POSTPONED SALTS I C 3" On account oOhe rijin on Saturday j evening, toe Sail of Notes wiiich was ' then to take place,, was pnftponed to THURSDAY EVENING, Nov. 9, at t> o'clock, at the Merchant's Coffee j Hottfe. At which time and place Will be oold at Public Auction/ iols. ctl 1 No t dr-wn hv James Grcpnleif io f. vour of and endorsed by Edward * ' Fnv, (iatcd ytR /Vc-guft, 1796, due nth \ October iaft, V, ■ 3 do. drawn by said James Greca leafin'avor of ajid, endorsed by l£d waH sex dated sth u uft. 1796, at 4 months date, 1 paymeDt doi», 261*1 13, 1681 14, and 2681 14. amount together #°43 41 3<i« do.'of fame date, drawn and endorsed asaforeilid, payable in eight momiu. pat-mertti.dob. IS each;, aniov.m IpprdiT BqJTi *J 1 3 do. do. of fame date, drawn and en.torfed as payable in T2 gioruhs' (.ayns-nts, dolsv 2693 75 each, ampunt together 8 081 35 i 5505 91 I draft drawn by Robert Morris on Joiii: Nu-t olir ti, 4*ted 28til May, 1796, St n months 50 JO I do irawn asaforefaid.at two yew= jOOO 1 dp. drasvp hy John Nich'ol fon, on Robert Morris, dated 28th May 1, at 3 years * 5000 v i .io. drawn as aforjaid, at 4 years jfooo * •he said drifts are by (hares in tbe North Am .•rif* Land ompauy aiM endorfe<t K y JaOfs Green!esif «1 Mote dated Bo!•on, 1 Bth May, t7'j?,dra*Bby t Qawe'., juQ in favor of Thomas Gieenlt«f, paya ble Itt ja- uary, I79o,endorfcd by Ji niel GreenL.u. Henry Newman and " James Grcenleaf 22J0 ■•'j j do. date* 1 Bofton,ißthNov. 1995, drawn by Daniel GrcenWi'. in favour ef 11 oma'O.iwcs.jun payah'e Jan. 1798,e-idt.r!ed'by Thotnas Gre nleaf. Henry Wewnun iU.i Jame? Grec leaf 6J00,- 3 fcotr*, dated Eoft. n, 17th Nov. , 179', drawn by enjamin Ullkcll. in fcsv-iur of J.mcs Greenlcaf, payable id January, 17 9, ei'dorfed : y said James Grnlcaf and Nahum Fay, do U 5300 1500 —1000 Be>ss 3 do. dated Bollon, l*th Nov. 179J, dr.v.'fi and endorled as aforefa:d,paya f.e'tlt Jan„ißon, one payment, dols. 6v00,' ' One bond, ZachMiah Cox to James Greenleaf, and afJigred by him, dated the Jill March 179?, iiithe iun of ten rhoufand do'.'ars, conditioned '• r the conveyance ot ijcoo acres of Land,-near the town of rredi Ica in Glyn county and state oi ' Georgia, the said bard lull due. John Connelly } auctioneer. n.MtaffrXrr 6 For Sale by the Package, For cata, or good notes »t sixty or ninety days, vi 7. Book and Jaeonet Muslins plain ft, and C hecks i Assorted in <lo. no. I aUnbourcd f , do Ladies handkerchiefs, & j P 4t a^ cs ' ptntletnix's neek Hn. J Jaconet chintz muslin for home and the Weft Indit market, Pnllicpte and linen handkerchiefs, for do. do printed do. do. common purple and , chintz (hawli. The above g' ods entitlrd to drawback on ex portation. ■'lfo a few. fcotcheambri<k»ind an ! afli'l tment ofm'iflin by the piece. ■ The wh.ile o f the ahovi* be ; »g a eonfignment from the it B' itain. To be Teen it Wilciam BiACKBURn's Oflic-, No- 64, Soutk Second Street. __lw. ». . V lawtf^ Sales of T'cnr.riffe IVine. On WEDNESDAY *«/. the Blh infant, : . Prccifwly a: I ,o\ 10c- will be on Sjjiith'i ! wharf ibpve H | For approvee 1 tn<iorfef« Votes ar 60 t'ays, 75 pipes London particular Ten** riffe WINE. FOOTMAN £3* Co. Auctioneers. novemhfr 4. <^3* Young Ladies' Academy OF PIIL.'DELPHI V THE Piiblie ?r" "refpeitfully informed, that the said Aiydemv will he open on Monday, the sixth of Nov. i»1. for the reception of pupils. JOHN PDOR, Principal. N. B. A fchooifor fcojs will be opened an th« everting of said day. Ofl. 3t ■ (I6t Mordecai Lewis, HAS FOR SALS. At his Stotr, o. 23, Great Dock-^rei't, 250 bales of Bengal Goods Containing Baftas . - C«'ifas IvToragugungeei T aokery Check and Stripes Bandano HandicrchieTs Mamoody Calicoes 11 boxes Iriih Linens I do. Diapers 7 do Umbrellas SO caiiifters Java Sugar 78 hags black Pepper 116 do tail India Ginger 100 cttfks roll Brimstone y pi, cs Madeira Wiue 5 7 calks Gin ■ A quantity ot lhcathing Copper and Nails. OAob-.r 30. 3»wjw_ TO BE LET—At a moderate Rent, The principal part of aHOUSE, .Wli HiN aihort di ance of the Coffee-houfe, whlth has been occupied far the lall four months, couDfl-i' S of a good dining room and parlour, two bed rooms and a dressing room, two gai rjts, kitch cn, wood v-ult and cellar, all in excellent order, .fit for the immediati reception of a small family. Non. need apply butthofc who are reTpeitable and retcu'ar. Inquire at the office of this Gazette. OA. »<• Samuel & tviie s Jbiflier, SRV NOW OPS' lNft, At tlieir Warchoufe, No. 2), Dock Street, a frelh affor'ment of Woolen and other goous, fu'table to th eafou, received by the late arrivals from Eng land. Tut* have also fur Sale, Lilbon 1 crx-v.t S- In pipes, hhds. and quarter cases- Sherry, and f rr PortH ir.es, J Affortfd queen's ware in trates, See. loth mo- 13d- djw3tawjw. JfHJL A DELPHI As. /MONDAY EVENING,^-NOrEMSES 6. For the Gazette of the Unitso Stages. TO THE PUBLIC. When I alTmed that the account of Dr. Ruth's conduit in the year 1793, was falfc or mifrept*fented, I did not know or fuf pefl Dr. Carrie to be the author of it. I have never felt the least un'dndnefs to this gentleman, nor am I aftuated by rcfentment in thus publickly refuting his adertions. My ; motives in the preftnt imdertaking are a re-, gard to truth, and gratitude to my mufch refpefted friend and preceptor in mcdieine, whose charjfter has been mod unworthily traduced in the publication alluded to. Dr. C u trie's fir ft tfh rge again ft Dr. Rulh, is as follows : Information refpefting Dr. Rush's con duflandtranfa&ions during the prevalence of the malignant fever of 1793 —Commu- nicated by one of the members of the col lege of physicians. " Dr. Rush having tried the effefts of mercurial purges which he acknowledged to the coll* e of physicians on the 26th of August, had been recommended to him by Do'ftors Hodge and Carson, the latter of whom had experienced their good effefts upon himfelf on a former 6ccafio;i, ih a dose containing Jo grains <jf calomel, made tri al of them, and was so highly pleased with them, that he alTlimed the credit of the dif eovery, though they had been frequently employed, both by the East and Weft-India physicians long before 1793, as may be seen in *he publications of Lind, Blaney, Clark, Balfour and others." To tKis I answer, that Dr. Ru(h began the-treatment of th« yellow fever by means of purges of calomel mid salts—and bleed ing. These were effe£hial in the cases of Mrs. Bradford, Mrs. Learning, and Mr. Pal mer, to whom Dr. R was called on the 6th 7th and 14th of August. Finding them ineffectual in fotne subsequent cases, he had recourse to bark, wine, and othef tonic re medies recommended bv Dr. Stevens. These proving Slike unfuccefsful he retreated to the remedies he had began with, but in a more powerful form. I (hall here give the doctor's account of the change in his prac tice from his history of the yellow fever in 1793. " I fufpefted that my want of success in discharging this bile, in several of the cases ■in which I attempted the cure by purging, was owing to the feeblenefi of my pOrges. I had been in the habit of occasionally purging with calomel in bilious and in flammatory feveri, and had recommended th». practice the year before in my leftures, not only from my own experience, but upon the authority of Dr. Clark. I had more over, other precedents for its use in the prac tice ©f Sir John Pringle, Dr. Cleghorn, and Dr. Balfour, in diseases of the fame class with the yellow fever. But these wtre not | all my vouchers for the fafety, and efficacy los calomel. In my attendance upon the mi litary hospitals' during the late war, I had seen it given combined with jalap in the bil ious fever by Dr. Thoma# Young, a senior filrgeon in the hospitals. His usual dose was ten grains of each of them. This was given once or twice a day, until it procured large evacuations from the bowels. Fot a while I remonstrated with the Doctor against this purge, as bcirig difproportioned to the violence and danger of the fever; but I was I soon fatisfied that it was as fafe as cremor tartar, or glauber'3 salts. It was adopted by feveial of the surgeons of the hospital, and was univcrfally known, and frmetimes prescribed, by the simple name of t»n and ten. This mode of giving calomel occurred to me in preference to any other. The jalap appeared to be a nccefTary addition to it, in order to quicken its paflage through the bowels ; for calomel is (low in its opera tion, more «fpecialJy when it is given in large doses. . I resolved after mature deliberation, to prefcribt this purge. Finding ten grains of jalap inefficient to carry the calomel through the bowels, in the rapid manner I wished, I added fifteen grains of the former, to ter. of the latter ; but even this dose was flow, and uncertain in its operation. I then iflued three doses, each confiding of fifteen grains of jalap, and ten of calomel 5 one to be given every fix hours until they procured four or five large evacuations. The effefts of this powder, not t)nly answered, but far exceeded my expectations. It perfectly cured four out of the firft five patients to whom I gave it, notwithstanding some of them were advanced several days in ftie dis order."* My notes taken from Dr. Rush's public lectures in the university, and from his pri vate le&ures to his pupils in the winter of 179a —and early in the- fnmmer of 1793, bear testimony to the truth of the above re lation as far as it alludes to the exhibition of strong mercurial purges in the bilious fever. These notes are open to the infpe£ticm of such gentlemen as may wish (o fee them. In a confutation which Dr. Rush attend ed with Dr. Hodge and Dr. Foulke, in the cafe of Mrs. Le Maigre, on the 19th of August, the day before she died, Dr. Hodge mentioned that Dr. Carson had taken a scruple of calomel, by advice ofthe late Dr William Smith, in a gouty complaint, with great advantage. Dr. Smith had learned the fafety and use of larges dose of calomel from Dr. T. Yonag, in the hospitals, dur ing the late war, where he served at the fame time with Dr. Riifh. The prescription, of course, could not be new to Dr. Rush, al though it probably might be so to Dr. Hodge. -It was by reasoning upon the dis ease that Dr. R. determined to combat it with the medicine of Dr. Young. After hehad nfed it with success, he communicated an account of it on the 3d of September (and not on the 26th of August, as Dr. Curria has aflerted) to the college of j>hy * See pag* 400. JCI. . ( ficians, and urged, as a rcafon for T thcir adopting it, that upon mentioning the re-' medy ts Drs. M'llrtiine, Griffitts, Hodge and Carfoh, he had been happy to find, they had all been in the use of calomel as well as himftlf; but nonu of them had used it com bined with jalap—agreeably to Dr. Young's prpfcriptfon s—none5 —none of them had used it in large and repeated doses, so as to excite a salivation, as well as to discharge the morbid contents oP the bowels. In the use of calo mel, to excite a salivation, Dr. Ru(h stood alone. Much of the abuse he then experi enced was for this mode of using it. The good effeCts of-thus diverting the disease from the vital parts, by exciting a new ac tion injhe throat and mouth, have been so obvious, that this mode of curing the yel low fever has been adopted by all the phyli cians in Philadelphia 5 even by those who, like Dr. Currip, it in the severest terms in in the Wtll, and ( Dr. Wade in the Eafl In dies, adopted a iimilar mode of treating ma lignant Fivers in the year 1793. But of this Dr. R. could have no knowledge, as appears by the honorable testimony which Dr. Chifholm bears to the practice of Dr. R. in the following words : " Since my arrival in England, I have had peculiar fatisfaCt ion in finding that a treat ment, nearly pmilar to the above, had been adopted with great success in the malignant pestilential fever, which so fatally prevailed at Philadelphia during the autumn of 1793. Dr. Rush's medical talents and merit aie too well known and top generally acknowledged to require the feeble efforts of my pen to extol them. If any thing, however, could add to the excellence of this gentleman's character, it must be his benevolent exer tion, and .unwearied perseverance during the txiftencc of thij dreadful calamity, in re lieving his helplcfs and afflicted fellow-citi zens, and in pursuing the mercurial mode of treatment, with the height of prejudice and malignity in opposition to him. Such fortitude is rarely met with in the medical profefTion ; and wh«n ft is, it must feeure our admira tion and refpeCL" &c, —Seep. 275. 6. It may not be amiss to add here, that in no ft age of the disease did Dr. Hodge sali vate his patients in 1793 ; that he continu ed to employ bark and wine with his mode rate doses of calomel, and he was one of the most inveterate enemies of Dr. R's praftice. I /hall ask too—why, if D r - H. discovered the use of calomel, wis Dr. Ru(h loaded with such insult .and abufc as he ex perienced ?—And why did not Dr Hodge, at that time step forward to share in the abuse to which Dr. R*i<h had exposed himfelf ? Ii Dr. Currie had refrefhed his memory by reading his firft pamphlet on the yellow fever, before lie fat down to villify Dr. R. lie would have found an acknowledgment of his having derived the use of calomel—not from Dr. Hodge—but from one of the au thors to whom Dr. Rush haß expressed his obligations, viz. Dr. Clarke. 'Tis ftrangt ! ' hat Dr. Curri« should profit by his reading, ind not allow the fame privilege to Dr. Rush ! Dr. Currie proceeds by aflerting, " He appears to have read Dr. Mofely's directi ons for treating the yellow fever of the Weft Indies, about the loth of September for the firft time. In that treatise very profufe and frequent bleeding is recommended, from a persuasion that the disease was always at tended with inflammatory symptoms in the beginning, which in that climate was pro bably the cafe, as the fubjeas that came under Mofely's car* were flrong, vigorous, plethoric English sailors." The infinuaticn which Dr. Currie has made that Dr. R. had read Dr. Mofely for the firft time about the 10th of September, is unfounded and malevolent. Dr. R. was possessed of Dr. M.'s book long before the disease appeared in Philadelphia.:—he was minutely ac quainted with it, and had alwavs considered him aa. an author of tea great refpeSability and merit, not to put it into the hands of his students among the firft works upon acute and tropical diseases. His practice of bleeding was iu part derived from this excellent author. It is true he did not bleed generally in the month of Au{juft, or in the beginning of September. The disease during the hot weather, coufifted, as in the Weft Indies, of but one or two paroxysms, apd yielded to one or two copi ous purges. After the weather becam* copl, the fever protraCted itfelf into three, four, and five paroxysms, and then it be came ncceflary to combat it \yith the lancet is well as with purging medicines. The extraordinary success of ftfong mercurial purees in this fever during the hot weather, will not surprise those who are familiar with the Weft praCtice. Mr. Brice tells us that in a warm latitude, on board th« Bufbridge Indiaman, he loft but three out of 2jo patients whom he treated with mer curial purges only, without bloodletting. Dr. Pennington declared oti'his death-bed, that of 48 patients to whom he had given the mercur.al purges (without bleeding) he had loft none. He declared further, that he had saved.no one to whom he had given bark and wine. Ido not hesitate to vouch for the truth of Dr. Rush's afiertion, in his letter to Dr. Rodgers, respeCting the suc cess of his practice in the early stage of the disease, after he had adopted the depleting remedies. It was my happiness to witness and share in the triumph which those reme dies produced over that formidable disorder. The diminution of his success after his sick ness, was owing to causes which havf been explained at full length in his treatise on the yellow fever of 1793. The chief cause, I well remember, was the publications a gain ft those remedies; and of those publications, such as came from the pen of Dr. Currie had the most mischievous effeCts. Dr. Currie has afTerted, in language not very consistent with that of a person who wished " to brigg to an issue the question, so interesting to the community, relative to the most fuccefsful method of treating the malignant fever which has infefted and o<;- cafionol such depiprable mortality in differ ent sea-port towns of Awerica, since the year 1793," " D°£t°r here re membered to forget the information he for merly acknowledged he had received from Dodtors Hodge and Carson, refpjicting. the , efficacy of mercurial purges ia bilio&s cases. ' He a'fo remembered to forget having fcen ! the good effedta produced by bleeding a fat i cook in Water-street, the day after he had j threatened to prosecute Dr. Barnwell for a design upon the life of Mrs; Rofs in Wal nut-street, because he bled her in the very fame kind of fever that tye now applauds it in, and employs as a .cordial and anodine, and in desperate cases, to make the patient die easy. He alfu remembered to forgtt to mention, that he adopted his faagvinary code not from Draco but from Mofely, who was a mere empiric that praCtised in Jamaica , some years ago." In thehot weather, Dr. : Ru(h considered bleeding as ■ He had cured hnudreds without it. Dr. Barnwell had visited Mrs. Rofs at this time ■ without Dr. Rush's knowledge, on the 4th or sth day of her disease, afid had bled her beyond that time in which it is common .to begirt the use of that Remedy. She died soon afterwards. It is pollible, that had fh« been bled at an earlier period, she might have recovered, as the disease was then tending, from a change in the weather, to more than one or two paroxysms. Dr. Rush complained of Dr. Barnwell's con duct, and threatened, if he again interfered with his praCtice, to complain of him to the Mayor of the city. The latter part of this paragraph I (hall notice hereafter. In Dr. Currie's quotation of Dr. Rush's directions to the citizens of Philadelphia, he has introduced the word his inflead of the, alluding to the remedies he employed. I (hall introduce the firft part of the direCti ons as Dr. C. has given them, and re qucft those who are anxious to fee how differ ent they are from the original, to refer ! either to the Federal Gazette, or to page 227 of Dr...Rush's treatise on the yellow fever. ",0n the 12th September he publilhed in the Federal Gazette the following directi ons to the citizens : " Dr. Rush, regretting that he is unable to comply with all the calls of his fellow-ci tizens indisposed with th« prevailing fever, j recommends to them to take his mercurial ' purges, which may now be had with fnit able directions at most of the apothecaries, and to lofe.ic or 12 ounces of blood as soon as convenient after taking the purges," &c. " How far the assertions contained in the address correspond with fafts, let the obi tuary of that month determine, and the deaths in his own family." This perversion in the 6fe of a word strongly indicates Dr. Currie's difingenuily. In no one instance, and as no time did Dr. Rush call them his remedies.- He constant ly ascribed them to Dr. Young, Dr. Mofe ly, Dr. Balfour and Dr. Clarke ; and as far as they related to purging and bleeding •without mercury, he ascribed them with e qual modesty to Dr. Hillary, Mitchell and others. > In Dr. Currie's attempt ta refute tht ac count of Dr. Rush's success, he mentions the " obituary of that month and the deaths in his own family," I shall hereafter notice the firft part and shew that Dr. Currie ought to have been the last person in the world to mention any thing in allusion to the morta» lity of that period. As to the 2d part, all I have to fay is—that coftfidering the labor, distress, want of deep, and constant infec tion from crowds of sick people, to which J)r. Rush's family was exposed ; it was more extTSSfiigary that any of them survi ved, than that anyoftktgi died of the di sease. Let any one consult tb* narrrative which Dr. R. has gi*en at the ct<jfej>f his 3d volume, and they must be convinceafit once of the truth of this observation. In replying to this paragraph, I am disposed to ask whether Dr. Currie be a human be ing, and whether he has ever felt the tiesof brother or of friend ? If he meant to wound Dr. Rush by remioding-him of the loss of a most beloved lifter, who gave her life to save hi 3, and of the death of his amiable pupils, he has been fully gratified. I have witnefled the silence and indifference with which Dr. Rush has treated all the calumnies which have lately been published against him ; but the cruel /haft which reminded him of his deep afflictions in 1793, did »ot fall like ma ny others bhinted to the ground. This reached his heart ! Enjoy then Dr. Currie, I repeat it again, enjoy the misery you have inflided by that merciless stroke ! But may you never experience any thing like it. Dr. Currie proceeds as follows in his a buse of Dr. Rush. " Immediately after one of his addresses to the citizens, the following advertisements were published at his requefl in all the news papers. " Dr. Rush's celebrated mercurial purging and sweating powders for preventing and cu ring the prevailing putrid fever, may be had carefully prepared, with proper directions at Betton and Harrifon's, No. 10, South Second street. Dr. Rush's mercurial sweating purge for the yellow fever, may be had carefully pre pared with the doCtor's directions, and fold by William Delany, druggist and chemist, &c. Dr. Rush's mercurial sweating powder for the. yellow fever, with printed direCtions, prepared and fold by permission, by Gokl«- thwait and Baldwin, chemists and druggiftg, &c." By this assertion which is moft,unequivo cally falfe, it would seem that Dr. Currie willies to make it appear that Dr. R. parti cipated in the gains of the apothecaries, who prepared and fold those remedies. 'Tis e vident this must be the motive, as otherwise the advertisements are certainly by no means censurable. Be that as it may, I shall re- j fer to Dr. Rush's 3d vol. p. 204, 5, where he speaks of his inability to comply with , the demands for those powders ; notwith standing he had the assistance of 5 pupil;, together with his mother, (jfter, in 4 two other, persons. This thfn. was the reason of his furnithing the apothecaries with the reci- ' pe and dirediions, witlj the benevolent wifll of rendering them more extensively ufeful to his filffering fellow-citizens. Whilst those men were daily making immense sums by the sale of those powdery Dr. R. re ceived but one dollar and an half, which was .given to one of his pupils by some who called for them. Many. pounds of Ja lap and Calomel were ifined from his (hop, and by far the greiteft part was given to tht poor. • * Dr. Currie has asserted, that Dr. Rush assumed the " discovery" of the use of calo mel and bloodletting in the yellow fever. From what has been said, it-appears that no fitch honor was ever claimed by Dr. Rush. He introduced them only into practice lft Philadelphia. All his publications both in th? newfuapers in 1792, and in his treatises on the yellow fever, hcrld forth no other iijea.. The reader may be fatisfud of the truth of this aflertion by confuting the Federal Ga zette of 1793, of September 11, 12, l£, I4a;>d 19, and every part of Dr. Rufli'g wonks where those remedies are mentioned. I cannot help noticing here the inconsist ency into which Dr. Cnrrie has been betiay ed by his want of memory. In one of his publications in the Federal Gazette of the 20th September, 1793, he afcribts the de pleting practice to Dr. Rush.; and at the fame time reprobates it as " iewf certain death" in the yellow fever. In his preface to his 2d pamphlet, he ascribes it. to the col lege of physicians. These rr; his words : " He (meaning himfr'f) however do»s not pretend to have been the improver of the. treatment, of the discoverer of the means most effeftual in the cure, whi.ch is recofri mended in the following p:iges. On the ; contrary, he believes they were adapted fmnj ; the joint deliberations of the college of phvfi . cians." In the publication rran- Cderation, he ascribes it to Dr. Hodge and others. To which of these publications (hall we tioiv give credit ? JOHN REDMAN COXE. V [To be continued. UWH - * Translated for the Gazette of the United States, , Fremihe Journal General dc France, printed ai Paris—July 22, 1797. Remarkable refesnblances between the ty rants jf '93 arid the empen r Caracalla! " Caracalla at firft held, conjointly with ! his brother, the reins of the Roman empire ; their fouls were equally feiocious. Jealousy sos power delayed not to divide them. 'Ge ts was immolated. Pofterityhasfhut itseyeson | his vices, feeing him only as aviftim ; but his tory observes that if he had anticipated his ! brother, the world would not thereby have been less unhappy." Who overturned Robefpicrre ? His an- ' cient friends, the accomplices of allhis crimes. Why did they bring him to the fcaffold ? To reign in his place ? Why were there .a mongthemen who figured in the march of ther midorien justice, so many who entered, and who enter every day the ranks of BabceuT ? Because they perceived that justice excluded the ambitious, and that having no other title to public confidence than ambition .and crimes, it was their interest to exclude and proscribe virtue. " The crime of Caracalla, fays hiftery, did not remain unpunished ; neither plea sures nor flattery could rid him from the rending remorses of a guilty conscience : ihe stern countenance of his father, and the bloody ghost of Geta, would often present themselves to his troubled imagination : but his remorses only prompted him to extermi nate every thing that could recal his crime and the remembrance of his affilfTwated brother." How many terrible applications could we rist niake here I but our readers will ejfily supply tiitfa, * " Caracalla put to death twenty thou sand persons of both sexes, under the vague pretence that they had been friends to Geta; it was fufficient to have had the least con nexion with him, to weep for his death, even to pronounce his name, to be guilty of high treafou." Thus our revolutionary tyrants put to death every one who had any relation, either with the proscribed of the ancient govern ment, or with the proscribed of the 31ft May. " Caracalla for a very flight offence, con demned to death the inhabitants, generally,. of Alexandria, in Egypt ; stationed in a secure place in the temple of Serapis, he or dered and beheld whh a barbarous pleasure, the massacre of many men, citizens and fo reigners, without paying any regard to the -number of these unfortunates, or the nature of their offence." Unhappy cities of Lyons, of Bedouin,, and of Toulon ! this is without doubt, the model which yosr demolilhers and affafiini had before their eyes. More barbarous even; than Caracalla, they arc not contented to drink the blood of your inhabitants, they have destroyed your edifices and your fine it monuments. " Caracalla carried his fury throughout the empire. Each province became in*its turn the theatre of his rapines and his enti ties." We wifll that the limits of this pa would permit us to present to our readers the pi&ure of the bloody marches of this montter, they would find in it the hiftery ef our uroconfu's. i " Calumny was the favourite weapon • of Caracalla." But however able he was in managing; it, if he was to come to life again, he would with pleafurc take lessons from Poulticr and his friends. " Caracalla declared waragainft the whole world." Is it not what we have done, is lit not what we still do in France ? " He iflceffantly repeated that a foiiereign ought to assure himfelf of the affefi ijm of his foidiers, atrd count the reft of hi* sub* je&s for nothing/' > • ■ *
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