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iff n\.rh ot ihsnimal, he makes f;ni;ir .experiments, and this j vr.' the way John took. Hit brain was teeming with projects to overturn the liberties of America, and the re pit tentative * * fylkm of government, and lie began by hinting it in little companies. The leorctary of John j yy, an excellent painter and a poor political!, told me in pretence ofanothn American, ‘Daniel Parker , that in a com pany where him felt was prefenr, John Adams talked of making the government hereditary, and that as Mr. Wafhington had no childien, it fliould be m a*le he reditary in the family of i.und V.\alhii)gton. John Lad not impudence enough to propole himlclf m the firit inftance, as the old French Normanday Baron did, who offered to come over to be king or America, and :r ccrgrcfs did not accept Ins ofihr, iliac they would g.vc thirty thouland pounds lor die gentroficy ot it; but John, like a mole, was grubbing his way to it under ground, lie knew that .unci Vv afhnjgwun was tin known, for no body hearer of him, and that as the pi c Indent had no children to luccccd him, the vice-prefldtnt haci, and if the treafon had fucceeded, and the hint with ir, the goldfmith might be lent for to take mea- Jure of the head of John or his ion Q. for a golden wig. In this cafe the good people of 31 olien might have had for a king the man they have rejected ns a delegate. ['he repreten tadvc fyftem is fatal to ambi tion. Knowing, as I do the confurn- j irate vamty of John Adams, ! and the fhallownefs of his judg ment, I can cafily piblurc to myleif, that when he arrived at tin Federal City, he was ftrut tir.g in me pomp of his imagi nation before the prducnual Ironic, or in the aud.ence hail, end exulting in the language of Ntbuchadnazzer, <c Is net this gf sat Babylon that I have built for the honor cf ray majefiy /” But in that unfortunate hour, or loon after, John, like Nebu chadnarzer, was driven from among men and fed with the fpeed of a pod horde. Some of John Adams’ loyal fubjtfls, I fe, have been to, prefer: and add refs him on his birth-day ; bur the language they 1 ule i. t>m tame for the pcciific n. Birth-dav addrelTes, like birth- i day ode -, fliould not creep along like drops of clew dow n a cab- | bage lent, but roll in a torrent of poetical metaphor. I will give them a (penmen for the next year. Here it is. When an ant, in travelling ever the globe, lift up its fun and put it again on the ground, it fishes the earth to its autre , but 'ushai TQU the mighty Put cf the Kofi was her;:, (Pc. Lu c. C:e. and the centre jumped upon the fur fcce- This, gentlemen, h the proper ftvlc cf add refs from well-bred ants to the monarch of the ant-hill, and as I never lake pay for preaching, praying, politics o“ poetry, I make you a pretent of ir. Some people talk of impcaching John A dams, but I am for ibtecr mea- I fures. I womd keep him to I make fun of. lie will thenan ! f.ver one of the ends for which he was bom, and he ought to j be thankful I am arrived ro ! ta!;e his part. I voted in earn ■ <ft to lave the life of one un ! f rtunate kinrr, and I now vote , , «■ > I in j< ft to lave another. It is I my fate ro be always playing I with fools. But to return to federalifin and apoftacy. The plan of the leaders of the faff ion was to ovenhrow the liberties of the new world, and | place government on the cor , rupt fyftem of the old. They ' wanted to hold their power by a more Jailing tenure than the I choice of their condiments. Ic j is impollible to account for their j conduct and the meafures they i adopted on any other grounds. | But to accomplilh that object I a Banding army and a prodigal revenue mull be raffed; and to obtain thefe, pretences mult be invented to deceive. Alarms of dangers that did not txfff, even in imagination, but in the dire6b fpint of lying, were fpreud abroad. Apoftacy Balk ed through the land in a garb of patriot! fm, and the torch of rrealbn blinded fora while the flame of liberty For what purpofe could an army of twenty-five tlioufand men be wanted ? A fmgle rc fleffion might have taught the moft credulous, that while the war raged between France and England, neither could fpare a man to invade America. For what purpofe.then could it be wanted ? The cafe carries its own explanation, it was wanted j for the purpofe of dtflroyrng the reprefentacive fyftem, for it could be employed fornoocher. Are rhefe men federalifts ? If they are, they are federalized to deceive and deftrov. The rage againft Dr. Logan’s patriotic and voluntary million to France, was excited by the fhame they frit at the detection of the falfe alarms they circulat i ed. As to the oppoficion given by the remnant of the faff ion to the repeal of the taxes laid on dur ing the former adminiftration, it is eafily accounted for. '['he repeal of th ffe taxes was a ten tence of condemnation on thole i who laid them on, and in the opr ft non they gave to that re -1 peal, they are to be confide red in the light of criminals (landing i on their defence, and the coun try has pa fled judgment upon j them. THOMAS PAINE. City of rl afkington, I.cvel s blot el, Nov. iy, 18 02. N O T I CIT NINE months afterdate, ap- I plication will be made to the i | i lon. Inferior Court of Burke j | County, for leave to fell two j ; hundred and fifty acres of land in I j lj «d County, on Chevers’s | ! Creek, adjoining [ohn Patter ; 1()n > fen. and Chriftopher Bal ! bird’s lands, the real eftaie of ! Nathaniel \v hitaker, deented, for the benefit of the heirs of | laid dcccafed. Agnes Whitaker, Edrn'x. BEN J. \V HIT AKER, Adm V* . Aiigufi y, 1802. I, O U I S V I L L E, IVEDXSSDJT, n=ctra tr 15, ISO 2. OHIO. TheJeventeenth flute rf the United States. Chilicntha, n. w. t. Nov. 6. The following is the preamble to the conllitution as reported by the Tcle6t committee, ta ken op in committee of the whole, and agreed to. WE the people cf the callern divifion cf the territory of the United States, Nordi-wdl'of the river Ohio, (having the right of admiflion into the general government, as a member of the union, confident with the conditutionof the United States, the ordinance of Congrefs, of one thoufand liven hundred and eighty-feven, and the law of Congrefs, entitled “ An ad to enable the people of the eaftern divifion of the Territory North Weft of the river Ohio, to form a conftitution and date govern ment, and for the admiflion of fuch date into the union on an equal footing with the original dares, and for other purpol'es,”) in order to cftablifh juflice, pro mote the welfare, and fecure the bleflings of liberty to our felves and our pofterity, do or dain and eftabhlh the following conftitiition, or form of govern ment, and do mutually agree with each other to form ourfrlves into a free and independent date, by the name of the date of Ohio. From the A m e r i c a n Patriot. Mr. Paine has add re fled him fclf once more to the American people, with all the patriot; An and fpirit of ('orrmou Senfe and the Rights of Man. His letter in this day’s paper, difplays that energy of principal and vigor of mind, fo peculiar to this great man, and which have already made fuch impreflions on the enemies to freedom in Europe and America. Ik, Tides his new productions, which Mr. Paine promifes to the public, we hope foon to fee a correct edition of all Ins works reviled by his own eye. We are pleafed to fe.e with what dignity the author before us, walks over the Federal ours of America, fcarce deigning to gkmce at this puny ana balbrd breed, which is only calculated to make a noife and wear collars, the badges of their flavery and dependence. The Americans, we believe, are as yet ftrangers to Mr Paine’s mechanical genius, but there is reafon to dunk, that in this, he will aftonifh the world, as much as he has done in poli tics. He is laid to have along with him a model of a bridge, D J which is really curious and An gular—probably feme of the Tories may have to croft the budge one of thole days, on their return for Nova-Scotia. ft i.C Torie c , Ance the com mencement of the prelent ad rninillration, have difeovered that the greater the lie, the left the LißEi.j and the government leems to have given them a pa tent during four ye ts (or this ncv invert ;on, as it is dercrmin ed to puls them by with filtnt contempt. Ky this the pater.- tecs have lulled in their fpecs Mr. Paine could not arrive at a more auiplcious period than at the prelent, when the people are almolt all recovered front t*'.e tielu!ion cr Monarchy ! H conftquence of this 'happy change, one of the fonndeis of American Freedom, will natu rally meet with that reception, Ins talents and patriotifm enti tle him to. We know full well that the Britifh Arnolds y and the little yankee tcries in the printing cjjices, will yell and bark m their ufual tone —but thefc dogs, after all, can do no more than make a noife and fnari at every honed; man that pafTcs by. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 6. We are informed that the Executive lias received advice, that the port of New-Orleans has been doled again!! foreign veflels from the ocean,including American, anti that the right of depoficing American property there has been prohibited, with out an y ocher eflabliflimentbeing atiigned in lieu of it. The righ-; to export property before de* P ( 'fi.ted was excepted from the prohibition. I liefe regulations, fo contrary to our treaty with Spain, were pnblifhecl, at New-- Orleans, by the Intcndant, on the 17th of Oftober lad. I EGIIORN, September 1. Ihe lofs of the Americans tr.au landed near 1 unis feema very much exaggerated, as it appears that not more than four hundred were made prifoners by the Barbarians ; the number Ended could not amount to twe thoufand men. Mikamt VA.i UH«m’ xut rwim «»'?» * TO THE PUBLIC. HAVING called upon Mr. Fields Kennedy, nf G re cue County, to make fatisfabtion to me for an irreparable injury done my brother’s family ; and chaftife him for his treachery towards an unfufpedHng femai , Mr, Kennedy has refuted mo that fatisfablion which is ufual If expected upon fcch occations. I beg leave therefore to fubmit it to the impartial public, whe ther to the catalogue of his enormous crimes, he has not alfo added the character ot an infamous and bate coward. Andrew Hemphill. September 9, 1802. The SUBSCRIBER BEGS leave to inform bh friends and the public m general, that he has lately moved from Louiivillc to Savannah, where he has taken Mrs. Shi ver’s large, airy and commodi ous Houle i which lias a good yard and liable?. Its vicinity to the Market Square makes it an eligible fituation as a Board ing Houte for country gentle men, with whom he has here tofore hail a pretty executive acquaintance in that line ; t’’ 1 whole patronage lie hopes uH to meric by his afllduous atten tion. JOHN BARRON * November 2, 1802.