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: 5 with pie afuf iwe infert the
objei vatior.s cn the Downfdl
uhlics, fro,a the. IVaJhingtan.
CV. they arc replete with good
nd deep thought — precedents,
* /peaking, makes nothing right ;
are nut conjee rated ; yet they
bouiti not be d/carded without a free
and impartial examination cf their u
tility i and the enquiry jhottld he made
with great prudence and caution. ]
Auetifta Centinel.
O
THE DO'.VN?ALL Cf REPUBLICS,
have been often inlVitu
f to the real caufe :s of the
,a!3 of republics. Mo doubt
r • ars numerous. But among
tB all, I know of none more pow
r f -tl rapid -n its operation than
My Juinual dilpofition which we
jW’ ‘Tifcfted by certain writers and
Pant-eri, to wrtft mankind from the
courfe dilated by their nature, and
to inftil into the round ft range nod
tions of new fyftenis for the ma
nagement of fociety by govern
’ orient.
J his idea has often been excited
in wiy mind; and it was forcibly re
newed a day or two paft, by a pro
duction in the National Intelligen
cer, propofmg to v/ithdraw the A
merican community from the anci
ent channels of human wifdom, end
to proceed upon projects, which,
to lay the heft of them, render a
nation ridiculous, and eventually
lead to ckftruffior?.
Why fhoifld we difeard the lef
i'ons of experience ? Why lh or Id
we forego that knowledge which is
the refult of the obErvation of half a
century of ages ? What vain pride
of the heart would impel us to fpurn
every thing European, merely hecaufe
it is European ? Whence came
American civilization, if it came not
from Europe ? The aborigines of
this country were the me re it lavages
ia nature * and even now wc treat
them as fuch. I con ft fs that lam
coftnopolitc enough to dtfire that
all the excellencies of the world
were concentrated, by importation,
if you pleafe, in America. — The
human mind, from harbarifm to ci
vilization, is of fuch flow progr<f~
lion, that we ought to grafp and ie
cure ever/ thing good within our
reach whether it be Engjifh, French,
German, Italian, or Spanifh. The
common law ! fays one ; down with
the common law ; down with the
law reporters ; they are Englifh,
rank Englifli. Softly, gentlemen.
Do you know all the traufa&ions of
civilized life depend upon the com
mon law ? Do you know that Ef g
itnd was groaning under defpotifm
tor many a year, till the excellence
of the common law relieved them ?
Woe be to thofe who follow the
counftls of that fanatic who believes
the prefenc generation of men. better
or wifer in all things than the gene
rations which for many ages have
preceded it.
And whence got England the
common law ? From Germany in
parr, and part from her own expe
rience. Age fucceeds to age, and
if we depart in the leaft, from what
admonitions the fir 11 affords, we re
main in the milts and in the fogs of
ignorance.
One theorlfl propofes one thing ;
another a different thing; novelty
leads tire people to vain hopes j
they forget the maxims cf their
prcgenitcr3, and look forward to
inadows which fade before the in
fpe&ion of folid judgment, like the
colors of the rainbow vanilh from
the eye. The Gracchi, at Rome,
propofed an Agrarian law ; every
man was to have a farm, and every
farm was to be precifely alike •, the
fubjc<?c was pieafing ; the Gracchi
had followers and advocates, Rome
was in an uproar men ft nib
finally prevailed, and the Agrarrarfi
./ell victims to fheir own tolly or
‘riTibition. Cromwell was to make
England free; but beer fhved her
—Bonaparte fwore fidelity to the
republic, yet where is thsc republic?
row t The ruin of nations is pro
duced invariably by departing from
the knowledge which experience af
fords ; and we are always excited to
leave the beaten path, by weak
brains in fkulls fo hoc that they arc
kept in a ftare of ebullition from the
b* ginning to the end of the chapter.
The wo:ft of it if, you cannot ref
tore fuch brains to a ft ate. of fou wi
nd's ; for being ijmpregiacid Mith
pertinacity, the more you rebuke,
;hc inore cbftmate they are. i)ow n
with the judges, afcd the courts, fays
A fag)ctous f'ribier ; down with
them i l will fhew you a way by
which the people fhali r.IJ grew
wife without learning, and learned
without education ; all heads [ quoth
he] are alike ; fheep heads, and ail.
Would you believe that fuch ide*s
nre feat te red among the rocnmunTy,
and by many greedily gobbled
down ? If we had not wicntfied ti e
kenes of the French revolution, the
thing might be doubted. But cre
dulity is the ladder by which knaves
mount to power. A man fix feet
high, once announced he would put
hirnfelf into a pint buttle ; the rmff
tittide wond:red ; co ni mc n ft nfe
knew it was a cheat ; yet credulity
was duped, and paid its money for
the fraud. After this, what flu odd
excite our furprife !
Ccrf piracy again/ Bex apart.*.
The 1.v.t1l letters from England,
mention the receipt of private infor
mation from France, of the discove
ry cf a real or pretended con (‘piracy
r gain ft Bonaparte, and that in con
ftqucnce, 550 perfohS have heenar
refted at Paris alone. Several sen
ators, generals, legislators, and per
fects, were laid to be inculpated in
a plot of removing Napoleon, ar.d
of placing the crown of France on
the head of its legitimate prk'CG
Louis XVIII. as the only mean of
icstortng Europe to its long loft
tranquility. No public op.mira
tions had taken place, from fear, as
was fitted, of alarming tne armies ;
but the prisoners went daily.,under
interrogatories in the Temple aid
other revolutionary Baltilcs, before
Fouche, and the confidential mem
bers of the fecret police of the
French Emperor. Striff fearch has
‘been made after the Duke of An
gculeme, the prefumpdve heir of
the French Bourbons, married to the
daughter of Louis XVI. who was
fuppofed to be concealed at Paris.
This prince, was however, fafe in
England with his uncle Louis XV 111.
Ferdinand VII. andhis brother, were
reported to be confined in the State
Prison, the Cattle of Vincennes;
netr Paris, where the Duke of En
ghiein was murdered in 1804 —Bo-
naparte’S journey to Germany, is
flared to have been retarded by thefe
occurrences : and’ before he quitted
his Capita), he deputised his Will in
the Senate, which the Grand Officers
of State, as well as Members cf the
Senate, fwore, in cafe, of any acci
dent to him punctually to execute.
Philadelphia Political Regijler.
Philadelphia, May 24.
The Schooner Mary, from Liver
pool, is feized at New-Caftle for en
tering the ports of the United States
after the aoth May.
At a late haur lift night we re
ceived Englifli papers to the }©th
yj. Qf, a hafty pfruftu c. a.s Oi?**
jy 3 r>L to give the fbi lowing.’
Jr is reported that M. iicra has
been killed by Bonaparte in a fit <f
paflioa, though other accounts ft.y
it was by accident.
Accounts are received from Pa
ris on the 23th March, that D >nar
p.-jrte had not left that place, but that
would probably fee cfF after an
extraordinary meeting that was to be
held of the Senate. Troops are pour
;r;<“ into Germany i-rom all parts.
A paper of the 4th mentions re
ports being received of actions be
tween the ft re rich and A_ulcrianf, but
later papers give no conformation
of them and it only appears that pre
parations arc going on rigorol fly be
tween them.
A paper of the 4th fays—Two
expeditions a"e intended ; one has
juft fiikd from Cork—the other
will fail from Porcfmouth in a fe w
days. One is intended for pcmigal,
the other unknown.
The papers contain a variety of
paragraphs from Spain and Portugal,
but none lb late as received, nor of
any great moment, which the want
of time and room obliges us U? post
pone till our next.
There was a report in I/mdo* on
the 18th cf April, that the Dalecar:-
ans hud rtinftated the king of Swe
den on his throne.
The Amman rri brftadcr had
“not left Paris the 29th of,March.
c^rrrisn^iatTiT?ami^^aSßmis*retS3S2S!3
G EGRGIA EX PR E3 S.
trrr*trfrfixs !wmwr zi*.
ATHENS, JUNE 10.
CONGK E S S.
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SENATE!, May 31.
The vf/oTutlon offered yefterdey by
Mr. Pope . for appointing a commit
tee to enquire into the expediency cf
puffing a law for taking a cenfus cf
the inhabitants cf the United States ,
was agreed to ; and Meffrs. Pope,
Meigs and Anderfon , appointed a coni
thitiss.
June 1.
Agreeably to the order cf the day,
the Senate refumed the confideraiicn of
the bill, to amend and continue in
ferid the act entitled l< An aft to in
ter dill i,U ccmixsrckl tntercour/e be
tween the United ft at ss rfnci Great
Britain and France, arid their depiii-*
denotes , and for other purpofesd*
Mr. Giles offered the following a
mendment to the firjl fedticn, to be in -
/tried after the word cffembUd.
That the provijions of the two ji\fl
Jebf ions of the cicl, entitled u An act to
interdiSt the commercial interccurfs be
tween the United States and Greet
Britain and France , and their depen
dencies, and for other purpofes,* 1 fthall
extend to all public armed flips and
vejfels of ail foreign nations, and the
fame /ball he and are hereby continued
an l made permanent, fubjebi never
thclefs to any modifications or regula
tions which may hereafter be made by
treaty.
Whereupon, without cowing to any
deeijion , the further conf deration of
the bill was po/poned till to-morrow.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTA
TIVES.
Wcdnefdny, A fay 31.
Mr. Rhea offered the following re
flation :
Refclved, that the committee cn the
Public Lands do enquire into the ex
pediency cf laying of and defer thing by
certain metes and bounds a tratf of
country to which the Indian title is ex
ivaguijhed, within the limits cf Lcui-
Jiana, and to include all the fetde
ments within the did territory, and if
having the fetid trail of count*y laid
cf into town hips and ft liens, half
c. cJArtcr frfhdns agree.;Ay to the
/ever al laws heretofore made for fur
vbying the lands of the United States ;
end dp) to enquire info the expediency
cj granttu% one cuai ter oj a j 111 ten to
every/re n ale white per/on who new
refides thereon, ‘or who will within
years actually improve and rcfde
there on.
‘ibis ref elution was /upper ted by
Mr. Rlea, on the ground that the
Js tile met? is hi that country were much
difpcrfed, and that the jpeedy fettle
ment cf it would give jtcuriiy tf the
frontiers, and form a barrier between
the American fettl-rs and tbs Indian
nations on the fy entier. It was cp
pofed by Mr. Ely cn ti e ground that
the fu bid had for fever si Jef/ons keen
before the committee of public lands,
who, however dv'pofcd to al cn it.,
had never been able it tier edit that
any good was to refitt from it ; and
by Mr. Lyon on the ground, that the
very reference cf ins fuljeSt ts a
committee would be an injury to the
United States and a vexation is the
people, delaying them from 9 pur chafing
land), under the idea that Cmgrejs
were about ts gyve them is fillers.
Ihe motion was ney&tived- —$ 2to
44’ r ,
Mr. Bason laid cn ihs table the fel*
lowing re [elution :
Refolved, ‘That the feretory of ihs
trcafury be directed to p spare and re
port t'9 this koufe c.t their next j.iffcn,
a plan for the explication effuch means
fs are chit bin the powers cf congrefs,
for the purpefe of protecting and /of
fering the manufadnring cjlablifk
meats which have be: > commenced, the
frogref which has been made in them,
end the fuccefs with which they have
keen attended, and fuch ether infor
mation, as in th'l opinion cf thefere
tary, /ball be material in exhibiting a
general view cf the makufakftires ct
ths United States.
A motion having been mads to print
the reflulion,
Mr. Lyon opp fed the printing of it.
He fid that f met king fbould be dons
at this ffjion for ths ben ft cf matin
facda? ers. It was cold comfort lo
them to tell them that t hey fboidd have
a report on ihsJu.bjetl at the nextfef-
Jicn. He would net pc ft pom a confide- \
ration cf the fubjsl, from ths fear of
given* (fence to ihe Britifh govern
ment by manifatLurwg for ourfeuves.
He would proclaim to the world cur
intention to encourage rnsnufalur-.s .
Mr. Bacon concurred heartily in the ,
patriotic views of the gtntkr.cn from
Kentucky in encouraging the manufac
tures ok cue country, its aad no idea
by this motion of i/iierfenngwith any
particular mm fare which tic e gentle
mein wijhsd to ampt in relation
m anuf a lures he mercy locked fo -
werd to the s/AAifomm of ferns prat'd
tied fyjlem for the encouragement of
max ttfallures.
It was oidered to be printed.
Mr. Randolph, after making a
number cf remarks on ihe Jains! of the
■prefent Jtffwn , in favor of doing the
or din cry bujinefs cf tbs annual Jeff: on !
at this time, and hereafter bolding the
annual fefforts in thefpring inftsad of
the wittier, fiated that he fhould pro- |
ceed to the ordinary hjtnejs of an an.
mini JeJfuK, until the l ioufe JhouU
corns to ferae definite conclufion as ic *J
what time they would adjourn, he
then fated that by a letter which hi .
had received from the Mar foal of the i
dijlriil of Virginia, ar.d which frets- ‘■
its being printed he believed to be c
circular, be learnt that there was U
provi/ioK ly the laws cf the Urdu&
Slates for a summary procefs for tkfl
parpoj'e of recovering from marfhdim
and their deputies monies paid to theft: l
and i y them detained from theft tc J
wbafi it was due. It appeared t£G j
the judges Fid decided i fat they wii A