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And Mill, beneath thy dewy wing,
Mild Zephyr, Life and Health are breathing,
And o’er thee still is rosy Spring
Her balmy fragrance wreathing.
Bat ah, thou wave of heavenly blue,
To others eyes are spread thy pleasures ;
Wo more, soft Zephyr, fresh with dew,
‘ My heart with joy inhales thy treasures.
Yon Bark, that proudly lifts her sad
The sun’s wliite lustre far off beaming,
Whose pendant floats the breathing gale
In triumph o’er the billow streaming;
That Barit a beauteous freight convey*
Trout these once cheerfill Mores afar,
To where Haup't misty brow display*
■foe haunts of Fmixif’s hapless war.
Lightly it sports the iav’ring wind
► And gaily whirls the feathering ocean >
Heavy the hearts it leaves behind,
And sad the eyes that view its motion.
(5 hour most solemn to the breast
That rolls o’er friendship's tender parting j
That hears the sigh, but half suppress'd.
And sees the uncall’d tear-drop starting
la shat short hour what visions rise,
What fears flit past the startled soul j
While anxious Fancy forward flies
And opens Fate’s mysterious scroll
Time’s unknown flood shall roll amain,
And, o’er Fate’s tempest, fiercely beating,
Night spread her sable orb in vain—
Beyond, still smiles the morn of meeting.
Again shall footsteps trace
The hill where dawn is earliest playing.
Again her smile shad light the place,
Where Bve’s mild beam has seen ns straying-
Again her eye** entrancing fir*
AhsU o’er these scenes its lustre throw,
TT— Joy*. wu-SHn* aaart again inspire,
And make a heaven of ail below.
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ARMIN 11.
q a Jfeorrespondence between Mr. Pink
ney end the Marquis of Wellesley relate* to
the diymlssioo of Mr. Jackson by the Ame
rican" government. That tranaactioo ori
ginates in the convention negotiated with
Mr. Erskine, and disapproved by the Bri
tish cabinet.
It is now demonstrated, to the convic
tion of prejudice itself, that Mr. Erskine
not only transcended his instructions, but
* acted in direct and plain opposition to them.
It has been also proved by arguments,
M Supported by authorities, which ail who
ML read can Comprehend, that our government
had a right to see the power* with which this
gentleman was invested. Such has been
shown to be the invariable usage of nations.
If those who negotiated on the part of
the United State*, waved thi* right, and,
as they now allege, received Mr. Erskine’s
assurances on the subject of his powers, in
lieu of that better evidence, which they
were entitled to see, they trusted to Aim ;
and the responsibility, if he has in reality
deceived them, rests on Aim and them
tebtm not on 'he government, whose au
thority he usurped and abused. That gov-
Vnotent tlirfi might Justifiably' refuse its
to a treaty framed by an individual,
who acted without those full powers, which
imply the full confidence of his sovereign,
•nd who violated those particular instruc
tions which were substituted in their place.
Thia refusal was no breach of faith; for
the faith of the government was never
pledged no duty, and required
no apology.
The British cabinet, however, hastened
to explain to the publick and to the minister
of the United States, the nature of the
transaction, and So to modify their orders
flffi as to secure American merchants from the
injuries to which their confidence 'in the
• convention had exposed them.
Mr. Jackson, the successor of Mr. Ers
iine, soon afterwards arrived in the Uni
ted States, and with (pll powers on the
points in controversy between the two na
tions. Instead of entering into such a tem
perate discussion of those paints, a* a dis
position really conciliatory would have
suggested, our government took the lofty
•nd untenable ground of a nation having a
- f’fikL to charge with perfidy that with
which it was to demand
!*•
> P° ftr P-
* Fo» Thx Amsrican.
T hop rolling wave of heavenly Hue,
How oft with rapture have I view’d thee!
Soft Zephyr, fresh with morning dew,
How oft, impassion’d have I woo’d thee!
Gay o’er thy bosom, rolling wave
The sportive sunbeam still is playing,
And many a mead thy waters lave
Where sweets elysian still are straying.
Time’s flood must roll through many a scene
Bre the lov’d hand again is press’d,
And chance and change must intervene—
Perhaps the grave’s eternal rest!
Yet Hope still casts a cheerful gleam
O’er every darker thought that hovers,
And, gilded by the sacred beam,
Yearn rich with future joy discovers.
Ev*n now it Checks the boding tear
And bids the clouds of sadness sever,
And whispers softly to my ear
This parting shall not be foe ever.
those concession!, explanations and new
propositions, which such a state of things
mighf have justified. These haughty pre
tentions were communicated in language
neither of friendship nor conciliation. It
was retorted with equal asperity; and
Mr. Jackson, in consequence of expres
sions which were deemed insolent, without
marking to him the offensive passages, or
statiqg his conduct to those who employed
him. was precipitately dismissed.
This subject was brought before the Bri
tish cabinet by Mr. Pinkney, In a long and
laboured letter, which is certainly not free
from exception. He entered again into the
question of the rejection of Erskine’s con
vention, and ina spirit of contentious con
troversy, travelled over the ground, which
had been previously taken up by Mr.
Smith and Mr. Jackson. Instead of re
questing the recall of that minister, refer
ring to the correspondence for the motives
which had induced the rupture of all com
munication through him, Mr. Pinkney la
bours to prove that throughout the contest
the United States were completely in the
right, and England in the wrong; and.
which is a work of at least equal difficulty;
that the language of Mr. Smith was mild
and forbearing, while that of the British
minister was haughty and insolent.
This letter was calculated to produce
recrimination, and to transfer to London
the angry controversy which had been so
unprofitably conducted at W ashington.
The Marquis of Wrllesley, however, de
clined taking up the glove thrown down by
Mr. Pinkney, and contented himself with
saying, that Mj*. Jackson would certainly
be recalled, but without any expression of
displeasure on the part of his sovereign.
Unless the British cabinet really thought
itself and its minister in the wrong, a more
moderate answer than this was not to be
expected. Yet it has given additional fury
to the chiefs of the democratick party, and
has produced some comments in the Na
tional Intelligencer which, though not
equally virulent with that invective which
preceded the arrival of Mr. Jackson, and
gave a sure presage of his dismission, are
too malignant, too well calculated to in
flame that animosity against Britain which
threatens to throw us into the arms of
France, not to excite serious alarm.
ARMINIUS.
Wk prize any valuable thing more high
ly after we have lost it, than whilst we en-
J* When the well is dry, as the old
proverb says, we know the worth of water.
Children that have a wise and affectionate
father, who is to them a bond of uniou, and
is daily dispensing among them comfort
and cheerfulness, though they respect and
love him whilst living, they can hardly be
sensible of his true value till death has de
prived them of him. Then it is they first
begin to know the full 'worth of such a
parent—his wisdom, his paternal cares and
tenderness, and the salutary influence he
had over them, are brought home to their
bosoms in lively recollection. Especially,
if perchance, he be seconded by a partial,
unfeeling, incap ble sup-father, who sets
the children together by the ears, turns
half of them out of doors, and by misman
agement, impoverishes the family—they
tben cherish the memory of their real
father with redoubled affection.
And so it has happened with respect to
that great and good man, who eminently
was the political father of this country.—
Washington, in his lifetime, was highly
respected as a brave and skilful General,
a wise Statesman, and an incorruptible
Patriot. At his death there was a gene
ral gush of affection ; the nation was in
tears. Yet even then, the value of -that
wonderful man was not fully known ; nor
could it have been so fully as it now is, but
from the woeful experience the country has
had since, of publick men whose charac
ters and measures have been directly oppo
site to his. If the mantle of Washing
ton had fallen upon his successors; it they
had been endued with his wisdom and vir
tue, and had all along continued to move
iu the same steady dignified course, as well
♦ince bis death, as under his administra
tion, it would have been happy indeed for
the country, but the fame of Washing
ton would have been less illustrious.
As in setting a jewel to the best advan
tage, something of a different and inferiour
colour is shaded rounu it as a foil to exalt
its lustre, so the enemies of Washington
seemingly could have been possible with
out their help. Between him and them
there are seen as Mtrifcur opfftsites as light
and darkness— ho folly—
here plans, there \M<fiffZ-2here the digni
ty of an honest mind, there the turpitude
ot intrigue, deceit and falsehood. And
correspondently to these opposite charac
ters have been the different fruits which
are a foil to his character. Though they
•• meant not so, neither did their hearts
think so,” they have rendered his memory
more clear and his fame brighter than
the publick has reaped from each—from
the one national security, honour and
wealth—from the other national weakness,
disgrace and poverty. Th.t there has
been a lamentable falling off, at to our
publick affairs, since these mtn quartered
themselves upon the publick, is what must
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MEMORY OF JVjiSHIJV'GTQJV.
be obvious to every one who Vn<*
stupidity, or blinded by prejudice. They
have blistered and purged the nation till
they have reduced it to a skeleton.
Connecticut Courant.
LONDON, April 29.
Bv a Royal Order issued at Berlin, colo
nial produce is only permitted to be im
ported at the ports of Swinemande, Pollau
and Memel, where the necessary inquiry
into the origin of the goods, is to be made
by theTrussian Committee of Trade, joint
ly with the French Consuls at Stettin,
Konigsburg and Mentol.
A decree of the King of Westphalia, di
rects the establishment of no less than 12
brigades of Custom-House Officers, to car
ry into execution, within its territories, the
French continental system.
Letters from Konigsburg of the 9th in
stant, statu, that in pursuance of the sys
tem to be adopted throughout the Baltick,
the Court of Denmark has issued a decree
which is to be unforced with the utmost
rigour, ordering that no neutral vessel la
den with colonial produce shall be allowed
to pass the Soutd, or to land her cargo on
the Danish territory, which shall not have
come from some part of America, or direct
from the West-India Islands.
An article from Vienna states, that the
Turks have made an inroad from Bosnia
into Illyrian Crotia, and attacked ail the
positions of the army under Marshal Mar
taont on the frontiers. This will probably
turn out to be a mere predatory excursion
of freebooters, but it is by no means unlike
ly that it may be made one of the pre
tences for an attack by France, in con
unction with A • ria, on the Turkish do
minions.
The Duchy of Lunenburg is excepted
from the cession made of the Hanoverian
territories to the King of Westphalia. It
will continue te be administered in the
name of Napoleon.
An article from Naples states, that an
attack was mad* on the 22d ult. by 3or
4000 British troops on the Island of St.
Maure, near Corfu, and that the garrison
had shut themselves up in the fort. It is al
so stated, that an attempt was made by
the English on the 26th ult. to burn the
town of Reggio in Calabria, but that it
failed. •
foreign Untelltfjerice,
Received by an arrival at N’ewYork.
Th* Prussian Military Establishment
consists only of 40,000 men.
An article from Copenhagen says—“ the
English are digging a canal in the isle of
Anholt from the place where they built
their privateers to the strand. The gar
rison of the island principally consists of
Highlanders.” 1
The-Dutchpapers reiterate the report
that some propositions were about to be
made from the Court of Vienna to the
British government, and add, that Count
Metternich, the Austrian Minister of State,
is to be employed on this mission. It is al
so rumoured, that the Emperour of Aus
tria intends shortly to visit Paris, accom
panied by the Archduke Charles.
The Prussian fortresses of Glogan, Cus
trin, and Stettin, are to continue to be oc
cupied by French troops, until the defini
tive payment of the contributions imposed
by France upon the Prussian dominions.
A Danish paper, (the Dagen,) affirms,
that a native of Copenhagen has lately
discovered the method of manufacturing
the Congreve rockets.
The Romish States are, by a publick
decree, to form the 30th military division
of the French Empire.
A detachment of the French army has
Crossed the Maese, and taken military pos
session of the town and port of Rotterdam ;
probably in pursuance of an article in
the late treaty, under which, 6000 French
were to co-operate with 12,000 native
troops, to prevent contraband trade in the
Dutch harbours.
The King of Holland, in reply to the ad
dresses of bis Council of State and Legisla
tive Body on the 15th Inst, said, that not
withstanding the embarrasing circum
stances in which the State was, he felt a
lively pleasure in seeing m the
midst of his penpie ; that he had brought
all his people about him, to strengthen still
more the ties which united him to the na
tion ; and that he relied on the co-operation
of the two first bodies of the State for re-es-
tablishing the publick affair* and fulfilling
stipulations of the late treaty. His Majesty
concluded with saying, that all grounds of
complaint on the part of France being re
moved, he expected every support from
his august brother, the Emperour of the
French; provided, nevertheless, that no
fresh subjects of dissatisfaction were given.
The following ia assigned in the Dutch
Paper* as the cause of hostilities between
the French and Turks:—A quarrel took
place In the fortress of Siseg, between the
French troops and the Turks, in which
the latter were worsted. The Turks, ex
asperated by thi* occurrence, secretly as
sembled in great force, and making a sud
den onset upon the French, took 3000 of
them prisoners, whom they beheaded or
impaled. Marshal Marmont at the head
of a corps, chiefly consisting of Crotians,
carried the fortress of Sizeg by storm, and
put every Turk in it to the sword.
A Mail from Lisbon arrived this mora
ing with accounts to the 12th insL The
most important articles in the Lisbon pa
pers relate to the operations of Ballesteros’s
patriot division-—He has reached Rocquillo,
from whence a notification was sent to the
Magistrates of Seville to prepare so many
rations for his troops which would arrive
there the next day, (3d.) We have no ac
counts however of their having reached
that city. The French, about four thou
sand in number, retired from it on the 27th
ult and proceeded to Chapatro.
The Master of an American vessel,
which has been condemned at Christian
s a nd, in Norway, arrived in town yester
day. He states that between forty or fifty
American vessels had been seized in Nor
way, and were in course of adjudication.—
The slightest pretexts were made use of to
cover these piracies. Some vessels were
seized because they had been overhauled
by British cruisers; others for irregulari
ties in their papers; and in one instance a
vessel was condemned because the super
cargo was empowered to depose of a share
in her to any American citizen residing at
Riga. A vast number of privateers were
fitting out in the ports of Norway.
The late boastings and audacity of some
of the partisans of Sir FAncis Burdett,
countenance the rumour, that they have
been weak enough to suppose a revolution
actually at hand. A week ago some of
them were found publickly complimenting
the late amiable Lord Edward Fitzgerald,
a notorious traitor, and contending for the
unsullied fame of Mr. Roger O’Connor, the
present private adviser and companion of
Sir Francis Burdett. It is boldly denied,
that Roger O'Connor’s infimacy with Sir
Francis, is any proof of the latter’s having
treasonable designs, since, though Arthur
O’Connqr is a traitor, it no more follows
that his brother Roger is one, than it fol
lowed that Colonel Despard’s brother was
a traitor, because the Colonel was proved
to be one. There is some little difference*
Colonel Despard's brother is a gentleman
of a correct conduct and a pure character,
who was wholly out of the Colonel’s confi
dence, and even out of his acquaintance.—
He knew none of his political associates,
and was unknown to them. But Roger
O’Connor was in the confidence of his trai
tor brother Arthur, corresponding with
him in his designs, and apparently the
agent between him and other traitors.
Roger was arrested on suspicion of trea
sonable practices in the south of Ireland,
and carried to Dublin. He was afterwards
confined for the same reasons in fort St.
George, in Scotland, and was for a long
time prohibited from returning to Ireland,
a prohibition which perhaps still exists.—
While thus expatriated, Sir Francis Bur
dett put him into a farm near Harrow.
Roger’s case was so bad, that when a gen
tleman brought it before the Irish House
of Commons, with the design of having
him restored to his home, Mr. Toler made
such a statement as induced the gentle
man, Mr. O’Donnelh we believe, to with
draw his motion from fear of involving
Roger in utter ruin.
This Roger is now the bosom friend and
associate of Sir Francis Burdett, as inti
mate with him as the avowed traitor Ar
thur himself was the week before his trial
for treason at Maidstone, or as the hanged
traitor Despard was the day before his ap
prehension. All traitors rally round Sir
Francis Burdett, but he forsooth is a most
innocent soul.
“ Emperour of the French,
Fing of Italy, Protector of the Confede
ration of the Rhine, Mediator of the Stoira
Confederacy, Istc. Wc. life.
“ Wishiqg to mark the epoch of our
marriage by acts of indulgence and bene
volence, we have decreed, and decree as
follows:
*• The individuals detained at the pub
lication of the present decree, by judge
ment* of the Correctorial Police, and, who
having undergone the term of imprison
ment, are still rethined, or might be de
tained after the time is expired, for the
payment of fines or expenses, shall be re
leased from paying the said fine or expense,
and shall be set at liberty at the expira
tion of the time fixed for their punishment.
•• All persons detained for forest offences
shall be set at liberty, and all prosecutions
for such offences shall cease from the pub
lication of the present decree.
“Our Minister* of Finance and the
Treasury shall present a report upon each
of the individual* detained, or liable to be
taken up for debts at the requisition of the
agent of the publick treasury or receivers
of the publick contributions, in order that
we may judge who may obtain their en
largement or discharge from the power of
arrest.
All debt* due for month* of nursing,
contracted towards the office of nurse* by
parent* of Paris and the Department of
the Seine, from the 9th of October, 1799,
to the end of March, 1810, are remitted.
” Six thousand retired soldier*, having
nerved at least oue campaign, shall be mar
ried the 22d April, to girls of their Com
munes. who shall have a dowry uf 1200
IMPERIAL DECREES.
•' Our Imperial Palace of Camfiiegne,
March 25.
SIR FRAfiTCIS BURDETT.
franka frem Baris, and 600 from the rest of
the empire.
“ A free pardon is* granted to all non- -’H
commissioned officers and soldiers ef our.
troops by sea and land, who were in a
state of desertion, whether they have been
condemned or not, at the date of this de
cree.”
The following article explains the foot
ing upon which the commerce with France
stands, according to the latest determina
tion of Bonaparte
Extract a- letter from the Miniater of
the interiour to the Prefect yf the
Seine.
“Paris, March 12,1810.
•• 1. The licenses will contain, as before,
an obligation to export three fourths of the
tonnage in agricultural produce of the
growth of France; half the cargo to con
sist of wine or brandy; the other half to
be composed at pleasure of whatsoever ar
ticles are permitted to be exported by our
custom-house laws.
“3. Licensed vessels may import all
such articles of produce and merchandise
as are permitted by our laws; in which
are not included tobacco, cotton-wool or
yarn, cotton cloths, colonial aud East and
West-India produce—kxceptjng never
theless, dyewoods, guaracum drugs used
for the purpose of dyeing, sbumack, Peru
vian bark, and medical drugs. A list of
the articles coming under the denomina
tion of drugs for dyeing will be contained
in a special instruction to be given by the
Counsellor of State, the Director-General
of the Customs.
2&p tjje Jftailjr.
** 3. The licenses shall be paid for at the
rate of 20 franks the ton, and in proportion
to the burthen of the vessel; but the
maximum for any license is fixed at 600
franks; that is to say, that there will be no
additional change for any burthen above
300 tons.
“ The outfitter, on being informed that
the license is in the hands of the Prefect,
will repair to the office of the Receiver-
General of the Department, or that of tho
Receiver for the District, where he will
deposit the fee payable at the rate of 20
franks per ton. The license will be de
livered to him on producing their receipt.”
An American gentleman is arrived in
town who left Paris a few days ago—Pre*
vtous to his departure he had an interview
with General Armstrong, who told him ho
had passports Jn his possession to enable
him to leave France ; and that it was his
intention to return to America between
that time and the first of June; for this
purpose he had purchased an American
sequestered vessel. Mr. Armstrong ex
pressed his opinion, that his departure
would not be conclusive of a rupture be
tween France and the United States, in sb
much as Mr. Beckwith Livingston was to
succeed him in his dipiomatick character.
Mr. York succeeds Lord Mulgrave, as
first Lord of the Admiralty.
The following arrangements of titles and
of dislocations and creations of Kings are
reported in letters from Germany to have
been determined on between the Empe
roursof France and Austria, we give it as
it reached us, without further comment
than that some of the appointments ap
pear to us improbable.
Napoleon I. Emperour of France, &c.
and King of the Romans.
Francis 11. Emperour of Austria and
Franconia, and Co-protector of the Con
federation of the Rhine.
Tlie Archduke Charles King of Spain
and the Indies.
Joseph Napoleon to be King of Italy.
Ferdinand the IV. to be restored to the
throne of the Two Sicilies.
Joachim to be King of Poland.
Eugene to be King of Macedonia.
Louis Napoleon to be King of Bavaria.
The Hereditary Bavaria to be
King of Holland and Berg.
Jerome Napoleon to be King of Wirtert
burg.
The Grand Duke of Baden to be King
of Switzerland.
The King of Prussia to cede Silesia to
Austria.
The King of Wirtemburg to be King of
Westphalia.
Mr. Dickenson, who accompanied Mr.
Mackenzie to Morlaix, is returned, and is
most probably the bearer of some new
proposition on the part of the French gov
ernment. From the little haste shown on
the other side of the water to carry into
immediate execution the arrangement for
an exchange of prisoners, it is to bq ap
prehended that some fresh difficulties have
arisen. Mr. Dickenson, however, is very
soon to return to Morlaix, to rejoin Mr
Mackenzie. The report of their having
proceeded to Paris, and been treated with
marked distinction, is quite unfounded.
BALTIMORE, June 5.
Tax Auftono/ Intelligencer flfiuy MoaM
and groan, and the Aurora may nail and
rail on the subject of our foreign rela
tions.—But the world sees, and every Ame
rican not blintfid by party prejudice arill
see, that our degraded national situation ia
May 2.