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Freni the National Intelligencer . TIIOMAYPAINF, to the CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES. LETTER J. AFTER an abfcnceof alrnoft fifteen years lam again returned to the country in whole dangers I bore my fiiare, and to whole greatness I contributed my parr. When 1 faded for Europe in the spring of 1787, it was rny intention to return to America the next year, and enjoy, in retiie ir.enr, the esteem of my friends, and the re poie 1 was entitled to. I had flood out the storm of one revolution, and had no wish to embark in another ; but other scenes anc circumftanr es than those of conrnpl ired ease were allotted me. The French revolution j was beainnint? to germinate when i arrived in T’rance. Tire principles of it were good, they were copied froai America, and the men j who conducted ic were honed, But the fury of fact ion loon extinnuifhcd the one, and lent the other ro the fcnffold. Os thole who began that revolution I am a 1 moil the only survivor: and that through a thousand dangers. I owe this, not to the pravers of pr lefts, nor the piety hypocrites, but to the continued protection of Provide ice. But while I beheld with pleasure the dawn of liberty riling in Europe, I law, with regret, the 1 ufire of it fading- in America. In icls than two years from the time of my departure, fome diflent fymproms painfully itiggefted the idea that the principles of the revolution were exp ring on the foil that produced them. J received, a: that time, a letter from a female j literary correfpondcnt, and in my aniwer to her I exprefled my fears on tnat head in the following pen five foklcquy. *• You touch me on a very tender point <f when \cu lay, that my friends on your fide “ the water cam.not be reconciled to the idea 4 4 of my abandoning /’ rierica even for my “ native England. They are right. I had “ rather fee my 1101 Ar Button eating the grals 44 of Borden town or Monfena than fee all 44 the pomp and ihow of Europe. 44 A thousand years hence, for I must irc <c dulge a few thoughts,perhaps in left, America “ may be v\ hat Europe now is. The innocence “ of her than filer, tnat won the hearts of all 44 nations in her favor, may found, /.ke a ro -44 mancc, & her inimitable virtue as it it had 44 never been. The ruins of that liberty for 44 which thoufandsbled may just rurmfh mater 44 rials for a village rale, or extort a sigh from 44 rultiqlVnfibiliry 5 whillt the Dfhor.able of 44 that day, enveloped in riiffipation, iliail “ deride the principle and deny the sass. “ When we contemplate the fail of empires 44 and the extention of the nations of the an “ dent world, we lee but little more to excite <f our regret than the mouldering ruins of porn- pons palaces, magnificent monuments, <4 lofty pyramids, and wails and towers oi the 44 moll costly workman(hip ; but when the -44 empire of America (hall fa!!, the f’:Eject foi 44 contemplative fonovv will be infinitely 44 greater that crumbling brass or marble can 44 inspire. It will not then be said here flood 44 a temple of vast antiquity, here role a babel of invisible i eight, or there a palace of “ sumptuous extravagances but here! ah C: painful thought! the noblest woik of human 44 vviidom, the grandest feene of human glory 44 the faircaule of freedom ROSEand T EEL, “ Read this, and then sfkirT forgot Amc -44 rica.” 1 now know, from the information I obtain upon the fpor, that the impreflions that then and litre fled me, for I was proud of America, were but too wed founded. She was turning her back or. her own glory, and making 1 tufty ft rides in the retrograde path of oblivion. — Butafpuik born the akar of SEVENT Y SIX, unexthngr.ifhcd and vnextinguifliahie throughthat long night of error, is again lighr i’irr up in every part of the Union, the genuine fian.e of rational liberty. As the French revolution advanced, it fix (kl the attention of th-world, and drew, from th” pen of Edmund Burke a furious attack. T hi a brought me once more on the public theatre of politics, and occasioned the pam phlet, RIGHTS OF MAN. Ic had the greatest run of any work ev r published i:i the Eng! db. language. The number of copies circulated in England, Scotland and Ireland, be Tides trar.fiatiuns into foreign languages, were between four and five hundred thouiand. The prinap'es of that work were the fame as thole in COMMON SENSE, and the cffefil would have been the lame in England, as it had been in America, could the vote of the nation been quietly taken, or had equal opportunities of consulting & afiling exifred. The only difference between the two works, was, that the one was adapted to the locai circumstance of England, and the other to those of America. As to rnylelf, Ia filed in both cales alike I relinauiftied to the people, of E ngland,as lhad done to thole of America all profits from the work, My reward existed in the ambition to do <mcd and in the ince- O pendent happiness ot my own mind. But a Faction, afiting in disguise, was rising in America that had loft fight of firft prin ciples. They were beginning to cotemplare government as a profitable monopoly, and the people as hereditary property. It is tr.erefors no wonder that the rights of Man was attack ed bv that fafilion, and its author continually abided But let them go on, give the n rope enough, and they will put an end to their own inlignificancc. There is too much common I sense and independence in A meric to be long | the dupe cf any faction foreign or domestic. But, in the midst of the freedom we enjoy, Ac licentioiifnefs of the papers called Federal (and 1 know not why they are called fa, for they are in their principles anti-feJeral and despotic) are a cl i (honor to the character of the country, and an injury to its reputation and importance abroad. They represent the whole people of America as destitute of pub lic principle and private manners. As to any injury they can do at home to those who n they abuse, or service they can render to thole who employ them, it is to beset down to the account ot noisy nothingness. It is on them selves the dn’grace recoils ; for the refleftion easily presents itfelf to every thinking mind, that—those woo abuse liberty when thev pcf ie!s ir, would abuse power could they obtain it ; and therefore they may as well take as a general motto for all Inch papers, we, and cur patrons, are net fit to be trusted with power. There is in America, more than in any oth er country, a large body of people who attend quietly to their farms, or follow the.r leveral occupation 5 , who pay no regard to the clam ors ot anonymous Dribblers, wlm think for themselves, and judge of government, not by the fury of newspaper writers, but by the pru dent frugality of its meafurcs, and the encou ragement it gives to the improvement and prosperity of the country, and who afiling on their own judgement, never come forward in an election but on fome great occasion. When this body moves, all the little barkinjs of Dribbling and w.tlels curs pals for no thing. To Dy to tYs independent deferip tion of men, you mufl: turn out such or fueh persons at the next election, for they have taken off a great many and lessened the expencts of government j they have dismissed mv fun, or my brother, or myfelf, from a lu crative office in which there was nothing to do, is to diew the cloven foot of fafilion, and preach the language of ill disguised mortifica tion. In every part of the union this fafilion is in the agonies of death, and in proportion as its fate approaches it gnashes its teeth, and druggies. My arrival has (Truck it as with a hydrophobia it is like the fight of water tc canine madness. As this letter is intended to announce my arrived to try friends, and to my enemies, if ! have any, fur I ought :o have none in A rieri ca, and as introductory to others that will oc cafionully follow, I (bail close it by declaring die line of conduct 1 lhall pursue. i have no occasion to ask, and do not in tend ro accept, any place or office in the go vernment. There is none it could give me any ways equal to the profits I could make as author, for i have an tftabliffied fame in the literary world, could I reconcile it to my prin ciples to make money by politics or religion. I mu ft be in every thing what I ever have been, a disinterested volunteer. My proper Dm ere of action is on the common floor of citizen ship, and to honest men I give my hand and my heart freely. I have fome manulcript works to pubiifh, of which I (hall give proper no £1 CC y and fome mechanical nftairs to bring forward that will employ all my leilure time.—l ihali continue elide letters as I -(hail fee occasion, and as to the low party prints that chooD to abuse me, they are welcome. 1 fhali not defeend to answer them —I have been too much accuf tomedto such common fluff to take any notice of ic. The government of England honour ed me with a thousand martyrdoms by burning me in effigy in every town in that country, and their hirelings in America may do the fame. THOMAS PAINE. City of Washington, Nov. 12, ISO 2. A correspondent cannot forbear to x tender’ to Noah IVebftcr , esquire, Hrftoriographer to the Angel of PejhUnce , fuperintendant of V r owels and Conlonants, Knight ot the wooden Engraving,&c.&c.&c. u the homage ot his hiqh relpefit’’ and admiration, at ( ‘ the iouic, and the wiDiom, and the wit” of his learned arguments, on the adultery bill, which he introduced into the Connecticut assembly. How immensely edifying and amusing ic mufl have been, to that augufi and dignified body, to hear Noah, discuss the inlersjiing subject ! to hear yc>u £< dift.nguilh and divlde ,, between cc frngk adultery and double adultery 5 ’ —to heai mu exa nine, whether Baily, or Johnson or ]acobs or Cowell, or Swift, or Hutch njen or fPibfier, has given the molt perfect definition of the word, aduictry —whether it be “ die : fin of mconunence in a married perlon/’ or ff an unlawful commerce between married perfons,*’ or between “ a married and an un married perlon’*—whether it be best “ com mitted by a Angle woman, with a married man,” or “ by a Angle man with a married woman, ’’ or <c by a married man with a mar ried woman”—whether the derivation of the word be from u adulterate , implying the bring ing ipurious issue into another’s family,” or from 44 ad alterius thorn n, implying an en trance into another’s bed”—and, finally, wkc tier the 4f Cocrian” half-hanged legislators, or the Connecticut men of 44 fieady habits,*’ were the moll bigotted and ridiculous ! Pray N °ah, hasten the publication of your 44 C<3- lumbian Dictionary ;’ s —fori, really, 44 want words” to express my aftonifiiment at the 44 height and the depth'’ of your critical know ledge and iegiflative eloqueuce. Connecticut , No>h, lo long as Dana retains his knowledge o i Greek y and you yours of Grammar, mufl continue the very focus of learning and fei ence. [yEgfs.^ NEW STATE. 7he following is the preamble to the conjlitntion as reported by the /elect committee, taken up in commute of the whole and agreed to- We the people of the Eaftei n division of the territory of the United States, North weft of the river Onio, (having the right of admiftion into the general government, as a member of the union, confident with the conllitution of the United States, the ordinance of congress, of one thousand levcn hundred and Eighty leven, ana the law of congress, 44 An afit to enable the pcppE* of theeallern division of the o r the Teiritory North weft of the river Ohio, to for n a constitution and state govern ment, and for the id mi (Eon of such ftaie into the union on an equal footing with the original states, and for other purposes.”) in order to establish justice promote the welfare and iecure the bleftlng of Uiberty to ourselves and our pofteritv, do ordain and eftablifti the the following constitution, or form of govern ment, and do mutailv agree with each other to form ourlelves into a fiee and independent state, by the name of the state of OHIO. laFanTul~ wedn.esda y, December Is♦ Our readers will perceive in the per usal of the letters, of Mr. Paine, that the cories bad fome reason to fear the re turn of commonsense to America at this crisis, coiifciour* that all attempts againfl the rights of man will be exposed. To the cavillers at Mr- Paines religion, may be addressed the language of Je/tts in whom, they profefs to believe “ If ye were of me, ye would keep my comma ncl men t s. 5 ’ We repeat our afTurances that not any belief refpecling religion will be defend ed or attacked ;# approved or dii’ap proved in tills paper: but when we fee men diduDoing community with loud vaun tings of their own chriJftianity while they pradice no precept of the gospel, the word hypocrite, appears so appro pos that we cannot forbear to pro 11 ounce it, Mu feu ms to the contrary not withftandinff. o ICcffrs. Lyon id Morse, You will greatly oblige one of your fub[bribers, if you will be so good as to inform him, ‘ivhofe business it is, to fee that the streets and alleys of savannah, are kept without filth—doing of which, may perhaps, be the means of prevent ingz diseases that are not less alarming*, —> , O 7 than that ot the 41 black vomit. sam. * M A R 1 N E LIST ENTERED. Sc hr. Pat fey, Moo f St Marys . S.ocp Minerva, Williams Jamai-ca. CLEARED. Brig Eliza , Swain , New-York. Harlequin, Hazard. New-York, Schr. Harriet, Cbace, St. Marys. btduflry, Ro/}, Char led on Lydia, heft, - Sloop A kerly, St urges, Richmond, Va Eagle , Suarez , st. Augu/tine ’ thiTday, By mutual Consent, Is dissolved, the Co-partnership of THOMAS & CODEY . Savannah, 15th December, 180a, For sale, A few barrels of choice Jersey Apples, Po tatoes and Cider, on boar 1 the brig Waihinz ton, at M 4 CreaJy’s wharf. Enquire ot the Master on board. Also, a few barrels Angles and Potatoes of the lame quality, in Broughton-ftreet, at J. Williams’s Carriage lhop, oppafite Dofilor N. W. Jones’s. Savannah, 14th December, 1802. JUST RECEIVED, On Consignment by the Shop Minerva from Jamaica, 4 Hogfhca Is old 4th proof Rum, 23 bags prime green Coffee, 4 barrels Limes. T. M. Wood bridge. The above /loop is for J ale, freight or charter. Enquire as above. December 15, 1802. (24) For sale, By the fubferiber, No. 1, Bolton’s Building, Market square. Sugar in hogsheads and barrels, Green Coffee in barrels, Puncheons and barrels N. E. Ruin, Quarter casks M daga Wine, Hogsheads Molaffcs, Barrels Mackerel, Hv(bn Tea, Nutmegs, Russia and swedes Iron afforrrd, Brown Linen, Humhums, £cc. Which will be fold low for cap, or approved notes, at 60 days. Thomas Scott. December 15. (8r 24 ) Just received by the jo ho oner Dcbbe , and for Jalc by the fubferiber, Half barrels Beef, New-York market, Tongues, ditto, Blitter a-le-rofe, Freffi and white Hog’s far, Burlington Hams, Frefli Crackers, by the cask or dozen, j 20 Boxes muscatel Raisins, 9 Casks, ditto, 20 ditto Malaga green Grapes, 600 lbs. frefli Currants, span! Hi white, Ha Hannah sugar, One pipe anchor Gin, Mace, Cloves, Nutmegs, Cinnamon, ‘Cordial, in bottles, ol every kind, Currant Jelly, Frdh Barley sugar, sugar Cream, sugar Almonds Se sugar Plumbs, And a few gallons cogniac Brandy,4th proof. The whole in excellent order ; superior any he has had before. Those who would purchase anv of the above articles, will do well to call loon. Groceries as usual; paru cularly teas, sugar and coffee—a few hundred sparfilh segajs. Andrew Scrcy. savannah, December 15, 1802. Adminiftriatrix Sales. Will be fold on Tuesday, id February next, at Bryan court house, the following property, be ing apart of the personal est ate 0/Samuel Sleigh, deceased. V 1 Z : 1 Chair and Harness, 2 HORSES, 10 head stock Cattle, 1 GUITAR, 1 FIDDLE. Sundry articles of household and kitchen furniture. Conditions, cajh , on delivery. Will iam A. Dun ham, John Pray, Attorneys for the Administratrix. Bryan county, 15th December, 1802. (24. Lost or Stolen, A GOLD P^epeater single case Watch, with out a Bell, makers name, Humbert ift Maim. (on the face) A reward of ten dollars wdl he given on the delivery of laid Watch j if stolen twenty dollars will be paid on proof being given. Watch-makers and others are requeued to Hop the above, if offered for fide. Apply to the printers. December 15. ('t) Fifty Dollars Reward. STRAYED or stolen, two HORSES, one a bay gelding 15 nandshigh, ilrong builr, in very good order, has a star in hi> f>ie!ie..d and a bnfhy tail. The other a sorrel gelding, about 15 1-2 hands, large boned, rather low in flefn, well made, somewhat wuii a blaze, both hind feet white. Ten dollars will be paid for each of them on il.cirbving delivered to one of the fubferiber*, and. ft 1 / dollars on eonviction of any p< rfon or peilous. who may have taken them off- Catterer id Wad, Savannah, December 15, 1802. TO LET. A CONVENIENT onejlo r y house f'uot - in Ewsnsburg, wtih two geo'rooms, ard a ho!ft a back yard and other accom r 7— r eop Stephen Blount. December q ff