The New Hampshire gazette — Portsmouth [N.H.], 1810-09-25 00:00:00, page 1

Political Miscellany. °
From Cobbett’s Register, of May 12th, 1810.
NARRATIVE, :
Rervaring To Mr O'Coxnxor.
; . ( Concludzd. )
In Jdly a tpecial commission was
opened in Dablin, for the trial of all
those againk whom any charges had
been ‘exhibited, amongh whom neith:
er my brother nor I were. Three
Liad beeu executed.—Mr. Byrne,a re
lation of the Marchioness of Bucking
ham, was condemed, and was to be
executed on the 24th of July. On
Sunday, the 22d, some negoriation was
et on foor, in a way never yet afcer
- *M,mm ﬁ&‘!‘ gﬂvcmm entgud
some of the Rute prisoners in Dublin,
of which it appears that neither my
brothernor I had any intimation till .
?efday,'when Mr. Dobbs and the
Sheriff of Dublin entered our apart:
ment, and shewed us a paper, purport
ing tobe an acquiescence, on the part
of seventy-three of the prisoners, to
pive information of any arms, ammu
nition and plans of warfare; and to
emigrate, on condition of a general
amaelty, and of pardon for Mr
Byrne, who wa- to die that day, and
sot Mr. Oliver Bond, who was, at that
whoment, on his trial, if be sHouLD e
condemned. My brother.and 1 declin
ed entering into any agreement. Mr. -
Byrne was otﬂ;‘zfor instant execn,
tion, which inﬂapﬁy taok place ;. Mt.
Bond was to die on the Friday. We
heard no more as the paper till Thurs.
day evening late ; when the fame Mr.
Dobbs, accompanied by Mr. Samuel
Nelson, one of the prisoners from a-.
nother of the prisons, came to that:
‘where my brother ‘and 1 lay. . All
the prisoners were called together ; '
Mr. Dobbs produced a letter-he had |
just received from-Mr. Cooke, Rating,
¢ thar if my brother and I would en
ter into a treaty with the government,
by which we {hould engage to give
every information in our power of all
matters relating to the rebellion, and
particularly our relations with Foreign
States, there should be a geneéral am
pefty—Mr. Bond thould be pardored, *
and-we should be permitted to ewi
‘grate to any country not at war with
England ; but that, if we persisted in
our - refufal, military commiflions
should be issued in the forth for the
trial of the prisoners there, thé courts
fbauld preceed in Dublin, and the yeo
manry (hould remain on active duty I’
We both refufed. We said, if there
. aze any chargss againfi us, procged upon
them. Why proceed against others,
Because we will not enter into any ne
“goriations ? We went to our own
room; whither M. Dobbs presently
came. He represented: to us the
dreadful scenes of slaughter and de
‘yaftation that would follow close upon.
“our declaration. It appears, that my
brother was influenced by these con.
fiderations, and to save an unarmed.
people, he consented to facrifice him
{elf ; but I heard these such propofals’
“and threats with a very differeut ear.
My answer was, that L /et at defiance
all their machinatioris ; that I was rea
dy to meet any charge that could be 1
brought againfi me; but that'l never
would enter into any agreeement with
the castle of Dublin durisg my life.
‘Nothing now was left unattempted to
induce me, by very fair promises, or.
to intimidate me by the most alarm.
ing threat ireats, to sign this agreement.
Marfden came, asif secretly and a 5 @
friend, “to let. me know what, by
m:hc bad heard at the castle.
hat it was determined te size iny o>
tate,if 1 did not comply. My an
swer was, that I was prepared againt
every thing ; that 1 was resolved nev
er to ‘comply.—lo consequence of
“which, orders were dispatched to the .
‘officer commanding at Bavdoé,gaqgg
fend detachments of horse and foot.to
wake pofifion of my houle, which
2 and 300, men ; they expelled four o
‘wry infant children, and my servants ;.
the officers broke open my cellars,
‘men to kil my sheep and oxen, OR
vsfc*ubw‘mipmf fubﬁ‘*edntg
mvmyﬁ&nw*wm
their horses 3 they made firing of
W i "’*%é?g*% 2TS i X o
e S iy
e e ﬂ:w‘,‘i"‘f,:j"’.'-“""?"‘»”"?' NI A L T LW A il LT g e ] } ¥ ol NA T N R eosO, iU SO 2 oot T e B e ik eMRET L £ , -», TTRRNLT DT R BT R prs DR v e
& i £ o ; (2o g - : el U ? 3 . 3 B . ] $ ! g 3 % ! S
= ¥ B v % AR 3 oo B o ¥ 3 » TSI g, ¥ A & 4 2 & oTR
. : : it ; ; : . TR T Rk - ; b ~ ! ik : e
: ENg - 8¢ BT o e S %’ i e T S < e L o : y ————— N Lo
Tepoo e = Lo Ty . T - G RN re 3w e : 4 " ) :
% g T » ¥ G y R j S W o e e g s £ 5 ¢ -2 ¥ % LR, e s & :g e & N i
; Ty, i 3 g . "y T e T s % A Sy TN Xk . RO 4 i 3 4 F :
¢ bl 1 3 s P PR - '§. p e 3 1
S e b 2 % ; ¥ ¢AL o O St o P EY oSRT iy & - s T : " . \ 4 S
S e X - g g S : i s L § f‘r",k*n g T ‘#97:- e 4 ¢yl : 3 ¥ ¥ : ’ : g
St 1o E A 2 Skl \ : o Re T ok J‘dll RA R - ’ Bf L e 3 1 ) : ,;
8&R5.-SRW)SAPy e T . 5 A S . . : -
e ; et e , i B e R Rey T A e : PR
i e 5 g et~ R e et e S A S . . P 2
fae . Ak s : 5 A A f o : ~i§:»'1 o . @ ¥ AR ;g ,ﬂ» eb O kR ’ by e o
5 " e e s - = z 5 2 7 = bl -« 5, i » e Lo es. R B 8 el ? ey = 5 ’ . y ey
e N S . - ¥ot - g i eY AT T et e CRe -B 4 ¥ ’ - > y ’ 2 3 W
v T 2 U 3 7 . : 3 . : i L g T e A k] - RIS Rok § £y Z ; s o e .
- l'«s » 7_{ o - ; 2 e 2 i ’ \\:‘ % ~ ¢ 7 *fg N ‘d? # B -~ g € - 4 . 4
> s /.':f LS - = gl ’ RV Sl ";3,, ; :m‘% | Sty ; . e W . - G
P o TN \ . R - % s E ¥/ - e AR | AW & g W The b s _
PN ; T , = g- i ‘ P e
- . o e N- e R ; pry. v y ) y & . P
: iy e T gi TR R : . B : 2
! £ 6 SRS TRIRY eLR SN . : : ‘
*—_—m ele * o e 3 i £ ) ; Ml - E : ; » £ .
. - = i S il e : PO o 4 3. {
[ Ne. 43,—~V0z. LV.]
PORTSMOUTH : (New-Harurcasy ) Posrisusn iox W. WHEERS =Puvrex vo T STATE, anp Parvren on vos LAWE o o T
eee R e e oel e L e R LAWS or Taz Usiteb Srares. = .
mitted every fmﬁgs“%ékﬂa{iomfof
eight of ning wesks that they remain
ed there; for vhich I pever received
OnNE Penny as remuneration, from that
day to this. After this visitation, it
was agan demanded of me'to fipn the
L papere My answer was always the
fame. Still was 1 kept a prisoners
. and when these who had entered into
-the agreement were sent to Scotland,
| 'Twas forced by Jultice Atkinson and
! 2 company of Buckinphambire mili
| Ua, at the very point of the bayonet,
into'a edach, conveyed on board 2
. tender,and candufted to Fort George,
| in which miiitary garrison ] was £:p¢
: .ﬁf‘;q year a=d ten months, whese by the
| Benitmt Poeatmen: 1 received, I lofl the
i -use of my lirabs, and-was reduced to
| the very verse of life; atthe end of
i»which time I was brought to London,
|-and LET Go on the24th January tßcl,
- Bpon a dreadiy recognizance to’fome
I immense amount, nos so return to Ire.
sand, and to reside in such part of
- England as th: King of England
should; from time to time, appaint
E (and Middiefex was named) during
t the then avar, I took a house at
- Southgate in Middlesex, where Ilefid
; éd for hals a year ; put having no
land there, I'looked out for.a place
i: with land to occupy my time.' I
found cne to {uit me at Elfbree. As
} 1 was a firager and as the 7sert a.
} mounted to gool. a year, I apphed to
my old friend Sir Francis Burdett,who
i immediately became my security,
. there I lived for ope year, when, the
trealy of Amiens taking place, I was
desirous of returning to my own
country, and. applied to Sir Richard
- Ford, the magistrate, before whom I
acknowledge the recognizance, to get
itup. Inwain. After many froitle(s
efforts, he at length'informed me, that
it was determined never to give it up,
‘as long as. [ retainzd the power of living
in the Southof Freland. 1 judged it
better to part with Conner Virrg
than be thut cut from my country. I
got & LICENGE.tO go to Ireland, and
on the 1 of May, 1803, I let a lease
Jorever of the place of my earlicfl days..
Whereupon, L got ‘up my recogni
- gance.immediately. I -purchased, for
~ forty thousand pounds, from Lord
Wellgfley,the Castle and ERtate of Dun
~can, within a few miles of Dublin,
- where I have resided with my family
ever since, coming over occasionally
to visit Sir Francis Burdeit and a few
~ other friends in England, where,though
- A have eflates, 1 have never been
known; dire@ly nor indireély, to in
terfere in any concerns of thé conn
try. -k never attended a public meet
ing or a public dinner ; though I have
many friends, 1 seldom affoctate with
" any one but Sir Francis Burdett and
- his family.-—My fortune is ample ; and.
~neither I nor any one of my family;
ever eat one motfel that avas not produ
ced from our own eflates. We never
{ the thape of pensions and places, nor,
‘received aay of the people’s money, in
was any man’s meals or comforts ever
' diminished by, one of us. Surely
* then, I malt be 2 moss disloyal traitor !
In fine, many, very many, of the peo
~ ple of Ireland love me ; the militia
‘was attached to me, I surrendered
‘on the solemn faith of a proclamation,
* which faith, vowards me, was broken ;
T protested Capt. Roche ; 1 defended
the Judge ; 1 {aved M. Sylvefler and.
the Bow-fireet Constable. There is.
no kind of place that bas not been
‘my prison ; myown boufc, camps,
guard-houses, taverns and hotels 5
calle,wherrids, ket bont, mell:
: arrsgm es, court.houfcs, bridewells,
Rate prisons (as they are called, ) tend
ers, gatrifons, palaces ; and, as a pri;
o, bave 1 been raveled sbont
flo.m my own house in the south to
Carrick Fergus in the porth of Tre.
Do e Mydlone, neatly- theSuft
eragxtremity of Eng andefr?ﬁutg
infory milekof Joho O'Grovs houte
t* ondon, I mail coach tgmk
“on foot and on | horseback. And all
ng’é; know of no other canfe)
F»ﬁnﬁ. saw the absolute neceffisy' of
Uiy o CERGEREES I RN WE = AL GQC T
-which v ;?éé‘ acknowledge dmwﬂ'
byihe Finiodh elißreland -and Tre.
sent t 0 alegiflative wnion, which re-:
IIL deb D poliio. ot (B ke
Rl e e
Sl a 3 ib el e p g
AP VSRR WS TPRRL A Y ALL VIWEE BNAw
B 2 v i BM o b a . » ; :
= Snt TR EGT TS e Akl e N N BLoek 0 R .
me ; whether the laws ¥#e infringed
" by me, who ha¥e gone tirongh every
. ordeal, who Have alwa¥s courted in
“veéfligation ‘and enqoiry ; who for
years §EVER CEASED TO DEMAND TRI
“At ; or by THewm, who fought the
protedion of a BiLL OF INDEMNITY,
pafll:d by an assembly 8€ which they
‘themfcives made a part ™
Su#h, reader, is the political hifto.
Iy, such are the crimisrnf Mr. O'Con
.per ;- such is‘the perfin, to have had
‘whom in his house, at the time when
-the army ftprmed ity was, if the pub.
lic bad been Rill fooki enough, %o be.
set down to the acconut of Siz Fran
eis, and as proof pref¥mbptive, at leall,
that he had wicked defizns, ‘defigas
-agaiift the peges and fufety ®F .the.
country ! Reader, if you dbe an
Enghithmao, and have neither job, not
-contraét, nor place, nor|anmerited
pension, nor defalcation ip your ac
counts with the public ; so short, if
you profit from no {peciesof public
robbery, {ay, how fhonld yodlike to be
treated as Mr,. O'Connos was ? How
should you like this fort of tieatment ?
. How fhould-ysu like to hyve your
house, your gardens, your fields, your
plantations, laid waste and dfftroyed,
as his were? How theuld ji&' fike to
- be hurried from prison to prison ; to
+be thrown into dupgeon after cun
geoan ; and when you dimanded irial,
refufed that trial ! Bur, surely, 1
“need not ask these ‘gueﬂion‘i Well,
‘ then; is there to be do,fee!ing for bim,
becaule he is an Jrifpman ? | Are we
-ready to avew this to theliilh people ?
leruft not. I rruft that we fhaliprove
to thatunfortunate ppopld;that we feel
for them as for ourfeives ; that we are
as ready to resent their wrongs as we
are our own ; that, in a word, we re
gard them as our countrymen ; and
that we aie resolved to confider their
enemics as our ememies. 'T'his is the way
to produce an anion with Ireland ; a.
real union ; an union of the hearts of
the people of the whole kingdom 3
.and this fort of union it s that the
“borough mongers and their hirelings
wouwgrl wilh to prevent. Hitheryto, in
decd, they bave prevented it: - They:
have never miflcd ‘an opportunity oi
misrepresenting the people of Ireland.
They have caused the people of Eng
land to believe, that those of Ireland:
were bent upon a surrender of their
country to France, and that all their
demands relating to palitical and civ-.
il liberty, were mere pretences. What
~&vils bave not sprung from this dc
curfed source.! I beseech the reader
to confider, -that it is not in nature,
that the people of Ireland should not
hate us, if we persist in our credence
to thefé calumnies. It is, on all bhands
~agreed, that Ireland is our valnerable
part. Does it nop, then, become us
to Rrengthen that parts to use all the
means in our power of fegaining the
good will of the Infh people, andto
Induce them to makeff"é?érmon'é’apfe
‘with us against the eommon epemy ?
' And, what can be more opposite to
this- than reviving the memory of
those cruel times,to which Mr. O’Con
‘nor’s marrative resets § than tearing
“ the skin from the hardly healed and.
“hardly hidden wound ?~~What he has
,4 faldage has been compelicd tofay. He
has been calumpiated in the most foul
~and infamous. manner. To .remain
silent might have been construed into
_a confrioufnefs of guilt. His calum-.
niators, therefore, are answerable for:
“the revival of the memory of that,
- which ‘he was willing should be ""fOt_a}t"{
gotten, and which nothing but bo--
‘rough-mongering mualignity could.
revive. WM. COBBETT.
" Botley, May g; 4810, . o
A ——
C T Bautivos, Sept. 7.
- It baving been ascertained, that a..
'mong the feamepon board the Brit
(ifh government Brig Netly, riow lying
‘in_our river, there wasa pative e%'
Marylund involuntarily detained, the
PHplea Fal il prm et
felyes to release him. Al things be.
ing in reainefs; two gentlemen waited
_upon Lieut: Jackson last evening, and
~made some hesitation as to complying
with the requfition, bt was given to
‘underftand that only one hour was
‘allowed bim to deliberate. . The sailor
. g R ¢ T S R R
; e Avas R
Tl S ol e vA Rl SRR W PSSR T e o
l 4 fot)rfoqted incendiary.—The lalt Balti-
More paper contains an account of a honfe
- being set on fire in that city byfaßat convey
ing alighted candie from the hearth, to his -
hol¢ in the clofet,where it caught the boards,
but was fortunatcly discovered and exting
. nifhed. The rat was fonnd” fuffocated in
hls h(O‘Cdf ' 2 '
e RMGROUS. iy
~ While in North Carolina, a Britifl
officer (Tarleton) diniog in a large
company; 2n American ﬁdywho was
‘one of the company, who chiefly were
whigs . was frequently praising Col.
~ Walhington. Tarleton who couid nev
er hear another’s-'p;:aife,was’éon’ﬁdeif@é :
ble aogry, and replied, that he was
- farprifed that the Americans should
+ think so highly of Coll Wathington,
for trom what he could learn, he was
». quite an illiterate felow, and that he
_counld hardly write his own name.”
% That may be true,” replied the A. .
- merican lady, but I believe, <.ﬁrn'}bﬁ§§
can tefiify that he kiowr bow to make
,Pder:’-l‘ar!@toﬁiadm fttle while
before two.of his fingers cut off by .
- Wallington with iﬁfwo;}d Rogesal
e e
PARIS, JULY IO!
Certificates of Origini— American vefiels
have entered the ports of the North, aud
the Baltic, with pretended certificates of
origin, delivered by the French Consuls.
We have authority to declare officially, that
such certificates are forged, and that the
bearers thereof are to be counfidered as for
gers. These documents are cvidently fab
ricated in England'; the Consuls es his
Majesty in America; having dclivered none
for a long time. ——— . '
s 'Frc&lcrickiburgh‘ paper slates -that a
~warrant had lately been iflued against one
‘Simon Sex{mith, for a vielent breach of the
peace, who armed himfelf with a gun, bay
‘onet and two pistols, determining to kill or
be killed before be should be taken The
‘fergeant of the corporation, according to
“order.aflembled a posse comitatus, and attemp
ted to rake him—he fired and wounded a
‘Mr, Beck, whose arm was con{cquently
.amputated. He was fired upon ih return,
. wounded, takeh and committed.. Hereceiv
_ed several shot in ‘his head, but is expected
CERECOVers " e i :
N.YORK. « - - agsany; ava. 0.
7 A Saturday last, the High Sheriff of thc
City and county of Alkany, visited ‘the-
Couaty Prison in this city, and in company
with his deputics and gaoler proceeded to
throw cpen all the doors connected with
the Debtors” Apartments, there. not being a
Single peifon in said, prifom confined for debt ! A
circumftaoce most grateful tothe philanthro.
phic and benevolent mind, and which, per
baps, has not a parallel in any county
of the fame population within the Upited
States. s ;
__On Monday evening, August 2%
David Sewall, Esq of this town, agent
for certain proprietors of townthips
between this and Penob{cot, was vio
lently aff:ulted at a house in the plan
tation of Green, five miles weft of Bel
fift, by 2 number of armed men in
disguise, two of who.a entered < the
room where he was fitting, & Yorcidly
dragged him cut of the house. Ail
attempis made to 2{fift him were pre
vented, as the house was {urrounded
by the party. Mr. S. was carried to
the dillance of one cr two miles, bis
clothes entirely torn off, and his body
bruised in a {évere manner. A blow
was received on the head while ex
erting to difzngage himfelf at the door,
and 2 deep cut made in his face, véry
mear the eye. After they had satiated
their vengance he was placed on a
hotfe, and carried back to the house,
senseless. During that night and the
succeeding day, his life was thoaght
to be in danger,but every pofiible af
filance being rendered, we have the
fatisfa&ion to Rate that he is now on
therecovery. - Hallowell Paper. -
which time he made seven attempts
to escape, and was as often unfuccefi.
fol, and severely flogged, &c. He
has for 12 years palt been aczounted
as dead by bis friends, who reside on
the Eaflern shore. It is believed there
are {everal other Americans on board
the Netly, but their prete&@ions” be
ing defiroyed’ and their persons un
known, the/trurh cannot be aftertain.
ed.. “Fhe public irritation has been
uncommonly great from a belief
that lievtenant Jackson is the man
who ‘barbaroufly and wantonly
abused Capt: Rider of this port, some
time since— But capt.R. beiig absent,
and no positive proof of the fa& being
fabmirted, the people have very pru..
dently and properly treated Tieurenant
Jackson and his'crew with'their accul,
tomed hofpitafity. Such is the cur{'
rent account of an affair which hag
afforded much conversation this mor-.
niag.: o e : =3
[Two ports. rep ANNUDM. ]
7 From the Awpora.
'; : 3 4
* VWifdom in Government.
“ As the twig is bent the tree inclines.”
IN the neighboring Britith provin
ces of Canada, few, perhaps not one
in 500, can read or write. ' Above
“one half of the Legislature is said to
-be equaliy enlightened. It is so in
Spain and Portugal. -
The eff:& of education is acknowl
edged to influence the mind, and in
so very powerful a degree as to TOv.
ern our conduft through life. If the
effe@ is thus powerful on the individ
ual, it {yrely will not be thought
firange, when a ‘whole community
thould receive a similar education, that
the {famé. habits;, the fame manner of
thinking, nay, that the fame prejudices
should pervade the whole, the Cana
dians have had no-edueation, but they
have babits, steady habits in which no
alteration has taken place for half a
‘century ; ignorance is hereditary ;
‘and if ignerance i bliss, said the ba
ker, ’tis folly to be wife. The effe@
of the eariy habits of life on society in
general, in the U. S is felt in 2 pow
erful degree even at this late day 5 2
Aeven years war, and nearly five times
as many of peace and sovereign inde
pendence, has not been able to warm
the hearts of thousands, with the amor
patriz, nor to emancipate our minds
or defiroy the effe@s of early educas’
tion which taught us as colonists the
habits of abje& submission, and made
blind obedience a duty. Submission
to the will and regulations of what
was ridiculously but artfully called the
parent Rate, was enjoined and enforcs
ed in a manner the most degrading to
the people, and yet was it submitted
to, and poflibly would i)l have bcen,
bad not the greedy ‘awaricious step
motber ever fepped all bounds,attempt
ed impositions beyond the power of
the people to bear. = - B
No sooner had our forefathers clear
ed a spot to raise bread for thewr” sup
port, than a jealousy took place Jeaft
their indufiry fhould’ procure them
wealth, and that wealth -make them
feel their own weight and confe
qnente: to check this 4¢ far as possi
ble, some restrictions were thought ne
ceflary, very early adopted and daily
augmented, such as the prohibiting
them the interchange of commaodities
from one province or place toanother;
for inflance, a bat could not be made
in Pennsylvania and transported across
the Delaware into Jersey, without b s.
ing subjected to seizure, as well as the
boat which transported it. or the wag
gon and 'horfes which should carry i¢
across the line to Maryland or Dela
ware. Mills for flitting iron were for
bid to be ereéted, fothat we might be
more dependent on this greedy and
unnatural parent : and manufa&ures
were effeCually checked ; but whila
we wete forbid to work up our raw
materials, our iron and aur flax, we
were kindly indulged with the permif.
fion 6 fend those produ&ions to this
benevolent mathsr . country, to be man
uf:é&tured into {uch articles as our ne
ceflity required, and at triple the price
we could obtain the like elsewhere 3
but we were taught to believe it was
all in the family, and our population
increased owing to- the healthine(s of
our climate, the simplicity of our
lives, and the produéts which we could
not' consume and dared not to man
ufaélure, naturally led many to bend
their mind to foreign commerce—and.
the spirit of commerce become a hahe
it, it naturally prew out of this artifi
cial condition W!l‘kh was encouraged
by the power that profited by us, 4s
it facilitated their {epplies of raw ma
terials.and of provisions and lamber,
and as was proposed, provided refonr
ces of men for their navy. ©
_ From our earlies infancy then have
we been inftrufled, and for years forc
ed to attend to commerce.and to del.
pife and neglegt ihﬂfl;"-@)f alt
kinds—and o very inveterate is this
power of habit or early education,
that we cannot pérfaade ourselves to
g’:ﬁvwmwﬁaﬁﬁmm of
the more faf¢ 'and advantageous pnr
fuits of manufadures, thangh cope
viaced thit wealth and independence.
WS RS LR A me“,;- LRI S e P
s 5 ek oe S
etk il e
ﬁéﬁ“ﬁi’w “ ji'é‘“*i% ‘»""7 ﬁ‘wf;:‘f“*«f*"ﬁ‘%’“ & & 'i&f
;%k fﬁﬁ?tﬁﬁ?ﬁ g{,,avf.}g s \ : m‘s ST
z‘ﬁ;@ﬁﬁ%%&%%* L . &