who resort to Paris, the Thuilleries would have little of the character of a court; not one family of estimation in France gracing it with their presence. The monthly assemblage, then, at the Thuilleries, may be considered as a military levee, at which the constituted orders of the state appear in all their finery, and the Second and Third Consuls, in particular, indignant spectators."-p. 12

FOX AT BUONAPARTE'S LEVEES.

"But it was truly painful to see Mr. Fox regular in his attendance at the new court of the Thuilleries, and to reflect how almost erely he had estranged himself from the High Court of Parliament of his own country. It may be aed, what there was in his first interview with the Chief Consul, that could induce Mr Fox to present himseif so constantly before him? On the part of the consular Chief, the conversation was coarse and violent. It is a fact, that the First Consul proceeded to charge Mr. Windhain, in conjunction with Mr. Pitt, with being the instigator of the attempt upon his life, in the construction of the infernal machine. Mr. Fox repelled the foul aspersion; but such was the rancorous hatred of the First Consul for these honoura ble men, that he repeated his most settled conviction, that they were the great movers in the conspiracy against his life. The conversation then turned on politics. Buonaparté said, the Emperor was raising great difficulties on the settlement of the German indemnities; that he had forgot that he had been in possession of his dominions two or three times; and that if the treaty of Luneville could be reconciled, he, General Buonaparté, would order it much otherwise. I forbear to state Mr. Fox's answer, as I am not quite sure of the fact*. But of this I am too certain, that the British senafor was at the Thuilleries a few days after the atrocious proclamation against the Swiss. That any Englishman should, by his presence at that court and capital, give the least support, and, in some degree, sanction, to that cruel government, is a painful thought; but that Mr. Fox should continué to go there!! Having gone through this monthly ceremony of parade and hy pocrisy, let me ask what there is to detain an English gentleman one moment longer in Paris."-p. 16.

SIR JOSEPH BANKS AND THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE.

"Having mentioned the National In stitute, it may not be uninteresting to know, This conversation passed in the hearing of several gentlemen, strangers to Mr. Fox.

that this society is an engine of great political power in France, to support the present government, and more especially that of Buonaparté. He is at the head of it, and the members probably named, if not maintained, by him. As Sir Joseph Banks "in the world," to doubt they are so: but be this as it may, with these characters united, it is not unimportant what they do. But was it well in Sir Joseph, to overshadow his native British oak by the aspiring vine. With what indignant concern would his friends, the late Mr. Burke and Sir Joshua Reynolds, have read this unhallowed production! Mr. Burke, in one of his sublimely prophetic effusions, has remarked, "that there is that in the French Revolu"tion, which those who admire, would in"stantly imitate: those who do not hate "it, love it."

Genoa, Jan. 29.-The three French ships commanded by Rear-Admiral Ridou having on board 2018 men of the Polish demi-brigade, set sail from hence yesterday afternoon with a favourable wind; they were joined by another vessel from Leghorn which appeared in sight of our Port last Sunday. There remains here only 400 Poles who will, as it is understood, be embarked on beard the Frigate and the Corvette which arrived this day.

Ratisbon, Feb. 4.-The Deputation of the Empire held yesterday its 40th sitting. The Directorial Ministers collected the vores on the note of the Ministers of the Mediating Powers concerning the order of the votes at the Diet. Behemia referred to the votes which it gave on the same subject in the 38th sitting. Saxony proposed to transmit to the Diet, and the Imperial Plenipo

See his letter on being admited • Member of the National Institute of France. Reg. Vol. I. p. 327.

tentiary, the note, as a supplement to that of the 18th of last month. Brandenburg recognized in the note a new proof of the solicitude of the Mediating Powers, of which the object is to prevent all suspension in the deliberations of the Diet, and all dispute with respect to rank. It proposed to the Deputation to transmit the note to the Diet, as a Supplement to the Conclusum of the 23d of Nov.; the other Sub-delegates having agreed to this proposition, it was converted into a Conclusum.-The Sub-delegate of Bavaria then gave the explanation which he had reserved in the sitting of the 19th of Jan. on the Convention signed at Paris on the 26th of Dec. He made, in the name of his Court, a Declaration, by which he demanded for the cession of the Bishopric of Eichstett, an equitable compensation, and prayed the Deputation to transmit his demand to the Ministers of the Mediating Powers. Bohemia said he would make a report upon the subject to his court. Brandenburg approved of it, Saxony, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Wurtemburg, and Hesse Cassel, reserved themselves till the opening of the Protocol.

Berne, Feb. 5-We do not yet know the contents of the Act of Mediation which has been transmitted to the Helvetic Congress at Paris. We know only, that this Act consists of 20 Artiles, 19 of which regard the Cantons, and one the Central Government. Each Member of the Committee has received a printed copy at a meeting held with the French Commissioners.-They have made their remarks upon each Article, which the Commissioners have engaged to transmit to the First Consul.-We regard this Act of Mediation as the basis of the new Helvetic Constitution, and it is thought that it comprizes all the Cantonal Organizations, and the Central Organizations. Of the 60 Deputies from different Cantons who went to Paris to assist in the plans of the First Consul of France; 45 demand, that the Government lately established should be made permanent; 15 wish that the old Government should be restored nearly in its primitive force. In the first 45, are 3 Deputies from the Helvetic Senate, 29 from Diets of the Cantons, 7 from different rural Cantons, from Arau, a Privileged City, 5 who were in the Deputation because they were before in official authority. The other party consists of 5 Deputies from Aristocratic Cantons; and 7 from Privileged Cities.

Paris, Feb. 16.-The Court of Vienna has formally recognized the King of Etruria. The Spanish Ambassador in that Capital has transmitted to the Count de Cobentzel, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Letters of Notification announcing the accession of the King to the Throne of Tuscany. These Letters had been presented several times to the Minister, who had hitherto refused to receive them. The Helvetic Government has addressed to the National Prefects of the Cantons of Basle, Soleure, Berne, Fribourg, and Leman, a circular letter, enjoining them to take the greatest care to prevent the importation of English merchandize into Switzerland, and for that purpose to inspect the depôt of merchandize within their jurisdiction, and to establish guards on the frontiers, &c. This measure has been adopted in consequence of the representations of the French General Ney.

Friburg, Jan. 29.-Every thing announces that the French troops are on the point of quitting us, when this country will be taken possession of on the part of the Sovereign to whom it was destined by the Treaty of Luneville. Yesterday the French depôt, which was here, left us. The battalion,

which still remains, will likewise follow very soon. It is said, that it is to prepare quarters for it at Zurich, that the Aid-de-Camp of the Chefde-Brigade, Rouville, went to Switzerland, a few days since. The Regencies of Baden and Fursstenberg have been requested to grant a passage to two Companies of the Austrian Regiment of Bender, which will immediately arrive to take military possession of the Brisgau and the Ortenau, in the name of the Duke of Modena.

Hague, Feb. 6.In the Report which the Council of the Interior has presented to the Directory, concerning the addresses of several merchants who have declared for or against the law, relative to the importation and sale of woollen manufactures, the Council favours the interests of those who have declared against the importation of these articles. The Directory, to enable itself maturely to examine this Report, has proposed to the Legislative Body not to give effect to the law of the 26th of last year, (according to which, at the end of the month of Feb. of the present year, these manufactures, especially dyed woollens, are not to be permitted to be imported or sold in the Republic, under pain of confiscation, &c.) until it shall have examined the Report of the Council of the Interior. The proposition has been referred to a Special Committee. The commerce of this country waits with impatience a definitive decision, which, it must be apparent, is of extreme importance, not only to the manufactures and fabrics of this Republic, but also to the commercial part of it, which traffics in foreign manufactures. Two hundred men from the depôt of Colonial troops at Enkhuysen, have been marched to Horn, to be organized in three divisions of infantry destined for the Cape of Good Hope, to supply the place of the troops lost in the Vreede, which was wrecked in the month of December last, on the Coast of England.

Ratisbon, Feb. 8.-The Official Gazette of Munich announces, that the Imperial troops have entirely evacuated Passau.

Augsburg, Feb. 8.-They write from Leghorn, that the Spanish squadron which brought back the King and Queen of Etruria, sailed on its return for Spain, on the 22d of January. The Eng lish squadron, under Admiral Bickerton, is still cruizing off Sardinia and Malta, and observes every thing that passes in the Mediterranean. A frigate from this squadron arrived in the port of Leghorn, on the 25th ult. when an officer landed, and immediately set out for London, with dispatches from Admiral Bickerton.

Paris, Feb. 17.-Subscriptions being about to be entered into at Orleans, for the purpose of erecting a statue of the celebrated Joan of Arc, in that city-the project, and the deliberations of the Municipal Council of Orleans on the subject, were presented to the First Consul, who wrote on the margin as follows:-" Write to Citizen Crignon "Desormeaux, Mayor of Orleans, that this deli "beration is very agreeable to me.-The illustri"ous Joan of Arc has proved, that there is no "miracle that French Genius cannot produce, "under those circumstances where national inde"pendence is menaced.-United, the French na"tion can never be conquered; but our more

calculating and adroit neighbours, abusing the "frankness and integrity of our character, have con"stantly sown amongst us those dissensions from “ whence resulted the calamities of that epoch, "and all the disasters related in our history "Paris, Jan. 30, 1803.—Buonaparté.”

New-York, Des, 31.-On Tuesday the 31st inst

Stephen R. Bradley, Esq. President of the Senate pro tem, gave a dinner to a select number of the Senators, the heads of Departments, &c. Thomas Paine was a guest; and was waited on to the hotel, where they dined, by Dr. Logan, Senator from Pennsylvania.—Mr. Paine, a few days since, dined by invitation with the President, in company with the BRITISH MINISTER.-Mercantile Adv.

FOREIGN OFFICIAL PAPERS.

Letter from General Ney to C. Mohr, Secretary of State, published at Berne, Feb. 9, 1803.

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I am informed, Citizen Secretary, by reports which have reached me both directly and indirectly, that a number of foreign vagabonds infest the high roads, and commit all sorts of crimes. Robbery, murder, fire-raising take place in various quarters, while no measures to repress them are adopted by your Government, or to protect the safety of travellers, of the inhabitants, and their properties. This indifference multiplies and emboldens malefactors, and deprives the inhabitants, who rely upon the protection of the laws, of all confidence when they see them remain unexecuted or eluded by the enemies of France and Helvetia. Several petitions have reached me from persons stiling themselves patriots and good citizens reclaiming the arms they had voluntarily surrendered. They complain that those they call insurgents had concealed theirs from discovery, and that, afraid of falling victims to such, they require back their arms to defend their families, their persons, and properties. I have complied with some of these applications made by persons in the neighbourhood of Zurich, where, by my orders, General Barbon has given them back their arms. It must likewise be within the knowledge of the Helvetic Government that the political opinions of the mass of the people are influenced by men who have openly attacked the lawful authority, in spite of the declared intention of the First Consul to cause to be respected the provisions of the Jaws and the measures that might be the result of them till after the Cantonal arrangement and the establishment of the new order of things. These men dare to boast that they will render them illusory, or at least will render their execution difficu't. They threaten to exercise vengeance upon those who employ vigour to reduce them to obedience. These insurrectional measures appear to have intimidated and to have weakened the system of Government. The interior Police of the Cantons is so ill conducted, that no information of the culpable proceedings of the enemies of public tranquillity comes before the tribunals to enable them to display severity against the numerous offences and enormities which are the consequence of them. - Emissaries of England, officers in her pay, and the old pensioners of that power enlist under the eye of the Civil Authorities without their giving any obstruction whatever to it. Numbers of men receive pay in money, to second, on the first signal, their audacious enterprizes, in case the new order of things was not agreeable to them. The agents of the secret Police are in some sort dependent upon them, because they receive large gratifications. Counter-Police, skilfully directed, exists in every part of Helvetia, and all the secrets of Government come to their knowledgs.-The MEDIATOR OF HELVETIA (Buonaparté) is treated with very little ceremony in the libels and pamphlets which circulate among the people. The French soldier is considered as the enemy of Helvetic liberty;

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and many of them have accordingly fallen the victims of the resentment and animosity directed against them, although in general the French troops in this country have observed a wise and moderate conduct, and practised that discipline which causes the property and safety of citizens, whatever be their opinions, to be respected.—All these considerations, Citizen Secretary, oblige me to call upon you to lay before the Executive Council the observations which have been dictated to me by my solicitude for Helvetia, and to request the Council to cause to be maintained and executed without restriction, such measures as are calculated to secure the tranquillity of the proprietors and the safety of the citizens, and to cause to be expelled from the country the vagabonds who trouble its repose, and to prevent the recruiters from taking away men whom commerce and agriculture may usefully employ. The Police also deserves their attention. You may assure them that I will second with zeal whatever tends to promote the welfare and happiness of Helvetia. (Signed)—Ney.

Proclamation issued by General Rochambeau on the 19th of Dec. 1802, permitting the Importation of Wares and Merchandize in Foreign Bottoms, on paying a per centage.

Art. I. The Arrêté of the Captain-General, of the 15th Fructidor (10th year), which permits the importation of different articles of produce into this colony, in foreign bottoms, paying 10 per cent, duty, is renewed.-11. Foreigners may import into this colony all wares and merchandize not enumerated in the above-mentioned Arrêté, subject to a duty of 20 per cent. ad valorem.—III. The Colonial Prefect shall make out every six months a tarif of the value of all the wares and merchandize imported under the 2d article. The duty of 20 per cent. shall be fixed by this tarifIV. The importation of goods permitted by the 5th and 2d article of this Arrêté, shall only take place at the Cape, Port Republicain, and the Port of St. Domingo.-V. The present Arrêté shall be in force immediately after its publication.-VI. The Colonial Prefect is charged with the execu tion of the present Arrêté, which shall be printed, published, and posted up, and inserted in the Official Gazette.-D. F. N. Rochambeau, Capt. Gen.

General Boyer, Chief of the Staff of the Army of St. Domingo, to the Minister of Marine and the Colonies.

Head-Quarters at the Cape, 15 Frimaire. The General in Chief, Citizen Minister, has instructed me to have the honour of informing you of the movements which took place on the 27th of last Brumaire.-At day break the brigands attacked the Mole with a large force. The General of Division, who commands in that quarter, suffered them to approach to the entrance of the place, and when he saw them fairly encompassed by the ambuscade which he had laid for them, he gave orders for a general charge. They then found themselves exposed to two fires, the one from the town, and the other from the exterior line, which General Brunet had masked. The fire was kept up with great spirit, and in a few hours the field of battle was strewed with the bodies of the negroes who had fallen. Among the killed, six of their principal leaders, Not one of their cavalry escaped.-In this affair we lost only eight men-General Brunet praises highly the courage of all the troops which were engaged, and in a particular manner the intripidity of his Aid-de-Camp, Puton, who received several sabre

wounds, after having killed a number of brigands, with whom he fought hand to hand.-The General in Chief requests the First Consul to present Captain Puton with a sabre of honour.

Napper Tandy to Lord Pelham. (From the Paris
Papers.)

My Lord, when we are obliged to take up the pen in defence of our characters, our letters stand in need of no apology. Without fatiguing you, therefore, with any, I shall enter immediately upon the subject; and as you have thought proper, as well as Ld. Spencer, to bring my name in an indecent manner before the public, I shall begin my defence with the same freedom you have used in attacking me. To say that you have both been wanting in what the rules of decency required, would be the mildest censure your conduct deserves; with equal reason can I say, that you have violated the laws of justice; for time alone can discover, what connection there was between the Malt Bill, which was the subject of discussion, and Napper Tandy. Had it not been for one of the assertions you made, I should not have brought the affair before the public, but would have been contented with seeing myself disfigured by your Billingsgate orators, in Loth Houses; for there are men, my ld., whose censure is the highest recommendation one can have; and, I am sincere enough to confess, that, I consider your lordship as worthy of the first rank in this class. You have declared, or the printer for you, that 1 made discoveries to govt. I assert, that that declaration is false. This may appear to your ears not very civil language; but it is the voice of truth, and I repeat, my ld., that it is a mean and audacious falsehood. I never had any relation nor correspondence with your govt.; or if I had, that govt.knew my character too well to attempt to make me temporise. Had you been content with saying, that there were particular circumstances in my case, you would not have swerved from the truth, for you know all, though you have only suffered a part to appear. With respect to my life, I never thought I owed any gratitude to your govt. for it. I owe my life to the great and generous people, to the first of men, to the hero, the pacificator, who said, that if I fell, I should fall with eternal lustre. It is for the cause of that people that I am ready to shed the last drop of my blood. I can recapitulate, with satisfaction, my past life, spent in the service of my country, whilst I look with pity and contempt upon those who, by prostituting them. selves, have been raised to the first offices of the state. I am more proud of the name of French citizen, than I should be of the rank of a titled slave. I am, my ld., with the same sentiments I have always entertained and cherished long before I knew you a petty Secretary of the Castle of Dublin, a friend of universal benevolence, and an enemy to those only who build their fortune upon the ruin of their country. Bourdeaux, 30 Nivóse. Napper Tandy.

viz. Edward Marcus Despard, John Wood, John Francis, Thomas Broughton, James Sedgwick Wratten, Arthur Graham, and John Macnamara. The execution took place on the top of the New Gaol in the Borough. After hanging about half an hour their heads were severed from their bo dies, and the executioner exhibiting them separately to the view of the populace, exclaimed, "This is the head of a Traitor."

TRIAL OF MR. PELTIER.

On Monday, the 21st instant, the justly celebrated MR. PELTIER, was tried betore Lord Fitenborough and a Special Jury, on an information, filed by the Attorney-General, for a libel on NAPOLEON BUONAPARTÉ, First Consul of France, which libel was published in a periodical work, entitled L'AMBIGU, of which work MR. PELTIER was the editor and proprietor.

The information having been read, the Hon. Spencer Percival (the Attorney-General) entered, of course, on the arguments in favour of the prosecution. He stated, that the words charged in the information were libellous: that they had a tendency to stir up sedition anu rebellion against Buonaparté, and to cause his assassination; and that, unless the offence was punished, the peace happily subsisting between England and France, might be interrupted, and that war, bloody and expensive war, might finally ensue. In order to prove that this was no extraordinary proceeding, he cited the instance of Lord George Gordon, who was prosecuted for a libel on the late Queen of France, as also that of JouN VINT, the Editor of the Courier, who was prosecuted for a libel on the Emperor of Russia. -The caution he threw out with regard to the publishing of an account of the proceedings of the court, in this case, was curious and no less curious than novel." If,” said he, "I could suppose that my learned friend

[meaning Mr. M'Intosh] would lend himself to "the spirit in which these papers are written; if "he should for a moment think he could serve "his client by a republication of the libel; if he

were instructed, and thought it consistent with "his duty to go over the same discussions, and "to repeat the declamation and invective of " which we now complain, then, indeed, an ex"tensive field would be opened for his ingenuity "and eloquence. He would have to expatiate upon the most extraordinary event, of the most extraordinary occurrence, in the most extraor dinary and eventful revolution recorded in the annals of history. But if no other higher con"sideration deterred him from pursuing such a course, the interest of his client would be suf"ficient for this purpose. Because I think that this "libel tends to endanger the tranquillity between this "country und a nation with whom we are at peace, 1 prosecute the author. That charge brings me, and it brings the defendant, this day before you. If "the information is thought well founded-if

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"Justice impartially determines upon the guilt "of those accused, and is not the means of extended "defamation."

After the Attorney-General had concluded, and the evidence had been examined, Mr. M'Intosh, one of the council for Mr. Peltier (the other being Mr. Ferguson) entered on the defence, in a speech, which lasted three or four hours, but which contained, relative to the case of Mr. Peltier, very little more, we believe, than what will be found in the following report, which is copied from the Morning Post.

My Lord, and Gentlemen of the Jury, I would not so far depart from my duty, or from the respectability of the body to which I belong, as to lend myself to the passions of any client. Whatever respect is due by the law to the rulers of any country, that respect shall be paid by me. Nay more, whatever concerns liberty, that dearest and best of all the interests of man, may indeed call forth my warm feelings, but I shall know how to repress these feelings in every instance in which they are not borne out by truth.—My Lord and Gentlemen, I have to intreat your indulgence, beset as I am with topics of so much difficulty. You may, indeed, conceive that having had the presumption to encounter those difficulties, I have no title to indulgence in contending with them. I did not seek them, but having unexpectedly fallen in with them, I will not now turn my back on them': here I found them, and here I will meet and engage them with every exertion of whatever power possess. Acting on these principles, before an English Jury, I am sure that if my feelings shall, in any instance, betray me into any excessive warmth, my client will not suffer for my error. He imposed on me the trust of his defence, and I could not decline it. Still less can I betray it, having once undertaken to charge myself with it. He is entitled to a just, faithful, and fearless defence, and he shall have it, so far as it can be afforded by my bumble talents, actuated by a warm and honest zeal in the discharge of my duty. Intrepidity has been so long used at the English bar, that it is unnecessary for me, at this moment, to descant upon it; still less can I claim any merit for acting up to it. I have only to say, that if the bar could have been silenced or overawed by any power whatsoever, no Jury would now be here. That pride and boast of our free constitution could not this day have existed. It is owing to the intrepidity of the bar; that you, gentlemen, are now here to try this cause. It was therefore, perhaps, too much for me to say, that my client should have a fearless defence, in a place, where fear never entered any bosom, but that of a criminal. Yet, surely, if, in any case, a timid feeling could invade a place so fortified against it, it must be in this, where the prosecutor is the master of a great empire, and the defendant a poor proscribed French emigrant, compelled to relinquish his country, in 1792, driven out by the daggers of his countrymen. Gentlemen, you recollect that eventful and calamitous period, when our shores were covered with helpless women, and children still more helpless, with priests, strangers to the world, flying from their country, as from a tract overrun with tigers, and seeking in ours a shelter which they did not fail to find. Such of these unhappy fugitives as escaped the scaffold, as survived the trying changes of climates unknown to them, and the multiplied distresses and vexations they had to endure, were recently permitted to revisit their native country. They were indulged in the gratification, and a very high gratification it

must be, worn out and exhausted with calamity as they were; they were indulged with permission to die at home. I do not meanto undervalue this indulgence; on the contrary, I am disposed to rate it high; but my client, and a few others, conceived themselves bound, from a feeling of loyalty, which I neither make the subject of commendation or of blame, to refuse to profit by this permission. I do not, as I said, make this refusal a matter of praise or of censure; I only hope, that you will not judge too severely of my client, for what he conceives to be a just and honourable devotion to the allegiance under which he was born. Consider, gentlemen, that if we ourselves were, by any unforeseen revolution, I trust, and hope, such an event will never happen; but, if such an event were to place us in a state of dependence and destitution in a foreign land, we should not wish to be judged too unfavourably This man, having from his youth devoted himself to literary employments, exerted his talents in the same line here, and produced a variety of works. After the peace, he abstained from all serious politics, and contented himself with the publication of this obscure journal before you, which, if the jealousy of power could ever be at rest, appeared under circumstances the least calculated to give disquiet. It could not be read here, for it was not in the language of the country. It could not be read in France, for we do not understand that the police is supine or negligent in the execution of the prohibition against the admission of periodical papers from England. Under these circumstances, this work was issued for the purpose of amusing and consoling the fellow-sufferers of Mr. Peltier by occasional reflections on the factions which divide, and the disturbances which agitate the land from which they are exiled. It was intended as a consolation and amusement to them to whom no consolation now remains, but in contemplating the instability of human affairs, and seeing that those by whom they were expelled were often the victims of fortune as well as they. This was the only journal that dared still to speak in favour of a family once the most august in Europe. This court affords an instance of the instability of human grandeur in that family, and it is not a little remarkable that the last instance of a prosecution by the French government, as cited by my learned friend, was for a libel on that Princess who has been since butchered and massacred by her own subjects. I say this not for the purpose of disputing the principle laid down by my learned friend, that no government recognised by our Sovereign is to be libelled with impunity. Í agree with him, that in this respect all governments are on the same footing, whether they are governments of yesterday or governments confirmed by a succession of ages. I admit that if Lord Clarendon had published some parts of his history at Paris in the year 1656; if the Marquis of Montrose had published his sonnets there; if Butler had published his Hudibras; and Cowley those works in which he so ably maintained the cause of his King against the Usurper, the presi dent Du Morlaix would have been bound on the complaint of the English Ambassador to prosecute them for libels against a government recognised by France. I mention this, that my client may feel the less repugnance at coming into this his last asylum upon earth; and it is, perhaps, owing to his Majesty's Ministers, that he enjoys even this. If it be so, I owe them my thanks, for their honourable and dignified conduct, in refusing to violate the hospitality due to an unfortunate stranger, who now appears in your presence, as the only place