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‘ f ( nnntrli ge ntfrlends 'would 1
" T thii.k bo fatisfied with my
“ mmitting the fubftance'of
<< my confidential commnnica
“ rion to you to be made known.
<c The critical circumflances
“ under which t give it to you,
<c j 1:1V e jollified me to my ll It.—
*< I o give the exact terms of
« of my letter, may involve
*< mein very ferious perfonal
r( inconveniencics % hut it you
“ have rcafon to export colu
“ fion be tween Burr and Og
“ den and that engagements of .
<c fccrccy have been made by
t( others, yon had then better
tf authoi ife a literal publication,
,f and in cafe Ogden denies the
fC facts fated therein, you are
<< author!fed by me to give the
“.name of , as the high
char after alluded to,
“ as the writer of a letter to j
« Wafhington, and on which
tr mine was predicated. I made
“ a mernorandum at the time.
“ I thought I had taken the
t( date, but I well recoiled: it
(t was in January. If Ogden
(liould prevaricate, and this
ff become nccyflary, it would
<r conform with my willies that
“ you figr.ify to my
“ name.
u I am able fully to eflabUfli
“ the fad, I can hardly think
“ he w ill lend his weight of re
“ putation to countenance fuch
“ extreme profligacy.—But we
Cf ought to fuppofe nothing im
tr poflible, when we confider
• <c the firong motives of party
“ policy which may exill for
u ’difguifirg the tranfaftion.”
<£ Ihe public will now be
anxious to know the name
of the u high federal charac
ter” who wrote the letter from
this city, to an influential mem
ber of congrefs, detailing the
negociation. Ihe name is dill
a myftery. It is eminently
due to the gentlemen to whom
the two above letters were ad
drefled, and who has kindly put
copies of them into our poflef
lion, to fav that he has not
communicated to us the name
ofthe f< high federal charader.”
Yet w r e are in pofltfliion of a
variety of facts derived from
a multiplicity of fourccs, which
do mere than enable us to con
jefture, with conflderable accu
racy, the name of the “high
federal character.” We there
fore date it as our deeded opi
nion, and on which we think
the public may with fafety rely,
that General Hamilton is that
high federal character.”
[Other facts are mentioned at
great length to fhew that Gen.
i lamilton was the federal cha
racter alluded to, and that the
conduct o* Col. Burr and his
friends pending the election,
was fuca as might be expected
under Inch circumflances. 1
MEW-VORK, t • i.
The notorious John Wood,
who ran-away from this city to
avoid profecution?, is now at
Richmond, Virginia, editing a
federal paper there. Jr appears
that Callender, w-hofe Recorder
is printed in the fame place, is
fearful that Wood will furpafs
him in infamy. Wood calls
Callender a fccundrel, and Cal
lender declares that Wood me
rits a gallows !
M-. B ut Ins written to Mr.
Ogden, requefling him to cer
tify that the information which
he gave to Gen. Hamilton cf
their negociation, and which
the <reneral communicated to a
O
leading federal'}ft in Congrefs ,
was founded on common report.
Mr. Ogdrn objects to giving
Mr. Burr a ccrt.Hcaie. He
lays he was fincerc when he
communicated to gen. i lamil
ton the terms of his negociation
with Mr. Burr ; that the general
predicated his letter, to an influ
ential member of Congrefs , upon
thole terms, and that he was
precife as to the pbrafeclogy of
the queftions propounded to,
and tuc anfwers received from
Mr. Burr —iie is forry Hr Mr.
Burr’s fituation, but cannot cer
tify any thing contrary to gen.
Hamilton’s letter, led in the |
event the general fhould be
brought into a difagrccable di- ,
lemma, with a general as illuf
' o
trious as himfelf.
it is believed Mr. Lincoln, !
the attorney general of the Li
nked States, will be the repub
lican candidate for the vice
prelidency at the next eleftion.
Amer . Citizen.
j
November 2.
Extra ft cf a letter from r '-.um
ber of the legislature of New
\Jerfey, dated Center, Oft. 28.
“ i he It g flature r.a t in join:
meeting tins afternoon, every
member being prefent. The j
votes were for Governor —Ri- |
chard Stockton, 26; Jos. Bloom
field 26. For Senator, Aaron
Ogden, 26 ; John Condit 26.
No choice being made, it was
unanimoufly agreed that the
joint meeting fhould rife. No
day is at prelent thought of far
another meeting ; it mud de
pend on circumflances.”
The following intereding extraft
has been handed to us by a
commercial gentleman of the
fird refpeftability ;
Extra ft cf a letter from a rej
feel able mercantile houfe in
Bcurdeaux, dated Sept. 6th ,
to their corrrespondents in this
city.
<c France will not make a
commercial treaty with Eng
land ; the latter takes it in dud
geon and appearances look low
ering—that is to fay, fomething
like a rupture.”
LOUISVILLE,
WEDNESDAY , December 1, xSos.
1 Died, near Auguda, on Sun-
I day the 14th inftant, John E.
| Anderjon , Elq. attorney a: law.
j Died, at his feat in Pendleton
1 di drift, on the 26th ult. in the
j 53 d year of his age, John Ew
ing Cclhcun , Elq. Senator from
j the date of South-Carollna in
the Congrefs of the United
1 States.
i ...
It is reported that the mar
| quis de la Fayette, is dead.
It is laid that Mr. Stcek,
i comptroller of the U. S. trea-‘
j fury, lias reflgned his office.
In Delaware, notwlthftandlng
I Mr. Rodney’s cleft ion to Con
grefs, the legiflature is yet fedc
r&1, and it Is Tup yc fid Mr. IMy
ard v.’ill he appointed to the
United Stares Senate.
In Vermont, Ifrael Smith,
efq. a firm republican, is ap
pointed a United Stares fenator
for fix years from March next,
by a large majority. [Bee,
Mass \ smitsetts Election
For Keprefentdtives in Congrefs.
On the id inft. 17 kepre
f. ntatives were chofen. The
following dialidts are heard
from.
Suffolk, including BcJJcn.
Dr. Kuius, republican, 1899
J. Adams, federal, 1840
59
Euftis clewed by a majo
rity of 59
Ffex South Difiria.
Jacob Crowninfhield, re
publican. 1400
Timothy Pickering fed. 1293
107
CrowninSnield e V elcd
by a majority of 107
Thus does it appear that the
lafl hoj. c of fedcralifm o blafted.
Its mafTy pillar is lhaken; it
rotter;-, and the period of its
downfall is a: hand ; and One of
greater ft length and beauty, the
pillar of republican! fin, 1 lies on
its ruin. John Quincey Adams
and Timothy Pickering, both
mighty men of the Eaft, have
been declared unworthy cf the
public confidence. 1 hefe men
excluded, in vain will the op
ponents of the adminiftration
look fur talent in the remaining
federal members that may be
chofen. However diligent the
learch, it will not be found.
In Bofton, two prints have
made a firm and fuccefsful (land
againfc a rm flamed Palladium,
and a treacherous Ccntinel ; and
in W crueller and Salem, Ipi
rit and inte >1 gcnce Pave pre Tid
ed over the prints.
The whigg fm of fcventy-fix
has been awakened, and its ef
fects in'this ftare, as in every
other, have been moft power
ful. Nat. Intelligencer .
John F. Mercer is rc-elccled
Governor of Maryland, by a
great majority’. The votes aie
a criterion of the ftrength of
parties, and fhew the vaft; afeen
dancy of republicans.
Samuel J. Potter, the pre
fent Lieutenant Governor of
Rhode-Ifland, a firm republican,
is elected Senator in the Con
grefs of the United States for
fix years preceding the 3d of
March next, in the room cf
Theodore Lofter, who declined
a nomination.
During the feffton of th' 3 Ge
neral Aflembly of Rhode-Ifland
a committee was appointed to
count the votes for reprefenta
tives to the eighth Congrefs—
They reported the number to
be for
Stanton 2604
Knight -598
Potrer 1633
Tillinghaft 1636
Confcquendy Gen. Jofeph
Stanton was elected by a majo
rity of 97 1 votes, and Nehcmiah
; Knight, Efq. by a majority of
' 962. Thus republican!fm has
triumphed by 071 majority.
Extra. 7 if a *<>y.er fry'' Fbila
de/phia, dr yd 0::.
“ Abllrnct of the Tennfyl
v?bi (Five counties,
all republican, not yet received.)
<c Governor M'Kearns elect
ed ; majority twenty-eight tiion
land tnree hundred and forty
eight ; 28.348.
“ Stare Senators, (republican)
eight elected.
C
“ Members of Concrrcn
D *
(republican) eighteen elected.
The federalifts will not have a
fingle member in Congrefs.”
“ Houfe of Aflernbly 79,
(republicans) ejected. Fedc
raliiF, Houfe of Adembly, 9
elected.”
It is quite amufing to the Re
publicans to fee how the Feder
al ids are at loggerheads and dogs
ears , abjut names; they are
wrangling among themfelves,
refpefting what title they (hall
now afiuire: anti-republicans
(their proper title) they refute
to ware ; ari doc rats and tories,
they like Hill led, they there
fore chofc the term, fecleialids,
which the republicans, without,
corned, gave up to them; but
having brought this appellation
iruo difrepute, they are now de
termined to dtake it off, and
vi et minis > to take the name of
republicans; but as there ap
pears fome little difficulty in
their obtaining this, take the
liberty to recommend one to
them, which we prefume, they
will all chcarfully unite in, and
which, we believe, the D—l
himfelf will not contend with
them about—We recommend,
that they be, hereafter, recog
mled, denominated, anddiftin
guifhed by the name of C a len
der ites. \_Pcl. Barometer .
Fxtract of a Letter
From Cbarlcttfville , to the editor
cf the Virgina Argus , dated
September 24 th, 1802.
“ Avery novel decifion took
place in the diftrift court at this
place a few days pad. A con
iiderable number of prefent
ments were made by the grand
jury, moftly for unlawful gamb
ling. Amongft thofeprefented
a Mr. W. G. G. againd whom
fcveral prefentments were made
at fome of the preceding courts.
The grand jury being adjourn
ed over to the feccnd day, he
was again prefented for open
ing a pharo bank the preceding
night; the court iffbed a pro
ccJs and had him taken and
brought before them, and after
binding him in a recognizance
forhisgood behaviour for twelve
months, with two fecurities,
proceeded to try him under the
vagrant aft, when he w r as by
the court deemed a vagrant, and
committed to the cudody of the
fheriff to be delivered to the
overleers of the poor, and by
them to be fold, for the term
of one month, for the bed price
to be had, and the money to be
applied to the ufe of the poor
of theparifn. It is fincerely to
be wifhed that this example of
the dldri£t court may be fetidly
followed by all our courts hav
ing jurifdiftion over fiich cafes,
tnac fuch mortifying examples
may be a fufneient warnin';
to deter others from the ruinous
p raft Ice of gaming.”