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; r , vi;l Wgovernment
i,‘capable of fach unexpreffihly ,
bir hj»roas conduft towards the.
ien dcr and delicate fex ?
Th'! numerous (hocking tales
contained in rhe letters frojn Tre
]and, mnrh excite in every hu
jnanbreaft, the ft ongeft detef-
Ution for the Britifh barbarians
who are inftrumental to fuch
horrid cruelty. The black cata
logue of dimes committed in
that unfortunate country, ex
hibits the fanguinary difpofition
of defpotifm in true co ours.
AVe live an age which of
j s refinement and civilization,
vet vice armed with power, in
f:6h the mod poignant wounds
on feeling and fenfibility, Mif
crearvts in the wantonnefs of ty.
rannv, fport with the forrows of
a people weighed down to the
earth with mifery and oppreffion.
Wietched peafants are rendered
more unfortunate by a remorfe
lefs foldiers burning their cot
tages, from wh ch their wives
and children are happy to efcape
almoft in a Hate of nature, Fa
thers torn f»om their families by
ruthlels villains and immured in
the finders pefti ential hold, fight
in vain over their unfortunate
fate; but we have feen nothing
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which violates fo much every
principle of decorum and de
cency, as the public whipping'
of Mils D’s, in Cork. On that
recital, wc felt an indignation
in common with all who refpeft
the weaker fex and who cannot
but execrate the ivretches who
could be guilty of fuch barbarity.
Modefty is the principle charm
of the fair, and is even honored
by favages. What a dreadful
punifhment mail it then be to a.
female, to be expofed in public
before a crowd of rude foldiers ?
G:eat muil be the depravity of
nvnd that cou d fentcnce any
females to be whipped like cri
minals, for a warUi expreffion of
irritated feelings.
Tor the Loui/villc Gazette .
No. I.
Mr. Day,
IN looking over the newfpa
p".rs ‘ are » there appears no
*. ln o but one fulfomc, aciimo
rilous dogmatical piece after
•itiotnei, all tending to depreci-j
a^ e ’ and break down
e r, Bh'S, privileges, and liber-.
*‘ es °^ tile pco de, and up >n rhe
* a,ns thereof to build up a high-!
onp d ariQocracy.
before this latter do&rine is!
jcceived, and becomes the eftab
-1,1 ] " a principle of our govern
rricn h it would be well for us to j
C ? n . v^ r,e a httlc about the caufe'
1 r 6Jt ' V * or a Te publiran fyf-j
- n oi government; having been
landed down to rhe people, and 1
* C ol y c quence of their giving
‘p dioie liberties, and not fwd
i. JV no ' Ivn 1 vn this new. unfair and
!; {^m of ariftocracy,
r C r . n,an d °es the dofe of
Pu (^ c from his do&or. *
no; beeaufe that unjuft/
unequal and oppreflivelaws we r e)
made, which we were bound toj
.obey, and in the forming ofj
them, we nad no voice ? Was it'
not bccaulc that men were in
office ever us, who a6led like
tyiants, and not like officers?
W as it not becaufe that a very
enormous, unwarrantable and
giievous tax was levied upon
our lands, houfes, and other■
property, that we objc&ed to
the Britilh admimflration ? And
was it not for the foregoing, and
firnilar caufes, that thedeclaia-j
tion of independence took place
in 1776 ? Is it poffible, or rea
fonable, to fuppofe that, that
ever ought to be remembered
day, on which our rights were
declared and recorded, and the
folemn pledge which took place 1
in confequcncc thereo', fhould
at this day, be forgotten, 11 ifled
with* and trampled upon ? Or
can the merito ious exertions of
thofe brave men, who left ami
able families and reipeftabie
connexions who drenched the
valleys, and crimfoned the fields
with their blood, to obtain liberty
and an equal government, be
(pinned and fcolfcd at, by any,
but a few nabobs, office hunters,
and tciTce-boys of a would be
monarch ?
No man, who flood the heat
and burthen of the war, or was
direftly or incHeftlv inftrumen
tal in procuring our freedom, or
was a well-wifhei o f true reoub- 1
licanifrn, and has remained in
h s fenfe« will corfent or ag r ee
r o
tor one fingle atom, of ou> pri
vileges, liberties, or the right of
fuffrage to be given np or relin
quiffied, except he fhould have
an intereft in expectancy from
the n j w fyftern of anflocracy
and oppreffion; and here he
ought to aft with the utmofti
precaution, for if it fhould fo
turn out, that he did not (land;
high upon the lift, or was not a;
favorite on the diy of diftribu-j
tion, he will find himfelf in a
worle fituation, than if he h id
rcm.iined an advocate for the
lights of the people, and a re
publican.
No young man, who has
I come into 1 fe, fince the pro
mulgation and eftabliffirnent of
an equal government, nor no
foreigner who has become a citi
zen among us, but who ought j
to revere and adrniie thofe in-.
cftimable bleffings, which are
O 7
|de»ived from the free and full;
j |
‘fountain of our republican go- 1
vernment. That the unrelent
ing arm of no imperi »us mo
narch can fway the feeptre, nor
I no ftern band haughty arif
'tncrats can lord it over us (altho’ j
many are Crying that we are'
governed by a code of laws, made j
by ourlelves, that we have the
right of calling upon the be ft of
our citizens, ro be our rulers, j
and that we have the power of,
examining and judging the pro
. pHety or impropriety of their
'official behaviour.
It never could have been con
' femplated by any man, who pcF
■ felled one (ingle ray of genuine
j republican viitue, thu our liber
ties were only to la(l twenty-!
three or four years, when the
rains had fcarcely wafhed atvayj
the blood our of the fields, which
guQied from the veins of thofel
heroic martyrs who fell in the |
glorious caufe. But that they;
■ were to be preferred pure and,
unfullicd, and li nded down to
pollerity with all the ornaments
| of impiovement, which cnlight-
I ened and upright iociety could
produce, that future ages might
boafl of the virtues of their re
publican ancefiors.
It is therefore acknowledged
that we are by our own virtues,
a free peope, that the funda
mental principles of our govern
ment are founded in fieedom,
and wc ought pofitively to de
dare, that any law, resolution
or oidinancc, made in contra
vention of that fieedom, is a
manifefl violation of our liber
ties, and at all hazards our rights
as a free peop'e, wc will main
tain.
A GEORGIAN 1 .
NEW-YORK, Ju’y 20.
May dev oj the French niniflers,
HORRID! HORRID!
The horrid »n J inhuman murder com
mitted on the peifons of the French
i minifters, Bonnier and Robetjor, is the
mod flagrant violation of the laws of
oationt. which baa happened for ccn*u»
rice. Even in 'he dsrk. ages, when 1
cvihzntinn was (cufe perccp able, the
of amha 'adors were field facred, |
and however bitter the enmity of one
people aga'nft another, y?t an unirmed
me enger fent for an avowed purport
was co fjltred ai entitled to the rights
ot hofpitalty and fat; ptnh&ion by all.
S nee the flrft dawu of the revo’u ion
, of France, its en mies have pa heticahy
dilcribed the cxcefi which an enraged
| people were guilty of. They have
dwelt with plcafurc upon the m< fl in*
j ficant accident, and have labored
I to attain a whole nation for the guilt of
i a ftw. The e'qieiit pen of ■ Burke
| was emp oyed to raife the general fym
! pat by for the it jured ieelmgi of a proud,
a haughty and v c ous cueen, for the
jnt dull (erneot of a diff-dute, tyrao
wi ;a» nobility, and ad prieflhool.
Ihe HoppirjcTa of rmilicns was of do
moment, nor co be pu: in compurfm
wt h the bounty and profperity of roy*
; a,; y a,, d ar ftocracy. While France has
b;en pourirayed aa covered with crimes,
iand waging a war againft religion, mo*
jralify and virtue, her enemies have pre
j tended to un tc together for the pre
| f?rvation of order and religion ; but
h .w have th y afled towards this Grcat
; N-f on ? i’bcy have n >1 hefitatcd for
a moment to encourage trcafoi, mur-
I der and rcbeilion. M<'bi have been
repea ediy excited to aflaffinate unpro
tected Frenchmen, and have repeatedly
murdered fuch individuiii. Even the
followers of the Pope, the fucetfF-Ji 8 of
6\ Peter facrificcd feveral Frenchmen,
I p rticularly general Duphot, to their
| hatred, and in Vienna, tie capital of
1 tUe Emperor, the French ambaflador
and h sfuitc would have been murdered,
I lad they not taken timely mcafur. 8 for
i thc.r fecurity. In the Vcnetiao terri
; tury the French fo’d ers who were io the
hofp:ta a were murdered io the mod
cruel manner. We might repeat the
long catalogue of finnl.r afTaflinations
which hive been committed—For what
p'.irpnfc P i o prtftrve order and religion
Good Heaven what Lypocr'iy ! Arc
the fav.oura of rcligiou ua like
<9 « m "
tmons * *rmcd with ih’ocd daggers
anj covered with blood ?
1 be French envoy* when ordered to
( qu;t Railadt, were entitled to • f«fc
I conveyance to their own coun ry. The
, le'ter from Jean Debry prow a that tberc
tmift have been a concerted pl o '. The
I buffers approaching He m lo ift cr(l tn d
( demanding their names, (hew* that the
murder waa planned, and that the en
foya alone were the devoted v Aims of
I I d'iboWcal confp racy. This birbsrous,
unprecedented will cower Aufltii
with infamy, and declare the atrocious
na urc rt the pref nt coa Irion of vil
lain*. Humanity mud blufh for the
(hocking depravity which gave birth to
luch a cr me,
We had f'-por'a before of rbia mur
der, but we thought them unworthy of
notice, but we now have a melancholy
confi matioo of it. The wife of Ro
bc-ij°* claims the grcatcll compaflion.
lo have her bufbaod murdered in her
arena by the motift-rs, mud be dread
fully (hocking to a mind of the lead
f nlibiiity. But the death of 'hofe mar
tyrs will I c attended with the very bed
effect. A cry for veng-aoec will per
vade. Franee and brr f< id ers w II in the
hour of ba tie rccoiltA ihc fate of Bon*
uur and Robeijot.
It will rtfufeitate that enthofiafm
wiiich has o ( fteo c rquered for F ench
men, and d(fc mfi rd her fcca. Crowds
*•11 fly to the (londard of Mercy and be
emu ous to icvenge the hot rid deed,
ihc tffei?cfce;;ce of popular indignation
will iculc die national energy to combat
w lb fuectfa the m (creams who have
imbrued their bands in the blood of tha
raciers (acred even among lavages.
For the Louifville Gazette,
T HRO’ little Cu , . . f alai! ’iwal
done,
0 h dear girl ! fay, art thou gone ?—-
M ild, as thy graceful fteps advance*
1 n fweetc f l language doth thy eyes
S peak from the mod enamouiM glance
S of. as the breathing of thy fighs.
| A h Meet Aurcha ! *re tho(c cha r mi
U nnumber’d—pure cs when the cad
K eccivca the cheering ray that wsrma
E. ach heart that nature lull’d to red
L ike desreft A . i»* to N , ~ . o
doom’d ?
I o thee docs cvc*y virtue flow,
A bread where facial fetlings glow.
G rant—--ye Icn * power* d vine
R eceivr h 8 vows. O ! Grant HIM thil #
A ml VIRTUES emb erratic (hrinc
Y cars of content and purelt bhfs.
EUGENIUS.
, , - ■ •m
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On THURSDAY , the izth of
September , at the hou/e oj Dr,
Newton, near Eanns Bridge,
THE WHOLE of (he E'ateof Sjlva
nui Prince, !a f c of ihi* county, de
ceased • < onhftmg of HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE, CATTLE, HOGS, &c.
also,
A NEGRO WENCH, named Jenny,
with her three children.
A credit of twelve monthi will be
given, wih approved fecurty.
Mary Newton Prince,
A 'miniitratrix.
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gufti, a FREbH
Aflortment of MEDICINE,
Suitable to the Practice ; and
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paid to all Order*, &rc«
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