The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel — Hanover, N.H., 1797-07-24 00:00:00, page 2

four y^rs,b, as &em of premeditated
perfection, endeavored to drive the
people in f o infdrrrftion, a few individual
ala, who had rendered themfrlves noro
rings by their vindiaive purfitit of this
'yftem, have during the iaft fix months
^atheir liver. We do not defend these
:<*ges; they give us wore real grief
do to our enemies
: ,how hasHt^h^ppetaf il,phie
horror was not exprerfed By the
, ' erfons, when 2 civil war was for
%:'b:^ carr ing on in thecountry of
7*} against the catholics, fopport.
^^ : <^rta/^xerdons, and.as it was
connivance ? Do you
unto men, # hat *h e fe cruel
, 3verc carried on by men,
s4^ ^tyngimpunitv, but boaft
^iV'W^mhorityofgovernmeot?
^^W# w that the fame f, stem
..error has been enforced
r „,,:^efi irf alm^ft
^^'C Belfast has been dra.•
m ft virtuous inhabi.
Flatly decimated [that
'frequently ifyd forth,
itat th head of par
fb fccur rhe country
' ^ n d imprison the
then wonder, if
t}''b^ f? hemfelves peruli. °
fr cruelties, should
>^ : ^''^ to individual
\ou may lament
'." ^et ; ifthe
Wt> he hour of
rect to
,h a s been
: Aft out two
^ .^e furprif.
wrnvffes
^ ^?^frc^d, but
kto as
.-. I\mity by
, radons,
we be
.ho
^tantrof
^z.% non, the
Staring
so ^ <<' ? ^
.. ? A7 promote
5 „ . }:CT - otto de
t to save
^CT. ^
7 ^^^ are
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Bil
IWCT^^They
*gd. Haw
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b een
the to
ab ^
f more
fti# are
or pur-
W^^ discus
teitCv
inthe
end^d ui with patience as welf a^ cc # u.
rag-.
V/i can. even yet endure for our
country's fake. But countrymen, i c
tner= not a point; beyond winch tot
bear^nce becomes a crime, and humin
nature is incapable of enduring ? Shall
we be forced ncyopd that point ? if;^e
fliotih£ opr poor and feeble oppreff/rs
would find/tfat trailed irctod could in
in Wn inßant, trample them to dust.
To ,GU% national armed force, wheth.
er militia or veom^nry, we peculiarly
appeals Soldiers ! when you took, up
arms to defend your country didyon
intend to turn them against your coun=
trirned ? Was it to raise th? ,catholic ^
I gairift rile protestant, again# the caiho-
Ilie that you arrayed ? Wasit to fapport
an adminißration which Bas brought
your country to the verge of deftrudion
by a wicked war against liberty abroad,
2nd a Rill more wicked war again# lib
erty at home, that you swore allegi
ance ? Ifjou mould ever with narici
dal hearts, turn your arms against vour
fellow citizens, whose on^ crime i i
their patriotism, would you not feel
that sou were guilty of treason, rebell
; ion and prrjur, again# sour king, your
country, and your Gid ? Think then
in time, rememberjou are IriJomra / Re
member that you must ffiurily ahfwer
for every aft of murder, or even pillage,
that you might be induced by unjutt
orders, to commit, before that being
who is the avenger of the oppressed.
To the Britifo nation we aifo appeal !
Is ircriminal, Batons ! to follow the
example of your renowned ancestors ?
If you feel the defers in your reprefen
-9 ration, and if you ate fenfihle that you
as well as we, have been precipitated
into the molt wicked and deftruflwe
war, in confluence of these defeats,
can you poffibl, blame us, whose repre
sentation is infiniely more inade
quate, for our peaceable exertion to
remedy these defefy I Shall Ireland be
considered as hottile, because (tie caught
a spark of that, holy file which was kepi
alive in that iftaod, when surrounding
Europe was funk under a barbarous
drfpotifm ? Rut yon will be cold that
we wished ter get rid of the conneaiox.
If that connection only existed in the
manifold evil# which have been heaped
upon us by the prefect abominable ad
miniftrarion, we surely would wifr fol
a feparatioa.
But fellow fubjefts, conneßed at we
are by the ties of blood^of a common
language aad policy—intimately con
ne&d as we are bour relative fi nation
• 4^ffilH^^ ariefwith <@iv4^
world, as well as bi our mutual wants
and redundancies —so far from wiping
to lessen these ties of conßedioa, we
call upon you, we entreat you to unite
still further with us, in Ihe necessary
work of reform.
We conjure you, by the, names of
,4ur Locket, your Sidnevs, your
ilampdons, and vour Ruffels, to join
I ns in a great and united effort to save
the empire from delruaioo^ by the on,
ft measure which can five ^ —a radical
reform in the rfyfatation of, the people.
removal of our prefcot wicked mi
ntf:r<ftWisl only operate as temporary
relief-,he eaofe of all our evils will,
still remain. Had not your minister
knownhhat hit influence, owing to the
,defeflive state of our ceprefentation, en
abled hjm to draw from Ireland t§o,ooo
'men to recruit the army, apd 40,000
seamen to man the Meet of toe empire,
he would not so rapidly have rulhed in
pty this datable war, whic% has bro't
you as well as us to the brink of ruin.
Britons, remember<the words of the
most illuftrfaos fatefman that ever a
dornedyouK country, pr directed your
councils —of that PITT who conduc
ed the empire of glory abroad, whilst
he cherished liberty .at home; In the
year 1766, when Massachusetts was
charged with rebellion, as Ulster is now,
" 1 rejoice that America has resisted ;"
said tlty great man. " Three millions
of people, so dead to all the feelinfi
of liberty, as voluntarily to submit td
be Baveq, would have been fit infra,
ments to make slaves of the rest. If
America was to fatl,"^ continued he.
she would fall like the strong man ; (he
would embrace the pillars of the {tatty
,and pulldown the constitution with her.
{She has been wronged; she has beet,
driven to madness by injuttice :—Will
%ou puoifh her for the madness you
shave occasioned." His couhfels fuc
'ce ded—^he obnoxious laws were re
tye^led, & America far down contented
^Shortly after the fyltem of coercion
was again resorted to, and America «wa;
'>Jffi}'
'@ lit . riririri'/K^ri°% riri <ri > 1 'riri^ri
('ri'z.ri'k^
;Finally, tye appeal fri th, fctk ^rf^.
z/nfrtf, whose almifry facer ^ ; _
voke to conduct u> b> the paths ot
peacr, ri liberty and happicefi.
Belfaft, April l^tb, 1,97.
PHILADELPHIA, JULY ;
The following ex tact of 3 I^rer re
ceived by the brig hides Cfr. Finch'
^ 43/ays from Londondern, from a
refcfe&ble gentleman in the north ,4
Ireland, who is in principle a lo° alia,
will give our readers fcm ijea ufdi:
stare of that country :
" Ramelth, Doanega/, April 26. °G™
" This county is a prefut in a dt:
agreahle fe^menT. All the low-f or.
ders of the people, in tlri G province ef
peciaMy, wuh for a revolt bo co
French principle; and have enroll d
rhemfelves under the title of cited
Irishmen ; their principles nee 3 f ftenr
of terror, rapihe and p ! upd:-r. The
late doaor Hamilton of b'ateet, acb at jW
kneqo, was fit upon inthe houic rooc
tor Walter, and mutt inhuman; mur
dered by a set of thole,rofh ins ; poor
Mrs. Walter received three ihots in Her
neck and sh aiders at the fame rime,
by which she inftanrfy died. ^Tte
goals in 'he counties of Down, Anrir,
Derrv # Tyrone, and D>nn gal, are fri
ed with those insurgents—some on cir
cuits have been hung, some tranfpoct
ed, and numbers retained in goal or
admitted to bnl. This buGneG was
beginning at Belfaft prior to, our leav
ing the Country, has b^n gaining
ground in this province, and is now
arrived to a gigan ic magnitude." In
another place he fays, " Though in
principle a toyalift, when I cnfider
the abuses which have crept, and
are daily creeping into our coift.tf
tion, lam led to believe de'b # dy p di
tic must, one dav or other, b„cosercome
with difeafc to such a degree; th< rdi
the art of the ft^e phficianj will be
baffled iiremiving rhe malady.— This
is an ±ra 1 rtever with to fee, but the & p.
preff)>ns of rhe peopi, and the abafey
of the law; are not to be b rhe. The
conftitaion of this country so much
boailed of, and, indeed, once the pride
of nations, the boast of the wo r l!, now
tottering on its basis, must give heart
felt distress to every lover of hi, c >uu : rv.
I pra'G>d to avert ail these evils ; but
to fach a pitch is his country reduced,
that burning, m iming of cartie, and
dettreying the property of all who will
no' jjin in the prefers de'uhon, is a
confirmed principal .Mine, t gether
,Ith the turf ftacfo of )our friends
^ Xo&orill S and Mr. M , were
set on fire and destroyed by the adhe
rent's of those reptile-— hefe are but
trifles to wha: many of nur neighbors
have experienced.—C rps of y eoma try
Have been raised over all hi* kin^d m,
both of infancy and civa!r — hey
have been productive of much g^l o>
chii diftraded province, and indeed to
all the kingdom."
IN SENA TE, ;UL Y to.
ON Saturday morairig, 'he order of
the day was called' fit on the m> r i<n
for expelling WILLIAM BLOUNT
from bis Rat in the Senate, (which was
on Friday postponed to take into, con
corifititerat so, the meffdge.of the H;ufe
of Representative?) and Mr. M^v-in
- and Mr. Cooke were sworn bv a "%-
iftrate who attended for the purpose, ^
ihtetrogated as to the hand-wridug of,
Mt. Blorfit, which they fußftan i&ed.
4 The bußnefs had not been far proceeded
'with, When Mr, Blotinr fook hi, fear,
2nd informed the house M ffrsDallas
2nd IngerfoU; his cOUnfeQ w re r-ady
to plead in tils defence. They were
allowed to take their feats at the bar
ofthe souse and Mr. Dal'a# co"^^^-
ed the defence in-a very able rind idge
nious address, whi^ti occupied' rfoxe
than thtee hours.
M r ; tngerfoll followed 'him in a
speech of neal? two hours.
These gentlemen ha# recoarfe to e*.
ery precedent which ' could be.pr%cur
ed from biftbry, and taeverv'argument
; which Ability and ingenuity could sug
gest. They pariicuhriy refed on ?he
grounds that the punijbm'nt, wan officer
'Should so 00 case precede hi c Trial, and
thi, tofexpel Mr. Blount from his fear
at this time, would be to do what could
I only be done, provided he Was found
, guilty on the impeachment prefefr /,
which, however, they denied the right
of the House of Representatives to pre-
The defence being finifhed, Mr.
R fi rose and in a very luminous fpecch
examined all rhe arguments which seas
been adduced by the counsel, and