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whoinittufe and conduct fitch an examina^
lion. The evil lies in the manner of con
. during th'c cause before the tribunal ,of the
public : thefafe zuitnefs and the wicked ad
vocate are equally an abomination, when
they appear in this Gt,fl court as in one of
ordinary jurisdiction. It is to be lamented
that their fafood and deceitful practices are
not 0 easily deleted and ex^fed in the for
mer as in the latter." Let us interrupt
" Lucius" for a moment, for the fake of an
observation and enquire whether this Lucius
imay not be some fcrupulms, " non-juring
Attorney,from the happiness of his similitude
to an august tribunal and an ordinary court,
pisfaife witness, wicked advocate and deceit
ful practices, and if so We may account, per
haps, for the falfhoods of Lucius. It is
V/hat lawyers call a.mental reservation, and
be cannot be laid to be a falfe witness who
Will not call his God.to witness and only fivers
Under the human penalties of perjury. A*
court, a falfe witness, wicked advocate ^
deceitful Radices —detected and exposed are
, very unfortunate perfondges and parts intro
duced into the Drama, that might have fub
jefled Lucius, if he be the person mean'; to
a dill more ferio-comic ekhioition called a
Pillory; for malpractice, but for the profef
fion and countenance of the high personage
Who permits the use of such abandoned tools
to keep him in the Chair, making the news
paper a vehicle for the fouled and meft un
founded calumny. This is the writer who
begins with hit; sacred regard to truth—.-and
^oft likely will be found to be the real hero
behind the feenes. The limits of vour paper
Will not permit me to pursue this unha; py
writer through his introductory paragraphs,
every word of which may, with a fried re
gard to truth, as far as I am able todifeov
er and to know, be put at the head of the
announcement in the paper of Col. JOAN
Langdon or John T. Gilman, Without
disparagement to either; yet Lucius after ac
quainting von with what you all know as
Gell as he that Judge Walker was a candi
date, and that the Citizens of New-Harnp
fhire were making a,adder of him or in o
fher words nfool, and Judge Walker is very
much obliged to Lucius for his imperti
nence, "as if that worthy gentlemen fhuulu
quarrel with his citizens only far thinking
him a person as proper as Mr. Gilman for
their Governoi--- It ought to be remember
ed by Lucius at that time Co!. Langdqn
was not a candidate ; it is convenient for
him to for him to forget it. Hethen dwells
ppon thewery amiable chamber of the Trea
surer ; , who, from an easy disposition ap
pears to with himflf out of the coniufion
into which his friend has embarked him :
then he introduces another introductory pe
• food contrary to all the rules of fine verting ;
after the. firft beginning he makes another
beginning--- with a few words in a sentence
that is a curiosity, and worth repeating for
ihe whimsicality And honfenficality of it—
«, The GENTLEMAN held up to view by our
friends at Portsmouth, is not 1 admit, to be
rejected merely because he is fuppotted by
that town. These gentry have been and
yet may be a little too affcmmg in deflating
so their brethren in the country." Now I
beg leave to paraphrase this logic ; The gen
tleman held up to view bv_onr friends at
Exeter or our friends in Effing ra notl ad
mit to be rejected merely because he is iup
ported in Exeter or D,ng.
Nred I detain; to detect and elpofe this falfe
dvitnef. and wicked advocate, and his wicked, de
ceitful plaices in his own court, his own auguji
tribunal, the good fente and reason of m # fellow
citizens. I will admit, with Lucius, we have gen
try too afamtog in delating to their brethren in
the Country (God kno-ss. for the welfare of the
Rate of New Hampshire !) There are some of our
gentry who prefuhie 10 deflate to your late Gov
ernor, who dictates I'd your amiable Ireafurer,
and two of three of these delator: dictate the
wholesale, and dilate' our properly, our charac
ter, our reputation ; and by their dilating have
bartered away tfur belt rights and privileges that
the cwnge in the general government has par
tially reHorecL^nrt it will depend upon owfelves,
by nur united ruffrages to regain aurteftablifh.
We have other gentry ; we have a fort of sub
sentry, connected in different wavs with these
lofty gentry, that run in lines of fu'n-fervienev, and
fob-agency, to do all the difty work. We have
a fort of Britifligentry —-and half American, half
British geutry-=who ought to be peacable and live
placably nndr a government that protects them
without entitling thernfehes as a fort of hirelings,
6r dependents upon our high gentry, and others
that fhonld look up with gratitude to a Republi
can -government in the enjoyment of their proper
fy, that other countries would have desired them :
find flrat Col. JOHN LANGDON was inftfufrient
,l and forward in effc&ing in the liberality of
hi,policv. and particularly these very dictators ;
for it, is not difficult to prove that he introduced
these gentry upon, the Rage (as Lucius 'feercs very
fond of dramatic albhion, an<f gave them vert
frrofitdble parfs ; he funk the whole resentment of
the war ; he made, consolidated, anil amalgamat
ed the heterogeneous and noxious qualities of
s/hefe gentry —i,ev Woulf! have made of this val
uable man, a ladder (as Lnciusfivs tbe republicans
make of judge Wdker) to tie nWt dangerous
tiriOocroev, under the late fvhem,that ever threat
ened a fine he flwok them offas Medusa fyakes
be( tacks^le (hook off the vermin, apd a flirted
his independence—and will live beloved, and
whT he,dies, he 10% very long remembered and
respited for his Services.
As 1 pnrpofe to tnke up the fecund letter of Liv
^us, when 1 h^veafiertained the fads thnt are pre
paring to refute this gross attack upon Mr, Lang-
don's political charader=for the present I fh^l
waive bis French politics, aud the funding fyftein,
the Britiffi treaty, Gen. Washington and Mr. Ad
ams' administration (the topics of his fecund letter)
bbferviug only, that, these topics are, as I shall
mow, not only unfounded in fant, but inapplica
ble to the merits or demerits or this quefbou that
Lucius affects to confine himfelf to ; 1 shall Show,
in the search after the truth, that Lucius does not
keep to the attrition ; and it he thinks to, his Itate
ment is notjatt ; and this leads me to the couchi
fim, that the twq letters of Lutins, is a dale, hupid
attempt to degrade and vilify the character of a
Republican of found principles —to depreciate him
in the eyes of his fellow citizens, who, yben the
veil is removed by.attention to falls instead of
falsehood, that a clofc perusal of the Stockholder
will demonttrate every faft he advances being
founded in truth ; and if so, Mr. Gilmaii is an un
fit person to be your Governor. ..,
1 .'hall close this paper with an observation that
arises out of the futile manner . Lucins drives, in
every shape to disparage Col. JOHN LANGDON,
and (hew him incunfylent in his own falls. The
Whole of the two letters is an indirect but abortive
attempt, by a multitude of circumllances, to im
peach Ips integrity. " flow did he make his for.
tune :"he fays, " his fortune at the beginning ot
the war, was but the 20 h part of his present for
tune—he now fives in a very splendid, expensive
Itile—he !,as got a palace, he has been Qomhier
cial, naval, purchasing agent, &c.—he talks, he
walks, and fieeps like other men —but his brother
senator, talked more than he did"-—in the Senate
—after beating the track of the whole of Col. I.'s
political life; viewing him in all filiations—ques
tioning his integrity, upon questions of moment in
Congress —after exhibiting his indention to give
a tide wind and a bye-blow to blaftthat fair un
impeached, unimpeachable, blameless life—he has
the impudence I fay in the fame breath and line—
to add, “ 1 insinuate nothing agaiuft his charac
ter, it is fair" —he has his eulogy from the pen of
Lucius ; and he has the further consolation to feel
that the calumny of Lucius is no fcanddl, but
pr^ife .' Is it extraordinary, that having filled so
many important fictions as is represented, and a
very fuccefsful merchant, in a course of 30 years,
he can build a hundfome hbufe ? Lucius calls a
palace. Alk how some 'of the dilators in Portf
nlouth build palaces, how they have got rich in so
few years ? and the Jub-gentleman, in humble im
itation of the Dictator, his arch prototrype, builds
his magnificent fe&io'n upon the dirty ruins, who
had not the 20th parj of Col. Langdop's 26th part,
and therf blush to mention such a man as John
Langdon with them !—what fortune did any one
of them begin with ?—Lucius charges Col. Lang
don with being less eloquent in the Senate than
his talkative brother Senator of that time—l do
not lee his place niuch better supplied by the pre- c
sent Senator, who, amidll the most important
questions ever agitated in the Senate, is not much
celebrated for his eloquence and, much talking,
whatever he may be for what Lucius may efleem
(Hi his way) wisdom. Observe the further incon
fittency of Lucios, " A majority of the Senate for
several years refused acctfs to the citizens to bear
their debates :" —What havd yotir present senators
done ?— both voted against the admission of per
foos to hear the debates on the quelHon being
put, that the very important jqueflion relative to
the Judiciary might be openly debated, and their
conttituents know what their senators are doing
for them, and their reason for the meaftir^ ;--no !
the lories cannot ,nuft n&tke exp ofed and detected,
like the wicked advocate in their baneful pattices
—in ereftin >3, f, Stem of. patronage to corrupt
and weigh u< down.-—How can Lucius reconcile
this ? What can he,mean ? Has he any meaning ?
Fellow Citizens ! Inull in Cod \on will confide?
the pobiion in which this date is placed—that
you will examine fairly as J^ncitis desires, and as
I entreat you to do; ?,ndjnjudging for ,purfelyes,
I have the mod entire confidence in your patriot,
ism, your discrimination and wiftlom—Above all
that you have your country at hear*—and will
unite in your decided it fluence >nd vote* for
Col. JOHN LANGDON
This att win not fail to be recorded among the
molt memoriable events of the present period. It
pre-eminent), marks the triumph pf Republican
principles. It deffionfifates the inflexible deter
mination of those who now hold th: reigns of au
thority, to adhere in power to the fame principles
avowed by them when out of power. Their the
ory was a good one; but their practice is better.
Econolily in the public expenditure, dihruft ot
extravagant executive patronage, a dread of
whatever tenlls to the unneCeffarv agrandizement
of the powers of the general government, consti
tute a few of tlie features of the repealing att ;
and tbe v are-features which, it is not befitated to
(ay, will recommend it to the national approba
tion. Indeed so cbnclnfive/ and iyrefiftabte have
been the arguments urged in its flipport, that a
mong those who have taken their ground with
a refoltr ran net to abandon it on any cov nation, in
short among the nation, it is confidently believed
not one man in a thousand will condemn the re
pealing aft. „ t
It may be proper to remark that, though this
measure has been carried in the Senate by a ma
jority of but one vote ; the relative flrength of
parties is by no means to be estimated in that pro
portion. ft will be recollected that in the Boufe
of Representatives, the division is nearly ps two
to one ; and will be also r^colle&ed that of the
15 members who voted against the repeal, 6 would
not now bold their feats, if an election were made
at.this time by the (fate legislatures. In such event
the votes would (land 22 for the repeat; and ,
against ft.—And had Mr. Armflrong been prefait,
.and had Mr. Colhoun voted in conformity to the
'f. ntircents of his confluents, as recently ilfiftrat
ed in the election of Gent Sumprer, chosen by a
great majority, the vote would have been 24 for
the repeal, tb 8 agninft it,
In making this (fatement, we + hope we (ball not
be underflood as implying the lead ditrefpe^ for
rhe vote of the gentleman, fitnated, in the minor-,
ity, and particularly for Mr. Colhoun/ whom we
—. .<.< «<C^§ ^^ >• >—-
WASHINGTON,CITY;FEB.S.
On WednTday the judiciary Bill puffed the Se
nate,by a majority of,one vote. Had thd Senate
been full there would have been a majority ot two.
Mr. Armstrong, afNew-yufk being the only mem
ber abfeut.'
for your
Governors - *
, . A FELLOW CITIZEN.
Pbrtfmrath, Feb. 22, 1802.
By the Mails.
have ftate'd by name. So far frbm Ihis being th^
ca fe,, e Scruple not to fa, that in our opinion,
Mr. Colhoun has been animated by the purest mo
lives ; and that he has loft no republican feelings
and convictions, which his political deportment
has heretofore developed.
AUGUSTA (Geor.) TAN. 27.
LAST evening was committed to gaol in
this place, William Fuller, the weftern poft
rider, charged with robbing the mail of the
United States—with the particulars of the
tranfaaion we are not at present fully ac
quainted. It appears that tlie rider was
observed on the road travelling towards Au
gusta with the mail behind him, and with
the remnants of federal letters in his hand,
which he appeared to be destroying ; several
parts of letters, and post-bills, and one letter
were found in the road, and the covering of
a mail directed " Augqfta.7 These cir
cumstances induced the Polt-Maller at Co
lumbia Court- House, when the rider arriv
ed at his office, to arrest him, when he con
feffed that a final! hole had been worn in the
Mail Portmanteau, through which he con
trived to get a packet or mail of letters ;
that out of one of the letters directed to Pe
terfburgh, Virginia, he took 75 dollars,
and out of another directed to a Mr. Rhodes
in SaVannah, he took 200 dollars—the mo
ney he pocketed, and destroyed all the letters
in that packet ; 220 dollars of the money
were found upon him ; these are all the
particulars at present within our knowledge.
: , PHILADELPHIA, FFR. 9.
Extract of a fetter from a refpcclable 'commercial
honfe at Hepre, to thtir coiref pendent in this
city, dated Dec. io, 1801.
" It is with pleasure we inform you, that the in
rerco^rfe between France and Louisiana is on the
poi^t ot becortiiiig very frequent by the exchange,
which is about to oe (it not already) made between
:he French and Spanish governments, the Span
ish part of St. Domingo, ceded by the treaty of
peace to France, is to be restored to Spain in lieu,
of Louisiana, which is to be put in pufleffion of the
French. Vessels are already preparing to fail for
New-Orleans.
Capt. Folger, who arrived here yeflerday,
in 49 days from Leghorn, informs, Tirat
four days before he failed, Mr. Appleton,
Consul at Leghorn, received a letter from
Naples, informing him, that the George
Wafhingtoh frigate, of ^2 guns, would
come round to Leghorn, to take the veilels
under convoy which were ready to fail ;
and touch at Merfeilles for those waiting
these : -That Mr. Cathcart had received
a letter from Tripoly; ; dated. Dec. 28th
mentioning, that the Bafhaw had purchased
a Greek built ship, of 16 guns, ' which was
to fail in a few days on a cruise, in compa
ny with a brig of i 2 guns. The Tripoiine
admiral fails in the ship. Mr. Cathcart's
correspondent advised the Americans to wait
convoy; as he imagined the risk very great :
That op the 28th Dec. Commodore Dale,
in the President of 44 guns, in corning out
Port' Mahon struck or. a rock; and was at
Toulon repairing : That on the 12th
Dec. the Philadelphia of 44 guns, Capt.
Barron, failed from Leghorn, on a cruise,
luppoled off Naples : That the Eitex
was daily expected at Leghorn from Gib
raltar ; And that on his package home, Ma-,
jorca bearing N. E. fix leagues, Capt. Fol
ger was chafed by a black ihip Ihewing 16
guns, (which answered the description, of
the above Tripoiine ship) until Cape de Gatt
bore E. by N. faur leagues, when a sudden
squall struck the cruiser and carried away
ms topmalts, on which he gave over chafe,
wore round, and flood over for the Barbary
coast
The following persons will be supported
in this town, by the republicans; on Mon
day next :
John Langdon, Governors
Levi Bartlett, Counfeßor.
John Goddard, Senator.
Josiah Adams, Recorder of Deeds.
Nath'l Folsom, Treasurer.
John Langdon, "1
^^ }^^.
Henry S. Langdon,J\
We hear fromgbou authority that BEN
JAMIN BARNARD, Esquire, of South-
Hampton, will be elected Senator, for that^
Diftria, at the ensuing election, by a large™
Majority.'
On Tueftlay evening lalt, a barn belonging to
Gen, Badlam, of Dorchetier Was coufumed by
tire, together with two horses, one or two cows,
and a cunlidefabie quantity or mahogany lodged
therein. *
Lord Keith's fleet was at Port Mahon,
the 24th Dec. 1801.
Republican Tickets for 1803.
©je BepublKan Ledger,
ot BOSTON, FEB, 20.
Newt from the Mediterranean.
—<..<.<4g^g+>->~> - —
Portsmouth, February 23, 180 Z.
..<.<.<^>— <fo >-,••
CITIZENS AROUSE!
In looking over a few of vour late papers
I observed a taxable inhabi^^ c^ipl.iiiig
of the dirty pavements, atth fame time<*.
serving they might ever be kept clean tm 3
final! him-—Now Meffis.. Printer, I art
tully of opinfem that the fail finaU fion he
alluded to would be of more cthe r.ti..l Unit 1
in the purchase ot a compleat w parted,
town clock, as the present is f^itn work
out, and the charges on it tor the last tert
years more than adequate to the coil 6! a
new one—Mud. and dirt may Be easily re
moved from duckings arid Iljoes, but the ad
vancing .and retreating of the clock of.;p
points hundreds; economy.
A letter from Mi. Kirkpatrick, C,£4
of the United States at Malaga, dated Nw.
27th, 1801, mentions, that the Pretldcnt,
Philadelphia, and Ellcx frigates, under
commodore Dale, were at M.Jagi, on the
4th November, and had proceeded tor Ma
hon, to inquire into the truth rcfpr&n : g
tome Tripoiine cruisers laid to have failed
from thence. ,
,A letter from Mr. Montgomery, Confol at Ali=
cant, coptTudidts the report or 1 ripoline cru.brs
having faiied irom M/wn. Ihe Philadelphia l ad
proceeded up the Mediterranean with convoy ;
and the Ehex was eroding in the gut.
A letter tor Mr, Kirkpatrick, Couful at Malara,
dated Sept. 22, to the Secretary of State, intones,
that the rigorous quarantine so long impufed up
on American vessels, had been rediiced to ten days.
Good Judges, of all nations, agree ih eonfi&rmg
the American Expedition into the Mediterranean',
latt S immer, one of the belt planned and led ex
ecuted, one of the molt brilliant, mon feafohaide
and molt ufetul expeditions ever known. It has
reflected equal honor upon our Government and
our Navy ; and practically refuted the federal ca
luthny, that the present Administration art un
friendly to Commerce and opposed to its protec
tion.
John Beckley, Clerk ofthe House of Reprefen
tatnes of the U. States, is appointed Librarian
ot the Congrelliona! Librar,.
*** The Jouthern Mail had not arrived loft even
ing al tea.
——<-<•<+ 4g^go,>.>'.,
^Wp Betos#
Davis' Marine Lift.
Feb. 3 arrived brig Nancy, Fernald Jarhaicti
do do brig DiJeovery, Lanty,Jamaica
Feb. GJaidedbrig BetJey, barred Baibadoet
It do brig Lhjeoveg Lonty, Jamaica
do Jchr Sully, Bell, Richmond
i 8 do brig Little Cherub, Appleton, Barbtttlutl
do brig Friendship, Kerne, WeJl-biaiet
do b> ig Bee, Bice, Hispaniola
do brig Nancy. Fctnald,— f . „,
The Nancy, Orne, of this port, wad left at St
Übes, Deo. 13, to fail in 15 days.
Ship America, Robinson, troth ^ifeaffef, for
Portfinotith, (Eng,) was Ipoken Feb. 7.
Brig Induliry Walsh, from this port wat spoken
Feb.;.
~ „ <Boston, Feb. 17;
Arr'd, fchrs. Nancy, Twycrofs, Guadeloupe?
Mercury, Beaty, St. Johns, N. B. ; Induliry, Car
nell, do.
A ship belonging to New-York, loaded i+ith
sugar and coffee, was catt awa, near Naples ; all
laved their lives but the supercargo ; n>ip and
cargo tota ly loft. Capt. Leach of flop Cyrus;
left Naples id Dec. for Medina, met with a gale
ol wind, and had put into tome filial! port near
Naples. 7he fame gale did much damage at Leg
horn ; it drove a Dani/h frigate and nine mer
chantmen on Shore; two foundered at their an
chors. A Spanilh drip run a more near tie ligpt
house, all 101 l — -A thip from Tripoly, louden w ith
wheat, by the Bafhaw, rub ashore near the pow
der home, and Lent to pieces.— -
Lajl evening, Captj Thomas Smith, arrived in
town,from havanna ,v. hich place he left %th Jan.
leaving there, Capts, Harris, Skillings, Rich, Bab
fon; and otb&s 01 Boliog, who had fold them ves
sels ; brig Argo, from Boilon ; capts Savage, Rice,
and Williams, of do—American veffth in great
demand , provision Scarce, and IfLnd produce on
the fall.—The Americans, are treated with great
disrespect at the Havauna.—Capt# S. fold hirfhip,
the Gariand, at that place.
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Convenient for a small family,
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Dr. Le^hAmanacks, for 108%
'M file at this office
Notice is hereby given that the!
fubferiber has been, duly appointed adminis
trator to the Estate of
PHILLIP VEATON,
of New-Castle, Mariner deceased; Zihd hai
taken upon himfelf that trust by giving bonds'
as the law diteas; and all Persons having
demands on said Estate are tequetted so Ex
hibit the fame, arid all Persons indebted to
said Estate are tailed upon so make payment)
to ABNER BLA^DEL.
Portsmouth, Feb 20th, 1802.
DISASTERS—SeveraI Southern ve^els have ar
rived at St. Crpix, in diflrefs.—A Neo-Bedford
ship, bound to New-York, is on fbore in Fiflier's
Hlaud Sound.—The sch. Polly,Bartlett of Newbu
rypbrt, from Norfolk, lor NeW-York, fyrung a'
leak and was going down when the Capr, and
crew left her. They have arrived at New-York. ,
At New-York, Feb. (2, 15 —Florent^, (of
Portfmotith) who carried away her maintop mait
in the Gulpli Stream.