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" The number of members in the lift of the
Theiftical Society of New York, which I have,
amounts to ninety-five; I would give their
names, but this would serve no purpose, and
only exp®le their families, perhaps, to misery;
every one of them, however, is in politics a Clin*
lonian, and several of them have been promot
ed to offices by the Clinton interest. Their
love for Mr. De Witt Clinton proceeds io a
great measure from an idea that he is a delft,
whether he is so or not, it is impossible for me
to decide ; it is enough that they think so, and
on that fuppolition they will almost hazard their
lives in his bchalf. One thing, however, is cer
tain,that Mr. Clinton has afforded his patronag#
to fevcral who were avowed delfts, and he has
even been the means of displacing chriftians to
make room for drifts. The present agent for
the Temple of Reason, in New-York, is well
known to be indebted to Mr. Clinton for the
lucrative situation in the mercantile line, which
he at present enjoys. One oftbe members of the
legfixture of that Slate, who was foiled in by
the Clinton intereft,is an avowed fufeporter and
bearer of the Prefdent Palmer, and for ought
I know, also a member of the highest grade a
mong the Illuminati ; for there wete feveral,Mr.
Baron tells me, who belonged to the highest
grade, that never met in the general convention.
" The oath taken by the directors in
the highest grade, was nearly the fame
with tne oath administered to the min
erval among the Illuminati, when he
became an Illuminatus minor,and must,
without doubt, have been copied from
it—lt was reported to me in these
words.—
*' I, a member of the Theiflical So
ciety, protest before you, the worthy
President of our order, that I acknowl
edge my natural weakness and inability,
and that I with all my poffeffions,rank,
honors and titles which I hold in polit
ical society, am at bottom only a man ;
I can enjoy these things only through
my fellow men, and through them also
J may love them. The approbation
and consideration of my fellow men are
indispensably necessary, and I must try
to maintain them by all my talents.
These I will never use so the prejudice
of universal good, but will oppose with
all my might, the enemies of the hu
man race, and of political society. I
will embrace every opportunity of ferv.
ing mankind, by improving my un
derstanding and my affections, and by
imparting all important knowledge, as
the good and statutes of this order re
quire of me. I bind myfelf to perpet
ual silence, and unshaken loyalty and
fubmiflion to the order, in the person of
our President, here making a faithful
and complete surrender of my private
^i^-— .— ______ — _____ —taai
the vulgar stupidity which unveils the
projects of Dennifton's brain, Cheet
ham possesses all the cunning of an
artful prostitute that under a placid
countenance masks deep designs, and
plotting vengeance ;" yet, in this
cause so ardent was the fame Cheetham
for the public good, so did bis bowels
yearn with compassion for the blind
ness of mankind, that he became blind
himfelf, and inclofed Drifcoll's hand
bills in every one of his papers intend
ed for his Deiftical customers, but un
fortunately the carrier, not being so
deeply,verfed in modern philbfophifm
as to know a true infidel from a chrif
tian by the found of his name, or the
front of his house, distributed the pa
pers indiscriminately. The Christian
fubferibers were furprized and displeas
ed, and the mifehief it is supposed was
not quite healed by a very humble apol
ogy. When Drjfcoll began to succeed,
our precious society wanted to finger
some of the profits ; but it was soon
fOUud th it remoniltaAce, intreaty, ar
gument, nay Billingsgate, had no effect
upon the flinty nerves of the the cold
blooded infidel, who, with all the fang
froid of an old pedlar, and the fagaci^y
of a Jefbit, refitted their felicitations,
retained the pence, and left them all to
grumble among themselves, exclaiming
with Falftaff, “ A plague upon it when
route's can't be true to each other.” So,
packing up his press & types he moved
to Philadelphia, and taking post under
Duane, endeavoured by making frefh
proselytes, to repair the injury he had
done the society. He was hot unfuc
cefsful ; a subordinate society was soon
eftabiithed under his auspices in that ci
ty, and another at Baltimore, but both
under constitutional patents from the
mother society here.
They now began to aspire to an ex
tension of their principles. They fear
ed that none but thole who had been
already converted from chrillianity
would lead their Tensile of Reason. To
Real a march with it, upon believers
would,they conceived,be a mei itorious
fraud,and they had recourse to the fol
lowing, a curious and clever expedient
for the purpose—Having laid their
plan, a committee was appointed, who
waited on Mr. Donald Frazer a pious
chriftian teacher, who had justly gain
ed some credit by answering Paine's Age
of Reason, and him they prevailed up
on to take up the defence of chriftian
ity,and set up a paper called the Tem
ple of ChriQ againll the Temple of Truth.
This they judged, would occasion both
to be read, and they had vanity enough
to think that they should make quick
work of the arguments of Mr. Frazer.
However, their pious and benevolent
plan was fruftrated by one of Mr. Fra
zer's friends, who, having some hints
of the intentions of the Illuminati, com
municated the information to h^'m.
Mr. Wood states the number of the
society to be very considerable.
judgment, my own will and every nar
row minded employment of my pow
er and influence. I pledge myfelf to
account the good of the order as my
own, and am ready to serve it with my
fortune, my honour, and my blood.
Should I through omission, negled,-paf
fion or wickedness, behave contrary to
this good of the order, I fubjed myfelf
to what reproof or punishment our Pre
sident shall enjoin. The friends and
enemies of the order fliall be my friends
and enemies ; and with refpeato both,
I will conduct myfelf as directed by the
order, and am ready in every lawful
way to devote myfelf to its increase and
promotion, and therein to employ all
my ability — Al! this I promise and pro
test, without secret reservation, accor #
ding to the intention of the fociety,'
which require from me this engagement.
This I do as I am and as I hope to
continue a man of honour.
" I have now related the origin and
progress of Illuminatifm in this coun
try. It arose, the reader will perceive,
upon the ruins of the demoratic society
—it firft exhibited itfelf in the form of
a philosophical club ; then assumed the
more metaphysical appellation ^f the
Theiftical society ; divided itfea into
different grades and orders, after the
example of the institution of Weifhaupt,
and separate constitutions and oaths,:
appropriate to the several grades. They
had also pass words, which I forgot to
Rate. Mr. Baron fays, the pass-word
in the general convention, was truth.
After the example of the German Illu
minati,they also ellablifhed.publications !
for the express purpose of diffeminating|
their principles ; they sent copies of'
these publications to Paine at Paris,and'
to the President of the United States. I
By means of a corresponding commit- I
tee, similar focicties were eßabliihed in
the different cities of America. Their|
principles in politics correspond with I
their ideas of relig; "ri, viz. the ranked |
Jacobinifm, and the vilest deism. Theyi
all attached themselves to theintereft of !
Mr. De Witt Clinton, judging, proba-I
bly, by a knowledgeof his cousin Deh
nifton, that he would be favourable to
their cause, and Mr. Clinton, in return,
appears not to be ungrateful. lie has
been the means of displacing several
worthy chriftians to make way for
them; and he bestows in bountiful
mcafure, all his patronage to fuppoit
their political paper, the American Citi
zen. Nothing can prove more diftind
ly the mutual affection and sympathy
which exist between Mr. Clinton and
the Columbian Illuminati, than these
ads ol kiudneis. The link which con
ne&s the infidels of New-York with the
Clinton family, must now be obvious,
and the ardent zeal which is displayed
to promote the greatness of that family.
The Columbian Illuminati are not to
be despised, although there are no prin
cipal characters among them. They
are to be dreaded,and every good chrif
tian ought to use his exertionsflo crtdh
their endeavors. In the words of Rob
inson, “ their torch, though of the grofl
eft materials, darts with a horrid glare
into every corner, rousing hundreds of
filthy vermin, and directing their flight
to the rotten carrion, where they can
best deposit their poison and their eggs,
in the breads, to wit, of the sensual and
profligate,there to feller and burst forth
in the new and filthy progeny."
It may not be improper to add a few
words as to the evidence on which the
pamphlet is framed—ift. It comes not
out anonymously, with vaunting chal
lenges to prosecute, and a promise that
the fads can be proved in a court of
law, if necessary, but it appears under
the real name of one who thus not on
ly exposes hirafelf to the pains and
penalties of a prosecution, if what he
publishes is libellous, but to a degree
of infamy which must inevitably drive
him from the weans of getting his bread.
2d. After mentioning that the number
of the members actually in his posses
sion amounts to ninety -five, he gives the
names of the perlons from whom he
received his information ! George Bar
on and William Carver are the two
witnesses he produces, and he describes
a third so as he may easily be recognif
ed, a young Quaker, a Physician, but
whose name at his own request is con
cealed—3d. In addition to their tes
timony, and in support of it, he gives
us important written evidence, the Con
fitution of the Society.—4th. He adds a
well connected chain of circumstances
' which carry on the face of them such
marks of corre&nefs as we think must
fatisfy the understanding, no less than
the express declaration of witneffes,and
which if not true will afford those con
cerned, a better opportunity to detect
the misrepresentation, and defend them
selves.
And here it may be pertinent to make
one or two remarks on this last species
of testimony. This is certainly a case
where positive and dired proof could
hardly be expeded. The nature of the
combination itfelf, carried on in the
most mysterious fecrecy,almoft excludes
the idea of p.fitive proof. And when
to this we add the oath that every mem
ber takes at his admission, thaty^fwear
ing all mental reservation be will never re
veal, by bint, word, writing,or in any man
ner whatever, even to hit most trusted friend,
any thing which Jbould be Jaid to him, it
would be no wonder if the circumstan
tial proof had been even less fatisfafto
ry than it is. It mud be remembered
that we are much indebted for the evi
dence now laid before the public to
George Baron's having contrived in the
manner related in the pamphlet to elude
taking the natlj On the whole, we
think this concurrence of circumstances,
fripported as they are by direst evi
dence, and especially, if they remain,as
they yet do, entirely unconfradided,
mull completely fatisfy the reader, both
of the exigence of this infidel society,
of its pernicious designs, and of its de
ftrudive effects upon the minds & mor
tals of this community.
Thisis not the place, we are well a
ware to introduce religious topics for
difcudion, it will not be erpeded, it
would be improper and out of place to
attempt it ; but it is our duty, and God
forbid that through falfe Ihame we
should shrink from it, it is duty to bear
open and public, and loud, and contin
ued testimony against all those institu
tions which, corrupting political,moral,
and religious principles have a baneful
effea on the society in which we live.
Borrowing the elegant and pathetic
language of the all-but-inspired Mack
enzie, to his readers
" I will now Rand forth armed at all
points, to repel the attacks which infi
dels may make on the great principles
of our belief; but let one fuggedion
fuffice, exdufive of all internal evidence,
or intrinsic proof of Revelation. He
that would undermine those foundations
upon which the fabric of our future
happiness is reared, seeks to beat down
that column, which fapports the feeble
nefs of humanity—let him but think a
moment, and his heart will arrest the
the cruely of his purpose—would he
pluck its little treasure from the bosom
of poverty ? Would he wrest its crutch
from the hand of age,and remove from
the eye of affliction the only folate of
its woe ? The way we tread is rugged
at best ; we tread it, however lighter
by the profpea of that better country
tn which we trust it will lead; tell us
not that it well end in the gulph of e
ternal dissolution, or break off in some
wild which fancy may fill up as (he
pleases, but reason is unable to deline
ate ; quench not that beam, which a
tnidft the night of this evil world, has
cheered the despondency of ill-requitted
worth, and illumined the darkness of
fuffering virtue."
Now let me make a dired appeal to
the religious, the pious, the moral, the
lover of decency; the friend of social
order, the well-wiflier to human happi
ness, if, after having been made fully
acquainted with the existence and con
duct of the society which forms the
{object of this review,he can, in his con
fcieiice, continue to give them or those
connected with them any further en
cmragement and support. If he can
—but it is not to be believed that he
can.
I early became acquainted with the
true lexicographical meaning of the
words Whig and Tory. In the Dic^
tionary of the American Language they
are thus defined :—
WHIG. f. A nickname given to these who
oppose, from principle, the adminif ration of the
government : the word being derived from whey,
and being firft applied to those pppofers of the
government in Scotland, who held meetings in
the fields, their common food being far mill
TORY, f [A cant term] One who adheres
to and supports the administration of the government
through thick and thin ; and who holds that
the “ Powers that ba" can do wrong.
These being the true definitions of
Whig and Tory—and which are farther
confirmed by the authority of Mr. Jef
ferfon in hit definition of the word 'lory'
when called upon by Governor Wood
—I am frank to declare that during the
Revolution I was a flatweb WHIG;
for I was an opposer of the tyranny,in
tolerance and madness of the foreign
government of Britain :—But when the
war was ended ; and Great-Britain had
acknowledged our Independence; I im
plicitly obeyed the direction ofCongrefs
—(or as our present " lories" will now
have it of Mr. Jefferfon) in the Declar
ation of Independence ; ?nd have ever
since helm the King and People of Bri
tain, as I do the rerc of mankind, "EN
EMIES IN WAR: IN PEACE
FRIENDS." But when we had rulers
of our own chufing, when my beloved
Commander GEORGE WASHING
TON administered the Government, I
was then, I am proud to fay, a rank
TORY, for I adhered to, and supported
hit adminifration and leligioufly believ
ed, what I found to be true, that he
could do no wrong.—So also, under
the administration of his lucceflor, I
was a tor, from principle; for I ad
hered to, and fuftorted bit admin
i/fation with hand and heart.-—'
Now, however, I am become 4 Jiauncb
& Prem the CENTINFL.
MRPUSSELL,
Y F i|&ußomary, when a man at
tcio* to write for a newspaper to
give iome account of himfelf: it is,
therefore,! tell you,Sir, I had the hon
or to bear arms in the defenfe of my
country, and to fight her battles in the
Revolutionary war, as often as I was
ordered to.
From the relation in which the At
torney General of the United States
(lands with the “National TEgis” it may
be fairly contended, that all the legftl opin
ions which appear in the editorial ver
brage of that paper, are his. I shall
not, therefore, apologize for the follow
ing brief Ratement, byway of contrail ;
but leave your readers to judge of the
ability and constitutional kno wldge of
the parifites of the ptefent administra
tion :—
Attorney General, Constitution.
"put it will be said in "No money shall be
answer to all this, that drawn from the Treaf
the money [Callender's ury, but in consequence
/^having been paid in- of appropriations made
to the hands of the Mar- by law."
fbal, it was beyond the Art.\. Sea. ix. Par. 6.
control of the President,
and was to be considered
as if paid into the Treas
ury. In answer to this,
it might, we think, be
fairly contended, from
the fair and obvious con
ftrudion of the power
to pardon, that even if the
money bad been paid into
tbe Treasury, it ought to be
paid bach, and afterwards
covered by a legal appro
priation." Yours,
JEgis, Sept. 15, ifo. IRACUNDUS.
%g again from Principle ; and think
it as much a bounden duty now to
oppose the tyranny, and intolerance of
Mr. Jefferfon's administration; as it was
during the revolution to oppose that of
King George ; and to hold Gallatin,
Post-Master Granger, and Lawyer Lin
coln, in the fame abhorrence now, as I
then did Lord North, I.ord Hillibo
rough, and Governor Hutchinson.—
My Whiggifm mutt therefore b^ genu
ine. While I hold it a duty to obey
the Laws, I aver, that all those who
extol and support the arbitrary and in
tolerant administration of the govern
ment, are as much LORIES as ever
Hutchinson, Oliver, or Bernard were ;
and that those who oppose the (to use
a word of the late Governor Adams)
“ foreign" administration of Mr. Jeffer
fon, are as truly WHIGS as everWafh
ington, Warren, the Adamfes, Han
cock, Paine, Franklin, the Lees, or the
Rutledges were, in their opposition to
Great-Britain in 1776.
Such being the true definitions of
the words Whig and Tory, whenever
they are used, they ought to be applied
accordingly. For myfelf, as lam con
scientiously opposed to the greater part
of the measures of the present adminis
tration,! can with the utmost propriety
now fubferibe myfelf.
From the Sentinel.
Attorney-General vs. Constitution.
MR. RUSSELL,
CALLENDER,
Is not armed with a single weapon
only ; he appears to be prepared to de
fend himfelf against the attacks of every
assailant, however various the modes of
warfare ; A late Number ofhis Recorder
is thus concluded :—“ The uEgis is
condbßed by one Mr. Blake, of whom
we know nothing but that he is very ig
norant, very Rupid and very scurrilous.
If Sally; the coaftof Guinea wench, had
not been fufficient, by her own weight,
to fend Jefferfon to the bottom, two
such defenders as Blake and Cheetham
would have dispatched the business.
They have taken a ground which is in
defenfible, and from which they cannot
fail to be driven. They declare that if
certain falls can be proved, they will give
ftp the Prefdent. Some of these fa&s
have already been proved, and others
will be proved in a few days. Thus
Mr. Jefferfon like an old Roman, falls
upon the point of his own sword.
What agonies of Ihame and consterna
tion mult the President feel at feeing
himfelf so wretchedly defended ! Nev
er did such pangs of terror convulse his
bosom, since the day when that heroic
Governor of Virginia fled from Char
lotteville to hide himfelf in Carter's
Mountain ! Tfe dagger of truth basjlruck
his charaßer through the heart. He dies
at the firfl: blow.
John Page Esq. has declined accep
ting the appointment of Colledor at
Petersburg; in order, probably, to be
chosen Governor of Virginia.
Most of the ministerial writers are in
requisition to exercise their arts as "able
editors" to prove the fpecch of Red
Jacket, one of the chiefs of the Seneca,
Onandago and Cayuga tribes of Indians,
a forgery. It frets the "galled withers"
of the administration to find its intole
rant and arbitrary ads arresting even
the observation of the " sons of the sor
est ;" who have no interest in the poli
tical contentions of the whites. But
there is nothing sharper than Indian
wit, nor nothing keener than Indian
observation. The red people are very
apt to think plainly : and as apt to
speak as they think. The Six Nations
to which Red Jacket belongs, always
remained faithful to the standard of
their Father WaJhington ; and the Ja
cobin scribblers may as soon exped to
bear them speak difrefpedfully of him;
as to find them giving any praise to the
man, who has violated all his principles
of government, repealed his laws, and'
turned out of office men who were
faithful to him and their country.
A STAUNCH WHIG.
TRINIDAD.
This island, being by the treaty of
Amiens ceded to Great-Britain, has
been made the fubjed of more than
ordinary enquiry. The following is a
more accurate account of the Rate of
it than any which has yet appeared ; it
was drawn up in the spring oflaft year,
by a gentleman, whose long residence
on that island renders his information
indisputable :—
The total quanity of land in the isl
and is computed at 1,271,4,6 acres.
The Circumference of the illand 110
leagues, or 330 miles.
Cultivation — Canes 695©, Cotton 2531, Pro
visions 2876, Pasture 6789, Coffee 4886 acres.
Total 24,962, being less than one fifteenth part
of the whole territory.
Population. —Consisting of men, women and
children, viz. White People : French 1574,
Spanish 418, British 376; total 2368. Free
coloured People—French 2792, Spanish 1089,
British 526; total 4407—Making together,
Whites 2368, Free-coloured 4407,Staves 1 4919,
Indians 1171 —total 22,865.
Produce—Coffee 449,614, Cocoa 284,170,
Cotton (no estimate,) Sugar, 9,895,63416%
Rum 317,3,5, Syrup 128,5^9 gallons.
Stock— Horses 563, Mules 3671, Cows 539,
Oxen 758, Sheep 809, Goats 531, Swine 67c.
Total 7546.
^rL—Water-mills 6, Wind.mil! 1, Coffee
mills 106, Cattle-mills 162, Cotton-milk 250,
boilers mounted 636, Rill, 96.
When the island of Trinidad was fub
jed to Spain previously to its being cap
tured, five years since, it was the resort
and refuge of renegadoes and banditti
of every defcriptian from the different
Well-India islands. It consequently
required the moil unremitting vigilance
and exertion to introduce and establish
social order and due subordination, so as
to produce the salutary tranquility and
commercial intercourse that flourishing
colony now enjoys.
LONDON, JULY 34, to JT.
AMERICAN TRADE to INDIA,?
The commerce of the United States
to India is increafingin a degree highly
injurious to the interest of this country.
During the present season upwards of
two hundred ihips have failed from A
merica to India and China. The little
port of Salem alone has sent out 26.
The Americans can build and vic
tual their ships at a third part,of the ex
pense to which we are fubjed, and their
trade is unincumbered by the enormous
charges for civil and military establish
ments in Hindoftan, to which our traf
fic neceffarfly contributes ; the conse
quence is, that they can and do under
sell us in mod of the foreign markets ;
and that unless some means be adopted
to reftrid this commerce, most unwise
ly granted to them, the importations ts
our Company must shortly be confined
to our internal cohfumption.
BANK OF AMSTERDAM.
The French journals of the 25th,
arid the Dutch mail of yesterday, con
cur in Rating that the Bank of Amster
dam has resumed the fyflem upon which
its affairs were conduced under the
old government. - 1
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Several Officers of the Garrison of
Brest have been recently immured in
the Temple, for having added to theifr
vote for the Confulfliip for life, that
Moreau should be Bonaparte's succes
sor!
It is said that a very spirited remon
strance, signed by eighty five General
Officers, has, within these few days,
been presented to the First Consul. It
is a masterly piece of eloquence, and
speaks the language of Soldiers who
feel themselves injured. In it the Con
sul is told, that it is dishonest and im
politic to favor the army which served
in Italy and Egypt, to the prejudice of
the brave troops that conquered in
Germany, and of those who put down
the rebellion in La Vendee. Neither
Maffena nor Augareau signed this re
monstrance, which was because
it was true. - ,
ROYAL ABDICATION.
NAPLES, JUNE ~
Charles Emanuel, IV. King of Sar
dinia, having by an instrument, dated
at Rome, the 4th of this month, resign
ed his Crown and Dominions in favor
ofhis brother, the Duke de Aort, His
Royal Highness has acceded to the
crown, under the name of Victor
EmAnvel. —
COPENHAGEN, JULY Xj.
TRIPOLI.
Lad week intelligence was received
here, that the Pacha of Tripoli has de
clared, with refped to the Swedifh'
ships of war cruizing before that p<,,
that in case his city is bomhai ded, h.
would consign to the flames all ipc
Swedish fubjeds who are in Tripoli.
LONDON, JUNE, 1802. V
CL GREAT number of Englift now
at Paris, have been greatly morti
fied at the late regulation which has
been made at the Court of the Thuille.
ries, by which they are excluded from .
being introduced to the First Consul
There is now a (landing order, that no
English person shall be presented to the
First Consul, who has not been pre-?
vioufly presented at St. James's. And *
in consequence of this order, the Dutch
els of Cumberland could not be pre
sented to Madame Bonaparte at the late
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