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for the evening ledger.
Messrs. Editors,
The following toasts, it appears, were drank
by a party stvie i federalists, in Massachusetts,
on the fourth of July last :
Ift. “ The President of the United States, firft ad
miral of the American Gun-Boats—May the death of
Arnold, Lawrence, and Sharkcly, (the three seamen
killed on board tire frigate Chefjpeake) be to him por
tentous, as the gholis to Richard, on the field of Bos
worth.”
2d. “ Great-Britain, a splendid constellation of ge
nius and of learning !—May Ihe hold Europe balanced
in her scales, and neither cause or fuffer domination.”
If a subject in that kingdom, styled by those
miscreant toasters, a sfilendid constcllaion of
genius and of learning” dared to give utterance
to such with reference to his king,
as are contained in the first of these toasts, his
temerity would conduct him to the gallows.
But we can feel no astonishment, at this period,
at the audacity of those daemons of a British
faction,‘when every page in the history of our
country presents to our view some record oi l
their treasonable doctrines and prac ices.
After seeing at one period, that ever re-!
markable period, (the reign of terror) the !
chiel magistrate of our country walking arm
in arm with the British minister, the execrable
Liston, in the streets ot Philadelphia ; famiiiar
iy discussing the politics of the day ; con
trasting “ the ready wit” of a Uobbett, with
“ the coarse ribaldry” of a Duane ; and ridicu
ling the sim/ilicity of a detnocratical govern
ment —at the very moment too, when the
most daring and abominable conspiracy was
brought to light, (in which Liston had acted a
part) that could possibly be
devised against the happiness and indepen
dence of this country. After seeing this said
chief magistrate sanctioning laws, (originating
in the councils of a faction, the open and avow
ed admirers ot a British form of government)
of the most odious and tyrannical nature—op
pressing us with a heavy butihen of unneces
sary taxes—gagging the mouths of the friends
O', liberty—establishing amongst us the tyran
ny of European despots, in the shape of a
standing army—and precipitating the coun
try into an unnatural war, (in conjunction
with the common enemy of mankind) against
that very nation who had so generously shed
their blood in aiding us to break the fet
ters which enslaved us. After seeing /-
derat armed mobs parading the streets of our
principal cities, assaulting republican citizens,
demolishing the presses, and menacing the lives
ol republican editors—cherishing and suc
couring British emissaries, sent here to disse
minate doctrines in favor of B.itish monarchy.
I say, after seeing these things, we can now
feel no astonishment in the conviction, that a
nest dft daemons are to be found, not only in
Massachusetts, but in various other parts of
the United S'ates, who are capable of giving
utterance to such sentiments as those contain
ed in the above toasts.
Sheltering themselves under the. name of
W ashhctoN) these monsters are daiiy per
petrating the most abominable crimes against
the liberties of the people, and the indepen- j
dence of the republic. But their impositions :
are too glaring to be concealed any longer; ‘
for it is not a Washingtonian principle to con
spire against the liberties and happiness of the <
people ; not is it a Washingtonian principle to
drink success and applause, in bumpers, to a i
tyrant, on the anniversary of that very day
’when our country was declared to be forever ‘
•dissolved from the slavery of his yoke ; nor is j
St a. Washingtonian principle to abuse, calum
niate and wish the speedy death of the chief
magistrate of the nation, whose wisdom and
prudence has so eminently contributed to
ward rendering us the most free and happy j
nation upon earth ; nor is it a Washingtonian ■
■pr inciple to applaud the outrages committed 1
-upon our country by a licensed horde of British
-robbers and assassins, and invite them to the •
-perpetration of new insults, by defending the j
pr inciples by which their conduct is actuated,;
and stigmatising our own government, in re- r
Presenting it as weak, pusillanimous and impo- j
tent. Yet there is a party, we find, in the ‘
United Slates, who do all these things, and i
■much more beside ; and then assure us, with *
the most unblushing effrontry, of their Wash- i
•inEtonian firincifiles !
Ye federalists, who respect the constituted
authorities, although you differ in opinion as to
the measures of government; ye who truly
are attached to your country, purge yourselves
of the rile wretches who have associated them
selves with you ; who have assumed the ap
pellation of federalist, and rendered it detesta
ble by their crimes. Cobbett called himself a
federalist; and for his ardent zeal in the cause
•of monarchy, while pursuing his federal labors
an this country, some of the British parliament
•were anxious to vote him a statue of gold ! 1
defy the genius and talents of a Demosthenes,
a Longinus, or a Junius, to pronounce a more
pointed and severe satire upon federal princi
ples, than is contained in this specimen of par
liamentary applause. By this celebrated propo
sition, Lngland proclaimed to all the world,
that the federalists in America were capa
ble of betraying their country, and of selling
their birth-right for a mess of British pon idge ;
that they could applaud assassination, robbery,
treachery and every species of crime, which
the British government is capable of commu
ting. And will you sanction this declaration
by a systematic adherence to those doctrines
and principles, upon which it is founded ; bv
cherishing and applauding the corruptible
doctrines of foreign emissaries, and domestic
traitors ? Cullen, (alias Carpenter) Bronson,
Coleman, the editor of the Boston Kepcrtorv,
and a host of such characters,all style themselves
lederalists—and these federalists , are now, at
this very moment, abusing and calumniating
the best men in America, and applauding the
outrages committed upon the property and lives
of our citizens, by British pirates. The toas -
ing daemons of Massachusetts style themselves
federalists , and it we were to judge them by
their works, we should unhesitatingly pro
nounce them capable of assassination.
Be not deluded, fellow-citizen federalists
of the Washingtonian school—the views and
principles of the Adamites /lifter as widely
from the Washingtonian principles, as docs
the Jeffersonian from the Briton—this has
already been proved, to the satisfaction of every
true*American—and the time seems to be ap
proaching, when a second proof of this asser
tion will be given. TRUTH.
August 20, 1807.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORFOLK LEDGER.
Sir—l observed several publications in the
Herald, and other prints, calculated to injure
my character, and have deemed it only neces
sary to say, that L have seen them without con
sidering it mv duty to 1 eply, as a court of enquiry
will shortly convene for the purpose of investi
gating the affair of the Chesapeake and Leop
ard, and through that channel the public may
expect a correct knowledge of facts ; therefore
any publication on my part would be useless
and improper. Something more substantial
than the mere declarations of the parties con
cerned, will be required. Respectfully, I am,sir,
your’s, &c. JAMES BARRON.
Hampton, August 3.
Hypocrisy, at the same time that it is one of
the worst vices of human nature, is one of those
| which can be the most readily detected.
That Berkley was not sincere in his offer to
suffer commodore Barron to search the Leop
ard for Americans, or that if he was, Humphries
disobeyed him, is evl ent from the well known
circumstance that all the American seamen
which were on board the Leopard, vvete put on
board another of the B itish squadron, previous
to her proceeding to sea to attack the Chesa
peake. I o proffer the liberty of search, when
the object sought for has been removed, is a
pet feet mockery, but at the same time it is of
a piece with the conduct of British officers, who
with honor in their mouths are capable of tlie
most detestable perfidy.
But, had the search been permitted by Hum
phi ies, that would afford no excuse at all for
the outrage on our flag, ihe “ honorable Geo.
C ran field Berkeley” has got either himself or
his government into a dilemma, out of which
it wid not be easy to escape Balt. Anar.
Extrac of a letter from the Havanna , dated
July the 15 th, 1807, to a gentleman in l'hi-
Icii'c i/t/iia
: “ Unfortunately, sir, lam under the disa
greeable necessity to inform you that the yel
j low fever and black vomit rage violently among
the crews of our vessels, and some of die citi
zens ol the United States who are now 111 this
citv.”
i I have not heard that any other class of peo
ple than the citizens of the United States have
been attainted with this horrid distemper. Whe
ther it is owing to their intemperate manner
ol living, which has been sometimes canied to
excess even here, and in the most fatal season
of the year, is what I cannot undertake to say ;
but I fear that example and danger will not
teach many of my countrymen to be more mo
derate even in this critical moment than at any
other period.”
The watch trade has been doubled in Europe
within the lust fifty years. It increases with
the progress of civilization, which renders the
instrument which shews and divides time near
ly as precious as time itself If we may credit
a French commercial agent’s account of the
trade in the Levant, England, before the inter
ruption of her commercial relations with Tur
key, used to sell annually 2,000 dozen wa'ch
es at Salonica, as many in the Morea, three
hundred dozen at Constantinople, four hundred
dozen at Smyrna, one hundred and fifty dozen
in Syria, two hundred and fifiy dozen in Egypt.
Nineteen onto! twenty were silver watches:
the gold ones are not easily sold. The average
amount of the whole English watch trade in
Turkey was valued at 110.0001. sterl. annually.
LINES,
Inscribed to the ladies of Norfolk, on reading in
the niws-fia/ier,s their fiatriotic offer to make
cartridge -s for the vo unteers.
For vou, fair nymrhs, the hard attunes his lyre,
To ling unbid, the fame your deeds require,
As wide they tpread throughout Columbia’s plains,
While just resentment fires her injur’d swans.
If ravifh’d Helen wak’d ea> h Grecian’s rage,
And Gods themselves in horrid war t’engage :
If young Brifeis, forcib y efpous’d
The great Achilles’ dreaded wrath arous'd:
If th Te the distant nations urg’d to fight;
Say (hall not w e defend our native right ?
Our native land, where thousand nymphs reside,
As fair as Helen,or Pelides’ bride:
Yes, lovely dames, unnumbered bands await,
To guard your persons, and proteift the state ;
Prepar’d to go where war’s hoarse thunder roars,
And drive the lawless plunri’rers from our lhores.
What other cares a soldier’s heart (hould {way,
When beauty calls—and honor leads the way ?
Accept, ye fair, the bard’s unpolilhed drain,
Who ne’er was number’d in the mufe’s train !
A noble theme his artless lines pursue;
’Pis due his country, virtue,and to YOU.
Roxbury, July 16, 1807. ROLLA,
Savannah,
THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1807.
Wv 1 Wl'l V ,~y TJ ~ m ’- j
General (dark, by orders from the executive j
of Georgia, has commanded the officers of the Ist
2d and 3d b.igades of tlie 3d division, to hold
themselves in readiness. —Augusta Chi', 7l,
Louisville, 14th of August, 1807.
Sir—Vv ith pleasure 1 transmit you, here
with enclosed, copies ol the resolutions enter
ed into by the citizens of the town of Louisville,
and the county ol lcflerson, expressive of their
indignation at tlie late outrages committed by
the British ship ot war Leopard, 011 the United
States frigate Chesapeake; and of their deter
mination to co-operate with their fellow-citizens
oti the sea-board, in repelling British uggies-
SlOllS.
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your most obedient servant,
J. MLRIWLiHER.
To the Mayor of Savannah.
A number of the citizens of the town of Lou
isville, and its vicinity, convened at the State-
House, on Fi id-ay me 31st of July, 1807, tor
the purpose ol taking under consideration the
Lwless outrage lately committed by the British
ship Leopard, on the Untied States ftigale
Chesapeake. Captain James Meriwether
was unanimously called to the chair, and James
Bozeman, Esq. appointed secretary.
On motion,
Resolved , That major John Berrien, Mr.
David M-C ormick, colom! George M. Tyoup,
colonel Liuleberry Bostick, colonel Abner
Hammond, doctoi Michael Burke and Thomas
Hancock, Esq’rs. be a committee to draft and
report to an adjourned meeting, on Saturday
the Bth ol August next, such resolutions as
they may mink proper on tlie occasion.
Resolved , I hat the citizens ot Jefferson coun
ty, be, and they aie hereby invited to attend.
1 he meeting then adjourned till Saturday
the Blh oi August next at 1 2 o’clock.
J FIERI WEI HER, Chairman.
Attest— James Bozeman, Secretary.
I lie citizens of the town of Louisville, and
county ol Jefferson, having met at the State-
House, on Saturday the Bth day of August, 1807,
agreeably to adjournment, the minutes of the
former meeting were read, when the commit
tee appointed to draft resolutions, expressive
ol the feelings and sentiments of the citizens,
relative to tlie late outrages committed on the
American flag by the ship of war Leopard, re
ported—and the said import being read, and
maturely considered, w as unanimously adopted
in the following words :
The people at and in the vicinity of the seat
of government of the stale of Georgia, view
ing w ith emotions ot horror and indignation the
late barbarous attack 011 the sovereignty and
independence of their country, have assembled
to participate 111 tlie expression of that com
mon feeling, which, from the extremities to tlie
centre ot the union, agitates and unites all
orders of the community This outrage, un
precedented 111 history, and almost unanticipat
ed by the law ot nations, has consummated
those acts oi British insolence with which our
nation, from its inlancy to the present day has
been unceasingly provoked.
Measuring our courage by our forbearance,
Britain has been growing wild in her enormi
ties, until, to the long list of her offences, she
has added the most atrocious and cowardly
murders, i lie blood ot our innocent country
men, shed coldly, without the semblance of
justice, in timcol peace, and with ail the parade
and solemnity of war, calls from the grave for
atonement.
l lie gieat rules which nature, approved by
usage, lias ordained lor the social intercourse
of civilized communities, have been disregard
ed ; the law ot the savage has been adopted in
all the exccssiveness of its inhumanity ; and
that peace winch has invigorated and raised us
front tlie cradle to .the strength of manhood,
so dearly cherished and so anxiously maintain
ed, is wrested lioin us by the sword—it can no
longer be preserved on terms which render its
preservation valuable—it cannot, it vviil tot he
preserved at the expense of out honor. Where
fore,
Resolved , That we repose the highest confi
dence in the President of (he United States, by
whose wisdom and patriotism wcdoubt notour
country will be restored to tb t dignity and
tank among the nations, from which the perfid
ious policy of our enemy lias attempted lo de
grade us.
Resolved , That we will support with our
lives and fortunes su< h measures as the gov
vernment may adopt, for the vindication of the
national rights and reparation of the national
honor.
Resolved , 1 hat we highly approve the spir
ited and patriotic resolutions adopted by our
fellow-citizens on the sea board, whom we will
be prepared to co-operate with in repelling Bri
tish aggression.
Resolved , ( hat copies of the foregoing reso
lutions be transmitted to the President of the
United States, to the Mayor and Corresponding
Committee of Savannah, and that a copy be pre
sented to his excellency the Governor.
On motion,
Resolved , 1 hat the eh firman he requested
to transmit copies ol the foregoing resolutions,
and that the same he published in the Louisville
Gazette.
J MERIW L I HER, Chairman.
Attest— -James Bozeman, & ecreturj.
Commodore Barron, it is said, is confined at
Little York, by the wound in his leg, which has
become very painful.
rORT OF SAVANNAH
CLEARED.
Frig Sea-111 and, Bennett, New-Yotk
I sclir. luiwaui Preb e, Southerland, holloa
——— Harriet, fv.‘Lean, Charleston
Mary, Weft, ditto.
Prices Current Savannah.
Corn too cents.
Cotton, Sea-Island 37
.Upland* 18 to 20
1 > our S7 75 to 8,00 dull.
Lice ------------- 350 no sale.
Rum, Jam. - -- -- -- -- y 8 to 100
Brandy Cogniac 87-2 to too
1 obacco - 5 50 to 7,00
Sugar, biown 8 to y.OO
Loaf 22 to'24
N”ap 12-2 to 15
Brigade Orders.
JN PURSUANCE of division orders of the
26'h July, the Brigadier-General of the tiist
brigade orders the respective lieutenant-colo
nels under bis command, to have their regi
ments and battalions under arms at their usual
places of parade, on the day of ,
next, by the hour of H o’clock of that day, and
are hereby ordered to inspect and correctly as
certain the state and situation of the arms, am
munition and accoutrements of the respective
regiments, battalions and volunteer corps ; and
they are further ordered to make such arrange
ments, that their regiments or battalions can,
011 the’ shortest notice, be brought to the sup.
.port of the others in case of an attack, or in
carrying the provisions of the proclamation of
the President of the United States into effect.
1 lie Brigadier-General enjoins— most se
riously enjoins every officer and soldier to fa
milial ise himself with his dutv as such, and to
appear with their arms and equipments in
complete order, ready to take the field, should
it he required, in support of their country’s
rights. 1
On the efficiency of those means, depends
the honor , life, liberty and fortune of a free and
independent people, whose courage and pat
riotism cannot be questioned.
Officers acting under these orders will lie vi-
Igilaiit in impressing on the minds of those un
der their control, the expediency of a general
“ turn-out ,” and as being indicative of their
1 readiness and willingness to execute, with avi
|i dity, the voluntary offer of their services to
1 their country.
By order of Brig. Gen. J ( H tt Fi.oyd.
ARCHIBALD CLARK, Aid-de-camp,
t Camden County, August 13, 1807. pd]
(U° I announce myself a Candidate
j! for the Office of CLERK of the MAYOR’S COURT
* andfoheit the fufhage.of my fellow citizens, at the en
tiling eteition.
William Blotrp-.
August 20. ’go
Just Received,
3000 bushels CORN
Half barrels FLOUR
For sale low for cash.
Jolm Alex. Hunter.
Augti ft 20 B 90
“Tor salk, ‘
While Ilavanna SUGARS in boxes,
Spanish SE< IARS, first chop, in boxes,
S W F.L 1 OIL, in baskets.
C. H. Fisher.
August io. M ( J 0
Administrator’s Sale.
wti.L BE SOLD,
On Saturday, the 19ih ot September next,
At the house of the fobferiber,
A LI. the HOULEHOLD and KITCHBN fur.
I \ NITURE of the late Mr. Anne Maxwell, de
cealed. Conditions, Cafti.
Sale to commence at 1 1 o’clock.
Jolm Floyd, Adm'r.
Camden County, \
Augull 6, 1807- J 90
CITY MARSHAL’S SALF~
Will he sold, on Tuesday the first Sept. n<-xt,
At he Court Fi- uf\ in th s ci’y, b tween the
hours of ten and thre* t clock,
Allorte, Sadd<e and Bridie ; levied on as thrs
property of Stephen Achori, to iVisf> a ft no
impeded by the corporation. Conditions Chfh
Charles Cope, c. yi.
Aug uft 19 yn.
NOTIC F.”
ALL persons indebted to the estate of the fate Mrs*
Anne Max we 11, deceased, are desired to make
immediate payment; and all thole who have any just
demands laid estate are requested to reudtc
them in to the subscriber agreeable to law.
John Floyd, Adm'r.
Camden County, J
Augult 3, 1807. 5 J °
5 Dollars for old Dick,
ABOUT SO year* of age, 5 feet 8 or <1 inche. high
marked with the frnall-pox, the fore finger on (h
right hand flraight, so that he cannot fund it. The
above rewatd will be paid on fi curing him in jai , by
application to Kicharu Morel.
John Cashen.
N. B. He wasfeen in Savannah on Friday last.
August 20. m. 90