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thofc to whctn a genera! and permanent sos.
picion b u attached on this fuhjeft, it woi'.'d
be difficult if not iuipoffible to point out an
instance of mifhke, And ihould a mistake
happen hereafter, the person accused, know,
ing that the charge if believed is to shut him
out from the people’s honors, will not be
H aw - in repelling it and refeuing his charac
ter From unmerited odium.
With regard to the second objeftioh— In
stead of interfering with the right of elec
tion, the expedient proposed is founded up
on the broadest and freed exercise of that
right. • It is the prerogative of tverjr elec
tor to give or to deny his vote to any can.
didatc for any rcafon which to himfelf is fat.
isfaftory : or for no other reason than his
own choice. He enjoys a controul over his
own rote which no man nor bouy of men
may question. And as he may give or.refufe
it to whom.foevcr he pleases at the time of
election, fohe is atperfeft liberty to declare,
before hand, what cause (hall govern him in
its application.
While the meafurc proposed does in no
manner invade the freedom of elcdfion, it is
recommended by the most forcible motives of
public utility and virtue.
The class of avowed duellifts is too small
to impovetiftt the councils or offices of the
state by their ahfencc. Nothing will be loft
by leaving them our.
The intended remedy agaiuft their inroads
upon focicty, addresses itfclf to the very
i principle on which they ptofefs to build their
pradfice, a sense of honor. Close up the
avenues to public confidence : Let it be
heard, and seen, and felt, that DuellingSnd
Duel ids arc infamous—and their pjea is
gone. If after this, any of our citizers
(hould pci fid in the practice—they will
convince themfelvcs in the face of heaven
and earth, of fighting from the impulses es
ferocious malignity and third of blood.
The political power of the people will be
arranged on the fide of individual virtue, of
Jomeftic happiness, and of public morals.
Many an unhappy man, who would
otherwise be harried away by notions of falfe
honor, and the dread of open scorn, will be
preserved to himfelf, his family, and his
country;
The dream *f public opinion, thus
efficacioufly turned against a crime of frequent
occurrence and the blacked dye obliterates
the reproach of our name, and prevents the
accumulation of both guilt and fuffering.
As no retrofpeft is designed-—what is
past being considered as past-an opportunity
will be given to such as may have been
unwillingly drawn into duels, to declare
themfelvcs in the cause of their conviftions Sc
of truth.
Such fellow citizens, ate the sentiments
which have given rife to the Anti.Dutlling
Association of New Tori, You are earncftly
entreated to join in a general and solemn
refolurion never to confide the interest of
your families and your country to the hands
of men who by the future commission of the
crime of duelling, (hall prove that they
neither fear God nor regard man, • Such a
lefolutiun will refufe the fonder that your
opinions are really favourable to their folly
and their violence. It will put away from
you, as individuals, if faithfully kept, the
gpilt of blood. It will be as beneficial to
the community as if will be consolatory to
youtfclvc?. It will alk poet offenders in a
tone which they will not dare to despise.
And if this magnanimous conduft will not
furttUh an example, no example is ever to be
furnifhed in the course of human things,
tqat the voice of the people is the voice of
God!
Itv order of the Meeting,
JOHN IiROOME Chairman,
Leb beus Loomis, Secretarj,
Ncw-York, August Bth, 1809/*
From the Aurora.
BRITISH INELUENCE,
i The Poison of Civil Society.
Indeed we (hall go to the fountain bead.
Mr. Windham, a member of the Englilh
parliament, formerly the patron of Porcu
pine, and who said Porcupine merited a
ftalue of gold for his aspersions of our gov
ernment, and debauchery of the public
tafle.
We (hall call Mr. Windham as evidence
of Briliftt corrop'ion, hecaufe too it was he
who procured the appointment of paymaster
of invalids at Guernsey for Stephen Cullen ,
alias Carpenter. Cullen has endeavored to
repay hia patron by eulogies in the Charles
ton Courier, and elfewhcre, so that Mr.
Windham’s evidence, Porcupine’s evidence,
and the evidence of Cullen’s cxiflencc among
us, laboring in the fame calling, must be
conclufrve ; to prove every thing which it
would be their interest not tofay if it were
not true.
First then, Windham said Cobbett merited
a ftatuc of gold, for his conduft as an emiflaty
in the U. States; in fail he has got what
was to him preferable, a princely estate at
Hotly, in Ha.'hpfhire, England.
Cobbett said Ifhs Aurora cost the Smith
government more than a million of pounds
Ktrling ; and was likely 10 cost them mote.
This is at Itfjtft, the evidence of the parties
themlel vrs, that there has been corruption to
1 lie value of a million of pounds fleiling, as
long as five years ago, merely to rcfift the
arguments and to oppose the vindication of
the American government in one newspa per.
We need not enter into calculations very
prrcifelv. rodifeovera probable amount since
thetact they acknowledge, is ail that we
lock for.
But now let ns go, as we said, to the ft n't. 1
tain head of Britilh corruption ; we find tn
die paper publilhed by Cobbett, in London,
the following fpccch; the American reader
will not forget it is the fpecch of Mr.
Windham, the patron of Cobbett , the pat
ron of Cullen, the patron of the Abbe Riireutl ,
the patron of Puisaye, and the CHiheroon
fbcrifice, the patron of the infernal machine,
the patron of bull baiting, the pupil of the
most corrupt & infamous of men of genius,
Edmund Burke.
The public have heard, through the ncwf
papers, some general information concerning
the corruption carried on,in Englmd by the
dukeef York and his concubines ; and the
necelfity whtch that duke and hero was nn;.
dcr of resigning the station of coma under in
chief of the Britilh army, in confcquaice of
that corruption.
The expofuion of the duke of Yoik, led to
the expofuion of others, It at Icught produ
ced a difeovery of the buying of feats in
parliament. On the nth of May 1809,
Mr. Madocks, a member of parliament, de
clared as a matter of chaise in open parlia
ment, that Henry WelleJliy, an under fccrct
ary of the government, purchased a feat for
Mr. Dick, a member of that house ; that
upon a queflion which the ministers wilbed
to carry, lord Cajilereagh, a fecrctary of
ftatc, told this Mr. Dick he mull vote with
the miniiletsor resign ;• and that Mr. Dick
did rcftgn, raihcr than ?otc as ordered by
lord CalPereagh ; and Mr. Madocks farther
charged Spencer Perclval, chancellor of the
exchequer, with being privy to & conniving
at tbiscorruption; and this Mr. Madocks
declared he was ready to prove by witneffies
at the bar of the house.
Upon this a debate and a difeufiton took
place, when such was the corruption of tnc
house, that the following was the vote—
For the cnquiry'by evidence, 8; votes.
Against any enquiry, 310
Present, . .... 3^
The delate r.n this qucllion, we find in
Cobbett's Political Regiftertor May lad, in
page *» 69, being No.. 20 of vol. XV. We
copy the fpccch of Mr. Windham, firft, be
cause being out of the ministry, he was not
bound to vindicate their corruption ; 8c if it
was unfounded would have been the more
disposed to refufe any such allegations of
corruption; next, hecaufe Cobbett would not
mifrepreffnt the fpccch of his friend; and
finally, hecaufe Mr. Windham is the patron
of Cobhet and Cullen , and the friend of all
the incendiaries that have disturbed and dif
trafted Europe and America. The following
are Mr. Windham’s sentiments on the cor
ruption “ of the most stupendous fabric nf hu
man wisdom.” \
Mr, Windham. —There -are many
** things of the nature referred td in this mo.
“ tion, which were in faft, coeval and col
“ txijiant with the constitution itfelf, and
“ they had ‘grown with its growth end
“ Jirengthcnedwith its ftrength' (the reader
“ willobfervc that corruption is the topic.)
“ —These things (corruption) were in faft,
“ so interwoven with the constitution, and
“ that constitution itfelf was such a compli
“ catcd system, that no wife statesman would
“ venture to tear them out, (thaf is would
** venture to tear out corruption!) left he
(( Jhould take out something valuable along
“ with them. The constitution was like
“ the elements of the air we breathe, some
** of which were poilbnous, and yet if those
** elements were extrafted, the earth would
“ not be habitated. (That is to fay, if you
“ take away corruption from the Britilh fa
“ brie, it falls !) When gentlemen talked
“ of the theory of the constitution, they
“ seemed to forget, that these corruptions,
(< as they were called, formed part of that
“ theory, for they were to be found coex
“ *ff tn S wth the constitution in all times—
** even in the bell of times, ezen in the days of
“ the great Chatham, as he was termed.
“ Phac noble lord, no doubt made vfe of
“ this Species of traffic, and upon the princi.
“ Hated, namely, as a part of the de.
“fence of government. He mull have made
“ life of corruption. For in faft there was
“ corruption in the country from top to hot
“ tom and from bottom to top , differing only
“ in thisrefpeft that it was more dense (that
“ is the corruption) at the bottom, and bc
“ came purer (that is pure corruption !—&
“ purer corruption \\) as you advanced to
“ the top. That when you came to the top
“ (we suppose the king is the top I) you found
“ co. ruption, it would be prepoftcrous to
assert!"
Here we flop ; we go up from the dense
part, that is the Culleu’s, and Cobbete's and
Stuart's, and the mtfereants who partake of
this dense fetor of corruption ; to the top, to
the yafut—qui iaptt, Hie facit,
LEI TER FROM GEN. STARK.
At my quarters. Derryfield, July 31, 1809.
My friends andfellow Soldiers.
I received your’s of the *zd inst. con
taining your fervent expressions of friendlhip,
and your very police invitation to meet with
you, to celebrate the 16th of Augnll, in
Bennington.
As you observe, 1 “ can never forget, |
that ”I “ commanded American troops” on !
that day in Bennington.—They were men j
that had not learned tie art of fubmifliun,
nor had they been trained to the art of war.
J Hut our “ aftonilhing furccfs” taught the
enemies of liberty, that undfeipitned free,
men ate fop-:'hr to veteran Haves. And I
fear we fhaii nave to teach the IdTon anew to
j that petfidtous nation.
Nothing could afford me more pleafurc
th»i> to meet the sons of liberty ’ oji that
fortunate spot, Bat as you juflly anticipate,
the in fir unities of old age will not permit ;
for I am now four fcorc and one years old,
and the lamp of life is almofl (pent. 1 have
of late had many such invitations, but was
not ready, for there was not oil enough in
the bmp.
You fay you wifli your young men to fee
me, but you who .have leen me can tell
them* that 1 never was worth much for a
(how, and certainly cannot be worth their
feeing now.
In case of my not being able to attend,
you wish my sentiments—them you (hall
have as free as the air we breathe. As I
was then, I am now—The friend of the
equal rights of men, of representative de.
mocracy, of republicanism, and the declara.
tion of independence, the great chattel of
onr national rights ;—and of course the
friend of the indissoluble union and conllitu.
tion of the date, I am jhe enemy of all
foreign influence ; for all foreign influence
is the influence of tyranny. This is the on
ly chosen spot of liberty— this is the only
republic on earth.
You well know, gentlemen, that at the
time of the event you celebrate, there was a
pmerful British faflion in the country (cal
led rories) and a material part of the force
we hud to contend wiih was tories. This
faftion was rankling in our councils, till
they had laid the foundation for the fubver.
(ion of our liberties. But by good sentinels
at our oarpofts wewere apprized of our dan.
ger ; and the sons of freedom heat the a.
larm—and, as at Bennington, “ they came,
they fnw, and they conquered,”—But a
gain the factir n has rallied to the charge, and
again they have been beaten.
It is my orders now, and wM be my Est
orders to all my volunteers, to lock well to
their sentries ; for there is a dangerous
PtritiJlt party in this country , lurking in their
hiding places, mire dangerous than all our
foreign enemies. And whenever they shall
appear openly ; render the fame account of
them that was given in Bennington, let
them assume what, name they will: not
doubting that the ladies will be as patriotic,
in furnifiiing every aid, ss they were at
Bennington in ’77, who even difrauntUd
their beds to furnilh cords to fecnie and lt«d
them off.
I shall remember, gentlemen, the rr-fpeft
you, and the inhabitants of Bennington and
its neighborhood have (hewn me, till 1 go
to the country from which no traveler
returns. I mull soon receive marching o deis.
JOHN STARK.
P. S. I will giveyou my volunteer touft.
Live free or die Death is nos the y renteft
of all evils,
Hon. G idbonOlin, Jonathan
Robinson, and Dati d Fay.
\ Late Additions and Donations
TOPEALE's MUSEUM.
The leg and foot of an Egyptian Mum
my.—by Mr, J. Cliford.
' A Bonnet made of the internal fibres of a
kind of large fquafli in Georgia.— Presented
by Miss —-
A new invented chain of cad iron, e; ch
link cast separate, easily hooking together
and cannot be (haken asunder. From Dcr
byfliirc, England.— Presented by Mr. A,
Slater,
A wooden chain of 16 links without an
end cut out of a solid piece of wood, by Jo
seph Grigginsj a mulatto bo y.—Presented
by himself,
A piece of Elephant’s talk, with a bullet
fevcral inches within the solid ivory which
has grown over the buller.— Presented by
Ms, Jos, IVhite, Trenton,
Three fprccroins of Philadelphia Slone
Ware from Green’s manufa&ory. —P re sen
ted by G, li. Green.
Several fpecimcrs cf Copper Ore from
Partridges Mine, lately opened, cf Perklo.
ming creek, 23 miles from Philadelphia.— ;
Presented by li'm. Partridge,
Several handsome specimens of Copal,
containing many small infefts. And a fpe.
cimen of Wood Coal, or Jet from Paffama.
quody.— Presented by Mr. D. Rartlivg.
Criftalized MolyLdena (tom Eninfv uk,
diflridt of Maine. Novacular Argiiloid
seven miles fouth of Button. Iron Ore and
Blende from New Jersey, Grante, con.
taining Phofpb.ate ofLimoand Granets from
the difliidl of Maine. Marble, co n'aioing
Molyhdina, Iren Ore, (containing pet.
haps a new metal) fiom near Bcifcn. As
paragus Stone from Spain, B’ack chalk
from Rhode Ifland,—Menachanitc avd Ni.
grine from N. Jersey, Andaluzite (rom
the diftridf of Maine. Dolomite, whhgrey
Silver, and Iron Pyrites from Switzerland,
idocrafe from Spain —Presented by Mi.
M'Cluse.
A curious Indian dress made of Crews and
ornamented.— Presented by Thomas fe/fr.
son, Esq.
Mr. Low has ju(t completed the Organ
, in the Muleum, by adding to it the Sen. J
j qaihra flop of i6> pipes.
Jo preserve Apples.
** Take, dry barrel, rover the bottom of
j w ’ l h dry whire sand abcur one inch—then
j after having plucked your apples from the
. trc =» leaving aft cut to each ar Iclfl J:ls of
j an inch long, place a layer of apple?, wi;h
| the (tern into the fund... then fill up the in.
tcrftices with a layer of fund as before, a..d
proceed until your barrel be (illed.—Apples
putupin this w-ay will be prefer vM in a
green ftatc, both in regions the rnoft fulny
and the moll frozen.”
t
~~~~^** M^'^*** Mrt **** M *'* -dUe****’**—-*-
For the Chronicle.
$3“ Attention the Whole I [
MR. DRISCOL,
IT is to he lamented that ave-v
great proportion of our fellow citizens ■
kept in profound ignorance of the laws ot tj!
ftatfe, until they are dragged into a court 0 f
jullice ; when there they are aftonilhed J
hear of laws and items in bills of cost
never dreamed of.—Hence often arifrs 2
pleasant disputes between suitors and the 0 f"
ficers of court ; one of these fourccs of con'
rention is the tax on ail suits in the fuperio”
and inferior courts; this law has never been
publiflied ; it is in the hands of a tew onh-•
not one citizen in fifty it is believed eve!
heard of the existence of such a law. Yo
will therefore confer a favor in permitiin!
this law to he promulgated throuoh theme
dium of the Chronicle.
“AN ACT,
“ For compensating the Justices of the 1„,
ftrior Court.
“ WHEREAS arduous duties are impof,
ed upon the jullices of the inferior courts of
the several counties in this (late, fur which
no compensation is allow, d : And where 2s
it is declared in the 4th fccrion of the 3d ar.
tide of the Confliturion, that the justices of
the inferior court may be compenffitcd h
such manner as the legislature may by h*
direct.
“ ll S It theres ore enacted by the Senate
nvd blouse of Representati ves of the State of
Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it 'it
hereby enacted ly the authority of the same ,
That there (ball be a tax levied 0.1 all foi/s
which may be commenced after the date
hereof, in the Superior and Inferior Courts
of the several c unties of this (fate, in the
fo’lowing marner. that is to fay : -On all
fu rs not exceeding ono hundred dollars, the
fu n of one dollar „• on all suits exceeding one
hundred dollars and not exceeding three hun.
vired dollars, the fmi of one hundred and fifty
cents ; on all suits exceeding three hundred
and not exceeding five hundted dollars, tm
dollars; on all exceeding five hundred dol.
lars, the sum of three dollars; and on all
anions of the sum of tom dollars ,
which said several sums shall be paid by the
parties cab in such suit, and fliall be taxed in
the bill of cost, and collected in the fame
manner as other cost of such suit.
“ Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That
ail monies which (hall be collected or receiv.
ed by any of the officers of the said courts,
on account of the aforefuid lax upon suits,
(hall be paid to tire juftircs of the inletiut
couit oi ti e county in which such proceed,
ings (hall have taken place, as a compenfa.
tiou for their let vices ; and all and every
chi 'er of the said co srts who (hall neglect or
teiuiV to nay over such money after an order
(hah be made for that purpofc, by that court,
(hall be deemed guilty of contempt, and
may be proceeded against by attachment,
ii See. 3 • And be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, Tnat the aforefaid nm.
nies (hall be equally divided between the said
justices ot the inferior court.”
BENJ. WHITAKER, S. H. R.
EDWARD TELFAIR, Pref. Senate.
Assented to December Bth, iBo<>.
JARED IRWIN, Governor.”
i bis is a law my fellow citizens in which
you are all more or Icfs interested, and it
becomes a duty you owe to yourselves and
your posterity to strictly and impartially en
quire into , the policy, jiftice, and equity of
the fame ; in this law the labor and lerviefs
of the judge of the superior court is taxed
for the benefit of the inferior court; an ex
traordinary tax is laid on the hard earning*
of rhe poof and unfortunate debtor, for there
benefit. This law is a mere experiment;
make no refinance to the fame, and elect juf
necs of the inferior court to represent vou in
the legidature, and it will not require the
an of a prophet or conjurer to forefee and
predict, that in a lew years, your suits will
be taxed five, ten snd fifteen dollars for the;.’
ule and benefit ; then, and not till then, I
fear, voa will regret and be convinced of the
folly of di(regarding and turning a deaf ear
to ths solemn caution and admonition of the
fifth article of your Conditurion, in which
you are imperatively called upon to keep ths
Lcgijlatlre, Executive and Judiciary de
partments of government feperart and ciif
linct; and that no person or collection of pet
sons, being if one of those departments /hall
exercise any power properly attached to ei
ther of the others.
JACKSON.
$3" We arc authored to flare
that George Smith Houston, is a C3R ;
didate to represent this County in the Houle
of Reprcfen tafives of the next Lrgiflature.
Sept. 9.
Now in Richmod jail,
A NEW NEGRO filhne
named Jack, about five feet fi*.
inches high , supposed to be about
twenty two years of age; Jays
his master in dead, blit cannot
underjland fi cm him who he be
longs to.
/The owners tire rcauciicd
1 ' 1 ’
■ comply with the Jaw and law
him away.
Guflaviis Kennedy, Jailor -
Avgvft 1 (). i if