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raid inquiry into the official condud Os a judge
'mull always be to him a matter of very serious
moment. It must always expose him to very
great upeafinefs add may render him 'obnoxious
to the molt unjust and injurous lufpicions. It is
wholly incontinent with the humane & just prin
' ciples of our laws, to fubjea a citizen to evils
of this kind without some fpecific accufation,ref
ting on fads precisely Rated and fa^ported by
* such proof bn oath, as fenders their exigence at
lead probable. No man however mean his con
dition, or however Infamous his character,, can
be bound over to undergo the inquiry of a grand
jury, without such an accufation,and such proof.
A grand jury cannot litlen to any accufatibn a
gainst a man, nor inquire into his condu&, much
less put him upon his trial byjfinding a prefer
ment against him, unless, such an accufatun so
supported befirft adduced ; and the person ma
liciously inßigating the inquiryis liabl,in case it
should be rejeded; to a suit for reparation by the
accused party. All thefejuft and humane provi
sions are eftabliffied by our laws, for the protec
tion of innocence, not merely from pnnifhmeht
'but also from unfounded and vexatious inquiry.
O Every principle of reason, of justice, and of law
ffrfid every precedent, that deserves or has receiv
r ed the weight of authority, concur in requiring
7she full appL'catiSu of these provlfions; 10 the
Case of impeachment./
*And yet in rhis-profeCution all these provifens' Wire been
- completely difregared. An inquiry has been inftkutedtof
the most serious import to the party accused, on the mere
:f u gg^i9° °f a member in his place, unfupperted by oath
er by any fpecific Uatement of fads, which if fepporced
by oath would have justified an inquiry. This inquiry
thus instituted io a manner unprecedented and Farming,
far from being confined to any fpecific charge or fad. is
extended to' the whole official conduct of a judge who has
been above, eight yearsiu office, and authorises the mod
minute inquisition of his mod unguarded and most 'incon.
fiderabk words and aliens throughout the whole period.
•It cannot efcapeyour honorable bogy, how formidable an
engine of oppression such an inquiry may be, in the hands
of persons disposed to abuse it. Ybur memorialing is far
from infinuatjpg that such has been the case in the prefcut
iuftance. This intimation he could hot make, or even
fufpca to be well'founded, withbut derogating from the
reflect that' ought to be inspired by so elevated a bo
d,; but che soundness of principles is in no manner so
well tested as by the confequepces co which they lead. And
although it cannot be fafpeded that this honorable
body is under the influence of party fpiti^ party viewy,
or individual malice, yet it is a ' melanchoily truth
that free governments are liable" to the id&edce of par
ty spirit.; and that when this fatal paffica' takes full p#
'feffionofthe mind, it completely ftifLs every feathhent of
justice & humanity, all regard for law add right. 'Should
the time ever arrive, which God avert ! 'foen^ majority
of coogrefs; inflamed by party fpiric, and feeding the de
'ftrudtion of its opponents, (ball define to criminate a judge
. # in order to heap odium on the party with which he is connect.
.cd,when a president, at the head of this^ majority & gliding
.its passions, ihall desire from motivesif private resentment
the ruin of ahyjudge;when the Schemes of the dominact par
ity or its leaders,may require the removal of all firm,Upright
and independent judges and the fubftitutiop of others more
complying or more timed , when the necessity of a favo
rite partizan may require the removal of a judge, in order
to create a vacancy io office rdhculj farh a dififtrous pe
riod ever arrive, as the hiftory of other free governments
informs us rt may,in what manner will the devoted victim
"however innocent, be able so (hield himfelf against such a
weapon,as this l'pecies of inquiry ^pflituted in such a man
nerand on such principles cannot fail so furri.h? Your
xnemorialiU trembles for the honour of his c.%rary, & for
-the success of republican government in thi her fall and
faireft experiment, much more than for his own fafety,
when he reflets on the cxccffcs chat under such a cloak
may be committed.
Does the manner in which this inquiry has been con
duced, present any considerations calculated co remove or
diminish tile alarm excited by its commebeemmt ? Far oth
^rwife! A great mass of teftimohy has been taken, which
^though calculated to affeift your nfoorialift in the moll
material manner, he has had no opportunity ,of confront
ing, cross examining or explaining. This teftimotiy, in the
taking of which feme individuals were allowed to indulge
themselves in, the most rancorous invectives aghinft your
memorialift, and to clothe with the formalities and fane
lion of an oath, the malicious effusions of their unprovoked
and implacable refinement; this testimony thus tarniihed
with the ' deep stain of "partiality, hatred and revenge,
was printed piece-meal, in the progress of the inquiry, and'
though not immediately published, was placed in a condi
tion to be extensively circulated, and thus to be employed
as a mean of deeply wounding the reputation ,of your me
-inerialift, of exciting universal odium agaioft him, and of
preparing the way for a certain condemnation, when a
clamour mail have been excited, strong enough to drown
the voice of reason, truth and justice.
Your memorialift bj no means wishes to be
understood as insinuating that such was the in
tcn|fon,wherewith this step was taken, his refped
for the body by which it was authorized, forbids
him to harbour such a suspicion. But such may
Ie the effea, & such it must be, in his apprehen
sion, unless your honourable body, by preferring
fpecific charges against him immediately, ffiall
enable him to prepare speedily and efficaciously
for jufttying his conduct and defending his char
"after, against the unjust and wanton aspersions
with which this testimony abounds.
The recent publication of this testimony, in a
' Gazette,underftood to be the official organ of the
government, and thence communicating an of.
ficial character and fandion to whatever of this
Qturz appears in it, is acirenraSaaee calculated
to increase, in a very great degree the mifehie
vous effeds of the testimony itfelf, and renders
Rill more important the ^eafurc which your
memorialist so earnestly Solicits. From this Ga
vzette, the publication will pass into others ; thus
the most virulent misrepresentations of his con
dud, and Handers on his character, faridioned
too, in some degree, by the vote of impeachment
will be spread throughout the United States;
and will even extend to foreign countries; while
the opportunity df" refuting them must, of neces
sity, be delayed fora considerable time, and, if
articles of impeachment are not immediately ex
hibited, may be poßponed to a very distant pt
riod. _,
He is Rill more Wrongly impressed with the
necessity of demanding, a sacred right this im
mediate exhibition of articles, when herefleds on
the manner in which the impeachment was vo
ted. It is in vain that he has looked, in this vote
* and in the report of the committee oh which it is
founded, for a statement or ever a hint of the
offences with which he Hands charged. He i&
impeached" of high crimes and mifdemeanours ;
but in what these high crimes and misdemeanors
consist, when, how, and where they were com
miltai, is no where declared. The testimony
, collected by the committee does indeed state t
$ Variety of fads,which may constitute the grounds
r ofaccufation.—The principles ofjuftice and law,
; and the uniform course of practice# united in re-
I'quiring, that each of these fads, or eacff that it
. is intended to rely on, ihould be put by the com
; "mittee into the form of a fpecific charge, & made
the fubjed of a dUlind reflation. The sense of
, the house would then have been exprefled onev
t cry charge,feparately, and each'would have been
supported or' rejected according to the opinion
! entertained by the majority refpeding its truth
1 and itsfufficiency.-Vouf memorialist would then
have known; even tthouc articles, what it is of
which he Hands accused, and to what points to
L C dteea his preparations for defence. His family,
„his friends,his country,and th^ world Would have
)known what it is thathas been called, "high crimes
and mifd&neanours ;” and would have been en
[ abled to judge how far the aceufatibn is fuppbh
, 'ted by the fa^s, arid the fafts by the proof.
There is another point of view in which your
; Tnemorialift deems it his sacred duty, a duty to
t his country more than to himfelfya duty which
, no consideration (hall prevent him from perfor
, ming, to enter his m>ft solemn protest against
this part of the proceeding. His protest may
,not now be heard. _ The passions and prejudice
e of chemoment may drown ' his voice- But it
One day be heard and seriously listened
n The American people will hear it—and the Idv
f ers ofliberty, in every age and country, will
unite in abetting thd justice of his Complaint.
I He complains that by the method pursued in
ty voting this impeachments majority has been ob
,, taped in favor of the- general vote, while it is
s' possible and even probable, that there is not a
• majority id favour of any one of the separate
chargts or. which the vote is founded. The ac
enfatiops agairift him," so far as can "be collec-
Q ted from the testimony, are very various. Let
s it b^ fuppefed that four charges are chiefly to
r be relied on, viz. the trial of Fries, the trial of
' Callander, the proceedings'at New-Cadle, & the
e charge to the grand jury in Baltimore. It is
perfedly manifest these charges are wholly dis
□ tina, and cannot support or strengthen each oth
-1 er. Each is a misdemeanour in itfelf, #it is not.
e I'heretme there ought tobe a majority in favor
]of each separately before it can be made the
. ground of impeachment.
t. Let it then be supposed which is not only
p portable,but highly probable, that thirty memb<l
1 and no more,considered the conduct of your me^
'morialift in the trial of Fries, as a proper ground
,of impeachment. In thatcafe itis mariifeft that
- your memdrialift ought not to berimpeached on
;that charge, there not being a majority in favor
of it. In like manner there may have been but
thirty members in favor of impeaching him, on
.account of Callender's triat& so of the other two
.charger. Thus although there 'might be but
chucy members in favour of impeaching, on any
} one 0! the four charges, in which te^fe it is man
lifett that thete plight to be no impeachment, set
when all the charges arejblended into one gene
ral question, every member who confiders an^
one-charge as ^proper ground offimpeachment,&
an Uic owners as not proper grounds must Vote
in the athrmutive ; and thus there will appear a
ri great majority in fever of a measure, which is
{dually dhappreved by z'great majority/ rtyiti
s an innovation so Hrikir^fo alarming, so re
pugnant to all former practice, and to all ideas
of justice and law, that it may ft fafely pro
nounced to furnifh, tfpecially when combined
with the priqcipleofindefinite inquiry without pre
vious fpedlic allegations, & ofex-parte testimony,
the moil lomiuabic,tl e m-ft ure flible engine of
oppreffinn, under the forms of law, that "ever
was placed in the brands of power ^ and if the
time fhokU ever affNe, which Heaven in its
mercy avert ! when this enginelhall he wielded
under rhe diredion of party fpiric, or of popular
pafiiou irrigated by perfbnal malice or sinister
policy, dreadful indeed will be the condition of
those whom it may be the object of the moment
to 'deftrby./
Against an accusation thus prepared, and thus
preferred, it behoves your morialid to make the
earlieli and the most efficacious preparations for
defending his character and affecting his inno
cence. While the accusation rests in its present
vague Hate, he knows not to wfoat points to direct
these preparations ; and in the mean time the
fulleft scope is given to calumny and malevo-!
lence suspicion eVer alive and busy, is left free to
aft and the most efficacious means are affor
ded, for overwhelming with public odium an in
nocent man, who until the age of sixty three, ha's
maitained an unspotted reputation ; who bore am
early and not an unimportant part in otir com
mon struggle for liberty"; and who, after dif.l
charging with honour, many inoft important ;
trUfts conferred On him by his fellow citizens,
was railed by Washington, the witpHs of his
vices and often the companion of his exertions,to !
that high office, his conduct in which, though
now the fubjeft of accusation h-s atw^yg
been regelated by the most confeientious regard
' to his duty and his bath. ,
These are injuries to which he cannot suppose
that four honorable body will fuffer him to re
main exposed; he therefore prelums to folicit,moft
refpedfully, but mod earnestly, that your hon
ourable body will not adjourn without prefering
articles of impeachment against him and thus re-"
during to precise form, that accusation which
in its vaghe and general Rate, less impossible for
him to repel. Could an immediate trial behad
it would be far most agreeable to his feelings ;
but as circumstances render it importable that he
should be gratified in that extent he forbears to.
ask it ; and confines himfelf -to tbat re
quest which it is, he conceits, ^rfe&ly easy for
your honorable body (o grant."'
SAMUEL CHASE.
Baltimore March 24. ;
Articles of Impeachment faill be inserted next <weeL
03udge Chafe tequefti the editors of all tie
nmftapers iri the United States to insert bis let.
ter and memorial, and the article/ of imfabment
reported b) the committee.
1 ^Latest Foreign News.
'Lottfofand Liverpool dates to the 29th February,
: ' received at New York.
- . . .LIVERPOOL, FEB.
: The Prince ox Whales derives great assistance
Ffrom thecounfels of Lords Thurlow and Mr. Sher
idin both^f whom are frequently, in confidence
i with bis Royal H^ghnefs.—Lord Moira was ex
-1 peAed at Carlton house in a few days.
1 The rumours of inva^n thickenupon us and
1 are gaining strength a&ft daily. Among her
f .things, i§fe pretty generally believed that the ' French
, fleet has escaped from Touton, andthd Lord - Nek
, ion is in pursuit of it.
. It is laid government fa received intelligehte
$ from SirjSidney Smith, Dating that he has fallen
in with a fleet of Dutch and French gun-boats, of
which he has taken fifteen and destroyed thirty.
Though this report has every mark of credible ty,
, ved^not undertake ki vouch forthe truth of k.;
,q, '"London, Feb. 25.
A dispatch arrived yesterday from Lor: Nelson
' which is supposed to contamlmpoHanrlntelligendr
;) , Letters have been received from Plymouth,dir^
1 from his Lordflfp, to his friends;the contents ire
™°"'iM° Dating,that the French Squadron had givten
§; him the flip from Touiorf that he recived quick so.
. teUigence of the event, and was then Peering after
' them with every rag of fail,fa,and hoped to overtake,
- and give a good account of them.
A report prevailed vefterday afternoon, that sis
-teen fail of the, enemy's gunboats had been taken
1 and carried into Dealand Dover. Srne of the mor.
• nitypapars repeat the rumour, but fay, they were
' captured by Sir Sidney Smith. W e underhand,that.
1 intelligence has been received at the Admiralty,ffa.
: ting, that the Adive Cutter (No/zj/Lieut. 'Wii
• liams fell in with 16 fail of the the enemy's Imall
- craft,on the igthinft. proceeding from Oftend to
L Boulogne, of which hi; had bad captmed one under
> circumstances highly creditable to himfelf.
f Orders have been received by the commanding
e officer in the Downs for all officers whether belong
stog to yeffels in adual Service on tbardation, or to
L thofenot immediately prepared for sea, to fieep on
- hboard their refpeafee fbips, similar orders are to be
. frilly enforced at Plyrauutb, PortLiwtfth, Chatfc
, am and Sheernefe. .
.All the men of way at St. Hellan's have been
ordered so lie Z|,anchor with fixings upon tbeit.
• cables. r 4
.I - Letters have, been sent from the Trinity House
!£to the different Gentlemen who have volunteered
i—ty r fevices for the defence of the entrance of
Thames, earneQly entreating them to be on
, board their refpe&fve ihlps before the firft of March.
A Dutch !chuit arrived at Harwich, on Monday,
with 'four pafogers from Ketwyck, They state
that the Northern Powers are cohering agreat
force to oppole the further progress of the tyranny
of France, whole ambition, they begin to suppose,
; has ricHmitL
IFeb. 27,
;On Saturday accounts were received by Gov
ernment of an embargo having been laid in all the
purls of France, from which it is inferred, that the
enemy means immediately to attempt the lavafinn.
.Orders have been feot in conlecuence to all the
: Naval Stations along the Coast.
We have preferred the Public with a Pracla
'' mating of the Dutch Government of the 16th of
die prefect month, which, to the attentive reader,
will convey more important information of the
slate of that unhappy country, than whole volumes
tilled with the complaints of individuals could do.
This is an Official Paper, pubtifhed by the Data-,
viac Government, and fliews, that so fir from
ibearing patiently the Tyrant's Yoke, the Batavian
Government and the Dutch People appeal most el
oquently to the Almighty Ruler,of the Universe,
and to every European Power that has the Gene,
rofity, the Spirit, and the Strength to come to their
relief, ^nd strike off their chains. r ~
In'this proclamation, in which "more is meant
than meets the ear," in which more eloquence and
feeling are displayed than appeared in the routine
business of a Proclamation for a Fast, the Dutch
Government js bold enough to rteclire to all the
world the miserable situation of the DutchPcople:
they do not tell us as Bonaparte does, bow many
hew minufaaurefare springing up—bowtheir cred
it and commerce are reviving or how may arches
ofa broken-bridge they have repaired—but they
declare, with ill the spirit of a nation that deserves
to be independent, that the Oppression under which
I they labour has driven them to the hritfk of ruin,
' but thatthey still have hopes, that through the
Divine Mercy, they may again be restored to their
former prosperity. They cohfefs their situation to
be daily growing worfc and worfe;arid tbit all they
with for is peace.
Although Holland is oppressed by a tyrant mb?
killing than the Frost, more deftruaive than the
Pestilence, we are glad to fee that hope still fur.
vires in Holland. The Dutch have fixed upon
the 7th of March for their national Application ;
fanra& that the French have fixed upon the
I month of March for their invasion of this country,
if so and Bonaparte is Hill fond of omens, let a
soothsayer rin/ih his ears, Cdefer, remember the
140 of March."
Since Mufat hiR become Governor of Panj,
teith an immense (alary and eftablrfhmeot, Jourdan
is appointed to the chief Command of the army
in Italy, in consequence of which be will reside -
chiefly, with more than regal Tplendour ^ Milan.
• }tU_Qfemm^ — ^
FOREIGN NEWS,
In Continuation—London dates to March 9,
^received by the Minerva, arrived at Boffon.
London, March 6.
Plot, against Buonaparte. —Arrest of ^
Moreau.
Legislative Body. —PARIS, FEB. 17:
At 2 o'clock the counfellor of State Regnatid, De St
jean D'Amgely, Segur, and Gerlier, were introduced—
Regnaud ascended the Ttibhre and read the following re
port irtde this morning by the Grand judge to the ib&
Conful:—' *
Report of the Grand Judge to Government.
Petris,*2qtb Plvdifc ' 1
"Citizen First Consul, °' : !"
New plots have to framed by England.;fa were
famed to &midst of & trace fee tod fwota to main- & <
tLu; gad when ffie violated the treat, of Amtest, flu,
relied much less upoa her force than upon the fucctfs of
her machinations—But the Government was watchful;
the eye of police fallowed" all the ftep# of the enemy's a
gents, and traced the measures of those whom their gold
. or their intrigues had corrupted.
"At length the plan appeared complete ; already, no'
doubt, the, thought at London that they heard the ex
ptofiop of that mine which bad been dug under our feet.
At least themoft fim&sr rumours were recirculation there,
' and the moft' guilty hopes were cherished.'
"All at once the,racers of the conspiracy are seized,
proofs accumulate, and of such force and evidence, that
I they will carry conviction to every mind.,
"Georges, and his band of assassins, had remained io the
pay of England--hit agents still over-run La Vendee, the
Morbihan, and the Cores du Nord, and vainly fought foe
partisans—the moderation of the government and the
. 'laws had deprived them of them.
"Pichegru, unmalked by the events which preceded the
'l&h Fru^idor, year 5, unmafced more than any thing
by., that correspondence which General Moreau had ad
dressed to the Directory—Pichegru had carried his hatred
'ngainft his country into England.
"In the year 8 he was with Willot, do the suite of che
} enemy's armies, in order to ally himfelf with the Brig
ands of the South. /
, "in the year 5, he conspired with the committee of Ba
routh ; and fines the peace of Amiens, he was still the
counfcl and the hope of the enemies of France.
"British perfidy ass ,mt<sGeorges with Pichegru—the
infamous Georges with that Pichegru whom France had,
esteemed, and wham fLe long believed to be incapable of
treafoß.
f "In the year it a criminal reconciliation unites Piche
gru and General Moreau, twated between whom hoc-,
' our ought to have placed an eternal hatred. The police
fezes at Calais one of theigsgents at the, ,moment he waj
¥ returning a fecoed time to England. That man is in the
hands of the police, with all the papers which eftablilh the
reality of a reconciliation that would have been inexplica
ble if the ties of it had not been formed by crime. r'
"At the atreft of thig agent, General Moreau appears
for a moment agitated..,He takes under-hand measures to
ascertain Whether government is informed upon the fub
jea- b,ut every thing is ftfll and silent, an^ieftored him
felf to tranquility, he conceals from government an event
which was of a nature to excite th<r vigilance. He con
ceals it, when xven Pichegru is .'called public!, to the
counsels cf the British Ministry, when with a degree of
eclat he unites himfelf co the enemies of France.
"Government would pot fee in hence .any thing but
'the fear of an avowal which would have humiliated him,
in the fame manner .as they had fen in lais absence from
public affairs, in his equivocal cooneaions, and iu his mere
than indiferet speeches, only ill-humour and vain dikon
ccn^ .
"General Moreau, who was liable to suspicion because
he treated secretly with the enemy of his country, who'
upon this more than legitimate Itfpicion, would have been
A arrested at any other epoch, was buffered to enjoyjn tran,
, quility his honours, an immense fortune, and the benefits
of the Republic.. < -
"Yet events prefled —Ltgoliofc, the friend and confi
dant of Pichegru, goes secretly from Paris to London, re
, turns from London to Paris, carries to Pichegru the ideas
of General Moreau, brings bark to General Moreau the
ideas and designs of Pichegru and bis affociatea. The bri
, gands of Georges prepare in the very city of Paris all that
is necessary to the execution! of their common projects.
-"A spot is fixed upon between Dieppe and Treport
remote from all uneafinefe and all fupcriirtendence, where
.the brigands of England, conduced by the English ships
of war, were to land without being perceived, where thr,
were to find men bribed to receive them, men paid to,
' guide them during the night from Nation to Nation agreed
upon, and to bring them even to Paris.
"At Paris an asylum is prepared for them, in houses
hired before hand, where are trusty guardians ; they have
.them in feverci quarters, in fevers! Greets, at Chaillot,l
the Faubourg, St. Marcean.
\'V A firft landing fe effected, ^ was Ciegc, wiA< »,
1 of hi, brigands. 1
"Georges returns to the cenP to sffift at the landing of
Cofter St. Victor (condemned by the sentence puffed up-'
on the affair of the 3d Nivofe), and ten other brigands.
"In the early part cf this month, a third landing is af
feded; it is Pichegru, Lajollais, Armand, Gaillard, the
brother of Raould, Jean Marie, cne of the firft confidants
'of Georges, and some other brigands of that kind, Geor
ges with Joyau, called d'Affir, St. Vincent, arid Picot,
; called Ie Petit, precede this ,ird debarkation; the union
is effe&ed at the farm of la Poterie, ,
''A .fourth landfog is expected. The vcffels are ia 1
light, but contrary winds prevent ' theit approach ;,Qt a
few days are^paffed unce.they made reconnoitring signals.
Georges and Pichegru arrive at Paris ; they are lodged
in the fame house, surrounded by some thirty brigands,
commanded by Georges. .They fee General Moreau ';
we know the place, the day, the hour where the firil con- +
faience is held. A second rendezvous .was agreed upon,
and does not take place. A third, a fourth, took place in
the very house of General Moreau, ,
. This appearance cf Georges and Pichegru at Pan?,
these conferences with General Morfa are established by
inconteftible and multiplied proofs.. The Peps of Geor^
ges and Pichegru are followed fforchoufe to house. Those?
who assisted in their debarkation ;thofe who, in the dead
of night condoled them from port to port ; those who 4
gave them an asylum in Paris, these confidants, accompli
ces, Lagobais, their principal gobetween,and General Mo
reau, are felted. The efcas and the papers of Piche
grue are seized, and the police is following his fleps with
great activity.,
England wimed co overturn the government, and by o
verturning it, to effect the ruin of Frances atf the aban^
ddnment of itto ages of civil war and coUfufife —But (a,
overthrow a government reported by the affection of 30
millions of citizens, and surrounded ty a £rong, a brave,^
and faithful army, was a talk above the pfyer of England
and of Europe ; hence England did not pretend to effect it,
but by the arfaffination cf the First Confix, and by cov
ering that affaffinatioo with the shade of a man whom the
remembrance bf his ferviecs still defended.
"I must add, that the citizens ought to feel no uneafi
nefa The greater part of the brigands are aterted, the , +
rest Eave ^d, m*^¥ warmty purged h, 4!lfyMic£
,No clefs of citizens, qo branch of the administration so
gained by a fingfe suspicion.
I (ball not give mwe ample details in this repoqtyraCTF
have seen all the papdii; you will direct th@t all be placed
under the eye of foftice. ^^
The Grand judge, Minister of Justice.
(Sigfc) "REIGNER,
sfod— - 4.
_The Secret Expedition.
; We announced on Tuesday the preparation,
which were making for an expedition again# so-.,
/%% and some other ports of rtie enemy. Those
preparations have been followed by an embargo in|
our ports, and the execution of a vigorous and de
cisive measure is at han i. N
The plßd of theintends tapedhicn originated in ,1
4 -Me RICHARD FHltlles; of S 6 Pau!, Chinch- ,
Yard. That GerfUeman has for a contiderable time,
propoftti to Government to clufe up and perma
nently blockade the ports.of the tueny, by finkiog
at.4heir entrance 4iid fbips of various burthens,
filled with chalk far Hanes. By varying the num
ber ft fizeol those vr ffete, & by other .contriveucrs
adapted td the tutumftances of the tummy's port he
tonfiuers it to!>ein the pfwrr of his country to
render r% ry harbour es bonce,Holfyand Flan
deft urms&igable bod , ta.lv uteiefs.
. After m^ure ipveHtedon, the i&ahas been ad, .}
oped ty povunfaw, tai a numbhef^l ^P,