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‘"■■rli'aiar - > />:;;; the Columbian Mujenm, Fellow-Citizens, I have faicl that Mr. JcfTerfon's c*ordadt is to be juftificcl, by con- it with the. wifiics and expectations of the people. In rurepublican inftitution, vex po * puliJupren:a lex, the voice of the people is paramount to every 4 law. And I may add a bolder „ Axium — vex pop nil y vox Du —the voice of the people is the voice of God. Upon tilde two axioms, the fuvcrcignty, the liberty, the lights of the people arc predi cated. It is a difregard of, or inattention to their principles, that conrtitutcs the only diftinc •• tion between'a free, and tyrannic government; between the op prdTive regulations of Ruffia, and the equal fyrtems cf United America. I will take it then, as conced ed, that Mr. Jefferfon was bound in duty, and in principle, from the nature of the republican Compact, to bow obedience to the voice and lentiments of the people. -But, zt'hat were the voice and Jcntments cf the people , at the pe riod he was called upon to fill the prefidential chair. They may be faid to be involved in the following national addrefs. TO THOS. JEFFERSON, Prefident cf the United States. Fellow-Citizen 1 By our free and unbiased ’ fufTrages, you have been conlti tutionally clotted to the firfl magiflerial Ration of the union. The motives which operated tvlrh US, in fele&ing you for that Ration, WE will concilely Rare. WE had long beheld, with the charaCtcriltical indignation of freemen, the daring anti-re publican views and meafures of the late federal adminiftration. WE difeovered its unequivo cal defign, to bring us again to the level of colonial vaffalage, by ufurpingour individual rights •—and introducing principles, hoßile to the independence and fovercignty of the nation. WE difeovered too, its at tempt, indicated in its meafures in alienate US from the influence of that truth, that the pure and righteous fource of all power— all authority —is in the people. This truth being fubverted, it would have been a work of no difficulty, to reduce US to the condition of human automata, diverted of every fpeclcsof ener gy, lave that which would de- H“d upon the caprice and the the minion, or the dei poc. WE difeovered the princi ples of the adminiftration, taking y faff hold on trie mort remote and fubordinate of its branches; 2*nd that they had began, even ro pervade the body ot the na tion. Hence refulted, from thefe fe veral difeoveries, the imperious receffity, of OUR exercifing thofe powers with which we know ourfclves to be inverted by nature, and nature’s God.— And bv means which WE our fclves had created and of pre< x ftivirg Vot rrdy err t.wntha- 1 rafter and privileges entiie .and : inviolate, byt thole of our pollc- j K i my. Under a conviction of this I necHTity, WE faid, let US bring back our government, to its pure and primeval principles: — let US change our lervants : let US in ffiort, fnaych from the hands of our rulers, the power and the means, which had ena bled them to negleCl them du ties, and to abide our crufts. — AR this was'done.—The TEgcan flails were cleanfed, became* the UrenPth of u 1 lercules dire died O a channel through them. Having thus Hated rlvTe mo tives, and this conduCt, need WE point out our expectations from the prefent organization of the government ? Knowing, however, the vart cffefls, moral and political, with in the operation of executive functions, WE will ftatc in a few words, what WE expeCt will immediately characterize your deportment. irt. A fteady determination in fupporting the dignity, and refpcdtahility of the republican charadter, in our external anil in ternal relations; in order to ref cue it from the degradation, to which your prcdeccffor had re duced it. -d. A fiiperceffion of public j officers, whofe principles and example militate with, and are repugnant to thedodtrines of the conftitution :—this will prove one of the mort efficient engines of our political regeneration*— Thefe are our expectations from you;—WE hope they will be realized. RecolleCt you are the head of a republican nation, and that from US murt flow that great culogium, “ Well done thou good and faithful fervant.” THE AMERICANPEOPI E. Who will deny this to have been the language cf the people at the inauguration of the prefi dent? The prefident hasobey ed it.—LetdifaffeCtion then hide its head—let the tongue of ca lumny be filent.— Ceafe Vipers, you bite ilgainft a file. TIMOLEON. rragtjgnifr -air*** -*^i iiw l n LATE FOREIGN NEWS. I.ONDON, Awpv'ft 8. This day was received in town | a mail from 1 .ifhon. The molt interertingintelligence frcmPor- | tugal by this conveyance, is j contained in the following ex- I traCt of a letter from Lifbon* | dated the 19th July, 1801; “ Peace is eftabliihed between j this country and Spain. The I port is allowed to pafs, and the j communication between the two countries is again opened.” Aupufi 1 o. Accounts from Conrtantino ple of the qoth of June, rtare, that a French flip with cih patch es had been taken bv the Eng lish on its wav from Alexandria to France. Gen. Menon had fent home on board her fix French officers, and a number i of common men, partly on ac- 1 count of illnefs, and partly for j other On its paflage 1 5 pdev'cus (o it' rrpM’re, tie-, •I crew, for 'what rank* it is un- I j known, role open thele officers, ; and murdered them all. By letters from Brunn, cf the I 25th cf July, it appears that | Pallwan Oglou has obtained a; decifive victory over the troops ot the Grand Seignior, who had endeavoured to blockade him in 1 Widdin. PARIS, Aug. 3. The relations of anuty which had fubfifitd between the French republic and the United States of America had been interrupt ed. The convention which re news them is juft ratified by the chief conful, and the exchanges of the ratification by the relpcc tive parties have taken place at Paris. The merchants of both conn- 1 tries had already re fumed their operations with confidence.— The American flag waved in the ports of France, and that of the Republic was well received in the ports of the United Stares and the union of the two nations was a prefage that the two Go vernments would fpeedily come to a good underftandirg. It was like a family quarrel, which fitriple explanation was fufiicitnt to remove. ACCOUNTS FROM ECVfT. | Dc.ure , injpehfcr cf reviews , to the Minifter at war. .. Leghorn , July 21. I left Alexandria, citizen mi nifter, cncifi May. I was tak en by the Englifh frigate la Pique, off Alexandria, and was carried to Aboukir, where 1 ar rived on the Bth cf June, from which I let out on the 2,oth of (tine. At that period, Egypt was in the following lituation : Gen. Me non was at Alexandria, mailer of the lake Marcotis; I le w as encamped on the heights without the walls of Alexandria. The Ergl'fti occupied the pe ninfula of Aboukir wdth a part of their army, having not ad vanced one ftep firce their land- A ing. Thefe two bodies recon - noitcred each other without of fering an attack. The crews of the fhips of war In the port of Alexandria formed the garri fon of that city and the forts. On the 9th of June, the cor vette Heliopolis, which general Gantheaume had difpatched, entered Alexandria; it was lad | en with ammunition and carried : fome troops. It left general Gantheaume at anchor 25 leagues from Alexandria. General Bella!rd commanded at Cairo, having under his corn- i m and, generals 1 .agrange, R o bin, Donzelar, Bron, be c. The main body of his army was much flronger than that at Alexandria. Chef de Brigade Dupas com- j manded in the citadel cf Cairo, ! and the general of brigade Al- I meyrrs at Gizeh. j The Englifh army, under the command of general I lurch ini on was at Ttrranec. The captain ' Pach with the flotilla, was on ! the Nile, oppofite to Terrance, co-operating with the Englifh 1 army. The Grand Vizier was at Belbeis; he had advanced to Cairo i he had been completely J I beaten by general Cciiairc, ar-d repnlftd as tar as Saiahich. Go I ncral Bellaird had been (lightly j wounded in this affair. The Fnqlifh eftimate th ■ r i I lofs in the battles of the E.-, ijth> and 2id of March, at 50co men killed. They a*c much afliided with lore eyes. Ir general Bellaird Lears the corps cf Englifh a: '1 erranee, the Englifh army may find itfilf in a difficult licuation ; Chef de 1 Brigade Cavalier, was n- V. > | coning a conveyor oco camels, I with 500 men, infantry, cavalry i and artillery, had the misfor | tune to be furroundec! and taken 1 ppifoner by the b nglifli army I between Alkam and Terranet. | Thc'garrilons of Damictta anti I Buries, forming together 5 or | 6cc, were alfo made prifor.ers. Health and refpcfl. (Signed) DAURE. EOURDEAUX, July 25. A letter written from Toulon to a merch cli l L of this city, fays, “ We learn that admiral Gan theavme has returned from Egypt, and anchored at Sr. Tropes, near Toulon, after having landed the troeps he had on board at Derna, in the king dom of Barca, in Africa. Ir is laid alfo, that the admiral lias brought with him to St. Trope: # an Frglifh Blip of the line and a frigate. LEGHORN, July 17. Different reports, pofterior to thole which reached us on the 14th and 15th of this month, confirm the news cf the debar kation efid died by admiral Can the a time. PHJI ADEIPHIA, Sept. 5. Ext raft of a letter from an (fficcr cn heard the frigate Philadel phia, capt. Barren, dated cf i the reck cf Gihr altar, fifty 17, to his friend in this city. “ We arrived at Gibraltar on the ill irft. in good health. Wc found there the Grand Bafhaw’s (Lord High Admiral’s) Ihip cl war, and a brig. We continued at Gibraltar only two days. Our commodore (Dale) in the Prefident, and the Experiment, went up the Stieights on a cruize : the EfTex, capt. Pain bridge, took a fleet under con voy and w r e are to cruize at the mouth of the Gut for the Tri* ! poliran admiral, and fhould he dare to venture our, we fhall lurely take him. On the 24th of June, off Cadiz, we were boarded by a Eritifh fleet of 0 j fad ; and on the 30th, going up the Gut we met three French line of battle fhips. On the sth of July, the Englifh fquadron came up from Cadiz, and an engagement enfued, which iaitea with defperate fighting cn both Tides, for four hours. In the evening we were informed that the Englifh had loft one fhip* the Hannibal, and had gone into the Gut, while the French Ei put into Algefiras. “On the 12th inft- at nigut, to windward, we difeovered a great fmoke, and heard a violet!-, explofion. It proceeded It' a lecond engagement bet wet a the Englifh, and French fl*
