The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1800-04-30 00:00:00, page 3

,DUBLIN, FEB. ±B.
IRISH PARLIAMENT.
IN the high debate last night on the question
of the Union, Mr. Grattan gave a smart philipic
• against the advocates of the measure. In alluding
to Mr. Corray, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr.
Grattan called him " a parliamentary declaimer,
apolitical pedlar, a trimmer, who comes to par
liament to prostitute his talents and his principles,
firfl for bread,and then formation ; and for that
Jlation rifting the peace of the country, and the lives
of the people." Nir. Corray, in reply said if he
meant to be perfdnal towards Mr. Grattan, he
“ would have accused him of aflociating with
traitors, and of having been privy to treason, of
haying created rebellion, and then flying from its
lojfequences'; and of having made that people,
on whose bounty he subsisted, the wretched in
flruments of his ambition." He concluded by fay
ing, " the Hon. gentleman had returned to inflame
that Parliament, which ought to be employed in
an.examination of his conduct." Mr. Grattan, in
return, was pointed and severe ; he almost in ex
press terms called Mr. C. a ruffian, jackaneps, and
a coward ; and said, that had Mr. C. uttered what
he had without the walls of that house, his answer
would have been a blow.'- The Chancellor of the
Exchequers immediately retired, and sent in a
message by Oraddoc to Mr. Grattan; demanding
fatisfattion. Mr. Grattan iuftantly left the house,
accompanied by Mr. Metge. The parties met
and fought. Mr, Corray was wounded in the
arm. The ball was immediately extracted, and
the wound being dressed, Mr. Corry returned to
the House before the division#
\ FEB. 18.
The main queflion of Union has been at length
tarried in a committee.^ A desultory but fierce and
angry debate was terminated at eleven this morn
ing, by-a division on the chairman leaving the
chair.
^:..^ t . f Ayes ^ - ^ s&t r
: Noes 116
Majority, 46 ~
THE LATE NEGOCIATION.
'. - [from the Moriiteurj
l publication has appeared at Paris, entitled^--
"Impartial Examination of the two Letters of
the First Consul of the French Republic, and of
the King of England, on the subject of peace."—
The publication is highly esteemed, and its circu
lation has been very great. The Author begins
his pamphlet in the following mariner :—lt is not
one of the least extraordinary events of this cen
tury to behold the molt celebrated General of the
Continent exprefe his willies constantly for peace
while the king of an inland, who has never made
war in person, as constantly rejects every proposal
Iwhich tends to the promotion of that de
sirable end. Is Peace then to be for ever but a
1 dream or an aduiftice, tor the oppressors of the
human facte? It is now very easy to judge on
which fide in Europe are to be found liberal ideas,
generous actions, principles of fafety. and the de
tenfive system. rafts are in this care more deci,
t % live thari Manifestoes.
“ France carries on a defenfive far for the pre
servation of her independence and her right ; En
gland wages ari offenfive War against every kind
of liberty. The French Republic engages in hos
tilities for the purpose of procuring a solid and
honorable pacification, and the Englilh Monarchy
prosecutes the contell to accomplish a systematic
'extermination and ruin. Is it not Buonaparte
>who complains that the blessings of peace, of com
merce, or internal prosperity, and the happiness of
families, are facrificed to vain grandeur I Is it not
the King of England who (peaks of the necessity of
open hostilities and of a vigorous war?
“ The diplomatic communication of Buona.
parte hdiredt, moderate, philosophical, arid con
ciliatory ; the official answer of the Englilh Min
istry is insidious, excessive in its pretentions, ob
scure in its results, and calculated to kindle again
again civil and foreign war. The Republican
Chief who has opened a direct and candid com
rf munication with the Englilh Monarch, has acquit.
/ ted himfelf of the performance of a solemn a& in
favor of Peace and the Republic ; the Englilh
Monarch, who has returned a complicated and dil
, atory answer, has made a new appeal to War and
to Royalty. % J
"It must be admitted that in proposing the re-,
ftoration of the race of the Bourbons of the Gov-
I' ernment of France, as a certain guarantee of
peace, the letter of the King of the King of Eng
leland does not exclude other fecuriries. But the
proportion is not therefore left perfidious and less
' dangerous. Might not the Englilh Government
think itfelf jollified in proposing a new line of
Kings? Might it not be the wish of that Govern
merit to mate it intelligible to the people of France
that any royal phantorcwonld be efficient to pre
serve the general fafety of Europe, and the fecuri
^ ty of the dominions of Britain and her allies? *
'"The King of England Complains of our pro
jects of gigantic ambition, as if the colossal ambi
tionjof the Invader of India were unknown to Eu
"^WUb refpea to the princfe and Lability,f
The violence of the debates in the IrifhHoufe
of Commons, and of the resolutions of private
factions in Dublin, is generally and justly confid
ed as the explotion of despair. Opposition is pear
its end, if we are to judge by its agonies arid' dis
tortions. It will be seen by our private corref
, pondence, that those persons who have opposed
the Union from principle, will not continue their
- hostility to government after the measure shall
have been voted. They will then honestly turn
their minds to the conditions, and endeavour to
render favourable to their country that incorpor
ation which they have fruitlefsly combated. As
soon as the principle, therefore, of Union has been
agreed to, it is expetted that none but profeffed
Separatists will oppose the government any long
er.
was a loud cry for divrfios, which however the
Lord Mayor would not grant, but said be would
; put the question a fecund time. Mean while the
„ beadles and other officers who flood at the doors,
° conceived the business to be over, left the places
where they had been Rationed, and by that means
gave an opportunity to numbers of persons to en
ter the Hall who had no right to come there. The
quellion was then put, and carried in the affirma
tive. A requisition being then made for a poll,
the Lord Mayor reftried it, and said, he had fol
lowed the opinion of persons who were near him.
A counter-petition was immediately after signed
by seven hundred persons, which should be present
ed to that House in a few days ; the petition then
'prefented contained no more than fifty-feven fig
natures. j
The question returns-It may be answered a
ptin, a Republican, Dr. Logan, disposed of a part
of his landed property, to provide funds for his
expences, and singly embarked for Europe; by
the sagacity and discretion of this Republican, hos
tility was still further fruftrated, and American
veflels embargoed in the harbours of France which
would have been confifeated in the event of a war,
were released, to an immense value.
The saving of a million and a half of dollars in
lopping the enlistments of the' Landing army,
and of anotlier million for building 74 gun Blips,
s owing to the Unabated teal and labor of the re
>ublirans. Let us be encouraged by the success
which they have lately experienced, to stand firm^
0 their principles of peace, economy, and Repub
icanilm, there is reason to hope our country will
feon fee how much they are indebted to republi
can principles and men, for the peace and the pre
servation of the pure principles of their conftitu
tiom
Let us be as resolute against usurpation and op
>reffion from within as from abroad ; and fland
ng firm to each other, be fatisfied that every Hep
taken by ambitious or tyrannical men, will be felt
>y the whole people, and prove more fatal to our
internal enemies than their talents or influence
could be. - -
The longer the period men are entrusted with
lower, the more prone they are toabufe it-—
he progression of slavery in Great- Britain, acqui
red a double acceleration when the period whom
Septellnial bill was passed.
-. ,APRIL 16.
On the 4th Inst. a most serious and alarming
Mutiny broke out on board the V. S. frigate Con
;refs, of 36 guns, lying at Craney island, 4 miles
K>low the town of Norfolk. About two hundred
of the seamen of the spar deck, paraded on the
forecallle, and gave three cheers as a signal for
mutiny. Only three commissioned officers were
on board the ship at the time—these were the
Captain, First-Lieutenant, and Lieut. Llewellyn,
of the Marines. The business wore a dreadful as
ped for some time, but was soon fettled by the
extraordinary exertions of the marines, under the
command of Lietit. Llewellyn. Seven of the
Ringleaders were secured by their exertions, and
deposited in Norfolk Jail. Th, mutiny took
place at night; it was notwitkOanding quelled
without bl<x>dfhed.
A letter from an officer on board, states, that
the marines were paraded with uncommon afc
cricity, abd (rationed in the best possible petitions.
Capt. Seaver compliments them in the highest
t&ms.
NEw-rokk;APRIL
* Yesterday morning the U. S. sloop of war Ports
mouth, Capt. M'Neil, failed from this port for the
French Republic, with dispatches from govern
ment to our commissioners at Paris.
I the French government, of which the King of
I England is, according to his declaration, to form
I a correct opinion by experience, it is only riecef-
I fary to observe, that the principles unfold them
selves every day by their tendency to every liberal
and just idea—to a wife and enlightened system of
liberty—to the great obieft of internal tranquility
—and, above all, to a plan of policy, dignified and
moral, a diplomacy juil, generous, and worthy of
the happiest days of Europe. The liability of the
Government cannot be exactly appreciated nearly
at the very moment of its birth, but it prefects the
liability of force and juftbee, of the unanimous
fan&ion of the French people, arid of the declared
devotion of the new Magiltrates to the welfare of
all ; and what ancient government of Europe can
offer so many excellent guarantees in its favor ?
" If it does not poffefi the liability of years, it
pofleffes the Lability of equitable and honorable
principles, ft it has not experienced the force of
internal aggretfions, it has done more ; it has clos
ed the abyA of revolution. r /
" Frenchmen, you are therefore called upon to
complete tire liability of the government by your
labours, your fenthnents, and the unanimity of
your exertions. Let us then unite, and we shall
conquer. We shall find liability in victory, and
the scruples of the political consciences of Kings
will be dissipated by a solemn treaty of pacifica
tion which shall be given by our heroic armies to
the world 1" \
PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 4.
% What good have the Republicans done 1
This is a queffion oftef alked by their enemies.
The answer is, they have saved our country from
war. Had it not been for Mr. Gerry, and the un
wearied exertions of the Republicans, in the face
of the most constant and foul calumny, abuse and
reproach from the great Porcupines and the little
Porcupines, the British spies and hirelings and all
their tory party in this country, there is no doubt
we should long before this time have been launch
ed into all the depths,and horrors of war. Thro'
the influence and exertions of the Republicans,
the executive was brought to a point from which
he could not swerve, and left him so that he could
not refufe to fend our envoys of peace.
What a roaring and bellowing did this excite
among all the hungry gang that panted for War
only to obtain pelf—in every part of the country.
Even at the beginning of the present session of con
gress, all their partizans exerted themselves to
throw disgrace on the President for having done
his duty ; the address of the Senate to him, took
no notice of that part of his speech which related
:o the mission to France, and his answer Shewed
how he felt their treatment at so interesting a cri
sis.
Head-Barters at Pannes, Feb. if.
The General in Chief Brune informs the Minis
ter of War, that terms of the pacification of the
departments of Cotes Du Nord, of Morbihan, and
Finifterre, were definitively ratified yesterday.
The bands of the Chouans shall be immediately
dissolved, and their arms, cannon, and ammuni
tion shall be given up with reflriftion. The dis
arming is now carrying into effea, and a great
number of mulkets have been already given up.
(Signed) VOGNOLLE.
NORFOLK, APRIL 5.
On Wednesday last, a number of refpe&able
gentlemen of this borough, gave an entertainment
to Commodore Truxton, to which were invited
his Britannic Majesty's Couful, capts. Sever and
Borron, of the Congress and Chesapeake frigates,
such of the officers of the Constellation as could be
spared from the ship, and many genteel strangers.
Domestic Intelligence.
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HAGUE, FEB. 3.
Reduaion of the Chouans.
The refufal of the British king to accede to the
pacific overtures of Buonaparte, must be produc
tive of the greatest advantages to France, if a con
tinuance ofFar can in any case be advantageous.
The French people will now be convinced, that
nothing short of the restoration of tire hereditary
,king and nopffity, to their former bower and pre
rogatives, will ratisfy their vindi&ive enemies.—
.They will now fee, that the only road to peace,
is through new viffories '; arid every latent spark
of patriotism will glow with re-animated indig
nation at the unjust and unrelenting interference
of Britain and her savage allies, in their internal
government. While the moderation and pacific
endeavours of their chief consul, will continue
him invested With their unlimited confidence, and
nerve his arm to firike a decisive blow the ensuing
campaign#l^
==
The frantic rage of the populace has always
been severely condemned by .the friends of order
and good government. The horrors, the miseries
and the'mifehiefs of defpbtifm, have been forgot
ten amidst the unqualified approbriums which
have been bellowed upon popular resentment.—
Liffen ye tyrants of the earth, you, who ate the
advocates of a defpotifiri that annihilates all the
prominent features of man; you who live upon
the (west and misery bf others ; you whose hearts
have become calous by habitual injustice; you
whose existence has been surrounded by encomi
ums which have tended only to destroy the fym
patby of your fouls— Are ye still incapable of re
ceiving into' your natures one single fentiment,one
solitary reflation which may hereafter bear some
final! relation to the renovation of political socie
ty and the welfare of the human race ? to.
The increafirtg spirit of republitanifm in our
country mud be a matter bf extreme fatisfaftipn
to its real friends, and serve to firengthen their
firmnefs, increase their sfflour, and extend the
sphere of beneficial activity. Thefaft which we
nave exprefled, cannot with propriety be contro
verted, and if any one is disposed to do it, he is
referred to an attentive perusal of the news-papers
which are published iaevery part of the U. States.
The evidence is clearly deduced from this source,
not only from those whose character is republican,
but also from those of an Opporite damp ; the la- 1
mentations of the latter, the fears that are ex
prefred, that a spirit of democratic ^organization
is about to overturn the r^pfflability of ancient
efiablifhments ; these things constitute a clear and
decided proof, that the lovers of monarchy in A
merica have taken the alarm, and that they, haye
just reason to apprehend that the prevalence of re
publican principles will eventually become univer.
hi in these states. They are perhaps not deceiv
ed in their calculation ; the probability of such
an event becomes more and more firiking every
day. There is at this moment in the state of Maf
faenufetts a high state of public ferment, a gene
ral aftivity ind solicitude of mind concerning ,he
election w governor. The spirit of enquiry up;
on this object, seems to have risen higher than at
any former period, and we have every reason to
believe, that republicanism it gaining ground In
that (late, and that the brave asserter, of Ameri
can independence, those who firft attacked the
tyrant of Britain, hare not yet forgotten either
the spirit or principle of the revolution ; nor can
they ever quietly content to offer up upon the al
tar of ariflucracy Its blefled fruits I should they
do this, the departed spirit of Warren,whofe blood
flowed upon Bunker-Hill, will fife in judgment
against them, and hit gboft shall firike terror into
the heart of the most hardened foonarchift! ib.
' The deflating scourge of war, It is almost cer
tain, will Hill be the lot of Europe during the in
fuing dimmer, and who shall be able to calculate
with any tolerable degree of certainty its ultimate
termination. Are there any data, any well
grounded principles on which to rest a decision in
the present case ? No doubt an attentive exami
nation of the condition of Europe would furnifli
the mind of the enquiring politician, with a par
tial solution to the enquiry. Britain has already
drained every nerve to its utmost tensity in tavor
of the war,and for the promotion of despotic de
signs, which have been generated by many of the
corrupt courts of Europe, and acceded to in all
the cabinets of political wickedness ; but what
ever may be [he designs or the military force of
arbitrary governments, on the contrary it is cer
tain that the perpetuity of the mifehief, that the
extent of military devaluation, that the carnage
which for ten years has crimsoned the countries
of Europe, is justly attributed to the corrupt ma.
chinations of the British monarchy. The other
powers that have been engaged agairilt France
would long ago have abandoned their mad pro
jeft, then assassinating crusade, had they not been
Simulated by the malignant intentions which for
30 years part have constantly influenced the British
court, and been the sole cause of all its political
arrangements.
The nations of the earth who are or who wish to
be free,ought to combine their whole force against
this political monfleh, the British government,
that peace might once more be restored to the
earth. [Repob. Watch-Tower.
Lhttjl from the Mediterranean.
Cept. Freeman, of the fliip Boflon, arrived at
Bolton on Saturday from Leghorn arid Gibraltar,
informs, that while at Leghorn^ he saw a letter
from the American Consul at Tunis, to our Con
sul, at the former place, which Mated, th¥ there
had exllfed some uneafiriefs with the Bey on ac
count of the non-fulfilment of some articles of the
late treaty with him ; but that it had entirely sub
sided, and every thing amicably fettled. Captain
Freeman was also informed, while there, that Ld.
Nelson, in the siege of Malta, had loft one of his
line of battle lhips funk under the battery,
from which but few lives escaped ; and that about
the fame time, hii squadron captured a French 74
from Toulon, bound to Malta with applies.
White at Gibralter, Capt. F. was informed by
the American Consul at that place, that he had
received a letter from Mr. Williams, American
Consul at London dating that the blockade of Ca
diz and the coast of Catalonia, by Lord Keith,
was authorifed, and req&ling him at the fame
time to give informations every American de
tained, or ordered away from those coalls.
OUR ENVOYS
Have thrived in the territory of the French Re
public. A letter from Bayonne, dated Feb. 16,
received by a gentleman in Bollon, mentions their
arrival there, and that they would, pursue their
journey to Paris.
Cbe Bcpublican Lebget
Portsmouth, April 29, 1800.
T^o Hundred Dolls. Regard.
\X7HEREAS some audacious person or persons
have again, added insult to injury, by
breaking off the tops of that beautiful row of
young growing trees at the upper end of Broad
freer, on, Saturday night last, and thereby defeat
the expectations of a generous public. , ,
Therefore, (|e Selectmen hereby offer the alcove
Reward of Two Hundred Dollars, to any perfen
or persons that will give them evidence fuffirlenc
to convitt the perpetrator or perpetrators of both
crimes before any court in tbj§ country proper to
try the some, namely those broke in February last,
and those broke in the night following the 26th
of this instant, April, except the perpetrators are
idiots or diflrated persons, in which case the
above reward shall be proportionable.
And whereas many young and beautiful trees
have been and are now planting in several streets
in this town for the benefit of the public, the Se
lectmen earueftly recommend to the inhabitants
to keep a good look out arid prevent any damage
being done to said trees, and if any person mail be
found wilfully or miticioufly breaking or destroy
ing them, that notice thereof be immediately giv
en '°!" e Selectmen who are determinnd to bring
^ offenders to fueh punishment as ttelaw%l
inflict.
GEORGE GAINS, )
MISES WOOD^ARDI
SAMI HUTCHINGS, >Sel«fo.
, ELIJAH HALL. (
SAMUEL orowne, )
Port/moutk, April ^B, itao. .}
eISH given for clean linen and
cotton and linen Rags at this Office. \^
I befpotifm is the real cause of all the violent
I revolutions that have taken place in the political
I world. The charge of criminalty has been bro't
I against the people ; the turbulent fyirit of repub
licanism, as it has been called, is implicated^ The
charges and the infmuations are falfe ; the cause
of the mifchief is to be fought for and will be ul
timately difeovered in a quarter far remote from
configurations of this kind. It is the secrecy of
political governments, it ik the myltery in which
they invelope their concerns that has excited pop
ular refentment&-The resentment is just, the in
dignation is warranted by the nature of the case.
Who are these servants of the people ; who are
the public functionaries that should assume to
themselves the pretended right of excluding the
people From a knowledge of all those trarifad ions
which are moll intierefting to free nations, or to
nations who have ah tmqueftiopable right to be
free? The people are the source of all power,
they are the political creators of the public agents
and (hall the creature fay th the creator, my power
is greater than thine ? No : reason, truth, justice
and religion forbid the profane and impious dec
laration. If the. public agents in all countries
would present to the citizens, or to the fubjecis of
their different states, a full and just ftatertient of
their tranfa&ions. If they wou W provide the
means of pouring into the bosom of their commu
nity that portion of inftruftion only which it i,
extremely practicable to diffufe, the violent revo
lutions which are complained of would fubfide#
tranquility would be restored, political happiness
augmented, and the despotisms of the earth link
into eternal infamy, to which state they ought to
have been consigned long ago by the just resent
ment of the human race.
DIED]— In this town, Mrs. Abigail Elliot, aged
79, widow of the late Dea. Ab'm Elliot.
Mrs. '—— Hart, n ife of Capt. George Hart.
Mrs. Lydia Shiley, wife o f Mr. Reuben
Shapley, merchant.
Mr. Charles Waters, brass-sound er.
At sea, Mr. Charles Connor, aged 19, son of
Capt, Ben). Connor, of this town.
Tn the date in the head of this day's Ledger, for
" Wednesday, April 30," read "Tuefday, April
29."
Alderman Combe, who was elected to the ma
yoralty of the city of London, is reputed to be, a
firm republican in his political sentiments. He
has triumphed over all opposition, which (hews
almost unequivocally certainty, that the capitol of
England is making progress in the dißufion of re
publican sentiments § and that from this single
circumstance, there is reason to believe, that ener
gy of mind in that country, will rife superior to
the political degradation into which its govern
ment has endeavored to precipitate it. Should
an event of this fort exW>it itfelf in England, it
would firengthen, in a irfh degree, republicanism
throughout the World, and become the guarantee
of the bed interests of liberty among the human
race.
Aduel was fought near Richmond, Vir. on the
9th in(t. between Capt. Meri wither Jones, Editor
of the Examiner, and James Rind, Esq. the latter
received a wound in the body, but it is not likely
to prove mortal. The cause, probably frequent
newspaper altercations.
The Rev. Dr. Coke, one of the Bishops of the
Methoditt Episcopal Church has arrived at Phila
ladelphia from Europe, arid will make a tour of
the United Status. He is the successor of the in
defatigable Wefsley ; of similar powers and habits
of life, ==-.
His Excellency Arthur Fenner is re-elected
Governor of Rhode-lfland, almost unanimously.
It is also well ascertained that ,the Hon. J. Pot
ter, is telexed Lt. Governor, by a majority of a
about four hundred.
A new agent, it is said, is arrived at Guade
loupe, from France.
A Yefol rition has palled both houses of Congress,
authorifing the Prelicfent of the Senate, and Speak
er of the House of Keprefentatives, to close the
present Session, by adjourning their refpe&ive
houses on the 2d Monday 'in May next#
The monarchy of England has been a continual
drawback upon the political improvement of na
tions—lt is a curse and a scourge, which for a long
time patt, has thwarted the benevolent designs of
philanthropic men ; and the world never will
have peace till this hydra of despotism is no more.
ENTERED AT THE , U3TuM-HQU3E.
Apr. 23d. Brig Polly, Moore, Demerara.
16. Brig Union, Blunt, Martinico, via. Bofton.'
CLEARED.
18. Ship Jefferfon, Cutter, Demerara
ERRATA
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