The Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1810-09-12 00:00:00, page 2

* By what name shall we call this gross
wisiatemen —=thése unfounded denunciations ?
Yo who veacrate the truth ! Ye, to whose
hearty the love of virtue, the spirit of a
gentenran” 18 dear—=gzive them a 4 name !
Cull them noty howcever, ¢ federal lies." ==
Cover them not with the muntle of federalism.
Satfer them not to find shelter under the
wings ol party spitit==ine curse of our coun
try le=but view them in all their nukedness
as taey stand exposed to you, and give them
“ their appropriate tules. \
Nothing ils said of the defeat of General
Crawlord’s divisione<inl the account of that
action recetved by a vesscl, which left Cadiz
oo the 15th of July, is said 10 ne incorrect,
Fiour had fallen in peice, to $l2 and was of
dull sale.
A distant cannonade and hombardment
were coatinded betweer the Freach anl the
‘“cj.o? but with litdle ¢llvc: on either side.
colimd te messare our strength with some
mighty e, would wish to @ break down 1"
Such are the o whom Mr. Rundoipih,win
Wikdabbow ¢d 1105 has denouuced as conspirator:
ready (o Diluw o leuder 10 plunder, to office
to covdons, and o legions of bonour ! Thes:
descendants of men, who glovicusly fough
and bledun ol inachizving ourindependence.
wre nuw depicted w you by this fanciful orator.
as ready to violate the aliar of that liberty
walch betore the great Supreme; they have
voiuntarily sworn to defend ! their eharacter,
bitheito pure, patrictick, spotiess, has been
thus wontonly assailed under the protection
of the priviieges of a Member of Congress.
what deed has been done, what sentiment big:
heen uttered, by any oac of that corps, to
justify these serions allegations ? Never di
more order, or better discipling, or more
perlect wiliing obediince 1o the kiws, exist i
any miitary establishment in any counury.
No American patriot ever visited that estab-
Lishment without experiencing bigh sohfsfic
tion. When a Committee of Congres in
spected that estublishment last winter, they
nhanimously passed upon it all the culogiums
which its bese friends could desire, They
complimented its commandant in terms ol
well deserved praise~"They tound cevery
thing in order, and could discern no deficien
ey. And yet Mr. Randolph who, it is believ
el, never visited this corps, and who hus
scarccly any kunowledge whatever of its
officers, had thus ungenerously attacked their
reputation le=their honour l==to them far
deaver than their jives. 1 repeat what deed
has been done, what sentiment has been
vitered, by any of that corps, that wouid
uliord the slightest colouring, for an excuse
for this eruel, this unmanly aspersion of their
character 7 Would Me. Randolph, unprotec
wil by privilege, give utterance to such
seutiments ! o*
Mre. Rundolph says— ¢ [ have as much res
pect as any one for the man who risks his life
in his country’s service !"—Of the truth of
this ussertion he has afforded the most ample
evidence. Is it not truly astonishing, that
any ‘nub in his senses should allow himsel
to utier such an expression as this, ot the
Yoy imoment, when he is exerting all the arts
of Lis mind, all the cunning, all the arts ol
ovatory, to pluck from tihe distinguished Soi
dier his well earned laurels, and without the
shadow of cause 1o associate bis mind with
that of traitors ?
Teir coats it appears are offensive te M
R ndoiph. My countrymen, they wear tha
dress which the laws of our country declare
chall wear The y wear that dress in which they
your reverend Washington van juished the
mighty warriours of Europe, and redeemed
you irom a state of bondage. Their heart
are loyal j=thut dress so offensive to Mr. R
re minds the soldier of the sacred duty he has
wvoluntarily imposed upon himselfy to shed his
Liood in defence of his country, the moment
it shall be re juired.—ile renounces the euse,
the comlert of domestick life, and his chiel
eiuly is how he can best use those arms
wiich he has taken up in defence of his coun
try. We muay all be called, Heaven knows
how soon, to wear the same insignia now
worn by them ! May we then be found at our
posts, and as ready and as wiling as they are,
and always have been to pertorm their solemn
duatios.
Fitteen thonsand of the British and Span.
ish troops were encamped beyond the walls
ol Caliz on the lsla.
Tnat accounts are received from Paris, of
the intercession of the Emperanr of Austria
with Boonaparte in favour of Ferdinand VI
and that the Eonperour would give him his
21. daughter in marriage—=provided Nupole
on would restore him to the throne of Spain,
or otherwise provide for him.
T'hat Buoa parte meant to propose terms
of neace to England.
Un these topicks there was much speculu
tion 3 some pronouncing it impussible that
Baonaparte could or would degrade his broth.
er Joseph to raise a Bourbon in his stead ;
o'ters arguing the contrary, from the circum
stince of the monument erected to Louis
XV thatif the voung Emvpress and her
fanily had obtained Buonaparte’s consent to
tha measure, they might carry thir influence
farther.
Wa hear from Washington, says a late
B dtimore Whig, that the despatches lately
hrougntfrom Me. Pinkneyinthe Famaahmaah
have beea forwarded to the Seeretary of State,
but are quite unimportant :
By the shup Moignet, Myaisk ar. at Philadelphia,
SOA wlt. advices are received from Cadizgte the 23th
July, at which time na occurence of Importance had
taken place.
From CADIZ <Tuly 28th.
AMERICANUS.
(To be continued.)
The anniversary ot the memorable victory
of the 16th of Augusty, 1777, was commem
orated near the ficld ot conuest, by the
Republican Freemen of the counties adju
centy, with those serious and animated denion
strations of gratitude, which the surrounding
scenes, the event, the advantages resulting
andl now enjoyed, were calcuiated to produce.
The dwn of day was anuounced by the
discharge of cannon by the Hoswck Avtillery
at the encampmentyand the Pitsttown artillery
at the battle ground. The weather w g
serene and temperate. OUn the ground of
GEN. STARK’s encampient, the appointed
place of rendezvous, a Rag of Union, suspepe
ded from a lofty flug-staff, was toating to the
hreeze : on one side the flig wosrepresented
« descending eagle bearing in its beuk the
emblem ol peace—in its clenched tulons it
held the emblems of war, indiciting a wish
for peace, yct prepared for resistance : on the
opposite side the usual symbolical sivipes und
stars were displayed ; to the rizht ol these
was a representation of the Goddess of Lib
erty, standing in the attitude of solicitation.
The uged soldier observes the figure ; he
looks to the hills of the west where raged the
buttle ; his thoughts are of other times ; he
iooks aguin to the flig of his county ; he
recognizes the angle form of Liberty, which
erst he had seen mounting the gathering
clouds of war, sereaely moving and' mixing
with the stately spirits of the storm ; "twas he
by God’s uppointment. inspired and sustained
him i the contlict.—He thanks his God, and
renews his allegiance to Liberty.
THREE THOUSAND |
FREEMEN REJOICING
In eommemmoration of the GLORIOUS VIiC
TORY Achieved by AMERICAN PAT
RIO7IS, Commanded by the Veteran
GENERAL JOUN STARK,
aover the British, Hessians, Tories, and Indians,
on the Heights of Wolloomsuck, the
16uh of August, L 1777,
At equal distances on either side the stan
dard of Union, 18 trees were planted, on
each of which wes suspended a flag with the
name of a Stute written thereon, arranged in
geographical order.
The effect of the whole was striking .~
The mind became intuttively familiar with
the projects immediately connected with the
occasion of the meeting. The rich flow of
thought==the crowd of imoges presented to
the imagination==and the lofiy und kindiing
enthusiasm excited, outreach nurration.
At halt past 11 o'clock, the procession
formed, und=r the direction ot Col. Duvid
Robinson, marshall of the day, and his assis
tants ; and marched to a view of the battle
ground. The Hosick Artillery, stationed at
the encampment, announced by a gun, the
first moving of the procession, und the Pitts
town Arullery announced by a gun the near
approach of the procession to the Hill of
Victory. In front of the procession were
placed thre ci'\zens who volunteered their sere
vices as Musiclans, consisting of Petersburg
Band in beautiful nniform, and martial thue
sick==alternately playing their favourite mar
ches.—~Next marched about seven-hundred
footmen—=these were foilowed by aged. and
other citizens on horseback and in carrisges,
amounting in the whole to THREE-THOU
SAND, and far exceeding in numbers any
procession ever witnessed in this vicinity.
It was very interesting to beholdy as the
procession moved along, the aged Patriot
point the young men to the place where the
disciplined invaders intrenched themselves—
where our brave but undisciplined patriot
hushandmen planted the Standard of Victory :
Here the Hesstun dead where buried ;3 there
15 the ** narrow house” of Baum the Chief
tain 3 and here the the remans of the Tory
Commuander were consigned to kindred eavth
~=hut these constituted a part only of the
groupe of incidents which contributed to
make the scene deeply impressive—=the har
vest for feeling.
The procession, joined by the Pittstown
Artillery, returned ag.in to the encampment :
~=wvhere the Rev. Mr. Marsh opened the ex
ercises by an excellent Prayer, at once des
criptive, pathetick, and devout. An Oration
was then pronounced by Jesse L. Bitnivos,
Es .in which he depictured the glooms and
horrours of slavery and despotism in every
quarter of the world ; in .Ifrice, where the
pacent for a price sells his childrea to slavery ;
Midway, below the flig of Union, was
suspended unother flag, on which were writ
ten in conspicuous characters,
FROM THE GREEN MOUNTAIN FAKMER,
Remember the glories of Patriots brave,
Though the days of the Heroes are o'cr,
Long lost to their country, and cold in the grave,
They return to their kindred no moie:
Those stars of the ficld, whieh in victory pour’d
T'heir beams on the battle, are set ;
But enough of their glory remains on each sword
To vicur US 10 viciory yeETI !
Walloomsack ! when nature embellish’d the tint
Of iy ficlds and thy mountains so fir,
Did she ever intend that a Tyrant should print
The footsteps of sluvery tgwrc !
No=—Frecdom ! whose smiles we shall ne’er resign
Told those who invaded our plains,
That 'tis sweeter o biced for an age at thy shrine
‘Than to sleep but a moment in chains.
Forget not the Chieftain of Hampshire, who s‘ood
In the duy of distress by owr side~. &b‘umd.
Nor the Heroes who nourish’d the flelds with their
Nor the Rights they secured as they died,
T!ie sun, that now blesses our eye with his light,
Saw the Murtyrs of Liberty sluin ;
06 let him not blush when he leaves vs to night,
To filnd that THEY FELL THERE IN vAaln !
CITEFFERSON & M iDISOA”
MISCELEANEOUS.
GENTLEMEYN,
I will thank vou to give publicity to the en
closed Address to the PEOPLE, and I shall feel my
self obliged by all, whose liberality and candor may
incline them 1o republish it
With rerpect, I am, &e.
JA: WILKINSON.
Messrs. SMirn & Gaves,
Editore of the Natiomal Intelligencer.
The gathering of citizens from thirty and
even sixty miles distunt-—some on fcot, sonie
on horseback, single, and in clusters, and
without leaders or previous arrangement,
strikingly resembicd the irvegular rvallying to
the buttle, consummated by the victory now
celebrated. The resemblance in another
view was equally striking~—the enemies of
liberty, now as then, shunned the encamp
ment of STARK und his brave Compariots,
nd from simijar motives—their joys and
their treusure were elsewhere,
ALTHONGH I hud resolved not to ob
trude myscit upon our attention, untii I could
have invited 1t (o the irresistible force ol my
vindication, I wmn driven from my purpose by
the proceedings of the lute Committce of
Congress, the sole object ot the maujorny of
which appears to have been to search for
matter to criminate my charucier and conduc:
---T'he report made to the House, consisting
of inculpatory evidence alone, instead of be
ing confined to their journals, is now under
publicaticn, and will naturally tend to excite
your prejudgments, before I have been heard
in wy detence. What man among you, who
has been engaged in the publick service more
than a guarter of a centur-, whose ucts and
offices have been as varied as wmine, could
withstusd an occulty, inculpatory enquiry, if
backdd by the power and purse of the nation ?
My cause is the cauce of all, und if the meu
sures ol injustice aimed ot me be suffered to
prevail, who among you will be safe, trom
the most exalted to the most obscure ? [ con
jure you, then, defend yourselves ageinst the
dangers, and your countiy against the odium,
of havihg sucrificed a teliow-citizen to the
maulice of those who have been combined for
the destruction of your Government-=for,
bear in mind should the precedent obtain,that
the House of Representatives have the power
to mstitute enquiries into the conduct of in
dividuals, and to publish the testimony they
iay collect before the accused has been heard
no man will be safe agninst the jealousies of
artfuly unprincipled, popular declaimers, who,
professing the publick good, secek only the
eratification of their ambition and revenge.--
The ruin of an individusly, tuken in the ab
stract} is of littie importance==but the exam
ple muy intuse a deadly poison into your
ouncils and reanimate the dormunt hopes of
those who conspired rgainst your Interest,
your happiness and your union ; for treason,
ike the leprosy, is incurable, and the heart
once corrupted by its poisons, is lost to patri
otism and publick virtue, for ever.
Litle discernment is requisite to trace the
source of the vilificution 1 have incurred.
You witnessed the rise and progreess of my
persecutions, coeval with Buri’s crospiracy
nd co-extensive with its affiliations. I did
not invoive the nation in a war on the Sabine,
to give effect to this conspiracy, though my
orders warranted it in the repulsion of the
Spaniards ; and, on my own discretion, 1 de
feated the wicked plot, disgraced the promi
nent actors and biusted the sinister aspirations
of numerous and powerful associates ; for
these signal services, I am move signally per
secuted than any man, publick or private, in
times ancient or modern. The conduct
which, without bloodshed, saved the country
from the danj:erous encroachments of a for
eign poweryand from lawless usurpation and a
civil war, was pulpable and specifick ; it can
not be expunged from the national records,and
yourselves are witnesses of it. The crimes
imputed to me are speculative ‘and legen
dary==-originating with loose and corrupt
men, some of them acknowledged traitors,
and supported, in the first instance, by pub
lick malcontents and personal enemies—yet
these men, with indefatiguble industry and
shameless mulignity, have employed every
engine and every art, to awaken suspicion
and excite your jealousies ; and a life,devoted
(o my country from the dawn of the revolu
tion, has become a theme of declamatory in
vective.~l am denounced in solemn deliber
ative bodies by men of your election, with
out proof on their part or any hope of redress
on mine. It is notorious that justice has been
denied me, and that | have been excluded, in
a lond of liberty, my native country, trom the
ordinary rights of the most humble-citizes.
You have beheld a distinguished character
st p forth the avengerof Burr’s discomfiture,
and associating himself with vile informers,
denounce me in the dawn of the conspivacy,
befare a singlo fact had been developed ; and
in Asia, where, for 27es, man las been the
sluve of slaves juin Lurcpie, Where its foot
steps have been marked by blood andtortures ;
and lustly and more lengthily, be dwelt upon
the attempt made by England to enslave the
Americans and bow the lofty spirit of free
men to her cadaverous influence. 1 heir
brave and successful resistunce he portrayed
in glaring and pathetick language. He re
minded the eitizens that ascriptions of grati
tude were due to God, and he concluded by
patriotick wishes, that the blessing of free
dom might Le extended und perpetual,
Afier the Oratien, the citizens pattook of
a cold collation. The cloth being removed,
Toasts were drank, intersperced with uppro
priate Original Songs, under the discharge of
cunnon.
To the People of Ice United States
L'rom the Naticnal dntellignncer,
Washington, Jugust 11.
Letters from Wiscasset, anvoureces the ar”
iival there of the Sca. Betsy, Coumbs, tiom
Belfasty which on the 14rh Avguer, in lat. 43
lon. 44, spoke the ship Jnn, 380 diys from
Bayonne, with ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT Y~
FIVE Jmerican Seamen on board, being part
of the crews of American vessels Condemned,
in France. William Lee, Esq. lite Consel of
the Unired States at Bordeaur, was on board.
The Ann was short of provisions. Two of
the Jlmerican Seamen where put en board the
Betsy.
LATEST FROM LISBO.N.
A letter received last evening from My
Low, of Gloucester, to the Lachunge Cofiice
House, contains the foliowing information i~w
* Arrived here this morning. biig Jugusius,
Davis, 26 days from Lisbon, with Seit and
Merino Sheepry, to HWm. Sargeant, and otiers.
The Sheep are suid to be far superiour o any
imported into this country. Cupt. D. says, o
British Generaly, with an army of 4000 len
was attucked by the #rench, and obliged to lee
treat with considerable loss. The inuabitants
of Lisbon were in good spirits, having no {ear
of the French getting possession of that City
at present. Capt. D. left a great many ~=
mericans at Lisbon, markets good.
1 seek not to excite your ¢ apathy—
because I um conscious I have descrved it
But I invoke that justice, whichis gnaranteed
to all by the sacred Charter of the Lund, and
constitutes our pride, our beuast and conmmon
security. =—Let e be heard before coudein
nation.
By the above arrival, we hove received -
Lisbun paper of the Slsr Juiy ; which cons
tains the following particuiars of an wction
fought on the Coa, @ small river in front of
the advanced corps of the English army <At
a bridge on that river, Gen. Crawford way in«
trenched with between 4 and 5000 troops,
wiim u few picces of Artillery and two How
itzers—on the 2424 July, were attacked by
Gen. Loison, with between 6 and 7000 men.
The attack was made with great fury, and re
pulsed with equal constancy. The French
thence passed the bridge ; and were thrice
repulsed at the point of the buyonet. The
loss of the French was between 7 and BQU ;
that of the Lngieh and Poriuguese 377 Ronk
and I'tle, and 25 officers.==The allies took
several prisoners, and muny of the Freach
deserted. The Zisbon puper contains many
exbillivaling remarks on this repulse of the
enemy. They add, that the great object of
the movenients and operations of the French
army, is to cut off the advanced corps of the
allied »rmy under Gcn. Crawfird ; but there
is no other account of any army operation,
thun the above.
Captoin Tucker, of the sch. Spring Bird,
44 deys Trom Buyonne, advises that it had
been reported, that Gen. Armstrong had ef
feted an uccomn.odation with the Irench
Government ; and that the report was so far
confirmed the doy he satied, thit it was gens
ecully belicved,
I'errow-Cirizess !
I crave not forgiveness for offences e
because I have com:mitted none ?
been mude to effect my dishonour as a citize
a soldiery and a chicf, by a long list of wiiin
witnesses, whose puss.on'y prejudices aid lo
sentments have interested them in iy des
trustion. The war of an individual against a
Lost, is enough to stagger the stoutest bheart,
but habit has placed me above ditlicultics,.nd
the present Address, 1 censider it ny duty
solemly to pledge niy honour, that 1 shall
bring preofs from authientick sources to pu
to shime the prowse ofierivgs wlich five
under the protection of that Alinighty Power,
in whdm I trust, I will succeed.
to jus:i} Lis demuiciations yeu Yive wiipes.
sed the“iuthless veugeunce, with which 1 s
jolitical tewser has since pursiee roe. wll e
expense of every thing sicred 10 celicony, 10
truth, ind candour. You hove seen his 1 il
ful coudjutor, the legutce cf Luii’s reser i
ments, o mun who has sevled his own inlop v
in the attempt to effect ny luin. come for
ward with a volunie of minuluciured reports,
lilsehocd snd perjuries, fived (0 the oocee
sion ; and you have beheld a bundred pens
und presses operating sgoinst we, wien dise
tent, absent, wnd cficiine ny Leolth end life
to the publick servic. e=hbut it would sweil
this appeal to a volun ¢, vid T atrenipt 10 e
velope the systematich scheres of vengeurce,
by which 1 hive been hunted te the present
Lour.
Thus pressed und persecuted, I havemno
resoit but in your vittue and ‘good sense : |
meke it in confiderce thatyou wili suspend
your opinions. untit I present you with e
enly delence in my power to ofier ; und if in
the course of the exposition, which has been
forced upen me, 1 should be obliged to infiics
wounds, where I have been destrous o spare
feclings, the duty whici 1 owe to the chitacs
ter ot a soidier, to n.y nime end finiy, wnd
the sense of my wicngs nust excuse e,
No calumuy shall lorce me from the sis
lence I now impose on mysclf. Ishull moke
a briet record of ali the siunders,which my
reach my knowiedge, and will attend o thom
in their proper pluace. But, belore I close
JA : WILKINSON.
Washington, Augwer 11, 1810.
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