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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