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&EVV BUR VFORT, Sept. 5.
1 low ungrateful muft that in an
be who after a long feries of unin
terrupted profperity, is unwilling
to iacrifice, to the general welfare of
his country, a fmall moiety of his
income, when the rights and liber
ties of the nation require it for their
prefervation. With what cheerful
ness did our worthy anceftors leave
the European world and flx their
habitation in this foil, to enjoy a
freedom of religion and politics.
With what perfeverance did they
ffruggle through the many difficul
ties which prefented themfelvcs in
•every form, to obtain thofe eflfen
tial privileges ,* and what magnan
imity did the patriots of the revo
Union, evince in their glorious ftrug
gle for the emancipation of their
country from the chains of defpot
ifm: facrifices were cheerfully
made to efFed the Independence of
America, and no complaints heard
on account of embarraflfments ex
perienced. No—thefe noble mind
ed men, preferred Liberty and Po
verty rather than fiavery and af
fluence. Shall it be faid of us,
their offspring, that we are unwil
ling to make a fmall facriftce to
perpetuate the bleffings acquired
by their labor ? Shall we exhibit
to the world, that we arc not capable
of governing ourftlves, and are wil
ling to fubrait to the infujes and de
predations of the belligerents of
Europe ? We truft not. But there
are men in this country, who wor
foip at the footftool of Idolatry ;
whofe patriotifm extends no farther
than their intereft is beneficted;
and who, for the lure of gain would
not only barter ther independence,
but their GOD.— Statefman .
BOSTON, Sept. lg.
We are promifed an entire tranf-
Jation of the new Conftitucion of
Spain, which we fhall infert in our
paper as loon as we can find room
for it. It the mean time we are
allured thefe are the prominent re
publican traits : all periodical pub
lications are permitted for the prel
enr, and two years after its eftab
li foment, the prefs is to be free.—>
The judiciary is independent. Per
fonal liberty is fecurcd—and crimi
nal trials are to be public. The
Interior cultom-houfes, which were
to be found in almoft every town
in the kingdom, with an immenfe
fwarm of worthlefs guards, are a
boiifoed, and thofe only of the fea
coaft retained. An annual account
of the expences ofgovernment is to
be given to the people. The col
onics have full liberty to cultivate
whatever they pleafe a natural
right of which they have been
heretofore deprived. Men of all
claffes may rife to high Ration?,
according to their virtues and mer
its ; and the Conftitution is left o
pen to amendments for a certain
number of years.
From the Aurora.
French party—~ Arnold, after en
deavoring to betray the Americas
camp, addrefled a proclamation to
his Connecticut friends* upbraiding
them for their fubjettion to the
rrench —for buffering the French to
celebrate their religious rites*—and
I he followed op his proclamation by
f burning New-London and Fair
fleld in his native ftate ! This was
the pra&ica! religion of fteady re
ligious habits* There are many of
his countrymen who would purfue
the fame path—and who are pock
eting, like Arnold, Britifh guineas j
u exchange for which they abufe
the government, and rear out,
French influence —the wretched, pi
tiful lubcerfuge of the enemies of
our independence is, to cry our,
French party ! French influence 1
and to alarm the people with French
tyranny and conqueft. Thefe foul
mouthed libellers of our govern
ment are people of the Britifh par
ty. Let England do us juftice—
let her treat us with common de
cency—let her abandon her tyran
nical condu& on the ocean, and
every American will wifo her fuc
cefs, and become of her party. —
Let her treat us only as well as
France has done—let her only iflue
an order of council that foe will
treat our flag with as much refpedt
as France does, and then if France
refufes us freedom and refjped, we
foall, to a man, unite in doing cre
dit to England. But till then—till
foe makes reparation for outrage
and wrong—till England fecures
us the relpedt due to an independent
nation —while foe requires us to
pay tribute, and catties our citizens
into flavery like Algerines—we fay,
the man who advocates her policy
or her fyftem, is the enemy of our
country, and the bafe partizm of
Britain; for no finccrc and virtu
ous American can any more love
England than Algiers while we ex
perience fimilar treatment from
both. It is ill her power any day
to make us fall friends, but foe
prefers to plunder, tho’ her necef
flties would have induced her to
flay her hand before now had ; t not
been for the Britijh party who in
duced her to hold ou , who falfely
and wickedly tell her we will Jub
rr.it. Here, however, they are
miftaken—we will never fubmit.—*
“ Independence or war'* is the de
termined fentiment of every
AMERICAN.
DISTRICT Of"GEORGIA.
ADMIRALTY DECISIONS,
By the Judge.
United States % vs. Caroline t Hipkins
Mafler .
On the petition cf Hipkins, to
the Secretary of the Treafurv, pray
ing a remiflion of forfeiture, tne Se
cretary of the Trcafury has decided
againft the petkiorv—hence one
half the proceeds go to the United
States, the other moiety to the cuf
tom-houfe officers in Savannah.
Same vs. Sloop Ranger , Beck mafler.
On the petition of William
Mein, praying a remrfFnn of the
forfeiture of the fbop Ranger, and
fuch part of the cargo rs he claim
ed, the Secretary o: the Trcafury
has decided againft the petitioner :
one half the proceeds go to the U.
States, the other half to the cuftom
houfe officers then at Hardwicke*
who made the feizure.
Same, vs. Bags of Cotton.
On the petition of Eii Wain wright
and Hugh Rofs, praying a remiflion
of the forfeiture of—- bales of cot
ton, feized on board the (loop Ran
ger—the Secretary of the Treafurv
has decided, to remit fo much of
the proceeds of the cotton as would
attach to the United States, to the
petitioners, according to their claims
—and to adjudge as forfeited the
other part of the proceeds, to the
cuftom-cfficers at Hardwickr, who
made the feizure.
Same, vs. Brig Charles and Cargo,
Brownlow mafler.
Arrcfl by the U. S. brig Argus, and
libel and proceedings for violat
ing the embargo.
The cargo decreed to be reftored
on paying cofts—the veflel adjudg
ed as forfeited. Since which,
0 ♦
Brownlow, the claimant, has appeal
ed to the next circuit com f, and the
veflel reftored on a valuation, upon
fecurity being given and cofts paid.
Natchez, Aug. 17.
A company of the United States
troops, under the command of capt.
Swan, have marched to the Amite,
to proteift the frontier from ahy
hoftile attack the Indians may feel
difpofed to make.
We learn that in the late a<sbion
between the Indians and whites, on
the Amite, the Indians loft one
killed and one badly wounded.—
They fwear they will have revenge
for their murdered brother—but we
hope the march of our troops will
prevent any further bloodfoed.
The following are the Patriotic
fentiments of Captain Moore, the
prefent reprefentative of Baltimore
county, delivered to his conftitu
ents at a public meeting. They
arc fuch as every American ought
to entertain. We give them from
the Whig. Nat. Intel.
* s I know ndt what information
our government may have received
from Europe 5 and conftquently
know not whether it can be remov
ed with fafety. I have no intereft
whatever in its continuance, but
quite the reverfe. lam a farmer as
you are, I would rejoice to fee it
removed to-morrow* if it could be
raifed confidently with our intereft
and national rights; but rather than
fubmit to pay tribute to England*
I would prefer an embargo to eter
nity. No American-—N o indepen
dent American could or would agree
to furrender his rights to England.’*
A precious document for Embargo
grumblers.
If there is any merchant who
would fubmit to the following im
pofltions of Britain, he is not de
ferving tne name of an American.
Let the embargo foarlers look at
this picture of Britifh infolence :
“ The Minerva, Jenkins, arriv
ed in the Downs from Rotterdam,
with ao pipes of gin: fent in to
pay one fhilling and. three-pence
gallon duty ! and her whole ton
nage duty, which is about twelve
foldings per ton ! !*■
What fay you to this, efq. Chrif
topher, Harrifon and Jonathan ?
What think you now, Timothy ?
Bofl. Cbron.
Tfie diftrefs of the Ruffians for
want of pioviftons, on their late
march up the northern parts of
Finland, is reprefented to exceed
what is generally fuffered in a be
fieged town. After eating all the
cats and dogs they could lay their
hands upon, they were driven to
the necellity of feeding upon roafted
hides. On the fnow being melted
away in the woods, the bodies of
great numbers of Ruffians were
found dead. They had fallen a
wretched prey to hunger and the
inclemency of the feafon and cli
mates. London paper.
We cannot avoid noticing the
faffc, pafiing,, that every family call
royal, that we can recoiled, has
produced one or two ideots about
the third or fourth generation from
the ftart—we fee it in Portugal—we
have feen it in Pruflia—■- the emperor
Paul of RufQa appears to be ano
ther cafe—the elder brother of
Charles IV. the king, appears thro*
his reign to have furnifhed a perfed
lpecimen ; and no one can be igno
rant that the fourth wig block , fur
nlhei by the hoafe of H. mover,
has but-fopt r>%*ifg—:heft
have leifure to purfue fuch unwor
thy fubjeFis , might afford amuiement
which wouid at leaft be an innocent
revenge for the muiders and mife
ries created by kings.
Aurora.
Perhaps a more furpriflrig in
ftance of g'gantic ftature was never
exhibited in this or any ocher coun
try* than in the Yorkshire Youth*
who lately pafled through Doncafter
for London. He is only 16 years
of a S e * 7 &€t 4 inches high, flout
in proportion, and we undeiftand is
a native of Market Wighton.
London paper.
Among the paflengers in the
Anfturiur, arrived at Bufton, from
St. Sebaflians, (Spain) were, Ma
dame Moreau, Mr. Llving%>n and
family of New-York, and Mr. M.i
nigault of Ghaikftdn—The A teta
nus had on board paflengers.
During the diflurbances in Ma
drid three French foldiers fofF red
themfelves to be difarmed, and have
been lentenced to waik the parade
during three months, with a wood
en mufkcr. The emperor i; ft died
this lignt punifomenr, in corfidera
tion of thei'r youth. If they had
been old foldiers, they would have
been difmifTed from the army,
“ for a French foldier who ft ffirs
himfclf to be difarmed, lofe* that
cflcntial requifite of a foldier, his
honor.’*.
We learn, that the perfons en
gaged in fearching for the two ne
groes who lately murdered one of
the Newbern Poft-boys, and carri
ed eff the mail, found them con
cealed In the houle of a white man ~
in Wayne county* (whofc name we
have not learnt) from whence they
attempted to tlcape, but were pur
sued and both of them foot, one of
them dead, and the other mortally
wounded. He lived however, fo me
time, and ccnftff and that his com -
panion had (hot the boy* but made
no difcovery refpttting the mail
bag.
(Raleigh Regifler.
A gentleman who came prff.n
ger in the Ardlurius, in a letter to
his friend in Philadelphia, has copi
ed the following addrefs delivered
by Napoleon Bonaparte to his Spa
nish junta, on leaving B r onne.
U. S. Gazette.
* r I now intrtft you to your f ve-,
reign, and depend upon you*- exer
tions in the difF.rent province?, to
bring back the nation to their duty
—Le peuple eft un monftre qi*l
faut mufeler.—[The people is a
monfter that mult be muzzled.]—
The means are in your hands. My
armies and treafur.es are at 5 our Ter
vice. Should I not hrar, before
you reach Madrid, that tranquility
is rrftoied, I will no longer tem
porize, buc I will reduce you to
fubjugation, and treat you as a con
quered councry.”
Through the vigilance cf the In
fpedors of this porr, there were laft
week feized, the Britifh fchoontr
Polly and Nancy, RufTd, mailer,
from Naffau, & the French fchoo
ner Friendfhip, from Quad a loupe,
for an attempt to evade the Em
bargo law. We underftand that the
former had, at the time of fdzure,
(the above veffcls were tried be
fore the dillrid court of Per iif ) 1-
vania and condemned) cleaned out
at the cullom houfe.
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