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I From a French Pa/ier. Part:, May S3. The translation .of. the sward of, Frede- rick the Great to th* invalids, exhibited a gpeTctacle full of interest. In no circum- stance perhapS were the serttimetifs of gra- titude and admiration for oar armies and august cl tef who conducts them to victory; manifested with, (feore energy and enthusi- asm. * f: Early in ih" moffvingj the pjae'e do car- yousad and at] the avenues of the Thnilerie.s -were crouded with innumerable people. At the houv stated in the printed notice, there came out of the ThiiUeries amidst se veral salves' of aftillei'v, the carriages of the grand officers of the legion of honor, those of their excellencies the grand ufljeers of the empire, and those of their excellencies his majesty's ministers and of the prince arch-treasurer of the empire. Next came a triumphal car magnificently decorated, carrying 280 stand of colors corn quered last campaign. His excellency marshal Moncey next ap- peared, on'horseback, in the midst of some ¦ officers of his staff; he held in his hand the S .void of Fred-Tide (he Great, and the insig ilia worn by that, monarch. Immediately after came the carriage of his serene highness the prince arch-chancel- lor of the empire, attended by the staff of the government of Paris, on horseback. Wherever this brilliant cavalcade passed through to repair to the invalids, unanimous cries cf long live the emperor ! long live the armies ! were heard, mixed with the flourish- es of military music, the sound of drums and the report of cannon.. The church of the invalids had been deco- rated with great care and taste. In the most eteva'ed part of it, and at the entrance of the dome the throne appeared, covered with rich drapery. The part allotted for the ceremony extend- ed from the throne to about the middle of the nave of the church. It contained seats and steps for all the persons of dignity who by their places were to take part in the ce- TPtmony. Galleries for the ladies invited to the fetes surrounded this space. The ppper galleries of the church were ornamented with an elegant drapery, and set apart for the members of the senate, the canned of state, the legislative body, and the tribunate ; for the members of the tribu- nal of Cassation, those of the national Com- patabilite, and Tor the officers of their ma- jesties' households, and those of the princes and princesses of the imperial family. Upon the arrival of the cavalcade at the invalids, his excellency marshal Serrurier, the governor, came to receive his serene highness the prince arch-chancellor at the gate of Uie fore court. The car which carried the conquered co- lors advanced as far as the grating, which its elevation did not permit it to pass.— There some old invalids received the colors, and carried them to the place allotted for ^Jthe ceremony. During this-maTeh, a numerous orchestra, placed over the gate of the church, executed a military sy mpliony. Mr. de Fontancs, president of the legis lative boly, appeared at the tribune and de- livered the following speech : Monseigneur, " Never was there a move noble fete given by victory ; and never did fortune offer at the same time a more memorable example of her catastrophes and her sports. O vanity of human judgments ! () short and fallacious prosperities! All the voices of renown cele- brated for fifty years the glory of the Prus- sian monarchy. The tactics of its army, the saving of its treasury, and the wisdom of its government, were gi> ck, this government where- jn»ne beheld rathei an army than a people, le<- its real weakness be seen. A single bat- erthrew those phalanxes so often victo , which, in the seven years war, had surmounted the efforts of Austria, Russia and France leagued against them. Is it this then, that was promised by those approved taints, that long experience of the oldest generals of Europe those annual camps, wherein all militarytbeories were developed, faraons reviews, those skilful manoeu- vres, which from one end of Europe to the other the most able commanders came to study upon the banks of the Spree ? That new art of war, all the secrets of which people went to dive into with great noise at Potsdam, has just yiolded-fothecombinations of an ort still vaster and bolder. Let ns en- joy so great a triumph, but let us honor, af- ter having- conquered them, these remains of Prussian greatness, upon which so many heroic remembrances are still stamped, and ever which the shade of Frederick seems to groan. " When formerly in that city the mis- t/ess of the world, an illustrious Roman* camf to suspend upon the WaKs of the Capi- tol the spoils of the kingdom ofMacedon, he could not help feeling a deep emotion, upon thinking of the exploits of Alexander, and contemplating the calamities spread over liis house. The hero of Fr mce was not less affected when he entered those sorrow- ful and deserted palaces formerly occupied with so much lustre by the hsro of Prussia. He was seen to seiae with a religious ethusi- asm this sword of which he makes such a aioble present to his veterans ; but he for- bade that fhe arms and Prussian eagles, that all this mass of trophies conquered from the descendants of a great king, should cross the place where his ashes rest, for fear of afficting his manes and insulting his tomb. (t) " I think therefore, that I enter into the thbughts of the conqueror, in rendering ho- mage to the conquered before these very colours which they were unable to defend, but which they dyed with glorious blood. Iffrom the elevated regions which they in- herit, the great men whom the earth has (*•) Paul Hi Emiliui, (see Ph/tarqne) (i) The emperor forbid 'iai he colors tpn- t/uereci from the Prussians should be canted through Potodam, the'f.la:d--aihere Frederick dud. j lore, -lill interest trieffiselve: in human af- fairs, Frederic was able to recogrrjzef even in their last breath, the old companions formed at his school, and who died worthi- ly upon the ruins of his Monarchy. He did not see fall without glory those ynung princes of his house who bit the dust in the field of Jena, or who, after illirtricus feats, signed capitulationsand.received honourable fetters, ., O how just it is to pity unfortnale valor ! O how sweet it is to he able to es- teem encores -', hom one has defeated ! Yes, and it is a pleasure to me t say it in the midst of all these judges of true ^l>ry with whom I am '.unrounded ; yes, the Prussian monarch him^e'f, at this clay without a ca- pital and almost -ithout sn army, support- ed, however, Jiis dignity in the battle which was so fatal to him, and was want- ing neither in. (he duties of a chief, nor in those of a soldier. '« But these last sparks of the genius of Frederic had not sufficient strength and ac- tivity to reanimate a monarchy where arti- ficial power was perhaps destitute of those preservative principles which maintain socie- ties. I cannot conceal, but some sages have made several reproaches to Frederic. If they admire in him the indefatigable admi- nistrator and the great commander, they have not the same esteem for toe same opi- nions of the philosopher-king. They would have wished him to have been better acquainted with the rights of nations and the dignity of man. To the cries of the philosopher of Sans-Souei, they oppose with advantage thai book wherein Marcus-Aure- lius, who was also a warrior and philoso- pher, returns thanks to heaven, upon set- ting out, forgiving him a pious mother and good masters win inspired him with the fear and love of the divinity. Instead of that disdainful and fatal philosophy which gives up to ridicule the most respected tradi- tions, the sages I speak of love to see reign that grave and beneficent philosophy, which supports itself by the doctrine of the sages, which engenders fine sentiments, which gives a value to fine actions, and which con- stituted more than once, upon ascending the throne, the delight and honor ot mankind. They think in one word, that a king can- not with impunity profess a contempt for those salutary maxims which guarantee the authority of kings. " I stop; it would ill become me at this moment to accuse with too much bitterness the memory ol a great monarch whose pos terity has just undergone so many misfor- tunes. His image is already but too much grieved at the spectable of our glory and at these triumphal pomps which we form with the wreck of his diadem. But w' one ought not to show one's self too severe towards an- other great man who surpasses htm, and when Frederic had the imprudence to pro- claim in his court those reproachful doctrines which soon, or late destroy the social order, ought I to forget that Nap¦•leon raised again to hom,r those noble doctrines which repair all the evils of atheism and anarchy ? " Thus in this par t of his history, as in atl others, our monarch has no more ri- vals ; Jahd not to stray from the art of ,'¦ ar of which this august assembly recals allthe prodigies, how much all that was great dis- appears before the extraoadinary enterprises 'j,e are witnesses of ? Armies fought, go- vernments negociated formerly during years for the capture of a few towns, and now a few days decide the fate of kingdoms. What military name, what political talent, what glory ancient or modern is not hence- forward lowered before him, who from the seas of Naples to the borders of the Vistula, keeps in repose so manv subdued nations ; •ho encamped in a Sarination village, re- ceives there, as at his court, the ambassa- dors of Isaphan and Constantinople, aston- ished to find themselves together ; who u- nites in the same interests the sectaries of Omar and of Ali; who joins in common tie both the Spaniard and the Dutchman, the Bavarian and the Saxon; who, for still vaster desingns makes the movements of Asia concur with those of Europe ; and who shews a second time, as under the Ro- man empire, the warlike genius arming it- self with all the strength of civilization, ad- vancing against Barbarians and forcing them to withdraw towards the bounds of the world. " It does not belong to me to raise the veil which covers the aim of his distant ex- pedition. It Suffices me to know that the great man by whom they are direct- ed, is not less admirable in what he conceals, than in what he alllows to be seen ; and what he meditates than in what he executes. Does he wish to raise again those ancient barriers which held at the confines of tile polished universe all those barbarous hordes with which the north al- wys menaced the south ? His policy has not yet spoken, let us wait until he ex. plains himself, and let us especially remark that this silence is the surest guarantee of his pacific intentions. " He wished, he still wishes for peace, he asked for it at the moment of vanquish- ing ; he asked it again after having vanquish- ed. Altho' all the fields of battle, which he has run through in three parts of the world, have constantly been the theatres of his glory, he has ever groaned for the disas- ters of war. It is because he knows all the scurges of it, that. he takes care to carry them far from us. This great view of his military genius, is a great benefaction. War ought to be paid for with foreign sub- sidies, in order not to agravate too much the national burdens ; one ought to live in the enemy's country, in order not to starve the peop-e whom one governs. The inter- nal security is then the reward of those un- heard-of fatigues, of tlifose numberless pri- vations, of those dangers of every land to which heroism devotes itself. Compare to our present situri'-n that of the sr.'ojccts of Frederick, when twice driven from his ca- pital, iti spite cf his exploits he as uuable eve'-i after the victories to defend the indus- try' of his towns and the harvest of his country1 a";ai:'-ct the ferocities of the Russians and the plunder of the Ausfrians. Such is not our destiny- Paris, and the whole em- pire re-roses in prof and calm under the au- thority of that Same hand which spreads terror three hundred leagues from our. fron- tier- [Here the orator, after having paid a just tribute of praise to the armies which have procured this security to Fran.-e- grinds,'by the striking examples of Frederic and Napo- leon, what the genius of two great men is capable of effecting upon the destinies of their people. Then all of a sudden, he stops and cries out ] " But alas ! whilst I am forming much less for him than for us, these wishes enter- tained by all Fr-.nch hearts, a royal child has just entered the tomb ; and the regrets of his family are mingled with our hymns of victory. ** Perhaps at this moment the hero who saved ns weeps in his tent at the head of three hundred theusand victorious French- men and so many confederate princes and kings who march under his ensigns. He weeps, and neither the trophies accumulated round him, nor the lustre of twenty sceptres which he holds with so steady a hand- and which Charlemagre himself did not unite, can turn his thoughts from the coffin of that child, whose first steps he helped with his triumphant hands, and whose premature in- telligence he was one day to have cultivated. Ah ! let him not be ignorant at least that his domestic misfortunes have been felt as a public misfortune and let so sweet a testi- mony of the national interest cairy to him some consolation. All our alarm!) for the future are further homages which we render him. May at l«ast fortune content herself with the young victim which she has struck, and may she, in always seconding the pro- jects of the greatest of sovereigns, no more make him pay for his glory by similar mis- fortunes." His serene highness the prince arch-chan- cellor afterwards came down,, to deliver in- to the haiv.'s of the governor of the invalids the sword of Frederic ; his excellency mar- shal M ney hastened to meet him, and to offer it to him : his serene highness, in giv- ing it to the governor, to erher with the insignia of the Prussian monarch, expressed himself in these terms : " In the name and by order of his ma- jesty the emperor and king, our most gra- cious sovereign, I deliver to you, marshal, the insignia and arm- which belonged to a monarch, oi whom Prussia and Europe will ever preserve a :n eat remembrance. »' This conquest, made by the hero of France, is (>t her a rich spoil, and a worthy ornament for the asyliHto of the defenders of the stale. '; I also deliver to you the standards taken fr m the enemy during this last brilliant campaign. u It is his majesty's intention that they should remain under the fcuard of the brave fellows whom you command, until they be placed on the monument which his majesty ty wishes to have elevated to the immortal glory of the armies. Here, it is, marshal, that from all parts, interest and admiration come to seek for the trophies of French valor ; those who- shall henceforth visit this hall will recognise in the double disposition made by the orders of his imperial majesty a new proof of ins benevolence for his old soldiers, and of his particular esteem for their worthy comman- der. His excellency marshal Serrurier, governor of the invalids, answered ; " Monseigneitr, " We are still here upwards of 900'rnen who have fought the great king, whose war- like spoils have just been conquered by our Children. Fortune did not always second our courage. The fathers had not less bra- very than the children; but they had not the same commander. We cannot, however, recollect without pride, the words of this great man : " Were I at the head of the French people, not a cannon shot should be fired in Europe without my permission:" an honorable testimony of his esteem for the soldiers wdio fought against him. Gut it was under the reign of a sovereign still greater by his genius, by his high fetes, and by his moderation, that the French people are to arrive at that high degree of glory and power. . " We swear faithfully to keep the trea- sure which his imperial end royal majesty has entrusted to our care ; a.id after the honor of being the depositaries of it; no- thing can be more precious for us than to receive it from the hands of your high- ness." The words nve swear it, repeated by the invalids, re-echoed through the church. The chorus of the triumphal song re- commenced. H. S. H. remounted near tne throne, signed on the registers of the hotel of the invalids, the proccs 'verbal of the delivering of the sword and insignia of the great Frederick, and of the standards con- quered in the last campaign. His excellency the governor signed after the prince chan- cellor. T. S. H the princes, arch-chancellor and arch-treasurer of the empire rose, and whilst the orchestra played a military symphony, came down the steps of the throne, and advanced towards the church door at the head of the minis-teis and of the grand offi- cers o; i , .od of the legion of ho- nor-. .(),'. g f — hotel of ttw invalids, chancfcBor requested , the the object of its union ' ry announced the BY THIS DAY's MAILS. NEW-YORK, July 27. Arrived, the ship Atlantic, Barnum, t",6 davs from Calcutta. Left, ships Oliver Elsworth, Ely, of. New York; and Eliza, and Mary, White, "of Salem, to sail in 15 days ; Bengali of Philadelphia ; Eliza Ann, Eilis, of do. from Batavia ; -------, Norri., of do. just arrived from Lisbon. May 30 in sight of the cape, spoke two Portuguese Indiamen from Bengal for Lis- bon, the Speke and Grand Percira—-next day, spoke the ship Bellisarius, Lovett, of Salem, from Leghorn lor Bengal. July 15, lat. 2y. 43, long. 62, 33, sloop Di- rector, Rutgers, 14 days from Norfolk for Antigua. July 18, lat. 36, 49, long. 33, 4, spake the schr. Juliana, Fenner, of Pro- vidence, 1 days trom N. Carolina forGuad. Same day. was brought to, and boarded by the British frigate Melampus, from Chesa- peake Bay, bound to Bermuda for w.i'er ; had two men Impressed, one having a Prus sian, and the other an American protection, in other respects was treated very politely. July 2Q, lat. 35, 50, long. 66, spoke the brig Industry, of Newburyport, 6.days from Alexandria, for Kingston. The sloop Morning Star, Doneily, from Wilmington. The ship Ohio, Hall, 55 days from Ma- laga. The brig Eliza, Gray, 10 days from Ha- vana. Left, brigOsprey, Smith,to sail ti^xt •day for New-York; schr. Good Intent, for do ; brigs Actress, for Baltimore, in 4 days; Black Walnut, in 5 for do. ; brig Anna, Tickle, in 10 for Philadelphia ; and forty or fifty other American vessels. The schr. Resolution, Brown, 12 days from Curracoa. Off H'spaniola was board- by a British frigate, and had Thomas Tomp- son a seaman, pressed. Below last night two ships and r schr. One of tha ships, supposed to be the Su-_. san, m a short passage from Bordeaux. Cleared, ship Huron, Newell, Teneriffe ; Two Marys, Riley, Nantz ; Henrietta, Nickies, Liverpool ; Hudson, Tombs, Liverpool ; brig Swift, M'Laughlin, St. John, N. B. ; Herald, Derby, Ant- werp ; schr. Hiram, Triton, Newfound- land ; Betsey Cotton, Pugh, Edenton ; Ceres, Thorp, Charleston ; Pandora, Leo- vtt, St. Johns ; Hetty, Noys, Jamaica ; Weymouth, Weymouth, Norfolk ; sloop Mary, Gifford, Westport ; Rose, Gifford, Nantucket. PHILADELPAIA., July 29. Arrived, ship Amelia, M.itthe.vs, Lon- don, 51 days ; schr. Eliza, Boyd, Cadiz, via New-York; Hope, Lincoln, Boston, 14; Retaliation, Dagget, Boston, 11. Cleared, ship Liberty, Singleton, Lisbon and a market ; brig Junius, Robers, St. Croix ; Amazon, Eils, St. Petsrsbnrg ; schr. Ann Pennock, Fullerton, Barbadoes, and a market ; Campden, Avagher, Cayen- ne, Olive Branch, Rial, North-Carolina. The brig Eliza, Gardner, from Bonavis- ta is below. Arrived, ship Amelia, Matthews, Lon- don, sailed 29th May. Left, brig Helen, Foster, for Philadelphia, in a few days.— Captain M. touched at Deal, and left the Downes on the 3d of June—was boarded on the banks by a British 44 from Hali- fax. The American ship Juno, Lightburne, from Port-Mai la bound to Norfolk, taken by a French privftteer schr. off Heneaga on the 27th nit. and recaptured the same day, by the Cuba frigate, has arrived at Kings- ton, (Jam.) Most of the crew of the Juno were taken on board the privateer and very severly treated. The American ship Herald, Bartlett, from Carthagena in Old Spain bound to La Vera Cruz, with paper, brandy and rai- sins, has been detained and sent into King- ston. Latest from Europe. Yesterday arrived, ship Amelia, captain Matthews, from Lon don, which he left the 29di May, and the Downs the 3d of June, and furnishes us with a Canterbury paper of the 2d of June, from which we have only time and room for the following extracts, which are the chief it contains except a long account of an insurrection of some of the foreign troops at Malta, which they so far effected as to blow up a magazine of 500 barrels of pow- der, before they were quelled, when 25 of them were taken and executed. It does not appear by the paper or by verbal accounts, that any material action had taken place be- tween the liussians and French. Further extracts to-morrow. London. June 2. It is reported that the subsidies required for the present campaign by Prussia and Russia, amount to seven millions. Ptivate letters from Hamburg, under date of the 22d, state that a report had reached that city of a very dreadful battle having taken place between the Russians and the Frei.ch: in the neighborhood of Dantzic, in which the latter lost 30,000, and the former remained masters of the field. The siege of Dantzic was consequently raised. These letters add, that, it is confidently reported that the king or Sweden has not only refus- ed to ratify the armistice, but has actually recommenced hostilities. The Grand Expedition. The time when the large expedition now preparing will actually sail, depends on the contingencies which may result from the present state of affairs upon the continent ; but we are assured that minisiers are inde- fatigable in their different departments, and that such activity has been employed that every thing will be ready in fourteen days from this date. An immense number of transports are hired j—Ordinance, Military, and medical stores, have been embarked ; and a large body, of troops is iii the neighborhood of the points of embarkation y so that on the very first receipt of expected itiMbVr) from-the .continent, ti.e tr op «ill be . ried 011 board, and Sail without a moun n.v delay. In addition to the quantity of Stores no *" on board the Transports, 30,000 set.-, 1 f * accoutrements were ordered from a honte"* in the city within t.'ie c few days. A Tonnirigert mail aVmefl n Saturday morning, \<'ith letters and papers from Ham- burg and Alto.ia to the 2.1th instant. The rumor of a negociation fr,,- e etieral pence, under the mediation of Austria, earns gro md daily. A paragraph, dated Banks of fhe Maine, May 16th, says, •' The publ.c jour- nals state, upon the authority of accounts from Vienna that proposals for peace have already reached Vienna and Buda ; imme- diately after the arrival of which, a councr was sent off to London, with these propo- sals, to invite the English go.eminent tr» accede to them ; but many persons doubt that they, will lead to a successful issue. ' An article, dated Vienna, May iji adds, " We are here positively assured that France and Russia have accepted the mediation r.f our court, upon condition, however, that there should be no armistice during ihe course of the negotiations." The pres- ent appearance of affairs upon ths conti- nent corresponds with these accounts ; for though an armistice be expressly prohibited, it is natural that the chance of peace, held out by an existing -negociation, should ie- strain the ardor for the final appeal to a ge- neral action—and there does not appearany other satisfactory cause for the long pause thiit has taken place in the miiitary operati- ons iii Poland upon a large scale. From the Danube, May 16. It does not appear hi the several camps for practising manctuvres any evolutions which were expected to be formed in the course Ofthe summer, are to take place. Every officer who wishes for leave of ab- sence, obtains It without the lest difficulty, and every thing shows that the imperial cabinet persists in its pacilic dispositions. Peace alone can heal up the wound inflicted on the house of Austria by an unfortunate war. The chief attention of the imperial ministry is directed to the restoration of the finances. [flamlurg Correspondsnten, May 36.] Breslau. May 16. Our Gawtte lias this day published a sop - [dement extraordinary, containing- the fol- lowing intelligence: " The enemy having been driven freni Carth, on the i4th, by the column com- manded by General Dnmny, after suffering considerable loss, effected his retreat by tlie side of the mountains. Gen. Lefebvre pur- sued him, and came up with him near Ke- velsdorf. Not to mention the number oC killed, he took 700 prisoners, among whom were 30 officers, and 3 pieces of cannon. We do not yet know all the results of this? \ brilliant day on which our brave allies per- formed prodigies of valor." ¦. , NORFOLK, July 24. Arrived, schr, Don, Hovey, 9 day* from Matanzas. Left there brigs Boston, Choat, for Charleston, in 8 days; -----¦--, Davis, for Boston, o ; schr's-------, Ander- son, of and from Charleston, 12 ; Mount Fernen, Todd, of and for Baltimore, 8 »- sloop Caroline, Mnnro, for Bristol (R. i.) 4 ; Spoke July .13, in lat. 24, long. 3o, 40, ship Commerce, Cole, from New- York, 10 days out—parted company I5th> in lat. 26, 31, long. 80, 36. The Richmond and Petersburg infantry, will .we understand, set out on the return, to their respective places of residence on, Sunday next. The executive of the commonwealth has, we understand, directed the five persons that were taken in Princess Ann, to be de- tained for orders ol the general government. The British ships remain as heretofore. [Ledger.' <••] Jamaica Rum, he. 102 puncheons 4th proof Jamaica Rum, ¦i Lhcls. Molasses, Will be landed to morrow on Spear's-wharf from on board the schooner Mary, captain Evans, from Fain outh, J on. For sale by FOULKE h KAKIUCk. Who have put ttciimd, 14 cases Fashionable London Hats, entit- led to debenture. _ July 28.__________________________«6t For Sale, 32 liluls. 1st quality Molasses, 15 do Jartiaica Rum, well flavored and liigdi 4th proof, A ¦ pipes Bordeaux Brandy, 50 llhds. Green Copperas, 100 bbls. Southern Poik By aaron r. Levering. No. 79, Bowly's wharf. July 28.__________________________d5t. ¦¦ For Sale, The Cargo of the brig Ann and Mary4 fiom Lisbon. 2000 bushels Salt, 100 boxes Lemmons, 16 pipes ~i 18 hluls. C Lisbon WINE, 170 qr. casks J 7 pipes Brandy, 30 bales porks, 150 lb's. best Spanish Saffron, ROBERT BARRY. Jedy 28. d6t Wants a Situation, In a wholesale or retail Store, or Comiting1- House, a young Man, Who writes a plain hand, and is tolerably well acquainted with accounts. He would have no objection to go to any part of United States. Can product satisfactory testimony of his integilty, hr., A line addressed to B. and left at this office will be attended to. juy 7 eo4i|- To Journeymen Tailors, A number of good workmen in the above line will meet with immejll»tf employment, by applying t* KfcNUY HOWARD, Ho. 1, LeHim»)i Sireec, July si