Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-03-10

of Warrington, land Adams, and ofsLe
wife and falurary meafures, which refnItsd
from their adminiarations. After reading
ieveral columns of his iyfdiaas eaiamxy,
we find him alking pardon OF the con-
nittee. for this digreflien. He had been
impel!ed to it from the courfe the debate
had taken, and particularly from the IN
decorous attacks made on the Prefdent OF
the Uni ed Srates.'' How honorable
would it have been to you, MIR. Giles, lad
you felt this tender ienhbility, this rega,d
to decorum in the early part of your g.
bbygical bGrazgae You would then have
fpared thoie revilings againa the Clergy
of New. England, whom Mr.. Ratings
told you, very iua!yl were I" learned,
pious and patriotic clais. of cirizens
Remember Sir, that the bulk of our ciIl-
zens, will never be made the dures of your
art-,he people of the United States win
dpcern your views, in the Pern(al Of you:
fpeech-they will def,iie your llander aud
condemn your principles. The reafoa
why you are 70 attached to the man whe
wrote letters to Mazzic, and who wa;
even before yourielf in his malicious at.
tacks on the virtuous Wilmington, is pc
fecret 1t is we'll underaood, and conf
IDENTIFY believed, tina, you are one Of thofs
coadiutors and constitutional adviiers"
to whom Mr.. Jeferlon alludes in his an.
fwer to the Conttitutional Republicans Of
the county of Kenneheck. 1t is far from
predetermined, that we ihall have caufe to
lament, that the "g0aion of our affairs"
is not in better hands. You are believed
to pollelS more iniinuarinn, art and address.
than Judgment, prudence and found policy
and whether you have not leis political
honehy than either of thefe qualities, re-
mains to be determined. You are now
confdered as the 5ohtieal GoLia5 ofthe pre-
TENT majority, and you mutt expect to be
noticed. Ipray YOU to accept the homage
of my high confederation. CENSOR.
WgJ5. Fed.
Melancholy account Of The I9G eftk< BRIG
Indxfry, communicated in a letter from
ore Of TIE paDengsrs, TO bis parents in
Bgeon.
I" On the 18th of Nov. we failed from
Halifax for St. Jchns's, having on board
"a fouls, Is ofwhom were paGengers, and
among them lady with three children,
the oldea $ years, and the youngeit 10
months; Gu the Goth, being then 10 miles.
wet of Seal lie, in the Bay of Fundy,
we diicoycred at about S o'clock in the
evening, fire in the after hold of the
veHel every endeavour was inRantly tri-
ed to exe;nguih the flames, but in vain;
the dry goods, with which he was prin-
cipally loaded, were all in flames, and
had fpread TO every part of the brig. In
this dreadful Gtuation we had no other al
tentative, but to take TO our boat, which
being but IS feet long, was lily calculat-
ed either for containing 70 many fouls, or
navigating fea which was then tenn
peRuous. We, however, left the brig
at 10 O'Clock at night, and embarked on
beard our little boat; the wind then blow
ing from land the next day two of the
men died on the third, the lady and her
poor infants expired under their fevere fuf-
fering, from this time until we were
taken up. rhe men were continually dy-
ing. The cries of the afflicted woman
and her infant children were the mott heart
piercing of any thing / ever felt or ex-
perienced. During this period, and un-
Til we we're relieved we had nothing to
eat or drink. On the 9th day, we had
but men out of the - that left the ve(-.
iel with Us and thefe 10 exhaufted with
fatigue and hunger, as to be unable to,
throw all the dead overheard; indeed we
were compelled to eat part of the Aeh
of one man, who had recently died. On
the 9TH day, we were providentially
taken up by veGel, and carried into
Yarmouth, on the Nova Scotia f,ore
where every afliaance and comfort was at
y. 49, c.oo