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For the Savannah Evening Ledger.
V'hy deep a* in the covert of the grave
The mule* of my natal home,
Why <ioe the willow, iti f. branches, wave
In silence o'er the fagf-'i tomb?
Will not one of the tuneful, youthful train,
b.ffay the patriot’s fame to raise,
“I o fino his wisdom in a worthy ‘train,
Ami give to all his virtues praik.
*J o tell that Baldwin, virtuous lag , is “4tf
Unto his place of holy rest,
‘i ’enjoy ti.e hapninefs, that he i.as wo*
And tliere to beaonipletoly hleft.
f), that furh strains of purest hvav'n!) tire
W cnilj pour their radianci on my hre w
As did the l’rince of modern Bards inlpu.e
Or were by nature'•mule polfcft !
Tor how flijll I, an humlile youth unkuoSsJ;
Who ne’er l.ae Hi ung the founding lyre,
Attempt a theme that (hould itself alo/io
‘1 lie chosen sons of Fame inspire.
VTouin, Georgia, mourn, thy f.iddeft tribute pay,
T.et “ fable weeds,” tl.y forehuad crown ;
Mourn <le< ply mourn, death’s unrelenting /way,
<,r thy adopted Soil is gone !
Is gone and where flialt thou his equal firnj,
Or how fnpply his honour'd place,
One l.ieft with confeious dignity of mind,
Adorn'd with feientilic grace.
Where was thy genius, Georgia, where 1 was Ut
front thy sage ion her vilage turn’d,
V lien Death triumphant on his fable car
Tiom hence lore him so justly mourn’d?
Tore lusn from hence, where now his wai.l is fwlt,
When faction rears her Gorgon head;
W lie’ the hui left the glooms where late 0- dwelt
Ami blares now by fplendour led.
One, who amid this tempest troubled (a,
Thy feeble barque, could fafeiy fleer,
And, by experience long, could truly fee
Bach boill'rous wind, that would be near.
W'hole prudence could, when at the beaten helm,
Avoid the dang’rous gulph before ;
Nor raflily mill, where waves would soon o'erwhclin,
And hell fraught florins terrific lour.
What tho’ thy Baldwin’s dead, yet (hall his foul,
Benignly bright in Seav’nly truth,
With in.ld complacente view this earthly rule,
“V\ here once he /pent hi3 happy youth.
Infule his spirit in fotne kindred form,
llis svitdom,and hit niatehlefs worth,
’1 o bear him up against each threut’ning storm,
That may o’erwhelm his native earth.
‘.And w hat tho’ now, the chilly hand of Death,
And the dull coldneft of the tomb,
Have llopt each spark of foul enliv’ning breath.
Vet 111-all hlsfacred virtues bloom.
Vet lliall they live within each honetl breast,
VS’herr* 4 amor patriae” Indy reigns,
And there foievcr, ever be impreft,
In spite of envy and its pains.
I.’lnconn#.
April UCth, ISO 7.
From a London Patter.
Sit.'llflT COKHVKI’ONOKXCK.
/ Young lady, newly married, bang obliged to
k/ -70 her husband alt the letter* she wrote,
t ‘U he following to an intimate Friend :
’ cannot be satisfied my Dearest Friend!
< c tlam in flic matrimonial stale,
’ >.a. I pour into your friendly boson,
An 1 is ever beat in unision with mine,
* various sensations which swell
’ .he’ liveliest emotion of pleasure,
1 me almost bursting heart. 1 tell you my dear
oaud 13 the most amiable of men.
nave new been married seven weeks, and
• base never found the least reason to
“ rev die day that joined us. My husband is
“ b. .in person fie munners far from resembling
“ii , cross, old. disagreeable, and jealous,
” vu msters, who think by confining to secure ;
*• t. wile it is his maxim to treut us a
** i cam friend, and n*t as a
*• t'i ‘V-thing, or menial slave, the woman
of his choisc.— Neither party,
“ he says, should always obey implicitly,
v hut each yield to the other by turns.
l * An ancient maiden nunt, near seventy,
“ a cheerful, venerable, and pleasant old lady,
“ lives in the house wih us—- he is the de
“ light of both young and old ; she is ci
vil to all the neighbourhood round,
“ pone nous and charitable to the poor,
“ lam i ertain my husband likes nothing more
than lie does me ; he flatters me more
“ than the glass, and his intoxication,
“ for so ! must call the excess of his love)
ot'o:. makes me blush for the unworthincss
i its object, k wish l could be more deservng
“of the man whose name l liear. To
*• say all in one word and to
” crown the whole. my former lover
“ is now my indulgent husband, my fondness
*’ is returned, and l might have had
“ a Prince, without the felicity 1 find in
“ him. Adieu! may you be as blest as lamun
*• able to wish that I could be more
*• happy 1”
A” B. The key to the above letter , (in cypher)
is so be rn l thejirst, ct:4 then every alternate
line only.
To cm the Richmond Enquirer.
In the Aripis of the 7th, it is stated, and the
fact is now too generally notorious to be doubt
ed, that the i hies justice Marshall has dined
with Aaron Burr at Mr. Wit kbam’s, since lie
himself solemnly decided, that tbcrc was pro
bable cause to believe Burr guilty of a high
nil .demeanor against his country. The story
lias indeed excited some surprise in Rich
mond, hut none of those sentiments of lively
indignation, whit h a stranger to the country
w ould naturally have expected.
As to Burr himself, 1 feel towards him the
same sentiment I feel toward’, every man
charged with a crime—’.he wish, that lie may
have a fair and impartial trial ; that if
lie may he punished, if innocent, acquitted.
His efforts, to whatever end directed, have not
as yet been attended with consequences, which
ean excite in the bosom of a patriot am thing
like personal resentment. I heard -with plea
sure, that Burr on his arrival in Richmond,
was readily furnished with the supplies neces
sary to his comfort : I thought it a signal proof
of the generosity of my countrymen. I heard
with pleasure, how zealously and ablv his
counsel hud defended him : I thought such
exertions honorable to our bar. Tlirt his coun
sel should admit him to die freest communion
of a professional nature, and that such inter
course should be conducted on their part with
civility and tenderness, e c-n tho’ they may
think him guilty, I am not disposed to deny ;
but I insist, that no situation should, (God for
bid, that the profession of the law should !) ex
cuse a man, for wanting the ordinary feelings
ol a citizen towards the violators of the law.
And truly, my surprise would have equalled
my indignation, had Burr been admitted to the
familiarity of private friendship, much more to
the house and table, of anv man, but Mr.
Wickham. This gentleman (if we may ‘lis
ten io tiie once loud peal 0 f angry fame, which
sull rumbles, though at a distance) was once
himself regarded as a sort of stale offender, as
an insidious foe to the liberty and independence
ol the United States. 1 shall not vouch for the
truth of the shocking charge I allude so, nor
discuss its probability. 1 resign that task to
Mr. Wickham, if lie think proper, or dare, to
encounter it. lint il it be true, no wonder
Burt’s situation shimid excite hi:; sympathy.
I will not press the subject. Yet Mr. Wick
ham should have remembered, and having for
gotten, should be publicly instructed, that as
the people ol \ irgini i have generously forgiv
en the errors ot his youth, (1 choose the mildest
phrase, for I too have joined in the p-.-.rdoii) he
should modestly have refrained from recalling
to our recollection, by entertaining a suspected
traitor to the union a* hm guest, a report ho
damnatory to his own fame.
I have never had any, the least confidence
in the political principles of the chief justice.
I have never do,, overed in his public (For i am
ignorant of his private) character, any of that
noble candor, which Iris friends have made the
theme of such extravagant euiogium. I can
not discern in hint, lor my soul, those splendid
and even godlike talents, which manv of all
parties ascribe to him : his hook cc-rtaiulv dis
plays none such. But! have al wav- been in
formed, and ’till now have believed, that lie
was a man of excellent judgement, most con
summate prudence, and of a deportment high
ly decorous and dignified. I took his merits
upon trust, anti bountifully gave him credit for
good qualities I find lie does not possess.
Let me inform the conscience of the chief
justice, that the public do not view bis dining
with Burr, as a circumstance so trivial as he
himself may incline to consider it. It is im
poßsiblc to separate the judge from the man. •
W e regard such conduct as a willful prostra
tion ol the dignity of Ins own character, and a
wanton insult he might have spared his coun
try. How has Run-entitled himself to be the
social companion of the chief justice l Is he
rot si ill si peeled ol tlvs blackest crimes ?
llow lias he manifested hit- innocence? liar,
lie even thrown oil that cloak of mystery, which
truth, innocence, and virtue were never known
to wear, and in which all liis words and actions
have been enveloped ?
What will the people of Virginia, who yet
regard the name ot John Marshall with a kind
ol parental fondness, and too faintly condemn
the fatal errors, or impious ambition, that led
him to desei t them—what will the people of
the union, who look up to the chief justice, as
the head ot the third great co-ordinate branch
of government, too high to be ambitious, and
supported again t any tall from dignity by his
‘cry elevation, (for such is the impracticable
theory of our independent judiciary)—what will
they think, how will they feci, when they learn,
that the chief justice has feasted at the same
convivial hoard with Aaron Burr?—with
whom ?—With the very man, of whom that
very chief justice has declared, that there is
probable cause to believe him guilty of a high
misdemeanor against the United States; at
whose trial the chief justice is himself to pre
side i who is suspected to have plotted Schemes
hostile to the happiness, the liberty and inte
grity of the union, schemes which would have
rendered the chief justice an alien to his own
lather; who is charged on the evidence of a
gentleman, cn whom his country have bestow
ed many testimonies of esteem, I mean Mr.
Raton—with having entertained the abomina
ble design, or at least imagination, of assassi
nating the president, dissolving tho congress,
disrobing the chief justice himself of his er
mine, overturning all our sacred institutions,
state and federal, and erecting an execrable
despotism on the ruins of freedom. Whether
Burr will be able to rcpell these charges or not,
I shall not pretend to decide ; for I do not mean
to prejudge him ; but Ida say, tlut the evi
dence they rest on, is sufficient to vender him
an unfit companion for the chief justice.
I have searched in vain in my own mind, for
some apology for conduct so grossly indecent.
Perhaps, it may bethought that my understand
ing is not likely to be very ar.cute on such a
subject; but indeed I have heard no excuse
offered by any other person.
Surely the chief justice does not pretend to
be the private friend of Burr; if so, 1 beg leave
to enquire, by what services Burr has obliter
ated from lus metnorv, that very, very horrid
deed, which was called the murder of Hamil
ton? By what merits has he conciliated the
gorxl will of all good federalists? Surely not
by the appearance of a rebellion against the go
vernment ?
\\ as the chief justice ignorant that Burr was
to be of the party, to which Mr. Wickham
invited him ? If so, what arc we to think of
Mr. Wickham’s delicacy towards his friend?
If so, why did not the judge leave the house,
so soon as he discovered the indignity imposed
upon him ? If so, let that be assigned as the
reason, and I shall more rejoice to hear it, than
any of those sycophants, of whom the judge
boasts so numerous a retinue ; for I regard
his conduct as a disgrace to rnv country, and
shall be happy at any alleviation however
trivial. But 1 take it for granted, the act was
wilful.
But it may he said, Mr. Wickham’s was a
friend's house, and surely the chief justice may
dine at a friend’s house, with any person whom
that friend may think fit to invite. Indeed!
Suppose that, that “unfortunate gentleman,”
Thomas Logwood, lately consigned to the pen
itential/ had been bailed, as lie might have
been, had his friends been as zealous as Burr’s
—and suppose that, pending the prosecutson,
Mr. Edmund Randolph had thought fit to give
his client an entertainment, (though I ought to
bespeak Mr. Randolph’s pardon for even sup
posing such a case) —and suppose Mr. Ran
dolph had invited the chief justice to be of
the party ; how would he have felt ? how act
ed ? Would he have laughed at the folly, or
burned at the insolence, which must have in
duced such an invitation ? Yet, where is the
man, so ignorant of the nature and consequen
ces of crimes, as to compare that of Logwood
to the misdemeanor, for which the chief justice
has declared that Burr ought lobe tried ; much
more to tbc treason of which he is suspected ?
Or is it only the grandeur and sublimity of the
crime, which redeems the character of the cri
mirial and exalts him to a level with a federal
judge?
lias the chief justice forgotten or neglected
the maxim, which is in the mouth of every ty
ro of the, law— that the administration of justice
should not only be fvure but unsuspected? I Warn
him to have it constantly in his remembrance,
and to beware how he inconsiderately betrays
motives which may expose him to further scru
tiny.
I doubt not, this will be deemed a very sin
gnlur publication. The style of it is, indeed,
ltllle consonant io that which prevails too gen
crally throughout this superb and courtly me
tropolis. But the sentiments, as well as the
manner in which they are expressed, are sui
table to my own temper, and sanctioned by
my own judgement; and I am not very anx
ious to obtain the approbation of those, who
approve of the conduct which I have here con
demned.
A stranger from the country.
NEW-ORLEAN T S, February 24. 1
Tribute of Applause.
Ibis excellency General James Wilkinson.
Sat.—The subscribers, masters of vessels
in the jK>rt ol New-Orleans, beg leave to cx
p-ess to you, through this channel of commu
nication, the high sense they entertain of your
services in the present alarming crises.
Surrounded, as t e arc by suspicious or de
luded, persons more than ordinary means are
requisite to frusterate their nefavious designs,
and though we deprecate military ascendency
in a free government ; yet, we consider it at
this juncture, the only alternative to preserve
ihe peace of the country, and maintain inviolate
the real interest of the United States.
In all your measures, sir, we have perceived
the arm of power, guided by the dictates of
patriotism ; and we are well convinced that the
civil authority is set aside, only, because it is
incompetent from the nature of its process, to
avert the storm which was ready to burst over
us.
I hat your exertions may lie crowned with
success, and your services meet tire reward
which they so justly merit, is the sincere wish
of
Sir—Your admirers and friends,
Richard Stites, “William Allen,
David Brown, Samuel Smith,
Benjamin Brvan, John Pratt,
Edward O’Bryan, John Cough,
Richard field, .1. Seymond3,
John Brown, P. Brown,
Stephen Clay, John Richards,
.Tames Stanford, James Wilbfan,
Daniel Orr, Philip Wilson, jun.
I .lord Jones, John Waller,
Benjamin Swinson, William J. Pigot.
Sam’l M’Cutchcon, Edward Hunt,
Amavia Williams, O. Bostruck,
1 rancis Pearson, Thomas Churn skids*
Robert Swain George Chapman,
Thomas Stacy, Prcsalvia \\ aldron,
Mew-Orleans, 7ih February, 1807.
Richard Stites, ) „
Llovd Jones, l Committee appointed to
Wiillim J. Ragot,J wsut on the
To eaj. ” Ins Richard Stiffs, I.lxjd Jcr.es etii
Urn. J. Vigo:—a committee from thirty-one
masters of vessels in the fort of Aeor - Orb ans-
Gentlemen —I receive, villi great satisfac
tion, Uiis testimony of your approbation of my
conduct, pending one #f the most painful and
jnu.resting scenes of my life.
■ *l hc spontaneous offerings cf a band of pat
riots, assembled at this remote point, from va
rious quarters of ihe American union, of a body
of respectable citizens, who, though personally
unknow to me, have had an opportunity of wit
nessing my whole conduct, cannot be too high
ly appreciated ; because they must be consid
ered the genuine offspring of the breast, unin
duced by management, and untinctured by pre
judice or personality.
If an ardent, honest zeal, has impelled me
to anticipate the tardy course of the law, for’
the salvation of the constitution, I hope the
magnitude of the motive may extenuate the
partial, personal, momentary trespass ; and
that the decisive slops, which have been forc
ed upon me by a combination of imperious
circumstances, may be preferred by every
vigilant, faithful citizen, to a timid circum
spection, which would have put to hazard,
the safety of this emporium andti whole coun
try.
*1 beg you, gentlemen, and those whom you
represent, to accept my acknowledgment for*
your partiality, and my warmest wishes for your
individual prosperity and happiness.
JAMES WILKINSOX/
RICHMOND, (Vir.) April 7.
On Thursday last, before the District Court
ofßichmond now silting-, William a sol
dier m the public guard, wa* convicted of mur
der in the second degree, for shooting Mr.
John M‘Credie, and the term of his confine*
ment in the Plcnitcntiary fixed by the jury at
five years. We understand that aii the “evi
dence taken by a committee of the executive,
appointed to examine into the circumstances
and causes of that unfortunate event, together 1
with the proceedings of the council upon tho
report made by the committee, will shortly be
published. Y\ e arc also informed, that four
members of the council, viz. Messrs. Stuart,
llcning, Aylett and Mumford, were cf opinion
that captain Quarrier had been guilty of culpa
ble neglect of duty, in not having had the or
ders of the several governors Monroe, Page
and Cabell properly and regularly communi
cated to the men under his command, and es
pecially to the centinels ; and thereto! e al
though they acquitted him of any evil inten--
tion, and of the accusation of having given any
orders contrary to those he had received, they
voted for removing him from office. Messrs-
M’llae, Guerrant, Heath and Harvie voted a
gainst his removal. The council was there
fore equally divided, and, according to the con
struction which for some year,? has been giv
en to the Constitution, the governor declined
giving the casting vote. Os course, captain
Quarrier remains in office : but has lately giv
cn notice of bis intention of resigning on the
first day of August next.
Messrs. Stuart, Ilening and Mumford also
voted for removing lieutenant Underwood, on
the ground of neglect of duty, but the other
five gentlemen voted against it. Lieutenant
Underwood has since resigned, and major Pe
ter Crutchfield, of Hanover county, was unani
mously appointed his successor.
PHILADELPHIA, April !.
A more boisterous, unpleasant day than yes
terday, has not been experienced during tho
last winter. It began to blow a heavy gale at
N. E. attended with rain, sleet and snow, about
1 or 2 o’elok in the morning, and continued till
near neon, when it came round to S. E. then to
S. AY. and so to W. and N. W. all the lime, and
at every point blowing excessive haul and cold.
1 he gale has done considerable damage among
the small craft at our wharves, and it is to be
feared, wc shall hear of much damage along
our sea board.
April 4,
Wc have seen letters from Princeton, New-
Jersey, dated Thursday, which state, that a ve
ry serious rupture has occurred in the college
of that place. Upwards of 150 students have
openly revolted against the authority of the
principal and teachers; in consequence of
three of their fellow students having been ex
pelled.
a he whole number of Literary Insurgents
have been dismissed from the walls of the col
legc, until a hoard of 1 rustecs, to he immedi
ately convened, shall give a decision on the
subject. We sincerely regret, that any thing
should have occurred to tarnish the reputation
or interrupt the progress of so respectable and
useful a ceminary of learning.
A handsome Carpet, manufactured at Wor
cester, has been procured for the Chamber of
the Senate and House ot Representatives of
Massachusetts, and will be spread previous to
the next Session. It is preferred to Kidder
minster.
We understand, (says the Baltimore F.venf
ing Post) that Judge Chase will preside at
the ensuing Circuit Court, to be held at
Richmond, before which, it is believed, Burr
will appear, to answer for the offenees by him
said to be committed. I Tow slippery is for
tune ! But a little while since, Judge Chase
was arraigned before the Senate of the United
States, where Burr sat as judge, to answer
charges of the most serious nature, preferred
against him—and now he sits as chief justice
on the case of Burr, who is arraigned as
traitor !