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[VOL. L] JJJGUSTA— PRINTED BY DANIEL STARNES & Co. WEST END OF BBOAD-STREET. PROPOSALS B y OANIEL STARNES & CO. ~ uMhr h Subfcptien a wily Nfiv.pefitr 1 "nTHB CITY OF AUGUSTA, T<> BE ENTITLED Mirror of the Times, uni vers il promulgation of l | anl i the general diflribution of know v V are objects of the firft importance in ‘y country where liberty has left trace* ofh / r footfteps, under every government wbic h coufult* the happiae** of Man * Knowledge,” laid the Great I#rd Bacon power, united with virtue” it certainly ■liberty. Where ignorance reigns there yuf triumphs and defpotiim governs. As ni»n becomes enlightened authority will be |j m ,,ed & morality restored—Knowledge & Tirmeare the bales of freedom—the one inltrucb us in our rights, the other leaches, w our duties; the lirll shews us how to con nrua the belt pollihle form of government, the Uft rrquires us to obey it when construc ted, It is therefore advantageoos every where, (but in a btfullie it is ablolutely ncceflary .that correct information fliould he widely diffuled and easily obtained : For tLrt ’tis the ftcplt who govern. 7Ley never inten tionally ehoofe bad leaders o» approve wrong jntafures, yet they are liable to error—give ; thtm true details and they will judge cct redllv—for on plain grounds the people al* 'fit vt from just opinions: whenever they mis take their own interefls 'tis owing entirely to want of information in the many or wane ! efhonefly in theyiw. But ext/tljlvc politi j cal information is not to be acquired without 1 much labour, and few have leiftire to (ludy the lyftems, compare the opinions and pc tufe the pages of Locke, Sydney, Gibbon, Hume and Vattel. If an acquaintance with the true principles of government and duties #f a Citizen could be acquired only from luge Mint & diffufe treatises, it would be ieldcm fought or if fought, the plough, the Ittchet, and the saw mufl (land still. Seme theaper and easter means of fatisfying curi eaty and procuring information muff tbere fcre be looked for ; and where is intelligence | tkeapnefs and convenience united with more i Vvantage, than in theclofely printed col- } cans of the humble News-paper ? Our I iwmtrymcn appear so well convinced of lie ufefulnefs of periodical prints and have twiji liberally encouraged them, that we kem it unneccffary to infill on their merit, ,md alrnoft hesitate to request public patron- Jge for another News-paper cffablithmcnt. 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Cd 10 ,en der in their ac cam bi and lh ° ,e indcbtcd are c y Solicited to make im fttdlde payment. MAKYNUVSOM.aJmV 3 l I JXAL NOTICE, v g V SUBSCRIBER noiL y n : ( V ', e *" arr cars to him that j‘V, eir notes and accounts ls ‘ C by the fir It day ‘i mt'er next, they will be p»n Ui j u j t j or ‘“•Ct.'on. v assfr. MIRROR OF THE TIMES. 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 -- Jiurornt [No. 50.]