wo.f rut. Stncfjor Club. WHEN Great-Britain, in pursuance of her plan for Starving out the Fever of the French rcVohitionifts, seized on numbers of our veflels, the blood of the whole nation boiled with rage. A ioiid call for vengeance, kindled into animation even that (luggifh and insensible mass, the long eared tribe of Midas 1 who while they descanted on the Honor of ths Nation, inwardly longed for the spoils of Britifli commerce and the gold of Pitt. Witbthefe coalefcedall the numerous herds of Jacobins, half-federalifts, true Americans and impartialiils. The burthen of their de clamations was the Honor, the wounded Ho nor and compromitted Digtiity of the Nation. " A Nation," said they, " can hardly facri fice too much topreferve an unsullied charac ter." " Acijuiefcertce with injuries, begets new injuries, injuries beget insults, and in sults will beget contempt,and degradation."* In many of these fentiinents joined also the Government and its friends—-with this difference, that the pretended 'guardians of the honor and dignity of the nation would immediately have declared wart—'whereas the friends of Government thought found policy required at least an attempt to obtain justice bv negotiation, previously t6 urtifHeathing . V the sword. Th»t tl:" p motives which governed the fac tious demagogues of that day, were as base >as tl.H.fe of the lead;rs of the present, no man of sense ever doubted ; but in endea vouring to lug the country violently into a war, proved afterwards to be unnecelTary, it ; will be allowed, that many of the arguments adduced by them, comported admirably with the fitnefs of things, and theSnterefts of a nation £0 peculiarly situated as ours. " A fcrte'ef things may exist," said a diftinguiih ed member of the opposition, "in which re priftl net only becomes the right but the du ty of the nation sustaining the wrong. This happens, when one nation without-caufe, for cibly frizes upon the eff.-ifts of another, or of its citizens, and withholds them, without rtftitution or corapenfation ; and when the nation rjbose effects shall be so seized and de tained, shall possess no other means of in demnification." This is an axiom mod unqualifiedly jurt ; to its jufhee the friends of government unan iijioufly fubferihed, and on its principles did they act, by fending an Envoy to Great-Bri tain. Had he returned without success, we fbould have found ourselves in the exaft pre dicament above dcfcribed. It was underflood at the time, that had Mr. Jay failed in his negotiations, (when of course, 44 no other means of indemnification" would have remain ed) war would have been immediately declar ed. For evidence of this intention, the reader is referred to the fpreches of Federal members, to the lpeech of the President, to the meal'ures adopted by Congress, the Em bargo, Fortification of Ports and Harbors, raising an army of Seventy Thousand Men, and a Naval Armament. Such was our repulsive temper of mind towards Great-Britain,—towards a nation that was fighting our battles—towards a na tion,' on cur relations with which, our all de pended,—towards a nation which was rescu ing our property (from that gulph of treach ery and rapacity, which has fwallowcd up so iuany millions) to be held in trust, and restor ed with ample retribution. The circ umftances, the peculiar circum stances, which contributed to this display of spirit, are too frefh in memory, to need a re currence. They are gone down—and the feeling, the pride, the honor, the spirit of the nation are gone too. There is now no American characters to spurn at insult A crowd of intruders have shaken down the pillars of that once splendid edifice, and compounded of its ruins a mongrel philosophy which inculcates subserviency to views and wilhes foreign to our natures, and hostile to our existence. In this new school, the sense and meaning of terms is utterly perverted ; and words have loft their fignification. Na tional honor, a themfc once dwelt on with rap ture, is fwiw an empty bubble. The salus populi, the security and welfare of a citizen or the community at large, once deemed the prime purpose and leading care of government is now trodden contemptuously under foot, or loft fight nf in the pursuit of a new fan gU d form, (tyled national policy, the love of peace, and calculations of profit and loss. A le.fs odious tax, than even the most petu lant ill humor has frnce borne, enflamed into opposition every tenant of every log-house 011 the continent, and drew forth to aftion the very woods and {tones.|| Such were the effects which sprung from this simple caufc—Eflefts, which no excess of insult—no length of aggression—no ac cumulation of bitterer reproach on bitter in jury, on the part of another nation, have yet been fufficien* to produce. France has, by appealing to our paflions, and by a thousand indirect methods, at tempted to feaucc us into a war—she hasar vrif d our citizens against nations with whom we were at p^ace,—fhe has eredted tribunals on our territory, to decide on causes, onlv •epgnb-aMc by our own courts, —she has re peatedly violated our neutrality, by seizing "o iur veffds, or deft roving them in ourve * Speech of Wm. IS. irile?, f See S. Smith's propositions and speech es in Congress. Clarke's do. Madison's do. end the Sequestration affair. See, also, the speeches of W. B. Qiles, and the opposition generally. | The " Ameriranifm" cj the present day is tbus defined by the people ivho exclusive ly pretend to the character of " True Ameri cans" :—" l.et us neither be Englishmen nor Frenchmen,—let us be Americans." Ergo, he that is neither Englishman nor Frenchman ii an American. 0 ! •well-painted charac ter .' || N° fable : toe began our war for Inde pendence, ■without any of the necessary means ; hence stones were collected on the bills tube re forts hadbeen erected, as substitutes for can non and balls, r» La.bori f " «"•<! rfufed payment for .upphes .urmiiwd- her by our merchants in pursuance of the moil solemn contract — she has converted her dominions into Co ma ny afyltims for pirates, more to be dreaded than the Barbary rovers,—she has endanger ed the very exigence of tlie foutliern states by arming her negroes against their matters, —file has attempted to impose the public en emy of the state upon us, for a President, (he has, in the mod open manner, invited the people to infurreition and the overthrow of their government,—she has unceasingly foftered a nest of vipers, in the very coun cils of the nation, by granting free passage to their ships, while she has indiscriminately feixed those of others, —she has left no means of fraud or violence unefTayed to drag other nations into her system of oppression against us,—she has seized, impriloned, chained, whipped, tortured, and murdered our sea men,—she has levied armies on our territory —she has threatened, abused, insulted and banished our minivers of peace,—she has de manded of us TRIBUTE, and uncondition al fubmiflion to her will, —she has attempted to re ft rain us in the exercise of every right appertaining to an independent nation,—.she has forbidden us to make treaties without her consent,—she has undertaken to iinpofe on us, her own peculiar and oppressive forms of navigation,—to prescribe the arti cles in which we shall trade,—.and the ports with which we shall prosecute our commer cial pursuits,—she has stigmatized our pub lic funftionaries as venal knaves, and the whole people as fools, dupes, and slaves, and she has hired prefles in our own country to reiterate her abuse, —she has told us that we dare not go to war with her, for that she has her clutches faft hold on us, and that we shall struggle under her grasp in vain. But this long catalogue (which is, howev er, only a feeble outline of her conduft to wards us) black and blasting as it is, holds not upftronger incentives to war, than cer tain other motives which as opportunity pre sents, it is intended hereafter to dwell on. For theprefent, to trace thecaufesof this apparent diversity of character of this af toiiifliing union of the greatest jealousy with the greatest infeniibility, within the short space of four years, in the fame people, is a pursuit well worthy thr attention of every man who loves his country. It is in faft the only means by which we can ever obviate the evils we fufF.r. E. Canal Lottery, No. 11. COMMENCED drawing the 7th instant There are only shout 7000 tickets to draw and the Wheel upwards of 30,00 c dollars richer than at-the beginning.—Tickets, Nine Dollars each, to he had at Wm. 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(17) dtjoth JLatc foreign Articles via cost 1 sued. 1 _ OFFICIAL PAPER. ' The following Official Account of the famous battle of thf -Nile, has been sent by the Comniiffioners of the Executive Directory in Italy, to the Consuls of Rome. It is faithfully translated from the Italian, and we prelent it to our Readers as 1 very cu rious foecimen of the arts nfed by the French Government to delude the wretch ed People who are unfortunately fubjeft ' to their sway. ROME, 26 Fru&idor, (Sept. 12.) ■ ' The Commissioners of the Executive Direc tory of the French Republic to the Consuls of Rome. CITIZENS CONSULS, A half truth published by a government is a falfehood. A falfehood is usual ?<> kings, whefe intere ft is to deceive the people. A ' ■ republican government owes the whole truth entirely to the people, because the Sovereign, ' in whose name and for whom it governs, has the right of knowing every thing. The po licy of kings has been inanifefted in all the insidious accounts with which Rome has been iurnifhed for some days from Naples. Some cifcumftances have been uttered with affectation which are trueenough ; but much care has been taken to avoid speaking of Buonaparte's conquests, wonderful conqueits, if we may think any thing wenderful done by Buonaparte. Several accounts have been given of a naval adlion which has taken place of Alexandria, in which the loss of the French is stated, and that of the English concealed. Theft are the falfe concealments which we shall unveil to all Europe, by giving a few details which may be depended upon, as we have received them officially. On the 13th Mefiidor, the French squadron arrived ot Alexandria.- Two days before, the En glilh squadron had prefe'nted itfelf off that port. In the night of the 13th, the troops diferabarked ; Buonaparte landed with his coKunns. On the 15th, preparations wen made for the attack of Alexandria. At night two columns, commanded by generals Klebcr and Menon, without any artillery, began the attack. The refiftanee was great —two or three hundred men perished. Kleber and Menon were wounded French intrepidity at last triumphed, and our soldiers entered Alexandria. The clemency of the conqueror equalled his valour—The inhabi tants of Alexandria were disarmed without violence. The (heriff was continued in all his fun&ions, and decorated with the tri coloured flag. Buonaparte convoked the chiefs of the Arabs, and concluded a treaty with them. After the capture of Alexan dria, detachments were sent to occupy the neighboring forts ; Rofetta opened its gates and sent a deputation to the Frenah with the tri-coloured standard. B-nnapart?, after having taken pofleffion of all the country in the, neighborhood of Alexandria, lent his arpiy by the Nile towards Cairo. He him ielf went by land to take the command of his columns. General Bon and Vial, at the head of their divisions, attacked a post de fended by 100,000 Mamelucks, and defeated them. This new vidtory determined Cairo to open its gates, and on the jth Thermidor Buonaparte entered the t«wn. During this glorious expedition the (hips le Caufli and le Dubois, eight frigates, all the transports, and all the gun boats, were fafe in the port of Alexandria. Thirteen of our ships of the line could not enter for want of depth of water, and were anchored in the Roads On the 15th Thermidor, the English squa dron, consisting of ij fail ofthe line appear ed, and a terrible actioh* immediately took place, such as the seas of the Levant have have never seen since the battles of Aftlnm and Lepanto. The French, it is true, are not the conquerors ; but with an inferior number they have disputed the sceptre of Neptune wjth proud England, and they have pr ved that the Republican navy is still able to snatch it out of her hands. The French, it is true, have sustained great loss, but that of the Englilh is eouallv confi de rable. Let us speak the truth—we have loft by fire the ship l'Orient, and we lament the death ofthe brave Admiral Brueys, who was kill ed by a cannon-ball, and the brave captain Du Petit Thouars, who wa: wounded in the thigh, and would not leave the deck, but continued to command and encourage his crew. Four other lhips perished in the ac tion—all this is true ; but the English Ad miral is killed or wounded ; his fleet is in the greatest disorder ; nine of their ships are entirely difiaafted ; two have struck on the rocks ; and on the t6th Thermidor, at fifty minutes after eleven, they were petrified, as it were, in the Road of Beguiers, confufed ly with the French ships. The crew ofthe l'Onent was saved. The fliip Genereuxrnuft be at Corfy, The.Guilhume Tell,comman ded by Vice-Adtmral Villeneuve, arrived at Malta, the 13th Fruaidqr t with the fri gates l'Adnan, and la Justice. The crews are all well, the Hup* are in perfeft condi tion, and no English ship has yet appeared in the Grecian or Sicilian seas The i6th Ihermidor, the Englilh began anegociation to obtain permission to put on shore more than 1500 of their wounded, and to disem bark the French prisoners.-—We are igno rant of what has since happened. It is to be prelumed that the frigates and gun boats came out of the port of Alexandria to the assistance of our disabled ships, and that the remains of the English squadron have not been able to save them. This, citizen Con suls, is the truthwe now ask all men who are not prejudiced, if England and her partizans can look upon the result ofthe act ion of the 25th Thermidor as a vi&ory ? The friends of. liberty, though they . have to lament - the loss of so many republi can heroes, will only fee in this event the success of the sublime projects of Buona , parte. They will fee the liberty of Europe eftdblifhed by the liberty of Africa and Asia ; - liit j f-.. :i ; ir,. j« f this Lng- IHh commerce euiin ly riVn-a, tfije empire of the fens wrested from * g>efcdy hand's ; they will fee a revolution v. <V'-e sudden and more favorable to humanity, than the dii covery of the Cape of G'V il •' i"pe ; finally, they will fee Buonaparte more exalted in his ideas, more pkilofophical, and more philan thropic in his principles, irbre enlightened, and, with the talents bf Alexander himfelf, perfprm more with 40,000 French than the King of Macedon with 40,000 Macedonians. The tri-coiored flag waving on the Nile, the' Tigris, the .Euphrates, the Indus, and the Ganges, will console the shades of the French warriors, who perished gloriously in the Roads ot Alexandria. (Signed) DUPORT, BERTOLIO. LISBON, November 4. On the 27th October all the French pri zes, exCept le Peuple Souverain, which was left at Gibraltar as a magazine, enter ed this port. It is not yet known when they will fail for England, The Orion, commanded by Sir James Saumarez, sets fail on the sth or 6th'i»ft. It is fa d that it will fail alone. The Duke d'Havre, who hat lately arrived from Spain, has received an order from Lord St. Vincent to take his passage on board that (hip. v According to the account* which the French prisoners have given the English of ficer*, the republican army loft between 200 and 3000 m'B, in the attack upoi Alexan dra. and about 1500 died of third of heat, or of fatigue, in one of their late marches towards Cairo. Such is the lad intelligence which has reached Alexandria, for lince the commencement of hoflilities with the Mame lucks, there has been no communication be tween the troops with Buonaparte and those whom he left in garrison in Egypt. At the time when the prizes quitted the coast of Egypt, the garrison of Alexandria was reduced to the greatest want. They had fubfilled for some time on-the provisions which had been given them from the trans ports, and as those had not been managed in the mod (Economical manner, there re mained little of them in (lore. It is hardly necessary to observe, that upon a failure of this store, tfierc was not a single bottle of li quor in the city to recruit it. The utmolt confufion took place in the disembarkation of the French troopsat Alex andria ; in consequence of their having learnt that the Englilh had appeared off ihat port a few days before. They cffe&ed their dif embatkation in the greatest confufion, and under an apprehension that the Englilh were c!ofe at hand to set fire to their ships. They had neither batteries nor forts to protect them, in such a cafe, but after their disem barkation they erefted them. They had, indeed, when they left France, to little idea of meeting with any opposition, that they had not vi£lualed their squadron for a home ward-bound passage, relying on the certain ty of receiving alMance from the Itilian ports. There was not more than eighteen days provision on board the prize?, which was much at this time of the year is com monly very long. Sir J. Saumaret, when he palled by Mal ta, set on (hore about 1200 Hand of arms, which he diftnbnced among the inhabitants who had revolted againlt the Freuch. The Maltese had killed about 400 men who had ventured beyond the fortrefs. The French had fufficient flour for their fubfilience du ring a long time, but they had no other ne cessaries. We do not yet know what is the defla tion of General Smart ; according to some he i» going to Malta; according to others Minorca. All that we know here is, that he has under his command some of the belt troops from Qibralter, and that he has also with him some very heavy artillery. A Portugueze convoy this day came into port, under convoy of a frigate. She was bound from the Azores and Madeira Islands. ihe frigate had taken a French privateer of 16 guns, whic\ had made pri2e of one of the squadron that (Irayed from the fleets. The regiment of Dillon has taken the place of the 51ft Kegirnent, which was in Caftan- Fort. One of the foreign regiments has rcfumed its former barracks at JLif. bon. The crews of the French prizes, as well as of the three Englilh vessels which brought them in, are in good health. Foreign Articles, Received by the schooner Betsy, capt, Comp ton, errived at Baltimore in 8 weeks from Portsmouth ( England.) BASLE, October 9. The march of 15,000 French troops through this city has just been announced. The whole French army has orders to ad vance- A demy-brigade is to arrive on the ijth instant, and the remainder is to follow on the 16th and 17th. Ihefe tfoops are destined for the eastern frontiers of Switzer land. One division is to take pofleffion of the ground between Reineck, and the lake of Boden, all the prelates and other clergy are packing up their effects, ready for flight The GrifonS arc strongly attached to the Au' ftrians. According to letters from Coire, of the ad, inft. the Diet, previous to its feparatin?, iffi.ed orders for a general prayer, and for nufmg 6000 men. Every possible preparati on was ordered to be made for putting the frontiers in the state of dtfenceJeach com mune to hold its contingent in rnadinefs to march oh the firft notice.—M. de Sail. Marclilins, a ci-devant lieutenant genera^n SwitaU* h " ,b " n fpeilion of a council oTwTr. U 'tlk French DUBLIN, Oa. y the recent iunfture and adive'brave, y | j ftt the military and yeomanrv troops in *l - of Wic.kio\y and Wexford,. »•- t extß-mcly happy to iearii that a death HlVw , h« l,«n g.vnj to the ia\mua,y Ainu** II I m fi f cket ' "ther desperate and , abandoned leaders, who no tenders of mercv j could induce to abandon their rebellious suits, ana who could have no other okjedt but devastation and plunder. | I hefe barbarian hordes principally consist ed °t eJjther the exasperated relatives of rebels who had fallen by the sword of war, or the •j hand of justice—or of mifcreants,whofe bloo dy artifice* were too notorious in the country to allow them any hope of eluding a just and terrible vengeance—or of deserters from the king's standard, who could have no merev to expert. ' Extract of a letter from Hacketitown. " The rebel Holt and his desperate bandit, ti had kept undisturbed pofTeffion of the mountains and high grounds, till the Glen gary Highlanders, under the command of col. Macdonold, arrived here ; these, with a detachment from the 89th rtgiment, at tacked the rebels the very next morning, tn the top of Lagnakilla, the highefl mountain in the county of Wicklow ; which, till then, had been deemed inacceflible ; killed several of them ; and had not the approach of night and a very th'ifk fog favoredthe flight of the lebels, the troops would have gitfen a very good account of them. They were, howe. verso panic struck, that they netar halted till they got to Oakwood. This neighbourhood has been freed from their ravages ever since ; and so unremitting is the d and activity of the officers and men, that notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather in this advanced season, they liav enot ilept three niehts following on their beds for a inq.nth part." November 13. Ycfterday application Mas made by coun cellors Curran and John/ton, to the court of king 5 bench, for an habeas corpus, to bring before that court Theobald Wolfe 'I one, grounded on the affidavit of his father, Mr. Peter Tone, purporting, that Theobald Wolfe Tone was tried by a court martial, on a charge of High Treason, and was or. dered for execution, though the said T. Wolfe Tone did not belong te his majesty's army, See. and that such preceediags and sentence was pronounced duiing the fitting of his majesty's law courts. The court ordered thefhabeas corpus, and that the prisoner should be brought up to the bar of the court instanter. ; . 1 In some fliort time an aufwer was made to the court,.that Theobald Wolfe-Tone wis unfit to be brought up, having dangerously wounded hin felf, and the surgeon belonging to the sth appearing to give, testi mony, the court ordered him to be examined, when he deposed, tint Ke had \ifited T- W. Tone in the prevot marfhalfea, who was in capable of being removed, in conference of his making an attempt on his j f c , having with a razor cut his throat across, nearly from ear to ear, and alf® fep'arated the 'wind pipe—xhat under hispreferjt con dition, he could not be stirred without im mediate danget to his life.' . [Dub. Even. 7W.J The following is a copy of a correspond, ence between Theobald Wolfe Tone and ma jor general the earl of Cavan, dated Derry prison, 1 a Bruinaire, an. 6. jd Nov. 1708. N • w My Lordy " On my arrival here, major Chester in formed me that his orders from your lordship, in consequence, as I presume, of the direc tions of government, were, that I should be put in irons : I take it for granted those orders were issued in ignorance of the rank I have the honor to hold in the armies of the French republic ; I am, jn consequence to apprise your lordship, that I am breveted as chief de brigade in the infantry, since the ift Meffidor, an. 4 ; that 1 have been promoted to the rank of adjutant general the ad Ni vofe, an. 6 ; and finally, that I have served as such, attached to gen. Hardy, since the 3d. J hermidor, an. 6, by virtue of the or ders of the mimßer at war. Major Chester, to whom I have (hewn my commissions, can frtisfy your lordship as to the fad, andSgen. y Wl 'lafcertain the authority of the do cuments. "Under these circumstances, I address myfelfto your lordship, as a man of honor and a soldier ; and I do protest, in the most precise and strongest manner, against the in dignity intended against the honor of the trench army in my person ; and I claim the the rights and privileges of a prisoner of war, agreeable to my rank and situation in an ar my no less to be refpeftcd|in all points, than any other which exists in Europe. " From the situation your lordship holds under your command, I must presume you ave a disc retionary power to aft according to circumstances; and I cannot for a moment doubt but what I have now explained to your lordship will induce you to gh-c immediate orders that the honor of the French nation and the French army be refpefted in my per son ; and that of course I shall fuffer no co. ercion other than in common with the reft of my brave comrades, whom the fortune of war has for the moment deprived of their lj ord, with great refpeft, n T" Uf " rc }^"P' s m °h obedient servant, " W. I one, dit Smith, adj. gen."" ANSWER. on * n >ajor-general the earl" of Cavan, to Theobald Wolfe Tone..' - Rarneranna, November -i, 1708. « Sir, j /y " I have received your letter of this date irom Derry goal, in which you inform me that you consider your being cindered' into irons, as an insult and degradation to the rank you hold in the army of the French re public, and that you protest,. in the most piecifeand strongest manner, agamft such indignity. Hadyou bee« a native of France or »f any o her country not belonging to the iiritifh empire, indisputable it would be so but the motive that direfted me to give the
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