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will not exceed three-fifths. Amore alarm
ing fad is, that it is too well ascertained,
that the whole produce 'of grain'in the heft of
years is not equal to the annual conjunction of
the country. -'
While we drop the tear of sympathy over
the mileries of our fellow-creatures, let us
learn to appreciate the blessings we derive
from the liberty, peace, and plenty we en
joy. When we Contemplate the effeds of
a government of fraud, tyranny and monop
oly, like that of the Britilh, Rt it strengthen
our determination to withhold all confidence
from those politician, among us, who have
evinced a partiatty for that corrupt fyftetn ;
men who thia* us so besotted in point of
understanding, us to believe them when they
tell us, that a government which necessarily
delights in war—which cannot exitt with
out oppieflion—and whose mad schemes
have often produced famine and death to
thoufends of its fubje&s, is the mpft glori
ous monument of invention ! Great-Britain
has scarcely ever engaged in a necelfary war.
But the present contest with France, more
than any of her former wars, has contribut
ed to the dellruftiog of her internal happi
ness and prosperity, by withdrawing the hus
bandman from the plough to the camp, by
augmenting the debt and taxes beyond the
capacity of the nation to bear them, and by
the consequent increase of a ruinous paper
medium—circumstances which, however
deplorable in their immediate effects, may
perhaps hasten the dilfolution of that govern
ment ; an event which, whenever it arrives
will be a theme of joy to the human race.
From the Constitutional Telegraphe.
, Curs'd be the verse how well foe'er it flow,
' Which tends to make one honefl man my foe.
Pope.
The result of the late eledion of president
of the United States, is tiuly pleasing to
those who are friendly to the liberty and
happiness of the American people. No
man amongst us is more deserving of that
office than Thomas Jefferfon. With a mind
great, liberal and virtuous, his adminiftrl
tion will happily tend to unite in one com
mon principle, the present infatuated par
ties in this country. His pre-eminent talents
and virtues are well known. The ene
mies of republicanism are confounded, when
they reflea on this great patriot, and link
into their native infignificance. They know
him to be the greatest philosopher, patriot,
and statesman, the molt mild and amiable
citizen of America. He, like the celebrat
cdPetrarch of antiquity,who regenerated the
love of liberty throughout Italy, with the
fame republican intrepidity is founding the
alarm against tyranny and tyrants. To our
American hero, the language of Zimmer
man, an excellent German author, when
speaking of Petrarch, is truely applicable—
"A great statesman, a profound and judi
cious patriot, he was constantly consulted
upon the moll important affairs frequently
employed in the molt arduous negociations.
A zealous friend to humanity, he endear
voured on all occasions to extinguish the
torch of difeord. Possessing an extraordina
ry genius the greatest charafters solicited his
company and endeavoured to form their
minds from his opinion and study it from his
precepts the great art of making the people
happy." The friends of liberty behold in
our American Petrarch the fame excellent
qualities. The enemies of our liberty trem
ble at the name of Jefferfon confcipus of
their own littleness, for surely compared
with him they are nothing, yea less than
nothing and vanity. V :' '" •
Every engine of malice, from the priest
to the meanest minion of defpotifm,has been
engaged to defame,the character of the firtt
man in our country,,.He however, (con
feious of his own digpity and greatness of
mind, influenced Sy that amiable philosophy,
<fwhich looks with complacency on the er
rors and fallibilities of mankind") remains
calm and unmoved amid the tolling and fury
of the political tempest. 'Enjoying the ap
probation of heaven and his own conscience
and that calm tranquility which must ever
proceed from a mind like hi^^auated by
the pure principles of benevolence and char
ity, (the fare Concomitants of truly great and
illustrious minds) he disdains the low pur
suit of a malignant party fpifit. It is e
nough for mean and little mindsip engage
in personal abuse and inveaive, they are the ,
natural produce of such a foil.
How excellent then appears the chara&-
er of this great man. It certainly is not
exaggerated, for it is confirmed by the joint
foffrage of every true American. The con
temptible productions which have appeared
in many of our.papers, originated in weak
ness, malice, and disappointment. JThefe
Scribblers it is probable were the mere hire
lings of the Essex Junto, who were deter
mined ifpoffible to eradicate every republi
can principle.;All that they have said, how
ever, against Mr. Jefferfon,amounts to mer
ely nothing, and to them the language of the
Poet is truly applicable*-—* ^ , \^
'>Laugh at the nfoon ye deadly dogs of night,
: She neither heeds your howl Or (bines less
bright
Posterity shall resound the fame of Jefferfon,
while the remembrance of his calumniators
isbut for a moment, sos they will certainty
fink into merited oblivion,
“ And like the baseless fabric of aitfirn
Leave not a wreck behind."
$ Mr. JEFFERSON's SEAT.
Account of the residence of the philosopher of Vir
ginia who is to admintyer the government of the
united States for the ensuing four yeafs-ffrom
the American Gazetteer.
" Monticello, the feat of Thomas Jeffer
fon, vice-president of the United States of
America, is in Albemarle County, Virgi
nia, about one hundred miles weft of Rich
mond, and 25 north-weft of Warren, near
Charlottesville. His farm consists of seve
ral thousand acres ofexcellent land, on the
river Ripidonia, a north-weft branch of
James river. The mansion house, which is
spacious and elegant, stands on a mount,
500 feet above the circumjacent country,
and commands a view of about 700 g square
miles. To the weft and north-weft the
Blue Ridge appears in full view, for nearly
70 miles. To the northeast, ealt and fouth
as far as the eye can extend, is flat, plan
country, and in the spring and fummter sea
sons appears like an extensive portion of the
ocean, except that here and there appears
little mounts, rising in the form of a fogar
loaf. Mr. Jefferfon has about 1100 acres
of land under cultivation— 320 of wheat,
160 of corn, 3-20 of clover, 320 of pefs and
potatoes, tilled and managed by about 128
laborers. , He carries on the nailing busi
ness in which the negro boys of about twelve
years old are employed, who make about a
ton of nails a month."'
" The editor of the New-York Gazette
has been favored with the perusal of a file of
The Porcupine, as late as the 14th ulf.
printed in London by Wtttiam Cobbett.—
His motto is, 6 Fear God: Honor the King,'
The latter part of this sentence appears to
be supported ; but we find nothing in his
paper that look .^ e the fear of God.—-—
Porcupine has Q unenced an attack on all
the opposition prints, & some of those which
have been esteemed ministerial. The Times
for inftahce,, is coupled with the Morning
Chronicle in the following paragraph; for
publilhing an erroneous account of Lord
Keith's disasters before Cadiz by a Borm,
after detecting the fal/ehood he fays:-
“ We cannot let flip the opportunity of
direaing the attention of the public, and
particularly of the friends of Government, to
the Shameful collision which has long existed
between the Morning Chronicle and the
Times. The Times calls the Chronicle the
" leading print of opfeoJition," which compli
ment the Chronicle returns by Riling the
Times the “ leading print of Government."
We do not hesitate to pronounce this to be
a deceitful compad between the parties, the
objed of which compa& is at once the
most mean and most mifehievous that can
possibly be conceived. These prints are
like a couple of jugglers, who by assisting
in each other's deceptions, procure a com
fortable subsistence at the expense of the
gaping crowd. Neither of them ever has
nor never will have any early and true intel
ligence ; and what can entitle them to the
epithet of “ leading," we are at a loss to dis
cover, except it be in point of turpitude.
In this sense it is perhaps hard to fay which
is the 'leading print' of the two; but if
falfehood and hpocrify admit of degrees of
comparison, we are rather disposed to give
the Times the Scandalous pre-eminence."
“ In the firft number of the porcupine
we find a long firing of remarks on the
Treaty between this country and France.
Some of the remarks are just and others are
ridiculous. V In speaking of the influence
which some attach to the appointment ofLa
Fayette as Minister to this country, he ob-
Serves, " that fomethingmore solid than the
frippery and froth of Citizen Fayette is
wanting to outweigh the advantages which
the Americans know they derive from the
friendship of England—Should we be de
ceived,however; Should the peopleofAmerica
be foolifh enough to Iften to the fuggefiions
of their and bur enemies, we know the worst
that can Irapfah-Ten : Ships, added to our
squadron at Halifax, would,in the course of
thrve months, bring the Sixteen United
States to our feet, or fend them to seek for
New Constitutions in the pgeon-holders of
,the Abbe Sieyes."
" True, Peter—Your ten Ships might
destroy some of oyr most exposed cities, but
combin[d*Europe could not bring the Six
teen United States to their feet." ''
Porcupine has commenced, his career in
his own proper sphere, the BritiSh Metro
polis and within a few vards of the Royal
Bog House rs St fumes's. The Royal Ga
zette of New-York and the Philadelphia,
Gazette have given some extracts from his
paper—the following are from the former
with the animadversions of Master Lang's
amanuensis..
“ PORCUPINE.
^'tlie ^W,
— «.<fcg@,>i ►>M>frt
RHODE-ISLAND,
NEWPORT, DEC;„.
On Saturday morning la(t, about the time
the news' was announced to us of the elec
tion of Mr. Jefferfon and Mr. Burr, to the
presidency and v^e-prefidency, one of' our
citizens was presented under the benediction
of Divine Providence, with a pair of twin
Sons of the fame hour. To perpetuate " the
gladtidings of great joy" they were on Christ
mas day christened, the eldest Thomas Jef
ferfon, the younger Aaron Burr, upon which
they were each presented with an elegant
Medal with their names inferibed, the times
of their birth, and this inscription " Rebel
lion to Tyrants is obedience to God an in
fcriplion which graced the seal of Mr. Jef
ferfon in 1776...
PENNSYZPdNM.'
IA^ASTER, DEC. 24.
The following motion, made by Mr.
Roberts, arid seconded by Mr. Bolieu, is
now on the table of the house of representa
tives ; which on account of its importance
as a mean of breaking the chain which dill
binds us to the nefarious system of the Brit
i(h government, is well deserving of the at
tention and applause of all true Republicans.
'* Whereas Precedents, Adjudications,
and reported cases, which have arisen out 01
the Statute Laws of Great-Britain, being
inapplicable in this Commonwealth, on ac
count of the difference in the nature of the
government, and in the habits and manners
of the People ; and as all ufelcfs delay, as a
denial of Justice, it becomes necessary for
the furtherance thereof, to prevent the time
of the courts from being taken up ty refer
ence td such precedents, adjudications, and
reported cases : And whereas the several
courts of this Commonwealth, notwith
standing our separation from G. Britain,
retain many of the intricate modes pradifed
under that government ; which on account
of abstruse and technical phrases, is ill Qiud
From the Republican WatC£ Tower.
A- SOLILOQUY.
“ For forms of Government let fools contest,
“ Whate'Cr is befl ddminiftedd is befl" —
So said Alexander Pope, and I am much
ofhfs opinion. Long have I had my war-
Worn shoulder to the wheel of government,
andyet foe, is tailing down hill bear like !
Tho' I was enrolled under the banners of
the American Fabius, whose policy was sup
posed infallible ; and have remained an in
dustrious agent under A---s and P g, yet
our administration is going headlong to ob
livion ! O, cruel and merciless destiny ! is
this the reward of my perils 'and my toils ?
I have fought, yea, my fi eble tongue would
faulter in the recital of my military exploits !
—They would found like — ! they
would fill a baker's oven ; As a civil officer,
I have been faithful to my superiors, and
ftrialy careful of myfelf. I have persecut
ed the vile jacobins of my unhappy country
with unremitting vengeance. I have regu
larly—O ! could but the stage-wheels speak
—-many a toilsome load of infuriate hand
bills have I toated to the honed peasantry —
many aq eleaioaeering fib have I told them
until my poor conscience Was drained from
its secret dwelling—many a bigot have I
made believe that =— was a demigod, and
tnat Jefferfo n and all the democrats were
infidels ; and yet, alas ! those infidels are a
bout to turn the money-changers out of the
temple : and paor me among the rest ! Then
Shall I go—yea, go I must, to languilh out
my days with the old tories.
O, fate! I hate them as 1 hate justice !
Once could I cheerfully have hanged them
all ; and now they must be my sole compan
ions. What have I done to merit such
punishment ?—I have done every thing which
I ought not to have cone ; and few things
have I well done. I have built myfelf a
wharf and store. The vile democrats fay,
I employed the hands paid by the United
States to fillup my wharf; but mum for
tor that, it's none of their business—it's a
good thing ; and they can't take them from
me. But my pretty little office, it must,
O, cruel thought, it must be taken from me.
Dearly have I loved it-—tenderly have I
cherithed it—and punished every pine-apple
pedlar that dare insult it ; and it 'will rend
my heart-wrings to be separated from it in
my old days. Is there no redress—no al
ternative r—Yea, happy thought, I'll tergi
verfate, as I did before, and huzza for Jef
ferfon and Liberty. Painful reflection, the
demo's fay they will not receive me—there's
the rob—unmerciful rabble, if they knew
how anxiously I wish to join them, they
would receive me with companion.——So,
then, it is fixed, Imuft give the matter up
—Suffer I muft—farewell my dear little ur
chin— 1500 dollars a year loft by my foolifh
violence in federalifm ! The plague take
lederalifm for me !
OLD HISPO.
Forlorn Hope, lafl year of)
Anglo Federalism, DeJpair 25th.,
A lift of appointments lately made by the Prefdent
of the United States, by and with the advice and
conjent of the Senate : —viz.
John Jay, to be Chief Justice of the U. States in
the room of Oliver Ellsworth, resigned.•
Samuel Bradford, re-appointed Marshal of Mas
sachusetts..
Aquila Giles, re-appointed Marshal of New-
York. " '
Robert Hays, re-appointed Marshal of Tennef
fee.'
David Hopkins, appointed Marshal of Mary
land.'
Solomon Sibley, Member of the Legislative
Council of the N. W. Territory.
William Clark, Chief justice of the Indian Ter
ritory,
Henry Vanderburgh, fecund Judge, and John
Griffin, third Judge of the fame Territory.
Joseph H. Davies, Attorney for the DiftriCt of
Kentucky.
John Marshall, one of the Commissioners for
fettling the limits of Georgia, &:.
Henry Hammond, Cohful at Cape-Francois.
Bartholomew Dandridge, Consul for the fonth
diflrift of St. Domingo, to include Aux-Cayes &
Jeremie*
.Richard Honewell, Surveyor and InfpeQor for
Portland and Falmouth', in M,ffachtifetts.
Jonas Clark, Infpettor for Kentebunte, hi do.
James Cibbon, Collector, &c. for Richmond,
Virginia.,,
William Heth, Collector, &c. for Petersburg,
do.
William Davies, Collector, &c. for Norfolk and
Portsmouth, Virginia.
Clang Thomprop, Collector, &c. for Brunswick
in Georgia.-
James M'Conrell, tnfpeCtor and Collector for
the port apddiflria oftouifville.
Dg&or Noah Webfler is prodigiously
found of Meteprology—die trills us, and who
did not already know it, that there is no ice
in onr rivers—thin the winter was never
more mild—that the roads were never more
miery—that the riyera were never so foul
with mud—that a grgen Cbriflmas makes a
Col. BURR,
In a letter to Gen. Smith, dated New-York, Dec.
16, 1800, jays
" It is highly improbable that I shall have an
equal number of notes with Mr. Jefferfon ; but if
it should be rhe result, every man who knows me,
ought to know that I would utterly disclaim all
competition. Be assured that the federal party
can entertain no wish for such an exchange. As
to my friends, they would dishonor my views and
insult my feelings by a suspicion that 1 would
submit to be inflrumental in counteracting the
withes and expectations of the U. States*—and
now I constitute you my ptoxy to f'clare these
sentiments if the occasion should require.
The honourable conduct of Mr. Burr, is exact
''a" a P e ' ce with evety part of his former char
acter ; and his friends are now completely juflified
in their confidence in him. To be sure, it would
have bnen highly gratifying to the Anglo-FaCtion
to have been able to have attached a man of Mr.
Burr's talents to their views I but the thing was
impossible. He few their designs at a glance, and
has treated them accordingly. He certainly well
knew that all was falfe and hollow, in their pro
feffions of rtfpeft and friendfhip tp him ; and al
though their language was “ honied over," with
the foft accents of flattery, that the latt thing they
wiflied was the advancement of his honour, or the
credit of the Republican cause. And in knowing
this he has repaid their insidious compliments, by
the contempt they richly merited.
Mr, Burr is just the fort of man that is wanted,
Too wife to be duped, top honef)to weaken bis
reputation, by an aft even of equivocal merit, and
too proud to submit to the leading-firings of the
vileftfaction that ever disgraced a free country.
The harmony visible between Mr, jefferfon and
Mr. Burr, is a circumstance honorable to them
both ; and if the fame wretched jealonfies, Which
have marked the political measures of theirrivals,
could have been transferrin: to them, it would have
been a mailer -broke of pure federalifm. But it is
impossible—as the unstained honour of true Re
publicans revolts 'at the idea of a mean or little
action.
to the plain and Ample nature of a republi
can form of government, where the inten
tion of the people in its adoctii n, must have
been to adopt the interest of the citizens at
large. And as it is evident, under existing
difficulties, that several years' study are un
neceflary to enable Citizens to pursue their
own. causes through a court ; it cannot be
supposed that those who are deprived of an
opportunity of that study, can receive the
benefits of our courts, as fully as it was in
tended they Should, under our valuable po
litical institution. Therefore,
'• Refolded, that a committee be appoint
ed to bring in a bill, to prevent the reading,
in the Courts of out commonwealth, of any
precedent or reported case of any adjudica
tion, that may have been established, or that
may have taken place in any court of Great
Britain, of any nature or kind whatsoever ;
and to authorife and require the governor to
employ a suitable charader or charaders to
Simplify ; or, if he Should deem it more ex
f^dient, to require from the judges of the
upreme court, a Simplification of the pro
ceedings of the several courts within this
commonwealth ; in order that the obtaining
of justice, in ahy case, may be more plain,
cheap, and certain ; and make report to
this Houfe*''
MASSACHUSETTS.
BOSTON, JAN. 9.
Yesterday morning was found dead, in a
yard adjoining Fitch's alley, a man by the
name of Robinson. He had arrived in town
the preceding evening in the Plymouth Stage
—was deeded in the habit of a sailor. It is
supposed that he arose in his Sleep, and fell
from a three story window in the chamber
where he Slept.