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NEW-YORK, June 14.
■ > 1 tli" second day of May iail the Bri
«, :ir i.td brig Swaliaw, Stephen Bour-
IWHt, “Wtitcr, (abed from this port in Mar-
le. After being out 19 days, on the
i'ffjft May, in lat. 24, 4. N. iong. 61, 48
Hr witiio.it any of the customary appear
■Bces of a squall, there came on a hidden
|Hjt of wind from the eastward, which up
|H the velfei. Every endeavor to right
gßlr proved abortive. One of the boats
Hs ffove to pieces, the other was forttm-
Kiv cleared, and fix persons, consisting
K the captain, mate and four of the crew,
Bit into her. They remained ail that
■ght by the wreck'.anc! the next morning,
Biding the brighad funk low in the water,
Ad having no hopes of laving thole left
H the wrtik (the boat being too limit to
Arry m >re) they pulhed off without water
A provisions, and with no other guide
Bert the fun and liars. In this situation
Aiev drifted 9 days on the ocean, and du-
Hng the whole of that time received no
Hiier i'uflenance than their own urine and
Ate water of the tea. A dog tielonging to
Hie brig, who hjd Twain to the boat and
Has humanely received into it, was killed
Ai a few days afterwards for food—but
Hieir appetite recoiled from fuchafubfti-
A c, .uid none of the unfortunate people
Hould eat of him. They were at this time
A nTt under a verticle fun, and their thirl!
Became exceiiive. Nauseated with drink
Bng ttieir own urine, they had recourl'e to
Bea-water, as the lead olfenfive of the two.
Borne of them had likewile the precau
tion, in a fit of thtrft, to jump out of the
Boat into the sea and remain there until
■hey had imbibed fufficient moisture to al
■ay the extremity ot their third. This ex
pedient had the desired cffell.
No profped of relief had yet presented
■tfelf, and hope was finking in difpair,
■when on the 9MI day after quitting the
■ rig, in lat. 23, 'ong. 63, fell in with the
BVhooier vVillu.n, Jeremiah Goodrich
■in ifter, one of the licet of American vef-
Ifels from St. Thomas's to New-York who
■took them iti, and administered to their
Inecdiities in a manner highly honorable
Ito hi j own prudence. The fame day put
1 3 of them on board a schooner, name uni
■ known,boundto N. York. Next morning
■ Robert Dickie, one of the remaining three.
■ died. Captain Bourdett and mate arrived
I here on Sunday.
PHILADELPHIA, June 14.
I Extra 7 from a Paris netvfpaper called Le
Publicise, of the 2 \fl Kentofe , 8/// year,
| (March it, 1800.)
T.ie tmu Iters plenipotentiary of the U
[ nited States, were presented to the firft con-
I iul, by the minittcr of foreign relations.
I They were extremely ftrnck with the like-
I nefs, which they obltrved in the figure,
manner and language of Buonaparte and
Hamilton, one of their fii ft warriors anti
statesmen : The fame exprellion of coun
tenance, the fame precision in conversa
tion.
• The honors rendered to Washington by
tsie fii ft consul fcnfibly affelted them.
GENERAL ORDERS.
Adjutant-General's Office,
Nero-York, June 7, 1800.
Major general Hamilton, cannot permit
1 the troops which are about to retire from
the field, to depart, without carrying with
| them the aflurance of the high sense which
lie entertains of their merits. The zeal
with which they came forward in defence
of the r country, when the signal of danger
was given bv the government, does great
hmnr to their patriotism and Ipirit. Their
conduit in service has corresponded with
the lau fable motives which led them into
. it. Pney hive deserved the esteem of
1 i ieir fell tv-citizens, and the warm appro
| t-.rion ot their generals. They have ex*
npHfied now speedily American soldiers
tan be prepared to meet the enemies of
their country.
The affection of the major general, will
accompany his fellow soldiers wheresoever
1 thev n/iy go—nor will any thing give him
11 >re pleafurt than opportunities of teftify
i ing to them, individually, bv altions as
well as words, the high regard which he
[ eherilh-.’s tor them.
W. NORTH, Adj. Gen.
Union Camp, June 9, iSoo.
At a meeting of the officers of Union
I .brigt ie, confiding of the nth, 12th, and
1 jtn regiments, ho'den this day at Union
» 1 tall, of which lieutenant colonel Tavlor,
i ot the 13*11, was chosen chairman, and
I captain Samuel White, of the uth, feere-
I tavy, the following refutations were una*
] nimoafiv adopted;
t. ivtlb'ved. That it is expedient and
H r r ’b-b that ti e officers of thi* brigade,
■ . P fvious to thstr f-na-atlan* tlioulj pre-
B^- u a ref.ir'ftui address to lieutenant colo
Hi' nmandant Smith.
2. Resolved, That capt. Samuel White,
of the nth, major William Wilcox, ot
the 12th, and the brigade quarter master,
James Gordon, be a committee to draft
laid address. Extract,
SAMUEL WHITE.
Captain nth regt. fecrctary.
An address of the officers of the Union Brigade,
confifling of the 11 th, 1 2th, and 13 th regi
ments, to lieut. col. commandant Smith.
Sir,
We wait on you at this time, col
'eltive y, to teftify the sentiments we en
tertain of you as our commander and our
friend —The omiftion of this mark of ref*
pelt, to which you are so eminently enti
tled, would, in us, be doubly inexcusable
—lt is equally a tribute due to >our merit
and a duty we owe to ourselves.
The diftinguiflied politeness you have
uniformly shewn us; the interest you have
taken in our individual happiness, and
your unceasing exertions to improve us in
the profelfion of arms, demand our warm
est acknowledgments. We can but feli
citate ourselves on the fortunate occur
rence of circumstances, that united us
under your command. From the exam
ple, the talents, and military experience of
huh an officer, we had every thing to ex
pert ; and although the approaching peri
od of our service, for a time, precludes our
arriving to that point of information, at
which we were ambitious to attain, we
flatter ourselves the opportunity has not
puffed unimproved, or your inftrultions
been loft.
Motives such as we are proud to ac
knowledge—motives of patriotiim, and
not of interest, firft aflbeiated us in arms
together—The government, relieved from
the immediate embarrail’ment that prefled
it, has been pleased, earlier than was ex
pelled, to dispense with our services. The
policy of this measure, it becomes not us,
as soldiers to investigate; but cheerfully
return into the mass of citizens, and culti
vate the arts of peace, until the rising events
of some future day, may again summon us
to the field. Whenever our national ho
nor fliall be attacked, or the liberties of
our country endangered, we pledge our
selves to be found, at the firft call, among
the foremoft in her ranks. Could we be
permitted to anticipate so portentous an
occasion, the firft wish of our hearts would
be, to have you at our head.
That you may live long and be happy,
and your country lufficicntly appreciate
your worth, is the sincere prayer of our
hearts. TIM. TAYLOR,
Lieut, col. comdt. 13th reg. and
Chairman of the meeting.
Attest, Samuel White,
Capt. nth reg. and fecrctary.
To which lieutenant col. comdt. Smith, gave
the following answer :
Friends, Countrymen and brother
Officers, ,
The address with which you have ho
nored me, excites the liveliest sensibilities.
If my conduit as your commander, has
merited your applause, I must acknow
ledge that, that applause, thus given, is
particularly gratifying to my feellings--But
when, at the period of the Item exercise of
military duties, and at the point of our re
paration, you honor me with the appel
lation of your inftrullor and your friend,
my mind is foftened, and my feelings urge
me to return the idea with a warmth of ex
pression, perhaps too lively and intereftuig
to be fully uttered, at the present moment
—Language is scarcely competent to the
t Ik, and I will only fiy, my heart reci
procates, to the full extent, your flattering
expressions of applause and friendfliip.—
You will believe me, gentlemen, when I
’flert, that through the various feenes of
service which I have palled, I have never
met with more pointed support, from mi
litary dispositions, politeness and urbanity
in any corps, than those I have experien
ced from the officers of the Union briga ie.
Your conduit, collellively, has done ho
nor to your profelfion— a> evinced the
propriety of your appointments, and that
the favorable imprelfions made on the
mind of our worthy chief magistrate and
his council, were not (lightly founded. I
have always with pleasure, noticed you,
prompt and alert in the difeharge of vmr
duties, ready to receive inftrultion, when
inftrultion was neceflary, and when ac
quired, difeharging them with an interest
ing attention.
If, as you pleale to express yourselves, I
have been so fortunate as to expand your
minds on military fubjelts, and rendered
you more competent to fervt* your coun
try, as profelfioml men, I am particularly
' gratified ; I retire to the shades of private
1 life, comp’.'.nented by your applause, and
* coufcious that as far as time and opportu
nity have been allowed me, I have never
withheld any inftrullion, that the grade of
your military acquirements would juftify
\ t
ir.3 in brmgingfofwrard, without overstock
ing your minds, or too pointedly interfer
ing with that fyttem, by which we are or
dered to regulate our movements, but
which hereafter, I doubt not, our govern
ment will take measures to expand, con
formably to the original intentions of its
founderj our departed friend and brother,
the late major general Baron Steuben.
The motives of patriotism and of public
virtue, which induced you jo enter into
your country’s service, f'acrificing private
ease for public happiness, will, I doubt
not, be particularly cultivated, and per
mitted to expand, when you return to a
friendly association with your fellow-ci
tizens.
You will doubtless recolleCt, that true
patriotism shines brightest in the day of
adverlity, as the clear lamp emits the pur
est blaze in the night—that is untainted
with the animosity of party rage —that it
firmly attaches to the constitution of your
country —that it regards measures, not
men, and that the individual who is nobly
inspired with a zeal for his country’s wel
fare, will concur with his greatest foe in
every scheme for the advancement of the
state. Be steady and correct, then, my
friends, in your retirement —perievere in
your exertions for your country’s welfare;
Hie may perhaps yet require your aid to
ihieid her from the aftaultb of an invading
foe, or the more horrid ftiocks of internal
commotion—ln either case, “ you lliall
have me as your leader “ or your fellow
foldier—Neither my body nor mind lliall
ever forfake you”—for, be allured, while
I live, I never will be obligated to others
for the defence of my countrv, my family,
or my friends, without equally snaring the
dangers of the tented field.
I therefore fully and freely meet your
pledge on this fubjeCt, with an elevated
glow of foul, foftened by grateful fen ra
tions, relative to your collective willies for
a continuance of my life and happiness so
flatteringly expressed—That you, gentle
men, may live long and be happy—con
tinue an ornament to society, an honor to
your country and an example to your fel
low-citizens, is the lincere willi of your
friend—vour brother—and, if again ne
ceflary, your aftbeiate in arms.
W. S. SMITH, Lieut, col. of the 12th,
Comdt. of the Union Brigade.
RICHMOND, June 6.
The trial of James Thompson Callender , I
' for Sedition, took place on T
in the circuit court of the United States.
This being thefirft instance of the kind in
this state, it excited great curiosity—the
room was thronged with fpeCtators from
every quarter, '{he trial was opened at
ten o’clock and continued till fix, when
the jury retired, and after some delibera
tion brought in a VerriiCt—GUlLTY.
The succeeding day at io o’clock, the
traverser appeared at the bar to receive his
sentence. Judge Chase, after making
some obfi rvations upon the dangerous
confeqnences that must result from a difo
bediencc to the laws ; and recommending
most lerioufly, the conllitutional mode of
redress, whereby a law might be deemed a
grievance, addrefled himfelfto the prison
er, to inform him of the determination of
the court —which was, that he be fined in
the film of 200 dollars, imprisoned nine
months, and be bound over in the penalty
of 12 hundred dollars, during the term
of two years, for his good behavioui
himfelf in the sum of fix hundred, and to
find two securities for three hundred dol
-1
lars each.
We hope and trust that this prosecution
may have the desired effeCt, in deterring
others from any attempt to violate the laws
of our country —under which banner, rests
all that is dear to us.
Judge chafe, when abqut to pass sen
tence on Mr. Callender, observed, that his
offence against the laws was great, and that
it was aggravated by its having been wil
fully committed. He told Mr. Callender
that he seemed to be a man of lome infor
mation, and by no means destitute of good
understanding—that with these, he must
have known that Mr. Adams was far from
deserving the character which he had giv
en him ; that it was a faCt generally known,
and of which Mr. Callender could not
plead ignorance, that the American peo
pie had repeatedly confided their most im
portant con. erns and dearest interests to
Mr. Adams—that he was one of the prin
cipal characters in the revolution, and had
acted a most conspicuous part in carrying
it on : That Congress knowing his virtue,
abilities and patriotism, after having fuc
cefsfully employed him in other very im
* portant business, appointed him as a minis
ter in conjunction with two others, to
make the treaty which terminated the war
r and established our independence; and
that the best parts of that treaty of peace
• were to be aferibed to Mr. Adams, wnofe
I Co l d ' ,a M WaS r f ° srea,l >' I
and to Mr. Jay, whole characfer i„{s ft
part of the union, has been so fham.f .. 1
viliified-—that theie were fa&S?' ft
he would mention, becaufc he f M
ed they were not generally known ' *
Virginia That Congress highly I
proved of the conduft 0 f Mr 1
in that negociation—that the peopfc r I
America having increased confident ; I
him, eiefted him Vice-President wh en r ii' 1 1
present constitution was adopted, aad ’ 1
elected him thereto; and at last chofclP* |
to the eminent station he now occur/ 0 * I
He alked if it was poflibie for any I
mind to believe such a man, guilty 0 f t - ft
atrocious crimes laid to his charge bv th 1
traverser? To believe such an accusation M
was, he said, an atrapk upon the peopJ I
themselves; for, that it was felf-evicjtP ■
that an intelligent flranger, who Wou ;j
read these fevtre charges and believe the.n
must unavoidably think, that the pekpbe
who had elected to so dignified a lbtio a
so abandoned and infamous a charafter
mult depraved and wicked themfelvel*
that no people could be virtuous,
were capable of promoting so base and\
profligate a pet foil; but, that the truth '
was, that Mr. Adams had been Ion? de.
serving well of his country; that in vari
ous important fuuations he had been thirty
years in its service, which never would
have been the case if the abandoned cha
rafter aferibed to him by Mr. Callender
had been merited. That Callender could
not have been personally acquainted with
him, and that as he had ample means of
information, he nmft have defamed him
wilfully:
Judge Chafe then drew the true diftmc
tion between the licentiousness, and the
liberty of the press ; and expatiated large,
ly on the utility of the latter it was true
that despotism could not exist where the
liberty of the press was enjoyed—but that
there was a very great difference between
the liberty and the abuse or licentioufnefi
of the prefs:—That the licentiousness of
the press would moll certainly destroy any
government, and particularly a republican
form of government—that it would cor
rupt the public opinion, and destroy the
morals of the people ; and that on public
opinion, and the principles of morality
and virtue, a republican government was
founded; that undoubtedly the liberty of
the press might be enjoyed in the fulled
extent to every rational and valuable pur
— fir els. If n*
’uinnv, defamation, and falfehood were to
be indiferiminately tolerated and encou
raged, it would reduce virtue to the level
of vree. and no man, however upright his
tondudl, could be secure from slander;
there would be no encouragement to inte
grity : That the liberty of the press consist
ed in the unrestrained but fair difeuffion
of principles and conduct, and would ne
ver he said to consist in securing impunity
to wilful and malicious slanderers. It was
to be lamented, that this do£trine was not
fufficiently understood by printers; that
some of the best of them seemed to mis
take the licentiousness for the liberty of
the press: That Callender, avowedly for
an electioneering purpose, had aferibed to
Mr. Adams, a worse character than the
worst minister of the worst of tyrants,
had; there he represented him in blacker
colours than Sejanus himlelf. He then re
minded him, that as a foreigner he found
an asylum in this country ; that he had
been treated with hospitality and kindnels,
and ought not in return to have defamed
some of the best characters in the country
and sow diflenfions, difeontent, and dis
cord among the people: That his conduct
would be much more severely punished :a
any other civilized country than this,
that the sentence which the court was a
boutto pronounce, would (hew the mode
ration of the government, and how much
more mild and temperate its principles*
than those of other governments. He re
commended to the traverser to perfue a
different conduct for the future, and tol j
him that the government of the Unite
States did not with to punifli or oppre s*
but to enforce obedience to just laws ma c
bv representatives, chosen by the peop e
themselves ; that there was but two ways
of remedying the evils of bad laws, to p e
tition thole who made them to re P”V
them, or to remove those reprefentaty »
and choose better men in their fread,
bad senators, members of the house o
prefentatives, or a corrupt judge, con
conftitutionaily removed. He lant en
that there was a propensity in the ho™
mind to approve of defamation. & a *
high charafters would permit the circl *
tion of the vilest slander, without contr
diaion ; they would not command or *
re£l the propagation of the slander,
they would listen to it without contra
ting it; men might have their motives
: such condua, but it was improper.