfc.tMft.Shmkl afiousc order which-lifts, existed under the aclministratian r houses h e' flpptnrit npr.pesarv where tlieV JWJ of the laws ; Call for our gratitude to that Almigh-) kept and employed, it micht be tliought expcj ; ty Being, who presides over the affairs of Men. i ent to combine a irovision to confine, corn Giyil and religious liberty, resulting from a due. and employ, such as shall be convicted ot nun subordination to law human and divine,ris the ofl'tnees, and who, for want of property, aref ereatest eood which nalinnA ns -i.n ontnv - fti-t: nmfr-io oviJrvci iho oneration of U and is, at oDce. the evidence, and the fruit, of a.n The subject has been recently btfore the U fievation of character in the citizens, far above latura: the forrri which it then :ssumeo ' ' that which brinnfl-ft in ili'mnca r miini.; . ...I iVKn.:! .:.,1ki . .ki-iilhipft matter, P . . ... - -. i : - - - . - . v v . i hiujj ui . ma uniiiu mivi liiuui- L.r I ji luiifiijic . Li i w " i - - - j Kussiapr produce xportedto the Urazils and j lhe desre jn which if is Prr;rl Kn n'l'7,. .t. :?mnrnt7afldiflhctc is the criterion by which a itklcment is to be eration of it were resumed, it rnfght issue fnrmprl rC m n f ti ' !' r ll'il f hncfit W .w.vv. V1 nn. Hitiu i, ui.i nation, i iiis is an i institution oi trreai ana -ias"j "T I""1 . .. ... . .. . In the course of events,1t is sometmiP! direct from these countries, shall enjoy the bene fit of the reduced duty established by. the Commer cial Treaty of 1798! , . 4. Sugars of all kinds, raw sugar, ccffee,"COcoa dye woods, rice, and .drugs imported direct from the Brazils and l.irtolunieV'n Hussian or Pqrlu guese bottoms, for, account of Russian or Portu guese, subjects-, shall pay only one half of the custo mary duties of these articles in Russia on the, pro duction ot proper prools ot thtir auihentfcity. 5. her colonies', will be subject only to the same duty as estaDiisncd m tne vommwew ieaty wun tne PortUKUse government. .' ,t, . " ,, , . ( - 6. In "conformity with the regulations establish VcT, merchant vessels arriving from the Portuguese colonies will not be permitted tounload the cargoes before their papbrs have, been submitted to the. commission appciritedfor.the purpose. of'ascertain ing whether .tbey have liad any conntUiori with Great BritainyTind they will become subject in all respects to the laws laid down, lor vessels be longing to other -.friendly powers, and on the de parture of the Portuguese vessels from, hence, the merchants loading Itussian produce on board the, goods are destined for neutral places, and not '.o any port atenmity with this country. r. The 4th and 5th articles, relative to the re duction of the customs ofoods eJrporte'd andim- ppi teu irom runugucsc i.mu:iics, will oe in lorce until the l5(h of March, 1811. St. Petersburg, May 5, 1810. r . "7 Signed with his imperial jriajesty's sign manu- al. . " '::'.-;,AL'EXANDER.:.- -S L Bostok, October U. The election of two members of -congress in Worcester country to supply 'the vacancy in the inberuance which.- our ancestors possessed from the beginning, which they have, by- the help pf ou, irunsmiueu to us, as 4he price of blood, and which we ;are bound,' at the- same n ice if need be, to hand down unimpaired to pobterity. I he European nations have for ages been ele vated above those of Asia or 'Africa,-because,, the oun w rigmeousness- has beamed upon the for mer and not upon the latter England, Holland and Switzerland have long enjoyed more of "this liberty thanjlie other European nations, because they? havev- ftlt -his sbeamlessotistiiicte bv clouds of moral darkness, than they. ' And on tins side of the Atlantici tthe same inestimable gift of Providence has been enjoyed, in 'a visible pro P1!? 5? operation of- the -sam Vita! cause. The revolutions which have 'recently desolated Europe, originating :in -an awful apostacy of those nationstom the ChrjatiAn faith, have, terminated in the establish ment of a, "despotisni . analogous to those of the Eastj , and we must expect, that the sane cause, in propotion as it prevails, 'will pro duce the same effect, in this Western world. 1 Indeed it musf be evident that ithqut the il lumination of religion and science a people must forever remain inrnmn.i,t ii.' i.v -r ..if. r.i." t :it., w,m nPThe coricn lUl UlC WKIM1K IW .-- - , ,(, ancienf lawsv andi instnutions, Pf -- I . r r;.i . .. :il l. ariml ttQ. u"1' in nrsr nr nr. nirs : ii wiu ' inai tuay outrni-io dc-wmv" .v . "to bills' unsound in pnnop 15 ha.id. Suffer me to mention an r . Slate, entitled, " An ah na vorce," as, ih my opinion, ine- exceptionaoie .p- ; , TOW R ' drttfear ie irmVinaed to the rule wbicn nas c ( ,.u.v...,vrr- c I (1 u at i pstahliahed in almost every pnrt world and aTit admits ibe printilvr j' and fair, mariiage Way; .bc.W-fe cause than that of adultery, wl-ic, i -r ed, is the only fcgidmate ) 0i toreespciairyJar vnrr.es for any cause, not r- , , ..K...iive which they have deem . r,( m!rmff(.. I US praCHtC '5--, ,,rol n r.L. K. ..i l It De BOl, u is tothe 1 al Court, n ce o' " iA k..K a a rule hading step" towards r-W prcntrcongrr aja 9 W-v t-i-Wtaa. AITIMPr.r -III I I L IF i - I - . ft 10 m it W .JL t S J ..... ? -
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