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house on the vote for a member of the
council of appointment, so that Mr.
Foot, a federalist, was eleded and the
republican party defeated. But it is a
little remarkable that by the statement
of the votes it appears that Mr. Burr's
presence wou d not have varied the re
sult. However, it seems that the Clin
tons laid hold of the fad at that period
and husbanded it among themselves jor
time of need. Mr. Burr is then charged
with favoring the application of young
Philip Schuyler as State freafurer,but
whether true or not the reader is left to
conjecture for himfelfi This is the
proof the writer had promised to ad
duce. It serves at any rate to shew
that Mr. Burr has long been an object
of envy and hatred to the Clintons,and
thatthey have been vigilant over him
for years to lay up every equivocal or
reprehensible aQon as a fubjed for fu
ture impeachment before the public.—
While therefore the reader may find
himitlf obliged to yield to the forty of
evidence, where evidence is produced,
he will perhaps think he fhnuld be very
cautious h>w he yields implicit confi
dence to any thing reding on the affec
tion of people Simulated by the turbu
lent emotions of a reliefs perfocal am
bition. (to be continued.)
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From the Wafbington Federalist.
A writer in the Aurora has attempt
ed to prove, that the repeal of the taxes
on carriage) and leaf sugar, principally
affeds, the manufacturing, mechanical
and agricultural interests.—ln doing
which, he violates the mod plain and
simple reasoning on the operation of
taxes. —No paper in the United States
has presumed so much on the ignor
ance ofits readers as the Aurora. Its
principles and reasoning, would feme
times disgrace a school-boy, and be con
sidered too weak and puerile for the
barbarians of Asia and Africa. Thu
following persons, we are gravely told,
are beneficially affected by the repeal of
the rax on carriages.
, ^ The livery liable owners—The far
mer who raises the horles — The farmer
who Supplies the weod,hides and char.
V : h&a.^#aiQ= -=crr.*±±CAx&&WQkeQfr mx3
&foit has been improperly given him'
Ec^ppeared rather asen inflated indi
vidual, belonging to no party, than a
v arm and active friend of the Republi
can cause. He rarely, if ever attended
a Republican netting, and never, it is
believed, wrote A tingle line in Support
of Freedom.'
In 1798, a year diilinguifhed by Fed
eral terror and proscription, th^eledion
of Governor of the date occured. Mr.
Burr was now sensible tbit it would nei
ther be proper nor availing for himfelf
to be held up as the Itepublican candi
date. For that exalted office Chancel-
Jor' I ivingfton was Supported by the
Republican party. While Mr. Burr ab-
Haired from opposing the nomination
of the Chancellor, he fludioufly avoid
ed doing any thing to promote his elec
tion* The Chancellor was, however
honorary and Spiritedly Supported by
the great body of his friends : Mr. Burr
was the only man of note in the party
who appeared listless of the event.''
'' Notwithstanding, cifeumftances
conspired to favour the re-ekdion of
his opponent, Mr. Jay, who fiicceeded
by a largeruajority. But although we
loft the, election of the learned candidate
for the office of Governor, we acquired
Strength in the Legiflaturc. A Repub
lican representation, with the exception
of one man, was again sent cut from
the city of Newyork ; and in this repre-
Mentation Mir. Burr was included "
“ We floil now take a cursory view
o f his condu& in the Assembly, and fee
how far it is honorable to himfelf. or af
fords to the party who have hitherto
given him their support, reasonable
ground of confidence.
“ It has been already stated that Mr.
Burr rarely attended the meetings of
the Republican members es the Legis
lature; it may be added that in his
individual intercourse with them, he
-manifested a ftiff and unfriendly refer ve.
He always appeared intent upon playing
the part of a wily, rather than that of
an honefl, comprehensive and profound
, statesman. With the eyes of a lynx, he
was mere on the watch to convert inci
dental circumllances to his private ad
vantage, to the furtherance of his im
meafurabie ambitious views, than to
seize and appropriate them to the pub
lic weal. While therefore he was dis
trusted by the Federalists, he was fuf
pefted by his own party. Ou trying and
delicate questions, or such as might ex
pose him to the obloquy and censure
of his opponents he was backward in
exhibiting his sentiments. He was
known to mingle with the opposite par
ty in the Legislature and frequently to
manifest a double front. His tergiver
fating conduct on many important
points, furnifhed abundant reason to
fufped the purity of his views, and the
finceriry of his political profeffiohs. He
frequently exhibited solicitude for the
success of federal measures in the house,
by a wary avoidance of opp^fition to
them; meafores which could not be
carried without vitally injuring the
cause he offenfibly espoused, proof of
this assertion shall be adduced."
. This proof consists in affecting that
Mr. Burr absented himfelf from the
great a convenience to himfelf and fam
ily. But 3or 4 dollars to the laborer,
is a serious sum, and would purchase
! many comforts for himfelf and family.
I He would be therefore much more like
ly to difeontinue the use of many arti
'cles, than that the rich man would lay
aside the use of a carrage. The disuse
of those articles by the laborer, would
affed all those numerous persons em
ployed in administering to the comforts
and necessities of die citizens, which
class is not only more numerous, but
certainly much more deferring of en
-1 couragement, than those who are only
employed in administering to the lux
;uries of the rich. [Waft,Fed.
From the Balance.
Beware of a couple of Desperate Affafou.
A couple of desperadoes are travers
ing the country, and are making dread
ful havoc of the property and lives of
the old and young.—They have alrea
dy slain more of the inhabitats than
were slain in battles, and perished in
prison (hips, during the American war ;
and at the fame time, they have wafted
more substance than would pay the
whole national debt. Their strength
is invincible. Their method of attack
is to strike people on the head, then in
stantly they trip up their heels, pick
their pockets, and continue their blows
on the head, till they have quite beat
out their brains. Though they infeft
public houses chiefly, they are also of
ten found lurking in the elofets of pri
vate houses, in the work (hops of me
chanics and in the fields of farmers. In
some instances, whole families have
fallen victims to these murderers : nay
whole towns have been ravaged and
ruined by them. One poor man here
abouts, that has formerly been an in
duttrious thriving mechanic, has very
lately been murdered by them in a
manner too Shocking to relate,and there
are several others in the vicinity, who
have been daily attacked by them,rob
bed of their money, smitten on the brain
pan, knocked down, and in all refpe&s
so violently handled that an alarming
stupor has fueceeded, and they are al
ready brought to death's door, in a
word ; the country is in danger from a
couple of outlandish miscreants who
mock at reason, trample upon the pre
cious rights of man and equally bid
defiance both to law and golpel.,
The names of those two ruffians are
RUM and BRANDY.
coal—The iron mallei—The fitting
mill owner—The filherman, druggist,
whip maker, flambeau maker" &c. to
the number of 24. Can any one read
this lift without smiling.— It reminds
us of the story of “ This is the house
that Jack built." " This is the cock
that crowed in the morn; that waked
the prfedthat married the maid" &c.
that lived in the house that Jack built.'
We might prove by the fame mode of
reasoning, that not only America but
the Enghfhy and even the whole trading
and commercial world are interelied in
this repeal of the carriage tax The
perlon who keeps a stud horse, is inter
ested in the high price of horses, be
cause more art raised. These horse, s
are frequently imported —ln this im
portation are interested, the merchant,
the ship carpenters, the fillers, the rope
makers,the farmers whoprovide vi&uals
for all these persons, and the manufac
turer whd makes their eloathing,includ
ing barber, taylor, shoe-maker, button
maker, hemp,n'd flax raiser, Iheep fee
der, g r °g feller, &c. &c. &e. These
horses are sometimes bought of great
men and lords, who may be in debt—
Here not only the jockies, horse ra
cers, grooms, riders, &c. &c. are bene
fited.. But from the more ready sale
and higher prices for horses, the owners
are better enabled to pay their debts—
Here again will come a long firing,who
are benefited by the payment of my
lords debts, who again are better ena
bled to pay iheir debts, and so on thro'
the whole circle of manufacturers, me
chanics, fhop.keepers, gamblers &c.=
See what an easy thing it is when once
fife premises are buik Upon, to play
with the fancy, and be led by the ima
gination through the mazes of delation
apd error.
I he fad is, the mechanic manufac
turer and farmer, are no otherwise in
terehed in this repeal than as it becomes
necessary to continue other taxes on
their neceflary clothing and provisions,
which do really bear hard opon them.
The rich who use the carriage are the
only persons on whom ths tax fell, and
by whom it was p^d. As to the differ
ence between the number used, it will
not be 3 halt dozen; the profits of
making which, if divided among the
different persons enumerated,would not
amount to the hundredth part of a cent
—-and for this, the whole laboring and
poorer dafs of the community are to be
saddled With a tax of fevtral dollars
each, for the necessaries of life. If the
mode of reasoning adopted by the Wri
ter in the Aurora were just, it would
apply much more Hrongly to the ne
ceifaries oflife, than the articles men
tioned—A man who can afford to
keep a carriage, will hardly let 3 or 4
dollars, prevent the continuance of so
The British Marine Peace EftabWhmont to
to embrace fifty fed of the line.
REBELLION IN MOROCCO.
It appears by accounts from the
Mediterranean, that a rebellion lately
broke put in the Empire of Morocco,
" Bonaparte is reported to have said
to some one, that within these few days
one hundred and fifty grenadiers of the
guard had demanded their difmiffion.
As the filiation of grenadier of the
guard is very advantageous, we can
only attribute this proceeding to the
discontent which has been endeavored
to be spread among them. It appears
commands have been given to almost
all the Generals who are now at Paris,
and they are, for the mod part, on the
point of departing. Within these two
days disturbances have taken place in
certain parts of the city on account of
the high price of bread. Several bakers
were without a supply of that article ;
but abundance is restored, and we know
not how to account for the momentary
scarcity. The mod likely cause is the
difeontent of the bakers themselves,
who are averse to the Government
charging itfelf, as formerly with the
diftribbtion of it in Paris ; it appears
that things are eftablifned upon the
fame footing as before the revolution.
The inquietude which has pievailed, is
also attributed to the secret manoeuvres
to excite difeontent among the people,at
the moment of voting for the prolonga
tion of the Consulate. Weare assured
that some of the country people have
refufed to vote till t,e bread is cheaper.
It is dreadfully dear at Paris and in the
environs. The number of persons at
Paris who have Signed their names with
^he Notaries 'is very limited. There is
not a Notary whose lift exceeds 15 per
sons, and of those there is a greater pro
portion of ci-devant Nobles than of
other classes. The people appear very
indifferent upon the fubjed. In Prov
ence the Signatures have been infinitely
more considerable.
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A private letter from Paris, dated
May 24, observes, " that it is quite cer
tain there existed a conspiracy to assas
sinate Bonaparte. Fournier, and a
grenadier of the name of Donadteu,
were charged with carrying it into ex
ecution, but Bonaparte had timely in
formation of the plan. Fournier has
been examined, but has not confeffed
any thing. He has been promised par
don if he would dcvelope the whole of
the plan ; he has refufed, and demands
to be brought to his trial—he has been
conduced to the Temple—such is the
Rate of this affair. Fournier passes for
a mod determined man, and a danger
ous cbardder.
Foreign News.
Received ly way of Halifax —London dates tyune 5.
LONDON, JUNE 3,
REPORTS of CONSPIRACIES.
Extras of a private letter from Paris, Mb, 31.
" A REPjß^is circulated in Paris
of a conspiracy, the object of
which it is said was the assassination of
Bonaparte at the last parade. A soldier
was to have delivered him a petition at
the moment when the Light Cavalry
were performing a certain evolution,
which was to be the fighal for one of
the conspirators firing a pidol at the
First Consul It is pretended that Bona
parte was infbrmed of the design ; that
he took the petition , and at the fame
time made a motion with his hand to
the Light Cavalry not to Ilir. The
signal having thus failed, the aftaffin
had no opportunity of executing his in
tention. It isadded that Fournier was
charged to fir: the pitted : but that the
accomplices fearing his indiferetion,
would not allow him to come to Paris
till just at the moment when the assas
sination was to have taken place. All
their precautions could not however
prevent his arrival twenty-four hours
before the time agreed upon, and it was
within that period that, harried away
by an emotion of passion against Bona
parte, he betrayed himfelf, and fuffcred
some words to escape him, which were
reported to the First Consul, and thus
the plot of the conspirators was defeat
ed. It is certain that federal Generals
and Officers have endeavored to excite
the soldiers to revolt. It is said that
within these few days a peat number
of officers of the igth regiment of Dra
goons who Were sent ficin Paris, have
returned there without orders. It ap
pears that the First Consul meditates
the augmentation of his guard ; and
we are assured that it will be composed
of the 6th regiment of Dragoons com
manded by his brother, Lucien Bona
parte ; and the gth regiment,command
ed by Sebattiani, his relation, and a
Corsican as well as himfelf.
66 A person named M de la Riviere,
was arretted some months since upon
a charge of having concerted with
Georges to deliver the port of Brest to
the Engliffi. A naval Court Martial
was summoned to try him, and he was
acquitted ; but Bonaparte, irritated
at the sentence, has sent orders to
Brest to have him confined in pris
on. Seven members of the Court
Martial have also been arreted and
conduced to Paris. They have been
some time detained at the Temple in
close confinement at Chouans."
The Secretary at War arrived last evening,
at the feat of Government, from Norfolk.
At the late sale of Gen. Washington 's flock,
the following prices were given :
The large imported Bull, fold for 334 dolls.
The id size, ..... 115
1 Cows for ... 205
Imported Ram, - - - - - 33
Sheep, - - ... ijdphcach,
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HEALTH OFFICE
BALTIMORE, JULY 16, XBOX.
The Board of Health are happy to inform
their fellow citizens that since the x^h instant,
notwithstanding the extreme heat of the wea
ther, which is well known to be highly favora
ble to the propagation of malignant fever, not
a decided case of the disease has come to their
knowledge. This is the more plcafing inasmuch
as they can assert from the bed information that
our city, except the cases which have been men
tioned in the former report, has fidd^m been
heather than at the present moment. 1
order of the Board,
ASHTON ALEXANDER. Prefolffl,
Attest -Adam Fonxkdxn, Surety.
A WASHINGTON, JULY 16, igol
UTHEN I'lC accounts have been
received from Algiers, to the 15th May,
1802 „—They Bate that twelve Aiger
ine corsairs had failed on cruises in
March and April : that they had
lent in 2 Neapolitans ; two Spaniards
for adjudication ; and 2 French brigs,
for having fired 2 guns at the Algerine:
That an Algerine 44 had sent in a Por
tugUefe 44 —After two hours combat
the Algerine boarded—the Portuguese
loft 42 killed and wounded ; and there
were 312 prisoners.—The Algerines
lott-30 killed —.this is considered by the
Algerines as a great affair. On the
15th May, the Dey declared to the
French Consul, that all chritiian cor
sairs which his corsairs Should fend in,
that have not the Mediterranean pass
ports, will be considered and condemn
ed as enemies.
Joshua Wingate, jun. son in law of Gen. Dea
rborn and Chief clerk in the War Office, is ap
pointed Major of Brigade and Infpe&or of the
Militia, in the Diftri& of Columbia.,
friftam Dalton, Esq is appointed Post-Mas
ter at George-Town, Potomac, Diftrid of Co
lumbia. ♦ JULY 18.
We are pleased to notice that over
tures have been made during the week
from Bonaparte to our government,
relative co the fettling a Commercial
'"?, between the two nations ; and
are allured that arrangements are mak
ing to carry the fame into effed. by
this it fhodld appear that the Grand
Consul is desirous of maintaining that
peace the wisdom of his Councils and
that of St. James's has so happily bro't
about. Commercial Commissioners
will soon be appointed.
The treasures of Spantffi America,
fays a letter from Cadiz, so long lock
up by the war, begin to flow rapidly in
to Europe. Since the arrival of the
Argonaut with 7,319,259 hard dollars,
8,000,000 more have been received,
and two frigates are daily expelled to
arrive with 16,000,000 in addition.
against me Emperur, and the insurgents
were headed by the Emperor's nephew,
who has, however, been defeated with
great loss. The particulars of the bat
tle are contained in the following ex
trad of a private letter :—
" Tangier/, May 19. We have this
day received intelligence of an aftion
having taken place between the Empe
ror of Morocco and his nephew, in
which the latter has been completely
defeated with great loss; it is already
known that there are 8000 killed, 2400
taken prisoners, besides an immense
number wounded. The Emperor
speaks in the highest terras of the very
great abidance he received from an of
ficer who arrived at the camp the night
before the action, and requeued tire
Emperor to accept his services. He
had the command of a Squadron of
horse, and contributed in a great meas
ure to the defeat of the enemy. It is
expeded that this week wi I put an end
to the war, as AmbafTadors are no.v
going from the Emperor in answer to
terms proposed by the nephew. We
learn that the officer who diftinguiih
ed himfelf so much, belongs to the City
of London Light Horse, and that he is
deputed from some of the principal
merchants in that city, to procure the
teleafe of two ships detained by the Em
peror of Morocco. <1 e are happy to
find that in confcq p eice of his great
services on this occasion, the Emperor
has lent a favorable ear to the object of
his million. Ihe Emperor has already
conferred some diftinguilhed honors
upon him."
The House of Commons have voted
izool. to Mr. Greathead, as compensa
tion for his invention of the Life Boat.
It was said that within a few years 300
lives have been saved by it, on the coast
of Northumberland alone.
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LONDON, MAY jt.
The Dutch Government isp sparing
pebo troops to end to the Weft Indies.
I he new exped tion fitting out at Brett
to re-infJrce Leclerc at St. Domingo,
is preparing on the mod evtenfiva scale.
The number of troops will exceed twen
ty thousand. The whole armament
was expected to fail by the 15th of June.
Is the whole or ariy part of this force
primarily or ultimately defined to Lou
isiana ? . 6,
Articles per Mails.
Some time firce a Connecticut wit obfenred,
that when the democrats find there are men ft,
than teats, there will be lamentable fgucafogs g.
mong them. What was then corfilcrcd abort
ive obfervarion, is now known to have bee„ pro
phecy. Duane it seems pfes the teat which Cal
lender thought he had the heft right to— hence
his "lacerations" and fqucafcinga.— Dewitt Clin*
ton, it appears, wishes the teat which is now >f.
figped to Mr. Burr—hence the loud forbid,
ip the Newyork ftye—and, Wood, the teatmen
of the herd, begins to make hisfyuealingj heard
and regarded. So go the“fea." — And, as an
elegant and spirited Philadelphia editor, fays—
“J, they Lave rifon 6, libelling virtuous „„, ^^
will fall by telling truths of tlenfelves."
As Callender is going op he will prove Mr.
Jefferfon one of the mbft cbaritalle men on earth.
Betides the too dollars gratuity for writing, he
now fays, he charitably (übferibed 25 dollars to
wards printing the " Profpea h&f@r@ u&"Q
" Charity mentb, &e,\
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The American people are, at prefen:
amused by the labours of the Jacobins
who are Bluing pamphlet after pamph^
Ie:, and dropping parapgraph upon pa
ragraph, to prove that one and ano
ther of the patriots of their “ Sect" are
Icoundrels and liars, knaves and hypo-'
crites, and that they have always been
known to be such. They might /pare
themselves the trouble of elucidating
the thing.
Then secession from Democracy is
the crying fin with the Jacobin party,
but it has not changed their charaders
with either Federalists or Democrats.
They hand on the fame ground as
heretofore, save that the fed to which
they have belonged, is alarmed at their
own loss, as they aie afraid that by
these men and others like them, they
will be fetight with their own weapons,
and they know fully the power and suc
cess of villainy and intrigue. But they
need not be alarmed, they hav^ scoun
drels enough remaining among them
to blast the faired fortunes of the freed
people on the globe. [%. U. S.
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The fchr Determined Rov<r, arrived here
yesterday io 11 days from Cape Francois, Capt.
Mather, informs us, that the blacks, though Got
able to make a ttand agaiolt the French, were
ravaging every foot, where by night they could
burn and pillage without dread ofopoofition
Scarcely a night passed that plantations, even ia
the vicinity of the Cape, were not df royd, and
the wretchedowners facriticed to the refen ement
of the perfected Africans. Numbers of rhe ne
groes were daily executed—the feenes of cold
blooded malTacres* which rook place were never
surpassed in that ill-fated colony. The fiver
still raged among the troopfr-it was supposed
that 15,000 of them had fallen victims to it and
in fighting the negroes. The Cape was faft re
building. Lumber bore a high price, provision,
dull—Flour 8 Jols. Pork 21 dols. Beef 12 dob.
Gen Leclerc had recovered from his illness.
[Daily A&rtifCT,
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Capt. McLaren, who arrived here yesterday
in the very Chore passage of 8 days from Cape 1
Francois, informs, that the day before he failed,
Gen. Leclerc had ordered an additional duty of
5 per rent, on all goods exported from the illand
of St. Domingo, making a total duty of 25 mer
cent. That, in future, all th. French folder, a:
that place, were to receive fpecic lor their fer-(
vices, and to find themselves iu all provisions ex
cept the article of bread. That reinforc cu , en . s
of troops were daily arriving from France in
scattered transports. That the fever ftillraged
with ^reat violence among the troops. Thar
out of about 70 Generals who came out with the
army, not more than 25 remained, they having
been elmAy cut off with rhefeyer—That Gen.
Leclerc wa, on the eve of returning to France
and was to be foeceeded by Gen M'Dondd-—
That American produce was generally low
that ev-n lumber was co the fall —and that float
was felling for 8 dollars a barrel.
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newyork, July 28.
The immense quantity of Indian Corn im
ported into these countries, and the general dis
like to that grain as an article of food, render
it important co be known, that some didilters in
this countly, having afeertained thatit will male
and w hen so prepared, yield an admirable spirit,
have obtained liberty from theCommiffiocers of
Revenue to use it in difttlation. The mucih
g nous quality of this grain (that on which the
n anufaclure of the wort depends) has been long
known in Germany and Italy, where, according
to Count Rumford, pclanta furnishes the prin
cipal article in the food of the peasant.
# VHILA^ELIHIA, ju_, ?,%
A meeting will be held to niorrow of the own
ers in this city of veffefs detained in River Plate.
Callender Rates, that M.-. Jiffirfon read in -
sheets, is they were printed, the "Shrnfo of &
Hifor, of America." published in Philadelphia in
17,7 ; and that he paid 35 dollars towards de
fraying the expense of publication.
NEW York, July 30. Y
The Essex frigate, Capt. Bainbridge,
was to fail yesterday for the Potomack.
A mutiny, it is said, had taken place
among the crew, in consequence of
what was deemed an infringement of
their contract. The crew of the Essex
Shipped, originally, in this port, to serve
for the space of one year. Sixteen
months, however, elapsed before the
return of the Elfex from the Mediter
ranean to Newyork. Here the cruise
ended, and here the crew infilled upon
their right to be difeharged. Orders,
it seems, were intended to have met
Capt. Bainbridge off Sandy Hook, for
proceeding to the City of Washington,
without anchoring ; theie orders were
not received—the ship of course came
to anchor. In coufequep.ee of trefh or
ders from the Navy Agent, Mr. Lud
low, to Capt. B. to fail for the Puto
mack, the crew as above stated, lignifi
ed iheir intention of not complying
The Capt. we underhand, was com
pelled to ule coercive measures, to en
force obedience.
THE PIGS SQUEAKING,
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From CAPE FRANCOIS.