Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-10-05
From the National InteIligencer.

The late disturbances in England, We
yet believe will end, as we always feared
in the abridgemeut of the personal and
political rights Of the people, aud their ]
entire submission to the military power
despotically swayed by the government /
| With such leaders among the reiormeB
as have figured on these occasions lately
always excepting Major Cartwright, We
do not see how any other result could have
been anticipated. There are some es !
lures OF the occurrences at Manchester,
however, which can never be too strongly
reprobated by freemen. Ii our accounts \
are correct, the unproyoked assault bya {
military force on an unarmed meeting \
celebrating on their distresses and Their
grievances, was a stain on the banner q
the army, and an outrage not to be en-. +,
dured, if it could be resisted, by PEG
pie claiming the shadow of freedom. The
stain becomes more deep, when we find
that von,en became the subjects Of mill
tary assault.
The Teras Erpedition.--We would Be
led TO suppose, from the pompous letters
from the adventures 10 this eHtespEize,
that their numbers at least were respecta.
Bile, and their prospects brilliant. We
have authentic accounts from that quar-
ter which represent them to be directly
the reverse. They have not The least
prospect of succeeding 10 obtaining pos
session of the territory they are SO Liberal
in offering to dispose Of to recruits and
proselytes. Their actual numbers, az
late as the middle Of August, did not ez
coed one hundred, and they were said to
be without funds, and ill supplied with
provisions. The province in which they
have raised the standard Of liberty, with
the exception Of Labahie aud st. Antonio,
contains not many more than score Of
families, and they are chiefly Americans
who migrated thither about year ago.
The very persons who have issued
proclamation of Independence, from which
one would suppose that they, with thou
sands of others, we're groaning under the
lash of Spanish tyranny, whilst the United
States had failed in its duty TO protect
them, have themselves just renounced all
the advantages Of American citizenship
and engaged 10 revolutionary project,
the principal object of which is personal
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, though. some may pos
sibly have embarked 10 it under the inal. 7
ence OF higher motives. We warn the
young men Of the United States against
being seduced into this scheme by such
highly colored statements as those which |
the above may in some degree serve to
expose and correct. 1t is not by hostile
Invasion, nor yet by conquest Of foreign
countries, that the principles Of free
government are disseminated.
A letter from Baton Rogue, Of date the |
Both nltimo, gives distressing account
OF the prevalence Of disease in that quar-. !
ter. g There is scarcely house in town /
that has not from one to three sick 10 it, |,
The same letter tells very different sto- !
ry about the health of New Orleans from
those which We have by the way Of New
York and other outports. g / am tOid,'
says the writer, g by those who can be
relied on, just from New-Orleais, that
they bury about 40 persons day in thai
city. What another month may produce,
Heaven only knows"