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able fortitude ; butr take away hope,
and .the fecrer charm that buoys up
the mind is fled aifo. ol
It was painful to witness the grad-’
ual finking down of Brown’s fpiris
from that moment. His converfa-.
tion. which before was always lively
and animated became dull and detach.
ed. His ruddy cheek was pale, and
his lips livid, Sometiwes he roused
the energies of his mind, and colie&-
ing together all the forces of religion
and philofopby, he half perfraded
himfelf that freedom was not essential
to happiness. A glow of fire would
pass over his countenance—but it was
momesntary It was the inflin&ive.
firuggle of the mind to preserve it
felf againf the flow benumbing poi
son.
If you have cultivated some favor.
ite flower, admired its beauties, and
been delighted with its'fragrance, you
may form some idea of my attach
ment to Brown If you have seen
that flower withering prematurely in
to decay by some influsnce over which
you had no control, you. may judge
what .were my {eafations when [ saw
this youth finking into the tomb.
Nothing gave Brown ple:fure; but
the duily visits of his. amiable wife.
By the help of a kind felation, the
was - able to give Brown sometimes
fruit, soup and wine ; and every day,
whether clear or Rormy, she visited
the prison to cheer the drooping spir
its ot her huftband. She was uncom
monly preity ~ She seemed an angel,
administering consolation to a man,
about to converse with angels. One
day the hour one o’clock pafled. and
she came not: Brown was uneasy.
Two-—three, and four o’clock passed,
an i th= did not ‘appear —Brown was
distra&ted. ~ A meflenger arrived.—
Mrs Brown was very dangerously ill,
an. fuppifed to be dying in a convul.
fion fit. As soon as Brown received
this information, he darted to the
door with the rapidity of lightning.
The inner door was open—and the
jatlor, who had -juit let some one in,
was closing it as Brown pafled vio
lently through it. The j:ilor knock
ed him down with.a mafly iron key
which he held in his hand and Brown
was carried lifel=fs, and covered with
blood, to his cell. 5
There is no vice in the catalogue so
great and unpardonable in the estima
tion of 4 jailor, as'an attempt to es.
cape. * Blast him.” said the jailor,
¢ [ wilh T had killed him > The
murder was warranted by law, and
the law it {eems is far superior to. the
gospel
As soon ‘as Brown recovered, he
wrote a {upplicating note to his cred
itor, requesting that he might fee his
wife.. ‘I he creiitor, had nothing to
do with the affair ; he had left it with
the attorney . The ‘attorney had left.
it to the theriff —the theriff to the jail
or—the jailor ¢ would fee him damn
ed before he would Rir a fep for him.”
In the mean time conceive, if yon
can, the agony that tortured the foul
of this mos miserable debtor
In Carthagena or in Algiers a pri
soner under such circumfances, wonld
make known to the American gavern.
ment the Rory of his fufferings. The
editors would publith ir from city to
city and fate to Rate throughout the
union. The government woul ! feel
it an-indifpenfible duty to levy taxes,
raise foldigrs, fit out fleets, and raq.
foms for the prisoners relief—orators
ani flatefmen would excite a mighty
uproar, and the skies echo with abuses
against the fivage barbarities of un.
chriftian Algerines. Bat here, under
the benign influence of oar own Chris:
tain laws, the single circumfance of
being unfortumate, the very circum- -
stance which ought to excite com.
miferation, proscribes all pity, and
blasts all hope. - |
- Mrs. Brown died—and her husband
was dented even the fad privilege of
closing her eyes. He lingered for
some time, till. as lalt he called me
one day, aud, gazing on me, while 2
faint smile played about his lips—he
fuid, ‘“ he oelieved death was more
kind than his creditors.” He firug
gled a few minutes, and expired.
- Legifiators and {ages of America!
permit me to ask you—Hß3w much
benefit has that creditor derive from
the imprisonment and conf:quent
death of an amiable man, in the
bloom of youth—who, withous this
cruzity, might have fourithed even
BOW, an ernament and a glory to the
natiog ? - $ HOWARD. |
UNITED STATES BANK.
- Wg obje@ to the renewal of the
charter of the United States Bank,
Bayssbe dyrorn. = 0 0t
1 Up»n the ground thar its char.
tion entered iato by the public has
.z Becatfo e limitation was 2
fufficient warning to the bunk to ar., |
raoge its affaire;and 0o <xcafe canbe |
urged by a commercial body fora .
£ ii% : !%m@ﬁw Bfy e e
3+ Because. the ( charter is funda.
s©S BSI el o T
14 - Because the fame pernicious
influence s confpicunus throughout
the United States wherever branches
are eftablithed, in {>me of which the
abuse has become a nuisance, odious
and abominable, to the best portion
of society, as in Charlefon and Or
leans
15 Becavfe the bes men have
been removed from the. dire&ion in
order to make way for some of the
worlt—rthe fault of the former being
attachment to hie country, the merit
of the latter ‘hoftility to the govern
ment. F;
- 16 Because the whole frftem of:
the patronage of this bank is carried
int» channels hostile to American in.
terelts.
17 Because it is necessary to the
public fafety, and to the general prof
perity, and to eftablitk confidence’in
all ufeful banking inßitutions, that
this Bank, which has had so many
years of profperaus tra-e, /rould wind
up its affairs, in order that the public
{houl know how far it Lagfulfilled,
or how far it has executed its tluft ;
of which there are various opininns,
- which never can be reconciled but by
-a clear winding up, |
18 Becanfe the example of the'a
“bules of banking in Great Britain by
its government, ought to warn the
peopie of the United States against
- Its fatal influence. : :
19 Becaufe' the connexion of U.
.States bank stock with Britith interests
at this time, when that nation is
threateaed with bankruptcy, ought to
induce us to guard againlt its fatal
coufequences.” % yo
20 Because in the event of a war
in defence of the national rights, the
- of foreign iufluence in that
‘bank would paralyge the public ener.
gies, and prove more fatal 1o public
exertion then an army of 100,000
enemies in the heart of the land.
- Extradl to the editor of the Aurora.
- 8¢ Bartholemews, 58&06?.;.1#8.16; “)
Ty Beif gat thus :#Mland on commer
.cial pursuits, for a few days past, a
circamitance bas occared, which ex.
cited my {nbbility, as an American’
in the highel degyce, und as I confid.
€xit the duty of every citizen to
4. Because two thirds-as the Rock
is held in foreign countries, through
which an influence has been exercised
9{ the most fatal nature to a free peo
P“_s. ‘Becaufe the profits upon two
> ‘ -
thirds of the capital stock is carried
‘out of the circulation of the United
States to eorich those who use their
influence in hostility to our govern
mexi, ' : .
6 Becaule, béfide he profits upon
the bank Rock, the deposit of the pub.
lic. revenues of the United States, be
ing limited to that baunk, all the ad
vantages derived from the public mo
ney, go in the proportion of two
thirds out of our circulation and to en.
rich pzrfons adverse to America.
9. Because the influence of that
bank has been, from its firft establish
ment, {ubfervient to. Britith interefls
and adverse to American interests.
8. Because its influence. has been
fatally employed en many public oc
casions, particularly the Britith treaty,
the embargo, and the general {yftem
of our policy framed to prote& us
from Britith aggreflion. G
9. Because its influence has been
exercised in our local ele&ions.
10 Because instead of being em
ployed as a mediam of commercial
accommodation for the reciprocal ad
vantage of the community and the
-proprietors, it has been employed as
a political engine, to favor such as
weculd abandon the interests of popu.’
lar representative governmept ; and
to repress or to obftru& the equal pur
{uits in foctety of men who were de
voted to the principles of liberty and
independence, as defined in the de
claration of 1776. ' .
il." Because it is eminently dan
gerous to the security and indepen
dence of this government, that a bo
dy. twn thirds of whom are foreign.
ers resident in foreign countries,thould
‘have the power of holding a certain
.number of citizens in vaflalage, un
der the name of dire&tors.
- 12 Because it is particularly dan
gerous when the government of the
country has to make loans with a bo
dy prone to a partial use of its influ
ence in favor of a foreign nation.
13 Because, from the attempts
now making to alarm society with
the apprehension of a general bank
rupicy, they either fheav that they think
il prallicable, or wiflh the people to
think {o :—and if it were prad&icable,
that reason, of all others. thould for.
ever prohibit the duration of any such
power in any body so constituted ; but
if it be not true, (and that it is not
true, time will prove) then the very
effort is a fraud calculated to put in
jeopardy the interests and property of
- weak minds ; and no part of a com
munity should be fuffered to exercise
a power {o detestable and injurious to
the rest.
operation, and fraught with greater
mifchief .
make notorious any infalt’ offered -to
the flag of th® United States; or ‘any
violence commitie.7 on the person of
any of their feliow ciiizens in a for:
¢ign country, which comes under their
immediate notice, I take- the liberty
through th: medium -of your uleful
paper, to make known to my fellow
citizens the insult offered to the Ame.
rican flag and the ungrecedcntcd vio.
lence committed on the person of one
of our fellow citizens by the govern.
ment of this infigoificant island.
« Mr. James Johnson, chief mate
of the American {Lip Mary Ann Eli
za, of New York, going on board his
(hip- on Saturday evening the 13th
inst. washailed by the guard schoon
er, anchored mnear his-ship, he not
knowing who hailed him,afked “what
was their business,”” when he received
some very abusive language from
them, and to which he retorted, after
Mr. Johnson had been some time on
board bis thip, captain Riddarhierta,
with a petty officer named Marcial,
and a crew, principally composed of
negro slaves, boarded the (b an 3 or+
dered Mr. Johnson and the crew of
the ship to go into the boat,—Mr.
Jobnfon represented the impropriety
of his leaving thé ship in the absence
of the captain. and without his or Jers.
also the consequences which might
result, from leaving a valuable ship
in an insecure harbor in the hurricane
months, without any person on board
of her, and upon his refufing td'leave
his thip, the commander of the {choon
er ordered his negroes to put him
into the boat, and upon his making
some resistance, they beat him in a
molt shocking manoner with the butt
end of their muskets, and threw him
into the boat, the crew was then put
into the bow', and the officers embark
ed and procegded for the guard fchoo.
ner. When Mr Johnson complain
ed of the treatment he had received,
Marcial put a pistol to his breast and
snapped it more than once, but find
ing he could not effe& his purpose
that way, endeavcred to do it by
beating him over the head with the:
pistol till he broke it. Oa their ar
rival on board the guard fchoouer,
notwithstanding the wounds he had
received on his head and bedy, and
the blood streaming from ther to the
deck, he was in a brutal manner put
in irons, and upon his expostulating
with them, he was again beat by Mar
cial, while in irons, in this deplorable
condition, witlpout his wounds being
drefled, or any comforts being admia
iftered, he remained in his own gore
until eleven o’alock the next day (be
ing Sunday morning) when he was
taken to a gun and whipped, by the
orders of the governor of this island,
the ord=rs from the governor was for
fifty lathes, but from some unknown
cause they gave him but twenty four.
In order to remove every doubt rel.
ative to the governor’s issuing such
an unprecedented order, I waited on
him myfeif with Mr Johnson and a
few American gentlemen of refpe&a:
bility, who were here at that time,
when I heard from his own lips, that
he had ordered the punithment from
the representation of the capiain of
the guard schooner, and referred the
irjured party to ‘his .mujclty for re
dress
Thus you fee that the petty gov
eroment of St. Bartholarmews, which
ts more indebte! to the United States
for fubfitance and support than they
are to the distant and frozen country
whose flag they wear, have‘the 2u fa
city to punifb in the most ignominious
manner a refpe&able citizen of the
United States, at a time when we are
almost the only country, with which
they are on friendly terms, and with
out allowing him even a hearing, or
giving him the fmalle@t form ot a trial.
and at the fame time to leave a valu
able merchant ship in the outer harbory
during the hurricane months, without
a man on hoard to take care of her,
“ The governor is sensible of the
insult he had committed on the Ame
ricans, and fearing the consequences
that might result from such arbirrary
proceedings, from the Americans who
were in the barbor, who expressed a
general disapprobation of fach pro
ceeding, and their indignation again(}
the perpetrators of the a&, that he
ordered the guairds quadrupled, next
night, and doubled the night after,
and the commander of the guard sch.
so apprehensive of the consequences
of this imprudent tranfa&ion, got un
der weigh and anchrred a considera
ble diltance from the barbor, neither
has he thought it prudent since to re.
turn to his former Ration.”” .
~ BOSTON LOYA LTY. i
The fellowing is’ taken from the
Times, a London paper of August 14,
Extra@ of a letter from Boflon, dated
g O Oy BB
_ “We are in a Rate of political
lethargy, and as when awake we have
been of Tate iane, (a) 1 hope we
fball contivue to be ¢omtented. to do.
am%;g,%&\ ate has, to be sure,
conßicated allour fbpe (8) and treats
us with the most fovertiga contempt 5
TR e B e R O BT OR S N O
which we undoubtedly merit ; though
the submissive behaviour of our Gov.
ernment left no meanne(s unpradifed
to avert his displeasure.
"¢ Mr. Jack{on paid us a visit about
amonth ago. He was received with
great and universal refpe& by a/l the
principal gentlemen. (c) 1 had the
hbpor of dining in his company in
private, and was at a public dinner
given him by the young men. This
was one of the belt conduéted things
of the kind ‘1 ever saw. (d) ‘About
250 gentlemen fat down to an excel
lent dinner, among whom were some
invited guelts of diflin&ion.—We
drank *“The King” two or three
times, (in different words) ¢ Old Eng
land,”’” ¢ The Britith navy ard army,””
&c. &c. as heartily as you could have
done at the London tavern or the
Crown and Anchor. . Mr. Pickering,
(Secretary of Stare under the Wath
ington admimftration) 2 man of ia
flexible honeity and determined char
aéter, not unlike the Roman Cato,
gave the following toast, which was
drank with the greatest enthusiasm—
“ The worlds last hope Britain’s falt
anchored Isle ” This you will allow
is pretty well fe) |
NOTES.
fa) This insane rhapsody of unfathioma
ble insanity will certainly bear a fuccefsiul
competition with a late circular that has at
tracked (o much federal notice
. (b) For coafirmation of this assertion, fee
our late arrivals and the federal papers
bealting of the prosperous state of our com
merce fince’ the non intercourse.-
(¢) Witnels the diftinguiflied honors paid
him in the escort to, and in, Faneuil Hall,
at the Artiliery Eletion—but I—ah that’s
the test of all true refpeétability—l had the
honor of dining in his company.
(d) Whoever saw any thing of the kind
before ? :
(¢) Pietty well, certainly for this ¢ Roman
Cats,” uniefs his country was England. The
wiiter thould have kuown that comparisons
arc sometimes odious.—A disgraced Minis
ter and degraded Secretary are very natural
companions. But when birds of such feather
flock together, they must not be furprized
if the half fledged ysung ones they gather
round them, thould be emulous of their
honors, and leave them bald and t:ttered in
their zeal todecorate themselves with their
plumage -—-Bg/?wz PatriQt. _
BRITISH FRIENDSHIP,
. and refpec? for American Rights !
The fchr' Mary of Boston, Capt.
Samuel B. Edes, was captured on her
paflage fiom Bolton 1o Tonningen &
carried into Amsterdam last winter,
but was not allowed to fail in confe
quence of the Imperial decree of the
234 of March. On application made
by Gen. Armstrong to the French
Government for the above vefl=l to
carry home the destitute - Masters, Su
percargoes, .and Creus of vessels,
which had been captured and con
demned, the schooner was rele:fed
for that purpose. She accordingly
failed from Amsterdam on the 10th
Sept. with the following Passengers,
Capt S. Merthew, of Palinurus ;
Capt H. Robinson, of the Whampea
(who was chargei with Jifpatches
from Gen Armflirong) Mr Larma,
Supercargo of the Harmony ; Capt.
Williams, Capt Price, and Mr S. Par-.
ker, of Boston ; including fix mates
and twentyfive seamen of the ~iffer
ent ships. Immediately on leaving
the Texel was boarded bv his B. M.
brig Boald, who after a particuiar ex
amination permitted her to proceed ;
but two hours after fell in with his B
M. ships Deflire an Britermart, who
took imme;"iate 'pt;ffc:ﬁiun of the {chr.
took capt. R & dispatches on board the
Britermart, an? with the {ch: in tow
proceeded for Yarmouth Roads. On
the arrival of the Britermart with’
her prize, an old Marblehead schoo
ner in ballast, and the above
poor destitute seamen, very &n&
search ensued, when every paper and
letter, newspapers not excepted, was
taken from every person on board that
had any, and even the American dis
patches (which have always hereto
fore been conficered facreq) were ta.
ken from Capt Robinson, and to pre--
vent their having 2ny communication
with the shore, or informing their
minilter of their fitnation, a -strong
guard of marines was sent on board,
‘where they were all kept close confin
ed-on bozrd the schooner for five days.
—At the expiration of which time
they were informed, as an excuse for
the cutragecus treatment they had
received, that it was supposed in' con.
sequence of some Dutch letters for
Batavia, which were found among
the " American letters, that the sch.
was bound there with dispatches.
On being released Mr. Pinkney was
immediately informed of the situation
of she fchoonet,' who communicated
the particulars to the Marquis Welles
ley, whbo gave for anfwer,that there
was no grounds for detention, and
that the velle! wonld be released ; but
notwithtanding the veflcl was detain.
ed, and the pext information the cap
tain of the schooner received, was,
that they would have the case tried,
or was gjven to understand that ac.
commodation might tuke place, if the
captain of the fehooner would pay all
clined, as they hﬂ'ﬂwt;{i&hmdy
o nearly he value of he el The
case therefore remains to be tried ot
the fittings cf the next Admiral~s
Court, of course all the letters, of
which there was a great number for
the United States, and other papers,
remain in their possession, nor bad Mr.
Pinkney, whea the Sylph {ailed, been
able 1o recover the American difs
patches. | m———Mer. Ady.
, v - SALEM, NOV. 27.
¢ ~ IMPRESSMENT.
Extras? qf a letter from the Supereargo of the
Ship Mary & Eliza, Upton, maller, dated
Gibraltar, October 7, 1810.
“ In the Gutof Gibraltar we were boards
‘ed by an officer from the Circe frigate, who
examined the failors’ proteGions VEry criti
cally, and feleCted Fonathan Gallaway as a
victim tohis caprice. The poor fellow had
the misfortune to have grown 2 or 3 inches
in the course of 4 years. The officer ob
served, “ young man, your prote®ion is not
worth a cent—get your clothes and go in
the boat.”’— Remonstrance was of no effe,
and contention would have been vain., The
officer met with every gentlemanliké atten
tion from Capt. Upton —Gallaway was bora
in Sal.cm} ana bas a peor mother dependent
on him. The officer’s‘plea was the most
mean, pitiful and unjust poflible te be con
ceived of —« We are sixty men short of cue
comp hmcnt_ oit board the frigate”—A piti
ful, but an ingenuous confeffio?, which can
only be conflrued one way ; men we mus
have, and you have the misfortune to be
withip reach of our guns. Degrading in
deed is 1t to that flag- which has 10 submit to
the caprice of ‘a Britith officer, whose only
right 15 that of power:™ T
The a®ions against the ex-Rockhol
ders of the Hiiifborough Bank were
not, we understand, decided on by
the Superior Court at the late term at
Amhert. We are extremely foiry
for this, as delay produces all the ad
vantages which the unprincipled spec--
ulators in their own paper could with,
to make their fortunes. We have been
credibly informed, (and we have [een
some of it too with our own organs)
that oot only are Rores (owned by
mobody) filled with goods in this State,
but large plantations to the welk of
the Alleghany ¢ with a hundred ne
groes” have been purchased from the
avails of this Bank. It a poor man
bave ten or twenty dollars of their
bills, there is no property to be found
—if he will fell them, however, at six
ty or seventy per cent. Jifcount they
will be extremely' accommodating—
they will pay him in Englifp goods !
Thote whe have this paper we advise
to keep it, as we believe there is en
ough virtue in our government—en
ough independence in the judiciary,
to give to the injured citizen restitu
tion. If there be any energy in our
laws,any & bility in those who execute
them, we hope and pray, that the a
bominable fraud which has been prace
tifed may be exposed from the foun
dation—that the fore may be probed
from the bottom—and that a rod
may be found,
Lo lafb the rascals naked through the world ;
I: 1s somewhat remarkable that fzd
eralifls alone were engaged to defend
the traud in Hillfbrrough Bak—that
[ederaisfls were those only whose sym
pathies were excited for the ex Rtock
holders—that the federal ex governor
was the powertul a:'vocate for the ex
ftockholders Did you ever fee any
viilanous fpeulation of which fe leral
its were not the px?genimrs ?
4 N H Pairict.
MELANCHOLY.
By accounts from the ‘Falls of Ni
agara, fays the Pittfburg Gazette, we
have been informed of the following
melancholy accident.—Mr Wiiliam
Valentine, formerly a resident of this
place, has been engaged for about two
years palt, in boating Salt from Fort
Schloffer, about a mile anid a alf a
bove the Falls, to Black Rock, a dis
tance of 18 miles, where it is received
by veflelg to carry it to Erie.—~About
two weeks ago in Rarting from Schlof
fer with a boat containing about 170
barrels, he put out too far inio the riv
er where the cuirent is very firong 3
in attempting to flem it with a fail,
the {wells running high, the boat was
immediately filled with watez— Mr.
Valentine juaiped” out 'and fuck in
stantly ; one man. took ‘hold of the.
fleering oar, which he lifted off the
boat, by means of which he with dif~
fculty reached the shore in fafety—
two others, who took holdof the malt
of the boat, were seen holcing to it
until they weant over the Falls.
Chrifiian Liberality —ln a late pa
per an/account was given of the mect
ing of the Baptist Association in R¥h
mond, and of the friendly treatmcnt
they met with from the Methodilt So-.
ciety, who not only. opened the. doors:
of their Houses of woifhip to them,
but attended and aflifled in their devo
ticns, and exercises The Virginia
Argas records another _inftance of.
brotherly love and Christian fellow
fhip, which deserves tp be remember
ed and imitated. The Prcfbererian
Society having no House of thtir own
in. Richmond, were accommodated
by the Epiicopalians with one of theirs.
for the purpose 'of celebrating the
Lord’s Snpper—which was admicif.
tered 10 more Lhan 200 COMMu.;irahits.
—surrounding the. fame table— Lpif.
copalians, Methodills, and P: fyte.
rian; sl unitiox hatapaioully § peth.
er. This, indeed, looks fike ++ ¢ com
‘meocement of a millenial sue. ©
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