The Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1810-09-26 00:00:00, page 2

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From a to desire make the people of England ac-
Quainted with Treland, of which they know worse
thad nathing, receiving as they do, all their secounts
through the wedium of « deseription of persons, in
the constant habit of calumniating the people ; and
from a wish to give the people ofF England t?temeuu
of lm-miuf: a judgment gzwccn' the government of
trelaid (during the regdence thereof of Lord’s Cam.
cden and Cornwallis) uwd me, it cannot, especially at
=his moment,be thought obirusive in me to lay before
@ just, but prejudiced publick, a futhful Narrative
ol those facts, which took place in my particular,
commencing on the 28th of December, 1796, and
ehding on the Bth of M.y, 1803 ; a space of nearly
v years, during the whole of which time a continuel
Lire of persceution was kept up at me. Conner-Vil'e,
the former plice of my residence, is situated about
14 miles from Bantry-Buy, where u French fleet made
Ats uppearsnce on the 23d of December, 1796, 1o
obpise w Linding of these troops on board this fleet,
about 5000 of the teish militia hud advanced and oc
cupicd the villages about nie. For the manner in
which my tenants, my feiends, and myseif treated
these men, 1 referto Jnc pruiegyrics in tfnc Houses of
Farlisment in England and Ireland it the time. We
checred them in their distress ; we administered to
iheir wints, of which they had no ordinary share
On the 27¢h of December, about 9 o’clock at night,
such a hideous nizht as my remembrance cannot par
rellel, ¥wasinformed that my porter’s lodges were
2all of soldiers in quest of quarters, T went to them.
“They were in a sud phight. 1 found them to be two
companies of the Westord militia, with 7 or 8 offieers.
Day or night, rough or smooth, my countrymen were
welcome to me. [ had then a large house, well
#itored. I was in the midac of plenty ; full of happi
xiess, 1 brought uil the men to my house. My mind
s no register of the time they remained with me,
nor what 1 did for them, My tenents were very
pood to those with them. My friends (that was the
whole country far and wide) opened their doors to
this native army ; let them want for nothing ; and
even when the terror of iavasion had subsided, my
lenants and myself’ presented the poor fellows with
the billet money, to which we were entitled, o buy
them shoes and stockings. 1 did my utmost to make
die situation of the officers as comfortable as possi
dle ; and this 1 will say, that I received from all,
snore thanks than were due, and experienced their
wratitude far exceeding the obligation, 1 learned
Aterwands, that these officers (strangers heretofore
to me) had been directed by some agitators, to my
house, in the expectation of my not admitting them,
which was the opinion also of all the officers in that
acmy. 1 daie suy, such of them as live at this day,
will acknowledge that they received a more hearty
welenmne at Connor-Ville, than at the house of the
most “ loyal” man in Ireland ; that is, the man that
has the largest pension, or most lucrative sinecure,
wrr post in gnc Kingdom. Whilst this division of the
avmy was in their cantonments, in my neighbourhood,
wnen the men lost their muskets, bayonets, and am
ayunition, which frequently lmpponetr. they came to
me; | had the things restored to them, Tfl'e soldiers
became attuched to me. Long, indeed always, be
fore these events, Ihad been an object of great jea-
Jousy und hatred ; I hud ever been in the habit of
committing a crying sin in Ircland. § had borne my
#olf 50 to all the people, that they were greatly at
tuched to me~l had appointed arbitrators in every
parish, through an immense districty, who decided all
controversies ; the sitnation of the puuy-ﬁ?;ging law.
ver was nearly gone ; 1 curbed the rise of drunken
ness ;I prevented riots ; 1 did all the good 1 could.,
LWowill not, thercfore, surprize rany person, in the
lewst conversunt with the character or complexion of
the ruling factions in Ireland, that I was an abomina
tion 1o them ; and when to these vices, in their eyes,
die thanks of the poor soldiers were superadded, my
&imes were not to be endured, and I became an ob
ject of suspicion and distrust, In this state of things
§lxe French force having left the coast) a young man
rom my neighbourhood had gone in the beginning of
Murch, to sce some friends o'g his at Bantry, where
be was urrested for administering the Oath of Union.
On ln-in{ qaestioned, he acknowledged, that he had
received it fram my Steward, w lad not more than 18
years of age, who was also arrested ; and both were
conveyed to the prison of Cor., where every meuns
were used to extort confessions from them 10 impli
cale me~They declared, however, that | was the
dast person to whom they would disclose any thin
of the kind —~Tueir honesy and persistence in trmﬁ
were oulled treason to their country, and attachment
to me; and & Council was calied together in Dublin
at which it wus determined, that Fwas very danger.
eus, and a warrant way issned Lo arrest me on suapi
eion, the act of Habeus Corpus being at the time
susoended.
The sceret, however, was not well kept. 1 discov
ercd the plot. Tiay down in my own house the
might on which I kiew that un attempt was to be
mudle 1o seize on me by ularge detatchment of horse
(attended by lords, esquires, and generals und their
ataffy) and before they had marched half a mile from
their quarters, I was (at a distance of 12 miles) ap
prized of their having set out. They made thewr
scarch for me, und a considerable depot of arms,
which they were infurmed were seerete | in the lofis
and cellars of my house ; neither were there, and
they marched back. The next day [ wrote to the
duldyge, who was then holding (he assizes at Cork,
saying, that, *““ if he would give me assurances of a
rRIAL then, for any thing that could be alledged
agamst m=, T would go to him, otherwise that I
would not surrender.”
As he was not authorized to give me the assurance
Idemunded, and as 1 preferred the liberty of the
common air, and the use of my own limbs, (o unlim
sted imprisonment, [ stood out, till the latter end of
April, when ﬁndinf; my health somewh .t hurt from
the manner of my living, particularly from damp, 1
left home and came to England, on the 27th of Ap. il
where | remuined till the middie of June, when | re
weived advice from home, that several of my tenants,
#nd others of the poor people to the amount of 51,
had been flung into prison, and that two anhappy
men had been induced to swear against them: The
same packet contuined also a proclamation that had
been issued by Lond Comden on the 170 of May,
hefore, inviting every person 1o come m and suerens
dor, and give secarity for the peace, or an ussur ance
of bang ne further questioned Veey happy at (e op
o tunity, this Proctamation afforded me, 1o deves
ﬁ\pc the conspiracy agminst the people in prison, and
to aid thom in thewr defionce, T recurned to Leeland,
surrendcred myself at Mallow, ty Lord Kinsale and
Sir Jumes Cotton, op the fith of the Proelamation ;
pe-formad the terms required of me, which was to
gve bail to be of the peace fur seven years, of all
which Lapprizad Lord Camden, and his Secretary,
and Mr Pelhan, now Lord Chichester, the 18'h of
June —From Mullow T went bome on the sthof July;
and on the Ldh was arrested by Brigadier General
F re Coote, at his camp, whither he had invited m».,
Betore he detained me, he looked for greag certainv
into his orderly book, and there foumﬁ (as he said,)
Jan order, dated the Ist of July, to arest me. On
bis haviog done so, he was at a loss what to do with
ane, and sttended me to Bawdon, where [ w.s to're.
“main Gl he shoald hiear from Dablin, O the 3d Ao
of my stay in Bawdon, 1 received a letter from My
Pelham, dated in Dablin the same day 1 was arvesiod
at the Camp near Bawdoa, 180 miles from wwn, say
g that Lord Camden wished much (0 see me in
D iblin, and g, if 1 would comply, Imight depend
apon Ny rroon being perfectly safe from arcest,
and that 1 should be permitted to return home imme
mcly.. This ictter | communicated to Me. Coote,
onidy What e government dd not know of my
MR. O'CCNNOR’s NARRATIVE.
arrest, ot the-fime Mr. Pelham wrote, Yo ebulgl net
lct me go till he received an answer from Dublin te
his letter, apprizing the government of my being in
custody, In a few days be reccived his orders;
which were to send a military officer to attend me,
and Capt. Roche and I ket out for Dublin.—The Capt,
had & sword, and he had on his sash and gorget.
There is a high hill between Bawdon and Cax ; we
alighted from our carriage ; it is a place of rendez
vous , some 20 or 30 carriers were assewbled here 3
they had not scen me since my return fiom England.
Capt. Roche first saw his danger, his sword could
not defend him, his sash and iorget could wot pro.
tect him. 1 perceived the workings of his mud, a
look of kindness from me to him would save his life
I superadded o word of estcem, Capt. Roche was
not molested, We arrived in Cork that evening,
where we halied for the night. A man of the city
sot wccess tome. Cork is the place of my nativity,
1 had friends there ; wouid thut every man could
say the same where he is be t known ! I discovered,
hat it was intended to ofier violence to Capt. Roche,
I prevented it, [ took him in safety to Dubln. On
our way we called at the comp at Arvdfinnan, where
the Wexford militia lay. ~All the officers requested
of Capt. Roche to tell Lord Camden the services 1
rendered them, and the thanks they owed me, We
arrived in Dublin, and saw Lord Chichester, who hib
erated me from arrest, 4 wrote to Mr. Coote that |
was not to be molested again~l returned home, und
it the begining of Sep ember, 1 wentto the assizes
of Cork for the purpose of defending my tenents a
gainst the conspir-cy before meniioned. 1 scnt them
all 1o their homes, and prosccuibd the witnesses,
who weve bo'h transported for perjury, te Botany Buv.
1 now heped (o enjoy with my iwniy, that peace,
which innocence hasa rigu to expect, 1 was cruel
ly deevived, An unsigned, unsworn-to paper, was
sent up to the Grand Jury, on the 17 day of the as.
sizes, when iwo of the judges had left the country,
wnd a bill of indictment was found against me, for
High Treason. On this paper 1 was arrested,and Aung
mto prison, where in a dungeonnine feet square, filthy
beyond description, I lay rotting for 7 months, never
having felt the influence of the sun, nor breathed on
by the air, during the whole time; st the end of
which, I was conveyed from this dungeon to the
court 10 go through * a trial” upon charges of every
species of Treason and Webellion. Two witnesses
were brouglit up, under o strong military guard.
They were swomn, What did they depose ! 7That
they knew nething of me ; that one of \Lese pepers
was written without the knowledge of the witnesses ;
that, when it was rewd to hin, he declared 1t to be
false, and refused te swear to it ; that he was ofier
ed 300 L a year to swear to it, and threatened to be
instantly shot, if he persisted in his refussl, «nd he
did presist. The other witness swore, that what was
called his information, was all written down without
consuliing him ; that, when he retused to sign it, he
was threatened to be hanged; and that, at length,he
was prevailed on to put his nume to iy, on his receiv:
ing an assurance that it never was to appear, and
that it was only & matter of form.—l was acquitied
mstantly, All the people, all the military, expirossed
their juy ; the judge trembled ; he was seen sireatch
ing out his imploring arms from the bench to me,
the dock, amongst robbers «nd murderers; he w.s
heard to ery to me for mercy to proiect hmj and I
did protect him ; not a hair of his heud was touched.
On my being relessced, T did not return even to my
house ; Idid not even tuke one day's repose. No!
my beloved brother was a prisoner at M.adstone ; he
is one year younger than I am ; we were jeared and
educuted together ; never one day or might apart for
18 years, The thought of him bumishod cvery other
idea from my mind ; Iset off to him thot yery wught;
arrived in Londen in 4 days, as quickly as 1 could
travel T wrote to the Duke of Portand {or perms
sion to be admitted to my brother; I received s
answer ut five o'clock next mormng, by JSiour King's
messengers with a warrant to arrest me ; i fion my
bed was I tuken to the house of Mr. Syivester ; and
that evening was I tuken off for Irelund. W Janded
about ten miles from Dubling «t night; T saved Mr.
Sylvester and the Bond-street Constubic, my con-
Eunion from o watery grave, ana conduced them
oth sufe to Pubiin, where we arrived o o'ciock In
the moining. 1 now, tor the first umie since 1 lett
London, lay down, «nd hid not beeninmy bed more
than three hours, when Mr, Sylvester awcL d me, W
- tell me, thut snother King's messenger, had, that
~moment, arrived from the Duke of Portland, to take
me back instantly ta London. This was about 7 o'clk.
} in the morming ; about 12, Mr. Sylvesisr informed
i mc, that Mr. Cooke desired to sce me at the castle
~ Murk the mswability of fortune. Behold O'Connor,
~ brought by a Constable (o huve the liberty of being
adwiited to the presence of My, Edward Coske ! |
- did see him ; the interview was not of long duration ;
the conversation was not of many words; but it is
important. T asked him the meaning of these pro
ceedings ; what post haste treason | had conmitieu
in the ﬁ:sw days that T travelled from Cork 1o London,
about Four Hundred miles Hear his answer,
“ We do not pretend to have any charge agumnst
“ you; but we know your power, and suspect your
“ inclination ; had my advice been taken, you should
“ not have been brought to trial in Cork. gl y opinioh
¢ was, that you should have been kept in confinement
“ under the suspension of the habeus corpus act, and
“ it now dppears 1 was rvight.” Well, that ufier
noon, about 2 o'clock, I was obliged to sct oft’ buck
again towards London, where we arrived on the
fourth morning, having been forced to perform
journies of nearly 1200 milcs, and cross the Irish
sea three times, in thirteen days and nights, during
the whole of which time I never was permitted (o
take off’ my clothes, nor to lay down for more than
seven hours ! T was kept in custody at the house of
M. Sylvester till my brother’s acquital at Maidstone,
when we were both taken to Dublin, where we were
lodged in the same prison roon, on the 2d day of
June, 1798.—1 n July a special commission was opencd
in Dublin, for the trialof all those aguinst whom any
charges had been exhibited, amongst whom neither
my brother nor T were. Thice hid been exeenred.—
Mr. Byrne, & relition of the Muarchioness of Buck.
ingham, was condemned, and wis to be executed
on the 24th July. Oy Sunday, the 224, some
Negoeiawon was set on foo', ira Way never yet as.
certained, between the government and some of the
state prisoners in Dobling of which it appesrs that
neither my brother nor I had any intimation Gl Tues
day when Mo Doobs and the Sheriff of Dablin enter
ed our apartment,and shewed us a puper, purporting
tobe an acquiescence, on the part of seventytluee
of the prisoners, to give information of any arms,
ammunition and plans of warfare ; and to emigrate,
on condition of a general amnesty, and of pardon
fior Mr Borne, who was to die that day, and For M
Oliver Bond, who was, at that moment, on his trial,
if he snovro be condsmned. My brother and 1 de.
clined entering into any arreement. Mr, Byrne was
ardered far instant excention, which instantly took
place; Mr, Bond was to die on the Friday. We
heard no more of the paper til! Thursday evening
late ; when the ssme Mr Dobbs, sccompanied by
Me. Samual Nelson. one of the prisoners from anoth
er of the prisons, came to that where my brother
and [lay. Al the prisoncrs were called together ;
Mr. Dobhs producrcr a letter he had ‘\m received
frem Mpr. Cooke, stating, * that if my her and 1
would enter into a treaty with the government, by
which we should engage to give every information in®
ourpower of all matters relating to the rebellion, and
particalarly our relations vith"’\ng”‘&m. there
should be a general amnesty—Mr. shoukl be
pardoned, and we should be permitted to emigrate
to any conntry not at war vum; but that, if
we persisted in our refusal, commissions
should be issqed in the north,- for the trial of the prise
wners, there, the courty shonld precved in Poblin, and
the yeom should remain en ective dury” We
both rcfn::z We said, if there are any charges
aguinst us, procecd upon them. Why proceed a
goinst others, betause we Wil not enter into any ne
jations ?We went te our own room, whither Mr
&bs resently came. He represented to us the
drndfu‘nu:u of sisughter ind devastation that
ould follow close upon our declaration. It appears
ﬁm my brother was influenced by these considerations
and 1o save .n unarmed people, he consented to sac
tifice himeelf ; but 1 heard these proposais
and threats with a very different ear. My answer
was, that 1 set ut defiance all thewr machinations ;
that 1 was ready 1o meer any charge that ceuld be
brought cgainst me ; but thit 1 never would enter
into any agreement with the castle of Dublin during
my life. Nothing now was left unaticmpted to -
duce mie, by very fawr promiscs, or to intimidate me
by the most allwniing threats to sign this agreement.
Jill were unavailing At length Mr. MAusne ~ came,
u 8 it secretly ond us « friend, to let me know what,
by ehunces, he had hcard at the Castle. “Lhaiit was
deiermined to seize my estate, if 1 did not conply.
My answer was, tha I was prepurcd against every
thing ; that 1 was resolved never to comply.~ln con
sequence of which, oracrs were dispatchied to &
officer cor mandmg at Bawdon, 1o send detachment
of horse and foot 10 tuke possession of my house,
which they did to the smount of between 2 and 300
nen; they expelled Afour of my infunt cliidren and
wy setvams; the officers brohe open Iwy cellars,
drank ali my wine; they ordered the men to kil
my sheep and oxen, on which the whole party sub
sisted ; they converted ny iron gautes into shoes for
their horses; they made firing of windows, doors,
and frames of the house and offices ; burned all ny
farming utensiis ; destroyed my gardens, and the
wall trees, the hot house, the preen house, and all
the plants; turning all their horscs out into young
plantations, which were all ruined ; stole every thing
moveable ; and committed every species of devausta
non-for eight or nine weeks that they iemauined there ;
for which | never received one penny as renunieras
tony trom that day to this, After tgis visitation, it
was sgain demanded of me to sign the puper. My
answer was still the same. Sull was I kept a pris
oney; and when those who had entered into the ]
agreement where sent to Scotland, 1 was forced
by Justice Atkinson, and a company of Bucking
hamshae Militia, at the very pomt of the Buayonet,
ino a coach, conveyed on board a tender, and con
ducred 1o Fort-George, in which militury garrison 1
was kept for & year and ten menths, where by the
lenient trewiment 1 ceceved, 1 lost the use of my
limbs, and wus reduced to the very verge of life ;
at the end of which time 1 wus brought to London,
and Ler co on the 24th of Junuary, 1801, upon
a di€adtul recogniz.nce Lo some Immense amount,
not te retwrn to Ireland, and to reside in such part
of England as the King of England should, f{‘om
time to ume, appoiny, (and Middiesex was named)
during the then war. Itook a house n Soulhgate,
m Middlesex, where 1 resided for half a year; but
having no land there, Ilooked ont for a place with
Lind te occupy my time. 1 found one to suit me ut
Elbree. As 1 wus a stranger, and as the rent a
wountea 10 5004 a yebr, T applied 10 my old fiiend
Stk Frasxcis Buvkpert, who immt'di‘.ncly became
ny security, theie I hved for one year, when, the
treaty of Amiens tuking place, 1 was desirpus of
returning (o my own country, and applied to Sir
Kicbard Foird, he magistrate, before whom 1 ac
kiow cdged the recognizance, to get it up Jn wamn.
Atter muny fruitiess eflorts, he, atlength, informed
me, that it was determined mever to give it up, as
long as I retuined the power of liming in the South
af irelund 1 judged 1t betrer to part with Connor-
Vinee, than be shut out from my country. 1 got A
Lice (& to go to Iréwand, and on the Ist of May,
18,3 1 let a lease forever of the place of my earliest
Tdoys. Whercupon, I got up my recognizance iine
vodiately, 1 purchased, for forty thousand pounds,
Jrom Lovd Vi ellesley, he Castle and Fstate of Dux
cAN, withit a few wiles of Dublin, where 1 have
cesided with my faumily ever since, coming over oc
casionally 1o visit Sir Francis Burdety, and « few
otler frienas n England, where, though I have is
tutdn » Thave never been known, directly nor indirect
ly, to interfcre in any concerns of the country. 1
never attended a publick meeting or a publick din
ner; though 1 have many friends, 1 seldomn wssociate
with any one but Sir Francis Burdett and his family.
—My forture is ample ; and peither I nor any one
of my family, ever eat one morsel that was not pro
duced from our ewn esiates. W never received any
of the people’s moncy, in the shape of pensions and
places, nor was any man’s meal or comforts ever
diminished by oné of us. Surely, then, 1 must be
¢ most digoyal traiter ! In fine, many, very many,
of the people ot Lielund love me. 1 surrendered on
the solcmn faith of a proclamation, which faith, to
wards me, was broken; I protected Capt. Roche ; 1
definded the Judge ; Isaved Mr. Sylwester and the
~ Bow.strect Consicble ; There is no kind of place that
has not been ny prison: my own house, car ps,
gu:.rd-houses, taverns and hotels ; castles, wherries,
Kalkt't bosts, messenger’s houses, court houses,
ride wells, stute prisons (us they are ealled) tenders,
garrisons, palaces ; and, us a prisoner, have I been
travelled sbout from my own house in the south to
Carrick Fergus in the north of Ireland; from the
wesiern exiremity of Wales, to Maidstone, nearly
the exstern extremity of England; from Dublin te
Fori. George in Scotland ; within forty miles of John
o'Grot’s house, to London. In mail coaches hack
ney coaches, postcarriages, and carts ; on foet and,
on horschack. And all because (for I know of no
other causc) that, ten years before the French
Revolution, | saw the absolute necessity of a refirm
mn the Commons in Ireland, which was acknowledged
afterwards by the fuctions of England and Ireland
~and because 1 would not consent to a legislative une.
ion, which I regarded as equally ruinous to both
purts of the kingdom. On the wzolc, then, let the
people of Englund, new that they are in possession of
their sober senses, decide between my accusers and
ne ; whether the laws were infringéd by me, who
have gene through cvcvg ordeal, who have always
conrted mvestigation and enquiry ; who for veurs
. WEVEWR CEASED TO DEMAND TRIAL; orby Tuem
- who souht the protection of & sILL oF lN!;l‘-ln'r\',
! pesed by an Asscmbly of which they themseives,
- made a part”
‘Such, reader, is the political history, such
are the erimes of Mr. O’Conxor : such is
the person, to have had whom in his house,
at the time when the army stormed it, was,
if the publick had been stili fools enough, 10
he set down to the account of Sir Francis,and
98 prool presumtive, at least, that be hud
wicked designs, designs against the peace
and safety of the country ! Reader, if you be
an Englfshmm, and have neither job, nor
contract, nor place, nor unmerited pension,
nor defaleation m your acconnts wich the pub
lick ; in short, if you profit from no species
of publick robbery, say, how should vou like
to be treated as Mr. O'Connor was ! How
should you like this sort of treatment ! How
should you like to have your house, your gar
dens, your fields, your plantations, laid waste
and destroyed, as his were ! How should you
like to be hurried from prison to prison : to
be thrown into dungeon after dungeon ; and
when you demanded trial, refused that trial ?
“Buty surely, I need not ask these questions.
Well, then, is there to be ro feelug dor L
because he is an Jriskman ! Are we ready to
avow this to the Irish people I I trust pot J
I trust that we shall prove to that unfortenaie
peoplethat we feel forthem as for curselves 3
that we are as ready to resent their wrongs
as we are our own ; that, in a werd, we rc
gard them as our counirymen ; and thut we
are resolved to consider their emedrics as uir
enemies. This is the way to produce un
union with Ireland : a rec! union ; an unicn
of the hearts of the pcople of the wihcle
kingdom ; and this sort of union it is that tha
borrough-mongers and their Lirclings would
wish to prevept. Hitherto, indeed, they have
prevented it. xi'hcy have never missed ¢n -
pertunity of mis-representing the pecple b
Irelend. They have caused the peopie of Eng
land to believe, that those cf Irelund, weora
Lent upon a surrender cof their country to
Frunce, and that all their demands relating to
political and civil liberty, were mere fireter
ces. 'What evils have not sprung from this
accursed source ! I bescech the reader to coii~
sider, that it is not in nature, that the people
of Ireland should not hate us, if we persist
in our credence to these calurenies. It is, o
all hands agreed, that Ireland is cur vuluere
ble part. Does it not, then, become us 10
strengthen that part 3 to use all the means in
our power of regaining the goed will of the
Irish people, abd to induce them to make
common cause with us against the common
enemy ! And, what can be more opji-its to
this than reviving the memory of these cruel
times, 1o which Mr. O’Connor’s Narrative
refers ; than tearing the skin from the haid
ly-healed and hardly-hidden wound { Wit
he has said, he has been compelled to say. te
has been calumniated in the most founl and
infamous manner. To remain siient mighe
have been construed into & consciousness of
gullt.—His calumniators, therefore, are an
swerable for the revival of the memory of
that, which he was willipg should be forgor
ten, and which nothing but ®oveugh-monger
ing maulignity could have induced any one 1.
attempt to revive.
From the repeated exclamation of tory ga
zettes in this and other towns, it may be sup
posed the voice of the people of the very ine
fluential und important state of Rhode-Istand,
has declared in favour of Federulism, wlics
Potterism : that instead of electing men
friendly to the general gevernment, wen of
some acquired as well as natural abilities, to
lepresent them in congress, they (that is, n
insignificant majority) have thought best tg
prefer for one of their delegates, Elicka R
Potter,y of duelling memory. 1 wonder tha
Coleman, or his successour Zazarus, have
not yct headed their columns with the «in
phatick expressions thut there is “ anoticr
BTAR in the Fasty” another great luminary:,
that will eradicate the mists of correct prii
ciples and obliterate every vestige of repub.
heanism. It Potier is an acquisition to fed
eralism,if he strengthens the cause of his lot
tering purty, let Forter be emblematical of
the whole strength or force of his satellites.
even irom the focus of the Kssex-Junto, tc
the ali-poweriul, and very learned creatures
under the jurisdiction of that Junta in the
large and powetful state of Rhode-Island,
However, I should suppose before ihe tory
ediors exclaim too much of their important
strength which has recently been obmiaed in
Rhvde-Istand, that they hed beiter enquire
what and who the co-adjutors of federalisin
are, that have obtained their election. Every
one who cver saw Potter, or have heard Lim
speak in publick, must say, I must acknowl
edge. Mr. Printer, that he is a Cicero of
Khode-Island ; bis beautiful deportment, his
eloquence and oratory, cannot but strike tlie
beholder and hearer with surprize, especiai
ly a Khode-Island jury, when en Litile-Res: -
Hili (the seat of this eloquent and very inge
nious Mr. Potter.)
There was a candidate, once for membey:
of congress in that state (I dont say that it
was the orator Poster ) who, in order to gain
his election, told a Aarraganse: farmer, thit
if he weuld vote for him, that his barley
should fetch in Mawpore is. more in three
weeks, than it did at that time, because, says
he, I will remove the cursed embargo, 1 will
convince the President of the United States,
that he shall not distress our farmers, I will
overturn and turn over all the laws of the
head-strong demoerats, and I will cause gross
and corn to grow where now nothing bu¢
stone and stubble atiract our eyes, in conse
quence of the democratick laws and wicked
ness ! Oh ! what reasoning, what sublimity
of stile, and what exouisite argument. Sheuld
the great Mr. Porter, that bright luminary
or Star, of federal Rode-Jsland, that liberal
supporter of the christian religion of Lizeles
Kesty use as streng language in congress, as
the candidate above mentioned. what will be
come of our republicanism. The federal ed
itors have cause, 1 admit, of exultation.
Potter is clected a member of congress, the
politicks of two thirds of the people of the
United States must fall to rise no more.
I wish that you, Mr, Heir, through the
medium of the Columbian, would lequest this
great Statesman, 10 smother a little of his
eloquent powers, until I can get prepared to -
remove from the scene which will doubtless
ensue, waen he gets again upon the floor of
congress ; I fear the consequences, I trem
ble at the issue, and shudder at the though?
of being compelled to view this bright, this
wil-powerfol & Star of the East.” v
A POOR DISCONSOAATE DEMOCRAT
Botley, May 9, 1810,
“LORD, WHAT A FREBLE RACEY»
From the New-Yerk Columbian.
WILLIAM COBRBETD