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/mportatit Despatches.
»Y THE JOHN- ADAMS.
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brom the B ston Gazette.
f *\ Wjf NT t’''oal Intelligencer, contains a
a#'f n,s of cfhetai letters from onr respective
ministers in England and France. The
most im;*oriant and interesting, are those
f.-om Gen. Armstrong, which we shall give
entire. Those from Mr. Pinkney are dated
February and M »rch, and relate, altogeth
er to the communications which he had
wth the British government, on the sub
j-ct of the conditions under which Napole
on had agreed to rescind the Berlin decree
It will he recollected that these conditions
v. “re ihe revocation of thv British blockade*
rt France, or part of France, (such as that
f rom the Elbe to Brest, &c ) of a date ante.
totbitof the aforesaid Berlin decree.
The result of these communications, (as be.
f>»re kn-iwn) is, that the blockading system,
a lopted in 18(«6, is now comprehended,
w - h certain modifications, in the orders of
r *« r -i! of J in 1307, and form a part of the '
regulations, now in force against France.
1 i this way the offer of France, to rescind
the Berlin decree, is set aside ]
[ Die two first letters from Gen. Arm
s''.mg. enclose his remonstrances to the
Trench government respecting the seizures
rt property in in, Holl ind, France, Ta
»;•'» and N »pk and his refutation of the
ground of justification of those confiscations
Wiich the French government have assu
vivd, viz— 1st. “The United States hav
j lg no ground of complamt against France,
i ive comprised her in tkeir acts of exclu*
t on.” 2d. “ Not cnlv within his own ter
r tories, but also within the countries under
f a influence, Napoleon has seized Anieri
< m vessels, because Americans had seized
t each vessel* ” These points are discuss
ed a*, length hy Gen. Armstrong with abd
i y, ami considerable independence, in his
letter of March 10, 1810, which follows :]
Extract of a letter from General Armstrong to
Mr. Smi A.
“ 10 h March—1 have at length receiv
ed a verbal message in answer to my note
«■!'the 2lsi ult. It was from the minister
of foreign relations, and is in the following
words : “ His Majesty has decided to sell
the American property seized in Spain,but
ttie money arising therefrom shall remain
in depot.”
Paris, 10? Ai March, 1810.
Sir, I had yesterday the honour of receiv
i ig a verbal message from your excellency,
siating, that “ iiis majesty had decided,
that the American property seized in the
ports of St ain should be sold, but that the
money arising therefrom should remain in
»>pot.”
On receiving this information, two ques
tions suggested themselves—
lit. Whether this decision was, or was
not, evaded to ships, as well Vs to car
goes ? ;. * ,
2d. \\nether the money arising from the
sales which might be made under it, would
or would not, be subject to the issue of the
pending negociation ?
The gentleman charged with the delivery
of your message not having been iustructed
to answer these questions, it becomes my
Pity to present them to your excellency,
s-T-d to request a solution of them. Nor is
it less a duty, on my part, to examine the
ground on which his majesty, has been
pleased to take this decision, which 1 un
« erstsuii! to be that of ttprisal, suggested
fir the first time in the note you did me the
honour to wrbe to me on the 14th ultimo.
In the 4th par agraph of your note, it is said,
that “ his Majesty could not have calcula
ted on the measures taken by the United
S ale s who having no grounds of complaint
s gainst France, have comprised her in their
acts of exclusion, and since the month of
May last have prohibited the entry into
1 heir ports of French vessels, by subjecting
them to confiscation.**
It is true that the U. States have since
< ho 20’h of May last forbidden the entry of
French vessels into their harbours—and it is
u I so true that the penally of confiscation at
t-chestothe violation of this law'. Butin
what respect does this offend France ?
Will she refuse to us the right of regulating
commerce within our own ports ? Or will
she deny that the law in question is a regu
lation merely municipal ? Examine it both
as to object and means—what does it more
than forbid American ships from going into
the ports of France, and French slops from
coming into those of the United States ?
And why this prohibition ? To avoid injury
: :id insult ; to escape that lawlessness,
which is declared to be " a forced conse
quence of the. decrees of the British coun-,
c d ** If then its object be purely defensive,
y. hat are its means 1 S;n»piy a /<m, previ
ously and generally promulgated, operating
solely within the territory of the U S. and
punishing alike the infractors of it, whether
citizens of the said state*, or others. And
wfc.it is this but the exercise of a right,
< immoii to all na ions, of excluding at
their will foreign commerce, and of enfor- i
ring that exclusion : Can this be deemed a
wrong to France ? Can this be regarded as
a legitimate cause of reprisal on the part of
a power, who makes it the first duty of na
tions to defend their sovereignty ; and who
«*ven denationalizes the slops of those who
will not subscribe to the opinion.
But it has been said that the “ United
S:a;es bad nothing to coinplain of against
France.”
Was the capture and condemnation of a
ship driven on the -shores of France by
stress of weather and the penis of the sea
—nothing ? Was the seizure and s'-ques
tration of many cargo*** brought to France
in ships violating no law and admitted to
tegular entry, at theiuij»erial custom houses
— lathing * Was the tioUlion of our mari
time ’-ights, consecrated as they have been
b> the s-lenin forms of a puM'c treaty—
nothing ? In a w >rd vv is it nmtiing that our
ships \vr*re burnt on the high seas, without
o her offence than that of belonging to the
V tiled Stales ; or other apology than was
t > be found in the enbancl *„*d safety of the
j c v-tfator ? Surely if it be the duty of the
V lited Srates to rt* it the theoretical usur
pation* of the British order* of Noveml*er,
a fif, tt cinnntbc loss tl*ir duly i«> c*rrt>
£>*ain ot me daily an I practical outrages on
Che part of France ! It is iraleed H ue that
w- rt th people of the U. States dvOiilu'c
u* nv.U ', of h anour, aiid of energy, (», hai
It is therefore the third subject only,
the reason nj the right, which remains to be
examined ; and with regard to it I may ,
observe, that if the alledged fact which '
forms this reason he unfounded, the rea
son itself fails, and the right witli it. In
this view of the business I may be permit- ;
ted to enquire, when and where any seiz
ure of a French vessel has taken place un
der the non-intercourse law ? and at
the same time to express my firm persua
sion that no such seizure has been made ;
a persuasion founded alike on the silence of
the government, and of the journals of the
country, and still more on the positive de
claration of several well informed and res
pectable persons who have left Atnerici
as late as the 26th of December last. My
conclusion therefore is, that no French ves- j
sel having violated the law, no seizure of
such vessel has occurred, and that the re
port which has reached Paris is probably
founded on a circumstance altogether un
connected with the non intercourse law or
its operation.
Though far from wishing to prolong this
letter, 1 cannot close it without remarking
the great and sudden change wrought in
his ma jesty’s sentiments with regard to the
defensive rystem adopted by the United
States. The law which is now believed to
furnish ground for reprisal, was first com
municated to his majesty in June or July
last, and certainly did not then excite any
suspicion or feeling unfriendly to the Amer
ican government. Far from this, its com
munication was immediately followed by o
tenures of accommodation, which, though
productive of no positive arrangement, did
not make matters worse than they found
them. On the 22d of August last, I was
honored wth a full exposition of the views
and principles which had governed, and
which should continue to govern his majes
ty’s policy in relation to the United States,
and in this we do not find the slightest trace
of complaint against the provisions of the
law in question.
At a | criod later than the 22d of August,
an American ship destined to a port of
Spain, was captured by a French privateer.
An appeal was made to his majesty's min
ister of war, who, having submitted the
cas*-, received orders to liberate all Ameri
can vessel* destined to Spanish ports, which had
not violated the imperial decrees.
| Another American ship, at a point of lime
still later than the capture of the preceding,
was brought into the port C)f Bayonne, but
having violated no law of Ids maiesty, was
acquitted by lus council of prizes : and
lastly— »
In the long conversation I had the honor
! of holding w ith your excellency on the 25th
i of January, no idea of reprisal was main
tain* d by >ou nor suspected by me ; hut on
the contrary, in speaking of the seizure of
i American property in Spain, yon cxpresslv
declared, that it was not a confiscation.
Can proofs be more conclusive, that from
! the first promulgation of the law down to
| the 25th of January last, nothing in the na
ture of reprisal was contemplated by his
1 majesty ?
j What circumstance may have since oc
curred to produce a change in his opinion,
I know not ; but the confidence I feel in the
open and royal policy of his majesty, alto
gether excludes the idea—that the rule was
merely found ;or the occasion, *n<l made to
! justify aeizres, not c herwise justifiable.
I pray your excellence to accept, &.e, .^c.
1 (Signed) JOHN ARMSTRONG.
HU Ex e.lcnch tic D ike of Cadmtt
Minister cj Exterior Relations.
[ The f Uowing is particularly important,
. and respects the 10th article « f the treat)
ol fr ranee with Holland, as well as the com
merce to Kussu and Denmark ]
i
ti'rf' nUfll*i*d they ' t * ;,o '■ r
j a system ol discriuunation between the twn
great belligf r-nts ; they might haw drawn
imaginary lirws between .lie fi s* ar*l se
cond aggressor ; they might haw resented
in the unc a coiuluet to w hich they tameh
• submitted in the other, and in litis way
I have patched up a compromise between
honour and interest, equally weak and dis
graceful. Hut such was not the course
they pursued, and it is perhaps a necessary
consequence of the justice of their meas
ures, that they are at this day an indepen
dent nation.— But I will not p;rss this part
of my subject; it would be afFrontful to
your excellency (knowing as you do, that*
there are not less than one hundred Amer
ican ships within his majesty's possession,
orthstof his allies) to multiply proofs that
the United States have grounds of com
plaint against France.
My attention is necessarily called to a
nother part of the same paragraph, which
immediately follows the quotation already
made, “As soon,” says your excellency,
" as his majesty was informed of this meas
ure, (the non-intercourse law) it became
his duty to retaliate upon the American ves
sels, n it only within his own territories,
but also with th»* countries under his influ-1
ence. la the ports of Holland, Spain, Ita- j
Iv, an^l Naples, the American vessels have,
been seized, because the Americans had ssi- I
* 'i French vessels.” !
These remarks divide themselves into
the following heads :
1st. The right ofhis majesty to seize 3nd
confiscste American vessels within his own
territories.
2d. The right to do so within the t rri
tories ofhis allies ; and
3d. The reason of that right, viz.“fo
causc Americans hud seized French vessels.” i
The first of these subjects has been al
ready examined ; and the second must be
decided like the first, since his majesty’s
rights within the limits of his ally cannot
be greater than within his own—If then
it has been shown, that the non-intercourse
law was merely defensive in its object;
that it was but intended to guard against
that state of violence which unhappily pre-'
vailed ; that it \vas restricted in its opera-)
tion to the territory of the United States,'
and that it was duly promulgated there and
in Europe before execution, it will be al-'
most unnecessary to repeat, that a law of
such description cannot authorize a meas- i
lire of reprisal, equally sudden and silent |
in its enactment and application, founded
on no previous wrong, productive of no
previous complaint, and operating beyond
the limits of his majesty’s territories and
within those of sovereigns who had even in-1
vited th« commerce of the U. States to their
ports.
[The National Intelligencer closes the a
bove Correspondence, with the following
remarks :]
“ The public have now before them the
despatches received by the John Adams.
They add little to the information previous
ly roccived ; but they place that informa
tion in the most unquestionable shape, by
giving it an official stamp.—Some hope
might have been entertained, that our frig
ate would not have been suffered to depart
with such unwelcome intelligence. But e
ven that hope is now dissipated ; and noth
ing remains but the manifestation of the na
ked purpose of the French government to
pursue what it considers its line of interest,
without regarding our interests or rights.
It is possible, that previous to the departure
of General Armstrong, some amicable pro
positions may be made ; but they ought not
to be expected, much less relied on.”
tfce spatls.
Capture of Ship James Cook.
A letter from Capt. Charles Cook, jr to
his owner* in this town, relates the particu
lars of the capture of the Ship James Cook,
by the French Privateer Wagrarn, of 2 guns
and 25 men, on the 24th April, about 12
mileafrom Rostock, (Lower Saxony\ bound
to Wismar ; these piratical scoundrels in
toxicated the sailors and then bribed them
to say, that she had been boarded bv an
English man-of-war ; she was immediately
unloaded, without the least trial or con
demnation. Capt. C. intended to compro
mise with the pirates if he could, as the
time would be long before the papers could
be sent to Paris and returned ; but thinks
the chance is small of recovering the ship.
Ntnburyport Herald.
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
We are informed by an highly reputable
gentleman, who arrived in the John Adams
frigate, that whilst he was at Havre, a
brisk and constant trade was carried on be
tween that port and Great Britain, with
licenses, and principally under the Ameri.
can Hag.— I Ins scandalous degradation sub
mitted to by men, who, according to the
denunication of Mr. Madison, are “ unwor
thy the name of Americans,” wouhl loudly
call lor Mr. M’ Kim’s denationalization,
but we suppose that both will retract their
furious zeal since their friend Napoleon has
discovered that lie can be benefited bv
the system. 3
As soon as Mr. Adams shall have com
pleted his labour at St. Petersburg as,r*fra
n le waiter, to Ins imperial majesty Alexan
der, at the salary of nine thousand dollars a
jear.he might as well be sentto London, to
coaunue his profession under the auspices
oi Hie lung of the united kingdoms, where
■he wo tfind sufficient employment in ex
j r;nK L,ie abon‘"iHble usurpations of our
i! »g b> the French, to introduce their wheat
frippery. It is however
I tear^dtliat Bonaparte would take it amiss
and it is almost certain that the British gt>vl
ernment would not tolerate Iks prymg mto
contrivances, which would not bi permitted
aVMIc riter*’ * “ weie um ben
eh-i-l. Alexander’s submission to the an
| ;,.°‘nt'"e!U by ™ ernment, of a ,-imp fn
the mode in which i,;u , «• ' V
• l ,, “ '"s officers comolied
*rith Bonaparte* ivt,uL^ eu
1 . . 1'-‘i'lisitions, acr.tmst tu**
merest and wish^v . r i ?. 51 uie
i.Aiself i- u „ , , 1 ,U3 subjects and
limself, is a m >*t degrading proof ol his
own humiliation, as upif . r
lin. t ■ ,, • *” veil as of tuu'
) jvn.—ruie ,{i
I
*, . : ...->r * • *., ,7- f’lj;' It V ***•’ " '*
\ Mr. Snath, uute i Pans. 7th April, 181;*.
i “ The Emperor left Paris two days ago
j tor St. Cl u I, wh« nre lie go< s to C< ki*
! ptegne, vdi-re he wilt rem un tilt Luster
It i'. u t probable that I <hjil have an ;*n*
I wer to inv propositions till he it* urns to
I Paris. The day before he set out, he gave
i me a ship to carry myself and tam.ly *o the
United Slates. Tin* minister rt c mmeml
! ed that 1 should not pin myself down to a
1 dav as to departure, as cirewnutarers might
( male it proper Jar me to stay srnnenhat longer
than I non) intended.— Ilia treaty between
France and Holland w as ratified the 30 h
March, and will be published this day in
Holland. I am assared that it contains the
i following article :
i “ Toutes les marchandises venues sur les
, batim-ns Americains entres dans les ports
i de la Hollande depuis le ler Janvier, 1809,
seront mis sous le sequesti e et appartrien
| dront a la France pour en desposer selon
les circonstances et les relations poliiiques
avec les Flats Unis*.” You will see by the
copy enclosed of a decree of the K ng of
Nanles, that he has put his gains beyond the
reach of negociatiou. The ports of Prus
sia are opened to our commerce. Avoid
both Prussia and Denmark till you have
other assurances.”
* ** All the merchandize conveyed into
the Ports of Holland on board American
vessels, since the first day of January, 1809,
shall be put under sequestration, subject to
the disposition of France, according to cir
cumstances, and the political relations with
the United States ”
[Next follows a decree from Joachim Na
poleon, King of the two Sicilies, condemn
ing 30 American ships, to be s< .d by his
minister, “ as he shall judge most condu
cive to our (their) interest.” The third ar
ticle prov ides that ** the proceeds of these
sales shall be deposited in a particular bank,
to be hereafter employed as we shall judge con
venient ”]
[Two more remonstrances to the Due de
Cadore ensue, the first dated 20th March,
upon the seizure of the ship Hero, which
was bound to Tonningen with Tobacco,
with orders that the nett proceeds should
be placed in the hands of the American
bankers at Amsterdam, to pay the public
debt to Holland. The vessel entered the
Texel in distress, and was captured by a
boat belonging to a French privateer ]
[The second remonstrance is against the
seizures in the ports of Naples, and the dis
tresses to which the captains and crews
have been reduced, by being obliged to
subsist themselves, and being menaced
with further exactions for pc t charges.
** Tldfc” says Mr. Armstrong, “ in the
strong language of one of the sufferers, is
literally to strip them naked, and then to
demand from them the expense of doing
-fcir.—rr
From the Federal Republican.
A COUPE GORGE.
It is surprising, that any man with
the common feelings, which belong to
human nature^ should not loathe the
residence in the same city with such a
monster as our administration com
mune with under the title of French
minister—a monster whose crimes are
scarcely equalled by his master's,which
like a desolating blast have swept eve
ry living thing from whole districts,
and which reproach heaven in that they
remain so long unpunished. The fol
lowing extracts afford but a faint
sketch of the atrocious character of
that minister, who is placed at Wash
ington to dragoon the executive into
the views of a foreign tyrant, to realise
whose supremacy over us so many
stratagems have been devised, though
none has yet completely succeeded.
To this walking pestilence in the shape
of a human being, our great men at
Washington ceremoniously pay their
court, make visits and give entertain
ments. It is even said, that a few of
the citizens of Baltimore, who would
not be thought the worst of their spe
cies, suffer him to enter their houses
as a visitor. If it be so, we should
blush for them. No blessing can en
t^r, where he has been a guest. No
parent can be supposed to value his
children, who suffers them to be
breathed upon by this living iniquity.
But we must cease lest we exhaust
language of its loathsome terms and
invention ot its most hateful images,
without producing an adequate idea of
one, a few of whose actions are depict
ed below.
Kingston, (yam.) May, 15.
The master and supercargo of the Amer
ican schooner Sukey, of Baltimore, arrived
here on Sunday in a vessel from Porto Rico.
The Sukey recently sailed from Baltimore,
for Barracoa, with a cargo of flour, lard, Etc.
The master sold the cargo at the latter
place, and was proceeding on his passage
homeward, when the vessel sprung a leak,
and he put into the south side of Porto Rico
The mate and two seamen, (the only per
sons on board) taking advantage of the mas
ter and supercargo’s absence, who were on
shore on business, ran away with the vessel.
The Suky is a ballahon built schooner, no
top sails, and has a white bottom.
The Chancellor brig of 18 guns, Capt.
Denman, arrived yesterday from a cruise,
and brought in with her the American ship
Theodore, Anderson, from St. Bartholo
mews to New Orleans, in ballast, which she
detained in the Moua Passage on the 8lh.
EXTRACTS
from the Monitcur, the French Go'vern^
ment fiafier.
“No. 11. Year 3. General 7ur
reau was accused in the Convention
by Merlin of Thionville, that he in the
absence of the representative Carrier,
caused the inhabitants of several dis
tricts to be assembled, and then had
them all shot to the number of twelve
thousand men, women and chil
dren ! ! !
“ No. 12. Years 3. Alquicr, a Depu
ty produced an order signed by Gen
eral 7'urreau, addressed to General
Moulin*, and sent to him by his Aide
de Camp JDodum, which run thus_
M General IMoulins is to proceed
with his column to Montague, to dis
arm its inhabitants and annihilate
(egorgerj every soul without distinc
tion age or sex—In this sitting Isis ac
1 cussation was decreed."
“ No. 57. Years 4. In the Cmm
! c>- rive Hundred, on a debate which
t
Cyme passenger in the J'Kn B'tH,
fiom Cr»*oked Island, C hailes P.ishards,
a native of New-London, State ofCon
i nectii ut and late mate of the sch. Sloth,
j of Elizabeth Town, State of Maryland,
Benjamin Williams master, who, on
the 15th of April, accidentally fell o
verboard, from the said schooner, ha
ving been five days out from Cuba,
bound to Baltimore ; abreast of Long
Key, between 5 and 6 P. M. being a
bout 5 miles from land, there being at
that time a brisk breeze and the ves
sel going at the rate of 6 miles an
hour ; she immediately rounded too,
but not having any boat (it being pre
viously stove' all efforts to pick me up
were vain ; there remained no alterna
tive but to swim to land ; a favourable
wind and current with the aid of Provi
dence enabled me to accomplish it,
after having been six hours in the wa
ter, and nearly exhausted. As soon as
I recovered sufficient strength to raise
myself, I gave thanks to Almighty
God, for my preservation, and then lay
down until morning, when with great
difficulty I walked to a plantation be
longing to the Hon. James Moss,
where I was most hospitably entertain
ed ; I remained on Long Key and on
board the John Bull, until she sailed
for Nassau. As Capt. Williams must
soon Wave lost sight of me, he will pro
bably on his arrival report me as
drowned, I therefore earnestly request
the editor of the Royal Gazette to pub
lish the foregoing statement, that all
concerned may be assured of my safety
as soon as possible.
C. RICHARDS.
An old woman, the other day, acci.
dentally in company with a person
just arrived from her native f„r dis
tant town, from which she had r t
heard for twenty years, was particular
ly inquisitive respecting a family onct
her nearest neighbor.
44 What has become of John, the el
dest son ?”
44 John, madam, married a scold,
who drove him to the tavern ; he took
to drink, and died one day.”
“ That’s bad ; and where is ]*
seph ?”
“ He is in the penitentiary for far.
gery
44 That is worse ; and where is Sam
uel ?”
44 Samuel, when be grew up, got in
to liad company, and turned demo*
crat.”
44 Oh, "worst of all—well I alw*
said he would come to some bad end.”
[Lid. American. |
The following extraordinary Adveniie
ment is published in a late Baltimore pa
per .—
“ Riflemen, Attention ! A MAN
to be shot at for the benefit of his witeind
children—1 dollar a shot—100 yards <ii»
tance, with rifles, on Wednesday tlie 15rh
instant, at Govan’a town, at 3 P. M. The
above mentioned man is in a very low state
of health, and wishes to leave his family '
anug !**
Tb* following singular occurrence took
place, a few days ago, at the RoyalNa»y
Asylum, at Greenwich : A female ebd-l, i
years of age, was sent anonymotuly to that
establishment, with an intimation that fifty
pounds in bank notes were sewed up in the
child’s clothes, which were according?
found. The following account of the birth,
parentage, and education ot the little found
ling was also given. The father was des
cribed as a seaman on board of a British
man of war ; and however unusual, it *P*
pears that his wife, from some cause or oili
er, was permitted to go to sea with hinv
The tar was killed in action, and the day
after his death, his wife was delivered of *
female ir.faut under one of the guns, »wd al
most immediately expired. The child wa>
taken cars of bv the messmates ot its de
ceased parents, and fed with biscuit & ®4’
ter, all of them acting the part ot nurses, hy
turns, and carefully removing it flora I**®*
mock to hammock, when they were calk *
upon duty. On the ship’s arrival in P°rt*
the fifty pounds above meniiont-d were col
lected among the ship’s company, and l*,e
object of their bounty transmitted to the A
sylum. The child, which »s remarkably hew
Uty, has been bapti/.ed Sully Trunnion.
London pap
i ' ■
P’J" ”l>ctW, 7-, ,m„ . ..
*"«• *».* » Council of War or |
Civil Ln-v, Ctafieloin . ntpi„
Turreau has commiitcd il„., s'k'-.
Ireanl of crimes in I.n Fmdrr^T
orders, even old mm, r■•omen a,.,/ f*
dren, tvrre massacred ’** ‘ *•*
Official, a Deputy, observed u
entire parishes (mumci/iaUtiet) \ 4
shot by bis orders ! J Wcr?
“ No. v h Y cars 3. In the tr^
furrier the Deputy, for com mil?
cruelly in La vendee, ZYirrftm i, J ?
i sed of havi,,K s'*Sncd orders for mJ*
trig men, xoomen and children ' \nT
course rf that trial several vitne ^
j deposed that general Turreau, af,**
j excursion in La Vendee, returned?
triumph to Koine*, and wore as tr?
phies the curs and hearts ofCh^uans^'
ned to his coat, and in the look of l'
hat i ! r J *
They are from the official Gam*,
i of France, and the year and number 0f
the paper are given, that the extract
may be verified by those who cli„*
to do it and have the opportune
For acknowledging such a monster
minister, have we not deserved the
confiscation of our property and tie
enslaving of our seamen—have v,? Rot
provoked heaven by retaining him a.
mong us ? Before we expect its fu.
vor in the removal of our national dan'
gers and stifle rings, ought we not to
cast the unclean from among
Ought not Mr Madison to send him
back again to that court, which is too
polluted to be further defiled by him f
Communication*
Afaine J\Jiftnonarxj Society.
The annual meeting of the Alnne
si on ary Society was holden al Ba « die -< ■!i
u!t. at which the following persona were e
lected the Officers of the Society ibri,e
ensuing year :
Rev Tsinuel Eaton, Harpswel!, Preside
Rev. ^hphalet Gillet, Hallowed, Sec}
Hon. Ammi R Mitchell, E*J- ^rtn‘
Yarmouth, Treasurer.
Rev. Jonathan Scott,
Rev Jothem Sewall,
Rev. Eliphalet Gillet,
Rev. Jonathan Ward,
Rev. Kiah Bayley, l Trustees.
Rev. Asa Lyman, {
Rev. William Jenks,
.Rev. David Thurston,
Rev, Edward Pay son,
Rev. Fiancis Brown, J
The Society have occasion to ^
edge the good hand of Cod l*pnn {J
disposing the charitable and ben®* ^ ^
contribute so generously to the ai< o
designs. In addition to what they » pf
ceived the present year front daft
PaonplisTst in tiie hands ol *h*'r A
mounting to &.157 €5 together wi ^
already received by tlie H««es>j f
members and actually paid i ’, d,g/_ftt>w
cei»ed more than S^OO by donah ^ ,
the Cent Societies in tbs Pi*^* ’ j
number of Co’gr ’gmiij • d