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The Republican Ledger.
BRITISH CRIMES.
The following article demands the par
ticular attention of every man who feels a
(park of regard for the Independence of A
merica. Either our goyernment and laws
are legitimate or, they are not. Either we
are an independent people or colonjfts. If
we are considered as colohifts we ihould be
told so. If we are an independent people,
our laws ard liberties are not to be put at
nought by Mr. Barclay, as they have been
heretofore by the British consul Moore
(the relation of the British corifhl Bond) by
Hammond by Liston, and now by the British
Consul Barclay.
The system of secret assassination and
transportation, without trial or accusation
is consistent with the old and modern prac
tice of the Britiffi government. It was one
of the causes of complaint in the Declara
tion of Independence-people may talk of
the exile of tne viaims to Ruffiat idefpotifm
in Siberie. These unfortunates have at least
the liberty of laboring and fupportiug them
selves without restraint, but to the immense
dreary region in which they are exiled ; but
what is the situation of men under the exile
of dungeons, as they eXift in the Bafliles of
'London, and Fort George ; this may be ten
der mercy but death would be more desirable
to a man of a free mind, The plan pro
posed to be pursued by Mr. Barclay, on Mr.
Cheetham, Editor of the Citizen, has been
actually executed on the per fori of the pre
sent Editor of the Aurora, in India ; and
no doubt if Mr. Cheetham has been torn
from hi> property and family, and sent to
Bottny Bay without trial, and in violation of
tne lawsQul liberties of America, that the
prints in British pay and dependence would
maintain, that the oppression and outrage
would have been a disgrace to the injured
perlon. [Aurora.
.From ^he American Citizen;
CONSPIRACY!
" Treachery is more dreadful than open war, in
" proportion as it is more difficult to guard d^ainf
0 clandefine plots than against open attack."
v Xenophon.
WE are about to unfold a plot extremely
flagitious, but by no means novel. We are
aware .that our exposition of the intended
perpetration of a new crime, at least in the
Annals of the United States, will bring upon
us the wrath of the British partisans in this
quarter, but we are prepared for whatever
may take place, and no consideration of
personal fafety fliall dettr us from the per
formance of oux duty to°ourfelves and to
J he public, private assassination has been
too frequent in every country where Briiilh
influence has prevailed; and where the Bri
rifh government has had fpecific obj^s to
attain, The accomplilament of desperate
objects requires the adoption of desperate
.means. The undue afeendency of British
politics in this country has recently fuf
, rained, we hope, a mortal blow. Yet its
advocates are not hoplefs of its restoration.
But it appears that every diftofable dbftacle
, in the way of a revival of the old order ^
things whatever be theexpen fe, the trouble,
or the crimes' attending it must be removed.
)But whatever be the fate of the editors,
)whether they be doomed to die by the hand
)of the monarchical afldffin, or to be dragged
) on board a Britilh (hip of war in the night,
, by a gang of hired ruffians, it is no final!<
consolation to them to perceive that the Ci-'
b tfen is become offe nfive to the British pan
?'Jers in the United States, and an obstacle to
) the attainment of theifouiffics,
/The following affidavit of Mr. John
Wood, will abundantly lhew, that a scheme
has been laid by the Britifo Consul, to deftoy
orufelf and Mr. Cheetham. This deftf/it
tion it would appear from the afteriions of
the British Consul, and Mt. Waddington;^
British merchant here, i^ lo be effected by
jecret means. \\ is a fortunate ciraimftance,
• that this conspiracy h^ been developed be
, : fore its execution. For whether it ih all, at
'a future period be put into execution or no,
'it is a fubflanrfal evidence of the abomina
ble designs of the British agents in this
1 country ; mid of their intention to awe into
'fiance, the citizens of the United States.
1 It is a menace upon ///band liberty, and Con
' frequently a molt pe/niciouf and unwnrranta
/'ble attack upon the independence of the re
public, and the fecority of her citizens.---
From the Bbferva+ions of Mr. Waddington,
it would appear, that the British Confin and :
~ himfelf underwood each Other perteaiy CeH.;
1 Mr. Waddington id the affidavit f,e& of|
.^ # * '.to * -.
tUESbAY, JULY ^, 1801.
seizing certain persons and conveying them, in
a clandefline manner on board a British Jhip of
war; arid that himfelf and others had laid a
feteme for that purffe. The British consul,
at another time, and in the abjence of Mr.
Waddington, declares that he fall colder
it his duty to accomplish the “ ruin or de
flrußion" of Meftrs. Wood and Cheetham.
From this union of sentiment and exposi
tion of defigri, is it unreasonable to fay,
that a secret understanding prevails between
the British consul and Mr. Waddington, to
deprive either of life or liberty, or both, the
two persons mentioned ? Further, in cor
roboration of an intention to put this wick
ed plot fecretl) into execution, the British
consul declares, in the true British flyle,
'' that Great Britain regards the power of the
United States, no more than he does that of a
fly !' ' Refpeaing this contemptuous obfer,
vation, it is hardly necessary to fay, that
that half a million republican bayonets, if
neceihry, would soon convince the Lnglifh
government of the infignfficance of its
power. ft r
The advertisement mentioned in the affi
davit, appeared in Mr. Lang's papar of Ju
ly 9th; and relates to a note sent to the Bri
tish Consul, by a person who signed him
felf “ an Englishman." The advertifernent
is in these words :—"His Britannic Majes
ty's Consul General, for the eattern dates
requests the gentleman who favored him
with a note this day under the signature of
"An Englishman," will call on him any
morning from eight to ten." It appears
from what the British Consul observed, that •
this Englifomari requeued, that an " infor
mation" be filled against Cheetham, for hav
ing written in the Citizen difrefpetlfully of
" his Britannic Majesty ! !" Perhaps he
conceived that the United States, were still
" Colonies" of " his Britannic Majesty,"
and governed by his laws!
How long this plot has been in agitation
we cannot fay ; but we have seen latent
Symptoms of it for about two weeks back
from the pen of. Rind and Wayne, who
possibly have long handled some of the " se
cret ferviee- money" of " his Britannic
Majesty." Rind has frequently mentioned
the prejpriety of dispatching Mr. Cheetham,
and Wayne has not been backward in finii-
Jar intimations. We do not know that the
, British Consul has mentioned to them his
-intention ; he certainty is not a very dis
creet man, or he would not have said as
much as he-did to Mr. Wood., But he^
threatened to knock him down, got into a
p^ion, loft Bis reason, and out.came the
secret.
It may be neceffa y to . ay something ref
petting the Society mentioned in the affida
vit—•
We do not believe that Such 1 Society
ever had being. But ,we do know that a
few intelligent- citizens very seriously tho't
lof indituting it. The Society was to have
Iconfided of a few literary men ; their inten-
Ition to contribute their might to the fegen
[eratioft of England and Scotland, by the dis-
j Semination, in pamphlets or otherwise, of
: plain republican truths. It was wifely con
-Ifidered that it ^as only necessary to make
\Englfhmen arid Scotchmen sensible of their
;enflaved and wretched state, to cause them
: to meliorate, by a bold and rational effort^
their own condition. And as this benevo-
!lent obje& could not be better aecomplifhed
9 than by a candid display of the relative con
jdilion of two diftira states, a better exam
ple it was considered for fheir. imitation
could not be exhibited; than the U. States.
! Such were the ty'^rthis iMended society
ihad in view, and such the legal and lauda
:b'e means intended to be used to attain
Ithem. .•
j How the British Consul ca^me toa know
llecfge of this deity is Apt efly for those to
hlifcoverfe who" have not Either bc^n Spies
'themfelves, or the procured of Spies,—-Nev
ertheless it appears that the information he
obtained from his " informer" was pfett,
cOrrearfri far,as the British Consul has di
vulged if.' We know of no exception but
.one:
.Tfe Brrfiih Consul dated that Mr. Chee
-Itham was a meinber of,he Society, but that
:.he had never attended it.7 In this the Bri-
: tilh Confal's fp, had certainly communicat
ed to his employer misinformation. Mr.
Cheptbam tear fortrf nfember of the society.
But this arose not from any objeafori he
: had so it,,fort fho.l he feels no h>cal attach
-Imerit/ , yet.be will at all,imes lend his hand
:to assist, in freeing mankind from <hver,t
fFortbt is of o,inion, that the comfli# be-
[* DOL. JQ CTS. PER ANNUM
tween tyrants and those wh&relifh freedom,
happily begun in the United States, th^uld
never cease until one or the ciherilhall be
Swept from the earth. Freedom can never
be Secure while tyrants exist.—Yet his war
fare shall be he honorable. He Would neither
administer poison in secret, nor assassinate iri
the datk.
We have been thus minute in order to
fy#that though " bis Britannic Maj est y1"
Confuj's spy has mis-communicated one
thing, yet is does /efficiently appear, both
from the affidavit and other circumftanccs;
that he employs at least one spy to watch the
addons of cur fellow-citizo s, and this too
must liave been a person in whom the re
publicans who intended to associate for the
purposes above-mentioned muff have had
greater confidence. But how be became
acquainted with all the the political walks
pf Cheetham is Scarcely conceivable.—
surely the Spy, whose bufinefe it was to spy
out the proceedings of this terrible Society,
could not have had leisure enough to have
watched all the political walks of Mr.
Cheetham. We, who know our ownwalkr;
rather think this impofiibie.—lt then our
opinions be correa, one spy is incompetent
to all the dirty work of ft his Britannic
Majesty's Consul General,"and consequent
ly as he knows all the walks, and all the
conversations of citizen Cheetham, it is not
very violent to infer that lie must have more.
Os the lawfulnefs and Propriety of the Con
fid of a foreign nation, employing spies to
foment mifehief in t^e country in which he
• resides, as well as other circufoftances at
tending this affair, fee shall fay something
more to-morrows
I, TUNIS BORTMAN, ^ of the
public notaries, oj\ the State of New-York, do
hereby certify, thab on the eleventh day of Ju
ly, in the year of our -Lord one thousand eight
hundred and one, personally appeared before me
Mr. John Wood, and beaig duly Jworn, did
declare that all anu fngular, the matters and
things mentioned and contained in the narra
tive or fatement thereof, hereunto annexed arc
true.
In tefitaony Thereof, I hate hereunto sub-
L g cribud m^ name and affixed my jea. ,f
office, atrthe city op New-York, she da,
dad year \abme written.
\ T. WORTMAN.
Public Notary.'
• ABOUT the Itour of half past nine on
Thursday laft,ML Main; teacher, in G rid
ftreet, called upep me at Mr. Benjamin
Cheetham's houfel in Maiden-lane, and re
quetted an interview as a friend having
something to conumunicate he fiid of the
utmost importance to toy fafety. \ After be
ing closeted together, he informed me, that
;Mr. Jufhua Waddington having met hint
in the street, accused him of being a mem
ber of a Society of which 1 was tl e leader,'
! for the purpose of ^iffeminating inflamatofy
hand bills through England and Scotland.
Mr. Main denied the )& of bis being a
member,^nd add^d that he did not believe'
Mr. Wobd, whom| he knew'very well, had.
instituted a society for fuel) a purpose. Mr.
Waddington replied, " that however that
might be, be and tybers were refolded to lay
a Scheme to get riu of Mr. Wood and the
principal members, by seizing their perfohi
and conveying them feu clardfl ne manner on
board a Britfb pdcl\t, orvejet of war. He,
therefore, informed Mr. Main, as a friends
the fate.that woufe await him, if he bad
any connexion with such a society." After
this information I riopofed to Mr. Main tty
go along with him< io Mr. Waddington, &
requeff an explanation, and observed that
most probably the ridvertiftmtnt which ap
peared in Lang's r,P er ° f ^t day, from
;his Bfitanic majesty's cohfiil alfOdtd 10 the
jfafoe circumstances Mr. Main replied that
J was also his opinion, and advised me rather
4to go to Col. Barfchy, the Britiffi consul/
/with whom he (Mr. Main) was well ac^
4quaintefy^d tha^'we would inform our-
Helves of the particulars. This neagreed
[ upon,\and arrived al the house of the Britiffi
consul a little after ten—the Servant upon"
opening die door informed us, that he be
fieved the colonel vias gori to bed, but that
he would soon fc. After the ferify goinif
up flairs, and reforming the Brt lb confute
shat Mr. Main ddired'to speak to him, f
iwas condbaed into a room without a lighG
land the Britiffi Consul and Mr. Main,re^
jtired- into another room., They did riotie*
turn to rite for upwards I think of a quartet
of an hour, and had it not been for the Con*;
fidence 1 placed in Mr. Main'/ ifltegfftfy,