The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1800-06-17 00:00:00, page 2

For the REPUBLICAN LED^R. —
AS r was coming to town the other d^y |
to market, I fell in company with a gentle
man unknown to me, and after we had pass
ed the usual compliments of good morning,
we entered ihto conversation, and our talk
happened to turn upon the times, and as he
appeared to be a very clever man, and treat
ed me so hanrtfome, and seemed so be so free
and good humored in talking over our na-•
tional affairs, I took the liberty to alk him,
as he lived in town, if~he l|pew any of those
people called Jacobins — not thinking he
could be one, for he leemed the cleverest
man that I ever saw in my life. He told
me yes, and told me plainly that he was
called one, and asked me what I thought a
bout them, that I called them so wicked ?—
I told him I was not much a man of the
world, nor did I read much, only the bible,
but had been informed that they denied the
God of Jacob, and that is the reason they
were called Jacobins : He told me he tho't
I had heard some falfe story about them, and
said it was noftch thing, for he believed in
God as well a^, and believed his fupdrin
tendance of all things, and said further, that
the f^deralifts were always spreading some
falfe report about them, concerning religion.
—They pretend to a great deal of religion,
but pfa&ice none. Then pray, fir, fays I,
what did they take their name from? I tho't
it was a very bad name however. Why,
fays he, I have been told that before the re
volution in France, a numberof very worthy.
men met in the temple where there form
erly was a religious fe& called jacobins met,
to talk over among themselves the blessings
of liberty and republican government in pre
ference to ariffocracy or monarchy, and they
took their name from the place's name, Ja
cobin's Temple, and it has been generally
applyed to the republicans of this country,
byway of reproach ever since. Now I be
gan to think I had been deceived about them.
Well, fays I, if this is true that you fay a
bout them, and I believe it is, then I am a
/{Jacobin ; and if this is Jacobinifm, give me
more of this jacobinifm. What, a lover of
liberty and republican government a jacob
in ? Then all our countrymen, that fought
and bled in our war were Jacobins, were
they not r Yes, fays he, for those that are
now alive, who have not been bro't oyer to
British interest, are called so now, and many
things worse, such as diforganizers, traitors,
destroyers of the constitution, &c. by our a
busive federalifts.' Ay, ay, fays I, our fed
efalifts, a pretty name to screen them ; but
he can be no friend to the federal constitution
who is no friend to a republican government
like our own, to be sure ; but'then, fir, fays.
I, pray tell me what makes this people so :
zealous in spreading their lies about the
country, (lies I call them for my blood be
gins to boil to think they so deceive our
country people, T could wish that all my
brother Farmers read what prints the town
people read, they would not fuffer them to
impofc upon them any longer,) but to your
question, fays he, its thought they have their
reward from the great Tit. Great Pit, (fays ,
I,) what Pit, it can't be the bottomjefe pit, ,
that ! read about in my bible, can it ? Why
no, fays he, I dont suppose, tis the pit meant
there, but you may call it a bottomless pit ,
from the immense sums of money that,goes
in arid comes out of it. But where does
it go to i fays I ; O, fays he, many ways,
some to Germany, some to Russia, some to
France, to pay the royalists there ; some to
the Indians, to set them upon our defepcelefs
...inhabitants upon our frontiers ; some to this
country, that to their agents, emissaries and
printers. Oh, ho,' I tho't as much before,
fays I, and I begin to think that some of
these agents and printers call themselves.
federalifts, when they are enemies to our
constitution and country ; I guess now they
are some of our old Tories got a new name,
but I think they had ought to be called by
another name than Federalists, now I think
as they receive their inftruHions from the
mouth of the pit, and are very earned to
spread Pit principles, it would do very well .
to call them Pitmen or Pitbins, ay, Pitbins,
from the name of the place where they get
their dodrine ; but do tell me, fir, how all
this money comes into this Pit ? Why, fays
he, the rich nobility and bishops of England,
where the Pit is. are.continually pouring
money into this Pit, and rirange as it may
seem, yet tis no mote strange than true, tho'
they know they shall never get it out again,
yet they are so infatuated With it, that no,
sooner is money wanted in the Pit, than they
cast it in, arid though they pour in so much,
yet there is no more figris of its being full
now, than there was 7 years ago. Why,
I am aftonrfhed, fays I, a bottomless Pit in
deed ; but, fir, fays 1, is there no way to
flop the mouth of the Pit, feeing it is bottom
less, and cant be filled up ; I could with it
was (hut up as close as the jail. Why yes,
fays he, there sea way one Mr. Fox,has
pointed out that would flop it entirely, but
as the nobility and bishops receive their of
fices from the Pit, they will not consent to
any thing he fays, and tis thought our feder
aliits want to introduce nobility and bishops
and established religion into this country.-
^A' frant to ^ you how these me)
Iget all the, money ? Why, fays he,me pec
Iple are continually paying taxes to fay the
high fallaries, the bishops have the tenths
all the land produces. Ha, ha, fays I, ^n/l
our Federalists want to have nobility
bishops here, do they ? Od rabbit them„
warrant they want to be Nobles ;nd Bifhobst
themselves. A pretty income indeed, so,
have the tenth pig, and goose, and turkel,
and the tenth part of all our corn, and ry|,
and potatoes ; —they'd have more corn a||
poultry than any farmer in the state, to fill
law,
do they ? when they have no&feftablilhdl
in their own hearts i—„^tf§) such re.
ligion as this. Wtetyaißfo religion
when they will decfl^U|^Cik> the very
Devil him felf. WnyyUn,tobe warm,
fays'he. Why it vexes ^reto fear them ,
pretend to so much religion, w§en they
care no more about it than Judas Jr Simoi
Magus.
By this time we had come to cur jour/
ney's end, and ha+g bid each oser fare/
well, we parted—Mully determined, in n^
own mind, nqt to believe any mote Pit-uin
stories, even should they be puffed off with
Federalifm.A
SIMON CORNPLANTER.
From the Chronicle.
Bleffrs, Adams & Rhoades,
The late resolution for the chdce of E
ledors, is predicated on such principles as
destroys every idea of exultation,teven from
the majority who voted for it. j the xefo-
Ibtion was founded on the apf ehenfions,
that ' 7 be People" of. Mafcchujt is could not
be trufled in this buJinefs, the ref &ion is so
highly derogatory to the Prefient, that a
censure accompanies the meas re. The
larger the majority, the greater the reflec
tion, for if it had been by a una imous vote,
it would only have been an unanimous 0-
pinion of the Legislature, that the popularity
of the President had diminifhec since the
lari election. If the President hd been au
thoriied to vote on this question, It is proba
ble he would bate given his decided negative,
as he certainly would not have made a de
claration so greatly to his difadvintage—he
would never have put an'argum^nt into the
mouths of his opponents in the other States,
that it Was the opinion of the Legifature, that
' The people' of his own State, were unfa
vorable to his election. He would have
tr'ufted the decision to the fame source on
which he firft obtained his dignified ftatipn,
arid as.it refpe&d his political reputation,
would have been cautious how he gave a
:plea of this magnitude to his opponents.
.The friends to the resolution, in the fer
vor of their zeal, did not appear aware how
far the argument might be turned against
them. While fupporung the measure, they
loft fight of their object ; arid it is probable
if Mr Adams loses his eleaioh, jt will be in
some degree owing to the late interference
of the Legislature. It is fuffeaed thatihe
, will feel injured by their procedure. Inju-
Vicious friends are the most powerful ene
m'leSe ,w.
As a Republican, it is supposed that Mr.
Adams was willing to rifque his chara&er,
as, usual, upon the fuffrages of his fellow cit
izens—at lead his eleaion would have flood
upon the broad basis of public opinion. But
diverting tfiis channel and holding up to the
other states, so unfavorable an impreflion,
weakens the confidence which at this time is
so highly necessary for his tfriends to fub
flantiate.
Waving for the present. the Constitution
ality of the measure, I offer these few ob
servations for the candid consideration of the
advocates of the resolution. Whether there
is any weight in the suggestions, I will not
pretend to fay, but time will prove the pro
priety or impropriety of them. The reso
lution passed operates in a two fold ratio—
it renders “ the People" of Maffachufet'ts
jealous, that they are depriyed of their Con
stitutional rights : and at the fame time
makes the citizens of the other States sus
picious, that the President would not get a
unanimous vote, among those with whom he
is bed acquainted. In every view then, the
measure is impolitic and injudicious.
A REPUBLICAN.
From the (Stonnington) Journal.
MR. TRUMBULL, 1 •
It having.been repeatedly asserted that the French
people did notp^ejs National honor, or the least
trait of integrity and office for any people but
themjelves, Ifend you jor insertion; a circron
, Jlance, which Ipe^onally had knowledge of, and
which will force as a coutradiQian tojuch pufil
lauimous and unjuflJuggeflious. r j %
APATRIOT.
In the month of March last. was earned
into St. Martins, by a Portuguese sailor, an
Engliih Schooner with a very valuable car
go on board ;—betook the following inhu
man method to possess her :—on her pallage
from Antigua to Jamaica, the Portuguese,
supposing that he should be proteaed pro
vided he could take the fchooncr & carry her
into. French port, murfo^- the Captain,
Mate, Supercargo and zotligr hands, -being
all Englithmen ;-—he difoatphed the Capt.
and,'Supercargo, while asleep in the Cabbin,
with daggers ; Knocked down the mate at'
helm, and, also, the other two upon deck &
threw them overboard, and proceeded for St.
Martions,' where on his arrival, he boated
of the horrid^a ; instead of meeting with a
favorable reception, he was on the contrary
arrested, leaded with Chains, and sent him
with a.flag of truce to. Antigua, with the
property.
Thus it i^ evident, that the Frenchare not
generally such abandoned wretches as Porcu
pine and others of his cast, have declared
them to be ;—they undoubtedly poffefyas
much honour, as the people of a lifter Wa-.
tion, with whom we are at Peace.
From a late Dublin Paper.
Statement of tbefituation of the poor in tbe par
ijb.of St. Catharine, St. Luke, and St.
sames---submitted to the confderation of the
Inhabitants of the more opulent parts of the
city..
AS in the metropolis the hand of charity
has never been withheld from misery, when
its claims appeared well founded and real—
the few following fads are offered to your
consideration, with all the confidence oftruth
and with all the anxiety of men pleading
the cause of their fuffering fellow-creatures.
You are therefore molt earnestly entreat
ed to refle&that the above parishes appear,
by an accurate and minute survey taken a
bout the isth"of February last, —to contain
9134 persons in the most abject Rate of po
verty ! partly old and infirm : almost whol
ly employed, and con fequently perfe&ly des
titute of the means of protraaing a misera
ble exiftance, without the instant aid of those
to whom Providence has been more bounti
ful.
That the above numbers of unhappy be
ings, forming amass of misery, the greatest,
perhaps, that exists iri any equal portion of
the globe, has been much enlarged since the
period of the late survey, is daily cncreafing
in consequence of the daily failure of the
means ot indaftry..•
That the peaceful patient refignment with
which they are fuffering the extremes of cold
and hunger, in the vicinity of luxury gnd
fuperfluity, should it is presumed, powerful
ly interest the opulent in their cause, who
cannot but recolle& the clamorous multi
tudes that in times of less real distress,
have, from the famp quarter, frequently a
larmed and disturbed this city.i
That number have already without a
murmur fallen vi&ims to neglect and fam
ine : is appearing, from inconteftible evi
dence, that in the tingle ward comprehend
ing Colo-alley and Elbow-lane, no less than
ten have died since the 15th of Eebruary, in
consequence of abfolj.de want of food !
That the present price of provisions, 'un
exampled in till former times of scarcity,
renders the evil still more deplorable. In
this part of the metropolis, the upper classes
were, in happier times, scarce iaifed above
competence ; and, in the present stagnation
of their commerce and manufactures, are
condemned only to the painful Situation of
contemplating the idle, whom they cannot
relieve.
To , you, therefore, the inhabitants of a
more favoured part of the city we make the
appeal: to you, whose hearts unfettered by
the petty con fideration of parochial limits,
can feel for fuffering humanity wherever it
exists—to you we submit the unmerited lot
of nine thousand one hundred and thirty
four of our once ufeful, but now perilling
fellow-creatures : to you we address the em
phatic words ofinfpiration--foZw bas much,
give plenteously ; iftbou bast little, do thy dilli
gence gladly to give of that little : for Jo gatb
creft thou tbyfetf a good reward in the day of
neceflitf.
We, the underfilled Clergymen, of all
denominations, with the church-wardens,
and other principal inhabitants of the above
parishes, whom a similitude of misery has
united in onecommor. cause, pledge ourselves
to our fellow-citizens for the truth of the a
bove statement ; and that whatever the pub
lic humanity (ball entrufl to our care for the
God-like-purpose of alleviating this affifa
jng feene of human wretchedness, shall be
applied to the deftiaed end with .unwearied
attention and riggid economy, and shall be
publicly and faithfully accounted for.
You are therefore rcfpe&ively informed,
that ihree or more of our number will call
; on you on next, between the hours
of 10 and 2 o'clock, with a book for weekly
ifubferiptions; and will receive, with thank
fulnefs, any sum notkfsthan a British fix
pence per week. A column will also be
appropriated to the larger donations of those
[who do not chofc to be called on a fedond
time. If you cannot be at home at the a
bove hqurs, you will please to leave four
donation with some domestic.
Soup-kitebings, the intended medium of
your bounty,,re already in operation iri the
parities of St. Cathajine and St. James, &
will Shortly be opened in that of St. Luke.
Thefe/cach day, supply a wholesome nutria
tious nieal to about five thousand fix hundred
persons ; but their sources, already nearly
exhauUed, if not renewed by public benevo
lence, mutt in a tew days fail : and although
we are encouraged by the hope, that Go
vernment will humanly interpose, and fup
ly food at a moncrate price ; yet forthe un
empjojed, and absolutely indigent, that price
however moderate, mutt be supplied by the
hand of Charity, or thousands mult inevita
bly pejilh,
N. B. In the survey above referred to, the
returns for the parishes of St. Catharine, St.
Luke and St. James, were 5220, 2794, and
1120 refpeaively ; and it is agreed that
these numbers shall regulate each . parish's
proportion of the public contribution, until
a new survey take place.
( Here follows the signatures of fevenly Cler
gymen, Church-wardens, wsd^tber reJpedlable
'inhabitants.
Late Foreign Intelligence,
Received by the Active, M'Dongal, arrived at Philadelphia in a,
days from London.
—^^ H <sQ^^^^;,„fc,.pt
THE total defeat of the Aufttian armies,
in several fucceflive a&ions, by Maffena, re
scues the Ligurian republic from the dan
gers with which the Austrians threatened it,
and at the fame time leaves the whole of an
cient Lombardy, part of which composes
the Cifalpine republic, open to the paffeffion
of the vigors —The natural consequence of
whiqh is, the re-establishment of the repub
lican government of Italy. This blow, gi
ven to the combined despots of Europe, at
the opening of the compaign; speaks in tre
mendous accents to the tyrants of the world
to desist from troubling the repose of man,
or from opposing the progrefsof Republican
Liberty. Amer. Cit.
•LONDON, APRIL 30.
Just as this paper was going to press, we
received the Paris Journals to the 27th inst.
inclusive. The lateness of the hour obliges
us, for this day, 10 content ourselves with
giving the following extraas:
9 ARMY OF ITALY.
Telegraphic Dispatch.
" Albenga, 20th Germinal, April 10.
“ The Cammander in chief to General
Martillier, commanding the 7th divifioh..
46 Cause all the troops coming from
France to file off by forced marches towards
Albenga."
(Os the fame date) “ General Souchet,
commanding me centre.
“ We have taken 2100 pri foners, among
whom are General Baron d'Afpre, and sev
eral officers of diftin&ion. The commaud
„ er in chief continues his success.
(Signed) ^SOUCHET"
Gen. Souchet, lieut. of the general in
chief, to Gen. Buonaparte, firri consul of
the French Republic.
Head-quarters at Melogno, 26 Germinal,
April 6..
GENERAL, '
“ For ten days the army of Italy has been
engaged with the enemy. Finding mylelf
detached from the army of the commander
in chief Maffena, and having an opportunity
of being able to give you intelligence of the
army, 1 think it my duty to do so directly.
On the 16th Germinal, Gen. Melas attack
ed in person the heights of Savona. Lieut.
Gen. Souchet, who commanded them, with
riood during the whole day the attack of the
enemy on Cadiburna and Montenotte, in
order that he might be able to fend to the
Fort of Savona what was neceffarv for its
defence, and to effe& his retreat to Genoa ;
for at the commencement of the day he could
easily perceive that the enemy had such a su
periority of force, that he could not hope to'
overcome them. He threw a garrison of
700 men ir,to the Fort of Savona, and in the
evening effaced his retreat to Abiffola. The
fame day Gen. Miollis was attacked on the z
Riviere de Levante ; he was at firri obliged
to fall back ; but on the 17th Gen. Maffera
advanced hither in person, beat the Auriri
ans, and took from them 2500 prisoners; a-1
mong whom are Gen, Baton d'Afpre.
On the 20th, Gen. Maffena attacked the,
4 ,enemy at Safello and Albiffola The affair
continued the whole day, and on the 2ift;
Gen.'Maffena briskly repulsed the enemy,
and took from them a number of prifon<;rfr
I On the 23d; 24th, 25th, Gen. Maffera
had fuarp engagements, the result of which
was conftahtly in our favor. He took from
the enemy 4500 prisoners, 7 riandards, and
6 pieces of cannon.
On the 13th, however, I had evacuated
the portion of St. Jacques, and had advan
ced to the line of Borgetto. The Madona
de la Nave was taken and,retaken several 1 ■
times. The Hungarian grenadiers fuffered
considerably at Mc|ogno, where they were
vigoronty repulsed. The 17th, and the 3
grenadiers of the 35th, diflingui(h f d them
selves in a particular manner. Observing
.that the enemy were endeavouring to turn
me, I determined to advance to the line of,
Borgetto. During this yn&Gefb. Zabl^M,
noufki completely beat the division of the