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At a jiu-eliug of tbe friends of re
form in Engiand, Mr. Curran math
the following remarks on his health
being drank.
Mi. Curran, in rising to acknow
ledge the honor, begged to say, that
when an assembly so truly respecta
ble as tint which he bud the honor
to address, thought proper to extend
their kiudness to that country to
wards -vldcll all the. best feelings of
his heart were turned, over which tie
bad shed Ins tears, and for which (if
he might he allowed to say it,) he had
mude so iiiatiy sacrifices ; on such an
occasion, if not utterly dead to feel
ing, he could not choose, hut speak.
His sentiments on the subject whioli
Was immediately the object of the
Meeting, h-ul been expressed by tjgher
Gentlemen in language so much bet
ter than any he could use, that he did
not think it necessary to -attempt to
add to the effect of that which had al
ready been so eloquently enforced.
He rejoiced in what lie had heard ;
lie was glad that so much of the life
blood of the Constitution remained,
to give the public heart that heat in
which lie hoped his own fully parti
cipated. But the Meeting had, in the
toast which had just been drunk, ex
tended their attention to Ireland. O !
the dead, tin-re was seldom much said
more than was written on the tomb
stone ; and to this little attention was
paid, from the interest men naturally
took in the affairs of the living. The
compliment was therefore the must
sensibly fi It, whi-li had been paid to
a country so unfeelingly calumniated,
so cruelly debased. In her times of
didiidty, this country ii id proved Ire
land to he ardent, loyal, brave, and
co-operate. .She had been ready, on
occasions, to assist England with
her widow's mite ; nor was In i-aid
toaik cd in the slimed stream of the
. weh w 's mil.' ; h h d extended to the
s!;*- !.. ol lu.-i'L-nls of human blood.
mi . I not he mu.
in
to
at
he
'.in
uo
as
all
• t
of
1
jV ■ .<
gin- in- was so pool- a s,v;, a ^ an
• there to boast oi' the valor of
Men >v
tn imn
but two
!i
•ounirv iimii.
much disposed to admire proficiency
in the arts of d."structin». H> wished
he (licit- panegyrist, hut In
ot
as
not to
wished to do justice to his country -
nn-ti. They had llirir virtue*and they
had their*fouls. He would .remit
they were not so far advanced in n
viliz lion as they might have been, il
„iüstej' of the perpetual scissors being
applied to their brane.hes, the nourish
ing - lay had been laid to their root—
(A;un«„ w .) fl,et
that of wliicl. i...,
complain. lie remembered Lord
Chatham had s.-id of the poor pea
sant's hut.
Its walls might he raised of mud, il
might he tirât lied with srr.ivv, it was
defended i.y no artillery, the wind
n--gui iuti r, ami the rain might enter,
but tlie- King might not. Surh a situa
lion was not w itimut its comforts. liot
k< was anxious to nirrert what h.al
b. en sari by one G- .itleinan of a tr
veiler in I reload, having frequent I;
seen eott ..es which had no (loo
was not true—\ •
I poverty was not
■>oci rt-uson to
I ...4
lint it was his castle.'"
This
str. tiger in Ireland ever fourni a hut
wit -nut a door.
,sm i t ion
Every out- had W
tl -nr. open as its muster's hr art. w bien
t he I be traveller Wei
fo.led
■
It it tii i-n left by the
I f.u-tn.' e ait ! the absiirrliiy
Irek.ml.
iteid vvurtny
.'.ami on the
tl that
co. >
crit-'b
of
he cot
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on!
P
to In
field ofh.i.'tle. lit)' sous were th.-n
let slip on the enemy, as if they were
f pn y, amt the contest over,
they rein, ned to rights mutilated I k:
(iieir persons : with laurel on tin ir
heads, but with chains on their limbs;
fit Willi
ip
Was such, lu* would ask, the treat
ment which they ought to receive?
The religion of the Irish was Unowi
to him. and tie knew wh.it the reli
giou of ■iiankiml hail been—It was fre
quently m.trki d by bigotry, perseeu
tion anti interest.
But Ite coni ended injustice was dont
on his eouritey wht-n in r> ltgiou sin
wa- t onip red to what she was 200
tgn ; and he would ask, if, lln
would think themselvc
fairly treated if their tenets were to
be jutl.,i'd by the events which look
place anterior to the Reformation ?
On tbe subject of Animal L'arli mrnl
aml Universal SuttVage, lie hud to say
he respeeti-d the lilit-rlii s of tin- pco
pie as mu h us any man could do.
ami he thought they ought to he ex
tended as far as this could he dote
with a view to their tu-m-At ; hut if
the words universal suffrage w, r
aeted upon to the extent of their mean
iog (which ,. Ins conscience lie tlt
btlieve lite people imdcstood,) he
was satisfieb there w on Id be no repre
sentation at all. Tin prop, r banks
thrown down, that whii it was a well
di reeled river, would inundate the a
joining grounds A become most siial
low, useless, and corrupt. The «■ ,n
didate instead of fishing with a hook
as he has been used to do, would
}<-.rs
Protest am s
in
and
ed
of
at
as
and
he
do
h'is
then use a net, and the poor elector,
llattered on his independence, on his
iiaving a vote, and on his importance
,n the State, would, he was afraid he
eaught in the snare, and thing, with
his fellows like sprats, into the fish
erman's basket.—[Applause it laugh
ter.] He would be crushed beneath
the weight of tho absurd privileges
given to him. He however consider
ed a substantial reform to be necessa
ry. without which the sovereign could
not be safe, and the people must be
oppressed (Applause.)
;
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London, April 3.
Extract of a letter from Count Ros
ftoprhin to a Friend in London.
"I was much surprised at seeing in
Bonaparte's Appeal to the British
Nation, that he had incurred danger
in wistiing to save Moscow from tin
conflagration in 1812. His auiozmg
efforts and greatness of mind were,
however, limited to mounting hi«
horse as soon as the lire appeared,
and galloping to the di-.l-.mce of two
English miles from the town in order
to place himself in safety. He passed
three days ami three nights in a IV
laee in tin* midst of a corps of troops
who bivouacked, and only returned to
Moscow on the fourth day, when the
conflagration had ceased, after having
consumed 7682 houses. 1 was well
informed of all that was passing in
the town by means of six officers tits
guised, who remained undiscovered
during the whole of Ronuparte's stay
at Moscow; Imt on his quitting it.
he set lire to the palace of the Krem
'.in among others, and to the castle of
lVtrovsky, which bad served him ;,s
uo asylum during the gn at conflagra
tion. Perhaps this was done by him
as an a t of kindness, with the inten
tion of purifying tin in by fire from tin
evils he had been the source of From
it
iiis
Io
or
by
tu
the tune ol this Appeal, it would st em
lii.il he dictated it at tiic moment
when Iiis mind was guided by the same
• t dings as during iiis passage to the
I-iliiiul h. St .H-lciui in 1815 , and lie
-ippeavs ii-iwi ling to rorgi-i J. .
of his Bulletins, which serves as a
proof that habit is a seiend nature."
From a London Paper.
Courage.
There is a kind of courage which does
not much consist in »whiskers, and is not
always known by them. 1 mean that kind
ot courage Which comes in course in the
common occurrences of life which ena
bles a person to speak bis mind under all
circumstances, and to all persons when
necessary. It is of great advantage to the
possessor, and enables him to he an honest
and independent man if lie pleases. Hut
without it he is continually exposed to
the encroachments of the designing, and
must resort to evasion and guile, if he
would preserve his own.
There was Jack Easy,who would almost
as suun cm his finger off, assay Nil
tie had not , outage enough to speak Iiis
mind on any occasion, ii he thought it
would give offence to a single person
Peter Crafty, who was well acquainted
with this finble, often turned it to hisown
advantage, ile was continually besetting
him for the loan of some article or other;
—and although Jaci. naturally was free
hearted, yet his patience was at length ex
hausteil, and he would gladly be rid of
Peter's importunities. But what count he
du? He hail not courage enough to refuse
him. He would invent a hundred false
hoods, to prevent the loan of an article—
which almost always proved useless alter
of
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il
•
W
When you are urged and pressed to pur
chase articles of finery and show which
you do not want, though he assures you
they are very cheap, learn to sav NO.
When you are urged to engage in schemes
of sp-dilation. vriih ^i-cat hazard and
uncertain gain, learn to say NO. When
you are pressed to join tn the midnight
revel« the nightly debauch, or the noon- #
tide excess, lean, to say NO. When
flattering friends and fawning sycophants 1
tempt ytiur generosity, supplicate your
bounty for tle ir guilty pleasures, Sc en
deavur to wheedle you out of .what is
necessaty for the comfort of your own
family learn t". say NO. When the artful
and clesi niiig Hatter your follies, and
praise your foibles, while they would ex
traci your secrets Uarn to say NO And
ye,° youth, when the syren voice of
pleasure lulls the v.gtlance; of reason and
drowns the peal ol conscience learn to
say NO When the magic spell shall have
bound your imagination to tbe card table,
is your vaporing companions sliall chal
lcttge you to stake your fortune on the
issue ol the game, for God's sake say NO
—And you, worthy matrons, on whom
devolves the inieresting duty of rearing
tin- fairest flowers of nature, let your
minds be impressed with the importance
of duly instructing your tender charges,
III the great consequence ot the word
No. Oft do the injured rue the day when
hey neglected Us useful aid ; and oft has
lire grass waved o'er the premature
tombs of the victims of precipitate con
sent.
ill
ir
to
?
say
do.
if
r
tlt
he
well
,n
From the X. ¥. Daily Advertiser.
It is st, ted in some of the English
opposition papers, that S;> tin had
made, or was about to make, a de
ntatid upon the allied powers for as
sistance iu subduing the insurrections
*
of
in her provinces in South America ;
and that this demand would be found
ed upon an apprehension that the kine
of Portugal was about to put hhnscll
at the head of an army, and conquer
those provinces for himself,
statement is contradicted by the mi
nisterialists. who inculcate the idea
as far ts Great Britain is concerned,
that the interests ofthat nation are in
favor of the success of the insurgents,
and tin independence of the provinces,
and therefore all that she wiil do will
he to observe a strict neutrality.
Whether such a demand had been
made, or was likely to he made, we
do not know. If it was, and was
founded upon liie expei tation that the
king of Portugal was about to do sueb
great tilings, we think tlm Spaniards
must feil a little awkward alien
tltcy learn that nis m> *t IV ma
jestv i not much ht-lt--r oil -'tin re- 1
spla t to his American dominions, than'—'*
h'is most cath'aic tnj-My. If the ling
revolution at P- rfiaiiitMieo. and tin
■if. in as
I ... -lime
no
•<
it
be
t
'
The
in
i.«yaoc l pr-ov i-i-e», is
it seems ;o be repi-cs-. .
wlrit doubtful
Porlug I will l.e a-do even to maintain
iiis own sovereignly, in any con->drr
able portion of bis own dominions,
much less to ic.l.i. etbosc Ins friend
i.ii- king ut
and neighbor, the king of Spam.
We think there is much tum-e pro
bability that Great Britain, from un
long standing alliance which she has
maintained with Portugal, will tu
called upon to support that power
against her refractory subjects, than
Io help Spain against Portugal. A'
the same time, as the interests i.i
Great Britain are strongly a
interfering, we should
call must he a loud one ,o be heard,
or at least attended to.
It would be a singular fact in the
history of the house of Braganza, if
after all the vicissitudes it has expe
rienced, and after having been driven
by the force of one revolutionary
spirit to quit its ancient dominions,
and seek a refuge in its remote pro
vinces, it should he driven, hv another
tu its
it may licit
an improbable event. The soveri-igm
l-sl
tie
;( '
ver. as
it
of
of Spain and Portugal arc inb-n-uil v
weak, and without powerful . \i mat
support, would ' long si'- -e l..,v
overthrown, ami < ostn.M" .
frei
y
•'kh't.
Iiul the inhere .f weuknt s- of ;he in
sun-eelii'iis now in or.-rmion
them, will enaMe the
Hi ir power over tn.- A
-I- I
•e int., I
■ d- ,n;n
•'
inns.
From the.V. V. Daily jtdvertieer,
' 2it.
A small work has re -1 -
published in tlnstilv. by Me:
Wmkl, èc Wiley
it I v
tier;
.1'
emit.
sei i i.nsmith ! from Si. iu
by mi unknown channel, ti-.tnsl.it,
lÀ'om the Freui-ii" — This work exeii
■■d considerable attention m l-.tiglnn-'
wlieu it first made iis
n
a|itiearanei
there. The qin-sfioti—whether it h
the {irodutt of Bounparti bimst I'
of some other Imml—tins, as I'm- n
we have seen, been left to the jndg
aient of individual«* and must probab
ly be (leoideil in a great measure upon
-nteidtel evidence.
i -
PjjÉC; this book lie genuine or
spin-ioiiaalis a siiigul.tr pcrforin-anur.
We <10 ngnllutle so imn-ii to iht-i-ha
lMi ler ol ns style ant) ei-mpo.-tiiin, as
to the sentiments if '[jmUins, and the
.tivrs. vvhii-h it sl.iiMSflfejiavr influ
cnt-cil and governed tl'ieJq^™
hero of it. I fit could I^Kjfife'eil to
fit, genuine, we should convfnfh- it as
„ v ,.,. v ii„p ( ,i-t-nl iirotli.n.ion, hecaUÉf
i( w ô u j,| >st . miLliy interesli^
,-, c!s llml |( , ih ,-iples relative to lb?
# . „ * , ' , »
t ' l,i0 md l 01 a w'»''
1 ommiiniied a greater snare ot jmlili
■ lent toil, lor fill ecu years, than ali
'hers tm the human theatre
is 1 ,'oiuliuHnr;/ system is exhihi
'• all it« 'iii-egy.
• rtf iu 1796, the writer says " il iras
necessary to establish the rcroiiiUonurii
system, tn order to unite that muai Mi
/„ France, by common principles anil
of ru ,„ K0 }„, nests ; 1,1 0 1 her 7 c 0 rds.il
„ccessunj to destroy the ancient
to „„.i,,,. , 1 , ,, , •/,. , ,!
, «/^»XfaudadaMuh equality ;
! n [ l,,s( [ lc . 11 a
. ' *' l! ' ls ri-pi-t-sentei! as htiv
the grand moving spirit ol
the- limes, and the man.
however, revolution in its e
ci-ptutioo and meaning—that is, clung
ing an old government for a new one
an oppressive government for
one. A verv diflerent idea is convey
,-tl in this hook. Referring to iiis
lm r ,. yof tllP 18th FnK ., i( | ( "
has u . sayB m . js tu * , , f ,
r„„„„,„i i . * . 11,11
-, ' ' 1 ' v ' ls 1,,,< l
because it was the only one calculated
to push on the revolution.
w
Bid of the
The
d hern
Speaking of Bona.
It was nut.
ommon m
a tree
. Again,
alter his return from Egypt_.. f
hrmined to be master of the revalut ion,
for I did nut choose to be merely its
chief: that pact did not suit me." lit
•• revolution." was meant a complete
subversion of every thing Ilia! unis old,
aud the establishment of u system cn
had
de
as
lirelyncw —a new dynasty, a new set
of nobility, new military officers, new
laws, new police, new boundaries to
states, nations ami empires. " J
i-iearly saw." says lie, « that I should
have to overcome great obstacles,
before £ succeeded : for there, was u
antipathy between the old
two
.
great object, was l OW ER.
necessary to become the strongest,
for J was not only called to govern
France, but to subdue the world be
fore her ; otherwise she would have
been enslaved by the world. Again
I'hcrc is hut one secrctjor govern
ling the world —BE STRONG: in
strength there van be neither error not
deception: it is truth undisguised
Freedom was no object with Bona
parte, according to the writer of this
nook. Greatness wai the sum and
substance which his system and exer
tions lead fy view. The republican
form of government," says he, " could
no longer exist, because undent mon
archies will not be converted into re
'midies. The desire of France was
V. i TIOX.iL GREÄTXFSS." -
•< l could noMecome a king says
Bonaparte, " lhe tille was worn out :
it excited definite and preconceived
ideas : am! it was important that my
lille, like Hi mat are of my power should
be une '' —/ look the name of Emperor,
because it wits greater, unit less dijin
Vud he says explicitly, at the
time In- was about entering upon the
war with Russia, that—"the ]iolicy
if princes should now have been in
his favor, for it was no longer his
oqi'c.clo shake thrones, but strengthen
them.
The foregoing extracts will shew
that the sentiments placed here in the
mouth of that great revolutionary
t hief, ur- not only very important in
i.liemselvt s. hut they are such as lie
may well lie supposed to have enter
' ' '■ '■>.« book is full of those of
aSi equally important ' tun-weu-r. We
have rend it with a good deal of in
I'-ivst, and we have no doubt it will
penibler similar effects upon the minds
01 bees who may have an opportuni
ty io peruse it.
to
or
I
necessary i
and new system. They formed
masses whose interests were precisely
in an inverse ratio."—" T ions at the
head of a great faction which would
fain have destroyed the system on
which the world hud gone on since the
time of the Romans ."
The only machine which lie con
sidered necessary to accomplish this
It was
eil.
,,
r
Gazette.
operation whioli has
» • it -itdtit-veil by the Bank of the U.
stales, in conjunction with the rea
■ live State Hanks in restoring a
specie . ireul -fitm, lias been a subject
of much gratification to the (-oiittl)U
•' ' - a gc . and it was to lie hoped,
'tank, claiinin. any title to
spe. lability in business, would be
backward i:> the. th siritble. object ot
■ storiior tue puliitr currency. Most
- tlu Wcslirn Banks of this state,
with a promptitude and zeal, quai to
leeinergent-y. b ivr i-n operated with
other banks
iri-iiletiim.
•>f a Bank.
From llie PhUtitUlpliin
lie hupps
• I
i
in i-etrieving 3 ( 11 - t
But what shall we say
mi e respe table, which
un-Mies a course most vexatious to
Mit public, however profitable it may
he to itself? A bank not much more,
itiau tliiity miles from Philadelphia,
to have its notes at a discount of from
5 to 6 per cent, is indeed a remarka
ble circumstance,—>• Nathan said un
to David, thou art llie man."
H i/mingltiiL and JJrandywine,
;
f ,
l
Fcuin the PhiUiiitiphia Jlurora.
jiunk Noies.
3j^I'lie multiplicity of Iu inking insti
s, while they have held forth
ÀMMhuRons to forgery, have al
hhÿft^l ingenuity to defeat fraud
hanks. We saw yes
lerday tW^Bminens of a new and
curious Muk Sjär, the wonnanship
"f the relcbrateiF Mr. Reich, whose
beautiful dies ftfip medals do much
'•redit to his art, and aided by Mr.
Start-, who is a printer,
note is their joint work.-Although the
workmanship is wholly typographical,
we find it impracticable to couvey any
sufficiently descriptive idea of its ele
gance, or if we may so say, the sim
plicity ol it complexity, or to vary the
phrase, the very simple means by
which imitations is rendered difficult.
—It presents the usual form of words
and end plates, like bank notes
generally in use, but iu the manner
of the execution lies the secret, and
in the excellence of the workuiaushq
w hich cannot lie performed by
printers. The specimens we have
are in diflerent colors, red and
black on white {taper : it is so contri
ved too, that ouly half of each letter
is in one color, and the other half iu
another ; aud that the imL>ression of
the end block is the same, and of
the same colors on both sides of the
paper.
so
'm
3IV I
ah
This new
now
com •
mou
seen
its
They deserve the attention
ni I hose who stand in need of notes
I hat defy counterfeiting, as much at
least as any now in use.
From the Federal Republican and Balt
Telegraph, May 30.
DISTRESSING !!
Extract of a letter from St. : , àncis -
ville, ( La J to the Editors, dated
May 5, lxir.
" There was a very serious and dis.
tressing accident happened nearly op.
posite this place Yesterday morning
about S o'clock, the steamboat Consti
tution (formerly the Oliver Evans,)
passing down the river from Natchez
to New Oi-Iea.u, hurst her boiler, and
every person in the cabin, 11 in num
ber, scalded to death—some lived two
or three hours, some five or six, and
two or three lived about 20 hours_
The captain of the boat, the engineer,
and one or two sailors that were in
the after part of the boat, were the
only persons that escaped uninjured,
I annex a list of the persons killed,
which ytnt may publish if you please,
illiatn Yarnell, Virginia.
E. Frazier, merchant, Gibson
Port, M. T.
Thomas Brown, Scotland.
W. M'b 'arluud, Washington
county, Ky.
\\
Joseph Carpenter,
Alex. Philpot, Henrico coun
ty, Va.
Wm. Steel, merchant, Warren
ton, JVI. T.
Peter Hubert, New-Orleans and
Haiti more.
Larkin, silversmith,
Natchez.
Robert Robertson, 18years old."
William
From lhe X. F. Gazette, .May 31.
Latest from France.
At a late hour last night, the
Louisa, arrived from Bordeaux. She
left the Cordovan the 3d inst. and
brings Paris papers of the 26th ultimo.
The editors of the Gazette have only
time to notice the following:
Much is said in the French papers
r lative to the late conspiracy in Swc
den, which it appears, grew out of
disaffection to the present rulers, a
niongst which are a gr^at number of
the nobility and persons in tjie higher
ranks. The mischief threatened was
prevented by a timely discovery—
troops surrounded the capital, and
llie hydra crushed at it,« »'«in. Hu
el-lie vaut Kim- -m'l>h»s, was said
„ivy to tI ks plot.
There was a report in Paris ; that
the Chambers of Peers was to he dis
solved—the report is treated as idle
by the Paris -Messenger of the 21th
ultimo.
The princess of Wales had left Vi
enna,"for the Lake of Romo. She
moved incog, and permitted hut few
in see her.
The French officers have subserib
(-■ for a monument to tbe memory of
Marshal Massen«.
o. ,
A steam boat arrived at Hamburg
from Berlin, in i-3 hours, 72 leagues
It was to ply constantly between the
two places.
The count tie Blacas, ambassador
from France to the Holy See, arrived
in Paris yesterday. It is thought bis
journey has some affairs of negotiation
in view from the court ofRome.
The first column of Prussian troops
returning from France, has passed by
(Joblentz, and tbe first Austrian col
umn by Ratisbon.
French funds—5 per cent. 97f. Ipe.
—Actions of Bank 1300f. Oe.—Ex
change on London 2f f 70e.
The king of Prussia will -visit" the
bead quarters of the army stationed
in France, and will also visit Parts
for some days.
Odessa, we learn from St. Peters
burg, has been declared a free port.
The king of Fronte had ordered a
number of persons to perpetual con
finement and hard labor for coining.
The crops in Naples"were nevet
' ' In Paris there was frost
iu
of
of
- so
promising,
in April, anil a seven weeks drought
in Marseilles had been succeeded by
refreshing rains. t.
A contagious disorder had manifest
ed itself in Poland;
PafisjtfYpril 25.
Letters from,.Toulon complain of
the length of the drought which 1ms
been sustained here—Feat» Iwry h < ' < " n
entertained for the- eom~which has
been sown—Large,
ever, continue to be ipipprteffi^lo "i al
plaec in Greek vessels'." .Tj7L.;
From Nismes, imdeT*
16th of April, we learn,. that'qmbiie
prayers were oftered up low a termi
nation of the calamitous^eason, and
for the return of rain. ^
All letters coming front Spain to
Bayonne are dipped in vinegar, -f h' 3
precaution had been dictated
news, that very contagious disofdars
raged in certain parts of that country
It is said that an epidemic has
caused great ravages among
troops in Estramadura,
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