Alexandria daily advertiser — Alexandria [Va.], 1806-11-22 00:00:00, page 2

, ALZZPHO' ( havessoever been :
contributorsithctthe green arches of the bow.
sick, yet have ( gazed at its wreathd and fes
Yoons with peculiar 'pleasuce. The visi
tqrs have indeed prchd themselves to be
ofdtﬀc'rcnt schoole; and some pf them
ct occaaiooally displayed a sraokness that may
have given : momentary wound to the fa- ss
stidiously delicate : but for my part !. am
_ not actucamish enough to take oﬀence at a ss
well usitcant satire, nor biggoted enough'to ?
cherish the error: of my cuuntsirymcnmcre
ly because they are the errors of those ]
love. Butcta truce with declarattons, and
with every thing personal or toreign to the
subject of which 1 am about to speak.—
You have doubﬂeztupt forgotten sihat one
of the correspoodents ofssthe Culworthys,
who calls herself Clan'ssa, and who from
the concurrcucc of our tzstes, ( should
lupposc my first cousin has the merit of
having occupied the fifth nitchc in this
your Litcrary Bowesir. With her, [cannot
but seelgreat-surprizc that so little nocicc si
Ah ! whither, goddess of the tearful eye,
Sadly mournful dost thou stlay ,
N 01. give the agonizing lay,
And drain, at once, our springs of sorrow dry ?
Alas , thy C'dle is vain:
*- sun, still shall we complain:
Tiii frofn thy lay we feel excess of glief,
And reason, more than mmtals blings leiief. ?
Then whither hast thou struy d,
'ssct Dear sympathetic maid ?
For ah ! no sleep mysiweeping eyes shall close,
'No poaceful couch my weary limbs repose,
Till thy lov'd form before my sight appea_15,
Till thy lov'd voice augments, then dtics
JDHN ssss 'L _____ J
' TWN 22 MAR l'llU 1
YLLZABEsiTH ) ! :
(A MONODY
To the memory of the seven innocents, oﬀ
Spring of. Jaimes and M sisiry VVoodm-asison,
"who were consumed by fira, in the dwelling
house of their unhappy parents, Leadenhall
street, London, January 18, 1782.
' NAMES oFsi THE INFANTS.
JAMES _ BORN 20 JUNE 1773.
lum!" ' . 28 AUG 1774.
sisigpncx 17 FEB -'si1776.
numuctz'r _ 10 um. 1777.
CHARLES 30 JAN 1778.
my tears, ss
I 'I- K I I- I- X X * X.- * &
si— Biest i'n connubial love, the happy pair,
In friends, in foltune bless'd !
Enraptm'd as the) pi essss d
Seven lovely infants in theit cixcling
arms,
And fondiy dwelt on all their little charms.
Parental love still sedulous to trace
. The kindred features of each cherub face—
Seem'd—did they not moxe than sesiem—Hea
ven s most peculiar care. ?
Yet, in & moment, lo! the ﬂames ascend,
Where, wrapt, in sleep, their dearest
treasure lies ,
And while a mother a shrieks the concave
rcnd,
ct Descending angels hear them to the skies.
The absent futher but too soon returns ;
Too soon, froin weeping friends, tho dreadful
story .ieams :
.-ss Depri—v'd of sense, all motioniess he stands, ;
And fondly deeme ?
He only dreamsH , ss
Then, as returning" leason fills hit soul, .
& Sudden he starts, as when loud thunders
' 'si roll. .
And lifts his speaking eyes, and clasps his
" si trcmhimg hands.
is taken of them ioimizablc poetry ot Shaw
who certainly has noc his equal m that kin_d
at writing which spring spomansouslyfiom
the chasmned bean. la turning over
lomc volumes of poetry, the Other day, I
accidentally met with the following monody
which is no unskilfulimitation at that (O
which ! have alluded. The circumsxaucc ss
which gave rise to it, is explained lo the
litle, and Was perhaps a subject of more f
pungent grief than that which cal ed forth ]
the pachoa of Shaw. SOPHIA. ]
- ssVain is the pow r of language, to express
.-* The Motherfs pangs, the father s deep dis
" tresiss* .
? A natidn weepe the nnmatch'd private woe,
A)? swift from royal eyessi the drops of pity
ow. si .
LITERART BOWER.ss
— NO. XIssH
Mr.Emron, "
Alas ! no Ltranger hear
The melancholy tale,
But down his visage pale
Fust fall thact'chacing tears—
;' red tho' a parent's bliss he never knew ;
0? Mwing, never bade one smiling habe
" eu. , '
ss mssthc 19" 11" Cammercml Advertiser.
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' SATURDAY'S
" Spake the heart rending-groanl
sixo heal_their wounded peace,
Ccase, busy memory, cease !.
(to coutiau: his labors, and held out to an
' siun for a punctilious aehtrsicnce to a volun
' aertiol not-illyctcalculated to captivate weak
. minde: but men of reﬂsi-ctiou and under.
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...s-n— - .. . .
Fdle of it, and torture it to suit theirlpur
tary engagement. whose performance no
one setmed to require. "sis true that,
under the pretence: of. fuifiiling their pre,
miscs to the public, authors do, too often,
load the press with tr'ash, which sen es no
100 Wlﬂc a-grouna: mal ]: ls equally up
plicable lo the official, as well as private
language, which has been held by the chief
magistrate, since his induccion to office,'
and to the wisest and most wholesome mea. si
sure: which have emanated from the legis- s
lativc authority. Have not most, if not '*
all of the preaidcnt's communications to ;
congrcss, - have not the most salutary rc- *
form; , the repeal of the judiciary law,!
lthe: nbolisiog of the internal cases, been l
i
indoleut temper an inducemtctnt to rtctpose,
too invixingtu be resistcd. The work was
accordiss'giy suspeaded. The first number
indeed contained a promise to prosccute
the subject ; ,buc there could be lit:!e occa
second number of Decius, have lain sor
some weeke by the author, and possibly
might never have emerged from their pt'l
vacy, but for somelate passages in your
paper. .The sate of his first cssay, Which.
literaliy, "jLsiZZ sss'ill-borzzsssram t/ze Pr'eas."
gave but little encouragch-ent to Decius
= Tnou, Losino, HLST GlVEN—AND 'zssnov IIAST
other purpose them to cnhttnce the price os
standing must at once perceive it covers
. . l ! _ *_ * l' ,
paper. But Ducius it. no auzhor—and can
never cncounrer the drudgcry of writing,
but with rcluctance, and even dread. He.
was sensihlc- that the publication of his se
cond esaasiv would beget the necessity of a ..
lhlsd," and he could see no reason why he
should harrass himself with writing, what
few seemed disposed to read. Except
some ﬂimay obj-eetimns, which were left to
answer themselves, the publication appear
ed te have attracted the notice of no one.
These however have since essumed a man:
serious form, and one which demands ex
amioation. Whtlst thcius is little anxious
who shall artaign his opinions, he can ne
ver mad indiﬀerent. when hts facts shall
be called in question.
Among the Objection: which have been
takento the first assay, it has been alledg
ed, that the federalists would mnke act-han
poses. There is a plausibili-ty in this as
m (. A
rwm ....— .. __A,_. , .- .
" And shall these eyes, that view (! the fever' s
ﬂame ;
Shrink' day by day a first-born darling' s -
frame , ,
That saw, . convuLS'a, a sccouu uu'auc lus ; !
Recal the deadly'ssscenes, and still continue dry ! '
Tho' sicenntless sighs the sstorturfd bosom
heave, _ ' - si ;
Tho' countless tears . the unclos'd orbits -
leave ; , 1
Time, the great soother of the human breast,
- 'Persuades, at length, * whatever is, is best)
And gives the bosom peace, the weary eye- :
lids rest, si '
'Tis his to heal the agonizing smalt !
That long has rack'd each helpless parent's
, heart; si
By means unknown & tranquil calm to give, ss
And bid the drooping mourners seek to live. -
To the Editor oj the Ric/zmand Enguirer.
Sm,
sict si Whose poignctantss grief} cttctocto .long rssssi ct _ _'_ssss zsisi'ssss';
- unsung, si ' '
Thsic mournful harp, at friendship' : call,
Yet, as the soft distress they turn to hide,
And want of memory, wamss c_s feeling chide,
Their lovely, smiiing boy,
Shall bring them back to joy ;.
And kind religion, ever prompt to save,
Claiming their gratitude ictor what they have,
Shall bid them smize their pensivc breastc
and say,
The enclosed shzets, which contain the'
But, ah ! what suﬀerers, in this mortal state,
Can ever hopessto know
No interval of woe ?
'And least, where most they've felt th' aﬄict
-ive hent] of fute.
Then grieve notif th' Almighty has ordain'd
Their deeply suﬀering hearts shall still be
pain'd ;
As fond remembrance heaves th' unbidden
sigh,
And starts the gushing ﬂood to either eye,
When their new pledge sits pruttiing on
their knees,
And some forgotten charm sad recollection
sees!
The emsszryo insant now the mother bears,
[ So Heaven decrees]
Shall bring them ease,
And smoothe the path of their declining
years.
TAKEN AWAY .
And not to wake my own. '
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case, is tqttivulcnt to a sancxion of the
measurc iu question. These are ptinc't
plcs equally rational, and sit tot- Americaos
to not upon.
Lrt ns now examine the " IMPORTANT
FAR't's" stated in the Enquirer of 24-11 of
Ocz. lust.
lst. The explanation of Decius is not
" incc—rrect," in the " tts'o materizl pomts"
therein mentioned. it is true " that our
ministers proposed to surrendrr our clatms
for spoliations," in the sense intended and
expressed by Decius, (;B'thtng " that
th}? were instucted to make no treaty in
ss whsich those Spanish claims Were not pro—
svidcd sus," yet, is their ultimatc pay
' ment was to be assumcd by the U. Stalcs
(which was the fact) it wax. saitly equtiv-sit
tom to a suncnder of them. 'The claim
anssts indeed would be provided for, and
ss yet the claim upon the Spanish govct'nmcnt,
by the same. acr, rehnquishcd. The dissi
-. much less could they bcjusriftcd by the ex.
,. did not go too far with Great Britain, we
on—lu —— -. u-
Tnot virtue and courage enough to wnh
stand such attempts, (by whomsocver
made) it is plain that no eﬀectual resu
aoce could be opposed to them. What
then? is the prcswtsiadmittistratiqn per
fect? Amidst the various agents, supreme
and subordiqatc, in the executive depart.
ment, has there b-ctcn ur can there he no
wrong committed? Grant them any thing
short L'f papal insanbtlity—it became ne
ccssary when they did err, it) the opsinicn
of those through whose active exertion
they were bss-ought into power, and whose
characzers were implicmct! in their miscnn.
duct', that those errors shouh'i be facety
\a bjectinduced him to believe that such:
French spnltatitms and being silcnt with
respect to it, is one of thnse nice refine
mettts abtwt which ] shall not dispute,!)ttt
wilt leave the anthor to the undistmbed en
joyment of this " impartantstzct."
2d. It Is true that, in their corctespond
ence with the Spanish ministry, our minis
tct's stated, " that, in couscnting to cstablisih
the Colorado as the westem buttttdttry of
Lottisiana, they had exceeded 'hcir inharuc
tions." If such wcrcinot the fact, is it pro.
buble that those ministers would have so
stated tt to the government from whom they
received those instructionssi; or that thus:
dispatches would have been laid by that go
tinction between abaodocing that ssszrsi
vcmmeutbcfote congress, without rat'tfy;
precludc the propriety of t'ccuv'ringto k'rwh ?
sures created no ne
others of a di (
Spain, will he, o
scrt the expedien
negociations; is that sailurc of pacific mea. 'si
tion at Madrid, did not (as the author osl
"Imctbortant Facts" would seem to comend)
ing the error ?- ss
surec towards Great Britain, with whom '
we had a negociation at that time pending? '
Surely if the state of aﬀairs with Gteat
Britain called for strong measures on our
part, our situatioo with Spain demanded
,cttctturectl udsisitv'uted' kysifth'fld'ﬂr'ﬂssi "
"suit their otv'l'purpqnl. si - _
, Agai'o—esswhectn the rqpﬀbsiﬂll "m" sitntu
posisiwer, upon their virtue alone it depended,
whether there should .,cxist such a, thtnggt
m check upon the exercise which they
should make of it. ltssis not in the gentttl
of federaliam to oppose- abuse in govern
ment. with good will._ it is more eongc.
mal with her npirit to_ advocate it In her
friends, and connive If it in her enemies.
'* 'Til her mention," and she can never
be brought heartily to disparage it. Ac
cordingly, we find that the most desperate
resictanceuf the federa! leaden has uni
formly' been made to the most wholesome
and 'sipopular reformo. But setting aside
the comideration that they must always
from principle lean towards malversatioa
in office, the falsehood, scurnlity, and tan
cor of their presses had jusxly prejudicss-d
every sober—mindcd man against their
statemems. Certainly 09 republicao could,
or would, lieten to chargus against the ad.
ministratioo from so polluted a source.
This Situation of aﬀairs has subjected the:
press to something like a virtue] imprima.
tur. As the fedcral pr'mts could not ob.
tain belief, so the republican editors would
notpublish. lt evidently rested then upon
the vigilance and sirmness of the republi
cans alone. whether there should exist any
effitieut oppositiun to unconstitutional or
other injurious measures, in case such
should be proposed. is they possessed
scill stronger. And is our relations with _
ist'mg circumstances between us and Great
Britain. Is we went lar enough withSpain
we went too far with Great Britain; if we
Spaia did-not warrant any such measures,
and prumpzly exposcd. Sileucc, it] so:]: a ss
did not go far enough with Spain.
Dccius has no where positiveiyasserted
that the Lomaiana treaty was amedaacd -- i
The information which he had upon that ,
If the complete Abortion of the negocia.
y Other man, as
of using cocrcive knea
cnmpiexion'tewardl =
"stty for resorting to
!
duce these- !mporzant eneccs, and as an;
same time have liztl-sisi- bearing un Spanish
rczlasiicns, is left to che author of Imþortunt
Isi'acfs to explain, Vass'ould lhc cs-rnirw, 'Jr
Zr-l'ormatsilon uf Dr. Franklin on the subject
of our concerns wiih Great Britain, be less
emided w Weight because he was minsiLS'tf
at the court of Vcrsailses ; more (specixliy
ii he had but la'cflv {eft the court of Saint
]ames's in that capacity? XVould such an
Opinion, or Such information be less official
"us less " docuznccch" than if iccamctrom
a minister &: London? si
6. DUCS sisihe author of ]mþartant Fctzctz
certaFnIy !;nsictw t?1azMr.R-did NOT amicably
consulc the president on the truth of me
* vaguc in-zinuasiionsof hu cautious ;rZend,'
as th!s writer is pleased to term tho' secre
tar—y of the lreasury? A few words will
put this subject in its proper light. "Mr
Raodolph s'taced to !he: house that he had
been informed," (by two of their mcm
bers) " that certain propositions had bccn
made, to the xrcsiasury, to sound che diSPO'
sitionct of the: secretary of thatdepars'fiCor
on ,lhc subject of advancing the monF-Vv
voccd for extraordinary purposes os ssszzrelzlssss
. , l ,
meercoursmbefarc the bill had passen si-O 4
all the forms of a law." But at thee sisi .
time he declared, that if_thc secrclzm' 0:
the creasury would disavow che shsi-x,
should have no hcsicaziou in disbch v:
'it. . th';
Now, is Mr. Randoiph had derive; :
information from that officer,!zow cum
The queltion of " breach of neutralit ..z
was stated merely hypotheticallv_ h :)
not be aﬀccwd by the connivancect of The Bctss'
tieh minister, at a traosaCtiou Which :.
ctmtghtcdeemsibeneficial to his country. sit:
( thing ts most: common than such concezct
. otopafrom the government of a ttad'mg []ss
! tion, to the commercial interests of its an:—
jevcta. ss Mr. Pitt might not only wish ";
eorich the bankicg houses in London but
gladlysslend his and to any measure,th
! tssould take Lonisiana out of the hands 0:
ss France ; and yet his acquieseence remain
unknown utthe time of sign'mg the "(&-si
The'princiþ/e is at least dteputahle. Suy:
pose the United States at w-ss wuh Gscat
Britain ; and France, in consideration of
a ccsssisim of Labrador, were to supplv h—r
with ttoops, or eVen money ? . M'ighl it not
be deemed :: deparzure from her "tutruii.
ty.P But to have stated the argument saitly
the fact ought to have been taken in cou
nectsiton with our passivc conduct under
Span'vsh eggressirm on the one hand, and
our meuacmg tout: towards Great Bsttsijg
on the Other. From this comhtmsittcm Of
circumstances, might she not tnt'cr a (ct'ifissio,
sitiou on our side to depart from our mct-g.
tratity? So: was not one chief otsijsi-gjsisigsi
the proceduzsie, that such tamenezs on our
past would inspire Great Britain w'tzh csm.
tempt for any resistance which Wc tttfsirht
make to her px-etensious? When it shalctsisibg
established, that nggsssiession upon our man'
time rights is 3 3 ofiscr t'iolation of the
national honor, than the actual invasion of
ourtcrritmy, than, and n0t tiilthen, m.:y
the remarks quoted in the Enquircr (;:
deemed applicabie to this subject. 'i'he
tradesi-s in our sea parts may estzmute the
captuse of :hcir t'esu-ls as of more come.
quence, tt-an the invasion, or co queSt, at
one of the westem states; but they wssu
scarcely persuede the nation to be of thctr
opinion.
Jd- and 4212. The third and fourth of the
Im/rartmzt Fzsi'crss utzghtbe passed over in
stictcuce. The messctgea speak in: them
sdves. That the psisi-biic message breatitcd
at] indignant. atzd hostile langactge :ogz'mt
iurcigu aggressicms is to be found in the
spirited rsisi-sulutioz:s esseveral latge and re
spec able siaics, ct nscqucnt upon it ; in he
general underszanding of the members of
bath houses of congress; and that such
was :he sense of the nation at large, m.!
;eadily-he seen by & racurtenee to the new.
papcfs of the day of both parties, and a.
mong them (it is presumen) the Enquiret
itsetf. As to the. pt'tt'ate msizsuge, [am a.
sratd, that those wno cannotcomprchcud
its (lust s-som the tj-ssmtext, wiil be little,- assiz
ed to their appeheussiton by the commentz
m the Etsssssiutrerss
5. When stir.. [xionroe's dispatchcs of
s...e XS-h and ISth of October Were hid
before the.- 'nouzsic of represc-sittativzs, we
ra'tos the best itrftsirmed members (whohrctl
voted wnh me ttsitsijrctricy) declatsicddhﬂuhsiy
served to L'UsZVH'HI them that the course
.simrsued tow-zt ' * wit) was wrong; thssfsif
Iothers aﬀttttttsid- eﬀect on thetrmsstds
was tx'sittct'it'si' Elte .\'ts333 confirmFt-g then
in (he Frrsiþrtcsiy of the measures wh-ch
had been adopted. How they should P'sish
'1 ;," th; (ach- That belief is no:
; paircd by, the observacion in ih
; The only evidence of the cliatcnce of th
! contract is she signature of the parties to '1\
1 if the treaty was signed subsechml" m
! the date expressed on the face of it, 'si'wsi!
! antedated.
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