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From a Southern Paper .
IVIT and SOLID TRUTH t
Mrjfrt. Printers ,
WE are all going to the devil a
fait as we can. This our good
friends, the Democrats, wlio have been
more careful of the public interest than
their own, have declared to us for two
of three years pad. Atfirlt, I thought
it was nothing but difeontent at being
-<!>ut of office, but if any man will ferioui
ly attend to our situation, he will find,
•that we are really going to the devil as
fall as pollible, and there is no hopes of
preventing it, unless we let these our
good disinterested patriots have the ru
ling of the roatt. —Now to the proof.
To llicw with what rapid strides we
are advancing to the old gentleman’s, I
will begin with the mechanic, then the
planter, and lalt the merchant. The
f'eripture tells us, that it is cafier for a
camel to go through the eye of a needle,
ihan for a rich man to enter into the
kingdom of heaven. Now I hope wc
arc not such heathens as to dilhelieve
such high authority.—ls, therefore, a
rich man cannot enter into the kingdom
of heaven, \ r e know of no other place
that lie can go to, but the devil’s do
mini',.’ s—To one ol these two places
therefore, lie mult certainly go : Al
lowing this, 1 IhaJl prove, that the (hip
builder is in the high road to the old
fellow's. Formerly when he built a
veiicl, no one would purchase her—She
lay on the (locks, and the poor black
finith and joiner would call in vain for
their money. Alas ! no money was to
be had, unless the veflcl was fold for
less than the colt— those were good
times Mechanics then filled and pray
d ; good times indeed, Melfrs. Frui
ters, for by fading and praying, people
go to a good And it was no
matter, if they failed for want of money
to go to market, or prayed for a pur
chase of their veifel; it was Hill fading
and praying. But hw are times now ?
<juitc altered—Great demands for vef
fcls, plenty of money to pay for them,
and lhip-builders, blacksmiths, arid join
ers, are getting rich, very rich. Alas!
they are all going to the devil as fa ft as
they can for if we have peace but a few
years longer, St. Peter will not open the
gate to one of them.
The planter is not in a better situa
tion than the mechanic. Fonnerly rice
Ibid for ten {hillings, now he gets twen
ty-li v'c (hillings. These were good times
when the spirit was mortified by duns,
and the flcih taken by the IheritF—Then
wa3 fatting and praying—Fading be
cuufe his negroes were taken, and pray
ing (alas, fooliih.man !) for better times.
But how arc times altered, rice 255.
Dun him now—Here, fir, is an order
on my iafllor. Oh ! wonderful altera
tion —good appeate, good wine, increase
ol flefh, white and black.
P Wanted, one hundred negroes, on
terms advantageous to the ieiier En
quire before I leave town.” Plenty of
money, rich, rich, going to the devil as
fait as they can—for (ays the feripture,
it is cafier ior a camel to pa’s through
the eye of a needle, than for a rich man
to enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Now for the merchant—formerly he
imported largely, trulled largely, and
received very little in payment: twen
ty-five per cent of the little lie receiv
ed, was (unk in remittances ; These
were rare times, quick fuccelfion of mer
chants ; three years trade would qualify
him ior a room in the big house on the
green. Oh ! blelfcd times—inftalment
laws, valuation bills—property valued
at one thousand pounds, would not fell
for one'hundred. No hard money to
behad---hard money is too heavy—pa
per medium is bctter---llow are our
debts to’ be paid abroad. Remit pine
barren ; that is the way to carry off
trade, glorious times : there was falling
and praying—lading for want of money
to buy hams and turkeys, and praying
that the devil might take all the plan
ters. No danger, then, of going to the
devil for their riches. All as poor as
church mice, and nolhabby friar, better
qualified for going to a good place.
But now, terrible change—wonderful
alteration—planters pay punctually ;
large fortunes are made : good eating,
good madeira, old wine—Alas ! the
good days of falling and praying are
over, nothing now but fealling and cur
ling : burn Mr. J a v for making a trea
ty which keeps us out of a w ar, damn
the ienators for agreeing to it, we (hall
all. get rich, we {ball all go to the devil;
Oh ! the Frcfident, that he lhould ratify
if, tnat he lhould have no mercy on our
poor fouls. Can thole who knew’ him
last war, when he and his poor loldiers
were fatting and praying : Aye ! and
doing penance w ithout clothes to their
Columbian
backs, orfhocs to their feet ; can these,
I fay, believe that he who new, and
law, and felt the advantages of tailing,
and prayed so fervently for peace, would
ever attempt to keep us out of another
war : Oh ! the weakness of old age :
Oh ! the infirmity of great men • that
he whom we have hitherto looked to
with veneration, fhouid loose his good
judgment, and keep us from a war, that
we might purposely go to the devil.
Alas ! poor human nature ! there is now
no hopes for any one w r ho will work—
The infurgpnts one would fuppole, were
an exception to the general rule ; vef
iels taken by the Britifh—veilels taken
by the French —-trade destroyed : Oh i
the number of loiTes, wonderful to re
late ; no more on the commerce of the
poor Americans! Alas ! Melfrs. Prin
ters, there is no hopes even tor them ;
for with all the great lofles we fee ii the
papers, there is hardly one to be met
w’ttn in the broker’s book : They, too,
are all going to'the devil.—Shipbuil
der, house builder, brick maker, brick
layer, planter, farmer, merchant, whari
iwiier, insurer, broker, ail going to the
devil as fail as they can. New ranges
here, new ranges there ; encroaciung
on the lea, and building on the ncvv
made land. Oh ! tt.e treipaifes on fait
water, they are all going to the devil as
hut as they can lor it is eaficr fir a cam
el to pah. through the eye of a needle,
than tor a rich man to enter the kingdom
of heaven.
Jonathan Brothers.
LONDON, April 3.
RETROSPECT OF POLITICS.
F R .1 NC E.
The fall of the gallant Charette, is
expected to suspend, if not to terminate
the war in La Vendee, but opposition
to the comlituted authorities appears in
otner quarters to grow with the times.
The executive directory fay, “ your fate,
O Frenchmen ! is then entirely in your
hands ; let the law relative to tenito
nai mandates be uithfuliy oMerved, and
trance will come out Irom the revolu
tion, happy and triumphant; if the law
be defpdetl, a profound abyss will be im
mediately dug under all tur feet.” But
neither this invocation, nor the ccnie
quence predicted by not attending to it;
neither the hope of reward, nor the fear
Jof punilhment, has prevented a depre
ciation of the mandate ; and .though the
la w decrees the heaviest penalties to thofie
who shall refute to receive them as Ipe
cie, or who ihali change them at ieis
then the direCled value, they have al
ready tailen in fome places ten per cent.-
and i.i others are pofitiveiy refined ; par
ticularly by the American and ocher fo
reign mercliants v ho have lhut their
itores, t. l they lhall l>e paid in specie.
1 ne public prints in Pafis announce the
cxillence ot jacobins, and the incrcale of
dilafteCtion. Ihe Bulletin Politique
declares, “ the prisons are crowded with
unfortunate men, who have, for tliree
months, in vain demanded trial !” and
.hat concludes by Hating, “ Massacre
• n the South! Murder in La Vendee!
Pillage in Normandy ! Calumny at Pa
ris ! Are we not itiil in a Hate of Revo
lution ?”
HOLLAND,,
To re-eftablilh public credit,.and the
once-famous batik of Amilerda.n, nego
tiates a loan of 7 millions ot florins, at
4 per cent. 1o be fecurcd by the re
venue of the city, but few are found to
approve the proposal. Zealand has at
length sent deputies to the national as
sembly, which have nominated a com
mittee to frame anew conllitution.
DUSSELDORF,
is the feene of principal preparation for
opening the campaign, which both par
ties protract, not, we fear, in the hope
of averting the calamities attendant on
its commencement, but conlcious that
deflruftion to their cause would be the
confequenceofmifcarriage. The French
are Hated, between their armies ot the
Sambre and Meuse, the Rhine, and Mo
iede, to muster halt a million of men.
I he llatement is doubtless exaggerated;
but their force is immenie and that it
mull be nearly,, if not quite equalled by
the Imperialists, is admitted by accounts,
and confirmed by circumftances—Dread
lul rntiil be the rcfiilt, when bodies of
fiicli strength and enmity come in con
flict. 1
SPAIN,
Wc apprehend, teels increased attach
• tnent to her new allies, who have delay
ed, or prevented her allei ted, .promised
diiarmmg. She is Hated to have fifteen
(ail of the line at Cathagena, and the
fame number at Cadiz, nearly leady for
lea, and to have again diipatched several
lhips of war with troops for the Well-
Indies,
SARDINIA,
lias broken o{f the treat-, probably
entered into with France for the pur
pose of gaining time for preparation,
which is general andadive. The Aus
trian troops have been considerably in
creafied in Italy, where the brave vete
ran Bealieu Has been appointed to the
chief command.
NAPLES,
Principally governed by the councils
of Aultria, is about to redouble its ex
ertion in support of the confederacy.
RUSSIA,
Occupied in the acquirement of pow
er, has lately exchanged that part of
Lithuania which is the louth of Grod
no, to the Bog, with
PRUSSIA,
Which has given in exchange the con
siderable maratime town of'Memel, and
the extendve country north of the Ne
mecne.
SWEDEN,
Unceasingly seeks to obtain that force
which the fees eilentiai to her indepen
dence ; her wifdora, whillt it is pollible,
wiil preserve her peace.
DENMARK,
Has received the ambafiador of
France, which Ihe Hates is a proof of-her
neutrality—Pear of the consequence ol
breaking it, we believe, is, her best se
curity for its continuance.
MAYENCE, March u.
Europe fatigued with the calamities
of the war, implores and demands with
a loud voice the return of peace ; the
thoufand# of families ruined by its
icourge, the millions of men who have
been snatched trom the present genera
rxon, and facrificed to the ambition of
foine individuals, the falfe glory of oth
ers, and the unreasonableness of a great
number, have already paid too dear for
that tranquility which Europe reclaims,
and which it has a right to obtain. In
the mean time the powers engaged in
this terrible fiport of war fatiguedas they
ail find theml'eives with four years of
murder and devaHation, aflurnc a more
commanding attitude than ever, and dis
play those means of force which mult
completely exhauH them.
ii we can credit the mofi accurate ac
counts, the French -on this fide the
\\ eipper, and in the neighborhood of
Duileldorf, have muttered five hundred
thousand fighting men. The allies, on
foeir part, on this fide the Sieg, and in
Hunufruck, have supplied their want of
men by multiplied entrenchments, in
fiicceflively attacking which, the im
petuolity of the French hath been con
liderably retarded, and, by a confidera
bie quantity of cavalry troops, which
make a rapid charge in the places attack
ed. Hence we may infer, that if the
approaching campaign opensfoon, it will
be more bloody than all that has preced
ed it, becaule the meafiires which have
been taken will render it more obfiinate,
and more full ol poll manoeuvring.
In the mean time while the hour for
the renewal of hoftiiities is not yet Hruck,
the hiiligerent powers i'eem to be occu
pied in leeking after fome means to pre
vent the eftufion ot blood which will
follow the lint cannon lhot. They aii
perceive that peace muit be the refuk of
the campaign which is about to open,
and that the power in favor of wnicii
the chance of war lhail decide, will (till
have occasion to regret the lols of its
men, and the ruin ot its finances,, which
it is now in its power to {pare.
All the letters from Vienna, from
Berlin, and from Bade, concur in an
nouncing that the different cabinets of
Europe are approaching us with new
propositions which they either are mak
ing themselves or by the meditation of
neutral powers. They no more think
of the fyllem of invasion, or laying the
foundation ot a loiid peace uponconquefi;
they add that it only rells with the
‘ minifler of his Britannic majefiv, to re
cognize this principle. Pitt, “who has
separated the interells of his nation from
those of the reil of Europe, demands,
they fay, as a preliminary to all nego
. ciation, that the national pofleflions of
Europe lhall be rellored to the flatus
quo they were at the commencement of
the war; but he pretends that England,
which has taken nothing in Europe ex
cept Conica, ought to be exempted from
thole rellitutions which the minifler so
obflinately demands ; and he excepts her
upon a principle of injuflice truly ma
chiavchan, in order to fettle in his favor
the balance of that murderous account
which he contrives to lengthen exclu
liyely for the advantage of England.
1 hus those who abhor this minifler,
and who represent him as the eternal
disturber of Europe, or as the father of
the Chouans ot every country, feein to
have fome reasons for lavilhing upon
him such deiignations.
In fine, time, the grand redreiler of
w r ong>, will prove, in the end, wliether
Pitt be jullifiablc in this mode of-.A’
in behalf of England, which, t
may throw upon it the hatred* ol all
commercial nations of the world !’ “ 6
red to which the new CarthapV Ilat ’
one day fall a vidin.. “X
P A K I S.
(From the Cenfeur des Jouruaux.)
The obstinacy manifefted by the *£
glifli in continuing the war, and deftroi-’
mg, unfortunately, all the hopes we hi
entertained of a speedy peace, reveals rl
us the lecret of that monstrous triple,]
liance, the ambitious projects of whid
are the dismemberment of FYarrc , j
partition of Europe. and
After having exhausted all the mean,
di(Hated by honour and humanity took
tain a peace, what ought at present to U
the condurt of the French Government?
It ought to refer to the cannon the lie
cifion ot its dispute ; it ought to eleflrh
ly every heart: it ought to employ in
this campaign all that warmth and ener
gy which are neceflary to render it de.
cifive.
It ought to fav as Montcalm dir]
wlitlft delending Quebec Rather let
us burjr ourselves under the ruins of the
Republic, than deliver ourselves up,ti
ed hand and foot, to the mercy c f those
barbarous I Hander*. ’ * It ou ht to rc
cal to the rccoilcifliou of every Ficnch*
man this trait ofhillory.
M. De Voltaire, in the year 1 -.gg
being enc day at the house of Madame
la Marchale de Luxembourg, the com
verfation turned on the war, the calami
ties of which Hie very much lamented
and wifticd that the French ami Englifil
underflood fufficiently their own interest
and those of humanity, speedily to ter”
minate it by a good treaty cf i’r.cce.
“ Madame,” said the qid man, takini*-
up the sword of the Maredul de Broy
lio, who w-as present, “ this is the re ~
with which that treaty nittfl be fi med.”
This mult be our language—'Waraiail
tne isnglilh. Since they wilt have war.
let these words resound from one end of
the Republic to the 01 Jier.-- Seeing with
wliat aniinofity they oppole im, i couif
willi to inftil intoevery heart the hatred
with which that nation infpiresnic.
I with it were po/libie immediately
to land an army in Engiand, and at the
head of a hundred thousand warrrori
dklate the terms of peace in the Cabi
net ol St. James’s, i could with that
Europe, made acquainted with its true
mtereft, and roused by its own dangers,
more even than by ours, would driveall
the English from the Continent, com
pel them to return to their own country,
and confine their power to their own
island.
But what can weeffeftby ourefifeHs t
How is it pollible that our feeble voice
can awaken an inert mass, benumbed by
fear, or lulled to lleep in the lap of plea
fue i
If the recent example cf Poland, if the
fuccdfive usurpations of Gibraiter, of
the East Indies, ofCeylon, of the Cape
of Good Hope, and of Batavia, have
had no efleH on the Cabinets of Prufi
fia, or Spain,, of Sweden, and of Den
mark,, who have we to hope from our
complaints, and our prophecies ? The
fate of those of Colfandra. No;
withstanding, however, the want of en
couragement experienced by the oppo
sition party, notwithstanding the film*
ol Mr. Fox ; the speech of the eloquent
Mr. Grey, on a late occasion in thn
House of Commons, in which he main
tained thole moral and political princi
ples which, if the Ministers had not bent
101 l to ail ihame,. mult have made them
blulh, was heard with thegreateil plea
sure.
BOSTON, May 10.
From L'^Jsorn —March 1.
Captain Barry, from Leghorn, men
tions, that the naval armaments *■
France and England, llationed in the
Mediterranean, have been inat tive for
this fome time past. Part ol the Eng
lish fleet was at COl flea, and part at
Leghorn, the latter part was very poor*
ly manned. Two British admirals,
diflatisfied with fome conduct of their
government, lud left the service, aid
eftablilhed their refidcnce at Naples*
The Republicans and Italians had float
little againll each other,, for a confulera
ble time, and rumors were current, that
a peace was about taking place, bar
dinia is in infurrettion.
From Aeons —April 8.
Captain Lewis, who arrived on Sat
urday last iliand of Nevis, h
the Well-Indies, informs, that at the
above date arrived the e leveral ot the
Cork fleet, last fjrom Barbadoes ; they
failed from Irelkmd with a large tiee' 1
under convoy ofjlhips of the line, fn
gates, &c. The (Jcet confining of trans
ports with troops. They report ft*
No.