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The Ship Anarchy , having recently received
jailing orderly while the was getting under
way, a number of people collected to witness
her departure, to whom her commander Cap/.
Stingo, with that mildness and complacen
cy for which he has long been diflinguijhed,
delivered the following Speech :
Fellow-Citizens,
BEING now about to leave
you, I feel it incumbent on me to fay
something byway of dire&ion for \ our
future conduct, that the inftru<fti„ns I
leave, may in some degree alleviate that af
fliction, which you must neceflarily expe
rience for my absence. It will be fuffici
ent for me at present, to state to you some
of those important fa<fts, relative to myfelf,
kwhich so evidently designate me the Hero
l,f modern days, and which point me out,
as the undeviating standard of republican
perfection. From my infancy I have la
boured in that cause, in which I am now
engaged ; that 1 mean, of seeking at all
events, and in every poflßble way, my own
elevation —yes, fellow-citizens, and citi
zen-fellows, I have been uniformly ambi
tious —I have spared no pains, neglected
no means, that ingenuity could devise, or
art accomplish, to increase my popularity
and confequence —fellow-citizens* I have
fought and bled, and bled and fought for
you —Luckily for me, and fortunately for
you, my wounds have not been numerous,
n ir has my lots of blood been great —but
the less my fu(firings have been in reality,
the more has the business of boasting be
come a duty, because, where either servi
ces are small, or futferings light, it is ne
celTary to bring them to frequent recollec
tion, left they be totally forgotton. A'
the age of fourteen I was a boy—but I
then pofleffed the capacity and talents of
a man—-yes, strange as it may now appear,
at fourteen I was a boy, and then I came
to this country —at sixteen I Ihouldered a
musket, and soon after killed a Goose, and
those who then knew me, law in me (or
thought they saw) the materials for much
futurf mifehief—whether or not they were
deceived, I leave to you to judge—l tho’t
it neceffury to fay, that I killed a goose
loon after (Uouldering my musket at fix
teen, left it might be foppofed I meant to
insinuate, that at so early an age, I took up
my gun in the American service, which
you know could not be correct; because,
as I. am now fifty years old, you will readily
fee that l must lv»ve been upwards of twen
ty at the commencement of the American
war—but a few years among friends, I
suppose is neither here nor there.
Oh that I could speak—that I dare ex
press what I feel—or rather that I could
do what I wish, then (hould the tyrannic
spirit that rages within me break forth
—I would rule you with a rod of iron,
and while I triumphed over you, exult in
your servility.
Friends and virtuous Republicans, let
me a lvife vou to beware of vile tory in
fln' iuv, it will insinuate itfelfin various
form an I shapes—while I am here you
are in no huger—l (hall keep a good look
out, and endeavour to create and continue
divisions among you, and when I leave
you, I (hall commit to some others the
business of keeping alive that spirit of par
ty on which l depend for lupport, and
which has hitherto upheld me. I well
know that those I wish you to be suspici
ous of, are more virtuous, upright, and
friendly to the government than myfelf—
but that is nothing to the purpose, you
must not esteem them—you must not unite
with them—nor fuffer them if you can
prevent it to nn»te among themselves :
“ divi leand conquer” you know is a wife
maxim—divi le and rule, you know has
been my practice—l fay therefore again,
beware of tory-influence, it will get in
among you, unless some like me stand rea
dy to detest, and point it out, I can dis
cover it cotne how it will—-It sometimes
comes in the Jhape of black —sometimes in
the Jhape of white —sometimes in the lhape
of green, yellow or blue—this coming in
the (hape of a colour is peculiar to toryifm,
but no (hape of its colour can fruftrate my
iagacity, or defeat the wisdom of those I
fliail appoint watchmen over you.
I fee around me, some whom I believe to
be truly virtuous—f.»me too I fee whom
I know to be otherways—l fay, I know to
beotherways, because my intimacy with
them has given me a knowledge of their
characters—they are seeking the loaves
and fifties—they want otfices, but give
them few or none ; heap on me as many
as you please, I am virtuous and modest,
and can hear them—but be cautious how
you trust others—you are not indeed as
sembled now to eleCt officers, and I hope
yon may not alTemble for that purpose ’till
my return, when I will point out to you
such of my friends as you must appoint to
those offices, that I do not choose to hold
myfelf.
I have lately difeovered a most damna-
ble plot—l dont know what it is, nor will
you ever find it out—but I want you to
believe there is something brewing about
yazoo—and the more improbable, and un
likely, and ir.comprehenfible the supposed
thing, the better for me—l must you know
always talk about yazoo—it has raised my
consequence and it would be ungrateful to
the charming word no; to mention it in a
parting speech—by the single word yazoo
alone, I have latterly carried ail my mea
sures, and kept the passions of the people
perpetually agitated—yet for this ingenu
ity I have been abused bv some of those
fellows on the bay who have called me a
foreigner, merely because I came from
Cjreat-Britain, even though I long ago re
nounced niv country, and my country
willingly disowned me, or would
done so, could I have attrafted her notice
—but where were these fellows during our
glorious struggle—in Scotland I suppose
or some where else, if they were not some
where else, nor in Scotland neither—who
the devil kn ws where they were?—But
the abuse I received here was not equal to
what I experienced from a fellow in Burke,
[ones I Geneve his name was, notwith
standing my repubticanilm, he had the
impudence to Cue me for a debt of fifteen
pounds (hat I owed him—but I was too
keen for him—l made oath that I did not
reside where I lived , and so I nonfuited him '
—the justices indeed who knew where I
did live , had the independence and aflur- )
-nee to decide against me—but I afterwards
fuccceded Defore a higher tribunal, where
republican rights were refpeCted—and thei
debt is not paid yet —nor will it be very
loon ; it would be fine times indeed, it men
like me, were to be fubjeCted to the arifto
craticai inconvenience of being compelledr
to pay debts before they pleafed—foml,
foolifh fellows indeed who feel the preju
dices of an old failuoned education—would
fay perhaps, that without regard to forms,
whether a man lived in one county or
another, he ought to pay his debts if he
could—but I am more enlightened—such
folks as Jones, must learn to treat me with
refpeft if they want justice from me—and
even then, it is not probable they will
always get it.
I thank you my dear friends, for your
attention—you are all my dear friends,
except lome few who would be omy fairy
to be included in the number—l have sa
ved this country —I alone have saved it
from internal and external foes—it is not
modest perhaps to boast of one’s services,
and therefore 1 fay nothing abour mine,
only I fay again, I have saved this country,
I have saved you, and will continue to take
care of you, and will maintain, that taxa
tion and representation must go together—
As to taxation my dear, my very dear
sweet friends, you must experience a enn
fiderable portion of that, to make up what
E have expended in fiipport of my mea
sures—Popularity you know, sometimes,
especially when not founded on tone A
principles, requires confiderabie facrifkes
to fupporc it—the date funds have been
exercised to lupport mine—the money in
your treasury has been squandered, and
you will have the exalted pleasure of be
ing taxed to refund it—you had money
enough in your treasury to have made the
interest alone, more than adaquate to all
theexpences of your government —and no
tax whatever need to have been laid—your
treasury is now poor, the appropriations
of the last session, confiderablv exceeded
the whole amount , of money in it belonging
to the state, and your taxes must be some
what encreafed—but no matter for that,
the fing'e term yazoo, added to the popu
larity I have acquired, will afford fufficient
consolation to your minds, for all the mo
ney drawn from your purses—As for the
yazoo deposit, that has been so ingeniously
managed, that those no way interested in
the purchase have fingered the calh—the
dexterity of this buGnefs has been such,
that, when it comes to be properly
fed, ordinary contrivers will be aftoniflied
—the disinterestedness of some, even with
in the found of my voice will furprize you.
The honour I have now received is
great —it would have been greater, had a
larger number of Artillery men been pre
sent—the five who are now here, perhaps
would not have attended had they, like the
others, difeovered for what purpose they
were ordered out—but I trust when I re
turn you will stand ready to tender me the
homage of your high refpe&s—the whole
company will I trust turn out and fire a
salute on my arrival, as they ought to have
done on my departure, then will they a<ft
like true Republicans—especially if they
fire as I hope they will only republican
powder, which alone will produce from
that piece a republican report.
Gentlemen, gentlemen, friends, citizens,
fellows, little boys, big bovs, old, young,
black, white and vdlow, I have saved for
you the weftern country, I have fought
for you, and Hull still do all I can for you
—you are my sweet dear children—tho’
daggers, spears, boots and spurs oppose
me, I will never forlake the cause of re
publicanism.—Adieu, adieu, salute and
fraternity—huzza, I am off.
THE DISTRICT COURT AND
THE PRESIDENT.
From the Newport Mercury.
In some publications, addrefied to the
President of the United States, an allusion
has been made to an order of his, directing
part of the prize money of the Peggy, a
French febooner, condemned in the Dill
rift Court of Connecticut, to be released
to the claimants. As the fadls are not
generally known, I shall, for the infor
mation of the public, state those which
particularly relate to this tranfaclion:
The schooner Peggy was captured by
the United States frigate Trumbull,
commanded by capt. Jewett, and sent into
New-London for adjudication. A trial
was had some time in the beginning oflaft
winter, in the diftrid of Connecticut, and
the Peggy, together with her cargo, were
adjudged good prize—ordered to be fold
and the proceeds to be equally divided
between the captors and the United States.
The proceeds of this sale amounted to
.about twenty thouland dollars—one half
tof which was distributed among the cap
jtors, and the other half deposited in the
hands of the Clerk of the Court, for the
benefit of the United States. —Soon after
Mr. Jelferfon came into office, he wrote a
letter to Pierpont Edwards, Esq. attorney
for the diltriCl of Connecticut, directing
him to cause that part of the money belon
ging to the United States, and in the hands.
of the Clerk of the court, to be paid
to the French claimants. This the derk
refufed to do—knowing that he was oblig
ed hy law to pay the money into the
treasury of the United States.
During the leffion of the circuit court
at New-Haven, in April last, to which
court the captain of the Peggy had appea
led, from the decree of the diftriCt court,
the clerk represented in writing to said
court, that this prize-money of ten thou
sand dollars was Hill in his hands, and re
queued the court to pass some order about
it. Here Mr. Edwards interposed, and
read to the court the order above alluded
to, which he had received from the Presi
dent. Mr. Griswold, who was profelfion
ally engaged in this business, observed to
the court, that the Conflitution and laws
had prohibited all appropriations of money
by the Prefident,he therefore did not com
prehend the principle on which the order
of the President was founded—and firongly
infilled, that by law the money in question
mull be paid into the Trealury of the
United States. The court unanimously
acceded to this doClrine, and gavedireClions
accordingly. After reading the order to
the court, Mr. Edwards palled over the
fubjefl , Jub Jilentio. PUBLIUS.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD,
“ TO TRACE THE SKULKING FRAUD,”
Whereas two letters, written at the City
of Walhington, one on the sixth and the
other on the seventh inllant, by Richard
Peters, Jonr. Elquire, bothjealed and di
rected to me, and left at the bar of Mr.
Still’s Hotel, where letters for the mail are
frequently deposited ; and whereas neither
of those letters have been received by me,
I hereby offer a reward of fifty dollars
to any person who will produce those let
ters with the seals entire, or twenty five dol
lars for either of them : And in case the
seals be broken, the whole sum of fifty
dollars shall be given to any person who
will lb deted the villain who has broken
open and detained either of them, as that
the culprit may be brought tojuftice.
In order to affill the enquirer, I think
proper to (late, that, at the time when the
firft mentioned letter was left at Mr. Still’s,
which was on Sunday evening the sixth
inllant, James Cheetham , an Englifliman, a
hatter by trade, now resident in New-York,
and editor of a paper called American Citi
zen, was in the houle: and that on the
Friday following, the subsequent para
graphs appeared in the Aurora, purporting
to be written by the editor of the paper at
Wnflitngton on the very day upon whjich
the fir ft letter ought to have left that City.
“ FROM THE EDITOR.”
“ Wafhington-Citv, Dec. 7, ißc/i.
“ The President speaks in his speech
very animatedly on the naturalization law
and on the judiciary—and on the militia
and juries.
“ Wallace and young Peters are here—
law a letter written by the latter to Bronson
this day, in which he reviles Mr. Jefferl'on
for attempting to deviate from Washing
ton and Adam’s pradice—and alludes to
some letter of Chauncey to a Mr. Clarke,
he fays “ Duane is here to exercise an influ -
mce and Cheetham to obtain one,” so you
fee these idiots feelings on the lubjefr.
« The session will be a very long one.”
It may be proper further to (late, that
on the refpe£tive days upon which tboSk
letters became due, I received blank «t£ ■
of paper, sealed in the form of d- f
rested to me and stamped with the
ington post-mark ; the firft with the maßh
Dec. 7, the second Dec. B.—These wfl§i
both lent back to the Post-Matter in tTjpl
city and the pottage was refunded. TiX]
probability is, that, when the letters
Mr. Peters were stolen, these blank fheetß
were dropped in their place, in order fiup
the theft might escape notice.
I do not think it worth while to call in
on William Duane to account for the
manner in which he came by the exttuft
forwarded by him to this city and publish
ed in this paper. If he is a wretch so base
as to steal, and so mean as to break,open
and publish a private and confidential let
ter, it is not probable that he would be in
genuous enough to confefs the villaiiy. I
fliall, however, direct a copy of this ad
vertisement to be sent to him, and another
to Cheetham, in order that they may have
an opportunity of claiming the rewayd,~
provided either of them has the
inclination to make the r
--Several other communic:uH>.;^ ave
bee. dire&ed to me from Washing
ton by different gentlemen, but have not
come to hand.—Society as well as myfelf
have an intertft in putting a (top to such
unheard-of out-rage.
E BRONSQN.
December 21, 1801.
The Editors of the Washington
Federalist, and as many other Editors as
are willing, are requested to insert the
above in their paper.
WASHINGTON, v December 30.
Letter from the
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY,
Accompanying a report, and funtlry itftementa
prepared in pursuance of the aft supplementary to
the aft, intituled “ an aft to establish ths Treasury
Department.’'
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
December iB, 1801.
SIR, —I have the honor to snclofe a report, pre
pared in obedience to the directions of the aft, liip
plementary to the aft intituled “ an aft to cftablilh
the Treasury Department.”
I have the honor to be very refpeftfully,
Sir, your obedient lerv ant,
ALBERT GALLATIN.
The honorable the Speaker of the
House of Representatives.
R E P~O R T.
In obedience to the dire A ions of the aft fupplc*
mentary to the aft entitled “ An aft to ejla
blijh the Treasury Department ,” the Secreta
ry of the Treasury refpeftfully Jubmits the
following Report and Estimates :
THE permanent revenues of the Uni
ted States, according to the laws now in
force, consist of—iff. Duties on merchan
dise and tonnage —2d. Internal duties on
Hills and domestic distilled spirits, refined
sugar, licences to retailers, sales at
au&ion, and plealurable carriages—3d.
Proceeds of the Tales of public lands—4th.
Duties on poftage—sth. Dividends on
shares in the Bank of the United States-*
6th. Incidental, arising from fees, fines
and penalties, repayments in the trea
sury, and sales of public property* other
than lands.
Duties on Merchandise and Tonnage,
The receipts in the Treasury, arising
from that source, have amounted, for the
year ending on the 30th September, 1801,
to dollars 10,126,213*92. Iftothisfum
be added the drawbacks paid bj colle&ors,
on the exportation of domestic distilled spi
rits and refined sugar, which are a charge
on the internal revenues, and that part of
the additional duties laid in the year 1800,
which did not operate during th&,year to
which those receipts refer ; the futn >'h ; cb
would have been received, at the p re feat
rate of duties, cannot be eftimaled
than 10,500,000 dollars. The aaiountlß
duties secured on the 30th SepJnber fl
and falling due in the
1802, compared with h
years, ju{lines an
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