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‘•ft; J ft i *7 J hr. (i ./•- per annum.} Volume X 111.1 DLSULTORY. £■/.’- We invite the attention of our readers to the following letter. J To the Hu it on of the National Intti. CcntLmcn % 1 a\ ail myfelf of your gazette, foj t!v permfe of prefentng t few r. naiks to the confideratiou nt the people of the Tfni-c.l States. The individual, who offers them, is in ile< J ohi art —but though obi lire, h will no longer he ftlenf lh.. r <nb. i of the majority, corfi o ea'elcis. indulge a (la nber, which in y prove dilgraeeiui to th; c u.urv, and fatal ro themlelves.— ]*’ * • different is the con iucl >f if’, ir opp neats Thev neitn-. •>1 , n r rait. i hey have air-, ad; :di j tned a name, calculated to and ’u le the nation, and t jure and -ie grp.ij a!’ who do not j in the.r ft -in ti r ’ r/jt-v are tit- advocates of pc • —thev are trie frien.-soi com ine’X’ ! Ihe inference nv ant to !■?•* • .ekntid to view, a id indeed v . all r l- J, is. ihat the tnuj ’ri ly ::r • the enetni-s of b th. This in j ■ a.y are charged with h iring *• 1 h’y and ma l!y” declared w iff G.r.t Bftaki—a war L inlt i!i its origin, difaflmur in its pi is, an I in- viubiy difgracefu!, an 1 ruinous in its Termination, it cav,;. • be deni and that denunciations lik th. fe, ince Handy repeated, may t\ ■ if they have not already ix c , a feutitn. nt little calculated :• ’ jutotc the pu; lie good. What ’ ert, indeed, cati they produce, h . to etnbarrals the government, r > depreis and to divide the pe iple, and to encourage the Btitifh—the remies <d rur republican intlitu tioiis, the oppreiTiij of our p >ple, irvj the plunderers of our trade: to e-n murage then to pc.evcre, in the alVettion 1 t .ole anogant pre t. Ift ns, which manv of these fr'.nbsoi pear >pcn!y proclaimed, this inti m, or this government, had r. r the Ipirit to milt. But relift av j” bec:* nude —and although trachmy, or cowardice, or both, hav pi iuced a t.mporary embar rafT.ient i:t <oir military operations by land, it has been t ;e good for tune and the glory of America, to make (Jr -tr Britain tee! our p >wer a: . vengeance, on the ocean w hich •wdnelTld our wrongs. We have indicted a deep and galiing wound, in rue very part whicli her pride had long believed to be invul nerable. V. c havo m t her, in h:r “march o\ r ‘he mountain wav..-we have attacked Iter “home upon the deep:” and thrice and ready has the “ meteor ihig of I lug! mu b een til'’ glorious pi ne of the ikil’, the valor, the h p.riority of the “ mar iners” of America. Viewing the actual fitmtion of this country, at a moment lb criti cal, the objects of the war, and the c uric of the nppoiition, l do he liev • that the time has arrived, a: ■winch wary m.inker cf the major- \/T fYV T T rv£> 3 1 1M JL jl k_j jL\ • rum. isiied (weekly) r> v david f. hill house. WASHINGTON, (Geo.) —SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1813. itv fhou’d exert all his talents, what ever they may be, to (import that war, aiui to counteract that opposi tion. The quJtion, novc to be de cided, is not whether a republican government is calculated merely to fee lire civil liberty, but. whether it has fhengtli, and energy, f’ufficient to maintain, by force, the rights ck honor of an independent nation. V u, firs, know that it has been 1 rid, tha our government, is a gov ernment only for a lime of p ace. It thus he true, I, for one, am will ing to abandon it I car.no: be r!io friend, the advn cCi *i iaC’ “i i'ution, I fb duly put t g the - , or ma of tn.ieria!:-; so fra , in i every t ’ I. * I or .... * k j<) flatter rin ruins Bit this iJti is n-t cured Ir is calcul and to “ h it” tr iin tile < .ole t renuh i catiilm “ it’ go ii name ,n i un like an ordimry calu-*m\ i: and is “ mricii” the -r.etny, vchi! i : makes “ U’- poor iad and ” I - is, in truth, a mere dehtfion. f lu* people of A le.tica, I -Id ‘ get hi- o:i!v by the fi e. ler tics ol the old coidederati >n. aflr.Ttod tneit rights and cstahiisbi.i tin m, after a long and detolaii. g war; a war t>.o, let it be reman bt red. of as well as ol de fence. Commerce war exti iguifil ed, and holtilc armies m;. ;‘icd in every i!ir w ciior. up; n our foil. But tfie a 7 rters of our riglrs were not th> n denounced a* the advocates <d war, the iltflroyers of trace. No ! they were sages, patriots, her <es, then the objeds of a nation’s love, and confidence and hope, and now the objects of its gratitude and ad miration. But th./i we were an ti nned pec pie. Ikuty Ipirit. inordi nate ambition, infatiabie cupidity, had not then crofted the waves of the Atlantic. Engaged in a com mon and glorious cause, the people from Maine to Georgia, were friends and brethren. National in dependence was the ohjed, and, thanks be to God, the reward of that fraternal union. Let us be u nited noia, and soon we fluli con vince the enemies of America, and every foe, every rcviler of a repub lican government, that its energies may always be called out, to defend and to protect our country againit oppreflion, from whatever quarter it may come. Woe be to the world end to this nation, dpecially, if ex perience fiiall prove this opinion to be fali'e ! But this proof can never come. The charge above (fated, upon the character of our constitu tion, will inevitably produce its own refutation. The people of Ameri ca have aflerted, in the face of hea ven cc the world, that man is com petent to fdf government. In a little time, disregarding all minor confiiderations, they will unite for the purpose of fa sporting this allei tion. Looking not merely to them selves, but r i the world, to potteri ty and to the high and .glorious dt.f tin.es, which await tiiis nation, they will not, tbi-y dare not, riik th ? country which they love, the prin ciples which t!xv cbcrlfh, and th : rights which they are bound by the moft facreu obligations to defend, for the poor and paltry and tempo rary gratdi. ati.m of bunging .:ui cule or ruin, o:i thole whole ; d miniffi;:tii n may not be couuucb.d as they with. Ihe peopic nj Ame rica are not prepared to make this awful, tins unhallowed l'scnn.e, to the demon of party-spirit iiuy never will be In prepared. They look back, r.ficctn.r.r.t.iy and proudly look b. ek, to ti.e e;e- L nefer • f thi.’ counuy ;to him v. lio c< nduOed iio to imiej m.trice, and who, in his valceliel. ;y ac..eis, containing ’. lolitnn auii oi .u t; to reuini.’i r,m / jit ii.is ;a. j.i i,., to lectin it I’ :s ma .b. .t the body l \V ..fhingio:: ha:- il.ed : !us i m ra U-u! ** rej ‘hs in ile t'.fon. •.( fii, l.ilu: ..ill hi. (. if;’’ i ill tin i t . .t v fucfl ne mij l c if, is not extinct : “ f.is m u; ry yet lives ir. the h*.:.'s of Ins com tty nan fiir> txample, his prteepis, uk \. t beh-re our eyes. ..t J the war in which wc have Lveti compelled to cr.gage, v ill be, an i ti ult be ct n fitiue.l by an united people, untii Gieat iliitain shall again ai k.. wl eug . tiiat wc ate as firm and puU> \ering ii war. a* v.e have 1 c pa tient i- peace. INinember, citizens of America, not ninalv his example, but the Conduit cd those. alio, whole w;l ----dom guided i'ui coum ils in the memorable year of 177<- : Ihey te>o hail inauitelfed patietice end long fufii ring. Humble in rein ri ft ranee, they would have bier, e. l - ly contentcel. liny wiflitd rot for war ‘l hey deptccatcd the ef fulioTi or human blood. One lol itarv concefiioti on the pair of (J. Britain would have confirm, and. per haps to this dav, the dependence of the colonies. But the conceftion was i.< t made: the iworu was drawn : .Ui.tpcndcm’e was piociai* nied : and that which, once, would have been accepted fiom a tyrant’s hand, w irb bended knees, was then rejected with unanimity, and with scorn. Such, prccifely, ought to be our conduct now. Let it he admitted that our government, anxious to ptferve that miferablc and degra ding peace, and that furtive com merce, which the inlolence and ra pacity of the belligerents had not yet deflroyed, would not have gone to war, ro relcue our fi-anun from fl..very, and our nation from (name; yet as tnc war has bet ti justly com menced wc cannot, now, conclude it without die cling that rclcue. It we Jo, we abandon the Ipirit of ’73: we forgt the exam pit:; of tliole, w hole names we deliglit to holier, whose services we arc proud to acknowledge,and to w liofe ii'tin ory one day in < very year i.- j y fully and gratefully confee:..;ed, throughout Asnerica N"!v.ecan tiot tertninre tiiis war, until our i o nitTn rce is as Ine as the winds ‘ that w:d. i: I rein our sh • ;. t:. r 1 until the claim of impn'.b out i; foleimtly, an I finally, it itr- n.!e !. i ills i> ‘ ii g<■ ‘* 1. vei y r *.i ui ! ;■ ■- moved, unfits v s are a. at..y ;<i i , [ 1 ’ayablc half yearly. [ NirMßt B G3l. basely content to fix the yoke upon our own necks, so holt] out our han is to l>t fettered, and to fie down that we may bv tramph ti in the mire; we and our clrilditii \ct uriborn You will hear again from I’ilOClON. ! Caattv . ,\v; Rrrr.z” Gen H.irrifon’s h. ad-quarters, which is not laid down in me maps, is eighteen iniics or. this fide o‘ r tic Rapids—2 r beyond i-’ort VI-Arth ur i, >wer Sandulky is ab >u: mr ty miles from the Rapids from the Rapids to the River Raisin is •‘>4 miles--from thence to Maleti ei.'iiteen. eJ A London oppofi don p'.per in fpeakmg <>f the tiairie ot () ; •f ----in ton, makes the following c ...men tary <i I rvations : “ Let u:s net vainly encourage rurfi-ives with the hope that t >ii :e ps’.t'ai ami i'lufory fucctfles will bend the proud fpiiks of our off, n tkj but fit en, or aw\ them into r. ar I h:s, at I aft, whatever b; is dt f cts, is among the superior aJ vantages of npublica.-.ism, “tli.t it puts torth itsh.tt energies in e h ur of inertafing peril, and dr: a s abuii ant refonrcis from despair ” I; w.;s nor until liter repeated and unfucrefiviul Alorts that tin k<). marts at lc gth prov- and vies ri us over the ( a-th; gemans, and atr. r uardsb cam-dien u.idilput.d u.af ters botn on land and at lea. “ I he American upublic is vef in its infancy—a long interval of umterrupred p ace an i prolpuitv, has blunted the vig rof her arms, aiui alinofl ohlirerated the rtmem brance of h r martial detds But adversity w ill now roust her to act ive txertion, ami a Icnfe of i: jury, aided by petfonal feeling, will qu ck en a-i.l ii.fi ..ie hr z al. 11 ving once tak.n her stand for the ugh s of cnnnneri ial intercourse and v! ;C . freedom of the lens, and pubiifhed ;; manifcfio of her wrongs in :he face of ihe world, pride, as well as principle, will not per nir her to re linquifli h r j alt claims, and retire fro u the contvlt cuv red wi'h tv. r lailing humiliation and diigrace.” Sir Fn \ncis Buni)i .tt, the great l.nglifh Lh impi in ot the peo ph right. i:i an address to the e!< c tnrs of \deftininlfer, Octobi ■ G, declines are eltcfion to the ( 1 - tnoxs Houle ot parliament; w ‘ - i: g lie oblcivif, to Ik I pared t! mo! rihcr.ti nos p-ftiug a p.:i : life i.i ua.iignifi; and because unie pm ted, and unavailing e oris • Hem a toir. nt el corruption, as n rei, tiblea - itifaioous; of *• v ip’ i huel;ets into empty well.*, A grow, in.j old ia drawing nothing up.” 111. ‘:r extraordinary. —Tacrc r at pivleiit, i:i Dutham jail, Engl:.* •t pi iiom r agi and in years, a prib : f r ieiouv ; an’ther aged yo; a I ’..!-.’, v.'orih 7>n ecu/ t. r fit a : .. i el ’ :c- iv’ 1> v.oi b • s ( /. 11 . tert! h