The Portland gazette., 1818-07-21

An article from Stockholm gives an account OF
the coronation of Bernadotte, on the 18th the
ceremony of which was conducted with the usual
splendor and magniicence.
The Artic expedition.-The Isabella and Al
exander left Yell Sound. in Shetland, on the Sd
May, for Davis Strait with fair wind and the
Dorothea and Trent the same place, on the 7th
for Behring's Strait, by the North Pole-all in
high spirits.
A fire at Constantinople, April 3, destroyed a
number of houses and II persons, among them
the Princess d'Ypsilauti and her son, with eight
childred, perished,
[The following Characters of some Of the De-
mocratic Editors of Newspapers in this
stale is from the pen of an eminent Editor
of the same stamp. Col Duane. His long
experience in useful labours" for the sup.
port of democracy, and intimate knowledge
of"s,ate chicanery' entite him to be heard
with some consideration when expressing
his opinions on such subjects.
RoBINoCRACY,
Sir Robert Walpoic was the first ofthe English
ministers, who resorted to the expedient OF oaty-
ing qtp newspapers-and buying up the most
ures Of MS Infamous administration. This sys-
TEN, tho it originated in the foulest purposes
and contemplated the basest ends, had power
full influence in producing counter-active and
public spirited resistance. The same system was
initiated in the early period ofthe federal gov
eminent. The Gazette of the United States
was originally established by Mr.. John Adams,
when Congress sat at New-York but the sys-
TEN is now extended to every principal city OF
the union.
There appears TO be a lively sense of alarm,
throughout the neFrouS system Of the powers that
bet is manifested in the head, well As the
tail of the body polite. investigation of public
measures is deprecated at Washington-what
the ocial Paper says, or chooses not TO say, must
regulate the whole Of this prosttated fraternity.
The most sensitirs part of the political body IS
at Boston-the Boston Chronicle sunk under the
incumbrance of those principles which il had
sustained with so much constancy, and after
years of resistance to the persecution OF the pol
icy of the tory system, which prevailed during
the odious perversion of a republic under the
elder adams it was apparently absorbed into
paper called the Patriot, which was originally
founded to be the apologist of the very principles
which had been carried to height so famous in
1923. 1t was a heavy and Improbable labor
the task Of SyciphuS was not more discouraging-
for while it fell through but the Hartford con-
gentton was SO execrable and daring a march to-
wards treason. that the hole which Mr.. adams
sought to make for the qcell-borr, and even the
famous addresses in which king John, like his
great prototype king James II. recorded his folly
and his want of sagacity, as the prelude to his
erlf were all forgotten; as men think nothing
of acts of petty larceny, when they see the house
about TO be set on fire.
Soon after the Chronicle was devoured by the
Parrot, the paper denominated the YANKEE,
had risen up, to sustain those principles, which
the Chronicle could not any longer uphold, and
which the Patriot was established to betray-
and the Patriot is now such paper, as the pa
pers under SIR Robert Walpole, which were de-
nominated papers of the RobanOcracy.
The Yankee has frequently changed editors
and principles it has been from time TO time
see-snac1ng but has come out lately in the same
mood as the Patriot.-.4ltrO7d,
II is stated in the Philadelphia Franklin Ga
zette. that the thermometer in that city on Sum
day 10Th inst. stood ut 102, average 100,and that
a or S persons died BY imprudenty drinking cold
water, notwithstanding the frequent warnings
that have been given.
II is rumoured, that the Governor Of Georgia
has forwarded TO the general government spir-
tied remonstrance against the conduct Of Cen
eral Jackson.
A paper in the interior Of Georgia, has denoun-
ced Gen. jackson in the most decisive terms
predicts war with Spain-the destruction of our
commerce by privateers under the Spanish Flag
and the enrichment Of England by her being
At the anniversary meeting Of the Society of
Cincinnati in Newyork, on the Ath inst. the fol-
lowing, among other toasts were drank:
The Memory Of Gen. PUrNAM.-His un-
daunted courage and military services have SO
enthroned him in the hearts ofthe American
people, as 10 set at defiance every attempt to
undermine its basis.
The Memory Of Gen. PurNAM--Who never
was accused Of cowardice until after his
death
These opinions of his compairiots in arms who
knew him well. will outweigh all the foul calumuv
heaped upon him by Dearborn and his miserable
scribblers.
On Tuesday last says the editor of the
Boston lntelligencer, Capt. Hull gave an ele-
CANT water excursion TO His Excellency Gov
ernor Brooks and party Of about twenty
gentlemen Of Boston. The day was fine,
and the dinner which was given in the pleas
ure boat, was served up with great taste and