The recorder (Richmond, Va.), 1803-03-30 00:00:00

THE RECORDER;
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1803.
REVISED CODE.
THE SUBSCRIBER to the REVISED CODE respectfully informed that the Book will be ready for delivery on the first of April next. February 16th 1803.
TO THE PUBLIC.
Gentlemen, who wish to subscribe to the Saturday's Recorder, are requested to send in their subscriptions, within a very few days. But this they need not do, unless they send, at the same time, two dollars in advance. The next Saturday's paper, to wit, that of the 26th. current, is the last that can be issued to any person either in town or country, unless to those that have paid for it, one year in advance.
In pleading before the court of Henrico against the King of Clubs, Mr. William Marshall observed that "The Recorder had the most extensive circulation of any newspaper in Virginia; and that there was never, perhaps, an instance of such an extensive patronage acquired by any other newspaper, in so short a time." This patronage has been acquired by exposing, with an impartial hand, the faults of all parties.
There never was more occasion for political vigilance than, at present. As the bible says, there is DEATH in the pot. There exists an atrocious conspiracy against the liberty of the press, and, of course, against the liberty of the people. This can be doubted by nobody that has heard of Croswell's trial, on which we have enlarged at so much length.
Again, the right of selecting their own magistrates has in effect, been torn from a majority of the citizens of Richmond, by a phalanx of democratical oligarchs.
Take notice, also, of what follows. In last session of assembly, Mr. Venable proposed a declaratory resolution that the truth shall be given in evidence in cases of libel. This resolution was, for that time, defeated by Peter Carr, the correspondent, such as he was, of general Washington,* and the confidential agent and nephew of Thomas Jefferson. There can be no doubt that Peter, like his apostolical namesake, was inspired from ABOVE. Richmond, March 23. 1803.
RICHMOND MILLS.
THE subscriber hereby informs the public, that at length, after much trouble and expense, he has nearly completed one of his Mills on the James River Canal, in which there are two pair of Burr stones for manufacturing WHEAT, and two pair of Cologne stones now ready to grind CORN.
That the inconveniences which might arise from delay and difference of measures may be avoided, CORN will be received only by weight, at fifty pounds to the bushel, and a supply of MEAL and HOMINY will always be kept ready to give in exchange, at the rate of eighty-five pounds of Meal, or ninety-two pounds of Hominy, for one hundred pounds of Corn.
After the loss of weight by cleaning, and evaporation in grinding is deducted, the toll on Meal will be only about one tenth, and on Hominy one twentietth; it will, therefore, be much to the interest of those who keep horses, to have all their Corn ground.
As the subscriber is now providing a Fan and Screen for the purpose of cleaning the Corn effectually before it is ground, and as the Meal will be made from the best Corn only, and none but such as is merchantable will be received; he hopes that general satisfaction will be given.
THOMAS RUTHERFOORD.
N. B. The deduction for Storage and Shrinkage on Corn, deposited to be exchanged for Meal and Hominy, will be made as moderate as possible. January 1, 1803.
TO BE RENTED,
THAT large and convenient BRICK TENEMENT in this city, lately occupied by Mr. Robert Turner, as a Tavern and Boarding-House, situate on the corner of the Main-Street, and that leading to Col. Mays's Bridge. The central situation thereof cannot fail (if rented by a gentleman qualified for the purpose) to ensure a considerable number of respectable boarders: or, it is an eligible residence for a genteel private family. The premises may be entered, on the first day of March next, or immediately, as circumstances may suit; for terms apply to
ROBERT GAMBLE
Who has for sale a handsome assortment of CARPETS and CARPETING, and genuine PORTWINE, in pipes and quarter casks.
BURR MILL-STONE MANUFACTORY.
THE subscriber takes this mode of returning his thanks to his former patrons, and informing the public in general, that he has (by desire of his friends) re-commenced the MANUFACTURING of BURR MILL-STONES, and having furnished himself with a supply of the best materials, and having had sixteen years experience in the business in Baltimore, Petersburg, and Richmond, hopes to be able to give satisfaction to his employers. The stones he will warrant to be as good as any in the United States.
Any orders left with Capt. WILLIAM PENNOCK, Norfolk; Capt. WILLIAM CHAMBERS, Staunton; Mr. WILLIAM HAY, Wythe County; or Mr. ROBERT MOORE, Petersburg, shall be duly attended to, and country produce received in payment at the customary prices.
TWO APPRENTICES will be taken to the above business, and short time required. WILLIAM DAVIDSON. Richmond, Jan. 10th 1803.
N. B. For sale, PLAISTER of PARIS, in stone or ground, for the improvement of land, with directions for the use thereof.
FRESH FLOUR.
THE subscribers hereby give notice, that they are now ready to make Sales of FLOUR of their own manufacture, and are also desirous to purchase Wheat, Corn, Flour-Barrels, and Staves.
Such as may want a supply of Meal, Hominy, S is-Staff, and Bran, are informed that they can be supplied at certain prices during the year, and that for the present quarter, ending the last of March, the prices will be for 50 lbs. Meal, 3s. and 6d. and for 50 lbs. Hominy, 3s. 3d.
They hereby solicit all those indebted to them, to make payment as fast as possible, as their situation does not enable them to grant such indulgence as heretofore.
They have still on hand a large assortment of IRISH LINENS, which they are anxious to dispose of.
THOMAS RUTHERFOORD, & CO.
Feb. 16th. 1803.
CITY OF RICHMOND,
In Cannon Hall, Jan. 17th 1803.
WHEREAS the present funds of the corporation are not adequate to the expense of erecting a WORKHOUSE for the city, which would combine within itself all the conveniencies which a well regulated institution of this kind would require; having a regard to the future population of this city, yet it is wise and expedient that the funds now destined for this useful institution should be laid out in such a manner as to answer the present purposes of the corporation, and to admit such future additions as the increasing population may require. Your Committee, therefore, beg leave to recommend it to the consideration of the Common Hall, to call in the aid of those who have experience of such institutions, and to offer a premium for the best plan of a Workhouse, which will be so contrived as to admit of being erected in parts, as the funds of the corporation will from time to time afford.
Resolved, therefore, that the committee appointed to prepare a plan of a Workhouse be discharged from further proceeding therein. And that the Mayor be requested to give notice in the newspapers, or otherwise, that the sum of thirty dollars will be given by the corporation, as a premium to the person who shall produce to the Hall, on the third Monday in February next, the best plan of a Workhouse, constructed as above mentioned, and to be approved of by the Hall, estimating the cost at four thousand dollars.
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ADAM CRAIG, c. c. h.
BURR MILL-STONE MANUFACTORY.
THE subscriber returns sincere thanks to his friends and the public generally, for the very great encouragement he received in his line of business since his commencement in Richmond. He has lately received a large supply of excellent Burr-Stones at his manufactory, and does not hesitate to say, that he will sell Burr Mill-Stones as cheap as they were ever sold in the United States; he will warrant them to be of the best quality, and give ample security (if required) for their performance. Country produce will be taken in payment, or a short credit given; he has almost every sized Mill-Stone ready for delivery; also PLAISTER of PARIS ground and in the stone.
CARSON HOLIDAY. Richmond, Jan. 25th, 1803. (t.f.)
VIRGINIA.
AT a court continued and held for Halifax County, on Wednesday the 24th day of November 1802.
Isaac Coles, senr. Plaintiff AGAINST Stephen Biggs and James Snead, Defendants. In Chancery
THE defendant Biggs, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country. On the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the fourth Monday in March next, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the court house of this county. A copy—Test BERRYMAN GREEN. S. C. R. C.
NEGROES.
ANY person wishing to dispose of likely Negroes are requested to enquire at William David's store, near the market. Wanted, also, a light WAGON, with, or without gears. Richmond, March 23d. 1803.
TO THE PUBLIC.
MANY gentlemen residing in states north of this, have addressed letters to us, to send them the Recorder; and requested we would name any person in Philadelphia, or New York, where they could send their subscription money. We take this opportunity of informing the public, that Mr. Lewis, paper-maker, at Philadelphia, will receive any subscriptions sent for the Recorder, and Mr. Coleman, printer of the New York Herald, at New York.
TO THE PUBLIC.
NO. VIII.
CONCERNING
MR. GALLATIN,
AND THE SALE OF
BANK STOCK.
THERE are many men, who make a noise and figure in the world, pass for scholars and politicians, who are totally unqualified to think for themselves. Their opinions upon all important questions will coincide with those which are adopted by the majority of the party to which they belong. If they have sufficient talents to defend the opinion which has been dictated by another, they are content. And although occasionally the glimmerings of their own reason, or a sudden torrent of truth will tempt them to doubt, they think that giving way to either will tarnish their own ephemeron reputations. How many are there, who reading this, will not find themselves almost ready to say, this is an undeniable truth; the writer surely means me; who has told him? who is he? The world is so full of tattling and mischief, that a man has no way to escape, but to be silent. Not so, let every man read and reflect, let him remember that human life itself is a tissue of blunders, and mistakes, that we are governed and influenced by passions; and that the passion of possessing and exercising power, is among the most dangerous. It is more apt to hurry its votaries, or rather its victims into the arms of vice than any other. A miserable object of want and woe is sometimes driven from these causes to convert his neighbour's property to his own use; the community rises in vengeance against him; the law lets loose all its attendants, and the triumph of justice, order, and government is established by the destruction of a pigmy.
On the other hand, a man; who, by circumstances had been placed beyond the compensations of such a situation, feels to be great; to have a name; to have power; to regulate, or to stop the wheels of government, he contrives to convulse a whole district; arms, devastation, fire and death ensue, and these are succeeded by the organization of an army, which is marched into the refractory district. The author of the mischief withdraws from the scenes of danger and risk. He has done enough. Madness, folly, and enthusiasm have commenced their reign; and the minor agents of the insurrectionary drama, are left to face its storms, to bear its dangers, and to suffer the consequent punishment. After a while, the
scene changes, calm is restored, the culprits are pardoned. The author of these matches and disgraces then plays a higher and more extensive game. The whole country is misled. He is selected as a political Messiah. He is courted and countenanced by the deluded public, and is exalted to the head of affairs. Gracious heaven! Is this true, or is it a delusion?
In searching for the truths which are connected with this strange revolution, we lose ourselves in a wilderness of difficulties; the enquiry is neither satisfied nor closed. The mind must find its way through the labyrinth of uncertainty and perplexity. And we must be content to act upon such facts as occur.
It is an honest, but an arduous task, to extricate a whole community, embracing an extent of 1500 miles, from the trammels of delusion. There was much to do before the main battery could be attacked. All the outposts, such as the Aurora, and the National Intelligencer, were first to be either silenced, or exposed. This has been done. The columns of the Aurora, at this time, are as feeble, and as ineffective as the chirping of a sparrow, and a man must be all credulity, who can rely upon the National Intelligencer. The cheveaux de frises and all other obstructions are removed; the artillery of public accusation can now be brought to bear upon the great Leviathans of political error and mischief, and universal justice, detestation and vengeance can demand and enforce their political downfall and expulsion. The parasites and flatterers, by whose aid and folly, their popularity has been raised and supported, will not stick to a wreck which may hurry them to destruction. They will unite with the discontented, and endeavour to obtain a new patronage, by exposing the foibles and faults of the present rulers. Then it will be that the trump of truth will be sounded throughout the land. And every tongue will repeat in terms of detestation, madness, and revenge, not only all which they know, but all which the reaction of a false popularity will suggest.
With respect to Albert Gallatin, I have weighed and analyzed him, and he is found wanting. Methinks I see him at this moment trembling and starting at every sound, dreading that the next sentence will say all that he fears. Have I not said enough? Do not his public deeds speak in thunder? Does not the innocent blood which was shed in the Pennsylvania riots speak terrors to his soul? Do not the bloody tracks of the honest militia men, who returned from the military poor houses, billeted, moneyless, and friendless, destitute of everything except misery, speak to his heart? This is a soft apostrophe, but if none of these things can arrest his idolaters, what shall be said for the 1,500,000 dollars which were lost, for ever lost ingloriously, and ignominiously lost, in that most disgraceful and degrading project, in which his partisans did, indeed, in a considerable degree, stop "the wheels of government."
Fellow citizen, whoever thou art, I ask you to read again, and as you read, remember, that the Albert Gallatin, concerning whom I have said all this, is the secretary of the treasury of the United States, the same who lately sold the bank stock for 120,000 dollars less than his fellow citizens would have given, the same who tells you that the whole mercantile and other capital and credit of this extensive and flourishing country was not equal to so small an object.
The same who was the secretary of the self-organized meeting which opposed and resolved to counteract the operations of their lawful government.
The same, who opposed with vehemence and clamour a compensation for Mr. Wolcott as secretary of the treasury, which salary he now enjoys in his own person.
The same who brags about the overflowing treasury, about the resources of the country, who never gave a vote, or any other aid to produce one dollar into the treasury. (The sale of the bank stock, at less than its value, excepted!)
The same who, with unvarying step, opposed every measure of the government, under the former administrations, which promised to contribute either to public credit, national honor or safety.
Who is this that has dared to profane the temple of democracy to drag the high priest of the order from the consecrated altar, and to expose him to the indignation and contempt of an injured and deluded people? Thousands of tongues have echoed and will re-echo this question. The partisans of the grand Lama

of democratic delusion are ready to break down the barriers of social right and order; they are ready to cry vengeance and destruction to him who has dared to lay prostrate at his feet, and to hold over their fallen Messiah, in one hand, a garland of triumph in the other, a rod of correction, which have been decreed to him by the united voices of truth, reason, virtue and justice; who has scourged with severity, and who now ceases to exercise the irresistible superiority which he possesses, because he knows that enough has been said to convince and confirm the judgements of the candid, and because he knows also that the lazy, the ignorant, the obdurate, the factious, and the intriguing, have shut their eyes and their ears against the most demonstrable truths; nor would they be convinced though they were to be admitted in the thunder of heaven, or from the tombs of those departed heroes and patriots, to whom America is indebted for her rank as a nation.
Oh, destructive, deluding, incorrigible blindness, and madness! But here I will stop, at least, for the present, lest I become frantic and delirious at the prospect. And why not stop? Have I not taken the bull by the horns? Have I not cast him upon his back? Have I not exposed him at the altar of truth, and arraigned him at the bar of public justice? Have I not bound him with cords, which are too strong for his strength, so that every Lilliputian who passes by may give him a blow.
The day approaches when it will be told in all the terms of irritation, that it was Gallatin whose conduct greatly contributed to the Pennsylvania insurrection, which deluded, and led the ignorant and misjudging people to the riotous and destructive deeds, that terminated in ruin, devastation, fire, and death; and robbed our treasury of fifteen hundred thousand dollars.
It was Gallatin who raised an outcry against the salary of his predecessor; and yet has accepted and enjoys it himself, in all the pride and insolence of success.
It was Gallatin who countenanced that junto which made garbled extracts from the treasury books, for the purpose of destroying the confidence of the public in his virtuous predecessor.
It was Gallatin, who deluded the public into the belief, or countenanced the opinion that the honest and meritorious Pickering, had defrauded them of more than half a million of dollars, at the very time when he knew that the whole was a deliberate falsehood.
It was Gallatin who has offered an insult and an open calumny upon the whole mercantile character, capital, and credit of the merchants of this country, because it was the only alternative, by which he could offer an excuse, for one of the most indefensible public transactions, which ever did exist in the fiscal or financial operations of any government, which either had resources or credit. I mean the secret sale or rather sacrifice of the bank stock, when there were, as he said, millions of idle dollars in the treasury.
Public credit! Albert Gallatin, the father, the protector, the guardian of public credit! So say the disciples of this Messiah. Oh tell it not in Gath! Surely this cannot be the same Gallatin who fomented the Pennsylvania insurrection, who accepts, as a salary what he laid was too much for his predecessor who culminated the honest and upright, to make room for himself, whose motto and universal practice continued so long to be, to stop the wheels of the government, when the most illiterate of men, the father of his country, the great, the glorious, the immortal Washington, presided, directed and advised.
Yes, it is the same Gallatin it is he who now prates about public credit; who has done his utmost to destroy every good and glorious principle of that government, who has left stains upon it, which ages will never obliterate, whose deeds will continue to tarnish the American character, until time, thought, memory, shall all sink, and be lost in an eternal oblivious chaos, and even the great globe itself shall crumble into atoms, and leave not a wreck behind.
FEDERALIST.
(Concluded.)
To Mr. JOHN CLOPTON,
Member of Congress.
No. XI.
SIR,
TEN letters have been published in this paper addressed to you, and one to the public, concerning you, which appeared during the session of Congress. These letters contained a good deal of plain dealing and some severity. It was expected by many people, though I confess, not by me, that you would have answered them. I knew, and so did you, that there was little or no room for an answer; and common sense, or rather self preservation taught you to adopt the submissive and obedient system which you appear to have pursued.
It was expected by me, that your circular letter, which would appear about
the end of the late session, would be written with more caution, that you would, in this way, shew your repentance for the deceptive tendencies of all your former letters. The circular has appeared. One is now before me; and you have pursued the same course. You have published a whole paragraph of untruth. When I am assailing your political character, which only I have heretofore attacked, it is not necessary to say anything concerning the immorality of such conduct, nor will it avail you, if your partisans should say that it has proceeded from a mistake. As a politician, and as a writer upon political questions, a man ought to have a sufficient capacity for judging. To the community it is the same, whether an injury proceeds from weakness, or from wickedness, from incapacity, or injustice.
The paragraph to which I allude, is as follows:
"The financial department presents a theme for our admiration. The amount of duties arising from imports and tonnage exhibits a view of the commerce of the United States, scarcely less astonishing, than it is pleasing, to observe its great extent. Here our attention is drawn to that source of revenue, to mark its flourishing state and its progressive increase. Great as it has been at former periods, it is found to be greater at the present. It affords a fund so large that the government has been thereby enabled, in the course of the last year, to discharge considerably more than five millions of dollars of the principal of the public debt; to defray all its current expenses, and to meet all its exigencies; yet leaving in the treasury between four and five millions of dollars, for a further application to those objects. These salutary effects have been produced without internal taxes of any kind; and furnish incontrovertible evidence that the objection, raised by a part of the community against the repeal of those taxes at the late session, proceeded from groundless apprehensions, and was the anticipation of a censure, now drawn to be unmerited. From the revenue, therefore, so lately to be counted upon, as a permanent result from our commerce, aided by a perseverance in those maxims of economy, and that spirit of frugality, which may be justly laid to characterize the administration of the government, we may, with confidence anticipate ourselves on the fair prospect of a total extinguishment of the public debt at a period not far distant, should the pacific system pursued by the government meet with no interruption. This is a circumstance greatly to be desired—highly important to the completion of national happiness."
Although when your former circular letter was published, you might not have foreseen that the repeal of the taxes, or something else would oblige, or induce your Messiah to sell the bank stock, and that he would be so much oppressed by circumstances, as to make a sacrifice of 120,000 dollars in the sale, yet this was not the case when you wrote the letter which is now before me. The sale of the bank stock, and the sale of land amounted to about two millions of dollars, to get which, 120,000 were lost. How, then, have you the effrontery to say to your constituents, that our revenues had increased, so as to afford a fund so large, that the government has been thereby enabled, in the course of the last year to discharge considerably more than five millions of dollars of the principal of the public debt? What right had you to withhold from them, the important information that the bank stock had been sacrificed and was gone forever? or that a great deal was received from the sale of land? or that a great deal of the money concerning which you boast, has been received from those very taxes which have been repealed? or, that you with other members of your own tenets, have given two millions of dollars to the president, to be disposed of as he pleases? Is this the spirit of frugality and economy of which you boast so much?
I two thousand two hundred and twenty shares in the bank of the United States which produced an annual revenue of about seventy thousand dollars have
been sacrificed for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars loss, for the purpose of getting a large sum of money in the treasury, and then Congress, (I mean Mr. Clopton, and other economists like him,) have passed a resolution that the president should dispose of two millions of those dollars as he pleases. This is a good way to pay the public debt! This is pretty economy! This is great frugality! It is like the prudence of a spendthrift, who sells his estate to discharge his gambling debts, and for the purpose of having a little ready money takes three fourths of its value.
As to the rest of your letter, it is filled with common place remarks which have been written, published, and repeated in ten thousand times ten thousand ways, long before you were born, and you might as well, perhaps better, have copied a few pages from the whole Duty of Man , as a circular letter; all that you can pretend to say, which can apply to your official character, is deceptions, and has been just now exposed, the last sentence excepted. In that you say, that you are willing to accept again the honor of being elected by the district as a member of Congress. In this you are intelligible, and provided you succeed in that it is most likely, that your next letter will embrace the sermon which Christ preached on the mount, the ten commandments; for something else which was very well known before.
FEDERALIST.
STALLLED BEEVES,
Muttons, and 15000 weight of choice Bacon, FOR SALE.
FOR cash, or respectable merchants notes at sixty days. I can furnish a purchaser with seventy as fat bullocks as any in the state, perhaps not quite so large boned as the cattle from the South Branch of the Potomac, but equally fat. In preference I would sell them on the spot were they are stalled, but will drive them to Norfolk, Richmond, or Petersburg, if previously engaged by a butcher, or any other person inclined to buy, and as it may not be convenient, to take, or pay for the whole at one time, a purchaser may have any part not less than ten if taken here, but if driven by my own people, they must all go at one time. I have also a number of exceeding fat muttons, and 15000 weight of choice bacon, the hams salt-petred with particular care, and the whole made out of large fat hogs, and intended for the use of private families. Letters, post-paid, directed to me by mail to MARSHALLSVILLE, MECKLENBURG county shall be duly noticed.
WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, for Sir PEYTON SKIPWITH, Baronet.
The RECORDER. RICHMOND.
MARCH 30th. 1803.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
ALARM.
ON Monday morning last, the citizens were alarmed with the firing of a series of minute guns, that is mourning guns. We say mourning, because every body knows that when guns are fired at so long an interval, this is their denomination. When fired at shorter intervals, they are considered as rejoicing guns. We understand that they were fired by the democrats to announce their approaching festival. What right have thirty or sixty people to disturb the whole city with their noise and nonsense? The fire bell was not rung; and the citizens are, perhaps, indebted to our former hints, for the omission of this nuisance.
MORE GEORGE HAYS.
ON Monday evening last, two persons came to this office enquiring for one of the editors. They threatened to set the house on fire, and threw a large stone at two of the young men belonging to the office. Mulets were brought, and the fellows were followed into the street, where three of their companions were waiting for them. The names of the two first are known. A proper inquiry will be made about their fellows. This is your republican liberty of the press.
TO THE PUBLIC.
ON the 12th of March, 1803, commenced the Saturday's Recorder, the price being two dollars per annum, paid in advance. We shall often be unavoidably compelled to continue long articles from one paper to the other, so that the subscribers to the Wednesday's Recorder will find it extremely convenient to take the Saturday's likewise, in order that they may have articles always in their full and complete form. We shall now be able to take notice of a wide variety of foreign and domestic news, which we formerly were obliged to leave out for want of room. In doing this, we shall be particularly careful to select such articles as wear a serious appearance of authenticity, and are really worth reading. More cannot be demanded, and we shall endeavour not to do less. The three first numbers of the Saturday's paper were sent round to all our subscribers. After that, they will be sent only to those who, in the mean time, have remitted money to pay for their new subscription. From those who do not chuse to take the Saturday's papers, these three numbers will be deducted in reckoning up their year.
MARCH 21st, died at Cannons, near Charles City, Mr. William Harris of Cannons, much and justly regretted. He lived the life of the righteous, and his last end was like his.
THE EXAMINER
VERSUS Dr. ADAMS.
WITH a view to recommend and promote the election of major Duval, as the Richmond delegate to the assembly, Mr. Jones has fallen foul upon the character of Dr. Adams. The Doctor is loaded with the most outrageous scurrility that can be imagined. One or two persons in Richmond were hurt at the freedom which we took with captain Mitchel; but it was nothing, when compared with the unrelenting fury of Mr. Jones. These people think that the captain and his fellow conspirators were entitled to make a job division of the city into wards, and to rob the citizens of their freedom of suffrage; but all this is a trifle, it seems, compared with the guilt of Dr. Adams. They think that the Recorder had no title to take a peep at this enormity. They think that the captain was authorised to come into this office, to damn one of the editors for a rascal, and to demand who gave him information.* They think that an independent and impartial editor would have put all this insolence in his pocket; and that the freedom of the press should have walked in procession at the funeral of the freedom of election. As we thought quite otherwise than these gentlemen, we acted, as usual, upon our own bottom; and for severity of language we can now produce the splendid sanction of the Examiner. His little finger is, in this instance, thicker than the Recorder's loins.
The attack commences with a remark that the doctor is an avowed aristocrat. The republicans condemned John Adams for building so large a navy. Dr. Adams condemns Mr. Jefferson for his project of a dry dock to split and destroy it. Duane, that republican gem, reviled John Adams for letting James Ross have the distribution of five hundred dollars of secret service money. Dr. Adams condemns congress for letting Mr. Jefferson have FOUR THOUSAND TIMES that sum in the very same shape. The Republicans condemned the sedition act. Dr. Adams condemns Ambrose Spencer, and his advocate the Examiner, for wanting to bind over the press, and for saying that truth shall not be given in evidence. The aristots wanted to demolish the Examiner's office. George
NOTE.
* The information came from an advertisement signed by the captain himself, and printed in the Examiner.
† The latter has since found it convenient to deny that he ever defended Spencer's doctrine, as to refusing truth in evidence.

May knocked down Callender. John Adams paid wages for three years, to the captains of frigates, that were still growing in the swamps of Georgia. The republicans pay Jones fifteen hundred dollars as public printer, for doing nothing. The aristos wasted immense sums upon buildings in the Federal City. The republicans are sinking an hundred and fifty, or two hundred thousand dollars, upon a Richmond armory; and after sinking, and setting aside that sum, they can buy muskets cheaper or at least quite as cheap, as they can make them. The aristos built the Crescent frigate. The republicans built the penitentiary. General Lee and the aristos, in the Swan tavern, drank the health of Suwarow. Dr. Shore, and the democrats of Petersburg, drank to the murder of the first consul. Which of these two toasts was precisely the most infamous, we shall not attempt to say; but, with such a comparative retrospect, the Doctor can lose very little by the accusation of being an aristocrat.
The picture of Dr. Adams, as drawn by the Examiner, has no more resemblance to the original than colonel Heth, on the walls of Quebec, had to the fugitive on Carter's mountain. The Examiner objects to the election of Dr. Adams. He was elected by men, who possess nine tenths of all the wealth and property in Richmond. "He has been taken," says this writer, "from the pestle and the mortar, to the cañon, and from making boluses, he has been sent to make laws." Where did the democrats find Dr. Poffee, and his son, the new commissioner of division? Was it not at the pestle and the mortar? The Doctor is then attacked for his behaviour in the affair of the public printer. In next Saturday's paper, a part of the attack will be republished with a commentary. The Examiner says, that "six days were employed in considering this question;" viz. about the salary of the public printer . We have examined the journals; and, in the face of Richmond, we offer to bet him twenty dollars against ten that he has affirmed A DIRECT FALSEHOOD.
He farther says that "there were at no time so many as an hundred and ten members, who voted upon this question." The journals printed by the Examiner himself, expressly contradict this false. The business came before the house on January 19th and occasioned a division of eighty one members against seventy two. This makes an hundred and fifty three votes. Yet the Examiner says that there never were so many as an hundred and ten votes. The 19th of January was not exclusively employed upon this affair. On the 23d, the matter came again before the house, and an hundred and twenty six members voted. On the 25th, there was another division, wherein an hundred and forty two members voted. On the 26th, the house, by a majority of fifty four against fifty three, fixed the salary at two thousand dollars. Of the four divisions here mentioned, the last is the only one, where the number of voters dwindled to less than an hundred and ten, and we are told that this diminution happened, because the public printer's friends began to be ashamed of the part which they were acting. WE OFFER TO BET THE EXAMINER AN HUNDRED DOLLARS AGAINST TEN,
NOTE.
This affair has cost about an hundred thousand dollars, less or more. It has cost a greater sum than the value of all the depredations committed, or to be committed by its inhabitants, for the first ten years from its institution. A chief steals an hundred dollars, and for the improvement of his morals, you put him into an house that is worth twenty or thirty thousand dollars, and that has cost an hundred thousand. Thus the country is doubly plundered, first by the thief, and then by the legislature. Whipping and hanging were quite as efficacious, and much more merciful. Is it wonderful that the people beyond the mountains are out of all patience at such absurdities?
THAT, FOR THE SAKE OF CALUMNIATING DOCTOR ADAMS, HE HAS, INTENTIONALLY AND CROSSED MISQUOTED, AND FALSIFIED THE JOURNALS OF ASSEMBLY, THAT WERE PRINTED BY HIMSELF!
If any one of our Richmond subscribers can be so idle as to question this fact, he is most earnestly requested to call at this office, where he shall with his own eyes, peruse those journals of assembly.
In this piece, some reflections have been cast upon Mr. Thomas H. Wooding. His behaviour upon the public printing question does him the highest honor. We had formerly stated that the assembly, if they did their duty, if they acted for their constituents, as they would have acted for themselves, must have put Mr. Jones out of the way. Their business was to have called for the account of Mr. Dickson, who really performs the work. His bill they should have paid, and not one farthing more. As we are informed, Mr. Wooding got hold of these accounts, and found that Mr. Dickson received twelve hundred dollars for doing the business, while Mr. Jones pocketed the odd fifteen hundred for doing nothing. Mr. Nicholson and Mr. Pace successively offered to the assembly to do the public printing, the one to perform it for twelve hundred and twelve dollars, and the other for twelve hundred. They are both in solvent circumstances. They are equally unacquainted with the visits of a dun, and the visitations of a constable. If they had offered to execute the work for a single sixpence per annum, it was the first duty of the assembly, to have accepted of their donation. Citizens! When will you begin to see that, in the present era, republican principles mean nothing more than impunity in robbing the people ?
(To be Concluded in Saturday's paper)
The Examiner is strictly and wisely silent respecting the conduct of the commissioners for dividing the city. He well knows that these men have lost all title to public confidence, and all chance of possessing it. He has, likewise, been silent as to his utter inconsistency in the case of Croswell . He first defended the prosecution; and, when that post was no longer tenable, he faced to the right about, and asserted his abhorrence of the principle upon which the indictment was conducted. We then enquired whether he did not likewise abhor Ambrose Spencer, the republican cat's paw, that drew up this indictment? To this question, the Examiner neither could nor durst make an answer. In a word, he struck his colours, as he has since done about the division of the wards.
But his Protean abilities have now come forward in a new shape. Pelepidas fills more than three columns of the Examiner of the 26th. Major Duval is recommended as a proper representative for the city. In the threshold of this discussion, (for discussed the subject shall be,) we beg leave to remark that Major Duval is a sworn officer under the federal government. He is therefore unqualified to occupy a seat in the assembly. Last year, Mr. Moodie of Williamsburg, was deprived of his seat in the legislature, because he had a contract with Gideon Granger for carrying the mail. At the same time, Granger was threatening, as Mr. Moodie himself told us, to turn him out of his contract, because he was a federalist. Yet Arthur Lee of Norfolk, was suffered to keep his seat in the house, although he had entered into a contract, with the federal government, for a quantity of timber. In plain English, Moodie was turned out of the house because he did not approve of Mr. Jefferson's paste-board tender of five hundred pounds to the grandfather of the president's new private secretary; and Arthur Lee was on the contrary kept in, because he admired the bludgeon of George Hay, and went all sorts of lengths in vindication of him. Whether the republicans of Norfolk will degrade themselves by chusing Arthur Lee again, a few weeks will discover.
By the principle upon which Moodie was rejected, Duval should be rejected, likewise. But, upon the principle by which Lee kept his seat, Duval should keep his. It might turn the stomach of a dog to hear all this chatter about principle.
Some years ago, captain Mitchell threw up the Examiner, as it seems that he was not then a republican. In other words, he was not then connected with the Jefferson party. We apprehend that Major Duval did the same thing. He disapproved of the warmth of Mr. Jones. Indeed it was not till we, the re-
publicans, had gained the victory that it was possible to tell on what side the old gentleman was. Advice of this on Saturday.
If a wise man could seriously wish for the complete success of either of the two contending parties, he would sometimes be highly provoked by the absurd conduct of the editors upon his own side. For instance, the Recorder kept out of all political squabbles till out of more wantonness, Duane attacked us. By this, he did more harm to his cause than he will ever do it service. In the course of the dispute, Duane has got himself heartily drubbed; while the Recorder has six times more subscribers than it had when we began with him. In the same struggle, Jefferson has lost fifty per cent of his popularity. So much for the prudence and generalship of Duane. The president has no great cause to thank him, for last summer's work. He was much more at home, and much more successful, as a house-breaker, and mangler of public accounts.
On the other side, Bronson and some federalists are hardly better. While Callender was doing for them, what they could not, or durst not do for themselves, they were very graciously helping upon his name all the dirt, which they could rake together. And a long course of practice has rendered them extremely dexterous at this kind of employment. On the 18th of November, last, and after a very long series of provocation, the Recorder gave Bronson two columns. Bronson cut off a small part of the piece, to which he thought that he could make an answer, and candidly told his readers that the rest of the paper was not worth one . The passage that he quoted was of no consequence to any body, but himself, yet he thought it the only important part of the article. Even to this chosen part we gave him a reply sufficiently pointed, and mortifying, and to which he has never answered a single word. What did he expect to gain by attacking C. who was at that time doing much more service to the federal cause than himself? The grand object of Bronson was to demolish Jefferson. The undisputed anecdotes of Mrs. Walker and of Mr. Gabriel Jones, would of themselves have done more damage to the president before an impartial jury than all that ever the two Fennos and Bronson put together could culminate against him. But, because these matters came from The Recorder , and because Bronson was jealous of a new and rising paper, he suppressed details of infinite importance to the federal cause, lest the republication of them should help that paper. We ask his federal patrons what they think their cause has gained, or is likely to gain by Bronson's interfering, with C. and whether they do not see that he is ready to desert their interest, when it crosses the minutest atom, real or imaginary, of his own?
If the series of letters upon Gallatin and the sale of the bank stock , had been sent to Bronson instead of this office, he would have been very glad to publish them. The writer has placed this interesting subject in a very strong and clear point of view. We consider his letters as much more decisive against Gallatin's character than any thing or than all things, that we had ever read before. Every additional letter tells us some facts which we had never thought of, which are important, and which immediately convince us they are true. A general circulation of those valuable letters would fairly put the General under ground. But this circulation they will not get from the petty spirit of jealousy. Some of those editors would much rather see their cause sink, than keep it above water by the assistance of others. For our part, we always pick up a thing that we like, without caring a farthing where it comes from. We neither court nor fear a comparison with any publisher on the continent. With every man of sense, these letters, wherever they go, will finish Gallatin; and they shall go at least as far as we can send them.
Next Saturday's paper will contain an article of a very interesting nature, and on a very important subject. It is such an article as every man in Virginia will be curious to read. Our Saturday's subscribers will do well therefore to make haste and come in with their money; otherwise, they won't get their papers.
NEW-HOLLAND.
The English ship Lady Nelson, sent to explore the navigation of New-Holland, and survey its harbours, shoals, &c. has discovered that that country consists of two islands, this ship having actually sailed through the passage between them; entering on the eastern side a little to the southward of Botany-bay, and coming out on the western side near St. Peter's islands. The passage varied greatly in width, in some parts being quite narrow, and in others so wide as to be out of sight of land as they sailed along. The country in many parts exhibited marks of great fertility, though the western coast was barren and unin-
habited. The English colony at Botany-Bay flourishes in a surprising degree. A fertile soil, healthy climate, and habits of industry, have given a spring to the population. Towns are rising, composed of brick edifices, many of them in a high style of elegance, and expense. Such is the prosperity of the colony, that most of those who went out as convicts choose to remain there after the expiration of their time of banishment.
FROM THE AURORA.
THE endeavours made by the federalists in Kentucky to excite the people to insurrection, appear to be connected with the plan of operations laid down by Mr. Bots in the senate; and applauded by every minion on the Atlantic coast. The passions of the citizens of Kentucky are attempted to be worked up to acts not only of hostility to Spain, but of outrage against the general government of the union--the object of the federalists in making so much clamour about the western country has always been evident to us. They wish to overturn the present administration. This is every day becoming more and more convincing; they pretend to be the exclusive friends to that state which during Mr. Adams's administration was reviled by the faction. They wish it believed Mr. Jefferson is indifferent to their interests, and thus hope to gain friends, where they ought to find every man a foe.
THAT the wish of the federalists is to excite the people of Kentucky to insurrection cannot be doubted--in congress and out of it the desire has been avowed; it has been declared to be the only course to be pursued, and that there should be no delay--what are we to think of these things? Are the honor and safety of the union to be maintained, by a part of the union throwing off the obligations it is under to the rest? is this the showing respect for the constitution, for religion and the laws? or is it not in open hostility to all three to excite to a state of anarchy and confusion?
ITALIAN MAMMOTH.
About the end of last April, some coachmen who were employed in trenching a piece of ground belonging to the Petruini family, at a small distance from Rome, discovered the skeleton of an animal, which attracted their attention from the immense size of its bones. A bone of the leg which they measured, was two feet and four inches in circumference. They also found several teeth six inches long, and very much resembling those found in Siberia, and on the banks of the Ohio in America. By the acuteness of the workmen, this choice fragment of natural history was very near being entirely demolished. A part of it also, on exposure to the air, almost immediately dissolved into ashes. It is supposed that this skeleton belonged to one of that species of immense animals such as the Mammoth, which are now totally extinct, and can only be traced by the casual discovery of their enormous remains.
Monthly Mag. Sept. 1802
At a meeting of the Common Hall, for the city of Richmond, called by the Mayor, and held at the house of William Role, in the said city, on Sunday the 28th day of February, 1803. Resolved, that the Mayor give notice in the newspapers, that the Hall have adopted a plan for a POOR HOUSE, and will receive proposals from undertakers for building the same, at any time before the third Monday in next month. The plan is lodged in the hands of Mr. Robert B. James. The proposals must be made in writing.
A copy True
ADAM CRAIG, a. c. h. c. k.
THE SUBSCRIBERS
TO the Washington Federalist are respectfully informed, that I am empowered by Mr. William Rand, to receive payment of the balances due to him in this city, and neighbourhood.
THOMAS TAYLOR.
Vendee Master.
Richmond, Feb. 26th. 1803.

American Intelligence.
BOSTON, March 3.
FROM CAPE FRANCOIS, Feb. 9.
As all the bad news which goes from this island is generally very much exaggerated, I embrace with pleasure an opportunity direct for Boston, to give you an account of the affair which happened a few days past on the mountains directly back of the Cape. About the 5th inst. it was reported in town that the brigands were collecting in the mountains, and intended then to attack and enter the Cape, the report was looked upon as absurd (feeling ourselves strong,) consequently not attended to. The 5th instant, at about three in the morning, we were awaked by the fire of the muiquetry, and soon discovered that the brigands had attacked the habitation of Meheys, where there was a small post, and two other places equally near to the town. Meheys and De Prie were soon set fire to; but no more mischief was done, except the loss of one officer and three or four men on our side; the brigands then fled, and have not been seen in the mountains since.
The next morning, about the same time, our troops of the line only made a force into the plain with the dragoons of the Cape, met the main body of the brigands, commanded by Clerveaux and Christophe, gave them battle, and completely routed them. Upwards of 200 blacks were found dead upon the field; we had fifteen or twenty wounded, and very few killed. A captain of horse in the general's garde-honneur, wounded Clerveaux in single combat, and would have taken him but for a musket ball which struck him in the groin and threw him from his horse. Gen. Rochambeau left here about ten days ago, with about 2000 fresh troops, which will doubtless stop the progress which the brigands are making in the south.
We are in daily expectation of very large reinforcements that have failed from different parts of France. General Rochambeau is indefatigable in his exertions, very brave, and his name alone is terrible to the blacks. While he was here with less force than we now have, we saw nothing of the enemy. Since our arrestation, the American commerce has been put on the same footing as the French, except only higher import duty; and we have been repaid the money we were forced to lend.
March 11.
A gentleman from Essexport Maine , informs us, that on the 24th ult. the house of Mr. Prince, a respectable merchant (lately of Newburyport,) took fire while the family were asleep, and in a few minutes was entirely consumed with its contents. Mr. Prince and a son and daughter perished in the fire. He lost his life in attempting to save his children.
The legislature of Nova Scotia have enacted, that any person convicted of stealing from any vessel wrecked on the coast of that province or the Isle of Sable, or of obstructing any person of such vessel in attempting to save his life, shall suffer death. They have also declared it felony, without benefit of clergy, for any person wilfully to call away or destroy a vessel.
In 1788, Connecticut owed 1,500,000 dollars and had not a cent in her treasury. In 1802, she is free of debt, has 417,294 dollars U.S. stock, 36,596 dollars in cash in the treasury, and a school fund of 1,242,300 dollars. Connecticut has been thus ruined by its federalism.
[Think of this, man of Virginia!]
NEW-YORK, March 15.
On Sunday evening, about half after 8 o'clock, as Mrs. Jones was passing up Pine-street, a Negro fellow rushed from the avenue or alley, about four doors from her own dwelling, and two doors from William-street, knocked her down, attempted to steal her um-
brella, and broke her arm in a shocking manner, with which she now lies in the most excruciating pain. The fellow immediately escaped, as there was no person in the street.
ALBANY, March 9.
A court of oyer and terminer was held in the county of Ontario, on the 21st ult. This court was directed to be held principally for the trial of George, a Seneca Indian, charged with the murder of John Hewit. This Indian was indicted, tried, convicted and condemned to be executed on the 5th of April next. We understand that there appeared on the trial extenuating circumstances, and that the murder was not as has been represented, a wanton and unprovoked one. We learn that the grand jury of the county have unanimously signed a petition, praying the legislature to pardon the unfortunate convict.
NEWARK, (N. Jersey,) March 3.
Let us reflect, that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we continue a political intolerance, as despotic as wicked, and capable of as wicked and bloody persecutions. "
JEFFERSON'S INAUGURAL SPEECH. ANOTHER PROSECUTION.
ON Thursday last, the sheriff of this county waited upon the editor of this paper with another writ, at the suit of William S. Pennington for an alleged libel, damages laid at one Thousand Dollars. This is the FOURTH prosecution of the same kind that has been instituted against us, in conformity to an organized plan, within the last two months, and all at the suits of individuals of that very party who were once so loud in their complaints against political persecution! Who shall complain of persecution now?
PHILADELPHIA, March 15.
[NOT TRUE.]
The following information is contained in a Charleston paper of the 8th instant. "The following article of intelligence is written upon the margin of a Savannah paper, of Thursday last, addressed to this city."
"An express is said to be arrived in this city, 17 days over land from Pensylvania, announcing the arrival of the French troops, say 4000, under the command of General Victor, at Louisiana."
BALTIMORE, March 15.
A young man calling himself J. J. Irvine, underwent an examination this morning at the courthouse, for uttering a bill of exchange, purporting to be drawn by John Hamilton, (British consul in Norfolk) upon the right hon. the lords of the treasury, for 1201. sterling, which appearing to be a forgery, he was committed for a further hearing.
NORFOLK, March 15.
On Saturday last, an examining court was held on Higgins, who was charged with having attempted to set fire to his own house, when, after a full investigation, he was remanded for trial, at Suffolk district court.
FROM THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE.
There have not appeared, for a long time, two documents more interesting, or so curious, as the letter from the Marquis de Casa Yrujo to the secretary of state, and the letter from Mr. Pichon, charge des affaires of the French republic, to the governor of his catholic majesty in Louisiana, both published in this day's gazette.
The Spanish minister says in the first of these, that he always considered the conduct of the intendant of New-Orleans as flowing solely from his mistaken zeal; without the approbation and even without the knowledge of his court, and that he has now the satisfaction of informing us, that his opinion has been verified, and that the proclamation of the intendant was an act purely personal, and
even without the knowledge of his catholic majesty. He adds, that the intendant has declared this to be the case, in the most direct terms, in a letter of Jan. 15th, and that the governor of the province confirmed the same thing, with the same solemnity, in another letter of the same date. A copy of the intendant's proclamation he has sent to the secretary of state's office, along with this letter of the 10th of March.
Three questions must necessarily occur to every reader of the Marquis de Casa Yrujo's letter to Mr. Madison.
1st. Why has not the Spanish minister communicated the intendant's letter of the 15th January, as also the one from the governor of Louisiana, along with the proclamation? This certainly would have been more satisfactory to the executive of America. The United States were undoubtedly entitled to every information which the Spanish minister could give them on this head, and unless the intendant's, as well as the governor's letter, had contained some intelligence inimical to the interests of this country, the marquis de Casa Yrujo would unquestionably have made them public.
2dly. Why has not the intendant been more explicit in acquainting the Spanish minister as to his future intentions? He tells him the proclamation was an act of his own, without any orders from his court; but he does not condescend to inform him, whether he means to retract it, or to continue it in force.
3dly. Why has not the proclamation been translated and published before now? Mr. Madison received it on the 10th of March, and we hear nothing of it in the Intelligencer of the 16th instant. Had it consisted of an hundred folio pages, it might have been translated in six days time.
Pichon's letter furnishes room for much conjecture. It appears the marquis de Yrujo communicated to him the dispatches which he received, both from the intendant and the governor of Louisiana, although he carefully concealed them from the executive. The marquis de Yrujo says the intendant published the proclamation from a mistaken zeal for the interest of Spain; and Mr. Pichon tells the governor of Louisiana that it is notoriously public that France is the proprietor of the province, and not Spain. The intendant must certainly have known if this was the case, and if so, where was his zeal for the interest of his sovereign? But if the intendant were impressed with such a fervent zeal for the commerce of Spain, as the marquis de Yrujo would incline us to believe, how happens it that he never exhibited this zeal until Louisiana was ceded to France, altho' four years have elapsed since the expiration of the period for which the port of New-Orleans was by the treaty of 1795 allotted as a place of deposit to the citizens of the United States? There is an inconsistency and appearance of deceitful finesse both in the letter of the Spanish minister and Mr. Pichon, that must be obvious to every reader. Their letters, so far from affording us any satisfaction, seem to be instruments carefully framed for the purpose of lulling the executive asleep, until Bonaparte be master of New-Orleans, and the navigation of the Mississippi. This is the only inference which can possibly be drawn from a careful perusal of these documents, with which the friends of our president are at present so uplifted.
DIRTY! VERY DIRTY!
FROM THE TRENTON TRUE AMERICAN.
On Monday, last a scene was witnessed in this place, which, to the honor of our country, we believe has been hitherto unparalleled. It was acted by men calling themselves the "friends of order!"
Mr. Thomas Paine had arrived arrived on the Thursday before at Bordentown. On the Monday following, accompanied by col. Joseph Kirkbride, he came on in a chaise to this place, intending here to take a seat in the stage for New-York, where he was going in
haste to see Mr. Monroe, upon his embarkation for France. On their arrival in Trenton, they drove directly to gen. Bloomfield's, where they dined. After dinner, col. Kirkbride went to the stage office of capt. John Voorhies, to engage a passage for his friend to New-York. Capt. Voorhies candidly told him, "he'd be damn'd if Tom Paine should go in his stage," and gave as his reason, that Tom Paine was an infidel, or deist! Col. Kirkbride next went to the stage office of Mr. John Vandegrift, where he met with a like refusal, in similar language, for the same reason. Mr. Paine then concluded to go on to New-York in his chaise; and was accordingly just getting in, with col. Kirkbride, who was going with him to put him in the right road at the head of the town, when a large mob was perceived by the city tavern, and a drum began playing the rogue's march. Mr. Paine discovered not the least emotion of fear or anger, but calmly observed that such conduct had no tendency to hurt his feelings, or injure his fame, but rather gratified the one and contributed to the other. His friend and himself seated themselves in the chaise, and drove towards the crowd, which separated so as to let them thro', but endeavored to frighten the horse by the beating of the drum, swinging their hats, and hallooing. The horse betrayed a momentary terror, but immediately sprung forward, and carried his riders safe through. Col. Kirkbride accompanied Mr. Paine to the head of the town, and returned. Mr. Paine proceeded on to New-York, where he has since arrived.
The federalists did not suffer their persecution of Mr. Paine to end here. One of the most contemptible of the contemptible tools of federalism in this place, a being despicable for ignorance and depravity, wrote a letter to an inn-keeper or stage proprietor at New Brunswick, informing him of the treatment Paine had received in this place, and requesting him not to give him entertainment at his house, or a seat in his stage!—What would have been the conduct of the innkeeper alluded to if Mr. Paine had called on him, we know not; as Mr. Paine put up with an old and respectable friend, at whose house he had made his home, during a part of the revolution.
[Among the numerous and enormous fables concerning America, which Mr. Paine crowded into his Rights of Man , one of the most impudent was that, in this country, there is no such thing as that description of people called " The mob ." After his reception at Trenton, we hope that Mr. Paine will no longer stand to this wild assertion. His experience will attest that several of the states, and New Jersey among others, contain as great a proportion of mob , as any monarchy in the world. It must be a great comfort to the decent part of the readers of the democrats , to see that the federal junto is honoured with a rabble that deserve to be ranked along side of counsellor Bludgeon, of Sandy McRae, of general Gabriel, and of Mr. Jefferson's new private secretary . The numerous intentional fires, that have recently spread so much desolation through the country, demonstrate that we have mob of a peculiar species of depravity. Can we conceive that banditti, like those at Trenton, are capable of feeling the ties, or practising the principles of any religion? And while they do themselves deserve to be sent to the galleys of Toulon, or the mines of Siberia, they will no doubt, be babbling about the usurpation of the first consul. This man was elected by the almost unanimous voice of the people; while it cost both Adams and Jefferson a very hard pull. Bonaparte knows that France is infested with an immense number of incendiaries, alike incapable and unworthy of a free government. Such are these barbarians at Trenton, who call themselves federalists, and who have reflected so much dishonour on their cause, and their country.]
FOR SALE.
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For particulars enquire of the Printer. Richmond, March, 7th 1803.