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PUBLISHED BY ELEX&R ALLEY JENKS, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE.
Monday, January 5, 1801.
[Volume III.]
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Miscellany.
POLITICAL.
'* Ingratitude persecution and banWhment always
ibe piAure of a great Man.”
THE eventful period has at length arrived,
ibjch was to exalt a citizen to the moll digni
d ftation among mankind. When 4 chief
agiftrate was to be called by the voice of his
auciry, tp rule a nation of freemen, every
lind has waited with the deepeft anxiety ; ev
|TJ hsart has felt the deepeft folicitude. The
is cad The decifion is unfortunate and
inoos, but we are bound to fubjn't. Our
(loved Adams, will now clofe his bright ca
cr in the political world, and return to the
font* of his friends, to contemplate in bis
*,*ement the profperity of our coun.ry, made
by his toils. Immortal fige ! may thy
sunfcls dill continue to be our Living Angel.
Letite and receive the reward of thy fervices. ,
be approbation and biefljng oi all good mca.—
brtuous fage ! thy glory has long been com
lete. Nothing could brighten thy patriotifra.
f add new luflre to thy fame, but the negletf
nd injufticc of thy country. Sons of fa&ion !
emagogues and high priefts of anarchy, now
ve you caufe to triumph. Defpots and ty
its now may you fafely pronounce “ ingrat
de is the common voice of all republics.—
#vy and negleft are the only reward of fnpe
r merit. Calumny, persecution and banilh
jent are the laurels of the hoary patriot.”—
lot the injuftice of our country is loft in the
lagnaninvty of her chief magittrate, and our
attonal degradation confumed in the blaze of
b pafTiotilm. With a mind fuperior to re
tntment, he will give to the world another
lample of a ruler, W'hen cloathed with power,
itways firft to rrvere, and when ouly a citizen,
llways fi‘ft to cbey the laws of his country.—
} This is the happieft period of my life. My
'beloved country no longer needs my f#rvices.
She has loft a magillratc, but flic has gained
a dutiful citizen.” Venerable patriot ! ages
come will acknowledge thy tranfeendant
rib, and pay the tribute of gratitude, due
thy pre eminent fervices, denied thee by thy
fntry. Legiflators of future generations will
m re thy vy:Jfdoip» a id ftrive to imitate thy
prigtiL cs rupic.
t Citizens and fellow countryman, the prefect
|n important moment. Oar country de
4ads oar utjnoft exertion. W« have to con
ad not f*rr party rivalfiitp, but for national
iftcnce. Magllrates and rulers be firm-—
.etu$ not cowardly defert the poft of danger.
i$rfQ03l partialities mull yield to the general
ood. Party rancour mud be facrificed on
le altar of public fafety. Sb ill we forl'ake
iccauf: of patriot fm at the firll misfortune ?
h^Jl we fhrink at the firil defeat, and give up
Has loll l Shall we tamely abandon our coun
ty to ruip without a druggie ? No, my coua
lymen, it is calm determined fortitude and
erfeveranee alone, which can repair misfor
tune. Let our future exertions atone for our
aft negL<5l. From dull, inaftive obfiprvers of
lubiic danger let us become the watehf*! and
efolute defender} of our country. Vndory
dll be the reward of our toil. Our conftitu.
ion is our lalt fortrefs. I n us entrench it
(ainll every innovation. When this fa!l> our
iUQtry is forever loV SOLON.
[Ca«. Gaz,. j
t==ars=s
11 See nations nowlv wife, anJ meanly jail,
■ “ To barietl merit raife the tardy bud "
'y»fjnJo*'t franity nf Human Tlf ’jac: .
WHEN the Father of his country died, the
mentations of general forrow were loudly ex
1:d, and re-echoed from one end of the con
t to the other ; the prefs teemed with ele*
nd panegyric ; the torum, the pulpit and
bnarc retopnded with eulogy and pathetic
imation. During the ^roxilm of grief,
reprefentatires feemed willing to indulge
eopie’s feulmgSj and decreed to ere£t hon
le teftimonies of a nation’s veneration and
IV v ^
V/a.Tdngton has left us but twelve months,
remains lie ye' green in the earth ; and for
* hi* fubGJed,-feeling has grown cold, and
t rernembraoce of hir. f.*rvices are fading in
obfeurity, like the abjo&* of vifion, when the
i has funk b 'low the horizon. Thus ftands
« charadier of America, if it irny be drawn
.Dm the condnft of her delegates. A few,
jVith liberal fprrrt and enlarged view?, wifh to
fplay the general will with mag'iinceuce and
aadeur fuitable to the occafion : others, re
Hief* of national dignity, and not jnftly ap
pelating ihe eialtcd ch iratfer. are wading
me in degrading calculations of perry cecon
mV» while the re'l hope to dedroy every ef
C'enrp'an, by propofjng to commit the na:m
rMhe fame, and the v:r;ue< <d Walhingtoa
the fragile temple of the human heart.
■On an occafion like the pref-nt, three promi
tnt objed* of confidcr<*eion na'ural’y prcf*nt
^emfelves. To botv’T the illutlrions dead, to
r,nve a [ eople’s gratitude, ?nd to decorate the
ift'opol.t hororcJ by his t.ame wiJ» fpecimen**
' he ulefnl and the imitative arts. It, in the
U-(,m o( i^uity i: bit been cuiloxpiry to
honor the memory of the fuperlatively wife and
good, by ltme ftnlible memctial, of fluk' gl
magnitude, and durable roatttmU : has <he ex
pcrience of mankind yet difeovered the *mp-o
priety of the practice, or imputed folly, ex$rava
gance, or fuperftiiion to the principle ? If a na
tion choofe* by outward fymbols to (hew its
gratitude and veneration: ought not fuch re
prel'entations to be obvioufly diferiminateu from
others, by their fuperior grandeur andfublimi
ty ? and if it is honorable to encourage the elr
gant Arts, and congenial with 'he ch*ratfer of a
refined and enlightened people to decorate with
claflic tafte the capital of their tmpire, what
fitter opportunity or nobler fubj- c<m be offer
ed to he hand of geoius, than to eapbibit Colum
bia’s feeling for her departed Hero ?
IWajh.hd] BRUTUS.
ExtraA from a letter written by Dr. Thornton to hi*
rorrefpondent in Philadelphia, during the laft fef
lion of Congrefc.
“ YOU mention the monument to be erc&
ed to the memory of our good and great friend.
I am at a lofs what to fay, and rather confider
your application to me as a compliment, than
made with an expectation of a fatisfa&ory .in
fwer. I can fcarcely think on the fu^etf
without having all my ideas abforbed in the
loft of my great parron.—I mud, however, at.
ternfW to anfwcr yon.
The moll fuitable in my opinion, would he a
fine groupc of figures on a well compofed maf
fy rock, the whole executed in whi e marble.—
The figures to conl’nl of Eternity leadii g him
to the pinacle, and pointing upwards, ready to
take flight—while Time is left hclow in a pod
ure as if inviting him to flay ; attended by In
dependence, by Victory, by Liberty, by Peace,
Virtue, Prosperity and Fame. Ail but the two
firft figures would be in a lower region of the
rock, and they ought not to be crowded. A
capital artift or two ought to be lent for from
Europe, and model, from all the bell ideas,
fuch pieces as would pleafe a painter, rerder
ing at once intereUIng and p’xflurefque The
reck would admit of figures being finely group
ed, and the arcades fupportirg ihe colonnade
round the dofne* would give fuch a contrail
as to make the whole a grand and linking
compofition.—The dome being alfo lighted in
the center woulu be admirably caiuuted not
only to render the principal ngures more
bright, but would give more apparent reality
to the defign of the figure of Eternity. The
bodies of the General and his * # * * * * *
may be depofued in a place prepared ip the
rock- in the region where Time and the reft of
the figures are grouped, fignifying that though
time has taken polTffion of hie body, yet
Eternity has taken Ins fpir't oat of the re^ch
of Tim’. I will explain no further, tor if it
does not explain bfelf it is ufeiefo You fpeak
of Ceracchi's corrpo/i ion. tt was a fine piece.
1 Caw the model, but it was a figure of Liberty
juft defcending on a rock. a hundred feet h;gh,
and Time was the chan ioteer. in the all ot
flapping his hotfes. In the fide? ot the rock
were many caves with all the heathens jumbled
together in them. He imagined too much ;
but with a lit* »• advice in the mythological
part, he would h ive pro luced one ot the great
eft monuments in the world. Ceracchi was
kilted in the Roman Revolution. llis produc
' tion would not aid us in the preLnt work ;
the fubjetfts are not connected. There is a fine
ftatue of Peter (called the Great) at Peterf
burg, in bronze, on horfeback; the horfe rear*
ing on the top of an enormous rock of granite
—While I was an attendant member of the
Royal Society of Scots Antiquaries, the late
Emprefs of Ruffia feat us a grand colleftion of
all her medals and coins; and a medal ftruck
on the ere&ion of that monument was among
them. It is truly a grand monument—but
g’ves us no aid. I was folicited to think on
this fubjeft before I received your letter, but I
have never put pen to paper on this theme, till
this evening, for my mind was too much en
gaged on my lofs to think as I ought. In my
elevation of the capital you will remember ray
temple of Fame. In that I would alfo have
his butl, and thofe of all the great worthies of
our country : It ftands over the temple of
Virtue, or grand conference room.
Eternity was reprefented by the Romms by
a woman with the fun in one hand, and the
moon in the other; her fymbols a Ph<?nix,
Globa and Elephant. She had neither tem
ples nor altars. I would reprefent her with a
girdle round her waift containing the figns of
The Zodiac, and round her neck a f Rattlefnake
biting its tail.
In forming a monument every thing ought
to be avoided that might be offenfive to the
moil pious, and in app'oaching to Sublime re
prcfeniati ^ns, vfe fhould avoid rendering divine
honors : for we ought not to f >rget that be
tween the h'gheft mortals and divinity,there is
an infinite difiance : at the Tame time we
Ihould not lefTen our fubjedh by any common
devices- Pediftals with bra I s relief figures and
mottos will do very well in comm >n cafes, but
in the prefent cafe there > nothing common,
and we may rife as h'g’. u ^>ur reprefeatation
as mortals ought to go.
* 1'his was written with a fuppofitian that
tb? Monument was to be erefted in the Dome
cf the Capitol.
f Ti e fn ibe in this aft was not only an em
blem of eternity among the ancients of the
old world, bot alto among the *nc:etit Mexi
cans ; «od cf the fpecies 1 ptefer die rattle*
fnake, the Ootalus hotridus being peculiar to
this country,and the fineft emblem ot the Uni
ted States taal can be found. It never afts
but defenfive.y ; it never ftrikes without giving
one warnings but when it does ftrike, it is
fatal.
Foreign Articles.
LO»i>ON, c*ct, 27.
MR. Li don, our Minifter at America, does
not return from any mifunderftandiag, either of
a perfonal or political nature, neither has he re
figned his office. Ht wrote home tor leav.ol
a fence, on account o' ill health, but really, we
believe, on account of private affairs ; and ut
ter viliting bis brothers the Welt-Indiss, he is
cxpe&ed in Scotland His Secretary, Mr.
Thornton, will be left <s Charge des affairs, but
it is expected Mr. Litloi will foou return.
LL'NEVILLE, NOV. 7.
The Count de Cobertr.el arrived here ihi>
morning at 5 o’clock, aid Joftph Bonpaite at
no<'n. The former wasftluted with 19 pieces
of cannon, and the latte by ringing of the on
ly bell left US. The t«-o Minifters lodge in
piivate houfei, until tleir apartments in the
Caftle (hall becompletel; ftunifnd
A very fine corps of 15000 Grenadiers ar
lived to-day f it will form part oi the gar
rifon.
The Telegraph is ere&d 012 the top of the
Cattle.
coupon, nov. 17.
The arrival of Cobentsel and Jofeph Bona
parte at Luoeville, is pjt out oi doubt by the
Paris papers to the 12th, which we received on
Saturday. The journals were brought to Do
ver by the veflels which purpofdy failed from
Calais with Mr. Mauf x, the Meffenger, w'ho
lome time ago brought drfpatches from Cobent
zel to ik: JTitith Court. Stahtemberg? the
German Minifter, being at Twickenham when
Mr. Mauri; reached town, h<s difpatches did
not regularly come before our Cabinet on Sat
urday.
By accentsfrojn Italy, it appear* hoftiiitks
have been on the point of being renewed in
that country * >ut an agrccm<:nt has been made
between the Aiftrian Genera!, IHlegarde, and
the French General, B'un<*. by which the 'at
ter yields up fbrrara, and the farmer contents
to wave any <brms refpt&ing 1 nfcany, lo un
jufHy Oized fcT the French. That violation of
faith made a jreat impntTion on the Court of
Vienna ; butprudence ttifleJ irs refotumert.—
The demolitim oi Uim, L.golitadt and Phil
iptbugh, con'rary to treaty, has aifo mede a
confiderable fcnfjtion in Germany, and the
Moniteur has attempted a defence of the mca
fare. The timolition of Ulm, it is faiJ, has
been fiifpeoJad, in confcquence of certain ie
monllraiiccs. Lucien lionapirte is gone to
Madrid, but low a million thither can promo'.e
peace and hiroble the Fnglilh, as the l’aris
Journals haw informed us, we know not, un*
iefs it is inteided that Spain (hall materially
contribute the itteans if attack on this country.
The dorms, in which our fleet differed at Gib
raltar, is noiiced in letters fiom Spain, pub
lilhed in tilde Journal?, and it is laid one or
two tranfpor.s have been driven on fliore. The
fleet muff be confiderably errb.irraffed by the
lofs of anchors. &c. which it has foilained, and
it will be uaable to undertake active opera
tions till it receives a fupply of (lores. The
French fund’ ftill continue at 34 and a fraction,
notwithftaning the apparent opening of the
congreh of LunJville. If it be true that apart
ments are fitting up Ijoth for Jofeph Bonaparte
and Cobcntzel, tfceymuft intend to makefome
flay thereind aftively enter upon nogociatioas.
France and America.
It U altogether a falfe i Je i that fome of the
psipeis have taken up rtfpecllno the treaty of
peace lately concluded 1 etween Frar.ce and
America. They confider it as nothing leffs
than nn inftrumentof coalition between theic
two count] ies,and the governments of ihefe two
countries and the powers of the North, with
a view to eftab'ilhing the cla ms which the
latter have upon the rights of neutral nations.
No fuch inference, however,c :n be drawn from
the treaty. France and America, it is true,
engage reciprocally to wave the right of fearch
ing each other’s fhips when failing under con
voy ; arid, in as far as cffr&s their own com
merce, to recognize the principle of neutral
bottoms, conftituting neutral cargoes. Thi:
they have an u^queflionable right io do by tin
law of nations. Any two powers may, ir
virtue of a peculiar and private convention
agree to forego the exercife of a right, t<
which they are in ftri&ncfs enti led, by pre
feription and common ui'age, when the a<5t <
i conceflion does not interfere ehher with th<
rights or pratfice of other countries Franci
! aad America have only for their mutual too
i
venitnce renounced a right which each pof
| fdTed of rhcckmg the other's commerce by
j fearch,and adopted in their mutual tranfa&ions
a principle of neutrality, certainly not confo*
nant cither with the law or pradlice of nations ;
Wut not inconfiftent with the maintenance of
both. The only conclufioa that can be deri*
▼ed, therefore, fiom the treaty, as effeflingthe
the general policy of Europe, is, rot that
France and America undertake the caufe of the
Northern powers,and pledge themfelves againft.
tbefyllem ailed upon by this country; but
they reciprocally renounce the exercile of a
right, in a particular cafe, which Sweden,Den
mark, &c. are, at no time, and in no cafe,
willing to recognize- Whether there be any
fecret article in the treaty (a prattice not un
common in diplomacy, but which ought to be
| fcoured by the confe-nt of every nation) and
! whether in thefe articles any pledge may have
been given that they will join in refilling the
exercife of a j iglit on the part of this country,
which in their tranfaftious with one another,
they have thought it convenient to wave, are
quite d fferent queftions. The public treaty,
however, contains no general declaration upon
this fubjedl. It does even allude to the prac
tice of this country, or to the claims fet up
againft it It onl^ fupercedes, in one inftance,
a right, the exillence of which in one c*fe it
| pretends to call in quettion.
...
LONDOK, NOV- 12.
The alterations in the New Great Seal, now
finifiied, and in the cuftbly of the Lord High
Chancellor are—that the arms of France are en
tirely txpurged ; the arms of England, of Scotland,
of Wales, and of Ireland, are quartered ; and
the aims rf Harwer% are placed upon the four
quarters. His Majefty, in he new fell, inftead
of being fiiled, King of Grent Britain, Fe nce
and Ireland..” ftiles hinrifcif limply, “ Bp.itam
kicorum Rex;” KING OF THE BRITISH.
This title has a very extenfive and appropriate
| meaning. It includes not only the 5 itiih lOe«,
| but all fubjofls in every quarter of the globs
1 living under the Britifh dominion His Maj
| elly m Council, has given orders that his t’de,
.arms, &c. fhall be altered after the expiration
I cf the prefent year, in all public instruments,
j &c. And orders are likswife given to have
! the arms of ail the royal carriages altered ax
above.
PARIS, OCT. l8.
GENOA.
THE Extra Commiffion of the government
of Genoa has prohibited the planting of any
more than one tree of liberty, in a commune*
No harranuues are to be made on thefe occ-t
lions, nor (hall any perfon plant a tree beyond
the 1 rnits of his own commune—[// U diffi
cult to fupprrfs a futile on rtadtn* the above']
FROM A LONDON PAPER—OCT. 18.
The charatfer of the French, notwithftand
the frivolity of which they are accufed, docs
not appear to have undergone any material
change in the lalt two centuries. Burton
(peaking ot the Frenchmen in his days, lays
“ they had rather lofc a pound ot blood in An
gle combat than an ounce of fwcat in honeft
labour.”
A young woman in Teaman’s clothe', ap
plied lately to the Imprcfs officers at Liverpool,
to enter as a volunteer into ihe navy. On the
entrance of the lieutenant bowere-, Ihe nnlor
tunately forgot htr aifumeU chara&er, a d lah
uted him with a curtfey. This immediately
led to a difcovery. Anothe. young woman en
tered in the fame way ihortly atter, and re
ceived the bounty before lhc was difeovered.
It is ffated from Cyprus, Auguft 2 2, that a
Turkifli 74, commanded by Indi Bey, was
wrecked near the Cattle at Aboukir, when the
officers and crew became prifoners. The
Fi eneh immediately let about laving the (lores
&c. upon which Captain Auttin, ot his Majef*
ty’s biig Peterel, of iR guns, directed two
Turkifh corvette to fet fire to the fhip, to pre
vent her benefiting the enemy ; but as they*
feared to do, fo he; by his own boats, effe&u
ally executed that fervice, allowing the French
to get but one piece of cannon. *
The French frigates La Concorde, of /6.
La Medce, of 42, and La FnnchiL, of 22
guns, during iheir cruize on the coaft of B az'l,
took fifteen fail of Portugocfe ft»ips, two ol which
are Lid to be worth too.dool. They can ie t
them into Buenos Ayres. The Spaaifh Gov
ernor refuted to fufLr them to difpofe of their
prizes ; but the Fieich Comm‘tiding Office?
iignified that, un!ef> lie was quietly permi t d
to do to, he wot»!d fire the town and burn ?'\
the veficis in the harbour. The Spinnrd- n >1
being prepared, w-ere compelled to lnbmit.-*
The Ihips and cargoes we< c acord ngly fold,
and the frigates were returning to Europe with
their riches, m >ftly in fpecie, when they were
met by fome of our (hips of w^r, which cap.
, fried La Concorde and La Medre. Tn#
Portuguefe hid two fill of the hne and t’ aea
frigate* at ihs iirj»zi)s, and were info*niid
; the taenjy brng upon Ut* wo-iL