Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political — Alexandria [Va.], 1810-02-20 00:00:00, page 2

manam-find Du'u cum-.
Me. But-en, _ _.ss
. >.'-si sssi _ si ﬀl des joui' "Mdon'td'lhsie
followiossFACTS; lo do'n-i which, it is
not mass view of beoomiQ the defender
sidsi-ijxtivioecthe edicor' of— the Beknow:
We} this iooid be "an at ctimpocence'
IV.-i the during (ws-invention could
si: i iufictsy t'o itseif; the news-tion 05 an
ctIdWlW Would not have demonded the in
had not hie saith, the
, MIMBKI nother,
Kct Mbelief, the dosictfmi of justice,
_ med withshe, had and in
pddssolishe publi: eredul'uyct {the nati.
. ' die-mon were given *u the 'eemi.
' nam'd! th}, þ'e'opk, 'and" the whole pariy
de'douneed n obje on of ecorn eh'd detena_
don. Thf fraudd
ssyoimoifsibut you became the innocent in
Wni of in diliemiunioo'," giving "viy to
{Whom iPdgoity of "your stamp,]: :
—Wn,—hawan accordant with other
fffi": 'Mjsibfit be viewed now as the har
sibinzeeof Cyclops, working chain- for the
v _ ..Uw' _
alba- them
, _ tyranny of a Caspii ; and it'is
si 's \ ' . .
made? e omvictioo-Jhat you w ill now dis
covethectsiaamess alaeriry' in swerd-troth, by
waketiojsiausi error, which you were ambi.
;sigssbssd fitting the first to e:pose,'l make
'ihia esssi thinke-nion, leaving it with your
"minae of feeling, hew "far it eomports
' wiss—IN dignity and poiieyos arparty whose
- Mix: is the incuba'tion of truth and
-W9f politieal justice, to publish to the
_' m falsehoods, as dis'tinguished me
iyisij'aquof their own dishonor.
" The propepitision for-va ehavgessiti she go
Went We not Mix/"Mr. 'Irvine, but
'by n anonymua writerin his paper, whose
fcxeeﬂeot moral character, and in = other in
"."—names sound pditieil doctrine, land per
ctsibapa personal friendshipssgainEd it -admis'
' aiun under be aignaturc of- Messenger, but
before this step tim consented to, the editor
of the Whig, accompanied it in the "same
paper Iith the following introduction and
aoalydcal notes, shewing hssi much his comi
ty to the proposal, as his commentators un,
ssfrelfyarDaoi-iil-sated Amenca, unuer me
WWPWYIW'; buxic it to vindiclte'
A? M.! of demociicy from :! boid :
_ FREE THINKER.
Flux 'rn BAL-TKKOKB Wms.
WHAT A' PROJLCT!
["But : pmposition so meum-ous, as the
lother of the following number brings sor
vrard, cauldbe conceived by : ma ol learn.
ing, a ftk nd of freedomg'andfo! cxcmpla
ry. p'usitysi, u-ulv mankind- the 'edic'or. "He
cannot publ'ufi it, witwut 'anaainga few
brief woman, in form of" nate-.]
- numc'Ano' to! nu'wms: .
* Assay-{ne bunched_tbe*l_ational bo- ss
& incline. lﬂo infectedþil it norbid from
had on foot. *_-!t' hn 'pzissed any. !: is :
nen lullity. [: but no newe, no esicien
M3 Ill
'_ 0)— oolnnndn in nisi-Us n'
Mctm _ldnlniumio_unbe
"ed-'- in their manent. would they
Jesus ' rit."
-" (l.$m!"£i :: first count tis, our' ;
&
" will it upon thq price! e. all-old as
if in he ' [ne—{dun
Motion. : ivc,prcsidency. : wu'
undonfnﬂ 'of Pohnd. and is med
ip, Mbe cbcct'dossw of Al
juniy shew to him. ss
"T'--.*si____
** Ucbe Austin-: peopbafowhue .
si "Nun'mmirmct-io. :
no ic— isissn the tun agonising lpnnu of]
4
___-——.'
' (3) *" An herrditary president-general
This is intelligible talk : and, tor an Amq
rican mo:.unaccountable. " " lt appears to
me horrible and abaurd :) the last degree,
sayo'Montesquieu,-'that a whole people
snould subject themselves to the "captice ot
one'man, even it he were an angel. Foi
my own part, I would not live under him
a singleday. 'siThio angel may become in :
moment, a monster thirsting after blood."
This in the language and impression of e
very genuine Ameriean. 'The day after
his innuguration, this " president-general"
may become " amonster ;" or is not his
dcscendant may be either a fool or a mad
man. The chief magistrate ought ever m
be committed to the wisest and most wor
thy citizen; because he is the chief stew
ard of the people : but make it hereditary;
and there is no reward for service, wis
dom or worth. To make office he:-editary,
you must exempt the officer from respomi.
bility ; a measure alike latul to-treedom and
to virtue. " No person is free, where one
on can Commit crimes with impunity,"
_ With thia-irresistible truth, as with a Par
thian arrow, did the eloquent. professor
Fury-mon transsix, the abaurd tenet, pre-ss
valcnt't'n monarchies, that ** the king can
do no wrong-"
Messenger, however, is .aot the only
man who has, honestly ] trust, imbibed
erroneous opinions of 'democratic imbeeili
ty :s ]eﬀerson,-tlte great, -the wise, the
virtuout, the expel-indeed. the venerable
]eﬀerson, was aware of this'growing he
resy ; he examined it, and wery eloquently
exposed it, in anunanswerable manner in
his inmgural address: " [( there be any
.[he well knew—there were many] among us
_who could with to dissolve this union, or
to change "m re blican form. let them
stand undictinguls e , as monutncntsot the
safety with which "for of opinion msybe to
. lerasitod ,where reason isleft fires to combst
it. "now, indeed, that some. honest men
s fear that a "put-nen (ovment cannot be
ten-on:, that the. governlatnt is not ttronz
len-nigh. —But wouldtbt hunt pauiot ia
L
.f__ 'I, -The singer of tle-ven,- ll' an'h
' ' justice, and common tente, seems
to hire" pointed against heredttzry rule",
, in all We Moses, to whom,,u aehtngton
n. camp-navy -- Msimgctsi was row-4:
'den to churche-lond of promtee—and hts
dgmnu were hot inserted to rule tt. in
after times of 'cOl'WPdW'v "Th'-[9 she hﬄfl'
siites blindly called for ! king, God sent a
pre to worn them of their-danger, and
gprotut again-t their folly.
u- Then all the_eldere of Israel gathered
thaneilve's' together'-aod come" to Samuel
Funto—Ram'ah, _ __
'--** And tald'siun'to him, Behold thou ert
old. and thy lous walk not in thy was-s :—
now make unto at a king to judge ue like
alsthe union-. _ _'
But the thing dieplearrd Serum].- &c.-—
and Samuel prayed unto the Lord."
** And the Lord told unto Samuel. Hear
ken unto the voice of' the people in all- that
they ny'untd theeﬀorzthey hewe not reject
ed thee,*'6ut they have rejected ME; that ]
sieltould not rei n over them."
As for athingtott't " epirlt," it has
mounted to the ekiet; and his house is
* emcrty—he lest nosichlldrenz indeed-.?" he
he , they would be, rather (at-"cording to
the good Spartan maxim) the property. on
* the children of the republic, than the'ctinhe
"l'ltOl'l of power: for, there are no rights
lbut aurh n'the people conscr. or nature
creates. " The pe0ple have 'righte, laye
"lord Lauedoune, but-kings and princes have
0 none.
s
- Comequently, the example of Polctnd is in
"sitvhot Sidney hie lhly eornbliahed, in hit ex
ssof Meosenger.
applicable to us. " -'] "here, there was no peo
jjlc; a factious nobility, held the popttlace
in vassalage]; 'When they- were rent asun
der by jealousies and jars," th*'e monarch wa
unsupported, and the country fell a vietim
to -its own feebleness,ss and the capacious
nmbition of sorrounding- "'monarchizp ; -a
memorable proof, that a tree people,- ia th
grand bulwark of & nation. '
cellent replv to Fslmer,' that the "putriarctehu
were not king-. "And oinoe' the Otlmum
[Washingtoujsamily are"'c!ttn0t, l tenitssy
fear we must import the discarded duke- ol
York; With the sirot car-go of dry goods,- or
emhem ware ! -- No ! no ! we are not pre
pared formonarchy, which is—the Pﬂdjt'Cl
(2) 'There is it:-fact ndsi'an'alogy botWeen
the political state of Poland and Americsia.
'l oupsipose, I will not be'rttpuired to prove
l'"
.
J
\ put to m, it would have ihah'dlctthe'latesi
' they all run ashore atthe sight-us reur ad
- attat it of the boat: belong-ingto the British
4 in the "Meditctreanctddtcssud to the honor
l
i Gctabcr 'so, woe.
Sm,
By mv' letter of the-16th of Septem
her, their lordehips would be informed of
the intelligencel had received relative to
the intended movement: of the French
equadron, and of my reasons for changing
my nation to St. Sebassitian.
While on this nation on the night of the
,22d inetant. the Pomone jointd, and capt.
'Bar'rie- (who with indesatigabie persever
ence, had, with the Alceste, wate-ned the
port ofisoulon) informed me, that the day
: before eeVerai of the enemy'e sq-taJron. had
1 put to eea, thatothere were coming 0." when
'heleft them, and that thtre was (very ap
: pearance of the who-e ﬂcrt being on the
Tmove trom the hnrhor. They had & nu
_ meroue convoy with them". and ne tlzis
movement was made With the fii'etosan chu
'erly wind, there Wae little doubt of their
being bound to the wsi atward. ( immediate
ly made the neceeeury eignate for the equa
dron to be prepured tue their receptiun. and
ieeed the three sl'l ee and eiuopstomoee,
ydra, Voionteire, end Mmetrel) to wind
wurd. to give notice of the enemy'e ep
proech. - _ ",
On the following morning. (the ladlloon
ester 8 o'clock, the Votontaire nude it up:!
- for e ﬂeet to the eaeueerd ; while they con
- tinned te come down before the wind, no
! eltemion me made" in the edron, ex
leepthy edveneinq two t-t eei ; ehipe the
' porte, nor our own hopes ; but it but been
J
n'ould "meek-the- invasion: of the ttblic
V
order 'ai his 6th per-dun! coat-in. ba
been-said that " man cannot be trusted wi _
the government of himsesiF/ss!" Can he then
be trusted with—theIgWercttsitltem of other: ?
Of have-we sound mgeis, m the form of
kings,.to govern >hitn fq-(Qsi-Lct history
mover this question."
" man of (it: leig.
tvqusd 03} to the etandctard of the "her. and
.. 'M- WrsitWt-y- simsrnew
mwzxuthssl believe it the ody'm,
when. every man at'thc castus the law,
ahle William Wellesley Pole, of Which tne
following are copiee.
. (VIA NORFQLK.)_
siLtvznPooL, Dead.
Totdon slew—The dispatcheo . from
lord Collingwoocl, given in our last page,
have at length omiefied us as to the he: of
on action tn-the Mediterraneun, and its
result. it has not realized the proviotu-re
miral Martin's'divieion ;si—two were set on
fire, ma the loss of the other is inevitable.
Probably Bone-parte Would not have re
. grettcll this it.-55. though in the prcSent state
at the French navy :: s-vere one, had the
traneport! reached their dtSll'lathsih, and
eﬀected their object. But their ssi-ars diove'
them into the nearest Spn: ish _po:+7 and
before they-had time to unlade the whole
of their ent-goes, a gzllnnt-and meritorioue
sQuadton, completcly l'rustratl-d h ir only
remaining hope. silcthe whole Wert: taken
or destroyed; the cergoes of three only
having been landed. The storeo cannot
reach Barcelona; though they may aﬀord a
tsitnporary relief to "the- French army Oc
cupied in the biockarle —os (it-roam. This
event, though-et inlcror magnitude no
naval explott, nﬀurds the nati-lection, that
the navy of France has-not only suﬀered a
nother dedu ,tion,but that its bent-sits will
be felt by the Spum'ards. The enemy'7s
distresses accumulnt: and should Barceto
na fall in consequence, the explain will
prove of vast importance. '
Fromthe London Guzetrc Extract-dinary. as
Novc'mbcr 29.
_ AEMIRALTY Urncz. Not-. 29.
The honora'tctle lieutenant VVizliam lVal
degrnve, of the Ville de Parts, al'l'l . rtl hete
tsiml morning wisih despatcnessilrom si e ad
miral Lord Collingwonu, tne count-under
in chief of l'lll majesty'a ships and vessels
as complete n'the stars ol'the enemy will
admit it to be. But] !ht'ls whole equadroo
of the partinldivision which , the press'mgsi
ne-ceesity'nfssattempting the'relief of Biir- ct
alone-obliged them to hazard; there had
in that cnse been :! '"Ft-uloti' fleet no lon
ger.-----'-The ss'thrt-e line nisi battle ships,
which mre sent out sins 'l'uolon t0'protest
the convey, the French accounts had in
formed us, kept the whole English'siﬂeet at
hay. and did them considerable damage ; '
the fact turne out thar without living :t shoe,
_ !v '*.-I
"Latc'stctFoT'esi-si'gn Issrssttelligence.
sssstsisiZt-gicrvciudf .----I wist n-df- . I .be-;
- tym'wwwiefi coi
,
!hat-chnsi SOWMGM, " the God?!
,"simiy; by? uibil'uy, want cut-r
Vzlze 'de Parts, oﬀS. . Selamtian,
-......si... want.-lu
- —-——
!
ed to the Hadst-act
sifrdmÞ-wip'ofssvf'si—
covered to mia-si ' _ ss _
evinwossﬄzlm f-"ss youth;-=: "83" s—r
usidw - ' . Fﬄ'si? devout-lo ma: of
'MMYQMMT ::(tmirusiﬂssctfifmia m
chnsethcm. and fight"?! ctusict-WR satisinct'
.}siipj, 'M' mndmgsi on QWUT}; up:",
might-he advantage. sits the Judges ot me
wind which'wuthsi-n unathle. 'si '
A: th- M-sisihsij Pomm laying ssgm si:
- m nindwardLUM-dtreptcd by ligne] to du
ratroy loth DW Son"?! 1" coold' be come
up Man-during tyrants-ob- burnt ". .,
brigg, "two" bond-ed: 'and a k_ctt:h- 'The cur,
my before did-, "a! 07" 91 "ah!, and the
ships 'chnittg not much- ntlvanccd, m.- "
standing to the .ﬂos "n'-"1, wb'fie the lq-md.
rott' with me 'strctchcd to the tottthwnu... -
'l'lte ossczt mo'mth with" the French no:
out-ctchafu : [hip- Wel'e_ in fight.
'Fhi. mungsingurear ttdlitit'n! Martin join.
ed with hit dlyinqmu med in the "It!
.in, having again {taken in with the {tway on.
the fish, and on the and they chmd them
opshorc-t tlfe Robtm of 84 in. beating
ct the king of your admit-al [begin, and the
Lcon of 74; off Frontagmn, when the thy
following them-che: set {ire to them. The
Boreao of twenty-satte gtllll and : frigutc
run on thou It the pot! of (lette, when
therein little probability ascitttct- of them
i
? would not permit this Operation untii- [an
; hight, when, astertlzttk, the ships bore up
' tion of which castle, of Trinity Fott, and
l
] The: boat: being-arrayed inn-parate di
} visions, the whole: were put under the Os;
' d-si-rc of litut Taiinur, firpt lie.-meum: of she
'sigrc, and proceeded to the: alugk of the
enemy, who, although he could have. no
previous intimacion of such an cotcrprizzj
against him. was ssmod vigilaut— and coin-,
pleccly on his guard. The diip which was;
: smaller sort of this:-te, was mio-e ] in"
bour-ding nettings. and a good buch ad
vanced 'a-head of her for the look-due; on
being buiic !i, and the aiurm gan find." our
! [man stre-ailed out. the an" I! the high
sicu pitch of unimacion, silkingctlhc in with
Hbeir che-en; each dis-idea leokihc pen
fprc—viumly alle-ned to it; .lhc_ntmcd ship
was boat-ded at all points, and carried in a
few minummolwixhnmuingo . 'iritedsiund
nurdy rcoimncc which the: run-de.
'ss All their proud va.-ml- were: well descsinsided."
but the Behind on:-men an I mnine. dem
mined to oubduc them. w'm not to be kiss
' pened, even by . surc- souml to besi doe-Me
am whichyn expected ; and bcsslich ell
oppooition 'mndc by th: wench. she ;um
idea the cock, eke Aor'a inch.- lny. du
'—
! cannot eullieiently uprose the high u
tiet'nctinn ! felt at the intrepid meve
sttnce nl rcar admirnl Martin, an of the
captnine of the lhips who were with him
in the pureuit. Nothing leu' erdent, oe
less skilful, would - have produced: reeult
so fortunate, where the tout neur the
Rhone was exceedingly ehousil and dange
rous,- so that some at the ship were in him
and six suthume water, the weather thick,
'and the south eaet' wind blew strong.
s! eneloee you, air, rent-admiral Mar
tihssn-ltttcr; and beg to eongratulete their
lordships on three great ships of the ene
my being the. destroyed, without the
mulleet resiatanee on their part, sior : shoe
being—tired by the British ships, except :
sew by thectTigi-e at the Bones, when she
weepuahing nhore at Cette ; of their two
sTigat'el, the -Pomone and Pauline, one
hauled her wind some time in the night
and fetched into Mnmillee road.
'The other part of the French equadton
are found to remain in Toulon by the ehip!
'which have time nex-mitted that port.
' ] have the hon or to be, :Btc.
(Signetl) COLLlNGWOOD.
si'Ville de 'Pan'e, oﬀ Ram, New.- 1,-18£D.
Stn,
When the ent-my'a convey wan chtloed
on the Lad ult. their transporu eepantetl
from the ships of war, and, under the pro
tectiori' of no armed store ehip, two hom
bardst and} zvbeck, made for the hay of -
Roaas. \Vhen the- eztipe of w'ae were dis.
poscd of, in relnted in my letter ofssyesttti
day, the convey became the objeetss-of-my
attention, and on th:- 29'sih the Apollo "a!
; at a! Rome to examine what recede were '
there, and how far they were inn situntioc
assailahles. " '
't he ! ext dav l appointed the-ships ne'pc
marginj nor this service, under the oath-te
of say-va !] Hahowell, to bring them dut if
the wind me s-WOI'M le or other-wis: to de
atrtiy them. The state of the window! sea
for the bay, and anchoreJ about : miles
from the castle of Rosial, under the protec
several other newly erectescti butteriee, the
coin-as, can—sitting of :! vessels, tive of
them armed, ae .pcr eccompanying list,
Wt'l'c mooted. " -ct
Imintr and.
it . *