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Impartiality to Foreign Nations'.
Os all the evils that can injure the pros
perity, or lessen the refpe&ability, wisdom,
and virtue of a nation, improper biaffes to
- wards other nations, are the most alarming
and wonderful. The virtues of the mon
archical nay despotic governments, and the
, faults of the Republican (tires throughout
the world, have of late been painted in the
most glowing colours. It is not our-wish
to hang about the neck of Britain a bloody
buoy as her own appropriate exclusive badge,
though (he has attempted to do so by the
Republics. But we thiqk it necessary to an
impartial mind,in our countrymen, that they
should fee, that Britain has given to the
•world some dreadful precedents of ingrati
tude. plunder, conflagration, and death,—
Theifollowing extra&s are from Britilh au
thorities, one just before the. American re
volution, the other before the French revo
lution, V. 291, &c. In consequence of the
difference of colour, cuftpm, religious creed,
- or rather titli^of their religion, the European
soldiers (fays Dr. Beddues) have little or no
fellow-feeling with the natives of these re-
IT is averted in our newspapers, that the
combined powers will confider all, who are
not for them as against them. What then
will they think of George, Eleflor of Hano
ver, who is engaged in a neutrality with all
the German friends of France, and all the
German opponents of the Emperor of Ger
many. It is said that if we fend ourCommif
fioners of mere peace and compensation to
France, that the combined powers (England
among them) will confider it as hostile to
them. But the king of England as Elector
of Hanover maintains peace and neutrality
ufeful to France, with what the English call
the regicide directory. We should only fol
low the worthy example of the English king.
—What a pass are things come to ! Great
Britain fpoliated us in 1793 and '94. She
made a treaty of compensation (and of com
merce and policy too) in 1794, we ratified it.
In 1795, she began again to fpoliate us, and
lias continued to do it ever since. In 1799
we find the will not pay us for old or new
Spoliations ; and threatens us, it is, said, if
we fend such amiffion to France, as went
in 1794 10 herfelf. Is it possible to point
out an instance in which France had more
unreasonably or insultingly exercised influ
ence or controul over the councils of a coun
try than in this case of England before us.
We rely upon the statements made by C'ob
bett, and Claypoole. We suppose the for
mer to be from persons, here, of the Eng
lish government ; and we suppose Clay
pooie's article to be from persons of our
own government. The volunteer compa
nies, regiments, and brigades, which have
associated to defend this country from French
attack and French invasions must fee, that
they would have been necessary to defend us
from an unprovoked attack of our English
friends merely because our own government,
or at least the President and Senate are go
ing to make such a treaty of compensation
with France, as we have made with Eng
land, though it is far less favorable to the
cause of France than the king of England's
own Hanoverian neutrality ; and infinitely
less prejudicial to the cause of the combined
Eowers, than the neutrality of the northern
ings and princes of Germany. This Eng
lish interpofirion is on the fame principles as
the execution of a Neapolitan High admiral
and Prince, by the sole orders of the English
admiral Nelson, although that prince was
included, by name, in a sacred treaty of am
nesty made by the Neapolitan King's own
general in chief and viceroy (Cardinal Rus
so) on land or at sea, within the ftri& limits &
jurifdiQion of the kingdom of Naples; and
although the English had not one company
of horse or foot engaged in the capture of
the Neapolitan insurgents—The authority
of the king of Naples is publicly trampled
on, and his plighted faith violated by a fe
condafy Englim admiral, who could have
no authority from his government,that must
not prove them to be all they have charged
on France. The kings of the earth may
go through the solemn farce of appointing
viceroys, but the king of Englands admirals,
it seems, (like 'Trinculo in " the Tempest")
are the viceroys over them. Britain is as
fond as France of domination and plunder.
C NUMBER 14. —VOL. I.]
From a.pHiL4DQfHi^ F&tER.
America threatened with the fate of Naples.
Portsmouth, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) printed and published by gßrge jerry osborne, jun. mulberry lane, next door to rousselet'smuseum.
" WHEN YOU SHALL THESE DEEDS RELATE, SPEAK .OF THEM ^ THEY ARE ; NOTHING EXTENUATE NOR SEt DOWN OUGHT IN MALICE."
The Republican Ledger.
“ Since the Commander in Chief has had
the honor of being at the head of the Bom
bay army, there, is nothing which has given
him so much uneasiness, and that he has so
much reason to be displeased at, as the re
ports, that have been made of the licentious
behaviour of some of the soldiers, and fol
lowers of the advanced corps.
“ Plundering the women and children of
defencelefs villages, must, in every country
be a discredit to the commander, and difhon
our to the troops, but in the present instance,
he feels- it materially injurious to himfelt
and difgraceful to his army.
“ The villages that have been plundered
and burnt, -belonging to one of the most ac
tive, gallant, and steady allies the company
have (the Corgah Rajah ;) an ally who had
invited us to his country ; without whose aid
we could not have advanced so far, or pro
ceeded any further.
“ The villages t,t have been destroyed
too were left defenc&fs from a confidence of
security in our protection, and from a zeal in
the owners to advance and engage the com
mon enemy.
“ The General is sorry to remark, that at
the time they were rejoicing at the brilliant
vidory, which they gained, the news must
have reached them, that their habitations
were in flames, and their families dispersed,
and that the outrage had been committed not
by the enemy, but by those whom they had in
vited into their country and considered as
their friends.—March 2d, 1791" fee obser
vations at the end.
gions ; and they will of course take every
opportunity of giving a loose to their rapaci
ty, and caprice. Os this a late Madras
newfpaper,affords a recent instance of un
questionably authenticity. Here are the
words in which Gen. Abercrombie express
his just indignation at the shocking enormi
ties of this nature.,
V. 304. Famine “ When the effeas of
the scarcity became more and more visible,
the natives complained to the Nabob—that
the English had engrossed all the rice—This
complaint was laid before the President and
and Council by the Nabob's Minister, who
resides in Calcutta ; bu^the intereJi of the
gentlemen concerned was too powerful at the
board, so that the complaint was only laugh
ed at and thrown out." It is probable these
gentlemen were thoroughly convinced of the
futility of the principle, “ that the consent
of the people governed" is necessary to con
stitute a just government, and therefore very
consistently disregarded their, complaints.
Before the famine had been about a fortnight
over the land, we were greatly affected at Cal
cutta ; many thousands falling dead in the Jireets
and fields, whose bodies mangled by jackalls,
dogs and vultures in that hot season, when at
the belt the air is very infectious, made us
dread the consequences of a plague. We
had one hundred people employed from the
butchery lift, on the company's account with
doblys, fledges, and bearers, to carry the
dead and throw them into the river Ganges
I hrive counted from my bed chamber in the I
morning, when I got up, 40 dead bodies lay- 1
ing within twenty yards of the wall, besidesA
many hundreds lying in the agonies of death, fori
want, bending double, with their ftomachsl
quite close contrasted with their back bones. I
I have sent my servant to desire those who]
h^d strength to remove farther off ; whilst I
the poor creatures looking rip with arms ex- 1
tended, hare cried out Baba, baba, #%%%, 1
my father, this affliction comes.from the hand |
of your countrymen, and I am come here to ]
die, if it pleases God, in your presence, I
cannot move,do what you will with me?' —
The writer proceeds to rate as follows.
“At this time we could not touch fill the
river was so full of carcases." ......
"After one had fucked the bones gu#& dry,
and thrown them away, I have seen another
take them up, sand all upon them, and do the
fame, and so by a third; and so on."
...... . I cannot help although with
the greatest reverence (fays the English writ
er) enquiring from our nobility and gentry,
who are so strenuous for punilhingthe per
fidious French till they have amply atoned
for all their crimes, particularly from the
R. H. Lord North, who has expatiated up
on that idea with so much energy and elo
quence, whether these fads are true ? And
if true, what atonement either the British
nation or the British government, have of
fered to the manes of these vidims, or t#
their surviving friends and relations. The*
marked passages are from the annual remitter
,of 1771. Pf^fr The other from Thu's
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1799.
Cbe Conffl)# of saab Clark,
Who was executed at Carlisle, on Wednesday last,
for poisoning John Carothers, EJi °f Eajtpenf
boro' Township, Cumberland County, State of
Pennsylvania.
I, Sarah Clark, was born in the year
1766 or 1767, about two miles from Car
lifle; my father's name was John Clark,
who died when I was young,and my mother,
I think, is yet living in Pittfburg ; and since
I have been 11 years of age I have been a
mong Grangers—when I was about 20 years
of age, I engaged in the family of Mr. Hayes
as a house-keeper, where I continued about
12 months —from which I went to the fami
ly of Mr. Logan, where I lived about two
years ; after which I went into the family
of John D^glas, where I continued, except
ing a short time, until my total ruin took
place.—Whilst I lived in the family of Mr.
Douglas, I contjaaed a love for a young
man, but who unfortunately appeared to me
to be in love with Ann Carothers, the daugh
ter of john Carothers, Esq. My sole tho'ts
were bent on the manner of removing the
obstacle which appeared to be in my way,
in order to obtain the objed of all my with
es. For this purpose 1 took advice, and in
the fall of 1798, I purchrfed a quantity of
White Arsenic, which I had heard would
poison animals, and which I meant to give
[to Ann Carothers, for the purpose of ac
complishing my end, in obtaining the young
man.
[ Here I must observe, that although I con
ceived Ann Carothers to be my rival, yet I
had no with to injure any of Mr. Carothers'
Emily, nor had I the least ill will to her,
L said Ann, except that I thought her in
■way towards the obtainment of the young
whom I loved to excess. Jealousy !
L horrid monster and my utter rum ! Love,
■its delusive promises are the causes ot
^ffuntimely end.
From bad advice I was induced to procure
the Arsenic, and which excited me to destroy
the said Ann—and such was the excess ot
my passion, that I became loft to all good,
forfaken and left to myfelf!
I waited a long time for an opportunity
of giving the arsenic to Ann Carothers by.
herfelf, ^ I did not wish to hurt any other
person ; but none offered.,
At length, however, a fatal opportunity
presented itfef; and I put a portion of the
arsenic into a crock of Teaven in Mr. Car
others' house, of which the family raised and
fermented bread, and of which they eat and
all became sick. At this event I was great
ly troubled, and when I found that Mr. Car
others died, which happened on the 25th of
February, 1798, I was extremely alarmed,
as I had no ill will towards the family.
I then desisted for a time in accompli fil
ing my horrid plan—however, an opportu
nity offered one night, while I attended the
said Ann, (undfi the walk of ftiendihifo on
Day, the premature loss of whose genius,
spirit and virtue the friends of mankind will
long lament.—A remark similar to the last
is suggested by obvious circumstances. We
hate heard loud exclamations against Tip
poo Sultan, and assuredly humanity must
ihudder at some of his a&ibns. But who
have been the despots to whom this reflec
tion will not apply ; and if a wife and jufl
tribunal Were to decide between the Myfo
rean tyrant,arid the person who has declaim
ed molt vehemently against him,which would
be condemned as the most atrocious enemy
of his fpeciesf But now as of old—Clodius
accufat Machas, Catalina Cethegus.
The conduct of France to Holland, and
Switzerland, is kind, when compared with
the British treatment of their a&ive faithful
friend, the Corgah Rajab, in 1791, which
was only the year before the firft hostilities
of Austria and Prussia ; and every instance
of the bloody cruelties of Fouquier Tinvillc
and Robespierre falls short of the deliberate
barbarity of the famine created in the re
gions about Calcutta twenty years before the
revolution of America, by the mongers then
exercising the government of England in
India. Let them only be considered as e
qual, and let the people of America learn to
hold in equal abhorrence every barbarous
foreigner, whether he destroyed; by the a
buse of English authority, tens of thousands
and hundreds of thousands of the poor, in
India, through the agonizing means of fa
mine ; or whether he destroyed tens of thou
sand of the rich, abusing French authority,
by the bloody guillotine.
HdRRISBURGH, PENN. NOV.S.
[I DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
a bed ot sickness) I mixed a portion in bar
. ley and milk which I gave her with my own
hands!
In the month of May my restless paffion^
of jealousy and love for this young man forc^
ed me to renew my attack on Ann Caro
thers ; I therefore procured one ounce of
yellow arsenic, and although the said Ann
was much impaired in health, and al
though Mrs. Carothers died the third of
June, yet such Was the excess of my desire
to move out of my way, her whom I con
ceived as my greatest obstacle, that Shortly
after the deceale of her mother, I put some
arsenic into a crock of butter in the spring
house of Thomas Carothers, (Ann then liv
ing at said Carothers.)
Here it was where my diabolical scheme
was discovered—l was apprehended & com
mitted to prison—and for which wicked and
devililh condu& I am shortly to fuffer the
(hameful and ignominious punishment of
the Gallows. That this may be an awful
lesson to all young women, is the desire of a
martyr of contending pafEons.
About one o'clock she was brought out
for execution—on her way to the gallows,
she appeared to have a fettled solemnity oa
her countenance, which appeared to be the
result of absolute resignation ; at intervals
it was easy to discover, although she did not
express it by word or action, that the certain
approach of her dissolution made a veiy deep
impreflion on her—some assert that ihe shed
a few tears, but that was not generally ob
served. She every now and then looked
around her, and seemed to take a 6 longing,
lingering look.' She uttered some expres
sions at the place of execution, which were
thought incoherent by the multitude, proba
bly from their not hearing diftinaiy. Prior to
the fatal moment, she appeared as if engag
ed in prayer, and was finally launched into
an endless eternity with a fortitude and com
posure, worthy a better fate.
The concourse of fpe&ators on this occa
sion was very great. It is supposed that
near 5,000 people were present.
RICHMOND, VIR. NOV. 1.
The scripture fays that there is more re
joicing in the return of one loft Iheep, than
in the peaceable possession of the rest of the
flock.
So Handing the case, we congratulate the
public on the return of that lof Jbeep, the
editor of the Virginia Federalist.
Whether this gentleman has been con
vinced by the arguments of the Examiner ;
or whether he has become tired of contra
di&ing his own common fcnfe, and his own
habitual conversation, the fad is certain,
the Virginia Federalist has positively wheel
ed to the right about; he has declared that
were he a juror upon the sedition a&, he
would sooner die ot hunger than bring in a
verdia of guilty. He has, totidem verbis;
declared that the conduct of the federal gov
eenment is abominable ; that its hands are
reeking with innocent blood. Here are his
own words: —
“ Left, however, we, should be reputed
to trifle on concerns of such moment as that
now under consideration, we here take oc
casion to remark,that, If this ill-fated Jeaman
was a native American and his impreflment on
board the Britijh frigate Hermoine can be au
thenticated, his Jurrender to the nation from
whose fetters he had escaped, is, in our opinion
—an ass, not more calamitous to himJelf, than
difanorable to bis country. The glowing
language of his advocate on the trial (Mr.
Moultrie) will then be both applicable and
just, and the memory of Robbins, instead of
being execrated as that of a murderer, will
excite the regrets of Freemen, — ,-
That Robbins was a native American has
never been denied, or even doubted. We
quote this passage for the honor of the Fed
eralist. Indeed we always were of opinion
that the Rate of Virginia has never pr<xluced
a native monster capable of seriously vindi
cating that most execrable of murders, the
the delivery of Jonathan Robbins!
Examiner.
_* BALTIMORE; oct. 17.
A Mr. Jones, a native of this Rate, has
con ftrafted a machine upon a plan both
simple and new, for the conveyance of wa
fer to any part bf the house. What renders
Qis invention more surprising, is, that water
may be conveyed from a spring one hundred,
feet below the furface ot the earth. The
expense of a machine, of the greatest given
power, will not cost more than twenty
pouhds sterling. We hear that Mr. Jones
intends applying for i pUnt.,