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From the Lmdm Moruing- Ch'rottic! ?.
I*n»iiISON‘MENT OF M*. TqoD [ONE*.
r fhe Cifyjjyvir. Tod<4 Jones, who has
been fb sin.ed in prifjfl, without a
nv chjrgtf made agaitift him, nut with ftsnd
j 'ij hh rotated application, for a trial,
no’Avid)(landing even of an implied acknbw
iMgracni of his lanocence, deferm the par
t»• sj!ar mention of every min w!io values
the tfrjnrbte of the Uil'h coafiirution.
TJuoiJ the p'ecedsnt o: Mr. Jones’s case e
very gen itemirt in Ireland enjoy., the hloa
jng js* prn’oM.*! liberty merely at the plcafire
of rii goyerpmcfU. in proportion ns tne
people of lrsl md are removed from the feat
of government, and a? th-y are fepratei
from Tie jy.iapatldtfs <*fld feelings of the-peo
pd of Sog'ahd, i< it in cumVnr on fho/e
tv I);/are dearous that the un-ott (hould be
nd}, to tain the at ter firm of parliament to
tri'ifaclions like this, and to (new that the
► If gKlainre of this corn try is rr rural ard
yiroteiVive towards all Who are repr(Tented
f.i it. We liecerely hope that the treatment
/ex’oeriettCed by-Mr. jhnes ivill be made the.
/ fchjrff of enquiry in parliament-. We wi(h
indeed, it could have preceded the uifpen-'
fion of .ha habeas corpus acl.
Mr, Jones ln9 Cent the following cir
cular letter to members of parliamenr, and
it mould lilce.vife he midc known to the
public,
Prevofl Prifmr, near Cork,'- ■
'January i4> 1 8Oj'.
flill continue detained, as when
I printed ray letters to, Mr. Wickham, in;
the Tine mllcemntabit and mjuihfiabh
i-rnpitfCmnlpnti n iw for upwards of seven/
tr.u,i.months, and fudaimog all the rlgdrs
of a. TcsTond wdorar in a military goal, after
having re.peattdly .prayed for a trial, or an
tx'Jt'AtHUtitH Iy ungtutlifieSi purgahw upon
~ x fit ft .Ml ceci fry this, nVpnummcnt (an :
ii.i.-jri/oo TK>nt i believe which by deceiv
ing ilv liiih govern cent, iqrifes from the
f.ourcu o( pr ha/e the malice of
which - : r. rpo obvious to lla/cl the bate test of
t iiiveilig-ifciv.H been injured
in my pccccrbry crtiik{ which has induced
by ..thie ’ they naturally drewn
frp n itj all {he few creditors I had, to come
down upon rue at' once for m immediated»f
chargj of their demands ; and to avoid the
cxptnCe of proceedings at law, I have been
ohhged to give up to tham the whole of my
moderate income, and to fubtiit up
on the gaol (tllinudnce.
If would appear, therefore, that a man may
n:nV in Ireland, unimpeached of any delin
quency, free, from any ipccific charges and
ql.il 1(M i/ ’T" ' / 1 > " 11 ‘1 r * f~ -l r
prival of his liberty, his reputation, his
lv-ilth, and his pecuniary credit, without
nny rc .-.irrah’o red refs— this is a fearful pofiti
o.. and h, coma tic case of every man in Ireland,
ci n’h tturer ihitio », property and ability,
I ihu;rd cfe,e nmy case, under all its pe
culiar circumftanefis, fume of them very
r.tnc «rous, to afford ground on which to in-
Jlituie an enquiry into the prelent Rate of
Ireland. Very fpeeddy aiter my arrclt, I
received, through the. letter of Mr. Sail
iin, barridcr at law, an oliVr of hjltvtt and
uncivil i't tonal liberation from Mr. Wickham,
Duldiii catUe, with this prpyifo, tliat
at my onvn time, and the condition to he a
fee ret fro a the ovjrU, / /hon'd croft oar
to tin fan d ; !>»jr thi s (hulking into anoth
er country, or any other Rep; which might
hear an implication ol any Rain, I inftamly
rtfuiedl Rood, as T now Rand, upon
tatftn c barf a, the habeas corpus, the bill
of rights a.id the liberty of the J'uhjeci ;
there is (i a wanton levity in my trnprifon.
meni,” under my peculiar circunjianccs,
which, in the language of Mr. Burke, “is
nr, totally ur.mth -tißd hy the pradliccofgcod
times, as it is irreqbncilrahle of the prin.
ciples of our government/’—“ In the good
land of England, fays Mr. Sheridan," as
high as it is happy, bcafufeas juR as it is
free, all is definite equitable and exatl—
the laws mart he fititfkd before they are
incurred ; and ere a hair of the head can be
violated, legal guilt mud beeftablifhed by legal
proot," Alas! hfere I am, the maim of
via rt in I law.
I am now of the age of fifty-two years,
thus oppreffeJ, unheard , and untried; and
I cannot estimate mv damages in loss of time,
or health, of reputation, and of pecuniary
credit, to be under thirty four thousand !
pound?:—indeed, in my own person, I !
know not what compenfition to me can be
cßeemcd co n menhir are for near two years
close imorifonmenr, with all its train of
total solicitude, fabjeTHon to others, and |
the countless mental anxieties and indigni
ties, incident to and neceßarily interwoven
, with the thraldom of a prevoß gaol.
1 have the to be, fir,
WILLIA M TODD JONES,
LONDON, April 8. , ~~
Accounts from ; a:>’ bv a late Hamburgh
ttm‘l, confirm the report of a corps of 400
Ruffians having failed from Corfu, on board
foffl® Uruifli ships ol war, on a fecrct expe
dirion.
lt is ucderftood at Vienna that the Ans
■ tr i™ government is to receive fomc aaccf
W fion of terriepry on the frontiers, as a com"
penfation or equivalent for the new pow”
0 I
£9ppjM* HWF* '
, er which te js s-hout to acqunc in
Italy.
The Courier de Londces aftefts that oe
baftian, why lately went to Holland, was ac
companied by 40 desperadoes, whole orders
were to seize the king of Sweden who was
then on his travels.
In the lull great inundation of the Tiber,
more than too pc Tons*loll their lives in the
neighbourhood of Rome.
A ft range reppft was lately propagated
at Vienna—it was fad that a courier had
i paiTcd through that city from the Kail- In
dies, with intelligence that the governor
general had declared himfelf independent.
[ This is what was once contemplated,
and thou >h not as present to be credited,
mutt inevitably take [dace ut no very remote
day.] ■
BANKS OF THE MEIN, March 21.
Mr. Livingfion,. miuiftcr .of. the United
States of America, lately arrived at Angf
burg, with hi? whole. Taipjly. He cpn.cs *
from Naples and is oh,lds 'w.iyJ:QPans-.' -!
A/rpr it.,; ; ! ~
In the t-|iule of yafterdljd
the Chancellor <<f tHe I'Vcnequer,,. as. jfye f yef.
ttrday intimat' d, ligjV.fied. that Lprd .Mel
ville had refigiicd his'plage of First of
the Admiralty.* Into the hands-of .his Ma
j“fty, and' that t ! u; refignalion had been .ac
.cepte.L This notification was fur from be
ing fathfafthry to Mr. Whitbread, who
exprefied hp> apprchenfxon, that at nodiftant
’ Noble ViTcount may be-reinstated in
his office. house. licfaid, would leave
enfinilhed, the ta/J. which they had so au
fpidbi’.fty began, if they did not concur in
the vole which he Ihould now propofe—
<f That :m bumble add refs be presented to
his Majesty, piayittg that. Lord Mcjjvilte
might he deprived of, all bis offices, held
during tileafurc of the Crown, and-y.nsvcd
aumi ills ivjajetty'S preTcnce and councils
■fit ever.”-. -In the cottrfe of his fptechy
Mr. Whitbread touched on various other
topics, and particularly on the conduct of
Mr. Pitt, the Finance Minister of this
country, whs, ir appeared, was aware of
malfaifnnce p ractifed in the Naval De
partment, without interfering, or endea
vouring to apply a remedy. This was a
part of the fnhjed which it was his inten
tion to fobrnie with some others, to the
conftdoration of a feiedf commit tee. He al
so gave notice, that he (hould move that a
prosecution be inftitured against Lord Mel
v’lle and Mr. TVotrer, by the Attorney
General, and rhut, in the mean time, a
Bill of Reftraiint fhonld prevent the alie
nation of their property. On the motion
,„i fpr f!inrt»i!iwfMni l | ! *.c afaTuT /ended in a
conpromife, hy which, the rcfohitions pas
sed on Tuefday morning, arc to be laid be
fore his majesty by the whole Hvu/e : and it
was also agreed, that there (hould be n« ad
journment until this communication had--
been made. Thus Mr. Whitbread has at
tuned his objecl, tho’ in a different way
from that originally proofed. He was sup
ported, as in the former instance, by the
feelings of the House, expressed with roach
enthusiasm. In the couTe of the evening,
Mr. Fitt pledged himfelf that there was no
intention in any quarter to reinstate Lord
Melville in his office.
We have received Paris papers to the 4th,
and Dutch tothe yrh infhnr. They {late,
that the Spanish fleet at Cadiz is ready for
sea, and waits but for orders toTail. They
even intimate, what we are flow to believe
that they are not unwilling to risk an aftion
with the squadron of Sir John Ode. These
papers dwell much also on the aflivity which
prevails in the harbour of Toulon,
April 12.
Both Boufcs of Parliament adjourned
yesterday for the holidays. About 4 o’clock,
the Speaker, attended by about thirty pf
the Members, went up to St. James’s, to
lay before his Majesty a copy of the rcfolu
tions relative to Loid Melville, which pajTi
fed the House cn Monday evening, The
attendance was expedied to have been far
more numerous; but the few who did at
tend, were mod gracioudy received by his
Majesty, who, after hearing the refoiution
lead hy the speaker, thanked them for their
care and attention to the.public interest.
April iy, v
It appears, by the Paris and Dutch pa
pers cf a kte dare, that Bonaparte, accom-
I panied by the Eraprefs, has let off on his
journey to Lyons, to be crowned The
Pope and his suite have also quited Paris,
April 18.
Dispatches were yesterday received from
| Admiral Gardner, off Brcft, which state,
tnat the enemy had made fomc movements,
that indicated an intention of venturing to
fra, the firft favourable opportunity. This I
expeftion had greatly raised the spirits of
cur gallant countrymen ; and (hould they
really venture out, we fondly anticipate a
praud and glorious rcfult for Britain.
April jq.
The Hamburgh Mail due on Wednesday
jaft, arrived yesterday. Fiona fomc of the
articles v?hich it contains, we are reluflantly
induced to believe, rhat the Emperor cf
Aullria, and the French Emperor, have
fettled, tnter/e, the termes cn which the
latter is to occupy his new kingdom of Italy.
Ihe complete retirement of the Austrian
Carden frem the Adi*;, aud the counter.
orders iiTued to the troop's expefled from
the interior, are more than fufHcicnt to bear
out this supposition.
Letters (rom Amsterdam, dated the 19th
ifift. ft ate, that it was the general opinion
of 1 the mercantile people in that city, and
even of the French, that a war between
Radii and France was inevitable.
NASSAU, (N. P.) May 17.
Capt. Gordon, of the Racoon, in the
M nru Paffige, saw the French squadron to
the Northward, and the Jamaica fleet to
tire Southward, but fortunately were not
deforied by the French.
CHARLESTON, June 6,
CAPTURE OF THE TWO FRIENDS.
The regular trading American Sip Two
! Friends, Captain from London
-for t his port, with a full cargo of Dry Goods,
supposed to he worth One Hundred Thbtt/attd
Founds Jicrltng, was captured on Tuefday
lift, in ten fathoms water, by.ihj: French
• privateer schooner L*Eme stance, Captain
Moisan, from Guadaloupe, now -cruising
offour bar.
The plea urged by the PrivateerfmJn for
capturing the (hip, Was, that (he had not
a certificate from, the American C«nfol refi-.
dent in London, declaring her to be Amer
ican property.
The paii*.tigers and crew were permitted
to take out their baggage, See. were
treated civilly while cm hoard the privateer.
Captain M*Ncil, the cook, and two boys,
remain on board the (hip-.-which, afterput
ting 24 Frenchmen on board, they ordered
for Guadaloupe. l The po(Logsrs arrived in
town this mt ruing in a pilot boat.
The priv.riper mounts .four 12. pound car
fbnades, a long brass 12 pounder, and two
double-lot tided 4 pounders ; arid had on
board 97 dated that, one of
" the Ouineamcn which, they had taken, bound
into this port, had 450 flaves'.
We have been politely favcured with
London papers po the' 19th April, inciufive,
by a gentleman passenger in the Two Friends,
Extracts from thefc will be found in our
preceding columns,
Thejtnoft important article we notice is
the diimiffal from office of Lord Ylfcount
Melville, find lord of the admiralty, con
victed of having appropriated the public mou .
ney to his private emolument.
Our latelV papers do not state politively,
tlie .person who was to succeed Lord Mel
ville ; hot it appears to be the general be
lief that Lord Hawkefbury, will accept of the
fitustioii. Mr. Pitt is dated to have ■ offer
ed it to feverai leading characters, who have,
declined the acceptance. The following ar
-1 tide on this fuhjedt. Is from
j “ Mr. forks, we believe, has refufed
the admiralty and a peerage. The place,
as far as we have heard, is nut yet filled up,
Mr. 1 itt is in the utmofl embarraiTmenr,
and we are confident cannot carry on the
' affairs of the nation for many weeks longer.
Public opinion has completely abandoned & the
present Ministry • it has been tried for near
a year, and not one circumflance has taken
place to juftily the support of it, while so
many afcd various incidents have occurred
to undeceive those whoever thought it equal
to t!ie present crifisof public affairs."
No certain information relative to the
actual lunation or ultimate views of the
continental powers, can be collected from
our London papers. The accounts appear
to be somewhat contradictory.
The expedition dellined for the Medi
terranean had not failed from England on
the 19th April—they were wind-bound at
St. Helen’s.
0« benefits of Agriculture — By C. Ford,
(Jq—Fubljhed by order of the BoJlon
factetjfor promoting Agriculture .
In my younger days, I Audit'd much hew
to get the benefit of fair, to make the land
yield its increase. To that end, I put
one peck of fait on every load of meadow
hay, as it was put into the barn : which
had a good effect, both upon the cattle and
the dang. Aid once when I lowed three
bafheis of flaxfecd, the ground being smooth
and clean, 1 sowed three bushels of fait,
whica had a good effetf. The flax was
coated, taller and fuller of feed, than any I
had ever before. It was judged there were
alty bushels of feed from the three acres,
which as flaxfecd fells now, would go near
to pay so 1 ail tne labour that is required in
drefung and cleaning the flax. Since that,
I have read in Elliot’s book of husbandry,
ota gentleman that sowed a piece of land in
nix, and sowed fait upon it, at the rate of
five bushels per acre, except a strip through
the middle. The effect was, that where
the fait was sowed, there was tail good
flax ; but the strip, that had no fait, was
poor and (hort, and good for little. I
judge, that five bulhcls of fait to the acre
was too much for the benefit, of t i lc i and !
but being called offfrom hulbandrv to attend
other affairs, I left the care of mv farm
with my Tons, who used no fait until fprine
1785. The land being wet and miry, till
nearly.the latter end of May. we sowed
one acre of flax j and after it was come up
near a finger ’s length, we sowed a huftid
of fait upon it, which had a very good effect.
The flax grew-well to a good bight: but
we had nop quite ten bushels of feed, owing,
as I conceive, to the unfriend!tnefs of the
facte was none of my neighbors,
for two miles round who had an> that vc'.'l
pay for pulling -therefore, whenever I
low flaxfeed, be sure you sow double i'l
puantity cffalt to your feed, and r. J
rot fear but that you will have a good c:m
if the season suit. I
I advise all to make the experiment A
try a glade in their oats, and svcn til
winter rye, and all forts of grain that tfl
sow, and even their Indian-corn, at I
rate of two bufheis of fait to an acre. T A
may depend on it, that every bushel of A
will produce more than five times the pA
of the fait, and perhaps ten times as nmA.
T'he article of manure is a very import®
one, in the business of husbandry, and tl
serves much more attention than has hA
generally paid to it by the farmers in ;A
country. Should any of them, from A
foregoing account, be induced to make trA
of fait, they are requeued to commariraA
the result to the public. 5
Cure fir the Gravel and Slone in the hlcm
) \ der. ■ I
Take a small handful »f cotton bush leavA
bniife them lighuy. between your har.A
■ " and put them in a clean tub or bowl ofabcA
half a gallon of cold water ; let
about two hours ; then let the patient drirA
a good tumbler full of that water, if « ’
fit It draught does nbf operate, let himdrirl
* another tumbler full; the patent will foB
be,relieved, the ft one or gra,yej[ coining ol
with a- large quantity of water. ■
Cure for the Spasm or ’Tetanus, |
Whsn any body'by some accident orothß
perceives that he is going to be taken wifi
the fpafrn, he ought, before his jaws al
completely locked up, to take a douhl
defe of tartar emetic, by so doing lie wiß
excite a salutary perlpiraiion, and avaA
effeftually all the confecjucnces of the lockeA
jaw. 1
There two receipts are founded uponvA
perience, and often applied with the '.-A
fuocefs. r B
, A new method has been difeovered of <|A
ing cotton, arose colour, for which purpaA
wild plumbs and muriatic or fulphurlc add*
are employed. 8
■
At Uduifburg, a machine has been inveA
ted, which turns a mill in the lame tnannH
as a current of water does, but with Id’s oB
penfe. The inventor, whose name is OegA
has offered to the government to prodmß
such a machine, provided he receives a ;.A
ttnf for the exclufiye privilege of makinß
f hem for twenty vicars. |
M, Trouville has made a new hydraujA
machine, which throws up water to a greA
height, without any other rnechanifm, atA
solely by the rarffadlion of the sir in siA
tight stone chambers, placed one above arA
other. For this invention he has been prA
fented with a gratuity of 15,000 livfes b|
the Board for the encouragement of Arts A
Paris. p
AUGUSTA, June. 151
New- Ycrk and Charhjitm blockaded! I
It is realiy to be lamented that any portnil
Fies America fhouid be blockaded by thtl
cruisers of any of the despotic and tyrannies®
P°wwB of Europe ; but under the exiting®
circumfiances, fandticned by the Rcprefen-A
tarives of the United States, these outrages A
or pirates and robbers cannot immediateiv®
be repelled--.halt the monstrous navy cfA
England could haidly prorert the coast A
froiu Maine to Georgia, from spoliations and I
inful ts. . I
Ant} as to the poflibility of building am! K
organizing such a naval force (even if the ns- B
tion had been willing) since the commence- B
raent of Jeffcrfon’s adrniniftration, the ad. fl
vocates of John Adams’, rapid rrJaj'urti B
could hardly expedl it. B
But is it not a little ft range, 'that those I
lovely patriots and native Americans, fhouid I
he so warm and pop-gun loud in alarming I
the country about the seizure of one or two I
veffcls on the American coats, by a French B
picaroon , when they lb tamely, placidly and U1
philosophically lookedon, w hiie the big rob- 1
bees —the Cambrian and Co-, -were insulting I
Americans within their own ports I
such men arc not Britijh in heart and foul, I
( i hough nominally, Americans) there is votp I
'Vary in Georgia, jjf I
r, Mr. H. f I
V T ere I disposed to enter into a cMntro- I
verfy with you, I fhouid have adopted ?.
tnodo of attack very differently from what
you have been accuflomcd to in this pane'
fkinnifmng. 1 would have come.to the most
vulnerable point at once. Bi t 1 do nor ;
wiflr, Mr. H. to bring to light, aftioc; ;
not very honorable in themfelvee—-i wit; I
not to pry into either your former 'or prefer..’
ptirfuits-thefe are an indifferent to rr.e,
as you are ychrfelf, and from this fUc<m’
declaration, you may ettimate '.he Icrg'.h -
which year intent would carry me.
I have never given the most tUilant hi"*
about Jamaica, or Bermuda, or the Ba
hamas, [do you comprenhcnd my meaning :
I haye never said a word about rami mg
liberty caps,. -lifping oat that much rd: : ! -
red ruiionrlditfy, (he cartnagrn’e m; • - f