Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political — Alexandria [Va.], 1810-10-16 00:00:00, page 3

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MWFQss the demccctrats in other sistates
bitter complaints that the dissensions
won,; the patriots in Penns—ylvania have
occssionfd the partinl triumph of fcderal
si sim'm Phikadclphia. The Common Coun
cral, and one fcderal member of
_ Cougscss is elected. The intelledtnnl small
isssidigniiied with the name of Portcr,
who for several years has been a member of
Congrcss from that city, has now liberty to
May at home, mosing over the instability of
: sisswnc, the sickleness of ponular favor and
i she mutability 'os democracy. 'The demo
sszzic Editors in other states lament this di
siand insist on the necessity of una—
n'sictjzy ; urging that private grudge, or the
opinion of unworthiness in the 'candidate,
ought to give way, to preventuthe possibili
n-ot'hdcrnl success. ls the eloquence of
(ctsicticcro and the patriotism of Cato were
d in one person, and he were a tede.
nlisl; and the democratic candidate were,
tconsummate rascal, and an irreclaimach
h'wckhead ; the democrats must unite and
zgmz to send either the knave or the fool,
]:stan able and worth sederalist should ob
minasutt. To this fulc in almastssevery
teat.- the democrats have more or less ad.
hcrcd: hence the Leibs, Sloans, M'Far.
hnds and so on, " and so forth to the and
ota Long chapter."
Porter was first brought forward by Du
anc's party. W'by has Duane sorssiaken
him Zsi The probable reason'is an unwilling
ncss on the pant of Portcr on all occasions
to submitto the will of Dictator Dunn. lt
isvery singular, yet not less true, that al
most all the men whom the Aurora once
tupportcd and once caﬂed incorruptib! :: pa
mote, of uochangable principles, the wisest,
the best,.the greatest men in the nation, have
lince by this same Duane" been pronounc
td, corrupt, changeable, ignorant, office
hunsitets, knaves and fools. Recoliectionss
brings before us a sin: names: '(Laliatin
M'Kean, Lﬂgan, Tenche Coxe, Dall'as,
Conpcr, Snyder, Randolph, and fisslcs of
minor consideration: To Lieb 'ne however
szilladheres, and siLcib as closely adheres to
him. We can accountsor the long continu
tncc ostbis friendship on one principle only.
Two men of greater depravity do not al
ways come together:: their dark—ssdeeds are
Well known to each other, of many of which .
she public siare ignorant: each is aisraid os
dissciving the: friendship 'lcst the other
"Wild blazmt to the world bsits crimcs.
all an: fed
make
vision 5
unite
Iohn—G. Jac'kson has -resigned his seat in
Congress [[mch to the satisfaction of an par
'ss'f*- He Wsigns as the reason-os his resig
nation indisposition occasioncd by his due'l
rich Mr. Pcarson. ctM r. ]ackson sihas en
dfaﬄrcc] to throw all the censure on Dlr.
Parson; but wextrusc that when MnPcar
Wnshal] see .]acksod's statement. he will
Place the matter in its true light. Some of
siCkson's'scatemcat we know to be partial.
Norare we so ready 'to believe that Mr.
Mksosi was that mild honomblc man in de
lehe would have thcsiwcrld now believe
im. He was a determined sopportcr of the
'duﬂnistratiooss; and whEn-his sophistry a
ctlfd nothing against damnablc proofs that
"" brought against them. be resorted to
Wost, and in a Quixotic spirit of policical
'sight crrantry, was_ for fighting every
??"Vﬄo should utter a syllable disrespcct
'WOWardSIesserson-or Madison. He be
'"Td t0 Pearson in a most insolent man
?,wjsh an LXpeccation os frighccning him.
He happened unsortunately for him to mis
si: his man. His sate has had one good
."ctfncy in Congresa; it has proved the
msiss'siW Osauempting to mile. sidcbatc b)
"zing, Which has bcc'n mudhsi (iscd byss
hosssi' Who" brains and bulksits were
_dc Of the same materials :. the ssforriuf
sigh")? chance be esscccivc,ssthe latter
ld """— .Scarcely any man was ever
sigtzgmdtta may. Oazetu.
TUESDJY, (),CTOBER le.
vided (or . bullcc hole.
f- lacksofiisyfsssinhacttss 'whenssssssche' propqlsxhsso'n.
has-Jacks'on's argumentum adsilzamz'nem, ar
gument at a man, proved that the adminis
tration did nut connivc at Miranda's expe
dicion. The triai osOgden and Smith has
placed that subject in a pretty clear light.-—
If Miranda had succeeded in his endeavors,
]esserson would have been hasty enough in
claiming his share ofapplausc for the coun
tenance he gave Miranda to assist men in
obtaining " their longlost liberty." The
same double game was played with General
\Eac0n. Had he not. succeeded the admi
hiscration would have disclaimcd having e
sivcr countenanced his connexion with Ha
7 met Bashaw.
; M—
} New-Hamþsfzz're E/ection.-—We arc as
;surcd from Ncw-Hampshise, that the late
jdsclared electiosin of one of the democratic -
simcmbers will be contestcd before a coni- ct'
, mittee os Congress.——Boston Ccntinel.
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! General Massena, in his official account
si to the French government ofthe surrender
{of the Spanish city Ciudad Rodrigosi, says,
[" It is impossible to form an idea of the
si state to which the city was reduced. Eve
F ry thing is hattered down and ruined. Not
! so mum'zas a single house is starzdifzsigv-F'What
,, an excellent man ]oscph Bonaparte must he,
to be willing to get a throne through such
means and consequencesi! \Vhat loving
ssr
Bv :! decree- osth'e 18fh Jcme, eighteen Os
Zss-si ,ﬂ-iﬂv-two hishnpricks of Rome and
Trnssimine are suzzprrssed. as are also all
(he abhrys in the said departments. A
mong the reasons alledgcd in the prcamble
for this measure, it in stated that sevcntcen
as the bishops has} Pur themselves out us the
; empemr's prut-zccion !zy resusing to take the
oaths to his majesty, and that only fourteen
us xhcm has! performed {hat ct/ss'irst os (]utz'es
commanded (25: j'eszrs Christ, namely, sub
sssi mission to sslhe established powers.
si The annexst'xon of Hollanr] is another step
ssiwhich Bonapartc has made towards that
I Univcrsul Empire which Luu'zs XK'V. en
E dezworvd to c-smblish, Z-z in Which'thtsi mad
amb'ztion of Bonaparte hopes to haﬄc the
idraign of Providence, and to triumph in
defiance osche prophccssv. The prediction
of Daniel, according to the. conrurrent voice
of all the siintcrpre'sicrs, distinctly ioretells,
that, after the four universal monarchics,
no future dominion shal! lzc universal, but
that of Chriscianity. Accordingly, it has
long'becn {he received opinion of Christen
Idom that a fifth universal Monarchy would
be con'irary to-thc order of Providence and
to the exsizssrcss language of prophecy.
It was the impious boast of the apostatc
]uhan ancl-coufirmed by an oath. thatin
(Icfiancc of the prediction of our Saviour,
he would rc'bui'ksil the temple of Jerusalem ; '
and whether we believe or not the miracu
lous part nsshe story ; 'so far is certain and
known, 'that he died bcsorsi: he couXd e'ssrct
it. si-Bonaparze. great as he is, would do
we" not to tempt the Divine vengeance by
entering into an immediate conﬂict with the
Power who madc-him. si—Hismry is full of
( examples, where even t'ne intention of such
j'bhsphemyss, she Scelus ﬂsente Canccþfum,
; cvm where the object of it has been a false
{div—zniectv, has called down she direct ven
? geancc of Heaven, and the memof'ablc pu
sinishment of the subject who has .provokcd
'it.
! With re5pect to the possibﬂity of esta'b
'lishing such a Monarch, we would barely
xsuggest England & Amcrica': America as
ja united people is. invincible; and all thcsi
si assembled armies m Europe could not pre
;v'ail against her. And what kind of univer-'
3 sal Monarchy would that be, in which Eng
{ land should by her naval-predominance pos
i scss th; seaa. No fear Qheresore that Bo- .
napartc win disturb the course of prephecy,
he seems fated rather to destroy than to
house, he Wﬂﬂ strenuous rather 'sor being '
sissjsififitto en: revolutionary soldiers Tthan for
redeemin-g men whose crimes produced
their misfortune. ' lfctMr. Jackson' had ex
erted himself half so much for the repeal of
the statute of limitation, thesibar to all those
'paymems, as he did to screen the adminis
tration from the charge of French inﬂuence,
or for the ruinous embargo, we should now
think that he seriously did wish the two
siso: xtsi-deemihg theiffiessu taken by the spen
ish in Mir—anda'sss expedition was before che
]utionary officers and-soldiers paid. Nor
subjects he must ensure himself!
build, We have little doubt, however,; bqt
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umcsisaefz ij-Z Zetss ass} ffiausiomffineai .'
hcsiwill-bcthect*tu3trusirnent.ssctf -si '- .
ssDEZtTH-si—On Sziturd'ay evening the'si6th
'insmnt, the -Rev. siBenjamin Grigsby, mi--_
niscer of the siPrcsbyterian church of this
place.- ilnvthessdcath of MrsiiGrigsby, our'
society has lost a highly respeccable mem
ber, his congregation a TPascor,'si-whose fer- ,
vent piety inculcated 'the'purestsspsirinciples
of religion, while by his cxem-plarysiconduct
he Strongly enforced the sspracdce "of those
principles which herecommendcd'; he was
pious without austerity, and cheerful with-si_
out lcvity. A wife and three children are,
bereft of a tender and aﬀectionate hus-band_ct
and seither.-N0rfolk Lcdger. '
masters, the suﬂrages 01 tne peopte newe
again been sacrificcd, and one democrat!
has been declared to be elected—who had'
not a majarz'ly qf' those suﬀictasiges ; and two !
i'cdcraiists who lzada majority as them, de
clared'tco'r ELECTED s! Itis Stateci for a
fact, that the votes cfthe town of Lehanon,
52 Of which were given to the scderai, and
(52 to the demoeratie ticket, were ,put into
the post oﬀice, bysi the town clerk, agreeably
to law ; but the post-master, instead of
sending them to Concord, sent them to'Ex
ettsir, and they were bandicd about among
the pOSt offices, until the time oftheir legz'l
return into the secretary's office had expired.
Had these votes been returned seasonably, (
they would have added 214 to the whole ;
number of voces; and 11,604- wouid then
si have been necessary to make a choice ; in
which case Nlr. Suiiivan wouid have had
11,625, Mr. Haie, HLOG; and Mr. Bart
iett (dom.) 11,620, and would have been
chosen by the people, and none othersi! By
a law ofthe state the governor Þmust issue
his precept for -a "new election, containing
the names cs the six highest candidates (2
Of whom only are democrats) from 'whom
the people must choose the remaining three;
and we considentiy—eXpect the gentlemen,
-at least, who ssha—vesialrcedy received -a ma
jm-ity "of the votes of their fellow citizens.
will again have a much larger majority ﬂsit
the next trial-; which we are told will not ss
take place until the second Tuesday of 4
March next. lfctl recollecc 'right, thc-first ?
to announce the election of—the entire'fede
ral ticket was a democratic paper in jot" ?
town, whose editor resided a long time m .
this state, and keeps up an agtivess corres-ct
: pond-ence with out democratsﬂf '
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" 'We are much astonishcd at the late de
c'hsrzttion os governor Langdon & his conn
cil, of the result of the election of repre
sentatives to Congxess. "It is the mark ofa
vulgar mind to impute, on barc'suspicion,
improper motives or conduct to public men
nuing under the obligations of an oath it"
But Liter the pains taken to procure cor
rect information "from the various town;, to
find the declared result so variant from that
information, puzzhts the mind of every ho
nest man in the state. We fire consident,
however, if even the votes have been fairiy
snrted and counttctd, and none of the tricks
have been successfully played at Pozts
mouth, which were attempted in your state
three or four year:, since, and so mansuily
scnuted to the shame and disgrace of the
" Nob/ebags, Scae'te'ringssSu/li—vnn 59" Straw"
democrsszzs of that day, that two of the fe
drral and only one of the democratir can- .
didatcs, leave been chosen by t/zeþeoþle! P-ut i
by some legcrdrlnain amctong Oranget'a'þost ]
A CHAIR ON TVVO LEGS.
Mr. 'H'fsisiFW' had spent several years in the
United Statcs, and is one of the scwErIg
lish travellers in our country who do it in:
tice when they return home. .He speaks of
it as it is. He had been much in New-En-ct
land, and is well acquainted with its man
ners. zAs Iwas sitting in a chair, he told
me he should have recognized me as a New
Englandcr, had he not known me. Upon
enquiring the peculiarity which marked my
origin, he told me that no one except a man
c-tiucated in N. E. ever leaned back in his
chair so as to make it stand upon the two'
hinder feet only. Ahho' ] was not in the
least aware, either that this was a custom
peculiar to my country, or that I was then
in so awkward a Situation. ! found I was
so indeed ;and while the incident produced si
some mirth, in which I was happy to_10%n,l
am sure, that ! shall never forget again, that !
a chair ought to stand upon four legs instead i.
of two.
ty on Thursday.
General Turre'au, the French 'mlmsterss
and suice, arrived in this pity on Saturday- ;
:Nsff: ["We si
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The 'Sccreta'ry of War and the Attoctrne'y ;
Generzﬂ of the U. Statgs arrived in chisci- '
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NEW-HAMPSHXRE ELECTION.
CONCORD, Seþt. 27.
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SHIP ;
\ John G. Ladd,
HAS -1-'OR sctuctzsi',
8 tons first quaiixy Hcmp
'60 pieces Russia Shcetings "and Duck
160 pieces Nankcens _ "
A quantity osShocS, 'erapping & Sheath
ing Papcr _
IOUO sides Sc-sial'Lezctxthcx' ct
50 bo'xes mould and dipt Candle!
'40 quarter casks Sherry Wine of a Super
flsi'iuxsi' quality _
] pipe London Patsiticular old Madoira
-1 pipe Gin
] ticrce-Pcurl Ash
] ditlo Gluc
--7 barrcls Sugar '
'15 dluo tanncrs' oil _
ss QOOO bushels coarse Salt
* _ 50 hhdssix-Potomac T0bucCD
-100 casks Lime ,
Also, Exchangc onsiLondon.
L()c—tobcr 16.
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Bar ssKce'per Wantssed.
, "October 16.
si "On FRIDAY nckt will be sold at the dwell
si ing house of the flute 'Ignatius Iunige],
! Princg strcct. .
I A sivarze'ty fof Gracersszes, -lzause/zold
, ct si ssand 'lcztchen Fumzturc,
: "A HctORSE, DRAY, l'CART, &c.
} Torms will be made known at the place of
sale.
Wa-nted to Purchase or Hnsic, _
; siA BLACK MA-N for a house servants:
Apply to the Primor: ' '
'si Auguafi
sss—"G aﬄaffieusst; M-si'ziudexstandz-bas receiv-f
ed dispmhes from siGen. ' AFMSU'OBSNÞY
thesiship Sallysifarrsiivectd ac 'Baltiqsdrgz;'but
-:hey are" of- a (law anterior'tbsitfiatct'ds'thc lec
tcr sromct-Þ'lt—Cham'ngfiy to our'ministcr at.
Paris relative to the repcal of -thc fBerlin &
-Milan' decrce8.-—1bid. '
'The" ship 'siAmerica, -LcWis, ' of Alexan
dria, ' was lefc-at'LisbonTSept. - 5 ;_just ar
rived.
'—
., ssBA-Ixrm'on'z, (Obto'lacr 15.
si latest srom-Partugal. '
si-Captain Shcarmaa, arrived last evening
in the schr. Caroli'ne. -39 days from Lisbon
which be left Scpc '5, informs that there had
been no general enga'gemcnt betwem the ar
mics ; 'Almeida had surrendcred, 25thAug.
without resistzmcc; and that the 'Pormgucsc
lost six men by the'siblowing up ofa magn
zinc-which they ascribed to the treachery
of their commander. 'This' last must bef—in
correct as Almcida had changed its sorme'r
garr'xson for an English one commanded by
general Cox who must have commanded
when it surrendcred.
ENTERED,
Schooner Exchzmgc, Lincoln, L'} ,," esce,
[vi & Boston]: SaZt, to Lawrason & OF o vlo
Sc hoomr Eiiza Arm, Spc—lman, New
Providence: Saltsnd fruit: the m stcr.
Schooncr Rising Sun,—Osbem, N. Yorsiklz
'Full and 'Wimer Goods-z diﬀerent mcr
clssctants. _ si _ _ _
_-S:;hr. Hanmh, Goold, Poﬂland: Sun
drics: the master.
Slocp Regul'siizor, Akin, New —ss:B dsord-z
ssdiuo.
FOR 'SAL'E,
-T/'zc-ss.-siemarkably substantz'a! azzdfast sailing
—Bb'IG
:EcoNosi-IY,
_ 4 A Burthen 650 to 700 barrefs, &
"'*ssct'- si-"sisif, now in commetc or lex (m sea. -si
Picasc apply to Captxin Elisha Smim, on
Thomas :anncy .& Co.
[:ave rzcvr '**_;ua'b/ :.ze William & Jsihn, &.
zect (0 I's-tzsis Mr: a-zd at zer arrivals,
'The whole of t! eir Fall Importation,
Consi sting as
A GRNERAL ASSCRsMEXT or
board, or to
John G. Ladd.
__si_Oc'—. ober 16.
A sober steadysiYoung "man who can'coma
Well sirecom mendcd is-w amcd as asihar keeper.
WTWET ssss
ctsiOetohel 16. (}st mScl4-WL
October 16.
W oolen and Cotton Goadct".
Apply to
FALL WGsiOODS.
?. C. Marstellcr.
,]osihn Hsiodgkin.
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ENEWS,
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