The Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1810-07-25 00:00:00, page 2

[ OBSERVED inthe Vewport Mercury,
ol cae Jth witinoy & production, dated from
& urgetowny which, for absurdity and insult
on the leading churacters i government, ex
ceeds any dunayg I have latcly met wida.
Sone ovef remarks on o few of the senten-
Ces Ay not pernaps, be deemed improper.
The writer says—* no government was
“ gvdemoce puzaied than is ours now now o
“et I'ois san egregious laisehood. It
Kknows we/l how to act. Every proceeding
exoions wisdom, penctration, frmness, and
consistency. Every measure it has pursued
15 caiculated to eveniually promote the peace,
bappioess, and prospeciiy of the counury.
D oopointed vnoition woay raye, and puce
blind poiticians imagine @ vain thing, yet the
g 0 pos of the land shail calmly progress with
enr gy, discretion, and salety 3 and, o the
mortieation of aeir clamouroas foes, be
batled by a grateful and hppy people.
“ That a%ominable pardaity to France,”
contioues the author of this picce, * and
“ dread of her power, wafen nas spiong been
“orendering gur government contemptible in
“ the eyes of Kuropie, odious to federalists,
“and at least pitiable in the estimation of
* weven democrats, have reduced them to «
“siouton in waich [ stand % trembling
*alveall oveor™ drewding to take a singie
“ sien, lest they should blunder, and conscions
*of increasing odiam, should tney continue
“motoniess.” That our government cher
jshes iy particnlar partiality for Feance, is
posiuvely dented. Ttis an assertion devoi |
~of the least colouring or foundition. Tai
accasa i s brought only by the disaffecte
o 4 riese and “the unifarm enemies of A
m n‘i.‘ﬂl ln-lo'pmdence. It iQ made o injur.-
T the vepubucan admimsiration, and Rl the
‘By the art reuited to trantmit to the Sccre
tary of State, the argregate amount of each
dassviption of persons within your Districr.
sm- Territory,) But by ¢ aggregate apioun,”’
do wet undersiand the mere total of your
whole (Disweict or Territory) but the * ay
greg te amount” in each subdivision of l')
from which a geuvial * aggregate amount’
ghoud also be stated. Unquestionably i
was the intention of Congress. in requiring
the nnmbers of inhabitan's, under all the
prescribed neads of enumeration, in each
town, townsuip, city, parish, hundred an
county, to be distinctly and seperately taken.
that the population of every such small por
tion or subdivision of territory shounld no
ouly be uscertained, but returned to the De.
partment of State to be printed and publish
ed, as well for gencralinformation as for the
use of the Congress and Lhe lixecutive, to
wiom such knowledge of local population
will be necessury to enable them, in the ud
ministration of the affuirs of the General
Covernment, o provice with equal jusiice,
for the interests of every portion of the Un
icn. Such particular returns Wwill also b
very useful in the administration of the sev
eral State Governments. Yon will therefore
make to the Secretary of State your return
according to tae civil division of your (dis.
trict or territory) whether they be towns,
townsnips, cities, parishes, hundreds or coun
ties, and also by districts comprehendin
counties and parishes ; and to subjoin, a re
capi ulation, woich shall exhibit, in a sma
COMpass the agpgregate amount of each des-
Cripdon ol persons in your whoie district.
You possess the right 10 select your aksis
tints 3 «nd on this point, I thjnk it oniy ne-
CC%say 1O suzgest to you, thut the employ
ment of persons in that service who are dili
goent and fuitnfuly and are withal accurately
«c|uinted with the divisions assigned them,
Wi be the most eligible mode of carrving
the provisions of the ‘aw inio compictc effec:.
Wita the forms of vewen, 1 send you
specimen of the manner in which I think
they may nost convicntly be filled up by each
of your issistants. By tuking 4 quire of com
mon paper, °r as many sheets as his enumer
etion will require, and stitching them thro’
at (he usual fold, as a book, and prefixing the
forin of his return, o project beyond the ed
gos of the bouk, he will always have under
bi, eye the necessary guide to the proper
colims in which enteries are to be made,
without being obliged to repeat the heuding
at the wp of each sheet. Still further to
facilitate his labours, and to prevent mistakes,
I have cansed tobe printed under the heas
ding of each columa, conspicuocus figures.
denoting the dilfirent elasses as to their ages
of the persous 1o be numbered, which at 4
glance of the eye will point to the colum in
which each entry is 10 be made.
Thinking it necessary that each of your
assistanis should have copies of the laws and
®! Lacse testirucuions, the competent numbers
fo 'w’thcir use are sent herewith, as noted bee
‘n :
Be pleased, by thy earliest conveyunce, to
#Kaowiedige fae ceceipt of this letter and of
the paors nentoned ss accompanying it.
I have tae honour to be,
Very respectfully, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
{ Signed.) R. SMITH.
LISI OF PAPERS ENCLOSED.
Contes of (his (ette: mstructions.
Copies ol the act of Congress for the third
census. b
Copies of the assistant’s oath.
Copies ol the marshal or Secretary’s oath.
Conies of the assistant’s returns,
Copies of the marshal or Sec’ry’s returns,
To the marshal or Secretary of ———e—.
FOR THE RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN,
BTRELRED-NOQ. 11
T
SIRE,
mines of ife peaple with 1 eporterous suspl.
cions. Upon the ruin of this adiniuistion the
hopes of the monarchists are built 3 il thi
be eflecuated they cannot accomplish their
tcursed purpose. Oun government dreads
not the power of Franee ; it harbours no
fears respecting the insidious intrigues of the
Corsican tyrant It trembles not at the name
f Kings, nor is dispesed to crouch to des
potick oRDERS and DECREES.
WHEN I adverted, at the close of my
letter, to the more than profligate and im
moral conduct of your sons, (I may suy thewr
criminal turpitnde) 1 felt so acutely both the
delic.cy and the magnitude of th» evil to
which 1 was calling your attention, that poth
ing but the actual sulety ot wmy country couls
have induced me thus to have harrowed bott
your feelings and wy own. In estimating
the conduct of men, our commendation or
our censure is natursily propertioned to the
situstion of the persons whose actions attract
our attention. Desides the great n.oral laws
to which every mun is bound, particula:
ranks have their peculiar obligations; and b
who attuins elevation and extent of power
whether by birth or other adventitions cir
camstunces encreases not only the pleasur
ne has to enjoy. but the duties he has to per-
Orin = [ Liis, however, moralists in all ages
nave compliined is apt 10 be forgotten j—the
rreat are ever ready to exercise power, and
Yt too apt 1o revel in pleasare, equally une
nindful of the duty they owe 10 soricty, and
s ¢ bateful conseanence of the contagion of
Leir example. Never wos the travh of this
observation more “demnonstiably and fat iy
There is no donbt but that our goyernment
ppeurs to the courts of Lurcpe in an unfi
vourable light, I their eyes it is detestailc.
I'hiey view it wiih the same inveteracy, thc
saine envious feelings, that Lvesrer did the
parents of the human race, while innocent
ind happy, they reposed in the roscate bow
ers of Eden. Freedom 1o them is a deuadly
sizht. Peace cannot dwell 1 the bosom of
.yrants, so long-as her banners wave over any
portion of the earth. They have driven her
(rom the Eastern Worid. She has now no
resting place buc in this fuvoured clime
And here they threaten her terrestial exist.
cnces=but in vain., Soe bids delisnce to thewr
hunders, and sccurely similes everthe storu.s
dat rend their wretched enpires. |
That our government 18 * ocious to fede-
Wis letlow citizens, but by bis (cients and his
sound and inflexible patriodsn e 1s sclect
ed trom millions by the conscut of frecmen,
and placed ut the pinnocle of power, where
he exercises the dudes of his stotion with
benefit to bis countiy, cnt receives in return,
tme merited approbatien ol his friends wnd
wliow citizens, Tuewre, the monarch and
the prince, born to hereditiry nonours, in
the possession ol fortenes, of tities, und of 4ii
ovders, (except the order of merit) puisue a
system of measures in oppusidon o tiruih or
justice, unda in hostikity 16 moral or peliticul
virtues=to support their depraved appetites,
they pinch their industrions subjects, and
drain the coffers of the rich, ties of nature
and affection are trampled down by them,and
the eternal principles ol justice are derided
and set av nuught ; fike ti e fed dogstar whose
autumnal heat sucks up the vigour ol the une
parched earth, they spread desolation around
them, and when their sway becomes absolute,
they paralize the hand ol industry, and de
stroy the hope and expectation of integricy
and enterprize.
How wunfortunate, how truly miserable,
must the nation be, who are compelled to
support a depraved family and a corrupt ad
ministration, and whose joint etforts nave
placed them on the brink of destruction, and
rendered them objects of pity and contempt
to surrounding nations.
I'he writer of the above igentioncd articie
further proceeds. + They an 2 "tis ut
“terly impossible : tugy cannot inuke the A
“ merican penpi(' bcl*ut !h('y have de e
their duty.” With t prapricty he has
exnressed himself in this munner, let the ve
cent elections in the different Stutes decicc.
[t is rather singular that i the people beiteve
yovernment had not done their duty, they
should reject men from office, who entertuin
cd opinions similar to their own, and place
the utmost confidence in those who wvowed
the same poitical tenets us the supposed be
trayers of their country. This wouid be tie
extreme of inconsistency. But tlie opinions
of the people have been spoken in a veice
100 uudible to be milsunderstoodein a voic
that has decreed the dewnlai of toryisuw, !
hurled from their places the wretches wo
duved to ¢ontemn the publick inieresis 00l
spoti with the sacred lmmuniues of ree
men.
cuists,” is well known, Uhev fuily maniles
it by their anathemas ond divefnl bowlings.
hey see themselves ingulied indnfony a
Jhame 3 despised by the \'irt
tNeir country, and tocir sinispeit deSl NE e -
celoped ¢to the beams of day,” before an 1:-
suited and indignant nation.
The follewingr letic cadressed to (e kino
we copy from the Loudon tngonen et i
in laying before our readers tots | nntg pic
ture ol the depravity and licenuousness o
royai fumily, we are naturally led wo reil
ed republick, wand a corrupt and anbitio -
monarchy, Herre no man is exalted ahov o
upon the diticrence between o well consi
Fromi the New-Yov!: Dublick Adver iser.
Iyom the Londen Independent IWiig.
LETTER TO THE KING.
1.1 CD L e
sxemiplificd than it hue been in the long and
Lordenied career of profljacy and immorali
iy, Which has so lamentbly charecterizea
helife «f more than one of your sons. It is
+ melancholy trait of the depravity of the
furaan heart, when a desive to depress anc
vitiate” the pubiick morals, and to riot witl,
impunity in the most iicentious deprivity.sig
nahizes the cgnduct of those on whom bLin
and stution has conferred superiority., Gne
might wonder how it shouid ever buppen that
piinces should prefer being feared 10 Leing
oved. to spread around them the chiiiness of
unsocicl grundeur, vather thun the wormth of
reciprocul attachment. But, dsngcrous is
the delusion, when «ny mun relies more up
on bis power then bis merit. It must be cn
minds tiwy contemptible, that mere ronk
and utle cun operate as an apology for the
commission of every vice and the rransgres
sion of every law human und divine. It is
Lo courts, examples are tuken ;3 and conie
ing frcm the greatest, they spread the wider.
Lhe tuper may illuminate the private fumily,
but 1 Is the soverclyn sun alone which spreuds
s influence through the universe. The lib
ertine degiudes nobility, In proportion as a
privce cleims the publick esteem and respect,
v ozt wt feast bg consctous witinn himself
et e deserves it, But if be delies publick
opinion and renders himself odious by the de
proavicy of his actions,he muy arrogate to hima
self dignity, but detestution and contempt
whi be bis fae. ‘T'hat these propositions,and
this species of re woning/y should be rennerec
necessaty for a Brivish stbjecty i the hones!
GisClwice of Lis culy 10 Lis colntry, 10 ac
dressto his sovereigin oid 10 his sous, is &
source ol poignant vetlections. But the ne
riod is arvived when to i ter is to betruyand
L 0 Conwive ol princely delin uency would be
to promote pringely destruction and public .
‘uin, - The publick Auty of a king must no
iotger be wost in the tenderness of the f ther
—or the ener; y of the patriot in the (oyaity
0l the subject.
Your sons, Sire, wust reform, or their vice,
€8 must not unly Le exposed, but corrected.
The sceptre was consipnea to you, a 8 a Sae
cred trust for the guardiansiip of the poople,
and the secniity of the country must not be
fartier endangered 1o gratily the venulity of
W ltisterid ambition, or to satiate the lust of
toy o depravity wad intemperate prodigal-
Iy
If,. Sire, such practices of corruption,fran:
md degeneracy, as 1 have here briefly cullec
vour attention to, are suffered to continue w
c haraeterize the conduct of those who, by
pirth and education, are destined for noble:
yrsuits, and who should be actpated by
jore generons passions j==if such a system
A lngury licentiousness, and despotisin, |
not immediately checked and abasked, it is in
v in that we homage the reputed private vi -
‘nes of the sovereign who continues to sanc
inn, by his supineness, vices and praciices
jot only o mimic.d to the prosperity of «
ople, but to the .odinances of religion und
je daties of morality,. Where such scenes
‘e witnessed with apthy, both by the sover
~ign und the people. the sentiments o pub
lick virtue may Dbe said to be extinguished,
lzhits of his subjects, wnd the secuity of his
dladein in such b.nds. I feel the most u
cute compunction, when the cnse 1 enter
twin of my duty as o Christian, and patriotick
“übject, compel me thus 1o address you.
But there is stiii tiwe, Sive, for you o res
cue your country from bondage «nd to repair
the ervours of your relgn.—=idut the moment
must be seized with avidity, and the cureer
of rapine, bloodshed, prodigal waste, and foul
licentiousness, must be immediately stopped
by the determined interference of the won
arch. The misforiunes and oppressions of
the people must no lowger be peglected, nore
the wunton spilling of British blood vpon
foreizn shores be atlowed 10 be coutinued e
Ununimity must be prombied at home, by
conclitatory, und not cocistve measures, and
the treaSure and biood of tee empire, must
he pressrved for the defence of uie country,
should it be rendered nccessary to apply it i
so ssbred a struggle, The rights and privi
‘eres of the people must be immediately re
<tored, and the intrigue and corruntion of the
minister abolished. The crimimal expedien
ey of purchasing seats in Parliament must be
abandoned, and the Peer who dares, by such
a system of corruption and fravd, o monop
olize seats in the House of Commons, to be
itled with eight or ten well dressed gentle
men like figures, ready upon all occasions to
vote for him as his Proxies, must be onsii
ered as the subverter of the liberties of his
countrymen, and the personal enemy of his
monarch.
o probublegsuccessours to the tarone, on
a utheg, xn,: i eVery excess of voluptu
onsadcbauchery. 17 such men are to conduct
i regutate the great affairs of state, ot a
ci9ls 80 cwial ws the prescnt, we can no lon
er wonier at onr want of success, or be at
ss for the latent sources which have pro
uced e deciine of our empive. If, in this
cvanced state of the life of the monarch, (uls
most artiyed at the grand climactri k)his sons
aicto be sutfered thus o insult morality and o
prey apon tae vitaly of the publiok wits ime
pumty, and the majority of our Senate is to
be lided with bemnes mean o« thcy are worthe
less, atiie destituie of publick virtae and pri
va.e huaonr, we may cease to be surpriscd at
my calumity that befdds us. But what saust
excite u sl more iively regret and poionint
remark in the breast of cvery putriotick Briie
bn, wust be, In times preguont with such we
lirm. when the empiye is shook o its very
foundation, to view their king so int.u®ec
A 5 1o continue to trust the best ond dearest
What, sire, must be the prospect of a peo-
LWt w parilaraent on one hand, sacrific
(e interests oi thed' constituents to pro-
Yot e mercenary views of & milniste e
The iollowing CIRCULAR has {allen in
to our hanas, antd throws new iight upon s
project of a Legion of Honour. It was pot
intended for the publick eye ; und its eurly
publication will shew the skl of,the mtena
ed bresherhood at keepung a scerct., We
have not vet learnt whethier it is -intepded to
fill up this society (as the NewaVork Wask
ingron society is made up) with old torics,
r(fugees, men who ho;c arms aguinst Wash
ington, Scotchmen, &c. &c. &c. But we have
no doulit these will be plentifully iaterspersed.
We learn also, thut the young Tyy intend to
Sollow suit, and to establisha society of young
sters, which is to be called by eminence the
Famrrron society 3 and which is to hold up
for imitation te the Patrician youth of this
town, the virtues of this duelliist and adulierer,
and this for want of Lving examples of such
virtues before their eyes no doubt. We have
not seen their circular—=but shall take eare
to give it to the readers of this paper in dug
time.
and the Bassions for true glory to be annthil.
ateas Lhe spring of private und of noticnal
Fonour must hive lost its, force ond tiore
will remain pothing to withstendthe gen.
eral corryption ef manmers, ind the
Pubuick disvrver énd cebility, which must
Preve s wisepercble wtwendents. i cur
country has not elread’y resched this point of
degeneracy, she secms o be fust wpprouch.
ing it. On one side we bebold wn injured
people, on the other side we Lebold a threpe
surtounded by men who huve proved then.
sc.ves enetuies to pullick liLery, end wieo
exult in being supporied Ly u bouse of com
nions, consisting chicfly of their dependents,
and unctured with the sume pernicious priu
ciples. The luxury and corruption of the
times call alond on the virtuous lor resist
ances==for correction.
THE selfestyled Federalists finding it neg<
eSSy 10 appear in & ncw shape, ave übout ¢s-
Lblishing a new soctety, to be called ¢ fpe
Washington Zemevolont Socieiy ;" e=which,
itize some other cnariteble socretiesy is latends
ed 10 set powr peofile at wo k. What beneve
olent creatures ! We had already a benevoe
ien meeting house, a benevolent stieei, &Ke.
&c. ; and now, fors@otiy We are 10 have a bee
nevolent \Vashing‘n spcicty. In this temipe
est oi benevolence. it will not surdrise us to
hear pevt of a henevolent bank, or Insurance
companv——iie henevoient cadets, or ilghi
hovse, to drageon the people out of thelr iibe
ertigs. Wit a pity that Repubiicans have
uot a littie of this==KYPOCRICY. ¢
Is it decorous——cun it be proper, Sire, that.
the bulwwk of your people should be sinl
ing under the weight of taxation and opprest
ston, and at the sume moment their sorerciyn
and his ministers accumuluting weolth Ly
wholesule ? 1s this a moment that.p:inces of
the blood should be allowed to revel in every
excess of intemperance, wnd thut the publick’
shouid have the weight of their privie debts
wudled 1o the weight of their burihens 7
Above all, Sire, 1 weuld sk if thisis a
nicmient that cfiicial delin vency and official
piunder should escape punishment, snd thot
e Inaustrious ardsan, menufecturer, and
tradesmion, shoult be inmured in the narrow
confines ot a prison,and their wives and hiclys
less progeny biought to beggary, while their
property and their industry has been swule
lowed up, to the exigencies of the stae and
o the licentious pleusure ol the profligate
prince and mmnister ?
The Brinsh lawe, Sre,are said to Be tounde
ed in ernity, and that they indisciimately
putisa gullty regardless of the rank ot the ote
fender ; yota Melvilie, Trouer, wid Castles
reagliliave been pronounced to be guilty of
the mest atrocious crimes, and suffercd, not
only to escupe with impunity,but insolently to
deride the voice of publick censnre and pol.
lick scorn. Wilie these exan: «os ofint.my
flow (rom the fountain of government, it a
hand, steal, wherewith to satisfy nature, .nd
t prolong for a time bis miserable existence,
tne defenceless culprit is condemned 1o diew
If & muthrouga the seltincitements of cor e
jual aflection nd paternal love, to preserve a
beloved wite an,d o ray @ of lisping INnocentsy
Lraves death, and upon tne road extorts thet
which pity might deny, he must answer wiily
Lis life the hardy enterprige, although ke
should be possessed of all those trve feclings
of humaunity, in which those in affinent cire
cumstunces are but oo ofien wholly deficient ;
ha, must die, or at ieast be transpoited.” 1 he
letter of the kuw is such, while princes nuy
game, incur immense debts, violate the mar
riage bed, und perpetrate donble adulterv,und
ministers and thetr venal abettors plunder the
puhlick treusy, biibe the people, and corrupt
the whole legistiwure, with during impunity.
IT has long been contemplated by many of owr
fellow.citizens to establ sh in (his Styte a \\'u;b'mg‘.on
benevolent Sodiety. Recently (1) the subject has ree
ceived the particular and sciious attenuon of many
of the citizens of Ihis and the wdjacent Aowns ; and
ul & meeting of them holden last week, they appoint
cd the undersigned a committee to consult our frends
in the country wpon the expediency of establislung
this society, at the present pertod.
Its principal object, i wddicion, to that of berevos
lence (2) will be to support the Constituiion®ef the
United Staces, 1o promoie its administration on ty
inciples of onr beloved Washivgton, (3) and there
[; to oum( to oumlv:sl; toithe mo;u?n. -nd“m postor
ny,our {(4) rights and libertics jerts Kke theeos
al"; dumzdn‘x:\[nnant. and l.udnhE; themselvgs,
and the messure such as the present evisis of the =
tion requices. (s)—Much, Lowever, depeads on e
"‘IRO
YO Creature on whomn rear wabt hus juid Ler
Beware of Wolves in Sheep’s Cloathin®.
FROM THE PROVIDENCE PHENIE.
“ (ROVIDENCE, JULyY Oth, 1810.
COMMUNI ATIONS.
“« Cl!' CULAR.