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‘‘ deliverance of Europe,” as the MoruiogChron
lcle calls it, ai,d as it will not call it any more
it’ Mr. Perry should be turned out of place,
■which he will not, if he can possibly help it? Send
them a tine voyage k great success say I. May,
they never cease to light until they have delu
ded Europe—and the Englishman who does
rot join in this prayer must be the very basest
of mankind.
INVASION EXPECTED 1 !
Some people labor to direct our attention
from the recent aggressions and present appa
rent disposition of Britain, to distant and ima
ginary dangers. i his is a part of the tory
system. One paper has told us, what no one
ever heard before, that the Du< ch are impres
sing our seamen &c. !—and in a federal paper
of yesterday it is intimated, that, as the Tuni
sian ambassador saw the defenceless state of our
country, we have something dreadful to appre
hend from Tunis ! ! !
Devoted country 1 were you subject to no
evil but the repeated murder of our citizens,
you might exist ; but Dutch impressment and
a Tunisian invasion must put an end to your
independence 1 I— Boston Democrat.
The Trenton (n. j.) Federal paper iys that
the Dutch take our vessels, impress our stamen,
and blockade our ports.
We should be glad to knowhow this in for
mation has come to the town of Trenton alone
and fallen exclusively on the ear of the federal
printer there. Among all the marine intelli
gence and all the news brought by vessels to |
the great sea-port towns, we find no intelli- j
gence ot Dutch depredations. The gentleman j
should give us the details.
Does that fellow think the public a mere ’
compound of folly and dull credulity. We 1
should not be surprised to hear in his next pa- 1
per that the Citerokees have blockaded our ports ! <
—ibid.
Vermont as she should be.— Notwith- [
standing our remote situation from the scene of 3
the late outrage upon our national sovereignty, *
this hardy race of mountaineers are all alive to ‘
the general sensations of indignation and re- ,
sentment, and will form a solid and powerful ;
phalanx against a vulnerable point of poor de- J
luded England : we venture to predict, that ‘
not a single soldier of Vermont will wait to be !
drafted into the service now required. Baum’s J
mercenary slaves were once taught a solemn ij
lesson, which has probably been related to Bn- •
tish children, and they may rest assured thfc ‘
lads of these climes will not tarnish the lau
rels their fathers gathered on the lulls of Wal- j
loomsack. l'he bravery and patriotism of the ,
united b id} 7 of free men that cluster our mouti- >!
tain’s sides are not to be questioned, and the
finger of vengeance points with the needle.—
Epitome of he World—Bennington. f
Miranda.— By a gentleman lately arrived®
from 1 rinidad, we are informed, that Miranda ‘
was still at that place, and that he was wailing j
for intelligence and assistance from England, g
for the purpose of making a further attempt?
on the Spanish Maine. Many are of opinion, •
that he has a British commission, and acts un- 1
der the orders ol that government No expe- -
dition appears to be filling out from Trinidad j
for the Maine, at present.—.V. F. paper .
FROM AN ENGLISH PAPER.
Mr. Lancaster announces for publication by I
subscription, at twelve copies for a pound, an 1
abbreviated account of his newly invented me- ‘
thod of instructing the children of the poor, t
Perhaps one of the most interesting spectacles !
to he seen at present in or hear London, is the !
Free School of this benevolent man, about 200 j
yards from the Obelisk in St. George’s fields. |
In this school nearly 1000 poor children are j
rapidly taught reading, writing and arithmetic, j
by one maste", on a plan of Mr. Lancaster, for t
a total expence not exceeding three hundred *
pounds per annum. The leading principle of
this well regulated and orderly establishment >
is, that the senior classes teach the junior, and ■
that emulation through every class is excited ■
by rewards and promotions. The methods of
teaching are also much simplified—for exam
ple. the children learn to read and write the al
phabet at the same time, by forming the letters •
in sand, with their fingers, as each letter is suc
cessively called by the monitor—they after
wards learn to read and write monosyllables
in the same manner, and the precision and
rapidity with which the smallest children per
form these operations is very surprising and
highly iute esiihg. Aided by this plan, the ]
children of the poor may, without exception,!
be initiated in the first rudiments of knowledge; *
and we congratulate the country on the prospect
oi its speedy adoption by the legislature, on the
introduction of Mr. Whitbread.
FROM THE NEW.YORK EVENING POST.
THE KISS.
[A gentleman had filicited a kiss from a lady, who re
futed it, but who. writing to him afterwards,Laid,
“I feud you a kiss.” The receiver returned these
lines ]
Yes ! you have sent me, by the poll!
The Kiss, so often fought in vain,
The fingde favor I can boast ;
The foie reward of all my pain.
A kiss cn paper ! cold and white !
In ('read of lips, warm, rosy, red,
Tis but the phantom of delight—
’Tishut a Haute—the lubftance fled.
Oh ! it has chi I’d me into stone.
E’en so ! —a kiss receiv’d from thee ;
Fruits of this kind no favor own,
Except they’re gather’d trom tat tree. ISIDDR.
FOR THE EVENING LEDGER,
MESSRS. EVERITT & EVANS,
Mr. E. in his last, acknowledges that the fed
eralists are fond of power, and that they uic
anxious to hold again the reins of government,
uot on account ot the emoluments ol office (oi
loaves and fishes as he terms it) “but because
they believe themselves better qualified to ad
minister the government than the powers tha
be.”
A love of power and ambitious views are in
separable. They are concomitants; and those
who leel the one must possess the other. II
the federalists then are so fond of power as
Mr. E. represents them, they must be ambi
tious, and ambitious men aie unfit to rule ill
popular governments, because they have ever
been unfavorable to them, and hate, when once
m power, to relinquish it if the people are
displeased with their conduct. As to the fede
ralists “ believing themselves” more, capable of
administering the government, it is out ol the
question. Men may believe what they please.
A majority of the American people are certain
that the men now at the head of affairs have
more abilities than their predecessors—they
have honored them twice us long with their
confidence, end discover no inclination what
ever to lemove them.
1 he aversion of his party to “loaves and fishes”
has been strongly exemplified in the creation
ofthe late judiciary system, die standing army
and the internal taxation ; so much so, that 1
■ fear the people will never give them an oppor- *
j tunity of removing the impression which has,
S been made on their minds in this respect. If j
| the federalists were not fond of power lor the ,
j sake o. office, why were the lust hours of Mr.
i Adams’s administration so sedulously employ
;ed (even until midnight) in manufacturing i
s Judges, &c.? This tact is too well known to
I be doubted, and no better evidence is wanted
of the disinterested motives of the federal par
ty in wishing to get possession of the govtin
s ment again.
jj Aitho’ I venerate the character of Washing
£ t° n as niuch as any man, I can never think tiie
;! British treaty other than a bad one ; not omy
i fi’ 1 ’ the reasons ailedged in my last, but because
;l I believe it has furnished the British govern
► nient with a precedent for concessions on our
’ part, which she will not quietly relinquish, and
. in submitting to which, heretofore, we have
\ already sufficiently degraded ourselves. Had
•j the right of our flag to protect our seamen and
jj property been insisted on, when that instrument
|i was trained, Britain Wo. id, long ere this, have
been forced into compliance. Gen. Washington’s
Sj private opinion respecting the treaty, ’tis said,
jj differed widely from his public one, and the
; resolution making provision for carrying it into
c effect, passed the house of representatives by
, a majority of only 3, 51 to 48—and here 1 can
j not retrain from telling Mr. E. that he who has
■ not a opinion of his own, or pretends “not to
5 judge of the justice of the cause” of the pres
v en ( controversy between the United States and
i Britain, is a luke-warm American indeed,
jj “ Mr. Adams,” says E. “ followed the foot-
I steps of general Washington, fn preparing us
5 to resist the insults of any nation who insulted
; us. But what has Mr. Jefferson done ? He
j has dismantled, sold and almost destroyed every
j vestige of a navy.” This is the first time, I be
lieve, Mr. Jefferson has been accused of des
troying the navy. Pi ay how was it destroyed ?
Are those at Washington and in the Mediter
ranean a vestige? Are they destroyed? The
i truth is, and it lias been made manifest to eve
* *7 man wffi.se party prejudices have not got
| the better of his liberality, that not a single ves
[ sel, deemed by judges worth retaining in ser
| vice, has been parted with.
I The lust administration, in their eagerness
t to go to war with France, and to have a navy,
j bought up many vessels then on the stocks and
, in the merchant service, which were never in
* tended for ships of war. Some of them were
. so unfit for the purpose, that the shock of a
few broadsides would have stared every titn
i her in them, and an enemy would have had
no more to do to conquer them than to have
- set them a filing. This is the navy that has
been destroyed! Such were the vessels which
have occasioned so much clamour ; and which
were sold by the present administration, and
. the money appropriated to the building of en
gines of defence better calculated lor protect
ing our coast, and less likely to tear themselves
to pieces with their own noise.
Mr. E. asks, “ what have the people gained
by a change of men and measures ?” This
question has been so often answered, that he
might have informed himself with very little
: trouble. They have gained—
! An administration who prefer patriotism
to power, and the public interest to their own
aggrandisement ; who are not so fascinated
with the emblems of distinction and the emo
luments of office, but they can resign them
without a sigh, whenever the people are dis
posed to make another choice.
A relief from a system of taxation deemed
dangerous and unnecessary—dangerous, be-*
cause it increased executive influence, and les
sened the power of the people, by maintaining
hordes of collectors in every part of the coun
try, who were dependent on the executive, and
ready no doubt to approve its measures rather
than give up their places—unnecessary, be
cause the salaries of lie collectors amounted to
more than one half the revenue arising from
such taxes.
A system of finance bv which we have
been enabled to discharge upwards of twenty
millions of national debt ; and by which the
whole of it, including the Louisiana purchase
(if the country hid remained undisturbed by
British aggression) would have been liquidated
in the space of a few years.
Other advantages might be mentioned, but I
shall content myself at present with otily ore
more.. I mean Louisiana ! the greatest and
most important acquisition (next to its liberty
aiiu independence) ever obtained tor this conn
try. i o prove that Fdo not exaggerate, I will
give federal authority for my assertion, which
surely will not he rejected by Mr. K. ■
T.xtiact of the speeches of Mr. Rots (of Penn
sylvania) and Mr. Morris (cf.Y. Y.) in the se
nate of the United Suites, on the 24 ih Februa
ry, 1803.
.Mi. Hess. “AY hat equivalent have you?
\Y hat can you ofl’er to men who know the va
lue ot that country ? (Louisiana)—\V hat would
this senate take for the surrender of such a
country were it out’s ? Let every senator ask
himsell the question, and declare by w hat rule
of estimation his answer would be dictated ?” j
. Morris—* \\ ith this country (Louis*
iana)in y our possession, you have means of de
fence, more ample, nune important, more ea
sy than any nation on earth. In a short time
ail the West-Inula Islands, fed from your gra- ‘<
naries, must depend on your will; and in con
sequence all the powers of Europe, who have
colonies there, must court your friendship. !
1 hose rich sources of commercial importance
will be, as it were, in your hands. They will
be pledges for the amity of others in seas and
dominions far remote. It is a defence, which,
though it costs you nothing, is superior to fleets
and armies.”
This invaluable country to the attainment of
which, some ol the less sagacious federalists
j thought the sacrifice ol fi/ty thousand men and
. and five millions of dollars a mere Jiea-biie—
j (not more than necessai y for a single cam-;
‘ paign)—has been purchased without bloodshed
j * or fifteen millions of dollars. Its revenue ;
■ pay* the interest ot the purchase money, and
j the sale ot its lands will more than meet the
( principal by the time it becomes clue. 1 here
j fore, it will not be paid for out of the imports of
the old United States (as Mr. E. calls them)
—lt will pay for itself.
I hese are- some of the advantages .which
i have resulted from a change of men and mea- j
< surcs ; and which, to a certainty, would not
j have been obtained, if the powers that were had J
| continued in office ’till this time. I will now 1
5 thank Mr. E. to explain, satisfactorily, how the i
j last administration laid the foundation of them,
in any other way than by forfeiting the confi
i deuce of the people, and the eby giving place
, to better men. This is the work of the present
administration in six years, pray what was done
• by the last ?
j The shabby use Mr. E. has made of two
’ sentences in my last, by introducing “ the difli
t cullies we may have,” in order to pervert their
j meaning, and furnish himself wiih a few lame
. inferences, is a proof of his liberality, as well as
■ dexterity in accommodating things to his pur
! pose.
Although I recollect something of my addi
tion and subtraction too, I cannot, for my life,
solve the enigma at the commencement of the
last paragraph of Mr. E.’s piece. As it has ex
cited much curio* ity, and is no doubt very in
genious, he will gratify, by an explanation,
many besides A REPUBLICAN.
Savannah,
THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1807.
FRENCH AM) RUSSIAN ARMIES.
The sloop Two-Sisters, in 15 hours from
Charleston, has brought an extra sheet contain
ing an account of the long expected battle, be
tween the french and Russian armies, on the
continent oi Europe. ‘1 he news was received
at Charleston, by an arrival from Baltimore;
and states, that the two armies co nmcnced
fighting on the sth and continued partially en-.
gaged until the 14th June, w.ien ihe battie he*
came general and terminated in the entire de-
I feat of the Russians. We have not been aide
i to obtain a sight of the gazette, but the account
is said to be official, and states the loss of the Rus
sians, in killed to be 2 5,000 men.
We are authorised to state, says the Louis
ville Gazette of Aug. 21, that the President of
tne U.S. has called on the executive of this state,
for her quota of one hundred thousand militia
which is 3095; and that the governor has re
quired of the adjutant-general n accurate re
turn of the effective men in each brigade of the
militia ot this state.
We are informed, from good authority,
that Levi Sbeftall, esq. United States agent,
has received by the. bug Eliza, captain Baker,
arrived on Tuesday last, from Philadelphia, a
supply of ordnance, powder and ball for the de
fence of this place.
Messrs Everitt & Evans.
Having seen it announced in your paper, that
I am a candidate for the next legislature ; it is
not without considerable regret, I feel myself
compelled to say, that my private engagements,
will render it impossible for me to serve my re
publican citizens, in that capacity. I trust it is
unnecessary for me to express my gratitude,
for the confidence which has heretofore been
l eposed in me, by nty republican friends.
JOHN H. MOREL.
August 27.
Charleston, August 27.
During the thunder storm on Thursday
evening last, the mast of one of the Gut.-Boats,
I lying in our harbor, was shattered by lightning;
j and colonel Daniel Stevens’ summer house, in
I Georgc-street, was also struck. It entered at
1 the h. w. part of the building, and passed s. e.
The window frames were driven out and shat
tered, and all the frames of glass broken.
His Excellency Char'es Pinckney, having
lately made earnest application to the general
government lor a large supply of cannon, mus
kets, and other military stores, to be sent here,
we are informed that his excellency lias just
received u letter from the Secretary of the de
partment ot war, informing him that he has di
rected a large supply ot these articles to he im
mediately forwarded to Charleston, to be ulti
mately stored in the magazine at Rocky Mount,
it not immediately wanted for actual service*
Among the articles arc five thousand muskets:
Ao part, however, ol these stores, except this
lifcaiy cannon on travelling carriages, can be put
into the bands of the militia, unless when call
ed into the field for actual service by the pre
s dent ot the United Stales ; which shews tho
necessity there is for exertion on the part of
the individual states for having the militia well
armed and equipped.
Major general Butler, commanding the first
division of the militia of this stale, on receiving
the governor’s orders, through the adjutant
general, for the draught of his division, im
mediately wrote to his excellency, offering his
service as a volunteer City Gazette,
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Another Republican, is received, and under
consideration.
PORT OF SAVANNAH
ARRIVF.n.
Ship Columbia, Cooper, New-York, .86 days—J Ac \V
Magee.
Ship Dartmouth, Starr, New-York, 16 days—Sturges,
Burroughs & Butler.
Brig Olive, Crowed, New-York,’t2o days—John Grib
hen & Cos.
Brig Eliza, , Philade phia, 26 days—J. Idler & Cos.
Brig Tu o Friends, Curtis, Boston, 46 days Georpe
Anderson.
Bi ig Drake, Stoddart, Bolton, 18 days—Supercargo,
Schooner Amelia, Brooks, Bay or Honduras, in diflrtfs.
Sloop Delight, Cooper, Churlefton, 1 day—matter.
Sloop Republican, Brown, Charleston, 1 day mailer.
(TP ALEXANDER S. ROE, rir.
firous of being continued in the office he now ho'ds. of
CLERK OF COUNCIL, foiicits the support of hii
friends at the ensuing election,
Augull 27. g;j t
gs
IC?* We rre authorised to stale,
th-t Mr. WuriAM A. Moore offers himfelf a can
didate for CLfcRK OF I HF. MARKET, at the en
fui g election. August 27. 93.
ATTENTION ThTTwHOI,!’ !
A PERSON delirous o f employment.offers himfe'f
a candidate for a fhareof patronage in the writing
line—which will be executed with neatness, accuracy’,
and dilpatch, on more moderate terms, than can be of
fered in this city. A lnug birth in a public office would
be pi eferable. Apply at this office.
August 27. a 93
Rum & Mackerel.
40 bbtls. New-Englantl RUM,
80 barrels prime MACKEREL,
Received by the brig Drake from Boston,
FC/R SALE uv
Samuel & Charles Howard.
August 27. t 9S
ABNER WEBB,
Has Just Received per the Eliza, from Philadel
phia,
50 pair Franklin’s Cossack BOOTS.
August 27. M 93.
FOR PHILADELPHIA.
1 -wf/TUS THE BRIG
E L 1 Z A >
Thomas Baker, master,
For freight or passage, having good accommodation*,
apply to
Jacob Idler Ik Cos.
Who have received by send vessel and for sale,
172 Who’e and 20 half bbls. FLOUR,
£0 boxes SOAP,
COO bunches ONIONS, of a superior quality.
August 27. c 93
Grand Lodge of Georgia.
•S/I V/INNAH, August. 20, 1807.
MA Grand Quarterly Com
munication of the GRAND
ODOE, will be held at the
FILATUR I . 011 the FIRST*
SATURDAY in .September
nert, at !0 o’clock A. M.
At which time and place the
Officers and ReprefaitaGv s
of the different Lodges tinder
its juuiuiction will attend.
By order of the R. W. Grand Matter,
D. D. \Vi 1 1 i t>n u ,
91 Grand Secretary,
Georgia. 1 By Thomas Bourke, clerk
L. S. Vof the court r ( Ordinary for tHe c un-
Th : B iurke. J tv of Chatham, and t. ate aforefaid.
WHEREAS, Isa c Bucjchalrer and M.s Salfner
has made application for letters of admintftration
on the ellate and effect* of Mathew Salfrer.
These are therefore to ere and admontlh all nuts
Angular the kindred and creditors of lie decra{*-d,
to hie their object *ns (if any they have) in my rA.
flee on nr before the sth dav of September ne
oth-rwift let ers of adminiftra'i* n will lie granted.
Given under mv hand and seal, this 25th dav of
Augofl, tn the year of our lord one thoul’ nrj
eigh hundred and f’even, and in the thirty fe
condyear of American independence. 93
Rees’ Cyclopaedia.
Subfcriber* are informed, that the FOURTH
Nl'Mfli R is received, and ready for delivery at thio
Office. The Fifth and Seventh are UaJy looked for
from Philadelphia.