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formed, compelled to bow with reverential
awe at the nod of the dictators of Europe.
But my countrymen beware of those who
tell you that this country is compelled to
regulate her conduct according to the de-
ents, and that if they say unto oe " peace,
be still,” that then our murmurs are to
subside, and we in humble submission must
kiss the rod of oppression. Such principles
political J®ifi«llaiip.
J'o* The Rhodc-IslShd .luoxicah.
It h upon (he good sense of the people
that we must rely for the preservation of
the liberties of cur country. When de
signing men, or ambitious rulers, perceive
a general apathy pervading a nation, they
seise upon the opportunity to forge those
chains which are ignominiously to bind the
proud sous of freedom, to the triumphant
car of some haughty despot. The citizens
of this country should ever be upon the alert
to prevent the fatal impression, nnd en
courage the belief, that to them it is of lit
tle consequence who are rulers, or how
they rule ; for the next step of degradation
Will present them grovelling in the dark
night of slavery, scarcely sighing for the
enjoyment of the full sunshine of liberty.—
Should we, my countrymen, be influenced
by such disgraceful sentiments, we shall be
fatally lulled to sleep in the arms of des
potism, and, perhaps, be awaked only in
season to behold the destruction of our su
p tri our privileges, and view liberty indig
naatly spurning her once favoured sons.
With steady whig directing her epurae to
wards her "native heaven. That Ameri
can freedom is fast progressing towards an
nihilation is, we fear, a tad, a eolemn truth
Shall we not then pause, shall we not then
refect ? Have we become satiated with en
joyment f Is there no charm in liberty ?
Is American Independence of no Value ?
Are we willing to relloquish the high pre
rogatives of freemen, and become miser
able suppliants to arbitrary power, de
generate and debased, do we sigh for the
JmagHiany quietude of despotism ? Are we
prepared to bid adieu to patriotism, to
plunge the dagger into the vitals of out
country, hurl her from her proud pre-emi
nence, glory in beholding her expiring Strug
gles, and shout peace when freedom is no
more ? Indeed it would setm that we are
fallen, miserably fallen, and that our inde
pendence is now but ** as a tale that is
told.’* The days of WAixtMOTON are
gone, his principles have been shamefully
deserted, and America Is now, we are in-
why our citizens are groaning in dungeons
or proudly lorded over by unprincipled
petty despots, compelled to linger thaig ex.
istence exiled from friends, disregarded by
their country. With fihilotofihick com
posure the great tecret-keefiert of the na
tion will tneeringly inform you, that they
should Ijave remained at home; and if
they possessed less avarice and more dis
cernment they would not have been thus
gnsnared. In this manner has the enter
prising spirit of an American been ridi
culed, nay, humbled; and he has been ef
fectually commanded not only to imitate
tavage manner*, but even to copy the brute,
and like the stupid bear under the pressure
of the northern blast, doze away a life be
stowed by the God of Heaven for pro
gressive improvement in whatever can im
prove and adorn his nature, or aaaunuand
augment his felicity. But is it true, my
countrymen, that our independence is thus
at the mercy of the winds and waves of Eu-
been confiscated in foreign ports, the an
swer to these inquiries will be, al), all is
owing to the Decreet of France and the
tremendout Order* of Britain. Dethand
crees and orders of the European belliger-
dence of the United States ; at war with
the very principles of our constitution, and
derogatory in the last degree to the cha
racter of freemen. Yet di graceful as they
are, many, very many of the prints in the
union virtually espouse them. If you in
quire why the embargo was laid, that mea
sure of weakness and folly, that Pandora's
box from which have issued, In profusion,
misery, vice and disgrace. If you inquire
bloody war, are not capable of performing
half the exploits, enduring half the priva
tions so gloriously encountered by their
fathers ? Where is the spirit which at our
national hiith aroused and brought into ac
tion the united energies of the country;
where the name once ten ibla to our ene
mies; where the power that caused the
diamond crown to totter over the dark brow
of the tyrant, it it gone, are they all fled
forever? R< member you not why the field
of Lexington, Monmouth and Yorktown
were stained with the blood of our country
men, and have you forgotten why your
Wasxingtom toiled, why a Wammxn
bled ? If you recollect the ghn iou» cause In
which they wmv cugiged. the defenceof
f .« ii’crties of their country, can you think
of disgracing them. Repair then to the
exhausted, why have millions of dollars
ropean warfare > Shall it be said that the
sons of those valiant dead, who thirty-five
are diametrically opposed to the indepen-
why commerce is almost annihilated, why
is industry paralyzed, why is our revenue
years ago nobly dared to resist the impericus
mandates of haughty Britain, and without
an efficient government to direct, or re
sources to sustain, committed themselves
to all the horrours and uncertainties of
eHarcf patriotism, and there swear privi
leges thus dearly bought, thus purchased
by perils and sacrifices. But do we desire
to pre|frve onr iodependence, and that
posterity should inherit our liberties, we
must materially change our conduct. The
denominations of party must be forgotten.
We must unite and be known only by the
name of Americans. Are we,not citizens
of one common country, and we not join in
promoting her happiness and glory.
It is disgraceful to ask ourselves if this
measure will please, that offend France
or England. Our pilots should steer the
ship of State for the port of national hap
piness and honour. Armed with justice
and patriotism, they should boldly meet
every insulting foe, undauntedly contend
for our rights, never dastardly permit the
waving standard of independence to be dis
graced, but fight and fight nobly iu defence
of our country, our liberties and our laws.
If we will be respected, we must convince
the world we respect ourselves. Ameri
cans, be not terrified at the denunciations
of Gallia’s mad man; let not Britannia’s
thupder deter you from asserting your
rights, when they may be invaded. Purge
the body politick before the cancerous hu
muurs of national apathy and foreign par
tiality seize npon it and render it corrupt
and dead. There is a course of conduct to
pursue, adopt it and it will eventuate in
your country’s glory. Dismiss from your
Councils theSveak, the prejudiced and the
abandoned, continue men of talents, of can
dour and virtue, and tor the future elect
those, and those only,/Who are attached to
your soil, interested in your welfare, and
possess talents to point out and support
your true interest. By doing this, you will
read the death-warrant of faction, reani
mate your dejected country, and raise her
to that state of prosperity and glory from
which she has fallen; whilst yours shall be
(he sweet reflection of having rescued her
from destruction; and to animate your ex
ertions, remember that years is the cause
of freedom, the cause of virtue, and the
cause of your country.
MOUNT-VfcRNON*
' ■—'
raOM THS 00NMSC11UCT COtoBANJ.
Booking back a few years, and com
paring times past with the present, we find
that the evils which our country suffers,
were actually foreseen and. foretold, as
what would necessarily grow, out of the
measures of our government. When the
American ships of war were ordered tu the
Potomack, and were there laid up, dis
mantled and left to rot, it was clearly fore
seen that this pitiful expedient to save mo
ney, would in the end cost our nation dear.
Had the navy bun kept io good order, and
gradually increased (an expense which the
country would have scarcely felt) and had
it been vigorously employed in the late
times of need, as it was on some former oc
casions, it might have saved our nation from
indelible disgrace, and saved it alto scores
ofanillioos.
When the gun-boat project was commu
nicated, it was laughed to Worn. Its fu
tility was clearly shown, and even demon
strated. It was foretold that the country
would be put to vast expense and for no
valuable purpose ; that millions would be
thrown away upon one of the silliest of all
projects^—All this was disregarded; and
we pay dear for the whittle.
When Wilkinson was retained in com
mand, notwithstanding his notoriously be
ing concerned in Burr’s conspiracy, warn
ing remonstrances were made upon that
head, but they were unheeded. The con
sequences have been, disgrace to the mili
tary character and to the-nation, immense
waste of money, and the miserable destruc
tion of more than a thousand brave fellows,
who, with proper care, might have been
alive and merry at this day. They were
left to suffer and perish, whilst their com
mander was making his daily meat-offer
ings and drink-offerings, to the god he
worships—his own belly.
When Napoleon published his Berlin de
cree, it was considered by all men of cn
Ifwged views and unprejudiced minds, as a
contemptuous violation of neutral rights,,
and as the precursor of most serious evils
to the American commerce. And the Pre
sident was warmly urged to resist it. Hud 1
it been resisted at first with proper spirit,
(speak as France then was as to naval
strength,) in all probability it would have
been repealed; and, in that event, the
British orders would not have been issued.
Thus a train of horrible calamities to our
nation would have been prevented.
When the treaty, arranged by Mr. Mon
roe and Pinkney with the British Ministry,
was rejected, and rejtcted too with con
tumely, by Mr. Jefferson, who deigned not
even to lay it before the Senate; the im
policy of such “ procedure” was clearly
showp. Had that treaty been accepted,
(with certain modifications, which unques
tionably might have been obtained; since
the British Ministry at that time were of the
political sect moat favoui ably disposed to
wards the United States we should have es
caped immense troubles and losses, and the
American commerce might have been con
siderably prosperous up to the present
gday.
FRUITLESS FOREWARNINGS.
When the embargo was laid, its foil y was
dearly pointed out, and its ruinous conta-
in the mean time men of all parties would
do well seriously to consider the following
sentiments of a sensible political writer—
not an American—“ There are (observes
this,writer) in every nation a number of
persons who love their country; their voice
in the beginning of troubles is not heard;
but this voice grows louder and loader, and
becomes uppermost at last, or the State
it undone.'*
himself with the reflection, whilst the ship
were stranding on rocks, that he had told
the captain where the rocks lay, and had
urged him to steer a different course ? Nay,
woukf.be triumph in an event, by which
he hatf tost his all; because the event hap
peuedto accomplish his own predictions.
The federalists have a deep ttake in the
fate of their country. They know its pre
sent condition it extremely embarrassed,
debased and perilous. They know also
that they foresaw much of whafckhaJffku
ally happened; and gave fair and sefttona
ble warnings; warnings which, if dqly
heeded, might have prevented the evils*—
But far be it from a single federalist, who
deserves the name, that he should view
the present disgraceful state of our nation
with any kind of joy and exultation, or with
other sentiments than those of unfeigned
sorrow. *
The little island of Scylt Is surrounded
-withTretirhprlvaierrs, watching the sail
ing of American vessels on the point of pro
ceeding homewards,
Denmark has forbidden American ships
going to Scylt, or any port on the west side
of Holstein, Schleswing or Jutland, to un
load. A total exclusion of the Americans
is daily apprehended.—f Abcille du Nord,
July 11)
We might go on, step by step, and show
that almost every government measure,
for the last nine years, which has been
found from experience to be deeply injuri
ous to the country, was seasonably and
firmly opposed by federal men, both in and
out of Congress; and the banefulconse
quence predicted by them.
There has been a very remarkable ful
filment of federal prediction. What then ?
Shall we call this a federal triumph ? ” God
forbid.” Every good man could wish that
those predictions had been falsified by sub
sequent events* rather than that they should
have been verified,as they havqjseen, in the
woeful impoverishment and dtoftipment of
our country. A triumph!— .No. AVould a
co-proprietor in a fine ship and ffihh cargo,
himself a passenger In the ship, contotr
quencas predicted. ft wastry told that It
would *• grind the faces of the poor,’* and
imfxnrerish meu of property; that it would
deeply'effect the former and reechanick,
as well as the merchant and shipper ; that
it would exhaust the treasury, destroy thy
means of self-defence, and distress the
whole country. That, on the other hand it
would Injure Great-Britain, against which
it was aimed, ten times less than it would
hurt ourselves. It has happened as was
foretold. The dreadful effects-of the em
bargo will long, very long, be felt by our
nation; perhaps for mor* than twenty or
even thirty years to come. In the mean
While Britain and some of her dependen
cies, throve mightily under it. The lu
crative carrying trade which America had
resigned, Britain engrossed: and her ves
seis never had so full and so profitable em
ployment. And whilst ear ports were all
shut, and were strictly guarded by gun
boats, by swarms of naval officers, and by
an armed soldiery; the ports of Britain
and of her colonies exhibited to view unu
sual bustle and business. The value of ex
ports from Quebeck, increased in two years
(fatal years to us.') nearly three million
dollars. This was bringing England upon
her marrow boxes, as was pretended by
hair-brain’d politicians. Sowhen the non
intercourse law passed, it was fully shown
that it would impoverish and distress our
selves, and none else.
Thirteen Cardinals, banished from Paris,
are confined in the fortress of Ham, Bcc.
where they are to live in exclusion.
General Morand’s French division in this
city consists of 8000 infantry, and 600 ar
tillery.
All publick and private carriage, and
passports are strictly examined at all the
barriers of Paris.
A decisive battle has been fought be
tween the Russians and Turks on the right
bank of the Danube. The Grand Vizier,
beaten, had retired to Adrianople; and
Silistria had capitulated. To obtain peace
the Turks must cede Moldavia and Wal
lachia.
The English continue to blockade Corfu ;
but the garrison, several thousands strong,
under General Dunseiot, are fail uf confi
dence.
We expect good news from Catebria.—
Our army Ison the Strait of Messina, and
our gun -boat* line the coast from Sciilo to
Reggio. An east wind will carry our troops
across the Strait in half an hour; and the
foreign intelligence,
Received by arrival* at Botton.
HAMBURG, July 18.
VIENNA, June 30.
NAPLES, June If.
LONDON, July 26.$
The continental papers represent the
losses by the fire at the Austrian Ambassa
dour’s in Paris, to have been more calam
itous than has been represented in the Pa
ris papers. The Ambassadour was very
much burned and wounded. Prince Kura
kin was burnt in the hand and feet. The
Prussian Minister, Krosenark, was also
wounded. The Princess of Leyen, wife of
the Russian Consul, is since dead of her
wounds. It is reported, that this fire was
not the effect of accident, but the work of
an incendiary; but nothing can be more
likely, than that some part of the light
drapery of a temporary bail room should
be blown in contact with some one of the
numerous lights with which such places are
illuminated.
Yesterday the Austrian Ambassadour,
Prince Schwartcnburg gave a grand fete,
at which the Emperour, Empress, and all
the Imperial and Royal personages were
invited. Twelve hundred assembled—to
accommodate whom the Prince caused a
temporary ball room to be erected in his
garden, which was covered with gauze,
muslin and other light stuffs. During the
dancing of a Scotch reel, when the Em
perour and Empress were at different parts
of the saloon, the drapery of a window
curtain near the Emperour took fire from a
candle. Many of the attending officers en
deavoured to tear off the curtain* but the
flames ascended so rapidly as to be instant
ly out of reach.. The Emperour imme
diately went to the Empress who was in
her chair, where they were surrounded
with the Austrian and other Ambassadours,
&c. acquainted of their danger, and
quested to retire; which the Emperouv
did slowly, recommending calmness to pre
vent disorder. The fire spread like light
ning ; but the avenues were numerous, and
the company easily escaped into the gar
den. The separation, however, of mothers
from their daughters, who were dancing,
occasioned a scene of great distress and in
quiry. The fire was so rapid, that the
Queen of Naples having fallen, was only
saved by the presence of mind of the Grand
Duke of Wartsburg. The Queen of West
phalia was carried from the saloon by the
King and Count Metternich. The Vice
roy of (;aly, with the Vicequeen, perceiving
the fair M the lustres and ceilings, escaped
by a back dqor into the hotel. The Prince
Kurakin, tMkßussian Minister, the ladies
of the Russum Consul, Baron Tousard, and
the Prefect of Istria, were injured by falls.
The Princess Pauline Schwartenburg
(sister-in-law of the Austrian Ambassa
dour) I<*» her life. She was among the
last who remained in the ball-room, and
was leading one of her daughters out, when
a piece of burning wood fell on her daugh
ter, which a man took up and threw away.
In the confusion, the Princes was hurried
into the garden; missing her daughter,
she flew in search of her, and heroically
entering the burning saloon, where she
perished, and was found the next morning
greatly disfigured, being known by her dia
monds and the medallion of het children,
which she wore on her neck. Her husband
had been in of her all night. She
was a daughter of the Se
nator mother of eight chil
dren, and four months advanced in preg->
nancy.
On the Ist July, previous to his abdica
tion of the throne of Holland, the cidevant
King Louis addressed a loftg note to the
Legislative Body of that mock kingdom ;
in which he recounts the tyrannical mea
sures directed by his brother, the Empe
rour of France, against Holland, irf cover
ing its territory with a mercenary army,
and gangs of French Custom-House officers.
He declares that it was his, [Louis’] re
fusal to permit these gangs, contrary to
treaty, to prowl over his kingdom, and his
opposition to the occupancy bf Amsterdam,
hy French troops, that had provoked hh
brother; and induced him, (the Emperour,)
to order troops to take possession of the
capital. In this situation Louis declares
he could no longer wear the crown, and
had taken the fixed resolution to resign it
in favour of Els son, Louis Napoleon. He
adds his hopes, that this measure will tend
to reconcile France and Holland, and that
his brother so violently irritated against
him, will not be so against bis children;
and exhorts the Hollanders to receive the
F rench troops with kindness, and to tseat
them as the best friends of Holland.
Such is the substance of this note—
Whether it be true, or whether it be the
juggling of an arch hypocrite and dupe to
furnish Napoleon for a pretence to seize on
Holland, and melt it down in his great na
tion destroying crucible, let the world, who
have eyes and ears, judge.
shores and currents therein, prevent the
English fleet from jnanmuvring.
On the 9th July, the French Emperour
decreed, that Holland should be annexed
to the French Empire ; that it should have
six Deputies in the Senate, six in the Coun
cil of Bute, and 25 in the Legislative Body;
July 28.
AFFAIRS OF HOLLAND.
HOLLAND NO MORE !
DISTRESSING FIRE.
. PARIS, July 2.
The Marquis de Yrujo, who is at Brazil,
has informed the government here, that
the Spanish Minister in the United States
had advised him, that there were many
emissaries' of King Joseph, in Baltimore,
endeavouring to come to this country : chia
information will subject the Aafrrican ves
seis coming here to unpleasant search and
detention.
News has reached Montevideo, of the
establishment of a Council of Regency in
Leon, that city had acktffihrledged the Re
and refused to have any thing to
de with the popular Junta established here.
June 9.—The Junta Bts been sitting all
the day, and baa declared that they will
not acknowledge the Regency, the au
diencia, (or Counsellors of the Kings and
Judges.) wanted to lime a proclamation,
to invite the people to acknowledge the
Regency, and the Junta, without ceremony,
ba ve ordered that the priuttog-oAceo should
be shqt up.
that the Duke of Placentia (Le Bran, the
Ex-Consul) should be Lieutenant-General
of the Department, and that Amsterdam
should rank as the third city of the Em
pire. Th* Dutch department of foreign
affairs is abolished, Ute ether officers arc
continued, but are to be filled by French
men. The Dutch Royal guards, (3000,)
have marched for Spain; and Amsterdam
is garrisoned with twenty thousand French
soldiers, billeted on the inhabitants, who
are compelled to furnish each one, daily,
with 24 ounces of bread, a gill of - gin, two
ounces of vegetables, eight ounces of meat
and a pot of beans. The young Dutchmen
are to be conscripted for soldiers. Eveny
Dutch fishing boat is to Carry a French
soldier in it, and if any one is defected in
smuggling, then a general embargo its to be
laid on all \bsfohing vcoeelo ! •
On Monday we published an account of
the revolution at Buenos-Ayres, and the
various occurrences from the 15th to the
30th of May inclusive. As every circum
stance relating to Spanish America at the
present crisis must be peculiai ly interesting
to our readers, we copy from the Aurora
the following additional particulars which
extend the narrative to the 10th of June.
June B.—AMfifee of the popular Junta
is the reducoon of
ih« duties dWfeqpd. on hides, tallow,
&c. and pub
lished Gazette, through
which the Junta intend to inform die peo
ple of every thing which concerns their
interests, and of the measures of this gov
ernment
hie friend in thio city, dated the 29 th
June, 1810.
I have to inform you that this govern
ment have received advices from View-Ad
miral Rowley, commanding his Britannicfe
Majesty’s naval forces on the Jamaica sta
tion, that be, having received information
of the arrival at Philadelphia of General
Rigaud, and *many other passengers And
French officers, for the purpose of trans
ferring themselves to the Island of St. Do
mingo, with a view to strengthen the French
party in that Island, as well as to gain a
footing in our American possessions, taae«
duce the loyal subjects and endeavour to
separate, them from the dominatico of our
august sovereign Ferdinand VIL had issued
orders to all the cruisers on his station ta
examin* every vessel My should moot, in
the strictest manner, for the aforeaaiA em
issaries, and to detain every Frenrhmun m
met with, that could not give a satisfactory
account of the object of his voyage.
I can at the same time communicate to
you another fresh proof of the siuoerc in
terest which the government of his Brtlan
niek Majesty feels towards our eouhtry*—
This government having received the offi
cial information that the municipality of
Caraccas bad thought fit to declare them
selves Independent of the mother country,
the solemn Protests made by the
districts of Coro, and Mara cay bo against
such unlawful proceedings, has openly anA
freely disapproved of the proceedings at
Caraecas, declaring to oar government la
the moat positive end unequivocal terms, .
that it Is the intention of his Britannick Ma
jesty to maintain the integrity of the Span
ish monarchy by opposing eveyy attempt
at independence by any of oar ultramarine
possessions, as long as Spain shall not b»
totally and completely subjugated by the
French, which avent this government hope
never will be realised.
By our latest advices from the peninsula,
nothing material had occurred up to the
middle of this month. By the advices we
have from France, it appears that some
divisions of the army on their march to
wards Spain, had received orders to g« in
to Brittany, where, it is stated, a largo en
campment is to be shortly made. The
latest advices from Germany principally
relate to the new alliance that is forming
between France and Austria, which haa
for its. object the dismemberment of the
Ottoman empire.”
Extract of a letter from a Spanish gentle-
Mm qfhigh reopevtability. in London, to
PHILADELPHIA, August 30.
NEW-YORK, August 31.
BUENOS-AYRES.
23ji tije JBailJt.