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O ic^-thi days these men will drill thro'
“ thick ail thin," an) appear foaming
an I frnhin; at every part of the tovrfi, as
thou, the Lilvitioii of the country depended
on their exertions. Orlich a day as that
they know every one. The poorer class of
citizensare filuud by them as friends. They
condescend to !ifo liberty, and adverse the
peoples rights ; when at the fame ti:,e they,
at heart, cnrfe the government that dooms
them to the ne^ffity of reducing themselves
down to a level with thofc that they in their
hearts despise. These are the "base" hearted
citizens that calumniate Prei'ident jOffirJen,
for fending an envoy to France, to tettie the
di,ute with regard to cur right of deposit at
New Orleans. They said that it was idle
to thick of purcbafmg Louisiana, or obtains
ing our former rights by negotiation, but
were for immediate war ; for nothing fhott
cf that could have been expeaed, if govern
ment had font a body of folders, as they
advised, to take the place by force of aims.
But behol l the refund The expedition of
every republican is mere than realized, in
the splendid ilfoe of this all important busi
ness ; yet the fcfUcn is not Satisfied, but
come forward in the most mad and inemfyiert
' manner, and oppose the meafur<s that tends
so much to the glory of America.—They are
sensible that it is one of the mod splendid
tranfiaions that this country ever w itaeffed,
in the conduce of its ruler ; and they fear
that the name cf jefftfn, will redound
with redoubled eclat, through every part of
the United States, when the people know
the whole truth of the matter.
To state in fume degree this well merited
applause, is their object ; but they, it is pre
sumed, wil not faceted; for the people
know too much to be thus imposed upon.
They have witnessed the conduA of this par
ty from the mil, and they know the value
that they put upon Louisiana, when they
were advising the republicans to take it by
force of arms, before they went through the
customary rule of negotiating ; arj! the
frien.ifhip that this faction pretended to have
for our Weftern Tates, was a mere dudlrati
to deceive, and to get their vne plans carried
Into effect,and thus involve this country in a
difgraceful and ruinous war. But thank
G >d ! they are defeated, and now they ought
to be held up to the contempt of the people,
and hooted at a^ common deceivers, and as
men that arc not worthy to be trußed in any
public capacity whatever.
A DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN.
The American Mattia Syflem, imitated by
Great Britain as the Jure atyonly means of
f^ ei F
1 HE !^e proceedings in Great Britain,
in regard tn the public force, naturally and
heceffarib to be tried in their present defence
merit the sober and candid attention cf the
federalifL, no less than of Ihe republicans.
Their itmling army is not deemed fuffi.
cient, nor was it deemed fife without the
felcd mriitia. But the additon of the fried
militia is not deemed fufrEnt, although
there ye also 100,000 men in the navy. The
government and thenation conceive it necef
farv to resort to the physical (that is the nat
ural) strength of the country, by training all
the males above fifteen to arms. In other
words, they resort to a general militia, acced
ing to the American flan. The poor,middling,
and the rich are all to he armed. This is a
xproud triumph of reason and experience in
favor of the American constitutions, which.
Contemplate the general militia, as the great
public force. It proves that our late ad
ministration did not ad wifely in refuting
to mere hired regiments and volunteer co;ps,
and thus disusing the militia. It proves that
those, who contemned the militia were in a
deep error; When the republicans proposed
an arrangement to include 80,000 militia to
defend our M ; fiiCippqrights in May last, in
case negociation should fail; fume of the
federalists pretended that the government
had taken no step for defence and security,
because there were a small regular force and
much^mililia. Americans, let your own
experience, and the present trying situation
of England convince you, that there is secur
ed by an armed nation ;or in other words,
" To a mind who loves to contem.
plate the glorious fpiiit of freedom, no
fpeQacle can be more affecting than the ac
tion at Bunker's Hill. To fee an irregular
peasantry commanded by a Pbyikian, inferi
or in number,onpofed by every circumflance
of cannon and bombs that could terrify
timid minds, calmly waiting the attack of
the gallant Howe, leading on the belt troops
in the world with an excellent train of ar
tillery, and twice repulsing those very
Part of Governor Johnftone's Speech in Par-
by our general American conflitutional militia.
The trill of our fyrtem is daily proved to be
fuccefsful, and is <vm supported by the im
itation of other nations.
From the Parliamentary Register, No.XIV.
MILITIA.
liament.
Aurora.
troops who bad often chafed the chosen
pattallions of France, and at lad retreating
for want of ammunition, but in so re,eel
able a manners that they were not even pur
sued : who can icflea on such feenes, & not
adore the con dilution of government which
could breed such men ! Who will not pause
and examine, before he destroys irßituiions
that have reared such elevated spirits! Who
is there that can dismiss all doubts on the jus
tice cf a cairfe Which can in,ire such cun
feiuos rectitude! The conduct of the peo
ple of New England fur wifdum, courage,
temperance, fortitude, and all those quali
ties that can command the admiration of
noble minds, is not Turpaffed in the biftosy
of any nation under the fun."
We have obtained and secured the free
navigation of the Mifliflippi, which is all
important to our Weftern States.
We have obtained the right of dictating
terms of trade to individuals or nations who
traffic, up the Mississippi.
We hace obtained a territory of 250
millions of acres, the belt foil; climate, and
titration in the world, which if fold at 50
cents an acre would bring the United States
The latter sum was expended during the
four yearsof Mr, Adams's administration
to build ten frigates, tinifh three others car
rying from 28 to 44 guns, buildvtwelve or
fourteen finaller velLls carrying from 14 to
22 guns and ten gallies mounting one gun
each: Farmer's Register.
By the cession of Louisiana we
have obtained the right of depufit at New
Orleans, or any other place on the Mitfifippi;
which right alone was declared by the fed
eraliUs to be worth waging immediate war
for with France and Spain, which would
have ceft, at a final! calculation, fifiv
milions of dollars and many thouland
lives.
The Impressment cf Seamen,
Has excited the moil furious disquietude &
animaiheriens among all parties in this
country. It is a pra&ice which has nothing
but the plea of Decertify to jollify it, and is
disavowed by the laws of the country in
which it prevails. To put to death every
individual of a gang who thould endeavor to
imprtfs an Englishman in his own country
is not confidcred as a criminal afl. How
I here is a very refpe&ab!e English work
lately received in this city, which dates a
case of an election in England, which cert
the immense sum of one hundred thonfand
pounds ILrling. This is equal to 450,000
dollars and is eighteen rimes the salary of the
president of the United States. Is it to adopt
such a goverun e rs, that the foreign and A
merican friends of the Bririfh constitution,
would seduce the Americans ? The fame
work dates that the elegant city of Bath, in
England, ha- thirty thsufand inhabitants, and
yet has only twenty two eleaorsor voters !
I he patrons or dilpofers of the two Bato
feats in parliament are two members of
the honfe of Lords. If the attacks on our
confutation are continued by the Britilh
partizans, we fh.di most ferioully purfoecu!
defensive comparison between the inditution
of America and Great Britain.-—AURORA.
A Problem for federalists to five.
It 15,000,000 of dollars would build and
equip 43 Ihips mounting each 74 guns, (so
fay the rederarifts) how many frigates will
10,546,000 dollars build.
Ihe biff of the above sums is to be paid
by the United States (a part dircaly to our
own merchants, and of the remainder we be
lieve not a farthing will ever go to France
in specie for an extent of territory larger
than the original thirteen States, bordering
on one of the fined rivers in the known
world. I his territory includes the rich,com
mercal and flourishing city of New Orleans,
the foil extremely fertile in the richetf com
modities and the acquisition adds more than
halfa million of inhabitants to our popula
tion.
much more unwarrantable, then, must it be
toimprefs thole men from neutral Amer
can vellels, in which they are employed in
fair and honorable commerce ! The sever
ity, the wantonnc Is 2nd cruelty of this nefar
ious business, with its injurious consequences
to the merchant as well as the unfortunate
sailor, require no defcriptien. Huw then,
mud the Ipirit cf every American revolt at
the know ledge of the cases w hich are contin
ually occurring of our own citizens being
taken from our own vcffels by British press
gangs, and carried from their friends and
every thing that can be dear to man, and o
bliged to Live and fight for a foreign power
and agaioft the friends of his nation !
The sensation which is felt towards the
authors cf this incxcufable and barbarous
oppreflion, we are happy to find, is univer
sal, and we trull that whatever prompt and
efficient Reps may be taken by our govern
ment on the fuly< 61 w ill give general fatis
fadion.— Bee.
POLITICAL RULE OF THREE,
l And what is an important confidetation,
we have, by purchasing this territory, pre
vented it trom being occupied by feme
power who might have used it to ravage
our frontiers, to intercept our produce
,floating down the river, and in time might
have rivalled us in power, and impoverithed,
annoyed, if nut subdued our wcflein coun-
A Poem has appeared in the Waterford,
N.Y.Gazette, ''On the renewal of hostilities
between Great-Britain and France," which
concludes with the following salutary cau
tion :
" Columbia fhi:n the trans-atlantic broils,
Share not their miferics to partake their
. spoils:
With stria neutrality purfoe thy way—
Stain not in wars the glory of thy day.
Bleft with the reign of liberty and peace,
Thy iifing realm Ihall rival Rome and
Greece :
In every clime thy banners be unfurl'd,
And live the praise and envy of the world.
“ A Statue of Gold" in honor of Wm.
Cobbett ; Or
" The Cat let cut of the Bag !!!"
When the mifereant, William CAbett,
intuited the common sense, and libelled the
national charader of America, in his infa
mous publications in this country, it will be
recollected, that he was equally the fubjed of
the praise of the FederaiijL, and the confute
of the Republicans. The Republican party
even infilled, that he was under the influence
and in the employment, of the Britijb Cabi
net ; and that his exertions were directed to
their favorite objects, The diftrading our
council, and. the denouncing every thing
ilnCturcc! w/7/j REPUBLICANISM. The
sequel shows the cuire&nefs ofthefe afierti
ons. In a debate on the defence of the na
tion, in the Britfo House of Commons on the
4th of AugurtEEl,n l , Mr. Windham, hav
ing made fume remarks expt< ffing contempt
for the Britilh diutnal journals, Mr. Sheri
dan, in reply, after ably defending and
highly eulogizing the Editors of the fe pa
pers, made the following farcaflic re
marks. ,
" I be R^bt Honorable Gentleman, how
ever, I am lure, does not mean to extend
his cenfnre or contempt to all periodical
political publications. The poor daily prints
are of a low rank, which he may despise.
—but the afirtocratic dignity of a Weekly
Regfer,fCobbet's Paper] I fufpea,is ex
empted from his farcartic animadversions.
There is no execrable fluff in that paper.
Exhortations to mutiny in the Navy and
Dock-lards, legal and salutary advice.
Derision and contempt of the government &
of ail the subaltern entrusted powers, is ex
cellent and loyal council."
Mr. Windham, in his reply, declared
—" As to the weekly pbe^, to which the
Honorable Gentleman has alluded,! concur in
all the lentiments, which he foppofes me to
entetain for it, and for its Author. I refpeft
ed that person, before ever 1 saw him.— I
T HINK his conduct in America rend
ered him worthy a STATUE of GOLD."
—Three very natural inferences may be
drawn from this declaration. That Cob
bett's Writings in this country were inten
ded to aid the progress of Englifo influence.
That if he Was thought worthy a “ Statue
of Gold," a purse as Gold would be a trifling
frecompenfe. That those who advoca
ted his principles and espoused his cause
should not complain if the purity of theit
motives is fufpc£lcd. X.Y.Z.
12) millions of dollars ; or nearly eight
tinted what ne gave for it.
We have obtained a new market for the
productions of the eadern, middle, and
weßcin Rates ; for Louiliana will be em
ployed in cultivating other productions ; and
will want dur wheat, corn, &c.
We have obtained a buundlefs and fertile
field for the cultivation of all the fruits and
commodities of the Weft-indies, v hich we
can now obtain free from the rapacious
duties ard arbitrary restrictions of ihcfe isl
ands.
We have made friends of half a million
cf people, its inhabitants, who might been
our enemies ; and have given freedom
to them, who mult otheiwife have been
(laves.
We have obtained an invaluable inheri
tance for our portcrity to the millionth gen
eration.
What fcnfible man but must difeern, what
good man applaud, the wisdom and attention
of our government in making this invaluable
purchase L,
We have provided an asylum for the fuf
feti^g p n or,and the perfected patriots of the
old world.
All these, and other important advantages
ire obtained and everlastingly secured, by
little more than fifteen millions of dollars ;
more than three million of which ate to
be paid our own citizens for demands
w Inch mist otherwise have remained unfat
isfied.
Mr. Editor,
Eledions are julllv conti lend as the sorest
means of coming at the feufe cf the people
with regard to men and meafores. They
may be properly coufidered as general votes
of censure or of approbation. Viewing
them, in this light, the late dealers, i n the
Rates or Ohio, North Carolina, Kentucky,
and Termtifee, redound highly to the honor
of the pre fer,! admiriftratiun.
The result cf them is as follows ;
Federal. Republican.
Ohio, o [
North-Carolina, I . j[
Kentucky, o 6
Tennessee, o g
Total, £ 2 [
In these four Rates, then, but one opposes
of the perfent administration has been cho=
fen ; while twenty.cne of its fuppuflcis ha\s
been elected.
NEW IMPROVEMENT.
WEST'S Patent gun lock— which is con
sidered by judges of the utm< ft importance
to every perfun using fire arms, and more
particularly to the army and militia of the LB
States. There are two very great advantages
refuhing from this improvement, the firff is
that no accident can pollibl, happen of a gun
going off at half cock, as it has in that func
tion no connexion with the dog,consequent
ly not with the trigger or any other exter
nal fat of the leek, it canntt poflibly catch
at half cock as there is no notch that the dog
can catch on, and the counter dog is so pla
ced in the a& of cocking, as not to be re-
Rored but by the cock firfl falling or being
let down. The great fccnriiy jn this im
provement ought certainly to recommend it
to general use, to avoid the innumerable
accidents that has, and unavoidably happen
from the ptefent plan, in going off at halt
cock, &c. Application made to Mr. Rhodes,
city of Walhington.
TRENTOK, SEPT. 26.
On Friday morning Wm,Murrel, of New=
ton, L.I. in a fit of desperation set fire to
his own house and burnt it to the ground
before any ^ffeflual affiance could be pro
cured. The house adjoining was also
deftreyed. The man had faftened his own
door in the it fide, and fell a voluntary vict
im to the flames. He has left a wife and
federal children.
ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 2g.
ABOUT one o'clock this morning, thecitU
zens of this town were alarmed with the
cry of fire, which proved to be in a small
wooden house near the corner of Duke and
Union Greets, Owing to the deferred Rate of
the town, and the timidity of those who
remained, such feeble exertions were made
to quench the flatra- that they were not got
under until seven houses were completely
dtflryed. It is worthy cf remark, that the
blacks were particularly a6live on this ccca
(ion, end that to their exertion is principal
ly owing the preservation of the whole
fquarc.
NEW INSTITUTION.
NEWPORT, SEPT. 2B.
In noticing the frequent irftitutions fop
purposes of humanity it is with great fatif
faction we record one of a novel kind, in
this town. On Monday evening lall art
affeciation of the hardy sons of Neptune,
amounting in number to upwards of sixty,
convened for the curpefe of uniting into a
society, (he ohjc fl of which should be the
relief of their brethern in diftiefs. Know
ing how to dare, to fiffir, and relieve, they
fuco collected afund for the objed of their
society, and agreed to place it in hands of a
trurtee, who fhouhf be a matter of a vessel,
telidtng in port, 1 his generous appropriation
of he foare fruits of enterprize, deserves eu
logy. We with them good voyages, tight
Grips, and fair winds.
Capt. Bartlett Shepard, of the sloop Julia,
of Chatham, Con. failed from New-River
North-Carolina, cn the 23d of Angurt, loa
ded with naval floret Onthe gift, off Cape
Hatteras, was upset in a gale of wind—they
immediately cut away the lanyards, the malt
went by the board, and the sloop righted a
gain ; they then all ifeur in number) suc
ceeded in lafbing tftemfches to the companion
where they remained four days, without
cither water or provision.— On the 4th, at
midnight they were fortunately taken off by
Capt. Wm W.Weymouth, of the fchconer
Favorite of R:chmond,Vir.bound to this port
and arrived on Thursday hll. About an
hour after taking <ff the crew cf the sloop
Julia, Capt. W. fill in with another wreck
but it being dark, was unable to make any
particular observations.
By a gentleman, just returned from the
wellward, we arc informed, that the prefect
Latest by the Mails.
The voice of the people.
CHARLESTON, SEPT. 12.
SHIPWRECK.
PHILAD. SEPT. 26.