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%r.ow r.ct The following private him. As no deputies arft known ^Posterity will look back with shame destitute of any blaze or* ancient v.r-c 1 — » I *1... 1 .VC 1 I ......I n^un . nra tnirrhf- aillimiftn 1 ll •* j lid • ff-l JetuT from our correspondent leaves the law, certificates signed bv any; nd indignation to the .period, when,turd*; we might submit to the indig-'a-, he sc e.ii e of no validity, the tenth Congress were made to a-'r.ities of Europe. But to a peopf inc into tne Micitrrt o Lord Wellington at Simctlla i Lisbon, May 11. person, as such, are Phocion about hie “ as he scc:ris to be or" enter* the su ; jc'-l be laud therefore cannot be received to.bandon the Embargo, by the dark otlprofuscdly blessed by the hand of ha This week I have seen personsjeanscl the bonds. When there i • nojdislant rumors ol indecent prints.jturc, and enjoying die sweets ot civi. ail parts of the army’s positions cancel, the provisi from lro*n Vi-.ru. I.ord Wellington had adv.n.'.<cl towards Salamanca, but the k neat of the French, near twenty leagues, iudut qd his J.ordship to give over the pursuit. When left he was at Sancella; at Porta Legre nothin islon of law requires,'Clouds ol disaffected citizens sprangjliberty, submission i-t doubly mise- that fact to be certified, as well as thejup in every quarter; and every plun- ruble. As national safety is involved, bonds, bv two respectable Merchant’sjdcrer of the public welfare and hap let us issue Letters of Marque and of the place, American, or Foreign, 1 , pi ntss, “crawled out of bis ho!- .iReprisal.—Let us proceed diligently if there are none others. like slugs and. grubs and worms at [in our eff »rts to arm and discipline A mistake of the agents abroad on-ter a shower of rain.” If my voice the militia ; for that La the ro. k ol this point, having occasioned incon- "of consequence had occured.—Thelvcniences to the merchants at home, Uuciiuoz accounts are trivial. land dissatisfaction in the transaction, “The Portuguese army every day'where tne law cannot be varied,this wears a more martial appearance un-iinformation is respect!ully offered to Lore us. PHILO PHOCION. FOR TirE GEORGIA JUORVAL. VO YMPHION. 'Most Musical ^ir, , I haye read the address with which could have been heard at the late our temporal salvation. Let'lts-ien- . . . ..... . changes, I should have said, “ gent jcreaseiinanimitv at home, and eiVj- vo “ onor ‘ 1 t ‘ 1 ‘* nenc * s t’ -' Km Iv „,Vk-«c a litUc....%r.lv coani Se Domci.lc foam,tour,. L-bwl^ as they on,a,"lm C (l the odition tol*t unins °* t:)e Ir,st number, or the <lcr lire British i rain, Ike. And by,the concerned, for future directionsjcrcusc of freedom and ol liberal jior / a British of- to consignees in foreign ports. Thosejiicv for a little rime, and I promise submit for a while to be respected a-,then we shall be in a condition . broad—bear up nobly under the in-repel the ruinous and extensive con-. ,V,)1 K U Journa . am compe e accounts from Cadiz, by fictr arrive<1, the Portuguese regi ment Ko. !J<), behaved most gallantly at Matagorda. “ Winn Americans have arrived seem quite confiJt nt of amity re maining beiwriu England and Ame rica, especially those persons who have the ir property herd ; from the letters they have received, Imak^ho doubt of it, 5k purchase accordingly ” such as are defective, are requested to obtain the proper certificates with in the time prescribed by law, or ap ply to the Comptroller iov an exten sion a3 provided, when the penal sum of the bond exceed 200 dollars. J. H. M’Cui.lough, Collector, Bonaparte -has published a decrid:, •Im ports. ill.. who have already lodged in this oflicejyou, at the expiration ol that period, 1 in which he orders the Spanish pro vinces, north of Ebro and Douro, to support different jMtrta of the French arniv, Which are no longer to be a bur then to the French treasury. It is obviously his intention to unite these provinces to France. Listiov, May 13. 44 The wliolc of the* French force; routh of the Douro, includingthut at Salamanca, is about 37,0Ot>—mar shal Xey hpa advanced from Sala tnantta towards Cuidad llodrigo w ith about 20,000; Junot has about j 13,000 at Astorga—loid Wellington’s head quarters arc at Cilinco, in the neigh borhood -of which pluve our force ron .ists of 22 battalions of infant!) and 5 of cavalry, English, and 12 bnHulionK of Portuguese inlantry. The whole are in high health, and not a singly desertion had taken place in the Portuguese army since its advance. General Canteion’s bri gade is at Luthares, general Lowe’s at Francoso, general Picton’s at Pink ed, jib d general Cranford's near St. Fylices.” NEW ORDER IN COUNCIL. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. At the Cburt at the Queen’s Palace, the 2d of May, 1810—present, the King’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council. His Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice qf his Privy Council, , to order, and it is hereby ordered, that all vessels which shall have clear ed out from any port, so far under the control of France or her allies, as that British vessels may not freely trade thereat, and which arc employ ed at the Whale Fishery, or other Fishery of any description, save as hereinafter excepted, and art* return ing, or destined to I'eturn, either to the port fix. m whence they cleared, or jq any other port or place at which the British flag may not flreely trade, shall be captured aud condemned, together with their stores and cargo, as prize to the captors But his Majesty is pleased to ex cept from this order, vessels employ ed in conveying fish fresh to market, such vessels nofc being fitted or pro vided for the curing of fish. And it is further ordered,that all vessels subject to the provision of this order as aforesaid, which shall have sailed on their present voyage previous to notice of this order, oi reasonable time for notice thereof, shall he permitted to return to their own port without molestation on ac count of any thing contained in this order ; provided they shall not have continued on their fishery more than twenty-one days (which are herein allowed stiqji vessels) after due warn ing of this order received at sea And the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty’s Traasmy,* his Majesty’s Princijj.il Secretaries of Si,ure, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, Sc . the Judges of the High Court of Ad- Pim.ADEi.pniA, July, 9. Prostitution o f the American Flag by the lirifi .S'/l • When such declarations as the fol lowing (extracted from the Sun, of the 2Jrd May,) are made in the Bri tish Parliament and In* such a man as you shall lie plundered, insulted and disgraced to your heart’s content.” Such is the advice I would have of fered to im infatuated countrymen pel fiscations to which the con oid 0 c; rstion the sincerity of the iro- iiavauuiia w ” imv«i un. ui - “ » » *' * ' 1*1 . . ., France lead ; and to which tht;prin-!^ c V vh, <: h V™ : y c P le? **<* "for, ciplcs, designs, and acts of beliige- s P| r,t £.\ vhl ' h P oll t h -' v f rent Europe manifestly tend. pued to toe Editor ot the Arguj^ TO THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL. But inv voice was stunned in thel^”’ lin of popular clamor. There arej I am well assured, Phocion will always a set ol moderately gifted !j lt0 "personal altcrcatii* men, who bawd out death and ruin upon every valuable change, which the vajyiug aspect of human affairs absolutely and imperiously requires. It is of the utmost importance to a with a writer, w hich appeared in the Argus of Wednesday last. From such a contest he can no way con tribute to ihe great purpose he seems to have in view, bv addressing him-jacluatcd by any particular friendship . . . , , , ..self to the public. Without consider- j for Major Clarke ; but tha it is bc- commercial nation, that there should;- 1 . i . i rv»i . ... .. n- . , , < f , . . , mg the ornamented stvle ot Phocion, cause von are willing to devote vour M . Analizer, and to your most ohcdicntvery humble servant. M'lien you have done away my skt pticism. and proved according to the logic of. common sense, that you are vbat von profess to lie—a friend to a “ dignified investigation of the con duct, and character of candidates for office”—that it is not because vou are inferstett—not because vou ars be a tree entry ol neutrals into the enemy’s ports. In our present sitit- Mr. Alexander Baring, (who isLjion therefore, would it not he well known to be inimical both \o the or- to reca n Messrs. Pinkney anti Arm- tiers ol council and the ministry,) cun, stron g__ to permit our merchant ves- wc feel ahy surprise at the measures| sc j to-arm in defence ol their law- .adopted on the continent to cxcludejf u i tr;lt i ei an j maintain the dignity American vesst Is. of their flag, when ant! wherever .. ct ? Mr. Baring observed, the trade be-l 4 q lic l x conduct would be worthy a tween this country and the North [magnanimous and great nation ; it Europe might be carried on in Bi i-jwouid j'.rce the belligerents of Eu- tith ships under the Americr n ups under tne American lht£*jroj)e to respect our rights, or enter It was impossible to distinguish En- ( i ntoopcn hostility, lint we are told glish from American sailor i. Km-hhat nothing will be granted us from ploying neutral and enemies’ seamen,\ f cur% vVhat! not even justice? To was training up a future enemy in! tal k „f not acl i ng from fear is mere our own nursery for seamen.— Hcj|, u p]; amentar y cant< I question if e- very much feared our American co-'y^f justice has been done to large lonies could not lui uish a sufficient masses ol mankind from any other quantity of timber, sufficiently goodj niot ivc. 11 I say give this people in quality, and was apprehensive that j v _.hat they ask because it is just, do the measures jirojiosefl would havC|y (Jll tliink I should get ten persons to the effect of increasing the price of li 3ten to me l The only true way to a very important article, which was already exceedingly dear. (Pelf's Go?,. THE JOiRNAJi. WEDSESDAr, Av OUST 1. NATIONAL SAFETY*. No. III. “ Princes and Kings may flourish or muy make the mass of mankind see the beauty ot junice, is, to shew them in pretty plau ;erms the consequences of mins..-e. Such men as hang a- rourni a court, are not only deaf to the mere suggestions of justice, but thev despise ii; ihty fittest the word right; the only word .vliich rouses them is peril; where they can oppress with I resolved to investigate the suhjectjlile lor for the liberty oi vnur country, farther, before I determined on the!?- with it the freedom of Elections, merits of his essay. This I haVe that which sweetens all their enjoy done, and find the premises adven-Intents....unsullied reputation. ..I saV ced by him well founded, and his sir, when you have proved ail thWc deductions literally correct. Theyjthings, I shall be touched with ycur an, indecd'.utUMsrverabh. 1 ; and must generous patriotism, and freelv for- carry conviction to every' unpreju*jgive the excesess into which it has diced mind. ied you; tyid far from resenting those A citizen of Baldwin nevertheless,'terms ot reproach and indignation, has endeavored to relute them by [which considering you are descended his “ logical reasoning and sophis- trom the Gods, and an advocate fora tical deductions how feeble thej“ dignified investigation,” you have attempt, all who can discriminatejheaped rather, too liberally ujjyn Mr. between right and wrong; are qua jRvan, and Mr. Analizer, as well as lifted to determine. Like HamletJupon your nuist obedient, v^ry hum- in the play, he produces two pictureSjjble servant—I will jflace them to hy tells us, one has the feint ream- the account of an honest unrellect- blance of an answer to Phocion ; then ing, and patriotic indignation, in brings a most hideous caricatura ; which your cooler judgment -and and toils if,';, it has considerabc analo- godlike politeness had no concern gy to an individual, who never saw | F«.*rreally Mr. Aniphion,“simpleton” Phocion 'till he appeared in the ha-jas I am, I can through my dull com- biliment of print; and who, in all prehension, find nothing in your lu- probnbiliUj, is net ignorant of the rc-jnainous Essay which proves your pa- al author. It is an impudent kindjtriotism, but your empty assertion—• of sorcery, to attempt to blind us w i;h The balance of it is directly contra- thc smoke without convincingus that dictory to such ail idea, and is fade, A breath may make them as a b.tenth hag made, But a bold peasantry, their countries pride, If once destroyed, can never be supplied.” I believe there is no man however indifferent to the interest of this country, who will not readily con fess, that the situation to which we are now reduced, justifies the most melancholy apprehensions, and calls for the exertion ol whatever wisdom or vigor is left among us. The po litical relations of die United States with the European powers, will jus tify our government in adopting any measures, calculated to secure our future safety. The conduct ot France and England during the whole of die present war has been to America, as if the tongues ofhercitizenswere tied—their heck cloven—their na ture brutal ; and as if they were iuhjected by Prbvidence to become slaves to these rival despots. The) have cut -off our trade with all parts of the world.—They have plunder impunity, they oppress forever, and call it loyalty and wisdom The people must not only speak, hut the)'must act ; or the character of the country is lost forever. In a cause that is to decide forever their dearest rights, interests and very safety, will they remain unconcerned spectators ? Will they allow stran gers to appoint them a master ; and determine whether they shall be de livered like a flock of sheep to the butcher, or Restored to the shepherd A better spirit than exists in the A- merican people never existed in any people in the world ; but it has been misdirected and squandered upon party purposes in the most degrad ing and scandalous manner. In stead ot the plain and manly policy increasing unanimity at home. ot what is the ignorant, arrogant, and wicked conduct which has been pur sued. If every ploughman was as great a hero as lie who was called lrom his oxen to save Rome from her enemies, I should still sav, at such a crisis, we want the affections _ _ petitions have been answered only rurally andJudgca ot the courts c 1 by repeated injury. We have offer- Vice-Admiralty, arc to take the nic.isur, s herein, as to them uWy i ts pet lively uppesMuu. W. FAWKNKR. DOM 13fc?T!'( GL'srOM HOUSE, IIALTiMOPF. ed our seas, ravaged our coasts and destroyed the lives ol our people.—;°f nil our citizens ; there is no spi 1 hey have constrained our citizens, r *t we should alienate ; no heart we taken captives on the high seas, to( s hould avert ; every man shoulc hear arms against their country ; to jf«-*cl that he has a country, and that Income the executioners of theirfhtre is an urgent an pressing call friends and brethren, or to fall tliem- ,,or aid. selves by their hands. I should ne-l The events of the present war in ver have done were I to accumulatejKurope, rather surprize mankind examples ; but those I have alreadyjthan convince them of anv superiori- quoted are too many for the honor ty of the French. Bonaparte, look of humanity. In cvefv stage of these j mg upon the whole universe as hi* oppressions, we have petitioned forjprey, grasps with insatiable ambiti- icdrcss in the mildest terms—ouijnn at the conquest of the world. ' lhe only security of nations again* the fre has existed. You first brand Phocion with a vice, (pasting up pie ces on a sabbath night, See.) from which he is Irec, to render him odi ous and suspected. Suspicion is the foul weapon with which you make all your chief attacks;—with that markable only for the trippen- of so- phisty and quibble with whi^h it- a* bounds——Like yourself sir, I want evidence—When you assert that vot| are a paii'iot, but write like the tool ol n faction, my skepticism immedi ately steps in, anti (“impertinent- you stab. In the whole essay, v. c'h ”) challenges your proofs—and tin- discern the malignant breath of en-til vou bring them forward, f shai yv : but like a dissipated vapor, it contend that you are not the patriol . . . patriot is perfectly harmless. The world you pretend to he, but the tool of a . d to exclude one belligerent from tny danger is the reputation of their visor, and the honor of their arms < ur intercourse, if the other will re The example of the Swiss is ven turn to reason, to justice, and to the 'capable of shewing, how advantage- law of nations. Whether either will return, and if so, whether the other will follow in the path of justice, art momentom considerations. We can exiKti lut little from them now: °us glory may prove to a nation. The high reputation they acquired lor their valor, preserved them in peace lor above two centuries, and ivnrlpnul tUu c knows its source, and arc doubtless guarded against its infection. It is, as to reason and argument, the most extraordinary piece o{ fetid impo tence, that was ever imposed ujjon an enlightened people. Cannot political questions he dis cussed, without descending to the most odious personalities Must you go wantonly out of your way and depart entirely from the subject, in order to defame an innocent cha racter, because Phocion differs from the cause you espouse, his imma terial to the people, who Phocion is ! The question is, whether his argu ments arc founded upon the immttta Me principles of truth !—and whe ther they are intended to promote the happiness and prosperity of the peo ple ! I hat they are founded upon the former, & calculated to procure the latter ; will not he questioned bv tile faction in disguise, attempting (“ in these days ol ignorance and error”) to impose yourself on the public for a patriot -As you have been |)leascd to combine Mr. Ryan, Mr. Analizer, and myself together, I shall reply to your profound matter in that irre gular manner winch mav lie expect ed ot a “ simpleton,” and whene ver your luminous mind finds this to be the case, you can on that account excuse me, or not^ us you pleuse* y It seems then sir, that presuming upon the “ ignorance and error*’ of these days you have not thought it necessary to refute a single position taken by Mr. Ryan against Major Clarke but by bellowing out Vi* per, Hypocrite, &c. against him you expect to draw the attention of your readers from the charges,against the Major—You have been cautious ot particulars, 8< where you mentioned candid and liberal. “ Let it there- | one i you remind me of the cunning of lore be impressed upon your minds|^ ie Scuttle fish—you first muddied —let it be instilled into your cliil- water, and then you run from iu ‘ dren that the Lxeeutive and Legis-'f instead ol these unintelligible a /alive departments should be kept sr. j^^hamns against Mr.Ryan about the PARATEwtcf DISTINCT—it is the 0jj/7/[ V ‘P cr f ™> Medusa's head, yon surety for freedom—it is the Nation sr 8 ** called hini a liar, a thief, or a last and best hope—No free state or 'flunlcrcr, but confessed that vou had republic is sale under any other go-] nnt 8 single proof against him, your vernment. I* y°u on£c give Yip tiiisl r ^*’^ crs would have been better cin- all important principle, you will forge| v * ncc ^ they now are—they for yourselves chains of slavery, nndi' vou hI havejaugbed at your folly, run furiously onward to desfructiornr^'* conlcsscd yeiur candor»—at pic- I he fate of the Roman republic, is a ® cnt tltey can do nothing more t;.an memorable instance ol' this truth l have not time to dissect the rt- ply °l *t citizen ol Baldwin, as mi nutely as I could wish ; but I will venture to affirm, if he knew — lor a moment admire the'unintel ligible effusions of your great learn• ho,*-, and then their more deliberate judgments wilt coudemn you,\\s •veil lor a fool as for a waqt of can dor. According to your logic no 1 m:m can be a Christian & a patriot, J • I lie-is opposed to Major Clark* to acknowledge 1 he moment lie opeqs his .mouth lit ir ot a charge of * i< h he h ul made a- * * r ia of the Scuttle Fifh, that ^ | nectiilile rh-ir-irt. ^1. he f ’ n ' ,s ’’f* likrljr »o prove ton h* c . SIT . lcU r V U fl,r rj-v. hie feces, which mud<^ . Lie.* as caudous ol at-,the water, anj tben he escapef. . nuch of the propriety of language, a- I believe he does of th efnis hi ones- ’gnomvio;, v situation.