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This measure cannot be rt-
TJ:e prave of Smith was the fa-'ol>cn described, Rolfe reso’ved to possess equally and in common ; but tion be not competent to enforce its justice. *•••*’ the support of
fount e haunt of Pocahontas. Here revisit America. Hut alas ! Poca- upon you has devolved a duty in ad- own laws, that it is the the ias and sorted^totmes^ ^ fhe iiu \, v ijual
site lingered away the hours, here she-hontas had quitted her native wilds
forever.* She was taken sick at
Gravesend and after a short illness,
died. Religion cheered her through
the hours ot declining life, and her pul dish, as well as to publish opini-
told her love, and scattered her fa
a ourite flowers. Due evening, as
the was reclining in melancholy on
the turf that covered her lover, she
was surprised at the presence of a.last faulterhig accents
man. Rolfe had seen & gazed uponlpruise to her Creator,
the charming nymph, and indulged) When we reflect that so much vir-
for her all that ardour of romanticjtue, heroism, intellect and piety, a-
passion, which Smith had excited in domed so young a native of our coitn
upon you has devolved a duty in ad
dition, at once more comprehensi\
in its operation, and more responsi
ble for its exercise. Every man ha
the right to controvert what I mav
whisperc
ons which he may deem preferable
to mine, and the community will
judge between the opposed opinions
this is the only responsibility of a per
son who writes in a public paper
lowest extreme of futility to a ecttothe whole people, ancuu ^
resist the law dictated by nv fo
reign nation.
Should this nation be sacrificed to!
lieu
if it should not, see what is now theihad been a single examp e
state of tile nation.
Had Congress called out ton thou
who should dare to violate it,should
suffer as a traitor. Had the former .
rn,s nation uc sacnuecu «j|law been so supported, not a man
the avarice of Massachusetts ( Thenlwould have dared vio ate it ,
c had been a single example, it w ouia
have been sufficient to deter all o-
- tiiers ; and the lives would be spany .
her breast. IItr*was pensively be
wailing his boj>eless love, when Po
cahontas stole away in shade and si
lence to perform her duties to the
dead. Surprise, terror, and sorrow
suspended in her the powers of life,
dud siie Bunk lifeless into the arms
of the fortunate admjjcr. Could he
forbear a warm embrace to one he
try, we cannot but regard America-The writer gives his opinion, and
us the natural clime of greatness, and those who. read it will either accept
consider Pocahontas, as exhibiting'it, if it be sound and judicious, of
proof of the powers anil capacity of they will reject it, if they deem it to
savage nature, rather than as an ex-jbe the contrary,
ccption to common degeneracy.— j What induces me to offer these
{preliminary sentiments, is the dan
A certain John Dennis, now/er.i-gerous effects which have grown out
ding in tiie borough of Wilmington,'of the abuses of the freedom of the
sand of the Militia of Massachusetts'of virtuous men who will expiate the
to maintain the laws of the union, weak ness qfthe tenth Congres
Vvhat would have been the result l war. ' urora.j
You could have called out .500,000,
domestic.
and they would have conic to a man.
fliey would have come forth as they
did in 1775, and although you. ... c
would no doubt have found a Picker-, the Legislature o e b ’ . ‘ ,
A petition has been presented to
I 1 • 1 floonria to nnm-
ing among them, as
vou did before jthilate in the courts ot law in that
although you might have found even , . .
- - - - A1 Jver disgraced civil society—the Lw
loved so well, or was eloquence want-state of Delaware, within six years press. 1 he liest pi oof ot whieli i
‘ has made and Bold upwards of ninety the prejudice I deprecate. It has
carding machines—the whole num- become a common mode of expressi-
ber within the same period, by hini-!on, that such an idea “ appeared in
self and associates already made andjthc newspaperthese are “ thoughts
State, “ the most useless pest th(tt~r-
I—the Law>
The world did not need this
cd to charm away her blushes at the
return of life ? Affection had too of
ten repeated her lessons to the woods
«md wilds to be dumb at such a cii-
t.is. Pocahontas listened with svm-
suld, exceed four hundred.
an Arnold, or a Galway, or an
len ; yet vou would have found the;.y t ’ rv * - ., r , n - , .
' the farmers of Massachu- additional evidence of the flourishing
pathy—he wiped away the tear, that
swelled in her eye. Despair yielded
to enliven hopes, and she indulged
him in the ardent caresses of conta
gious love. They talked down the
muon, and the song of the mock-bird
became faint, before Pocahontas
i ould escape from the vows and
urins of her lover to the cabin of her
companions.
Powhatan had none of the parti
ality t f his daughter for the English ; mg ; one was
and a stratagem was formed to seize
Pot iiboiitas in order to induce her
father to adopt an equitable modi
of conduct. Rolfe did not regret
the success of tliis ungenerous
scheme. Through wilds and woods,
am! : t the hazard of his life, he had
vet i tea to see her. He now en-
jovi dner smiles in safety, and re
ceived new confidence • from being
having quarrelled about the affecti
ons of a lover, provided themselves
with a case of pistols, and in the
range of their jealousy, fired at each
other, with the muzzles almost touch
and the other dangerously wounded.
ACCOUNT OF A IIORNKI! MAN.
Francis Trouvilla, was a man of a
middle stature, a full body, bald, ex
cept in the hinder part of the head,
which bad a few hairs upon it j his
temper was morose, and his demean
or altogether rustic ; he was horn in
a little village called Mczicris, and
yeomanry.
sects, too powerful for the profligate
race of money changers and usurers.
The Militia of Massachusetts would
jfitonly tor a newspaper these are have come forth, and what would
" ’ 1 have been the consequence ? There
would be neither bloodshed nor a
gun fired.
Thi vultures would keep aloof.
The laws would have been executed ;
and these consequences would have
followed—
Four neutral commerce would have
had freedom on the high sea.
And you would not now have been
on the eve of a war.
I repeat it, and it is not the light
suggestion of speculative opinion
is a fact, that six months ordinary re
striction would have laid up half of
the British navy, and thrown half a
million of manufacturers out of em
ployment, whose wants and numbers
CPhil. paper. newspaper polities.” Such hab
___ [been the effect of the abuse of news-
Fmiale Duel.—A duel took place papers, that the good is confounded
lately between two young ladies at with the bad ; the rational St sound
Ratisbon, (Bavaria) the one fourteen!with the silly and the profligate ; the
*rnd the other fifteen yeays of age,{principles of public virtue with the
‘insidious malignity of foreign cor
ruption.
These effects of the abuse of the
press, are more serious in a nation
which derives more of its infonnuti*
killed on the spot, oil from newspapers than any other
nation, however populous, that has
vet existed. I wish to propitiate
those whom I address, to peruse
what I bIuiU now offer, as free from
those prejudices as possible, and to
consider what is submitted for consi
deration, as the sentiments of a pri-iwould repeal the barbarous and ty-
vate citizen, offered at a moment,Irannical orders of Council ; would
chosen by her, as her protector. He bred up in the woods amongst tin
continued however always as respect
ful, as affectionate, : n.l while he
boolhed her into trai q ulity, gave
but new proofs of fidelity. His heart
was as pure as hcr’s was fond
At length Netunquas arrived at
the fort with provisions to ransom
his sister.
Rolfe in one of his excursions to
meet Pocahontas j and to him the
lover applied in the presence ci his
charcoal men. About the seventh
year of his age, he began to have a
swelling in Ins forehead, so that a-
about the seventectli year of his age
he hail a horn there as big as a man’s
linger end, which afterwards did ad
init of that growth and increase that
He had saved the life of when he came to be thirty-five years
old, this horn had both the bigness
and resemblance of a ram’s horn. It
grew upon the midst of his forehead,
Indian maid, to gain Powhatan’sjand then bended backward as far as
consent to his union with his daugh- the coronal suture, where the other
ter. Pocahontas melted into sofl-jend of it did sometimes so slick in
ness'at this declaration of the accoin-the skin, that to avoid much pain he
plished Englishman, and her blusb-jvvas constrained to cut off some part
ing acquiescence was sanctioned byjof the end of it ; whether this horn
when all other considerations should
be laid aside to consider the state of
the nation.
11 hut is the state of the nation ?
I leave out of discussion those
topics, which, from the official do
cuments and the familiarity of the
public mind with hearing anil com
plaining of foreign outrages, it is not
here necessary to recapitulate. I go
at once to our real situation, and
ask you these questions--
1 Are you prepared to abandon
your independence and rights as
a nation ?
2 Are you prepared to abandon
commerce during the -war in Eu-
• rope ?
These questions I state in terms
the most explicit, that you may not
have secured us even better terms
than Erskine's, which were at best no
better than an expedient short of the
justice we have a rigiit to demand
uul must yet enforce. Had our own
laws been enforced, the contumelious
state of Vandalism iu Georgia.
(Boston Centinel.J
Memory of Washington.
The Legislature of Maryland have
unanimously, passed a law to-autho-
rise theruisingby Lottery, of 100,(X O
dollars to erect a monument to the
memory of Washington in the city
of Baltimore.
Philadelphia, Dec. 23*
The following communication has
been made to His Catholic Majesty •
Consuls in the United States, a 1 d
transmitted to Mr. Erving, the A*
merican charge dcs affairs, at Se
ville, by his excellency Don Martin
de Garay, Secretary* of the Supreme
Central Junta of Spain.
That the merchants and owners of
American vessels, trading to Spain
and the ports of her dominions, re
gardless of a royal order to the con
trary, and under the pretext of the
peace, and good understanding now
existing between Spain and G.reat
Britain, go unprovided with the ne
cessary certificates from the Span
ish Consuls, to prove the exportation
insolence of the Copenhagen incen-'or origin of the- property shipped;,
diary would never have been heard orders have been transmitted to tho
respective Custom Houses in the
kingdom and ports of her dominions'
to demand a certificate or certificates
of.
We abandoned our national cha
racter by abandoning the enforcement
.... forehead, m,stake the * ul ?J ects u l ,on wh,ch > ou
inarri.ige soon follovved-Happy in-1 know not , but probably being of ure f ntr ^ tcd > our constituents
Stance of the perseverance of virtu-,,hat weight and bigness, it grew to decide ; and upon which you
cus Affection ! The prejudices ofc-lf n »m the scull itself; nor am I cer- ca ?? ot ‘\ vo,d deciding without ior-
ducation yielded to the' honest im-tain whether this man had anv 0 f«kmg the very principles which it
pulses of the heart. ' The raven tre.-|thosc teeth called grinders. ' For " 3 ( * ur dut >; t0 * nai ' Uam ; >’ ou ™ U8t
aes and the tawny cheek of Pocahon-'two months together the man ivas,'. so ute y cci c, or to eva e or
tas were no disparagements to the exposed as a show in Paris, where!j^ l ^; h f_.^ st ‘° n _ ° £ “ S J^?
of our own laws ; the British govern-'to that effect, and that no vessels be
ment had been taught to believe'admiuedtoanentrvwithcutprocur-
that “ the eastern states would never' ing such a certificate; the motive
oppose Englandand at length Con-jfor demanding such document did
gress to give weight to these traito-jnot as is supposed, originate in con-
rous suggestions, shrunk from the'sequence of the late war between
frown of a petty f action of mercantile Spain and England, but lor the liet-
and money hucksters ; and encoura-|ter regulation of our commerce at
ged those very measures of insult;the Custom-Houses. -
dignity of her soul or the generosi-j^ays Ursfititw,) in the year 1T98,
Lit
ty of her nature. Through this veil I, in company with Dr. Jacobus Facs
llolfe discovered a thousand virtues, chius, the public pioicssor at Bald,
and his love was rewarded witji their and Mr. Joannes Eckcnstenius, did
possession. |sce and handle this horn From
For years Rolfe resided in the Paris he was carried to Orleans,
wilds of nature, and in society withjwhcre, (as 1 am informed) lie died
his Indian princess. Fonil of soli- soon alter,
tudi fshe became the dear companion
To thc eleventh CONGltCSS.
If it were not that the abuse
the freedom of
of
of his retirement. In the moments
of leisure he initiated her in the won-
ders of science, and the mysteries the f rectioin ol thc p rcs& , has in a
of religion. In return she respected,g, vat measure injured its vespcctu-
him for his talents and his virtues ; b.Iitv, and defeated so far the useful-
and added gratitude for m»provment! 1K SS t0 i Utinp i ated by thu SL . curit>
.given to its freedom in the constitu-
as was done by the tenth congress
will lie to disgrace yourselves and
to offer the nation up to the contempt
of the present generation and the
execration of posterity
I know you will not act so basely ;
the folly and imbecility of the tenth
Congress, which will stand upon re
cord to future times, next to the
British treaty of 1794, as a land mark
to love for love. A son was the on
which are now the theme of general
abhorrence and indignation.
These are bold, but they are ho
nest truths. They u ill not be plea
sant to many ears. But the press
should not minister to human infir
mity or human pride, at the expense
of all that is sacred and dear to a free
penpl
Here then you see the state of the
nation, and how it is that vou are
brought to provide by nioi'e wisdom
and firmness, for aggravated evils,
-which would have had now no exist
ence. Had your predecessors been
faithful to the councils of that great
and wise man, who in his retirement,!
has the consolation of having coun-
The Royal order alluded to run#
thus - * 4 - ‘ * * «
The King has been pleased to or
der as a general rule, that in all the
Custom-Houses in the Kingdom and
the ports of his dominions, certifi- -•
cates shall be required that will prove
the exportation or origin of.all goods,
wares and merchandize intended to
be imported into this kingdom antj
into the ports of our dominions, tKe
same to be given by his Majesty’s
Consuls, in the respective provinces ■
or departments to which district the •:
articles of produce or goods so certi
fied shall have belonged ; and in ca- ..
ses where no Consul shall be there ,.
residing, then to be procured by then»_"
to guard against similar disgrace ; selled Congress to measures that at the ports of exportation^ with the.
onal rights^ and that the executive
cannot in future venture to suggest
ly fruit of their union, from whom uon it would not be at all ncivmarv 7 r - oe >—-
.Le nd the nobility of Virgini-bCal, WZ k *.'1"T ^'T"’' 1 ? 5 "“ nhy °t *5 T* “ d
Randolphs and Bowlines I ‘ b 1 l r f aU n b tUc rt joi wisdom ; since there has been an
the Kandolphs and Bow mgs; Jpresentatives of the people, through^^pie in whic!l the w isest mca .
In 1616 Rolfe arrived in England the medium ot a newspaper. Lures were proposed by an Exccu-
avith Pocahontas. a * * -i*- 1 *• — »> »— — 1 - * r J
V f as inti oduccd to J••iv.iilVM ••«*:» uvvu uumivlu m it ixinmir.r.(..».. M *. nM .u..*. po«
a • i » | . . .. t • Sill vo ” kit. ImUUUBIU Uy till ftJVvbU*
At London, she| It is, therefore, only because the anc j Congress in a moment of
.. .... Jauu s I. riic prvss h.ts been deprived ot a portion infatuation, abandoned that wise p 0 -
kmg rebuked her for descending,of its utility bv its enemies ; because Hcv , sacr ificed all the advantages
4n.m tin' iHRfttv ol royalty so ar as it is as liable to be employed for ihc\y nith it had alrea dy procured, re-
to marly *a pleUan. But the ladies destruction ot the constitution which li n „ uiijh ed all tbat it is now moraUy
t.l the court and the nobility ot the Wet. it, us lor its support, that 1 ce / ta in would have been further ac-
kmgdoin regarded her with respectib.nk it necessary to cravtj a little at- comp i ished . and in so doin S ; fur
and affection am sought to renderitention, on the present occasion, and th er lowered the vovernmem in th,
packages or chests therein con-
the congress which closed with hisitained, and in every instance of con-
administration, laid the nation open travening this order, the. gootU A^ali
to more aggravating insults and in- be confiscated.”
creased wrongs.
1 Are you prepared to abandon
your rights '
2 Are you prepared to abandon
commerce during the war l
NEW YORKJan.l:
Capt. Doan arrived.last evening,
has favored the editors of this &a. \
♦ter happy, by all the blandi Jiiuems to urge j ou to read with the same pa
id refinement. She soon learned the tient attention, which vou would
manners of the great, and in her de
meanor exhibited all the dignity .-.and
purity of her character, mingled with
the tenderness of the heart.
Captain Smith celled on Pocahon
t..-- vum after her arrival. Her as-
lo'iisiuucnt was at first succeeded bv
col,tempt. But the resentment of
t < uudtd pride soon yielded tu ten
der seuiimenis. In a private intcr-
5 i w she heard his interesting expla
nation, and ever after caressed him
with the loudness of a sister
hear one of your members utter h
sentiments on the floor of either
house.
A moment’s consideration will tell
thcr lowered the government in the
eves of the oppressors, and exhibited
a nation confederated lor mutual
support, shrinking bfcfore a single
state, a nation driven from the high
ground of virtuous self privation, by
the artifices and intrigues of a con-
y°u that the right to express opini- temptiblc faction of avaricious specu-
ons ami suggest considerations on lators
public affairs, belongs to one citizen
as much as to another ; and'that it is
tor the purpose of assuring this im-
ponaiu rigm, and of inviting everv
citizen to contribute his share of
judgment to the common stoc k, th;u
the libertv ol tile press is established
.il.i r remaining some time in En- upon principles so broad.
K Jjl d “‘‘J travelling with Pocabon-j In addressing vou, therefore
tas thr -ugh the country, ho had so^only exercise u right which we ali
This was indeed a deplorable pic
ture ; it was the exhibition of Samp
son shorn by a harlot; O ! it was
pitiable ! that a nation should, when
it was scoffed and taunted by a fo
reign oppressor, see its representa-
ot wisdom and Republican virtue
abandoning us most effective law
and never perceiv^ g that if the na
pi r „ - . ¥ , , izette with a Lisbon paper of th* 22d.
The hist question I ask only toLr xr i - a
state the consequences that result
front the past measures ; which bring
us to this issue ; either to abandon
our pretensions to the character of
an independent nation, or take some
alternative.
f he alternative taken before is that
which I have stated in the second
question ; it is the mildest alternative
that could be devised. But it has
been tried, and either there was not
v irtue enough in the people on the
sea board, or wisdom and resolution
enough in Congress to render it cf«
fectual.
Such an alternative then, if resort
ed to at all, cannot fe adopted with
out the providing means necessary
I -’ °V 1 « S °i V see ! ts giving it the most complete and
;i\ e body ftvmgIrorn its high ground decisive effect. It must become a
national point of honor,and the man
who dare oppose or violate it, should
of November, cxmjjuning seVferafpar
ticular* of the Toulon -fleet, * from
which it appears, that on hhe 22d of
October, Lord Collingvvood, then off
Cape Sebastian, received informa
tion by one of his ; frigates,'-that fjip
French Toulon squadron Was *out.
The next day the fleet was in sight,
of Lord CoUingv.'Obd, consisting of
37* sail, including transports, steering
M. N. E.—-CollingwOod, witk*' 18
sail of the line, immediately gave
chase. As soon as the French -per.
ceived this their ships of war . quit
the convoy. The English frigate.
Pomona and several smaller vessels,
pursued the transports. On the 4 2th]
the British squadron were ninth scat
tered, pursuing the enemy -in every
quarter; and only the Canopus, Re
nown, Tyger, 'Sultan, Cumberland
and Northumberland were able to
| keep up with them.
be sacrifice^ on the altar cf national! At night lost sight of them. Qn
