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In 1801, Mr. Clinton is again Governor ; —
and following the example of Mr. Jefferfon,and
Gqv. M'Kean,he forgets his sentiments of '94,
an# turns out of office ever, officer in the State
of New-York, who bad not supported bis election.
C^. Varick, who had for twelve years been the
M,yor of New,York, is dismissed, to make place
for Chancellor Livingston's brother Ned, who
had not been yet breeched when Col. Varick
was fighting the battles of our country.—Mr.
Harrlfon, 3 man of great worth, with a large
family, and one of our greatest law luminaries,
so difpheed to make a vacancy for young Provost,
Mr. Burr's fon-in-law,who is appointed Record
er for the city of New-York—and all the other
removals and appointments are in the fame style.
. Q. •
FACT—N„. nr.
During the administration of Gen. Wafting,
ten, Chancellor Livingston profeffed himfelf a
(launch Fcderalift; and at that time published
the following judicious and manly observations:
4 As to the idea of representing thefali^ of
In the, year 1794, when Mr. Clinton was
Governor of New-York,learning that the Coun
cil of Appointments wished to displace certain
officers, he thus addrtffed the Council :—
" All offices, the duration of which is not par
ticular!, afiertained, (hall be held during the
pleasure of the Councils by the pleasure of the
Council is intended, in my opinion, not a capri
cious, arbitrary pleafare, but 3found, rational discre
tion , to be exercised for the promotion ts the public good.
A contrary doctrine renders the Conftitutkm
unfafe, and its admiilftration unffable, and
•whenever parties exif, ma, tend to deprive men of
their tfcei,^ CT fe THEY HAVE TOO
MUCH INDEPENDENCE OF SPIRIT
TO SUPPORT MEASURES WHICH
THEY SUPPOSE INJURIOUS TO THE
COMMUNITY, and may induce others from
, an undue attachment to office, to facrifice their
integrity to improper considerations
["GEORGE CLINTON.*
for his treason, is now fiationed as the guardian
, of the Money Chest ofthe People, to the orcfa
6oa of native patriotism and talents 1
FACT— 11.
Tn 1,89, the Hon. Mr. Madison, in a debate
in the House of Representatives of the United
States, speaking of the capricious use of the
power of removals to be entrusted to the Presi
dent, said, " Such abuse of power exceeds
MT CONCEPTION. IF ANY THING TAKES
Notwithstanding the above assertion, Mr.
Madison, who is now Secretary of State, must
have recently witnessed the " abuse of power,"
which in 1789 he considered as exceeding his
powers of conception—in the removal of up
wards of FIFTY officers against whom not
one charge of official mifeondud tcan be laid —
yet we do not find, that Mr. Madison has pro
tested against this abuse of power.—We will
not fay he has acquiesced in, or advised it.
Down with the well-born, and huzza
for equality !
From the CENTINEL.
NATIONAL RECORD.
.O
V^ Recommended to be published from time
to time, in all the Federal Papers.
TACTIC. I.
IN the Aurora, of September x,1792, we find
the following :—
^ a Meeting of fair, Inldbitants of the Weftern
Counties o, Pennfylvahia, at Pittsburg, on bbe %IJI
dm, of AuguJl^ 1792.
C6l. John Cannon was plated in the Chair,
and Albert Gallatin, appointed Clerk.
The Excise LA W of Congress being taken
into confidcration, a committee was appointed
„ to prepare a draught of resolutions, expressing
the sense of the meeting oh the fubjed of said
Law.
man, who nine years Since rose in fitch opposi
tion to one of the Rew^-Laws of the United
States, is now designated to carrythat very law
into execution : The man who fought for and
obtained a pardon of President Washington
ry of the Treasury of the United States :—The
PLACE IN THE ORDINARY COURSE OF BUSI
NESS OF THIS KIND, MY IMAGINATION
CANNOT EXTEND TO IT ON ANY MATCONAI
PRJNCiPIE." ^
COMMENT—Nt. IL
This Clerk, who thus publishes the above refo
hitions for general information, it the fame per
son who has lately been appointed by IVelident
fferfon, and now ctercifes the office of Secreta-
mND WITHHOLD All THE COMFORTS OF
LIFE, which depend upon those duties that as
men and fellow-citizens, we owe to each other,
and upon all occasions treat them with that con
tempt they deserve, and that it be, and it is hereby
m<ft earnefly recommended to people at lasge to fol-
Low the fame kind of conduct toward, them.
(Signed) "John Cannon, Chairman.
" ALBERT GALLATIN, Clerk.”
moirfly adopted : —
" And whereas tome menh found amongst us
so far loft to every ferje of virtue and feeling
for the diftrefles of this country, as to accept of
fices for the collection of the duty.
" Refoived, therefore, that in future we will
confider such perlons as unworthy of our friend
ship: Have no interrarfe or dealings icitb them,
WITHDRAW FROM THEM EVERY ASSISTANCE,
Adjourned to TO o'clock to-morrow.
>^^tf 22, 1791.
The Committee appointed yefterda, made
report, which being twice read, was unanimo^y
adopted.
*" e fclloiumg is one of faieral rffiluttou unani-
John Brmfrong, another broth^-in
„W' Senator in congress from the state
of New-York.
Thomas Tillotfon, another brother-in
law, secretary of the Rate of New-York.
Brockholft Livingfa, member of as
sembly from the city of New-York.
Gilbert Liringftcn, surrogate of the
cmnty of Dutchefs, and master in
chancery.
— Livingflin, clerk of Dutchefs
county.,
„ Maturm Livingflon, son-in-law of
judge Lewis, register of the court of
chancery of the state of New-York.—
Bcfides sundry justices of the peace,
and military officers in different parts
of the state.
of the supreme court of the date of
New- York.
COMMENT—No. 111.
COMMENT—^. I.
FACT—M. 111.
bi easts of every real friend co the A
merican navy. It has been considered
a "new thing under the fun, for a
brave and humane officer, without the
THE trial of Captain Little, on
charges alledged against him by the
officers of the French corvette Le Ber-
Alexander J. Dallas, Attorney Pennsylvania
E^ern Dfria, John W. Kittcra, difmiffed —Da-,
vid Fay, Attorney Ver. Dfria, Charles Marsh,
difmifcl —John Willard, Marfoal Per. Dfrifl,
difmfed —.William Irvine, Superintend
ent of Military Stores, Samuel Hodgdon, difmifed
— William Gardner, Commissioner of Loans , N.
Hampshire,John Peirce, difmiffed —Joseph Whip
ple, Collc&r of Customs for New- Hampshire,
Thomas Martin, difm^ed—Ed ward Livingston,
Attorney Nezu-York Dyiria, Richard Harrison,
difmiffed —John Swartwout, Marfoal New-York
Diftria, Aquila Giles, difmtfed —David L.Barnes,
Dflria ,&dge for Rhode- If and, Ray Greene—
Samuel Bishop, aged 78, Colleger for New-Ha
ven, E. Goodrich, difmiffed —Reuben Etting,
Marfoal Maryland Di,ria, David Hopkins, dif
miffed —Daniel C. Brent, Marjbal Columbia Dif
tria, Gen. J. M. Lingin, difmiffed — John Thom,
Mason, Attorney Columbia D,ri&, Tho's Swan,
difmifed —John Scott, Marjbal Virginia Dfrill,
D. M. Randolph, difaifed — George Maxwell,
Attorney New-ferfey Di,ria, L. H. Stockton,
difmifed —Daniel Maffi, CoHeflor of Cudems for
New-fer,,, Andrew Bell,d,miffid —James Linn,
Supervisor New-ferfey D,riA, Aaron Dushalt,
difmifed —Peter Muhlenberg, Supers,or Penn
sylvania Di,ria. Henry Miller, di,miffed
Ephraim Kitby, Superior, Conn. Dill, John
Chester, di,miffed. —Joel Lewis, Marjbal, Dela
ware Di*. Thus. M'Lean difmifod. —Herm H.
Wendell, MarJbal, Albany Did. James Dole,
di,miffed —David Ge\&on,Colle3or Cu,omrforN.Y.
Jefhua Sands, difmiffed —Wm. C. C. Claiborne,
Governor Mfifypi Territory, Winthrop Sargent,
&faiffed —George W. Erving, Confal at London,
Samuel Williams, di,miffed —Samuel Osgood,
Superofor New-York, Col. N. Fiffi, di,miffed —
Silas Lee, Attorney Maine, Daniel Davis, difmtfed
—George Blake, Attorney Mafoebufetts, Harri
son G. Otis, di,miffed —Benjamin Jarvis, Colleflor
Penobfeot, John Lee, difmiffed —Robert Joncs,
Store-keeper Philadelphia, John Harris, difmiffed —
William Smith, Mini,er Plenipotentiary Portugal,
di,miffed —William;.Vans Murray, Mini,er Re/i
--dent Batavian Republic, di,miffed —Charles Pinck
ney, Mini,er Plenipotentiary Madrid, D. Hum
phreys, difmfed — Alexander Wolcott, Collector
Middleton, C. Whittlefcy, di,miffed —Rter Dobel,
Commercial Agent Havre, John W. Forbes, dif
miffed —Tulwar Skipwith, Commercial Agent,
Pans, J. C. Montflorence, dismissed— Joseph
Peelis, Commercial Agent, Malta — an. Italian—'
recommended unquestionably by Sig. Mazzei—
William Lee, Commcr^l Agent, Bourdeaux, Isaac
C. Barnet, d,m,cd< —Daniel Clark, Consul, New-
Orleans, Evan Jones, di,miffed—Jofeph Ygnardi,
jun. (a Spaniard) Consul Cadiz, Henry Preble,
[an American ) difmiffed.'.
TRIAL—of Capt, LITTLE.
whole characters were known to be in
famous, and whose conduct to federal
American vessels, had been proved on
oath to have been little better than that
of pirates. Yet such things have we
seen: And on the complaint of such
men has a gall an t Naval Commander been
lubje&ed to the ignominy of arrest and
trial—whether from a delire to refeue
the American navy from the fufticion of
reproach —or from an undue attachment
to the French Republic, let the manly,
good fente of the American public de
ceaii, has excited much sensibility in the
least previous invefligation by the gov
ernment under which he serves, to be
deprived of his Sword, and his Ship,
and be compelled to stand a public
trial, on the bare complaint of some of
the prisoners he had just captured—
the piffle, 1 do not ebtircly underhand ft, unless
by their feelings is meant their interft. They
appear to me to be the fame thing. But if they
have filings which do not rife out of their inter
est, I think they ought not to be represented.—
What ! Ihall the unjust, the felff, the unsocial
fating, be represented ? Shall the vices, the
infirmities, the pgfane of the PEOPLE be
represented ! Government would be a
monster. Laws made to encourage virtue,
and maintain peace, would have a prepoftcrous
tendency to subvert the authority, and outrage
the principles on which they were founded.—
Besides, the feelings of the PEOPLE are so variable
and inconstant, that our Rulers ftould be cbofen
EVERY DAT, — People have one fat of feelings
TO DAY, and another to morrow, and the voice
of the Reprefentatrue would be INCESSANTLY
changing, in correfpondeirce with these feelings.
This would be making him a political'
WEATHERCOCK.''
o
COMMENQh/P. 7
Mr. Livingston expected to have been ap
pointed Chief Judice of the United States; or
Secretary of State, by Gen. Walhington.—Me
was disappointed—He turned Democrat ;—
talks continually of consulting the feelings of tie
People, and has been appointed Miniftcr Plenipo
tentiary of the United States, to the Court of
Bonaparte. =o— —L.
FACT—No. V.
Mr. Jefferfon ina speech delivered at Walk;
ington, March 4, 1801, fays :—" All too will
bear in mind this sacred principle, that though
the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail ;
that will to be rightful must he reafouable ;•—
and that the minority possess their equal rights."
" Let us restore to 'focial intercourse, that har
mony and affedion, without which liberty, and
even life itfelf, are but dreary things." " And
let us reßeft, we have yet gained little, if we
countenance a political intolerance, as despotic
as wicked." " Every difference of opinion is
not a difference of principle." “We have cal
led by different names, brethren of the fame
principle." "We are ALL Republicans—We
are ALL Fcderalifts."
0
COMMENTS 7.
Notwithstanding the Sentiments thus benig
nantly exhibited, we (hall find by the subsequent
lift, that Mr. Jefferfon' spractice has been wide
ly variant from his precepts; and that many
men of tried integrity and patriotism ; who
have braved death in the field, in defence of re
publican principles, and against whose official
conduct Scrutiny itfelf has not been able to sub
stantiate an inaccuracy; have been deprived of
office, and the subsistence of their families, mere
ly because they belonged to the constitutional
" minority," in the clcdion of Frefident, and
because they were Federorfs :—
Appointments and Dtfmiffals
SINCE MARCH 4, IBOL'
Ihe evidence adduced in this trial clearly
proves that the prisoners on board the prize
have been pillaged, ft is apparent, that watch
es, rings and buckles, ronftitating a part of die
drcis of the prisoners, have been pillaged from
them by some persons belonging to rhe Boston
frigate; that these articles, at the time of tak
ing them, were not deemed, even by the persons
who took them, lawful prize; that they were
not reported to the officers of die admiralty
Court as prize, to be adjudicated and condemn
ed; that they have not, at any time since, been
produced; and, that no kind of fatitfaaory in
formation has yet been given refpe&iug them.
But from the face of the proceedings of the
Court Martial, it does appear, that the orders
issued by Capt. Little were perfectly correct and
legal; that he was not, in any degree, a part,
in this mean and difgraceffa pillage, and that
the charge against him has tro evidence, pcli
tive or prefepmtive, to support it. I therefore,
do approve of the sentence of acquittal pro
nounced by the Court Martial on his trial.
THE LETTER. °
Navy Department, Septic), ißor.
THE A& of Congrels for the better govern
ment of the Navy of the United States, declare
that no person of the navy fhallpillage prison
ers on board a prize, on pain of such punifhmont
as a Court Martial {hall adjudge. In the afore
going case, among several unimportant informal
allegations, there is a charge of pillige exhibited
against Capt. Little, and it was for the trial of
this charge principally, that the Court Martial
was constituted. Not only the honor of the
Nation, but the honor of this officer, wasxletp
ly implicated, and, therefore, called for such a
solemn investigation. In this trial, it was the
government, that was the party prosecuting.
1 he prisoners were only as the informing wit
neSTes in a criminal prosecution. These priso
ners, in legal contemplation, are not, neither
were they, in the contemplation of government,
considered parties. They could not have been
in any degree benefited by a sentence against
Capt. Irittle ; because a Court Martial is not
competent to decree a rest oration of any proper
ty alledged to have been pillaged. It is only
competent in such a trial io pass a sentence erf
acquittal or punifoment.
The clovenfoot so often disclosed in the conduct
and writings of the preferit adn ^ iftration, has
never been more visible than in the letter of Mr.
Secretary Smith, on the fubjed of Capt. Tittle's
honorable acquittal. Instead of rejoining as one
would suppose an American Secretary of the
Navy would, at the acquittal of a meritorious
commander from the most infamous charges ;
it would seem, because the calumniators were
Frenchmen, that the Secretary had labored to
tind language to express his disappointment that
he was not ronvided ; and as he could not, in
face of the honorable acquittal of the Court,
tit the stigma of " pillage," on Capt. little, he
very adroitly transfers the infamous charge to
the gallant Ship's crew of the Boston. Thus
are our brave tars rewarded 1
The Secretary of & Nan, admits, that no
part of the charges against Captain Little were
proved. Such being the case it was his duty to
have approved the sentence in as honorable a
manner as he Could. Instead of which we find
him echoing and re-echoing the French charges of
pillage, as warmly as if he were the Secretary ‘
of the French navy. In the name of duty and
honor, what has the bold assertion of the Secre
tary that American seamen have been guilty of
MEAN AND DISGRACEFUL PILLAGE,
to do with the simple aft of approbating a sen
tence which declares Cape. Little's innocence ?
What, has the one, if even true, to do with the
other ? Would not such a charge, made at such
a time, and in such a manner, appear to have
come with more consistency from Citizen
Cto/,thsa from an American officer to whom
the honor of our gallant seamen is cortraixted ?
RT. SMITH, Secretary of the Navy.
THE aforegoing are true copies from the
originals on file in the Navy Department.
Ch. W. GOLDSBOROUGH.
The Court do, therefore, unanimou/ly
and honorably acquit the foid Captain
GEORGE LITTLE of the faeral ar
ticles contained in the charges againfl him ;
and he is hereby fully and honorably ac
quitted accordingly.
Dated on board the Constitution, Sept. 7, 1801.
(Signed) & S. Nicholson, Preftdent.
Silas Talbot,
Stephen Decatur,
Alexander Murray,
Edward Preble,
John Mullowny,
Thomas Robinson,
Hugh G. Campbell,
Cyrus Talbot,
GEORGE BLAKE, acting as Judge Advo-.
cate on the occasion.
termine—after taking into view past
transactions and profellions, and perus
ing carefully the letter of the Secretary
of the Navy on the Subject. Capt. Lit
tle, however, has Rood the ordeal, and
has brought forth the weight of his rep
utation undiminished. From the trial
ic appears that French invention pro
duced the following charges against
him :-—lft. Taking money from tbeprifon
ers. ^d. taking other articles.
3d. Indecent conduct 'in fearebing t'he
prifeners.' 4th Cruelty in the mode of con
fifeating and fuftrting them. sth. Kid
napping apart of the crew. —But it will
give pleasure to the public to learn,
that not one syllable of these charges
was founded on truth ; on the contrary
they appear to have originated in mal
ice towards an officer who had arretted
the principal career of the complain
ants ; and in the expectation that the
government would be more ready to
punish than countenance an aft so de
grading to the French Republic as the
capture of a national corvette. The
sentence of the Court-Martial is as full
and explicit evidence of this fallhood
and malice in the charges; as it is
honorable to Capt. Little.—The fol
lowing are the sentence of the Court ;
and the approbatory decision of the
Secretary of the Navy :—
Os the Court Martial pronounced in
the trial of Capt. George Little.
THE Court, having heard all the
evidence, and prisoners defence, and ma
turely and seriously crnfidered the whole,
are unanimously of opinion, that the charges
are malicious and ill-founded.
SENTENCE
WILMINGTON, [Del.) OCT. I<.
Having in our last unequivocally mentioned
that Mr. Hall, the democratic candidate, was
ele&ed Governor of this State, by a majority of
nineteen ! —We have now reason to believe,
(from very particular circumfances) that that ma
jority will be contested, which may probably
lead to a Scrutiny of the Votes, and produce
a NEW ELECTION.
PHLADELPHA, OCT. f,.
It is laid the legality of the late election for
Governor of the State of Delaware is to be
contested.
Extrad of a letter from Leghorn, Augufi XX.
" Commodore Dale blockades Tripoli, and to
' the time he commenced the blockade (July 23)
,not one American vessel had been carried iuto
I that port. There remains in this port, Tamer
! lane, Capt. Aimes, to fail in ten days, ad the
IHillman, Capt. Grok, for New-York,"
O WASHINGTON, OCT. 1,.
N the 5 2th intt. Mr. Blicher Olsen,
was received by the President of the
United States in the character of Min
ifer Resident of his Majesty the King
of Denmark, with which he has been
eloathed ; and on the next day an Ex
equatur issued to him as Consul-Gene
ral of his laid Majesty.
The judicious management ofo\ir lit
tle naval force has mapifefted it
felf in the complete protection of our
trade in the Mediterranean at this in
teresting period. The value of the
merchandize lately convoyed from
thence amounts to three hundred and
fifty-nine thousand, five hundred dol
lars, and the number of seamen on
board of the vessels to 257. Pray Mr.
Smith, is notjome credit due the adminis
trations which furnijbed this little na
val force ; and which bare been Jo il
liberally treated by those who now manage
the navy they furnijhed.
The following is an account ofthe curious ex
periment for lifting flips in dock to put in a
new keel, which was tried for the firft time on
the Canopus, of 84 guns, in Plymouth Dock,
last Friday, by Mr. Sibbins, the builder's firft
assistant ; —By means of wedges driven agair.fi
the blocks on each fide the keel, and the use of
the catapults, or battering ram, applied to them
the blocks are forced out much cafier & with less
danger. Fewer Chores are required to support
the (hip, which also Drains less, and hangs as it
were in flings :—by this simple operation 40
men in 12 hours can perform as much work as
©fed to take, on the old principle, 500 men three
days ; although some (hips, in the old method
ofknocking out the blocks under the keel, have
fettled from 8 to 10 inches the Canopus only
fettled one quarter of an inch by this new me
thod. A numerous concourse of artists and 0-
thera attended to fee the experiment tried on the
Canoput, and were perfectly fatislied with its
ufefulncfs and fimplicitv.
a?.??—?■■■•--•.——-._ " ■*■ .■.
Lord Nelson, on Friday evening con
tinued in the Downs. His Lordship
has, during the last week, been joined
by two more bomb-vessels and several
gun-brigs which have been equipped in
the Medway for the purpose with great
dispatch. Independent of the vessels
off Boulogne and the Flemish coaft,his
Lordship has under his command in
the Downs, „e Amazon, Allemaer,
Leydon, York, Isis, and Anson ; Eu
gene,Garnet,Dilligence and Gier,iloops
Zebra, Vesuvius, Volcano, Terror, and
Difeovery^ bombs; Nancy and Vidorie
firethips ; Plumper, Bold, Defender,
Minx, Ferreter, Eclipse, Tygrefs,
Bruiser, and Snipe, gun-brigs, with some
hired cutters.
The Btitifh have taken possession of and es
tablished a fort on the island of Ge-bel-tor, a
bout 60 leagues N. W. of. Mocha.
The British have fcntan Envoy to the King of
Senna.
LONDON, StPT. 6.
BY the Spider sloop, from Egypt,
up wards of 6000 letters were yes
terday received. Alexandria was re
duced to the greatest want, Menou had
lent out many of the inhabitants, to re
duce the consumption of provisions.—
The garrilon was strongly fortified;
though it expressed much diffatisfaftion
at the delay of succors.
Sir R. Bickerton, with three fail of
the line, including Le Tigre, had on
the 18th June rejoined Lord Keith off
Alexandria ; on hearing that the ene
my's fleet had appeared to the west
ward, his Lordship dispatched this lit
tle squadron along the coast to inter
cept them, referring only four fail of
the line to continue the blockade of Al
exandria. Sir R. Bickerton, on reach
ing his Nation,fent a brig in-fhore,when
our people were informed by the Arabs
that the French had been there 10 days
before, and had plundered them of ev
ery thing worth carrying off. After
an unfuc cefsful cruise, the Admiral re
turned to Alexandria.
Our fleet at the date of these accounts
was perfectly healthy, and well suppli
ed with provisions ; and our army pof
felling a profufion of every necefary,
was much more healthy than could
have been expeded from the nature of
the climate and service.
Selected from Papers by the latest arrivals.
Yesterday dispatches were received
at the Admiralty from Admiral Corn
wallis. By the fame conveyance we
received letters from the fleet to the
30th ult. at which period our force
comprised 27 fail of the line, twelve of
which were two deckers. '1 he enemy's
fleet, confiding of 35 Ships of the line,
were in the outer road at single anchor
and in apparent readiness for lea.
Foreign Articles,
United States.
The Spaniards alledge that Gibral
ter is in a date of blockade, therefore
they have a right to capture our reffeh
bound thitlir. It were to have been
thought that the magnanimous Dons
who have so often been Shut up in their
own ports would have known better
what is required to constitute a block
ade. A few timid gun-boats, it is tnte
infeft the vicinity of Gibralter ; but ;i
this blockading? When the Spanish
and French fleets appeared off there,
what was the conduct of this blockaded
port ? A force was instantly dispatched
against them, engaged & chafed them
into Cadiz.—-And yet fay the advocates
of plunder, Gibralter is blockaded by the
Spaniards ! !
But it is not true, that the vessels
captured were in the predicament dat
ed. They were not bound ultimately
to Gibralter, nor was Gibraltar legal
ly in a date of Blockade. Our vessels
bound to the Mediterranean, aware gs.
the rupture with the Barbary powers;
merely touched at Gibraltar to obtain
advice as to the piratical cruisers, or so
enjoy the benefit of convoy. In those
cases, where they may have been direct
ly bound to Gibraltar, they were by
no means legal objects of capture. —If
the Spaniards, after declaring the port
blockaded, had warned our vessels not
to enter, and they, after this notice,
had persisted in the attempt there might
have been the appearance of plausibili
ty for the seizure. But no such thing
has been pretended.
We are disposed to hope, that this
atrocious conduct on the part ofan ally
will not fail to produce in the adminis
tration of our country, a Spirit of en
quiry and reprehension—That, regard
ing it as a high duty,they will prompt-'•
ly exercise their constitutional functions
in the support and vindication of our
rights as a commercial and indepen-/
Xew-Xork, Oct. 19.
Capt. Hanifen; who arrived here ytflcrday
from Curracoa, informs us, that on the gift cf
September, an Embargo ttidk, place there—that
the British were fitting out privateers to cruize
against Spanish marauders—and "thatßoo British
troops had arrived there from £ Letia, to gar
rison that place.
We find, that in the trial of the Rit of Hol
lingfworth vs. Duane, Editor of the Aurora, the
jury have returned a verdict for the plaintiff of
600 dollars damages, and costs of fcit.
Duane fays, after the above verdict, another
prosecution was commenced at the suit of Levi
Hollingfworth, against the Editor of the Aurora
• —for what (fays Duane) we have yet to learrr,
0 §
BOSTON, OCT. 24.
Several sheets of Sheet-Copper produced at
the manufactory of Col- Paul Revere & Son,
at Stoughton, were yeflerday lodged at the
Infurance-offices in this town. At a very great
expence those ingenious gentlemen have ereded
works, where Copper for flteathing ships, cold
rolled, is produced; which has been pronounc
ed by the best judges equal to any manufactured
in Great Britain.—The frigate Bolton was bolti
ed and spiked, with bolts and spikes from this
manufactory, cold plamlbed, from maleable cop
per, and equal to European. Every friend to
the manufactures of the United States must be
pleased with this information.
0
We have fcen a letter from Cronftadt, Russia,
dated Aug. 28th, which mentions, that active ;
preparations for war wt re making at tbat port ; ''
and that the Emperor had just prohibited the i
exportation of timber, deals, &c. to England.—j
In a London paper of Sept. 1. we find the fol
lowing article, which may lerve as explanatory ;
of the above :
A Letter from Petersburg, dated July 2j,fays,
" The Admiralty have not yet come to any de
termination relative to the Deal business ; and
although several (hips are waiting, we have not
yet been able to obtain permission to load off
the quantity remaining from last year, even with
an allowance to them of one fifth part.
Spani/b Spoliations.
We underhand that the Chamber of Com
merce of the city of Piladelphia, having present
ed to the President of the United States a re
monstrance on the fabied of depredations com
mitted and threatened from the Spanish port of
Algefiras, have received from the office of State,
official intimation, that the interclls of the U
nited States, thus fuffering, will engage the in -
mediate attention of the President—that he will
order without delay the proper reprefentaticns
and demands to be made to the Spanish govern
ment ; and will take into consideration, with
the Solicitude due to the object, how far any r
ther measures, within the authority of the Exe
cutive, may contribute to arrest the progress < f
so serious and so UNWARRANTAI LE an
aggreffon on the LAW FUL pursuits of our
commerce.
Extrffl of a letter dated Malaga, Augf 26.
" This year you will receive a very Short sup
ply of new fruit, as on account of quarantine,
which is Hill in force upon ail v< flcis from the
United States, few American veflcls have ven
tured this way."
& Friday the l6tb between the hours of aft
and nine, a Meteor was observed about 60 or 70
degrees abate the horizon. The bearing at its sos
appearance, was nearly north, and refmblarce that
0, a luminous ball, of the frae of a man's bat ; force
fay much larger. It moved with great velocity to
the leftward, gradually dimtofbing in fze sill it
vanished, leaving a brilliant and J, angled, or farry
train, which continued about two minutes. Though
tbe moon Jbone very bright, the splendor of the met -
or is said, by those who dferved it. to bare furpoffed
the light of the moon. . ^Portland Guz.]
Tbefame was oWerved -abort the fame foe, at Sa
lem ; and aorrejponded north the above account.
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Extremes produced by Ridicule.
Ridicule is an efficient but Dot a fafe remedy,
for moral disorders ; it produces tbe opposite ex
treme. Cervantes (as Sir W. Terple remarks)
cured the Spaniards, not only of chivalry, but of
active courage. Voltaire cured the French, not
only of Puritanifra and Janfeaifob but of morPi
t, and firty.\
Theodorus Bailey, Esq. is eleded
Representative to Congress, in New-
York State.
PHILADELPHIA, OCT. 20.
SPANISH AGGRESSION.
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PHENOMENON.