About The Louisville gazette and republican trumpet. (Louisville, Ga.) 1800-1809 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1801)
" tm ... mmmm LATE FOREIGN NEWS. I.ONON, Auguft 10. Government, we underftand, suc in hourly expedatiou of feme : portant communication from L:a. c, relative ro the pending iKgociations. Mr. Addington’s nil'in:atom is by this riine before the confular government. The teihmsare plainly and unequivo cally dated, from the effcntinl point of which he pledges him fclf not to recede. Nothing certain has yet tranfpiredon this mbmentuous fubjeft, further 'than that the Britiili cabinet are determined to treat on no other conditions, but inch as will give perfed fecurity to their coun try, without the necefTity of happening a large and expenfive military eftablifhment. PaJJzvm Cash's Vitlcry. A letter from Brunn, dated fuly 25, llates, u That Pafiwan Offloads retreat to Widden was A feint to induce his opponents to block him up in that fort refs. He has nolWbiight die great bat tle which formed part of his plan. The blockade is railed, and. the troops of the Grand Seig norhave been either cut to pie ces or difperfed. In execution of his plan, Balkan Ogiou lent over to the enemy, a large num ber of his moft devoted adher ents. Soon after this, he made a fully with the reft of the gar rifon, and while the Grand Seig nior’s troops advanced againft him, the adherents of Paffwan Ogiou took him in the rear, and placed them between wo fires, in fuch a manner that the greateft part were killed on the fpot — the reffc were compelled to be fake themfclvcs to a disordered iight.” WILKESBARRE, Augujl 24. The hon. court of Oyer and Terminer, &x. commenced -their fcfTions in this place or Monday laft. Much important bufmefs was before them. The curiolicy of the public being ex cited, a larger concourfe of people attended court than is ufual. His honor Judge Brufh add re (Ted the Grand Jury in an appropriate charge. William Lathrop, from Dut chcfs county, (N. Y.) was ar raigned at the bar, on the charge of RAPE, committed on the jBth of April lad, at Tioga point; to which he pleaded not Guilty. Several very refpeda ble wiim iTes were examined on the part of the Commonwealth, and arguments for and againft tne prifoner adduced ; when the jury retired, ond after a fhort abfence, returned with a virdid of Guilty, Tll Jay morningwas aligned for the prifoner to hear his lentertce, which the proficient pronounced in the following words; < f W Uliam Lathrcp, you have been indicted and convided of a rape, upon the perfon of Anna Makens , accompanied with cir cumflances of peculiar aggra vation and horror. To accom plifh your brutal purpofe, you had recourfe to fuperior fliength. and outrage, and overpowered the unfortunate worna?, ac lad tn ccr.icquence ct her. It appears you are a married man, with feveral children. You knew alfo the profecutrix was a married woman, and Rife ly took advantage of her huf band’s abfence, to perpetrate the crime. You committed iikewife a burglary, in breaking and entetin.o ’:.hc ho’ufc, in the O * night time. To the atrocious offences of rape and burglary, you have, added the breach of your marriage vow, have ruined a virtuous woman—polluted the bed of her hufband—and robbed the family of its d'omdtic hap pinefs. A more complicated 5d of wickedneis fcklom occurs in the annals of juridical hiftory. Of your guilt, there remains not the fmalldl doubt, in this opinion, all are united. The court, the jury, the bar and fpeChitors, all concur in a fixed belief, that you perpetrated the crime. Ir is therefore extreme folly to exped that any declara tions of innocence will induce a mitigation of your punifbmenr, or procure a pardon of your of fence. Under fuch circumftan ccs, a denial of your guilt, ferves only to fwcll the catologue of your fins, by adding deliberate falfchood to the number. Had your crime been com mitted a few )ears ago, an ig nominious punifbment under the gallows, would have been vour undoubted portion; where you would have died unpitied and unlamented, a juft victim to in jured humanity, and the laws of the country: Such a creature as you are, is unfit for fociety. An enemy to chaff icy and virtue, you are more depraved than the favage that roams through the wilder nefs, and, in feme refpeds, are worfe than a murderer. Heat once puts an end to life ; but your crime leaves the fufferer poffeffed of exiftence, embitter ed by the reflection, that the moft fpotlefs innocence cannot wipe away ail lufpicion of guilt, or reftore to the wonted con fidence of her neareft relation: Though you have committed an injury thus great and irrepa rable, 1 am forry to obferve no figns of fname or remorie in your behaviour. On the con trary, you exhibited, during your trial, every appearance of an unfeeling and abandoned charader, You could not but fee, what every body faw, the ’deep diflrefs of the woman, while fhe was giving evidence, yet you infultingly defined, that ibe might look at you. Her agonies on the trial, Teemed to be fport to you. Like a mon ger, you feafted on that mifery, which your own villainy had cccafioned. Viewing you in this unfavou rable light, the -court think it incumbent on them, to propor tion your fentencc to your guilt, as far as they can. by the law on this luhjed, they are autho rized to inflict imprifonment at hard labour for any period not lefs than ic years, nor more than 21. This difercrionary power is veiled in the court, to be exce eded on proper occafions, and :r. their oplnidrt, the magnitude 1 of your offence calls on them to make you an example, as far as the law will warrant. The court, therefore, do fen tence and adjudge, that you un dergo an imprlfonmcnt at hard : labour, for the period of 11 i years and that you be fed, I clothed and in all reflects, treat | ed according to the direction of i tiie act to reform the Penal Laws of this Hate, and that you be placed and kept, 5 years out of the faid 21, in the ibiitary ceils, in the penitentiary houfein I the city of Philadelphia, and be I fed on low and coarfe diet, dur ing the laid five years ; that you pay the colds of profecution, <stc. PHILADELPHIA, Sept, 12. A NEW ORDER OF THINGS. Since the days of terror, it has been the fafhion of a notorious faction to adopt certain phrafes from any of their daring or def perate creatures, which might ferve as watchwords for the whole of their fatellltcs on the continent. For a while public credit was the watchword given* and received. This originated with Hamilton; and was intend ed to blind the public again ft the nefarious robbery of the poor foldiers warrants; this watch-word continued with grea ter or Id's eclat through the whole of the intrigues of the lafb eight years, and began to nag with the 8 per cent loan * the clamour was railed again at the laft prefidential election, and it was with great gravity publicly declaied, that the firft flops of the Jefferfon adminiftracion would be to overturn tht: fund ing fyftem, and dcflrpy public credit! This watch-word has loft currency, for even S. Blodge t, allows it,to have been all a Barn ! They took order and regular go v e rn m e n t d 11 ri n g J ohn A d am ’ s occupancy, and that continued to be roared cut, while Lifton was feafting and bribing the fe nators, while Dr. Morfe was preaching up chemaftacre of the crew of the ocean, and attacking the Free-Mafons by means of a robbery committed on a Lodge in Virginia. To carry on the work of order, a woman drench ed the head of an infulcnt tax gatheier with warm urine, and to preferve order and regular government, Gen. MfPhcrfon was lent to quell his hot-water war, with Goody Harper as Iris aid-de-camp; the friends of order robbed the hen roofts and dairies, took dinner without pay for them; twenty or thirty Germans were committed to pnfon, and judges worthy of the Inquifition or Star Chamber, were found ready to extend the law of trealon againft men inca pable of the fentiment; fome were condemned but none were hanged, but fome died in prilbn —This was the grand drama of order and regular government. 1 Some lubordinate pieces were performed, fuch as the Lancaf ter troop of horfe feizing upon Sneyder, a printer, and taking him cut of pure love of order to the market-houfc, and Bogging him. The humane aid-de-ctoro of gen. M‘Pherlbn, (Harper,) did indeed oblerve in extenua tion, the man was not ab - fo Intely naked, for he had his Ihirt on. The editor of the Aurora ai fo dared to fay what had been done by the friends of order, and thirty of them, among whom was a Britifh half-pay officer, four or live bankrupt characters,,, IbiTJcnoted gamblers and fwind lers, and thefc cut of pure love of order and regular govc rnment attacked him in a body, and one of them afterwards commenced a profecucion againft the Auro ra man, upon a lufpicion that the laid Aurora man did wifh to provoke this friend of order to manuel combat. And another of the thirty commenced a pro fecution, becaufe the faid Auro ra man had laid that the friend of order had gone out of town, and that his affairs had been in the hands of the fheriff. Another evidence of order and icligion and regular govi rn ment —Mr. Adams proclaimed a fail~-and the Aurora man of that day, dared to print the Aurora even upon that day, and behold the little great man was wroth— and forbid the paper be ing lent in future—and on the fame evening a noted friend of order, Joe Thomas, yclept, with a drawn fword, and a gang of friends of order, aflailcd the home of the Aurora man, and j the children were feared—out of ! pure love of order, religion and ! regular government. And about the fame time—> out of pure love of order, an agreement was entered into in this city, that no friend of order fhouid purchafe from any de mocrat any article in trade, that no working man who was a de mocrat, fhouid be employed by the friends cf order; and this prefeription was extended ail over the continent, to every deferiptionof tradefmen —mere- ly out of love of order and reli gion and regular government. The love of order was indeed carried fo far, that when a per fon was convidbed of a breach of lav/ and fined, he had his fine paid, and he was fent on a 1 pe dal million by John Adams, who had proclaimed the fall for our manifold fins. This cant word however, be came fo ridiculous, that the peo ple diffmiffed the patron of order and regular government, and choofe in his room a democrat. The friends of order for 2 long time maintained that “re - pubiicanifm meant any thing nothing”—John Adams broach ed this dobtrine, the friends c. order practiced upon it, but the people have taught them, the. it means fomething. Accordingly a new order Ot things has taken place, and re pubheanifin meaning fomething. the Portable Foolery has been checked in its vindiAivcs, a 1 it has been agreed that tho who faid republicanifm - any thing or nothing, lhah ■ prefs their contrition and hum I lity, they adopting the Vf ' l / I name which they had conterru •• I Accordingly we now find V friends of order, once mom I
