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claimed the envoy, <ho*e plain fellows and what had (hoy in their knapsack* ? Their dinners replied the inkceper. 'i'he envoy immediately wrote to tho coin t of Spain, advising them t>y all means to make pence?that it wan absurd to think of coii'iuenng a pco|4e whoso legislators carried their dinner* on Uicir backs, and lived on ayitillihira day. Wo shall conclude this part of the subject with the following extract from no oration, de livered by 11 r. Rush, in 1774 s??* Nations like individuals never rise higher than when they arcignorant whether tiny ate tending. It is iuiiHMMiblc to Ml, from history, what will be the effects of industry, temperance ami commerce, urged on by the competition of colonies, united in the same general pursuits, and in a country which, for extent?variety of soil?climate and number of navigable rivers, has never been c rpialled in any <;oarter of the globe. America in the theatre, where human nature will, proba bly, receive her la^t and principal literary, civil and military I on:?r*."?- .Vi7?V litjginlrr. MISCKI.IANY. \ AI.UK Of IM'.ITT VTIOX Tli ' following eloquent effusion on the value ofrentNation in extracted from tlic speech ?l Charles Phillip?, Ksq. at the court liouse of <?.i?way. IivImiiI, on the first of April Inst, in he case of libel on the Uev. C. O'Mullen* a catholic clorifvinaii: " Wluit? damages* thou, can y>u give ? I am content r<> lej\ve tin* defendant's <rime altogeth er out of the question ; but how <au you rccom pence the sufferings of my client? AVho ?hall estimate the ro*t of priceless ri^mtatiou?that imptvv, uhieh jji? e- thin human dress its cur rency ; without which we stand despised, de based* depreciated ? Who shall repair it iu juied : A\ ho can redeem it lo.st ? Oh ! well and truly does the treat philosopher of poetry esteem the world's henlth as 44 trash" in the comparison?without if gold has no value? birth, no distinction?-station, no dignity?beau ty no ehami?age. no reverence. Or, should 1 not rather sity, without, it every treasure im poverishes, everv i*i ace delorms. every dignity degrade*, and all the art*. and decorations, and Aemmplixliment of lift*. ?tand like the beacon Ida/e upon a rock, wnruiuir the world that its approach U danger?that its contact is death. The w tctch without it is under an eternal quar antine?t:n friend to yrcot?no home to hnr hour him : the voyage of his life becomes a joy. le*s peril : and iu the midst of all ambition can achieve, or avarice amass, or rapacity plunder, ho fosse* on the sur^o, a buoyant pestilence! Hut let me not degrade into the selfishness of indivi dual safety, or individual exposure, this univer sal principle : it testifies a higher, a more eouo* blin&r origin t it is this, which, consecrating the '.lUinltle cirrle ofthe earth, will at times extend itself to tin: circumference of the hori/.on? which ner\es the arm of the patriot to save his country?w hieh lights th?? lamp of the philoso pher to amend man-?which, it it dues not in spire. will vet invigorate, the martyr to merit immortal* v?which when one world's a^ony i? passed, arol the ulory of another is djwniiijr, will prompt the prophet, even in his chariot of lire, and hr* vision ofheaven. to bequeath to manki >d ?the mantle of his memory ? t) divine, O deligM 'ful legacy, our spotless reputation! Iluh is the inheritance it leave*?pious the example ittes-i tifies?pure, precious, and imperishable, the J hnpe wliich it inspires. Cull you conceive a more atrocious injury than ! to filch from its posse* mo* this inestimable bene-1 lit?to rob society of its charms, and solitude! of its solace: not only to outlaw life, but to at-j taint death; converting the very ^rave, the re-j ?fugc of the sufferer, into the ;;ate of infamy and j shame! I can conceive very few crime* beyond . it. lie who plunders my property, takes from J inn that which can be repaired by time, lbitj what period cnt? repair a ruined reputation? He! vho maims my person, a fleets that which me dicines may remedy. Hut what herb ha* sove reignty over tire wounds of slarder? lie who ridicules my poverty* or reproaches iny profes sion, upbraid? me with that which industry may retrieve, and integrity purifyj but what richer, ?hull redeem the bank nipt is fame! what power shall blanch the sullied snow of character! fan { there be an injurv nor* devlly? Can there be a crime more < rurl? It i? without remedy?it is withont ar.'i'lote?it is without evasion. The reptilo calumny iv ever on the watch?from the fftiicinntion of its eve no activity can esca|M>? from the venom of its f;mj( no sanity can rcco I'feri it has no enjoyment but ctiin'e?it has no I t>ro y but virtue. It has no interval from the < restlessness of it* malice, nave when bloated tvith its victims, it grovel* to disgorge them nt ' the irjlhoicd shtirie w here, envy idolizes her own iniirmitifp. f'ndersncba visitation,how dread ful would be the destiny cf the virtuous and the ^ochIv if the providence of eur constitution had < not given you the power, as I trust von will have = tho principle, to bruise the head of the serpent, j and crush und humble the altar of its idolatry!*' | , ACCinF.VTft TO HIT, Wl | An interesting esutv appeared on this sub ject in the Ktening l*o*t of yesterday, which, if vve had room we would gladly republish for public information, and as a caution to the p? )? 'e, of the south. Hut we extiad the fol lowing. " v?r. I'nltop adopted the principle of Mr. Watt, ofKnglamf, in the construction of his boilers. 'I'hesenre adapted to tear, with per fect security, a pressure of einht pounds each square inch. They will, indeed* support u (treat deal more; hut this being as much as is required, there is a contrivance, called a safety vale* by means of which* whenever the fteam rls*s nlw?ve the desired height, tho extra pressure causes a valo to open* and hy the nur? plus sieatn through it, the boiler i* relieved ; nnless, bv some egregious carelessness* this safety valo is ?o obstructed as that it cennot open"* unless the boiler is so badly constructed, til not to bo capable of hearing'. yie jMqvired [pressure, it b impoiAble thatUtttfMwT But thero has been a great desire of late to lessen tlie expense of building steam-boats^ and many lmve Attempted to economise by lesaniog the eost of hollers. In thin, they may have sue ceeded t but it is to be feared that they have, at thu samo time, too much diminished their atrength. Wo have hearil that steam boats have been uuilt nl the southward, which Imve co9t under thirty thousand dollars. The Fulton's boiler alone co*t, before it was moved from the shop of the constructor, near three and twenty thousand dollars.'* " A project for employing what is called high steam, which, although after repeated tri als by the most ingenious and experienced men in Kugland, it has long been abandoned there, seems to have been revived in this country* with great confidence in its superior advantages. Mr. Pulton, who knew well what experiments had been made on this subject in Kugland, as well as in this country, often expressed his strong conviction, that' it could neither safely nor advantageously he applied to naxigatioti. Whether all the boiits which have met with ac cidents from the bursting of the boilers, employ ed high steam, we do not know. Hot one of them which was employed on the Mississippi, we have heard and Indieve used the high steam. It is much less surprising, that such terrible ac cidents should sometimes happen with boilers of thfit description, than that they do nut happen oftner. Tlie high steam boiler is calculated to bear a pressure, not of from 70 to 100 pouudH on the square inch, as is suppo?ed in the para graph published in the Evening Post of last evening, but generally n pressure of from 100 pounds to 130 pounds on thu square inch. " Thu high steam engine employed by Mr. Murray, in his paint manufactory in this citv, cannot do her work without the pessure of 150 pounds in the square inch. If we consider that this power of steum will give n pressure of more than 70,000 weight upon every spiare font of the copper of the biiler, we can well imagine that there must he a dreadful e<qdosion when ever the boiler gives way.?NVitl the other sort of boilers no such dreadful couieqiicnce* can follow from such an accident. I has often hap pened, on account of the hadncssof the materi als, or from the wear, or hurting one of the coppers, after long usage ; nn< when it does happen, the copper merely rips in the weakest part. The sturm and water flld vent through the rent, and thu wmst that eat happen is. that the water may find its way to t\e bottom of the boat, and scald their feet. R|t it is very dif ferent with the high steam hoit-rs. (it these, an the safety vale does not rise, s|ll it feels so great a pressure, the boiler may hirst at any thing belotv it, so that an explosioi may take place when the steam is near the slength which the boiler is calculated to bear, ind il it does, it is to he expected that the elects will be tre-1 tnendous.'Uichmoud Compiler, Oct. -I. coMMonoRu Tri:xro\ The following lm* been given as " a mnci.*?? UiMtory of Coot. Truxton, from the dawn of tin; revolution of our country, an t-o*pcct* hi* pub lic services, u|? to the present limp. 44 In the year 177.1, he wan among the first w ho brought powder into this country, at every peril, as well as arniH and other article* deemed of tho first necessity, including clothing for the army, & continued ho to do throughout the war, making repeated voyage* to France, the neutral and friendly inland* in the West-Indies. as commander of ships in which he was always the principal owner, lie. captured many valuable: llritish ships, and annoyed their rommercctMend ing into the port* of France and the IT. States hi* prizes made in the British ami lri?h channel, a.* well as on the Atlantic, West-Indie*, and on our own coast, lie had many hard and vic torious battles with the HritMi of superior force, never fired a shot, but was a eompierof, and has never 'truck the flag of tho United States, in any action with an enemy. It is woil.known to merchant!* vet alive in this city, that he rescued and saved their ships from capture by the Nri tiah, by going to their relief wlieu attacked ?ith out any motive or interest, bait a public v.cal, ha /.urdiug engagement* with his own ship and pro perty of immense value, and for which he re ceived public thanks ami applause in this city, from f.h? owners of vessels so saved. And as (?en. Washington declared at a public dinner at the city tavern, on the ITth March, 1782, " that he had been a regiment to the l\ State* during the revolution, 111 his own person,"? wlurli|services he always remembered and often e\pieased, and on the first opportunity that pre sented, noticed him, by appointing twin one of the first six captains m the nav>, at its \cry commencement, and as soon as the net of con gress was passed for its cr ation, in 1704. At thec'^imcnremeut o?' the war with France, when our ships were embargoed nt Havana, he was sent out in the frigate (Constellation, with orders from the then President of the t'nited States, to demand of the governor-general that the embargo should be raised, agreeable to the treaty with Hpain ; this he did in so prompt a manner, that the governor immediately rnifcd the embargo, and lie brought hoinc all the ves sels which had Iwen detained there, to the a mount of upward* of one hundred sail ; and a mong them was (.'apt. Preble, in n vessel be longing to Uoston, who nltei wards came into the navy, and was in the squadron with Com. Truxton. lie fore and after tho above expedi tiou, ho scoured tho coast of America to tho ri? vor St. Mary's, where there hud been various privateer* cruising against our commerce j and was afterwards appointcil to a squadron in the West-Indies, where, from hi* Incessant anplica* i<ui to tho duties assigned him. hp cleared those sea* of the buccaneer* which nepfedated on our trade, a* well as by the capture, on the 1st Feb. 1799, of the French national frigate l/lnsur gent, of 40 guna and 4ft7 men j which frigato had captured and carried into Oaudaloape ma* ny of ottr merchant vessels, a* well as tlw tJ. 8. schooner Retaliation, commanded by Lt. Bain* bridge, now Com. Hainbrtdge) ami j tho 9th of February* 180o. Tn lie fell in with tho only 9 her these seai, (though there were sixteen, British shlpe on the watch for her,) U Vengeance, a heavy 54 gun ship, carrying upwards, of .100 men} and after the most severe action of Ave hours, within half pistol shot, acknowledged e ver to have been fought in the WeiMndies, ?he struck her colors) but from tho shuttered con dition of the Constellation, the loss of her main mast, and the darkness of the night, the La Vengeance made her escape, with 184 men kil led and wounded, and several days after got in to Corracoa, witli eight and a hull* feet of water iu her holo. At thin time the navy of the L\ XtaW* was in its infancy. Its organization and disctfdine was arduous ; hut with great labor and attention he effected it, nnd laid the founda tion of nil those brilliant exidoitK that have since occurred to the honor of the American name. Nor was the nation silent, amidst the contend ing political parties, in his praise at this time t and bo-ides receiving the thanks of the execu tive governments of tho United Ktates repeated ly, congress passed a resolution on the 20th March, 1800, directing a golden medal to l?e made, emblematical ot his action with the La >'3ngeance, ami presented to him by the pt evi dent of tlie United .States ; which, as soon uxi completed, was accordingly presented to liiui by Mr. Jeftcrson. in 180<2. These public sec vices drew oft* his attention from his private nf fairs, (though with a large family) and to the e molunient* he would have derived from a prose cutiou of the Kast-!ntlia and China trade, which he was among the first promoters of. During the revolutionary war too, he wns in several ac tions against the enemy on shore ; he was with a part of the crow in the fort of New-York be fore the enemy got possession, and when the first Uritibli of ships of war passed up the North river, and distinguished nimself, which was acknowledged by Gen. Knox, and was with Cien. Maxwell's brigade when the British re treated from this city through New-Jersey, ne ver lohing an opportunity in the glorious'cause 1 which gave lis independence, whenever and1 wherever he could be osefol. And let it be re membered, that during the late war with (J.1 Britain, though under retirement when the committee of defence was sitting in this city, he olVorcd his services to them bv letter; and had the enemv made their appearance to attack us. he would have, shown himself, with his usual activity,in defence of Philadelphia, by land or wato r .*'?*>iu rora. Iiu Mounts. rnoM tub (tMUKtHi-N'.ii (r*.) n?Er.rr?. Mr. Kill tor? I am about preparing for publi cation a farce, to be railed " The election."? You may publish the following soliloquy of it,if you think proper. Peihaps I mav send you sonic other parts if your readers relish this. AN At i noH. Enter Muggint, nt angering. These Demos and Kedos are main kind peo pie, before an election. Now there be Dr. IMiys ick, the demo, and counsellor ut law, the fudo, who be just hand and glove with me. At home, in the old country, (durst no more bpcnk to such big folks no inore than I durst speak to tho lord mavor of Lun.ain. Why, no less nor yesterday, t meets Dr. Iliysick, and lie smiled so at me, and was so kind?-it would ha\e done vour heart good to see us shake hands. Hays he, iny friend Muggins, says he, how is all at home ? Purely, your honor says f, only But lias got the hives and Bill has got the worms, t) ! says his honor,you must make use of a little pedeliiuu, if that wont do, venisection, if that wont do I w ill give them some stimuli, such as the essence of pitchfork, or tincture of waggon whip. But, says I, your honor, what will you charge me ? ?<iota cent, mv dear friend, savs i he. Well, says I, I'll vote for your honor, you can tiilk so leYrued, and you would make Mich learned Jaws amongst the congress people. But iu les<< time than a cow could cract her thumb docs I meet counsellor Law. Oh ! ho ! is that you, my horie.it fellow, Muggins, says he?come it is past twelve oYlock, come to my house and we shall have some old whisky ami cool water. Wi?h all my heart, says 1. and so at it we went, cheek by jowl. Bat f had no* taken more than 4 or pulls out of the blue bottle before he says, Muggins, who are you going to vote for, ami I vour neighbors, Christophle, lloniclc and pel try, for ? Why, vour honor, says I, w e be all for you?for to'tefl the truth his liquor was main Igooil and plenty of it. But aftor all I was in a peck of troubles who to vote for, and so i n-ked my wife. Why John, you fool you, savs she? land flie looked so coiitwistical?throw Physic to the dugs, what act of charity did hee\er per form r what poor iiiHn'H debt did he ever pay ? or who did he ever bail out of jail t And any how, you fool, Law can only lake your purse, but iMiystck may take your life. Well, well, lovce, savs I, don't bono very di?p.i**ionate? I'll vote for Law, yes burn me if I don't.?/i.r H Jfuzxini, .""J ? 1 . 1 . I FORKfON KKNVH. I.ATRST fHOM KNm,.\N!>7~" By iho ship Milo, from Liverpool, London j?n per* have boon received at Boston to Auuu?l -i-i. A l??f tor from Pari*, Aug. 'II, in tin* London Courfrr, mention* that Mr. \Vil*on, (!omul of thetr. htatea at Nant*, 1in<1 several warm di*> cu*ftinti* with the Kr?*nch Coinnd**arv, who en (loavo*ii'?i] toanhjoct tlir American (^plains to| vexation* formalitien, which infringed the IiImt- ! tv of commerce. In the heat of argument the I Com. not only arrogantly criticiKdl the hm|?- ' poned tendency of the consul'* political opini on*, hut reinoufltrated with Vehemence ai:ain*t Ida preserving an eagle at Ida gate, and enjoined hint to have it inMantly removed. Mr. W. naturally inaiftted on preacrving inviolate the emblematic. anna of Ida Government. The Com. next aent an armed force to carry off the ecuaaon of the United Btatea. Thia inault how* ever, did not remain unredreaaed. Mr. W. forwarded energetic coniplaint* to l'ar'nt. The Miniater depntird an Htftpector Oon. of Police, who, after having investigated the a lair, made every proper exctiat, when the arm* of Ame* rlca were *4l?roMy replaced. , A runioufliad fur sometime been enrrent m England, d au attack upon Algiers by the American sjuadron early in August. It is only necessary ? observe, * that it was merely a rumor. i Hie Loiijon Morning Chronicle of August t 24, states tbt a ** Mr. John llopkin, small fur* mer at Uottiham, near Kly, put a period to his existence hp limiting himself | he had been in a low and depending way for some time, which is Hiippuaeityo have neen brought on by the pres sure of the/lines. About three month* since a farmer in trc same parish committed suicide un der similaijcircumstnuces.'' Gen*, liillematid sen. an:t Drouet, have been eoudemiieJto death in France, though absent* They arc Aid to be in the l/nited States. Lall emaiid .jr. to be tried next. A prival* letter from Paris mentions a quar rel betweei t!ie French National Guards nml some Fordgn troops at Stratsburg, in whicli more than 130 person* were killed or wouuded f A Paris piper savs the foreigner* and gourds were neaijcoming to blows, but the authorities produced in accommodation.] A plot t? take possession of the town 'of Nan cy, has b??n discovered, (hie account says persons, 0 whom 1U were ex-officers, were ar rested. \not\er account havs only 11 vero arrested. An English letter says Gen. Merlin (brother to Merlin <le Thorn ville) has been called into actual ?erv,ce, and has required for his staff the Aids of Marshal Nov. The Duke of Ki<hlieu,is to represent Louis 1H, at the meeting of Sovereigns &c. at Carl shed. Madame Joseph llniiapartc has asked for .passports to go to Sweden. Lady Gallatin, tliu wifeoftlie American Ambassador bus been in troduced to the king of France and to the llurli es of Angouleme and Harrv, and treated with great politeness. Mrs. Gallatin watt presented to His Majesty bv the Marchioness de Yalelto. and the Confess Geatuu do la Kouchcfuucitolt. The English letter writers still continue to snv that a change of ministers is to take place n France. In France the apprehension* ol an int>productive harvest, have, ill a great degree subsided. No new Knight* of Malta are to l>e made. The order is to he suffered to expire. It ix said the llcv of Tunis has impaled the captain of one of his corsairs for taking a French vessel. Accounts from Algiers are to July 09. They were still preparing to resist an expected at tack. The King of Nuples has forbidden his sub jects applying to the Pope for indulgences. The Kntperor of Russia has appointed the eon of Gustavus, late King of Sweden, to be Go vernor of Finland. The Japanese have discovered an inclination to trade with the Ef\glishj and thoy have per mitted an academy to be established, in which the English language is taught, and it has many pupils. The earl of Hothouse, the new govern or of Nova Scotia, wa* to sail for Halifax in the frigate Forth, captain Louis. Reports from In dia were, that there was a report that the Nanaul wnr would be renewed a second time. A long letter frtm Fouche to the duke of Wellington in published in the English papers. The abbe Vin son, ami another priest, M. Floury of Nantes, arc on trial in France, fortheir publications, cal culated to alarm the purchasers of the national domains! particularly church property. The price of ipecie in England August 23, was f>/. IDs. Vtf.\ new doubloons 3/. 14s. fw/.; new dol lar*. -1*. IV 1 -2//. The duke of Kent has gone from Entitim! to liruasels to reside there tTiree years. Tbe prince regent and the duko of Cln ranee had' been indisposed, but were oil the re* cover?* Lord Cochran has been tried in Eng land for tweaking jail, and convicted, hut recoin inemlcd t? mercy. He exclaimed it was not mercy, but justice he wanted. General Atniel, being offered the olternative of surrender to France, oijimprixonmcnt for life in Hanover, has chose me latter. The Courier (todeter from emigrating says it is practice of tlie American caiitain* wVo have claims on tho emigrants, to sell them to satisfy such claims. A severe shock of an earthaiMike has been experienced in Scot* land. G. Robertson, esq. has been appointed the lliitish consul at Philadelphia. The English play-bills announce the intended departure of Mr. lnclcdifii for America.?Patriot. The. Tott'tr (ilmat.?Last Monday ni^M save hit th to it most important discovery i the detec tton of tio Irs* than the Tower (ilio?t. ft will, doubtless, be iu tlie recollection of most of our readers, ih?{,considerftble aniiety, not tiimdxed wilti alarm. Hail a few months since been euilcd amount the inhabitant* of tho Timer, bv n sin gular apjtearnnce, which for some ni^hf* \\n% ob? nerved near the north-east bfi<?1 ion, assuming a variety of forms of tlie most ten i fit hikI apial !ini? nature, anil in oiic or two instances hail nearly proved fatal, from extremo flight, to the sentinel Htationeil on the spid. The >tricfe?d en quiry at the time was instituted. but nothing rouhl be elicited that would in any decree con tribute to the ehieidation of (lii?i niysfeHou* cir cumstance, or Icnif to the detection of (lie noc t?irnal disturber. What had disturbed and puz /led thi! head * of officers, both ittilitai y nnd ci vil, has been discovered by the Kentiiief on duty ???i it?? in-sppeftrance the night above alluded to, to be nothing more than the reflection of n fi-, tjure from the window of a limine adjoining, ef fected bv a ma^ic lantern. Home < reilit is cer tainly floe to the soldier in question, for hi* i c.ninnarMivo pergonal courage with that of his j predecessor*) nnd, wo trust, the repose of (lit garrison will not be again broken ill upon, by aft exploit which, however amusing to it* thought less perpetrator, is pregnant with mischief, might possibly have been productive of the most serious consequences, and which is at best the height of folly.?London paper. IMPORTANT LWTTP.R. For th# following latter, enclosed nrnler the 4'iverpo<d it.it? of August I Oth, rttid rer^voH