r«t>j For the Gazette ef the linmci Sidtcj. Mr. Fehno, SO many falfiiood* hsve heen pilmed uj; i" the public, thro* the medium of newl'papeis, that contradiflions are rare ly nereffary ; but if so palpable a ferie< of niiiUtings, and fiith Unfounded af 4et:ions, as appear in your paper of Saturday lad—in " the extriifi of a letter from a gentleman in Philadelphia, to his correfpondcnt in New-York"— fruuld pa!» unnotited; it might too much encourage evil minded persons, under a hope of impunity, to proceed in filch praftices -1 ought, in juttice t6 the citizens of Philadelphia to suggest, the improba bility, that such a letter was written here, it is do'ibtlefs a fabrication in New-York ; uader the fi&itious appear, ance of a letter from this city: a trick the a natch i lis at aM'ftance fion, the feat u! Gove: nnKt, have practised, with too much y.cycHX the ignorant and uninfuimed may give raore credit to iiiTwtions from ptvfons, who are near tiie Government, and have opportunity of rccuraßfi knowledge of its aiove- mans.—No Uian in Philadelphia would dare to place ** Heavsn and the MatH jin'un party," together as having pre served ptac • to this country. A dtxiaiation of this extent, the par ty ihrtnfe'-es dare not nv.ke, and never will, unlifs emboldened, by fueh hints, to expect support from abfttad.—The letter fuggefti that the fame persons who oppofrd M.idifon's Commercial Regulations, and were in favor of the Extife, were alfo'in favor of the Stamp Du'y ; too impudent for any body, but a diltant anarchiß, to assert ; fa its on record, will mark such inlimiations with a proper epithet; Ames, Tracy, W. Smith &c. &c.— who were of the com mitter who repot ted that bill, are among the names who opposed it, and those jf p'.lfmrr. would not be very thankful to any perfuu, for ranking them in the M'lifo'ii*" party.. —T.'ir rommittee of w:.yt lit* lEcsns., thought i! their duty, to report, a rr.nety of model by which a revenue coi:M be raif;d, a Stamp dti iray* and rn:ans reported; and the Mjdiftmiar.s may with equal truth, be fa;d to have prevented a Land Tax, as the Stamp dunes; all ho' the Land Tax was ? favorite of that party. —I wa* a fp-cUtor ; n the gallery, v.hen these tVngf. were in agitation, before the Ho use of RrpryfentatNes in Congress; and I declare the language of that par ty, it lied in the letter you publilhed, Madilomans, wsshoftile; they reproach ed the fiicnds of peacc wtth tamenefs, tti.-y opposed negotiation with Gi eat- Britain, as mean and degrading; they Mi. Jay's appointment, wt fhonTa not now have wai with Great poverntiKnt of the United States wa: too timid, to face an invader of theii rights :—and many such expreifious under a full confidence, that popolaiii) was to be gained by thrm ; but wher it appears, the govd sense of almost al bates the measures of the peaceablt party, Dehwtirognes are found, base enough, to afTume all the credit tolhei own heroic gentry, who feared not war. but, in the extreme, feared allprepara . tjons for it.— h is not true, that th< " Ma&f-.uian party cempofeJ a confiJera 11, majority of Cmgrefs." They wert in tbe minority, in every vote, excepting two ; the firtt proportion in Madison' Commercial Regulations, and in Clark') intetcourfe bill, as it was called ; at ti the firft, it amounted to nothing ; the in the fuMUnce, had fpecifi cally been adopted by the Houle o Rej refer.tatives, a* pa.t of a fund t( build a Nary.—And as to the fccond the perty will probably claim an unri vailed credit—Eut if they were the ma jofity, why did not they prerer.t th< Txiiie, which i,iiu.il the infurre&ion The writer llatcs, the Madifonians a fn'gh«!>ii»< Grfal-Britain into peace with the United States in the part of his letter which is to set up his friends ss efficient prefcrwri of peare, and at the elite.fays, on comparing the mea sures, •' tuh'icb rosrc tht mrji pacific / When it is bcit to be hoflile, his party was so, when it is best to be peaceable, ,the fame cttr.daft, by a kind of hocus p«cus, is said. to be pacific: But with out the tpirit of prophecy, I can aflure your letter writer, it will take some time, and many efforts, of all the anarch- Ms in New-Y oik, Boflon and Vermont, united, to convince,even this patty them selves, which he fliles Madifonians, that .they have been the peace makers of the United States :—and I believe Hill longer to make the enlightened citizens at large believe it. Well might this writer, With canting fa«e and language, ijy, What . tie irts -re mc,:: uft of to R. Monday, 15th Dec. J 794- For the Giizelt» of the United Sates. Mr. Fenso, The euclofcd article was sent to '4 . Brown on ihe Btli inft —after wait ing three days a note was sent him, requeuing to kno* whether he would publish it—on the evening of the twelfth, the public i» informed in the Philadelphia Gazette, that the piece is rejected, as it abounds with per sonal abuse !—As I with the public to have a better opportunity of form ing a judgment than is afforded by either a joint or separate opinion in the Philadelphia Gazette, tou will oblige me by inserting the piece in your paper. R. Mr. Brown, A PIECE signed RuJJcU appeared in the Philadelphia Gazette not long a go, and so little was theie in it, and so trite and common-place was that little, that I run my eye over it hastily as 1 uftiallv do over the columns of newfpa pertrafh, and in two or thice days had entirely forgot the publication. But as it was brought lip again by fuccefllve puffs in the fame gazette, I was at length induced to re-examine the pa per to find this pearl which I had over looked or miltaken for'a common peb ble. I was truly surprised to find it was Russell. As so much pains has been taken to force it into notice, let it be noticed. It is dated as of no importance what the forms of government may be, whe ther monarchy, aristocracy, or democra cy : every tiling depends upon, and the only points really consequential, is the judicious arrangement of the public funds or resources. This is not common place truth, it is common place prejudice or absurdity. The writer has probably read as deep as Pope's well known couplet, For modes of government let fools coated. That which is bell adminiftcred is bed. The poetry is very good, but the proposition is execrable for an Ameri can to propagate. Is it really indiffer ent whether the United States are go verned under a monarchy, an aristocra cy, or a club-government (all the ab horrence of freemen) or a republic ?— Either of the firft three forms, would conTtilfe this conntry to its centre, and would blast all the hopi% that our pre sent happy constitution has nearly reali zed^ So far is the pfopofition that this writer has advanced from being true,, that the reverse may be affirmed as the more conformable with reason and ex perience. That our political libeity depends on the happy arrangement of our government, and that our civil li berties have flowed from our political. This at least will be allowed, that the forms of our constitutions have been tried and found as ufeful as they were thought to be. A retrofpeft of some facts will confiim this conclusion— Would a hmple democracy have secu red America from a foreign war ? or have fupprefltd infurrefiions in more in rtances than one? Would the attempts of paper money knaves and other fchcmes for violating right, have failed in some of the states, if it had not been for the steadiness and virtue of a second branch or senate ? Silch trite fophowiore maxims, be sides their faljacy, tend to damp the af fection which republicans feel towards our happy constitution, and which they will value the moreiiighly for contrast ing it with the old confederation ; with such a comparison before his eyes, how could Russell fay, forms of government are of oo importance ? But the most Angular point, the onlv one of real consequence with Ruflel is, the judicious arrangement of the pulFic funds or resources. The nonsense of this dogma sets it beyond the reach of confutation. No j other scribbler ever made the only buS nefs of a nation, to pay taxes. Injudi cious taxes will probably yield little mo ney and much complaint. The men at the head of affairs will have the less fi nancial power and the more clamor. Thus a goveri meet may weaken itfclf ir. this way much more than it will be able to oppress the people. The wri ter, however, is very uninformed of the operation of taxes when he makes their weight the cause of misery, and their lightaefs the cause of happiness. The old confederation called for almost no revenue; yet industry drooped and de clined. Besides, high taxes become in corporated with price, and individuals ill a l!»r"vi»« nation ?rr : :-d fin v.-hat they j>ay. A taxed article rile® in price, and other® rife afterwards, in i consequence ; so that the usual balance between demand and supply is kept up. This writer, however, Overlooks the re al securities for the happniefs of Ame ricans. Ths foverciguty or the Haw? rrvide by our own reprefer.tatives, com mitted afterwards imo the hands of the people thro' their juries, and explained br judges who are plated above all un due influence. Thcle are securities which will proteS man and his earning*, ind which are of infinitely more value than the pounds, (hillings and pence of this writer's arrangement of finance. One would naturally have expected that sophisms so spun ont and fining to gether by Ruflell, would have end.-d in some precise cooclufion of his own ; — what ii it mere or less than a quotation from the Prrfident's speech, the finking of the public debt.' Ruf fes's preamble was probabjy made be fore-hand, to fit any fubjcct which his fludy of the poets might inspire him to handle? and he has huiriedits appearance before he had found any thing to tack Thefcsac in nited is'the whole of the tdTav, ate lit tle worth exposing, But to feme per rons whnfe infelle&p tnay- not be übdrr as ~*aitft and juditioti arntHgemeitt aa .the ■writer Would have tfic finances, may be milled by them ; »i)jl therefore this at tempt is maap by way of caution tc Inch, not to adopt them without ex& mination. After having - examinee them, few pet Tubs will necd any furthe caution. A REPUBLICAN. For the Cazelte »f the United State/. Mr. Fenno, In Saturday's paper I fair a long pane gyric on the measures of what the writer calls the Madifouians or Madifonia* party (but which for brevity 's ftke and as equal ly intelligible, I shall call the Mads or Mad party) and an attempt to prove that those mealures, though only inchoate and and unexecuted, will eventually procure u; whatever fatisfajSS>t limitted or confided to any trifl, and his opinions ai.d Amftrieijts should be commensurate with tli* e.-tf e the law he is making. But fqfitive mSrae ■ trans from diftricls prevent this—they are : formed on an imptrfe& and parr ill Vies* I of fa<£ls, when their opinionsand rcfolutroife might be very different after having a, fair ft«tetr,en: of all the faifls in a general aSera bly, v. here freedom of dilcuflion and com munion of fectimeut befriend the truth. People cannot tell at home how they would or ought to aft in an aflembty. The fuffrages of my fd'.ow-mtn, which neither repose confidence in my integrity, nor afford the tribute of to my a bilities, would neither be agreeable nor ac ceptable to me. Are inftrinflUms in a 1 cases binding—the ideot if he :s capable of. giving his siye and AVir, may answer all the purpoies of the wisest lawgiver. What judgment, what can any m:n dis play, who is under th? reftr?;ni or'bindmg ioftruflions ? He ails is a r.«: t machine, be must exclude the codibi ity of all con ri&ien, and ohftinately per £3 in what he may think to be error. The object em braced by the choice of Rcprjfcr.tatives, is, to-colle£l the wisdom cf theftite, (f or in a multitude of ccunfellors there is fafety ) the Representatives are to unite ir, their cou«fel» and confu't for the n'.M.c fafetv ; [but binding raftru£tions prevent ir-—thrr totally deliroy the good effect of public de liberations, and pervert the fclutirv. n-*a fures resulting frpm united councils : Such are the oplni* lis which I firmed, and with diffidence I puMifli tiiem, in Cvpofition to { the generally received opinion of my c'oaa- I trymen ; but a ftroitg .perliutlicn \>i their | ' *■ I n I ", "2! T f»& rar > cn occaCoß, tc * - - f prcfs ilini. ' ■ 111 one day, than rrr..l::?ton doting f.e years political crisis They make a bullle about what his happened yeilerday i:i the ci J Oram pa lais-royal.—Well ; I know, thete hare been two parties at the theatres, one cried out, vive les Jacobins, and the other, vive la Convention ! the he" "- founded with flioutsof appla'Tes. ( T'-e iflemblyand all the role and c ieti out, vive la Convention ! Citizens, don't fuffer yotirfe'.vrs to be lulled into security. Tune ac some neri who fay aloitd, " We (hall tn. np. r>, 'ere long." Atn ciou* menace* 'C heard every where. Individuals wha have received cards £of fa,;' y or civ ;n. J from the revolutionary cmnvHers, < r fled (heir departments, in oidcr to es cape the punishment dor to their emir*, are met with in cvn y ftrert o f Prr i. I have cemar dec liberty to :p»v!s. .<>» t:. « eight days tince. If th- Convent!-:) allows rre ta ir.ount tnc tnbssne, 1 fc !1 present some ideas, which may coritn buteto throw light on the dargers. ar.d point out the : eccflary mealitrM, "o -et p th< veffcl of the revohiiici afloat, and to prevent its being fw?.llowed by the ftcrms, which the are T3ifing. The Convention rcfo'.veJ, that Du bois Crunce (hould be heard. Dubois-Crance, afer having taken a flight retrofpeft of the different d;fti:rb ances which opposed the h»ppi»«fl < ( twenty-fix millions of Frenchmen, aci drefied the Mountain, .which has not ouly done its dutv, but alf&pisd imn bute ro humanity,—engaged his col leagues to forget arvimoHties. a> d u> watch the Cs'tre'eors of the rev< I 'tio", vrhochsnge their cMours according 'o cip.-i mftances, in order t# impunity the deftruft'.on of '.ttrl) ; and drew the attention of the affirm! :y on the situation of commeice and in tjuftry. He concluded, by nrnpol ng is dtcre.' for the nr.-i: t;naa»rc of the il. CI VIS.