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| Baltimore Price Current. J Fo* TIIE **»BBAL gazette. ] conaEcTEr; we e k l y. B' Prices. > 4 25. 5 50 14 12 ¦ Articles. Pet Breap. snip, cu-t. navy, pilot, Beef, 'ftcnaherh rr.ess, bbl. ,fri ,vfcargo,vNo.-l, . ¦ '-~,-No.2, 10 Bacox, /A. 11 Bpttee, for exportation, ' 18 Coffee, Patavte, 30 '.W. Inofcrbcstgr. 31 do. \ com. 29 Cottoh, W. IndirSisland, 26 LmiishmaY 26 Geovg-i4,uptand, 25 *" Sea-Island, ~CS'oco"i.*" "ft ¦¦¦¦¦ 20 Candles', mould, 21 :;¦,,. ¦ 18 spermaceti, 50 Cheese, American, . 1.1 English, best, 40 Duck, Russia, . . bit. 17 Holland,-" .24 Ravc.ns, 14 SO Russia Sheeting, piece 22 FiSB, cod. dry, qut. 4 50 ¦ . salmon, bbl._ - l><"'.'r'" "- 5 mackerel, 8 10 sii. . 8 'Flaxseed '"". bush. 1 cleansed, est. 12 *Floub, su-j ,.o, bbl. 6 75 fine, 6 "5 middlings, 5 rye, , 4 Chain, Indian corn, bush. wheat, Virginia, do.- Maryland, Rye, Barley, Clover seed, Oats, Hops, ffresh J lb. Hog's Laud, Leather, sole,. §Li'Mrr.n, per 100,/h oak, timb. & scant. boards, all sizes, p'.ne scantling, do. boards, 4-4 do. 3-4. White do. com. 4-4 do. clear, 4-4 shingles, cyp. 18 inch M. juniner, 24 do. do. com. do. i w 12 32 30 35 27 none 30 53 14 45 24 27 15 dull none scarce 1 12 7 6 50 50 50 70 1 25 1 25 65 80 7 50 45 20 15 18 2 9 1 12 2 50 2 2 25 2 50 2 50 6 50 25 18 20 2 25 2 25 1 30 staves, do. do. ton doz. o, pipe hhd. bbl. red oak, bbl. do. hhd. hhd.heading, Meal, corn,kiln-dried, bbl. PoitK, north ei'n mess, 'ts**K. Prime O-.-O Baltimore navy southern, .2d, ------------, 3d, Plaister Paris, Fr Porter, London, America*, Rice, (new) per 100 lb. Soap, American, white., lb. do. brown, Castile-, ' Saitfe rRliJ rough., Am. refined, I Sassafras, ton. Spiri i s,Brandy,F.4thp.#i/. Cognwc, 4thp. Barcelona, 1st p. do. 4Ui p. Gin, Hol'd, 1st p. - do. 2d p. do. American, Rum, ] am. 4th p. St. Croix, 3 &. 4 1 Antigua, 3 &. 4 i Windward. Island 55 36 22 12 16 30 4 25 19 18 22 19 12 1 3 50 3 50 8 50 5 60 25 14 20 32 SO 50 25 50 10 9 15 18 none, do. none 12 10 17 5 12 80' 90 none 14 1 90 76 62 67 70 50 46 14 50 10 50 13 50 12 50 12 50 .9 50 12 20 18 70 65 62 50 55 62 93 none 78 plenty. 75 52 15 11 13 13 50 10 12 50 75 70 55 none 13 American, Whiskey, Sugars, Havana, white, evit. do. brown, clayed, white, do. brown, niuscov. lstqual. ¦ ' do. 2d India, lstqual. -*paf, lb. lump, ¦{Salt, Sl.Ubcs, bush. Lisbon, Cadiz, Liverpool, blown, ground, Turks-Island, Isle of May, IShot, of all sizes, cist. 12 50 Tob-acco, Maryland, 100 .lb. fine yellow, List Upper PaUixent, 1st 7 50 8 50 Lower Patuxent, 1st 7 Potomac, 1st, 5 50 East, shore, 1st 5 Virginia, fit, 6 do. middling, 5 50 Rappahannock, 5 Georgia, 6 Tallow, American, ib. Wax, bees Wines, Madeira, L.P. gal. do. L. M. do. N.Y.M Lisbon, Sherry, Corsica, TerteritFe, Clan t, doz. do. new, , cvk. Malaga, gal. Port, 1 40 1 50 * Store trices. § Board measurement. \ Cargo prices. i'Second qualities of'fatuxeht, aie 2 dollars less ¦ Tdt-jiiiuc if Eastern-shore 1 dollar less. 50 5U 50 34 2 50 1 15 1 12 1 12 1 20 60 80 6 33 95 1 40 1 1 1 10 34 44 65 50 20 25 ¦ Average Prise or Stocksthis 8 per cents, 6 do. S | dik Louisiana, do. none at V. S. Bank Stock, Maryland Bank Stock, ... Baltimore do. - Union Bank of .Maryland'do. Mechanics' Bank, Alexandria iUmk do. Farmers Bank do. »" Colombia do. ". ' . Potomac do. Baltimore Insurance Shares, Mar.land eo. - - Marine Chesapeake Union Wafsi^Slock, dc. do. do. acei. 10S 98 S5aS$ market 134 S60 350 59 14 1-2 200 par pKt 90 300 600 "20 100 0 a 140 175 QN the subject of libels the doctrine of j the.English law is, the greater the truth the greater the offence. During the federal ad- ministration, or,' as it was termed, the rcigh of terror, a law was passed, which was more consonant with the spirit of our constitution. By the sedition act it was provided that the truth should be given in evidence and be considered as justification. Maiiy who were opposed to this law knew that the privilege of pleading the truth in justification would be no advantage to tUem. The verdict of an impartial jury, like the spear of Ithuriel, would strip them of their false colors, and exfcibit them in their native deformity. Hence when this salutary and constitutional law expired by its own limita- tion, the democrats refused to renew it, be. cause they dared not suffer their " serene" and immaculate rulers to be arraigned at Mr. Jefferson's famous " bar of reason." At the present session of congress, Mr. Daha has moved that a committee be ap- pointed to inquire whether prosecutions at common law, can be sustained in the courts of the'United States for libellous publicati- ons, &c. and whether it would not be pro- per if such prosecutions can be sustained, to allow the party prosecuted to give the truth in evidence. Mr. Eppes professes most valiantly his readiness to move for the impeachment of any officer who should dare to prosecute a citizen of the United States, under the common law. This man, who does not, or pretends not to know that the common law is a part of the law of the land, is to be told that there are yet some men of other times, some " good and true" men remaining in office, who are not to be intimidated by the bawl- ings, even of the son-in-law of the presi- dent. Such threats may have their effect upon some worthy judges of democratical creation, but the legislator may be assured that there are federal officers, who have nei- ther died nor resigned, who will not be de- terred from doing their duty even by the teiious terrors of democratical impeachment. Mr. Eppes perhaps is ignorant of the law by which Harry Croswell, the gallant edi- tor of the Balance, was punished for telling some libellous truths about the president : or, perhaps, he remembers the case of Cooper, at Philadelphia, who was tried for a libel upon Mr. Adams. He was permitted te give the truth in evidence, but could pro- duce none to support his allegations. And this was precisely the reason of the opposi- tion to the provisions of the sedition act. They were of no advantage to them. Bine ilLe lachryme ! HORNET. The following commendation of an high- ly ingenious and useful work, we copy from the New-York Evening Post. LITTERARY INTELLIGENCE. We lately received a work with a request to examine it and speak of it as it is, Enti- tled " Nature displayid in her mode of teach- ing language to man : or, a new and infalli- ble method of acquinring a language in the shortest time -possible, deduced from analysis of the human mind and consequently suited to eve- ry capacity, adapted to the French by N. G. Dufef, of Philadelphia, Second edition. Vol. I, U'atts, Philadelphia, p. p. 460. The first leisure hour We could find, we proceeded to examine this ingenious and original work. The preliminary discourse we read with much pleasure, and entire conviction of the utility of the author's plan, and its decided superiority over every other method of teaching a language hither- to attempted. The idea of learning the languages by rote and without the ar..ficial rules of grammar, was first suggested-by L -eke, in his treatise on education, (if we remember right) and has since, as Mr. Dufef informs us, been recommended by the respectable names of Condillac, S'icard, D'-Alemhcrt, Saint Pierre, i$c. Mr. Du- ficf however is the first who has had the boldness to advance against the torrent of living prejudice, and undeatake to cany into practice in a public Seminary what be- before only existed in theory. The ob- structions thrown i.\ his way by meanness, malevolence and envy, and his triumph over them is thus told in a not to this edition. " It was thus that I addressed the reader in my first edition, expecting a most viru- lent persecution ; for to thh aa experience has unfortunately proved, men, who have promulgated discoveries useful tg mankind, have ever been subject. Nor was I decei- ved. This work has oeen attacked both privately and publicly, with a rage border- ing on madness. The prospectus, which had been generally read, had sounded the tocsin amongst the enemies of truth, who prevailed upon several subscribers to re- fuse taking their copies, whileothers who had taken, them, insisted upon my refund- ing the money that had been received. " Anonymous letters of very heavy post- age were poured upon roe from various quarters. Thus surrounded by savage and barbarous assailants, 1 saw that I had no other alternative but to produce, with all dispatab, before the publiCj physical proofs of the .super excellence of nature's me- thod. 1 therefore opened a select school, in which.-nonc but such as had never attempted to learn French were admitted. Only three months aftervvards, emboldened by success which exceeded my most sanguine expecta- tions,. I invited to my chambers, through the medium of the public prints, " all those desirous of witnessing the powerful effects ! of the natural method." ." Many gentlemen did us the honor cf a visit. They were surprised to see boys, girls and people of mature years, who had made such progress as to be able to express their idea in the French language in a suf- ficient degree for any social purpose whate- ver. This logic of irresistable facts rapidly spread the fame of he new method ; and so c mplete was the revolution, that in Philadelphia, the centre of opposition, the natural method completely prevails, and from numerous letters received from gen- tlemen of learning in every part of the U. States, I may foretel that the old system of teaching living languages by grammatical rules will ere long be driven from this coun- try. " It is worthy of remark, that, although my invitation to come, hear and see, was principally addressed to masters inimical to the new system, only one came. It is un- necessary to state that this gentlemen (Mr. Desbordes, a professor in Mrs. Mallon's seminary) became a zealous convert to the method of nature." To the Preliminary Discourse succeeds a chapter entitled " The Logic of Facts Unan- swerable? in which the author presents a list of persons who have acquired the French language by his method, in a very short time (from three to less than twelve months) so as to he able to converse and to write correctly and fluently. On the whole, we feel compelled in candor to say, that the merits of this book appear to us, in so strong a point of view, in so imposing a shape, that we should feel ourselves wanting in our duty not to recommend it strongly to the notice of the inhabitants of this city. ¦"There must he as sctua! clanger at She time has passed rtwragli Crxmach -and" several -and (in the language of chief ,ustice Hale) it must plainly appear by the circumstances of the case, as the manner of the assault, the weapon, &c.that his life was in immi- nent danger; otherwise the k lling of the assailant will not be justifiable homicide. " But if the party killing had reasonable grounds for believing that the person slain had a felonious design against him, and un- der that supposition kill him ; although it should appear that there was no such design, it will not be murder, but it will be either manslaughter or excusable homicide, accord- ing to the degree of caution used, and the probable ground of such belief. " These principles have been recognized by the wisest and most humane writers on the criminal law. " After a due and impartial inquiry into the several cases that may require your at- tention, you will ascertain the facts, and afterwards apply the principles of Jaw, to obtain a just and legal result." IMPORTANT CHARGE. The following notes, we are assured, are from the charge of chief-justice Parsons, to the grand jury of the supreme judicial court lately in session in lioston. They embrace a subject which has excited a serious inqui- ry, and their accuracy may be relied upon, as coming from a source of integrity, pro- found knowledge and independence. [Columbian Centiiicl.] " Felony affecting life is either murder or man- slaughter. " Murder, is the wilful killing any per- son with malice aforethought, eitherexpress or implied. " The malice is express, when there was a premeditated intention to kill. " Malice is implied, when the killing is attended with circumstances which indicate great wickedness and depravity of disposi- tion, a heart void of social duty, and fatally bent on mischief. And every man who kills another in a duel, deliberately fought, is a murderer. " Manslaughter is the killing another, ei- ther wilfully, or through gross negligence, but not from malice aforethought, nor from accident, necessity, or lor the advancement of public justice. " Homicide,'from accident or necessity is excuseable ; and, for. the, advancement.of public justice, is justifiable, ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ' ' " Observing in the list of prisoners return- ed by the jail-keeper, that there are two per- sons charged with the crime of homicide, it may be useful to you in your enquiries, to mention some principles of law relating to this subject. " In every charge of murder, the fact of killing being first proved against the par- ty accused, to reduce the offence below that crime, by any circumstances of accident, ne- cessity, or human infirmity, he must satis- factorily prove those circumstances, unless they arise out of evidence produced against him. " When the act which occasions the death, is unlawful, yet if malice either ex- pressed or implied be wanting, the killing is not murder, but manslaughter, the act being imputed to the infirmity of human nature. "Neither words of reproach, however grievous, nor contemptuous or insulting ges- tures, without an assault on the person, are sufficient to free the party killing with a tiargerous weapon, from the guilt of mur- der. " An assault is an attempt or offer, with force and violence, to do a corporeal hurt to another,;:. by striking at him, or even hold- ing up the list at him in a threatening or insulting manner, or with such other cir- cumstances, as denote an intention & abili- ty, at the time, of using actual violence a- gainst his person. And when the injury, however small, as spitting in a man's face, or touching him in anger, is inflicted, it amounts to a battery, which includes an as- sault. " Any assault made, not lightly, but with violence, or circumstances of indignity upon a man's person, if it be resented immediate- ly, and in the heat of blood, by killing the party with a deadly weapon,is a provocati- on which will reduce the crime to man- slaughter ; unless the assault was sought for by the party killing, and induced by his own act to afford him a pretence for wreak, ing his malice. To illustrate this last ex- ception, a case is stated of the falling out of A. and B. A. says he will not strike, but will give B. a pot of ale to touch hiin, on which B. strikes him, and A. thereupon kills B. This is murder in A. notwith- standing the provocation received by the blow from B. because A. sought that pro- vocation. " A man may repel force by force in defence of his person against any one who manifestly intends or endeavors by force or surprise feloniously to kill him. And he is not obliged to retreat, but may pursue his adversary, until he has secured himself from all danger, and if he kill him in so doing, it is justifiable seli-defence. But a bare fear, however well grounded, unac- companied by any act iridica.uve of such intention, will net warrant biia in killing. From a Boston Paper. CURIOUS OCCUHRllENCE. Had that reveri d and renowned Patri- arch Job, expe ienced tine forbiddings and the flattering?, the hopes and the fears, the elations and depressions, that I his less pa- tient descendant, have of late, he would ere have followed the kind, yet blasphemous advice his loving spouse gave him, or have plunged into a grist mill (if any such thing there were then) and suffered himself to be pulverized in;o a consistency, capable of enjoying iinmolost:-d happiness. Ye who may chance to pick up the bottle containing this manuscript, written on birch bark, may, peraaventure have troubled yourselves to ob- tain it, and therefore to recompence you, I will elucidate the tendency of the foregoing exordium'. Thirty days lm:g metre have now elapsed, since th« write; here,if, embarked in the brig Levant, Thomas Harding, master, from Boston, (Massachusetts) to Savannah, (Geor- gia) and during all that period, nought but a continual series »f ill luck has attended uscalms, storms, gates, squalls, rains, sun, onion light, star light, and no light, head winds, heel winds, side winds, no winds, and all winds, vertical, horizontal, antipodial, and oblique waves, good, bad, indifferent, curious, queer, non-descript, and undescrib- able weather : All, all, and a thousand other odd particulars and circumstances, have we been incessantly and successively blessed with, to this Vvoe-fraught day And now as an addition to our ill-fate, we are becalm- ed in the Galph Stream, in lat. 34, N. long. 75, where, in all probability, the vessel will continue to drift i'or thirty days to come ; as for myself, a passenger, I am now hah" famished, and the crew are little better therefore, despairing of ever reaching land, without a miraculous interposition, I have penned this .uiu committed it to the (to me) nieiciless waves, expecting ere long to be in Davy Jones' l.cker, from which preserve m», O ye kind Genii. Thus fares it with. Augustus Moore, of Augusta, Georgia, this L(tu day of Au- gust, 1803.Amen'! The bottle which contained this Writing, was. found among rocks on the sea shore, near Daute, a. small place the west side of Tenerifle, in the month of August, 1805. TRENTON' (N. J.) January 12. Mr. James Hunt, of this country, killed II hots this season, which we:c 17 months old, and when dresssd, weighed together four thousand three hundred and eighty pounds. The same gentleman has fatted a pair of oxen for which hq has been offered tivo hundred dollars. Their weight we may probably give in our next. Militia Fines. We understand that in one battallion in Burlington county, that which joins tins place, nearly five hundred dollars have been collected. corps, from the interior of Fraflce, are on their march to the theatre of war. The French army of reserve has left Frankfort, for the seat of war, and the1 army of the north has commenced its operations and penetrated into Westphalia. After the battle of the, 14th October, the French troops occupied Weimar and the neighborhood, and Leipsic was likewise in their possession, by capitulation. On the 16th October, the French army, of IOO,000 men, defiled through Erfurt ; th; greatest part marched towards Gotha and Laugensalz. The few French which had been left in Leipsic were to be replaced by those of Hesse Darmstadt. The Prussian troops which formed the garrison of Leipsic have been sent home, furnished with pass- ports. It is said that Gotha and Laugensalz, have fallen into the hands of the French, after an engagement in the neighbourhood. An article dated, Hague i.\t\\ Oct. says, sinec the return of baron Jacobi. the Prus- sian minister to London, the court ot St. James has given to the king of Prussia, a subsidy of three millions sterling. FOURTEENTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. Dessau, October iz. Marshal Davoust arrived on the aoth at Wirtemberg, and surprised the bridge over the Elbe, at. the moment that the enemy had set it on fire. Marshal Lannes is at Dessau ; the bridge was burned, and the marshal basset men at work to re-build it. The marquis of Lucchesini presented himself at the advanced posts of our army, with a letter from the king of Prussia. The emperor sent the grand marshal of the pa- lace, Duroc, to confer with him. Magdeburg is blockaded. The general of division, Legrand,.,on his march to Mag- deburg, took a number of prisoners. Mar- shal Soult's division is posted round the town. The grand duke of Berg has sent thither the chief of his ptat-n»a}or-ge»en 1 Belliard. This general saw there the prince of Hohenlohe. The language of the Prus- sian officers is much changedihey are clamorous foe peace. " What docs your emperor wish, say they to us ? Is he fore- ver to pursue us thus hotly ? We have- not had one moment of respite since the battle. These gentlemen were, no doubt, accustom- ed to the manoeuvres of the seven years' was they were desirous of a truce of three days for burying the dead." " Do ye-u think of the living, was the answer of the emperor ? and leave to us the charge of hn- rying the dead ; there is no occasion for, a. truce for that." The confusion in Berlin is extreme ; al?. the good citizens who inwardly groan !,oc the fahc turn given to the politics of thett country, attribute, with reason, to the in- cendiaries excited by England, all the sad effects that have followed their machinations; the cry against the queen is loud and uni- versal. It seems that the enemy are about rally- ing beyond the Oder. The elector of Saxony has thanked the emperor for the generosity with which he; has treated him ; and the eifect of which is to withdraw him from the influence of Prus- sia. However a considerable number of his soldiers have perished in this uproar. The imperial head-quarters were at Des- sau the aist. BY THIS UAV's MAlEb. KINGSTON, (Jam.) Nov.. 29. The Tobago schooner, of 29 guns Lieut. Salmon, was captured on the 29th ult. by the privateer brig General Emouff, after an action of nearly an hour and a half and car- ried into Basseterre, Guadaloupe. The de- fence of this vessel is highly honorable to her officers and crew. The Tobago mount- ed 12 guns, and carried only 51 men : the General Ernouft, 16 guns, and 130 men ; notwithstanding which the contest was most gallantly sustained against the enemy's su- perior numbers, and did not until one officer was killed, Lieut. Salmon, and thirteen of his crew were wounded, three of his guns dismounted and the vessel cut up in her rig- ging, sails, &c. fall into the enemy's hands, who also suffered considerably in wounded, and had three men killed. SAVANNAH, (Georgia,) Dec. 27 A correspondent observes that Thursday was the wannest Christmas! Day that has been felt for fourteen years past; at 12 o'clock the Thermometer stood at 75 degrees, and at 7 o'clock in the evening, m a north room, tin vrflidows up, it stood at 72 degrees. SALEM, January 8. Arrived, ship Recovery, Ward, from Bom. bay. Sailed 27th August.. The barque H 11 ¦ per, Lander, of Salem, left Bombay for Ma- dras the 5th August. Ship Erin, o'rs"< of Baltimore, and the Hampton oi'.N. York, were lying theie waiting trial. An admiral- ty court was established there the 15th Au- gustthe latter ship was taken attempting to go into Mauritius with naval stores. Lett at the Cape of Good Hope, Oct. ib, ship Maria, Hughes, of-Philadelphia. The fol- lowing vessels had been stand left the Cape; ship Margaret, Fairfield, of Salem, sailed foe Mocha, Oct. 11. j Asia, Ellis, of Beverly, eastward, 12th ; Catharine, Beckford, Sa- lem, do. 14th ; brig Essex, Denny, Alexan- dria, for St. Helena, 18th. In 40 miles N. lat. and 30 W. long. w?.s boarded by a Bri- tish letter of marque, direct from Liverpool, who the night before was in co. with 3 or 4 transports and a frigate, with 7000 troops on. board for S. America. The barque Hind, Brace, Negapatam, k63. Left at Tranquebar, ship Margaret, of "tint- timbre, for Batavia. Nov. 11, long. Si, spoke ship Alexander, Hodgilon, 53£days from Beverly i'or Sumatra. The brig Cynthia, Ropes, Guadaloupe. Cleared, ship Union, Pierce, Sumatra ; brig Reward, Hayes, Smyrna. NEW-YORK, January 13. ' Our correspondent at New-Orleans, un- der date of the 8th ultimo, says, " Com- modore Shaw has purchased the fine cop- CHARLESTON, Dec. 27. I'll I 1 »MVV*\/**rf UJIflIT fr*UU UUlVllMi-Vl* »«..»» »>.V '"~"f By the arrival of the ship Portland, capt. | d ^.^ Ranger> and intends to arm'anrl Calender, in forty-hve days irom Bordeaux ¦ ^ her immediatcly. The recru.ting ser- .4ely. The recruiting : we have accounts up to the 7th November. 1 ^ commenced aome days ago." All the papers subsf^uent to the battle ot | pFATHS m this city during the iast WCr;k the 14th Oct. are filled with bulletins fromr, __Men wom(;a IQ> ^ 12> glrls ,.__ the grand army ; we have translated one ot ; rpotai $m them as a specimen of th* whole. No I Arrived, the brig Comet, Flemruing, 100 real information can be obtained from them ; d;,ys frora Bourbon, Passengers, captain the colouring is so coarsely and deeply laid Dtpeyster, late of the Regulator, lost at on that the whole subject is enveloped in Madegascar ; and captain Perley, having muT-.tainty. The Frossian troops having i sold his ship Favorite, at the Isle of Franc-,. . in 1;, ii^ZZ.*.-,* »iv»d fW ¦¦ On Friday last was boarded hy the British evacuated Berlin, Bonaparte, entered that J New-York for Bermuda, city oh the 21st Oct. without opposition. , UeMJ, im'polile,.. by the officers. On The usual activity of Banaparte pervades the 3amg day> 5aw 3 ships -uld 2 0«ior his preparations ; very considerable rein- square-rigged vessels Standing for Sanay- forcetneius are on their way to the grand ar- Hook. One of the s^ips was 3 miles fl».n mv ; general Seras has crossed the Tvrol Sandy Hook yest iiorning I with an army of 10,000 from Daimaua, TJw sloop Heve... , ,,'est, 6 days from I and are en their march to Saxony. Gen, "Jfgjj-^ the new ship Hondas, 13 Dsroi, at the head of 20,000 Bavarians, ^s from Nowbedfoi'd. |