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44's; then a few 74's ; but two or three millions,
which annually pay for the honor of Spreading
your canvass on the water, and preaching peace
by broadsides, is but an entering wedge to a navy
of immense force, which will as certainly destroy
your liberties, as a molt malignant pestilence will
destroy the lives of men.
This short syllabus of our part political situation
points you clearly to the objeft of the c friends of
order,' This object was monarchy, and the ob
jeft gained would have made confident and ope
rative all their previous measures. Every thing
had assumed a monarchical afped; even the f?ecch
es of Otis and Harper, founded like the speeches
of Gredtile and Dundas, and as the King at the
opening of Parliament, so our late President, at
/ the opening of Congress, could talk wifely about
the great peace, plenty, prosperity and order,
>which had prevailed under the wife adminiftraxion
of his wife felf and his faithful miniltry ; and the
fame style would have been obfeved here, even if
the profufe exportations of flour had starved one
half of our people, and the measures of govern
ment had reduced the other half to slavery.
Nothing could have prevented a monarchy here
but the accession of jefferfon and Burr to the Pre
sidency. The 'friends of order' saw this, and
marshalled all their force in favour of their candi
dates. This event is doubly joyful, because on
this crisis depended the life of liberty, and the fate
of republicans. r ‘
From the volumes of measures, by which the
6 friends of order' have contrived to make the pad
administration detestable to you,! (hall felert some
for your prefenc consideration.
: Who firrtexcired theauimofcy of our people
Zgainft France? The 'friend/former ."-,-Tbe oc
casion seized for this excitement deserves your
particular notice. An envoy of France taking for
^ * Irefer to a communication made by Uriah Tra
cy, Esq. Senator in Congress, to the Rev. -Stanly
GriJwold, at one time, and to Gen, Skinner, at ano
ther time, the substance of which was, “ that the
gavernment was too weak, that the people were too
Jlrong, that we mufl have a King ; but not to be
Called a King ; and d House ©f Lords, but they mufl
, not be called fetch ,• and a hierarchy under thefame
precautions, &c. the federal measures for the four
lafl years have been dreadful preJages of such an
intention. , ,
10ur people are often obliged to ride several
miles in order to procure flamps. Even in eompa&
towns this tag severely incumben business. It is an
embargo on indufiry, and if the time or afrfo of
0 our people had been worth federal notice thss Brd
ijh Stamped would never have been sassed.
EXTRACT FROM
Mr. Bishop's ORATION.
\ (Continued.)
AFTER the revolution, this country was to be
the fceue ot the great displays of divine wisdom
and goodness. Here liberty and peace and pure
anJ undefiled religion were to flourifh in eternal
youth. The leaves of our future hiftdry were gild
ed, and the pages left to be filled up with the
the aftlons of a long lift of unambitious Cxfars.
Here the patriots of other nations were to find an
asylum, and the houfelefs stranger a welcome home.
The rights of man were to be refpefted to the lac
eft generation. The phantasms, follies and cruel
ties of European governments, were to be dis
claimed, and this redeemed continent was to be
the grand theatre of the mellenial reign.
Thus published the deceitful courtier ; thus
wrote the honest poet, and thus sung the bard ;
but the whole tas hitherto appeared like a vain
illufio'n.
Our firft importation from Europe was a fund
ing JyJ^em, which was as necessary to the ' friends
ot order,' as air is to life. Next followed systems
of Commerce and ways and me^ns, diplomacy, na
vy, army &c. England was the belt country for
us to trade with.—She would give ample credit,
and long credit with a vengeance, for the ruinous
systems, against which we had fought.
Thus came over one curie after another, as in
the vision of St. John, "I saw another dragon, a
mighty fierce dragon," and in faft nothing re
mained but the Lion and the Unicorn, arid they
were just ready to be landed when the eleftion
of Jefferfon and Burr was announced. Our court
^graced with Hammons and Littons intimates of
our northern 'friends of order,' and our com
mercial towns filled with British agents, merchants
and factors, blessed preachers of political righte
ousness and equality.'.
In all this time the people were looking for the
freedom, peace, economy and religion which they
fought to obtain ; but had either of these been fuff
ered to land, they must have taken up private
lodgings, for they could have gained no admiflion
into the federal hotels.-—ln ta& our 6 fainds of
order' were copying faithfully, as a boy copies, is
mader's ffand, all the projects of British cabinets,
and all the abandonments of European monarchi
cal governments, in defiance of ora ° declaration of
independence, and of our numerous protestations
during a distressing war.
Under this ft/ange order of things freedom was
taught by the sedition aft ; patriot foreigners wel
comed by the alien law ; le&ureson peace read
by Commodores and Generals ; economy taught
by the funding fydem ; religion preached by the
federal editors ; morals put to nurse on board of
armed ships, and frights of man kiln dryed for
exportation in bms*at commercial towns. Was
this, republicans^^ government for which you
fought and bled ? Nothing was wanting to com
plete a government, meriting your total abhor
rence, but an hereditary ?refident and. Senate
for life, and ample preparations were mak
ing for this event, as we learn from one of our
•friends of order' and extermination, lately re
appointed to the Senate by our Governor and
Council :*
No heir, just arrived to an immense estate, ever
projected more extregant plans than the federal
5 friends of order,' after having secured to them
selves all offices and emoluments. The vali furos
of money, paid by the people, were consumed
like the miraculous loaf, one half eaten up the
other half, that is, one half was consumed in
in contriving ways and means to get it and
in actually getting it, and the other half was ton
fumed in contriving ways and means to expend
it, and in actually expending it..
Hence from the imported dragons came forth,
young dragons, in the. detestable forms of carriage
taxes and damp a&s,t and the people groaned by
reason of the multitude of their expreflions-. Mil
lions after millions, honeflly earned, have been
trifled away, and if the loss of those could alone
be deplored, it had been better ; but they went
only to prepare the way for more. The firft cry
was small and delicate, 6 let us have a few armed
veffeis just to keep off the little pirates, then a few
; then a few 74's ; but two or three millions,
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH,
OF .
President JEFFERSON ;
Extracted from a late London publication, entitled
^PUBLIC CHARACTERS of
1800—ifoi.'
Mr. JEFFERSON was born in Virginia, and is
now supposed to be somewhat turned of fifty, He
is the Ton of a Gentleman of that state the fame
who was joint commissioner with Col. Fry, for
fettling and extending the boundary line between
Virginia and North Carolina, in 1749.
He was educated in his native land, from which
he was never absent until its fervjce demanded his
residence at the court of Paris, whither he was
sent as an envoy.
Mr. Jefferfon is tall, of a slender make frelh
fQmplexion, clear penetrating eyes, hair inclining
to red, and of very modeftand affable deport
ment. He was profeflionally bred a lawyer, tho'
born to an affluent fortune ; yet the public de
mand forthe exercise of his talents in a higher
sphere, left him but little time to display his na
tive eloquence as a Barrister, nor was he of a turn
to profit by the arts of ordinary practice. His
country called him forward at a very early period,
and promised herfelf, in his abilities, those very
important ends which have been so conspicuously
realized in whatever he has been engaged.
In private life, in his younger days, (the only
days which ' fortune seems to have allotted to him
ifor an uninterrupted social intercourse with the
world) he was in every circle (and all of the firft
were competitors for his presence) its ornament,
inftruftor and pride. Close application had Ap
plied the want of many European advantages.-
Without neglecting the particular fiudy to which
his primary employments were devoted. Mr.
Jefferfon found alto fullici^nt hours to attend to
Idoftrines advanced in our declaration of indepen
dence, decrying the rights of man, treating with
(corn the name of republicanism, repelling the ex
ertions to be free, extolling the coalitions of ty
rants, rejoicing at the success of royal armies, ad
mirjng the policy, clemency and magnanimity of
} Great Britain, and trampling under feet the great
: est part of the brave officers and the whole of the
invincible foldiery„.who with 'liberty or death' on
their fronts, atchieved our independence? The fed
eral, friends of order' and good government .'
Who voted 200 000 dollars tor a mausoleum ?
The representatives of the northern 'friends of or
der."
Who placed id imminent hazard our confuta
tion and federal union, by concerting the election
of President Jefferfon ? Who prefered running the
fliip on fbore to being Superceded in the command?
Who hazarded a civil war in this country, and for
several days, Spread diSorder and distress through
the dates, by ^efufing to place in the Presidential
chair,the man of the people's choice ? These were
the pretended "friends of order" and good govern
ment !
These detached arts of the " friends of order"
have been presented in order to introduce the
systems by which they have disclosed their hostil
ity to the true interests of man, their perfecutioxs
and cruelty.
granted what was precisely true, that the people I
and the government did not harmonize, addreffedl
the people in favor ot his country. Tho' we, at
the opening of our revolution addressed for the
fame object, the people of England direftly, and
even invited the people of Canada to join us in our
revolt ; yet the conduft of this envoy was a crime
which we could charge on book as a full off-fet a
gainst all our debt of gratitude to France : But the
real cause of excitement was this, The united
brethren of church and state had jufl difebvered,
that the French revolution was aiming a deadly
blow at their union. The Pope of Rome, the
real head of this union, was to be deposed. The
alarm was spread throughout Christendom.
The ' friends of order' who for eighteen centu
ries had been the only inflitters of disorder and
distress throughout the world, seeming to confi
der themselves as holding by possession, from time
immemorial, the right to controul mankind, were
alarmed, They wrote volumes to proye that
France had taken uptheir trade, and the unavoid
ableconvulfious of a distressing war were conL
dered as proofs of the trespass.
. It is true that the French people, under the
influence of that power, whose lightnings can fplij
the unwedgeable and knarled oak," and can as
readily make Buonaparte as Cyrus his arm, were
dividing asunder church and Bate, so that the
cause of God and religion might be on ge lide,
and the cause of man and civil governn^nt on the
other, to the end that man might be freed from
that slavery, which is always induced by. a combi
nation of ecclefiaflics and cilillians.
This is the true origin of federal vengeance a
gainst the French nation.
Who, under the falfe pretence of danger of
French invasion, railed an army ? Who scattered
about the country the Arabian tales of Robinson
and Barruel ? Who excited the X. Y. Z. mania in
our country, and introduced the horrors of July,
1,98 ? The " Friends of order."
Thro' the operation of the British 4 friends of
order," your brethren on board the Jessey prison
ship, were facrificed by thousands, and under the
reign of our ' friends of order,' their unburied
bones have been whitening in the fun, and through
a dreadful temper here, one of the most ardent and
intelligent of our brethren * was publicly insulted
for expressing a wife that they might be covered
with earth, and of our ' friends of order't Was
laurelled and complimented for treating the sug
gestion with contempt. This was among the hor
rors of the reign of terror and COCKADES in '9B.
Who are anonimoufly publishing, in the federal
papers, satires on the objects of our revolution ;
ridiculing ' those who believe that a republican.go
vernment can be fopported ? who are seizing on
the names of Hampden, Sidney and Washington
to cover principles which thbfe men would abhor ?
The 6 friends of order
Who have been declaring that our federal con
stitution is like a rope of sand ? that the union
must be dissolved, or that the date governments
must be abolished ? Who have been vilifying all the
* Mr. fofiah Meigs, lately promoted from the
tyranny of the 'friends of order' here to the pre
sidency of a collegiate inflitution in the slate of
Georgia.
t Noah Webfler, jun. Esq. author of 'A Rod for
the Foil's back,' ' Hiftory of Pestilence,' ' Letters
to Prifflly, and a number of other equally valua
ble publications ; alike able to itfrubl all the phy
sicians in the country, to inirai a new theory of
tides, to humble Dr. Priejily, and to chafliJe ' the
Son of delufion.'
the politer acquirements. In these auxiliary ac
complilhment, he attained a knowledge in draw
ing, geometry geography, astronomy, natural phi
lofophy and music, in which he was considered a
proficient, nor was his information in history and
date affairs neglected for these adornments.
At an early age he married a mild and amiable
wife, the daughter of Mr. Wales, an eminent
counfellor in Virginia ; an affeaiunate partner,
who, unfortunately, no longer exists. The death
dt this lady of course devolved on him a more pa
rental care, in the education of her two lovely
daughters; they have been reared under his im
mediate infpe&ioh, and have accompanied his
'diplomatic functions whitherfoever they have been
directed.''
-EULOGLUM ON AMERICA.
4 PARIS, APRIL 20.
" The United States is perhaps rhe only country
in thb world, in which the depositaries of public
offices can, without difficulty, mingle with the peo
ple, and divert themselves in the presence of their
fellow-citizens of those authorities, and command
ing airs which are & neceffttry in other countries.
The reason is that the Amerfyis are yet virtuous;
and the purity and simplicity oFtbeir4nannerspre
clude the necessity of government and la+s. They
are still in their political infancy, and moch near
er the age of CiNCiNAJU'S than we are.
At this arduous period hefed much to contend
with ; for he was not only the objeft of an open
enemy in the field, but furtained the insidious ar
tifice of an assassin like fartion, who availed his
reputation in,the dark, ever ready to flab it with
a secret whisper. Justice to this Gentleman de
mands a notice of fume of the more overt attacks
which were made on him, and which, though
vague and loose in tfienrfelves, have been frequent
ly recited by men ready enough to do him evil;
it has been objefted that he abandoned the gov
ernment of Virginia to its enemies, and fought
perSonal Safety in his flight to the mountains ! and
that he refofed to pay military claims in prefer
ence to those of the civil lift, during his admini
stration of that government.?
If the fir ft of these loose infirtuations is Suppos
ed to apply to the evacuation of the Virginia me
tropolis, an American officer now present was
with him on the occasion, and contradicts the
faft. If to the second visit which Gen. Tarleton
did himfelf the honor of paying to the deliberat
ing councils of that country the whole legislature
must have been equally implicated : Dum armes
leges ! The propriety of his pecuniary appropria
tions are. perhaps, eafilv to be jnrtifird.
" They must be very ignorant of the hirtory of
America, who know not that Mr. Jefferfon (har
ed with George Wafliington, Franklin, S. Adams,
Mr. Jay, and a few others, the toils and dangers
of the revolution in all its different Stages ; that
in the famous congress which guided and conso
lidated it, he displayed a boldness and firmnefs of
character, a fund of talents and knowledge, and
a rteadinefs of principles, which will hand down
his name to porterity and glory, and assure to him
forever the refpedt and gratitude of all the friends
of liberty. It was he who, in the famous Con
gress, so refpertable and so much refperted, in
that Congress ever inaccessible to the fedurtion,
fear, and apparent weakness of the people, pro
posed the declaration of independence ;—lt was
he who pressed the deliberation on the fubjert, &
carried it, bearing down the wary prudence of
some of his colleagues, possessed of an equal Share
of patriotism, but of lets courage. It was he who
was charged with drawing up this master-piece
of dignified wisdom and patriotic pride. It was
hq, who being afterwards appointed Governor of
Virginia at the period of the invasion of Arnold
and Cornwallis, acquired a peculiar claim on the
gratitude of his fellow citizens. It was he, who,
as the firft Ambassador of the United States in
France, filled at that momentous epocha, that
diftingni/hed port, to the Satisfaction of both na
tions. In fine it was he, who, as a Secretary of
State in 1792, when the ridiculous and disorganiz
ing pretentions of Mr. Genet, and the lofty arro
gance of the British Minister, endeavored alter
nately to abuse the political weakness of the Unit
ed States, induced his government to speak a no
ble and independent language, which would have
done credit to the formidable power. The long
correspondence carried on with these two de
signing agents would, from its just, profound, &
able reasoning, be alone Sufficient to confer on its
author the reputation of an accomplished states
man."
It could not be expetted, that a man of filch
qualifications, in a country which flood so much
in need of them, could be fuffered long to Remain
in phiUfophic retirement ; nlan is not born for
himfeff alone, and the vote of his constituents
claimed his labors in the field of jurisprudence.
,?% the fegiflature of Virginia he became a dis
tinguished and ufeful member, and has left many
traces on record of fufficient importance to indi
cate future greatness.
During the revolutionary period which separat
ed the United States from the mother country,
we find him advancing to a flill more dignified
ftatlon ; he was one of those in whole hands the
people thought fit to confide the molt material
events of their political exigence and future hap
piness. He was honored with the public confi
dence during its most important struggles, and
fat two years in the famous congress which bro't
about the revolution, and which is now every
where highly refpe&ed.—ln this congress he sus
tained a charader which will stand dignified to
the end of time : a character which can never
better, perhaps be exprelfed, than it already is by
the pencil of Mr. Trumbull.,
A greater example of unlimited confidence than
was evinced in the addrefs'of his conilituents on
the awful occasion ot this delegation, will proba
bly never be recorded in hittory—" You aflert
that there is a fixed intention to invade our rights
and privileges ; we own that we do not fee this
clearly, but face you assure us that it is so, we
believe the fatt. Weare about to take a dange
rous (tep, but we confide in you, and are ready
to support yon in any measure you shall think
proper to adopt.'' To proceed in this paragraph,
with feeble accounts of a man who fliould be only
mentioned to be revered, would be to offer insult
to superior pens which have preceded, and merit
a stigma for arrogance : the Duke of de Lain
court, to the chara&er of an agriculturalist
(^hichfooth he and the board of agriculture of
England have bellowed on Mr. Jefferfon) has add
ed the following very beautiful and faithful pic
ture.
Here we muff recur to a critical period in
Mr. Jefferfon's civil administration. He was the
Second Governor in Virginia, under its renovated
constitution ; the successor of that Patrick Henry
who was the successor of Lord Dunmore, and
who boldly held the reigns of a yet untried sys
tem. '. • .
NFW-YbRK, JUNE 18.
1 Though we were unfuccefsful in getting intor
, mation from the Custom House, refpefting the
;Schooner Dispatch, from London, yet alter many
fruitlefs attempts we have obtained, we believe,
I all the information lhe has brought. We have had
an interview with Capt. Hammet of the Dispatch,
and Capt. Israel, Son of the Patriotic Iheriffof Phi
ladelphia who came paflenger in her, and who ap
plied to us yesterday for the purpose. We have
the following Statement from both the atorefiid
gentlemen, and uere requested to mention them
as our authority.
The Difpach left Lisbon on the 6th May. On
the 4th Capt, Loring arrived there from Leghorn,
who brought the news of the defeat of Abercrom
bie. To Leghorn the information was brought
by a veflel from Egypt. This information from
Leghorn was confirmed by a British veflel which
arrived at Lisbon ou the sth May. Capt. Ham
met and Citizen Israel both agree that the English
account Mated that Abercrombie Summoned Me
non to Surrender, to which he replied that if Aber
crombie and bis army did not re-embark by a giv
en day (which they do not remember) he would
either put the English troops to the Lavonet or
bury the French army under the walls of Alexan
dria in the attempt. In consequence of this reply
a dreaeful artion was fought in which the EngliSh^
101 l in killed, wounded and prisoners 8000 men.
They also fay that in the battle of the found
Nelson was wounded in the remaining arm : and
that the report made by Snowden of yesterday
concerning the French demanding money from the
merchants of Lisbon is not true. They fay that
the French have made no such demand, and that
it is the Englfh merchants only who ±ave volun
tarily offered them money that they may be free
from molestation in case of actual invasion.
The army destined to invade Portugal was in
readineG when the dispatch failed. The Spanish
army was to be commanded by the Prince of
Peace and the French army by the second Consul
of the French Republic.
VALUABLE^'isCOVERr.
The citizen Faujas, adminillrator of rhe museum
has ferrod in the department of L'Ardethe a folia
flour, like that which Frabboni allayed in Tusca
ny. The Minister of marine has charged this learn
ed man to make new researches ; he has discover
ed 4 leagues from the Rhone, a considerable bed
of this earth in a place which is very aceeffible ;
the bricks which ue formed of it swim ,on the
Surface of the water, like those of T^Scany. This
discovery is precious for the conftagHon of the
magazines of veflels of war, for magazines of Spi
rituous liquors, kitchen chimnier, &c. An ex
periment was made with an old vessel, in whicha
vaulted chamber was conftrufrd, which was til
led with powder; it was then covered with cum
buttible matter, which was Set on fire ; the veflel
burnt to the waters edge and tpen fauk, without *
the powder's taking fire. [Paris paper. /
A GENTLEMAN who arrived here yeflerday
in rhe schooner Republican, Capt. Marsh, from
New-Providence, h@s communicated to us the fol
lowing int erelting particulars.
He informs, that about five years since, among a
number of slaves, one who Oiled himfeif king
Cfefar, was brought to that place from Africa,&
fold to a Planter. Shortly after the file, King
Czfar, spurning the idea of slavery, took to the
woods, where from his superior abilities, he be
came Chief of all the Blacks, who had from time
to time, ran away from the Plantations, There
King Cxfar erected fortifications, conftruded
dens, and other hiding places of defence ; and sot
about four years, has headed a banditti, and fre
quently committed depredations on the planta
tions adjacent to the woods. At length, on the
representations of those who bad been aggrieved,
the Governor of the Bahamas issued a Proclama
tion, granting a free pardon to all who would
leave the' woods, and return to their owners ;
offering at the fame time, a reward of one thousand
Dollars for King Csefar, dead or alive.—This had
the desired effect ; for on Saturday night the 9th
instant, King Czfar was way layed by a negro be
longing to Dr. Cockley, of Nassau, and shot dead
on his way to one of the plantations, where no
doubt, he was going for the purpose of plunder.
The next day the corps of King Csefar was bro'c
into Nassau, amidst the joy of some, and the re
gret of others^ who efieemed the man for his un
common intrepidity and dignified deportment.
Scarcely any event, it is (aid, ever excited more
interest, at New. Providence, than the death of this
man. He was about 45 yea's ot age, and a man
of genteel address. His death has entirely discon
certed those over whom he presided, and it is ex
pected most of them will return to their former
owners.
Since King Czfar's death, his camps and dens
have been examined ; and what is very extraor
dinary, large volumes of manuscripts, in a charac
ter, which we are unacquainted with, have been
found, and brought into Nassau.—Drawings of
his encampments, fortifications,&c. were also dis
covered in his hut, which had excited the aston
ishment of all who had teen him. The gentleman
to whom we are indebted for tbefe particulars, has
indulged us with the loan of a sheet of the above
manufeript, and if there is any one in the city, ca
pable of decyphering it, we would thank him to
call at the office of the Gazette. The chara^era
are very similar to that of the Chinese.
* It appears that he pofeffed the Sovereign Pow
er over a nation in Africa, and was captured by a
neighbouring Prince in an engagement which took
place between them—and afterwards fold to the
captain of a oeffel engaged in the Slave Trade.
CHARLESTON, (S.C.) JUNE 3.
Capt. Wood in the Susan of Philadelphia, ar
rived here yerterday : He tailed from the Havanna
on the 22d May, bound to New-York; with a
cargo of Molasses, Sugar and cotton. Two days
afterwards he was taken by a New Providence
privateer, under pretence that the cotton was
Spanish property ; a prize-matter and four hands
were puton board, and ordered to Nassau. The
prize master an ignorant fellow, was induced to
relinquish the command of the veflel to Captain
Wood, on condition of his carrying her immedi
ately to Nassau ; inttead ot which he bore away
for this port, and had the address to receive a pi
lot on board off our bar, before the prize-master
was aware of his Situation.
DEATH OF KING C/ESAR.
, PORTENTOUS.
fa victim to Lritijh avarice.)
From a New-York paper of Ma, 30.