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theffeid of Irattk, of fomc inconvenien
ci*s which G. K.*G. has known as the
offspring of coinage (to the great offence
nff ihe ndles of thfc seconds, and others
ty.<etUndens will be thereby prevented.
Signed at the Sword and Piffol lan,
Black Heath.
Gerald Fitz Gerald.
Mull’d wines, See. before they begin.
From a Loudon paper.
A PHENOMENON.
A DEMOCRAT IT AL UISfIOP.
liberty !— VIRTUE !— EQUALITY 1
'John Nani, hy ike Grace oj GoJ, and
. 'of the Holy Apojiohc See, htjhob of
iiaefehia, to hts dear brethren the Re
verend Curatet of that City and Dio
(cf% Health and Benedidion /
Dearest Brethren,
I learn k with the mod lively sorrow,
that peace, the only object of chriftians,
does not reign among you ; that/fomc
perverse or mistaken men, ignorant of the
evangelical and foetal duties, feducc you
by their counsels, endeavour to provoke a
civil war, and to lead you to certain de
finition. In the midst of the horrors to
which you are abandoned, I remind you
that religion prefenbet obedience andfia
ernity ; that it abhors a! i diftinfhons
and privileges; and that it fotms of
Christians one fmgle family, which ex
cludes even the lhadow of dcfpotifm or
fetvitude.
Such, my dear brethren, is true
foirit of our holy religion. What blind
fury has rendered you rebels to its peace
fid maxims ? Youltftcn only to the voice
of falfehood and difeord ; you place your
selves in oppofitibn to your greatdt hap
plnefi : you arm against your brothers;
vou make vvur upon yomfelvcs and your
fellow-men. Hence the deflation ot fa
milies, the blood and the tears of them
nocent. Dcftruclion and death reign e
ven in the Church of Jesus Christ, in the
bosom of w Viich there, ought only to dwell
Charitv, Fraternity and Peace.
Consider, then, dearest. brethren, to
what terrible confluence etror, the dau
c-r of ignorance and deceit, exposes you.
You are miffed; those bile prophets de
ceive you, who, abuffng your innocent
credulity, preach rd vou that our new
govcrntTientj cftablitocd sot thu goo o
the people, is etefted on the ruins of onr
holy.. Religion. No other government re
fpefh so much its maxims, or adopts so
completely its principles; and no Religi
on can more readily conform ufelt than
:he chriftian to a democratic or popular
government, which has for its fundamen
tal principle the io.e ot «ur species.
Dear brethren, undeceive yourselves.
Liberty is nothing more than obedience
tp the law of jullice and realon ; Ed ua l ~
ry excludes every kind of dcfpotifm or
ierviiude —In a word, Democracy is the
only government for men who would nei
ther be opprefl’ors nor opprefled, xlas
fefus Christ ever opposed those sacred pt m
ciples which arc the balls of the new go
vernment? Without charity, without
justice, we cannot be real chriftians.
If you have hitherto borne arms, flam
ed with the innocent blood of your bro
thers, to defend a religion which wanted
not your support, know that you have
lifted them up against that fame religion
which you fancied that you were deicn*
iiig. Acknowledge your error, and a
vert the evils that menace you. —Return
to that order which the Evangclift and
your own intcrcft prefer!he to you.
When you lhall be free and equal you
will be truly happy you will blcfs
your deliverer-—you will be better citi
zens and more perfeft chriftians.
And you, miniiters of the fanfluary,
who divide with me the care of the Chii
ftian Vineyard, unite your endeavors to
remove from the mind of your flock that
faife zeal which carries desolation every
where. Preach peace, and give a just
idea ot the democratic government,
which has for its basts the religion of
Jesus and the interetts of focicty. I ac
company you in your apostolic Ministry
with my holy pastoral bend Ft inn.
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HAMBURG, July a.
The Hanoverian army have ahfadv
delivered over to the French 460 pieces
ot artillery, 39,000 mulkets, and 5000
iioiltcr pistols.
HAGUE, June 28.
Notwithllanding the promtfes made
bv the Engliffi government to ours, of
not interrupting the fiffiery in the North
be.is, fomc Englilh pirates this morning
v ipturcd off our ccafts upwards cf 60 filh.
-■’S beats, and' thus, be Tides the iofs of
1 ic boats, have deptived cs cf two hun-
H& c - fxccllm: Teamen, 1
Notwuhflar.ding the fetfirr?- .
mended in our ports,, there hive been dis
covered at Rotterdam several difaffeCie'd
persons who were recruiting for the fca
and land forces of the king of England,
They have, howevercfFefded their eicape.
CUXHAVEN, June 16.
Our town has been taken podeflion of
by the French troops, A few days be
fore the arrival of the French, the En
gl ilh prefled a great proportion of the Tai
lors. They carried on the press with
the greatest vigour and authority. A
mong tlie refl, a great number of Ameri
can Tailors were prefled. In this neigh- ,
borhood, as at Hamburg, Brcmert {fffcf '
Hanover, there prevails the greatest in
dignation against the conduct of England.
'There is no man of reflection who is not
convinced that the repose of the continent
depends on the repreflion of the insolence
of that turbulent government. It is fur
ther to be noticed, that the influence of
‘the English in the North is weakened.
AU the bills of exchange which have been
p rest tiled from England have been protest
ed. .
LONDON, July 12.
A court of aldermen was held yeftcr
day, at which it was resolved to arm in
every ward, ajl men between the age of
18 and and to embody all men above
the age of 45, in a corps to serve as con
stables.
The negociatiou which has for fomc j
weeks been carrying on through the me
diation of Raffia, for rtfloring peace be-,
tween this country and France, has been j
brought to a clgfe---It has produced no- >1
thing: indeed hardly any one expeded
it would. The secretary of the Ruffian ;
erabafly, at Paris, is now in London.
He brought the dispatches which announc
ed the failure of the ncgociation. It re
mains to be seen what part the court of
St. Peterlburgh will take in cotifequence.
Our readers will find in a preceding
column the French account of the capture
of the Minerva. She grounded in endea
voring to take some small veflels, laden
with ttores. A cannonade of seven hours
and a half was kept up against her from
the forts and gun-boats before (he struck.
She had 1 z men killed and 15 men se
verely wounded—-We are forrj to add,
that the crew bad been landed, the fri
gate was got off the rock, and carried
by the French into Cherbourg.
Two Spanifli fliips from New. Orleans
and Louisiana, bound to France and a
Weft Indiaman, have been sent into Ply
mouth. We are sorry however to an
nounce the capture of three of our home
ward bound Jamaica (hips.
The cardinal and archbilhops of France
have iflued their mandates for prayers to
be offered up in support of the French
arms. The atchbifliop of Rouen, in his
raandatum, proceeds in the following
drain:—Let us befcech the Almighty,
that the man of his right hand, that man
who by his direction and by his orders,
has done so much for the restoration of
his worfliip, and who purposes to per
form still more, may continue like Cyrus,
to be the Chrilt of Providence. Let us
beseech him to watch over his life, to
cover him with his wings. Sec.
OnTuefday last the city of London
voted 800 men I Only 800 ;w» at this
time of day / The city of London, when
the armada threatened this country, was
defined to furnilh £,OOO men, and 15
fliips• They granted 10,000 men and
30 ships. Every where the (pint of the
country anticipated and out (tripped the
demands ot government. But in the pre
feat degenerate times, the city of Lon
don offers 800 men I Even this mifierable
effort of patrioiifm is almost solitary.
What town, what country, what corjio.
ration has contributed a barren resolution
to the public service at this important
crisis ? What nobleman or gentleman has
given a generous example of his zeal, we
might almost fayj; of his ftrid duty ; (fora
baron was lit firft a fuldier) in railing men
or (hips for the defence of the nation ? But
no. Thcfe are not virtues of this age.
We stand quietly to be (horn by the tax
gatherer, and there our patriotism ends.
Alexandria, in Egypt, has, for a time
at lead, been wrested from the Porte by
the part of the garrison, who routined
from want of pay, and after committing
great cxcefles made themselves mailers of
tlie place.
In the event of invasion, the king, it
is Hated, will take the field sh person,
and will be affifled in the conduft of the
war by a military council. His raajeily
certainly will, in the course of the au
tumn, review the various camps near Lon
don.
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By accounts received hr government,
it appears, tha several British merchant
• men have been captured by ibe French
axul earned fiVfo Sjtenali perks.
j: The French mercharfs, now complft/-
1 y deprived of the hope .of employing
.whatever capital they pplTc-fs ? are engag
ed in fitting oht privateers. lr is Hated
that no left. than ‘thirty have already
ro Tea from Bordeaux, to crahe agaiall
oar trade.
BOSTON, Augnfi 24. _
The court of Denmark has declared,
that it will prefer ve the if ricked neutrali
ty. An army of 20,000 mcn has been
ordered to march to Hohttm, and Sehlef
wicJcj to rover the Danish frontiers.
WASHINGTON CITY, Aug. 3*-
The iloop Hibtnd (a conilant trader
from Philadelphia ro Alexandria) arrived
at Alexandria on tha 28th inst. from Phi
ladelphia. On his paflage captain Hand
had one of his men imprefled by a Britiih
64 gun ship. The imprefled man’s name
is David Grtchcll, he was born near Phi
ladclphia, and has a family, confiding of
a wife and children in that city, who,
by this circumstance, are deprived •T his
indtiftry, their only means of flippoft.
'l'he captain of the 64 was very minute
in his enquiries of captain Hand, refpeft
isg Jerome Buonaparte
ELECTION RETURNS.
The following gentlemen aie elefted to
serve in the next congress for Kentucky:
David Walker, John Boyle, Mathew
Walton, I’hnmas Sandford, John Fow
i ler, and G. M. Bcdinger—All Republi
cans.
By an official statement of the board
1 of heal.h of New-York, it appears that
the number us thoie who have fallen
victims to the Yellow Fever in that city
from the 29th July to the 2.4 th, August,
amounts to 102.
PHILADELPHIA, Augujl 25.
The Britifli capture of an American
Clip from Rotterdam to Philadelphia with
Swr/s pajfengers , is the molt extraordi
nary and injurious aft, which the Britifli.
navy or privateers have ever committed
I’he authority is the letter of the Britifli
midshipman, and many of the Britifn and
federal newspapers. Shinmdiu, Britan
nia, abuteris patientia nojira. At Cux
haven, a German port, the British crui
sers impress American seamen. In the
case of our vdiel, with Swiss pafiengers,
it is added fignificantly by the English
officer, that (he had gunpowder and flints
on board.
It is may be lawful to detain velTels
bound into blockaded ports, which have
on board gunpowder and flints, becaufc
they may help the enemy ; but vefldscar
tying those military articles frosn block
aded ports, cannot be detained, without
a gro/i <violation of common sense, and of
the law of nations; for the carrying a.
way military Jiores from the blockaded
enemy, weakens, and does not help, that
enemy. Great Britain (hews too little
sense of our neutrality or amity, hut in
parliamentary speeches. If England may
take neutral men from neutral (hips, and
neutral sailors from neutral territories, as
at Cuxbauen, (he may do any thing.—
The British government must reform the
conduft of its confers, or ill consequences
will ensue, Prussia seized on Hanover in
1800 wjth an avowal, that (he would
hold it, until the neutral commerce (hould
be refpefted by the Britifli cruisers. The
northern Britiih provinces could cafily be
treated by the United States in like man
ner ; and if our French treaty of.. 1778
was repealable by an aft of corgrefs in
1798,. our British treaty of i794is also
repealable. The Britifli nation will ne
ver support a ministry, which fliculd al
low quarrels between them and us to arise
from such gross and irregular conduft on
their part towards America. We im.
port from them yearly goods to the amount
of thirty millions of dollars. "We are
the heft customer they have on earth. If
the Baltic (hould he (hut they will be in
absolute neceflity of our (applies.
The treatment of the neutral commerce
at the mouth of the Elbe is a high hand
ed aft of Britifli naval power. Ham
burg and Altona are both neutral. Nei
ther is pofleffed by French troops. One
is an imperial city of Germany, and one
is a Danifti city, both are neutral. ‘Yet
lord Hawkdbury announces that the Bri,
tifti (hips of war will blockade the Elbe,
and of course cut oft' neutral commerce
with neutral cities, not invaded by any
enemy. If in consequence, our country
produce falls in price, our (hips want em
ployment, and our supplies of German
goods fall orate greatly enhanced in price
Great-Britain will be to blame for an aft
the law of nations does not warrant, and
whi£h is opposed to the spirit of all her
treaties. Bccaufe France makes war a
gainst the Britifli trade from the conquer,
txi Hanoverian or Bremen more of the
Elbej oar trade is t the diftroyed. Rice, r
joton, tai)4sW, \a#p, WaftHalu I
cue c\; dnH pdr fo.t’pffof burden trail Tr&y
dqfi'ly r.„ This excels of Eqgliflj conduct
will cleftrjze the*public mind in these
states from the river. St. Croix to the
Gulpii of Mexico. ‘ We cannot be tx
pefted to bear thcjfe impreiTments, cap- ,
tures, unlawful blockades, detentions of
emigrants, arid other irregularities, re
finements aud wrongs, became the, Eng
■liili navy is the flrongeft in the wami.
It is prudent, it is hoheft, it is amicable
to notice every fir ft appearance of such
conduft as will tend to alienate tis from
and embroil ns with England, France and
their refpedive connexions.
The specimen of diplomaticJlyle played
off by Lilian at tlieilaguc, in offering ihs
Dutch the boon of neutrality , has been ,
adduced as a wonderful evidence of mag
nanimity ; It was father unfortunate that
they had long before carried above thir
ty fail of Dutch (hips into the ports of
the north coast and the channel. Had the
English minifiry been really fin cere, they
would have proffered to restore her co
lonies plundered and possessed in a war
into which England forced that nation.
Mr. Dundas, who often speaks truth.un
der the influence of the latitude of his po
litical ftntiments, acknowledged in fpeak
ingof the enterprise against Copenhagen,
that it was the fy.fl.em of, England, from
the days of Elizabeth, to aspire to the '>
complete dominion of the ocean, that
this policy iiad produced .till the wars and
negotiations that had taken place between.
England and Holland, aud many of those
with France; and that sovereignty of
the ocean mult be maintained at ail haz
ards. In the debate in the liritifh
i »■
of commons, the 24th May, 1805, Mr. .
Whitbread alked, ‘t for n.vhaipurpofe they
were going to war la answer, Mr.
Dundas said, “we aregoing to war for
■ Malta —not for Malta only, but for £-
gypt —not only for Egypt, but for India
—not only for India, but for the inte
grity of the Britiflt empire, but for the
cause of justice, good faith, and freedom
over all the world.!!" Aurora •
CHARLESTON, Sept. 6.
Capt. Valk, who arrived here yefler
day from Nassau, informs us, that before
he left the port, two Spaniih {hips were
brought in by a BriliOi armed drip ; and
that he was informed by one of the officers
that war was declared against Spain, but
capr. V. had not Teen the declaration.
AUGUSTA, Sept. 17.
Notwithstanding the exertions that are
making, and the calumnies that are dai.
ly circulated by the enemies to Mr. jef
ferfon and theprefent adminiftraticn, the
republicans of Georgia must learn with
great fatisfadfion, that their brother re
publicans in the different states, are ad
vancing by their eledliens, with rapid
and determined strides to defeat their po
litical opponents—Virginia, Ohio, Ken
tucky and North. Carolina, have already
convinced the Anti-Democrats, that they,
labour in vain, and that their calumnies
and abuse of public characters, are the
ftrpngcft recommendations to the people’s
favors. The economical plans and fuc
cefsful negoefatiers of the President have
defeated all the intrigues, and confound
ed all die hopes of those, who hate re- •
publicanifm, and despise the people. Im
pressed, no doubt, with these ideas, it is
expedlcd that the Electors of Georgia
will afford their country, frcfli proofs of
their civifm and attachment to the prin
ciples of the revolution, by their choice
of firm and decided Republicans to repre
sent them in the state and national Icgif
latures.
In oar last, we were under the necessity
of making a few ft figures on the bigof
ted and illiberal letter of Wm. Baker,
In point of religious rancour and political
intolerance, we did not expedi to find a
match for that perfecutorj but we have
been egregiously miftaken—Telamon out
strips him far ; the firft was a gentleman,
comparatively fpeaking—Telamon is not
only an impotent fool, a libeller of the
government, hut a barefaced and wilful
liar, with rcfpedf to what he affects of
the Editor of the Chronicle. Telamon
is one of those infamous conspirators a
gainst the majesty of the people, who is
in the habits of considering them a swin
ish multitude, and he evidently belongs
to that corps of affaftins and libellers,
who are organized in America, to war
against Democracy and the Government.
Those arc the wretches, and-not the De
mocratic Editors, who, by their scanda
lous and traitorous oppoation to the Pre
sident and admlniftration ‘ of the United
States, bring disgrace on the country
We only r<yx‘l the attacks of those 'ruffi
ans., without indulging the msnnncfj
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