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PETERSBURGH, MARCH Z, 1803.
THE clouds of vaffllage which
have always hung over Russia are
fait ditfipatirig before the rays of that
fun which Ihines so resplendently in Al
exander, our Emperor,— Instances are
Numerous ; we (hall pnly add, that
Ukases have just emanated from him,
detei mining that the Nobles llall per
form a certain number of years in the
army :— And decreeing freedom t<
the peasants in the whole empire. Un
til this decree, they were liable to be
fold, with an estate, as the cattle; an
utensils thereon.
—6— ,
STOCKHOLM, MARCH 19, t^Og
,NEW ILLUMINAII.
The tecretary of the Court, Charles
Boheman, whole arrell was mentioned
some time @ck, appears, by the paper?
found in hi^ pofteffionand now acknow
ledged by himfe|l to have been the chief
instrument in a very extensive and dan.
gerous plan ; all the parts of which,
however, are not yet discovered. He
was Member,it feems,of a secret Society
or Order which took its rife in the South
of Germany, but fpieading so rapidly,
as to draw too much attention, it was
found convenient to change the namt
and places of meeting. The view of
the order seems chiefly political ; they
pretend to unlimited power over all
governments ; *nd all the members are
sworn to stria fecrefy and „to implicit
obedience to unknown Chiefs. Bohe
man, though a Swede by birth, having
been many years fettled in Denmark,
where he has elates, the King has or
dered him to be delivered up to the
banidi Government., A Royal Procla
mation has been publffhed on this oc
casion, requiring all persons who are at
the head of Orders of A ffociation§ of
any kind, to deliver to the Magistrates
a copy of the form of the oath, and a
written detail of the object of their So
ciety, under pain.of di,ffolution of the
Oider. Thele documents to be laid
before the King, and after being revif.
ed by him to be returned, and; serve as
a guide for the conduct of the Orders
Tfe Civil ,Governor pf Stockholm, and
the Chief Magistrate in country places to
have free admiftron at all times, by vir
tute of their office, without being re
ceived into the Oider. 'lhey have al
so a fight to be made acquainted with
every thing, that pa(fes in the Order,no
decree excepted., They are however,
bound to observe the fame /ecrecy as
the Members, except in regard to what
their office makes it neceffafy to dis
cover. The Free Masons, who are un
der the immediate pro e&ion of the
King, are alone excepted from this in
fpedion. = —o —* —
PARIS, MAY 9.
At Livonia, and in the interior of
Russia, great quantities of timber, and
various other articles, necessary for the
conftrudion of vessels, are purchasing
for the account of France.
Letters from Stockholm state, that
there is every reason to hope that the
differences between that government
and Russia will be amicably adjured.
The assembling of poops in Finland is
difeontinued, a^d a ported harmony is
said to be restored between the two
Courts. . o
Private Letters from Turkey date,
toot only more honourable and immediately
vfeful and fafe, but is cheaper in the end than
a wooden one.—lt needs lew repairs; its prime
toft is little mare; it is a property which
yields more, in as much as if rented out, it
carries from the per cent, of rent fewer of the
eating repairs, which render the property of
pooden rent-rolls so equivocal and precarious.
With refpedt to insurance, it bears analogy to the
policies on annuities, where one fubje& lingers
under a precarious exigence, . and the other is
bLffed with youth and found conftituticn. In
point of ease, taste and duration, there can. be
no comparison between the immediate conve
nience,and the remote advantages of an unknown
duration ; for a good brick house will behabita
blefbr centuries Considered politically, there is
this good attending brick buildings ; from du
rable habitations,in which more money has been
fpent,and more of the refined taste gratified, an
affedlion for the foil is increased.—A habit of
thought arises favorable to. population, ^nd a
greater proportion of money is thus realised.
The great national fund is,of course, augmented,
fixed to the foil, and pledged to the society.
The lull ,nQ the higher confideratioo which
strikes us is, that emigration would be less easy
and not so common among us were a finer
spirit of building to prevail.—Were the Tartars
to build houses ioftead of waggons and tents, as
Baron Tot fays they Hill do, and as they did
.when the Huns impelled the Goths againfl the
feeble Roman empire, they would not rove, and
their country might become a land of tillage.
The facillity with which they may movcji&a
strong incentive to that love of change, which
it particularly interests us to repress in our citi
zens.- rher^can be no doubt, however, that
our Ryle of building has, within a few years,
very confiderabl, improved, particularly in our
cities; but there is yet open to the taste and
good sense of the people a very great space in
deed, in which thejr inventions,t.fte and wealth
may e laudably exerted, and we have certain
ly this circumstance in our favour, that we are
in this country less confufed irrour ideas of pro
priety in general, than the inhabitants of any
other region ofthe globe. Here we recur to
firfl principled with ease, because our customs,
tastes and refinements, are less artificial than
those of other countries : and because wea&
more from an impulse of enlightened nature,
than the coercion of the fashions imposed tyran
nically by that immeufe opulence which, in
Europe, trifles with nature,*and draws its plea
sures from the more inaccessible refcrvoirsof arts.
FOKEIGN ARTICLES.
From the lattf Papers.
It is hereby made known that,his
I moll excellent Sir Dpn Pedro Caballos,
Secretary of State, &c. has forwarded
to me under the date of ift March past,
the following royal order;
" The king being informed of the
edid that you have pttblifhed, prohibit
:ing the deposit of goods, and effects of
the citizens of the United States, in
INew,Orleans, granted to that nation
I by the 2?d articleof the treaty of 1795,
his Afajefty has thought fit to order,
I that you permit the laid Deposits in
N. Orleans, without prejudice to what
the two governments may agree upon
between themfeives, refpe&ing the con
;ftrudion to be given to the said treaty
in what relates to changing the eflab
!liniment, pf Nevy-Orleans, for another
on the borders of the Miffifippi, in or
der that the depositing of the merchan
dize and effects of the United States be
fulfilled—which I communicated,, to
you by Royal order, for its most punc
tual performance on your part." ,
And whereas the edid of the 16th
Od. lad, pad, which prohibited the in
trodudion and depositing, of the mer
chandize and effe&& of, the citizens of
a the United States, until,he. 'lpter&U
-icy fliould receive express orders, from
ithe king, to authorize its,continuance,
I is hereby become null and void, and
without force, , .
I have thought proper to order this
to be affixed in the customary places,
for the information of the public and
the offices to which will be transmitted
copies of the sovereign resolution, to
the intent of allowing the deposit in the
that the Grand Signer intends under
taking a journey to his Asiatic Pro
vinces. If this intelligence be true, we
may infer that the Ottoman Govern
ment begins to adept a system, which
approaches more and more to that of
the other European Powers. Such a
Journey cannot fail to produce the most
beneficial effefts, in .uniting, as it were
into one common centre, this yaft Em
pire, various parts of which would fain
detach themselves. Every thing is to
be hoped for from the wisdom of the
perlons that at present compole the
Turkish Ministry, and above all the
dispositions of the supreme Chief. At
the fame moment that the Rorte places
herfelf in her proper portion, with re
fped to external relations, as well polit
ical as commercial; me will not dcubt
lefs, negled the means of perfe&ioning
the Administration of the Interior, the
ftrengthenihg of the chain which unites
all. her fubjedts in one common society,
and which attaches them to the gov
ernment ; and id fine, to cruffi the
germs of Rebellion which so frequently
manifest themselves.. The absolute sub
mission of Egypt will not in a small
degree contribute to this happy effeft,
If the Porte holds firm the reins of Gov
ernment of this Country, and keeps on
a permanent footing, a refpeftable Bo
dy of Troops, she will not be under the
dead apprehensions from the Beys. It
is reported that the Beys have not en
tirely delivered up the whole of their
Mamelukes ; but that on the contrary
a great part accompanied them to Up
per Egypt, but in admitting this to be
sass, it is easy to perceive that Egypt
.well governed and defended, has noth
ing tofear from the hands of individu
als, whose principal force confided in
the connexions which they maintained
in the interior.. , ^
BY MAIL.
7 I. ° WASHINGTON, JUNE 24.
Yesterday the Corner Stone of the Wathing
ton Theatre was hid by John P. Van Nefs, efq
at the ^qucil of the Theatre Committee. Pre
viously to laying the Stone, a procession, pre
ceded by the Italian band of music, and com
pofedjoF Mr. Hadfield, architect, accompanied
by Mr Latrobe, of the Theatre Committee,and
of a number of remediable gentlemen, citizens
of Wethington, moved from Morin's tavern tq
the ground, where the ceremony was perform
ed, after a few pertinent remarks from Mr. Van
Nefs.'- 0 ,^
; .Philadelphia, June 24.
A few days since it; was published in the pa
p&of Walking on that dispatches haa been
rq^ved from Mr. Monroe.—Yet not a word
of what th-y contain, nor any hint upon which
any calculation can be formed has been Differ
ed to leak.out —, ——, :
Mr Cbefler Gould of Vermont, inventor of
n improve' fta-^ ,has lately- obtained a patent
om the English G v<rnment for another in
vention of considerable importance to mariners,
it is called an " artificial horizon," to be at
rached to and used. with the quadrant or sex
tant, for 'he purpose of taking altitudes of ce
left L or both oSjeCU cither on lend or Water,
without tile a&ftance of natural horizon.
\ ^O _
A letter from General RoghamErau,o Gen.
CLAUDEL, dated Port-au-Prince, May x, in
forms, that the First Confal was then fending
an army of 40,000 men to terminate the war ;
and thar another of the fame force would suc
ceed, Should not the brigards be, as it is expect
ed, totally annihilated by the Gift army.
Cautions against the imprudent drinking cold
water are neciffary at this fcafon of the year.
It is a fad, that Hydrant (Aquedud) water
will not injure.
NEW-YORK, JUNE til
Deposit Restored.
From New-Orleans, May 18.—" The
following was published yesterday after
noon, (wo hours after the arrival of the
express forwarded fromWafhington the
I cah ult. And I avail myfelf of the re
turn of the express, (who is now on the
point of starting) to transmit it to you."
Don Juan Ventura Morales, &c,
fame manner, and with like formalities, ;
as were formerly observed.
B Given at New-Orleans, the 17th May,
1803, under my hand, and counter-;
signed by the notary of royal finance.;
/(Signed)
JUAN VENTURA,MORALES.
.—0
We underhand that our government has giv
en orders rd the different collegers of the cus
toms, to iffue'SEA Letters, to all American
vessels leaving the ports of the United States,
after the „th inst,
_—o ——
IT' NEW-YORK, JUNE If.
The house of Comfort Sands, Esq. received ,
con ftderable damage during the heavy thunder ;
shower of yesterday. The lightning struck the
chimney, and in its progress deftrbyed a Dart of
the roof, injured two of the rafters, broke one
of the windows, bufft off the eating of the door,
and broke the corner of the stone steps.
We are informed, that on Monday evening,
a man was killed with lightning, while ftaild
ing on one of the wharves, on the North River.
4 0
SUICIDES, —On the 6th inst. at an early
hour, Mr. Isaac Stoner, who lived about three
miles from the town of Woodlborough, (Vir.)
committed felf-murder by cutting his throat
with a cooper', drawing knife.— At Boston Mr
.Hanes blew out his brains with a piflol.— At
Lebanon, N H. the wife of Lieut. Hinckley,
hung herfelf with a flcein of yarn ; and at Hub
bardftown (Matti) a Mr. Cutting put an end
to uis exigence by cutting his throat with 2 pen
knife. 0
.BOSTON, JUNE ZX
% From Berbice,
Cerite Blackwell, arrived at Alexan
dria, from Demarara, informs, that about
two weeks beiore he tailed, an insurrec
tion had happened at Berbice among the
soldiers which threatened at firfl to he .
very alarming, Its origin was laid to be
owing to their pay being bad, and their
provision worfegbut by the timely aid of
the Governor of Demarara, in fending
some forces and ,a frigate against them,
were brought again to a due sense of
thir duty, and al! was said to be quiet
when lie came away, Notwithstanding
which, however, they were bill fending
troops from Demararaio Berbice.▼
It was Strongly fufpefted, adds Capt. B.
that tome French eroiffah^, from Victor
Hughes, w ere at the bottom of this Ber
bice disturbance. A great Majority in
Demarara seem to with for war ; and it
is a'fatt that they are desirous of the En
glish taking the place again ; the prelent
government having taxed theip very fe
verjy, and all taxes are payable in cafb,
which is hard to be got.
a From °MAR TINI^UE.
Accounts from this island, so the 20th
May, mention,that a French frigate, five
transports, and goro troops had arrived
there from France ; bringing orders ftr
putting the island in a poflure of defenfe:
That off Barbadoes an Enghfh frigate fir
ed a gun, and .brought too one of the
French transports, and boarded her ; in
consequence of which the Governor oi
Martinique had dispatched a mef>ge to
the Governor of Barbados, demanding
the reason of this insult : That the men
of war at Martinique had been ordered
home ; and that Jerome Bonaparte, the
younger brother of the Firff Consul, had
failed tor France. [Salem G>zette.]
= 0
r.. . \ From Capo-Francois.
Capt. BAILEE has arrived at New-Bedford,
in 22 days. A body pl brigands (about 4000)
had a treaty; and feme of them were in town
daily difpdfing of product;..: Many are yet hof
ti!e, however, and the outposts take prisoners
daily; and they, are in -general immediately
given to the blood hounds. ,
: The English paragraphifts are quite witty on
the fubjea of the threatened invafion.—Fn .„
of their fa defprits is the following, " Bona
parte, it is said, intends to compliment us with
an army of picked.wen. He need not berfo
nice, as we are prepared to take them as they come.
y Should the FirflConful honor this king
dom with a visit, of which he has graciously
raised our expectation, his reception will be of
the most splendid and .dignified nature.—His
Mafefty himfelf will advance to welcome him ;
his squadrons will be received by our jolly Tars
with bonfires, and the most heartfelt rejoicings;
a concert of Ancient Music will attend his land
ing; the Militia will be drawn out for his A
mefement ; the Guards, the Line, the FcncibJes
will jointly salute bim ; b&h Lords and Com
mons will be unanimous in a-dressing ; and our
principal Generals will give him a rout in the
true Egyptian style, before he gets half way co
the Metropolis! !
.->.“ If the Bank be Bonaparte's firfl object, we
trust lit will receive a efficient check to fitisfy
him before he reaches if. -
A most Angular discover, was lately made at
Deptford. While a number of failure and 0-
thers were busily employed in unloading the
cargo of the Admiral Aplin, an Eaft-lndiaman,
~hith arrived at the above place a fortnight a
go, from Madras,(laden with Sugar, Saft-pette;
and some bale goods,; then being in the afl of
dragging out of the hold some bags of sugar,
they, discovered from a board in the hold of the
ship, a green snake, of an amazing fee, Wfiofe
appearance wa, feterrific that it gave a general,
alarm, and it being, well known that it&bite is
ioftantaneous death, it-was found nectary to
procure weapons for its deftru&ion, which they
completed by tying a fpadeso the end.of one of
the Oars of the boat, by which they caught it by
the neck, and confined it till they fevered the
head from the body.. 'lt- was as green as grafs,is
feet long, and 18 inches in circumference. It is
From ROTTERDAM, Hpril 29.
,This day brought us an account of
very unpleasant occurrences having
taken place for this country. It ap
pears the French Commandant at Bre
da exaded 20001. from the Magistracy
as a contribution., On its being refus
ed, he took the liberty of placing fal
diers in the houses of the inhabitants,
who were then glad to come, forward,
and pay a certain quota to be liberat
ed from this plague and expence. We
begin to be so feriocfly alarmed at war,
ihat vessels have been sent out to meet
our Eatt and Weft Jndia-men, to warn
them to make for the firft friendly har
bour they can.
supposed that this animal, in the night time,
found its way on board the ihip while lying at
Madras, by the means of concealing itfelf in
one of the bags of sugar ,or hiding on one of the
planks into the hold following the feent of the
sugar, Its bite is always understood to be more
venomous than the Site of a rattle fhake f
fcLond^n Pup.]
0
Asiatic Nonchalance.
Capt. Gilman of the (hip Mmchefter,of
Phlidelpha, arrived at New-York from
Canton, inform,that just before he failed,
John Tuck Grand Hoop.oo of Canton,
(Chief .officer of the Customs) was poifo<
ed by order of the Emperor of China,who
sent three Mandareens from Pekin for the
purpose. The firft gave him a poisonous
pinch of fnuff, the second a pill ; and be
fore the third Was adhiinittered, he was a
corpse. This is the mode in ivlr he
was punished for squeezing the , R.
He took the poison with as much com
placency as one friend would take a pinch
of fnuff from the box of another.
I.The state of things above described is neither
new not accidental; it has been the confe
quen:2 of a fettled, permanent policy Con
neaicut has, at all times, been a republican flare ;
the frit feelers were republicans ; —norfelons,
convicts and outlaws, bat they were the co
temporaries and alociates of Hampden, Sidney
and Milton. Turing one hundred and fifty
years, the people, have been txehfoely governed
by rulers ckojen by tbemfehes. The colonial de
pendance on Gieat Britain was merely that of
a weak state upon a powerful one. The peo
ple were never diflurbed in the management of
their internal affairs, except by the operation of
thofc ads which were the immediate causes of
the revolution. And if Conotaicut cannot
justly claim the honor of being considered as the
oldest republic tow exiting on the face of the
earth, it is certain that no other has continued
for an equal period without experiencing a rev
elutipp or radical change in the m,ilc of gov
crunridt. It is a remarkable fa&, and will
cause Mr. Jc^ferfon's adminifration to°be dis
tinguished, that at no time prior to the revolution,
was an external influence exerted in rejpec'l to ibe e
leaions, equally a&ive or pernicious with tbat wbieb
is now experienced from the officers cf the national
government, organized for ths express purpofc.
The ground on which the infliturions of Con
ne6licut are arraigned by Greene as anti-re
publican, is, that .they do not recognize the
principle of universal fiffrage. Tp.contcnd for
the .beory of a principle, to urge it to an im
proper and dangerous excess, and at (He fame
time utterly to disregard it in practice, is one
of the lingular prerogatives of a Jefferfonian.
It has, been recently declared in the National
Intelligencer, the oracle of the adniinifliation,
“ that property of no description should be re
presented diftina from the individual that holds
it ; that " all freemen ought to participate equally
June 29.
Fire at Fort Independence.
Yellerday forenoon a fire broke out in
the large building improved as a Labora
tory, at Fort Independence ; which with
its contents of military Apparatus, (lores,
tools, &c. were principally destroyed.—
We nnderftand this loss was lecaboned
by the accidental explosion of a rocket,
which one of the artificers was making. It
is fnppofed the rammer encountered feme
piece of iron,which communicated fire to
the competition ; and caused tte explo
sion of about eighteen pounds of powder
which inllantly unrooted the gilding,
and leathered the flames in every part ofit
In a room adjoining that in which the
fire firfl took,were (even calks of powder,
Which feme soldiers at the imminent risk
of their lives fnatebed from the flames ;—
though one of them was unheeded. The
conKernation of the garrison at this
event was great ;^And the women and
.children were boated to Governor'slfland.
The people of Dorchetler, went with
their engines to tire affiliance of the gar
rifen. The artificers, we learn; were em
ployed in preparing fireworks ter the
celebration of the approaching anniversa
ry of Independence , and one of them is
so severely burnt, that his life is defpair
ec?of.
The building deftreyed formerly used
for the State prison.
;Capt. Daniel tlfher,of the second divi
sion (Essex) has been tried at Salem, be
fore a Brigade Court-Martial, of which
Major Prefcot, was President. He w)s
charged with i/nmilitary and ungentle
manlike conduct; and being fourtd guilty
was Sentenced to be removed from office,
and adjudged incapable of holding any
military coinmiffion under this Common
wealth, fob two years. Major-General
Foster has approved the fentencc.
J^^^r^L^^fl"t— — ^™^— ™- -—=_ —""^T*!^
From the N. T. Evening Pefl, ,
The State Government attacked 6, tie
.Democrats.
"TT ap,ear#(fays Greene) that cat ofjc,cc6
actual Freemen, about 31,000 omit, or are
net allowed to exercise the privilege of freemen.
This fad (he continues) is of the mod danger
ous example to the United States. So far as the
votes are prevented by the hive it is against
what is called the constitution," &c. We have
seen how far the censure against the laws can
be supported. But as 't® the omission with
which the people are charged,: is certainly ad^
mitted that a great proportion of the electors
have frequently omitted to exercise their right
Os ,fuffrage; but this omission, has not been oc
casioned by apathy or an indifference 'to public
affairs. In no community has the official ccn
du& and private deportment of public men been
observed with greater vigilance. Till lately,
CohneaicOt has rarely been aifturbed by fac
tion or intrigue. The people have been in the
habit of believing that wifdon: and experi
ence were equally as nectffary for the proper
management of public as of private affairs. It
has been the prevalent opinion, that while ma
gistrates and rulers drfcharged their trusts with
ability and integrity, both juflice and policy
required that they fhotfld be continued in of
fice. The absence of a cofifidetable proportion
of freemen from eledlions has been a natural
consequence of the tranquility, good order, and
mutual confidence which have dtflmguifned this
community. The magistrates have been faith
ful, virtuous, difihterelled; and the people have
treated them with refped, Tev^ence, and grat
itude. But the calumniator, GreknE, by a
perverse logic, has converted thefc plain and un
equivocal indications of good government into
proofs, that a majority of tbs people have been op
pressed and disfranchised by a minority. In his o
pinion true liberty can only cxift and flourish
amidst the tumult of ftrife and contention,
In political rights, and that " the principle us
inyefting wealth with immoderate politicalfewer
has covered the earth with Haves. Were these
pleating founds intended, like the loft compli
ments to the m,utb of labor, to produce any other
effed than to piocure popularity in the States
where flaverj is hot known ? Have the sup
porters of the present administration endeavor
ed to give these principles efficacy in Virginia ?
These questions shall be now answered, not by
vague assertions, but by fair quotations from
Mr ,Jefferfon's own book, his Notes on Virginia.
“ The majority (fays he, page 192) of the men
in the State [Virginia] who pay and fight for
its support, are unrepresented in the legtfature, the
roll of freeholders entitled to vote, not including
generally the half of those on the rell of the
militia or the tax-gatherers."
" Among those mhoJhare the representa
tion, the foares are very unequal. Thus,
the county of Warwich, with-only one
hundred fighting men, has an equal re>
presentation with the county of Louden
which has seven hundred and forty-fix ; so
that ever, man in Warwick has as much
influence in the governments as seven.
teen men in Loudon."
Hethen exhibits a table for.the ex
press purpose of shewing that this ine
quality was not correlated by " an equal
interfpertian of small among large coun
ties through the whole State," and con*
eludes with the following observa
tions :—" An irfpedion of this table
Will supply the place of commentaries
on it. It will appear at once, that
nineteen thousand men living below the
Falls of the river, possess half the Senates
and want four member, only of pqUeffing
a majority of the House of Delegates, a
want more than supplied, by the vicinity
of their situation to the Seat of Govern
ment, and of course the greater degree
of convenience and pun&uality with
which their members may and will at
tend in the legislative. These nineteen
tboufand, therefore living in one part of
the county, pivlthe lam to upwards of
thirty thousand living in the other, and
Appoint all their chief officers, executive and
judiciary. Froth the difference of their
jituatiod and circumfahces, their interest
mill often he different." .•
Here then is exhibited a fair & correft
portrait Os the democracy of Virginia,
drawn, fortunately for us§ by a hand
that precludes all possibility of any
charge of prejudice. -Let us Bestow a
few moments in examining its liuea-
ments.'• ^^ „.
In the firft place, the right of ele&ing
members of the legislature, mho in turn,
eieß the governor and council, and gene
rally " all the chief officers, executive and
judiciary" is confined to a " roll of free
holders , which ' freeholders,' let it be
remembered, consist of a landed Aris
tocracy, who are the owners and pofi
felloes of"—three hundred and forty -five
thousand saves that by this single
operation, as we are told by Mr. Jeffer
fon himfelf, " a majority of the men in the
fate, mho fight and pay for its fuppott,are
wireprefented in the Legislature." Hav
ing disfrartchifed (to borrow an expres
sion from Greene) a majority of the peo
ple, including all, who are not owners cf
lands, and consequently of negroes
(the description of persons being substan
tially the fame) it would really seem no
more than reasonable, that the planters
should 'participate equally in political
rights.' - No, no ; a Warwick man,con?
fidered as to his ' political rights,' is ef 4
timated at just feventcen timer as much
as a man of Loudon ; and nineteen thou
sand men living in one part of the fate
give laws to upwards of thirty thousand
living in another part ; and Appoint all
their chief officers, executive ^judiciary !'
The inequality thus described byMr.
Jefferfon in his Notes on Virginia, we
can assure the reader, has continually
been increasing : the Warwick men still
retain their full number of votes in the
legislature, while the relative numbers
of their ' fighting men' have behn con
tinually diminishing. When Mr. Jef
ferfon writes more 'Notes on Virginia,'
he will be compelled to acknowledge
that' below the falls of the rivers' the
blacks increase in a ratio of two to one,
compared with themhites ; and this in
disputable fad may, if he pleases, be
cited as a pertinent illustration of the
position affirmed by Publius, 'that the"
principle of investing wealth with im
mediate political power, has covered
the earth with Ilaves.'— How long the
Weftern diftrifts will submit to be gov
erned as they arc at present, we wil
not here venture to express a conjecture :
they have, we know, attempted more
than once 'to correft the procedure,'
but hitherto without success.
Mr. Jefferfon has faid,that "from the
difference of Situation and circumftar
ces" of the men living below the Falls
of the river, " their interests will often
Ie vei y different" from thofeof themeri
inhabiting the other parts of Virginia.
This is certainly true, and has been la
mentabfy .felt by repeated experience
in the United States at large. The
county below the Falls is the feat of Virginia
antifedcralifm and democracy. 'Phis is the
trad of country which has produced a-
Giles a Claiborne, a Randolph, a Cop
ton, a Dawson, a Pendleton, a New, a
Taylor, and many others of similar 4
stamp, all of whom are profound ad
mires of the present "geflion of affairs."
—-These are the men who curled that
article in the Treaty of Peace, which
required the payment of bonafide debt; con
traded before the Nmerican war.; these
are the “ true republicans who are