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VOL. ll.] GEORGIA, LOUISVILLE Publifhed every Wednefday, by AMBROSE DAY Sc JAMES HELY, at 3 dollars pc, ann. payable half yearly : Vhere Ellays, Articles of Intelligence, Advancements, Sc c. See. aie thankfully received, and PRINTING in all its variety, is executed with neatnefs and dilpatch. The readers of newfpapers ■ure generally anxious to know , what the news is, and after tak- j ing up a paper and reading it, \ :fnothing extraordinary appears, I many will perhaps throw it down amiin, and declare that fuch a paper is not worth a taking. It would feem as if the Ed* tors of newfpapers was under an obli gation to fabricate news when none really exilled. If fuch were conficlcrcd the duty of an Editor, he might at the ftate of Georgia, and travelling Northward, cal culate, with great accuracy, the Votes which will be given for prefldent at the next election. If he was a genuine republican, and had obferved with any con fiderable degree of accuracy, ¥he exifting (late of political fen .timent, he would declare to his readers that the Hate of Georgia tvould furnifh four votes for Jef (prfon, the republican candidate. South-Carolina would be declar t ed to give eight votes on the iidc I of democracy. I In North-Carolina the friends of republicanifm could not fail at nine votes ; unlefs Britifh in fluence had fpread itfelfover the country, it is more than proba ble that this refpedbible number I would be encreafed. Tenneflec and Kentucky, I thole democratic Hates, border- I !ng upon our Wellern Waters, I Vould be declared by fuch de- I inocratic Editor, decidedly* in I favour of Jefferfon, and confe- I fluently, from thefe two Hates, I an accdfion of feven votes would I he given to the interdls of li- I herty. I In the Hate of Virginia, the I ground for rejoicing would be- I Col Tie extreme to a republican I Editor, when it was confidered an abfolute certainty, that ■ twenty-one votes, in that Hate, ■ are added to the interefts of A- I African liberty. I In Maryland, toryifm would ; a hue and cry, and declare ■ him to be infane who fhould ■ jjiakc his calculations in that j ■ pate on the fide of democracy; m) n the bell information would ■‘ r duce a belief that that Hate contribute feven votes in ■ ivc J r °f a republican Prefldent. I The Hate of Delaware, from i ■fvlcnr fads, would be confider- K as doubtful. The Hate of W-nnlylvania, powerful and rel- c h‘ble in numbers and demo- j jß**' ’/» would be declared ready willing to furnilh fifteen in favor of the republican j ■pedate; and it is certain that | •filing can prevent this from ; W-King place, but the corrupt : m K abominable §riftocrac y of | THE LOUISVILLE GAZETTE; AND REPUBLICAN TRUMPET. W E D X E S D A Y, December 10, 1800, LIBERTY IS OUR MOTTO AND TRUTH OUR GUIDE. three or four lenators in the ftate legiflaturc. This is an evil, however, that the prefent election will probably remove, and Pennfyl vania will have her juft weight in the political interefts of the union. . New-Jerky, wavering be tween hope and fear—influenced by different parties, and diftracH ed by various political opinions, cannot be calculated upon the fide of republicanifm. New-York, twelve votes in favor of Jefferfon and liberty. Connefficut, politically con ftdered, rather in a hopelefs con dition, but promifing to do bet ter —votes, however, aryfe fur rendered to the oppofite party. Rhodc-Ifland, always in trou ble. Maffachulefts, departed from her firft love which fhe cfpouled in the year ’75 —gone over to the Britifh party, and determi ned to fupport as Prefldent a man who is in favor of the mo narchy of England. New-Hampfhirc againft a republican Prefldent. Vermont, in a hopeful condi tion, but not to be calculated upon'at prefent. After going from Georgia to New-Hampfhire, fuch Editor would find an aggregate amount of eighty-three votes for the virtuous and the republican Jef ferfon—he would then ftate the whole number of votes in the United States to be one hundred and thirty-eight, and then leav * his readers to calculate the ba lance. \Am, Cit.] From the New-Lon don Bee of October 11. Alexander Hamilton, Vierf us, John Adams. We have in our poffeftion a pamphlet of fifty four oftavo pages, printed by George F. Hopkins, in New-York, with this title, “ Letters from Alexander Hamilton, concerning the pub lic conduct and charaffer of John Adams, efq. Prefldent of the United States.” This book contains the moft grofs and libellous charges againft Mr. Adams that have ever yet beer publifhed or heard of, un der the fpecious head of “ great and intrinfic defeffs in his cha racler, which unfit him for the office of Chief Magiftrate.”— Want of time will not permit us to make any extraffs until next week. Though it is print ed* it is expected it will not be publifhed until after the election, when Mr. Adams being no lon ger Prefldent, the author will not be amenable under the ledi tion law, of which the whole is unqu< llionably a moft violent and unparelleled infraction. Mr. Hamilton’s view (though he alfo confefles hunfelf to be the advo cate for C. C. Pinckney, as he was formerly of Tho’s) appears to avenge himfelf on Mr. Adams for a long continued diflike of Mr. H. and for mentioning him as belonging to a Britifh party in this country, “ a charge,” fays Mr. H. in a letter to Mr. A. on the fubjeff, dated the ift inft. which is l< a bale, wicked calumny, deftitute even of a plauftble pretext to excufe the folly or mafle the depravity which diClated it.” The anxiety which for fevc ral days paft has prevailed upon the lubjeCl of Mr. Hamilton’s pamphlet, Teems now to be allay ed in pare by the appearance of the pamphlet itfelf. It has ge nerally been faid, that this coun try is divided into two great po litical parties, but it appears at prefent that there are three, and that the party which heretofore oppofed the principles of n pub licanilm are divided, and that their efforts are direCled point edly in oppofition to the political intereftof each other. This is evinced by the publi cation of Mr. Hamilton’s pam phlet, in which great exertions are made to prove that Mr. Adams is unworthy of public confidence, and ought not again to be chofen Prefldent of the United States. The principles and the character of this pam phlet will be eafily difeovered by a perufal of it—it is marked with a feverity againft Adams, and the moft pointed approba tion of Pinckney. The real fpirit and defign of the thing appears to be the elec tion of Pinckney to the office of Prefldent. In the event of fuch an arrangement, Mr. 1 Ta rn ilton for fome time paft, lias loft his credit and his influence among thole who arc denomina ted American federalifts, might become a favorite under the ad- of Pinckney, and be reinllated in his political dig nities and emoluments, from which it feems he has been hurled by the perfecutions of which he complains. The feverity of remark which he has employed againft Adams, tending to bring him into difre fpeft and contempt, and to dc ftroy the confidence of the good people of thefe ftates in his ad- miniftration, would have* fub jeded a democrat to federal pro'- fccution, condemnation, tine ami imprifonment. It may be true, as Hated iji this pamphlet, that Mr. Adams in his adminiftration has frequent ly equivocated and changed his opinion ; that he has Hiewn a want of firmnefs, and an incorr- Hancy which renders him inca .bable of performing in a ufeful manner the duties of a republican ptelidentj but if this be true, of Mr. Adams, there aie Hill Hronger objedions lying againfb • Mr. Pinckney from Mr. I lamiT ton’s own Hacement. The ground and fpirit of thar encomium which is be How cd upon Pinckney, are to be difeo vered in his indubitable attach ment to the Dritifh government and Britilh mcafures. Ihe Hrong objedion againH Adams, notwithHanding it is proved that he is a monarchal, is, that he? fometimes yields to confidera tions favorable to the French Republic, and delays or thwarths the great monarchical objeds which have been fo dear to the heart of a J farnilton ever flnco he propofed a monarchical form of government in the federal conHitution. No man who has any acquaintance with politics can poHibly miHake Hamilton’s object—if lie now calumniates Adams and extols Pinckney, it is becaufe the latter is more de voted to the fpeedyeHablifhment of a monarchy than the former; but the republicans will cafily difeover that neither Mr. Adams nor Mr. Pinckney are to be truHed, and that Mr. Hamilton's condemnation of the one, or fuifome encomiums upon the other, can poHibly tftrarge the public mind from the faithful performance of its duty. This pamphlet has not the IcaH relation to the promotion of the republican intcrcfts of this country. It is intended to gratify party refentment, and promote monarchical views. LONDON, Otttber 4. The negociations between America and France, has been brought to a conclufipn, and a convention of amity and comv mercc was finned on the tirHr inHant, at Paris, by the French and American plenipotentiaries, CHARLESTON, Bee . 4. Capt. Smith, of the Sarah, from Ncw-York. informs, that* the Portfmouth frigate, captain M‘Neil, with the American commilTioners from France, waa going up to New-York* wherv he came outs £No. 96.
