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LEDGER.
" WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1810.
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MisTfcAb, wif* of Thiotleruk Armittead, F.*q.
,1* "If.e j*int ntkklawr farly-^l'bii sentiment id;
’’ falsi honour, ptrather, of .plied obatinafy, has a
: prodigious and most baneful influence at the present
dnjr. It renders people deaf to the most solemn les
j ’sdnYof experience, Hnd causes them to sin wilfully
against the ccnvirtion of their own minds. Thou
Satida and tens of lhousanil irf this country know
tjiut they hive been wretchedly deceived. They
know that tlie l rusts and floe promises to which
'tfesy hhve listened with rapture, have been in no
’ wise fulfilled j that the system of policy pursued by
iheir visionlry leaders, has been pregnant with
evils; and . that (he man to wliojn they all bowed
the' knee, as though he were a god, did, by his
“ whinr-whains," by, his partial ;and imprudent mea !
lures, bring more nijefhtel upon this nation than he
would be able to countervail, were every hair pf his
head an ingot of gold. They I>ad brhelu-tbis nation I
in the summit of prosperity, at peace and in high
honour wilji all the world, possessing a vastbom
merce/which yvits protected by a respectable and
' respected navy. They had beheld all.tin* wheels of
jkbosiness, agrtcuUuihl, rommtrcial and mechanical,
■in brisk motion—tw> rit;aen at a loss for employ
ment, nor any regylaf; and lawful employment but
tnet ■ailh reasonable profits. They had beheld the
' whole country in greater prosperity than probably
any country else ever enjoyed, f- ■ ,
But they were told by ambitious artful men, that
• things were going wrong ; that a ditierent course ol
>? policy would add immensely to tfie prosperity of our
Veoiirit$y. loan evil hour they* Were caught in the
snare. They guve ear to the buso flatterers and
♦eliimniators; and discarded the men who h.;d led'
them right. Would they have done tins had 1 hey
foreseen me consequences/ vvoiuaincy iav» done
it, had they foreseen t,h«t lh«Aatiuu. in nine years
under this new order uf thing'',, would he shorn of
f its honours, And would lose its reputation, would
sink tester thau ever it rose; in a mud would be
reduced to the einbairusscd uud coiup.na-tlvi ty feeble
•^iitid contemptible cuiu'itiot, it now is in?—No—
'^'Thousandsjof them, had they at first foreseen all
‘ thh>, woula have shrunk bark .with horror front the
’desperate seheuns inlo which thecuimiug -<nd ptn
‘ bilious wars attempting to cajole thtur. Yet,' ®f.
tef'expeTience has fully taughr them that they aie
■^sjiiking the ship, and must themselves sink with it,,
aud that," to'th'C nation, “ destruction and misery
is ii^toeir *Sy"i—they still persist. Though they
are coniiiieat, they are obstinately determined not
t<* be CON VE art a1.—Why ? Because,. think they,
must slick to our party.—fhat is, tn plain fing
Jlsh, having been once wrong, he will always con
f, tittup so. 'i bis is the extreme of folly and madness.
“ To err is human; ’tis the commpu lot
r'eiSrOf frurfmortality ; and he eflme
■ 4 ** Is.wise and happy, wlnv when ills are done,
, .**• Persist not,, hut would I teal the wound he made.
“ Hut self-sufficient ob.stiimy ever
“ Is folly’s utmost herght.” 4r' «.
So'sdid andjso sang the old Grecian poet Sopho
cles* who had ■ no means else' of moral’ instruction,
» V«iW5».4b%Aifbl-.«t •iiure.—^Connecticut Com ant.
5 < • ♦. i. the United States Gazette.
A deplorable pirtore ;$f the piesent state of nur
a^jjWl'ikltittflairs under ibyge^tion oi Jetleistmian do
-jnocracy.;.. *;*'•V" *
,s*f1J" Extr actjjP.—(From lie Juror*.)
Tbs dignified uiod. rntioti men boast that not
“ withstanding all the kirks aud cuds which we
^‘‘-.My'.wnved-fuua tlie hliigerents, this nation
•fS;**, fejojUM at prate, nod that x)9 »iU~«rt he driven
' *• )htB‘ wdfl.veTllrr of tie e^nuendiii^ Lowers. ,ll
“ this were Ulif^ we should be goti* thing I ke a
“ man, who after being beaten i>H.ove»-Ud* boose
liis wife, Ht length tak-'s refugr i/» ,er tie in-.
4tU.’ This station he maintains with i! V utipdii
“ dignify, notwithstanding the order* of b » wife
. *t to comeout, and thus di«obe;, ing Jit r in /.in in-.
* stance, declares himself master oj tit iatisrS ^
The United Slates have about, as good a cStin
“ to independiiifelas tie nan under ike tai>tf,..\\e
** bakd suffered nurse Jeer to he abused In every wu v
“ that hatred could lucent, and we rei* dt it by
*~*v running’ureter the tuife—and with dignified uio
a»i^.derutioitf declaring that we will not coni' out.*”
“ I; *!4 Re present situation of the United Stales is
4 most deplorable!. We have hern played with as
i,.£ *hoy plays with a kbitUlerork.”
k*rk at our situation at home f The ennsirur
“ tiin of the taws !<j't entirely to the secretary pf
, " the triasury, wh.. esstjinrs as murb power'of en
f* furtinjpir mitigating them at his pleasure, eg the
formerly exercise,! over men’s conscience*,
* add no inquiry on this stdject has been instituted j
wWappearati have no *opiuiurf of
- their own—that ran stand the test ofUlife* days
A ‘Vdp^-sAton t« Mr Gilh.tijKr - ' - %,
f-' ■ I lOnfii iiieuohey tht t«}v*s froio 8 ?pn§6 of duty,
* rascals break them and rise into wt.ihh and pow
V/^'w,"lr lt?* n,fn ofPrub‘*y «rd alone me, $uf.
" «**<«-.#» government stems UftctnpJn Hi* pit
, M I«ey s.f lie most despirahh- of u,e SteoarW, to del
■A ‘ - • »»-' ■ J r-- .. u^utii n, id uc~ I
** Vt4f*»-%lliSin tka liian nf _i .. .
p*$'»l** thft nifo of virtue, and %M?irc^ tte
**, “ raamtiin lie euiuitr/’ by impunity and countJ
..-“.•nance; , ,
Our state government* «r« loving their respect
* go’smiiBmt, and their condori
witir rimnor i
vM mort ih«o th«t of individuals, indicates a «iiso*o !
K-: i -, *, '* ' I «»*o #1 (4I9UO* ,
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«W®* to fe»«U.^**toPennsylvania^ f« be sure h«»
' “ to*®* •HlwWt in tba totol »»«»parity and pro,
foutnl i^numnreof herpmept goveruour* [cU,
* vatW to the chief magistracy .%, & majority of
;;'DJor* that* 30,066 votes, comprising the whole de.
«* state] •• hut, alter all]
r c.CtJSR »s to he found in the iott.ecUite of
»*»•-Their conduct has neither
I *“«««cs nas nmner
Z *'”**4 »»r Impact,airoad or* W,
B«rr t* ttUe
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on op* p-K%; w h.gU,
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tli* becoming * very prevalent opinion, that
..** pur constitution tw rope of ta»d, and that'to
** person need submit to our government who does
‘'. not choose to do so, nnlen be be a poor osa «/
‘‘ a eery honest mao.* % --
“ Our chief hope of tMttvatim must rest on the
•*' patriotism of the people who must spsak through
“ the twelfth congress, Meanwhile We must pati
“ ently endure the insults and indignities that rosy
" be flung at os by the great and the little tyrants
" that infest the world, end our government will
! “ beer it with their usual dignified moderation
These strictures, tbo* more than usually severe
’ upon the democratick administrations, both of the
general and state governments, are so just, aod de
pict, in such vivid colours, the debasement to which
our country has been reduced by weak and corrupt
ruter3, as well as the absolute necessity of making
an immediate change, both of men aod measures,
in order to save the nation from utter ruin, that the
editor deems it his duty to ropy them into the Ga
zette. In doing this, he is aware that he subjects
himself to the reiterated charge of inveterate hos
tility to the institutions, government, and rulers of
his own country, and to the prinriples of republic
anism generally ; of corruption by British gold;
and of alt the other base motives wbirh are usual
ly ascribed to those who have for nine years at
tempted to awaken the people of these states to a
sense of the degradation and ruin which must ine
vilaMy ensue from the servile, temporising and par
tial policy adopted by the leaders of ‘democracy.—
S Against such’ a charge he has always scorned to set
up a defence; nor will he now enter any other plea
to it than'the simple declaration, that the extracts
are liter-ilIy made from an editorial article in the
Aurora of this morning. Whatever may lie the ino
| lives of the editor of (hat paper, it is to be hoped
that the influence of British gold is not among them.
One thing is well known, that Napoleon is nnt well
pleased with our abandonment of the terrapin sys
tem of embargo and non intercourse; and since
that point has been ascertained, the sentiments of
the Aurora, in regard to the wisdom, the energy,
the impartiality, and the purity of ogr .republican
ruler;, have undergone a wonderfulphange. n
Baltimore, Aug. 10.
We have been politely furnished with a file of.
Bordeaux papers to June 2d. They contain very lit
Irl of interest. Captain Collard informs us, that
Americans were very delicately situated in France ;
that Gen. Armstrong advised all to leave the coun
try, as soon as possible. We have made the follow
ing extracts, in haste:
The Britannia, from Nantucket, of 80 tons, capt.
Coffin, was entered at the custom bouse Bordeaux,
on the 22d May last.
News from Constantinople about the last of
March state that there are a number of English offi
cers in the army of the grand Vizier, who are pm
ticularly odious to the Januaries.among whom ma
ny hateful distinctions have arisen, such as gave,
rise to the revolution which broke out under the
magnanimous Mustapha Buirartar.
The prospects of the farmer in some of the de
partments of France are not very promising :
storms, tempest, rain, hitil and floods, have devasta
ted during the whole month of May the department
I of Upper Garonne, spreading throughout several'
communes terror and despair.
An article of Slrasbnrg, of May 28, gives an
account of the funeral honours paid to the deceased
generals, duke of Montebello and St. Hiliare, upon
delivering them to the convoy assigned to bring
them to Fiance. Discharges of artillery were
made on th« rout in honour of these deceused war
riors.
'I here have arrived at Odessa a large number of
neutral vessels from the Archipelago, laden with
cotton and othr produce of the Levant; they are
|Aw« permitted to return with grain, although they
could bring it to Constantinople with great udvan
l*8*- > American.
t • FROM FRANCE.
Wa mentioned yesterday the arrival of the ship
George Dyer, captain Collard. This ship was per
milled to sail (June 8) in ballast, with passengers.—
The ship Ann, IVndergrast, was at Sacoa, taking in
American seamen (formerly belonging to theconfis
caced American ships) by the special permission of
liie French government, at the particular request
of general Armstrong, our minister in France, who
is said to have advised all Americans to leave
France as soon as possible. We have frequently
, published Utters from Franre, stating the desperate
situation ot American afiairs ; and we are now as
sured by this arrival direct and the words of her
written report, famished for the Coffee-House, that
r3* “ every prospect is fully as bad as has been
heretofore reported.’* This, unhappily, is not
news to tire suffer era, or to the intelligent observer.
Federal Gazelle.
Cap!. Floyd, arrived this morning, aay», there
•re three vends «f war out of Halifax cruising for
certain American vessel* which have been particu
larly described by some person in the United States.
' • ' ■' ’ ' ’ V.. Ibid.
It is stated ander date of Vienna, May 16, that
“ immense quantities'* of sugar, coffee, &r. are ac
cumulating at a Russian port called Peftcsow,
which arrives there through the Mediterranean and
Ulack Sea, touching at Odessa, * ' * -
' "* ' Philadelphia, Augustp.
v-ry ‘' : LATEST FHOM LISBON.
b We hava received’a letter from a friend on board
the ship New-Jersey, captain Hutchinson, which
arrived at New-Castle yesterday afternoon, In 38
days from Lisbon, inclosing a Lisbon paper of the
‘27th of. June, and the following ship-news : ’■
The New-Jersey left Lisbon on the 27lhof June,
to company with the brig Charles, Marbone, for
New-York, and the ship Thdmyris, Keith, of Alex
i nodeia, tor ditto. The Charles was in company 3
days. Aug. 3. Iat. 35, 55, N. long. 67, 24, W.
! was hoarded by. one of his BiiUnnick majesty’s
cruiser's [» schooner) and. treated politely t lheeep
i«:n informed they.weie-cruumg for me*. 4th, in
8at. i^S, W, N. long, 71.30, W. spoke-ship Jo
pki;r. Wells, ‘2 days out, all well. The brig Unity.
Pajrliwlge, fur Philadt lphia, sailed about 3 w»*k.
Avefore the New-Jersey. The brig Corporal Titm.
Liwell, for N. York, Bnd tbs brig Sally, Crosby,
for Philadelphia, sajed on the 24th of June.: Tin
ship Becyamin Frankljo. YarneU, sailed from St.
,U|«t|he lfitBof June,. -jrrii 4 ■
The New-Jersey took a pilot on Sac Jay Morn
ing. \ ■' : . -
[Wo understand, (hot lhe above-mentioned paper
contains an account of a successful sortie made by
the garrison nf Ciudad Rodrigo*^ on the 7th Jane,
which we shall endeavour, to have translated for our
nr*t'uumt»i,)— Gazette. '» A
• ~'• ' , Kew-Yohi, August9--..
At 12 o'clock yesterday, the. Hon. John
Bkooxc, Lieut. Goveroour of this state, aged 72
years, j
Boston, August 6.
v The ship Pearl, capt. Suler, and ship Vancouver,
rapt. Whiltemore, arrived here on Saturday from
Canton, have been absent about three years. The
first having sailed, as we understand, on the 26th
July, 1807, and the last on the 10th August follow
iag, previous to the embargo ; which wise measure
of the government, must have aided them very
much in their voyages, as others were prevented
from pursuing the same voyages, and they were left
to the undisturbed prosecution ol their enterprize.—
They were two years on the North West Coast of
America, and proceeded to Canton to sell their pel
try. They left Canton together, and fell in compa
ny several times in their homeward passage, and fi
nally four days before they arrived, they joined
company again, and came into the harbour toge
th r. Messrs. .1. & T. II. Perkins, J & T. Lamb
nnd Mr. R. Slurges are owners of both of them.—
We are told both the commanders have been several
times round the world in the same employ.
Wilmington,. (N.C.) Ang. 7.
On Thursday, in conscqoence of an order from
commodore Campbell, to repair to St. Mary's with
out delay, Capt. Gadsden, who commanded the Fer
ret, a brig of 12 guns, sailed from Smithville, where
he had been lying a few days, for St. Mary’s. This
order was occasioned by tbe late fracas at that
place, which is published under the Charleston
head. Cc.pt. Gadsden, of whom the gentlemen
from Smithville speak very highly, promptly obey
ed it. - *
I UUM LusDON rAPERS RECEIVED AT THE Op
FICE OF THE PcBLICK LEDGER.
London, May 31.
- The information which has reached os from A
narrica is of a pleasing kind. It would seem as if
the spirit of conciliation was strongly at work, and
that the n»n-interrours« and embargo bills were a
bout to become dead letters. There is nothing we
more deprecate than a commersial war. A war of
this is wholly undignified; each party, incapable of
reaching the other, and safe by an intervening nrean,
satisfies itself with scolding ; and merchant is op
posed to merchant, and shuttle to shuttle, instead of
soldier to soldiei and sword to sword. And as
this kind of warfare is always wanting indignity,
so is it, on the other band, more costly than the
more suitable conflicts of warlike states : the very
materials of human comforts and enjoyments be
eline the weapons of war, and the result can be lit
tie more, on both sides, than so much barren waste
and useless destruction. Both purties remain in
the same relative strength, and therefore unsubdued
by each other, and both parties, by the decay and
rum of their manufactories, are proportionally
thrown back fiom civilisation, and reduced t» the
barbarism of nature.
This is the character of all com met rial wart it
is not an appeal to strength, but to the balance of
waste and ravage of what is of common use to both
parties.
It there be any thing we have desired more than
another in the present state of things, it is peace
with America. The continuance of such a peace is
necessary to the support of our commerce—indeed
to its very existence since our exclusion from Eu
ropean markets. It is to the interest of this coun
try that America should not be thrown upon her
self.
From a kind of sentiment, moreover, abstracted I
from ull commercial utility, we would not have this
country, except in the last extremity, take up arms
against a people of the same language, the same re
ligion, and the same habits with ourselves, ij ap
proaches to something so near a civil war, that the
mere act of U could not but have a bad eflei t upon
the national rbaracter. To say all in a few words,
every thing ia Europe seems so rapidly passing in
to the state of a Quicksand ; seems so fundamental
ly rotting, and losing its basis, that we would fain
keep America as the last stake and refuge—In the
vicissitude of things, the time may perhaps arrive,
when Europe shall give place to America, and the
arms and arts, having become rffeete in the old soil,
may he transferred to an unbroken ground.
It is the nature of all human things to wear out;
but as a rertain standard of human reason and ex
istence is necessary to the ultimate designs of Pro
vidence, a wisdom is always in action to counteract
me itnaency ui nature ; ana, oy grauiying, trans
planting, ami cherishing, to renew and regenerate
lire original vigour anti condition. The World is
the Yin'jard H* Providence—He has planted it in
the beginning, and will see it flourish to the end.
’ [Beil's tVeeklg Messenger.]
. We cannot avoid noticing, for the eatisfac*
lion . of the country, the very gratifying and
enrouraging statements which lord Mulgrave deli
vered, towards the close of his speech, of our naval
affairs. . Mis lordship, after an animated reply to
lord Melville’s arguments on the particular Question
under discussion, observed, " that having retired
from an office, productive certafnlyof the greatest
anxiety and the most laborious dut'et in the state,
he fell a proud consolation in reflecting, and be
owed it to the able and Intelligent men with whom
he bad for three years acted, and fthuse kindness
and valuable assistance be bad ever experienced, to
state to their lordships, that the naval force of the
country entrusted to bis cute had nut been wasted
jjw misapplied. In contrasting the present situation,
of the navy with farmer periods, be found, that to
wards the ch-setd last War, the number of line of
baulsahips and frigates in commission was very
muchvthe same as at present, though' the dumber
ot smaller cruixers had increased Very greatly. But
by maintaining a vigiUut blockade ot the enemy’s
ports (that cheapest and most effectual of airproteC
tlunt to trade), and at the same lime Coveting the,
ocean with our miners, we had Hot only annihilat
ed the sety Same of the enemy’s trade at sea, blit,
in spits of hui privateering system, had afforded
irapU protean tow ownfbniTWice, though in
creased in an iMM^jp^progniMrioo. ; ‘
By Fttu_rnr«tt^lfctable itappeared, that in 1797
the official value of oar exports «u not two thirds
df what it ie at present; the tonnage of th^irnuntry
1>M increased in the satmi degree, and 'we have
15MOO tone of transportgi|j>quiring constant pro
tection, bat notwithstanding these vastndditiona)
rails on the services of th* navy, it would be found
that the rate of iosnranre bad gone qn front year to
year diminishing, being, in the Mediterranean end
elsewhere, lets than half of what it was formerly—.
but it had, owing to recent ranees, increased in the
Baltirk. v
Notwithstanding, however, that the narrow chan
nels in this quarter were infested with privateers,
convoys of not less amount than 3000 Sail had re
turned in the course of the last season, ‘without the
loss of a single ship Mo 1808, the admiralty sent,
under protection, to or from foreign ports,- a total
of. 10,781 ships; in 1809, a total of 14)828; and
in the first three months of 1810, a total of 4784
ships. There sailed in 1809 alone 200 foreign
convoys, besides 36' distinct convoys established be
tween Halifax and the West Indies,' Iu addition to
all which, there* was a double line of stationary crui
zers from end to end of the channel, within f<»t«L
leagues of each other, to enable the coasting tradwf
to pass unmolested, .
By these means, soch is the opinion yiitertaincd
by the merchants of our security at sea,, thsit only
within the last six months application had bceik
made to the admiralty to grant licenses to sail
without convoy to foreign ports for noless than
2223 running ships. Other services of the most
important nature were also to he performed by the
fleet. We had rescued from the power of the ene
my the gallant Ktiaiena, and his army of 10,000
men. In the Adriatic, we had captured all the Se
ven Islands, except Corfu, and reMored the septin
sular flag in that sea ; and in the West-lothes, such
has been our success, that 11-w, for the- first time
m our hist'vy, the enemy’s Hag had entirely "disap
peared iu that quarter. We bad, besides, delivered
fmni the tyrauny of the eueuiy the royal house of
ronugai, ua D*?els end treasuie, which by our
squadron were safely conveyed to their otherdomi
ons. With ten sail of the line we had delivered our
army from it* peiilons situation at Corunna. We
also fitted out the immense naval forre of 37 sail
of the line, aud altogether, 277 men of war for
the Scheldt—a forre, the magnitude of which is
not to be paralleled in our annals. But he never*
thvless trusted it would be evident to their lordships
that the present establishment of the navy was not
carried beyond the calls of the service, when for
the relief of Cadiz, and the equipment of the fleet *
in Cadiz harbour, it bad been -hsolutely necessary
to send on that service the fla*-sbip of the com
mander in chief of the channel fleets, and also the
flag-ship of the admiral second in command —
Notwithstanding, however, that such various and
extensive services were required of our fleets, the
unexampled security atfordid to our commerce, and
the proud and triumphant attitude of the country,
from acoutest with which the enemy had in despair
retired for an I'tv to the inmost recesses of his ports,
yet our naval achievmruts, during tb« last three
years, by the astonishing enterprise ol our seamen,
would equal the,most splendid periods of our his
tory, aod tn this statement hedivlaimed the idea
of assuming merit to himseli, f„r i e sp..he it hum
bly for himself, but. sot humbly for those with
whom hearted.
In the year 1797, 179*, «nd 1739, hy far the
most successful ol the last war, and tu which the
glorious battles of Camperdown, <if the Nile, of St.
Vincent's,and the surrender in pledge-of all the
Dutch fleets look pi ce, the total loss whirh the
enemy sustained by ships of war, raptured, destroy
ed, or rescued from bis power, was—
Of the lioe . . . 41
Frigates . , . . • . g2
Sloops and under (excluding privateers) 153
, , . Total. 225
In the years 1804, 1805. 1805, in which the
ever memorable battle of Trafalgar was fought—
and also tbe actions of Sir Robert Catdcr, Srr Ri
chard Strachan, and Sir John Duckworth, t» the
total loss of the eeemy, in captured, destroyed, or
rescued, was—. >
Of the line ...» . •. . 55
FrigaWS , ,, . s.w * . .% 133
Sloops, dec. v. -gno* 4 - J3Q
Total h- |U
But in the year 1807, 1808, and 1309, the ene
my lost in ships of war, whi^h were captured, de
stroyed, or rescued from bis power—
Of the line . ... 58
Frigates . . . , 3$
Sloops, &c. excluding privateers 197
„ . Total 309
So that our success in the 1807, 1808i sad
1809, «ceeded that of 1797, 1798, and 1799, by
. 17 Mil of the line, and 74 sloops, being a total ax
cess of 80 ships of war, hot fall short in frigates by
11; while it also exreedt our sucress in 1804,
1805, and 1806', by 23 ships of the line, l-t./ti
gates, and 6’7 sloops, being a total excess of’ 108
| ships ol war. The noble lord concluded, with'ex
I pressing bis firm belief, that our naval- power wan'
I fixed on that eminence which it would continue, to
maintain the security and glory of. this, country,
whatever might be the exertions of oar inveterate
enemy for its destruction.
HOUSE QF COMMONS—Mar St.V.
Repeal qf I risk Intuirettion and I risk Arm Preven
tion Bills.
Mr. Wellesley Pole rose to move for the repeal of
the Irish Insurrection and Arms Acts,, pasted in the
year I80f. lie stated that they were thsjk enacted
in furtherance of such an intentiowon tlie part «f
the administration that preceded the change of gov
| eminent in that year., He had understood tbal the
j duke oi Bedford bad declined the/ Irish government,
! unless these laws bad been enacted, considering them
as essent ial to (be maintenance Of tranquility hi tea
land. He (Mr. Pole) believed tbe situation of Ire
laud, at that time, to have been such as to have jel
lified the necessity of such S measure. It was, how
ever, bat a dormant power—lor it bad never been
calkd into exercise in any one instance, during the
administration either of the dulta of Bedford or thn
duke of Richmond. Such a tenderness bud them
been eviuced for the liberty of the su ject. Ha
i *l $* Mm* •ppruhtnaiw sf him op