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tined to carry each three 18 pounders, are
yet on the (locks and nearly finiftied. The
frigate Irene, lately built at Rotterdam,
has been Cent to Helvoetfluys, to be armed
and equipped, and put in a (late of I'er
vice.
BERNE, November xo.
Orders have been brought by an ex
traordinary Courier, to some of the French
corps (lationed in Switzerland, to return
to France without delay, in order to be em
ployed in the expeditionary army against
England, aflembled in the environs of Saint
Omer and Dunkirk.
From the Gazette of the United States.
LEGISLATURE of DELAWARE.
The following account of the proceedings
of the Legislature of Delaware, upon
the proposed akertation of the Constitu
tion of the United States, has been sent
us by an obliging correspondent. We
trad that the spirited and independent
manner in which this little State has
rejected the iniidious innovation, will
give pleasure to all the lovers of our
Constitution as it is; and we cannot but
hope, that the example and the argu
' ments may have a good effeft upon
some of the other small States, which
are not yet so deeply submersed in the
vortex of democracy and anarchy as
to render their condition hopeless.
House of Jan 13, 1804.
Resolved, By the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Delaware
in General Assembly met, that the Amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States propoled to the legislatures of the
' several dates by the Congress of (he Uni
ted States, on the
day of in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and three, be
and the fame is hereby disapproved by the
• legislature of this (late, for the reasons
folfowiifg—
Fir ft —Because at all times innovations
of the constitution are dangerous ; but
more especially when the changes are dic
tated by party fpirk, are designed for tem
porary purposes, and calculated to ac
complish personal views.
Second —Because, as Representatives of a
small (late, we are fcnfible that, in the na
ture of things, every change in the confli
tution will be in favour of the large dates,
who will never be disposed to allow, and
will always have the means to prevent, a
variation favourable to the interests of
the small dates.
Third —Because in fa£l the proposed
amendment dues reduce the power and
weight of the small dates in the case pro
vided by the constitution for the choice
of president by the house of representatives,
by limiting the feleclion to three instead of
five candidates having the greatest number
of electoral votes —
Fourth —Because the present mode of
ele&ion gives to the small dates a control
and weight in the eleflion of president
and vice-president which is destroyed by
the contemplated amendment.
Fisth — 3ccaufe it is the true and per
manent interest of a free people, among
whom the relations of majority and mino
rity must ever be Humiliating, to maintain
the just weight and refpedlability of the
menority by every proper provifiun; not
impeaching the principle that the majori
ty ought to govern ; and we confuier the
present mode of e!e£lion as calculated to
repress the natural intolerance of a majori
ty and to secure some consideration and
forbearance in relation to the minority.
Sixth —Because we view’ the existing
provision in the constitution as amongst
the wiled of its regulations—History
furnilhes many examples of nations and
particularly of republicks, in their deliri
ous devotion to individuals being ready to
facrifice their liberties and dearest rights
to the personal aggrandizement of their
idol. The existing regulation furniflies
some check to this human infirmity
by the occasional power given to a few
to negative the will of the majority as to
one man, leaving them every other quali
fied citizen in the country for the range of
their fele&ion.
Seventh —Because we are not fatisfied
that the said amendment has constitution
ally pafied the two houses of congress, the
constitution requiring the concurrence of
two thirds of both houses which in a case
of such magnitude and of designed precau
tion must be considered as two thirds of
the entire number composing the two
houses refpe£liveiy, w hereas it appears
that the said amendment is not supported
by the concurrence of two thirds of the
whole number of either house.
Sent for concurrence.
Extra# from the journal,
JOHN CALDWELL, C. H. R.
In the Senate, January 18, read and
Concurred in.
Extras from the jou'^al,
JAMES BATTEL, Clk. ofS.
From the Charleston , Courier.
A letter which has appeared in a demo
cratic paper to the Northward, contains
matter well calculated to alarm all Amer
icans who regard the federal Constitution
or their independence and security from
the machinations of the wild democratic
body which now sweeps every thing in
the Union before it.—lt would seem as if
they had in contemplation nothing less
than to impeach every judge who differs
in politics from the ruling party.
Oar readers already know that the
Constitution of the United States gives the
the judges a negative on all laws, at lead
so far as authoring them to refufe to aft
upon any law that they (hall conceive to
be unconftitutionai. The letter before
us, extracted from a Pennsylvania paper,
contains the following paragraph on the
fuhjed :
“ It would seem as if the l’upreme court intended
to pass lenience upon one of the laws of the legisla
ture, and to declare whether it was a law or not !
I hope the legislature will try the conflitutionality
of the powers of the court to abrogate laws, by the
conflitutional rower of Impeachment. This is
certainly a proper mode of punithing Usurpa
tion; and when a court presumes to cnm ak e
Laws instead of executing them, I ttuftthe legisla
ture will have so much refpedl for the people, for jus
tice, and for thcmfelvcs, as to punish the ulurpers.”
It appears that the judges of the su
preme court have refufed to fanfliou cer
tain laws palled by the house of represen
tatives of Pennsylvania, and that the de
mocrats who are their enemies because
they will not march after them knee-deep
in dirt and corruption, would have their
right to objeft against unconftitutionai
laws tried; and how ?—why by impeach
ment —impeachment, of the relult of
which they are certain, because every
thing is governed there by faction, noth
ing by common sense, law, honour, or in
tegrity. We will not, fay they, try the
point by the express words of the consti
tution, but we will try it by impeachment
—which word impeachment begins now
to assume the tone and afpe# of revolution
ary tribunal , once so renowned in France
for its justice.
It is a tremendous prognostic, and
speaks something like the certainty of the
ruin of a (late ; this mode of proceeding—
this terrifying, by holding impeachments
over their heads, the only men in the (late
who have the power to prevent the abuse
or deftrudion of the constitution. If the
judges are put down, or if by this abomi
nable (yftem of terror, they are made toad
as the party in power chufe, and the right
veiled in them by the constitution is ren
dered thereby merely nominal,and wholly
ineffedive, where is the security cf the
people against any the mod tyranni
cal ads which a combination of the
legiflatiye and executive may chufe to per
petrate against the country. At the rate
they go on too, it (hoiild seem as if they
were coming to that kind of mutual fee
ling. Suppose them to (hake hands, and
fay to each other, “ We will make you
King ! And you—arid you—and you—
my good friends, I will make Lords in re
turn. —But hold l the Judges, with their
conflitutional right of negative, are in the
way!—Right; we will put them down,
or make them swallow their words by
impeachment. When that is done, what
can flop or prevent us.—True ; then
down with them !”—And who (we afit)
that regards truth, will fay that if the
Judges (hall be silenced, there is any re
fburce left, or any power to prevent the
constitution’s being tumbled down, and a
monarchy ereded in the place of it. We
know that Houses of Legislation, intruf
ted by their constituents to guard the ex
ifting constitution, have before now voted
away the right with which they were in
truded. We know that the House of
Commons of Ireland did it : for, without
at all faying that the union was a bad mea
sure for that country, we maintain that
they had no more right to vote away the
Parliament of which they were members,
than a keeper of a livery {table or inn has
to fell a horse that is at livery in his (ta
bles. Yet they did it. It may be done
again. So beware Americans!
Amherst, (n. h ) January 10
We hear from Exter, that on Friday
evening last, three men were arrested and
committed to gaol in that town, charged
with making or counterfeiting bills of the
New-Hamp(hire Bank, payable in Phila
delphia. The great quantity of bad bills
of this defeription now in circulation, and
the difficulty in distinguishing them from
the true ones render it unfafe for those,
who ate not well acquainted with bills, to
receive them.
H E R A L D.
A U gU ST A,
WEDNESDAY, February 22, ISO 4
Benjamin Skrine, Esq. is appointed
by his Excellency the Governor, Judge
of the Superior Court for the Middle
DiftriCt, to fill the vacancy occasioned by
the death of the Honorable Judge Wal
ton. [ Louis . Reg.
A New-York paper of January 30, fays,
that “The brig Minerva brings dispatches
for our government from our Minister
at Paris, which are fitppoied to be of an
interesting nature —they are now on their
way to Waftiington.”
Letters from Jamaica mention, that
general Rochambeau, Commodore Bar
ney, and part of the French St. Domingo
army, have been sent to England.
A person lately from a voyage in the
Mediterranean, assures us that he saw at
Marfeiiles hundreds of French Volunteers
(or confeript troops) marched into that
place in chains. A letter from Rouen
mentions a person on his journey from
Paris to that place feeing 500 conscripts
on the road, chained two and two, mar
ching towards the sea-coast. This is
French liberty , and the effeCt of changing
their constitution an hundred times since
the year ’B9. [sa/. Gaz. ,
General Bailey, senator from the state
of New-York, has been appointed Post-
Master at the City of Ncw-York.
A Baltimore paper fays, that during the
snow, Madam Bonaparte, when sleighing,
was thrown at and hit with a snow ball—
For the perpetrator of which, her hnlband
has offered a reward of 500 dollars.
It has from time immemorial been con
sidered a rightful prerogative of the ladies,
in leap year, without fubjcCting themselves
to any imputation of want of modesty, to
make the firft advances in negotiations for
matrimonial alliances.—The present is
the firft leap year which has occurred for
seven years. A correlpondent inquires
whether these circumstances will account
for the unusual number of marriages
which have already taken place and which
are likely to take place in thecourfe of the
year. [Gaz. U. States.
Pettrjburg , Feb. 6, 1804.
Messrs. Dickson W Pescud,
Gentlemen,
The enclosed letter from the Port Mas
ter General, was handed me on Saturday
evening last by General Jones —I have
thought proper to request you to give it a
place in your paper—
« And oblige
Your humble fervanf,
J. GRAMMER.
General Pofl-Office, Jan. 24, 1804.
SIR,
Believing that the public interest will
be promoted, by the appointment of a
new Postmaster, at Peterlburg, V. I have
accordingly appointed Mr. Joseph Jones,
Postmaster at that place ; to whom, on the
receipt of this, you will please to deliver
all the Post Office property in your posses
fion, taking a Receipt therefor, if you de
sire it.
You will also forward your accounts up
to the time, when you deliver over the
Office.
Yours,
GlD’n GRANGER.
John Grammer, Esq.
Peterjlurg , Va.
COMMUNICATION.
The removal of Mr. Grammer from the
Post Office of this place, and the manner
in which that removal has been commu
nicated, have excited the most lively fee
lings in the breasts of many, even of the
warmest eulogists of the present adminis
tration. That the public interest has not
been neglected, nor ftiamefully abused, by
Mr. G. we appeal to every man, who has
been in the habit of tranfaCting business
at the post office. The only charge that
we have ever heard against the ex-post
matter, is, that he was rathery/ow in exe
cuting the duties of his office; but this
crime has been amply recompensed by pro
viding himfeif with a very aCtive alfiftant.
That the accounts of the post office uuder
Mr. G. have been regular and correct, is
a fa£t known to every individual—Why
then dismiss him upon the principle, that
the public interest would be advanced by
his removal ? Why tarnish his fair char
acter with illiberal iufinuations? This
■ \
is a fircumflanrc in which the citizens of
Pcterlborg Feel deeply inVrefied, as it
tends to io>j)licate the character of a man,
whose worth is indtllibly engraven on the
hears of * \ ALL.
February 6.
FRENCH FASHIONS.
A lady writes from Pans, that during
the preparations for the invsfion of En
gland, Bonaparte is trembling, Moreau
blufltipg, Carnot laughing, Rertheir (hud
dering, Si eyes imiling, Talleyrand (ighing,
Fouche groaning, the Generals bowing, the
Admirals sneering, the soldiers ringing, the
sailors crying, the merchants grumbling,
the clergy praying, and the people paying.
Dr. Brewster was pot out of commons for
missing chapel, on which occasion he made
the following epigram :
To taft and pray we are by heaven taught,
C) could I pradtile either as I ought!
In both, al.is! I err; my frailty’s fiuh
1 pray too little, and l tall too much.
The ingenuity of this epigram procured
his immediate reftoratian.— P. Folio.
DANCING ASSEMBLIES.
The Managers find it necessary to poll*
pone the fourth ball, to Thursday the Bth
of March.
J. Murray, 1
H Meigs, > Managers.
A. Watkins,)
83 s RICHMOND DRAGOONS;
ORDERED, That all the Mem
bers who have signed the By-Laws and re
gulations of the Company, appear in Uniform
at Mufleronthe lajl Saturday in March next :
Thoj'e who do not comply with this order’, will
no longer be confdered as belonging to the
Company, and the fine agreed on to be im
posed in pc'foils retiring from the Troop, will
be rigoroujly rxafled, ttnlefs a fatisfaflory
excuje is offered. All persons viijhing to join
the lroop, are reque/led to make known the
fame through some friend belonging to the
Troop. G. WALKER, Captain.
(jfj* Lottery No. 11. For the
Encouragement of Literature, commen
ces drawing in the City of New-York, on
the second Tuefday in April next —
TICKETS to be fold at the low rate of
Eight Dollars, if immediate appli
cation is made to
DONALD M‘IVER.
Taylor & Moore,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED,
A L/yRGE QUANTITY OF
Fresh Garden Seeds,
OP ALL DESCRIPTIONS.
And an Additional Supply of
Shoes 6c Slippers,
Which they offer unusually low for cash
February 22.
'Robert Reid,
Respectfully inform* the pub
lic, that he has returned to his for
mer fland, in Washington Street,
where he still continues to make up
Tallow into Candles, at the moderate
price of four cents per pound, with
out any dedu&ion of good Tallow.
He intends keeping a general assort
ment of GROCERIES.
HAS ON HAND
JAMAICA RUM,
NORTHWARD, Do.
BROWN SUGAR,
LOAF Do.
HOLLAND GIN,
SOAP & CANDLES, by the pound.
The above articles will be disposed of
low for c?(h, or Tallow.
83* Those persons who are indebted,
are requested to make immediate pay
ment.
February 22. (41)
GEORGIA, Richmond County.
WHEREAS Mrs. Dorothy Wal
ton, hath applied for letters of
adminiffration on the estate and effe&s of
the FJonorable George Walton, late of this
county, deaceafed :—Thefe are to cite and
admonilli all and singular the kindred and
creditors of said deceased, to be and ap
pear before a court of ordinary to be
held in and for the county aforefaid, on
the firft Monday in April next, to fliew
eaufe (if any they have) why the said
letters fliouid not be granted.
Given under my hand , at office this
20 th day of February 1804.
' ' GEO. WATKINS, Clerk.
tgr INK POWDER, ~
For sale at this Office.