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Let the fe%raift pretend to what they will ;
letthem call tbemklvs “ friends of or^er,"
or, " friends of a republican government;"
J et their attachments to Britain, a monarchy ;
and their enmity to France, a republic,
plainly indicate their Tenements and inten
tions. Why do they apologize for the im
prefTment of American teamen by the fyran
„nical power of England, when in a fate of
" neutrality, contrary to the laws of nations, if
they are/rot partial to it on account of its
government r They do not confider that it
was Briiian which attempted to euflave us;
and France that affitled us in repelling the
enemies of our country, and preferring cur
infringed liberties, and established uur glori
ous independence.
S> numerous are the reasons for the belief
of their attachment to a monarchical govern
^ DEMOCRACY is a government in which
64 the people" rule ; in which they are
governed by men of their own choice and
election ; not confttained by force to fob
mil to a^bitary measures adopted and
i^p<kd upon them by tyrants and no
bles.
ment that it would be tedious to enumerate
them; and yet thefel very fame men pretend
thaghey desire a republican government !
Republicans ! Let ns be firm and united
against all the attack of the Supporters of fed
crlifm and a monarchical government ; that
we may preserve that glorious independence
of which Britain attempted' to deprive us,
and is now attempting to, by the adiltance
of federalists and monarc hills.
AMATOR POFULARIS IMPERII.
FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION.
THE following pertinent questions ar.d
answers, arc extraaed from a piece publish
ed in the.
“ Alexandria Expeditor." The force and
justice of them will we trust, be seen and
felt bv our readers ; —
WHO passed the vnjuft and unequal ex
cise law that only operated on one class of
men ?— The Federals.
Who palled the carriage tak —a tax upon
labour that never brought one cent into the
treasury r —The Federals.
Who parted the t?x upon loaf sugar —
manufaaured in the United States f — The
Federals.
Who parted a tat upon Snuff—manu
factured in the United States?—l he fred
crals.
Who palled the damp a&—the most ob
noxious of ails and which occasioned
the American revolution ?— The bedre
als.
Who palled the tax upon lands, h^fes,
windows and negroes ?—The Federals.
Who parted the law for raising a provi
fional army, to fight against an unheahl of
army, and appointed the whole number ot
officers for Hid army, with an evident view
to strengthen and Support the executive ?
• —The Federals.
Who parted the offenfive and tyran
nical sedition and alien laws ?-- The fed
erals.
Who borrowed million, of money at the
enormous interest of 8 percent r — The Fed-
Who enlarged the power of the judiciary ;
by creating 6 new judges at the expence of
32,000 dollars annually, undamongfl whom
were tbp molt inveterate old Tories who
fought the battles of the Britilh against the
Americans, in their noble struggle for liber
ty ?—The Federals.
Who proposed at the last cession of Coh
grefs to raise an army for the purpose of
'aFi^g possession of New-Orleans, which
\\ r/ ' aoonce have been a declaration ot war
rth.il France and Spain.—The continence
ci Which and rhe blood and treasure expend
ti o\ a war so unjiiß would have been be
yondfoman calculation, and, in all proba
bility \fe in lavefubj< ded us to the power
of GreN Bri^in ? —The Federals.
And <\l any honed and enlightened Citi
zens be {tend, that will itill give their votes
to fopp'orAn party that abused power so
much wherM/ey had it, and obstinately op
pufe its beneficial exercise when in the
hands of otixs r---We hope not.-- We
hope there is there virtue of principle; and
independence onioind, in evry one who calls
himfelt a good Ci zeu, than to support men
who were guilty hi the measures above re
cited.
Who gave up Jonathan Robbins an A
merican citizen, to please the Biiufh gov
ernment, and who foffered an ignomini
ous death because he was foppufed to be con
cerned in a mutiny on bord of one of the
Fing's flops, after being impressed on board
far ihip. againß his will and againli the
rights and degnity of the U. Stales r —The
Federals.
erals.
REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION.
WHAr^.as the ptyfent Administration
done tor/'-ivc rfpefoiop?
It has ^en off the wn'^lc internal taxes,
,nong which were the duty on (tills, ftampt
“ Aflions foeaks louder than words
It has dispensed with federal thotifand un
necelbry officers, who-were before fattening
rupon the Idbour'bf (be people-
It has reduced the land forces employed
or. our frontiers, and as much of the navy
as could fafely be dispensed with.
1 ? has leflened the expenses in every depart
ment of Guverment, by employing no unne
cessary agents, and, allowing no improper
expet antes.
It has reduced, Several millions of dollars,
the National Debt, which had encreafed
under Mt. Adams, and has made provision
by law for its entire discharge in about six
teen ye>fs.
It has preserved peace, even when its
oppoters declared for indant war; and has
effected by riegociation in a few months
what it would have taken years of Eoftilitie§
to acquire; and has purchased for fifteen mil
lions of dollars, a territory which is Worth
ten times the sum, and which would have
cost an hundred millions of dollars, and
thousands oflives, if it had been taken by
force as its oppofers proposed and inflitut
ed.
For which of these things do the Federalists
array themselves in opposition to the Govern
ment ? For which of these things will the
people of any persuasion unite themselves to
a party who are hoflile to Republican princi
ples, and are assiduously laboring to destroy
the reputation of our rulers, by slander,
abufe,and misrepresentation ?
It ever there was a Government, if ever
there was an adminifliation, that deferred
the love, the confidence and Support of the
people, surely it is ours.
Under Mr. Adams, the federalifts had a
majority of but two or three in Congrefs;—
yet the ftderalifts then preached up 66 obe
dience to the conflicted authorities," and
" fubmiflion tothe will of the majority."
At present the Republicanshave a majority
of F®Rl Y or ITF TY in Congrefs;—yet
the federaitfts are opposing government and
endeavoring to fruftrate the will of the major
ity,— Such is Federal Confyency !
Now if the federalifts would be confident,
let them practice the lessons of fubmidion to
government, and acquiescence in the will of
a majority which they preached a few years
ago.
Extradlsfram foe Charge delivered by pre.
Jident Messer, (of Rhode Ijiand College) so
the jcbolars who took their degree left
Commencement day.
"IN your intercourse with men you have
need of great citcumrpe&ion rind sagacity
You will find them prehaps different from
what you now expert; and, unless you are
afpecially guarded, you may find yourselves
obliged to purchase a knowledge of them at
a deaf rate Notwithstanding the maxim,
which is good in law, that "ri man is inno
cent until he is proved guilty," y^i will find
if dangerous to cofide in any until you have prof
that the, are "Worthy.
Fatal experience has convinced many,
that felfifh principles hive an extensive in
fluence on human actions. You will find
merit men alive to then u\vh interest ; and in
general it will be the most ffe to commit your-
Jes to them only Jofar as that interest ma) in
duce them to befriend you. Yet you will find
some in whom you may ever Confide ; who
would not injure you footer than they would
themselves ; and who in adversity as well as
prosperity, will ever exhibit themselves the
prisons of truth, integrity and .behevulence.
Whenever yon find filch men, give them
your warmest friendship. Value them
more than the wealth of India ; and let their
virtues he the pattern of your own—Think
not, however, that men of this charader
dwell only in a certain place, or bear only a
certain name. Names differ greatly from
things ; though prejudice would often con
found them together. You will also difeo
ver that these mod be afeertained, not by
invidious diftinaions, but, by personal char
aaet ; and that true worth often dwells
with him Whom prejudice has marked With
infamy.
"Your own personal charaaers should be
the prime object of your attention. No
fplchdor of talents, nor advances in knowl
edge can crimpenfate for want of moral prin
ciples. Even vicious meh, if they would
tell the truth,Would tell you that they cannot
give their confidence to the vitious. The im
mutable dißinaion between right and wrong
is so forcibly imprerted on the minds of men
that, however wrong themselves, they re
quire what is fright in others. Be careful
then to cultivate a fair moral character.—
Let no temptation seduce you from the path
of reaitude. Hold the tights of others as
sacred as vou hold your own ; arid remember
that you have no more right to injure them,
than they have to injure you. As you abhor
those who irjure you, you muff expea the
abhorance of ihofe whom you may injure.
Ever place before yourlelves tfe golden
maxim of doirig to others as you with they
should do to you ; and never forget that the
ments.•
pap r, &c. and the people now pay no
tax only to support their Rate Govern-
DR. JOHNSON.
• The Illiberal prejudices of this great lexi
cographer who is looked upon as a Standard
of authority in the English language, ought
to be known to the world, and in-no infian
ce more particularly than his Scandalous pre
possession against the Scotch. In iris quarto
Dictionary he thus explains the word "Cals ;
a grain which'ln England is generally gi:en
to borjes, but in Scotland Supports the feefre.
Thar the foil' cf Sedtland produces c ats of
a quality so much Superior to that of Eng
land as to make it more palatable and nu
tritious food for the inhabitants, is Supposed
to be the fa&, though we IhaU take no pains
to prove it, for if the fact were not so,
the distinction or comparison between En
ghfh horses and Scotch people, is invidious
and unwarrantable. A barter in New York
hand a column of advertisements of sorest
lands, cut out of an Edinburgh paper, pasted
in his (hop, beaded with this ailcition ofl
Johnson for a motto, " There is irot a
tree in all Scotland."
There isa dog at^prefent belonging to a
grocer in Edinburgh, who has for feme time
amused and aftonifbed the people in the
neighbourhood,; A.man who goes through
the Greets ringing a bell and felling penny
pies', happened one day to treat this dog with
a pie. The next ripe he heard tire pieman's
bell, he ran to him with impetuosity, seized
him by the coat, and would not Suffer him to
pass. The pitman, who undeifiood what the
animal wanted Ihewtd him a penny and poin
ted to his maftcr, who flood in the dreet door,
and saw what was going on. The dog
immediately Supplicated his master by many
bumble jefturesand looks. The master puna
penny into the dog's mouth, which be in'-
ftently delivered to the pieman and received
his pie. This traffic between the pieman
and the grocer's dog has been daily practised
for months pad, and Rill continues.
Smeltie's Pbihfopby.
By the Brig Thetis from Bouadsux, at
New York accounts from that port as late as
26th ofAuguft are received : but we hate not
any thing of importance. Preparations were
going on With the cuftemary activity.- -W<
learn, however) that the accounts contained
in the London papers of dirtentions among
the people, of Moreau's increasing popular
ity and (fa difpqfition hrflile to the Firit
Confid on his part of that, of his adherents,
are all utterly groundless. -Bonaparte it is
said, was never more popular than at the
present moment. The people lock up to hihi
with confidence bordering on adoration, as
the man who is to establish the glory of Fran
ce upon the ricins of her rival neighbour.,
Moreau is a great favorite with the people
yet a man who appears to know himfelf
incapable to manage the turbulent: disposi
tions that mull bekept in Subjection by the
ruler of the Parisian empire. It is Rated by
men of the full inte'digenee, that he has no
ambition to supplant Bonapart.
Bonapart is 'diterfitying.his pteprations
and holding out menaces of attack on many
different quarters! this is probably done with
a view to perplex and embarrass the Baitifo,
and a ! f) by augmenting their cxpences, to
produce diflatistadion among the people.
Foreign Summary.—The Liberty, in
a short partage of 30 days from Liverpool,
brings further London accounts. We do not
find that any event of Magnitude had occur
red bn the part of either belligerent power,
and it appears; with the exception of a tri
fling a&ion between feme English cryifers
and French gun boats off Boulogne, that
their affairs are conduded much as before.
The invasion is (till impending, but the
expelled moment had not yet arri
ved.
The affairs bf Ireland wear a gloomy
afjcdt ; every day brings accounts of frefh
arrests on the part of government, and cf
daring outrages on that of the insurgents—
The Limerick mail coach was attacked two
miles from that place, by a party of them,
who it appeared, were very anxious to get
roffeflion of the letters: two of them were
killed, and several wounded by the griafd
—The coachman drove futioufly through
them, and brought his mail fafe. Plots
against government; in which the Irish are
concerned are fufpeaed also in England,
arrests have taken place, in cohfetfuetice.
The hon. Charles Yorke has accepted
'the seals of the home department, in the
room of Lord Pelham. Mr. Pitt is ap
pointed colonel of the' Cinque Port Volun
teers ; and tnoft of the dirtinguifhed char
aaers of the nation bear Comrpflions.
The endeavours made in PabliaVnent by
Mr. Fox and others in fAvofrr of the Prince
of Wales' offer to take command of the vo
luhteer corps, have not succeeded. The
Prince feflill a colonel, and remains at the
way of the tranfyefLr of this maxim s ev
er hard."--- Phenix.
SAGACITY OF A DOG.
Latest Foreign.
Mr. Duammond, the British Minider at
Condaimncple, had his firff audience of the
Grand Vizier on the 13th of June ; and, on
the 2^d was presented, with ^reat pomp, to
the Grand Signior.—Abdul Wechab, after
being defeated by the Pacha of Damascus,
colltßed great reinforcements, and again
obtained pclKffion of Mecca, —Tahur, the
Albanian chief, who headed the revolt at
Cairo, has been, aflaffinateu by the people,
and the Beys cf Up| er Egypt haob obtained
poffeHion of the city.—The Porte, alarmed
at these circumdances, is embodying two
powerful armies, for the purpole of c< spel
ling the fubmiPion of the rebels, for the pur
pole of compelling the fubmibion of the re
bels; and the Capitan Pacha, with a consi
derable fleet failed from Conflantinople dfy
the 26th of June, to co-operate in restoring.
tranquility in the Egyptian provinces. -1 fie
republic of the Seven Islands has declared ife
determination to observe iht flri&eft neutra
lity during the continuance of the war be
tween England & France.—The new Grand
Master cf Malta, was inflated in presence
of an aflembly of the knights of the ordey,
held at Mellina on the 27th of July. Th^
oath >as admiriftered to Signior TommatL
by the Bailley Trotti. M, Bufi was imme
diately difpaiched to Rome as the reprefen~
tative of the Order at the Holy See. General
Vial has been ordered to repair to Medina;
to resume his Ration as ambaHador from the
French Republic to, the Grand Master of
Malta.---His Neapolitan Majeßy and the
royal family Rill remain at Naples.
Extract of alerter from Edinburgh, (Scot.)
" Since this war ceromenced, Bankrupts
cies to a great extent have occured, and are
still qccu ring in London,Mancheftr, Liver
poo Greenock and G'afeow. In Greenock
about 43 bankrupts, in Gla gow, near 2cb
have taken place since its commencement---
two of the houses have failed for above halfa
milli n each. One of the New Cattle banks,
the Berwick Bank the Dar ington, the Dur
ham, one cf the Carlifle Batiks, ahddevcral
others in England have failed. All cur
Scotebßanks Rand Ready. Indeed, theEng
lifh Banks are not on such 6 good footing 2$
the Scotch, as they have to give an cxcltrfivc
privilege ro the Batik cf England. No Bank
can be eided there to cohfirt bf mote thari
five partners. These, of course, are men of
ten engaged in other trades, and their Rock id
the Bank is but finall. In Scotland a Bank
consists cf as many partners as they plcafe;
with a given capital, which none of the
partners can draw out for their own particu
lar use; nor get bills difcounied, but by ha
ving other name's, than their own cn the
peper." 1
The tawyers have formed tiiriwcivcs into an Ar.
toed Allocation ; and elected the Hon. Thems
EJkine their Lieutenant Colonel,& Mr. Reid Ma-
Ihe English poliucans fill calculate ,h '°
tbe friendlbipu R u fa ; W Hh if „. e ,
j^ge by the comptexicn of on, P,„j,,
the great northern po « er is dripefcd, ^,, is
moment, to qut (bon Great Britain's ।w| .
^e dominion of the fees,'and to a ff e ,. }
long ccnidtul claim of free Ihips Lki^
hee foods— 3 question that involves
deciq<m.th.e importance of the Britilh
v y.
The imperial Parliament was prorated
on the i £th, after cdnhdtrable debating
ilte lery last m<mcnt. Colonel HQ.;,,.
Son, Supported by Several n embers, wiffiM
the fitting to be protracted, that the ahmh
of Ireland might be instigated ;& noticed
at length, the Hate cf that Unfortunate '
country ; rcpicfcjning the diftre fled date o
the people ; icc< mmendirg mild and con
filifory neaffires; and fuggdling, if th#
Prince of Wage's was font as a peace- m^kef
into that part of the united kingdom, there
w^ not a man in Ireland who would not
rallv found him.
The flagtintion of our cuit.mcicc iiurcafeS
every day. Our port, w hicb lei merlydifplayed a
torett of mails, row telcn.bles a 'c'ctiri. No
vcflel can enter the Lite ; nor will the English
fuller otie to, go out. This date of things bay latt
for a long tinier The Fteich are determii ec n<t
to quit, the left Bank ol the Elbe ; and tie Erglifh
not to rais the blockade. The negotiation which
Was opened on this fubjett tie Court of London
does not appear to have juodoced any efia. If
is certain that the Ruffians v ill preserve iheirmn
trabiy in the Baltic, and that tie co; fl of Eifleror
and „ther polhtb, Will not be occupied by loieiga
troops.
The boats of the Cerberus frigate have cut a vrf
fei out of Concalle-Bay,and 7 veflcls cut of St Cas
Bay, on the coast of France ; and the Hydra's boat
have tken a lugg<r out of the lower harbour of
Havre.
The Hon. Ch. Yorke is appointed one of his
Molly's Principal Secretaries <f State.
Mr. Munroe, the new American Minifler, pre
sented his credentials on the 17th inst.
On the 16th inst. John Haficl, who had affirmed
the name ot the boo. Alexander Hope, and ituur
that name married Maty Kob^fon, commonly cal
led Mary of Bwternure, was convided of loigoy
ant.l micuCtd to deathat Candle.
tel cf the roth regiment cf the sch d&
goons. °
Hamburg, auc. id:
LONDON, AUGUST 13.
AUGUST 21.