«' tYie private good which the poor eceive from the'wea'ltliy, is great, and demands lUr gratitude. Wc consider alfoihe taxes which ve pay to be very inconsiderable, and of theie w e hear no complaint. In a word, Geneial, „e are all contented and happy ; our univerlil ,of D eriiy IS too clearly connected with our Confutation, too firmly conucfted with the pro!- purity of our wealthy fellow citizens, to prevent us Irom being interested in their behalf: and therefore when i'uch heavy luins are exited f,om the rich, the middling and lower claflcs of people are also punilhcd, from the injury which commerce and manufafturcs mud thereby ne ceffanly sustain. The more, therefore, is taken from the rich, the less will be our gain ; and at jengili we fliall be cutiiely ruined. '• Since then, General, you fluie yourfclf the defender of Liberty, pioieftor of the public Good, you will ast againif your own principles if you do not defttt from levying thetc contribu, in which we ought to participate wiih the nchi To conclude, we cannot better manifeft our zeal for the French Republic, than by the fincereft wish that all may enjoy the fame hap piness under its conftituuon as wc enjoy under ours. Weexpeft, therefore, of you, that you will permit us to enjoy «Br conftituiion unmo ved. tl Signed by 700 Ms Mis." NORFOLK, March 2. '*?:>& Intelligence ha? lately been received from London, that' Great-Britain has acceded to . the combination, formed to arrest: the pi ogress of the Jacobin career. The principal mo tives dated in the British manilefto, art— asa fj rm determination on the part of the contracting p'owers to support the European • nations iu the enjoyment of that right, which oupht to be common to all; an entire and un qualified liberty of maintaining whatever po litical eftablilfuncnts may think most con ducive to their own liapj'inefs and security— Thai it is time enough tor one nation to aflift toother, when fueh alfiftance shall have been required by a majority, at leatt, offhe nation which may become difTatHfied with its exid i,,rr government. That to succour the dif trefled and support other nations, in'a gene rous determination to be free, well becomes the dignity and liberty of ji great and enlight ened people: But it is no less unjuftifiable than it is difrefpeftful, for any people to per nii; ttieipfelves to be fjifcinated into a wanton and violent intrusion upon the political ar rangements of others—however fooeign they may be thought from the favorite standard or imaginary excellence of their own. That the impulse of felf-prefervation, no less than the neceifary independence of other nations, de mands the immediate and effective interfer ence of the Biitifh arms. Nor can the fran tic excetTes of a power, at once so licentious and deftrnftive, any longEr be permitted to outrage the voluntary efta'jlifhments of neigh bouring nations; or by iin insulting imposi tion of pretended benefit') proceed in its de signs of fuccelGve and unbounded augmenta tions. That while the operations of that power were directed to fuiih objects, as might be fairTy esteemed condacTve to th« support and defence of such' arrangements as might have proceeded from the ffee expression of the national will, it would not have been confid ent with the dignity or inclination of Great- Britain to b*Ve interfered. Bat however un- equivocally the traces may appear among some of the neigh(»ouring nations, of & decided attachment to the late combination against France, it canoot be reasonably expected, on the part as that powiri that the effedts even of its just refentmerit can tie permitted to Extend to the entire- fubverfioti of the politi cal independence of those nations. The rights and relative duties of all nations, fuHi eiently inculcate the propriety of remaining iattsficid with a deprivation of the power of an en?mv to in]ure or invade the public secu rity. The principles of felf-prefervation, Jfmbined with those of a just and magnani us policy, have wifely forbidden national boftilitvbs to exceed those bounds. With these Views, the British nation feels itfelf conftrain to announce to the existing powers of to all Europe, its firm determi. ihation M'preventi 'by every mean in its pow »r, any acceflion of territory whatever, to the ' kWwn and established boundaries of France, as they may have been designated by the trea ■tiiesmade with other nations; nor can it be expected that the operations of the British amis should cease, until France shall have cvinced a disposition, on her part, to renounce tye ascendancy which iHe may have acquired, by violence, over those nations or cities, which may have been fubjefted by her power." RICHMOND, March 8, Ixtraft of a letter Jrom a member of Congress. " The politics here are to the last degree difgulting—every'principle of representative government is violated ; in'ftead of feeling alike and aftipgfor the benefit of the bulk of citizens, Congress are influenced by a monled andfycculating inteieft, which not only bears hard upon the laboring clafTes of the whole ■community, but affli&s those of the fonthern ( Hat?? with exclusive crqelty ; as their primum mebiU of reltdes chiefly ,in the northern dates, the evil carwever be remov ed, unlefi all electing bodies, will with the most suspicious caution, avoid every man, who shall even smell of certificates, stock, or paper of any kind. " I am in a state of repentance for having cpme to a place, exhibiting every moment to my view the fallacy of apparent patviotifin. The rapacity of many who onghi to be difw terefted, and the poor chance the puYilic ft and, again ft the machinations of a tew ir.-f ---viduals—But if the agricultural people would attend to their interest and elcct proper tncji, tliefe dreadful evils would loon be : tmedied " BOSTON, March 6. It is very lingular, that the founders of the new Confutation of France, have fucccflively loft reputation, liberty and life. Pftuny ln- might be adduced in 'proof—we ftiall briefly state, that the once popular La Fay ette, has been compelled to flv his country, by the ingratitude of his fellow-citizeits, and now languishes in captivity—and that the remains of the once illustrious Mfrabeau have been scattered to the winds of Heaven ; his statues have been demoliftied, and his me mory proscribed. A wit on reading the direction of the Pre sident of the French Convention, to Louis, to be fcated, observed, that the Patriots were re laxing in their enmity to the King, fbr that like the patriotic fans culottes he was admitted to the honor ef the fitting. The Maaufa&ories in Lynn and Reading,; (Maflachufetts) of Women's Shores, arc of nVuch' greater importance and advantage to this ftaie, than has heretofore been conceived of. There are employed in the bufmefs in the two towns, (including the women who bind the (hoesj 1500 people ; they make and export, annually, to dif ferent parts of this Continent, 450,060 pair of shoes; which makes a saving 10 the United States lrom the foreign importaion of this arti cle, at 4j6 a pair, 337.500 dollars ; and they can afford their lhoes cheaper than can be imported. Fur the GAZETTE, of the UNITED STATES. FEDERAL SENATOR. In the protcfi if the minority on the vote ofthi Senate Jor a Senator in Cor.grefs by * joint vote of the two Houses, it is injinuated that an advan tage ic.is taken of the casual abjence oj two, mem berSy who were in Javor oj a concurit.nl vote. TO strike a stroke in politics, fuMime, With care improve the lucky nick ot timd; Some happy moment—never 10 be loft, May call the centincls from off their poll— Seize th* occyfion—pafs the resolution, The major Vole fulfils the conftituiion.l j For thus the prompter fpcaks behind u The end will always fan&ify the meajiu" Let ihem protefi, and pout, and scowl, and grin, 'Tis our's to laugh—as those who're sure to wui, We'll fix them by the choice of G—t-— n. Look thio' the commonwealth, where can ypu find, * Bred on the foil, so good, so great a mind ? Your nun of wealth dre all the slaves of pow'r ; Your home born patriots—mushrooms of an hour! From foregn climes true virtue we import— Hence D—— ihines a favoiite at Court. While Pennsylvania's genius mourns its lot, Her sons defpis'd, negleftcd, and forgot ! Fiom the American Daily Advertiser MR. DUNLAP, LISTENING the other day in Congress, with many other citizens, 10 the numerous proofs of mal-adminidralton and corruption that were to have been adduced againd the Secretary of the Treasury, I was pleated when Mr. Mercer rose— because, it was presumed that he, who .bad uni formly spoken of the Treasury Department as a renovated Psndemonium, would now-givfcus the proof pafiMvc. The pioof of cortuptiofl" was in his pocket ; he drew it forth, prefertted it to public view,- and laid it on tlie'table for private infpeflion and public information. It was a paper figtied by' Mr. Benjamin. Hawkins, in the letters and characters following, viz.— " The observations I made in the Senate, on the motion to order the commiffionersof the finking fund to lav their proceedings before the Senate, were, that I undeiflood the fund in its original creation, to be for tfie purpose of railing the price of funds :o their true valueto call it a finking fund, was a misnomer. That a gentle man, during ihe'laft session of Congress, who is not now in the United States, informed me in conversation, that he and some others had sent in proposals at 17s. and a fraftien, and at 18s. and a small fraflion ; that the whole of the low ell was not taken, and that fotne of the highest was. That I dated this information by way Of quere, to the Frefident of the Senate, who could put me right, if the information 1 had dated was otherwise. That the Prefidctlt answered, that he never knew that they purchased other than at the lowed market price. B. H. 27th Feb. 1793. ' " N. B. The gentleman alluded to abovej' wa£ J»lr. Buchanan." v Such is the proof of vitality and corruption, ■ words of dreadful import, that have been ring, ing in our ears lor Several months. Fronp all which it appears, that a ceitain Mr. Ruchinan, expressed an opinion to Mr. Hawkins, that Mr Hamilton, at a certain time, had given 18s. for dock, when it was offered him (or 17s. And that Mr. Hawkins, believing that Mr. Buchanan might have been miftaken,confulted Mr. Adams, one of the cotnmjflioners. Mr. Adams did not believe that any such purchase ever {lad been ' made. By a plain man like myfelf, who docs not look for blois nor wi(h to find them, this ' whole dory would be set down as a piece of un impoitant talk—tlte baseless fabric of a vision ; but to a politician, or an opposition man, it i« the fubdantial proof of corruption : not a proof of folly; for no man is such a fool as to give 18s. for an ariiclc, that i» offered at 17. But he may be so wicked as to give 18, provided the party had previously dipulated to make him a prcfent of h»lf the difference. In this cafe, there would be corruption ; and though the Secretary of the Treasury Is not the buyer of dock, for it is bought by the Treasurer, and though he never: fees the filler, and knows ndthing (bout the mp* who fell in public market at (he coffee-houfe, we, a>good politicians.and quick-fightcd watcH roen. are to suppose, that every unfavourable al > legation is true, and that'coiruption, whether po'fliblc or impoflible, is the spring of all mea sures that we do not approve. For myfelf, I have condantly supposed, that ir. a free i.egiflature, there will be opposition to the Executive—l believe that opposition is ufe ful and necessary—but I fincerelv wish, that our watchmcn woLld not cry wolf! wolf! until thev.fee an animal that had claw;, teeth, or some other tniik or feature of a wolf! ONE OF THE PEOPLE- 331 Philadelphia, March 16 A letter from the southward, to a gentleman in this city, contains the following intelli gence— 1 hat a British Frigate had arrived at Do miniro 18th Feb.exprefs, in 32 days from En gland—.and bro't information,that Lord Hood feg with a fleet 0f32 fail of the line,hav ing on board fevera! regiments, and that the D-uke of Clarence had acommand in this fleet : The letter further states, that General Mat- had arrived in the above Frigate, veftsd with the supreme command of the forc es in the Islands—that the army was to be ted by adding ten men to each com-. General was proceeding through the I Hands, putting them in a posture of de fence, and that every appearance indicated immediate - war.-—The frigate brought a re port that a French fleet of 33 fail of the line with a large body of troops, had failed for the Weft-Indies. The ship Louisa, Capt. Birk.hrad, arrived here last Tuesday, lelt the Texd on the i6ih of Janu arv, but brings nothing new, except the failing of 6 or 7 Duich men of war and guntboals, it was said, for the Scheldt. The latest accounts from H.fpaniola inform u», that the troubles in that island ha»e not fub lided —in a late engagement, 400 of the revolted negroes were killed. Produce is high—Flour from 6to dollars only. A letter from Port-au-Prince, dated Feb. 13, contains a melancholv detail of the tranfafttons in that part of the I (land. The Negroes, it ap pears, had decoyed a convoy of the army of the Whites into an arpbufcade, and cut 50 of them to pi<ces—this exasperated the (oldiers to the higheil degree ; the, Negro army was afterwards attacked, and 6®o of them killed on the spot— without theiof* of a soldier on the part of the romenfc deflruftion has been re cently made by the Insurgents, millions of pro- reduced to ashes. ; The Knoxville Gazette fays, that depreda tions, tiorfe-ftealing and murders continue to t* committed by the Indians in the South- VVeftern Territory—Tlie Shawanefe are re presented as being peculiarly inveterate. Advices from Martinico and Guadaloupe fay, that the Governors of both thole islands Jiave fled, and taken with them afeventy-four gun Ihip, a frigate of farty guns, a fioop of war of twenty guns, and several tenders. It is not known to what quarter they are gone. " Wednesday evening, fire broke out in a building near Mulberry-Street, between Jth and 6th Streets.—By the spirited exertions ■■of thecitizons it was extinguiflied, in about half an hour, without much damage. The loaf bread bakers in this city Having petitioned the legislature against the law re gulating their particular bufinefs—*a commit tee of the House to whom the fubjedl was re !ferred, hai reported in favor of their applica- The Hon. William Barry Grove is re-eleft 2«d a member of the House Representatives of the United States, by a unanimous vote of the electors of the diftrift of Fayetteville, North-Carolina. Col. Jamfis Gillafpie is elected for the dif trift of Wilmington and Sampson county, in the fame state. The legislature of the state of New-York adjourned on Tuesday last, to meet on the firft Tuesday in January next at Albany. While the people of the United States in the cities and towns on the fea-ftiore are un ceasingly reprobating the war on our fron tiers, and urging the policy and humanity of making peace with the Indians—let us hear what the Kentnckians fay, who are in the so. cus of danger—" Can our public servants be capable of holding any treaty with whose hands are still reeking with the blood of their fellow-citizens, and of their wives and children—nay, reeking with the blood of . valuable msn sent to them as mefiengers of .'peace-rrthofe murders still unattoned for ?" Kentucky Gazette. ' ' Suri 'tis vo easy tzjk topleaje ui all. • The General Advertizer df Monday last, speaking of Louis XVI. fays, that " appre hensions were entertained for his life from the well known ferocioiifnefs of the Paris Mob" The National Gazette of Wednesday fol lowing informs its readers, that " these ap prehenlions were entertained from the villi kneuin tvti-royul propensity oj the Pa\ifians." — On which a correspondent remarks, that grant ing the two modes of expression to be the con vert of each other, they serve to confound the moi of Paris with the people of Paris—or which is the fame, they serve to lhew that there is 110 such body exists as the mob of Pa ris ;or that the people are a mob—but as ex cedes of every kind are the natural effects of mobs; and every good citizen and conliftent republican, involuntarily condemns such ex cesses—it appears to be neceflary, in order to juftify what has been, or may be done, to fay that the people, not the mob, are the actors ill the Drama. The title of EJtjuire is anli-'cpubhcan, nay, what is certainly much vrorfe, it is anti-chrijli an, for the Nation's Gazette lays, " it favors of that wordly vanity so much reprobated by the Apoltle." ! J ! Statement of the number and.quality ai Vtffelj in the port of Savannah, Feb. 13. 59 s l uare "SR" 1 . ? Brililh. 21 Sloops and fenooners, > .7 Squarfc rigg.d, {American. 31 Sloops and schooners, \ 9 Square rigged j Freuch. 1 Sloop and 1 ichoouer, } t Spanish. COMMUNICATIONS. Tiit people have made a government;. Jfe who would fuppwt the government of the people, may be supposed to he the friend of their power and their rights. Such a man will deflre to fee the people's government i'o liable as to p-ote& the citizens, and Co re fpe&able in the eyes of other nations, as to induce them to follow our example, and there by to extend republican liberty over the world. Yet our scribblers make it appear tiiat liberty is one thing and government another. To support government and to recommend a re gard to the laws, is a proof of ariftorracy. Liberty enjoyed under the laws will not fu»t these men—The laws give to every man his own—but he who has nothing is no gainer by this security. No, fay «ur mobbocrats let us throw all iato an heap and raffle for it. The people of the United States, have choftn to celebrare the birth day of the man, whom 44 they delight ts honor,** and this they have done spontaneously, of their own meer motion, free will and accord, and in a very extraordinary, and unusually extensive man ner—but notwithstanding all this a corres pondent observes, that the National Gazette modestly aflerts, " that Birth-Day celebra tions, however meritorious the character, are not suited to the genius of our country." The faicfGazette also declares, " that a number oCgrave and worthy foreigners perfe&ly concur with the letter-writer of that Gazette—and fay, a that however fond they might have been of celebrations of this nature at home, they consider them as rather bordering on the absurd in this count y ; this is not the only specimen by thousands which might be pro duced, of an rtifult offered to the whole body of the free citizens of the United States,, by those who zvi/k to legVflate for the people—but it appears rather outre to make use of a fo reigner as the organ of abuse. The fpirtt of innovation which hat'rdoue such great things in some part's' of Etfrope, ha l ; been imported into the United States; whether it is necefTary in the pnefent circum stances of our country, time will unfold ; it is however to- be observed, that the impor ters are chiefly exotic adventurers, many of whom it may be justly supposed are as inimi cal to the fubjiavtiah of office as they are to the titles by which they are defigna ted—this remark may be part'cularly applied to the proposition for annihilating the Title of Efipire —which Purely is not more odious in the view of some innovators than the office of Justice of the Peace. If the people of the United State : will submit to it, they may have a number of politicians and legislators who would fooir* put a new face on their affairs. It is plain the people are federal, be can's of late the enemies of government are obli ligcd to pvetend federalism in order the more securely to carry on their schemes. Yet they have not spared the government or its offi cers. * These federalists, as they call theni felves, speak of the constitution as a thing full of dangerous principles, and the r e too let Joofe without checks or guards. This bad fyitem they tell us is in the hands of Specula tors and knaves—of men who are at work night and day to bring about a monarchy. Yet they are federal ids—as Anthony lays in Shakespeare's play of Julius Caesar—they are honorable men—they would not ftrr up mens* minds to mutiny and civil war—but they tear open every wound of the public mind, and put a tongue in it. Yet they are federal—all honorable men—We have their own word for it. IMPROMPTU. SOME fay the Infidel Voltaire, Dv'd in great horror and despair ; While others—(ticklers for his glory, Aver, some liar forg'd the (lory— If truth and falfhood are the fame, Words cannot fully Voltaire's fame; Let those who're puzzled in the cafe, Say " Judas went to his own place.*' SHIP NEWS. ARRIVED at the PORT oj PHILADELPHIA. Ship Mary, Cally, Newburyport Louisa, Birkhead, SufTex, Atkins, Molly, Edgar, Snow Eliza, Blunt, Brig Betsey, Sumner, Alfred, Shehan, Mann, Polly, Chernock, Aurora, O'Briati, Schr. Richmond, Samplon, Betsey, Bartler, Sloop Polly, Sinitfi, Sally, Hefs, Merrimack, Lowell, Fanny, Stanton, PRICE OF STOCKS 6 per Cents, 4 per Cents, loyio Deferred, \ij6 Full (hares Bank U. S. 14 per cent. prem in the Jnfurance Company 145 TO CORRESPONDENTS. " A Citizen" it received—itJhall appear as soon as pojlible.—The " Impiachmlni," in our next. 7he length oj the Debates, mujl apologize Jor the present jujpevjion of fevtral interfiling ejjti)S. COR R ECTION •4,* The latter part of the fiift sentence in M«. Barnwili'i speech, puhlifhcd in our last, should reati thus—•• This fukjeft has changed its hue from the foul Jitn of peculation, to the milder colouring of an illegal exercije oj discretion and a want oj politer ej\ 11 the Secretary oj the Treasury." Amiterdam Teneriffe Char left on. Tobago Port-au-Prince. do. St. Euftatia Capc-Francoi* Lisbon Norfolk N.Carol ma Savannah C. Francois Ncwburypor* Antigua '?/«
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