The constitutionalist — Exeter, N.H., 1810-05-28 00:00:00, page 2

they cost. The public will compare
• the periods of .the administrations of
.Washington and Adams, and of Jeffer
son and Madison, on the score of ex
pences for armies and navies, and give
• the praise, both of economy and es.
iiciency, where justly due.
, Facts ! Facts ! Read them !
It is a fact that the nine years
democratic administration has been
, more expensive to the nation than the
preceding nine year's of federalism, by
more than twenty-one million dollars.
It is a fact that for two years past
Bonaparte has treated American citi
zens falling into his hands with about
as much contempt and insult as though
they had been negro slates; stripping
them of their all, binding them with
chains, and throwing them into dun.
geons.
Da us by our weakness, and want of
naval strength. To enforce an ob
servance of the treaty we have made,
and to guard against the like mischiefs
in future, Washington set about build
ing a small navy. The whiskey in
surrection is remembered. It was stir
red up by a jacobinic yell, and by the
most unfounded jealousies disseminat
ed against the government by democrat
ic clubs. It cost the nation upwards
of twelve hundred thousand dollars.
For a considerable portion, if not the
whole period we have noticed, general
Knox was secretary of the department
of war. By his political opponents,
he was charged with a wasteful expen
diture of public money. Those who
were then nearest to him, have ever re
garded him as an executive officer, of a
Comprehensive mind, practical in the
details of business, and as a dignified,
energetic, and economical war minister,
not excelled by either of his successors,
however eminent they may have been
in any of the qualities essential to the
successful and frugal management, of
the most unmanageable of the execu
tive departments.
In Washington's administration, the
expenditure on the army and navy was
considerable. Who will sa'y it was
not necessary, or was not well applied,
or that it did not promote the public
weal ?
Mr. Adams came into power with
some advantages : but not without dif
ficulties. He was not altogether a
favourite of his own party, and he was
in the way of the favourite of Virginia
and her satellites.
The skirts of the tempest that was
desolating Europe, had extended to
our country. At length the hostility
of France became intolerable. All
our overtures for peace were contume
liously rejected, and our trade depres
sed by lawless violence and plunder.
In this arduous crisis, the navy was ex
tended, equipped,manned, and employ
ed efficiently for the redress of our
wrongs, and the protection of trade.
Seldom has more been effected by
less means. • An army was raised for
defence and security, against threaten
ed invasion. The crisis was full of a
larm. Whatever opinion may pre
vail concerning the necessity of the pro
visional army, it ought not to be deni
ed, that the impressions made by the
operations of the navy, together with
the firm, dignified, aud spirited policy
of the government, brought France to
acknowledge our rights, and desist
from her lawless aggressions. We
respected ourselves, and the world re
spected us. It was a period of extra
ordinary difficulty and expense.
Mr. Jefferson came to the presidency
under the happiest auspices, as well as
with the most unbounded professions
of patriotism. He was " the man of
the people, and the favourite Os most
of the states.
The government was organized in all
its departments—a navy created, the
stores of naval and military " muni
tions" ample—the revenue department
established, our treasury replenished,
so that the government, instead of be
ing compelled to resort to new, were
enabled to put down old taxes. All
our differences with foreign nations
were settled. We were at peace with
all the world. The navy was reduced
—some of the public ships sold—oth
ers laid up in ordinary, and a few kept
in commission. There has been no in
surrection—for though deep and exten
sive discontents have existed against
Mr. Jefferson's prominent measures,
the respect due to the public authority,
has confined the expression of them to
petitions, resolutions and remonstranc
es. Our navy, during Mr. Jefferson's
administration, has been employed a
gainst the Barbary powers, and embar
go breakers. The army has been kept
to garrison duty, or on the pestilen
tial morasses of New Orleans.
The Jefferson reign is hailed as the
reign of mild philosophy, peace, econ
omy, and reform. Every day sheds
new light on its operations, and their
effects. We feel the blessings of the
restrictive energies of the government.
The above document shews how much
" I accept with pleasure, Prince,
the proposition which his Majesty the
Emperor of the French has through
you transmitted to me. Equally flat
tered by his choice, as penetrated with
the delightful pre-sentiment that this
alliance will efface every trace of politi
cal dissention, repair the evils of war,
and produce a future happiness to two
nations, who are formed to esteem
each other, and will render each other
a reciprocal justice.—l shall reckon
amongst the most interesting moments
of my life, that, when in token of a
reconciliation as frank as faithful, I
shall present thehand of the Archduch
ess Maria Louisa to the Delegate of
the Great Monarch, whom you rep
resent ; and 1 pray you, my Prince, to
publish to all France my ardent wish
es that the virtues of the Archduchess
may cement forever the friendship of
our Sovereign, and the happiness of
their people."
leyden, march 23. The Arch
duke Francis', brother of the Empress
of Austria, is to marry Maria-Au
gusta-Antoinette, Princess Royal
of Saxony ; and will be created King
of Poland.
It is a fact that our insignificant
fleet and puny army cost the nation
six million dollars and a half for the
last year —and did nothing.
It is a fact that the American army,
placed under the command of the
bloated traitor Wilkinson and being
marched into the poisonous swamps of
Louisiana, as if purposely for their
destruction, actually died in a very
few months, to the number of five
hundred and twenty three out of two
thousand two hundred and fifty three;
and only four hundred and fourteen
remained fit for duty.
It is a fact that partly by the des
truction of the revenue, and partly by
the extra expense of twenty one mil
lions in supporting democratick econ
mists, there is an alarming deficiency
in the treasury, and our government is
reduced to the alternative of bankrupt
cy or borrowing ; no less a sum than
four million dollars being adequate to
its present wants.
" The will of my father has constant
ly been mine; my happiness will
always be involved in his. It is in
these frinciples that the Emperor
Napoleon cannot fail to find a pledge
of the sentiments which will actuate
my conduct towards my husband ;
happy if I can contribute to his hap
piness, and to that of a great nation.
I give, with the permission df my
father, my Consent to my union with
the Emperor Napoleon."
Theanswer of theArchdukeCharles,
to the request of the Emperor Napo
leon that he would accept his pro
curation for the marriage ceremony,
was peculiarly animated : —lt was as
follows : —
When the Prince of Neufchatel
demanded of his Imperial Majesty the
hand of his illustrious daughter, for
his Master, Napoleon, he added,
" The policy of my sovereign is in uni
son with the wishes of his heart.—This
union of two powerful families, Sife,
will give to two generous nations new
assurances of tranquillity and happi
ness." In his speech to the Archduch
ess Maria Louisa, he said, " Politi
cal considerations may have influenced
the determination of both Sovereigns ;
but it is above all, your consent,
Madam, that the Emperor, my master,
wishes to obtain. It will be delight
ful to see on a great throne the Genius
of Power united with Beauties and
Graces which arc dearly loved." The
following is the answer of the Arch
duchess :—
GERMANY. Vienna march 15, 1810.
IMPERIAL NUPTIALS.
It is a fact that the profits of the
fisheries, that great staple of the sea
board part of New-England, and of
Massachusetts especially, in a great
measure have been destroyed.
It is a fact that real estate over a
great part of this country, has sunk in
value for ready cash, as much at least
as from twenty to thirty per cent.
It is a fact that farmers and mechan
ics, as well as traders, are much more
embarrassed at the present day, than
ever they have been since the federal
government commenced its operations.
It is a fact that things are going on
from bad to worse, that they are
worse this year, than last, and will in
all probability be worse next year than
this, unless there should be a radical
change in public measures.
[Con. Courant.
It is a fact that our government has
obtained no redress for these wrongs,
and applied no remedies but pitiful re
monstrances. -
It is a fact that, by unexampled,
oppressive and long-continued restric
tions, the American commerce has been
nearly ruined, and also a large pro
portion of those concerned in it.
foreign macros.
THE Camila, a cartel vessel, has just ar
rived from Bayonne, in 36 days; freighted
with seamer, belonging to American vessels
seized, sequestrated and sold in France, in
violation ofthe Laws of Nations, and the sa
cred stipulations of treaty. By her we have
melancholy confirmation of what every Amer
ican, whose mind has not been corrupted by
the accursed influence of France and party
spirit, knew must be confirmed—THE SE
QUESTRATION AND SALE OF ALL THE
AMERICAN VESSELS ANDCARGOES IN
ST. SEBASTIANS, and the money sent to
France to help support the scandalous prod
igality of the upstart Imperial House of Na
poleon, and his new-made Lordlings.—We
learn also,
That Mr. Armstrong—after the most
base submission to the tyrant's plundering
will and power—had at last resolved to quit
France ; —for which purpose he had obtained
the ship Sally, Capt, Scott, in which he
proposed to embark early In May, his bag
gage naving arrived at Bayonne, and ship
ped :—
Th at American property throughout France
had been condemned :—But that General
Demotler had been appointed Minister
to the United States :—Whether to replace
Gen. Turreau, or to act as a coadjutor in
further hoodwinking the American govern
ment, we have not learnt. [(O' " e find by
the French Kalender, that Dumoustier is a
General of Brigade, and one of Napoleon's
new Baron's; but has not been very conspicu
ous in the field.
LIST OF AMERICAN VESSELS—
Decoyed into, sequestrated, condemned, or sold
in France.
Seized at St. Sebastians—Com. Rogers,
Shaler, N. York ; Sally, Sc&t, do. ; Wells,
Lamson, Salem; Franklin, Hoyt, Boston ;
Enterprize, Brown, Salem; Fox, Cullen,
Philad.; Andrew, Coffin, do. Mary Ann,
Lawson, N. York; Tammany, Hussey, do.
Hawk, Bond, do. Young Conn. Rolla. N.
York ; Postboy, Spurrier, Philad.; Betsey,
Holmes, Salem; Hetty, Woodberry, do.
John, Stacey ; Boston; Hawk, Pass, Philad.;
Freedom, Murray, N. York; Sally, Hollings
worth, Boston.
Seized at Portpassage—Eagle, Asson,
Philad. ; Hawk, Brown, do. ; Spencer, Mossit,
do. ; Esebuck, Sloan, do.; Prosper, Selby,
N. York ; Postboy, Adams, Baltimore ;
Exchange, Dyer, do. ; Trim, Banberry, do. ;
Elenora, Glover, do.
Seized at St. John de Luz.—Brothers,
Sternhouse, Philad. ; Ann, Perangrass, N.
York. ; Rose in Bloom, oicutt, do. ; Per
severe, Perley, do. ; Independence, Dashiel,
Philad. ; Two Brothers, Dixey, Boston. ;
Emeline, M'Kim, N. York.; Spring Bird,
Tucker, Marblehead. ; Ocean, Hills, Boston. ;
Salem, Chevers. Salem. ; Joseph, Stacey,
Marblehead. ; Abigail, Wooldridge, jo.;
Sallow, Barry, Philad. ; Mary & Eliza, Smith,
Baltimore.
Seized at Bayonne.—Cupid, Brewster,
Philad,; Eliza, Macey, Boston.; Camilla,
Macey, N. York.
MASS. BOSTON, MAY 23, 1810.
French Plunderings !
IN confirmation of the Mail intelli
gence from France of the robbery of
American property, we have seen a
letter to the Hon. William Gray,
from his correspondents in New- York,
dated the 18th May, and which says,
" The Camilla has arrived from St.
Sebastians, 37 days, in ballast, as a
cartel, bringing 76 seamen belonging
to American vessels under sequestration
in France.—Most of the American
property had bean conveyed to Bay
ortne, and the remainder on its way,
and it was expected, it would be con
demned. Gen. Demotier was ap
pointed Minister to come out to this
country." =—
A gentleman from New- York in
forms us, the above distressing intelli
gence created great indignation in that
LONDON, MARCH 28.= The follow
ing is an outline of the new Empress
of France :—“ In figure she is below
the middle size ; gracefully formed in
the neck and shoulders, with a com
plexion of the most delicate whiteness ;
anose somewhat inclined to the Roman,
eyes of the most brilliant blue, and a
profusion of shining flaxen hair ; her
hands and feet most delicately shaped ;
her lips are truly Austrian ; however,
when opened by a smile, they discover
a set of teeth most beautifully arranged,
and exquisitely white. I'remember to
have seen her own lovely Aunt taken
from her mother in just such a transi
tory blaze of beauty, joyfully ex
pecting to fill a long established throne,
and afterwards I saw her fall the vic
tim to her subjects—on a scaffold!"
All the continental papers are filled
with articles on the subject of Bona
parte's marriage.—From a theatre of
war the different States appear to be
converted into one contending scene of
gossiping and chit-chat. —With what
levity does the mind of man moye from
the extremes of horror, to the veriest
littleness of coffee-cup conferences—
from the trumpet's blast " to the las
civious warblings of the lute !"—from
Death, to dance, and song, and rout
and revelry!
JV FORK. new-york, may 18, 1810.
Jimericq has sever complained of France.". —
Champagny.
parts, march 17. —The Emperor
is to meet his fair bride at Compeigne.
The value of the jewels and nuptial or
naments which Napoleon has destin
ed for his bride, are estimated at 18
millions of franks.
It is said, the Archduke Charles is
to be placed on the throne of Spain.
>2 the trails.
0, The account of the sequestration and
sale of our property in France, which ap
pears in this number, deserves particular
attention, as our rights have been violated
in so gross a manner as cannot but rouse the
feelings of every true American. What
course will our government pursue respect
ing this outrage? Will they discover as
much vehemence as the affair of the Ches
apeake occasioned?
^ By the last mails, we received the offi
cial correspondence between our Minister in
Great Britain and the Marquis Wellesley,
which is so lengthy that it cannot be insert
ed in this number, but shall appear in our
next. In that correspondence we have it
established by an official document that the
story of Mr Jackson's being censured by his
sovereign, or by the British ministry, is to
tally without foundation. The letter of the
British minister is a direct contradiction of
tlud report which was circulated with so
much industry and swallowed with so great
avidity, and which was not contradicted, but
op the contrary, countenanced by many of
the democratic leaders at Washington just
before the late elections. The following ex
tract from the letter of Marquis Wellesley
will show the tone of the British government.
" But his Majesty has not marked,
with any expressions of his displeas
ure, the conduct of Mr. Jackson;
whose integrity, zeal and ability have
long been distinguished in his Majesty's
service ; and who does not appear, on
the present occasion, to have commit
ted any intentional offence against the
government of the U. States."
It is well worthy remark, that
though Millions of hard dollars, with
interest, have been received by the
citizens of the United States for British
spoliations, (as many good democrats
could testify if they would) not one
cent has ever been refunded from
French coffers for/ spoliations, deten
tions, plunderings and burnings to ten
times the amount of the English :—
And not only this, but the negociation
for remuneration of this debt of plun
der has been made the pretext for
swindling the United States out of
Twelve or Thirteen Millions of dollars
more, in the purchase of a stolen terri
tory of wild and barren lands, which
has already cost the United States im
mense sums of money, and many lives,
to maintain—has been the cause of
much inquietude in the National Coun
cils ; and in which— mark the word;
—the seeds are now vegetating and
disseminating, which, in" all human
probability, will dissever the Union
of tiiis Empire! Such are the odds
between the justice of Britain and
France ! Yet we daily hear the latter
extolled to the skies as a paragon of
forbearance and justice ; her atrocious
crimes apologized for, or attributed to
" imperious necessity,' or " just re
taliation and her whiskered Minister
treated with the most profound rever
ence and awe:—While at the same
time, England is branded with every
blackguard epithet—^her conduct pla
ced in the foulest and most false point
of view—her Minister of Peace insult
ed with the most low and cowardly in
vective ; and the independent Ameri
cans who dare to advocate the Peace
and Prosperity of their country ; and
to tell their Rulers when they act un
justly and partially, are stigmatized as
the partizans of a foreign minister. —
Such things are. Centinel.
A caution against the baneful influ
ence of a publication in the last
New- Hampshire Gazette, under
signature of '' ^Aius Julius."
Disappointed ambition accompanied
with insatiable malignity, stimulates to
perform the most wanton and attro
cious deeds. Caius Julius appears io
a shape exhibiting the greatest talents,
even like those of the fallen angels,
who are not less than archangels ruin
ed. His insidious publication awakens
the sensibility of every patriot. It
must excite the jealousy of every lover
of liberty, as none other than a for
eign emissary would have the audacity
to dip the pen in the gall of bitterness
against unsuspected patriots. Yes, the
eye ofjealousy should be forever watch
city ; as on the eve of the late elections
in that State, the tools of the Adminis
tration had circulated reports, on the
pretended credit of letters from men in
authority in Washington, that Gen.
Armstrong had negotiated a treaty
with Bonaparte ;—that American
property was to be restored ; —and
that a new Minister was to come out
to make reparation for all injuries.—
The gudgeous readily swallowed the
bait; and " long live Bonaparte"
was the song and the boast of the demo
cratic electioneerers. But the late news
has extended their phizes, and they no
longer dare, in public, to justify their
" dear Friends" the French !
EXETER,
MONDAY, MAY 28, 1810.
I —i»'aiaig)|^^|^^ef ..
" It is, I think, much to be regretted, that
the present administration, and that, which
immediately preceded it, in conducting the
affairs of the nation, have so far departed
from the principles and measures of the im
mortal Washington, the father of his coun--
try ; Under whose administration, the Unit
ed States were, beyond a parallel, pros
perous, safe and happy. The leading prin
ciple of his system, continued by his- imme
diate successor, was, to defend the nation,
at every hazard, with an adequate force,
both by sea and land, against lawless ag
gression. Glorious things were achieved;
and the great masters of Europe were com
pelled to respect our rights as an independ
ent and powerful nation. Our commerce
under his plastic hand became second only
to that of the great maritime nation of Eu
rope.—Our ships of war rode the ocean with
confidence. Our treasury was overflowing,
and.our debt, the price of our independence,
was uniformly and rapidly decreasing. But
now we experience the reverse of all this.
France invades the rights of our neutral com
merce, in defiance of a subsisting treaty;
we remonstrate, but nothing more. Our
remonstrances are disregarded. Our com
marce is seized and sequestered. Our ves
sels are burnt, and the crews imprisoned.
We wholly abandon the idea of opposing
force to force. Great-Britain retaliates on
her enemy the injury aimed at her com
merce by this, lawless attack on ours, and
seeks indemnity at our expence, because we,
neglect to defend it against her rival. We
justly complain, but without effect. We
have recourse to nonimportation, embargo
and non-intercourse, under the vain idea of
bringing her to our feet. Thus, to revenge
a partial injury to commerce, we by our own;
act annihilate it; and instead of wounding
the great belligerents, we have gratified the
one, by falling in with her views, and taught
the other, to our lasting damage, new
sources of commerce. Our ships of war
have disappeared from the ocean. Our
treasury is exhausted, bur revenue is be
come inadequate to the ordinary expences
of a peace establishment; and, as a nation,
we have become “ spiritless, afflicted, fallen."
Still, in our defenceless condition, our Ex
ecutive reject the messenger of peace from
Great-Britain, because its sensibility was
wounded by something indecorus, which it
discerned, or thought it discerned, in the
language of that messenger of peace. And
thus, by regarding form more than sub
ful, as he is doubtless lurking in the
heart of our country, whose deadly
poison may be infused in every breath
of air. An anonymous writer, at
tempting to invade the shrine of puri
ty, always exhibits the effusions of a
desperado, who pursues the motto of
Satan, « better to rule in hell than be
second in Heaven." Not content with
self degradation, Caius Julius, the se
cret assassin, stabs at the vitals of the
patriots of the nation with poisoned
darts, intending to contaminate the
blood and convulse the body. He dares
not appear in his real character. He
dares not leave his hiding-place and
show himself in the open face of day.
He dares not show his head to those
who glow with patriotism. He dares
not meet his intended victim for he feels
conscious of his nefarious design. The
brilliancy of Caius Julius totally e
clipses his judgment. His nefarious
attack will recoil upon himself and
forever harrass a troubled conscience.
The object of his ferocious malignity
is impervious to the poisonous tooth of
calumny. His shafts would more easi
ly penetrate an adamantine sphere.
Did Caius Julius possess the splen
did talents and graceful accomplish
ments of Burr, yet the boldness and
baseness of his attack would afford less
hope than Burr had of personal ag
grandizement. His base and scandal
ous insinuations might have been appli
ed with equal efficacy to the immortal
Washington ; and Washington did not
escape the calumny of a Callender, and
his calumniator has ever received his
rich desert, universal contempt. If
even Caius Julius, with all the maligni
ty of hell, can produce no specific
charge, but merely attack by such des
picable insinuations, his intended victim
must be purity itsetf. We must remem
ber that ordinary talents never invade
the liberties of the people. The at
tack always proceeds from splendid
and overbearing geniuses ; and when
coming from that source the pillars of
state should be cautiously guarded, lest
the basis be removed and the super
structure fall. I will fix a mark on
this midnight assassin by which every
patriot may know, and forever a
void him. His piercing eye express
es the malignity of his heart ; his
ghastly phiz indicates disappointed
ambition.
Governor Treadwell then deliv
ered an impressive SPEECH, of which
the following extract will evince a fair
specimen.
The annual election for the State of
Connecticut was held at Hartford on
the 10th inst. The votes for Govern
or were, for John Treadwell 10265,
Roger Griswold 3110, Asa Spalding
7185, scattering 177—wanting 208 to
make a choice. Roger Griswold was
chosen Lt. Governor by a majority of
366 votes. Next day the legislature
appointed his ExcellencyJoHN Tread
well Governor, by a majority of 50,
the Council concurring in the appoint
ment bta unanimous vote.
Connecticut Federalism.