Norfolk gazette and publick ledger — Norfolk [Va.], 1810-10-01 00:00:00, page 2

THE PUpLiCK LEDGER,
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ad that ft the Broad-Rock Rorts,
meed oo thffiiwalt. (he Wheat Sweep
') *»• »on by M^^eler ft*-Id Ed ward* ;
top, value $5 euilfl(R(»s me day) by Mr.
. and,tbit on Tuesday, the Jockgg Club
toils heats. g500, *n gained by Wr. Boi>)i
tikes. •. The first beat in Ibis last race, was
t Inn in the uncommon short taje of T min. 52 sec.
' ■ ,&n.U»t in 8 mmutes—4gp»£*r n.iju*t running e
tir kMOxokhi Virginia. [Petersburg Intel.
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4Tbe friends to the'adininistration have made •
, great cUmoor about paying tribute to England ;
l^bot what.will they say now at paying tribute to
iDeneHarkf/'U appears that our minister to Russia,
Ur. J^daine bag agreed thatvessrls should pay for
^;8Vtty U» trade with tba king of* Denmark, 2j*
■r p«r penj,. utt tbe cargo! Jf.Y. Cat.
■ ,r* Jofofwed (m we believe from an autbentick
enure*) that the result of the late enumeration makes
t* contains ■ *;•
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White*
81,771
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Bljtrka
1,463
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Total
83,234 v
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<§^^'iRtii»U^o/ Houses,
— .,■4,005
Boston Htpertorjf.
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. HEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION,
■Jo. The following it the official statement of tb« votti
the secretary ofthe commonwealth c
Dtmocralic Ticket.
BarUli (chosen), # 1154(5
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“Dirumore (chosen
11523
•flail 1 •
11383
SM Ht ' *H«rpet A v,/% .If,
11302
' Si*-/' Morrill .
11166
Federal Ticket.
*snm*» "11.443
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•Halt \ 11 11426
*?<; 'fry
tM%e,J*iroae
It3y6
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>tv ’ •Blaitdell
11334 V;\
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, . Wilson i- H179
; Scatterlog > , 1035 ,, l
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*i> for a choice 11480. „ , •
;a- v .Those marked thus ['*] will be the candidates at
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I1, f AtEXAWDWlA, Sept. 26.
v-f; i DISTRESSING EIRE I
. ..*!• The evening before last, about 10 o’clock, the in
naj^tant* of tbit town were alarmed with the cry
-•fttfe. It began in a
cooper’s shop, peer the
*4rh«rvra adjoining Union street. A workman, lea
vingu chndle buriifhg in the shop, went out fur a
. handful of staves —On hit return he discovered that
• the candle,, had fallen among some shavings. The
► «#y of fire Wat immediately circulated, but the ad
jacent materials were, of so combustible a nature, it
- was found impossible to stop the progress of the
,Jire ; which raged till nearly 2 o’clock, before the
Jphabitant8 were able to controul it. Eyery build
•••,. wg was bornt in the square, lying on Union street
and extending from Duke to Prinre streets, border
»»g ofr the fiver. The houses west of Union street
v gsvsral times caught Bn, but by the great and im
minently dangerous exertions of severalinhabitants
4 wa» extinguished, and'the destruction of perhaps
%n hundred bouses pi evented. There was no wind
till .alter 12 o'clock, when a breeze sprang up bear
lag the flames to the n ver.
p! Tbe following it a list of the buildings and a
V mogh calculation of the property destroyed :
-Co}. George Gilpin, 4 Wooden^ouses, g 2,000
• John G. Ladd, 1 large warehcwse, lull of ;
: :, gOOa», * f * r ' *' ' f'
100,00®
George Slacom, l warehouse, J
15.000
fAnthonjkJ*.Gover, l warehouse,
V. 2,000
Jacob Leap, 1 store and dwelling haute,
3,000
Lawmson and Lawrason and Fowle,
! 7 brick and frame warehouse*,
20,000
Harper and Davis, lumbar yard and ship
chandlery,
12,000
t Joseph Dean, 1 wnr.det! warehouse, i
3,000
MordeiaiMillety wooden warehouse,
1,500
Thomas pT*6ton, 2 brick, 3 wooden ho®
v ■■ “?■ 1o«!»«r y«d, ; i ■ s.v • ^ j
6,00®
Georg* Corvell, ] dwelling bout*,
#00
A- Thomas While, blacksmith's shop and gro
W; •-i-f*
500
Fewtan, wooden warebonoe, ■
J.500
>j..R«'kett, bafcatiooae, --.v
3.000
jvfic T* Gilpin, old atone house}. * , ; ’
1.000 j
pwrepco Hill, cooper's shwp, !’ » . ** 1
300
f W. pretend n»l to exactness in these calculations
—Prabalily the estimations art underrated; and ibe
loss little short af $200,000. Very little of the
property-was insured. ~t I -
> ( firre'pojrt that one of tha stores contained a large
^ •; ’’A-ii'7 M ~ ]f Z4—iT-, *"‘T. *'■*-w.a»aw«aaua«a-^® we acse
^Wifitiiy ef powder, iho* erroneous, prevented the
i i considerable property, and considerable
%«*a»t*H®s nf the 11 turns lor some time.
-a-r»u lixea ware Inst, and kttU peisoul injury it
■ ; decode ■ \ i. * i *“( *1 ”
if k aa . 'September 27, • 1:1 v>:" •
> CWeertd atxottnt of Mc Are.-We Mated in our
l«Ot, tha« we pfetedded not to vxartnessfn ourcal
, Cutalious,. rtlauve to individual Lisset, We since
.Uarn, that in many instances we have, contrary t*.
r «mr expectations, exceeded the amount ot injury
; sustained, and have alto omitted 10 mention i nr
dbUttianre wbirb it is very material ebonld be now
•tsted. phd that is,' that of the mettbandise eon
l iwpied in*tliit'bfirekiluie 'dM||r; Lad#, by far the
ibet piwftin Cpbfttl'e^Sfeponsigijmimfe. Mr.
d;t» abosntat tbisliutd,jDd we are therefore
nua%to stau wUb.s^y pieciiioii, what hat been
. Ilgr tofiifidna^loso in goods %' but wo have been in
formad, from a eourco,meriting confidence, that the
probability j» It dots hpt Myctd lea «r fifteen thou
- cand dollars. A. i;A- w r. ■ ' A- ", , •
Lttp»om*-wn,Wt^'^^:"|S':';.f ;
£ ; James Lawratou’s boose teas ineared.
The $9*1 of inerchandiao ia the wnrehobao of Law
^WMNipt'and fowle, is, stated Hat to have exceedco
la* ar si*. thmtsaad dollars, sad tMp own Us* is
thru t af one thousand dollars. ■
*’ A dosepb lean's aoUts ipw' »ill®etexctod MO thou
\ ' ' -"f"
‘ .ft-’.
- /A
TKffct** ftopton’i lot* Ml exceeding two tfyM*
eaadflvv hondrcd Mlmf? •'
fa otterresperts as Hr or wo ire yet informed,
o£r>ttia>at* 04} M considered w tolerably correct.
September 21. k .
:j > V THOM Cdim. ■?;, >.%
Cspt. Snow, foom Cadi*, soiled on the 19tb An*
gust, . No new event of any importance barfoccur
red. There bed been very large importations of
floor, sftd there wasrs good supply of water. The;
inhabitants were confident of their security. An
inretsant fire was kept up on the positions occupied '
by the French, particularly at Trocadero. \
We have been presented with Cadis prints to the
11th. They relate nothing new as having occurred
in that city. The intelligence in them, from Bada
jo*. itiwtbe 5th; and furnishes some particulars
of the operations of the Spanish troops under gen.
Charles O'Donnell, against the rear of the Regnier's
French division which had crossed the Tagus—and
Spanish Eslramadura was considered free from the
molestations of the enemy. A Spanish expedition
of five ships had landed troops at Santona, which
took the French garrison, and, proceeding on the
road of St. Andrro, routed a body of Gallic troops,
and took in port an American ship.
A letter from Henrirk O'Donnell, commander in
chief of the army of Catalonia, dated at Tarragona, I
July 22, mentions, that the French army of Arra*
gon, of 12,000 infantry and 1000 cavalry, conti
nued on the banks of the Ebro, near Tortuga; that
there were almost daily combats, in which the Pa
tiiots occasioned the invaders great losses j that in
an affair of the 14th July, at Tibisa, the enemy lost
a colonel, 17 other officers, and a proportionate
number of soldiers—but the French being reiofor
ceo, id* Spaniards retired to the position* they oc
cupied before the combat; that on the 18tb, a bat
tle took place between 10 or 12,000 French troops,
under gen. Macdonald, and 9 or 10,000 Spaniards,
including armed peasantry, near Granoliets ;—it
lasted six hunts, when the French entered Barcelo
na “The enemy lout 700 men, and carried a great
number ol wounded into the city. On our part we
had from 120 to 140 killed, and 400 wounded.—
After this battle the patriot troops engaged in it re
tired to Iranso, nn the Lnbregat, to impede the ene
oiy should be march for Ibis river or the position of
Montserrat; and to keep open the intercourse with
[ Tarragons."
| “It is probable that the movements of the French
general Surhet, on Tortosa, [50 miles furtherdown
the Mediterranean than Tarragona] were, with a
design to attract our forces to that place, to leave
Macdonald a better opportunity to attack Tarra
i g°na • hot on both sides we have divisions that will
intercept their communications, and, when occasion
offer*, will renew the scenes of Villa Franca, Man
resa," &c.
The siege of Tortosa appears to have been com
menced by the French.
A corps of peasantry haver nearGeroni, and,io
tjo successive rencontres, with equal force of tbe
enemy, have beaten them.
The p.ipers contain a journal of the operations
ol the 5000 troops, which were sent from Cadis to
Algrziras, under the command of general Lacy.—
From the 17th of Jane to the 28th of July, they
were almost continually in motion annoying the
enemy. On the Utter day, they received orders to
return to Cadiz. .. i
We are indebted to capt. Snow, of the brig Helen,
and capt. Knights, a passenger, for Cadiz papers to
the 11th ol August, from which wa have prepared
the above summary.
We were presented with Corunna papers to the
3d of August. They contain numerous articles re
specting the operations ol the patriots in arms in
Several parts of Leon and Asturias; whose numbers
are repreSentedas considerable, and daily increasing.
They display an augmented enthusiasm, and greatly
harrass tbe enemy.
. FROM FRANCE.
Capt. Dixey, from France, informs, that the re
port ol an accommodation by general Armstrong
had ceased; that the sales of sequestered property
was proceeding ; cotton had sold for upwards of a
dollar per pound.
French others to the 1st of August, were recei
ved last evlwfug at the Exchange Coffee House, by
Uie schr.Two Brothers, from France. They are ex
Mrincij iidrifd, „t • r;'V.' • ■ •.tv •* •
The infant soli of the ci-devant Icing of Holland
bad arrived at Paris. The emperor “ held him long
in his embrace.” and said, « Come, my son, I will
he your father, you have lost nothing. The con
duct ofyoor father afflicts my heart. His sickness
alone can explain it. When you grow up, you will
pay bis debt and your own. Never forget, in what
ever position you ruay be placed, my policy, and the
interest of my empire; that your first duties are to
wards me, your second to France; all your others,
towards the people 1 may confide to you, will come
■after.* . A
The Council of Prizes had rondemned the Ame
rican ships Ohio and Calpe, The Tilsit had arrived
front Baltimore ; she is mentioned as a “ letter of
marque/* nod took an American vessel called the
Spanish Lady.
V ■■'•> t:/■' • '■ Pants, July 24.
The most distinguished merchants of Holland
have arrived at Pans, called there, it is said, to
■ give advice as to the commerce of the new provinces.
| Forty nine vessels, under Spanish colours, from
; Tensriffe, have been confiscated at St. Petersburg.
Louis Bonaparte is at tha bath# at Tceplitz in
Bohemia., V./kieS •:<>V-'rLv:
H • .'if ■■ A-v- ■ v-'Odessa, Jana 22.
Some neutral vessels arrived here yesterday from
Constantinople, after live days passage. A general
embargo was laid beie yesterday. Tb* navigation
tjConstantinople is prohibited.
iTenoush MINISTERIAL REMARKS,
sv EKois riii coumsr. I-a*
£On Ike French Itimutrr’t Irtttr jmbtitied in tie Led- i
* 8*rrf Frida/hut.] * £ik: «
>“ It it to he remarked, that Buonaparte affects to
preer^be conditions to tbg xcsocation of his decrees
—he considers America aa pledged to oppose us if
we rsfase to jscknoweMge the Tights of nsotrats ;
that is, to go t« w«r-siid ha desires it to be onder
t ‘to»d, that Utronaeqaence of bia rescinding his de
crees, Great-Britain ». to ravoko her order* in
♦ooticil, and abandoo b»r new principles of block
•po. Now be knows fall well that America has
■ade no aoch pledge : that aba bus prescribed to
‘^tyelf a lioa efcondBct to be pursued ia die event ]
of wr rsfutinp to its^xd ot» Orders j£ Coancil.:
V- hS&VA. VV v- V iW* VaV.V-'J
Sit* pledge* fctrkajjf to do nothing more tbaa to atop
all lbtfrr(^tr*e with we/ At to the new principles.
of blot bade, we have exercised none which we,shall
t>c at all inclined to abandon—and we have |ien a
sufficient proof of this in the very first act of ;nui
government after they’ were; informed «f bis, new de« -
I cree.—We have declared the canal of Corfu, to be in
j a state of blockade j and have thus shut tEe en»
entrance into tbe Adriatic—Of these new principles
of blockade, if new they are, be has himself furnisb
ed us with a justification. His decrees excluded us
from every port and every part of Europe ; finm
Hamburgh, with which we were certainly not at
war, from the ports of Prussia—from Austria. He
cannot keep in every part of Europe a sufficient
French force to shut out our naval force. But he
makes use of his influence or preponderance over tbe
European Powers to exclude us. We cannot have
in every port in Europe a sufficient naval force to
keep it in strict and actual blockade, but we have
tbe preponderance on the ocean, and we adopt a sys
tem of reprisal and retaliation founded on the strict
est justice. Glad would ,be have been if we had
suffered France to enjoy ill the advantages of com
merce through neutral trade, whilst we were suffer
ing every injury that could result from his decrees.
But would any man have advised so absurd a poliry f
Would any man suffer his country to perish because
the measures necessary for its preservation might
press upon neutral commerce, which Bonaparte had
previously violated. There is no contract without
a reciprocal obligation, and if neutrals did not oblige
the other party to adhere to tbe law of nations, they
could not complain of us for not adhering to jt.
Before the Berlin decree, Buonaparte had adoptrd
new and extraordinary means for distressing our
commerce : means which bad produced the Order
in Council of May, 1806, during the ministry of
Mr. Fox, by which Order, tbe coast, from the ri
ver Elbe to Brest, was declared in a state of block
ade. But neutrals were still permitted to approach
the said coast, and enter the said rivers, except the
coasts and ports Irom Usteud to the Seine.—No
sooner had Buonaparte succeeded against Prussia,
than he took possession or Hamburg, confiscated all
British property, and issued bis Berlin decree. All
the measures we have adopted, have been the conse
quence of measures previously adopted by him.
“ If he revoke his decrees, our orders consequent
upon those decrees will be revoked also ; but if be
soppnee that we shall abandon any part of the old
maritime law, he will find himself completely mista
ken. He has said, that from and alter the 1st of
November, his decrees are revoked, and our govern
ment, taking notire that the enemy has annbunced
bis decrees to be no longer in force from and after
the 1st of November, may notify, that from the 1st
of November, our Orders in Council, adopted in
consequence of those derreet, will cease.*
Fbox a Lexbow PaBea.
THE CROWN AND ANCHOR DINNER.
If the patriots of Westminster were disappointed
in the proposed triumphal procession of Sir Francis
Burdelt from the tower, they have been gratified
with a dinner in celebration of his release, and if
the baronet refused the elevation of the car, be has
accepted thd honour of the table. It was to be ex
pected that some explanations would have been giv
en as to the motives which induced him to defeat
the laboriously projected and expensive plans of bis
friends, and lor wbirh he incurred, pro tempore,
their displeasure; and the more so as a paper devo
ted to his party bad intimated that he had reasons
which, when developed, would do him the highest
honour. No further justification, was, however,
offered, and this “ highest honour” is yet unclaimed
and unappropriated. The censure still remains un
purged, and he gave hia friends the post of danger,
and meanly ahrunk from it himself.
We cannot help admiring how readily the faults
of patriots are forgiven, and how generous is the
nature of a Westminster mob. Sir Francis is again
in favour. The mao who put Ihem to the expense
of a processioo, who suffered them to come even to
the walls of the tower before he transmitted his de
termination not to join in it; who dragged them
through the streets of. London in exultation, and
sent them back to be laughed at by their neighbors;
wbo misused his friends to gratify bis own vanity,
and whose mysterious flight, taking them una
wares, in the very ebullition of tbeir passions,
might have hurried them into unguarded arts of
outrage, exposed them to the sabres of the military,
or conducted them to a prison. The faults of a pa
triot, are, however, forgiven ; he is toasted as u
sual, and be makes bis speech with an unblushing
wuMiruauLC* ,
But Sir Francis is not the only peaeeablc patriot
to whom mercy has been extended. Colonel War
die too, yes, the patriolick colonel Wardle, is toast-’
ed. He makes a speech, and is greeted with ap
plause ; he panegerises the hero of the table, and
the baronet, as full of the milk of human kindness
as the rest, thinks himself really praised, though
be is praised by *ol. Wardle ! He, too, passes of
without being subjected to an explanation of bis
conduct. U rs. Clark’s allegations yet remain with
out contradiction. * Tb* woman who was so “ good
an evidence’' against the duke of York has charged
this political ignis faiwu with falsehood, with per
jury, with being the author of a vile plot against
the late commander in chief, yet even without the
ceremony of either defending his conduct or asking
forgiveness, without even the form of trial he is ta
citly pronounced innocent, and finds in the Burdet
tites so many minds congenial to bis own that, after
being pilloried in Mrs. Clark's book in the sight of
the whole nation, he still holds his neck erect in
the presence of the company at the Crown and An
chor. Not even that pretty little affair of the lady
and barouche is subjected to enquiry.
. The members of this meeting had doubtless good
Reasons for tbeir silence. Pledged as they are to
their chiefs by the hssty way in which they have
identified themselves with them, in their honor or
disgrace they must participate, they most support
them. But it will not fail to Strike our readers that
they discover ho little dlfleirenc^ in the quickness of
the moral feeling, when a demagogue' end a minis
ter are in question. Surrounded by the shield of
; (rally, if the stroke aimed at a'man of the people
cannot be warded off, the wound it covered with ob
eenratkm. A hundred tongues are ready ft lick the
misshapen cob ofUberty into a seeming shape, and
the stain of sus^Krion caauet be erased, it may at
least ba tarnished.
We shall not gn into the details of .the speech Of
.Sirf; Bsrdstt, odd for this teasoo it contains no*
! «*• fartkm*»yr privilege, standto
i "“«•» OwwM trovp* ted the borough systeur, are,
g» usaal, the principle topicks of the harangue, oa
1 which the baronet bat rather alated old opinion*
! *haa afforded ‘nep argument*, : On* remark is ap- t
plicable 10 all the speeches of Sir F.Burdeit od theso
occasion!. They abound in general and fervent d&
clamatiQu on liberty and slavery, the value of pnli*
Meal freedom, and the misery of it* loss, the spirit
of our ancestors, and the cost at which, they raised,
defended, or restored the constitution—things trun'
enough in themselves, but fortunately of meagro:
application to the present times. The baronet seem*
in fact to want few of the qualifications of an liratti'
more than that of speaking to the purpose. He ei
ther has gathered the materials of his speech#* fruit*
the writer* and speakers in the days'of the Stuarts,
or pictures in a gloomy imagination the gaunt Array
of tyranny and arbitrary licence, flitting through
the present, and so busies himself in fighting #1tl*
a shadow. If we acquit him of weakness we mush
inculpate his designs. We most then say that h*
is an alarmist—that, not dariug to appeal to the
judgment, he applies to the imagination and passi
ons. Without all this bustle, no part of the nation
would believe itself oppressed, nor ^ouldEnglbU.
meo believe themselves tube slaves'. It is therefore
necessary to force the apprehension’of danger by the
loudness and seeming sincerity of the cry, and tha*,
to set the edge upon party feeling, and keep op tb#
spirit of his followers to its proper pitch. * »
Sober men will not, however, be thus deceived.
Is it true that the liberty of the press is gorte?,Ldofr
at the bold and fiee discussion in tbe public print*,*
prints which publish even Ike inflammatory spec*
cbes of Sir F, Burdett. Is the liberty of speech*
curtailed I Wc do not say listen to the speakers' ia
parliament; but to the language of the public meet*
mgs so frequently convened, not only by the she.
riffs of couuties and the magistrates of cities and
boroughs, but by anniversnty commemorations £hd^
public dinners. Here it liberty enough to itti|l#‘
every reasonable, and we will say every > honest,
man. To extend impunity to libels would ‘ be to
gram mat to private malice and rancour, whirk
ought only te shelter the honest exeitions of
public spirit. Froof public characters the libel
wou|d descend to private life. Every man of more
than common consequence in society would be ron.
sternly put upon his defence before the puhlic, or t<e
forced silently to admit the imputations of slander*
Such ■ state would not be borne. Men would be,
dispoerd to surrender tbs press altogether to tbi
contyoul of the executive power, rather theft- long
submit to ibis Qordetiite liberty, or licentiousness.
They would conceive the evil to uutbalanre the
geod, and they would become disposed to gic*.
op the good to get rid of the evil, and thus the li
berty of the press would be destroyed by us very
license. " • v
On wbat ground then do these complaints of op*'
pretsion and tyranny rest? Where is the enaa’
whose liberty is wrested from him f or wtych is
the period of English history in which a greater
share of civil freedom was enjoyed than in the
present? Let them answer these questions, and at.
once come to the point, without amusing us -with
general remarks, and vapid harangues on the con
stitution, the old constitution, and the spirit of our
ancestors, which mean nothing. If they wish ua
to imitate those of our ancestors who drove one
king from the throne and brought another to the
scaffold, let them speak out. If instead of the old
constitutiua they want a new one, let them tell ua
so.
In the same class are to be placed the murmur#
uttered against standing armies and the German
troops. They cannot possibly serve any end but to’
mislead the ignorant and inflame the unprincipled.
—It is not but to be believed that these oiators.of
dissention are themselves conscious of the fallacy
of their own reasoning on these subjeets. Can they
really apprehend any danger from a few thousand
foreign troops in the midst of a people, who, owing
to the increased militia establishments, and the nu
merous volunteer associations of the country, may*
be called an armed people ? The idea is tuoridicu
loua to b* admitted, and it is certainly not easy ta
characterise the motives which induce these absurd,
alarmists to heap their coarse invectives uponabo^ v
dy of men who are subjects of the same monarch**
who fight our battles, and or# even now bleeding iat
our quarrel. ■ . C „ 5*
Can we dismiss the standing arm; f Where tbr#
is its substitute, either for home or colonial defence!*
and if none be offeied, if these political sages bava,
skill only in the work of destruction, and have nei-,
ther plan nor materials to rectify the structure, how
little claim have they even to common sense, or US -
any thing else than the capacity of blowing op tbo
bubble of popular delusion, and the merit of keep
ing it afloat oh the stream of popular passions,-*—
The standing army it not, as they would represent
it, exclusively the army of the crown. It it aW
the army of the people. To the executive its dir*
rectioim necessarily committed, but its supportia
from the parliament. By its birth it is created, and
by its breath it may be destroyed. Our domeatiw'
serurity is therefore guarded at the same time that;
we are made what the times require us to be, a. assay,
litary nation. In the present State af the world*
would, thee* projectors dUaim us ! -*F, •»*>' . -
One cause of this enmity to the army has, hows*
ver, escaped the meeting. •* they hadno right (ssyC
Sir F. Burden) to murder people in the streetsv i Yetf
that last act has drams tie veil aside.* So then tha'
right of pelting with stones, suffocating with mudj*i'
destroying houses, and committing murder, is all •out,
the side of Sir Francis’* mob. This is in good truth
to “ draw tie veil aside." The baronet is chafed atr -
the recollection that any power should have proved*
toq strong for him; that his veteraus were iosuftUi**
ent to guard his lurking place, and, prevent his rap*’
tion; that the law triumphed ovef$|i^ blind and.bar* >
dy contumacy. In this sentence he justifies his mob.
They went “murdered* he tells us, which.is a*
much as ti$j*ay the mob was innocent, for bad they -
been guilty the death of any of them Would bava >.
been justifiable homicide.. No, no; it was allgreat
ly patriotic to endaoger the lives of sucb persoos at l
would not mount the Baronet’s colours oa tbe)r bate-:
and bow to the waBs of bis bouse? to pelt the sol*
diers and provoke them, to act* of self defence. Bui
bow far will this praetice of sanctifying the brutali
ty of a mob go? For tha same reason fib* civil
power has no light to pat dawn riot os* mobs, or dp
mare than use their tongues for the' purpose. Tha V
posse romitatos might also, in a serious, scuffle,
chance to kill a rioting patriot—that, too, must be
put down, as WrU as tba army, Tbw lbeab«tUfc»
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