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to preserve the constitution and public
prosperity, and having a general knowl
edge of the most prominent recent
events, it occurred to me that some re
movals would become neceffary,as Well
to effed an eqtal participation and en
enjoyment of office by the two great
claries of citizens, who are designated
by the terms Federalists and Republi
cans ; as to preserve and maintain con
fidence in the department. The idea of
exercising the powers delegated in such
a manner as to produce any temporary
. evil or unhappiness to any of my fellow
citizens, to me was unpleasant and dis
tressing. While on the other hand it
was my determination, as it Was my
duty to answer the public expectation
and to make such changes as the Rate
of the country as well as of the office,
appeared to require. From repeated
complaints from the country, and from
opinions which are entertained by per
sons who have been long in office, to
gether with the reasons upon which
their opinions are founded, 1 was soon
convinced that as a general rule, the
printers of newspapers ought not to be
employed as Postmasters, because they
„ have a special intefeft in suppressing for
a time the intelligence forwarded to ri
val printers, which generates suspicions,
mutual recriminations, and party-bick
erings, unfriendly to social intercourse
and civil order. And because they have
an uncommon interest in using the right
of franking to an extent never contem
plated by law, if not to the deftrudion
of a fellow-craftfman. I have therefore
* refuted to appoint a Republican printer
Post-master in eve^ r instance where ap
plications,have been made, although
Qey have neither been few, nor badly
supported. Causes may exist in which
it may be proper' to employ a printer
of a paper as a Poll-Matter—These
however will only form exceptions to a
general rule— -Influenced by these con
siderations, as you are the printer of a
wncwfpaper, ray duty compels me to in
form you, I have deemed it proper to
dispense with your further services as
Post-Master at Augusta, and that I
have appointed John E. Wilkinson,
Esq. tb that office as your successor.
When he has tgen the oath prescribed
by law, and executed with good surety
the proper bond and forwarded the
fame for tills office (which bond and
oath I have forwarded to him.) I re
quest you to deliver over to him all
such property as you may have in your
possession, belonging to the General
Poft-Office. lam fir, your mod obe
dient servant,
GIDEON GRANGER.
Wm. J. Hobby, Esq.
0 '
AVGUSTA, ift. February, 1802.
SIR,
1 1 THIS day received your's of the
16th ultimo, and as soon as the Oaths
are taken, and the Bond properly exe
cuted by the person appointed my suc
cessor, I shall proceed to comply with
your in/lruaions— in the mean time I
take the liberty of making a short re
ply to your obliging favor.
If the “ anxiety and folicitude' 'with
which your " mind Was imprelicd" on
entering your present office, produced,
or confirmed a determination impar
tially to difeharge its duties, you have
my best fifties for the uniform futcefs
of your exertions. As you assert from
your (KWH knowledge, that " most of the
officers under y ou had been in the hab
its of affociatingandcorrefponding with
those lately in authority," it might not
be proper to queftibn the accuracy of
four statement, even though the at
tainment of this knowledge presupposes
an intimacy of communication between
you and thofe^fficers, hardly to have
been expe&ed, between persons, who,
as you seem to insinuate, had no con
fidence in each other. But admitting
the faft to be as Hated, your letter
gave me the firft intimation I ever re
ceived, that in ft country boasting of
freedom, it was a crime, meriting ei
ther punishment or tenfare, to associate
or correspond with the “ public ser
vants" of the peoples For /hyfelf,tho'
-I have uniformly held the characters of
the late adminiftratioß in the highest
estimation, yet having no personal ac
quaintance with them, I never had the
honor of corresponding or associating
with them —and my correspondence
with the Post-Master-General I believe
wholly related to die business of the
Poft-Office department—ls it did, not,
my letters are now probably in your
Office, and I shall have no objection to
" A Kowland for your Oliver."
• —o—
GENERAL Post Office, *i. 16, 1802.
TTPON entering on the duties of
this Office, ray mind was impressed
with an unusual anxiety andfohc'itude:
Knowing as I -did that most ofthe offi
cers under me, from their official Ra
tions, had been m the habits of afloci
ating and correfponding,as Well'dnpol
uics as on business with those lately in
authority,' from whom the people had
withdrawn their confidence ; and ele
vated to office men wherfepolitical prin
ciples they believed, better calculated
Miscellany.
your making the whole, or any part of
them, public, as an evidence of the ac
curacy of your Statement as applied to
me—Vwhom, by making the observa
tion you no doubt intended to apply it
—at the fame time, although the infin
uatioh of year letter in its present ap
plication is altogether unfounded, yet,
I by no means assent to the opinion you
seem to have adopted, that in our coun-.
try it is improper for any free citizens
to correspond with the officers of their
government on political fubjeds—and
if it is the determination of the present
administration to deprive them of this i
right, I have no hesitation in ^(Turing|
you, lam one among the number of j
those not disposed to relinquish it. I
have heard indeed, the late adminftra
tion proscribed, as a political fed, un
worthy of public eßeein—l now hear
it intimated, that to have affiliated or
correfpended with them was improper
—and hereafter perhaps, we may be
told that it is unjust to live in the fame
country with them, or to fuffer them
to live in the fame country with those,
who claim the merit, of enjoying exclu
sively the public confidence. If it was
unwarrantable to associate or corres
pond with the officers of the late ad
ministration, it must be equally unwar
rantable to associate or correspond With
those of the present— and then the heads
of departments in the true style of east
ern defpotim, secluded from an incer
courfe with the people over whom they
preside, may confider their oWn opin
ions as the Standard of perfection, may
require servile submission to their wills,
and may finally proceed to assert With,
a high officer of the United States,that
any " difrefped" towards them, or any
deviation from the principles they ef
tablilh, constitutes " treason arfd rebel
lion" against the government.
I have most assuredly been in the hab
it of approbating the policy of the il
lustrious characters who have hereto
fore administered the American gov
ernment, because I believed it calcu
lated to produce, what I saw it actually
did produce, the prosperity and hap
piness of the American people. If to.
Hander those characters by representing
them unfriendly to the constitution, is
jbour delight, I have no inclination to
interrupt your enjoyment, or to (hare
in your pleafUre— if you refolveqo con
fider as your enemies those who vene
rate the charades of such men as
Washington and Adams, I hope never
to be included in the number of your
friends.
To relieve you even from fenfatidhs
“ unpleasant or distressing" permit me
to assure you, that the exercise of your
powers refpeding myfelf, neither pro
duces "temporary evil or unhappiness"
—I with cheerfulnefs relinquish the of
fice to one more agreeable to the head
of the department and feel a pleasure
in believing, it paries into the hands of
a perfoh who will difeharge its duties
fatisfadorily to our citizens, and faith
fully to the government.
Your observations refpe&ing printers
• being Poft-Maftersjare on general prin
ciples, no doubt corre&—the only ob
jection to them in the^pfefent instance
is their being totally inappjicable^and
as you mention, that numerous appli
cations have been made for appoint
ments, by those you call Republican
printers, I hope few if any departures
will take place from the "general rule"
for their exclufion,as I can hardly sup
pose by the offices being in their bands,
.an impartial circulation of newspapers
would be promoted—and with the gen
eral rule reflecting them, ^Should re
.jdice, that any one tould be adopted to
secure to you correct information. A
letter from Mr. Milledge, received here
about five br fix weeks since mention
ed, that himfelf, Gen. Jackson and Mr.
Baldwin had Waited on you, and that
my remoyal was rfefolved on—of the
determination of some of these gentle
men on this ftibjed, I was apprized pte
vious to their leaving this date—but
Well knowing that they could hot sos-
Jibly attach any improper conduit th this
office and knowing their desire 'for
change, was founded on my differing
in opinion from them on political fub
je&s; on which I claim and mean to
^exercife, the right of thinking for my-°
felf, I felt perfectly indifferent as to the
result of their exertions-—! think it
however, proper to mention, that
whether these gehtlemeh colle<@ely,or
any one in particular, informed you
that I was the " printer of a paper,"
the information was not tru±= I am
not, nor was 1 ever, the printer of a pa
" per, nor am I, or was I ever interested
in any printing-office, or concerned in
any way with any printer in the Unit
ed States—this, though not very im
portant in itfelf, may serve to evince
that perfed corre&nefs will not always
attend that information which flows
from predeterminations, to effect a par
ticular object—and to your inform
ants I leave it to reconcile the variance,
between their information and fads.
I am with refped, your obedient ferv't.
Wm. J. HOBBY.
To Gideon Granger, Esq. Post-?
Master-General of the U. S-J
bo6t6n, march 9.
A pick-pocket was dete&ed yesterday at the
town-meeting, and committed to prison.
Articles per Mails.
.WASHINGTON, FEB. It.
ON Saturday Mr. Bayard conclud
ed his speech. His general scope
was the unconflitut ionality of the bill,
which he proved beyond the power
of answer. He spoke nearly three
hours. The second part of his speech
corroborates the correanefs of our for
mer assert on, that take it for all in ah
no speech ever surpassed it. We do
fay that others might not, but that otim
bave not equalled. Mr. Bayard t#k
a more extensive range, and insti
gated the fubjed with more penetra
tion than those who preceded him.
After him Mr. Randolph rose, arid
with tremulous voice and limb, com
menced his declamation with a hugh,
round, vaunting, fttadied sentence, the
fnbttance of which was, that he, a young
David, with thr fling and leones of sim
ple truth, v>al.Hay the giant (Mr. B.)
sprawling on th floor of that hbufe.
The forgetful F. R,c&me to the en- 1
gagemerit armed with his fling, but
unhappily re%lded the flora; bow
ever,ttiMQ't reraeniber every thing.
After the committee rose, Mr. Bay
ard and Mr. Rutledege advocated the
adornment cf the house until the next
Tuesday, The reasons assigned were
the refeeA due to the birth day of the
firft Prefer t, and the necessity (which
was apparent) of making one or more
ventilators to the house.—Which con
fidcration most operated we know not.
FEB, 23.
Yesterday, being the anniversary of
General Washington's nativity the federal
nteriabers of the two Houses of Con
gress, dined together at Stell's hotel.-—
After dinner, the following toads werte
drank :—viz.
X. The day—which gave the world a Waft,
ington.—z. The United States—may hone es
them ever rife to dominion over the test, by pro--
ftratiog the national gorvernment. —3. The
Constitution of our country.—4. A legislature
potent—not omnipotent.—s. An executive
powerful—but rtfponfible*—& ft Judiciary
dependant only on their God. and their good
behaviour. —7. The States United—not conso
lidated.—B. The militia, the army, and the na-
Vy-—9- The fellow foidiers of our'departed
Chief.—to. May our country never want de
fence, nor our commerce protection.— it. May
our credit never he hazarded on theoretic cal
culation.—ll May our fame neVer be sullied
by a breach of faith.--.ij. May our councils be
duly influenced by a sense of national dignity.
--14. May our revenue be drawn from plenty,
not squeezed from w4nt.---ij. May frugality
and virtue be encouraged by taxes bn luxury
and vice.—l 6. Mrs, Washington.
Volunteers By Mr. Jforir---All our
energies well directed. By Mr. Bayard —The
People of the United States; —May the Genius
of Liberty protect them aging the Spirit of Ja
cobinifm. By Mr. &%e---The proscribed
patriots, Gen. Miller, Colonel# fy, and Cbitfkr::
---May thOT it^rfet rouse the people bd a
rente of their danger, and make an opedhie to
better times,. By Mr. Mafa^thc Temple of
justice :—When assailed by its enemies, may it
receive the efficient support of its friends. By
Mr. Z).FMer---The Dodrine of the Old School:
---May the, prevail against the fobtieties of
Philosophy, and preserve to our country the en
joyments of social life. fy Mr. J. C. Smith---
The Man of Honor--the Man of our Heartfo--
'Cbarla Cotesuhrtby Piacknty.
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NOR,obit, FEB 26.
Freeholders and Mechanics,
OWING to the encouragement I
have already met with, from matiy re
fpedable Freeholders and Brother Me
chanics, I am positively determined to
stand a Candidate (this day) for one of
the vacant feats in the Common Coun
cil of this Borough. My brethren; the
Mechanics, I hope will exert themfelvcii
on this bccafion ; as, I am confident,
they must, With me,feel how incumbent
it is for them to have this rlfihg Bo
rough foihewhat under the jurifdiaion
of the Fraternity; Iti hopes of success,
I remain; frobono publico) the public's
Humble Servant,
TILDSLEY GRAHAM.
/ grTbis u Virginia mod^y.
INEWYORM, MARCH 6. rs
Captain Young; of the febooner Ma
ry, from Au* Cayes, Informs us, that
on the 2d of February; he saw eight
fail of French, men of war (fix 74 gun
, fliips, and 2 frigates) landing up for
the Bite of Leogane. On the 16th,
hear Cape Hatteras, he fell in with a
fthooaer fare th Spam Main,tetrad
to Philadelphia, the captain of which
told him, that on the ph of February,
being clo& in with Cape Francois, he
saw the whble town, as well as that of
Petit Ance, in fames. He also saw 17
line of battle ships engaging the differ
ent forts, and a ffoall nre ot mufquetry
kept up for the fpact of two hours.
Captain Brown, who arrived at this
port yefterddy in 25 days from Aux-
Cayes, informs us, that on the 13th ult.
he spoke the Franklin of NeW-Hamp
ffiire, captain Prow,'bound hofoe from
St. Mark's Hispaniola; and that he was
affixed by capt. Prow, that the French
fleet had. arrived at St. Domingo; arid
anchored under Monte Christi; that
the commander of the fleet went on
(bore to have an interview with Touf
faint, but was ordered to return on
board his vessel the day following, with
out having received permiflion to land
his troops; and that, in consequence
of this measure, he bad divided his fleet
into small fquadrpn^and stationed them
at different parts of die island. The fleet
confided of 78 fail.
An embargo was to take place at
Aux-Cajes the Bth February.
Captain Brown further informs, that
a Week previous to his failing he Taw
the execution of two negroes who Were
convided of an attempt to murder the
white inhabitants. 100 others, seized
on suspicion of die fame offence, were
in custody waiting trial.
MARCH J
Y'P'° Wyeth, of the brig Happy
Couple, who arrived last evening in 48
days from St. Maloes, brings intelli
gence that the DEFINITIVE TREA
TY WAS SIGNED THE NINTH
OF JANUARY.
-Capt. Murdock, from Tortola, in
forms that a, Britfh squadron from En
gland, had arrived in the Weft-Indies,
part of them at Jamaica.
Mr. John Wright, is appointed Post-
Master at Harrisburg, (Pennf.) in place
of John Wyeth, printer, (and a feder
alift) removed. The Post Master Gen
eral in his letter to Mr. Wyeth, Bates
as his reason for his removal, that it is
incompatible with the printer of a news
paper to execute the duties of that office.
By the sloop Jay, capt. Johnson, in
24 days from New-Providence, a file of
the Bahama Gazette to the sth ult. has
been received at this office. The Stork
sloop of war, capt. Taylor, in. 29 days
from London, arrived at Naflau the
28th January, having on board his Ex
cellency John HALKET,Efq. Governor
. ofthe colony, and his Lady, with Daw
;fon Kelly, Esq. Surveyor, General
I and Secretary to his Excellency. The
! Governor was received on his landing
iwith military honors. English intelli
-Igence by the Stork was no wife impor
tant, nor as recent as what has been re,
ceived here. The rumour of a rupture
'of the Treaty ff Peace had prevailed, but
appears to be totally unfounded. Gov.
Halket, hasjffued a proclamation, dis
solving the former General Assembly,
and summoning a new one to meet at
Naflau the 15th inst.
^k^ MASTER; LIRE MAN.
It was not expe&ed, that Gideon
Granger, the new Post Master General
of the United States, would forget his,
duty. It is true, he did not commence
the work of reformation, so soon, as his
fellow functionaries? but there is no
room to doubt his zeal in the good cauft.
He has removed the Post Master at
Richmond, and appointed in his plac
a Jacobin. He has removed Mr. H^r
rifoh, the Post Master at Trenton ; Mr.
Gelflon, the. Post Master at Hndfon ;
Mr. Poorer, the Post Master, at Pough
kipfie ; Mr. Wolcott, the Post Master at
Litchfield ; Mr. Wilkinson, the Post
Master at Providence ; and Mr. Dum
mer, Post Master, at Hallowell ;—arid
appointed to their offices men, who
without thb " throes" and convulsions
of confeience; can willingly bow theknee
to Bart
" O Mr. Granger, :the author of
the above removals, in the House of
Representatives of Connecticut, in May
1800, declared in the most folmn than-'
her, and with appeals to Heaven, simi
lar to those contained in his hever to be
forgotten Protest, that no man ough+
TO 2E REMOVED FROM OFFICE ON THE
&Rou§h of his Political opinions.
Let his friends contrast this declara
tion with his present conduct, arid fay
if Sir John Falftaff was not correct in
exclaiming, " Hom this 'world is given to
lying." [Conn. Courant.]
NEW-HAVEN, JAN. 21.
At the late Superior court holden in
this city, William Fowler, was convict
ed of offering to pass counterfeit mo
ney, knowing it to be such, and fenteh
ced to two years confinement in New
gate Prison. —p—
Boston, fee ! id
A letter from Algeziras, dated Dec.
Ji, Bates, that the frigate Philadel
phia, of 4.4 guns, Capt. ^Bairoh, had
captured a Tripoline brig of 14 guns;
and 200 meh. ^ The information id
^his article, which has been received at
Philadelphia, we believe to be incor
rect.-Capt Ward, who arrived here;
yesterday, in a passage from Cadiz, in
forms, that the report of the above cap
ture of the Tripoline brig; by the Phi
ladelphia; frigate, had been circulated
thete ; but that the American Consul
at Cadiz, though in the habit of corres
ponding twice a week with Gibraltar,
had received no information whatever
thereof.
We exprefled a doubt, a few days
since, of the accuracy of the report de
ceived at the southward, of the fevers
quarantine impbfed m Spain, on Ame
rican vessels ;=That Report, however,
is confirmed by intelligence received
yesterday, which Bates that " an order
had been received at Cadiz, from Mad
rid, to fubje& all vessels from the U
nited States to perform Forty Days
quarantine ; excepting vessels from N.
York and Norfolk, which 'are not per
mitted to enter port on any account
whatever." This effect of the frip&-
Bitious notions of the Spaniards refpee
ting the importation of the yellow fever
from the United States, will essentially
injure our commerce.
The'Bofton frigate, of 32 guns,Capt.
M'Niel; had arrived at Algeziras, the
30th December; when the Essex, of
32 guns, was off Gibralter.
Recent advices from the Isle of May.
state, that no Salt could be procured
at that place, owing to the ponds hav
ing four feet more water in them than
ulual. 0-
Letter from the Secretary at War to tie
Prudent of the United States.
War Departmenhsth December, ifoh
SIR,
I take the liberty of suggesting for
your confideration,the propriety of pro*
P o fl n g. to Congress, that provision be
made for designating the boundary
line between the United States and the
adjacent Britfh poffeffionsjn such mate
ner as may prevent any disputes in fu
ture, from the outlet of lake Ontario
to lake Superior, if riot further. There
are many valuable fflimds in the lakes
and rivers, some of Which are already
inhabited, which are claimed on each
fide; it is to be presumed that the soon
er the line is ascertained, the more easi
ly all disputes will be fettled.
From Mr. Tracy's report, and from
information obtained from other sources
it appears that many difputes'now ex
ist refpeding titles to lands at and a
bout Detroit ; as well as between the
United States and individuals, as be
tween many of the citizens ; and also
between citizens of the United States
and fubje&s of Great-Britain. Will it
not be necenary for Congress to autho
rize the appointment of some board of
tribunal for hearing and deciding these
disputes? H. DEARBORN.
The United States frigate, ConJieUation
Capt. Murray, bar dropped down the
Delaware, and will fail immediately for
the Mediterranean.
TbeQuflitutim is now fitting in Bofa
ititb every, ra&icable degree, of expedition ;
foe tyll proceed when ready, io join the
squadron in that; fa. }i%, ?
Commodore Thrtmtiai arrived # Norfolk,
to take !command of the Chesapeake frigate,
bound to the Mediterranean.
The fchooher Enterprise,Lt. Sterret,has fail
ed from the Chesapeake, for the Mediterranean:
& J> Dallas, Esq. has resigned the office
of Recorder of the city of Philadelphia.
Gen. Fowler, a didinguilbed democrat in
Connecticut, and who was the representative
of Guilford in the famous Walligford conven
tion, has been convicted of Rnmingly, pzlfing
souMerfeit money, and sentenced to two years im
prifonmenr in Newgate. A few years firce he
prosecuted a perfoo for calling him a tbief, wheq
upon trial, the defendant proved it to be true.
Another ofthe Willingford Democratic Con
venfan, Reuben Stone, of Litchfield, has com
mitted finger, and fled from that anti-democra
tic Stat 4. \
A person has been iffipfifoned at Philadelphia
detected io attempting to negotiate falfe Bri.
tifh Government Bills, ,
. A story is told in the London Papers of
Talleyrand's proposing to Bonaparte to est& a
divorcement from bis present wife, and to marry /
the infanta of fofe. and that this virtue plan,
for the firmer eftablifhmeot of the First Cooful's
power, was fruftrated by Fouchet Minifier of
Police. Bonaparte neither acceding, to nor red
je#ng &feherac when frft propofed.'
An ingenious writer in the New-York
Daily Advertiser, speaking of the pro
bable poffeffon of Louisiana by the
French, observes ;—" What is mean!;
by Louisiana ? Is that term confined
to the island, as it is called, of New-
Orleans, and the small diftrift of coun
try adjoining the embouchure of the
Miffifippi—or does it extend to the an
cient pretensions of France, to an un
defined boundary westward of this
mighty river, arid funning north to the
pole ? Whoever has conversed on this
fubjed with a frenchman, statesman;
or private citizen, knows full well his
national prejudices-=the jealousy with
which he views Canada in the posses
sion of the English —and the countries
weft of the Alleghany, owned by the
United States. He excitingly demands;
“ who firft explored these wilds P and
considers their present occupation, aS
the result imperious necessity —an usurpa
tion to be recovered, whenever circum
stances permit. “ Confine yourselves to
the Gaft ward of your mountains" the
great cordon of nature, and which the
French nation endeavored to eftabliffi
and maintain, at the epoch which firft
called forth the talents and enterprize
of our immortal Washington.
Mr. Gallatin undoubtedly withes then
Internal Taxes to be abolished. Con
sidering his former ihameful opposition
to one of those taxes, this with is not
furprizing. But we hope he did not
fuffer his prejudices so far to controul
him, as to affe& his report to Congress
in those parts which are Bated as fads;
and thereby render those taxes more o
dious than they otherways would be.—-
It is far'd, the expense of collection a
mounts to 2Q per cent; but the Wash
ington Federalist has exhibited a calcu^
lation to Shew that these expences are
not likely to exceed 12 per cent. But
whether 20, 12 or nothing; we suppose
those taxes will be abolished ; and then
let the people in general difeover, if the,
can, whether theirburden is lightened !
the French gain possession of Louifiand
rind we believe most firmly, that part
of the embarkation of Brest is destined
for the Miffifippi : how lobg will it be
before the iinmehfely rich mines of St.
Fee will attract their cupidity, & allure
the restless settlers on the weftern waters
to unite in a common eaufe, to establish
a new empire under the auspices of
France, and reduce the Spanish do
minions of Mexico and Peru : what con
troul can the Atlantic States have over
their weftern territories ?"