The Kentucky gazette — Lexington [Ky.], 1800-07-24 00:00:00, page 2

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Tiitc V Svhii the "via live inter efts of thole
-pi' r ! tuff! a is to the'rri ’all 'a moit
fo '--i' ft sVlc neighbor and rival 'i he j
union of xhflp three powers would ope- !
rate tb moderate the ambition of RuiTia
which flu iU! that nation fall Under the
guidance of fonie a (hiring chief fuch as
Buonaparte Would give the law to all
the notheni parts of Europe and to the
fhores of Ana The Houle of Auftria
equally endangered by the afeendaricy of
Ruifu or IVuflia would fttffl itfelf im
pelled to a neutrality towards both be
caufe the Rsccefs of either would be fa
tal to herfelf Auftria would -therefore
fin’d an intereft in exciting them feveral
lv to v ar in order to fecure her own
ftrength by their weaknefs
A league between the two northern
powers and Pruflia would however h
highly injurious to Auftria as it would
tend to promote the known pretenfion&t
ambition of the home of Brandenburg to
afeend the imperial throne
This picture of monarchical interefts
and views prefents a leiTon which re
publicans ought to be fenfibly happy that
they are not expofed to fuffer under —
We fee that in five nations two of then
among the grea'teil in population and ex
tent in territory and two others among
the Secondary maritime powers and the
fifth among the firft military powers o
that quarter of the globe it is the am
bitior or pride of a fingle family upo
which depends the continuance of wai
or peace and not the happinefs of the mil
lions whom thefefevv families rule over
It is a phenomenon to be feen only ii
the atmofphere of royal politics that
nation great learned wile and brave 1 i k
the Germans fhould be fubjscled to al
the miferies of war though its being tin
fortunately fubjeft to the tyranny of
fingle family who from the lull of domi
nion as in the conference at Pavia fron
lull of money as in the caie of th
bribes called fubfidies received fron
Great Britain will involve a people wh
have no caufe to hate or to fear the
neighbors have (haken off a grevious
load of oppreffions flavilh triages an
corruptions This unhappy ftate o
Germany is rendered ft ill more extraor
dinary from the delation under which it
vfas forced into the prefent war
It has been demonftrated that the
h'oufe of Auftria would long fmee have I
fallen before that of Brandenburg hao
not the alliance of Auftria with the houfe
of Bourbon prevented it On the other
fids that hdufe Could not ftand againll
the United powers of Ruffla and Pruffia
were France to remain neutral but more
efpccially were France driven bv venge
ance to make a diverfton favorable to
thofe powers united againft Auftria —
And yet again!! all the experience of the
part and the evidence of the Fillability
dfMonarchs Auftria continues to make
war againft the only power capable of
faying her from political annihilation —
fuch is the blin duels of monarchical
power Such are the evils to which a
nation is expofed where the people who
are the f lifter ers by all wars have not a
voice in the laws or a control over the
iRipns of thofe who adrninifter the go
vernment June 30
It is reported that an exprefs paffed
thro’ town this morning for Quincy the
feat of the prefident of the U States in
tonfequence of dilpatches of an impor
tant nature having been received from
our commiTioners by fome of the late ar
rivals to the louthward'
Virginia
RICHMOND June 20
The Editor of this paper fome fliort
time paft publiftled a letter from Phila
pliia containing a ftatement of the trial
of Thomas Cooper efquire- for fedition
— The writer alfo makes' fome remarks
on the conduct of Judge Chafe in the
trial of Fries for treafon This publica
tion drew from the Judge a note to the
Editor declaring that he could prove the
author of the abovementioned letter to
be “ a falfe fcandalous wicked and ma
licious ilanderer and calumniator For
this purpofe Mr Chafe declared that he
would fue him in the Supreme court o
the commonwealth of Pennfylvania and
if he would appear to the aftion k
would confent that lie might give the
truth of his publication in evidence to
the jury”
The' Editor of the Aurora Fas repub
lifhed the letter and the note of Judge
Chafe and in his ijrdduflory remarks
ebferves that “ VT cannot however
of th$ fnoft-autlre-tic character
feedfints- Vnpng th
'is 1 he'nllriiyed 'plan 'of
I hut add a gentle remark 'of our own in
admiring the geiierofit'y of the amiable
judge Chafe in his corientingtb let the
truth he given in juftiication of the wri
ter becauie we tnnfl ffuppoffc the judge to
be either ignorant hi mfeif or that he'Fiip
pofed the writer f1 f the letter ignorant
that his conlent w'is not necelTarv in the
cate the laws o Pennfylvania havl g
provided that mch already”
We fee then hat we are not indebted
to the Judge Yar this privilege Fora
full til’d com j'dete anfvver to his HO-
A Cird to
The writer of a
del phi a May 7th 1800 of which an
extract appeared in the Examiner of the
twentietli of the fame month though
willing td gratify Judge Chafe and the
public by eftablifliing in a court of jtiftice j
ihe truth of the allegations contained in
that publication is not difpofed to en
ter into controverfy in the Federal court
with a judge of that court under the ex
ifttfig pradlice of packing juries nor to
eypofe hirnfelf to the prepofterou doc
trine of the common law “ that the
greater the truth the greater the libel
1 dodlrine too memftrous to be longer to
lerated even in England but which
night be forced down to this country by
Mr Chafe and his brethren of the party
- oloured robe Neither has he time or
money to fquander away upon a charac
ter fo vvorthlefs by referring the decilion
to a diftant tribunal where the cxpences
f law fuits are extravagantly high Blit
f judge Chafe believes or pretends to
elieve that injuftice has been done him
y any thing contained in that letter the
-vritbr is ready to afford ample opportu
nity for reparation of the fuppofed in-
ry by fubniitting hirnfelf to a civil ac
ion in the higheft court of the ftate ir
vhich he refides where fuch an aCtio"
an be brought and will join iifue upon
he truth of the publication provided it
hall be agreed that a general commiflion
hall iffue totake the depofitions of all wit
aeffes to be read oivthe'trial and that
-a oh party (hall give to the other fecu
ity to anfvver the ultimate decifion of
the caufe
Judge Chafe by application to Mr
ones (the Editor of the Flxaminer) and
jbferibing to thefe terms mav be fur
iihed witli the name of the writer who
will cheerfully make the appeal to an im
partial ju’ryorto the public any other way
to decide whether 11 hois a falfe fcanda
ous wicked & malicious flanderer and ca
lumniator” or Judge Chafe AN UN
PRINCIPLED TYRANT totally un
fit to be intruded with any power over
the lives or liberties of the free Citizens
of America
BALTIMORE July 41
Some there are whd affeSl to difhelieve
Duane’s ftatement of official peculation
and fraud— to such the following queries
are addreffed :
If the ftatements wete false would he
have publilhed them at a time when the
Prefident and Mr Wolcott were both in
the citt and could deteft expofe and
punifh inftantly any falfe accufation?
Would he not rather have waited till the
Prefident had gone to Quincy and the
Secretary to Wafhington ?
If they were false would he have cour
ted andchallenged inveftigation and fciu
tiny as he has repeatedly done ?
-anfwered If they were false why were they
fo long ? and when at length
PETERSBURG June 24
Mr Prentis
You will particularly v oblige a fincere
well wither to the public by inferring
the following eircumftances communi
cated to me by a gentleman of undoub
ted veracitv
Pro Bono Publico
Happily for the citizens of the United
Stati-s a certain and inevitable cure is at
length difeovered for that deftrudlive and
frequent evil the bite of a Mad Dog A
perfon not long fince was feverelv bitten
by one of thefe ferocious animals and in
a fhort time was feized with ftrong and
violent fymptorns of Hydro Phobia A
phyiician was Called in who preferibed
for him hut by fortunate accident and
miftake a large quantity of Vinegar was
fubftituted it lieu of the prefeription
which he patiently fwallowed and was
recalled by it from the brink of the grave
10 health and life
'I he fubferiber would think hirnfelf
unworthy of the name he has aflumed
were he lobe convinced of the efficacy of
the above receipt and to conceal it from
the public
amator PATRLE
Maryland
NOR fee
n th's day’s
a card addreffed to
Examiner
him
I an anfwer was attempted by Secretary
- Wolcott why were his aflertions contra
dictory and unfiipported by faHs or argu
ments if it were not that no faCls or ar
guments could be found to refu te them ?
If they Were fa'I fe would he have dar
ed in contempt and defiance of the fedi
tion law to give them to the public as
fa£ls ? Or would not a profeemion have
been immediately commenced againft
him if the public officers had not known
thr"e truth of what he ftated
The fa£t is the proofs which Duane
has adduced of their authenticity and
correctnefs amount nearly to a demon
ftration — while the only attempt which
has been made to invalidate them is con
tained in a letter of Mr Wolcott’s
which is remarkably obfeure contradic
tory and unintelligible
Should this ftatement however be pro
ved to be falfe and only made to crimi
nate an innocent and virtuous executive
I 111 all rejoice at fo bafe a calumniator
being brought to juft ice' Till then I
(hall believe him entitled to every mark
of gratitude which a generous people can
bellow Wilmington Mirror
And the Editor of the Aurora will
Hand to the agreement
GEORGETOWN July 2
OFFICIAL
Extrnbl of a letter f rom Lieut Archibald
M' Elroy of the Brig Augusta to the
Secretary of the Navy dated off Aux
Cays 4th June 1800
“ I yefterda-y fell in with and captured
off Jacmel two French Ichooners one
called La Vidloire the other La Jeanne
of St Domingo bound from Jacmel to
the town of St Domingo both of which
I conceive it my duty to fend home for
trial The papers of each veflel are feal
ed up feparately and delivered to the re
fpeftive prize-inafters viz thofe of the
Jeanne to Mr David Deacon and thofe
of the Vicloire to Mr John Young” 1
The La Jeanne has arrived at Fort
Mifflin
ELIZABETH TOWN July 1
To the Editor of the Aurora
Not contented to affociate me as ufu
al with other more refpedlable charadlers
in general abufe you have in your paper
of the 18th inft ventured to impofe upon
the public a falfe ftatement of fa61s in re
lation to my accounts as Speaker of the
Houle of Reprefentatives with the hope
that as I had heretofore preferved a per
fe A file nee on the fubjeAsofcaluninywith
which your prefs had teemed I fhould
not in the prefent infUnce depart from
the fame line of condudl
After giving a detail of ftaternents and
refults you furn up all by afferting that
“ thus Jonathan Dayton held in his hands
a balance of 2611 dollars 60 cents from
the 3d of March 1797 to the month of
July following and he held in his hands
the sniall balance of 90 917 dollars and
62 cents from the month of July 179910
the 22d of Jan 1S00 And fo far as his
accounts are fettled at the treafury he
appears Hill to hold in his hands the fum
of 18142 dollars and 52 cents”
This precious fummary of your won
derful difeoveries which it feemsyou had
promifed in fome former paper to lay be
fore the public contains three charges
each and all of which are falfe Inftead
of retainingirt my hands the fum of 261 1
dollars 60 cents as you pofitively declare
I did from the 3d of March 1797 to
the month of July following I gave an
order for its payment to Mr Meredith
the Treafurer of the United States who
received it on the 2ld of March at the
Bank On the 4th day after my return
to my own home viz on the 9th of March
1797 I wrote to the Secretary of the
Treafury requefting him to forward to me
as foon as completed an official report of
the balance that might appear to be due
on the fettlement of my account for the
feflion then juft ended He accordingly
enclofed to me on the l6th the requefted
report which I received on the 1 8th took
three days to examine and compare it
with my checks and fatisfied of its cor
reftnefs drew in favor of the treafurer
for the balance oti the 21ft: of March
Equally untrue is the fecond article of
your charges viz that I held in my hands
for fix months a balance of 909 17 dollars
and 52 cents
To convince any perfon in a moment
that it is moft glaringly fo nothing more
is necelTary than to refer to your own
ftatement itfelf in which in order to
rrTske out the above balance (and with it
a good ftory) you charge the rtionies ad
vanced for compenfarions in the courfe of
three whole feffions of congrefs and cre
dit in return compenfarions of members
for two fefflons only J To have introdu
A kw-jtrjey
Lexington July 24
By two gentlemen who arrived here on
Tuefday eveninglaftin 7 days from Pittf
burgh we are informed that a paper from
Philadelphia of the 8th inft had been re
ceived the evening before they left it
'which contained the following informa
tion yin : 1 hat Gen Maflena vvas fur-
rounded by the Aufftrians in Italy and
had only 15000 men With 20 day
provision confequentlv would (in all pro-
Lability) in a few days he obliged to fur-
render at ilifcretion — That the campaign '
nad opened on the Rhine where the
tiencli had been very fuccefsful — That
an attempt had been made to re-eftabhffi j
monarchy in France which failed and
Upwards of 40 of the ring-leaders were
guillotined — and that the Chief Conful
nad joined the army of referve at Dijon
The reports refpeAing the death or
Mr Jefferfon are Without foundation
June 12 1800
1 ' v w u 1 1 c line nay iwc u
or 9 vcarsold I j hands high with a ftar & fnip hisoi
hind toot white appraifed to I 5’
ipAKEN up bv the fubferiber in the
1 couny of Clark' Coppres Bott in on tlieKcn-j
Oickv rivr one bav mare 2 years old uliarrif
high the near hind foot white and along ble ’A
her (ace no other mark or brand perceivable ap
praifed to 41 0"
Jeremiah Kirg
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TTAIvhN up by the fubreriberj neai
Braihblcts lick Clark countv one bpfir 9
New-Tor k
NEW-YORK July 1
We flop the prefs to give'the following
importart information refpetfling (he
AMERICAN NEGOTIATION
ExtraA of a letter from Bofton to a Ipufe
of the firft refpeAahility in this tity
received this day dated 27th ult
“ A veflel arrived laft evening fromBil
boa brings an account that letters re
ceived there from Paris to the beginning
of May ftated that the Treaty with our
Commiffioners had broken off at their fe
cond meeting — I here vvas a claflung
which ended in this The reason given
by the Chief Consul was A correspon
dence with Mr Pitt '
f Letters were received in town
this day by the Eaftern Mail from Li
verpool via P ortfmouth (N FI) of data
May 13 — 1 hey contain nothing of a po
litical nature but relate principally to
commercial concerns — T he PortlmoutH
paper which came to h ind this day make
no mention of the arrival
ced into the fame account the payments
made to the houfe of reprefentatives from
the 3d of December 1798 to the 4th of
March 1799 and the advances from the
treafury Within the fame time to make
thofe payments and thus to have oppofed
the one to the other before any balance
was declared would certainly have been
proper arid juft but it Would not have
iuited your purpofe of inve&ive againft
me whom you can never forgive for hav
ing firmly difeharged my duty in two in
-gainft llances afle&ing you perfonallv nor a
the officers of the treafury wfio
are invulnerable to any attacks unfup
ported by truth
I can In like manner give the lie to the
third and laft charge by averring that I
not only do not hold in my hands the fum
of 18000 dollars as therein mentioned
but that I am not indebted to the United
States fo much as a fingle (hilling The
books of the treafury will eftablifli be
yond al! doubt the truth of this my af
fection and the falfehood of yours
If you pofleis a (ingle fpark of candor
or are defirous of preferving the appear
ance of it you will give this an early in
fertion lmuft De allowed to add that your pa
per has become fo notorious and indeed
proverbial for its Handers and its falfe
hoods that if it had been certain thatthofe
printers who might think proper to rez
publifli yotir milreprefentations would at
the lame time have quoted their authority
I fhould not' have thought it necefiary t
trouble the public with this anfwer con
vinced that to deftroy effe All ally the cre
dit of any fuch publication it would be
fufficient only to make known that it ori
ginated in “ the Aurora”
JONA DAYTON
New I la nips hire
PORTSMOUTH June 21
The quell ion tf choofing eleAors of
prefident &c by the legiflature was de
cided in the houfe in favour of that mode
133 to 66 As lenator to congrefs Mr
SheafFe had 33 votes the other candidate
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