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From the aurora.
BRITISH INFLUENCE.
The poison of civil Society.
We a I etv days ago, took up the
i subject of foreign itiHuetiCe, t' e « haj
I lenged an inyestigatiou, 'J'he on
ly paper that has ventured to touch
the subject, is a paper which is now
I established ntar the seat of govern !
meat upon the ruins of the always
despicable, and ill conducted, and
unprincipled Washington Feeler- !
list. T ills paper, upon old ruins, j
is not worthy of notice, from any j
intrinsic quality which it yet j
displayed, for in fact it is the olb l
thins in another coat. —Ever
since ilie parricidal hand of the
Massachusetts'legislatuie, was rai
sed to dissever the union, and to
make war against the constitution
and laws, the name ol Washington
and federalist could not stand well
I together ; the one was a daily j
stigma upon the other.
1 his same old Federalist, under !
j the new name ot independent, has
however instead ol coming to the
question, meeting it i.iiily, couten
icd itself witii repetition of an old
stale assumption, for which Ujete
is neither evidence nor color of '
plausibility.
As the remembrance of Porcu
pine, and Liston, and Blount,
is yet perfect in the public iiiiiid ; I
as the memory of the anchor
: club is not yet worn away , as
| there are hundreds still alive who
I recollect the proscription and pro-
I sccution ol every tradesman, who
dared to utter a complaint against
the injustice of England. As we I
iiave the Baron isiaurion, the base
author of numerous notorious for
geries, circulated in America for
the double purpose of corrupting &
debauching the public mind ol A
merit a, a., producing war with ail
Europe ; as we have uti English pay
master, Stephen Cullen publishing j
libels & falsehoods equally infamous
though neither so ingenious m the
falsehoods, nor sy elegantly wick
ed iu the style, as the iorgerics of
the Revolutionary Plutarch, and
Court ot St* Cloud, dtc.
As wc have these living at this
moment among u» —in the secret,
but constant intercourse of Phincas'
Bond, the Bluish consul - f wc
need not, for the present, stop to
make more minute enquiries into
the corrupting system of the Bri
tish government heic.
lnuced we shad go io the foun*
tain head.
| Mr. Windham, a member of the )
i English parliament, formerly the
! patrou ot Porcupine, and who
j »>aid Porcupine merited a statue
ol gold feu his asp#i sions of our
govurnmeut, and debauchery ot
the public taste.
He shall call Mr. Windham as
evidence ol Biitish corruption, be. j
cause too it was he wiio procured |
the appointment of pay master of
invalids at Guernsey for Stephen
Cullen, alias Carpenter, Cullen
has endeavored to repay his pa
tron by eulogies in the Cnarkaion
Courier, and dscwhtre, so that !
Mr. Windham’# evidence, Porcu
pine’s, and the evidence of Cul.
ien s existence among us, labor
ing in the same calling, must be
i conclusive ; to prove cverv thing
which it would be their interest
now to say it it were not true.
first then Windham said Cob
bett merited a statue of gold, for
his conduct as an emissary in the
United States ; in tact he has got
: wiiatt was to him preferable a
I pi nicely estate at liotley, m slump.
| "hire, England.
Cobbett said that the aurora cost
i the British government more than
a mill ion ot pound* sterling; and
was likely to cost them more. —
| 1 Ins is at least, the evidence ot
' the parties themselves, that there
i has been corruption to the value
ot a million o( pounds sterling as
j long as live years ago, merely to
t resist the umoinems anil to mmose
“ hold the mirror up to nature.”— Shakespeare.
the vindication of the American
government in one newspaper.-..
We need not enter into calcula-
I tions very precisely, to discover
a probable amount since—the fact
ihey acknowledge, is ail that we
j look for.
But not let us go, as we said, to
j the fountain head of British corrup
{ lion ; we find in the paper pub_
; lished by Cobbeit in Condon, the
1 following speech ; the American
reader will not forget it is the
speech ol Mr. Windham, the pat,
| r n of Cobbett, the patron of Cul
len the patron <d the Abbe Bar* nil,
j the patron of Puisave, and ilie Qui
j be roon sacrifice, the patron of bull
) baiting, the pupil of the most
corrupt and infamous of men of
genius Edmund Burke.
The public have heated, through
the newpapers, some general in -
lormatiou concerning the corrup
tion carried on in England by the
duke of York and his concubines ;
| & the necessity w hich that duke iv
hero was under ol resigning thesta
tion of commander in chief of the
British army, in consequence of
that corruption.
The exposition of the duke of
York, led to the exposition of o
ihti's, and at length produced a
discovery ot the buying of seats
in parliament. On the l I til ol
Mdy i£o'J, Mr. Matlocks, a mem.,
ber ot parliament, declared as a
matter ol charge in open parlia
ment, that Henry Wellesley, au
under secretary of the govern
ment, purchased h seat B*r Mr.
Dick, a member of the house ;
mat upon a question whicn the
mmi ter wisheu to carry, lord Cas
tlcreagh, a secretary of state, told
this Mr. Dick he must voiu will)
the ministers or resign ; and that
Mr. Dick did resign, taiher than
vote as ordered by lord Castle
leagh ; and Air. Madocks tuither
chaiged Spcuccr Percival chan
cellor of the exchequer, with be
: mg privy to and conniving at this
corruption j and this Mr. Madocks
declared he was ready to prove
by witnesses at the bar of the
House.
Upon this a debate a discussion
toot place wneu such was the
corruption of the hou«»c, that the
following was the vote
Tor enquiry by the evidence,
85 votes.
Against any enquiry Jlo
Present . ...... 395
The debate on this question, we
find in Cobbett’s Political Kegi».
ter for May last, in page 7b9, be
ing No. 40 of vol. XV. We co
py the speech of Mr. Windham,
first, because being out of the
ministry, he was not bound to vin
dicate their corruption ; and if it
was unfounded would have been
tiie more disposed to reiute any
| such allegations of corruption ;
[■ next, because Cobbett would not
the speech ot his
li iend j and finally because Mr.
Windham u the patron ot Uoubeu
and Cullen, and the friend of all
the incendiaries that have distur
bed and distracted Europe and
America. The following is Wind*
ham’s sentiments on the corrup
tion of the most stupendous la.
brie of human wisdom.
“ Mr. Windham —There are
many things of the nature referred
to in this motion, wmch were in
tact coeval and co-cxistciu with
the constitution itself, and they
have g'own with its growth and
strengthed with its strength (the
reader will observe that corrup
: tion is the to[>io ) 1 hesc things
I (corruption) were in tact, so in.
1 ter woven with the costitution,
and that costilution itself was such
a complicated system, that no
wise statesman would venture to
tear them out, (that is would ven.
turetotcar out corruption!) les»t
he houd take out something valu
able along with them. This con
stitution was like the elements oi
the air we breath, some of tftuclj
were poisonous, and yet if iho- r
elements were extracted, the earth
would nor be habited. (That i
to say it you rake away corrup
tion from the British fabric i.
falls !) /When gentlemen talked o:
the tiieory of the Constitution they
Seemed to forget, that those cor
ruptions, as they were called
“ formed part of that theory, for
they were to be found existing
with the constitution iu all times—
even in the best of times, even
in the days of the great Chatham,
a« he was termed. T hat noble
lord no doubt made use of this
species of traffic, and upon the
principles stated namely, as a pat t
j ol the defence of government. Jl c
must have made use of corruption.
I oi in f<»ct there was corruption
in the country from top to bot
tom* and from bottom to top, dif
fi ring only in the reipect that it
was more dense (that the cor
ruption) at the bottom, and became
purer (that is pure corruption!
and purer corruption !) as you
advanced to the top. That when
you came to the top (we suppose
the king is the top |) you
found uo corruption it would be
preposterous to assert j”
Here we stop ; wc go up from the
dense part, that is the Cullen’s, &
the ( obbett’a and the Smart's and
miscreants, who partake of this
! vEnse feuir of corruption ; to the
top, to the caput—qui capit iile fa-
CI i •
Ad we have undertaken in this
paper to shew at this time, is—•
t nut the British government is
corrupt iu thcoiv.*
i hat it is uiroughout corrupt in
practice :
i tij * corruption has grown with
Us growth aud strengthened with
its strength :
1 hat corruption is interwoven
with the system, so that if you
take it away the government is
destroyed.
I hat corruption was consistent
Wiin the British constitution at ail
times even in the best of times.
Even in the days of the irrcat
Chatham ;
1 hat there was corruption from
top to buuom ;
1 hat it would be preposterous
to say mere was none at the top.
We have caubfisned thub much
as to the system, upon the most
indisputable authority that of Mr.
Windham who was himself a imn
i.-iti* wh* dealt enormously iu
the corruption, who docs not dis
guise n, out vindicates it.
\ v e pvove these facts only to shew
the consistency of the system a
broad as well as at home.
*U is remarkable that about
the same period that Mr. Wind
ham made this speech in pailia
mcui, Mi* Jitis/ciHCf the British
ambassador made a formal com
piamt to the American govern
ment, against a press in n„ s c j ty
(ihe same tuat Uobbett said cost
vnem a million) for saving not
bait as much a> Mr. V/mdhaui
here avows.
BRITISH SPIES.
As the public have been fre
quently informed of the em
ployment of agents by the go
vernment of England, in the
U. States ; and it is often dif
ficult to bring authentic proofs
of it; we think it fit, at this mo
, merit, when a book has been
1 jull Blued from the press, at
New York ; a work so flagi
tious, that the printer has not
had audacity lo pul hi* name
to it ; we think it proper to
give Rritijh evidence , to shew
that what we have alledged a
gainli the writer of that book,
is mailer of legal proof.
In this paper leveral years
ago, we pointed out Stephen
( G«u.enj in the perfocukiwcUf
MONDAY, September 25, 1809.
■ablifhed a paper at Charleston,
Carolina, called the Courier.
V'e pointed him out as going
to Charleston under the patron.
-!ge arid influence of the late
general Alexander Hamilton?
We pointed him out as an
emiflary and eulogdt of the
Bi itilh government, and an ene.
my to this.
In a week after we difcover*
ed him, we addreded a letter to
the executive of the U. States,
apprising the government of the
I character of this emdfary; Sc
!of his being about to go to
Washington city.
We pointed him out as* a pay
majler in the Uritifh army , a
itation which is, in fafr, a tine
cure to him, so the duties are
peiformed by another person.
That Stephen Cullen was
forced, by our detection and
expolition of his infamous char
acter, to quit Charlelton, and
he fled to New Yoik; there he
eftablilhed a new (paper, which
he called the Peoples Friend;
there he leagued and affociaied
with Coleman and Chctiham ; Sc
,we predicted that Checthasi
would Ipeedtly come out as o«
penly againlt Mr. Jcfferlon and
in favor of England, and her a-*
trocious policy, as did Cullen,
the pay matter of the invalids at
Guerenfey.
i From New York public
; contempt finally expelled Ste
phen Cullen, and he became
a vagabond be a wanderer; bat
he took root lor the moment,
in that congenial spot, in Con.
| nedicut , where Joe Thomas who
i led the bands of terror, m 1797,
in ibis city, had taken tefugc ;
how C alien came to leave, or
whether he was loathed out of
Connecticut, is not at prelent
known ; but since May taft, he
hasrehded near tiruujiuick, m
Jerley--where he ha* two con
genial friends, whom we (hall
01 mg before the public at a iui
tablc occasion.
Cu lltn, the invalid paymas
ter, w*s in this city five days
ago ; but he has diiappearcd,
peihaps concealed himleif iroin
the American manujachtre that
were prepared Jor him, Sc which
allurcdly i.e wiil be ornamented
with whenever he iliall be found
Within this city.
1 hat our readers may know
where to find Brjlilh authority
for the identity of.tlm paytiiaf.
ter ot the tfmilh invalids at
Guermey, wc rcter them to a
book ot authority, which is ia
every library, the EngijJh New
Annual licgijlcr, for the year
isoi.
In that work if the reader will
look to the table of contents
under the head Principal Oel
currency, he will be found in
4th article— promotions ; tiyrn
mg 10 page to*, at ihc head of
the lecond Column of the page
will be found the following : *
“April 4,(1801) Staff corps.
“ M*j’ r J°hu Kutherford, to be
“ iieut. col. commandant, Staff
“ Stephen Cullen, paymaffer to
“ the invalids Jtanoned m the
44 island oj Cucrnscy," (Jc.
Here » the tnau a; once idenr
lifted :
The British emissary proved;
The fupcraddiiion of the name
Carpenter accounted for;
l’he calumniator of the Ame
rican n ation and governmertf
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