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For the American Patriot. 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.