fnom "The 3tncl)or club- To John Tatloh, of Virginia, Author of an Insolent and Seditious address to the Peoplei WHEN in the selection of Gallic Agehts for a further developementof " Diplomatic Skill" you were found amongst tie chosen few who couldforgettheir country and become the base hirelings of a desperate and a perjured villain, the choice was acknowledged to be worthy the cunning of Talleyrand by all those who are acquainted with the rancorous hatred, which you have ever borne to the federal government, to federal measures and to federal men : yourperfeverance in endea vors to effeft the deftruftion of these, so Ions: as your weak and irritable frame may be upheld by your flill more feeble though violently jacobinical and malevolent spirit, is doubted by no one. You commence your desperate elTay by tellrtijj us that you are " unwilling to flirink" &c. Pray, fir, let me ask if ever you heard of a roward from choice. You fay that you " disdain to alarm the people with unfound ed jealousies," See. And why " disdain" good citizen demagogue ? Could you'find no word in your vocabulary more refpe&ful or more palatable, in immediate connettion with information to the people ? Beware, iir, or you will be found out——You were rather more collected when you Reclaimed so violently igainft " insinuations of foreign infltienet"; this is throwing duftinour eyes with a vengeance, You are also on duty when you fay that " to prevent feditioh is to inflict a death wound on (late sovereignty." The aflertion is excellent, and novel. Pray hew did you remember to forget to offer your proof with your dogma ? Was it on a fup pcfitisn that we the people are to swallow every thitig on the bare a'lTertion of a leading demagogue ? You go on and fay '"it is vicious in the extreme to calumniate meritorious public fervints." Heavens ! this from a jacotjin ! But let us fee what follows in tonnec tion—" but it is more vicious rouse the public indignation against calumny, Stc." —Zounds what a falling off! But what can I fay in justice to your talents at eompari fon ? Or how can I do justice to your ideas of what is or what may not be vtcious?— I have no jacobinical dictionary by me, and therefore shall proceed. You next objett to any diftin&ion between liberty and licen tiouinefs : thus, and by Mfing attached to the former, you become an advocate for both: here again you are confident with your whole felf—This is indeed as strong a charafteriftic of citizen John Taylor as I myfelf could have drawn. But how dare you, Sir, to mock the throne of Grace by your canting on the fubjeit of religion, of which neither you nor indeed any one of the leaders of your party either in France or ins America poflefs the smallest spark ? What do you know of fifcal arrangements, with a disposition too idle and too difolute ever to have formed a rational calculation on this, or in truth on any other fubjeft ? What do you mean by the following ; " Let us not forget the danger from without although danger threatens lis from within— let us rise and repel the attack, See." The whole of this diabolical sentence is worthy the malicious grin and studied obfeurity of the Coward, —who, looking big with caution mutters in low accents and in disjointed words, I—fhall—find—a—time—damme ! It is yet more cowardly; for you tell us, that is to fay, we the people, that al though you are " unwilling to shrink from refponfibihty"—yet while " you acknowl edge the right of the people to supervise your conduct," &c. you of pourfe expedt that we will come to a decision " bottomed on frmness." If we do decide at all on "your conduct," I hope it will be not by rising against the government of our choice, but by trying the " frmness" of your " bottom" till you become instinctively acquainted with every species rf {hoe leather, and till you are enabled to diftinguilh each kind by the touch only ; —fuch are your deserts, and such ftiould be your reward. We know you, John Taylor; and we know all the correipcnding affociatcs among the leai i the leaders of your party ; they are all a? I cowardly as they are profligate and abandon jed ; —and however they or you, may hope j to dupe the good people of the United States ! you will find that w f. are .lot such blind fools as you have pretended to make us, when you talk of " taking advantage of the public blindness " which (you fey) is allowed to be ingenuous." Let me put on my fpeftacles Ito be sure that lam right. Yes—it is so ; | thusyou have publicly acknowledged that you really believe that we the people are blind, and that it is fair to take an advantage of our blindness—all this has been said an hundred thousand times in private amongdemagogues, but it remained for you publicly to avow this hitherto secret article of jacobin fait bin the face of the whole world, but was this the effedt of candor or of accident ? I fear it was the latter, for at your outset you invit ed us to " supervise your conduit if how ever, you prefer the supervision of the blind " cbosing darkness rather than light because your deeds are evil" and have really counted on fafetyfrom ourinability to scan or fathom your designs, it is but fair to fay you have deceived yourfelf only. Neither your "false alarm" nor your af fatted religious invocation at the close of that farrago of impudence (hall occasion your real views to pass unseen ; and although from being beneath the notice of govern ment you may perhaps efcapo the Sedition Law ; I cannot promise you the fame suc cess with those whom you have so sedulously attempted to alarm and to abuse : as an indi vidual, I freely confefs that if I am not en raged at your base »nd abominable conduft, it is only because you have my pity and my f«n;empt. IV. Canal Lottery, No. 11. COMMENCED drawing the 7th in/Unt— There are only about 7000 tickets to draw and the Wheel upwards of 30,00 c dollars richer than at the beginning.—Tickets, Mine Dollars each, to be had at Wm. BLACKBURN's Lot tery and Brokers Office, No. 64, South Second Street, — Where Check Books are kept for re gistering and examination in this, the City of Walhington Lotteries, &e. Stc. Tickets, from the state of the Wheel and the few that are now for sale, will rife in future after every days drawing ; and that the public in general may have an opportunity of becoming purchas ers, the drawing is poltponed till Saturday, the iftth inft, when it will continue until Bnifhed. jar.. 19. law A'ete—The business of a Broker duly actend td to, in all its branches SHERIFF'S SALES. BY virtue of a writ of Venditioni Exponas, to me dire&ed, will be exposed to sale, at Pub lic Vendue, on Saturday the ad of February next, between the hour 6of it and 5 o'clock in (heaf ternoon, of said day, at the houfeof Casper Far ner Inkeeper, inJßordentown, and County of Bur lington, those large and Commodious, Buildings and Lot now ecupied as an AeaJemy j this Build ing is ajfo contrived that it may readily be divided into thr«e diftindt and large Dwelling Hcufes; Al so for sale in said Town another Lot of ground confiding of about ten acres including an orchard, garden and dwelling house ; a range of Stone building ere&ed for a Queens ware Potter, a ft ore house, wharf &e. Stc. Seized as the property of Burgifs Athlon and taken in execution at the suit of James Finnimore and others and to be fold by JOHN ELTON, late fheriff of the county of Burlington. Burlington, jan. 18th, 1799. (»») eodjt TO THE PUBLIC. AS divers reports have been circulated prejudN cial to my character, particularly relative to my medical abilities, I beg leave to inform those who dispute my capacity in the art of medicine, that 1 am .willing at any time in the presence of re fpeflable persons to produce my credentials, from good authority in f\»port of my medical capacity; certifying when and where 1 palled a regular ex amination before a board of the king's physicians and furgcons—figned by his Britannic majesty's governor, at the Caftleof Saint Lewis, in Quebec. J. KINL4ID. _j ,n *5- 53t NOTICE. THE co partnerlhip of JOHN GREEN & Co. is this day diiTolved by mutual consent. All«pcrfons indebted to the said Firm are requeued to make immediate payment, and those having any demand* to present them for settlement to any one of the Subieribers—each being duly authorized to adjust the fame. JOHN GREEN. EDMUND DARCH.' SAMUEL DARCH. N. B.—They have the remainder of their stock of Goods—confiding of Ironmongery, Hardware, &c. At No. 16, North Second Street, which they are felling on very low terms to close the business. Jan. 18 tawjw SAMUEL PARKER, BRASS and BELL FOUNDER, No. 137, MvLBEHRr-SrREEV. CONTINUES to Carry on the Brafs-foundery Business as usual, where his former customers and the public may be supplied with castings for machines to any pattern, rudder braces, bolts, &c. for (hips. It may be proper to add, that, as it has been re ported he had declined the bafinefs, S. P. takes this means of informing the public that he is making arrangements to carry it on still more extensively, hoping thereby to comply promptly with such or ders as he may have to execute. Bells, of any size, cast for churches and other institutions; printers rules, &c. j"- »3 eo3t Printing Work, Of Every Kind, EXECUTED AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE, At the Office of the Gazette of the United States, oa. 13. %\)t tiSajette. PHILADELPHIA m MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18. *■ «kbm——- N O T E S, On the iMPEAcgARiLirr of a Senator of the United States.—(Continued) 2dly. But supposing that a private citi zen is not impeachable fer any offence what soever, yet a Senator of the United States, being intrusted with Legislative and Extcu five and Judicial power is impeachable for certain offences. This proportion is so felf evident as to put fcepticifni at defiance, if it be admitted that a Senator is an officer of honor or trust under the authority of the con stitution of the United States. But this is disputed by some, who contend that a Sena.- tor of the United States is not an officer of honor or trust under that constitution, and therefore is not liable to impeachment, I (hall consider a Senator of the United States in his three various capacities, as le gislator, as veiled with a {hare of Executive power and as judge. 1 ft. As Legislator, a Senator of the Unit ed States is averted to be a civil officer of the United States. The word office is of a raoft general and comprehensive import, and in relation to pub lic concerns means a public trust ; whoever is charged with such a trust is an officer.* Among writers upon politics it is univer sally agreed that legillation is the highest aft of power in society andconfequently the of fice of a legillator must be the highest office. Indeed, to ascertain where the supreme pow er of a state is placed, is the fame thing as to ascertain where the power of legislation is placed. AH must obey tlie law, whether in public or private stations, from the highest officer to the moil humble citizen. If the legislative power be placed in a body composed of a number of individual persons, that body is the legislator, and not any in dividual alone ; yet every individual member having a portion of the power vested in the bo dy,fills anoffice ofvery high trust and honor. The legislative powers granted by the con stitution, are v#fted in Congress, which con sists of a Senate and a House of Reprrfen tatives. From and under the constitution a Senator derives his political being. The peo ple of America who formed it, established the mode of elefting the branch of the na tional legislature called the Senate, by direct ing two Senators to be chosen by the legisla ture of each state ; but although a Senator is chosen by a state legislature, be it not the of ficer of that state which elefted him but of the United States. For the people of the United States he is to legislate, and he is bound to consider every measure in a com prehensive view, regarding all parts of the nation. Hence it apjkars that a member of Congress, whether in the Senate or House of Representatives, being to perform the impor tant duties of a legislator over the United States, is in this capacity vested with an of fice of honor and trust under the conftitption of the United States and is to be considered is their officer. Wherefore then ftiould he not be impeachable ? Suppose a member of Congress corruptly engaged by a foreign state to support and vote for measures advantageous to it, though ruinous to his own country : or fuppole him bribed by an individual to vote for a private claim of money : ought not such an abuse of trust and violation of in tegrity to be punished by a future difqualifi cation to hold a place or office of any kind under the government ; and ought not the councils to be immediately purified by his in stant removal. If he ought, and if the con stitution may by any fair construction reach such a corrupt legislator, by process of im peachment, surely such conftruftion should be admitted. NotWftg but the most plain and unequivocal expressions should privilege and exempt him ; none such are to be found and therefore a legislator should be deemed impeachable for criminal misdemeanors. zdly. A Senator in his executive capacity is to give his advice and confcnt refpefting treaties with foreign nations and refpe&ing appointments to office after the nomination of the President. Tliefe powers are very important. Suppose a Senator corruptly to refute or corruptly to give his confcnt to a treaty ; suppose him corruptly to engage himself to a foreign nation to oppose every treaty that (hall be disagreeable to such foreign nation ; suppose a Senator bribed to rejeft one man nominated to an office for the purpose of making way for another : Would not such an offender be a suitable objeft of removal from office and future difqualificatioß. It is only by conviction and judgment on im peachment, that future difqualification can be awarded; for expulsion by a vote of vhe Sen ate, is not a bar to a feat in that house or to any other civil office. From these obler vations it appears that a Senator is peculiarly liable to impeachmentfor high misdemeanors in his executive capacity, such as for cor ruptly advising and approving a pernicious treaty, or corruptly rejecting a good one, or for betraying the confidential communica tions made by the President relative to foreign nations, or for making use of the knowledge thus obtained to break the peace of the Uni ted States with any foreign state, great or small, 3 •becoming the dignity of a Senator to be ame nable to impeachment, is to counteraa the vital principle of the constitution, which at taches responsibility to every public trust. Such a sentiment exhibits the Senate in an odious point of view, and is produaive of jealousy and distrust. True it is a Senator is an officer of great power, high trust and eminent honor. The dignity of his °®ce most emphatically pronounces that he (hould be liable to impeachment, a process efpecia - ly designed for the trial of the high officei* of state. That such is the constitution cf ihe United States, I trust has been fatisfai. orily proven ; but if such is not the conftiti « tion. 'it cannot be too speedily amended.