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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
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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.
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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