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He has removed more than fifty
persons from office, not for want of a
bility, or integrity, but merely for un
eflential differences in opinion with
himfelf, and appointed others in their
stead of his own fenriments. That this
is the sole cause of the removals, and
new appointments, is not left to con
je&zire. He has openly avowed it,
and pretended to juftify his conduct in
his Answer to the Address of the Mer
chants of New-Haven. A composi
tion replete with sophistry, falfhood,
folly, and absurdity ; in dired contra
didion to his solemn declarations, and
specious promises in his inaugural
speech before alluded to. Nor has he
been content with violating his duty,
and his most solemn profeffions, in his
removals only, but also in his new ap
pointments ; in some of which he
lias been wholly regardless both
with refped to ability and integri
ty. He has appointed one worn out
with age and infirmities, unacquainted
with, and totally incapable of perform
ing the duties of his office. Another
known to be guilty of anti-revolutionary
adherence to our enemies, and during the
v. ar actually taken within their lines.
But the full climax of his political in
tolerance, fraud, and perfidy, was re
served for the governor of the Miffifip
pi territory. A complaint was prefer
red against Governor Sargent, by the
present Governor his enemy, and rival,
Supported by characters more worthless
than his own, two of whom stand in
dieted for infamous crimes. In vain
did the worthy and gallant veteran
seek only to confront his accusers, and
evince his innocence ; in vain did the
worthy part of the inhabitants of that
territory, the most refpe&able officers
in the late American-Army, and the
immediate Predecessor of Mr. Jeffer
fon bear testimony to his worth and a
bilities. He was condemned unheard—
difplaced—and his worthless accuser
promoted to his place ! and this in de
fiance of the most solemn protestations
of the President. Nay, these were
made after his removal, and after the
new appointment had actually been
made. This is " butting doors" with
a vengeance !
"On a fudderi open fly
With impetuous recoil, and jarring found,
The infernal doors ; and on their hinges grate
Harth thunder, that the lowest bottom shook
Os Erebus !"
* or the United States' Oracle of the Day.
, th, CITIZENS or AMERICA.
\V HEN the Jacobinic-party prevail
' ed, and placed Mr. Jefferfon in the
chair of government, though fufficient
iy mortified, I resolved to acquiesce in
he will of the misguided majority, and
prepared myfelf as well as 1 was able,
to judge impartially of his future ad
ministration. Though I knew him to
be deeply tindured with French poli
tics, and strongly biaffed in favor of
that nation, I did not fee an absolute
necessity of pronouncing him an un
principled or dishonest man. I knew
that the most virtuous minds are liable
to strong prejudices, and was well a
ware of the fafeinating power of
French Philosophy. I thought, in the
language of Sterne, " that though he
might be milled, like other people,
there was integrity in his heart, and
mildness in his blood."
I thought highly of his talents,
though I imagined them far less a
dapted to political, than philosophical
pursuits. His notes on Virginia I had
read with pleasure, and thought with a
few exceptionable passages, they did him
honor. I was particularly pleased with
his sentiments on religious intolerance.
So much was I pleased with the
whole work, that when some of his in
temperate oppofers, in the warmth of
their zeal, with derisive taunts conjur
ed up the bones of the Mammoth to
insult him, 1 almost wished the noble
animal might be reanimated to avenge
his patron.
Such were my sentiments on Mr. Jef
ferfon's firft being elected into office.
His elaborate speech at his inaugu
ration, was loudly applauded by his
own party, and generally approved by
all. Here I must confefs I was rather
singular. It did not altogether please
me. I could not for my foul help
doubting its fncerity ; and his uniform
coudud since, has fully judified my sus
picions. The part appeared to me o
ver-afled. "We are all Federalists, all
Republicans !" looked to me like a
strange assertion. Light and darkness
I conceived not more opposite than
Federalism and Jacobinifm : and it
appeared to me but an ill compliment
to his indefatigable friends, who had
left no means untried to blast the rep
utation of his most illustrious competi
tor, and ensure his own election, to tell
both Houses of Congress in the pres
ence of a numerous assembly, that the
difference in sentiment, between the
two parties was entirely unessential.
What reason then could be aligned
for their choice of him, in preference to
one of superior abilities, and infinitely
greater fcientific knowledge and expe
rience, whose political principles were
the fame, and who was "in the full tide
of fuccefsful experiment r-
Let us now advert particularly to
his conduct since.
From the Wafoington Federals.
£, Some idea of the merits of Mr. Gallatin,
as a citizen may be formed from the subjoin
ed document. How it must excite the ad
miration of the world to behold a legislator
encouraging opposition to laws !—and how
much more, to find such a legislator, who
is also a foreigner in the land, appointed to
take care of the property of the nation !
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Extraß from Bache's :'per, of Sept. T, 1792.
At a Meeting of fondry Inhabitants of tbe Weflern
counties of Penufylvania, at Pi/fbu/g, on tbe 21st
day °f August. 1792.
Col. John Camion, was placed in the Chair,
And Albert Gallatin, appointed Clerk.
THE Excise law of Congress being taken in
to consideration, a committee was appointed to
IX. He has aCted in direst repugnan
cy to his declarations in his inaugural
speech to both houses of Congrcfs, and
then attempts to juftify such conduct.
X. He has committed two opposite
declarations to the world; to wit his
inaugural speech and his address to the
New-Haven merchants, tending to
make the government of the United
States difrefpeCted at home, and con
temptible in the eyes of other nations.
XI. Lastly—He has subverted the
foundation of all good Government,
and held out premiums to vice, and
difeouragements to virtue, by reward
ing the guilty, and punishing the inno
cent,and meritorious—all which crimes
are against the constitution, peace, and
dignity of the United States.
These are the crimes for which he
already stands arraigned before the
public. May they shortly be constitu
tionally presented by their Representa
tives to the Senate of theUnitedStates,
and their sentence be, that such a man
is totally unfit to be the firft Magistrate
of a great, free, and enlightened nation.
ACitizen of the U. States.
high crimes and misdemeanors.
Art. I. He has openly violated the
constitution, and his oath by removing
meritorious men from office, without
complaint, and without any just cause.
11. He has removed some from office
in the recess of Congrefs,and in the ab
sence of the Senate, for the purpose of
substituting his favorites in their places,
without the advice and consent of the
Senate, against the letter and spirit of
the Constitution.
111. He has violated the spirit of the.
Constitution, by appointing men to of
fice who had openly adhered to the rev
olutionary enemies of the Unitedotates,
against his own engagements to the
contrary.
IV. He has prostituted the dignity
of his high office by meanly descend
ing publicly to altercate conditutional
questions wi:h private individuals.
V. He has prostrated the dignity of
government by audaciously arraigning
and condemning the conduct of his great
predecessor in office,in defiance of truth,
order, and decency.
VI. He has removed from office the
worthy Governor of the Miffifippi tcr
tory on the complaint of <tn intcieftod
individual supported by the evidence of
men rendered infamous for their crimes
against the willies and interests of that
people.
VII. He has been guilty of the groc
eft prevarication, and the most con
temptible hypocrisy towards the said
Magistrate, pretending to approve his
conduct, and promising him a hearing
after he had actually displaced him,and
appointed his enemy and accuser in his
stead.
VIII. He has pledged himfelf at all
events to injure the best men : with
this pitiful salvo, that he would injure
others more.
Who that views his whole conjud
since his exaltation to the Presidential
Chair, except those who are eagerly
gaping for. the “ loaves and ffoes," or
such as are already gorged with them,
but must be compelled to fay, “ He
richly merits impeachment ?"
I therefore hope and trust it will be
one of the firft ads of the House of
Representatives at the next meeting of
Congress to impeach Thomas Jeffer
fon, Esq. and that the Senate will as
soon as possible proceed to trial. The
result of which I am at no loss to di
vine. Whoever will read Mr. Madi
son's excellent speech in Congress in
June 1789 before his apoftacy, on the
powers of the President, will entertain
110 doubts of the propriety and legality
of the measure in the present instance,
and I trust all the members from New-
Hampshire will go to Washington well
prepared for the important bufmefs, to
facilitate which,! beg leave to subjoin a
few articles, which will probably be
much augmented before that time.
Articles of Impeachment of T. Jefferfon,
Esq. President of the United States for
Thus^fa, the snaky focerefs at the
request of the grand adversary of God
and man, opened the Stygian gates,
and ruin and deftrudion followed !—
For further particulars of this unexam
pled combination ofhypocrify, treach
ery, and oppression, I refer the reader
to Governor Sargent's pamphlet lately
published in Boston.
Who that contemplates this tranf
a&ion alone, can hesitate to fay that
Mr. Jefferfon is totally unfit to preside
over the Government of the United
States ?l
The Statute of Suwarrow,in marble,
has been placed in the Imperial Garden
at Peterfburgh, in the presence of the
Emperor, the Royal Family, and seve
ral regiments of life guards, accompa
nied by music. Prince Constantine
made a speech on the occasion.
4th. He was detected by the Pod-
Matter of this city, as the author of
several infamous anonymous letter. He
was detected in taking from the Post-
Office, breaking open, and then secret
ing for nearly a year, two letters written
by a gentleman in Wilmington, to
young ladies then in this city.
6th. While in Trenton, he lately
fought to take the life of a gentleman
from Philadelphia, and had not his ab
solute cowardice afforded the means of
his discovery, it is probable murder
would have ensued ; and although this
circumdance Was bullied up at the
time, the fad can be substantiated by a
number of reputable witnesses.
7th. And lastly—When the public
offices were removed from Philadelphia
to Wafliington, he received a sum of
money in advance, and engaged to write
as clerk in one of the public depart
ments ; but altho' he received the pay,
he never went to Washington,nor would
lie refund themoney until compelled by
prosecution ! ! !
Foreign News.
GERMANY. Hamburg, aug. 5-
THE followingCircular,dated 19th
June, sent by theßuffian govern
ment to all its diplomatic Ministers &
Agents, for the regulation of their con
duct with regard to the Foreign French
Ministers and Ambailadors, has lately
appeared :
[CIRCULAR, &c.]
" All the relations of policy, com
merce, and correspondence with France
which were interrupted, and in conse
quence of the revolution in that coun
try, have not yet been re-established in
their full extent ; but as at the prefenC
moment negociations are going on to
effect a reconciliation with that Power
by every means confident with the dig
nity of the Emperor, and the interests
of his people, his Majesty has been
pleased to charge his Ministers to ap
prize his Foreign Ambassadors and
Agents that he is willing to renew the
usual course of connexions with that
Government, and that the conferences
refpeXing that objeCt are in full activity.
" In the situation in which this mat
ter ftands,therefore it is no longer prop
er that the Ambassadors of his Imperi
al Majesty should continue to observe
any distance towards the Ambassadors
of the French Government. It is there
fore, enjoined to you, Sir, on all occa
sions, to teftify the ordinary & becom
ing refpeX for them which is usual be
tu een the Ministers of Powers that are
in good understanding with each other,
and to communicate with them on all
occasions in which the interest of our
most gracious Sovereign may be con
cerned. I am, &c. (Signed)
“ The PRINCE A. KURAKIN."
[ A circular offmilar import refteßing the Ba
tavian Republic, Las alJo been iffued.]
prefcre a draught of resolutions expreffiug the
sense of the meeting on the fubjed of Did law.
Adjourned to 10 o'clock to-morrow.
August, 22, 1792.
The Committee appointed yesterday made
reporr, which being mice read, was unanimously
adopted.
The following is one of federal reflations unani
mously adopted:
" And whereas some men be found amongst
us so far loft to every sense of virtue and feeling
for the distresses of this country, as to accept
offices for the colleaion of the duty."
' Resolved therefore, chat in future we will
confider such persons as unworthy of our friend
fhip : Have no intercourse or dealings with them.
WITHDRAW FROM THEM EVERY ASSISTANCE,
AND 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 here
by most earneflly recommended to the people at large to
follow the fame kind of conduß towards them."
(Signed) John Cannon, chairman.
ALBERT GALLATIN, clerk.
It is true Mr. Gallatin, when he perceived
the infurredbon would fail, fought and obtained
pardon of Gen. Washington ; but was his de
claration of sorrow the effect of sincere peni
tence, or of a necessary policy ? If forgiven,
ought the conduct of Mr. Gallatin to b c for
gotten ?
Nor are the caufcs of the failure of this in
furredlion forgotten by Mr. Gallatin. Does
he not harbour an inveterate hatred against all
that assisted in its suppression ? Among other
instances —Did not General Miller of Pennsyl
vania command a large body of men that
went on the weftern expedition to disperse the
insurgents, and was he not ejeded from the
office of Supervisor immediately on Mr. Gal
latin's coming to the treasury?
SOMETHING of A. CAMPBELL
7HE CAL UMNIATOR!
I ft. A. Campbell is an united Irish
man ; has probably been in this coun
try between five and fix years.
2d. While in Trenton, he profeffed
to be a monar chiJl and the writer of this
has heard him frequently declare, that
this country would never be happy un
til a monarchical government was here
established.
3d. In his private character he is
faithlefs and dishonest.
03 Crimes of Europe.
FRENCH.
On reading the French Gazettes,one
is struck with the numerous accounts
of robberies in every part of the Repub
lic. In some papers we meet with fix
or seven recitals of various depredations
on persons and property : and attend
ed with enormous aXs of barbarity.—
Some of the thefts are on a scale un
parralleled :—ln the Journal du Com
merce of 9 Thermidor (July 28th) we
find the following article. “On the
28 Meflidor fifty robbers attacked two
corps oQgendarmerie who, were con
ducing to Arras the recetes (taxes)
collected at Boulogne, Montrieul and
St. Pol. After killing a gendarme,
they put the rest to flight, and robbed
the waggon of 40,000 livres in specie.
The Prefect immediately affembied a
force, and at the head of 200 chaffeurs,
and the gendarmerie of Arras pursued
the robbers ; and has arrested fix men
and a refraCtory priest ; who are de
livered over to the director of the jury."
ENGLAND.
The number of capital convictions
in England is increasing in a most a
larmmg degree. The English papers
are literally crowded with accounts of
trial for murders, burglaries, &c. Who
can read the following remarks ofLord
Kenyon, made at the Chelmsford As
sizes, without pain ?
" In the difeharge of my public duty
I yesterday was obliged to go through
the painful office of pronouncing sen
tence of deatth against 12 prisoners,
accused and convicted of enormous
crimes. This day presents to me 19
prisoners, of the fame description. God
knows it is a horrible exhibition, and
such, in a pretty long course of life,
dedicated to the duties of a painful pro
feffion, as I never have met with. For
a series of years,the judges of this coun
try have tried what mercy would do,
and whether humanity, almost unbound
ed humanity, would reform the world,
would reform mankind, over whose ac
tions it is their duty to watch. That
mercy and that humanity have had no
effect. The tables must now be turned
and it must be seen what a rigorous
execution of the laws can do, & wheth
er punishment of delinquents will
have such an effect, and hold out such
an example to others as to bring them
back to the paths of truth and virtue,
or keep them in such a course as to lead
better lives.— Tou stand here dreadful
victims of the law you have violated ;
and I ought to remind all of you, that
the sentence I am bound to pass upon
you, is but trivial to that which youmuft
meet with at the Throne of God, unless
you make use of the (hort time that will
be allotted to you in this world, in mak
ing your peace with him, and bettering
your lives for the small remnant that
remains. I shall have discharged my
duty, when I remind you so to do, and
pass on you the dreadful sentence of the
law."
MILAN, JULY 20.
An alarming mutiny has broken out
in the French troops at Turin. They
refufed to march to Tufcany,until their
arrears of pay were discharged. Gen
erals Jourdan, Delmas, and Colli, ex
erted themselves to suppress them ; but
which they did not effe& until blood
was Ipilt.—At last upon promise of pay
the ibldiery were quieted ; and to ful
fil his promise Gen. Jourdan has de
manded a loan of three hundred thousand
livres on the merchants, beftdes another sum
on persons of property ! ! The following
is his Proclamation on the fubjed :—
" At the moment when order was
restored, when I was on the point of
realizing the promises I had made to
you, an unfortunate coincidence of cir
cumdances suspends the execution of
my plans for some days, and de
mand of you a last facrifice. I request
it of you, in the name of your fafety
and property, but only for one month.
You know that one of the principal
duties amounting to seven millions, be
comes due in July ? if only one half,
one third, or even one fourth of it is
collected, it would be fufficient to repay
to you the sum which I now borrow of
you. The Bank and the Commerce
of Turin will,therefore,lend me 300,000
livres ; the rich Proprietors of houses
in Turin must advance double the a
mount of their taxes; the seventeen
old Provinces shall pay 10,000 livres
each, and couriers be immediately dis
patched to inform them, the University
and the Mint shall advance to me all
their ready money ; and all the cash
thus received shall be immediately de
livered up to the Quarter-master of the
divisions of troops, &c. I hope, citi
zens, that, under the pressure of cir
cumflances in which my demand is
made, you will only remark my solici
tude for your tranquility. Confider,
that a very flight and transient facrifice
will be able to obviate the most melan
choly consequences.
(Signed) "JOURDAN."
On the i ith,the day before the above
disturbances broke out, Gen. Jourdan
had issued a Proclamation to the Pied
montefe, in which he represented to
them the happy piofpe&s opening to
their view, and Rated that fix Bankers
were now completing a voluntary loan
of 200,000 livres.
NEW-LONDON, SEPT. 3Q,
From Algefras, July 26.
" The privateers have brought in four Ame
rican vessels this week, three of them for only
having it in their inftrn&ions to flop at Gibral
ter, for convoy, bound to Leghorn ; and the
other for having letters on board for the officers
of the American frigates at Gibraltar. Last
night the Ship Molly, of Philadelphia, with 14
nine-poundersand forty men, were brought in a
prize ; (he was taken after an a&ion of two
hours with seven privateers.—Where she was
bound to I do not know, as they will let no one
speak her : an American boat attempting to go
along fide, was fired upon. 1 hope our Govern
ment do not intend to abandon our commerce
to these mifereants.
" The fame privateers, with the fame com
manders that cruized under French colors for
American vtffels, ten months ago, now carry on
their depredations under Spanish colors, with
more avidity than ever : and the judgecondemns
with less pretentions than ever."
O—
Accounts from every quarter of England,
give the most luxuriant description of the gene
ral afpea of the country. The crops are stated
as the most abundant that have been known ft
thefe 10 years, and the ^rveil every vh^r ~
considerable forwardnefs.
ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 2J.
Something Remarkable.
[Aldreffef to a member of the Alexandria Society, •
for tbe promotion of ufeful knowledge.)
1 think it was in the summer ofi 795 that I ac
cidentally got into my possession a Lufus Nature.
A negro man, going over a final] strea m of wa
ter which originates in the mountain, known
by the name of the Bull Run Mountain, saw,
and caught, a small turtle (or what is more g en 2
eral known there by the name of fkillpot) of a
very extraordinary conftrudion. On examina
tion, there issued from the fame (hell, two sepa
rate and diftind necks and heads, with two
pair of eyes, two mouths, and in (hort, to every
appearance the heads and necks of two differ
ent turtles. I kept it in a bafon of water seve
ral days, during which time, when flics were
caught'and put into the bafon. as food for it,
each head appeared equally anxious to devour
them, and often both were fecn feeding at the
fame time. But what appeared most extraor
dinary to every beholder, was, each head feen^
ed to be aduated by wifhesand desires of its
own ; for at times, one head would endeavour
to proceed in one direction, and the other in
another. In every other refped ir appeared to be
a single turtle having only four legs, one body
and one tail. This you may rely on as a just
representation, there are many refpedable peo
ple in that place who can teftify the truth of it.
WILLIAM POWEL.
United States.
Washington, sept. 2&
French Convention Ratified.
T —
ABETTERS are received at the department
of date from Major Mountflorence, who adeJ
as Secretary to Mr. Murray, dated Paris, 3d
and 6th August, announcing that the ratifica
tions of the Convention between France and the
United States were exchanged on the 31st July,
and that the gentleman charged to carry the
French ratifications to America, had left Paris
on the jch of Aug uft for Dieppe, whence he
was to embark for Philadelphia.
VERGENNES (Ver.) SEPT. 10.
A new method of killing Bears.
Early in the evening of the 31st ult.
at Jeffups Patent, a Bear was difeover
ed near the road, which being pursued
ran up a tree. A number of men were
soon collected who went to building
fires around the tree to enable them to
difeern and (hoot it ; but finding it in
vain, it being cloudy and no moon, it
was proposed to one Peacock to go up
the tree with a light and direct those
(landing around to notice where it was
so as to be able to aim their mufquets,
after he had descended. This was done
and several discharges made to no pur
pose. It was next proposed that he
Ihould afeend the tree again with a
mufquet to (hoot the bear, for which
two dollars were offered him by two
different persons ; to this he readily
consented, and ordered a bed cord,one
end of which was fattened to his body
till he afeended, and the other to the
mufquet which he drew up by it, till he
got about 60 feet high, and within a
few feet of the bear; by this he dis
covered that there were two bears ;
but finding it very difficult to direCt the
mufquet, he took the bed position he
could and lashed himfelf to a limb with
the rope as the fafeft precaution against
the attack or fall of the bear on him,
and then fired without success ; this
however brought one of the bears to
wards him, which he soon ihook down
to the ground,and the men with a dog
and several handspikes dispatched him.
He next turned his attention to the
other bear which drew near him growl,
mg,and was now able to take good aim
at it which he did and (hot him dead.
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PHILADELPHIA, SEPT. 2J.
Thomas Bruff, of Chetter-town, Ma
ryland, has conftruded and patented
a machine for manufacturing Silver
Spoons which with one imprellion and
one hand to work it, will turn out
from a Hat bar, a Spoon in a minute,
ready for the punch with heel and name
impressed upon it.
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SEPT. 28.
By the arrival of the Eliza, from Bourdeaux,
we have received the disagreeable intelligence
of the capture, by the Spaniards, of the (hip
Molly, and the brigs Maria and Sophia, of this
port, bound to the Mediterranean. The aggre
gate, amount of the cargoes of these vessels is
climated at 300,000 dollars, a great portion of
which has been insured in this city.
We do not learn under what pretext the a
bove captures have been made. Certain it is,
that the honor of our country, and the obliga
tions of the government to protest and defend
our merchants in their lawful commerce, cry
out loudly for an explanation on this alarming
fubjed.