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spend, ere they be paid ? What fignifies
that, fays I, tis all for defence and not a cent
for tribute! Bravo ! exclaimed I, this is
; well spent, were it as much more ; and
thus, Messrs. Printers, I went on exulting
& perusing your last paper, till I came tothe
-paragraph that announces the threat of the
Dey of Algiers, against our commerce, for
.delaying the annual ship of war. We have
to pay him, it seems, for liberty to navigate
the Mediterranean! ! How is this, fays I,
;running over the article again, a ship for the
Dey ! what can this mean? Not a cent for
•tribute ! we do not owe the Dey a (hilling,
.then what is this ship for ?! And where,
rfays I, rising with indignation ; where is
Truxton ? but hold, fays I, this must be the
calumny of some democratic printer, who
merits the severest lash of the Sedition Law,
for attempting to raise a clamor against our
• government, at the expense of truth : Has
not our patriotic president drank the toast ?
Was he not pledged in a double bumper by
honest Timothy ? Has not Gen. Hamilton
drank the toast, next after his beloved Ma
ria ? Has not Gen, Dayton and every officer
of the army and navy, honored their liba
-lions to the toast ? Has not the majority of
congress drank fhetoaft ? Have not all the
Federalists and all the tories, tag-rag an^
, bob-tail, nay all thecountry drank the toast ?
How then is it poffibU we pay an annual
tions will be neceflary, but, as the eflimate
of the coincidences exhibits a negative as
well as an affirmative result, it remains, as
exactly as possible, to adjust this proportion
before we can fafely deduce principles, or
arrive at a firm conclusion.
We cannot help repeating our hopes that
this work may be generally read. A phy
sician muR blulh at the neglect to avail
himfelf of the mass of information here of
fered to view, more especially in the present
Rate of our country, when the terrors of
pestilence annually invade every bosom. —
But we indulge the persuasion that this work
will be attentively perused greatly beyond
the limits of the medical profeffibn. No
person should be ignorant of it who fuffers
his mind ever to pass beyond the line of his
immediate vocation. It is to the honor of
the present age that an acquaintance with
the elements of medicine, and of all its aux
iliary branches of knowledge, is becoming
much more popular, and more widely dis
seminated than formerly. If this acquaint
ance should be enlarged, by stripping that
fcienoeof Rill more of its technical jargon
and mysterious mummery, the advantages
would be incalculable. All who prepare
themselves for the departments of civil and
active life, and even such as devote them
selves in their closets, to mere speculations
on the interests and improvement of man
kind, will here find an abundance of matter
for use as well as for meditation. The le
gislator, the civil magistrate, the political
economist, the military ari naval command
er, and the patriot who consecrates his la
bours to the fei/ce of his country, may all
draw from thence information of import
ance to the prosecution of their refpedive
objects.
In, the remainder of the second volume,
Mr. Webster proceeds to deduce many prin
ciples and opinions from the body of fa&s
which occupies the preceding parts of the
work. In many of these we shall entirely
concur with him ; concerning others we
entertain doubts ; and, with refpea to some,
we shall be constrained to dissent from this
estimable author.
AND a grand Foaft it is, fays I to my
sons. Millions for Defence ! —it is richly
.worth an ambassadorial outset to the Sublime
Porfe ; and the inventor, no doubt, has ob
tained a patent for it ; or perhaps an equi-.
Talent, in a poftin the army, or revenue at
least. Thankheaven, fays I, however we
m^y differ in the mode, we unite in the
great principle of Independence, and feorn
to be either dragooned or cajoled into fub
jeftion by any foreign power on earth !—
Millions for Defence ! Here, Robert, fays I,
to-my eldest son, just take the slate and pen
cil, and fee how much it makes in the whole
—There is for the flanding army ; hold fir,
fays he—beware of the feditioH law ! well
then, fays I, the provifiondl army —yes, fays
Robert, snatching my catalogue out of my
Jiands—how much for our corps of officers
in leading firings; every one fit for a Colonel
at least ; to command an army yet in em
brio ; for a military fchool—for fortifying
our harbors against the Brest-sleet and the
Hamburgh Tubs—for our frigates ; our
74's, our forefts of live oak, for on the mil
lions at 8 per cent, for our hold Booby,
fays I, you have set down enough to begin'
with. No doubt the preparing of these bills
have cost our federal members, Messrs.
Smith, Harper, Dayton and others, a great
Millions for Defence—Not a Cent for Tribute.
deal of time and labour : Granted, favs he ;
but what time and labor must the Farmer
From the Centinel of Freedom.
Blue-Mountains, I6th May, 1800.
FEDERAL TOAST.
fob ! —I cannot find a word for it to the
Dey of Algiers ! It cannot be : Where, 1
ask, is Truxton ?
My dear fir, fays my son, this boasted de
fence so finely calculated to tickle our na
tional vanity, was never believed to be ne
cessary by those that raised the cry about it.
That federal game was Rarted'to lead us on
another scent ; and the toast in question,
and a toufand other federal sentiments the
catchwords of the day, with all their frivoli
ty, when tranllated into plain language,
meant no more nor less than The bates and
ffoes ; and a servile copying of the British
government, as the shortest road to obtain
them. An army establishment, we all
knew, would require a number of officers ;
and as opr patriotism never contemplated the
idea of serving our country as privates^ 5
dollars a month, there were 15000 appli
cants for commissions to officer an army of
12000 men ! ! Our navy too, is a feeding
place for another class of the idle and profli
gate ; here our great men in office can pro
cure Rations of profit and diftindion for
their conne&ions & dependants ; and make
this a dangerous mean of drawing a strong
and almost imperceptible chain of arifocracy
round the yeomanry of our country, from
which, it be well if they can free themselves,
without a new revolution. Had our coun
try's wrongs excited a true spirit of resent
ment and defence, would the infamous Brit
ith treaty, that hot bed of disgrace & French
aggression, ever have had an exigence r
I here we pay our tribute ; not in a paltry
annual ship ; they seize them in convoys ;
daily seize them almost in our harbors, in
spite of treaties, and who hears us murmur ?
You ask where isTruxton? aye indeed,where
is he i Why fir he is cruiJing against the French,
and he will (like our forts) politely salute
the British flag while American commerce
is striking to it—Here we pay our tribute,
in the prostrated honor and interest of our
country, and nobly scorning defence, we
have trusted to the magnanimity of the mon
arch whose armies have laid our towns in
allies, and whose fleets, in spite of treaties,
continue to plunder our commerce, and im
press, nay, murder our citizens ; while we
are peaceably disbanding our useless army,
nor would I be surprised, now the French
refped our commerce, to fee an order from
the secretary to call in our cruisers, Truxton
and all, and to fell the keels of our 74's at
au&ion ; since our good federalifts have re
fined on the British maxim, the King can do
no wrong, and applied it to the whole nation.
You know fir, it was not always thus, there
was a time when we felt British wrongs—
but something, I will not fay 'lhat, has blunt
ed our feelings ; French invasion is now
scouted as a fable, and what new mode of
expence will be conjured up to fleece the
people is well worth watching. Though
Harper's clues, his tales of the tubs, &c.
have brought him nothing but execrations,
yet the genius of that leech will be industri
ous to plan some other political humbug,
to draw the country into new expence, the
handling of which, is the harvest of more
federalifts than one —hence the filly toast,
Millions for defence Suppose the people
should humblypray some of their representa
tives, just to point to the items that compose
this enormous expence, and they should be,
graciously shewn that article, among many
others equally ufeful, that arises from the
pay and relations of a useless army, and a
corps of officers without a soldier to com
mand, or service to perform ; I ask you,
fir, if the sedition law could Rifle their
swelling indignation < and yet this is but a
small item of our useless expenditures for
defence.
My son, fays I, you alarm*me exceeding
ly with the pi&ure you draw of our situa
tion. There is no great danger now, fays'
he, for the people are looking abound them,
to fee what has been done with their money
and they are learning how to appreciate the
feryices of the men, who, in the face of de
cency could pass a vote of censure on an
individual, who, at his own expence, has
been the chief instrument of averting a war
with one nation, and at the fame time, can
bear the ruin of our commerce, made doub
ly bitter by the unprovoked insults of ano
ther ; and all this I fay, without complain
ing, there may be some fee ret reason for this,
but a change of such measures must be ne
cessary indeed, and the people contemplate
that change with certainty, in a change of
the public servants from the President of the
United States, down to Robert G. Harper
inclusive, with the exception of those who
are well known to be the friends of the
people. Let them then attend to their duty
at the next election, and choose such repre
sentatives as well direct our millions to their
proper use, and not squander them again on
an army of officers without men, on expen
sive foreign embassies, and other gewgaws
of royalty, highly incompatible with Re
publican Economy. €
I am really thunderstruck, Messrs. Print
ters, at the lecture my son Robert has given
me '—-l have a great many sons, firmly
attached to the constitution of our country,
every one of them I am persuaded, would,
at my nod, take his musket, and follow me
to repel any invader, or to support our laws,
and 1 find the above to be the sentiment cf
every one of them.
I am yours,
Old Manof the Mountain.
THE election of the next president is
justly considered by the people of the Unit
ed States as an object which is highly de
serving of their activity and political exer
tion. It will be ufeful to take a view of
this fubjedt, and to expose as far as possible,
the general designs of the two great parties
which exist in this country. Although we
have np hesitation in declaring a strong and
unequivocal attachment to the republican
interest of America, and of the world.
Mr. Charles Coatfworth Pinkney will
answer the purposes of British design much
better. The party has difeovered that he
is less timid, and his politics are much high
er toned than those of Mr. Adams. He is
now to become in his turn the savior of his
country, the objeft bf federal adoration,
and to constitute essentially the glory and
splendor of the American empire.
The explanation of this business is, that
Mr. Adams has grown unpopular ; that
Mr. Pinckney loves British men and Brit
ish measures ; that the Federalists conceive
that he will run better in the southern
country than Mr. Adams, and that the
whole force of the party combined in his
favor even at the expense of facrificing their
common idol, will work the defined effe&
of establishing in the United States, what
every true friend of liberty would denomi
nate the worst curses of the British mon
archy. "In short, that if Pinckney could be ,
elected, the sublime plan firft conceived a
mong some aristocratic members, of the con-|
vention which formed the federal constitu
tion, would eventually be established, and
that the successive fleps which have been
pursued by the federal administration, will
neither be fruitlefs nor inefficatious in brings
ing about that important charge, by which,
the free citizens of this country are to be
denominated ftrbje&s, Congress a Parlia
ment, and the President a King.
On the contrary, the genuine republicans
and lovers of liberty in America, have but
one objea, and that genuine sentiment, the
immortality of equal rights. To complete
this objed they have directed their attention
to Mr. Jefferfon, and him they mean to fup
port —they are determined if poflible that he
ihall be the next President, and in effe&u
ating this objed, they have commenced by
boldly announcing it. Every thing is clear
and determinate—no dark and m'yfterious
plans to be unfolded, but steady to the prin-,
ciples that gave birth to the revolution, the
republicans are determined that the author
of'the declaration of Independence Ihall re
ceive their united fuffrages, and become the
firft magistrate of this free and independent'
nation.
. CRepub.Watch Tower.
Although we have borne
constant testimony, and uniformly to do it
against all British plans and aristocratic de
signs, yet we hold that the best interests of
liberty in America demands from each re
republican printer, a temperate and dispas
sionate investigation of the existing concerns
of his country. It is vastly important to
our welfare, that our next President should
be a true republican ; and if the democrat
ic printers in the United States intend to
contribute to the accomplishment of this
important objed, it must be by constant
inquiry into the nature of the case, and
the general designs of parties.
Mr. Adams has been the favorite of the
federal party since the time in which Gen.
Washington abandoned every idea of public
concern, and retired to Mount Vernon. If
we look at the expreflions of public appro
bation which have been bestowed on 'Mr.
Adams, the numerous and flattering addref
ffes which have been presented to him, and
the general evidences of refpe& which he
has uniformly received from his party, we
shall be led to believe that all the Federalists
throughout the United States considered
Adams, next to Washington, as the savior
of his country. Indeed they have said this,
and more than this, they have constantly
vociferated in his praise.
Things however are changed at present ;
the unqualified approbation bestowed upon
Mr. Adams is dimininfhed in its force and
brilliency ; and his former friends confider
him as an improper person to answer the
surest purposes of high-toned anti-republi
canism.
Mr. Adams, it is said, though he writes
and speaks, and a&s in favor of the British
government, is nevertheless far behind that
real Rate of political activity, of general con
viaion and uniyerfal energy, which ought
to charaaerife a reJpeßable president of an
enlightened nation. It has therefore been de
termined that Mr. Adams must take the
huge bundle of praise which his friends have
bellowed upon him, and retire in this hum
ble Rate to Braintree.
-REPUBLICAN and'FEDERAL.
Calculations & Designs.
" On the 29th, Gen. Delmas spread the
position of the enemy, who Were entrenched
on the Alb; taking two pieces of cannon,s
and 200 prisoners. The attack and purft^
were so rapid that the enemy driven from
these works had not time to destroy the bridge
and form behind the river. Adj. Gen. Coe
horn was one of tiielirft to pass the torrent
leaping on the. Shoulders of a grenadier. At
the fame time'Gen. Richepanfe drove front
St. Blaife four of the enemy's battallions
that occupied it, and took 150 ptifoners.
" Gen. St. Suzanne took a 'pofition at
Fribourg, Gen. St. Cyr at St. Blaife, and
the corps of reserve on the Wutack. In
this march Gen. Lerfet was flighily wound
ed. The fame day Gen. Richeganfe united
himfelf with the corps de reserve.
" On the 7ft of May, Gen. Suzanne was
to march against Newflad and Leffingen. —-
Gen. Cyr advanced to Smelingen, of which
he took possession, after a very brisk engage
ment. , He took some prisoners and a ma
gazine.'
" The corps-de- reserve passed the Wut
ack, pushing the enemy vigorously.
" Cen. Lecourbe palled the Rhine, be
tween Schaffhaufen and Stein." This pas
sage was made with' prodigious rapidity.—
Gen. Lecourbe had combined his means
with such precision, th,at in an hour and an
half the bridge was thrown over, and with
in^ three hours his whole corps had taken
its position on the left bank of the Rhine.—
Ihe enemy refilled only in the village of
Buflingen. Ihe result of the engagements
on the three points of the passage is between ^
7 and 800 prisoners, a major, Suffices, 3
pieces of cannery and also the occupation of
the taftle of Hobenwil, which furrendered'
by capifulatiorf The fort is almpll im-
P'Wpble, and was provided with $0 pieces
of brass cannon. • '
" Our continual movements since the
24th of April, having had for their obied
the uniting of the army on its right, I did
not think fit to acquaint you with the result,
until after the operation would be complete
ly terminated.
"The General jn Chief in consequence
of the orders which he had received from
Government, to commence the Campaign,
determined to manoeuvre in from the Rhine,
& in the rear on the defiles of the Black-For
est, in order to unite his army about Schaff
haufen and Smetlingen. It was neceffafy
to combine these operations so as to avoid
any doubtful engagements in several days
marching ; which was the more difficult on
account of the defiles which we had to tia
verfe, on account of the palfage of the Rhine
which was to be effected, and of the central
position of the enemy at Donauefchingen,
which enabled them to bear more quickly
than we could, with all their forces, on any
of the points of the line that we might men
ace.
" Head -quarters, Schajjhaufen, May 2 .
"CITIZEN MINISTER,
" The General in chief ordered Lt. Gen.
St. Suzanne to commence the operations on
the morning of the 25th by marching from
Kehl against Offenbourgh ; and Lt. Gen.
St. Cyr was directed to proceed by Old Brif
ac against Fribourg. Gen. St. Suzane, af
ter a very brisk action, repulsed the enemy
to Offenbourg, took a piece of cannon and
about 100 prisoners. His right took a po
sition at Boderveyer, Valeflen, and Appen
vir, and his left at Vilftert, Griefen and
Landt. In this engagement he had tp re
gret the loss of Citizen Dubois Crance, chief
of Brigade of the iff regiment of Chaffeurs,
a very distinguished officer.
" Gen. St. Cyr took his position at Fri
''°ur g> driving every thing he met before
him. The lame day the General in chief
ordered to pass by Bafle a division of the
corps of reserve, commanded by Gen. Rich-,
epanfe, who took a position at Schellingen,
and on the Debouche de Kanders.
" On the 26th, Gen. St. Suzane remain
ed in his position, and Gen. St. Cyr aflum
ed a menacing appearance in the valley <f
La Kinfig, in order to appear to blend his
operations with those of General St. Suz
anne.
" That General received orders on the
25th, to retire to Kehl, in order to return
by the left bank of the Rhine to Brifac, and
from thence to Fribourg, where he should
have arrived on the 30th.
" Gen. St. Cyr, who had orders to ad
vance from Fribourg to St.Blaife, by Tot
tenau, and to make rapid marches, com
menced his operations the fame day.
" I he two divisions of Generals Delinas
and Leclere set out from Bafle andadvanced
to Secki'ngen, without meeting any obflacle.
Gen. Richepanfe had orders to advance to
St. Blaife, by the valley of La Veiffen,'td
support the movement of Gen. St. Cyr, as
well as to cover the right of the divisions of
Delmas and Leclere.
Gen. Defiles to the Minifler at fUar.
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