The Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1810-05-09 00:00:00, page 2

“ Heder v nt, rervile voices were construin'd,
SIS B boprl e casemblics veign'd.
“ Conan s nd Didmaer with opposing micht
“ Hoin'd to con/wnd ond evertwrn thé vight : '
e ‘!'A);.l./‘ l}l-;m_l)‘ ! o"dm'"“. were m. 'lt‘ w.
“ 3 wd": i a«-tmple by theniseives were b
| 9 Neire dland Loran the venal feld retvrne,
“ ‘”." ﬁ‘.ﬂ“ kﬂ’m m“‘mm. » .
SOl ) . C‘M‘shcam
%At not e pedversion of the e al nature of
”."“““. ‘lra“f.;-vvh(kll pﬂm‘lplﬁwﬂld\ a state
o bor .a‘.g o lgeble to oneed tMy Ames,
2 er refeing ¢ “3mnm "ﬂ'v warst trausuctions of
1 :v’,-v ",c;iqn} : (l'.l‘ wnonay “:“ " l‘k.. "l.m
Acs e appe cnt in de Unied states ?
on being informed tht it is merely a picture
of the imaginalwp—'-ihat it hus no founda
tion W reality. 40 indecd A reader can dis
card the prepossession arising from the Au
thor’s niine, there .re in this extrat some
internal marks of inaccuricy. The accusa
tion of shamcless profigacy s in those broad.
~and general terms, which.so often shelter o
delusion. * No speeifick exam‘i)le of this sup
“posed profligucy is alleged. The remainder
of the paragragh may be clted as a curious
instouce of Judgment extinguished in the
bl.ze of Fancy. Our elcctions are heid in
the spring. T'he Spring starts an icea of til
luge @ tillage leads the lhoug‘lts to Summer
and that gives the hint of ar Lpidemick
From that moment the accessoriul imave:
beco » the principal figures. The tilluge
torns up noxious weed.—" The epidemick
be omes a mottal pestilences=The c/oction is
entire 'y pone from the mind ah ol the writ
er nd the remlcr—-—Notl’oi&n-uins but the
noxinus weeds and the postifence.
I'he two greuat vices, to which the experi
ence of anclent and modern. tiues, in uther
leln'l‘iﬁs has shewn pup'llj‘.l‘ elections to be
i wley wre bribery und vivicniee, 1 appeal now
to the conscidlisness of every citizen ol the
Conimonwenlth, Are the instunces of either,
Eommon in our Ylecidons 1 affiem win
“the 08t p(Ell'c«'t (.'Ullﬁ’:&'lllil' that '.hcy are €x
tenioy rale, Theve 1s sometines an ex
cess of zeal and su eathusi so of party spiri
in 1 vour of the respective condidates, ana
the newspapers on both sides are too ucoessi
ble o scureiity wnd calwmny against the per
sons whnose paues re held up lor the suli
fra eof the voters, ‘The generil election s
alw ys a 4 perigd of some ap dt 1100, and 1t stiine
\|i-,‘|¢~. andd Hlmqwns the .mll-s 'l'l ) ‘)'S\.lhll\
of nny mdivicuaas But 1 have no car o)
'bcln,;; contradicted wiaen | say thut our clec
tions ave remarkable 101 the purity, the wild
"ness and decorum with which they are cone
docied, It is inconcewable that @ man ac
quanted wiih the Roman History, in the age
of Cicero and Clodius shonld sy s M,
Aines does ay, that * those times were o
move corrupt than our own.”* .
Bat pertaps no one of these extracts de
‘serves more seriously to be reflected up‘on
than the filth==\Voich so explicitly asserts
that feder dismy, at the estabitshment of the
Constitution, was manef: stly founded on a mi -
» tok , i supposing the existence of virtue in
the peopie.
ft wos observed in a-former paper that the
fricads of Mr A mes, who with such inxious
industry have gathered all the gieanings of
the newspapers of late years, tor hasty cradi-
Liesy which he never avowed, and wio have
;abused the confidence ol private correspon
dence, by publis ung letters which on the fice
of thew appear confidential have at tne
same time omiteed from vids compliation one
of the most clo.ucent speeches, wnichy as a
publick mang as « Representitive of the Peo
glv. he ever made. Toe remark might have
cen much more extensive inits appiication.
It appites to all his speeches in Congress
feon the estublishment of the Government,
wiiil January 1794, In the first - Congress
objeots of great und lasting importance
were discussed. The administration ws
oruanized. The principles were settled, and
the constitution itseil was in some respects
n w moddelled. We are told by the learned
Brographer, and it is known to every man
wiose niemory can trace so far back the pro
‘gress of our history, that in all these discus
stons M. ,\mcs tovk an acu'vc and COl]SpiCU
os pirt.—Yet ol tiie speeches which he de
livered on those occsions, the Compilers of
this volume, hear€ not tlmughl one WUl‘lhy of
preservation until they come to that upoun
Mr., Mrolsox’s Commercial Resolutions,
Wiy all these omissions ! Wnd why this
ge<Cuon =t T'he why is as plain-as way to
girish church” “T'he compilers hold that
tl\bt.‘ ﬁ;\lcrulis_m which founded the n.tional con-
Btiution was manif stly founded on a mistake,
“T'hcy have renounced the principles of their
bt-t‘tcr days, and withhold from the publick
every thing which couid revive their influ
ence o recall their recollection. This de
generacy from the homwnncabie principles
Walch they once maiinadined, is not a new
P s pemenon in the ll‘lln!‘y o 6 p‘u'(ics, In all
froe commeries it is an event by no means un-
10 “doep o APLOWN O Tase mes’ 18 desenb.
ed by the Poct e, not with metaphors shout nox
fous y-_ella. andd eprdemick mlacl\lcl!u but with the
specifick ehsracters of truth,
¢ ‘“ Menswrague juris
g Vik e 2 hine leges. et pobis scita enictae ;
“ ke gum Connlibug tirbanies jurc Tyvibud ¢
“Mine o pracia fusces sectorgue fuvere '
S Ipes o momviive ¢ letalisgue ambitys wrbi,
* dinney el referens certaming Campo.
Arter thus formally. renouncing the origin
al peineiples of federalism, what has A secs
of A nerican politiciins substituted in their
stead £ The volume unon which I huve al
rcady bestowed so mtch®?consideration, and
which will yet re juire more, furnishes the
answer, 5 .
co nmon, and it calls (or the most watchiul
atcention of the gennine patiot. [t is by
similar derelictions of their principles, that
legi imate partics degencrate by degrees into
it Luing lactions and teeasonuble conspiras
rcle s,
out ol those fatioving hoprsy, which wou.d
| oot be vewized. Possibiy ‘M. Ames was un
willing himseif to look tuil in the fice tie ex
pedicots, whickhy on bis statements, alone ro
mained tor the redemption ol the couniy,
The ¢ssay on w British alitance, the danger
of American jiberty, “nd the review ol u luic
patnphiet on a Brivsh constitution, all discov-
for « dismemberment of the Uniony by « pian
which re ulred a muarary commander, ha
een very scriously proposcd to Me. Hami
tony, shorty belore fas desth, o had pirohs
Ly been known to Mr. Aues, though he saiu
nothing of 1t i s eutoyy of Hautlwn. 1 b
poper drawn by thls gentcm by previous iu
THE IXth numberof the Aiscellanea, con
tiined some general observations upon this
celebrated admited potm. I shall now pro
ceed to notice a few of those passages which
are thought to be péeunliarly excellent. The
first that will be cited, is that which mentions
Deloraine, upon his entering “ the moor at
Horseliehill,” in his way *to win the treasure
of the tomb.”
his meeliny with Col, Bure, m nilesuy anude;
o hat proposition. ind 1o « state ol things tor
Wiich it waus material to the publick, that bhe
shonid keep bis miiitary character un jues
tioned. He bad disapproved and rejected
the scheme of dismembermenty, and Mr. A,
g this work speaks of such an expretation,as
Oue of the first acts, on securing 4 majors
iy in the legislature, was W manilest their
hatred of popular elections, by tuldiag a very
important election irom the people, to exer
cise it themselves ;- to shew that tederalism
was. founded on a wistake, they undertock 1o
dictate (under the pretence of a” request,) to
the representatives of the people i Congress
how they sheuld act, and wien some of those
representatives discovered. in a firm, thougt
respectable manner, their sense of their own
rights and obligations to the people, they re
plied, with insulting contumncly. They have
attempted, and but for the negative of the
chiel’ magistrate, would have authorized di
rect and forcible resistance against the laws
of the Union. They kave countenanced the
grossest outrages committed aguinst us by
Gireat Brituin, and have not scrupled to call
aloud upon Congress to go to war with
France. They have openly avowed the in
tention of a partial association with some of
the neighbouring states, and to manifast their
select and exclusive love, they have fomented
local jealousies, and insiigated invidious ani
mosities against our fellow-citizens in other
parts of the Union.
My countrymen ! the seeds and the fruits
are both betore you. If the extracts at the
head of this paper are emphatic.lly republican
the leading measures of the Legislature have
been emphatically patriotick. They flow from
the same sources ; prostration to Britain,hor
rour of France, and contempt for the Ameri-«
can people. ,
Litevary Piscellany,
“ A moment now he slacked his speed,
A moment breathed his panting steed ;
D snddlefll‘lh and corslet gund.
‘ A:?r loosened in the sheath, his brand.
On nuntocrags the moonbeams gling,
Where Barnhill hewed his bed of fint ;
Who flung his outlawed limßs to rest,
Where falcons hang their giddy nest,
Mid cliffy, from whence bis cagle eve
© For many a league, his prey coald spy ;
Cliffs donbling, on their echoes boine
T e terrours of Uie rebber’s hom
er him entangled in the toils between s
premises wand Lis conclusions. Like the pog
tical image of Fear, he first luys a bewildercd
hand amid the chords, and then recoils, he
knows not why,
The « Dangers of American Liberty® is 4
fable withouta moral. It paints in the gloo
my colours of a disturbed imagination the
supposed evils of our condition ; and lubours
with painful argumentation to prove that
nene of the remedies or alleviationg which
minds of a healthier hue, had stiggested, can
have any efficacy to restore us to the.enjoy
ment of freedom. It indicates no remedy us
advisibie to be tried.~W hat was the réason
of this ?
In a free country the first step of ambitious
and disappointed lcaders, whose only resource
is in a revolution, must naturally be to nuke
the people dissatisfied with their conditione—
Vo persuade them that their situat.on is In
tolerable—"Tlhe next, to extinguish all theis
Lopes of its cmencgugnt from the natural
course of things, and existing institutions—
The third is Kevolution, Until the two first
are wecomplished, the instigators to the last
most often conceal, and sometimes disguise
the means for its accomplishment. :
A revolution, not in the administration, but
of the constitution, was obvivusly the only
remedy within the reach of human powers,
upon tie mind of Mr Ames. Tuking the
fucts and the principles exhibited iu this
teatise lor true, and the duty of lusurrection
against such a state of things tollows™ as an
jrresistible inference 3 but the tme was not
come when this might s-fcly be commiiied
0 paper. lis now known thal the projec
The practical comment upon these prin
ciples is to be tound, in the pubiicition of
these papers against the ciear injunciion ol
thelr author, and 1n the measures of the Mus
sachusetts Legislature, precipitated by the
men who belleve in the same doctrines.,
FOR THE RHODE-“ISLAND REPUBLICAN.
THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. "
“ Exv'n at the sound himself had made.”
MISCELLANEA, NO, XV
A Montreal paper of_the 26th ult. suys.—
A warrant has been given out by Oliver Ba
kery Esq. for the apprehension of Stephen
Burroughs, as an idle disorderly person ;
whereby the said Bu .Mgho was apprehended
and condemuned to one month’s confinement in
the House of . orrection, (which happened o
be the goal) at Three-Rivers—lt is expected
that before the expiration of (his perioil that
he will be disposed of in suth a manner tha
he will not afterwards trouble this Proviace
any more with his presence.
bragged about the federalism ix New-Eng
lund, they seem ull at once to be endowed
with a great degree of meakness They are
great lovers of Aarmony, at the present time.
They wish te Aarmonize the Reputlicans ont
of a House of Representatives, as they did in
Gov. Sullivan’s day, and then they would
knock down every democrat they could meet
with, out of pure love of Aarmoeny and good
order. (Anti. Monar.)
Itis amesing to see ‘how the feder al
‘wlars nave lowerved their tone. After
having threatened the destriction of the gove
ernment of the Union, and swaggered and
CLfTs, which for many a hur,.yec.
The warbling Dorie reed shall hear,
. When some sud swain shall teach the grove,
Anbition is no cure for love.”
I have seldom reen so beautiful deserip
tion of love as tie following. The fourth
line is musical s the light air of the warb
ling pipe.
The morning is painted in plowing colours,
and exhibits a mind susleptible of ruyal
charms.
The following passages have high clrims
apon the approbation of the reader. They
dispriey effort @ vigorous genius,
“ In peace, Love tunes the shepherd’s reed ;
In war, he mouats the warriow’s steed ;
Tri hiabis, in gay attire & seen ;
In hamlets, dances on the green.
Love rules the court, the eump, the grove,
. And men below, and saints above ;.
For Love 1s Heaven, and Heaven is Love.”
“ The sun had brightened Cheviot grey,
The sun had brightesed the Carter's side ;
And soon beneath the rising day
Smiled Branksome’s towers and Teviot’s tide.
The wild birds told their warbling lale,
And wakened every flower that blows ;
And peeped forth the viglet pale,
And spread her breast, the mountain rose :
And lovelier than the rose so red,
Yet paler than the violet pale,
She early left her sleepless Eed.
The fairest maid oF Teviotdale.”
“ But louder still the clamour grew,
And lovder still the minstrells blew,
When, from beneath the Greenwood tree,
Rode forth Lord Howard’s chivalry ;
His men at arms, with glaire w* lspear,
Brought up the intde’s glittering rear.
There many a vouthful knight, full keen
To gain his spurs, in arms was geen ;
With fuvourin his crest, or glove,
Memorial of his ladye love.”
B R R R e WYY
“ Now every English eye, intent
On Branksome's armed towers was bent ;
So near they were, that th=y might know
The straining harsh of each cross-bow ;
On battlement and bartizan®
Gleamed axe, and speur, and partisan ;
Falcan and culver,t on cuch tower,
Stoop prompt, their deadly hail to shower ;-
And fiashmg armour frequent broke
From eddying whirls of sable smoke,
Where, upon tower and turret head,
The seething pitch and molten lead
Reeked, like a witches cauldron, red.
While yet they gaze, the bridges fall,
The wicket opes, and from the wall
Rides forth the hoary Seneschal .
e e e T hie €veNing fell,
"I'waus hear the te of curfew bell ;
The air was mild, the wind wascalm,
The stream wus smooth, the dew was balm ;
E'en ihe rude watchman, on the tower,
Enjoyed and lessed the lovely hour.
Far wore fuir Murgaret loved and blessed
The hour of silence and of rest.
On the hagh turret, si tinf lone,
She waked at tinves, the lute’s soft tone ;
Touched a wild note, and all between
Thought of the bower of hawthorn’s green;
Her golden hair streamed free from band,
Her l%ir cheek rested on her hard,
Her blue eves sought thegwest afur,
For lovers love the ,wcl'n star.
“1s yon the star, o'er Ecnchryst Pen,
That rises slowly to her ken ;
And spreadng broad its wavering light,
Shakes its loose tresses on the night ?
Is yon red glare the western star ! “
0, "tis the gvucon blaze of war!
Searce could she draw her tightened breath,
For well she knew the fire of death!
“ ¥ne warder viewed it blazing strong,
And blew his war-note, loud and gong,
T4l at the high und haughty sound,
Kock, wood, and river, rung uround ;
The blust alarmed the fesgxﬁ'hall,
And startled forth the warrours all ;
Far downward, in the castle-yard,
Fud many a torch and cresset glared ;
And hielms and plumes, confusedly tossed,
Were in the blaze, half seen, half lost;
And spears, in wild disorder shook,
Like reeds beside a frozen brook.”
“ Now over Border, dale, and fell,
Full wide wnd fa, was terrour spread ;
For pathiess marsh, and mountuin cell,
The peasant lete his lowly shed,
Tue frightened flocks and herds were pent
Beneath the peel's rude battlement ;
And maids and matrons dropped the tear,
While ready warriours seized the spear.
From Branksome’s tower, the watchman’s eye
Dun wreaths of distunt smoke can spy, ,
Which, curling in the l’nsing sun, :
Shewced southern ravage was begun.”
0D T A T R g e
[ Condinued in mexe Number)
* Battlement. t.Ancient pieces of Artillery.
- . » » - - - - »
’ Lovpow, Mancu 13,
Letters from Oporto to the 2d inst. mention the
English and Portuguese armises to be in their former
positions without any expectation of coming into ca
sy contract mith the enemy. The rumour of war Y.
tween France and Russia L- wholly subsided. Let.
ters have been receiyed from Petersburgh, dated e
3d inst. Of war there is vot the slightest apprehen.
sion in that capital. Trade is somewbaa revived, the
exchange bas advanced to 17 and a fraction,.and
there i& a genpal hope in l:::slt *hat the restrictions
- Engiand, bewng increased,
o trade with 0 from being 1
Mr. Welleslcy had arrived from Fng! nd,
as ambassador to the ncw government. . Gen
Graham had also arrived, and superceded
Gen. Stewart. A large reinforcea.cutof Bit
tish troops was duily expected.
Nine English saips of war, viz. the Atlas
Zeulous, Triumph, Invimeible, Bulwark, 1 on
nant, Achilles, Temerrire, Culcdonia, two
frigates ; 10 Spanish and Portuguese ships
of war ; 80 sail of English merchantmen ;
50 do. American do ; 1 Papeaburger; 1
Hamburger ; 5 Austriuns, 60 Spuniards.tc.,
[ Philadelphia Gazette.] ©
It was rumored at Vienna, on the loth
March, that the Arch-Duke Joseph, wus (o
he king of Poland. The arrearages of the
late contributions en Austris, have been re
mitted to the emperour by Bonaparte.
South T'yrol is to be annexed to the king
dom of Italy. Gen. Arrighi, duke of Pucua,
and a relative of Napoleon, it 18 rumoured -
will be married to the princess Louisa Chare
lotte of Saxony. She was born June 28th
1794,
The Dutch funds on the 6th of March had
risen from 2 1-2 10 24 per cent, at Amster
dam.
Hanpau and Fulda are to be annexed to the.
Grand duchy of Frankfort. The Bavari.n
ariny is to be puton the peace estublishment,
In January last the Turks were said to be
raising a new army of 150,000 men. The
Russians, as reported, had advanced towarus'
Silistria and Griergiewo.
The march of the arch duchess Maria Lo
visa from Vienna to Paris has been in a style .
of unusual magunificence. The mock ceremeos
nials were periormed.-at Vienna on the second
Week of Murch. Her uncle was said to be
Bonaparte’s proxy.—This connubial tie will °
undoubrediy draw a close connexion between
the Donapartean dynasty and the house of Lor.
ratn. The celebrated Maria Theresa’ the
mortal enemy of France, never exuited wore
than when she bestowed her daughter Maria
Antoinete on Louis XVI. Can their union
be portentous of the fate of the cvne about to -
take place.
The garnment was conducted by the
Junta and the regency, in conjunction, the
former taking care, however, to retain tle
sole and absolute control of the finances. lan
conserjuénce of this, a‘ rypture had taken
place between Albuquerdue and the Junta—
Alburquerque had lost wuch of his populari
ty.
. The captain of the port had been taken up
and imprisoned, for a traitorous communic: «
tion with the enemy. P
Au alliance between France, Austria and
Sweden, is said to be about to take place, in
order to draw a closer connexion of the conti
nental confederacy —Pomerunia, it is said,
will be reswred. to Sweden.
An English frigate had tuken twe brigs on
the coast of Norway, and carrried them into
Go}tenl;urg roads, but were ordered off. '
The papers contain a variety of capture of
vessels under the American and other flugs,
sent into the ports of France and counties
under her influence.
By the ship United States, Capt Girdon, in
the very shoit passage of 25 duys from Cudiz
we have receivecd Spanish papersto the 29(h
ult. They howeser contain nothing new or
interesting. IVe are informed verbaliy, that
the Prench remuined masters of all the coun
try on the opposite shores of the bay of Cz
diz. They were left in quiet possession, en
tirely unmolested, and were working constan
tly, in strengtheninyg tieir posts. They had
commenced a heavy fire upon the Carracus,
or naval stores, with red hot shot.—Skirmich
es between the udvanced parties occasion:.ily
took place, bui nothing of any great conse
quepce occured. The remains of Albujuers
que’s army, from 8 to 10,000 men, vwere ca
the island ; about 2000 English troops, and
the same number of Portuguese, command
ed by English officers. Inthe town the in
habitints and military spoke confidently of
their beine able to hold out.
By a proclamation of Jerome Buonaparte,
dated Cassel, March 1, Hanover is tuken yume
session of by his Weestphalian niajesty, as an
integral part of his kingdom. -
We learn in an articie from Gottenburg,
by way of Copenhagen, dated March 8, Ihot
an American vessel in Gottenburg roads, alter
hawing discharged her cargo of sult, had ac
cidently caught fire and burnt down to the
water’s edge—the other shipping in hurbour
were i imminent dange ry, but providentiully
escaped. ;
JLatest Foreign Nelus.
From Altona fuap . received at the office of
the ( galtimorc ~hig) by the arrival of the
Shifp George and JAibertyin 30 days froh
Tonningen.
By an article from Amsterdam, dated
March 17, it appears that Hollund is to re
main a distinct nution—however there is to
be a total change in its ministry. A new one
is to be formed, consisting partly of French
men.
LIST OF SHIPS IN THE BAY OF CADIZ.
LATEST NEWs FROM SPAIN.
FORLIGN SUMMARY.