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their escape from this city? Why are
v they not now drugged to justice? Why
•ire their names concealed from an in
dignant public ? Because neither treason
nor traitors existed in the country thus
calumniated ! because the idea originat
ed in the mind of a man, who wanted by
the excess ol a new-born zeal, to cover
the suspicions of guilt, and who hoped
to stop the investigation ol his own con
duct, by magnifying the danger from
which he wished to have us believe his
services had delivered us !
The letters, the papers and the per
sons, nay even the private conversations
ol the inhabitants of this territorv, have
• or three months been under the absolute
control ol the public officers. If treason I
had existed in this territory, it would
n vain have endeavored to escape detec
tion-—If the people were so disaffected,
■ n it they were ready to snatch the cul
prit irom the hands of justice—if the
judges could not be trusted to commit,
nor juries to pronounce on the guilt of
the d,linquents,surely with such means,
and so inquisitorially examined, some
evidence of the fact would have been
produced ,• some document, some decla
1 ation ; some bottle conversation; some
confidential communication would have
been drawn forth from the secrecy in
'' Inch lriendship and honor had buried
them, to bear testimony of guilt, so as
at least to justify suspicion*
I therefore repeat, and so long as my
feeble voice can be heard, I will con
tinue to proclaim, that our constituents
;iuvc been vilely calumniated, as well as
cruelly oppressed : that insult has been
added to injury ; and that their ima
ginary disaffection has been slander
ously alledged as an excuse for their
real oppression. Away then sir, with
the degrading excuse derived from do
mestic treason or disaffection. It is one
that will surely find no favor with the
executive oi the United States, who has
borne honorable testimony to the readi
ness with which the force of the territory
was, in a moment of danger, offered to
support the Union ; nor will it he be
lieved here, when we have seen our
most respectable citizens performing the
drudgery of garrison duty, ami conde
scending, even on the mere allegation of
the General, to undertake the task of ex
cuting orders odious in themselves, and
which I am sure must have been doubly
disagreeable to them, both as free citi
zens,and men of respectability in socie
ty* [ 7 9 he emtimutf.]
INTELLIGENCE.
Berne, (Switzerland,} Feb. 27.
V/e have had a prophetess here, a
girl above 4 years old, who predicted
that the end ol the world was nigh at
hand. She had a great number of fan
atic followers. In one ol their tumul
tuous assemblages they put to death the
prelect. Several of these possessed
wretches have been arrested.—The
scene of their meeting was at the vil
lage of Rapperswyl.
I.eipsic, Febuary 27.
A regiment has been raised here to
which the emperor Napoleon has given
the name ol “ First Prussian regiment
of Infantry in the service of France.”
Brunswick, Feb. 24.
Several transports ol officers belong
ing to the ci-devant military, have been
sent through Cassel and INlentz to
h ranee. 1 heir obstinaev in refusing to
enter into the French service has been
the cause of this s verity.
Warsaw, Feb. 28.
According to the latest accounts, the
Russian army still continued behind the
Pregel, where it had received a consi
derable reinforcement, and where they
were throwing up entrenchments—
From the 12th to the 18th, the French
army was observed to be in motion,
which gave indications of another gen
eral battle ; but we have since learnt that
it was only meant to reconnoitre the
position of the enemy. The Russian
general Benningsen thinking that the
French had weakened themselves on
the Narew to strengthen their grand
army in East Prussia, gave orders to
general Essen to make an attempt in that
quarter, which, as is known, fell cut to
the disadvantage of the Russians near
Ostralenka.
The emperor Napoleon has ordered
that the siege of Dantzig, Caulbt rg, and
Graudcntz, be carried on with all possi
ble activity, to curb the numerous ex
cursions which are made in the rear of
the army. V.Y hear that the operations
against Dantzig and Graudentz have
s u c c t* s s f u 11 y c o; n m t n c e d.
New engagements on the Narew, took
place on the 25th if wc may credit the
intelligence of a courier who arrived
her - to-day.
i he baron St. Vincent is returned j
hither from Cracow, and has constant
interviews with the prince of Benevento
ever since the 14th inst. Besides, cou
riers are daily dispatched to and receiv
ed from Vienna.
From the Frontiers of Pomerania,
March 6.
To-day we heard aviolent cannonade
irom the environs of Stralsund. It is
said that the Swedes have made a pow
erful sortie from that citadel. A part
of marshal Mortier’s corps is at pre
sent at Grimme ; and two regiments of
it is at present at Griefswald on their
route to Friedland, See.
Salem, (Mass.) May 1.
By capt. William Cook, who arriv
edhere on Wednesday night from Pa
lermo in Sicily, we have some addition
al particulars respecting the new war
which has been commenced between the
Turks and Russians, which is likely
soon to assume a high degree of interest
and importance. The Turks are doubt
less considered as acting apart as signed
them by Bonaparte ; and, as was to be
expected, the British have made comr
mon cause with the Russians against
them. We have already had some re
ports of the Russian army, under gen.
Michelson, in the direct rout for Con
stantinople. Capt. C. further informs
us ol the co-operation of a naval force
in the expedition against the Ottoman
capital. Dispatches had arrived at Si
cily, with orders for Sir Sidney Smith
to join admiral Duckworth, and sail
with all possible speed for the Dardan
elles, to act in concert with the Russians
against the Porte ; and they sailed, in
consequence, on the 26th of January.
We do not know the amount of the Bri
tish lorce. The Russians were stated
to have 25 sail of men of war in the
Mediterranean, on board of which was
a considerable number of troops : and it
was expected that in conjunction they
would attack the Dardanelles, and pass
up to Constantinople. In the mean
time fears were entertained for the safe
ty of Ad niral Louis, who with a small
squadron Avas, by the last advices, a
hove Constantinople, and who might
therefore be arrested on his return into
the Archipelago, if the Turks should
he apprised in season of the hostility of
G. Britain.
Canandaigua, March 31.
II >rrid Muidcr.—A most diabolical ^
deed was committ.-d atCaledonla,Gcnc