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of her indepsndence, but anns of a race of menjl bec-a ife they are harutyf ana hardy, beeauf fr(*i their infancy, thi v h vd been bnjfi to labour and p -rfiojii purfijifs ? Ii Engl mdevertffcan fries foex cel all others, dowPmuch ‘tn ri lin’ above them in the fcaie of life, but in the particular line oLtife, in which be i plac and. He ra titer not do-a tiling at all than not to do’ it well. To this unconquer able fpirtt of pcrfev.tr,nice- if is that we owe that altonifhi ig perfection, to which we have arrived in molt of the mechanic arts, and in vyhat- i ever appertains to agriculture, tho* ; as to the laid, vve have, in many re- ; fpeels, to contend againil nature itieif. -In every thing where hor j-.s are the inftininjcnjts (and horses ; Are Second only to infer ) the Eng. lilh l > far lurpafs all the rest cf the world, that th re is no room for comnarifon. The man. who has a mind to know something of Eng land, it) this relpuct, should walk from the lower of London ro'Cha ring Crofe, a little after day light in the morning while the Ureets are celav of people. He would then fee the teams of imrnende hr rfes, drawing up from the bank of the Thames, coat, timber, (tone, and other heavy materials —One 4 morning Lit lutnmer, I counted in vat ions p aces, more than a hun dred of these teams, worth each of them hatnels, waggon, load and rdi, little Ids than 10001 The hor ses upon an average, weigh more tiun ton. But, next after a fox hunt, the finefl fight in England is a ttage coach just ready to it art. A great (heep or. cattle lair is a beautiful fight-; but, in the stage conch you lee more of w'jflt man is capab’s of performing. The ve hicle it'felr, th- hariids all so com plete and-kg ncatiy at ranged; so if. on of ad clear anil good. The beautiful horses impatient to be off.. ‘J he iufi.le full and trie outiide co vered in every part with men, wo men, children, boxes, bags, bun dles— the coachman, taking his r> ins in one hand and his whip m the other, gives a fig cal with ffis f ‘t, and away go, at the rate of 7 miu. in hour, the population and t property of a hamlet. One of these coaches coming in, airer a \ 1 -urney, ts a light not lels in lr*.citing, 11 e horses are nmv all Tv t and foam, die reck from their b. 1 a'cc. ding like a cloud. The v’ if equipage ‘is covered, per* haps with duff or dist. Bur Hill, on if conu sas Heady as the hand of .1 clock As a proof of the per Tenet I—to which ibis mode of * t v -ldng has been brought, there is t rie coach which goes between Exeter and London, the nrobrie * tors of which agree to forfeit eight pence for every minute that the coa !i is behind its time at any of its If ages ; and this coach, I believe 8 miles an hour, and that too up on a verv hilly, arid, ut fome ha ions, very u ep read. There may he pevfom to fay, ** t!s Te dd'crip’ions may be very a rmifmg ro your readers in Aucri ca, not what us can they be to us in Km ‘ 'and ” Why, it is for you th - I principally intend them. 1 w ell voiTto fee. in these i fiances* ‘of your energy and your creative in uffrv, fp. cirnens.of he real can fes of that national strength, which y u foolifhlv attribute to the chv er efs of a ffraacicr ; to a ft iking fun ;or to aay of the nu nerous humbugs, with which you have been so long amu fed. ine population of a country is ro tuaJai'u of its flrcngth or, at leaff, the population itfelf is no nfrith It'in 1 trd r ; nit were it would be difficult to conceive how it hap pened, that a handful of Englilh nen have become the mailers or I iJia, and b *ew able to tax the people ofrhctt country as com pletely as we are taxed here, or very nearly so. A man is a man, to before ; but, as Sterne Laid to the monk, “ the;e is fooie differ ence in men, my friend.” It is ve ry clear, that it there be one man who does, in the fame line of huff nefs, ;t much as two ether men, and if he travels twice as far p.s et- I ther of them, he is better than both jof them to his employer, because • he ears no tnore than one of them, j An S therefore, in dtirnating the fbrength ot England, or any ether | 1 country, we muff look more at the ; I character and -performances of the people than at their numbers. In England every tiling moves in a \ quick pace. Ihe stirring difpofi tton of the people shortens diffance. More is done in the fame space of j time than in other countries. The : tradesmen in London ahnoft hold ! a conversation with the tradesmen at York or Exeter. But the great thing of all is the innocent labour, which E continu ; ally creating things, which give ffrength to a country. Ido m t know, that we excel font-other na tions in ingenuity in the ufeful arts. —Workmen are very adroit in A meuca. ‘I hey build as well, and more neatly than we do. They work as nimbly ; but they do not work le much. They take feme leifurc, which we never do. 1 muff, however, always inffft that we derive infinite advantage front our (ports. To these ve owe, ai mofl entirety our ftcond (elves our hprles of (peed, and even thole we Humid not have without our dogs. It is very well in the way et joke, to ridicule fox hunting Squires and Paifons, but, it the matter be well conffdered vve lhall find that these gentlemen are as uletully em ployed in this way as they would beifi any other. By following this (port, tin y set an example of ad venturous tiding to those beneath them ; and, if there had beta no fox hunting in England, l much queffton if we Ihould have seen 5000 yeomanry cavalry instead of the hundred thousand, who,.at one time, were actually mounted on 1 then own horses, in their own uni ’ forms. No, matter for the caule lin which they came forth* The i cause might have been different. A regiment of 10Idlers all of w hom can ride and box and (hoof., muff be n ucti more formidable than a regiment o( men who only know 1 how to dance, ling and act plays. 1 (r muff be the fame with a nation. Ehe *‘ w , Iking mania,” as it has been called is in m.y opinion, a thing highly to be prized ; and ef peciully that wonderfal exploit of Capt. Barclay, which, however, has now, been surpassed by the man, who has walked eleven hun dred miles in eleven hundred hours i and whose name iam sorry I have • j 1 egotten. \\ hat is this but a great ; inffance of the -bodily powers of 1 mart ? What man will now not j he a (Earned to fay that he wants a . icrfe or a couch to carry hiui 2c ; <>r go miles in a day ? The (land | ’rd ot rlie capacity of man has been I r fifed by the performances ; and f hire can be no queltion that the j nation has really been made ffron ! ger by them. i he phvlcfophers of the humani- I I tv Fchool condemn all these things j as vulgar and barbarous. They I ; look upon them as the contrary ! of refinement. Tfmy represent it * to be an act of cruelty for a crowd ) jf horsemen to hollow after a pack ff dogs, in purfuitof a poor ani* nal, who they fay has done them no harm, and in whole torments they feel delight. I notice this more particularly, as I perceive the sickly sentimental taffetohave made great w,y in America. But what is there more cruel in a fox chafe than in those sports with the gun in which the Americans are lo famous, and to their eariy pursuits of which they probably owe their liberties ? i I have thus, though in a deful- j j -tory way, deferibed what appears ; ; 1 to me to be the real found ition of ; : the ftrersgth of England ; and it is | , of great importance that we and you ihould form a cot reel judg merit on the fubjedf. It is always thecbjedt of the government to j make us believe, that whatever we have, we owe to it. It was, during the Duke of York’s famous affair, i aiierteu by fvir Charles Yorkce, that tt was his Royal Highndk who had ma e the Engnlh army vvhtu tt was, and if any man hap pens to know o i any assertion mote impudent ever uttered from a pair of bps, \ (hall be obliged to hi u to point :• out to me. Wliile Pitt . was in high reputation, his para- I (ites al ribed the prosperity of tne j nation to him. It was his financial j fyifem that had made England ! w hat ir was; and his fuccdffors, I though they acknowledge him as i their founder, have, until now, j continued to take to themselves the j merit o- having done a great deal i for us. Iso\n they lay the miseries \ oi the country upon chance, upon j a cotnbinatio of unfavourable cau ses. Ihe truth is, that the rtai, ihcfoliJ means of the country, they I have not been able to take away; by Pm and by them such a fyi* tern of management has been adop ted and purlued, that the whole affairs ot the coutitry have been thrown into confufion ; the hand of industry has been arrested ; t o; ffdence between man and man (which is our real birthright) threa tened to ne destroyed, or at least ! fiffpen ed ; and as a necdlary con quence, comparative teeblemfs muff ensue. 1 his is the way in which their fine pla sand projects have made the country proiper ous. WM COBBETT COMMUNICJiIUN. Mr. CHARLTON, ; few rent a > hs t m rep/y tijotne objervaliQhs , contained it! your iajl paper , under tin fig- I nature of Z Mp. Z. biR, it is truly aftonlfliing that so imicil dilplay of luerary taw and political qualification, lhauid be so e gregiously blended with that foul in vettive and contumelious vulgarity, which is to he found in your itribtures upon the Editor lor his remarks on the grand jury prefenunents, in relation to the late ccmpenfation law You have reproached him for his condutSf, advi | led a reformation, and invited a reply ; hut unfortunately for your character, as a man of delicate feelings, and woun ding to the feelings of ethers, in yout very invir&tion you had mingled such i favageoefs or iemmjtnt, as uimolt to preclude any reply even from an “ nn bluftuug toni of political proilitution.” I declare that I lh< uld have desisted, hut at tiroes you have spoken so pretti iy, used such apparent logic, difpiayed so much farcied eloquence, and rhet orical exatlntfsin your ilile and lan | guage, as to rtiake the impreiuon upon* I my mind, that what yw. have uttered lisby no me;.ns the fettled tefull ot ma ; iure and feiicus thought j hat on the other hanr!, the t'-nlcWfu.. fio.-is of ,lively, bn* utforueieff ition. I’hero aie f-;me grounds of hope then for a reformation on your f rt, it rrfpects the character of ft ,d -----menrs which you espref ; a> A hava so boidiy ,iricier! tlit- fiicc <-<f guardian, ruior, and acboo lfh< rti lie edror of a neu-fnaoer and ,he hnpe'of your future uiefuinef.i tinr* h- evenu ed. it behoves every r. a r- i tow in his mite to eh* k any* h bs* ot extrava gancy or inadvena: <:y whxh might teoti to def at the t j >-1 that h< pe. Your affurn ’tion ofth !li ofinft ue tor, l>e accoume t i>r either bv fuppofi-g a rOl (■(■ of habit, (>r up • the priticiple of a i trifunerable [>, v f (s of temper. Ihe latt rof which I fear is too predominant. ; asvou nay u.ide an application of opprobcus epithet even by an icipahon, evincing y .ur fl tv;ry to the w; iff of pafli ms, the 010- ther of all iii nature, that ot prejudice. 1. Your verv firii lenience i con ceive to involve two palpable arfurdt tie., Or else yourworcU are moie or lefr rfiaa v mr meaning, even in whiv.h case, it woul-i be wr<* chedlv defective. *• Whether the grand ju r y have wan dered from their .original piovince or not is a quell it ti !ik : the tiea. v-making powf'r in congr-f , but remotely if at ail .iff cung the grea- interefL of the nation ** Now, tfiat the conduc of the jury wa.-: meant to aff.ee the great inteu its of the nation, is evidi nt, tor its obi ct v.*a *-bi’ di ni* urion v{ ta\a t.on, a.id die fuppreffi**n of ariftocracy* If a qn flifounded upon conduct, haviwg such an object m view, is not : of irnn'eiife national concern! dn n art, i wrong and you mod probably n -he I right, and vice versa If *h - queffton \ ot the jury prefenrnve: ‘• did ooi af fect the great lnteveita of the na'ion, then was its conduct that iff error and pufdaninii v, a >tl the editor’s remarks were juft. io that in either case the ie fult ot the r;?urnent is the fame, ihat your remark -was an idle on*', ii. Ihe treaty making pow 1 in con gem, I conceive 10 be that bv which our a.terc<>cjfe with fmeign 1 atioiv. ia regulated and at j fled, and rnav in i voive in ks exocu icn the cx.no.ife of priiiCiplt: derived from nstior.al iaw* qarsPai hw, n unicip and tnw, •... ft , rangeroent oi jullste, lecuprccity. lib erality to other powers, and taxation f-t home, war and fua. e. If Ihi f** po~ (i t tons are denied, an xp'anatios ft tall be given, so ‘hat I agam infer the idle ! weakneft, of your remark As to the | conduct ot the Jury in the iibftr?.ct, my j opinion is. that ihey liave wanr'efed i fr* m their <i original p' ■• vi"ee > '” and rhe realoti runs ihus: -\l! civ 1 inttuu tions have lor heir t‘ ? evecu f ion of certain lawo, ha is tu fa t (hey are to reward tome actions and ttyuim tfh others; b, rr bv able 10 dd this, ouid neceff cy tuvulvc a pnaff r in filled, m. ally and phvfi: ai!y a-Lquate to tbit end, or their cxfftence would be merely nornniit, an<l heir lacul ies No v wi licur -going i no a mir.ute detail of a gumeiT’ to prove that in the case of the prefentniem <il ludcd, the power to execute th> a fla med function did not exiff, I fli uke I it as granted, b cause no man in his j senses cinild assert the contiary A I grand jury is without doubt, a part ot I the superior court, appointed by order iof the court, under an express T ’ w of | the state, for thedifeharge of functions detciving on it by the fnecefiaiy pre cecdings of that court. One right which is veiled in the jury,is th*t c-f ptefierument ; but the very idea of a prefentniert from a jury in an official capacity, implies a power in the body, ‘ to which the presentment is made, to | order and enforce the f° r o-vi ) riding or punishing the thing er I son complained of Now the, com plaint in queltion is grourdt-i on a ca fa between the people of the U. St?.t s and their representatives in a character of case, which in the n*. ture of things, no local jurisdiction car, pcffiSlv embrace in its ope-rations; iuch is a superior court and more particu larly a grand jury., for each coufity iu every state has its own jury : piainlv e vincing that it never was intended by Hits formation, that they should take cognizance ot any act committed be* fond the limits.of their own county. If then the jurisdiction of courts does net extend to cases to which they can