American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-12-14
From tie .ylaine Chronicle, Nor. Is.


Maine Gazette, purporting TO be 6 Documents re-
Min@ to violations and erasions Of the aus, during
the commercial restrictions and late Uar avh Great
Rritain.' In this disclosure, which is numbered
/, series Of facts is developed and supported upon
oath, which, as Americans, we blush to have record
ed in the political history OF our country Our ma
tona pride is humbled at the acknowledgment We
are compelled to make to other nations that in times
of public calamity, when war was impending, or an
enemy within our borders, there was found a citizen
of the United States, deporably LOSE to all sense
OF duty towards his country, as to set her laws at
defiance, and for paltry motives OF pecunary gain,
10 supply that enemy with facilities for subverting
the government under which he lives. But our
modification, if possible, is still greater, when we
learn that there such citizens, and that they are
men whom the people have delighted to HONOR
citizens in whom have placed full and unwayering
confidence, and who have been elevated to the high
est Office in the gift of the people 1t is some years
since insnualions have been thrown out concerning
these unwecome truths, but We have passed them
by as Vaccinations devised for electioncering pur-
poses yet they were true, it appears, too true.
And what adds to the aggravation OF circumstances
against these men. is, that at the time they were
engaged in Illicit intercourse with the enemy, they
enloyed not only the confidence of the inhabitants
of this state but also of the President of the United
States and the community at large. And when the
British were stationed at Casne, public expectation
was. that one of these men would have commanded
an expedition for thsir dislodgmen;; yet this same
man had vessel trading from Bermuda to that
place, whence he was receiving British goods. As
these disclosures are before the public, We 1orbeai
further comment at this time.
TThe persons alluded TO above are William King
late Commissioner under the Spanish treaty, and
Mark L. Hill, member of the last Congress. and
now Collector of the port OF Bath, Maine.
Mr.. JEFFERSON, having been toasted at the
dinner 10 Gen. LA FAYETEE, in the Rotunda,
of the University Of Virginia, made the following
affecting and eloquent remarks:
al will avail myself Of this occasion, my beloved
neighbors and friends thank you for the kindness
which now and at all times have received at your
hands. Born and bred among your fathers, led by
their partialies into the line of public life, labored
il fellowship with them through that duous strng
gle, which, freeing us from foreign bondage, es
tabiished us in the rights of self government; ;
rights which have blessed ourselves, and will bless
| in their sequence, all the nations OF the earth
In this contest, all did our utmost; and as none
could do more, none had pretensions to superior
merit.
| Joy, my friends, in your Joy, inspired by the
visit OF this our ancient and distinguished leader
aud benefacor. His deeds in the of ndepea
dence you have heard and read. They are known
TO you. and enbalmed IN your memories, and in the
pages of faithful history. His deeds in the peace
which followed that war perhaps not known oI
you =; but can attest them When was Stationed
in his country, for the purpose of cementing isl
friendship with ours, and of advancing our mutual
interest, this friend of both my most powerful
auxiliary and advocate. He made our cause his
own as in truth it that Of his native country
also His influence and connexions there were great.
All doors aud all departments we're open to him at
1y tppn, Iu and at nted
times In truth, only held the nail; he drove 1t.
Honor him, then, as your benefactor in.peace, as!
well as in
MY friends, am old, long in disuse of making
speeches. and without voice TO utter them, In this
feeble state, the exhausted powers of life leave little
within my competence for your service. If, with
the aid OF my younger and ADLER coadlutors, can
still contribute any thing to advance the institution,
within those walls we are now mlngling manifesto I
,ons to this our guest, it will be, it has BEEN
cheer(uy and zealously bestowed. And could /
live to see it enjoy the patronage and cherish
ment of our public authorities with undivided voice.
| should die without doubt of the future fortunes
of my native state. and in the consoling contemPa-
ton of the happy influence OF this institution on its
character, its virtue, its prosperity and safety.
To these efuslons for the cradle and land OF my
BIRTH add, for our nation at large, the aspirations
OF heart warm with the love of country whose
nvocations to Heaven for its iDdssolube union will
be fervent and unremitting while the pulse of life
continues to beat, and when that ceases, it will ex
pre in prayers for the eternal duration OF its free
dom and prosperity"
AT the late agricultural dinner, near Baltimore,
she following toast was given
"THE Ox-Most useful in life, at the smallest
cost which he repays at his DEATH
There is, in the above toast, fund OF truth, which
it is mater of establishment that our farmers have
so long neglected; almost every farm In this and