JONATHAN ROBdIMS. Daring the !afl winter and the following fpri'ng, the affair of Jona batt Robbing the pirate and m- r-Jcrer, excited a considerable degree of coi.vcrfatisn in private circles, and the public 1 trind was constantly agitated by the lies daily published in the Aurora and other Jacobin French Gazettes of this coun try. Our readers will recolleft that in or der to convince the peop'e of America that Robbius was not a naiive of the tows of Banbury, in Coanedicut, a certificate was pro cured from the Sele&nen of that tawn, de claring that no such name as Robbins could be found upon the Records of jDaabwy, which certificate was published in this Ga zette, ; this, with the confe£fii>n of the Murderer at the place of execution, that he was an Irishman, was fatisfa&ory and con clufivc with every man not blinded by party. But the Jacobins w-cre not to be liaggered with fads; they dill harped upon the old key to a new tune ;-fr some months they pnrfued their usual system, one day by dark intiendos and base infinuatiou, and then by bold and lying af lertjons ; at last, after frequent mention of fomej" important la&s refpefling that un fortunate citizen," forth come the following Aurora Remarks and subsequent Letter. From the Aurora cf June the 20th. JONATHAN ROBBINS. During the late session of Cong re f» we were promised some fadts concerning this un fortunate citizen ; and we hr.ped to have had them in time for the tlifculfion upon Mr. Livingston's motion. We were difappoint t<4 then. We have been more fuccefsful fine-, and lhall now lay before our readers the Information we have obta ned literally, as we Wave obtained it, in a letter addressed by a gentleman residing at Danbury to the Editor of. the Aurora. In the view of nationalindependence—is it relates to our ch.uatVr as a nation—as it relates to the charatter auE independence of our jtidiciary, it is a matter of utter infigni ficance, whether Jonathan Robbins wag a native of the Irish bog; or of the rouyh de clivities of Conne£licut. Judge Bee himfrlf declared at much from the bench ; but he declared it in a sense dilferent from what we cqpeeive to be the law of the land or the law of nations. Judge Bee according to the re port published averted that it made no dif ference whether Robbins was a British fub jfft or an American cirizen, the treaty com prehended both descriptions, and he was de livered up. We conceive that having a law paramount to every treaty, that is the great charter of the Federal Constitution, to de liver hi™ up, was t. As a citizen, contrary to the Consti tution. 2. A* charged with the crime of piracy on the high fcas, over which the jurifdiftion of all nations is common,' it was a violation of law and jtiftice. 5. Tit.it it was a violation of the confli tution to deliver him up without the infjueft cf a jury. The priucipal ground of defence set up to just ty the interference of our Executive (and »iii* appeais to have been Pickering's aft t'olely) was thai R bbins was an alien f">rn ; and the prejudices of the public were called forth to palliate and mitigate the dil gr ce of the aft, unrierthis black fubteifuge 6f iiihmninity. It Is well worthy of con federation, however, with what nice sympa thy in crimes and maxims o| government the angle-Jcderi'.ists and their Brititti friends a £tre. It -xr-rs a fufricirnt palliation of dis grace to fay Jonathan Hobbios, was a feign ed name, and that in truth his name was Thortias Naih a native of Waterford ! It is remarkable that an Englifliman was ac quitted ot' murder at Waterford in lieli/nd, under the Btitilh government, and upon this plea, the acculrd eonlcfled that he hud killed the man, but alhdged that it'was not mur der becauie he was a mere liilhn.an. The Hottentots are \is b'arbafOUs than such ci vilized favagitsj Public weuknel'siaving tolerated in some meature, at least by its futien fitence, the de . livery of this juifortunate man into the talons cf the Britiih, it became a matter of some moment, todifcover the validity and autho rity which the certificates procured trom Dan bury, by the immediate application if Mr. Pickering carried with then'. The certificates of the Sch ftmen ftatcd that they cauld find 110 such name as Jona than RtbSint. on the records of Danbury. The public will be surprized to find this {aft literally truf, and yet covering a molt g/ofs deception. The reordt of Danbury were burnt along v>itb the town by the Eruisb during our re- Tolutictiary war. Coiifcquentiy theft Seledlmen could not find b:s n.-ree thrjrin- Thus we Re too, that the barbarity of the British soldiery du jifljj o'ur war with then), has bfen acolfavy to t'rie murder at thfc dillance of twenty jeurs J The Sttpftmen Ijkenvife aflVrted that they 4id not rememb'-r, any family of the name of Rojftiins in Danbury. The matter has paffad before the public and the fele&men have recovered theiroiefljories, ard they have aftually found a faioity of that name, nay mare a brother of Jonathan Robiius living uithin a few miles of that town, liead the letter—whoever u.ifh.es to fee the original, fee it in the hand? of the Editor. a Irtttr to tpe Editor, Jaitd Den- bury, June I, 1800. " The people ot thele ealiern slates, have elt a high degree of resentment at our Mi tt ries from France. This has artfully been mproved ir call oft thi*ir attention from the iiigh-bandtd and oppreflive nirafcrcs at nanic. :i Sjlbpiffion to France" has been held! upas the coßlequence ®f every sentiment, wish, or measure which was not exattly conformable; to passion, obedience and nnn-vefi(t.ince, or in their own language " imp' icit con lid- nce in our ♦* rulers." This great political bug -4 '.r, had for a time the effect intended, and ll« Seuiti,)u *i,J A'ie 1 L «■ , t■ w't." liofcer UrifesM's t'n !i:h L :!, fcconi.;;- tiie" p-'weijron i,;or|ic.i, wrr\ as ; „. a „ ; i frr.icb eneroaclimcuts, ;.$ » ir;vtiii~ tlie tinier of F'Cnch warure 1 jtii » c nUut-ug her on o*'»j ( t le HoviUy anc the decep'.inn liaw ,u?,v, our bili%ru.b feel thr indignation tlir miciitr of tlie other , *ifl inmciltdi. 3 ;!: it nu th? futility of the tht;;i ; ,i: 1 I i-i- ami :rlom ho|>e ol t'.i; iing'l>;-tclt:-n-.i.11. Mr. Rofs'6 el ection bill ..re 11 ■■ t fnllicinuly known to re ceive the if.uviM! 1-1 :i r'icy ju'H jr delrrve; and which they rv.;r «u.l irccive Iron every per. lon of penrir itiijn ;i;ij itor.L-ny, who It not an advocate t'nr lltverr. " 1 lie delivery-op oi Jonathan Rabbins, under the 27th article ot the Britilh treaty C°r the " furtherance. ot justice" cannot with all its palliation, be palatable to our ci tizens. On the liibjedt of the cert ficates frcra this town, 1 wish to make a few ob servations. Ihe gentlemen who wrote those certificates are, I believe, men et commcil honfefty ; they are so refuted here, bt;; al fure your lei I they are party-men In the hrfl place, the records of this town were bu- nt with tilt? town in the time of the hft war. It is not difficult to suppose a man might forget the record of a p . lon whom he could not have thought of in twenty years, when the records where his name muif have been depolited, had been reduced to alh es for that length of time, still less is the dif ficulty in conceiving that he might be bom I ere, but ntz'er recorded. There'is no im pelfibihty nor improbability, that he belong ed to an obfeure family, then fcaicely kn»wn, and now, long (ince forgotten. Our Select men have certified that they never knew a person by that name relidiug in this town f<»r any length of time, but fhey now ac knowledge a person bj the n.:me of Robbins, ©nee laboured somewhere i(l this neighbour hood, wbofe age would not altogether dis agree with that of Jonathan Robojns the Pirate ! But the,-following is an important ind an aftonifliing faff, a fadl which non pluflcd many of our certifier s, and which w is related to me by orte of the number. On making enquiry, after the receipt of the Secretary's request, th y found that h person of the name cf Robbins was then rrfiding ; n the boundaries of Mew-Fork state, but near those oftlis town. This peif.n they visited, and the information they obtained was, " that he once had a brother by the name of Jona than Robbins, that he had been absent fume years, and he concluded dead, as he had not heard from him for a great length- of time t that he believed if his brother was alive, he was about thirry-thrre years, old ! [Thus terminated the letter received by the Aurora man, and the reader (hall soon learn by whom it was composed. A more a-tful written letter, or a more v'llaincus attempt to miflrad the People of Ame rica, and to destroy all c nfidence in the integrity of Government, was nevtr en gendered even in the wicked brain of s Ja cobin. The atithor of the above infernal letter, which went to wound the peace of three of our most worthy patriots, the Pre fidtnt, Timothy Pickering', and Judge Bee, was one Samuel Morse, publifliet of a Jacobin paper in Danbury, to whom Duane wrote on the fubjeft, and received tie above in reply. Whether the ghost of Robbins haunted this man, or whether the stings of guilty conscience has worked repentance,for the diabolical attempt to injure three vittu ous men and to deceive his ftlh.w citizen , we will not 'pretend to fay, but certain it is, that he has endeavoured to expiate his foul crime by the following recan ation, which seems te partake of contrition for the horrid act. 3 From the Sun of Liber'v, of Aug. 20. Danbury, August 15 1800. TO THE PUBLIC Since writing my observations con tained in a letter to the editor of the Aurora, dated the ift, and republifhed in my paper No 4 —and the address to the gentlemen of the town of Danburv, who signed the certificate, concerning Jonathan Robbins, I have become con vinced, from futher examination of the that the said Jonathan Robbins was not a native of this town, nor ever resided here—and that the gentleman who so certified were not onlj honest and candid in giving such certificate, but certified the truth. The said publica ations in the aforefaid papers must there fore be considered as erroneous and in correct:. My intention in publishing the obser vation in the aforefaid papers were not to reflect on the characters of those gentle men who certified, bat the inaccuracies therein contained originated from mis take, SAMUEL MORSE. Those Printers in the United States who have printed the aforefaid publica tions are .requested to piibl'iih the above. [There is an infernal scheme laid open to foil view—lf the Jacobin printers, and tliofe whobclieved them,have the mod distant conception of honesty or ju(lice, they will ceale tlitir clamours, and never mare open their lipsagainil men whom chey have so deeply injured.] DIED] —Near Charleston, (S. C.) Mr. Joseph Neilfon, lately from Ireland. ne&icut. P.irldy Duane is fterrt lly piai-ij ihnut ilie jMir'ntiim of Wv ftvmld be yU THK PICTURX DIALtX. A late Chief Judge, a noted fimifr Ore day deterroin'd, after dinner, To droll among ti.e mob, aftd try IV. found hit popularity. Whether the iliaw bad tlranfc thai'day Of Nantior Gocnrc, I can't f;.y But pert Mil's Reafoii,—fancy Jade ; Whifper'd, retire, M'K> , to.brd ; Vain was the advice, it v.'a; officious too, For übat has reason with a so: to do ? Out firms our knight in dfep dj%juife l'o hide him from all prying fcyes, His hat, and cane, and wig Uid'oy, Wifdotn forfook hij naked eye. In fliort to make description brief, I lis grace look'if'leis a judge, th in Thief; Thus lirangely, roljes of office alter A man, by nature form'd to tie a halter. Long midit the mob he's,much delighted To hear his praise oft times recited, V* hen out roar'd one with ftmmeting voice Here—he e's Liberty and M K—n myboys, Ah,quoth his grace, J'm much in vogue I fain would hug that greafcy rogue, Should fortune smile 011 my Ele&ion riiat man shall have my benefaftion For sure he is poffcfs'd of learning A wan of wonderful discerning Hold let me fee, What (hall he be A Judge—oh ye# a Judge I'll make him And then perhaps he'll lave my bacon Should jnftice charge me with oppieffioh When to the Throne I get accession Our Kni lit now journey'd on apace When in a print Shop, 10, his face Appear'd How quoth hie Honor, now I'll know What praise my Portrait will bellow Into the room He entered soon Pray, Sir, inform me whats the price Of that profile that looks so nicef Ten Guineas was the man's reply Ten guineas ! Why Sir that's too high And v4iatsthe one on other ficl "J The price the fame, the man reply'd V Ten Guineas each, quoth he & figh'd ; J Yes, Sir, they're in such great demand The worst of copies will that price command Indeed ! And what's the one with fine blue With long tail'd wig" and face so wife, Wife ! Quoth the man with *nger filling Sir, if you buy the other two, take Six of them for nothing. •The lubber Hole i< the place throngji which luMicrs alcefcd to the topmast true bred Sea mcr. never u(e it, and defpifc these who pass thro' it. fPointiog to a profile of George Waftington. of the Pr«(ident. $ His own / / / / f ' —r'M Every Printer in the United States who has the least prcter.fion to common honefly and justice, ought to publi/h Samuel Morse's acknowledgment ; he appears tienfible of the enormity of his crime, and with a view to expiate it, he requefls tilt' infertiou ofhis publication; A letter from St. Thomas's, dated Auc. 24, states the following prices tobacco, 5 dols ; flour, 14, 2; ; gin, 6 dots, a cat- ; brandy, 9 dols. demijohn ; claifct, 5 doU doz. ; porter, 3 dols ; mould candles, 22 cents ; soap, 14 cents ; HrYriog, 5 do!s 25 bottled mustard I4sduz. ; butter, 2o cents ' lard, 18 ; vheefe, (5 ; OiufT, per to jO cents ; refined sugar, 30 cents; onions, 10 dols ; codfilh, j dols ; rum, 2d. Pr 64 cents Provilions are very high and ll'*rce. From the Halifax, (N. S- J "Journal of Sep tember 4. Extraft of a letter from Sydney. Cape Bre ton, dated 29111 July, ISOO. " Lall Saturday died at his house near Sydney, in this island David Mathews, Elq. formerly Mayor of the city of New York, and late attorney general of this island. His death appears to have been the effeft of a broken spirit, occasioned by the many unjull fuffcrings which lie has sustained du ring the lad twelve months. No;withftand ing the opprelfrve means taken \o depreci ate his virtue and his charafter, bis memory will ever beiheld dear and much refpedted by all who had the happiness of his acquaint ance. He was a most cheerful and intlrudl ive companion, a sincere and faithful friend, and a moll tender and alFrdlionate confert : he was charitable, humane and hospitable to a fault. If he had any foibles (and few men are without them) they were the off fpring of a candid and openness of manners, and a liberal unfufpefting disposition : his judgment was clear and accurate in the ad mil iilration of the laws and conflitution of the British Colonies. He had tefided sis teen years in this island highly and justly es teemed by every man of sense and refpefta -1 ility in his country. His funeral give the fullell proof how much he was beloved and rdeemed by all the inhabitants All p«r fons wlaohad heard ot his death flocked to the melancholy scene, and teftified the deep est sorrow and affli&ion at their great loss : even the Indians attended andexpreffed their grief in a most affefting and imprefiive man ner, and in terms of ftrongand accute fen- Ability lamented the death of their common father and constant friend.'' |& Gazette Marine Lift, PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. Arrived at the so t. Ship Atlantic, Waters, Madras [Left it 13th April Sugar and dry goods; India Co. Schr. Thomas, Donnell Ha»anna [Left it 2d September •Sufjais; J. Boufgert Hetty, M'Kirily, Savannah [Left it on the 2rl in ft ant Rice and tobacco ; M. Keely Fallow Dyer, Gilbert, Edenton [Left it inftant Tar and turpentine ; to Biitiih.Auguft Packer, w ththe mail for New York, has arrived at Halifax. .'•■ hip Hercules, Breath, 5 months from Batavia, ha 3 arrived at Ns;w York—loft her niain and fore top masts and all her guns in the gale of the Bth inft. Ship Aurora, Collet, of and for this pert from London, 49 days out, pii: into Char leston the leth inft in distress, having lott her main and fore top masts in a gale of wind off the Capes of Delawate the 3d inft. Ihe brig Hope, Captain Anderfon, of Philadelphia, arrived at Cha lefton, on the 9th indent, from St. Thomas'a, file had been eaptured by the French and plundered of 1,400 dollars cadi—6oo dollars wohh of goods, and had the crew of the (loop Hi ram ct New York, who had been captured by the fame privateer, put on board. The sloop Hercules, Talman, of Phila delphia, was captured the lame hour with the above, and the crew put on board the Hope, but the Captain sent to Porto Ri co, for speaking roughly,—the mate and a boy of another vtffel were also put oh hoard. The (hip Friendship, Ward, of Philadel phia, was spoke July 24, off the North V\ eft Buoy, Orms Head bearing S. Weft five leagues, thirty-eight days out from Li verpool; From tbe Log-Bo.ik of the Schooner Jane Captain Toby. Sailed from the H-.vsnra the 7th jnUjmt. Left their the following Philadelphia veflels. Ship Gali n, Smith to fail in 14. d.iy--. ftrig ltufh k'Mary, Stlby, i do. i a n ".'Vf'" ' Jo " To the Pilots of the Bay and Ali >op and icliooi'cri unkn-jwr* , -p. . J Wc were brought to,near the Mc.ro CaAlc : Kiver Delaware, by his Mnjrfty's fliip Triunderer, of 74 gin?. THAT agreeably to Directions of the She had «n board capt. Duiicl A|le:i, nf the ® arc! Hejlth t™ l t,,e y " bl ' :a ? t,le vefl'ds schooner Polly of Newport, ;6 d.ys fro-. »t wllic!l tiic 7 have ch-ige of, btfujA Ptovidtncr. This Thunderer .took part of the Lazaretto, after .he firft of next month the Polly's cargo, for which they paid him until utherwife direded. his own price ; after which they permitted NAIHAW FALLON t-R. him torntcr tiep.ut. Mailer Warden .f the Port of Philadelphia, On tbie loth, in l.it. 36, 10, l?n rtiuidc Warden's, Office, Sept. -?», ißooi 74, 50, fell in with the brig Eliza of New ~ ~ Yrrk. Captain Bunker, frbm Savannah, - - ItPOVCP i} 3 Vl•' ' 31. Schr. Tiana, Wm. Cjzzer.s, prize _• ■> , , ,', . Worcefter/eptcmber 17,180.0 The ship Hercuius, dipt. Hearth, fifce AN APPREN 1 ICE months from BaUvia, is below. j WANTED, At the Office of the Gazttte of the United A Danish (loop, and an English brig States, from the Welt-lndies are below. > July 6 ! Yeit-erj-iy • rnvejj fiiip Abo, Lcc, I Lrvtrpoo", Ai»g. 9, lat 55, 37, long 13., oc, spoke (hip A! Ny, S >ow, 10 days oik from Liverpool to Ba timor , Aug. 22, lat 4.7, 2 5 '°"g 33> 4°' fpok; brig Rargrr, w from Lahiuiore to Ftilmouih ant} a market. Sept. 13 lat 4. 1, 13, I ngfio 2a 'poke iVp Lydia, 5 oays out from Nantuc ket, on a vvhaili g v.iyage. Same day arrived, brig Si:' John Went woth, Jones, todays fro it Halifax with fifti. Inform-; that a liritilh Packet was to fail from '.here for N. York- in two days. SaKie d ty arri ed, IcbK li:\bclia, Donnell, in dift.refs. She failed from Biddeford. in the diflrift of Maine bound to Bermuda with oara, spars, Sfh See. aud oc the 10th cf September, in latitude 33, os, longitude 67, 00, met with a heavy gale of wind, in which he lo.lr all, his deck load, forcfail, gib, flying gip and main topsail, and otherwise damaged, which compelled him to come to this port. September 19, longitude 70, 30, fchooter i oily Green, of Eart Had dam, five days out bound to Bermuda. Lat 37/52 longitude 70, od, spoke brig Ju no, Koxbu g, seven days from Liverpool bound to New Yoik, who informed that in longitude 67 he fell in with eight hogs heads of tobacco afloat NORFOLK, September 18. Cspt' Tristram Butler, arrived hereon Tuefddy fom Alexandria, informs, that on Monday, Rappahannocfc bearing SSL. dis tant 6 miles, he fell in with a fuop bottom upwards ; she appeared to be about 28 or 30 tons, had a new boom , not painted ; her maitsrail had wa/hed away ; her boat (which was diifting at a short diltance from her) appeared to have been mads out ot a finglc tree, was also bottom upwards ; it is feared that all ou board mull have perilled. Arrived in Hampton Roads brig Lydia, Miles. 53 days fri>rp Liverpool, bound to Hobs Hole, (Tappahannock), fp ke brig Sar.Ji, frdm Newbufvport.to Liverpool, ouc 28 days. July 26, spoke brig lnduftrv, of New bury Por-, Huntington, tiorn Liverpool* to New-Port, R. I. out 4 days, lat 52 to, long. 5. August 10 in lat 47 42 long 20 30 spoke (hip Minerva, from Norfolk, out 15 days. Sept. 5 in lat 43 54 long 54 spoke brig Sophia, V, lantine. from Newbury-Port, to Liverpool, out 7 day 9. AND Gentlemen'?, Youth?, and Boys, Fine BLACK HATS, Which he will fell on moderate terffls, at a reufoiiafcle credit. leptember 24 An Invoice of Playing Cards. SUPERFINE Columbian, Harry the Vlllth, and Merry-Andrew Playi-.in Cards, fer sale cheep for cafli—Apply at this Oflice. feptember 13. ■"f? The following work may perhaps appear from its Title as only necTliary to the Gentle men of the Bar—The wholr trading world .ire interfiled in the knowledge of its c rtiieoti. It is repleie with information to the Man of Biifi ness ; ami the Merchant, ihe Underwriter, the Sea Captain• &c. &c- «-ill find their f lv«» p*r ticuWrly and immediately concerned iu tie knowledge it affords, JUST published, And to be sold by J ami's IlUMPnnsrs, No. 106, f.'Uth hde of Market Street, FAK'F 11. (which concludes the Firfl V. !ume) ijf REPORTS OF CASES, ' Argued and determined in t:.e Higli Court of Admiralty, (Great Britain) Commencing with the JUDGMENTS of rf the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, M chaeiinas Term, 1798, By CHR. ROBINSON, L.L.D. Advocate, jit the same phce may be bad PART I. ICT-Vhcfe REPORTS will be continued regularly as they come to hand. Sept. j8- th.fa.&fa. * >■ *1- •