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th-ir choice, and the people themselves Far
from conicletuning it as an unwarrantable in
terference with the rights of the counties,
have, in every instance, e’ected as guardiuns
of the public weal, the worthy characters
they submitted to their suffrages.
If to preserve unanimity in our state elec
tions, it is thought necessary thus to resort to
the scat of government for a nomination, how
much more necessary such a meusure.be
comes when the widely-extended partialities
of the whole Union art to be consulted? How
indispensible, when the claims of three illus
trious statesmen are to be reconciled, who
arc the equal rivals of each other in every
private and public virtue !—To leave these
Intensions to the states to settle, would be
as absurd in principle as it would be .danger
ous in policy. The arts of intrigue would be
practised upon separate districts, and all the
tilth and mire ot electioneering would be
mingled in an affair of the highest delicacy
and importance to the nation. Already we
see alarming combinations formed in different
states to menace our cause with division.—
Vain and frivolous pretexts are employed to
^excite dangerous suspicions against our re
^presentatives in Congress.—The hopes of fe
deralism are encour iged by these feuds, and
the enemies of liberty have already pronounc
ed its doom. And will you, to whom the re
publicans of this state resort as the organ of l
their sentiments, as the defender of their pu- j
I'ity—will \ oil furnish argument .o those a ho
have charged us with corruption?—Surely
you must have mistaken the purpose of your
Correspohdcnt at Washington, or you could
not in so public a manner h ue charged the
representatives Jojf the republicans wuh dis
honourable intrigues.
For the information of those who have read
these charges, it is well that you have insert
ed in chosen characters the name of Joxiah
Masters.—He has always been a wavering,
unfaithful politician.—In the gloomy days of
terror, lie pursued with rancorous malignity
the principle of those men with whom he has
Since formed a political and intimate alli
ance.—As the prospect of success brighten
ed upon us, his spirit was softened into mer
fcy—and the sunshine of triumph all tired .hi hi
to our cause.—-His liihsd is a singular com
pound of cunning and ignorance—: “.ibition
and meanness—possessed of nil the arts of
Village intrigue, he aspires to be thought .he
lender of a party.—Always the convenient
instrument of men of talents, he at once be
came the dupe of John Randolph, and the
propagator of his calumnies.—This man was
one of the choice authorities to ivhom Cheet
ham resortt >i in his- late slanderous publica
tinnk against our illustrious executive.—On
the floor of Congress he sanctioned the feder
al charge of “ French influence” and repeat
ed the bast: fabrication ill his confidential let
ters to his friends.
Beware bow you credit their impostures.
Beware.how you give currency to their scan
dal. The chastity ot your own principles
will be sm pccte'l, by publicly connecting thejn
tv ith such names.
AMICUS.
From Washington.
The Supreme Court of the United States
commenced its session at the seat of gov
ernment yesterday, 1st February. Chief
Justice Marshal, Judges Chase, Washing
ton, Livingston, Cushing,and Moore,atten
ded. --
From the Washington Federalist qf Wed
nesday.
It is with regret we hear that Mr. John
R iitdolph received considerable injury from
a f,dl on his hip on Sunday evening last. Mr.
Randolph, with several gentlemen dined
with Mr. Key, and in the evening waspro
c; eding to return to town, when just &s he
re icbed the steps, his foot slipped, and he
had a violent fall. He was so much hurt as
to require immediate medical aid—and we
are sorry to leans he is yet ussable to come to
town. \Yfc hope lie will soon recover, and,
resume his seat in our National Legislature®
where hss brilliant talents and unbending iii
tegrity may be still employed in assisting fcp
shield bis beloved country from foul dishonor
and impending ruin.
Statement o f the members present at the
caucus at Wushingt otu
Georg::!—All the members present, except one.
South Carolina—Ail,except twoor three, who
were not well enough t« attend.
North Carolina—All, except three or four.
Virgin:-—Fourteen members attended, three
were out of the city, some were sick, and Mr.
Randolph *-nd his friends would not attend.
Tennessee—Ail its members.
Kentucky—All, except Colonel Lyon and Mr.
Rowan.
-- Ohio—All its members.
M ^yland—Ah its republican members who
were in the city, except one, who l believe was
udweil, but of this 1 am not ceitain.
Pennsylvania—- Ten members present, two
were absent lhat were assenting, ose in Phila*
dolphin, and the rest picstimed to be averse to a
caucus.
Jersey—All its members.
New-York—One present.
Rhc>!c-Is1and—All its members.
Massachusetts—All its republican members
that were well enough to attend.
KetV'Hatnpshire—All except one or two.
Vermont—All.
COMMUNICATION.
An Inhibitant of this place, supposed to be
‘in liquor, having offered Mr. Sloan, a mem
ber ct the House of Representatives, oppro
brious language, in consequence of the pro
position made by him, to remove the seat of
government.’—The Mayor, on a complaint
being lodged with him. immediately issued
his warrant {hr his apprehension. The ut
most confidence may be reposed in the dis
position and ability of the police either to
prevent, or bring to punishment any persons
who may attempt to disturb the peace.
Nat. Jnt.
CHARLESTON, Jan. CO.
* We are happy in fcaving it in our power
to say, that the City Council have had seve
ral meetings on the subject of providing some
employment for the Seamen now in this port,
tvho have been put out of business by the
Embargo. We are not. yet informed what
the measures arc, that have been proposed,
but we are assured they are such as will
amply supply them with provisions and
' hornet.City Gazette.
Every exertion is said to be making a
mrngst a number of our most opulent plan
ters, to remedy the inconveniencies which
may arise in consequence of the importations
from England being interrupted, several of
ihein have already begun to erect spinning
jenniesto spin their wool and corton, for the
purjiose of having them wove into cloathing
for their Haves; many of them believe that
they will be able to have a sufficient quanti
ty prepared by the fall of the year to answer
all their exigencies...../£.
CHARLESTON, Feb. 3j
Captain Lopez, iu 7 days from Havanna,
informs, that the alarm of uu attack from
the British increased at that place ; dispatch
es had been received from Spain, stating that
three expeditions had sailed from England,
one of which was destined either against Cu
ba, or Mexico. He states that there were
75,000 men iu arms, in the Island, ready to
recive them, and that every class of the in
habitants were vieing with each other in
their exertions to give them a warm recep
tion, should they attempt a landing. A num
ber of merchants had come forward and of
fered to loan the government any sums of
money they' might be in want of, and sup
plies of hour, &e. Fdf the army**.Courier.
CHILICOTHE, Jan. 18.
Twenty-nine witnesses have been examin
ed in the cases of the U. S. against Aaron Burr
and Herman Blannerhassett. The grand jury
have not yet made a return to the bills laid
before theyn by Mr. Creighton, the district
attorney, in the above cast s. It will probably
be made in the course of to-morrow.
Makiktta, Jan. 25.
The grand jury lately cnipanncllcd at Chil
icothe, have lbuud bills of indictment against
Aaron Burr and Herman Blannerhasset, fora
misdemeanor. A detailed account of the
proceedings of the court, will be given next
week.
FRANKFORT, Jan. 14.
.The senate have approved the nomination
of the Hon. William Logan, as ujudgeof the
court of Appeals; Henry Clay, esq. was on
Monday last, chosen speaker of the House
of Representatives, in the room *6f Mr. Lo
San.
Mr. Boilcau’s resolution to amen* the con
stitution of the U.8. so as to take from Con
gress ami the Legislature of all the states the
right to pass laws for the importation of
slaves, lias passed the house of representa
tives of Pennsylvania by a very large tnajo
rity ; there were 11 in the negative.
LOUISVILLE, (K.) Jan. 5.
Mr. H. Blcnnerhasset arrived at Jefferson
ville, (I. T.) on Saturday evening last, it be
ing suspected that he was* fleeing from jus
tice, was arrested and held t« hail, to appear
before an examining court this morning at
Jeffersonville; it is stated that if he should
prove successful in his trial to day, and not
attend his trial at Chilicothc, the penalty
cannot be inflicted as the recognizance by
which he is bound, being very defective, par
ticularly not mentioning the court bet ore
which he was to appear.Louisville Gaz.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
_ i
JAMES MADISON, President, fS
GEORGE CLINTON, Vice-President, ■
Is the ticket which has been nearly uuani- j
mously reconuhended by a Convention-of
Republican Members of Congress, 4c which
we trust will meet with the united support
of Republicans....A", Jersey (1 .American.)
THE EXQUIREli.
RICHMOND, FEBRUARY H, 1B0K
Though delicacy might have prevented
the author of the following attack, from of
fering his effusions for publication in my pa
per, yet my own delicacy and principles
compel me to give them publicity. I shall
fairly state to the world, as 1 stated to the
gentleman, not the author, who brought it
io nly office—that 1 held my editorial cha
racter to be fair game for e*ery man who
chose to hunt it down—tha^. I have no more
right to suppress the attacks upon myself
thua upon the public character of any other
man—and that I should not hcsiluic for one
moment about publishing the ettiisious of his
friend.
These effusions are now before the public.
They will judge between me and my assail
ant.—They w.ll find that l have not travel-’
led out of the record to retort his animadver
sions. The time of retaliation may come too
soon.
1 have tr.kcn the liberty of subjoining a
short commentary to his text. Myllthnotc
will apply to the concluding parts of the piece.
To THOMAS RITCHIE.
At a moment like the present, when the
ablest writers are taking part in public dis
cussions, and the greatest men in the nation
have become the objects of scrutiny, you wiil
be startled (1) to see a public and person
al address to yourself. I fear you will con
sider it as an insidious attempt to inflate your
vanity beyond the bounds of your reason, and
render you useless to the great cause you
have undertaken to support-—I protest I have
no such design. It is only your Editorial cha
racter, which I regard. You know, at well
as 1 do, the stupendous powers of the press
in this country. Since the friends of Mr.
Madison’s election have chosen your paper to
propagate their slanders, (1 allude to certain
extracts of letters from Washington)and to be
the organ of tfieir eloquence ; since in
deed they seem to expect great benefits from
j our personal exertions ; it may not be unirn
Iportantto them, to their opponents and to
yourself, that your political character, or
rather that of vour paper should be distinctly
understood. This service, “With the bles
»ing of God,” (as judge Chase said to Fries)
1 mean to render.
I am sorry that you have compelled the
world to recollect that disastrous period of
your editorial career, when some heterodox
opinions into which you were unwarily be
trayed, concerning the Yazoo speculation
and the proposed compromise of that abomi
nable claim, attracted the attention of the
Aurora. (2) You had certainly gone beyond
your depth, and were indebted to Mr. Du
ane for snatching you, though rudely enough,
from imminent destruction (3). You remem
ber the accommodating style in which you
had treated the Yazoo fraud, as involving no
q nest ion connected with republican princi
ples : you remember the correction which
Mr. Duane thought fit to inflict upon you for
the offence—(4) your rebellion—your punisli
ment—your retaliation—your retraction—
your repentance—the interference of your
friends—his generous abandonment of the
contest(i)—the public forgiveness—&your
subsequent gratitude. (6) It is impossible
you can have forgotten any part of that affair.
A convict would as soon forget the pang of an
ticipated death, or the hour of his reprieve.
In “The Enquirer” of the 13th of April
1805, you will find a formal defence against
the charges which had been alledged against
you, and an attempt to do what was indeed
im|xmible—to reconcile the propriety of at
once confiding itv, ajid distrusting, Yazoo tnen.
(7) It is of no importance to remind "you,
•r the world, how poorly you succeeded.-—
Amidst a great deal of unmeaning eloquence,
jn which you vainly attempt to defend the
purity of the motive* of those, who hzd sup
ported the Yazoo claim in Congress, there
are some passages to which your attention
is particularly desired. You adopt this re
markable language.—(8) 441 would have gi
v*n my voice for imposing a heavy penalty on
the man, who should dare to assert' such
a detestable claim to the indisputable pro
perty of the nation, and thereby disparage
that property.” You afterwards proceed to
defend Mr, Findley who had supported the
Yazoo claim, or ratricr the compromise which
Mr. Madison had recommended ; and you
unequivocally pronounce him A virtuous poli
tician ; ^ but you add nevertheless—“Mr.
Findley’s vote was improper. Were I an
Elector of Pennsylvania, I would use every
exertion to exclude him from a sfcat in Con
gress, so long as this Yazoo question waspend
mg.”(9) Fliiswas thenthe deliberate language
of your best judgment. Alanguagewhich I fear
it will require more ingenuity than you possess
to reconcile, with the part you have deier
mined to take in the approaching presidenti
al election. That that language was the ho
nest dictate of your heart and judgment, I
hope you have too much self respect to deny •
and for your present conduct, 1 leave you to
explain your own motives.
In 1805, you would have imposed a heavy
penalty on any man, who should have dared
to assert the detestable Yazoo claim. You
know very well, that it was chiefly from the
sanction of Mr. Madison’s name and charac
ter, the Yazoo claimants first dared to hope
success ; and that, vipon the strength of his
approbation, they still presume to disturb our
public councils with the most odious clamor.
Yet you support Mr. Madison for the presi
dency !—
In 1305, you would have used your utmost
exertions tyi exclude, even from a seat in
Congress, so long as the Yazoo Question was
pending, a miserable old man, honest as
weak, incapable of mischief, and probably
governed entirely by the example of his su
periors. Let it be admitted that Mr. Ma
dison is as incorrupt, as von suppose Mr.
F. to have been (10). At present, the Va-*
zoo monster has re-appeared with additional
and great patrons. I perceive very plainly,
you are deeply sensible of the overwhelm
ing influence attached to the presidential of
fice ! it were strange indeed, if your own ex
Senence could not instruct you. You know
Ir. Madison’s opinions concerning this Ya
zoo claim. You are prepared, 1 doubt hot,
to exhaust those stores of panegyric which
von have, been so long accumulating, in
praise of his transcendant talents which as
they ought to have secured him from the bale
ful heresies into which he ho* fallen, will en
able him, when eloathed with power, to
screen them from the abhorrence and re
commend them to the adoption of his coun
try. Yet you suppoit Madison for the pre
sidency !—
What defence you will be able to make a
gainst this charge of glaring inconsistency i
know not. It will not suffice to charge me
with malignity, or to retort with abuse:—
you will not provoke the respect of a reply.
I have no idea you ean assign any satisfacto
ry reason for the change in your opinions on
this subject. Yet you have great examples
to justify you. Net to mention Mr. Duane
himself, Mr. Oilts and that whole gang,
have acted preecisely as yon have done. It
is not for your own sake alone, be assured,
that I have takcil the trouble to ejyjose this
inconsistency in your conduct. Most of vour
virtuous associates in this new cause are liable
to precisely the same imputation ; and, lest
you should be distressed to find yourself
singly exposed to censure, I pledge myself
you shall not long want company.
__One of your most constant readers.
"* " Korn's. r.
(1) The writer is eminently fiiistaken. I
shall not be startled at any attack on any man——be
lie high or low—let the cnveXioned arrow be cast
at the palace or the cottage. I know, that if the
competition between Messrs. Madison and Mon
roe long continues, the remorselers age of intoler
ance ; of personal malignity anti political proscrip
tion ; is not far distant. At a moment, when infu
riated partizans are determined to " sharpen die
dagger of lalshood and prepare tlie poisoned ar
rows of envy,” tor the best and mostdistinguish
ed republican^ of our country—at a moment
when the waters of the great deep arc breaking
iml.. K.a'.. ... ..i r . . .O
r r -../ lUklUl If 1
tercoursc, and every liberal principle which has
hitherto, respected and cherished the clia
raeters of men of the same futh—how was it
possible for me to expect, that my humble name
should escape the fury of the inundation 1—
At a moment, when the most frivolous and ridi
culous charges hare already been urged against
me when 1 have been accused, as the secretary
At the Bell, with attempting to swell out the list
of Mr. Madison’s friends by the introduction of
one member who was at the Ca* itol, when I had
in fact likewise omitted the names of the tv,
members of the county of Giles when the ve
ry size of the type in which my compositors lud
respectively exhibited the refusal of some of Mr.
Monroe’s committee-men to serve o.inis ticket,
and Ihe annunciaW >n ot a member of the St*
natc who h id joined his cause, had been cri
tically scanned——when I have been even ce; •
sured for publishing the refusal of Mr. Monroe’s
conwnniittee-men to serve on a committee whose
names had be >n first published in my paper—when
tribes *' light as air” had thus been embodied
intu serious charges, how could I expect to es
cape a more formal accusation !
My mind is completely prepared for the ap
proaci.ing crisis It will neither startle nor slow
trotn tile dangers winch may await me. I too w.,1
take my stand and render kII the service in my
power. Under my present impressions, I shall
direct my pen to the support of Mr. Madison’s e
iection but iny Prete hat ever keen and will be
open to the friends of Mr. Munroe, so long as
| tluir “ eloquence” shall respect the bounds of li
berality, reason and decorum.
(2) Bold and clamorous attertiont trill never
pass forpruojt. I hut the public may judge hww
far m vopinions vierr heterodox, and whether th^y
breathe tlusverj accommodating spirit, I shall lav
before them tno *;./y paragraph which atirac toil
the attention of the Aurora :
** It *8 ,,,,t " every difference of opinion,”—
| which is “a difference of principle j'! and the
, character of the advocate does not always confer
its imperfection upon the opinion he supports.—
Where then, let me ask, was the justice of cast
ing upon the conscientious advocates of a Yazoo
compromise, the charges &. reproachcs/»f federal
corruption ? Whcre| was the propriety of entering
Mr. findley upon the list of proscriptions, until
some satisfactory opinion had been collected, that
he had also partaken of the corruption of the Ya
zoos, or imbibed the tenets of federalism >”
To judge of this paragraph, let the reader re
collect the unbounded rage of proscription, hich
the Yazoo question was at that time likely to
produce ; a rage so unbounded, as in some cases
to pronounce the " contcit ntiout advocates of a
compromise” to have been ipt0 facto guiby of
“federal corruption let him recollect that e
ven a republican, however he may have been in*
cehsed by the fraud which engendered these
claim*, or however he may have erred about the
propriety of adopting this expedient, onay have
been actuated by eontciemioits motives in pro
prosing a compromise let lum recollect the
* K
'his paragraph i» extracted from a series of p
Mn umfenlie head ot 44 The present policy o
the Federal Party whose great object was in
tended to show that tins part} had no other hope,
of cohering hut through the divisions of tlx
republicans, and Ui.tt the dxnunAialion of men fo,
c®rtju.n 'nlea*vret was the gr^at instrument foi
ejecting this division i—and the reader will hi
competent to prououucc on tlx: paragraph whicl
1 have quoted.—The expressions of " tlifiercnci
ot opinion,” and “difference of principle” an
tvidenUy quoted from the Inaugural Speech o
Mr. Jclkmon. For thb interpretation, whicl
they convey, I refer to tliat celebrated paper.
(3) Thatthereadetnunr once more judge foi
htmself^yrv present him with this critique from Un
Aurora. Let Aim determine tvhether it deserves
tile chaste and elegant epithet of “ correction.”
“ We have perused with much surprise andre
grct, in a paper that has since its establishment
been distinguished for litchiry puritv and corred
political doctrine, an essay, which if we are not
greatly deceived, is the production of “ a viol)
in sheep's eioathing.” The paper We allude to is
the EKqinucH ot Richmond, Virginia, lathis
paper of the 28th March, there is an ess-iy,
which under the specious pretence of exposing
The present policy ofthe federal party ” assumes
as facts granted positions preposterous, unfound
ed and unsubstantial, such only aa a thinking in.m
could not well utter gravely, but which an artful
or an insidiious man might calculate to publish
with some prospect of success.—Wc infer from
one Striding fact, that this essay comes from a
source which we should not have expected to find
sullying the pure columns of the Enquiret;: we
advert to the accotnmodati/ig style in which the
Tazoo speculation b treated of—as a matter in
volving llo question connected with republican
principles ! We hud ever considered virtue as the
basis of republics, and could hardly have expect
ed to find in the Enquirer Inn essay temporising
with a scheme of plunder and iniquity so far as it
concerns tltc design, the execution, the progress
to consummation, lUciniineasiu'Hblc and compre
cltensive scope of its corruption, the disregard
of national right, of private reputation, of human
ideas far as it w: is involved—in all tliqse points e
qu .1 in iniquity to any scheme of fraud :,»id cor
ruption that has ever disgraced Society; we
it in ivy that to consummate this plunder tlie majo
rity of the w hole legislature has been corrupted
—Indian wars have been excited, and human
blood cruelly spilled, to facilitate its accomplish
ment/— by its baneful influence tlie votes winch
rivcited on us die British treaty were obtained_
and by it at this moment the glory and the virtue
of the American republic isput in danger of e
temal disgrace. It is not a question of ti-deralimn
or toryism, of this or that party , of this or that
ambitious mail. But we maintain that it is a
question in which every man who feels the glow
and die glory of republicanism, mu,i led a deep
| and immovable interest : it is a question with
which no man of morality can compromise, no
mail who loves virtue above gold call hear ol
Without abhorrence. We shall take an ojiportu
mty very shortly of going into an examination of
the 'l'uzuo question in a ^j .nner in which all
classesot readers inay comprehend it.”
i'b i lie reply winch 1 nude to tins Attack,
anu tne subsequent reply from the Aurora, ;.rc
dignified by this poiite antagonist with die respec
tive epithets of jtebeiiion MuU'unitlunent. I am
too well acquainted with the intolerant spirit
of controversial writings, die self-impor
..nice wlucli tliey assume and the hideous light
in which dicy attempt to place an antagonist,
ever seriously to be affected by its low divisions’
The writer, who possesses a great &. generous
spirit, w ould disdain the use of such weapons.
Common prudence, must instruct luru, that it' he
aims to make a neep impression on die public
ihiml, he n.wvst not degrade die dignity yfhisuaftse
by die- vylgarity ol Ins means—An advocate ob
tains very litilc credit lur ins opinions, wlio ma
nifests by the coarseness of ids censure and the
acrimony of hit invective, that he is incapable of
doing any justice to iiis opponent.—My antago
nist certainly forget* that 1 mq an Kditor ; that
1 have been familiarised with s \r.ts of Tnis
reprasentatii.il and ubiuc ; and that 1 have learn
ed to regard them with scarce any otiur emo
tions than nidiiicrenre or contempt_A* to my
controversy wilii uie Aurora,, it must be of so
little consequence to tlie public as scarcely to
deserve the inborn- of re-publishing die leiigdiy
reply v hich 1 made on tliat occasion.
to) It is false, that lever, retracted; unless
the writer means to apply tins epithet to a resolu
tion which 1 had once embraced to “ wave my
privilege” of again replying to dm Aurora, to
“immolate my own” wounded “ feeling* on die
utiar ol my party, to present all schism or divi
sitMi in dm republican party unless necessity
should demand it, to conciliate, if possible, in or
der tliat we uiight unit*—that great principle
Which the friends ol Mr. Monroe are now tramp,
ling under loot.—If such be the mean.ng of the
writer, lie Mas very, disingenuously placed my re
traction after my retaliation. Tlie truth is, tliat I
wished to cnil the controversy from a spirit ot
conciliation ; that my J; iendc concurred in tile i
dea—land this perhaps is “ the interference of
your friends ’)—find the Aurora renewed it; and
that i men felt my sell bound to retaliate at con
—uia Aurora cuu not reply_
And tins perhaps is the “ generous abandonment
v>l the contest.”
(b) Yuguc, loose and unfounded aspersions,
for which i can find not a shadow oi tiutn imkc
hies of the Knquirer.
| (7) Not w.’..standing, the attempt seems plau<
siV.e enough to shew, that a 01*11 may have err
eii in recommending a compromise, though lit
•nay hut e erred t'rym conscientious motive).
18) This sentence is extracted p'rom the ce
lebrated speech of Mr. T.M. Randolph'on this
question.
(0) I detest the Yazoo claiir, the ebrruptior
which procured it and the fraud which entangled
the sub-puruhusers in it* toils, as much :<* aver._
1 am *• strongly opposed to any compromise as 1
was in t! « spring of 1805. But there a is materia
difierente between tlie earn; of Mr. Findley and
VIr. M u!ii,on—«-There is a materin! difference he.
tween the sphere and duties of such a niembci
of Congress it* Mr. Fuuliey anil a pres idem
of tli" United Slates l.kc Mr Maditfon_
If mny b" light to make .the Yazoo question a
test of eligibility, for such a member of Con
gre''* as Mr. Findley. But the circumstances un
der which Mr. Madison and this country stand
forbid u* to erect *».is quest ion into the sole test
of/n't qualifications. The Yazoo question is not
like the roil of Aaron, to swallow up every othei
consideration. Tfie Presklent has high and com
■ minding duties to disch oge, besides tlie rejectior
'ol the Yazoo campi-fibise. Is there anycompa
rison lietwecn the weight of duties, and those 01
a member of Congress ? Between the capaci
ties of Mr. Madison to discharge the first AJt<
those of Mr. Findley to discharge the other f Be
tween the public services rendered by the. one &
the other ? Between the public services wbicii
are hereafter to be expected from them in
their different spheres of action *
That Mr. Madison should have ever placed
Ids aame on the Yazoo report, is perhaps the inon
unfortunate act of his lids and is deservedly the
subject of eternal regret But is there to he nc
room for an ex pi anal an on this subject > jtViiln
liberal mind confine its attention to the simple sig
nature of Lis name on this report > No man wil
dare to charge Mr. Madison with being a parti
tizanin the fraud of tins transaction. No man wil
dare to assert that lie ever heard hi in approve ii
Perhaps no man will dare to suspect him of cor
rupt motives in having signed Use compromise o
tbts obominable claim.
But while we disapprove of the Expedient he ha
recommended, is it not proper to enquire infi
the causes which induced him .0 sign it f js ;
true that he did not investigate fully the horribl
details of this stupendous speculation’ I fiav
rejuon to believe dial bf did not.—la it aul true
r ti c Lirm/ iln ‘y rLr :J t0° »««*» roHanoe in
tSfc dSir ii?*egnlyofAir GaUatin, who cer
,, '^'kw UP .U'e rejJOtt aud amidst all the de
. wluch have assailed the character of
Mi. Madison, has hidierlo escaped the fury oft ho
! £a?»r Cr',"erCSS ■ . 1 hi*ve Ki
Uiat he did—Is it certain that the public sensibi
I'ty so vehemently excited and tCebohTaJov '
i incuts which have . been subsequently displayed
have .^contributedto tain l.ii curios*/to \bt
h^e Tam ! h*2S reaa?U to bclieve that they
thTs nu1- - ^StUrT* ceAun|y »ot official, that if
^sSr°llM r paS1 Ut)* HoUsusi of Gen!
fcress—Mr. Madison as President of the United
Mates, would regret it in thi, point of view
mTf1 & Mr M81 Uiirerc,lcc kelweon tl»e case of
I* it certain that Mr. Monroe llas not hit
££?• ; ,and ,thrt ‘,c b« nevcr put his naZto"
tefiy to rc^4V “ubsoqueatcausc most bit
*5 “ "°l U!e P,ace to on the vari.*
M ulisoTa’^ WhlCr. ,UTd 1rad, us to support Mr.
Machson as a muuhdate forUie Presidential chair,
y - ‘ t ;'rauii oils concession indeed !
Tuk LEGISLATURE or VIliGINl v
adjourned tl.eir 5tsslo* ycsuid"
~ '" —rill L-U _[
IT , liEA TH It
*Partt-d this Ide, in Hanover county, on Fri
t;K T’g ,aSt’ M.vri-HEW TimbVr.
i i“,A .“V*" ®uch esteemed awl beloved by
Last Evening’s Mail.
„ ~ NEW-YUKK, Jan.;*,. “ ~
Arrived, the sclir. War-Hawk, C.TamminM
PouU-Petre (G.) 17 days. Just alter sad in* S
bo.irded by the Leopard, and treated pottfl’y a
pilot-boat.*•*.hr. arrived therein 10daws JSm' N
Voik, with the new* of the embargo; but altho*
sue had been there 5 or 6 daVs befor e the £r
Hawk sailed, tit,* event was not publicly known
A number, however, vacWthie wTsan eb -
bar,ro in America, a, all kinds ,of Arne, ie;m nro
die boat." * "** 11Umcd‘-*u'> ^ the arrfvaf of
February 3.
n . rl?IP0RAr£IVS.
Lapt. I homas. of the ship Henrv whose
we announced jit
fha h/ !.f?CHrCantl e Advertise‘‘, informs us* *
that he sailed on the 18th December, and
untoi tunately could not procure Anv English
newspapers: but that London papered*
tecen-ecl everyday at his lodging? and that,
a lew days previous to his departure, lie read
of WAR the Lendon papers, a dee^atioa
r* ♦ n ■! ythe '►•“perorof Russia, against
hv^.t tllr t,n’ whicl,1.* aftcr enumerating
dLf* J Wbich ltd to the measure. '
m wm nS’ , HvLhe hmI>crnr *4 Russia would
KMi make Peace until the British govern
Sa!dshSCetrTc,:atifi“f0r *« <*»"**
Captain T. Further states, that all thE
! m 5 Sh,ipnat Cronstadiisaiigdiiuiinediately
f ')11 ballast, and some,partly loaded
that the Russian goveniment sent out seVerai
cutteiinto the Gulph ot Finland, where they
captured four British ships, and conveyed :
Ihcm imop.n-t ; aml.that Sir Sidney Smith .*
had t,one to look after the Russian fleet which
had arrived in Lisbon.
Captain Thompson’* first mate confirms
tic above intelligence. Me s:ivs lie read at
lanisgate the -Declarationof war by Russia
against Lngland, but found it impossible to
procure the paper which contained if.
In cohsetjirence of this state of things, Can.
oon 1. turlher informs us that coruage had
men ten pounds sterling per ton, and every
j hind ot naval stores in proportion*
In addition to the intelligence we gave v-'
, sterday from Bordeaux, captain DiLLih
! orms u? fThat the British ships of war Pene
lope and Indelatigabic blockaded thlhar
! b,,l’i and that he was boarded bv the latter
j on the 5th of December, off the Cordovan,
and was informed that two days before they
j had received oi ders from their government to
: stop al l vessels bound to France, Spain, Hoi
Mahd, Prussia Portugal, Italy, oranvofthe
! Porli of 'he Mediterranean. This c:rcum
btancc they endorsed on tbe Loreirzo’s reei
, st«r* ■ ' Mer. Shiv . ■
T>URLIC V ENDUE.—By virtue of a deed oF
X trust from VVra. Hall to to tbc ; ubscribers
of sundry property, for tne purpose of sccnrin*
tlie payment of u debt due William Shanks (»a
will more fully appear by referring to said deeiL
I dated 5th Dec. 18UG, and recorded at tbe hustings
| court of Petersburg, 6th April, 1807:) Will be
; s-*hl without reserve for ready money, on Thurs
d iv, 3d March, the sloop ALEXANDER burthen
1 between 30 and 40 tons, with all her tackle and
. apparel, as she now lavs at Rocketts.
SAMUEL TURNER, ^
DANIEL ERES, C Ti-uthet.
Feb. 9. £tds ] '*
I TX Y vii liu- of a deed of trust executed to the
subscriber by .Richard Johnson 'of Albc
it* ‘ '* ‘ County, on the .;.9th day of January 1806,
and recorded in the county court of Albemarle in
July 1806 ; I shall proceed to sell for roudv mo
iney to the highest bidder, at Triplett T. Estes’*
! Paver t in the Town of Charlottesville, on Mon
day the7*.h day of March next, it bring Albe
marle court day, the Following Slaves, (being con
veyed in said trust An the purpose of securing the
payment of a debt due by said Johnson to McCre
die, H gginlxd'vtm, Suo.) via. waggoner Jt#hn,
Rose, Toney, Lucy, Mary, Collin and Joseph.
As lam only acting as Trustee, I will convey to
the purchasers, the tide nnly which is vested u%
tiie as such, which is believed'to be pr od.
dEORGE GARRETT,’ T.iutee..
Milton, Feb. 9. fOeJ
RENT (ton iwi ’vsARi.)—That V*
X luable TA W- If AllH of the late Mr. Jaci.o
Bockos and now occupied by the subscriber ; si
tuated on the maiil-street of this city hr-ween
the Capitol, and the Basin sf the canal. Its con
veniences arc superior to »rty other in this place.
A large currying shop, cellar and drying loft, »
spacious bark house, two bark mills and houses,
a beam bouse and every other requisite lor the*
tanning of from 2 to .1,000 hides a year, exclusive*
of skins: Also, on the same tenement, n conve
nient dwelling house, kilcken, smoke house, sta
[ hie and gardfen. The renter in <y *lso be arcom
itHidstcfl with some excellent Rod-Oak Bark, n > w
in the iifcrk hotfsc. Proposals Air the alxrve will
be received by the subscriber till the 1st of April
next, on day it will be offered ai public Auc
tion before Mrs’h*. Prosser and M qncure’s Ven
due Office. Bo’»J xsith approved security will
be required, and pON'*C*sion given of toe whous
immediately. The rcaOfor offering the above
property for rant is the ill s*1^*0* health of the
subscriber to pay that attention' t'1* bus'ipes-, res
quires. MAKCL*'* liLCAjl.
N. B. The said Ta card maybe rented for
three years longer hy aoplying to the e xecUtOfs of
the estate ni Mr. Jacob Backus, dec’d.
Eiehmond, Feb 9. (IsWtlstA)
i rl^WE friends of Mr. AMnsosr. Grtcx nre
> I requested to come to Samly-Point,Charb *
t City county, and to administer on his estate „a
: he was murdered on Saturday night last, bv arx
‘ unknown periyaor ptrson*, RAJSH.Y WEST
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