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.
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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