FOREIGN. Admiral Bruix has been appointed commander in chief of all the national flotilla or gun boats, built or building in France. All feamen fit for fervice had been di rected to appear at the office of the milita- days of October, the new and elegant 500 DOLLARS REWARD. Ireland is ftill the fcene of arrefts, trials and executions. war for fix millions of livers per month, war. [Mercantile Advertifer.] The Treasury of the State of New-Jerfey was, on the night of the 20th of October inft. robbed of a large fum of Money by four armed white men, who forcibly Capt. Blifs arrived at Philadelphia, in entered the houfe of James Saltar Efq. 32 days from Bristol, reports that as late Treasurer of the State. Although the as the 25th Sept. no events of confequence Treafurer was, by a long indifpofition, had tranfpired. Spain continued to pre. exceedingly weak and debilitated, yet the ferve her neutrality; and Portugal, as yet, Ruffians tied and gagged him, and with was exempt from French violence. In the drawn daggers prefented to his breaft, North of Europe affairs remained in the compelled him to deliver the keys of the indecifive fituation in which they were left Treafury Cheft, (kept in his houfe) by our laft accounts-The English nation, whence they took a fum of money, not as inflead of dreading the threatened invafion, yet percifely afcertained, but which it is fuppofed is not lefs than Twelve Thoufand began to fear that the Corfican boafter had entirely relinquifhed his defign. To meet Dollars. The above reward will be given the military ardor of the people, it was beby the Treasurer of the State, to any per-lieved, fome ferious defcents on the coaft fon or perfons for the apprehenfion of the four villians who committed the above mentioned felonious act. of France were meditated by the British The grand jury of Middlefex has found guns each, and a third was nearly ready for launching. That all the veffels of every kind, except the fishing boats, were prevented going to fea by order of the Firft Conful, with, it is fuppofed, an intention of detaining the feamen for the use of the fuppofed invafion. Capt. A. further mentions, that there was an army of 30 000 men at Bayonne, which it was faid, hourly expected orders to march into Portugal; that it was well afcertained there had been a confiderable difagreement between the Firft Conful and the Court of Spain, but at the time of failing, it was faid to be nearly, if not quite compromised between them. Benjamin Brower, the Clerk who lately robbed the Manhattan bank of 10,000 Dollars and abfconded, has been apprehended at Bofton, and 7500 dollars recovered. His apprehenfion was owing to the Captain Arnold arrived at Philadelphia, attention of James Lloyd jun. Efq. of in 35 days from Rochelle, in France, menthat place. The crime which this unhap- tions that the preparations for the invafion py man committed has not we believe been of England, were still going on with the understood out of doors. To conceal the utmoft vigour, that it was computed, they embezzlement, he falfified the Cafh-Book, had already three thousand boats compleat. fo as to make the addition thereof corref-ed, that while they were amufing the Britpond with the lift of the money he paid over as the whole fum he had received; which we are informed will amount to a forgery. [N. Y. Mer. Aduertifer.] ifh with their fmall boats, the fhip yards [True American.] 360 The Wreath. FROM A LONDON PAPER. A GARLAND FOR BONAPARTE. To rear the Tree of Liberty In vain have Frenchmen tried, Unfit, ungenial was the soil, Th' exotic droop'd and died. A laurel next they thought upon And planted in its stead, And steep'd in blood, a crown they made For Bonaparte's head. To those who would this plant assail But we may laugh their threat to scorn, Grieve not, thou Corse, should fortune frown, This plant is fraught with magic power, O'er children spoilt or naughty ; So we a rod in pickle keep For thee my Bonaparte. And though the Tree of Freedom die, THE OLD MAN's COMFORTS. AND HOW TO PROCURE THEM. You are old, Father William, a young man once said, Your few locks that are left are quite grey: You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man : Now tell me the reason, I pray? In the days of my youth, Father William replied, You are old, Father William, the young man then said, And pleasures with youth pass away; In the days of my youth, Father William replied, I thought of the future, whatever I did, You are old, Father William, the young man now said, And life must be hastening away : You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death, Now tell me the reason, I pray? I am cheerful, indeed, Father William replied; In the days of my youth, I remember'd my Go, EPIGRA M. I LAUGH, a would-be sapient cries, At every one that laughs at meGood Lord a sneering friend replied, How merry you must be. Diversity. AN INDEPENDENT AND IMPARTIAL JUDGE. HENRY the fifth, of England, whofe reign was brilliant, was extremely diffo. lute when young. A riotous companion of this prince had been indicted before Gafcoigne, the chief juftice, for fome flagrant diforder; and Henry, who was then heir apparent to the crown, was not afhamed to appear at the bar with the criminal, in order to give him countenance and protection. Finding that his prefence had not overawed the chief juftice, he proceed. ed to infult that magiftrate on his tribunal; but Gafcoigne, mindful of the character which he then bore, and the majesty of the laws which he fuftained, ordered the prince to be carried to prifon for his rude behaviour. Thongh of a high and daring Ipirit, he fubmitted peaceably to the fentence, and afterward acknowledged his error. When Henry came to the throne, inflead of manifefting a grudge against chief juftice Gafcoigne, he embraced and applauded him, and exhorted him to perfevere in the fame impartial execution of the laws. In this affair, which happened toward the beginning of the 15th century, we are at a lofs whether moft to admire the impartial, intrepid conduct of the judge, or the noble behaviour of the prince. A PRELATE of Gafcony, having been elected Pope, Deputies came from his Province to congratulate him, and declare their joy at his exaltation; their compli mentary Addrefs being ended, one of them faid to him," Holy Father, we are allo come, in the name of your Countrymen, the Gafcoons, humbly to intreat you to employ, in their favour, the abfolute power, which it is faid, you have upon Earth. You well know, Holy Father, the barrennefs of your poor Country, whose Inhab itants reap fo little corn, that they are o bliged to feed upon Chefnuts, to support themfelves during half the year; bestow on it, therefore, the fertility it wants; and grant that it may henceforward produce two Harvefts every Year."-The kind Pope thinking it not proper to difoblige them, on fo fmall a requel, replied,"That he would, with pleasure, grant them their Petition; and that as a fil greater mark of his affection, he would add another gratification to it, which was, that whereas other Provinces were allowed but twelve months to their Year, the Gal coons, through his fpecial privilege, fhould have twenty-four in every one of theirs. 1 WHEN Marshal de la Ferte made his entry into Mentz, the Jews, who are tol erated there, came to compliment him, as the other inhabitants did: as foon as he was informed they were in the anti-chamber; I will not fee thofe rafcals, faid he; they are the people who put my Mailer to death; do not fuffer them to come in. They were then told that the Marshal could not be spoken with; to which they replied, they were extremely lorry for it, and that they had brought him a prefent of four thousand Piftoles; M. de la Ferte being immediately made acquainted with that; let them be admitted, faid he, thele poor devils did not certainly know who he was, when they crucified him. Driginal Ellays. HUDSON, (NEW-YORK) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1803. Hither the products of your closet-labors bring, Enrich our columns, and instruct mankind. FOR THE BALANCE. OFSERVATIONS ON POPULATION. (CONCLUDED.) COMPUTING OMPUTING that, in the year 1630. the whole number of people, in Virginia, New-York and Maffachusetts, the only difricts where fettlements were then begun, was eighteen thoufand, the average period of doubling population, in this country, has been about twenty years. This, however, much exceeds the true ratio of the natural increase of our popu lation, which has been greatly augmented, efpecially in latter years, by an annual influx of settlers from Europe : yet, in fome particular parts of this country, a fhorter period than twenty years has been fufficient to double the number of people, in the ordinary courfe of nature, or without any acceffions from abroad. According to Doctor Williams, who made his calculation from an accurate table of births and deaths, the period of doubling in Vermont, when he wrote his hiftory of that ftate, was nineteen years and five months. So remarkable had been the induftrious fettlers of that portion of our country for health and fecundity, that the births were in proportion to the deaths almoft as five to one. In one town, where an exact table of births and deaths had been kept, the number of the former was even our nation, when its whole number was no more than two or three millions, would cause it to double its population several years fooner than it otherwife would have done but the fame annual acceffion to our nation, when it fhall become twenty millions, would shorten the period of doubling its population, only in a final degree. The crowded cities, which the commercial genius and enterprize of our nation will not fail to multiply and onlarge, me be eventually, in fome points of view, a confiderable tax on national population. In London, a city remarkably healthy, confidering its vaft numbers, the deaths (it is affirmed) annually exceed the births in fuch a ratio, that all its inhabitants would be extinct in less than a centu y, were they not recruited from abroad. Our great cities from the intenfer heat of our fummers, being lefs healthy than thofe in Europe, will confequently produce a greater wafle of people. That luxury of drefs and living, which has wonderfully increafed in this conaty within a few years, will inevitably check the rapid growth of population. In the fimple ftate of fociety, where artificial wants are unknown, and real ones are eafily fupplied, people marry young, becaufe it is cafy to fupport a family but where luxury has introduced an endless train of artificial wants, the expences of maintenance being thereby indefinitely increafed, many will prefer a life of cc If we reckon the number of free peo. ple to have been five millions, at the commencement of the prefent century, and fhould calculate their future increase, according to the ratio of the paft, that is, fuppofing, in the natural courfe of popu lation, augmented by a continued influx of foreigners, they should double in number every twentieth their number year, at the clofe of the century, would be one hundred and fixty millions.-But fuch a calculation would be extremely fallacious and extravagant. On the fuppofition that the period of doubling population in the United States, during the prefent century, will be twenty-five years, the whole number of people would be about eighty millions, at the clefe of the century and a fwitter future increafe than this cannot be anticipated with even the leaft degree of probability. Without prefaging external wars, bloody commotions at home, or any wafling public calamities, to which this nation, in common with all others, is liable, there are several confiderations, which forbid the expectation that population will double, for a long time to come, in fuch fhort periods as formerly. Though the annual influx of foreigners to this country should continue to be as numerous as ever, their effects in fhortening the peri-ebicy, from apprehenfions of inability to ods, which produce a duplication of numbers, will be diminished in the fame pro portion that the population of the nation fhall increafe. For inftance, the yearly acceffion of fifty thousand emigrants to fupport families according to the prevailing flyle of living. Accordingly, the maximum, or higheft increafe of popula tion is found in thofe diftricts, which are moft diftinguifhed for induftry, temper ance, frugality, and plainness of manners ; and the minimum, or lowest increase, in thofe which are moft noted for the contrary manners and habits. The future profpects of this country, as well as to a rapid increafe of population, as in all other refpects, depend most materially on the general morals and manners of the people. "Name (fays an able European writer) any nation that was ever remarkable for juftice, for temperance and feverity of manners-for piety and religion--that did not always thrive and grow great in the world; and that did not always enjoy a plentiful portion of thofe good things, which are accounted to make a nation happy and flourishing. And, on the other fide, when that nation has declined from its former virtue, and grown impious and diffolute in manners, we appeal to experience, whether it has not always proportionately funk in its fuccefs and good fortune." Political. FROM THE U. S. GAZETTE. 66 It will be obferved, on perufing the repart of the committee who recommended the fecret appropriation of two millions of dollars, that the object of Cangrefs in making the appropriation was the purchase of the two Floridas. The committee, through their whole report, labour to demonftrate the vast importance of thofe countries, and of the waters which pafs through them, to the United States. They fiv; It mult be feen that the poffeffion of New Orleans and the Florida's will not only be requir ed for the convenience of the United States, but will be demanded by their most imperious neceffities" Yet it leems that the executive, regardless of thefe most imperious neccffities, inftead of applying two millions of dollars o par ha'e a country fo imperioufs demanded by the neceffities of the United States, tas applied fixteen millions to the purchale of a foreign territory which does not appear to have been dreamed of by the committee or the legif. lature; andth Floridas, with the naviga. tion of their waters, of which we ftand in fill fuch preffing neel, fi remain, and are Iely to remain in the hands of their for. mer propri tors. Io vever, it is probable that the lame committee, it need requine. can row make another report and demonfate that the poffeffion of the Floridas is not fo ab"Jurely" required for the convenience of the United States; but that the wild lands of Lenihana " will be lemand. ed by their molt imperious neceflities. A Bill for carrying into effect the conven tion of the 20th April, 1803, between the United flates of America, and the French Republic. Be it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congrefs affembled, That, for the purpofe of carrying into effe&t the convention of the g0th day of April 1803, between the United States of America, and the French republic, the fecretary of the Treafury be, and he is hereby authorized, to caufe to be conftituted, certificates of rent money of Holland, for each dollar, if payable in Amfterdam. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That a fum equal to what will be neceflary to pay the intereft which may accrue on the laid flock to the end of the prefent year, be and the fame is hereby appropriated for that purpose, to be paid out of any monies in the treafury not otherwife appropriated. Sec. 4. And be it fra ther enacted, That from and after the end of the pretent year an addition to the annual fum of feven millions three hundred thousand dollars ftock, figned by the regifter of the treafu- yearly appropriated to the finking fund, by ry, in favor of the French republic, or its virtue of an act, entitled “an att making affignees, for the fum of 11,250.000 dǝl- provifion for the redemption of the whole lars, bearing intereft of fix per cenum per of the public debt of the United States," a annum, from the time when poffeflion of further annual fum of feven hundred thou. New Orleans fhall have been obtained, in fand dollars, to be paid out of the duties on conformity with the treaty of the 30th day merchandize and tonnage, be, and the of April 1803, between the U. States of fame, hereby is, yearly appropriated to the America and the Freuch republic, and, in faid fund, making in the whole an annual other respects, conformable to the con- fum of eight millions of dollars, which shall vention aforefaid; the Picfident of the be vefted in the commiffioners of the fink. United States is authorized to caufe the faiding fund in the lame manner, fhall be paid certificates of ftock to be delivered to the by them for the fame purpole, and thall government of France, or to fuch perfon he, and continue appropriated, until the or perfons, as fhall be authorized to rewhole of the prefent debt of the United ceive them in three months at most, after States, inclufively of the flock created by the exchange of the raufications of the trea virtue of this act, thall be reimbursed and ty aforefaid, and after Louifiana fhall be redeemed, under the fame Imitations as taken poffeffion of in the name of the gov have been provided by the fit lection of ernment of the United States; and credit, the above mentioned act, refpecting the or credits, to the proprietors thereof, thal! annual appropriation of feven millions three thereupon be entered and given upon the hundred thousand dollars, made by the books of the treafury, in like manner as fame. for the prefent domeflic funded debt, which faid credits, or flock, fhall thereafter be transferable only on the books of the treafury of the United States, by the proprie tor or proprietors of fuch flock, his, her or their attorney: And the faith of the U nited States is hereby pledged for the pay. ment of the intereft, and for the reimbursement of the principal of the faid conVenti.3. Provided, however that the fecretary of the treatury may, with approbation of the poft lent of the United States, p. and with the affent of the proprietors of the faid flock, vary the terms and inftallments fixed by the convention for its reimburse. ment. And provided alfo, That every proprietor of the faid flock may, until otherwife directed by law, on furrendering his certificate of fuch flock, receive another in the fame amount, and bearing an intereft of fix per contum per annum, payable quarter yearly at the treafury of the United States. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That' the annual intereft accruing on the laid flock, which may in conformity with the convention aforefaid, be payable in En. rope, fhall be paid at the rate of four thil lings and fix pence fterling for each d.... lar, if payable in London, and at the rate of two guilders and one half a guilder, cur S. c. 5. And be it further enacted, That the fecretary of the greafury in li caute the faid further fum of feven hundred thou and dollars to be paid to the commiflion. ers of the finking fund in the fame man. ner as was directed by the above mentioncd a&t, refp: Aing the annual appropriation of feven million three hundred therland doilars and it thall be the duty of the commiffioners of the fuking fund to caufe to be applied and paid out of the fid fund, yearly, and every year, at the teafury of the United States, fuch fum and fums as may be annually wanted to difcharge the annual intereft and charges accruing on the flock created by virtue of this act, and the feveral inftalments, or parts or princi. pal of the faid flock, as the fame fhall become due, and may be discharged, in con formity to the terms of the convention a forefaid, and of this set. The NEW ENGLAND REPERTORY speaks of the Louisiana purchase as follows:The provident attention of the Prefi. dent in fecuring lands for pofterity will doubtless be duly appreciated. It is true that fome four or five centuries hence luch an acquifition may have its advanta 64 We are, however, much inclined ges. to fuppofe that "oppreffed humanity" will firit be offered an afylum" in this extenfive country, and the hardy fons of New-England will be called in defence of the new dominion or in fuppreffing infurrections, if Infurgents are not made fecietaries, to leave their bones in the back forefts of Louisiana. If we have found it difficult and even impracticable to defend the former territory of the United States, we have fears, to us apparently well fou¬ded, that the addition of an immenfe widernefs, peopled by uncivilized nations, will by no means favour the poffibility of affording general fecurity and protection. Balance Closet. EDWARD LIVINGSTON, ESQUIRE. It would (to use a Yankee phrase) puzzle a dozen Philadelphia lawyers, to unriddle the conduct of the democrats towards that great ornament of their party, Edward Livingston, Esq. Perhaps we have no right to pry into the secrets of the cabinct; but we hope we shall not be thought ever curious and impertinent, if we do presume to ask a little inforTime mation concerning this mysterious affair. was, when it was thought the duty of printers to inform their readers of every fact which could, in the most remote degree, interest the public; but now, bush is the word, and democratic editors, who pretend to be intimately acquainted with all statesecrets, are as dumb as Egyptian mummies. When Mr. Livingston was removed from the office of Attorney of the United States for the district of NewYork, or (to use a humorous remark of the Utica Patriot) "when bear began to eat beer," it was sup posed that it was done merely to remove from his shoulders one of those monstrous burdens under which he was bending-he being, at the same time Mayor of New-York. But when he was also removed from the latter cffice; and that, too, after avowing his willingness (if Captain Cheetham may be believed) to retain that burden-what could the people think? We can surmise but two ways to account for the removal of Mr. Livingston-first, he was incapable of performing the duties of his office-or, second, he had joined the "union of honest men," and consequently become a thorn in the side of his party.Captain Cheetham has atten pted, in his way, to ascribe it to the latter, with what success the reader will judge. It was asserted, in the Citizen and Watch-Tower, that Mr. Livingston had frequently held caucusses at Mr. Burr's, in company with Gen. Hamilton, Mr. Swartwout, Col. Smith, and others. Mr. Livingston contradicted this assertion, in a note to Cheetham, in which he expressly stated, "that the whole of the story was a fabrication destitute even of the color of truth." Thus Cheetham and Mr. Livngston were at issue, and the former had nothing to do but to bring forward his proof; because if it Now the country reader, who is not well ac- Firstly. Cheetham had asserted, that Mr. Livingston had verbally signified his willingness to remain in the office of Mayor. This was denied, and in his defence, he " incidentally remarked that caucusses had been held at Mr. Burr's, consisting of Gen. Hamilton, Mr. Swartwout, Col, Smith, Mr. Edward Livingston, and others." Secondly. "These caucusses were mentioned as a clue to account" for certain conduct of the Board of Health. [That is, gentle reader, the falshood about the caucusses was invented to furnish a clue to another falshood.] Thirdly. Captain Cheetham "was informed, more than once, that Mr. Livingston was seen going into Mr. Burr's house, when the other persons mentioned were known to be there." Fourthly, and lastly, and most conclusively Mr. Livingston did not think fit to contradict certain other assertions of Cheetham, which were as true as the above To those who believe all this sufficient to convict Mr Livingston of having joined the Burrites, or of having intrigued with the federalists for the mayoralty, it will not appear strange that he was removed; but to many this may not be satisfactory proof; and such may be induced to search for some other cause for his removal. To shew that Mr. Livingston was not removed on account of any deficiency in ability, "vigilance, activity or zeal," we subjoin the testimony of the Common Council of New York. The following address was presented to him in pursuance of the ananimous resolution of the Council SIR, We fhould merit the reproach of our fellow-citizens, and fail in duty to ourfelves, if we fhould pafs in filence the alflicting moment which terminates your adminiftration as firft Magiftrate of this city; we unite with the utmoft cordiality in that applaufe which the public voice hath fo justly beftowed on your conduct, in the execution of the duties of Mayor; on the learning and difcernment difplayed in your judicial decifions; your vigilance, our activity, and zeal, as an executive trate. Having been connected with you in the difcharge of the greater part of those duties, we cannot too warmly acknowledge the uniform politenefs and courtesy of your manners. Inflexible in the preferva. tion of order, and in the execution of the laws, yet unbiaffed by perfonal feelings or party prejudice, you have invariably exhibited dignity and firmnefs tempered with complacency; even when differing with you in opinion, we have always had occafion to admire your rigid impartiality, and the independence of your fentiments. This affemblage of qualities, to rarely combined, would fuffice to command our higheft refpect and esteem, but it was referved for a period of defolatory calamity to difplay the extent of your philanthropy, and your difinterested devotion to the public welfare during the fcenes of affliction and difmay with which it has lately pleafed God to visit our city, we beheld with admiration, and with the moft grateful emotions, the unremitted zeal with which you fought out and relieved diffiefs, and the alacrity with which you facrificed your perfonal fafety and comfort to that of the fuffering poor, regardless of danger and toil, and difdaining all cold examination of the mere limits of official duty; when humanity called, you obeyed only the impulfe of your generous heart. Thus, fir, you have erected in the breafts of the virtuous a monument of gratitude which calumny cannot fully, nor time deface. The anxiety and alarm which pervaded all ranks of citizens, during the dangerous ilnefs which you contracted in adminiftering to their relief, pronounced in language which flatterers cannot imitate nor envy diflort the ardour and fincerity of their affection, and we join with them in fervent acknowledgments to the fupreme and beneficent difpofer of events, who hath graciously fpared your life and reftored you to health. ties; We muft, indeed, be defiitute of the feelings of men if we could witnefs without grief the period which diffolves a connection, endeared by fo many we look in vain for confolation to the future, yet you have fo marked the path of duty, that inferior abilities, it guided by intentions as pure, may follow in the feps traced by your wifdem, and for a preferve the impulse which your energy hath produced. While we cherith this hope, the memory of your example will direct our conduct, and arinate our zeal, in the difcharge of our refpeétive func tions. I me Be, affured, fir, that our attachment to your perfon, and grannude for your ferviccs, will endure with the recolle&or of your virtues, and that bear with you you our laffing regret and effcem, and our prayers for your profperity and happnefs. And now we are constrained to asl, What bas Mr Liggsten cone to deserve ejectment from ‹‹e ? vhep this muestion is a tac rily arwored cur readers trail hear sorg im ler on the subject, hen they must, with us, remain in doubt and uncertainty. U |