: -- Its cultivation employs a part of our fellowcitizens; let us remember that we are all soldiers, and that it is warlike nations alone who have been able to preserve their liberty. Let us call to mind that a handful of Greeks, devoted to their country, confounded the rage of a million of barbarians, who endeavoured to wrest from them their liberty.' Let us swear to imitate their example: let us swear to observe our sacred constitution, to cause it to be observed, and to perish sooner than allow it to be violated in the smallest degree. Published at the head-quarters at the Cape, February 17, 1807. HENRY CHRISTOPHE, President. ROUA-' NEZ, Secretary of State. CONTINENTAL WAR. -Sixty-second Bulletin of the Grand French Army. Liebstadt, Feb. 21.--The right of the grand army has been victorious, like the cen of the commodities it produced, it is necessary that it should attract the merchants of every country on the globe, both by its equity and its produce.-Trade being the source of all our wealth, it is important that the foreign merchants who frequent our ports, should be equally protected with our fellowcitizens and that they should receive all the hospitality due to this useful class of society. To feed this trade-to give it a new spring agriculture must be prosecuted with perseverance and vigour. Placed under the finest climate of the world, favoured by nature with her most precious gifts, even to profusion, the husbandman has not at Hayti to contend with the rigour of a frozen clime, or to fortify himself against the inclemencies of the seasons. A little labour is sufficient to enrich him, and to place him on a level with the manufacturers of other countries. Exert yourselves, then, industrious cultivators, to fill your warehouses with the pro-tre and the left. Gen. Essen, at the head of duce of our fertile soil. Display to the eyes of the merchants of Europe all that can tempt their desires, and you will soon see your trade flourish much above your most sanguine expectations.-After having re-established religion, defeated morality, restored manners, and encouraged agriculture and trade, we shall have still great labours to encounter. We must not neglect the use of arms. The enemy watches our movements, and observes our proceedings. We have as yet no guarantee of the atlection of our friends. We must bind the latter to us by treaties; we must be ready to meet the former in the field. Abandoned to ourselves, our resources are in ourselves. They are in you, soldiers, who are ready gene. rously to spill your blood sooner than yield to a haughty enemy your liberty, which is the reward of your courage! They are in you, inhabitants and industrious cultivators, from whom the state derives its wealth! It is your union, your submission to the laws, which are to be the cement and bond of our independence. The line of politics which foreign powers will pursue with respect to us is not yet manifest: whatever it may be, let us place ourselves in such a situation, that without holding out any defiance to them, we may, at the same time, have nothing to dread from those who may entertain hostile intentions. Let those who wish a political connection with us, or who would wish to enjoy the advantage of our commerce, find au equitable reciprocity. To the rest, let us only offer death and battle.-At the same time that we are occupied with these thoughts, let us never forget, that the safety of a free people is best inaintained by arms. Gen. 25,000 meu, advanced to Ostrolenka on the the Cossacks of the rear guard of the enemy. The fire was very brisk; the enemy gave way on all sides, and was followed fighting during three leagues. The next day the enemy was pursued several leagues but without being perceived. His cavalry had retreated the whole night. General Suwarrow and several other officers of the enemy are among the slain. The enemy has abandoned a great number of wounded, 1200 have been taken off the field, and more are bringing in every instant. Seven pieces of cannon and two standards are the trophies of this victory. The enemy has left 1300 dead on the field of battle. On our side we have had 60 men killed, and from 4 to 500 wounded. But a Joss most sensibly felt is that of the General of Brigade, Campana, who was an officer of great merit and promise: he was born in the department of Marengo. The Emperor has been much grieved at his loss. The 103d regiment distinguished itself particu larly in this affair. Among the wounded are Col. Du Hamel, of the 21st regiment of light infantry; and the Coionel of artillery, Nourrist. The Emperor has ordered the 5th corps to go into winter quarters. The thaw is dreadful. The season will not permit any thing great to be atchieved; it is that of repose. The enemy first broke up from his quarters; he has repented it. 63d Bulletin of the Grand French Army. the battle of Eylau. All the cannon are already sent off to Thorn. His Majesty has ordered that these cannon shall be melted down, and inade into a brazen statue of Gen. Hautpoult, commander of the 2d division of cuirassiers, in his uniform of cuirassier. The army is concentrated in its cantonments behind the Passarge, with its left supported by Marienwerder, the island of Nogat, and Elbing, countries which afford resources.Being informed that a Russian division had marched towards Braunsberg, at the bead of our cantonments, the Emperor ordered it to be attacked. The Prince of Ponte Corvo assigned thisexpedition to Gen. Dupont, an officer of great merit. On the 26th, attwo o'clock in the afternoon, General Dupont presented himself before Braunsberg, attacked the enemy's division, 10,000 strong. overthrew it with fixed bayonets, drove it from the town, and made it recross the Passarge, took from it 16 pieces of çannon, two stands of colours, and made 2000 prisoners. We had very few men killed. On the side of Gustadt, General Leger-Belair repaired to the village of Peterswade, at day break on' the 25th, upon receiving advice that a Russian column had arrived, during the night, at that village, overthrew it, took the General Baron de Korff, who commanded it, his staff, several Lieutenant-Colonels and Offcers, and 400 men. This brigade was composed of ten battalion, which had suffered so much, that they formed only 1600 men under arms.-The Emperor, in testimony of his satisfaction to Gen Savary for the en gagement of Ostrolenka, has granted him the grand insignia of the Legion of Honour, and called him about his person. His Majesty has given the command of the 5th corps to Marshal Massena, Marshal Lannes continuing to be sick.-At the battle of Eylau, Marshal Augereau, overrun with rheumatic pains, was sick and hardly in his senses; but the cannon awakes the brave: he flew in full gallop to the head of his corps, after getting himself tied upon his horse. He was constantly exposed to the greatest fire, and was even slightly wounded. The Emperor has just ordered him to return to France, for the purpose of taking care of his health. The garrisons of Colberg and Dantzick, availing themselves of the little attention Osterode, Feb. 28, 1807.- -Captain Auzoni, of the Imperial Horse Guards, mortally wounded in the battle of Eylau, was lying upon the field of battle. His comrades came to take him up, and carry im to the hospital. He recovered his senses only to say to them: Let me alone, my friends; I die contented, since we have gained the day, and that I can die upon the bed of honour, surrounded by the cannons taken from the enemy, and the wrecks of their defeat. Tell the Emperor that I have but one regret: which is, that in a few mo ments I shall be no longer able to do any thing for his service, and the glory of our fine France-to her my last breath-.' The effort he made to utter these words, exhausted the little strength he had remaining.All the reports we receive, agree in stating that the enemy lost at the battle of Eylau, 20 generals, and 900 officers killed and wound-paid them, had encouraged themselves by ed, and upwards of 30,000 men disabled At the engagement of Ostrolenska, of the 16th, two Russian generals were killed and three wounded.--His Majesty has sent to Paris the sixteen stands of colours taken at - different excursions. An advanced post of Printed by Cox and Baylis, No. 75, Great Queen Street, and published by R. Bagshaw, Brydges Street, Covent Garden, whereformer Numbers may be had sold also by J. Budd. Crown and Mitic. Pall Mall VOL. XII. No. 3.] LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1807. [PRICE 10D. TEN THOUSAND POUNDS REWARD.-A Gentleman of the most respectable connections, is desirous "of obtaining a Permanent Post of HIGH HONOUR in some department of the Government. 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It is of course unnecessary to state that the views of this Advertiser are "considerable; as also it is to abstain from the nonsensical declaration of secresy, usually sound in ad"vertisements of this kind, convinced that no treaty of this or any other nature can be brought to effect, "without a mutual understanding of good faith in the outset. Letters addressed H. Y Z. to the Bar of the "British, Cockspur-street, before the 15th of July, will meet with every proper attention."- MORNING POST news-paper, 7th July, 1807. 65] (Con SUMMARY OF POLITICS. PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT. tinued from page 52.)——I. Jobs in General and in Particular.--II. Closed Doors. -I. Upon the subject of JOBS we must revert to the report of the debate of the 26th of June upon the Speech from the throne, Lord Howick, who, in due course and form, opposed the address, took occasion to speak of what he called the jobs of his opponents. It was, doubtless, a harsh term to make use of; but, as he made use of it so may we. He was insisting, that the object in dissolving the parliament was to get a parliament. more completely devoted to the ministry; much about, I suppose, my lord, the same object which the dissolution of 1806 had in view. But, that is no matter. In order to support his argument, his lordship mentioned several facts which had come to his knowledge, relating to the influence employed by the ministers, during, or upon the eve of the election. He said that, "with respect to the influence of the "crown, it had been exercised during the "last election, in a most unexampled man ner. In this country to a great degree, but in the sister kingdom most unblushingly, both in temptation and threats. "In one borough in Ireland, a candidate had dared ANY elector to vote against him; and he had been told, that in another popular contest, the crown solicitor had gone down, and informed Mr. Grogan, that the forfeiture of his estates would be enforced, unless he and all his [66 W "tenantry voted for the partisans of govern measure to parliament. In two days af"terwards, parliament is prorogued, pre"vious to its immediate dissolution; so "that the noble Secretary must have known "that he deprived himself of the power of "proposing the measure, by advising the "dissolution. The restoration of the Inspecting Field Officers was a most objectionable step. He had never met with. a single Volunteer-officer who did not "hold these Inspecting officers in utter contempt: they had no command: they "the general election, a hundred new offi"C ces were to be distributed, and these inspectors of elections, for so they were in fact, were each to have pay and allowan ces, making the whole expence to the na"tion between 37 and 40,000l. a year for no advantage whatever! This was the "little beginning of these mighty enemies "to patronage: more pure and unadulteratel jobs never existed than these appoint"ments."-Thank you, my lord Howick! Thank you for this valuable declaration. It will do us great good, if we have but patience. To threaten the whole of the electors of a borough was a bold thing to be sure; and, I dare say, no such threats were necessary at Appleby, that fine free borough, which you have the honour to represent. — Lord Howick was answered by Mr. Perceval, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Clerk of the Irons, and reversioner of patent places, held by his brother, worth about £12,000 a year. This gentleman is reported to have said, that, " another charge ample, at the late election. He was con"vinced, however that no case could be produced parallel to what had been brought under the consideration of the last parliament, with respect to the Hump"shire Election. The noble lord had in"stanced one case respecting Mr. Grogan, "but this was the first he had heard of it; "the noble lord had then stated, that it was "notorious that 100 Inspecting Field Off cers had been appointed to the volunteer force previous to the election, with a view "to influence the electors. There might or might not be merit in the appointment of these officers, but his majesty's pre"sent ministers, when out of power, had recommended the measure, and now they were in office, they had adopted it. "the same officers that had been employed "before were appointed, and they had not "been appointed until after the election, "and this was the measure which the noble "lord had represented as an exercise of But corrupt influence at elections beyond all "former example. The noble lord appear"ed to him rather rash in his charge, and "not to be acquainted with some of the acts "of his colleagues: what would the house "think of the nomination of 300, not in"specting, but surveying officers of taxes, "who could not be appointed either in law, or in fact, till an act of parliament should had no longer the power to realise their engagements.' --From a mild compassionate gentleman, such as Mr. Perceval is, one might have expected something more humane than ridicule of 300 hungry wretches, gaping for plunder, as unfledged buzzards gape for their prey, and, just as it was reaching their mouths, seeing it snatched away for ever. According to his account, too, the prey had been paid for, or earned. The hard and dirty work was all performed. Had he no bowels, that he could ridicule wretches so treated? Did he, I wonder, reflect upon the number of " genteel families" that this non-fulfilment of articles would plunge into distress; upon the number of new shawls and dresses that it would leave unpaid for; upon the number of forte-pianos that it would reduce to silence; upon the number of routes that it would prevent; upon the number of lazy rascals that it would send to pauperize in some other way? Did he reflect on none of this?—There seems, on the two sides, to have been a pretty equal balance of jobs. Mr. Grogan's is, I think, rather the strongest instance; but, then, the three hundred tax-gatherers surpass, without doubt, the one hundred inspecting field-officers. Both, I dare say, ought to be considered as equally useful to the country; but, all that the people have to remember is this, that, if the assertions of both parties are not false, one of the parties, at least, has made the appointments in question for the purpose, not of doing good to the country, but of getting votes on their side in the House of Com mons. This is what the people have to bear in mind.——In the next grand debate upon the subject of Jobs, Mr. Perceval was the assailant. The subject of discussion was the re-appointment of the Finance Committee; and, Mr. Perceval, in order to show, that it was necessary to have a good number of his friends upon that committee, said, that the conduct of the late ministry would require to be examined into. This let him easily into the subject of jobs, whereon he proceeded thus: The late ministers had expressed "themselves on the first appointment of "the committee, very much averse to the 66 grant of places in reversion; there was, "however, one instance to which attention " had been called, of their having, a short "time before they went out of office, appointed to offices in reversion of a most extraordinary nature: he alluded to the "appointment of a Collector and Surveyor of Customs in the port of Buenos Aures, "a place not then in the possession of his Majesty. These were reversionary grants "to take place upen an uncertain contingency, and made by those gentlemen who "appeared to be so nice on this subject. 66 were the duties were before executed as "in one Sarier ilty. These were some of "the many acts of the late administration, "which would be likely to come under the "consideration of the committee. Another "appointment, which was equally censurable, was the grant of a pension, dwing 66 66 pleasure, of £400 a year, to a civil and "criminal Judge in Scotland -This grant "kad, no doubt, not been carried into ef"fect, but it was owing to the doubts en"tertained by the person who was to carry "it into effect in Scotland, as to its legality. He should not go through the other exceptionable appointments made by these gentlemen, as he had stated enough to "shew, that those who thought exactly "with them, were not to be exclusively con"fided in."- -Confided in! no, indeed; but, they would have done very well to ferret out the jobs of their opponents, as an old poacher is said to make the best of gamekeepers; and, as to the finding out of their jobs, another committee might have been appointed for that purpose.The answer to this cruel attack came from Lord Henry Petty, who confessed that he was quite unprepared for defence, not having had any warning of his antagonists' intention; and, indeed, this was rather unfair on the part of Mr. Perceval, it being the very laudable practice of the Honourable House to give each of its members due notice of any thing that is about to be said against them, whether by petition or otherwise; for, unless he has such notice, how is a man to answer? His lordship, after having uttered his comphint proceeded to say, that," the conduct of the right hon. gentleman was the more "extraordinary, as he had sheltered an hon. "baronet (Sir II. Mildmay) on the preced 66 ing night, from the effects of a charge against him, before a single document "should be produced in his justification; "and yet, wi hout any documents to bear "him out, that right hon. gent. called upen "the house to receive bis various charges against his majesty's late minoters. Unprepared as he must be, from the igno rance of the intention or attack of the ፡፡ 66 |