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m THE REPUBLICAN. aw ■■ Saturday, July I, 18151 m m BY FREDERICK S. FELL, ft* the bat* ma mis mfaAxot. PRINTED THREE TIMES A WEEK. A* Six Dollars per annum, i™ advance. SCRIPTlON OF .DARTMOOR) (ENG.) Tbe following 'interesting description of the Cetehriited English De;ot of Prisoners at DarV ' taooi it given by one of oor respectable to- ns- W nien r who has been a Ion* tjnte a prisoner, and forwarded to a friend in this town by one of the ““*!» which has recently armed. ■ITtMTIOX. &C lea oemrar.n habit of speal&U'a# the lfcaritim® tights of Great BritaiO) as if she possessed Any exclusively—they possessed Aone which they were tot ready to grant to others"~-Aurora. Among the votes given at the lase election in New*York, there was one found in the ballot box, at Olean, for “ The Devil and Tom Walker." This most have been a peace vote, as the democrats cherish no friendship for princer, neither of the earth, “ nor “ of the power o/the air."—ib. « From the Alexandria Herald. THE NATIONAL DEBT. Several of oor friends having expressed * wish to see a correct statement of the public debt, together with its increase since the decla ration of war. we addressed a letter to a friend at Washington, who has politely favored ns that on the 1 il day of AugueFsiextj Inyttsc tions will Be is-iied, lorbtdjmg the coltrctoi: of duties imports and tonr.igd, the collec tors of the internal du'ieh, and taxes, and the receiver* of all public..dues qffiatsoever,; 10" teceive in payment ol such duties, taxes, and dues, the bank notes of any bank wliich due? not, on demand, pay its own notes in gold and silver* sad,-et the same time, terases to re ceive, credit, re Issue and circulate, tho trea- sory note^ emitted upon tbe faith and security of tbe Untied States, In deposits,, or in pay-; raents to,'or from, the bank, in the same man- ! ‘JS; iter, and With the like <£F. bank notes.—Columlu tnWfy oh board Jg man cj <pz:, ai.d perhaj* . meet clSalb at the hands of their country men, *S to go into an English prison ship : add all thesh, we repeat it, to the account, and no reflecting tiiati, unbaisrd by party spirit, will doubt for a moment, tbit the American impress- seamen, on bbard of the British navy, tube*' "ft" amounted before tbs ‘war, Vo tbe fuR naiul ' 62577’" , . the cold-blooded ami unfeeling pretentions of federal editors to the contrary •; not withstand- It is this partiality. for the British, h that destroys federalism: -and we cut at- •s cash, or its own , gllre t j, e federalists if they wfsh to' rise in * V W Dartmoor depot, is sit sated it the county of T lh th \ * nfora#W ® , ‘ K w *. w %» lee th *T* fpre - J 1:’ .1 -. .. that we have an ODportunitv of correcting so 1 5*w-w—|.k,»ii«. y&Jtess&s&ldtstl&JSl northwest of Exeter, the capital town. Its ap pearance and situation is the most unpleasant and disagreeable imaginable. The country around, as far as the eye extends is an uneven, ' barren a d dreary waste y -neither a tree, shrub ,:Vcjr. scarce a verdant spot fs ^seen, for many “nile* around ; here and there appears a misera- - thatched'cottage, whose outward appear- verty that ring prospec's made in the neighboring districts by the oppo- i this country, they must get rid of two' incum brances—their. Tory leaders, and their Tory efi materia! circumstance relating to the editors Albany Argus. ... .jj*-,»• Jfcfc Dartmoore business ought to be mentioned, 1 as invalidating the idea that the prisoners could ; base any design to make their escape from confinement at the time they were find upon by the gueid. A short time before the treaty of peace.fbree sailors, who had he'onged to a nents of.the government, where it has unblush- privateer out of France which had made a ingly been told to the people that it exceeded one hundred and forty millions. anpe, w-11 pespakes the this dwells- within. Here no Extract of a Utter from a gentleman in Washington, to the editort, dated March 7,1815. ** The pressure of bnsinest has. thus long de layed an answer to yonr enquiries touching the »nd thfo Internal »»- greet the unfortunate prisoner’s eye; boanti- i nation,J ?« bt . «*? "*7 . ful nature here denies afiher sweets', and seems P rovem ^. ntl oec>8loned ,?. r <tcceler * t ^ b y th ? to sympathise with the unhappy prisoners, in mmr-' * ' The same cause will necessarily prevent rv iov that renders 1 iYb worth Yh . : » lrict accuracy in my statements; but there ry. joy that renders life worth the . wjH to no nf.terial insccnry in them. The ’ate here is rather unhealthy. The coraraentl on the fact *> H oa mu *‘ jmatdt-ug- ners are almost continually afflicted with : Pj? . , J , . il+y. Almost continual rains prevail here ‘ ®*.^!t * -Aan«ciry, 1790, tring nine months in the year, owing mo t ; »h° rt, y after the com- prouably to its height: it being upwards of ! mencement of General seventeen hundred feet above the level of the : Washington s adroinis- tration, the national debt / . . This depot consists of seven orisons, each be- , ' v f? » ' ing calculated to contain from eleven to fifteen A V, ie . hundred prisoners ; who are under the care of “ r ‘ a f“ ,n ,“St an agent, appointed by, and nnder the controul l J°”> ,n , 17 ^’ £ nb ‘‘ c ofthe board of transport. Hfere are stationed, as debt, having increase guards, upward* of two thousand well disciplin- ?d militia, and two companies of royal artille ry. The prisons are all slrong y built of stone and arc surrounded by two circular wails, the 1 eutwa d wall measures One mile in eirrumfer- g72,137,S01 upwards of eight millions was At the commencement of Mr. Jefferson’s adminis tration in 1801, tbe debt 80,634,028 ence : on the inner walls are military walks for centinels, within this wall, distance about . 0 ‘ feat, are iron pallisades about ten feet high.— Adj ining the outer wall are three guatd-houst s, placed north, east and s uth There are three separate yards, which communicate with ea':h other through a passage, about one hundred and fifty, feet long, and twenty broad, guarded on each side by iron bars: over which and front ing No, 4, is a military walk for centinels—op posite 'his passage is the market-square. ' In passing into either yard, yougethronghtwoiron gates, so that.all communication between ea< h may be stopped at pleasure, and which is often done to annoy and vex the prisoners. The first yard contains three prisons: No. 1 and 3 only have been occupied by the Ameri can prisoners* The next yard which contains No. 4 prison, is solely occupied by blacks, and is separated from the other yard by two walls, about fifteen feet i-> height. No. 3 yard con tains three'prisons* • Nos. 5 and 7 are only oc cupied by the Am ric-ni—the inside of the pri- a’ns presents melancholy and disagreeable as pect ; one would imagine they <were rather cal culated for the reception of cattle, than for hu man beings. North of No..i ;between the in ner Wtll and iron railing stands the condemned i 80,000,107 number of captures, desirous of gening ove> to the continent to ch ain their prize money, ef fected their passive out cf prison, and were proceeding on their way to the coast. They wete taken, however, by the British who were vety willing tct foi*get they were Americans or prisoners, and impressed them into the naval service of England. From their new imprison • meat they w^ote to iher old comrades in Djh- moor,intorrn!Cg them cf their situation, and warning them of the probable fate of ctery roan who should make his escape from the prison and tall into the hands of the English again. This produced a decisive effect cn the minds at the prisoners i nO> one of whom would afitewards, on any account, be found out of the prison walls, e-pectsliy afer their knowledge of the ratification of the tieaty of peace, when (bey daily expected to depart once more for tbe’r long left homes, so preferable at any time to an unlimited cut fioement in a British mao of war. This fact, we should pre sume, would put the question of their allrdged attempt to break out o' prison, completely af rest.—ib - .63,732,200 poison. This pious offences amounted to At the commencement of Mr Madison’s adminis tration, in 1809, the debt, 'having been diminished or paid off by the repub licans to the cmount of near 30 millions, was only During Mr Madison’s ad ministration, about 12 millions more of the debt have been paid off and the old national debt at this lime amounts on- lyto - ': It thus appears, that while tbe -federal admi nistration increased the public debt, the repub licans have extinguished more that forty two millions of it, besides having purchased Louisi ana, the brilliant theatre of American glory, and destined to be the great emporium of the western commerce and wealth. The debt creaked by the war. as ascertained at the treasury, amounts to 68,733,112 Bat this has happened in a most momentous and extensive war, of nearly three year.’ dura- ish eni- 39.905,183 A cariealuit of the Dan moot trastacre, we understand, ia to*be .published in this city to d iy. I’, represents the prison with groupcs of the officers, the guard and the prisoners’, «r ih apprebrie'e labels, at the time of the btondy ac tion. The occasion is almost too serious for the display of wit. But it is an English privilege and practice to expose to the eye, in figures ard symbols, more than could safely be offeted to the ear, and perpetuate in pictures what would be forgotten in letter-press. On jus ifh ble topics Americans follow the transatlantic fashion, without excusing themselves bv iestrc lions on othei nu des cf publication. We metr no apology on this occasion, as none csts b. wanted ; but to supercede ebjee ions Ircm cm- neiv treaty freed?, who a e the subject* of •his moial. political, and national print shop ske'ch.—i6. Axrcdotb.—After the signal defeat of th* British array, general Lambert imagined'that his camp was entirely surrounded by the'Ame- rirans; and anticipating nothing but defeat yrnd disgrace should he attempt to. fight,bis way through, he had recourse to'the following strat agem, in order to effect his escape. He 're quested general Jackson'to allow him four days to bury his dead, intending to make use of that ,^ time to make good bis. retreat under, corer of the night. Having accordingly got eveiy thing in readiness for a precipitate ffight, the British commander on the evening previous to the ex piration of the truce, put his troops in motion, and commenced his march, protected by the to tal darkness which then reigned, as silently as possible. He bad not proceeded far, however, before his progress was arrested, as he thought, ,1^. by the numerous army determined to destroy V bird and his unfortunate followers. Strange 1 and unaccountable sounds seemingly proceeding 1 from ten thousand clamorous tongnes, were \ heard all around him ; some apparently crying . out,“ Yoiflibetoolate!”—others, “ Surrender, surrender !”—and others “ Shoot ! shoot i shoot!” which so terrified the astonished warrior, ) that he cried out in the agony of his sonl, “ For God’s sake, gentle men, don’t shoot ! we’ll giva up 1” He then staid all night on the spot, un- Her the impression that be was a prisoner; and i* the morning sent his aid in order to treat with the supposed enemy; when finding that thearray which had thus frustrated his design, instead ot being composed by bloody minded Yankees con sisted of nothing more or^Jess than-a'numerous host of harmless frogs, conveniently posted -in the neighboring marshes, , lie becante so over, whelmed with rage and shame, that his rei forsook him for a lime, and lie was oblige ,be confined on board the British fifebt fOrseftq eral days.—Fredonian. .. . . j , ADDRESS TO KING FERDINAND:- The B ’•s'on Gazette p onounce* a relation nf the Der’moor r asracie, in the Salem Reg ter, an angry acmont, a-d concludes io waf frr he statemen’ p omi ed -n N v Y)'k- This '>*a etr>erit, in *e*e'.il f .rm<t, it has r.nw >eceiv. ed, a d hardly fi uls it !•■»? good humoured than he SaLm acenuot. I deed, it would be qtite is Is a place of punishment for va- I t '. on ’ "g a i n!,t a ** l be powers oi the Bit isl rs committed by individuals. Four < P ,re - a gf^at part of the time. “ 1 a futt< °°»i unnaturcl ' f all he accounts dd not display jiciniHiu*.* been condemned by the govern- i. worthy of remark, and wb'ch shews ^ ie < enno- | , orne tem p er and sensib'i'r. » If you prick ment to suffer imprisonment ijhere during the : " ,v o f r ? p “J ) lc ‘ in5 ’ ,*^,“5 us, -'o we noi bleed ? It you shoot us, do we nor tvar, for attempting to blow up a prize. Tbi, [ than’six die .? And If yon wrong us, shall we not com filain A. Y. Columbian. prison is czlcu-Utel men. who I 445 millions of dollars, morn t. *re allowed a blanket, and straw, instead of ?’ me4 thp “mount ot the whole expense their ordinary bedding. Their daily allowance l hr“e years wir! of provisiona is considerably reduced. A small aperture near the roof amidst the light. Fronting No. 1 yard is a wall, separating it from the hospital, and fronting No 3. is ano ther wall, sepaAting it from the inner barracks. The market-sqnare (which fronts the passage leading from one yard to tiie other) is nearly square, and will contain five thousand persons. than •j: our »e years But this i menced, we 1 all sizes br io that class, noi lot all. -When the vena cotn- ii n»vy of only V0 vessels, of 60 4cu sbiiis ; we had none of Now we base a navy The Montreal Herald of the 3d inst- pious ly, fervently, with its accustcmed humant'y, and in the true spirit oi the congress of Vien D», says of 81 ships ; amon? them <re three 7i*s,near ly ready for sea ; U'o GO cun ship-at Saekett’s Harbor: one 60 gu.i - ship there; one frigate and fourteen other shins ; 10 fine frigates and The market is opened everyday (Sundays ex- J* corvettes sloops, brigs and ketches, ready cepted) at 11 o’clock, and is closed at two. It T ° r . sea j ^ l,dea , l 9 re ' iJp) ’ of T'rll ,, 1* productive vf no small profit to the conntry K V P Champlain a great part of them the people. At the upper part of the market are s P ,en, ? H tr °P*««* , of , th * sp^ndscl naval two stone houses, one for prisoners and the other victories on those Lakes It istobe observed, ibr king’* stores &c i Lake fleets in the possible event of a j The other buildings attached to tbe depot are n ^ w war being provoked bv England, will be , _ . houses for the turnkeys, clerks, one for the ® f aa roMch importance as the squadrons of the and Fall ot the Roman Erotvre, exi agent, and another .for tlie doctor* * deean. i ' ’ , • care the til J fe of Charles Vlllf The caQses of the hasty djs^olasion of tS.: Spanish ortes, by king I'cvdxnand, iruniciliata-! ly after bis'return to Spain, and his subsequent ! prosecution of its prominent and patriot!* members, have been hitherto involved in inuch obscurity. We no\y furnish to our readers *, clue to those extiaoidinury measures, in tho' following address of the cortes to tlie king oh his return to llie Spanish throne. An address containing so much boldness, trnth and repub- ' lican plainness rarely meets a royal ear ; and whenever it meets the ear of a weak and bigot- ted monarch, it never fails to be considered as a jastilication of the basest ingratitudeand of tlie most violent, arbitrary and atrocious pro cedure. j.. - o'' * jfijITT ' This address we have translatedfront a Fans paper of the 1st of May. Why it was not (mb- iished at an earlier day, we know not. It will, however, still bo read with more Lhan or dinary , ,..(!*■ Translated for the Commercial Advertiser* Paris, May 1.—The species of liberty-of the press, which we enjoyed under, the late got vernment, did not allow us to make known, ia- detail and ( with truth, the real causes of the vi* •lent dissoloti. n of the cortes of Spain, an act which was the commencement of that deplora ble course of attrocous tyranny, which- for a year past has weighed so heavily upon that generous notion. - The following is a.faithfnl translation of the address delivered to king Ferdinand by the £ th? allies on the heaffof the greatest trni'or 'he tnt'd ever saw. Nor oughi punisbn<cnt *o stop there; ail he abettors of the freamr should follow the fate of their msste’*. ts an Erie and Champlain a great part of them the ! example to Fi«nce and to posterityid. 11 Moscow may yet be avenged in Farit, and ' deputieso/the cortes,and which provoked its ^ - * j dissolution In it we recognize that noble na tion which formerly said to her kings, when in troducing them to office* a laconism so ener getic : , ** We who are as good as you, and who haver more power than you, we appoint you our kingr * * *To enter either of the prison yards from with- ! 11 is P 05S '. W « j ust, y to appreciate improve- -r ont, vou mail pass through five gate*. Front-: ments occasioned or acce.erated by tne war.—* »g the outer gate ism reservoir of water, which . article of domestic manafactnres Si brought the disUnci of six miles by means of • alone, the war has added, in solid 9 canal, which supplies the different yards.— f nation, ten time* the amount of the ex--.; The hospitaHs unaer the superintendance of a i penses which that war produced to the tre'^sn- ' physician, who has two assistants. ’ Doctor • ^ " Tc can 1 ? ow iu PP*y ourselves if we had a tvi‘Grath, the presenCsuperintendant, is a gen- * mind to atop importations, with all the neces- • tleman of eminence and skill in bis profession, saries, and many of the comforts and. luxuries and will ever be remembered by the American ! of life, from our domestic manufactories.. y S risoners with esteem and respect The sick • * n addition to all this, we have gamw En- ave uniformly received from him every atten-. rope a name in arras and valor, whicnwill be tion that delicacy and humanity cou d dictate, i our greatest security against future^aggrcssions. A^bri time*are five thffi il sa^d six hun- and. command .the admiration of mankiftcL to.. dred prisoners in this depot NEARLY CNR . the' latest period of time. We have had?ur- , HALF OF WHOM ARE MEN WHO national ch<racter strengthened and elevat- WERE IMPRESSED INTO HIS BRITAN- ed our onior. and repn’ lican institutions con- NIC MAJESTY’S SERVICE PRIOR TO aolidated anil confirmed. These advantages, THE WAR that wealth, this character and reputation. Many hardships have been suffered by the 1 have been gained and secured, under the aus- prisoners, more especially in the year 1S13, pioes of a Madison and a Jefferson.” which #as exceedingly severe. j Although excessively cold, and many of the | prisoners almost naked, no fire was allowed, or * cloathing served out to protect their shivering ’ Mtmbs and half famished bodies, from the incle- j ‘ ~ Aniline l LEGITIMATE KINGS. Edwa'd G.bbcn, the htstor an of the Decline examined to the crown of Naples. H>s conclusion.is hie : “ Le d'oit de conquete r.’cst faite quepour “ les betet fierier. Le droit de eucc eeeiun, b<en anil lord, for the purpose of preserving our rights, and odr interests; if you do not do. this, yon a ( re no longer our king.” .• Address of the Cortes to king Ferdinand Vll t • on his return io Spain. * . . “ Prince—A deplorable credulity caused. f you to descend from a throne, where you were*. | seated before the regular period, in consequence * ICS t/ClC8 yhColCmo AJC uruil UC rilZilTL D»en - .. . F 1 , , V¥ i*.,».«... o-. pa. i. „r m , M ttzESSsassr • **• , “ d : “ Hxee Le seul droit ande**us de tomes les INTERESTING TO rCBLIC CBEUITOBS. Di>rc'ii.nt from the Treasury depaMtnent ere issued by the secretary,, beaming date the ... ... , . „ “ Yonr fall had like to have drawn with It. objection,, est celul qui sort de favour dus that of the whole nation, who only owes its safe- th fieuftle libre. • ■_ ; jty to its valor, to its perseverance, and to the The right of conquest if made only fox wild sacrifices which she made for her liberty and in- beat:*. The right of euccestton, though well dependence. imagined tn itself, hva no fixed firir.cifiU*. The •.' “ I’M* nation which maintained itself firm only right superior to all objections, is >li»> in the midst of her trains might have elected B... I,.m Ibe * of a free pec/ile.— j ed its rights with the greatest integrity and/en- •rgy ... \ , :i' L “ The recollection of what had past, seemed- to impose it upon us as a duty to do so; per- j haps the interests of onr preservation even ex- ' ycted it. “ However, more faithful to their oath, than to the voice of their interests, the nation rei, JVai- Int. •Gibbon's MiscelLneous Works, yol. III. prge 17—Edition, Basil, 1796 6257. Several federal editors exultingly demand, 2 4 w what has become of the 6257 American seamen^, places upon your head this crown, which you which were stated to have been impressed into snSered to fall from it, and which they hare ♦ L*s. - •. A _ A.% S . l.v.a. n La S._ r J ' •»! V at tire weather. j 15»b mstant for he p*vnen» of all treasury It must hie observed,.that the prisoners at that! noe» due at the loan office in Philadelphia to u . It must be ebservedt. '.dime, teceived no assistance from their govern- W _ the fiist of Angutt oext—-S-jvofirah, the . first 1 inient. andmatty of them having been robbed or \ 0 f ^rpieinber—Wasb'Ogton tbe firs of July- plundered of their clothes, were, by the time of , r( j Baltimore the fi-stof Jn'y— •SSS S&^aSSTSaitaSSS •• ritfr’ r-f “it! '*-• Mr. £ub* • ™a of clotb,, mod Si Bomldo mod No- Vn-k, food. » oorreo. x.W-Hd.nn/Ar.r aa*. which um thoueh .fn.il. money not beitg provided for riHfeemmJKIb* y—after f which. half-penny per day, wldch^som though snail, • money not beite p DBO’PVH"; •'•'■lay ; /, 7 ' / ' *«»w wiauovstiWAVI, »MVUV RUILU LUO Itu- - ^ i va w auauviin .aviwj«» UWI^ ■*a» a great relief. The prisoner* on many oc- j noies issued and parable there, they FlH belt* «r,} editors chuckle so much. Now, when we tract which she this d*gt makes with you will be 1 1 * —.L.na *a<l wamr tniarin»« M (iJ lia..L ’ d,ni*ail etiKcrriniinfl* lA llsA Irian nf ^mnawlaii ftltaft ftft* Y awAam .11 J a s. ^i«enlv»H and rnn atill mmain ankwtri t/v #lua “ ceived veiy injurious and harsh i ceived as subscriptions lo the loan of twelve Ton aider that the London prints, alluded te, dissolved, and yon wiU rerr iteatment from the governor of this depot, hav- inilltons, (*' 95 m notefor lOOof mx per cent, .rkrely tell more than half the truth, -we may lew, of which you ought n .*•4... A iouAssotail IIiavm «s tV. • . , . a, • • t • 1 2 •_ a ~** 1 * ** 1 1 - 1 * rt — nn*nk» * - ’• »- *_ 1 Tint', tlio n*ara*i carton* have received ing uniformly endeavored to curtail them ol the smallest liberties orindnlgence.—Salem Itegis- ter. Difference between preaching and practising. Lord Bathurst, in the house of lords, in a discussion, April 13, on the treaty with Ame rica, said, “ A coble lord had fallen-hEo the stock) or their ho'der* rney receive in exchange for th.em, drsf's m Philadelphia or Etlrimofei or new note* fondsble st«! per cent. And <n the mean while, the followin^ceon- tervstling regulation is to be adapted to place the unpaid treasury, nates on » par with such bank nrtes as »re no* redeemed with specie. Axn nxAUt xoTiea u mm oi*x*, the British service, previous to the late war.— By the _ late _ melancholy accounts from Dart moor prison in England, we learn there were 5300 Americans there incarcerated; and in several London articles we have seen it stated, that upwards of2000 of these had been tnrned over from British men of war, on board of which they had been impressed, because they would not consent to fignt against their country, in the known how to conquer for yon, and without-.. you. .' f ' ■' ■ "r* “ Never loose sight of the fact, that yon owe this crown to the national generosity, andth however long may be yonr life and thosy of} successors, they will not be long enongu cancel this debt. “ The country gives to yonr authority no oth-. er bounds than those established by the coin- late war. Here, then, is nearly half, or at least stitutionri act, adopted by its representatives, one third of the old 6257, about which the fed- Tbe day in which you transcend them, the eon- nfitly doub le the number they admit to have but the organ. remain subject to the never to beany thing I over from other pi men of war to in England; rad Employ the authority wHch tho country confers on you in healing her yoonds, and 'rase ' • then take into the account tho great number assnred that there irno sacrifice which she will thatmnst have sunk under the weight of oppres- not be disposed to renew to aid you in thia iLav* na)(» - L a . TmnnroMo omr.lAwtitorif sioit,’ froth their petty • tyrants, or been swept honorable employment, off by -disease, in foo? years j^togethc.r with ‘‘May Heaven prohtet and prolong your days, m those who, firing themselves up to despair, so long as they shall ibe consecrated to the coasladcd that they might as well linger io tiauai-yro^erityv’—^frji'arf «c Francois. ■f-‘ -b'■■'J"...?.r ji.*; ^