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Colm a inn »trpt after him.
The military force was now ve
ry strong and became concen
trated around the carriage, which
drove up Albemarle street, Bond
street, into the New Hoad Ma.
Ty le-Bone, and along Finsburn
to the To *»*r The troops of
of the horse guards preceded the
carriage, and several es them rode
along side. A regiment of lighi
horse immediately followed the
carriage, and the rear was
brought up by a very flrong
body of the life guards. The
cavalcade, as it proceeded, ex
cited wonderful interefl, and
the crowd attending it increaf
cd to such an extent, that by
the time Sir Francis Burden
reached the Tower, the crowd
had blocked up the Minorics,
and all the flreets in its vicini
ty, and it became impofliblc
for cert or carnage to pals.—
All the (hops were shut, and
all bufinefswas at a (land. On
the whole line to the l ower,
the immense concourse of pco.
pie in the rear continued shout
mg and hollowing, and the
troops were hooted and infulied
with abusive language by the
populace as they passed, while
prayers and praisers were be
llowed upon Sir Francis.—
The military bore the abule
very patiently, although lome
of them appeared to have been
mahtcated, their clothes being
belpattered with mud ; one of
ihe guards fullered much in this
way, his clothes were covered
with mud and he was cut in the
face. Bclides the force
that accompanied Sir Francis
Burdett, a rigiment of the foot
guards proceeded up the
<S'trftM(l t about half pad 11, for
the l ower, and every poUiblc
precaution wastaken to prevent
riot and preserve the publick
tranquility. The number of
troops which arrived in the
metropolis and its immediate
vicinity in the course of
yclterday is estimated at 10,-
000.
The following letter will
shew the sensation that has
been excited in the neighbor
hood counties:
Brighton April 8.
This place was yesterday
thrown into some alarm, oa ac
count of an exprels which ar
rived about half pad 2 in the
afternoon, with orders for the
fouth Gloller militia, imme
diately to match for the metro
polis ; the news loon spread by
drums beating to arms, and the
men in the courfe.of one hour,
were neaily all eifembled on
their parade ground, in the
rtotth of the town, and at four
o’clock they proceeded on
a forced march to Byegate, a
dillance of 33 miles, a large
concourse of persons were pre.
lent at their departure. The
51st regiment received their
route, lalt evening, & commcn
ccd their maich fiom liorfham
at twelve at night*
Grave]end, April 8.
The 52c! iegiment paired
through this town between 6
and 7 this morning, hnee which
pan of the 95th, (rifle coips)
and another rigiment, have
palled through, which I hope
and trull will secure the me
tropolis front the dilturbances
with which it[is threatened.
, The Penh and buckmgham
fhirc regiments of milita have
*narchcd off fftrm the cadle
and heights with all fpced for
Canterbury, from whence all
the regular ttoops there are, it
is laid, proceeding to London.
(ECONO EDITION.
Globe Office, 8 o’clock.
The amllery ate planted on
the ramparts of the tower, the
fcates ate doled, and no person
is admitted. The populace are,
in a great measure, dtfperfed,
and there is no appearance o!
farther riot.
THIRD EDITION,
4 o’clock.
All is quiet in the city. The
troops, alter leaving fir Francis
Burdett at the tower, did not re.
turn through the city, but went
over London bridge, through
St. George’s field-., and over
VVedminlter bridge, to the horse
guards, &?c. where they arrived
at 3 o’clock. All is also quiet
about the Paaliamcnt house.
The Weflminfler volunteers are
ordered toairemble around the
house of Commons, to protest
the members to and fiom the
house. There is not, however,
the lead appearance at present
of any mob.
The pan of the troops which
was attacked on their return
from the tower and obliged to
fire on the populace, was the
rear guaid.
The regiment of light horse
that followed close to fir Fran
cis Burdin’s carriage, was the
15th light dragoons, the duke of
Cumberland’s. It was com
manded by lieut. Col. Grant.
Captain Cochrane, the brother,
belongs to it.
Globe office, 2 o’clock.
Upon the return of the troops
from the tower, the mud and
ttones from the populace began
to play on them in showers.
Opposite the Trinity house they
could endure the alfau't no lon
ger, but charged the multitude
(word in hand. The firing of
ihc cat bines became now pretty
general, and numbers of the
people fell: The corned con"
tinued all the way up Fen
chutch ttreet, where a iliot err
tering the shop of Mr. Good
eve, a boot maker, 43, killed a
man in conversation with Mr.
Goodeveat the time. Another
(hot penetrate 1 into a warehouse
opposite, but did no milchief.
We heard of 11 or 14 killed
and wounded, among the for.,
nter were the men above menu,
oned—a poor old bricklayer,
in the service of Mr. Thomas,
(hot through the neck. Os the
wounded theie is one shot in
the groin dangerously—Willis,
ol Johnltreet, Blackfriars, thro’
the foot—another in the arm,
carried to Davis, a surgeon on
l ower hill, and many wiih la
bre wounds.
The bank, the mansion house
and all the shops in the flreets
in the city, leading to the tower
are clol'ely (hut up. It would
be impoltible to get within a
mile of the Toiver.
From the Enquirer.
To the Republican party U
THKCENTINEL—No. V.
THE essay to which I have aL
ready' referred as having been
generally ascribed to Mr. l{an*
tlolph, contains a reflation on
Mr. Jefferson which deserves no
tice. The writer addressing him-'
self to Mr. Madison, savs—“ Es.
pouse them, (Mr. Jefferson’s
measures,) and they btconie your
own. You indentify j outsell
wiih him, who with a full and per”
sect knowledge that he was about
to surrender into your hands •
beggared exchequer, ami 'that the
deception could be kept up twelve
months, after his retreat to'the
mountain, gravely came forward
in his laV orticial address to Con
gtfess, and to the nation, affecting
10 be embarrassed with the sur
plus of our revenue, and pretend
mg to tax the ingenuity ol the
Legislature, not with raising sup
plies which he well knew to be
then wanting, but in devising ways
aud means to rid the country of
the burthen of a redundant treasu
ry. A man who died (politically)
with a in his mouth. It is
on Tocorc 5 . It is deposed in Hie
atclHvei rs this country ! ’ I his,
1 suppose is one of ibose “ strong
facta ” for which Air Bronson,
and the other Federal I'ditors
thought those essays worthy of
republication m their papers.
Here again I cannot help ask
ing if it he pos-lhle that Mr. John
Randolph panned tins paragraph !
Is it possible that a man, proless
ing the proud and high sense of
honor which he does, can be capa
ble but I will not follow the
example which has been set me.—
[ will only say that tins writer,
whoever he is, wants either the
di'Cerument or the candor which
are essential to an instructor ol the
people. More anxiety about the
truth t,f his fa-.ts, and less about
the eloquence of his periods would
h*vv given him the respect of the
wise and virtuous, and might have
laid the basis of a lasting reputa
tion ; to this, it seems, he lias
preferred the transient breath of
admiration from tlie ignorant and
prejudiced. Why did not this
gentleman quote that passage
from Mr. Jefferson’* “last official
address,” on which he founds this
charge of deception ? it ui'ghr,
indeed,have disturbed thehainio
ny ol his sentences ; hue it woftld
have atoned for this, by thr su
perior candor of the proceeding,
and by enabling the people to judge
tor 'themselves. But tt will lie
presently seen that such a quota
tion would not have answered the
writer’s purpose ; on the contrary
it would have exactly defeated
H at purpose, by shewing to the
plainest understanding that the
charge was without a single atom
of foiindiitioil.
Before I proceed to examine
this “ last official address” of Mr.
J<. fferson, 1 beg permission to note
that parage in this writer in which
he refers to Mr. Jefferson’s retreut
to the mountains. This is obvi
ously an allusion to the old calum
ny of Mr. .Jdffers oil’s tffesfe’rting
his post, when Governor of Vir.
gmia, on tho invasion of Arnold,
and taking refuge in the moun
tains. 1 am not about to enter
upon an examination ol the truth
of this Charge j for I am perfectly
convinced that those who advance
a know ft to he false ; they cannot
have lorgotten, that ten years ago
when this charge was played oil
with so much zeal from the federal
batteric# against the rising pupu.
larity of Mr. Jefferson, it was met
by a sentence of the Virginia Le
gislature f a sentence, passed upon
a full examination of this subject,
at a time when the facta were all
rtet-nt, and the evidence ail upon
the spot; and a sentence wuich
went not only to the acquittal of
any censure, but conveyed to Mr.
Jefferson the thanks of the House,
on behalf of the state, for the zeal
and firmness with which he h ac ]
watched over the public interests
committed to his charge. These
men have not forgotten, that in
addition to the proof furnished he
lms sentence, several most respect
tabic gentlemen, (and among oth
ers, Col. John lUrvie, not then of
me lepubiican party,) shocked at
• l charge so unfounded and shame*
lul, came lorward of their own
accord, and, through the medium
ot the public press, from facts
which bad passed before their
own cyt-s, furnished the most con
clusive evidence of the scandalous
falsehood of that charge. N OV7 1
appeal to your candor, and ask
you what we arc to think of men,
who, in the teeth of all this evi
dence, go on to repeat this charge
just as if no answer had < ver been
made to it; anti more especially
I a9k you what we are to think of
the dignity of this minority gen
tleman, who, in order to entry fa
vor with his new de
scends to the humble office of be
ing the second hand retailer of
their stale and exploded calumnies.
But this incidental allusion to
the mountain retreat, was a very
Hi ingrtdient in the general charge
of dtception with wnich it is min
gled ; for that charge itself it cer
tainly one of the boldest perver
sions of fact that has ever happen,
ed even in thi* age.
The charge, when stript of its
thctorical flourishes, is simply this
—that Mr. Jefferson in his last
message to Congress, represented
the Treasury as being full when
lie knew it to be empty, und affec
ted to propose various means of
jetting rid of this redundancy,
when he knew that there was a
oecrssity of raising supplies. l'his
's the charge ; now what is tile
fact ?
Mr. J fferson commences the
part u( his message in question, by
stating that the receipt* of the last
year had amounted to near eig i
teen millions of dollars, which
with the eight millions and a half
in the Treasury at the beginning
of tf?e year, had enabled him, after
meeting the current demands and
interest incurred, to pav two mil
lions, three hundred thousand dol
lar* of the principle of our funded
d-b’. »* Os these,” he adds “ five
mdiions, three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars will bs necessary
to pn what will be due on the
first dav of January next, which
will compleat the reimbursement
of the eight percent s’cck.’’ Thus
so far from representing the Trea
sury as overflowing, he shews the
amount which would he in the
1 reasury on the first dav of Jan
uary, 1500—to wit ; about ni.ie
millions of dollars. He thru pro
ceeds to sta’c that—“ These pay
meats, with those mad 1 * in the
six years and a half preceding, will
have extinguished ‘l.iriy diree
millions, litre hundred and eighty
thousand dollars of the principle
of the funded dibt, being the
whole which could b* paid or
purchased wiihin the limits of the
•aw, and of our contracts, and the
amount of principle thus dischar
ged, will have liberated the reve
nue from about two millions of
dollars of interest, and addud that
sum annually to ihe disposable
surplus.” It is to be remember
ed that Mr. Jefferson was now
writing his farewell address, and
considering his determination to
retire, and his time of life, it was
the last address, which, it could
be expected he would ever make
to that body as President. In this
situation what \Vas more natural
than to look beyond the present
moment, to the time when the
freedom of our commerce should
be restored ; and judging by the
experience of the six and a half
preceding years, to anticipate the
period wiie.i there would bs no
public debt to which the anhual
surplus of revenue could be appli
ed • i lie subject which he was
then upon, and life situation in
wtiich he stood, led him most
naturady and directly to such a
course of thought ; and it is only
in the prospect of the restoration
of commerce, and, of course, the
wonted revenues of the country
that he contemplates the existence
an annual surplus, and propo
poses to Congress the various
means of using it lor the public
B^oJ.
Tbege avc bis words immediate
ly following the sentence above
quoted.—l he probable accu
mulation o( the surpluses of rove*
nue, beyotul what can be applied
to the payment of die public debt,
wheneto er the freedom and safety
of commerce shall be restored, mer
its the consideration ot Cotigrtss.’’
Now although he is here, in ex
press words, speaking of a proba
ble accumulation ot surpluses
which may occur, hereafter, when •
ever the freedom and safety 0 j
c ommeue shall be lestored. this
disingenuous Writer represents him
as speaking of an existing surplus
now on hand 1— Mr Jefferson pro
ceeds thus, in the next sentence;
“ Shall it lie unproductive in the
public vaults ? Shall the revenue
be reduced f or, shall it not rather
be appropriated to the improve-*
mems of rotds, canals, riveis, ed
ucation and other great founda
tions of prosperity and union un.
der the powers which Congress
may already possess, or such a
mendment of ttie'Constituiion as
may be approved by the states ?
While uncertain of the course of
things, the time may be advanta
geously employed in obtaining the
powers necessary for a system of
improvement, should that be tho’t
hobl. . X his is the whole passage
—and it is on this patriotic antici
pation of the future, that Mr.
John Randolph, or whoever else
is the author of Philo Laos, has
given the lie direct to a man who
has grown grey i n the laithful
and zealous service of his country.
Lehold here, a *pecini«n of federal
candor and dignity l A» e these
the men whom you would invir*
again iato power ?
Will this writer o»- his federal
echoes, ask me for this promised
surplus of revenue ?—• I a«k them
u arc the freedom and safety cf
commerce restored ? u Since it „
r.n this evetu and no other, that
Mr, JeffVrtou bottoms the exne<;*
ration of any such surplus.
But as to a present surplus , so
fir was Mr, Jcli •jrson from statimr
the existence of any such, that a i.
ter showing the balance actually v ">
in the Treasury, he comm mi
cates the report of the Secretary
of that department; a report foun
ded , not on the prospect of coin,
mercc being restored, but on the
state ot things as it really existed,
and on the prospect of ihe contin
uance of that state ; and that report
»va a so far from promising a sur.
pi us of revenue, in case of *
continuance of the obstructions t 0
commerce, that it proposed a loan
or an inert-* e of duties, as render
ed unavoidably necessary by those
obstructions. And this exposi
fion of the state of the finances
the very same in substance with
that of
Philo Laos comments, as taking the
nation by surprizc % was made on
the lOch jJecetnber, 1808, a year
and three mouths before Mr Jef
ferson’s retreat to tin: mountains.
.So vanishes the charge of de
ception against the late Presides,
of the United States. But what
will you say \o the disingenuous
writer who advanced it, and his
equally di3ingeuous supporters f
Who, some of his Supporters are,
in the city of Richmond la State of
Virginia,* the cause of truth aod
justice may, hereafter, make it
proper to enquire.
[• And over the whele U. States.—Edit)
From the Royal Courant ot
9th April*
TREATY.
His wajejly the Emperor of the
lrench,and King oj Italy,
and his Majejly the King of
Holland.
Wishing to put an end to the
differences, which have arisen be
tween them, ami wishing to render
the independence of Holland to
correspond with the present cir
cumstances into which the orders
in council of England, of 1807*
have placed all the maritime pow
ers ; have agreed—
Ait. I Until the English go
vernment shall have officially with
diawn the restrictions, contained
in her oidcre of council of 1807,
all trade whatsoever between tho
ports of Holland and the ports of
England is prohibited.
In case particular reasons should
make it necessary to grant licen
ces, only such as are delivered in
‘he name of the Lmpeter shall be
valid.
2. A body of troops of eighteen
thousand men* three thousand
whereof are to be cavalry, and
consisting of six thousand French
and twelve thousaud Dutch, shall
be placed on all the mouths of the
rivers, together with officers of the
trench custom house, to watch*
‘hat the contents of the preceding
article are put in force*
3. These troops are to be main*
tamed, fed and clothed by the
government of Holland.
'U All vessels transgressing the
first article, which may be taken
by french men of war or priva
teers, shall be declared good pri*
zes, and in case of doubt, thedif*
ticuUies can be resolved by bis
Majesty the Emperor only.
5- 1 he restrictions in the pre*
ceding articles contained, shall be
withdrawn, as soon as England
shall have withdrawn her orders
*n council of 1807. And front
that moment the French troops
shail quit Holland, and leave to her
the lull enjoyment of her iode*
pendcnce.
His Majesty the King of
Holland, in order to co-operate
witli the forces of the French
Empire, shall have in the road a
squadron of nine ships atid *l*
frigates, armed and provisioned
lor six months, and ready to go
to sea by the Ist of July next, and
also a flotilla of one hundred g“ n
boats or other vessels of war.-
This force shall be maintained
and kept in constant readiness