Norfolk gazette and publick ledger — Norfolk [Va.], 1810-01-19 00:00:00, page 2

g* tftSSlDEKT C# TRE UVITE0 STATES.
NO. I.
The writer wh« now presumes to address yon
Will not affect to conceal from you, that he is not a
.'■Sung the number of your political admirers. He
Jumestly opposed your late election to the best of liis
poor ability, from reasons that have n<>t been with
held from vourself, or fretti the world. He would a
gain do it, if the case were again to occur—but c.m
sumr compels him to confess—[blessed are they that
~ expect nothing !]—that he has found more than he
had anticipated to approve in your presidential con
duct-Slhd he is incapable (under any circumstances)
, of treating the chief magistrate of his country with
ihtendonal disrrsfjert. With this declaration, he
humbly, ue/ firmly, solicits your attention for a very
(few minutes.. He is aware of the importance of your
Pfctne and he will uot consume any part of it in apo
logining for this intrusion.—Through you. he ad
dresses himself to the considerate and reflecting fior
tion of the good people of the United tit tes. The
only interest which 'he Nilk of the people of any
country ca'- have in the administration c.f its aff-irs,
it, that that they should be m. naged ivr!!. It is of
n» consequence to them [however important to the
trader*, for whose emolmnjfct they h'Ve been divided
Into two gang* and du> cn. like so manyVVest-In
4ia negroes under the vtsh of i prostitutt.l press]—
thaf'the sedition law, and the provision* 1 army.and
the eight per cent. loans, nod the Qua*!-war with
France were the work if Federalist. : or, that the
noh-importatinn „cf; llie denial of the writ of ha
beas corpus, by military force, and it’s proposed
suspension by nae branch of the legislature ; the a.
brogation, by bill, nf the constitution, as it respects
treason ; thtt embroiling our .ffiivs abroad; the em
bargo, that loathsome sin, and the rickety non-in
tercourse law, have lieen the spurious offspiing nf
(self-rilled) rrfnikUran*. The people lti.y indeed
acq lire one benefit from the lesson before them. It
3s that, Acre, us well at in the unhappy country
from which we are descended ; with all the clamour
•tup Inveteracy of Hite between whig end tory—
whig*, in fwmer, become lories ; and torics, out oj
Jioieer, whig*: and to watch them accordingly. It
Is p*or comfort to the people of England to be told
that the septennial art, whictieapped their constltuJ
tion at the base, was passed by the leading whig* of
tircir tutvy w?»u»r nuduimnuin uie unuHC uj iiaiju
fer, and theirplaces; whose zeal for the proleatant
religion, And/or /tensions, drove the nation into re
bellion, and nhnnk the government to its fotindaiinns.
And if h politician propose to repeal the constituti
onal definition ot treason, substitutin'' in its place
the devices and decressof hi* own wicked heart and
crude understanding ; nr to suspend the writ of ha
beas corpus to palliate its defiance by the military a:
tlie point of the bayonet ; or to enforce an embar
go (or any thing else] by prostrating every charter
ed^ M well as every natural right of the citizen ; ot
to screen S-m. Chat e. or Horr. or Wdkmson, <r
John Smith, of Ohio, from wcil-pnrned punishment ;
' "•“‘Ii-.re not to which faction he belongs; he is n>■
politician fitiUne.
Hut 1 ataHWering from mv pumosc—which is
to request yf^^eri<uis attention, and that of ever ,
sober nyind In the syate, not *o much to «ny thing
■which I am -b'e to offer to your nnn.siderati< o, as t
the “ Anno-1 Report of the Secretary of the Trra
«urfi’ made tn congress on the 17th of tins month :
filer. 1K09J. This memorable end m •un.ful st.te
paper merit* i.nd must receive., the deepest attenti -
on. It is Conclusive as to the policy w hich has been
pursued tor the last three ye»rs Hitherto, ti.e <iu,«
-teat ha* been carried on bv charges mixed wiili some
iSjproof, on the one side ; and pe’empt ry denials . ..
iJit* other ; and the good people h.-ve not ko wn
' tiicta mpcyja I'elieve ; more 'especultv. when ail
't'CWMM^e .f tlie charge, j'-d pro f- '-gains.
ilifEl'u^Jph.'is been dc iyed f>T;rj: so impartial a
■Mrce <>a the ministerial print*. There is now, how ■
ever,* standMnL|o which all may have noe*» ; from
which oppositSwK wj// nntt yfld ».l nmate ;i. n can
not appr l In tbi* Making politic-ti b .roinett r we
discern 11 revenue dwindling, in three short years,
from sixteen mini ms o ten ; from ten to six and an
half!—au enormous su-pios of preceding ,e-rs—
[toef re fi.lly had snatched the helm of government]
**&»uste<l } a redundant ytuentie orie.i up; and,
bexflle any thing like prep.ir'stion even for defence is
m-'dia a loaned' four millions, certainly [perhaps
more] beromePneressarv ! This .is not the gloomy
picture of . factious teder ilist, or of a discontented
linomy man,accused—(for accusation i* ever rea
}M of private griefs it is the fairest view which
e of the cabinet—(himself a man of transcendent
litie*)—M-un present of the state of the nation,
>ugh« to this point by the measures und the coun
sels of his patron, his colleagues, and himself.
, Will not Great Britain ami France tremble at our
powers of annoyance, tvhen they see this report?
when they are told by the chancellor of the Ameri
can exchequer, the greatest financier now living,
** Mist the expenses of government (exclusively uf
thd payments on. account of the principal of the
debij have exceeded the actual receipts into the
treasury, by a sum of near one million three hundred
thousand dollars !—that three millions areneccssa
,* up the deficit; and that in tlie event of
reimbursable by instalments after the
letter, must constitute the principal rc
defraying its expenses ?” May wa not ex
»i special mission to make atonement for the of
d"ne by the “ insolent Mr. J tekson'1 upon the
delicate nerve* of the sensitive Mr. Smith ? Will
Ht*the British ministry (for there is no degree of
“Tjy however nnrlignified «r puerile that may not
jjplj' '-W ascribed to them) iook rather to the “ paper
|h’ thundered in the senate, by one who resem
Ml i * rry tiling ijui (III* NdUrCSS UTlCl
” abilities, egiir.st the tyrant jnitinnuhat denies to the
■|peat efoperor “ the liberty uf tha seas" which hr is
, .mh’aWisiiius u to conquer'' by the sword, atul his ex
Othpr of America to obtain tor him, by libation
t.yer ! TJwit measures which. have led to oar
disxstv HisWnd disgraceful condition, were
measures of that man.
£*t- use them, and they become your own. You
% identify yourself with Atm, who with a full -nil per
frft knamtedge that he w-is about to surrender into
La beggar'd exchequer, and tht the de
Wnot Ite kept up twelve months after his
t|i the mountain, gravely came forw ard in his
last ofRejol addiess to congress and to the nation,
affecting to tie embarrassed with “ the surpluses of
itae,” aud pretending to tut the ingenuity
ds la tare, not with raising supplies, which
knew to be then wanting, hat in devising
'* end means to rid the country of the burthen
J
nt treasury s—A man “ who died (poll
a *** in hit mump !" It is on record
in the arrhi-^r of his country ! h era
too, tending, with the ignorant multi,
worshippers, to throw the odium of the
fji cation from hi* shoulders upon vour own
responsible for the Hidden change ef
new from the helm of government;
of the dairy tressures-Uic rich
he handed over to you ; kit Mend.
to the journals of the house of rep re
that aq fott^i oftlut meawte as
u mlttff." Why • report has not been made on1
tbieaabfcct, |i (I attppoxi) like every other failure of
the last four years, chargeable to tUr misconduct of
Mr. Randolph, its chairman. Jit it wherefore that
chief of political sinners should Have been selected
for this important task, or for tne delicate inquiry
at a preceding session, recommended by the presi
dent (along with a book, extracted from the inqui
rer, and resting on the colossal basis of its editor's
veracity) “whether the defect on Burr’s trial was
in the evidence, the law, or the application of the
law It might pusr.le the ingenuity even of Mr.
Speaker Varnum fairly to account. But I must leave
the ex-P- and the great delinquent Randolph ; one of
whom already stands, and the other tuust soon stand
disple.yed in his true character ; to attend to weigh
tier matters.
I must again ask vonr attention to the secretary
of the treasury’s report. Bv it, we perceive that
the expenses of cur formidable navy and redoubta
ble army (including the Indian department) have,
for the past year, exceeded six millions of dollar ;
and that unless these branches of expenditure are
immediately reduced to less than one half of that *
mount, the nation (even supposing no increase of
our present expenses) must incur an annual deficit
of more than three millions of dollars ! or in other
words, must enter on a career, leading to unavoida
ble bankruptcy. I beseech you, sir, to compare for
a moment tile cost of these institutions with the pub
lic benefit derived from them ;* or with the protec
tion which might have heea afforded to the country
(at one tenth part of their expense) by placing arms
m the hands of every able bodied man in the commu
nity.
Our gallant gun boats sail nut of port, and then
sail back again. Our warlike officers pocket their
pay and emoluments, and peaceably devote tliem
selves to wordy warfare—to the editing of ministe
rialjournals in the service of his Gailic and Italian
majesty : or, after taking a trip to Paris at live pub
lic expense, to fit themselves with regiment-Is of
the most fashionable cut, employ their leisure in
carrying massages, marshalling ladies on tty psrade
of an assembly room, and caning members of con
gress. 1 he republican doctrine (out of power)
was “ J\'e fiublic money, without art equivalent pub
lic ecrvice." The text is to be found in ihe politi
cal blble. Where shall we look for the commenta
ry ? Shall we find it in an army receiving full p vy,
rations »ud clothing with empty regiments ? in a na
vy where similar abuses have prevailed ? in the ac
counts of the commander in chief ? or the Kits so
dexterously drawn by his friend general Smith i n
Degen, Purviani e and Co, through the instrumen
- —j w. ivi uiiiu , «.ui- nit: uiiiiiMri m mnrme, arifi
present secretary of the foreign ,-nd home tl'.p rt
nicnt of state ? But let me not So gmltv of injustice*
l he «e were not acts of your adminis'cation,
I have said that we sre unprepared even for de
fend*. ] his nui seem to imply • contradiction of
"’hut yon have ts,ert< i in your ! ite mess _ge to con
gress-—end will perhaps be deemed hv the outrage
' "* rtf,ii. brans nt the ysw school (bv fur the most
crvi.e cuijrtiers we have) a breach of the engage
ment with whi i =et oaf. It is, however, surely
cut uni rdon i;j e in an AmorVci'ii citizen to claim,
in an address of this -ort, speaking 1,1 reference to a
• «-sid(.uti | m •ss'.ije, the same degree of freed'm
wliu h w. •, exercised on a naemor "iiie occasion, lay a
Hi- sii .subject, on the H o t of the house of commons,
;ti re! ;t;o.i t" i sex in a Irion the throne !
• ji John Bern ro, s able and upright a patriot as
*-ter satin legislative body declared in his place,
in the year 1727, “ that the assertions hazarded in
‘ royal speeches or messages were n t to be impli
u citIs- relied upon ; for that the crown might as
sen, and in p.c had asserted, in consequence of
hisu, i r treacherous information, what after.
‘ ward* proved v..t to be true. Parliament hud
1 (lie s .id) been assured by a ?n;emn speech from
the throne that an alliance had been entered into
between the emperour and Sin/in. in conformity
'* Jo the secret articles if which, Gibraltar was to
“ have been wrested from us, and the pretender
“ placed by force on the throne of Great Britain.
'* ■Considering the situation and circumstances of the
‘ contracting powers at that period, this intelligence
“ appeared to many, at the time, romantic and in
** credible ; and it was now known to be false,
til ugh it n as then rtpresented as highly disre
“ opectfut to he crown, so much as to doubt it,"
Iti, remarkable enough, that this declaration of
Sir John Barnard refers to that speech of the king of
England made in the preceding reign, which gave
such just umbrage to the court of Vienna, that M.
e l’alm the imperial minister at London was order
ed by the emperour to present a remonstrance to the
British court, charging the king “ with talumnious
“ misrepresentations, and with hazarding as.erti
“ o ns void of all foundation and stating that bis
** imperial majesty w.,s struck with the utmost n
“ garnishment, that the king of Great Britain could
*' suffer himself to be prevailed upon to declare
l* from the royal throne, to that most renowned na
“ tion, ascertain and undoubted facts, things abso
14 lately void of all foundation,"—With this menv'
ri'l was transmitted, from Vienna, n letter from
chancellor Zinzcndorf (the imperial prime minister)
to count l'.ilm, expressly commanding him in the.
name of his imperial majes-y, after presenting the
memorial to the king of Great Britain, to publish it
together with the letter, for the information of the
lirilisn nation. The chancellor Zinzendorf affirms
in this letter, “ that it is easy to see, that the speech
“ was made for no other purpose but to excite the
“ nation to an open wi r with the emperour and
44'Spain, and to make the parliament approve the
“ precipitate and hurthetisomc measures, which the
44 government has taken for private ends too well
‘4 known."
4 The allegations (continues the historian) con
tained in this letter and memorial seem but too well
t*OS 11. a/ . I»I,S si, a. 1 , ___ _ 1 e
' ¥ —--kliv OW |/U
pet s f ivc high and just offence ; and Mr. Sliippen,
Mr. Hungerford, Sir William Wyndbam, and all
the lenders of opposition in parliament, warmly con
curred in the address, presented to the throne on this
occasion. (See Belsham’s George 1. p. 190. et. seq.)
Are you not astonished, sir, at the audacity of those
who have dat ed to identify this case of M. Palm,
with that ol Mr. Jackson ? whose stupid temerity
has i e'-ted your defence on a ground so untcnoblc ;
and one which <t ill* same time subjects you to im
putations not lesa disgraceful than those which will
for ever attach to the Hanoverian politics of the
house of Brunswick? Be not alarmdu, sir—I shall
not exercise mv privilege of speech even to the ex
tent in which it was enjoyed by the worthy alderman
of London, although were / on the floor of congress,
I should lay my thoughts before you in a constitution
al manner cert only not with let* freedom than 1 do
st present. Be assured, sir, that (whatever you may
have been told by your ministers, nnd which they
have got at second Rnd third hand from thecreatures
« Wilkinson, hacked by the testimony of the con
tractors) there is not a single important post in the
United States (except perhaps Philadelphia and
New Orleans, which owe their safety chiefly to local
situation) that has any efficient protection from an e
* * **v lk* partial report If the committee qf investigation
■naije at the last sea.ion of congress, it appeals that fitt tit
■Jumht’mtur of Mr. Jtjfir.ni c-.mmnctJ. the army he* cuft
dollar* a,276.176, wM the navy dollars
IV- profusion of the last three years agaan*
the e fourths (| write from memory ai.t cannot
W«M to the frtjtriifi/J of this sum, fid
nemy'sjBeg, other than what may be afforded by ft.
| own poputsunn, and thole Mi which the resource*
i of the several state* may have furnished. Immo
vable batteries (whatever our Hyde Parke generals
ami colonels may tell you) are unable to cope f even
loith the aid of gun boaiV] with the Leviathan '
agility of a ship of the line. As well may the trees
of our swamps, backed by the musquitoes that nes
tle and hide in their branches, defy the axe of the
vigorous and hardy bac^woods-man. Our under
standings are not yet so benumbed by the torpedoes
of Mr. Fulton as to rely for cur defence on this mi
serable system, or even on the ingenuity of this
[sGi-dtsant] Archimedes.* Are these the resour
ces for carrying on a war against a nation, one
branch of whose revenue alone, has, during the lust
year, under the munagf merit of a driveling minis
try, increased by a sum of near five millions of dol
lars ?
__ But 1 must again return to the secretary’s repovt.
From this state paper it appears, that “ the stupid
thing" the non-intercourse law (whose vigour and
wisdom have been fornphmented with achieving the
masterly arrangement with Mr. Rrskine) is, as eve
ry man of common sense foresaw from the beginning,
utterly incompetent to any beneficial, or even rati
ona! purpose. And yet (strange as it may appear)
men of sense and virtue, as well as fools and knaves,
are to be found among iti supporters. I spe..k of
their votes ; for ready 1 have never heard (although
the bill passed unanimously in the senate, and by a
m ji rity of two to one in the other house) of any per
| son’s having said one worn in its favour, firevina*
I to its becoming » law. One description of men vr.u
ed bn it, because thry were resolved to shake offtlie
! incubus of the embargo on any terms : the oilier, in
: point of fart, from a similar motive, and as the best
- device (had as it was) which they could fall upon to
j cover their retreat from ih it ai suid and reinetii
■ measure; and by way “ of splitting the difference.”
according to the vulgar slaving— thet spoke against
the bill and voted for ;t. But however frivolous and
; contemptible this measure is, in ever* other point of
view, it has n .t (proved h irrrdess as it respects our
j selves. It. h s levied an enormous tax upon ewe:y
, planter .nd 1 -viner in the country t" the emohune.it
j of the carrier. There never was a *e,.r in which
! ,he shippers of produce (of tobacco especially) made
j lar ger profits than 'luring the D; -t; and it may lie
* safely s:-iu, that v h. lever be the object of theFrench
[ lie- rr-es -.nd the British orders in c .uncil, we h.ie
I -— ■ V VltCIUI I ^
th hi •V'.fi) •; th put toy ether. Cause, I beseech you
sir, this rii i';wtis and perni. ious regulation to be
expunged ti w our staute-b...ks. Let the who:e
Htoerni in system < f coercing ibe bedigei eats thro’
'be persons >ud purses of our own people. be fi re
vrr nbaodened. _ It is (to put the beat construc
tion on it) a iu'/ in politicks. We are not chil
(?ceu, and we c ;o;i> t five credit to tin- political
pedagogue, when be nourishes Ins birch and ex
claims, Cusiigo re non //nod r.dro habcam, trcl quod
amrm." I clr..st.se thee nrt nut of hatred, but thro’
love. If goveiniTieiu cannot, op avid riot pr-'tect
commerce, let them not fetter it ; let it be (for then,
ai leist) like the nreeze that wafts it. a chartered
libertine. The losses which the agricultural in*er
est have sustained from y ur list pr elanuto n [re
viving an act which vv-.s Junctii* f,,
which, vague and rppiused us the law itself is, as
well as to those to which it refers * a power i« p,
vain sought in its text]—not even Gallatin h:m-e ;
could calculate. It was the pretext f>r kum king
duwnthe price of our produce, width the merchant
had no sooner bought on his own terms, than tie
shipped it directly to England, to an enornv us
proht; which ut length, hut slowly ,nd gradualb.
und after vast losses t the ifroiv/r, caused ur m- r
kets to rise even under the fir, xsure of trie non-in
Jercourte act, until thc» were depressed, to U,t
gre..t joy of all in the secret, liv the rupture he
tween Mr. Smith and Mr Jacks, n. V\ briber bro
ther Sam. had no de any shipments to Degen, I’ur
vianre & C.o. nr sold out his pun ha-es in the *'Min
trv previous to the l‘.ll, and bought in., aftervad*.
I have not yet learnt: but this power in men of
great commercial connections, to rai«» and dcprit-s
at pleasure, the price of the whole fHwriurt of the
land, and labour of a country, is a iretnendoia, en
gine whi-h the veriest bungler may manage to tire
impoverishment of the community, and the enrich
ing to any extent, himself .,nd his associates.
But all this sir you may say, nnd perhaps not un
justly, is mere suioiisk. Let us.come then to f.cts,
to damning t.,cta, which will unmask the junta
by whom you are surrounded ; whose victim vr.u
will assuredly he if you consent to become their in
strument or their dupe. Deceive yourself not sir,
with the belief that mu owe the supp rt which you
have received from these men to ant regard for your
publick bervices, any respect for your abilities, cr
attachment to your person. Consider tions of a nu
ture quite foreign to all these led to their selection
of yourself as president of the United States ; and
when these purposes shall he answered, they will |*v
you aside with as little ceremony, or scruple, as
they put aside your venerable lieutenant on a recent
occasion. They have every quality of lags, but his
abilities. Their objects are purely urifi-h. They
wanted a capital of character, and thev cast about
tor some one who could furnish it: they pitched up
on you (as they had before dune upon Mr. Clinton)
as one who would answer their purposes, and not be
in tlie way after they should he answered. But to
our fac’s. Paulo maj .ru c aaamua.
'I he brother of the emperor of France (and I
might say of continental Europe) marries a beautiful
American woman: the feelings of manhood have
not, as yet, been extinguished in him by the infecti
vai i 1119
. s _ - -' -- !»■ * I.iv »» SSV IV UI3
brother’s dominions. She is sternly denied the rites
of hospitality. 1 he blood of mi honest American
woman is deemed unworthy to mingle with the fiure
stream of a military advenin'er. Injury is followed
by instill. By the mandate of despotism the feelings
of the lover, the husband and the man are ordered to
be suppressed, and they are suppressed accordingly.
—The unhappy mother is driven like another Ha
gar to a strange, and to her (partaking of the cha
racter of her husband) hostile land—there to drop
her burthen. By the strong hand of power the mar
riage is dissolved. Those whom C.od had joined,
man—impious, upstart man. dares io put asunder.
The marriage is declared void— theissue is bastar
dized. The father having taken to himself by com
mand another wifeof royal blood, the disconsolate mo
ther returns with her infant charge to the bosom of
her country and her friends fortunatam sua si bona
norit. But she is destined again to become (with the
unoffending froit of her womb) the sport of avarice
and ambition. Carry in your mind, sir, that she is
the niece of your secretary of state and of a senator
of Maryland by blood ; of a conspicuous and influ
ential member of the house of representatives lav
marriage—that she is the sister of the man to wh«ft
* “ If act* of Parliament were after the old fashion pen
ned by such only as perfectly knew what th- c«tumor, law
was h -fore the making of any act of parliament concerning
that matter, as also haw far forth former statutes had provi
ded remedy tor former mischiefs and defacts discovered by
experience t then should very few questions in taw arise,
and tire learned should not so often and sc much perplex
their hdads to makestonement and peace, by construction
«f law between inu t tills and disagreeing words, sentences,
aud provisos aa they now do." (Would not one almost
thmk thkt my lord Coke has reference to tire bills reported
by ottr sapient chairmen of standing and select committees
•f centres#, pemcalarljr “the laws tf embargo.") ^
he ha» givetvbis daoghti* a* a ytfh— fhat Mu* i* en.
nected by affinity with the family of von* prrdTe$
v rj writU the attorney general of Virginia; that
her connections are ramified from Lake Ont,;ri„ j„
the north to Kentucky in the went : dhlWHkinson
it their bosom J'riemi, and that Cu.'rijHjLlnuau do
mesticated with them until (he very yWvf his down,
fail. It required no great penetration to see, that if
ever this connection should obtain possession of the
government of the United States, Buonaparte would
he wanting in his usual sagacity if he did not at
tempt (notwithstanding past injuries and insults) tfi
make use of them through his nephew, and that
they would depart not less widely from their max
im, “ rem quccumque modo-rrm" (which although
they should be unable to translate they fully under
stand) if they failed to avail themselves of his graci
ous condescension—(“ A great deal of money, sis
ter Heidelburg!—-taste damnably of the Borachlo
Mister Canton !”) By a chain of circumstances,
which seem to set wisdom end v*rme squally at defi
ance, these illeterate aspiring people, afier various
tergiversations (“ too tedious to enumerate”) do ac
tually possess ♦hcmselves of thepmernmetrt of the
U. Striteshind the state of Maryland,especially, ayah,
submits lUelfto the proprietary rule of thenew Lords
fin/iimore. The situation of gen. Turreau is peculiarly
calculated to impress A/m with a deep sense of the con
sequence of the Smith family. What is the result l
Madame Buonaparte (alias. Miss Pierson) is forth
with ere .ted a duchess, and her sotWpprince of the
empire! And the councils of the United States af
ter a momentary fluctuation dccommochtes them
selves. at once, to the views of France! The infer
ence is irresistible. Let me ask you, sir, if the peo
p e of the L'nited States would endure, that a royal
due nr .'a and a /inner of the blood >f Fvglard ;
(suppose it to be Lady Augusta Murray and her bas
tar :izer son, should st.nd in the relation in whi< h
' ls P001' <:1,'!d and ins mother stand to the crest of
ficers of state, and the influential Icadcr&of cur
councils in congress ? '! he I ite imanured rWNmiwti
■ n, if true, of one ofthe grand uncies of our crown
prince, and especially the manner of it, and more
e ftec:a!iy the, t/ia 'ac'er of , ’iat man, is calculated
rather to rtfeite than to allay suspicion as to Aim.
I) you think, sir, jt required any spirit of prophecy
to suggest, as was done in debate two years ago,
th. t ■* prrh-ps the prince regent of the future sove
reign of America was then within the walls, of the
cagttol ?’’ It reauired onlv l< ttnmri in" t.. ssw*....
thr.t Uounaparte must nr,ike use of the tools then in
our runners, if unhapppik they should Mirreed in
retaining (much more in Hicreasing) their influence.
*' Eh is Hugaci'y, which young ministers cannot
‘ understand is the true source nf intelligence—Sa
ga< itv to compare c .uses .lid effects ; to judge of
/ l*1e Present state <•{ things, aijd to discern the fu
• tore bv a c refill review of the past. Oliver
Li oniwell, who astonished ni-'pkit^ by his inieiii
gence, did tint derive it from spies in the cabipet
' l>rinoc >1 Europe ; lie rj-ew it from the
' 1 y n!* "«”» «•••*«•• >ciou • mind. He observed
i rftrrd red them forward to iheircoosequen
ces. r r<-m vvh ,t was, he concluded .vhat must
Of, uni] h never was deceived." But with all
3 vcariti >us udv-.nti.jres of tii'.oart wealth apd
ai-in. te, tins new family compact is utterly destitute
of that S 'r* of talent, which, with all the decorat'-ns
of seenert and dress, set offtfr stage trick and puff
paragraph c n impose, even for a season, on an in
telligent people Accordingly thev cast about fir au
all), ami they find in Mr. Oi*es precisely the cha
y .rt<n they want. This nun. although ignorant and
llliteiatc, and vulgar as themveives, possesses in n
bigli degree talents of a certain sort. He is every
w >v calrui -tcd to h-ve been the tool of Marat, *n^
Dar.t’n and Kt.hes] ic e, and like
ise worthies of
jacobinism, is a fit p recursor of an
mperor oftha
t .vo A nerieas.” His knowledge, although chioiiy
r mined to Hvvle's games and what he has picked up
at the ordiu. ■ iev and c.i ’ ss-ror.ds of Vlr
and
'■* oi-uii.ua *•« v Ji-yisiia.
,Pl flJe m'Qthels Ant! gamin,; houses in Phraklelphia.
is tjr irrnn being despir bie. Such it is, it is stilt
e i to the part he is destined anrf whirh alt ne|fce u
fitt dijto act: and when aided by his utter destitution
*f princip e, and enforced by his impudence, is truly
formidable. Having none of his own to protect, he
has the greater leisure and capacity to take charge
• t the non or* f his country. Upoifctlie same pnn
clPje.% ‘oppose, that Kt-au — ^and uomeothet
ot nis worthy compeers have been supposed fit t<
vote taxes and appropriation*. He is therefore eve
ry way 1 ..lcnlaud to set brave men and generon
niti. ns by the ears, whilst he hobbles off with tin
spoil,
Nothing but the power, which hv some strange
mysterious di.spenv.ti n of providence, he seems ti
have acquired of being hurtful to mv country, coult
induce me to stain my paper or to pollute mv lip
vnhtne mention of his name—“ But the heel of tht
seed . ‘ the woman shall bruise the head ntahe ser
s|»i nt.” n,e public good requires it; GocThimsel
hatn commanded it. The French faction in th
[ , a.*!1 , 0lir country, in the bosom of our Council
I , J he unmasked. I devote myself to the task
, . . ." v vviisvivin c auu
real, even it it lead to ruin and to martyrdom. I
hin prepared to encounter their rage. Their ven
4‘ geance will pursue me througli life ; and yet I
“ would not suppress or soften a w; rd for all the
applause*, and all the honours, which they and
“ master can bestow.*' .#
1 hke his character from hi»; own lips : Compare
I beseech you. sir, his late speeches in thcwj&cnate;
the l-.vt especially, as it appears fa^the ‘TLtionii
Intelligencer,'* with those which, Bpdonbt. you have
heard him utter on the floor of the nouse of represen*
tatties, in justification of the tevnlu tonary govern*
ment of France, aud in the crimination of his own
government, administered by the father of his coun*
*rV *. -en. Jlu £e yours?IJ of his principles. He
member, sir, that he w ,s the only roan who had the
hardthood [the coward will blaspheme his God!
pubhrklv to insult the great found**# hir liberties.
v\ hat vtui once thought due to the awful majesty of
hit character may be inferred from the addresses of
the house of representatives, (so many of which
have flowed from your pen) in answer to his speeches
of the two houses of congress.
But I have exhausted my owr strength and most
, ..*»• T «I|U UHIS
probably yoUr patience ; and yet before I again soli
cit its exercise, for / must again throw myself on
your attention, I would beg leave to remind you of
the opinion ot some ot the ablest men in Europe of
our present situation. These writers, it is proper
to premi e, are as strenuous sticklers for our right
to the colonial trade ; as hitter enemies to theordera
in council, and their “ contemptible fabricators
and as great admirers of the character and admi
ntstranonot Mr. Jefferson, as any man in America.
thf>'remain at peace however,” fsny the
Edinburgh reviewers, speaking of ourselves, vol. 12,
page 476) “ and continue to prosper, their present
government will answer well enough. The truth is
that in such a situation they scarcely require sny go
vernment at ail: and their political arrangerneijts
are more m*ttery>f speculations to the ambitious,
thsn the Mncernment of the trulr patrfetiei. But
war would give a tremendous shck to all these ar
i angt mints ; nor do we see indeed how t'hey could
m. intam st»y considerable army without the adoption
ot a different system of government.” [They ad
vise a consolidation ] “ The v*» high six.;re* rj
labour wouldmake the eftal^kment
*1****** t'ianin any oilier couniry in the twrltf.;
and their antipathy to all torts of te.Tf* wt-tdi make
UJar more difficult to dfruy that csfeme. The ge.