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From the Gazette of the United States.
TO THE FEDERAL COMMITTEES OF THE
STATE OF DELAWARE.
Gentlemen,
YOU h3ve been fele&ed from your
fellow-citizens and appointed to Nations
at prei'ent of much importance ; on the
faithful difeharge of the duties of which,
perhaps, depends the success of the federal
interests at our ensuing ele&ion. You ary
to employ all honed and honorable means
in support of those principles which we
deem calculated to save oisr comm >n
country from impending ruin, with which
the mad fury ot democratic demagogues
at present threaten it. A communifation,
therefore, made with a view of allifling
your endeavors, and to aid the cause of
truth and federalifm I trull, you will no:
unwillingly receive.
It wiil be your duty principally, gen
tlemen, to give correct information to the
people ; to inform them rightly of the
tranfaftions of our government ; to ex
plain its principles, and (hew the tenden
cy of its measures ; contrail the late with
the present administration; make a juil an ,
honest comparison of the mild and pro
dent measures lately pursued, with f«>
much success, hv our beloved and lament
ed Wafliington, and his immediate fuccel
lor, and which carried out country to
fuchi nircb of prosperity and ylorv, with
those of our present rulers, which seem
to he tail hurrying us to a itate of wretch
ednefs and ruin. Inform the people
properly on these fubjefls, and you wi 1
then have performed your duty. Our
fellow-citizens will then be enabled, and
I doubt not will, make a proper choice
of men to administer their government
Then will they tee that “ Feieralilin hi
been lied out of power,” in the mod hat
and unprinciole l manner, for the purpose
of making way for men whose only nb
jetfl is felf-interefl, and whose patriotif.n
extends no farther than themfelvcs. I
wilt be in your power, gentlemen, to
Ihew the people that at the conclution of
our revolution we were looked upon
abroad, as scarcely a speck on the lift o!
nations; while at ho ne we felt atl those
evils consequent on a revolution ; a peo
ple without a govern nent capable of de
fending them ; burtheued with an i;n
menfe load of public debt, the price ol
our independence; and with a treifurv
drained to the lad farthing; in a Ihort
time we formed another lyftem of govern
ment calculated for every purpose of pro
teftion and defence, the administration
of which was in the hands of the federal
ills from its adoption till the 4th of Marci
1801, a period of about twelve year-
During that time our country experience
the noil unparalleled degree of profperit.
and happineCs. It rnfe from the lowed
to the mod exalted ftatidn in the rank of
nations. “It cannot certainly be un
worthy of remark,” lays the report on
public debt of the United States, &c.
fubinitted to the house of representatives,
on theßh of Mav, tßoo, by a committee
appointed to enquire into the (late of the
finances, See. “ that ten years have not
at this time elapsed lince the government
fairly commenced its operations ; that
during that period it has been neceflary
to liquidate, to fund, and to provide for
a large capital of floating debt, which had
grown out of the disorders of the con
federation; that during the sane fliort
period the government has been compel
led to contend with one expenfivc war
on the frontier, with two iufurrc.Tioos
in the centre of our country, and with
depredation and hollility from the nations
of Europe; that these e nbarrallinents have
nevertheless been faced by the govern
ment ; moflofthc difficulties have been
formulated; the debt has been liquidated
and diininirtied and the nation has Hill
continued to increase in wealth and po
p tlation beyond all former example—
•* On the id of January 1791 the true
amount of debt was Dolls. 74,185,596 8:
Cents. On the ill of January 1800 it
was Dollars 70,212.718 16 Cents.—So
that in nine years the public debt was
reduced Dollars 3.972,873 66 Cents—
Notwithstanding too the exertions that
during this period headmi iiliration made
tooppofe the rapaity of French in foie ice,
encouraged by the overweaning fondnefs
of the Jacobinic party for that nation, a
and on the plan that the federal adminif
trition had adopted, the whole of the pub
lic debt would have been difeharged in
the year 1817.4 In the year 1775 the
sum of oar exports amounted to only
Dollars 9,000,000 ; in the year 1801 they
amounted to D >Uars 93,000,000. c
During the lafl years of the adminis
tration of the Fedrralifts, the tonnage of
the United States was the fecund in the
world. The monied and com nercial cor
porations of the United States were in a
more undoubted Hate of ere lit than those
of any other nation upon earth, c Our
public (locks anl public credit in tiie
fame happy fituatioo : c Our inanufac*
a Report ot the Cmn'ttee ofC.in
grels, on the Bch May iSuo.
h Mr. (viilatin’s report to on
the 13'h December, tSoi.
*•. See in the A trora of the 3 1 fulv last 1
p’ece signed Frank inu"3pofe I to be frit
ted by Teach o oxe, E. 4. o; i’ai.a lelphia.
tores flourifhrd in the most unparalleled
decree. Our taxes were moderate, and
laid on fucn articles as were generally
made use of by the richer class of our citi
zens. The inftalments of the public
debt were all paid as they became due.
Our constitution was preserved inviolate.
Our treasury when it palfed into the hands
of our prelent rulers, had in it nearly three
millions of dollars in specie. d In a word
Mr. Jefferfon himfelf has declared that
our government was in the full tide of
fuccefsful experiment, e
“ Reverse the medal !” and examine
into the conduct of the prefect adminis
tration. Our Executive has in many in
dances violated the Constitution : He has
difmiflecl a judge from office and appoint
ed another in his place, without alfigning
any charge against the officer dismissed,
and in face pf the Constitution, which
expressly declares that the judges both of
the inferior and supreme courts fliall hold
their offices during good behavior./" He
has ordered a nolleprofequi to be entered
to an indictment preferred against the
printer of a newspaper for fhamefuily
abusing the Senate of the United States, g
—He has undertaken to judge of the con-
Ititutioiiality of the Laws of the United
States, in violation of the 2d feCtion of
the 30 article, of the constitution. h He
has ordered money to be paid out of the
treasury of the States without any law
authoring such application, i He has de
clared war during the recess of Congress j
His condnCt in numerous other instances
is highly reprchcnlible and unworthy the
head of a free and honest people. He has
dismissed many of our belt officers, for the
foie purpose of making way for men more
subservient to his views and his willies.
He has appointed "a foreigner, who was
in 179+ engaged in an infurreCtion against
the laws of the United States, to be at
the head of the treasury department of
our gover.nent. He has declared in his
letter to Mazzei that our constitution is
nothing lint the form of the Britilh go
vernment in its molt corrupt parts, and
that he is determined to break its “ Lilli
putian ties.”-f
He openly fcoifs at religion, and makes
a jest of the fuft'erings of the faviour of
mankind. / He has meanly defeended from
the dignity of the firlt magistrate of a great
people, to interfere in the approaching e
ledion of this state. He has hired vile
llanderers toabule the late administrations,
and to blacken the fair fame of the im
maculate Walhington.w He has declared
himlclf lioftiie to the manufactures of our
country ; calls our honest mechanics
“ mobs,” and compares them to fores in
the human body.«—The present adminil
tratioa have given a mortal (tab to our
constitution by dif,miffing sixteen judges of
the United States who where a component
part of a branch of our government is in
lependent of tlie legislative and executive,
as they were of it, by tliis means rendering
the judges dependent on their will alone
for the tenure of their olhees”—They have
continued the taxes on fait, brown sugar,
bohea tei, molalfes, cofFee and articles of
which the poor daily consume more than
the rich ; while at the fame time they have
eased themfelve and the rich citizens by
taking off the duties on 1 iaf sugar, plea
surable carriages &c.- They have increas
ed the wages of the otficers of government,
notwithftanJing the great profe.Tions they
made to the people before they came into
oltice, of their determination to ease the
poorer class of our citizens of public bur
dens.—By these means they have made it
so, that the wealthy pait of the people do
not pay their proportion to the expenses
of government, while the poor are loaded
with an undue lliare of the taxes. They
have released the French Republic fi on a
debt of more than twenty millions of
dollars, which it owed to our citizens.c
They have wantonly and lavishly ex
pended the public monev, by recalling our
public min fters, against whom not even
calumny can exhibit a charge, and ap
pointing others to supply their places,
each with an oufit of nine thousand doll irs:
in fending a mellenger to France in a
public ftlip at avast expense, for the pur
p >fe of canying over our treaty with that
nation, when it was the duty of Mr Ltv
i gfton (who had at that time been ap
pointed our minister to France) to have
d Mr. Gallatin’s report of the 18th De
cember 1801.
e The inaugural speech.
f The cate of Ray Green, Esq. of
Rhode 111 md.
g The case of Duane.
h See his letter to Mr. Dallas, puhlifli
ed in 1801.
i The cases of the Peggy,*of Callender,
of the Berceau, &c.
j In the case of the Algerines.
i See '.V vo.i’s Hiftorv, &c. 449. Cal
lender’s Hiftorv of the U. States, 62, Sec.
| / Notes on Virginia 312; and the anec- !
| dote of his patfig a ruined church in Vir
ginia, publiTied in the year i3oo.
m In C record patfim.
« Notes on Virginia 323.
0 See t ie article added to the French
treitv by 3a l.npirte and ratified by our
Preti lent and Senate.
/> See Clayton’s report of the proceed
ings of oar legith’ure on the pe itions for
cancelling the election of David Hall, Esq.
gone at once with the treaty : by which
means the whole amount of Dawson’s ex
pensive jaunt would and ought to have
been saved.
Let the whole condud of the democratic
fadion be known to the people : Acquaint
them with the noble exertions made by
our ohm representatives, in conjunction
with the federal, minority in congress, to
oppose the deftrudive measures pursued
by the present adminiftrxt'mn —Let our
fellow-citizens, gentlemen, be thoroughly
acquainted with these things, and we need
not doubt but that they will aft the part of
honest men, and convince the United
States that they will do their full flare to
“ stop the speed of anarchy’s misrule.”
A CITIZEN OF DELAWARE.
Kent County, 3offi August, 1802.
Latest Foreign Advices.
NEW-YORK, Sept. 27.
The ship Brothers, capt. Hall, arrived
at this port on Saturday in 32 days trom
Liverpool.
To the politeness of captain Hall, and
several commercial friends, we are indebt
ed for a regular series of London Papers
from the fintt to the evening of the nine
teenth of August, from which the foreign
articles in tins day’s Mercantile advertiict
are copied.
An important change has taken place in
the Constitution of the French Govern
ment. The Conservative Senate assem
bled for the purpose of “ organizing the
Constitution,” have delivered in a pro
jed which vests the Consulate lor life in
the three Consuls. It has received the
executive fanflion, and is become a law
of the Republic. Some intereliitig details
relative to this event are recorded in 'lie
Paris Journals, of which the following
is a brief outline.
The audience of the diplomatic corps,
which was to have taken place at the
palace of Government on tha 3d August,
being suspended, the members of the
Conservative Senate were introduced, and
citizen Bartheiemy, the Prefidsnt, ad
dressed Buonaparte in the following terms:
“ Citizen First Consul ,
“ The French people, as a mark of
gratitude for the immense services you
have rendered them, wifli that the First
Magilftacy of the state fliould remain
fixed in your person. In thus appropri
ating to themselves your entire life, they
only repeat the opinion of the Senate as
recorded in its Senatus Confulntm of the
Bth May. The nation, by this solemn
ad of gratitude, aflign you the talk of
conlolidating our institutions.
»“ The new career opens to the First
Consul ! After prodigies of valour and
military talents, he has terminated the
war, and every where obtained tne moil
honorable conditions of peace. Under
his auspices Frenchmen have affirmed the
attitude and charader of real greatness.
He is the Pacificator of Nations and the
Restorer of France. His name alone is a
tower of strength.
“ Already has an administration of less
than three years almost effaced the re
membrance of that epoch of anarchy and
calamities which seemed to have dried
up the sources of public prosperity. But
there ftili remain evils to be remedied, and
anxieties to be dilfipated. The French,
after having aftoniflied the world by war
like exploits, expert from you, citizen
consul, all the benefits of the peace vou
have procured them. If there yet existed
any feeds of difeord, the proclamation of
the perpetual consulate of Buonaparte will
cause them to Every thing
is at present rallied around him. His
powerful genius can maintain and pre
lerve every thing. He lives only for the
prosperity and the happiness of French
men. He will never impart to them but
the impulse of glory and the feeling of
national grandeur. What nation, in truth,
is more delerving of happiness ? and of
what more enlightened and more lenfible
people could the esteem and attachment
be wilhed for ?
“ The conservative senate will partici
pate in'all the generous intentions of
government. It will second, by every
means in its power, those ameliorations
whose objed it to prevent the return of
the calamities which have so long afflided
us, and to extend and consolidate the
blclfings which you have brought back
to us. It is a duty incumbent on it thus
to concur in the accomplifliment of the
willies of the people who have given so
striking a proof of their zeal and difeern
ment.
“ The senatus confuituS which the
fenare in a body comes to present to you,
ci'izen consul, contains the exprelfion of
their particular gratitude. The organ
of the sovereign u ill, they have thought
j proper f ir the more complete fulfilment of
j the inteotjoq of the French people to in
voke the to perpetuate the recollec
tion of ttiis memorable event.”
Citizen BurthcJemv then read the fena
tus confuloiir, and Buonaparte replied to
the feuate in these terms :
“ S-natcrs,
Tne life of a citizen belongs to his
country. Tne French people with that
the whole of mine fliould be coufecrated
ito t ism. I obey their will.
“ In giving me a new and permanent
of their confidence, they impose
upon me the duty of resting their laws
upon provident institutions.
“ By my efforts, by your assistance,
citizen senators, and that of the authori
ties, by the confidence and will of this
immense people, liberty, equality, and
the prosperity of France, will be secure
from the caprices ct fortune, and the un
certainty of futurity. The belt of peo
ple will be the happiest, as they moll de.
serve to be, and their happiness will con
tribute to that of all Europe.
“ Satisfied with having been called by
the order of him from whom ail things ,
emanate, to restore upon earth justice, or
der, and equality, I fliall hear the knell of
my Jaft hour without regret —and without
any inquietudes as to the opinion of future
generations.
“ Senators, receive my thanks for so
solemn a proceeding. The senate have
exprefled its dcfire lor what the French
people have wiflied, and has thus more
intimately connected itfeif with every
thtng which remains to be done for the
happiness of the country.
It is extremely grateful in me to find an
assurance of this in the speech of so
diftinguilhed a President.”
The members of the senate then retired.
It appears, from the fenatus confultum,
that of 3,577,259 votes, 3,568, ISS where
in favor 01 the prolongation of Buonaparte’s
authority.
The project of the fenatus confultum is
divided into ten fediions.
By the firft it is declared that each juris
diflion of a justice of peace has a cantonal
affemblv . and that each communal circuit
and department has an eledtoral college.
Tiu second regulates the cantonal af
femblres, which are composed of all the
citizens demiciliated in the canton, and
of which the Fiiil Consul appoints the
President.
The third fedtion defines the duty of the
Eledloral Colleges, the members of which
are appointed for life, and consist of one
member for every 500 domiciliated in
habitants of the circuit, and one for every
1000 domiciliated inhabitants of the de
partment.
The fourth relates to the Consuls, who
are for life; the mode of fuccelfion, the
form of the oath, &c.
The fifth to the duties of the senate.
The sixth to the councilors of state.
The ieventh to the legillative body.
The eighth to the tribunate.
The ninth to the forms of justice and
the tribunals.
The tenth to the right of pardon whicj*
is vested in the firft consul.
This new project for organizing th“ cpn-_
ftituticn of the French republic, is repVefen
ted in some of the London papers as being
one of the moll ridiculous and incongruous
plans, for the government of a nation
calling itfeif free, ever yet proposed for
acceptance ; the whole power of the state,
in all its various branches, being actually
or virtually lurrendered to the u ill of the
firft consul. There- is no refpor,Ability,
no check, no counteradling power of in
fluence. National representation appears
to be confidcred a chimera too contemp
tible for notice, and taxation is left to the
diredlion of the firft magistrate, u ln this
whole mals of absurdities and gross delu
sions,” fays one of the London editors,
“ there is scarcely a Angle article that
evinces any thing like found judgment in
theory, or facility in pradtice; and it would
not have been difficult to have taken at
random, from the pigeon holes of the
Aube Sieves, a much better constitution
than that which has been adopted.”
The faiaries paid to the three estates of
the French Legislative Government, are
—Senators-per annum, & for life, 25,000
francs; Members of the Tribunate, 15,000
Members of the Legillative Body, 10,000.
The intended partition of Turkv ob
tains aim oft general belief in Europe’; and
in consequence, several British officers are
said to be about entering into the service
of the Sultan.
The French Government are preparing
to avenge the insult offered to their Flag
by the cruisers of the Dey of Algiers.—
Twodivifions have failed from Brest for
the purpose of chastising these petty de
predators upon the commerce of the Mc«
diterranean.
Our London papers furnifh no intelli
gence particularly momentous. They
contain, however, an almost inexhaulti
ble fund of novel and not altogether un
interesting articles, of which we ihall from
time to time avail ourselves.
PARIS, AUGUST 14.
The following is the ceremony observ
ed in the proclamation at Paris of the fe
natus confultum, declaring Buonaparte
consul for life.
Proclamation of the two Senatus Con full a y
of the id and 4 th Aug.
PROCESSION.
An Advance Guard of Dragoons.
A Corps of Trumpeters.
A Detachment of Cavalry.
Peace Officers.
A Band of Music.
A Detachment of Dragoons.
The Etat Major of Pompiers.
The Chiefs of Foreign Service.
