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The military meafores that were proposed
and Carrying on during the former m ad mini-
Gratiot could not have for their objed the
defence of the country against invasion. This
is a case that decides itfelf, for it is felf
evident, that while the War ra,l in
Europe, neither France nor England
could spare a man to fend toAmetica. The
objea therefore must be fomcibing at home,
and that something was the overthrow of
the representative fyltem of government, for
it could be nothing else. But the plotters
got nto confu^on and became enemies to
ea a other. Adams hated and was jealous
ot Hamilton, ^nd Hamilton hated and de
spised both Adams and Walhington. Surly
Timothy u^d aloof, as he did at the affair
of Lexinyon, and the part that fell to the
public » is to pay the expence.
But ought a people who but a few yeas
ago were fighting the battles of the wont,
for liberty had no home but here, ought Inch
a people to Hand quietly by and fee that lib
erty undermined by apoftacy and overthrown
by intrigue? L.t the tombs ot theflain re
call their recollection, and the forethought
of what their cHld?:u are to.be, revive and
and fix in U : r ^^s the love of liberty.
It thu rcunci uuminiftratibn can juft
ify its condua give it the opportunity. Ihe
manner in which John Adams disappeared
from the government rnd rs an enquiry the
more necessary. He gives fame account of
himfelf, lame and confufed as it was, to
certain Eaflern wife men who came to pay
homage to him on his birth day. But if he
thought it necessary to do this ougnt he no
to have rendered an account to the public.
They had a right to expert it ot him. In
that tete a fete account, he fays, "Some mea
fare, were the effect of imperious necessity, much
againfi my inclination." What meafiires
does Mr. Adams mean, and what is the im
perious necessity to which he alludes?
"Others (he fays were the mefaures of the
leg future, which although approved wh'n puff
ed were never previously prepofea or reccommen
ded by me." What measures it may be asked,
were those, for the public have a right to
know the conduct of their representatives ? —
''Some, (fays be) left to my diferetion were
never executed, because no necessity for them, in
my judgment, ever occurred."
What does this dark apology, mixed with
accusation, amount to, but to encrea fe and
confirm the suspicion that something was
wrong. Adminiltration only was possessed
of foreign official information, and it was on
ly, upon that information communicated by
him publicly or privately to C;ngrefs that
Congrefe could a&, and it i^not in the pow
er of Mr. Adams to thew, from the Condi
tion of the belligerent, powers that any impe
rious necessity called warlike and expensive
measures ot his administration.
The object, however of an enquiry in this
case is not to punish, but to fatisfy ; and to
shew by example in future administrations
that by an abuse of power and trust, how
ever djfguifed by appearances, or rendered
plausible by pretence is one time or other to
be accounted for. THOMAS PAINE.
Bordentown on the Delaware,"^- <,
N. Jersey, Ma, 12, 1803., ' ;
W hat the correspondence between adminif
tration and Reins King in London, OT'Qmn
cy Adams in Holland, or Berlin, might be, is
but little known. The public papers have
told us that the former became city bearer
from the London underwriters to Capt.
Truxton, for which, as minister from a neo
tral nation, he ought to have been censured
It is, however, a feature that marks the poli
tics of the minister, and hints at the char&r
of the correspondence.
I know it is the opinion of several mem
bers of both houks of Congress that an en
quiry, with respell to the conduct of the
late administration ought to be gone into.
The convulsed date into which the country
has been thrown, will be best fettled by a
full and fair exposition of the conduct of
that administration, and the causes and object
of that conduct. To be deceived, or to re
main deceived, can be the inhered of no man
who Peeks the public good ; and it is the de
ceiver only, or oneinterefted in the def eption,
that can with to preclude enquiry.
The suspicion against the late admih
iftration, is, that it was plotting to overturn
the representative fy item of government, and
that it spread alrms of invasion that had on
foundation, as a pretence for raising and es
tablishing a military force as the means of
accomplishing that object.
The law, called the sedition law, enabled,
that “ if any person Should write or publish,
or cause to be written or published any libel
(without defining what a libel is) against the
government of the United States, or either
house of congress, or againftihe President,
he should be punished by a fine not exceed
ing two thousand dollars, and by imprison
ment not exceeding two years."
But it is a much greater crime for a Presi
dent to plot against a constitution and the
liberties of the people, than for an individu
al to plot against a president ; and conse
quently John Adams is accountable to the
public for his condud,a< the individuals un
der his adminiftiation were to & sedition
law.
Latest Foreign.
By the Iris, arrived at NeW-York, 27 days from
,- London..
* : '1
Paris, April 7, 1803.
' ORDER OF 'GOVERNMENT. j
LIBERTY, .. EQUJLITYb
Paris;lo Germinal, 11th yearj
Eon APARTR,Firft Consul of the Republic, decrees.
Art. I. The town of Flulbin| is placed in a Itat,
of liege, under the command ot the General of Bri
gade, Mon Net; who for this purpose is inverted
with all lbe neceffury powers, and who will cor
respond directly with,Ke /Minifler.
Art. 11. The Minister of War is charged with
the execution ot this decree.
The Brft.Couful, (Signed) BONAPA RTE.
[This decreets al/o Jigned by the Secretary of Spate,
and Minifler op War, arid was proclaimed at flulh
dug the sth April in presence of the. whole French
gartijonymQer asms. Proofs Qere marching into
Flajhing, (Middleburg, Veere &c. 7 heje towns are in
the United Netherlands, at the mouth f the Scheldt.
MALTA.
Paris, April 7. In consequence of the nomiria
rtion, oy the Pope, of M, Raillie de Thomaci,
flo the Grand Matter of Maha, his eminence, dif
pattired the Commander Bussy, to the illand.—
'The following documents, will (hew what has
hitherto been the result of his million:
Letter <f the Commander Buffy, to the Minister of
.England, at Malta.
“SiP,
"1 had this morning the honor to date to yenr
Excellency, the.object of the mission which his most
eminent Highness the Grand Mailer oft he Order of
St. John of jerujalein has charged me to fulfil at
Muka.'
“ Tothis statement your Excellency replied,
/that you had no order to cause the island ot Malta
to be evacuated by the Englifli garrison, and gave
me to understand, that it would be better tor the
Grand Mafler not to repair thither.
“ After having reflected upon this answer of
your Excellency, I Was of opinion not only that
it was not so fatisfaftory as bis mod eminent High
ness had reason to expeft, but also that it required
a further explanation.
“ As the answer of your Excellency seemed to
contain a refufal to surrender the island of Malta
to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, conforma
bly to the 10th article of the treaty of Amiens ;
and that such violation of the treaty of peace may
have the moll important, I would even fay, the
molt fatal coufequences as to the repole&f Europe ;
I cannot rell fatisfied ith the verbal answer which
your Excellency h s been pleased to give me; and
I should betray the confidence of the Grand Mailer
as well as the duty and the dignity belonging to
the charader with which he has veiled me, did I
nor request you, fir, to state, in an explicit and
authentic manner, the grounds of so unexpected
a refufal.
“ 1 have, therefore, the honour to remind your
Excellency, that conformably to the fourth para
graph of the 13th article of the treaty of Amiens,
the forces of his Britannic Majesty were to evacuate
the island and its dependencies in three months af
ter the ratifications being exchanged, or sooner, it
possible.
“ This period has long expired. The treaty
adds, “ that the island shall be given up to the Or
der in its prelent Kate, provtaea tne Grana reraner
or Commissioners, fully authorised according to
the ftatfnes of the Order, shall be in the said island,
take possession of it, and that the torce to 'be fnr
rifhed bv his Sicilian Majelty shall have arrived
therein."
Answer of the Minifler of England to the comman
der, 31. Busy.
<< Sir, Malta, March a, 1803.
« I have just received the tetter four Excellency
did me the honor to write to me yesterday, ex
preffiug the little fatistadtion you derived from my
verbal communication relative to the objeft of
jour mission, and requeuing that 1 should date in
writing my reasons for refuting to deliver up the
government of these Islands on the arrival of his
Eminency the Grand Matter of the Order of St.
John of Jerusalem.
" in answer, t beg leave to obfer e, that as some
of the powers invited, in terms of the 10th article
of the treaty of Amita, to guarantee the indepen
dence of Malta, have not yet acceded to that
measure, I do hot think myfelfauthprifed to put
an end to the government of hs Britannic Majetty
in this place, until I receive facial indruaions
from my court.
" Your Excellency observes that I with to dis
fuade the Grand Master from coming to refie
here. Your Excellency may recoiled that 1 fop,
to you, upon this fubje&, to the following efat:
Upon votir observing that the Grand Matter ex
pefted to have immediate possession ofahe Palace
of Government in the fort of Vaiette, 1 Infurmed
you that in the present circumflances, I could not
accede to the request of his Excellency ; '9',"
absolutely neceflary that his Excellency Gen.Viiette
and myfelf should continue to occupy this Palace
for the official affairs of our refpeftive departments.
. “ [beg, however, to remind your Excellency,
that i, at the fame time, offered the Palace of the
Bochetta, for the residence of the Grand Mafler ; a
“ This force has likewise long tince arrived.
There then remained only one cognition to be per
iormeu, that of the presence of the Grand Matter,
or his Commiffiouers, to take pofleflion of it. I
have the honor to observe to your Excellency, that
this condition has jolt beeu accomplished by the
very aft of my arrival in this island. His molt
eminent Highnels the Grand Mailer has condeßen
ded to cooler upon me the character of his Am
bassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, to
come in his name to " treat, conduft, finifh, ac
complish and concert, with the Ehglilh & French
Plenipotentiaries, and also with the exiling Eng
lish Government of the island, all the articles rela
tive to the return of the Order of Malta, and par
ticularly what may have for their object the de
barkatioh and entrance of the Order into the island,
win the surrender of the island, &c. Such are the
terms of the full pouers of which I have the honor
to fend your Excellency the annexed copy.
“ According to the tenor of t'hefe full potters,
and the accomplishment of the different conditions
Stipulated bv the treaty of Amiens, for the surren
der of the island of Malta to the Order of St- John
ot Jerusalem, I formally demand of your Excel
lency the execution of the loth article, felt. 4. of
the said treaty, and I request you will, upon th s
point, give me a categorical anfAer.
“ I entreat your Excellency will be pleased to
accept the assurance fmy high confederation.
Signed, BUSY."
abe HepubOean Ledger.
"TRUE AS THE DIAL TO THE SUN."
PORTSMOUTH, N. H.
TUESDAY, MAY gl, 180,
AMERICAN SEAMEN^a^e notice.
The British are impressing seamen in No
fa-Sc"^ St. John's, St.Andrews', and their
other feulements adjoining the United States,
and they take Americans when found in doubt
ful ftnations, without protections —although
they do not trouble American, vessels, when
they know them to be such., , ;
This may be relied upon, as fa&, it is by
1 gentleman direa from the Britiflh lines.
/ .mf^t^
situation which I conceived in every refpeft coh
.venient for his Eminency, until the period when
he nMght assume the direction pf Government.
; ,' But as the Palace of the Bofchcita is not at
Wefept provided aith Iqrmture. 1 took liberty of
huggelling, that it would be male convenient to
,remain feme time in Sejjy ; and the biore 16, as
his hkcellepc/s residence there would keep him
rat the dirtarice dial) of a day's fail fftyn this island.
+“ For the red, his Eminency play be Aflured, that
The moment tfhall think so) felfuuihorifed to relign
the Govermn&rt,l Ifiail give him due information.
" I have life honor to be, with the highlit con
lideration, your Excellency's moll huhmie & molt
obedient fetvant. ' (Signed) ' ALEX. BALL."
Rotterdam, April 8.
EXPEDITION TO LOUISIANA.
By An express order from the Firlt Coriful, the
,Louifiaua expedition is definitively fufpend^, in
consequence the French General began the day be
fore yetteiday to debark the troops that were on
board the veifels; they will proceed with the oth
•er troops newly arrived in thii Republic, to dif
ferent deffinations both on the frontiers and else
where. In feverarof our toons,among other's, at
Nimeguen and Grave, their entrance was at tirff
opposed by the Commandants of the Dutra Garti
fons ; but alter an ulterior explanation, tbele
Commandants thought fit to yield to necessity and
force. Persons of good information of what
is puffing, and who have ,ccefs to all the
principal functionaries of the Government, Rate,
as a matter of certainty, that among the ,2 Mem
bers 01 the Government, there is a party which has
absolutely protested agaibft the measure of France,
in conlequence of which the French troops have
in such great numbers, entered out territory .=-
The majority has, however, judged that protefta
:ion to be, in our pref, nt cucumllupces, impolitic.
The armament for Tobago, at Dunkirk has
2000 men on board. Gen. C^far Bertbier com
mands, as Governor-General of Tobago,
London, April 10.
Letters frorii Germany repeat, that in case of
a war, Pruflia will take pofieffion ot Cuxhaven arid
ilie whole electorate of Hanover. Duroc, it is laid
in one of his bonferrericts at Berlin, with the King
proposed the plan fuggetied by the Firlt Coolul
for the occupation of Hanover, which was agreed
to. This rumor was partly credited at Hamburg.
April 18. Fourteen thoufana French troops
have already entered Holland.
London April 24.
In addition to the cornel pondence between the
Maltese Commander and Gov. Ball, the Faris Mo
niteur of the 18th aflerts, that the French Minister
at Malta, at the desire of M. de Busy, interfered,&
wrote to Commodore Ball that a refufal to evacu
ate the island was a maniteded violation pf the
treaty of peace ; that it his Britannic Majesty did
not disapprove of the conduct of Commodore
Ball, the French confiil would feel himfelf bound
to appeal to the Tribunal of Europe, where he
would find as many allies as there were friends to
peace.
Latest by the Mails.
Boston, MAY 28.
Wednesday being the day appointed by the
constitution for the meeting of the General
Court for the year ensuing, the gentlemen
eleded for Senators & Representatives affem-.
bled at the State-House in Bolton.
His Excellency the Governor and the
honorable Council attended, when the Mem
bers had the oaths administered to them,
agreeably tothe Constitution.
Hon. David Cobb, Esq. was then unani
mously ele&ed President of Senate, and Mr.
Wendell Davis, Clerk.
The House, after choosing Nicholas Til
linghaft, Esq. for Clerk, proceeded to the
choice of a speaker, when upon Sorting and
counting the votes it appeared the whole num
ber was 200, necessary to a choice, 101 H.
G. Otis, Esq. had 424 ; Perez Morton, Elq.
73 ; Gen. H. Knox, 2;J Cowell, Esq. 1.
The Legislature, joined by the Executive,
then proceeded to the Old-South Meeting
House, escorted bv the Independent Cadets,
commanded by Col. Welles, a difeonrfe
was delivered on the occasion, by the Rev.
Reuben Puffer, of Berlin, from Luke xix.
latter clause of the 44th verse.
In the afternoon, both branches having
affemblcd in. Convention, for the pnrpofe of
filling the vacancies in the Senate ; the fol
lowing gentlemen were chosen:
David Tilden, Esq Samuel Fowler, Esq.
Simon Five, Esq. Alexander Campbell,
Esq.
UTICA, N. Y. MAY 16.
Benjamin Connet; who committed the ag
gravated rebbery on Miss M'Dowell, in
Pennsylvania, in March last; was apprehen
ded ahnnt % firft ot May inst. in Upper Can
ada. He was conduced back thro'the weft
ern part of this Gate a few days since. The
above may be relied on.—The circumstances
of his apprehension were peculiar, and well
nigh proved fatal to Connet.
Keeps cohftantlj for sale, at bis Shop
in Broad-Street,
Madeira, -)
^^WINES.
Malaga J
Belt Coghiac Brandy ; Holland Gin ; Old
glum ; Molafles ; C.-f Fee ; Chocolate ;
Spices of all kinds ; Sugars of various kinds ;
frefh Turkey Figs ; box Railins ; Ihell'd
Almonds ; Prunes.
Gunpowder, °1
Young Hyfun, jTP A <
Souchong, ) JL
Hylon Skin, | all ot the tuft quality
add Bohea J
Together with a general assortment of
GROCERIES.
Boston Glass of all sizes, as
cheap as at the Manufactory.
PdrtJmouth, gift Blag.
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Portsmouth, goth May.
Tickets and Quarters
In the Third Class of South Hadiey Lottery,
jar Jab at C. PEIRCE's Book-flore. Those
tube wife to be in fortune's way mus apply
immediately, qs gbe Lottery will commence
drawing mfat een daysfrom the ferejen: date.
Portsmouth, 3Jit May, 180,
THf POST-OFFiCt. • T-..-r
We believe that in nodepariment pf the
general government is there To u ueb ground
for complaint as among the inferior officers
in this. By information Ifetri federal post-
Rafters in rhe north wtllcrj partsot this Hate
we find that our paper fteldom reaches its
dedication regularly at certain pelt-offices in
that quarter, thd' they have not a Tingle time
failed in being feht from Hut!fob. The peril
matters in Canadaigua and Madlius, ^
particularly addrefled, and affuied that nc/W
ing on our part fhail be wanting to- fecurc the
promptitude of the public mails in regard to
durpapet and that any detection of pegri^cnce
or misconduct in its, conveyance will be
thankfully received Zc instantly attended to.
Delicacy to her riTpe&able class of gentlemen
of which the poftmaftersare generally com
posed induces 11s to fay nothing further at
present ; though in future we Ihali be more
particular it occasion require. Bee,
Extrafl if a letter from an Officer on bo&rdlhe
U;S fbipChejapedke, dated Gibral+efc March
26, is 3 . \„
Capt. Serett has taken a prfte— the is an
Imperial Pi^lacre, from Smyrna bound to
T ripoli, with Tripolitan property on board
— very valuable.
— DIED—
fn this town Mrs. Abigail Ramsdell, aged 54.—-'?'
Mrs. Anna Alcock, aged 56. — Madam MebuaDle
Rogers, ogid I^.—. Mrs. Lucy Buckminjier, aged
Near Philadelphia, Rev. Dr. William Smith, a
difiinguifhed writer and preacher, and for many
year, prevofi of the college of Philadelphia. —At
New-York, William Cvnjtuble, Esq. mer.—At Stur
bridge, Mrs. Abigail Patridge Lane, contort of the
Rev. Otis L. At sufon this. Ann Swift, conjort
°f h ; f'"' 'in" acred 4,.
Arrivals and Departures face May 24.
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May 24. sch. Devotion, Coffin, Exuma ;—brigEqua
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SAILED.
May 25, brig Rebecca, M'Clivtock Alexandria p
brig Minerava Blunt, Weft-Indies ; ship Magnet,
Treadwell, ; sch. Perjeverance, Follet,
Weft Indies.
Arrived at Boston, May 25 — brig Eliza, Covin,
tun, Alicant ; Sally,, a; al, Gnadaluupe; brig Le-^
vant, David Jon, Savanna ; Jch. Hero, Newel,
Charlefon ; jhip Mary, Hills, Lifoon ; Jch. Little
John, Parker; St. Croix ; Jch. Anna, Wyman, To.
bago ; Jch. ThomasJefferlon, Elliot,Trinidad ; Jch.
hiend/hip, Baker, Antigua; Jhip Hampfliire,Cham
berlain, St. Barts ,•flip Lewis, Orr, Brijtol ; flrip
Mary-Ann, Rolando, Haratma ; fchJ andyck, Gor
ham, Alicant.
At Newburyport, May 27 — brig John, Knap,
Trinidad ; Aidar, Holland, Amflerdam ; Joanna,
Bagley, St. Vincents , •Fame, Carlton, Alexandria.
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