The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1800-12-16 00:00:00, page 2

have to fear, it is from her, and the nature I
of her government ; and had the coalition I
succeeded in breaking down France, there
alters more than bare probability, that our
By form of government 0/ould have been
attacked., fa is averted.and with some
hrs of authority, that an influence exists
=ramerica, partial to British rule, and rea
for a monarch--indeed the conspiracy of
Gov. Blount, ftifled in the inquiry after great
expense.; the mission of Mr. Bowles to the
Creek Nation, to which he was convoyed
by a British (loop of war, and where he ftil|
is, or hovering with the tomahawk on the
frontiers of Georgia—the governor of Can
ada's address, feme time since to the north
ern tribes of Indians, and avariety of other,
vcircumftances, ^'warrant a suspicion, if not
belief, that some plan was in agitation, hos
tile to the constitution of the United States.
It is on the other hand declared in the pa
pers, that the British minister h^s aflured
our government, that Bowles is not support
ed by that power; but is it usual for (hips
of war to be employed in the escort of a
mere adventurer ? Whether, however, this
be or be not the fa&, it is a duty we owe
our country', ourselves and pofterity,to keep
a watchful eye over our republican rights
and constitutions, and to resist every mon
archical impression or influence, which we^
have reason to lament there should be room,
even for suspicion of, as being in exigence
among us—an influence hostile to our inde
pendence and our rights, ,which were pur
chased at the expense of oceans of the blood
of our fathers. t
The papers and information refpeaing
Bowles, to which your attention will be
more immediately drawn, as being more in
teresting to this than to any other Rate in
the Union, together with my proclamation,
issued in the month of July last, forbidding
his enlisting or raising men, wh ; ch he at
tempted to do within this state, will be found
in the bundle marked No. I, and among
ihem a most insolent letter to myfelf, prof
fering amity, and future correspondence ;
thinking no doubt, as I have mentioned on
this fubie& to the secretary of date of the
United States, that as I was fligmatized as
a Jacobin in the papers of Georgia, and
some of the other Rates, I mud be prepared
to join any party h,oflile to the U. States.-
If to be of Republican principles, and to
.enjoy my own opinion of public measures,
and declare that opinion freely, conliitute a
Jacobin, I do not deny the charge, for I am:
one ; they were principles initialed into me
in the hour of 1776, and I trull I (hall ne
ver desert them. But if to fitpport the U.
States, which was done by that proclamation
and my offer to the agent of Indian affairs,
as well as the government of three, or eveh.
five thousand, Georgia militia, to crulh Gen.
Bowles, constitute.a Federalist, then arm! a
Federalist. The ritheft Monarch of Eu
rope is too poor to purchase my principles,
or to (hake my firm adherence to thp Con
stitution of my country.
And here let me remind you of the great
and important duty which you have to pro
vide for in the choice of Ele&ors of a Presi
dent and Vice-President of the United States.
In right and justice this choice should lay
with the citizens at large ; but the change of
the time of our general election, and your h
knowledge of the difficulty of colleaing the
people so recently after a general election,
so as to obtain a fair eleaion & general voice,
will probably throw this important burthen
on your fhoylders. The a& of Congress on
this fubje& declaring, " Ele&ors shall be ap-,
pointed in each state for the Eleaion of 4
Prefidtent arid Vice-President of the U.States,
within 34 days'preceding the firfl Wednes
day in Dec. 1792, and within 34 days pre
ceding the firft Wednesday in Dec. in every
4th year succeeding tbe lkrc&aipn." Our
general eleaion, as changed by law, is on
the firft Monday in Oaobet, considerably
without the prescribed time ^I only hint
''this for four deliberation, for the mode of
eleaion will rest on your decision.
The time of one of the Rate Senators in
the Congress of the U. Stateswill expire on
the 3d day of March next ; your attention
will also be required to the eleaion of a
successor.
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: . COmTONTCATroN-^
What are wetp inter from the intended
refignafion of Mr. Wolcott,, secretary of
the treasury and the abdication of so many
, members of the present congress ? Can
it be that they have seen terrors in Mr.
, Adams' adminißnuion, and are determined
no longer to support him r Or is it that the
„ monarchical views and m^@y of 1 Alexan
der Hamilton have so fafeinated their senses,
that they have resolved not tq be aiding and'
;abetting in the adminill ration ofh govern
^ent that in the foalleft degtee winks<«>-
awards republicanism , Let the carafe: be
:what it may, it must afford pleating fenfi-!
tions to the genuine American to refled tho'
,maugre these receffipns, there >are ra^nte-^
enough, pofeffing/fifofor talents, and who;
Are sincerely devoted to the cause of the peo
ple, willing to fetvethe nation id I,emoft
refpdnfible fitteffifyMUhouE abrogating to
I themselves superior power. Let the citi- 1
Zens of America rejoice at the approaching
period, when the virtues of a Jefferfon, of a
Burr, and a long train of worthies shall be
called to more a&ive duties —when the spi
rit of aristocracy, which, meteor-like, blaz
es but for a time, shall disappear, an&he
genius of liberty regenerated, rife triumph
ant on the embryo ruins of afpiring'monar.-
chy, which e'er long mull go down to ' the"
tomb of the Capulets.'. C.
(Bal. Tel.)
late foreign ^intelligence.
By the ,tip Rose, arrived at New-York, in 41 days
from Liverpool.
',„—_ttg„Htt.H—
„Famine in England.
Mr. THORN'S Address to the. Citizens of
London.
gentlemen, >,
OUR worthy magistrate has been so kind,,
in Confeguence of a requifitibn made to him
by a number of the livery of the city of'
London, to call this meeting to take into
consideration the distress of the poor. 1
would promise to you, we are not about to
difeufs a political question ; consequently
there will be little occafon for.difpotat.ion.
Politics I will endeavor to avoid, and ftri&-
ly confine myfelf to that which deeply af-|
teas my mind, namely,'the,exorbitant high|
price of every article of life, Tho' all ofus!
here may have felt but in,a Small degree its.
pressure, yet that should not deprive us of|
Sympathy and feeling for our fellow crea
tures. ,There are many ways of account
ing for, the rife of,articles ,of general con-,
fumption—fome attribute it to the horror ofl
warfare—fome to monopoly—fame to the
rich miller and .rich meahpan—fome to the
overgrown wealthy farmer—and others to
the enormous circulation of country bank!
papers. But as almost eyery man differs as:
to the cable, we are about to leave that point
to the consideration of Parliament. The
necessity of this application must be obvious
to every one. As for myfelf, I can speak
of thousands, of families at this moment in;
deep'diftrefs, who know not which way to
turn for bread. My heart bleeds for them,!
and if we have any companion for the poor,
we must all feel interested in their case. T
have this day received an hundred letters
' r °, different poor families, who describe
their Situation to be the most desperate im
aginable, having from three to nine and ten
in each family.
Their descriptions put me in mind of a fto-,
ry I have read, where the father and mother
and three children are represented in a date
of famine : the father at lead determines to
Sacrifice his children—he cannot kill one ;
because he is the firft born, another because
it is the model of its,mother, and the third
: because it is beloved of both—therefore re
solves to perish all together. A cause, too,
has just reached me, worthy of human con
sideration, from a place called Sowen, near
Cambridge, where the wife of a poor soldier;
applied to the parish for relief with earned I
an< repeated solicitations, till defeating of
comfort (he firft hang up her two children,/
and then suspended herfelf by their lide.—
: From Coventry, too, I likewise learn, the
poor are so reduced as to be able only to ob-;
tain, to fatisfy the cravings of nature, what
is called by them Stir-pot, a mixture of
horfebeans,oatmeal,&:c. Besides these, there'
are many other cases truly awful and dis
tressing. At Hick's hall, a man was indid-,
ed for dealing some bread ; but when the
prosecutor had seen his deplorable date he
withdrew the charge, and has kept him and!
his family ever since. At a, manufactory
near where lam now Speaking a master had
ioccafionally milted one of his workmen he
sent for the man and alked, him the reason
of such negled—he replied, " My abje&
misery and Want : my earnings, fir, do
what I can, will not supply my wife and!
children with food ; could I but find any
person who would pledge himfelf to provide.
for them,! would bare my bosom to the bul
let's force, .and die for them with pleasure :
but as it js, I am broken hearted, I cannot
work." Another, bvho earns only nine (hil
lings a week, expreflfes himfelf to me that
he must die, his family eat him up. In ,
find, gentlemen, I could repre^ nt to you(
foch a lamentable tragedy among the poor
of this metropolis and Os Coventry and .Bir
mingham, as would make you wretched at
the recital. But I will take up no longer of
your time, arid confide in the present mea-|
sure, should it be adopted, to produce alle-j
viation from their Sufferings. 1 therefor
conclude with submission, wiffiing, " Th,
( a humble address or petition be presented toj
{ his majesty, praying him to convene his par
liament, in order to take into their serious.:
consideration the prefect high price of pro
-yifi6ris, and to &lopt foch measures for re
:'dneing' the fame as in their wisdom ihall
% seem proper.'.'
The folld&ing exttyprdipaty fe& has
been communicated to us from undoubted
I Suthorit, :—A poor Labourer, with a large
Ifamily, who worked fornfarmer not roc
Imiles ffpm Bridgnorth, during the late ex-
I travagant price of all the nectaries of life,
lapplied to his master, entreating him to let
him have the amount of his week's \vlges
in corn or flour. Having been employed
by this man for between twenty and
thirty years, he hoped he would give it to
him uhder the market price. The farmer,
alhamed to demand that price from the la
bourer, and yet not inclined to let mm have
it for less, refufed the request. Upon the
poor man's complaining of the distress of
his family, who were Rarving, the master
wantonly told him that if he could not buy,
there was nothing left for him but to Real.
The poor fellow, Irritated by the inhuman
ity of his employer, and driven so defpajr by
the miserable, fixation of his wife and chil
dren, literally followed the advice given
him, and at different times purloined to the
amount of two bulhels of corn from his'
maker's barn. The thief Was advertised,
with a reward of five guineas for the discov
ery of the thief. Alarmed at this step, the?
imari went voluntarily to a neighboring Ma
giltrate and confeffed the sass, relating all
the circumstances attending it- The far
mer was sent for and informed that the Ma
gistrate had received certain information of'
! the offender ; but that he must deposit the
five guineas reward which he had offered,
'beforehe should be put in possession of the
particulars. This condition being compli'-
led with, the Magistrate acquainted him
with the name of the party, who, he told
I him, had only followed the advice given by
!his hard hearted employer, and that if he:
chose to prosecute him,the whole of the case
must be laid before a Court of Justice. The
ifarmet not chufing this public expofrire, de
clined a profecution,andihe worthy MagiT
'trate,after seriously admonishing th6 laborer
who had always borne an irreproachable;
chara&er, and who had been driven by cru-;
!el distress, and the inhumanity of his master
to commit this unjuftifiable depredation, or
dered the amount of the reward to be laid
out in food and eloathing for his naked and
half starved children.
Os the American Envoys.
. PARIS, GCT.6.
Citizen Joseph Buonaparte has entertained in a
very splendid manner, the American Envoys, at
1 Morfontine, in celebration of the return at good'
understanding between the two dates. All the
Configs, Ministers, Members of the Corps Diplo
matique, the Counsellors of State,the President of.
all the branches, were present, and several persons
formerly in the service of the U. S, of whom Gen.
La Fayette was one.
. The Minister of Foreign Affairs presented to
ithe Chief Consul, the Convention signed the zft
Oft. between the French and American Envoys^--
which was announced by a discharge of cannon.
The dinner, of 180 covers, was served up in three ;
hails, named Hall of Union, Washington and Frank
; tin. The former was splendidly decorated with
emblems of the prominent events of the American
Revolution.
After dinner, the First Qnful gave—" To the
manes of the French and Americans who died on
the field of battle for the Independence of the New
Consul Cambaceres gave, « To the successor of
. Washington."
Consul Le Brun gave, “ To the union of Amer
ica with the powers of the North to enforce reJpefl
to the liberty of tbejeas."
/ On the 4th about mid-day, the American min.
ifters took leave of the Chief Consul, to whom
'",. "'ere presented by the minister for Foreign
Affairs. Mr. Ellsworth in the name of his col
leagues, said, "He hoped,he Contention signed on
the firfl would prove the Basis of a lading friend
ship between France and America." Mr. Murray
iadded, “ that the American Minifert would ne
gle&.nothing to promote this deferable objeft." The
Chief Consul replied, that "the difference between
, the two nations being adjufed, these should no
longer remain any trace of them : that the liberal
principles with regard to navigation, confitoed in
convention ought to be the basis <f a growing inti
macy,and that in the ,reJem circumflance it was
more than ever the interest of the two nations cloje
ly to adhere to them.
“HAVRE, OCT. 8.
" The Envoys of the American government,
whose object it is to perfect the work of reconcil
iation, defired by all the friends of peace, are now
in our city.—All the civil and military authorities
iare eager to render their homage to the reprefen;
tatives of an allied nation, acknowledged since the
year OTSasthe mbit sincere friends of the French j
. nation. A guard of honor, of 50 men, has been ,
ent to them ; for which they have retired thanks,
according to cuffbm. They would already have;
set fail if contrary winds had not retailed the de
parture of the American frigate Portfroquth. The'
§ calm will keep them here for 8 days."
[The prig Pallas arrived at Salem (Maff.fin 44 1
daysfrom Hamburg brings recounts of the dfrsrs
' ure of tne American Commissioners from Havre, on
' the 19th October.],,[
'<> PARTS, OtT.,.
Louis Buonaparte has set off for Berlin., £,
A large English fleet with transports has ap-;
I peared off Cadiz ; and threatened a descent. The
!inhabitants are terrified , as the troops id garri-'
fpn have been thinned and l weakened by the epi
demic, and the opposition could be but feeble. It
is hopeLhowever, that the dread of the ^feafe!
; Will ddter the English from any attempt.;
IOVPO.V, OCT. 13.
It is expefted Parliament will be immediate^l
% convened. Their attention will be called, To'
lalleviate the Qifirefccaufed by the scarcity of;
Iprovifions, To consider of pew financial meafygesj
ITo examine the late correspondence ufchjle;
, Mach Government, 'and applaud or condemn
the Mmittry.
• 11 ^ ^,' focr.,l4.
, The resignation of Baron „|fe& oe&ftfc|
Prime Minister, and the appoint mens of Count|
, de Letirbach to fneceed him,'ls officially apnounc-,
I 4 itetyfeA°f LunetiUe will be opened &|
mediately, Carnot & j. Buonaparte will be the f
French C6mmiffioners. The States of the Em
pire will fetid Deputies. M. de Duhni is appoint
ed on the part of Bruffia. Audiia yet prepares lor
war; ~
It is stated, that the Government of the United
States, has officially complained ot the capture of
their vWels by British Crtiizers.
It is said France and Portugal have made peace.
' - The Price of French flock has risen considera
bly. . }
The British troops under Gen, Albercrombie
were to fail from Gibraltar abouf the lall of Sep
tember :—Reported, for Egypt.
h 'The British Atom= war Hound has been,oil at
Pl, mouth, and several of the crew periled.
OCT. 17.
The French army which has been hinted to be
; destined for this country has inermafed to 80.000
men—Great preparations are making in Holland
and France for two expeditions, one againlt Erg
land, and the other agaiiMt Ireland. The Marq.
Ducrelt,lately sent out.of England, has a principal
command ;—and has had several conferences with
the First Consul.
Eoaapbrfe is said to have confidential agents at
Mittau, where the King of France reales!
Four Mmifters of a Polish Gonfrriffion, which
has set at Pariv, have proceeded to Ruffian Poland,
where irfurre&ions are ewpe&d.
The Packer for America bas not yet failed for
this month. -
It is said a good understanding, is not yet re ^f-..
tablifhed with Russia ; th^t a British tonful was
refufed pernnffion to land at Cronftradt ; and that
the Ruffian Charg d'Affaires is about to withdraw
frem London.
The difference between England and Algiers is
adjusted. The British have agreed, tnat Algerine
property shall be refpefted under every kind of
flag, and even if bound to a blockaded port.-
1 The English found two 64 gun fhipsin the har
bour, when Maltawas surrendered to them.
The King of Naples, has iffhed orders, which
nearly amounts to a declaration of war against
. Spain. . , ..?,
The English official account of the cutting of
two Spanifh; c corvettes" put of Barcelona har
bonr, makes, no: mention of any r Swedifo vpfiel
being prefled into the service ;'bbf flates'it Wa, #
; effected by the boats of the Minotaur and Nigfßt
INTERESTING NEWS!
From Algiers and. Gibraltar.
;—- . Salem, (Mas.) dec, rr.
On Tncfday arrived at ihi< port, the Ship
Brutus, William Brown, Commander, in ?
32 days from Gibraltar, and 40 from AL *
giers iCapt. Brown informs—That the
United States Frigate George Wethington,
Capt. Bainbridge, failed for Corflantinople
, the 19th of Oaober;.having on hoard the
Algerine General of Marine, and Suite, with
Presents, &c. for the Grand Seignior. The
Dey of Algiers by force coinpelled Capt.
Bainbridge to perform this firvice, and
threatened, in case of reftifal, War to the .
United States, and Slavery to the Officers
and Crew of the George Waffiington. The
Dey also infilled, that the ship Brutus, Cap-•
tain B. should unlade, and go to the Isle
of Rhodes, for a Cargo of Turks.—no pay
ar freight to be allowed—but the voyage 10
be considered as a favour granted by the U
nited States. Through the influence of the
American Consul, Mr. O'brien, and , the
(hip's being private property, and having a.
perishable cargo on board, she was excused
from this service. Capt. Brown embraced
this favourable moment, fearing a further
requfoion and quoted Algiers, O&. 25th.
Capt. B. brought dispatches to the Secretary
of State, containing the particulars of this
exXraor<lmaiy affair.—Mr. O'Brien, the
Consul, anti Capt.. Bainbridge had romon
ftrated, but were obliged so comply, to
prevent a mote serious difficult,, Two
days out from Algiers, Capt. Brown wag
brought to by the British brig Catmelia ;
the Lieutenant of which informed—that (he
was bound for Egypt, with difpalches from
Lord Keith ; and that his Lordship, with
the Fleet & Transports under his command
was destined for 'Egypt. On arriving at
Gibraltar, no one was permitted to land
from the Brutus, because (he was from the
Barbara Coast—but an American, a resident
there, came along fide, and informed—That
the French marched into Leghorn on the
10th of Oanb r, agreeably to a flipulation
in the Treaty with the Emperor—that the
inhabitants were much exasperated at the
meafute, and that it had excited considerable
commotion in that unfortunate city. The
day the Brt^'ps arrived at Gibraltar,, an A
mericari typ 4 'owned by Murray and Mum
ford, of NeWyhtk, failed, and was. captured
by some Sganith Guri Boats in a. few hours
—the had previously been boarded by the -
fame boats/ aid'cautioned againff entering
Gibralfer, it being deciared in a state of
blockade by his Catholic Majesty—she how
ever. did entered fe|l her cargo of Floor
—(he was carried to Algeziras, and would
probably be condemned. The gentleman
^ informed, that the Plague at &die con-,
tinned its ravage, aqd that it hpdfpread into
:the interiorff %>m, tAat irwiaat Malaga ;
and that in conlequence the English .at Gib
raltar were very Aria in their quarantine
regulations/ -The next day Gapt B. took ,
advantage of the Convoy of t'wb. Frigates,
which had under their.prate&ion 38 tranf
por's, most of them full of troops, bound
;for Lifbon—before they got through' the
Got, a # Weftcriy/wind sprung up, which
obliged the whole Fleet to put Into the Bay
of 1 mean; bn fhb Barbary Cuaft—found
! there, seven Sail of the lirfe, and 45 Tmf-
Iports with more" troop. Next Qay wa,