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From the Palladium,
° Ie it Lawful to pay tribute to Caspar ?"
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—of every nation rests up
on'its ability to refill the ambition of
France. To refill can be only ruin at
the worst, to make friendfhip with her
is certain ruin, with disgrace. Every
civilized nation, then, which lies within
the scope of her more than Roman
third of empire, ought to calculate its
means of refinance against the time to
come. For it may now be taken for
an established truth, that the power
of France is the bnly rheafure of its pol
icy and justice. What then will be the
condition of neutrals, if in the present
contest, France is triumphant? And
let every American ask, what will be
our condition? We have obtained cy
purchase the entire navigation of the
Miffifippi, which is, and mild be the
channel of all the wealth of the weftern
world. The unobftrufted right, there
fore, to the navigation of this fiver may
be considered as the parchafe of fifteen
millions of dollars. Should France be
fuccefsful in the present war, her pow
er to interrupt orcontroul the commerce
of this stream, will hardly be denied
by our spirited democrats. We must
then rely upon her friendffiip upon her
good faith. Her disposition, however,
to observe treaties we have not, at this
day to learn. It is recorded in the de
ftrudion of too many who have placed
confidence id them.
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PROSPERITY, RELIGION & MORALITY are indispensable,
supports Washington's Legacy.)
France has made treaties with Spain
and Holland ; Bonaparte himfelf made
a treaty with Venice, after declaring
himfelf her friend, with the determina
tion to refpeft her cuftorns and proper
ty, And to free her from " the iron yoke
of the proud house of Austria." By this
treaty Bonaparte received fix millions
of livres and three fail of the line, as
an equivalent for his good will and as
surances of protedori. „In less than
four months this fame Bonaparte, by
the* treaty of Campo Formio, delivered
those farhe Venetians to the iron yoke of
the proart boule of Austria ! After having
fleeced them he next betrayed them &
fold them, as his goods & chattles, for
what they would fetch id the market.
This is a tingle instance of his perfidy,
Lombardy, Milan and Modena bear e
qual, testimony to his good faith. We
repeat it,therefore,treaties are cobwebs ;
his power is his only measure of right.
The quantity of hi^ power becomes
then a question of moment. Will he
check his career as soon as his rival is
humbled ? Will he leave us in quiet
possession of a right which would give
him the command of half OUr Empire,
because he is bound by treaty—treaties
which have ever been his springs to
catch wood-cocks. It comes to this—
if France succeeds we must buy again
and Again what is our own, till we are
reduced to the condition of " hewers of
wood and drawers of water," or resist,
with spirit, and fall with honor, which
is now too late. But in case (he does
not succeed our rights are fafe.
Let the question now be put home
to every man's bosom — (hall we con.
tribute fifteen millions of dollars to as
sist France in carrying on a war of ex
termination against the only nation
which is able or willing to refill her
arts and her arms ? Shall we multiply
the resources of a nation which wars
upon the independence of every other ?
Shall we furnifh it with weapons to de
stroy what protests us ? Shall we hasten
the period of our own trial by helping
to remove what Hands between us and
the foe, whose power is already as gi
gantic as his ambition is unlimited.
If we had a feeling patriotism we
might appeal to it with some chance of
success upon the manner in which this
money is to be taken from us. There
was a time when the word tribute flat
ted us into the posture of defence ; now
good easy fouls, we have learned to
fatten up dishonor. It makes us thrive
to be disgraced and insulted, provided
we live in peace. The Directory had
too much modesty to ask tribute from
our Ministers without the pretext of
Dutch rescriptions. The vehicle
of tributein the virtuous days of the Di
re^ory was Dutch refcriptions. Now,
iris wild land. What is the differ
ence ;The refcriptions were worth as
much as the wilderness of Louifena !
but the difference was, Washington
would not pay tribute,however conceal
ed. — Jefferfofl would.
MISCELLANY.
From the Chriflian Observer.
RETROSPECT
Os the principal events, improvements, and
Revolutions.
In the EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
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O those who want the time, er in
clination to labour through large vol
umes we hope the following fummary
will prove ah agreable essay ; as a
comparison between Great Britain and
other dates, we Oiall find, that in gene
ral, (he has been gaining, at the expense
of all the rest througo'ut the whole of
the period to which the fummafy is con
fined. In the firft place,
Ruffa, which began, to emerge out
of barbarism at the commencement of
the lad century, and at that time un
. equal to Sweden has through her con
flexion with Great Britain, risen to the
Tank of a firft rate power, whilst
Sweden, by the encroachments of
^er neighbors, her alliance with France
and other canfes, has loft all her former
influence; and
Denmark, once a terror to its neigh
bors,has now become of less importance
than the former in the political scale.
Poland is now entirely effaced from
the lift of nations, & divided amongst
those who it formerly conquered, and
occasionally deserted,
Pruffa, from a dukedom, has risen
to a kingdom, and to one of the firft
rank among the powers of Europe ;
though neither its riches, its fize,nor its
inland situation, naturally promoted its
rife ; but the genius of one of the great
est men that ever lived in any age, to
gether with the divifiot of its neighbors,
have effeded this wonderful phnome
non : and there are men now in exis
tence, who are older than the King of
Prussia, to whose Sovereign some of the
powers on the continent seem to look
up for their future destiny.
The German Empire, out of whose
fide Prussia was taken seems to be tum
bling to pieces.
The Ottoman, also formidable at the
commencement of the last century, is
certainly nodding to its fall.
The Papal Power, declining through
the whole of the last and the preceding
Century, is now so very hear annihila
tion, as only to exiß upon fufferance.
The Italian States, a formidable ene
my to the Turks and the French at the
commencement of the last century ;
and who have fuccefsfully refitted the
most powerful monarchies, have final
ly experienced the fatal truth of the
ancient maxim, " divide and conquer."
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Savoy, which neither participated in
the crimes, nor in the enervation and
duplicity of fotithern Italy, has (hared
the fame fate, through the feeblenefs of
a weak but virtuous prince, and it, like
other states, lies prostrate At the feet of
France.,
The Siuifs Canton:, peopled with 4
hardy race of uncorrupted inhabitants
amongst whom liberty spread its firft
rays in modern times, has in defiance
of every meansnfed to preserve their in
dependence and neutrality, fallen also
proftfate,a flaveat the footofthe French
government. France indeed may lose
its superiority and sway in those coun
tries as rapidly as (he has acquired it :
but can the ancient purity of manners
and of principles be restored ? Can
parties be reconciled, and injuries for
given ! No, peace, plenty, contentment
& undesigning innocence must long re
main dillant from every country where
the French Tree of liberty has once
been planted. The changes effected
on those happy countries are not like
the merehavo^k made in ordinary wars
by the passage over or temporary resi
dence ot an armed force. The former re
sembles the poisonous bite of the serpent,
the latter the (ting of the ant or the bee ;
all indeed are accompanied with pain,
but the one is deadly,the others in com
parison entirely innocent.
Spain —Though its decline both in
wealth and power, has been going on
constantly for more than two centuries,
yet it is during the last that it has fal
len into a species of political palsy.—
Two centuries and a half are scarcely
sassed over since Spain was the wonder
and the terror of the nations &f the
world ; now none so mean to do it re
verence.
Spain has fallen, by bad condud &
bad councils, as rapidly at Russia and
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which was only diminished by its being
extravagantly ridiculous—At the be
ginning of the century, the French
were pious to their God and polite to
their neighbors ; but at the end of it,
impiety and insolence were their boast
and their pride ! What has been must
aftonilh all ; what is to be isbeyondcon
jedure : but if one were to be hazarded
orchis occtfon it would be that the
French natfon will retraft part of their
conduct, aqi become less extraragant
ly wild ;'tlmgh the free Frenchterty
leaves a barfeed in every fieldffhere
it has beJ planted, that willj.fr be
remember with grief arid dimmy.
Durinftthat so famous cenaEy,
Great-fri^in, has also undffgo^ a
great ch=E It already had Jo milch
power an^&portance to a&it a rife
like Ruftfft Prussia, and it,s g|ing
in a pofitiHy different dired^n^forn
Spain andTrom Portugal so tha^fcan
be compared to no other nation Bring
the last century. Bleft with a fr#gov
ernment, eftablilhed in the end of the
17th century, and under laws w&ad
minidered, this nation has increa|d in
wealth and importance.—ln its itynu
fadures, in particular, as the ffider
of the world ; for never before BE the
labor of man so abbreviated a# ren-
dered so productive as it is in this coun
try by the help of maclfinetyEj the
contrivances which ingenuriyfU^ro't
to its aid.
Our commerce has increadmn pro
portion as our manufaflures ftve been
brought to perfection, and dr wealth
in proportion to both, so that we are
enabled to give a length of credit to
strangers that was hitherto unknown in
the annals of commerce.—This unex
ampled wealth enable England to ef
tabii(h, prote&, and raise to importance
that large portion of America now the
United States, which a variety of
causes but chiefly the envy of other na
tions incited to throw off its depen
dence on this country, when our ene
mies said we were ruined, and waited
for our fall ; but to their fnrprife arid
disappointment, the British Islands
have prospered more than evet.
Great Britain and Ireland.—As the
beginning of the last century saw an
Union between England and Scotland,
so the commencement of the present is
marked with another, which we hope
will not be less auspicious. And if it
be urged that England left an empire,
in the last century, which the nurtured,
it is answered; that in losing America,
though England loft fogreata province,
yet she had planted a colony which will
for these several centuries to come be an
increasing customer for her manufac
tures, and therefore will amply repay
her for the trouble and expence that
have been incurred in forming that
great establishment.
Prosperity so unexampled as that 0
Prussia have risen ; and the makers of
the mines of Potofi and the sources of
the precious metals, funk in importance
before those who make iron, and can
handle ftecl.
Portugal, leaning n"y upon England,
is in its fate not nr & ticrike its neigh
bour, Spain, similar to its litiiation and
natural productions, it was once great,
and owed its greatuefs to fimifor causes,
possessions in the Indies—and like Spain,
it has loft ofimporrance ; for what are
gold, spices, and all the aromatics of the
Indies unless the men who possess them
have indufiry, courage and conduft ?
Without thefe,wealth is but a bird of pas
sage, which only fettles where they are to
be found.
Holland, which was at its zenith, both
in wealth, vower, and liberty, in the
beginning of the lait century has fallen to
decay. Its commerce i, ruined, its pos
session abroad loft and its liberties invad
ed ; it has only, at present, the name of
a nation, and is in fact a subjected prov
ince of France..
Flanders and the country called Belgi
um, once so warlike, and since so com
mercial and free under Spain and Aus
tria, formerly cultivated like a garden,
but now wretched and miserable ; the
taxes imposed on the foil are too heavy
to bear, and many fine estates are left
barren, to avoid the cruel contributions
imposed by those who insult their pro
prietors with oppreflion under the name
of liberty.
France.-At the beginning of the i&h
century the French adored their Mon
arch, even to meanness ; before the end
of it, they persecuted and detested mon
archy, even to savage cruelty arid injus
tice, and to an excess, the horror of
DEMOCRACY.
The reason why simple Democracy
is destructive to social happiuefs is, that
it sets out with pernicious fallacy—it
gambles at the threfhold,and continues
^nferider& Tumble on in a head-long
■till it knocks its own brains outa
an opposite wall and does much
ra^fchief to itfelf and all it cotries in
contad with. It sets out with the prin
ciple that laws are things wholly depen
dant upon public will, and that what
. is not the public will cannot be a go d
law. In the abftra& this is a down
right absurdity. Laws arise from mor
al relations, and the fitnefs of things
which like truth are immutable ; if the
will of the people happens to be adverse
to that fiinefs, # and hodile to those mor
al relations it is bad ; and to.give it ef
fe& by embodying it intoa law, is the
very essence of absurdity and mifchief
doing. But it will be said, by some of
the advocates of the Rights of Man and
of majoriries—Yes, it is t,ue what you
assert, that laws arise from moral rela
tions, &c. is very just, but it is impossi
ble that the will of the people thould
be repugnant to those moral relations,
or to the fitnefs of things !=ihere then
we are at issue with them ; and desire
no other proof to establish our petition
than one Rate of the union affords!—
Look to Pennsylvania.
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— Americah ship Commmerce,
from Rotterdam,for Philadelphia, with
220 Swiss ou board, has been captures
by the English sloop of war Ranger.
al! these changes, we do not fay (though
knowledge has extended) that wisdom
l and good sense have increased ; nor,
though riches and wealth have multi
plied, do we presume to decide as to
real happiness ; and we are sorry to fee
a general disposition to despise what is
ancient and to (how a contempt for the
wisdom of our anceftort, which leads to
wild and vain theories, and conducts
men to those experiments, which end in
Unhappiness and confufion. _. ,
England, has indeed, been attended
with heavy national expences from the
envy it had excited ; but though these
expences are great, have not produced
the bad effects that calculators have
predicted, and the present burdens arc
considerably greater than th^y other
wise would be, on account of the great
efforts now made to pay them off.
By exertions proportioned to our
wealth, power, and national bravery,
we have, since the revolution broke out
on the continent, refilled its effects.
Our efforts by sea have been crowned,
by Divine Providence, with a brillian
cy of success beyond all example. While
we have almost annihilated the fleets
of our enemies,we have greatly increas
ed our own ; while we have wrested
from them most cf their foriegn posses
sions, we have increased our own ; and
even our commerce has increased fader
than ever, while that of onr enemies
has been reduced to the lowed pitch.
It is not impoflible that the envy of
frefh enemies is now preparing for us
frefh triumphs and for them defeat :
but we neither invade nor provoke any
one, and we must, under the blessing
of God, prote& our rights otherwise
our ruin is inevitable.
Whilst the last century has produced
, The Iflind of Lampedofa, called by
Ptolemy, Lapadufa, by the French Lam
pedoufe, which Bonaparte proposed to
give to England, is about io miles in cir
cumference situated between Malta and
the Coast of Africa. 1c is uncultivated,
but there is a harbour, in which veflels
Water. There is an hermitage, in which
a Pried of Malta performs divine service
in a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary
and keeps a lamp burning at the Ihrine of
a Turkish Hermit, a circumstance which
has occasionally actra&ed pilgrims of both
religions to the island. This Pried has
also a secular employment ; —he keeps an
inn, filled with good provilions for faildrs
and pilgrims. The natural fertility of
the ifigrid enables him to keep a good
(lock cf corn, cattle and vegetables. He
receives alms when he can fell nothing,
so that he accumulates considerable prop
erty in the course of a life consecrated to
Monkish poverty. The coasts of the island
abound with fifh. With proper cultiva
tion it might become a valuable pofef
ffion ; it is covered with wild olive trees.
The fleet of tire Emperor Charles V. was
wrecked on the coast in the year 1552.
It is situated in lat. 36, lon. 30, 35.
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LAMPED J)A.
As it is with the greatest reltiftance
the king has recourse to this measure,
so his majehy will be ready to discon
tinue it, whenever the veffeis of his fub#
je^s may be enabled to havigate with
security the river above mentioned.
The undersigned, is therefore, di*
rented to declare, that whenever the
French troops will evacuate the pofi«
lion which they occupy on parts of the
bank of the Elbe, arid will remove to
fitch a dißance from them, as to leave
the course of that rivet perfe^ly free
and secure to the vessels of his fubjed%
as well as of other nations, his irgjeßv
will immediately withdraw his f%9 %
Baron Jacobi.
The undersigned, his Majesty's Se
cretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has
received his Majesty's command to ac
quaint Baron Jacobi, that, in confe
querice of the violation of the territory
of the free imperial city of Hamburg,
by the forcible occupation of the parts
of the banks of the Elbe, by French
troops, of the controul which these
thereby- possess over any vessels which
may attempt to enter it from sea, or
depart from It ; and of the purposes of
offence against his majesty's fabje& to
which they have applied, and are ap
plying, the vessels that they have found
in the ports of the Elbe. His majesty
has found it expedient to establish the
most rigorous blockade at the entrance
of that river; to maintain and enforce
the fame in the ftrideft manner; accord
ing to the usages of war acknowledged
and allowed id similar cases Baron
Jacobi is therefore requeued to apprize
the Prussian tonfills and merchants re
ading in England, that the entrance of
the above mentioned river, is and must
be considered in a date of Blockade,
and that from this time all the mea
sures authorized by the law of nations,
and the refpedive treaties between his
majedy and the different neutral ra
tions, will be adopted and executed
^ith refpea to vessels attempting to vi
olate the said Blockade after this no
tice.
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.
By ar tarrival at Nra-Tork.
London, Junm 25.
MIL CTART FORCE.,
The Bill for railing an additional
military force of 50,000 men was read
in the House of Commons a second
time last evening, and pronounced an
irxerefting difeudinn. Mr. Put gave
the plan his fail and entire approba
tion. He contidered it as being that
which appeared to him to furnith the
mol: prompt and efficacious method of
providing for our firft want—a large
defenfive force: and as laying the only
fare foundation for giving us, within 1
reasonable t me, a dispensable force, to
enable us to take advantage of any o
pening that might occur to permit us
to act offenfively against the enemy.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in
answer to Mr. Windham, flared, that
notwithstanding the balloting, and the
progress made in railing the militia
within the last three months, the re
cruiting Service had been nearly as pro.,
dudive as in a similar period at an,
former time. He dated, too, that we
had a greater regular force on foot than
at any period of the war : and that, in
a few days, the militia would be com
pleted to 90,000 men.
Bonaparte sent over the capitulation
of Hanover for his Majesty's ratifica
tion, accompanying it with a proposal
to restore Hanover for Malta, which,
was instantly rejected,
Blockade of the elbe.
JUNE 28.,
The following is Lord Hawkefbury's
letter to Bwon Jacobi, the Prussian.
Ambassador.
Copy of a letter from Lord HawkeJbury to
The French Government is said to
have demanded of the Batavian Re
public the advantage of 30 millions of
guilders, 30 millions annually during
the war, to provide 9 ships of the line,
and a proportionable number of frig
ates, and to furnifh 18 thousand troops.
.JCNB 25.
The assembling of an array at De
venter, under the command of General
Defoles, has been suddenly counter
manded. This order is imputed to the
persuasion entertained by the French
Government, that they have nothing to
apprehend either from Russia or Prus
sia.