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plenipotentiary', to repair to Madrid, and.
in conjunction with our minister resident
there, to endeavour to procure the ratifi
cation ot' the former convention and to
come to an understanding v/ith Spain, as
to the boundaries of Louisiana. It ap
peared at once that her policy was to re
serve herself for events, and in the mean
time to keep our differences in an undeter
mined state. This will be evident from
the papers now communicated to you.
After nearly five months of fruitless en
deavor to bring them to some definite and
satisfactory result, our ministers end<-d
the conferences, without having been able
to obtain indemnity for spoliations of any
description^ or any satisfaction as to the
boundaries of Louisiana, other than a decla
ration that we had no rights eastward of
I the Iberville, and that our line to the west
was one, which would have left us but a
string of land on that bark of the river
Mississippi. Our injurtd citizens were
thus left without any prospect of retribu
tion from the wrong door, and as to boun
< r«, each party was to take its own course.
Th «t hich ihe\ have chosen to pursue will
appear from the documents now commu
nicated. TtlLY AUTHORISE TIIF. I'TFE
B .NCE THAT IT IE THEIR INTENTION TO
.advance on our possessions, until
TUI Y SHALL EE Rl PRl SS D BY AN OP
yos’NC. f rce. Considering that con
GRESS alone IS CONSTITUTIONALLY IN
V'fiTLD WITH THE P Wl R OF CIIANG
X\G OUK CONDI T. ON FROM PEACE TO
t/\r, 1 hav-. in ught it mv duty to await
their authoiitv bn using turce in any de
gree which could be avoi Jed. I have bare
ly instructed the officers stationed in the
ueighboui hood of the aggressions, to pro
tect our citizens from violence, to patrolc
within the borders actually deliver- d to us,
and not to go out of them, but when neces
■ Aary to repel an inroad, or to rescue a citi
■ Zen or his propertv ; and the Spanish re
El m iming at New-Orleans are required to
| depart without further delav. It ought to
bf noted here ihac since the late» bangt* in
the state of aff hi s in Europe, Spain h. s
| ordered htr cruizcis and courts to respect
cur treaty with her.
i he conduct cf France, and the part
*he may take in the misunderstandings be
tween the Unit d States and Spain, are
too important to be uni onsidered. She
was prompt and decided in her declara
t ons, that our demands on Spain for
French spoliations, carried into Spanish
ports, weir included in the settlement be
tween the United Ivans und fiance. She
took at once the ground that she had ac
quired no right hum Spain, and had meant
to deliver us none eastw rd < f the Iber
ville ; her silence as to the western boun
dary leaving us to inf r | the opinion
might be against Spain in that quarter.
Whatever direction she might mean to
give to those differences, it dues not ap
pear that she has contemplated their pro
ceeding to actu \ rupture, or that at the
date of our l; .t ivi-.es f on Far is her go
vernment had any suspi i in of the hostile
attitude Spain hud taken acre. On the
contrary we have reason to believe, that
she ( franc*J was disposed to effect a set
tlement on a plan analogous to what our
ministers had p. posed J and so compre
hensive as to remove as far as possible, the
giour.dsof future collision and controversy
on the eastern as well as the western side
of the Mississippi.
“ I In present crisis in Europe is favora
ble for picssing such a settlement, and not
a moment should be lost in availing our
Selves of it. Should it piss unnnpioved,
our situation would become more difficult.
1* rmal war ia not necessary* it is not pio
Lable that it will follow ; but the protect, on
of our citizen*, the spirit and honor ot our
conn ry rt quire that force should be inter,
posed '0 a certain deg'te. It will probably
Contribute to advance the object of peace.
“ dot the course to l»e pursued will re
quire the command of means which it be
longs to congi ess exclusively to yield or
deny. To them l communicate every fact
material for their information, and the
documents necessary to enable them to
judge f >r themselves. Ta tt>eir wisdom
then I look fr the course / am to pursue,
and willpw sue with sincere zmi thai wh.ch
they shall approve."
•'Coalition between Austria, Russia, and Great
Britain, it is presumed
f Leaving Mr. TulLrand “ to infer,’' that it would
afl rd lum a second glm.ous ticca-ion ot cLppuig his
hands into our pockt ts
f Our ministers tiad proposed to surrender our
claims to compensation tor Uie withholding ot the
right of deposit at N. Uncans, and tor spoliations,
Spanish as well as French, and to est-.bl.sh Uie Coilo
rado.isthe western boundary ot Louis.alia. Althougu
tile Collorad > is a v-s; d. stance to Uie west ot Uie t*
isung Inn.t between the two nations, it was evident,
from the face ot our d-spatcues. tuat our ministers in
agreeing to establish that river as the boundary, tiad
been obliged to exceed the authority ot Uieu lnstmc
: ions ; (the government otUie United States claim.ng
to the Rio Bravo;—Tins proposition, ^Uie ultima uiii
on our part) was rejected at tne court ot nadnd
v.nth disdain ; and th is ended the negotiation ; i .
J'ranee, it seemi, was disposed to a settle me. t ui.
analogous terms ’ altuoug.i. Air- i alley rand iiau,
:.i the most dictatorial stye, dec Urea tun our claims
v i Spam tor Frcm ti spoliai.ons carr»ed into cp-n.sii
t e-rts, “ must be abandoned-'
"' 1 ■ I ■ ■ ———
The GAZETTE.
Martinsburgh, July 27*
Who would have supposed that the following re
flections on the death of Lord Clive, ss “b*ilh*nt in
imager),” as “correct anil refined in stntiment'’
were from the pen ol the vulgar, the obscene, the
infamous Thomas Pa,ne l And vet it is so stated b)
the Kev. Mr. Abercrombie of Philadelphia in his Lcc
uues on Kiuioric. They are tx tract id by him from
the Pennsylvania Magazine for March, 1775.
“Ah! the talc is told ! 1 he scene is cn
did and the curtain falls ! As an emblem ol
the vanity of all earthly pomp, let his mo
nuinent be a git b“ ; but, be that globe a
bubble ; let his effigy be a man walking
round in his sleep ; and let F one, in the
character of Shadow, inscribe his honours
on th- air.
“ I view him but as yesterday on thi’
burning plains of Plasey, doulnlul cl life,
ol health, of victory ; I see him in the in
staot when “ to be. or not to bey were equ d
chances to the human e> e. To be a lord
or a slave*—to return loaded with the sp >ils,
or remain mingled with the dust ol India.
Hid necessity always justify the severity
of a conqueror, the rude tongue of cen urc
would be silent ; and however painfully
he mig'at lo «k back on scenes ol horror, the
pensive rtrtrction would not alarm him
Though hts feelings suffered,his conscience
would be acquitted. The sad remem
brance would move serenely, and leave the
mind without a wound. But Oh, India!
thou !oud procluimer of European cruelties,
thou bloody monument of unnecessary
deaths, be tender in tht day of enquiry, and
show a Christian world thou canst suffer
atttci forgive I
“ Departed from India, and loaded with
plunder, I see him doubling the Cape, and
looking wishfully to Kurope. I see h m
meditating on years of pleasure, and grati
t\ing his ambition with expected honours.
I see his arrival pompously announced in
every newspaper, his eager eye rambling
through the crowd in quest of homage, and
his ear listening lest an applause should es
cape him. Happily for nun he arrived be
tore his fame; and the short interval was a
time ot rest. From the crowd I follow
him to the court : I see him enveloped in
the sunshine of sovereign favor, rivalling
the great tn honours, the proud in splen
dour. and the rich in wealth. From the
court I trace him to the country : his e
i quipage moves like a camp: every village
I c 11 proclaims his coming : the wondering
pi asunts admire his p >mp, and his heart
runs over with jov.>
‘‘but, alas! notsatisfi'd with unconn
table thousands, I accompany him again
to India—I mark the variety of counte
nances which appear at his landing. Con
tusion spreads the news : Fvery passion
seems alarmed. The wailing widow, the
cr\ mg orphan, and the childless parent, re
member and lament; the rival nabob* court
his favour : the rich dread his power, and
the poor his severity. Fear and Terror
march l.ke pioneers before his camp ; Mur.
der and Kapine accompany it; famine and
Wretchedness fallow in the rear !”
The first paragraph of this effusion m ay challenge
a comparison with any representation of he “vanity
of all earthly pomp,” th..t is to he met with in any
language.—It is almost inconceivable that the feel
ings that produced it could ever be associated with
those that dictated the “ Age of Reason” the “ Let
ter to Gen Washington” and the “ Rights of Man,”—
or that they should have existed in the same bosom,
even at distant intervals of time.
The “ Rights of Man” and its author have still
some ad . o ates in this country. For their sakes we
will violate the precept ml de mottuis nisi bonum, in
stating the following instance of the tleep depravity
of the man, wio could t ilk so feelingly of the “com
ing of the day of enquiry” and invoke so sweetly the
Christian spirit toforgive an l forget.
The Rights of Man arrogated to itself the dignity
of being an answer to Mr. Burke’s reflections on the
French revolution—a work, the object and the effect
of which was to put down the revolutionary spirits
of Great-Britain. Mr. Burke in commenting upon
the proceedings of the revolution society of London
says :
u I fl itter mvself that I love a manly,
moral, regulated liberty as well as ant gen
tleman ot that societt, be he who he will ;
and pet haps I have given as good proofs
of my attachment to that cause tn the whole
course of my public conduct. I think I
envy liberty as little as they do, to any o*
tber nation. But I cannot stand forward,
and give praise or blame to any thing
which relates to human actions, and hu
man concerns, on a simple view ot the ob
ject, as it stands stripped ot every relation
in all the nakedness of metaphysical ab
straction. Circumstances (which with
some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in
itality to every political principle its tils
tinguiahing colour, and discriminating el
feet. I he circumstances are what rcndci
every civil and political scheme bent fitia
or noxious to mankind. Abstracted!
peaking, government, as well as libert)
h good ; >ct, could I, in common &cos<
ten y cars ago, have felicitated France on
her enjoyment of a government (for she
then had a government) without enquiring
what the riatuieol that government was. or
now it was administered i Can 1 now con
gratulate the same nation upon its fiee
dom ? Is h because liberty in the abstract
may be classed amongst the blessings of
mankind, that I am seriously to felicitate
a m idman, who has escaped from the pro
tecting restraint and wholesome datkness
of his tell, on his restoration to the enjoy,
ment ol light and liberty i A m I to ton
g-atulate an highwayman and murderer,
who has broke prison, upon the rccoven
ol his natural i ights ? 1 his would be lo
act over again the scene of the criminals
condemned to the gallies, and their heroic
deliverer the metaphysical Knight of the
Sorrowlul countenance."
Burke's htji^ctions% page 7 and8.
The infamous Paine in his reply thus misrepresents
his antagonist
uut >lr. Burke appears to have no
idea o( principles when he is contemplating
govt MW ms. “ l'en ve.rr ago (sa\ s he) [
** cruld have frlicititcd France on her hav
ing a government, without enquiring
** what the nature of that government was
“ or how it was administered ” Is this tne
language of a rational man ? It it the Ian
g’J »ge ol a heart feeling as it ought to feel
for the rights and happiness of the human
race? On this ground Mr. Butke must
compliment every government in the world,
while the victims who suffer under them,
whether sold into slavery or tortured out
of existence are wholly forgotten. It is
power and not principles that Mr. Burke
venerates; and under this abominable de
pravity, he is disqualified to judge between
them.
Paine's Sights of Man, 4-th Am Ed p. 17
This is one of a multitude of simil ir instances of
base misrepresentation to be found in that work. If
any thing Ire wanting to complete the character of
this outrage it will be found in the fact that Paine's
pamphlet was sohl at about six pence sterling, anil of
course went into the hands of thousands, who had
not the means of detecting the imposition.
The character of Paine is not a common one. His
is not the case of a vicious man putting on the garb
of virtue, affecting a sentiment that lie does not pos
sess.—This is to be met With every day, but we do
not every day meet with persons who can really feel
the extremes of die most opposite emotions of out
nature; and Paint, is in this respect, almost a soli
tary case. Rousseau has declared and exhibited
himself to the world “ sometimes vile and despicable,
at others, virtuous, generous, and sublime Stern*
has been called a “sentimental scoundrel but tin
vice of Rousseau fell inttnitely sh >rt of P line’s ; an<
the Prebendary < f York, however deficient in iht
discharge of his duties as a husband and a father
was certainly pious and benevolent in his feel ngs
just and honourable in his life. Rousseau, it is true
could send his infant children, “ without brand 01
ear mark," to a public hospital for foundlings,* bul
even he possessed much of that “sensibility of prin
ciple, that chastity of honour under which v*ce lost
half its evil by losing all its grossness." Not so,
Paine : The whole mass of the man, physical and
moral, was one hideous compound of all that is of
fensive and loathsome in human nature—a melancho
ly instance of a man, capable of noble, elevated sen
timent, devoting himself to all that is base and de
testable. E.
* A late traveller thro' Holland, Flanders and
France states that there are some hundreds civil and mi
litary officers in France who have presented themselves
to thejavor of the public by assuming the name and
claiming to ue the of spring of the philosopher of Geneva.
From the Salem Register.
South America —The celebrated Count
Humboldt, who visited our States, embrac
ed alsoS:uth America in his discoveries and
in his travels. We have seen some observa
tions from his views oj nature, wh;ch will
be acceptable at a time when we are enquir
ing into the history of a boit/on of our cwn
continent, with iuh ch we hope for impor
tant connections in some future ages of its
prosperity Count Humboldt tells us,
“ The interest which South Ame rica excites,
belongs entirely to na ure. Nothing exists
to bring to our recollection tha ancient
dwellings of men. No temple, no stone
wrought by the hand of man, is here to be
S' en. From the mountains of the Car areas,
the desa> t extends into the forest of Guiana,
andfrom the mountains of Merida, where
we see su/phurious springs issuing from
beds of perpetual snow, the same desart
stretches to the immense Della, formed by
the mouths of the Oronoko. To the South
west these plains extend in the form of the
sea beyond the shores of the Meta, and of
the Vechida, to the almost unknown sources
of the Guaviara, or to the desolated peak
calIt-d by the Spaniards Paramo de la sum mo
Puz, the residence of eternal peace. This
piam occupies a surface of 14,000 square
miles. The scanty geographical knowledge
hitherto in our possession respecting these
countries, encouraged an idea that it is con
tinued to the straits of Magellan, but no
i egard has been paid to the chain, which
extends to the east of the Andes, and which
separates, to the northward and the south
ward, the woouy plums of the river of A
■nazorts, and the meadows of Rio de la Pla
ia. Tne laner which forms the Pampas cj
Buenos Ayres, are there the extent of itu
Llanos t on the north thru a*e bounded by
forests of Palm trees, while the southern
parts are constantly covered with ice and
snow. Countries ab eady half cultiva'ed
by Europeans, bound the vast p a'ns of
South Ameria. T e countries which ex
tend nbrthward between the chain of the
Venezeula mountains, and. the West-Indict
Hands, are covered with four shing towns,
and well cult vn'ed farms rhe immense
desnrt is bjunded on the south by imfiene•
trab e f re sts of timber, which occupy the
damp regions between the rivers Otonoko
and Amaz n Enormous • ocks of granite
outline the beds of the r foamy setters. The
mountains andforests echo back the noise
of their unite > y falls, and the aim )*t inces
sant cries oj animal* prognosticate ap
proaching storms. Various are the races
of men which inhab't these savage countries t
they ate d'stingurhrd by the variety of
their language. Of these O'omacs and the
Jatures feed upon uni', gum, and even
earth. Others more intelligent and of mil
dcr ma> n<rs. live on the fruits of me earth
which then culliv i>e.
Immense regions are inhabited only by
monkies who we in a kind of sec etuf Im
age*, howev r caved on the rah, an
ti unct the iX s e .ce of mankind m the e
countrits at some rrmo'f per od The e
tel es contain the * erei of the mutable des
tinies rf mm. and pi vr that the mod fica
tions of lingunge ate invariably the most
indel b'e mmumrats <f their first origin.
I he suV ge tribe* of Gut-rat wage eternal
war. Such is the outline of the picture
which this celebrated naturalist has given
of a portion of our continent, which is soon
to receive new honors The Historian has
given a pointed contrast between South .!«
tneriat and Africa. The Cold and the hu
m a :y of South America is situated beyond
the Equator, in a hemisphere rendered col
der by lakes and r.v rs, than the northern
hemisphere, to winch, the greater part of
Africa belongs. We do not concern our
selves with his ingenious reasoning upon
tin facts. lithe history of man, he notices
a tr. be of Sou'll Americans inhabiting the
bunks of the Oronoko near its month, and
who l.vt in cabins xu pended to the branches
of the tree called Miurtth. The existence
, 'f this tube he represents as depending m
hrely upon the productions of the Miuritia.
During the inund.t ion of the Delta, they
suspend ingeniously between the branches
of the tree, kind* of hammocks, woven with
‘he leaves, and served together wth threads
maaefrom the same tree He testifies of
1 i the immense herds of horned cattle, horses
' and wild as es, wh ch pasture in the Sm h
' American plains; the prodigious mere i*e
’ of thrse ammnls is to h>m moi e astonishing,
’ from the difficulties with which they have
I to contend, and which he describes.
Martinsburgh Artillerists!
Attention !
I TTOU will attend at your usual place of
I X Parade on Saturd ty the 4.h i»f August
next, at 11 o’clock, A. M in full uniform
and your arms in complete order lur in
spection on that day.
JAMES FAULKNER, CapL
July 27, 1810.
Land for sale.
BY virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed
on the 24-th day of December, 1804,
by John Lindsey and Pollv his wife, to the
subscribers, for the purpose of securing to
Joseph Meaner, a certain debt, therein
mentioned, will be sold on the premises,
lor read\ money, to the highest bidder, at
Public Vendue, on Friday the 3Int dav
of August next, a certain TRACT OF
LARD. conveyed bv said deed of trust,
situate in the Countv of Berkeley, adjoin
ing the lands of Creighton’s heirs, H> nrjr
Wrlshhans, George 1 abler and others,
containing about sixtymine acres, more?or
less.
WILLIAM RUSH, \TrUMM
JOHN MYERS, stn.J *rU9tees*
July 27, 1810.
Mr. J AMES WELSH,
TAKE NOTICE,
THAT on the 20th day of September
next, at the house in which Mr.
Buchannen, tavern keeper now lives, in
the town cf Chillicothe, county of Ross,
and state of Ohio, I shall take the deposi
tions of Daniel Snider and John Snider,
which depositions, when taken, I intend
to offer in evidence on the trial of a suit
now depending in the Countv Court of
Berkeley, in which I am plaintiff, and voa
are defendant. To be taken by virtue of
a commission issued bv order of the said
County Court of Berkeley for that purpose,
Your’s, &c.
JOHN O’FERRALL,
July 27, 1810.
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