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SUUMr o# M*§Prsic»E:Y?—"W» have gives in
tW iijfffifiKt'Mjt a/tirie -from the Aurora, upon
this demoeratic k editor* are per
petoalty grtsuto to the pubfirk eoa>ider.itton. In
erhallf|Aigiip::Mr» Bil»Itn«T l>w incurred their high
tfiililiifr/ttlf W» not rondeerended to say.—
Td'to un am buexpreiiad hii displeasure because
Mrs, Pipkney was at a birth nightVball; 1 an
other has been wisely wounded in his republican
eeniiMli tv, because Mr. Pinkoey has addressed the
Mat^uis \Vell**ley with the usual distinction used
to pfnons nf his rank im that fountry—that oi
* Mn#t Noble.” But sorely these are objections
too ridiculous, though urged with great gravity by
those wiseacres, who have the misfortune to
direct the nidfeirtents of a press.
The troth it. Mr. Pinkney has experienced the
fattijtbtch will aUrnd any American minister, who
doetaitirerely enffMvour to restore harmony between
this eountry and Great-Bntaiojl The popularity of
tost uprigtjt MCI intelligent minister Mr. Monror.
began to decline with the demorratick party, from
tbt moment it wu discovered that he was disposed
to terminate all our differences with that country,
which if his honest exertions had not been thwarted
hart, he most assuredly would have effected, includ
ing «u honourable reparation for the outrage com
mitted in the affair ol the Chesapeake—One would
think, that after Mr. Pinkney was ruformed by
Mf, Aymsitrong of (he disposition of the French go
vernment, ‘ manifested by that most insolent of all
•late papers, the Utter of the Due d« Cadore, and
the iudisrriminate confiscation of all American pro
perty, that it Was not necessary to invite the same
conduct from tb* other belligerent, when it could
be avoided by • etvil common place deportment.—
If Mr. Pinkney bad abandoned the interests of his
country by a proposition to surrender any of her
rightp—if ho Had prostrated hsr honour l»y adruit
'16% any thing that was degrading to our national
character, thera would be some justice in all this
clamour—Rut the whole of his offenoes are compris
ed in hia disposition to terminate those disputes,
which must terminals by negotiation, if even we
war* to go to war.
Gensral Wilkinson is sidl at Washington, engag
ed, w» are Mid, in coitopliling a history of hie life.
Virginia Argus.
„ The news of Bnrr’s being in French pay, comes
in so authcotu k a shape that we cannot doubt it.—
The guurter's salary, which the -Aurora lately^ in
formed a# had been paid to little Aaron by Boons
parte, we bavt understood amounted to five hundred
pounds sterling. This fellow has turned out sh
.'"kotnpleje a V Bam, that ws should not be surprised
if hip was receiving a salary from Napoleon, and at
, the tame timt receiving a British p»nsion for being
a Spy upon the government of France. Burr has
aevafkt adherents still in the United States although
many have followed him to Europe. He has. two
, or three did ebonies ln the rity of New-Vnrk, who
ha*e, bv one artifice or afiolh-r, been endeavour
ing to wriggle themselves into the favour of the re
publicans ; and we fear, have been, in one or two
instil pres, hut too successful. At Washington city
also, wo are advised, there are some of Bnrr’s an
cieat. assorist-s; men of no consideration, tn lie
euro,.sit the social or political world ; but neverthe
less lobe goarded against, on account of the nnto
m*c malignity of their dispositions and the priva
cy^ tbeir machinations.-Ibid.
!jl|« IntelBgi-nrer labours to prove that Enpland
«il the original aggressor on nor lights, and that
ithifrttrxl of retaliation on France t*fn/tr. Comi
ral English again. A prrterfr is a cfnnlt, a titefit. a
fuMkHoi: a/fl/se JtctU is vifinl to Jefferson’s folie
fact*. -But Why dpee the Intelligencer now try to
prove the propriety ot considering England the ag
gressor* and of r.mrse first subject to retaliation
tod resentment on opr part ?
Ik.it b««%>i»rr that pip.r expressed min
ipiill^n^yetflpBent toward*; France, Mr. Jefferson
ku complained of disrespect towards Buonaparte,
and bat ordered the editor of the fntelltgemvr to
change histone. There has been, store the arrival
0#tfW J^HHjbgt about sufficient time for gaining
th« ex preii'!. n: ; and ;ts mi.
ed the LongFphris at i.is old « ork Hg ■ in, wriling
■-m^ipirftir’lf France, in a deuiocrati'-k paper.
jntlipcn. Ammctn.
.JL. ¥
f s^htettfgVncpr of yesterday surprised us mar
U contained a little sprightlinrss and
iagpMH^jepaiting a little from that monkish
dWB*|K'pf|rh to uniformly overspreads its rolumns.
\ft hjhw^wrae hopes of its editor still : he may
yet flpnximate to Mer*l piinriplrs, for be ?p
pears t6 be gaining a little wit and understanding.
HUr^M'ftfMSfchod assertions are however “ «U false
it appeared that France had taken
lie to us as England, the republican
aints fame out and hold* language
’ardsFrance as had ever been
—Jherefeems to he but one
arahoo : Wheo it was written
bttip aWrnad—had she been
ikdedaren that the democrats
n* the most wanton acts of in
made such cp^pfai^',
rrihit !'■
’l®fmg ibut ju
exertion«fphysical fore# would he ilitir tub'
oft.;*] Well? ««d has jl uot kern so; and u
“to now} As his physical {Arris increased bis
scions increased, end our subserviency kept
pncsl' The democrats, and we will do them justice,*
almost all tt{ them, mno express their indignation at
!.i* conduct." But why was-it hot done years ago ?
Why ever so silent with respect to all his outrages ?
And how is their indignafcou expressed ? By words
and words only. What measures are taken, „r in
tended. to show oor resentment ? ThirlfiteHigenoer
blusterer) a little, then tries to turn the current by
endeavouring to make England the first aggressor,
audiof course first to he chastised.
There is ho wit nor propriety, Mr. Smith, in cel
ling the federal editors a pack. You krotw they are
generally gentlemen. Jt is an inapprnprjale lerai
The u||;.or of the pursuits of Literature rails the
commentators on Shakspeare Hark lettered dogs,
and enumerates them very leperosely ; hut the ap
plication had little propriety and less ingenuity.
“ Displaying on the part of government an un.
bending impartiality towards FrKnce and Eng
land. ] Oh monstrous. I heir unbending impartia
lity towards France has been, till within a few
weeks, as twistical as a twig ; as bending as fine
wire. They have been the oak of fixed rancour to
wards England ; its pliant ivy towards France.—
Talk of impartiality in the government towards
France ; you may as well talk of the rotundity of a
trapezium, the goodness of Jefferson, the neatness
ol sw ine, or any thing else that is not or cannot be.
i mi**, vny iuib inat*eq.
11 Tf'py must he viev«d in the light of lying pro
phets.”] Why so ? Because every thing the federal
ist6 have predic ted have come to pats.— No, not e
very thing ; for they did not predict lharrhe French
would lake their vessels, nr they would not have
sent them toreu—T here tncstbe someway to make
this fay, for the federalists are seldom guilty of con
tradictions. The federalists predicted that the con
duct of France would heroine more and more op
pressive towards us, unless we made war with Eng
land ; but, as the government had not disclosed our
real situation with France; and, as the Intelligen
cer, supposed to speak front authority, represented
our situation with France as becoming more ronri
latory, they had not just grounds for suspecting
such sudden and gross enormities—yet they knew
there was nothing ton bad for Buonaparte*. Bui,
what proportion nf the properly lately confiscated
belongs to the democrats? They have indeed cause
to romplsifi.
The InttUtgenrer speaks of a grave divine who
has expressed a fear that “ the language ol repio
bation towards F'ranceused hy the National Intellt
geneer is intended to pave the way fora humiliating
treaty with her and then accuses the divine of a
depraved disregard of truth. Who the divine is we
know not; if he had really disregaided truth, to be
sure it looks like Parson Bently, but as his fibs are
never in a good cause it must be some other. Yet,
what disregard of truth is there m expressing such
a fear F Having seen so much duplicity in the Intel
ligencer, (not altogether his own, as Duane says,
the government are the sires of it,) the divine might
think it very probable that such chicanery might
precede such a treaty. And perhaps it will.
If determined to war with England, there must
be a thaw of impartiality: then prove the necessi
ty of taking part with one ofthe belligerents : then
prove that England was the first aggressor : then
prove the necessity or policy of an alliance with
France : then comes the treaty. Nothing impro
bable in it at all.
“ ding to the hope that few of those who fill
the rank® of federalism are vicious.”] There you are
right. Would to heaven the compliment could be
returned without wear and tear of conscience.
“ Arknowledge the doty of supporting an upright
and enlightened government.’’] Does the Intelligen
cer mean the French'government, which Mr. Jetler
son has pronounced an enlightened government f
One paragraph more from the Intelligencer of yes
terday and we stop.
44 Withdraw your confidence from those who
have misled von. No longer trust those who have
deceived you, and degraded your country. Cease to
listen to men, who rhertsh J.irkson as a bosom
Iriend, and, who at the very moment they are at,us
ing republicans for their forbearance towards F rance,
are engaged in palliating, advocating and eulogis
ing the British government. Contrast this conduct
with that of the republicans. They do not stoop
to palliate the wrongs ol either power ; much less
do ttey extol the one as the saviour nf the world,
at the moment she is heaping insults and injuries
upon us.*
PARODY.
Withdraw yoor confidence from those who have
milled yntj. No longer trust those who have de
ceived you and degraded your country. Cease to
listen to men who cherish Turreau as their bosom
friend; and who, at the veiy moment they arc a
htisinj; the federalists for their forbearance towards
England, have been so long engaged in palliating,
advocating and eulogising “ the enlightened govern
ment" of France. Contrast this conduct with that
of the federalists. They dp not stoop to palliate
the wrongs of either power ; uiairn less do they ex
tol Buonaparte ns an instrument of good to the
world, directed by Heaven, at the moment be is
heaping insults and injuries upon us. Ibid.
Fhom the Atraoaa.
Re-call of Mr. Pintney and call of Congress.
L The re call *»f Air. Pinkney and theca// of con
gress, are the topics which now almost exclusively
occupy the public attention.
Every one enquires, has Mr. Madison not yet
recalled Mr. Pinkney, and dots be mean to call con
gress together }
But nobody seems to know any thing about these
matters. Mr. Madison possesses in • pre eminent
degree a faculty Which very few'men are endowed
v*ith, and that is, of keeping his mind to himself.—
jAH therefore that can be done to satisfy publick
anxiety on these subjects is—to guest.
The cour'e which the president will pursue, cal
culating that he will follow the path most consist
ent with the interest, most agree*'le to I
agreea'le to tjusfeeliqgs,
amicoijjooap.lwitt} tke pushes nf the bulk of the
people of the United States, is probably not difficult
In the firspplace then, 'tee guess, that for assay
S&z
■- Tjrftufi miofster, hi* rhrr*
...’fc uli the late of if ihrut that he has dh
a-lUihmHtry and Is unfit\a represent the Unit
ed State* even m Hay tt.
Ewj man in the nation knows this to he the
fact, they know him to be unf$ff«r the station he
holds, ami all men of all parlies agree in this point,
■ft'is therefore not to l^e presumed tfcat Mr. Madi
son will retain him tri His present situation, in con
tradiction to the honour, tbe feelings and the wishes
ot the American people ; and we gOrSs'tfiat'Be'wtll
himself perceive that tl e sooner he pertbims this
duty, the more satisfaction it will he to Ins consti
tuent*.-:_ . .
We guess that there is another good reason, tho’
the first is a heller, which is, that the (astern na
bob minister having made a dl-i’..ration that a mi
nister should proceed to the United States, and it
evidently appearing by the appointment pf Mr.
Mt rlitr as secretary of leg t on, that such a "pro
mise was only a delusion ; our ex-cuiiVe govern
ment will have considered it a» due to the dignity
ol the nation not-to submit to any further ebnlumt
ly or malignant insult ; end theref ore we guess,
that no more than a charge dcs affaires will fee re
tained in the court of St. Janies.
With respect to a call of congress, prior to the
period fixed Ly law lor their legular meeting, we
believe no person can discover either the necessttv
or utility of such a measure, wbelhtr we consider if
in reference to mcnor meuttiits.
Who are the men that would come together, and
what is there to lay before them that lh< v did not
know, or might not kave-fureseen,when liny were
last in session ?
Certainly nothing could be disclosed now, which
th»y dirt not befpre know, or ought not to have
foreseen, of any consequence, and the men are all
\ the same—indeed neatly all the same-as tin trvth
cvspress.
What would he the object of assr nibling-coneYess,
however ably composed,. at tins period ? Why,
says one, “ let jus have another embargo”— says
another—“ let n- have a non intercourse”—a third
savs,'“ let Air. Gallatin give us Macon's bill Nw
3 —says a fourth, “ let us arm our vessels.”
lint who are they that are for adopting these va
rious measures? Why, men who, have been, and
would again be the first to break the law s— persons
who have made immense shipments to England, on
which they must lose most heavily, unless relieved
bv soim* new bek up, as they were last year, by the
breaen of Mr. Erskme’s agreement, and the cons—
quent re-establishment of the non intercourse law
with Gieat tintatn, which caused prices toudvanre
m England, and made thefnttunes ot a vast number
01 persons, who if the intercourse had routined
would have been ruined.
'I his h*s had the etle( t of keepirg up an itching
lor commerce with Crest Britain, which would have
long Since have been effectually cured, it the trade
bad been left open as it ts at present. But now let
our anti-embargoists have a l.itr trial oi intercourse—
let them not be interiupted.
Wait for another year an I let us see what prices
John Randolph will get for his tobacco, and others
lor their cotton and flour. Only give the intercourse
with England as rmirh time for experiment as the
embargo had, and we shall see which will sit lest ou
our merchants.
We thin complained of hiving too much of evert,
thing on hand—we shall have no such rompi.-.int
to make at the end of next year—we shall however
have the pleasure of giving array our properly; to
he sure to men of such rare hberallity ibis is some
thing; there is a little extravagant e in it to Ik
sure ; but your rovetnus tallows .are sometimes the
most extravagant of all men ; it is ti os experience
is bought; and nothing hut experiment will open
the eyes of congress—so long as the nieml ers who
have tobacco plantations can get high prices lor
ll.nii tobacco, and cotton planters and wheat plant
ers high prices for their nit ton arid flour, end ship
' owners good freights lor their ships, tt.ey’l jog
along in the old way with John Bull's horns at their
posteriors. - ;
Mrn who can pass session after session, and hate'
the conscience to receive the wages of six dollar* a
day from tbetr country lor doing nothing—(go. n**t
even so much as noticing the miserable bondage in
which ten thousand of their countrymen are hwd bj
Great Britain) are jit for any thing or nothing. *
We guess they will not be railed tngf ttTJv 'Utrir
meet before the constitutional period. F. & Q.
TO THE HUMANE.
The following detail aod chain of evidence, re
specting lieut. Thomas John Ptshall, and his com
panions, wrecked in a schooner belonging to bis
majesty's British frigate La Franchise, in the G.uiph
of Mexico, on the 9th of January, d806,4* address
ed by Lady Pcshall, the unhappy mother of Iieut.
Peshall, to merchants, trailers and inhabitants <>l
Spanish America ; who by having extensive means
of enquiry, nny endeavour to obtain accounts ol
her son and his companions, ascertained, as thisde
tail sets forth, to have survived the wreck,, and to
have hcen pit Led up in their boat near Campeai he
by a Guard.i Costa. This unhappy mother conjures
each and every'person, whose eye may meet this re
cital, to extend their enquiries as widely as they can,
and not to be deterred by the most fatal intelligence
they can gain, to keep her in ignorance of events
that may have befallen her son. After the evidence
that has reached her, it is impossible but some of
the unhappy sufferers must be found.in a part of
Spanish Amerir'a.
Extract of a Log- Pool account, from La Franchise
British frigate, transmitted by 'her commander,
capt. Dashtc'ood, to admiral Dacrts, on the Jamai
ca station.
“ On the 7»h of January, 1806, Jiept, Pesball.
Wallace, midshipman. Mr. Allwood mate, a surge
on, and $7 seamen, belonging to La Franchise, were
sent in the El Curtnen schooner, (a tender of La
Franchise) to land a body of Spanish prisoners at
Campearhe.”—It is ascertained that after landing
ihe prisoners, the schooner tailed in the morning of
the 9tb of January, La Franchise fel!*in with a
pari of the wreck of Ihe schooner do the roast of
Tabasco ; and it is feared, only those who roohl
save themselves by means of a good boat they tod
with them, will be heard oft
I. Captain VaiusiUsrt, of his msjesty’s British
frigate La Fortune, wit hip 16 days alter the schoo
ner El Cuenfen landed herprisoners, waa informed
by two yeaseb spoken to the gnlph of Mqnpo, ofte
?*» » J v un VWa+Oj W V UlMUf
tliKin prisoners, and abanrJ.ined.tbf boa|Riaship of "
v .*l., jr» wuoapi a ship of
*4f heaving in sight.—N. B. /f corroborutijjjjlr
rumfilrtiirp .ircnrt in tK‘i» ‘' ~t c^t
rgmstnnce occurs in this evidence, viis. ti$t*in.
Dasluvnod reports the boat of (be schooner wi*
fnund adrift near Campe-icbe; ‘ ; V
2. Lieut. Simpson, belonging to,tfiC Snake sloop
of war, reports, that whilea prisoner at Carthage.
Ha, in Jan. 180C, he hearrl a British naval lieute.
nant was a prisoner among the Spaniards having
been saved from a wreck .— N B. No other lieute”
nant has been missed from the Jamaica station,
but iieiit, Pe shall.
3- Mr. Duncan, purser of a sloop of war, reports,
that while cruising off the Jamaica station, in the
spring, pf l»l>6, a Spanish trader told him that
Hurt Pi-shal! was a prisoner among the Spaniards,
and that the trader was told so by some smugglers
at Buobano, on the soulh slJe of Cuba.—N. B.
Mr. Duncan at the time had never heard Ln Fran*
chisc had lost any of her people; and not know*
nS shfJi on officer as lieut. Peslmll, made no mi
nute empnnr? of the. Spaniard.
4. C’apt. D.'.shwond, of La Franchise frigate, re*
ports llpal some weeks after lie missed his schooner,
<nd found part of her wreck, he captnred some of
li" prisoners lieut. Pes|ia1i had landed, and that they
nt Tined him hTs schooner had been wrecked 21
miles In-low Campearhy,and that some of tlierr-w
had he tli saved.—X. B. The letters frodi whit h
these extracts are taken, dr* in L„dv Pesha’P's pos
session ; in whom they have been nddre^ed by th*
several partus.
Ciipt. Dashwoods observation to Lady PcshslI
hss tiint ithe mregoirg chain ol evidence moot
be founded in fact, as Li FrVnrbise did Rot tail m
tvi'b any vessel to make roninmmiclttion of the loss
ot her people, nor was the event known hot in his
own ship, till he anived at Jamaica in March; and
the Evidence ahnexed was received by the persons "
quoted from, between January nnd ,Vhrrb.
Attain, therefore, the tiistiessed and attiicted m1™.
tber, conjures the individuals who may he attract
ed by this statement, to use exertion nnd aid enqui
ry in her unhappy rause ; and that should Heaven
crow n their humane etlorts with rucecss, they will w
communicate all that might he gained, with minute
exactness, to her immediately, and send duplicates
of their letters, to provide for loss of vessels and
other contingencies.
DIRECTION.
Lady Pesholl, Cirrus-street, New Road, Loudon,
England.
Or, (far her)
To the tare of Messrs. Garnett, Hardy, & Co. Ja
m.iica :
Or, to the care of Mr. Thomas Murphey, Vera
Cruz, Mexico ;
Or, to the care of George Barnuell, esq. Wall
Steel, New York, U. 8.
Or, to the care of Doctor Samuel Baker, N<*. 30,
Light-street, Baltimore.
The origin il of this statement bears date Octo
ber 29th, 1807.
(Signed) REBECCA HYDE PESHALL.
THE BARON CROSSARD’S LETTER.
Next to the unfortunate issue of the battle of To
d: 1j, which «nj lost not through the misrondurt
ol general Cost isos, but of liis officers, that of Q»
enna was the most disastrous to the patriot cause in
'ipain. What has not gen. Ariezig-, to answer lot*
Rejecting the prudent ronnsel of veteran soldiers,'
and almost holding the fate of Spain in his hands,
instigated by the most blind infatuation, he madly
risked every thing by a battle which he was solemn
ly waute'dfte avoid, and which, as was foreseen, he
lost.
The letter of the heron Crossard will be read with
interest by niilimry men especially, but with ad
vantage by all. The time is probably approaching,
when /lmericdni to.1 will have lo act on the defen.
she. ll tliia should ever unfortunately he the case,
Uie sound gene rat maxi ms of Crossaid, though they
were thrown-away on the wretched Ariev+ga, may
' pro.tjl pthyfs. At any rale, $ui h an important d<v
cu merit ought not to be consigned to o' livinn.
>W"hei» ArSiyog* took tbe fatal lesolntion of qnit
f*P* kis pifsitHin Ht Santa, Ciuz, and seeking ibfe
French in the plains, ihe following meniori .l and
remonstrance Was delivered to him by baron Crris
sard, the comfnissTonet from the rourt of Vienna.
1 he firfftagnblB arguments advanced ia it wtrn
thrown away upon this uqforthnafe man
„ . Freeman’s Journal.
Santa Ckuz de la Zarza, Nov. iff, ISOjf.
“ Ts his Excellency the Genera} in Chief Don Juan
! Carlos de tricwtga, in hif head quarters at Santa '
Cruz He la Zaria. ' ‘
'■‘■Possessing too slight a cla'mto ,the confidence
of yn6r excellency, ,to be personally informed of
ymir present and olietioh intentiijus,’ the situation of
your army, that ofihe cn-opeNting corps, and also
that of the enemy, l^an only form anv opinion by
what I see, and by the reports of those whom every
appearance concurs to accredit. If I am to confide
in these reports, your excellency isresolved to march
agiirist Jhe enemy, to offer him battle.
“ Upon ibis supposition, I should be unworthy of' ™
the confidence with which F haveheen honoured hy
the supreme governing junta of the kingdoms of
Spain and the Indies, and also of your excellency’*
esteem, it I bad notaitbepresent moment, the firm
ness respectfully to submit to you the reflections
suggested by that resolution. ' ’
Yesterday your excellency concurred with mn
»3 to the danger there would be in putting to ha
zard the affairs of your country, and of thus com
promising the interests of Europe, so intimately a
nited with those of Sp^iin. You .appealed to me 1®
he sensibly impressed with the honour of delivering
Mi-.ririd and Castile, hy continuing the same grand v
movements by which you have hitherto driven.ih* **
enemy before you : and seemed to be very little in
fluenced hy the glory of gaining a battle, the sur
ress nf which is almost always owing more to
chance than to the talents of the general; whereat
thesliccess acquired by movements crown hjs tro
phies, by attesting hjs get,id*. But as a battle it
dbe last resource of a general, permit me, with a
view to a just derision, to state the'cause's whicli
authorise a recourse to the chances of an engage- /.
ment, A general offers battfewheu h-.fiodshis
supplies cut off, or obstructed'; when, by a com
bined operation, he it sure of totally destroying' the
l enemy; when, either from the quality of bis'troops,
i