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htov^ment tif hi* c.holer justified all that 1 \
can ever say 1? he complains of pcr*Mtal (
hies, he who is hardened i» e\er> (
has- ; he who lives reviling and reviled ; -
■who might construct him-elf a monument j
with no materials but th. se records to which j
h.‘is a pai 'v and in which he stands enroll
ml is an offender; If he cannot sit still to i
hear his accusation, but calls for the pro.
trClion of the court, ag linst a Counsel ah *e 1
tlulv is to make his crimes appear j how
tiocs a/ie deserve protection, whom Uehas,.
driven to the sad necessity of coming heren
to vindicate her ttunor from those personal. !
itirs which he has lavished on her? Did j
ho* his opening counsel say before you, that
he could make the color fade upon this la. ,
th’s cheek, and wish that she might be in
Com t lo hear him ? regret that her own son
was not here present to testify against her?
was not this monstrous personality ? And
« wm*n it is considered that before this very
cause drew near its close, the other coon-j
s o' this same defendant rose and told you,
to e. they admitted her character it w as -p it
less, and for that reason that no reproach
•was cast upon it, desire you to acquit ,
tluir innocent client, who is a mere histo_ J
l inn, who never could have malice, who was !
hi ore ready to icctify his errors than others
to observe them.
lint it is well, and I am glad that T was
intert upted ; for the very evil genius that
waits upon his life lias here for once worked
to an honest end. For whilst my voice \va«
nir.03’ choakcd with crowding truths
Struggling for utterance, and whilst the
rwill of honest indignation rose even to suf
location, he came forward and pointed my
.attention to that subject which fu st deserved
I had said that in the catalogue of crimes,
none could be found more base than his.—
2^ot treason, for the reasons I have given.—
I'Jot murder—for he who murders life, mur
tiers all sorrow with i : but he has doomed
this lady- to days of sorrow and to lingering
death. The pirate meets the foe < r seeks
his prey when death or danger s»a.e him in
the face ; and when he falls he'ore the
sword of justice, some sympathy may min.
gle with his shame, and tnen regret that one
r, brave in manly enterprise should Far so
igvtminiously. But here is an attack upon
a woman, far from her husband's side, from
friends and borne, whose infant sons are
yet too tender »o avenge their mother’s
wrongs. The forger who counterfeits some
instrument to cheat you of your money, for
that crime spins out his wretched days in
hard caplivi y, in infamy and labor: will
you compare his crime with that of one who,
bv his fabricated histories, pilfers from help
less woman the only precious jewel which
she prizes, her more than life, her all her
Spotless.honor f Thai which the robber nr
the thief purloins, may he retrieved, or mav
be spared ; but not the worth of twenty
thousand beings, such as this libeller, were
he worth t wi nty-thousaud times as much as
fever be will be, reform how he may, would
pay the twenty thousandth part of that which
he has taken
The libeller who writes against abuse ot
unjust p ever, who vindicates the cause of
linerty and right, when he exceeds through
z il tor liberty, or th ough the warmth of
opposition, or even a stubborn spirit, is of
ten loved, and sometimes though found j
guii-y. he still has friends tha« honor and
respect him. But the hisrorian who takes <
suc h pains to rake up filth from every dirty
and polluted source, to make a nistory of
T. mca the scandal mav enhance the sale, is
a corrupt malicious slanderer, without one
Circumstance that can excuse or p dliatc.
I had almost forgo:-- is set up as his
defence, ihat he is an historian It is the
Mrs time that 1 ever heard a rule of law so
dangerous, as that a gazetteer who strings a
humoer of articles together, strewed uji and
down in form of communications, para i
grupns, and notes, that overrun his feeble
text like brambles shooting across and up '
and down in some rai k uncultivated soil ; I
that this man has any privilege to libel names 1
fairer man his own. Is it because nis shee’S i
are stitched together in octavo form andcov- :
ered with some pasteboard, that therefore I
he is privileged in slander ? It would have <
been Well, some days ago. if his brother edi- I
tors, against whom he got damages for being 1
his historian and calling him a British emis- '
Sary had sold their works in hoards ; they 1
might most readily have found as many wit- *
nesses and full as good as he has called to I
say not ihat it was true, but that they had
inquired and were told it, and verily believ
edit. They might have said it first them >
seives, if they had been corrupt enough to do i
it, then received it back .’.gain, and publish j
ed it as the history, not ol Tom Paine, but of j '
that greater man who rendered a wondrous I
benefit to succumbing faith by putting him . ;
down after the grave digger had just put
him under ground
li is arguc'jf ^ in
tended in i'.ivor of this defendant who hns;
written so godly a work against the prince of .
deists, utul for the holy gospel. 1 am sorry J
to hear such arguments advanced they go
almost to bin lestpie religion itself. He a
hum of (iixi ! He write for the love of G.kI ! •,
His bo- k a godly hook! a vile, obscene, and i
filthy compilation, which bears throughout]
the character of rancorous malice, and tram- '
ides upon every Christian charity Lind an
nnocent woman, lie and calumniate, for the
Anke of Christianity ! If this be the only g«d
lv deed this man has done, I pray to Hea
Vcn tobe more merciful to him than he has
been to Mrs Bonneville, and that for this ve
Vy work of godliness he bu not damned. It
yon be Christian jurors, punish him ; for be
assured of ibis, that twenty Paines, were
twenty such just now upon this earth, could
not Conjointly do more harm to Christianity
)>v their most violent efforts, than this man
by defending it would do. If anyone of wa
vcring faith should hear, that the best vindi_
fc a Mon of (bid’s word was this most libellous
and scandalous work, he never would be
fchristian from that hour. Not every one
that saith. Lord, Lord, shall enter the king
e*.om of Heaven, but least of all he that
makes the blessed name of God a cloak for
imil.ee and iniquity* He may be like those
priests of whom wr read in history, who with
the holy cross in rite one hand, and the bloody
Aabre in the other, commit atrocities at
which nature shuddets. Where did lie
icarn that the God of mercy took delight in
human sacrifices, and that to do him Honor
A woman’s heart should palpitate upon a
bloody altar f Has he ever read the word of
God. or, ttbs heavenly historian, does he
know one letter of the gospel history * If be
d'ics he is as blunt and dull in understanding
ns iie is dead to sensibility and delicacy.
Whet, a woman was brnrght before the »u
|j,nr ofthe Christian faith, taken in the very
fact of adultery, what did he say f He left
behind him a lesson cftendrrness ever intm
<i ru' I-. and divide. Let him, he said to t'uft
anatical and malignant rabble, iet him -who
siiin«K /.u c.»" tti first sto (e. And it this
:nristnn historian had ever known or felt
[hr benignant spirit ol holy inspiration
would ins not Ik sensible that hr was mi' tha
innocent r It he be innocent, then are iige>*>
pfhtle. Ii M's. BouneviPe were as guihy
as tie no later than this day prop >sed to
prove her, tvns there no better way to i cemu
mend the cmistiuu faith than l>y upbraiding
he with such pert and comumeliousmalice i
But whru we prove her innocent, when sue
comes troni out tlie fiery furnace unhurt, tin.
scorched, tlien “ the more angel she, and he
the blacker devil.”
But it is said, lie acted ^ona Jiiv He made
inquiry and was deceived. And being an
historian, is justifi d even for the bl isplie
tines he this day uttered hy i.is counsel’s
lips. If this tie so, much as I love tluscoun
try, admit e its people, and revere its laws, I
would rathe' once more tempt my wander.,
ing destinies than live where one hit orian
was unpetmed. unmuzzled dr (inchitined. 1
had rather be exposed to some deformed
thing with claws, and horns, and tusks : some
spit-fire dragon whose breath was poison
ous, whose tooth was cankered. T- 11 me of
all the monsters that ancient history or table
treats of; of harpies, hydras, Caledonian
boars, of Minotaur^ and Pythons, of G->.g.»ns
and Chimeras, «f fierce and ferocious animals
that prowl the desert or fright the haunts of
men, and I will ItII you ol a more fearml
muiisiei —-tnac is. an historian ! It every
man that keeps the worst ot company, that
goes about to hunt for lies and scandal,
whose organic and natural perceptions are
turned to wickedness, whose scent is fitted
only to run the track of slander ; if such an
one he an historian, and may vend in open
market the scandal he runs down; better
that letters never had been known, printing
invented nor history composed.
The plagues that accident or nature bring,
must be endured ; the evils with which an
angry providence sometimes thinks fit to
scourge the sinful sons of man, must be sub
mitted to with reverence and pious re
signatinn ; but that a common libeller
should be invested, with more than kingly
power and prerogative, is what 1 never heard
of.
Gentlemen. I have been drawn in to say
more ot religious matters than 1 could wish
'odo. Not that such things are no: good uid
fit to say ; bull would willing y avoid a to
pic so sacred, because I am not \vor hv to
discuss it, and because it sometimes is made
a cant ; and nothing is more odious than a
canting lawyer ; not-even a canting .ibeiler
I have ci ed to this court those cases, where
it has been held no justification Of.a libeller
that what he published had be'ore been pub
fished by many, others, and uncontradic td.
1 have referred to the $iatute which does
not allow the tnuh itself to be ajusuficutiou,
unless the defendant cun make it satisfacto
nly appear, that he published that truth
with good and justifiable motive. 1 ha e
cited English cases, where the go»>d intention
of the defendant was not allowed to justify
him: for acts hat are in their own essence
criminal, furnish the inference of malice and
of bad intention As well the rubber or
the murderer might say, that some on : told
him the victim of his fury deserved his death,
and upon such villainous suggestion consti
fiite himself his legislator, his accuser, his
iudge and executioner.
If tlie defendant's counsel had proved him <
an idiot from his nativity, or one deranged
in mind, or under the in'fta«oe*
phrensy they migh have excused him : but
on the contrary, they tiavri compared hi.ii to
the great names ot Burke and Bishop Wat
s*n, nay more they have m< des.ly prefei red
him to them bath, iorthty assert that h svde
book lias bpen the ablest refutation ot me
Age of Reason that ever issued from the pen
i>f man. Was not this gross and rank !
M irk but the difference. When Paine was in
the vigor of his inind, when his ex raordiua
ry writings hud partizans and countenance
to back hem, they attacked him with man
ly energ J They provoked an answer, and
left the world to judge between their argu
menu, and left behind them a monument oi
splendid controversy Not so this man, who
lurched, and dodged, and crouched, till
ienth had done his work, and then came
Forward, when his adversary’s tongue was
mute to prove he was a beast. If be was a
Dcast even, he was king of beasts compared
to this one : but you remember what kind
nf beast that was, that kicked at the dead
lion.
Bnt since we are upon the subject of this
God like wovk this history, winch I could
never wade through, the very preface is e
Hough to shew vou what the writer is, and
whetner he has written fai hfully, without de
ceit or malice.
In the 21st page ot his preface, this histori
an states, that on the arrival of i homes
I'aine, he was the man of all the Community
that took upon him to procure a lodging lor
him, and the firsS-that sat at the same board
with him. “ 1 engaged a room for him in
Lovett’s hotel, supposing him to be a gentle
man.” And in the 23d page of his preface
he says- *’ My acquaintance continued
with him, with various views, two or three
years.” Now weigh this well. Paine was
as much a devil then as when he died. 1’he
defendant knew him for no other than Tom
Paine, the author of that very Age of Rea
son which h >ly inspiration now c.tlls upon
him to arraign. Yes he was the first to wait
upon him and to welcome him ; to lake a
lodging for him, and to continue lii» intimacy
with him with vari* u« views, two or three j
years •• My intercourse (says this hisiori
an) was more frequent witu Inin than agree*
able ; but what l suffered in fvelmgs from
his want of good manners, h s dogmatism,
the tyranny of his opinions, his peevishness,
his intemperance, and the low company he
k.' pi, was pernaps com,>ensa eu oy acquit*,
ing a knowledge of the man. The laiter
part ot his life was spent in the cuy of New
York under my own eye; t>ut 1 have made
particular enquiries of the persons in whose
houses lie successively lived, as to his man
ncr of living, his temper and his habits.”
♦•The facts respecting his death anil burin I
have from a humane and sens;ble t/uuk r
gentleman ; from doctor Manly, his kind
and attentive physician, and from hi* nurse,
a woman of intelligence and fiietyWell
said ! humanity and pieiy! Most humane
doctor! mjpsc pious nurse! benevolent and
chaste historian, that haunts tfie living to
revile the dead ; that keeps his ravenous eye
uponhisprey arid follows him just as the
shark does the distempered vessel, to feed
upon the carcase ; that leagues with honest
doctors and pious nurses, whose babbling
gossip hr vouches for the truth of his most
Christian history ; doctors and ft tout nurses
who betray the wretched secrets of human
frailty and dissolving nature, to this evan
grlical historian, who gloats with pleasure at
the ordurions details, and gives them to the
world as the generous dedications of aposto
»c seal, that labors in the vineyard of the
uun to «ave ppor sintnis* v>uis! Oil. vile
i\i»ocric\ ! oh. g nss i iip»>* uic ! Vod wit;
, 'n honorable c: t as, l>e gulled by this i
-Will you l»e|i, ve it p. ssib v tliut this
•inn h is iiu ryalice f I’omy imagination his
'wn story presents the image ut s-nne nas
vermin, dial eirjendtCi tn :be m.nbid parts
>t so tie decaying body ; the creature of cor
niption : the precursor of life’s tliss .In ion ;
who, like a w .rin ,.i a maggot, begins bu
where lilt: end, and ba,tens in tne bowe.sot
disease
(itNTLKMKN.
1 do ii • «U'.*ak at random This his orv
is now in evidence, and every line o it is
now be lore y u. I never read it. but my
eve has caught some passages that warran
tne to sav. tne all bor w.is in Utciuus and tin
fair, and that he neither could nor did be_
lieve the truth of what he wio»e, nor in the
honesty of those Iroai whom he got it. N.*;
bulhe went about, like those that buy old
rags and broken gl ass, and mm Jit for no
thing sound or whole or cleanly F ir mi,
stance, he went to the house »>t Mi. Hi ts,
(I have marked the page down for your :n
spection.) and Mr H> ts being too honorable
to hold such vile communion, or furnish this
libeller of lie living and the dead, wim any
vaiuumy <t£ tlUbl me ID All I1IH n Ol
had mice protected, or violate the f.iitlj of
Hospitality he sets him forth in history as !
a concealer oF all Heavenly truths, nnd'tra
vels mund to gather scandalous gossip irom
angry enemies from disappointed claimants, j
soured expectants, from adverse litigants,
from pious nurses and chagrined doctors,
whose hill- and charges were disputed and i
then returns with Ids diry budg« , not like I
the bee that suck sweet honey from the
fragrant flowers, but uke a wasp, whose
only industry is in his sting, or like a ser
pent, who leaves the wholesome food, that
nature spreads to feed Ills venomous maw
wi h what is rank
He knew l'om Paine to he the author ol the
Age ot Reason, yet in his book lie s ates In in
'elf to be the very man who took upon linn
self ihe friendly and tamiliar office, on his
return from France, to take a lodging tor
him. In the very preface ot his history, you
may read this. Hr. sat at tub e with him,
whilst he ate beef .steaks, drank beer and
looked so ugly . Thus he continued hisac
quaintance with him •* with various views.”
He wa* his eulogist and co nmemorator ;
that is notorious And on this trial he seems
to have no friends to vouch for him, but
all tne worst of Paine’s. What could his
counsel mean who opened with this proverb,
l'ell me your conmanv and I’ll tell y< j
who you are f” Y >u see how trudi %vill
pierce through brazen walls In his histo.
ry lie g ves some ol P tine’s writings which !
ttK puolic eye had nev. r seen before, so
profit.ib e is ins industry !
, Gentlemen,
I nev. i saw l'om Paine but twice or
thitce. 1 lie first time was in Paris, w ien 1
eemfed to me the type of Uiltu mamiood
-- illelancnolt ••uin. His habi s then.
no. uiting well with mine licit h>m to him' !
se t I iiatl no • various views.” J never
comma morale d hinr living, not libelled lion
when dead 1 never was his host. Ins gu> st, <
nor tavein companion. 1 take nis p.c mel
1 ne re (ore. fr<< n ms his.orian. aud 1 ask could .
ne helit Ve, thai such as he describes uim,
t wadowing, withered, fiithy tei g, u ij
deaniiei than me swine, the filthiest thing j
uat ever walked tiect ; oid pe ulan . ih
tatured ; caruuucleu, cuprosed, a di unk t. u
x sllttlcaiil .tint air"- -r . •, .a ,,, ... -•
Ho U'.'i not consummate his la >u .Ilui ri
age-1 a.-k it in the name ot Heaven and
truth, it lais were so (and if it he not so. he
Historian lies,) Could lie believe hat such a
one as that ever seduced a woman? Del
lit be icve tha. such a piece of fleau, and, at
a time when lie was both proscribed and
nemiylesv lodged by the bounty of a huspan , j
immersed in dangerous cuii. roversies ; nat ;
such a one c.Hid oe the g ty and fo> unate
leducerot a lady, Died up at Pans, in the
price ot lde, ot polished naoits and person
ai attracuons, and have seduced her from
the atlier ot her children, a man ot per
voii.il figure, manners and shining acqm
vinous? One of his coutisei aigu. tl, a.-» it ne
though ms client’s Cause would be the -.a.
ter, me more u was entrenched in heaps of
calumny, that if she did not mie Ills person
she dd worse, sue loved Ins pimcipies.
Gentlemen, this lady had no more to do
with tiis opinions than you have wi.h those
ul Alt Clieethain. she neither hated lion
nor Mr Cheetham, as those who love Ins
new born virtues did two years ago. A .d
at this tiour sue is, perhaps, to learn his o.. 1
pinions, so foreign are such optc* to her*
guileless nature and her feminine spirit. ’
Nay, more; she did not even speak Paine’s
language, nor lie ht r’s. Thisy.nl may ga j
fuel nointhe evidence, ana Irom me insio j
ry, wlwcn is now evidence. Paine never i
couiu »pe»k r i encu, mougi lie c<> la : cud it ,
she never 'p ke me E igli-.ii ’till she iearn_
ed it licit- ; and Mi Underhill, the deten ,
dam’s wi ness, lias continued ibis, because
in mnnickrjr lie iells you, that alter ye..is
of residence she spoke ni.peitec.iy, ami
called lu r cliiitl fame’.-. aluiil
Count this mao beueve, even on an aihe..
ist’s lai h. though he atfir .»td with uputied
hands, or on lie laith «»f me most * pn.u-t
and line iigent mu se,” that ki es and doves
Would but and beck lege tier? it tie is not
ci tdulous enough tor itiis and more man tins,
lie does not nor did no., when he wrote, l>e
neve tile nornble slander No, g. n lenten;
hut irum was not his wish, IK warned tn„
my anecdotes to swe\J his scandal >us enro
nicies and make bis msioiy a pi emus hut.
cliaodize for ail the id e and illiberal, who
take dehgut in wonders and in wicked
ness.
iiut it is said, all this must be excused,
because tie is a tabor r in the vine yard, a
Christian hero und historian. Woe nee tell
tins sudden dispensation upon him? Did
tile star slime upon him troin the west, or
from the east, wncnce wise men come? or
who nidarned him toupnoid tiia*. faith, which
no man in mis cmirry, except ins atneist
friends and lie liimselt, hud tjues wned? or
if it was in danger and like.y .o succumb,
could it receive from the attacks of twenty
sucu as i’aine. so great an injury ns from
o.ie smi^I advocate like him, who lives by
writing down ail chiistian charities? Are
there nut venerable ineuenough, who spend
their youths in studying and their maiurer
years in teaching ctiri dainty ? anil do tney
want the aid of coinmon libellers? Aie
there not those, the chosen of their ft.»ck,
whose pure and innocent lives give efficacy
to their words? (iood lathers, fauhtul
friends and tender husbands, who practise
wnac tin y preach ; whose gentle manners
and inild intercourse inspire your sums with
reverence and love? whom you can hear
with confidence and follow with delight?
who in your sickness visit you, in your af
11 ictions comfort you? with whom you ami
your families ci»n join pravrrhe- .
"c !*c ar ,;f ciet 1..I iiimcv id Uiu hies
,,m| hope »f evtfrlastmg In • * vith vli m in
' k' htspowir who i» wluU'Vrr iu ne In
uav he caJed, dimugli wha s >ever medium
me effing c e of w. .k nt .riali y may v
htvimage, is ever (id? But shall |,
■ uiii it ucCiv.'s irouble 'he pe.scenf II .ivt i
a- d of iiia. ? H is he not libelled ivoatm ?
It- h is ! <n,I never could the foe of woman’'
j»e ice lie Inend- to (Jod or man !
I d i not fc'tv that rctormaiion mav not
hyiit upon die veriest siunev. A d we are
told there is more j iv in Hvnven for one
sinner tli.it repents, than -tune v nine that
never went asir iy. Be it so. B,i> true con
truion is tnarktd with meekness and hunii
li'y. His his been s««? 11 he now repents,
us like an angry wolf, that stands at bay
grinding his teeth, anti who repents of ho.
thing hut this, that he is caught. The
Words Ills counsel opened wi h this day,
were they like penitence, when he threat
died deep shame and ruin to this I nly and
tier friends? to mak.« the color fade upon
her cheek ? ri gietted that her own son was
not then present to stupraie his own mo
thcr, and hoped she might be then in court
to bear him say so? W-is it repentance, to
have fir it pursued her in,:> the privacy of
miHlt st life and a- the shrine >>f blessed hos
pitalitv, beiore die household Gods of her
protectors, like a sanguinary savage, assail
ht r with his club ; but even within this
hour, here in the sanctuary ol the law, once
more to lift his worse, titan homicidal arm,
and aim another dagger at her breast?
Is this that true repentance, in sack.cloth
and in ashes, that moves man’s pity anti
Heaven's mercy ?
(to be continued.)
. Wilmington July 7'h.
His majesty’* *,ixir j> i w »r Avon has re
tu-ued to New Castle. W’e ate credibly
informed tia.it an uninterrupted intercourse
is kept up between this ve-.se! and some of
our unprincipled and irai emu- ci' zi-ns. by
which hundred.-, of dolia s wortn of provisi
ons have been fui nislied ner in direct vi«i!a_
tton and conte opt of the la vs and at the
moment when this same ves-el has several
impressed Americans on board. Every one
will a.k the question—wlm is it that might
«o enforce the law ? We have officers o* the
customs whom vc believe are vigil mt in the
performance of their Uu y W. ha-e a dis
trict attorney, and u district judge. I-. u
remissness oi duty on the pan o? ei her, r
borh of the lat er, or npi by ju W ishtngion
that encourages the base and unprincipled
in degrading the Ameiican characterf_
"lime a mits no in u-c ol ibis unpleasant
subject at present. More anon.--ll'aich •
man.
B'iston. JuIn 4.
T^TPORTAJiT Thr hxchangr C Jfer
house book* say that it is undera ood here
ha* been an arrival at .\ew Bedford from
L‘ve> frjol which brings London /.afters o
the 25 h May six days lar than bef.re
received. which sa e that a new order in
dune l had been issued, blockading ul /tor s
/'•ini siouch fra Britannic Majesty' fl ,g
sous excluded. Tne fuifttrs ul < rw Bea
( . d a*e /tr.ii'rd on Friday; we shah firobub
ty learn Jurther particulars before then
Bus. Pali lot.
gentleman from .’{won, informs us
•hat i was r,fior ed a vessel had arrived
ii, d/i • ,n u Khort ftus^age Jr-.m
rifior ha 'hr /finish Order in Council
of .1 fin l 25 had been rtflean d% and thut he
Order / November 11 was rc~es ubftshrd,
by which /ten rma were furbddi n ,o enter >
any /< r. from which >h British Jhg was I
excluded -5al m K g s e.
Philadklphia July 7.
We have seen a lei.ci n n. Mr Heth,
ot Hiclimond (whose name was so m.pio
p. rlv mentioned in .lie report i f an insur
rection in Uictim nd ) by .vlncli sveare fill
ly auihoused to asset t, that the report is
totally ta.se—We dee id i* propel to add,
that die ex’rac id a Kilter was c •uioiut icu
led to us i) a person calling himself Carter,
who adeOged it was limit a air. Archer,
in nichmond: The fabncatioii was bo.h
despicable and wicki-d
From the B-l unote American.
I he new British older in council, is one
of die sins ft. gran outrages upon mengli *
and sovereignty of neutral nati . ns, that ever j
stained the hisoric page of civ: i,rd man. i
It is neither more nor les , than t e t >t. l
blockade of the entiie coas-sof the U. S;a es,
authorising the capture and condemnation
of all American vessels, engaged in in fish
erics. Pile lari ude given to the British r
devs in council, by iheir admitalty courts,
justifies the most alarm-tig apprehensions,
i his order shews, that (j Bii ain is deter
mined >o strip France of the wreath ot in.
famy, by exceeding her in her stretch of
pira 'Cal depredations on American proper
ty 1 nis is another eff ci of the weak and
nerveless conduct of thet o last Congresses
Instead of supporting the m a jests of the
laws, and mamtaini >g the independence of
the Country, even at tne point of the sword,
they unfurled unphotkcted tne swelling
sails of coiiimetce, and let hem to the ir.er -
cy ot the piratical disturbers uf in mkiud.
1 he removal of the Erubai go, wi hout an
efficient suhsii'ute, was a base dissertiou
of public duty <n surrenderiot National
ngio-i.tse suiiniissiun to loreign edicts.
We nay be lold. that this new ortler is
intended solely f..r European operation—not
so. Head but the older and compare it
with the act prohibiting British and French
armed vessels from our waters, and ilie
construction of that law by the Treasury
department, and it will he found m be an
older of retaliation f*>r the act of occlusi
on ; intended for the destruction of the A
merican fisheries ; inasmuch as the British
flag is not freely admitted into our harbors,
it being restricted solely to unarmed and
despatcu vessels.
* wiurri n rnees..
sence or the order, allows the necessity of
ho iin media e cal of Congress, to adopt ef_
ficient measures, to rescue our commerce
from impending ruin :
“ vessels which shall have cleared out
from ally |»'rt, so fau undtrth cotntoulof Franc
or her ahtrs, as i ha i llniuh kjih, tnuy no
Fi, k>.J. v trail* thrtrat, 4110 which mr *ui pli.y e
ut the Winn Fistieiy, or other Fsliery of any
d script ion, ji.vc ,,s tu n iltailer except*. <1, an.
nre returning, or destined to icturti, either to the
pml hum mience l *:> cleared, or u> «,.y
pot t or place, at t. .• ifnti^n f) *g msy tii<
frttly trade, shall be Ctift'uttil • id contUmmd, to
J lisr With tin a SlOltfs atlid c.itgu, an pi i&t to III'
-aptora”
The exception is a very gracious one hi
ins ni.^c^y is pleased yet, to ict u* have
a nnpnlv of frrsh fish—but r c ’cd _
1 nil n.ustcon.** ho>i. N ...i {k'».ia.
T »• L*»k slaMiro .5 v H„n
**' m, .hr twenty, x .1 in.., firr ;> .sv ,*■ &
■umber of l.'vs, r. «.c. \ ,,«.w *4,d
•' t'.ni w»Mlel. rinm.l nn—to b.- 1.1*1 *: C n
,H d 4,,d * M“,e T4* f ’»»«• <> llioun.iui dolU.'s
I >>e lion Mr Cht:mhe> lain h.w sipr. fi d hn in.
•."...'."f no-„ j,,l<K „* * me.t.lK-r
,iv>s ♦ *1 N Himp.i'ire
Europe.
.. , London Mat 14.
i 1 ^ Malta mail transmit, into,mation to
tht »* .»* Much. and int,mu .,s ..f -„i
"I'l'Hicuo" at Minorca, occasioned by some
indiscreet restrictions on commerce, which
U-d to a disposition the male „t«*i, , .o
supercede -he authority of Spain, a., J pl .ee
the island under the protection «d G. Hmam.
Alter the destruction ot the custom hot, ,e
and of some private property of its superin
tend*,,t. order whs re established Uu- i.ic
the coin no ion a deputation was simto
. r“ Colhngwo <1 to request nun to assise
hi accomplisning the purposes of tiie disetf
tectetl. His (jo. d%hip observed tha he whs
not authorised to interpose, hut that he v/..utd
coininunicate to hisg ivernment »he ra„s c
i tons tha; had ->ccu.. «d, and he fav „• , ,le
disposition which had been inunifrs*ed o
wards this country. We are into,med that
in pursuance of his L .id ship’s r,-c >•,intend ,
li. n to preserve tranquility, the British ..fir*
cers exerted th, msclves so successfu l;, hat
the tumult was soon .suppressed
I'nmug . the sa ne cha mcl we h iv~ the
satistactun to learn, that Mr. \d,ir the
B. i tsi, mints.<r to she Sublime Porte. had
t eceiv d the most positive assurance- of the
Grano Sigm .r’s determutation to maintain
inviolate t|ie reaty of alliance with G. B.
and. it requisite, to support that power with
til his forces.
Letter from Mr JJair t0 thr British ConM
mil <if P m’trtta
“ C onstantinople. Feb. 22
SIR,
“ His maj 'sty having been graciously
pleased to permit me io le nm ,<» England
1 nave toa;q lairit yon 'iiat ii dess very un
expected events sh mid detain me it is my
imention to have (. oustan inople whenever
the season becomes favorable.
“Ishould long-ago a,ve < x rated this in
tention, had I not perceived that the peace
between Austria and France and esp chilly
rha, aticle >f the tiea.y, which cairi.-s iie
boundary ? Fra me to tin* Save. ieviv elm.
h >p< it, our eoeintes ofeng.guig the Pone to
break wH, G. B
‘ F-ance In* insisted on having Croatia,
evident I v with a view of dictating the Ihvv
at Cutis an in pie That nr- li s ac <> g d
neig tborln t d toward- the links woulu >e
to compel tlu m. 11 p ossible, log., to wa, w. b
us. no mail c-mld d-uht hat .she wuu.d
succeed. 1 never had the slighest apprehen
si »n ; yet with the fullest •Hiance on the
g<-od tai'h and honor of tin Porte. 1 did not
tinnk i igmtnqui theaffurs fthe Ku ish
embassy u, a moment of even apparent <lif
Hculty nor tosanuu >n by am sudden depar
ture. the idle reports ti.a' had bftn dissemi
nated <-f approaching hostilities with ihia
c unt v
“ Fheevent has in every wav answeted
m\ expectation ; he ilite-ts ni Ft me, ;.re
our tiKndlv ret ,.tons with I'ui key has been
rejected with indtgna ion and our ei;< mi.-s
are themselves convinced, that they u ill
best c insult their ow interest by .tbs at .i,.g
from a repetition of their offensive p, po
sals.
'* Under these circu i,stances. I quit the
etvb -.ssy, without feat 1 ir me stabtli y <»l th©
peace, and with the assurance that thispow
erfu empire is determined n> assert itsin le
pe.deuce to the Inst, to adlm-e to its Bea
ties, and if nrcessuiy, to put forth its- whule
fi rce to main am them.”
RUSSIA AND Air KEY. ■
Pi, Esburg April 17.
The Grand Viziei’s ueai I qua, ets ►»« re
S'il a: Schiumla in the negating of p.is
m .n'h At Constantin ol , .is well as in he
i'.iiktsh a.inr many E gits .Hirers had
arrived from \l-tlti. I lit (>i ami Signior,
M diiiiud assisted almost i.verv tiny at ihe
d .-liberations nt the Divan The prepara.,
i ns for opening a ne a campaig ag.inst tne
Russians were catrit d on in ah the provinces
id the. Turkish empire with the g'tates' ac
tivity
I he Turkish fi et in ihe p.n of Constan
tinople was ready to sail on a ctuise into the
Black ben.
Boston July 3.
FROM CANTON.-u} C.p...in If rr,
from ( anion w e learn thm Hu difr'i • inee
betwetn the Chit eat and • he British lutd not
b to adjusted, (he latter dtclmmg >.> sUr„
retule tae person who ra std tbe dea h of
a native abhougu il Wtsbeueied he laws
of I hina w ulil acq ill hint. The govern*
mem still refused ch >p (or cleat tmce) to
the British vessels. They cookI dt pat i by
force which it was expected they wour1
do; Imt tins rmgh ptevent their being ac^,
milled again on future voyages
HI ANISII A \1 LR!(.. A_We Wear from
the Mat anna, th t iiilnrmatinfi had I cached
that place fiom Mexico, tha* ihe g ve*nor
had been arrested and sem to ; he
cause not mentioned.— The bishop it would
stem, had tlso been subjected to some sus*
picion, but had been permitted to remain*
ALGERINES.
Tlie Lewis, Captain Lawrence, on hit*
passage from Cadiz to Lisbon, was board*
ed from an Algerine sqi idriat of three IrC,
gates and one brig, and ireatetl politely;
they said they wanted nothing bui Portu
guese men of war. There were a number
of !’ortngue>e schooners ni sight, bm the**
did not touch them. The Algerine fleet,
when it came out of the Straits, consist, d
of five ft ig lies and lour brigs I wo fri
gate* and hree bligs were cruizing to the
southward.
Ry the last French Co-Ip of Laws, duel
ling is made a capital ofLncein France and
tier dominion*.
PRIV A1 EERS —— Capinin Hirt, i
''A tht*
vlissonri. ays—1 he Freitcli priviifti
» Car*
»td into Nrw Ot lentil, hate. v*itlt on
e rx
ception, btcudeart'd Sue WM»bmtn«l
in it
ogn'zu.it t«i ap|)Lnr a S)'X)nnh
Thf
.vTinsoun had forty pa^eiigw» -Jjah.
irUW,