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Rcfolvedfi^in order to ascertain f^ly^^
5 deliberate & authoritative ferric of the majontyof the
. people of PenufyivamVthe above committee 0-
~ req^fted to pupareami publish a mf and re
ift&ce to the k^urr, _ft the
cai>cg a state convention ; and omy
^Cfeutimen^ and language be expressed in toe
^morid, directed to that tingle objrA as may be
' honorably hiofcribud by every citizen of the biate,
/. Qho boppolcd to the prfy&, whatever may be his
p,r:y arfachmenis, prejudices or principles;
—^^ — <
/Here perhaps it would not be ainiss to introduce a
paragraph from the Aurora, shewing the intem
perate and highly dangerous spirit and disposition
of the Editor of that paper, and of his coadjutors
/ in^fee plan for abolishing the Constitution of Pe^n
/ The time to pause and reflect seems so
/'h^^^rrived.—Let it be kept in mind, that this ism
controversy of Democrats, —The Federalists pave.
& * taken no part in the Business whatever.
" The leaders of the Constitutional Society wfll
« petition loudly for a reprieve—they will stir tip
“ every interest in their power to procure their par
“ don—they will writhe, and twist, and furtf
" thev know Y HEY ARE ON THE ROAD TO
« TRE SCAFFOLD, AND MUST MRET #
« THEIR FACE; but that FATE they will emea
" vor to procrastinate —Republicans, be not moved
by their entreaties,"
“ They !o)VJ at the tree, and thy traders d the cart, ,
._ " " They handled the rope, but feem'd loath to depart."
On this the Editor of the Freeman's Journal, a
democratic paper, in the interest of Governor
M'Kean, See. See. thus expresses himself:
"Oh, People of Pennsylvania ! People of Ameri
ca ! will you take no warning ; will you rest in false
security, till your streets also may run with blood,
your best citizens be butchered, and your wives and
children become outcasts and wanderers. The hy
pocritical cant of those, who are talking of the ex
tension of your "rights and privileges," which you
already enjoy in their greatest perfection, are only
calculated to lure you to destruction. So did Robe
spierre, and Marat, and Carriere, talk of the rights
of the people, and their love for the people, that
people whom they afterwards butchered.
—rare *O^ *^^
CIRCULAR LETTER FROM
The Hon. MATTHEW LYON, m.c.
TO HI, CONSTITUENTS.
WASHINGTON, MARCH 4, 1805.
THE time for wh^b the Eighth Congress was
chosen, in which I save been honored with
a feat by the free fuffrages of my fellow citizens of
rhe Frft Congreffiona! Difyift in Kentucky, hav
ing expired, and the feeonl session closed hfteveo
ing, agreeably to my promise, and what I consider
my du. I now give you a summary account of
the proceedings of that feffion,the firfl part of which
has been riuP, formal, quiet, and unimportant ; the
middle turbulent and boifterdus ; the last almost
wholly occupied by the trial of Judge Chase.
It behoves me to explain myfif with regard to
the tranfaaions of the middle part oftbe session,
by the following narrative;
In the year i yg§, the government of the Rate of
Georgia, fold to Certain companies, 35,000,060 of
acres of their Weftern Lands receiyed the price a
greed on, and gave ample conveyances of rhe prop^
erty ; on the faith of which the fill p^rchsfers fold
to fecund pnrehafers, they to others, and so on.
A succeeding legislature, in 1796, it seems, did
not like the bargain made by their predecessors,
they declared it founded in fraud, and without
brining one of those concerned in what they called
fraud, to trial, they reclaimed the property and of
fered to fell a part of their Weftern Territory to the
United States The purchasers from Georgia, re
monstrated agrinft the propofed'fale to the United
States, and notified the President of their claim, its
validity and extent. Congress, however; by a
law, authorifed the President of the United States,
to except the session of the territory proposed to be
ceded by Georgia, which includes 19 000 000 of
acres more than the before mentioned purchases,
at the fame time making a provision for a compro
mrfe with the aforefaid claimants. Some time af
ter this, a convention was agreed .on between the
United States and^Georgia, by which the United
States became bound to give for the land ceded to
them by Georgia, 1 250,000 dollars out ofthe a
vails or the sales of the lame lands. In this con
vention the exasperated Georgians caused to be in
serted a clause limbing to 5,0 0,000 of thcex
tent of what the United States fliojm|&^ftfy^|
g^e to ali the claimants, •hy way
which, if not appropriated for
one year, fbstrtd: revert to GeottU-^he aforb
priatiort was accordingly made in due time.
The cLirnan^ at firft view were wiwilling toac
cept of the small pittance of th- 5 000,000 which,
by the convention between the United States and
<tew a , the United states were allotted to give for
the compromise, bDt when they considered that
without the consent of Cdngrefs the Indian title
could not be by them extinguished, & without that
extinguishment, they would not be allowed to Set
tle on their lands, they felt disposed to accept what
was in the p>wer nfthe United Slates to q v e.
In ISO 3, a law puffed confirming the conv&Tion
between the United slates and Georgia, in which
}the claims of the purcbafers were again recognized,
and they invited to a compromile and to record
the evidence of their claims, which has been done
ar avast expence ; and to further this object the
President, (who in a previous message to Congress
recommended a compromise as a measure prelimioa-
"Did more diabolical, cold blooded expressions,
ever issue from the lips of the bloody Robespierre,
or Marat. The perpetrators of crime, never let
titeir ^o/e views out at once—they first hint at
them; then gradually proceed to unfold their de
si^ns, 'till the very name of murder ! no longer
shocks the ear. Had Robespierre and Marat, at the
first moment of their political existence, unfolded all
their I blood-thirsty views, the people would have ri
sen upon them, and have annihilated them. But
concealing their designs under the mask of republi
canism, and their great regard for the “people's
rights,” they first wormed themselves into^poWer,
and then— then did the streets of Paris flow with
streams of human blood !
TV to the Settlement of the country,)was amhorifed to
Appoint commissioners to hear & report the offers of
compromise which Should be made, with their o
pinion thereon. Thole commissioners, namely, the,
Secretary off Ute, the fectetary of the Treaftny
and the Attorney General, all ,wanted by Presi
dent J fferfon, after a full examination of the na
tore of the claims, and the attending ciicuroftances,
reported to congreh in favor of a compromEe with
the claimants, Rating that the intcrefts of the nation
together with certain equitable coofiderations in fa
vor of the claimants, rendered a compromise in
their opinion deferable. ^
The iubjea of the Compromise was accordingly
brought forward in the firft fcffion of the Eighth
Congress, for leg dative fanainn (as I considered,)
'under the most favorable auspices. I felt 'tkeply
iin erefled in the compromise, not that I ever
I bought, fold or owned a foot of the hod, or e er
I exposed to own any of it, but I looked forward
}w th pleasure to the time when, by this comprom
§ ife, every objection to the extinguishment of the
I Indian title would be removed, and the country Iy.
ling between the diftriA I reprelent, as well as our
Ineighboring Bate of Tenueffee, and the waters of
;the°Alabamar, the Tombigbee, and theothq rivers
\ running into the Mobile bay, might be felt ed and
pur country by that means have a mew ar.lmore
convenient channel and coorfe of cornier e than
any flie now has. I know of no object so impor
tant to the people of the Weftern county generally,
asthe fetthmeot and population of this gintefled
- territory, not oi+y, on the score I laftjfutioued,
4 but because the road from Natchez to Northville, for
near 400 miles, lies through it, that road on which
all our people must pass who return by laud after
I carrying down to Orleans and Natchez the produce
of the labor of the people of the hate of Tennefc,
Kentucky, Oho, and the WefWn parts of Virgi
nia and Pennsylvania, where maty of them are rob
bed, Some murdered, and all bare to fuffer hunger
and want of the comforts of ,fe in a wiloerncfs,
which will ever remain a wilde/nefs white the con
ted continues, as the government are feasible the
claimants under the Georgia grants cannot be kept
out of possession of their lauds ripe moment after the
India title is extinguished. ; [ have r^fon to be
lieve they will not tyonguifh the Indian title while
the conned continues. I with I could be corrvin
' ced thatthis fire of contention, has not been blown
up by some envious politicians, mer^y to keep
back the growth of theWeftern country ; an acqui
fidon to the Strength of which by the Extern own
ers throwing at once a large Share of their Surplus
population, their industrious farmers, into the best
part of the Weftern country, would by no means be
pleasing to the great tobacco and c rtton planters of
the fouth, who eveiy day look forward with terror
for the time when they will be underload by the
Weflern peope; believing, as I do, that no subse
quent aa of Georgia couThave any efta on the
title given by that Bate i| il79;', and feeing the
claimants poffefl^d of papers Chewing' a right as
well authenticated as any Ilknow of/to which pa
pers every man placing faith in the governmental
tranfaaions of this country,|has an undoubted right
to give credit, I Should have but i|ly difeharged my
<'Ul[o my constituents had I withheld any effort in
my power to get this compromise, fy interfiling to
the Weftern country, completed.
I was very much Surprized Est year, th fee Mr. John
Randolph oppose this reafanable and necessary comprotufe
w^h^h the zeal of an entbufafol,,CTft,M?-r^t (d
yb,ng toan, and a great drawer. After the ptingipaf had
been fettled by a coufidcrable majority ob the House, hit
eloquence prevailed in favor of a postponement until the
then next session. The fnbje& has been again revived in
the House of Representatives by an application on the part
of the claimants for a law to be pa£d, authorifing a trial
on the merits of the claim ; they, at the fame time declared
that they would be Satisfied with any reasonable compre
mife. This application was, on the motion of the fame
Mr. Randolph, referred to the Committee of Claims ; they
reported in favor of a comprpmife ; that report passing
through the committee of the whole House with little or
no oppofition,l fancied we were going to get through with
this perplexing business in an easy way, honorable and fat
- isfa—ory to the nation. In this I was extremely disappoin
ted. Mr. Randolph, in his oppofttion, added to the zeal
oratory, and eloquence he manifefted the year before, viru
lence— invective, petulence —and calumny, —PECULIAR TO
HIMSELF, such as never could bate been countenanced in
the National House of Representatives in any man, who was
not favored by party prejudice, partiality and local attach
ment : he has been allotted to reflect most severely
on the Secretary of Gate—the Secretary of the Treasury
and the Attorney General ; he has been allowed to charge
the majority of the house of Representatives to their face;
with an intent to commit the most audacious and flagrant
robbery ; he has charged the head of one of the depart
ments of the government with corrupting the members ;
and one of the members of the house with attempting to
corrupt another; when that officer called for an investiga
tion of the. charge ; Mr. Randolph's friends as if to screen
him from the odiom that must be attached to such un
founded charges; opposed the investigation requeued
by that officer and tne member who, was your representa
tive.
On no fubjea his there been more pains taken
by inflammatory speeches, bacchanalian toasting,
and lying* newspaper publications to mislead the
public mind, thanon the Georgia Claims, It seem
ed to be intended to represent the majori y of Con
grtfs as about to give ^way to a parcel of unprinci
pled /peculators a whole region, a large feaion of
the United Rates, a property of great Mfoftal coti
fcquence, while the truth is, the majority of Con
gress, for the peace and honor of the nation, have
been ^^W fuffer a let of men, [purity from
the Eafflpptetotoqfcif they are fpecuLtprs have
! alw^ytfTomoflHjqra ttement <f evty Country
they have been concerned in, by fetrlinflt^ot with
poor wretched tenants, but with thole who'tiwnthe
foil & till it with induftryfro hold about one-eighth
of a property they honeftty porch-fed and paid for
long before the United fl..s had any c»im^o it,
a purchase the United Bates made without paying a
cent for it, or being obliged to pay, bute^of the
avails of the fairs of the fime property fl purchase
made with an avowed intention of makij^^com
promife.
The tumult occasioned by the violfyre of the
minority who opposed the compremrf, tffiC by a
determination to attend in a body and hear thl trial
of fudge Chafe, in the tenaje chamber, has cauled
a poßponemept of this important bofinefs.' Jr has
not been done, as last year, by vote of the House;
onevery vote leading to the merits of the quefiion
there has been a decided majority for the compro
mife,aud the bill for that purpose has given way
*T v 'dications in the dui ora are ftrsbably allud
ed 1&.
only to the bills generally agreed upon to be nec^
far, or indifpentable.
In my circular letter last year I observed, "I have
never been so well convinced of the benefit of a fe
cund and deliberative and colteaive Branch io the
Legiflatureas in thecourfe of the last session. Toe
calm, temperate reflexion of the senate has, in ma
ny relpetts, checked the progress of sentiment,
iwhich, il adopted, would have been dangerous to
Ithe nation."l now repeat my confidence in.he Sen
;ate, notwitbftanding the attempt at the pro ftration
I of their independence, by the iotroduaion of a re-
I folution for altering the constitution, in a late noc
turnal session <f the House of Representatives. The
ialteration I mean would authorise the Bate Legilh-
I tures, to recal the senators at pleasure. This rtfo-
I lotion is referre to the next ieffion, and is another
;evidence of the improper afcendaucy rash and capri
.cious leaders, disappointed in their vengeance,have
I bad over inexperience and honest luhmiffim; under
I the name of Adherancero Party. I was one
I of thole who voted tor the impeachment of Judge
I Chafe, in allits Hages ; it was, however, my < uty to
submit to the d<cifion of the legate, a constitutional
number of that body acquitted him ; I acquiesce.
It was a question of great moment. Had they de
clared him guilty, I foould have acquiesced with
the lame cfcrfulnefs. This resolution for the a
mendment of the constitution was Profelfedly to
Funifh the Senate for having^according to their So
lemn oath, given the judgment their conscience
dilated. M. LYON.
^ O^ «=.
IFROM THE CONNECTICUT COURANT.
“ Look not thou upon the liquor when it sparkles,
when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it
inoveth itself aright ; at the last it biteth like a
serpent, and stingeth like an adder."
Solomon.
Would you learn how like a serpent drunkeonefs
biteth, anJ bow like an adder it Bingeth—then
contemplate the disgusting figure and the deplor
able circomftances of Silenus.—Behold this miser
able wreck of a man !—He is not yet turned of
'° rt y, yet totters in his ftps like one of fourlcore.
See him weakeoned in i^teiled, morose in temper,,
loft to all fenle either of honour or flume, loft to all
affection toward the wife of his bdom and the chil
dren of his own body.—Mark the Cupidity of his
countenance, the morose al'ped ofhis blood.fhotten
eyes, bis palsied hand,& the leprous tetter that cov
ers his fkfo. —Turn now & behold his wife—there
foe fits in that corner, covered with a thin tattered
robe, and fhiveriog over a handful of coals,—See
her pale and emaciated—her eves dim with weep
ing, and her cheeks furrowed with tears. —Hapless
woman I who can but pity theer who can but
mingle his tears with thine :—Look next on those
futfering children.—They receive nought, but
frowns and curies and blows from the man whom
they had been taught to call by tte endearing name
of father : —yet they have a friend whose boiom
throbs with tenderness towards them ; but her band
is too feeble to supply their needs. —They ask their
mother for bread, but flie has none to break to
them,—The florm howls through the broken win
dows, and they say "we are cold" — die answers
them only with sighs. Alas! (he has none to
bind up her own bleeding heart.—And is this the
once sensible and fprighfly Silenus, fortune's child,
I who inherited a large patrimonial estate, whole
! pockets we>~ lined with gold r —ls that ton the
! Once g/y and beautiful Pbikni#,thc delight of her
I parents, the joy and the life of the foeial circle ? —
Is this the pair that commenced the connubial Rate
with profpeas the mod flattering ?—Tne fame.—
" How fallen, how loft !'—And what h/s wrought
this terrible reverse in their circumstances ? What
has turned this man into a brute ? What has plun
ged this woman into the deepest distress, insomuch
l that her tears are her meal ? What has tendered
I these children miserable ? — What fiend has poifon
;ed and deftoyed the bappiuefs of this whole fami
ly?—That curled fiend is drunkenfiefs,—Time
was when Sifenus was a kind hulband and an af
fectionate father, when his coippany gladdened the
heart of his,wife, when his little prattlers used to
meet him at the door and receive hi, fond carefles.
—Time was when every room in his manfiou was
gilded with domertic happinels, when he ranked
in society as a ufeful member and an ornament,
and when the eye that saw him blessed, and the ear
that heard him was refpeafully attentive.— But Si
lenus looked on the sparkling liquor, while giving
i.s colour and temptingly moving itfelf in.the cup
—be tailed, he at length tippled daily ; the habit
became riveted—he plunged occaficnally into in
toxication, and from occasional intoxication,, he at
last became a downright for.—His estate is con
sumed, and of all poor people his famimily are a
mong the wretched i —" Dig they cannot," having
never been taught to labout—" to beg they all,
ashamed." This is not a romance : —there are
many families in our country, whefe deplorable
fit nation corresponds with this defer, m.
'^EE&^=~2=*=*^^
TIT THE MAILS.,
New-Orleans, Feb. 15.
We mention with peculiar regret the unhappy
fate of Mr. M. G. Lewis, brother ts the late Mrs.
Claiborne, who fell on Tuesday Mst, in a duel with
Robert Sterry.
Mr. Lewis was a youth of amiable deportment
and promosing character. We have beard that the
Dream of Fidelis, in our paper of Friday last
created the misunderstanding 'that hasterminated so
fattally. We have been at some pains to learn the
circumstances of the duel, and believe ourselves cor
rect in the following statement:
Mr. Lewis with his friend callerfWbur office for
a knowledge of the author. Webegged time to ask
approbation. Before we Gould make Mr. Stelly's
communication, it seems Fidelas became kn|lwn
throi> 1 some other medium. A challenge then en
from Mr. Lewis, which we have understood,
Mho means of concession : it requiring no fex
planatiqg, out immediate satisfaction for the out
rage^&mmitted 'on his feelings. —lt being accept
ed', tie parties method were to wait the count
1, ^l3, and at the Succeeding word of fire, to fire.
Mr, Lewis's pistil flashed before the time, at the
word ,hree ! anffhe therefore lost his chance of
fire. Mr.Sterrf seeing this, immediately turned,
and fired backward ih the air. No offer of ac
commodation was, we believe, made, and the par
tiesragain fired nearly at the same moment, when
Mr. Lewis received a ball which passed through his
lieirt, and cut at hisleft side. For a moment lie
continued his attitufo wh& casting his eyes to his
f lend, as if first conscious of his wound, he could
only utter, "I believe !" and fell a Inclesy corpse.
The following is the Dream alluded to in the
above. A
From the Louisiana Gazette.
A DREAM.
Methought it was night in the month of Decem
ber, A. 1). 1804. Ail in the city were hushed and
still. I was passing near the Government House.
Suddenly the sound of music burst from the had. I
listened—tie guests were dancing. Surprised, I
advanced to the centinei, who was pacing with slow
and measured *ps before the building. From him
I also learned the. fact—His arms glittered in the
moon beam. At this moment the convent bed sOund
cd—a noise like rustling silk was —1 turned row
head a female figure stood before me. She w^s tail
and graceful: displaying a perfect symetr, of fea
tures. Her countenance was mild and beautiful,
but shaded with sorrow. I gazed upon her beau
teous face. At that moment a new strain of music
sounded, the shouts of the guests grew louder—they
seemed to pierce her soul—She clasped her hands
In agony, she turned her eyes to heaven—Thea
meek, resigned,, sorrowful and lovely, she bent her
willing steps toward the grayes of Louisiana.
Fidelis.
NEW-YORK, MARCH 28_
Capt. Clapp, whose arrival we mentioned in Yes
terday Gazette; informs, that the American Con^
sul at St. Thomas had received a Decree of 14 ar
ticles (which our informant saw) from the Govern
ment of the city of St, Domingo, declaring, among
other regulations, that ALL VESSELS of whatev
er nation, that were caught within three leagues
of the Brigand Ports, should be taken, and their
crews put to death. This law was to be put in
force, from and after the first of April, 1805.
The present winter, since a few days beforel
Christmas, has been one of the most severe exper- ;
fenced for a great many years back. The weather ,
can hardly be said to^have settled to that clear sky
and moderate cold, a few degrees below the freez
ing point, which distinguish the winters of this conn-|
try. There is at present about seven feet of snow 4
in the woods where it does not drift. The usual•
quantity about the middle of March, -when it is gen
erally at the highest, is from four to five feet.
A very deplorable accident happ;ed last week|
at St. Augustin, a few leagues from this City: a |
whole family of eight persons, and a woman belong-(
ing to the same parish who lodged in the house, were
buried under the ruin; of their house which yas
crushed to pieces in the night, by the falling of a
great body of snow from the Cape under which it #
was built. The accident was not discovered by the
neighbors till next morning : the place wherfohe
house stood was barely discernable ; they however
proceeded immediately to remove the snow, and the
ruins, and were so fortunate as to extiicate two of 1
the unfortunate family alive. The , singled bodies
of the remainder presented the most affecting sight ;
and the whole consisting of a father, mother, four
children and the woman who lodged in the house;,
were taken to the neighbouring church yard the fal
lowing day and buried in the same grave.
The name of the family is Villeneuve, the wo
man's name Laurencelle ; she has left two children,
who lodged with her, but were, providentially at
another house at the time of the accident... Quebec
Gazette. .
M7° To demonstrate to our readers, the folly of
the objections which the Emperdr Buonaparte has
made to the alliance formed by I^brodier Jerome
in America, we present the fgUowing authentic
sketch of the Genealogy of th^Buonapayte family.
',-— I ‘ Centinei.
GE^Fm.OGICqE~TREE. 1
The following is Bonapartfi Genealorf whicnl
we deem it our duty to Z>/azo@aad set fortfl for the ;1
entertainment and information of our readers :
Mrs. RANIOGLINI, of MR.
Married M. Lanioglini ; and, 2dlfM. Fesch.
She had by tlr%e Malafeev
I^titia Fahi;g&, d
And M. Fesch, now Fesch.
LAETITIA RANlfcLiNi
Married Carlo Bonaftarte, a reorder of a petty
Tribui^pf Ajaccio,
Laetitia Bonaparte Avas aftetyards mistress of
Count Marboe^k Governed of Corsica.
Her children by Carlo Bonafarte and Count
Marboeuf a.re&,
His Imperial Highness JOSEra BONAPARTE,I
who married Her Imperial Highness M. M. Clary, 4
daughter of a ship broker at^Marseilles. ~|
His Imperial Majest*
NAPOLEAN TONrtPXKTE,
who married Madame de B^aukarnois, fifty the 1
wife of Count .Beauhamois, and afte^ : ^|
wards the mistress Gs arras, '
Citizen LUCIEN M)NAPART E.
He was at first an Abbe.-& 1193 he Was employed
in theNaggen service emfearmy of Pruvenc e,
at 1001. a year. His first wife was aftot
^irl\n the tavern of onqEfflwz, near
Tou(§&; she died at reuilly in#
froth bad treatment.
His second wire is Madame Jauberthou, the divor-<
ced wife.of an exchange broker of Paris : she
was his mistress for a year ; as soon as she
was pregnant, he married her.
His Royal Highness LOUIS BONAPARTE
married Mademoiselle Beauharnois, daughter of
Her Imperial Majesty, bv her first husband.
Citizen JEROME BUONAPARTE
married Miss Paterson, a very respectable and;
beautiful young lady of Baltimore.)
Her Imperial Highness, Princess EL T ZA,
tl\e sister of her Imperial Majesty, married at Mar
seilles, Bacciochi son of a waiter at a Coffee-House
and marker at a billiard-table at Aix-la-Chappelle
and Spa, in 1793 ; the son carried on a small trade
in cotton, in Switzerland.
Her Imperial Highness ;
Princess MATILDA PONAPARJE
married General Murat, son of an ostler; at an inn
three miles from Cahors, in Qucrcy. Murat, in
1793, proposed to change his name to Marat.
Her Imperial Highness
Princess' PAULINA BORGHES s
married, first General Le Clerc, who was the serf
of a wool dealer, at Pontoise, he purchased wool
from the country people, and resold it at Paris W
the upholsters. His mother, Madame Le Clerc,
was a retail dealer in corn and flour , her brother ,
had been sentenced to be hanged for robbery.
THE Marquis of Hcadfort, has paid the fioooo'
damages awarded for his crim. con. wuh Mrs.
Mafley.
TO (he# the wicked riffeA of earning.—A
young gentleman, of high rank, is Aid to lave
loft, a few nights Once, between 90 and 1. ICO coo,
at one fating —but afterwards won back l.it.OoQ
This circumfUnce has produced muoh uata&iete
among his reUuonsr _
f