* From the .'luganitte. For April. Tnt GLEANER. No. XXI,II. | Now, by my manhood, my Ft;il sou', (jifdajns, These ;'ark'ning glooms, which sud denly pervade ; The well wrought (yltem dignity sus tains, And perseverance lends its potent aid. THAT melancholy pause, and ex treme dejection, which at this present so apparently pervades every order of eiti zeus among us, is, methinks, rather derogatory to the American character. The question, relative to opening the temple of Janus, seems to be agitated with Unbecoming warmth, and a zeal, not properly tempered by knowledge, is, I conceive, drikingly exemplified by every party. That our country hath, during a mod auspicious period, been borne for ward upou the frill tide of prbfperity, no one but the embittered, the cyuieal, or the interested incendiary, will deny. Peace, with her olive wreath, was to lis the celedial harbinger of unexampled felicity ; agriculture hath flourifhed In primeval beauty, fodered on the bosom of libertyj aud fanned by the genial airs of the meek eyed goddess, it is ra pidly approximating the highed perfec tion of which it is susceptible. Our manufactures have surprisingly advan ced. Our navigation is extensive; al most every ftieam conveys the well freighted bark; and our commerce, wafted by the breezy gale, hath accu mulated riches upon the fardiftant Chore: It may be problematical, whether trade ought not to partake in fame degree the nature of its favorite elements; and whether, under the general regulations, of rectitude, it would not probably find its own advantageous, and equal balance ; at any rate, unaided by treaties of coin meree, our merchants grasping the obje<3 of their wishes, have, in many indan ces, found their enterprizes crowned with pneommon success. The arts and sciences too, are obtaining naturalizati on in our foil. Literature, bled fourcc of rational elevation—literature hath enlided its votaries : The extenlive and. energetic movements of the foul art afloat ; the sciences and the virtues lovt the venerable diades, and fequedrated haunts of liberty, and, cultivated fuc cefsfully in this new world, we had hop ed that they would become patrons o frugality, temperance, and that holy religion, which fmootheth the bed of death. Our citizens, asitlfiouldTeem, intuitively, jiad become fenlible of thai indiscriminate advantage, derived to the community in general, where each indivi dual receives from the common fund, and where every member contributes his quota, for the benefit of the whole ; in one word, every one ieemed sensible of the blef fings.of a good government, and fede ralifm was the basis. on which we were fuccefefully building the fuperdrufture of every thing ufeful, every thing vir tuous, ev«Jry thing ornamental. What a fearful and dedruftive hydra is fa£lion ! War is its elded born, and with the eye ot the balilifk it feeketh to annihilate the cherub peace.—Dreadful is the progreisj of war ; it is retrograde to almod every! virtue ; the duties of benevolence it in verteth ; it enjoineth upon every indi- 1 vidual to afflidt, and harrafs, by every 1 pofiible means. Cultivation is no more.! Deltrudlion, with (hocking exultation, exercifeth in every goodly walk, its fa- j tally blading influence. Population la-' ments its murdered millions, the earth is humectated by the blood of our fellow i creatures, and those infernal demons, I discord and malice, are glutted by the I calamities of the human species. A« late elegant writer inimitably portrays i the consequences of even fuicefsful war ; t perhaps a review of the picture may 1 be of use—" We mud fix oui eyes not i " on the hero returning with conquest, t " nor yet on the gallant officer dying in J «' the bed of honor, the fubjeft of pic- a " ture and of song, but. on the privatejr " soldier, forced into the service, ex-jr " handed by camp ficknels and fatigue : ! t " Pale, emaciated, crawling to an " pital with the profpeft of life, per- i; " haps a long life, bladed, useless, and c " fuftering. We mud think of then " uncounted tears of her who weeps t " alone, because the only being whot " (hared her. sentiment a is taken from e " her, no martial music founds in uni-it " son with her feelings; the long day b " pafies and he returns not. She does f< " not died her sorrows over his grpve, s i " for die ha? never learnt whether h« 1 ever had one. If he had ret triced, c ' if exertions would not have been re- 5/ individually,' for he only > .ade a small imperceptible part of < machine, called a regiment. > jc mult take in the long ficknef,, b ? " winch no glory foothcs, ore ifionedj " by didrefs of mind, anxiety, and! j" ruined fortune. Tliclc are not fan i" cy pictures, and if you please to height j" ten them, yon can every orieot yon I"do it for yourselves. We take in the " conlcqnence-s, feh perhaps tor ages, before a countiy which has been cpm " pletely desolated, lifts its nead •' again ; like a to: rent of lava, its •' word rr.ifchief is not the firit,' " overwhelming, ruin of towns and ..palaces, but the long Irerility to which oit condemns the track it hath covered with its ft ream.—Add the danger to T regular governments whic < are changed by war, sometimes to anarchy, and e fojnetimea to despotism. Add all these, d ind then let us think when a General 1, performing these exploits, is filuted : t with Weil done good and faithful servant, .. whether the plaudit is likely to be e ,-hoed in another." But however de a p orable the calamities of war, such is 1 r . ;he nature of the present scene of thing:,' that there are circumjiattces which full' 1, nvolve the necejjity of appealing to the u sword.—When our dearest, effentiai, 1 0 jnd moit important interests are invad- j d ed, wnen our existence, as a nation, < n put to the hazard, when negotiation: 1 n ail, when we are fubjefted to contume 1 lious indignities, when we are defpoile !. of our propei ty, and ftrippe,d of the ! hopes of redress : In emergencies thu: ' tr ptcfi'ng, every sentiment of felf-dtfence, i- will throw the guantiet for the battle. 1_ 1 hat it is precilely upon these evil times II we have lalleiij many refentfully and ve hemently pronounce Well, not yei 1 i_ freed from the jealoulies and entangle ; ments of European politics, while th t iiemifphere of the elder world is thus * t- freadfully tempelled, nothing but an - d over weening felf-paitiality, could lead r is is to expedt escaping, at lead the oul ■ d ikirts of the hurricane, if we have ' ; been unwarrantably and unnecedarily in-' 1 wed, and if our abilities are adequate 1 :i to the contention, let eveiy American r i- play the man for his country ; let not i d jur faces thus gather paleness, but, i d when properly authorised by the autho-' i i'ty which we hav- conferred, let us r c combine, hand and heart, to work out 1, j ur own political salvation. If our c d cause is thus righteous, the God of ar- v t nies will again lead us forth, and doubt- v t less the palm of victory will be ours, f d But deliberation here maketh a pause : a • .igaind whom (hall we commence hofti- 11 ' 'ities ? So many are the wiongswhic! " ve are said to have fuffered from the f y naritime belligerent powers, that an' ,f American will he-fitate a^.' i, .falnii wmcn to prefer"tEeToudefT coin j Jaints ; and the investigations made in " • he general council of our nation, ft nearly poizeth the scale of depredation. 1 d -hat the clofett observer, uninflnencetl ' r, ty party, is at a loss to decide upon !. the question. But it is said that our J I obligations to France ought in equity - to destroy the equipoize, thus furnifhing c a balance in her favour ; and indeed il c eisto be wished, that the conduit of n . that nation had been such, as to have 1 t fanitioned the mod unlimitted eledlion g !of her intereds. If, wheh emerging e e irooi the benighted clouds of despotism ; 1 e if, when exonerating herielf from the v ./intolerable oppreflion of unlimited au-» yjthority, (he had known where to erej't . the barriers; if (he had not outraged " , every feeling of humanity, mod alro- )' y cioufly committing acts, at which even " . tha bosom of doicifm agonizes at every!" , pore, over which reitirude mud pour '' . the never failing tear, and at which . titude hath learned to weep ; if die had Si upported the condituti'on which- (he* i/ swore to maintain, we should doubtfeftjy , have felt for her like veneration, as wheu-k : the gallant and virtuous La Fayette,!tl l diredting her councils, led forth her ar- 'i s mies, and, pointing her steps to vic-d ; tory and fame, thus extorted the rriing-ai r ling and unhesitating applause of an ad - P t miring world. But alas! France, at .this period, exhibits a fpeftacle, from'!) i wji;ch lacerated truth indignant hades, ■' - at which reason (lands aghaft,while mo- oj yality and holy religion, by base and jmurderous' hands, are stabbed in the S Rendered pait. Perhaps the only ad- I ' vantage which the revolutionary tribu- ei ual can boailover the lettre de'eaphet, tl or the judly execrated Badile, is, that tn not prolonging the fnfferings of its vie- p< tims, it hadeth to bestow upon them, b 1 through the indrumentality of theex-»<- ecutioner, a speedy emancipation from'/v its tyranny. Whole hecatombs have'p< been immolated ; every person who dif- if Fcreth in opinion from the ryling fac-ar f ion is arretted, tried, and executed-at r he federahjl findeth no mercy j and cc even an avowed >wijh, to qualify their pi '"O/led indivisibility, by a single feature til >f the American government, is edima. vi ed as treasonable ! With regard to our in ibhgations to Franco, it ought surely to ar Je conftdered, whether gratitude can ed edjever teach us to abet', even the-moft lili ndlral and jftj.nietiyied benefactor, in deeds j in-of darknels, and of death: And, wncu:( lit it is remembered, tiiat the well timedjs on aid, from which we dented advantages'! he so indisputably beneficial, was pro cur t ?s, ed through the inllrurr.entality of himrjs n whom ivc then.hailed as our magnanimous e ad ally—which ally hath, by the moil inn-n itsgwinary .men and mcafnres, been, by ft,jvio]ent hands arretted in tlie middle of e id hisdavs ! when these circurrstances are'd :h adverted to, they may poil.bly be re-( ;d garded as an extenuation oj cur crime, al-1 to though barely for the iake ol evincing a j ( | our loyalty to the Gallic name, \ve Ihotild e ij not conceive ourselves obligated to lea, I; e, the bounds of rectitude. Vet, it angci; al as it may seem, faction hath introduced e ■d its el'overt foot among u# s with afto- r< ,C liihFrig effrontery it hath dared to lift it.-; e: e _ baleful head, and, drawing the iworo S , of discord, it is preparing to ii cath it g is in the vitals of that infant conjiuutwn, t; . whose budding life expands so J ir t 11 ! view, and whof. docile texture, y,e;dmg v lj, ample hope to cultivation, en i met theft ,1 mellowing growth to every dejired imp i. provement. Certaiply the idea of mur i dering in the very cradle, so vpry pro' r i mifing an offspring, mufl indeed be a it » ooncejition, which can have received a j . v orm only in the maddening cogitation ie of hell torn anarchy. May Heavei 11 !, shield our country from the progress f ( f that tartarean fiend, which hath lo long tl fj desolated France. Is there a patriotic p lolom, which hath not glowed with in- g e . ilignation; is there a virtuous feeling, e< ; i which hath not recoiled from the frenzy j •• ->f that parricide, which so licentiously b , iufpended over the head.ofour matches j 1E Chief, the execrable Guillotine ?—bvei n the head of that venerable patriot,whole ' d bosom is the feat of virtue, whole dif 11 .nterclled efforts for the public weal, , , t liand unrivalled in the Records of im -- mortal fame; whose superior talents, :c and whose revolving hours, are gene- 0. n rally appropriated to the generaJ ,t g'ood ; whole unyielding magnanimity, >' t, hath gleamed athwart the daVkell and ii; i- mod diltrefling moments, the lurfiinous m is rays of manly hope ; who, lar from pi it bending beneath ' the load of nationa " 11 depression, iiath confydered etery event, r . with the firmnefs of inflexible virtue ;tr t _ who, like another Atlas, hath still sup- ol 5. ported the mighty fabric of a various rii . and complicated government; whose pe , i- netrating genius, and expanding re- 01 ft sources, unravel the intricacies of du- ai e plicity, and prelenreth ' the extricating tc „ hand, of wifdnm ; who glows with i h rajilure of the hero upewv evety a i- nltince of national elevatii,n : In on 'S ri 'Vord, who was the iiluftrious leader, the El 0 boa ft, and the very foul of.bur armies, n< 1, who continues the brightest gem in a< (| the enfolding robes of peace. ' Will ye I n lot veil to the father of your country, fe ir ye felf-createdfociefies —ye afTociated de-' t) y claimers ? Is it your element to arraign, 'at g to cavil, to ceniure, to exerctfe a kind b it of fanciful despotism ?—Well, then, you ai f mull be pennittted to buzz on, the in- h e feels of an hour, warmed to life by the 11 „ genial influence of that freedom, whof. 111 g equal ray, in imitation of its great pro c ; totype, irivigorateth the poisonous, a:- 1!! e well as the lalutary germe : Yet, fuffei at [.a fellow-citizen to make, she inquiry— ii What is your object'? Why are you thu. « d lludious to create divisions ? Why arc ; 1. you ambitious of forming an arjlocract. el ri:in the midil of your brethren? Ought ro jrjnot the. nation at large to form one vafl it r lociety of people, bound by commoi. n •.ties, common wilhes, and com mo: or 1 hopes ? Hath any part of the Union ex e conjlitut'oitally delegated their powers tc, in s you ? To whom will you appeal ? Tin ca ,|late envoy of France, in efTedl, at least ra, t threatened an appeal to the people? Bur N ..lurely, neither the quondam Ambaffa of ■ ,° r his adherents, have fufficietul- :o; .attended to the origin, nature, and com- an . pletion of our happy conllitution. an t If ever ally government might, ft, ifl. an Vly (peaking, be characterize*, in a rati ip ( onally republican sense, the governmern ea .of the people, the regulations made for na 1 the administration of order, in these be ; States, is indubitably that government, th . 1 his is an axiom which I should imaniiv h .could never be controverted. Per; - , J , , the manner of obtaining and eftablifliin. • foi ; our government, hath not, in every res mi ■ pea, a parallel. Delegates appointed by , oy thefree, unfoticiled, uric rrupted, anc w'i . unanimous voice of the people, were by tk fy peopie invefled with authority to weign tra 'ponder, and . refleCl they affemhled' me • ihey deliberated, examined, compared, coi - and finally arranged. To the consider- tic . ation of the fovcreign, tHe result of the die 1 eollecled wifdorri of our Continent was int presented; every a.tide, every fc„. a n, rtiment was examined, in every poifiblc wo view ; it was analyzed, and fcrutini/ed, nei ■in the completell, mod uncontrouled, lev ' a ', i lgor l Ol ! S n ; anner ' embodi- dil ed the whole force of their eloquence , pre It'. \-;w •• dsSt • * . v ed'en •es'nr ■ b legate ; pft *' n&d, and i' us e'*pe£;ed , ' ' >y —^hW jf eulogy (jj • o re i,ntiy ' *— e, —,•. t,* ■ .^.l -- tern. One ftaieand another, time after il-time, deiittrately adopt ig and ratify a plai), tvhich so evidently id embraceth the iiierciis of. the people at ij' large. In fomt.of our governments the ;c iancilion yielded is unanimous, and in •u every part of the Union, tiis-large and 3- respeCtable majority of the people, is un- Uexempled in the annals of iegiflation. 0 Surely, 1 fay, a government thus ori it ginating, thus faaftioned, and thus el 7, tabjifhed, may be unequivocally pro t nounced, in every proper sense, the go-j g vernment of the people. To whom, then,! from such a government, can we ap peal ? The answer is obvious ; but, may 1 'Mir politiea! Hercules crulh the hydra }' '"aclion, however multifarious may be] ; its powers of mifchu'f, or however wide y poisonous influence, n In Vt Miija of gefieral conllernation I ind per ?faed fitfpenie, it is undoubt f felly our wisdom to abide the result of g those invelligations and debates, which v properly conllitute the department of 1- gentlemen, whom we have commission ed to take upon them the admiuiflratiou yjf public affairs. If the Gleaner might y he permitted to breathe a wilh, it wouia Is je for the general oblervanee and efta ilii'liment of order, and that every citi le 'en would learn, habitually, to venerate i itfj and characters devoted to, and en ;:tged in the adminillration of jullice, j. nd to which every good and worthy s, iember of the community is alike eligi :- 'lie. n The Gleaner, from a series of accu -, ate and uuimpaffioned observations, is d induced earnelily to hope, that the ge-i is neral government will ft ill continue to i II preclude all illegal interference, all foreign, 1 iincanjlitutianm, ana unbecoming influence. 1 t, And he conlefles that he experienced t ; the enthulialm of approbation, when he ; i-oblerved in the public prints, that dig i fg ritfied movement of Congress, that the c • galleries might be vacated, upon an ii|- ■-decent attempt made, to approbate men ; 1- and measures, by tejlimonies, proper onlj . gto mark the merit of the votaries'of tin. ; h lock and bufldn. Yea, verily, this new \ v in rlit; heritage of liberty j but it < is of that liberty which decidedly avow e et h her J'yfiem, her regulations, her laws, herfiuordination, to all of which she e\ n act eth the mofl ferupulous obedience, e I am not ignorant that liccntioufnefs no; '. leldoni alfumes the sacred name of libei (y.; heentiouinefs, engendered by dark i, cended goddess, rational and refined no, (he hath not a single feature of tilt t ■1 audacious impostor, who with such afto lifting effrontery, so artfully arrogateth ! ; ler character and offices, and who, by I' c ; series of execrable machinations, arte- J . -loathing hertclf in the iky-wrought t t robes of the fright celestial, demandetl. [ 1 aer honors, preduceth again It her the 1 nod shocking and libellous de'clamati- a ms, and woundwh her in the upright t exercifts of those pure and wholefomc t , institutions, replete with the mod falu- ii . tary and benignant influence, upon the e morals and happmefs of our 'species. a f Nay, the blighting and contagious breatl lc of ficentioufeels, ftigmatifeth decent and t: :orreS liberty, as the most degenerate 11 and servile traitor ! and, denounced by 1 anarchy,, the epithets, usurper, despot, p • and tyrant, with every other frightful 11 appellation, *hich the black catalogue d eaii produce, is liberally and indifcrimi-w i' lately bestowed upon her. Between ]i - a oerty and iicentioufnefa, we cannot trac- u . the smallest analogy; they have betnC rrikingly and beautifully contrnfiedJ Liberty has been compared to an in n iormed, elevated, and well regulated k mind; her movements are authorized u by reason ; knowledge is her harbinger • e wisdom adminillrateth onto her; mild ' t! ly benignant are all her'interpoiitions • fti tranquility results from her arrange'|F ments , and a serene and equal contentment is her eldest born. Licen- C tioufnefs is said to resemble the unbri- v. died and tumultuous career of him, who, ri intoxicated by the inebriating draught, ir and having renounced his underftandiiig,' it would invert rile order of nature s—ea- tl ger to pour the inundation which lliali h level every virtue, and annihilate even- a; diltindlion, he exalted in his fancied provvefs, riots amid the confufion which hi Ap,;i. - a t tnan was thought at firft J e r' ore l6nous . account of the begVr,:-!.' of tk'° Pe a (hort he Ull not be °t f o tr rtVO '? : ' Jtt >»;Bngadier Madalinfki, a South : nd birth, had, fmce Jur)e 170, n Maoali'nlki marched from Mlawa, at the head of 1200 men, u- but not, as he had promised to General is ingclflroem, to proceed to Warsaw b it jcn the night of the 14th fu, pr ifed the to Prussian vdlage of Szfrnfk. On the "1 "lowing night he surprized Wtflagrod, and at that place, on the 18th, pafi'ed ed the rivet WeichliJ, and went to Soeh- Ik aczew, took the fait duties which the gi Prussians had collected there, and order, heed that all the foreign collectors of du ll- ies should leave South Prussia, or else en at his return he would treat them as 1) -nemies. From hence he pursued his ht march towards Inowlotz. In all these :y places Madalinflci found small piqueti it of Pruffiane, as is usual in frontier w- towns, consisting of from 20 to 60 men j> each, partly hussars, partly infantry, \ )Ut without any artillery or ammuniti x. on, excepting w hat was in their cartouch o; joxes. These small parties being una pie to make any resistance, we of course A»tre obliged to give way before a body ti >f 1200 men. At Inowlotz, tho'there di were only about 40 Prussians, they con-} i. trived to retard the march of Madalin et ki for more than half an hour, by def er troying pait of the bridge, till at lad a Ic- party of Polanders swam across the river - ind came upon their rear. The Piuf ht iians at the fame time having expended 0 ill their ammunition, were obliged to th lurrendcr. Had they been able to have >y 'tood only a few hours longer, perhaps er Madalinflci's infurredtion might have it terminated here, as the battalions of :1 Heinrii'h, two companies of Fuzileers if of Oswald, with two pieces of cannon i- and a party of Trenck's hussars under it the command of Col. Buodenbrock, u were on their march thither; but the ;i- infantry being much fatigued with forc u ed marches, could not come up in time, s. and Madaliniky did not stop a moment 1 longer than was necessary to refrefh his ir! troops. Trenck's hussars however were k up in time enough to make some of his >y tear prisoners—the reit of the body t, proceeded for Opoezno and Rudowze u! in Sendomir, in which latter place Ma n dalinflci got hold of the Polish Chest i- which contained 80,000 gueldres ; and i- also four pieces of iron ordnance; after -• which he joined General Kozciulko at ■:i Cracow. I.' In the different flf While these things 1-General Kozciuflio, with his troops, i- was near Cracow, and the Ruffian gar ), n'fon which con< )*ed of 600 men, hav t, ing evacuated'it, he took pofleffion o» r, it. in the n arket p!;iee, he addrthid i- the inhabitants, intreatiug th .*m to locge II his troops, and jotn h.m in the defence v jf h is countiy. d After this, he went to the Town h lioufe, where he wan received by a g" 4 '-