Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1806-05-30

has eurtailed those profits, yet, if Bri.
tain should lose her superiority those
profits would be annihilated. Nor are
we left to vain conjecture as to the abu-
ses Of the French naval force, If that
should succeed to the empire of the sea,
since 1Oe kno1v that France has actually
ro6bed US Of more millions than all ether
nations PIT together.
Mr.. Randolph has endeavoured to
confute the principles Of Mr.. Madison's
book, with singular felicity of sarcasm.
He maintains that the losses our trade
has suffered from the decisions Of the
British Admiralty are not wrongs.
Some persons will doubt whether Mr..
Madison could answer Randolph's ar.
gument oftwenty lines, though he should
{ write a second heavy pamphlet Of 200
pages. But that delightful inquiry we
cheerfully leave to those rivals OF the la
bours ofAercules who may have atchiev-
ed to the perusal Of the first.
If then the British Admiralty DEGREES
are not IUrengs, neither Gregg's, nor
Nieholson's resolution can be vindicated
As remedies. They are in themselves fu,
tile. and by their designed as web as in.
evitable tendency to irritate, they are
and must be eggr6vaH0Rs Of our com.
mereial evils. "
Mr.. Randolph says we have no CALI
net. We believe him. Mindful only
ofpoPularitv, Mr.. Jefferson has cared
for no objects, that we're not personal.
To please Virginia, he has repealed the
tai on coaches. To reward the whisky
league, the distillers arstax free. To
give bread to his hungry PARISHES and to
slake his own burning thirst for VEN
geanee, worthy federal officers are dis
missed, and l9sebins put in their places.
A democracy is a government by the
worst passions of the worst OF men. Ac-
eordingly popularity must be gained in
order to have the influence and aid Of
such men, and such passions. But to
consuh together for the honour and inte-
rest Of the nation, form 4 Cabinet as a
public council Of wise and faithful men
in high Office, devoted to public. duty
and thoughtful Of nothing else, because
nothing else can advance their honest
fame, or consist with their principles
such Cabinet cannorbe formed and ne.
yer was formed in factious democracy.
10 repel and punish the aggressions of
S ,1in, to stiifsn the unbending neck of
Amerieaa Honour against the yoke ofig-
nominy and tribute to France, to act ae-
cording 10 the best feelings Of the brave
and the best couHsels Of the truly wise is
no part Of Nj. }effersou's plan Of official
life. To sueak through eight years, de-
tasted by the good and extolled by the
venal and the base. is the Utmost extent
ofhis views. ltseems now that univer.
sal and even vulgar contempt will reach
him before he can reach obscurity.-
There is not one measure Of vigour that
he has dared to recommend, nor one that
Randolph hasdevised that his back stairs
friends have not been instructed to quash.
There are so many things in this speech
that are excellent, because they are true,
and doubly excellent, because they are
said with ayivacity of manner that will
fash their light to the darkest extremity
of our territory, that We scarcely know
where to stop our commentary uponthem.
There Is certainly much to approve and
much to admire in Mr.. RandolPh's OBJ
servations. His views Of the French
and British policy are Unexpectedly cor
reet-and he exposes with seorn that
no body could express with more pungen.
ey and that no man Of sense will feel in a
less degree, the shallow, treaeherous and
base projects Of the administrators and,
it, friends.
Ieisaless pleasing but an indispensi-
ble'duty 70 observe that Mr.. Randolph
though always brilliant is often absurd.
On the whole We do not hesitate to say,
that If Mr.. Randolph should, IS he ihl
tends, reject Mr.. Jefferson and elevate
another President, the new administra.
ton, We sincerity believe, might not de-
serve our confidence more, but would
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