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* TOR /#! GAZtfti, ; .
‘The sentiments of the Flinch people
at th»« period’ are indicative of a speedy
revolution in France* They express
tiwjr entire disapprobation of Louis the
XViflth, and the pretended measures
he has taken for Jheir repose They
look upon his past conduct with utter
contempt* and anxiously wait for a pro
p*tiou3 mqment to hurl him from the
thron The violent manner in which
he was restored and the many evil con
sequences attending that event, have
produced a deadly hatred against him,
and the other hutopean powers which
will be conciliated* They are by
no means satisfied with the treaty,
which they call dishonorable# and- be
’ fiqsih the dignity of France*
Peace forced on an oppressed nation#
the occupation*of her territory by for
eign troops and the annihilation of her
commence and most prominent manu
factures, cannot fail to produce a disa*
agreeable sensation in the minds of her
inhabitants, and a desire to satiate their
revenge against its authors* Thd king
t haying recovered from his former leth
argy, resolves to convince his subjects
oi his determination to enforce the
power of Iris throne, by the almost abso*
lute-government of the better part of
his kingdom, and anxiously waits far u
tiiTu-, when he may be called to control
the whole,
The ministry are diveded againa them
selves and do not possess any cicdit with
the public ; even if they do, tftey can
hot 4 fail to lose it by consenting to sign*
the last treaty, so dishonorable to the
reputation of France* In this situation
of affairs, the people become more and
more dissatisfied With the present gov
ernment# and openly express their wish
ed for the return o£ Napoleon, under
whose aukpices alone they will live, and
who alone can restore the repose of
their injured country. It woaid be vaitv
in the ministry to attempt the organiza
tion of an army under the present ad
ministration, because the people have
an entire aversion to it, and say they
prefer cultivating the ground, to serv
ing soldiers, without the least pros
pect Os remuneration. Enlistment can
not be resorted to, without the employ
ment of bounties, and the country % has
been reduced to such a state of abject
poverty that it is impossible, to levy
large taxes ; even the most pure royal
ists have refused the payment of taxes,
by contending that they were not the
authors of the calamities, and that it is
unjust in the extreme to exact such du
ties from them. *,
Commotions are continually taking
pLce ih the interior of a serious nature,
which are evincive of a strong determinr
ation not to submit to the despotism of
thur present sovereign, who they a*
ledge has~beeb .butchering the best
men in the kingdom. What can arouse
’ the indignation and resentment of
France sooner than the deliberate mar
der of her most eminent men ; such as
Labaydoyerc end Ney, who spent their
lives in defending their country, and
Who by their transcendent bravery added
to the reputation of France.
If the allied powers should not re
main united, and that too# in the heart
of Fiance, we shall again behold a san
guinary revolution, one in which every
Frenchman who regards the liberty and
happiness of his country will engage
They will h*ii it as thedast opportunity
of ever asserting their right, and make
desperate efforts for the dethronement
oi the man they execrate, and the en
thronement*of a monarch more legiti
mate* _
AN ANTI-MONARCHIST,
fart of a letter from a gentleman in
Washington to his friend in Baltimore
dated 1 4th March , lßls. . ,
, 1 have seen the “ Portraits of
eminent Orators*—The Writer has well
characterised the combatants at * the
OWmpic Games,” as he calls the Su
preme Tribunal and Legislature of the
Nation; but he has omitted one name
which patriotism and gemousjmght to
delight to honor—l allude to Mr. Dex
ter, who. yesterday* displayed the gran«
deur of his mind mthe Supreme Court,
in a most remarkable Xhe
cause was that in which the Virginia
Courts of Appeal have refused to obey
the mandate of the Supreme Court oi
the United States, reversing their judg
ment in the case of Lord Fairfax’s uetrs,
in which the constiuction of the treaties
with Great Britain was supposed to,, be
involved, and consequently, that it was
a case on which this court had authority
to re-examine the decision of the State
Courts, and in which you have already
seen published ia the **wa-sapcrs
cfyinicft of Judge ttoane ofYirgmia- - -
i Mr % J>F.x i TKii,was retained by he chum*
an€t* holding ohUer a patent 2 from the
Virginia*, against the title of Lord IFair*
fax. and consequently he was to contend
that this court could not enforce >tb au
thority against the State in«the
present instance/ * *
He begat! by premising, that every
Advocate is a Citizen , and that on great
constitutional questions, 1 it duty tp jus
client does not requrre him to dfenceal
any opkffcno h&inayJiare formed -*wTbat
he belt&td *i«P^aus^ v eould StT'sHely
carried ihrongh falsify
true exposition of the Constitution. He
believed, that it was essential to die na
tional welfare,” that Congress should have
the right of arming the United States,
Courts with every authority necessary
to give co nvplete effect tothe judicative
powers given by the Constitution. He
tberefoure dissented from the Court ofr
Appeals of Virginia, when they denied
that the appellate jurisdiction oi the Na
tional Courts extended to cases invol
ving the validity and construction of trea
ties. He held that this jurisdition was
exclusively in the Courts of the United
Stats ; but the question was, whether
Congress had provided an adequate
means of exercising it f—His opinion
was, that policy, and the true genius
and spirit of the Constitution required*
that this class of causes should be retina*
ved lrcm the State Courts into thbse oi
the Union, in the first instance, or us
soon as the question touching a treaty
arose; and not by the offensive mode
of a writ of error or mandate} directed
to amours whicivwasuas Supreme in its
appropriate sphere as this court* -
1 should in vain attempt to give a
faithful sketch ofthis argument, fraught
with good sense and* learning and
impressed with the stamp of wisdom.
Bui i could have washed, that not only
the citizens of Massachusetts, but of
the whole U nion, had been present and
listened to the voice of this gyeat and
good man, when, in his peroration, he
admonished both the National and
State authorities not *0 engage in a
conflict wnich might ultimately in
volve both in one common ruin.—’ The
taper of judicial discord might become
the torch 6f civil war, and enough the
breath of a judge might extinguish the
first, the wisdom of the Statesman
and the valor of the • Soldier, could not*
quench the latter. B —He lamented that
the Courts of so patriotic a State as
Virginia, had denied the complete and
exclusive dominion of the National Go
vernment over the tyhole surface of the
judicative power granted by the people
of that'government.*—** Join or D.ix, ”
was the word, when we were represen
ted ns a disjointed serpent ot winch
Virginia was the heiKi. From that heajl
sprung our u immortal Chief, ” armed
with the Jtgis bf wisdom—.But that
great man, and those who ,advised him
imprudently assented to the law, (the
Judiciary ActJ, which is- neither
constitutionally nor: politically adopted
to enforce the powers of the National
Courts in .an amicable and pact he mau
ner. I have -never feared taut this
Government was to 6 1 etrqng/i have
always feared that it was not strong
enpugh. I nave long inclined to tne
.belief, that the centrifugal force wus
greater than the centripetal—The dan
ger is, not that we shall fail into the
sun, but that we may iiy off in eceentr.c
orbits, and never return to our per
ihelion. But though I will siruggie to
preserve ail the constitutional powers
of the National Government, I will not
Strain and break; the constitution itself,
i'u order to assert them : there is danger
too on that side.—The Poet and scribes
the i'empie of Fiance as situated’ on a
mountain covered With ice— the palaces
of power are on the same frail foundation
—tne foot of adventurous ambition often
slips in the a&ent, and sometimes the
volcano bursts, and inundates with its
lava tiie surrounding country—But 1
fear not that this Gourt will De wanting
in the firmness which becomes its sta
tion i and il it beueves that it may con
stituttonallyy and legally exert it?powers
upon the State Courts in this Jorm 9
("which is what I tenyjfa will not regard
consequences, in the exercise of its
.duty ” —Ealtimorc American .
Elastic Marble qf Massachusetts**
V'’ “-v ‘ , 5 . ./A s ;/*- ‘
Some time ago Dr. Mitchill exhi
bited to the New-York Philosophical So
ciety a specimen oi American Elastic
Marble , measuring lour feet in length,
three inches m breadth, and otic ihcn
in thickness. Ihe slab was of snowy
whiteness, oi a grained structure, mid
of remarkable flexibility. He had re
who go* ft from the <jcarry hiTttUueldj
Massachusetts* Since the receipt of
this extraordinary sample. Another one,’
of a far more considerable siae, ha? been
procured by Ms. Meylier, from Stock
bridge. This he is preparing for a.
place in Dr. Mitckill’s cabinet of rained
alogy. • The dimensions of this stone
are as follows : breadth one foot & ten
inches, length five feet, and thickness
two* inches; makings mass of two
thousand six hundred and forty cubic
inches of elastic marble. »
This slab when shaken undulates sen
sibly backwards and forwards*'(when
supported at the two extremities the
middle forms a curve of about two
inches from line > Sc when
turned over recovers itself and inclines
as much the other way. It has,many
other curious properties. The substance
..under consideration has been already
described by Mr. Meade, rh a memoir
printed in the American M.neralogical
journal and New-York (probably ,-how
contains ‘ the largest piece that the
world can produce.— Spectator,
MISFORTUNES.
Last week an eighbour na
med Gates, c trying his gun
negligently, holding the muzzle
forward, arid stepping over a
fence, he lock no doubt opened,
or was somehow by the fence
caused to fire; and the contents
of were lodge i in ihe
breas. of his wife, who happened
to stand in the direction the gun
pointed—she expired immedi
ately —the man is i consolable*
The week before, while a Man
and wife were absent, visiting
sick neignbuurs, late in the eve
ning, about 10 o,clock at night,
their house, with a bound orphan
bo> ab'ut nine years old, who
slep on the loft, was, with all the
contents of the house, consumed
by fire;, their o.ily daughter a.
bout 1 £ years old. who lay be,
low, accidently awoke when the
house door was already in
dames, but she had thepresehce
of mind to open i, and she esca
ped unhurt when the nighest
neighbours came, at her call, no
assistance Could be rendered to
rescue the boy, as the who}*
house was in a blaze!—The
first happened about 7 miles
south, and the last 1 miles north
of Salem. ,
,Miniver }.
New London March 20.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.
Between 7 and 8 o’clock, on Wednes
day evening last, the dwelling house
owned by Mr* Samuel Douglas, at Ni
antic village* and occupied by Mr. John
Smith, ship carpenter, was nearly de
stroyed by fire? Mr. Smith, had gone
to a neighbor's, leaving at home his
wife and daughter, aged 9 years. On
the first appearance of the fire, a
sidtrable nnmber of people assembled
on the spot, who unfortunately, having
received the impression that no one
was in the house, withuot examination
of the fact» proceeded to extinguish the
flames, which were bursting through
the roof and windows Mr- Vv •D.
Caverly, ascended to the chamber win
dow, where the child was put to bed by
her father that evening, and would
have entered, but was assured he was
risquing his life uselessly as the mother
and the child were both safe. Mr.
Smith soon arrived and in a fretiiy cried
out for his wife and child. He ascended
to the chamber window, aiid tell back
to the ground in a state of suffocation.
Soon after, the shriek %of the child
distinctly heard ; whe * Mr. C a young
man of great sensibility and spirit, rush-*
ing through the smoke and flames,
ascended to the chamber, where he found
her writhing /in agony on the floor, and
succeeded in bringing the little sufferer
out alive.’ The fire being nearly extin
guished, on seaiching the house, the
dy of Mrs. Smith was fypnd in hew bed
r oom almost consumed* The child died
following day. There ia hardly aj
doubt rhi communicate)
from a ctnSh ; inot!*;r admonition, t J
the thousands which have preceded iu
to be 1 carefqj. of that necessary but dau-*
gerous light. v
Norfolk, April 5.
SPANISH BRUTALITY.
The British schr. Prudence,
capt. Lagett which arrived hq.*
re from Kingston (
Saturday last,brought 7 AmerU
cans, late prisoners at Cartha
gcna, four of them blacks. _
Captain Lagett ,informs that
the conduct of the Spaniards
both to American and British
prisoners was barbarous’
cruel in the extreme. They us
ed all means to decoy them ini#
the port and no sooner had
they got them into their power?
-than they cut with swords and
beat them inhumanly, robbing!
them, c-f their clothes ‘ and sub«i
jectingthem to all kinds of ex
posure which migh injure iheix
health, or insult their feelings#
’ . ‘■, ——, ■ . j
Retirement of Mr. BurdetU
Sir FR AN€lb BURDETT, has com*,
mumcaicd to the Electors of West. i
minster, his resolution to retire from
Parliament; as he can render no benefit j
to his constituents in the present states
of the House of Commons, and of llnftj
Nation. The peoplfe, he says,are cheat
ed, sold and arbitrarily ruled by then*
own servants; and *• the House of Com*
mons, instituted to redress grievances*}
is become the greatest of all gr ievonccsj,
itself the ready instrument of all op*
pressions. M Until u saving spirit ani
mates the nation, he must retire —par*
liament cannot be expected to reform
itself. They will no more part withi
their rotten, boroughs, than a highways
man with his pistols As this speech
is a sort of epoch in British history wo
shall insert it at large, as soo.i as con*
venient.— Ncw-York Columbian, March 2JJff
•
FariSt DeC’ 23.-—A young lady nameA
Sophia Germain, has gained from’ tho
Institute the prize of Mathematics ;
subject of her essay was a solution oM
the problem of the vibrations oj elastic
surfaces* It was the third time that this*!
question was put for discussion, fw
M. Cauchy, son of the secretary of thoK
chamber ot Peers, was given the prize*
for his theory of the waves; The prize o$S
physie was divided between M. Brewster*
member of the U. S. of London, Sc.
Sebuk, professor at Nuremburg, ‘f
It is -rumoured that Mr Adams,
ambassador in England has requested,
to be recalled, with u v«w qf returning
to this country, in the spring* .■*
ATHENS*"*
mid m* i iHifiiTiTriiWTriafiiiiiffl
Thursday, Sfrxl 25#T
t «—o “"•*»
It is whispered that the Party
at Washington are determined t4> star©
a candidate for the Presidency., Since
Mr. Crawford has repulsed their advan
ces their attention is said to have been
turned towards Mr. King, or Gen. Pink* *
ney of S. C* This.is not very astonishing*
as the very profession of. these gentle
men is opposition*—-Richmond Enquirer*
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r< ‘ 4 / *•
i The steam-boat Etna performed her
vefyage from the falls of the Ohio to
in fifteen days—distance?*
1300 miles* ‘ > % ! ~/*;]
By tie arrival of the brig Nancy Ana
ot Sal n from Buenos Ayres, Which
place sh left about the last of January,,
infbrma> in has lieen reeeivd that thoj
patriot army inf Chili, under general
Rundeau, had been defeated ami almost
entirely by the royal army
under general Pesvaler, m |consequento
of which nearly the whole province of
Chili had been obliged to submit. Re
inforcements for the patriot ari*y had
marched frqm Buenos but with