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gifcMva high price; vrV.fle or* the
fitter hand, the planters have their
merchandize, for which the mer
chants are indebted in New-Yoik
and Philadelphia, in their hands ;
and yet the boisterous leader of the
majority has thought proper to
biand this class ot our fellow citi
zens with the epithets of ‘the
muffiroom,* ‘the fungus/ ‘the
cxcrefcence of the ft ate.—-
You thus fee fellow citizens, the
situation in which the majority have
left the merchants, who have re
ceived the produce of all thoi'e
piantero who had produce and were
willing to pay their debts, to fuf
fer wichout a possibility of redress ?
they have cut them off from the
power or possibility ot collecting
thetr debts, and have left them to
the mercy ot their creditors in the
neighboring states—to the hazard
of being brought into the federal
courts—dragged from their bulinefs
and their homes, while their worth •
lefts debtors are (trolling the streets
and the country, Squandering what
little property they possess in rior 6c
diilipation, with a bottle ol whiikey
in one hand and the omnipotent act
that absolves them from arrest in
the o her, delying their creditors,
n . fhU|ftinw>”v —-UtLJftt
tv and his excellency $ reverend
honor. Harmonious found, and
pleafmt to the ear ol a man who is
bring forced to the federal court,
by the federal marsh 1, anc per
haps calling upon tome oi the hon
oied members ot the majf ri.y of the
legislature, who probably owe him
for spirits they have bought to elec
tioneer with twice the amount of
his debt to become his bail, but
they, with an air of disdain, and
prote&ed under the (hield which
their own law has cast about than,
turn from him to join themselves
which their baseness, partiality and
perfidy to their country has placed
together with themfeives above the
reach of justice.
Let the member who drafted this
act, brought it from home in his
pocket, and by intrigue, imposition
and mifreprelentation procured it
to be carried through the houle,
if the rust of villainy has not alrea
dy corroded his cheek and dried
up the source of fuffufion, blufli for
the duplicity he has used, the im
positions he has put upon a num
ber of the honest ignorant mem
bers, the partiality of the ad, the
facrifice of the general interests of
the people for the security of him
ftlf and a few others, for the degra
dation of the date, its. wounded
honor and a. violated con dilution.
LUCIUS.
£ At* the particular request of fome
of our fubferibers, we have co
pied the three firft numbers of
Lucius, although we think him
too personal in feme of his re
marks ; but on examining his
fourth number, we find it too
lengthy, as well as too highly
tindured with censure, for us to
• attempt following him farther.
The law in question was from
the firft generally reprobated,
and will continue to be more
and more so as its evil tendencies
are experienced ; any elaborate
attempts, therefore, to convince
the people they have been irn
pofed upon has become unne
ceffiry.
We (lull preserve the remaining
numbers of Lucius for the peru
fj of those who wifli it.J
FOREIGN NEWS.
New-York, June 24. n
The (hip Antonia, capt. Dolan,
at*this port yesterday, ia
the (hurt puflage cf 2 5 days from
Cork.
By this vc (Tel the editors of the
New-York Gazette
Cork papers to the 14<h May, con-1
taining London dates of the
[A (ketch of the molt important
news by this arrival was given in
our Uft.J - . .*
Mr. Lyman, the American con--*
ful at London, has notified the merv j
chants, that the Englilh govern- !
meat had e(tabli(hed the mod rigor- .
ous blockade of the port ol Copen
hagen, and all other ports in the
island of Zealand.
A Ruffian ukase is said to have I
been idued prohibiting all inter- .
course between Ruflia and all coun- 1
tri. $ not in her alliance.
The American (hips Hannah, ;
Ann, Ranger, Reward, Ncptuue, j
I and Mayflower, have been seized
by a French privateer in the port ot ■
. Alicaat. j
j_ Lonjudn- Miv ‘~~ i
Mr. .Nourfe yesterday vififed ■
; LI >vci*s coffee-houfe.—We have no ;
i dour.t this gentleman will, on his i
j return to America, be able to bear
i telhmony at Icaft to the more cour- !
: teous hoipitality of our island, than
; that he experienced in France.
When at L’Orient, a guard w?s
Rationed before his dwelling, and it
! was not without difficulty that he
; succeeded in preventing the rifling
j and inlpecfcion of his papers. Ii is
not true, as w r as affeited in fome ot
the papers of yesterday, that general
Arrwtiiuug w± oaffports v
/C himiclf, j
The force, naval and military,
that has, fur fome weeks, bee . col- :
leding in the Downs, tailed yUter- j
day for its deflination. •
(As the expedition has now failed, !
there is no longer any neceflity for
concealing its destination. The !
general opinion in the military cir- i
cies, and among the officers em- ;
ployed in this service is, that the I
firft object is to attempt to deftr- y ;
the means which the enemy is j
known to have been for fome time
engaged in preparing at Fiuftring j
for the annoyance of this country;
All uncertainty as to the real pri
mary objeftor the expedition will
be removed before many days pass
over; as to its ultimate objejft there
is but one opinion, nor has any se
crecy been affe&ed refpeding it.
The force goes to Sweden.
At the close of ’change yeftcr
day, a report obtained circulation,
that Bonaparte had issued a decree
at Bayonne, direding an immediate
embargo to be laid on all American i
veffds in the ports of Spain, the im- j
mediate seizure and confifcation of
all American property in France,
and the imprifooment of all Ameri
can cifizens. We could not, how
ever, trace this rumour to any au
thentic source. . ’ .... lwljl ||, aT - T
This’Rate of things between A
merica and France, excited expec
’ tations in London, that America,
being obliged to decide in attach
ing herfelf either to England or
France, would adopt fur ,
her alliance. Tne presumption, <
joined to a great influx of money,
in the market, created a coufidera* .
ble elevation in the funds pa Wed-
I liefday in London.
Aether paper ‘
it the day after the arrival oi mr. j
Lewis at Baris, gen Arndtrong re
q>ic(ied au audicuce ot the I’iencb- ?
rnualter, and gave him to under- j
stand, that he had reserved unport- ,
ant dilpatches Irom his government, j
who, anxious to preserve with the ,
belligerent states a perfedt ntutraU- ;
ty, had inltruaed him to prcpole to
the French government, the revo
cation ok the decrees against Bnt (h j
commerce, as tar as it related to rv
ujciici, adding, that England would
be required to make the fame ex
ception m her favour—the answer
ii appeals made to this just and e
quiiable propolal was?—‘‘that in
tiie prtfent lituation ot afiairs no
terms ot conipronule could be lii
tcued to, mat rhe American gov
ernment was already in possession
ot the unalterable determination of
Frauce, who woum not permit a
neutral itate—ano from which relo
lution (he vvpuid oa. no account re
cede—i.nd the French mifuftcr fur
ther obiervcii, that unkfs the Amei
icaii ii uid. ne cLled against
Greaf-Bri aid, untii a maiinme
peace could be o tail'd—France
-and Auitiic t n uft be considered to
be at war wuli coeh.i s.ftei,’d -It
pears that interviews took
•’ place alter tins, but the Frendi-go
verirmer-t were iut-xurabie—end
gen. Armlirong was not able to
cb a;n rhe halt alteration in their
dttcnninacion— ar.d confequenrly
in tie contemplation of,an imme
diate rupture b ia eon the countries
he demands pahports lor luch of
the citizens of the United
w ho might ohoole to return to their
own country —and this demand, re
pt-avc iy made, was aiio rejetted.
Extract or a letter from Dublin,
of the 4-n ii.tl.—Pruceediiisrs of
o
?. u .ilai nature io what tookj4ia.ee
Kfely 'm Gul"have'been adfed
in Bel fa ft.— The mob rote and de
manded a veff l b(iu id to Derry,
la ii wi r .h oat meal; they burnt
the h :1 an-! rigging, proceeding af
t i ’v:>r s to ti e market, where they
t r < k c.hargeuf the i tes of corn and
pr-tatoes’ v .ny oppofitioß ;
the h ivt* been laid be
fore ills liied*ena:H. The price
cd oats at L ibenr is 16s. per cu t.
and oat meal, gas, per■l2oib. ,,
We ‘.to. iv i distress
ing pa?Fug ...j-c from rhe Giaicow
Courier o; u. h y faft : We
noticed neai iliree mo sth ago the
of ‘ift the
northern pot : this"ku gdo.n,
from the aimed total 1 i u e o’ the
last years crop. V, e fk.vc now to
add, from letters that have been
shewn to us, that i:: ibun'e parishes
the inhabitants had not am’ongft
them more than ten days provifl
ons ; and in others net more than
to supply them for a month from
the dates of the letters, (4th. 9rh
and 1 ith inst ) from the miralters
ot the different parishes in the north
weft Highlands.”
Luch n Bonaparte lives in a!! the
seclusion of a private man at Rome,
and all the offers of his brother
Napoleon, to make him a prince
or iovereign, have been reje&ed by
bim. He refutes to acknowledge
the latter by his title of emperor
and king, and affi-gfts as a reason, j
that he had power enough as firft ;
conlul of France is a republic, and :
(ho'Uld have remained true to the
caule of teprefenration, for which 1
hail formeriv fought. Fy rder
of Napoleon the name of Luck r.
Bci aparfe has n era fed i iom the
lift oi the uapu'ial family.
* ** •- ivlc.y 9.
IMPEItLYL PARLIAMIKT.
Iloufe of Lords, Thursday May 6,
Orders in CcunciL —Lord Crtr.
ville said, there was a fubjed cf im.
portar.ee, of which he had given a
general notice previous to the re
cels, he meant an address to Ids
majesty to suspend the operators
o( the Orders in Council. Ru
-1 mors, however founded he knew
not, had gone abroad, that it. was
the opinion of his ir.sjefty’s govern
ment to recall them in comequence
of the pleasing hope that our rela
tions w r the United States of A
merica would be recrited to their
former amicable intercourie. If
such was the fact, he congratulated
the country, and was much mere
anxious that the revocation of the
Orders in Council should proceed
from the voluntary act of the king’s
government than by any motion of
/ his. However, if no such intention
should be manifefled by the con
clufidn of the present month,* he
pledged himltlf to iubmit to tht ir
iordlhij s the propriety of addrefs
ini tus majesty for their repeal,
i Eo ’aJ la w kt.fb Ury ; role for the
purpcle or guaiding a.gain(l ary iu
kieace which his (ilence might en
courage, with rcfptdl to the rumor
of repeal to which the noble barren
’alluded : at the lame time tha: he
| felt it his du y not to make a fmgle
i observation on the (late of ( ur re-
I laiicns with America—Adjourned.
i
1 ‘ *
Rome, March SO.
On the 27th general Mollis
i publi(hed the following orders of
| the day
“ His majesty the emperor and
king Napoleon,'teftifies’ his fail/‘fac
tion with the ccndud of the hither
, ro F 3 P a ( troops.. Thtfe soldiers
i fhall-.net in future receive orders
‘ either from pneft-s or women.—
-Soldiers should only be command*
| ed by soldiers. They may atfo be
; assured that they shall no more re
turn under the command of pneils,
he emperor and king will give
them generals to condud them,
f who (hall be worthy their bravery.”
I • I ‘
NORFOLK, JUNE 28.
V;e have a Jersey paper of iho
7th t f May, containing London
exrrafils to the 29th Aj?tft, but ns
thing of American affairs.
L. ‘ I pis ‘paper hovveyer
lye-efiing information : fiom ihe
1 North of Europe, w hich as xve bave
; not time to translate, we fi:Jl pre
fect in a summary.
; The Ruffians .have been com
j to evacuate FLland, fa (ter
tiian they entered it, r l hey ‘com
; menced their retreat on the 31st
March, and retired with great pre
cipitation. It is stated that heavy
rains, the want of. previsions -and
foiage made this trealure unavoid
able. It is funher stated that there
is every appearance cf a ebange of
measure in the unsteady cabinet of
St. Peterfburgh. Great difeontenrs
p'evai'ed among the nobles, and
]t I s stated,. that jia.tbe.ad April
there had been an in fur re ebon at
! r * P f terlburgh, having for its cb
j jest the dethronement of the etn-
I P^ ror Alexander, and the elevation
| of the grand duke Ccnffarime* but
, there are r.o details,
j Serious ffiifundei (landings are
hated to exist between the Ruffians
and Frtrtch, principally cn account
of the French rtfufipg to (upply
ths RtffEn fiflici at Lifccfl, and *3