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XUMBER 17.

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From the Baltimore Telegraph. Love Letters of Jppo!con Boncpartc,A -ork has just appeared in London, enti

tled, 44 A Tour thro' parts of the Netherlands, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Saov and France, in 1821-2 by Charles Pennant Esq." in which fac-sjmilies of 8 Wers from Napoleon to Josephine, are iven, and which appear to have been Vritten during the period which elapsed rom his quitting Pari on the 5th March, to take the command of the army of i.ily, to the capitulation of Mantua on the

M I eb. 1797. Ac, Tennant states that

e obtained those documents 44 thro' aper-

on attached 'to the Empress, and who was

keply in her confidence. The letters vere given to me a few davs after the

lenth of the Empress, without any icws

interest, the character of the person to

horn I am indebted for the possession

)f them, being above every suspicion of

xau !'

The following are published as a seloc-

on in late London papers, anu exhibit . - - i . r I a l i 1

iai astorasning man m a light m wnicn nc

tis never hitherto been seen; that of a ten-

r lover, and warmly affectionate husiiitd. No. I. f Of th:s letter Mr. Tennmt obcrvf, it ii without itt , but ir o.u tin' -tlt? and address it would teem ih -tvob.v:i wriltv'n by Napoleon at Pans, justbee his imrrnef with J "wo;ddn i "Seven o'clock in the morninc I awake ill of thee; thy portrait, and the recollec)on of (he intoxicating evening of cster-

av, have, left no repose in mv mind.

weet and incomparable Josephine! what curious effect have you had on my heart. ti ill vou be arigrv? Are vou sorrowful?

m vou disturbed ? mv soul is broken it!i grief, and there is no place of repose r vour friend. Out is there more re-

for me when delivering ourselves up the deep sentiment which overpowers :. I take from your lips and your heart a me which buras me? Ah! it was this

ght that I became trulv sensible vour

jrtrait is not vourself. Thou art to set

Utat noon: I shrdl see thee acain in three

r nr. In t!ie mean time mij dultc anwr, ceive a thousand kbscs but do not give any for thev burn mv b!oed. lorrKidame Beauliarnoi;.' No. II. fT is letter. Mr. Tennant remrrk, is dated the

I. ti.- r.-iinal 4th April. On tU- 27th of March,

rirt- arrived at h" ei-rpi irtt rs at Nice. F'ind-

V u..; nriuv hardly t roveioned, he removed Im

!-qirtrif -r to Alnenn. j Port M iuricrthe Ath Germinal, I have rfiiv d all the letter.-, but no one of them

b ie the same imnreion on mo as the.

Dost thou think, mv dear love, of

"nn-t.(niri:cesof writing to inc in these

rr'S? Dost thou believe that mv situa-

"'is not cruel enough already, without casing my regret, and disturbing my What stvle, what sentiment those

u ih -scribest, tlieyare of fire, they burn pf r heart my soul Josephine, a Way tiiee there is no joy away from thee, world is a desert, where I remain soli-

fy? and without feeliri the pleasure of

rooming myself: thou hast taken away rf- tlKtn mv oul thou art the sole f 'ht of mv life. If I am annoved bv

f1 r-niplexitv of business;, if I fear its re-

u prople disgust me, H 1 am ready

curs C 1 1 1 V" 1' Ivli.l.cn I lint iril' li'ttiil nti

heart, thy portrait beats there, I look d love is fr me absolute happiness:

f-very thins is smiling except the sea-

1 un suil ahsent Irom my love. IJy :t ;'il ha-t tiioti captivated all my faculconcentrated in thyself my whole cxister.ee, it is niapic.tny sweet love,' rMll nr.ish orly with my hfe. To live v i - i:e is the history of my days. I ; :.:: r.cr the; I die to approach "-" Uiacatii, I do net perceive tt.iit I am

banishing myself what countries, what dominions divide us! What a length of time before thou wilt read these characters; feeble expressions of a loving heart, where thou reignest. Ah, my lovely woman, I know not what w ill be my fate, if

it keeps me still longer from thee; it will be insupportable ; my courage does not extend to this. There was a time when I prided myself in my courage, and sometimes in casting my eyes on the mischief which men may do me, or the fate which destiny may yet reserve for me; I brave the most unheard-of evils without shuddering, without astonishment, but now the idea that my Josephine may be ill, and particularly, the cruel, the racking thought that she may love me less, wounds my soul, checks my blood, renders me sorrowful, downcast, does not even leave mc the courage and the madness of despair. I formerly said to myself, men can do nothing against him who dies without regret, but now to die without this certainty is the torment of hell, it is the living and striking image of absolute annihilation. It seems to me as if I were suffocated. Sly only companion, thou whom fate has destined to make with me the painful voyage of life, the day when I shall no longer possess thy heart, nature w ill be arid for me without heat and without vegetation. I stop, my. sweet love! my soul is sorrowful, my body is fatigued,my mind is confused ; people weary me, I ouht to detest them they seperate me from my own heart. I am at Port-maurice, near Oncille; to morrow I am to be at Alhenga, the two armies are in motion, we endeavor to deceive each other victory to the most skilful I am contented enough with Beaulieu; if

he alarms me a good deal he is stronger than his predecessor. I hope I shall be at him in fmesUle. Ke not uneasy; love me as thy oyes, but it is not enough to love me as thyself more than thyself, than thy thought, thy mind, thy sight,thy all. Sweet love, pardon me, I forget nature is weak, for those who feel strongly for him whom tfiou aninntest. N. B. " - 4,Baras Tallien's sincere friendship to Chateau Ilenard; compliments to Eugene and Horter.se. True love, adieu, adieu! I go to bed without thee; I sleep. Several times I have embraced thee; happy dream! hut but, it is not thee! "To la Citoyenne Bonaparte, chez la Citoyenne Beauharnois, rue Chautrieine, No. 6, Taris."

LAW OF THE UNION. AN ACT tr authorize the Stato of Indiana to'open a Canal throujh the Public Lands, to connect the Nari.'ation of the river Wabash and the Miami of I,:ike Erie.

Dc it enacted hii the Senate rind House e.f

iirpresen-aiives or trie L niter states or Jtmer-

iea in Gmgrcss assembled, That the State of

Indiana be, and i hereby, authorised to

! survey and mark, through the I. Lands of

the U. S. the route of a Canal, by which to connect the navigation of the rivers Wabash and Miami of Lake Erie; and ninetv feet of land, on each side of said Canal,

I shall be reserved from sale on the part of

! trie U. o. and the uso thereof, forever, be

vested in the state aforesaid, for a Canal, and for no other purpose whatsoever. Sf.c 2. And be it further enacted, That if the said state shall not survey, and direct by law said Canal to be opened, and furnish the Commissioner of the General Land Office a map thereof, within three years from and alter the date of this act; or, if the said Canal be not completed, suitable for navigation, within I2ears thereafter; or if said land, thereby granted, shall ever cease to he used and occupied for the purpose of constructing ami keeping in repair a Canal, suitable for navigation; the reservation and grant aforesaid shall be void, and of none effect: Provided, That nothing in this act contained, or shall be done in pursuance thereof, shall he deemed to imply any obligation on the part of the U. S. to appropriate money to defray the expense of surveying or opening said Canal: And provided likewise, That tbcftaid Canal, when .completed, shall be, and for ever remain, a public highway, for the use of the government of the U. States, free from any toll or charge whatever, for any property of the U. S. or persons in their service, on public business, passing through the same. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every section of land through which said. Canal route may pass, shall be, and the same hereby, reserved from future sale,

and the direction of the Commissioner cf j the Cencral Land Office, until hereafter

specially directed by law; and the said state is hereby authorized, without waste, to use any materials on the public lands ad jacent to said Canal, that may be necessary for its construction. Approved: Washington, May 261824. ' LAW OF LOUISIANA. A J ACT to amend the act providing for the inspection of Beef and Pork: Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives if the state of Louisiana, in general assembly convened, That hereafter Salted Pork, Salted Beef, and other salt provisions that may arrive by the river Mississippi from any

of the States bordering thereon or any of

its tributary waters, at New Orleans, and not intended for sale there nor for exportation from that port, but only in transition to some other port of the United States, to which on its said arrival in New Orleans, it shall be destined, may be landed and deposited in store and re-shiped in other vessels for such other port, to which it may be destined as aforesaid, without being subject to inspection; Provided a manifest thereof, with a declaration threto subscribed by the owier or master of the boat, and by the consignee, in case there be one, within forty-eight hours after the arrival of the said salted provisions at N. Orleans, be exibited at the customhouse, and a receipt specifying the kind, quality and destination thereof, be delivered to one of the inspectors, whose duty it would be to inspect the same; and provided the said salt provisions do not remain more than three months in store, without being shipped to its port of destination; and in case of the neglect to exhibit such manifest and receipt, or the said salt provisions remaining longer than three months in store, without

being shipped as aforesaid, the same shall be subject to inspection; and if same have been sold without inspection; or be not

then forth coming, the owner and mas

ter of the boat and consignee of the said

alt provisions, shall severally be subject

to ,n line oi twei.tj dollars, one moiety thereof to go to the informer, and the other

to the State, to be recovered before any

Justice of the Peace for the city of New

Orleans, besides being liable to pay the amount of inspection fees in the same manner as if the said salt provisions had been

actually inspected. From IS'ibV Weekly Register,

British Wkst Indies, Sec. The state of things in the West Indies, between the masters and their slaves, has several times

been alluded to, because of its essential

importance to the people of the U. S. We

certairly, would not do any thing to has

ten, nor can we prevent what is every day

more apparent as to the fate ol these is

lands and, indeed, it is evidently in the power of one man to make an entire

char ge in their relation ami condition, c

ven by a feeble exertion id" his strength: but happily for the possessors of those colonies, he has less of the desire of conquest

than influences the members of the "holy

alliance, and the other 44 divine authon

ties ol ldirope. I oukl the "magnanimous Alexander" do in the old worbl,what

Boyer might accomplish in the new, there

is no doubt as to the course that he would

pursue.

The attention of the British parliament

has been much drawn to these matters. A misdirected philanthropy, on the one side, is, perhaps, doing as much harm as a misguided and unnecessary severity on the other. Great mistakes are oftentimes made because we view things as we would have them to be, instead of looking at them as they are. The islands are peopled in a way that must necessarily excite great feeling, let the subject be considered in any light that it may. Their loss is feared, ami yet the means of preserving them are of dubious character and uncertain (fleet. Besides those who have a concern in the amelioration of the condition of the slaves in these islands, there are two great parties to the measures of the ministers in respect to them: the East and West India interests doth wealthy and powerful. The latter has always'had the ascendancy ; for, in fact, the difference of the amount of duty levied on East and West India sugar, for consumption, is about equal in fa

vor ol the latter to the ivholc first cost oi the former, though both are raised by British subjects one, however, by the hands of freemen and the other by those of slaves. It is thus that the canting British support a svstcm which thev abuse us so much lor

having,though they themselves imposed it

on us & against the consent of our fathers.

Here is practice against preaching, and

truth opposed to hypocrisy. They tas their people the whole first cost of East

India sugar, by Wtiy of bounty on the production of the article in the west, and without that bounty it cannot be cultivated so as to meet the competition, notwithstanding the difference of distance end expense of transportation : and the very persons who do this, talk about slavery in the U. States! But thU ia a digression froci the subject before me. . The property-holders and th white population generally in the British West Indies, are in a state of great anxiety, and there is an evident ferment, or agitation, among the slaves, without the appearance of any fixed purpose whatever. The French islands are seemingly in the same condition, and powerful efforts, of a decisive character, may soon be expected. Mr. A. Baring, a distinguished member of the British house of commons expressed, in his speech, his firm conviction, that the state of irritation amongst the negroes and whites in the British islands, was such, that it was impossible for them to live long together on tlte present terms; and he was convinced that, if ever the colonies should get into the hands of the blacks,they would, in fact, be in possession of America, "and she would then cease to be the second maritime power in the world." Mr. Baring may make himself easy on this account. America has no desire to possess colonies ; and, least of all, any peopled as the West Indies are, notwithstanding we have so much to apprehend from convulsions in them. That Mr. Baring's fears, in one respect, arc pretty well founded, the following proclamation of the king will shew George R. Whereas it has been represented to us, that the slaves in some of our West India colonics, and of our possessions on the continent of South Amcri-

havc beon erroneously led to believe

ca

that orders had been sent out by us for their emancipation. And whereas such belief has produced acts of insubordination which have excited our highest displeasure ; we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our privy council, to issue this our royal proclamation: and we do hereby declare and make known, that the slave population in our said colonics and possessions will be undeserving our protection if they shall fail to render entire submission

to the laws, as well as faithiul obedience to their masters. And we hereby charge and command all our governors of our said W. India colonies and possessions, to give the fullest publicity to this our proclamation, and to enforce, by all legal means in their power, the punishment of those who may disturb the peace and tranquility of our said colonies and possesions' The British government, howevcr,secms resolved to make an experiment to relieve, or lessen, the incumbrance under which the parties labor, in the hope of securing the peace of the colonies, by kinder treatment and religious instruction of the negroes. A New-York paper speaking of t lie proceedings, says "The important subject of West India slavery was under consideration, by both houses of parliament,on the 16th of March. This debate was looked forward to with the greatest anxiety ,as well by those whose interest in the question is one of interest and feeling only, as by those who have an interest in it more palpable the interest of prosperity the West India colonics are of two classes, in a political point of view those in which ;,,c government of the crown prevails, without the intervention of colonial legislative assemblies, and those which are governed by such legislatures. It was the intention of government to proceed cautioush, by experiment and example. The former colonies were obwously the better adapted to such experiment. Of these, for scleral reasons, Trinidad ap

peared the most suitable. In the first instance, therefore, government, by order in council, have enjoined the following measures upon the planters of Tr;uidad: 1. The use of the whip, so indecent and so shocking, is to be utterly abolished in regard to female slaves. 2. The whip is no longer borne by the driver in the field; to be no longer em

ployed as a summary punishment ot the male negroes, to be wholly laid aside as a stimulus to labor,and resorted to only as a chastisement for misbehaviour, deliberate ly proved and recorded.

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