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tian Phifenthropffi; and exhibits the human mindl
in it, godlike giory.^What were,its effefts ?— I
Qetqefs and peace to our country,, and the bright- \
elf profpeas of the return ot social happiness. It
is one & the fined events in the tranfadions of
mankind) qncf will fill the faireft page of future
Littory.
VALERIUS.
From the Mirror of the Times.
It has often been' affected that no man, wlto is ,
an inveterate foe to democracy can possibly be
friendly to the conflitution of the United States.
A thorough going Federalist will tell yon he is a
Federal Republican ;, a friend to the Conftitulron,
but no advocate for Democracy.^ The Federalists
reject the principles ot Democracy as if they form-;
ed no part of, or did not pervade the confutation.
Every man who declares his enmity to the princi
ples of Dertiocracy, avows at the fame time his op
position to the constitution of the Us States—and
the declaration must (pring from the most cpnfum
mate ignorance, or something Worse. Let no Juch
man be trufled ! In corroboration of what we ad
vance on this fubjeft, the following high and re
fpedable authority (and Federal authority too)
ought to close with a seal of eternal silence, the
lips of every street bawler— every (cowling fob
worker against Democracy. It is extracted from
a speech of the late Judge Wilson, delivered dur
ing the debates of the Convention of th^ State of
Pennfyvania, on the Constitution of the U. States.
After making mention of the advantages and dis
advantages attendant on different forms of gov
ernment, the Judge proceeds thus, Debates, &c.
p. 40.
“ What is the nature and kind of that govern
ment, which has been proposed for the U. States,
by the late convention ? In its principle, it i.
purely democratic al ; But that principle is
applied in different forms, in order to obtain the
advantages, and exclude the inconveniencies of
thefimple modes of government.
"If we take.an extended and accurate view of
'it, we (hall find the dreams of power running in
different directions, in different dimensions, and
at different heights, watering, adorning and ter
tilizing the fields and meadows, thro' which their
courses are led ; but if we trace them, (he (ball
difeover, that they all originally flow from one a
bundant fountain..
“ In this constitution, all authority is de
rived from the people." Again, p. 87, fame
work, he fays,
" Permit me to proceed to what I deem another
excellency of this system—all authority of every
kind is derived by representation from the
PEOPLE, and the DEMOCRATIC principle is
carried into every part of the government.''
The following extraft from the fame author,
deserves the perusal and serious attention of our
fellow citizens.
"In. a free Country every citizen forms a part of.
the Sovereign Power: He posses a vote, or takes a
still more active part in the business of the Com
monwealth. The right and the duty of giving
that vote ; the right and the duty of taking that
Jhare are necessarily attended with the duty of
making that business the object of his study and
enquiry.
“ In the United States, every Citizen is fre
quentlv called upon to att in this great public
charafter. He elects the legislative, and he takes
a personal (bare in the executive and judicial de
partments of the nation. It is true, that a man,
who withes to be right, will, with the official as
finance afforded him, be seldom under the necef
fity of being wrong : Brit it is equally true, and
it ought not to be concealed, „that the public duties
and the public rights of every citizen of the U.
States loudly demand from him all the time which -
he can prudently /pare; and all the means which
he can prudently employ, in order to learn that
part, which it is incumbent ion him to aft.
" On the public mind, one great truth can never
be too deeply impressed—that the weight of the
Government of the United States, and of each slate
composing the Union, refls on the Jhoulders of the
PEOPLE.
" I express not this sentiment now, as I have
never expressed it heretofore, with a view to flat
ter ; I express it now, as I have always expressed
it heretofore, with a far other and higher aim--
with an aim to excite the people to acquire, by
vigorous and manly exercise, a degree ot Ilrength
fufficient to support the weighty burthen, which is
laid upon them—with an aim to convince them,
that their duties rife in drift proportion to their
rights ; and that few are able to trace or to esti
mate the great danger, in a free government,
when the Rights of the people are unexercifed,
and the dill greater danger, when the Rights of
the People are ill exercised.
" At a general Election, too few attend to the
important conferences of voting or not voting ;
and to the consequences, 'till more important of
voting right or voting wrong."
from the Epitome of the Times.
ADMIRALTY CAUSE.
VIRGINIA;,,
At a special court of the United States, for
the diftrifi of Norfolk, held at the court
huu'e of the borough of Norfolk, within
the fate of Virginia, on Monday the third
;of August, in th^yedr of our Lord, 1801,
before the hon. Cyrus Griffin,flq. fudge ;,
Samuel Barron, his officers and crew,)
against [
The Schooner Succefy, ) " '
This cause being heard on the libel and the
proofs offered in support thereof, ahd the several
papers, writings and documents, found on board
laid schooner at the time of her seizure and cap
ture, being brought in and deposited in the office
of this honorable court ; and on hearing what was
alledged on the part of the said libellants—the
court doth order, adjuge and decree, that the said
schooner Success, her guns, tackle, furniture and
apparel, be forfeited for being employed in the
Have trade, in violation of the att of congress,
entitled, " an a& to prohibit the carrying on the
slave trade, from the United States to any foreign
place or country ;" and the fame is hereby con
demned to the use of the said Samuel Parron,
commander of the (hip of war called the Chesa
peake, bis officers, seamen, mariners and marines,
all libellants in this cause ; that the marshal, after
giving fix days notice in a public newspaper, pro
ceed to fell the did sch. Success, and her guns,
tackle, apparel and furniture, at public auction ;
and after deducting the costs of profecutton, and
foch expenses as have been incurred on account
lof hid veflel finceh@r arrival in this port, that the I
I nett proceeds to be paid to Wm. Pennock, agent I
I for the said libellants. And. the court doth further 1
order, that the monies arising from the file be ap
plied and distributed to and amongst the libellants
in such proportion as is directed by the att for the
government of the navy of the U. States, in re
fpett to prizes and prize moneys
A true copy,
Tert, SETH FOSTER,„CIerk.
she above schooner Success, we are informed,
was owned by Sam'l W. Greene, of Providence, in
the fate of Rhode- Ijland ; that foe was commanded
by Paul Brownell, and failing under the authority
of a commission from the late President of the U. S.
granting full power to seize and capture the arm
ed vessels of the French republic. It was thus that
the virtuous federalists of R. Ijland cloaked their
real intentions ,-and attempted to elude the vigilance
of our commanders.
It is to be hoped, now Rhode-IJland has a demo
cratic adminifiration, we /hall not again hear of
Juch foul deeds. The admitsiflration of that fate
, will be as watchful over the rights of men as is
that of Virginia ; it will communicate to the fede
ral government eve ry such daring breach of the
law.'
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I From the Same.
a Leonti Bemonttrance.
Humbly Jubmitted to the Eighty Merchants of
New-Haven, for their adoption, couched in a
flyle explanatory' of their real wishes, and re
commended to be returned by them as an answer
or Mr. JefferJon's Reply.'
SIR,
The undersigned merchants of New-Haven take
the liberty to acquaint you, Mr. President, that
rhe late removal of ElizurGoodrich, esquire, from
the office of collector for the Diftrift of New-
Haven, and thp appointment of Samuel Bifliop to
fill the vacancy, is totally contrary to onr good
liking. And Sir, be it known to you, that we are
very coffiiderable men, in oor town; for, Sir, we
can prove by Isaac Beefs end Elias Shipman (too
very notable men also) that seven-eights of the
navigation of the port belong to us. ' Therefore
Sir, we ought to be heard.
We have been in the " habit" of thinking, that
the office of collector was eltablifhed for our ac
commodation, only, aqd not for the mene benefit
of the revenue. Therefore the office ought to be
filled by a person who will be careful of our in
terefts, and not devote his whole time to the in
terests of the public.
As Mr. Goodrich had conduced the business of
the custom rhoufe to OVR entire fatistaftion, we
cannot conceive, Sir, what right you had to inter
fere ; and by the appointment of Bishop, disturb
those “ steady habits" which were once wont to
render all things easy here. It, is extremely hard
that ouf rum should remain unflored, until the
usual duties are "ascertained.
We lament that advantage should be so far tak
en of your ignorance, as to betray you into the ap
pointment of such a man as Bishop— a man so old,
that he cannot possibly have had the least experi
ence. It it true he once made a tolerable good
town clerk; but in that office he has written so
much, that he has forgotten how to write his own
name.
Besides, it is now well known, that he cannot
read an instrument of writing, without the aid of
fpeftacles ; and how (hall we be able to judge,
whether the glafles of the fpctfacles, be true or
not? ..
We admit that Mr. Goodrich was in the habit
of using goggles ; but then it was only to prevent
the dull from injuring his eyes, while he threw it
on others. And if he ever wore them, in reading
t manifeft, or in writing in office, they were al
ways of genuine British manufacture, fafhioned
agreeably to the true Anglo federal cut; The
virtue of these goggles were such, that he could
fee double, treble, or quadruple ; or even blot the
visual fay if the case required it- But Mr. Bishop
has never learned to fee in this manner and there
fore is unfit to be the colleftof of New-Haven
district. A collector, Mr. President, who would
be agreeable to us, " should fee and not see."
Samuel Bishop was not bred an accountant, nor
has the course oftis business ever led him to an
acquaintance with the 1 most simple forms of ac
counting. It is true he might do well enough
tor such paltry offices as chief judge of the court
of common pleas, and sole judge of the court of
probates, wherein he gu rds the rights of mere
farmers, tradesmen, mechanics, orphans, &c. Yet
if he has not had practice in the Italian method
of book-keeping, how is it possible that he can
underhand American fyfiems of arithmetic? How
is it possible for him to calculate the duties of a
hogshead of Molaff.s?
Such, Sir, being the character of the colleftor,
we are in pain for the consequences that may re,-
fult from his appointment. And as we are the
majority of the New-Haven importers, (being
seventy-eight) we molt eardefft wish, that in case
you do not reinstate Mr. Goodgch(who was rath
er a help-mate than an overfeir) that you will at
least permit US to afeertain our own duties, & let
Mr. Bishop collect those of the other eighth. Do
this, and we promise on the faith and honor of
Anglo-federalills, and swear by the beloved heads
of Jonathan Dayton and Timothy Pickering, and
even by that of James Watson, to pay as much
into the public treasury from our seven-eights, as
Mr. Bishop can possibly collect from his one
eighs.
With great apprehensions,
We are Sir,
Your's, &c.
THE EIGHTY.
P. S. Doas we require, or we lhall come but
again. ^ T. E.
Late foreign intelligence?-
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OF EGYPT.
, London, JUNE 30.
Yeflerday the Hamburg Mail arrived which was
due on Wednesday last. By the packet dispatches
were brought to government from Lord Elgin, at
Conftar.tinople, dated the 23d < f May, communi
cating accounts from Egypt of atyery fatisfaftory
nature down to the 10th of May. „
Copy of a letter from Lord El^in to Lord Hawkf
bury, dated Conflantinople, May 2^, 1801.
MY Lokis,,-
An. offices is arrived from the Captain Pacha
with the intelligence that General Hutchinson had
marched from Rosetta on the Bth inst. ,kh. # four
thousand British troops, in company with a corps
[of Turks of equal force, under the command of I
rhe Captain-Pacha, and on the ,th attacked thel
French near Rahmanich. The enemy were driv-|
en in , ahd in the course of the night they retired
towards Cairo, having left a small garrison in the
entrenchments of Rahmanich. On the 10th the
fort forrendered, and the combined force then
proceeded towards Cairo, having concerted their
movements with the Grand Vizir, who was at El
Hanka, a position four leagues distant from Cairo,
in a northeast direction. Our loss at Rahmanich,
is dated not to exceed thirty men.
The Turkiffi Officer reports that a reinforce
ment of 3000 British troops had arrived at Abou
kir about the 6th of May.
I have the honor, &c.
(Signed) ELGIN.
„ Right Hod. Lord Hawkfbury, &c.
Although this llatement be deficient in details,
it overthrows the reports circulated on the Conti
nent of advantages gained by the French in the be
ginning of May. We are a little surprised indeed
that this,ccount, such as it is, rests only upon the
authority of a Turkish officer sent by the Captain
Pacha, ahd that no dispatches have been received
from General Hotchiufon himfelf, who was with
the Turkish commander. From this report it ap
pears that Gen. Hutchinson had 4000 British
troops, and as many Turks under his orders. On
the 9th an attack was made on the enemy at Rah
manich, and they were driven in. In the course
of the night they retired towards Cairo, having
left a small garrison in the intrenchments of Rah
manich. Next day rhe garrison surrendered, and
the army proceeded towards Cairo, combining
its operations with the Grand Vizir, who was
four leagues from Cairo. II our loss at Rahma
nich did not exceed 30 men, there could have been
no very serious conflift. We are inclined to think,
therefore, that unable to make head both against
the Vizir and General Hutchinson, the enemy
have chosen to concentrate themselves at Cairo,
or in its neighborhood. It is in that quarter,
therefore, that the decisive engagement which has
been long expefted muff take place. Nd troops
will be left at Alexandria but barely those neces
sary for the defence of the works. As our force
is so much superior to any thing which the enemy
can assemble, there is reason to hope for the most
favorable result. The enemy in the interior be
ing subdued. Alexandria would be invested on
every (ide, cut off from all supplies, and compel
led to surrender. If it be true that Mourad Bey
has given us the assurance of his affiitance when
we advance into his neighborhood, he will soon
have it in his power to fulfil his promise. The
tonduft he pursues on this occasion will be of
great importance. If he turns his arms against
the French, they mult be utterly undone ; If he
makes common cause with them, he may protra&
their fate. The news in the Gazette would have
been still more agreeable if it had given us grounds
to look for Mourad Bey's co-operation.
We know not what credit is due to the report
of the arrival of the army frop ißombay at Suez,
when we find Lord Elgin silent on the fubjeft,
particularly as a faft so important must have been
known to the Captain Pacha, and doubtless Gen.
Hutchinson's movements would have been com
bined with them, as well as with the operations
of the Vizir. The unofficial accounts from Con
flantinople mention positively their arrival, as
'well as many particulars of the affair at Rahma
nich, which from the silence of this Gazette are
iikewife very questionable ; for it is to be observ
ed, that the news Rated in the letters from Con
stantinople, must be drawn from the fame source
as Lord Elgin's dispatches, and the letter may be
supposed to contain all the information that had
actually been received. In those letters it is men
tioned, that Lord Keith was to support the ope
rations of the army by a number of gun-boats on
the Nile, and the engagement at Rahmanich is
dated as having been of more importance than it
is in the Gazette. Government must very soon
receive authentic details from Gen. Hutchinson &
L'ord Keith, from whom it does not appear that
Lord Elgin has had any recent communication.
The reports about the surrender of Alexandria,
and the enemy's principal force having gone to
Cairo, are evidently unfounded.
Os RUSSIA with FRANCE.
.paris , y uly „.
,The Aid-de-camp Duroc arrived at Peterfburgh
on the night of the 24th. He was introduced the
following morning to M. De Panin, who present
ed him to his Imperial Majefly on the 26th. The
Emperor received him alone, in his closet, in the
molt favorable manner. He afterwards had sev
eral conferences with M. De Panin', the Privy
Councillor. On the 27th, he presented to the Em
peror, on the parade, the officer who had accom
panied him to Peterfburgh. In the afternoon of
the fame day he-was met while walking in the
palace gardens, by the Emperor, who ordered
him to be called, and conduced him to a private
alley, where they conversed together for a conlid
erable time. The countenance of Alexander 1.
excites refpeft, and inspires confidence. He is
equally dear to the military and the people. He
had lately visited the fleet at Cronftadt. It was
very late at night u hen he returned, and' his ab
sence caused a general anxiety. The regiments
at Peterfburgh were, of their own accord, under
arms, and called loudly for their Emperor. The
greatest union prevails in the Royal Family.
Lord St. Helens did not arrive at Peterfburgh un^
til the zgth.=-M. De Marlow, appointed Miniftef
to the French Republic', has set out for Paris.
- — (Moniteur.
ENGLAND and RUSSIA.
LONDON, JULY 13.
Captaiq Blake, of the Dispatch cutter, arrived
in town on Saturday afternoon with dispatches
from Lord St. Helens, as fafisfaftory as they are
important. On the 17th of last month, a Conven
tion was signed at.Peterfburgh, between Lord St."
Hellens and Count Panin, by which all the differ
ences between the two countries were, amicably
terminated. The other two Maritime Courts ot
the North, have been invited to accede to this
Convention, which they will 'doubtlefs do. This
news was justly considered by Lord Hawkefbury
of such moment, that his Lbrdihip, late as it was
in the evening, communicated it the Lord Mayor.
OF PORTUGAL.
> LONDON, JULY 12.
Yeflerday accounts from Lifhen, as late as the
, 2ofh ult. were received. The treaty with Spain
had not been published. ' The English Convoy was
to fail from Lisbon, July 9th.
The Peace between Spain, France,and Portugal,
was ratified at Madrid on the 10th ult.—The King
and Qu,<n' of Spain were preparing to leave their
capital on the 18th of fame month on th<jr way to
Lifbou, in order to pay a visit to their daughter
the Princess of Brazil, no doubt to congratulate
(her on the glorious peace which has paved thel
way back again for the re union of the two
crowns under the protection of the great nation •
which is to fend Louis Buonaparte, as it is said, to
receive their joint homage on the occasion.
Twenty thousand Spanifr and 10,000 French
troops are to garrison the fortified towns in Por
tugal. Some territory in Portugal is also to be
ceded to Spain.
Gantheaume's Squadron.'
A letter from Maffena on the 27th May gives
some details relative to Gantheaume's squadron,
which passed the Straits of Maffdna on the 25th.
It confided of fourfail of the line, two frigates,
and two transports, and is going to Brindisi, on ,
the Neapolitan Coait, to be reinforced by the 3
Neapolitan frigates, which have been given up to,
France. It is also said that it is to be joined by'
four fail of the line and four frigates, which are
on their paflage from France. The whole arma
ment will then proceed to the Levant ; the num
ber of troops on board, will it is added, amount
to 12,000 men.'
PARIS, JULY 2.
The First Consul has authorifed the edablifti.
ment of a Bureau of Foreign Legislation ; it is to
be under the direction of the Miniller of Justice.
and is to collect, translate, and class in order all
the civil, criminal commercial, maratime, milita
ry, and police laws, exiling at present in the diff
erent countries of Europe. . j
.July 6. The Firfl Consul has fuffered for alongr
''merfrom a rhumatifm contra&ed in the army.
Citizen Corvifart, his physician, has thought the
season favorable to attempt to free him from it.
He has applied blitters to the bread and arms suc
cessively. This treatment, the effeft of which has
been very favorable, has prevented the First Con
sul from coming to the las tparade, and giving the
usual audience to Ambassadors this day. has
not ceased a single day to do business with the
Consuls and Ministers, and held this morning a
Council General of Finance, which takes place
the 6th of every month, and at which all the
Ministers and the Director General of the Public
Treasury attend. C. Corvifart thinks that the
1° n f"! w '" " e able, without inconvenience
health, to attend next quintidi, at the fete
of the 14th of July.
BERLIN, (Prussia) JUNE 22.
The 16,000 men aflembled in our environs, for
the grand manoeuvres, still remain in their can
tonments.—The troops are kept on the war
establishment, and are ready to march. Their
dellination is still a myttery, but it is generally be
lieved that they are defined to take pofleffion of
the countries that will be ceded to Prussia, as an
indemnity. Our relations with France are still ve
ry pacific. Thole with Russia have never been so
intimate as at present.
LONDON, JULY I —I3.
More than 40,000 persons have returned to St.
Petersburg since the death of the late Emperor.
The foreign wheat and flour which will be im
ported into Great-Britain, from Sept. 1800, to
Sept. 1801, will cost this country ten millions ller
ling, exclusive of bounty.
The King ot Sweden i& about to visit Peters
burg.
Summary of Foreign News.
THE conferences between Mr. Otto and -Lora
Hawkefbury are more frequent than ever; and
the hopes of the friends of peace increase. *
Mr. Merry has arrived in France as the Britifh'
CommifTary for Prisoners. But it is reported he
is empowered to tranfaft business of a more im
portant nature ; having a tendency to peace.
The British conceive, from the official and priv
ate information which they have hoticed, that
there is more than ordinary reason, for believing
that the Texel and Brest Fleets will put to sea ve
ry soon.
The French Government continues to march
large bodies of troops to the fea-coafl—where ex-,
tensive encampments are formed. The expecta
tion of an attempt upon England or Ireland ap
pears to be strengthened. However the nume
rous British cruizers exercise the utmost vigilance ;-/
and the bell preparations are made on shore.
The greatest exertions are making in the equips
ment ot vessels in the Spanish Ports, particularly
at Garthagena, where it is conjectured an expe- °
dition is preparing to attempt the recovery of the
island of Minorca.
The British brig Penguin, of 18 guns, on the
18th of Feb. engaged a French corvette of 24 guns,
and two fliips of 16 guns. One of the French
veflels flruck her colors; but in the night which
followed, they all three took advantage of the
dark, and made their escape.
Two British frigates, a sloop of war and five
transports with troops, failed from Torbay, July
|i. Each vessel carried a large flat-bottomed
boat. It is supposed they are defined to take pos
session of the Brazils.
^fhe Stadtholder's frigate Ambufeade, a fine
vessel, has been loft at the Nore. Twenty per
sons perished.
The French are said to have an expedition in
preparation on the coasts of the Adriatic. There
are various conjectures relative to its deflination. •
The British are laid to have declared all the ports,
which the French occupy on the Adriatic are in a
Rate of blockade.
The fortrefs of Ferrugo, in the island pf Elba,
holds out against the long and vigourous feige of
the French. There are in the garrison 300 En
glish, and 1200 other soldiers.
The Emperor of Germany has appointed the
Archduke Charles, Director of the Marine for his
new Provinces in Italy, Iftrio, Dalmatia, &p.
The Prnffians are about to evacuate Bremen.
The Prince of Conde is in London.
Buonaparte has applied to the Pope to dispense
with the celibacy of the clergy, to acknowledge
the constitutional prielis, &c. The Pope has re
fufed. There were reports, that the Pontiff was
about to abdicate his temporal government : And
that the King of Sardinia was to be indemnified
with the Roman territory for his losses. French
troops ° frequently pass through Rome for' Na
ples.•"
It does not appear that Talleyrand, is dismissed
from the office of Miniller of Foreign Affairs in *
France. It is stated, that he has merely gone to
drink of rhe waters of some wholesome springs,
at a di(lance from Paris—and has leave of absence
for 25 days. His principal Secretary, is in the
mean time entrufled with his papers.
A plan of a new conttitution bas b'^en proposed
to Genoa. It contemplates a Doge, a Senate and
three Diets, eflablifhes the Catholic Religion—the
Diet to set only one month in a year, to dilcufe
such laws as may be proposed by the Senate.