Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-06-14
Merancrta annerti5fr.
TUESDAY,, JuNE IA.

OUT late papers, we gave an extraet from
the Warrington Federaliit, headed CALI
tin and Man5equ Lyou. From this ar
ticle it appeared that this imported bear in
human ihape has been appointed agent Of
the U. S. for furnifhing fiipplies 10 the
army, to the excluion of men of charac-
ter and refpsaability. Andit further APP
peafed that the imported Secretary Of the
Trealury had honored bis draught IN an
uncommon degree by paying it above
five months before il became due, while
the bill Of Mr.. Steele, late Secretary Of
.he MiGilippi Territory, an American
and federalilt, was, e,ldef the mott tn
fling pretences, dilhonored and expoled to
protect nay, that more than fourteen
months had now elapftd fnce the money
became due, and fill the Geneyan con-
rrived to fad executes for declining to pay
il. Two reafons have already been given
why LIZ on ihould meet with this extfaor-
binary favor and pretetenue in the fight
OF Moniieur Gallatin we thall Eniih this
article by furniihing third, as contained
in the following extraa
/" Head qaarfs,y, on. IS, I779.
7ieondsroga.
1 PAROLE, FALMOUTH.
] g Az General Court Martial of the
Line, Of which Brigadicr General 81.
Clair was PRECEDENT
"Capt. jonathan Fadct, Capt John
FaGet, Lieut.. Rufus Perry, Lieut.. Jona-
than Wright, and Lieut.. Mathew Lyon,
were tried for dcssrting their potts on.
! Opion River, without their being attack,
ed or forced by the enemy, and without
!. orders.
Q The Court having duly confdered.
the evidence for and again& the priioners,
are ofopinion, thar Capt. Jonathan FAT
fet. Capt John Fafet, Lieut.. Jonathan
! Wright, and Lieur. Mathew Lyon, are
guilty Of deferting their pofs without
orders, or without being attacked, or
forced by the enemy, and they are aao,
| with Lieut.. Rufus Perry, guilty of a
breach Of the Gxth article Of the rules and
regulations pubIillled by the Honorable,
the Continental Congrels, for the better
! regulation Of The Army.
! !" And do adjudge that Capt. Jonathan
Failet, Capt. John Falet, Lieut.. iona
than Wright, Lieut.. Rufus Perry, and
Lieut.. Manbeqv Lyou, be Gathered, and
forfeit all their pay, to be appropriated to-
/ wards making good the damages fufained
by the inhabitants on Onion River, on
sccopnt Of their unloldicr like behavior ;
and that they be all, and each Of them,
( declared incapable of ever hereafter hold
ing any miillisary command or employment
III tbe States Of Ameriea.
!" And that their names and crimes be
Publilhed in the newspapers.
This now is another of the war-worn
folders of the American revolution. We
fancy the democratic editors will be lit
tie tender in futuye how they touch on the
revolution ieryices Of !" fpitling Mathew
| Lyon" or poor Luther Baldwin.
We obferve that the ientence incapaci-
tates Mathew from holding {" any mill
tayy command Of employment in the States
of America We will not undertake to
| FAY that the employment he now holds,
that Of "Agent for furniihing fnPplies TO
the army" is a military employment;
but we will venture to fay, it is an en-
| ployment that he never would have re-
ceived from Gen. Warrington. He was
a man Of honorable fentiment, and would
have felt the difgrace Of having fuch
creature employed il the mott mental Of
flee in his gift. Bur, aha the diifribu-
button Of honour and Office has now fallen
TO the lot of quite another fort of man
one who aAIures US, under his own hand,
that "of the various executive duties,
no one excites more anxious concern than
that Of placing the intcref of cur fellow
citizens in the hands of honef men, with