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I take no part With the Layman, any more thah
\.with Eufebius.
But what fort of a Sabbath is the latter con
tending for against the former ?.
He is for a sabbath supposed to be enjoined on
nations miscalled chriftian, now, as the Jewish
Sabbath was on the nation of Israel. He confi
"e'e nations, (tho' in a dreadful plunge at
present,) as the people of God—He calls this he
terogeneous mass of nations by the old quaint
name Christendom ; a compound name coined to
lignify thrift's Kingdom. Note, The new Testa
ment gives this collection of peoples, another
name, calling it the waters on which the whore
fittetb.
He is for a sabbath that will serve the political
worldly purpose of promoting the facial happintfi
of these nations, by the preservation of good man
ners and morale.
He is pleading for a sabbath, the religious ob-
Tervance of which is to be enforced by human,
laws ; functioned by the revival of good old
wholesome laws, which may make men Jmart in
body or eflate if they fail of a " itritt regard fur
the sabbath."
He would have modern rulers to imitate the
conduct of rulers, who poffefled the power of di
refting the worship of God, in the Jewish Theo
cracy, now abolished.—ls we were to hearken to
this teacher, we Ihould have his Christendom as a
modern Theocracy, or Kingdom of God.
The State as a diftrjg of God's Kingdom ; and
the members of the General Court, as our Nehe
miahs, who from political worldly considerations,
Ihould by dint of penal laws compel the people
to a religious obferrance of the firft day of the
week.* This day is considered by our modern
Eufebiufes as well calculated to promote temporal
happiness, and the Honour of the Clergy, and
their fatelites; accordingly the old name, the
Lord's Day, given it in honor of Christ the Lord,
has been dropped, and the day has been heathen
ized by the name of Sun-Day ; by which name,
(confidently enough, with modern religion) it is
now generally called.—For men worship idols
now, even as they did, when the old Romans on
that day, worshipped the Sun.—
The Apostles and firft chriftians never hint a
wish, that any law of Christ ihould be enforced on
men, otherwise than by his bare authority. And
they more than hint the dreadful corruption that
would arise, by engaging worldly power in flip
port of the Church. They forefaw a church to
arise fOpported by the civil power, and it is de
scribed under the emblem of a gaudy, uqchafte
woman,'riding on a scarlet coloured Beast. John
was amazed, but not with pleefure,at the fight of
what charms, the religious of our days, so that
they cannot bear to think of the fall of so much
Beauty—But the firft chriltyf-were quite fatis
fied that the Gospel should work its.way, by its
own powerful evidence, without any aid from the
powers of this world.—They would not have
joined with the wish of Eufebius, that rulers (if
they Ihould think favourably of thechriftian cause)
might imitate Nehemiah, and “ strenuously
exert the powers of government," to have the
Sabbath ftriftly observed, and prevent the open
profanation ofit.—They would not have thanked
their Governors for such unwarrantable, useless
interference in the concerns ot Christ's Kingdom ;
being fixed in the persuasion that if was not of this
world, and that ,He who set it up, was fully'equal
to the bufmefs of taking care of it./
Let any man view whatEufebius has written, in
the light of the Scripture, and if he cannot fee a.
worldly kingdom set up against the kingdom of
Heaven; and a worldly religion, that bears such
a relation to that of Jefur Christ, as a counterfeit,
or base metal bears to pure gold ; He must be
blinded by the god of this world. Y. Z,
—, ",
* This author mentions, in part sth, the Romans
paying religions homage to Mercury delighting in
theft, Bacchus and Venus in debauchery, and Jupi
* ter in infamous amours, and lays that this homage
was paid with the foiemn intermission of labor—
The Heathen solemnities were often as debauched
as the gods they worjhipped.—lam at a lojs to fee
the argument from their solemn in termillions, un
less it be that as it an/wered good political purpojes
then,fo it will now, to make laws enforcing public
religious jolemnities.
& late foreign intelligence.
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GASCO NADING
English Account of the late Battle in Egypt.
. GIBRALTAR, APRIL 1,.
Yesterday arrived from Aboukir, in 28 days.
His Majesty's hired armed brig Louisa Trufcott,
from whom we have the following information :
The British army, under Sir Ralph Aber,
cromby, arrived in Aboukir Bay on the 2d
of March ; but did not attempt to disem
bark; on account of tempestuous weather,
until the Bth, when a landing was effe&ed
by 7000 men, under a heavy fire from artil
lery and small arms. The French made a
vigorous opposition, advancing to the beach,
and actually levelling the mufquets over the
gunwales of the boats ; but the British sol
diers, leaping on Shore, attacked the enemy
with the bayonet, made good their debarka
tion and drove the French about two miles
towards Alexandria, and Into the castle of
Aboukir ; taking from them 8 pieces of
cannon.
Our loss in killed and wounded this day
is computed to amount to 400 or 500
men; and the enemy's about the fame. A
mong the corps which made this firft land
ing were the Guards, 28th, 42d, 90th, and
gid regiments. Our troops were reinforc
ed the fame evening by 5000 more men who
landed afterwards ; and having established:
themselves in this politico, they remained^
/until the 13th March ; when a general
aaion took place, which terminated in the
total route of the Frepch; and 4 pieces of
cannon being.captured by the English, who
left about logo men in this affair: But by
accounts from prisoners, the loss of, the
French was greater.,
On the 14th the attack commenced upon
'the cattle of Aboukir ; and on the 18th that
garrison furrendexed to the British forces ; 1
1
all the guns, except two, having been dis
mounted by the fire from dhr batteries.
When the Louisa left Egypt, the British
army was posted within two 'miles of Alex
andria ; and the French, supposed to, be a-'
bout 6000 Strong, were entrenched on the
heights at Pompey's Pillar, said to command
Alexandria. The British were occupied in
disembarking their field train of battering'
cannon, two thirds of which were already
on shore ; and the attack upon the French
camp was expected very soon to begin ;'
when it was supposed there cpuld be little
doubt of the event being as glorious to Bri
tain as the preceeding actions had proved.
The French had at firft mistaken the 42^1
r giment in the Highland dress, for Turks,
and attacked them with their usual confi
dence; but were received with a gallantry
and spirit, which they did not expert, an;
-probably had not been accustomed to. The
Highlanders received the French cavalry on
their bayonets; in.their turn made a brill
charge ; checked, and completely worded
that part of the French army opposed to
them.,
It is further reported that Murad Bey,
and his followers have attacked the French
at Cairo, and prevented Menou from join
ing the forces at Alexandria, where all the
rest of the French troops in the Delta had
been concentrated. Certain accounts had
arrived that the Grand Vizier with his ar
my had marched towards the Delta about
the 2oth of February.
One of the Lieutenants of his Majesty's
ship Swiftfure, writes as follows to his
friends in Gibraltar, dated 17th March.,
“ Our gallant army is only waiting for
the heavy artillery to attack the enemy's
height near Alexandria, which muff imme
diately fall on our becoming matters of this
height, as it entirely commands the town."
' Sir John Warren fell in with and chaced
the squadron, under Admiral Gantheaume,
on the ^ift of March, but loft.fight of them
in the night. They were seen on the 4th
of April, by his Majesty's brig of war the
Mutine, off the island of Sardinia ^ fleering
north-east. Two of the line of battle Ships
had loft their foremafts.
[This account states, that the attack commenc
ed on the Bth, and that the loss on both sides was
equal. Therefore, if the British, as is also dated,
received a reinforcement of 5000 men on the fame
evening, we are apt to think they would not have
waited till the 13th before they commenced their
general attack ; more Specially, as we know the
readiness with which theßepublicans receive equal
numbers.] 1
STOCKHOLM, APRIL ~
The new Ruffian Emperor has given our Am
bassador assurances, that no interruption of the
good understanding which has exited between
Rtiffia and Sweden (hall take place ; and that the
treaties with Sweden, as Well as the Convention
of Neutrality, Shall be faithfully observed.
Besides the 13 fail of the line which has failed
from Revel ; there is a second squadron at Cron
ftadt, and a third at Swenfkfund, ready for sea.—
This lad is composed of frigates and small veflels.
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 14.
Conferences daily take place between our court,
'and the Ruffian, Swedish and Prussian Minifiers ;
Who are continually fending couriers to their re
fpe&ive courts.„
The English fleet, of 16 fail of the line, under
Admiral Barker, has failed into the Baltic. Os
these, are the London, of 98 guns, the Admiral's
ship, find those which were not engaged in the ac
tion of the 2d April. Just as the English Admiral
weighed anchor, he received difpatebes from Lon.
don : What effect they will have on his future op
erations we have yet to learn. We think there
will not be any biood shed in the Baltic. ,
Admiral Nelson cruises in the Sound, between
Elfineur and Copenhagen.
BREMEN, APRIL Xg.
Yederday a battalion of Pruflian troops took
possession of this to wn.—Since then near 6000 mote
have passed through with artillery, tents, &c.
HANOVER, APRIL 16.
Fort George Nienburg, and several other places
in this ele&orate, have received Prussian garrifods.
Gottenburg, on account of its university, has been
spared. , fl
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LEVDEN, APRIL 2T.
extras of a letter from Riga, April r.
“ The firft effeft of the death of our Emperor,
Paul 1. has been felt by commerce. All the ab
surd prohibitions and rigours imposed by him,
have ceased ; and we have just received advices
from Petersburg, that not only the exportation of
all kinds of merchandize is made free ; but that
the embargo laid upon English velTels in our ports,
will be taken off, as soon as the British govern
ment shall have taken off that imposed on Danish
and Swedish vessels, for having formed an alli-'
dnee with Russia. Already orders have been sent
from Petersburg, for the return of the English
seamen, which Paul I. had judged proper to fend
into the interior of the Northern Provinces. We
underhand, the importation of English merchan
dize will speedily be permitted : The exportation
of those of Russia is, without any exception, plac
ed on the footing of the tarif of 1797. We flat
; ter ourselves, that very soon the importation of
;all those articles which have been prohibited by
Paul I. will be equally free. For the red, the em
bargo on English veflels continues provisionally;
and the office of liquidation pf the English effefts
and credits seized, yet exills, and is in operation
at PeterSurg."
LONDaw, APRII. 3.
Liverpool was never known to be so full of
American flour as at this time; as a proof of
which the lait Liverpool paper contains advertise
ments for the sale of no less than 18,619 bbls, and :
544 half bbls, in the cqurfe' of one week, purfa-'
ant to xh| elate aft of Pftliamenin
FROM THE BARBARY COAST.I
[CIRCULAR.]I
To the Agents and ConJuls of the United States of
America, residing in the different ports of France,
. Spain, Portugal, Italy and Barbary States, and
British garrijons in the Mediterranean, and to
others whom it doth or may concern:-
GENTLEMEN,
I HAD the honor to inform you in my
circular letter of Nov. 1800, and 3d of Jan.
1801,of the state of our affairs with this re
gency ; I have now to add that all hopes of
accommodation have subsided ; I therefore
request you so detain all merchant veflels
navigating under the flag of the United
States in port, and by no means to- permit
any of them to fail unless they are under
convoy, as I am convinced that the Balhaw
ot Tripoli will commence hostilities againtt
the United States of America in less than
sixty days from the date hereof, and I am
persuaded he has made his demands upon the
United States, for no other reason than to
have an unjust excuse for capturing our
veflels and etflaving our fellow-citizens,
they being of such a nature that none but
the President of the United States, with
the consent of the Senate can agree to. And
I having offered him the sum of thirty thous
and dollars merely to state his demands, and
wait until answers from the President,
which he has refufed, is fufficient proof that
his intentions are as I have dated them, and
di&ate the neceflity of taking every precau
tion in order to prevent our vessels from
falling into their hands.
T request you gentlemen, to make this
letter public and to transmit a copy of it to
the department of ftate'.
I am with assurances of refpe&, gentle
men, your most obedient servant,
,JAMES L. CATHCART.
Chancery of the U. S. of America, at)
Tripoli, in Barbary, Feb. 21, 1801. j
Mr. Anfujo, will please to forward copies
of the above to Palermo and Naples, with
out delay of time.
(Signed) Wm. ENGLAND.
[CONSULAR.]
Sir, . 1
I HAVE this day received letters from Consul
Cathcart, dated'at Tripoli, the 19th and 26th of
February, informing me that the Bafhaw of
Tripoli has rejected every offer of accommodation
which Consul Cathcart has made on the part of
the United Stares of America, that said Bafhaw
has rejected the letters ot interference of the Dey
of Algiers, and declares the Treaty of the United
States to be void.—Demands great films of money
of the United States, and has sent his corsairs to
sea with orders to capture all American -property,
and enslave the citizens of the United States in
consequence.
This is to inform all citizens of the United
Stares of the impending danger that is tp be ap/
prebended. The United States is snarled at by
Algiers, and nearly the fame by Tunis.
GIFENfrom under my hand and seal of office at
Algiers, this fifth day of April, 1801.
° (Signed) RICHARD OBRIEN, Agent and
Consul General for the U. S. of America.
William Kirkpatrick. Esq. Consul )
for the United States at Malaga, j
A true copy, Malaga, 22d April, 1801.
WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK, Consul for the
United States of America.
NESV-YORK, MAY 26.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, it has been represented to
me by the Planters and Merchants of this
Island, that great inconvenience has for
some time, been experienced, owing to a
scarcity of every kind of American pro
duce.—-I do, by virtue of the Power and
Authority vested in me, grant a free impor
tation of all such produce, for the term of
Four Months ; as also the exportation of
all Produce, the growth and manufaaure of
this Island for the fame term of Four
Months :—The said Importation and Ex
poftation to be fubjed to the Duties now
exiting in the colony.
Given under my hand at Phillipjburgh,
in the Island of St. Martins, the 7th
day of April f 1801.
ROBERT NICHOLSON, Commands.
GEO. EDDINGTON, Sec'ry.
Domeftte Mformatim
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NEW-YORK, MAY 2,.
Capt. Hawley, who arrived here yellerday from
St. Croix, informs, that after the Bth May inst.
'all Americans who had trusted Dahifh Merchants,
were to be debarred from the collection of their
debts.
On the 25th of March the brig Viper, now ar
rived at Baltimore, was attacked, under the lee
of Gorgona, by two corsairs, supposed to be
Tripolitans, which, after an hour's engagement,
affined by the Superior, flie beat off.
STATUTE LASOR. .
We find in a Niagara paper of the 2d infant, a
lift of those who are called upon to perform Sta
tnte labor on the high-roads, among whom are
two dijiinguifhed characters—General Count fo
feph de Puiffaye, formerly a tool of the British
government and leader of the emigrants who
were fecrificed on the coast of Qiib&eon ; the
other is IJaac Swaezy, the some time active old
tory and depredator on horses, latterly the courier
of Robert Liflon, the Brititti Plenipotentiary, and
friend of 'ljmatfiy Pickering and GAodloe Harper.
In a note annexed to this official dill, we find it
Hated, that, " the afleflors not having completed
: their afleffment, it is impossible to annex to each
' man's name the number of days he hashed labor,
but in no case is it je& man f&" Q,ue is a/pielt
I dlfpofed to think better than common of tf.e Erit
I ith government in Canada, Mlien it can bring Inch
I eiiaraCleis from their evil li.es to work ulekill,.
'BOSTON, JUNE G.
WAR WITH TRIPOLI.
The Wafhlrigton Federalist, by ten night's mail
contains official dispatches from Mr. Humphreys'
Minilitr of the United Sots in Spain, covering
letters from Mr. Consul O'Brien, dated at Algiers
the sth and 6th of April, announcing that the Bey
of Tripoli had refufed the mediation of Algols ;
the presents sent from thence,and the bills ofCon-'.
ful Cathcart ; was determined tipon war against
th. United States 'and had sent his cruisers to sea
accordingly. V Consul O'Brien also adds, that with
refpeCt to Algiers, things look ffoil/y.
The squadron in Hampton Road, we learn- will
fail immediate, for tie Mediterranean, to ißtctt
the commerce of the United States.
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Cbe BepuWicah Ledger.
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Portsmouth, June 9, 1801.
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LEDGER SU.AMARY.
Os War's alarms, and bloodshed oft' we sing,
I While consternation thro' the world does spring ;
Foe leaps on foe, and theds the ciimfon gore,
And sighs and groans, resound from shore to there.
The Dey of Algiers, appears to be not only friend
ly to England but to have declared war againfi the
French Republic, "as appears in a letter from the
British Consul resident at that place, to his brother
at Workington (England.) He attributes his pre
jent fuccefes (as he expresses himjelf) to the hap
piest moments of his life's being payed in Algiers ;
whereby he has had it in his "power to return tuo
hundred and sixty-six perfects to their wives and
children, and even to the world ; which they had a
bandoned every hope of again feeing, or partaking
in its enjoyments ; and also to his having been &e
to procure the freedom of Le Bailly de la Tour Sr.
Quintin, chevalier of the Grand Cross of Maria,
whom the Dey had purchajed out of his own private
purje, and for whoje ranjom he dtmanded 30,000/.
Rerling ; and that the Dey and Regency were de
termined not to believe any answer or report from
Algiers which Jhould not be authenticated by him
jelf. That the French Consul and all of his nation
is sent out of the country. Advices from London,
of the iith April fiate, that couriers were continu
a^y Piling between there and Paris ; and that it
was probable a Minifer would.be appointed or. the
part of England to treat for peace.' The Danes
have taken pofeffan J Hamburg. The Pruffaw;
of Hanover. Riots had taken place in faerenputs
of England, but had been quelled by the military.
The vast quantities of flour, &c. imported, have had
no sensible iffeel on the markets, so as to reduce the
price. Many people Were periling far want, and
others committing juicide to prevent the faffeiirgs
ofhunger. The manufacturers have been called
upon to give employment to as many persons as pof-
Jible, to prevent riotous afemblages. In Jeveral
. places, the farmers, butchers and baker, have been
obliged to lower the prices of their articles. Great
dlfrefa, and agreat difpojition to riot is viable in
many parts of England.'l allien has been treated
with great civility and fro'iteneJs, He has taken
with him to France, several presents for Madame
Tallien. An extra# of a letter from Hamburg,
Jays, '< 7he Prussian troops has unexpeftedly ta/Jn
pefeflion of our exterior territory. They don't come
as enemies, but merely, as it is thought, to shut our
river againf the English." On the 26th, a Prussian
army of 30,000 men, were within eight miles of
the city of Hamburg ,• part of their baggage had
already arrived. Ihe inhabitants appeared to be
in great confiernation, but undetermined what
would be the result. The English wfels were leav
ing the place. Ihe American flag" hal a decided
preferencefor freights, e/pecially to England. The
Danes were making great preparations, as to the
expedition to the Baltic. Citizen Beaumont, adju
tant of Gen. Murat, had arrived at Naples, imme
diately after which, an embargo was laid on all
English flapping. The British merchants had de
manded ptyports if Gen. Murat to return to En
gland by land. A Swedish frigate had arrived at
Naples which Jpoke two French frigates off the
heights <f Sicily, that formed the van of the French
fleet. On the 30th a foreign Minifer arrived at
London, with dif patches from the Court of Denmark.
Upper Germany is about to undergo a total revo
lution. It was thought the French troops would
evacuate Germany by the middle of April. France
has sent a number of engineers to affifiin the de
fence of Copenhagen. Mapper Tandy ha, been trad
mitted to Lifford, to take his trial for accepting a=
commijfan in the French Jervice, and landing in
Ireland with a French army..
The President, agreeably t o the authority vefl
ed in him bv the law has dismounted two compa
nies of the United States Dragoons, and reduced
thenito the rank of infantry, not byway of pu^-
ifhment or degradation, but to save the expence
ot horses, forage, &c. which uas judged nnre
ceffary in a time of peace. This republican re
dn&ion is condemned by some few exT ffivefid
eralifs, whose second fight difeern, revolution
and disorganization in every economical reform.
The saving, it is said, will be b it a trifle in the na
tional fc; L, and the innovation is a reve rfat of ;n
eftablifbed arrangement. But cents compute 00-
Jars. A national expense of millions soon grows
out of these trifles, as a party affect to call ,c<n„
A reformation muff take place in the items, in
order that the total amount may" be reformed.
The difpofijion manifefted by the new adiniii
flration^ to retrench unnecessary articles of ex
penditure, and inforce as, demos public cecouo
niy, in the fiibordinate details, which pass witlun ,
much notice, as well as those departments w I:icb
attraft more attention, cannot f; il to gjve pleas
ure to every confident Repiblicaiw
[Sun — Pittsfield^
The love of liberty was never more jufl «#
more sincere than it now is in the United St t,s.
It has i,cn ridiculed in the molt whimsical ftiajx^.
it has been opposed bythe mod opprobrius names.
It has been confounded with every error, that it
might ^ot be known, and it has been affiici:u4
with every cru,e, that it mighenot be ic<c<l
The faults and crimes of its pretended friends,
have been imputed to its character, ^d the <cp
fence of death has-been pronounced uphn its ci
trines. And yet its nativeglory beams tiire'cvfi,
cloud and enlightens the multitude of the peoffc
Like the fim, It is not ruled ty 'the temped, ,04
tho' often darkened., commands the dav, ul ich ,§
is fore to bellow tpoh theyorkl. [Rfg cr)
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