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Jr u; Jx f/lDßiflsly July 3.
Arrived the fib op Sally, 3
days from Lilbon —fhc brings
the* following intcbigeqcc — 1 hat
ihe Portuguefe ait* Hill at war,
and that i litre were 20,000
Frenchmen within three days
march of Lifboit, and that they
had taken feveral forts. The
Englifh at Lilbon have applied
to government to know what
they would do —whether they
fhould leave the place or not —
but they had no anlwcr.
NEW-YORK, July 23. _
A letter from Philadelphia,
dated yefterelay morning, men
tions that the fhip . Stafford has
arrived at New-Caftle in 64
days from Newry, with five
hundred paffengers-t-and 100
died during the pafiage.
'—
GEORGETOWN, July 27.
It may not be generally known
that Tripoli is at peace with Por
tugal i and fhould the former
have adualiy begun its piracies
on our it is poffible its
cruifcrs may reach the Atlantic
>n queff of Arhefican vefiels.
\Vc learn that the fecrerary of
fhite has recently received a let
ter from Mr. Dawfon at Paris,
who writes that he had been fa
vourably received by the go
vernment: there, and that there
was a profpcdl of every thing
being fpeedily and happily ad
j lifted.
A letter has alfo been receiv
ed by the fecretary from our
minifter at London, in which he
Hates, that lord Hawkefbury
had informed him, that his ma
jelky having underftood the pre
fident of the United States had
ordered a fquadron into the Me
diterranean, inftrudffionshad been
iffued to the Britifh commanders
of pofts and fhips of in that
quarter to treat the American
flag with refped, and that if the
American veffels lliould at any
time need fupplies, they fhould
be furnifhed from the Britifh
Acres and arfenals.
WASHINGTON, July 29.
\Ve under (land that Mr. Fame
wrote to Mr. Jeffcrlbn, before
lie was defied prefident, Rating
to him a ilrong define to return
to America ; but alfo Hating his
* o
apprehenfion, from information
poffeffed by him, that if he came
in a private velfel, the Englifh
would be likely to Intercept the
fhip, make him prifqncr and
Convey him to England, where
his liberty, and perhaps life,
might be endangered- He
therefore re quelled, in cafe Mr.
Jefrerlon fhould be defied pre
sident, and a national vellel
fhould be fent to France, he
might be permitted to take pal
;/ her for this country.
Phis letter Mr. Idler lon an
fwered, and gave the permiffion
required.
PHILADELPHIA, July 24.
The accounts brought by paf
: fengers in the veffels j uff arrived,
give a piflure of France very
different from any we have feen
in,late.accounts by other chan
nels. They deferibe France as
in an admirable ftate of profpe
rity and contentment within;
v/r and egucuLure ' fJouri-iuag-.
and a general appeal ante of in
ti uftry, opulence and content
diftlifed over the whole country.
A letter from a refpcffable
merchant in London, to his cor
refpondeht in New-York, dated
June 6, mentions, that there
was every reafon to believe Mr.
Pitt would go into office again.
Capt. Burr, from Martinique,
informs, that the foidicry -t that
place were dying fo faff, that
ten negroes were kept continu
ally buly in burying the dead.
Aupifi 4.
The Dagfborough, captain
Smith, in a fhort palfage from
Madeira, arrived here laff night.
Captain Smith Rates, that the
day on which he failed from
Madeira, a veffel arrived from
Algebras, with information, that
in confequence of a decifive
viflory obtained by the combi
ned forces of France and Spain,
over thofe of Portugal the latter
had acceded to the terms of pa
cification offered by the former.
The price of peace is Hated to
be 8,000,000 of dollars—of
which France is to receive 5 and
Spain 3,000,000. The other
conditions of the treaty are not
Hated. The captain from Al
gebras faid that he had feen the
Spanifii account of this informa
tion. The Dagfborough per
formed her voyage from hence
to Madeira and back again in
feventy-five days.
Auguft 5. .
Extradl of a letter dated “ Lijl'in,
June 26 th , 1801.
“ The peace between this
country, Spain and France, was
concluded about the Bth or 9th
inllant, and ratified by the two
former immediately :—The
conditions have not been made
public; however, it is laid great
facrificcs were made in money
and diamonds, befides giving
up Territory in this Kingdom,
Brazils, and India ; and regard
ing Great-Britain, the ports to
be completely Hint to all ikips
of war and commerce.
LOUISVILLE,
SATURDAY, Auguji : 1801.
.--taegaWSiLfogfrwiiMi
Rice fold in London, June 16,
245. 6d. to 255. Cotton, 2s.
to 3s. Tobacco, 4d. to 5 i-ad.
Died, at his Jioufe in Glou
ccffer-place, (London) Briga
dier General Arnold,
Our readers may have obferv
cd in the Auguffa Herald of the
i2th inftant, a tirefome infolcnt
commentary on the Prefident of
the United States anft.vcr to the
remonffrance of the merchants
of New’-l laven, on trie appoint
ment of Mr. Bifhop, inffead of
Mr. Goodrich, to the office of
colleAor of that port —And the
dibngenuous manner in which it
is mutilated, leaves not a doubt
upon our minds of Hobby the
peff-mafter, at Aiigufta, being
the author ol'thefe illiberal com
ments. How long this un
grateful wretch will be fed at
the piiblic expence, thus to in
fult the feelings of the virtuous
citizens of Georgia (for none
clfe but an abandoned bankrupt
rr . f f i t
profit-gate , urto ;u # :cu x:zn
and lories can be p.'ealcd with
Inch writings) u a q’ftftion of
ftfious concern. His infamous
calumnies vented againft the
memory of Dodtor Frank lib—
againft Mr. JefFeribri, and aim oft
every character cliftinguifhed for
republicanifm, during Mr. A
dams’s adminiftration was not to
be wondered at, as he is an
avowed tory, but to keep it up
at this day, and in his fituation
is intolerable.
Alarming abufes have long
exiled in the management of the
mail in this quarter, and to fuch
an extent has the detention and
fomedmes total fupprefiion of
letters taken place, that many
whofe liand writings were well
known have been obliged to
refort to the expedient of dif
guifing them to procure their
letters a clear pafiage, packages
frequently arrive opened, and
newspapers of a republican com
plexion generally take wrong
routs —are deftroyed or detained
until they become ufelefs,—To
fay that Hobby is cenfured for
theft abufes, is a faff of public
notoriety ; and yet if this fame
fellow fhouldbc removed by the
head of the department to which
he belongs and which he ccr
rainly ought to be—-He too no
doubt could procure a remon
ft ranee figned alfo by eighty
tory Britifh merchants.
As fame of our readers may
not have ften the Prefident’s
anfwcr alluded to, we give it
not partially but in full.—And
which fo far from meriting any
kind of cenfure, will be found
replete with all that juftice,
wiftiom and moderation, for
which he lias ever been diftin
guifhed.
The PRESIDENT’S REPLY.
Wajhington % July 12, 1801.
GENTLEMEN,
I have received the remon
ftrance you were plcafed to ad
drefs to me, on the appointment
of Samuel Bihop, to the office
of collector of New-Haven,
lately vacated by the death of
David Auftin. The right.of
our fellow-citizens to repreftnt
to the public funbdonaries their
opinion, on proceedings inter
efting to them, is unqueftiona
bly a conftitutional right, often
uftful, fomedmes necelfary, and
will always be refpebfuily ac
knowledged by me.
Of the various Executive du
ties, no one excites more anxi
ous concern than that ofplacing
the intcreft of our fellow citi
zens in the hands of honeft men,
with underhand in g liifHcient for
their Ration. No duty at the
lame time, is more difficult to
fulfil. The knowledge of cha
mbers po fie fled by a Tingle indi
vidual is of necefifty limited.
To leek out the beft through
the whole Union, we muft re
fort to other information, which,
from the beft of men, abing
difintereftedly and with the pu
reft motives, is fomedmes in
correb. In the cafe of Samuel
Bifhop, however, the fubjetb of
your remonftrance, time was
taken, information was fought,
and fuch obtained as could leave
no room for doubt of his titncls.
From private fources it was
learnt that his undemanding v/a:
mhi i\ii \ I* p # nty pur* ,
charucbrr unftaincd. * And the
offices confided to him within
his own (late arc public eviden
ccs of the eftimation in wj.ic i
he is held by the ftate in c<
ral, and the city and town (hip
particularly in which he live!
He is laid to be the town clerk*
a juftice of the peace, mayor cf
the city of Ncw-i lavrn, an office
held at the will of the Lemlla
ture; chief judge of the court
of common pleas for New-Ha
ven county, a court of high cri
minal and civil jurifdi&ion,
wherein mod caufes are decided
without the right of appeal or
review; and foie judge of com t
of Probates, wherein he ling)/
decides all quefbons of wills
feitlement of edates, teftate and
inteftate; appoints guardians,
fettles their accounts, and in
fadl has under his jurifdiftion
and care all the property real
and perfonal of peifons dyin?.
The two laftoffices in the annual
gift of the legillature, were civ
en to him in May lad.
Is it poffible that the man to
whom the legiflature of Connec
ticut has lb recently committed
trulls of fuch difficulty and map
, , o
nitude, is, 4 unlit to be the
collector of the diftrld of
New-Haven/ tho’ acknowledg
ed in the fame writing to have
obtained all this confidence ‘ by
along courfe of ufefulnefs ?’—
It is objected indeed, in the re
monßrance that he is 77 years
of age ; but, at a much more ad
vanced age, our Franklin was
the ornament of human nature.
He may not be able to perform
in pcrlbn all the details of his
office; but if he gives us the
benefit of his underfianding, his
integrity, his watchfulnefs, and
takes care that all the details arc
well performed by himfelf or
his neceffiary afliftants, all pub
lic pur poles will be anfwercd.
The remonftrance indeed does
not alledpc that the office has
been illy conduced, but only
apprehends that it will be fo.
Should this happen in event, be
allured I will do in it what fhall.
be juft and neceffiary for the pub
lic fervice. In the mean rime he
fhould be tried without being
prejudged.
7die removal, as it is called,
of Mr. Goodrich, forms another
fubjedl of complaint. —Decla-
rations by myleJf in favour or
political tolerance, exortations
to harmony and affeftion in lo
cial intercourfe, and refpedl for
the equal rights of the minority,
have, on certain occafions,
been quoted and mifeonftrued
into affiurances that the tenure o(
offices was to be imdifturbed.
But could candour apply Inch a
conftrudtion ? It is not indeed
in the rcmonftrance that we find
it; but it leads to the explana
tions which that calls for. W hen
it is confidered that during the
late adminiftration, thole who
were not of a particular
polittrs were excluded from a
office ; when by a Ready ptir
fuit of this meafure, nearly tie
whole offices of the
States were monopolized by tna.
fefl; when the public km7
merit at length declared i_
and burfl open the doors OHO
- and confidence to
