fever, &c. erefore, from the fenfe of duty we to an alarmed public, take nt opportunity of correcting the ment, and representing facts as I -As to yellow fever-I have fiderable practice in the medical e county of Delaware, for nearly s, and I freely declare, that I e found fo much as one folitary ellow fever-nor do I believe that ne at present in the county; and tain knowledge, there is no fuch he town of Kortright. At the , I confefs, that a fever has pre of it with economy. An act was paffed It muft give plealure to every Federalit to obferve the late triumph of found principles in New-Hampshire-notwith-mitting the exportati flanding the unceafing efforts of the democrats, the Federal candidates for Members of Congrefs have fucceeded by a handfome duty, to any place w majority. LAUNCH. The elegant United States fcoooner LouISIANA, neatly coppered and pierced for fixteen guns, was on Saturday laft launched from Parfon's fhip yard, in Baltimore. She is intended to be ftationed off the the manufacture of t of Great Britain and Accounts from S Deffalines, the fable has declared War ag Capt. Doulf, arri Monday in 12 days f forms that about the large English fhips our neighbourhood, which in the Miffiffippi, under the command of Capt. with provifions, we the feafon, has carried off Mr. rret, with two of his fons, viz. d Aaron-alfo, Mr. Joel Goodnumber, four, which is the total in this town by faid fever this This fever is altogether of the ty H-in fome cafes, typhus maligfome, typhus iterodes, and a of fynochus. It must give pain ad, but that which is deftitute of or fympathy, to find the afflicfellow man painted in deeper fa. they will naturally bear. The the paragraph alluded to, with and ends, are equally unknown ofcriber and to truth; at the fame requested that the above may find the Bee, as foon as poffible, that erous and diftant acquaintances Ives of citizens in our town and may be relieved from thofe anxi-h fuch reports are but too well to infpire." tright, 15th Sept. 1804 ". r's name is not published, but the originetter may be seen at this office.] our weekly task, e the passing tidings of the times. son, September 25. OH, DEAR! at have been the exertions of the s in the ftate of Connecticut at election, and fo wonderful have Jofeph Newcome. The materials of which fhe is built, and the workmanship reflect great credit on the builder. By accounts, received fince our last, it appears that Col. Burr is not at Charles ton as flated, but that he has lately arrived in Spanish America. It is rumoured that Jerome Bonaparte and his little Baltimore beauty intended to have taken a French leave of this country, and proceeded to France under the wing of Gen. Armfrong, but that the General flipped off without giving them a call. A late bequeft from the Rev. SAMUEL PRESTON, of England, to the Philadelphia Library, confifts of 2.500 volumes of ancient and modern books; two fhares of the U. S. Bank ftock; and a fine brorze buft of Martin Luther. This donation was accompanied by a prefent from our country woman, Mrs. WEST, of a fine portrait of Mr. Prefton, painted by Mr. Weft. A Horn, 9 feet 7 inches in length, between 20 and 30 inches in circumference, and weighing 144 pounds, has lately been taken up by a party of men fishing in Ohio Salt Lick. The hollow part was all rotted away. It is conjectured to be one of the horns of the Mammoth. Whether it will be sent to Mr. Peale's museum or not, we are not informed. N which affected the m Petre by a French P A fhort time fince Mrs. MARY SMITH, who lived a few miles from Lexington,ing, Kentucky, was found dead, fitting cross legged in her chair, her spectacles on, with work in her lap, and fhe in the attitude of fewing!!! They arived d about day ligh Spanish commanda intention) had pofic men, who hailed the ed: they immedia volley from their the Spaniards, two ed to fall. A valuable Lead Mine has been lately difcovered at Perkiomen creek, near the Schuylkill. The richness of it has been effeft, of the conftitutis n bub-afcertained by chemical procefs to be 70 (alack and alas!) they have gain- per cent. The lead produced has been proved to contain much filver. The bed of ore is faid to be extensive, and advan-ing is an extract of aj e e aflembly-a loss of about 30 "Kemper retur day, with his part has eftablifhed bis houfe of a Mr. Will at the quarters of Kemper, and at feveral other places throughout the country. "FOR A PEOPLE TO BE FREE it is fufficient that they will it: we the underfigned, citizens of West Florida, BENDETH THESE PRESENTS GREETING. "WHEREAS the defpotifm under which we have long groaned, has grown into an infupportable burthen, and as it is long fince admitted, men are born with equal rights, we the under figned inhabi tants of that part of the dominion called Weft Florida, have refolved to throw off the galling yoke of tyranny, and become FREE MEN, by declaring our felves a FREE and INDEPENDENT PEOPLE: and by fupporting with our lives and property that declaration, and we do by these pref ents invite our fellow fufferers throughout the province aforefaid, to repair to the ftandard to aid in the effecting our common emancipation; we pledge ourfelves folemnly to each other, and to our fellow men interested in the events; to avoid as far as practicable the effufion of blood (fave that of our common enemy) and in all cafes fhall private property be held fa cred. So foon as our emancipation is ef. fected we will offer ourselves to fome gov ernment accustomed to freedom. Those who fet up in oppofition to our operations for the purpofe aforefaid, will be received as our common enemy, the enemy of mankind and of liberty, and will be treated accordingly. "Given under our hands on the fouthfide of the line of Demarcation, in the province atorefaid, this firft day of Floradian Freedom. Auguft 7th, 1804. "Our informant, further adds, that Mellrs. O'Connor, Pintado and Ferry were liberated, on the return of the party, who exacted their parole of honor, to take no active part against them, during the continuance of the conteft." FOREIGN. PARIS, JULY 11. The Minifter of Police is re-established with the fame attributes that he had before his office was united to that of the admin. iftration of Justice. M. Foutanes, Prefident of the Legifla tive Body, is appointed Commandant of the Legion of Honour. Saturday next being the 14th of July, the principal Theatres will exhibit their fpecles gratis. The following day, at fix in the morning, the Festival will be announced by a falute of 30 pieces of cannon. At ten o'clock the troops will file off the Place du Caroufel, and will line the hedge of the Invalides. At noon his Majefty the Emperor will proceed on horfeback to the Hotel des Invalides. He will hear mass there, and while the Gospel is reading, all the Members of the Legion of Honor, who are at Paris will take the Oath. LONDON, JULY 25. We are affured, that Gen. Angerau had, on the 28th ult. two long conferences with Bonaparte, previous to his departure for Breft. At the laft, Talleyrand, Bertheir, and a few Senators and Ministers of State, moft in the confidence of the Corfican, were prefent. Angerau is faid to have pledged himself for the fuccefs of the landing in this country, provided the plan which he has himself projected for effectiug the enterprife, be adopted without any change. or alteration, and Bonaparte is flated to have acquiefced in the condition. The decoration of the Legion of Honor (the new French Nobility) will confift of a ftar, with five double rays; the centre furrounded with oak and laurel, will difplay the head of the Emperor, with this legand-" Napoleon, Emperor of the French."-On the other fide, the French Eagle holding the thunder, with the legand, "Honneur et Patrie." The decorations will be ornamented with white; in gold for the grand offices, and in filver for the Legionaries. It is to be worn at the button hole, tied to a red and white ribband. It is always to be worn. The Emperor may wear either of the two ftars. Arms are to be prefented before the grand Officers. The decoration is to be received at the lameable, as they can swallow every thing that time with the Diploma. When it is fent to any Military Officer on duty, it is to be prefented in the Emperor's name before the corps. The feal is to reprefent on one fide a fpread eagle on an azure field. Above and below the efcutcheon is to be the decoration of the Legion of Honor. The ef cutcheon to be furmounted with an Imperial crown, in a drapery; the hand of Juftice and the fceptre to be placed under the Efcutcheon and in the drapery. The other fide will reprefent the Emperor fitting on his throne, clothed with the Imperial robes, with this infcription, " Napoleon, Emperor of the French." An Imerial Decree has just been iffued; of which the following are articles : ART. 1. The taking of the oath, and the Coronation of the Enperor, fhall take place on the 18th Brumaire next. (Nov. 9.) 2. The folemnity will take place in the prefence of the Emprefs, the Princes, the Princeffes, High Dignatories, and all the Public Functionaries, defcribed by the Senatus Confultum, in the Chapel of the invalides. 3. After the folemnity, his Majefty the Emperor, will proceed to the camp de Mars. General Angerau is ftill here, and till he repairs to his poft, the expedition of which he has the command cannot fail, he will, however, very foon go to Breft. It is remarked that Admiral Truguet, who formerly commanded the fleet at Breft, is the only one of all the Commanding Officers who has not voted for the affumption of the Imperial dignity. Moreau, the day before his departure, figned a legal inftrument, by which he empowers his wife and his mother-in-law jointly, or in cafe of the abfence of the former, the latter alone, to fell his eftates in France, The Emperor of Morocco is preparing an Embaffy to congratulate his brother emperor, Bonaparte, on his affuming his new title. The Moorifh Ambaffador carries feveral fine Arabian horfes, to prefent to Bonaparte, alfo two very large oflriches, which it is fuppofed will be highly accept is prefented to them. Madame MOREAU has caufed a memorial to be printed and diftributed every where, thewing the innocence of her husband. It was read with great avidity at Paris, but 2,000 copies deftined for the Army of England, were feized by the Police, and the bookfellers have fince been prohibited from felling it. Europa's sons, immers'd in bloody strife, Forgetful of the bliss that flows from peace, Attack with rage the scenes of peaceful life, And bid each joy and smiling comfort cease. Amid such scenes, curst A fric's lawless crew Prowl o'er the deep to hunt their wretched prey: To blood accustom'd, life they close pursue, Or shut the captive from the eye of day. "When safety scarcely reigns in Europe's land, And peace is hunted through each distant clime, Must then the Algerine give dread command, And check in Slav'ry, youth's aspiring prime. "Or shall we, our blest freedom to regain, "Shall Europe's sons in harsh derision say, Those base Columbians sold their Saviour dearWeak was their faith-ne'er shone one heav'nly ray To cheer their minds in weakness and in fear. "There is a bright reversion from this sceneI feel the impulse sway my mind with joy : Beyond those stars that glow with light serene, I shall my future life in bliss employ." * It is a custom with the Algerines to offer their cap. tives their freedom, on condition of their renouncing the Christian, and adopting the Mahometan religion. Diversity. AN honeft peafant fettled in a small village, where in a fhort time, he gained the good will of all his neighbours. He had however, the misfortune to lofe one of his best milch cows in the first year, which grieved him exceedingly; while his wife, who was an excellent manager took fick and died. The good man lamented the lofs of his helpmate, with the most unaffected forrow, and remained fome months quite inconfolable. His neighbors now thought it their duty to reafon him into refignation. My friend, faid one of them, the wife you have loft was really an excellent woman, but ftill you have a good remedy; you are and an honest man, and you a young, will find no difficulty in procuring another.For my part, continued he, I have three daughters, and fhall be happy to call you fon-in-law. Anether, on this, offered him his fifter, and a third his niece. Good God, faid the mourner, what a ftrange place this is, fiace a man who lives here, had better lose his wife than his cow. My wife is dead, and behold! you tell me I may pick and choofe, to fupply her place! but when my poor cow died, no body tho't of offering me another! chafe it for his wife to ride upon. “No, no," fays the other, "I will not fell the little fellow, because I intend to marry again myfell." AT Woodbridge barracks, where the Lancashire Militia are quartered, two hen's eggs have been placed under a cat, whe has actually hatched two chickens, and fuckled three kittens at the fame time.This little family is faid to live together on the most affectionate terms. The feline part of it are fo extremely fond of their feathered friends, that they are almost ready to eat them up. THE Fellows of Baliol College, in Oxford, ordered the gates to be fhut on the fat day. Dr. Leigh, the master, faid on the occafion: "we are very ftrict on the obfervance of the day; we not only fast ourselves, but make the gates faft allo." ONE thing is clear, fays an Irish print, that all things are very dark at prefent. TERMS OF THE BALANCE, FOR 1804. To City Subscribers, Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, payable quarterly. To those who receive them by mail, Two Dol ars, payable in advance. To those who take their papers at the office, in bundles, or otherwise, a deduction from the city price will be made. A handsome Title Page and Table of Contents will accompany the last number of the volume. Advertisements inserted in a handsome and con. spicuous manner, in the Advertiser which accompanies the Balance. NOTE. The COLUMBIAN AND Balance, REPOSITORY. Original. " HAIL SACRED POLITY, BY FREEDOM REAR'D ! BEATTIE. HUDSON, (NEW-YORK) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1804. Hither the products of your closet-labors bring, FOR THE BALANCE. THE LIMNER. MR. EDITOR, I AM, by profeffion, a Painter. Truth) is almost certain to find an enemy of colours, all of which fhall be at the fer- formance. the heart is wholly uncovered, with all its dark and light fhades-all its rotten and defective specks, and even all its throbs and vibrations. This kind of painting, I understand, was formerly much in vogue; but I believe the art is now in much danger of being loft. It is faid to be very much difcountenanced by fome of our great men, infomuch that a perfon who keeps the neceffary implements, (a glafs called a Reflector, and a pencil called an enemy in every upstart politician in the country. I am a felf-taught artift. On this account I claim the peculiar favor of the public. Befides, the colours ufed in this art are very expensive: Notwithstanding this, I Nor am I the only perfon that has done have obtained an old glafs, a pencil but the fame thing. No man can offer a high-little worn, and have laid in a fmall flock er recommendation at this day. Nor is it confined to painting alone. A natural genius,-a feli-taught divine, phyfician, or lawyer, is fure to meet with better fuccefs in the world, that those who acquire an act or profeffion by ftudy and inftruc tion. With much fatisfaction, then, I declare, I took up the painting bufinefs ** of my own head ;" and after advancing regularly through all the grades of the art, I have at length become a moft perfect Limner. I paint full length portraits, bufts, or heads, in oil, water colours or crayons; miniatures, exquifitely beautiful; and no phyfiognotrace in the country can beat me at a profile; but I have attained to the greatest perfection in tranfparent painting. Tins art contas in exhibiting the infide as well as the outfide of my fubje&t. In drawing a face in this way, not only the masks vifible to vulgar xas are completely pourtrayed, but the are behind the face, is expofed to tenario that generally called the I dreway a full-length of butt, Hitherto I have not met with the best fuccefs, because I had not perfectly acquired the art of flattering my customers. However, I shall endeavor to profit by the leffon contained in the following fable, and do better in future, particularly in oil. in my transparencies, I can use no flat tery. "So very like a painter drew, He plac'd in view; resolv'd to please All things were set; the hour was come, The painter look'd, he sketch'd the piece, Observe the work. My Lord replied, Oh! pardon me, the artist cried, My Lord examin'd it anew ; A Lady came with borrow'd grace I have fet up a little fhop, which may eafily be found by those who seek it; and having put my pallet, pencil and paints in order, am now ready to wait on custo. ners. PETER PALLET. Political. From the Gazete of the United States. AFFAIRS WITH SPAIN. THE awkward and embarraffed fitua tion in which this country has been placed, in relation to Spain, has excited much attention in every part of the union, and has induced us to attempt a recapitulation of fome of the leading acts of our adminiftration, which have contributed to bring us into this fituation. purfued: Pinckney commenced his operations: the Spanish Dons refused to comply our government, when too late, cor cluding to make fure of what they could get, ratified the convention as it flood o identical convention, which, by the ma- pute fhould be previously adjusted. Here That our readers may be able the more ing told that it would not be agreeable to the Spanish court to hear any thing further upon the fubject: fo that our distresfed merchants, while waiting for the mo FROM THE CONNECTICUT COURANT. ON the 17th inft. the Freemen of this State chofe their Reprefentatives for the Legislature, and their members of Con. grefs, and the Nomination for Affiftants. By the attention of our friends in various parts of the State, we are enabled to give our readers an almost complete return of the Reprefentatives. The fate of votes for the Nomination we are not so tully pof feffed of. Spain for a final exchange of ratifications.ney of which they have been plundered, But mark the fequel. It had been kept in will have abundant leifure to contemplate the pocket of the Prefident till long after and admire the wildom and profound pol the twelve months originally ftipulated had icy of a democratic administration. The expired, and till alter Congrefs had au- remainder of the flory may be told after In the year 1802, a convention was ne- thorized the Prefident to eftablish one or we shall have had time to pay fifteen milgotiated between the court of Spain and more ports on the river Mobile, within the lions of dollars for Louifiana and then to our minifter Mr. Pinckney, in which it was territory claimed by Spain. That court conquer the territory. ftipulated, on the part of Spain, that restinow refufed to ratily the convention, altution fhould be made to our merchants ledging, that, after fuch a lapfe of time, for fpoliations committed upon our comthey had fuppofed the United States had merce by the Spaniards, during the laft abandoned the claim, and as the latter now war. One condition of the convention manitefled a difpofition to make encroachwas that it fhould be ratified, on the part ments upon their territory, they would coof the United States, within twelve months. ter into no further negotiations on the fubHaving been duly figned, it was immedi-ject of claims until other inatters in dif ately fent to the prefident of the United Stares. The firft that was publicly known of the exiflence of this convention, fo interefting to the commerce of our country, was about the middle of November laft, and then, frange as it may feem to thole not well verfed in the fecrets of democracy, not divulged by the government but through the medium of this Gasette.Having learned (not from an eastern Senator, as has been afferted in one of Mr. Jefferfon's prints, but directly from Europe) that fuch a convention exifted and had been kept a profound fecret by the adminiftration for twelve months, we called loudly upon the government to lay it before the Senate that it might be acted upon, and that our fuffering merchants might know what proteftion they were to expect from the government. After a great deal. of prevarication and contradi&tion on the pal of the governmental prints, one day denying that any convention had been neguiated between the two powers; another, farming that though a convention had ben negotiated, it related merely to the limits of territory, and had nothing to do with commerce; on the third, confeffing that fuch a convention as we defcribed had been executed in Spain and fent to the prefident, and attempting to juflify his condu& in with Iding it a whole year from the Senate and the country; then de nying that it had been withheld, and declaring that it had, more than a year before, been laid before the Senate and aftu ally rejected by the federalifts, who were then a minority in that body; after all this fcandalous and impudent prevarication, which filled Mr. Jefferfon's papers for months, behold! just before the clufe of the laft fellion of Congrels forth came the The public attention, both in, and out of the State, has been for fome time paft highly excited towards this election. The friends of New England have watched with anxiety the progrefs of an attempt to lubvert Connecticut; the friends of Virginia, and of diforder and mifchief, have exerted every poffible nerve to effect our total overthrow. The bold attack upon our flåte Government, the factious attempt to throw the State into uproar, and anarchy, under the pretence that we have no Conflitution, furnish complete evidence of the lengths to which the ene. mies of the fate would go if they dare, to accomplish their darling object-CONFUSION. With extreme fatisfaction we congratulate the friends of treedom, of virtue, of peace, and pure Republicanifm, on the defeat of Democracy, and the triumph of New-England principles, in our Election the laft week. It will be remem. That convention, as has already been mentioned, came into the poffeffion of the Prefident during the feffion of Congrefs before the laft. Iftead of laying it before the Senate, which is a conflituent part of the treaty-making power, as we prefume his duty required, he merely confulie certain favourite individuals of that body, who, it feems, were of opinion that more ought to be demanded from Spain than was ftipulated for namely, that Spain fhould make reftitution for American property taken by French cruifers and carried into Spanish ports. The convention made provifion only for the payment of claims founded on captures by the Span-bered, that in Major Judd's celebrated ad. iards themselves. In this fituation an or- drefs, is the following pallagedinary politician would have thought it beft to make fure of what was offered, by accepting the convention, and, in the mean time inftru&ting our minißer to commence a negotiation relative to the other fubje&t. Our wife ones thought other. wife, and very fagely concluded to keep this convention a profound lecret, until that paragon of diplomacy, Mr. Pinckney, fhould either later or frighten the Spanish court into a compliance with their whole demand. This courfe was accordingly "Our wish is that men of all claffes "would coolly examine this fubje&t in all "its parts, and would decide under a full "conviction of its importance. By their "votes will be known their decifion. If "a confiitution appears defirable, they "will vote for men who are in favor of 66 By this teft, the queftion has been fettled. The Freeinen, after having coolly Coned the fubje&, with all that the 2, bettors of a New Conftitution could urge |