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THE PVTRIOTiu LYNCH CLUB.
ON the arrival of the news at
Mount independence that General
Embargo was again placed in eommis
ion, nti er.t'ft meeting of this Clul
was calk'd ft;/ the president nt Liberty
Fail, Mount Independence. On the
first opening of the meeting, it was
with niiicli difficulty the worthy presi
dent. could command order. The ma
jority of the members were so irritated
at finding how little their former com
plaints against General Embargo had
been regarded, an.i were for the imn.. -
dLfe eiiforeemeut of the club law,
against h : s excellency. The worthy
and patriotic president, however, by
his mild and persuasive eloquence,
succeeded in pacifying them, by re
minding them that the rules of tlic
eh:b, did pot allow of the law being
i:f :rced against any one, without first
advising the party of the charges laid
egainst hint, and thus give him an op
portunity to exculpate himself [if pos
sible] or give him a chance to take ad
vantage of the time tLis allowed him,
to take himself off from a society to
whom his presence was disagreeable :
he therefore proposed, that this mode
should Le pursued in the present case,
and moved that an address from the
club should be sent to his excellency.
An address was accordingly -drawn up
aud unanimously agreed to—after
which the meeting was adjourned to
the fourth day of July next.
T'm Mi Ires* to General Embargo.
liberty Hal!, Mount Independence,
May 1, 1812.
.)f y it phase your Excellency,
Your excellency may recol
lect that on your former visit to us, by
Order of your Hoy til Master, his first
Terrapin Majesty Ttfm, that it was
with extreme reluctance and murmur
ingn we bore with the ruinous system
of policy which your excellency, by or
der of your Royal Master, was direct
ed to pursue towards us. Wc then,
i.: as plain terms as possible, for such
noodles as we are, to make use of, ex
pressed in common to vour excellency
ar.d l:ia majesty, how very detrimental
end ruinous your long stay among us
was likely to prove, br.th to our indivi
dual interest and that of the states.—
We then also told your excellency, that
a second visit from you might possibly
he attended with had consequences to
yourself, his majesty and counsellors;
w e think your excellency ought to ha\e
been convinced then, that it was only
cur extreme reluctance to he thought
the instigators of any disorder or eon
fusion, [and the great regard which
w e had for his deceased Terrapin Ma
jesty} that prevented us then from en
forcing the laws of our club against
you and your abettors, as we viewed
the commission under which you ty
rannised over us, ns altogether illegal
‘ and unconstitutional.
After having been thus plain and
candid with your excellency on your
former ‘ isit, you Deed not he surprised
sir, that we now behold your “ second
coming'* with abhorrence aud detesta
tion. after we hud taken so much pains
formerly to impress upon your mind
how much your excellency's presence
among us was ruinous and dishonorable
to our country.
His deceased Terrapin Majesty
Toni, [God rest him] was as well a
ware as your excellency, of the dislike
we had to you, and we think he would
not, were he living, have risked the
loosing that great love and veneration
in v. hich we held him, by sending you
a second time among us to ruin and
oppress us. We therefore, humbly
think, that your being now sent, is al
together owing to the ignorance on the
part of his successor,[his present Ter
rapin Majesty] respecting the abhor
rence in which we held your excellency
during your former residence among us
—if this has not bet a the reason of
-•our present visit, we can account for
it in no other way, .than by supposing
that tin ghost 0 f his deceased majesty
has appeared to his successor and order
ed him to reinstate you in your former
office.
We humbly hope sir, that your ex
cellency will not be offended at the epi
thets we apply to vmi, for you may be
assured that we are endeavoring to
treat you with all the decorum and po
liteness our rnstick manners and cho-
Icriek habits will allow, Hut should
you, contrary to our expectation, he
offended, we must remind your excel
lency, that wc are nominally freemen,
and we shall make use of our negative
liberty to express our approbation or
disapprobation of “ Men -aud mea
sures.”
On your former circuit among us, wc
laid a fair statement before yourexcel
iency of the many grievances we com
plained of under jour tyrannical and
unconstitutional reign. Since then
however, we have been told that great
men are apt to have treacherous memo
ries; and as your excellency may la
bour under this disadvantage we will
take this opportunity to recapitulate
them to you, as also the consequences
likely to result from your holding your
present commission foran unreasonable
time.
Previous to the date of your excel
lency's first commission, we, his Ter
rapin Majesty’s subjects were as happy
and in a fair way, from the pursuit of
commerce and honest industry, to have
become as wealthy as uny people on
earth. Our ships went wherever they
pleased, unmolested [except a few hun
dreds of which his Imperial Majesty,
Grab-all, our friend, was in want of,}
they retnrned elated with the addition
al riches which this voyage had brought
them, and in full expectation of setting
off’again on another, which, from every
appearance, would turn out equally lu
crative to themselves and the state.—
But in the mean time your excellency
received your commission, ami for rea
son best known to yourself and his ma
jesty, ordered all such adventures to he
stopt. Our fields were then well cul
tivated, and their produce might liter
ally he termed golden crops, which
promised a rich reward to the labori
ous husbandman for his summer toils ;
hut the moment that your excellency
ordered the vessels which were to carry
it to a foreign market, to be laid up in
ordinary, the golden crop became a
leaden one , for you may recollect sir,
that a learned gentleman in the nation
al council, said that your excellency’s
being in commission was the cause of
our produce falling one hundred per
cent,* below what it was previous to
your receiving it.
You might well believe sir, that a
fall so great and dreadful as this, in
the produce of our soil, could not be
home by us without murmuring. A
meeting was therefore called oil the
Mount to deliberate on your fate,
hut, luckily for your excellency, while
we were deliberating, his Majesty-
Tom, of whom you received vour
commission died—and his present
Terrapin Majesty succeeded him; who
had you immediately recalled and
substituted General Non-Intercourse
in your place. This gentleman, though
not so cruel as your excellency, was
equally detested hy us, especially
w hen we discovered lie was your
bastard brother.
Wc had every reason to expect after
having in such a plain aud candid man
ner explained to your excellency and
his majesty our grievances, that we
nor our children should never again|be
troubled with your presence in this
land, judge then sir, v.liat must have
been the indignation felt on Mount
Indcpcndenr , when wc learned that
your excellency was again placed in
commission, and about to weild your
iron rod a second time over us. We
had thought that if a sense of shame
did not prevent you from aeting under
your detested commission, that a sense
of the danger you would run from the
indignation of a much injured and
abused people would, and to he candid
with your excellency, you must he cou-
Sce the honorable Mr. Troup’s Speeches in
Congress.
vinced of our moderation towards you,
when we did not immediately enforce
our club law against you, on your ar
rival.
The news of your being again plac
ed in commission, arrived here some
days before vour excellency. Had his
Terrapin Majesty been here to see
how his poor subjects were labouring
to endeavor to escape your deadly
grasp, we think unless his royal heart
is dead to all the finer feelings of the
terrapin race, it would have been melt
ed into pity for those over whom he
had appointed your excellency to reign.
But their endeavors were in vain, for
the elements forbade them taking ad
vantage of the little time they hail al
lowed them, before your excellency
made vour appearance, and w hile they
were struggling as to get rid of the
jaw sos death, your excellency arrived,
which put an end to all their hopes,
and when the Ruler of the Universe
gave them leave to depart, you impi
ously contradicted him, and ordered
them to stay.
We w ill not sir ut present argue the
legallity or illegality at your exoel
lenry’s commission, as we think it
ought to have been done by the w ise
men of the East, at Terrapin palace
before you received it. Me will how
ever inform your excellency, that since
your last arrival, the produce of our
soil [we mean our golden crops] which
by the bye had never got much the bet
ter of the dreadful fall which your ex
cellency formerly gave them during
your first reign, have now fallen ano
ther hundred per cent, according to the
same arithmetical rule, makeing in all
one hundred and fifty per cent less than
they were previous to your first coming.
Now w e leave it to your excellency and
his Terrapin majesty to find out by this
new mode of crlculation, whnt the va
lue of our crops is now.
Such reduction as these in the price
of the staple commodities of our soil,
you may well suppose have bail the
effect which his majesty and your ex
cellency must have had in view that of
annihilating our commerce. Our ships
which used to employ so many of his
majesty’s subjects, are now laid up in
ordinary—Our produce is laid up in
our stores at heavy cxpences which
when sold, the present price it will
bring would not pay for. A number
of good and worthy members of socie
ty, who depended upon llieir labor and
industry for their daily snpport have
been thrown out of employment, and
are likely to starve, or become a charge
to the public unles your excellency is
immediately ordered to withdraw from
among us.
As we are of opinion that his Ter
rapin majesty was induced to grant you
a second commission, partly from his
ignorance of the distress which your
excellency formerly caused us, his liege
subjects ; and partly from the wicked
advice of his friend and ally the Em
peror Grab-all, who we humbly think
[ notw itlistanding his professions of love
and friendship towards us,] has long
been jealous of the prosperity and
happiness enjoyed by our Republic, and
that he would do any thing in order to
stem that tide of prosperity with w hich
he saw we were likely to be inundated.
We infer this, from the eager desire
he lias so long manifested to see us in
volved in a quarrel with our rrusty
grandfather old Iron Sides with w hom
[notw ithst&nding his crusty habits] we
have for a loug time carried on a pro
fitable trade; but with whom the Em
peror Grab-all has long been at vari
ance.
We would therefore humbly beg of
your excellency iiuediately to represent
to his Terrapin majesty how very dis
agreeable your presence is to us , and
that our total ruin will be the conse
quence of your long stay. We would
also recommend that your excellency
in your communication to his majesty,
would represent to him, with w hat vex
ation we view the mystery [*‘ that dan
gerous veil of arbitrary administra
tion”] in which his majesty’s negocia
tions with the Emperor Grab-all, is
shrowded from our view, and the evi
dent weight which his imperial ami
“ incomparable” majesty’s opinions
basin the councils of our nation; which
advantage, if he is allowed to main
tain, wc much fear will ultimately end
in the disgrace and annihilation of our
national independence.
Should his Terrapin majesty how
ever again disregard tiiis statement ot
our grievances, and continue your ex
cellency in commission to the evident
ruin of all his majesty’s good subjects ;
we give your excellency fair warning,
that on the 4tli day of July next, should
you lie found abroad and enforcing the
detested duty which your commission
enjoins upon you we will on that day
enforce the laws of our Patriotic (.lull
against you and your abettors. His
majesty may rest assured that notwith
standing oor great veneration for his
Royal person and orders; we cannot
consent, that lie should order us to
starve, while we have a feast in view.
To his Excellency
General Embargo
at Terrapin Camp.
Jonathan Cowskin, President.
Timothy itch, Sect'ry.
Boston, May 1.
EROM PORTUGAL.
Mr. Bacon who left Lisbon March
28, has favoured us with the follow
ing information :
The head-quarters of* (he English
and Portuguese armies areal Elvas.—
General Hill marched on the 12th inst.
with a division of the army for Merida,
where there were two battalions of
French, and General Graham was to
cross the Gkiadiana !o cut oft’ their re
treat. The French fearing a surprise,
had been in the habit of crossing that
river every night, and remaining until
the morning, w lien they returned again
to Merida. Badajoz was invested on
the 17th, the ground hr.ike on the ISth,
the French made a sortie with 2000
men on the 19th, and were repulsed
with the loss of 350 men, killed and
wounded, the loss of the combined ar
mies was about 40 or 50. Desertions
from Badajoz were very frequent; re
ports of deserters, that the place could
not hold out a fortnight for want of
provisions. The last ret urns ol* the
English and Portuguese were 51,000
infuntrv, ami 5000 cavalry . 170 ps. can
non. Marmont's army consists of about
37,000, extending from Placentia to
wards Salamanca. Soult was with the
army before Cadiz—Sorbet in Valen
cia. Two regiments of horse had left
Lisbon since the returns above mention
ed.
Mr. Bacon favored us with Lisbon
papers to March 25.
A Lisbon paper of the 25th March,
contains the following article:
Elvas, March 21st. The French
have made a sortie from Badajoz, w ith
2000 men, hut were repulsed, leaving
on the field 50 killed, and 300 w ound
ed. The works go on with i*.*ent ac
eivity, notwithstanding the unfavorable
weather. On the 23d or 24th the bat
teries will open their fire upon the ram
parts of Badajoz. Lord Wellington’s
head quarters are at Elvas. His army
is composed of 51,000 infantry anil
5000 cavalry.
“ Advices from Cadiz to the lfith inst.
mention no event of importance.”
The point of danger. —We live in
an age of wonders, and among the rest
it has wonderfully happened, that the
injuries done onr country by France
are seemingly forgiven, and almost for
gotten. Our impartial president seems
quite easy on that, score. He and Ser
rurier, the French minister, continue
on terms of perfect cordiality. The
ruling party in Congress have been
venting their reproaches and uttering
their threats month after month—but
scarcely one of them has expressed
himself in a manner that could have
offended the French Emperor, had he
been present. What though Buona
parte, without a shadow of right, had
seized and sequestered American pro
perty to the amount of scores of mil
lions. and all along scornfully refused
reparation, in whole or in part; what
though he had east many hundred
American citizens into dungeons, and,
by a system of starvation, compelled
numbers of them to enter into his ser
vice; what though he had burnt, and
still continues to burn our vessels on
the sea; what though his promise to
revoke the decrees of Berlin and Milan
has been violated in scores and hun
dreds of instances, and the American
trade with France is on very little bet
ter footing, if any, than it’ was w hen
those decrees were avowedly in exist
ence—those enormous injuries and this
detestable perfidy seem to excite no in
dignant emotions in the bosoms of our
virtuous rulers. Never hav e they dis
covered a disposition to demand ’satis
faction of Buonaparte, in a stern and
manly tone; much less to wage war
>viih him. V) ith rejpect to him, q, r .
dare fulness has seldom exceeded a
bounds of pitiful complaints and whir*
ing supplica'ions.
1 his is precisely a stale of
the most awfully dangerous of unv 8
Under such circumstances, there
be but a single step between a war wit!
England and an alliance with France,
an alliance, which most certainly vvou |/
be fatal to our liberties.
Connec. Courm
Auction.
THIS DAY, 19th May.
At J\‘u. 3 Commerce ‘ftuit.
Groceries & Dry Goods
Sale to comm* nee at 11 o’clock
D. WILLIFORD, duct'r
May 12
Auction.
TO-MORROW, 20th
instant,
Hill be Saul In front of the Kxchmi r e,
Groceries & Dry Goods,
Sale to commence at It o’clock.
HOWE & DI.MON, Anct’r
Auction.
On the 26th instant irill be sold at
>Yc. 3 Commerce Rv,e.
ONE Negro Wench named Tamer
a part of the personal property of Jj r
Lucas Lucena, deceased.
By order of the E er. Thos. Lucena.
D. WILLIFORD. Jhm v
may 19. 11
Vor PHIL ADULT llljl,
The Packet Brig AMERICA,
-Srrrf 1 John Bockius master, wili
sail on Sunday next. For freight or
passage apply to
JACOB IDLER & Cos.
Who have received anil offer fi r suit
25 bids. Philadelphia Snar. Flour.
5 boxes LOAF SUGAR,
may 19 2t 11
For FREIGHT or CIUJMEti.
The Schooner Olive Branch.
Walter Davis, master, will
take freight immediately. Apply !n
Capt. Davison board or to
T. BECKWITH.
may 19. n
QT Substitute for Cash
fI’MIE ssbseribers taking info con
I sideration the extreme duines
of the times, oiler for sale their remain
ing staek of
Shoes, and Boots
Or any part thereof in barter L
prime Cotton and Kick.
6CT’ Purchasers for the count:
trade will find it for their advantas
to c ill as the above stock w ill Le soli
low.
BARNS & EVELETH.
may 19 11 Gibbons’’ Building
F e male Ac ade my.
f EH HE RE will be a public exaiuina
1L tion of the young ladies of tie
Academy on Friday ami Saturday t!i
22;1 and 23d of this month, at wide
tiic parents and friends, are respectful
ly invited to attend.
The third aud second classes uilii
examined on Friday, the first on Satu
day.
The examination will comment
precisely at half past eight, on ear!
dav.
Daniel F. M’Neil.
may 19. it
Caution
fIMIE public are cautioned again’
j! trading for two JS'OTES am!
DUE BILL, draw n in our favor h
Abraham Joseph, who ran away be
tween *he Ist and 10th of April “ittsi
from this city.
One note *t sixty days dated March
_3d for ’ .. $290 371
One do. do. do. March
sth for - l.;8 70
Also, a due bill given us for th
balance on thirteen Bales of Cvttu
sold him, the amount near three hui
dred do'lars. The notes not beii)
due were lodged in hank and of cours
our name, was on the hack as customs
ry. Y\ hen lodged in hank the not
for 290 27 1-2 cents was endorsed h;
Messrs. Richmond and Allen and oik
selves for the purpose of diseount.-
We should have,advertised them be
lore, but thinking that when we set*
them by John Jones, we had a gooi
man, hut have been deceived.
the, i fore forewarn all persons fm J
trading for the said notes or due Lib l
above mentioned, as they are not vvor
a rent.
P. 11. 8v T. C'rupen.
may 19. ji
(U * Blanks of every cle
scription executed with niatncs
and dispatch, at the oif.ee of th’
American Patriot.