* “Satious fashgs: * pond——and the firmest to despair; then o# his mind's Lhe iaby- sinths of sophistry ate unraye led: False- bood and error shrink before his Hcid ex positions—W file truth and justice, disen- thralled and vindicated, stand conlest, even to the strongest scepticism, and fo the wmost powerful prejudice. Grave aud ex- perienced senators, though differing from him in policy, listen with delight while he speaks, and pay the homage of unqualified adroiration AT THE SHRINE OF SUPERIOUR GEXIUS. Mr. CLINTON. While 2 sun so splendid irradiates the Federal hemisphere of New York, justice requires us (0 acknowledge, that a lumina- vy ‘no less glorious ascends the Democrat- tek horizon, reflecting dignity and spicn- dour upon that favourcd state. The name ai CrisTox derives not move lustre from ¢he honours it has veceived, than it imparts td the republick by the services it has per- farmed —Should we affirm that De Wit Clinton is possessed of a sound understand- ~ing~-a clear and discriminating judgment; “hat he is wise in resolving—f{irm in put pose, and steady in exccution ; of enlarged and liberal views; the advocate of com- merce and manufactures, and the friend of agriculture, we should do injustice to his &haracter, as the expressions are cold and inadequate to convey 8 fair id-a of his mer ft. Like his own liudson, his mind is deep, strong and unceasingly active=~flow- ing in fructifying streams, diffusing plea’ gure and usefulness throuchout the utmost fimits of its influence. The gigantick plan for uniting by a canal, the Lakes and the Hudson, is an evidence of the magnitude ‘of his conceptions; and the noble ambition . to build his fame upon the honourable bas- is of his country’s wellare. The literature of his native state is proud to own him as its most active patron; while science hails him as her | favourite son. He “In a schollar and a ripe and good one, i Rich is his mind in every art divine, And through the paths of science has he trod, The votary of wisdom. In thie mild reign of peace, those great _dccasicns seldom arise that give to a great mind an opportunity to display its powers. Every ordinary Pilot can manage the helm “in fair weather and a gentle breeze. Itis gyhen the tempest rages and the ocean rolls billows to the Heavens——when its angry the torn sail flaps against the broken _ shrouds, and the old scaman, milttering a s himself to the mast=- s omnipotence—di- {calms the wild w, and directs with that may possibly hasty prayer, lashe that genius displays it recta every eye to itscl fears that unman the cre coolness every measure save the vessel from destruction. During the late war, when the enemy was collecting his forces from every quarter mn” "to one mighty armament, (0 attack the opulent and almost defenceless city of N. York: when even the brave began to des- arnidst the great and wise Clinton rose pre: ¢minent. Ge In his aspect shone Yhe inextinguishable spark which fires The souls of patriots. | Every heart collected fresh hope from his counsel: Every hand gathered new strength from his example. Beneath the plastick influence of his direction, Avarice forrot his gold--Pleasure his enjoyments and Poverty his wants: Every citizen, from the highest to the meanest, became ani- mate services t city: Fonifica like the walls of Thebes to the sound of Warriors scemed to “Amphion’s lyre spring from the earth lik of Beetin; The city was not ¢ the arnied men only saved from capture—rthe victory was mote perfect; {7 WAS SAVED FROM INVASION ! ey £153 Cee Frou TRE PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICAN THE NEXT PRESIDENT. é * ? » - - ‘A late GLEAKER contuins an interesting ET a NRT : refaarkd King and Clinton. Some bf the Gleanes® Femarks arc curious correct. d by the noble enthusiasm of their leader: Thousands a day volunteered their o work upon the defences of the tions rose round the harbour. be) cd oh thie ious peosnfs whom he sigs ve the candidates, viz. Criwlord, Monica CRAWFORD. What he says about Crawford is pretty] He was in Congress many years but we never heard of any thing good oF bad he did there. MUNROL. The first part of his remarks on Mui - roc manifest some candor and liberality; but he most faricitully and unaccountabiv winds up by charging the capture and des solation of Washington to the negligtnee or misconduct of Mouroe. Inthe summer of 1814 Gen. Winder was eonemander of the district including Washington ; and Armstrong was the se cretary of war, and both were present at Its captive, aud both had been there for months preceding preparing and organiz ing the district for defence against the cn- emy. They, and they aléne, were respon sibie for the safety of the capital. {hey had unlimited controul over the regulars and militia of the neighboring states. Yet with unblushing effroutery the federalists persist in charging the destruction W ash- ington to Monroe and Madison. Madison never professed to bea general ; he nevel made pretentions to military skill jas pre sident he entrusted the defence ofthe dis- ict to Armstrong and Winder, two offi- cers who ten possessed the undivided eon- fidence of the nation. It is true he was a! Bladdensburg--but it was then too Jate--- all wise and provident measures had beet previously nésiected by the officers whose special duty 1t was to annoy the enemy at every siep from his landing At the tune that Madison appeared at Bladensburg, all was Jost ; had he possessed the military ge- hins of a Wellington or a Ney, he could not then have saved the capitcl considering tiie monstrous blunders that had marked the nrevious conduct of the commanding offi- cers. . What would the world have said if Mad- ion, who probably never mustered a cot. poral’s guard, bad undertaken to dircet old and experienced military officers in the di- rection of a battle? Suppose Castlereagh of the Prince Regent bad appeared at Wa terloo and given orders to Wellington ; with what feelings of contempt and indig- nation would ail mankind have viewed the pccurience { x It is silly inthe cxtreme to blame the capture of Washington 10 the preskient, but how rediculously absurd it is to blame Munroe for that event! Munroe was the secretary of Sate, and had ro more control over a singic officer or private in (he avy than the editor of the Gleaner or the Re- publican would have had if they had been there. But how happens it that the federalists pass by Winder and Armstrong, and throw the whole blame of tite bladdcushurg de- feat on Monroe and Madison ¢ The rea. son is plain; Winder is a federalist, and Armstrong 1s out of office, sinking into ob livion ; while Munree and Madison still pbssess the confidence of the democrats throughout the union. KING. ¢ In bim (says the Gleuner,) we sce the abié and enlightened minister advocating ‘he just crAMs of his country, and defends ing the rights of our impressed seamen a- gainst the insolent and cruel aggressions of Great Britain” &c. &c. The cditor of ‘he Gleaner is a gentleman of enviable tal- ents at a nursery tale, and as a politician is seized with frequent fits of liberality. But we very much doubt whether he would have ventured to publish the {foregoing sentence during the late war. And if he had been bold enough to do so, we are well convine- ed that vine in ten of his federal readers would ha: o censured him for his honesty and candor. During the war the Massaehusctts legits- lature and gov. Strong denicd the fact that G. Britain impressed eur seamen, aud de- impresscd American seamen, Iiish vaga- nominated those whom democrats calld bonds who had deserted their conttry,— nine tenths of the federalists’ jusiificd Gilder of Mr Ii. Owings, and two other crim ba divs, the same frichids and apologists ©if » “le 5 we 2 : Fa A RRs GL Britain, the sate oppesers ol the war} and calumuintors of Andalian Sib ved, ard state itis the ohict and distinguishing merit of one of their candidates, that ¢ he advocated the just crams of las country against the cruel and insoltol aggressions of GG. Britain.’ For federalisis to advocate the cicrionieE King ou such grounds, requires aidegrees of impudence at least equal to their zeal for G. Britain during the wai. The Gleaner speaks highly of the clo quence of King, and his + perspicacious’ lashings’ It may be true : yet during his, present senatorship we do noticcollect sees ing any of his extraordinary speceuss, il Ac made any. CLINTON. The remarks on Clinton cxiibit ¢ a pow: cv of fine writing.” Yet, amidst the <frue ifving streams,’ sraging temnesis’ and be cean roiling angry biliows to the heavens s’ notwithstanding the ¢toin sail flapping the broken shrouds,’ the ¢ lashing to the mast ; and ¢ Amphion’s lyre,” the meaning of the paragraph may sill be discernetl. the meaning, we {UES is to ascribe the spiri.- cd aud patriotic exertions of New York du- ving the war, to Clintons zeai in the cause of his country. Part may be true. But in speaking of the laudable spirit which disunguisiied the generous and He bie state of New York during the wir, it is strange that the name of Tom#iins should be oniitted, or that the result of his cueryy and talents should be wholly ascribed to a- nother, Among all the governot’s of the states during fie war, Lone (with the ox cepiion perhaps of Shelby) was move Gis. tinguishedsor indefatigable activity anim ting zcal, talent snd euCI ZY, than governor Tompkins, His state, his couniry, itis believed, will not forg=t him. As the Gleaner praises Clinton in the warinest and most exalted terms of Sup- porting the war and his county in the late contest, we should like lo know his senti- ments on the conduct of Chittenden, Strong, Griswold and Jones. 1fit has now become with federalists a meritorious act 10 have supported the war, we presume they will hasten to express proper feelings towards those who in the bour of trouble and difli- culty advocated the cause of the enemy. It is pot a little curious that Clinien, in these rematks of the Gleaner, is calied a democrat. Either Clinton isa democrat, or heis not. If he 1s, then tlie federalists in supporting his election, abandon their professed principles and confess them to be wrong HH he is not a democrat, then the fudcralists pay a just homage to the excel ence of democracy, by investing thelr tans didate with its robes in order to give hm currency ard popularity. « Hypocrisy, detest her as we may, ¢ May claim this merit still=—1that suc ad- mits «The worth of what she mimics with sueh cave, ¢ And thus gives virtue indirect applause.” gz 10 ED 0 We that our commissioners have completed the interruption and are on their return, Fredericktown Dee. 16. A Special Court. trial of the Negroes concerned in the mur Britain ih impressing American scamens admitting the fact to be truc—* the thing is right in itsclty’ said Harpers Pickarhng told us that the British navy never did us any essential injury—G. Britain, says dea- con Strong, is ¢ the bulwark of our religiony —s fighting the battles of the world’ —and he war, said almost all the federalists, is wicked and upjust. Yet now, when the war is ended, when democracy and do cratic principles have trivmphad over the ao and REUSING article under this head, with| (cruel aud wselont aggromssici ®i eal] ! other for sealing. inst. —. Haivwissvre Drcexpnk 23, 1815. or 7 We understand that the celebrated Ventiitoquist, John Rannic, will shortly vistt this piacey witha view of ‘he curious with his astorishing powers. Notice will Be givefi on is atlival, gravity ng - - vy v ' 4. 3 - fain over Hatford colveastivig and do ® “sc treason, herd come the same feder-| i HL RI Very late from EUROPE. days trom Rotterdam, We earn from the Nashville papers boundary line in the Creek nation without Has been ordered by the exccutive for + O——— New Vorg, December 23. Yest iduy ariived at this Por, tee ship Fame, Mix, in thirty-one days froin Hioue- burg and tie big Falcon, Lewis, in 28 ; Captain Lewis sail- 22d of November. "4 Th x £ ot Lae captain ol the Falcon li: « Th aptain of the Falcon Lad made up a file of London papers tothe 16th of Novena Lery but unfor | 3 y unfortunately left tiem at his lodg« ed the inge. le lalorms, that Mone! thea, he read an account of Mura’s havine b en WARD, (sR td ond shot, which is a configs tris : : waen uithe event 08 belore published, Lig a Letters by the Fame, from Hombre BT ; touts received, GL, France asin a very distorha HST IC GUICNCSS apparcit in mane ol the pravisces, 1s represemted as merely the result of the ave inspired by the pres Seige of the large military force of the ale lies, w bic 1s maintained 1 those. proyvings 6. ¥ ; LONDON, Oct. 20, a! mail from Holland arrived this niorns: ng with the following inteliigence. ; ; BERLIN, Oet. 19, oe Tah, at four in the afierooon, his: vajesty the king, to the joy of all his taithe ful subjects, arrived at Potsdam in perieat healt, aud was received in the most allt cur tioaate manner. 3 Fs Soin their royal Highnesses the i ae -42y, TTINCE OF SSC Homberyg, and ite, ict Lie won for Newmarket in tive carriav es and four, at four o'clock and breaktas:ed at Cliesterkcld, Tueie Rovad Eris rie an fo] : \ sday nextyon a tous thiough England and Scotlund. GLASGOW, Nov. 2. The procecdings of the Chamber of Dee puties are intercsung, in ro far us they fee velope fore & moe their determined spire it 10 purish promptly those who may he guilty of sedition against the King, or the Laws of the State. In the Chamber ‘o : Peers « motion of thanks to the dake of 5 gotleme, [or his fate meritorious condues | in the South of France, was titi eh tertained and seemed to pass unanimously, when Monsieur (the Duke of Angouieme’s ather) moved to pass to the Oder of the Day, as be coneetved his son bad done no wove than his duty, which notion was ugres CU 10. PRIVATE CORRESPONDINCE: London, Monday evening, half past seven, No later Paris journals or letters from that city have reached town than those which came to band yesterday. The Jat- rer, however the contents of which did not transpire until to=day, are sufficient to show the uisettled state of affaivs in France. The peopie say that no man can, with any degree of certainty, distinguish a friend from an enemy. Matters with respect to the Duke of Orleans have taken a different turn to what was expucted—many thought that, by means of negociations, his Serene Highness would bave reached the chmax of power in France—instead of whichy things have heen pushed so far in his favour as give offence ina high quarter, and the result 1s, the Duke has retired to Brie tain in disgust. : ; LONDON, Nov. 1. The Parliament, which by a Proclamatis. om formerly pubiished, was to meet on Tuesday the 1s of February, is, by anothegr Proclamation, ordered to meet on Wednese day the 171th of January. Paris papers of Sunday last, the 19the have arrived: but we have not yet received those of the 27th and 28th. ¥We basten to luy be fore our readers an ¢piiome of those which hive come. The journal de Paris stares, that the Hlotice of Veers on the 27th by a majority of one hundred and twentye thd “3 inals now in jails the one for a rape, the The Court commences its session on Wednesday nexy the 20th ight voles to twenty nine adopted the pro- icct of the iow relative to the measures of general safety. Wasim scron, December 23. Capt. Stepnrx DECATUR, of the Nay is apporhred by the President of the U. States {with tic consent of the Scnite) to ire a commissioner of the Navy Board, vice Caption 1szac Hull vesigned : Hanrispure. Dec. 26.1 Temporary Adi vinmen: = he Liopiga ; ruse adjourned oa Friday last, to meat again tins on Tuesday the 2d January. | a a
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