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ARGUS. «t Here TRUTH unlicem'd rrings, And dare accost' e'en lings themselves ...Or rulers of the free.” MILLED GEVILLeI TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1810. Massachusetts Election. The votes for all the towns (ex cc*[)t 20 which were at the laft elec tion about equally divided) are re ceived, which give the following rc- fult— • For Gerry 47,418 Gore 44,265 Repub. majority 3,835 Shewing atepub. nett-gain of 5,679. Nat Int. of which in defceftdinj;, lodged at the top, which caufcd it ro Hide from the (lump, and completely wedged him between the falling tree and a- nother. In this diftrefiing lituation his loud cries rbnt the air, which were heard at feveral miles diftance, but were not recognized as fignah. ofdiftrefs. During his confinement, nearly four hours,' he had the pre fence of mind to fix fomething to the neckof his faithful dog, on which he put fome blood. The-dog wem home, but his badge was not per ceived unt : l Mr. Stewart, alarmed at his fon’s long abfence, fet out for the woods, when the dog evinced e- vident dcmonfiraiions of joy, by al ternately running before, returning and fawning. When he was difeo vere'd by his father, he was fpeech- lefs. He was immediately liberated, and after procuring a (leigh, removed home. His thigh bone was much fradtured. Hopes are entertained of his recovery. Bojlon'Pap. We learn from Rhode-IGand that 'the republican candidates for Go vernor and Lieut. Governor are-e- le£tcd by coufiderable majorities, & that a majority of the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives are repub lienn. ibtd L tverpool, Sunday Afternoon, February 25 I write to apprife you of one o -the molt calamitous events that has occurred in this town fince the me mory of man A charity fermon was to be preached at' the old Parochial ‘ church this morning, when about ten minutes before the ufual tim" of be- , ginning the fervice, the Iteeple and fix bells fell, the former carrying the whole roof of the church with it, and buried iii the ruins a great part of the congregation that had already . afiembled It is not yet known how many people have perifhed, as the ruins are not half removed ; but a- bout forty dead and mutilated bodies have already been extricated from them. The poor charity children, we fear have fullered moft, as they were feated immediately under the centre of the roof. A feene fo af- I Hiding, I never beheld ; the heart- The fiiip John Avlams with dif- patches from Mr. Pinkney has ar rived in the Delaware —The next mails will probably put us in pof- fefiion of information relative to the true (late of our affairs with the Eu ropean powers. Lyncbtsrg Star. More Twi/itng and Turning. « I told yon so," fay3the anglo-fe- Jernlifls, on feeing the kings fpeech, 4« we always faid England was de termined to treat us as friends'’ The fad is, they have traverfed the whole political compafs, and may be quoted for, oragainll themfelves, , renc |j n g cr i es 0 f the relatives of the Strange as it may 1 * . 6 - . - - the" people of this country than myfelf. There neverwas a mea fure adopted more deleterious in its operation on the morals and intereft of the people.*— The (ingle effect of it has been to deprecate the ftaple commo Tity of the 'country at the rate )f an hundred per cent* and ex alt the Britifh manula&ures in the fame ratio—to make cotton Cell at eleven cents a pound, and to make the. growers of rtqsay fourteen dollars a yard for broad cloth. Look at the practical operation of it. A cargo of cot ton from a fouthern port is land ed at Amelia ifland. If BritHh goods are there - ready to ex change, they are taken in ex change for the cotton, and fmug- gled into the country. II there be no goods “there, th-y bring back no return except the h eight for the (liort navigation to -A- melia ifland. The cargo is land ed, a duty of eight per cent paid on it, bolides commtfiions, &c and a duty of eight or ten per cent- more on re-exportation, and that freight- the Britifh drip- holders chufes to demand.—* This is not only the eftett of the non intercourse. It mult be the effect ct every fyltem of com mercial reltndion (hort of the meafure o( embargo ; becaule all the penalties and fan&ions one am willing to get rid of non intercourfe and not fubfli- tute any thing for it. To ob tain this objeft there is no mode left but to concur with the Se nate in their amendments, and ftrike out thofe clanfcs which can have no other effed than to perpetuate the fyfteru of non intercourfe. Ext raft of a letter wrote at Wajh-. ington City. , ' It has been very much of a complaint that Congrefs have done nothing ; but like all pee- vi(h complaints thofe who utter doubtful whether they weak! L contented in any firutnion. A- mong ail the nations of the eart!, we are the happieft, and the btft off, yet there are thofe among us who want us to be better than the bed;, and more happy than the moft happy nation ; thus violating all the rules of political grammar, and all the maxims of ^hutnan life. It is no difgrace to us that we cannot coerce the eldeft & moil powerful nations of the globe. The ftronger will, in physical force, forever domineer over the weaker ; and nature has counter them do not inform us what i balanced this neceffiry ineqoa- fhould* be done. It is true one writer ftateS his plan, and that perhaps, is war : another has his proj.>ft, -and in all probability that is preparation for defence : whilft athird contends for naked non-iuterccmrle or non impor tatton. I am for my part a neu tralift, and I do not think it of fo much importance how we preferve oUr neutrality. And although Congrefs have, in re lation to foreign affairs literally done nothing yet, as that doing of nothing has not conrpromit- ed our neutrality, it is perhaps, the wifeft thing that could be done The PrefidetfPs policy was I think, the bed policy, to wit, to keep the door open for which you can poffibly devife • negociation, and to prepare the for carrying that lylletn into o i country lor defence. Had this lity by cunning in hi ures and by wifdom in men. Policy there fore, and not war, is the true weapon for America at this time. War would (how that vie have fpirir, but would it dewion- ilrate that we have underilartd- ing ? Let ddpondency, then,, be banilhed from the vepablicaa bofom. So long as the crime- of our Congrefs is that of doing nothing they are fafe enough. It is much, eafter to do a thing right when nothing has been done, than to do it right aftei^ it has been done wrong. Clarion. From the Lynchburg Prefs. To gWe with certainty the news, which flaflv.'S continually with electrical rapidity from con- peration mull operate on a clafs plan been lteadily fupported in tinent to continent in fucccffive on every point 'appear, the <lifmiff.il of Mr* Jackfon has produced the mod friendly notice of America, that has ever appeared in any fpeech of his mod gracious majedy. Let John Bull a£t well as be-now talks, and his calves in this . countr y will country no Bcjlon Patriot. Marriages /...Since Napoleon’s divorce, the Englifli prints have not allowed the updart to have an hours Nap! They have married him to the princefs of Saxony—next day to Catharine of RulJia— the next to Ferdinand the 7th’s iider—and lad of all to the Emperor of Audria’s - daughter J Lord have mercy on us ! if the little Coifican has net work cut out for him move than he will able to flitch in twelve month ! They had better, in charity, fend him over the Prince of Wales and Duke of York, as Aids de camp. Aug. Chron. Gen. Wilkinfon on his way to the feat of government, touched at N Orl eans and there took a wife with a golden fleece. This reminds us of Jackfon’s expedition to Colchis ! The general might have nights of pleafuie, but we fufpecl he has days of trouble before him. Ibid We dated in our lad that Gen. darted to Wafhington City. A cor- rilpoiulent fuggeds to us that his dart to the fcaffold will not he his Ld —He believes his final dart will he to the bottomleft' pin—The Ge ncral, it is rumoured has fent a com munication in cypher to old Charon to know if Spanijb dollars pafs cur- lennt in his country. Columbian Cent. APPOINTMENT. 'Die Hon. Stanley Grifwold, who v/as much perfecuted by the feder- t bits in New-England, during A- dams’s adtriniftration, and whoaf-, tcrivards underwent :,11 die fury of Governor Hull, of Detroit, a treis buU Ya too republican, has, we are plea fed to fay, been appointed bv the Prefulcnt of tlie Hinted States, one of tire fvapreiue fudges of the Illinois Territory. ibid. A fop of Mr. Charles Stewart, of Sedgwick, (Mas ) was employed a lev,' days flace in falling trees, one dead and of thofe unfound, and the dreadful groans of the unhappy fuf ferers, were too much for human nature to fuilain. All the laborers, and many tradefmen of the town, are digging'in fearch of the fufi'er- prs.u. and. 1 funpofe to- morrow wg tune — A net her letter ofthe fame date.fa\s— “ Had the accident happened a quar ter of an hour later, when the con gregation were afiembled, there is no calculating to what extent the mifehief would have been. The fo- licirous inquiry, and anxious looks of parents, wno feared fome of their children might be found among the dead, together with the cries and moans of others in the rubbifli, pre fented a fcenc too awful for deferip- tion. Mr. TROUP’s SPEECH, On the b:ll concerning Commercial Intercourfe, ffc. r March 27, 1810. 4 Mr. Troup faid it was the ob ject of gentlemen to get rid all commercial reftrittions, they could only do fo by concurring with the Senate. If they ad hered, their object would indeed be defeated. The non inter courfe would be iaddled on the country as long as the law con- Van.Poffenbutg had dartedirom Or-, itinued in operation- Look at ]eA, ' s 10 I^I'iniore. He has fince the feSionsof the bill as it went irom this Houfe (faid Mr. T ) It is true that one of thefe fe£ti ons repeals the non intercourfe; but it is alfo true that another feclion fubftitutes a meafure, which if retaliated, muft revive the non intercourfe in faft. Not only are thofe provifions incon- friltn?, but another feftion of the bill recognizes that incon- fiftency, and provides a remedy by authorifing the Prefident to execute the law within four leagues of the coaft by employ ing the public armed veffels of |the U. States to drte£f fmug- glers.—Nowl fay, fir, that the amendmentof the Senate, which goes to the deftruftion of thefe k&ions has for its obje& the de ft ruflion of the non intercourfe law. Sir, no man contemplates the non intercourfe law in a light more ferious as an evil to without the reach of thofe pen-1 congrefs, there would have been aides, people who are without neither the appearance of delay ; your jurifdidbion people too who nor of irreloludon. ' But, fir, e- will tell you m the plained lan ! very member feemed to have guage they have no country, his own little notions of things, that they are governed by no and fo there has been nothing fentiment of honor or principal performed. So that our fitua- of patriotifm, that commercial tion is not vrorfe than it was, if gain is the foie objeft of their , it is not better, confideration, and mat every o j The danger 6t leglflating on ther bbj . tl will be facrificed to foreign aftkirswasi that we might it. Does not every day’s expe- \ b t - legiflated into a hobble which the truth T& at the common I which woufocolt uTa’great dfal praflice and habits of thofe cal led fliip owners. Are they not every day lending their veffels to the Britifh merchants for the purpofe of violating the conti nental policy, to the French, Dutch or any other merchants, for the purpofe of violating the- Britiih orders in council, or to Britifh and French merchants (or violating the laws of their own country ? Ana is itpofiible, fir, that you OXpeft to execute with any degree of fuccefs a lyf- tem which is to operate on the of blood and money. When a legiflative body moves it does fomething ; and it is fortunate if that lbmeihing is not harmful. I proteft to you, that 1 do not perceive how we could oe in a better fituation than we'are, con- fidering the prefent ftate of the world j and by luck, it feems, reveifion, would require a ge nius more exalted, and a mind more expanded, than the hum- ble writer of this ferip, would affume to poffefs. But it is not neceflkry that every readerfliOukl be acquainted with our political relations with Great Britain at this uncertain conjecture, nor e- ven with the fentiments of the people of England.—Let it be admitted that the majority of the men r»f rhnt kingdom, nnd fuch as are not biaff d by party pre judices, or impelled by ir.fereft- ed motives, are convinced of the reClitude of the Executive of the U. States in refufing to negociate with their late mini- fter Mr. Jackfon. That the rights of our government are conclufively maintained.—And that the imperious hauteur of their agent has received a much to operate on this clafs ? It is inipi flible ; fuch a fyftem muft be futile and efficient.—Becaufe, 'we are precifely where the moft enlightened wiidom could have more’ fevere condemnation in placed us. I England, than has been uttered Hot heads, Valiant hearts and againft our Executive by odious noijy tongues, all fweil up public envy hsrfelf, though excited by K ... , . - . .. pride' to a-height of fpirit which difappointment, or Britifh gold. belligerents, when the penalt.es would be admirable m a corps Let it be faid it is enough t^ for a violation of the yftem are of grenadiers juft about to llorm inhabitants of that Ifland defire clafs . It is a fortrefs but the exigencies peace, and if the people demand of thefe times require fomething it, their will muft ultimately .t T ... f more than political or military prevail inany country—that they then I am dtfpofed to get nd of courage. Cool, fober, folnienfe are heartily tick of their ruierl ,!°n d iSH caution > fo i ef 'S ht ^ nnlefs fome unexpected good dlfcretion are neceffary to re-; fortune fhould attend their mi- deem us from a fituation in ' ferable armies, a friendly adjuft- which one fall'e Hep may ruin -ment may be expe&ed. Still I our hopes forever. | would afk, can fuch a nation be fort of commercial reftri&ion, conceiving it injurious only to ourfelvcs, can it be faid that I am difpofed to fubmit to the or ders and decrees of belligerents ? Becaufe the executive has not : confided in, who aie” juft, then No nr, tnofe gentlemen have precipitated or infifted upon what' only, when misfortune and ilk u tendered the rights and in- 1 are called ftrong meafures, he projeded expeditions place them erefts of the conntry who did , has by fome unrcfle&ing perfons in a ftate of humility ? By a rsl‘ originally fubmit to an abandon-1 been denominated timid. But! fercnce to the correfpondence ment of the embargo. It is true ; thefe judges of prefidential fit- ! between Madifon and Stnrk, now, and it was true then, that | nefs know very little of the : publiflied in the Lift Prefs, witii coiiflitution of human nature if j which I heartily concur, it may they call uaimpaflioned rational be feen what the voice of Stark forbearance, timidity. It requir es! more ftrength of mind to re- fift impreflions of anger under there was nothing between you and the Britifh orders-in council but embargo or war. You re pealed the embargo and refufed to go to war, and now as then •there is no remedy fliort of war , injuries, than to fall into a violent or embargo. Propofe what o-; paflion on every occafion, and ther remedy you pleafe, and it 1 threaten death and deftrutlion, is only calculated to excite ridi- j without in reality being able to cule abroad. If you propofe fo do any thing. The Prefident, convoy what ? it will be afked I conceive, has done his duty ; will you convoy a trade to every quarter of the globe with fix, eight or ten frigates ? If you pro- pofe to arm the merchant men— what ? it is alked will you arm your merchant men againft the Britifh navy ? If we are to have neither eu'.bsrgo or war* I for and although Congrefs have po- fitively done nothing they have negatively done good ; for thev have not plunged into a fyftem of war or a fyftem of fubtnifiion. Such impatience as is manifelted by fome writers, is a bad omen. It goes to prove that it is very declares we ought to expect from either of the belligerents. 1 Domeftic improvements then fliould occupy moft of our at tention. In tins fource of wealth ccnfifts our national harpiiufs and independence. What body of citizens are moie indepen dent, and who are happier thru the banner or the Planter who lives within hhnfclf. Let us maker exertions to incrcafc lifts fan;ro of happmefsand vcalih. Of all the live flock common i * -a form, Sheep arc the moft prolific, Jrsfo exper.five and moft un lul. Ma ny advantages ccrfpiic tc induce