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i*l' Ii f, to:r, cnuMbt displeasing • «.&-*%«
y-...;* .-t. jiavc for a ti me a very feeJisL .e shock
i * th : popularity of that patriot. This is
not tiie only instance in which to screen
tUcmsel es lt «>na the resentment ofc tiie peo
ple, these politicians have interposed the
tr\ ne of Washington, and, thereby, lessened
ti.e reverence justly due to that name. On
the occasion, however, on which 1 um now
F peaking, General Washing'.mi was soon
rescued from this dilemma by the pen of
IUr. j u'.rson, the American Secretary of
State. In u letter to Mt\ Morris, our minis
ter in France, ho brought together in a mas
manner, Mr. Genet’s violations of the
T^-ting treaty, and his encroachments on
the sovercigntv of this nation, ami insistetl
on his recal. He discriminated in the most
■clear and satisfactory manner between that
minister and his republic ; and shewed to
the people both of that and this country,
that gratitude to France and the most sin
cere and earnest solicitude for her success,
involved no approbation of Genet, or cen
sure of Washington. The federalists did
not thank. Mr. Jefferson for this letter ; for
although, on his part, a simple discharge of
duty, it opened the eyes of tne American
people to the stratagem which had been
played off upon them. It restored the har
mony of their love for Washington and j
France. It took from before the federalists
the shield of Washington’s name, although
if we may judge from their future conduct, I
they did not seem to know that it was re-1
moved, since they still seized every opportu-j
nity of launching their political thunderbolts
at France, Ccbsnrting the knee of submission
to British arrogance.
In the debate on the tonnage duty it was!
admitted, that three fourths, if not four fifths I
of the commerce of the U. S. was carried I
on by British shipping. With this, howe
ver, G. Britain was not contented. Enra
ged at onr independence, determined to di
minish its enjoyment as much as possible,
and to take in a covert and cowardly man
ner that revenge which she dared not to at
tempt openly, she assailed us Jiy a series of
commercial restrictions calculated to des
troy all competition,and to these the added
the plunder of our commerce under the
sanction of judicial forms, and the impress
ment of our seamen on the pretext that they
must beJBritish subjects, because they spoke
the English language. The House of lle
presentatives at length thought it time to
look into these abuses; and the Secretary cf
State was called upon to make a report on
the privileges and restrictions on the com.
B-crce of the U. Slates. He performed that
duty on the 16th December, 1793, and after
shelving the restrictions of each nation with
which we had commerce, he proposed, if
they could not be obviated by friendly ne
gociation, to meet them by corresponding
restrictions in every instance. On this rc„
port were founded the celebrated resoluti..
ons of Mr. Madison, which were laid on the
table of the House of Representatives on
the third of January 1794. Those resoluti
ons proposed nothing more titan to retort
upon each nation precisely the same degree
of restriction which she had previously im
posed upon us. Yet it was on these resolu
tions that the imputation of partiality was
founded ; and on this signal occasion it was
that the charge of French Influence first
distinctly made its appearance. It was said
that these resolutions bore harder upon G.
Britain than upon France ; it was admitted ;
hut why did they so? Because G. Britain
had previously borne harder upon us exact
ly in the same ratio; and the policy of the
rcr.olutiyi cl-arly manifested, that as fast
as she removed her aggressive restrictions,
we would remove our defensive ones.
There was indeed another reason why G.
Britain would have felt our restrictions mote
sensibly than France, and that was because
of the far greater share of cur commerce
which she enjoyed. It was shewn by Mr.
Jefferson's report that our experts to these '
two countries stood thus:
To G. Britain and its domi.
nior.s S 9,363,416
To France and its dominions
(the next highest natii n on
the list) a - l of which a
very great proportion pass
ed through G Britain 4 G93.735
Balance in favor of G. B. 4,664.631
That our imports were
From Great Britain and its
dominions £ 15,285*428
From 1 ranee and :tsdomini
ons (the iiaxt highest on the
list)
2,063,348
Balance in favor of G. B. £ 13,217,01*0
While of the American tonnage employed 1
in ill is commerce
e, Cii -at Britain employed only Tons 43,580
While France employed 11G41Q
'* iius while G. Britain was monopolizing
almost the ‘■•'.ole profits arising from the
exchange ot our surplusses, she was bu
sily employed in excluding our vessels
from any participation in the profits of the
carrying trade; wiiilc France with com.
paratively little inducement from edmmer
.> ial liar,cr gave employment Sc encourage"
ment to our shipping in the ratio of nearly
three for one. It is clear, therefore, that
-with this immensely superior stake in A
zncric&n commerce, gained, ton, by the po..
licy of her restrictions, (A. Britain would
feel the countervailing restriction.* of the
S. much more sensibly than France or
any other nation. But whose fault would it
be that she would so feci them ? Most clear
4y her own ; because we proposed only to
•resent her cffffresaionn, and retaliate upon
her, restriction for restriction. The great
policy of those measures was to force all
nation.1; to treat us justly ; to deprive each
& every one of them of any undue advantage
gained by thejrown wrong ; to take off eve
ry letter from commerce and leave it to its
natural course ; to leave to the several and
respective nations of the world all the ad.
vantages which nature and nature’s God had
given them. Yet it was speaking of thrse
resolutions, so just, so impartial, so noble in
their views, that Mr. Ames said “ they arc
built on partiality for one nation—they have
J'hench stamped on the very face of them.”
—To this Colonel Parker of Virginia repli
ed: “ I wish, sir, there was a stamp on the
forehead of every man in the House, to de„
tignate whether he is for France or Great
Britain. For myself, I will not sit silent and
Bear that nation abused to whom America
is indebted for her rank as a nation——for 1
; i firmly persuaded, that but for the aid
*•» France in the last war, those gentlemen J
t cv on the floor, who pride themselves in
i.si'ifi og lmr, would not have had an oppor
•unity in this place ofdoingit,”—“Upon this
I t <y the papers of the day, two or three per
■ h* tlu yadlery made a Jtiiw attempt to
I " " 1 his sentiment, says Judge Mar.
t vn.ill, produced a clap in the galleries.” And
*■5* motion whUU ioliuwyO to ciuai tbi
L
gallery, he gravely adds, "that the debate
showed that the degree of sensibility excit„
ed by this disorder, was extremely differ,,
cat in the different parties.” Strange, in
deed! that a party who, by their own rude
aggression, had drawn upon themselves a
just retort, and a public laugh, did not en
j(# the occurrence quite us much as others!
It is true there was, at the time, an attempt
to parry the point of the retort, a.nl con
ceal the smart which it gave, by affecting
a mighty passion at the disorder of the
gahery, and insinuating that the love of
I*'ranee was betraying us into an imitation
cv-n of her jacpbinic disorders; but this de
sign was defeated by the concurrence of the j
republicans in censuring the disorder: the!
only difference between them and the fcde_!
raiists, in the debate, being that the repeb
ltcans twit no necessity to swell the petty in.
cident into unmerited importance, by*af_!
fecting an indignation which they did not
feel, and which the occasion did not call
for.
Mr. Madison’s resolutions were kept in
suspense; week after week, and month af
ter month, they hung before the house, the
advocates of the British interest entreating,
threatening, imploring, raving and using
every expedient which their ingenuity could
devise to keep them back yet a little longer,
ami protract to Great Britain the enjoyment
of her commercial advantages. And what
did Great Britain in return for this for
bearance ? This was a state of things to
try her sentiments towards us ; and ihey
were effectually tried and disclosed.
YVe may remember that during the de
bates in Parliament on those measures which
led to our revolutionary war, one of the mi
nisterial party said that we had been plant
ed by their care, protected by their arms,
lostered bv their love, and l\ad flourished
in prosperity at the expence of their blood
and treasure. The opinion among, those
men certainly was, that we were unequal to
our own defence ; incapable of maintaining
our independence, and consequently that we
should be soon driven again into the it- shel
tering arms. Here we have the key to her
whole policy ; and hence it was that she
saw our commerce harrasstd, with plea
sure, and contributed, to ban ass it. \Vre
have lately seen it avowed in an English pa
per that ever since the acknowledgment of
our independence, there has been a party
near the throne who were determined to
make that independence as dear to us as
possible.and destroy its value in our own eyes
by the cxpence and trouble of maintaining
it. Thus is t tie point of time of which I ant
speaking. Great Britain, touched with no
corresponding sentiment of liberality by the
generous repugnance of the American Con
giess to retaliate her restrictions, encreased
the rigor of those restrictions and redoubled
her spoliations; nor was this enough t© sa
tiate her malignity. The corsairs of Al
giers,; kept wrthin their own ports, by the
superior-force of Portugal, then ac war with
them,opened the Mediterranean, in a stale of
halcyon peace, to the commerce of the world,
tv. America'was reaping a large share of that
harvest. 1 his was too much for Great
Britain to bear; accordingly she went cut
o. her way to patch up a truce between
Algiers and Portugal, thereby to let loo e
those corsairs upon our unarmed merchant
men, and soon enjoved the fruits of lier gen
erous and magnanimous policy, by hearimr
the groans of thousands of American Cap"
tains from the shores of Algiers.
One would have thought that this might
have sufficed, but even this was not enough
tor her diabolical spirit ; and, therefore the
Indians were excited to assault and ravage
our western frontier, and thus to place us
between the fire of African and American
savages. And yet even in this state of
things, when those regulations were again !
pressed upon the house of representatives
which proposed merely to mete unto all r.a’
Uonsas they measured unto us, the republi
cans were accusedot hostility to G. Britain
and partiality to France. This crisis was
wound up, before the vote was taken upon
ri •' ison * resolutions, by the mission of
duet Justice* Jay as our minister to the court
of London, and that lamous iieaty of his,
which although called a treaty of amity and
commerce, left our commerce and our sea
men just as much exposed as ever, and in
lion (.1 amity lias given us only the most in
veterate hostility. It did indeed, superin
duce some changes upon the law of nations
but they were to the advantage of G. Bri
tam ; in swelling, for instance, the list of con_
tiaband so as to favor the sefi erne of the con
tinental confederacy to destroy France by
famine, if they could not destroy her by
force. 1 he republicans censured this trea
ty ns not effecting the important objects of
the mission: and for doing so they were *i
gain charged witii French influence.
mil st.il tins chatge was explained to
mean only excessive love to the French re
public, because of the a*d which we had re
ceived firm !• ranee in our own war$cbecause
of the similarity of the contest in which she
was herself now engaged. 'Hie republicans
dul,indeed, feel this sentiment'; it was a gene
rous and noble one and J glory in it to this
moment. Hut what shall we say of the sen
timent of those who were disposed to creep
and truckle to the feet of G. Britain and
return caresses for l icks > And when I a k
did this sentiment for France betray the re
publicans into a sacrifice of the interests of
their own country > Not in the discrimina
tion on foreign tonnage or foreign duties;
because tluit discrimination was founded on
the different degrees ol encouragement held
out to our commerce by foreign na ions, and
the national policy of this measure in the ab
struct, was admitted even by its opponents.
Not in the retaliating resolutions of Mr. Mad
ison ; for they were exactly in the spirit of
the discriminaitng duties ; proposing to (a.
vor them who favored us, and to lestrict
those who restricted us, and, in each in
stance, in the same degree. Not in the op
position to the treaty ; because that opposite
on was founded on the inefficiency rf the
treaty to redress, and even its total silence
in relation to many of the grievances which
immediately produced it.
i nave now rdcalled to your recollection
the. measures in which this charge of
French influence originated. In relation to
these you must see and feel its injustice.
Follow down the charge to the present dav.
you find it equally unfounded. For income
down at once to the lafe measures, the em
bargo and non intercourse ; were they not
proposed to fall equally and with the impar
tiality of death on hothanriull of the (Rend
ing nations f I* is true that their practical
operation might have been more extensively
'eilhy (i. Britain; yet not from any partial
ity in the nature of the measure itself; but
!»*cau:-e (r. Britain, by means of her crafty
Mid selfish policy still retained an undue
sha-c of cur commerce.
It would be ouriotis to deduce this chrr^e
I f ffreach influence step b) step to the prc
tlm <s, you are a little out in your Clirono.
logy! However, such is the “ License of the
Poets.” Jnd this, by the bye, is a curious
way to judge of a King’s greatness-not'
that he is a wiser or a beticr one than the
rest, but that he lias reigned /otiger. By
this test, indeed, George the 3d may be a
greater monarch by far than Alfred, or E
lizabeth. And by this test, too, you, Mr. Pye
may be a greater Poet Laureat than Old
Drytlen himself, if you have but written all
the 50 (Odes, which have been sung to ins
majesty’s Ear.
'i here is one excuse, indeed, for the po..
yerty of your muse—The theme that has be^n
toucl » 1 as often, at least, as fifty times,
must be somewhat worn out and thread bare
—particularly, as the subject does not seem 1
to be much improved by age—However, in j
lieu of this, Mr. Pye has one singular ad. '
vantage-In singing the charity, and mild
ness and glories of his majesty, he has all
the privileges of the Poet who deals injic
lion — <\H his predecesor IJryden, once said
to Charles II. when asked by him, why he
had written so much better verges on Oliver
Cromwell than himself, " Oh ! Sir. (we do
not pretend to quote his words,) w k Poels
succeed best in fiction!”
. seft* day ; To shew on what prepcsteious oc
! ciisions it has been urged, rand to vt mark,
j when France bv passing fivm a republic to
j a military despotism bad lost evi*ry traite
of that character which had engaged^ our
j affections and given up the single object
! wl‘ich excited our sympathy (her struggle
; f°r liberty) this ridiculous chuigc was still
i continued, and bow, when common sense
! could no longer countenance it under th&
name of love, federal slight of hand abrupt,
ly shitted tl. -sentiment end called it terror;
• then how Air. Gardenier like Haltashazzar,
s iw the motions of a mysterious hand, gui
! ding Hi:i) pointing out the destinies of Arne
; i ica, and linallv after the charge had lilL
ed the continent for sixteen y ears, how the
ingenious Pliilo-laos, alias Mutius, disco,
vered its origin as well as evitleuce in an ,
occurrence of the last year; the titles of,
nobility bestowed on an unfortunate voting |
lady, and her son in Baltimore. But I shall
satisfy’ myself with having siiewn that the 1
charge was false in its origin; and invented
as well us kept up to divert the nation from J
observing another influence and other de-,
sighs whicn certainly did t-xist.
Maria Louisa, the Bride of Bonaparte, is
(1* lighter of 1* i am is 2d, the present e*npe
ror of Austria—She was liorn on the 12th of
December, 1791, and is of course in the 19th
year of her age. '1 his is a most politic
strokk, on the part of France. It will
hind Austria to her interests——it will pro
duce a temporary, if not a lusting. pause in
the hostilities between the two countries_
rKiTKr tuoops will he necessary on the
frontiers of Austria, and there will he a less
waste of 1 reasure and of blood. Russia too
and Prussia will he less an object of jealousy
——a source of hostility-for Austria and
France, when combined together, may defy
the force, nr daunt the heart, of the Kmperor
of the North.
hut this measure is justified not more by
policy, than humanity. It will give a new
n'r to the relations of Austria and France.
It cements the two countries together, by the
sense'of common interests and of common
feelings. Confidence will succeed to dis
trust—peace to war. Francis will be no
longer apprehensive of the loss of his throne
— nor Bonaparte he apprehensive that his
father in law will form a league with his
foes. With the main causes of war, the war
itself will cease. 1 he plains of Austria will
no more he drenched with the blood of her
subjects—nor her treasures wasted thro’
jealon ies or from fear.—Those men will
principally object toil, who see'‘a bear in ev.
cry bush/'or such; as see in it the cud of all
continental coalitions against the powftr of
France. These men would rather see the
fields of Austria eternally covered with
blood, in the mad crusade against the power
of France, than see the ambition of Britain
foiled, and peace and prosperity shedding
their benignant smiles over the fields of Aus
tria.
STRAWS! STRAWS! STRAWS!
I he Editors of the Boston Federal prints
seem to ape the British ministerial prints,
in chanting tl\c praises of their Sovereign.
“ It lias been our custom, for many years,
(says the Centinel.) to preserve i!»e British
Poet Laureat’s Arts Year's Odes, in the
Centinel. The late irrc^'iluritv n;r,H.ivinjj
our limide.tt. /ni/ters. (owing to the non-inter
course, 6tc.) most lamentable restriction i:i
drd !) has not before enabled us to give the
following-uicl which though last, is
not the least excellent of its fc ;J Now,
as it would be ungenerous for these gentle.. ]
men to have all the dish to themselves^ will
they allow us a taste of it-a leg or a wing
at least, of this, Laureat’s Ode-decli- j
cated “to her majesty’s birth day >” If our !
readers should wish for another sample of
h, dc gustibus non disfiutandum-their!
Taste is of u different sort from our own :
“Though looking back through many an age
Since Egbert first our Saxon sires obey’d,
No K.in„ recorded stands on History’s page
So long, who England's golden sceptre sway’d.
O yet, through many a rolling year,
Long ! long ! may Albion's joyful race
Behold a crown, to freedom sacred, grace
I ne \I-to they love—the Sovereign they revere.
Tito’ seated on her rocky throne,
Girt hy her navy's adamantine zone,
Britannia real s sublime, her dauntless head,
Amid the storms of war that round her spread i
Yet by a generous monarch be possessed.
The first great object of his patriot breast.”
What execrable stufr is this ! And by
way of note, the Poet tries to firovc to us, !
that his majesty has reigned longer than any
of the English Kings: •* though, says lie, to
reckon from the accession to the demise,
Henry 3, reigned Jo, and Edward 3, 5(j
years; yet, as the first acceded at 9 years of
age, and the last at 14, they did not either
of them, in fact, reign so long as his pre_
sent majesty has now reigned.” A non sc
f/uitur, Mr. 1’ye——for, if we should count
the length of a King’* reign by the number
of Lam cats Odes, which have been addres
sed to his, royal Ear, it would seem, me
’hook Island Election.—The Tie-'
• lean majority is e« lima ted at 200.
I
Federal (lo. last year b JO.
Aett JlcftubHcHn tfnin M-lo.
T he Assembly nict at Newport, on the
2d inst. for the purpose of electing certain
judicial and executive officers.
The Connecticut Election took
place, agreeable to the Constitution, oa the
9lh nit—There were two Federal candi
date— Treadwell backed b;* the Chui h, &
l'r'i[:r Gritjjld by the limbs of the Laxo
Delegates
to serve in the ensuing General Assembly.
j elson Jolm \V. Harris, Janies Woods.*
liitvanna—Joint Wills,* Allen Bernard.
' Pattut-Samuel Hughes, Charles Fo ter *
tori '!ttylvania~ DaIliet Coleman, William Wal
Northumberland-' Peter C. Rice, S. Downing
lry * Jesser“ Carter]}. Berk
lor*—Samuel Shield, Gawm t. Corbin *
.King William—John Hill, Philip Aylett
1 hose mar tut thus * are new members.
SEN ATE.—From the Dirtrict »f New-Kerf
tc. Gen. Jr iIlium Chamberlayne, without opoo
sit ion. 11
The rest oT the members arc new ones, and
have been already published.
Fairfield jocky-ci.ub races.
‘lay, 4 mile heats lor 400.
JoJin Minj't a b li Sir Alfred by sir llarry.
4 years old, 100 lb.
5 1 1
K Johnson sb rn Maria by 15ay Yanky
4 years old, 9$
4 2 2
Ralph Wormley’s c li Tom TufToy Escape
G years old, 120
1 4 3
Wade Mosby’a c h Ratlray by Diomede
aped. I2G lbs.
3 5 4
*loh*t temple’s h It Lsmplipthfer by Dio
mede 5 years old, 110 g
3 cl
Gen. Charnherlavne’s b h Providence by
Oscar, 4years old, 100 2
clr.
Wm. Ball’s s m Minerva by Diomede G~
years old, II« boHe.i
Miles SeMen’s s h Mill Boy by Bedford
5 years old. 110 di'tan
1st heat 8m 9s. 21 heatHm. 24s 31 heat 3 ,, >ti
2nd day. Proprietor’s Purse g 200 3 mile Ireata.'
Ralph vVormley s b b Moloch by Dio
^ ramie, 5 years old, 110 lbs 3 \ j
\V R Johnson's c h Don Q’lixotte hy Di
on, G years old, 120 Ihs. 4 2 2
Wade Mosby’s : h Dbfoch hy Diomede,
4 years old, J'M i o ,jr
W. Ball’s s in Minerva by Diomede, G
years old 120 2 j,0j
Gen Chamherfayne’s K b-— by Ha
md'o'i. 4 years old, ioijf 3 distan
1st hear 6m. Is. 2 I heal 5m 54s. 3 1 heat 5m 50s
3d.day, Annual Sweep-Stakes for ¥, 509 3 mile
bests
W R. Johnson’s s h br.lonjr'njf to
Mr.
W ilks, 5 years old bv Dion.i d’e,
2 1
Ralph Wormley’s b h 4 years old t>\
IV, •
on.cde
3 2
John Iloomes’r li bdmtpinjto ?,!;• Ty!:r
1 4 year* old by Diomed* ” / »
4 di
Massachusetts h-»s risen, like the Star
in the East, in holy YVrit, to ii-l every Ame
rican heart •• with exceeding great j >v.”
1 here is nn doubt of the election of
Messrs. Gerry and Gray to the chairs ql
State—their majority is at least 3,5GU
Nett. Republican Gain at least 6U0:>.
I he election ot the Si.natk too, is over
--hut the result is more doubtful. Of the
40 members who compose it, all sides agree
that 19 are Ilefiublicans-for themselves,
the 1*edcralists claim 20, though the repub
licans allow them oalyJlO--According to
the last, there is no choice in two of the dis
tricts. The Federalists admit that there is
one vacancy, at least to be filled.-—This de
dcfiiency is supplied by the joint vote of
“the members of the H. of R. and such Sen
utors as shall bf declared elected.” Hence
both sides are straining every nerve, to set
a majority in the next H. of R. As an ad
ditional reason lor this exertion, it becomes
the duty .of the next Assembly to elect a
Senator of theU.S. It will be for them to
say whether Timothy Pickering shall conti
mie to cast a disgrace over the councils of
this country, and aid the cause of an insolent
nation, who, according to him, “has done
us no essential injury.”
We say, that both parties are strniningev.
ery nerve to acquire an ascendancy in the
FI. olR. The Standing Federal Committee
ot Boston have called upon “ every federal
town to elect and sent its full coin/ilemmt
°J Alt tubers'’—to save the country, as they
modestly sav, from an alliance with France
and a war with England.- -This phrase,
(“ Gill complement of members,”) brings us
to a curious feature in the Constitution of
Massachusetts. Every corporate town cen
taming 160 rateable polls, may send one
member o the II. of R.-. ~?>7 5 polls, 2 re
presentatives-thus “ making 225 rate a
bte polls the mean increasing number for
every additional Representative.” The ex
peaces ot hese Representatives arc borne
by their respective towns, except those “of
travelling to the General Assembly, and re
turning noma once in every session and no I
mure; which las: are paid out of the public
chest. Sue.i towns, therefore, as are parsi
monious and choose to save their money, or
are indifferent about their political influence,
will part with their representatives, to save
their money. We shall pas* over the effects
of this strange organization—but every one
may sec, in what way the relative strength of
parties may seem to vary without any corres
ponding change in those parties themselves—
and'how the political pendulum may comin
ue to shift to and fro. through the indolence
or cabal of political partizaui. It is equal!,
clear, as neither party can gain an ascend
ancy in the state without the exertion of this
tight ot suffrage, so each party will he
prompted to call upon their respective towns
to send their lull quota of representatives_
ltie election will take place “ten day*
at least, before the last Wednesday of” this
month. 1
Sfiihting was lhe Rtfiubllcan candidate. ~
i he result is, that Treadwell hail more
votes than Spalding,, and Spalding more
than Griswold—but Trendwell has not a
majority of the whole—There is, of course,
no choice by the People—and the Assembly
will have to make the selection. There is
no doubt ot 'J'read well's f being thc'favo
rite, in this “ land of steady habits.”
In spite of the»triumpha,of Federalism, in
the late Lower House of Assembly—in spite
ot the wild proscriptions of republicans, by
a Federal Council of Appointment— m »pi c
of the flush of jov, inspired by the votes of.
(the City ot Nevv.Yobk. the came of troth i
| is ascendant throughout this great <k rvnv
! erful state. V ain was the opposition of her I
|f<ws! “ 1 he long puli, the strong pull, and i
the pull altogether,” has carried e very tiling '
before i*.
A'l the returns have not come in -hut
even the Federal prints begin to confess
their defeat. In the Southern District the
Republican Ticket fnr the Assembly has
carried 13 members, the Federal 9—in the
Middle, tlie former J t, the latter 12—As far
as returns are received from the Eastern
and Western Districts, the Republicans have
carried 27, the Federalists 9. In all, 51
Republic.ns, 30 Feds—Whole number in
the Lower House, 112 — Federal majority
last year, 14—A republican print estimates
the number of Republicans in the next II of
R. at 68—majority for them 24.
As tar os the estimated returns have come
to hand, 'I umpkius lias a majority of .1414
votes-over Platt.
lJli \ (wOODS AT AVC’710.\\
(without besehvk.)
Tuesday next, the lodi May, the subsci i
bi-r» v.’ill soli at ; uction, without reserve, at
tneir *tore, at 4 o clor k, in t;ie afternoon :
dozen superfine Pulhrat Handkerchiefs
DO piece* supeifine tusiiionable coloured strip®
Mpi! Mtusfins
50 pieces nne light ground chintz
160 l<ic!» i..shi-Ti,.ble Muslin Robes
o0 pieces corded Dimities
4'J doz. mers’-m ’ tvorr»*n whit.* Gotten IIssc
TERMS Of SALE :
Sums uinl-.-r S 51) rash ; ovei {; >0 and not ex
ceed life l.)0 sixty days ; over ft 100 and not
excccj1:'^ .30J, n.» . i\ ctu\s; aml i‘>i ;ill sur j
<ii ft *'00 -ind upwards. 4 months credit willIv
lowed *'T.»t ■ n« • B ik «vl ; -
.da, with approved endorsers, will he required of
the purchasers.
M. S: B. MYEllS.
Mav 11.
2t
N oHANCERY, In Riclimond
Musu;>^z
Court, Nowmbei 18ih, 1G10.
Balaton,
Plaintiff'.
Z1 c.\ 1 sir
William Dong, administrator of James Dunlop
deed soul Ucilla Dunlop, Mary Anne Dunlop
and James Dunlop, iniimt children ..nd heirs of
..ie smj! J titles Dunion, by Thomas Wilson thevr
Guardian, &. Darnisutut, Foster said Satchel!,
Tln£. . . BifeniUtnts.
l 1I.S cau~e came on tin.' day, by consent of,
parties, to be neard, on *1 eb'dl, answer's of all tl o
dcreiuLnis, sundiy t xhitits tiled a:.d was.,f;u< 5
bvcou.n el; ,n consideration whereof; i, ,4.
need'nnJ eri'rrr.V that unless the <lcu-dints, Up
infant heirs of the said
J 'mcs Dunlop, do p,.y
o the pin nidi the sun: of three tlu u-i.md U\ .>
hundred and thirty dollar-,th.v:c ec us, v i.h in-,
terest thereon, t: he coirpti ed after he rate of
six percent per annum, Iron? the 17th day of'
Mice!., 1806, within three months from this day.
that t ten their c<;uity of red? mption in the lands
•n the mortgage mentioned, be forever foreclo
sc., and i- deludi ofsu-.h payment, that the
:vrge»n» of the rkydo proceed to sell the same
ll,e bidder, for ready inoiiev.jifici- ha
ving advertised the time and place of .sale tor
i nee weeks in some one oftlie Richmond
newspapers, and out of the ’proceeds of the vn’e
l ,at ne first pay the cost and charges of i suJe*
!‘d t*»‘'» fay to the plaintiff hi# said dem \!, lTd
U e residue, if arfy, bring into Court, such sale
be mr.i.e subject to the dower of thor Du? ion
widow and relict of the said James D-mlo,?, dc
ceaied, and that ho m-.kii conveyance to the pir.
chaser according-?, ami make report of his -> o„
oeedings to the court, in order for n final drrrt *
A copy. T.c HOWARD, Clerk."
In conformity with the foregoing decree, will
l e sold on the premises on the ninth day of Inn
next.for cash, the IIOUSK AND DOT therein
mentioned, at present occupied by. Foster and
ha c itll as a \ endue Store, containing twenty
iree ket six inches front, on the raaihstreet, run
111 n HCK one Hundred feet, ns mentioned in the
mortgage. JOHN F. PRICE
M- 11 S'rXeitn* °ftlie Ci*y °f Richmond.
O'V* ,)UKl> l>OLI, \ l< s HE WARD.'
W I will give one hundred dollars reward for
apprehending a nnRro mao named HEN, who .*
niy proper v. If'; ran away on the Till ofjsmi -
rj last, He is between forty and fifty ,.ar-: ..f
agej thougo Ins appearance would indir .<<• ’ l0x
to be some what younger. He is five f <•: bCv. ..
or e.epit inches high, or i.orm: where thereabouts
tot lie beat cd my recollection. If..- i.^ .
fellow : has a pood figure and an wjr, ( a- I- C Hm.
tenance, which becomes vc*rv pin <hr V/her>
Z r 1°1M? sot* of aah yet
C hcf*, louacC(’- H'; '« inclined
0 h-bowlggcd, has a short thick f/ot, v, v
broad across the toes. He ifS a good house set
vant, shoe maker, gardiner, d t tier, and an ex.’
cedent ’*;• 11 the bid Ken v.,,1 P ■ h,-,:y
chabM his clothe*, hut a «\ ... ; ,
which, aa well as my tm-mory mt, me, he car!
ricd wi.li him, may poftihiv l.;a 1 to his deter.
.( the beat (dams, made up of a r.,„,d over • ,c_
kci and pantaloons, dyed of a 4rf l« colour L
II.s shirting consisted of Virginia cloth. if*
hud, and cun ned with him, various other arti
clesofoVesa, v,* , two br oad cloth coals, a f-lscL
and « blue one ; but the others are ,.7r,»nrm
h‘T«l* »»*vc re;.s.... to believe hr h, . n’ T„ ,]*
*cent.icaiuo. eitmncip.tU.n, and register, in
the name of a v. .*• , v,... , nanrlpdc* Z
Ne« Kent counlv, «i h,j
dealli 1 he name of rids negro 1 d , know
;m ,t ,s pro. »,,« *y feiiow will endo,,^ ,0^
h’rr five I'ejj :-i), liberated urnUr the mv-edi,,*.
mrr.umsli.m-. <. Uhc is t.'-.-n .ofii.-tt,"*
. 1,1 l'".c *ho*e reward- it vithui
Uir rtat--, hslt that Sum • in «i4»t r rue j v;,i
pay *1. re^m.ahie charges for his d>;live: y tc>
uic si bprmj.ri Id, in |; nnwr county, jie„r)von
posite the I'tping Ticc.in King WihLm rj^
no in nr a ike.
^ BtllS s 'i 5 r-.VI
j C«.'l S Idcii’i. < in 1h 1'ji {jinp to
. ton ;? »c >r« old
1st heat 5in. 5Is. 2 1 heat 6ni. 4*
3J lr. *t 6.u. 7*
PGR THE RAX}LHPER.
1 he follow u £ mo in l Tale, is from ibe ren of
n ta.tvof Virginia, whose strains h-ve more than
once delipiucd ihe readers of this paper—so s f ,
so dev-, < xcj u«dt«*ly sv/( _*t. Th ■ ernv r■ i
which we have borrowed, is deficient in a Iuw.—
: tl is, we have t ikon the libei ty » f nipplvii-p.
I The humble subject of tbs arth*., i‘) , i;< t!ie
• rnw,i orrrmlle.flv I' , iriK* of >r.
svclo, .Ui.L:, 1., a been “ un.uve mi., L.ti '-i .- i
• Noctunn Fl.es ; t:r as :s r it.:non!y call'd bntti
1 flies slid Moths , from the one flvinp l>y * 1y, a-’d
' b**i" bvi-p miLiily on ibe wi> ir d'lTii. * th®
i n»)fht. • hey m .y be ewiy tiistiny, uisiu d from
iCj 1,1 1 • C> liieii l.oii.s, 01 feelers, ihot ci the
! butterfly icjtij,* .1, nr knobbed at tir.'end 1
I t? ose ot the n; iili ?fin<-rintr 1 v 1 oomi iiu^on
TiJE xMOi ll! ^
A moth about tnv evnuie pi.o %!.
I 1 wri.iir, just sp okl veil.; biacic, array’d 5
Th bt aut\in* insect caught n )• • yc,
And f’e ni n»v besom si 1 u
A t her mpi edir-.jr j..te.
Anxious tnsr..- tic viiiim. f.dr,
2.*u*,! by tin* i use oeceitioi jpjre,
) murli’d my hand—;l.c p ,f!v thutp
Out-weot my spe< il—ber s Lifer wi
II ni render'd aid loo late.
The fl me soon quencbM her.vital B 1 me,
As ipick, destroy’*1 her f,ne wr*.ught <'-nrr;
H r sn.iwv <lr**ss h Kpmkt w »h j 1,
W'ilh smoke and grease was soil'd and wcu
Prone to .* earth she fell.
With grid I view her pif'ous plight,
lior fleeting nourthes 3111.kin rivsb*,
Noroan tuy sorrow auplit avail jP *
1 o boo* hi that (ate, no tears prevail,
Which I foti-sw too well !
'Tij //’my—the fond ?ii*>iev;' '■maid,
Jly truth and iimocciKe bclraj M
Still pi ivs about the Marne.of love,
Nor e’er suspects until she prove,
2 i-. fraught with j)*tin ar.d t are.
Slit I in*tly hups the specious ill,
Unrou. rious of its power to kill_
1 lie sofi iPu .ion (ills her heart,
Nor w ,11 soe 1 ‘eii consent to part,
With miser)- so dear 1
Meanwhile the subtle poe in mb;
Triumphant in her fv’iisb veins’:
The sprinps oflileal lenpih d *r: y,
While all her beauties folc away,
Before the -vaslinp Are.
And, “ crush’d before the moth,” she lios,
While, hope protracted, fonts and dies !
Despair her trembling hearttissaos,
Tillw’ry pnw’r of nature foils.
And lif-.-»nn i love ! expo-.; ! ! AMELIA.