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*Wad be. with his own hands, the fire to the altar,
lay himself down si willing sacrifice to the
„aline of his country's good. Avarice has come
upon you. When you talk of your country you
mean so much trade as you can make in your coon-
When you ilk of your country's welfare,
mean your profits. When you talk of her free-
and indAsendence among nations, you mean
right t, thrust the little knavish bowsprits of
sea craft, great and small, into every creek and
cranny in the world, to fetch and carry your ped-
lary. And when you cant shout the ju.ttce and ne-
cessity of wars, you are only soothing your good
hearts with the delightful anticipation or the greater
quantity of traffic its havoc and its injuries to
others will of necessity send to your doors. The
war of ninety-three, between Great Britain and
ranee, was soon discovered by you to be a very
and necessary war, because it put so much of
t carrying trade into your hands, and opened to
Mr ravished eyes the golden portals of the French
nd Spanish colonial trade.
" On the same principle of selfishness, the peace of
Mr. Addington was a detestaole, unjust, and un-
recewsr, pe.ee, h manse it shut those. portals again;
-1 it was so vilely sudden and unexpeaed too,
the merchants had not time to s..uffie and hedge
as notch as they could of their engagements.—
tots time, however. Great Britain was your to-
ne topi. of discourse, and the theme et your rap-
irou• applause, for repressing Bonaparte. Except
Ifh,n, now and rhen, it was interrup.ed by some
banes ~desgrins, and jealous misgivings, about the
'cash cotoplaints of the covering trade. Give you
the liheity to carry home to Europe the pro-
of the. French and Sptnish colonies, thereby
enabling Napoleon to crush Europe, and defeat the
generous designs of Britain, you had always at.hand
air good word, and your playti s ready to throw
nto the opposite scale in favour of Britain—and au
abundant supply of maledidicns for Bonaparte. On
villain—curse the monster. %Chat would become
of the world if Bonaparte were to conquer Britain f
doubt it would be consigned to universal slavay
o-aind as for this country,ir would assuredly sharethe
common fate I These were your words ! —but lo I •
incident occurs which threatens your traffic. your
.ring trade, your profits, and which seems to
ss sentence of blank leaves upon your ledgers—
all instantly changed, and wnat are your words
now—why surely mese What is the world to
?—What care I whether Bonaparte enslavesman-
, America included, or not? What is it all to
compared with our dear commerce? Oa my
y, my money. my morey—cry these Lovegeldr
real life. What is the country, what is independ-
eace, or what freedom. it my profits be inter-
rupted? Ai.d as for Britain, 1 would rather see
Lei sunk into the sea, thar. that I should lose the
entering trade. Nay, for matter of that, I wish
wave and his m my were, at this moment, land-
England."

A VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION. •
TIMM TOIL aisquiasa.
Every one sees and acknowledges the strong
probability cf a rupture with Great Britain. The
requisition by the President of our quota of one
hundred thousand men to be bold in readiness, and
his call of Congress by proclamnion, ate sufficient
proofs that he who saes and u;.derstands the whole
ground, entertains the same impression. The Se-
cretary of War, in his letter to toe Governor of this
state, which has b-en published. says, that volun-
teers will be received under this call; the Gover-
nor of the state hiss, in his general orders, express-
ed his hope that the whole quota of the state will
be filled by volunteers ; the administration of the
Uni:ed States bare since earnestly pressed the
State Executive to encourage the volunteer service.
Hence it is evident that volunteers are not only
preferied to drafted militia, but anaiously desired
both by the Federal and State Executives r he rea-
lons are chv7cous to go into the service will not be
equally convenient to all. i telr respeaive occu.
patient and pursuits in civil life, the state of their
health, the state of their families, the s:ate cf their
affairs, and a thousand fluter circumstances, will
necessarily make a wide difference amongst the in-
dividuals of society in relation to this subjrU. To
some it might be ruin and death to go into the set-
vice; to others it might produce very little hicon-
venience; to others none at all ; and to others, again,
it might be a *mace of pleasure. This difference
of convenience will natio ally produce different de-
grees of willingness to joia the service. A draft
will pay no respell to these coasidelations ; it will
light with the impartiality of death on the willing
and the unwilling ; it may take the honest labourer
from the business by which he gains the daily bread
of a numerous family ; it may take the man of weak
coastituticas and precarious health ; it may tear the
husband from the chamber of a sick wife ; the son
from the bed cif an aged and ir.rrn parent, who
may lean upon his piety alone. Whereas.voluntary
usociations, by taking only those whose circum-
stances and cast of character render military service
a pleasure, actually lightens the hardships of war in
a national point of view, while at the same time it
collects together the most wiliing and ardent spirits
only, and constquently forms the most effective
army. • Hut militia companies being formed by dis-
tricts, it is rarely to be expected that a whole com-
pany. with its officers, snail enjoy those circum-
stances of convenience, which wilt induce it to move
in a body into a service of sely feng:h. Hence the
act of Congress, of the 24 h of Febi uary last, con-
templates volunteer associations distinct from the
naihtia of the state : such are the associations which
the Executive of this state has been requested to en-
courage. These volunteer asouciations du not? by
any means, interfere with the militia arrange-
ments; the rank of no militia ufEcer can be affected
by it, glaze even the volunteer recruits themselves are
direded by the ad of Congress before mentioned. to
remain in their several militia companies. and do
duty as heretofore, until called out into adleal ser-
vice; and as to the °fleets who may be commis.
sioned in the volunteer associations, being destined
only for a specific purpose, they san have no colli-
sion of rank with the regular militia of the state ;
and theft commissions expire as soon as the purpose
for which they go forth is answered. Officers now
in the militia, whose circumstances or inclierion it
may' suit to raise a company ot volunteers, may take
a commission the Fatter purpose, without forfeit-
ing their regular commission, until called out into

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nenid write ; for the reason that until this takes
p...e, the aift of Congress declares that the anginas
arrangements shall be in no wise affeeted ; and even
then, no otherwise afeaed than by having detached
from its body the volunteers who have previously
associated ; it at the call militia officers m ve off in
this association, then. and not till then, their regu-
lar commissions will be vacated, and their places re-
gularly supplied.
Several citizens of the state, following up the
wishes of the Federal state Executives on this suSjeB,
for the purpose of extending and accelerating these
voleiteer associations, have projeded a plan to raise
a sufficient number of companies :o form four regi-
ments. This plan has been submitted and approved
by the proper authorities, both of the Union and the'
Commonwealth. Its operation has begun by seve-
ral commissions being issued to captains, for the
purpose of enabling them to form their companies.
The subjoined form of a letter will explain more
particularly the objeds of this plan. As the num-
ber of men proposed to be thus raised will be far
short of the quota required from the state, a large
and honourable field will be open to other associa-
tions, and those who may be disposed to enter it, will
certainly receive from the State Executive that coun-
tenance which the Federal Eucutive so warmly ex•
horts them to afford.
It will be observed, that the objelt of this asso-
ciation goes beyond that of the Secretary at War,
as explained in his letter to the Governor of this
state ; for he therein refers to two ails of Congress
as furnishing the terms of the volunteer service
which he cortemplates: the one term being six
months : the other twelve : wh this associa-
tion is for the war, if war should be declared. There
is no interference, therefore, between this associa-
tion, and those volunteers under the Secterary's
can. whose acceptance has been deputed to the
MajonGenerals of the state. Suppose that instead
of eleven thousand, thirty or forty thousand should
tender themselves; when all our claims are before
the haccutive, it is to be presumed those will be
accepted, whose offers go farthest towards the
great cbjet tor which the call has been made.
In the present case, commissions to captains to
enable them to raise their companies, have gone
out from the Executive, merely because these were
the first applications within the obje& of the ad of
Congress, and in harmony at the same time with the
militia arrangements under the federal and state
laws: 'rheas commissions therefore ought to ad as
an encouragement to others to plan and submit si-
milar or d:fferent associations, promotive of the be.
nefit of our common country.
SIR, Richmond, August 10, 1817.
To you, the enormities of Great Britain towards
the United States of America. require no recital.—
They have at length been carried to a point. from
which there is no receding. without cowardice
and dishonour, on one side or the other. War le
believed to be inevitable. It is not necessary that
the growing prosperity of the United States should
be long interrupted by it. A few vigorous stroke
in the commencement, supported by correspondeei
energy in the councils of the nation, will probably,
decide the war. To lower her arrogance, and
bring her to treat us with justice.
.Grent &ink
requires only to be convinced. that we are eateasie
as we are in blood, the children of dila heroes
who made her bossed lion ay in dismay, be every
part of the Continent, and crouch down in sub.
mission and captiviry at their feet. It is important
that we shnold give her this convidion in the outset.
and give it to her so deeply. that her memory will
not maim to be rehashed again during the present
untie y.
Under this impression, we have resolved on an
effort to raise a °ore. of volunteers for the war s
and to render it as effeaive as possible. to have the
corps not only officered, bur, as far as predicable,
the ranks filled with charaders Wetted for intelli-
gence and solid principles of morality.
We cannot boast of military experience: after
font and twenty years of peace, it is to be apple-
hinded that few, very few remain, who can boast
of it, and who, at the saute time, have enough of
youth and health to enter on the toils of another
war. And if they did, we ought not to desire it.
The warriors of our revolution have done their
part. They have fought gloriously. They have
given us a greet and heroic example of the mariner in
which a country's rights and the rights of man
should be defended against the unfeeling insolence
of proud and usurping tyranny : and it ought to be
matter of triumph to us, that there are any of them
who do survive, to witness that we are worthy of
the rich inheritance which their valour has be-
queathed us—let es deserve it I -
I:lt:tough at present inexperienced in military
tactics, we believe that the mere mechanism of an
army will be soon and easily acquired by that zeal
which the cause is calculated to kindle and to sup-
port. The means of discipline are already obtain-
ed. The proje.ff has t!,e sandion of the proper au •
thorities, both state and federal. We shall be re-
ceived as volunteers, under the alt of Congress of
the 24th February, 1807, for twelve months—and
in the event of a war declared against Great Bri-
tain, shall be placed in :rade amongst the first on
the regular establishment for the war.
It is proposed that the corps shall be seder a Zr,.
&edict's command, consisting of four regiments.
with a just proportion of cavalry and artillery at-
tached to cash ; that each regiment shall consist of
two battalions, each battalion of five companies,
Mich company consisting of sixty-four privates, and
that the whole shall be officered as to the number,
tides, and rank of officers. on the plan of the pro-
sent regular forces of the United Stares, or such
ether plan as Congress may hereafter prescribe.
It is proposed that the four regiments shall be
commanded by the underwritten, ranked in the order
in which their names stand ; that the banal:one
shall be commanded by Majors, designated by the
Colonels, and approved by the Executive or the
state, and that the command of the brigade dull be
conferred, as soon as it can be regularly done, on
the Colonel of the first regiment.
This arrangement having bren already suggested
and approved by the Exectstrve of the state. as well
as that of the Uoi in, each Cateain, Lieutenant, and
Ensign, who accepts a commission under the asso-
ciation, will be ustskt,:wid as pledging himself. on
honour, to whatever s!tall be necessary on his part.
to carry the whole arraogement completely into
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It will also be esisiitesil to be an eagagemont,
upon honour, of all dif illiters in the brigade, that
they will adhere-to, abide by, and obey whatever
rules sball be adopted by a majority of the Field
Officers, for the harmony and good order of the
brigade.
What effea a body crurtrutted of such materials,
and organised upon such principles, is calculated
to have upon an enemy ; what a spring the appear.
ance of such a brigade, armed and uniformed in
thz field, is calculated to give the spirit and crnulas
tior. of the nation ; and how the fraternal intercourse
of such a bend will be calculated to soften the toils
and sweeten the perils of war, a few months re-
flation will convince you.
Having thus developed to you the strualre of
the brigade, and the objea for which it is destined,
you are invited to accept of a com-
mand in the regiment, to be com-
manded by
Your commission is enclovd. If you accept,
you will notify your acceptanct by an indorsement
on the back of this proposal. which is to be returned
to us, and will immediately proceed to recruiting.
It you decline accepting. you will be pleased im-
mediately to announce it to us, and to return your
commission.—We are, Sir, with great respea,
Your fellow-citizens.

NAVAL INTELLIGANCB.
POATIPMOIIITH, OCT. S.
Arrived His Majesty's ship Strains from the Me-
diterranean, and is put under quarantine; Hearty
and Ant from a cruise.—Wind S.W.

PLYMOOTN. OCT. 7.
Came in the Hand bomb, from the Eastward;
Airmen, Captain Brundlin, from Santa Craz, de-
tained by' the Betsry privateer ; and the Neptune,
Husband, from Charleston, detained by the Salellste
privateer.
Sailed the Foxhound and Plover, on a cruise.—
Wind S.W.
DIAL, OCT. S.
Arrived aed sailed for the River, the Mary Ann,
Capt. Ingraham, ft om New Providence, in S 2 days.
Arrived the William and laza, —, from
Newbury Port, laden with coffee and sager, for
Amsterdam, detained by the Bold gun-brig, and
remains in the Downs, with the ships as per last.—
Wind S.W.

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