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Ijovern ouirsd^ea accoriimjj to the spirit tnaxim—“enemies in war, -in peace friends.” There Scarcely a federal print in t}»e United. States which did not ioudly deprecate all harshness of expression towards "them; and'we were, from'time to. time, wanted, above tn stir up the coals of disseirtion.” Kay, so far spirit of conciliation prevailed, that, imen the maj derous tragedy,of ttetmoor prison came to be ed on this sid? the( Atlxntk^ wetonotwi HEtnd then of sense, top, who Openly tkAndrd, and some times even Justified this atrocious ^massacre of oar un protected fellow citizens: and, in fifct, the rtmnblicah prints, although their indignation could not be justly withheld, did not, perhaps, extend their animadversions upon this Bloody scene to the length which its unexam pled malignity demanded. Bat it now fully appears, that however the just indignation of our public journalists Was for this, as well as for many other previous wrongs, restrained within narrow limits, on ac count of the general disposition to cultivate a friendlv ' understanding with the British people, th6 vety writete who are paid from the public treasury of that king- <dom, not six months after the signing of the treaty, in the very face of the outrageous butchery at Dsi^moor, and whilst they, and their satellites here, were reiterating 'their protestations of friendship for us, these very wri ters wfere industriously employed in heaping the most ■Scandalous imputations jmou onr government, and upon one of. its most distinguished and reputable members.— The publication to which I allude, is the 4th article of the 26th number! Of the Quarterly Review; and to prove that this work is under the control of the British'minis- try, andi is kept dp for the express purpose of circulat ing their ideas andopinions, I shall here insert the cha racter given of it in the 30th vol. of Cobbett’s Register, No. 4, pages 100,101. “The Quartshlt Rkvhw, which, I see, is a work in much vogue with the selectors in America, shall stand first upon the list, though it ' is of comparatively' recent esta blishment. To obtain reverence, and to secure it from the gross of mankind, witfibut having any just claim to it, oneway is to keep out of their right, an art, by the by, practised by the Guelphs with uncommon success; it beihg, as all foreigners observe, far more difficult to ob tain a sight of any of them than of all the sovereigns of Hurope; and bets have been off ered, that a man, starting from London, would see the emperor Alexander at Pe tersburg, sooner than one left in London would .be able, ■without a heavy bribe, to see the prince regent." “The grand Lamms owes all his fame, and all the dc- '■-,n paid to him, to the angle circumstance of his being seen; and priests (I mean cheating priests'( of all ages have pyed no small part of their success to the keeping of them relics, and other saered wares, hidden frorii the eyes of the vulgar. Thus the authors of Re views, by keep their real names a secret from the pub lic; by making use of the word WE, and by talking in a style indicative of greatself-confidepice and great inde dependence, would leave more to suspect them of being any thing short of gentlemen of character and fortune, Shaving from their natural high place in society, a right to take upon them the species of censorship exercised sn their works. Hence their opinions, ncit only of books, but of men and measures, are looked up to with rever ence, or, at least, with some degree of respect, it being almost impossible to beliwe, that such men would wil fully torture 'a meaning, or mistate a fact. But, if the • public could see them as they really are, a set of mean spirited, dependent creatures eating their daily bread out of the hands of a clerk of the treasury, almost as com pletely, and with a vast deal more servility, than a spa niel eats a bit put of the hand of his master; if they could see in these Judges of literary works a nest of needy men, writing for so much a page, and sometimes, paid in advance by the editor, who sets under the trea sury, as an overlooker of laborers under the employer; if the public could see them in this light, their pom pous WE would not stand them in much stead. Let -those, therefore, Who have been accustomed to look with such profound respect to the “Gentlemen” of the Quarterly Review attend a little to the following state' ment. This Review was set up by the government in opposition to the. Edinburgh Review, which is devoted to the “Opposition” and, for the reasons that I shall have to state by and by. I have seen it asserted, in an American. Pamphlet, entitled “The United and England, He” published not long ago, that Southey, the Poet Lau rent, is the editor, or overseer of this work. This is a mistake, Mr. Southey being only one of the principal laborers, or journeymen, writing the review of his own works without payment, and reviews of other works at four pounds a sheet, or five shillings a page, that be ing the price except for reviews of Mathematical works, for which double the prices is given. It is fFm. Gifford, who is tiie editor, or overseer of this Review.— And, *now we will see who this independent gentleman is. He is the son of a shoemaker at Ashburton in De vonshire; was brought V and put to school by * cler gy man, named Cooksoii; became travelling tutor to lord BetrtaVe, now lord Grosvenor; was a dependant in the ■did lord Grosvtnor’s fataily in 1796, when the noble 'Earl having a vote or two in the house of commons, and his son no longer wanting a tutor, a provision out of 'the public purse was demanded by the noble peer for his sen’s tutor, though that noble peer had a private for tune of more than a hundred thousand portends a year. At the time here spoken of the Anti Jacobin newspa per was about to be established by the treasury. Can ning, Store, G. Ellis, lord Grenville, and sometimes Pitt himself wrote in this paper. Mr. Gifford was the editor of this paper, a large share of the profits of which he received, while all the expences of the establishment "were actually paid by the treasury; so that this was neither more nor less than being hired by the govern ment; and thus this independent gentleman began his public career as a mere hack, and, to do him justice, the sequel hasproved him to have been no changeling, at any rate. The Anti-Jacobin newspaper was dropped at the end of a little more than a year; but as it was necessary for Wiixiaj* Giffokd, esq. to continue to eat, and as. earl Grosvenor did not appear to be- disposed that he should eat again at his expense, the Squire was made Surveyor of Green Wax, a sinecure place of 260 pounds a year, just,then luckily become vacant by the death of the Honorable Horace Walpole. The old duke of Rutland had some such scandalous place, and, upon tone of his friends taking him why be did not give up such a paltry thing, he replied, ‘mo, it helps to feed my ■hounds!" This saying of nis Grace, which I have from major Cartwright, 'who knew his Grace well, very aptly design ates the use which the treasury has made of a si milar place in the instance of William Gifford, a leader in their pack of literary hounds, a sort of animal much more malignant than the hounds of the duke of Rutland. But, 260 pounds a year was a sum too scanty to satisfy a squire of such high birth, who, therefore, continued to kick his heels in the anti-chamber of George Rose, till lottery, with i year. Thu* having been the latter made him a commissioner of tee a salary during pleasure, of 300 pounds a was he enlisted a literary hack for life; and ■called upon to edit, or overlook the workmen _ of the Quarterly Review, any article that should be found to contain one single sentence favorable to political, civil, or religious liberty, or any appearance of a want of d In the cause of this government, would, in one ••ite, take from him his 300 pounds a year, and drive . from the first floor, where he now lives, to .the shab- .. second floor which he formerly inhabited. Now, ust it not be mortifying to the. last degree to see the .•.leric&n Reviews and Magazines conveying to the ieopie of that country, the contents of a work thus es- ■hliahed and sustained, as if they , proceeded from the pens of independent and honorable men, actuated by a. l ive of truth. To be. the agents of these hirelings and impostors is degrading enough in itself; but, to be the cause of enabling these corrupt men to insinuate ‘their principles, softly and by slow degrees, into the hearts and minds of the numerous and fast j popula tion of America; to republish, m short, the publication df these hirelings of the English government, without, at least, at the .same time, making known the real cha- increasing t'ototory,4sap earth from Nest to east, and ei. - is no Such wordin the ywfiA racter of the authors, and the views of their employers, pendent of the fact teat there js have been inserted except witd the consent of the ministry; and, ttath*4|t been other**, Mr. Gifford’s pension would thereby, at onto* hftre become liable to forfeiture—t w which 1 pzteame he would on no occasion date to rail. Ne must, therefore, take it for k that this libellous article upon commodore was inserted in the Review at the request of tee and that they alone are responsible ft At the head-ofthat mimstry stands ted and flbw, is there any one in this country to silly, and so bereft of common sense, as to put. in the words tif teat man, when speaking of Amenca- hri late parliamentary harangue? Me » said to have declared in psyKaifont, that "no one could be more sincerely ■«pnn» than himself to conciliate America; by every means in their "power,” that “he wished to Heaven rh»t England and America would lay aside their antipa thies,” and po two countries more need each other’ll friendship, or, in reality, more deservek" 1 !.’ Con summate hypocrite! While these public asseverations are falling From his Ups, and spreading drver tee world, his minions are employed, under tee very eyes of the government, in ridiculing president Madison, and in the hero of the Essex as a liar, a pirate, and a murderer! And, this, even with tee knowledge of tee fact, that commodore Porter formed a member of (hat Very government which lord Castlereagh was so sincere ly anxious to conciliate; for,page 373, of the'Review in question, the writer states,'*?®^, hd “has just read (without surprise) in one of ffiofftgthe American) pub lic papers, teat Mr. Madison has appointed him (David Porter, esq. such as our readers have aefen him) one of the commissioners of the American navy.” ■,. Of the bitterness and gross falsehoods which character ise the article, before alluded to, it is not my intention to speak at present. Every rtader of that article must have been struck with the additional proof it affords,' that no events of the late war were so galling to the royal lovers of John Bull, as the many triumphs of our navy over their boasted “mistress of the ocean.” This was, in fact, the sole cause shy the ministerial reviewers of England singled out commodore Porter’s journal, as a foundation for the expression of (heir unbridled rage and remorse. The antipathies which they harbor against tee officers of our navy, who have so often humbled their vaunting bravos, lead them to embrace every op to load these officers with scurrility and abuse; right or wrong, to spare no pains of their owuto satiate that burning hatred, which the battles of Erie ami Cham plain, the capture of the Guerriere, Macedonian, Java, Frolk^ -&c. &c. &c. long since created in their hearts. With respect to commodore Porter, their malice against him appears to have originated in tee fact, that instead of surrendering the Essex to the Phoebe and Cherub in 10 or 15 minutes after the action commenced, as the captains of these vessels strongly calculated upon, he should have had tee unexampled hardihood to fight them for two hours and a half. Captain Tucker, of the C-herub, is known to have asserted since, that he certainly expected to have seen “Free Trade and Sailor’s Rights," hauled down an hourortwo before it actually was hauled down. But, surely, if com modore Porter saw it fitting to fight his ship for a longer period than the British gentlemen had calculated upon, this could furnish no legitimate excuse for lord Castie- reagh’s Reviewers wvifljfy and blacken his character, in such an extraordinary manner as they have done. He should have reflected, in his anxious blood to conciliate America, teat long and obstinate fighting is a fault, per- ffie ' " *’ ... to explain the commodore’s “base of Fernando Be Noronka,” so —“ in the index before quoted. ‘ was no other than the tending Tor th* isle. and afterwards opening a Tetter left lore Bainbridge for com mo- in the journal. The letter was jfPjo of tee of it as was written with common ink con- a few unmeaning remarks, but at tee foot oftee meet was written in sympathetic ink, commodore Bain- bridge’s real views. » Ttierevieweiy however, true to his calling, charges comsnodore Porter with a crime for breaking open this letter, affedging teat it was in reality * letter for sir James Yea. Now, waving a score of argu ments that might here be urged, I will only hay, that ! have sous and read the letter in question—have compared it carrfuSy with the hand writing of ctnnmodore Bainbridge, and find it to be the same was present at the time when it was handed to commodore Bainbridge, and heard him ac knowledge it to be his own—and that it still remains in ' possession of commodore Porter, to satisfy those who have any doubts upon the tubfict. D. ■yard, IVTjjj ork paper) aiK on a -highly improved rftwUr nw*l construction. F all of a Ship intended for a packet 4 to sail with the regularity of a stage frame of a Steam-Boat for plying to ? A “* w ind lar £ e Steam-Boat for Amboy, tab mg in her engine. WK ' _ ^ am * ver y large and powerful Steam Boat, (of one hundred and forty-six feet kee e Ver b h iIt 1 presume) for AJb e calculated to perform the route by the light of’ -ngleda^ And, last and not least curious, The model of a man of war (some twentr JP Shipwright’s Society, to exhibit through 7 to streets on the fourth of July next. ® The towtt to b€ laid out at the RaDids of a ■ ■Miami of Lake Erie, is to be named PERRY*i• » in honor of the ben, of the wlj®* The following is an passenger on board tl extract of a letter from the Ahip Tiger, arrived at Liverpool from ^arbadoes; On the 14th of March, at 10, a. m. a smart breeze from the 9. w. with studdingsaila set, going seven and. a half knots an hour, steering e. by s. in lat. 39, 40, w« parsed pver a very agitated rumbling 9ea; unaer our starboard bow, in appearance about the circle of a mile, was a small -field of dark brown rockweedy apparently a confirmed fixture; entangled with the weed were two pgej&f ?f sparj seemingly very, much decayed.— cam 'punitive this is a danger which ought to be carefully Avoided by all ships coming to Eu rope From the West-Indies and America, ai it lies directly In" the track.”-—Late London pa per. \ AnnaeOiIis, June 8. Yesterday, at nine in the morning, his excel :br, like Shortland, who took such royal revenge at fogey William Pinkney, minister extraordinary Dartmoor upon our brave tars, they are detentmed, ■ - *■ - ■ * ■ and plempotcnjtiary to "the courts of Maples and St. Petersburg!!, and family, embarked for Ma ples, oh board of the United State's’ ship Wash ington, of 7*4 guns, captain Creighton. Salutes were fired from the Washington and the guns in the harbor. At eleven she weighed anchor and proceeded #ith & full press of sail and a fine western galedown the bay. Mr. Icing goes out as secretary df legation, and commodore Chaun- cey as commander of the Mediterranean squad ron. Our minister debarks at Naples, and, af ter settling ohr affairs at that court, proceeds by land to St. Pfetersburgh. The best prayers of the nation accompany her worthy representa tive. hops, peculiar to the people of this country, and dial this fault ought not to have been employed by his scribes, as a handle to ridicule our chief magistrate, or to abuse a distinguished officer of the government. Of the na ture of that libellous matter to which I have so often referred, some idea may be formed from the index of tee Review, which, in reference to the article on the commodore’s Journal, is, in part, as follows: — " * cruise in the Pacific “PojrTEK, (captain) journal qf a i Ocean, remarks on the vulgurity of his style—his base tut*—-iu&moi conduct at tee isle of Fernando de Noronaa—infamous address of, to his crew—multifarious functions of his chaplain—his falsehoods detected—his arrival at the Marquesas island—abandoned conduct of Porter and his crew—his barbarous treatment of tee Happahs—de testable cruelties of captain Porter and crew—his false hoods exposed,” &c. With regard to the “vulgarity” of captain Porter’s style, (which, in another part of the article, is stated to be that of a boatswain’s mate) I am quite sure that the pensioned writer, who has acquitted himself so 'pecul iarly in the above index, never told a more downright falsehood. There is not a single voyage recorded in the annals of Great Britain, from Hakluyt down to Macart ney, so correctly and so properly diawn up as that of cap tain Porter’s. His style is simple and plain—often ele gant and forcible—and, a few gram&ticul errors of the press excepted, will vie in excellence with that of any British navigator Mr. Gifford can produce. Where will tie find: one,for example, who can boast of a paragraph like the following, quoted by himself, or Ins from the commodore’s journal. It ailudes te foieyoUng ladies of Chili, at a dance, “With their grace, their beau ty of person and complexion, and with thfcir modesty, we were delighted, and could almost fancy we nad got ten amongst our own countrywomen; but in one mo ment the illusion vanished. The bullas de tierra, as they are called, commenced; they consisted of the most grace less, and, at the same time, fatiguing, movements of the body and limbs, accompanied by the most indelicate and lascivious motions, gradually increasing in energy and violence, until the fair one, apparently overcome with passion, and considerably exhausted with fatigue, was compelled to retire to her Seat; her rosy cheeks and fatf complexion disappeared in the large drops of sweat which ran trickling down her neck and breast, and were succeeded by the sallow tinge which nature had bountiful ly bestowed.” But to compare tee style of the commodore’s journal, correct as it is, with-that of any English voyager in his present garb, would be extremely unfair and illiberal, in asmuch as there is hardly one British navigator whose journal was not previously committed to the revision and correction of a professed writer before it-* went to ptesb. In one'of the numbers of the Edinburgh Re view the reader will find, amongst others^ that the voy ages of Cooke, Anson and Vancouver, were all re-writ ten by professed scholars in England, and that the. style of these boasted British navigators was too absurd to ap pear in public. But notwithstanding all this, written as commodore Porter’s was, under the numerous disad vantages described in his preface, it will yet be found, upon comparison, to surpass, in good style, those of Cooke, Anson, and Vancouver, even in their new dress, as much as an American seaman surpasse s the bravest tar of Britain in skill, courage and activity. It is not a lit tle amusing, however, to mark tee obvious inconsisten cies of which thesd mercenary reviewers are guilty.— When they lately reviewed the voyage, pf thfcir country man Turnbull, they complained loudfyof the smoothness and strict propriety of his style; and were highly displeas ed, because, they said, ithad too much thesir of a profess- «1 writer, and did notappearto come warm from the heart censured him severely -fey comparing something to the tail of a paper kite fosteati of the vane at the head of tee ship’s mast, because this, they said, was more natural to tee mind of a sailor than the other: and upon the whole; were very sorry that he had not been more free in the use of sea faring terms and written his voy- —; inn gjore plain and simple strain. Apd, now, behbldJ? en they have gotten such a journal af they had here ihedfor, they turn about upon the opposite ts»k#Ttod complain that it is too much ilithe stvle of a boatftwain’s mate!!! Their inconsistency, however, is equalled by ignorance, as (If room were afforded) canid easily be proved. One instance must suffice for the present. In attempting to throw ruiiculeupon the theory of the trade winds, which contmodore Porter has inserted near the beginnmg of his jottmal, the reviewer laughs at him for ’ to tee motion of tee intimates that th^re Now, inde- a word in the Eng- si INUNDATION AT NEW-ORLEANS. From the Correspondent of the Commercial Ad vertiser. New-Orxrans, May 14. Messrs. Lewis & -Hall—I wrote to you by the ship JacksoLj I will therefore only add what has occurred since. The water, I believe, has ceased to rise in the city, it having found a vent into Lake Borgne. The breach in the levee above towqr i9 not yet closed} we are very sanguine, however, in our hopes that it will be done speedily. The ope ration has commenced, and is so far successful They have moored two large ships across its mouth, and have begun to throw m bags filled with eaptli. The water with which part of the city is covered begins to throw out a horrid smell, produced, no doubt, by its communication with the privies and with the burying ground. Imagine what our situation will ba during the heats of August! There is spmething odd in seeing boats row through the streets of a popu lous city. On Saturday last, a sloop from across Lake Pontchartrain sailed on the Bayou road, as far as the house formerly owned by Daniel Clark, and then struck across the fields to the rear«f t^iiscity^ without once touching bottom Yesterday (Sunday) all the world sailed on par ties of pleasure to the Bayou St. John; this is usually a pleasant afternoon’s ride—-what is still more droll, several sailed on dry-land up to the crosses. By next maU I will be able to say positively whether or not the crevasse will be stopped. the CRQGHANSVILLE, in honor of the heroofth ' Land.—Phili Aurora. | HARMONY: f . ^ legislature of Massachusetts, now in ses- h ?L e fPP° intme »t of two senator, v f h f U *J ed f ufes ’ ,n place of general Yarnpin, whose term expires in krch ne?t, aS reCent1 ^ ^signed his seat. It is understood to be in contemplation to make a generous effort to bury party feelings and par ty distinctions, by the appointment of one sena- * ■ tor wuin each ot the political parties in the* state. A federalist, who shall represent the commercial part of the community, and a repub- & “can, who shall represent the manufacturing part, will give a fair representation of the two U great conflicting interests of the state, as well ag "' the two political parties which so equally divide ** the commonwealth. As the federalist acknc _ that at present there exists no ground tor’continuing the bickerings of party, it is presumed such an overture will cordially »a nf fko min W7 * W e contra meet the wishes of the minority, tulate the public on the return once more^d’ter so long an absence, ofjnutual for^n^e and conciliation —Boston Patriot. THE INUNDATION.. We are sorry to learn that all hopes of stop ping the crevasse are at end: it was entirely abandoned yesterday evening, and its dimen sions increase, and the water in the , back part of'the city and Fauxbourg rises—Louisiana Gazette, 15th ult. Naval Court Martial.—Herman Throne, a purser,in the navy, has been tried by a naval court martial, held on board the Franklin 74, on charged preferred by commodore Decatur, for violating the 23d article of the act for the regu lation of the navy. Upon which the court pro* nounced purser Throne <‘not guilty of selling, but guilty of attempting to sell, and of author- izing to be sold,” and “sentenced the accused to >e reprimanded by the secretary of the navy.* The secretary of the navy has approved the sentence, written a letter of reprimand, and ordered Mr. Throne to resume his duties.*—JV*. Y. Columbian. was directed to be sold by an act of the last as- last, gar- sembly,'was actually sold on Wednesda for more than 50,000 dollars. The who! den is but one acre. Bellvilfo, the seat of John Bell, near this city, contaiidng about twenty acres, and, perhaps the mosk-eleglftt house in Virginia, was r 59,000 dollars—Richmond yesterday Enquirer. Frqm the Rhode-Island NEWPORT E Yesterday the citizens of for the choice of town-officers the in Moore, and Mr. Vinson lican,June 5. T. wn assembled r the ensuing vailed in ail as a mem- over Mr. was * elected town- > the former in cum- , Ik . A -iair ■ * * ££ There is a report that Turkey opposes .the occupation of the Ionian Islands bv England This rumor, if founded in fact, would account' for the sailing of lord Exmouth-’s squadron to the eastward. The manceuvers (JPthe Austrian court have given rise to considerable agitation in Germany and Italy. It is said the title of emperor of Gerfiiany is to be resumed, and we know also how much the addition of the remains of the Roman empire has been coveted. The Aus trian emperor has already the king of Rome in his family. The war cauldron i9 again fast fill ing with inflamable materials, and, we err much, if an explosion does not soon take place.—Lon don Statesman. * A large British squadron is gone to Algiers to demand the surrender of the Christian slaves there, or to commence hostilities in case of a re fusal. If hostilities occur, and are successful, it is said to be intended to give the country to the Moors, as a peaceable people. The Spaniards allowing their officer to be tried on board an American vessel of war in a Spanish port, for an action committed on shore, in which an American was killed, looks like a disposition to have us satisfied.—Phil. Free man’s Journal, 11th inst. The British cartel brig Maida,arrived at New York, 10th inst. from London, with one hundred American seamen, released from British ships of war. ■■ —. THE WEATHER. Nf.w-York, June 10. The remarkable change of weath -from ex treme heat to cold, was as great? here 4 the fol lowing paragraphs describe it to have been— ''c eastward. We hear, that, on Friday morning, some of the low grounds in the neighborhood of this city exhibited a white frost. From the Boston Daily Advertiser of Friday. GREAT CHANGE OF WEATHER. On Wednesday, at noon, the thermometer in the shade stood at eighty-two—yesterday after noon it was down to fifty-two, making a differ ence in twenty-six hours of thirty degrees.—> Wednesday, it is believed, was the hottest day we have had this season—yesterday was the coldest we have had for at least a month. From the Salem We have nev*M»- .‘tnessed sue' of Friday. :li great ant] and sud den cha^«* ’^o^the temperature of the atmos- The phere as the present season. The day before yesterday the thermometer was at ninety-two in the afternoon—yesterday, at sun-set, forty- three. \ From the New-Haven Register, June 3. FROST. On Friday morning last ice was discovered in many places in this town and vicinity; some which was more than one-eighth of an inch ui thickness. ! It i9 feared, that fruit and vegitation have suffered severely. In the early part of the - The Governor’s Gardefi, as it is called, which we also experienced a cold chilling per breeze, almost resembling march winds. A Spanish gentleman and girl, from St. Do mingo, are advertised to be seen at Salem. The former is twenty eight years of age, and but three feet high; the latter, fourteen yearse of age, and but two and a half feet high. They are brothtr and sister. The father is three feet eight inches in stature, and their mother an ordinary sized woman; these parents have had sixteen children, thjrge of diminutive size, and thirteen of the common size.—Salem Register. * I of Mil- Owens’ ag, killed 563 squirrels had the advantage by 35.