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7? <s*r; the National TEcis. ■ • .during the subsequent communca ,\ c ft- lif our duty to (tare, th3l the ho • 7) Hidings is thrpcrfon to whom .I’-.jr, an i who, v,r concieve, is referred “• it the fhuemerit of the Attorney-General. Hui ol denied past he h.as propagated this lepoit. Ihe public will decide whe r the documents are i if keen: to convict him of a lull*.noo. ♦ l nore LCditors wrto fcei an in ti ref! mi r pel nog the Dander, will, we ore- j n.Mi r , e i.uny j epubiiih tint effif iol refuta-j t/Jfl. TO Tin-: TFOrLK. But few occur;ences w.i juftify an ind'vid iud ? r* intruding himfelf on the attention of the public. ]f ary will, they are thorn which, both falk'iy implicate pnva e character, and invoice imputations on government. No nr*an ought, no man can feel an h.difference for thee Deem <?c approbation of his fellow-citi zen. Bur, no circiimfpc&icn, no reffirtude of'inrer.tion or action, no laudabh; follcicude to obtain, can univerfaily fee ore them. I \ has rieni long known that ccnfure and abuft are ri e c-d;nay incidents of public employ n cnc. f xprriencc and cblervation have me me lupenor propriety of meet nr them, < v.’hcn un ter no peculiar circumfianccsl, ■ vmh patience, and refuting them by heady and f'r'v. 2di.cn ence to printuple and to duty. and i e public attention has been diie&ed ro me, much beyond what either my filiation or r.iy conik ,:t in life can jvftify. Ie is not o< i“pP ,>r: aiicc to decide on the motives or the object or this procedure. Believing that timt -e.nd the goo ; leak of the people, would fea lon.ffi ft and tfhffihi.ftiy correct, in refcrrence to myfeif, error, prejudice and mifreprefer.ra tion, so f,r ns they depended, mrreff 01 new! pc per authority, or vulgar and untracea bie repoits, they have been, hitherto, altoge ther unnoticed. 0 ‘i hrir MViis on the public tranquility have b<en fubj<-6ls for lmousregr.ee. The comy of , prrty, and personal abuse, the in -Ilf’ nc/ {paper, ffanderous affercions, with vvl.tdi Nr-w-Enghnd has teemed for the hft twelve mouths, the me re efffi&s of ignorance, pre-mace, pride or pillion, merit nothing but ii/c.we, i. r anonymous answers. They excite of i egret than contempt j more ot com panion nun refer,tmenr. The availed thinks lituv. 01 fix.*", feels Iris, will be the Drib to turret, th** 1 1! f to deck for their authors, or. to trouble the public concerning them. This evil, tccibie in its operation, of a cireumficribcd a fie predator on itlclf, ad counterac ting its s.engned tendencies, muff soon expire, to the conviction and ccnfution of thole who produced it. As ftich, ct firft, was viewed the.report, which, in the courte of the lad winter, was hurried through the country in nil the federal papers, and in forme, with double indexes, in re'peft to the payment of one thou- Gnd doftais by the Secretary of the Trcafury, on account of the abfenc? of the Attorney- General from the feat o; government. Bin rh s report, and many others, have af fu wed a coherent complexion, as originating wiffi per fa ns who are, or have been, in au thority i who have pledged their weight of dm after and other impaling circum (knees, in uppon ol them. 1 hus tr.ey have been cir culated, psifiAioufly, with industry, and the bcldeft nreffiffions of attachment to truth, and of a tender and patriotic anxiety for the pub lic mood. An indance of this kind k a charge of mi frepreiencation, transferred to the Attor ney-General, from one of the numbers of the Farmer, refptccmg the Fierce ax. Another is contained in the bold affections of Claudius. of (nifreprefentatiens, in another number ol the lame v riter, and the intolerance cf the pre and the liberality of the old adminiitra tion, in employing republican characters in the offices of ti.e four execirive departments of Date. This publication vw.s, o:ig:naiiy, made in a cut paper, and containing matter notorloujif faife, Danderous and malig nant, was, of course, copied ir.to the rces ter Sp\\ Faifehood fj propagated, for such nurpofes and implicating government and individuals, wiji jollify a resort to lb met king beyond a naked denial, the ordinary mode of refutation. 1 uetr apparent authenticitv, from the pre sumed refpeclabiiity of ihe'r authors, calls for the highest documents and proofs, to con fute them. Had it been true tha: the Attorney-Gene ral l.ndl been guim* or tne aiiedgcd abandon ment of duty, and so unpjft as so haVe fub jeefrd government to the needfty of makinc a double compensation for a -bnole employ ment ; had it been true that the treafurv of fice had beer? so forgetful of right, and re gard! el's of itself, as to have plffed an account for one thoidand dollars, or one cent,-for per forming the lervices allotted to a la!ary officer during ms on need: ary atdencc, ic would, from the principle involved, have been a matter or feriems ahrm to the people, and ofj jolt reproach to the government. It would j have called for public ccnliire, or a ccogrefd cnal inveltigatioo. *1 ms calnrrmv fu il niace its pnbuc its ap pearance in a Boh on an and loon reaching the feat of government, from whence it probably originated, wh.de congress was in 1 its lad lell:or> eng-ged, as it ought 4 , the atten- j rion of irs n emoer, individually. F.ach had ! within his r-adi, various an’ ample means! for afeertamir.g the f.cl. d'he lecrciary of; the treasury, the reguler, the auditor, or the comptroller, could have done it on a finyde ! enquiry. The records of the office, w.t'.iii; twenty minutes travel from the camtoh woub; 1 j ■> j have done ir, in twenty feccnds. E u.h mem- | her in his place, co;;!il have moved for ani enquhy, md have cauied t: e evidence of the iitty had 11 exiited, to have been laid before congrels. lewis undeiDood that out door enquiries were made, and that centiemen, not the moft and g oied to think favorably of the. tondub oi tljC ollicers of government, being larished of the falfuy or the report, ex iplicidy rd.uav-A it. A member from New Vork, in a cirri in icncr to his conftitutents, wluc.h was puhlifhed in fcvcnl papers, and which v.ms a naatter of ir.u< h conveilaiior. Among the nven-ibersj fully and pointedly i'kt ed if, among many others, as a graft rniftc prelenut on. There was reaffin ro hope that the asper sion would have ended here, and char govern- met wouid have experienced no further pre-. injury from its efficdls. k could not have been anticipated that any member t would have been lb unfortunate as to have returned nom the feat of government, (when lin any hour he mioht h'ave learnt the faiPity, joi the report, it he did not uiwiouDy know ir) ro his conit.tuentw and ro them revive mu confirm this grouncilefs and falle caluirny jeguinlt the officers oi government—yec this | has been the sass, | Report la ja member of a difrrict, call of j BoDof, made the above tlarement, in a letter iro one or more o r ids conflituents, and that jiince Ins return, on enqu ry, r.C has unreferv ediy confirmed ir. If this is a midake, as the gentleman’s character ioffers by the imputa tion it fubje&s him to, he will be phaffid with this intimation, which will give him a fdr opportunity of wiping olf the xfoerfion. If he denies that he eiiner liiued or confirmed the reprefentatibn, which his clerical charac ter renders peculiarly nee diary, if it can be done, he will withdraw his name from an er ror, to which others had attached it, for the j purnofe of giving to it a currency, j Being furnifhed with the proof, that a | member from a weft cm diftridt had,under cir j cnmftancfes peculiarly calculated to gain i>e I lief, a dto prejudice the ] 11 lie mind, con firmed the auovereport, and repeatedly afffirt ed that the uationa! government had been fub jeAed to an extra charge or near a thou land dollars, for profeffonai advice, on account iof my abler.ee, i felt it a duty which was, due Ito mylelf, to the administration, and to the peupiC, to ta..c ii-caiuics to corredft mis errone ous and injurious reprcientaticn. In answer to a letter addrened to the Secretary of the I reaiiiry on tli * the iubjc<sl, I received the ! iollowing, which 1 trull will be fatisfaclory to j;o every triend to .ruth and fairnefs. Was { the abuse, or its effects, confined to myfeif. they ffoitid take their course, and the pub qc never be troubled concerning them. at e a fury D sparlni€V*i , ‘July itie, i So*.. oir—ln compliance with the requefb con in your letter of the 26th ultimo, I have the honor to enclose a letter and certifi cate from the Remitter of the Treasury. | Permit me ro observe, that if the report to j which you allude, reds only on newspaper ! authority, it cannot be thought proper to re pel it by official documents. 1 have the honor to be with rcfpeft, fir, your obedient servant. Albert Gallatin. CT*L >• • / 4* 2 /itt>Cl h CJ ’ v.c i ’ti y cil # TRifAS UR Y I)E PART MEN T. Register’s Office, ad July, ISO 2. I Sir—l had; he honor to received your letter lof the itt, enclosing a copy of a letter to you from the at :orney-general, of the 26 ultimo. Every warrant for money paid, is register ed in my office, and every account with its vouchersJs lodged therein. The payment to which the attorney-general refers,could rot bane been marie, nvitboitt appearing cn record, | md that not any Rich payment has been made, j f hope the enclose and certificate will effectualiy jeßablifTi. I have the honour to be, fir , j with the greateit refpecc, your mold obedient land mcit humble servant. Joseph Nourse, Reglfer. Hoit. Alr r Gallatin, **Cc ret ary or the Creatcr?. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 1 Register’s Off’cl, 2.1 July, 1802. I certify that net any monies have been paid out of the treasury of the United Staten, j on account of fees, com pen fat ion or allowance I ‘ji any kind whatever, for legal advice or I opinions given,* by any person whatever, to! the prelim^Secretary of the treasury, Hnce his’ appointment, or to any other officer of the It re u fury departmimt, during that period. Joseph Nourse, Regijler. Those have been the reprefentr.tions, and ’ these are the falls. They are now in poftel ; fail of the public. It is not my bufinels to !decide on the motives which produced the 1 firmer, or to comment on the latter. Io the people they are iubmitted, who will duly AppreAurt* the motives and the obiells of the ! concerned. They ougnt to be candid, ana •censure with camion any tranlactioa which |can cop. fill with the prefi nption of a fair in tention. This is one instance in which a a delusive eticitement has been unjustly pro duced, to the injury of our country. There are many other?, of which an opinion may < ow be formed, from the one which has been ’ 0 ivf To draw a companion between all the repeated, erroneous Ilatements of individuals, | and the realities, between t!;e hc.ftv, malignant, | newfpapcr calumnies, and candid communi j cations for public information, is unncceftary. , It wool fubie-Ct to too much odium and detef ; cation. They differ, and will be so viewed |by integrity and candor as knavery differs j from hon esty —truth fromfafehood, light from jdarkr.efs, wisdom from follly, and fair inten- I lion, :*urn the gj off ft corruption of heart. k. LINCOLN. {Forced:}-) Sept era her yl 1S 02. WILMINGTON, (Dcl.J To the Printer of th: MIRROR. I f? . i\, I have been much impoled upon by fame leading gentlemen who are called federal!fits, v.ffioalways promised they would five true in formation to common people, about what had been done by our public men. This gave me latisfadlion to think I should be able | to get aii tne news lo cheap, and from men I might rely on. But no Inch thing ; your pa per, with the help of a very wife and religi ous friend, has learnt me better, and has caught me an uleft:l lei Ton., never to believe one fide before I hear the other ; for I find it s out of the quellion to expect true informa tion from these men who aim tografp ail they can in their own hands, and then cot to make a good ule ot it. Actions {peak louder than words. The con duel o* thele federal gentie hten does not emit leathern to our confidence * for the time to come. Now []r, I will tell you what I have found out to be true, but which my neighbors-, fe dcradfts, hatfftared to me differently. They ashed me if 1 could afford to keep a carriage and use leaf sugar in mv tea, coffee, toddy, Arc. ? I told them no. Well laid they—Jef jferlori and Congress have taken off the taxes from carriages and loaf sugar, which rich men life-—and fuff red the tax to remain on brown fiigar, tea, coffee, and fait—articles which e viry poor pc rion in the country uses, and are forced to keep every day in their families, j Well rids daggered me.—-But I found our | from another quarter, that the fufs they made was intended to make bad iir.prcffions upon I common people, that they had not diliin guifticd the taking off taxes uuon things made among us, from the tax ucon foreign goods O 4 *J O s brought into the country. They also told jme that the federal ills in Congress had used all their nni-eht and influence to keep it off i brown sugar, tea, coffee, and fait *, faying that the poor people in the country wno use them, were not able to pay so much tax for theft things *, that the rich who rode in their fine .carriages, could drink loaf sugar in their tea, coffee and toddy, and much better afford to pay for ir, that they ought, and not the poor. 1 found that after all their fuss, that they them Delves put all there taxes upon our fnoulders long ago, that they never took one off; that wh.it taxes had been taken off had been done by Mr. jefferfon, and the repub lican congress. I was truly aftonifned to hear Inch tales from men who ought to have known better, but who I find did not with- to give me true information. I don’t know that all ithe taxes are taken off--but I fay that the things made among us are not now taxed. Is there any full tax ? Is there any (lamp tax ? Is there any carriage tax ? I ana poor man, but I must keep an old carriage, like many others of my‘poor neighbors. | The federal ills told me that the republi cans wanted to ride on the backs of the poor people, die they would have taken off the taxes upon fair, sugar, tea and coffee. This ! was enough to be lure to frighten an igno rant farmer. But [ found out the caofe, that they {truck off a: a Angle blow ufelefs of fleers, who were riding all over the country to col lee; the, tax, the expense of collecting amounted to 227,431 dolls. 58 cents. The whole amount of the excise-col left ed from the people of the United States, was 627,431 dolls. 92 1-2 cents. I his i am told ;s all done entirely away, after they had lived along while cn the little money earned by the poor people by the lsveat of their brow?? And the taking off the other taxes would he done hy and bv; that tea, coffee and brown sugar we.% imported, and we could live healthier with out them ; and they had done more good in one fitting of Congress than the federaliftshaT done in all tiieirlives ; for they were the very people that heaped thele taxes upon us, in the beginning. Then they would lay Mr. Jef ferfon and the republicans are not your friends, else they would not do these things, that they were the friends or the rich; Now who makes us pay 6 cents cn every pound ot coffee ? I ant.vcr the fecicralitls. Who makes us pay 3 per cent on every pound of sugar ? The fede ralifls. Who makes 11s pay co cents on eve ry pound of tea ? The federalists. Who makes us pay 2p cents on every bufhc! of lalff The feueraliils laid cn our (boulders all thole taxes upon these imported articles. Why did not the federal congress take off any taxes from the poor people before Mr. Jefferfon I came into office ? They did not do it. Well, Mr. jefferfon was not long in before he tofti us that it was .not proper to extort the hard earnings of labor from the poor people to Ifupport the rich. He has relieved us from lb me unncceftary taxes, and he will relieve us fi om fome more, if we will only have pa tience. Is it reasonable to expect every thing done for us in little more than one year r Now every body must plainly fee that the federa lifts vvi'ih to deceive 11% by telling us they are I the true friends of the poor, and the republi cans the friends of the rich ; when it is knovm to every man that inftcad of taking off* taxes, year after year, rhey had heaped upon us as oru* as it was in their power. Have the republicans favored themlelves and their rich friends in raking off these taxes more than the federalifts ? After this I determined to date the convrr fiukon to you, and if you also lay so, and pub iiiia it to the world in your paper, that Mr* J after 10.1 and the republicans have afted ho nestly for the people, it will determine me to do every thing for them at the next eleflion, for I dare fay you print for the purpose ofgiv ing us poor people information. Pray don’t let it be long till you answer me, as I ana ve ry axious to know trie whole trufin of this bu ftnefs. If you fit it home ftlent, I Daall con clude my federal neighbors told me the truth*. Should you answer this letter., then I will write you all the rest of the converiktion which paft* cd between us, A FARMER. I KOSEltr ci JOHN iiOLTON, Have received per. fop Columbia # from Liverpool , 17 bales firft quality white and blue plains 1 ditto flannel and baize 8 ditto London duff! blankets 7 ditto Bristol, point and role do. 40 pieces blue ft roods 2 y ditto fupe ine broad cloths 24 ditto ditto caff] mere 45 ditto drab plains jo ditto flriped and fpotced daffies iq bales cotton bagging 4 ditto fail duck 2 cases Iriffs Linnen 12 pieces girth webbing i <-T O go dozen romal handkerchiefs j ditto cotton counterpanes { . 9 calks broad hoes 2 ditto grubbing hoes and club axes 2 dozen frying pans 1* cuff; glue 2 dozen corn slopers 1 bale bed ticking 40 boxes 8 by 10 and 10 by 12 crown window glass 100 kegs white lead 30 ditto Spanish brown 2 tens fliert lead 1 dozen tin feales 1 case Duffy’s eiixer and British oil T dozen beams from 3 to 5 feet long with weights 500 iron pots and ovens 4000 fcufheis of fait 38 quits Bd, iod and cod nails 4 c a Acs cutlery and hardware i dozen cross-cut laws 24 ditto rice and sickies 1 ditto elegant fiddles 2 ditto portmanteau trunks 60 pieces durant and bombuzettc 2 trunks hosiery. O richer 1 2- ts N 0 7 l C E. THE Suberibcr having receive fome things fur dying, requeffst hose who brought them to come, and get them by paying the price of his work. He had received” two* articles in March iHoc.er.ein February 1802 if they do not apply for the fame, he will fell them at public Auction for their account, as he intends to return in one month npou his property, near the town of Caves Sc Louis fouqhern parts oi St Domingo, where he ihall be ready to render his account. By COQUILLON. A . * n Br ought cn forest Savannah October iu 1802.