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114 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.