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For tie Georgia Republican, PimcriOH! ON R*FL*CTIC'MB. A pitce entitled P. fl-f Hons on the’ W*r f! Europe,which originally apptar ed in the B- fton Berirrtory and rrpuh. lifted in tli” Nrw-Y< .k Evening Post. apj ‘are to Lave enveloped the foul of CV mm in the r: pttires if enthusiasm ; wLo, ii the hcij ht of Lis <xtacy, isanx ions to at tribute n to the oen of the hon Fiftier ■’p •-. He concludes his eulo-j f -m with t! f dr.-l-.-ful enquiry, “ if it is not hi*;, whi fe can it he ?” \VI a’ [ tmi to contribute mod to the { id. ttion of il.nt editor is, the agreea .j Uejurprlje the piece has occasioned him, for he very cai (holy a< knowledges, that he despaired (now Hamilton’s no more) of ever again feeing any thing Ike gc-j nius in federal compositions. Surely the author, whoever he may he, will not only gtatify the curiofi'y of ihi* ntoft fapn nt eulogizer, but a'fo accom pany the ferret with a har.dfome ac , knowledeement. The author in qn'-ftion, has. aceor ‘ ding to Coleman, taken a rapid glance over the European world, in which ht’ has however, (hewu liianfelf a very super fir.ial ferutimzer. He has chufly re flr6led upon tffb&s, without studying their causes, and from his refledfions has drawn deductions v hich, no'withitanding Colt man fay> are mnfl valuable, are in my opinion extremely pernicious in their ten ttenry. Hi* glance was evident'y taken in an evil hour, and through evil motives; 1 and his reflections, and deductions proves’ h'm an enemy to the peace and welfare ‘ of this country. 1 “ Twelve years ago,” fays this Idol of | Coleman, “ the war that was kindled by < ** the French revolution, was represented > *• to be exclusively worthy of the atten 1 tion of Americans.” I The fir It idea that (trikes the rrir.d.on the pcrufal of this lenteiu e i6. this man is an advocate for war ; and the next is, be is anxious to represent the war which is Bow raging between loanee and En land, and which if Lkrly to terminate to the dishonour, and ruin of that Iflarid of menders (an event devoutly to b: Wilhed) a* being exrlujively worthy of our attention ; aid that it behoves A m ri a to t;k an aCtive part therein on th> fide of England. Were it pofiibte to luppofe he poffcffed the fmalkft par tide of vinuc, or that he, in the If aft de grre, i deemed the peace and happiness of this country, v,c m'ght impute the Utterance of fucii a to motives of benevolence, but hie heart was never formed for benevolent purposes. II the republican party (to which I luppofe he alludes) did ever rrprefent the war kind ltd by the French revolution, as being worthy of the attention of Americans— it was to warn them a : ainft attmg filch bloody feenes upon their own 1 heatre it was to place befort their ty'es the map of anarchy and confufion, on which they might trace the rocki and quiekfisnds that have wrecked so many governments, and hy the fate of those that were ftran ded, learn to navigate their own in the smooth ocean ot peace. “ While the French,” he proceeds, “ were pulling down their government, “ nothing fetmed so fine as their very “ wovft conduCf, to the party who were “ leagued together to pull down our own; “ they ca'.le ourrystothe banks ot “ the Rhine, where the battles of liberty •* as they wore tools enough to fay, were, fi jhtiug, and we mailed “len for j >y | “ because Pichigrue took Arurttrdam 41 and made the Dutch as free as the “ Weft India negroes.” The refulgence of this il'umin ‘ting pa ragraph. renders v-ltSle to the m ill or diuary eyes, the darkness of that mans, foul who wrote it ; and he that can doubt bun to be in the fervicc and ir.te reft of the B-iiifh i ourt, can also doubt the i x tie cc of a G >d. la thole times ( he fpc..ks of, the great and good YVafh- Ington president of the U. States! and he was so truly beloved by Amen- 1 cans that if any man upon earth could ever have hern made king in America,! 1 he was that man, coniequently if there 1 was any par y in America, at that time, 1 leagued together to pu l dew a the govern rrent it mull have b en compofcd ot Bri tilh spies, and the dregs of those torn-i, who were leagued with Howe’s and the other famous Enghlh generals’ bands of armed robbers in the revolution : and to such a paitv, there rental's no doubt but the ve t ■uior/f condu3 of ibe French in pulling down their govrnin ent,yTfw ed very fine ; for fccn-s ot blood and car nage were taniilnr and pL'<fi.-.g to them It was, however, somewhat of a disap pointment to v that nvorthe confederacy, that the eyes of the people were called off from the hanks of the Rhine, to theirj own (bores in due lime to discover and] discomfit their damnable trealo-'s, and! coaftqttontly thofepoor devils,could nev er well digest our to’fted oxen. “ This fort cf node,” he continues ** i; a good deal buftied, for two reasons ;’j “ one is the Jacobins have got their ob- jf£l and cur government is down.” i Huzza— les traitres font vaincu, et i la guetre est fini. Did language ever (peak plainer ? “our government if . down”—! The very firft reason he gives, prove? 1 r him a traitor and that he belongs to a| [ hand of traitors. —and this sort ts none (that is infurredtiens) has ceas’d, bccauf !the people, have come to a right under . (larding among thcmfclves, and have put ’ down toryifm and treason. It is a fas,i ‘that the groateft liar, cannot dispute,! /that no part of the American govern-j ment, but the few panicles of treason and. Jtoryifm which got attached to it in the; /years | icign of terror, has been put down The firft part ot his second reason re ■lates to the “ Ma ks worn by the liber /tv loving demagogues” in France, which , unfortunately for the wearers, Bona parte in hts fenffle in the council of five (hundred tore to pieces which rxpofed so (many different faces, from what they -had appeared to he, that the French na . tion came to a resolution, itw.is better to iferve one tyrant than five hundred. “ French examples,” he continue* “ are not now quoted, now when they , “ are mod inftrudlive.” , I ere he gives himfelf the lie, though that’s nothing new nor (Irange—as men of his call do thatin every linethey write The papers of the ftderalifts (the medi 1 um of (edition and trtafon) are daily fi! . ! ed with quota-ions of French examples, . and the end they aim at is, monarchy : and ariftocrary, with their attendant evils, war, rapine and carnage.—They are per pttually racking their invention to die cover the impoflibility of a republic’s du ration ; and every rapid glance they uk over ancient and modern republics whicit have fallen a prey to the ambition and fe dition of such man as thtmfelves, they hold up as infallible tokens of Amen 1 ca’s downfall. , I mull confcfr, I think, this idol of Coleman the h tided traitor in principle , and the greattft coward in heart, that lias I ever dared to insult the good p ople of htfe United S'ates fi ice the period at 1 which tta government of his party wat . put down, viz. the 4th March, 1801 lin the p'trt nzy of delirium he has drawn his deductions all of which afford a clue to the inxioft reccffes of his i.<ul, where we behold in characters of blood this in (feription—/ am an enemy fe'l as death toihe happiness and prosperity 0) timer tea. , If French examples have not been quo ted, they have been felt by Americans . 111 the fin manner, which it io ■ to be hoped every warning examp t given hy the fall of republics, will- forever con ■ Mnue to be felt by them—viz to rally round the il-indatd of liberty and conti nue firmly united in the fuppoi t of their . freedom. 1 After aliening that French examples 1 are no longer quoted in America, thei 1 writer proceeds to (hew the reason, (he would have (htwn himfelb a much better | logician in alligning the causes of the/ deftrudlion of those republics over which i he call a tap and glance) “because” fay a 1 he ■* they really in fome degree alarm/ “ and deter the dupes whom they lead.”:: 1 think he was somewhat unfortunate I in his choice of reasons —his firll reason i in this pufi .ion, proves him to have been letuged with the party who were endea-:! vourn; (though with impotence) to’ upset our happy government, while the’ jFiench were revolutionizing theirs—and , his second reason prove* equally clear that it is the fame corrupt band who are now alarmed ana dtter'd by the power of 80-ji naparte. jl l’here naturally arises out of this ar !i gument the quetlion—what were those ‘ examples of the t rench revolution ? they/ were* examples of ash {filiation public and ; private power and taction ; corruption,/ ( blood and carnage, neither man nor wo/ (man dared to poilfels any thing, to fay a-1 jny thing, or even to do any thing, if ail \ did not accord with that fadtion which I Jwas mod powerful ; ail was eonfufiom dismay and terror.— R-adcr cad your i jeyes back to the reign of terror and be. i ‘hold ali r.ilar crisis tall approaching ini ye'ur country. —Dont dart—it-was on-l ly the lhadow of John Adams and hi?; advocates, and like them at this time, as’ little regarded. i. The dupes who arealarmed and d-.-1 | terred by French examples, that is, the ‘ ; imperial French examples, form a link of ’ , the great chain of Britifii spies, a:id as . falfi-is.—there is a link of this chstn in:’ . every country inhabited upon the face of ‘ t! e globe, even in the country of the’ . Hottentots—the fl >w of that link in ( France, has jarr’d the whole chain ; the | invulnerability of h:s imperial m.Jcity [has caused all their cut throat- fehemes |to clank aloud in that quarter ; nor can/ /they approach his pretence without a: /warning rattle. The detection of Drake’s right htn \otdble correspondence with aflaiiiDS, to gether with the fcizure of Sir Gen. ] Rumbold, Drake’s counterpart in this a noble employment nay indeed be believ-1 ed to have had a netting operation upon l -.their metal. Therefore the gentleman i ■ (if traitors drfervi the appellation) hr* < Imoft wond rfuHyi-bough unintentionally |t ‘ ! fpoken the truth, ind afterwards proved! /that he did (peak.truth, notwithstanding/ /his w ; fti to do tothe eontra-v—but it/ is always so with fich clever fellows, givti them rope enough and they will foo ‘ Lang themselves. !< , “ytfff.s” he obfeives “ trot the better/ in dangerous roals for wearing their 1 |“ blinders.” / li It would he well indeed for him could 1 ;he be deprived of hs blinders, it is pos-1 : fible in that event h; would cease to be t an ass, and no longer be dunning our t ears with his disco Bant braying. / “ Hence it is ”he continues ” that] >“ our Lords and Masters of Virginia af . “ fe<S to did ke til difeufiions *f the “ political probablities of the war, and , “ to confider ourcuriefity as ufeltf* and badly divefled.’’ Adam and Eve were turned out cf; > the garden of Piradife on account of jtheir finfui curiofi y, and dilobeditnee; * but we find it was in consequence of the’ r rapid glance, which the dt-vil call over, that feat of biffs, and the and dud ions which, he drew from his rejleSions on that! 1 tour—and this ass and his party it fliould’ seem have turned imps of the original! tempter. They have set apart “ the war in Europe” as the tree of knowledge: with the fruit of which they are anxious to tempt thr taste of America, as the .dtvil was in the case of Eve—their en deavours are supported by all the satani cal wiics which they have inherited from their sooty ancestor, but like him it is to be hoped they never will succeed. The guardian genius of America has awfully warned hrr against this tree— “ Touch it not faith her voice, for on the day ye (hall meddle therewith, you (hall furtly ctafe to be a republic, your bo som (hall be torn with the mod bloody convu'fions, your councils (hall be tlis tra&cd, your freedom (hall be extindt, and you become a (lave to a foreign king, or to domestic faftion who (hall rule you with a rod of iron”. “ Our lazy mailers ” continues the idol of Coleman “ are in faft so engrossed “ with the care of governing us for “ their own exciufve benefit, that they “ have not much relish for any other re “ fledlions ” This fellow’s mind runs so much on • the praftice of his government in Eng land, in excluding the people from any 1 Ihiuc in ilic < mtnillraUoß, that the 1 word “ cxcUifive ” has, to him, become as familiar, as his vices ; and not content with his British salary for promulgating in this country his fiditicus dedlrines, he is longing after our loaves and JlJhes with a watery mouth. He is evidently avari - cious in money t matters, however libe ral he tray appear in phlebotomifing. Fie also appears to be somewhat an gry in having to take folus, a rapid glance l over the European world, our majl.rs be -ing too much engaged in better employ |ment than making the tour of Europe Jmercly to Uarn that a'l ancient as well as modern Republics had fallen a facri fice to the spirit of faction and (landing armies. “ And befi ‘es all other corfiderations” he continues ‘* Mr Jefferfon k. his cabinet “ hsve a mortal dread of the power of “ Bonaparte.” This is indeed, afecrel worth knowing for what Mr J-.ff.rfon and his cabinet have done to offend his imperial msjefty, to originate this mortal\dredd, is yet to be learned. That they have not sent a minister to intrigue with the court ot St. James’s ’is very certain, and that they have purfu 'ed the bed and wisest measures for the preservation of peace with the two nati ons, is also equally certain ; and that his imperial majetty has not lc sure, (even fnpp.tfing he has the inclination) to ap prar in any (hipe terrib'e to them, is a (act that no man of common sense will d.fpute. But i is not the bufinels of those writers to give exvlarattons, their cretu! is “ let the end julltfy the means” the] very precise fiiuation in which they wi(h] the affairs of America, they p> fitively assert, they are. YVhy does this writer, 1 this rapid glance men, assert that Mr. IJtffcrfon and bis cabinet are in mor . til dread of the power of Bonaparte, /when he is well aware that the situation of Europe as we i as the affairs of Ame rica, prove his ass. rtions, to be falfe, e ven tuppofing them ns cowardly as him feif ? The answer is plain and easy, because he wulbea such was the case. Does any person aik why ? I answer, because in that case, he slitters himfelf ne great 1 part af hi* scheme would be accomplilh red viz a war with France, and an alliance i with Great Britain ? forbid it Heaven ! j Americans recolleft youifelvcs, remera-’ ■ ber that France is powertul, and an en lightened nation, remember too, that France affiftecl us to obtain ou v freedom;/ and remember alfi , yea remember vvithjc horror, the cruelties exercifcd by thefen ba tie’s cf Rol bets it murderers, the arm / ies of Great Britain during our ftrtigglfji for emancipation from the British yoke/’ Can an hor.etl man p-iimote His by leaguing with a band of Robbers and { assassins J Surely not, then cannot A-j tnerica derive aught but ru’n by leaguing;- with England aga nil France. j’ *• They are quaking with fca-s” he]< !continuei “that he (Bor.aparte) will re-Ji quire “ from them more afii.lance, than 1 “ they dare either to give or refufe h!m.”| This being the calc, their situation mull’ be somewhat unpleasant indeed, but be hold the track this ft How has t k.n 1 tnrough the wildtrnefs o mifieprefen- 1 tation, and mark his winding aid mean .dering rout ! 1 In a precerding paragraph he oHerves that “ cur lazy mailers of Virginia, (meaning Mr Jefferfon and his cabinet) are so engrossed with the care o( goveru l-“ ing us, for their own exclusive bene j“ fit, that they have no relish for any o l“ ther rtfl ftior.s.” and again, “ they] “ have a mortal dread of the power of] I “ Bonaparte” and now he roundly as serts, “ they are quaking with fear, that ■j“ he will require, from them more affi.l ----1 “ ance than they dare either to give or :!“ refufe him ” I’ This grest. and illuminating writer, lithe objedt of Coleman’s adoration, feeins :|to be so very much engross.-d with his re- Sedlions upon the p (fioitity of extin i'guiftung the ffune of freedom in this ‘country by his mod. able political/J>een/a tinns, aid of lighting up, in its (lead, the •torch of war, and its concomittant evils, that he has no letfvre to i t fit dt upon the -bufinels of his principles—a.-d therefore gallops on in the road to ruin, heedless ‘of all rcmonftrance. As it is refit Sion upon the mod proba ble fate of certain fiturtions which agi tates the mind with either sensation or! hope, and as, the writer observes, Mr.. J-ffrrfon and Lis cabi ift for reifons be: fore mentioned “ “have no relish for ary other reflexions” than the within con-j fideration, how can it be that they havej a “mortal dread of the p wer of Bona parte,” or that they “ are quaking “ with fear, that he will require from “ them more afliftance than they dare “ either give or refufe him ?” If a man has no reflexion, or no relish for reflection upon any event that m;-y ----happen, mod undoubtedly he can have no dread of consequences attending it But, as I have said before, it is not the business of such writers to give explana tions. General Hamilton facrificed his life in preference to explaining, and per haps fome of those fellows may one day prefer the halter, to the observance, ot this plain and easy pradtice. Mr. Ji fferfon and his cabinet, are so engrossed, indeed with the care, aot of governing us lor their own exclusive bene fit, but of contributing to the general good ; of rendering us happy in the preservation of our rights and privileg gea; and in diffuling the bltflings of peace, from Maine, to Louifiania’s sr.oft f eflern boundaries ; that they have but little leisure for reflections upon the pow er of Bonaparte, nor his prob hie trquifi tions, 3nd consequently cannot dread the effedts of either; notwithstanding the to ries are perpetually founding in their ears 1 with the trumpet of (edition ; “Wa j with France, and alliance with England.” I But admitting for the fake of argu ; ment, tnat Bonaparte (houid require al” 1 iiftauce of the United S ates, Mr. J-f-i terfon could have oniy a negative voice in the question. It is thegre.it] body of the people, through ti e medi < um of their reprrfentaiives i Cougrtfs, who couldaft pofiiivelyeither in granting’ or retufing affiitance, & if such a requelt’ (hould be made on the part of F anre, pray what has Congress to fi-ar Iron, I Eng'anri(for the wriur states, afterwards - the otjedt of fear to be England) in the; event of complying therewith ? a wai i with that nation—and (hould that deter them ? A war upon our commerce L th j (only fort of war, with which that nation ‘ -will ever menace America, and in a war (fare of that nature the two nations are per petually ergaged, (with only this riiffer-i ence, that in time of peace we make no] retaliation) for whether at war or ar] peace, the Engiifh cruiztrs which are no]i better than Algerine Corsairs, capturr 1 our vtffrls, plunder our cit'zens, and im press our seamen, eq ially in the fain: ‘ degree. No feliow citixsns, if war must/ one day be the only alternative let 11 be! with England, that nest of pirates, Eng iand would lose more by a war wirh A : mcrica, than America would lose by be- war with England, but ourbeit po licy is to avoid a war, if poffibie with a uy nation. Ard supp< sing that Con grefs (hould refufe (which is net impro 1 •babie) the assistance that the impera:'. ‘emperor (hould require, there if no co.j jgent reason to believe the ccnftquencrj would be in the lead alarming or teir.ule.i ‘His i'nnria! nvjefly is too wife a noli i. jclan to declare wur for tr.iLs. He !, •not like the B'itilhk ig, who declares” jwar against nations that, he may hav ]a pretence for R-ibbing them- And 111 ere is no doubt that the reafo-.s which (hould accompany a re r ufal, by Congress, Jto any req-teft tor afli lance on the part oi” ‘France, vv uld f- fficiciitly palliate the •disappointment, and the emperor h;is more [regard for his own interests, than to de ’cltre war against America, because (he might not be enabled to render bun the ail he required. i But what could put into the fool’s head ti'e i-’ea that F.-anc.’ would ev-r require aay affitlance from \srtenna, is an eni r. I'rr.a, that none but himfelf and his party /can explain, and as they do not deal in . explanations, it is probable that the< rest |of mankind will nev rbe informed.— s As for men, the can raise more armies cf ,‘tffecdive soldiers, than America can of ) companies, and while the two nations are - at peace, (he is mod undoubtedly entitled ■ to each Si every privilege in trading with • us, and entering our ports, that is allow /ed to other nations. No man in his senses, I mean, no man attached to the government, can doubt the fintfter views of those bombaftical cowards who are perpetually railing a gainst the present administration, and crying out for “ energetic measures,” they are paid to clamour, and they preach up war, the horrid approach of which, they have (on the {core of courage) every poffibie reason to deprecate; as -hey must be well aware their conduit on the occasion would redound, forever to their fharne and confufion. A war with France, unless provoked hy us, is yet very remote, the road of ambition, in winch Bonaparte has marie, and Hill is making, such rapid strides, lavs not acrois the Atlantic.— His conquests must be compait, and (tempered with prudence. He desires to (conquer no countries, but such as (half, be compatible with his interests to hold jin chains; and A.merica is not included in this lift yet. Fie is well aware that, j America free and independent, is of more (value to France, than (lie would be were she en (lived by France B.firirs these coi fiderations. the Emu prror wifties tor repose, the prime of h ; s youth has been spent in the fatigues and dangers ot war, arid having now arrived at the summit of fame, and leached the -pinnacle of human greatness, he is anxi ous to cultivate the arts cf peace. That such are his views, kr.s proposals to the British cou>t fully authenticate, therefore w h:-ve nothing to drtoA irons the power of B ,nr , pxnte. I (hall now proceed to the next para graph of the luminous produ&ion of Cole man’s dem\ G id. “ They” (Mr. Jefferfon&his “ have yielded the point with regard to “ the trade with St. Domingo with as “much poverty of spirit, as might be “ expeded from the hero of Carters “ Mountain and our seamen will he “ whipped, and buried in dungeons, or “ tucked up at the yard arm, a3 the great “ nation, by its Emperor may think fit “ to decree.” The cat has popped out of the bag at left, this contemptible knave is no doubt concerned in the nefarious and difgrace ful trade to a colony of revolted slaves, (St. Domingo.) and htving bad a vifTel, justly captured by the French, or biy Engiiih cruif ra, he has set down to abuse the administration, because our ma~ Hers will not declare war against France, and grant a convoy of Frigates to his vtff s, while supplying the brigands with powder packed up in barrels of ft jur and cleared out as such. “ The trade is not denied to be lawful, “ yet its interdiction is better, no doubt |“ our patriots will fay, than a war.” The trade is denied to be lawful ; and jbcGdcs if it was not, I contend, and so will tvr:y nr.an who regards the Jinteretls and welfare of this country, cor,tend, that its interdiction is better by far than a war. What, I beg leave to a{k, constitutes the lawfulnefs of the trade ? Is the Island (though in a date of revolt) not fu'jed to Frasce L Has France or En gland, or America acknowledged its in 'dep ••dence ? and as we a-e at peace [with France, and declared to be neutral in all wars in which France is involved, how can we be considered neutral, when we are supplying tlie brigands of St. Do. Wingo with ail the neceffarits theyVe quire in prosecuting their war against France ? and is there any man fool lenou ,h to fay that France is not at war [with the brigands of St. Domingo ? if ‘here is, I would aik that man, when (he made peace with them? Suppose the island of Jamaica was in a date of revolt !and had proclaimed berfelf independent, ‘yet not acknowledged to be loby any nati on whatever, would those advocates fop a .'war with Fiance, be equally as strenuous •jin advocating a war with Englaud, ra .jther than abandon a nefarious and clan